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work, and be but recapitulating what, though it
hath not impressed your callous heart, has astonished
the whole world ! —ls, however, Sir, your ambition
is capable of being touched by a fenfc of your hav
ing had it in your power to be the happiest Monarch
on the face of the globe, give me leave to point out,
by way of memento, to you, feme particular cases,
wherein you seem to have been unfortunately regard
less of this material confederation.—Your connivance
at, or rather your approbation of a bloody massacre
of your own Subjefts for bravely and honestly assert
ing their privileges as Engliftimen and Freemen 1
The representatives of your people in Parliament
corrupted and awed, under your countenance, by a venal
administration ! A lift of Pensioners of your own crea
/za;;,fupported at the expence and poverty of one half
of your Subjefts, to ruin the other half !—Several
different eleftions of a Member for Parliament set a
side for no other reason, that the people have ever
been informed of, than becaife he had a majority of ten
to one /—A Stamp-Aft in Ireland, where the inhabi
tants had long before been burtheaedwith oppressions
far beyond their ability to bear! Your appointment
of men, the most obnoxious to your loyal Subjefts,
every where, and at all times, to officers in govern
ment, and particularly in America, to the establish
ment of odious Afts, some of which, your Ministers,
blushingly, condcfcended to induce you to repeal I
—-The introduftion of the Aft for altering the go
vernment of Canada, replete with the most direful
nifehiefsof your Protestant Subjefts throughout your
alm,—openly countenancing Popifh Conspiracies,
—and a manifeft direliftion of the Protestant Faith,
in support of which our forefathers made so noble a
(land, and thousands of whom, Martyrs, sealed with
the testimony of their precious blood !—Thefe, Sir,
and numberless other hideous calamities, have gene
rally been attributed to your Ministers ; but I am
bold to fay, they become chargeable on you, as re
sponsible for the conduftof those men whom you,
—yourself, nominate to office.— Were I to at
tempt to account for your Majesty’s conduft, I should
do it physically, and attribute it to be a disorder, by
the faculty, called a Catalepfs, in which the patient
- is void offenfe, and continues so, and in the fame pos
ture in which the malady seized him* untilJt termi
WHEN the dignity and refpeft, which Royal
ty ought to command, arc forfeited by the
Prince, either in a supine inattention to a just dis
■ charge of the powers veiled in him, or by a wilful
znale-adminiftration of that authority, the Prince
then stands a culprit before the awful tribunal of the
'•^public: For as the Sovereign of the Britilh empire
’ is, in faft,elefted by the people, he indubitably holds
iis power under their fuffrage, and as such, the iub
3e& is as much at liberty to arraign his conduit, as
he is to approve it.—Happy would it be for your
Majesty, were I your only accuser !—But alas I I
am but one of many millions of your loyal fubjefts in
» Europe and America, who impeach you of an un
due,—l wilh I could not call it an unfaithful executi
on of that duty which you are, by all the ties of na
ture, justice, and religion, bound to difeharge with
fidelity.— -When your iiluftrious predecessor, your e
ver to be lamented Royal Grand Father, resigned an
earthly feeptre, to enjoy a heavenly relidence, your
Majesty acceded to the Throne of your realms in the
midftof triumphs,—-encircled with glory,—and re
vitted in the hearts of your fubjefts you then
took a solemn oath,and called Heaven to witness it,
thatyou would reign the Guardian of your people,
and secure them in their just rights, privileges and
religion, as obtained under the blessed reformation.
—Mildness and justice were then your Ihinirg cha
rafteriftic ; but alas! How art thou fallen 1 How
haft thou apeftatized !—lnftead of being hailed the
happy Guardian of your People, you arc become
their Tyrant and Oppreflbr ! Instead of being stiled
the darling, and well-beloved of hundreds of thou
sands of your fubjefts, who are become the hated
objeft of millions!-—You have violated the most
solemn engagement with God and your jubjefts,your
Coronation Oath .!—The sacred depofitc your peo
ple had for the trust reposed in you !—And from
the late diabolical Aft, refpefting the government
of Canada, which has received your concurrence
one would imagine you had imbibed the doftrine of
Inftlibilities, Purgatories, Bulls, Adorations, He. He.—
.And that you are-—beginning to introduce the re
ligious, as well as political, principles of the wicked
juperintendant of your puerile years' Time has been
when this language would have been an insult to
royalty-—but the time now is when the fubjeft is de
graded in prostituting more refpeftful language to
theKingof Great-Britain ; Ilhould, there
fore, unawed, proceed to a detail of the cruel mea
sures which have been piofecuted against your Sub
jefts under your conni vance, and the wickedly uncon
stitutional Laws, which have been authorized under
ydur Royal fautHon/bax. this would be a volluminous
from the PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL, 08. s .
To the KIN G.
