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Show 294, ACTS RELATING Part 11. {elects " the obnoxious colony of Maflho " chufet's Bay." He calls on us to hear " how thefe rugged people can exprefs " themfelvcs on a meafure of concefiion." " lf it is not in our power (fay they in " their addrefs to governor Bernard) in f0 Sect. XI. TO THE COLONIES. 295 which thefe words had been applied by him : that the whole tenor of the addrefs is perhaps one of the fourel't, molt fullen, mofi furly, that ever was prefented to a governor "l‘l-u-Yet fome men fcruple not to complain of " an unfcrupulou: oppo" pofition l" Might a minifierial advocate indulge " full a manner as will be expected, to " thew our refpectful gratitude to the mo‘5 titer-country, or to make a dutiful and ‘.‘ affeé‘tiouate return to the indulgence of " the king and parliament, it {hall be no himfelf in like liberties, he might fay with ts fault of ours: for this we intend, and "fac'iiom falfehoods ! thus perifh the mi" ferable inventions of the wretched run- " hope we {hall be fully able to eEec ," This is quoted as the genuine expreflion of their real fentiments, as originating from tliemfelves'i".--\Vhat then will be the feelings of the reader, when he learns that theft: pretended expreflions of the liollonians were 10 expreflions of their this orator, changing but a fingle word, " Thus are blown away the infect race of " ners for a wretched caufe, which they "‘ have fly blown into every weak and " rotten part of the country, in vain hopes " that when their maggots had taken " wing, their importunate buzzing might " found fomething like the public voice 1'. own: that they are only re-eehoed back, 9* See the governor's {peeeh, and the addrefs in from, the fpceeh of the governor: that the afi‘eznhly refuted fo much as to take into confitleration the very meafures to * Mr. Burke's SPEECh: P- 75- anfwer to it, in the Appendix to the Annual Regiilcr, vol. ix. p. 176, 179. f Mr, Burke's Speech, p. 74. U4 which |
