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VOL. I.]
THURSDAY, October 17, 1771.
[NUMB. 33.]
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. The CENTINEL. No. XVII.
Oh! how wretched is that poor man who hangs on Princes favours! There is betwixt that smile which we aspire to, That sweet regard of Princes and our ruin. More pangs and fears than ever and women know; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again. SHAKESPEARE.
To the G*****R.
SIR, THE number seventeen you are sensible makes an unlucky figure in our American numerals. This appearance it will ever carry, till the names of seventeen wretches no longer live in the memory of posterity, and their vices and follies are lost in the obscurity of time. As I hesitated in my own mind what subject would be proper under such a figure, I was in doubt whether I had not better have left it a blank. But consideration has instructed me, that by addressing myself to you, even this number may be productive of good, and be attended with salutary consequences to you and to the public. Will you then, great Sir! allow the privilege of a few hours in your closet, to the man, who from his heart wishes, that the Governor of this province may ever be an amiable character, and be furnished with every ray of dignity that may illuminate and adorn him. Let not the unimportance of my station, nor the unnoticed rank I fill, be a means of rendering what I have to say unworthy your attention; you was once instructed, Sir, that an honest mind, might as easily be found in a cottage as in a court, and that a firm, unshaken affection to his country, as frequently warms the breast of the peasant, as the bosom of a king. Taking it for granted then, that you will coolly give me an audience, I will as coolly, candidly and dispassionately give you my advice. Banish from your mind, Sir, on this occasion, every unworthy sentiment; every notion below the high rank you fill, and attend for once to the breathings of friendship and common sense.
In the first place, Sir, I would refer you back to a course of numbers, which I have taken the freedom to lay before the public. You will there find actions that intimately concern you, canvassed with freedom. Actions I say, for as an honest man and a good citizen, from my soul I despise personal invective. Let me then take the freedom, this hour of friendship allows, to push home on your mind the nature of these actions. There was a time, Sir, when the natives of this country were fond of being lavish in your praise. The tribute of affection universally paid, was thought justly due to so esteemed a character. This was the case in your younger years. What then could induce you, as you advanced into maturer age, and new scenes, new objects of ambition opened to view, to give up these principles that thus honoured you, and sacrifice sentiment and worth on the altar of preferment? Why was you willing as you more and more entered into the character of a courtier, to give up that of a man? Surely the idea of a statesman and a man of sentiment, are not inconsistent. My little knowledge in history, has furnished me with instances of men, who have shared the favour of their sovereign, and yet lived in the estimation of the people: Of men who carefully watched over the prerogative and rights of the crown, and yet as carefully guarded the liberties and security of the subject. Such men have survived the ruins of nature, still exist, and will live to after ages. Do not you think, Sir, in a moment of cool reflection, that had this plan been pursued, your state would have been infinitely eligible.
I shall pass over, Sir, your behaviour in the station immediately prior to your present. I would only observe, that sentiments you then heard, and actions which you felt, ought to have alarmed you. While you was unframed, you might have been honest. By being misled, you might have examined and tried your actions in a different balance to what the pub-
lic did; and though in their nature they were destructive of freedom, you might not have perceived it, and might have thought you stood high in the favour of the people. An honest man may be deceived, and from the flattery of some of the clergy, might have collected the sense of the province. But what you saw and felt, ought at least to have made you suspicious. True, the worthiest part of the citizens, (and I heartily join with them) condemned the method pursued to bring you to yourself. Yet the plan as in its nature it was desperate, could never have been attempted, unless founded on general uneasiness. A wise man therefore, would have shunned the precipice he thus providentially saw, and have returned to that path the then kind intentions of the people put in his power.
Although this uneasiness continued, yet when you reached your present station you found yourself overwhelmed with addresses. The most unsuspicious were fond of seeing a ruler from their own province thus promoted, and feasted themselves with the most agreeable prospects. This, Sir, they certainly had a right to. Born and educated among them, it was natural to suppose your interests must be intimately connected with the people. For having honoured you to the extent of their little abilities, they expected in return, a share in your affections. Was your conduct answerable to their expectations? If so, why did you treat with contempt every petition of the citizen? At the time you had the direction of affairs, we laboured under a heavy difficulty: an armed force surrounding our Senate house, and the debates of this august body disturbed with the parade of the soldier. You was warmly and earnestly desired to redress the difficulty, and order a removal. What was your answer? "I have no authority over the King's troops". Did you suppose Sir, we were all an ignorant race, and that not one of us understood the nature of government preferable to an Indian sachem? But let me inform you, there were then, and there are now, men who heartily despised the evasion. To suppose a being, who has an absolute command over a province and all things in it, and yet has not an absolute command, is an absurdity too obvious even for an officer in your guards to have fallen into. However, to remedy one inconvenience, you run into another. To preserve one privilege of the House, you destroy a still more essential. You remove them from their legal seat, into one attended with a thousand difficulties. Can you suppose this treatment in spite of evidence and remonstrances, is not derogatory to this august body? The arguments on this head must have worked in a mind so ready and apt in the discovery of truth. Let not then your enemies have occasion to say, that the full beams of power have dazzled and blinded you. That to continue in your high office, you are obliged, and are willing to eradicate all those principles you possessed as a citizen, and an Englishman, and that you are willing for the sake of a pension to enter into the character of a sycophant. This will be the notion of mankind, whatever may be my private sentiments.
As if you were determined to be a finished character, you scorned stopping here. You have condescended to be employed by a paltry minister of state, a youth, whose desperate circumstances must have been the only recommendation to get him into office, you have been employed I say, in a manner which makes me feel for you. Awake, Sir, from this lethargy, and let me whisper in your ear, as the boy did to Philip, remember you are a man. Seem to be employed in any thing, but what the nicest honour may justify. It is a pleasure I feel next to my own happiness, to see my G*****r rule with dignity to himself, and prosperity to his people. The former conduct better becomes C----- P----- or S----- W----- wretches, the first of whom chuses to give up the character of a gentleman, (sentiment never mixing in his composition) to be a necessary creature to every iniquity of a minister; while the latter is fond of laicifying abilities at the side of power, and thinks a bow, a nod, or
an unmeaning shake, rich compensation for being a tool and a prostitute.
I would now consider your behaviour with respect to those instructions, you so religiously make the rule of your conduct. I have supposed myself entirely alone with you, and that no connexion, no sentiment, has been suffered to intrude itself. In this moment of friendship, when each passion works within you, let me press on you a solution of these questions. My reasons on this head contained in the preceding numbers, perhaps were neglected, when interest, significant party prejudices locked up sentiment. As these considerations have now vanished, and the bosom is open to the effusions of friendship, this truth may sink deep. Let me then ask you, Is it not highly necessary that the law should be the only rule to govern by? This you have in effect publickly granted. If so, will you say your instructions are law? Is it not obvious that they are essentially opposite to law. If so, are you not giving up law to the pleasure of a minister, and do you not stand in great danger of being justly thought to be sacrificing the interests of a free loyal people to private prejudices? Surely this Sir, is departing from sentiment, and banishing every idea of worth and honesty. But I shall only affront your understanding by putting questions that carry their own answer with them.
