American Archives, Fourth Series: Containing a Documentary History of the English Colonies in North America, From the King's Message to Parliament, of March 7, 1774, to the Declaration of Independence by the United States [1]

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CONSISTING OF

A COLLECTION OF AUTHENTICK RECORDS, STATE PAPERS, DEBATES, AND LETTERS AND OTHER NOTICES OF PUBLICK AFFAIRS, THE WHOLE FORMING

A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY i*

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CAUSES AND ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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THE CONSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE UNITED STATES,

THE FINAL RATIFICATION THEREOF.

N SIX SERIES. FOURTH

FIRST SERIES.

From

the

Discovery and Settlement of the North American

Colonies, to the Revolution in England, in 1688.

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the King's Message, of

ration of Independence,

SECOND SERIES.

From

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Great Britain, by the Treaty

at Paris, in 1763.

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the Cession of Canada, in to

Parliament, of

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ings in North America.

Treaty of Peace with Great Britain,

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in 1783.

SIXTH SERIES.

1763, to the King's

7th,

Decla-

States, in 1776.

the Declaration of Independence, in 1776, to the

finitive

THIRD SERIES.

From

7th, 1774, to the

by the United

FIFTH SERIES.

the Revolution in England, in 1688, to the Cession of

Canada

SERIES'.

March

Mes-

1774, on the Proceed-

From

the Treaty of Peace, in

of the Constitution of

1783, to the final ratification

Government

for

the United States,

proposed by the Convention, held at Philadelphia, in 1787.

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PREFACE

We now submit to the People of the United States, the first fruits of our long and arduous labours. We ofter the present Volume as a specimen of the manner in which our Work will be accomplished. The undertaking in which we have embarked National in its scope and object, its end and aim. is, emphatically', a National one The tendency of the present age has been justly and philosophically designated as historick. At no former period of the world has this characteristick been so strikingly manifested. The learning, the industry, and the sagacity of the most profound intellects have been devoted in exploring the deepest recesses, and in gathering the most widely scattered rays, for the purpose of pouring their concentrated lights upon the history of the past. The Annals of the remotest ages, and the most distant countries, have been examined with equal diligence and learning, and new and vnluable lights have been thrown even upon the anticpiities of Egijpt, of Greece, and of Home. The same tendency has been exhibited in developing the early history of existing Ancient records have been disinterred from the dust of ages, the most Nations. obscure receptacles of historick materials have been explored, almost obliterated records have been restored, scattered documents have been collected, and forgotten writers have been republished. A combined and vigorous effort appears to be making, throughout the civilized world, together, to preserve and to scrutinize all the memorials which can rescue the history of the past from the obscurity in which time has enveloped them. Nor has this important subject been allowed to depend, exclusively, upon individual means and private enterprise. In England, and in France especially, the Government has long since perceived and recognized the truth, that the national character and the national interests, are intimately connected Avith the success of these undertakings. The Publick Offices have been laid open and their rich treasures submitted to the inspection of the inquirer after historick truth. AVith a liberality deserving of the highest commendation, this privilege has been extended as well to foreigners as to natives, and Breqidgny and Von Reanmer are not the only instances in which the records of one Nation have been employed by the historian of another. This liberty has, in several instances, been accorded to our own citizens, and the Publick Offices in London have been opened, and Documents alloAved to be ti'anscribed, for the purpose of verifying the :

