498 Letters from Benjamin Franklin 



Memorandum. [Circa 1774.] 



When we see how easily the Nation is moved by party writers and 

 declaimers, how its mind is easily changed to purposes directly con- 

 trary by a pamphlet or a protest, how can we resolve to submit to its 

 Government without check or without being represented. Will sub- 

 mit only when we can no longer resist. A. Dr. of Diss. ( Incomplete. ) 

 I p. L(ii), 50. 



True State of the Proceedings in the Parliament of Great Britain 

 and in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. [1774.] 



Relative to the giving and granting the money of the people of 

 that Province, and all America in the House of Commons in which 

 they are not represented. Diss. 12 p. (Incomplete.) LVIII, 129. 



Printed in Works (Sparks, IV, 466). 



To The Printer of the Public Ledger. [1774.] 



On the causes of the existing bad feelings between England and 

 America. A. Dr. of L. S. "A Londoner." 4 p. L(i), 8. 



Printed in Works (Smyth, VI, 214). 



To Tho[ma]s Gushing. 1775. January 28. London. 



Lord Chatham's motion for conciliatory measures rejected. More 

 troops sent to America. Petitions to restore the commerce with America 

 are daily arriving. The petition from the Congress was brought into 

 each House without any particular recommendation from His Majesty 

 that they should be considered. From one of General Gates's letters 

 it appears that Lord Dartmouth advised him to disarm some of the 

 Colonies by force. A. Dr. of L. 2 p. XLV, 99. 



Printed in Works (Sparks, VIII, 140; Bigelow, V, 426; Smyth, VI, 301). 



To Dr. [Josiah] Tucker, Dean of Gloucester. 



1775- February 10. London. 

 Begs to be informed whether his of the 26th of February, 1774, 

 came to hand. A, Dr. of N. S. i p. XLV, 100. 



To [The Provincial Council of New Jersey, Samuel Tucker et al. 

 Committee]. 1775. February 14. London. 



All their Acts of March last are likely to pass the Board of Trade 

 except those for lowering the interest of money and for the relief of 



