The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal (Boston [Mass.]), 1773-11-11 00:00:00

Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial Paper:—Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
DO THOU Great LIBERTY INSPIRE our Souls, --And make our Lives in thy Possession happy, Or, our Deaths glorious in thy JUST Defence.
VOL. III.]
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1773.
[NUMB. 145.]
A MASTER KEY to popery; Containing 300 large Octavo pages. By D. ANTONIO GAVIN, Born and educated in Spain, some years Secular Priest in the Church of Rome, and since 1715, Minister of the Church of England.
Sold by I. THOMAS, at his Printing Office near the Market, and at his Shop near the Mill-bridge.
American Magazine.
THOSE gentlemen, in this and the other provinces, who have subscription papers in their hands for the ROYAL AMERICAN MAGAZINE, are earnestly desired to return them by the 15th inst. to their humble servant ISAIAH THOMAS.
The Sons of Science in America,
Are by this notification informed, that, under their auspicious influence,
ROBERT BELL,
Printer, Bookseller, Humble Provedore to the SENTIMENTALISTS and Hand Servant to the Friends of LITERATURE.
Judge BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES
ON THE LAWS of ENGLAND. In FIVE VOLUMES.
The Fourth and Fifth Volumes of which are now ready to be delivered to the Subscribers at Messrs. Edes and Gull's Printing-Office, in Queen-street, Boston.
Those encouragers who make speedy application for this celebrated work will peculiarly oblige the undertaker, and greatly contribute towards the elevation and enlivening of Literary Manufactures in America.
Isaiah Thomas,
INFORMS the public that he has REMOVED his PRINTING-OFFICE from the Corner of Marshall's-Lane, near the Mill-bridge, to the Foot of Royal-Exchange-Lane, the room improved for sixteen years past, for an Auction-Room.
SILKS And Superfine BROAD CLOTHS.
A Prime assortment of Paduoy's, Ducapes, Lutestrings; plain and figured Satins, Damasks, Sarsnets, &c. —Superfine fashionable coloured Broad Cloths, with suitable Linings and Trimings.
To be sold at an exceeding low rate, by JOHN BARRETT & SONS, At their Shop near the Mill-bridge, Boston, Where may be had, all kinds of English, Scotch, India, Hard-Ware and Cutlery GOODS.
By Wholesale or Retail. Extremely cheap for cash or short credit.
EBENEZER STORER,
Informs his Customers that he has Imported from LONDON. An assortment of GOODS suitable for the Season, which he sells as usual at the lowest rates for Cash at his Store in Union Street. He has also to sell Choice Connecticut PORK.
All persons indebted to the PRINTER hereof, will greatly oblige him by making speedy payment.
This day was published, Price 7 coppers single, and 203. O.T. the dozen, [Illustrated with a neat Engraving, of the WICKED STATESMAN, or the TRAITOR to his Country, at the hour of DEATH.]
And to be SOLD by ISAIAH THOMAS, At his Printing Office, near the Market, and at his Shop, near the Mill Bridge.
Massachusetts Calendar; OR, AN ALMANACK
For the Year of our Lord CHRIST, 1774; Being the second after Leap Year. By EZRA GLEASON. Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, New England, lat. 42, deg. 25 min. north, but will serve, in most respects, for Nova-Scotia and the four New-England Governments.
This Almanack contains one quarter part more than Almanacks generally do, and is embellished with that which will make it both Useful and Entertaining.
CONTAINING, A short piece on Patriotism; or the Virtues of one's Country, (with an Engraving,) and the duty of the governed thereby, (with a cut.)
The names of the Planets and Aspects; Eclipses for the year 1774; Names and Characters of the Twelve Signs; Remarkable Days; Time of the Superior and Inferior Courts sitting in the four New-England Governments; Sun's rising and setting; Time of High Water Morning and Evening; Moon's Rising and Setting; Changes of the Moon; Time of the Sun's entering the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac; Judgment of the Weather; Vulgar Notes for the year 1774.
Of the Sun; of the Earth; of the Visibility of Matter; of the Fixed Stars.
An Account of a Woman's being killed by an Erruption from the Earth, in a most remarkable manner; some Remarkable Sayings; Miscellanies; Maxims, which every person ought to bear in mind; some Directions in Husbandry.
THE UNBELIEVER'S CREED. Useful and Approved Receipts, viz. for a Billious Cholick; for an Astmatick Cough; From the Ear-Ach from Cold; a very good Eye Water; for the Falling Sickness; for a Flux; for the Gout in the Stomach; for the Gravel; for the Itch; for Sore and Running Legs; for the Measles; for the Cholick in Children; to prevent Sea-Sickness; a new Cure for the Tooth-Ach.
Some pieces of POETRY, viz. the entertaining Tale of the FARMER'S BLUNDER; on the Twelve Signs; What is Man? the Lutanist; the King of Europe, a jest.
LIKEWISE, Roads to the several Principal Towns in the province, and the Continent, and the best Houses of Entertainment, and the Distance they are at from the State-House, in Boston, also the distance from one place to another.
Bookellers, Shopkeepers, Traders, &c. may be supplied on very advantageous terms, to sell again, by the Hundred, Groce or Dozen.
TO BE SOLD, A Farm in the town of Malden, which contains sixty-five Acres of good improved Land. Enquire of JOHN BECHAM, in Charles-town.
To be SOLD at the Shop, of Charles Lowe, In Marshall's-Lane, facing the BOSTON STONE.
Loaf and brown Melasses, Sugars, Cotten Wool, Rice, Indigo, Flour, Raisins, Pepper, Currants, Spice, Figs, Nutmegs, Spermaceti Oil, Coffee, Dumb Fish, Tea, Indian and Rye Meal, Chocolate, &c. &c. &c.
Andrew Newell, MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER From LONDON, At his Shop just below the Sign of Admiral VERNON, in King-Street, BOSTON, IMPORTS and SELLS,
A Great variety of Pocket Cases of drawing instruments, long and short pencils, and drawing pens; brass compasses with shift-points, plain ditto beam compasses for drawing large circles, bowes for drawing curved lines, sets of feather-edge scales in brass, ivory and wood, sets of drawing ditto in ditto, the principal instrument for surveying, plain tables for ditto, Theodolites for ditto, four and two pole surveying chains, measuring wheels for surveyors, horizontal sun dials for all latitudes, universal sun dials, Barometers, ditto Thermometers in one frame, pocket ditto in shagreen cases, spirit thermometers in box scales for hot houses, hydrometers in ivory, ditto in copper with weights, &c. for proving spirits.
A great variety of Dollon's patent telescopes from one to four feet in length, Acromatic opera and prospecting glasses, spy glasses of various lengths with four or six glasses, microscopes for viewing linen, Wilson's pocket ditto, flowered pocket ditto, Diagonal machines for viewing of prints, large book ditto, variety of prints for ditto, reading glasses set in frames, concave in ditto for short-sighted persons, burning ditto in ditto, watch makers glasses in ditto, spare spectacle glasses for all ages.
