damental Principles of the Common Law;
to
the Benefit of which, all British Subjects, where-
ever dispersed throughout the British Empire,
are indubitably intitled.
Such a Jealousy hav the Subjects of
Eng-
land for their Rights, Liberties and Privileges,
and so tender a Regard has been shown to
them by his Majesty, that notwithstanding the
Provision made at the Revolution, that the
Judges of the King's Superior Courts of Law
there, should hold their Commissions, not at
Pleasure, but during good Behaviour, and since
that Time for their Support, His Majesty,
among other the first Acts of his Reign, was
graciously pleased to recommend it to Parlia-
ment, and an Act passed, that their Commissions
should not cease at the Demise of the King;
whereby every thing possible in human Wisdom
seems to have been done, to establish an Im-
partiality in the Decisions, not only between
Subject and Subject, but between the Crown
and the Subject. -- Of how much greater
Importance must it be to preserve from the
least supposeable Bias, the Judges of a Court,
invested by the Laws of this Province, which
have been approved of by Majesty, with
Powers as fully and amply to all Intents and
Purposes whatsoever, as the Courts of King's-
Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer, within
his Majesty's Kingdom of
England have, or
ought to have?