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es. On the twentieth of October the French surrendered the post of Mobile, with its brick fort, Gayarre. which was fast crumbling to ruins. A month later the Nov. slight stockade at Tombecbe, Florida, in America, and the West Indies, CXXXIV. Gayarre, II. 108. in the west of the Choctaw country, was delivered up. In all tefs of both the upper and lower Creek nations, whose warriors were thirty-six hundred in number, agreed to extend the frontier of the settlement chap. IX.} 1763. Nov. of Georgia. From this time dates the prosperity of that province, of which the commerce, in ten years, increased almost five fold. For these vast regions Grenve king's speech and the address, Pitt spoke with great ability; Barrington to Mitchell, quoted in Chat. Corr. II. 262. Grenville, in answer- chap. IX.} 1763. Nov. ing him, went through all the business of the summer, and laid before the house his plans of economy; contrasting them with the profusion which had marked the cond
they may foolishly think of intimidating ministers. To the Earl of Halifax, he signalized the lawyer, John Morin Scott, as an incendiary; and entreated the removal of Justice Robert R. Livingston, who had firmly maintained the validity of the verdict of juries. In this way the liberal party in New-York acquired its strength. The merchants opposed the government from hostility to restrictions on trade; the lawyers, from respect to the due course of justice; the large land- chap X.} 1764. Nov. holders, from fear of the diminution of their estates, by the arbitrary exertion of the prerogative. In Massachusetts, Bernard was eager to carry into effect a new arrangement of New England, believing that the proper time for this business was now come The two republics of Connecticut and Rhode Island were to be dissolved; the government of New-York extended as far as Connecticut river; and Massachusetts was to embrace the country from the Connecticut river to the Piscataqua. Another
gh imported directly from Great Britain; on British colonial coffee shipped from one plantation to another. Nor was henceforward any chap. XII.} 1765. May. part of the old subsidy to be drawn back on the export of foreign goods of Europe or the East Indies, except on the export of white calicoes and muslins, on which a still higher duty was to be exacted and retained. And stamp duties were to be paid throughout all the British American colonies, on and after the first day of the coming November. These laws were to be enforced, not by the regular authorities only, but by naval and military officers, irresponsible to the civil power in the colonies. The penalties and forfeitures for breach of the revenue laws were to be decided in courts of vice-admiralty, without the interposition of a jury, by a single judge, who had no support whatever but from his share in the profits of his own condemnations. Such was the system which Grenville had carried far towards its complete develo
ample of New-York. Friday, the first morning of November, broke Nov. upon a people unanimously resolved onNov. upon a people unanimously resolved on nullifying the Stamp Act. From New Hampshire to the far South, the day was introduced by the tolling of mufft New Haven, who on that morning, chap. XIX.} 1765. Nov. without apology or concealment, issued the Connectices cannot be enslaved but by their chap. XIX.} 1765 Nov. own folly, consent, or inactivity. Truly Britons haho would single out in the country chap. XIX.} 1765 Nov. the region, where at that time the fire of patriotishis own carriages and sleighs, be- chap XIX.} 1765. Nov. fore his eyes, on the Bowling Green, under the gaze ty Hall, offering in that case to chap. XIX.} 1765. Nov. prevent further confusion. The Common Council were m England, with an able Attorney- chap. XIX.} 1765. Nov. General and Solicitor-General, to make examples of sthe twenty-sixth of November. On chap. XIX.} 1765. Nov. that morning all the papers of the Congress, the dec