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Show V‘ 1‘. i0} L trial by jury, by fubftitutingr in their place triais in miralty and vice admiralty courts, where tingle juthCE prelidc, holding their commiffions during plealure; and unduly to influence the courts of common law, by rendering the judges thereof totally dependent on the crown for their falaries. THESE fl'atutes, not to mention many others exceed~ ingly exceptionable, compared one with another, will ht: found not only to form a regular fyltem, in which every part has great force, but allo a pcrtinacious adheren ‘e to 9 l THE judges of the admiralty and vice admiralty court»: are impowered to receive their falaries and fees from the effects to be condemned by themfelves. THE commifiloners of the cuftoms are impowered to break open and enter houfes without the authority of any civil mugiltrate founded on legal information. JUDGES of courts of common law have been made en» tirely dependent on the crown for their commiflions and falariesi that fyltem for liuhjugating thcfe colonies, that are not, and from local circumltances cannot be reprelenttd in the houfe of Commons, to the uncontroulable and unlimited power of parliament, in violation of their undoubted rights and liberties---in contempt of their humble and repeated fupplications. SEVERE as the acts of parliament before mentioned are, yet the conduct of adminiftrarion hath been equally injurious, and irritating to this devoted country. UNDER pretence of governing them, fo many new in- fiitutions uniformly rigid and dangerous have been intro-~g Q ‘ A COURT has been eftablifhed at Rhodenlfland, for the purpofe of taking colonifls to England to be tried. HUMBLE and reafonable petitions from the reprefentao tives of the people, have been frequently treated with contempt: and afll‘mblies have been repeatedly and arbitrarily diflolved. FROM fomo few inflances it will fu-fficiently appear, on what pretences of jultice thofe diflolutions have been founded. ' duced, as could only be expeéted from mcenfed matters, for collecting the tribute or rather the plunder of conquered of {hips of war, have betn fcnt to aflifl: in talent}:r their THE tranquillity of the Colonies having been again difl'urbed, as has been mentioned, by the fiatutes of the year 1767, the earl of Hillfborough, feeretary of Hate, in a letter to governor Bernard, dated April 22, I768, cenfures the " prefumption" of the houfe of repreientatives for " refolving upon a meafure of {0 inflammatory a nature, " as that of writing to the other colonies, on the fubjeét " of their intended reprefentations againlt fome late acts " of parliament," then declares, that " his majefly con» " fiders this Rep 213 evidently tending to create unwara " rantable combinations, to excite an unjuf'tifiable oppo- " fition to the confiitutional authority of parliament," and afterwards adds, " it is the king's plcafure, that as money without their confent. " foon as the general court is again affembled, at the time EXPENSIVE and oppreflive offices have been multiplied, and the acts of corruption indultrioufly prac‘tifed to divide " houfe of reprefentatives, in his majeity's name, to re- provinces. BY an order of the king, the authority of the com-fl ,mander in chief, and under him of the brigadier generals, in time of peace, is rendered fupreme in all the civil grovernments in America; and thus an uncontroulable mili- tary power is vetted in oflicers not known to the conf'tim union of thefe colonies. A LARGE body of troops, and aconfidcrable armam ent " prefcribed by the charter, you fhould require of the and defl'roy. ' 9‘ fcind the refolution which gave birth to the Circular. " letter THE -- m~,lra~«‘ hr.- """V'-¢h£‘v- 1:1.) |