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m Baglith pablication. datsd Londan,
Augsf 18, 1777+
XptePRINTER,
SIR, .
Pifled an evening a fhort time
it Bgo, in & cempany whe differed
liy in opinien apon Americaa af
od faizs.——=A fßasach patriot ex
k% clsimed, Suppofe them con
what is to fellow? Are we to
wpon our fellow-creatares ?
faid, he hoped taey thould be go
in feture,. sltogether by a military
o having, by their altions, forfeited
aice to the bisfiggs of Civil Liberty.
amght the qeeition of impertance, (i
;) ehat (hosld be their future conitita
ia cafe this rebellian was tetally re
gAed e I s«.mmthi?' i:
wepsay Bpen , 1 ruminats
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to you, i w. t af
s, of inducing m’:?,ur Corre:
: iz apiaie =
ldgmot mean (o poiat out every minute
ile.which ought to be iafited upoa b)
@.accedzd 1o by them, but enly . te
great autlincs of their futers sfta.
b without which we had better a
follow. the plan. af . tha ingeaious snd
'Deas Tacker, of declaiing them
inh.c‘;“lh providl‘:l d:b. c:n.
wrogte, immen ts dws
ocwm %Bl the Rebels fab
ad. are broeght to dus repeatance,
‘ wlflnflngld be to grant them
wigeecs which the juft commercial
wosk of Gess-Britain will allow of, sad
00 ARAOY us permit. -
u%flc Navigatiea A& was no
e dby ths C’onsnfs, yet that
kag aow: a 3 mach demied aad broks
?u any other, the vigorous execa
oof thas, in the iw, to its full ex.
i fltm‘«flm and ftrepgthan
ks h2uid be infikid apos, ‘and executed
Tt E T e Asmaris
.t m ’g_ . ne a
ik the j-.lm- ok ks Admiralty, o
% from theie. propeafis 10 fmuggliog ;
8t interfered bw with this da:-
g object, ihu”qoth it in the lrdn’-
| doems, S 0 far a 8 uis'z'uifdiaioa tends
| Rsvent theirtiading with other ma ions,
hh:ma,flqd this illicis commeice
!Np-. a piich far beyoad the common
tiof fmaggling) it ought $o be m: A vi
‘ """M‘- If taere are ady pans
Wikohih pat it in sk power of a jodge
Vwz aad diftrefd upa trivisl macters,
Wuils importang for the Navigatioa AR,
lndowr. wosld do fuch away, sad ample
Migould bc dons 50 the fu:rer, com:
THURSDAY, NAQvEMEBER 20, 1777.
plalaing in a legal wayj of any abufz of au
taority in the Admiralty.
3+« As the d form ‘of govern
meat in the M udetts was, without
dcubt, 'a grand ¢ of the Rebellion,
the a& altering their:&a(tiution (hould ne
ver, b: given ap, {adeed wilcom would
feemn 0 dire€t, thaf every comfliiation in
the colonies fhoald"ps brought as near the
form of thac of this sguatry, as their fitua
siog will admit. 2
4 Ab sl laws eve fatile, without fo-ce to
compel obelience to- them, and as the Ci
v.l Power in Americ® bas been proved to be
n 2 wife adequate to'7it, his Majelty’s right
of fending and quaresring foldiers in any
part of his Majcfiz'sfioniniom, fhould be
clearly afcertained sad isfifted upon, in its
fall exteat. This Loed Chatham himfelf,
the great advucate far Americs, hai proe
po(.f fhould te an amicle of accommoda
-tion.
§. The Ceurts of Juftice in America
fhould be ishmediately pui upen a diff:zreat
foeting. ' la jome o? s colonies the judges
' hich is the iatro
duétion of weak and improper men to that
important rank. -In others, the falaries of
the judges sre granied precarioufly, as the
people pleafe, by whick msans they be
cams liabls to be overborae by popalar pre
judices, and entirely unfic for their fatioas.
