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VOL. II.]
THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1772.
[NUMB. 76.
FRIDAY, July 24.
BOSTON.
By the Mercury-Packet, Capt. Dillon, from Falmouth, and Capt. Cumming from Liverpool, both arrived at New York, we have received the following
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, May 5.
A letter received at Amsterdam, dated April 21, it is authenticated, that a Spanish frigate which arrived the week before at Lissabon, from Buenos Ayres, brought advice that the Portuguese subjects who settled at Rio de Janeiro finding no redress to their grievances, and that nothing but one oppression was to succeed another, bravely took the resolution to do that justice to themselves, which they could not obtain either of the King of Portugal or of his Viceroy; and that when this frigate left the continent of the Brazils, the subjects at Rio de Janeiro had recourse to arms, and that this dangerous insurrection, it was thought, would not easily be quelled, at least not without first sacrificing the Viceroy as a victim to the enraged and the exasperated insurgents.
A letter from Altona, dated April 13, concludes thus: "This days post from Copenhagen, is not arrived yet; but an express is just come here; since which it is said, that the King of Denmark is to be married to a Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and that the ceremony will be kept very secret."
The ship Alexandria, John Hattie master, arrived at Port Glasgow the 26th ult. and about 270 leagues from Virginia met with a wreck of a Schooner, called the Vigorous, William Fitch master of and from Liverpool in Nova-Scotia, bound for St. Martins. The Schooner had her decks carried away by sea, and the Captain and all the hands belonging to her, had been washed overboard excepting one Ralph Norgood, who had lashed himself to one of the timbers, and before he was taken off the wreck by Capt. Hattie he had been five days in that situation, living on raw dried fish and rain water. Part of the cargo being dried fish, brought many sharks into the vessel as she lay on her broad side -- The poor man was almost insensible when taken up, but is now quite recovered.
The usual time allowed for subscription to past lotteries has been fifteen days. The subscription for the present lottery was filled up yesterday in less than five hours.
May 7. Lord North had some conversation yesterday, with a foreign minister, who asked him why he was so strongly wedded to an opinion that the general pacification of Europe would continue ten years? His Lordship answered, that if the various powers of Europe really knew their own interest there never would be another war, but that policy itself would become a guarantee to the rights of humanity.
Extract of a letter from Copenhagen dated April 28.
"Saturday last, early in the forenoon, the Committee of Inquiry pronounced sentence against John Frederick Struensee, and Enevold Brandt, which was accordingly presented to the Privy council, without his Majesty's attendance. In the afternoon, the Privy Council met again; in the evening, towards seven o'clock the King arrived from Charlottenburg, and presided at the Council Board, when, after confirming the sentence, he went directly to the Italian Opera."
"Same day, at twelve at noon, both the prisoners were acquainted by their Counsellors, with their sentences. Struensee received and read it with extraordinary composure, which naturally astonished all those present; to whom he observed, they ought as he did,
to impute it to his constant "apprehensions" and his long preparations for his unhappy fate." His uneasiness appeared much greater, when he found Brandt's sentence equal to his own, Brandt also seemed tolerably resigned on hearing his sentence; but the following morning his spirits totally sunk, here being no barber sent him as usual to be shaved. Messrs. Munter and Itee have been, since Saturday seldom absent from Struensee and Brandt. Both prisoners delivered into their Counsellors hands, on their leaving them on Saturday last, two letters, one for the King and one for the Committee of inquiry. Yesterday they both took the holy sacrament.
"Struensee's sentence takes up five full sheets of paper, among the charges therein contained against him are, his having assumed too great a power to himself; his injuring the King's treasure for more than fifteen tons of gold; his forging (or falsifying) a draught; his discharging the guards; the suspicious arrangements he had been ordering within the walls of this place, &c.
"Brandt's sentence expressly says, that on account of his designs agitated immediately against the sacred person of his Majesty; the exceptions he made could not be admitted, and therefore declared guilty and condemned. Towards the conclusion of their sentence, is added, in virtue of the Danish law book, B. VI. cap. IV. Art. 1. both Count John Frederick Struensee, and Count Enevold Brandt, having made themselves guilty condemned to forfeit their honours, lives and property; and are entirely degraded from the dignities belonging to their titles of Earls; their Earls coat of arms is to be broken by the hands of the common hangman; this being done, their right arm will be cut off, next their heads then will their bodies be quartered and laid upon the wheel, and their heads and hands fixed upon iron spikes."
"The aforesaid dead warrants were this morning executed, in a field without the eastern gate; a scaffold was erected of nine yards in height, and eight yards square, whither the prisoners were carried in hackney coaches; in the first went the Attorney-General, and some attendants, Brandt appeared first on the scaffold; he had on a gold laced hat, a green suit of cloaths, with gold bindings, and boots: He spoke for some little time to his Clergyman Mr. Itee, after which the sentence was read and executed; his head was several times exposed to the view of an immense crowd of spectators; next appeared Struensee on the scaffold, accompanied by Dr. Munter, having his hat in his hand, and dressed in a blue superfine suit, he spoke to Dr. Munter, when done, his sentence was executed in every respect like the foregoing one; their corps, were carried to the usual place of execution to be there exposed. Struensee behaved very penitently, but this cannot be said of Brandt, for his whole conduct was remarkable bold; several files of soldiers and sailors guarded the scaffold, and the town guards, were also reinforced: Though immense numbers were for want of room, disappointed of seeing this execution, and all seeming for a while in a violent ferment, yet the whole went off undisturbed and quietly."
It was yesterday reported upon change, that in the new treaty lately negotiated between France, Spain and the Emperor, were two articles, viz. putting the Pretender Charles in possession of Corsica, and annexing Gibraltar to the crown of France.
May 12. It is confidently reported, that a royal order is dispatched for two regiments being speedily sent from North-America to the island of St. Vincent, in order to aid Sir William Young and the other Commissioners for the sale of Crown Lands, in the service of taking and selling all those lands,
which have been hitherto claimed or possessed by the Carabees there, and who opposed the said Commissioners, under the pretence of the crown having no right to take from them nor to dispose of any part of such lands without their own consent.
WAR OFFICE, May 14. Orders are dispatched to Lieut. General Gage, to collect all the troops from the different garrisons and cantonments in America at New York, from whence they are destined to meet a considerable naval force in a certain latitude and proceed up in an expedition, which may strike terror to some refractory Northern Powers; transports are sent to Newfoundland to carry the three companies belonging to the 59th regiment to the general rendezvous at New York; those companies are re-implied by as many companies of marines, who are for the future to garrison that island.
LONDON, May 16. On Thursday the House of Commons agreed to the following resolutions, viz.
