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THE Massachusetts Spy
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VOL. I.] THURSDAY, May 30, 1771. [NUMB. 13.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
The CENUNEL. No. V.
Mid the low murmurs of submissive fear, And mingled rage, my Hampshire rais'd his voice, And to the laws appeal'd.
THOMPSON.
SINCE the former numbers have come out, I have seen some people "shake their heads with solemn motion!" and say they with the Centinel had wrote nothing at present, things coming to be pretty easy. What end does it answer, and what purpose does he mean to effect? To this I answer, appears to me, the constitution is at present attacked in a manner, more fatal than ever has been. This ease and security are best assistants the friends to this mode of check can possibly meet with. If the people remain secure, till they have gone on a little longer, should their attention be ever so much excited, or their fears alarmed, it will be too late. A citizen who has a manly sense of free will be not be threatened or bullied. He will be cajoled out of his privileges. He will have as great, and perhaps a more useful eye on the man, who with his left hand pretends the friend, while with his right hand he aims to plant daggers in his side. He will aim at him who with the battle ax or the sword makes an open and daring attempt. Unless these first motions are noticed, the people are undone. The first impressions which are excited by a sense of danger, soon become more familiar. The man who was a minute chain to be fastened on a little longer will soon consent to have every other chain entangled in its folds; and he that was wont of old, bowed his shoulder to bear, will soon become a servant to tribute. It is a sense of these things, I have troubled the country with these thoughts. Born in a colony, and educated in principles of freedom, I feel a tender affection for the country that gave me birth. In a time of danger therefore, I mean not to be silent, but to the best of my abilities, strenuously assist, and zealously defend the cause of liberty, in which God the CHARTER has made us free. We have already seen, that the salary of a Governor from home, is a dangerous innovation; that it flings the balance of power into one branch of the legislature, and that it, by strict consequence, the balance of power--that the House of Commons there have lost all weight, and must become mere tools. We have exhibited some melancholy consequences, that result from these causes. Let us pursue the argument, and come to one other consequence, viz. That the House of Commons in such a situation, is one of the worst engines of arbitrary power, one of the most dangerous means a free people can have, to shake their constitution. A signing ruler may in this way become a tyrant under the guise of the constitution, that constitution is no more. He may in every measure be pursued agreeable to his own government they first instituted, and he manifestly treads on the common principles of society. It may seem strange, that what was called the bulwark of freedom, should be the means of perverting it. We find in mixed governments, when the monarch meant to be tyrannical, the other branch of the legislature was reduced; and though the sovereign had the Commons so low, that according to human foresight, it was impossible for the latter would yet revive, and
like the Phoenix spring out of its own ashes. Thus history informs us, that the Portuguese, depressed and ruined as they were, by this help, defeated the measures of tyranny, and by placing the Duke of Braganza on the throne, secured their constitution. The same happened in 1672 to the united provinces. All this is true, but we must consider, the Commons though thus depressed, never lost the equilibrium they first possessed. The regal part of the government, though by force it seemed to bring the rights of the people to a low ebb, yet as it was a force not well founded, it was at last repelled. By preserving the political balance, the Commons at length rose to their former eminence. But should this balance be destroyed, it is better to be without a House of Commons. When there is no House, and when a ruler extirpates it by a bold stroke, the constitution is so flagrantly at an end, that the people will go into some violent measures to retrieve it. But when it stands, though it has no power, and though it sides with the monarch in subverting the liberties of the people, yet as the forms of the constitution remain, the people are deceived. Hence they omit taking those measures to preserve their freedom in the latter case, they may do in the former, though in both, the constitution is equally lost. An artful prince therefore always takes care not to demolish the House of Commons, though he means to ruin his people. In France, the first monarchs of that kingdom were not despotic, nay we are told, "that they had not so great power as ours." The assembly of the states of that nation, which is the same as our parliament, could keep them down. Under their kings, though of different families, and different dispositions, they were however free. Thus they continued till the days of that famous minister Cardinal Richelieu. He artfully ran into that fatal measure we are now on. To destroy parliaments would have been palpably impolitic. He took care to keep them, but he has shifted their balance, and the king of France is now despotic. Hence says an author, "in spite of parliaments, rather by the help of his parliaments, he can force the last man into the field, and the last penny out of the pockets of his people." And Pasquier, a French writer, says, speaking of their edicts, Ces sont belles tapisseries, qui servent seulement de parade, a une posterite . These ordinances are like fine pieces of tapestry, hung up to make a shew to posterity. This was the case of Spain, which once was in a great measure free, but it has fell a victim to this mode of proceeding; and the Cortes of Spain, like the States of France, are only engines to support the tyranny of their sovereign. Is the Czarina of Russia despotic? even she takes care to keep up a parliament, and so makes herself secure. This senate has the colour of much authority, but in reality has none, and under the shade of this canopy, the Czarina independently governs a great kingdom.
To confirm this point, let us look into the reign of our Henry the 8th. Hume tells us, "It was the unhappy situation of the English, during that age, that when they laboured under any grievance, they had not the satisfaction of expecting a redress from parliament; on the contrary, they had reason to dread each meeting of that assembly, and were then sure of having tyranny converted into law. This abject servility, never more eminently appeared than in a new parliament, which the King now assembled, and which if he had been so pleased, might have been the last that ever sat in England. But he found them too useful instruments of dominion, ever to entertain thoughts of giving them a total exclusion."
Hume's hist. v. 4. p. 211. Thus we see what is the policy of tyrants in every other nation, and what is one of the principal measures they run into, to support themselves.
And it must be so; we call that a despotic government, where law is dependent on the will of one man, and where there is no certain rule of action. And will any one say this is not the case as effectually in parliaments of this nature, as where there are none at all? If they have no power in themselves to resist, if their interest, and the motives they act from, tempt them invariably to give what an ambitious ruler desires, is not government as dependent on his pleasure, as if he had no parliament? Yea, it is more so. Supported by such a band of mercenaries, he stands secure, and such a House of Commons is more dangerous than swarms of wretches habited in red or blue. Persons of this stamp there ever will be in a house. There always are friends to government, but enemies to the constitution, for government and constitution essentially differ sometimes, and as a fine writer observes, "they may sink into the mass of the people in a good reign, sed genus immortale manet ."
