[Jan. 1768.] The _Connecticut_ towns and _New-York_ followed the exemple. Still the business laboured without being productive of any important effects. This engaged the attention of one captain Malcolm, a small trader, who about eighteen months before had made himself famous by a violent and successful resistance with sword and pistol to the custom-house officers, when endeavouring to search his house for uncustomed goods, under the authority of a writ of assistance. Having, about the middle of February, safely run the cargo of a schooner from Fyall, consisting of about sixty pipes of wine, he, within two or three days, procured a meeting of some merchants and traders at which he presided. Nothing was determined upon more, than the calling of a general meeting of the merchants on Friday, March the fourth. This may be stiled the first movement of the merchants against the new acts of parliament. The result of this meeting was, that a subscription for not importing any English goods, except for the fishery, for eighteen months, should be prepared and carried round the town. It met with no great encouragement, and many declined subscribing. On this all engines were set to work; some were threatened and made afraid for their person and houses; others for their trade and credit.—By such means the subscription was filled. But the merchants of New-York and Philadelphia declined to concur in the measure, those of Boston were obliged to give it up for the present. However, they renewed it within a few months, as you will learn below.