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'' We cannot avoid exprefling., our concern, that
the great tenderness with which your Majesty has
proceeded, and the conciliatory disposition which*
appeared in the last session of'Parlrament, mftead of
having the d fired effed of undeceiving the milled,
an I eftabidhmg a confidence in the parent fate, have
been turned to the advantage, and'made instrumen
tal to the purposes of this dangerbus attempt; and
whilff we acknowledge this to be the chnfequence
of the difference of intention whidi prevailed here
and in America, we are penetrated with a just sense
of the motives which have regulated yhur Majesty’s
endeavours to prevent, ifit had been poffihle, the
effufion of the blood of our fellow fubje&s, and the
calamities, which are inseparable from a state of war;
but since the rebellion is now Become more general,
and mznifefts the purpose of eftabiifhing and main
taining an independent empire, we cannot but ap
plaud jour Majesty's resolution to vindicate the
rights/ the interests, and the honor of this kingdom,
by a speed, and most decifiye exertion ; and for
this purpose, we think it our indifpenfible duty to
declare, that weivill fopport your Majesty with our
lives and fortunes'; and being fully persuaded, that
in the present state of these disorders, the most ac
tive will, in its effeft,be the most merciful mode of
proceeding, we hear with pletfure that your Majesty
has encreafed your naval eflabli foment, and also
greatly augmented your land forces. We are sen
sible of your.Majefty's kind consideration, in hav
ing done it in fuclia manner as may be the ball bur
thenfome to your kingdoms; and your Majesty
mty be affurg that we shall chearfully concur in
whatever may be necessary to enable your Majesty
to profit of the friendly difpbfition of foreign
powers,
" We are deeply impressed by the gracious mo
tives which induced your Majesty to fend a part of
your Electoral troops to the garrisons of Gibraltar,
and Port Mahon, by Which assistance this country
will be enabled to employ a larger number of its
own eftabiiihed forces in the maintenance of its au
thority; and we "return your Majesty our sincere
thanks for having so providentially painted out to
us a farther resource in that national body of men,
so constitutional in their nature,* and so zealous in
their duty, the militia of this kingdom.
" Wa cannot Efficiently admire your Majesty's
benevolent declaration; that when the wiQred for
period arrives, that the unhappy and deluded mul
titude, against whom this force will be dire&ed,
shall become sensible of their error, your Majesty
will receive the milled with tenderness and mercy;
and we are fully fen&ble of the wife and compas
sionate 'fentiment which has determined your Ma
jesty to delegate authority to certain persons upon
the (pot, to grant general or particular pardons and
indemnities, in such manner, and to such persons as
they dial! think fit,fond to receive the submission of
any provinceor colony which (hall be disposed to
return to its allegiance; and we will most readily
concur in granting to the persons so commissioned
such farther powers as may best tend to promote and
effectuate yous Majesty 'a salutary measures.
" Permit us, Sir, to offer our grateful acknow
ledgments to your Majesty for the full and explicit
communication which your Majesty has been pleas
ed to make to us, and at the fame time to express
the just sense we entertain of the numerous blessings
we enjoy, flowing from the source of never-ceasing
attention with which your Majesty is occupied for
the,fafety and happiness of all your people ; and we
beg leave to assure ybnr Majesty, that we participate
the fame desire which animates your royal breaff,
and feel no other with than to re-establish order and
tranquillity through the several parts of your domi
nions, upon the bails of a clbfe connection with, and
constitutional dependance upon, Greit-Britain."
To which his Majefty' was pleased to return the
, following most gracious Answer:
^nN M) Lords, '
I RECEIVE with the most sensible fatisfa&ion
this Address, so fully expressive of your duty and
loyalty. to me.. Nothing can be more acceptable
than the assurances you give of your utmost support
to enable me to re-establish order and tranquility
throughout all my dominions, and T (hall most hear
tily concur with any measures that may tend to so
salutary a purpose.
FRIDAY, Oflober 27.
A report was made from the Committee appoint
ed to draw up an Address to his Majesty, that the
Committee had drawn up an Address, which was
read.
Resolved, That the said Address be presented to
hie Majesty by the whole House.
Ordered, That such Members as are of the Privy
Council do wait on his Majesty to know when he
will be attended therewith.
A motion being made for re committing the Ad
dress, a great debate ensued, in which most of the
principal Ipeakers on both tides took a very warm
part. Particular objection was made to the follow
ing clahfe : " We thankfully acknowledge the
" gracious considerations which induced your'Ma
" jeftyto take this step," (meaning the introduction
of his ele&oral troops into the garrisons of Port-
Mahon and Gibraltar.) The gentlemen in opposi
tion considered this elaufe as an approbation of the
measure ; whilst the friends of Administration infitt
ed it was no more than a compliment to his M>jef
tf^good Intentfus, andieft the measure itfelf a mat
ter of future deliberation. Mr. Wedderburne and
Mr. Dunning had a long conversation upon the dif
ferent interpretations of the elaufe.
