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pursuant to the sentence of a Court-Martial. He
was born at St. Peter's parilh, in Derbyshire, and
was but 21 years of age.
B, tie&,;, At L, Alle N, and Falconer, ar
rived be>e from London, and the Duke of
Cumberland Packet, Catt. Marshall, ar
rived at New-York from Falmouth, behave
tie following. Intelligence.
17 ARS A 17, %/r I,
nr H E Pruffiantroops continue advancing, and
§ it is laid Scchaiew, a town eight miles
from this capital, will be comprised 'in their line.
Advices from Danrzick fav, thatfrom fifteen to
twenty thousand men have taken arms there, re
solved to defend their liberty at the price of their
blood; and that anumberof foreign officers waited
only an opportunity officializing their bravery for
its preservation.
Leghorn, 7*4 12. Nine Ruffian flrips of war
from the Levant have entered our port, in order
to take on board here provisions and military stores,
with a large quantity cf bombs which have been
embarked.
Paris, fuy 18. Forfome days past ftri& silence
has been kept on the affair of the Parliament. M.
de Sartine, hath, it is said, received orders from
above, which he hath lent to all the Coffee-Houfes
and other public places, that no persons talk either
good or bad, of the public affairs; so that we are
at a loss what to think. We wait with great im
patience for an explanation from the King on an
object which so effentiallyinterefts the whole nation.
IVarfaw, July 19. It is laid here that there are
two parties at the court of Peterfburgh, one of
which gave its advice against war, without being
attended to till now; but as that party is gaining
the afcendency, it is believed that peace will soon
be concluded with the Porte.
Ais now generally understood, that a certain
Duke who opposed the amendments to the Quebec
bid, means to take a very open and decided part
in opposition, in the course of the ensuing sessions.
It is thought the Quebec bill will be as unfa
von^ble to the power of the present Minister, as
the riamp Act and Regency bills were to that of
the late Mr. Grenville.
A plan is under consideration by the Ministry,
for allowing prompt payment in future in all con
traAs with government. Should this regulation
take place, it will be productive of a very consider
able saving to the nation.
Great complaints are made by the agents of the
African company, relative to the infractions the
French trading to that part of the world have been
guilty of.
BOSTO N, Sept. ! 5 .
Last Friday morning, one Valentine Ducket, a
deserter from the 65th regiment, now at Halifax,
was Mot in the rear of the carap in the common,
Orders are sent over to Ireland for great eir
cumlpedtion to be used in preventing any persons
from enlisting soldiers in any part of that kingdom,
except for his Maje Hy's service.
dug. 2. Letters from Copenhagen mention, that
the King of Denmark has forbid the importation
of foreign woollen cloths into any part of his do
minions, the manufactories in that kingdom being
now fufficient to supply them.
Whenever the Crown hath acquired a fufficient
permanent influence over the members of the Lower
AiTemhly, the King of Great-Britain, without
tranigreffing any of the forms of the constitution,
may be as absolute and as wantonly tyrannical as
any of those mongers who disgrace the annals of
the Roman Empire.
About 130 year-ago, a plan was pobliMed far
the advancement of matrimony, by which it was
proposed that forty drillings should be deducted from
every 1001. belonging to brides of fortune to raise
a fund for portioning such girls as had no fortune.
Would not a plan of this kind tend to the advance
ment of population, in which our national riches
confit?
Administration are determined to put the ex
portation of provisions from Ireland to the foreign
Colonies in the Weft-Indies under some necessary
redriflions.
The General offc rs and Governors of his Ma
jesty's garrisons in the Mediterranean are preparing
their equipages, in order to set out for their rc
fpe^ive ports immediately.
A plan has been laid before the Lords of trade
fora new regulation in some branches of the Custom
Hou'e^uties, which is now under consideration.
The Spanish and Dutch fleets, it is said, have
orders to bombard the city of Algiers in conjunc
tion, unless the Dey agrees to reasonable conditions.
By the last accounts from Berlin it appears, that
the Prussian Monarch is very desirous to accommo
date matters with the Dantzickers, rather than
permit the interference of the courts of London,
Versailles, or Stockholm.
