An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . the liveliest demon-strations of joy by the inhabitants of London, where the church-bellswere rung and the houses illuminated. In America, where thepeople could not even hope for such an event, the intelligence pro-duced a transport of surprise, exultation, and gratitude. Thankswere voted by the legislatures to Lord Camden, Pitt, and others, whohad befriended the colonial interest
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . the liveliest demon-strations of joy by the inhabitants of London, where the church-bellswere rung and the houses illuminated. In America, where thepeople could not even hope for such an event, the intelligence pro-duced a transport of surprise, exultation, and gratitude. Thankswere voted by the legislatures to Lord Camden, Pitt, and others, whohad befriended the colonial interests. The burst of good feeling which followed this conciliatory measurewas somewhat allayed by the declaratory act, in which the right oftaxation was still asserted ; and new acts of oppression soon re-awakened discontent. Indemnity for damage done by the riots wasdemanded ; troops were ordered to be quartered on the citizens;an act imposing duties on glass, paper, pasteboard, white and redlead, painters* colours, and tea, was passed, (June 29, 1767,) andnew regulations for collecting the revenue were rigorously between the colonial Assemblies and the royal governorj THE BOSTON JOHN HANCOCK. tollowed these measures of Townshend, the minister, who died m1767, and was succeeded by Lord North. The seizure at Boston of the sloop Liberty, owned by the populaimerchant, John Hancock, led to a serious riot; and the quartering oftroops, (November 10, 17^57,) in the representatives chamber, thecourt-house, and that cradle of liberty, Faneuil Hall, was regardedas the most terrible outrage which the citizens had ever endured. Non-importation agreements were entered into by nearly all thecolonies, on the one hand, and a proposition for trying Americanoffenderb iu England, was t-ntertained on the other; while the alter-cations between the royal ijMvernors and the colonial Assemblies werevigorously kept up. In Boston, the presence of the British troop*was a per
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