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Therefore, to prevent, as far as possible, the evil
tendency of such perlons continuing among us (ex
cepting those of them who Ihall be approbated by the
Se!e& Men) and to difeourage the sale of their mer
chandize, We, the merchants, traders, and others of
the town of Hollon, do agree —
ift. That a committee be appointed to draft a pe
tition to Congress, r^prefenting the embarraffmenta
under which trade now labours, and the kill greater
to which it is expoled—and that the said committee
be enipowered and directed to write to the several
lea-ports in this date, requeuing them to join with
the merchants in this town in a similar application to
Congress, immediately to regulate the trade of the
United States, agreeably to the powers vetted in them
by the government of this Commonwealth, and allo
to obtain inftruhions to their representatives at the
next General Court, to call the attention of their de
• legates in Congress to the importance of bringing for
ward such regulations as Ihall place our commerce on
a footing of equality.
Voted, Ihat the said committee be requested to
write to the merchants in the several lea-ports of the
United States, earnestly recommending to them an
immediate application to the Legislatures of their re
fpedive states, to vest such powers in Congress (if not
already done) as Ihall be competent to the interesting
purposes aforefaid; and also to petition Congress to
make such regulations as Shall have the desired effed.
Voted, That we do pledge our honour, that we
will not, dire&ly or indiredly, purchase any goods of,
or have any commercial connections whatever with,
such Britilh merchants, favors or agents, as are now
reliding among us, or may hereafter arrive either from
England, or any part of the British dominions (ex
cept such persons as Shall be approved as aforefaid)
and we will do all in our power to prevent all persons
acting under us from having any commercial inter
course with them, until the Talutary purposes of these
resolutions Shall have been accomplished.
Voted, That we will not let or fell any warehouse,
Shop, house, or any other place for the sale of such
goods, nor will we employ any persons who will af
lift said merchants, factors, or agents, in the prose
cution of their business, as ^e conceive all such Bri
tijb importations are calculated to drain us of our
currency, and have a dire& tendency to impoverish
this country.
Voted, T hat a committee be appointed to wait on
those persons who have already let any warehouse,
Shop, house, or any other place for the disposal of
the merchandize of such merchants, agents or factors ;
and inform them of the resolves of this meeting.
Voted, That we will encourage, all in our power,
the manufactures and produce of this country, and
will, in all cases, endeavour to promote them.
Voted, That a committee be appointed to make
immediate application to the Governor and Council
of this Commonwealth, requesting them, if they think
proper, to direct the several naval officers of this State
to grant no permit for the landing of goods from the
dominions of Great-Britain, consigned to, or the pro
perty of, persons of the aforefaid defcriptian, until the
meeting of the Legislature.
Voted, 1 hat copies of these resolutions be printed
and dispersed among the inhabitants, that they may
be adopted and carried into execution with that tem
per, which is confident with the character of citizens.
PARI S, February 13.
TffHEY write from Madrid, that the marriage of
& Don Gabriel will be rendered remarkable by
thq abolition of the tribunal of the inquisition, which
at present takes no cognizance of the conduct of fo
reigners, who in lea ports are fubjed only to the power
of Secular justice. 1 his alteration will have a favour
able effect on the commerce of Cadiz, Barcelona,
Seville, Corunna, &c.
MADRI D, February 14.
For some days we have had rumours of a third ex
pedition against Algiers ; and the preparations for this
purpose are said to be going on in the harbours of
Carthagena and Barcelona.
L O N D O N, Feb. 9.
A letter from Limerick, dated February 9, fays,
" The merchants of this place have fitted out two
vessels for the Greenland whale fifhery, which are
intended to fail the beginning of next month. Ac
cording to the success of this attempt, two more will
be added next year. They are the firft ever sent from
Ireland. The Ufrow Gabretta Sophie, from Lisbon
for Amsterdam, is on shore off the mouth of the Shan
non, and her htuation at present very doubtful."
Feb. 21. There are letters in town from Madrid,
which ftate,that one of the Royal Spanish mines in
South America had fallen in, whereby several hun
dred slaves were buried alive, and the working of the
mine will be rendered impracticable for several years.
