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the bill said but little in its praise, revolving to
fnew its merits by a division, but the enemies re
solving to give it the Lft stroke thy could, con
demned it in the severest manner possible. At fix
o'clock the House divided, when there appeared
for the bill i27,againft it 24.
May 7. Yesterday the second reading of the
Quebec bill, which food for Monday next, was
upon motion in the Upper Assembly, put off till
Thursday next.•
May 10. By an order of the French court, eve
rytenth acre of land, occupied by the planters in
the islands of Martinico and Guadeloupe, is to be
applied to rearing provisions, cattle, &c.
The Lower Alfembly yederday went through
the bill for providing quarters for the officers and
foldiets quartered in North-America.
It was this merning reported, that the Captain
of one of his M;jeify's frigates had been very ill
treated by the Commanders of two Spanish men of
war near the Havannah, who even went so far as to
fire two broadsides into tire frigate, when she put
before the wind, and made the best of her way to
Jamaica.
Members have been sent for from all parts ®f the
kingdom both for and against the opposition, so
that warm work is expelled this week at Weft
minifter.
crown feme reasonable alldtanee; but that Ame
rica shall at all tones determine the quantum,
and the mode.
if a sense different from what is here declared,
is conn ined in thefr'Jbical Rejections, the author
has been unhappy in his choice • fexpreffion; and
he is feailcL in declaring, that there lives nut on
the continent a man, who breathes a more inde
pendent Spirit for liberty and juitice—a Spirit
which the august bar of a Britilh Parliament, with
all its terrors, would never transform.
P. S. Were the writer disposed to recriminate on
the Plain Dealer, with the lame temper and spirit,
he does not remember to have met with a contro
letful author, who has laid bimlelf so open for re
terting with full force his own arguments on him;
from whence the Plain Dealer ought to refle&,
that it is not a drained perverfon of meaning, that
should ever be the object with a man who is really
hunting for truth. And he should further remem
ber, that whilst he is only exerting his genius to
puzzle and confound his dutugomd, he is abusing
the Public.
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By Capt Barber, arrived here from Lifoon; Caph.
Tittle audDERRICKfrom Falmouih,andCapt.
Gord N from London, arrived at Marblehead, me
five the following advices.
B A S T I A, April io.
H E French troops have beat down, with
1 their cannon, three houses which were
Strutted in a diftrift named Vezzani, near Corte,
where some banditti had taken refuge, after hav
ing attacked a convoy and killed Several soldiers;
arid' it is thought those difturbeis of the public
reuofe were all buried under the ruins.
Warsaw, April 2 i. M.Krafzewlki, Regimentary
of Great Poland, having been Summoned by the
] ruffians to leave his quarters, he not only kept
his post but moreover caused the Prussian Eagles,
newly planted within his department to be taken
down, pursuant to the orders of the commission of
war; upon which the Prussian Captain, who com
manded the detachment, charged with this execu
tion, drew near, and afl<cd him the reason of this
ait^ation; but he having answered, that he had
only obeyed the orders of the commission of war
of the Republic, the officer retired having no in
ftruaions how to ad in such a case.
IBwEmpf, April 29. The accounts lately pub
lifhecTby the Court of Peterfburgh, on thefubjeft
ofthe advantages which her troops were said to
have gained over the rebels, made us believe that
tranquility would soon be restored in the govern
ment of Orenbourg: but advices just received
here from good hands assure, on the contrary, that
the flame of sedition encreafes daily, and even to
such a degree, that General Bibikow, finding him
felf too weak, bad dispatched an express to his
Court for a reinforcement of troops to be sent him
without delay.
Utrecht, May 2. The Sieur W. Rockus died
here a few days ago, aged ico yearsand 6 months.
He entered into the military service of this Re
public in 1696, and was dangerously wounded in
the battle of Malplaquet in 1709. He also serv
ed in the late war against the French in 1747, and
enjoyed his (&ength .nd senses to the last.
Leeds, May 10. Wheat fold in our market last,
Tuesday at the enormous price of 7s. 6d. per buihel,
and other grain in proportion.
