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Show 246 ACTS RELATING Part II. " treaty it was in fome meafure de- " figned." ' But though the bill was deferred, there appears little reafon to doubt, but that it would have been brought in, if the colony, grown wifer, had not renewed the grant. Sea X. TO THE COLGNIES. when I come to the unfortunate period of 1764, then too I might add-" but falfe" hood has a perennial fpring *." Let us now turn to this unfortunate period. 'k See his Spcech, p. 55. Yet this very colony can now tell us, " that it has alway: been the fenfe of the " government at home, that fuch grants " cannot be eonfiitutionally made *u" This certainly was not at that time the fenfe of government. Yet their agent can tell us, " that a par" liamentary revenue was never once in " contemplation, till the unfortunate period of 17641". Had I the powers of his eloquence, or the privilege of My fame, I might-but I would not,-ufe his own harfh phrafe.--- I might-but I would not-fay, " Thus 6‘ have I difpofed of this faM/zoodf' and ‘ See relolutions of the Aflembly of New-York, in the year i765. 1 See his Speech, p, 39. when 247 |
