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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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Extract from a letter dated Nov. 30 speculates that the British Ministry has ordered the seizure of Boston ringleaders, but doubts action without incentives; notes rising support for the American cause and predicts accommodation by reserving colonial legislation like Ireland and ceding taxation to representatives.
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"It is said the Ministry have certainly sent orders to seize some of the Bostonian ringleaders and bring them hither, but it is imagined nothing can be done to them unless they give them pensions or places. New partizans arise every day to espouse the American cause, and though the Ministry talk the same language they did, yet I do believe all will end in your reserving the legislation, as in Ireland, and the Parliament's giving up the right of taxation to your representatives. It seems as if they wished you would propose some plan of accommodation."
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Boston
Event Date
Nov. 30
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The letter reports rumors of Ministry orders to seize Bostonian ringleaders and bring them to the location of the writer; speculates no action without pensions or places; notes daily new partisans for the American cause; predicts outcome of reserving legislation as in Ireland and Parliament yielding taxation rights to representatives; suggests desire for a proposed accommodation plan.