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him thief, fame / take and fecare io the up ( ;
jufticc ; difeorer brought he be where may to or
shop goods, Whoever nnccrtaiu. ft-J- some ’
forNevGatef Make 1A Probationer Way
Stolen of the Shop out
fubferiber in after in?.' night the the 4th of the
ilh half of this Co bill Eng any, one crown, ss.
spoons 6 filter M mstked R March,. one new
of pieces 6 Spanifli few small mill’d dollars, a
ooefiik filter, purle, in about coppers, 41. one
filter pair filter buckle, knee buckles, neck two
MATTHEW TALLCOTT.
Mitch h 7 1774.
shethlsg? (baU 1$ well rewarded.
Milton, 24 Feb, 1774.
By the Governor’s fpccch to the house, in
afwer to their Mcffage of Friday the 18th ait.
it appear;, “ That the Governor has declined
complying with the fsce&d Request of theHcufe
bf Representatives, which was to take the Ad
vice of his Majcfty’s Council upon their Petiti
on for tkc Removal of Chief Justice Oliver.
*• That I may give you a fall and I hepe fatis
faftory Anfvcr. ’fays his Exccl'ency, “ I mud
repeat to you —that I am the Servant of the
King—tbit I have receiv’d n® kftru&inns nor
any Sigt. if cations of hisMajefty’s Pleafare, which
are not perfrA'y cosfifteot with your Charter,
and whisb his M^jeßy has not an indifputabic
Authority to give—— aed that fueb Inftruftiona
or SigniScat toss of his Majtfty’s P.eafare arc
by my Gummiffion the Rule cf my \dminikra
tion.” Whether ail or either mny be thought
by some Perlons to be cot altogether taperti
nent and “ fal’ecim”; but if there be bo foch
Isftruflioo he might at kaft have gratified tbc
House so far as to have taken the Advice of the
Council upon their Addrcfs. The Hou.c ua
donbtedly meant co more by taking the Advice
of the Council, than “ to advise and cenfa t
with them” upon it., His ExcePeacy m.gbt
without a Q^eflion hase thus untterfhod ihstn.
This he fays “ would be (rifliag with the
Con-tcil—becscfe they wtuld give 'heir Advice
to no Pa; ptfe, Leiog he is not at Liberty, if
they advise to h, to disobey h » Mij.fty’* Com
mw-i! ” The Governor, we judge, here ex
pzeffeth I imfdf fomewbat equivocally• That
he is not ax Liberty to disobey the King’t Com
wnd tv indeed, as he Gy* it is, the Rule ot bis
Admioiftration, mod be allowed to be good
Reasoning ; but whether the Governor here
means that h ■ fhouid dTobey the King’s Com.
mand, if he (houid by the Advise of the Council
remove the Ch cf Justice, or whether he fpcaks
generaly, is left uacer ain, we w H not fay de
signedly. If he intends the farmer, which it is
molt natural to suppose, what he only hinted
at before ha new p’ain y (peaks that he som
manded by theKing not to remove Chief Jufticc
Oliver, upen the Reqoefl of the H«ufe of Rcpre
kntativeseven ibo’ his Msjefty’sCuuccil fhouid
advise him that the Address of the House was
well founded, and for aught we know, tho’ he
fhouid be convinced of it himfclf. —We cansot
easily believe that oar gracious Soveriega has
laid him under foch a Command, efpecia'ly
when we coufifar that by Aft ®f Parliament,
it is lawful for theKiog t® remove a Judge upon
the Adctrefs of bo h Houses : But we observe
that his Excellency fpesks of “ Significations
of the King’s Pleafare how we are to under.
Hand the King’s P/eafure lignified to him whe
ther by an Inftruftion uader the Sign Manual,
or in a Letter from one of his Ministers or Ser
vants, is orc of ths Arcana Imperii io this Cou
ntry ■ bis Excellency hsvieg farmery, it we
mistake n»t, informed the House that he dare
oct difc’ofe it without his M^jefty’s Leave
Upon rereiving hi* Message from the Governor
the Houf# relolrcd by a very great Mjoriiy to
Lnpesch the Chief Jufticc, and appointed a
Committee to bring i nthe Articles, which were
afterward* bre’t ia and agreed to in the H®ufe
by a Majority ®f 92 to 8 _ Whereupon tic
House feikt a Meflage to the Getcrnor to dvfire
that his Excellency would be in ihc Cbsir • hut
he declining the third R^qurft of the House,
they immediately (on Saturday last) feut up a
Committee to In peach the Chief Judice of
High Crimes and Mddcmeaoors.
and of the Houle of Reprefentstives,
HAVING received diferetiooary Leave frortj
the King to go toEnghud, I thiak it pro*
per to acquaint you with this hfbnc* of hisMa
jefty’* m»S gracicus Conde fees fico, and that I
iotrnd to avail mfe sos it tfLoo as His Service
wiH admit
I must dafire ycu t» give all the Dispatch
poSbe te such eccefiary publick Bnliref* as
may yet lie before yea, for I must face, by Ad
jouvnment er Prerogitioa, give the Court Rc
«fs, thht I may attend to that Preparation for
Veyige which his Msjefty’s Service an d my
perfa sil Affairs require.
