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ad by letters fam their friends, th.it as the m@fl.ry
are united and opposition at an end, there will cer
tainly be no inquiry into the date of America the
next session of parliament. The denial of the Su
premacy of parliament, and the Contempt with
watch its authority has been treated by the Lilliputi
an afcmblies of America, can never be juftified or ex
&rajed Dy any one member of cither house of parliament.
Bolton, zd Sept. 1772.
Dear Sir, [Samuel Hood, Elq ]
OAPTALI Linzee can inform you ol the
Rate of Rhcde-liTnd colony better
than I can. So daring an insult as burning the
King's fchooaer by people as well known as any
who were concerned in the last rebellion, and yet
cannot be prosecuted, will certainly rcufe the British
Lion which has been asleep this four or five years. Ad
miral Montague fays, that Lord Sandwich will ne
ver leave pursuing the colony until it is disfran
chifed. If it is pafied over, the other colonics will
follow the example.
Boston, Sth Dec. 1772.
Dear Sir r ' [Mr. Jackfon.] 1
deavours to propagate the dotbine of
independence upon parliament, and the mikhiefs
ofit every day increase. 1 believe I have repeatedly
mentioned to you ray opinion of the necessity of par
liam-nfs taking some meafarcs to prevent the Spread
of tins doctrine as well as to guard agaill the mif
chiefs of it. It is more difficult now than it was the
lad year, and it will become more and more 1b
every year it is neglected, until it is utterly im
pradAaoie. Iff coafuited nothing but my own case
and quiet, I would propose neglect and contempt
of every affront offered to parliament by the little
American AlTmblies, but I should be falfe to the
King, and betray the trull he has reposed in me.
Boston, Jan. 1773,
My dear Sir, [John Pownall, Eiq;]
, Have net answered your very kind and coafi
£ denial letter of the 6th Oct. Nothing could
coni m me more in my own plan of measures tor
the Gdevi^s than finding it to agree with your fenti
mcats. You Now ( have been begging for measures to
maintain the Jubremar, cf parliament. Whilst it is
iuffbred to be denied,all is confatten, & Ute oppofi
tioa to gove.ninentis continually gaiaing,rength.
Ballon, 1901 April, 1773.
Daar Sir, [John Pownall, E 4 q;J
OUR. patriots fy that the votes of the town of
Sudan, which they feat to Virginia, have
produced the rcfolves of the assembly there, ap
pointing a committee of correspondence ; and I
have no doubt it is their expectation that a commit
tee for the fame pupofe will be appointed by most
of the other aflbmbiies upon the continent. Ir any
thing therefore be done Oy parliament refpefling
America, it now seems necessary that it Should be
general, and not confined to particular colonies, as
the fame Spirit prevails every where, though not in
the like degree.
(Addition to Mr. j'acfyQn's Letter, dated 12th August.)
1773. Auguf^o.
^T OU fee no difference between the case
^ of the colonies and thauoflreland. I
care not in how favourable a light you look upon the
colonies, if it does not separate us from you. You
will certainly find it more difficult to retain the co
lonies than you do Ireland. Ireland is near and un
der your constant infpe^ion. All officers' are de
pendent and removable at pleasure. The colonies
are remote and the officers generally more disposed
to please the people, than the King or his re
prefentayive. In tte one you have always the
Ultima Ratio : In the other you are cither destitute
pfit or you have no civil magistrate to direct the use
ofit.- Indeed, to prevent'a general revolt, the na
val power may for a long course of years be fufiici
cnt, but. to preserve the peace of the colonies, and
to continue theft beneficial to the mother country,
this will be to little pur,ofe. But I am writing to a
gentleman who knows these things better than I'
do.
Private. (Not sent.)
Bofion, 13th Oa. 1773.
Dear Si-, [Mr. Pownail.]
the party, as Mr.
' id — n Hiles them) give out openly that
they must have another convention of all the colo
nies, and the Speaker has made it known to Several
of the members, that the agent in England recom
mends it as a menfurc necessary to be engaged in
without delay, and proposes in order to bring the
dispute to a crisis, that the rights of the colonies
ihouh.lbe there Solemnly and frilly asserted and de
clared, that there should be a firm engagement to
each other, that they will never grant any aid to
the crown even in c^ of war, unless the King and
the two houses of parliament hid recognize those
rights, and that the resolution fhonld be immedi
ately communicated ;o th- crown, and assures them
that in this way they will finally obtain their end.
I am not find of conveying this fort of intelligence,
but as I have the faded evidence of the lad, I
My Lord [Lord Dartmouth.]'
D EFORE the peace I thought nothing so
JL^ much to be delired as the celiion of Canada.
I am now convinced, that if it had remained to the
French none of this spirit of opposition to the mo
ther country would have yet appeared, and I think
the tffe&3 ofit worse than all we had to Nyr from
French or Indians.
A' A I' E R T O W A, July 3.
