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May 35 1783, es i é 7 : j ; Minutes. of aflembly continued from’ our laft, have been to be apprekended. But fuppofing judgment; for that, as T {aid before, was hot Di 6-4 HE. refolutions by -order * were ~ again (for I will allow the gentlemen every - force of referred to'them, but referved for the final jarif- aT read, ; their argument) that the decifion was not to diction. Butitis faid, ‘* The agent promife Mr. Jones got.up and faid, ** The heufe had) “have Fecn apprehended, and ‘that it was certain an inftruétion fhould be fent out, reprobat been taken up for fume hours, Mr. Chairman,’ to heve been favourable tarus in its utmoftex- taking fees.’ I will-admit the agent in attcnding to the prepared compofitions, which tent; What would it have athounted to?’ Would fuch an-in&ru@ion would “be fent: of have been read by the twalearned gentlemen. it have recalled Governor Cuninghame? No! fucceeding-~governor, and no-dosbt, fuch - an in- Tohaveliftened attentively indeed to orations of) for that was. not before trem. ‘Weuld it have firnétion wodld have Ben fent out ‘the {peak + fovoluminous alength, required nofmall exertion us ona better footing than weare at pre- er’sdetter had not required fomething ofa more — of patience. One obvious reficdiion boweve~ me ft jent? No, not fo good. For feppofing the board folerh,’ legal and .conflitutional kind, thana firike every one; nothing that ingenuity could of trade to be’a court of law (wh h at isnot) - mere inftruction. In confequence of which, that torture and mifreprefent ; nothing that conceal- and their jucgment a lapal one 3 yet no legal inlruction was charged to another; -and by. th ed refentment could magnify and putin the mo decifion whatever can be fo “trong: and binding | aét which has been paffed fince- thearfival of odious colours, has been cinrtted, in orcer to asan 2ét of the Jegiflature: : This we have gor; » Excelleney, the mattér‘of feeshas been put. throw. an. urjuftifiable fligma on the agent’s con- “and have got jpin confeguente of a particular that. iconflitutional footing ayhich we. ourfelost dn€&: and ter this purpofe; neither pains nor inftrugtion, by which an infuparable-bar is fixed : required. Yt is not a little extraordigary, thatthe time have been wanting: For the Jearned gen tc the like é€normity being again committed. agent fhould be'found fault with for doing*that, tleman who {poke firit, confefled foe time ago, How then can the retolution ‘attempt to fay which-has fecured us, and eafed and quieted eur that his accufatiens had been in his pocket for | ‘© That a folemia. declaration of» our ‘rights apprehentions. For {ippofing theirftruétion re- fix months; fince which, no dowbi, hehas made has not beer cbtained;’? and that it has ‘not probatory had. been fent out; could that. have emendations and additions. oe ap aS been obtained, becaule.the agent had r-moved heen fo binding anid effectual as an aét-of the le= In how eifferent. a fituation fand the fri the perition from the.board of trade? “Ihe con- giflature? However, it might have bound and ofthe agent! Ignorant of the charges to be dud of the agent, Sir, is marked With the truelt tied up thé prefent gentleman; would: it have hibited :againft him, ignorantcf the-refolyuons wifdom. He removed a matter that was of in extended to his fucceflors ? No Sir: Inthe next to.be moved for, ti!l the moment they were read $ finite confequences jfrom a tribunal uncertain in adminiltration, the fame matter might have arife howscan they do bim that juttice, whieh his irs'cHetts,-precarious tn'its decifion, to one moft en again ; and thé mode now perfued ** by_ bill’? whole conde when put!in a tuir point of view; certain. He brought it to an iflue immediate is cheon!y wile made that could have beenadopted — jufily defeives? In. eppefition te written end and decifive. He procured: the direét recall:of ‘2d. J-come now, Mr. Chairman to the fecond’ deliberate’ accufation, they canonly oppofe the PMr.; Caninghame, and: was: promifed that the + refolguon, the fubdilancevof which is, ‘That .~» refle€iions of the sbcment, and if {uch an inftan. matter: fhould be fettied on a conili utiora! foot- the inilrb@ion brought out by the governor, is tarcous. defence:can fland the teft of inveftiga: ing. : Ehis has’ becn plied with; the work calculated to betray the affembly intoafi cr tion, it can.only be : owing to.thatpropricty off {has been perfeed ; and aur tights: are more of their conftitutional rights.” Whatismeantby ~* procedure, Whichhas fo -diflinemifhingly marked, | folemnly ahd contlitutionally guarded than any | a furrender of their conititutional rights, I caney the agens, It would haverefledted credit on the decifion whatever could effeét. This fed is fo not precifely determine ; but I{uppofeic means © learned. movers: candour, as- wellicas been more notorious that it..1s ‘within the knowledge (if'it has any meaning) ‘that the fees: taken by — parliamentary; bad a copy of the sefolutions | of ‘every: one, ‘and yet the» relolution fays governor Cuninghamie, and which have been they been piven. in; before ~hey . were moved’, but ‘<Thatthe agesthas a¢ted contrary to his; duty object of liugation weré intended by the inftrucs cancour, am afraid,’ was not the intention of and the jult expectations of the houfe.”