On this day 250 years ago in London, Benjamin Franklin wrote to Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly (and future member of the Continental Congress and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts) Thomas Cushing about Franklin’s humiliation by the Privy Council in January. Franklin explained that he was insulted for merely looking out for the interests of Massachusetts colony that he was representing and that “Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.”

Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/359133?read-now=1&seq=14#page_scan_tab_contents at p. 384.