ment as to Involve in it the Fate of all our
Po-
sterity. -- Great Pains has been taken to per-
swade the British Administration to think, that
the good People of this Province in general
are quiet and undisturbed at the late Measures;
and that any Uneasiness that appears, arises
only from a few factious designing and dis-
affected Men. This renders it the more neces-
sary, tha the sense of the People should be
explicitly declared. -- A free Communications of
your Sentiments to this Town, of our com-
mon Danger is earnestly solicited and will be
gratefully received. If you concur with us
in the Opinion, that our Rights are properly stated,
and that several Acts of Parliament, and
Measures of the Administration, pointed out by us,
are subversive of these Rights, you will doubt-
less think it of the utmost Importance that we
stand firm as one Man, to recover and support
them, and to take such Measures, by directing
our Representatives, or otherwise, as your Wis-
dom and Fortitude shall dictate, to rescue from
impending Ruin our happy and glorious Con-
stitution. But if it should be the general Voice
of this Province, that the Rights, as we have
stated them, do not belong to us; or, that the
several Measures of Administration in the British
Court are no Violations of these Rights; or,
that if they are thus violated or infringed, they
are not worth contending for, or resolutely
mantaining; -- should this be the general