The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1771-08-01
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call pretended one) thoGld be Topped
with that grave aud lcber men would con
Gder, independently Of the other queAion
before US, hag far this particular pieceden
may extend IF the Houfs of Commons
may interpoie in Gogle infancc, between
the fubject, who complains, and the iawS,
which ought to prOtea, fee no reafon v by
they may not, at any time, by their vote,
flop the whole couife of iuifice through the
Kingdom. BeGdes the injury done to the
fu1jea, their granting mi fylfgai is in
effect an incroachment upon the TOY
pierogative.
Many circumstances Of nfult have been
mixed wi :hele mea(urcs of VIC eacc. rhti,
pretended lenity to The Lord Mayor, which
he noby refuGsd 10 accept of. amounted only
TO an offer oft garre,s OF the Houft for he
place of his confinement iaRead of the
Tower and though it be Of lefs moment,
it is Fill worth ooierving, that the indienity
offered to the city is aggravated by the time
expressly chofen for impriioning their chief
magifrate. Not content with interfuptiug
all city bul;nefs, they fixed upon Eater, be-
caule it is the chief city fsaival, and found q
contemplate qualification in putting flop to
the amufen'ents ufuaI at this fealon. and dc :
priving public charity of the cuGomaty
collections, which they knew muff be le-
duced to nothing by the ablence of the
Lord Mayor.
Nothing remained bus to keep up terror
and alarm through the Kingdom by appoint
ing committees of enquiry. This double
Star Chamter was moved foT long after mid
night, and lifts partially tent round by the
mefIenger of the treafuty. Where will theie
arbitrary, thele iniquitous proceedings end !
The miniary, doubt not, have plan
prepared, but it is iuch one, as they neither
dare openly avow, nor uniformly adhere to.
One day they appoint committees Of inqui-
fition to fit de die in diem 1.-THE next thing
we hear is that the committees are adjourned,
and the members of them difperied into the
country. After adviing the King, very UNI
necefarily, to 60 to parliament, they come
to him while his equipage is in waiting, con-
tradia their own advice, and endeavour to
Hsgger his Tefolution, at the moment when
he has moft occafon for it. They alone are
anfwerable for all the indignities heaped
upon the Kings perlon, Gnce they could not
but forefee, that the people would take the
earlief opportunity of refentirg The imprifon-
ment of their magifrates.
When the PTincefs of Wales was named
in the Houie of Commons, where was that
zeal, which fome people boat Of, for their
royal matter the mother of their fovereign
was branded BY name, as the authoreis of all
our calamities, and the aiertion paled with
out cenfure or contradiction.
Sir, mott truly lament the condition TO
which we are reduced and the more 70, be-
cauie there is but one remedy for it, and that
remedy has been repeatedly refufed. A Diff
folution of the parliament would refore tram
guilty to the people, and to the King rhe
affections of his fubjeas the prefent HouGe
Of Commons have nothing to expect but
contempt, deteffation and refiifance This
violent fate of things cannot long continue.
Either the laws and contribution mutt be pre-
ierved by dreadful appeal to the fword or
(what probably is intended by the prefent
fyfem of meafures) the people will grow
weary of their condition, and furrendsr every
thing into the Kings hands, rather Than lub-
nit to be trampled upon any longer by FIVE
hundred of their eouale