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Show (9) made the 'twoeetlged {word that was to cut both ways. ' every individual in this kingdom was under the fame temporary profCription. The writing‘of a‘ letter to, or receiving a letter from, America, Burke, " The alarm of fuch a But, fays Mr. in this country, though the contents Were ever " proceeding," (that is of an univerfal fufpenfion of the people's franchifes) " would then be " univerfal. It would operate as a fort of call f0 harmlefs, was ground of fufpieion fuflicient " i of Ilse nation."~ As to my part I have heard to immure a man in the eafile of Dumfries, or Pendennis, or wherefoever elfe f perfecution Ihould think fit "to {end him 9'9. We have been {aved from this hell-governed profcription. Oppofition removed it from us. It had been well to have done {0 from every fubjeét of the realm: {0 many calls of the nation of late, without any aIJwer being made to them- that I fear the nation has either loft its bearing or its voice.‘ but fuppofing otherwife, of what avail Can a call oftbe nation be againl'tthe fupremacy of an aét of parliament.P And who {hall dare to refifl: the authority of a fiatute that can alter the dia- but it did what it could, and the liberty of blifhed religion of the land, nay even bind in all cafes what/never? But mere ofthis by and by. This being the f'tate of the bill, amender, as many unofi'ending perfons has been preferved thereby. Mr. Burke himfelf confeITes, one might have thought that, though bad, it was better than it *Mr. Burke goes on to fay, " As things now ‘3 fiand, every man in theWef't-Indies, every one had been; but the very reverie of this is the opinion of Mr. Burke: for in one place, he fays, ‘3‘ inhabitantfoffthre'e unofending Provinces on " ‘-‘ " " " the Continent, every perfon coming from the Eaf't-Indies,‘ every gentleman who hastravelled for his health or education, every mariner who has navigated the feas, is ,for no other offence, under a temporary profcription." But how did things Ptand éefire the amendment of the bill? Not only every man as defcribed above, but 1 every "* It is {aid that the number of perfons who died in different prifons during the defpotic government of the Marquis de Pombal, late minifier of Portugal, wit/20m leaving [wen contvifled if any crime, is computed at 3970 perfons ; and thofe who were lan- guifhing in irons at the time of his difgrace amounted to 800. If this a& had pafl'ed, as it was .firft framed, and if we may mca- fure our punilhments by thofe meted out to our brethren in America; what reafon is there to fuppofe that our fituation had not been the very counterpart of this? " the |