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WITH HINTS ON THS TtUB VOLITICS OV THB FROTIMCEf COMPARED WITH A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE FEOCBEOlNGS OF THS LATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. IHSCEIBBO WITH BB8FECT ^ TO THE GOVERNMENT and FREEHOLDERS OF NEHT.BRUNSIVICK. WITH AN APPENDIX. V Truth WQuld you teach, to fave a (inking land, AU fear, none aid you, and few underftand. Pope. PRINTED FOR. THE BENEFIT OF THE •pUBLIC. 1802. . ^^ . . To THE UNPREJUDICED READER. THE manner in which the " Statement op Facts** was crowded before you, the partial execution tf what you have a right to he informed, and not the fear of real ** light,* were the reajhns of this undertaking, I have met every thing y/hich had the appearance (f tfr- gument, and by a brief recapitulation of the conduct of certain men, have attempted to Jhow the fallacy of his Statement^ though he has confined himfelf t^moflly to two days, which I did not thinly alone worthy of pt^ic notice* / have alfo fuhjoined an jtppenditt, contaimng the names of the late members of that Houfe, ' Thofe of the memorabk retreat are marked with ftars (*) ; thofe who remained faithful to the end are marked with crojfes (D'-'-^Ti^tf mm' hers of his Majejhfs Council follow, and Extrails of Utteri from one of his Majeflfs principal fecretaries offlate. Whether fhe effe£l I defire is produced, or whether mff brethren are doomed yet longer to grope in deception, to yott^ and my own heart, I appeal, for the reHitude of my views* iStiiiiMtfraiifiiiffifitfiV'littillttt''^ \ "■*^^* ■'^ •^- k -u .\ V CRSON, Autbw 9f a Statement rf fe&t^ fife. 8i»» tlAp you fulfilled what the title of your proMbs, you would have prevented the neceffity of I, and peiliaps taken one ft«p towards gaining the lepo* ion of an honeft man. its Mpearance, Sir, JKcHed many doutits in my ndnd y n^wdinff the fiibieA of any tning contained in your 1, out whetner any one would fo much demean fy as to make a reply, Confiderations more vtmfjoM ^ than the vanity of appearing in print, aeainft a ** man ' your observation," have urged me to mt ta&. And loe it is undertaken I (hall take the liberty to prove, that ronr ** cMlennxkmMy* htmcmt eztenfive, are neither ite to the cauie you have efpouied, the cauie of truth, lor the true politics of this Proinnce. If the interefts of every country and province were alflce, le fcience of politics would be eaiily acquired, and the' }ufinei8 of legiUation would be nothing more, than copy* ; ftatutes 6mm fomc other nation. If every new country ijezadly like old ones, we fhould find turnpike roads sre mortal never trod, coUem and public fchools where iuman art has never come. But, Sir, it feems neceflary 'sr you to ** oWerve,'* that the wildeiiiefi will not tiofm dthout tiDwe ; any more than a ** fimpleton a8....tnou t," can *> Uttiider" fiOiHiood into hSta, without culti* ition. If, then, public improvements be neceflary for the con* lience oi the iettler, how is he ever to ezpeft them with* It unidng his tribute with the bounties of the public to thetn about ? The energies of one, or a few, can do It Uttie Uiwards effi:ding any 6bje& of utility to a whole community. community. If, therefore, the wifdom of thoie who 6i£> penfe the public concerns, does not fee fit to provide for thefe objeas, they can never be effeded. Agriculture and commerce are eminently calculated, by nature, to be the two principal fources of wealth in this Province, in com- mon with moft other countries on earth* The htter is a child of the former, and in its infancy cannot fubfift with* out the natural nutriment it a£fords. Thefe being the two principal interefts of the Province, one or other of thefe muft, as fail as prudence will admit, be makipg provifion for the aforeiaid improvements ; if the mhal»tants have a defire to render their pofleifions either valuable or pleaiant. The former of thefe interefts, in a country like this in its prefent ftate, inftead of incumbrance, needs the greatefl en- couragement. But the latter, being a confequenee of the former, will always flouriih in exaft ratio with the means which agriculture produces. It follows, therefore, that the articles of trade, which are not fo immediately neaeflaiy to, the fettlement and culture of the Province, are thofe which are jufily and prudentiaUy