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want of paper currency. The papers have 

 abounded with complaints from Boston of the 

 military and of their G-overnor Bernard. " May 

 Irish ministers who support illegal taxation be 

 deemed illegitimate,'' and " be excommunicated 

 from Heaven by St. Patrick," were two of a 

 number of toasts drunk by the friends of St. 

 Patrick on the anniversary of the Repeal of the 

 Stamp Act, a day celebrated with much jolity 

 throughout all the Colonies. Though acts as 

 full of oppression have succeeded it, England 

 may do as she pleases, the inhabitants of America 

 will loose their liberties with their lives. I will 

 give you an extract from a pape/~taken from the 

 Virginia Gazete "What is the reason the 

 meeting of our assembly is put off till May ? Is 

 it to wait with patience to see what steps our 

 imperious Lords and Masters at home will be 

 pleased in their great wisdom to take ? Lords 

 and Masters, by the by, who are bought and sold 

 like sheep in the markets. It is well known the 

 country Levy cannot be laid, so as to be collected 

 the next year, if our Eepresentatives do not meet 

 before the time now appointed which will be ex- 

 ceedingly inconvenient to individuals as well as 



