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¢ iinuance of the term of his office, is by this bill made
thangeable by the Governor and Council, as often, and for
such purposes s they thall think expedient.
The Governor and Council, thus intruited with powers,
with which the Biitith conttitution has not trusted his Ma
jesty and his Privy-Council, have the means of réturning
fucha jury in each particular cause, as may best suit with
the gratification of their passions, and interests. The lives,
liberties, and properties of the subject are put into their
hands without controul ; and the invaluable right of trial
by jury, is turm:.d into a {nare 3 for the people, who have |
hitherto looked upon it as their main security against the
licentiousness of powers , : |
6thly, Because we fce- in this bill the fame scheme of
frengthening the anthority of the officers and Misiltersof"
State, as the expence of the. rights and liberties of the [ub
jeft which was indicated by theé inauspicious aét for fHutting.
up the harbour of Boftou. %
By that act, which is immediately connected with this -
bill, the example was “set of a laige important city {con
-laining vait multitades'of people, mary of whom muit be
innacent, and ail of -whom are unheard) by an arbitrary
sentence, deprived -of the advantage of that port, upon
which all their means of livelihaod did immediately depend.
This profeription is not made detciminable on the pay-,
ment of a fine for- aa offence, or a compensation for an
ijury ; but is to continue until the Ministers of the
Crown shall think fit “t 0 advife'the King in Council to re+
yoke ity © b i e g
The legal condition of “the fubjeét « (tanding unattainted
by convition, for treason or felony) ought never to de
pend upon the amitrary wil of any peffon whatsoever.
This a&t, unexampled on the iecords of Parliament, has
been entered on the Jourauls of this ‘Houfe as vored ne
mine dissent ente, and has been (tated in the debite of this
day, 10 have been sent to the colonies, as pafied without a -
division in either House, and therefore as conveying the
gncontroverted universal sense of the natiod,” °
L The despair of making effectnal oppoﬁxiunz: an unjult -
mxfure, has been confirued into an approbation of ir. =
An unfuir advantage has béen taken on the final question
for puffing that penal bill, of the” absence of those Lords
who had debated it for feverdl hours, and strongly dissents
ed from it on the second reading ; that period on which it
is most usual 6 debate the principle of a biil.. -
If this procecding were to pass without animadversion,
Lords might think themselves obliged to reiterate their.
debates, at every Itage of every bill which they oppose, |
and to make 4 formal division whenever they debate,
7th'y, Because thisbill, and the other p aceedings that .
accompany ity are intended for the support of that unad
vised scheme of taxing the colonies, in a manner new, and
unsuitable to their fitnation and -conftitutiondl circumftan=+
€ess O vrnah - boss w2l i
Parliament has asserted the authority of the legiflarure
of this kingdom, supreme and'@nlimited, over all the Mem- "
bers of the Britith empire. et eNad ¥ 4 .
Y But the legal extent of this authority furnifhes no argu
meat in favour of an nnwarrantable use of it. ,
The sense of the nation on the repeal of the stamp at .
was, that in equity and found policy, the taxation of the colo
nies for (he crdinary purposes of Jupply, eught to be forborn
and that this kingdom ought to fatisfy itfelf with the ad
vantages to be derived fiom a fourithing and increating
trade, and with the fiee grants of the American aflembiies ;
as be'ng far more beneficial, far more ealily obtained, less
oppreflive, and more likely to be laftipg than any revenue
to be acquired by pasliamentary, taxes, accompanied’ by a
total alienation of the affetions of those who were to pay,
them. This principle of repeal was nothing more than a
return to the ancient sanding policy of this empire. The,
unhappy departure from it, hias led o thay course of fhift
ing and contradi®ory measures, which have since given rife
to fach continued diftra&ions ;by Which unadvised plan, new
duties have been imposed in the very year after the former
had been repeaied ; these pew duties’ afrerwards in part
repealed, .and in part continued, in contradi@ion to. the
. principles upon which those repealed weie given up ; all
which, with many weak, injudiious, ard precipitate . lieps
taken to ecforce a compliance, have kept up.that jealousy,
7 which en the repeal of the flamp-aé was fubliding ; revived
dangerous questions, and gradually estranged the affections
of the colonies from tke mother country, without any obje 2t
of advantage to either. Ifthe force prapofed thould have
its full effect, that effeé we greatly apprehend may not
continue_longer than whilst the sword is held upsFo ren
der the colonies permanently advasntageous, they. must be
fatisfied with their condition. That fitisfaétion we fee.no
chance of restoring, whatever meafares miay be purfoed,
except by recurring in the ‘whole, to the wife and salutary
prindples on which the flamp-aé&t was repealed.
