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which as a fair representer of the contest he ought to have done;
but instead of such due candour, he immediately launches forth into
the most barefaced falsehoods, and virulent, indecent, and base
reflexions upon the Upper House, in a language fit only for a
Newgate sollicitor.

To be clear myself from the like imputation of inserting any
falsehoods, and to prove his, I must desire your's and the public's
attention to what follows, as it contains the whole that passed be-
tween the two Houses, and detects the absolute falsities the writer of
the pamphlet has dared to commit to print againts the Upper House
of Assembly. What will you say, when I tell you, that there is not one
word in the Votes and Proceedings, either of the Lower or Upper
House, (as will appear by the Journals of the same) I say there is
not one word of the following impudent assertions of the pamphlet
writer, to wit, "Say the Lower House, We will appeal to his Maj-
esty, and let him decide between us. No, say, the Upper House, We
will submit to no such appeal."
As to the subsequent paragraph, wherein he says, "In the same

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paragraph is this remarkable passage, &c." it is in the Upper House's
answer of the 24th April, 1762, to the Lower House, touching a
message from the Lower House, April the 15th, 1762, but not one
word of the foregoing words, as will appear by extracts from the
Votes and Proceedings of the Lower House of Assembly, March
the 17th sessions, 1762, and which extracts correspond verbatim
with the Upper House's Journals of the same date and year.

The following message from the Lower House.
May it please your Honours,
To answer the Royal expectations, communicated to us by his
Excellency the Governor at the opening of this session, we have
framed and passed the bill which goes to your Honours with this
message: We have formed it upon such a plan, as to us seems most
suitable to the circumstances of our constituents, and in such a man-
ner as we conceive the best adapted to the nature of the plan; but as
in a new system of such a length, and of an intricate nature, some

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parts may possibly be found liable to objections, which may have
escaped us, and as we, out of a sincere regard for his Majesty's
service, and an earnest desire to effect a termination of that difference
of sentiment, which has unhappily too long subsisted between the
Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, with respect to the point of
raising supplies for the service of the Crown, are willing to depart
from a strict parliamentary course, and for the present to wave
our right respecting the mode of proceeding on money bills, we
therefore hope that your Honours will shew the same good dis-
position; and if in the course of your consideration of our bill, any
objections to it should occur, you will also overlook the strictness of

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