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Show 454 . PREFACE to Mr. Galloway'r Spear/5. [P.P.] .Ofa petitionagainll a rim! Government. 455 ‘ your Majefly's zhmedz'ate approéaz‘z'an and autho~ ‘ there can be no governors of this province, with- ‘ lliV."-'5L1Ch a declaration from the wifer part ‘» out his immediate approbation.' Don't you know, who know {0 much, that by our bleiied of the province is reallyalittle furprifing. What! . when duputes concerning matters of property are (Lily arming between you and your proprietaries, ("xiii")! your wildoms perceive the leait difference between having the judges of thoi'e difputes- appomted by a royal governor, who has no interelt‘ in the caufe ; and having them appointed by the pro/Jrz'efarier themfelves, the principal, parties againit you ; and during their P/L'q/ZJI‘E tooi when fupplies are neceflary to be railed for your defence, conf'ntution the proprietors themfelves, whenever they plcafe, may govern us in 10317522; witho ut their approbation P The petition proceeds to tell his Majefly, ‘that ‘ the particular mode of government which we ‘ enjoy, under your Majei‘cy, is held in the nigh/l ‘ rflz'matzbn by good men of all denominations ‘ among us ; and hath éroug/az‘ multiracial" of " induitrious people from various parts of the can you perceive no difference between having a royal governor, free to promote his Majeity's fervice by a ready afient to your laws 3 anda pro- prietary partizans P That conflitution which they prietary governor, thackled by. infiruérions, for- tive council, defective in government powers, too bidding him to give that aiTent; unlefs fome private advantage is obtained, bme profit got, or unequal exemption gained for their eftate, or fome popular in many ofits modes; is it now become {0 ‘ world,' Gin-Really! Can this be from prowere for ever cenfuring, as defective in a' legifla- .0 I"... I I" excellent ?-Perhaps, as they have been tinkering it thefe twenty years, till they have [tripped it privilege wrelted from you? When prerogative, of fome of its molt valuable privileges, and almofl: ' that in other governments is only ufed for the good. fpoiled it ; they now begin to like it. But then it is not furely this prqut conftitution, that brought hither thofe multitudes; They came before.- A‘t leait it Was not that particular in our confiitu- of the people ;. is here firained to the extreme, and ufed to their prejudice, and the proprietaries benefit 3 can you perceive no difference ?' When the direfl: and immediate rays of majelty benignly (and mildly {Line on all around us, but are tranf- mitted and thrown upon 24:, through the burningglafs-of proprietary government; can your {enli‘bilities feel no difference? Sheltered perhaps in, proprietary oflices, or benumbed with expectam .tions, it maybe youvcannotr-But furely you might have knOWn-better,.than totell his Majeity, ‘thut 3 _‘ there WI""HI!"MINNWNW 'tion, (the proprietary power of appointing a go-3 vernor) which attraéted them; that fingle par- ticular, which alone is now in queftion; which our venerable founder firit, and now the affembly, are endeavouring to change.--As to the remaining valuable part of our conflitution, the affem- bly have been equally full and t'rrong in exprefling their regard for it, and perhaps flronger and fullpr; 01' |