470 A. D. 1767. 



Though thispropofal for the cflablifliment of three new governments 

 in the interior part of America was approved of by Sir William Johp.fon, 

 the venerable fuperintendant of Indian affairs in the northern diftri<fh, 

 every art^um.ent in favour of it was completely repelled by the lords of 

 trade and plantations, in a reprefcntation made to the king upon the 

 buflncfs, in the beginning of the enfuing year. 



While this fcheme was in agitation for depriving the Indians of their 

 country, fome regulations were made to prevent ^vhite people from 

 hunting upon their grounds, or from trading clandeftinely with the Ind- 

 ians of the fouthern diftricfi-. The quantity of fpiritous liquors to be 

 carried into the Indian country was regulated, whereby, it was hoped, 

 a flop might be put to the frequent murders, and other enormities, oc- 

 cafioned by the immoderate ufe of thofe dangerous liquors. 



Odober 28' — At a town meeting held at Bofton in New-England, 

 feveral relolutions were unanimoiijly voted, which fhovved a determination 

 rather to widen, than to heal, the breach with the mother country, and 

 to dire6t their attacks againft her commerce, which they confidered as 

 her mod vulnerable part, as well as that which they could diftrefs with- 

 out the infringement of any law. 



In the preamble, they fay, ' Whereas the exceflive life of foreign fuper- 



* fluities is the chief caufe of the prefent diftrelfed ftate of this town, as 

 ' it is thereby drained of its money ; which misfortune is likely to be in- 



* creafed, by means of the late additional burthens and impofitions on 

 ' the trade of the province, which threaten the country with poverty 



cultivation, e. g. (^lo per acre for every vine-yard ' branches of navigation. If proper rf^tihit'ions 



not exceeding five acres, bccaufe new fettltrs are ' ivere eJlMlhcd, a more tijcful, and perhaps as lu- 



feldom able to wait for diftant returns for tlieir ' crallve, ajijhery might be found on the cou/ls of :his 



induflry, without ruinous confcquences ; and this, ' ijliind, as on thofe of /ImericH. There appears 



he contends, would be the cheapell method of ' fomelhing fiiigular in leaving a Britifl?fi/hery to the 



fupporting an infant colony. ' Whoever atten- ' Duui.', and ingoing to feet another a thoufand 



' lively confiders the nature of our fettlements in ' leagues off*. If the tilhcry of this nation be en- 



* the continent of America, will foon be convinced, ' couiagcd upon the coafts of North- America, 

 ' that it is for the intereft of this nation to check • that will iiif.nlibly draw the chief fifhers to rc- 

 ' population in the northern colonies, and en- ' fide there likewile. But prudence w>'uld require 

 < coura;3;e it in the fouthern.' ♦ » » » < Our ' to keep thofe as much as pufiible at home, as 



* territories in North-America are nearly as large * one of the readiell rcfourcts ot'our naval llrcngth, 

 ' as all Europe ; confequcntiy, if we chfTufe the * which is the right hand of our power, and can- 

 ' colonills widely all-over them, efpccially in the ' not be loo carefully, and too watchfully, cherifh- 

 ' fouthern climates, we will not need to be appre- ' ed.' He concludes, by oblerving, that 'To en- 

 ' henlive of their incrcafing numbers for ages to ' courage population in the fouthern colonies, it 

 ' conne, provided mean? be taken to keep up the ' dirtclly promoting the intcri.ll of this ifland, and 

 ' population of this ifla.id in a due proportion. ' is the fpeedieit method of Urengthening our 



* But to fuiTer towns to multiply in the northern ' fettlements on the continent of America: for, 

 ' colonies, and to eiico'.irage the forming of a con- ' in the fouth, where the foil and climate afford 

 ' fiderable naval force there, is to render thofe co- ' two or three rich harvefts annually, a colony 



* lonies rather the rivals, than the auxiliaries, to ' will advance mure in ten years, than in an hun- 

 ' thi-ir mother country ; and it m.ty be qu'.ftion- * dred years in the north, where nature lies dead 

 ^ ed, whether they do not rival it already in fome ' half the year.' 



• • I bright to fet the zeal that minif^ry had ahout the fifhinj of NewfoundljnJ (I think), while no care wai tikc» 

 -< aj'inll the Dutch filbing juft it oar doorg.' [Swi/i.] S 



