402 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 6, 1725.

L. H. J.

Whereupon the same is Referred Accordingly.
The House adjourns till to Morrow Morning Nine of the
Clock

Friday Novem^r the 5^th 1725

The House meets according to Adjournment Yesterdays
proceedings are Read.
The following Message prepared Yesterday viz :

By the Lower House of Assembly

Novenf the 4^th 1725
May it please your Honours.

There would be no more unreasonableness in your Expect-
ing another allowance from the publick, than in Ours, if we
had one allowance already, Raised for us by the Country,
and Expected another as you do. If you be at a Loss to find
unhandsome Usage in your own Messages towards us, It
must at least be owing to your forgetfullness or oversight.
It seems even by your Message of Yesterday, as if you
thought the treatment we Complained of before, as unhand-
some and Insulting, was yet too good for the Representatives
of Yourselves and the people in this Legislature, or other-
wise we cannot think you would have so Considerately In-
sisted, that we deserved the Character you gave us, of being
an Obstinate People, and Obstinately adhering to our Opin-
ions. If you had Intended to Express your Selves in a parlia-
mentary Way, we are sure you might have found Softer
Terms, but if you were Resolved to Stir Dissention you could
not well have Chosen Rougher to Express your Sence in. We
Complained of this, as Ill Treatment in Your former, But
now by this Message, Your Correspondence it Self becomes
Vexatious. You fully Satisfye us by your Latter, that when
in Your former Message you seemed Displeased with us, for
saying You were only Assistants to the Prerogative, it was
not a Mistake, which we at first Neglected as one, but by
your more Considerately Reflecting on it, and Repeating the
same thing in Yesterdays Message, we have Reason to be-
lieve you design'd it as an occasion of Difference. In your
Message of Octo^r the 29^th last you Construe our words and
say they Imply that you went about to hinder us from pre-
ventative Justice, and then you use this Construction of your
own as a foundation whereon you build abundance of Accu-
sations aga^t us but in the Message of 28^th October Last,

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Seconded by Yesterday's, You are not Content to Construe
our Message as best Suits Your Temper, but you are pleased