The "English Parliament"
SIR,—Your reviewer, Mr. kin Hamilton, states that "Scottish members of Parliament sit in a House which is legally the English House con- tinuing." (My italics.) Will he be so good as to read Articles I and 111 of the Treaty of Union, and then tell us by what law they have been [Mr. Hamilton writes: "The treaty of 1707 united the two kingdoms into the one kingdom of Great Britain, the two parliaments into the one parliament of Great Britain. Professor Andrew Dewar Gibb sums it up thus in Chambers's Encyclopaedia: `The parliament, henceforth of Britain, remained in every essential feature, in its symbols, in its mode of working and in its tradition, the English parliament.' I am not myself a Scottish Nationalist but I see no reason to ignore the facts."— Ed., Spectator.]
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