A great variety of Hadley's and Davis's QUADRANTS, Azimuth compasses, amplitude ditto, mariners ditto for Binnacle, cabin ditto of all sorts, pocket ditto of all sorts, sand glasses from four hours to a quarter of a minute, black mineral half-hour glasses on an entire new construction, half and quarter minute ditto.
STATIONARY. Guinea Pilot, Streights ditto, West-India ditto, Southren and Streights ditto, mariners calendar, mariners compasses, daily assistant, Guinea charts, Mercator charts from America, &c. &c. found and ditto, North-Carolina ditto, South Carolina ditto, Bay Chesapeake ditto, West-India ditto, Honduras ditto, Musquito shore ditto, maps of the city of London, best black lead pencils, ivory memorandum books with do. Journal books in marble covers, Journal ditto ruled, red Morocco pocket books with reel locks, black leather ditto with clasps, afs-skin memorandum books, leather ink holders, pewter ink pots, best patent cake ink, sealing wax and wafers, best dutch quills, writing paper.
N. B. Genteel India joint walking canes with swords, box beam money scales with weights, &c.
A Variety of other instruments, too tedious to mention, are made, repaired and sold at the above place. Where any gentleman by letter or other direction, may depend on being as faithfully served as if present.
And as he had a thorough experience from one of the most noted artists in that branch in the city of London, he doubts not of giving ample satisfaction to every one who pleases to favour him with their custom, which will be gratefully acknowledged by their humble servant, ANDREW NEWELL.
C A R D S, Made by CHRISTOPHER BLANCHARD, London, are to be SOLD by CALEB BLANCHARD, in Union-street, BOSTON, by Large or small quantities, Where ALSO may be had
A Large and fresh assortment of GOODS in the woollen, linen, silk, haberdashery and stationary way, just imported in the ship Mary-Ann, Capt. Symmes, from London. He sells at the lowest prices. All favours are duly acknowledged.
To be LET, A Handsome end of a HOUSE in Middle-street, near the head of Crystall-street. Enquire at the Golden Ball.
Where is to be Sold, The best of old Sterling Mad Wine, by the gallon or Dozen; likewise best of Old Jamaica Spirits by the gallon larger quantity.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. To the Patriotic PRINTERS in BOSTON GENTLEMEN,
THOUGH I cannot but applaud the good sense and honest intent of those gentlemen who have been so kind as to take the very important question of the press, and that is, whether all they have aimed at for eight years past, amounts to any thing more than skinning over a cancer, leaving the main root at the bottom? In plain tea, whether they have not been so extremely averse to contend with dear mother country (as thousands have most erroneously supposed a contest with the subverters of the rights both of mother and children to be) that they would accept terms merely palliative or procrastinatory of the sure progress of a usurpation which must inevitably undermine the freedom of this people? For my own part I have lately bestowed a little time on political enquiries, and think with Dr. Y—g, that no state can be found and entire unless the full and absolute sovereignty, that is, legislative, executive and military power thereof, be lodged solely in itself. I reason in this wise: No society can exist without laws and proper officers to put them in execution,—no laws were ever found so perfectly adapted to every state and condition of a people that they needed no alteration, unless those of the Medes and Persians may be accounted an exception. If the laws need alteration, none are more readily disposed to influence that alteration than the parties who feel the inconveniency of their operation; these must be the people at large. The people at large, are therefore the only safe repository of the power of framing, amending and repealing laws. I have also thought that in their representative capacity, they might at least propose the executive throughout. That the sword should be committed to any hands unconnected with, and independent on the people is a position I have never heard soberly laid down by any one who pretended himself a friend to lawful government. And besides all this unless the people have a power to award every servant of the state, the recompence he shall have for his labours, and take account of the manner in which he has discharged his duty, the servant will soon grow independent of his masters, and instead of obeying, usurp the command of them. This I take to be the general outline of the constitution of a free state, or of a community which may be said to live under a lawful government. My next enquiry is, whether I, an inhabitant of this colony, have not a full and absolute right to all the requisites of a wholesome and well regulated society.

ty, as any man in the British dominions? I am a Briton born; I left my native country and came to the province of the Massachusetts Bay where I was informed the inhabitants were intitled to all the liberties of Englishmen, and by the charter of Charles I. something more. I have never been able to obtain that of James I. but shall endeavour to procure it as soon as may be, and for this good reason, I conceive them every title in full force to the grantees to this hour, witness Mr. Y—g's favourite Vattel, which I have also perused, and think every person, of leisure ought to do the same. Vattel says p. 184. §. 191. "Since public treaties, and even those that are personal, concluded by a king or any other sovereign, who is invested with sufficient power, are treaties of state and obligatory with respect to the whole nation; real treaties made to subsist independently of the person who concluded them, doubtless oblige his successors; and the obligation imposed on the state passes successively to all its conductors in proportion as they assume the public authority. It is the same with the rights acquired by these treaties; They are acquired by the state and pass successively to all its conductors. " Now the right I contend for, is no less than the absolute domain and sovereignty of this province, which the several Kings of Great Britain taking upon them to grant, what, by the way, they had but a very weak title to, as fully invested our predecessors with, as words could effect: A Tyrant's declaration that these treaties were void, was like many more of his actions, suitable only to convey his perjury and villainy to future generations with universal abhorrence of his memory. But in case we confined ourselves solely to the charter of William and Mary, what does that reserve to the crown of Great-Britain? Can any one shew more than the reservation of power, from time to time to appoint and commission one Governor, one Lieutenant or Deputy Governor; one Secretary and one Judge of vice admiralty, every one of these, to be governed, directed and supported by the legislative of this province? The reservation of the pine trees, I esteem utterly invalid, as the province was in actual possession of every foot of the soil by purchase or conquest, when the administration presumed the fee in the crown. However I should never murmur at furnishing the British navy, with every mast it needed to the end of time, were that navy employed how soever; but to all purposes, that is, to all intents and purposes, it is not expressly reserved to the grantors, belongs of course to the grantees. Nothing can be more reasonable than the application of this maxim to the case in hand. The province was from its foundation intended a free and sovereign state; that is, a state having all the powers of ruling, ordering and governing, as well as planting, or establishing and defending itself. At the close of a tyranny which meant to efface all notions of right, it was judged convenient that the imperial crown, perhaps rather the minister, should have some little concern in the government. The design however might have been good, and intended only to prevent a jacobite, popish or other disaffected person or persons from filling the first seats in the government. The admiralty court was first erected for the conveniency of maritime affairs, which cannot without great loss be kept long depending. Such a court of vice-admiralty as then existed in England, depending on the legislature of this province for all its rules, orders and directions as much as any court of sessions or common pleas within the province, was all the crown, by the charter, reserved power to establish here. Appointment and commissioning is the whole the charter mentions, and all that even a Hutchinson could torture it to intend; for in this pinch, it is well remembered, he was obliged to recur to commissions themselves to supply what he would have made