The Governour Communicated the following Answer to the
Address of this House Viz.

Gentlemen of the Lower house of Assembly.

I Have perused your Address delivered to me by Your Speaker
on the 5^th Instant and Cannot but be very much Surprised to find
that Instead of such Mutual Civilities as have usually passed at the
Beginning of former Assemblys your Address Contains Charges
against the Government in General and my self in Particular which I
am Confident are without foundation, and which, I am very Sorry to
say seem rather Calculated to Create Animosities and foment Differ-
ences Then to Forward the Publick good, however I must own myself
Oblidged to you for giving me so fair and Publick an Opportunity
of Vindicating my own Character and Conduct which I flatter my
self I shall be able to do In Clear and Intelligible a manner as will
give Entire Satisfaction not only to Every honest and Sensible
Gentleman in your house but also in the whole province

In the first place you Confess your selves at a loss to know Cer-
tainly the motives That Induced me to the unprecedented proroga-
tion as you are pleased to Term it of the Last Assembly which I
must own Surprizes me the more as I am not Master Enough of the
English Language to Express my self more Clearly to you upon that
head then I have already Done, without Decending to particulars,
of which it is not Possible that you Can be Ignorant, nor Can I