not be carried, had dropped it then and never revived it fince: That it was one of the most valuable Rights of British Subjects to have their Money Bills accepted Without Amendments a Right not to be given up without deftroying the Conftitution and incurring greater and more lafting Mifchiefs than the Grant of Money could prevent: That of the Twenty Amendments offered by the Governor to the 50,000l. Bill of the laf Affembly, the prefent Affembly had admitted every one of them that was of any Confequence into the prefent Bill, merely for the Sake of avoiding all Difpute, except That of exempting the Proprietary Eftale; and even That had been fo modified as they imagined no Objection could remain: That they found, however, in this Inftance, how endless it was to admit fuch Changes; feeing the Governor now wanted to amend his own Amendments, add to his own Additions, and alter his own Alterations; fo that, though they should now accede to Thefe, they · could not be fure of being ever the nearer to a Conclufion That, as the Paffing the propofed feparate Bill was equally inconfiftent with the Governor's Conftruction of the Prohibitory Claufe in his Commission, which he feemed now to have got over; fo they hoped he would not, for the Sake of a mere Opinion, -concerning Mode and Propriety, any longer refufe a Bill of fo great Importance to his Majefty's Service, and even the Proprietary Eftate, going daily to Ruin, as well as the Relief of the Province: And that the fame implicit Confidence in his Majefty's Goodness, which induced him to pass fuch a Bill in any Shape, might alfo encourage him to believe, that any little Impropriety, if any there was, would be graciously paffed over: That, if there could be any Doubts, which was most affected with the Miferies of the Province; they, who were most of them Natives of it, band who had all of them their Eftates there, or he, a Stranger among them; a Confideration of the many 5 Bills they had offered in vain for its Relief, and their Searneft Endeavours to give fuch great Sums to that End,

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would folve them all: And that, upon the Wholes the House adhered to their Bill without Amendments because it was a Money-Bill; because the whole Sum was granted to the Grown and to be paid out ofdthet Pockets of the Subject; and because it wasmin btheir Judgments a reasonable one Laftly, they made tit their Requeft, That fince, at fuch a Time as that, Difputes and Contentions between different Parts of the Government could not but be extremely prejudicial both to the King's Service and the Welfare of the Country, they might thenceforth be laid afide; and that the Governor by Paffing this juft and equitable Bill would lay the Foundation of fuch an Agreement as might conduce to the general Benefit of all cons cerned, and prevent the Neceffity they should others wife be under, of making an immediate Application and Complaint against him to their Sovereign/'00%

They accompanied this Meffage with certain Extracts from the Journals of Parliament, concerning the Claims of the Lords and the Perfeverance of the Commons in rejecting them: They also, in a separate Meffage, applied for Information concerning the Shawanefe Affair beforementioned; and, in a farther Meffage, they apprized him, That their Treasury was quite exhautted by the heavy Expences lately incurred, and that they knew of no Way of raifing Money fo expeditiously as That propofed by the Bill then before the Governor. After which they fub joined the following Expreffions, Itrois true,

the Money intended to be ftruck, may not be cur "rent before the thirty-firft of December 3obutv(as) "that is not more than fix Weeks, there is no Doubt "but that Labour, Service, and any Thing elfe that "Money can purchase among us, may be had ons "Credit for fo fhort a Time, if the Bill paffes sandr

in Confideration of the Neceffity of affording timely "Affiftance to the distressed Inhabitants in the Back "Counties, we fincerely hope, and once more earneftlys entreat, that the Governor will no longer refufe or "delay his Affent to it."AAHA. A

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At this Time the Houfe had a Militia Bill under their Confideration, framed in Compliance with the Request of fundry Petitions they had received, fetting forth, That the Petitioners were very willing to de fend themselves and Country, and defirous of being formed into regular Bodies for that Purpose, under proper Officers, with legal Authority: The Bill therefore was, as the Title expreffed, for the better Lordering and regulating fuch as are willing and defirous of being united for military Purposes.' It gave these the Powers they defired, without compelling others who might be confcientiously against bear ing Arms. In which Refpect it conformed with the Governor's particular Recommendation often repeated.

This Bill was fent up to him on the twenty firft;" and, at the fame Time, the Houfe called upon him for his Refult on the Bills already before him.