to contribute to the payment of debts, and the embelliihment and convenience of fodety. Thefe truths being confidered, I would aik, how an hon- eft and patriotic le^flator can juftify attempts to ftifle a meafure, in itfelf fo iuft, neceflary, and fo truly political i «< Fa£b,'' Sir, which you have difleminated, but auk- wardly tally with truth, which han.excited ferious fuf- picions ! Subftantial truth. Sir, is a thing congeiiial to the unpr^u- diced mind of man. It offers a rich repaft to the ingenuous philofopher, who cpnfiders it worthy the moft laborious mveftigation and ftrideft inquiry. The learned have placed it firft in the catalogue of all the arts and fdences. Its utility in fociety the fmalleft intelligence can difcern ; and its influence in proteding the rights of individuals, from the attacks of falfehood, of avarice, and revenge ; in fup- porting law and juftioe, the great and primary ligaments of every community, the flighteft reflechon will evince^ It is, therefore, extremely furprifing, that a ** man's obferva-' tion" fhould expect to elude the ' -ifcovery of a fubjeA of £0 much inquiry ! This has called mc from a neutral re- pofc. '"*. &S' niwK, comniffioxied only by her mandates, into a warfaro [with her oppofite, to efimule her caufe before an inquifitive ;>ublic, whole verdid will be a laurel fufficiently blooming \ reward my higheft ambition* As long as triumphal whoops were fuffered to proclaim iAory for bland and imooth-faced myftery, the friends of ith and of the Province, though confident of a righteous confummation, lamented its delay, knowing that to ftrue- l^le would plunge them deeper into the vortex of unavaul<* ig contention. Silent anxiety, confcious of evils which ley knew mufb for a time remain unremedied, was the ihng paffion of their minds. Hope, however, was a com- forter, which brightened at the ftill fmall whifper of truth, id pointed to the reformation which her luftre would FedL Although your mind was not caft in the common mould, id, of coune, could not have ettterienced the hardihip of i{ndity, yet the vaft quantity oi ** light" which you ftill >ntain (for I know of no inftance in which you have ex- ided any) muft fhow you, that even common minds mot but difcern the plans of your party, and the end id defign of your revelation, Notwithftanding the artful ' uf«d, in order to appear clad in all the ornaments of purity \ notwithftanding the cordial fqueeze, the difinter- ';d £icrifice of private conliderations, the anxious con- for the public weal, the truly Chriftian virtue of lov- your neighbor more than yourfelf, and the comic art of luming a »ce for every fcene ; although to thofe who Id fee, you had given blindnefs, and to thofe ** who ears to hear" you have £ud ** let them be ftopped" ; ^rofeffing to difiufe ** light," walking yourfelf in dark- ^ds ^-.r-yet Truth has given optics to fee through the ^eil, which, for feven years, has covered a multitude of }, committed in podieting the treafures, which, upon rtcy principle of juftice, belonged to the public. To examme the hiftory of your proceedings, is like probing an inveterate fore *, the further we proceed, the lore painful fenfiitions are felt, by the furgeon, as well as ie patient. There are many fubje^, on which //ip»ff is, by far, the moft \l (I :\t ttioft Ibrdbte argumenf } and there are otkert, in wliick It is ufed, if not to prove, to conceid what would be ptinibi to luve divulged. If yours l)e not defcribed by one o? otlier of thefe, I have inttrdy mifapprehended my bufinefi. Tour objeA appears clearly tb be, tne exculpatioii of the gentle- men who left the Houfe of Aflembly before they were of- ficially difinifled, and to criminate others at the moment of elecHon. Hourly exoe^nff them to be arraigned at the bar of the public, for crimes nreik in the memory of con- fdence ; and fuppoling you had divined the fe cr e t inten- tions of His Excdlency tne Lieutenant-Governor to call an immediate ele<^on ; the budget, bdng already flung, was untied in triumph ! What was the effieA i very cHflbr- ent, Mr. Man of Observation, from what was expeft- ed ! We now behold a party of men, whofe preidous con- ' duft hr ^ become obnoxious to ferious (ufpicions, without ! an aniwer, attempting to try themfdves, imagining that ^e time would not admit a reply, by way of defencv! which