nd the Tea Act were inflicted on this country. Robert Morris
(1733-1806,) was the well-known financier of the Revolution. Thomas
Willing, (1741-1821,) from 1754 to 1807, held successively the offices
of Secretary to the Congress of Delegates, at Albany; mayor of the city
of Philadelphia; Representative in the General Assembly; President of
the Provincial Congress; delegate to the Congress of the Confederation;
President of the first chartered Bank in America, and President of the
first bank of the United States. He was a man whose integrity and
patriotism gained him the esteem and praise of his countrymen. From the
beginning of the Revolutionary war, Willing & Morris were the agents of
Congress for supplying their naval and military stores. To the great
credit and well-known patriotism of this house, the country owed its
extrication from those trying pecuniary embarrassments, so familiar to
the readers of our Revolutionary history.

[37] Hugh and Alexander Wallace, brothers, were merchants, of New York,
and partners in business. Hugh was a member of the Council, and second
President of the Chamber of Commerce. He was arrested as a loyalist, and
confined to the limits of Middletown, Conn., and his estate was
confiscated. At the peace he went to England, and died at Waterford,
Ireland, in 1788.

Alexander, his brother, also a loyalist, whose property was confiscated,
had originally been a member of the committee of correspondence, and
undoubtedly sympathized with the Whigs, but like many others, ultimately
fell off from the great body of his countrymen, and clung to the royal
cause. In August, 1776, he was arrested and confined at Fishkill. At the
peace he went to England, with his brother, and died at Waterford,
Ireland, in the year 1800.

[38] James Hall, captain of the "Dartmouth," the first tea-ship to
arrive in America, was a Boston loyalist, and was consequently
proscribed and banished in 1778.

[39] These two letters following each other so closely, plainly manifest
the anxiety of the Company, in reference to their shipments of tea to
Boston.

[40] William Kelly is, I suppose, the person referred to in the
following paragraph in Leake's "Life of John Lamb," pp. 75, 76. "A
certain Mr. Kelly, former resident of the city, (New York,) then in
London, and canvassing some one of the Ministerial Boroughs for an
election to Parliament, ridiculed the apprehensions of those who refused
to insure the cargoes of tea from