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Letter to New-York, 16 Feb. 765, in Boston Gazette of 3 June. We might, said Franklin, as well have hindered the sun's setting. The tide against the Americans was irresistible. We have power to tax them, said one of the ministry, and we will tax them. Letter from London, of Oct. 1765, quoted in R. H. Lee's of 2 Feb. 1766. The nation was provoked by American claims of independence (of parliament), and all parties joined in resolving by this act to settle the point. Franklin to Charles Thompson, Ms. On the twenty-seventh of February, the Stamp Act passed the House of Commons. Rockingham had freely expressed his opinion at Sir George Saville's as to the manner in which the colonies could best resist it. Letter from London, by William Bollan. In public he was silent. Lord Temple Phillimore's Lyttelton, II. 690. had much private conversation with Lord Lyttelton on the subject; and both approved the principle of the measure, and the right asserted in it. Had there existe