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Other persons who (hall presume to kill or offer for
- fale,a (heep of any fort,after the zCth of last month;
By several veifeis arrived at Salem, and New- York,
from London,- Since our last, we havelntelli
genee to the 19th of August. The follow
ing few paragragraphs are collected from the Pa
per s, viz.
L O N D O N.
August 6. The Colonies of North America are of
greater importance to the wealth and strength of this
country, than people who are not thoroughly ac
quainted therewith, imagine, though they have
been called loads and burdens by the Ministry. A
stranger to thier greatness and trade, would be sur
prised to fee their ports and harbours in time of
peace, crowded with vessels from all parts of the
world. In times of distress, vi'hat relief have they
not afforded us from their plenteous granaries? The
Weft-India Islands are almost entirely supplied by
them with every treasure of life, and materials for
the manufacturing ahd chring their ccmmoditiee.
August 8. it is said that Governor Hutchinson
has had several conferences with his Majesty, since
’the arrival of the late advices from Boft n.
The ftilecf the Boftohians in their address to Ge
neral Gage, together with his answer to their ad
dress, is very alarming to the trading parr of this
kingdom, as it seems not to indicate that mild' dis
position on either fide, which was heartily wilhed
for by every true friend to this country.
bus and alarming situation of public affairs in this
Province, and to consult and determine on such
measures as they (hall judge will tend to promote
the true interest of his Majesty in the peace, welfare,
and prosperity of the Province.
Copyatieft., Benja. Lincoln, Clerk.
A Provincial Congress beingthus formed, and
having chosen JOHN HANCOCK, Chairman,
and BENJAMIN LINCOLN, Clerk, they ad
journed to the Court-House in Concord, there to
meet on the eleventh day of Oftober instant, at tcii
o’clock in the forenoon.
We hear that the number of Representatives front
the several towns which met at Salem lad week,
•amounted to 90.
BOSTON, October 13.
Yesterday the Rose Inan of War arrived here front
Newfoundland, with troops.
We hear that there has been considerable com
motion in Halifax^ concerning Tea, and that several
Justices of the Peace have loft their commiflions. We
cannot collect any particulars relative to this affair.
The people of the country are very desirous of
having a lift of all those merchants and (hopkeepers
who have imported Britilh merchandize into this pro
vince since the 31st of August last, contrary to the
non-consumption covenant ; they also intreat that
the names of those persons may be handed to them,
Who (hall purchase any kind of goods, of such im
porters.
We are informed that the courts have been pre
vented setting in Barnftable, Plymouth and Nantuc
ket, and we loon expert an account of the proceed
ings.
N E W - Y O R K, (Thursday) Odober 13.
AT a Meeting of the Importers of Goods from
Great-Britain, to take into Consideration the
Diffatisfadion that has already appeared, upon the
Advance of divers Articles, some of them the real
Necessaries of Life : And being determined, as far
as in us lies, to preserve the Peace of the City, we
think it necessary, in Order to remove the Cauie lor
any future Murmurings, to make the following De
claration :
That we will not, from the Apprehension of a
Non-importation Agreement, put any unreasonable
Advance upon our Goods ; and, when such an A
greement fliall have taken Place, we will continue
to fell them for a moderate Profit, and no more.
That we will do our utmost todifeourage all Engroff
ers, and Persons who buy up Goods with a View of
creating an artificial Scarcity, thereby to obtain a
more plausible Pretext for enhancing the Prices.
That if any Retailer, or other Person, should, by
a contrary Condud, endeavour to defeat these our
good intentions, we willy as one Man, decline dealing
with him, and (hall confider him or them as the Au
thor or Authors of all the Diftiirbances thatlhall be
consequent thereupon.
Signed, by Order of a large Number of Importers,
met at the Exchange,
HENRY REMSEN.
Ordered, That the above Declaration bepublilhed
in all the News-papers.
We hear that five thousand French regulars,have
been lately landed at the illand of Hispaniola, from
Old France.
