To this End I have brought out the Royal Appointments for forming the Council, and supplying the Places of Lieutenant Governor and Chief Justice. And in concurrence with the Commander-in-chief of the British Forces, who is also his Majesty's Commissioner for restoring Peace to the Colonies, I shall as speedily as the publick Exigencies will permit, give order for opening the Courts of Judicature and convening the Assembly ; and in general proceed to the Execution of the Powers reposed in me, for the free Course and complete Re-Establishment, both of the Legislative and Executive Authority.

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1086 PROCLAMATION OF THE LAST

I take great satisfaction in the Anticipation of that happy day when Relations, Friends and Fellow-Citizens, having dismissed their gloomy Apprehensions, shall re-embrace each other, and return to the Offices, Pleasures and Employments of Peace. Your Country with your antient Priviledges, will then participate in an extensive Commerce and be exempted from all Taxa-. tions not imposed by yourselves.

Until I meet you regularly in General Assembly for the Restoration of mutual Confidence, and the Remedying of private as well as public Evils, I pledge myself to Men of all classes in every part of the Province, that it is the compassionate Desire of your Sovereign and of the Parent Country, to unite in Affection as in Interest with the Colonies planted by her hand and which have long flourished under her care ; that the suggestions of her intention to impair their Rights and Priviledges are the Arts of Malice and Faction,--and that every Insinuation made by the domestic Enemies of Great Britain of her being disposed to abandon the Provinces to internal Anarchy; and the Mischiefs of their jarring Interests and Claims, or to the fraudulent and ambitious views of foreign popish and arbitrary Powers (of whom your Fathers had a wise and virtuous Jealousy) is equally false and malicious.