Strange to say, Lossing, a New York writer, with all the original material within his reach and perfectly accessible, in his Seventeen hundred and seventy-six (page 111,) stated that the Nancy 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-honk, and returned, thence, to Europe ; aud, uIbo, without theslightest allusion to the London and to what became of her tea. In bis History of the UnitedStates, (page 22A) all that appears, concerning either the Nancy ur the London, is that they " returned to England with their cargoes " ; although the Nancy was the only one which thus returned, and then only because she was compelled to return. In his Field Book of the Revolution, after having devoted five pages to the Boston "Tea-party" (i., 497-502) he ventured to appropriate ten lines to the greatly more significant doings of New York, on the same subject.

i On the fifth of March, 1770, while the motion of Lord North 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 no one was, then, better informed on every subject connected with America 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 Speech, on introducing bis motion to amend, the Governor said, " The drawback upon those " Teas, exported to America, of twenty-five per cent, does not amount, "as this argument supposes, to one shilling per pound-- it amounts to " only sevenpence half-penny, or thereabouts -- 60 that, did it operate as " a bounty, at all, it would amount to only fourpence half-penny.