Foreign Intelligence.
A daily paper fays, Mr. Cook, one of the confi
dential secretaries of Mr. secretary Orde, is arrived
in town express from Ireland. He brings an account
of the effects Mr. Pitt's speech, on the system to the
Englilh House of Commons, had on Ireland. We
understand that they received the intelligence of Mr.
Pitt's declaration, “ that he would not trust to the
present or future generosity of the Irish people, but
that they must make a certain and irrevocable grant
of the surplus of the hereditary revenue, as a prelimi
nary condition to the proposed commercial system,"
with indignation, and the leading men of both houses
had pronounced their firm determination not to go
further than they had done in the eleventh resolution ;
for they would rather lose the whole of the propositi
ons than agree to receive them under the condition of
a tribute. But the material intelligence which he
brings, and on which the Ministry we hear are much
perplexed, is that the Privy Council of Ireland had
Solemnly refufed to present this determination of the
English Ministry to the Irish Parliament ; the govern
ment of Ireland flood pledged for the proposition as
they had worded it, and the lieutenant considered
himfelf as bound in honour not to tetrad what he had
laid by the mouth of his minister.
• Every one of the American Consuls are appointed
fiom the refugees. Can the Americans approve of
those whom they have driven from their country ?—
Will they not continue to confider them spies and ene
mies ?
March 8. The last Leyden Gazette informs us,
that the news of the failure of the house of Peter Pro
li, at Antwerp, and the insolvency of the Trieste and
Afiatick company, is fully confirmed.
DUBLI N, March 12.
On Thursday, a number of refpe&able citizens gave
a publick dinner to Mr. Magee, proprietor of the
Dublin Evening Post, on his enlargement from pri
son ; among many others, the following toasts were
drank—Captain James Napper Tandy in the chair:
The constitution—may we never want hands to de
fend, or spirit to support it.
The King of Ireland.
The Queen and her children.
Mr. Magee, and the freedom of the fubjed.
The liberty, not licentiousness of the press.
Prosperity to Ireland, and her legitimate sons, and
a speedy conversion to her spurious progeny.
Ihe Volunteers of Ireland, and may their arms
never rust
General Lord Charlemont
Universal benevolence to mankind.
A union of sentiment and interest to the Men of
Ireland.
An Irifo Adminiflration supported by the men of
Ireland—not by the venal purchase of an ariftocratick
fadion.
May corruption cease to be the chief support of
RULERS.
The United States of America.
General Washington.
Dodor Franklin.
A proper adjustment, without deceit, to the trade
of Ireland.
A locked jaw, with the full use of their reason, to
the calumniators of the Volunteers.
May allegiance cease when protection is denied.
The minority of the House of Commons.
The minority of the House of Lords.
The Congress of Ireland, and the real representa
tives of the people.
Isaac Corry, Esq.
A speedy reform to Parliament—and may the next
Hoyfe of Commons be as virtuous as the present is
corrupt.
Increase to the yeomanry of Ireland, and decrease
to the arillocracy.
May the enemies of Ireland never enjoy the blessings
of it.
Lord Stafford's fate to every Lord Lieutenant who
would endeavour to misrepresent the people to their
sovereign.
Bishop Laud's fate to those judges who prefer the
remnant of Star-Chamber tyranny to the trial by jury.
Colonel Sharman, President of Congress.
May the benches of the House of Commons prove
as dedruftive to corrupt members, as Shillela oak is
to all venemous creatures.
Infamy to those who owe their greatness to their
country's ruin.
Universal contempt to all apostates.
Increase to the friends of freedom.
Sunfliine and good humour to the aiTertors of the
rights of Ireland ; disappointment and exemplary jus
tice to their foes.
