262 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739

U. H. J.

No. 734

Proceedings " This Manner of answering without any Reasons
to shew the Weakness of Our Arguments we took Notice of in Our
Message of the 5^th Instant and there mentioned Our Expectation,
" that you would have pointed out to Us particularly what force
those Arguments had to perswade you of the Justice of Your Pro-
ceeding " To this by Your Message of yesterday you with the
same Conciseness as before say, that the Justice of Your Proceedings
you hope speaks it self, And then you add that The Observation
We made with Regard to Our Arguments against passing the Bill
for Support of Government seemed to you too ludicrous for a Sub-
ject of so great Importance and calculated with the rest of Our Mes-
sage rather to display a Peice of Wit than to bring that Affair to an
amicable Conclusion "
We must own Ourselves very much at a Loss how to come to a
Right Understanding of any Subject upon which We may be so
unhappy as to differ from your House in opinion, If Your Behaviour
in this Matter has been right and proper, and Ours wrong and im-
pertinent; for thus it shortly stands We offer Arguments for Our
Opinion you tell us, those Arguments confirm you the more in a
contrary Opinion, We intimate Our Expectation of being informed
how you apprehended those Arguments turned against Us, and con-
firmed Your own Opinion, to this you only say, The Justice of Your
Proceeding speaks it Self and that Our Observations are ludicrous
or witty, this surely cannot be termed Reason and a Proper Method
to reconcile Our Differences in Judgment
However little obliged to us his Lordship might think himself by
Our Opinion of his Right of levying Money merely because you had
not shewn Reasons for denying it; we think you had no Room to
insinuate Our Opinion was grounded merely on Want of Reasons
from you for your Denyal: Be pleased to recollect, that we found Our
Opinion of his Lordships Right, on the Act of 1704 You instead of
offering any Arguments to us against that Law barely tell us in your
Message of the 4^th Instant, that you deny his Lordships Right of
levying that money because his Lordship never had any such Right
by such Law, which is just the same thing, as if you had said, that
his Lordship had not the Right because he had not the Right And
are We not then well justifyed in saying upon this Point that We could
not be convinced barely by the Authority of such a Denyal without
some Reasons to inforce it

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If that Part of Our Message which mentions an Attack on the
Government in Order to deprive them of a support they are in Pos-
session of, is, as well as that Part supported by Reason, And then
the Argument is very short; you expressly confess in your Message of
the 4^th Instant that, His Lordship has been in Possession of the Sup-
port of Government ever since the Year 1733 " ft is very manifest,
you now endeavour to deprive him of it; And pray may not that Per-