The one part of the legislature is sole. His private and public interest are consequently one and the same. He is consistent therefore in his measures and his politics. The Commons are many: their interests therefore are separated. Hence says the same author, "a King cannot be tempted to give up the interests of his crown, because he cannot give up his public interest, without giving up his private interest. Whereas the members of such assemblies may promote their private interest, by sacrificing to it that of the public." A house of representatives was designed to be the security of the rights of the people. They were instituted as the only check on arbitrary power, and to preserve that weight in the constitution a free people should always have. When these motives are lost, it is plain the whole basis is sapped; and the mischief is, the rights of the people are ruined in so secret, silent a way, that they are not suspicious of the change. The forms remain, and therefore the people are deceived, although this power of the ruler over the House brings us into the same state, which that House was calculated to free us from. Thus aided and abetted, the Prince can easily support his measures, and rivet the chains of slavery on a nation for ever.
Let this people then look to these innovations. The constitution of this province is the work of much labour, expence and blood. Like the Jews of old in rebuilding the second temple, our fathers were obliged to found this state with the hammer and the ax, as it were in one hand, and defend the young institution with their swords in the other. It is cruel, it is affecting, that this constitution thus reared, and thus defended, should at length fall, and be crushed in its own ruins. We seem at present to be in danger of this. There is a mode of attack as we have heard more fatal than the designs of Philip, or the yell and barbarities of the savage. But though brought low, let us not be discouraged. Let it be our maxim, as it always is a maxim with a free determined people, nil desperandum de republica . The natural body it is true, after a few more convulsions and extremities must meet its fate and calmly receive death. But the body politic may survive these shocks. Let it be our ambition thus to preserve this infant state, that while the empires of Belus and of Cyrus are only monuments of ruin, we may still live, and the endeavours of the present age be the basis of a future empire.
This day was published, price 6d.
THE Importance of EARLY PIETY: Illustrated in a Discourse, preached at the Desire of a Religious Society of Young Men, in Medford, New England, March 20th, 1771.
By JOHN LATHROP, M.A. Pastor of the second church in Boston. Published at the request of those who heard it.
Printed and sold by I. THOMAS, at his Printing-Office in Union Street. Sold also by Z. FOWLE in Back Street.
NATHAN FRAZIER;
Begs leave to inform the Public, That he has just imported from LONDON, in the vessels commanded by the Captains Cane, Gardner and Bryant, a large and compleat Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS, Suitable to the Season, Which he will sell, Wholesale and Retail, at the lowest advance for ready money, at his Shop the corner of Wing's-Lane, near the Market, Boston.
[All Gentlemen and Ladies, both in Town and Country, who are pleased to honour him with their custom, in either of the above-mentioned ways, may depend on the very best usage, and a grateful acknowledgment of their favours]
Among his Goods are A NEAT Assortment of low priced, middling, and superfine Broad Cloths, with Shallons, Buttons and I-wist to match; also a great variety of newest fashion gold and silver thread buttons, German and embossed serges, flannels, Colchester, and drapery baize, a large assortment Manchester velvets and velverets, velvet shapes, sagathies, duroys, thicksets, sustains, Wiltons, everlastingings and drawboys, nankeens, Damasco, ginghams, Bengalls and peniafoes, &c. A very genteel assortment of Mantua silks and lute strings, rich cloth colour ducap; a variety of English and India damask, English and India taffaties, brockades, plain, spriged and flowered sattins, alamodes, Persian, rich sarsenets, ribbons, lawns, cambricks, long lawns, yard wide book mullins, 6 4 wide ditto, plain and spriged ga-zes, catgut, a large assortment of excomb, blond, bone, and Trolly laces, cap wire, a great variety of gimps, snail lace, callicoos, chintzes and patches, a large assortment of lush linens of all widths and prices, sheetings, check'd linens, furniture check, with none-so-pretty to match; striped cotton Holland for shirting, dowlass, osnaburgs and ticklinburg, bed ticks, white cotton counterpains, calimancoes, tammies and durants, poplins and cambleteens; a large assortment of mens, women's, boys, and girls worsted thread and cotton hose, men's black and white silk do, men's and women's silk gloves, silk mitts, and out-size ditto, a large assortment of worsted mits, scarlet, black, buff and cloth-coloured worsted knit breeches, black silk do, Russia linnen and diaper, diaper and damask napkin ring, damask and diaper table cloths, brown Hollands, brown and rays buckram, stay trimmings, yellow holland, yellow canvas and crewels, satin and brocaded shoes and clogs, women's maids and children's pack thread stays, with a great variety of other articles, too many to be particularized. ** Women's Lynn made shoes by large or small quantities.
CASH given for Merchantah ePOT-ASH. N. B. Said FRAZIER's Store at ANDOVER, is again supplied with a full and fresh Assortment of GOODS as usual.

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, April 3.
GREAT personage, in a conversation the other day with one of his secretaries of state, asked him his opinion, "What would be the best method of settling the present dispute between the parliament and the city?" To which Lord R. replied, "If I might advise your Majesty, the two citizens should be sent to the Tower, and the two Onslows to St. Luke's."
The following noble personages were yesterday carried in two carts, with a hearse before them, through the city, and down the Minories to Tower-Hill. The Princess Dowager, Lord Bute, Duke of Grafton, Lord Mansfield, Sir Fletcher Norton, the Attorney-General, Wedderburne, hung by the heels, as being a turn-coat; Sir Gilbert Eliot, Dyson, Jenkinson, C. Fox in the body and legs a man, head and tail a fox, with a bunch of grapes before him. Lord Weymouth, Lord Holland with a stick, in imitation of a pensioner, or one out of place, Lord North. Near ten thousand people were assembled, who expressed great satisfaction, and wished for the originals in their room. One gentleman, who seemed to be a merchant, treated the people with beer, and lent a hand in tying them to the gallows, which was 30 feet high; after hanging an hour, the mob seeing a hearse ready to take away the bodies, declared they had been such enemies to their king and country, that they should not be delivered, for they would burn them on the gallows, which was done. A sweep-chimney, with a band, attended as ordinary.
