Show GRATEFUL COLONISTS ilo how they repaid sir robrt ITal poles before the th war of the tha revolution england populated some of her american colonies 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 following reference to the objectionable practice i ce when sir robert walpole ewas was prime minister of england he sent a shipload of convicts to be distributed between pennsylvania and virginia and notified dr franklin frankin who was the representative senta tive or commissioner to look after the american interests the doctor in response wrote him expressing the than thanks kasof of the colonies for the maternal care of great britain for her colonies so strongly manifested and that as an e expression of american gratitude he had the honor to inform him that he ha had this maysent day sent him bythe by the return ship a collection of rattlesnakes and would respectfully suggest that he have them introduced into his maje garden at kew in order that they might ight propagate and increase at the they same time assuring his excellency that they would be as beneficial to his maje english dominions as british convicts convicts wore were to his american posses |