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Bytbe JANUARY PACKET, arrived
at New-York front Falmouth, we have the
following advices. t
From tie St. James's Chronicle, January 14.
Flotations from good Authorities refrefling Taxatic*'.
tf&f^^y T is against the Franchifcs of the Land
g,,f "*> ^ for Freemen to be taxed but by their
tyre J ™ty own content. Sir Edward Coke.
$ Resolved, That the ancient and un
^^ doubtedqßight of every Freeman is—
That he hath a full and absolute pro
perty in his Goods and Eflate, and cannot be taxed
but by common consent.
Comm. Journ. N. 1. P. 878.
A tax granted by the Parliament of England Snail
not bind those of Ireland, because they are not fum
inoned to our Parliament.
Opinion of the Judges of England,
1 20th of Henry VI.
Ireland bath a Parliament of its own, and maketh
and altereth Laws, and our Statutes do not bind them,
because they do not fend Knights to our Parliament.
Opinion of the Judges of England, 2 Rich. 111.
You have no Right to tax America.— I rejoice that
America has resisted.—Two millions of our fellow fub
je&s, so loft to every sense of virtue, as tamely to give
up their Liberties, would be fit instruments to impose
chains upon the rest.
Lord Chatham.
My researches hate more and more convinced me
that you have no right to tax America. I will main
tain it with my last breath.—Taxation and Represen
tation are inseparable.
Lord Camden.
From a rite LONDON PAPER.
UNION of AM ERIC A.
FROM the Proceedings of the American Congress,
we find a fettled and established plan actually in
execution, for uniting the whole Continent in one uni
form and firm Resistance of the parliamentary govern
ment of Great-Britain. We ought to be alarmed at
this. Even Canada, groaning under despotic sway, is
toot unattempted by them ; they have written a formal
and fpi i.ed letter, calling for their Union and En
gagement. Ido not apprehend it will have any great
effea, but there is another light in which it ought to
be viewed, which is the unremitted Diligence of the
Americans: 1 hey now shew how determined they are
to carry their resistance to the last extremity: This
They prove in the cleared manner; nay, the very unit
ing the town of Boston has been under debate, and
reckoned advifeable in the last resort. When will our
Ministers open their eyes? What is to be the return?
The Congress have determined, that if a man in Ame
rica is seized for a trial in Great-Britain, the province
ought, as a common cause, to attack his foes and res
cue him. Surely our wife and military ministers are
prepared for such a resistance: They have, I suppose,
ordered 7000 men more to Boston, and ten fail of (hips ;
they then will have more than half the military force of
The Kingdom of England employed—in they know not
what—in only one province of America. The people
of Philadelphia have then nothing to do but to riot,
and this force mud be divided. Next Charles-Town
may be in the fame situation, and then certainly frefh
forces must be sent. What is all this to end in ? The
troops are in the mod ridiculous situation imaginable;
they are not fighting; they are not a direct garrison,
and yet they mud be ever on the qui live, as if 4000
Frenchmen were at their elbows; they have no enemy,
and yet always under arms; every one around them
profeTTing loyalty and non-resistance ; and yet are more
feared than open enemies. If this situation of affairs is
to last, I will venture to assert, that America had bet
ter be in open rebellion; the troops must certainly re
main where they are, for the severity of the Bodon re
gulations is to last till the submission of that town, and
we now find the people will sooner quit the town than
submit at all. Thus will the matter last, till a French
and Spanish war happens, and then we shall find Ame
rica has Vigour, as well as Perseverance.
AMERIC A.
IF A RSAIV, November 20.
T IPON a computation that~has been made of
the loss which the Republic has Suffered by
the dismemberment of Poland, it appears, that what
has fallen to the lot of the Hou'e of Austria brought in
a revenue to the Republic of 1,936,774 florins; to
which if we add, for the produce of the Salt Works,
1,870,000, it will make an annual revenue of 3,806,774
Polilh florins. It is to be obfexved besides, that the
new Andrian Administration has revived some old
branches of the revenues, which, together with several
duties, amount to upwards of three times the sum above
mentioned. The Lot which fell to Russia, tho' much
more extensive in territory, is abundantly less rich;
the annual revenue of it being no more than 791,422
florins. The revenue of the territory which fell to
the lot of the King of Prussia, is valued at 1117,573
Horias.
POSTSCRIPT to the Pemifylvania-Packet. No. 177.
Alicant, Nov. 26. It is almost two years since we
had any rain here, and in this neighbourhood. The
harvcli last year accordingly proved very indifferert,
and we have not much appearance of better in fu
ture. Iris impossible to sow the laud on account of
the great drought which prevails, and which the
North winos tend to increase. Public prayers are
offered up daily for rain.
