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20. 300 to Wm. Horton, examinator of the corn premiums, for do.

21. £200 to Mr. John Wetherall, chief clerk of the examinators office, for do.

22. £10,000 to the proteftant charter fchools.

23. £912 to George Winftanly, Efq; for his intereft in the ground, and houfes near the Old Bridge, Lublin

24. £1500 to the ballatt office for the ballait office wall.

25. £361 45. 9d. to Mary Hay, for nineteen fets of ftatutes at large.

26. 1385 25. 8d. to Abraham Bradley, for printing journals of the houfe. 27. £1000 for improving Cork harbour.

28. £800 for compleating the circu. lar road round Dublin.

29. £50 to Mr. Benjamin Higgins, for extraordinary trouble.

30. £100 to Mr. Henry Smyth, deputv pay mafter of the corn premiums, for do.

31. £1000 for the Marine Nursery. 32. £279 173. 4. to Mr. John Demp fey, to finith Lough Shinny harbour. 33. £1,402,459 2s. 9d. h. to his majefty.

34. That a further fupply be granted, for the English protefiant schools.

35. That, that fupply fhall not exceed £1000 per ann. from March, 24, 1774, to March, 25, 1776.

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On the nineteenth refolution there was a fall debate, but it paffed, as did the thirtieth after fome oppofition.

The thirty fecond refolution, was oppofed by fome members, who would have had that fum given to Dr. Achmet, but it was carried for Mr. Dempfey.

On the thirty-third refolution, there arofe a debate, and it was propofed to be amended by inferting the fum of £1,394,559 28. 9d. h. in the place of 1,402,459 25. 94. h. which would have made a difference of £107,900, but it was carried for the largest fum.

All the other refolutions were also agreed to by the houfe, and it was refolved to refolve into a committee of ways and

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enacted without, and therefore against, the confent of the colonies.

2. The railing by thefe a fum difproportionate to the abilities of the people. 3. The quartering foldiers at pleasure upon private houses, fo that nothing was any longer their own.

4. The departure of the Governors from that beft and most reasonable maxim of found policy, viz. a regard and attention to the temper and usages of the inhabitants.

5. The falfe, unjust, and injurious representations made both of them and their conduct here at home, particularly by their late Governors.

6. Their being permitted to have no Reprefentatives for themselves in the Parliament of Great-Britain, and yet fubject to all its exactions.

7. The natural and proper idea of the intent and meaning of their charters, which they thought had been their fecurity, but were now broke through or evaded.

8. Their confciousness of the most pure and unimpeached loyalty, generosity, affection, and gratitude to their parent country and its fovereign, and the returns they faw they were making them.

9. Their fenfibility of the illegal and arbitrary encroachments on, and infringements of, the rights and liberties of themfelves and their brethren, as the defcendants of thofe glorious ancestors who formerly fled from a tyranny they never thought would have followed them in the perfons of their refpectable posterity.

10. Their too well grounded expectations and fears of matters coming from bad to worse.

11. Their being over-run and infested with that hydra-headed monster of commiffioners, collectors, and excifemen, for which, before this, there was neither neceffity nor plea.

12. Their being made amenable to trials in Great Britain, brought over as convicts, and liable to be condemned to even capital inflictions on any evidence that might ferve the intention.

13. The feps that have been taken fince their oppofition to thofe measures, and the little hopes they have now left of any thing but deftruction or victory.

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ever, if we may judge from appearances, it is fomething that, confidering the times, it may be safer to deprecate than predict. Notwithstanding thefe grievances, Dr. ——n, in a pamphlet called the PATRIOT, afferts, that he is no patriot "who juftifies the ridiculous claims of American ufurpation, who endeavours "to deprive the nation of its natural " and lawful authority over its own "colonies; thofe colonies which were "under English protection, were conftituted by an English charter, and "have been defended by English arms. To fuppofe, continues this writer, that by funding out a colony, the nation "eftablished an independent power; that when, by endulgence and favour emigrants are become rich, they fhall not contribute to their own defence, "but at their own pleasure; and that they "shall not be included, like millions of "their fellow-fubjects, in the general fyf"tem of reprefentation, involves fuch an "accumulation of abfurdity, as nothing "but the fhew of patrictifm could palli"ate. He that accepts protection ftipulates obedience. We have always pro"tected the Americans; we may there"fore fubject them to government. "The lefs is included in the greater.

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The pofitions, it is prefumed, would fuit the moft arbitrary government that ever was established. If the Parliament of England can difannul royal charters, enact laws fubverfive of the natural rights of free fubjects, can deprive a whole people of life, and affume an absolute com. mand over their property; and for once having extended protection, can for ever after ext rt obedience to the most oppreffive imptions; What greater evils, it is asked, an be fuppofed to exift under the most tyrannical government? What greater oppreffions were impofed by the Jamefes and the Charlefes of England, who deluged the nation in blood, to free itself from the unconftitutional exactions of thofe arbitrary monarchs. Colonies as well as nations have for their foundation certain permanent principles unchangeable in their nature, except by their own confent. Such was the great charter of English liberty, which gave a being to our fo much boafted conftitution;

