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Boston, August 13, 1774.
To Ils Excellency THOMAS GAGE, Esq, Captain
General and commander in chief of his Majesty’s pro
vince of the Mafl’achufetts-Bay.
May it pleafeyour Excellency,
W T having been this day communicated to us in a
1 regular meeting, that your Excellency has tho’t
fit to displace the hoa. John Hancock, Esq;
from his command as Captain of the Cadet compa
ny, they take the earliest opportunity to express their
extreme regret at this removal of their firft officer ;
and Gonfidering the diftinftion with which they have
hitherto been favoured in the choice and continua
tion of their officers, they look upon this difmiflion
as dilbanding the corps. They have therefore
judged proper to return your Excellency the stan
dard you presented to the company upon your tak
ing the chair of government, and at the fame time
take the liberty to inform your Excellency, that from
the day of the removal of Colonel Hancock from
his command, they no longer confider themselves as
the Governor’s indepepdant company of Cadets.
Duncan Ingraham, jun. Clerk,
per order of the company.
The committee accordingly waited on the Gover
nor the next day at Salem, and delivered the Mes
sage with the standard, and received from his Excel
lency this verbal answer, viz.
Gentlemen,
COLONEL Hancock has used me ill, and has
not treated me with that refpeft that is due to
the Governor of the province ; therefore I difmifled
him ! — I will not be treated ill by Colonel Han
cock, nor any other man in the province. Had I
known your intentions, I would have dilbandedyou
before. Gentlemen, I accept the flandard.
At t eJi* Gabriel Johnson, Chairman of
(the Committee.
The company also voted that a committee of ele
ven, wait on Colonel Hancock with the following
address.
To the honorable JOHN HANCOCK, Esq;
S I R,
THE Governor having thought fit to dismiss
you from your command as Colonel of the
Cadet company ; We the fubferibers, who were
members of the body, beg leave to wait on you, with
our sincerest acknowledgments for your conduft ;
and to assure you that we entertain a most grateful
sense of the many instances of your spirited, gener
ous, and noble exertions, for the honor of the corps.
Mr. Thomas,
THE difmiflion of Col. Hancock from the
command of the Cadets, with the diflblution
of the corps consequent thereon, having occasioned
much speculation and many imperfeft accounts ; in
order to prevent further misrepresentations you are
desired to insert the following, which may be de
pended on. Your humble Servant,
Duncan Ingraham,jun. Clerk.
By ordef of the Company.
At a regular meeting on Monday evening the isth of Au
gust, Col. Han cock laid before the company
thefollowing letter, which he had receivedfrom Mr.
Secretary Flucker, viz.
SIR, Salem, August i, 1774.
I AM direfted by his Excellency theCaptain Ge
neral to acquaint you, that he has no further
service for you, as Captain of the Governor’s com-,
p.any of Cadets, and yOu are hereby difmifled from
that command. I am, Sir,
Your most humble Servant,
Tho. Flucker, Sec’y.
The Colonel after taking a polite and affeftionate
leave retired. The company-then chose a chair
man and clerk, and, after mature deliberation, the
company voted nem. con. to return his Excellency the
standard with the following message, by a commit
tee of three.
From the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
A General sample of Gubernatorial Eloquence, as
lately exhibited to the Company of C——s^
YOUR Colonel H kby negleft,
Has been deficient in refpeft ;
As he my fov’reign toe ne’er kifs’d,
J Twas proper he Ihould be difmifs’d :
I never was nor never will,
By mortal man be treated ill ;
I never was nor never can.
Be treated ill by mortal man ;
O had I but have known before.
The temper of your faftious core ;
It Ihould have been my greatest pleasure,
To have prevented this bold measure ;
To meet with such severe disgrace.
My standard flung into my face,
Disband yourselves---so cursed flout,
O had I, had I, turn’d you out.
From the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
POETRY.
We leave to the gratitude of your country in * cw
neral, to pay their disinterested tribute of appla^fe
to your extensive public merit : ’Tis in the view of
an officer only, we would now confider you, at no
loss in that character, for the ample field of Eulop-i
---um. It is principally owing to you, fir, that the
company acquired such reputation, as to continue
an object worthy of your patronage and command;
nor can we suppress the emotions of regret which
we sensibly feel, at thus parting with an officer, who
wnilft in command, so eminently supported the ho
nor of the company ; and who on all occasions of
public appearance, conduced with that spirit and
military knowledge, as at once to refleft honor on
himfelf and give diftinftion to the corps.