Mr. Cornwall acknowledged that there had been
mismanagement fomewbere ; but whether by the
Parliament in not granting a fufficient force ; by the
Ministry in not properly applying the forces grant
ed; or by the officers who had the command of
them, in not exercising them effedually, he would
Hot then assert, but probably might one day afford
matter for enquiry in that Houf, However, he
could not avoid faying thus much in favour of Ad
ministration, that a minister in this country, though
he may fee much farther into future events than the
rest of his countrymen, cannot take any great step
without having the Cry of the people with him ;
had Government demanded 4.0,000 men the last ses
sion to fend to America, the people would have tho't
them mad, but now that the people were with them,
he did not doubt of success. He censured those mem
bers very severely, who had voted last session with
Administration, and expruffed themselves very dif
ferently in this debate : He alluded particularly to
Mr. Ch. Fox, who, he said, a$ well ^s himfelf, had
been raised to very important offices in the state at
too esrly'an age.
Mr. Fox, in reply, proteft^d that he had been de
ceived by the Ministry ; he had been taught to be
lieve that Government had so many friends in Ame
rica, that the appearance of a few regiments there
would give them security in avowing themselves,
secure obedience to our laws, ahd ensure peace ;
that upon this principle he had voted for fending
aver the force last session ; peace was his obje& in
that measure, but now that the Minister declared
himfelf for; turn, he could not but objr& to his pro
ceedings.
Th€ Lord Advocate of Scotland said, it would
be ridiculous in Administration to recede at present,
or to listen to conciliatory measures, whilst Ameri
ca was making so eff#aual a resistance ; that all Eu
rope would fay, we had felt our inability to enforce
our rights, and therefore were glad to accommo
date matters upon any terms ; that when we had
regained and re-established our authority there, he
would be happy to join in any plan for the better
and more happy government of that part of the Em
pire. He said it was not uncommon for Great-Bri
tain to be unfuccefsful in the beginning, and vi&o
rious in the progress and conclusion of her wars,
and th.t he was not at all dismayed by the gloomy
pictures which some gentlemen were pleased to
draw of our perilous and deplorable situation.
Mr. Thurloe insisted that decency demanded that
we should return his Majesty thanks for the consi
deration which induced him to take this step, tho'
we mi^ht afterwards condemn the measure. Sua
niter in mode, fed fortiter in re, should ever he a
maxim in British minds; he declared that it was
hit opinion that the bill of rights did not forbid the
introduction of foreign troops into our territories
abroad ; that it only mentioned this kingdom ; that
coafequently he could no more fee any illegality,
than he could danger, in the measure.
Sir William W—ke insisted, that the bill of rights
was only declaratory of rights exiting prior to that
aft, that therefore the people were not to confine
their claims to the literal term of it, but to recur to
the great principles upon which that declaration
was founded.
Mr. Dunning argued upon the fame grounds.
Governor Johnston arraigned the condu& of Ad
ministration pretty severely; he declared that he
was certain the Hanoverian soldiers could rot be
tried by martial law for any offences, that if they
should be tried, they would have an action in Great
Britain against their officers, and that if any of
them should be put to death in confluence of the
sentence of a court martial, those who gave the
sentence would^ be guilty of murder according to
our laws ; he insisted, that our garrisons abroad
were, in the true sense of the word, a part of this
kingdom, and he was against the elaufe as a dan
gerous precedent.
Mr. Grenville very pathetically deplored the state
of our national affairs, and was convinced, he said,
that nothing but raisfortune could be the conse
quence. Let Administration, fays he, call the
Pope from Rome, the Mufti from Constantinople,
the High Priest from the synagogue to their aid,
let them put the afEffiaating knife into the hands
of slaves, and teach them to butcher their matters,
yet Kill the event mud be ruinous to this nation.
Suppose America conquered, its towns deftroved.—
its fields laid watte, we must keep up a l>%r Rend
ing army to support our trixrnrtTtl ; but can wero a k c
them in such a state raise money fufficieut to pay
for their own chains ? Can we make them build up
their Shattered cities by force ?
Mr. F—land, tho' he confeffed his dislike to the
employing foreign mercenaries, without the consent
of Parliament, declared hs objection to the recom
mitment of the Address: Hi did not wish to im
pede the measures of Government at so critical a
time, but he wished the Minister had called the
Parliament together last summer, rather than take
that itep without their concurrence, however ne
cessary the step might have been ; be was ferry, he
said, that so little advantage had been made of the
grants made last ftffi^ns for the purpose of enforc
ing American obedience, and threw out some se
vere remarks upon that indolence of temper, and
dislike to business, which seemed inherent in the
character of the Minister ; and to this disposition he
attributed the little success of what he ventured to 1
call our summers campaign in America , however,
he sweetened this dose of censure with a great many
compliments on the vast abilities and amiable dis-,
pofitipn of the noble Lord.