lawyers call emfeffing and avoiding* Thinking, no doubt, to prey upon humanity, and, bv confeffing thdr moft modern iniquities, to obtain paraon for the whole catalogue. Or, bj relyins on the pungent f^ogiim, the pertinent propc^tion for the amufement of fifliermen, with confequences, drawn out at witty IefM!;th, JuiUy fitting thdr comprehenfion ; they faw {&t feemedto fee) with imagina- tion's eye, the great feal of their pardon floating in pubfic iky.l~-This fudden tranfition was too pleafant to be dura- ble. For before, like the bewildered arguments of heathen reafon, they had to conflif): with conidous guih and firig^- \ fill apprehenfions, affifted only by vocal eloquence, tiHypu | were pleafed to open the window of your revebtion. llii!^ it was ^ppofed, would be adequate to the accompllfliment | of the \iHhole bufinefs ; and that nothing then remained, but to fumifh readers and exsofitors : the Latin was to be ; tranflated, the " liriit^' extraoed, and geniufes procured of j feculiwr turns and urong lungs, to launi at the wit. The nrflof thefe requifitions, was, by far, tne moft cBfficult. I have had it confirued into Enghfh to me, and you fliall fee the ** light" in which I took it. '* You were an attentive auditor, in the gaflerr, and iiad * * «* been * been informed v ** 'dday, tkat aU the builneft of the ** iefficn was doied, vhich would claim the attention of « the Lower Houfe, except," kc, I would aik« how you nad been ** informed" ? Had the Lieut. Governor tola you, or had you obtsuned your i^- Ibrmttion from obfervAtion ? If you had it from a mem- ber it migbt be incorreft, for the bufinefs of Parliament, or of any other Legiflature, of which I have any knowledge, k never krown to be done, not even by th«r own mem* bers, till after a meflage is received from the King, or other Chief Mag^rate^ informing them that he has no bufinefr to claim their frirther attendance at that time, and then prorogues them by proclamation. But, Sir, it ieemi by your nrft poftulatum, that the sentlemen had done all they intended, and determined to Say no longer, let the Gov- ernor have what bufinefs he might, to make it neceflary. And, frirther, that they had fo managed what they were willing to leave for the confideration of the other Branch, that they knew it would not be comf^ted. For, notwith* ftanding ** ia£b" and ** light" are great words in your title pdge, you have left one in the dark ; which being known, fAra an unplealanc comple»on to what had taken fribcc, and cafts a difmal duik on sul your ilbbiequent afiua^)- tions. For your grjeateft force goes to prove, that this^f- eedmg majmty^ by the very ad or feceding, esraeded to have rendered the remaining members incapable of doing legifla- tive bufine£(. And it is a known fact^ that this money kill was encumbered iKdth matter, foreign to its purpofe of raif- ing money, in which the Council had equal rigjht with the Houfe to difcufs \ and as this majority knew it to be not only unparliamentary, but inimical to the fenfe of tiie Council, it was clearly tacked to the former to defeat its operation. It is proved by the journals of one Branch, tiaat it was agreed, by committees from both Houfes at a former feflion, that the Houfe would ^rive up their filly pre- tenfion to thdr rieht of combining in the bill, whofe oj^cdb was merely to raite money, (the originating and difcuung of which belonged eadhifivdy to them,) any matter di^ ferent, in which the Council had a right in common with the Houie. But, notwithiURding x)m agreement, which B was ro K « was no more than confenting formally to be governed hf law, reafon, rxnd common civility, the fame old trick U played over again, co deftroy the hateful money bill, iri which 1 fliaU mow, that moft of your prefent clients were richly inierefted. • " You were told, too, that it was unneceffary for the ** whole to remain, at great expenie to the Province and " no' fmall inconvenience to themfelves," &c. Here are true patriotifm and private convenience operating to drive men from their pofts, who knew much better than the Governor when their attendance was neceffary, and who hadvaftly more affection for the Province. Thefe were confiderations weighty enough ! I fhould have wondered, after all the " light** I had received, how they couU ftay, as their views, by that t;mc maft have been generally un- derftood'. "You, nextly, underftood in part, thai fome great law- yers were of opinion different from/ome great merchants,' (viz.) that any number of members could refolve thcm- " fclves into a Houfe competent to all thofe fundions, to ** which, heretofore, thirteen had been thought abfolutely ** neceflary.