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N EW - Y O R K.
The following is a copy of a letter from our General
Committee of Association, to the Lord Mayor and
Magistrates of London, sent by Capt. Lawrence,
who failed from hence the 6th Instant.
Committee-Chamber New-York, Ma, §, 1775.
My Lord and Gentlemen,
T\"'™GUISHED as you are by your noble
Exertions in the Cause of Liberty, and deeply
. 'incerefted in the expiring Commerce of the Empire,
/you necessarily command the most refpedful Atten
tion. The general Committee of Association for
trieCity and County of New-York, beg Leave there
fore to address you, and the Capital of the British
Empire, through its Magistrates, on the Subjed of
American Wrongs. Born to the bright Inheritance
of Envlilh Freedom, the Inhabitants of this exten
sive Continent can never submit to the ignominious
Yoke, nor move in the galling Fetters of Sla
very : The Disposal of their own Property with per
fect Spontaneity, and in a Manner wholly divested
of every Appearance of Constraint, is their indefea
fible Birthright. This exalted Blessing they are re
fofotel, determined to defend with their blood, and
transfer it uncontaminated to their Posterity.
You will not then wonder at their early Jealousy
of the Design to ered in this Land of Liberty, a
Despotism scarcely to be paralelled in the Pages of
Antiquity, or the Volumes of modern Times ; a
'Defpotifm confiding in Power, assumed by the Re
presentatives of a Part of his Majesty's Subjects, at
their sovereign Will and Plealure, to strip the Rest
of their Property. And what are the Engines of
Administration to execute this deftrudiye Project ?
The Duty on Tea,---oppreffive Restraints on the
Commerce of the Colonies---the Blockade of the
Portof Boston---the Change of internal Police in
the Massachusetts and Quebec---the establishment of
Popery in the latter---the Extension of its Bounds---
the Ruin of our Indian Commerce by Regulations
calculated to aggrandize that arbitrary Govern
ment unconstitutional Admiralty Jurifdidions
throughout the Colonies---the Invasion of our right
to a Trial in the most capital Cales by a Jury of the
Vicinage---the horrid Contrivance to screen from
Punishment the bloody Executioners of ministerial
Vengeance-—and, not to mention the Rest of the
black Catalogue of our Grievances, the hostile Ope
rations of anArmy, who have already Ihed theßlood
of our Countrymen.---The Struggles excited by
the detestable Stamp-Ad, have lo lately demon
flrated to the World that the Americans will not be
Slaves, that we stand aftoniffied at the gr@fs Impo
licy of the Minister. Recent Experience had e
vinced that the Possessors of this extensive Continent
would never submit to a Tax by Pretext of legis
lative Authority in Britain ; Disguise therefore be
came the Expedient; in Pursuit of the fame End,
Parliament declared their absolute Supremacy over
the Colonies, and have already endeavoured to ex
ercise that Supremacy in attempting to raise a Re
venue under the specious Pretence of providing for
their good Government and Defence. Adminis
tration, to exhibit a Degree of Moderation, purely
ostensible and Delufory, while they withdrew their
Hands from our most necessary Articles of Importa
tion, determined with an eager Grasp to hold the
Duty on Ted as a badge of their taxative Power.
Zealous, on our Part, for an indissoluble Union
with the Parent State---fludious to promote the Glo
ry and Happiness of the Empire---and impressed
with ajuft Sense of the Necessity of a condoling
Authority, to regulate and harmonize the difeor
dant commercial Interests of its various Parts, we
cheerfully submit to a Regulation of Commerce by
the Legislature of the Parent Stale, excluding in its
Nature every Idea of Taxation.
Whither therefore the prefect Machinations of
arbitrary Power infallibly tend, you may easily
judge ; if unremitedly pursued, *6 they were inhu
.manly deviled, they will, by a fatal Necessity, ter
minate in a total Diffelution of the Empire. The
Subjects of this Country will not, we trust, be de
ceived by any Measures conciliatory in Appearance.
Containing the Freiheit ADVICES,
MONDAY, June 5, 1775:
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while it is evident that the Minister aims at a solid
Revenue to be raised by grievous and oppressive Acts
of Parliament, and by Fleets and Armies employed
to enforce their Execution. They never will, we
believe, submit to an Auction in the Colonies, for
the more effectual Augmentation of the Revenue, by
holding it up as a Temptation to them, that the
highest Bidders ffiall enjoy the greateit Share of
Governmental Favour. This Plan as it would tend
to sow the Seeds ofDifcord, would be far more dan
gerous than hostile Force, in which we hope the
King's Troops will ever be, as they have already
been, unfuccefsful. Instead of those unusual, ex
traordinary, and unconstitutional Modes of procur
ing Levies from the Subje& Should his Majesty gra
ciously be pleased, upon suitable Emergencies, to
make Requisitions in antient Form, the Colonies
have expressed their Willingness to contribute to the
Support of the Empire ; but to contribute of their
voluntary Gift as Englishmen : And when our un
exampled Grievances are redressed, our Prince will
find his American Subjects teffifying, on all proper
Occasions, by as ample Aids as their Circumstances
will permit, the most unshaken Fidelity to their
Sovereign, and inviolable Attachment to the Wel
fare of his Realm and Dominions.
