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however proper and usual it may be to send our Members as Messen-
gers on other occasions of Differences or Affronts in Order to Pre-
vent the like for the future yet when a Difference arises by an Affront
offered to a Member on a Message to send another with a Message
before some Satisfaction Given on that Head would expose such
Member to the like Treatment, when and as it should please the
Lower House since by such an Unworthy Condescension of the
Upper House and the Business being still Continued and carried on
through the same Channel the Lower House might never think them-
selves under any Pressing Necessity of clearing up what This House
might Apprehend to be an Indignity
Had we employed our Door Keeper on that Occasion, The Lower
House would have had some Reason to complain of a milder Medium
not being used But as Our Clerk the next in Station to the. members
of this House, was sent We Conceive it will be as difficult to shew
how a Milder Medium could have been used, As how This present
Lower House now sitting by Virtue of Writts issued after the Dis-
solution of the last Assembly could have readily undeceived the
Gentleman or the Honourable Board mentioned in their Address in
relation to a Misunderstanding or Misapprehension that subsisted
in the last Assembly if a Milder Medium had been then used
To this Message Sir, This House received in answer from the
then Lower House the following Message viz. (See page 163.)
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No. 734
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This Message is so very remarkeable in many Particulars that We
hope for your Excellencys Indulgence whilst we make some Ob-
servations on it The first Paragraph begins with a Charge of Call-
ing the Speaker out of the Chair by the Clerk of This House; We
Confess the Clerk was sent with the Message & Bills already men-
tioned and with Orders to Acquaint the proper Officer attending at
the Door of the then Lower House that " he had a Message from
the Upper House to deliver to the Speaker " which Words we are
Assured by the Clerk were very punctually made use of. But what
Message such Officer carried to the Speaker, This House cannot
pretend to say, Neither shall we presume to Judge whether by the
Rules of the Lower House The Speaker is allowed to go out of the
House to receive any Messages whatever from this House: But we
hope this House is clearly Justified from any Imputation on Account
of The Speaker of the late Lower House being Called out of the
Chair and House by our Clerk, and therefore this House Could not
but be Greatly Surprised at that Demand of Immediate Reparation
contained in the second Paragraph of that Message
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