general history of the United States. Nor has this publick interest been confined within these limits. Large pecuniary expenditures have been made with the view to promote these objects, and to aid in publications for the completion of which the resources of individuals were inadequate. In some instances Governments have, themselves, undertaken the work, and by the instrumentality of their ow n agents, and the employment of their ow n means, have laboured in the dissemination of such information as was calculated to illustrate their past history. The Record Commission of England, and that organized in France, under the supervision of the Minister of Publick Instruction, in conformity with the recommendation of 31. Ghizot, are too well known to require more than this general allusion to them. If in Europe there exist sufficient motives to prompt to such undertakings, how infinitely more weighty and more efficient ought they to be among us. These inquiries, originating in the liberal and inquisitive cJiaracter of the age, may be expected to be most zealously pursued in those countries where freedom prevails. Designed, as they nre, to exliibit the fundamental principles of government, they might naturally be expected to be warmly tlie most Independently of this, all our cherished, where free institutions exist. historical memorials are of comparatively recent date, they are wi'itten in a language familiar to all, they tend to illustrate existing institutions, and a history which still retains all its personal interest. complete collection of the materials for a history of this country would not only be a proud monument to the memory of our ancestors, whose deeds they commemorate and whose opinions they embody, but would serve as an invaluable guide to us and to our posterity, by exhibiting the vital spirit Avhich has pervaded the past, the

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PREFACE true foundations upon Avliicli our institutions rest, and the essential principles upon which It would furnish an ample vindication of those their existence and perpetuity depend. who have preceded us upon this stage, from the imputations which ignorance and prejudice have laboured to ciist upon their motives and their acts ; and our free institutions, by having their foundations laid open to the Avorld, and the whole plan of their structure exhibited, will

reconmiend themselves, more and more,

to the philosophical inquu-er,

and

to

the aflection and imitation of mankind. If history be philosophy teaching by example, how infinitely instructive must he the The example Avhich it presents is the purity of prinhistory of such a countiy as this. ciple, the singleness of ellbrt, the stern adherence to constitutional right, the manly subordination to law, the indignant hostility to usurpation, which are manifested in every page that the same purity of motive, the of our past history the philosophy it inculcates is ;

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to tyranny, the same vigilance in detecting the ih-st insidious approaches of despotism, the same stern resolution in resisting its progress, wliich made us a Nation, are equally essential, as the means of preserving those liberties our fathers be([ueathed to us, and those institutions which they framed. Kven to this day much ignorance and much misapprehension prevail as to the princij)les of the .inurican Revolution, and the true character and tendency of our institutions. Xor is this ignorance altogether confined to foreigners, it exists, to a great extent, among ourselves. By many superficial persons, it is supposed that the Jimerican Revolution began with the battle of Le:cinglon, and terminated with the evacuation by the British Troops of these United States. It seems to be tlie opinion of such, that the whole history of that IJevohition is to be found in the narrative of the campaigns of that War. Widely different from this is the truth, as developed by history; widely diflerent was the opinion of those who mainly aided iu severing the connexion with Great Britain. "What do we mean by the Ainericaji Kevolution ?" asks one of the most prominent actors in " Do we mean tlie jimerican War? The Revolution Mas eflected before the those days " ^Var commenced. The Revolution was in the mind and heart of the people. The " radical change in the pi-inciples, opinions, sentiments, and afiections of the people was "the real American Revolution."

same respect

for lawful authority-, the

same opposition

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language may, without due reflection, be understood in a sense not contemillustrious author. .V full and careful examination of the history of the times will abundantly show, that so far as regards the nature and extent of their rights, and the foundaiioas upon which they were claimed, there Mas, substantially, no revolution or change in the principles of the American People. The first emigrants to these shores brought with theiu, in their full vigour, iu their original purity, and in their complete development, the principles of the American Revohition. Tliey abandoned their native homes, they ci'ossed the ocean, braved the horrours of an inhospitable clime, encountered the perils of the tempest, of Mar, and of i'amine, to escape the burthen of governmental opj)ression. They braved all, and encountered all, in the same cause for which their sons subsequently fought and bled. From the moment they placed their feet upon the soil of this Western Hemisphere, they asserted and maintained their independency of the Parliamentary power of taxation, and denied, to that extent, the authority of a Legislature iu which they were not, themselves, represented. Although the Colonies m ere, originally, settled by individual enteri)rise. and by insulated rather than combined eftbrts, yet the Colonists, at a very early period, perceived the advantages of union in repelling or this

plated by

its

common foe. The Colonial history is replete Mith evidence of the truth of the preceding remarks. The first Legislative Assembly held in America Mas convened at Jamestoicn, in Virginia, as early as 1619. The proceedings of the Provincial Assemblies of Fhjmonth, in i636, resisting a

