[52] History, iii. 108.
[53] Ibid., iii. 106.
[54] Hist. U. S., final revision, iii. 73. Two things in the above summary require explanation. Merchandise imported into England was subject to heavy duties; but if it was reëxported to America, then these duties, in whole or in part, were repaid to the importer, and the result would be that the colonists could purchase wines and Continental goods cheaper than could be done by British subjects at home. To equalize this burden, and still to derive a revenue, these drawbacks were reduced; and, of course, the British Exchequer would gain the amount of this reduction.
In the Treaty of 1763, two small islands, St. Pierre and Miquelon, on the south coast of Newfoundland, were accorded to France for the convenience of her fishing vessels. But they had been made ports of an illicit trade with the American colonies. Hence the prohibition of all trade with them.
[55] Printed as an appendix to Otis's Rights of the British Colonies.
[56] Journal of the House, 1764, 53. This paper was not Otis's pamphlet with a similar title, though it may have been the substance of it. See Frothingham, Rise of the Republic, 169, n.
[57] Ibid., 66.
[58] Ibid., p. 72.
[59] The reader of Tudor's Life of Otis, 170, would infer that Hutchinson was chosen agent at this time instead of in the January preceding. House Journal, 1763-4, 236.
[60] Hutchinson's History, iii. 112.