us believe the charter contained. Now if the sole and entire power of government was aborigine in the Governor and company of the province of the Massachusetts Bay, and if at worst, the crown came in barely for the appointment and commissioning a few officers, leaving every other civil and military officer in the province, to the appointment and direction of this government; whence in the name of justice and regard to any sort of stipulation, is all this legion of custom-house officers surveyors of woods, and no one knows what else? with their respective systems of rules, regulations and instructions, unknown to ninety nine in the hundred of our legislators, as to the ministers of Mogulistan. Is not this erecting a power within our government entirely independent of it in every shape; and to add to our apprehension, alarming enough from the first circumstance, simply considered, is not another power assumed, which, no trace of stipulation in the universe is pretended to warrant, to bind us in fetters of iron, and extort from us what share of our property it pleases, to support these establishments, and erect as many more of them as it lists? Are all these no intrusions, no encroachments, no invasions, no violations of our rights? Or can any state making such inroads on the constitution of another state, and even taking the whole of its government into its own hands, and supporting all their usurpations by a military force, expect that the aggrieved state can concieve itself bound by any pact whatever, to look upon the former state as a mother, patroness and protector? Let us again turn to Vattel for a solution of this question. This oracle of the law of nations, p. 138 §. 54 tells us, "It is a manifest consequence of the liberty and independence of nations that all have a right to be governed as they think proper, and that none have the least authority to interfere in the government of another state. Of all rights that can belong to a nation, sovereignty is doubtless the most precious, and that which others ought the most scrupulously to respect if they would not do it an injury." But what of all this says a prerogative gentleman, this province is no such thing as a nation, a sovereign independent state; it is only a colony depending on the crown or mother state from its first planting to the present day. Admitting a dependance, which however I would desire my opponent to define and deduce from charter, my author still vindicates the position, p. 12. §. 9 Two sovereign ( self governing ) states may be subject to the same prince, without any dependance on each other, and each may retain all its national rights free and sovereign. Lest any should cavil at my applying what is said of nations to this province or colony which they perhaps account but a sort of out-house or common-field for the nation's pigs to root in, I will give Vattel's definition of the word nation, in his own terms; "nations or states are bodies politic, societies of men united together, to procure their mutual safety by means of their union. Such a society has its affairs and interests, it deliberates and takes resolutions in common, and thus becomes a moral person, having an understanding and a will peculiar to itself, and is susceptible of obligations and the same are the same, as equality proceeding from nature, nations (states, societies, or bodies politic) composed of men considered as so many free persons, living together in a state of nature, are naturally equal, and receive from nature the same obligations and rights. Power or weakness does not in this respect (not even a tributary dependance) produce any difference. A dwarf is as much a man as a giant, a small republic, (a hantown governed by its own magistrates) is as much a sovereign state as the most powerful kingdom." Were the case otherwise, poor encouragement indeed would be given, to those generous and enterprising spirits who at the risque of their lives, and expence of their own property, emigrate to distant countries to form colonies in close alliance with the parent state. These heroes (forsooth) in modern 'givings out' are to be considered as the vassals of a few tinkers and cobblers that remain in a decayed borough in Old England; unless said respectable personages be previously pleased to sell themselves foul, body, and appurtenances real and ideal, to the devil, and the minister for a guinea, a dinner, and day's guzzle of porter: And the declaration of the British parliament in the sixth of George III. made in direct reference to this unnatural claim might with equal right have respected the commons of France, Hanover and Portugal, as those of North-America. For any man or number of men, on earth to declare themselves entitled to make laws which shall be of sufficient validity to bind whole provinces, without ever consulting said provinces a word on the premises, or obtaining the consent of one individual intended to be governed by them, is such an open usurpation, such a direct violation of the fundamental laws of nature and nations, of the Magna Charta of Great-Britain, and the charter of this province, that we may thank God the miscreants who contrived it, and dared in defiance of every just and manly feeling of the human mind to carry it into execution, are now so near the end of their tyranny. "Laws they are not, say the whole body of constitutional writ-
ers, to which the people do not consent; and well may we presume the disagreement of this new edict, with fundamental principles when the court's most obsequious Justice Blackstone, who has condescended to bestow sixty pages on a vindication of the parliament's doings in the affair of the Middlesex election, did no more than barely recite the facts in this case. "It is a manifest consequence of the liberty and independence of nations, says Vattel, p. 138, § 54, that all have a right to be governed as they think proper, and none have the least authority to interfere in the government of another state. Of all the rights that belong to a nation, sovereignty is, doubtless, the most precious, and that which others ought the most scrupulously to respect if they would not do it an injury." And the latter part of § 57 following, declares, that "a sovereign ( self governing ) state, cannot be constrained in this respect, except it be from a particular right which the state itself has given to others by treaties; and even in this case, in a subject of such importance as that of government, this right cannot be extended beyond the clear and express terms of the treaties." Now in order to found the claim of the British parliament to interfere in the least degree in the government of this free state, it behoves them to produce a treaty containing some such stipulation. No say they, you are subjects of the nation from the beginning. With much deference to such profound jurists, I would answer, the first grantees of this province were at that time as sovereign Lords, i. e. had their proportional share in composing the sovereign power of the British commonwealth, as any other commoners their neighbours, and could not possibly have conceived that they were about to divest themselves of any right, privilege or immunity they derived from nature or the constitution of their country, when they went at their own expence, to take possession of a new world. Indeed it is as difficult to conceive how the commons of Great-Britain become entitled either to the domain or sovereignty, the property in, or jurisdiction over one inch of America, as the commons of Ireland, the Hanoverians or Limerickians. The sole shadow for this extravagant claim is, that clause in the charter, wherein the legislative here are restrained from making any laws, repugnant to the laws and statutes of Great-Britain. Can any mortal strain this to mean any more design of the laws of Great-Britain, whose invariable scope was the preservation of the life, liberty civil and religious, property, and free trade of the subject. For how in the name of common sense, could our legislative be invested with the power of making "all laws" for the ordering and governing the state, if notwithstanding, another state might make and impose what laws they thought fit, at pleasure? or to what end was the great and general court authorized to name and settle annually all civil officers, (Judges commissioners of Oyer and terminer, sheriffs, provosts, marshals, justices of the peace and other officers to the council and courts of justice excepted) as also the admiralty courts, and to set forth the several duties, powers and limits of every such officer, and punish their neglect or transgression if whole legions of officers may be imposed upon us of which the court know neither the names, numbers nor limitations? Why the rights