** What a marvel this ! that lawyers ihoula be of opinion that men ihould contrive fome way to raife money ! Befides, thefe lawyers, I prefume, had never read that a Legiflati\e Body could be rendered incapable of per- forming their duties, as fuch, by the feceiBon of a factious party ! And, as it refped:s the queftion of numbers, a greater proportion of the whole Houfe was left, than is adjudged neceffary in the Houfe of Commons, in England. There, forty members conftitute a legal quorum, and there are more than five hundred members in the whole. And further, the quellion was never before agitated in this Houfe when it v/as not expefted tiiat it would daily and hourly incr "^^^ "ill all were prefent ; and as thofe were not cafes of emergency and revolution, like the prefent, it could never before have been decided : ancient ufage cannot, therefore, lay claim to a fingle precedent. Mr.S— T, the hero of yonr drama, and the obje^ of much whining through the whole, for fear of his loimg his £fty pounds, the chief reafoner, and I fuppofe the chief writer. "*i \ II writer, argues thus logicaiiy ; " The powers of the Houfe were derived from the conftiti^.tion, and could neither be diniiniihed. or expended by any a\ithority but their own- that -ancient ufagi^ was the only gaide to the proper cxer- ciie^of the powers vefted in them, and was therefore term- ed the la\7 of ParUament." Here lie feems fatisfied with the conftitution of England, by which we are all willing to be governed, and of which he make3 ancient ufage a con- ftituent part, and a law of Parliament which he quotes as a rule proper to govern the Houfe in this Province. But, finding no ancient ufags of the kind he wants, he gees on to fay, '* that the ufage of His Majefty's Colonies had ef- tablimed thirteen," &c, Poor fuflFejrer ! It brings frefh to my mind the time when he obtained this information ! He got it, poor foul, while a prifoner in the revolted Colonies ! How can he tell, during fuch a conflifl of refle£Hng on paft fu£rerings,....having been lately Qccupied in addreffing the Governor for the Clerkfhip, and ftill under the appre- henfion of lofing it,....how can he tell but that this very eftablifhment of thirteen was one of their dired fteps of rebellion ? It was, in revolutionary times, praftifed by thofe who were in open hoftility to their lawful Sovereign, under whom we have the happinefs ftill to profper. " That a lefs number were not competent as a Grand *' Jury to find a bill of indidhnent at a general fefiion of " the peace, againft one fubjed," &c. The chain is admi- rably fupported ! Suppofe the Lieut. Governor could not, by his writ, colled): more than twelve members, at the next fefiion ; a number oftenfibly judging their attendance unnecelTary, but fecretly intending to defeat the bufinefs of the fefiion ;— could thefe twelve do nothing ? Muft the public bufinefs of the Province be utterly ncglefted, becaufe eight or ten men chofe to difobey the laws, and obftinately negleded their duty for private purpofes ? If the twelve could be confidered, in that cafe, as the legal reprefen- tation of the Province, as I am confident they might, how v/ould you tally with the revolted ColoiJes, whofe conduft you bring as precedent for " His Majefty's loyal Province of New-Brunfwick" ? This " Houfe he confiders as a Conftitutional Grand Jury for the Province, and it would be abfurd to prefume that u I i that t Ids number of them ihoiild be oompttcnt to the poffing of bills which were to a£kd the lives, liberties tad ?roperties pf His Majejlfs fubje&i at larp throughout tbf rovinee,** He ought to have uid, ** bUls that were materia ftlly to effeS the properties of His Majeftfs importing mem* IBiis in his loyal Houfe of New-Brunf-wick** Whether you, Mr. Observation, are Mr, S<^t too, is a question, with me, of very little importance. If you.be, or be not, it feems equally defirable with you to gain for l>oth the reputation of wits ; and, from the fpecimens yom have given, I am much at a lofs to