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unreasonable, to take from the clergy one-fourth part of their
incomes, without any just grounds, or equivalent given to them,
and a transgression of the law of 1702, for the clergy's support and
maintenance; his Lordship therefore dissented to the above tobacco
act of 1728, in January the 30th, 1729, O. S.
The above circumstance is well known in Maryland, and shews the
peculiar regard the Lords of his Majesty's Council had for the rights
of the Proprietor. Several instances of the like application for
redress, have happened in the time of former Proprietors, which has
never been refused when properly applied for: the present Proprietor
is easy of access, and will occasion no more trouble or expence to
the party, than is really necessary on so essential and beneficial a
point as that of redress.

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By this time, Sir, I apprehend I have most fully answered the
material points in the Querist's Queries, and the Pamphleteer's Re-
marks upon the constitution of the Province of Maryland; and have
laid open and exposed to public view their ill-grounded suspicions,
false facts, and fallacious reasonings. The envy, hatred, and malice
interpersed throughout their puerile performances, have carried them
beyond all bounds. By frequent inuendo's, and sometimes by open,
barefaced calumny, they have endeavoured to traduce and asperse
the character of the present Lord Baltimore their Proprietor, invested
by Charter under the Crown, with almost regal power; abstracted
from which, he is a gentleman of high birth, liberal education, great
abilities, and unblemished honour; of a friendly and humane turn
of mind, and strictly upright in all his dealings. If he is tenacious
of his rights, it is because he would not injure his successor; but he
can occasionally give them up, when he thinks the necessity of the
times require it. Shall worth like this, be vilely bespattered with the
dirt of low, groveling, anonymous scribblers, who work like moles
under ground, and dare not face the light ?

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The Querist, influenced by the same envenomed malice, has by
initial letters and inuendo's, aimed unjustly to abuse the uncle of
the Lord-Proprietor, his Lordship's Provincial Secretary; nor has
his pen spared the Governor, who, by all accounts, is an honourable,
generous, open, and just man, and far from being wanting in abilities
either civil or military. As a proof of the latter, his late Majesty
honoured him with the command in chief of all his forces, until his
Majesty's General arrived in America, upon whose arrival, he re-
signed his command, with general applause for his good conduct.
With the same reason and cause, these scribblers have fallen foul
upon the Upper House of Assembly, without bringing real reasons
to support their invective allegations.
I shall here Sir, put an end to what I promised you in the begin-
ning of this letter, my animadversions on the most remarkable
passages in the two very extraordinary productions. Truth will