Ilear me! fori will speak.” Shakespear.
SIR!
nates.—To be plainer with yourMajefty—the great
er part of the world, particularly your own fubjefts,
coroborate this opinion, and have always attributed
every mifearriage in the state to theweaknefsof your
understanding; and it is further juftified by the wife
King Solomon, who fays, “ A weak Prince will al
ways be an oppre/jiue ruler.”-—A sentiment, which, I
mull confefs, has been exaftly verified in your whole
reign of nearfourteenyears,un\efs what has been charg
ed to the weakness of your head, may, with more
truth, be imputed to the wickedness of your heart.—
If, Sir, you expeft, by a continued exercise of the
oppressions complained of, to perplex our councils
and disturb our unanimity, you are much mistaken.
The Colonies, from end to end, are under the go
vernment of a Firmness, which all the machina
tions of a corrupt Administration will never be able
to shake.-—The efforts of a Gage, though armed
with tyrant authority, will be impotent against the
virtuous and persevering zeal pf men struggling for
their religious rights and liberties-—men incapable
of feeling dejeftion of mind from threats—stimulat
ed from motives of liberty, justice, and conscience,
and who owe no fear but to their God.—Look for
ward, then, Sir, to the fad catastrophe which the
unwarrantable and unnatural measures now pursu
ing here, under your fanftion, threaten ! —Should
the people of the Maflachufctts government, now
meekly fuffering under the torturing hand of venal
power, be further provoked, and ’tis suggested they
will, force muff repel force !—Your Majesty’s con
ception will save me the pain of \oeingparticular here.
—More regiments will be wanting, and where are
they to come from ?—Perhaps from Germany,—
or perhaps, if they can be spared, from England-—or
Ireland, and how readily the people of those distres
sed kingdoms will agree to pay troops for the pur
pose of maffacreing their friends and kindred in the
Colonies, I leave your Majesty to judge !—I am
saved the trouble from well knowing the principles
of your preceptor, of bluffiing for his remifnefs in
your education ; but I sincerely lament your Majes
ty’s misfortune, in difeovering so great an ignorance
of the histories of your own nation, as well as those
of France, Spain, Germany, and other countries ;
an intimacy with which, must have made you sensi
ble of the fatal corruption and evils which have been
produced in the world by an over-bearing Adminis
tration of Monarchy !—-“ The breath of a tyrant
blasts and poisons every thing, changes blessings
and plenty into curses and misery, great cities into
gloomy solitudes, and their rich citizens into beg
gars and vagabonds.” Effefts similarly dismal now
threaten yo’ur dominions every where ; your fun of
glory is fail setting ; your kingdoms at home depo
pulating; arts and manufaftures, the support of
states, rapidly decaying and four millions of your
American Subjefts, whose prosperity and opulence
would have been the pride and glory of a wife and
good Sovereign, determined rather to yield their lives,
than make a facrifice of their Liberty at the ffirine
of Despotism.—-Good God ! Sir, awake from your
lethargy, and recede from the measures you have
taken ! —Do not believe that your brave and free
born American Subjefts possess the fame poltroon
principles of those base-minded wretches, those ab
jeft tools, who buy your smiles at the price of truth
and their consciences.—They acknowledge you as
their rightful Sovereign, and as such ever did, and
now do profefs, for your sacred person, a decent and
loyal obedience as Subjects, but they dare tell
you, they will never become your Slaves.—The
sword, great Sire, is a dreadful umpire ! And much
as the unhappy differences, which have fatally in
terrupted the peace and interest of Great-Britain and
her Colonies, have been heightened by the wicked
schemes of your Ministers, and your own too easy
concurrence in them ; it is not yet too late to recur
to a milder mode of determining the controversy.-—
Hear with your own ears, and behold with your oven
eyes, the humble and dutiful representations of your
petitioning Subjefts, let their complaints come be
foreyou, and difeufs them .impartially ; but, previ
ous thereto, reverse the severe decrees against them,
which you too raffily confirmed ; for even an attro
cious criminal is net tried until he is leofed from
his bonds.—-Your Majesty will then be sensible how
hardly and unjustly they have been treated ; and
remember ! that though Subjefts have made con
cessions to Kings, Kings have also made eonceffions
to their Subjefts.—Your people throughout these
extensive Colonies, are ready to ftreten forth the
hand of amity, and to convince you, that they are,
upon all occasions, willing to render up their lives
and fortunes in your jujl fervice.—’Tis your’s, Sir,
to maintain and support, equitably, the prerogative
ofyourCrown ’Tis your Subjefts tooppofe eve
ry encroachment of that authority, to prevent the smal
lest violation of their civil and religious Liberties,
and to endeavour to be always before hand with the
Pope, the Devil, and all their Emissaries, which to
avert the mifehiefs of furious, unpitying and deftruc
tiveTyranny, it is beyond all doubt, they will inces
santly and vigorously strive to effeft.
