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Show » .11."... mmM--=.‘V__~‘V"Yi-7'E\m~""_' [64] C 65 3 r of our merchants are accufcd of fmuggling, their 5 caufe be tried by a jury otfrngglerr ,- or if any of‘ 1 4 our people be charged with {edition and riot, thffy , be tried by ajury of the mob,- for this, we. think, is " in the true {pirit of trial byjury, which is, that a s man be tried by his poet"!- We do not mean, how- i ever, that this privilege {hall extend in the fame a manner to your crU'Zom-lreufe afliwmi and other de6 pendants of the crown, who, if they lhould be fent a hither, and be accufed of any crime, (hall be tried a by a jury too, not indeed of cufiom-houfc officers, private companies, contract with one another! Yet there are no doubt many individuals, and perhaps fome private companies, in whom it might be {safe to reptile f implicit a confidence. But to recommend to the people of one nation to take this method in trotting with thofe of another, can feareely be viewed other- nife than as an infult to their underflandingijs. I may add, that of all nations the hit in whom we could with fat-ety place {0 great a troll is the North Americans, if the unamiable portrait, which ¢ but of our liberty-mm, that is our rioters and con- I am {trongly inclned to ¢ traband traders, with their patrons and abettors.' which one of their wartnelt friends anti ableit advocates has drawn of them, is a jult reprelcntation of And who can doubt that they are fit depofitaries of the lives and properties of revenue-officers and fol- think exaggerated, but the original, and if they are fueh a1:0/‘5.r1u[,Jf:/'re, tliers? ‘ We will not be fo dih‘efpeclful (however jazzr'ozzr, rtflivc, zzlzz‘rafirzt/x/e,flfl/Qsicz'ozzr, litigious", 5/}!- s little we value it) as to decline participating in all amE/zg 7am: (f pattifoggerr, 215 hefeems to exhibit ¢ the privileges of Briti/Z) fubjeéls, inheritance, fue- thezna; and I may add, if they are as grofsly i‘nlin- ¢ ccflien, oflices, honours and dignities amongfi you, cere and falls, as the conduCt of their wortl‘tyrepre- ( equally with the native; of Great Britain. Further, ¢ wewill allow your nation the honour not only of tentatives, the mngrefr, exhibits them to everyone 6 proteéting us, at your own expence, defenlivcly and who will take the trouble to compare what they iitv of the article of religion in the (fiebec ail, in tit-«air Application to the people of Great Britain, with what they fay of the fame article, in their Addrel‘s to ¢ ofi‘enfivelyi againft all our enemies, real or imagi- the people of Canada. ‘ nary, by tea and land, whenever we {hall think ticular and in lame others, has proved matter of it proper to raife a clamour; and we will in return corzfulion to fuch of their partifans in this country, 0 agree to give you'---How much ?- ‘ In" minivan" as nave a regard to truth and candour b. ‘ being at the principal charge in {importing the 5 internal government of our provinces, but ah'b of 5 we pleafe, and, if we pleafe, rid/Zing at all.' A Their duplicity in this par. Certain it Mr Burke‘s fpeech, March 22(11775. molt extraordinary covenant, wherein all the obli- gatinns are on one fide, and every thing is difcrfi tionary on the other. ill} all}I 1! is 15 this the manner in which inlividuals, " by the conflitution, to efiabliflr a religion fraught with " {Enzguinary and impious tenets." Again. " Nor can " w; i'tipprets our allonithmcnt, that a Britirh parliainem 1:" a I i l". or even 'D In their Application to the people of this iflaud, they thy, " We tlinl; the legiflature of Great Britain is not authorizul i |