of imposing and levying taxes upon the estates and persons of all and every the proprietors and inhabitants of the province or territory, unless they the representatives of said proprietors and inhabitants, were the proper grantors of said taxes? And why the support and defence of the government reposed in them if they were unsuitable for such a deposit? Let the British administration shew us one single stipulation to reverse all this, or let them take shame to themselves, abandon their usurpations, withdraw their emissaries, forbear to levy any further military contributions upon us, and suffer us to enjoy the fruits of our honest industry in that peace and tranquillity which the author of our being has rendered our unalienable birth right; and then let the world determine, whether we are not as loyal and affectionate subjects of the crown of Great-Britain, and moreover, whether we shall not on all occasions manifest a thorough regard for the honour of our king and zeal for the defence of every part of his dominions as any subjects in the empire! But we have not lived to this time of day without learning that "whereas it is by virtue of compacts, stipulations and agreements that all legal governments have their original, and establishment, that various and distinct forms obtain in different countries, that the title and right to exercise authority and the method of arriving at it is provided for and procured, so EVERY SUBJECT'S ALLEGIANCE IS FIRST OWING TO THE CONSTITUTION; and that, the first and highest treason is that which is committed against the constitution; and of consequence the highest aggravation of this highest treason must be the commission of it by the party or parties to whom the society has committed the principal care of its conservation. And for this they have provided accordingly by declar-
ing that, 'whosoever he be that under pretence of being constituted sovereign, does invade and subvert the fundamental laws of the society, he does thereby ipso facto annul all the legal right he had to govern, and absolute, all, who were before his subjects from the legal engagements they were under of yielding him obedience:' whereas no man can withdraw his allegiance from the state whereof he remains a member, every individual being under the most solemn express or implied obligation to hazard his life and fortune in its defence. To consent to be a slave, or to neglect or refuse to take every measure in our power to prevent it, is to involve ourselves in the guilt of perjury, treason and self murder; for whoever consents to be a slave, puts his life in the power of a tyrant, who may destroy it when he pleases. Of what atrocious and complicated villainy then is the person guilty, who would deliver up himself, his nearest and dearest connections, his dutiful wife, his tender babes, and superlative dear country, with millions of innocents yet unborn, (to whom however he cannot absolve himself from the duty of protection) to a ruthless, ambitious, avaritious and cruel tyrant, whose will is his law, and whose standing army is the executive of his foreign pleasure? Such is every one without exception who would impose laws upon any society of men in opposition to their public will!
BRITANNUS SEPENTRIONALIS.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. To the intrepid Millions of free-born AMERICANS. August and most Noble!
I ADDRESS YOU as the most virtuous, free and happy people who now inhabit the world—but you are not free from danger—Your freedom, your virtue, and happiness, expose you to the envy of wicked and depraved minds; hence arise the various insults and abuses which you have suffered for years past. The continuation of these evils you must expect, unless you immediately put a stop to them by the might of your arm and the majesty of your power.
Your humanity has hitherto restrained you, and shielded your enemies from just punishment—But how much longer shall your wicked oppressors riot on your hard earned wealth?
You have it in your power to do yourselves justice, and when—when will you do it?
You are now millions strong, situated in the best part of the globe, and will you any more be insulted by a kennel of tyrants, or their hackneyed tools?
You stand on the greatest continent between the poles, your prowess may reach to distant empires and you become the arbiter of the world! Surely then, it does not suit with your RANK, the ENIGMS of tyranny.
"Honour YOURSELVES," and you will be honoured; when your enemies see that you are sensible of your OWN POWER they will tremble—when the nations perceive that you feel your OWN DIGNITY, they will court your favour, and bow the knee to your High-Mightiness! Shall the island BRITAIN enslave this great continent of AMERICA which is more than ninety nine times bigger, and is capable of supporting hundreds of millions of millions of people? Be astonished all mankind, at her superlative folly!—she is rushing upon her own ruin and will not hear the voice of reason which cries loud and warns her of impending danger!
AMERICA, seems to be reserved by PROVIDENCE, for a land of real freedom, that the world may see in these latter days the true glory of LIBERTY. SYDNEY. North-America, 1773.
To be SOLD by Jolley Allen, At his shop in Marlborough-Street, Boston, At the Sterling Cost and Charges,
A LARGE assortment of English and India GOODS, suitable for all seasons, Too many to enumerate in an Advertisement. At the said Shop are Sold
Groceries of all sorts; likewise China, Glass, cream-colour Delph, Stone and Earthen Ware, by wholesale and Retail; all at the very lowest rate, as he deals for Cash only.
The said ALLEN takes in Goods of all sorts to sell on a small commission, for any who shall please to employ him.
Good attendance is given at his shop: N. B. At the same place may be had, Genteel Lodging and Boarding. Also good Stabling for HORSES.
This day was published, price 8d.
A SERMON preached at the Thursday lecture in Boston, on October 21st, 1773, when LEVI AMES, a young man, under sentence of death, for burglary, to be executed on that day, was present to hear the discourse.
By SAMUEL MATHER, D. D. Pastor of a church in Boston, N. E.
They that be whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. MAT. ix. 12.
Printed and sold by E. RUSSELL, next the Corn-fields in Union-street.
* To give a nation a right to make a figure in this grand society, it is sufficient if it be really sovereign and independent; that is it must govern itself by its own authority and law. Vattel, p. 10 § 4.

Sales by Auction.
New Auction-Room, Cornhill. On TUESDAY next, Will be SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE, At GREENLEAF'S Auction-Room, in CORNHILL,
A VERY great assortment of GOODS for the season.
The particulars in Monday's papers. W. GREENLEAF, Auctioneer.
N. B. For private sale, at the same lace, a few casks of 6d. and 8d. Nails of the best quality; superfine, middling and low priced road cloths, scarlet and other colours; exceed- ing fine Irish linens, forest cloths, bath and beaver outings, Kerseys; plains; blue, red and mixed uffs, 6-4ths ermine, men's and women's hose, some pieces of velverets; 3-4ths and 7-8ths iron width cotton checks, sheeting Hollands, some small boxes of well assorted ribbons; also rich black Padusoy, crimson and blue ditto, grogram, assies, ducapes, lute strings, capuchin silks and attins of various colours, a few grey muffs and mitts, English duck, gloves and mitts, a com- plete suit of curtains for a bed and two window- made in the newest fashion, of red and white fur- niture check; a very elegant eight day clock, a handsome mahogany beaureau, table and a variety of other articles. Some of the above articles are to be sold under the sterling cost.
On WEDNESDAY next, At TEN in the Morning, Will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, At RUSSELL'S Auction Room in Queen-Street, A Great Variety of GOODS, as usual. J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
On FRIDAY, 19th of Novem. inst. At TEN in the Morning, Will be Sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, At the House of the late CHARLES HAMMOCK, in Royal Exchange Lane, deceased,
ALL the House Furniture of the said deceased, consisting of a mahogany desk, beaureau, Chest on chest drawers, dining tables, Tea tables, looking glasses, feather beds, bedsteads and bedding, leather bottom and hair ottom chairs with mahogany frames, a new eight day clock, chamber clock, a red and white upper-plate bed and window curtains, a neat tee bed with curtains, mahogany frame. A great variety of China and Glass Ware, among which are two tea-table sets; a variety of plate, cotton carpet and painted canvas floor cloths; Tent, Lisbon and Teneriffe Wines, and quantity of choice Vinegar.
