| Description | Saturday afternoon [should be 18], sends, for his Lordship's information, the enclosed which is written by a principal officer in the Customs in the port of Philadelphia
Enclosure, 15 May 1774, extract of letter from Philadelphia, the sober part of the people now say it will be right of pay for the destruction of the tea at Boston and the losses incurred by sending it back from this place and New York and to petition for a repeal of the act, commends the measure of removing the officers of the Customs from Boston and the appointment of General gage to that government as being very wise and giving a degree of credit to administration, hopes it will end in good order, quiet, and a respect to the laws |