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LETTER U.
NO GRACE TUC AitCHBI,IIO,„ OF CANTER.,
JURY.
a boom menu." 14 here untie of thorstrileges
tiag is those of the Parliament iloose—take hem iS
thereof."
wore two Mk PLITT US P•IILIAMENTS.
May it please your Grace,
in e
rit6iirola having. in his first etter, rem* d
of apart of your duty ; in his second, ealarges
the subject, and submits to you such reasons
he conceives should induce your Grace, in corns
with the people of England, to rejoice that the
igis bound to observe and keep the Great
hatter.
e The King," he premises. " at his Coronation
ars to govern the people of the kingdom of Eng-
d Ka:Ain to the laws and customs of the
The brood and fundamental engagement of the
tion Oath is ,mind and constitutional.—But
°lii°:limajesty could, at the time of entering into
eir.iigement, call to mind all the ponderous
fight of absurdity it embraces, if literally and
Ever construed, he would relax front the gravity
it.a;:e to the occasion• and expect to find CO.r
Teachug smile upon the coitutenance of you'
. ram
What! is His Majesty bound to govern according
all the laves and customs of England ? and are
ovens, the Judges, bound by the same letter
all the old obsolete laws to be forced upon
it Majesty, which, from being unrepealed, art
ll in force, and • part of the statute law of thi
in'dnm, thcogh pregnant with mischief as well ai
i'erdity ? b His Majesty to sanction the mitt
ce oi aststute, which declares the ptinishmen.
,tiered t" "certain offence whipping. but give
e er to appeal ag mist the sen
are within three month—an appeal which mat
recrived and determined after the whipping ha
en inflicted ?
To *Nieto the habit of referring to the Statist
,ash, the obsolete acts, which a charige in ea
;mei and situation of the country hare, in tom,
mires, reudered unnecessary, in others. per&
.ste, are every day obvious. .1
feistrgament is not adraora4 os any objectio
toe terms of the Coronation Oat!), but to she,
that it is to the spirit of oaths sad Acts of Pamir
meld we are to apply ourselves. a•td not to the of
tercet of the mere letter. If this be ante!. d, tli
eats pillar of the fabric raised by Publicole will Ii
slakea, and it will not be difficult to build upon
rout more constitutional and tl arable edifice.
Tie Letters of Pubbcola are full of specious an
summons reasoning; hut they will scarcely bear
dose elansination. that there are errors, which tl
weresary revisal of the letters whim they were cr,
hated iuto a pamphlet should have correcte
Thus MIA palpable anachronism is found i
Iry 2.2: where the Judges, upota being urged I
Queen Elizabeth sod her Counsellors to obey tl
• Erten under the Great Seal, are made to enswe
that both she and th y hid taken SW Oath to lee,
die law, and if they r•lintihl obey her rs-on:n.su,
the law would not warrant the at, &". And flit
they cite to her the examples of Etts pion and Die
ley,Gareston, the two Spencers. 'freittlians Sirs
fad, and others, who were exietuted fur subvertii
tie laws of the Wed.—A femme:toe thought won
[ lave brought to tniud that Strafford was execut
to the reign of Charles the First, not a few yet
etcr these honest Judges were quietly annelid
ingio their graves. Rut what, toy Lord, will it
E statuette doctrine lead us to! In the heat of t
116 reeti tumults and years, and probability
tooth, ate overatept, and all that directly or in,
reedy can he made to favour au argitineot, I
Lolly pressed into the service.
The passage to asruet's Maar!, of Charles
i. n,,st introduced to your Grace's notice; •
dough it in bull proves nothing, yet it is, al
Pablicoles:usied tnanner, tortured int, a coal
ova at list vemeity of his aSsertioss.
Barnes. wAo.e authority at any time in truth
its. 'sass, "That the practise of the Hooka
Catararins in sending the Serjeant to want, port!
England to bring up Abhorrers as delinqaei
was founded upon tin law," (meaning of cos
toweled upon no written law). " and was no el
diaaQueen Elizabeth's tins?."
The House of C 0,111110115 1:141111 this as a matte
: Puller, not at ain utter of written law ; I
'S lettakes in a for nre I ,4tee, to prove, not ()lily I
tle noose of Co:n.o 1114 hive this privilege,
It is benethetal to all parties that such a pr
::'fie is vested in thein.-3ut even the Author
1. gloted admits that the practice wet as old as El
si
beth, and with this allowance it will be absurd
question the right now.
But, on the ether hand, has your Grace
found a law against this usage ? Is there a lit
decision, which may be relied upon, to which
e question has been decided against the ptivil
asserted by the H'lttSe of Commons ? An I has
p tarreiseof this power bee, tacitly Reknowled
sad submitted to (fir at least two centuries at
half, upon the credit of Bishop Hornet), with
stogie individual successfully standing fors
under the shield of Afazes Charges sod combat
c this monstrous usurpation ? •
In a case like the preattit, it would be idl