The Lower House. 363

The Address being approved of, was ordered to be ingrossed. The
Ingrossed address being brought in and read, the Question was put,
whether the House doth Assent thereto ? Resolved in the Affirmative.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 46

For the Affirmative

M^r Wilson M^r Smallwood M^r Sheredine
Harris Harrison Buchanan
p. Hammond Wilkinson Paca
Carroll N. Goldsborough Wootton
Worthington . Lloyd Addison
Hen. Hall I. Goldsborough Stoddert
Smith Hooper Hopper
Brome Pearce Tilghman
Mackall Hyland
Jo^s Hall Bayard

For the Negative

M^r Barnes M^r King M^r T. Hammond
Bond Dashiel Henry
Key Dennis Purnell
I. Gresham Thomas Robins
R. Gresham Ennalls Scarborough
[Stoughton] Lecompte

The Address was then ordered to be signed by the Honourable
Speaker on Behalf of the House; And it is as follows, Viz.
To His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esq^r Governor of Maryland
May it please your Excellency
Our Remonstrance, presented you in support of the Privileges of
our House violated by y^r Excellency in the person of M^r Smith, is so
far from affording us a Prospect of a Forbearance of such Practices
for the future, that your very Answer is a fresh Breach of the
Privileges of this House, by your Endeavours to render us con-
temptible, as you manifestly do in every Part of that extraordinary
message. We have always thought that civil Language was most
becoming the Charact" of Gentlemen even in a Private Conversa-
tion, and much more so in all kinds of Correspondence in A Parlia-
mentary way, and have Accordingly been careful, even under strong
Provocations to the Contrary, to behave, in all Intercourse with
your Excellency, agreeable to such Sentiments; and this perhaps may
have been the Reason why we have been so frequently treated, as
of late we have been, in so unbecoming a manner by your Excellency
A Confession and Excuse is often better made than a Justification
and particularly so, when a Fact charged is true, and that Fact is
against some Rule of Conduct, or matter of Right; and therefore