CHAPTER XVI.
EVENTS OF 1770 .-- AN EVENTFUL EPOCH .-- EXPECTATIONS OF RECONCILIATION AND UNION DISAPPOINTED.

364-373 Collisions between the soldiers and inhabitants in Boston 365 The soldiers insulted and abused 365 The Boston Massacre; the soldiers acquitted by a Boston jury 365 The payment of official salaries independent of the Colonies another cause of dissatisfaction 366 What had been claimed by the old American Colonies contended for in Canada, and granted, to the satisfaction and progress of the country 367 Lord North's Bill to repeal the Colonial Revenue Acts, except the duty on tea, which he refused to repeal until "America should be prostrate at his feet" 368 Governor Pownall's speech and amendment to repeal the duty on tea, rejected by a majority of 242 to 204 369 Associations in the Colonies against the use of tea imported from England 370 The tea duty Act of Parliament virtually defeated in America 370 The controversy revived and intensified by the agreement between Lord North and the East India Company, to remit the duty of a shilling in the pound on all teas exported by it to America, where the threepence duty on the pound was to be collected 371 Combined opposition of English and American merchants, and the Colonists from New Hampshire to Georgia, against this scheme 372.