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ii , . w r " 1: . .... i M 0 VI 'J r"'; V.-' "Tiivr-".- 4 : Should I take him, : pleafe.youf Majefty, aftiaid all Fans would take me." I W.13 '; ' In this alarming Crifis, this diftraded State of; . Affair, I come, my Lords, withthis Paper in my Hand (holding out his Motion) to offer jyou the - I'beft of my Experience and Advice, which is, " to : befeech his Majefty that he would be gracioufly" , pleafed to" give immediate Orders to Gen: Gage to uiwitiiaraw ms Aroops irom uciuic iuwi- vi uvi- in- mental Laws of the Eriglifti Conftitution, arid u grafted - on that Conftitution.- by the uri alterable Jlawi of Nature r then I own myfeiffan American ;.tnd feeling myfelf fuch, mail, to the Verge of 1 .fay Life,; vindicate her Rights -If America," howi. : , ever, "mould at any Time Tofe Sight of this,' then 1 fliall be ah Englilhraan, and defend thofe Rights againft any Poweruhderlieaven that woqld ; oppofe thefliT oiTPiirrderopen4hea t upon the moft mature and deliberate Grounds, vi the beft Advice I can givejou at; this undure.--Such a Conduct will convince America that you mean to try her Caufe in the Spirit of Freedom and ... . -. - y . i .. s ht. 1 1 : . ..:H . t inquiry, ana not in Miters oj mooay jx m c a Pledge to her, that you mean' nothing1 more tthan -Friendlhip and Equity, and me, I truft, willfmeet " you half Way. But how can me truft you with the. Bayonet at her Brcaft f Nayi how does (he know, but after having fubmitted to the Sword, ou mean - to forge for her heavier Chains, the'general Confe- quence of ferocious .Victory. ( ; , I have crawled, mv Lords, to this Houfe Today"' " to tell you fo -I think it my Duty to give jthe-.Whole j of my Experience snd Council toT my" Country at ; all Times, but more parHcularly when (he is in fo ' Wuch Need of it ; 'and having thus "entered ' upon t " the Threihold of this Bufmefs, I wil knock at your ' . Gates of Juitice, .and r.ever Hop, except infirmities''''. Ihould" nail me to my Bed, until I have, at leail, i tried every Means in my Power to heal thofe un- happy Divihons. with Danrcrperhaps whillt Lam now TpeakMig, ' the decifive Blow.is ftr uckpt which may; involfe-r the very Jirtt Wrop ot Uloott that is ipiuca wm nor be a Wound cafily flcinncd over it will be imVa bile yvtnut ; a Wound of that rancorous and fejter- ing Kind, iTiaf,7ina!! PiobabilifyT": will mcrtify ' the whole Body,n ' . . v Let us then, my Lords, inftantly begin with'this B unnefs7 but let u s not aft , as h l th eno h as beeu afted taking it up by "Bits and Scraps, . as Exi gencies preil'e J, without any Regard to general Relations. and Dependencies. What fignifies mere ly repealing thi?; or that 'particular At i This is ' but meanly fncaking ; out of one Difficulty perhaps 7tojeUnt6aw6rfe th Pur - poles of a wife, amicable,; and . conftitudonal S f tern. The mere Annihilation of a few little dirty . Skreds of Parchmentcan never produce any lalt ing Effeft on the Happinefs and Commerce of three ' Millions of People, hitherto ground down with Miferies and Wrongs, and in hourly dread of hav ing them occafionally rehearfed. . . ; , ; We muft look on this great Bufinefs in one large :fnnnAViw- work on iKrSte&.bv Step, .with Caution and Liberality, and never lofe Sight of it until it is accomplilhed ; this is the Way not only to obtain Confidence for the prefent, bat folid and , Jailing Happinefs for the future r The ;Line thus drawn, the Americans will have fomcthing 'to trull .: to and we (hall be taught not to tranfgrefa that . - Line. Thus mutual Confidence will: be begun, - and tautual Benefit mutt follow. I know-ihat it " has been in Circulation, that if the Stamp M had fi ever been' repealed," we mould be at this Hour in Peace and Quictncfs with America ; and from this many, People urge the Danger as well ll55ay ; of cpnei Hating Meafurcs at preient. But though"! j could readily refute the