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Show [90] [9r] A7125! on Tue/do} March 2d, Mr. Hancodr, Mr. Gorham, IllqjorFullcr, CaptGreem leafe, Capt. Heath, Afr. Phillips, Capt. judge neceflitry or proper to obtain Redrefs. Thie Right has been Frequently exerciléd by his Nye, Capt. Brown of Watertown, and Majeliy's Subjects within the Realm ; and we do Capt. Gardner, (2 Committee of tbe Hort/e of Reprcfentutiwr, waited on the Governor "with their fltywer arfollowt, not recollefi an Inflance, {ince the happy Revo- Viz. lution, when the two lioufes of Parliament have been called upon to difcountenance or bear their Teflimony agamf't it, in 21 Speech from the Throne. May it flea/2 yzur Excellency, Ill(Wt: unite in {itch conflitutional Mea Force as they {hall IN your Speech at the Opening of the prefent Sefl'ron. your Excellency exprefs'd your Difplcafure at Tome late Proceedings of the Town of Boflon, and other principal Towns in the Province. And in another Speech to both Houfes we have your repeated Exceptions at the fame Proceedings :3 being "unwarrantable," and of a dangerous Nature and Tendency; " agztinfl which you thought yourfelf bound to Your Excellency is pleafed to take Norice of Tome things which we " alledge " in our Anfwer to your firfi Speech ; and the Obfervation you make, we mull confers, is as natural and as un‘ dcniably true, as any one that could have been made, that "if our Foundation {hall fail us in :very Part ofit, the Fabrick we have rais'd upon it, muff certainly fall. " You think, this Foun- dation will Fail us; but we with your Excellency had conderended to a Confideration of what we have "adduced in Support of our Principles." call upon us tojoin with you in bearing a proper We might then perhaps have had {lime things Teflimony." This Houfe have not difcovercd any Principles advanced by the Town of Boftong offered for our Conviction, more than here Af- firmations ; which, wemuft beg to be excufeti that are unwarrantable by the 'Conflitution ; nor if we (by, are far from being fufiicient, though does it appear to' us that they have " invited they came with your Excellency's Authority, for every other Town and Difiriéi in the Province to adopt their Principles." We are fully con~ vinced that it is our Duty to bear out Tcfiimony againfl " Innovations of a dangerous Nature and Tendency :" But is clearly our Opinion. that it is the indifputable Right of all or any of his Majtfly's Subjeéis in this Province, regulerlfi and orderly to meet together to {late the Grieu vauccs they labor under; and to propofe and which however we have a due Regard. - ‘ unite Your Excellency {Bays that "asEngliih SubjeCrg and agreeable to theDoéirine ol‘theFeudal'I‘enute All our Lands are held mediately or immediately oi" theCrOWn." We until your Excellency does not mean to introduce the Feudal Syflem in it's Perf‘céiion -, which to me the Words 0F one of our tween Hitter-tans. was " a We 0f 1"'P""‘.""l ' M :1 War, |