Montagu newborn also could listen to the oaths administered to the ship's officers that chests contained only tea ( not opium ) .. " Followed by the shout "Boston Harbor, a teapot tonight," and "The Mohawks are coming." .. ADMIRAL JOHN MONTAGU WAS PEEPING FROM HIS Home FROM Behind THE WINDOW CURTAINS AND Watching THE TEA Being DUMPED THE Whole Night ON DEC 16th 1773..