That, after the expiration of the present drawback of the duties of the customs upon tea exported to Ireland and the British plantations, a drawback be allowed of three fourth parts of the duties of customs payable upon the importation of such tea, for a limited time.
Letters by yesterday's Holland mail bring the following melancholy account, viz. On Monday evening last, just before the beginning of the Flemish opera at the theatre in Amsterdam, a small copper boiler in the machinery took fire, owing to a candle having been by accident placed immediately under it, which communicated itself to the boxes with such rapidity, that in a very few minutes the whole house was in flames. The smoke and confusion was so great, that though many escaped out of the house, a large number amounting to near three hundred persons, were sorry to inform the public, perished in the flames. Among whom were many of the first families in Holland. Husband and wife, mother and daughter, were burnt together. In short when the mail came away, so great was the confusion owing to the above dreadful calamity, that scarce half the business was conducted by the merchants in person. Eight or nine houses likewise burnt down by the said fire.
ST. JAMES's, May 18. This afternoon between three and four o'clock, his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester arrived from Italy, in perfect health, and immediately waited on their Majesties at K. W.
BRISTOL, May 16. Yesterday morning the celebrated Jonathan Britain was executed at St. Michael's Hill gallows in Bristol. He left Newgate between eleven and twelve, and arrived at the fatal tree about one o'clock. He behaved with remarkable decency penitence and devotion--sung, prayed, and exhorted the people with much fervour and affection; acknowledged the justice of his sentence, and declared his hearty forgiveness of all his prosecutors. The executioner being tedious in the performance of his duty Britain assisted him; he then delivered to the turkey his watch and cigar, kissed him and launched into eternity, with a satisfactory hope of salvation.
Frontiers of TURKEY, April 1. Martha Romanow, after receiving instructions from his court, relative to the manner in which he was to conclude the preliminaries of peace, sent a person of consequence to the Ottoman camp, accompanied by 30 Lords, and escorted by 200 horse Grenadiers. On their way they were met by a numerous body of Janissaries, with their musick, and were saluted by the discharge of the artillery. The principal Turkish officers came to meet him, and placing the Russian Plenipotentiary between them, they conducted him to the Grand Vizir's tent, who received him with great ceremony and affection, treated him magnificently for
three days, according to the Ottoman custom, and made him rich presents. There was a conference in the night, which lasted a long time. After having executed his commission, this Lord took leave of the Grand Vizir, and returned to Moldavia, but left one of the officers of his suit, who was sent to Constantinople the next day with four Turkish officers. As soon as he arrived he went to the Caimacan, to whom he notified, that he came from the Ottoman camp. He staid three hours in the capital, and was sent back to the Grand Vizir with other dispatches; from whence he is to go to Moldavia, to give an account of his commission to Count Romanow, it is not yet known what has passed in this negotiation, but it is hoped that we shall soon be informed of it.
LONDON, May 18. A remarkable cause is pending in the Court of King's Bench, before Lord Mansfield, and the rest of the Judges of that court, between a negro named Somerset, against Capt. Stuart, his master. Somerset having been baptised professes for his freedom -- At the trial on the 8th of May, Mr. Mansfield, council for the plaintiff, went very spiritedly into the natural rights and privileges of mankind, particularly of those subjects to the laws of Great Britain, whom he proved to be peculiarly protected in the uncontrouled exercise of their freedom.
We hear that if the Court of King's Bench should refuse to release Somerset, the black, that it is determined, under the protection of the Duke of Richmond, and other worthy persons, to appeal to the House of Lords, as the principle on which the question must be determined concerns the whole British nation.
A French citizen, animated by a laudable desire to relieve the sufferings of the unhappy, has turned his attention towards the treatment of the negroes who are transported from Africa into the American colonies; and touched with pity for the numbers that continually perish on board the vessels that convey them from their own country, has placed in the hands of the members of the royal academy of Bordeaux, the sum of 1200 livres, as a premium for the best memoir which shall be produced, pointing out the most salutary means for preserving the negroes from the frequent, and too often fatal maladies, which they experience in their passage from Africa to the Colonies. The Author is to describe the different symptoms of these disorders. Their principles are founded upon facts well attested, their methods of relief explained with precision, and their efficacy confirmed by experience. The memoir must be written in French or Latin, and sent franked any time before the first of January, 1777, directed to M. de Lamontaigne, perpetual Secretary of the society of Bordeaux.
May 19. Letters from the north of Ireland advise that the insurrections of the populace are entirely quelled, and that many of the insurgents, who were chiefly composed of farmers and weavers, are preparing to embark for America.
Advice is received from Sir Robert Murray Keith, that the Court of Denmark are plotting something more against the Queen, in order to take her off; but that he apprehends before they proceed any further against her, some other persons who are well with her, will be cut off; it having been noticed to the public, that there will be more executions in a short time.
Orders are given for a fleet of ships to be ready to sail, at a few hours notice. Their destination is not known, but it is imagined they are bound up the Baltic.
They write from Madrid, that the King of Spain at the instance of the British Ambassador, had given orders for all the subjects of Great Britain in prison at Cadiz and Carthagena, to be immediately released, and for them to return to their own country.

For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. To Mr. HUTCHINSON. SIR,
IN going over your admirable Message a few times preceeding the writing of my last, I concluded the bulk of it to consist of matter so often hacknied, halshed up and repeated, after repeated and unanswerable exposures to the contempt of every one, that no one would again endure a formal consideration of a twentieth part of it; but since, understanding that some of your choice friends and in the front of these the patriotic Mr. T—— G-y, proclaim it a master piece of so high a kind, that even an angel from Heaven cannot answer it; I shall crave the indulgence of my readers, while I perhaps offend their delicacy, with a deeper overturn of this Augean Stable.
I mean now to begin with your fine composition at its first conception, and enumerate the several mole it has cast forth, with just so much observation upon each, as must convince the fondest gossip in your neighbourhood, that there never was a spark of life in the largest of them.
Imprimis. You conceive that certain resolves and declarations, of the Hon. Commons House of this province, are not well founded; and the first instance you are pleased to adduce in point, reads thus, "You have declared that the support (made) for the Governor by other powers than the legislative authority of this province, is a material infraction of the charter." Now, Sir, in my turn, I conceive were it in your power to produce as substantial evidence of a good foundation in nature, or solemn compact, of your darling "constitutional dependance" of the Commons of America, on the meer will of the deputies of the Commons of Great-Britain, you would bid defiance to all the quibbles, and efforts to puzzle, that could be brought against it. But in this case you are truly "unfortunate," in having the authority of your adored Charles in direct opposition to you, in the instance yourself alludes to; who very pertly told a less flexible Parliament than the present, They had nothing to do with his colonies! Our Representatives found that resolve on that immutable law of nature, expressly recognized in our charter, that a people entitled to all the franchises of Englishmen, have it in their option to pay their servants what they judge they merit for their ministrations. Your constitutional dependance is a chimera of your own brain; at least I challenge you to quote an authority for the expression beyond the era of Lord Bute's administration; and you will see readily produce the bills of sale, which conveyed the children of Israel in servitude to the Egyptians, as the formal Pactum of this surrender. You know, Sir, nothing less than the highest degree of enmity to the rights, liberties and happiness of this people, could prompt any man to admit their absolute dependance upon any power on earth.
