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N .I-V E R S A L I N T E L L I G E N C E R .
F'RT D A Y December 28 to F R IDA Y January 4, 1765.
The Remainder of Mr . Franklin's A iV
5 WEJL to m ProteJ, began in Page 22j
Pals over he trivial Gh krge a
0 gain ft the A fleni blyr tha t t hey
j I - J VoV fc actccJ wwy uMeceJary Jtiajte
5 . tc nointmpnt. withonf male.
& Wf ipg.a fmall Adjournment, ffr,:
and your affeiltd Apprehehllons of Danger
fro nt; tint Halle. The Neceffity of Ex-'
pedition on this Occafion is as obvious to eve-
ry one out of Doors, as it was to thofe vv ith
in ; and the Fears you mtntion arc not, I fan
cy, confiderable enough to brtak ycur Reft.
I come then to your l.igh. Charge againft riie,
44 That 1 heretofore "ventured, f?w;ry to an
" At of AjFembly, to place the Public Mo
c in the Stocks, whereby this Province fuf-:
crTrialces RewFTcIe CofLof my former-Voy
1 c age to E ngla ml amou X to Eleven" Thouand
cc Pounds How. wifely was that Form in
our Laws, contri ved,; which when a Man is ;
arraigned for his Life, requires the Evidence
U) (k jbe Traib Truths and no
thing but the Truth ! The Rcafoii is mariifett.
lALEalffioHod niayTd j fo may
Part of the Truth without Whole i 'znd
a "Mixture of Truth and FaKhood may be T
full as pernicious. You, Mr. Chief Jutice,
" and "the otheruft tHe. Proteftors,
and your J5ir, who are a Cou ncellor 'at Law, :
muft all of you be vyell Acquainted with this
excellent Form: j and w hcrv yourraigcr dvmy
ep.utation(dearertQ-me
the Aflcmbly, and nowit thc re(pedtble Tri
bunal of the Public, would it not have well
become your. Honours to have had fome fmalh
Rt-gard at leaft- to the Spirit of that Form :
You mighjt have mentioned, that the Direc
tion of the A6t to lodge the Money in the
Bankv fubjedl tqltH Drafts of the Trultees
of the Loan Office bere
that-therBaiik refufed io receive it on thofe
Termsr it being contrary to their (ettled RuK s
to take Charge of Money fubjedl to the Or
ders of unknown People, living in diftant
Gountries. You might have mentioned, that
the Houfe being informed of this, and havin-:
no immediate Call for the. Money, did tftem?
fe 1 ves adopt the Meafure of placing 1 1 in t he
Stocky whkh then were low; where it might
pn a Peace, produce a confiderable profit, and
;ihrthe;meaiv;:ti
1 hut they-even
pafled a
Bill direflinpr the fuh-
Icquent-Sums granted byrtfiriaMntmi
-piacea-wit-tuetormer : l hat the Meafure
was prudent and fafe y and that the Lois arbfe,
not from placing the Money ; the Stocks, but .
from the imprudent and unneccflary Drawing
it out at tlie very time when they were J owe ft,
onome lljs-ht uncertain Ruinours of a Peace
concluded : Tha: if the A ftembiy had let it re-
main another Year, inaeuT
wouldhaWg
that after all, fince the Exchange at which they;
TqW. their Bills, was near ftventv ir Ctnt7
tr .A
t r In rv i r s m tf l-v . .1 ' f
d . I v 1 1 -1 1 j c y u i c w i i i i n w n e o tue ococks
were purchafedv the :' Lofs was far fromlbel ng;
fo great as you reprefent i 'r All thefe Things
you might have faid',- for thty are, and ? you ;
know them to be, Part of the whole Truth
55FSey; your A;cufatroa
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