Strange to say, Lossing, a Xew York writer, with all the original material within his reach and perfectly accessible, in his Seventeen hundred and sfcenlij sif (jiage 111,1 stated that the .Vniic;/ was returned to Europe, only "because no one could be found that would venture to receive the "tea," without an allusion to her having been stopped at Sandy-hook, and returned, thence, to Europe ; and, also, without the slightest allusion to the London and to what became of her tea. In his History of the I'niledSlates, (page 22U all that appears, concerning either the Xancy or the London is that (A?;/ " returned to England with their cargoes '' ; although the Xancy was the only one which thus returned, and then only because she was conii>el!eil to return. In his Field Bnr.k of the Revulution, after having devoted five pages to the Boston "Tea-party" li., 497-5(i2) he ventured to appropriate ten lines to the greatly more significant doings of Xew Y'ork, on the same subject.

' On the fifth of March, 1770, while the motion of Lord Xorth for " leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the Tax Act, as far as related to the "tax on Paper, Glass, and Painters" Colours," was under consideration, before the House of Commons, Governor Pownall, than whom noono was, then, better informed on every subject connected with .Vmerica and the Americans, replied to the Minister, and moved an amendment, to include Tea, also, in the proposed Bill.

In the course of his exceedingly important Si)eech, on introducing his motion to amend, the Governor said, "The drawback upon those "Teas, exjwrted to .\merica, of twenty-five per cent, does not amount, "as this argument supposes, to one shilling i>er pound -- it amounts to " only sevenpence half-penny, or thereabouts -- so that, did it operate as " a bounty, at all, it would amount to only fourpencc half-penny.