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EXTR‘[(CT of a SERMON proached at the South
Church in Boston; Noventber 27ths 1746, by the
Rewerend Mr. THOMAS PRINCE, occasioned by the
farpizing appearance of divine Providence for
NORTH AMERIC 4,
T the Deffruction of the Frengh Ficet and Agmy, sent to
CHEBUCKTAH the preceeding Summer ; and réprinted
at this Fime, with a view to encourage and animate
the People of GOD to put their TrvsT in HIM, and
to call upon Hls N Amx,undér the SEVERE Ind KEEN
' DISTRESSES, now taking placein BOS TON and
CHARLESTO WN by the rigorous Ex2CcUTION
of the late AcT of thé B’RIT!Sé PARLIAMENT,
called tHe BOSTON PORT-BILL.
o Bogrom, Jdw goth, 1778,
’ I". HIS is to foréwarn all Persons from
harbouriag, concealing, or trusting the wife of me the
subscriber, as ﬂ\esi.u- eloped from my bed and board with
another man,who goss by thie name of Doétor Burke ; who
ever will give information where she may be found {hall be
handsomely rewarded for their trouble.
Y , R o e <
: ANTHONY 4+ CAREBELL.
. .onarke
| TG BE SOLD by
DANIEL MCARTY,
g _ln Union-Street, néar the Copriiéld, : ‘
Hls whole stock in trade, consisting of
Liningsy Wollens, Chinces and Callicocs, Siiks, Sitk
and black Russell Shoes and Clogs; Childrens Morocco ditto,
Fans, Glovesy Laces, (sum very rich) a great variety of
China Wire, Glass, Stone and Earthen ware, Spices, &c.
&c. &, at the neat sterling cost for cath. Any person
whotn it may suit- to take the whole or any considerable
part-theréofy may have them on terms that will be agre
ablé, ---Likewise the houfc he now lives in to be fold or let,
terms very seasonable being a place well suited for trade, with
mingo'meﬁcnciu about itand in good repair. Enquire
as above.
’l‘Cg be tet a House and Shop in Union
‘ set, near the Corn-Fields. Enquire of WIL
LIAM %um at the Héad of L'm? Wharf. !
N. B. All kinds of Mathématical Inftrinients, to'be
£l by said WILLIAMS.
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Do ruov Great LIBERTY inspire our Souls—And make our Livesin T a¥ Possession happy—Or; our Deaths E loriousin Tay jult De{en.c‘e.’!
Vor.lV.
JOIN
In the House of Representatives, June 14, 1774
‘VHEREAS there will become duein this month;
sundry notes given by the province-treasurer, and
fofficient provision having been made for the paying off the
fame, and if the poffeflors of such notes should not bring
them in to the treasurer to be paid, the provinte will fuffer
damage by such negleét :
Therefore Resolved, That the poffefiofs of such notes;
who thall not bring them to the province-treasurer, te be
paid by the lust day of uy rext, shall not receive any in
terest on the fame, after tﬂat time, and the province trea
surer, is hereby direfted forthwith to cause this order to be
publithed in all the Boston News-papers, three weeks fuc
ceflively, that every one concerned may be notified hereof.
Sent wp for concurrence. T. CUSHING, speaker
In council, June 15th, Read and concurred.
: JOHN COTTON, D. fecry.
Consented to, THOs. GAGE.
A true copy, attest. JOHN'COTTON, D. fecry.
*.* ‘The treasurer of the province hereby
gives public notice to the delinquent constables and collec
tors of the province takes, that they pay the fame into the
treasury by the 31t of Fuly next.
Treafury-Office, June 18,1774, :
Bretbren, l
THF. intelligence received, since the preceding letter was
writtén; seems to render néedléfs every attempt to
rpve fromh _former tmn{aﬂims',-‘—my firft intentiony if
ealth had permicted—that a régular plan has been inva
riably pursued to inflave theie colonies, and that the alt of
Parliament for blocking up thie port of Boflor is a part of
the plan. However unprecedented and ¢roel that measure
is; yet some persons among us might have flattered -them
selves; that che resentment of the Padliament is direCted
solely against that town. The last advices miention two
bills to be pafling in Parliament ; one, changing the char
tered constitution of the province of Maffacbuferes Bay in
to amilitary government: and another, empowering ad
ministration to fend for and try persons in England for ac- ‘
tions committed in that colony.® .
