The Virginia Gazette

Extract of a letter from the Gentlemen that went from Bristol to present the petition of the merchants there relative to the affairs of North America, to Parliament, dated London, Jan. 14, 1766.

We have this moment returned from the House of Commons, and have the pleasure (though but barely time, as the post is just going) to inform you that, by what we could observe, there is not the least doubt but that the late restrictions on the North American trade will be totally taken off, and that trade both encouraged and extended. We have reason to think that the Ministry are for repealing the Stamp Act. Mr. Pitt, at different times this afternoon, spoke at least three hours, like an Englishman, replete with true principles of liberty. He insists upon supporting the sovereignty of the Mother Country over the colonies, but as warmly insisted upon the ill policy, the injustice, and even illegality, of taxing a people who were not represented; and concluded with giving it as his opinion that the Stamp Act should be totally repealed.