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resignation in the event of this anomalous system of false Decree and real betrayal being continued. I repeat therefore that to so much of the solution as demands its immediate abolition I most heartily adhere.
But I entirely dissent from that part of the Resolution which proposes the long delay of three months between the first publication of the Bill and the final passing of an Ordinance. The authors of the proposal appear to have been the first to desiderate its rejection. They have appended nearly to it a proviso which, in my opinion, is unnecessary and likely to lead to hasty or untimely legislation.
It is not to be presumed in this Colony that such a case is likely ever to occur. They will present the practical effects which must otherwise result from the adoption of such a standing Order. They say it is only to operate "in case of emergency" that the Council ought to be asked to legislate at all. I would here ask those gentlemen whether those measures have best succeeded which have been the longest
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