of MarylaniL in 1650, of liliode-island, in 1663, of JWiv-York, in 1691, and oi' Massachusetts, in 1692, may be rei'erred to, as shoMing how deejjly rooted and how Midely diifused, even at these i-emote periods, Mere the true and essential principles mIucIi, subsequently expanding into maturity, produced the fruits of tiie American Revolution. In 1696 a pamphlet Avas published, n>eommending tlie imposition of taxes in the Colonies by authority of Parliament. It did not escape the notice of tiie \igilant friends of American Liberty. Tmo answers to this publication a])peured, which seem to have attracted gene-

and in M'hich the doctrine was broadly asserted and maintained, that no such right existed in Parliament, because the Colonies' wore not represented in that body. The idea of combining their eftbrts in matters of common interest to all may be traced back to a period nearly as remote. In 1690 a communication was addressed by the General Court of Massachusetts to the Governours of the neighbouring Colonies, desiring them to apjiuint Commissioners "to meet, advise, and conclude upon suitable methods

ral attention,

PREFACE. in assisting each other, for the safety of the ingly, held,

and evidence

whole land."

exists inducing tlie belief, tliat it

Such a meeting Avas, accordwas styled by the now tauiiliar

and revered name of Congress.

Nor

did the principles for Avhich the Colonists contended originate on this side of the The doctrine that representation and taxation Avere essentially and indissolubly connected, Avas claimed as a portion of English Liberty, as interAvoAen in the Aery structure of the English Constitution, and as recognised among the most ancient and firmly established principles of the Common LaAv. It Avas no innovation, serving as a cloak for rebellion and revolution. It Avas draAvn from the most ancient and pure fountains of Liberty, and sanctioned by the authority of the most eminent judicial characters in the British Parliament. It is a source of honest pride, in reverting to the contemporaneous history of England^ to contrast the characters of the individuals Avho, at times, it is true, Avith some modifications, yet concurring in the great and essential principles upon Avhich our ancestors placed themselves, sustained the doctrines which Avere designated as American, Avith those Avho originated and defended those measures of the Ministry Avhicli drove the Colonists first to resistance, and, finally, to a dissolution of the political connexion by Avhich they had Such an examination Avill conduct to the so long been bound to the Mother Country. conclusion, that had the questions upon Avhich the contro\evsy turned, assumed a judicial instead of a political character, and been carried for decision before the English Courts, the same eminent Judge, Avho first decided against the legality of general Avarrants, Avould have pronounced it to be the laAv of the land that tliese Colonists Avere not subject to the taxing power of Parliament. The Work, of Avhich the present volume is a specimen, will clearly unfold and dcAclop the whole foundation of American principles, and Avill exhibit to the Avorld the most conclusIac evidence that they Avere, Avitiiout exception, grounded in strict right, based upon constitutional Law, and upon the well settled tloctrines of the English Government that there was no taint or tmge of anarchy, of insubordination to all authority, no novelty, no innovation. The important, practical truth Avill be clearly deducible from these premises, tliat if such be the foundations they must ever constitute the su])port of our institutions. Their beautiful simplicity, their fair proportions, their majestick symmetry, and their stable grandeur, Avill equally recommend them to our love and veneration, and to the respect and imitation of others. In the examination of the contents of these Volumes, a casual observer may, perhaps, at the first vicAv, be struck Avith the character of much of the material Avhich Ave have collected. more matui'e consideration Avill satisfy, Ave apprehend, every mind, that although much of it has been drawn from perishable and ephemeral sources, no faithful portrait of the times could be presented, formed from other ingredients. distinguished foreign jurist has said, that laAvs are not to be created, but must create themseh es and the observation is equally true in its application to all that comes within the scope of legislation, whether political or municipal in its immediate character. Burke has, with his accustomed philoso])hical sagacity, remarked, that " to follow, not to force, "the publick inclination, to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specifick sanc"tionto the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislation." If this be true in any country, and under any institutions, most emphatically is it true, and CA'er has been true, among us. AVithout concurring altogether in the observation of Le Tocqneville, thai ihii journals are the only historical monuments of the United States^ it may, without fear of contradiction, be asserted, that there exist no sources of historical information in a free and enlightened country, so rich and so valuable, as its publick journals, and the proceedings and debates of its publick bodies and associations. It is peculiarly the case, at such times as those comprehended Avithin the scope of our WorL Constitutions were to be formed, the whole frame of Goa ernment to be constructed, legislative bodies to be organized, and this preliminary action, as Avell as in the movements of the machine when brought into life, publick opinion Avas to be the efficient and vital prinThis publick opinion must, necessarily, be created, as Avell as manifested, through ciple. the instrumentality of the means Avhich have been indicated. It Avas urged on more than one occasion and by high authority in England, that the ^^imerican contest originated in, and was sustained by, the selfish or ambitious designs of a few That personal interest gave it birth, and sustenance, and support. This leading individuals. was only one of the palpable misrepresentations and gross delusions of the times. The preAtlantick.

