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By the third clause, all Canadian fubjeds,except
religious orders and communities, are to hold all
their properties, &c. as if the proclamation had not
been made ; and all controversies relative to proper
ty and civil rights are to be determined by the Ca
nada laws now in being, or such as may be hereaf
ter enaded by the Governor Lieutenant Governor,
and Legillative Council, as hereafter defcribed,with
aprovifothat such persons who have aright tp alien
ate goods, lands, or credits, in their lifetinißmay
bequeath them to whom they will at their death ;
and also is not to extend to lands granted, or that
may be granted by his Majesty in common foccage.
By the fourth clause, the criminal law of England
is inltituted, fubjed to such amendments as may
hereafter be made by the legislative powers hereaL
ter described.
By the fifth clause, after giving the reason, a le
gislative authority is appointed, confiding of persons
rofident where, not less than seventeen, nor more
than twenty-three, to be appointed by his Majesty,
with the advice of his Privy Council, under his or
their sign manual, to make ordinances for the go
vernment of the province, with a prohibition from
laying on taxes, and also every ordinance, &c. made;
is to be transmitted to his Majesty, and if difallow
cd by his Majesty, every ordinance, &c. is to cease
upon his Majesty’s order in Council being promul
gated at Quebec ; provided likewise, that no ordi
nance touching religion ,inflidin^ any greater ptmifh
menc than fine, or imprisonment for three months,
•findl be valid till it receives his Majesty’s approba
tion : ana provided also, that no ordinance shall be
passed at any meeting of Council, except between
January 1, and May 1, unless by some urgent occa
sion, when every Member of Council refiden’t at
Quebec, or within fifty miles thereof, is to be per
lonally iummoned by theGovernor.or by the Lieu
tenant Governor, or Commander inQhief in his ab
fcence, to attend the fame.
By the sixth and last clause, his Majesty and fuc
ccffors may ered any Courts, criminal, civil, and ec
young Monarch,'moved at these tokens of their loy
alty and attachment for his person, put his head
out of the coach, and repeatedly exclaimed, “ Vive
nion f sable 7 -veils Conner boas mes Joins pour vous ren
dre heurtux. Long live my people ! Your happiness
shall be the principal object of my care,” His Ma
.iefty, farther to teftify his heart-felt fatisfadion, or
dered the price of bread to be lowered a livre.
“ A plano<f ageiieraloeconomyis now preparing,
tinder his Majesty’s own direction.
“ Twenty millions of livres are to be taken off
tile Land-Tax.
“ The circulation of corn and all forts of grain is
allowed throughout the whole kingdom, but none
to be exported to foreign parts.”
To tbe Honourable the Gammons of Great-Britain, in
Parliament affcmbled,
The humble Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aidermen,
and Commons of the City of London, in Com
mon-Council assembled,
* ‘ Shewetb,
ie THAT your Petitioners are deeply concerned,
and much alarmed, to find there is now a bill de
pending before this Honourable Houfc, intitled,
‘‘ An Ad for making more effectual provision for
the government of the provinceof Quebec,in North-
America,” which, in all cases; take away the exer
cise of the English law, arid that sacred part of it,
the trial by Jury,& substitutes in its Lead the French
law of Canada, whereby the freedom of the person,
and feccurity of the property of his Majesty’s fub
jeds are rendered very precarious.
“ That if this bill passes into a law, the Roman
Catholic will be the only legal established religion,
without any provilion being made for the free exer
cise of the protestant religion, which may prove
greatly injurious and oppressive to his Majesty’s
protestant fubjeds, who do now, or may hereafter,
reside in the said province.
“ That the legislative power is veiled folcly in
persons appointed during pleasure by the Crown,
which is totally inconliftent with the liberty & prin
ciples of the Englilh constitution.
“ Your petitioners therefore do most humbly pray,
that the said bill may not pass into a law.”
ABSTRCT of the QUEBEC BILL.
THE bill for making more effedual provilion
for the government of the provinceof Quebec, in
North-America, extends the province southward to
the banks of the Ohio, westward to the banks of the
Miffilippi, and northward to the boundary of Hud
son’s-Bay Company.
By the firft claufe,the proclamation of Odober 7,
1763, is to be void the ill of May, 1774.
By the feccnd clause, ths Remilh Clergyareto
have the exercise of their religion, fubjed to the
King’s supremacy, as established by the firft Queen
Elizabeth ; and may enjoy and receive their accus
tomed dues and rights from persons profeffing the
Romiff religion ; with a proviso, that his Majesty
ihall not be disabled from making such provision for
the support and maintenance of a Protestant Clergy
as he Ihall think fit.
clefiafti.al, within the province of Quebec, by let
ters patent under the great feel, whenever his Ma
jesty shall judge necessary. <
N E W - Y O R K, 25.