You go on in quotation of ill founded resolves, to repeat, that by the above provision, "the Governor is rendered not dependant on the people, as the charter prescribed, and consequently not, in that respect, such a Governor as the people consented to." This, no doubt, you have thoroughly refuted, but I would gladly know where!
The next article complains of the destruction of the mutual check and dependance of the several branches of the legislature upon each other, and by that means the exposal of the province to a despotic administration. And this it seems is to be reconciled to our stomachs by a demonstration that such a check was never in fact reasonable. Here again, Sir, you are so unfortunate as to differ from every writer of reputation who has ever treated the subject. Burlamaqui tells you, absolute power easily degenerates into despotism; and despotism paves the way for the greatest and most fatal revolutions that can happen to sovereigns. "The generality of Princes have neither virtue nor courage sufficient to moderate their passions, when they find they may do whatever they list. The wisest of nations, therefore, set bounds to the power of their sovereigns, and prescribe the manner in which they are to govern." Pol. Law. p. 54 and 55. And 59 ibid. It is by such precautions as these that a nation really limits the authority she confers on the sovereign, and secures her liberty. For as we have already observed, civil liberty ought to be accompanied, not only with a right of insisting on the sovereign's making a due use of his authority, but moreover with a moral certainty, that this right shall have its effect. And the only way to render the people thus certain is to use proper precautions against
the abuse of sovereign power, in such a manner as these precautions shall not be eluded. And though no provision had been made, Sidney says, Vol. II. p. 58, They who trusted men that appeared to have great virtues, with such a power as might be turned into tyranny, might justly retract, limit or abolish it, when they found it abused: As the MALICE of men and their INVENTIONS TO DO MISCHIEF encrease daily , all would be brought under the power of the WORST, if care were not taken to (even) find out new ways of preventing it. Those spirited and sensible papers, known by the title of Oldcastle's Remarks, give you a very striking idea of the true constitutional condition of this government; p. 83, he observes the power which the several parts of our government have of controlling and checking one another, may be called a dependancy on one another. P. 84, The constitutional dependancy consists in this, that the proceedings of each part of the government, when they come forth into action and affect the whole, are liable to be examined and controlled by the other parts. He illustrates this by supposing a prince who claims and exercises a right of levying money without consent of parliament. He could not be opposed effectually, if the two houses of parliament had not a right to oppose him, to call his ministers to account; and to make him feel that far from being independent, he was under this constitutional dependency.
One would be ashamed, says my author, to insist so much on a point so very clear, if some men were not so hardened to all sense of shame as to maintain the contrary! But it is our misfortune, Sir, who have devoted our ease, honour and profit, to the salvation of our injured country, to have nothing but dirt to grabble in. Filmer, Heylin, Sibthorp, Manwaring and Laud are all retained with such nausating repetition, that even Moses himself, had it fallen to his share, would have become distracted before he had followed you a fortnight.
Does not every barber's boy in Boston, know that any person whatsoever intirely independent of the good people of this province for his appointment, support and continuance, is as far removed from any check or controul in their power, as in that of the Mogul Tartars? But if to this be added, the consideration of an attachment in all the above articles, and much evident inclination to boot, connecting him with the most conspicuous enemy New-England ever had since its first settlement—if the will of this oppressor, and invader of our birth-rights is indisputably his governing law—if he can persist in vexing, and on application to him upon the most alarming emergency, repeatedly disavow a power of protecting them,—Can any man look upon such a one the Father of a people? Or must they not rather deem him a meer mercenary Slave; such as the dregs of imperial infamy quartered upon the most miserable Roman provinces, or the Grand Seignior sets over Egypt!
It is essential to the idea of lawful government, that the good of the people be its sole end Of this the people themselves being the institutors, and only rightful reformers, are the sole judges. If they determine your administration to have lost sight of their welfare, and to respect only your own interest or caprice, or even admit the caprice of Lord Hillborough to have a large share in it, Burlamaqui warrants me to tell you, that in such case, your sovereignty then degenerates into tyranny, and ceases to be legitimate authority. For, says he p. 46 ib. it is past all doubt that if the sovereign, utterly forgetful of the end for which he was entrusted with the sovereignty applied it to quite a contrary purpose, and thus became an enemy to the state, the sovereignty returns ( ipso facto ) to the nation, who, in that case, can act towards the person who was their Sovereign in the manner they think most agreeable to their SECURITY and INTEREST. For whatever notion we may entertain of sovereignty, no man in his senses will pretend to say, that it is an undoubted title to follow the impulse of our own irregular passions with impunity, and thus become an enemy to society. Besides what you falsely, and in plain contradiction to your own history p. 393 and 408 insinuate, of the entire submissive disposition of our ancestors to accept of any powers, privileges and franchises Royal Wisdom would be pleased to grant; the same great authority destroys your insidious hypothesis of the Crown's coming by the rights in any shape, which our representatives, as you say, strangely alleged were devolved on the Crown, by our ancestors; by asserting p. 52 that, No man can divest himself so far of his liberty, as to submit to an arbitrary prince, who is to treat him absolutely according to his fancy. This would be renouncing his own life which he is not ma-
ster of; it would be renouncing his duty, which is never permitted: and if thus it be with regard to an individual, who should make himself a slave, much less hath an entire nation that power, which is not to be found in any of its members.
