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Show PREFACE to Mr. Galloway': 315843617. {P.PJ Ofapetition againfia royal Government. 453 None but Wifdoms could have known before: hand that a fpeech which theynever heard, and a fumption in depending upon thofe alone may be much greater." 452 copy of which they had never-teen, but were, then requefiing to fee; was " a ipirited defence, and 1 lamented, a few pages ago,- that We were not difcover, that the appointment of a governorby acquainted with the names of thofe " principal " Gentlemen the wifer and better part of the pro" Vince." I now rejoice that We are likely ‘fb'n‘ie time or other to know dieing-for a copy of a the proprietor, was one of our " charter privi- " leges ;" and that thofe who oppofed the appli- PETITION TO THE KING is now before me; which from its fimilarity with their letter, muff cation for a royal government, were therefore patriot members appearing on the fide of our pri- mended to the people, by their leading up the vileges and our charter ! figning. ‘ of our charter privileges ;' and that ‘the publi- ‘ cation ofit would be of great utility, and give ‘ general fatisfaétion.'---No inferior fagacity could be of their inditing, and will probably be ‘recOm- On this petition I (hall take the liberty of facer has extraéted from their own votes, the prayer they have from time to time befiowed on making a few REMAR K s, as they will faVe me the neceflity of following farther the preface; the fentiments of this and that being neatly the fame. It begins with a formal quotation from the [all the fiifl proprietor, in their addrelfes to his fons. fembly's] petition, which they own they have not And though addreffes are not generally the belt repofitories of hif'rorical truth, we muft not in this inltance deny their authority. relating very imperfectly and unfairly the fa€t~ re- lating to their application for a copy of it, which What then avails it to the honour of the pre- is of no importance; proceeds to fet fer-15h," That fent proprietors, that our founder and their father, gave us privileges; if they, the fons, Will not permit the ufe of them, or forcibly rend them ‘ as we and all your American fubjeéts mutt be from us i-David may have been a man after God's own heart, and Solomon the wifei't of proprietors and governors; but if Rehoboam will be a tyrant and a --, who can fecure him the affections of the people l-The virtue and merit of his anceftors may be very great 5 but his pre‘ fumption feen, and of words that are not in it; and after innnnnnal Utterly to confound t/Je qflémély, and fhew the excellence of proprietary government; the pre- governed by perfons authorized and approved by your Majef'ty, on the b‘efl: recommendation that can be obtained of them; we Cannot per- ceive our condition in this refpeét to be djflérmt from our fellow-fubjeé'ts around us', or that we are thereby lefs under your Majef'cy's particular care and protection than they are ; fince there can be no governors, of this province without your : "millilllilIllllllIIltl‘llllll‘lil |