** We are," fay they, « moft deeply afflided with
afrnfe of our public calamities.-~By (hutting up
the port of Bofton, fome imagine that the courfe
of trade might be turned hither, and to out
benefit; but nature, in the formation of our
harbor, forbids our becoming rivals in commerce
with that convenient mart ; and were it odiet'^
wife, we muft be dead to every idea of juftfee,
and loft to all feeliags of humanity, could we
indulge one thought to feize oawealth, and raife
our fortunes on the ruin of our fufiering neigh«
hours." Marbtehead^ a fea-port in the vicinity of
Bofton, vying in generofity with Salem, oflered
the merchants of that city the free ufe of its

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wbar£r and Atrbs. fnOm im^^«llete(t snjbfticc.
and cruelty of this bill were th« topkfi af xmilttr^.
falexearfttioe > it was ftud ^' to l>efo .c«tn4litiittd,
ikat enormous ^hs tvd penftitie^ mvft enfuc*.
