246 Assembly Proceedings, November 1-December 20, 1765.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Dec. 16

and unreasonable Accounts of Fees for Prosecutions against those
who had been guilty of Excesses in the Proprietary Disputes about
the Limits of this Province and Pennsylvania and the absurd Claim
of a late Governor founded only in the Abuse of a Trust conferred
on him by the Public. Benefits to this Province now universally
acknowledged and more than adequate to temporary Inconveniencies
that those Struggles for Liberty and Justice occasioned. The part
your Predecessors took in those glorious Conquests need not be
exhited our Journals and yours are full of Messages from the Upper
House very like your last and in those of our Predecessors solid
Answers may be found to almost every thing you have advanced
on this Subject. Truth and Reason have prevailed at last though
the Journals of both Houses are mournful Histories of their being
for a Time suppressed by Power or obscured by Proprietary In-
fluence
We should think when your Honours reflect that our Constituents
are remarkable in their Quickness to discover Right from Wrong
that every People who dare to think at all know something of their
own Interests & Rights you would forbear any Strokes to catch
popular Applause in a Dispute so plainly against you. The Up: Ho:
have heretofore made many Attempts to gain the Opinion and Con-
fidence of the People but they have allways been unseasonable.
At Times when they have treated the Rep^rsentative Body with
great Lightness and your Journals Speak the Result wherefore then
should you throw out the Offer you now do? Suppose the Matter
should be determined in our Favour by the King and Council as we
really think it would ought the Country to pay the Exchange of a
Government Agent to carry on the Dispute against the People ? you
might as well contend for the Propriety of a Mans being obliged
before he should be allowed to prosecute or defend his Right to supply
his Adversary with Money to carry on the Contest ag.^t himself. If
your Honours are not closely enough connected with Lord Balt.^re to
induce him to lay what you may think proper before the King and
Council it is probable a Gentleman Calvert Esq^r mentioned in the
Court Calendar as Agent for the Province of Maryland may transact
this Piece of Business for you and if he has a Right to assume that
Title we presume he derives his Authority from your Honours
either in your Capacity of Council of State or Upper House or
from some Branch of the Government and we presume whoever
gave him his Title must have given him an adequate Reward for
Office and Salary seem to be as closely connected as Light and Heat
we would therefore propose it to your Honours Consideration whe.^r in
these Times of Distress it would not be more consistent with Economy
and the peoples Interest for your Hon.^rs to employ the Titular Agent
on his Old Salary than to have if you could a new Tax on the People
to support an Agent against their own Interest