Juries; which has ever been justly considered
as the grand Bulwark and Security of English
property.
This alone is sufficient to rouse our jealousy:
And we are again obliged to take notice of the
remarkable contrast, which the British parlia-
ment have been pleased to exhibit between the
Subjects in
Great-Britain and the Colonies.
In the same Statute, by which they give up to
the decision of one dependent interested Judge
of Admiralty the estates and properties of the
Colonists, they expressly guard the estates and
properties of the People of
Great-Britain;
For all forfeitures and penalties inflicted by
the statute of the fourth of George the
third,
or any other Act of Parliament relative to the
Trade of the Colonies, may be sued for in any
Court of Admiralty in the Colonies; but all
penalties and forfeitures which shall be incurred
in
Great-Britain, may be sued for
in any of
this Majesty's Courts of Record in
Westminster,
or in the Court of Exchquer in
Scotland, re-
spectively. Thus our Birthrights are taken
from us; and that too with every mark of in-
dignity, insult and contempt. We may be har-
rassed and dragged from one part of the Con-
tinent to the other (which some of our Bre-
thren here and in the country towns already
have been) and finally be deprived of our whole
property, by the arbitrary determination of one
biassed; capricious Judge of the Admiralty.