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Is it a point, my Lord Shall Chapter and verse be
quoted, my Lord, to prove that at the time of day it does
not belong to a Secretary of State of his own sole authority either to make or to repeal
laws? Necessary it can hardly be: but as there is a Secretary
of State who has taken upon him to do both, and as we have a
another law that speaks expressly to the point, there may be a sort of
satisfaction in turning to the words of it.

By the Bill of Rights it is declared in terminus,† † 1. W. & M. Sess: 2. C.2. §.1.that
the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution of
laws by regal authority, without consent of Parliament, is
illegal.

By this letter the Duke of Portland manifests and declares his determination
– not simply of suspending – i.e. rendering if no
effect for a time but of rendering if no effect for ever a
law – a law of Parliament the date of the 24th of Jan 1794
so often mentioned (together with another law as will be that of 1779 as will be seen
mentioned afterwards presently) and that "by regal authority," and
"without consent of Parliament" – conscious (for the reasons
that will presently be brought to view) that Parliament could
not, without personal disgrace and inconvenience to the parties applying,
be applied ( to for its consent:– "by regal authority,"
because in virtue under colour of the office of his Majesty's Secretary
of State, though certainly without any express authority the
as from the King or so much as the priority of
the King his royal master whose power he was thus
abusing, and accordingly without any express mention
of the King's name.

By this letter it is, that this determination of the Duke illegal, this rebellious
not to say rebellious, determination of the Duke of of Portland is declared: and by his subsequent conduct,
as manifested in the other letters, that determination has been
never carried into effect: the that illegal effect of it still continuing, at
a the time in which I write.

Not content with thus defeating a measure required the
justification of which is required to be carried into execution by a law of Parliament, he declares
at the same time a determination to institute a
different and in many respects opposite measure, of
his own hand, ⊞ ⊞ to afford a colour for the so defeating the measure of Parliament – a measure the execution of which was neither "required"
nor so much as authorised by Parliament.

Identifier: | JB/121/395/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1800-04-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	395	Info in main headings field	Dispensing power
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	D1
Penner		Watermarks	CW 1799
Marginals		Paper Producer	C. Abbit Lees
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public		ID Number	001
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