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U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper
No. 735
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I am very far from expecting, or even desiring You to follow
implicitly the Directions of the Government, all that I recommend
to you is to weigh with Candour and Impartiality every Proposition
that comes before you, without any Regard to the Gentleman it
comes from, whether he has a Place under the Government, or
wants One, and to approve or reject it, as you think in your Con-
sciences it will be for the Good or Hurt of your Country
This is so just and reasonable a Method of Proceeding, and so
very apparently for your own true Interest and Advantage, that I
should have thought it unnecessary to have mentioned it to you,
had I not found by Experience, that many honest and well meaning
Men have been induced to oppose several things, of very great Ad-
vantage to the Province, that have been proposed by the Govern-
ment
As to Aggrievances of any Sort, I am sure it is very far from my
Nature to countenance or encourage them upon any Account what-
soever, and I can truly bear Witness for his Lordship, that he is so
far from desiring to make any Encroachment on the Rights of his
Tenants, that I have ever found him as ready and willing to grant
them all reasonable favours and Indulgencies, as Assemblies them-
selves have been to apply for them: however, if by any Prejudice,
or Difference in Our Ways of thinking, you should take for Griev-
ances, what the Government looks upon as the just and legal Rights
of his Lordship, and the undoubted Prerogative of the Crown,
nothing remains for us to do, but to refer Ourselves to the Justice
and Equity of his Majesty, whose Ear is always most graciously
open to the just Complaints of the remotest of his Subjects, and from
whom We may expect such a happy Determination of all Matters
in Dispute, as will leave Us nothing further to do, but to unite Our
Endeavours in promoting the Trade and Prosperity of the Prov-
ince, which I am sure no Man in it wishes more sincerely than
Myself
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock
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