.- RICHMOND, 1w ROCKINGHAM, .
PORTLAND, il AI}{IRGAVENNY, 4
"~ ABINGDON; - . .. ; LEINSTER, . -
KING, v s soieA VBN, o deo i
EFFINGHAM, ', FITZWILLIAM,
PONSONBY, T > C e ;
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY¥ur
.. MrsToomAsy o ¢ T R A 19
O much has lately been said, written and printed agaiuft
the committee of correspondence tor the town of Bos
ton, more especially in the part they took in the non-con--
fumption agreement-that it'is become eminently neceffury
to -t their conduék in that‘mtt‘?n a fair pointof light ;.
that honest minded people may not be led to conceise-that
in thatimportant matter, they acted without due legaid to
the grand design of their appointment, the reception and
communication of interesting intelligence throughout the
province. It is well known that on the reception of the.
Port Bill at New-York, our friends in that metropolis were
so much zlarmed for our distress, and the consternation they
conceived so unprecedented an_edi& would throw us into,
that they immediately sent an express to us, with a.copy of
the bill enclosed in a /etter which did honour to America,
and was in great part published in our papers. In this let
ter, in letters from Newbury-Poit, Providence, Newport,
and several other ie’f};&ab!c towns, an immediate suspension
of trade with Gieat-Britain (some faad{];chrd and the Weft
Indies) was recommended, as the only measures to be de
pended upon gr the recovery of our invaluable rights, now
attacked afrefh and in good earnest. The best returns.in
our power weie made to these kind offers of advice and
assistance, and a meeting of our merchants at length being
«called, whether principally to promote a since fufficiently
known, but then industriously concealed address, or a non
importation agreement, we pretend not to determine.
However, the mrerchants did meet in greater numbers than
were probably expected by the gentleman who issued the
notifications 1 am induced to ‘this opinien by thé absence
of the gentleman from the second meeting at the coftee
houfe and also of the instrument itfelf, which was expected
to be'produceds The suspension of trade was talked of in
this meeting, and there was a short adjournment to the weft
room of the state-house. The address after being repeat
edly applied. for in vain by the merchants, and neither ad
dress nor addressers designing to make their appearance,a cen
sure of their condu@ and solemn disclaim of the mcafme,?nd
mode of condu@ing it was drawn up, and voted nem. con, if
not unanimously, and published. At this meeting the sus
pension of trade was again taken into consideration, and a
very refpetable committee appointed to obtain fubfcripti?g%’j
for a suspension of trade to Great-Britain, countermandin,
of orders, &c. Several worthy merchant® figne?, and did
countermand their orders ; and the town'of Providence was
in fach forwardnefs to adopt the plan that they even pro
posed unloading some wveflels, nearly fit for failing, if we
could assure them that Boston alone, would generally coun
termafid their orders. ‘This we were unfortunate enough
not to be able to do ; for about this time the noted letter
was handed about on change, declaring, as was given out,
that even the committee of New-York had wrote us we
had no assistance to expeét from them. Soon after this the
merchants had their last meeting, and ther Clerk requesting
the late letters from the other colenies, they were laid be
fore them ; and the result of that meeting was a decla
-lation that they look upon themselves xfléa%ed from their