/lug. I. The Dutch have refufed the Dey of
Algiers' demand of a man of war from the States
instead of rhe usual present, and have recalled their
Consul from that place. The fame step, it is said,
is to be followed bv our court.
In consequence of the dispute between our court
and the Dey of Algiers, the Lords of the Admi
ralty have given orders for two fifty gun .ships to
convey the traders from Leghorn to Cape St.
Vincent's.
It is said that one of the vacant Red Ribbons
will be given to his Excellency William Tryon,
Governor of New-York.
LONDO N, July 3 0.
A correspondent informs ns, that he has un
doubted intelligence that a large body of Jesu
its are preparing to fettle at Quebec, and that a
Collegeis to be erefled there for their reception ; so
that this body of men, who have been persecuted in
most Roman Catholic countries ns enemies to chrif.
tianity and the public peace, will at length find
an asylum in the dominions of a Protestant Prince.
It is now generally believed, that as soon as the
present East-India charter expires, the trade to
that country will be laid open, and the territorial
revenues be appropriated to the exigences of the
state.
The following is Governor Gage's answer to the
Suffolk address, infected in our last.
Gentlemen,
TilO PED the assurances I gave the feledmen
of Boston on the fubjed you now address me,
had been fatisfaanry to every body. I cannot
possibly intercept the intevcourfe between the town
and the country ; ft is my duty and intent to en
courage it ; audit is as much inconfifterft with my
duty and intent, to form the Grange scheme you
are pleased to fnggeft of reducing the inhabitants
to a state of humiliation and vassalage, by flopping
their supplies; nor have I macle it easier to effect
this, than what nature has made it. You men
tion the soldiers insulting, beating and abiding
passengers as a common thing;, an inftahce per
haps may be given of the bad behaviour of some
disorderly soldiers; but I must appeal to the inha
bitants of both town and country, for their general
good behaviour, from their firft arrival to this time.
I would aft what occasion there is for such
numbers going armed in and out of the town, and
through the country in an hostile manner ? Or
why were the guns removed privately in the night,
from the battery at Charleftown?
The refilling fubmiflion to the late a&s of Par
liament, I find general throughout the province,
and I Mall lay the fame before his Majesty.
The public are hereby informed, that GEORGE
Watson, Esq; (who was lately appointed by
mandamus from his Majesty one of the council of
this province) has resigned his feat at said Board,
and communicated his resignation to Governor
Gage, by a letter of the firft of this instant.
We have received from Worcester the recant
ation of John Chandler, Esq; and forty-two others,
of the protesters, against the proceedings of that
town, which gave such just cause of offence to the
public; as also the acknowledgement of fix Justi
ces of that county, for having afperfed the people
in an address to General Gage.
We have received, the recantations, confeffions,
&c. of such a great number of Lawyers, Clerks,
deputy Sheriffs, &c. &c. &c. that we cannot pub
liM them all unless we add a sheet extraordinary
to this paper.
Last night all the cannon in the north battery,
were spiked up, it is said to have been done by about
100 men, who came in boats, from the men of war
in this harbour.
Another secret expedition !
We would inform the gentlemen who perform
ed this unparalleled piece of heroism, that they
have laboured in vain, and spent their strength for
naught; two only of the cannon were capable of
being used.
2. That the Judges, Justices, and other civil
officers in this county appointed agreeably to the
charter and the laws of the province are the only
civil officers in the county whom we may lawfully
obey: That no authority whatever can remove
these officers, except that which is constituted pur
suant to the charter and those laws: That it is the
duty of these officers to continue in the execution
of their refpeaive trusts, as if the aforementioned
^ of parliament had never been made; and that
while they thus continue, untainted by any official
condu3 in conformity to that ad, we will vigor
ously support them therein to the utmost of our
power, indemnify them in their persons and pre
SEVER AL papers relative to the situation
of our public affairs, and the alteration of our
constitution and laws intended by the late ad of
parliament for regulating the government of this
province, as also the said ad, being read; after
consultation and debate had thereon, a committee
of nine persons were appointed to confider and re
port on the fame. The committee reported a
number of resolves which they thought hecefftry
to be entered into by the county at this time:
which resolves, after being read several times, de
bated on and amended, were unanimously accept
ed, the delegates, one by one, declaring their as
sent. The report is as follows:
The delegates appointed by the several towns
in this county to meet together at this alarming
crisis, to confider and determine on such measures
as flrail appear to be expedient for the county to
adopt: deeply impressed with a sense of the im
portance of this delegation, of the abilities and
qualifications necessary for conducting our public
affairs with wisdom and prudence, but with the
firmnefs and resolution becoming freemen: with
the refpeid and deference due to the sentiments of
our brethren in the other counties of the province,
with fubmiflion to the future determinations of a
provincial assembly, and the decisions of the
Grand American Congrefs,—do, in the name ofthe
county, make the following RESOLVES, viz.