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Work will shoAv, beyond the possibility of future rational doubt, that the roots of American freedom had penetrated into every corner of our land and drcAV their active and living nourishment from every family fountain. Every reader of tliis compilation will perceive as sent

PREFACE. facts which it establishes, that the American Revolution was the act of the whole American People, and that all our institutions are the work of the same creator. This we esteem as one of the most precisely taught lessons of our history, and most valuable which it inculcates. We shall learn if properly appreciated and applied, the rescue from the oppression, which that unless the People, as such, had worked out their own was rather seen in perspective than actually endured, all the personal influence and intellect this result. Happy will it be of the great men of the day would have failed to accomplish inference from this history of the past, every for our^beloved country, if, drawing the obvious American citizen shall be impressed M'ith the conviction that as he is individually interested, upon him the personal duty and in the blessings which freedom confers, so there is imposed sacred trust of vigilantly watching and manfully sustaining that liberty which has been trans-

one of the most distinctly marked

mitted to him. detail of the sources from It would be unnecessary, on this occasion, to enter into a minute which we have drawn the materials of this compilation. It may not be unnecessary, however, to observe that, in the prosecution of eur labours, we have, personally, examined the regret to say, that we have found pubhck records in each of the thirteen original States. these, in some instances, in a lamentable state of deterioration, confusion, and decay ; many have, important documents and publick proceedings appear to be irretrievably lost. however, the satisfaction of believing, that the inquiries and examinations we have instituted,

We

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have, in some instances, been instrumentil in rescuing many of inestimable value from the very jaws of destruction and, in others, in awakening a feeling of interest in the memorials of our past history, which promises to result in a more persevering search for such as may still remain in existence, and a more careful preservation of such as have survived the haz:

which they have been exposed. No doubt is entertained, but that there still exist, not only in publick places of deposite, but in family archives, papers of great importance as illustrating the history of the times, and we would earnestly press upon individuals, in whose possession such documents may be found, a minute examination among them, and a careful

ards to

preservation of such as possess general interest ; more particularly, the correspondence of Any the members of the various Committees, Conventions, Assemblies, and Congresses. communication made to the Editor of copies of such documents, or a notification of their existence, with the liberty of inspecting and using them, will confer not only a personal Papers belonging to the period of time embraced by favour, but promote the general good. the present Volume, which may be obtained hereafter, will be inserted in a Supplement to this Series of the

work.

Washington. December. 1837.

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CONTENTS

PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT ON THE KING THE 7th of march, 1774.

