The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg, Va., 1770-04-26 00:00:00, page 1

THURSDAY,APML:6,1770. si":
NUMBER 2sio72
VIRGINIA
A
Lord csinu'ctzsi's SPEECH L'cforc a
great Assembly. \
_ F ! tttempt to speak tlusisi. My, and in this society, it
- " Llll lmpelltd to speek. I lcclan m
ade": which ! cumot relirl: Ansil ] should not have
n'ealy ill my own llllshl. it llH-lnul llsisippcd lorrh
at thtt alerming crilis, to give my public tell:-irony
in pehtlf ol the yeople of Engltnd. and to declare my rrce
opinion ofthe dtltrtsifl'ed flute of our eshir: in every quar
ter of the globe. ——————
After e pence, by which we abandoned (shamefully
' ed) our allies. ] thought, till thin day, that we
were: in on the llippery edge of a new Was,—without
llhes : Old, and wrthout umimity at home. lfwe turn
our eyes towards America, the perPect is equal] dishest—
ful. Much hit: been (hid of the ' obedience the colo
mes to the Mother country. My opinion, with tegard to
Amenea, it the satme now it ever was. My opinion:- this.
" Weought to dojuflice before We exred obedience." I
feelthewmetl regtrd for Anterica. ] ove theAmericus.
because they love liberty! Liberty hn spreadlihe : vine
from this country to the colouies: liberty Bourilhet in
the wilde of America! ] honour the plant; l revere the
tree. and ! would cherish the branches. As to any tumults
th'-t maw have pened in Aneriu, the are the ebelhti
one of h'hetty; at only some bre ' out in the
- 'o of the bodypossitic. high, if mdely re tained, and
nproperly cheek may Whe'inwdly, and endanger
the vitalsofthect "moon. -— —- ——
1 now woe ss'to speak my seetimenu with regard to the
clad in the lower room-t I have the greatest honour and
w sorthat eld; [honour them on account o£the
"founde from-hence they swan—the people! But-thtt
duh. the'lovet'voom dub, euetoached on_the other
breed-es ofth'e so'dety: it has ufnrped : legiflatrve autho
. m!- eld will the [little-arm! by our cond-timor- : lt
];lsiffishzm' Butter-en : mew-indite (ths-lated glub,
. . e ' appeared, _ ox.
: ve ecdnfidefigm nedo ted Infinity. 23:er
of] [Ric- This is the of the ?" dtloon
teat: whidt unieer prevail; this has fp d an altrm
through every M o England - thisis the creep! those
mermundeom time with which an injur soae'ty now
sumnd the ent; this it the cause of those peti
- tious. toihieh ell'thecthonestsreeholden ve sit their
hand-! "rit by this sotel resolution ofthel er elnb that
: breach has been made in the bondhdd of hborty; the
sortress it now o n. and the enemy my mer at discre
tioo. The eo "tation, that, admirable ( ne, the work
ofngee. the mother-piece of human Wtsd ]! wounded
inssthe vitail! lt resemblee mold decayed _ erin wall;
in no pertosiecan you litdown under thellpdein fery!
During your seest '- the country,-name your wor
ship: have rood that excellent-hook. "_ The of Cholick"
"the Filth." The celebrated hish'mn. rtson. ha.
(Yelk-i he szidwell) " That the—What loll: their
]: rty by snl'ering oo'e of the estate: to encroach upon,:nd
usurp the privilege: ofthe others." Let" on take Wart-ing;
, let on observe, viol- a jealotn eyei theptootedingt of the
lower clob. ] need not nal to your 'onlups remem
. that. it it not the first time thatclub, the lower
room clnb, lus voted this sociery " nuns."
