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is error. Elated with vanity, he was sure in any event of a victory; for if they Chap. XLIX.} 1773. Jan. should disown the opinions of the several towns, he would gain glory in England; if they should avow them, then, said he in a letter which was to go straight to the King, I shall be enabled to make apparent the reasonableness and necessity of coercion, and justify it to all the world. Hutchinson to John Pownall, Jan 1773, in his Letter Book; and compare Hutchinson to John Pownall, Jan. 1778. In Remembrancer for 1776, II. 60. The speech was printed and industriously circulated in England; and for a short time made an impression on the minds of many not well acquainted with the dispute. His hearers in Boston saw his indiscretion, and Samuel Adams prepared to take the fowler in his own snare. No man in the Province had reflected so much as he on the question of the legislative power of Parliament; no man had so early ar ived at the total denial of that power. For nine ye