We hear that terms of accommodation have been proposed between the opposing parties, which would at once ascertain the dignity of the House on the one hand, and the independency of the people on the other, in the amplest manner; but they have not yet been accepted.
His Majesty has signed commissions and orders for the march of 10000 of the militia.
It is said, that on Tuesday the 14th instant, the French and Spanish ambassadors waited on the Earl of Rochford, and said, that though the King of Spain had consented to put his Britannic Majesty in possession of Port Egmont, yet they were instructed to demand of his Lordship, when his Britannic Majesty's officer would evacuate the same; and insisted upon the day being named; they also demanded, that the question of right to Falkland's-Island should be determined before that day. Lord Rochford said he would enter into no negotiation about it. To which the ambassadors replied, they must send an account to their courts, and they apprehended the answer they should receive would be their recall.
The continuation of the tranquility of Europe depends upon the answer of the court of St. Petersburg to Prince Lobkowitz, the Austrian ambassador, lately dispatched from Vienna. This ultimatum is, that Russia shall grant peace to the Ottomans, by permitting things to return to the same situation as before the war. On the other hand, the King of Prussia instigates the Russians to continue their operations; and promises that, should the Austrians take part with the Turks he will fall upon Bohemia and Saxony with all his forces. This being the situation of politics in the East of Europe, there can be but little doubt of the flame being kept up for another campaign. The emperor, it is thought is too prudent to risk the loss of a part of the hereditary dominions of the house of Hapsburgh for a piece of invidious revenge against the Russians; upon whose late success both he and his mother look with very jealous eyes.
April 5. This day the right honourable the Lord-Mayor was brought, in a private manner, to Lord Chief Justice de Grey's, in Lincoln's-inn fields, by virtue of a writ of Habeas Corpus; when after hearing counsel, the Lord Chief Justice was of opinion that he should be re-committed as the parliament was not prorogued. The counsel, were Mr. Serjeant Glynn, and Mr. Lee, of Lincoln's-inn. Mr. Alderman Oliver was carried before Lord Mansfield, at his chambers in Serjeant's-inn. The counsel, as also his Lordship's opinion, were the same with that of
Lord Chief Justice de Grey's. They were attended by the committee appointed by the city for conducting the affair of the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver.
The chief thing that draws the people's attention at present is the fate of the Lord Mayor and Mr. Oliver. It is said, that a motion will be made on Tuesday that they should be discharged, and that it will be agreed to: Others say, that the house will proceed with rigour.
A French Jesuit, under the direction of the court of Versailles, manages the cabinet of Vienna; the reverend father having insinuated himself into the good graces of the Empress, who is become a bigot.
It is said, that the commander in chief, lately failed to take possession of Falkland's-Island is furnished with a discretionary power to act according as he finds the disposition of the Dons towards literally fulfilling the late convention. The countermanding order some time since sent him for immediate sailing, was only occasioned till these orders and particular instructions were completed.
April 6. The tenure of holding an office now, is implicit obedience to the Princess Dowager of Wales.
This day at high Change, two carts, attended by a great mob, paraded the Strand, Fleet-street, and Cheap-side. In the first cart sat Jack Ketch, as it were guarding some paintings and pasteboards, which were supported by a wooden frame fixed on the cart. On the back of three pasteboard figures these words, "A letter of Thanks". After him came Halifax, and Harley, the latter of whom was represented in an Alderman's gown; each having a night-cap, and being drawn with grievous countenances, as if going to carry their accounts to the other world. In the second cart sat another Jack Ketch, guarding some figures with sorrowful countenances, drawn by some persons that seemed well acquainted with the attitude and dress of the undermentioned names, which were depicted on the backs of four figures; Jemmy Twitcher, De Grey, Lutterell the Usurper, Cocky Onslow. An hour after this procession, the right and true last dying speeches of the malefactors executed on Tower-hill, were ched about the streets. The Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Oliver, and several other gentlemen looked over the Tower wall to see the execution.
We are desired to inform the public, that L-d N-th, from the beginning, disapproved of George Onslows motion, but was out-voted; and now that he has plunged so far into the current, he must gain the further shore or resign; the latter of which he is, by no means, inclined to do.
The Empress Queen has signified in form to our court, that in case of a rupture on the continent, she will not become a principal in a war in defence of Flanders; the revenue of that country not being adequate, in any degree, to the expence of one campaign: It is therefore highly probable, that the French will be soon in possession of all the Sea-Ports of the Austrian Netherlands.
It is thought, if nothing is determined before, that a Habeas Corpus will be moved for the first day of term, which begins the 11th instant, in order to release, or admit to bail, the two city-magistrates in the Tower.
The right honourable the Lord-Mayor hath signed the coal cockets for unlading several ships in the river, which have lain ever since the commitment of his lordship.
DEAL, April 2. Came down and failed, Nassau, Smith for Boston.
LONDON April 8. Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, a courier arrived with an express from the court of Versailles, at the French ambassador's house in George-Street. The express must relate to some affair of great consequence, as the courier came with particular expedition.
The Lord Mayor considering the great hardships the poor must labour under on account of the coal ships in the river, of which there is a large fleet, not being sufferered to be unloaded, sent his warrant to the Coalmeisters-office to unload the ships; and immediately a great number of Coalheavers were set to work.
By authentic advices from Cadiz we learn, that the Spaniards go on briskly in their preparations for war, which event they look upon for certain about the month of August next.
Letters from Paris assure, that all the ac-
counts of Madam de Barry being out of favour have no foundation in truth; on the contrary, it is an indisputable fact, that the doting monarch seems every day more and more enamoured.
Extract of a letter from Bengal dated Sept. 16
"The misery occasioned by the famine in the province of Bengal is incredible. I believe I speak within compass, when I say at least two millions of souls have perished within these few months.--The Europeans have suffered greatly, not so much from famine as from a pestilential disorder, which is the general consequence of it."
AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.
CHARLESTOWN, [South-Carolina] April 4.
