Some other fac-similes are also given indicative of the prevailing coercive measures, which soon became popular. The next year (1768) committees were appointed in New York to consider the expediency of entering into measures to encourage industry and frugality and to employ the poor, and by 1769 the movement looking to independence of the British manufacturers became general through the colonies.[199] [Illustration: FROM EDES AND GILL'S NORTH AMERICAN ALMANACK, 1770.] In February, 1768, the Massachusetts House of Representatives, by a circular letter addressed to the other colonies, invited them to consultation.[200] It drew from Hillsborough a circular letter of warning to the continent,[201] and in May Virginia issued a letter inviting a conference.[202] On June 10, 1768, the seizure of the sloop "Liberty" brought further riotous proceedings in its train.[203] [Illustration: PROSCRIBING AN IMPORTER. After an original handbill in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library.] What is known as the "War of the Regulators", or "Regulation", a series of riotous disturbances in North Carolina, 1768-1771, has usually been held to be one of the preliminary uprisings against British oppression. A. W. Waddell, in a paper in the _N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg._ (1871, p. 81), contends that it was nothing but a lawless outburst, and advances evidence to prove that the participants were but a small majority of the people, with no great principle in view; that they were ignorant, never republicans, became Tories, and were opposed by the prominent Whig leaders. He considers that Caruthers and other local historians[204] are responsible for the common misconception arising from their attempt to reflect credit on North Carolina for what is claimed to be an early patriotic fervor. [Illustration: LANDING OF THE TROOPS IN BOSTON, 1768. Fac-simile of an engraving by Paul Revere, which appeared in _Edes and Gill's North American Almanack_, Boston, 1770. It is reëngraved in S. G. Drake's _Boston_, p. 747, and in S. A. Drake's _Old Landmarks of Boston_, p. 119. KEY: 1, The "Beaver", 14 guns; 2, "Senegal", 14; 3, "Martin", 10; 4, "Glasgow", 20; 5, "Mermaid", 28; 6, "Romney", 50; 7, "Launaston", 40; 8, "Bonetta", 10. Revere also engraved a large copperplate of the same event, which is given in heliotype fac-simile, on different scales, in the _Boston Evacuation Memorial_ (p. 18) and _Mem. Hist. of Boston_ (ii. 532). Cf. also Gay's _Pop. Hist. U. S._, iii. 356; Dearborn's _Boston Notions_, 126, etc. The same view of the town was again used by Revere, but extended farther south, in a cut in the _Royal American Mag._ (1774), which is given in fac-simile in the _Mem. Hist. of Boston_, ii. 441. There is also a water-color mentioned in _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, 2d ser., ii. 156. On Revere as an engraver, see W. S. Baker's _American Engravers_, Philad., 1875, and the list in _N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg._, 1886, p. 204.