The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

From the PUBLIC LEDGER.

The late Resolutions of Boston in New-England Considered.

As the hard Appellations of Rogues and Rebels have within this few days been very plentifully bestowed on the inhabitants of Boston; and as the Public may be desirous to know on what this is founded, I will inform them.

The inhabitants being in great distress for want of money, & being fully convinced that a foreign & luxurious trade is the cause of their Poverty & Ruin, they have therefore resolved, in order to check such a destructive trade, not to import, 1. any Men's or Women's Apparel ready made, as they have Tailors & Mantua-Makers of their own. 2. To use no gold, silver, or thread Lace; because they cannot afford it. 3. To use no gold or silver Buttons, for the same good reason, 4. No Diamonds, Stone, Paste or Jewellery; their Poverty is such that many of them never saw a Guinea: is it not a laudable resolution then not to import Diamonds: 5. Nor any Snuff or Mustard, their own Fields affording both: Shall we be angry then that they make use of them? 6. Muffs, Furs and Tippets: Would you prevent them, after killing a Boar, from turning his skin into a Muff? 7. Millinery: and do you think the Ladies are Rebels too, because they resolve to make their own caps? 8. China ware: It would do honour to the people of England to follow this example. 9. Linseed oil: Why, their fields are covered with Flax-seeds would you refuse their pressing a little for their own use? 10. Lawns and Cambricks, they deserve a vote of thanks for refusing the manufacture of our Enemies, but which the people of England wear in defiance of the Laws of the Land. Expensive funerals, they also prohibited, and are they not right; and are they not also right in resolving not to wear cloth above 10s. per yard, because they cannot pay for it.

Finally, they determine to establish manufacture. This is so far from being any prejudice to England, that I, as a Linnen Draper, think they ought as well as the Irish to have a bounty on it, for if New-England could remit their Linens to England it would be a very fine remittance for our Woollen manufacture and hard ware, when we should no longer have occasion for linens of Austria, Sileasia, Hamburgh, Holland, and Russia.

Thus much in answer to all the clamour and dirt thrown at New-England, a people, whose loyalty is unimpeached; notwithstanding the late unhappy difference.

Yours, &c.

A Linnen Draper.