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mutual security can only be insured by a free Representation of the People in the Legislature; and therefore the learned Author of this excellent remark will readily allow, (I trust,) when he comes to consider these arguments, that he himself was not sufficiently upon his guard, in another part of his useful work, (p. 141,) where he had occasion to mention the Irish Laws; having there unfortunately adopted the mistaken doctrine of Lord Coke, about binding the Subjects of Ireland by English Statutes “if Ireland is mentioned.” But it is certainlv very natural for a gentleman regularly bred to the profession of Law to be less circumspect when he follows so great an authority as Sir Edward Coke, who is generally, and for the most part justly, esteemed the Oracle of the English Law.