Happiness, and Freedom.' In short, the principles and " patriotic " impulses of those men of Boston began and ended in the proposed promotion of nothing else than their own individual and local interests, at the expense of the entire prostration of business, internal as well as external, except that of Smuggling, from one extremity to the other of the Atlantic seaboard -- the warp, the woof, and the filling of their neatly woven web were, in fact, nothing else, whatever, than unadulterated, audacious selfishness; and that selfishness, in that particular connection, was seen, more distinctly than it had previously been seen, when, a few weeks afterwards, the alms of the Continent, which had been sent for the particular relief of the sick and suffering poor of Boston, whom, it was said, the Port-Bill had

Lord Sandwich. -- Do not the New England Fishing-ships carry on "an illicit Trade with the French?

"C'ojiMDDOEE Shi ldiiam. -- Certainly ; their Ships meet at Sea; and "they supply thtm with Provisions, Rum, Stores, and the Ships them- "selves ; and return loaded with French Manufactures." -- (Eeam inulion of Connundore Shuldhaiu, Governor of Xeirfouitdlaiid , before the House of Lords, March 15, 1775.)

'^It will not be out of place, in this connection, to state the fact that Boston could have averted all the evils ascribed to the Boston Port-Bill, by paying for what some of her lawless inhabitants had destroyed-- as property destroyed by mobs, in o»r day, must be paid for by the County in which it is destroj'ed, as .\lleghany-county, Pennsylvania, sorrowfully knows, as one of the several resulta of the notable " Pittsburg Riots" of 1877. She was evidently inclined to do so, in the beginning; but she was counselled by the Caucus of Town Committees, prompted by .loseph Warren, not to do so ; and the Committee of Correspondence at Philadelphia subsequently urged her to pay, without success.