tallhood ana ADiuraity ot tnis Auertion, oy appealing 10 we very uiiv.i.u American Governors at that renod, 3 ten from your .Iflull weave this Ground, apd only mention to your Lordlhips a Circumllance which will fet thist Matter in a lill clearer Light, and hew you the Temper, FirmncfsaftJ Ccmplexion, of the Bolloni " ans on that Occafion. i . Sometime after the Repeal of that Aft, I hap pened tote in Company (at the Houfe of a mutual Friend above ioo Miles from this, Town) with one of the moft confiderable and intelligent Merchants; , In this Country ; in a Gonverfatioii I had with him upon this Subject, I beggfd him to be as explicit. . ' as poflible in giving me nis Opinion of the Repeal. This Gentleman then told me, and confirmed his" Account by fevcral written ai d refpedable Evi- . dencestbat the People of Bollon, previous to the . Repeal, waited in fuilen Silence the Deliberations of the Britim Parliament, and were pofitively de termined, if that Day's Viclory had not been ob-. tained, immediately jo ibandon the Town, their Rcfidence, and all the Benefits of Commerce i to the Country they were determined to retire with their Families and Friends, more happy to be Ftct men, tho Tillers of the Earth, than Slaves under the greateft Prcfperiry. Does this Refolution look , like tamety fubnatting to Indignities f Or does it . fhew that it is owing to this jul Relaxation of Go vernment, that they have been taught to aft with thatFirmnefs and Perfevcrance, they have fines that Period purfucd t '. I would not, however, wifh, my Lords, by this to encourage America to proceed beyond the Line of Right I reprobate at much as any of you thofe . ACis of Violence which a few of her Mobility have . committed but when her inherent conAltutional Rights are in vaded, thofe Rights (he has an tquita Lle Claim to, the full Enjoyment of, by the fu;da- January 3 1 . ? Mr. Wooldridges Oration the other : Day at the Bar of the Hoife of Commons has, it is ' faid, embarrafled Adminiftrition more than: the moft celebrated ones delivered by Chatham, Buike and Barre, during the three laft Yeafs.tl . ' ; . . Yefterday a Number of Artificers in the Cloth , working and Hot-preffing Bufinefsl, failed with their . Families, for New-York'. :- ';xVJ: 'U- - . : A very eminent Corh-Faa6r Has fent. Qver Com jnilfions for twenty Thoufand (garters of Corn ; to be imported in different Bottoms from New-York, Maryland and Philadelphia, by which fevcral Ame rican Ships are Jcept employed, ' which muft othei-i r wife have been laid -Up-r-T?-4.-rr--r ..r- fo tbe MoncuraM tit COiONS .-GwwiT-BiLt- . ' "Tain, in Patliamh eSfembled: ' The humble Pet it 1 0 n of the Merchants, Traders, and others,' of the City "Vf London," concerned in the Commerce of North-America, ' C ,. ' SHEfVETM: . t'"- ' H A Tyour Petitioners did, on Monday the M 23a lnitanr, preient an numoie retition to this' Honourable Houfe, dating the Nature .and Im portance of the Commerce' between Great-Britain ' oi law, 1 cars nave nappenca tnerein; tne alarming State to which thaf'cpmmerce is 7atT"pTefent7re'(iuc t ed ; and the true Caufe, as your Petitioners appre--hend of the fame : : And relying on the J ullice. of-- this Honourable Houfe to take the .Whole of the Weighty Matters lo itated, . into their, moft ferious Coniideration, did humbly!! pray, That this Hoitfe would enter into a full and Immediate Examination ; ' ot that Syftem of commercial . Policy, which had formerly been adopted, and uniformly maintained to the Happinefs and Advantage of both Countrie, and would apply fuch healing Remedies," as can" -jmlyireitcrfir and . cftablifh ,the Commerce between Great-Britain' and America, ort a permanent Foun dation. ,v '-.'