His Excellency Governor Wright, dissolved the General Assembly of Georgia, by proclamation, on the 23d of February last, the Commons House having, as his Excellency therein sets forth, assumed some very extraordinary and unwarrantable powers. On the 6th ult. his Excellency ordered writs to be issued for a new election.--And, we hear, that so far as the inhabitants have already proceeded in the said election, they have re-chosen the same members.--The assembly's committing a person to goal, for refusing to answer, upon oath, certain questions relative to an officer's taking double fees, is said to be the subject which occasioned these motions.
NEW-YORK, May 23. Monday last arrived the brig Concord, Captain Thomas Brockway, in 44 Days from Pool; on his passage the 25th of April, Lat. 45, Lon. 40, he spoke with the ship Alexander, Capt. John Torrington, belonging to Boston, from Charlestown, bound to Portsmouth, laden with rice, 15 days out all well.
We hear from Stratford, that the story from New-London, about Dr. Johnson's having taken a house for the Dean of Limerick, for four years; who was said to be soon sent by the King to inspect the affairs of the Church of England in America, and make report, &c. without any truth or foundation, and could be invented and reported only from pure malice to the Episcopal Clergy, to take Occasion thence to abuse and slander them and as men of no truth in their reports of the affairs of the church. All that the Dean (i. e. Dr. Berkly) said, was, that he had inherited from both his parents, (who formerly resided here) such an affection for America, that he purposed in a year or two to make a visit thither, and if he did, he had thoughts of taking a house for a year at Stratford, from the friendship he had to Doctor Johnson and his son.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
Mr. THOMAS,
GOD having no need of us or our services, it therefore follows that he created us only to bless us.
Therefore every man who acknowledges a God, must acknowledge his obligation to conspire with his most gracious design, in promoting the happiness of his creatures.
Hence the fundamental law maxim, "Salus populi suprema lex esto; i. e. Be the welfare of the people the supreme law." Laws human and divine can therefore have no higher object than the people's peace and prosperity.
Every thing which disturbs the peace, and interrupts the prosperity of the people, must of consequence then be against law; and the author of such action, either a petty villain, underhandedly thieving; or a sturdy robber, setting laws at defiance; or what is still worse, perverting them from their original designs, the protection of virtue and honesty.
Forbidding men to pursue their interest and security, by every honest means in their power, or bereaving them of their rights and properties in any way, must contradict and oppose the design of God, in the constitution of the universe; and if these things be done with a high hand, in contempt of the remonstrances of the injured party, who is a subject of the one only supreme, it is making war upon, and rebellion against his allwise and just government, and persisted in the penalty to perpetrators, abettors and connivers, damnation!
MUCIUS SCEVOLA.
N. B. This is in epitome an answer to the request of the generous E. in the Boston-Gazette of May 13th.
THURSDAY, May 30.
BOSTON.
A GENTLEMAN that came passenger with Captain Pease, who arrived here yesterday from London, advises at 7 o'clock P. M. the 11th of April, at Deal, the men who put the pilot on shore said, that an express, which left London the 10th in the afternoon, informed, that the Lord-Mayor and Alderman Oliver were that day fully discharged from their confinement; after suffering all the abuse Mansfield, Norton, &c. dared to heap upon them, with a steadiness becoming their stations, as guardians of the dearest birthright of their fellow-subjects, the protection of their personal freedom by the known laws of the land. Every method was tried to obtain a compromise with them, but utterly in vain. Thus has the honest and patriotic resolution of three MEN triumphed over all the force of tyranny, bribery, corruption and court dependency; so that Madam Dowager with her paramour may be languished, hung and burnt in effigy, at noon day before the palace gates, and no one in the future will be in danger from the pitiful warrants of a despicable venal and corrupt majority in the British house of Commons.
It is said the clamors of the people were so loud, on account of the meal and corn markets remaining shut up, for want of the Lord-Mayor's licence to open them, that a longer retention in the Tower was found perfectly impracticable; the populace appeared determined to have him out at any rate.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the appointed by the Royal Charter for the election of Councillors for this province, Great and General Court or Assembly met at Harvard College in Cambridge in the morning; when the usual oaths were administered to the gentlemen who were returned to be members of the honourable House of Representatives, who also subscribed to the declaration: The House then made choice of Mr. SAMUEL ADAMS for their Clerk; in which they chose the Hon. THOMAS CUNING, Esq; their Speaker. His Excellency being in the chair, a committee of the House presented the Speaker elect to him, who afterwards sent a message in writing, to the Royal Explanatory Charter, which he approved of their choice.
The following Gentlemen were elected councillors for the ensuing year, viz.
For the late Colony of Massachusetts Bay, The Honourable
Samuel Danforth, esq. Samuel Dexter, esq. Isaac Royall, esq. Benj. Greenleaf, esq. John Erving, esq. Artemas Wad, esq. William Brattle, esq. Thomas Saunton, esq. James Bowdoin, esq. John Hancock, esq. Thomas Hubbard, esq. Joshua Henshaw, esq. Harrison Gray, esq. Stephen Hall, esq. James Russell, esq. *Caleb Cushing, esq. James Pitts, esq. *Tim. Woodbridge, esq.
For the late Colony of Plymouth, James Otis, esq. Jerathmeel Bowers, esq. William Sever, esq. Walter Spooner, esq.
For the late Province of Maine. Jeremiah Powell, esq. John Bradbury, esq. Nath. Sparhawk, esq.
For Sagadahock, James Gowen, Esq. At Large.
Geo. Leonard, jun. esq. James Humphrey, esq. Note, The Gentlemen with this [*] mark were not of the council last year.
His Excellency was pleased to consent the election of the gentlemen before-mentioned, except the Hon. John Hancock, Esq; and Jerathmeel Bowers, Esq;
The following Gentlemen are returned represent the several towns and Districts which their names are affixed, viz.
For the County of Suffolk.
Boston. Hon. James Otis, Esq; H Thomas Cushing, Esq; Speaker; Mr. Muel Adams, Clerk; and John Hancock, Roxbury. Capt. William Heath.