Is not all the above alarming doctrine verbatim applicable to you? Are you not a Governor essentially, nay totally, different from the Governor this people did, or any wise people under Heaven would covenant to receive? Are you not to them a meer despot, an absolutely uncontroulable, unlimited master, instead of an accountable and dependant servant: And what is grievous beyond comparison or endurance, are you not by native inclination, and every tie of interest inviolably devoted to the interest of their enemy? Have you not in this wretched message given up all pretension to principle, honour and conscience, to that knowledge of, and regard for, the constitution, you have so repeatedly sworn to maintain, as every common labourer may be presumed to entertain? Have you not to the uttermost of your power endeavoured to deprive this people of their liberties, by the most direct method possible, that of 'laying aside their parliaments,' and forcing them, even by a standing army, to submit to laws and taxes which they have no more voice in imposing than the Patagonian Indians? Are not a people slaves, who may be commanded to do or refrain whatever others please; and to surrender what share of their earnings they think fit to call for, on demand? You know they are; and you know the pains you have taken to bring about the fatal alteration of their condition: It might be worth your while to consider a few moments the measure of their vengeance to which your monstrous ambition entitles you! But it seems all this is done in prosecution of your duty to your Sovereign: And would not an additional 500. sterling render you as dutiful to the Pope or Pretender, could you believe them capable of usurping and maintaining the absolute sovereignty your soul breathes, even to be the dispenser of? You know, Sir, without the labour of pointing you to authorities, that the very act of compassing and endeavouring to establish such an independency as you aim at, is HIGH TREASON against the State. The highest authority in the community tells you authoritatively, that power without a check is Tyranny; and your own conscience tells you, that an expectation from a superstitious veneration of the powers that be. A thief or a pirate, Sidney tells us, may have power, but that avails him not, when, as often befel the Cæsars, he meets with one that has more; he is always unsafe since, having no effect upon the consciences of men, every one may destroy him that can.
The authorities I have quoted, agree with the common sense of mankind in trusting those most freely, who manifest the strongest disposition to use the power committed to them for the general good. On a retrospect of your behaviour, I presume you will find nothing to flatter you from that quarter. You well remember the affair of Ludgate or the Market, in which all your hypocritical cant, and pretended concern for the good of your country, was exerted to betray your fellow-citizens into an acquiescence with a measure ruinous beyond the power of imagination. Your suffering in the tumults occasioned by the Stamp-act, are very improbably ascribed to a resentment against your father. Your readiness to grant and support writs of assistance is well remembered; and the intolerable insolence with which you have treated the Representative body of this great people, will by every man of spirit be resented as it ought, and shall by
LEONIDAS.
P.S. Some may complain that you are taken at disadvantage, by anonymous writers, and that every man ought to stand or fall by the truth and merit of his public declarations in such important matters. I own it, and will follow the example of any vindicator of your measures with his real name; and then the world may judge who aim to give them just information. If your public conduct has been upright and honourable, it will honour the party who undertakes its defence, and those who your friends say traduce and calumniate you, will be clothed with shame! I admit that no writer needs now to stand in fear of you; for if prosecutions by information be given up, we are under no dreadful apprehensions from the court doctrine of the most undeniable truths being found the most offensive and punishable libels.
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SATURDAY, July 25. BOSTON.
ZELL, the place talked of for the residence of the Queen of Denmark, is the capital of a Duchy of that name, situated on the river Alser, in Germany, where the Puhse falls into it, 35 miles south from Lünenbourg, twenty eight miles north from Hanover, and twenty five north east from Brunswick. The palace is a square building, adorned with pleasant gardens, orchards, and grottos, is moated round, and was built in 1485.
DIED.] Mrs. Tapliffe, wife of Mr. Ebenezer Tapliffe.—Robert Hayes, son of Capt. Hayes, aged 17.—At Lexington, Mrs. Ruhama Brown, widow of the late Deacon Joseph Brown of that place.—At Marshfield, John Gooch, Esq; late of this town.
PROVIDENCE, July 21. Saturday last two horses were struck dead by lightning at Exeter meeting-house, immediately after their riders had alighted.
The same day six sheep were killed by lightning at Killingly.
From the NEWPORT MERCURY. Mr. SOUTHWICK,
I MIND to let you no I read news paper some times, when, I come to town to sel baskets,—then I larn what fokes are duing in the world, read the wars disturbens among nassons and such things as that, tother day I read thre or fore papers grate dele talk one Mr. Legislator about giving juges salary to make dem honest. Hoh said I! Mony make honest man! No Mr. Southwick tel Mr. Legislator mony never made honest man, yet ront due, lawyers git grate dele mony, yet no more honest for all dat; he tel us kepe in juges grate wile make um no law better, very well, how he do dat? Can he kepe in sembly five or six years else he send to king to put in juges so give up all charter right away? When one sembly make law no like Medes and Persians, next sembly nock um all in head frawl dat; poh Mr. Legislator! Better done nonsense, I think sembly better take the lawyers in hand, chuse fore or five in the coliny and make tothers hold tongue; if they do know how to wok let them go catch whale, they cunnin nuf; let sembly chuse out best lawyers, there is Mr. H-n-n-m-n, Mr. R-bb-f-n, Mr. M-rh-n-t, Mr. Ell-r-, Mr. Dr. Br-df-d, good men nuf for lawyers, they no mind squaw nither. I
all fore um, he talk dele bout party, very bad thing indeed, I think he going to make party come rite away, give juges grete dele money he want be juge bimeby him self. Now Sir you print this let him consider little, and youl blige pore Indian
SIMON MUNRAV.
MONDAY, July 27. BOSTON.
Tuesday morning, before the Court of Common Pleas for this county, Messrs. Benjamin Hutchborn, William Tuder, John Bulkley and Jonathan Williams Austin, were respectively admitted to the oath usually administered to qualify them for the practice of the Law in the Inferior Courts, after being handsomely recommended by the gentlemen, under whom they had prosecuted their respective studies.
Wednesday the Rev. Mr. Asa Dunbar, was ordained at Salem, pastor of the first church there, colleague with the Rev. Mr. Thomas Barnard; the Rev. Mr. Adams of Roxbury began with prayer; the Rev. Dr. Appleton of Cambridge preached a sermon suitable to the occasion from 2 Tim. ii. 15. The Rev. Mr. Swain of Wenham prayed and gave the charge; and the Rev. Mr. Payson of Chelsea gave the right hand of Fellowship. The greatest order and decency was observed through the whole solemnity.
The following is a more particular account of the dispute between the two Collectors at Charlestown, South Carolina, than what we have already published. Upon the decease of Mr. Hughes, late Collector there, the Governor appointed Mr. Hatley to succeed him; after which Mr. Roupell received a deputation from the Board of Commissioners at Boston, appointing him to that office, and after taking the usual oaths, took possession of it, and did business. Upon the Governor's return from the frontiers, he directed Mr. Hatley to resume the duties of his office. Mr. Roupell looking upon his own appointment to be a legal one, refused to give up the office, and both Collectors did business as they were apptied to, each disputing the authority of the other, and Mr. Roupell that of the Governor. Some Councils were held upon this occasion, in consequence whereof Mr. Roupell was suspended, and Mr. Hatley received a new commission.

Both Collectors again did business, and Mr. Roupell kept the office seal. Mr. Hatley put an additional lock to the door, which the next morning was broke off and thrown away, and Mr. Roupell now does the business. — John Morris, Esq; Comptroller, is also suspended, for refusing any other Collector than Mr. Roupell: But those gentlemen being determined to act, notwithstanding their suspension, it remains to be decided at home, whether the Governors, in their respective provinces, or the Board of Commissioners, have the superior power to fill up casual vacancies in the customs.