Judges fhould cestainly be indcrndnt.
aad for this purpefe hbsral fixed falaries
fhou!d be aliowed b{_dl the affemblics up
oa the Contiacent. Thefe terms appear evi
deatly fo much to the advantage of the
_community waere they are to exiend, that
it may feem frange tast a couquering na
tien fhould be ob'iged t 0 iz upom them ;
bat when it is confidered how much even
‘ooe indepeadaat nation is coaceraed in the
dus admiriftration of juftice ia another,
with which it has any deslings, it will im
medintely eccar how mach we muft be in
terefted in the purity ef the Lourts of Juftice
in Americs, and how clear the diftribation
of law ought to be frem all popalar bias.
Whea the jadges receive their pay from the
capricious detsrminatioa of the pesple wh-re
they refi ‘e, we may eaflly imagine what
wou'd be their conda@& whén the iuterefts
of an Bozlithman aud a native isin difpure
upea fome popu'ar topis, (a7d I waderitand
it s an ealy matter to mak: any caufe a
party affuir there) I fear human frailty
would prevail, avd the integiity of the
]“‘! be leff. We have feen, with re
gret, that oo stiempt was ever mode in
their coerts of jaltice to puaith tne mott
extraordinery riot, im all its conlequences, -
that ever happened.—ll man the deftroc
tion of lh:%tl-r A Judge equal to this
f:r'on, snd totally independant of popular
jefluence, weould have given this rit in
chage to the g-and jury, and, perhaps, by
h}r‘d] ead perfoverzace, might have
occafiyned fumething te have beea Cone ty
have prevented this horrible war,
6. To fupport the dignity of, and give
ftrength to Goverameat, a | the efleatial cf -
ficers of it ought te be provided for, in &
certain, libiral, and independant manner : [
am far from meaniag the eft:blithing of
finecures and penfions amongz them ; bat it
is well kpown hew precariows the febfift
ence cf any of the officers of Goverament
in Norch-America is, whers th:ir fervices
are either paid for by the people, or occa«
fianal graats of their affemblies ;fo much
for that, their offices becoms hardly worth
the acceptaace of mea qualifi'd by abilie
ties or education to execute them. When
this point has been prefied upon the Ame
ricans, they have always, with great cool
nefs, replied, Great-Britain can have no
thing to do with thefe iaternal regulztions ;
if men of iategrity, &c. de ne: execais the
sffices, we are the fafferers ; but the fallacy
of this is feen at once. Grea-Britain is
highly interefted in the appeiatmeat of
propsr men to difcharge the bufinefs of esch
colcay. All indivicuals trading, or havieg
any property, aré highly interefted. Tha
Gevernment is highly interefted in having
fuch an eftabl (hment 3s may eacourage
men capable of giving {'me fupport to it,
and to preveat ths whole weight being, as it
has h:therto bsen, in ths popular fcale,
which totally deitroys our conftitution, the
idea of which confits altogether in ax
equilibrio,
7. The refumption of Charters is a moft
delicate fubjel ; thofe who fritle uader
faith of them, ought to have every resfona=
ble fecurity for their coatinuarce ; howsver,
we have in hiftery many inftances of theie
being foricited. As far as this fubje&t ree
lates to the Americans, [ would propofe
that feme fair mode ef trial, ad:pted (pre
cifely adaptec) to the cafe, thould for the
futare be infited on and fettled. With
candour, and a [mcll thare of coafidence,
even this important point may be fixed,
wittout leaving anv juit ground ef jealoufy.
8. Principiis obfle is 2 favowite mex m
in moraiity, axd cught to be fo in policy 3
without a mumber of previous fediticus
ncc.in{p. and petty oumtrages, we fhosld
never {ee a multitude in rebellioa, which is
brought on ftep by flep. To obviate, there
fore, the fi: t mov:ments of fedition, I would
propoie a Riot A& ia America, to the fame
effect ar that in Englaed, which [ am con
vinced world be of grect advamtage for the
fitae: [t wonld be merciful t:r the pec
ple ; fo by the reading ot that, they wouid
be apprized of their danger beiore the ma
chin tions of their leaders could take efe
tellt,
9. By the #ri@:f metbods they thould
bs preveared from bril“iag fhips :bove &
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