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Show [78] [79] your armies into the field. Truf't not to appearances of peace or fitl‘ety. Be alliu‘ed that, unlels you pericvere, you peace, I embrace the earlief't opportunity to forward the inelolbd copies of thofe aéts, and of one other act relating: will be expokd to every {pccies of barbarity. given you, the time will foon arrive when every man {hall to the government of the province of l‘i/lallachulctts-Bay; for the information of the Congrefs thereon ; molt lin- cerely hoping this communication will be productive of lit under his own vine and under his own fig~tree, and there {hall be none to make him afraid. the delired good etl'ec‘ts. Sir, But if you exert the means of defence which God and nature have " THE {timers of a free commerce with every part of the earth will {sum reimbuile you for all the lofle you .Hmry Laurens, Efy; Prg'Mum qf tlje (Jaizgrcfi. I am, with due confidera‘tion, Your "Io/Z oberlimtflrvrmf, H o w E." have firltainul. The full tide of wealth will flow in upon your fiiorcs, tree from the arbitrary impofitions 0f thofe whole interel't and whofe declared policy it was to check your growth. Your interefls will be foltered and nourifhed " by governments that derive their power from your grant, and will therefore be obliged, by the influence of cogent mander in Chief of their troops, printed copies of three conciliatory acts of Parliament : Let me add my molt lincere wilhes, that they may produce the delirable titled": which is hoped from them. Ihave the honor to be, Sir, neccliiry, to exert it in your favor. 4dr H" lihlih,_ _ a Mil Hmrl-Qfmrm'r, Philadelphia, 711m? 3, 1778. S I R, " IT is to obtain thefe things that we call for your flrenuous, unremitted exertions. Yet do not believe that you have been or can be faved merely by your own itrength. No l It is by the af'fifiance of Heaven, and this you mutt afliduoufly cultivate by acts which Heaven approves. 'l‘hus {hall the power and the happinefs of thefe flivereign, free and independent States, founded on the virtue of their citizens, increafe, extend and endure, until the Almighty {hall blot out all the empires of the earth." ON the 6th of June the Congrefs received a letter of the 27th of i‘vlay from lord Howe, and one of the 3d of June from general Clinton, accompanied with three acts of par~ liament : they were as follows, S I R, PlJz'lazlullfilala, [We.y 27,9 I 77 8. " IL}- A V IN G, by a packet jul't arrived from Greatu A A Britain, received the King's commands to transmit to the Congrel‘s, and the Commander in Chief of" their troops, the copies of two nets, pafied this {eflion of Parl'xnent, for quictingjr the dilorders now fubfi‘iting in thele colonies, and preparing the way for the return of peace, A lVl directed to tranfinit to Congrefs, and the Com~ Your mafl almrllmt and Henry Laurens, Efq; Prifldmt of tlm Cmgny}. [liq/l bumble flr-vzmt, H. C L I N T o N." " fliz flfl fa} repealing an (15?, 1997271 in tlye fourtmzi‘la year of Ms pray/27m llzlajg/ly's reign, z'mz'tulezl, An Aft for the better regulating the government of the province of the Mafiachuletts-Bay, in New-England. H E R E A S the province of the h/Iafliichufetts- Bay had for many years been governed under a charter, granted by their late Majeflies King‘ William and Queen lVlary: And whereas an not, palled in the fourteenth year of his preterit Majefty's reign, intituled, flrz flfz‘ for Ike battrr regulating flat government of #22 province of tbe fl/[flzcbuflttr-Bay, in Alma-England, has been found to create great uneafineflcs in the minds of the in- habitants of the {aid province, and has oceahoned jea- loufies and apprehenfions of danger to their liberties and rights in feveral other of the colonies and plantations in North-America: For quieting and extinguifhmg fuch uneafinell'es and apprehenfions, be it enacted by the Kine's |