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A Revision of the late American Trade Laws is going to :
be the immediate Object of Parliament, nor will the late Trans-
actions there, however provoking, prevent, I dare say, the full
Operation of that kind and Indulgent Disposition prevailing
both in his Majesty and his Parliament to give to the Trade
and Interests of America, every Relief, which the true State
of their Circumstances demands, or admits.
Nothing will tend more effectually to every conciliating pur-
pose, and there is nothing therefore I have in Command more
earnestly to require of you than that you should exert yourself
in recommending it strongly to the Assembly, that full and
ample Compensation be made to those, who, from the Madness
of the People, have suffered for their Deference to Acts of the
British Legislature; and you will be particularly attentive that
such Persons be effectually secured from any farther insult ;
and that as far as in you lies you will take Care by your Ex-
ample and Influence, that they may be treated with that re-
spect to their Persons and that Justice in regard to all their
Pretensions which their merits and their Suffering undoubt-
edly Claim. The Resolutions of the House of Commons which
by his Majesty's Commands I transmit to you to be laid before
the Assembly, will shew you the sense of that House on those
Points; and I am persuaded, it will, as it certainly ought, be
the Glory of that Assembly to adopt and imitate those Senti-
ments of the British Parliament, founded on the Clearest
Principles of Humanity and Justice.
I must mention one Circumstance in particular, which ought
to recommend those unhappy People whom the outrage of the
Populace has driven from America, to the Affection of all
that Country, which is, that unprovoked by the Injuries they
had suffered, to a forgetfullness of what they owed to Truth
and their Country, they gave their Testimonies with Knowl-
edge, and without Passion or Prejudice; and those Testi-
monies had I believe, great Weight in the Repeal of the Stamp
Act.
Your Situation which has made you a Witness of the Dis-
traction of that Country, will enable you to form the best
Judgment of the Behaviour which your Province ought to use
upon this Occasion, and of the Arguments which you ought
to employ to enforce the Necessity of such a Behaviour as is
suitable to their present Circumstances.
I am, with great Truth and Regard
Sir
your most Obedient humble Servant
H: S: Conway.
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