intended by our enemies; therefore it was a just act of self-defence.

2. The India Company were criminal in sending their dutied tea to America, as they knew it tended to fix an unrighteous revenue, and enslave their American brethren; therefore, in reason and justice, they ought never to receive a farthing for their noxious tea, but are bound by the ties of justice and honour to make a compensation to the people here for the injury they have received from the Company by means of sending the tea. It is probable that America will suffer (unless a kind Providence should defeat the Ministerial design) millions by this injurious plan which the India Company have adopted, and according to, the rules of equity they ought to make good the damage; and will any one say that this people ought to pay for the tea?

3. All the Colonies are now considered as one body politic, whose general liberty and interest is inseparable, and therefore no concessions to arbitrary power must be made, nor any important steps taken by one Colony without consulting the whole in Congress; and for this reason we ought to wait for the meeting of the Congress that we may be assisted by the joint wisdom of the Colonies.

4. As to the probability of obtaining relief, without a mean submission to tyranny, I apprehend it is very great, for the Act is such a flagrant violation of all the principles of justice and humanity, that every good man in the Nation will exert his influence to have this reproach wiped away as soon as possible. The Nation will be alarmed with the various calamities which this Act will bring upon them, by stopping their trade with America, and the measures that our States General may adopt. They will be alarmed with the apprehension of a French and Spanish war. And in this great shifting scene of political affairs, it cannot be supposed that France, who for many important reasons wants a free trade with America, will remain a silent spectator; she will doubtless think it a good opportunity to open her ports to the Americans, and endeavour by all means to gain their trade and friendship, and these considerations will induce Britain to do us justice.

AN AMERICAN.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CAVE CUMBERLAND, DATED JUNE 21, 1774,

I have had no accounts of my brother since he left Fort Pitt, nor is there any news or word of any of the traders of the Shawanese towns. What is come of them God only knows, but all accounts from that quarter is very bad. We have received accounts this day by express, that one Captain McClure, a Virginian, is killed, and another man deadly wounded by a party of Indians, which was out near Redstone. All the poor people who was settled over Allegheny Mountain, are either moved off, or gathered in large numbers, and making places of defence to secure themselves. All those misfortunes, and the lives and property of the unhappy people who are among them, are owing to the barbarous murder, no other name can I give it, committed by Cresap and one Greathouse, with their men, on a few Indians who resided on, or lived near, the mouth of Yellow Creek.

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY (PENN.) RESOLUTIONS.

At a Meeting of the Justices, the Gentlemen of the Bar, Grand Jury, and principal Inhabitants of the County of Northampton, held at Easton, on the 2lst day of June, 1774.

GEORGE TAYLOR, Esquire, in the Chair.

It being considered that it was necessary for all the counties of this Province to join with their brethren of Philadelphia in expressing their sentiments upon the present interesting occasion, relative to the oppressive Acts of Parliament lately passed in Great Britain, tending to destroy the liberties of North America, it was unanimously resolved as follows:

1st. That the Act of Parliament for shutting up the port and harbour of Boston, is an Act of the highest oppression, and a violation of the liberties of America.

2d. That as we consider the inhabitants of the said town as suffering in the common cause of American freedom, we will assist them to obtain redress by every legal act in our power.

3d. That it is our opinion the most constitutional and effectual method for obtaining such redress is, by having a general Congress of Committees, to be composed and chosen out of the members of the different Assemblies of each Colony.

4th. That a Committee be formed in this county, consisting of six persons, namely, William Edmunds, George Taylor, Lewis Gordon, John Okeley, Peter Kachlein, and Jacob Orndt, Esquires, to correspond with our brethren in Philadelphia, and the other counties of this Province, and to co-operate with them in such measures as shall be judged most proper for the general good.

5th. That the Committee be desired to receive the subscriptions of such charitable persons in this county who shall incline to support the distressed and suffering inhabitants of the town of Boston. And, Resolved, That it is the duty of every inhabitant of this county to contribute, according to his circumstances, to relieve their suffering brethren. The moneys raised by such subscription to be disposed of for the use of the inhabitants of the said town of Boston, in such way as the Committee shall think fit.

6th. That William Edmunds, Esquire, the Representative in Assembly for this county, be required by his brethren of the Committee of Correspondence now appointed, to attend and meet the other Representatives of Assembly of this Province, in case the Speaker of the House shall think proper to call them together upon this deeply interesting and alarming occasion; and that it is the opinion of his constituents here, that he do give his attendance accordingly.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN IN ENGLAND TO ONE IN NEW-YORK, DATED JUNE 22, 1774.

The Colonies must be in some confusion on account of the measures taken by the Ministry and Parliament in England, with the town of Boston, to bring it to obedience; and if they succeed in their scheme there, the other principal places of trade must not think to escape the snare laid for them; for most certainly the one is but a prelude to the other. Therefore, I hope the prudent conduct of the Colonies, in conjunction with each other, will be able to defeat the machinations of their enemies, both here and among themselves. Bad as things are or may be with you, I seem to foresee worse times here. You are at a great distance from the source of mischief, but we are near it, and circumscribed within narrow bounds, an Island of small extent in comparison with the large Continent of North America. If you are persecuted in the city, you can flee to the country; but we, on this side, have no country to screen us from the oppressions of the great. Our only object for an asylum, is to flee to you on the other side of the Atlantic for shelter. Therefore make room for us; for the time is at no great distance when such a refuge will be wanting for as many as can find the means of transporting themselves. Another war, in my opinion, (not of mine only, but of many others,) will shake the foundation of this Kingdom; and the enormous debt hanging over it, must crush it whenever the public credit sinks, and will ruin many thousands of families, whose whole fortunes are vested in the funds, whence their subsistence flows; and when this source fails, what can such families do, but, in despair, seek one where it may be found, which for Protestants and Englishmen can only be with you? This Nation is already taxed to the utmost stretch of invention. Nor even now, in time of peace, has any one been eased, that was in time of the last war, except the land tax, which was then four, and is now only three shillings in the pound. The poor tax, in many places, is near double the land tax, and will be still heavier, if you, on your side, should come to an agreement for non-importation; thence the numbers of the poor must multiply greatly, and many families, now in easy circumstances by means of their industry, will be reduced to poverty. The landed interest, in most parts of England, have lately advanced their estates to near a third more than they were but a few years past; by means of which the occupiers