The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Extract of a Letter from New York, May 14, 1774, addressed to the Committee of Correspondence in Boston.

'Last Thursday Capt. Couper arrived from London in 27 Days. By him we have received the shocking and detestable Act of Parliament that shuts up your Port the first of June.-- We want Language to express our Abhorrence of this additional Act of Tyranny to America; we clearly see that he is to be attacked and enslaved by distressing and subduing you.-- We are persuaded that the sensible People of the Town of Boston anticipate the Object of the Act in all it's dire Events: and therefore that a Compliance with the Proviso of it will only be a temporary Relief from a particular Evil, which must end in a general Calamity. Impressed with this, a great Number of our Citizens wish our Port to be in the same State with yours.-- And as the Ministry have put it out of your Power to continue your Trade with Great-Britain, the Merchants are to have a Meeting tomorrow Evening to agree upon a general Non-Importation and Non-Exportation of Goods to and from Great-Britain; also to stop the Exportation of all Hoops, Staves, Headings, and Lumber to the English Islands, and to export no more of the first Articles to the foreign Islands than will be sufficient to bring home the Sugar, Rum, and Mo-lasses for the Return of American Cargoes. We shall advise you the Result of the Meeting.-- We can with great Truth assure you, that many timid People in this City, who have interested themselves but very little in the Controversy with Great-Britain, express the greatest Resentment and Indignation at the Conduct of the Ministry to your Town, and consider the Treatment done to it as if done to this City; and this is the general Sense of the Inhabitants. The Express is a true Friend to the Liberties of this Country, and will wait your Directions for his Return.'