This letter from the New York committee, is complaining of Britain's treatment of Boston's people, post "Boston Tea Party", and warning the other colonies about possible slippery slope situations. They use powerful language to accentuate their point, such as, "They have ordered our port to be entirely shut up, leaving us barely so much of the means of subsistence as to keep us from perishing with cold and hunger", which helps to make people get behind their support of Boston.
It seems to me that this letter is intended to inspire rebellion, or at the very least dissent among the colonists.
The speaker(s) was/were: I believe it was a Boston committee, but I was a tad confused.
Audience: The colonists of America.
Representation: The authors represent all the colonists who feel that the British people were behaving in an unjust manner.
How/What is being said: It is being said that the British were punishing the American distension against the tax (tea tax?), and their subsequent actions taken.
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