I have no reason to expect that it or anything that I can say will be at all grateful or have any weight with your Excellency, after the answer I received to a message I did myself the honor to send you, concerning an ordinance you were about to make for establishing a Court of Equity in the Supreme Court as being in my opinion contrary to law, which I begged might be delaved till I could be heard on that head. I thought myself

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well in the duty of my office in sending this message, and hope I do not flatter myself in thinking I shall be justified in it by your superiors, as well as mine. The answer your Excellency was pleased to send me was, that 1 need not give myself any trouble about that affair, that you would neither receive a visit nor any message from me, that you would neither rely upon my integrity nor depend on at all fit to be trusted my judgment, that you thought me a person notever since your coming with anv concerns relating to the king, that person and as your to as both you treated to the o-overnment I had impertinence; and rudeness, slight, with tive representa king's the Deanything further of me." desire to hear or see charges that you did not against and intimations made the various fending himself that " if judges can be so bv the'oovernor, he reminds his excellency intimidated as not to dare to give any opinion but what is pleasing to a governor and agreeable to his private views," the people of suffer in forthe province must In relation to tune or even life. the accusation of inattention or want of politeness, and other personal matters, he adds these pointed words: " If a bow awkwardly made, or anything of that some defect in ceremoor kind, nial in addressing yon, has occasioned that remark, I beg it may , be attributed to want of courtly : education, or to anything else rather than to want of respect to As his Majesty's representative. to my integrity, I have given you no occasion to call it in question.