determine for which you will be the more fuccefsful. Still there may be thofe» wfaofe perceptions are fu£Bciently dear and diftind, to dii^ cern genuine &rcafin in an awkward ftory very awkwardly told. 3ut your friends excufe your vulgarians, by faying that you wrote for the vulgar, and not for moi of tenw and underftanding ; if fo, your beneficence is not meant to be fo exteniive, as from your title page we might eacpe^ You there addrefi " the Inhabitants of New-Brunfivick" But it aiqiears, that you meant to enlighten only your pattic* ukr friends* - Tou are certainly indufbious, for the pains you have taken to pun upon the word coffin ; and, m mukiplying words to iafh the ^' young man, apparently of great diffi. dence" refemble the angry writhing^ (^ a toothle6 ferpent, who informs "his adver&ry that he wants nothing ib isuch with which to fight him^as the ability, Mr. S— ~T obferves, " laws were not made for rejhaining men of honor and probity, but for perfons of very different charadlxrs.'^ What kind of dbvaders does he allow ait obnoxious to legal refhrnns ? We fee whom he excufies i men who coul(£ in le^ative capacity, without blidhing, violate a folemn and honorar/ agreement, made with •* men of honor and probity,** on purpoie to prevent the pa&tg of the Revenue BiU. No ! Mr. &—rT, ftuh honor zndf itch probity need no retraining-: " but perfons of very difierent charadters," viz. thofe who would exad: jufticc horn crafty meannds, ^ho would compel tiiggardly treach-^ ery to contribute towards the protection 'oi its own bafe accumulations, who wiil f^aw the veil from the drooping «hin X ^■: •s^'^ >*», '3 chin othyfOfMy, and c3q>ofe the fears in the TeaF of ykw^ if^ JtMM i 3iiai» it would ieem, are the chara^rs whoin you would wiih to reftrain. Yes ! and by the fecret ma* chinations, ungentlemanly and unparliamentary condud of your party* for four years of the paft Houfe of AiibmUy, the hands of fuch men hare been ^e^hially bound. And Bou^t but unparrallded patiences a fecret bu|: groundleis hope of a rdPorm, and the future operation of a^ fpirit of decency, have prevented an earlier difct^fure of the bafeneBi of the £iddon. The event is the iamei that was expa^bed. The fweetened accents of puhUc goad, the ma^c cry againft law^ rulors, have fucoeeded to impreis prej[udices on the minds of the weak and fuperfidal $ and while they ferved to conc«d the real fdans gc the leaders (^ the party, they caft unmerited ceafure en thole, who only fought the inter* €ft (^ the -Province, The earneA endeavors to maintain peace and harmony b^'*een the feveral Brwches of the Legiflature, xh&he- quent and unreafonaUe conc^ons, the frank and c^n wiUingnefe to wait thp removal 6i pretended fcrupjes, ari£i ing from an igncHrance of duty * nentSy con^ire to ifeow on which fide lies the wickedneis, and whence have fprung the ^vils of which the puUic juiUy complain. ' < Let the coniUcuent compare the duties of his Reprelen- tative with the condud of a majority in that Houfe, dtir- ing the laft feven years^ and how do they agree f Juft as tlMHnfelves do with ** men ^ honor and probity !** The diC ptttes,. which have devoured moft of their feffional time, ; took their rife in the difintereftedneis and public fpirit of this party's demanding pay for their fervices j a ftq> in di<* reft violatioa to the moft undent u/dge of Parliament : And what was worfe, in a manner calculated to defeat the fuc- eels of that detefted thing, revawe f This compelled the Council, by parliamentary decor^im, and proj/riety, to re- turn the l»U, conddcending to a€ure them, that if they would forward theu: favorite pay bill by itfelf, they would ^give It due confideration. But no I They sure bent on the |4eftru&ion of all me^urei unfavorable to private intereft ; and to give a jdeafimt afpe^ tp this determination, they pretend -' m •t^ ' ■■? 