Youryodhipe, therefore, ought to did-had the very.
first appearance of encroachments from that quarter; your
Vorships form the on] branch of the !ociety that an vuth
proprieq attack the Job in the lower room: Let "us shew
them we are not useless; let us shew them that We have
hoththe power and the will to check their roceedifflgs
whenever they at beyond their just limin, an manlse y_
chd (? subverththe congnsihusiion; and, tlsierefosi'e. ! move
in an vertow atwu ' y'Sq-m'reA wort 7, recom
mendmg unani-ity) that this he" do take into our lm
mediate and molt serious consideration, the cause of the
present national discontents, and particularly that resoluti
tion of: the clob in the lover room, by which jack Riot
was rejected a: a member; and Hasirry Flutterwell was-voted
in his place, contrary to the sense of a-great majority of
the legal belloten. who were by that meansdeprived of
their common rigct andfret choice. '
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77!" 07]? :: "t'/X": nere-ends;] [rain,
"When him all " 16 " 11" lain.
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tum-w: just (] POPE
THERE} ?: not a wiser, or a better known maxim in the
English conflitution, than, that [be King can do no
me?. The political wisdom of this maxim arise: from
the requent and dangeront convullions into which the
nation might be thrown, if misconduit in government
was impotable to the Sovereign. To avoid this great evil.
every public injuiy, created by mal-adminishation, hll
urged upon the Minisiek, whose unishment has
frequently taken lace to satislv publicju ice. And thi
is the more te enable, as the counter signaturc of the
proper state officer, is neccihl y to anthcnticatc the Royal
mandate; and therefore leaves the Mieisier without ex
(us;, is, prclerting the possesssi of his place to the du!
he (me; the publzc, he t'acrsstsices me honour and interc
of the nation by pernicious compliancte. Knowing this
to be the lsiettled opiniOn, and to avoid the just resentmcnt
of an injurcd :cuple, various' have been the artilicel of
dillerent Klintllcrs in different periods. lo the reign Of.
(lharlu l]. an ;rra in the English hiltorv, ever detestable
for havingoeen one continuedrnvalrunos the public liberty,
the Minitlerial stratagem then was (at once to deceive their
matter, and impose upon the people to procure addresse
from as many place: a: possible, ap riding the Sovereign,
and approving the conduct otsi government with the' mo
lulsome and nauseout flattery. How lar this crirnioal pro—
cedure of old, appliet to the present time:, the most in
attentive may discern, by a revtcwos the many guilty ad
dtelsea lately published from the English papers. —Pafling
oveethe rest, lthall begleave to conllder that very curious
one,obtained from some people in London, acopyof which
wzared in your Gazette the zsd of une last. How very
di rent the sentiments contained n thit addrest, are
from the bower and wiser opinion of that great city, may
be seen by comparing it with the petition of the Liver;.
But the latter was the spontaneeus production of a sen t
ble, much injured people; and the former alln'ug pro
cured hy the Ministry, to varnilh over their molt oppres
live prooeedinga. For ! believeit is well known in Lon
don, how very ;active a certain Minisierial tgent me on
the_oceafiop, and how liberally lottery tickett were ex
sor subfcriptiom. Let these addre en speak for
them lvet. They say " that constant case as been taken
to fecuteto the people the full enjo ment of their lawe and
lshsieniea inviolable, and to make ssm happy." Let me
herealk these ddrefferct; Mr.-kind, is the law, liberty,
and happiness of the Mle asimhfl m ral warrant:
and seizure pf papers, on of the ha corpus", co
vering from roseeution-the greatdefaulter os unaceonnted
'nnllions, an placing a man in the House of Common:
rejected by avery reat majority of legal vote"? And
.lnsfly. Mr. .Rind, me.-- an Amertntt, all: these
aid" :, if they think h! m'ericatz no? part of his
M " 'a people. and is a, whether onr "am, liheny,
and happiness har'esibeen inviolaply si refen'ed b atbttrary
tention-, without the colsseut o our repre wim
by sospending the le 'shtive power, of the Nevsi-Xork As!
