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New York, all impatient at the winds which had driven its tea-ship off the coast, was resolved on following the example.
At Charleston tea was only landed to lie rotting in damp cellars, not an ounce of it to be bought or sold. "What was best to be done" proved to be to compel the tea-ship to return at once with its cargo to England.
The general opinion was that the sailor, who was traced to a tea-ship that had put into the harbour, had stolen it from some Chinese passenger; and no less than seventeen different Chinamen came forward to claim it as their stolen property.
He took a piece of paper from somewhere and handed it to me. "You no lead lettee?" I shook my head as I glanced at the queer Chinese characters. "No; what does he say about the pirates?" "Say two muchee big junk in river going to sail, catchee tea-ship, lice-ship, silkee-ship." "Going to sail from here?" I cried. "Yes." "But how does he know?" "Know evelyting. Muchee big man.
The remark was greeted with cheers, yet one more legal step might be taken, and the meeting, sending Rotch, the master of the first tea-ship, to the governor at Milton to ask for a clearance, patiently waited while he should traverse the fifteen miles of his journey.
New York refused to allow the tea-ship "Nancy" to enter the harbor, and if some tea was eventually landed under the cannon of a man-of-war, it was only to be locked up as in Charleston, and to be left to lie unused.
"So I see," he said grimly. "You seem to have run like a tea-ship. Well, you needn't have. There's no cave on this side Salcombe, except the hole at Tor Cross. What made you run to tell me?" "Oh," I said, "you've been so kind so kind, and I don't know I thought they'd send you to prison." "Did you?" he said gruffly. "Did you indeed? Well, they won't.
Of the six duties imposed by Townshend's Revenue Act five had been repealed, the tea duty alone remained. December 18, 1773, the cargo of an East Indian tea-ship was thrown into the sea at Boston, and the first armed conflict ensued.
Mr Reardon gave him an angry look. "You go and do no, stop. You are quite right, my man, but don't talk about it. Get the work done." "Ching see. Make nineteen twenty men look like Chinese boy. Pilate come along, say, `Big tea-ship. Come aboard, and get catchee likee lat in tlap." "Yes, that's it, my man. Do you think it a good plan, Mr Herrick?" he added drily. "Oh yes, sir," I cried excitedly.
Late on Saturday, the 25th, news reached Philadelphia that its tea-ship was at Chester. It was met four miles below the town, where it came to anchor. On Monday, at an hour's notice, five thousand men collected in a town meeting; at their instance the consignee, who came as passenger, resigned; and the captain agreed to take his ship and cargo directly back to London and to sail the very next day.
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