14 pretend to the propriety of fuch a ftep, as a preroeative of which they affed to,be very tenacious. The pubhc, by this pretence, are lulled to drowfe over the lofs of every means of defraying public expenfe, or of making any im- provement, -through le^flative aid. The unhappy differ* ences in our Le^flature are deeply regretted, and tne blame is thrown on the Governor and Council, becaufethe other Branch are difperfed to found their ovn applaufe and inveigle the credulous into a belief of their innocence. Four years, out of feven, this bill is loft under the fame pretext, notwithftanding His Grace the Duke of Port- land, in his correfpondence with His Excellency the Lieut. Governor, had given the fuUeft information* on all P^rlila- mentary queftions, which had been fubjetts of difpute in the Houfe, and by which the Houfe had promifed to be fs of every ing any im- appy differ* id the blame ife the other ppkufe and nocence. ler the fame ce of PORT- cy the Lieut, on allP^rlia- »f difpute in [fed to be ^^ in the Hottfe jir depravity- veords would s correfpond- uficd (as per- eft capacity, [ving teen the lance to give extraftshad could read) mmunication ed to do, to : as that was would be im- i ! But, how rn to do well ! never make a economical lov- dth their ex- to efcape the J of the Le^- ith the cry of mall inconve- The i}M Th6 biirdeh of yOut celebrated produdion is confined!' folely to the two hSt days of the lalt feilion } and thefe are fufafequent to the whole tran&dtion of guilt which requir- ed elucidation. This was after all the crafty and profitable legiflation of your fubtle employers was pan,-^-the hiftory of which you judged it prudent to pais in your " Statement of Fa^s" ; and ihould any one doubt the reafon, let him be noted a ** fimpleton." Although you feem to think this period of two days, a period m oiir annals in which the *• public are materisdly interefted," I cannot rid myfelf |of the belief, that manv of the preceding trania^lions will |in future be fubjeds ot much dofer fcrutiny^ Your corps de legiflative had dcferted j and your only re- aining force conMed in the brief eloquence of Mr. S — t, |and the ancient firmneis of the half-pay Major. Now, to irevent the ruin of what your men had already attempted :o ruin (in their own way) was their objed, and it is yours to juftify it. Tou do not tell us why the pundilious Mr. T continued to expend his ingenuity in an unconfti-* tional body ; and no reafon appears, but to watch his ^ty pounds, and prevent the erafure of his name from the fyptics** If the remaining members had no right to aft, he lad no right to oppofe j for if one legiflative ao: was illegal, ery proceeding one under the fame circumflances was id, from the beginning of the illegality. His fifty unds, therefore, was as me as though it had been locked his ftrong box. No doubt his economy to fave, not on- that, but his feveral votes during his appointment per- ed his logic. The ftory of this gentleman's appointment to the Clerk- Ip, is marked with too much incident not to deferve a ce in a narration of unaccountable occurrences. Before the convention of the late fefiion of Affembly, Mr. T, counting on the fpeedy diffolution of Mr. Heddon, le then Clerk of the Houfe, who was extremely ill, and is iCe deceafed, addreffed His Excellency requefting the ap- 'ntment. The Houfe having convened, found, them- es deftitute of a Clerk, and they immediately applied to the ^ Ancient rolls of enfraachifemcnt, intitUng thofe enrolled to public 'iceace. the Oavenot, by mei&ge, for the appointment of this £ime Mr. S — t. But the Governor, tor certain reafoaa, appointed and commiffione^ another* Theloysdand po« Hte majority refiifed to recove him, declaring him not s favorite, and he therefore retired The Governor thea fixed on a gentleman, whom he knew £rom his virtues ought to be acceptable to alL But alas ! virtue is not a ba^ to be reccffnized ^ pondaemonium* He alfo is re* jeded and diiini£d 1 uid the argumeDt of jvftiiicatiiui now is, that the appointment of Clerk is a nght of the Houfe, in which the Governor could not intermix 1 Only obferve, two ^ys before, they were requefting the Gov* ernor to appoint the fiigacious Mr. S*— t, and now deny him the rient in any inftance whatever ! Does not this make for ueir conmbncy ? Is it not a child begotten af- ter their image and likeneis ? So much fo, that they fofter him from their own breafts with obftinate perfever- ance. '* Samubjl Dbmny Street, Efquire," becomes their Clerk, and heir apparent to the fifty pounds, fo fer- vently voted for, by luniielf, whofe claim thereto is after* var^s doubted, by reafon of his fpufious birth* I'll f p. S.