The Massachusetts spy (Boston [Mass.]), 1772-04-09 00:00:00

THE Massachusetts Spy
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'DO THOU Great LIBERTY INSPIRE our Souls,--And make our Lives in THY Possession happy,--Or, our Deaths glorious in THY JUST Defence!'
VOL. II.]
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1772.
[NUMB. 59]
Fresh EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, February 13.
ORDERS are sent to the Governor of Mahon, and the Commander of the fleet in the Mediterranean, to stop the Danish men of war in that part of the world till further orders.
This spirited conduct of the ministry will greatly embarrass the Queen mother of Denmark's party, who have given orders for that fleet to sail immediately for Copenhagen.
A correspondent asserts, that Mr. Edmund Burke is not the writer of the letters signed Junius , and adduces the following incontestable fact to evince the truth of his assertion. Somewhat more than two years ago an answer came out to one of Junius's letters, and a reply appeared to it the very day following from Junius himself: at this identical time Mr. Edmund Burke was near two hundred miles distant from London.
February 14. The additional Commissioners in Ireland, have been, contrary to law sworn into office, sworn into office! The first consequence of this arbitrary step will be a remonstrance to his Majesty, which is to be presented by a very respectable number of the commons of Ireland, consisting of twenty one members, who are expected here in a week or ten days.
Last Sunday proceedings at law were by agreement stopped between Lord and Lady Grosvenor: The 1200l. a year mentioned by the news-papers to be granted as a separate maintenance to her ladyship, is the fact, together with 1000l. in hand, to answer immediate disbursements; and we hear that, if possible, every paper relative to the divorce will be taken from the file, to remove the judicial traces of so disagreeable a transaction.
A Committee of the Livery waited on the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, on Tuesday last, to request his Lordship to grant a common-hall, and issue the usual precepts. The committee yesterday received his Lordship's answer in a letter, which contained an ABSOLUTE REFUSAL.
February 15. When the Princess Dowager of Wales had an interview abroad with the Queen of Denmark, it is asserted as an absolute truth, that after reproving her for her behaviour towards the King her husband, and warning her as well of the cancer, as the criminality of being false to her bed, (of the truth of which she had almost indisputable intelligence) her majesty with the utmost composure said, "well, mother, I suppose you have done--and all the answer I have to give is--pray leave my conduct to my own management, and do you go home and manage your King as well as I do mine."
February 19. It is confidently reported, that Lord North has absolutely refused to involve the nation in a war on account of the late revolution in Denmark.
A letter from Mr. Adair, Surgeon-General, which arrived from Naples on Saturday gives a very flattering account of the state of his Royal highness the Duke of Gloucester's health. The stony concretions which he drew up from the lungs have ceased to appear, and his pulse was firmer, and less intermitting when the post came away, than it has been since the arrival of Dr. Jebb and Mr. Adair.
All the chaplains who attended the funeral of her Royal highness the Princess Dowager of Wales on Saturday evening, had orders to provide themselves with gloves and fans, which was actually done at their own expence. And we further hear (so universal was the economical plan upon this occasion) that the casks of wine was to be had.
LONDON, February 20. The House of
Commons in a committee of supply, voted. 394,725l. 17s. 6d. for the ordinary of the Navy including half pay to Sea and Marine Officers, for the year 1772:
375,939l. for building and rebuilding, and repairs of ships of war, for 1772:
5,346l. 10s. 5d. for the establishment of Nova Scotia, for 1772:
3186l. for ditto of Georgia, for 1772:
4950l. for ditto of East-Florida, for ditto:
5650l. for ditto of West-Florida, for ditto.
6336l. for ditto of Senegambia, for ditto:
1885l. for general survey in North America, for 1772.
The said resolutions to be reported to-morrow.
Saturday Capt. Shuldham kissed his Majesty's hand on his being appointed Commodore of the squadron to sail to Newfoundland, and Governor of the said island.
Extract of a letter from Lisbon, dated Jan.
"In answer to the many false and infamous paragraphs that have lately appeared in the paper, concerning the satisfaction demanded and received by the court of Great Britain from that of Portugal, it may be some satisfaction to the public to know how matters really stand in that respect this 23d of January, 1772."
"In the first place, the Captain of the English vessel seized in the Brazils is a prisoner in Lisbon; and the escape of some persons confined in the same place was lately made a pretext for committing him not only more closely but along with common rogues."
