Show GRATEFUL COLONISTS how they repaid sir robert walpole Is kindness before the war of the revolution E england populated some of her american resident colo colonies ies with convicts and paupers haupers pau pers A resident of detroit finds in the tattered pages of an old book published one hundred years ago the follow following ing reference to the objectionable practice when sir robert walpole was prime minister minister of england he sent a shipload 0 f c convicts to be distributed between pennsylvania and virginia and notified fied dr F franklin who was the representative senta tive or commissioner to look after the american interests the doat doctor 0 r in response wrote him expressing the thanks of the colonies for the maternal care of great britain for her col colonies oue s so strongly manifested and that a aa an n expression of american gratitude he had the honor to inform him that he had this day sent him by jhc thc return ship a collection of rattlesnakes and would w respectfully suggest t that he have them introduced into his h I 1 s maje garden at kew in order that they might propagate and increase at the same time assuring his ex excellency cella that they would be as beneficial to his maje english dominions as british convicts were to his american possessions |