ARRIVED here. Thompson from North-Carolina; Bret from Quebec; Sturgis, Pulling and Tutter from Newfoundland; Cook and Nutting from Halifax; Boyd from New-London; Snow from Virginia; Keilam from St. Vincents; Gardner from Cape-Nichola; Given from St. Croix; Karr from Greenock.
TUESDAY, July 28. BOSTON.
Friday last arrived his Majesty's armed Schooner Magdalen from Virginia; — it is said each foremast man will have ten or eleven dollars for their part of English prizes taken at the Southward this cruise.
Last Saturday Capt. Smith arrived here in a large Schooner from Halifax, having on board two Companies of the 64th regiment, which, with their baggage, where immediately landed at Castle William — The remainder of the regiment are shortly expected.
A large barn, belonging to Mr. Luke Hovey, of Boxford, was set on fire, last Tuesday fe'nnight, by a flash of lightning, and entirely consumed, with four tons of English Hay.
Capt. Rogers, in the ship Charlotte, is arrived at Rhode Island in forty nine days from London.
DIED.] Capt. Simeon Freeman. — At Hingham, Miss Joanna Gay, daughter of the Rev. Ebenezer Gay. — At Springfield Deacon David Chapin. — At Sheffield, Mrs. Dorothy Austin, aged 99, relict of Capt. Richard Austin. — At Stratford, the Hon. Robert Walker, Esq.
The funeral of Mrs. Joanna Carnes was attended on Thursday last. To pay some tribute to the virtues of the dead is laudable, and is a kind of memento to the living. Mrs. Carnes was remarkable for the amiableness of her domestic government, a tender and affectionate wife, a careful and indulgent mother, a gentle and humane mistress; and her hands were ever employed in relieving the distressed.
WEDNESDAY, July 29. BOSTON.
A printer who formerly lived in London, but failed, and settled in Copenhagen, has been sent by the inquisition to work on the fortifications for life, for printing a certain paper in favour of the Queen of Denmark.
HAVERHILL, July 16. Yesterday a melancholy accident happened here. A young lad, named Joseph Merrill, being affiduous in removing a building, was unfortunately run over, which instantly put a period to his life. A caution to young people, not to be too officious in business they little understand. He was a hopeful, promising lad.
PORTSMOUTH, July 24. Since our last arrived the Wentworth Man-ship, Capt. Durand from London, but having a long passage brought nothing so late as we have by the way of Boston.
ALBANY, July 6. On Friday last a shower of very large hail, accompanied with thunder and lightning, fell at Coakakie: The southerni post-rider informs us, that he arrived there about an hour after the shower happened, and that he lifted some of the hail stones which were too large for his fist to grasp; others report, that square pieces of ice fell which weighed four pounds and an half, that as far as the shower extended, the wheat and Indian corn are entirely destroyed, that the hail penetrated the roofs of the houses and barns, struck off the branches and bark of the trees, killed some horses and cattle, and wounded others in so many parts of their bodies that they appeared as if bathed in blood. A girl at Schodac had one of her eyes struck out, and two negroes were killed by the hail.
PHILADELPHIA, July 26. By Capt. Davidson, from Hispaniola, we learn, that Capt. All, in a brig belonging to Rhode-Island, bound to Cape Nichola Mole, was, on the 24th of June, cast away on the Corcusses. The vessel is entirely lost, but the Captain and crew were taken up and carried to the Mole by a sloop belonging to Providence. — We further learn, that Capt.
Johnson, from Georgia, arrived there, and informed Captain Davidson, that on his passage he spoke a brig from Jamaica for London, the Captain of which acquainted him, that he saw a sloop in the Gulph, mounting several guns, who fired at, and brought too, three or four vessels and boarded them: They attempted to board him, but he fortunately got away through the darkness of the night. They appeared to be pirates, as they hoisted different colours.
THURSDAY, July 30. BOSTON.
By a gentleman from Virginia, we learn, that a vessel bound in there from Holland was pursued by a cutter, and ordered to bring too, but refused, a barge was manned, and they attempted to board her, but were beat off, upon which the cutter fired upon her, the fire was returned with vigour, but the vessel unluckily running on a bank was seized by the cutter. It is said that since this affair happened, the Virginians send out an armed brig, who gave battle to the cutter, killed twenty of her men and lost eight; but this wants confirmation.
Monday morning failed the transports with the 14th regiment on board.
Yesterday several Gentlemen went out in a boat to catch mackerel, and had failed a little way beyond the light-house, when unluckily the boom knocked Mr. Joseph Howe, tinman, overboard as he was stooping to haul in his line; the sea running very high, and the wind blowing fresh, by the time they could wear the boat, he was at a great distance from them, and must have been drowned had they not had a small canoe alongside and by that means saved his life; he had sunk twice before they could get to his assistance, and was sinking a third time when they reached him. They carried him ashore at the light-house, and by the means used he greatly recovered in five or six hours.
On Thursday last, a young child, daughter of Mr. Peter Stevens, of Andover, caught hold of a pitcher of hot liquor and poured it into her mouth and on her body, by which she was so much scalded that she died the next day.
In less than an hour after the above death, and within about one mile of the said Mr. Stevens's, two men were found dead, lying under an oak tree, who where both undoubtedly killed by a flash of lightning.
DIED.] At Concord, Mr. Cord Cordis, keeper of the British Coffee-house in this town.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. Mr. THOMAS,
Please to publish the following extract from Mr. Locke. It is of the utmost importance that every man should be rightly informed of the difference between a lawful Governor and a tyrant, how far, and when, he has a right to resist and, when he must bear. I heartily recommend the passage to the repeated and serious perusal of your readers. M. S.
WHEREVER Law ends, Tyranny begins, if the Law be transgressed to another's harm. And whosoever in Authority exceeds the Power given him by the Law, and makes use of the Force he has under his Command, to compass that upon the Subject which the Law allows not, ceases in that to be a Magistrate and acting without Authority, may be opposed as any other Man, who by force invades the Right of another. This is acknowledged in subordinate Magistrates. He that hath Authority to seize my Person in the Street, may be opposed as a Thief and a Robber, if he endeavours to break into my House to Execute a Writ, notwithstanding that I know he has such a Warrant, and such a Legal Authority as will empower him to Arrest me abroad. And why this should not hold in the highest, as well as in the most Inferiour Magistrate I would gladly be informed. Is it reasonable that the Eldest Brother, because he has the greatest part of his Father's Estate, should thereby have a Right to take away any of his younger Brother's Portions? Or that a Rich Man who possessed a whole Country should from thence have a Right to seize when he pleased the Cottage and Garden of his poor Neighbour? The being rightfully possessed of great Power and Riches exceedingly beyond the greatest part of the Sons of Adam, is so far from being an excuse, much less a reason to Rapine and Oppression, which the endangering another without Authority, is, that it is a great Aggravation of it. For the exceeding the Bounds of Authority is no more a Right in a great than a petty Officer; no
more justifiable in a King than a Constable. But so much the worse in him, as that he has more trust put in him, is supposed from the advantage of Education, and Counsellors to have better knowledge and less reason to do it, having already a greater share than the rest of his Brethren.
