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17 July 1802 N.S. Wales
Conduct
III. Non exist. proved
2. In the case of a Colony acquired any other way
than by conquest and in particular in the case of all
English Colonies at that time in existence the right of
legislation in the Crown alone is disaffirmed: and a
in such the affair through under the condition of if being
exercised with the consent of an Assembly of the
Colony it is affirmed
the right of the Crown to legislate
without express authority for that purpose from Parliament appears to be
affirmed: yet the such affirmance is neither very distinct
nor direct: and appears to have had for its ground
no other than the prima facie right derived from undisputed
usage.
For the proof of this, I trust to the words of the opinion
in question as given above:
The French tyrants, if they had no justification, had at least
the plea of self-preservation for an excuse. The English
man, who I suppose is not to be called a tyrant - the Englishman then<lb>
tyrant, and his accomplices, in what subterfuge will they
find so much as the shadow of an excuse?
The French nation, and all Europe sympathising
and the whole involved world in sympathy with it, cried
shame upon the monster with five heads. What
will they it now say of the single head, that organized this
untold tyranny?
Such is the crime a a sample at least of the crimes
of William Pitt. His successors, not daring to be innocent
when he has been is guilty, choose without rather to
be accomplices than avengers, or so much as disapprovers of this his guilt misdeeds And this conspiracy of present power with
ill-earned influence destination for the suppression
of law and justice - this conspiracy act of desparation
against the this the spring of selfish pusillanimity,
covers itself with the mask of respect
and
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