This Morning his Majesty’s 47th Regiment, and
Part of the Royal Irish, will embark on board the
Tranfpors, and fail direfftly for Boston. The Re
mainder of the Royal Irish, we are informed, will be
stationed here for the ensuing Winter.
We are informed by a Gentleman from Winches
ter in Virginia, that the inhabitants have entered
into associations to difcouritenahce all butchers or
Thefrelh Proclamation issued by General Gage,
fe£ms as if his inftruflions were to can y .every thing
in America with a high hand. . , .
The Ministry are determined to (hew. ho want
of spirit against the Americans.---’7 is pity fays a
correipondent, they were not more tenacious or
the national honour against Our natural enemy,
from whom they have borne every alarming depre
dation without complaint. .
A large quantity of mooring chains, ground swi
vels, and other furniture, proper fer (ecuring his
Majesty’s (hips of war in the harbours and rOads,
are ordered to be (hipped oft for North America.
August 10. The affairs of America are every day
snore and more embarraffmg to the Minifty. Ihe
union among the Colonies is very alarming to them.
Force attempted against one Colony, will be re
sented as force attempted against the whole ; and
as the people on that fide the Atlantic are growing
rich, they in proportion grow sturdy and resolute,
Orders hate been given for a farther confioerabie
body of troops to be held in readiness for embarka
tion to North America.
August 11. Some accounts of a very alarming na
ture, are said to have been received by the Minis
try, concerning the conduct of the Americans.
It is privately whifpfercd that within these few
days, some very disagreeable things have passed be
tween our Ministers and the Dutch Ambaflador,
concerning some late tranfaflions in America;
which have been hithej to concealed from the pub
lic eye.
We hear it is unuer consideration, to raise a re
giment in the province of Canada, to be called the
Royal Canadians, which are to be officered chiefly
by natives of that province.
Thursday night a Prussian courier said to be a
person of great diftinftion, arrived at St. James's
witn some dispatches from his Majesty the King of
Prufiia, which were immediately transmitted to Kew.
August 12, We hear that several transports ar*
Contracted for, to carry forces to America. A corre
spondent fays, it would have (hewn more wisdom in
government, not lo have made it necessary to have
lent any forces there at all.
The two following paragraphs are fuppofe'd to be writ
ten by fohn Mein, in London, viz.
,e A correspondent fays,that among ail the cabal
ling of the Righteous Of Boston, and elsewhere in
the Massachusetts &c. nothing appears in their re
solutions in regard to the payment of the tea they
plundered and destroyed ; hence he observes may
be known, what an admirable assembly of knaves &
traitors have been lately, grouped together on some
late patriotic occasions.”
“ The fame correfponderit adds that the patriots
may make themselves easy in regard to the naked
poles on Temple bar, which they have made such
rout about lately,—as in all probility they will be
soon decorated with some of the patriotic noddles of
the Boston faints.”
The people of America are unanimous in their
resolutions never to submit to taxation ; and govern
ment is now strangely embarrassed how to withdraw,
with any degree of credit, their necks from these
now impolitic ftecltraps.
August 16. A gentleman lately arrived from Qu
ebec assures us,that when he was there the protestants
were obliged to exercise their religion in secret for
fear of the resentment of the Roman Catholics.
What then can we expect will be the fate of the poor
proteftants,under the late famous or rather infamous
Quebec bill, which We are insultingly told, “ is
founded on the clearest principles of jtiftice and
humanity ?”
One of our Monarchs (probably net King George
the fecorid) is said to have been exceedingly offended
on finding the following lines, written with a pencil,
in one of the Pavilions of Richmond Garden : They
seem intended for a Parody of the famous Epitaph
upon King Charles, by Wilmot Earl ofßochefter :
God blefsour b----p making King •
But fend us soon a new one 1
To do perchance a generous Thing,
And sometimes speak a true one. Merlin.
N E W - H A V E N, October 14.
Yefterdaythe GENERAL ASSEMBLY of this
Colony, met in this Town.
A Roll of the Representatives of the several Tiwns in this
Colony, returned to frve in the General Assembly, holden
at New-Haven, on the zd Thursday of October 177
HARTFORD COUNTY.
Hartford; Col. John Pitkin, Capt. Thomas Seymour.
Windsor, Capt. Josiah Biffel, Mr. Oliver Ellfwoi'th.
Simjbury, CbLJona. Pettibone, Col Jona. Humphry.
Eaft-A'indfor, Mr.Wm.Wolcott, Maj.Eraft. Wolcott.
Glaftenbury,C^pt. Jona. Welles, Mr. Eben. Plummer.
Suftield, Mr. AlexahderKing, Capt. Abraham Granger.
Wether field, Capt. Tho’s Balding, Mr. Silas Deane.
Middletown, Mr.Matthew Talcot, Mr. TitUs Hofmer.
Willington, Mr. Moses Holmes, Mr. Elijah Fenton.
Tolland, Mr. Samuel Cobb, Mr. Eleazer Steel.
Haddam, Col. Hez. Brainbrd, Capt. Joseph Brooks.
Bolton, Capt. Joel White, Capt. Benjamin Talcott.
Somers, Mr. Zerah Kibby, Mr. Reuben Sikes.
Chatham, Ms. David Sage, Capt. Silas Dunham-
Eud-Haddam,Nlr^^x^.z-eS , Mr. Jabc z c hapm^.
ColcheftcrfNkf. Henry Champion,Mr. John V. atrous.
Stafork, Mr. Josiah Converse, Mr. Jufnva h viler.
E,fteld,Ur. Edward Collins, Mr. Nath’l. lerry.
Fammngton, Col. John Strong. C>pt. Mflier^Gay.
Hebron, Capt. Daniel Ingrah?m;Mr.Ol ed.Hoisford.
NEW-HAVEN CCUNi'Y.
W£ W -Z/^n;,Mr.Samuelßifliop,Mr.Jolhnaa^^^
D«rZvw;,CoLElihuChauncy,Maj.JdmesWac^^
Derby, Capt. John Wooster, Mr. James Beard.
Branford, Mr. Edward Ruffei, Mr. Dame Page.
Guilford, Mr. JohnEurgis, Capt. Ancrew Ward.
^fc/W.Mr.OliverStanlv, Capt.Reub.Atwater.
Waterbury, Mr. jofeph Hopkins,Capt Jona.Baldwm.
Milford, Capt. John Fowles Maj. David Baldwin.
NEW-LONDON COUNTY.
Nevc-Undon, Mi. Richard Law,Mr. Wm.Hillhoufe.
Norwich', Mr; Benja. Huntington, Mr. Isaac 1 - <.c t
Stonington, Maj. Charles Phelps, Mr. Si.m. Prentice.
Say-Brook, Mr. Szln.-Eield, Mr. Wm. Worthmglcn,
Preftcn, Mr. P.cbert Crary, Capt: James Morgan.
Lyme, Mr. John Lay, zd. Mr. Ezra Stiffen,
Killingworth, Capt. Elnathan Stevens.
Mr. Hezekiah Lane.
Gr'ctcn, Mr. Tho’s Mumford, Mr. Stephen Billings.
FAIRFIELD COUNTY.^
Fairfield, Mr. Jonathan Sturges, Capt. Sam. Sqriic.
Stratford, Capt. P,ob. Fairchil I, Capt. Dan. Judfor..
Reading, Mr. Lemuel Sanford, Mr. William Hawley.
Greenwich, Capt. John Mead, Mr. Peter Me. ; d.
Stanford, Maj.-David Waterbury, Maj. Charles Wei 1.
Danbury, Col. Joseph P.Cook,Capt.’Daniel Taylor.
£A^^,Col.Philipßurrßradley,Mr.Sam.O:mftead
Norwalk, Mr. Tho’s Belding, Mr. Thaddeus Betts.
Newtown.Cr^>t. Henry Glovur, Crpt. Peter Ni;hols.
NcwFairfield, M rZacheusT owner, Mr Alex. Fairchild
WINDHAM COUNTY.
Windham, Maj. JedidiahElderkin, Mr.Nath.Wales,
Lebanon, Col. William Williams, Speaker.
Mr. Jonathan Trufrlbtill jtin’t.
Canterbury, Mr. Soloman Pain, Mr.Eliafhib Adams;
Pomfret, Mr. Thomas Williams, Mr. Eliiha Lord.
Woodstock, Mr. Caleb May, Capt. Timothy Pert yn.
Coventry, Capt. Eben. Kingibury, Mr. Jere. Ri} ley,
Mansfield, Mr. Constant SoiithWorth,
Capt. Experience StorrS.
Plainfield, Capt. Isaac Coit, Maj. John Douglass.
Voluntown, Mr. James Gordon, Mr. Robert Hunter.
Killingley, Mr. Simon Learned, Mr. Benj. Leavens.
Afford, Capt.R enj aminS u m nex, M r IEI i(h a Whi ton.
LITCHFIELD COUNTY.
Litchfield, Mr.JedidiaK Strong, Capt. David Welch.
New-Hartford-, Capt. Matt. Gillet,Capt.Seth Smith.
Sharon, Maj. Ebenezer Gay, Mr. James Pardee,
Salisbury, Col. Jo(h,ua Porter, Mr. Hezbkiah Fitch.
Kent. Mr. Ephraim Hubbel, Capt, JtiftUs Sacker.
Woodbury, Mr. Daniel Sherman,Mr. IncreafeMofely.
Gojhen, Col. Ebenezer Norton,Capt.Edmund Beach.
Harwinton, Capt. John Wilifon,Mr. Josiah Phelps.
New-Milford, Capt. Samuel Canfield,
Capt. Sher. Boardman.
Torrington, Maj.Epaph. Sheldon,Mi.Noal Marfhalh
Cornwal, Mr. Hemau Swift, Capt. Tho’s Porter.
Canaan, Mr. John Watson, Cel. Charles Burrell.
Wft mor eland, C apt. Zeb ulO n ulle r, MrJo f. S 1 ewm aH.
HA R T FOR D, OBober 17.
Saturday left passed through this Town cn his Return to
Boston, from the GeneralCongrefs, Mr. P%ul Revere—
Nothing has yet tranfpiredfrom that grand and impcrlar.i
Assembly.
Thursday last d lit tie before Sun Set, as Liciit. fGHI^
COLE of this Place was returning home in a Cart, he
was seized with a Fit of the Apoplexy, (as is supposed)
fell front his Cart and died inftantiy. —He was in the
Sfth Year of his Age, of a fair CharaAer, and his Death
is greatly lamented by a aifconfolate Widow and one 1 ouh^
Daughter—by a ccnfiaerable Number of near Relations
--•by all his numerous Friends and Acquaintance, and
by the Church and Sobi.ty of which he was a very v.di -
thy Member. ,
The Inhabitants of the Town of New-Mitford, dll
Litchfield County, lately held a legal Town Meeting, when
they entered into Ryolvcs similar to those of the othtrTcwns
in this Colony already publijhed, the Particulars of which
are mijlaid, and cannot be again found.
CY The Pcece signed Abraham fervis will be in our
next.
LEQNARDUS CHESTER, wants 10 j-urchale
> z, 3 or 400 Barrels of C Y D E R, for which
will, give any kind of English Goods ever kept or
fold by Country Merchants-—as lie has on hand a
noble Affurtment at a very low fate---P.biirde’plda
iron, Lumber of all Kinds, Weft-India Goods or a
part Cafli, if delivered at his Stoie in Bread-Street
Wethersfield, in a Week from this date.
October 15, 1774.
Middletown, September 27, 1774.
RAN away from the fubferiber a Negroy Boy
named PITCHFORD, about 14 or 15 years
of age, has one of his little toes cut off; and a dent
in his forehead, (he can frame a ready lie for an ex
cule) —-he had on a frock and trowfers only when
he left home. Whoever fliall take up said runaway
and deliver him to toe or order here, fliall h;.ve Two
DOLLARS reward and all neceflhry charges paid,
by Sam ve l W.l•_r r < $