• Permit us further to assure you, that America is
grown so irritable by Oppression, that the least shock
in any Part is, by the most powerful andTympathe
tic Affection, instantaneously felt through the whole
Continent ;, that Pennsylvania, Maryland, and
New-York, have already flopped their Exports to
the Filling Islands, and those Colonies which at this
dangerous Jundufe have refufed to unite with their
Brethren in the Common C use ; and all Supplies
to the Navy and Army at Bolton ; and that proba
bly the Day is at Hand when our Continental Con
gress will totally shut up our Ports. The Mini
ons of Power here may now inform Administration,
if they can ever speak the language of Truth, that
this City is as one Man in the Cause of Liberty ;
that to this End our Inhabitants are almost unani
mously bound by the inclofed Association ;---that
it is continually advancing to perfection by additi
onal Subscriptions ;---that they are resolutely bent
on supporting their Committee, and the intended
Provincial and Continental Congreffes;---that there
is not the least Doubt of the Efficacy of their Exam
ple in the other Counties ;---in short, that while
the whole Continent are ardently wifning for Peace
on such Terms as can be acceded to by Englishmen,
they are, indefatigable in preparing for the last ap
peal. That such are the Language and Conduct of
oar Fellow Citizens, will be further manifested by
a Representation of the Lieutenant Governor and
Council, of theist Instant, to General Gage, at
Boston, and to his Majesty's Miniiters by the Packet.
Assure yourselves, my Lord and Gentlemen, that we
speak the real Sentiments of the confederated Colo
nies on the Continent, from Nova Scotia to Geor
gia, when we declare, that all the Horrorsof a Civil
War, will never compel America to submit to Tax
ation by Authority of Parliament.
A sincere Regard to the public Weal and the
Cause of Humanity, an hearty Desire to spare the
further Effufion of human Blood, our Loyalty to
our Prince, and the Love we bear to all our fellow
Subjects in his Majesty's Realm and Dominions, and
a full Conviction of the warmest Attachment in the
Capital of the Empire to the Cause of Justice and
Liberty, have induced us to address you on this mo
mentous Subject, confident that the fame cogent
Motives will induce the most vigorous Exertions of
the City of London, to redore Union, mutual Con
fidence, and Peace to the whole Empire.
We ba ve the Honor to be,
M, Lord and Gentlemen,'
Your most Obedient, and
AffeEiionate Fellow Subject.
Signed by ISAAC LOW, Chairman,
and the rest of the Committee.
To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor,l
the Aldermen, and Common Council of>
the City of London,)
THE
both FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.
LOND O N, March 6.
^HE Petition from the city of Waterford, in the
kingdom of Ireland, presented on Friday to the
House of Commons, states, among a variety of other
things, that their exports consist chiefly of white arf"
brown linens to America, and of salted beef, por£\\
and butter to the India islands ; that the imports from
North America consist of flax feed, lumber,wheat
and flour ; and that the difference now subsisting be
tween Great-Britain and that continent, which has
brought on the nonimportation agreement in the
several colonies, will be productive of the several fol
lowing alarming and ruinous consequences: 1 That
the petitioners being cut off from their usual supplies
of American flax feed, will be rendered unable to
carry on the linncn manufacture. 2. Thdt not hav
ing the means of railing flax, their linnen manu-
TaCtures must confidently be annihilated. 3. That
though they would obtain flax from other countries
the commerce with America being flopped by the
nonimportation agreement, their manufactures
must inflantly fall to decay. 4. That being de
prived of ftaves to make calks, their export provisi
on trade mull be destroyed, and both the navy
of Great-Britain and the Weft-India islands be
deprived of the means of subsistence without many
great and manifeft inconveniences.----And that om
the whole such a train of consequences must be de
ftru&ive to the landed property, manufactures and
commerce of the kingdom, and must occasion a very
sensible diminution of his Majesty's revenue. <,.
March 7. On Saturday a grant passed the Great
Seal to John Agnew of Shencan, in the county of
Wigtown, George Steward of the fame place, and
Alexander Dunn, collector of the cufloms in New
foundland, Jafars,and to their executors, administra
tors or assigns of the royal mines in the province of
Newfoundland, and of all metals mineral or ores,
reserving a tenth part to the Crown, for the term of
999 years. .
at his Store near the Great-Bridge, HARTFORD,
for Ready Money only.
Likewise, Brandy and Geneva by the Case,
Quarter- Cask, or less Quantity.
Claret, and Bristol Beer in Bottles, by the Grof,
or single Dozen. Together with a great Variety
of other Articles in the Grocery way.
Hartford Ma, 3©, 1775.
[NUMBER 545. J
COURA N T,
HARTFORD
INTELLIGENCER.
killingwortb, June 1,1773.
WHEREAS Mr. Benjamin Griffith has been re
presented to us as a person unfriendly to the
Liberties of America : He being cited before us the
committee for said town, manifefted his willignefs
to assist in the common cause by furniffiing Arms,
&c. and wherein he has at any Time used any ex
pressions having a tendency to disunite the inhabi
tants of this colony he is sorry for it---and further
declares himfelf a true friend to the Liberties of
America. . Signed by order of the Committee of
Inspection and Correspondence. - ^^
Samuel Gale, Clerk.d
Loft, on the road between Tol
land and Hartford, or Hartford and Wallingford,
a double firing of GOLD BEADS. ^Whoever
shall find said Beads and deliver them to Captain
Eliakim Hall of Wallingford, or to the Rev Nathan
Williams of Tolland, shall be handsomely rewarded.
Strayed or Stolen out of the Pas
ture of the Subscriber about the middle of April
last, a Mare Colt, two years old past, of a light bay
colour, black mane and tail, not docked, natural
pacer, no brand. Whoever will return her to the
owner shall be handsomely rewarded and charges
paid, by T JOSEPH LOOMIS.
Windsor, May 30, 1775.
W(I N E s,
Choice Tenerief in Pipes and Quarter-Calks;
Red Port, in Hogsheads, Quarter-Calks
and Bottles.
Lisbon in Quarter- Caffes, very low, and of
the best quality; to be fold by,
WILLIAM ELLERY^