The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

We hear from Providence, in the Colony of Rhode-Island, that the Freemen of that Town being lately called, to confer on such Measures as should appear to them necessary relative to the STAMP-ACT. whereby the Liberties, the darling Boast of the English North-American Subjects, which was once deemed indefeasible, must be greatly abridged, if not totally annihilated; they accordingly met for the aforesaid Purpose, and unanimously appointed a Committee to prepare Instructions suitable to be given their Representatives for their Conduct in the next general Assembly, on this truly alarming Occasion; and that they are to be laid before the Town for their Approbation To-Morrow : at which time those Sons of Liberty are to convene again for the noblest of all Causes, their Country's Good.

Proceeding this, that conveys the most lively Idea of Principles nobly patriotic, and which will, it is to be wished, serve as an Example to other Towns, to exert themselves at this Crisis, and to remind them that they are entitled to all the Privileges of British Subjects, as long as they are denominated such, and to bear in utter Abhorrence the Name without the Substance.

Instead of voted Aid. Free, cordial, large, a never-failing Source, The cumb'rous Imposition follow'd harsh.