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quired from the kingof Sooloo (or Solor)in the year 1762, with a view 

 of eftablifhing on it a very capital entrepot for exchanging the produce 

 and manufadlures of Hindooftiin and Europe for thofe of China, Japan, 

 and the Oriental iflands. This fettlement gave great offence to the 

 Dutch and the Spaniards, and it was probably owing to their inftiga- 

 tions, that the ifland was fome time after attacked by the people of 

 Sooloo, and plundered of property to the amount of near a million of 

 dollars. The Eaft-India company's officers and people thereupon re- 

 tired with what effeds they could lave to I>aboan. 



The herring fifhery was fo very abundant on the coaft of Fife this 

 feafon, that the fifliermen fold their herrings at the rate of a hundred 

 for three pence, and 4,000 for T,f6. 



On Monday the fifth day of September a congrcfs of delegates from 

 twelve * Britifli colonies in America was held at Philadelphia. This 

 meeting of a general reprefentative and legiflative f body, eleded with- 

 out any authority derived from the Britifh government, may with great 

 propriety be called the commencement of the independent fovereignty 

 of the American flates, though the members of the congrefs flill pro- 

 feffed themfelves his Majefty's faithful and loyal fubjeds, in a ftrong 

 petition to the king, and in an addrefs to the people of Great Britain, 

 * their friends and fellow-fubjects.' 



(September 22'') — One of their firft adts was a requefl to the merch- 

 ants and traders, that they would fend no orders to Great Britain for 

 goods, and fufpend the execution of all orders already fent, till the fur- 

 iher fenfe of the congrefs fhould be made public. 



Odlober 2o"'~-Soon after they publifhed an ample and formal afTocia- 



tion, wherein they refolved that after the 1" of December they would 



import no goods whatever from Great Britain or Ireland, nor any goods 

 carried from Great Britain or Ireland to any other place, norany Eafl-India 

 tea from any part of the world, nor any melaffes, fyrups, paneles, coffee, 

 or pimento, from the Britifh Weft-India iflands, nor any foreign indigo. 



that they would not after that day import, or purchafe, any llaves, 



but wholely defift from the flave trade, and have no trading intercourfe 



with any one concerned in it As the mofl effedual fecurity for the 



obfervance of the non-importation, they refolved to ufe no tea on which 

 duty had been paid, and after the firll of March no tea whatever, and 



to purchafe no goods imported contrary to the affociation In con- 



fideration of the interefl; of their fellow-fubjedls in Great Britain, they 

 fufpended the non-exportation till the 10"' of September 1775, after 

 which day, if the obnoxious a6ts were not repealed, no merchandize 

 whatever was to be exported to Great Britain, Ireland, or the Weft- 



♦ Georgia did not accede at the commencement nefs or zeal of obedience, beyond what was ever 



of the revolution. paid to any laws enafted by the legally-conftitutcd 



f Their advices, or recommodations, though not authorities. 

 formally calkd laws, were followed with an eager- 



