6
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
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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.
bbc
was
cheak
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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