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Show 414. Rrpgy to a Protrfl ngm'zfl Dr. Franklin, ;' n. it] trnftees of the loan-oliice here, was nnprau :eahle; that the bank refuted to re ‘eive it on {ll'Oi‘L‘ c‘rms; it beingcontrary to then lettled r‘nler-‘to tinetiinge of money {ubiert to the orders or urnmovn EROIHC living intiiitant countries. _‘i' on might liave'mentioned, that the houle being informed of this, andhaving no immediate ‘eall J'or theinoney, (lld 1/36!" E' we: adopt the menlure or plating-it iirtlie flocks, which then were low; where it might on a peace produce a eonfitlerahlo profit, and in the mean time accumulate an interell :~ 1 hat they even pail-ed a bill, directing the lublequelnt fums granted by parliament, to he placed With t re former: that the meafure was prudent and fufe; and that the lofs arofe, not from [#0ng the money 1 N the flocks, but from the imprudent and un- neeefTary DRAWING IT oU'r at thevery-timewhen they were lowef‘r, on forne fliglitiliieei‘taiii rumorirs of a peace concluded: that it the aficmbly had c; it remain another year, inf'cead oflohng they woful ‘ have gained Six ‘T/Jozgflmd pounds; and that a‘ter all, fince the exchange at which they {old tnen hills, was near twenty per cent. higher when they drew than when the Rocks were purchafed, the lofs was far from being 1o great as you reprefent it. All thefe things you might have find; for they ar/e, pity/Laws). 4-15 tegrity :unl clearnel}: I managed the whole afi'air. All the Home utre lL-ni‘iliie of it, beintr from time to time lully acquainted with the failsci-IFI had gone to gaining in the {looks with the public money, and r..?)ugh my fault a fun) was loft, as your protcll would iniinunte; why was I not cen- 1iu‘ed and punilhed for it when i returned? You, honourable Sir (my enemy offeven years Handing) was then in the Houfe. You were appointed on the committee for examiningr my accounts; you reported that you found them hill, and figned that report *.----I never {elicited the employ of agent; I made * Rrparl oft/ye Commit/ea on Benjamin Frankli n'r Act/71021:. " In obedience to the order of the Home, we have examined the account ot‘Bny'ami/z FranNi/z, Efq; with the vouchers to us pro- duced in flipport thereof; and do find the fame account to bejufi, and that he has expended, in the immediate {erviee of this pro- Vince, the (urn of die-11m Lima/rad and Fourier) ; [Imam/r, Tell/billing: am/ Strum-panes, out of the {urn of Fifteen bum/rt dppmn'r llcrling, to him remitted and paid; exclufive 01 any allowance or charge for his fupport and fervices for the province. JOHN MORTON, JOHN HUGHES, February 19, 1763. VViLLiAM ALLEN, SAMUEL RHOAD'S, JOHN Ross, JOHN WiLKiNsON, JOHN Moon, jos E P H Fox, ISAAC PEARSON. " The Houfe taking the foregoing report of the committee ofaccounts into confideration, and having {pent fome time therein , " Rq/hlven', ‘ and you know them to be, part of the woo/3.171%); but they would have fpoiled your neculation.- The late {peaker of your honourable floufe, Mr. Norris, (who has,I fuppofe, all my letters to " That the [urn of Five lyundred pound: fierling per nnmmt be him, and copies of his own to me, relating. to that traiiliiétion) can tel'tify with how muflin-liliy to the {aid Gentleman by Mr. Speaker, from the chair; as well Cb , allowed and given to Benjamin Franklin, Eli]; late agent for the province of Pwyjl-vania at the court ofGrmt Brilain, during his abfence of fix years from his bufincfs and connections, in the {cr- vice of the public; and that the thanks of this Houfe he alfo given for the faithful ditcharge of his duty to this province in particular, as for the many and important {ervices done Ami-I'm in general. during his refidence in Great Britain.'f Tho/dd}, |