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up to us, and we found that it was cor-» 

 redly in order for ftrangers to join in this 

 part of the debate. It carxie at a moment pe- 

 culiarly opportune, and vv^e drank deeply and 

 cordially to our, friends, and the houfe of 

 alTembly. 



The court of Chancery, with the go- 

 vernor as prefident, was fitting in a chamber 

 above, and, fuddcniy, a loud clamour, indica- 

 ting difcord and confufion, was heard from 

 that quarter ; we, therefore, left the houfe 

 of affembly and afcended to the upper houfe, 

 in the defire of afcertaining what could polTibly 

 have caufed fuch turbulent proceedings; when 

 we found this auguft affembly totally ab- 

 forbed in a quarrel between two of its members, 

 who had interrupted the bufinefs of the fitting, 

 and diverted the attention of the houfe exclu- 

 fively to their perfonal difpute. Each remained 

 obftinately inflexible, with regard to the re- 

 quired acknowledgment, and neither could 

 be brought to any terms of concefFion ; hence, 

 after a long interruption, it proved that the 

 houfe had only to leave it to be fettled as a 

 perfonal quarrel, according to the feelings of 

 the parties. Perhaps It had been more con- 

 fiftent had the courtj from the firft, main^ 



