The Bostonians in distress. Print shows a re-drawn and reversed image of the famous British political cartoon where Bostonians held captive in a cage are suspended from the Liberty Tree. Three British sailors standing in a boat feed them fish from a basket labeled To -- from the Committee of -- in return for a bundle of papers labeled Promises; around the tree and in the background are cannons and British troops. The paper in the hand of one jailed Bostonian says They tried with the Lord in their Troubl & he saved them out of their Distress. CVIL 13.. Date 1774?. The Bostonians in distress. Print shows a re-drawn and reversed image of the famous British political cartoon where Bostonians held captive in a cage are suspended from the Liberty Tree. Three British sailors standing in a boat feed them fish from a basket labeled To -- from the Committee of -- in return for a bundle of papers labeled Promises; around the tree and in the background are cannons and British troops. The paper in the hand of one jailed Bostonian says They tried with the Lord in their Troubl & he saved them out of their Distress. CVIL 13.. Date 1774?.