delegated authority. The religious government of the Quakers is, by sufferance, an imperium in imperio; but the authority exercised in perpetual succession, by the heads of the Established Church, is a delegated authority. So is the authority of the East India Company, of the Grosvenor Place trust, of every canal or railway company, and of the hundreds, nay thousands of corporations that exist in Great Britain and Ireland. Delegation of authority in perpetual succession has, for ages, been a leading principle of the British Government; as one central authority acting everywhere by means of temporary agents has ever been a leading principle of the Turkish Government, and, since the time of Napoleon, of the French Government. And in nothing has the British Government more strictly adhered to the principle of delegated authority than in the foundation of colonies. Allowing that the first settlement in New South Wales was not a colony, but a distant jail, there is but one exception to the English rule of founding colonies by means of a delegated authority in perpetual succession. That exception is the Swan River settlement. Whether the delegation of authority be a better mode of government than the constant and immediate agency of the supreme authority in all the details of government is a question; but there can be no question that the term imperium in imperio is totally inapplicable to the proposed commission, except for the purpose of misleading, except for the purpose of hiding the truth, which is, that the proposed grant would be a delegation of authority in strict accordance with the principles of the British constitution and with the practice of the British Government in the foundation of colonies.
"II. That the commission would interfere with the King's prerogative.
"Answer. No; for the King would exercise his prerogative in granting the charter. This is the Latin objection repeated in English. The English answer is, that the King would do that which it is one of his
