ABSTRACT
The Policy and Genius of all Governments are best discerned by their Course of proceeding in their great Offices. The first Settlements of most of English Colonies in America were made by private Adventurers; many of the Colonies were afterwards incorporated by Charters or Privileges granted by the Crown, with a Power to make Laws, and to establish Courts of Justice, Forms of Judicature, and the Manner of Proceeding, and in some Respects to establish their own Form of Government, under this Limitation, that the Laws or Statutes passed by them, should not be repugnant, but as near as possible agreeable to the Laws of England. The French Colonies are in the Form of a Crescent on the Back of the English Colonies in America , and extend opposite to the Settlements upwards of Fifteen Hundred Miles in Length.