S C I P I 0.
Eleazer <
leaving erected a DISTILLERY I in New-Haven,
for the Purpose of carrying on the difiilling Bufnefs in all
its Branches, hopes for the Encouragement of ALL who
wijhto fee the Arts and Manufaftures flouri/h in Ame
rica.—He returns his grateful Acknowledgments to those
Gentlemen who have already favoured him with their
Custom, requeuing a Continuance of it ^-—and informs
them, and the Public in general, that he has for Sale,
Ne^-Haven djlilled R UM,
clean Flavoured and full Proof .—ReAified ditto, equal to
Wtft-India. —Brandy.—Geneva.—Annified kF at er.—-
Double distilled ditto.---Orange, Clove and Cinnamon^
Waters.-—Doctor Stevens, or All-Fours, He.
Which Articles he will fell both Wholesale and Retail,
as cheap for CASH, as they are generally fold in New-
York ; and will also receive in Pay for them, Melajjes,
or Country Produce.
MelaJ/es will be dijlilled on reasonable Terms. Drug
gifs and Apothecaries can be supplied with High-Wines
-—Masers ofVeffels, and others may be furr.ijhed with
a Variety of Liquors for their Sea Stores, and Store-
Keepers, Tavern-Keepers, and other Retailers fnall have
good Allowance made on prompt Payment.
1 OLEN, out of the Stable of Mr. Solomon
Prentice, Inn-holder in Grafton, in the County
of Worcefler, on the night of the 19th instant, a
Black Roan Mare, upwards of fifteen hands high,
trots and paces well; 10 or 11 years old, galled on
her right fhouider with a collar, a spot of a different
colour near her crupper. Whoever apprehends the
Thief, so that he may be brought to Justice, and
the Mare recovered, shall be paid by the Subscriber
FIVE DOLLARS. TILLEY RICE.
Brookfield Oftober 22, 1774.
Has just received a Freffi and General Aflbrtment of
Englifli and India GOODS,
suitable for all Seasons, which he will fell Cheap
for CASH or PRODUCE, at his S T O RE
in Hartford. Odioher z^th. 177 4.
Thomas Hophin .r, has jult re
ceived a neat and general Aflbrtment of English.
and India GOODS, which he will fell on the usual
reasonable terms, for Cash or Produce in HAND
at his Store opposite the North Meeting-House in
Hartford.
^O be let, and entered upon immediately, a con
venient ROOM, under the Printing-Office in
Hartford, suitable for a merchant or tradesman.- —
Enquire of Enos Doolittle.,
GOOD Wheat and Flax-Seed, wanted by
CALEB BULL, jun. He will give js. Bd.
for Flax-Seed, and 4s. 2d. for Wheat, half Cash,
and the other in Goods, at the cash price -of
which he has just received a very competent aflbrtment
which were not purchased of TORIES, nor AD
DRESSERS, he thinks he is willing to fell for as
reasonable a profit as others of his profeffion ; not
only so, but the goods shall be as cheap as they have
been for twelve months pall.
gTray’d away from the fubferiber in Hartford Weft
Division, on the 18th inst. one dark brown mare,
about 14 years old, pacesand trots, gall’d with the
chains on the right thigh, supposed to be branded
with Windham brand. Also one black mare colt,
two years old past, paces and trots,tail cut off square.
Whoever shall take up and return them to the own
ner, shall have two dollars reward, and all ncceflary
charges paid, or one dollar each.
Ebenezer Crojby.
Oft. 24.
TO BE SOLD in Eaf-Windfw,
Good new dwelling-house, with half an acre of
land, well situated on the street near Captain
Biflel’s tavern, in the most publib part of the town.
Any person inclining to purchase the fame, may en
quire of Smith Batley on said Premifles or Captain
Aaron Bijfell, or Mr. David Bijfell, living near.
L O V~
Extract of a letter from Paris, dated. July 24, 1774.
“ We are under great apprehensions that the calm
which has taken place since the demise of his late
Majesty, will not be of long duration. Some extra
ordinary commotions are talked of, which we can
not divine the meaning of. The measures which
the Court are going topurfue are far different from
what were generally thought of. We eagerly ex
peft the event.”
An express is arrived at Lord Rochford’s office,
with an account of the peace between the Ruffians
and Turks being signed the 17th of July last.
The report of the Bolton port bill being focn to
be repealed is premature. It is said, however, from
the peaceable behaviour of the Bostonians to Gene
ral Gage, its operation will be suspended like the
popifh laws in Ireland, which, though they are very
severe, and in many refpefts unconftitutjon.al, yet
still hang over the natives in temrem. ( L-
Nathanael Goodwin,