And it gives me additional pleasure to observe,
that you have therein acted under no other in-
fluence than a due sense of your duty, both as
members of a general empire, and as the body
of a particular province."
IN another speech on the 27th of May, in
the same year, he says, -- "Whatever shall be
the event of the war, it must be no small satis-
faction to us, that this province hath contribut-
ed its full share to the support of it. Every
thing that hath been required of it hath been complied
with; and the execution of the powers com-
mitted to me, for raising the provincial troops
hath been as full and complete as the grant of
them. Never before were regiments so easily
levied, so well composed, and so early in the field
as they have been this year; the common people
seemed to be animated with the spirit of the
general Court, and to vie with them in their rea-
diness to serve the King."
SUCH was the conduct of the People of the
Massachusetts-Bay, during the last war.
As
to their behaviour before that period, it ought
not to have been forgot in
Great-Britain, that
not only on every occasion they had constantly
and chearfully complied with the frequent royal
requisitions -- but that chiefly by their vigorous
efforts,
Nova-Scotia was subdued in 1710,
and
Louisbourg in 1745.
FOREIGN quarrels being ended, and the do-
mestic disturbances, that quickly succeeded on
account of the stamp-act, being quieted by its