S20 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [December, 



Government, which had ever been mild and not coercive ; which 

 had ever flood forward to alleviate their miferies, and often ex- 

 tended the arm of mercy, when their crimes called" aloud for that 

 of punifhment ; and yet on no other principle can it be accounted 

 for. May the annalift whofe bufinefs it may be to record in future 

 the tranfa&ions of this colony find a pleafanter field to travel ir^ 

 where his fteps will not be every moment befet with murderers, rob- 

 bers, and incendiaries ! 



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