May the Commands then of a Prince be opposed? May he be resisted as often as any one shall find himself aggrieved, and but imagine he has not Right done him? This will unhinge and overturn all Politics, and instead of Government and Order, leave nothing but Anarchy and Confusion.
To this I Answer: That Force is to be opposed to nothing but to unjust and unlawful Force; whoever makes any opposition in any other Case, draws on himself a just Condemnation both from God and Man; and to no such Danger or Confusion will follow, as is often suggested. For,
First, As in some Countries, the person of the Prince by the Law is Sacred, and so whatever he commands or does, his person is still free from all Question or violence, not liable to Force, or any Judicial Censure or Condemnation. But yet opposition may be made to the illegal acts of any inferior officer or other commissioned by him; unless he will by actually putting himself into a State of War with his people, dissolve the Government, and leave them to that defence which belongs to every one in the State of Nature. For of such things who can tell what the end will be? And a Neighbour Kingdom has shewed the World an odd Example. In all other Cases the Sacredness of the person exempts him from all Inconveniences whereby he is secure whilst the Government stands, from all violence and harm whatsoever. Than which there cannot be a wiser Constitution. For the harm he can do in his own Person, not being likely to happen often, nor to extend itself far, nor being able by his single strength to subvert the Laws, nor oppress the Body of the people, should any Prince have so much Weakness and ill Nature as to be willing to do it, the Inconveniency of some particular mischiefs that may happen sometimes when a heady Prince comes to the Throne, are well recompenced by the peace of the Publick and security of the Government, in the Person of the Chief Magistrate thus set out of the reach of danger. It being easier for the body, that some few private Men should be sometimes in danger to suffer, than that the head of the Republick should be easily, and upon slight occasions exposed.
Secondly, But this Priviledge belonging only to the King's Person, hinders not but they may be questioned, opposed and resisted, who use unjust force, though they pretend a Commission from him, which the Law authorizes not. As is plain in the Case of him that has the King's Writ to arrest a Man, which is a full Commission from the King; and yet he that has it cannot break open a Man's House to do it nor execute this Command of the King upon certain Days, nor in certain Places, though this Commission have no such exception in it, but they are the Limitations of the Law, which if any one transgresses, the King's Commission excuses him not. For the King's Authority being given him only by the Law, he cannot empower any one to act against the Law, or justify him, by his Commission in so doing. The Commission, or Command of any Magistrate, where he has no Authority, being as void and insignificant as that of any private Man. The difference between the one and the other, being that the Magistrate has some Authority so far, and to such ends, and the private Man has none at all. For it is not the Commission, but the Authority that gives the Right of acting; and against the Laws there can be no Authority. But, notwithstanding such Resistance, the King's Person and Authority are still both secured, and so no danger to Governor, or Government.
Thirdly, Supposing a Government where, in the Person of the Chief Magistrate is not thus Sacred; yet this Doctrine of the lawfulness of resisting all unlawful exercises of his Power, will not upon every slight occasion indanger him, or imbroul the Government. For where the injured Party may be relieved, and his damages repaired by Appeal to the Law, there can be no pretence for Force, which is only to be used where a Man is intercepted from appealing to the Law. For nothing is to be accounted, Hostile Force, but where it leaves not the remedy of such an appeal. And 'tis such Force alone that puts him, that uses it into a state of War, and makes it lawful to resist him. A man with a sword in his Hand, demands my Purse in the
High-way, when perhaps I have not a penny in my Pocket: This Man I may lawfully kill. To another I deliver 100 l. to hold only while I alight, which he refuses to restore me when I am got up again, but draws his Sword to defend the possession of it by force, if I endeavour to retake it. The mischief this Man does me, is a hundred or possibly a thousand times more than the other perhaps intended me, (whom I killed before he really did me any) and yet I might lawfully kill the one, and cannot so much as hurt the other lawfully. The Reason whereof is plain; because the one using force, which threatened my Life, I could not have time to appeal to the Law to secure it: And when it was gone, it was too late to appeal. The Law could not restore Life to my dead Carcase. The loss was irreparable; which to prevent, the Law of Nature gave me a Right to destroy him who had put himself into a state of War with me, and threatened my destruction. But in the other case, my Life not being in danger, I may have the benefit of appealing to the Law, and have Reparation for my 100 l. that way.
Fourthly, But if the unlawful acts done by the Magistrate, be maintained (by the power he has got) and the remedy which is due by Law, be by the same power obstructed; yet the Right of resisting, even in such manifest Acts of Tyranny, will not suddenly, or on slight occasions, disturb the Government. For if it reach no farther than some private Men's Cases, though they have a right to defend themselves, and to recover by force, what by unlawful force is taken from them; yet the Right to do so, will not easily engage them in a Contest wherein they are sure to perish; it being as impossible for one or a few oppressed Men to disturb the Government, where the Body of the People do not think themselves concerned in it, as for a raving mad Man, or heady Male-content to overturn a well settled State, the People being as little apt to follow the one as the other.
But if either these illegal Acts have extended to the Majority of the People, or if the Mischief and Oppression has light only on some few, but in such Cases, as the Precedent and Consequences seem to threaten all, and they are persuaded in their Consciences that their Laws and with them their Estates, Liberties and Lives are in danger, and perhaps their Religion too; how they will be hindered from resisting illegal force, used against them, I cannot tell. This is an Inconvenience, I confess, that attends all Governments whatsoever, when the Governors have brought it to this pass, to be generally suspected of their people, the most dangerous state they can possibly put themselves in, wherein they are less to be pitied, because it is so easy to be avoided. It being as impossible for a Governor, if he really means the good of his people, and the preservation of them and their Laws together, not to make them see and feel it; as it is for the Father of a Family not to let his Children see he loves and takes care of them.
