...Notwithstanding this great majority, Lord Chatham, on the 1st of February, proposed a bill, under the title of " A Provisional Act for settling the Troubles in America,...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." This bill, which comprehended a vast extent of matter, and seemed to require much separate discussion,...

...Fehruary, he hrought in the outline of a hill entitled, " A provisional act for settling the trouhles in America, and for asserting the supreme legislative...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." This proposition also miscarried ; and indeed it is ohvious, that no measure short of an ahandonment...

...from Boston was rejected by the house, lord Chatham renewed his conciliatory exertions, by proposing " a provisional act for settling the troubles in America, and for asserting the supreme authority and superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." The debate upon this bill was...

...presenting to the house, soon after, a bill, containing his favorite plan, " for settling the troubles, and for asserting the supreme legislative authority,...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." The great outlines of this plan, were, in the first place, a general declaration, that the colonies...

...from Boston was rejected by the house, lord Chatham renewed his conciliatory exertions, by proposing " a provisional act for settling the troubles in America, and for asserting the supreme authority and superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." In introducing this measure...

...conciliatory schsine, brought into the house of lords the outlines of a bill, under the title of " A provisional act for settling the troubles in America,...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies ;" but it was rejected by a majority of 64 to 32, without being allowed to lie on the table. A joint...

...propose Lord North's pacific plan ;lf but, before the time of their meeting, * See supra, p. 21 1. f " For settling the troubles in America, and for asserting...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." It was "rejected, (Feb. 1, 1775,) by 64 to 32, without being allowed to lie on the table." Amer. Ann....

...Philadelphia, 1775. 1071, Q.. 1. Plan, offered by the earl of Chatham to the house of lords, entitled, A provisional act for settling the troubles in America,...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies. 1775. P. 312, 2. & 644, Q,. 9. Common sense; in nine conferences between a British merchant and a candid...

...congress was rejected, as coming from an illegal assembly. Lord Chatham presented a bill, entitled, " A provisional Act for settling the troubles in America,...superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." According to form, it was merely ordered to lie upon the table. Lord North pursued measure after measure...

...and permanent adjustment ; and this he presented on the twenty-first of February under the form of a provisional act for settling the troubles in America,...and for asserting the supreme legislative authority of Great Britain over her colonies : he prefaced it with a short introductory speech, and concluded...