kiwg ton ilajj nec rege nec populo sed utroque vol 12 saturday november20 1830 no 21 the lower canada watchman no xii feci judicium to sir james kempt k g c sir the government of nearly halfa million british subjects to which you were unexpectedly called tivo years ago and ijave just quieted is a matter of too high importance to be passed altogether unno ticed having on former occasions sum moned public attention to some acts of your administration it h therefore my design at present to draw such a general sketch of it as may serve to perpetuate the remem brance of an event so prejudicial to tlio true interests of the british empire i may be blamed and perhaps accused of timidity for not having done so at an earlier peri od or at all events previous to your unre- gretted departure from the province but i answer that i was determined to remain silent until the curtain had entirely and for cvor closed from our view the performan ces of the first end most conspicious actor of the drama and that i dare any candid or upright mind who may have witnessed iry humble labours in the cause ofmycouo- try for the last three years to charge me with either cowardice or timeservice i will do myself the justice to say moreover that during all that long period of disgrace ful publick measures aud humiliating in roads upon the constitution of this province i have been the onlt individual who came boldly forward iu the sacred cause of my couotry nod discoursed in the language of a free and independent bnitonofher ho nour and her rights if then e have sin gly done so in the very face of her worst enemies in defiance of the scowls of power and at a time when democratick violence nd tyrftnny led and headed by yourself had nearly swept away the landmarks of our freedom surely this is not the time this is not the individual to be upbraided or taunted with a dereliction of his duty it istrue that you will be far across the at- laniick before these observations can be publickly perused but no distaoco is so great no roaring of the ocean so lout as to milne tho voice of xnuth or prevent the the uuwilling ears of such governors as you have been though surrounded aud protect ed by the uproar aud fury of a clamorous populace go then sir on the wings of the wind to your native country never a- gain to return to this much injured pro vince present your duty and your official report to our most gracious sovereign and when you havo done so look back and lis ten to the maledictions of a loyal but ne glected people while i pronounce on their behalf and iu their hearing that you are at this moment the poorest tho weakest the most pitiful and contemptible governor that ever left the canadian shores you arc said to claim your- origin from no higher source than the peasantry of scotland i do not upbraid you with so humble a descent it is of itself a proud title when ornamented by a life of industry morality and publick virtue by which the natives of that country have been generally characterized and which have raised ma ny of her sons to the highest pinnacle of fame and hnuor though i fear the name of kkmpt will not he found among the num ber i introduce this circumstance in your history merely to account for a fact in your after life which no priuciple in me taphysical philosophy could fever prove namely an invincible propensity to herd and act ou all occasions with the vulgarin- stead of men of publick virtue and reputa tion after a youth of laborious subordi nation a natural desire to improve vour iuuaiuun in nto jdd ilic puiroiiagc at an abcrcromby procured you a commission and advancement in the army what ser vices you have performed or what laurels you have earned in that honorable profes sion form no part of my present enquiry but sure 1 am that the trumpet of fame has never yet been attuned in their praise that jou have maintained good terms with such nod so many of your superiors as re tained the power ofpromoting your private interests appears evident from the fact of their having done so as far as their autho rity extended vet we cannot forget that patronage frequently selects her favorites among those who are less remarkable for patriotism and other public virtues than for those more common qualities which in the promotion of private ends ministers to tho basest and most unworthy passions of our nature some few years since you succeeded to the governmtof nova scotia the inhabitants of that colony are almost if not altogether a british people mo ral in their principles industrious iu their habits wise and prudent in the managment of their affairs sober yet independent in their politics fast in their attachment to the mother country and educated as such a pcopu ought to be they are easily govern ed and the hand must indeed be unsteady that greatly or often errs in the administra tion of their public rights bland manners therefore and steady principles of action seem to be all that is necessary to constitute a successful and approving government in that happy country but that you have ac complished such a goverment can be no test either of your natural capacity for pub lic rule or the acquired talents of a states man- if vou have succeeded in giving e- qual satisfaction to your royal master and to bis loyal subjects io nova scotia the e- vetit must bo attributed rather to the indis criminate visitations of fortuno than to yourowu personal efforts for believe me sir the god who made- you never intend ed vou as a ruler over aoy portion of his people the retirement of the earl or dal housie- from tho government of this pro vince in assume a more important com- tuaud iu inuia openedby accident a new field to your ambition though not lo the in crease of your honor vour