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Show 35° Acrs RELATING Part1"; Sect. IIL TO THE Commas. 351 And on this oceafion one " molt ferious attention of parliament." They reprefented the effects of thofe dif- contents in a more ferious light than they can hardly help acknowledging of the mi- had been reprefented from the throne : the nifiry, in the words of their fevere accufer, that they had not hitherto given " any meafures of the malcontents, they laid, " by attempting to fubjeét the highel‘t legal " proof of large, and liberal ideas " in the management " of this great concern; " authority to the controul of individuals, in the lump, lb was the minifiry to throw' it out. The amendment was not amended, but over-ruled. " that they had never looked at the whole " of our complicated interef'ts in one con" nected view; never feemed in' fhort to " have any kind of fyf'tem right or " wrong*." I with this had been as ill founded as many of his other charges. 1‘ But though the houfe would notengage‘ to enquire into the caufes of the difcon; tents in America, they acknowledged,that the {late of his majel'ty's government there did " undoubtedly well deferve the *9 Mr. Burke's Speech, p. 17. " tended to firéwrz‘ the foundation of a]! " government." A matter of infinitely more import and danger than the bare breaking a " commercial connection." Againlt meafures thus unwarrantable they promifed, that " no endeavours Ihould be " wanting on their part to make eft‘eétual " provifion." What fleps were taken to fulfil thefe promilES? As foon as this bufinefs came to be taken up in the Houfe, two petitions were pre- fented; one from the agent of the council of Mall‘achufet's Bay, drawn up in a quaint, pert ilyle, equally unbecoming the f In allowing the truth of this charge,. it is bué fair to remind the reader of its being equally true of the miniltry with whom this gentleman acted, as of theft: again/i whom he declaims. z " molt {object it treated, and the allembly to whom it was addrelied. Of this no notice was taken-Avhich was as much as it (IPPCRI‘S |