* If the tion (till to continue, and the matter remain uns the .hcnorable gentleman... fe jays eg 8 agent lad joined with governor Cuninghame; fettleds Now nothing can determine fo infallibly — ‘The arguments that have been ufed, torethér if he had procured his flay, initéad of his recail ; the intextion.and purport ofa thing; as the con= with the refolutions may be comprehended under if every thing was Rill lefe at fea & dstdi wi nined; fequences which -have enfued \from that things two-heads.) 2 bute say : then indeed {uch a charge might have borne the [fa ‘/arrender of our rights was intended, would aft. The agent’s semceving ‘the petition from appearance of probability: But. whep the very a confirmation of them have been the natural cone: the. board-of trade. at De RE -reverfe is, the cafe; ~how tia3 he fallen fhort ot fequence,? And-yer that this as chefa€ is nofo= 2d, Pheinftyudion fext out by thegovernor the juft expectations of the houfe.? What jolt rious. ."The goverhor we know, is boand iby hig ang-his,laftletter. 4 pee tle 218 expettations could the houfehave? ‘lo remedy inftrugions;they are the guides far: him . to walle , Agreeable to the fill of thefe heads the firl the grievance offees, and to remove Governor by, Can we fuppofe that if his inftra€tion ore refolatian. 4g made up, viz. #4 Bhat the agent Caninghame, is not the grievance of fees re dered him otherwife, that he could have confente br declining to; bring the.complaint of the af- i Ts not Gevernor Cuninghame recalled? ed tothe att, by which the late fees.are abolifhe fembly to,a eringbeforé the board of trade, the gentlemen; he. did sot., proceed ed, and none can be taken but whatare exprefsly without havidp obtained atolemn. declaration of apainft the courcil, Ecw not proceed againtt afcertained and raifed by the three branches of cur rights, 25 a fecurity apaing any, futureinva- the council? What official paper did he ever the lepiflature? This wogld. be. an abfurd and fioh of themr, a@ed contra receive from the hoefe ¢guirit the \ccuncil, impotitle idea. The -conduét !thereforeef the the jaft expectations of th ; which he, did not prefent,, which he governor is the best interpretation of the inftruce any one fuppcfe, upon reading this.refolution, ever hefitated at prefenting ? Did he not ‘pre- tion; and that the confirmation .and not the that no declaration of our tylrts had been ob- lent your pevitidue * Or, was there.eny other furrender of cur rights was, intended, not on- tained ; and that had the matier‘bepn heard: be public paper whatever from the aflembly, which ly ‘his cehdu&, but his {peéch fore the board previous:.to ity of trade, every thing of courie, he either, Jaid ;by, or did not m { ule plainly evinces. His yordsare, ‘* Ir having been even exceeding our mott fanguine expedlatic of, He was defired? I defy a fingle! reprefented to, his Majelty; wonld infanice to that you have been have been accempl.fhed ? Every ore be fhewn. But fay the gentiemen, ‘* His chief much hurt-and aggrieved remember by certain tables of fees dy avbem the petiiion of tke aflem bly reafon for removing the petition fiem the‘board that were Zere/y erected in this ifland, I amjcom= againft Governor Cuninghsme was referred to of trade, was to prevent any cenfure being manded hy his Majefty, to fignify-to you, that thé board of trade. ; The.reterence was made by thrown on, the connecil.”? After fuch infinite it is his will and pleafure, that'you do forthwith Ais friend and patren, the then Secretary Lod pains being teken, and fo much time expended prepare a bill, that ,will effectually prevent the . George Germain, ~Wallit be doubted, but that on the -febjeé, one would - have imagined, it pofirbility of {ach an evil ever arifing in futures there was fome view in this? Isit not known would have been ‘confidered if all its lighis, I fhall therefore, leave this and another inftruce’ that the members of that bozrd, were of the ap and no charge have been brought, but what tion !’hold in. my hand, under your confideratig pointinent of the povernor’s friend, and that he wes properly founded, Had.