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Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)

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Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

Name: Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
Author: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)

Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)

Boston Tea Party, 1773; Tea tax (American colonies)

Your most obedient & most humble servants,
                                             RICHARD CLARKE & SONS.

P.S.--Mr. Faneuil writes to his friend, Mr. Brook Watson, by this
opportunity, advising him of the transactions relating to this affair.
In case of miscarriage of his letter, we desire you to communicate this
letter to Mr. Watson.


EXTRACT OF MR. FANEUIL'S LETTER TO BROOK WATSON, ESQ^R.

MENTIONED IN MR. CLARKE'S POSTSCRIPT.

Mr. Faneuil, after giving an account of the proceedings of the
inhabitants of the 3^rd instant, entirely agreeing in substance with Mr.
Clarke's relation, goes on--

"By comparing this account with what Mr. Clarke writes his friend, Mr.
Dupuis, of London, you will come at the exact state of the affair. The
Governor has given my Lord Dartmouth an account of the conduct of his
Council. I will only say that next day they voted that the
Attorney-General be ordered to prosecute the persons concerned in this
riot. The consequence, I suppose, will be, the grand jury will not find
a bill against them, and there the affair will end."

On Thursday, a letter, of which the following is a copy, was found in my
entry:

"Gentlemen: It is currently reported that you are in the extremest
anxiety respecting your standing with the good people of this Town and
Province, as commissioners of the sale of the monopolized and dutied
tea. We do not wonder in the least that your apprehensions are terrible,
when the most enlightened humane & conscientious community on the earth
view you in the light of tigers or mad dogs, whom the public safety
obliges them to destroy. Long have this people been irreconcilable to
the idea of spilling human blood, on almost any occasion whatever; but
they have lately seen a penitential thief suffer death for pilfering a
few pounds from scattering individuals. You boldly avow a resolution to
bear a principal part in the robbery of every inhabitant of this
country, in the present and future ages, of every thing dear and
interesting to them. Are there no laws in the Book of God and nature
that enjoin such miscreants to be cut off from among the people, as
troublers of the whole congregation. Yea, verily, there are laws and
officers to put them into execution, which you can neither corrupt,
intimidate, nor escape, and whose resolution to bring you to condign
punishment you can only avoid by a speedy imitation of your brethren in
Philadelphia. This people are still averse to precipitate your fate, but
in case of much longer delay in complying with their indispensable
demands, you will not fail to meet the just rewards of your avarice &
insolence. Remember, gent^n, this is the last warning you are ever to
expect from the insulted, abused, and most indignant vindicators of
violated liberty in the Town of Boston.

  Thursday evening, 9 o'clock.
    Nov. 4, 1773.                         O.C., Sec^y, pr order.[45]

  To Messrs. the Tea Commissioners.
    Directed to B---- F---- Esq^r."

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Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)

Boston Tea Party, 1773; Tea tax (American colonies)

Your most obedient & most humble servants,
                                             RICHARD CLARKE & SONS.

P.S.--Mr. Faneuil writes to his friend, Mr. Brook Watson, by this
opportunity, advising him of the transactions relating to this affair.
In case of miscarriage of his letter, we desire you to communicate this
letter to Mr. Watson.


EXTRACT OF MR. FANEUIL'S LETTER TO BROOK WATSON, ESQ^R.

MENTIONED IN MR. CLARKE'S POSTSCRIPT.

Mr. Faneuil, after giving an account of the proceedings of the
inhabitants of the 3^rd instant, entirely agreeing in substance with Mr.
Clarke's relation, goes on--

"By comparing this account with what Mr. Clarke writes his friend, Mr.
Dupuis, of London, you will come at the exact state of the affair. The
Governor has given my Lord Dartmouth an account of the conduct of his
Council. I will only say that next day they voted that the
Attorney-General be ordered to prosecute the persons concerned in this
riot. The consequence, I suppose, will be, the grand jury will not find
a bill against them, and there the affair will end."

On Thursday, a letter, of which the following is a copy, was found in my
entry:

"Gentlemen: It is currently reported that you are in the extremest
anxiety respecting your standing with the good people of this Town and
Province, as commissioners of the sale of the monopolized and dutied
tea. We do not wonder in the least that your apprehensions are terrible,
when the most enlightened humane & conscientious community on the earth
view you in the light of tigers or mad dogs, whom the public safety
obliges them to destroy. Long have this people been irreconcilable to
the idea of spilling human blood, on almost any occasion whatever; but
they have lately seen a penitential thief suffer death for pilfering a
few pounds from scattering individuals. You boldly avow a resolution to
bear a principal part in the robbery of every inhabitant of this
country, in the present and future ages, of every thing dear and
interesting to them. Are there no laws in the Book of God and nature
that enjoin such miscreants to be cut off from among the people, as
troublers of the whole congregation. Yea, verily, there are laws and
officers to put them into execution, which you can neither corrupt,
intimidate, nor escape, and whose resolution to bring you to condign
punishment you can only avoid by a speedy imitation of your brethren in
Philadelphia. This people are still averse to precipitate your fate, but
in case of much longer delay in complying with their indispensable
demands, you will not fail to meet the just rewards of your avarice &
insolence. Remember, gent^n, this is the last warning you are ever to
expect from the insulted, abused, and most indignant vindicators of
violated liberty in the Town of Boston.

  Thursday evening, 9 o'clock.
    Nov. 4, 1773.                         O.C., Sec^y, pr order.[45]

  To Messrs. the Tea Commissioners.
    Directed to B---- F---- Esq^r."

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

Tea Leaves: Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to; the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year; 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction,; notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

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