The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

CHARLESTOWN, (S. CAROLINA,) Nov. 14. Our last Advices (before these) of a publick Nature from Jamaica, the 28th of June, informed us, that the Assembly and the People there, were full of Gratitude to his Majesty, for the Removal of the late Governor, William Henry Lyttleton, Esq; under whom they complained, that their Commerce, Credit, and Constitution, had, by a violent, arbitrary, and rapacious Administration, sustained many and great Injuries; particularly in the Want of Money to support their inland Circulation, and supply themselves even with the Necessaries of Life; by banishing from their Ports that inestimable Foreign Commerce, through which alone their Supplies of Money used to be received; by reiterated Dissolutions of their Assembly, whereby the ordinary Influx to the Treasury had been stopped for near two Years; by conniving at, and countenancing the Imposition of certain Fees, and a Variety of scandalous Exactions; through which unconstitutional and oppressive Conduct, the Island was reduced to the most calamitous and distressed Condition.