54<5 



A. D. 1773. 



who could make no refiftance, they completely difcharged them of their 

 cargoes, the whole of which they threw into the fea, and then went quiet- 

 ly on fliore, without meeting with any oppofition from Callle WiUiam 

 or the fhips of war in the harbour (December 18"'). Such tea Hiips as 

 arrived at Bofton afterwards made no entry at all in the cuftom-houfe, 

 but returned directly to England with their cargoes. At New York a par- 

 cel of tea was landed under the guns of a fliip of war ; but the governor 

 was obliged to deliver it to be fecurely locked up from being fold, as had 

 been the cafe with the ftamp paper in the year 1765 in the fame place. 

 At Philadelphia the pilots were ordered to conduft no tea fhip up the 

 river. And at Charleftown the example of Boflon was followed by 

 dilcharging the tea into the water. 



The fpirit of emigration from the north of Ireland, noticed laft year, 

 ftill continued. The Highland part of Scotland was alfo infeded with 

 the lanie eagernefs for change ; and great numbers of people from 

 Glengary, Rofs, and Sutherland, and from the iflands of Sky, Lewis, &c. 

 broke through the ftrong attachment to the land of their fathers, which 

 had for ages been the diftinguifhing charadteriftic of the Highlanders, 

 and croffed the Atlantic to cultivate the wafte lands, and augment the 

 military force, ot America, where llich an accellion of population, at 

 fuch a critical time, was welcomed with joy and aftonifliment*. 



The emigration from the north of Ireland was owing, in fome degree 

 at leafl:, to the great and alarming decreafe of the demand for linens f . 

 The reader has already feen the rapid increafe of the linen manufafturc 

 of that country to the year 1 771. From that period it declined, fo that 

 the exports of linen from Dublin, which in the year 1771 were to the value 

 of /!' 1, 6 9 1, 000 fell in the year 1772 to about /^i ,300,000, and this year 

 beloW;^900,ooo; littlemorethana half of what they were twoyears before. 



In Scotland the linen manufacture was alfo declining. By the flamp- 

 mafters' reports, there were (lamped for fale in the 



year 1771 - - 13,466,274 yards, 



1772 - - 13,089,006, 



and in 1773 - - only 10,748, no. J 



* Knox fays it is certain, tliat between tliq years (hipped at Dcrry in the fame time. And tlic 

 1763 and 1775 above. 30,000 people abaiidonej whole cnnigratioii from the provijice of Ulfter was 

 their liabitallons [in the Highlands]] belides great eilimated to amount to at lead 30,000 people, 

 numbers from the Lowlands. [/^/Vik of the Brit- wiiereof lo,coo were weavers, many of whom ear- 

 ijj) empire, p. 13".] Admitting the jurnbcr 10 be ried their weaving utenfils to Amcriea. Almoft 

 juft, we may fr.{fly venture to fay, that the emi- all the emigrants carried fome money with them, 

 grants from the Highlands only are now (1799) and fome of them might be confidered as men of 

 increafcd to 60,000 fabjeSs of the United Hates property. \_Riport of ihe comimttee nf the Irilb par- 

 ol America. liament on the linen tnaimfaclure, in the Irijh Journal 



f About three fourths, and in fome places many 1774, {>p- 3^0 et J'cq.~\ 



more, ot the looms in tiie north of Ireland were \ The earlier progrefs of this maii.ifaitiirc, 



out of employment. Trom the port of Bdfad which people arc accuflomcd to call ihe ftaplc of 



3,541 pcrfons triibarked for America between Oc- Scotland, may be fesn in p. 336 of thii volume, 

 lober 1 771 and QAobcr 1773. About 6,000 



