The act, under pretence of an indemnity to the East-India Company, is meant to enforce the submission to taxes. America will see this; and the cause of Boston will be made the cause of all the colonies. They are all as guilty as Boston. Not one has received the tea; some have destroyed it, others sent it back.” But all opposition was ineffectual; for the projected measures of government were immutable. The bill passed; and was carried up to the house of lords, where it was warmly debated, but, as in the house of commons, passed without a division. [March 31.] It received the royal assent. The Boston port bill formed only one part of the coercive plan proposed by ministry. A bill was soon brought in for “the better regulating the government of the Massachusetts Bay.” The purport of it was, to alter the constitution of the province, to take the whole executing power out of the hands of the democratic part, and to vest the nomination of counsellors, judges, and magistrates of all kinds, including sheriffs, in the crown, and in some cases in the king’s governor, and all to be removeable at the pleasure of the crown. In the debates it was asked of ministry, whether the colonies already regulated nearly in the manner proposed by the bill, were more submissive to the right of taxation than the Massachusetts. It was justly argued, the disorder lay much deeper than the forms of government; that the people throughout the continent were universally dissatisfied; and that the uneasiness and resistance was no less in the royal governments than in any other. Mr. _Bollan_ again made an effort in favor of his province; but the commons refused to receive his petition. The ministry having carried the preceding bill, prepared another, without which, it was said, the scheme would be entirely defective.