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This broadside defends the rights of merchants to import British tea, in violation of their fellow merchants' adherance to nonimportation, and denounces a proposed meeting on the matter as "illegal and underhanded." The publishing of this broadside did little to prevent the ensuing raid on Richard Clarke's King Street tea shop.