personal qua lities as litllo merited as your publick ser vices deserved so high a distinction as the civil government and military command of i this province the mannerof so important an appointment proves the fact for it is well known that it was only your vicinity to a vacant government coupled with the notorious instability and want of confidence io the kings miuisters at the time in eng land that could hy aoy possibility have raised you to a station so far exalted above your highest aspirations the peculiar and equivocal nature of the support which you received from ministry whilst in the ac tual enjoyment of office must have yielded frequent proofs to ynurself and your friends that you were not the chosen medium of their intercourse with the people of this province and your very sudden and un ceremonious recall will have by tins time convinced you tbatyou had beeu as little confided io at home as you have been res pected abroad however in little antici pation of so disastrous ami humiliating a result you came into thu province with a settled antipathy to the public measures of the earl of dalhousie and a predeter- mined resolution to subvert them by all the means io your power without knowing or having any right to koow save through the distorted medium ofenvy jealousyrevenge and the vindictive iosolence of faction ei ther the native usefulness of these measures or the support and countenance with which they had been favored by his majestys government in england amidst the in toxicating vapour and outrageous joy pe culiar to little minds when suddenly raised above their natural level you thot that lord dalhousie had been altogether such an its movements in the proper light the warm nnd generous hospitality with which the kindhearted people of nova scotia greeted lrd dalhousie on the occasion al luded tood the spontaneous joy which pervaded all classes on the arrival once more among them of their late governor and benefactor could not but embitter a heartso tieadened lo all the charities of rural and omestick life as yours has ever known to nave been the cordial welcome that gleamed in every eye and the respon sive beam f gratitude peculiar to conscious iotegrity at so interesting a moment must instantly wave produced their usual effects in the ininof such a jealous and revengeful bystandev as you were and is it to a mean spirit of injured pride like this we owe all the evils we have endured in this province ftom the very outset of your career to its termination if it is we have rea son to tliauk god that your administration has been 40 short and that you have been succeeded by nobleman who will neither sacrificejhis honor to his private feelings nor be me from the path of his duty to his king nod country by the violonce of party hoover enraged and yet not withstanding this exposure of the real sen timents ofy heart you have the audaci ty to call krd dalhousie your friend and the hypocrisy to correspond withjhis lord ship iu that sacred character i have no access to know what the tenor of ibis cor respondence may be aud if i bad i trust that i am ondctwed with sufficient honor to con ceal it but whatever it may be and how ever hollc and insincere on your part i may safely appeal to yourself that so far as respects bis lordship all is manly up right aud unequivocal it is his nature to be so and perhaps before you have been one as yourself and that private views and long a frequenter at do ning street you will fiud bat his more enlarged experience will have afforded you counsel as valuable as bis prognostications with respect to your government in this province havo proved irue end tfnerriog the first overt act of your administrati on was iff strict conformity to the princi ples of a man actuated by sentiments so unworthy the representative of majesty as i havo just alluded to lord dalhousie ever conscious of he integrity of his heart and the strict performance of his duly in stead of shunntnp that public discussion as well as controversy winch constitutes the very soul and lifes blood of our glori ous constitution not only coveted but en couraged it and i do not think that in the whule history of canada there is a single given period in which ihecoustitution was so generally studied and our rights as a free peopleso clearly ascertained as during the administration of this constitutional govern or bat this high advantage of the liberty of the press and the freedom of political dis cussion which perpetually acts as a censo rial check on all who are in power were privileges and immunities which you in the indulgence of your passions and in the plenary exercise of your delegated autho rity could neither understand palliate nor endure mystery and darkness appeared to be the atmospheres most congenial to your disposition and you perhaps imagin ed that the orderlybook of the field could be introduced into the cflbioct as the safest and most expeditious mode of giving laws to a free phople accordingly when the publishers a quebec newspaper of high and reputable standing communicated to the public the ceremony of your installati on to the govoroment of this province and made use of the following expressions m in the council room on this interesting occasion we understand a letter was read popular displeasure were alternately the main springs of his actions but you total ly forgot how difficult a thing it is for a sol dier of fortune like you to distinguish be tween the native iotegrity of a high born chief and the mean vascillating venal con duct of a supple fawnor upon great men and high employment for the mere sake of emolument hadyou indeed been inti- taiejy acquainted with the true character of the noble beiog whose administration