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stand, I have done with regard to them, which was to Fort Cumber-
land, from the best accounts I have been able to procure; but that
does not come to be the question; for if they will consider what has
happened in almost all the other Provinces, they will find they are
single in the opinion of the King's power of marching the Provincial
troops into other Provinces, &c."
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I beg his Lordship's pardon, for not inserting the whole of his
letter, which so finely and fairly illustrates that part of the bill and
address, which seems to interfere with his Majesty's Prerogative.
I omit the latter end only for brevity sake.
Does not this letter of his Lordship prove beyond a doubt the
rectitude of the measures of the Upper House, and the justness of
their reprehensions, whenever they found the Lower House wrong-
headedly attempting the least infringement of his Majesty's Royal
Prerogative. It is allowed that if the bill prepared and offered by the
Lower House had passed into a law, it would have been a direct
violation of the King's Prerogative, and the wisdom of the Upper
House in rejecting it is highly applauded. Yet this anonymous scrib-
bler, this hardy champion for the Lower House, dares publicly avow
their proceedings in this very case, and endeavours to cast an odium
on the Upper House, for their having watchfully guarded the rights
of the Crown, and too mildly reprehended the Lower House for
their endeavours by that bill to subvert them.

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As the Upper House is composed of men of such sagacity and
honour, they are fit subjects, and true servants of the King; the
properest persons to form the Upper House and the Lord-Pro-
prietor's Council, and may well be esteemed the guardians of the
people's rights and priviledges. These men will never suffer the
Royal Prerogative to be broke in upon, nor the power delegated by
Charter to be lopped, nor the people's rights to be trampled on. And
the writer quotes page 52 [p. 398] an extract from the report of the
Lords of trade on the Pensylvania acts, as urged by the Upper to
the Lower House.

"We are satisfied, that there is nothing so likely to preserve the
tranquility of the Province itself, or its dependence upon the mother
country, as the maintaining with a strict and steady hand, the neces-
sary power and just Prerogatives of the Crown, and the preferring
an uniform and settled principle of Government, to an occasional
departure from it, for temporary convenience. Every day's ex-
perience convinces us, that it is in vain to negotiate away his Maj-

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esty's Prerogatives; every new concession becomes a new demand,
and that, my Lords, of some new dispute." — Observe how he
quibbles upon this home application of the Upper to the Lower
House, viz. "Every proposition, says he, in this part of the report,
I believe all the inhabitants of Maryland will very readily assent

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