Letters of Dennys De Berdt, 1757-1770
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repeated the same but had never received any answer at all from him relative thereto, notwithstanding sundry Lrs. had passed from the Speaker to him since that period contaiaing matters treated on in his aforesaid Lrs. to the Speaker & notwithstanding he was told when the Petition of Complaint was transmitted to him in order to be presented to your Majesty, that the Documents would soon follow, & he was ordered to present the said Petition to yom- Majesty immediately and the Gov''- being also c...alled upon by the Committee to know what he had to urge in support of his Petition against granting any further time to the Agent for the Complainants, he offered several reasons to shew that Evidence might have been transmitted to England & received by the Agent for the Complainants in due time, and amongst other things he submitted to their Lordships Consideration the printed Journals of the House of Representatives, whereby it appeared that a former Petition to your Majesty to remove him the said Governor, had been brought into the House of Representatives on the 30 June 1768, and that after debate, the same had been recommitted in order that the Committee might bring in Evidence in support of divers articles alledged; and, by the said printed Journals it further appeared that the next year Viz', on the 27*'' June 1769, the Petition of complaint against the Governor (now under con- sideration of this Committee) was brought into the House & ordered to be presented to yom- Majesty, altho' it does not appear by the said Jour- nals that any Evidence was then produced in support of any of the arti- cles of the said Petition; and lastly the Agent for the Complainants having declared to this Committee that he declined proceeding on the business now, or at any future day, unless he was allowed the time he had applied for in his aforementioned Petition of the 15 Febru'", and as much more indefinitely at the expiration thereof as might be necessary for him to re- ceive Instructions from his Constituents — The Lords of the Committee considering that the Complainants ought to have been prepared with Evidence to support their Charges at the time of presenting the same, or within a reasonable time after, or at least that they might have been sufiiciently prepared since the bringing into the House of Representa- tives the former Petition to remove the Governor in June 1768, and further that the House of Representatives having omitted to send over to their Agent, the Documents necessary to make good their Complaints, altho' it appears by the aforesaid printed Journals, that the House con- tinued sitting Eighteen days after the passing of the said order of the 27 June 1769, could only be with a view to keep up a spnit of Clamour & 410 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS [Makch, Discontent in the said Province, and considering likewise that several of the said articles of complaint against the Governor, could not be supposed to affect the Governor but are rather a charge against your Majesty's Government Their Lordships are therefore of opinion upon the whole, that the several Charges contained in the said Petition of the House of Represen- tatives of Massachusetts Bay, are groundless, vexatious & scandalous, and that the said Petition ought to be dismissed.
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repeated the same but had never received any answer at all from him relative thereto, notwithstanding sundry Lrs. had passed from the Speaker to him since that period contaiaing matters treated on in his aforesaid Lrs. to the Speaker & notwithstanding he was told when the Petition of Complaint was transmitted to him in order to be presented to your Majesty, that the Documents would soon follow, & he was ordered to present the said Petition to yom- Majesty immediately and the Gov''- being also c...alled upon by the Committee to know what he had to urge in support of his Petition against granting any further time to the Agent for the Complainants, he offered several reasons to shew that Evidence might have been transmitted to England & received by the Agent for the Complainants in due time, and amongst other things he submitted to their Lordships Consideration the printed Journals of the House of Representatives, whereby it appeared that a former Petition to your Majesty to remove him the said Governor, had been brought into the House of Representatives on the 30 June 1768, and that after debate, the same had been recommitted in order that the Committee might bring in Evidence in support of divers articles alledged; and, by the said printed Journals it further appeared that the next year Viz', on the 27*'' June 1769, the Petition of complaint against the Governor (now under con- sideration of this Committee) was brought into the House & ordered to be presented to yom- Majesty, altho' it does not appear by the said Jour- nals that any Evidence was then produced in support of any of the arti- cles of the said Petition; and lastly the Agent for the Complainants having declared to this Committee that he declined proceeding on the business now, or at any future day, unless he was allowed the time he had applied for in his aforementioned Petition of the 15 Febru'", and as much more indefinitely at the expiration thereof as might be necessary for him to re- ceive Instructions from his Constituents — The Lords of the Committee considering that the Complainants ought to have been prepared with Evidence to support their Charges at the time of presenting the same, or within a reasonable time after, or at least that they might have been sufiiciently prepared since the bringing into the House of Representa- tives the former Petition to remove the Governor in June 1768, and further that the House of Representatives having omitted to send over to their Agent, the Documents necessary to make good their Complaints, altho' it appears by the aforesaid printed Journals, that the House con- tinued sitting Eighteen days after the passing of the said order of the 27 June 1769, could only be with a view to keep up a spnit of Clamour & 410 THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS [Makch, Discontent in the said Province, and considering likewise that several of the said articles of complaint against the Governor, could not be supposed to affect the Governor but are rather a charge against your Majesty's Government Their Lordships are therefore of opinion upon the whole, that the several Charges contained in the said Petition of the House of Represen- tatives of Massachusetts Bay, are groundless, vexatious & scandalous, and that the said Petition ought to be dismissed.
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