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Feo; the Mo^ninO Chronicle £/" July 16.
iwe examine the histories of those nations
which were once free, and whofc governments
are since become despotic and arbitrary, we Ihall
find that all these changes have been brought about
by the ambition, corruption or avarice of a few of
its natives, and that when the work has been done,
the people likewfe have been kept io awe by na
tives. Iftheeftates ofFrance have loft their pow
er it was not done by Spaniards; and £ the Cor
tez of Spain are become insignificant, it was not
the French that made them so; the French de
ftioyed the liberties of France, and the Spaniards
theie of Spain.
In the Weft-Indies, negroes sometimes are set to
Watch negroes; not but they are as much flares
as the rest, as much subject to the humour, caprice
and will of their master, but the master finds out
one or more, who being of a baler mind than the
red, is .empted for the fake of being better eloath
ed or better fed, to become an instrument of the
matter's tyranny, and to add to the servitude of his
companions.
It is true that no one amongst these miserable
creatures is traded to aft for the red, every save is
bis o^n representative ; but in nations where one is
trusted to act for a great many, it has been seen
that the vile trustee would part with that share of
liberty he was entrusted to guard for a yard of
ribband, or for the fake of wearing any bit offine
ry at his tail; for any little diftinXion in title or
name, or for a little bribe, without having necessi
ty to plead for the taking of it.
But what is strange, is, that millions of people
fhduld submit to a hundredth part of that number;
for it is certain where arbitrary power prevails,
those who keep the rest in fubje&ion will not make
one in the hundred of the whole people, and yet
the hundredth man Ihall keep the ninety-nine in
awe, tho' it Ihall happen that those who are let
apart for this purpose (hall be the basest and most
inconsiderable of the people. But I Ihall quote a
priEge from a treatise wrote many years ago,
which explains the nature of arbitrary govern
ment, and Crews the subordination that the tools
and instruments of tyranny are under one to
another.
" Whoever thinks that the halberts of the
guards, and the arms of the centioels are the se
curity of tyrants, in my judgment is much deceiv
ed ; they make use of them, I believe, more for
foew and oftentati@ than forany confidence they
place in them. It would appear, upon enquiry,
that there have not been so mmy Roman Empe
rors who have been preferred by their guards as
have periled by them. Troops of horse and com
panies of foot a,e not the arms by which tyrants
are defended; at firft one can scarcely believe it,
nevertheless it istrue, there are always four or five
who Support the tyrant, four or five who keep the
country in bondage ; it has always happened that
five or fix have had the tyrants ear, have made
their way to him of themselves, or have been
called by him to be the accomplices of his cruelty,
the companions ofhis pleasure, panders to his lofts,
and sharers of his plunders: These fix manage
their chief so well, that by the bonds of society he
mutt be wicked, not only to gratify his own pro
pensity, but likewise theirs. These fix have fix
hundred who plunder under them, and these fix
hundred are to them what they are to the tyrant.
These fix hundred have under them fix thousand
whom they have raised to posts, to whom they have
given either the government of provinces or the
management of public monies, that they may be
instruments of their avarice and ctue'ty, and exe
cute their orders at a proper time — These subor
dinate officers do so much to their follow citizens,
that they cannot live but under the shadow of their
superiors, nor escape the punishments justly due to
tneir crimes but by their contrivance and protec
tion. The consequence of this is fatal indeed :
Whoever will amuse himfelf in tracing this chain,
wili fee that not only the fix thousand, but perhaps
one hundred thousand are faftened to the tyrant
by it, of which he makes the fame use as Jupiter
does in Homer, who boasts that if he but touch the
end of it, he can draw all the Gods towards him."
From hence it is evident that standing armies,
so much cried out against by the fubjeXs of most
rations, and thought by them to be the only fafe
guard and support of tyrants, are in reality no
thing but mere bogbears, and the reducing their
number would be of little service to the cause of
liberty. Whatever nation, therefore, there may
be at this time that finds itfelf oppressed, and its
liberties invaded daily, and are anxious to procure
redress, and would not hesitate to put measures in
to execution for that purpose when pointed out to
them, its inhabitants muff, in the firft place, dis
cover the chain that links the tyrant and bis crea
tures together, observe which is the weakest part of
it, and then with resolution break it asunder. This
done they will perceive tyranny fly their domini
ons like chaff before the wind; and in order to
protect their liberties, thus regained, from future
invasions, they muff be ever watchful that the ty
rannical smith does not repair the chain again.