-»It is a well knovm lift, that the leaders of the (*) party are the principal impofters ; and that, upon a moderate calculation, by the deurudion of the revetute bill they fiive annually to themfdves a dividend of not lefs: than j^.tooo ; which, divided by 4, {^ves jC.500,— «rell| worth running fir f Phe m m ^>' \ \ ^^ tsb 9l9fmUx* Members of the late Houfe of AJfembly in New-Brunfwkkf with the Counties they reprefented* CwaaropriatioQ bHl, whi9h went in excluQon of the fervices recommended by the Govemori and avknowkdged to be for the general defence of the Province. When I obferve their very modetate amouatt and that no olMcAion whatever is made to the fervices themfelves, I cannot but fufped, that the true and gen* uine fenfe of the Aflembly muft h^ve been furprifed, and artfully worked uponi by fome Qieanst which that body cannot fail of foon tieaaf through^ and of re< jetfling, as neither accor^ng with the true intereft of the Province, nor with thofe liberal ideas which fliould diltinguifh fo refpedable a branch of the Lc* giflature. The voting of money for any particular fervices, whather recemfnended or not, is certainly within the provmce of the Aflembly ; but fuch as are recom- mended by the executive government, and are on the face of them not merely advantageous, but neoe^ary, for the Province, are ^Iwfvs to be vocoMred as ob- je(5ts entitled to an early and diftind confideration. I dq not fa^, that mixing other grants of a different or pcifonal nature with the public fervices is dircftlv unconftitutional and beyond the power of the Aflembly, but it i» generallv al- lowed to be fo inconvenient, and to lead to fo many abufes, that objedls of fuch a nature ought always to be reflfted in that fliape, and oug^ to be brought forward as feparate grants, thereby admitting of the lame free and diftinft dif* cuflion to which the public fervices themftlves are and ought to be fubjeft. n. Dated Whitehall, June 9, 1796, I have perufed with great attention, and an equal degree of concern, your Utter, No. 19, and its indofures. I purpofely, therefore, t4ke this opportunity of entering more particularly into the uibje9 Another point of diifbnence. I obftnre, ariies from the infertJon of dUFerent j)d diftindt,8B well asdifputedpointii in money bills. Claufes of thii nature, rhen attached to money oills, operate^ to the extent of the matter in queftion, IS in abfolute annihilation of the other deliberative Branch of the Legiflature, Lnd there is, in this kingdom, a ftanding order of the Houfe of LonU againft Iteir infertion, founded on a matuiV confideration of the evilB to which rach a ■dice muft lead. By this order, which was made fo Ions ago as the year |iyos, it is declar^, ** That the anne^dng any daufe or claufes to a bill of^aid ' or fupply, the matter of which is foreign and different from the matter of ' the fiud bill, is unparliamentary, and tends to the deftruAion of the ConfH* ' tution of this Oovemment." Such matters, therefore, ihould be brought rard as feparate hills, thereby admitting of a free and candid difcuffion. s is the regular and eflablifhed mode of proceeding, in order that no ex- tneous matter, concerning whic^ there may be great difference in opinioOt ay interfere with the fupplies, which very i»t)perly and conftitutionally orig- jte with the Hbufe of Commons. ^ A (trid adherence to thefe rules, the reafonablenefs of which cannot I beHey^ ! difouted, with a becoming readinefs in botl Branches to pay dae attention J their refoeftire proceedings and wifhes, cannot fbil of healing thofe differ- ac^s which at pretent fubfift between them, and which are fo detrihiental to Us Majefty's intercft and thoii; of the Province at large, which are infeparaUjr lonited. Ill- Dated June xj, 1797* I have laid befbre the King your letters of the dates and numbers mentioned J the margin, and the addrejs to Ifis Majefty from the AfTembly of New- Irunfwick, to which it is my intention principally to confine myfelf in the an' Ver I am now about fendbg you. But, befbre I enter upon that fubjed, I luft infonp voii| that coQ^tjlei^S ^^c very full and explicit manner in which ^e great ana d^ngiiiAiing jprinaple of legiflative proceedings had been laid Sown in my letter to you^ ottiie 9th Jupe, 1796 { his Majefty cannot obferve, irithout great regret and di^ileafure, the idle andgroundlefs differences which Mil fublift between the Council and AflemUy, The Province of New-Brunf- rick was originally formed, and conftituted, by