Dorchester. Mr. Samuel How.
Milton. Mr. Benjamin Wadsworth
Braintree. Ebenezer Thayer, jun.
Weymouth. Capt. Solomon Lovell.
Hingham and Cohasset. Mr. Joshua E.
Dedham. Mr. Oliver Ellis.*
Medfield. Capt. Samuel Morse.*
Wrentham. Mr. Jabez Fisher.
Brookline. Capt. Benjamin White.
Needham. Capt. Ezra Kingsley.
Stoughton and Stoughtonham, D. zekiah Gay.
Medway. Capt. Jonathan Adar

 Watpole. Joshua Clap, Esq.  Chelsea. Mr. Thomas P. *  For the County of Essex.  Salem. Richard Darby, jun. Esq. and Mr. John Pickering, jun.  Danvers. Dr. Samuel Holten.  Ipswich. Capt. Michael Farley.  Newbury. Hon. Joseph Gerrish Esq.  Newbury-Port. Capt. Jonathan Greenleaf.*  Marblehead. Richard Reed, Esq.  Lynn. Ebenezer Burill, Esq.  Andover. Samuel Phillips, Esq.  Bevers. Capt. Henry Herrick.  Rowley. Humphrey Hobson, Esq.  Salisbury. Caleb Cushing, Esq.  Haverhill. Mr. Jonathan Webster, jun.*  Glocester. Nathan Allen, Esq.*  Topsfield. Capt. Samuel Smith.  Exford. Capt. Asa Perley.  Almsbury. Jonathan Bagley, Esq.*  Bradford. Capt. Daniel Thurston.  For the County of Middlesex.  Cambridge. Mr. Thomas Gardner.  Charlestown. Edward Sheaffe, Esq. Mr. Nathaniel Gorham,*  Watertown. Mr. John Remington.  Woburn. Mr. Oliver Richardson.  Concord. Capt. James Barret.  Newton. Abraham Fuller, Esq.  Reading. Mr. Daniel Putnam.*  Marlborough. Capt. Peter Bant.*  Billerica. William Stickney, Esq.  Framingham. Capt. Josiah Stone.*  Lexington. Mr. Jonas Stone.*  Chelmsford. Mr. Simeon Spaulding.  Sherburne. Mr. Joseph Twichet.*  Sudbury. John Noyes, Esq.  Malden. Capt. Ebenezer Harnden.  Weston. Mr. Abraham Bigelow.  Medford. Mr. Benjamin Hall.*  Hopkinton. Capt. Joseph Mellen.  Westford. Capt. Joseph Reed.*  Waltham. Jonas Dix, Esq.  Groton, Shirley, and Pepperrell. James Prescott, Esq.  Townshend and Abby. Mr. Amos Heald.*  For the county of Hampshire.  Springfield. Hon. John Worthington, Esq. and Benjamin Day, Esq.  Northampton. Joseph Hawley, Esq.  Hadley, South Hadley, Amherst, and Granby. Mr. Josiah Pierce.*  Hatfield, Williamburgh, and Wheatley. Israel Williams, Esq.  Westfield & Southwick. Capt. John Morely.  Deerfield, Greenfield, Shelburne and Conway. Mr. Samuel Hinsdell.*  Brimfield, South-Brimfield, and Monson. Mr. Timothy Danielson.  For the County of Plymouth.  Plymouth. James Warren, Esq.  Scituate. Mr. Gideon Vinal.  Bridgewater. Josiah Edson.* Esq.  Middleborough. Capt. Benjamin White.*  Rochester. Mr. Samuel Sprague.  Pembroke. Josiah Keen, Esq.  Abington. Capt. Woodbridge Brown.  For the County of Barnstable.  Barnstable. Daniel Davis, Esq.  Sandwich. Mr. Stephen Nye.  Yarmouth. David Thatcher, Esq.  Harwich. Chilingsworth Foster, Esq.  Falmouth. Capt. Joseph Robinson.  Chatham. Mr. Joseph Doan.  For the County of Bristol.  Taunton. George Godfrey, Esq. and Daniel Leonard, Esq.  Rehoboth. Capt. Joseph Barney.  Swanzey, and Shawamet. Jerathmeel Lewis, Esq.  Dartmouth. Elisha Toby, Esq.*  Taunton and Mansfield. Dr. John Wheaton.  Wighton. Elnoathan Walker, Esq.  Weston. Thomas Gilbert, Esq.  Raynham. Zephaniah Leonard, Esq.*  Shepherd. Mr. John Daggett.  For the County of York.  York. Thomas Bragdon, Esq.  North Berwick. Edward Cutt, Esq.  South Berwick. John Wheelwright, Esq.  Levick. Benjamin Chadburne, Esq.  Arundel. Thomas Perkins, Esq.  Bideford and Pepperellborough. Jeremi-ah Hill, Esq.  For the County of Nantucket.  Nantucket. Mr. Stephen Hufsey.  For the County of Worcester.  Worcester. Mr. Jonathan Bigelow.  Lancaster. Capt. Asa Whitcomb.  Mindon. Mr. Edward Rawson.  Brookfield. Jedediah Foster, Esq.  Deerfield and Charlton. Edward Davis, Esq.  Sutton. Capt. Henry King.  Bolton. John Whitecomb, Esq. 
 Lünenburg. Edward Hartwell, Esq.  Leicester, Spencer and Paxton. Mr. Thomas D. *  Uxbridge. Capt. Ebenezer Wood.  Haverhill. Israel Taylor, Esq.*  Shrewsbury. Mr. Phineas Heywood.*  Southbury. Timothy Brigham, Esq.*  Sturbridge. Mr. Daniel Fisk.  For the County of Berkshire.  Williamstown and Sheffield. Capt. Isaac Searl.  Great Barrington and Egremont. David Ingersoll, jun. Esq.  Pittsfield. William Williams Esq.*  Stockbridge. Timothy Woodbridge Esq.  For the County of Cumberland.  Falmouth and Cape Elizabeth. Jedediah Prebble, Esq.  For the County of Lincoln.  Georgetown. Capt. James Mac Cobb.  The Gentleman with this [*] mark were not of the House last year. 