I. That the several ads of parliament which
infringe the just rights of the colonies, and of this
province in particular, being fubjeds of delibera
tion before the Continental Congress, renders it
expedient for this county to suspend their determi
nations refpe&ing them; except so far as theirim
mediate operation requires immediate opposition.
That the aft of parliament entitled “ An' aft for
the better regulating the government of the pro
vince of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England,"
being a most dangerous infraflion of our constitu
tional and charter rights, and tending to a total
subversion of the government of the province, and
deftruAion of our liberties; and having been with
uncommon zeal, with arbitrary exertions, and
military violence attempted to be carried into ex
ecution; and this zeal, these exertions, and this
violence still continuing:—from the sacred regard,
the inviolable attachment we ewe to those rights
which are essential to and distinguish us as Eng
lishmen and freemen; and from a tender concern
for the peace of this county, we are bound to
pursue all reasonable measures by which any at
tempts to enforce an immediate obedience to that
aft may be defeated.
At a meeting of Delegates from every town in the
County of ESSEX, in the Province of Mafla
chufetts-Bay, heldat Ipswich, in said county, on
the 6th and ]tb days of September, 1774.
Voted Jeremiah Lee, Esq; Chairman.
SALE M, September ig.
3. That all civil officers in the province, as
well as private petfons, who shall dare to conduft
in conformity to the aforementioned afl for vio
lating the charter and constitution of the province,
are, and will be considered by this county as its
unnatural and malignant enemies; and in the opi
nion of this body, such men, while they persist in
fech conduct, and so contribute to involve the co
lonies in all the horrors of a civil war, are unfit for
civil society; their lands ought not to be tilled by
the labor of an American, nor their families sup
plied with his cloathing or food.
4. [This 4th reflve, which refreshed Peter Frye,
Esq; is omitted by the direction of the Delegates of
Salem, Marblehead and Danvers, they foppfing bis
frank and generous declaration would give full fatis
faftion to the county, and render a publication of this
resolve Superfluous and improper.]
fr That a Committee be raised to wait on the
Hon. William Browne, Esq; of Salem, and ac
quaint hints that with grief this county has viewed
his exertions for carrying into execution ads of
Parliament calculated to enslave and ruin his native
land: That while the county Would continue the
refped for several years paid him, it firmly resolves
to detach from every future connexion all such as
shall persist in Supporting, or any ways counte
nancing the late arbitrary edicts of Parliament:
That the Delegates in the name of the county re
quest him to excuse them from the painful necessity
of considering and treating him as an enemy to his
country, and therefore that he would resign his
office as counfellor on the late eftabliMment, and
decline as a Judge (and in every other capacity)
to execute the late ads of Parliament, and all
others deemed by the province unconstitutional
and oppressive.
6. That, in the opinion of this body, all town
meetings in this county ought to be called agree
ably to the laws of the province and the ancient
usage of the county.
7. That it is the opinion of this body of Dele
gates, that a provincial Congress is absolutely ne
cessary in our present unhappy situation; and that
as writs are now issued for the election of repre
sentatives for a General Assembly, to be held at
Salem on the fifth day of October next, the re
presentatives so ele&ed will properly form such
provincial Congress. And it is further our opinion,
that these representatives should be inftru&ed by
their several towns to resolve themselves into a
provincial Congress accordingly ; if when assembled
Voted, That a Committee be chosen to notify
the members of this body to assemble again when
they Mail think it necessary; and that the mem
bers from Salem and Marblehead be this Commit
tee; and that they or the major part of them be,
and they are hereby impowered to issue notifications
accordingly.