These rules observed will ever have the desired
efteX, when loads of petitions, remonf lrances, &c.
will only create laughter in the oppressors, and
an addition of misery in the oppressed.
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VE NIC E, June 2fr
LE 1 TERS from Zante bring, that the
chief rebel Breffa has been hanged there,
and his head being cut off, his body was exposed
on the sea shore. Eight of his accomplices were
also hanged to the mails of the galleys.
Ancona, June 16. They write from Ragufa,
that the Pacha of Scutari having assembled 30,000
men, had attacked the Montenegrins in their own
country; but that the latter received him so vigo
rotifly, that he was repulsed and beaten, and with
much difficulty escaped with part of his troops to
Scutari.
Genoa, June 2<). The King of Spain has forbid
all entrance to the Ruffian vessels into his ports.
Letters from Malta bring advice that they are on
July 20. It is said that an ediX has lately been
published at Vienna against duelling; the offence
is made capital in both the principals and the se
conds.
Extra:? of a letter from Marli, dated July I I.
" M. de Maurepas has lignified to the Prussian
Ambassador, that his Most Christian Majesty can
their guard there, and that the fortifications of
that ide ar&entirely repaired, and the inhabitants
prepared against every event.
From the Frontiers of Poland, July I. The ef
feXs of the Jesuits are all disposed of; and accord
ing to the most exaX accounts they amounted to
19,500,000 Livers Fournois. Some private per
sons only were benefitted by them. The Church
plate, and all the sacred vases were carried to the
mint. Several Jesuits have yet got no pensions,
and are even in want of a fubfiitence. On the
other hand the Sieur Benvenuti, who has rendered
himfelf famous by his writings against the system
adopted by the principal courts of Europe with ref
ped to rhe Jesuits, has been received at Warsaw
with great marks of diftinXion. The King has
heaped favours upon him, and even admitted him
to his table. The Nuncio could not help expres
sing his diffatisfaXion upon this occasion, and de
manded the suppression of that author's works.
Warsaw, ju'y 5. Universals are to be sent from
the Chancelry of the Crown into all the palati
nates and diftriXs of the kingdom for the convo
cations of Dietines; when Judges are to be elect
ed, who will be deputed to the Grand Tribunal,
which will be put upon the footing it was before
the troubles in Poland.
Extract of a 'etterfrom Vienna, June 29.
" By advices from the theatre of war between
the two Empires, we hear thata corps of Ruffians
under General Suwarow which passed the Danube
near the lake Karafow, attacked the Pacha who
was encamped on the borders of that lake, and forc
ed him to submit; and that as soon as the Grand
Vizir heard of this advantage, he sent the Aga of
the Janissaries with 20,00 c men to join the Pacha
of Karafow, and flop the progress of the Ruffians."
July 25. The Duke of G .—r has lately
begged permission to throw up his military prefer
ments, but has been peremptorily refufed.
We are assured that a plan for the effeXual pre
vention of our naval officers and seamen from en
tering into foreign service, is now under consider
ation.
A private letter from the Hague mentions, that
three new objeXs of attention and concern to the
Datch have lately arisen, viz. the riling state of
the British fifhery in the northern seas; the great
increase of the Prussian mercantile company at
Embden; and the great naval prepirations of all
the maritime powers ofEurope, particularly those
encouraged in the late war. The firtt bids fair to
rival them in their tifhery; the second in some
material interesting branches of trade; and the
last cannot fail of being beheld with a very jealous
eye.
Vienna, July 6. Marshal Romanzow having re
ceived a reinforcement of 10,000 regular troops
and 30 000 recruits, palled the greatest part of his
army over the Danube between the 20th and 22d
pad.