But if all the World should observe Precedents of one kind, and Actions of another; Arts used to elude the Law, and the Trust of Prerogative (which is an Arbitrary Power in some things, left in the Prince's hand to do good not harm to the People) employed contrary to the end for which it was given, if the People shall find the Ministers and subordinate Magistrates chosen suitable to such ends, and favoured, or laid by proportionably as they promote or oppose them; If they see several experiments made of Arbitrary Power, and that Religion underhand favoured though publicly proclaimed against, which is readiest to introduce it, and the Operators in it supported as much as may be; and when that cannot be done, yet approved still and liked the better, and a long Train of Actions shew the Councils all tending that way. How can a Man any more hinder himself from being persuaded in his own Mind, which way things are going; or from casting about how to save himself, than he could from believing the Captain of the Ship he was in was carrying him and the rest of the Company to Algiers, when he found him always steering that Course, though cross Winds, Leaks in his Ship, and want of Men and Provisions did often force him to turn his Course another way for some time, which he readily returned to again, as soon as the Wind, Weather, and other Circumstances would let him?
F L O U R.
The newest PHILADELPHIA FLOUR, Fine, and Superfine, &c. &c. to be sold upon the most Reasonable Terms, by JAMES SWAN.

Irish Linens.  WILLIAM SCOTT, at his IRISH LINEN STORE In Ann-street, near the Draw-bridge, Boston, has just imported from Ireland,  A LARGE assortment of 3-4ths 7/8th and yard wide Irish Linens of all prices, Table Cloths of all sizes, Diapers, Clouting ditto, Huckabuck, Dowlas, white Ticking, brown Holland, &c. At said Store are also to be sold, By WHOLESALE and RETAIL, (being a Fresh Importation) A great Variety of  European and India GOODS.
JOHN HODGSON, hereby informs the Public,  THAT he carries on his Business of a BOOK BINDER, at his Shop opposite Mr. Philip Freeman's Junr near Liberty-Tree, the Shop Mr. John Greenlaw lately improved, where he engages to execute any orders he may receive as neat as any London binding, and at the most reasonable prices. Gentlemen waited on at the shortest notice, and the smallest favours gratefully acknowledged. N. B. Orders from the Country strictly attended to.
To be SOLD by  JOSEPH PALMER & SON, At their Store, at the lower end of King Street, Boston;  SPERMAETI CANDLES: Also, An Assortment of ENGLISH, SCOTCH and IRISH GOODS, and a few Casks of BRISTOL BEER. They have also to sell, at the House of JOSEPH GREENLEAF, Esq; in Hanover Street, near the Orange tree, A good Assortment of IRISH LINENS. N. B. The above Goods will be sold Wholesale or retail, for little more than the Storing Cost and charges.
THE Proprietors of BOSTON PIER, otherwise called the LONG-WHARF, in the town of Boston, are, in conformity to an Act of the Great and General Court, passed the last Session, Incorporating the said Proprietors, hereby notified to meet at the British Coffee-House in King-Street, in Boston aforesaid on the first Wednesday of August next, being the fifth Day of said Month at three o'Clock in the Afternoon, then and there to choose a Moderator and to fix on some Method, for raising Money for defraying the Charges of such new Work and Repairs, as have already been, or may then be determined and voted to be effected, and for calling future Meetings of said Proprietors; and generally to transact any other Business that shall properly come before them, and be for the interest of the Propriety. Boston, July 24th, 1772.  JOB PRINCE, Proprietors Clerk.
JACOB HEMET, DENIES to her Majesty and the Princess Amelia.  BEGS Leave to recommend to the Public, his newly discovered Essence of Pearl, and Pearl Dentifrice, which he has found to be greatly superior not only in elegance, but also in efficacy, to any thing hitherto made use of for complaints of the Teeth and Gums: Particularly they will preserve the Teeth in a perfect sound state, even to old age; they render them white and beautiful, without in the least impairing the enamel; loosen such as are loose, keep such as are already decayed from becoming worse, prevent the Tooth Ach, perfectly cure the Scurvy in the Gums, and make them grow firm and close to the teeth; they likewise render the breath delicate, sweet, and remedy almost all those disorders that are the consequence of scorbutic gums.
Said (by appointment of Mr. Hemet) wholesale and retail, by W. Bayley, Perfumer, in Cockspur Street, near the bottom of the Hay-market, London, and at William Scott's Irish Linen Store, near the Draw-bridge, Boston, New-England.
Imported in the last ships from London, by  JAMES PERKINS Two doors below the British Coffee-House, North-side King-street.  A LARGE and neat assortment of single, and double Flint Glass Ware, plain, enameled and engraved, cut Wine Decanters and Salts. Likewise Cream coloured Delph and Flint Ware, Bohea, Souchong and Hyson Tea, Mustard in pound, half pound, and quarter pound Bottles, ditto by the Dozen or Pound, without Bottles, Choice best Goonia Anchovies in Bottles or by the Pound, green Capers by the bottle or pound, Jordan Almonds, Florence Oil, English pickled Walnuts, very fine red Herrings, Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace and Pepper, Poland and commo: Starch, 15 and 18 inch glazed Pipes, double and single refined English Loaf Sugar, Gloucester and Cheshire Cheese, ground Rice, &c &c &c. Also, Naragaret Cheese, Chocolate by the Box or Pound, & each in lots with many other Articles in the Grocery way. N. B. Stone Jugs, and Pickle Pots All the above articles will be sold as cheap as at any Store in Town. July 6. He has just imported a large Assortment (in addition to the above) Cream coloured Stone, Delph and Glass Ware: Shopkeepers in Town or Country may be supplied by Wholesale or Retail. He has a few choice Hams of Bacon.
TO be SOLD,  A HOUSE in Union-street, near the Market, with four rooms on a floor, a good Yard, Garden, Chaise House, Stable, Well, Cistern, and many other accomodations, very well situated for a Shopkeeper. For particulars enquire of the Printer.
To SELL, or LET,  A GOOD Brick SUGAR-HOUSE, at the North part of the Town, with the Pan and Cooler and all other Utensils for carrying on the Sugar-Bakers Business. Enquire of the Printer
WATTS's and Law and Brady's PSALMS, to be sold by L. THOMAS, near the Mill-bridge. Also, A variety of small BOOKS for CHILDREN.
New Book-Store.  JOHN LANGDON, Opposite the Post-Office, informs the public that he has just received from London, a Large and Grand Assortment of BOOKS, Which he is determined to sell so cheap as to give entire satisfaction to the purchaser. The following Catalogue he presents to the Gentlemen of the Law, viz.
BACON's new Abridgments of the Law, 5 vols. The fifth Vol. may be had alone. Burrow's Reports, 3 vols. Folio. Lord Ramond's do. 3 vols. Folio. Peer William's do. 3 vols. do. Hobart's do. Shinner's do. Plowden's do. Ventris's do. Lilly's practical Register, 2 vols. Folio. Ditto Entries. Hawkin's Pleas of the Crown. Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England, 4 vols. 4to. Ditto Analysis. Cunningham's Law Dictionary, 2 vols. fol. Jacob's do. Hawkin's Abridgment of Cook. Law of Evidence. Trial's p. Pais. Gilbert on Devices. on Tenures. Caves in King's Bench.
