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The King, 'tis said, has intimated his intenti
tions of doing something on the birth of his tenth
child that will make his fubjeds ever anxious to
commemorate the happy day. What it is to be,
is yet unknown.
As Mr. Wilkes will go to the House upon the
i„h infant to demand his feat, he will be at
tended with upwards of 2000 freemen.
Feb. 8. Yesterday there y/as a levee at St.
James's, and afterwardsa Privy Council, at which
the Lord Chancellor, the Arrthbifhop of Canter
bury, Lord North, the Earls Gower, Rochford,
Sandwich, Dartmouth, Lord Hyde, &c. wero
prefept, which broke up at three o'clock.
The new Morocco Ambassador was yesterday
presented to his Majesty at St. James's, being in
troduced by the Master of the Ceremonies.
Feb. 12 Yesterday evening an express was re
ceived at the Secretary of State's Office from
America, which was immediately sent to his
Majesty, on which account Lord North was sent
for to the Queen's Palace.
The Arabella, from South-Carolina to Belfaft,
took re at sea, by some accident, the 14th of
I ecember, and burnt to the water's edge. The
Captain and crew were saved.
Feb. 14. I hey write from Vienna that the
Prince of Rohan has not appeared at Court since
the 25th of Jan. audit is believed there that he
will not go till the return of the Courier he
sent to France
Extrafi o' a letter from the Hague, Feb. 7.
“ The Marquis de Noailles has received by
express from Paris his nomination to the embaf
ly of England ; the next day he dispatched a
courier to his court. Most part of the people
believe that the Marquis is not inclined to ac
cept of it, unless ordered by the King his mas
ter propria pungo.
We hear that a great number of the Freehold
ers of Middlesex intend to wait on Mr. Wilkes,
in Prince's Court, to-morrow at 12 o'clock at
noon, to escort him to the House of Commons.
To-morrow the question relative to the Shorten
ing the duration of Parliaments, it is believed,
will undergo a very full difeuffion in the House
of Commons.
Daniel Chamier, Esq; of Baltimore Town, in
Maryland, is appointed Commissary of stores and
provisions in America, in the room of Robert
Leake, Esq; deceased.
The two grand questions to be decided in Coun
cil or in Parliament, with refpefl to America, are
these, —" Whether each of about thirty assemblies
are to be left to tax themselves, judging of the
proportionate sums each for themselves without
Itipulation of the British Legislature ?" (which
they contend for ;) or, “ Whether they are to co
operate by representation, in the British Parlia
ment, in assessing themselves?"
Feb. 15. Yesterday there Was but a thin levee
at St. James's; after it was over, Lords Sand
wich, Dartmouth, and Townshend had a long
conference with his Majesty.
Extras of a letter from the Hague, Feb. 8.
“ The last letters from the banks of the Da
nube seem to intimate more than ever the delire of
the Turks to make peace, and go lo far as to fay,
that the Porte has sent a perlon of rank to the
Ruffian head quarters, to treat with the Field-Mar-
Ihal Romanzow upon this fubje&.
The Morning Star, Dempfter, from Maryland
to London, is loft at the back of the Isle of Wight ;
the greatest part of the cargo it is thought will be
saved.
Feb. 16. The American Mutiny Bill is brought
into the Lower Assembly.
Last night a courier was dispatched from the
Secretary of State's Office to the Courts of Ber
lin and Madrid.
Should an Armament be sent against the Ame
ricans, 'tis not improbable but it may meet with a
similar fate with the I—- C—'s Tea, viz. some
funk, some burnt, and some sent back for a better
errand.
From Paisley we learn, that about 500 manu
facturers are preparing to embark immediately for
America, as they can find no employment at
home.
Mr. Wilkes attended yesterday at the door of the
House of Commons, but was refufed admittance.
Feb. 18. As the following paragraph comes from
an anonymous correspondent, the reader mill give
Jo much credit to it as it may be thought worthy of:
IFe are told that Mr. Rotch omner, and Capt. Hall,
Master, of the Dartmouth, one of the tea Jbips
lately arrived from Boston, mith federal gentlemen
passengers, chiefly natives of New-England, also Dr.
