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easonably and boldly denying his title to New Jersey. These appeals were to tally with and accre- chap II. 1748} Dec. dit the representation from New-York. C. Colden to Clinton, 12 January, 1749. Compare too Hamilton's Speech to the Assembly of the Jerseys at Perth Amboy. Such was the aspect in which official records presented America to the rash and inexperienced Halifax. From the first moment of his employment, he stood forth the busy champion of the royal authority; and in December, 1748, his earliest official words of any import, promised a very serious consideration on what he called the just prerogatives of the crown, and those defects of the constitution, which had spread themselves over many of the plantations, and were destructive of all order and government, Letter of December, to Glen of South Carolina. and he resolved on instantly effecting a thorough change, by the agency of parliament. While awaiting its meeting, the menaced encroachments of France urgentl