Martin Bicker, Begs Leave to acquaint the Public, That he sells the fore part of the day at private sale, and would further in- form that it never was in his power to sell f- as at present; therefore flatters himself it will be a great Inducement for those who have perierced his former prices; to call for a sup-
On THURSDAY next, At ELEVEN o'Clock, Will be Sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, At BICKER'S Auction-Room, Near the Conduit.
A GREAT variety of GOODS, as usual. M. BICKER Auctioneer.
MONDAY, November 7. BOSTON.
On Friday last there was a very full meet- ing of the freeholders and other inhabitants of this town in Faneuil-Hall, agreeable to a notification issued by the selectmen; when the Hon. JOHN HANCOCK, Esq; was chosen Moderator, and the town after due deliberation, came into the following RE- SOLUTIONS, viz.
Whereas it appears by an act of the Bri- tish parliament passed in the last session, that the East India company in London are by the said act allowed to export their teas into America, in such quantities as the Lords of the Treasury shall judge proper: And some persons with an evil intent to amuse the people, and others through inattention to the true design of the act, have so construed the same, as that the TRIBUTE of three pence on every pound of tea is not to be exacted by the detestable task masters here. Upon the due consideration thereof, Resolved, That the sense of this town cannot be better expres- sed, upon this occasion, than in the words of certain judicious Resolves, lately entered into by our worthy brethren the citizens of Phi- ladelphia: Wherefore,
Resolved, I. THAT the disposal of their own property is the inherent right of free- men; that there can be no property in that which another can, of right, take from us without our consent; that the claim of par- liament to tax America, is, in other words, a
claim of right to levy contributions on us at pleasure.
II. That the duty imposed by parliament upon tea landed in America, is a tax on the Americans, or levying contributions on them without their consent.
III. That the express purpose for which the tax is levied on the Americans, namely, for the support of government, the adminis- tration of justice, and the defence of his Ma- jesty's dominions in America, has a direct tendency to render assemblies useful, and to introduce arbitrary government and slavery.
IV. That a virtuous and steady opposi- tion to this ministerial plan of governing America, is absolutely necessary to preserve even the shadow of liberty, and is a duty which every freeman in America owes to his country, to himself, and to his posterity.
V. That the resolution lately come into by the East India company to send out their tea to America, subject to the payment of duties on its being landed here, is an open attempt to enforce the ministerial plan, and a violent attack upon the liberties of America.
VI. That it is the duty of every Ameri- can to oppose this attempt.
VII. That whoever shall, directly or indirectly, countenance this attempt, or in any wise aid or abet in unloading, receiving or vending the tea sent, or to be sent out by the East India company, while it remain- subject to the payment of a duty here, is an enemy to America.
VIII. That a committee be immediate- ly chosen to wait on those gentlemen, who, it is reported, are appointed by the East In- dia company, to receive and sell said tea, and request them, from a regard to their own characters, and the peace and good or- der of this town and province, immediately to resign their appointment.
And the following gentlemen, viz. the Moderator, Mr. Henderson Inches, Benja- min Austin and Jonathan Mason, Esq.; and the Selectmen of the town, were ap- pointed a committee accordingly.
At the same time the town passed the fol- lowing Resolves, viz.
Whereas the merchants of this continent did enter into an agreement to withhold the importation of teas until the duty laid thereon should be repealed; which agree- ment, as we are informed, has been punc- tually observed by the respectable merchants in the Southern colonies; while by reason
very small in proportion to what had been usual before said agreement, have been im- ported by some of the merchants here: And whereas it now appears probable to this town, that the British administration have taken encouragement even from such small importations, to grant licences to the East India company as aforesaid: Therefore Re- solved, That it is the determination of this town, by all means in their power, to pre- vent the sale of the teas exported by the East India company: And as the merchants here have generally opposed this measure, it is the just expectation of the inhabitants of this town, that no one of them will, on any pretence whatever, import any tea that shall be liable to pay the duty, from this time until the act imposing the same shall be repealed.
And then the town adjourned till three o'clock in the afternoon.
At three o'clock there was again a very full assembly; and the committee reported to the town that they had waited on Richard Clarke, Esq; and son, and Benjamin Faneuil, Esq; said to be factors of the East India com- pany, and communicated to them the Re- solves of the town, whereby they were re- quested immediately to resign their appoint- ment. And that said gentlemen informed the committee, that as Messieurs Thomas and Enisha Hutchinson, (who were also re- ported to be factors of the said company) were at Milton, and not expected in town till Saturday evening, and as they choose to consult them, they could not return an an- swer to the town till Monday morning.
Then another committee was chosen, viz. Mr. Samuel Adams, Mr. William Moli- neaux, and Dr. Joseph Warren, to acquaint Messrs. Clarks and Mr. Faneuil, that as they were not joint factors for the East In- dia company with the Hutchinsons, it was supposed they could determine for themselves, and therefore it was the expectation of the town that they return an immediate answer to the message. And this committee report- ed to the town that an answer might be ex- pected in half an hour.
A motion was then made, that a commit- tee be appointed to repair to Milton, and acquaint Messrs. Thomas and Enisha Hutch- inson with the request of the town, that they immediately resign their appointment; and John Hancock, Esq; Mr. John Puts, Mr.
Samuel Adams, Mr. Samuel Abbot, Dr. Joseph Warren, Mr. William Powell, and Mr. Nathaniel Appleton, were appointed a committee for that purpose.
A letter was brought into the Hall, signed by Richard Clarke and Son, and Benjamin Faneuil for himself and Joshua Winslow, and directed to the Moderator, to be com- municated to the town, viz.
" SIR.  Boston, November 5th, 1773. "IT is impossible for us to comply with the request of the town signified to us this day by their committee, as we know not what terms the tea, if any part of it should be sent to our care, will come out on, and what obligations either of a moral or pecu- niary nature we may be under to fulfill the trust that may be devolved on us. When we are acquainted with these circumstances, we shall be better qualified to give a definitive answer to the request of the town."
" We are Sir, your most obedient servants, RICHARD CLARKE and SON. BENJ. FANEUIL, jun. for self and JOSH. WINSLOW, Esq; Respectable JOHN HANCOCK, Esq; Moderator of a town-meeting assembled at Faneuil-Hall. "
This letter was read, and unanimously voted to be not satisfactory to the town. And then the meeting was adjourned until the next day at eleven o'clock, to receive the report of the committee appointed to wait on the Hutchinsons.
The town met by adjournment on Satur- day (the meeting still continuing very full) and the committee reported that they had seen Mr. Thomas Hutchinson only (his bro- ther being neither at Milton nor Boston) and that the town might expect an answer from him immediately.
