The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman at Virginia to
his Friend in London.

Dear SIR,

I have just Time to enclose you the Resolutions
the House of Burgesses (in Virginia) came to very
lately with respect to the Stamp-Duty, immediately
on the Receipt of a Copy of the Act of Parliament
from England, on which the Governor dissolved the
Assembly.---The Americans are highly exasperated:
And it would take a very great Force to oblige them
to an Observance of the Act, were they obstinately
to refuse it. As a Bystander I think the Act ill-timed,
their Trade with the West-Indies being ruined, the
Act preventing their making and issuing any more
Paper Currency, enforced so, that you cannot conceive
the dismal Situation the Provinces are in for want
of Money of every Kind.

I wish myself and Family with you in England;
as from the present disagreeable Situation of Affairs,
there may be so much Reason to dread Anarchy
and Confusion.