and from local circumstances, cannot be repre-
sented in the House of Commons, to the uncon-
troulable and unlimited power of Parliament,
in violation of their undoubted rights and liber-
ties, in contempt of their humble and repeated
supplications.
THIS conduct must appear equally astonishing
and unjustifiable, when it is considered how un-
provoked it has been by any behaviour of
these
Colonies. From their first settlement, their
bitterest enemies never fixed on any of them a
charge of disloyalty to their Sovereign or dis-
affection to their Mother-Country. In the
wars she has carried on, they have exerted them-
selves whenever required, in giving her assistance;
and have rendered her services, which she has
publickly acknowledged to be extremely
import-
ant. Their fidelity, duty, and usefulness during
the last war, were frequently and affectionately
confessed by his late Majesty and the present
King.
THE reproaches of those, who are most un-
friendly to the freedom of
America, are prin-
cipally levelled against the province of
Massa-
chusetts-Bay; but with what little reason, will
appear by the following declarations of a per-
son, the truth of whose evidence, in their fa-
vour, will not be questioned -- Governor Ber-
nard then addresses the two Houses of Assembly
-- in his speech on the
24th of April 1762, --
" The unanimity and dispatch, with which you
have complied with the requisitions of his Majes-
ty, require my particular acknowledgement.