The following letter was sent in, to the Moderator, signed Thos. Hutchinson ; which was read and unanimously voted to be an unsatisfactory answer, viz.
" SIR. "I know nothing relative to the teas re- ferred to in the request or vote of the town, except that one of my friends has signified to me by letter, that part of it he had reason to believe would be consigned to me and my bro- ther jointly but upon what terms he could not then say. Under these circumstances, I can give no other answer to the town at pre- sent, than that if the teas should arrive, and were to be appointed factors, we shall then
" I am for my brother and self, Sir, your humble servant. "
" THOS HUTCHINSON, jun. Honourable JOHN HANCOCK Esq; Moderator of a town-meeting now assembled at Faneuil-hall. "
It was then voted that the letter signed Richard Clarke and son, Benj. Faneuil for self and Joshua Winslow, and also the letter signed Thos. Hutchinson, which had been read, were DARINGLY AFFRONTIVE to the town; and the meeting was IMMEDI- ATELY dissolved.
At the meeting of the town on Friday last, a number of printed hand bills were seen to be distributed in the Hall, called the "The TRADESMEN'S PROTEST against the proceedings of the MERCHANTS, relative to the new importation of tea," which was read by the Moderator at the request of the inhabitants. After the reading of which, it was openly declared by one of the inhabitants that he saw CHARLES PAXTON , one of the commissioners of the customs, giving them away the day before in King Street. It was then desired that the tradesmen pre- sent might collect in a part of the Hall by themselves, that their sense of the paper might be taken. Accordingly the question was put to them, whether they acknowledged the said paper called the Tradesmen's Protest? Which passed unanimously in the negative. They also by a subsequent unanimous vote declared their disavowal of the paper, as be- ing false, scandalous and base ; and their de- testation of Charles Paxton , and others, who had distributed the copies, as well as of E. Russell , who printed them. In the estimat- ion of the town, there were at least four hundred tradesmen present in the meeting.
TUESDAY, November 9. BOSTON.
Last Saturday failed for London the ship Minerva, Capt. Callahan, with whom went passengers Messrs. Samuel Parker and James Nichols, in order to receive Episco- pal Ordination; the former as an assistant minister at Trinity Church in this Town, and the latter for the parishes of Northbury and new Cambridge, in the colony of Con- necticut; Capt. Walker, late of the Britan- nia store-ship, with his family; Capt. Coff- in; and Mr. George Inman, Merchant.
WEDNESDAY, November 10. BOSTON.
On Monday last failed his Majesty's Schooner Diligent , Capt. Spry, for England, whom went passenger Major Dunbar, of Nova-Scotia.
Last Saturday about sunset, a Soldier was seen at the south part of this town, with his bayonet naked in his hand, threatening to fight, and calling upon any one to take his weapon from him. But he was soon disarmed by an inhabitant, who has his bayonet now in his possession.
About the same time, two other Soldiers were seen in the same part of the town, one of them with a naked Cutlass in his hand, with which he made a pass at a man in the street, but luckily missed his aim.
THURSDAY, November 11. BOSTON.
It has long been customary in this town, on the fifth of November, for a number of the lower class of people to carry about pagean- tries, in imitation of the Pope and the Devil and their Powder Plot; and it has likewise been customary for the parties, North End and South , to try their skill at 'Blows and Knocks.' and the victory declared to them who should take away the other's Pope , that being the name given to the pageantry. This year the party at the North End were victorious, which caused the South to give out word, 'at the say- ing is,' that they would on the Monday even- ing following 'at them again.' The conse- quence of this was, as we are credibly in- formed, that the Tea Commissioners , fearing the mobility intended paying them a visit, re- moved most of their valuable effects, and their persons, from their respective places of resi- dence, and left their houses guarded, within , by a number of men; but, 'the wicked flee when none pursue,' — 'a guilty conscience needs no accuser.' — We are well assured, that neither mobility nor mobility had the least intention of disturbing them at that time.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Phi- ladelphia to his friend in this town.
"The adventure of the East-India com- pany is the most obnoxious measure that could have been proposed. I have not met one individual who does not resent the very idea. You may expect that the next account will give you abundant evidence of a univer- sally determined resolution to prevent the pointed for the same will gratify the public by giving up the commission. But should they not do so, it will only be the means of a little trouble, for the present temper is to compel them not to receive the tea, and to prevent its being landed. We hear this is the spirit of Maryland and New York. There are many fears respecting Boston. Some give out, and assert that you have imported tea without any reserve and paid the duties: You may de- pend not an ounce has paid duties in this port. — But whatever may have been done, it is to be hoped the town of Boston will appear on the present occasion with their usual spirit." — Possibly you have not heard of the reception, the letters from the Virginia and Massa- chusetts Assemblies received in this province. Our House met in September, a few days be- fore their dissolution, and highly approved the measure proposed (of a joint council) and ordered their Speaker to sign a letter to that purpose at the table, but as they were so soon to dissolve, they did not name a committee of correspondence, but have warmly recom- mended it to the new house which will meet in a few days."
MARRIED. Dr. Arthur Spencer, to Miss Sarah Bright. — John Foxcroft, Esq; of Cambridge, to Miss Sarah Whitworth, eldest daughter of Dr. Miles Whitworth. — Mr. Caleb Sharpney, gunier, to Miss Sarah Bears.
DIED. Miss Abigail Croswell, daughter of the Rev. Andrew Croswell: Her funeral will be attended to-morrow afternoon, when her friends and acquaintances are desired to at- tend. — Mrs. Rogers, wife of Mr. Abraham Rogers, Housewright. — Miss Snow, only daughter of Mr. Thomas Snow at the South end. — A Hog-island, Mr. Nathaniel Hen- shaw. — At Hopkinton, Simpson Jones, Esq; — At Warwick, Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, wife of Mr. John Johnson. — At Jamaica, Capt. Lemuel Eames, of Marshfield.
** The lengthy piece signed An American, is received, but not cooked enough for a pub- lication.
X. and A Countryman, &c. &c. came too late for this day's paper.
ALL persons indebted to TI- MOthy and WILLIAM MOS- MAN, for News-Papers, &c. are hereby requested to make immediate payment, in order to enable them to settle with the Printers of the several News-Papers.

In December next will be Published, THE New-England and Nova-Scotia REGISTER , with all the British Lists, and an Almanack for 1774. The subscribers intreat the favour of gentlemen in office, in this and the neighbouring governments, to send them, as soon as may be, a correct list of their different departments; the high sheriffs of the several counties, in particular, will greatly contribute to the usefulness of this work by favouring the publishers, with an exact list of their deputies, and the towns they reside in. The printers are determined to spare no pains in rendering the Register for 1774 as compleat and correct as possible.
MILLS and HICKS.
This Day Published, [Price 8d.]
And SOLD by
JOHN BOYLE,
Next door to the Three Doves, in Marlborough Street,
A Sermon preached the Lord's-Day before the Execution of LEVI AMES , who suffered Death for Burglary, October 21, 1773. From these words in 43 Chap. of Luke, 23 verse, To Day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.