I have thus, Sir, conversed with you very freely on matters that intimately concern both you and me. I have only referred you to what respects your public, not your private character. The moments of a ruler are too precious to be trifled with unnecessarily. Many things that have been thrown out in news-papers and gazettes, I have passed wholly over. My advice was intended solely to assist you in conducting the weighty affairs of government. Your behaviour in forsaking the mode of worship of your fathers, and assisting in a particular ceremony of the church of England, I may pity, but shall not at present expatiate on. James the first, in the closet and on the throne of religious disputation, may only be laughed at. But James on the throne ought seriously to be noticed. However, this must be remarked, the man that has unsteady notions in religion, is generally destitute of every other principle. It is no wonder if he who deserts the altar, should be as willing to forsake the interests of his country. But till this latter actually takes place, the former is very little attended to. Buffoonery in particular modes of worship may make the fool laugh, and the philosopher smile, but the patriot scarce spends a thought on the subject. Nero fiddling on the flute of Rome, may be equally attended with the dancing of the rabble, and the contempt of the man of sense, but when he pretends to trifle with government, he must lose the empire, and the injury can only be wiped off with his blood.
If these things are so, permit me, Sir, as perhaps this is the last time I may be indulged with this freedom, warmly and earnestly to recommend to you to be cautious of your conduct. Believe me, it is one of the first wishes of my mind, that you may live happily and govern happily. It appears to me, both these are incompatible with the present state of things. Let me not be thought unfriendly when I hint to you, that giving up the interest of a people for place and pensioned preferment, is running a dreadful risk. I can conceive of no greater misery of a political nature, than to be followed with reproaches, and instead of having "my bones, as Shakespear says, sleep in blessings, pursued with curses." But it is not political, but religious misery may be the consequence. The man whom his sovereign crowns with his favour, God often beholds with anger, and while the former is loading with offices, the latter summons to his great tribunal. It would be happy, if scenes that will then unavoidably present to view, were now brought home to great men by meditation, and that this truth, spoke by a man of sentiment and virtue, had a greater and more constant effect on their minds.
"Men may live fools, but Fools they cannot die."
SILENT WILDE, NEWS CARRIER to Northampton, &c.
DESIRE to inform his customers that, as the time of his last engagement ends with the news of the third Monday in November next, that he would take it as a favour, if they would severally pay him what is due to him, by Thursday on the week preceding, that so he may then have the money to carry with him to Boston; as it may probably save him the expense and trouble of a journey thither on purpose to settle with the Printers, which the income of his present business will not afford. And indeed he presumes, that if the gentlemen who have employed him, could know the hardship and expense of the service, they would not only readily satisfy his present request, but even make some addition at least, some little addition to what they at first engaged, which would be very thankfully received by him.
And with respect to those, who are indebted to him for preceding services, he very earnestly desires, and indeed, insists upon it, that they pay him forthwith.
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Those who intend to subscribe are requested to leave their names at the places where they usually receive their newspapers on the road.
Boston, October 17, 1771.
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That no one may plead ignorance, it is desired this advertisement may be inserted in the several news-papers of this province.
EPIGRAMS.
Says PAUPER to DIVES, had I but, like thee, Abundance of wealth and store, How blest and how happy, oh, then should I be! I ne'er would complain any more.
Says DIVES to PAUPER, would you but confine Your wants to your fortune and state, Your fortune would then be quite equal to mine, Your bliss would be equally great.
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From BINGLEY'S JOURNAL, of June 29.
To the Earl of HILLSBOROUGH.
MY LORD,
COULD experience teach you wisdom, or time remove the very unjust resentment you have conceived against his Majesty's most loyal, and most deserving subjects of the Massachusetts-Bay, you would not have given fresh cause of discontent in that province. The people, however, unsatisfied, were silent. Why then, my Lord, did you repeat that odious grievance, of removing the assembly from their ancient, most convenient, and most desirable place of session, to one entirely the reverse? Is there one good end of government, that can possibly be answered by a measure totally nugatory, but in subjecting the assembly to much inconvenience, and in gratifying your pique, and that of Governor Bernard, against the people of Boston, whom neither your threats could awe, nor your arts could seduce, from boldly asserting their rights? Does so pitiful a resentment, and the yet more pitiful gratification of it, become the rank, or the place you fill?
But, my Lord, this measure is not only irritating and impolitic, but illegal. The assembly have fully proved it such; and all the art and sophistry of your Governor, could not evade the force of their arguments. It is true, indeed, not only this, but every act of your administration gives full proof, that to act conformable to law was never in your inclination, or intention. In a mind not totally unprincipled, the signal services of that province would have outweighed their late opposition to the usurpations of government. Their gallant storm and capture of Louisbourg, in the year 1745; their manning Admiral Saunders's fleet, so as to effectuate these operations, to which we owe the important reduction of Quebec, and of the conquest of Canada; their defence of his Majesty's garrison at Annapolis, and of all Nova Scotia, in the war preceding the last; with many eminent instances of their zeal and ability to serve his Majesty and this country are buried in oblivion; while every opposition to government, however justified by the clearest principles of the constitution, is noted down, and marked for vengeance. This is the method your Lordship takes of securing their future services to the crown, and their attachment to the House of Hanover. The success will certainly be adequate to the means. But even, if the present generation had no deserts to plead, the rights for which they are contending against your usurpation, for Parliament is only instrumental, are less than they would have merited through the unexampled hardships their ancestors endured in conquering that savage country.
Your Lordship must have seen the detail of their sufferings in the history of your very obsequious Governor Mr. Hutchinson. He indeed has betrayed those liberties, which he has taught us were so dearly purchased, for the pitiful ambition of being a Governor, under such a minister as your Lordship. He may now judge, whether there are sweets in power and gratified ambition to sooth the anguish of recollecting, that he has betrayed his country, and ruined his character forever. The perfidy too, of Mr. Oliver has had its reward. To do you justice it is not your Lordship's fault, if a single eminent malefactor in America remains undignified and unrewarded. The account of Mr. Oliver's promotion is worthy the attention of the public. It will show to what a consummate degree corruption has arrived, under your Lordship's American administration.
Mr. Oliver was Secretary to the council, when the late memorable military massacre was perpetrated in Boston; to take off the horror of this bloody business, it was the object of administration, and of its creatures, to make it suspicious than an insurrection was intended by the people. The Secretary, therefore, framed some minutes of Council, in which he perverted to their purpose what one of the members had said, and having secretly sworn to the truth of them, he, in concert with the present guiltless Governor, dispatched them, by no less a personage than a commissioner of the customs, to Lord Hillsborough. My Lord, was it with this happy mixture of perjury and baseness, that you ap-
peased the resentment our righteous Sovereign manifested for the barbarous murder of so many of his subjects? When an account of these minutes and this affidavit returned, for the sending them had been profoundly secret, the council unanimously resolved, and separately made oath, that what was there minuted, did not pass in council. Mr. Oliver stood recorded on the council books as a perjured traitor, and--can it be believed? he was immediately appointed his Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor of the province.