March Motion by Lord North 14,

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Governour Johnstone, Lord North,

make

to

Mr. Dempster, Mr. Sawbridge, Mr. Bvng, Mr. r! Fuller, Mr. Dowdeswell, Mr. Henry Cavendish, Captain Phipps, Lord George Cavendish, Colonel Barre, Motion agreed to, Committee to bring in the Bill, Further consideration of Message and Papers re ferred to Committee of the Whole House, on Friday next, the 18th,

provision for better securing the execution of the Laws, and the just dependence of the GdIonies upon the Cro^\Tl and Parliament, Papers, relating to the Disturbances in America, laid before the House by the Earl of Dart-

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submitted by the Earl of Dartmouth, Papers relating to the Disturbances in America, to be considered on the 17th, Consideration postponed to the '24th, Consideration further postponed. Committee ordered to inquire into tlie Proceed-

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ings of Massachusetts Bay, to the Disturbances in Massachusetts Bay referred to the Committee, Lords who formed the Committee, Address to the King for all Papers relating to Disturbances in Massachusetts Bay, received

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from Officers in his Majestj-'s service there, from July 7, 1766, which have not already been laid before the House, Papers called for in the Address of yesterday, sent by the King's command. Referred to the Committee appointed on the 30th ol March, 12 12-31 Report of tlie Committee,

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presented this be considered on the 1 1th, Papers presented by Lord North, Message and Papers considered, and ordered for further consideration on the 14th, Petition from William Bollan, Agent for Massaday,

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chusetts, presented,

Gallerj' of the

House

cleared,

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Message and Papers considered, Speech of Lord North,

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time,

first

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The Bill read the second time, To be considered in Committee the 23d,

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Order for Committee of the Whole on the Message and Papers discharged. Message and Papers referred to Committee of the Whole on the Bill, House in Committee of the Whole on the B Debate Mr. Fuller, Mr. Herbert, .

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Lord North,

House of Commons. Mo'ssage,

Papers presented by Lord North, Lord North's Speech on presenting the Papers, Motion for an Address to the King, Debate— Lord Clare, Mr. Dowdeswell,

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Second reading ordered on the 2 Motion to print the Bill rejected, Consideration of Message and Papers postponed

Papers relating

March The King's

Lord North presented the Bill

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More Papers

April

bring in Bos-

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the Disturbances

America, and requesting Parliament

for leave to

ton Port Bill, Debate Mr. Grosvenor,

House of Lords.

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March The King's Message relating to r.

MESSAGE OF

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Mr. Gascoigne, Mr. Montague, Mr. Byng, Mr, Stanley, Mr. Dempster, Lord North, Mr. Ward, Mr. Jenkinson, General Conway, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Charles James Fox, Captain Phipps, Lord North, Mr. Van, Colonel Barri?, Bill reported to the House, Third reading of the Bill ordered .

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House

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Notice of the rejectionof this Petition, (Note,) Natives of North America, against the Bill, presented and read

Petition of several

Bill read the third time,

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Motion of Mr. Charles Fox

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Bill,

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May

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Speech,

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Debate—Mr. Commons,

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agreed

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Reported to the House, Third reading ordered to-morrow,

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Astley,

Sir Gilbert Elliot,

Passed,

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House

Bill read the third time,

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long debate,

a Committee of the Whole for to-morrow, Considered in Committee of the Whole, to

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Fuller,

]Mr. C. Jenkinson,

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Committed

second reading of the

George Sa vile, Mr. Welbore Ellis, General Conway, Lord North, • Sir George Yonge, Governour Johnstone,

House of Lords.

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March Boston Port Bill received from Read the first time, 26,

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Act to discontinue in such manner, and for such time, as are therem mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, at the Town, and within the Harbour of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in North Ame61-66 rica,"

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The House refuse to receive the Petition, Entries in the Journals of the House, of 9th of November, 1696, 19th of March, 1722, and 22d of March, 1722, read, Motion the Report of the Committee of the Whole House be received this day four months,

ON THE BILL FOR BETTER REGULATING THE GOVERNMENT

Report of the Committee of the Whole House ceived,

House of Commons. Whole House ordered on the King's Message of March 7, and Papers presented by Lord North, Papers presented November 28, and December 7,

March Committee 25,

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1768, January 20, 1769, and

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Monday

reading of the Bill,

William Meredith,

Colonel Barre, Mr. Stephen Fox, Marquis of Carmarthen, Mr. St. John,

Committee on the Message and Pa.