Miy 11. By letters received from America we
are informed, that Adams, Hancock, Row, and
Mackintosh, rhe four leaders of the Bostonians,
have got notice of the designs formed by adminis
tration to seize their perfoos, and have taken ef
fectual methods to evade the orders, sent over for
that purpose.
M^y 1 3. Leave is given by the House of Commons
to bring in a bill for allowing the use and wear of
printed, painted, Rained and dyed fluffs, wholly
made of cotton, and manufactured in Great-Britain,
under certain regulations.
On Thursday next the House of Commons will
break up for the Whitfun holidays.
On Wednesday William Gordon, Esq; his
Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at Brussels, and
who arrived from thence on Tuesday, waited on
his Majesty at St. James's.
A coin vessel (name n t mentioned) bound to
London, was loft last Tuesday in the Swin, by a
Dutch vessel running foul of her, and a boy was
drowned; the rest of the people were taken up by
L O ND O N, May 6.
The order of the day for the third reading of
the bill for the more impartial administration of
justice in the cases of perlons questioned for ads
done by them in the execution of the law for the
suppression of riots and tumults in the province of
Malfdchufetts Bay, in New-England, was read,
and a very warm debate ensued ; the friends of
Lord North replied again; Rewed that Ca
nada being no government provided for by Par
liament, there must be high extraordinaries.
Mr. J. rowniliend objected to the high expence
of the troops in the ceded islands; went into the
expedition to St. Vincent; observed the Gover
nors called for troops in order to employ them as
artificers in their plantations. Lord North replied,
and exculpated that service.
Mr. J. 1 ownfhend called for a reason for hav
ing so many as fix companies at Dominica, where
they mouldered away.
Lord Barrington answered, that the total of
troops was less than usual, but the Governors
granted them where they saw most occasion. He
observed, that he had advised upon the peace not
to keep those islands at all for planting, only the
sovereignty, as not worth the expence; that in re
lation to the expedition to St. Vincent's, tho'the
" As the Dauphin and the other Princes have
never had this distemper, they are withheld from
appearing in the apartments ofhis Majesty; but
the Mesdames, daughters to his Majesty, though
in the fame predicament, attend on his Majesty,
and Madani Adelaide is constantly at bis bed tide,
giving him his medicines and soups, and never
quits him but to take her meals. The Duke of
Orleans and the Prince of Conde are almost con-
Rantly also in his Majesty's apartment, where one
or other of them remains the greatest part of the
night."
The Lords, on Wednesday night, after a long
debate, palled the bill for the better regulating
the government of the province of the Massachu
setts Bay ; on a division of 69 against 20 and 23
proxies.
We can assure our readers, from undoubted
authority, that the Parliament will break up the
second of June.
May 14. 7he Lords yesterday read a second
time and committed the bill for pioviding quarters
for the officers and soldiers in North-America.
V Read a second time and committed the bill for
the administration of justice in Maffachulett's Bay,
for Monday.
Went through the bill for regulating the govern
ment of Quebec.
Yesterday in the House of Commons, after some
business of the day was over, the House resolved
itfclf into a Committee of the whole House on the
army extraordinary, amounting to 483,000!. Col.
Barre opposed the particulars and the general to
tal as too great for the state of this country, and
unjuftifiable; spoke of the death of the King of
France, and the effed it might have on the peace
of Europe, portending evil.
Lord North replied, he observed it to be in the
general more proper to difeufs it on another day,
when he should give his opinion on the state of
France and England.
Col. Barre again contended, that it was the
winding up of the army account, now was the time,
and not the day of triumph to the Minister (the
budget). Objeded to the high expence of the ex
traoidinaries in Canada, &c.
another corn reftL The Dutch fidp failed away
without offering to give the least ailiitance to save
the men from being drowned.
The YoungTobia^, Hoffregen, from Bourdeaux
to Stetin, is loft on the coast of Cornwall.
Authentic copy of a letter written by the Marquis
of Rockingham, in May, 1767, to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives of the province
of Massachusetts-Bay.
" Sir, The honour conferred upon me by the
vote of the House of Representatives of MaTachu
fetts-Bay, on account of the part 1 had taken for
fecaring and cultivating the union of this country
with its colonies, has given me the greatest fatis
faftion, and demands from me the most grateful
acknowledgments.