vou were so anxious to overthrow and out law had you known the real integrity of his heart the simplicity of intention aon purity of principle which regulated th whole of his long and arduous government in this province if ynu have the spirit of e man or the honor of n soldier you wouw rather have been shot from tho cannon mouth tbnn tarnish ooe feature or cancel one act of his patriotick purposes buf though born in one country you and lorb dalhousie were cast in different moulds a closer parallel would add little to youf honor but still less to your fame it would indeed leave his lordship in the full en joymeutofall his most excellent personal qualities and public virtues but you it ould degrade and push back to your na tural level and original obscurity you not only endeavoured to diminish the usefulness and obecuro the fame of his lordships ad ministration bill contrary to an expressed solicitation nod a promised compliance you shunned nnd neglected his friends while you cultivated every opportunity to court the acquaintaintace and promote the view of bis personal as well as public enemies that you knew them to be such is unques tionable a previous residence in this province in some subordinate military si tuation whilst it brought you into contact nnd acquaintance with those on a parallel footing with yourself in society enabled you to obtain a general knowledge of the inhabitants at jarge together with aheiv modes ottmuking and deling jf there fore incovering the enemies of lord dal housie with the mantle ef your newly at tained patronage you thought you were clearing a path to a government of smiles and universal approbation you greatly de ceived yourself the enemies of his lordship were the enemies of their own country as well as of the british institu tions established in it and 1 dare lo say you have by this time discovered that it was more easy to warm these serpents into life and action than defend ynurself from their stings depend upon it sir that a government administered as lorh dal- housies was on the clearest construction and soundest principles of our constitution is not one that will easily admit of an en tire change of measures and men as it may suit the purposes of such a vain cunning jealous and intriguing patron of dema gogues as you are without principle no government can be maintained without uniformity of action no government can be secure without consistency no govern ment can be respectable and without men of virtue and integrity to guard and guide it no government can either be useful or durable should you be of opinion that you have secured to this proviuce during your residence among us a government boasting of all that is fair and just and up right and consistent 1 do sincerely wish you joy of a discovery which has hitherto eluded the eager researches of the best friends of tho country you may continue to console yourself in a conviction so vain and imaginary but woe to those who are doomed to endure the reality but i have discovered a key to all this contempt for lord dalhousies measures and promotion of his enemies why said a gentleman high in authority in nova scotia lately travelling in ibis province why did lord dalhousie visit that province as governor general or in any other capacity during tho admiuistratiou of sir james kempt 7 this wns indeed a quostion whichthough it could not be well answered threw much light on your viceregal reign io canada from beginning to end and at once opened an uninterrupted path to the very inmost recesses of your beau wo now behold h sumptuous instigated by abase faction ori ginating in tho house of assembly were perpetually pouring forth upon the admi nistration of lord dalhousie and particu larly towards the close of it and this at a lime when all his public measures had uot only been dictated bui approved of by his majestys government in england a hire ling press rendered doubly inflammatory hy pecuniary aid and contributions from in dividuals who were not only the personal enemies of his lordship but the avowed champions of a system of government pure ly democratical soon took up the theme and repeated the seditions chorus so far and loud that the uttermost corners of the province were nearly agitated into open re volt by the insidious but corrupt fascioatioo of the sound honest uooffendiog indivi duals suddenly became alarmed for their persons and property but bettor informed members of society looked to the uproar meroly as a subject demanding the inter vention of the legal tribunals to lay it for ever at rest and after a long interval of meek but stern endurance justice did at last stretch her authority over some of those baseborn sons of disaffection that main pillar of the state a grand jury found no less than about ten true bills of indictment against different private individuals and publishers of newspapers for sedition and libels againsl government of the most dan gerous and infamous dcsciiplion there- port of the attorney general of the pro vince with respect to these prosecutions mude to you on the 20th october 1828 somewhat more than a little month after your arrival in the province must have made you well acquainted not only with the nature but the absolute necessity of the proceedings io question this is a docu ment which for manliness of purpose ho nest fulfillment of duty impartial record of circumstances veneration of our excellent constitution of government fidelity of de tail precision of expression and uudeviat- ing correctness of principle throughout has never cerlaiuly been surpassed in this or aoy other couutry iff these publicati ons says the honorable and learned at torney general the conduct and mea sures of government end the proceedings