The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-11-07

majefy with legislative powers. II the puie of
his people ihsIl beat calmly under this expert
mcnt, another and another will b. cried, ill the
meafure OF defpotiim he filed up. 1t would b.
aninfnt on common fenfe 10 pretend that this
exception was made in order to reftore its CON-
merce to that great town. The trade which
cannot be received at two wharfs alone NUT Of
neceflity be transferred TO fome other place to
which it will foon be followed Ivy that of the
two wharfs. Confdered in this light, it would
be an iniolent and cruel mockery at the anriia-
ton of the town of Bottom.
BY the act ~ for the fuppreflion of riots and
tumults in the town or Boron, patied alto in the
lat fefiion Of parliament, murder committed
there is, If the governor pleates, 70 be tried in
the court Of Kings Bench, in the iiland OF Great
Britain, by a jury of Mdd.sfex. The witneies,
too, on receipt ofiuch fun as the governor
ihall think it realonable for them to eXpend, are
to enter into recognizance TO appear at the tri-
al. This is, IN other words, taxing them to the
amount of their recogniZance, and that amount
may be whatever governor pleafes for who
does his Inajsity think can be prevailed on to
crois the Atlantic for the iole purpoie of bear
ing evidence to fact His expcnces are to be
borne, indeed, as they fhall be efimated by Il
governor; bit who are TO feed the wife and
children whom he leaves behind, and who
have had no other fub!ieence but his daily Ia
bour! Thofe epidemical diforders, too, 10 ter
rble in a foreign climate, is the cure of them to
be eftimated among the articles OF expsnce, and
their danger TO be warded off by the almighty
power of parliament And the wretched cri-
minal, If he happen to have offended on the a.
merican ide, fripped of his privilege of trial by
peers of his vicinage, removed from the place
where alone full evidence could he obtained,
without money, without counfel, without
friends, without exculpatory proof, is tried be-
fore judges predetermined TO cOudemn. The
towards who would fiifFer countryman to be
torn from the bowels of their fociety, in order
to be thus offered 4 facrifice to parliamentary
tyranny, would merritt that everla(ting infamy
now fixed on the authors of the act a cisufe
(D for fimilar purpofc had been introduced
into an a6, pafed III the l. 9th year of his majef-
TVS reign, intituled An at for the better fe-
curing and preferving his majefty'e dockyards,
magazines, fhips, ammunition, and flores - a.
gainft which, as meriting the fame centres, the
feveral colonies have already protected.
That thefe are the acts ofpower, afiumed by
body of men, foreign to onr contributions, and
unacsnowledged by our laws, agant which we
do, on behalf of the inhabitants Of Brtill Anlc-
RIGA, enter this our foemn and determined pro-
telt and we do earneftly entreat his maiefty, as
yet the only rnediatoTy power between The fcve-
raj ftatcs of the Britilh empire, to recommend TO
his parliament of Great Britain the total revoca-
ton of thefe acts, which, however nugato,y
they be, may yet prove the caufe of further diff
contents and jealouhes among US.
That we next proceed 70 coniider the con-
due of his maicfty, as holding the executive
powers of the laws of thefe ftates, and mark ont
his deviations from the line of duty: By the
contribution of Great Britain, rs well RS of the
feveral American ftates, his majetty pofeiIes the
power of refufng to pats into law any bill
which has already paled the other two branch
es OF Legislature. His majefy, however, and his
confcious of the improperly of op-
pohng their Jingle opinion to the united wifdom
ettu'a, bnn1ss~ 1t. Darlisue1t. while their pro-
pies, tor ieveral ages pat have n,odefly declin-
ed the eXerciie OF this power in that part of his
empire called Great Britain. But by change of
circumstances, other principles than thofe ofiu
tice imply have obtained aninhucice on their de-
terminations the. addition of new fiates to the
brltlih empire has produced an addition of new,
and fomctirnes oppofite interefts. 1t is now.
therefore, the great Office of his n,aiefty, 70 re-
hume the exerciie of his negative power, and to
prevent the Paiiage of laws by any one legislature
OF the empire, which might bear iniurouilv on
the rights and intereits of another. Yet this
VIII not eXcufe the waTiton cSerciie of this DOW
er which we have feen his maiefty praesife on the
laws of the American legislatures. For the mott
triii'ng reaions, and fometimes for no conceiya-
bic reafon at all, his maiefty has reietled laws
or the MOI alutary tendency. The abolition
OF Domestic Havery Is the great Object Of deire
10 thoie colonies, where it was unhappily intro
duced IN their infant fate. But previous TO the
OF the iIaves we have, if il me-
cehary to exclude all further importatiops from
4h1ca yet our repeated attempts to effect this
oy prohibitions, and by impofing duties which
In,snt amount to prohibition, have been hi
therto defeated by his msjefty's negative Thus
Preferrins the immediate advantages of a few
Bntiih coriars to the lafling interefts of the
American ftates, and to the rights of human ma.
tGre' deeply wounded by this Infamous practice.
Nay, the Jingle interpo6tion of IN intereCted in.
olyidual agalnit law was fcarcely ever known
10 idiI OF iucceis, though in the oppofte fcale
were placed the interets OF a whole country.
nat this is 10 ihameful an abufe OF mower
trufted with his maiefy for other Durpof-s. az
II not reformed, would cali for fome legal re.
Itrieions.
With eqdal inattenton to the ncceGities IF
his people here has his maiefty permitted our
laws to lie neglected in England for wears. mel.
ther confirming them by his a1ent, nor aonu,-
ing them by his negative 70 that fiich of them
40 nave no tuipending claufe we hold on the
mott precarious of all tenures, his rnaiefv's will.
and iuch Of them aS fufpend themfelves till his
mNeity's afient be obtained, we have feared,
might be called into exiltence at forne future &
dhtant period, when time, and change of cir
cumftances, fhaIl have rendered them dcnruc-
I'VE 10 ms people here. And TO render this griey