By these inffances we perceive, that administration bas
not only rénounced all refpe@, and all appearance of re
fpec, forthe rights of these colonies, but even the plainest
principles ofjuftice & humanity. Were the representatives of
thepeople of Maffachuferts Bey called upon to make fatisfac
tion for the damage done to private property in any late tu=
mult there ? No. Yet it was known, that those represen
tatives had made ample reparation for the injuries cominit
ted on occasion of the stamp a&. It was known, that the
like reparation had been made by the assemblies of Neav-
York and Rbode-Iffland. In short, it was known, that note
withstanding the incessant pains taken by many ministers
to teaze the colonists by oppressions and insults into mad
ness, yet they have with difficulty excited only a few tu
mults, for which the popular branch of the legislature in
the feveial coloniés has ever been ready to atone, upon re
quisitions from the crown. g
‘Gréat clamour has been raised at home against Alafa
chufetrs-Bay, on account of resolutions at some of their
town meéetings, and other writings publithed in that colony;
and better it were, that marny of them had becn fupprefied.
The truoth is—that people animated by an ardent and ge
nerous love of liberty saw and peculiarly felt the proje€ls
against the freedom and happiness of America. I know
them well : and if ever a state deserved the charafter, they
are a mordl, religious, quiét and loyal people, afféCtionate
ly attacbed to thé welfare and honour of Great-Britain
and dearly valuing their dépendence on her, Observant
and sensible, as they were, of the present and approaching
evils, some of therd adopted a very imprudent, but what
appeared to them a very peaceable and juftifiable method
of discouraging administration from proceeding in such alar
ming and dangetous meafures,~that of speaking in a high
tone. Words were opposed to injuries, and menaces, ne
ver defighed for execution, to insults intollerable. What
could they do? their humble petitions were haughtily and
contémptuoufly reje€ted. The more they jugflzcami, the
mbre they were abused :by their tears, and heaven knows
many they have shed, their persecutions flourithed, as
trees by water poured on their roots. Their very vistue
and pafiionate fondnefs for concord, for their mother coun
try occasioned this obje&ted error. Surely”" fays Solomon,
« oppreflion maketha wife man mad,” a filly man may dis
regard it. In playing the fool they shewed their wisdom.
~ This is the true history of those futile pieces, that produ
' ced so much solid eloguence in Grea:-Britain.
Fromthe PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE,
E ¥ 17T B & P
To the Inbabitants of the Britih Coledies in
AMERICA.
A R T e
% Bythe s,frj! of these §ills the Governor is 1o be in*
wﬁed with the power z‘ a justice of the peace; so call
out the military to ;ge ) though the mimifier fays in bit
_/'pm'b---“ I jbdllﬂ days mg/ﬁcr that a military power,
afling UNDER sbé authority and controul of & civil ma- |
g-tﬁrau, is a part of the conttitution.” y thé second,
Americans are so bé seized, ;ymd and carvied to England,
to be tried, that is banged on charges for als dorie
in a colony. This is mot all. Soldiers and others, who
Jball comimit aoy offence, such as murdering the colomifis; uns
der the prevente of {u‘pgrn'ng the autberity of parlianient,
fpall be carried to England 16 be tried=--that is---acqiitted.
Of the habeas corpus and trial by peers « flat nominis umbra.”
& That thé absolute power chaimed and exercised ina
neighbouring nation, is more tolerable than that of the eaflern
empires is in & great mieafure owing to their bavirg united
the judicial powér in their parliaments, a body separate and
diffinét from both the legislative and executive, and if ever
that nation récovers its ﬁmer Liberty, it will otve it to the
efforts of thafe &ffemblics. In Turgéy, awbere every thing
55 centured in the Sultan er his minister, despotic pOWeris in
‘ ig’mﬁdian' ard wedts a mioft dreadfill afpef®” 1 Black
~ ftone 26C. 270
OR
Riots and weak publications,by a small pumber of indivi
’ duals, are fufficient reasons with Parliament to ruin many
' thousand inhabitants ofa truly refpefable town, to dis
solve charters; to abolish the benefits of the writ of babeas
corpus,§ and extirpate American liberty—for the principle
, teaches all. Butin England the press groans with publi
tations, seditious, treasonable and‘ev@in blasphemous. The
‘ discontented swarm over the kingdom, proclaiming their
resentments. Many enormous riots have disturbed the
public peace. The sovereign has been insulted in passing
from his palace to the Parliament-house, on the business
of the nation. Is it to be concluded from these faéks, that
the Bopy oF Tue Prorre is seditious and traiterobs ?
can his Majesty believe, that he is thought by his English
fubjets in general to. be such a prince, as some of ticm |
have repr'e(é‘t'x"red him ? will the two houfés of Parliament
acknowledge wha} has been spoken and written and atted |
against them in England, exprefles the sentiments of the |
gingdom ? or will they fay, that the pesple of Eugland |
ave forfeited their liberty, because {bm g?f thém bave run |
into licentiousness ? let a judgrhent be formed in oth cases
by the fame rule; Let them condemn shéfe or acyuit us.
Pretences and reasons are totally differents The pro- |
vocations, .said to be given by our sister colony, dre but “
the PRETENCES for the eéxorbitant severity exercised a- |
gainit her, The REAsoNs are these—the policy, despica
ble and detcftable as it. is, of fupprefling the freedom of
America by a military force; to be supported by money ta- ‘
ken out of our own pockets; and the supposed conveniency “
of opportunity for attaining this end. These REAsoNs
are evident from thé minister’s fpeechy The system is
formed with art, but the art is difcoverables Indeed, I |
do not belicve it was expe€led, we should have such ear
ly and exa& intelligence of the schemes agitated against
us, as we have received. Any person, who examines
the multitude of inveftives publithed in pamphlets and
news papers in Gréat-Britair, or the speeches made in
either house of Parliament, will find them dire€ed qgainf?
the colonies in gemeral. The people in that kingdom have
bx with great cunning and laboat,t inflamed againf? the
colénies in gemeral. ‘They dre deluded into a belief, that
we are in a state of rebellion and airhing direftly ata
state of independency ; though the firft is '3 noxious weed
that never grew in our climates ; and the latter is univer
sally regarded with the deepest execrations by UGs—a poi
son we never can be compelled to touch, but as an antidote
to a worse, if a worse can be—a curse, that if any celo
‘ny on this continent should be so mad as to aim at reach
ing, the rest of the body would have virtue and wildom
enough to draw their swords, and hew the traitors into
submission, if notinto loyalty. It would be our interest
and our duty, thus to guarantee the public peace.
The minister addrefling the house of commons, ufcs se
veral expreflions relating to a/l the colonies, and calls the
{toppage of the Port of Boffon < a punishment infli¢ted on
thole, sbbo bave a'ifoéeye'd your ;rutbo'rirj." Is it not ex
tremely remarkable, after such a varicty of charges affect
ing all the colonies, that the ffatute of vengeance should
be levelled againt a single colony ? New-York, Philadel
phia and Cbharleflown have denied freedom t;{_ trade to
- thips failing wnder the protettion of alls of Parliament.
- Will not the house commons think the inhabitants of
-these places ¢ have difobeved their anthority,” and that ¢ a.
punithment should be infli¢ted on them?” why do we not
hear of some measure pursued against those cities ? are
they immaculate in the eyes of ddminiftration and Parlia
roent ? has not cach of these places done rea/ damage to the
Zafi-Irdia campany ? has there been ever a requiiition of
compensation for that damage froth any of them? why
is there such a profound silence obférved with refpe@ to
them ? because they are judged by administration and
Parliament more innotent than the colony of Maflachur
fr:rts-an_y ? No. Because administration and Parliament do
wls Americans the honour to think, we are such very ideots,
that _we shall not believe ourselves interéfled in the fate
of Bofionr, but that one colony may be attacked and hum
bled after another, without shewing the sense or spirit
of beasts themiclves, miany of which unite againit a
common danger. A ‘
Why were the states of Greece broken down into the
tamest submission by Pbih‘{: of Macedon, and afterwards
by the Romasis ? because they contended for freedom se
parately. Why the slates of Spain {ubdued by the Car
thaginians and. afterwards by the Romans ? because they
contended for freedom [eparately, Why where the ancient
inhabitants of the kingdom, that now harafies us, conquer
ed by their invaders? Tacitus will inform uvs, ¢ Nec aliud
§ Both Houses of Parliament_refoloed tao or three years
ago, that persons might be sent for from- any of the colonies
__fagr aéls done therey and tried in England under the old fla
tute of Henry the Bth---made beforé the colofies existed. “The
late court ar Rhode-Ifland vas ¢fiablifbed on ghat principle.
The intention of piirliament in passing the bill above mentioned
is chiefly to [creen pérfons afting in [upport of their unconfli
futbn?d? claj';m. ,;T[q bave fieclajr"P b f bave no ~d¢mﬁblt'
but that the 35th of Henry bas effably 3 a just and legal
mode ;f cutting American throats.
« [ can lines altho’ anorbet wobs bgs ne right be put to
live avith me; ayy I can live althe’ I pay excises and im
positions more than I do; but to bave my liberty, qobich is
the foul of my lifey taken from me by power, and 6 bave
my body pent up int @ gacly (then thrown intoa [bip of war,
transported three thousand ntiles ac;;{‘l the cceany to @ land of
bitters felfifb, furious and revengeful enemiss, tétfe thurft
into the jaws of dungesns,” ) without temedy by law; and
10 be so aa_’;u?d 3 O improvident Anceflors! O univife fore
fatbers ! to be so carious in providing for the jtid ,iﬁwon
of enr lawws and the libertiés of parliamenty and to negleé our
fe#[ons and bodies, and tolet them lie in prison, and that du
rante bene placito, remedilefs ! If this be lato, wwby do we
talk of liberties # Why do we trauble ourfelwes with a dis
pute about lat, franchifes, proporty of goeds; and the like ¥
What mdy any. man call his own, if not: the liberiy of bis
person ? 1 ami weary of treading these ways.”
£p«¢h of RosxrT Puirrrs, a member of the wife
and morderate Parliament that met in the year 1627.
4 Privare letters give @ further proof of this salt.
DIE
NuMB. 179.
- adverfiss validiffimas gentis pro nobis utilivs, quam quod in
Communz NonconsurunT. Rarusad propulfandum
commune periculum conventus. Ita dum finguli pugnant
omnes vincuntur. ; ; ! 2%
Why did the little Swiss cantons, and seven small pre
vinces of the low countries, so fucceMfully oppose the ty
rants, that not contended with an empire founded in hu
manity and mutual advantages, wmneceffarily and arrogantly
strove to « LaY” the faithful and affe@ionate wretches
¢ AT THEIR FEET P Becdufe, they wifely regarded
the interest of each as the interest of a4/l . .
Our own experience furnifhés a mournful additional proof
of an observation made by 4 great and good man, Lord pre
sident Fordes. %Itis a certain truth,” fays he, ¢ that all
states and kingdorms, in proportion as they grow great, weal
thy and powerful, grow wariton, wicked and eppreflive, and
the hiffory of all ages gives evidente of the fatal catastrophe
of all such states and kingdoms, when the éup of their ini~
quity is full.” Another ¢ truth™ as ¢ certain” ise=that
¢ such states and kingdonis™ never have been, and never
will be checked in the career of their ¢ wantonness, wick
edness and oppression” by a people in any degree, dependant
upon them, but by the prudent, virtudus and steady unasi
mity of that people. To employ miore words to elucidate a
point so manifeft, would be the idle attempt of gilding gold.
~ Surely you cansiof doubt at this time, my countrymgn,
but that the people of Mzﬁtbu{ms-ﬂq are fufiering ina
caufef| common to us all ; and therefore, that we ought im=
mediately to toncort the most prudent measures for their re
lief apd our own fafety, it :
Our interest depending ors the préfent controversy is un
fgeakably valuable. 'We have not the least profpe@ of hu=
man affitance. The pafiion of despotism raging like &
plague, for about seven years past, has spread with wnufual
malignity through Eurcpe. Corsica, Poland, and Swoeden,
have funk beneath it.. The femaining spirit of freedom,
that lingered and languithed in the parliaments of France,
has lately expired; by the new modelling their parliaments.
What kingdorm or state interposed for the relief of their dif
trefidd fellow creatures? ‘lhe contagion has at length
reached "é_r'bat-Brigain. Her statesmen emulate the Nimrods
of the ¢earth and with to become ¢ mighty huntérs” in the
woods of America. What kingdom or state will interpose
for our relief? The preservation of our fréedom and every
attendant blefling must be wrought out, under providence,
by ourselves. Let not this consideration discourage as. We
capnot be falfe to each other, without being falfe so vur
felves. We have the firmeft foundation of union and fide~
lity—that wé wish to attain the fame things---to avoid the
fame things. The friendfhip of others might be precarious,
fufpefted, decéicfuls SLEs \ A
‘The infinitely great, wife, 4nd good Being; who give
us our existence, certainly formed us for a ffate of focietys
He certainly designed us for such a state of society, as \k‘éum
tie produltive of happiness; Liberty is essential to the hap
piness of a fotiety, and therefore is our right. The father
of mercies Aéver intendéd men to hold unlimited authority
over men.§] Craft and cruelty have indeed triumphed over
fimpliciry and innocence; in difobediebce to his holy. laws.
The father of mercies never inténded us ‘for the slaves of
Britons. Craft and cruelty indeed are fixiving'to brand us
with marks infamoufly denoting us to bé théir property, as
much as their cattle. Their preteafions to a right of such
power,
1 “ Nor avas any thing mcre advantageous to us again
wery powerful nations, than their imprudmce in mot con
fulting together for the interest of the whole. Conventi
ons /Tsr repelling & common danger were rare. Thus
wbhile each slate resisted finglys all were subdued” Taci
tus in wit. Aguic. e 3
|| The aft for foutting up the part of Boston; orders
that it shall not be dfméd until ¢ péace and obedience -
the laws shall be so far reflored in the said town of Boston
that the frade of Great Britain may fafely be carritd o
there, and bis Majesties duties duly colle€ted; &c.” Thus i
apfur:, g‘ the inbabitants renounce the tommon cause of th
coloniesy the port may be opencd---if they adbere to that cause
it qill rémain shuts ’ Sha :
q « o live by one mon’s will, became the cause of al
meén’s rifery.” : Hocker’s Ecclef.poly
« Is mot universal misery 2ad ruin the fame, whether i
comes from the bands of many or of one.” :
Bifbop Hoadley's dis. o Govt.
« Of [o contrary an opinion was tbis good man (Hooker)
to that of some otvers, whe can mever cppofe ére extreme
ithout running to another, as bad, if hot worse § and thin
they cannot énough condemn rebellion; @ithout giving th
divine {anﬂio‘u t 6 tyranny and oppteffiori. This judgmen:
ought likeawife to be of the more goeight, with such as proses;
the mioff profound weneration for tbe memory of Charles th
Sfirfty and the bonour of the old church of England : Because
this treatifts in awbich it is to be found, avas ckofen out ¢
many otbers by that prince, to be recommended to Lis children
as the best inftrutor tbe}y could conwverfe with : and was bay
in such estimation by all churchmen, from the time of it
appeararice, that it may awell pass not only for bis ow
judgment in particular, but for the judgment of the wwholl
church of England as that time.” — BiHoadley. ibids
« Would nat the unhappiness of this sation in particus
lar bave been the fame, whethér m late king alone, 6r §
a formal law bad fubjefied it to the religion of Rome, ap
the maxims of France ? and upes fuppafition of such an 3t
tempt, wwould not our late deliverance bawe been as glorigu
as great and juftifiable 3 as much wanted and as truly be
neficial 3 as it as upon®the attempt of the king alone ?
awould #ot the invitation of the prince of Orange ; rbe eleét
jon and meeting of Ihe pcir{am, avho made the convention :
and cbelconfequenc eftablithment i the protestant line,baw
been as reguifite and as ufeful ? Nay awould not the ends ¢
government bawy been more effeciually anfewered this wgy
than by fabmiffion 16 a total dissolution of al/ Happiness &
present and of all hopes for the future ? How then can
be fﬂ'd, that the ends of governthent reguire that degree
fubmiifion upor the one supposition, which they were allow,
not to do :;yoﬂ the ather s hen the [ame wifery and deftru
“jon must [ follow a fobmiffion in both cases ; ard the fa
univerial “happine® must in both e the confcqumcc;z'
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