conditional engagement, without the least apalogy or fur
ther proposal. A condu® of this fort might be reconci-
Isazle to gentlemen who locked no fuigér than whether a
toppage of rail goeds would be greatly superior in publie
@vantage to the lois they might lufier individually : Butit
. .ockcd the friends of the constitution both in city and
ountry, who had been most altive, and measured things on
the large scale, to think that Boston was the besieged city—
h:lt she was called upon by her nearest and most reipectable
.elghbours, to fulpend trade ; and without giving ene pub
he !_'eafqn for so doing, said she would not, From hence
ngn{:ated the dreadful non-consumption agreement ! Our
neftimable brethren in the country, the wife and hardy
yeomanry, said they had too long been the dupes of mer
antile perfidy—they remembered those few felf-interefted
traders who had fold them in the last struggle for our rights,
when we Were on the very point of securing them. 'l‘hey
aw their names, notto a Ron-importation agrecment, but
in an address to Mr. Hutchinson, where ¢ they teftify the
ntire fatisfaction they feet at the’ wisk) “zealous and
r#t-"r HF UL administration” of a 2 man to whom the whole
ontinent (with very inconfiderablé exceptions) ascribe the
roubles of North-America ; and theéy resolved to rake the
affair into their own hands. Several towns drew up cove
ants in ﬁ.xch terins as best suited them, and one in particular,
had vnanimoufly agreed to discontinue trade entirely ; and
ot one nor a few towns became thus inspired, and the spirit
ad spread at least forty miles inland from the southern bor
der of the province before the Boston committee had heard
he l‘eaﬁ intimation of it. It was proposed to them as a
plan indispensable to our deliverance ; and without equivo~
ation or desire to fhift the praise or blame of it from them
selves to any others, the committee in the most public man
er acknowledged their having planned, printed and dispersed
o the several towns in the p.ovince, x non-consumption
agreement. T this very service they were pointed by the
pirit of a vote, pafied the : )
ery full meeting of the town ; and in every flep of their
ondu¢l they endeavoured to avail themselves of the best
advice they could obtain' from the most understanding per
sons they had access to. llf the agreement did not suit the
several tafles and interests of all their fellow citizens and
ountrymen, it ‘was not through their want of care, pains,
gated and continued consideration, upon a subject con
fefledly the most weighty and difficult that ever came before
hem. - On fending out the agreement, committees came
from some neighbouring towns, proposing amendments ;
and without pretending shat their mode! should be imposed
pon their fellow countrymen they immediately issued a
ircular letter, fignifying, that in that nor any other mea
ure did they pretend to diftate to their brethren, but con
eived that any form retaining the {pirit and general inten
ion of their covenant, would undoubtedly answer every
end proposed by it. The committee of Worceter, for in
ance, . weye pleased to differ very materially from the com- -
mittee of Boston, in proposing thatall goods imported before
he 318 of August should be fold without exception ; and
aid committee having in their opinion made fufficient pro
ifion that the country might not be imposed upon by goods
miported after the stipulated time, they very EZely recom
nended the Worcester covenant in preference to their own.
