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have presented it. The reason why the address they sent on that
occasion, inclosed in a letter to their agent here, (said to be the
Messrs. Franklin, then in London) was not delivered by one of
his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, nor was ever presented
to his Majesty, is said to arise from the impropriety of the address
itself, drawn up contrary to rule and form: Besides, the Querist,
on enquiry, will find, that it is not the first address, either from
America or here, that has not been delivered to the sacred person:
however, the Querist's costituents might have informed him why
it was not presented; and if they have any doubt now remaining,
which I question, they may still be well informed, as the agents
reside in the neighbouring provinces.
Query 9th. Does not a certain C — t Esquire in London, mentioned
in the Court Calendar, under the article of Maryland, as Agent,
represent the people, or only the Proprietor of this Province? If
it is said the former, and that this gentleman's Christian name appears
to be C — s, the Proprietor's Chief Secretary of this Province;
Query, by virtue of what power or authority does he assume that
title, or by what logical distinction, instilled by a St. Omer's educa-
tion, will he be able to justify such a duplicity of character?

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Answer. The designed venom enveloped by the Querist in the
above query, is like the provincial rattle-snake coiled up, whose
position is best prevented by a switch. Mr. Calvert, I am informed,
is the provincial secretary, appointed and commissioned by the Lord
Baltimore his nephew.
The said gentleman being asked, Whether he availed himself of
being provincial agent, replied, In no manner of ways under any
such provincial employ; that he disavowed and duplicity of char-
acter as insinuated by the Querist, one of which is founded solely on
the blunder of the Printer of the Court Calendar, who made the
place mentioned, and disposed of it to C —— t, Esq; in London, with
no more reason for so doing, than the author of the Queries has
for publishing such an heap of incoherent groundless assertions,
and invective insinuations.
Pleased, but not satisfied, with spreading such injurious falshoods,
he goes on in the same query, in expanding the malice of his ran-
corous heart to personal reflections on the above gentleman. — Lest the
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St. Omer's education, I think proper to obviate it, by giving the
following true narrative. — C — t, Esq. was sent to St. Omer's at
an age too young to imbibe any principles hinted at, and from thence
soon recalled; after that, and from about ten years of age, he had
his education and religious principles at a Protestant school at
Cheam [sic] in Surry; that as he was bred, so he has ever since con-
tinued, a Protestant, according and conformable to the doctrines
of the church of England by law established. He is a frequenter of

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