. The history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war : with an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies . encies are of allkinds. They do not fcruple to offer to the houfe all they know of the ftate ofAmerica, without thofe fears which affeft our officers in that country ; and asthe minifter has refufed to give us the whole correfpondcnce, this fupplementalinformation is become the more necefl^ary, It was further reprefented on the part of adminiftration, that the committ
. The history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war : with an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies . encies are of allkinds. They do not fcruple to offer to the houfe all they know of the ftate ofAmerica, without thofe fears which affeft our officers in that country ; and asthe minifter has refufed to give us the whole correfpondcnce, this fupplementalinformation is become the more necefl^ary, It was further reprefented on the part of adminiftration, that the committeefor the confideration of the American papers was appointed with a view to theircoming to fome fpeedy refolution, fuited to the dignity of parliament, and tothe prefent ftate of affairs in North America ; that the reftoration of peace in thatcountry, depended as much upon the immediate application, as upon the vi-gour of the meafures purfued ; that the great variety of fafls, and the mafs ofmatter which muft of courfe come under confideration in the committee towhich the petitions were referred, would be a work of tedious inquiry and longtoili that fuch a length of inquiry was incompatible v/ith the difpatch neceflary in. D!Franklin THE HISTORY OP AMERICA. 495 In the other bufinefs, as the haixls of go inment would thereby be tied up, CHAP. the powers of parliament reftrained from giving that fpeedy relief, which the ^C^ ^preiTure of public affairs required. On the iue ol oppofuion, it was replied, thatthe miniltry need not be in fuoh a violent hade to forward coercive meafiires, whichexperience had fhewn,in lateinftances, to be highly pernicious ; that it would belefs infulting to the petitioners, and lefs dilgracetul to parliament, as well as fairerand more manly, at once to rejeift the petitions, though they contained nothingexceptionable either in matter or torm, than to confign them to what was termed a committee of oblivion or to hear them after a determination.
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