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Show < r6 ) ( I7 ) " run mad."* Supremacy is an appendant of Head of the Church. the Crown, and fo is allegiance. The former is the right of the King, (as heretofore it was of the Pope) in his ccc/efla/iz'w/ capacity, the latter in his temporal; and there cannot be two rights, In like mannerl admit, that the people are bound in obedience to the laws of Parliament : but this does not therefore infer " allegiance to the State." Allegiance is one thing, obedience another. in one State, to the fame thing. Allegiance is Who ever- due to the King, f0 long as, in his executive heard of the oaths of fupremacy and of allegiance to the Parliament? And why are they not taken to the Parliament P Becaufe they are due to the King, and not to the Parliament; and it is not {it that the Parliament fhould in- vade " the rights of this imperial Crown." capacity, he {hall protect the rights of the People. Obedience is due to the laws, when founded on the conflitution: but when they are flzé‘verflve of the conftitution, then difobe- dience inf'tead of obedience is due; and refiftance becomes the law of the land. Let each pofleis its own, and {o the conftitution will be preferved. That the Parliament is 1;» Thefe were my reflections, confequent on preme, ladmit. It is the firpremc court, or am}; Mr. Burke's declaration; but my hope was, zngrm of the Confiitution; as the Houfe of Lords is the fitpre'me court of Jufl'ice, or derrzz'er ref/err of the Law. Both are fuprrme, and yet that although we difered in words, in flying: we might yet be agreed. How great then was my difappointment, when inf'tead of feeing this firprrmmy was never attributed to the Houfe of fubjeét unrobed of its gorgeous apparel, and like Lords, but ever, in the language of the con- truth made to appear naked and unadomed, flitution, belonged to the King, as the fztpreme when ini'tead ofdifcuflion, which fuch a decla- »" Vidc the Archbifhop of York's Sermon, printed by T. ration feemed neceffarily to call for, when in- Harrifon and 8. Monica in Warwick-Lane, p. 22. It had been well if this, or any thing elfe that the Primate faid, could have fiead of reafoning, and of argument, as if fet afide the criminal charges to which his Sermon was expofed: but as it was indefeniible, f0 is it matter of great national con- cern to find fuch doftrines proPagated by the once Tutor of the Heir~apparent to the Crown; though it prove of form: confe- afraid of their confequences, I found affertions without the {hadow of proof, and precedents importing no authority, but upholding error, fubftituted in their room. " Many others, in- lation, as the Earl of Shelburne remarked, that his Majefiy, perceiving the evil tendency of fuch principles, had, in his Wif- " deed," fays Mr. Burke," might be more dom, removed him from the tuition of the Prince. " knowing in the extent, or in the foundation Head ' B u Of |