IFilliawfen of Philadelphia, mere on Wednesday ex
amined at Lord Dartmouth's office concerning the tea
riots. From this circumfiance it is probable that
Amerian affairs mill foots become thefubjeft of serious
speculation, whence they may also become the fubjett
of serious ahlion.
The Empress of Russia and the King of Swe
den, me' 'bear, have offered themselves as sponsors
for the next-born royal infant.
Feb. IQ. The Lords on Thursday received and
read a firft time the bill for the better regulation
of his Majesty's marine forces when on Shore.
Extract of a letter from Stockholm, fan. 22.
" His Majesty, willing to intoduce the fine
arts in this country, has ordered, that an acade
my of music be erected here, which is to be open
ed for the public. He has granted a lottery to be
drawn twice every year, the revenue of which
shall be employed to the support of that academy.
The society have put a question, Whether th^
encouragement of the lewd spirit of gambling be
not more detrimental to the date, than ever it
could be benefited by the success of the fine
arts?
“ The report of a diet to be summoned early
in the spring is entirely falfe; and it seems as if
none would ever be summoned again in this king
dom, as the despotic power encreafes more and
more."
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Feb. 22. Last Friday came on to be heard at
Serjeant's Inn, Chancery-lane, before ^aron Per
rot, Justice Willes, and Doctors Ducarel, Cal
vert and Compton, a cause of appeal, brought
from the Vice Admiralty Court of Newfoundland,
to the High Court of Admiralty of England, and
from thence to the Delegates, by James Summers,
master and claimant of the ship Betsey, and of the
cargo on beard the fame, consisting of Teas, which
was seized by the commander of one of his Ma
jesty's fliips, for having an erazed cocket on board;
when the Judges reversed the decree of the two
courts below, and restored the ship and cargo to
the owners.
Feb. 23. The Committee appointed to confider
of the Jamaica free ports, made their report and
came to a resolution, viz. that the continuance of
the free ports in the island of Jamaica for a fur
ther time will be highly beneficial to the trade of
this kingdom. To be reported this day.
Resolved, to go into a Committee to-morrow,
to confider of the exportation of peafe and bifeuit
to Newfoundland-.
It is said that the extra expetice of the fleet, du
ring his Majesty's review at Portsmouth, stands
charged in the navy accounts at 49831. 17s.
Letters from the Lower Elbe, dated the Bth
inst. advise, that they have received intelligence
from Russia, that the seditious increase daily in
numbers, and that they are computed by many
to amount to 100,000, but others fay they do not
exceed 40,000. These letters add, that couriers
had been sent to the allied courts, and that a
neighbouring one had given for answer, that they
were resolved to furnifh to Russia the fuccours
stipulated by treaty, provided they would previ
ously return the provinces which had been obli
ged to be ceded by the treaty of Neuftadt.
Monday an express arrived at Gofport, for the
Rose to go into dock, to fit out with all expedi
tion for the American station.
Last week failed from Clyde, the Commerce,
Ferguson, for New-York, with about 25® emi
grants, all of whom are under 45 years of age,
and principally consist of weavers, spinsters, black
smiths, joiners, shoemakers, taylors, hatters, and
farmers.
Extraß of a letter from Haerlcm, Feb. I 1.
*' A public paper received here from the fron
tiers of Poland, gives us the following intelligence:
“ We are not yet certain who is the adventu
rer who takes on himfelf the name of Peter 111.
It is said he is at the head of 100,000 men, as
well Cossacks as Calmucs, and has made himfelf
master of the regiment of Orenbourg. General
Bibikow, who was sent to reduce the rebels to rea
son, is said to have been obliged by his own troops
to submit to the chief of the mutineers, and to
pay him homage, to save his life. This pretend
ed Peter exprefles himfelf in his manifeftoes in a
most tender and insinuating manner ; he declares
he'has no pretensions himfelf to the crown, but
does all for his dear child, the Grand Duke Paul,
whom he declares to be the only legitimate heir.
He difeharges the people from all their late imposts,
and declares that as loop as he has placed the
crown on the head of him to whom it of right be
longs, he shall retire to a dirtant convent, and end
his days in peace."
This morning an express arrived with some dis
patches from Lord Viscount Stormont, and ano
ther from Sir Joseph Yorke, at the Hague; the
last is said to contain some disagreeable accounts
received from a northern court.
