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article contains two ditinct charges. The one, that his Majety has intructed his Governors, not to pas certain laws, unles their operation be upended till his Majety's pleafure be known. The other, that to laws paed with this claue of upenion, his Majety has utterly neglected to attend.

the preceding one, this article is couched in terms that milead, that imply a falehood. For would not any one conclude, that in giving uch intructions, his Majety had aumed a new power, unexercied by any of his predeceors; introduced a practice unknown in former reigns? To what purpoe are thee facts alleged? Is it not to characterie the government of his preent Majety, to ditinguih his conduct from that of his predeceors; to etablih the charge of uurpation?

, however, can be farther from the truth. For upon enquiry it will appear, that this practice of intructing the Governor, not to give his aent to laws of a particular and extraordinary nature—and it is to uch only that the cae applies—until his Majety could judge of the fitnes and propriety of them, is o far from being novel, that it was etablihied, and uniformly prevailed, before the acceion, not of his preent Majety, but even of his Majety's family, to the throne. So far then as this article is brought to etablih the charge of uurpation in his preent Majety, it is abolutely fale. Is