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Show . _ ,. _. to it's injunctions :-- what is the evil they will fiztt'fy'ac‘t‘ion hath been made by or on behalf of the inhabitant: of tbe faid town of Bo/Zozz to t/Je united company of merc/Jcmt: of " Eng/and trading to the Eqfl-Indier, for t/Je damage efcape ? what is theboon they may hope to attain ? " flé/tm'ned by the fczid company by the (leilrufiion hope and fear are laid to be the hinges of government. Legillators have therefore confidered it as found policy, never to drive the fubjeét into acts of defpair, by caufing punilhments to appear as inevi- " of their goods fent to the faid town of Bolton, " on board certain {hips or veflels as aforefaid; " AND UNTIL IT SHALL BE CERTIFIED TO HIS tzzé/e, on the firfl promulgation of a law. When a legillative body ordaineth penalties to take place in cafes of performance or non-performance of particular matters, they furely will take due care, that flcflicient notice is given of t/Jeir public 'will and fuflfci- " MAJESTY in council BY THE GOVERNOR, or " LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, oft/1e faidproez'nce, t/Jat " " " " remit/[ableflztilfac‘licn bat/J been made to the ficem of lJio Majey'ty's revenue and OTHERS, wno SUFFERED BY THE. RIOTS AND INSURRECTIONS ABOVE MENTIONED, in the months of November and ent time to comply with their mandates ; {o that obe- " December in the year 1773, and in the month dience may not only proceed from principles of regard to the law-makers, but motives of perfonal fafety to the {ubjec't himfelf. This feems not more " of january in the year 1774." confonant to political wildom, than to nature and equity-But let us now fuppofe, that upon the Satisfaction could not be made to the Kali-India company, zf all Boflon bad the WXLL and POWER to do it, till the town had time and opportunity iirlt intimations of the prefent law, Bolton had to calla meeting, ailemble, confult and determine been as prone to obey the edict of a Britilh Court, upon the meafiu‘e: great bodies are not calculated for fpeedy decilion, any more than velocity of as the Turk to comply with the mandate of the Divan ; let us imagine them as fervile, as fawning as a court dependant to a minifter of {late -,-nay, if there be any thing in nature, yet more humble and more bafe, let Bolton (in idea fora fllOl‘t moment) be that humble, fervile bale and fawning fomething: What doth it all avail ? The firit time the inhabitants of this town had any intimation, of the will of the Britifh Parliament, was on the tenth of may, and the 2.8: is to take place on the limit of June, and thence to continue in fullforce, if until it {hall fuflicicntly "appear to bis Zlcv'aje/Zy t/Jat _" full motion. The refolution formed ; time mult be given for difpatches to l‘lngland, application to the Eafi-lndia company, an adjutlment with them upon the nice point of " full fitixjia‘tion" z-that accomplifhed ; time Inuit be given for making the matter "flficiently appear to his Majefty."--Let any one confider but for ar moment, what a length of time mull: inevitably elapfe "before, all this can be accomplifhed ~." my; ‘may it not Well be queftioned, confidering the parties and all perfOns concern'd and the circumfiances of this man, whether fuel). accomplifhment be profitable 9' But is‘this all that is to be done and Cifeéled lie/ore reliefcrm l'e (given to ibis- x Ah‘grmzd A « ..-.3...va ons of the fiatute, let them be implicitly obedient full 4 L... fi~._,_.___~..~-~-".-..~._..~ ‘ ~ .. . will our amazement increafe, when we fhall hear that the hard fate of this multitude camzot be avoid. ed :' Let the inhabitants comply with the requifiti- |