virtue of His Majcfty's com. nUlion and inftruAions, and reference need only be had to thofe inltruments 3r a corred knowledge of its conftitution, and for the enjoyment of every priv- ilege and advantage off the Britifh Cpnftitiition, which is compatible with the ^relative (ituatioQ of a Colony and the Parent State. After having endeavored, in the letter above referred to, to ftate to you at irge the inconvenience, as well as the vnconftitutional tendency, of mixing any thing in money bills, with the ordinary and extraordinary fervices of the year, ~ fhould give you a very unfair idea ot the confidence which His Majefty is dif- tofed to rely on the wifdom of the Aflembly, were I to fay any thing further Fbn the fubjed. In ftridt conformity to this principle, it would have been per- ifedly proper to have propofed the meafure for granting a remuneration to the Imembers of the AlTembly, in a feparate and diftindl bill, as by that means a [fair and free difcuflion of that meafure might have been had, without entering |into any extraneous matter. Upon the merits of the bill itfelf I have fo fully ftated my opinion in my former letters, that notwithftanding what may have been the praAice of former times, founded upon the neceifity of the cafe, yet in fuch times as thefe, and Ijiotwithftanding the fingle inftance of fuch a practice in N*va-Scotia, I muft pill perfevere in thinking, that at the period in which we live, fuch a meafure Fcan only tend to lefTen the weight and dignity of the Aflembly, and diminifh Ithe reverence and refped which it is to be hoped the Province will always ftcw Ito its Legiflature. ■^■m / o r 46 IV. Jiattd Jpne 5, 179^* it is with infinite concern I find from your letter, No. 35, as well u fixml bne which has been addrefled to me by Mr. Botsiford» the Speaker of the HoUie of Aflembly of New-Brunfwick, that the fame difputes and mifunderftandingt (which I had hoped would have been put an cno to, and healed, by the obfer- vations I have repeatedly made to you upon them, in fp nuny of my dit patches) dill continue to prevail, fo much to the injury of the joint intereft of the Crown and of the Ph)vince. With refpedl to the petition to the King, inclofed in Mr. Botsford's letter to me, I have only to refer to what I have ftated on the fubjed of it, in my letters of the 9th June, 1796, and the 13th June laft. And when ypu mall have laid before the Houfe of Aflembly the principles and rules of legiflative proceeding, as contained in thofe letters, I cannot allow myfelf to fuppofe that anv thing like a ferious difliculty can ftand ia the way of the fincere and mutual endeavors of the different Branches of the Ix»iflature, to reftore harmony and unanimity to their proceedings, by the eftablilhment of a regular fyfteru JTor bringing for* ward, and voting diftinaly and feparatelv from any foreign or extraneous natter, the fums necefiary to be granted for tne public fervices of the Colony. As it does not appear in the draft of the bills tranfmitted to me in Mr. Botsford's letter, that any part of the monies voted by the Aflemblv is propofed to be paid otherwife than by the Governor's warrant to the treaiury, the only obfta* de that itands in the way of an amicable and final adjuitment, is the refiifal to feparate from the public fervices of the Colony JTuch other fervices as are of a particular or individual nature, which is a determination which eVidcudy could ' not but frequently embarrafs, and impede the progrefs of meafures which Itand on a totally diftinA and different bafis. i In the confideration, therefore, of fuch particular, or individual fervices, as are recommended by Uie Affembly, there can be no doubt but that all due at- tention and refpeA mould be paid to the fehfe of fo refpedable a body. But* •n the other hand, nothing can be more inconfiflent with the freedom of all deliberation, than to involve in the fame decifion, matters of a nature altogether fordgn and diftinA from each other ; for, could fuch a mode of proceeding be admitted, it muft necelTarily follow, that the fuccefs of every mesuure could no longer depend upon its own intrinfic merit, but on the quality of fome other meafure, with which it may have no conneAion whatever ; an idea fo prepof* terqus and fo univerfally exploded} that it cannot poiEbly be fupported by a fingle advocate. t>