Nothing is more true, than, that the more clearly and unanswerably you convince a Man that he is in the wrong, the more you exafperate him againft you :? And never was any Truth more strongly illuftrated than this appears to have been in the Perfon of this high and mighty Governor-He could not forgive the Affembly, because they had put him out of Conceit with himself. And, the poorer he found himself in Arguments, the more ftrongly his Paffions excited him to make Ufe of Invectives.-Invective became his only Resource then: And the little Power he had over himfelf yet farther fhewed how unfit he was to be a Governor. AMA

Having pronounced his Propofal to the Affembly to be da reafonable one, and declared himfelt no lefs aftonished than grieved that they fhould reject it; and, more especially, as their best Argument for fo doing was founded on a new and lofty Claim of Privilége, he endeavours both to prove the Novelty and account for the Affumption of it, by faying, It had never been heard of, till towards the Clofe of Mr. Hamilton's Adminiftration, and that the Affembly

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being then preffed on the Subject of Defence, first introduced and have fince continued their Claim; either wholly to avoid giving Money for Warlike Purpofes, or to arrogate unwarrantable Powers to themfelves. To certain Extracts from the Minutes of the Council, fent together with this Meffage to them, he then referred for his Proofs, That the Governor's Right to amend Money Bills was never till then questioned and after upbraiding them, in his Way, for rifking the Rejection of fo important an Act, on Account of the Proprietary Exemption, refolved all their Reafon for adhering to what he called the indirect and perplexed Method of their Bill, into their Sovereign Pleafure to bave it fo. The fame Paragraph contained alfo fome ftrange Infinuations, That, not daring to truft their Caufe on its own Bottom, they had chofen to blend both Bills together, that they might have a better Chance of having their Chief Governor and his Eftate fubjected to their Mercy: And what with his implicit Confidence, that the Crown, in the common Method, would neither pafs that, or any other Law for the Sake of the greateft Sums, if the Proprietary Claim to an Exemption was just in itfelf; and what with his Forefight of manifeft Inconveniences that might enfue from a total Rejection thereof (which he himself had neverthelefs perfevered in doing) the next Paragraph is hardly to be decyphered at all; except that, in the Clofe of it, he attempts to justify his own uncommon Method, by faying, He had feparated the two Parts of the Bill, that the Province might be ferved either Way; [which the Affembly had been altogether as provident of before.] Any Abfurdity in this Method he profeffed himfelf unable to discover; and the goodnatured Conftruction put upon it by them, of his intending to fecure an infallible Exemption to the Proprietary Eftate thereby, he faid he should leave among the Reft of the groundless Charges against him.'Con defcend he did, however, to offer one Amendment more, which, according to him, was to reconcile all; namely, by the Addition of the following Words to

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the Exemption Claufe propofed to be added to the first Bill, To wit, The Eftates of the honourable Tho mes Penn and Richard Penn, Efquires, excepted; which fhall be taxed in the Manner directed by a particular Law paffed or to be paffed for that Purpofe. Not willing, however, to reft the Contro verly here, he proceeded to declare, That their Extracts from the Journals of Parliament proved no thing to the Purpofe for which they were quoted, the Conftitution of England and the Conftitution of Penfylvania being no Way fimilar That how many foever of his former Amendments they had admitted, their leaving out the moft material one, made the Propofal of a feparate Bill a neceffary Expedient: So that they had no Reafon for burfting out into Tuch a lofty Strain of Rhetoric concerning his amending his Amendments, &c. That, as to the Number of Money-Bills he had rejected, they were but Five in all, and all rejected for fufficient Reafons [fuch as we have feen!] and that, if they were difpofed to relieve their Country, they had many other Ways, to which he fhould have no Objection. Proceeding then to the perfonal Topic and his being treated as a Stranger, he takes a Retrofpect of their Conduct, with an Intent to fhew, That they had treated Mr. Hamilton, though a Native, with as many Abuses as they had treated him: And here occurs a Paragraph or two which muft be inferted verbatim: viz.

And here, was I inclined to go beyond my own Times, I might begin with reminding you how contemptuoully you treated the Proprietary Offer of Four Hundred Pounds, for erecting a Place of Strength on the Ohio, together with an Offer of One Hundred • Pounds per Annum towards its Support; which Offers -*were made at a Time, when your Concurrence would probably have prevented many of the Calamities we now groan under.

Jas I might alfo obferve, that when Mr. Hamilton firft called upon you, pursuant to his Majefty's Orders, to grant fuch Supplies as would enable him to draw

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