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Show ( 3 )' ( 9 ) from the authority of their charters, and the facred by the government of the peoPle‘, the, principles of the confiitution. fame Parliament, Without any interruption either by petition or remonftrance, pafl'ed "illUUtUl U! {'3‘ With an entire fupinenefs, England, Scot- another aft for changing the government of land, and Ireland, have feen the Americans, year by year, {tripped of the molt valuable (Luebec ; in which the Popifh religion, infiead of being tolerated as ftipulated by the of their rights ; and,- to the eternal {hame of treaty of peace, is eftablifhed; in which the this country, the {lamp ail, by which they Canadians are deprived of the right to an were to be taxed in an arbitrary manner, aITembly, and of trial by jury 5 in which the found no oppofition, except from thofe who Englifh laws in civil cafes are abolifhed, the are particularly concerned, that the com. French laws efiablifhed, and the crown em~ mercial intercourfe between Great-Britain powered to ereét arbitrary courts of judica- and her Colonies fhould meet with no in- ture ; and in which, for the purpofe of en- larging the bounds where defpotifm is to terruption. have its full fway, the limits of that proWith the fame guilty acquiefcence, my vince are extended f0 as to comprehend thofe countrymen, you have feen the lat): Parlia~ vaft regions that lie adjoining to the norment finifh their vcnal courfe, with pafling therly and wefierly bounds of our colonies. two aé‘rs for {butting up the Port of Bolton, for indemnifying the murderers of the inha- The anxious defire of preferving that har‘ bitants of Mafiachufets-Bay, and changing mony which had f0 long and f0 happily their chartered confiitution of government : {ubfifted between the Parent State and her And to fhew that none of the fundamental Colonies, occafioned the Americans to bear, principles of our boal'ted confiitution are held facred with \ |