Altona, July 8. It is certain that there is an
exchange on the carpet between the King of Prullia
and the King of Great-Britain, in his quality of
eleXor of Hanover. His Prussian Majesty is to
give his Britannick Majesty for the principality of
Saxe-Lauenbourg, a certain diftria in the Old
Marche, named Dromeling, with some bailiwicks
in the country of Halberftadt. If this exchange
takes place, it may prove disagreeable to the city
of Hambourg, on account of certain rights, which
the said principality pretends to have on the baili
wick of Borgadorff poffefTed in common by the
cities of Hambourg and Lubec. These rights
have been heretofore claimed by the house of
Brunfwic-Hanover, but a sum of money was at
that time given to flop it.
Jena, July 10. The 9th ult. the town of Ku
nitz, in the Duchy of Saxe-Wiemar, was alnioft
totally destroyed by fire, together with all the
granaries, &c.
Fans, July 11. Count de Matbeuf, has de
manded of this court a reinforcement of 12000
men, in order to enable him to subjugate the mal
contents of Corsica, who every day revolt more and
more.
L O N D O N, July 16.
Though the Quakers do not choose to demon
strate their diflatisfaXion in the noisy manner the
less orderly, though not less feeling colonists have
adopted, it is said they profefs themselves ready to
concur in every measure which promises to preserve
the natural rights of the Americans.
Accounts are lately arrived from Spain, which
positively assert, that there are no less than twenty
eight in.n of war of the line, now ready for sea in
the several ports of Carthagena, Ferrol, and Ca
diz, at less than a week's notice.
Notwithstanding all that may be averted to the
contrary, we are assured, that from principles
fufficiently obvious, a certain celebrated Empress
and a certain celebrated monarch will ever remain
staunch friends, though the whole continent be
sides were to go together by the ears.
July 22. The Emperor of Germany has esta
blished a new court for hearing and determining
the claims of such of his fubjeXs as complain of
having been injured in their property in the course
of the late war.
July 19. Though the Crown, fays a corres
pondent, cannot turn out Judges as formerly, yet
no law secures the people from having bad, cor
rupt, ignorant or wicked tools of state, appoint
ed to decide on their liberty and property; for it
is only by corrupt Judges, and tame and prejudi
ced Jurors, feleded for the occasion, that the ge
neral liberties of this country can ever be shaken
or undermined.
July 21. There are two filters, antient maiden
ladies, now living in Hoxton, who having been
formerly burnt out of their houses three times,
now fit up alternately fix and fix hours every
night, to prevent the dreaded consequences of
another fire.
not refrain from interesting himfelf exceedingly in
the fate of the city of Dantzick ; that the utility
of its free commerce was an objeX which concern
ed every power in Europe, and that his Majesty
was well informed of their sentiments on this head.
That he was intruded to give him no other an
swer, and that his demands required no other re
ply; that his Majesty wished, and intended to
continue in peace and friendfhip with the King of
Pruiiia, but that he could not refufe concurring
with the other powers in maintaining the Rights
of a Republic) in the fate of which humanity was
materially interested. This firnification was made
by M. de Maurepas on the 7th instant, and on the
Bth the AmbafTador dispatched a courier to his
court. The King of Prussia has too much pru
dence not to make good use of this answer, which
is concerted with England and Holland."
The hopes of the Dantzickers are said to be re
vived, on account of the late behaviour of a cer
tain court, refpeXin g the treatment they have met
with; which court they imagine they Shall be
able to interest yet more deeply in their affairs.
July 27. It is most certain that the new Portu
gueze Ambassador is charged with some inftruXi
ons of a very important and private nature, refpeX
ing the commercial connexions of this country
with Portugal, and which, we are assured, will be
ultimately of the highest benefit to this country.
July 28. The Ministry are fatisfied that the
Quebec bill will either make or mar them. They
are sensible this bill will have great weight at the
ensuing election, and that if the love ofliberty and
true zeal for the Church of England is in the hearts
of the elediors, the court candidates will have but
little hopes of fucceis; and thould the distresses
and luxury of the times favour the Minister's
friends on the day of election, they are convinced
the real patriots, joined by the pretended patriots
of the city, as well as such as do not think religion
a farce, a mere political trick, will make a vigo
rous push in Parliament to repeal this Popifh aft,
which is worse in tendency than the American
stamp aX or the Jew bill; and if they succeed, the
present ministry will be totally routed; butthen
they are equally certain that if the miniver secures
a proper majority, and the Quebec bill shall stand
its ground, his power is rivetted, the standard of
defpotilm is immovably fixed, his will is the law,
religion, property, liberty, and life of every indi
vidual.
