^4 t^^ Informer. Jan. 4. 



.we can agree to comply with the injunction. 

 'The king can do wrong" so say our legislators, 

 and as our king is in a continual state of pupilage, 

 being able to do nothing without the concurrence 

 and consent of his ministers, who may be called 

 his guardians, it has been wisely decreed that 

 they and not he fliould be answerable for his deeds. 

 He may be weak, and incapable of judging, nor can 

 he see any objefts but through their eyes ; it were 

 therefore, cruel to make him answerable for faults 

 that were perhaps the inevitable consequences of 

 ignorance. The same excuse cannot be pleaded 

 for the ministers : No necefsity compels them to 

 accept of that station. If they feel themselves ig- 

 norant or ill informed, they commit a crime in ac- 

 cepting an office that requires a degree of know- 

 ledge, which no one, so well as themselves, can 

 know, whether they pofsefs it or not. If they are 

 required to sanftion measures that their own 

 j udgement disapproves of, they have it in their 

 power to remonstrate against them, and if that 

 fliall not do, to resign, and thus to free themfelves 

 from the danger they might have run by carrying 

 .them into effect. If they neglect to do this, and 

 commit crimes in office that deserve punifliment, 

 surely they are to blame, and ought to suffer for 

 their own faults. 



** 'TJje Poriiament is said to he omnipotent ;" and in 

 a political, though not in a physical sense, this may 

 perhaps be admitted. The decrees of Parliament 

 are, by the constitution of this country, binding 

 fOn all the people. But parliament though in this 



