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pleaed to require, and command, the repective Governors of his Colonies, and Plantations, in America, punctually and effectively to oberve his Majety's royal Intructions ." And what were the Intructions, to which the Commons allude? Thee very Intructions; not to give aent to certain laws, without a claue were inerted in uch Act, declaring, that the ame hall not take effect, until the aid Act hall be approved by his Majety.

what objection then can a meaure all at once become liable, to which his Majety's predeceors were advied, after the maturet deliberation, by their Privy Council; which they have been o repeatedly intreated never to abandon, never to relax, by the great Council of the empire?

Congres, I uppoe, did not imagine, that any force or poignancy was added to the charge, by characteriing the laws, ubject to the claue of upenion, by the titles of, "Laws wholeome and neceary to the public good;" "of immediate and preing importance"—For what do thee epithets prove?—Their own opinion of thee laws—That, and nothing ele. And who could entertain a moment's doubt of their opinion of them? No doubt the laws, which, from a regard to the common interets of the whole empire, were made ubject to the upending claue, would appear very wholeome and neceary; of immediate and impreing importance, to the particular aemblies who paed them. And that for the very ame reaons that to him, whoe duty it is to watch over the interets of all his ubjects, they might appear unalutary and detructive of the public good.

this will ugget an unanwerable reply to the econd charge alleged in the article before us— "That