The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

A writer in favour of America says "The determination to amend the American Revenue Act, by taking off the duties on paper, glass, and paint only, does not relieve the commerce of this country, agreeable to the prayer of the merchants ; nor redress any one grievance of which America complains. The merchants cannot in consequence of it ship one shilling's worth of the goods ordered ; and the Americans are left to groan under every oppression which they felt before. But it will be said, there is some alleviation given in the quantum of the tax.---The produce of the whole duties in the Act amounts to about thirteen thousand pounds a year; of this nine thousand arise from the tea, the article which is left unrepealed.--- The reduction of the revenue from thirteen to, nine thousand is then the whole operation of this amendment. Neither is this saving any right to our colonies, because they had determined not to take those articles; and therefore, the next year's duty upon them would have been very inconsiderable."