A FEW Quintals of good Table FISH; and PEAS for Shipping; to be sold at  JOHN LOWELL's Store, on Hancock's Wharf.
IT must afford a very sensible pleasure to every well wisher to learning in general, and to the Seminary in Cambridge in particular, when any encouragement is given to hope for its prosperity: all of this character, will be ready to improve every opportunity to promote so good a cause. Such an one is now offered to the public in the following  LOTTERY, granted by the General Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, for the purpose of raising 3200 L. M. for building a new hall at Cambridge for the better accomodation of the students To the management whereof Joseph Jackson, and William Blair Townsend Esqrs. William Greenleaf, Jonathan Mason, Samuel Austin, and H. Hill, Merchants, have been appointed and duly sworn.
HARVARD-COLLEGE LOTTERY, consists of 10,000 Tickets, at 6 Dollars each; 3337 of which are prizes of the following value, viz.    1 Prize of 5000 Dollars 5000   1 do. 3000 3000   1 do. 1000 1000   3 do. 500 1500   10 do. 200 2000   15 do. 100 1500   30 do. 50 1500   3276 do. 10 32760   3337 48200 
The first ticket which shall be drawn on the first six days, will be intitled to 50 Dollars each. } 300 The ticket which shall be drawn last in said lottery. will be intitled to } 100 N. B. These are not included in the number of prizes. 6663 Blanks, 48660 Remain for the College 11340 10000 Tickets at 6 Dollars each are 60000 Dollars, Not Two Blanks to a Prize.
The above Scheme is calculated more to the advantage of the adventurer, than perhaps any other ever yet offered to the public on this continent; when this is considered, together with the generous design of said Lottery, the managers cannot but flatter themselves they shall be able to draw the same in a few months.
As this undertaking is designed solely for the benefit of the College, it is hoped that those who have received the honours of that Society, and all others who have at heart the cause of learning, with which the good of society is so nearly connected, will readily and cheerfully encourage it, by becoming adventurers.
Public and seasonable notice will be given of the time and place of drawing; and as soon as the drawing is finished, a list of the prizes will be published in Edes & Gill's Boston Gazette, &c. and the money paid to the possessors of the benefit tickets, within twenty days after a publication of a list of prizes.
Gold as well as silver will be taken for the tickets, and the prizes paid off in like manner, prizes not demanded within twelve months after drawing, will not be paid, but will be deemed as generously given for the purposes aforesaid, and will be applied accordingly.
TICKETS are ready for sale at the houses of Jonathan Hastings and Andrew Boardman, Esqrs. in Cambridge, and at the Stores and Houses of the managers in Boston.  FLOREAT ACADEMIA
EDENZER HANCOCK, At his Shop in Marshall's Lane, between the sign of the Corn fields and the Mill-bridge; begs leave to acquaint his former good customers and others, that he has just opened for sale,
A FRESH assortment of Hardware Goods, which he is determined to sell at the very lowest Advance, for Cash only:—Those who please to favour him with their Custom may depend upon being well used; and all favours gratefully acknowledged.
TO be SOLD very cheap for cash, or English Goods. a new Fall-back CHAISE, and also a SULKEY, very neatly made, with Harnesses for each complete. Enquire of the Printer.
DANIEL SCOTT, At his Medicine Store the Sign of the Leopard, South End.  TAKES this method of informing all Gentlemen, Ladies, and others, who have had the Misfortune to lose their Teeth, that he still continues the Business of making and fixing artificial Teeth as usual, in so elegant a manner as to be but little inferior to the natural, either in Use or Beauty, as many who have experienced them can testify: Where also any Person afflicted with painful Stumps or unsound Teeth, may have them removed with a peculiar Dexterity and Ease—And all Persons who have the Scurvy in their Teeth, which threatens their removal though sound, may have them cleaned without hurting the Enamel, or in the least degree impairing them, and may be supplied with his ENANTIUM CONSERVATOR, which is an excellent Powder, the best adapted for preserving the Teeth and Gums, and preventing them from Achings, of any Preparation ever offered to the Public: It will cure the Scurvy in the Gums, bring the Teeth to their original Whiteness, and by a continuance of its Use, will Preserve both Teeth and Gums in a pure state during life—It is not pretended that it will perform Impossibilities, that it will make rotten Teeth sound, or will ease them when they violently ach; but it will assuredly preserve those Teeth found that are so, and cause the Gums to adhere to them and prevent those that are decayed in part, from becoming worse.
At the above Store may be had, Morgan's useful Eye-Water, which has in so many cases been found serviceable, that it must escape the censure of the most critical Oculist—Brigsten's famous Bug Liquid, which effectually destroys those hateful Vermin,—be they ever so numerous.
An assortment of genuine patenteeed and other Medicines of the best quality, and Medicine Boxes for Families or Shippings, with exact and particular directions for using them, and a variety of other articles cheap.
The above Powder may be had also of Cox and Berry in Boston, Doctor Kast in Salem, and Dummer Jewett, Esq; at Ipswich.
A VARIETY of Magazine PRINTS, and very neat Engravings, imported in one of the last vessels from London, to be sold by
STEPHEN WHITING, opposite the sign of the Cornfield, and STEPHEN WHITING, jun. about half-way between that and the Mill-bridge; where may be had, at a low price,
Looking-Glasses, of almost all sizes, from one inch in length up to thirty-six, by twenty in width.
At the same places, Glasses not exceeding thirty by eighteen may be new silvered. Glasses and Pictures of all sorts framed and gilt as well and as cheap as any where in America.
TO be sold by Samuel Sloane, at his Distil- House, opposite the Blueball and Mason's Arms, formerly Green-Dragon, New England RUM, and all sorts of SPIRITS, cheap for cash or Molasses; and as he makes those articles himself, he will warrant them fit for any market.
To be LET,  A STORE, very convenient for ENGLISH GOODS, and well situated Enquire of the Printer.
To be SOLD at JOHN WINTHROP's Store, Opposite the East End of Faneuil-Hall, A FEW Casks of Florence OIL of a very superior Quality, Quaves, Philadelphia Flour, Bar Iron, English Loaf Sugar, Cordage, best London Porter, and a few Pipes of sterling Madeira Wine. Also, A few Barrels of excellent TURPENTINE.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS,
At the South Corner of MARSHAL's LANE, leading from the MILL-BRIDGE into UNION-STREET, 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 and 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. Caidar, Painter, in Charlestown; Mr. J. Hiller, Watch-maker in Salem; Mr. B. Emerton, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; and Mr. M. Becher, in Bridgewater.