" I fliall always hope to maintain the continu
ance of their good opinion, by ailing consistently
upon the principles which I have fixed in my own
judgment; and however times may vary, and warm
and ill founded ideas and doctrines may arise on
either fide the Atlantic, I shall always confider
that this country, as the parent, ought to be tender
and just, and that the colonies, as the children,
ought to be dutiful.
" A system ofarbitrary rule over the colonies 1
would not adopt on this fide, neither would I do
otherwise than strenuously resist where attempts
were made to throw off that dependency to which
the colonies ought to submit, not only for the ad
vantage of this country, but for their own real
happiness and fafety.
“ On the sth infant the fever attending the small
pox, with which the King was seized, continued,
and during that night the heat was very great, and
he was at times delirious: next day (the 6th) the
suppuration made great progress, and his Majes
ty palled the next night much better than the pre
ceding; nevertheiefs he lent for the Abbe Mandeux,
his confeffor, and demanded to receive the viati
cum at seven next morning, which was accordingly
brought by the Cardinal de Roche Aymon, Grand
Almoner. The Princes and Princesses of the
Blood, the great officers of State, and the Lords
and Ladies of the court, accompanied the holy sa
crament to the apartments of the King and return
ed afterwards to the chapel in the fame order. His
Majesty has ffiewn, during this illness, much
courage and constancy, and sentiments of piety
and resignation to the divine will worthy the most
chriftian King. He gave to all his court a most
edifying lesson, and charged the cardinal to an
nounce, that if the Almighty should spare his life,
it should be employed for the glory of religion and
the good ofhis people. Theyth his M&jefty paged
with much composure, the Suppuration advancing
happily, the return cf the fever in the evening
went off favourably, and he was very dill the greater
part of the night. This morning, however, about
half after five the fever returned, and his Majesty
was a little delirious, but it went off by some efforts
to vomit, which came on naturally. The sup
puration continues very favourable, and the greater
part of the pustules on his face and neck are already
dried off.
Rockingham.”
Extras of a letter from HerJai.les, May 8.
" The projects bf our monarch are likely to have
an end, his malady encreafes daily, and his physi
cians are very doubtful whether he can long sur
vive the violent gout which has now attacked him
in the Bomach, yet notwithstanding his body is so
pained, his mind at intervals is active, and feeins
entirely set on his favourite scheme of bringing the
city of Dantzick and all that part of Poland he has
claimed under his absolute dominion; that once
effected, he shall (as he said) die in peace."
Some letters from the Vistula fay, that the em
bargo is taken off the ships there, which were ftopt
lately by the Prullians.
It was confidently reported this morning, that
yesterday evening an express arrived from Paris,
with advice that the French King died on Thursday
night, at ten o'clock, at Verlailles, of the small pox.
The order of the day was read for the bill to
regulate the future government, &c. to be read a
third time ; which being done, and the question
put, whether the bill should pass, another warm
debate arose; the Duke of Richmond spoke firft,
and was answered by Lord Sandwich, Lord Lyt
tleton, Lord Shelburne, Lord Rochford, Lord
Dartmouth, Lord Cambden, Lord Mansfield, and
the Marquis ofßockingham also spoke, and closed
the debate.,
Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock a council was
held at Kew palace, were most ofthe great officers
were summoned to attend, relative to the several
expresses that have been received from France
within these few days.
Even wagers are now laying in the city that the
King of Prussia is dead.
The politics of Europe are expected to take
a most sudden change; every thing wow bears
the profpeft of war, from the confufion into which
the different interests will be thrown. In appre
hension of this, flocks are expe&ed to have a
sudden downfall.
Extrafl of a letter from the Hague, May 7.
“ It was reported last week, but very much
confirmed by the last mails, that a French camp
of 40,000 men is ordered to be erected at Mentz,
and two others of 20,000 men each, near Valen
ciennes.
It is whispered in many places, that the death
of the King of France will be the cause of many
great men losing their heads in that kingdom.