of the courts of justice wcro grossly misre presented aud calumniated aud the acts of both tottft in the limits of their legal power in most important particulars were held up to the public as illegal and unconstitution al and in such language as was calculated to incite opposition to their authoritywhile the person at the bead of the goveromcut was openly aspersed vilified and made the object of indecent personal attack of the urgent necessity of putting a stop to these pubiicationsno doubt could bo entertained as government however leniently and just ly administered could not continue to sub sist if it could be thus ncrsevcriogly attack ed with impunity yet notwithstanding this clear and picturcsquo view of the dan ger of government and universal contempt of the laws suborned by a seditious and malevolent press yon assumed the right of dictating a new and unheard of line of con duct to nis majestys courtt and attorney general and after giving the suhjectyour best consideration you instructed tho lat ter m not to proceed io any of the cases of libel until further instructions should be gi ven to him of course as you origioally intended no such instructions have ever been heard of and all the proceedings in question remain to this day an obstructed and dilapidated monument of one of the most highhanded and despotick acts of power that ever emanated from a bri tish governour but the deed itself was from mr huskisson late secretary of worthy of the mode in which it had been state for the colonies in which he in- perpetrated in your despatch to the co- formed sir james kkmtt that on the re- thnh icreiaiv n l l rommentodon of his excellent the earl or dalhousie he had laid sir jamess name befoie his majesty as a fit and proper person to ho appointed ger- norinchikf of this proviuce and that his majestt had been pleased to sanction the appointment you so far forgot tho high station io which you had just been placed and the dignity due to it that you ordered the editor to be called ioto your presence and severely reprimanded him for communicating to his readers a fact you had no objections that the public should be informed of your newly acquired honors and blazoned abroad in all the pa- rapharnalia of official pomp but with that littleness of mind peculiar to men of your unexpected good fortune io life you could not endure to be told that you owed any thing to the recommendation of lord gonial secretary dftne 27th february1829 you say i entertain a hnpe that 1 should have had the honour of receiving from you before now some intimation of tho views and intentions of his majestys government relative to these suits to guide my own pro ceedings respecting them i have noi however been favored with auy such com munication from you c your iostruc- tionsto the attorney general not to prose cute these suits are dated the immediate preceding day namely ihe 26th of febru ary 1829 and with the shameless auda city peculiar to the most unpriocipled lead er of a faction ratherthan thedubbedand knighted representative of majesty your secretary is directed to communicate a falsehood to the attorney general nnd commanded to say that under the in structions which his excellency has received he deems it necessary to di- dalhousie though you must have been j rect you not to proceed oo anyof theca- perfectly well aware of the correctness of the statement in question and that the communication alluded to itself could at any time be produced in evidence against you you too informed tho editor that you could carry on the government without his assistance and commanded him to re frain from any observations in future with respect to your system of doing so but in this attempting to gag the press to use a common hut au appropriate term you forgot that no free government can be well admin istered without popular discussiooand that in this land of liberty the press is the best safeguail of the rights of the people lam sorry to add lhat this early and unceremo nious interference with an immunity which has ever been considered inalienable and in herent among british subjects struck the conductors of the english periodical press of this province with a pauickfear from which they do not yet appear to havo re covered your method of putting a stop to tho legal proceedings instituted in our courts of law against the licentiousness of the press was equally summary and ten limes more dangerous to tho stability of government and dbe general welfare of the community we ean never forget in this province tho violeaii ccnsuio which ihe giddy and pro ses for libel until further instructions shall be given to ynu after such an exposure as this there is an end of all confidence in ei ther rank or station what then are we to think of a british governor a gene ral in the army and a knight grand cross who to gain some private end such perhaps as the favorable opinion of those despicable demagogues the vigors and the papineaus of montreal would at once compromise the honor of his veracity and ioflict a wound on the laws of the pro vince which has never had a parallel id colonial or imperial history butysir the interruption of the course of legal proceed ings in the manner abovo detailed is a se rious crimo not to be lightly passed over and one for which you may yet notwith standing your present supposed security iri the hollow and unstable approbation of n versatile faction be made to tremble even at ihe hoad of an army the ex post factd approbation of sir george murray would then avail you nothing and be assured that neither yourself nor all the genorals and adjutantgenerals iu the service can deprive a free people of their just and un doubted rights as administrator of the government