"2dly, Mr. Cornell is still a prisoner, without relief, redress, or satisfaction of any kind. N. B. He was arrested the 4th of August, 1770."
"3dly, The Brokers continue to hold the scourge over the British merchants in Lisbon, insomuch that they cannot now sue for the payment of their debts, though contracted ten or twelve years ago, without producing a certificate from a Broker, of the sale from which the debt arose, which is universally impracticable. N. B. All their other grievances in statu quo."
"4thly and lastly. From May 1770 till this morning about eleven o'clock, we have had no envoy at the court of Lisbon: from all this it is evident, that if the British court has received satisfaction from that of Portugal, satisfaction, in the language of Princes, does not always imply redress to their subjects."
February 21. The motion for triennial Parliaments was objected to, as annual were thought more eligible.
GEORGE, R.
His Majesty being desirous, from paternal affection to his own family, and anxious concern for the future welfare of his people and the honour and dignity of his crown, that the right of approving all marriages in the Royal family (which ever has belonged to the Kings of this realm, as a matter of public concern) may be made effectual, recommends to both Houses of Parliament to take into their serious consideration, whether it may not be wise and expedient to supply the defect of the laws now in being, and by some new provision more effectually to guard the descendants of his late Majesty King George the Second (other than the issue of Princesses who have married or may hereafter marry into foreign families) from marrying without approbation of his Majesty his heirs, or successors first had and obtained. G. R.
Resolved, that an humble address be presented to his Majesty to return thanks of this House, for his most gracious message; to assure his Majesty, that his faithful Commons, impressed with a just sense as well as his Majesty's paternal affection to his family as his anxious concern for the future welfare of his people, and the honour and dignity of his crown, will not fail to take his Majesty's message into their most serious consideration.
Yesterday at a court of Common Council held at Guildhall, a motion was made, that the Lord-Mayor be requested to call a Common-Hall, for the purpose of instructing this city's Representatives to support the intended motion of Mr. Alderman Sawbridge in the House of Commons, respecting triennial Parliaments.
A correspondent wishes to know if the Lord Mayor is not liable to a prosecution for refusing to call a Common-hall on the requisition, of his fellow citizens.
It is said that the truth of the following account may be depended on:--The office of Commander in Chief, of the forces of Hanover being vacant, the Princess of Brunswick came over on purpose to solicit the command for the Prince of Brunswick, and to her great disappointment she found, that the behaviour of the Prince during the late war was not a sufficient recommendation, but that the important command of all the forces of Hanover must be conferred on a raw and unexperienced officer, a Prince of the illustrious house of Mecklenburgh Strelitz. This accounts for the sudden departure of the Princess of Brunswick.
If Lord North should realize his intended plans for reducing the prices of the necessaries of life, he will be as popular a minister as this kingdom ever knew.
Lord Mansfield is certainly very ill, and supposed to be much worse than has yet been reported in the news papers.
February 22. The house met about three o'clock, and having very little or no business, to do, several passages from a sermon preached before the house on Thursday the 30th of January last, by Dr. Nowell, which, by the desire of the House, had been printed, as is customary in such cases, when seldom more than ten or twelve Members attend (if so many) were read by a member in his place, which appeared so offensive (the thanks of the house and the request for printing it being affixed to the sermon) that the members seemed much enraged; and the more so, as they were drove to a kind of perplexity to know what was to be done, as the House seemed universally to condemn the doctrine contained in those passages that were then read. A motion was made by one of the members, that for the future no other person preach before that House on the 30th of January, except the Chaplain. This motion was withdrawn, as it might convey a distant idea of a sort of disregard to the rest of the clergy. A second motion was made, that in future the thanks of that house be not given to any sermon preached before it, till the sermon was first printed. This also after much debate was withdrawn, and the order of the day read, and soon after adjourned to Tuesday.
A correspondent says, he is not able, or we not daring enough, to account for the motives that could influence or the protection that would countenance this torrid Divine to preach before the members of this House of Commons such barefaced assertions; he has therefore desired us to print these offensive passages at large from the sermon, leaving the unerring public to assign reasons for such consummate assurance; and as a small but full illustration of his own, that we would not neglect printing the title page of the sermon, which we here do, as well as those offensive passages therein.
