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obftrutedv More efpecially will it be found
inconvenient, if fuch Protefts are made nk of
as a new form of Libeling, as the Vehicles of
perfonal I Malice, and as a Means of giving to
private AbufetHe Appearance of a Sanftion,
as public A&s. Your Proteft, Gentlemen,
was therefore properly refyfed ; and fince it is
no Part of the Proceedines-of Aflemblv one
Imay with tbfc
iourtiuft
isMhafyou
Aor of the Meafures purfued by the laft Af- Liberties j then indeed mgh t the 'Minifters be
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c liiiefsand Diftraction ansong the good red-
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" Die or this'rrovince. 1
Province : If I had harangued fey the Week,
to all Comers and Gocrs,LonthpretendecL
Injuftice and Oppreffions of Royal Govern
ment, and the Slavery of the Pebple under it :
If I had written traiterous Pa pers; to this -Pur-pofe,
and got them: trah flated into other Lan
guages, to give his Majefty's foreign Subje&s
here thofe horrible Ideas of it : if I had de-
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thefe are not Exploi ts for a Man who holds a
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the vrown, and can ex
orohta bleU thee under
the Fidelity and Duty that becomes every
good Subiet. Thev are only for Officers of
iny Share in thofe Meafures y are P-c to hold no longer than he behaves with
fuch as will in time do Honour to all that were
concerned in Them. But you feem miftaken
in the Order of Time : It was the Urieafinefs
and Di ftra&ion arnong the good Peopl e of th e
Province that occafioned the Meafures ; the
Province was in Gonfufionbefore they were
taken and thev were purfued in order to pre-
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Proprietary Appointment, who hold their
Commiflions during his, and not .the King's
Pleafure ; and who, by dividingjamongJthem
felves, and their Relations, Offices of many
Tboufands a Year, enjoyed by Proprietary Fa-
future. Make Sne ftep farther back, and you they were as gooiSubjefts. to his iVlajefty
will find Proprietary lnjultice, iupported by and perhaps tney may De 10, wnen tne rro
jPropnetary Minions and Creatures, the origi- prietary interferes no longer.
ml Caufe of all our Uneafines and Diftrac- Another of your Reafons is, c that the Pro-
dons. ------
Another- pf your Reafons is, " that I am, c greeable to a very great Number of the moft
f &y & unfavourably 4 Terious and reputable Inhabitants of the
c niftefs. i apprehend, Gentlemen, that j our . " been rejected at the lait xiectiontho i
rInfbrmer is mift
(yreat Pains to mvc unfavourable Impreffions 5 14. Years." ' .
of me, and perhaps may fritter himfelf, that v And do thofe of you, Gentlemen v reproach
it is impoflible fo much true Induftry. fhould me with this, who ajmong near Four Thoufand
be totally without Lttedt. His long bucceis Voters, bad Icarcely a bcore more than 1
in maiming or murdering all the Reputations had ? It feems then,"that youc Eletitons were -
that Hand in his Way, which has been the very near bang Kejett tons, ana thereby tur-
dear Delight and conftant Employment of his nifhing the fame Proof in your Cafe that you
Life,-may likewife have given him fome juft produce in mine, of your being likewife ex
Ground for Ciden difagreebictoa very great Number of
call it, done for me among'the reft. But,-as;themoftferious and reputable People. Do
J faid before, I believe he is miftaken. For yoii, honourable Sir, reproach me with this,
what ; have l done tha
vourably of me f It cannot be my conftantly jeled if riot being chofeti h to berfjfed)hy-
and unirormiv promoune tne ivieaiures 01 cne mc iamc i cuic, auu unauic, wun -
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Province. It cannot, furely, be my prmot
nglHFGhange from a Proprietary to a Royal
Government. If in deecj I Jh es
and : Wxitin make His Ma-
jefty's Government univerfally odioui in the
they give you, to obtain an Eledtion in the
County where you. rehde, and the Lity where
you were born, and are beft known, and have
beea obliged taaccept a Sear
but Counties, thr
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