All these salts were fairly stated in open town-meeting, and
ell supported by the committee ; and indeed, as far as I
an recolle€t, were not disputed by their opponents. But
he whole weight of the blame laid upon them, was for
sluing an infirament, hurtful {to' the trade, and indutive
of perjuiies, discords and animosities among friends and
eighbours; without having the least profpe@ of answering
he proposed end. None pretended that the Britith parlia
ent had a right to grant the monies of the colonist—the
rongeft adversaries of the committee declared their oppofi
ion to the claim. No betier measure was proposed to avoid
a fubmifiion to it ; and finally every plausible objetion to
t terminated in a bare suggestion that the time set for the
eception of goods from England was too short. To this
it was answered that the many gentlemen who had coun
ermanded their ordérs had voluntarily given vp their fall
importation ; and no reason could be assigned why one thould
not give up a half year’s profit as well as drother, when
indeed na.trade nor property of any kind seemed fafe as
things were going. They observed that by lengthening
out the time for the reception of goods enormous quantities
ight be ordered, whichh instead of ¢ DELEGATIN G’y the
manufalturers to represent us, as the Pbiladelphian wifely
exprefles it, would render them quite cafy till the ensuing
lection is over ;:and then farewell liberty in every part of
Christendom. This is a concern of too much importance
to be rifgued against a few trifling accommodations and ad
jultments of pun&iilios. - The good sense of Newbury-Port
and_ Providence, with, many other towns, perceived the
néeeflity of drawing up the shipping to. the wharves, and
not exporting nor importing a farthing’s worth to or from
Great-Britain, &c. Would to God the merchants who
had a_non-importation forced wpon them whether they
would or not, had been as spirited and consistent with their
acknowledged duty ! How abje@ muit the men appear in
the cyes of mankind, whom no species of opprefiion can
divert from the pursuit of so small a gain as might be made
bx_picking gold off gingerbread ? Would not a man of true
wisdom and spirit facrifice his all, and rifque his very life,
vather than run the venture of having his person and pro
perty subjected to the abl}lutc disposal of a British minister ?
And if laws may be obtained’ by. that minister to controul
the one and command the other in all cases whatever, who
can fay he is a freeman, or that ‘he really owns a farthing ?
Putting off the time we thould oppole such a violent atta:k
upon us, discovers too great a disposition to submit to it.
And certainly a plain counteracting of the party who are ia
pursuit of the acknowledged sole measure to be depended on
for relics, without even proposing any, substitute in its stead,
is declaring to the world, that in theefteem of such oppo
nerfts, LIFE, LIBERTY and PROPERTY are not woith
contend.ag for. To refer all to. the decision of the approach
ing congress, is, in my judgment, extremely impolitic. A
relaxation in some articles of absolute. necessity, and some
‘modifications of the general agreement must be inevitably
left to their wisdom ; but certainly the more the resolutions
of every part of the continent is manifelted, to maintain
their sacred rights, at all hazards and extremities, the mare
{trong will be hands of their delegates. S
Whoever would endeavour to rerder the committee odi
ous to their fellow citizens and countrymen, by affirming
that they defamed every person indiscriminately, as the vilest
of mankind, who signed the address to the late Governor
Hutchinson, imposes upon the public at large, before whom
the .obnoxious letters were freely read, and by whom the
discrimination must be remembered, in the Pl'{iladclphla
letter especially, and in the New-York was promised to be
given thereafter, but it seems has hitherto been omitted 3
the printed lift having by no means been the production of
the committee, or to their knowledge of any one member of
their body. That those ;:irfons who on all occaﬁons‘have
taken the fide of our oppreflors, some of w{wm have c{xtetcd
into agreements for the salvation of our rights, and in the
most thameful manner violated them, declaring o;}enly their
disregard for their country, posterity, or any thing besides
their own private property—that these with the goodly
number of confcientiows votaries for the damnable 'doélrme
of passive vhedience and non-rififlance, not in the mild sense
of the honest quaker, who will injure no fide, but in the
rigid sense of the flaming Jacobite, who would rcf}{t.to the
la® extrem ty, every one who would even open his mouth
in favour of the rights of mankind ; or affirm that James
the second was rightfully expelled the throne of Great-Bri
tain—that thefe,l fayare capable not only of being instigated,
but of instigating others to any degree of _pr(y?itutiml to prop the
chara@er oftheir tottering here, the committee did believe 3
and that men of better charaer did set that gddr.efs on
foot, remains to be proved. The manner in v-vhl'.‘.!x it was
conduéted gave no one the highest opinion of thenr_prmc;lple.s-
But chat Henry Lloyd, Efy; or any other persons in that lift
of similar charalter and conduét in public and private life,
are the prostitutes intended, by, their letters, I dare venture
to aflert no unprejudiced man of common sense who heard
them read, had in contemplation. CANDIDUS.
