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Show 418 PREFACE to Mr. Galloway's Spam/5. [P.P.] OfGowrnar: énrgnnn'ng wz‘t/yfl/yn zé/z'm. PREF ACE éy a Menzéer oft/Jo Pwyy/vnnian Igflmély [viz. Dr. Franklin] to 1133 Speed) of Jofeph Galloway, Efq; one eff/be Mrnzberrfor P/Ji/adclp/Jz'n County; in fln itmr to the Space/J (f :70/212 Dz'cl'z'n/o'n, Eff; delivered in the Hon/i: 9f 4%";be 9}" Me Province (f Paw/"amid, Alny 24, 1764 ;-on Occqflon of a Petition drawn up 11y Order, and than under the Confl- dg‘l‘zztion oft/J6 Honjé', praying Hi: Mty'eflyfir a Royal, in lieu ofn Proprietary, Government * 4.19 that preface a number of afpe rfions were thrown on our afiemblies, and their proceedinrrs rofl mifreprefented 5 it was thought nece flarybtogwi Z thofe alperfions of? by fome proper animadve rfionii- and by a true {late of facts, to rectify thof e mif: ‘ The preface begins with faying, that ‘ Gov er- reprefentations. nor penny, (whole adminif'tration will neve r be ‘ mentioned but With difgrace in the anna ls of ‘ this provmce,) was induced by confideratio ns to l which the yvorld is now no firanger, to pafs T is not merely becaufe Mr. Dz'ckirfln's fpeech was ufhered into the World by a preface, that one is made to this of Mr. Gal/away. But as in *‘ [As I am very much nnacquainted with the hiflory and prin. ciples ofthefe provincial politics, I {hall confine myfelf to fome im] erfee‘t anecdotes concerning the parties, &c.--A fpecch which Mr. Diréinfon had delivered in the I'enfylvania affembly againll the abolition of the proprietary government, having been publilhed, and :1 preface having been written to it as I think by a Dr. Smith; Mr. Galloway's {pcech was held forth, as a proper anfwcr to that fpeech. while the preface to it appeared balanced by the above preface from Dr. Franklin. Mr. Galloway's fpeech, or probably .the advertilb- ment that attended it, urged, Ibelieve, Mr. Dickinfon firfl to achal~ lcnge, and then to a primed reply. The controrcrly was quickly republiihed in England, or at lealt the principal parts ofit; and it is from the Englifli edition of Mr. Galloway's {peech, (printed in London by Nichols in 1765) that I have copied the above. Thefe feveral gentlemen however {com for a time to have better agreed in their {ubfequent opinions, concerning American taxation by Great Britain ; Mr. Dickinfon in particular having taken a very fpirited line in the Farmer": Let/er: and other pieces, which procured him ccnfiderable reputation. The Congrcfs declaration neverthelefs for independence, was reported not to have given perfect i'atisfac'lion, or iirll, either to himfelf or to Mr. Galloway. And in the event. Mr. Galloway, thought proper to come over to General Howe, and afterwards to embark for England. E4 that ‘ fundry acts, 86c. thus infinuating, that by fome unufual bafe bargain {ecretly made, but afte rwards difcovered, he was induced to pafs the m. . It is fit, therefore, without undertak ing to juf- tify all that Governor's adminil'tration ~to fhew rwlnzz‘ thofe confiderations were.--Ever,fince the revenue of the quit-rents firft, and after that the revenue of tavern-licences, were fettled irrbv o- cably on our proprietors and governors; they have looked on thofe incomes as their proper ef'tat e for which they were under no obligations to the people : and when they afterwards concurred in paflmg any ufeful laws, they confidered them as 1o many Jobs, for which they ought to be par- ticularly. paid. Hence arofe the cuf'tom of ii]?jents tw1ce a year to the Governors, at the cloth of each feflion in which laws were pallecl, given at the time ofpafling : they ufually amounted to a thoulhnd pounds per annum.. But when the Governors and Aflbmblies difagreed, {0 that laws H h h 2 were llllllllli‘llhml |