In Provincial Congress, Watertown, fune. zB, 1,75°
, f / HEREAS a former Congress of this Colony, or-
Y ¥ dered their Receiver -General to iflue Notes and
Bills upon the Credit of this Colony, for the Payment and
Supply of their army and other necessary Expences cf this
Colony.— And whereas divers others cf the Lifter Colonies
have issued Notes or Bills for the Payment of their respec
tive Forces, and it is necefary that the Notes and Bills of
this and the Sifter Colonies Jho; Id have free Currency —
Therefore RESOLVED, That the Notes and Bills of
the Colony of Rhode Jfland, at and after the Rate of Six
Shillings and Nine Pence an Ounce for Silver, and the
Bills and Notes of this and all the other Colonies, except
Nova-Scotia and. Canada, at and after the Rate of Six
Soilings and Eight Pence an Ounce for Silver, fall be
taken and received, and accounted a good and jefficient
Tender for the Payment cf all Debts, and the Damages
that may arise upon the Non-Performance of any Prorates,
and aljo be received into the Public 7 reaJury of this Colo
ny without any Di/count or Allowance whatever.
And if any Per Jon whatever Jhall refuge to take any of
.the Notes or Bills of the Colonies aforementioned, at the
Raießbfore exprefed,for any Debt, or in Satisfaction for 1
the Damages sustained by Reason of the Non-Performance
cf any Promise, or fall as, demand, or receive, any Dij
count, Gratuity, or Premium, for receiving any ofthe Bills
or Notes aforementioned, he or jhe so offending fball be
deemed an Enemy to the Country. And the Jeveral Com
mittees cf Correspondence, lnfpe&ion and Safety, in their
refpeaive Towns, are required to return the Names of all
Persons who foall contravene this Rfolve, to this, or feme
future Congress or Ldoufe cf Representatives, that they
may take Order thereon as to them fhallfem meet.
By Order of the Congress,
A true Copy, JAMES WARREN, Prefdent.
Attest, SAMUEL FREEMAN, Secretary.
Extract of a Letter from Holland of May 2, 1775,
to the Rev. Mr. William Gordon of Roxbury.
“ The Englilh Ambassador at the Hague applied
to the States to forbid their lubjedls supplying the
Americans with arms and ammunition. The States
published a prohibition under the penalty ofa 1000
Guilders, that is about 90b flerling: I leave you
to comment on this at your Icifure, and judge if
where the profits of a voyage are so great as a voyage
of that kind must be, itis not worth the merchants
while to rifle that sum: And to assist you in your
determination on that point,it is own'd by our Am
bassador at this place, that a Dutch Ihip is lately got
into Virginia where it has landed 400 Barrels of
Powder, and 1400 Hands cf arms. France was ap
ply'd to, to forbid its fubjeds furnifhing you with
any military fto-es. France it is well known could
easily have crufned all such assistance by an express
prohibition ; but France knows better than to do
it, and therefore only tells its fubjefts, if they do it,
it is Entirely at their own rifque, which is plainly
don't fee how lean be faithful to my trail ard ue
gle6l it ; therefore, tho' I consider this as a private
letter, yet I leave it to you to communicate this
part of it so far as his Majesty's service may require ;
and as I have nothing but that in view, 1 with it
may go no farther. The measure appears to me 01
all others the most likely to rekindle a general flame
in the colonies.
Private. Boston, 19th O&. 1773.
My Lord, [Lord Dartmouth.]
AFTER I had Sealed my letters which I intend
ed by the ffiip,a gentleman furnifhed me with
the copy of a letter to the Speaker of the house from
their agent in England. .It has been Ihown to Seve
ral members of the house, and to other per sons, and
therefore is no Secret. I felt some reluctance at com
municating it in a private way, but upon confedera
tion it appears to me of such importance, that your
Lordship Ihould be acquainted with it, that I doubt
ed whether ! Ihould be faithful to my trust, if l'did
not lay it before you. If it Ihould be known to
have come from me, or perhaps to have been lent
from England it may be the means of preventing
any further intelligence, which I may otherwise ob
tain from the fame person.---
What Mr. Hutchinson's opinion about royal
charters compared with ads of parliament was, may
be learnt from the following extras out of a separate
letter to Lord Dartmouth of Oft. 16, 1773, when
writing about the Penobfcot lands, be fays, " Be
the claim ever so good, the Salus Popuß so much de
pends upon the preservation of an intereltrof this
nature (the pine timber) that the assembly mull be
left withoutany ground of complaint, ifa territory
which was united to the Massachusetts, without any
Special claim to it merely by force of a royal charter
shall by the authority of an aft of parliament be
Separated and erected into a dillind government."
Private. Boston,. Dec. 14, 1773.
