EVENTS OF 1770.--AN EVENTFUL EPOCH.--EXPECTATIONS
OF RECONCILIATION AND UNION DISAPPOINTED. 364-373

Collisions between the soldiers and inhabitants in Boston 365

The soldiers insulted and abused 365

The Boston Massacre; the soldiers acquitted by a Boston jury 365

The payment of official salaries independent of the
Colonies another cause of dissatisfaction 366

What had been claimed by the old American Colonies contended
for in Canada, and granted, to the satisfaction and progress
of the country 367

Lord North's Bill to repeal the Colonial Revenue Acts,
except the duty on tea, which he refused to repeal until
"America should be prostrate at his feet" 368

Governor Pownall's speech and amendment to repeal the
duty on tea, rejected by a majority of 242 to 204 369

Associations in the Colonies against the use of tea
imported from England 370

The tea duty Act of Parliament virtually defeated in America 370

The controversy revived and intensified by the agreement
between Lord North and the East India Company, to remit
the duty of a shilling in the pound on all teas exported
by it to America, where the threepence duty on the pound
was to be collected 371

Combined opposition of English and American merchants,
and the Colonists from New Hampshire to Georgia, against
this scheme 372

CHAPTER XVII.

EVENTS OF 1771, 1772, 1773.--THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S
TEA REJECTED IN EVERY PROVINCE OF AMERICA; NOT A CHEST OF
ITS TEA SOLD; RESOLUTIONS OF A PUBLIC MEETING IN PHILADELPHIA
ON THE SUBJECT, THE MODEL FOR THOSE OF OTHER COLONIES. 374-387

The Governor, Hutchinson, of Massachusetts, and his
sons (the consignees), alone determined to land the tea
at Boston 376

The causes and affair of throwing the East India Company's
tea into the Boston Harbour, as stated on both sides 377

The causes and the disastrous effect of the arrangement
between the British Ministry and the East India Company 381

The King the au