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Show Seas. VII. '176 ACTS RELATING On the zoth of April another petition from Virginia was prefented to the houfe and read t. TO THE Commas. x77 Part U. t was moved, and carried to refpite the debate on it till the 29th. On nature of it. an aét of the Petitioners them» felves, by whom it is prefented. From fuch premifcs, the conelufion formed by a refpeé'tahle writer *, that this Was a renunciation 0n the part of parlia- that day the houfe was about to proceed upon this bufinefs, when "the fpeaker ment of their right of cOgnizance over the " produced, and read, a letter from his colonies. feems rather haf'ty. That the withdrawing the petition was an act of the " majclty concerning this petition; the " petition by general refohttion was with- houfe itfelf, he feems to take for granted; " drawn ".l This is all we know of the matter from the journals: what was the ground of this general relolution does not appear; nor with regard to the relolution itfelt‘, is it perfectly clear what we are to underl'tand by it. The word " refolution" {eems to that the ground of this withdrawing, was a eonfcioufnefs of the want of right to do any thing in confequence of the petition, is another thing he feems to take for granted. 'Tis to fuch a confcioufnefs he fcems to impute the future inaflivity of the parliament, their not " taking further cogni- he meant an aét, a refolution of the houfe " fance of the plantations :" and Met, itfelf: " till the commencement ofthe civil wars." yet the withdrawing of a peti- tion, 18 an aft, which, however, the con- currence of the her-ale, f0 whom the petition «v.n 3 W: V I IS I Inelea ted, may lu') ac necelt my, is, in the What follows immediately after, feems fiill more extraordinary : " upon this " ground," fays he, (namely upon the ground of the houfe taking no further * See Journ'ils, Vol. i. p 60:. * Pownal on the Adminiflration of the C0- 1- Scc ib, p. (.34., ionics. nature N cog- |
