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colony ; powder mills are erected, and constantly employed
in Philadelphia and^New-York. Volunteers of the firft for
tune are daily Hocking to the camp ; one thousand riflemen
in two or three days. Recruits are now levying to augment
the army to twenty-two thousand men. Ten thousand militia
are appointed in this province to appear on the firft fommons.
The bills of all the colonies circulate freely, and are readily
exchanged for cash. Add to this, that unless some plan of ac
commodation takes place immediately, these harbours will
swarm with privateers. An army will be railed in the middle
provinces to take poffeflion of Canada. For the fake of the
miserable convulsed empire, solicit peace, repeal the ads, or
Britain is undone. This advice is the result of warm affection
to my King, and to the realm. Remember 1 never deceived
you ; every article here sent you is sacredly true. The pa
pers will announce to you, that 1 am again a member for Bos
ton. You will there lee our motley Council. A general ar
rangement of officers will take place, except the chief, which
will be suspended but for a little while, to fee what part Bri
tain takes in consequence of the late Continental petition.
A view to independence grows more and more general. Should
Britain declare war against the colonies, they are loft for ever.
Should Spain declare against England, the colonies will declare
a neutrality ; which will doubtless produce an offenfive and
defenfive league between them. For God fake, prevent it by
a speedy accommodation. Writing this has employed a day.
I have been to Salem to reconnoitre, but! could not escape the
geese of the capitol. To-morrow 1 let out for Newport, on
puipofe to fend you this. I write you fully, it being scarcely
pofiible to escape diicovery. 1 am out of place here by choice,
and therefore out of pay ; and determine so to be, unless fame
thing is offered in my way. 1 wish you could contrive to
write me freely in cypher, by the way of Newport, addressed
to Thomas Richards, merchant ; inclofe it in a cover to me,
intimating that 1 am a perfect ftraqger to you, but being re
commended to you as a gentleman of honor, you took the
liberty of incloiing that letter, intreating me to deliver it as
directed ; the perlon, as you are informed, being at Cam
bridge. Sign some fictitious name. This you may fend to
some confidential friend at Newport, to be delivered to me at
Watertown. Make use of every precaution, or I perish."
We hear that the Thursday Lecture, which has been held
in Boston for upwards of one hundred and thirty years without
any interruption, was closed, about a fortnight since, by the
Rev. Doctor Eliot, who delivered a discourse well adapted to
the occasion.
On Wednesday the week before last, Major-General Lee
set out for Rhode-Ifland. He was attended from hence by his
guard and a party of riflemen; and from Providence, by the
cadet company of that place, and a number of minute-men.
He entered the town of Newport the Monday following, pre
cedet by the cadets, his guard and the riflemen. While
there, he called before him a number of obnoxious persons, to
whom he tendered an oath of fidelity to the country, which
was taken by all of them, excepting by Colonel Joseph Wan
ton, jun. Nicholas Lechmere and Richard Beale, two custom
house officers, who refufed taking it; upon which they were
put under guard, and brought to Providence. The General,
after having viewed the ill.md, and given directions for erod
ing some fortifications, set out for Providence on Wednesday,
from whence he came to town on Saturday last.
At a meeting of the Freeholders and other inhabitants ofthe
town of SALEM, in the Massachusetts-Bay, un Friday De
cember 29, 1775,
" Voted unanimously, That the sincere thanks of the town
be given to the humane and benevolent FRIENDS of Penn
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fyKania and New-Jersey, for their charity and kind relief, by
the hands of Thomas Steers, Benjamin Arnold, Moses Brown,
Thomas Lapham, and David Buffum, their Committee, ex
tended to so many of our poor at this Severe season, and whom
the town, from its distressed circum stances, could not without
difficulty maintain ; and that this vote be published in the
Cambridge paper.
Attest. TIM. PICKERING, jun. Town Clerk.
WORCESTER, January 5 .
Extras of a letter from an officer at Roxbury to his friend in
this town, dated December 29.
" General P was over here yesterday, informs us
that some of our privateers have taken another prize, and
were towing her into Beverly, said to be the one that came out
with that which brought the'Congrefs. She has got the can
non belonging to the carriages that were taken in the lali ship."
PHILADELPHIA, January 16.
A gentleman, who arrived yesterday from South-Carolina,
informs that the ministerial fleet, with Lord William Camp
bell on board,' unable to obtain water or any supplies what
ever, had failed, and it was supposed for Geor. ia. The wo
men and children, who had left Charleftown, were returned
to it. And some of the principal Tories having been Secured,
their deluded neighbours weie convinced they had been grofly
imposed upon, loine of whom had given up their arms, and
others joined the affiliation. In Ihort, that all trifling mif
underltandings were cleared up, and the whole province was
united in oppofttion to the arbitrary measures of Admini
stration.
MARRIED.' At Princeton, Dr. BENJAMIN RUSH,
of this city, to Miss JULIA STOCKTON, daughter of the
Honorable Richard Stockton, Esq.
GENTLEMEN who with to possess any of the following
excellent and scarce BOOKS, are requested to observe
they may now be had at ROBERT BELL's in Third-ltreet,
Philadelphia, viz,
LAW BOOKS,
Reports by Burrow, Lord Raymond, Atkyns, Wilson, Le
ving, Salkeld, Strange, Vtntris, Vezey, Saunders, Lil
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Swinburne on Wills, Wood's Institute, Hawkins's Pleas of
the Crown, Tremaine's Pleas of the Crown, Coke on Lit
tleton, Jacob's Law Dictionary, InftruCtor Clericalis, Bacon
and Selden on Government, &c. &c.
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Macaulay's History of England, 5 vol. Lyttleton's History
of Henry the Second, 4 vol. Dalrymple's Memoirs of Great-
Britain, 3 vol. Totze's Prefect State of Europe, 3 vol. Mil
lot's History of England, 2 vol. Grey's Debates of the House
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