The Duke de Choifeul has ventured to Paris, and
is very busy; the Duke de Aguillon and Madame
Barre begin to find their friends falling off amaz
ingly. In short Paris and Versailles are in some
measure, all in confusion. The people do not he
sitate to speak their minds, and it mud be a miracle
that prevents a civil war. This is expended, and
if they go on as they have begun, it is thought ar
bitrary power will be very short lived there.
It is expelled that Lady North will be created
a Baroness; and Sir William Meredith, a Peerof
Ireland.
All the petitions against the 2d and 3d Boston
Bills, had no more effect than those preferred
against the Port Act; for they paded by excelfive
high majorities in the Houle of Lords. The
foilowing Peers were Ipeakers, Richmond, Sand
wich,Lyttleton, Shelburne,Rochford, Dartmouth,
Camden, Mansfield and Rockingham. For the
bills, 92, against them, 20.
The King and Queen's going down to Ports
mouth is not as yet finally fixed on ; it depends
partly upon the motions of Parliament which are
not as yet regulated, and partly on the French
King's death. If the latter should take place, the
mock review may be changed into an actual one,
and Admiral Pye be fuccetded by Admiral Saun
ders.
object might nst be worthy the blood and money,
yet no war was worth the expence.
Lord North, io a part of one of his speeches,
went slightly into the point of the great expence of
the navy, said that if peace continued, and no
fleet was wanted in the East-Indies, Ire should be
next year clearly for a reduction; but that the
three or four lift years had been employed in res
toring the navy, which was in avery low condition.
Extrafl of a letter jrom Berlin, May 4.
HOUSE Q L O R D S.
P R O TE S T.
Die Mercurij, 11° Maij, 1774.
TH E order of the day being read for the third
leading of the bill, intituled, “ An act for
the better regulating the government of the province
of the Massachusetts Bay, in New-England;" and
for the Lords to be summoned:
The said bill was accordingly read the third time.
Moved, That the bill, with the amendments, do
pass.
Which being objected to,
After a long debate,
The question was put thereupon.
It was resolved in the affirmative.
Contents —— — 69?
Proxies —— 23 J 9 2
Not contents —— — 20|
Proxies ——
Difentient,
BECAUSE this bill, forming a principal
part in a system of puniihment and regulation, has
been carried through the House without a due
regard to those indifpenfible rules of public pro
ceeding, without the observance of which no re
gulation can be prudently made, and no punishment
justly inflißed. Before it can be pretended, that
thole rights of the , colony of MaiTachufetts-Bay,
in the election of counfellors, magistrates, and
judges, and in the return ofjurors, which theyde
rive from their charter, could with propriety be
taken away, the definite legal offence, by which a
forfeiture of that charter is incurred, ought to
have been clearly Rated and fully proved; notice
of this adverse proceeding ought to have been
given to the parties affected; and they ought to
have been heard in their own defence. Such a
principle of proceeding would have been inviolably
observed in the courts below. It is not technical
formality, but fubftantialjuflice. When therefore
the magnitude of such a cause transfers it from the
cognizance of the inferior courts, to the high ju
dicature of Parliament, the Lords are so far from
being authorized to rejad this suitable principle,
that we are bound to an extraordinary and religi
ous ftri&nefs in the observance of it. The fubjedt
ought to be indemnified by a more liberal and
beneßcial jnftice in Parliament, for what he must
inevitably buffer by being deprived of many ofthe
forms which are wifely ellablifhed in the courts of
ordinary resort for his protection against the dan
gerous promptitude of arbitrary diferetion.
2dly. Because the necessity alledged for this pre.
cipitate mode of judicial proceeding cannot exist.
If the numerous land and marine forces, which
are ordered to aflemble in Massachusetts Bay,
are not fufficient to keep that single colony in
any tolerable Rate of order, until the cause of
its charter can be fairly and equally tried, no re
gulation in this bill, or in any of those hitherto
brought into the House, are fufficient forthat pur
pose; and we conceive, that the mere celerity of a
decision against the charter of that province, will
not reconcile the minds of the people to that mode
of government which is to be established upon its
ruins.
gdly. Because Lords are not in a situation to
determine how far the regulations of which this
bill is composed, agree or disagree with those parts
of the constitution of the colony that are not al
tered with the circumstance of the people, and with
the whole detail of their municipal institutions.
