What have we at home but to resist a victorious Army, which will have been tried and modeled there, and devoted to the Crown, returning to England from the conquest of America?  All is at stake! The single question is, whether the King of Great Britain shall, in future, be as absolutely despotick in every part of the Empire, as a late Act of Parliament appointed him to be forever in Canada? If despotism had not been the favourite form of Government with the proposers of that Bill, they would not have established that form, when they had it at their option which to appoint. After the conquest over freedom in America, your Army will give them the same option in England; and we already know their inclinations.

I therefore set my foot here, and have as many Thousands as I now send Pounds, which I shall be willing to dedicate to the same purpose, if the situation of the Americans shall continue to require, and their conduct to deserve, support.

I am, sir, with the greatest esteem for you and the gentlemen of the Society, your humble servant,     H. B. J.

To the Constitutional Society:

When the common rights of Englishmen are invaded in any part of the British Dominions, my mite shall never be wanting to assist those who struggle like men for the rights of men. This Twenty Pounds and my prayers, is all I have to give. May God prosper the honest efforts of the Americans, and make them at length the happy instruments of bringing to justice those traitors who have long trampled upon us here with impunity. And may God bless you, gentlemen, for the honest example you have set us.

WILLIAM FINCH.

The Treasurer likewise reported that he had received a Ten Pound Bank note and Four Guineas, enclosed in a cover, directed to him with these words, “To the Bostonians.”

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LONDON, DATED MARCH 7, 1775.

Yesterday, No. III of a periodical Paper, called “The Crisis,” and a pamphlet with the same title, containing Thoughts on American Affairs, were burnt by the common hangman, at Westminster Hall gate, pursuant to an unanimous order of the House of Lords and Commons. As soon as the condemned papers were burnt, a man threw into the fire the “Address of both Houses of Parliament to His Majesty, declaring the Bostonians in actual Rebellion;” likewise the Address of the Bishops and Clergy assembled in Convocation. The Sheriffs were much hissed for attending, and the populace diverted themselves with throwing the fire at each other.

And this day, at twelve o’clock, the Sheriffs attended at the Royal Exchange for the above purpose; but as soon as the fire was lighted, it was put out, and dead dogs and cats thrown at the Officers; a fire was then made in Cornhill, and the executioner did his duty. Sheriff Hart was wounded in the wrist, and Sheriff Plomer in the breast, by a brickbat; Mr. Gates, the City Marshal, was dismounted, and with much difficulty saved his life.

No less than three publications, under the name of The Crisis, have come under Parliamentary inquiry; the first in the year 1714, written by Sir Richard Steele, a Member of Parliament, for which he was expelled the House; and the two which were burnt at the Royal Exchange yesterday.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Monday, February 27, 1775.

Complaint was made to the House of a printed Paper, intituled, “The Crisis, No. III, Saturday, February 4, 1775, printed and published for the Authors, by T. W. Shaw, Fleet Street, opposite Anderton’s Coffee-House.”

The said Paper was read by the Clerk.

The Earl of Radnor moved to “Resolve, that the Paper called ‘The Crisis, No. III,’ is a false, daring, infamous, seditious, and treasonable libel on His Majesty, designed to alienate the affections of His Majesty’s subjects from his Royal Person and Government, and to disturb the Peace of the Kingdom.”

Then an amendment was proposed to be made to the said motion, by leaving out the word “treasonable.”

Which being objected to, after debate, the question was put, “Whether the word ‘treasonable’ shall stand part of the motion?”

And it was resolved in the affirmative.

Then it was moved, “To agree to the said Resolution, as at first proposed.”

Which being objected to, the question was put thereupon:

And it was resolved in the affirmative.

Ordered, That His Majesty’s Attorney General do prosecute the Printer and Authors of the said Paper.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Monday, February 27, 1775.

A complaint being made to the House of a printed Paper, intituled, “The Crisis, No. III, dated Saturday, February 4, 1775, printed and published for the Authors, by T. W. Shaw, in Fleet Street,”

The said Paper was delivered in at the Clerk’s table, and read.

Resolved, nemine contradicente, That the said Paper is a false, scandalous, and seditious libel, highly and unjustly reflecting on His Majesty’s sacred person, and tending to alienate the affections, and inflame the minds, of His Majesty’s subjects against his person and Government.

Resolved, nemine contradicente, That one of the said printed Papers be burnt by the hands of the common hangman in New-Palace Yard, Westminster, on Monday, the 6th day of March next, at one of the clock in the afternoon; and that another of the said printed Papers be burnt by the hands of the common hangman, before the Royal Exchange in London, on Tuesday, the 7th day of March next, at the same hour; and that the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex do attend at the said times and places respectively, and cause the same to be burnt there accordingly.

THE CRISIS.—NO. I.

To the People of ENGLAND and AMERICA:

FRIENDS AND FELLOW-SUBJECTS: It is with the greatest propriety I address this paper to you. It is in your defence, at this great, this important crisis, I take the pen in hand. A crisis big with the fate of the most glorious Empire known in the records of time; and by your firmness and resolution only, it can be saved from destruction. By your firmness and resolution, you may preserve to yourselves, your immediate offspring, and latest posterity, all the glorious blessings of freedom given by Heaven to undeserving mortals; by your supineness and pusillanimity, you will entail on yourselves, your children, and millions yet unborn, misery and slavery.

It is in your defence I now stand forth to oppose the most sanguinary and despotick Court that ever disgraced a free Country. It is in your defence I now unsheath the sword of Justice, to oppose the most profligate and abandoned Administration that ever showed the weakness, or abused the confidence, of a Prince. It is in your defence I now stand forth, with a firmness and resolution becoming an Englishman determined to be free, to oppose every arbitrary and every unconstitutional Act, of a venal and corrupt majority, smuggled into the present new-fangled Court Parliament, through the villany of Lord North, and purchased with the publick money, to betray their trust, enslave the people, subvert the Protestant religion, and destroy the glory, the honour, interest, and commerce, both foreign and domestick, of England and America; and all this villanous sacrifice of a great Empire, a brave people, and the glorious truths of Heaven, to ambitious views, and to gratify the mean vindictive spirit of one, assisted by a numerous train of deputy tyrants, whose sole aim has been to trample under foot the sacred rights of mankind, and the English Constitution.

It is in your defence, and in defence of the liberties of my Country, that I now stand forth, with a fixed resolution, to oppose, and show to the world, unawed by fear, the dangerous tendency of every act of lawless power, whether it shall proceed from the King, the Lords, or the Commons.