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Show [85] [84] Gentlemen 9' the Council, and Gentlemen qftbe Hozgfe qf chnfintativcr, Toolkit Speech Hi: Majtjfly': Council on the 25th of February fin! to his Excel- lency tbs following flry'wer, by Harrifon Gray, James Ruil‘cll, James Pitts, Ste- We all profefs to be the loyal and dutiful Sub» jefis of theKing of Great-Britain. His Majcfly confiders the Britifh Empire as one entire Do. minion, fubjeft to one Supreme Legiflative Power, a due Submiflion to which is cfléntial to the Maintenance of the Rights, Liberties and Privi- leges of the feveral Parts of this Dominion. We have abundant Evidence of his Majetly's tender and impartial Regard to the Rights of his Subjects ; and I am authorized to lay that " his Majefly will mofl gracioufly approve of every ConflitutionalMeafure that may contribute to the Peace, the Happinefs, and Profperity of his Co- lony of Maflachufetts-Bay, and which may have the Ffefi to thew to the World that he has no With beyond that of reigning in the Hearts and Afefiions of his People}: phen Hall,and james Humphry, Efq'rr; Viz. May it plafi your Excellenqy, S a line" l'art only of your Excellency's lail Speech to both Hottfes is addrell‘cd to the Board, there are but a few Claufes on which we {hall Remark. \Vith Regard to the Dif‘ordcrs that have arifbn, ODI‘ Exccllency and the Board have ailignetl different Caulcs. The Caufe you are plcafcd to allign, together with thethorders thentielvcs, we p- fuppoie to he‘ Rift-Eta ariting from the Stam Aft, and certain other A85 of Parliament. If we were not miilaken in this, which you do not allhrt, it to far tecms to invalidate what is laid in your Speech on that Head. ufi‘: \Ne have taken Notice of this, only beca Matter, on it {lands connt't‘tcd with another vations. which we would make a few furtherOhier or; Sn. ure Nat What we refer to is the general otteretl preme Authority. We have already s to ac- Reaions, in which your hxcellcncy ieem the Term Supra/w: qtticfcc, to thew that, tl‘ongh of zzzr/zr‘mitetz' lometitncs carries with it the ldca e, be applied to Authority, it cannot, in that Seni that which is human. What is titually dv‘mm‘; natct: |