It is obvious, my Lord, and you have no doubt considered, that, in the hands of such men, government cannot fail of being respectable, and beloved among the people. That such a temper in America may eventually be desirable, will appear to your Lordship from the following anecdote. A little more than a century past, when Charles the Second was driven from the throne, the colony of Virginia sent to offer him a refuge, and proclaimed him King before his restoration in this country. The revolutions of empires are in the hand of God, and we may well hope, that the present pious Court will never experience the misfortunes that overwhelmed that of Charles the First. But, my Lord, what has happened may happen again, and, in the most distant apprehension of such a calamity, it cannot but admit great consolation to your Lordship, that by your singular management the deposed Monarch would be secure of finding a most cordial reception in America.
JUNIUS AMERICANUS.
From the VIRGINIA GAZETTE. To the Author of some Queries, inserted in the Massachusetts Spy of June 27th, addressed to Governor TRYON, and signed LEONIDAS.
SIR,  THOUGH I am not that redoubted Impavidus you sneer at, and am intirely unconnected with Governor Tryon, who has now no other Influence in this Province than the grateful remembrance of his merit will ever give him, I cannot suppress my indignation at such a daring violation of truth, decency, and honour, as you have shown in your queries. You ought, Sir, to have been completely master of facts from which you draw such bold inferences, and it could hardly have been expected that an impeachment of a gentleman's conduct in such high trust should be grounded upon bare surmises, or false suggestions. But, Sir, that I may not too much follow your track of declamation, I will proceed to answer those queries which you have addressed to Governor Tryon, in a manner, I hope, at once full and satisfactory.
Your first query relates to a private circumstance of the late King, which neither you nor I can be supposed to be acquainted with. I do, however, presume it probable that the late King may have had such a design, it being so evidently calculated for general utility.
Your second query conveys an insinuation which is not true. The design of building a Palace for the Governor was schemed by some Gentlemen of the assembly, who proposed, by this means, to fix the seat of Government in a Town convenient for the whole Province; as many members were often greatly inconvenienced, by the necessity of going from one extreme part of the Province to another. This, I am authoritatively assured, was the original cause of the erection of the Palace; and I assert it was formed by Gentlemen who were not officially dependent on the Governor, and were not, many of them, personal friends to him. They were men who would do honour to any assembly upon earth, and whose characters for integrity have ever been unimpeached. This, Sir, is enough to destroy your vile calumny, and these facts I write with unquestionable veracity. More upon a mere provincial concern would be unnecessary, and impertinent; and these circumstances are not given for your satisfaction, but that the publick may not be prejudiced by your infamous slander. The other part of this query implies a general doubt about the integrity of Governor Tryon's administration. General invective is none at all; and this I can only answer by affirming, that, in my opinion, Governor Tryon always wished, and endeavoured, to promote universal and impartial justice, and I do not know of one instance where it was, by his interposition, defeated or eluded. A negative assertion cannot be proved by positive testimony; but it becomes you to offer some proof of the criminal actions which you, with equal ignorance and malevolence, impute to Governor Tryon.
Your third query includes a fact which we
are not to take upon your suggestion. Such a comprehensive charge only admits of a general negation, which the united voice of this country indignantly offers you. His Excellency is well known to have exerted himself with great vigour in procuring a faithful enquiry into the grievances complained of, and particularly directed the attorney general to prepare indictments for every accusation which should be presented to him; but so trivial were the offences of those officers who were indicted for extortion that very lenient fines were imposed. With you this would be a proof of the corruption of the judges: with us, who know better, it evinces the futility of the obnoxious Grievances. The passing compliment you pay to the Judges, Sheriffs, and Pettifoggers, has perhaps been furnished to you by some of our Renegades, from whom you may likewise have received an account of Governor Tryon's Avarice, Ambition, Injustice, Perjury, and Murder. Forbear, thou rash Calumniator! and dare no more to venture upon the hazardous presumption of conjecture and surmise. Be all assured of all facts you communicate to the publick, and do not again oblige me to silence thee into confusion.
The trial of an able and generous planter by a Court Martial, and in dictating a hundred lashes upon him for refusing to take arms against his brethren, is a fact we know nothing of. A man, indeed, who voluntarily enlisted himself in the body of men which the Governor raised, with the professed intention of reducing the regulators to obedience, peaceably, or by force of arms, did receive military discipline, to which he was legally sentenced, for endeavouring to seduce the soldiers from their duty, and openly approving the conduct of the regulators. Was not this necessary? Who will condemn it but Leonidas? And it was more peculiarly necessary in that case, as there were many secret regulators in every part of the province, who only wore a disguise till they should see which was the safest side to adhere to. If it be asked, how came such a general principle of licentiousness, I answer it is natural to a people whose circumstances are mean, and whose condition is poor, when they can hope for advantage from public calamity. A few busy spirits in the back parts of this province infatuated the poor people therewith groundless suggestions and flattering hopes, and the contagion spread through every part of the country. Most men, who have no principle, are inclined to suspect the integrity of persons above them, and insinuations to their prejudice easily gain ground. A lie is soon propagated among people disposed to believe it; till general report gives it current credit, and it then becomes almost impossible to remove the evil it occasions. However, so far was the insolence of the regulators arrived that it became absolutely necessary for the Legislature to provide an effectual remedy. Large bodies of men assembling to commit acts of depredation on private property, and threatening even the government itself, must either receive a timely and severe check, or they will soon destroy the Government which is intimidated by them. Under the strength of this necessity, it was thought proper by the last assembly to enact a Riot Act, similar to the one in England, but to be in force only one year, which might either operate its effect in terror, or arm the government with powers sufficient to guard against publick violence. With this view, it was enacted that if any persons, to the number of ten or more, should assemble together in a tumultuous manner, and not disperse within an hour after a proclamation to that purpose was read by the Sheriff of the county or a justice of the peace, that they should be deemed guilty of felony; and that it should be lawful for such Sheriff or justice, and all persons aiding and assisting, to seize, apprehend, or disperse, such persons so remaining; and that if any were wounded or killed in consequence, the officer should be free from all prosecution on that account, and persons found in arms opposing the forces of the province, it was declared by that law should be deemed traitors. Such is the substance of the act, in consequence of which the Governor, after having offered as terms of accommodation that they should surrender the persons outlawed, lay down their arms, and take the oath of Allegiance, which they insolently refused to do, sent the Sheriff of the county to read the proclamation, and assured them that if they did not disperse within an hour, as the act required of them, he would fire at the expiration of it. He accordingly kept his word, and sent his Aid de Camp to acquaint them that the hour was elapsed, and he should immediately fire. How different is this account from yours, wherein you charge the Governor, in your fifth query, with opening on a people with a full discharge
of the artillery while under the sacred bond of a treaty, the observance of which might have been expected even from a Saracen. A regard to truth might have been expected even from a Saracen, and how dare you thus to deceive the public with lies, which the confronting testimony of thousands can contradict. It is foreign to my present purpose to enter upon a formal vindication of the Governor's method of suppressing these regulators, although I must and do think, the necessity fully justified; and the success has happily sanctified it. The means were undoubtedly melancholy, but the consequences of declining them might have been more so. A province thrown into confusion by the intimidations of a real parcel of banditti were part, but not all of the mischiefs thus avoided. But, Sir, the method, as adopted, could not have been more honourably pursued; and, in every part of his conduct on that occasion, Governor Tryon never departed from the mildness of a gentleman, and the firmness of a man of honour. You now, Leonidas, will stand convicted upon record of two crimes, the most detestable in human nature, a disregard to truth, and a total want of principle; otherwise you would have not grounded a real charge upon ideal facts, or justified real ones so as to make them alter their complexion. And now, Sir, with respect to your sixth and last query, I leave the answer with yourself, or with those who ever exclusively applied the term Loyalist to extortioners, traitors, robbers, and murderers. We have no such Loyalists with us, and therefore we are not affected by the query. This letter is given to you, Leonidas, upon the faith and honour of a gentleman, by North-Carolina, August 7. PHOCION.
