The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Nov. 3. The advices received from America, are full of the bad effects of the late act of parliament for regulating the trade of the plantations, and for laying a duty on their exports and imports, in order to defray the expences of their own government.--The prohibitions laid upon their trade by this Act, are grievously complained of, and the rigour with which these prohibitions are enforced by the men of war stationed on their coasts for that purpose, are by no means relished by the Americans, who subsist in a manner by their clandestine commerce with the French and Spaniards, and which must be connived at, if any advantage is to be expected from them by their mother country. On the other hand, the West-Indians complain of this indulgence, and are preparing memorials to be presented to parliament, to put a stop to the North-American distilleries, from French materials.