This day the Assembly presented the following Remonstrance to his Excellency:
May it please your Excellency, THE Great and General Court or Assembly being again convened at Harvard College, by virtue of his Majesty's writ under your hand and seal, the House of Representatives think it their duty, before they proceed to the public business, humbly to lay their remonstrance before your Excellency.
By the charter of this province, the Governor for the time being is invested with the full power of convening, adjourning, proroguing and dissolving the Assembly: Yet it is a power in trust; and the House conceive they have a clear right to judge for themselves, whether it is exercised for the public good of the province, for which end alone he is entrusted with it.
It has ever been found by experience, that the town of Boston is the only convenient place for the holding the General Assembly: Accordingly, the province has been at great expence in erecting and supporting a suitable building for that purpose. And the Assembly has usually been convened and held there, from the time of the settlement of the country, excepting at times when by reason of contagious sickness, the lives of the members have been endangered.
This House cannot conceive of one good purpose that can be served by holding the Assembly at present in this place: On the contrary, it must be attended with many great inconveniences and real injuries, not only to the members themselves, but also to others whose business necessarily calls for their attendance here. These are so obvious, and have been so lately pointed out to your Excellency, that it is needless at this time to mention them.
The holding the Assembly out of the town of Boston, through the whole of the last year, so strongly and justly remonstrated against, to your Excellency, by both Houses, has been considered as a grievance, by the people in general in the province: And while it is continued, it will have a tendency to prevent a restoration of that harmony between the several branches of the assembly, which is so earnestly to be desired by all good men.
The House therefore cannot but persuade themselves, that your Excellency will, for the sake of promoting his Majesty's service, and the good of the province, exercise the power fully vested in you by the charter, and adjourn or prorogue this assembly, to its antient, usual and only convenient place, the Town-House in Boston.
A people are peculiarly happy, when their representatives are true to the trust reposed in them by their constituents. That our present HOUSE OF COMMONS, his excellency must excuse the appellation, are staunch in the cause of liberty, is apparent from the foregoing remonstrance. That a Governor of a province, who is appointed by a King, who owes his political existence to the people, should TYRANIZE over his maker's maker is truly astonishing! Nature calls for a remedy! the law of nature requires one.
Last Sunday his Majesty's ship Boston, failed from hence for Halifax; the remainder of the 64th regiment went in the Boston.
Last Tuesday the Beaver sloop of war arrived here from the West-Indies. By her we learn that Admiral Montague had lately arrived there.
We are in daily expectation of some very interesting Advices from the Friends of Liberty on the other side of the water; THOSE on
this side are desired to hold themselves in readiness, and prepare for a compleat satisfaction of all past injuries.
The Commissary at Virginia, in an advertisement to the Clergy there, notifying them of a convention to be held in William and Mary College on the 4th of June next, says, "The subject I shall then recommend to your most serious consideration and attention will be one that must appear of the highest importance, namely, the expediency of an application to proper authority for an American Episcopate."
The trial of the soldiers, for the murder of five persons in this town, on the 5th of March, 1770, was re-printed in London, and published on the 8th of April last.
DIED.] Mrs. Margaret Hunt, wife of Mr. Shrimpton Hunt, merchant.--At Charlestown, Edward Sheaffe, Esq.
ARRIVED here. Adderton and Tiley from New London, Ketchum from New-Haven, Gorham and Paine from Maryland, Bartlett and Downs from Virginia, Birdsey from Piscataqua, Hammond, Kent and Haliman from North-Carolina, Earle from Georgia, M'Whae from St. Ubes, Rust from Guadalupe, Nash from Cape Nichola, Gorman from Turk's Island, Gros from Curacoa, Smith and Roome from Bristol.
The lady of Alderman Oliver approves much of the upright behaviour of her husband, that she constantly sleeps and lives a voluntary prisoner in the lower.
Just imported, and to be sold by SAMUEL FLETCHER, Cheap for Cash;
A FINE assortment of Calicoes, and Printed Linens, Broad Cloths of all colours, Irish Linens; a great variety of Shaloons, Cambricks, 7-8ths. white flannel; a variety of new fashioned Lutestrings, men's Breeches, black and cloth Persians, black Taf-fety, Pound Silks and Twist of all colours; Window Glass, Brimstone, brown Mugs and Bowls by the hoghead, white stone Tea Cups and Saucers by the crate, Tammies, Durants, Calimancoes, Silk Handkerchiefs, Buckrams, Cheecks, Looking-Glasses; a variety of Glass and China Ware, Silk Mitts, Damascus and striped Linen, printed Furniture, Knit Patterns, with many Articles not mentioned, all at the lowest rate.
N. B. A very fine Assortment of PAPER HANGINGS.
WILLIAM GREENLEAF, Fronting Cornhill, has received from LONDON, and from the the MAKERS, by the last Ships,
A COMPLEAT Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS, which he will sell, Wholesale and Retail, at the lowest rate for ready money.
At the same place may be had a few casks of Allum, Copperas and Brimstone, also Pepper by the bag, and Pipes by the box.
To be SOLD, or LET,
A Large and commodious DWELLING-HOUSE, suitable for two Tenements. Also, a
Wharf, with sundry stores, situated at the northerly part of Boston, near Hancock's wharf. For further particulars, enquire at the Golden-Key, near the Draw-Bridge, of
WILLIAM BRECK. Who has for Sale,
Best London Pewter Dishes, Plates, &c. brass kettles and pails, warming and frying pans, brass and iron candlesticks, powder and shot, bar and sheet lead, best German and common steel, window glass, nails, brads and tacks, desk furniture, best London glue, rotten stone, fire shovels and tongs, best White-chapel and common needles, a few dozen very fine French and common scissors, sieve bottoms, scales and weights, best steel frame and other saws, garden spades, wide and narrow bunting, brimstone, lines and twine, fish-hooks, mops, brushes, iron and brass wire, latten brass, lanthorn leaves, tin plates, &c. Together with a general assortment of Hard Ware Goods, which he imported in the last ships from London and Bristol; and which he is determined to sell at a very low advance for cash only.
