On this day 250 years ago in London Benjamin Franklin wrote Thomas Cushing, Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly:

I suppose we never had since we were a People, so few Friends in Britain. The violent Destruction of the Tea seems to have united all Parties here against our Province, so that the Bill now brought into Parliament for shutting up Boston as a Port till Satisfaction is made, meets with no Opposition.

Source: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%2222%20March%201774%22&s=1111311111&sa=&r=1&sr=

Note:: My apologies that I have been so tied up at work I fell behind with my daily blog and am posting March 20-22 only tonight.