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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1778 Excerpt: ... of the province. " The execution of this Act, for altering the form of Government in this province, has had so strong and so disagreeable an essect on the minds of all the people of this province, down to the very lowest order of them, that it is dissicult to sind words to describe it properly. The common peasants in the country are more and more angry at it every day, and seem never to lose sight of it for a moment. And they daily bestow curses on those persons in the province who petitioned for it, and who have been the-means of its being passed, through a mean principle of self-interest, and the-hope of obtaining places of dignity and power for themselves in consequence of it. For that was the view of those persons who petitioned for this Act. But the great body of the freeholder of the province, who had ever since the conquest of the province enjoyed and relished the mildness of the just and wise laws which their new sovereign had given them, in pursuance of his promise of so doing, contained in his Royal Proclamation of October, 1763, when they saw themselves in a moment deprived and stripped of the inestimable benessits of thole law« which every good and saithful subject of the Crown of England cannot sail to be attached to, were struck with the deepest sense of the misery of the change, and have continued in the same sentiments ever since." As his Majesty's Ministers have at last thought it expedient to endeavour to to recover the lost assections of the Americans by methods of condescension and concession, it seems to be the duty of every good subject and lover os peace to co-operate as sar as ke is able, with thoie prudent and equitable measures, in order to render the success of them more probable. With this view, I shall mention tw...
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