Extract of a Letter, dated July 24th, 1771, from a gentleman in North Carolina to his friend in New-Jersey, respecting the Regulators, containing some particulars not before published.
THE first cause of the people's uneasiness was from a mistrust that the Clerks, Sheriffs and Lawyers exacted more fees than the law intitled them to, as they sometimes would demand three or four double what was their due, just as they met with men of resolution to deal with. The Sheriffs being the collectors of the public taxes, it became their duty by law to call on every taxable for his tax, and if he should call a second time then to distraint, for which distraint the law allowed the Sheriffs 2s. 4d. but they by their extortion had made it customary to charge 2s. 4d. for every visit; so that the man who paid his tax, on being asked for it paid also 2s. 4d. cost therewith. Again, every couple that go to be married by licences, which they are obliged to have, must pay by the law 25s. for them; yet, contrary thereto, no person could obtain licences from the clerks under 30s. Again, at the conclusion of the last war, a large sum of paper money was struck, to pay off the expences thereof, which sum was to be sunk by a tax of 4s. per poll, in the term of the years the money was struck for, which tax of 4s. has been continued ever since, notwithstanding the great increase of inhabitants, which caused a suspicion that the officers pocketed the whole of the 4s. tax raised on the new settlers. Again, a few years ago the treasurer of the province died, and in his house was found a large sum of money, several thousand pounds, indorsed the Public money, which was all the satisfaction given the public in respect to that treasurer's accounts, notwithstanding which the tax continued, and no account being rendered to the people, gave great uneasiness. These, and numberless other instances of the like kind, caused the inhabitants of Roan, Orange, Anson, and Mecklenburgh counties, to send circular letters about four years ago from one to the other, setting forth their grievances, and forming schemes to have the same redressed, on which they unanimously petitioned the Governor and assembly for to redress their grievances; on receipt of which the Governor gave orders, that all officers who had taken more or larger fees than the law allowed them, should be punished according to law; this pleased the people, and encouraged them to apply to the Justices of the Peace for warrants against their oppressors, knowing of no other mode whereby to recover the monies they had unjustly paid, &c. but the Justices refused to grant them, on which complaints were made to the Grand Juries to find bills against the offenders, but the Juries being carefully made up out of the old sheriffs, buas, and other court officers, no

bills scarcely could be found against the offenders, and where a chance bill was found, the highest fine laid on them was only six-pence. But on the other hand, if any of the complainants happened to be indicted, the offence never so trifling, their fines were seldom or never less than 100l. which has in fact been the case: Being thus beat they were laughed at, and called fools and asses, &c. &c. Then some of the inhabitants of Orange county met, and concluded that they would pay no more public taxes, till a full state of their public accounts was published, and a fair settlement made, and under that conclusion bound themselves by an oath to stand by and support each other in this their resolution, as it was clearly their opinion that the public had more money in bank than would pay all their public dues, &c. which resolution was soon adhered to by the other counties. Things then began to be in great confusion; the people refusing to pay caused the sheriffs to execute; on which a mob would rise, whip the sheriff, and any other that supported him; after which they frequently petitioned the Governor to interpose in the matter, and cause a fair settlement to be made, to which he turned a deaf ear; this so enraged the people, that they stopped several courts from doing business, by raising into mobs, and ordering the Judges not to sit. However before any courts were disturbed the Governor raised a large army of men, at the request of one Fanning, clerk to several of the courts in the province, and an Attorney at law, and stands charged with being the principal oppressor of the poor people, which armed force cost the province 18,000 l. These preparations caused the people to take arms, however they never carried their arms into the towns. Great numbers of them went with a petition to the Governor for the purpose aforesaid, on which the Governor told them that if they would bring in their arms, and deliver up such men as he should name to be put to death, that they should then have a settlement on such terms as he should think proper; which offer was refused by the people, and they returned to their habitations, and the Governor disbanded his men. After this, another trial for redress in the law way was made in Orange county, in which they were as unsuccessful as heretofore, which caused a resolution that there should be no courts held till a settlement, or until their grievances were redressed; whereupon the General Court at Hilsborough town, Orange county, a mob came in armed with raw hide whips, and went to the Judge and King's Attorney, who they desired to go home, and guarded them safe to their houses, telling them that they should suffer no damage, and that they might hold court next day, &c. their next step was to take the aforesaid Fanning and some other lawyers out of the Court house, to whom they gave cow-hide correction very severely; they then went to Fanning's house, which they levelled with the ground, and destroyed the furniture, doing damage to the amount of 1500 l. after which they offered Fanning to repair his house and make good all his damage, if he would repay the money he had unjustly taken from them: To which he answered, that he only wanted revenge, and revenge he would have, &c. [The remainder, for want of room, must be deferred till next week.]
THURSDAY, October 17. BOSTON.
We hear last Saturday night the Admiral's ship lying in this harbour, by some accident took fire in the store-room, which consumed a quantity of oakum, but being soon discovered, the fire was happily extinguished.
By Capt. Gilbert who arrived at Newport on the 6th instant, in 7 weeks from London, three days before his arrival, spoke with a Spanish galleon under jury masts, they had got a pilot from a whaleman, and intended to put into Rhode-Island to refit.
