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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 33: (search)
have been devised. To insulate the offending Province, and if possible the town of Boston, a letter was sent by Hillsborough to the Governors of each of the twelve other Colonies, with a copy of the Circular, which was described as of a most dangerous and factious tendency, calculated to inflame the minds of the people, to promote an unwarrantable combination, and to excite open opposition to the authority of Parliament. You will therefore, said he, Hillsborough's Circular Letter, 21 April, 1768, as addressed to Rhode Island, in Prior Documents, 220. exert your utmost influence to prevail Chap. Xxxiii} 1768. April. upon the Assembly of your Province to take no notice of it, which will be treating it with the contempt it deserves.—If they give any countenance to this seditious paper, it will be your duty to prevent any proceedings upon it by an immediate prorogation or dissolution. See Hillsborough's letter as sent to Maryland. This clause was omitted from the letter sent t