*** At said place may be had, all sorts of TIN WARE, either by wholesale or retail.
Just published, price 3s each number.
THE SCOURGE, No. I. and II, which have had four editions this last week.
Printed and sold by I. THOMAS, in Union-street, Boston.
JOSEPH PIERCE,
Has received from LONDON, A GREAT variety of the very best superfine Broad Cloths, consisting of fifty six different colours: He has also a few pieces of Calico and Douglas by the piece, the whole of which being a Consignment, will be sold very cheap, at his shop the north side of the Town-house.
THESE notify all those persons who are indebted to the Estate of JANE EUSTIS, late of Boston, Shop keeper, deceased; or that have any Demands on, or accounts open with the estate, that they immediately pay, or settle such accounts with JOSEPH PIERCE, merchant in Boston, who is empowered to receive and settle the same. May 15th, 1771.
Imported from London in Captain Bryant, And to be sold by NATHANIEL NOYES,
At his shop on the south side of Faneuil hall Market, cheap for Cash only;
A COMPLEAT and fresh Assortment of MEDICINES both chymical and Galenical; with a number of true Patented Medicines, Hooper's Female Pills, Anderson's Scots ditto, Lockyer's ditto, warranted genuine. Turlington's Balsam, Walker's Jesuits Drops, Bateman's Drops, Betton's Bile Oyl, MacKenzie's true Essence of Norway Tar. Also, Oiler, Sago, Salep, Nutgalls, Roll and flour Brimstone. Neat Ivory Syringes in Cases. Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace and Nutmegs.
Doctor's Boxes for Ships or private Families will be carefully prepared.
JUST IMPORTED in the Captains Whitewood & Bryant from London, By SAMUEL ELIOT, jun:
And to be sold very cheap at his store opposite the east end of Faneuil-Hall,
A Variety of English Piece Goods, Suitable for all Seasons, viz
IRISH Linens, 3-4ths. 7-8ths. and
yard wide, Drab, black and white Tammy, Drab and black Calimancoes, Striped and plain Cambleteens, Double Camblets, Dorsetteens, Yard wide and half yard Grograms, Superfine black and midling priced blue and drab Cloths, Best mixed blue and drab German Serges, Kerseys, drab and blue Shalloons, Black Lasting, Duffel Blankets, Wax Beads, Cambricks, Lawns, Printed Linens, blue and white, Dowlas, Metal Buttons, Twist and Twist Buttons, Buckram, Thicksett, Check Handkerchiefs, 7-8ths. and yard wide Cotton Check, Ebony Fans, Scotch Thread, No. 4. No. 12, and No. 10, Pins, Black English Taffety, Silk Handkerchiefs, Pound Men's fine and midling worsted Hose. Also, BROWN TEA by the chest, hundred or less; PEPPER by the bag or less, Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Cloves and Mace, Florence OYL, Allum, Brimstone, Copperas, Tickinburgs, and Osnaburgs, Russia Duck, &c. &c.
AUCTION HALL, King-street.
JOHN GERRISH, hereby notifies the Public, that Auction Hall, in King street, which has for some time past been unimproved, by reason of said Gerrish's indisposition, is again opened, where Business will be carried on with dispatch and fidelity.
Attendance will be given at said Hall, by a person who may be depended upon, for punctual payment, immediately after the sales.
It is hoped said Gerrish's friends and former employers will renew their favours. All other persons who may have goods, new or old, of any kind, or in any quantity, great or small, to dispose off, may also depend upon being faithfully served at said hall.
N. B. Good STORES and CELLARS to accommodate Customers.

POETS CORNER.
A CURIOUS RIDDLE.
IT is as high as all the stars, No well was ever dug so low, It is in age five thousand years, It was not made an hour ago. It is as wet as water is, No red-hot iron e'er was dryer, As dark as night, as cold as ice, Shines like the sun and burns like fire. No soul nor body to consume, No fox more cunning, dunce more dull. 'Tis not on earth, 'tis in this room, Hard as a stone and soft as wool. 'Tis of no colour, but of snow, Outside and inside black as ink, All red, all green, all yellow, blue, This moment you upon it think. In every noise, this strikes your ears, 'Twill soon expire, 'twill soon decay; It always in the light appears, And yet 'twas never seen by day. Than the whole earth this bigger is, Than a small pin's point this is less, I'll tell you ten times what it is, Yet after all you shall not guess. 'Tis in your mouth, 'twas never nigh, Where e're you look you see it still, 'Twill make you laugh, 'twill make you cry, You feel it plain touch what you will.
The following came PROPERLY recommended. By way of Soliloquy: Spoke extempore on finding the Green Wing of a Riding-Chair, lost in the high way last Monday, in or near Boston, after drinking a Meridian bowl, &c.
WHO, bent on finding longitude, Departure know-- nor--latitude, Drive on with faces bebonair, fir, And lose the right-wing of their chair, fir? So drove the chariot of the sun, But oh! the fall of Phaeton. April 14th.
THE SCOURGE. No. I.
[Continued from our last.]
THE Sovereign is obstinate and we must be resolute; remember King John not- withstanding all his attempts to render himself absolute, was at last, by the virtue and cou- rage of our forefathers, reduced to a state of obedience to the laws. They, rather than suffer their liberties to be ravished from them, by lawless power and despotic designs of their Prince, were determined to die gloriously in defence of them. Their cause was a righte- ous one, they were successful, and obliged their ungrateful monarch to sign the great charter of liberties, at once preserving them- selves free, and at the same time securing to their posterity that most desirable blessing. Our cause my friends, is the same, it is the cause of our country. And we like them must either proceed in the same manner, or suffer ourselves to be enslaved, and involve millions yet unborn in the same miserable and unhappy state.
You are not only warranted, but required to enter into associations, and oaths for the preservation of your liberties and the constitu- tion. The words of Magna Charta run thus, "That in case the King should violate any point, and should refuse to rectify what he had done amiss, should be lawful for the barons, and the whole people of England to dis- tress him by all the ways they think of, such as the seizing on his Castles, Lands, possessions, provision being only made for the safety of the persons of the King and Queen, and of their children."
