74 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 4, 1724.

U. H. J.

manner of the British Parliament in all the debates with Us
throughout this whole Assembly then we hope should we
speak like you it would be allowed by you to be speaking after
the manner of the British Parliament but We hope Your
Honours intended no Offence to that Great Body nor do we
intend to Offer any to your House and if We are wanting in
Good manners we promise to learn when the Business of our
Country will Allow us more Leisure
Indeed We Apprehended your Honours were in Haste tho
from the 28 of 8ber till the 2^d Instant in Answering our Mes-
sage by Col^o Mackall & Others and we cant find you have
answered it as if you had given it A deliberate Reading We
say in that Message for your Honours to wait for his Lord-
ships Advice instead of Giving your Advice to his Lordship
seems to invert the Order and end of your Office as Coun-
cillors and you were pleased to say in your last Message, that
your not giving into our Measures concerning the Oath has
drawn that Calumny on you We say we esteem it no ways
necessary for faithful Councillors to know what will please
their Prince before they give him their advice &c^a which tho'
we spoke Generally of such as study'd rather to Please than to
serve you are pleased to lay Claim to as Part of your Char-
acter and call it a Calumny thrown on you by us and we find
because We give you our opinion of what good Consequence
your communicating to his Lordship your sence of our re-
solves might have been you take that as a Calumny and a
charge of neglect for not Advising his Lordship on the late
Address and we hope in all this there is not the least appear-
ance of Calumny but If your Honours are pleased to call our

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Reasonings with you by such names as you are displeased at
we must leave you to your Liberty who best know how to
describe yourselves and Actions
We did not charge your Honours with having had the
Address for it was not directed to you We only supposed you
to be Acquainted with it which tho you were not Judicially
as an House yet most of you were in A Private Way and
every member might have been for it was returned to the
Secretary to be Copied and sent to England and now remains
on publick Record but as our Message only mentioned that if
[when] Your Honours were Acquainted with the Address you
had then apprized his Lordship &c^a We desire you to Consider
how Impossibilitys are thereby made a Part of your Duty
or what Instances you have of our forgetting ourselves or
of any Precipitancy or Sanguinity in the pursuit of what you
say we never once Considered for we only suppos'd it might
have been of use to his Lordship for you to have apprised