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Show [14]., [ 15 ] I have no Delire, Gentlemen, by any Thing I have faid to preclude you from feeking Relief, in a conflitutional Way, in any Cafes in which you have heretofore or may hereafter fuppofe that ON the 25th quanuary William Brattlc, Harrifon Gray, James Pitts, James Humphrey, and Benjamin Greenleaf, you are aggrieved and, although I Ihould not Efiuiret, a Committeeof 131's Mcgjefly': concur with you in Sentiment, I will, notwithflanding, do nothing to lell‘en the Weight which Council, waited on the Governor "wit/3 your Reprefeutations may deferve. an fin/aver to the foregoing SPEECH, I have laid rmz. before you whatI think are the Principles of your Confiitution : If you do not agree with me I wilh to know your Objections : They may be convincing to me, or I may be able to fatisfy you of the Inlufliciency of them 2 In either Cafe I hope, we {hall put an End to thofe Irregularities. which ever will he the Portion of a Government where the Supreme Authority is controverted, and introduce that Tranquility which fcems to have taken Place in molt of the Colonies upon the Continent. ~' The ordinary Bulinefs of the Sellion I will - Ma} 7" Plea/5' your Excellency, ‘ HE Board have confidered your Excellen~ cy's Speech to both Houfes with the [fat- tention due to the Subject, ofit; and we hope With the Candour you are pleafed to recommend to them. We thank you for the Promife, that "if we flaall not agree with you in Sentiments, you Will with Candour likewife, receive and confider what not now particularly point out to you. To the enacting of any new Laws which may he needfary for the more equal and effec'tnal Dif'trihut ion we may offer in Anfwer." to our Merchandize, Filhery, and Agriculture, ordered State ; that the Caufe of this Diforder is floutilhing State, or for promoting any Mean People in queflioning the Supreme Authority of of Jufiice, or for giving further Encouragemen t which through the Divine Favour are already in a very fnres which may contluce to the general Good of the Province 1 will readily give my Alien: mConcurrence. Co'ttacil Chambc [\- A ,\ ~44 £l ' Your Speech informs the two Houfes that this Government is at prefent in a difiurbed and dif- the unconllitutional Principles adopted by the Parliament ; and that the proper Meafute for removing the Diforder mull be the fubfittuttng contrary Principles. Our Opinion on thefe Heads, as well as on r 6 jammy, 1773. v V‘ V T- HUTCHINJON, Gt: fome others proper to be noticed, Will be obwous in tlt': Courle of the following Obfervations. \Yltll' |
