She was evidently inclined to do so, in the beginning: but she was counselled by the Caucus of Town Committees, prompted by Joseph Warren, not to do so ; and the Committee of Correspondence at Philadelphia subsequently urged her to pay, without success. As will be seen in another part of this Chapter, however, the infliction of the Boston Port- Bill was a pecuniary advantage to that Town ; and it is not imposMbla that it was foreseen, at that time, that a payment for the Tea which had been destroyed by one oi her mobs, would deprive the Town of all the pecuniary advantages to be derived from a refusal to do so.

What wonderful results, arising from that refusal to pay for what a mob had destroyed, have been seen, throughout the w„rld, from that day to this.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

deprived of their usual means of support, were diverted from the particular purposes for which they had been contributed, and employed, instead, for the particular benefit of Boston's tax-payers, in relieving them from the necessity 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 the 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 employment 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.