By a letter from England of a late date, we learn, that several counties were exceedingly affected with the non importation agreement, and made a great clamour. The price of wool fell 2d. per pound, but upon the return of trade from America, it immediately rose to its former price. A great dealer in snuff that employed a large number of hands, for want of vend of that article, was obliged to dismiss them all; as soon as the trade again
opened to America, his business increased, beyond what it ever had been before.
Query. Would it not be best for this continent, that a similar agreement should again take place? We might now hold out as long as we pleased, since so many new manufactures have been introduced, and since by a sort of necessity, which is the mother of invention, we have been led to investigate many new schemes which render us less dependent on Great-Britain.
Extract of a letter from London, August 22.
"The affair of setting fire to Portsmouth yard, is, at length, like to come out; a person having sent a letter to the Lord-Mayor of London, offering to discover it, if he might be pardoned; in consequence of this, the King has pardoned him; and it is said, that this man (who is an Englishman) has a great number of original letters respecting this affair, and that the French were the tempters. There are great expectations from this discovery; but considering the venality and corruption at court, I do not expect any great matters will appear to the public; for France is not in circumstances at present to enter into a war; and if there is any thing in this, and the French are really guilty, they know how to pacify the court of England, and blind the eyes of the ministers in a cheaper way than entering into a war."
The Earl of Dunmore is arrived at his Government in Virginia.
The schooner Pembroke, on information that a quantity of wine, lately condemned in the court of Vice-Admiralty here, had been imported in her, was seized by the officers of the customs last Tuesday, at Salem.
MARRIED.] Mr. Thomas Chase, to Miss Elizabeth Bagnall.---Mr. William Breed, to Miss Polly Warland.---Mr. Joseph Lee, son of Col. Lee, of Marblehead, to Miss Hannah Hinckley, daughter of Isaac Hinckley, Esq; of Barnstable.---At Portsmouth, the Rev. Jonathan Parsons, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Newbury Port, to Mrs. Lydia Clarkson, relict of the late Andrew Clarkson, Esq; of Portsmouth.
DIED.] Greatly lamented. Mr. Hugh Kennedy, only son of the late Dr. Kennedy, Mrs. Whittington, wife of Mr. Whittington, Brewer.---At Marblehead, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet.---At Mansfield, in the county of Bristol, Doctor John Pratt.---At New-York, the Rev. John Thomas, pastor of the Independent Church and Congregation, in Charles-town, South-Carolina.---At Providence, Mr. Nathaniel Sessions, the venerable and worthy father of his Honour Deputy-Governor Sessions.
Errata. In our last for the Rev. Mr. Sterns, of Kittery, (to preach the Dudleian Lecture) read the Rev. Mr. Stevens.
** ADVERTISEMENTS omitted will be in our next.
SHIP NEWS. A ship is now in the Offing, supposed to be either Capt. Bryant, or Capt. Hall from London.
Capt. Hood failed yesterday for London, having lain wind bound near a fortnight.
On Monday se'nnight arrived at New-York, the Lord-Hyde Packet, in eight weeks from Falmouth.
One of the whaling vessels that arrived here last week brought in the main and main-topmast, and the mizenmast, with the sails and rigging belonging to some ship, that had cut them away as supposed in a storm: He took them up on the banks of Newfoundland: The blocks were seized with fishing line, and it is supposed it was a fishing vessel.
We hear also, that there had been very hard gales of wind near Isle Sables: One Joshua Atwood in a whaling vessel had his boom broke in three places, four or five of his people carried off the quarter-deck, only one was recovered again, the others perished; a beam of the vessel was broke, and fifty barrels of oil lost. She has since got into Hiannes.
Another whaling vessel came across a wreck, supposed to belong to Nantucket, by the oars being rounding: They took out two or three of the chests, and brought them into Cape-Cod.
ARRIVED here. Mitchell from Annapolis, Sparrel and Full from Canso, McDonald from the Island of St. John's and Halifax, James from the Island of St. John's.
OUTWARD bound. Smithwick to Grenada, Minot and Kiffick, West-Indies, Crocker, Hunt and Tilley to New-London, Booth to New-Haven, Yarde to St. Christopher.
Lamson to Philadelphia, Synnes to North Carolina, Acworth to London, Miller to Europe.
NEWBURN, [North Carolina] August 23. Since our last arrived in Cape Lookout Bay, in a distressed condition, a Spanish Snow having on board the crews of two Register Ships, which were cast away on the Bahama Banks, on their Passage from the Hayana to Old Spain. They have saved all the money that was in the Register Ships (an immense sum which the Snow has now on board. There are a hundred and eighty Spaniards on board, with four English prisoners, who where taken in the illicit trade on the Spanish Coast. They are in want of all kinds of provisions, which they pay very liberally for.
September 6. The Spanish Snow, mentioned in this paper to be arrived in Cape-Lookout Bay, is sailed for Spain, having left behind about a hundred Spaniards, some of whom are gone to Virginia, and others go from hence in a Brig to Cadiz. The only person of distinction among them, who is a Brigadier General, sails this day in a vessel for Philadelphia, and intends making the tour of the continent. He has with him twenty thousand dollars.
Imported in the last vessels from LONDON and BRIS FOL, and to be sold by
JOSIAH WATERS and SON, At their shop in Anne-street, near the Draw-Bridge, Boston, by Wholesale or Retail, very cheap.
PEPPER by the bag, or less; Spices of all sorts; 15 and 18 inch London D pipes, by the box or less, large and small bowls; Hunter ditto per ditto; Taylors 10 by 8, 9 by 7, and 8 by 6 window glass; Putty; Paper by the ream; Florence Oyl; English Loaf Sugar very cheap; split Peas; Kilmarnock Caps; Kippen's Snuff.
PAINTERS OYLS and COLOURS of all kinds, prepared, or otherwise, in the best manner, for House or Ship Painting; Brushes, Tools, Leaf Gold, &c.
Also, Allum, Copperas, Madder, Otter, Common and ground Redwood, Logwood, FRESH RAISINS, Rice, WOOL CARDS, Choice INDIGO, &c.
Bohea TEA warranted, Hyson ditto, coarse and fine sieve bottoms, Sieves made up, New England Rum, a few Gross GENUINE VELVET CORKS &c.
WANTED, to hire, for a small Family, a genteel TENEMENT, in a convenient part of the town, for which a good tenant may be had. Enquire at I. Thomas's Printing Office.
N. B. A convenient house between the Market and the Tree of Liberty would suit.
SILKS. THOMAS LEE, Has just received by the last vessels from England, and has at his store near the Swing-Bridge, Boston;
A FRESH assortment of most fashionable SILKS, bought with cash, and will be sold exceeding cheap, consisting of a very great variety of Rich Brocades, and figured Silks; slate, brown and other coloured Ducapes; Lutestrings and Mantua Silks of all colours; Damasks; coloured Grograms and Padusoys; black Armoiseens, Padusoys and Taffeties; rich black and white Sattin; grey Sattins for Cloaks of the newest Fashion. Also,
Rich BRUSSELS and MECKLIN LACES, Ribbons and sewing Silks, and a great variety of Gold and Silver Laces and Buttons, &c. &c. Likewise,
A Large Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS, among which are, Baizes, Lambkins, German Serges, Druggets, &c.
