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460 PREFACE to .Mr. Galloway's Spam/J. [RR] Ofa petition againf'c a royal Gooemm m‘. 4 6 r ‘ been flzaerflijv g'ziaz‘rd.'--l3y whom were they quie‘qd? ti = IT,‘J~/'I."f/'lz, if they can be {aid to be vermnent can fay foritfelfis, that that is our care h'i‘h or. uteri, that it \iould j fiifl that partol‘ ti}: . :tetl only by the riotcrs them~ relies going home quietly {that is, \z‘iiiiotit any interruption ,3 and remaining t ‘e till their next inl‘utrec‘tion ; without any puriiiit, ‘ - -, :nipt to a 7prehcnd any of them. And ‘l c .f. . "33 it quieted, or \19 the naiichief they interdttl pro-- r: only ohiec'tion to fuel: an at pit 7-H to the cm .1: \tliieh relates to t "I: m, . "W. '1. or our preterit gorernmcnt "'9". ":ill, if there is any ,‘r'nv/f, it niuft 70 2'2: ,3 'njt; F For, [1in thepct' ‘ ~; , ‘il‘ih: 1 gi/Wya execu i tive i 6 . ,i . . . H , .. ,4. ‘ Ig ..it ‘ ors our ‘ got unmcm thoul d' item in vented, or could it have been prevented; without l the aid of the king's troops, marched into M province for that purpofe P-" The civil powers " have been tupported," in fume fort. ‘We all know how they were 111pported; but have they been fir/{y fupported? Has the government {officient firength, even with all its fupports, to K venture on the apprehending and punilhnient of thofe notorious offenders? If it has not, why are you angry at thole who would llrengthen its hands by a more immediate royal authority? it‘ it has, why is not the thing done? Why will the government, by its conduct, {lrengthen the care too weak, We conceive it is the d" ailenilfly, and in Muir power to titer --T his weaknefs, however, you have 2all derrie l ‘ D'iu 11 rbdn u ces you t fay' have been {peedilv J' quxet 'med, ancll1 the ctvrl power hipported; And thereby you ave deprived your infinuated charge apainii the aflembly of its only fupport.-But is itbnot a Eachknown to you all, that the affembly [lid en- cavopr to firengthen the hands of the govern- ment. That at hlS honour's ini'tance they prepared ano pafled In a fewhours a bill for extending hither the aft of parliament for difperiing ‘ ) . . ' ' noters? That they alfo pulled and prefented to {ufpicions (groundlefi no doubt) that it has come him a militm b1ll+, to a private underllanding with thofe murderers, powers were thereby grven him over the lives an and that impunity for their paf‘t crimes is to be the reward of their future political fervices P- which he refufed, unlefi: properties of the inhabitants, which the public good dld not require; and which their duty to 0! but fays the petition, " There are perhaps " cafes in all governments where it may not he . "" The affembly being called upon by the governor for their ad- " pofié/e flaredzzy to dyéowr qfli'iza'um." Probably; but is there any cafe in any government were on that occaflon, did, in a mellage, advife his (ending for and examining the magifirates of Lancailer county and borough, where the murders were committed, in order to difcover the actors; but where it is not pofilble to endeavour fuch adif- covery? There may be cafes where it is not fafe ever. taken.--Proclamations indeed were publithed, but foon dif- to do it: And perhaps the belt thing our government neither that, nor any of the other meafures recommended, were continued. 1- [Is not this the militia bill canvaffed above p. 396 P E] their |