A SERMON preached before the HOUSE of COMMONS, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, on Thursday, January the 30, 1772 by THOMAS NOWELL, D. D. prince of St. Mary's Hall, Kings professor of modern history, and public orator in the university of Oxford.
"It has indeed been frequently asserted that this tempest was raised by other causes; that the despotic disposition, the arbitrary proceeding and the tyrannical government of
the King, after numberless oppressions patiently submitted to, roused at length the spirit of an injured people in defence of their liberty and laws; that they had frequently appealed for a redress of grievances; had often petitioned for their rights, and used every method of persuasion and remonstrance without success, before they had recourse to measures, which a sense of their injury inspired, and necessity sufficiently justified to every unprejudiced person this as for a rebellion will appear as groundless as safe. Their complaints proceeded their pretended grievances, and continued those grievances were redressed. I felt indeed one, which to men of the world will ever be a real grievance; the encroachment of Episcopacy in the church, andarchy in the state; of both which governing principles were equally subverted."
"In vain shall we look for the removal of these evils from any real or supposed grievances, from any undue stretch of prerogative, from any abuse of Royal prerogative, from any abuse of those favourite topics upon which the enemies of our constitution, so vehemently claim. No, whatever colours these proceedings might lend to rebellion, the ground of it was more deeply laid in the principles of the times, in the factious veil, and turbulent spirit of men, devoted to enthusiasm, phrensy and madness."
"And while we behold the bright example of those Princely virtues, which adorned the Royal martyr, now shining in the person of our gracious Sovereign, let us earnestly address the Throne of Grace, that the guilt of an ungrateful abandoned people, may not cause this sun to be withdrawn from us, nor quench the light of Israel."
Mrs. Luttrell, sister to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cumberland, was yesterday refused admittance into the gallery of the House of Commons.
On Thursday the Hon. Charles James Fox, second son to Lord Holland resigned his place as one of the Lords of the Admiralty.
February 24. Our correspondent at Vienna writes, that they are carrying on all sorts of preparations for an approaching war, with indefatigable diligence and zeal; and they are daily completing their regiments and filling their military magazines to the utmost perfection.
Had not Count Rantzau interposed, it is beyond a doubt that the Queen of Denmark would have fallen a sacrifice to an enraged populace.
A second revolution is every day expected to take place in Denmark.
The Princess Dowager, it is said, sent 2000l. to Colonel Keith, as she expresses it, for his standing forth in behalf of the innocent, by the Private messenger who came by the way of Gottenburg and Leith.
A correspondent wonders, that as the late Princess Dowager's virtues to have been so manifold, her Royal Highness never found in her heart to pay her late husband's debts, which would have saved many honest people from ruin.
February 25. On Saturday fillets of veal were sold in Honey Lane market, at the very extravagant price of a shilling a pound.
It is pity something is not immediately done by Parliament, to reduce the price of provisions, as the poor, who have large families, are actually in danger of starving.
Our old correspondent at Paris assures us, that a remarkable coldness appears between the courts of Versailles and that of Madrid, insomuch that his Catholic Majesty's Ambassador had actually requested his recall.
Mr. Charles Fox publicly assures all his friends, that though he has resigned his office, he will not go into opposition; his quarrel being only with the minister, and not with the King's measures.

Mr. Smith, a merchant LON in the city of London, re- Acoice yesterday about one o'clock, us special messenger from Amsterdam, at the preliminary articles of peace between the Porte and the Empress of Russia had been happily adjusted; and that the belligerent powers had agreed to open a congress immediately, to conclude this weighty negotiation.
The first of the day is, "The five Patriotic members of the council of Grenada." HEADS of the ROYAL MARRIAGE BILL. The preamble is the same verbatim as the King's message.
The first clause enacts, that none of the Royal family shall marry without the King's consent, before the age of twenty five.
The second clause enacts, that any of the Royal family, above the age of five and twenty, being desirous to marry, shall give in writing the name of the person to the "Privy Council, and if neither House of Parliament interse (that is, address the King against it) during twelve months, they may marry, notwithstanding the King disapprove.
Any persons assisting, or knowing of any intention in the Royal family to marry, and not discovering the same, to be guilty of premunire.
The above bill was read yesterday for the second time in the House of Lords; and about the middle of next week it will come to the Commons.
February 28. A motion will be made on Monday next in the House of Commons, to expunge from the Calendar the Martyrdom of Charles I.
