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aid the Houe to this petition? Did they think that his Majety aumed an uncontitutional, or exercied an improper, power, in iuing thee Intructions? Let us hear the reolutions of the Houe.

Reolved, "That the complaint, contained in this memorial and petition, is frivolous and groundles; an high inult upon his Majety's government, and tending to hake off the dependency of the aid Colony upon this kingdom; to which by Law and Right they are and ought to be ubject ."

Reolved, "That the aid memorial and petition be rejected."

what intance, I would ak, during the preent reign, has the Britih government expreed itelf in terms more trong, or pointed? What act is there of the preent reign, that aerts with greater energy, the dependence of the Colonies, or the upreme authority of Parliament?

thee reolutions of the Houe extorted from them by urprie? or wrung from them by a udden fit of reentment? or adopted hatily? Or was the ubequent conduct of the Colonial legilature uch, as to call for a relaxation, in the trictnes of thee intructions?

Conult the Journals of the Commons: See what paed on the 24th of April 1740, jut even years after the reolutions recited above. Read the following reolution:

Reolved, Nemine contradicente, "That an humble addres be preented to his Majety, to return his Majety thanks, for the orders he hath already given, and humbly to deire him, that he will be graciously pleaed