On Saturday last arrived here Thomas Cuffing,'
Robert Treat Paine<Samuel Adams, & John Adams,
Efqrs. delegates from the province of the Mafia
chufftts-Bay, ike fame day arrived John Rutledge,
Esq; one of the delegates froth S. Carolina ; and
fiuce have arrived the delegates from New-Hamp
shire. The three delegates from Corinedicut are
expeded here to night, all in their way to the con
gress at Philadelphia. The two from Rhode Jfland
we hear are gone past by water.
1 he General Aflembly of the province of South
Carolina, has voted the sum of IQOOI. sterling for
defraying the expences of their five delegates that are
to attend the General Congress at Philadelphia the
firft of next month.
Among the multiplied curses loaded upon the unhappy
heads of the diflrejfed inhabitants of the town of Bofon —
a heart wounded with the private distresses of an indivi
vidual andfar from being callous to tbe imprejfon of pity
must be permitted to address the public with the following
little anecdote which may serve to confirm us in what we
are to expect from the tender mercies of our oppressors.----
Mr. Fairfervice, ah hone fl poor man of this town hav
ing a large family of children, depending upon him for
their support—to fill their clamour for bread, ventured
bis little bark to bring up a load of fand,for the supply
of the town, which was his usual employment ; upon bis
return with his loading was Jeized and taken into the
pcjfeffiun of one of his Majesty’s Jhips of war, in the
harbour, and notwithstanding all the tears and pravers
of the poor distressed man, the inflexible barbarians, after
insulting his tears, emptied tbe Jand into the river, and
tauntingly carried oft his boat for tbe benefit of his most
gracious Majesty !
At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants
of Salem heldyefterday at the court-hcfe, in that place t
the Hon. Richard Derby, Efq\ Mr; John Pickering, jun.
Mr. Jonathan Ropes, Capt. Timothy Pickering, Capt;
'Jonathan Gardiner, jun; and Capt. Richard Manning,
were chosen deputies to represent that town at a meeting
of deputies from the fever al towns in the county of Es
sex to be held at Ipswich on the 6th of September.
G G-— made great parade in his endeavours to
prevent the meeting at Salem yesterday ; a deputy Jheriff
was stationed at the court-house dear to give notice to tbe
governor when the people proceeded to business • and to
crownail; two companies of the ftp regiment were oti
their march for the court-house; to aid the jheriff in dis
persing the meeting. The people however met, at tbe
time appointed, chose their deputies, and then returned to
their refpeplive bufinffes.
We this moment learn from Salem that the Governor
font for tbe Committee of Correspondence, while tbe peo
ple were in meeting, and questioned them, whether they
vsere concerned in ijfuing the notification for the meeting,
to which they answered in the affirmative; It is fur
ther said, tbe Governor to as Ence sent bis warrants and ’
taken up the said Committee of Correspondence of Salem.
Sftere, What will come of this?
Amidst dl our Calamities this Y’qwn has had the
fatisLUiomto be visited by two of the greareft Mi
litary Characters of the prefentAge, viz,CHARLES
LEE, Esq; formerly an Officer in the Britiff Service,
and fiuce the Reduflion of the French Settlements
We hear that last Monday morning as two of the
Gentlemen appointed by the committee to collect
for our fullering brethren inßofton set our upon that
business, the firft Gentleman they called upon was
Mr. D—e, who generously presented them with
ten pounds in caff, and the best pipe of brandy in
his distillery, valued at twentv eight pounds; obser
ving, at the fame time, that the generosity of the
Virginians and Carolinians, &c. was great and ho
nourable with refped to food, but he thought such
glorious fufferers for the common good ought to
drink as well as eat.
BOSTON August 25.
Provinceof the Massachusetts-Bay.
By the G O V E R N O R.
A PROCLAMATION,
WHEREAS certain hand-bills have been posed in
sundry places in the town of Salem, calling upon
the Merchants, Freeholders and other Inhabitants of J aid
Town, to meet at the I own-House Chamber on Wldnef
day next, at nine o'Clock in the Morning, to confider of
and determine upon Measures for oppofng the Execution of
divers late Aits of Parliament.
And whereas by alate Ail of Parliament, all Town-
Meetings called without the Consent of the Governor (ex
cept the annual Meetings in the Months of March and
May ) are illegal:
I Do hereby ftriilly prohibit all Persons from attending
the aforefaid or any other Meeting not warned by
Law, as they will be chargeable with all the ill Conse
quences that may follow thereon, and answer the fame at
their uttnof Peril.
