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Rh upon which the wealth, power and happiness of this country so essentially depends, that it would be to the last degree cruel not to repeal this last Act, in order that he may have his claims adjudged by the first.

Mr. Dyson spoke to the form of this matter, being against Sir George's proposal; and Lord North remarked, that Mr. Harrison, in his pettion, rather arraigned the Board of Longitude and observed, that as the Board had required other Timekeepers and experiments to be made, which were not yet concluded, it would be proper to call for the minutes of that Board, relative to the transactions concerning Mr. Harrison, before a conclusion could be come to.

Mr. Edmund Burke. Mr. Speaker, I must own, I am astonished at the replies which have come from the other side of the House. Where, Sir, is the dignity, where is the sense, where even the justice of the representatives of a great, powerful, enlightened, and maritime nation, when a petition of a man is laid before them, claiming