deprived of their usual means of support, were diverted from the particuhir purposes for which they had been contributed, and employed, instead, for the particular benefit of Boston's tax-payers, in relieving them from the neces-ity of levying an unusual Poortax for the relief of the more than usually large number of those who were willing to live on charity ; and in " cleaning Docks, making Dykes, new laying "of old Pavements in the public streets, etc." -- all of them " public concerns, of no advantage to any in- " dividual, any further than as a member of the " community to which he or she belonged. Not a " single Wharf, Dock, Dyke, or Pavement, belonging " to any individual, was ordered to be made or " repaired," notwithstanding many of those who had been really thrown out of emj)loyment could have found renumerative occupation in such works of private concern; "but only such'' were thus made or repaired " as, by the constant usage of the Town, had " always been supported at the expense of the pub- " lie " -- in other words, at the expense of the taxpayers, the aristocracy of that peculiarly democratic and peculiarly . revolutionary Town. One of "the '' chief concerns of the principal inhabitants " was for those Tradesmen, whose small funds, though " sufficient for the small purjioses of life, yet would "soon be exhausted, if their resources were cutoff"" -- in other words, for the payment of debts, due by those Tradesmen to those " principal Inhabitants," which, otherwise, would have been worthless -- and Nails, and Ropes, and Baizes, and "Shirt-cloths," and Shoes, and other articles were manufactured, at the expense of the charitable, elsewhere, which were disposed of, by the " Gentlemen " who managed the speculation, to whom and at such j)rices as best answered the purposes ot all concerned.^ Need there be any surprise that, as one of their countrymen has since said, without a blush, " the people of Boaton, " then the most flourishing commercial Town on the "Continent, never regretted their being the principal " object of ministerial vengeance;" telling us, at the same time, that the " thousands who depended on their " daily labor for bread said : ' We shall suffer in a " ' good cause ; the righteous Being who takes care of " ' the Ravens that cry unto him, will provide for us "'and ours""?'^ Need there be any surprise, also,