The Roman provinces did not stand more in need of patronage than ours: and such clients as we are would have preferred the integrity of Cato to the fortune of Cæsar. The cause we bring is in fact the cause of all the provinces in one; it is the cause of every British subject in every part of the British dominions. It is the cause of every man who deserves to be free, every where. The propriety, therefore of addressing these papers to a gentleman, who, for so many successive parliaments, with so much honor to himself and satisfaction to the public, has been at the head of the commons of Great Britain, cannot be called in question. You will smile, sir, perhaps, as you read the references of a provincial assembly to the rights and claims of parliament; but, we humbly conceive, it will be without the least mixture of resentment; those assemblies having nothing more in view than barely to establish their privileges, on the most rational and solid basis they could find, for the security and service of their constituents. And you are humbly besought, sir, not to think the worse of this address, because it has been made without your permission or privity. Nobody asks leave to pay a debt; every Briton is your debtor, sir; and all we have said, or can say is but a poor composition for what we owe you. You have conferred as much honour on the chair you fill, as the chair has conferred on you. Probity and dignity are your characteristics. May that seat always derive the same lustre from the same qualities. This at least ought to be our prayer, whether it is or not within our expectations. For the province of Pennsylvania, as well as in my own private capacity, I have the honour to be, with the most profound respect, Sir, Your most obedient Humble servant, THE EDITOR. Remonstrance of a subsequent assembly against the said union Motives of the planters, assigned by the said assembly, for accepting Protestation against passing of bills, amended by the governor and council, without the previous assent of the assen bly to those amend- ments; and of money bills before grievances have been redressed Remonstrance to Mr. Penn concerning this period The governor admits the principles of the quakers, not to carry arms ib. The province purged from the odium of favoring pirates and carrying ib. The assembly formed thereon dissolved ib. A breach between the province and the territory The last charter of privileges, which under the royal charter, is now Andrew Hamilton, esq. deputy governor, in vain endeavours to re- ib. John Evans, esq. succeeds Hamilton, and makes the like endeavour, Controversy between him and the assembly, concerning the bill to Nine several heads of complaint entered in the minutes of the as- sembly, as the ground of a representation to the proprietary; being the representation several times before cited. The remainder of that representation A copy of it demanded by the governor and refused by the assembly The latter make a merit of having forborne to make their represen- The governor obtains an assembly to his wish, by undue practices Animosities between Lloyd, speaker of the assembly, and Logan, se- cretary to the governor and council The governor censures the proprietary's charter of property The draughtsman's defence of it The governor declares the proprietary's high resentment of the as- Page Their representation to the proprietary against the governor Logan impeached by the assembly, and skreened by the governor An unanimous vote of thanks to the proprietary for recalling Evans ib. Logan makes a voyage to England, and returns with private instruc- A controversy in print, between the governor and Logan thereon A breach between the governor and the speaker The province in a state of tranquillity for nine years under his admi- Private instructions from the proprietary in two several instances, de- 65 The proprietary of Pennsylvania too inconsierable here at home to be The proprietaries the sole purchasers of Indian lands; the people at the sole expence of Indian affairs; treaties and purchases concomi- The quit-rents of Pennsylvania paid to the proprietary, first demand- Precautions taken to secure it from depreciation Mr. Penn's trustees averse to the said issue till a provision was made Room left in the constitution of the province for self-defence, by force of arms, though the use of arms was not consistent with the princi- In consequence of complaints to parliament of the mischiefs arising from excessive issues of paper-money, by the eastern governments (that is to say, those of New England;) a general instruction was sent to all the governors of North America, not to give their assent 71 74 to any farther bills of that nature, without a suspending clause, till The assembly grants money in aid of the expedition against Cartha- The governor inlists indented servants upon that occasion; and the Also another sum of 4000l. to furnish necessaries to the troops in Page And yet another sum of 5000l. towards the intended expedition The proprietaries of Pennsylvania oppose the bill brought into parlia- ment for restraining the northern colonies from issuing paper-bills The assembly's representation thereon ib. (and at large in the ap- ib. A bill for increasing the provincial paper-currency in proportion to the A message from the governor (Hamilton) preparing the house to ex- ib. The answer of the proprietaries to the representation of the assembly concerning the expence of Indian affairs (and at large in the ap- The assembly's message sent to the governor, together with the cur- A note of regret that some temperament had not been found out at |