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B r Yesterday the Governor made
■ the following communication to
B the Legislature. ■
Gentlemen of the Senate,
W and House of Representatives.
HAVING received Uie on Saturday af
/■ ternoon last, official information from the'
I Consul of the French Republic, that aves
■ fei had anchored within this harbour, last
from Ne^-Eievidence, and that (here was
reason to lufpedthat she was a concealed
■ foreign Privateer, 1 immediately gave 01-
■ "ders to a properofficer ro m^ke diligent en
■ quiry into the cause of 'ulpicion, and re
■ port the'fameto me, that 1 might co. lider^
■ what measure? I ought to take thereon :—W
I Very late in the evening, I was informed
■an outrageous aflemb'y of men had dis
■ mailed theveffeland thrown the cargo ;hen
lon board into the tea, and (bon after, be-
F I tween ttn and eleven o’clock, and no: un-
I til then a man came to toy house and said
I that he was commander of the viffd, and
I that his property was' destroyed, by
■ the said persons ass mbled as atorc/aid.—
| I O) the text day 1 summoned the Council
■ and e(ked aduce. They adviCcd me to if- 1
I due a Proclamation immediately ; although '
■ it was not in the power of <he Governor
and Council, to offer a iuitab.’e reward to
IB iuch persons as might di cover and bring
to j iitice any person or person?, concerned
in so dangerous a proceeding—You alone
I have the disposal of thFpubiic monies, and
■ I refer it to you, io judge whether a fuita*
■ ble reward is neceffarv to give (irength to
j the proclamation. You will determine
thereon as your wisdom (hall direct.
SAVIUEL ADAMS.
B « Council Chamber, 1
B Bofton,func 22^ 179 J. j
I Legislative Proceedings.
V he “Uove was committed to a joint
(committee, confiding of Hon. Messrs,
pne, and Davis, Messrs. bewail, Tudor
B and Edwards.
; • YESTERDAY
There came down frdm the Senate, a
resolution, reported by the committee of
both houses, to whom was referred his Ex-
I cellency s m?(Tage— which resolution au
thorized the Governor ard Council to of
ier a reward of yco dollar, to any person
^pr persons, who (hould difeover and bring
Ko puniffimen; ; the advisers or perpetra
J tors of the outrage committed on the vessel
l^cf^rred medige ; and contained
^^Frcqueft to the Governor io render ail pro
Bi P« r affiance to the Offerers. to enable them
to obtain an indemnity for their losses.
,The house assigned to o’clock this day to
confider the fubjed, and in he mean time
committed the resolution to a committee,
confining of Dr. Euftis, Mr. Sprague, and *
Col. Barnes.
Legislature of Maflachufetts.
■ n <i ■ —m.
Yesterday morning c«me down to the
house, from the Senate, the Refolu-ion
which paAed up from thence, for taking
the ferfe of the people on the .expediency
\ ot calling a Convention for the purpoie, of
Lini«rU©g an article in ih^^Conliituiion, pro
viding tor a periodical revision thereof,
which refolutons were non concurred by
the Senate. The hcule alter some dfbate
appointed a committee, confiding of D.,
Euilis, Dr J rvis, and Mr? Bigelow to con
fer with a committee of the Senate, on
the fubjed of difference between the two
houies The committee appointed by the
V Senate were rhe Hon. Mcffrt Choate,
. Webs and Bacon. Ip ihe afternoon the
f / committee on the part of the house report
ed, that ihe committee of either houf^ had
made no impression on rhe other, ana that
the gentlemen of the senate adhered to their
opinion of th© inexpediency of the mea
sure ; considering tnat the 7 futjed had to
jeccnUy been committed to them.
J / , J JUNE 27.
..WE mult request pur readers
at a djftance from the town, not
I to give too impair annuo the
rumours and riois in this town :
F. 'Though wha ; his hapned has been
outrageous, ftdLreport has atig
minted 1^ iniquity a rhoufand
fpid ; and>e.vcry thing is now tran-
IquU as ih thjfe juofl .peaceable vil
lage in Ur Cpomdyipweahb. Prof
teutons commencing
tj? 0 j o aJx 111 d 11/ e dll ir v bl; on
F Hoop on Sa^nday eysp<ng,
th de who cm.uia'td the ledi
ftpus hapdbfHs, and the band of
■Law and Just ice wdl apply a rem-
Pedy equal to tbe dT^fe. Jn coO^
m Tequcnce of a ReklutiOn of uE
1- e .
Legislature His Excellency the
Governor yesterday iflued thefql
lowing Proclamation:—
Commonwealth of Maffachufetis.
by the GOVERNOR.
