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Show in, Rep/y to a Pratt/i again/Z Dr. Frankl ice, when l Imade no bargain for my future ferv y ; nor did emhl ali‘ the by d was ordered to Eng/an e near fix ther d live I ry. fala any they vote me ge [P. P.] 4.16 and I made no char years at my own expence; all or demand when I came home. You, Sir, of propofed (for others, was the very member that fc) a compenfitthe honour and jul'tice of the Hou e May/52nd found; Fzt tion to be made me of the nt to reproach you mention. Was it with an inte ?---l thanked the me thus publicly for accepting it pro- now for Houfe for it then, and I thank you d in Englive e hav who you, it: Though pofing des the prejudice land, can eafily conceive, that befi md a: Provincial Agent. 417 o the Wh ole Elev that fuppofinor ' a; :ygpence occafioncd by my vé'gag/chgflg ip/ouigfr yflirhecci taitvfiion cifthe preprietary eltate nova :ila; _, _ ,w1envauedb ret‘ ' found in time an advantage t3] dielguhliifhife, be ceeging that expcnce. And if the ex e,n al‘_€Xpre ent «1 burthen, the odium of it ofghtcetdslil; 01 . H, . . . . 1 thole mm, by their inmf't _ ice, made the voyag ‘ e necefiliy. ;- «and not 0 n me, who onl fub ' _ to the 01 ders of the houfe, in undertaking iimtted , I am now_ to take leav . e( erha s c l pgéth‘e country I love, and iribwhifh fh:f:e1?a:e) a T/Joufi to my private afl‘airs by my abfcnce, rfe d me.--- ---I with every kind of me. But The money voted was immediately paid ds to my frl‘mdS-a r-andl forgive my enenliigsljfiuy reimbu pounds more would not have tbozflmd poun if I had occafioned the lots of Six opportunity of fair a was , here c greateft part of my life.-EST0 PERPETlllgt . 1 *‘nwmnnmummy to the province it; why was fecuring eafily the greatel't part of , and the cted e t/Joufand pounds dedu not the Fiv on is, this accuremainder called for? The reaf it me to add, erm --P ed. ent inv n fation was not the Philadelphia, NOV. 5' 1764.. B. FRANKLIN. Thur/day, Marcb 31, 1763. month, that the to a refolve of the nineteenth of Iaft " Purfuant to Benjamin Franklin, Efq; for " thanks of this Houfe be given Pen/jlqzania, but to " " " " nce of his many fervices not only to the provi y at the court of Great agenc America in general, durin his late dingly given in form from Britain ; the fame were this day aceor in, refpeé‘tfully addrefling the chain-To which Mr. Frankl ". [Dr. Franklin ' pafl‘a e to ha e b . :1 ppears from this goint of returning to England. See alfo files Exazzrilvnrijzf? ponzgiie .u. r, That he was thankful to " himfelf to the Speaker, made anfweand generous allowance they " the Houfe, for the very handfome es ; but that the ap" had been pleafed to make him for his fervic ever)' " robation of this Houfe was, in his eltimation, far above " other kind of recompencefl Vom, 1763. that PREFACE: |