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be convinced of the Ill-trealment and unjust oppressions this Tyrant has been Guilty of ever to 

 Countenance or Support him. 



These are all the Friends he has at home, for on this Side the Water he has none either of the 

 Inhabitants or Gent" of the Army — who hold him in the utmost Contempt except those formei'ly 

 mentioned to you his Agents in oppression — perhaps 3'ou will be more Suprizd to hear how this 

 Gentleman who sometime ago was only a Painters Apprentice in London should have advanced him- 

 self to such heiglits — We are obliged to confess that he has a good address, a great deal of low cunning, 

 is a most consumate flatterer, has Words full of the Warmest Expressions of an Upright Intention to 

 perform much Good tho' never Intended and with much art most Solicitously Courts all Strangers 

 whom he thinks can be of any Service to him, by these and such Arts has he risen to be what he is 

 and Elated with his success is outrageously bent upon the destruction of every One that does not 

 concur in his measures. 



And we beg leave to make this Eemark which we desire you will read at the end of Twelve 

 Months that if he be not removed Nova Scotia will be lost to the Crown of Great Britain and the rest of 

 the Colonies be Endanger' d of sharing the same Fate which ought to be tlie utmost concern of every 

 Englishman to prevent. 



And that you may in some measure understand the Import of this, he has prevaikl with my Lord 

 Louden to reijreseut home, the necessity of put» this Colony under a Military Government, and of 

 suspend^' tho Charters and Laws of the other Colonies, the consequence of which we apprehend, will 

 be a Struggle in the Colonies for Liberty, and a consequence too fatal to name ; and while the Conten- 

 tions subsist there, the French will penetrate into this Province : indeed they have no feazible Con- 

 quest left them but this Colony at present & if this Colony be lost and the others loose their Liberties 

 it is dijBicult to saj' what the Effect will be, but the worst is to be feard. 



We could say many things concerning the affairs in this Part of the World, which nearly 

 concern us, but we are confident you'll hear them from better hands, for they must needs be public. 



We cannot but express our most sincere acknowledgements of Gratitude and Thanks to the Eight 

 Hon'"'" M' Pitt, that great Patron of Liberty, for the Great Condescension he has shown, in taking 

 notice of our affairs ; and so far as is reasonable and just, we doubt not of his Concurrence and assist- 

 ance to procure us Eedress. 



In answer to your remarks that the Quorum of Sixteen is too large for the proposed number of 

 22 for the whole Assembly it is so in our opinion, but it was the Eesolve of ('ouncil. 



Our Desire of having all Placemen excluded the Assembly was from Circunstances of the Colony 

 under the present Governor. The Voters are allmost all dependent, the Ofticers are wholly so, it 

 would therefore be the Governors Assembly & not the Peoples, and Laws made according to his 

 Pleasure and no grievance will be redressed — but if a Gov'' be appointed who has the Interest of the 

 Colony at Heart, and the welfare of the People, this would be an immaterial Point. 



The reason why triennial Assemblies was proposed was intended only for the fii-st Assembly in 

 Oi'der to settle the Colony under an English Assembly. Otherwise Foreigners being th'= most 

 numerous and the Time near approaching when they will be Naturalizd by a 7 years Eesidence the 

 future Assemblies may be mostly foreigners, which will be Dangerous to this frontier Settlement. 



As to the Article of Judges a Good Gov' will avail more for the Advancement of Justice, and then 

 a Good Judge will be under no concern least he be displaced. 



Another of the Governors Acts is to misrepresent & abuse all below him he has publickly calld 

 his Council a Pack of Scoundrills, the Merchants a Parcel of Vilians and Banla-upts, and has repre- 

 sented at home the whole as a People discontented and Eebellious We have authority of his saying & 

 declaring this from his own mouth before many Officers both of the Army and Navy — Is it possible 

 S' that People can be easy under such a Gov' We dare appeal to our two former Governors for 

 our behaviour under their Administrations and whose conduct to us was the very reverse of this 

 Gentlemans. 



Sec. I, 1888. 10. 



