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To the PUBLIC.
Nevi-York, 20th May, 1774.
XX XXXE late Parliament for
X^W"^W^X blocking up the harbour of Boss
^X ton, E lo far from difeouraging
T X the inhabitants of that town, that
^X they never were in higher spirits-,
than at the present hour. Con-
XXXXXXX siding in the other colonies, that
they will unite in suspending their exports and im
ports, to and from Great -Britain & the Weft-Indies,
they have chearfully refoly’d to expend their fortunes
and lives in the cause. Several among them,willing
to part with all they possess fqr the public good, have
fubferibed largely for the support of the poor. They
study to preserve good order,and to find employment
for those, who will be wholly turned out of business.
The liberty and welfare of America is suspended
on the issue of the present struggle. If it be iucceis
ful, our enemies will beheld America, tending to
greatness, in spite of all their devilfth Machinations.
,They will fee her in full poffeffon of that freedom-,
which they look upon with envy,and which they long
to de'ftroy. But if unfuccefsful, wretched will be our
condition. The fufferings of Ireland will be defira
ble x compared with ours. We shall be at the mercy
of revenue, made terrible by power, and inexorable,
by disappointment. Thole very men, who are now
embarraifed and diftrafted by the oppehtijn they
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Containing the Freshest ADVICES, FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.
Open to all PARTIES, but not under the influence of ANY.
meet with, will then infuit and oppress us with all
the wantonefs of security. They who now dread our
firmnefswill therf.de "pife our irresolution. They
will spurn us for doing, what they fay,-, is rebellion
not to do. We shall 'oe in the hands of men,who are
abandoned to every abominable cxcefs of wicked
ness; who are of that worst of ch ar after s £ ‘ alieni
oppetens,fuiprofufus,” n en of unbounded avarice,and
of unbounded intemperance ; “ men of blood,”
who hate not covetousness,” “ whose GOD is
their belly,” greedy as the grave, and sanguinary as
ficuds^
, Can there be any then so loft to feeling, so loft to
reffeftion, to all disinterestedness and all forefight, as
not to be deeply engaged,in o.ppofing and fruftrating
measures, big with the fate of America and freedom,
of England and posterity ? Let us with the brave Ro
mans, confider our ancestors and our offspring. Let
tis follow the example of the former, and set an ex
ample to the latter. Let us not be like that 'fluggifli
people, who thro’ a love oFeafe, “ bowed themlely^'
and became fervats to tr ibute and whom the in
spired prophet their father, j uftly compared VtAffies?'
Hadia voice which could be heard from Canada to
Florida, I would addtefs the Americans, in the lan
guage of the Roman pati iut, “ If you have a mind to
keep those things, be they what they will, you are so
fond of” (whether your iponcy, your freedom, civil
and religious, or whethey /our very fuperflurties)”
rouse at length, arid f : ^d up for the liberties of
your country.” • # _ t -
What is it but for the rich to part with gratificati
ons which nature never called for, and for the poor
to be at worst but temporary fufferers, for the general
good ? Whatrbut for fame to be temperate, and all
to te dilligent ? We have already seen in one of the
greatest towns in America, all ranks contenting, thus,
to deny themselves for their country. Be then unani
mous, and you shall be fuccefsful: Be united and be
free; be virtuous and ue happy.
“ But let. the Bdftonians pay for th; tea, it is but
about Y.Booo iterling As if our enemies, were
after nothing more, than this small sum, doubtless
greater than that cargo of seven year old tea was
worth, which, could not be got off in England, and
like unfavoury fait, was fit only to be trampled under
foot, or thrown overboard, as if in order to get this
sum, they would lay out, none can tell how many
times as much more, in fitting out a fleet, and brib
ing men who could not, without feluftance, concur
in their meftf^es. Happy land ! -where the most
deeply concerted stratagems of crafty tyrants, are at
once seen thro’ by every one I May she never be guil
ty of forfeiting her liberty r Great would ^he crime
be, since she must do it knowingly.
The English news papers are fluffed with nonsen
sical declarations on the light of Parliament to have
every fe.rtfi.ing in America at their command ; and
with virulent inveftives against the Eoftonians.
These writers are beneath Contempt; They could
not think, as they do, were they not hired. It is not
ignorance, in their heads, but to use a strong scriptu
ral phrafc, (e ignorance in their hearts,'’ which
makes them talk in this manner. Common sense
refutes them all, by this short question ? “ How
comes another, by a right to take avzay my money
without my content r
But, for our endburagement let us remember that
some of the greatest and pelt men, in. England, wish
us success ; that the merchants and manufafturers
at home are greatly and generally diffatisfied already,
and will soon feel the cause of American liberty, to
be their own.
