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burgh, I had every Reason to be perswaded that You would have
followed the Example of all the neighbouring Colonies & chearfully
embraced so favourable an Opportunity to demonstrate to all your
fellow Subjects that Your Loyalty did not consist in bare Profes-
sions only, and that nothing might interrupt you in the discharge of
your Duty on that Occasion I acquainted you in my Speech when
We met that I would not propose anything else to your Consideration
till We should have discharged Our Duty on the Point which
brought Us together, In your Address which by the Bye is in a Stile
remarkable in itself and peculiar to some Penman in Your House,
you gave me the strongest Assurance of your Loyalty to his Majesty
and zeal to the common Cause according to your usual Custom, In
these professions I am perswaded many in your House were sincere
and spoke the Real Sentiments of their Hearts and every man who
wishes well to his Country cannot but lament that the Influence of
a few designing Men who have nothing less in their View than the
Public Welfare should divert the honest and well meaning from the
pursuit of what may be of real Advantage to the People they repre-
sent, if these Men had discovered themselves by openly declaring
against doing any thing for his Majestys Service or discharging the
Duty of Loyal Subjects I am sure they would have met with the
Contempt from a Majority of your House which such a Behaviour
would have justly deserved In his Situation therefore these most
Dutiful and Loyal Liege Subjects thought it their best Policy to be
very lavish of and loud in their usual Professions of Zeal for his
Majestys Services that they might have an Opportunity the better
to impose on those who meant well & Obstruct every thing that
should be proposed for the Good of that Service they were met upon
In View of effecting this Scheme a Committee was appointed to Con-
sider of Ways and Means to raise Money to supply the Garrison of
Louisburgh then a Bill framed wherein to furnish a Pretence for
spending the time a very long Act was needlessly recited and the
Bill itself so contrived as to render the Execution of it very difficult
if not impracticable and entirely useless to the Purposes designed
by it in doing this the time was taken up from the 5th to the 20 of
August and that it was thus mispent with intent to render the supply
which ought to have been given immediately of no real Use if the
more favourite Scheme of making a Provision at all should not
succeed is evident to me and I think must appear so to every one who
is acquainted with the Circumstances of the Country as every Man
who is so cannot but know that the only way of raising Money im-
mediately was by taking it out of the Paper Money Office where it
lay ready and which might have been done in a day or two as well
as Months or Years and wherein no time ought to have been lost,
because the Nature of the service required the utmost dispatch and
the means of replacing the Money might have been considered and
provided for at Leisure but lest these Contrivances should not have
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U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
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