The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-02-27

If Great Britain is free pate and II OF
ffipulated that we (hell " have and enjoy
all privilsdges and immuni'ies of free aud
natural born fubjcas to all intents, con-
ttrraions and purpofes whatioever," as II
we had remained there, the fair coniequence
is, tina, we are free Rats, as, Eaft Green
wich is ALTO, part of a free fNte.
But, as if you Intended to puzzle the
caulc; you FAY JURISDICTION Can
not mean more than the right to hear AMI
determine caufes."' am forty, Sir, to fee
this definition of the term: |, mutt be pr
tiful jurif1laion, where there is no power
of converting or punilhing; the latin word
is }nyiJdSio. need not explain IT to you,
you will certainly give up your definition aud
undeceivc your readers. ROYALTIES
which you fuPpofe is the word upon which
lay the grea.elt Itreis, you fay e conveys
at ntef the property in wharves, &c. OF as
il is explained in the charter, royal mines
royal fines, &C." But as believe mott of
your readers underfand the word roy
aIty to fgnify royal dignity or kiogfhiP,"
and ROYALTIES, to Ggnify 1" the royal
rights or PREROOATIVES of King"
as you and they may find them dehred in
Bailey's EngIllh dictionary, lhaVe no more
to fay upon that fubject, only this, VIZ
that it is neceGarily implied, that they VINO
have right to srdtr, rule end g'Vs'n
fate and have in fact made King, ihouI5
have both JURISDIC TON AMI ROY
AL TIES, if they had not we have now no
King, which you viii not fay. You fay,
Is when the grantees Came to America,
they did not remove out of the place where
the grantor was legally King" The an
fwer is plain, and eaiy, viz. they are yet
in Eng land, for no man can have the idea
of King where there are no iubjeets, and
at the time of the grant, as we call 1t, kIng
James had no lubjeefs here, OF none but
what became 70 by virtue of his charter, o.
therwife the council of Plymouth would not
have been reRrained to tranlport lonly luch
as would go and live there under the
KINGS ALLEGIANCE" that is, agree
to the bargain in the charter, that ne fho1I9
be their King when removed out of theplr
mits of his JURISDICTION. am AZ z
lois to know why you have fubftituted the
word authority in the room of the void aAf-
glance | am willing to call it mlitake.
-" One of the charter rules (you iay) rel
trains US from making laws, contrary or re-
pugnant to the laws of the realm" then add,
g need |, in order to ahertain my meaning,
90 on to obferve, thar the laws Of the realm
are made by the Parliament of Great Bri-
tain, or that we mutt neceiiarlly be de
pendant upon that realm, whole laws we a'e
not at liberty to contravene, in making rules
for our own conduct p anfwer, no, Sir,
flor love lhort anfwers) your meaning is
plain, for we all know that the parliament
of Great Britain make laws for the realm
thereof. We ALTO know more, i.s. that
the manor of Eal- Greenwich is in the
realm of Great Britain, and for that reaion
among others, that manor although it be
part of, is not of iIlelf, an independent taie.
You mean likewile, that we are dependent
on the parliament of Great Britain. But
your reafoning is very far from being con-
cluGve: IF our anceltors ifipulated with the
perfon whom they agreed lhould be their
King under certain limitations when they
arrived in America, not to make laws which
ihould contravene thoie of the parent fate,
from which we were rhen to be feparated,
it is rather an argument for our indePen-
dence than againtt it, the meaning feems
to be this, as we are about to feparate and
as we profels to enjoy as many but no more
privileges than our brethren that remain
behind, we agree to be governed by laws OF
of our making and not to have any interior.
ing juriidiaions. / have word to add,
and that is, If we are not an independent
fate according to my former acceptation
of the word) j; is time we were for the au-