Lift Friday Morning his Excellency the Go*
terncr sent the following MdGge to both
Houles of Aflembly, viz.
Geet'emen of the Council,
BOSTON, Feb. 28.
THO’s. HUTCHINSON-
ARTICLES of Impeachment of High Crimes
and Mifdemcaaours againftPsTßa Oliv&k,
Esq; C >ief Jufticc of the Superior Court cf
Judicature, Court of Afiize and G:ceral Goal
Delivery ©ver this Province, by the House of
REPRESENTATIVES, in General Court
afiembled, in their own Name, and in the
Name •fall the Inhabitants of this Province,
Febiuary 24 1774.
WHEREAS their late Majesties King Wil
liam and Qu’^n Mary <sf glorious me
mory, from their great regard to the Eng'ifb
cosftiitaiien, and earned desire to cHabCfh the
lasse io this his Mjefty's province, did by their
charter made and grafted in the third year of
their reign, establish and ordain, that all and
every of the fukjifts of them their heirs and
fucecffors, which Ihauld come to, and ichabit
withio this ptovinae and territory, and every of
their ebi <’rxn which (hoo d happen to be bars
there, or 00 ths fess io coming hithe or return
ing from h<ncc, fhouid have and e j >y all li
berties and immunities of free and natural fub
jeft* within any of the dominions afthcas their
heirs and fuccrffors, to all ioteats conftruftioas
asd purposes whatever, as if they and every of
them were barn within the realm of England,
And in the (aid charter it is farther grafted
and ordained, that the Great and Mineral Court
or Affcmbly of the province, which is before e
ftablilhcd io the Gme charter, (hall forever have
full power and authority to crcft sod eonftitatt
judicatories and courts of record or ether courts,
for the hearing, trying and detetmiDieg of ait
manner of cr.mes &«.
Aad the laid General Court or Atf&mbly bath
by the faaac charter full power and authority to
impo e and cyy proportionable and rcafenablc
kff.ffm^nts rates and taxes, upon the effaces
av« perfoos of ail and every the proprietors and
iohauirants ®f the province far his Majesty’s Per
vice ia toe aeccffiry dr fence acrl fopport ®f his
Majsft/’s government of the province, and the
prefect,on a^d prefervatioo of the inhabitants
there®? : T® the intent th.<t the inhabitants
of thia his Majeftv’s province might a’ways have
•nd enj*y thus ff.nttsl privilege of the Eoglifh
coaftirunon. ci (uppertmg the executive and ju
dical ofike s «o the government of this ptoviace
by tic ftte crantc ts the ptep/g.
And whcrris the Great aad General Court
er ^fism->!y of «lhs province, in purfuancc of
the power and w.bmity granted a* afersfaid,
and of ths go?d imarion thereof, have unin.
terrspred y exc ufi»cly from the granting of
the said charter tn^de provifien by their own
gra? s for the fapport ofhis Majifty’s said Su
perior Court : But mnDy evil-minded prrfons,
not regarding the said charter nor ihe good in
te-.tioos of ihe Gwi have of late years combin
ed and coofpircd together, to put diver* cea
(huft.eoson the said carter, wholly kconfiftent
with the aferefaid manifeft intent and purpofc
of the fame and dedroftive of EngHflh liberties ;
ard to introduce and eftab; sh another form of
government, and a new mode of lupportmg the
executive and jodxiM officers of the govern
meat. For which intent they did by faife rc
prrfeatations, procure to be made and pufled
by the parliament of Greit Britain, an aft for
the eftablilh neat of a revenue to he levied inA
merica, and appropriated among other things
for the dsfravieg of the charge* of the adminif
nation of justice io fuck colooics where his Ma
jesty ftijutd judge proper ; and a’fo by faife re
prefcntiHon* and evil advice, have procured the
royal grant of large fnm* of money, to be paid
annuady out cf the said revenue to the Jafticcs
ofXhe said Superior Court; by the eflablifhmeot
of which the kid Jufticss of the said Superior
Coan weald be aliened from any conneftkn
with the peop’e of thi* province, for wbofe be
nefit they are and ought to be appointed, and
would be indebted to his Mijefty for bis grants
made them for their fervice* ; and by means
thereof becom e fuhjeft io the influence and dis
reflion of bis M.jetty ’» mioiftcr, of date ia mat
ters sppertairing to the diftrihaticn ®f justice
in province ; whereby a foundation will be
hid as a union of ihe department of the judicial
power* hue with that of the King’s ministers
of Kate io Great Britain, than which nothing ia
more to he dreaded by a free people.
