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-Sr The late Speaker of your honourable Houfe, ; Leave) of 1HTC6ry'I;Jovjeand;in-whicH ivii. xivfNj, wiiujiM, i lupuuic, ui my ici- nave lucnt ' Uic Exeaieir rarr or mv Late. tcr.s to-hirn,-and Gopies.of-his-own to -me relating to that TrafaHon,.xan teftify with how much Integrity and Clearnefs I managed the whole Affair. -All the Hon fe were len- EftoPerpetug.lWfh every kind of Profueri- ty to piy Friends, and I forgive my Enemies, fible of it, being from time to time" fully ac quainted with the"Fats. If I had gone to Gaming in the Stocks; with the-Public Money and t hronorh m v fa 1 1 1 1 a Si i m w 1 wfl-i- n c vmh r IVotefBaroul examined the Accounts ol Benjamin Report of the Committee on Benjamin Franklin's Accourits. In Obcdience to the Order of the Houfe, eel and punifhed for it when I returned-? -'ranilin:- Efywith the, Voudiers to us pro You, honourable Sir . (my Enemy of feven r ears ttandinc.) was then in the rioule. You wcrappjgnled Kc-: y counts ; you reported that you found them juft, and figncd that Report. J I never folicited the. employ of Agent : I made no Bargain, for my future Service, when I was ordered to England by the A flembly ; nor did they vote me any Salary 1 jived there near fix Years -at my own vexpence, andce no CliaJmor -BziTi and when I came home. , You, Si r, 6 f duced in Support thereof, and.do find the fame Account to be juft and tK expended, -in theimmediateService-dfthistRrovi Sum of Seven Hundred andFourteen-P6u rrr Ten Shillings and Seven pence, out of the Sum (frFtfieenJ S terl ingi to him remitted and paid, exclufive of any Al lowance -or Charge for his Support and Ser vices for rthe Province. John Morton Jofeph Fox .... - v.,. . -. .... all others, was the very Member that prmofed ': (for the Honour and Juftice of the-Houft:) a torn pen (at i on to be made m e of JtRe7 we yifiilUdm -Allen ) ronn k OS, 'John Moor John Hughes i Samuel Rhoadr infoU) JctmWilki Thou land Pounds vou mention. Was it wirh - j j .... - 4n intent to reproach me thus publickly for-at-Cfpting it f I thanked the Houfe for it Tthert; and I than k. you now for prppofing it: Tho you, who have lived in England, can eafily . conceive, that befides -the Prejudice to . my - private Affairs by my Abfence, a Thouand Pounds m ore wo u I d, n ot h a v e rei m b u; SJd me. rThe money voted was immediately paid me. But, if I had. bccafioned the LoG of Six Shoufand Pounds -to t h e Pr o v i n ce,-vhere-was 'a llaac-Peari ' , ; The Houfe bking the foregoing Report of 'the Committee of accounts into Cunlideration, and having fpent bme tinie therein, Refolved That the Sum of 'Five Hundred Pounds Sterl. per Annum be allowed and given to Franklin Efq; late Agent f(r 4he Pro : v i nee o( Penfytvcima the;Cou rt of Great Britain, d uring his Ab fence of fix Years fro m his JBujinc-fs and. Connedionsp in the St:rvice of tKe 7 P 0 H i i c a n J ; t liia t It h e 7 T hti IcT o f t lTi ; ffir opportunity of feoiring eafilyv the, greteft'V-oufe Pfttind kpfinfteA u n rl ih R WtlnAr r a I fa ft h f u fc ha r(reof h 1 sI0 nt rn GentlcrnabAr Pounds deBuSecl, and the Remainder called for The Reafon is, This Accufation was not then invented. Permit me to add, that fuppofing the whole Eleven Thouand Pounds an expence occafioned by my iMoyage JtoLEig- in pi as-well-forthe i fchargejjf h isJD u ty t o t bif Prof i n cr ar, as for the many and important Proprietary 'iMdy sX : thcTaxation of the I eftate now eftabljlhed, will; when valued by -Years rurhaie be fwnd ih-timean Advantage.: to the -Public, far exceeding that Expence. ( And. if the Expence is at prefent a Burthen, the Odiuni ought to lie on thpfe who, by theirj Jnjuftice, mad et heV oy agk: n eceifcry p: and not on me, who only fubmitted to the Orders .of the Houfe in undertaking It. 4 i ; 1 am now to take Leave (perhaps a Jaft Serv ices d on e America in general , durino- his Kehdence in br eat-Britain. " 77;rvV March 3 r , 1 763. ".r.i: ZTurfijant to laf I M on th, , that 1 he Thanks of this Houfe be gi v en to Benjamin F ranklin , E fq ; Jo r h is ma ny ..Seryjces nia but to Anierica in general, duiing his late Agency at the Coiirt of Gri-Britaiti, the ' iame werc-tliis Day accordingly given in Form from t he Ch a i r .To w h ic h M r. Franklin, re fpc Slf u 1 1 y ad dr effing himfelfto the Speak er , made Artfwer, 7;bat he was thankful to the . Houfe, 4 ;.. f : .' ' ' . .- '. -...' ,. ",. .... J, ; ., . J , , , .. , . '"' " . . . ; . . ::'. . . , . . ? : ' : : : " ' . r : r :
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