and fuch are the great charters of the colonies, each alike deriving its vigour and activity from the fame immutable fource, the ROYAL PREROGATIVE. The Parliament of England, with the confent of the King may lawfully change, amend, abrogate, and new model the conftitution of England, founded on the great charter of King John, and confirmed by future King's, because the confent of the people of England is fuppofed to be included in their act; but the Parliament of England cannot lawfully change, amend, abrogate, or new-model a conftitution, founded on a feparate and independant charter, in which the people residing in England have not the leaft or most distant concern. To affume a power of doing this, is to fap the foundation of all civil government, to involve right and wrong in the fame idea with might and authority, and to allow no other measure of juftice but the fword of the oppreffor. The childish argument of American representation included in the general fyftem, is unworthy of notice: indeed, the whole pamphlet is fo feebly written, that it requires no great penetration to discover that the author labours it as a TASK, having none of those masterly frokes of genius that characterife his genuine works. Account of the Proceedings of the American Colonifts, fince the paffing the Bofion Port-B.ll. [Continued from p. 683.]

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T an affembly of delegates from every town in the county of Suffolk in America, of which Bolton is the capital, refolutions to the following effect were unanimoufly agreed to:

1. That the King of England is their rightful Sovereign.

2. That it is their duty by all lawful means to defend their civil and religious rights and liberties.

3. That the late act for fhutting up Bofton port, and for fcreening the most notorious violators of the laws of the province, are grofs infractions of those rights.

4. That no obedience is due from the province to either, or any part of the acts above-mentioned, but that they ought to be rejected as the wicked attempts of an abandoned adminiftration to establish a defpotic government,

5. That fo long as their Judges or Juftices of Courts, are appointed, or hold their places by any other tenure than that which the provincial charter and laws direct, they must be confidered as under

undue influence, and are therefore unconftitutional officers; and as fuch, no regard ought to be paid to them by the country.

6. That, if the Judges fhall fit and act during their prefent difqualified ftate,this country will fupport and bear harmlefs all fheriffs, jurors, &c. who fhall refuse to carry into execution the orders of faid

court.

7. That it be recommended to all collectors of taxes, conftables, and other officers, who have any public money in their hands, to detain the fame, and not pay it as usual to the treasurer, until the civil government of the province is placed on a conftitutional foundation, or until it fhall be other wife ordered by the propofed provincial congrefs.

8. That those who have accepted feats at the council-board, by mandamus from the King, have violated the duty they owed their country, and given juft of fence to the people, and are advised, on, or before the 20th of September, to refign; if they do not, to be confidered as obftinate and incorrigible enemies to their country.

9. That the fortifications carrying on at Bofton- Netk, (the only avenue by land into the town,) are justly alarming to the country, and give reafon to apprehend fome hoftile intention against that town; more efpecially as the Commander in Chief has, in a very extraordinary manner removed the powder from the magazine at Charles-Town, and forbid the keeper of that at Bofton to deliver out any of the powder lodged there to its just owners.

10. That the establishment of the Roman Catholic religion and French laws, in the extenfive country called Canada, is dangerous, in an extreme degree to the Proteftant religion, and to the civil rights and liberties of all America; and therefore as men, and as Proteftant Chriftians, they fay they are obliged to take all proper measures for their fecurity.

11. That the inhabitants ought immediately to do all in their power to perfect themselves in the art of war, and for this purpose, the militia are to appear under arms once every week.

12. That during the prefent hoftile appearance on the part of Great-Britain, notwithfinding the many infults and opfhons which they fay they moft fenfiel and refent, yet, nevertheless, eir affection to his Majefty, which, they have at all times eviden

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ced, they are determined to a upon the defenfive, fo long as fuch conduct may be vindicated by reason, and the principles of felf-prefervation, but no longer.

13. That, as it has been reported that fundry gentlemen in the country, who have made themselves confpicuous for contending for the violated rights of their country, were to be apprehended; they recommend, in cafe fo audacious a meafure fhould be carried into execution, that all the officers of fo tyrannical a government, throughout the province, be feized, and kept in fafe cuftody, till the others fhall be reftored to their families and friends.

14. That until their rights are fully reflored, they will with-hold, and recommend it to the other counties to with-hold, all commercial intercourse with GreatBritain, Ireland, and the Weft-Indies: That they will refrain from the use of India teas, piece-goods, &c.

15. That they will encourage arts and manufactures all they can, and a committee be appointed to confider of the best ways and means.

16. That, in the present situation of public affairs, a provincial congrefs ought to be called, and they recommend it to all the counties to fend delegates for that purpose to the the town of Concord, the fecond Tuesday in Oct. about twenty miles from Boston.

17. That this county, confiding in the wisdom and integrity of the continental congrefs, will pay all due refpect and fubmiffion to any measures which they may recommend to the colonies.

18. They recommend it to all orders of people to reftrain their refentments, and avoid all riots and diforderly proceedings, as being deftructive of all good government; and by a fteady, manly, uniform, and perfevering oppofition, to convince their enemies, that, in a conteft fo important, in a cause so folemn, their conduct fhould be fuch as to merit the approbation of the wife, and the admiration of the brave and free, of every age, and of every country.

Thefe refolutions paffed on the 6th of September, and on the 9th a committee was appointed to wait upon General Gage to remonftrate against his proceedings in fortifying Bolton-Neck. In this remonftrace, they beg leave to affure his Excellency, that the loyal people of the county of Suffolk think themselves aggrieved and oppreffed by fome late aus

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