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Show to corral"? it ; and therefore if the Bill was (7) 3" juftice, the whole people (hould be univerfally amended, it was not iazpofliale to correé? it. *‘ fubjec‘led to the fame fufpenfion of‘ their ( 6 )‘ into the Houfe of Commons under the black " franchifes." Be it fo: but then the whole people fliould fall under the reafon and occafion of the Aft. If England was under the coverture of defigning malice. Some of the honourable Members of that Houfe, feeing it fame predicament with America, that is to fay; if Englifhmen were looked upon to be Rebels; in this dark difguife, endeavoured to unrohe it of its darknefs. Their endeavours fucceeded, and " it was amended, {0 as to exprefis more dif" tinétly than it at firfi did, the avowed {enti" ments of thofe who framed it." In this as the Americans are, in fuch a cafe, 9. partial fufpenfion of the Haéeas Corpur would be invi- The cafe was this. This Bill was brought dious, and confequently more unjuft than a ge-. neral fufpenfion of it; for why fhould one Rebel} be difiinguilhed from another? but Engliflaé {hape it came to the Houfe of Lords: bad enough in all confcience : but I ufe Mr. Burke's men are not accounted Rebels, and the Americans are ; and therefore in the fame degree that own words when I fay, " there is a difference " between bad and the worft of all." I thought a partial fufpenfion, on the one hand, mfg/9t be j uf'c, an urzz'verfal fufpenfion, on the other, it bad, and therefore I put my negative upon it: had it been worfe, a fortiorz', I fltould would be unjuft. Where the offence is local; the punifhment too mull: be local. It would have been unjuft if the lands in America had have done the fame. But here it would feem as if Mr. Burke and I were not agreed in our notions of bad and worfi : for what he holds dad, I el'ceem war/é, and what he calls 100%, I think dad. To explain myfelf. He confiders a partial Sufpenfion of the Habeas Corpus a greater evil than an uuz‘verfizl fufpenfion of it. I conceive been forfeited to the Crown in the year 1745 becaufe Scotland was then in rebelliOn. I do' not ufe thefe arguments in favdur of the Bill. The principle was had with refpeft to America: it was «wag/é with regard to this country. And herein confif'ced the very malignity of the Bill: .the, contrary: though if Mr. Burke's premifes for whilft the Habeas Corpus was taken away were right, Ilhohld approve his re'afoning, and from the imputed guilty Americans,- the z'mzo-V‘ admit his confequences. rent Englilh were at the fame time depriVed of He fays, " whenever " an Act is made for a cefl'ation of law and f" jufiice, its benefit; fufpicion, A 4, without oath, being made |