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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 51: (search)
ed 27 January, 1774. that the Chap. LI.} 1774. Jan. people of Boston had thrown the tea overboard, and this event swelled the anger against the Americans. In this state of public feeling, Franklin on the twenty-ninth, assisted by Dunning and John Lee, came before the Privy Council, to advocate the removal of Hutchinson and Oliver, in whose behalf appeared Israel Mauduit, the old adviser of She Stamp Tax; and Wedderburn the Solicitor General. It was a day of great expectation. Thirty-five Lh rewards may be more approved. Report of the speech of the Counsel of the Province, in a letter from Edmund Burke, the Agent of the Colony of New-York to the Committee of Correspondence of the New-York Assembly. He spoke well, and was seconded by Lee. Burke to Rockingham, 1 or 2 of Feb. 1774; in Corr. i. 453. The question as presented by Dunning, was already decided in favor of the Petitioners; it was the universal opinion that Hutchinson ought to be superseded. Wedderburn changed the