'WHEREAS op the 21st day
of June current, a Proclama; ion
iflued under my hand, with the ad
vice of Council,requiring all Mag
istrates, Sherriffs and ConftaOles,
. and recommending to every good
;i citizen of the Commonwealth,That
they use their utmost endeavours
for difcoveiing, apprehending and
bringing to justice all persons con
cerned, who with force and vio
lence did, in the preceding night
burn a vcflel lying at the Long-
Wharf in Boston. And whereas
in pursuance of my meflage to the
General Court on the 22d, cur
rent, they thought proper to em
power the Governor to “ offer such
“ pecuniary rewards, to be paid
“from the public Treasury, as he,
“ with the advke of C juncil, fhali
“ judge neceffary,for the dtfcovtry,
“ and brirgingtojuftire any person
“or persons, who may have com
“ rmtted the aforefaid offence, or
have in any way aided, or ab^t
“ ted in that daring, and ^utrage
“ ous violation of law'.”
I co therefore, with the advice
of Council, hereby offer a reward
of five hundred Dollars, to the
perlon or persons who (hall firft
difeover, and bring to justice, any
one or more of the principal adv
ifers, actors, and abettors, in the
heinous violation of law ment
ioned in the procimation aforefaid.
Given at the Council Chamber,
in Rofton, this twenty ftxth day
of June, in the year of our Lord
One Thousand tieven Hundred
and Ninety five,and™ the Nine
teenth year of the Independence of
the United States of America. -
SA M Uu L ADA MS.
Attefit JOHN AVERY, jun- Secretary.
These we expedt terminate the
Executive proceedings. The com
mercial interest has a;fo made ex
ertions to remove from the me,
tropolis the stigma cast upon ii.—-
The following are the meafurcs
taken 5
BOSTON, JUNE 2J,
SIR,
ALARMED at the late out
rage committed by a body pf Ri
oters upon the property of a For
eigner, trading in this port, and
apprehensive that the merchants of
this town may be conftdered as
tacitly approving such violation
of law and justice, should they not
express, in an open and manly
waj| their delegation of such at
trocities : We pray you to call a
special meeting of the Lofton Cham
ber of Commerce^ to be held to mor
row, at half past |2 o’eioft, to con
fide r the fubjeCt, and to do what
may be thought expedient relative
thereto.
! ' ” t I, . '
Signed by a refpeplable number
of Members--
Hon. Tuomas Ru 'Ell, Ejq, - 7
frtfi of ihe 80/i. Ckam. 0/ Commerce j
BOSTON, JUNE 24, 179^-
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TN consequence of rhe* above, '
petition, .the Boston Chamber pf
Commerce met this day, when the
following Refolunons were adopt"
ed, whichhe Secretary was <ll
- to publish in ail the Boston
■ „ne wfpipei s. 1 5 r . ,' /'■
RESOLUTIONS.
WHEREAS . moll grant and daring
outrage, was committed 6D the night of the
2Oib mllant, upon the rights and'propei
ty of a Foreigner, who was tradiifg-in this
port, under the faftion and protedHon of
our laws ; And whereas such violation of '
law, justice, and good faith, have a direst ,
tendency to destroy all confidence in us, '
with Foreigners; to difeourage their inter
course with us, fnendly and commercial ;
and to render even the property of our own
. citizens, insecure at home, by effacing all
right ideas as 10 the obedience due to our
laws, and the obligation we are under to
practice the social duties..
The Boston Chamber of
Commerce,
impressed with the danger and evils, natur
ally resulting from ( U ch conduft, are indu
ced tjexrpefs their (entiments in the fol
lowing Refoluttions viz.
J. That it is the duty of all good citi
zens, not only to abfiain from doing any
injury,but to reffift thole who may fuffer by
the violence of Hl designing or mi(guided
men ; to aid them in' ch aining recess in a
legal coupe; and to use every exertion to
preserve inviolate the honor and energy of
the LAWS OF OUR COUNTRY.
11. That this duty applies with peculiar
force. to proted such foreigners as resort
to our ports, in a friendly manner, ana
with commercial views; bccauie they are
invited so to do by tae promulgation, of our
hwi, which promile them security in their
lawful traffic ; and because, that by an out
rage upon them, or their property, we vio
la e every principle of hofyitality aud good
faith, as *ell as those of /aw and fifties
And whereas the condud ot enlightened
freemen, ought ever to be marked by a sa
cred regard to confiitu'.ional ana rational
principles, and by a uniform pradical o
bedience to ihe laws, which certainly forbid
violence and outrage of every kipd, howevr
Ipecioub the garb of pretext they mayallume
to entice us to excels.
111. Rejoiced, That although we enter
tain a jult indignation at the unexampled
depredations upon our trade, committed by
Bntifh cruisers; and feelleverely ihe injuries
ar>d ioffer, which many of us have luiiained
from their violence and oppression. We
cannot but abhor every thing that looks like
retaliatory outrage, and openly declare
our difapporobation ot lawlels violence,
in e very form and under any .pretence.
