ven admitting there were, as their Lordships say in the 10th
paragraph, "it _appears to them_, there are _some possessions_ derived
from grants made by the Governor and Council of Virginia;" and allowing
that the laws and constitution of Virginia _did_, as they
unquestionably _do not_,--_extend_ to this territory, have the Lords
Commissioners proposed any expedient for governing those many thousand
families, who have _not_ settled _under legal titles_, but only
agreeably to the ancient _usage of location_?--Certainly not.--But, on
the contrary, their Lordships have recommended, that his Majesty should
be advised to take every method _to check_ the progress of their
settlements;--and thereby leave them in their present lawless
situation, at the risk of involving the Middle Colonies in a war with
the natives, pregnant with a loss of commerce, and depopulation of
their frontier counties.

Having made these observations, it may next be proper to consider _how_
the laws and constitution of Virginia can possibly be _extended_, so as
effectually to operate on the territory in question? Is not
Williamsburgh, the capital of Virginia, at leaft 400 miles from the
settlements on the Ohio?--Do _not_ the laws of Virginia require, that
all persons guilty of capital crimes _shall_ be tried _only_ in
Williamsburgh?--Is not the General Assembly held there?--Is not the
Court of King's-Bench, or the superior Court of the dominion, kept
there?--Has Virginia provided any fund for the support of the officers
of these _distant_ settlements, or for the transporting offenders, and
paying the expence of witnesses travelling 800 miles (_viz._ going and
returning), and during their stay at Williamsburgh?--And will not these
settlers be exactly (for the reasons assigned) in the situation,
described by Governor Wright in the very letter which the Commissioners
for Trade and Plantations have so warmly recommended, viz. "such
persons as are settled at the _back_ of the provinces, being at a
_distance_ from the _seat_ of _Government_, Courts, Magistrates, &c.
they will be _out_ of the _reach_ and controul of law and government,
and their settlement will become a receptacle, and kind of asylum for
offenders?"

On the 11th paragraph we apprehend it is not necessary to say
much.--The reservatory clause proposed in our Memorial is what is usual
in royal grants; and in the present case, the Lords of the Committee of
the Privy Council, we hope, will be of o