It was Captain Walsingham who moved on Tuesday last, to expunge the thanks of the House for Dr. Nowel's Tory Sermon of the 30th of January; the Minister joined him and the motion was carried 152 against 41.
They write from Paris, that the French court are on the point of surrendering the island of Corsica to the infant Duke of Parma for 11,000,000 livres.
Wednesday a second trial was made, under the inspection of a Society of Arts and Sciences, opposite the Orchard-house near Black-wall, by discharging a harpoon at an artificial so-repart of a whale, constructed with hoop, canvas &c. from a swivel gun at the distance of forty yards. The first charge was only with half an ounce of powder, which proved too weak to throw the instrument home. The next proof was with an ounce charge, which carried the harpoon effectually through the mark, which on a real whale must have done the intended execution. It is said that a steel bow, on the same principle, will soon be proved.
By the last dispatches brought over from Ireland, our Ministry have had the mortification to find themselves again defeated by the patriotic members of the House of Commons of Ireland, who, to their everlasting honour and exemplary virtue, have again out-voted the cattle by twelve voters, declaring the appointment of the five new Commissioners illegal.
February 29 Above two hours were taken up yesterday in the House of Lords in altercation and personal contention; however, Lord Camden, a little before six o'clock, resumed the debate, and after that his friends as well as his opponents.
On Wednesday last the Duke of Cumberland entered the upper House just after his Majesty had quitted it. The Duke had a written speech in his hand, which he intended to have read in his place; but after some time he was prevailed upon by the Duke of Rochford to retire and to leave the debate to the Law Lords.
COPENHAGEN, [Denmark] Feb. 11, The commission appointed to try the state prisoners, hath just issued an ordinance, enjoining those who have received presents from Counts de Stuenlee and Brand, in the name of the King and Queen, to return them without delay.
February 1. Several more persons have been arrested within these few days.
LONDON, March 2. At the Privy Council held on Thursday, measures were resolved on (which are to be laid before the Parliament) for supplying the long complained want of paper currency in the American colonies.
Five companies of the Royal Train of Artillery at Woolwich, are now under orders to embark at the shortest notice for Gibraltar: The transports that are to carry them are now actually in the river. The Public must be very blind indeed, not to see, from this intended embarkation, that a rupture with Spain is not at so great a distance as the ministry have all along laboured to make us believe; for it is strongly suspected that the Spaniards have for some time been employed in carrying on a mine from their lines to Gibraltar, which is about the distance of a mile, and it is feared that they have already penetrated a considerable way into the rock. Dreadful will be the havoc when this mine comes to be sprung, which in all probability will happen soon, for we have no miners in the garrison to counteract them. How surprising it is, that the interest of this nation should be so strangely neglected in every particular. There is an error in the establishment of every department. It will hardly be believed, that notwithstanding we have four battalions of the train, we have not even so much as one company of minors in the whole corps.
By the mails received from France and Holland on Saturday, we learn, that the Queen of Denmark is now permitted to walk out two miles distance from the castle of Cronenbourg; but that they have changed the ladies of her bed-chamber. Her name is also omitted in the public prayers.
ST. JAMES'S, Feb. 29. This day his Majesty was pleased to confer the order of the most Honourable Order of the Bath on Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Murray Keith, his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the court of Copenhagen.
LONDON March 3. Yesterday the Tea Bill was read the third time in the House of Commons, and passed.
A few days since the sum of 8,000l. was transmitted hither from the Treasury of Ireland to be paid to the Duke of Cumberland, being the amount of his Royal Highness's pension on the Irish establishment, which was paid to his Royal Highness accordingly.
The Sheriffs are ready to grant the Livery a common hall whenever they think proper to demand it, which we are informed will be one day this week.
The following letter was lately written by the King of Denmark to his Queen:
"MADAM; I pity your present just fate. Let this prove my last adieu. I wish you a sincere and christian repentance.
CHRISTIAN, Rex."
Extract of a letter from Copenhagen Feb. 15. "The examined papers of the state prisoners turn clearly against them, notwithstanding the court shew all the lenity possible to them. Yesterday noon, the English Minister, Col. Keith, had an audience of his Danish Majesty, in the presence of his privy council, on account of dispatches he received from his court.
March 4. We are assured that the present negotiation with the French Court, for the final settlement and full payment of the Canada debt, has been carried on and will speedily be concluded, much to the honour of Lord Rochford; who has peremptorily insisted on the immediate payment of all the interest due on that debt.
