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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ...as having gained their caufe; as their having obtained the whole of what they contended for. They congratulated themfelves and the nation on a cjvil victory, as glorious and as honourable as any that had obtained in arms during that reign of triumphs. Sir Jofeph Jekyl, in his reply to Harcourt, and the other great men who conducted the caufe fo the Tory fide, fpoke in the following memorable terms, diftinctly ftating the whole of what the Whig Houfe of Commons contended for, yi the name cf all their conftituents: --Sir Joseph Jekyl. ' My lords, the concefllons the concelfions of Ne Sacheverel's counfel are thefe: --That neceffity""1 J----i exLcpiioiij ' creates an exception to the general rule of fubmif-and the fion to the prince;--that fuch exception is under-f cafe of" ftood or implied in the laws that require fuch neceffity, f fubmiffion;--and that the cafe of the Revolution StemTf ' WO a COfe Ofnece/Kty. the demand 17 cT, r of the Com F a Thefe ' Thefe are concefiions Jo ample, and do fo fulfy anfwer the drift of the Commons in this article, ' and are to the utmoft extent of their meaning in it, 1 that I can't forbear congratulating them upon ' this fuccefs of their impeachment; that in full ' parliament, this erroneous doctrine of unlimited ' non-refiftance is given up, and difclaimed. And may it not, in after ages, be an addition to the glories of this bright reign, that fo many of thofe ' who are honoured with being in her majefty's fervice have been at your lordfhips bar, thus fuc' cefsfully contending for the national rights of her ' people, and proving they are not precarious or ' remedilefs? But to return to thefe concefiions; I muft apc peal to your lordlHps, whether they, are not a ' total departure from the...