This morning was published the Address of the Lords and Commons to his
Majesty, on the ninth of last February, wherein they declare Massachusetts Bay
in a state of rebellion, and countenanced and encouraged by unlawful
combinations in several of the other Colonies, and also, that all the
Bostonians who signed, as they call it, a league and covenant, are declared by
the crown lawyers, to have committed an overt act of high treason. Thereupon
were ordered for Boston, to chastise them, three regiments of foot, one of
dragoons, seven companies of marines, a large train of artillery.
Notwithstanding all this, some of our staunch friends in England beheld with
horror the ministerial proceedings, and as proof thereof, and to their lasting
fame be it recordered, that the Constitutional Society stepped forth, and
showed their dislike of those cruel proceedings by their resolving unanimously,
that One hundred Pounds sterling be sent by that Society to Dr. Franklin,
requesting him to transmit the same for the relief of the town of Boston.
SOURCE: William Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of
Christopher Marshall, Kept in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the
American Revolution, Vol. 1, 1774-1777, p. 17
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