The Bank has refused to discount the Jew draughts from Holland. The plausible reason given for this very alarming circumstance is, that too much gold might through this channel, be drawn out of the kingdom. The real reason is of quite a different nature; but we do not chuse to make it public.
Mr. Sawbridge's motion for shortening the duration of Parliaments will come on tomorrow in the House of Commons.
A very spirited protest was entered yesterday by several Lords against the Royal marriage bill.
THURSDAY, April 9. BOSTON.
YESTERDAY the Great and General Court met at Cambridge, and we hear they will be adjourned to Boston. It is said by some, that the Parliament of Great-Britain will do nothing at present for America but repeal the Tea Act.
The Captains Hall and Chambers are hourly expected from London.
We hear that an inn-keeper at Worcester has got the small-pox. He had been at New-York on some business where he caught it and was taken ill with it after his return home.
Capt. White is arrived at London from this port.
By a vessel from Piscataqua, we learn that the wreck of a double-decked brig was seen off the Salvages near Cape-Ann, on Saturday last; and it is feared the crew perished in the storm the preceding day.
Extract of a letter from London, by the last vessel, dated from Palace Yard, March 1772.
"I have now the pleasure of informing you, that the remaining act, imposing a duty on tea, will be repealed, having had the last reading in the House, and is ordered to be engrossed. The eyes of the ministry are at length open; they acknowledge they
have been greatly deceived in American affairs, and are determined this session of Parliament fully to redress every American grievance and break up your board of Commissioners.
Our friend Hawkins observes, this will be a direful stroke to your Commissioner H——, who exulted here so much upon the news Capt. Gardiner brought us of the massacre of your citizens, by the soldiery on the fifth of March, 1770, and who, to use his own words, for I shall never forget them, said, "this is glorious news, indeed the very thing we were all wishing for."
I confess these expressions and the pleasing extasy of delivery struck me with horror, and notwithstanding our former long friendship, gave a most contemptible opinion of the man ever after.
We both expect to have an opportunity of putting him in mind of this conversation, and the result of that catastrophe, as I make no doubt we shall soon see him here seeking after another commission."
A correspondent has sent us the following piece of intelligence brought by one of the last vessels from London, viz "That it may be depended on that Captain——, before he left that place, in conversation with Mr. ——, was informed, that he had just come from Lord North's, who speaking of the Commissioners, said the Ministry were much surprised that they should presume to appoint Mr. Waterhouse Deputy Collector in the room of Mr. Sheaffe, when Mr. Harrison the collector, before he left Boston, had appointed another, in case of Mr. Sheaffe's decease, &c. and that for this the Commissioners had received a severe reprimand.—that the Ministry acknowledged they had been greatly deceived in American affairs.—And that the revenue acts would certainly be repealed, and the Commissioners recalled."
Last Friday morning, in the snow storm we then had, Captain Hood, in a Brig from London, belonging to this place, finding he was near the land, and the weather so thick that he could not discover the Light House, came to an anchor off the back of Nantasket, and cut away his masts in order to preserve the vessel and cargo; but notwithstanding which she soon after drifted ashore on the Beach there, and bilged: the cargo is mostly damaged, and the vessel it is thought will be lost; one of the seamen name Paul Yendall, of this town perished by the severity of the weather, the others with great difficulty saved themselves.—Another brig. Captain Conner Master, from Turks-Island, belonging to Newbury, was also drove ashore near the same place, but it is thought may be got off again.
Sunday morning a schooner failed from hence for Beverly, but in going thro' the Broad sound she struck upon the rocks, called the Graves, by which means three men were unfortunately drowned, but the Skipper and a Negro fellow were taken out of her by a vessel bound in here.
On the 28th of February one Lewis Denny a transient person having been at the raising of a house the day before, was found dead in an obscure part of the town of New Salem.—On the 26th of March, Ensign Joseph Holton of New-Salem, having been unwell for some time, but growing something better, went to do some business in his barn, where he was found soon after dead.
We hear Sir Francis Bernard Bart. was lately taken with a light paralytick disorder at Lincoln in England, and by advice of his physicians was gone to Bath.
ARRIVED here. Snow from Halifax; Lamson from Philadelphia; Avery from New-London; Kent and Bartlet from North-Carolina; Childs from Virginia; Collins from Nova-Scotia; Cook from St. Eustatia; Crocker from Barbados; Peirpoint from Nevis; Russell from Turks-Island; Myrick, Cates, Callahan, Higginson, Jenkins, Scott, Jarvis, Dixey and Folger, from London.
