side; and as his pieces trace the arguments ab origine, by which he has answered all the arguments commonly adduced against us, I am in hopes it will have a good effect. He holds a place in the Ordnance, which this publication may probably cost him; but he appears to prefer the discharge of duty to every other consideration. One such advocate, acting from principle, is preferable to the loudest brawler of the venal tribe. Sir Henry Banks is dead, and succeeded in the Aldermanship by—Haley, a New Eng land merchant, brother-in-law to Wilkes. It is proposed to make him Representative of London in Parliament, in the room of Trecothick, whose state of health will not admit of his continuance in that station.

Doctor Franklin was obliging enough to call on me this afternoon. From what he communicated I find that the intention of taxing all America is openly avowed by the Ministry. They have already begun, by high duties on spirits in Canada, and have ordered a regiment to be raised there; determining, as the Doctor well expressed it, not only to rivet their chains, but make them pay for the iron to do it with.

GOVERNOUR GAGE TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL.

Salem, July 23, 1774.

SIR: I enclose you two affidavits, of Mr. Green and Mr. Scott, taken before two Justices of the Peace and Quorum of the town of Boston, touching a very extraordinary treatment that Mr. Green met with at Windham and Norwich, in the Colony of Connecticut; and as that gentleman is an inhabitant of this Province, I thing it my duty to interest myself in his behalf, and to transmit you the said affidavits, in the assurance that you will exert yourself to obtain him satisfaction.

You are sensible that people capable of such conduct as those mentioned in the affidavits are accused of, must be a disgrace to every society; and I make no doubt, from a principle of justice, as well as the honour and reputation of the Colony under your command, that you will order the accused persons to be apprehended and brought to trial. I am, sir, your most obedient humble servant,

THOMAS GAGE.

Honourable Jonathan Trumbull, Esq., Governour of the Colony of Connecticut.

I, Caleb Scott, of lawful age, testify and declare, that being lately on a journey through Connecticut, attending upon Mr. Storer, of Boston, who was in company with Mr. Francis Green, we put up at Mr. Carey's Tavern, at Windham, on Monday evening, the fourth day of July current; that soon after a man inquired of me whether Mr. Green, who was at that time there, was not one of those that signed for the Governour of Boston. I referred him to Mr. Green himself for an answer. That between nine and ten o'clock that evening, a great number of per sons assembled in a tumultuous manner round Mr. Carey's Tavern, often demanding Mr. Green; that a number kept a little distance on a plat of grass before the Tavern, and after about an hour or two many of them pressed suddenly into the house in a boisterous manner, and went into the room to Mr. Green, demanding if his name was Francis Green; he answered in the affirmative, and demanded one of their names, who told him, but I cannot recollect it. Some one of them told him thereupon, that they would now give him leave to tarry there till six o'clock next morning, but if he was not then gone to beware of the consequences, or words to that purpose; they then dispersed, it being about eleven o'clock. The next morning at six o'clock, the Meeting House bell was rung, and a cannon, placed before the Tavern door, was filed, and the people again surrounded the house, and I heard several of them say, "It is full time he was gone." Many of them went into the Tavern, and up stair's into Mr. Green's bed chamber, and demanded his immediate departure from that town, in opposition to Mr. Carey's orders, who forbade them behaving in such a mobbish manner in his house. I, the deponent, remaining below, heard many loud words pass between Mr. Green and some of those who went up, but could not distinguish what was said; at length they came down and remained in and about the house until Mr. Green's departure. Further, as I returned to Windham after Mr. Green had left the town, I was there informed that an express was sent from thence to Norwich to excite the people there to mob Mr. Green; and the same afternoon Mr. Storer and myself having overtaken Mr. Green at Lebanon, we proceeded; and arriving the next morning at Lothrop's Tavern, at Norwich, stopped there. Mr. Storer and Mr. Green went from thence to Mr. Huntington's house. While I was taking care of the horses I perceived a man run into the Meeting House, and heard the bell ring, and soon after saw several men appear on the plain; one of whom fired a gun, upon which a number of people assembled and proceeded in a body to Mr. Gales's shop, where they all held up their hands in a swearing posture; and, I understood, took some oath. From thence they all went to Lothrop's Tavern and inquired for Mr. Green; being informed he was at Mr. Huntington's house, they went there, and remained some time about the house, but after some short time part of them returned, and as they passed me some of them said, "Let us go and fetch the cart;" and soon after the rest came also.

In a few minutes Mr. Storer and Mr. Green came from Mr. Huntington's house and went into the Tavern, where breakfast was ordered; immediately a number came with a single horse cart, and asked where Mr. Green was? others answered, he's in the Tavern. They then called out, "The time is up, out with him, fetch him out," or in other words to the same effect. The next thing I perceived was that the people burst into the Tavern with great violence, and entered the room where Mr. Green was, where they remained a minute or two, then came out in a body bringing Mr. Green with them, and keeping close about him, went between the cart and his carriage, at the same time I heard the people say, "Into the cart with him, into the cart with him;" then I perceived the people to close in and surround Mr. Green, and some appearance of a bustle, but being at a little distance, and the crowd very thick, I could not well see what was going on, but heard one among them say, "If he will go in his own carriage let him," or to that purpose; they then cleared the way a little and obliged Mr. Green to get into his curricle; some of them struck the carriage, the horses set off, they beat the drum, the crowd shouted and huzzad, and, following Mr. Green, they pelted him for a considerable distance through the town with much rage and violence.

CALEB SCOTT.

Suffolk, ss.

Caleb Scott, before named, personally appearing, maketh solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed; taken at the special request of Mr. Francis Green, in perpetuam rei memoriam,

Boston, July 20, 1774.

I, Francis Green, of Boston, do testify and declare, that I arrived at Windham, in the Colony of Connecticut, on Monday afternoon, the 4th instant; that on the same evening four men who called themselves Hezekiah Bissell, Benjamin Lothrop, Timothy Larrabee, and Ebenezer Backus, did, in a formal manner, apply to me to know my name, and whether I had signed an Address to Governour Hutchinson; and, upon being answered, did then insist on my departing thence, and forthwith quitting that town; intimating that it would be dangerous for me not to comply with their demands. Upon my positive refusal they went off, and soon afterwards a tumultuous assembly of men appeared about the house, and I was informed demanded me. They remained about the door and windows about an hour; then a party of them entered the house, and one, calling himself Nathaniel Warren, demanding me, acquainted me that leave was given for me to remain there until six o'clock the next morning, but no longer, intimating (in words which I do not exactly recollect) that it would be attended with disagreeable consequences if I should. That about six o'clock the next morning the Meeting House bell was rung as if for fire, a cannon was fired near the Tavern door, and a number of men then again appeared round the house, some of them repeatedly entered the same, came into my bed-chamber, and, in an