This called up Lord North, ivho, after feme differ,
ence about order, observed, that be ivould not have
perffed so much in bis defre to be beard,bad not some
thing vubicb bad fallen from the gentleman <wbofroke
las, demanded a rep), which might not comefo well
at another time. He was greatly obliged to the gentle
man, be said, for that candour and boldness with
which be bad treated bis eburafier. He was not dis
pleased to bear bis faults from: whatever motive they
might be suggested ; sometimes, as in the present in
fiance, they were faggefied by candid, and fomedmes
by malicious ones. Those who fuggefled tbem from the
f.rft cause be thanked and efleemed ; those who display
ed them from the laiter principle be despised. He con
feffed that indolence of temper which Mr./ land bad
noticed, and that difike to business, but declared, that
he was forced into the pof benow beid; that formy
and tenspefiuous as the ocean is, through wlicb be has
to ftee r , be would never of his own accord abandon
it till the form badfubfided ; be acknowledged be bad
been deceived in events, but that be bad adopted bis
raaf^es las feffons io the then fate of affairs, not
• imagining that all America would have armed in the
cause, It was cafy, be said, to fee what bus bu/fen
ed, but who could haveforefeet that things would hap
pen so ? Adminif ration bad proceeded upon the infor
mation they bad received ; if gentlemen were in pos
session of better information, why did they not commmu
nicateit ?He said, that when be adopted the necessa
ry plan of fending Hanoverians to our garrisons, be
bad not a doubt of the legality of the measure; that if
it should be found that be was mifaken in that point,
though the matter itfelf foould be approved, any dan
ger which might be dreaded from the precedent might
be prevented by a bill of indemnity ; that the neceffiy
of taking fueb afep was clear, from the danger of
confiding solely in cur militia for the internal defence
of the nation, however brave they might be ; and if
be bad waited for the meeting of Parliament cur
troops in Gibralter and Port Mason could not be brought
over time enough to have admitted of an early and
vigorous exertion of our forces against the rebels. To
call the Parliament in the middle of summer, would;
be said, have been exceedingly disagreeable and bu r
tbenfome to the nation, and many inflances could not he
found in our biflory of a Parliament being called fs
early as the present. He bad, he said, as great a ve
neration for liberty as any man in that boufe ; and be
hoped the Americans were too brave and worthy of
their glorious ancefiors, to hefdate a moment in their
choice between Jiavery or war, between ignominy of
death ; but in the present infance there was no quefli
on of Jlavery. Their friends have said, that they on
ly wifoed t? be put on the fame footing on which they
were in 1763. He asserted, that Adminifration wifb
ed for no more, and be could not believe that America;
without money, without trade, without reJourceP;
could continue to prefer a ruinous and a lasing war
with the ir.eenfed power of Great- Britain, to the'
blessings of liberty and peace in a bapp) dependence on
ber. He spoke very pathetically of the integrity of his
heart, and of the bappinefs which be hoped to derive id
the last moments of bis life, from the tefimony of bis
own confeience ; and concluded with a beautiful de
scription of tbe envied ftlendid wretebednefs of bis
minifierial station.
Col. Barre, in a very ludicrous manner, observed r
that the noble Lord could very calmly bear to hear
his faults announced from some quaiters: that his
Lord/hip flood the attacks of a certain northern dia
led with a very good grace, and he was instantly
shot dead with the brogue; and what was acknow
ledged to be extremely candid on one fide of th^
House, was downright mallice frora another; he
kisses the rod in some hands, and is exceedinly do'-
cile, but is very fore when the lash is taken by some
others. The reason, he said, which induced all
America to take arms sooner than the noble Lord
had eXpG&ed, was to oppose a common enemy; the
circumfta^ce put him in mind of a speech made by
Marshall Schomberg to the British troops as they
were eroding the river Boyne in Ireland, ale devoir
mes infans, voila vos ennemis! at length the House
was re-called to the question by Sir George Young,
who proposed an amendment, which being out of
order, was not put ; after some altercation, the
question before them was put, and the House divi
ded, when the numbers were 176 to 72.
Lord North then moved for " leave to bringin a
Bill to empower his Majesty to call out the Militia
when a rebellion appeared in any part of his domi
nions," which was carried, and the House rose im
mediately (about a quarter after one this morning)
and adjourned till Monday.
This day, at 2 o'clock, the Address of the Her
House of Commons was presented to his Majesty
at St. James's.
This morning Stephen Sayre, Esq; hr vhcue of
a Habeas Corpus granted by Lord Mansfield, was
carried from the Tower to Lord Mansfield's house,
where his case was argued; wher n j' Lordfliip was
pleased to discharge him on bat', himfelf in 5001.
penalty- -^'"' two sureties in 2501. each.
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TO BE S O L D,
Or RENTED for a term of years,
A PLAN TATION in the township of Am
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' For the Year of our LORV 177-'
The Agronomical Calculations by .
David Rittenhouse, A. M. oft