March 13. ()ur rulers, by the late burthenfome
and grievous taxes, have increased the spirit of emi
gration tenfold. A (hip will fail, on Sunday next,
.March 4. A few days since was seized, from a la
dy near St. James's, and sent to the custom-house, a
French fan ; the penalty is 200 pounds, with full cost
of suit.
from this harbour for Philadelphia, with a vast num
ber of young fellows, mechanicks and artificers, and
double the number would accompany them, if it were
not that the cxpenccs attending so long a voyage are
too much for their present circumstances : But they
have formed a resolution to live in the most frugal
manner, for some time, to be enabled to take their
departure fre a country in which they behold no
profpea: but fery and slavery. In a few years, we
will be deprived of all the young and active part of
the industrious, and none will remain to build, plant
or till, but the aged and infirm.
PHILADELPHI A, April 26.
A letter received from a most intelligent gentleman
in Dublin, dated March 5, contains the following in
teresting particulars: “ 1 he state of politicks in this
country exhibits so many new pictures of infamy, cor
ruption, tyranny, and depravity, as rival all ancient
and modern precedents. We seem to be a fallen na
tion—a mushroom: one day in its growth—the next
fees its dissolution. The attorney-general, foremoft
in the ranks of tyranny, is prosecuting every person
concerned in convening the counties, &c. to choose
delegates to Congress—and every printer who has
published their relolutions. Mr. Magee [proprietor
of the Dublin Evening Poft] was this day liberated
from Newgate, after a long confinement, for con
tempt of Court ; but he has yet to be tried for seve
ral fabricated offences, which will throw him on a
special jury, who will find him guilty, right or wrong.
Mr. Rorke, of Bridge-street, is to be confined fix
months, besides paying large pecuniary molds. Poor
Kidd [one of the proprietors of the Dublin Morning
poft] lies there now, and is to be tried for new of
fences. Amidst all these persecutions, the work of
infamy rolls onward in Parliament with uncommon
celerity.—No reform—no protecting duties no be
neficial ad; and, wonderful to tell, a resolution of
both houses, “ that the revenues Ihall be made up to
" equal the expenditures." With this view, the new
taxes to be imposed, astonish and alarm every man:
an additional half-penny on news-papers, and a (hilling
on every ten lines of advertisements, besides a (hilling
for each advertisement, as such; and so in proportion
to the number of columns in each paper. These taxes
are with the double view of preventing the sale of pa
pers, and the publication of volunteer and county re
lolutions, which you know are generally long. The
other taxes are equally mifehievous and oppressive,
and there is no opposing them. The borough-mongers'
carry all before them, which you'll believe, when I
tell you, that they have agreed to pay a subsidy, or
tribute, to England, of an unlimited amount have
refufed their thanks to the Volunteers— and, to fill up
the measure of their iniquity, have determined on a
militia, besides our large (landing army of fifteen thou
sand men, in time of profound peace. This is to rut
BELFAS T, March 4.
At a meeting of the Comer Independents, con
vened by publick notice, on the 27th ult. the follow
ing resolutions were unanimously agreed to:
Resolved, That any country cannot be so well de
fended from foreign and domeftick enemies, as when
the defence is entrusted to those who are most inte
rested in its welfare.
Resolved, That the Volunteers have Shewed them
selves interested in the welfare of both Great-Britain
and Ireland.
Resolved, That from hints in the publick prints,
we conceive we are to be debarred meeting in greater
numbers than FIVE.
Resolved, That if such a law should be made, we
will appoint three ferjeants to exercise the company
in FOURS, at least once a week.
Resolved, That with steady loyalty and due refpe&
to our sovereign, and obedience to the laws of the
land, we mean to continue our usual parades (and at
the fame time cultivate the blellings of peace) but
should the baneful tools of aristocracy attempt forci
bly to wrest our rusty firelocks from us, we will only
part them with our lives.
Resolved, That our Captain attend on the 7th of
March, as a delegate for us at Belfaft.
American Intelligence.
R QCHMON D, April 23 .
THE Merchant, Galillee, from Virginia for
London, ran ashore about the beginning of Fe
bruary, on the East end of the Isle of Wight, and
soon after went to pieces.
The Harmony, Lyde, for Maryland, failed from
Gravefend on the 12th of February.
A letter from London of the Bth of February, con
tains advice of the failure of the Imperial East-In
dia Company, established at Oftend in the year 1781
or 1782. An event that will be attended with very
alarming and serious consequences to the merchants
in London.