...king's name, offered pardon to Gcn.Cage'» all persons, '* who shall forthwith lay down their t™o. ""^ arms and return to the duties of peaceable subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, Sana, uel Adams and John Hancock ;" ' and proclaimed, and ordered " the use and exercise of the law...

...with more decision. On the twelfth .of June he issued a proclamation, and, in the king's name, offered pardon to all persons, " who shall forthwith lay down their arms and return to the duties of 1 There were taken at Ticonderoga between 1 12 and 120 iron cannon, front 6 to 24 pounders; SO swivels;...

...excepting only from the benefit of such pai- ;.-.., 8AMIÎEI, ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK, whose ofiercwi are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other...no person within the limits of this proffered mercy msy plead ignorance of the consequences of refusing it, I by these presents proclaim, not only the...

...taken to obstruct every appeal to the real interest of the people of Amovicii, the grossest forgeries, who shall forthwith lay down their arms, and return...duties of peaceable subjects, excepting only from tte benefit of such pardon, SAMUEL, ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK, whose offences calumnies and absurdities...

...duty, to spare the further effusion of blood, to offer, and I do hereby in his majesty's name offer and promise, his most gracious pardon to all persons,...excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, Samuel Mams, and John Hancock, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration...

...to spare the further effusion of blood, to offer, and I do hereby in his majesty's name, offer and promise, his most gracious pardon to all persons,...John Hancock, whose offences are of too flagitious a natura to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." This was a diploma, conferring...

...to spare the further effusion of blood, to offer, and I do hereby in his majesty's name, offer and promise, his most gracious pardon to all persons,...subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, SamuelJidams, and John Hancock, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other...

...rallied all around them as devoted champions. H 1 do hereby," he said, " in his majesty's name, offer and promise his most gracious pardon to all persons, who...flagitious a nature, to admit of any other consideration, but that of condign punishment." A war of words is always useless, but in this instance, it seems to...

...rebels, two only were excepted — Samuel Adams and John Hancock, "whose offences," said the governor, *' are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment" A learned member of the British parliament averred, in a set speech, that it was not with America that...

...rallied all around them as devoted champions. " I do hereby," he said, " in his majesty's name, offer and promise his most gracious pardon to all persons, who...subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, SAMUEI ADAMS, and JOHN HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature, to admit of any other...