The death of the Grand Seignor will probably
make a great change in the present posture of af
fairs. It is said that the Empress carried on the
war with the greater vigour, having been irritated
by some expressions which were said to have fallen
from the Grand Seignor just before the beginning
of the war ; be that as it may, the risings in Rus
sia, and the late ill success of the Ruffians against
Siliftria, may incline both parties to think of
peace, more especially if the Empress Should low
er a little in her demands.
The fourth regiment of foot on the Irilh estab
lishment, which are to be embarked at Corke, are
said to be defined two for Boston, one for Vir
ginia, and one for South-Carolina.
It is talked, that several fail of the line and fix
frigates are to rendezvous at Spithead the 12th
of April, and to have their full complement of
marines on board.
Extract of a letter from Worcefler, Feb. 20.
“ The contest for a Member is carried on very
warmly. The city votes are much in favour of
Sir Watkin, but the friends of Mr. Lechmere
apprehend, that through the influence of the coun
try Gentlemen in the neighbourhood, the out
votes will turn the scale so far as to secure the
election. The poll stood on Saturday evening as
follows:
For Sir Watkin Lewes, —. — 400
For N. Lechmere, Esq; —— 400
“ There are about 700 more to poll, so that
the election will finifh by Wednelday next. Both
parties are in high spirits ; and business is conduc
ed with great regularity and decorum, no feafting
or revelling being allowed."
From the Public Advertiser, January 29.
To z/vEarl of DARTMOUTH.
My Lord,
TH E report to be made, upon the petition
from the House of Representatives of the
Maffachufets Bay against their Governors, will
have so decisive an influence on the people of
that province, that I feel myfelf compelled to
address your Lordship on the fubjeft.
A difeovery is made, by letters under their
own hands, that the Governor and Lieutenant
Governor had been secretly labouring to subvert
the chartered rights of the colony, to fubjed rhe
people to arbitrary Government, and subdue
them by military force. It appeared, that to
accomplish these ends, they had painted the pro
ceedings of the people in the most falfe and odi
ous colours; forging falfehoods where misre
presentations would not fuffice.
All this was conducted under the cloak of se
cret and confidential correspondence, that the
mifehief might come upon them unforefeen, the
causes unknown, and the authors undiscovered.
The people were to be the victims of a secret
information —they were to be condemned with
out being heard, and punished with the heaviest
of all calamities, the loss of their rights and li
berties, without being apprized of the accusa
tion, or a possibility of defence.
The persons who planned and executed this
attrocious, and (for upon principles it cannot
be deemed less) this treasonable conspiracy
against the constitution, stipulated their expect
ations of reward.
It was natural that this difeovery should exas
perate the people to an extreme. They saw, in
the persons of those who were thus planning
their deftruftion, men bound to them by all the
ties of fellow-citizens, and the obligations of
gratitude: Men who had been long cherished,
trusted, and honoured among them, and who
had always profeffed the molt zealous attach
ment, which virtue and gratitude could inspire,
to their rights and interests. This was more
especially the case of their Chief Governor, who
was, at that very time, pradifing every art to
fix in the minds of the people an exalted opinion
of his warmest affection for them, and of his
unremitting endeavours to promote their belt in
terests at the Court of Great Britain. They
saw besides in the mode of this attempt against
them something peculiarly malignant. The
Ministry were fufficiently disposed to adopt every
severity against them. Governor Bernard and
the Commissioners were fufficient to keep up
their prejudices and passions. To poison the
minds of those in opposition, and by that means
to deprive the people of every benefit, either
from the efforts of that opposition, or from a
change of administration, was the diabolical
plan of Mr. Hutchinson and Mr. Oliver.
Had the popular indignation been followed
by the most immediate and tragical confequtn
ces, no one could have been furprized. Hap
pily, however, the very men, whom the Gover
nors had afperfed as the sowers of sedition and
promoters of outrage, prevailed upon them to
trust to his Majesty's justice for redress. For
this purpose the House of Representatives have
in humble petition, implored his Majedy's in
tervention to remove these men, because they
have loft all trurt and confidence with the peo
ple. It is this prayer to which you are now to
advise an answer.