sembly, by imperiou y eommanding the free A embly of
Boston to reseind : former rote of their body, thereby to
remove all freedom of debate and d'eterrnrnatton; and
hffly, by : scthIc to deprive the Ameriaos of a consti
tutional trial from the vier , !: si-izrng then here. and
tryin them in Britain, for po & crime: commrtted on
this de the Atlantic ? ] ould'irna "ne, sir that not
(i er of thizsicutions address eould ail to mlssvler these
at" ' in stith a manner as to aeknowled ._ that either
y," or: worse motive prompted the men se. But nei
ther?!" 'He municate-sits th.- tosi'essos siW! be tri-fled '
mm tne confine; or ouunets, and lous, du, man; " ty!
tnre," but with the utmosisisitness, is enlivered that when
!". the extract from the'London letter; published 7 on
to the Gazette before mentioned. " Are the old er:
proper men to be entrofted with Amerieun business " I
answer no, Mr. kind, those mendeserve notour encou
ragetnent, who, either weakly or wickedly, shall adopt
a measure diculated to deceive the Soverei and then
by to continue in offiee. : Minifby not wise., t very de
spotiF, to the great injury of the public liberoyand hap
ptne s. , ct
But the world is left to wonder at the amazing efron
tery of one of these addreffen, who continues to insult
tbe_public.with feeble attempt: to vindicate hie conduct,
when, in fed. i: ieinexcusahle, on any other round than
ignounce. But a bad cause not being desensib I good
meant, this addrqser it compelled .to resort to mony,
by supposing some doctor wrote the letter from whence the
extract he dtfliltes so much, was mule; and then chnrgtng
[neanness on thie doctor of hil own creating, for " deny
utg." e say:, having written the letter. Unless, Mr.
kind, Mintflry have, through gratitude to their riznd,
conferred a degree giving power on this adds: er, the
author of that tter [! known to.:nany Gentlemen in thil
country, to be no doctor, but an honesiungraduated Gen
tleman, who sincerely wishes well to British and Amerian
liberty, and whowould never have ligned such an address,
to support : Ministry, the mofi avowed enemies of that
country, to which he was " much obliged, and where hit
all was at stake." The many fatal consequence! like! to
follow from such ill judged addresses led me, Mr. Rin , lo
these reflections, and ] could not avoid ending them as (
have done, when your Gazette of the 15th os Februar
las} (containing a short letter from your " Customer," wit
his extract from :. London letter) was' put into my hands.
] would advise this your " Cuflomer" to perfuade his
friend to be certain for the future before he censuree. and
having asked pardon of the blic for his etror in add-es
ling. be for ever (ilent on t .at subject, from a certamty
that the more a bad thing is agitated, the worse will be the
consequence. :! Frirnd to Lib.-ry.
Mr. R 1 ND,
WHl Ls T many Gentlemen. are seemingiz calling
theirffinuuing: lnlo out treasuty (a lea ) of 40
termined prudence, you till oblige meto top a modi—
oum of mine at the feet osoor Affemblv that are shortly to
meet. lsthey pick it up as an uselul hint, l'oonlesa ]
shall he pleased ; but ilsithevrether chose to kick it aside,
as the endeavour must carry a good intention, ] shall not
be very uneas . '
l see, and indeed feel with equal concern what other:
express, of the prodig'otu delay of business in our court; ct
of,]ush'ce- but perhapa ! am willing to declare more than ..