A true copy, John Plckering, jun. Clk.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26.
In CONGRESS, Thursday, Sept. 22, 1774.
Resolved unanimously,
THAT the Congress request the merchants
and others, in the several colonies, not to
fend to Great-Britain any orders for goods, and
to dired the execution of all orders already sent
to be delayed or suspended, until the sense of rhe
Congre's, on the means to be taken for the pre
servation of the liberties of America, is made pub
lic. An extract from the minutes,
Charles Thomson, Sec.
Extras? of a letter fron London, dated June 20.
“ We are all in high expedition of the event
of the late measures adopted refpeding Boston,
which carry with them rather the harsh and rigid
afpedt of power, than that of paternal affection,
which wishes to reclaim while it chastises.—The
Crown has for a long time past been gaining power
at the expence of the liberties of the people, by a
gradual system of Corruption,—which the people
themselves have not virtue enough to countera&—
But now the strides towards despotism are enor
mous. I wish the Americans may be able to fall
on some prudent and efFedual measures in the pre
sent important crisis.—But I fear the greatest dif
ficulty will be in the want of an union and confi
dence among themselves in the different colonies,
without which any expedients they may think pro
per to adopt will, I fear, avail little,"
perty, and to their lawful doings yield a ready
obedience.
they shall deem it necessary or expedient ; in order
to consult and determine on such measures as they
judge will tend to promote the true interest of his
Majesty, and the peace, welfare and prosperity of
the province.
8. Deeply affeded with a sense of the miseries
and calamities now impending over the colonies,
and this province in particular, we are compelled
to form these resolutions ; which (as we apprehend)
being founded in justice and necessity, on the prin
ciples of our natural, essential and unalienable
rights, we are determined to abide by. At the
fame time we frankly and with sincerity declare,
that we still hold ourselves fubjeds of his Majefiy
King George the third—as such will bear him
true allegiance, and are ready with our lives and
fortunes to support and defend his person, crown
and dignity, and his constitutional authority over
us. But by the horrors of slavery—by the dignity
and happiness attending virtuous freedom, we are
constrained to declare, that we hold our liberties
100 dear to be sported with, and are therefore most
seriously determined to defend them. This, in the
present dispute, we conceive may be effected by
peaceable measures: But, though above all things
(slavery excepted) we deprecate the evils of a civil
war—though we are deeply anxious to restore and
preserve a harmony with our brethren in Great-
Britain; yet, if the despotism and violence of our
enemies should finally reduce us to the fad necessity,
we, undaunted, are ready to appeal to the last re
sort of states; and will in support of our rights en
counter even death, “ sensible that he can never
die too soon who lays down his life in support of
the laws and liberties of his country."
Voted, That Jeremiah Lee, Esq; Dr Samuel
Holten and Mr. Elbridge Gerry, be a Committee
to wait on the Hon. William Brown, Esq; agree
able to the fifth resolve.
making proper diftinCtions, the violent proceedings
of the Boston mob are too generally deemed a
fufficient juftificarion of the others, and have af
forded the Ministry a pretence which I am per
suaded they much wished for of introducing an
armed force into America, and such other measures
as are undoubtedly aimed at eftablilhing the right
of taxation in the legislation here, and if not firmly
opposed, will certainly do it through America—
of what importance then is the present conduct of
America? If the people here are not made to feel
our importance, all is over in that way—The late
measures will be looked on as juftified by their
luccefs, and the venal crew at present, termed
the Representatives of Britain will probably be
a g ain generally returned at the General Election
next spring, to finish the remains of American
liberty—Here, indeed, there is but little more
than the form of it ; where, by exorbitant taxes,
the very means are afforded their rulers of rivet
ting their chains by giving the con ftitutional fandion
—I never felt a stronger attachment to our own
cause than since my arrival here, and ardently wish
that such counsels may prevail, as without intro
ducing anarchy, may preserve our just rights.