By ANDREW ELIOT, D. D.
Subscribers are desired to call or send for their Books.
N. B. The Subscribers to Dr. Eliot's Twenty Sermons, are informed that the work is now in the Press, and will be compleated as soon as may be.
A Schooner.
To be sold extremely cheap for cash or short credit, or any kind of merchandise,
A Schooner between fifty and sixty tons burthen, six months old, well found, a very remarkable fast sailor, and in every other respect as good a vessel of her burthen, as ever was built in America without exception. Enquire of ENOCH BROWN.
To be SOLD,
A LIKELY healthy slave, about eighteen years of age, he is fit for any kind of labour. For further particulars, enquire of the Printer.
WANTED, IMMEDIATELY,
FIFTY POUNDS Lawful Money.
To be LET,
A COMMODIOUS , genteel, Dwelling house, in Walker's-street, near Doctor Byles's meeting house, with a garden, yard, and a good well of water. Enquire at the sign of the Swan in Orange street, south end of Boston.
SILENT WILDE,
Hereby informs his former customers and others, THAT he hath engaged to ride from Boston to Northampton, Deerfield, &c. for the term of one year, beginning from third week of November next, and to carry each one that shall employ him, one of the Boston weekly news-papers, &c. as usual, during said time, at two dollars each:—To ride once a fortnight the one half of the year, and the other half every week: One dollar to be paid him at the end of six months, the other at the year's end.—He desires all those that incline to take the news-papers of him, that they would leave their names at the taverns, in the respective towns where they reside, and they may depend upon being punctually served therewith.—On suitable encouragement he proposes to ride through Westminster, Temple, &c.
Travelling Traders, &c. are requested to call at RUSSELL'S Printing-Office, next the Cornhill, Union-street, where is this day published, price 3 coppers, (adorned with three plates, representing the execution, the Minister, and Levi Ames) A DIALOGUE between Christ, Priest, Prisoner, Death, and the Devil, occasioned by the trial, condemnation, and execution of Levi Ames, aged 21 years. Particularly adapted for the reclaim of Youth in this degenerate age. At the same place may be had, The Execution Hymn , which was sung to Levi Ames and a considerable audience, assembled at the prison, on the Tuesday evening before his execution, and was designed to have been sung at the gallows: To which is annexed, The Christian Exercises and Dying Soliloquy , or the comfortable hope and wonderful conversion of Levi Ames, which was read to him and approved of, before his execution. May be also had, Almanacks for 1774.
Ann-Street Advertisements.
To be SOLD by
Archibald Cunningham,
CHOICE Lisbon, Corcavilla
and Claret wine by the quarter cask. Madeira wine in half pipes, Lisbon oil, per cask, raisins per cask, Turkey figs per cask, fresh currants per hundred or dozen, almonds, the belt of split peas per cask or bushell, green capers per cask, per pound or in bottles, spices of all kinds by the pound or larger quantity, the belt of Hyson, Souchong and Bohea Tea, all warranted good; coffee, ginger, allspice, starch, crown soap, indigo, black, cloth coloured and white silk handkerchiefs per dozen, very fine black silk by the pound, mustard in bottles per dozen, china cups and saucers, a good assortment of glass, delph and cream colour'd ware, corks by the quantity or single gross, allum, redwood, copperas, waste paper, loaf and brown sugar, dutch hearth brushes.
N. B. A quantity of belt bay bait Mackerel per the barrel, a few choice pickled ones to be sold if applied for direct y.
Jonathan Williams, jun.
Has imported in the Dolphin, Capt. Scott from LONDON, a number of the most fashionable
BROAD CLOTHS ; which makes his assortment more compleat than it ever yet has been.—His superfines are the very best that are made in England, and all the others will be found on examination to be very cheap according to their qualities, of which he only requests the impartial judgment of the purchaser.—Every kind of trimmings exactly matched, and an elegant assortment of gold and silver spangle and death-head buttons. He has also some very neat printed velvets for gentlemen's waistcoats, which are very beautiful, as well as cheap and durable.—He still keeps up his elegant assortment of
English goods in general,
At his shop opposite the Drum Makers And as he trades for ready-money only will endeavour by selling low to induce his customers to part with that precious article. N. B.—Several articles at the sterling cost.
Jeremiah Allen,
Informs his friends and the public, that he has received per the Dolphin, Capt Scott, from LONDON,
A new supply of Goods
general satisfaction as those he brought with him, both in point of goodness and price. Among which are the following articles, viz.
LONDON Pewter Dishes, plates and basons, cans, tankards, tea pots and bottle cranes, wine measures, table and tea spoons, bed and close stool pans, brass kettles and skillets, frying and warming pans, desk and book case furniture, brass knockers, castors, bed-caps, cloak pins, knobs, screw rings, bell bolts, scales and weights, brass and iron candlesticks, also a few of Prince's metal in the neatest taste, steel spring and japan'd snuffers, fire shovels and tongs, bellows, kitchen jacks, andiron box and flat irons, Box iron grates, bed screws, curriers knives, Cox's make, silver, ivory and bone handle knives and forks; penknives, razors, scissars, taylors shears, cutteaux, snuff boxes, horn and ivory combs, coat and break buttons, shoe and knee buckles, temple and Dutch spectacles, locks and hinges of all sorts, carpenters and joiners tools, powder and shot, English and French flutes, bar and sheet lead, 6 by 8, 7 by 9, 10 by 8 London crown window glass, worked, wool combs, clothiers shears, anvils and vises, awl blades and shoe tacks, nippers and pincers, beaver, castor and felt hats, black and white wincor caps, bamboo, logwood, fold joint and hazel angling rods, hair and silk lines, best kirby and common hooks, kirby hooks on gimp and hair, snap hooks, landing nets, flies, goose floats, corks, fly line, gimp, brass winches, span-tops for rods, English and German steel, London T D 15 inch pipes, a large assortment of looking glasses, the most elegant, perhaps, ever offered for sale in America, also a few pair in the Palmyra taste, with jerendoles. Nails, brads, tacks, &c. and almost every article in the hard ware way.
CHARLES GEDDES,
CLOCK and WATCH MAKER and FINISHER, from LONDON,
At his shop just below the sign of ADMIRAL VERNON , in King-street, Boston, makes, mends, cleans, repairs and finishes all sorts of CLOCKS and WATCHES in the best and neatest manner and on the most reasonable terms.
This day published,
Price 7 coppers single, and 3s and 4d. per dozen.
And to be sold by
MILLS & HICKS,
At their Printing-Office in School Street,
BICKERSTAFF'S Boston AL-
MANACK , for the year of our Redemption 1774; being the second after leap year, the fourteenth of the reign of GEORGE III. and from the creation of the world, according to the best history, 5772, but the 78th from the horrid Popish, High church, Jacobite Plot. Wherein may be found all things necessary, useful, and fitting for such a work. Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, N. E. lat. 42. 25. N. Embellished with a number of curious Engravings, viz.