Savile,

Mr. Stanley, Mr. T. TovTOshend,

the Committee,

House

George

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William and Queen Mary, presented to the House on the 22d of January, 1740, referred to

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first

time,

the second time,

Considered in Committee of the Whole, Reported, with Amendments, Amendments agreed to, -

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-

-

-

-

-

-

Third reading ordered for to-morrow, Petition from several Natives of America pre-

sented,

92 92 92 92 92 92 92 92

CONTENTS. 1774.

May 11,

XXII

....

Debate— Mr. Charles Fox,

Petition from William BoUan, Agent of Massachusetts Bay, presented, Motion that Mr. Bollan be called in, and heard

Captain Phipps, Sir

George

Savile,

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-

123 123 123 123 123

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-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Mr. Skjmner, Motion to amend, by Mr. Wallace, withdrawn, Standing rule for exclusion of strangers strictly

at the Bar, After debate. Rejected, Bill read the third time, and, after long debate.

123 124 124 124 124 124 125 125 125 125 126 126 126 126 126

enforced, (Note,)

Engrossment of the

93

Protest, Bill, (Note,)

....

^

.

Amendments agreed

19,

mons, on the 13th, Petition from Natives of America,

20,

to

Bay,

New England,"

in

93

-

—

96 in

London,

against the passage of the Bill, presented to the King, The icing's assent to the Bill, Speech of the Bishop of St. Asaph, intended to have been spoken on the Bill, "An Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachusetts •

-

-

by the House of Com-

16,

Bill ordered,

Motion to print the Bill negatived, Third reading of the Bill ordered for the Order read, for third reading of the Bill, Debate Mr. Dempster, Mr. Grey, Mr. Paulet, Mr. Sawbridge, Colonel Barre,

Notice of the proceedinsrs of the Lords on the

96 96

Bill read the third time,

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-

Amendment adopted, on motion Debate— Mr. Fuller,

97

Mr. H. Cavendish,

The

104-112

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-

-

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6th,

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-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

of Mr. Pultney,

...

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Bill passed,

House of Lords.

ON THE BILL FOR THE IMPARTIAL ADMINISTRATION OF TICE IN THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY.

JUS-

May 9, Bill

for Impartial Administration of Justice in Massachusetts Bay, received from the House

House of Commons. 13,

March The King's Message 28,

April 13,

of March 7th, and sundry other Papers, to be considered in Committee of the Whole, on the 13th of April, Order for Committee of the Whole postponed to the 15th,

....

16,

111

Considered in Committee of the Whole, Third reading ordered for the 18th, and the . . . . Lords summoned, Papers presented by the Earl of Dartmouth, .

17,

The

Bill read the third time,

.....

Debate

Lord North,

•

the Bill, Bill presented

by Lord North,

—Mr. Sawbridge,

Debate

Lord North,

.... ....

Thomas Frankland,

Sir

Mr. Byng, Lord Beauchamp, Mr. Sawbridge,

Second reading of the Bill ordered on the 25th,

The

118 118 118 118 119 119 119 119 119

Debate

—Mr.

.... ....

Dowdeswell, Mr. Dyson, Lord North, Mr. Cavendish,

The

Colonel Barre, Bill read the second time,

....

day

next,

(May

2,)

20,

by

Sir

George

Savile,

—

passed,

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...... -

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-

....

mults, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in

New England,"

129-132

ON THE MOTION FOR THE REPEAL OF THE DUTY 0^ TEA. House of Commons. April 19,

for a Conunittee of the Whole take into consideration the Repeal of the Du

Mr. Fuller's motion to

ty of three pence per

Debate— Mr.

potmd on Tea,

Fuller,

-

-

Mr. Pennant, Mr. Rice,

120 120 120 120 120 120

-

-

Captain Phipps, Mr. Stephen Fox, Mr. Cornwall,

Mr. Edmund Burke, Mr. Wedderburn, Mr. E. Burke, Mr. Charles Fox, Lord Beauchamp, General Burgoyne, Mr. T. Townshend,

120 120

120 120 120 120

122 122 122 122 122

of Manchester,

any acts done by them in the E.xecution of the Law, or for the Suppression of Riots and Tu-

120

121 121 121 121 121

.