It is averted that Lord Mansfield and some
other sages of the law, have been for some time
past employed in framing a bill for preventing emi
grations.
The Hon. Thomas Cubing, Esq;
Mr. Samuel Adams,
The Hon. John Hancock, Esq;
William Phillips, Esq;
The meeting stands adjourned to this day, at
3 o'clock, P. M.
Last Monday Capt. Jonathan Greenleaf was
unanimously chosen to represent the town ofNew
bury-Port in general court.
Our worthy brethren in the country may be as
sured, that some of the most intelligent, affable
and civil of the troops, now quartered in this ca
pital, daily make excursions into our country
towns, in disguise, where they mix with all forts
of people, prompting the talkative to tell all they
know, and the weak and immoral to tell much
more. Now as secrecy is the charaderiftic of our
enemies, so openness and franknefs is peculiar to
our honest husbandmen: When the former, there
fore, are spies in the land, the latter ought to
be referred, and upon their Guard. Aword to
the wife.
A correspondent informs us, " that in travel
ling 300 miles in New-England, he has not seen
one person who gave the least countenance to the
late tyrannical measures of Parliament; but on
the contrary, the people in every part of the coun
try are prepared to meet the last efforts of tyranny,
and are determined to spend all their treasure and
their blood in defence of their rights."
By the last accounts from Ireland we learn that
very large orcers have been received there for the
exportation of butter, hides, tallow, and salt pro
visions for France and Holland.
Last night a courier arrived at St. James's with
dispatches from his Excellency Sir Robert M.
Keith, at Vienna, and another with dispatches from
Mr. Murray, at Constantinople, which were im
mediately transmitted to his Majesty at Kew.
July 30. Administration are determined to put
the exportation of provisions from Ireland to the
foreign Colonies in the Weft-Indies, under some
reftriaions.
The astonishing insensibility of the people of
this country relating to public affairs, is similar to
that fathered on the fifherman, who, being told
the ship was finking, calmly replied, that it was
nothing to him, he was but a passenger.
Aug. 2. It is worth observation, fays a corres
pondent, that Henry the Eighth, one of the great
est tyrants that ever disgraced human nature, took
special care to ad according to law, that is, un
der the fanXion of an aX of parliament; the rea
son of which is very obvious, because the parlia
ment was always ready to give him any fort of law
he desired. As ready to grant as he was to ask,
they not only altered our form of government, but
our religion, in conformity to his directions, which
in general were no less whimfeal than contradic
tory and despotic. Henry might therefore in the
language @f some of his less abandoned successors,
literally and truly have told his people either in
Parliament or out.of it, “ That he had always
made the laws of the land the rule of his govern
ment."
At a meeting of the freeholders of this town,
yesterday, at Faneuil-Hall, the following gentle
men were cholen to represent them in the Gene
ral Assembly, to be held on the sth day of Oc
tober, viz.
All accounts from Scotland, Ireland, and the
distant counties, bring the pleasing tidings of a
line profpeX of a plentiful crop of all forts of
grain.
B O S 1 O N, September 22.
“ Since my last, I have procured the aX of
Parliament mentioned there, which enaXs that
“ after July I, 1774, perfens flapping tools or
“ utensils used in the cotton, wool, and silk ma
“ nufaXories, in order to export the fame, to for
“ feit all such tools, &c. and f. 200. Officers
“ are authorifed to seize all such tools, &c. on
“ board the vessels, which may be publicly fold.
“ —One moiety to his Majesty, the other to the
" Officer. Master of a ship permitting such tools
<c or utensils to be exported, forfeits £. 200. If
“ the fliip belongs to his Majesty, the Captain
" forfeits /(. 200, and his Commiffion.—Officers
“ of the Customs allowing an entry outward, of
“ such prohibited utensils, to forfeit J. 200, and
“ his Office." Since the palling of this aX, I
find there is no probability of palling an entiy for
any more wool cards, &c. for America."
Exirafi of a Ict'crfrcm a gentleman in Middleton,
in Conneliicut, to kis jriend in BoJion, dated
September 15, 1774.