Also, English and Russia Duck, Bar. Lead, Shot, Powder, Window Glass, Nails, Cutlery and Hard Ware, Verdigrise, &c. &c. to be sold at the lowest advance for Cash or short credit.
IRISH LINENS of all widths and prices as cheap as can be bought in Boston.
A FEW Firkins of Choice BUTTER, to be sold by SAMUEL BRECK, at his store nearly opposite the Golden Ball. Where also may be had, a General Assortment of WEST-INDIA GOODS and GROCERIES, as usual.
N. B. A quantity of choice INDIGO, to be sold reasonable.
Boston, October 17th, 1771. Now preparing for the PRESS,
And will be published in Numbers, weekly, A FAN for FANNING, and a TOUCHSTONE to TRYON, being an Account of the Rise and Progress of the so much talked of REGULATION in North-Carolina; which ended in a civil War; the first perhaps ever heard of in America, among those who call themselves Christians; and may an over-riding hand of Providence so order the affairs of government as that it may be the last. It will be published in half sheets, in such manner as that when compleated, it may be bound in a small octavo volume. It will come out on Fridays, and may be had at the Printing-Office at the head of Queen-Street, for so small a price as 2 d. lawful each number.
N. B. The first number will come out to-morrow week.
CREAM COLOURED WARE.
A NEAT assortment of cream, deiph, Liverpool, Philadelphia, stone and glass WARE, to be sold by ALEXANDER CHAMBERLAIN, jun. at his shop in Anne-street, where may be had GROCERIES as usual.
N. B. A quantity of LAMPBLACK to be sold cheap for cash, or short credit.
Imported in the last ships from LONDON, by SAMUEL AUSTIN,
And to be sold at his store in Union-street, Boston, two doors south of the Cornfields,
A large and compleat Assortment of English, India, and Scotch Goods, Which he is determined to sell as Cheap as any one for Cash; viz.
CRIMSON, scarlet, black, blue and Ravens grey broad-cloths, with a variety of other colours; a large assortment of silks, as English and India damask, taffeties, striped and flowered lutestrings, changeable mantua silks, double Persian, pink, blue, purple and black capuchin silks and trimmings, plain and flowered satins; lawns and cambricks, mouselins and crapes of all colours, Dorsetteens, Prussianets; double and single allapeens, grazetts, mohair Padusoys, striped and flowered camblets, Irish linens and sheeting of all widths and prices, Russia sheeting, Russia drab, and ravens duck, velvets and velveretts, shallons of all colours, black, brown, pompadour, cloth colour, blue and green drawboys; cloth colour and black worsted breeches pieces, everlastings and amens, baize of all widths and colours, yard wide flowered stuffs, thicksets, white and coloured suttians, half-yard and yard wide flowered and plain diapers and corded dimity, men's and women's worsted, thread, cotton, and silk hose, boys and youths worsted hose: A large and genteel assortment of patches, chintzes, and calicoes, of the newest fashion and taste, striped cotton Hollands, check and flowered silk and linen handkerchiefs, silk and worsted gloves and mitts, threads, pins, needles, ribbons, qualities, shoe-binding, silk ferrets, 3-4ths. 7-8ths. and yard wide cotton checks: A variety of mohair and meral buttons, silk, twift, silk and hair, and mohair, sewing silk of all colours, bearskins, duffles, ratteens, coatings, duffel and other blankets, black and white, flowered and plain gauze, black and white cat-gut, osnaburghs, ticklingburgh and dowlas: A large assortment of ivory, bone and ebony stick fans, chint hats, coarse and fine sieve bottoms, writing paper, English loaf sugar, all wide swanskin for ironing-cloths, canvas and crewels, very fine white stay-ticking, narrow and broad striped bedticking, yellow Holland and stay trimmings, kid and lamb gloves and mitts, draper and damask table cloths, clouting and other diapers: A large assortment of muslins, among which are some elegant and beautiful sprigged muslins for ladies gowns and aprons, sagathies and duryoys, Bengals, peniafcoes, German Serges of all colours, black, blue, green and red worsted and hair plushes, wool-cards, silk laces: A large assortment of Looking-glasses, prints for curtains and gauze handkerchiefs, diaper, Holland and common tapes, white flannel and swanskin, ivory and horn combs, mould and wire shirt buttons, worsted damask, double ruffs, yard wide and half yard poplins, sprigged and plain; a few dozen of women's silk mitts as low as twelve pounds old tenor the dozen. Also Women's English and Lijn made shoes, &c. &c. &c.

HOPE STILL CAPEN,
Has just imported from LONDON, By Captains Collyer, Fellows, and Scott, A fine Assortment of ENGLISH and INDIA GOODS,
Suitable for the Season; Which he is determined to sell at the very lowest prices, by WHOLESALE or RETAIL for Cash or short Credit, at his Shop in Uni- on-street, at the sign of the Cornishds, viz.
SCARLET , crimson, green, black, blue, chocolate, drab, mixed and other coloured broad cloths, with trimmings for the same; green, scarlet, blue, mixed and drab coloured ratteens; bearskins, lamb- skins, half-thicks, Colchester and drapery baizes; blue, drab and cloth coloured Devon- shire kerseys and plains; red, blue, mixed and drab coloured coatings; duffils and shags, German serges of various widths, co- lours and prizes; duroys and sagathies, fus- tians and jeans; flowered serges, white swanskins, shalloons, tammies, durants, cala- mancos, russels; double and twisted cam- blets, plain brown cambleteens, striped, green and changeable ditto, yard wide spriged ditto, figured duroys, Mecklenburghs, Dor- setteens, Irish camblets, Venetian poplins; crapes; green, crimson and cloth coloured yard and half yard wide worsted grogams; miffinets, pink and cloth coloured brolioes, figurd drawboys and everlastings, crimson, black, pompadore, claret and cloth colour'd velvet and velveretts, a fine assortment of patches, chinees, and cheap calicoes, Man- chester and Scotch checks, linen and cotton Hollands, English and Scotch bedticks, diaper and huckabucks; cambricks and lawns, black and white catgut, Parisnet, black and white gauze; picket, striped and figured ditto; black, blue, figured and plain fatins, English and In- dia taffaties and Persians; figured mode, changeable mantua silks; black, green, blue, white and pink half yard and half ell Persians; white, blue, green and pink half ell sarfets, 3-4ths. 7-8ths. yard wide and sheeting Irish linens, dowlas, Russia linen, olnaburgs, Ra- vens duck, Russia drab; men's buckram, brown and white stay ditto, white tabby, staytick, yellow Holland and stay trimmings; black, white and coloured breeches patterns; men's and women's worsted, thread and cotton hose; silk gloves and mitts, worsted ditto; a very pretty assortment of fur and snail trimmings for Ladies cloaks, black bone lace, white blown ditto, scarlet and white ditto; a great variety of silk, linen and Kenting handkerchiefs; fans, men's crimson and green sham velvet caps, green, scarlet, and striped worsted ditto, quality bindings, shoe and coat ditto; lettered garters; scarf and ball twiss; deaths head, mohair, basket and twiss buttons; metal and horn ditto; chip hats and bonnets, white and coloured threads, tapes, knee-garters, sewing silk of all colours; writing and press paper; wax necklaces, pound beads, sleeve buttons; wool and cot- ton cards; needles, pins, ribbons, ferrits, knives and forks, cutteu knives, shears and scissors, penknives, fountain pens; buckles, thimbles, snuff boxes; ivory, bone and horn combs, pole ditto; Bohea tea, cinnamon, cloves, nutmegs, mace, allspice, pepper; best made Lynn shoes, whalebone, crown soap, &c. &c. &c.