IVafa^v, Fee. 4. They reckon, at present in the
two Pruffias, seventy thousand Prussian veteran troops.
The city of Dantzig has received its ultimatum from
the court ofßeriin, in which it is fignified, that she has
nothing to do but to submit to the conditions pro
posed.
Vienna, Dec. 7. We are assured that the court hath'
given orders for eight battalions and four regiments or
Hussars to march to Moldavia.
Botzen, Dec. 15. The Government, by virtue of an
Imperial and Royal Refcript, have established a com
mission of 16 persons, viz. three Ecclesiastics of the
firft rank, three Members of the Nobility, three Bur
gomasters, fix Senators, and the rest chosen from the
other classes of citizens, who are to take account of all
the poor that are able to work, rind to provide them
therewith, and the infirm are to be fuinifoed with
cloaths and support. All foreign beggars are to be
sent out of the country.
Ofend, Dec. 21. T, e Board of Finances have, by
an ordinance of the lot rind prohibited the exportation
of peafe and beans, as Te meal of all kinds, except that
made from buck-wheat.
Paris, Dec. 29. By letters from Rennes, we learn,
that the States of Bri~anny were opened on the 20th
by the Duke of Penthievre, affifled by Mess. Viarme;
and that the 21st he demanded a dee gift of two mil
lions, which was granted.
L 0 N D O N, December 19.
The court of VerESes has, it is laid, unexpected
ly declined giving any fpecific profiles in relation to
agreeing to regulations lefp&Sing any intercourse which
French Subjects may be in luced to carry on with British
America.
No less a fem than io,oool. per annum is fiddled
this year in annual pentions on the frith eftablilhment.
Dec, 20. It appears by the cuff m house books, that
the amount of the duty on Portugal wines, imported
into this kingdom the last year, has decreased iß,oool.
Dec. 24. The Provost of the Mint at Lyons was
brought to Paris a few days ago, guarded by a detach
ment of the Marechaufle, and confined in the Concier
gerie; but the charge aginif him is not yet known.
They write from Lisbon, that the court lately re
ceived an express from the Brazils, whose dispatches
were kept a profound secret ; but that it had since been
remarked that orders had been given to compleat all the
King's forces as soon as possible.
A correspondent thinks a good apology might be
made for the late George Grenville, in carrying the
Stamp Ad against the Americans: Hoknew not how
such aft would be received in the Colonies. He gave
t^o years notice of his intention to bring in a bill for
that purpose ; no opposition was made to it from abroad,
and it was carried through both houses in the Second
session, almost without a debate; the fault, therefore,
did not lie in the Minister, hardly in the Legislature,
but grofly in the Americans, for their supineness and
inattention to their own inbereft, after two years notice
of the intended law ; and yet, to the honour of the Bri
tish Legislature,the tax being proved unjust they repeal
ed the ad. But what apology can be found for the
present Ministry, who, with full notice of the disposi
tions, and free spirit of the Americans, make a frefh at
tack upon their liberties, and answer their spirited re
monstrances from the mouth oftheif cannon ? Fox Po,uli
is not always Fox Dei; and it is equally true that the
voice of the Legislature is more often the voice of the
Minister. Individuals must yield to the decisions of
the Legislature, but they yield like Slaves, when the
will of the Minister is forced upon them for law. The
object of the Legislature is the good of the individual.
A Minister coufults the benefit of one individual alone,
and that not his master. The Legislature calls in the
aid of the executive power to enforce their laws because
they are just; the Minister because they are his will.
'I he Legislature of Great-Britain are open to convi&ion,
and revoke their law, if repugnant to the law of God,
or the rights of mankind: And hence we have seen a
Jew Bill, and a Stamp A& 'repealed. But what can
bend the Stubborn will of a despotic Minister, who
drowns the voice of reason by the thunder of his can
non, and argues from the point of a bayonet.
Advices received by this day's mail intimate, that a
great coolness has taken place between the three par
titioning powers, Russia, Prussia, and Austria, which it
is not impossible may lead to a rupture. It is not the
firft time the plunderers have quarrelled about the
divifien of the booty. However it is somewhat to the
honor of Russia, that she Sides with Poland on the pre
sent occasion, against the all-grasping avarice of that in
satiable monster, the tyrant of Sans Souici.
Dec. 26. Yesterday according to annual custom, the
Queen's bounty of 5001. out of her private purse, was
distributed to poor men and women, parifhoners of St.
James's.
His Majesty has ordered his annual bounty of 10001.
to be distributed among the r>oor inhabitants inion
don and Wehminftcr.
Letters from Gibraltar mention, that the Mediterra
nean seas swarm witn Algerine Pirates, who have made
very considerable prizes, especially some Danish veilbls
richly laden, which they have carried into Algiers.
We learn from good authority, that a bill is prepared
for the further suppression of the practice of smuggling.