IV. That these sentiments excite us, with
a marked delegation] to express our abhor
rence of the aurocious condudof those, who
commi ted :he outrage before alluded to;
and to offer to the"irjored persons all our
aid to obtain redress, and to deted the of
fenders.
And the President is hereby auihouzed,
and requeited tb'take allnect ffary measures
to cany into effed chelc Resolutions.
Boston, yune 24., 179^.
A true copy from the Rcootds, ui the
Button Chamber of Commerce.
Atte/i, HENRY PREN USS, Secy.
' ■ i
. — r-frnmiinw-KVKm ' m
©xeter,
THUR s DAY f JULY 2.
• ' ' ’"V
By accounts recieved from Brif
, ftoljfays a London paper, wc have
the most alarming intelligence of
a riot having fhtwu hlelt among
the colliers there, of whom a
bout 3000 had assembled resolv
ing to set at liberty the French
pr if oners or to pull down, or destroy
a number of houses in B; iftol
; occupied by gentlemen whom they
cetnctiyed to be inimical to their
interests. At one o’clock, on
Tudday morning, the East Devon,
militia were drawn our, and fta
liontd at different pans of the'
city. The inhati'ami were in the
greatest alarm, but we hope the
exertions of the majziftrates aided
by the mdi ary, will loon be able
co re cftablifh prdtr. It iV laid they
fidVe an inftrurhent similar to a
bugle horn, which gi^es,a rnoft
wondertujTound,tbfS b6ing blown,
r was the signal for them to aflem"
bJe/whicn rhef did. to rhe'amount
as- before mentioned, ot full three
thbolamT '‘- z * - ; <
The very frve-e winter and long
coQcinuam e of efie Cold and bleak
erf/rl7 w ’ nds,. h*sTad mu c h 4he’
fame effects an die gardens in En-
gland, as the visitation of the lo
custs nadon the gardens in Egypt,
it has so far destroyed every green
thing, that parsley was a few weeks
ago fold for two fhi’ iags an ounce.
Enghfti Liberty.
From a London Paper of May
At fix o’clok on Sunday ev
ening, a meflage was carried to Mr.
Gerald, that William Pitt; one of
the jailers of Newgate, wanted to
speak to him at the gate of the
ward, where he was imprisoned;
fGi’t Spur ftreec Compter) M r .
Gerald, in confequenceof his hard
and rigorous imprifonmenr, was in
bed, but the meflage came very
U P as we ll as he
could, and in his night cap and
flippers, proceded to thedoor,where
he was seized by those instruments
of power, who loaded his feeble &
emancipated limbs with double lr-'
ons, hand cuffed him, and in spite
of his entreaties to take farewell
of an infant daughter, who was his
companion in his dreary abode,
tore him away, andthruft him into
a post chaise prepared io carry
him to Portsmouth, from whence
a transport fails for Botany Bay.
MH JArsTREAIT.
Our private letters from Phila
delphia, mention that the Senate,
were in the daily dilcuflion of the
treaty : That Mr Jay had been
in the city for feyeral days, and
doubtless, had been consulted on
the fobjed; but that he had then
left^ the city on his return home
That the treaty was not long •, but
what the Senate, though they
had not communicated publickly
their deli be rations, would r.pt
decide upon it, without that
mature deliberation which the
importance of the fubjeft required,
our correfpbndenrs, however, give
it as their opinion that it will be
ratified in a few days; and that I
the statement of fhecorrefpondence $
between Mr. Jay & Lord Gren
ville, on thelubjcCf, was dignified
and optn-r—and that M'. Jay’s e
vinced that he was the Pauiot the/'
Sea efman and the Gentleman;
This last, fays oneof our letters,
“ does not suit with the vulgarify
of our American fans^culpttej.*
CO MMVNICATIO N^i
* What Mr, Jay’s treaty-rr^yEe,
we know nor • but this we know,
that whatever poflible loss the tier
zens of the Uu.ned States may ex
perience, by the delays which will
necessarily be occasioned by pro-V
ceffes in law, cannot be equal to/
one week’s warfare—into which
the roaring advocates for coercive,
meafurcs : —who by rhe b^e/ do ;
nor include one out of an hundred
of rhe American fufferers-r-wjihed
to involve.this connrry.
A VALUABLE
FAR M,
To be fold in Poplin f
Containing about 200 acres *
good Land, wr h a Houk,.
and a Bi.-n bc'.ween 80 arH 90 (tVt los g,
and other out hoy agad O chard that <
will afford 20 or 3:0 barr Is of Cldrr j earh , f «
arid<OQ< q tarter of" * Saw-MiH. witlrn job
ro(t of said buildings — Cid Fam is w 11
woooed and wa'cred, ard will keep 50
head of cattle (ummcl a*.o win er.
For further particu’irs, Enqube oT
. JOS A-i ROBiNSUN.
Pofin i Jne 27 1 795*