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Show l4] [ 5 ] I am perfectly United. We are heartily agreed even of that fpecies of hoflile jnflice, which no afperity of war wholly extinguifhes in the minds of a civilized people. It feems to have in view two capital objects; emotions of grief and"1111me on all its mife- the firft, to enable adminiitration to confine, as long as it {hall think proper, (within the dura- tihle conic-quenees-, whethet they appear, on tion of the act thofe, whom that act is pleated Ii Iiglii11 on the continent, or from the Engliih in theie iilands; of legiilative regulations to qualify by the name of Pirates. 'I'hofe {0 qualified, I underf'rand to be, the commanders and mariners of fuch privateers and {hips of war belonging to the colo 1ies, as in the courfe‘ which luhvert the liberties of our brethren, or of this unhappy contel't may fall into the which undermine our own. hands of the crown. They are therefore to he detained in prifon, under the criminal de- Of the tirf't of thefe flatutes (that for the fcription of piracy, to :1 future trial and1gno- letter of marque) I {hall fay little; Exceptionable as it may be, and as I think it is in minions pu‘niihment, wheneVer circu‘mf'rances {hall make it convenient to execute vengeance "on them, under the colour of that odious and infamous offence. tome particulars, it feems the natural, perhaps neceflary refult of the 111eafures we have taken, and the fituation we are in. The other (for apartial l‘ufpenfion .ot the 1214156511 Corpus) appears to me of a much deeper 11121101111) During its progrels through the Home of Commcons, it has been amended, 10 as to ex piefs more dittinétly than at full it did, the avowed fentiments of thote wlo framed it: and the main ground of my exception to it is, becaule it does eapiefs, and does carry into execution, purpoles which appeat to me to co11tradi€t01y to all the p.1.1e1ples, not only of the contiitutional policy of Greta 1tain, but even To this firl't purpofe 01" the law, l have no fmall diflike, Beca me the 2.6% does not «'as all laws, and all et‘quitahl e tranfaétiens ought to do) fairly deferihe its ohjeét. The perfons, who make a naval war upon as, in confeqnence‘ of the prefent troubles, may be 7658/1"; hut to call and treat them as 15174:", is confounding, not only the natural diilinetion of Ithings, but the order of crimes; which, whether by put- ting them from a higher part of the teale to the lower, or fiom the lower to the higher,IS B 2 never .zteitrfiy'r. .P "19:2 the one 3 or the other, in the {hape of victories t1 deieats, of captures made from the .~ -1}; "sigma-It ‘ a ' .- in our detel'ration of a civil war. We have ever exprefled the molt unqualified difappro- bation or all tl‘e {teps which have led to it, and of all thoie which tend to prolong it. And I have no doubt that we feel exactly the fame |