er. Far from making it a plea for cruelty, a mind of true magnanimity and enlarged ideas would comprehend and respect it.

What may have been the ministerial views, which have precipitated the present crisis, Lexington, Concord, and Charlestown can best declare. May that God, to whom you then appeal, judge between America and you. Under his providence, those who influence the councils of America, and all the other inhabitants of the United Colonies, at the hazard of their lives, are determined to hand down to posterity those just and invaluable privileges which they received from their ancestors.

I shall now. Sir close my correspondence with you: perhans forever. If your officers.

ton, known by the name of Liberty-Tree, and armed with axes, &c., made a furious attack upon it.

After a long spell of laughing and grinning, sweating, swearing, and foaming, with malice diabolical, they cut down a tree, because it bore the name of Liberty. But be it known to this infamous band of Traitors that the GRAND AMERICAN TREE OF LIBERTY, planted in the centre of the United Colonies of North America, now flourishes with unrivalled, increasing beauty, and bids fair in a short time, to afford, under its wide spreading branches, a safe and happy retreat for all the sons of Liberty, however numerous and dispersed.

This once hated ground is now covered by a splendid block of stores, (which is nearly opposite Boylston Market;) erected by the Hon. D. Sears, of this city.