ADVERTISEMENTS omitted will be in our nexts
TR URSTAY Ry
MBS O M) N 2
There is not a town ofany confequence,on the continent
-pf North-America, but is justly alarmed with the proceed
ings of the Britith Parliament, and are taking neceflary feps
to strengthen the Union of the colonies, and thereby defeat
the cruel designs of arbitary power, B
Sailed this day for England, in the ship Captain;
Admiral Montague and Family. oo =
§§p§e our last arrived a number of transports from Ireland,
having -on board the fifth and thirty-eighth. regiments of
foot : They are now encamped on the Common.
Three Transports are failed from hence, said to be gone
to New-York, to bring hither the regiment of royal Welsh
Fuzileers. : 2 o J ;
Friday last arrived here ffom England, Vice Admiral
Graves, in the Preston Man of War of fifty guns.
Tuesday his Excellency Governor Gage, arrived in towh
from Salem. . o 2 oyl
Several lnads of Wheat, as presents from our brethren in
the country to the poor of this place, arrived in town this
week, and are deposited in the town granary. .
Four regiments, and a compaay of the royal artillery.
with 8 ficld pieces, are now encamped on the common, one
or two other regiments are soon expected.
A guard is placed at the entrance of the town to prevent
the desertion of soldiers. Tl :
"DIED. ] Mrs. Mary Cunningham, the wite of Wil
liam Cunningham,Whaifingers Her funeral will be attend
ed at § o'clock to-morrow afternoon. _ sy
*e* A BOSTONIAN, A COUNTRYMAN, A
FRIEND; &¢. o avith'the proceedings of the town Zs ’
Pepperely .together with [ome domestic intelligence, must be
omitted for awant of room. J ; :
- WiINDRAM, Conncciicuty 28 Fune, 1774
To the SELECT-MEN cos the Town of BosTon.
GENTLEMEN, . . \ £
_’T IS with pity mixed with indignation, that ‘we have
’ beheld the cruel and unmanly attacks made by the.
British parliament, on the loyal and patriotic town of Bc‘bn, -
who seem destined to feel the furce of ministerial wrath; the
whole weight of parliamentary vengeance, levelled at them
in 2 manner so replete with cruelty and injustice, as must
strike every heart with horror, and fill every breast with
rage, that is not entirely void of every sentiment of honou#
and nghco,-gud callous to all the common feelings of hu
anity. ™ But when we confider the cause of all these cala
mities, that it is nothing less on yourpart, than a firiét
adherence to the fundamental principles of the constitution,
which when attacked, you dared openly to affért, vindicate,
and to stand toremoft in the glorious cause of liberty ;° in
which you were contending not only for your own, but ours,
and the common rights of every American ; when we refleét
that it is this for which You are {uffering such horrid cruel
ties, for which your streets have been stained with blood,
and for ‘which you notw feel the horrors of a military go
wvernment, we are overwhelmed with a confli€t of tumul
tuous passions, and filled with that fnanly ardour which®
bids us join you, hand in hand, and fuffer with you in the
common- cause ; nay even, if the fad exigence of affairs
fhould ever require it, to determine, in defence of every
thing. for which life is worth enjoying, to meet that death
which will be glorious, and infinitely preferable to a life
draged on in that low servile state, which is evidently planed
for us, and which nothing less than the most heroic forti
tude, and’the highest exertions of every civil and chriftian
virtue can prevent. Give us leave therefore, Gentlemen,
to intreat, to Leg, to conjure you, by every thing that is
dear, by every thing that is sacred, by the venerable names
of our pious forefathers, who fuffered, who bl d in the de
fence of liberty, not to desert the cause at this trying crisis,
but to ufe.your utmost influence in pursuing and persevering
in every measure, which may have a tendency to promote
the desired effect. S s ¥ S
" Gentlemen, we hereby assure you, that to the utmost of.
our power, we will assist you in every mcafure necessary for
the common fafety, not legarding our own private views
and interests when in competition with the public good.
