The inhabitants of _Charlestown_ broke off all commerce with the _Rhode Islanders_ and _Georgians_, whom they charged with having acted a most singularly infamous part, from the beginning of the present glorious struggle for the preservation of American rights. This had its effect, and _Georgia_ came into the non-importation agreement September the nineteenth; _Providence_, October the tenth; but _Rhode-Island_ not till the thirtieth. [Oct.] The _North-Carolina_ assembly came to the like resolution with the _Virginia_ house of burgesses, for which governor _Tryon_ dissolved them. Upon that, the gentlemen who had composed it, repaired to the court-house, chose the late speaker moderator, and came to a resolution for an association against importing, _&c._ comformable to what had been done elsewhere. Thus the non-importation agreement became general, and was forwarded by the very means applied for its prevention. Meetings of the associators were regularly held. Committees were appointed to examine the cargoes of all vessels arriving from Britain; and regular votes and resolutions of censure were passed in those meetings, upon such as refused to concur in the associations, and their names published in the newspapers as enemies to their country. The decrees of those committees met with a respect and obedience denied to the constitutional authority of government. In some cases goods imported from Britain were locked up in warehouses, under the care of the committees, and in a few instances returned. _Portsmouth_, the only sea-port in _New-Hampshire_, never came into the non-importation agreement. Governor _Wentworth_ had address enough to prevent it, and keep all quiet. There are few private schools in that colony, and the bulk of the people are very illiterate. If a person can write a note of hand, read a chapter, and cypher to the rule of three, he passes for a man of learning. Men, whose capacities remain small for want of use and improvement, and who have little knowledge, are liable to be duped by those who possess superior rank and abilities. The associations were as general, and in common as well observed as could reasonably be expected, considering the disadvantages and losses they necessarily occasioned to many. But it is not to be thought, that there were no collusions; that all the goods belonging to the professing sons of liberty, which were stored, remained in the warehouses, without being conveyed out upon particular occasions, and to serve certain purposes; that all, who had given their names or honors not to import, did not privately order some of the prohibited articles to please themselve, families or neighbours; that when, some months afterward, the zeal of the daughters of liberty in several of the colonies, proscribed the drinking of tea, and rendered the disuse of it a universal fashion, all were so true to their engagements, as not to sip their green or bohea in secret, or under a new name; and that all