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Show ,32 Concerning f/fic Efiifir qf, Etc. Ilenec the tea, and other India oliieers. , Ame- which might have heen lbld in s ware- y compan the in i‘ica, remain rotting the (mode, PROCEEDINGS AND EXAMINATION, &c. houfes '5‘"; while thoie of foreign ports are known to be cleared by the American demand. in tome degree, Hence, their bills; the linking ot‘ their llOCli, by which millions of property have been annihilated; the lowering of their dividend, whereby to tnany mull be dillr'elibd; the lots. to government of the itipulated 400,0001. a year +, which inultmake a proportionable reduélion in our iavmgs towards the difeharge of our enormous debt : And hence in part the fevere blow fut'fered by. credit in generali, to the ruin of many families; the flag: nation of bufinel‘s in Spitalfields and at Manchei- ter, through want of vent for their goods ;-w1th other future evils, which, as they cannot, from the numerous and fecret connections in general commerce, avoided. To the CLERK of tile Council in "waiting *. the company's inability to pay eafily be forefeen, can hardly be " [At this time they contained many millions of pounds oftea, including the ufual Rock on hand. Mr. Burke, m his fpeech .111 I774, {uppofes that America. might have given a vent for ten mll- lions of pounds. This {cents to have been the greater part of thC Y whole quantity. E.] 1* [On account of atemporary compromife of certain drfputes with government. E.] I [Seen in certain memorable mercantile failures in the year 1772. (COPY-l S I R, Whitehall, Dec. 3, 1773. THE agent for the houfe ofreprefen tatives ofthe province ofMafihchufett's Bay, [Dr. Franklin] having delivered to Lord Dartmouth, an addrefs of that houfe to the King, figned by their fpeaker; complaining of the conduct of the Governor [Hutchinfon] and Lieutenant Governor [Andrew Oli- ver] of that province, in rcfpet‘l to certain private "‘ [Governor I'lntchini‘on, Lieutenant Governor Andrew Oliver, Charles Paxton, qu; Nrrdraniel Rogers, ER]; and Mr. G. Roome, having tent from Bollon re: min reprelentations and mfin'mations to Thomas VVhately, Flt}; member of parliament, private .‘tecretary to Illr. Gem'ge GI'LH'L'IYIL' (the father of the Ramp act) when in oflice, and afterwards one olithe Lord; of trade; the-:2: letters were, by a particular channel, conveyed bael; to Builon. The a1]L‘mbly of the province were to ninth r-\' 'ii‘iCl‘lllCtl, that they returned home zrttttied copies of the lend-rs, :reton . d nith :1 petition and remonllrance, tor the removal of Gov )1 1‘1 ‘tchinfo'r, andLieutenanz Governor Andrew Oliver, from ilrtir yells. 'l‘he (ouucil of the province, likewiie, on their part, u tercd into thirteen rethlves, in tendency and import flmilar U. the petition of the flfli‘l]!l1l}", five of which refolves \VK re unz'nirnr m, an\. only one of‘them lmd ll) many as three dillenlients. lnu nilqutnce vi the :zfl'embly‘s Petition, the above proceedings and examination Lt _ l; pace. Dr. Franklin having nrrturril »' . made itill larger by the irnpnl character, I have exhibited th: ‘ e lhare in thefe trunfaétions, . indecent tertecnrirn of his more at length, than 1 Illould ntlrerwife have thought proper. PROCEED- letters |