This town is very. sensible of ‘the obligations we, and
with us, all Biltith America, are under to the town of Bos
ton, who have been, and @ill a-e, the generous defenders of
our common rights and liberties, we know you fufler great
ly, and feel for you. As a testimony of our consideration
of your mi-fortunes; the tewn onthe 23d instant, at a
legal and verv full meeting, unanimously chose a committee
to procure fublriptions for your present relief. Accord
ingly we have procured a small flock of theep, 258, which
at this season are not so good as we could with, but are the
best we hady and the pecple of this town were almolt una
nimots 10 contributing to this purpose. > ‘
This small present, Gentlemen; we beg you would ac
cept, and apply to the relief of those honest, industrious
poor, who are most difttefied by, the late arbitrary and op
prefiive acts. And rest aflured that if the parliament does
not soon afford you relief, and there thould in future be any
need of our assistance, we shall with the Gtmoft chearfulnefs,
exert our influence to that purpole. . | ok
We are, Gentlemen, 'with great refpedt,
A 8 most obedi and verv humb LPvARS
SAMUEL GRAY, =+ .‘| :
NATHL WALES, jun. . | .
EBENEZER DEVOTION, AR
EBENEZER MOSELEY, Committee
HEZEKIAH BISSELL, of 3
JOSEPH GENING, Correspondence: 1
WILLIAM DURKEE,
JOHN HOWARD, ' '
HEZEKIAH MANNING, | 4
¢« AT a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of
WinpuAM, legally warned and held in WinpraM,
June 23, 1774 ; :
«NaTaaNIEL Wares, jun. Esq; Moderator,
'« This méeting being imprefled with a deep sense of the
préfent alarming afpeéts of divine providence, over the British
colonies in North-America, arising from the present de
prefled fitoation of the capital of a neighbouring province ;
in having their harbour and port blocked up by ships of war
in hostile array, to the terror of the people ; totally and ac
tually obftruéting all commerce by sea, intn, or from said -
port ; thereby forecibly preventiug the due performance of’
all private maritime contrals, rendering useless their whole
navigation, stores and wharves, built and ereted at a vast
expence of the inhabitants 5 a principle which threatens
ruin and deftrution, both to the liberties and properties of
every fubjet throughout the whole British empire. .
«¢ And being further alarmed by a bill late depending be
fore the parliament of Great-Britain, for regulating the
government of the Massachusetts-Bay, too long here to be
recited, though replete with arbitrary tﬁrcaten::‘j deftrution
to all cerporations inl Great-Britain, and of all chartered
rights in America ; in a view of those as well as many
other impending dangers and calamities, and from a fitm
belief and persuasion, that there is a supreme almighty,
infinitely, good and merciful Being, who sets at the helny
of universal Nature, by whem Kings reign, and Princes
decree justice, who has the hearts of all the Princes and
Potentates of the earth in His hands and under his almighty
‘controul ; and hewever faulty the inftraments and procurers
of those calamities may be, yet considering our fins and im-~
pieties, they are just, as coming from the hands 6f Gop,
and are to be averted by humiliation, deep repentanceand
reformation : We therefore sincerely with and hope a day
will soon be appointed for folemr Fasting and Prayer,ias
recommended by our late General Aflembly, and beg farther
to intimate to our brethren in the féveral towns inf this
colony to render the observation of that day more agreable
to the divine dire&ion, viz. To undo the heavy burthens,
and let the opprefled go fiee; to distribute to the necessities
of the diftrefled, that on that day, we be united in opening
our hearts, in contributing to the relief of the injured and
opprefled, indigent inhabitants of the town of Boﬂ";n 5 el
pecially those who are more immediately 10, by the means
of the late iron hand of opprefiion on that worthy metropolis.
