The Virginia Gazette

INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY.

This seems to be the happy crisis for restoring Magna Charta to its pristine and full vigour, and it is the interest, as well as the special, and, strictly speaking, the indispensable duty of every English Gentleman, who has an estate to which is annexed the jurisdiction of a Court Baron, to insist upon, and enforce, the restoration of that glorious constitution; for by virtue of such an estate in fee he is summonable to Parliament as a landlord, or Lord of the land. The Crown also is compellable to summon every such Lord of the Land to Parliament, singulatim; that is to say, one by one. Any five and twenty of these English Lords of the land may demand, and command, this happy restoration of their chartered rights, by deputing four out of that number to wait upon the King for that purpose. There is no positive act of Parliament to the contrary, and the mode of application is perfectly constitutional. Is it not then a species of insanity that country Gentlemen will put themselves to such intolerable expenses to be elected into Parliament, when, in right of their own estates in fee, they are entitled to a seat in Parliament, without any election at all? No Minister dares advise the Crown to refuse granting such a petition of right.