Neither the charter of the colony, nor any account
whatsoever of its courts and judicial proceeding',
their mode, or the exercise of their prelent powers,
have been produced to the House. ,The flighted
evidence concerning any one of the many incon
veniences, Rated in the preamble of the bill to
have risen from the present constitution of the co
lony judicatures, has not been produced, or even
attempted. On the fame general allegations of a
declaratory preamble, any other right, or all the
rights of this or any other public body, may be ta
ken away, and any visionary scheme of government
substituted in their place.
4thly. Because we think, that the appointment
of all the members of the Council, which by this
bill is welled in the crown, is not a proper provi
hon for preferring the equilibrium of the Colony
constitution. The power given to the Crown of
occasionally increasing or lessening the number of
the Council on the report of Governors, and at
the pleasure of Miniffers, muff make these Go
vernors and Ministers mallets of every question in
that assembly; and by destroying its freedom of
deliberation, will wholly annihilate its use. The
intention avowed in this bill, of bringing the coun
cil to the platform of other Colonies, is not likely
to answer its own end; as the Colonies, where
the Council is named by the Crown, are not at all
better disposed to a submission to the practice of
taxing for supply without their consent, than this
of Massachusetts-Bay. An^ no pretence of bring
ing it to the model of the English constitution can
be supported, as none of those American councils
have the lead resemblance to the House of Peers,
so that this new scheme of a council Bands upon no
fort of foundation, which the proposers of it think
proper to acknowledge.
sthly. Because the new constitution ofjudicature
provided by this bill is improper, and incongruous
with the plan of the admi iftration of justice in
Great-Britain. All the judges are to be hence
forth nominated (not by the crown but by the
Governor; and all (except the judges ofthe Su
perior court) are to be removable at his pleasure,
and expressly ^without the consent of that very
council which has been nominated by the crown.
The appointment of the Sheriff is by the will of
the Governor only, and without requiring in the
person app >inted any I >cal or other qualification ;
that Sheriff, arnagifbateof great importance to the
whole administration and execution of all justice,
civil and criminal, and who in England is not re
movable even by the royal authority, during the
continuance of the term of his office, is by this bill
made changeable by the Governor and council, as
often, and for such purposes as they ihall think
expedient.
The Governor and Council, thus intrufted with
powers, with which the Bitifh Constitution has
not trusted his MajeOy and his Privy-Council,
have the means of returning such a jury in each
particular cause, as may bed suit with the gratifi
cation of their paflions, and interests. The lives,
liberties, and properties of the fubjed are put in
to their hands without controul; and the invalua
ble right of trial by jury, is turned into a fame for
the people, who have hitherto looked upon it as
their main security against the licentioufncfs of
power.
6thly. Because we fee in this bill the fame
scheme of strengthening the authority of the offi
cers and Ministers of Rate, at the expense of th
rights and liberties of the Jubjedl which was indicat
ed by the inauspicious aft for (hutting up the har
bour of Boston.
By that aft, which is immediately conceded
with this bill, the example was fee of a large im
portant city (containing vast multitudes of peo
ple, many of whom must be innocent, and all of
whom are unheard) by an arbitrary sentence, de
prived of the advantage of that port, upon which
all their means of livelihood did immediately de
pend.
This proscription is not made determinable on
the payment of a fine for an offence, or a corppen
fation for an injury ; but is to continue until the
Ministers of the Crown (ball think fit to advifc
the King in Council to revoke it.
The legal condition of the fubjed (standing
unattainted by conviction, for treason or felony)
ought never to depend upon the arbitiary will of
any person whatsoever.
This ad, unexampled on the records of Parlia
ment, has been entered on the Journals of this
House as voted nemine difentiente, and has boon
ftatedin the debate of this day, to have been sent
to the colonies, as passed without a division in ei
ther House, and therefore as conveying the uncon
troverted universal fesfe of the nation.
The despair of making effe?.ual opposition to an
unjust measure, has been confirmed into an appro
bation of it.
An unfair advantage has been taken on the final
question for passing that penal bill, of the abfeme