THE Historical Register, Containing An Impartial RELATION WITH A Chronological Diary OF ALL The remarkable OCCURRENCES, VOLUME XV. LONDON, Printed and fold by R. NUTT in the Old Baily, N. B. This Title is defign'd for fuch Perfons as think fit to bind the laft Four Regifters in one Volume: And for the fame Reafon is added a Table of the Principal MatTM ters contain'd in them. I N the laft Quarterly Regifter we gave an Ac count of the Proceedings and Adjournment of the General Court of New-England; and were, for Want of Room, oblig'd to break off before we intended; but we will now prefent our Readers, according to our Promife then, with what is fince come to our Hand, relating to thefe Affairs. WEST INDIES. NEW ENGLAND. Proceedings of the Qeneral Court of New-England, continued from Page 309 of the laft Regifter. N the 20th of Auguft, 1729, his Excellency Wil ON liam Burnet, Efq; met the Great and General Court at Salem, and in the Afternoon made a Speech to them, and on the 23d was pleafed to adjourn the faid Court to the 27th of that Month, then to meet at Cambridge. The faid Speech is as follows: The SPEECH of his Excellency William Burnet, Ef Captain-General and Governor in Chief in and over his Majefty's Provinces of the Maffachufets-Bay in NewEngland, &c. to the Great and General Court of Alembly of the faid Province, met at Salem, on Wednesday, August 20, 1729. Gentlemen of the Council, and House of Representatives, Have deferr'd to fpeak to you hitherto, on purpose that you might remain free and difengaged from any Share in the Difputes I have had with the late 'Houfe of Representatives, 'till I had obtain❜d the Judg A. ment |