1 he' the American Soldiery perhaps may net Ie
so regularly disciplined as the King's Troops, yet A
must be confide.ed that there is a veiy material Dif
ference between a Man who fights for his natural Li
berty, and the Man who only lights because he is paid
for it : The former defends himfelf in a just cause ;
the latter is the n.^e Du[e cf Fewer : The former in
animated by the Z?al cf his Attachments to the pub
lic Weal ; the latter has noAttachments at all, except
to his Pay lor Slaughter and Bloodfhcd.
I he late Duke of Newcaftte fcrnpled not to ac
knowledge Colonel Wafhirgton and Major Regefa
" two of the braved and melt experienced Officers
in the King's Service." 1 he Colonel is now in his
own Service ; and if he could fight so couragecufly
for his King, there is no Doubt of his displaying a
redoubled Valour for himfelf.
A Correfpoudent observes, that from the prefer.t
Procedures of several European Princes, it should
seem that the Amusement of a King configs in mak
ing the World unhappy. The Spanish Monarch
has declared War against the Algerines ; the Eirpe
rer cf Morocco, allo, avows himfelf the Fremy cf
the Dey cf Algiers ; the King of Ptuffia is diligently
augmenting his Forces, as if meditating feme signal
Blow ; the King of France is preparing a formidable
Fleet ; and the King of Great Britain is at the Eve
ofa War with his own Subjeds.
May 20. At five o'clock Mr. Broke brought up and
piefented a Remonstrance and Representation fie ra
the Afiembly of the Colony of New-York, the train
purport of which is directed against the propriety of
taxing the American Colonies in the British Parlia
ment. As soon as theßcmonllrance was read by the
Clerk, Mr.Duike moved that the fame be referred to
a Committee, and Lord North moved an amendment,
A debate now enfued^uhich continued, till half af
ter seven o'cloclc ; when the quefon being put on
the amendment, the House divided. Ayes 186%
Noes 67.
Upon which a Short Debate enfucd, and the prin
cipal Speakers were, for the Amendment, L. North,
Mr, Cornwall, Mr. Jenkinfon, Mr. Aubrey and Mr.
Thomas Walpole ; against it, Mr. Cruger, Mr. T.
TeunTend, Mr. C. Fox, Mr. Burke, Governor
Johnson, and Serjeant Adair.
Mr. Burke introduced the BNintfs in a Short, and
pathetic Speech, and was answered by Lcid North
in a very plausible Manner; to which Mr. Cruger
replied with much Spirit and Eloquence; and the
Debates upon the whole were very intcicding and
entertaining.
The following was the amendment proyofed by
Lord North on Monday last, or the Req refvrtNc^
and Remonstrance from New-York, presented to the
House by Mr. Burke:
As soon as the Aft of the 6th cf George 111. was
called for and a clause read, it was moved, after the
word Remc^nrance to irfert, "In which the laid
By tne Captains Holland, Vratfon and I.erirg item
London, and Capt. Scot from Belfall, arrived ac
New-York, we have the following Advices, viz.
L O N D C) N, May 11. -
EVERY Friend to the ti ue Intercfls of his Coun
try, and whole Humanity is not confined to parti
cular Objects, mud dread the expected News ofa,
Battle in America. In a Victory over a natural
Enemy, if a Toouhmd of theVafiquifnA drop by the
Sword, we feel for them with only a common Chris
tian Cumnulcrmion ; but to read a formal " Lift cf
the Killed and Wounded" of our Fellow Subjects,
effected by theCaprice of a wicked Miniirry, nihil he
piercing to such who have liberal and humane Sen
timents.
fl bus private property,placed under security ofnaticn
alfaith, is pidaged by wicked min to accomflijh the par
ricidal pwjcfe cf ruining their country. Surety enquiry
and pwfoment will quickly follow, andfall on tbete gait-'
ty, d,perate men, nnd their private abettors, bejere trier
machinations lapse jealed the cleftruction of the Britify
empire.]'
faying, If you will venture you may. Spain when a
plied to roundly refuted to give any hindrance up
her febje&s supplying you ; and I dare fay fiem
prelent appearances will fcon act openly remind:
England. An article lately appeared in the En?-
lifh papers, that a Fruffian Ihip failed from S.tatcr.tv,
some part of America with 30 field-pieces, a good
Hore ot powder, Ball, and Imall arm:, aru6or 7
Ihuhian Generals, whose names were menthued at
length. This begins to gain great credit in this
part of the world and is now affirmed to be tree. 1^
is said they were engaged for by an American apent.
at the court cf Berlin. That politick Prince too is,
on the watch, he bears no good will to the cou.t off
London, and in case England should be engaged in
a war with her Colonies, will cause himfelf a hand
some dice out of aceitain Electorate,, or the world
will be greatly mistaken."
IN rELLiGENCEextraordinary from LONDON..
The lad letters mention it is a 'certainty, that the
Ministry have privately, without warrant cf Emiia
merrt, taken TWO MILLIONS STERLING froG
the Bank of England for carrying on the war acainft
America.