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Fair Queen of Night, auspicious rife,
Let ev’ry lucid Beam,
Join with the Stars of Midnight Skies,
To Ihine the sacred Theme.
But when the last great Day Shall rife,
And Time shall be no more.
Let Earth, and Heav’n, and Seas, and Skies,
A.nd Death, and Hell adore.
The glorious Wonders of which Day,
Will check blefs’d Seraphs Lays—
Loud Hallelujahs die away,
In silent, mental praise.
Philo-Sappibo.
ANNAPO.LIS, May 26.
A letter from a Gentleman in London to a friend in this
city. '
“ Dear SIR, London, March 31, 1774.
This covers a bill brought into the house of
commons by lord North, againfl the town of Boston,
for destroying the tea sent out on account of the
East-India company ; by its complexion you may
judge what will be the fate of America. lam sor
ry to fee what little opposition it met with in the
house of commons, not a division on the passage of
the bill I in the house of lords it met more oppoiiti
on, a number of able speakers opposed it, but the
court party prevailed. You may be surprised that
there was not a petition presented to the house soon
er than there was ; the Americans residing here wait
ed for the body of merchants to take the lead, but
they afted on this important occasion as in every o
ther matter of this nature heretofore.
“ I suppose there will be a general congress from
the colonies ; on their deliberations the fall or rife
of your country will depend : you will undoubtedly
form some resolutions, and ftriCtly adhere to them,
or give up the dispute and submit at once to English
tyranny : a determination to flop the exports of your
country and not import anyßritifh manufactures will
in two years restore you to liberty and draw pover
ty and ruin on the mother country.
“ I have eaclofed you the petition to the king
with the names of those who signed it.
“ Lord North made a motion in the house of
commons for leave to bring in a bill to regulate the
Young Men, in Life’s advancing Bloms,
In Praise employ your Breath ;
’Twill yield old Age a sweet perfume,
And give you Peace in Death.
Ye blulhing Nymphs, your Voices raise.
And catch the sacred Theme—
Begin an endless Song of Praise,
To your Creator’s Name.
P O E T R ¥.
PSALM CXLVIIIth.
YE vaulted Heavn’s, whose Heights Unknown;
Confound all mortal Sight ;
Give praises to the Holy One,
Who fits enthron’d in Light.
Let Kings, and Subjects, great and small.
Their willing praises bring ;
In solemn Raptures, proflrate fall
Before th’ eternal King.
Ye lisping Infants, now engage
In this divine employ :
And you in Life’s declining Age,
Pertake the holy Joy.
Earth, with your Dens, and Dragons, form?
A Song to Nature’s Lord,-—
Fire, Hail, and Vapor, Wind and Storm,
Fulfil his sovereign Word.
Ye riling Hills, and fruitful Vales—
Ye Bealls of ev’ry Name,—
Ye creeping Things, and flying Fowls,
Your Maker’s Praise proclaim.
Ye Heav’n of Heav’ns^ his Praise proclaim^-
And Sing his glorious Power :
Ye living Waters, bear his Name
To each immortal Shore.
Resound his Praise, thou solar Sphere,
With ev’ry cheering Ray,
Whilst thro’ this World thy Beams appear^
To give the Nations Day.
Ye various Ranks of Angels, join l
Your foft immortal Lays :
Adore the uncreated mind,
In Hymns of grateful Praise.
QUEEN ANN’s County (Maryland.)
At a meeting of a conjiderable number of the magistrates
and other most refpedtableirßabitants of Queen Ann’s
county rt/Queen’sTown^cw the ^oth day of May 1774,
in-order to deliberate agon the tendency and effeA ofthe
Ad of Parliament for blocking up the'port and
harbour of Boston.
DULY considering, and deeply affeCted with the
profped cf the unhappy fltuation of Great-
Britain and British America, under any kind of dis
union, this Meeting think themselves obliged, by
all the ties which ever ought to prefeive a firm union
amongst Americans, as speedily as pcfible, to make
BOSTON, June 13.
Extrad of a Letter from a worthy Gentleman in
London, dated pth of April, 1774 to his Friend,
in New-England.
“ I am grieved for the Inhabitants of Boston,
and indeed for Great-Britain and America, at our
Council and Parliament’s late refolves—-BleSfed be
God, the Government is on Chris's Shoulders, and what
may seem impossible with Men, is possible and easi
ly brought to pass by him. To him let us look
and hope, andpray, and in him put our Trust.”