And whereas Peter Oliver, Esq; chief Jufticc
of the Superior Coart of Judicature, Court of
Province of Massachusetts Bay-
be Jold^ a piece of
Land lying in IP ind for in Wintonbury parijh,
containing five acres, with a good diact ling
house bain andcowheufe, a good •will and a
cyder mill on the fame, and an erebard which
yie ds thirty barrels of cyder annually and is cut
onfaid land five tuns of English hay yearly.
Said land is situate about a mile from the meet
ing beufe and adjoining upon a grist mill, and
•within a quarter of a mite cf a saw and fulling
Broke out of Litchfield
county goal in tie ni^ht after tie es Feb.
infi. ene A extnJtr Themion, lately cowiieft be
fore the Hon. Superior Cou^t of Mar, daughter t
and committed for the Cofi of p'ojccution, it a
bout aS fears of age a liktf ticking fetter,
nviib cur tea brtruin hair, a joiner by Hrade.---*
Wheet'er will appretetc and return J aid Thcmfin
to jaia goalJhalt have Six Dollars reward, paid
h . IXNDE LORD, Sherif.
Litchfield. 2pl Feb. 1774,
Affiz: and Gcaen! Gad Delivery o?er this Fro
v.nce, a court wholly erefled and cooftttuted by
the Great and General Court or Aficmbly by a
power granted to the Gid General Court by the
c aufe in said charter aforementioned, well
knowing the premises but oot regarding the
fame, with design to subvert the conflitution of
this province a* eftab'ifhed by the Gid royal char
ter, and to introduce into the said Court a parti'
a’ arbitrary and corrupt adminlftraiion of juf
ticc, declining to take and receive any more the
grants of the General A (Terribly of this province,
did on or about il e tenth day ©f January, 1774,
at Bollen, in tie county of Suffolk, take ard re
ceive, and refeive frs ihe future to take and re
ceive from his Msjefly’* mioifters and servants,
a g-ant or (alary for his ferviccs as chief jnftic©
of the said superior court, against his own know
ledge of the said charter, and ©f the way and
manner prefcribcd therein fcr the fnpport of his
Majefly’* government in the provinoe, and con
trary <0 uninterrupted and approved usage and
custom fiacc the erefling and conftimtipg of the
Gid court. And she said Peter Oliver,Efq; ccq.
tinucs in the said refection fa to do, against thn
opinion and coodufl of the oiher judges of the
said esurt, each of whom has declared rslpefting
h mfclf, his refolmion to the contrary. And
whereas the unmerited fam of four hundred
pounds Herting granted by his Majesty and an
nually to be paid to ths said Peter Oliver, Esq/
for his service as chief jufticc of ihe said fcpc
rior court, together with the hopes of its acg
mentation, if he ia Hill faffetod to costicue in his
Gid eftl c, esnoot fail to have the rffeft of a eon
tirual bribe fa his judicial proceedings, and ex
pose him to a violation of his oath. Aoddsy
his accepting and receiving the said fam, ho
hath betrayed the corruption and bafeneG of bit
haart, and the sordid loft of covcuoufncfs : In
breads of his engagements to tdy folcly upon
the grants of ihc general assembly, nccefftrily
implied and involved in his accepting said office.
i^emoin^tr next Wttk.]
BOSTON, March 3. 1774.
This Morning between 5 and 6
o’clock died here, the Honorable
ANDREW OLIVER, Esq; Lieu
tenant-Governor of this Province :
In the 68th Year of his Age.
A. B. If any per fen is inclined to purahaft
more land, there is right eppefite, only a high
way parting from 15 to 75 acres te be fold.
For further particulars enquire of
Nails of all Sizes, aad all Kinds o£
Goods, very low for CASH,
tfff Such as Fifties ©ever duck ! !
T© be fold by
WILLIA M BEADLE,
At Wethersfield.
March 8, S77J.
Bed Bohea TEA^
Jonathan Cilitt,
Timothy Nofkins.