MR. SAW BRIDGE'S SPEECH on the LORD MAYOR'S REFUSAL of a COMMON-HALL.
I should feel some pain in addressing myself to your Lordship, who presides in this Court, with a censure on your own conduct; if the occasion which your Lordship has given for it were capable of any justification, or if the motives of your conduct were at all doubtful. Sir, a chief Magistrate of the city of London (whatever royal example, alas! he may follow,) will not silently be permitted by its citizens to evade their petitions by falsehood.
The reason which you have given, for refusing the request of a common-hall the Livery, runs literally thus—"As the
right of the Mayor to summon extraordinary Common-halls has been brought into question, and is now in litigation in a Court of justice you think it proper to suspend the exercise of that right till the question has received a legal determination." In this Sir, is contained a double falsehood. The fact, which you alledge as the ground of your reason, is not a truth: nor is that reason which you pretend, the true reason of your refusal. 1. The right of the Mayor is not in question, is not in litigation. The individuals who (regardless of their oaths) disobeyed the Lord Mayor's precepts have been proceeded against by information in the Mayor's Court, where they put in no plea; the cause has since been removed by them into the King's bench, where likewise they have hitherto put in no plea. The allegation therefore is false. 2. If the supposed litigation of the right was, as you pretend, the true reason of your refusal, you would now yield to the request, since your mistake has been discovered to you, and the ground removed: but since you still obstinately refuse, though convicted, to comply with the joint request of the Livery and the common-council (who cannot be supposed less anxious to preserve their rights than your Lordship,) you do evidently manifest that your assumed fearfulness of putting the right in hazard was a mere hypocritical pretence; and that you are guided by other reasons of your own imagined interest. And this opens to us a third falsehood; by proving, that the preamble, in which you profess yourself "very desirous of embracing every opportunity of testifying the most respectful attention to the wishes of your fellow-citizens." "has no more truth in it than the ground and reason of your refusal.
But, Sir, should we even grant you the truth of what you have advanced, should we suppose the right to be in litigation, yet the absurdity of the reason is too gross to pass upon the Livery of London. The right is disputed, and therefore you think it proper not to exercise it! Sir, you were elected to the office you now hold, on purpose to defend the rights of your constituents: you have been sworn to defend their rights. What sort of a notion must you entertain of your office! how nugatory and ridiculous do you render both that and your oath! what rights, think you, you were chosen and sworn to defend? Those that are not attacked? Most excellent commander! How safe must a nation be, guarded by an army of such valliant soldiers! If your Lordship continues to reason thus, perhaps this is the last time we shall meet here together in your Lordship's Mayoralty; for should any one to-morrow object to your right, your Lordship can call no more Courts of Aldermen or Common council "till the question shall have received a legal determination."
I remember when your Lordship first entered upon your office, you promised us we should find you an independent Magistrate. We understand now what you meant by that promise: we shall know better for the future, what is meant by the word independent, when it is used by persons of your Lordship's complexion. An independent Magistrate, it seems, means, a Magistrate independent of his constituents, independent of his duty, independent of his oath. Sir, there is unfortunately too much of this independence abroad: there are monarchs, we know, who think themselves independent of their people, and independent of the laws; nay, what is still more monstrous there are representatives in this nation independent of those whom they represent. Sir, it was in order to destroy this sort of independence that a Common-hall was desired by the Livery; and to continue to increase and to perpetuate it, is the true reason that it was most consistently refused by your Lordship.
But we are now told that the Common-council should not press your Lordship upon the question of a Common-hall, because you have already given a definite answer to the Livery! Which is equivalent to this Gentlemen, I, the Lord Mayor, have refused to do my duty; and therefore I hope that you, the Common-council, will not perform yours.—I have no doubt but the gentlemen of the Common-council will give this argument proper attention: to me, I own, it seems an additional reason that the Common council should exert themselves more strenuously, on account of the Lord Mayor's shameful deficiency.
To be SOLD, by JONATHAN DAVIS at his Store on Bull's Wharf, West-India and New-England Rum by the Hoghead or Barrel, Indian Corn by Retail or Wholesale; also, about one hundred Hogheads of choice Turks-Island Salt.