of this proviore you utile knew the liuiila or extent of your preroga- live if you supposed for one moment thar you had tho power of stopping at pleasure the ordinarv course ofjusiico with the same impuuitylbat you might wheel a baiallion of soldiers into line during a birthday re view it is a prerogative which the king himself in all the plenitudo of his power does noi aud never did enjoy i would have you to know moreover that tho of fence of which you have been guilty is a crime well known and equally well defined hy the laws of this country and for which you may be indicted and tried at any time it is denominated premunire aud is des cribed iu the law books to mean the intro ducing of a foreigu prerogativo or power ioto the land and creating imperium in im- perh which your mandate to the attorney general unquestionably effected but be the naturo and description of the of fence what it may it is well known among lawyers that tho onlt mode of stay ing proceedings in criminal cases before conviction and judgment is by a nolle crosenui which is granted or entered y the attorney geueral cither when in caso of misdemeanours or civil ac tion is depending for the same cause or any improper and vexatious attempts ore made to oppress and injure tho defendants as by repeaicdly preferring defectivo in dictments for the samo supposed offence chitty vol 1 p 478 but hero i drop this part of my subject and leave you to beware of the consequences of an unjusti fiable intervention with the course aod pu rity of our legal administration had your predecessor dared to commit sucb a deed i am welt aware of the length to which his enemies would have carried their complaints against him but you have discovered a paih to popular favour which lord dalhousie neversought forand would be the last mau on earth to pene trate oveo were it strewed with roses with out thorns nnd laurels without blemish i havo already at considerable lengih and particularly in ihe first fivo numbers of these papers spoken of the illegal and un precedented mauner in which during the last two assemblies mr papiocau was ap pointed speaker of the commons bouse of that body it is not therefore my in tention at present to renew a controversy the cause wlrwiucii liasixjlcctussucti hiih- ble disgrace on the province at large and will be an everlasting staio on the cha racter of its legislature but having lately looked deeper into the share which you must have had iotbe final appointment of the speaker and perhaps made some dis coveries not altogether befitting a man of honour far less the kings representative i have deemed it improper to pass the sub ject entirely- unnoticed io ibis place you are aware then that on the metiing of the assembly on the 20th of november 1827 lord dalhousie on very just and legal grounds refused to sanction the election of sir papineau as speaker ef the lower house and that his lordship remanded that house for the purpose of making choice of another person tube their speaker you aro also aware that instead of doing so they persisted in declaring mr papi neau duly elected and positively lefused to proceed to the election of another in this state the assembly was prorogued and did not meet again until you called them together in november 1828 it was now made a subject of considerable discussion how you could get over this delicate and difficult question but for him who in his heart envied the character and in his conduct sought every mean that could be devised for the purpose of bringing disre pute on the government of lord dalhou sie it was easy to discover a remedy in a closeted conversation of nearly a whole itthtimtbftipifmibihhifiliawfia cussed and animadverted on in no courtly terms you came to the determination of receiving mr papineau as speaker elect on bis own terms but sir in doing so you overlooked the important fact that you were compromising the constitutional rights of the sovereign whom you repre sented that if you could at all receive mr papineau as speaker without a new election either in conformity to the direc tions of lord dalhousie or new ones from yourself the injunction to the house uf as sembly to proceed lo the choice of ano ther person could never be erazed from the journals of the legislature without your participation in the grossest deception and most wretched dereliction of the trust re posed in you that ever disgraced aoy pub lick character and that therefore you could only receive mr popineau and ap prove of his election as speaker either with a lie in his throat or the declared and avowed instrument of a breach in our con stitution thus rendered irremediable and r recorded precedent for any future assembly that may choose to take advantage of it by your acceptance and approval of mr papioeau you have afforded the high sanction of your character and station to both and from that moment ynu became identified with the worst enomies ofyour country and its unparalleled constitution should you over sit down to count the cost ofsogreata sacrifice of name and duly and should you find as undoubtedly you must the balance to be against you be as sured that neither mr papineau nor any of his friends and partisans io this pro vince would advance one single approving opiuion to extinguish it however much you may have favoured them aod in the vain hope of aggrandizing your own popu larity intrigued with them when i for merly wrote on this subject i took you for an honest man and a brave soldier the latter quality i am still willing to con- code to you for physical courage may ex ist separate from any intellectual endow ments but no one can be an honost mi nister who parleys with faction and low ering himself from the dignity of a kings vicegerent