I of the Provinces of Ma.ssachusetts-Bay and New I Hanii)shire and the Colonies of Connecticut and ' Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in North America, with Great Britain, Ireland, and the Mritish Islands in the West Indies; and to prohibit such Provinces and Colonies from carrying on any Fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland or other places therein mentioned, under certain specified conditions and limitations; and, second, the Bill lor restraitung the Trade and (-ommerce of the Colonies of New Jersey, I'ennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Houth Carolina, with Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Islands in the West Indies, under certain conditions and limitations -- the Commerce and Fishing Rights of the Colony of New York, in each instance, having been left, undisturbed -- and the First Session of the Fourteenth Parliament was drawing near to its close. The disturbance of Trade which was consequent on the political differences, had already i)rodnced great distress, in Great Britain, among those whose lives and labors and properties were employed in the manufacture of goods si)ecifically intended for tiie American market; and, at the same time, the Merchants, in that country, and those who had given credits, commercial or financial, to the Colonists, in America, were anxiously considering in what way, if at all, since entire commercial non-intercourse, except that which was surrei)titi()us and corrupt,' had been ordered by the Parliament as well as by the Continental Congress, they were to receive payment of what was due or becoming due to them -- anxieties which were not removed by the aristocratic and " patriotic "debtors," in some of the Colonics, at least, whence remittances had been entirely susj)ended and where the Courts of Justice were not permitted to assist in the collection of debts.