I. The Head of OTEOWGOOW , Son of a New-Zealand Chief. II. The Head of a Chief of New-Zealand, according to their custom. III. A representation of a WAR CANOE of New-Zealand, that was between 50 and 60 feet long, rowed with 18 paddles, and adorned with a very fine head, two large eyes, a heart-shaped tongue, and feet and hands carved very neatly; all engraved on copper. IV. Head of KING GEORGE II. V. Head of his present Majesty, KING GEORGE III. VI. The ANATOMY of MAN'S BODY , as governed by the Twelve Constellations.
CONTENTS. The preface; wherein the Author complains of the caprices and prejudices of mankind; and particularly of the prerogative assumed, by Printers, over persons of his character and occupation who traverse superior regions, and are proper Inhabitants of another World : After apologising for his preface-writing, he draws a simile between the compiler of an ALMANACK and a MIDWIFE ; and concludes with a curious Disquisition of the word Almanack .
Vacations at Harvard college. Thoughts on several subjects.
An account of the natives of New-Zealand, from a journal of a voyage to the South-Sea, in his majesty's ship the Endeavour , faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sidney Parkinson , Draughtsman to Joseph Banks, Esq; on the late expedition round the World, by John Hawkesworth, L. L. D. [a book highly esteemed, that the author received 200 guineas for the copy.]
Humerous poetical lines by a gentleman who likes such the wager.
The direct lineal descent of George III. and an ode addressed to his majesty.
A character of England, said to have been found among the posthumous papers of St. Everemont.
A curious method of lightening a ship in a storm.
Obliquity of the ecliptic for the first day of each month in the year; time of the sun's entrance into the twelve signs; eclipses; vulgar notes; calendar; judgment of the weather; sun's rising and setting; moon's place, rising, setting, full and change; time of high water morning and Evening.
Distances of the principal towns the continent from Boston, with the intermediate distances, in computed miles, and the best houses for travellers to put up at.
Time of the Superior and Inferior Courts sitting in the provinces of Massachusetts-Bay, New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island and Connecticut.
The Lawyers fair.
Friends yearly meetings.
A useful table of interest.
An account of the inhabitants of Otaheite , another newly discovered island in the South Sea, containing, among many other particulars, a description of a most extraordinary society, called the ARRAOY , the members of which have ascended to a scale of dissolute sensuality wholly unknown to every other nation whose manners have been recorded from the beginning of the world to the present hour, and which no imagination could possibly conceive; it is composed of both sexes, and every woman is common to every man; the moment any of these women are delivered of a child, it is smothered, to prevent its being an incumbrance to the parents, &c.
The fatal effects of revenge.
The art of dying worsteds, cottons, linens, &c. of various colours. How to make flax soft and mellow. Waters for taking out spots in cloth, and for tak-
ing off spots in the face and preventing hands from chopping. How to remove freckles, sunburn, tan and pimples from the face. A fine water for beautifying the face. Receipts for curing the itch, gout, bite of a mad dog,
CYRUS BALDWIN
Hereby informs his customers and others, he has to sell cheap for cash at his shop in Corr-hill , near the State-house in Boston.
CHOICE Souchong and Ho tea, pepper, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, mace, and nutmegs, best Kippen's snuff and digo.
Silk muffs and tippets, for ditto, looking glass. Superfine scarlet drab cloth for men's coats with scarlet cloths of all prices.
Superfine, middling, and low priced, broad cloths.
Kerseys, ratteens, bearskins, lambkins and other coatings, with trimmings to match the baizes and flannels.
A fine assortment of shalloons, tammies and rents, a large assortment of worsted silk thread and cotton ditto, silk and wool silk and cotton mixed ditto.
Furniture and other calicoes, carpets and carping, Scotch plaids, English shoes, clogs, galoshes.
Children's Morocco shoes, Lynn shoes, Goloshes, with a general assortment of goods suitable for all seasons. All cheap for cash.
Duncan Ingraham, jun.
Has just received, per the Dolphin, Capt. Scott from London,
A VARIETY of lambkins, beavers, and coatings for furcoats, with (with a very genteel assortment of Euro Goods before on hand) he will sell great per worths, at his shop in Union Street, Boston.
N. B. A few elegant chintz patterns just arrived to be sold if soon applied for, uncommonly low. Hyson tea, none superior, China wine, Kippen's snuff, &c. &c.
Insurance on Vessels and Goods
At the Insurance Office of EZEK PRICE near the Exchange, INSURANCE,
May be made on vessels, cargoes, and adventures, at VERY LOW PREMIUMS one quarter part less than formerly.
Note well—In case of loss the Insurance be PUNCTUALLY PAID.
Windlasses.
WILLIAM SMITH , Shipwright proved on the late patent windlass, and discovered a new plan by which two men will perform a strain equal to seven in less time, and five men will pull to catch twenty-four times in once round. This Windlass will not cost as much money as the late patent windlass, by one fourth, and the improvement may be applied to any common windlass, with a power greater than the late patent windlass. A model has been surveyed by several gentlemen who unanimously agree that it is the greatest improvement yet made.—Gentlemen by recting for William Smith , at Mrs. Bean's King-street, Boston, shall be immediately supplied.
N. B. The said Smith plans, draws and constructs all sorts of vessels and oversees the while building, being versed in constructing ships or vessels for most trades, having served regular apprenticeship to one of the best artists the River Thames.
NEW FLOUR
To be SOLD, by
Samuel Bradstreet,
North side the Town Dock.
ALL persons who have any demands on the estate of JOHN BECHAM , late of Charlestown, deceased, are hereby required to bring in their accounts to John Becham sole executor, to the said estate.—All such as are intended to the said estate, either by will, or none, are desired to make immediate payment to the said Executor.
Irish Linens.
Just arrived in Capt. SMITH , from Liverpool.
A Variety 3-4ths, 7-8ths, and yard wide Irish Linens of all prices. These Linens are remarkably low charged; and are to be sold at the lowest prices for cash only.—At the store lately improved by Mr. William Beatty , deceased.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
A Number of young thirsty Elm Trees, those commonly called English Elms, for which a good price will be given.—
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS,
At the Bottom of ROYAL-EXCHANGE-LANE , near the MARKET , Duck-Square , (over Mr. T. WALLEY'S Store) where all Persons may be supplied with this Paper at Six Shillings and Eight Pence Lawful Money, per Annum, unsealed, and Eight Shillings sealed and directed; 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 S P Y are also taken in by J. Larkin , Chairmaker, and Mr. W. Calder , Painter, in Charlestown ; Mr. J. Miller , Watch maker, in Salem ; Mr. B. Emerton , Bookseller, in Newbury-Port ; Mr. M. Belcher , in Bridgewater ; and by Dr. Elijah Hewins , in Stoughtonham .