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Show 442 PR E r A CE to Mr. Galloway‘r Spear/2. aflémély, notwitht'tanding all their vencratron for the firlt proprietor, fliouldiay, With the children of Ifrael under the fame Circumitances, ." What " portion have we in DAVID, or inheritance .1." " the {on of Jesse P To your tents, O Ifrael! Under thefe circumflances, and a conviction that while to many natural fources of diflrerence fubfifted between proprietaries and people, . no harmony in government could long fubtiit, (Without which neither the commands of the crown could be executed, nor the public good pro- moted) the houfe refumed the conhderation of a meafure that had often been propofed _1n former afremblies ; a meafure, that every proprietary pra- [RR] Cain‘t]?for (2 Royal Government. 4.4.3 " mediate proteétion and governme nt,- by 6 pletingr the agreement heretofore mad come with K the (E (K firtt proprietary for the {ale of the govern~ ment to the crown, or otherwife as to his wif- dom and goodnet‘s {hall feem meet '1‘." This they ordered to be made publ ic; and it was publifhul accordingly in all the news -papers: The houfe then adjourned for no lefs than /[awn flick/(I, to give their contlituents time to confider the matter, and themfclves an oppo rtunity of taking their opinion and advice. Could any thing be more deliberate, more fair and open , or more refpeétful to the people that chofe them P- During this recefs, the people in many places held little meetings with each other; the reful t of wince inAmerica had, from the fame caufes, found themfelves obliged to take, and had aétually taken, or were about to take; and a'meafure, that had happily fucceeded, wherever. it was taken;--I mean the recourfe to an immediate ROYAL crown directly of themfelves, and requefting the ERNMENT. Go'IYhey therefore, after a thoroughdebate; and delivered to the houfe with that requet't; they Were figned by a very great + number of the moff; making no lefs than twenty-five unzimmaur refolves, exprefling the many grievances this provmce had long laboured under, through the proprietary which was, that they would manifeft their {entiments to their reprefentatives, by petition ing the afl'embly to tranfmit and fupport thofe petitions.- At the next meeting many of thefe petitions were fubf'rantial "‘ Thefe words, " by completing the agreement," 8:. are omitted by the honefl prefacer, in his account of the refolve, that government; came to the followmg refolution, they might not interfere with his infinuation of the meafure's being viz. " Refolved, nemine contradicente, That this impraélicable, "Have the proprietors, by any at} of theirs, for" feited the leatl tittle of what was granted them by his Majetly's " royal anceftors? Or can they be depriruea' of their charter rights " without their confent?" Efl'a Senfible that thefe quefiions are impertinent, it" thofe rights are already fold. 1- The prefacer, with great art, endeavours to reprefent this number as infignificant.-He {ays the petitioners were but 3500, " houfe will adjourn, in order to con/i1]: tbezr con/Zitumtr, whether an humble addrefr fhould be drawn up and tranfmitted .to [m Mryefly; praying that he would be gracxoufly pleafed to . e co 1c of this rovince under his im- H take th P P P ff mediate and that the province contains near three hundred thoufand SOULS ! His reader is to imagine that '1];er HUNDRED AND NINEfig 5 . l 2 Willllllllll"lIWlllWlW an. urn-- 4 «nun-*m n |