Given at Salem the z^dDay of Auguß, 1774 s
THOMAS GAGE.
xPi O * *L u L t. R j
on th 5 Continent, being B.HI fofid of impfov’ng
his 1 alents m that Way, he went to Poland, served
the King fqvei al Years in Quality of Aid du C^mp/ ’
and had a General’s Staff conferred upon him by
that great, that virtuous and unfortnate Piince :
the other Hero is the renowned Col. PUTNAM, so
well known througliout North-America tb..t no
Words arc necessary to inform the Public any fur
ther concerning him, than that his Genortfiiy led
him to L’ofton to cheriff his opprefted Brethren 'end
support them by every Meahs in his Power ; a fine
Drove of Sheep was one Article of Comfort he was
commissioned to prefent.us with. Gencial Lee set
off for the Southern Colonies last Wednesday Af
ternoon. Colonel Putnam returns to Pomfret ia
Connecticut this Day.
HARTFORD, August 30.
Left Night came io Town from B oft on, CHARLES
LEE, Esq-, mentioned under Boston Head, atid this Morn
ing proceeded on his Journey to the Soutbern Colonies.
Several parcels of tea have lately been imported to Ma
ryland and South Carolina; which has occajtomd a good
deal of trouble and diff cully ; but the conclusion has been,
in both colonies, to fore the tea, and neither Jell nor tje it.
The use of the tea in the Britijh colonies will probably,
in a Jhcot time, be entirely abolijhed;
“ Some Days ago, at a Raising of a Building in Bark
hempftead, in the prejcnce of a large Number of Persons,
as tbs Master IForkman was fixing tbe Work, to raise,
he accidentally (as was fuppejedJ struck the Ax in a Sill
that was nigh to the Place where tbe Fabrick was to
ft and, and imm diately frejb Blood issued from thence, as
though it was let by a Lancet from a Man s Arm. This
Relation may be depended upon to be true, and no Fillion j
it is what I myfelj Jaw and above twenty persons Le
fides. R. Y.”
Mr; WATbON,
Pleaft to insert the following Confejficn of Col. Willard,
oj Lancaster; who bad unhappily taken tbe Oath of a.
Counfellor, on the new Efiablljhmeht, in the Province
of the Massachusetts-Bay.
WHEREAS I Abijah Willard, of Lancaster,
have been appointed by Mandamus, a
counfellor for this Province, and having without
due confide ration taken the oath, do now freely and
foleinnly declare that I am heartily fOrry that I
have takeri the said oath,-and do hereby solemnly &
in good faith promise and engage that I will not fit
nor ad in the said counsel, nor in any other that shall
be appointed in such manner and form!, but that I
will as much as in me lies, liiaintain the charter
rightsand liberties of this province ; and do hereby
ask the forgivenefs of all honest worthy gentlemen^
that I have offended, by taking the abovdfaid oath ;
and desire this may be inserted in the public prints.
Witness my hand ABIJAH WILLARD.
August 25th, 1774.
A THIEF !
AND a large bay horse taken up, by me the
fubferiber/ the thief iccured inHartford goal,
the horse in my cuftudy ; the thief owns he stole the
horse at Rye, in the Province of New-York, and
calls his name James Peafe, alias James Arpfey.
ISAAC GLEASON.
Farmington, Aug. 25, 1774.
1 ne Subscriber once more de
sires all Persons that have not as yet exhibited their
Demands on the Estate of John Skinner late of
Hartford deceas’d, that they would fend the fame
immediately in order for Settlement. And those
that are indebted to said Estate are requefte-d to pay
the fame td John Skinner.
Hartford, August 21, 1774;
Isaac Doolittle,
. NEW-H aVE N,
■WAVING Eroded a suitable building, and pre-
A pared an Apparatus convenient" f@r BELL
FOUNDING, and having had good Suceefs in his
firft Attempt, intends to carry on that Business, and
will supply any that plcafe to employ Jiim, with any
Size Bell commonly us'd in this, or the neighbour
ing Provinces, bn fezfqnable Terfiis.
Said Doolittle pays Cass , for old Copper.
ATolen from me the fubferiber, on the evening of
0 the sth day M August i»ft. a black roan gelding
near 15 hands high, well spread, natural to a large
Lot, paces' some, but not handy, the top of one of
his earl is nipt off by a horse, one of his legs mark’d
Mdrs’, said horse is between io & 11 yeat>s old,not
well bitted nor well rode , therefore appears awkward
when any person firft mounts him/ * Said horse is
known by some gentlemen in Hartford and Wind
sor, as he has been rode there several times. Who
ever \vill take up said liorfe and convey him to me,
orfecure him so that I may have him again, ffall
have 10 Dollars teward. 'And an additional Re
ward of five Dollars' to' any person whb iVill ao
prehend And secure the thief, so that may Le
brought to justice, paid by me,
Moalbn. Aug. 12.1774.' • Wcob.
Ten. Dollars Reward,