“ But fully to express our sense of the late attempt upon
the town and port of Boston, the arbitrary attacks on the
mott sacred rights of communities; the violent deprivation
of private property and libesty, and those most virulent ef
forts to break down the great barriers of civil society, founded
on the solemn compaét of Kings, a principle, proclaiming
sudden deftrultion upon all curporations throughout the,
ritith dominions, at the will and pleasure of a vengeful
Britith minifiry, even without complaint, notice, trial or
constitutional adjudication of forfeiture—Words fail, and
Englith language is deficient—but this-is in part executed,
and much more than ally threatned only under pretence, at
molt, that some of the inhabitants of Boston or the neigh
bouripg towns; hive committed a trefspals on the property -
of the East-India Company, a_company {horrendum dictu)
who have spread destruction over the ealfern world, Behold
the_ tragic icenes in that'eaftern clime, the mother of mil
lions, by sword and baneful famipe, depriving those innocentg
of the neceflaries of life, who by the favour of heaven and
their own indufiry were overflowing with the wealth and
ptofufion of the Indies, and all to fatisfy the insatiable lust
of gain and oppreflion! Let the Spanish barbaricies in Mexico,
and the name of a Cortz, be funk in evyerlafting obliviony
vrhile such more resent, superior cruelties bear awaf the
palm, in the history of théir rapine and cruelty. (though
many worthy jndividuals of that body no doubt ought to
be excused from the general imputation.) =« = | S
_ %We applaud the solemnity of the noble Viiiginians and
Philadelphians in their religious observance of that, memo
rable firft day of June ; we approve their opinions and fen~
timents as to the threatned calamities and dangers impend
ing America : As also the Maryland resolves, with the
others; by many worthy.towns.and bodies, of people in. this
and the neighbouring provinces. . We only wish there may
be no gelay in appointing time and place for a general con
gress, which can only give union, firmenefs and flability to
the whole. We impatiently’ wait for injured Boston to
give the lead in that appointment. Piovidence has no
doubt put irito olf hands the means to work out our tem=
poral salvation; which has been repeatedly fuggefled. Let
us, dear fellow Americans, for a few years at lcaft abandon
that narrow contrated principle of abftraét felf love, which
is the source. of every vice, Let us for once feel for our
country and poffesitys . Let our. hearts expand and" dilate
with the noble and generous feptiments of benevolence,
though attended with the feyere Virtue of feif denial, . The
blessings of Heaven attendirig, Amcrica is fayed. Genera-=
tions yet unborn will rife and call you blefled, and the pre
sent gencration will (by future) to the latest period of
American glory, be celcbrated and extolled, as the happy
nftruments, under God, of delivering millions from thral
dom and [lavery, and securing permanent fieedom and
liberty to America. |.O L e Mg - ®
“ We canpot close this meeting withou exprefling our.
utmost abhorrence and Betéﬁatim} of those few in a devoted .
province, filing themselves, ministers, merchants, barristers.
and Attornies; whd have against the sense and opinion of
the rest of that extensive gqvernment; as alfothis vast con='
tinent, diftinguithed themselves in their late fawning, adu
lating address to Governor Hutchinson, the scourge of the
province, which gave him bLirth, ard the pest of America."
His principles and conduét, evidenced by his letters, and
those under his approbation, aie so repléte” with treason
against his country, and with the meanness of fclfexaltation
as cannot be palliated by 2rt, nor difzuiied by fubtilty,
“«¢ In general we esteem those addrefiesa high handed- in
sult on the town of Boston, and.the province of the Maf=.