Dec. 27. A letter from Madagascar gives an account
that a French Ship had been seized by the natives, who
set on Shore the captain and crew, and went off with the
drip and cargo.
It is said a very heavy tax will be laid upon the peo
ple of England for the current year, in order to supply
the immense loss which the revenue will sustain by the
present disputes with America. It is well known our
Colonies produce no less than two millions a year ster
ling into the British treasury ; if one half is supposed to
be the present loss, what must be the taxes imposed to
Supply that deficiency at home ? The Sanguine fa
vourers of severe measures against the Americans re
joice at the apparent necessity of adding to the present
heavy load of taxes In England, conceiving it may raise
the indignation of the people at home against the au
thors of this additional burthen, and boatt of it as a
Suitable reward to that patriotism, which is So afraid of
putting the yoke upon the necks of the Colonists, that
they would plaee them on their own; but they do
not fee the fallacy of this court logic, which supposes
a Spirit of rebellion in the Americans, when the whole
mifehief arises from a Spirit of despotism in a certain
junto at home.
A moderate man lamenting in an august assembly to
a mixed circle, that some expedient could not be hit
upon to pacify the Americans, and save the honor of the
present ministry : Many thought of fading Sir Jeffery
Amherst, whose firmnefs and moderation would aufwer
the purpose ; after several plans offered, and Gover
nors proposed, I know but one way, cries C— --
F—x, that would be effectual, and I think that would-
What is that ? cr es the company earnestly. Why,
fend Lord B-- -te to Boston, and I believe that would
give perfect fatisfa&ion throughout all the Colonies.
The London, Robinson, from Virginia for London,
a miffing ffiip, is put into + almouth'.
The Britannia, Price, from Jamaica for London
and the Polly, D noy, from Antigua, are both put imo
Waterford by contrary winds.
There is no reason, fays a correspondent, to believe 0
that Lord Bute has meddled with affairs of Govern
ment for many years. It is well known that he has re
jected the most earned Solicitations of his near.ll rela
tions, who have often pref Ted him to use his interest at
court in their favour. He seems determined to Spend
the remainder of his days in retirement, and remote
from all the contentions of the several parties who may
hereafter endeavour to embroil the date. To make use
'of his name, therefore, merely for the fake of abuse,
and to charge him with measures he neither knows nor
directs, is equally illiberal and unjust.
Dec. 28. They write from Paris, that the disputes
between Louis the XVlth. and the present Parliament,
are likely to be productive of as much disturbance as
that of the late reign.
The piratical states of Barbary seem determined on
their own ruin, by at or;ce drawing upon themselves
the vengeance of England, France, and Spain, either
of which is able to work their utter deftru&ion.
Extrafi of a letter from Leghorn, Nov. 29.
“ The rebels who forced their way through a body
of troops under Colonel Dubourg, and reached an in
acceflible hold, in the Pieve of Cafinca, after the Co
lonel retired, were joined by several other parties, to
the number of 400, and immediately began frefh depre
dations ; they burnt three villages, carried of provisi
ons, and took a party of Soldiers (34) whom they
met with prisoners. They are headed by a nephew of
the famous Giaferi, who is said to be poffe^d of all
his uncle's warlike qualities; he has just issued a
proclamation, Summoning every Corsican able to bear
arms to repair to him. The French keep the passes too
closely guarded for this to be of any effeCt; those who
are uith him have bound themselves in the most solemn
manner to contend for their liberty to the last drop of
blood. It is said the Count de Marbeeuf intends to
block them up in an efe&ual manner, which is the
only way they can be subdued, as the retreat is of such
a nature, that an hundred men may beat 10,000."
Dec. 29. The 26th ult. fix Ruffian men of war, un
der the command us Rear Admiral Greigh, arrived ar
Leghorn, so that there are now twelve RuiTiau men of
war in that port.
Extract of a letter from Briflol, Dec. 26.
“ The following account we have received here by
Capt. Wood, of the C&far, just arrived from Virginia:
He fays that he spoke with the African King, William
lon master, from Antigua for London, in distress, hav
ing three dangerous leaks, and was obliged to throw?
part of her sugars over-board for the preservation of
their lives and vefTel, as rhe pumps would hardly keep
her free. Captain Wood assisted him all he could with
his Carpenter, &c. and thinks flie will arrive. He fell
in with her the 16th ult. in lat. 42: 39, North, 39:
10, Weft.
Dec. 30. A Great Personage has declared his total'
disapprobation of any concession whatever relative to
a certain proposed alteration in th? Quebec Bill.
The last expedient devised by the oppressors of Ame
rica, it is said, is to export our manufactures to the
Gur government colonies, Nova-Scotia, Georgia, and
the two Floridas, and from thence Smuggle them into