The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-18 00:00:00

The Interior of both Houses of Parliament is
undergoing certain alteratinns and improvements,
which will essentially contribute to the convenience
of'the Members. In the House of Commons? all
the Cushions on. the Benchet have been taken up, in
order to be all newly put depvn. 'lhe large brass,
Chandelier, which descends from the roof, in the
centre of the House;is to be removed, and replaced
by another, not .so bulky, but which will answer
the purpose equally well. This. Chat delier is taken
away because the large ball at its baw hung solow
as to interrupt Mr, Se eAtee. in seeing the Clock
in front of the Str`augers' Gallery. Painters are busy
touching up the Lobbies and Ptssages leading to
the House. In the House of Lords there are now
three fire-places. Last Session there were only two,
one near the Bar', and the other in the. middle 'of the
House,between the Throne and the BM'. A new
Are.place has since been struck out on the right of
the Throne, And of course on the Ml* side with the
others. The mantle-piece of the centre fire-place
(the largest of the three) is elegantly executed in
,white marble, the other two are in red marble, cor-
responding with the colour of the benches. The
large chandelier, which hung over the Bar, is tube
removed, and. there will be four large chandeliers
banging over the body of the House. The brain
serpent girandules, which are fastened to the tapes.
try, arc to be removed, and deposited in the old
House of Lords.

A. Governor is to be placed over us whom we
have not chosen— whom we, do not even know ;
who may be ignorant of our language--uninformed
of cur institutions-and who may have no con_
nexions with our coantry, or interest in its .wel-
fare.
" The Governor is vested with all Executive,
and almost unlimited Legislative Power ; for the
Law declares, that ' by and with the advice and
consent of Legislative .Body, ..he may change,
modify, and repeal the Laws.' Bat this advice and
consent will no doubt, in alt cases, he procured from
the majolity of a Council seleded by the President
orGovernor, and dependent on him for their ap.
pointment and continuance in office; or, if they
should prove refradory, the power of prorogation.
frees him from any troublesome interference, until
a more prudent selettion at the end. olthe year..
The true,Legislative Power, then, is vested in the
Governor alone ; the Council operates as a cloak to
conceal the extent of his authority, to screen him
from the odium of unpopular ads, to avoid all re.
spoesibility, and give us a faint semblance of a Repre.
sentative.Assembly, with so fee of its distinguish-
ing features, that unless the nail* were inscribed on
the'plaure, it would be difficult to-'discover the ob.
jet for. which it was intended.
" But let us admit, that, by some train of rea-
soning to which we.are strangers, by some incom-
prehensible fatality, we arc cut off from our na-
tional rightst and form an unfortunate exception to
dime- ett on. which your Revolution
and Government are founded ' • that there is no clause
for us in the great charter of Nature, and that 'we
must look for our freedom to another source; yet we
are not without a claim—one arising from solemn
stipulation, and, according to our ideas, full, obli-
gatory, and unequivocal.
44 The tltird. article in the Treaty concluded at
Paris declares, that ' the inhabitants of the ceded
territory shall be incorporated into.the Union of the
United States, and admitted, as soon as possible, tie-
cording to the principles of the. Federal Constitution,
to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and
immunities of Citizens of the United States; and
that,. in the mean time, they shalt be proteeled in
the enjoymeneof their liberty, property, and the
exercise of the religion they profess.'
" The inhabit anti of the ceded territory to be.
incorporated into the Union of tie United States :'
.these words. can in no sense. be satisfied by ,the
AEt
in question ; a territory governed in the manner it
.direCts may be a Province of the United States, but
can by no construdion be said to be incorporated
into the Union. To be incorporated into the Union
.must mean to form a part of if ; but to every com-
ponent parr of the United States the Constitution
has guar,,anteed a Republican forth, of Government,
and this, as we have already &hewn, has no one
principle of Republicanism in its composition ; it is,
therefore, nut a compliance with the letter of the
Treaty, and is totally inconsistent with its spirit,
which certainly intends some stiptilations in our fa:
your. But if Congress mayzovern us as they please,
what necessity was these for this clause, or how are
we benefited by its introduction ? 1.1 any doubt,
however, could possibly arise On the first ntrintter of
:this bentence, in must vanish by a consideration of
the second, which provides . for their atitnission to
the rights, privileges, and immunities of Citizeni
of the United States. But: this Government, as we
have shewn, is totally incompatible with those
rights ; without any vote in the EleCtion of our Le.
gislature—without army check upon our Executive—
without any one incident of self-government, what
valuable 6 privilege' of citizenship is allowed us ?-
what ' right' di) we, then, enjoy ? of, what immu...
nity .can we boast ?. except, indeed, the degrading
exemption from the cares of Legislation and the bur-
then.tif publicUffairs.
•0 .We know not with what view the -Territory
north of the 2311 degree has been severed. troth us,
which carried with it the distinguishing name which
belOngs to us, and to which we ate attached. The
convenience. of the, inhabitants, we humbly. appre.
bend, would have been better consulted,- by pre-
serving the connexion of'the. Whole Province, until
a greater degree olloPulation made a division ne
memory.
" We, ; therefore, respeftfully pray,. that SO
much of the Law above Mtilti4lngd. as provides for
the temporary government of this eouotry, as di.

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