...

America,

Report of Conmiittee of the Whole Report of Committee of the Whole received. Amendment proposed by Mr. Wallace, Debate Mr. Dunning, Mr. Wedderburn, Mr. Edmund Burke, Mr. W. Burke, Mr. Stanley, Mr. T. Townshend, Mr. Cornwall, Mr. Moreton, • Mr. Phipps, Mr. Skpmor, Sir Richard Sutton, •

af-

-

Notice of the Debates on this Bill, (Note,) The King's assent to the Bill, " An Act for the Impartial Administration of Justice in the cases of Persons questioned for

-

Petition of several Natives of

-

Protest,

Committee of the Whole House on the Bi dered for the 29th, The Bill considered in Committee of the Whole, Report of the Committee to be received on Mon

Massa-

....

-

TheBi

Order, for the second reading of the Bill

read,

.

Marquis of Rockingham, Duke of Richmond,

in

-

for

of Buckinghamshire, Lord Shelburne,

Duke 116 117 117 117 117 117 118 118

.... ....

Captain Phipps, General Conway, Mr. Van, Lord North's motion agreed to, Committee appointed to prepare and bring

The

—Earl

General Wedderburn,

Mr. Dowdeswell, Lord Carmarthen,

127 127 127

ter debate, rejected,

Motion, that the Bill do pass,

— Colonel Barr^, Solicitor

126 127 127 127

....

from William Bollan, Agent

chusetts Bay, presented,

to

Captain Phipps, Mr. T. Tomishend,

4,

.

.

Motion, that Mr. Bollan be heard at the Bar,

Mr.

May 2,

.

Petition

Debate

29,

.

Lord North's Speech, His motion for leave chusetts Bay,

25,

.

Papers presented by Lord North, House in Committee on the Message and Papers, bring in a Bill for the Impartial Administration of Justice in Mas

21,

......

of Commons, Read the first time, Read the second time,

Lord Clare,

-

Mr. Buller,

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-

1

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Mr. Frederick Montague, Colonel Barre, Lord North, Mr. Dowdeswell, Mr. Fuller's motion rejected, -

163 164 164 164 164 164 165 165 165 165 166 166 166

ON THE BILL FOR QUARTERING TROOPS IN AMERICA. House of Commons. April 29,

Leave granted, and Committee appointed, to prepare and bring in a Bill providing suitable Quarters for Troops in America, The Bill presented by Lord Barrington, -

May 2,

-

Read

the

first

time,

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-

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-

165 165 165

1

CONTENTS.

XXIII

May 4, Read

the second time, Considered in Committee of the Whole, Report of Committee of the Whole received, Bill read the third time, and passed,

5,

6, 9,

.¥(77/9,

• -

-

House of Lords. Bill for Quartering Troops in America, received from the House of Commons, Read the first time, -

Read

Read

165 166 167 167

167 !'_''''

l';7

the second time,

Considered in Committee of the Whole, Third reading ordered for the 18th, Third reading postponed to the 26th,

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-

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-

1(J7 1

against the Pennsylvania Magistrates,

Letter from

ernour Penn.

A

Arthur

St.

nolly,

and of the Indian War.

friendly to Pennsylvania, 19,

20,

»*

-

-

ernour Penn.

St.

-

-

.

Clair, at Ligonier, to

.

Gov-

party to

27, 27,

Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabit-

Chiefs.

make

of' the

29,

29,

9,

16,

17,

Town

29,

30, Ji//// 1,

A Condolence

held with the Six Nations, Delawares, Shawanese, Munsics, Mohegans, and

Twightwees, Speech delivered by several Chiefs, Six Nations and Delawares, to the Governour of Virginia, Message from Custologa, by five principal Men of the Delawares Answer to Custologa's Message,

^ 485 486

of Boston, at Faneuil Hall.

Gentlemen in favour of the motion patiently heard at their request the Meeting adjourned until to-morrow morning. The question then taken,