freighted for different colonies, and agents appointed for the disposal of the commodity. The several colonies will undoubtedly consider the scheme as calculated merely to circumvent them into a compliance with the revenue law, and thereby to open the door for an unlimited taxation; for if taxation can be established in this instance, it will be extended to others. Consequences will not fail to convince the minister, that it would have been far more eligible to have repealed the duty, than in this way to attempt its establishment. It will be needless for me to assure you, that you may upon all occasions command the assistance of Your, &c. N. B. Some of the captains have refused to take the tea on board. LETTER VII. _Roxbury, March 28, 1774._ Before you have an account of the American proceedings in respect to the teas of the East-India Company, you must be presented with some matters of an earlier date. [May 14, 1773.] The Bostonians persisted in discovering on every occasion, a determined opposition to ministerial measures. Twelve days before the election day, the town resolved, “That if the council apply for Faneuil-hall for to dine in on the anniversary election day, the select men should not grant it but upon the express conditions that neither the commissioners of the customs, nor their attendants, nor the officers of the army and navy, stationed here for the purpose of enforcing unconstitutional acts of parliament by military execution, be invited.” It has been an established custom for the governor, council, and many other gentlemen, to dine there on that day; but the resolve prevented an application, and occasioned their dining elsewhere, with the commissioners and officers.