.": ' ' Your Petitipricrs have ever conceived an Opinion, refulting from Education, 'and confirmed by Rea-r fon and Experience, that tiie, Conne&ion between Gr'eat-Briuin and America, originally was, and ought to be, of a commercial K-ind j and that the Benefits derived therefrom to the" Mother .Country are cf the lame Nature. - And obferving 'the con-, tor more tnan a uentury given to thele valuable ub- jeets, iney nave oeen taugnt to admire tne regula tions, by which that Connection had been prcferv ed, and thofe Benefits fecured, as the moft efTeftu- 1 al Inftitution which human Wifdom could havefram ed, for thofe falutary :Purpofes ; pcfuming there fore on this Opinion, and upported by this Ob Nervation, your Petitioners beg Leave to reprefent to this; Honourabb Houfe, uiat 'the fundamental Policy of thofe Laws of which they complain,' and the Propriety of enforcing,, relaxing, or amending -thefamearcQueltions hfeparably Jinked, with ihfi-. Coramercc between Grcit. Britain and America; and confequently,. that ihe Confideration of the one, cannot be eutered 01 without a full Difcullion of the other. i . Your Petitioners obferte, "by the Votes of this Honourable Houfe, tha a Committee hath been appointed totakc into Cjnfideration certain Papen prefentcd to this Houfe ly Lord North, on Thurfi day the 19th Inilant j ari by the Titles and Dates of faid Papers, and in p rtieular of No. 148 and 149, of the fame: Your Petitioners are warranted in prefuming, that the f id Papers contain Matters refpe&ing the prefent i tuation of America, and effcntially concerning th mutual Iaterells of your Petitioners, and thst Ci ntry. Under all thefe Circiinftances, your Petitioners find Rcafoa finccTcly to lament, that this Honoura ble Houfe has thought ft to refer the Confideration of their faid Petition toanv other Committee, than that, to which the faToPapcrY had prcvioufly been referred: And jour f itioncrs conceive, that by the Refolution to wh :h this Houfe hath come, repccling the Referent ; of their faid Petition, they are abfolutely preclude from the Benefit of fuch a Healing, in Support 0 their faid Petition as can alone procure them tl it Relief which the Impor tance, and prefent dej orable State of their,Trade reauire. '. . ' Your Petitioner's the :fore humble pray this Ho nourable Houfe, that icy will take the Premifes ' into their immediate Confideration,': and will di-reft;-' that. your Petitic crs may be heard by them felves, or their Agent ia Support of their former Petition j and that ri Refolution refpetling Ame rica may be taken by this Honourable Houfe, or any Committee thcrec , until your Petitioners ihall have been fully heard it Support of their faid Peti tion. ' - ; rublifhed by Auaority of the Committee, . THCMAS LANE, Chairaiaa. :fek ti It is the Fafhion it the Court End or the Town,- moft Companies to reprefent the AmerK cans as.defpifable Poor, and. little better than a Banditti j but does the Miniflry thinkfthat a milita ry Force is the beft Method of civilizing a People i And, if the Americans are fo poor, why Khoula tho Miniftry contend with, fo much Zeal to load theni with Taxes I But however his Creatures, may talk, the Minifter well knows that the Mother Country ecciYctwo-Jvlukons a Yrar from-the poor-unu yilized Banditti of . America. : V ' ' Feb. 5. The King of Spain has taken op a Nam-' ber of Dutch VelTels of Burden SflLth Texel, for the Purpofe of exporting Stores to the Mediterranean andJWftIndies ;-and has orclered tne lland of Ma " jorca, i n the Mediterranean ' (abou t tw? nty Leagues 1 from Mjnbrca) '.:tob'eortifie4"wi'pSi'fed, great . Quantities of building Materials and Sto es having lately been exported from Spain for that Purpofe. Feb. 4. .An intelligent COrrefpbndent allures qs, that the Spanilh Court have offtfred the French an extra Prefent cf ' 2,000,000 1. befides the Loan of 3,006,000!. for twelve of their third-rate Ships of ' Sir J y A t, ' we are well informed, has -" been7app)ied;tff:to :fapercede: Gen1l' Gage, who, " from the Dread of fpilline human Blood on the one Side, and the Contempt (hewn him and his Army bn the other, begs to be fecallec?. Sir: j-- y, in ;f CbnCrquenice of this, has been twice clbTctted ;',but ; that General pofitively refufed to embark till he has eo,ooo Menent with him, befide the Army already J in Ametica; . ' : Tomorrow atoer " Council w be then holden ) ' the following Rcfola- ;. ' ,: Feb..6.r 'fwo tlean 'Sloopf of 1 glQunaelicVare"' ordered from Chatham to the Well-Indies immedi Etely, to ferve as Advice Boat under Command of . the lngi iflt Aamual-a tJamaica ?r Feb. 7, -All our Advices from the We ft-Indies agree that the French and Spaniards were . n ever fo bofily employed in fortifying their Settlements as at prefent," :-1 : -- v-X"-;'"-.''r :" :- Feb. to. The Merchants, fc'.' of Whitehaven, trading to America, have forwarded a Petition to'. Sir James Lowtherr andHenry:Fletcher,"lf4rin order to be prefented to Parliament. Feb. ii. . We hear that a great General Officer! ' refufmg to undertake the Reduction of, the Boftoni- " ans to Obedience, Jwithout the Aid of fo large a Bo--dy of Forces as 20,000 Men,' was only .a Feint to get ofFhe Appointment, he having privately .edared,-! , no Command fhould tempt him to meet thofe Men in .Hollility, whom he had for fuch a Number of Years lived with oh the greateft. Terms ot Friendlhip and honourable Confederacy. . " , February 22. At a Court of Common Council . .held Yefterday at Guildhall, (after the Matters to , be objected to in the Maflachufetts-Bay Bill were reterrea to a committee, - who are to make their tions were come tot Refofaed, That the Meafures of-'Adminiftrationi , : rcfpeOing our fellow Subjects in America, adopted, by the late Parliament, appear 10 this Court in the higheft Degree dangerous' and alarming, and de( mand our moft ferious Attention.. j Rffolved, That as the Opinion of this Court hath already been very fully and partial' arly declared againlt an Aft of the late Parliament, intituled, An Ad for the tovaking more effectual Provifion for the Government of the Province of Quebec in North A mericaVwethink itequally auDuTjMobcaT" Teftimony alfo'againft four other Afts of the faid Parliament, which we efteem highly injurious to our fellow Subjects in America, viz. An AcY for the better regulating, the Government of the Pro vince of the MaJTachufetts-Bay ; alfo an Aft for the impartial Adminiftration ot juftice in the Cafes of Perions utftioned for any Ads don'e by them in the Execution of the Law, or for the SuppreCion of Riots and Tumults in the Province of Maflaehufctts Bay ; and alfo an Ad to difcontinue the landing and difcharging, &c. of Goods, Wares and Mer chandizes, at the Town and in the' Harbour of . Bollon ; and alfo an Ad, .intituled, An Ad for providing fuitable Quarters for Ofiiccn and Sol diers in his Majelly's. Service in North-America they appearing 10 this Court td be not only contra, ry to many of the fundamental Principles of the ' Englifli Conftitution,"and moft eflential Right of the Subjed;.but alfo apparently.inconfiftent. with natural Juftice and Equity ; and we are therefore of Opinion, thai our fellow Subjeds the Americans,, are juftified in every conftitutional Oppolition to the faid Ads. . - - ' The Friends of Government, among the Mer . chants confider Lord North's conciliatory Plan in a very difagrecable Light, not on Account of any Advantage it really gives up in Favour of the Ame ricans, becaufe there is no Conceflion made with out the Americans acknowledging the Power of the Mother Country, aod fubmitting the Money they raife to her Dllpofal, but on the Account of the ErTcd that fuch a Difpofition at home will have in America. Thus whatever, is done from Principles of Prudence and Moderation, will be conllrucd to nrifefrom Cowardice ami Timidity,' and the real Friends of Government in Americawill have to larfccnt the Inftability and fluduating State of ur. Proceedings at home, as thcy;had before when the Sump Ad was repealed t'. :4 :
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