becomes tho boon companion of demagogues and political declaimers i proceed to make a few remarks on your conduct with respect to the great nance question of this province had this beon a question whichjsolely depended upon the mere adjudication ofyour own in dividual pleasure instead of the authority of an act of parliament and the directions of a ministry responsible for their actions i have iiu doubt but like every other ques tion over which you conceived yourself to- have bad the complete control it would long ago have been resigned into the hands of the assembly to deal with it at they might think proper fortunately for the province with respect to this question you were never permitted to rise in political raok above ihe humble medium of commu nicating ihe ministers despatches to the legislature yet even in this poor capa city you did all you could to break down the only barrier that remained between the rights of the crown aud the pretensions of the assembly for not a vote did the latter pass upou this subject but you thank ed them and uot an act did the legislature convey to the foot of tho throne but you sanctioned however much at variance with law however much at variance with the ministers instructions however much at variance with the principles of the con stitution however much at variance with your own messages to both braoches of the legislature and derogatory to the well defined aud universally recognised prero gatives of your royal master but yon did still more you affixed the kings authority to bills which did not come le gally or constitutionally before you the two sessions over which you presided were characterised each by a supply bill which lo say nothing of its tcuour found its way through the council in a manner ihe most infamously illegal that ever dis graced a publick body of men or legisla tors i have in former numbers gone iutu particulars with respect to bolh these bills and drawn publick attention to both tho men aod the measures that gave them be ing i shall only in tbis place remind you thai ihe first was passed only in consequence of a double vote given by the speak er of the legislative council when be had no right to vote at aft i a kvt wi se cond was passed by a manoeuvre of the same wily gentleman who after it had been lost in a committee came down next day reinforced by a bishop summoned it from under the table and by a poor con temptible majority of one vote got it through the house and you sir on your ownmcre authority without consult ing your king his ministers or any other power under heaven save the desire of ren dering yourself still more popular with the majority of a violent and factious assem bly appended the roynl seal j to these un constitutional bills passed in soextraordi- nary a manner you cannot plead in extenuation ofyour conduct tbat you pos sessed any instructions from jibe colonial minister vascillating peering and timid though he be finally to sanction these bills that great military knight bad too much good souse too much of the cunning dex terity of office about him to give you in structions of a lenour contrary lo the cele brated messages which be directed you to lay before the legislature and i therefore take it for granted that you were as much at liberty to refer the bills in question home for bis majestys apprebation as in pau- ing them into a law merelyjto gain your own private ends and save ynnr populari ty had you adopted the former course it is true that you would have suffered con siderably in the opinions of the renowned champions of the people members of tho ter for integrity and consistency which no assembly or legislative body on earth can now confer upon you but sir george murray antsus like has taken the whole of our fiscal concerns on his own shoulders aod after spending a whole session in the manufacture of a bill which for unconsti tutional compromise and absurdity surpass es any thing of the kind ever before beard of has promised that the ensuing parlia ment will produce a measure big with grace and importance to canada docs sir george really believe tbat it is possible for the imperial parliament to pass an act appropriating a single shilling of the reve nue of this province which will notexpe- rience the same fate that the celebrated 14 geo iii c 83 has done if he doesbe will find himself lamentably disappointed forwbocan shut his j eyes upon the fact that so much money set aside for certain purposes or in a word for paying the ci vil list of this province by an act in the reign of william iv ean be objected to on the very same grounds and on equally good principles as hy a law passed in the reign of his royal father yea aod will be ob jected to and lhat by the same body of provincial legislators who have so long so seditiously and demoniacally tramp led alike on common law and acts of par liament in order to set aside the only sta tute that stands between them and the en lire and independent rule of this distracted and thrice unhappy colony my advice to both yourself aod sir george murray is to ponder seriously at your first inter view on this important question if you can really devise aoy measure by which the minds of the still loyal people of this province can be pacified and guarded from all future fears wilh respect to this long pending question let it be immediately a- dopted nnd put into stern aod determined execution if not let us revert to our con stitution as it stands without any legisla tive or official cobbling and should the ir revocable order once come to put the laws in force according to their true intent and meaning woe be unto those who will he so rebellious aod foolhardy as to withstand it there is a truo british spirit in the