fachufetts-Bay in particular, and alt the Ametican colonies
in general. Those fliled merchants may plead their pro
found ignorance of the constitutional rights of Englithmen,
as.an excuse in some degreé; But for those who flile them--
selves barristers and attornies, they have ‘either assumed a
falfe character, 6r they must in some measure be acquainted
with the constitutional rights of Englishmen, and those of
their own'province. For them to present such an address
is a daring affornt to common sense, a high ‘infult on all
others of the profeffion, and treason against liw. And from
that learned profeffion, v.ho dre supposed to be well acquaint~
ed ‘with the Englith constitution, and have the best meansy
and are under the greatest advantages, to defend the rights
of the fubjeCts, and who havé Been famed as the greatest
supporters of English liberties, for any of them to make 2
facrifice of all, to their pagod of vanity and Milfome adula
tion, is mean, vile and unpardonable; and cannot be accounted
. for tpon dny other principles, but those of their master who
would facrifice his country to become the indépendant head
of a refpe€table province, and the few leaders of this infa
mous law band would it seems give their aid and support
therein tb obtain the firft. places in his new kingdom: The
addrefling clergy we leave to she reproaches of their ows
consciences, but lament to find they are the firft in their
ignominious homage to their idol. LY ]
. “ The foregoing is a true copy tiken from Windham
town records. $ Vg (L EE X :
¢ Attest, . SAamutr Grav. Town-Clerk.”
DUNCAN INGRAHAM, jun.
. At his’ Store in »Uriilohv—ﬂrect;, Bbﬁqn, : ..
HA’S now on hand ah affértment of EU
ROPEAN ‘GOODS, which he will fell at a very.
moderate profit for Cash, Wholesale and Retail. -
‘N:B. A quantity of Raven’s DUCK,
and a few boxes of 23 inch PIPES. -
SUSANNA RENKEN,
Informs her Cuftomers.dnd others,
THAT she has removed from Fore-flreet,
L _to a little above the Hay-Market, where he has for
Sale; 4 variety of S
- Erklihafl Thiin OOD S
Groceries of all forts, Weft-India and New-England Rum.
A FaWW excellent, T UR T L E;
: ' just imported from New-Providence,
ittt < dAnd fold very ¢heags -
At OTIS’s Store, Merchants-Row, No. 2.
With many other articles too tedious to enumerate,
; By Wholesale and Retail., : y
o 3 ¥ PO M, S WDA R s
TWO Crates of elegant Cream penciled
Ware, oni¢ craté of Galley Pots, several Bags, Spikes,
Deek: and Sheathing Nails of different sizes, fix barrels off
Darham Mustard in quarter pound bottles, a few boxes 18
inch'tipt Pipes; one Case of Hats from Beaver to Felts, with
a few Pipes and Qxﬁter Casks of Fyal Wines, to be fold
Cheap by WILLIA HOSKINS. ‘ S s
STOLEN from the subscriber on the goth
of June last, 2 white spotted MARE, ten years old, a
bout fotirteen hands and an half high, 4 small mane and taily
with one of her sere hoofs split. Whoever shall take the
thief and_Mare {hall have TEN DOLLARS reward, and
for the Mareonly, Six Dolfars. -~ ... -
Cambridge, Fuly 45 1774...- ERENEZER BRADISH.
’ l ‘HIS is to forewarn all persons from
trusting MARY,, the wife of the Subscriber, as she
has' eloped from my bed and board, and behaved in a very
unbecoming mannet : I will pay no debts of her contracte
ing from the daté hereof. a 2
- Bofion, Faly 4, 1774 BENJAMIN RO,
R U N away from the {ubicriber on
Monday last a NEGRO MAN, who goes by the
name of Charles Peiril: He is small of fatare, remarkdble
white skin for 4 negro, pittéd with the fimall pox, 'about 27
years of age, and very talkative :» Had on whest he weng
away, arf old hat, check shirt, a blue jacket, and long firiped:
trowfers. Whoever takes up the said Negro, and will bring.
or ferid him' to mie, thall have T'&o Dollars reward, and all
negeffary charges paidé ISAIAH THOMAS.
Sam LE L Gray, Town-Clerk.”