. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . These letters Franklin transmitted to the Assembly atBoston, -who voted, by a large majority, that the opinions expressed contem-plated the establishment of arbitrary power; and they accordingly petitionedfor the removal of the governor and lieutenant-governor. The intelligencefrom Boston of the destruction of the teas was not likely to propitiate theCouncil. Franklin was treated with little respect; and Wedderbum, thesolicitor-general, assailed him with a torrent of
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . These letters Franklin transmitted to the Assembly atBoston, -who voted, by a large majority, that the opinions expressed contem-plated the establishment of arbitrary power; and they accordingly petitionedfor the removal of the governor and lieutenant-governor. The intelligencefrom Boston of the destruction of the teas was not likely to propitiate theCouncil. Franklin was treated with little respect; and Wedderbum, thesolicitor-general, assailed him with a torrent of invective, at which the lordscheered and laughed. Franklin bore the assaults with perfect equanimity;but from that hour he ceased to be a mediator between Great Britain andthe Colonists. The CouucQ reported that the Petition from Massachusettswas groundless, vexatious, and scandalous. Two days after, Franklin wasdismissed from his office of Deputy Postmaster General. He said to Priestley,who was present at the Council, that he considered the thing for which hehad been so insulted, as one of the best actions of his Flau of Bostou. The Parliament had met on the 13th of January. It was the 7th ofMarch when lord Korth delivered the kings message relating to the violentand outrageous proceedings at the town and port of Boston, in the provinceof Massachusetts Bay, with a view to obstructing the commerce of this king-dom, and upon grounds and pretences immediately subversive of the constitu-tion thereof. There was a debate, of which the most remarkable part was, that -1 1774.] bosto:n port bill. 339 when lord North stated that the proper papers should be ready on the followingFriday, Thurlow, the attorney-general, said, loud enough to reach the ear of theminister, I never heard anything so impudent; he Las no plan yet ready.*The one plan which first presented itself—the most unfortunate of all plans—is exhibited in a note of the king to lord North, dated the 4th of February
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