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Show [72] [73] under cmfideration. Far from any thing inflam. ruin. .But it does fo happen, that the falfityof tory, 1 never heard a more languid debate in this Route. No more than two or three gentlemen, as I remember, fpoke againfi‘ the act, and that with great relerve and remarkable temper. There was but one divilion in the this Circulation is (like the refi) demonf'trated by indilputable dates and records. ‘ I am fure So little was the change known in America, that the letters of your governors, giving an account of thefe difturbances long after the had arrived at their higheft pitch, were all directed to the Old ,M/nflry, and particularly to the Earl quzz/ifm, the fecretary of {late cor- In faft, the affair paflbd refponding with the Colonies, without once with f0 very, very little noile, that in town they lcai‘cely knew the nature of what you were doing. The oppolition to the bill in in the fmalleft degree intiinating the flighteft whole progrefs of the bill; and the minority did not reach to more than 39 or 40. In the Home of Lords I do not recollefi that there was any debate or divilion at all. there was no proteft. becaufe there fcarcely ever was lefs of Oppofition fufpicion of‘ any minifierial revolution whatfoever. The miiiifiry was not changed in England until the tenth day ofJuly 1755. Oil the 14th of the preceding June, Governor to a bill of confequence. Fauquier from Virginia writes thus; England never could have done this iiiilcliief, and writes thus to the Earl of Halifax: " GovernSir, the agents and difiributors of falfehoods have, with their ufual induflry, circulated " mcm‘ is fat at defiance, 7201‘ having flrengt/J " smug/J 7'72 #362" band: z‘o enforce obedience to tbe longer awed, it feems, with the fpirit of the -" " " 6‘ " former rulers, they thought themfelves a fafl‘ion had produced fome time before, that is, match for what our calumniators choofe to on the 29th ofMay, feveral firong public refolves another lye of the fame nature with the former. It is this, that the dif'turbances arofe from the account which had been received in America of the change in the minif'try. No laws 0f [/56 cammzmzz'z‘y-T/x private dflrqfi, w/Jic/b every man fee/5, encreafcr t/ae general difliitisfaé‘tion [It #26 dutier [aid 5y lbe Stain ACT, rw/aic/J breaks out, and/berm z‘t/‘e/f upon every z‘rflziizg occzyioiz." The general diffatif- qualify by the name of f0 feeble a miniftry as againfi the Stamp Aé‘c ; and thole refolves are fucceeded. Feeble in one fenfe thefe men certainly may be called; for with all their efi‘brts, alligned by Governor Bernard, as the caufe and they have made many, they have not been of the infurrcfi‘iom in Maflachufet's Bay, in his letter of the 15th of Augtilt, flill adtli'efletl able to refill the difiempered vigour, and infane to the Earl of Halifax; and he continued to alacrity with which you are rufhing to your addrefs fuch accounts to that Minifier quite to 3 ruin, the |