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Show [ "116 ] [117] I will alfo confider the lafi Mellige- from you, Gentlemen of the Houfe of Reprefentatives, , filer and orderly for the Inhabitants of Towns; tn their Cor rate Capacity, to meet and deter- upon the fame Subjeét, in as few words as the Power to a& upon 5' You have not alfcrted that it is, but you have not declared that it is not, as I thought a Regard to the Peace and Order of Importance of it will admit. You fay you have not dilizovered that thePritt- mine upon Phints which the Law gives them no ciples advanced by the Town of Boflon are unwarrantable by the Confiitution. Whether they are or are not, will depend upon the Determina- the Province made our Duty. tion of the Point which on are now controvert- join you in a very {irong Light and you would in difcountenancing them. ing. Your not having ilcover'd that the other Towns and Difirifis in the Province, were invited by the Iown of Boflon to adopt theirPrinci'pl'es, mufl proceed from Inattcntion. Have not the Doings of that Town been fent through the Province, accompanied with a circularLetter, " defiring a freeCommunication of Sentiments," and, among other Exprelfions of the like Ten- dency, lamenting the Extiné'lion of Ardor for civil and religious Liberty ifit fhould be the general Voice of the Province, that the Rights as flated' do not belong to them, and trolling that this cannot be the Cafe. If this is not inviting to adopt their Principles, 1 have miliaken their Senfe and Meaning. The confequent Doings of To many other Towns fhew that they underfloodthem as I have done. I am fure I have If the Fundamentals of our Government were not difputed, there lrregularities would appear to hold your To fupport your Principle that you t ernmen Lands and derive yourAnthority of Gov m the not fro from the King: of England and handled Crown of England you have very largely rvetl to obfe l the Doftrine of Feudal Tenures. had been milled you in my laft Speech that you ous Pamphlet. _I by the Authority of an anonim that you are again am now obliged to obferve of this Dot-l; me milled by having a generalVicw States or Go- peéls brought before you, as it rel' ‘not..as Monarchs, antl vernments under abfolute grafted upon the hnghlh it is connefled with or ipend '1 tine Conflitution. llhall not therefore of your Syflem,:t in examining the Principles cn us whethtr immaterial tmhel'oinrbetwe no lepofition to reprefent unfavourably theDo- being ings of any Town in the Province. they arejuli or not. ‘You 29%" " that it is the indifputable Right of all or any of His Majel'ly's Subjeofis in this of England. Inf-lead thereof I at l. in Docms as l can, lay this as brief-ind clear Ter relates to the Liovet'mncnt trine before you as it , any" Provmce raga/ml}; and prefer/)1 to meet together to Hate the Grievances tlny labour under," SUI- 1 never denied it. Does it follow that it is n"(Ky/(:7 . Li?" ("R35'," Let mr- then obfert'e ‘,Y0. W": 'h‘"rt iii." ,M LT oz;- of Government a Sapmm {Age-1‘ ‘* ‘ _ |