they chafe to do, when 1 well?! to point out the reasons
otit. in order. it" sihle, (or ome remedy that mayho
applied. This de a] fancy will be allowed me. toarife
a: well from the] 'oes. :: fron-the Lawyeu lhlt should ,
attend the bare, and from the several officer: appertainin'
to the court. The usual hour of adjourntnent from one ,
court day is to ten o'clock, the court in course - but per
haps if those who consh'tttte and should attend conne,
meet by one o'clock, it mayheealled', through the colony,
a ailmi' early usieetin ;;35 axe::!o_houss'rsiotnoressasiedo
r ypenttnow o :, eetn at our:
togelbrr, thin bringe almost the cousin: s ' g of the
coum down to three orfout o'clock. Of one the iirfi
day's businefa'caa be but little; and then (te neatly fine
prodigious necessary avocation (at least urged prevent-an
adjournment to the next day; and if welnay join to thin,
those daysin the ear, when the had weather must affect ,
any meetin . we all fee agoqd reasim why there is so
little buhne adone; for when ! am not v ent-avaunt. -_
when [say that near three fourthe osour an our di- ss
mote noefia. are er wittes month. in each
person has his rea on for t e part of thede that he on
casiona. Some ufiicea ]ivetno for offto betheve laymen.
andfor than on perhapaseldoin set ofhesore ten; o
there, though convenient end:, minde they _ _ not
yet there sooner than they Gss boy-furth- os tl
hshccs will not bed-er and what tavery extraordinary;
wyera, Clerh. and ' ' , _
only person: who get me ythepn , _ he con
plaisitnt enough to aceomossate then e: one to the
general time of meeting. rather than tothe the ofad
1ournment; so that each personoonomaed, bya of
]aainesa, contribute- hia full ropomon' to ' 's'ct
delay. Will'anyonethentazett-anisa' lhidhina
a little upwards; and see that greatand noble can: it,
'of dili ce. even in this instance. thedispatd oflptsslblic
jltsifflcgehsm'so say more tgarsommend the ptteclll'sitiuld be
on taffethnffa out entcornplenooednt ner. .
Therefore, aal oveevery attiotic mode in thecond -
ingot" our consh'tution, cannot but look upon this op
portunity, which every senfible man now has, at a justice
of the Peace, of servi the public without see or rewar
".999 9sips When "a! thine-mine country. !
wuungrynrl could nlvclt pretend! tntnemne
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lituntion: Forthe that wecnt'nerowork for_'
His
'lhall lay : fonndarion that corruption, whichu,
experience, snjultly to be dreaded by every (late. _lf
assertidn should snrptize from it: novelty, the elnadation
will be short and easy, from thenatnre of human frailty.
Every temptation to evil. operatea in- proportion to the
posibilityofitsdeteshon; andu nohnmatiafbwmhc
more concealed than that which proceeds stom_the inward
dis 'rion (called the conscience.) is the mind is not habi
tua to the corn inn of the concomitant reward: of"
its own virtue, the of, a man will generally truckle
to his 'necellities; which maybe either the consequence
siof misfortune or the natural child of extnBan . Here
[think ] bear it replied to me. that in the e ol'nocesity
(al-ries will be a preservative against such ter-patient :
and so! agree they would be, could any. civil power pre-'
vent misfortune and extrangance; but as that is rather :
thing impossible to be done, and indeed the latter hardly
as yet to be delined what'it is, its idea- beutg always go
verned by the circumstances and effects that shall attend it
that observation can have no weight - because neither this:
fortune nor extravagance seem to have any [imitation ;
and wherever relief to the former, and a supply to the
latter, is to'be obtained by a sacrifice os'the inward dispo
sition, like the dropsy it will beincrenfing blindulgence.
These, dear reader, have been my invana le thought:
from the eat liest attempts made to introduce alize laws ;
for we know not how soon we shall .exclnde all goodness
of heart from amongst na. when we discredit patrioticlove.
by salarying out the say?-{used of public service:: And
the transition from the ( e of privatejustice, it too quick
And easy. to the sale ofone'a own country, prudently to be
trusted with any man. " lshould be asked, at we have
had for some time. and now have dispensen of justice re
warded with salaries, why we have not experienced such
effects before this day, the answer- it easy, but some
thing rough perhaps in it: comparison, though only in
tended in its application to selve this particular ueflion;
[say then we have not experienced, as yet. she effects,
for the same reason that we have no highwaymen yet a
while in the country; the possible temptanvns to either