is one of the most provoking acts of his hostility.  I shall be told that all this is lenient as against rebellious adversaries.  But are the leaders of their faction more lenient to those who submit?  Lord Howe and General Howe have powers, under an act of Parliament, to restore to the king’s peace and to free trade any men or district which shall submit.  Is this done?  We have been over and over informed by the authorized gazette, that the city of New York and the countries of Staten and Long Island have submitted voluntarily and cheerfully, and that many are very full of zeal to the cause of administration.  Were they instantly restored to trade?  Are they yet restored to it?  Is not the benignity of two commissioners, naturally most humane and generous men, some way fettered by instructions, equally against their dispositions and the spirit of Parliamentary faith, when Mr. Tryon, vaunting of the fidelity of the city in which he is governor, is obliged to apply to ministry for leave to protect the King’s loyal subjects, and to grant to them, not the disputed rights and privileges of freedom, but the common rights of men, by the name of graces?  Why do not the commissioners restore them on the spot?  Were they not named as commissioners for that express purpose?  But we see well enough to what the whole leads.  The trade of America is to be dealt out in private indulgences and grants,—­that is, in jobs to recompense the incendiaries of war.  They will be informed of the proper time in which to send out their merchandise.  From a national, the American trade is to be turned into a personal monopoly, and one set of merchants are to be rewarded for the pretended zeal of which another set are the dupes; and thus, between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled, and all the misconduct, all the calamities of the war are covered and continued.

If I had not lived long enough to be little surprised at anything, I should have been in some degree astonished at the continued rage of several gentlemen, who, not satisfied with carrying fire and sword into America, are animated nearly with the same fury against those neighbors of theirs whose only crime it is, that they have charitably and humanely wished them to entertain more reasonable sentiments, and not always to sacrifice their interest to their passion.  All this rage against unresisting dissent convinces me, that, at bottom, they are far from satisfied they are in the right.  For what is it they would have?  A war?  They certainly have at this moment the blessing of something that is very like one; and if the war they enjoy at present be not sufficiently hot and extensive, they may shortly have it as warm and as spreading as their hearts can desire.  Is it the force of the kingdom they call for?  They have it already; and if they choose to fight their battles in their own person, nobody prevents their setting sail to America in the next transports.  Do they think that the service is stinted for want of liberal