At a period, when “ the post of honor is a private
station,” it cannot be thougt strange, that a gentle
man of your diftinguiffied character, Ihould meet
with every difeouragement from men in power.
We will no longer detain you, Sir, than by an as
surance that it is the fervent wiffi of our hearts, that
your health may be speedily and perfectly restored;
that you may long live to support the superior cha
r aft er you have hitherto maintained ; and that our
country may never want so illustrious a citizen, to
animate and conduit the cause of virtue and of
FREEDOM.
Boston, August 18, 1774.
The above address, signed by fifty-two members,
was accordingly presented : and the committee re
ceived the following answer, viz.
Gentlemen,
^HE very refpeAful notice you are pleafid to take of my
difmiflion from the command of theCompany of Cadets,
cannot fail to excite my warmest gratitude.
The pleasure--which lever felt in being at the hehdof
so respectable a corps, was greatly augmented by a recol
leAion that my appointmentto that command, was in con
fiquence of yovk free choice and unanimous request.
—The honourable testimony which you have give fl of tny
conduA'in that department, will always afford me thefin
cereft pleasure.
lam ever ready to appear in a public station, when the
honour or the interest of the community calls me : but Jhall
always prefer retirement in a private station to being a
tool in the hand of power to oppress my countrymen.—-The
only regret I feel upon this event, is my being obliged to
take leave of you, gentlemen, in my military capacity ;
but 1 Jhall ever hold you near to my heart as friends and
fellow citizens : And if it Jhould ever be in my power to
promote the interest of the individuals who composed the
corps, IJhall gladly embrace the opportunity.
I feel myfelf interested to encourage military knowledge in
America, and in this province A ’ particular ;
and am happy in believi. .. that i.„ ■ ,vy of Cadets
have, by their example, a A the . * ‘a ■. vaation which
they have acquired greatly astir. rofle the martial
spirit of my countrymen, and - ■ r. emulation
to excel in the noble and too of. Art of war.
Your benevolent wijhes for - .. very Of my health,
demand the most grateful return.-■ slothing in this life
can make me more desirous of a rest or anon to health, than
that I may in fame measure merit the esteem of my country ;
and as far as is pojjible,juftify thefavourable sentiments
which you are pleased to entertain of me.
lam with thegreateft refpeSl and esteem,
Gentlemen,
Your most obliged and obedient,
humble Jervant,
Boston, Aug. 22, 1774. John Hancock.
As the Rev. Mr. Teters of Heborn, by his conduct and.
writings, has rended d himfelf obnoxious to the people of
this colony, A has been called upon by fever al towns to give
fatisfaction to the people for his offence, it is thought proper
io insert the following resolves wrote by said Peters,
which he in his introductionfiles the resolves of the town
of Hebron, though in fact said town had no knowledge of
them.
[ N. B. Mr. Peters confefled that he had wrote
sundry Pieces of the likenatur^ of his faid^Rfolves,
for the Press, which his Brother Solo. John Peters,
our Informer, did in Truth think the faidßeverend
had sent to England.]
From the New-London Gazette,
To the P R I N T E R. *
A S every Town seems fond of (hewing their Opi
nions relative to the Ait of Parliament, found
ed upon some violent Conduit of the loyal People in
the Town of Boston, I know not why we, who are
the Inhabitants of Hebron, may not also be heard,
though we are few in Number, who are convened
on this Occasion---we have presumed (after reading
many Resolves and some Histories) to Resolve that
the most of those multipliedßefolutions are wrong,
and our own are legal—As follow,
1. All Charters are sacred to serve the End for
which they were given, and no further.
2. No Charter from the King, &c.j;an be found,
in which the Grantees have Right to the Seas, as
all our Charters bound us upon the Sea-Coast as
that runs.
3. The Duty laid on Teas, is not a Tax upon
America, because Tea grows not within the Limits
of our Charters.
4. Since they have not placed a Tax upon our,
but their own Specie, which they certainly have a
5. The King, &c. have an undoubted Right to
prohibit our i rade with the Dutch or any other
foreign Nation, in Whole or in Part, if they judge
the Interest of the Nation requires it.