It is well worth considering, my Lord, what
will be the consequence of an ungracious, irri
tating answer. For some years part the people
of America, and those of Boston in particular,
have been abused, misrepresented, and oppress
ed, beyond the example of the worst of times.
They have seen, for a series of years, every re
presentation against them received, every appli
cation for them rejected. When the authors of
the secret informations, which tended to bring
upon them the displeasure of their Sovereign,
the resentment of Parliament, and to sub
vert their liberties, were providentially disco
vered, and their representations proved falfe and
wicked, the consequence has invariably been the
encouragement and reward of those so detected.
The difeovery of Governor Bernard's falfe and
malignant letters, with the frauds he commit
ted in his office, served only to make him a Ba.
ronet with what is equivalent to an enormous
pension. Mr. Oliver was charged upon the
oaths of several of his Majesty's Council, and by
their unanimous resolution, with a most danger
ous breach of trust, in having forged minutes of
their board, and authenticated them on oath for
the purpose ofjuftifying a Mafocre committed
by a licentious soldiery, and to throw the blame
of it upon the people. What was the conse
quence ? Not punishment, but promotion. The
people saw, with astonishment and horror, this
very man, thus stigmatized l, immediately pro
moted to be their Lieutenant Governor.
These are fads, my Lord, of public notoriety:
They are fads which, speaking to stones, would
make them capable. Rewards have followed
crimes as constantly as light the fun. Promotion
and emolument in America have been exactly
proportioned to men's perfidy to the people, and
their avowed enmity to their immediate country.
No people can be so dull as not to feel these in
juries—no people can be so pusillanimous as not
to resent them. Reiterated oppressions, detec
tions, complaints and disappointments, have
worked up men's minds to the highest pitch of
resentment and despair. The measure is now
full, one drop more may make the waters of
bitterness overflow, to the deftruftion of the
most valuable commerce of this country, and
the irreparable injury of the whole dominion.
The people of the Maffachufets Bay have aik
ed humbly, and waited patiently for justice,
against Mr. Hutchinson and Mr. Oliver. That
the Tax was artfully thrown in to irritate and
incense them to violence was not their fault.
Infamous, inimical and odious as the Governors
have rendered themselves, they have been fuf
fered to ileep in fecurity^ A confidence in his
Majesty's jultice—a hope that the eyes of his
Ministers would be at length opened—have sus
pended their resentment. In my opinion, my
Lord, this is the last effort of expectation and
endurance.
I have not yet heard a denial or publication
of the letters upon which their petition is found
ed. Butit has been said that the letters cannot
be admitted as evidence, unless the manner in
which they were obtained be declared. This
rule of evidence is of thejfirft impression. and as
rational as it is new. We ought at least to be
I See Proceedings in bis Majefy's Council at
Boston, Oft. 4, 1770.
told in what book of evidence it is to be found;
in what court, in what case it was ever urged or
admitted.
Governor Hutchinson has acknowledged in
his answer to an address from the Council, that
some of the letters bear his signature. They
stand therefore as matter of record, the verity of
which cannot be affeded by the manner in which
they were obtained Not that I have heard it
even insinuated by any reputable person that
they were procured by any undue means. It
seems, therefore, that the objection is not that
they were unfairly obtained, but that idle, per
haps impertinent curiosity is not gratified by
knowing how they were procured.
When a noble Lord, for so his patent obliges
me to call him, produced the Essay on Woman,
in the House of Peers, was any inquiry made in
to the manner of procuring it ? On the contrary
though it was soon proved that the mode of ob
taining it was in violation of all honesty and
good faith, did not both Houses of Parliament
proceed to the fevered censure, and the Court
of King's Bench to the heaviest judgment against
the ortenfible author upon the evidence of that
essay so flagitioufly obtained ? And are we now
to be told that the malefaftions ofMr. Hutchin
son and Mr. Oliver shall escape punishment up
on this pretence r
I have dwelt too long upon an objeflior, ut
terly contemptible, and which, but for the
high and dangerous tendency of it, would not
merit a moment's consideration.