In a word let all our merchants unite as one man :
Let them ftriye ag' mil division/ in this crisis of
jeopardy : Let them mew themselves worthy of that
divine appellation, “ the fathers of their country
And let not the minifiers of the gospel negleft their
dut/’j let them remember the .example of the A
pofiies,whoembrac*d every opportunity of reftifying
their zeal fur tire civil & religious liberties of man
kind, and while they teach men to confider their op
pressors as “ the rod of GOD ’s anger and the ftaff
jests. *
[* Vile fcrbbler ! thy assertion is beth falfe and
senseless. The consequence thou fuppofeft, would
only have taken place, if the Americans had been,
base ilaves like thyfelf. Thy opinion of them is
founded on a consciousness of thy own bafeneis.
But as th^re is up resemblance in the charafters,
thy judgment is altogether erronious. If the fi imp
aft had not-been repealed, the connection between
Great-Britain and her colonies, in all probability,
would long .ere this, have been dissolved ; and their
juft.rights and Liberty, of which Great-Britain is
most unnaturally and impoliticly striving to deprive
them, eftabiiflied upon a permanent foundation.]
April I. Great wagers were laidyefterday upon
’change, and at the principal coflee houses about it,
that Lord North’s passing the bill for removing the
Cuftom-houfe,‘&C. Yrom Boftcn, is grounded, and
very justly too, upon that very famous prophecy
of feripture taken from the 4th chapter of the pro
phet Habbakkuk, and the 4th verse.
April 2. It is now generally understood, that the
French have resolved to take a decisive partin the
dispute between the Ruffians and the Turks; and
that if Great-Britain ihould interfere in behalf of
tlie former, the Spaniards are prepared to attack us
in the Weft, and the French in the East-Indies.
' Those whom we now stile rebels, are the children
of Britain ; we are their parents ; and shall we grati
fy cur enemies, by letting them fee us embrue our
hands in the blood of our countrymen, rather than
fuffer th/m to possess those rights which they would
facrifice their lives to preserve ? Should we not ra
ther glory in their spirit, and thank Heawen, that if
in future times Lord Mansfield’s execrated doftrine
ihould be firmly eftabliihed, and our juries be ever
robbed of their unalienable right in the determina
tions of the criminality, or innocence of offenders :
Or, iftheHoufeof Commons ihould ever be able
to form a fuffiefent number of precedents for the un
natural ereftion of their House into the tribunal of
a tremedous court of criminal justice, those of our
brethren who inherit our patriotic virtues, and dis
dain the mean, abjeft thought of bowing the knee
to lawless power, may find, among their spirited
brethren of America,a fate,and an hospitable asylum
from tyranny and ruin. Will it be wife to burn the
retreat which might afford us shelter ?
A letter from a Gentleman at Scarborugh, to his
friend at York, March 31, fays, “ We have
got a town almoff full of Emigrants,waiting for a fair
wind to transport themselves they know net where.
There are some people of good fortune amongst
them; but the greater number seem to want that
ingredient, and expeft to find it in the wilds of No
va-Scotia, I am afraid tney will be miserably mif~
taken.” »
' We hear from Stockton that preparations are
making there, by many rerpeftable-families, in or
der to emigrate to America.
A MEMENTO to Lord North, and the Britijb FUniJ
try.
AND Paul earnestly beholding the Council, said.
Men and' Brethren, I have lived in all good Cun
fcience before God, until thiT Day.
And the High Priest Ananias commanded them
that stood by him, to smite him on the Mouth.
Then said Paul unto him, GOD fhallfmite thee,
thou whited Wall! for fitteft thou to judge me after
the Law, and ccmmandeft me to be smitten con
trary to the Law r
ACTS of the APOSTLES, xxiii Chap. 1. 7. and
3. Verses.
of his indignation, 4 ’ let them not fail to excite and
encourage them to hope of his interposition in their
behalf, while they humble themselves by failing and
prayer, and are in use of all proper means, for del
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LONDON, February 28.
A correspondent asserts, that if the pusillanimous
gang,of infamous memory, who repealed the stamp-.
aft, had been gibbetted long since, the Americans
had been at this time our very liege and dutiful sub-