By the above, and by letters from various parts
of England, we are allured, that all good men
condemn the barbarous proceedings of Administra
tion, against this Country, and earnestly pray for
our deliverance from tyranny. This ought to be
s great confolatien to us, that the wicked only are
our enemies, and thole who fear God, continually
offer up their {applications to heaven for our pro
tection from the calamities of that tyranny which
now threatens us with total ruin—Let this animate
us to persevere with increasing ardour in defence
of liberty—The moil weighty motives call for the
exertion of all our powers ; we are engaged in the
cause of God, of religion, of liberty and of pof
terity—Therefore he mull be covered with the
blackest infamy and most accumulated guilt who
Shall refufo to do every thing in his power for the
preservation of liberty—-We mull not think life
too dear to purohafe the inestimable blessing of
freedom ; ,we must now seriously engage in this
important work, be willing to facrifice interest,
health and ease, and solemnly determine to die in
defence of our rights rather than to give them up.
This we owe to God and man, to the present
and future generations ; and may heaven forbid
that we Should fail of doing our duty. This will be
the motto of every American who has the sentiments
of religion and honor. Life and Liberty Jhall
never be parted ; and to this may all the people fay
Amen.
Many have long been amused with the vain ex
pectation, that Britain would restore the violated
rights cf America, but this hope is at an end, and
all must be convinced that unless the Americans
now unite their Strength and wisdom, they will be
overwhelmed with the horrors of despotism and
Slavery ’ CONSIDERATION.
“ If Boston acquiesces, the next step will proba
bly be to puniih Philadelphia, for fending the tea
back, and thus by cruihing each refpedively, en
force a Submission by the whole, to any tax Britain
maypleaie to impofc.
“ May heaven proted you and diied your re
solutions to the happiness of your country, may you
be free from the chains of slavery, intended by a
wicked and arbitrary government.”
PR o‘V I D £ N C E< May 25,
Whereas Jacob Shoemaker, late of Providence,
died intestate, and hath left fix Negroes, four of
iVhom are infants, and there being no heir to the
laid Jacob in this town or colony, the said Negroes
have fallen to the toWn by law, provided no heir
Should appear. Therefore,
Itis Voted, by this meeting, That it is unbe
coming the character of freemen to enslave the laid
Negroes, and they do hereby give up all claim of
right or property in them the said Negroes or ei
ther of them. And it is hereby recommended to
the Town Council to take the laid Negroes under
their protection, and to bind the small children to
some proper masters and miftrefles ; and in case
there ihould not be personal estate of the said Jacob
Shoemaker, Sufficient to pay his just debts, it is fur
ther recommended to said Council to bind out ei
ther or both of the adult Negroes for that purpose.
Whereas the inhabitants of America are engag
ed in the preservation of their rights and liberties ;
and as personal liberty is an eflential part of the
natural rights of mankind, the deputies of the town
are direded to use their endeavous to obtain an ad
of the General Assembly, prohibiting the importa
tion of Slaves into this colony ; and that all Negroes
born in the colony Should be free after attaining to
a certain age. A true copy,
James Angell, Town-Clerk,
government of the Maflachufetts-Bay, the substance
of which I understand is to invest such powers in the
governor as to enable him, to hear, determine, and
turn out at pleasure, in fad to be as arbitrary as
he pleases.
“ That the ad of Parliament for blocking up the
port and harbour of Boston appears to them a cruel
and oppressive invasion of their natural rights as
men and constitutional rights as English fubjeds ;
and if not repealed, will oe a foundation for the ut
ter deftrudion of American freedom.
“ That all legal and constitutional means ought
tab» used by all America for procuring a repeal of
the said ad of Parliament.
That the only effedual means for the obtain
ing such repeal, they are at present cf opinion, is
an association under the strongest ties, for breaking
off all commercial ccnnedions with Great-Britain,
until the said ad of Parliament be repealed, and
the right ASSUMED by Parliament of taxing A
merica in allcajes unhatfoever be given up, and Ame
rican freedom afcei tained, and Settled upon a per
niament and constitutional foundation.
te That the most pradicable mode of forming
such an effedual association they conceive to be, a
general meeting of the Gentlemen who arc already,
or Shall be, appointed committees, to form an A
merican intercourie and correfpondcnce upon thia
most intere<fting occasion.
“ That in tl>e mean time, they will form such
particular association as to them Shall seem effedu
al, yet profefiing themselves ready to join in any
reasonable general one that may be devised as a
forelaid,
“ That these sentiments be immediately for
warded to be printed in the next Maryland and.
Pennsylvania Gazettes.
“ That EdwardTilghmen, &c.(i4,more named)
be a committee of correspondence and intercoif.Se
until some alteration is made in this appointment,
by a more general meeting.”
Attested by
James Earle Clerk of the Committee.
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