" I embrace this opportunity to acquaint you,
that the town of Hartford has fubferibed about
1400 bushels of grain, to proceed to Boston next
week, and the town of Middleton has fubferibed
about the fame quantity ; the towns of Kensington
and Middle-Hadden have each of them fubferibed
600 bufoels, the whole of which you may expect
in Boston next month, for the industrious poor,
&c. The -falfe alarm has enraged the people
greatly, about 20,000 were preparing, and feme
of them already marched for your relief, and I
presume in five days there would be 80,000 men to
affif tyou, which is more than Great-Britain can
spare.- - A kingdom divided against itfelfcannotfland.
A great number of hands are now employed in
ereXing barracks on the Common for the troops
there encamped.
York.
Genfemen, Boston, ^th Sept. 1774.
EN ERALGAG E being determined to
cut off the communication of this town with
the country, by fortifying the sole pass between
them by land, has applied to several tradesmen i^
this town, and found none base enough to engage
in so villainous an enterprize: and, it is now said,
he intends to apply to New-York for workmen,
to complete his designs; our tradesmen, therefore,
apprehending that your zeal for the common fafety
is not less to be depended upon than their own,
requeued us to give you the earliest intimation of
the matter, that you might take your measures
accordingly.
We cannot entertain a doubt, but the trades
men ofNew-York will treat an application of th ; s
kind, as it deserves. The fubjeX is of the last
importance; and for any one part of Ameri ca to
shew a readiness to comply with measures, def
truXive of any other part, will inevitably destroy
that confidence so necessary to the common sal
vation.
N E W-Y OR K, September 29.
We have advice from Quebec, that both the
English and French there, were in general as much
diffatisfied with the late Canada Bill, as any of his
Majesty's fubjeXs.
We expeX to hear of great events soon.
At a meeting of the Committee of Mechanicks
of this city, at the house of Mr. David Phillips,
a letter to them was received from the Mechanicks
of the town of Boston, which being read, it was
resolved unanimously, that the fame be printed,
and is as follows:
To the Committee of Mechanicks of the city of Neiv-
We are, Gentlemen, your friends
and fellow countrymen.
By older of the Committee,
John IVarren, Chairman.
Upon which it was unanimously resolved, that
the thanks of this Committee be returned to those
worthy mcchanieks (of this city) who have declin
ed to aid or assist in the ereXion of fortifications on
Boston Neck, which when completed, would pro
bably be improved, to spill the blood of their fel
low fubjeXs in the Massachusetts-Bay, cut off the
communication with the country, whereby the
soldiery might be enabled to infliX on that town,
all the distresses of famine, and reduce those brave
and loyal people to terms, degrading to human
nature, repugnant to chriftianity, and which, per
haps might prove deftruXive of British and Ame
rican liberty.
Resolved likewise, That the thanks of this Com
mittee be returned to those merchantsof this place
for their truly worthy and patriotic conduX, who
have virtucufly refufed to let theirveffels to trans
port thearray and the horrid engines of war for
the deferable purpose of destroying his Majefty^
faithful fubjeXs io the Maffachufett's Bay ; who
are a people well known to have been constant in
supporting, and firm in defending the Protestant
succession, as fettled in,the illustrious House of
Hanover.
Ab^l Hardenbrook, jun. Chairman.
Extraß of a letter from London, dated Augufi if,
! 774-
“ The large orders for goods, and the long de
lay of measures of resistance, give your best friends
some apprehension that you will lose the only mo
ment which you can ever have to save America
from ignominious slavery—the idea of your grow
ing Wronger and this country weaker, may be very
true in sass, but not true in point of political
strength—your enemies have been imprudent
enough to alarm you now—they may grow wifgr
hereafter, spin the snare with more art, and
forever enslave you by imperceptible steps—you
will find it the language of administration—their
emissaries and fubfervitnt merchants with whom
you correspond, that it America will be quiet for
the present all will be right again.—If you truth
such promises you are utterly undone, and deserve
the chains of tyrants —I f ould think myfetf eu
titled to drive you like negroes or bast, of bur
den if you act fc weak, so contemptible a part 'tis
Ext; aft of a letter from London, July 30.
" It is the prevailing opinion here that the co
lonies mean nothing, as the arts of administration
mutt eventually divide yon.
Signed by order and in behalf of the committee of
Mecham