JOSHUA GARDNER,
Has received per Captain Fellows and Scott, a further supply of goods, consisting of the following articles, in the LADIES way, viz.
MUFFS and tippets a variety of for trimmings, black and white gauze, figured dress ditto, Parisnet, black and white catgut, black and coloured taffa- ties, plain black peeling fatins, rich thick ditto, black and crimson spriged fatins, black and other coloured figured modes, black and coloured sarfets, fine covered cap wire, and 12-bowed skeletons; a great va- riety of black and coloured snail trimmings; a large and fine assortment of ribbons of the newest taste, edgings, footings, blond, and bone lace, with many other articles, all which will be sold on the most reasonable terms.
NATHAN FRAZIER,
Informs his customers and others, that he has imported in the ships lately arrived from LONDON, a Large and very elegant as- sortment of English and India Piece GOODS,
Suitable for the FALL TRADE, which are now ready for Sale at his Store, the Cor- ner of Wing's Lane, near the Market, Boston; ALL which he is determined to sell, both by Wholesale and Retail, on the most reasonable Terms for Cash or short Credit:
Among his Goods are the following, viz
A NEAT assortment of fashion- able coloured broad cloths of all prices, with trimmings to match; a fine choice of newest fashion gold and silver thread buttons; gold and silver vellum, thread, cord, braid, binding and knee garters, silk knee garters; German and embossed serges, plain and napped Ba'h beaver; lambskins, ratteens, frizes, bearskins, 6-4ths coatings, whitneys, duffils, whitney ditto, milled and common drapery baize, Colchester ditto, flannels, striped linseys, milled swanskin, half thicks, Yorkshire plains; a large assortment of De- vonshire and Yorkshire Kerseys, forest cloths, Manchester velvets, checks and dimities; black silk velvet, and velvet for capes; draw- boys, everlastings, double camblets, cam- bleteens, shiverets, diamanteens, flannets, bro- caded montareens, worsted grogams; plain and corded Venetian poplins, coloured crapes, rich Denmark lusters, grizzets, bro- lioes, bombazeens, allapeens, brilliants, dor- setteens, silk camblet, plain and flowered russels, worsted damask; a prime choice of tammies, durants and calamancos; hosiery of all kinds, furniture check with none so- pretties to match, Irish linens and sheetings, bedticks, dowlas, brown Hollands, 7-8ths. 6-4ths. and 8-4ths. huckabuck, Russia linen and diaper, clouting and napkin damask and diaper, diaper and damask table cloths, cambricks and lawns, long lawns, book-muf- lin, gauzes, catgut, plain and spriged fatins of most colours, striped and brocaded lute- strings, plain and changeable lutestrings and mantua silks; English and India damask and taffaties, plain and figured modes, rich sarf- nets, broad and narrow Persians, pelongs; a fine assortment of gimp and snail trimmings; cap, blond, bone, trolly and coxcomb laces; ribbons, silk ferrits, silk mitts and gloves, worsted ditto, silk romals; bandana, lutestring, negligee and Barcelona handkerchiefs, cra- vats, calicoes and chintzes, blue and white, and red and white copper-plate furniture, with lines and tassels to match; white cotton counterpains at the sterling cost; check linen handkerchiefs; blue and white, and red and white stamped ditto, olnaburgs and ticklin- burg, Russia and ravens duck; a good as- sortment of paper hangings; women's, maid's and children's packthread stays, brown buck- ram, half-stiffened stays ditto, yellow Hol- land and all sorts of stay trimmings, muffs and tippets, fur trimmings, Norway doe gloves, ditto lined with fur, best buff buck ditto, glazed and shammy men's women's youths black lamb ditto, women's and maid's best kid gloves and mitts, sampler canvas and crewels; English brocaded and satin shoes and clogs; an assortment of looking glasses, writing-paper, account books, wafers and sealing-wax, black satin and mode hats, plain and trimmed chip hats and bonnets, Cutlery ware of various sorts; pow- der, shot and flints, allum, copperas, brim- stone, salt-petre, 18 inch and 21-inch best London pipes, pepper by the bag or smaller quantity, cinnamon, cloves, nutmegs, mace, English loaf sugar, Bohea and Hyson tea, with a great variety of other articles, to nu- merous to particularize. Shopkeepers in town and country, may be supplied with complete assortments of the above: And those who send by letter, may depend on being as well used, as if present in person.
A WOMAN of a good charac-
ter, with a young breast of milk, would be glad to take a child to suckle. En- quire at I. Thomas's printing-office.
ROBERT RUGGLES,
Has just Imported from LONDON, by the Captains Collyer, Fellows, and Scott, A Large and General Assortment of ENGLISH and INDIA GOODS,
Which he will sell on the most reasonable Terms, by Wholesale or Retail, at his Shop in Cornhill, a little to the northward of the Town-Pump; viz.