I find here many who warmly interest themselves
in our favour, and entertain a hope that when lux
ury and corruption shall gain an entire conquest
over virtueand liberty in this once happy kingdom,
they or their defeendants may find an asylum in
America, where the genius of liberty shall reign
triumphant. A few days ago [ spent an hour or two
very agreeably with Granville Sharp, Esq;
to whom I had been introduced. He appears to
me to be of a very uncommon chara&er, and ex
ceedingly assiduous in the application of uncommon
talents for the benefit of his fellow creatures—He
tells me he has now in the press, an Examination
into the Rights of rhe Colonies, which are so fla
grantly infringed by the late ads of Parliament—
he is warmly on our fide, and as his piece traces the
arguments ab origine by which he has answered
all the arguments commonly adduced against us,
I am in hopes it will have a good effea—he holds
a place in the Ordinance which this publication
may probably cost him, but he appears to prefer
the difeharge ofduty to every other consideration—
One such advocate anting from,principle is pre
ferable t@ the loudest brawler of the venal tribe—
Sir Henry Banks is dead, and succeeded in the
Aldermanfhip by Haley, a New-England
merchant, brother-in-law to Wilkes—lt is propo
sed to make him Reprefentatire of London in Par
liament, in the room of Trecothick, whose state
of health will not admit of his continuance in that
station.
Dodor Franklin was obliging enough to call
on me this afternoon: From what he commu
nicated I find that the intention of taxing all
America is openly avowed by the Ministry—they
have already begun by high duties on spirits in
Canada, and have ordered a regiment to be railed
there—determining, as the Do&or well exprefkd
it, not only to rivet their chains, but make them
pay for the iron to do it with."
Extrahl of a letter from Ireland.
" Every thing almost that is valuable is gane
from us, our present Lord Lieutenant came into
Dublin with every demonftiatinn of joy ffiewn
by the inhabitants, who thought they were zhen
blessed, but a grievous alteration has ensued,
for he has brought us under a cursed yoke, the
Stamp-Act, which will, and is ruining the poor,
for all manner of writings, without on ftampt
paper are useless, pamphlets are now more than
doubled in their price ; bonds which in your time
were fold for three-pence per dozen, are now f%
(hillings and fix pence; gentlemen's almanacks,
formerly fix-pence halfpenny per piece, are now
two-Billings and two pence; ro P'cMrterian sh; II
have the liberty to give a vote at veflrvs, but
Extrall of a letter from London, June 27, 1774.
" What the Americans mean by proposing to
flint up all their ports and laying by their vessels
I do not readily understand—Trade, I imagined,
was the grand support of the whole; but by the
last news from Boston it appears, their wish is,
that not a fail shall be spread from the continent
not even to the Welt-Indies ; is their nieaning to
starve the people there? or are they for guarding
against any remittances being made to the Mother
Country through the islands? Should either or
both be fads, I fear that neither humanity nor
integrity has that influence which is indifpenfibly
necessary to be established amongf t all sets of people.
If they withold their remittances, it is individuals
the burthen falls on, and not on government: This
is a diftindion that ought never to be be loft fight
of—My quarrelling with a man does not exempt
me from paying my just debts, though his behavi
our has been ever so gross—You must not think
from the manner in which I write to you, that I
am against the Americans; for I do assure you
I am not—but the reverse, being warmly on your
fide, I think you are highly injured—l was at
Nothingham, Leicester and Birmingham not long
ago, and great indeed were the complaints of the
stagnation in trade ; the manufacturers were abso
lutely in the greatest wants."
Extra fl of a letter from London, July 23.
“ I have been with Dodor Franklin—! find
the storm against him has much abated; though
I believe he has not in the least remitted his atten
tion to the interests of his much injured country ;
however, quiet in appearance, I am very anxious
to hear what reception the latter wanton strokes
of government here have met with in America,
particularly that detestable Quebec Bill, which is
so evidently intended as a bridle on the northern
Colonies—That a& is looked upon in the most un
favourable light here of any of them ; as for want of
Extrafl of a letter from London, June 13, 1774.
" I underhand by some late letters from New-
York, that the people there are in general much
diffatisfied with the steps taken against Boston, and
/ hope they ^iUconJider the cause as their own; in
deed I make little doubt that these harsh and un
constitutional measures will bring about an union
among the Colonies for their mutual defence
against the encroachments of despotism; which
you may be affuied, is making hasty strides to over
run you."