6. The East-India Company have a Charter from
tne Crown, and they pay fl, 25(^00,000 Sterling an
nually, to support the Nation, only for these Pri
vileges mentioned in their Charter ; orN of which
Privileges is, that they (the East-India Company)
fimllhave the foie Right to supply America, &c.
with Feas at zffd. Stcrl. by the Pound, and no
higher,
7. The East-India Company have a purchased &
equitable Right to put a Stop to the Dutch Trade,
in the Article of I ea—and if we will live without
Teas, as our Fathers did in the Purity of this Cou
ntry, the lax will not hurt us,nor will the' Tea Trade
profit th& East-India Company;
Ihe Nation; is profited 6d. on each Pound
of Feaconlumed in America, sent by the Eaft-In
aia Company, but riot a Farthing profit is received
by the Nation from all the Dutch Teas.
9. America, by trading with the EaftUndiaCom
pany for their Tea; have a great Advantage, aS
their leas are the second Growth and tlie Dutch
1 eas are the third Growth, and a Pound of second
Growth Tea costs zs. when a Pound of the third
Growth costs but Sd'in the East-Indies. In Arnfter
dam thel ea fells for is. in London zf^, but inßoflon^
at one & the fame Price. Hence is visible the Region
why the Dutch Traders in Boston, destroyed the
English leas, viz. i/iod. by the Pound that Col.
Hancock gains by his Dutch Trade, while Col. EfV
ing gains but 6d. by the Pound in his'Trade with'
the East-India Company.
10. As 1/4 by the Pound or private Interest of*
theie Dutch' Fadofs, caiiled this great Wa'fleof the
Property of theEaft'-lndia Company, they (theDu^clf
Factors,) m Justice ought to pay For them Teas’but
of their exorbitant Gains from their poor Country-’
men, arising from the Sate of 5006 Boxes of Dutch.
Teas within two Years last pail.
11. The Bostonians are able to fuppofttheir own !
Poor, after Windham and other Towns have paid
them their legal Demands,
12. We cannot find out anyßeaforis why the good
People of Windham, undertook to arraign and'con
demn Governor Hutchinson, for Treason agaln'A
his Country,” and those diftinguififed Miniftcrs,
Merchan ts, Barristers and Attornies^ for Ignorance,
Insult, Treason againfl Law and'Common Sen fe, on
ly for diftering in Sentiments with feme of their
Neighbours since there were a few Names hi
Sardis.
13. Farmington burnt the Aft of Parliament, irr
great Contempt by their Common Hangman, whep
a Thousand of their best Inhabitants were convened
for that glorio us Piirpofe of committing Treason a
gainst the King ; for which vile Conduft they have
not been stiled a Pest to Connefticut; and Enemies
to Common Sent?, either by his Honour, or any
King’s-Attorney, or in any Town-Meeting,- “ We
sincerely wish and hope” a Day will be set apart by
his Honor very foon,for Falling and Prayer through
out this Colony, that the Sins of those haughty
People may not be laid to our Charge as a Govern
ment: And we recommend »i due Observation of
said Day to all our Neighbours, by giving liberally
Food and Raiment to the indigent Poor of every
Town in Connefticut, and also to draw up Refplu
tions, that for the Future we will pay the Poor their
Wages and every Man his Due.
I THE Subscriber have not sent any Letter to the
Bifliop of London, or the venerable Society for
Propagation of the Gospel, &c. relative, to the Sef
ton Port-Bill, or the T'ea Affair, or the- ControveT
fy between Great-Britain and the Colonies, and de
sign not to, during my natural Life; as those Con
troverfics are out of my Bufine'fs as a Clergyman :
Alfol have not wrote to England to any other
Gentlemen or designed Comnany, nor will Ido it.
Witness my Hand this. 15th Aug, 1774, at Flebron.
Samuel Peters, Clerk.
Right to do, it is our Duty not to purchase their
Teas, unless we have a mind to do it ; and the
East-India Company Claim no Right to Force us to
buy their Teas.
Just PubUfloed, and to be Joldby the 'Printer hereof
A SERMON preached at Suffield, Dec, 27,
1773, the next Sabbath after the Report ar
rived that the People at Boston had destroyed . a
large Quantity of TEA belonging to the East-India
Company, rather than submit to Parliament Afts
which they looked upon unconstitutional, tyranni
cal, and tending to enslave America.
By ISRAEL H G.L LY,
Preacher of the Gospel in Scuffield.
Just Publijhed, aind to be fold at the Printihg^Ofite in
Hartford,
A N ACCOUNT of the Number of Irrhabitants
J in the Colony of Connefticut, taken January
1, 1774, together with the Number of Inhabitant's
taken January j, 1756. Published by Order of the
General Assembly.
Printed by E. Watson, near the Great Bridge.