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The English in this country are in a deplorable situation, being deprived of all their liberties and privileges, lamented Randle Meredith to John Rowe of Boston the next day.

The Act has had such effect upon me (as an Englishman), complained another man gloomily, that it has much impaired my health, finding myself married and perhaps settled for life under the royal promise of the enjoyment of the rights and privileges, laws and customs of Great Britain, then in a moment by an Act of a British Parliament, deprived of all.

After a time, an opinion of the Attorney-General set the Philadelphia free, but this did not stop the agitation.

A Petition at Quebec and a Remonstrance at Montreal fed the flames.

People began to think that Walker s prediction of a few days before was coming true: Little by little you will discover the aim of the Minister, which is to deprive you of your Rights and your Property, and also as if his advice had been sound: 1 the only way to save them is to send delegates to the coming Congress; that will secure them.