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is aware

this case,

case, and having retained the only efficient Barrister and the best he must rely on ofterney in the Coole

the above quoted 4th Section of the Ar of 6th clay 18.176. Yern olleme=

dir ance

rialist is not a

lawyer, and, though the prevent occasion constrained to Conduct his

own case, does not pretend techniert points of law; but for argne years part he has taken some interest in disen forms in Parliament and clec. where, on constitutional questions, affecting the rights and liberties of British, en bjcate. He is thus

on

что

thus enabled. to him ba debate the Cape Constitution, (Inly 18, 1851) in the course of which Lord Lyndhurst, howing been appealed to as a great lawyer, is reported to have this opened his speech :-

When this House takes an

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or

Drinion

ad

onen

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question of law, that opinion should be pronounced with much faimers by the legal of your Lordships Hanse if they

stating it in a

were

Count of justice,"

and referring to Lord Mansfield's judgement

in the Grenada ense,

authority said, -

the same high

"Now, when the Crown granted.

"1

a

franchise

51 7

or liberties off any desert

tion, whether to the inhabitanto ija

district or a colony, the

grant was

irrevocable; it could only be put

an end to by surrender, by atal

by forfeiture

of Parliament, or

established by proceedings

count of justice, and there

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neither of these here". (Spectator derby 19, 1851) According to another report, His Lendship

gave

av

the essence of Lord Mansfield's

" most claborate judgment, promownaed in the most distinat terms - terms that could

not be misunderstood," -

" That if the element of the franchise

Evere onde

- given - if the power to

once considered - if any

wer

legislate popular

right

were

once bestowed),

anything

that.

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was

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upon the Government _ then, in that the Crown had not the power

Case,

to revoke what it had

gran

Led."

(Morning Herald, July 16, 1881.) Com Grace took part in that debate, and

would appear, book by

your

oferol and

these views,

vote, as well as your subsequent policy towards the Cape, to concur which... scem those laid down by Lord Ichi Rufell

Colonial Polizy, publisted,

in these

also to be in accordance with

orr

in his speech by his authority, in 1850.

9. Presuming therefore that the doctrine

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