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Show 316 Aca's RELATING Part III, colonies feemed due to their own dignity ; Se&. 11. TO THE Commas. 317 explanation being oftered, pallcd abfo- lutely in the negative *5. to promife a redrefs of real grievances, if any fuel; {hould be found, was due to their The documents thus moved for, {land dif'tributed, we may obfervc, into three Own juflicc. The iirf't Prep towards afcertaining the clafles. The firlt contains fueh as were proper to be confidered with a View to the bounds, if any bounds there be, to the au- quef'tion of the right : the fecond, fuch as thority of parliament over the colonies, was to enquire into the powers and exemptions which had been originally grant- were proper to be confidered with a View to the policy, that had been hitherto ob- ed them. Before the houfe could proceed to the redrefs of grievances, it was neeef- ferved in the enforcement of it : the third fary, that it {hould know, if any griev- per of the people as feemed necelTary, with ances did exil't; a View to the policy that fhould be obferved and then from what was to furnifh fuch evidences of the tem- A in future. fource it was they proceeded It feemed, therefore, a veryr proper mo- To withhold the firlt was very conlifient tion, that all letters patent and charters, in thofc who, fatisfied with the determina- that all eommiflions, orders, and inflrue- tion of the preceding parliament, wilhed tions ifi‘ued by the crown, that all ofiicial not to enter into any frelh difcullions. The letters and affidavits, received from America fince the firlt rife of the difiurbances misfortune here is, that the determination ofthat preceding parliament had been made complained of, fhould be laid before the without any rebard to thofe feemingly ne- home. cellitry materials. And one cannot fee without a mixture of vexation and fin‘prife, that fuch a motion, witnout any amendment or t- See Com. vlourn. vol. xxxii. n, 02 j 9 . \Vith expla- |