My Lord, the single question is, Whether
men, who have rendered themselves universally
obnoxious to the people, shall be continued in
authority over them? To determine in the af
firmative, is to set the fentimen's cf the people
in defiance. Is there any man so wicked as to
wish, or so weak as to exped, that a govern
ment, conducted on such principles, would be
secure or lading ? The folly of government may
be sometimes forgiven, its injustice never. But
when folly and injustice unite it mud be odious,
weak and contemptible. A little time, my
Lord, will shew that government, in the hands
of obnoxious men, is too arbitrary, too incon
fident with the genius of the people, to be long
indured. No reasoning can reconcile them, no
force can subdue them to it. It is juitite only
that can ensure submission. For as Judge Black
done observes, "It is found by experience,
that whenever the unconstitutional epprefiions,
even of the Sovereign power, advance v/ith gi
gantic strides, and threaten desolation to a date,
mankind will not be reasoned out of the feeling,
of humanity, nor will facrifice their liberty by
a scrupulous adherence to those political max
ims, which were originally eftabli&d to pre -
serve it."
My Lord, an attempt to establish Government
in America, by military force, must be ulti
mately fatal to this country. It will commence
in folly and injudice—it will end in distress and
humiliation.
RALEIG H.
PHILADELPHIA, @7 18.
On Saturdaylaft arrived here from South-Ca
rolina, General Roepftorff, late Commander in
Chief at St. Croix, accompanied by Capt. llange.
Capt. All, from London, left the Downs the
27th ofFebruary, in company with Capt. Faulkner,
for this port, and Captains Miller, Chambers,
and Lawrence for New-York.—With Capt. All,
came passengers, Mr. James Potts, Mr. Richard
Vaux, and Mr. Henry Davidson.
At a Court of Oyer and Terminer held here
on Monday last, the following persons received sen
tence of death, viz. James Swaine, for murder
ing his wife, a mulatto woman for murdering
her child, Barnaby Ripton, for counterfeiting
money, Joseph Price, Janies Hambleton, Rich
ard Birch, 1 homas Stephens, and Conrad Foun
der for Burglary.
Suddenly departed this life, on Monday even
ing last, Mr. JOSEPH FRAZER, of this
city—ln the course of his various dealings, he
always supported an honest upright character—
His family and friends greatly lament his loss.
On Thursday last died after a short illness, Miss
JAMES, daughter of A B e l J a m e s, Esq;
Merchant of this city.—The sweetness of this
amiable young lady's disposition, greatly endeared
her to all her connexions, and her piety in this
life entitles her to happiness hereafter.
§*§ Advertisements, &. omitted this ^eek, Jhall
be inserted in our next.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA.
Inward Entries.
Snow Harmony, J. Cliffton, Surrinam.
Brig Peggy, S. Wilson, Cadiz.
Brig Harriot, J. Club, Barcelona.
Brig Ann, J. Chatham, Cadiz.
Brig George, J. Wilson, Madeira.
Brig Lowther, M. Power, Barbadoes.
Sloop Peggy and Betsey, D. Ferguson, New-York.
Schooner Delaware, B. Goodhue, Salem, N. E.
Brig Prince of Wales, T. Mason, South Carolina.
Schooner Betsy, E. Rogers, Boston.
Ship Morris, T. Bell, South- Carolina.
Sloop Industry, T. Hutchings, Bermuda.
Ship Richard Penn, J. All, London.
Brig Union, J. M'Kever, Dominica,
Brig Monmouth, L. Devonshire. Hispaniola.
Outwards.
Ship Rebecca and Susanna, R. Caffon, Cadiz.
Sloop Fanny, W. Allibone, Dominica.
Brig Hope, J. Potts, Dominica.
Ship Morris, T. Bell, Cadiz.
Brig George, J. Wilson, Lisbon.
Sloop Industry, T. Hutchins, Bermuda.
Schooner Betsy, E. Rogers, Boston.
Cleared.
Siio Centurion, W. Kerlin, Lisbon.
Brig Venus, P. Barry, Jamaica.
Sloop Hannah, A. Lowell, Pifcataqua.
Sloop Potowmac, G. Rowe, Maryland.
Sloop Dolphin, L. Church, Boston.
Sloop Betsy, J. Kerr, Jamaica.
Brig Hope, ]. Potts, Jamaica.