Letters of Aristodemus and Sincerus. 249 



" From the foregoing a6ls it appears to the undersigned 

 that they imagine their quiet conduct to be the result 

 of want of spirit and carelessness, and that the under- 

 signed appear as if willing to lay down their necks upon 

 the block of despotic tyranny. 



" Therefore they have considered it right for their own 

 justification, as well as for their descendants and the 

 people who in future may inhabit this beautiful colony, 

 to apply to your High Honourables : earnestly insist- 

 ing and beseeching you to put an end to this state of no 

 government in the most suitable manner. And, it 

 certainly appears to the undersigned, that the gentle- 

 men deputed by their High Mightinesses to enquire into 

 the allowing of what is lawful, (that is, the sitting of the 

 Councillors chosen from and by the citizens), have not 

 sufficiently explained themselves in the aforementioned 

 report. 



" The best, most prudent, and what appears most in 

 unison with the intention of the supreme government, 

 which in affairs of this nature generally a£ts in accord- 

 ance with the propositions embodied in the Reports of 

 Committees, would be to provisionally introduce a 

 government on the model proposed in pages 25 and 26 

 of the aforementioned report. 



" The undersigned insist the more strongly on this 

 matter, as the Gentlemen Deputies express themselves 

 as follows in the Plan of Redress : — 



'In case the colonists, upon the proposed 'Redress' 

 or any part of the same, should bring forward any 

 important considerations, their High Mightinesses would 

 be willing after due examination to reflect thereon, as 

 far as their High Mightinesses may think necessary, so 



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