SUPERFINE blue, cinnamon green, white, chocolate, Pompadour and mixed broad cloths, middling and low priced ditto; ratteens, bearskins, lambskins, beaver coatings, Devonshire kerseys, York- shire plains, half-thicks; crimson, pink, and green Colchester baize; red, blue, green and white drapery baize, white flannel, em- bossed serge, German serge, of all colours; green carpets for bedsteads; shalloons, durants and tammies, of all colours; calamancos of all colours; black drawboy, black and green everlastings, double camblets of all co- lours; cambleteens of all sorts; yard wide stuffs, poplins, Dorsetteens, miffinets, grizzets, grogams and crapes; russels, Bengals; black, olive, blue and drab velvet and vel- veretts; 3-4ths. 7-8ths. yard wide, and apron check, striped Holland, cotton gowns, bed tick and bed bunts; 3-4ths. 7-8ths. and yard wide Irish linen, 7-8ths. garlix, sheeting Holland, diapers and huckabuck, clouting diaper, table cloths, olnaburgs and ticklin- burg, ravens duck, Russia drab; men's and women's worsted, thread and cotton hose; men's black, white and mixed silk hose; black buff, blue and crimson worsted bree- ches patterns, black silk, ditto figured silk waistcoat patterns; silk and worsted mitts and gloves; cambricks and lawns, long lawns, muslin, black and white catgut, black and white spriged gauze, plain white gauze, green, brown, yellow and blue India damask, lutestrings, taffaties, fatins, alamoide, Per- sians, and capuchin silks, fur and snail trim- mings; black bone lace, white thread and blond lace, silk knee garters, gold and silver ditto; a variety of gold and silver buttons, gold and silver vellum, gold and silver thread, women's blue, pink, white and green silk loom quilted petticoats, calamanco ditto; a variety of ribbons, sewing silks of all sorts, qualities, gathering, silk, ferrits, pins and needles, threads and tapes of all sorts; brown and yellow Holland, buckrams, stay cords, braid, galloons and strapping; white tabby for stays, women's and children's packthread stays; bed ticks and bed bunts; thickset and fustians, silk and linen handkerchiefs, mark- ing canvas, crewels, silk and hair, and silk twiss, twiss buttons, metal buttons of all sorts, snuff boxes, tobacco boxes, knives and forks, jack knives, penknives, razors and scissors; a variety of paper hangings, also Bohea tea, cinnamon, nutmegs, cloves and mace, wool and cotton cards, women's Lynn made shoes and Goloshes, whale-bone, &c.
This day was published.
Price 3s. old ten. single, and 22s. 6d. the doz. Embellished with FOUR Plates, neatly engraved, viz. 1. The BOSTON MAS- ACRE, on the evening of the 5th of March 1770. 2. The four Seasons, with the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac. 3. The King of Denmark. 4. Mr. Weatherwife;
THE Massachusetts CALEN-
DAR; or an
ALMANACK, for the year 1772,
Being Bissextile, or Leap-Year.
Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, New-
England, Lat. 42 degrees, 25 min. north.
Containing, The Sun and Moon's Rising and
Setting, Eclipses, Time of High Water, Lun- ations, Aspects, Judgment of the Weather, Courts, Remarkable Days, Ephemeris, &c. &c.
By PHILOMATHES.
ALSO, Several Select Pieces, viz. On
Liberty and Government; Thoughts on
Government; On the Culture of Silk; Man
of Pleasure; Woman of Pleasure; Jonathan
Weatherwife's Prognosticks; A Table of In- terest on a Entire New Construction; Roads,
&c. POETRY, viz. The Difference be-
tween To-Day and To-Morrow; Of Time
Of Pride; Of Vice, &c. Printed and sold by I. THOMAS, in Union-street. Sold also, by the Printers and Booksellers.
Just imported in the last vessels from LON-
DON, and to be sold, by
JOSEPH PALMER,
At his Store in King Street, North-Side;
A Very large assortment of 3-4ths, 7-8ths, and yard wide Irish linens, Irish and Russia brown and white sheeting, housewife cloth, dowlas, Russia linen, olnaburgs, ticklinburgs; a few pair of very beautiful candlesticks, and glass waiters.
N. B. The above goods were purchased at a very low rate in England, and will be sold cheaper than can be bought in any store in Boston, for cash only. Choice Dumb Fish.
BOOKS.
JOHN LANGDON,
At the New Book and Stationary Store, o-
posite the Post Office in Cornhill, Boston,
Has just received from LONDON,
A Large and fine Assortment of the most
Modern BOOKS,
In all branches of Literature, Arts and Sci-
ences, which will be sold Remarkably Cheap
for the cash;
Among which are the following, viz.
HENRY on the Bible, 5 Vol.
folio. Ditto on Prayer. Ditto on the
Sacrament.
Burket on the New-Testament, Folio.
Locke's Works, 3 Vols. Folio. Ditto's Es-
says on Human Understanding. Understanding. Ditto on
Education.
Boyer's French and English Dictionary, a
new edition, with the addition of many hun-
dred words not in any former edition.
Rollin's Ancient History, 12 Vol.
Mrs. Macaulay's History of England, 4 Vol.
Shakespeare's Plays, 9 Vol.
Plutarch Lives, 9 Vol.
Montesquieu Spirit of Law, 2 Vol.
Universal History, 20 Vol.
The West-Indian, a new Comedy. The
Padlock, a new edition, with a variety of o-
ther PLAYS.
Clarke's Homer, 2 Vol. Davidson's Virgil.
SCHOOL BOOKS of every kind.
With a variety of the newest and best
Books in LAW, PHYSICK, HISTORY,
and the CLASSICKS.
Court and City Register for 1771.
All Kinds of Magazines that are publish-
ed in London.
BIBLES of all sorts, viz. Large Church
Bibles, Folio, Family, Quarto, Octavo, Mi-
nion and Pocket ditto, by the Dozen, or single.
Likewise, a large and complete assortment
of STATIONARY, Accompt-Books of all
sorts, Paper of all sorts and sizes, Ink Powder,
Quills, Sealing-Wax and Wafers, Press Pa-
per, some of a superior sort to any ever im-
ported, &c. &c. &c.
N. B. Those who please to favour him with
their custom will find the Books of the best E-
dition, and bound in calf, which is superior to
any bound in sheep, and the price very low.
ANDREW BARCLAY,
At the Gilt Bible in Cornhill,
HEREBY informs his customers
and others, that he has just imported
from Glasgow, a neat Assortment of
BOOKS,
in Divinity, History, Novels, Arithmetick,
&c. Where also may be had,
Brady and Tate's Psalms, gilt or
plain; Watts's ditto, with or without Hymns,
gilt or plain; Tansur's and Williams's
Singing Books; Large and small Bibles;
Testaments, Psalters, Spelling-Books, and
Primers; Writing-Paper, Wafers, Sealing-
Wax, Quills, Ink and Ink-Powder, &c.
Likewise, all Sorts of Binding, Lettering,
and Gilding, done in the neatest and best
manner. Those who please to favour him
with their custom will be served with fidelity
and dispatch.
To be sold by
JOHN SYMMES,
At his shop near the Golden Ball, Boston,
BEST polished shoe and knee
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS, in UNION-STREET, near the Market,
Where all Persons may be supplied with this Paper at Six Shilings and Eight Pence, Lawful Money, per Annum; and where Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received. ADVERTISEMENTS taken in—PRINTING, in its various Branches, performed in a neat Manner with the greatest Care and Dispatch, on the most reasonable Terms.—Small HAND-BILLS at an Hour's Notice. SUBSCRIPTIONS for the SPY are also taken in by J. Larkin, chairmaker, and Mr. W. Calder, painter, in Charlestown; Mr. J. Hillier, watch maker in Salem; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; and Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater.