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$r O&Atr ttft, which ri^sort Ims Wtt
«»;ft gucieofty pleTed to approve, sod there
te order 'he complaints of the said Peter
Lems, Esq; to bs difmiffcd-
J WENTWORTH.
Cctr.til Hampshire> Jit.uxry
1774'
The aTwet ofthehoule to the abort: con
^dc® thus :<—“ Your Excellency will,
irvH, give us leave to congratulate you on the
agreeable in forma lion of your success in the a‘»
Sue of the comp aint of Peter Lcnus Lfq»
aad cFhii M*j.fty’s approbation <f your adnu
ciftridoQ snd cooduft in the public concerns of
this province.''——Had it been otberwite, wr,
(and as we apprehend) our conUituents alfa,
would hive been greatly grieved and disappoint
ed ; but now will hear ily acqaicfcc and felici
tate t hem fe Ives oo this happy event. We hope
all other ill-grounded complaints of a like nature
will meet with the like ca aftrephe It re
mains for us to add our Gnccre desires and pray
tis far your auspicious and fucceGful admmiftra
<ioo, io which both your Excellency, and the
people under your charge, may long enjoy mu
tual fatiJadioa.”
VK/E h car ^ at 8 Number of the fair Diugh
ters of Liberty have lately entered into
the fallowing spirited RESOLVES :
I. That the Deftruflion of the East India
Tea, imported among nv, is abfolutcly nccctTa
vy for the Happiness of America.
11. That the said Tea ought to be looked
upon as a Traitor to the MAJESTY of the
PEOPLE, and treated accordingly.
111. That all the Aiders, ^betters, Affuci
ates and Accomplices, ct ftid Tea are equally
guil y of High Treafoa.
IV. That for the Credit of the noble Cause
w: are engaged in, all our proceedings, at thia
a'armiog Ctifts, (hall be ftri&ly conformable to
Law.
V. That as banging drawing and quartering
are the puoifhmeats icflfled by Law io Cales
of High Treason, we are determined cocftantly
io affcmble at each other’s Houses, to H iNG
the Tea Kettle, DRAW the Tea, and QUAR
TER. the Toad.
NEW-LONDON, Feb. 18.
Jn the Grenada Gazette of the
lo.h of November last, there is an
Adi of their Legislature regulating
and reftricling the Market and Prices
bf freQi Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork,
Turtle, andFifh—which will proba
bly injure the Trade of thatlfland.
Saturday last die^ at Mohegan, in
this Town, aged about 50 Years,
MARY UNGAS, Reliftofthe late
feenjamin Uncas, 11. Sachem of the
Mohegan Tribe of Indians. Her
Remains were interred at Norwich on
Wcdnefday last.
BOSTON, February 17.
On F'tdvy last in the Forenoon the Csmnjittee
of th: H»uje of Rtpre tentative: appointed to con-
Jider of further Proceeding: necefary to be had
on the Gondufl of the Honourable Peter Oli
ver, Eff, Chief Judice of the Superior Court
of Judicature brought in a Report, and de fired
Leave of the House toft again. After a full
Debate onthe Report of the Committee, theHoufe
tame into the following Refotves, by a Divifi.m
of ^6 to 9 viz
VaZHEREaS it appears to this House by a
* * Writing under the Hand of the Hon.
Peter Oliver, Elq, the Chief Justice of the Su
perior Court of Judicature, Court of Affile and
General Goal Delivery, over this Piovmce. a
Coort wholly ereded and coaftituted by ths
Great and General Court or AfTembly of the
hide Province, by a Power granted to the Gid
General Cnurt by the Royal Charter, that he
the said Peter Oliver, Eiq; declining any more
to take and receive the Grants of the General
AfT:mt>!y of this Province, for his Services as
Chief Justice of faij Superior Court, ever
h ice tie ending and coHlbtutmg of the fame
rowmb'y used and apprised ; and contrary So
tse £hia Senfc iod Meaning of the said Rc .
'Charter j end egaiofl the known CofeHi!ution
this Prfevicck, accepted, received and ukc '
Salary and Reward granted him by his Majs
for his Services as Chief Justice of the said Supc
rior Court, from the fifth Day of Ju y 1772 U
the fifth Day bf January 1774 : And that h
hath aTo plainly given this Houle to underfill
by the fame Writing, under his Hand, his Re
fblution for the future to accept the Salary :
Reward which he affi mt is grac ed to him ;
his Majesty, during his Rtfidcnce io the P
viace, as Chief Judice d the said Superi;:
Court*
And Whereas the Gid Peter O.iver, Esq
hath, perverfly and corruptly done as aforefaid
sgainft the known Sense of the Body of thi
People of this Province, mail fully and exprefl
declared in the (everal Resolutions of diver
Houses of Reprrfcntatives and otberwife:
Therefore Resolved, That the said Peter Oli
ver, Esq; hath by his Cmdud as aforefaid
proved himfelf an Enemy to the Conßitution 0
this Province ; that he has done that which
hath an obvious and dired Tendency to the
Pcrvetfioo of Law and Justice in the said Court,
and is become justly obnoxious to the good
People of this P.oviocc
Resolved, That the said Peter Oliver, Efq; l
hath by his Condvd as aforefaid, rendered him
felf totally disqualified, any longer to hold and
a6h io the O lice of a Justice of the said Court,
and ought forthwith to be removed therefrom.
Resolved, That this H use will remonftrste
to his Excellency the Governor and Council of
this Province the said Conduct of the faidPvhr
0 iver, Esq-. prayiog that he may not be fuffered
any more co fit sod afl in his Office of Chief
justice of said Court,and that he may forthwith
and without any Delay be removed therefrom.
The Rev. Dr. Cooper has declined the Pre
fi lea'diip of Harvard College, to which he was
c'e&cd, as mentioned in cur last.
The late much regretted Earl of Orrery In
one of his Letters from Ita y, dated Jann^ry
175$ lately Publilhed, Writes io the following
prophetic Hile — <l Tuscany nvar to Italy (lays
M. de Vcltaif) vohat Athent wat to Greece."
‘ What Gtec:e is, Tuscany possibly may be*
perhaps Italy, perhaps Europe.—The ball of
Empire may hereafter ro’l wtftward, and . may
(lop io America ; a world unknown whenßome
was in its meridian glory ; a world that may
save the tears of fame fu»ore Alexander.’
And whereas it appears to this House, t -
the Laid Peter Oliver, Esq; hath received
said Salary and Reward, out of the Revenue on
justly and uncontlivutionally levied and extorted
from the lohabitatjts of the American Colonies :
Pfe bear from Shrewjbury^ that erne
Day la II Week a Pedlar was observed to
go into a Tavern there, with a Bag con
taining about of Tea, Informati
on of which beintf bad at Northborough,
about Miles Diflance, a number of In
dians went from the Great Swamp, or
thereabouts, seized upon if and committed
it to the Flames on the Road facing Jaid
Tavern, where it was entirely consumed.
We bear from Montague, that one of
the Inhabitants having inadvertently pUr
chafed a small Quantity of Tea of a Ped
lar, fever al of the Neighbours being made
acquainted therewith, went to his House,
and endeavoured to convince him of the
Impropriety of making any Use of that
Article for the present, while it continues
to be a Badge o f Slavery and while there
are so many laudable Efforts making in
the Metropolis, and other principal
T owns, and in the Country in general, to
throw it off he was eaftly induced to
commit it to the Flames —lO dijeourage
th ofe Gentry, called Pedlars, from fel
ling this noxious Herb, at a time when
the Shopkeepers have generally abandon
ed it, they would do well to teflNl, that
th 1656 the colony g.
New Haven, pointed a cede of laws, introduced
with an sccouot of the fcttlement of New Ha
ven, in New England, by Goveroor Raton ——,
Five hundred of those books w?re dilbibuted in
the towns of New Haven Milford, Guilford,
Stanford, Branford, ar.d -Southold Ln Long-
Iflrnd. Of so large a numbfcr i it not imptoba
ble that some may remain legible. As »uch
light may probably be rifl.dhd 00 the biHary
of New Haven, by^faid book, the fubferiber is
very desirous of obtaining it far thet purpose.
WheloeVer therefore (hail convey one of the
said books, within the term es two months from
the date'hereof, either to the Printers in New-
Haveo, or to the fubferiber, for his ale, (Itai!
have three dollars Reward.
Benjamin Trumbull.
New Haven, Feb. 16, 1774.
Ames’s Almanack
For 1774, to be fold at the Printings
^Office.