mpliance.

"Under the most sensible impressions of your Majesty's wise and paternal
care for the remotest of your faithful subjects, and in full dependence
on the royal declarations in the Charter of this province, we most
humbly beseech your Majesty to take our present unhappy circumstances
under your Royal consideration, and afford us relief in such manner as
in your Majesty's great wisdom and clemency shall seem meet." (Prior
Documents, etc., pp. 175-7.)]

[Footnote 302: Prior Documents, etc., p. 219.]

[Footnote 303: Prior Documents, etc.]

[Footnote 304: Prior Documents, etc., p. 262.]

[Footnote 305: American Annals, etc., Vol II., pp. 157, 158; the
authority given is Gordon, Vol. I., pp. 168-172. Dr. Ramsay gives a
similar account of the affair in his Colonial History, Vol. I., Chap.
iii., p. 355.]

[Footnote 306: Prior Documents, pp. 262, 263.

Dr. Franklin adds in a note: "That the seizure was unjust, is plain from
this, that they were obliged to restore the vessel, after detaining her
a long time, not being able to find any evidence to support a
prosecution. The suits for enormous sums against a number of persons,
brought in the Court of Admiralty, being found insupportable, were,
after long continuance, to the great expense and trouble of these
persons, dropt by a declaration of the King's advocate that his Majesty
would prosecute no further; but the prosecuted could obtain no costs or
damages, for so is the law."--_Ib_., p. 263.]

[Footnote 307: Holmes' Annals, etc., Vol. II., p. 158.]

[Footnote 308: Holmes' Annals, etc., Vol. II., pp. 158, 159.

The Boston _American Gazette_, under the head of "A Journal of
Transactions in Boston," says, September 30th, 1768: "Early this morning
a number of boats were observed round the town, making soundings, etc.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the _Launceston_, of 40 guns; the
_Mermaid_, of 28; the _Glasgow_, 20; the _Beaver_, 14; _Senegal_, 14;
_Bonetta_, 10, and several armed schooners, which, together with the
_Romney_, of 60 guns, and the other ships of war before in the harbour,
all commanded by Captain Smith, came up to town, bringing with them the
14th Regiment, Colonel Dalrymple, and the 29th Regiment, Colonel Carr,
none having been disembarked at Castle Island; so that we now behold
Boston surrounded, in a time of profound peace, with about fourteen
ships of war, with springs on their cables, and their broadsides to the
town. It the people of Eng