I believe there is not in this kingdom, one man, when he seriously reflects (unless it be some ministerial hireling) who will deny that the Sovereign has violated the GREAT CHAR- TER, and the laws of the land. There is of- ten a necessity of speaking the truth, and this is a truth the generality of mankind believe, though they have not resolution enough to declare it openly. It appears to me the gross- est absurdity even in thought, to suppose that the ministry would act daily in direct opposi- tion to the laws of the land, and the charter- ed rights of the people; if they were not sup- ported by their Prince, no, it is certain he
encourages them, we are sure they act with his consent, if not by his advice; otherwise they had been delivered up to the justice of their country, or at least dismissed from his presence and councils: it is therefore nonsense to throw the odium and guilt of public mea- sures, entirely upon the ministry, when the King only appears to be blameable, because it is in his power wholly to prevent them. I shall always speak in respectable terms to the Sovereign, but if it should be thought I speak too freely, let it be remembered the circum- stances of the times demand it. I hope not to live to see the time when the people of England shall be so loyal, as to make their Prince a compliment of their liberties; nor so corrupt as to suffer him by lawless force to wrest from them their birthright, their inheri- tance, which ought to be as dear to them as their lives, and never should be resigned but with their last breath. In this manner I would have them act, and in this manner I hope they always will act; they, best shew their loyalty to their Prince, who defend the laws and the constitution; his title and conti- nuance upon the throne will be very precari- ous; when once they are effectually destroy- ed he could not ensure himself either peace, or happiness; no it is but reasonable to sup- pose, that he would fall in the general ruin, if not, it might be attended with the destruc- tion of his family afterwards; these considera- tions I should think would always be sufficient inducements for every Prince governing a free people not to violate his coronation oath, nor in one instance to break through the laws, and deny right to his people.
Many have been the attempts since the foundation of our government, to break in up- on its constitution; and with various success. More than once it has, seemingly been over- turned and destroyed, either by the open at- tacks of violence, or by the more sure way of undermining, sapping, and corrupting; and sometimes by all together: but such has hi- therto been our happiness, that divine provi- dence hath been so benign, as to stretch forth the Almighty arm in our defence; never fail- ing to animate some great and good men to undertake at the risk of their lives, the recovery of our civil and religious rights; and as blazing stars enlighten the firmament, so did they the minds of the people, and provo- ked them to a noble imitation of their virtue and courage.
Let me exhort you my worthy country- men, at this time to defend your rights, against the united efforts of Kings, Lords, and Com- mons, they seem determined to destroy them; do you fix a resolution, and determine to be free. Let not the power of a misguided and perverse Prince, the prostitution of hereditary peerage, nor the corruption of the house of commons terrify you. Remember we are engaged in the cause of liberty, the birthright of every man; a cause that will do immortal honour to our memories; the day is arrived there is no time to be lost; we must awake from the fatal lethargy; we must exert our- selves and not by foolishly complimenting our Prince be weaving the web of our own destruction. If he is deaf to the cries of the wretched, and concerns not himself about the welfare of the nation, it is absolutely neces- sary we should pay some regard to our own preservation, and that of our country. No man (unless some passive obedient fool) will pretend that there is any loyalty due to the so- vereign, further than he himself is loyal to the law. If any man misled by sound and delu- sion, doubt this, let him consider the design of magistracy, and the duty of magistrates; and if he has reason to think, he will find that duty is due only to those that perform theirs; that protection and allegiance are reciprocal; that every man has a right to defend, what no man has a right to take; that the divine right of Kings, if they had it, can only war- rant them in doing actions that are divine, and cannot protect them in Cruelty, deprecation, and oppression; it would be a reproach upon the Deity, if he gave any man a commission to be a devil. A King in comparison with the universe, is not so much as the Mayor of a town, in comparison with a kingdom; and were Mr. Mayor called King, it would give him no new right; or if a King were only
called Mr. Mayor, it would not lessen or abrogate his old jurisdiction, they are both civil officers; and an offence in the lesser is much more pardonable, than an offence in the greater. The doctrines of hereditary right, and blind obedience to the will of a Prince, are only the slight and forgeries of such tyrants, and monsters, as Mansfield, Grafton, North, Hillsborough, Gower, Sand- wich, Norton, Dyson, Jenkinson, Talbot, Barrington, and the rest of the Carlton House junta , who belye heaven, and abuse men to make their own court to power, and not one of them would stand the trial himse f: In fine honest and legal government, is imperium legum non hominum , the authority of law and not of lust.
These are the principles upon which our government stands. When these principles are violated, and the rights of the people in- vaded, such violations, and such invasions, should be immediately resisted; or the whole fabric of our noble constitution, the work of ages, will presently be destroyed, and we shall be enslaved. If the present Sovereign has acted contrary to his trust, there are rules for us to proceed by, in order to bring him to reason, however, should we be at a loss for a precedent, we can follow the maxim of Lord Mansfield and make one.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS,
Informs his Customers, That he has just IMPORTED from LONDON, by the Captains Cales, Gardner and Bryant, A GENERAL Assortment of ENGLISH and INDIA GOODS, which he sells cheap for cash at his shop in Cornhill, Boston, three shops southward of the Post-Office. Also, STATIONARY, CUTLARY, GROCERIES, &c. &c.
JOSHUA GARDNER,
Has received by Capt. Lyde, and Capt. Bryant, A fresh Supply of GOODS, Which he will sell at his shop in Cornhill, at his usual low price; among which are a fine Assortment.
HOSIERY from the Makers; such as white breeches patterns, black and coloured ditto; men's marbled, plain and ribbed worsted hose, men's silk and worsted ditto, cotton and worsted ditto, women's worsted hose, women's black and coloured worsted mitts and gloves, women's silk mitts and gloves, striped and plain worsted caps, green and crimson mock velvet ditto, with a general Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS. All which will be sold on the most reasonable terms by Wholesale and Retail for ready money.
LOOKING GLASSES and PICTURES, imported in one of the last ships from London, to be sold by STEPHEN WHITING, at his shop op- posite the sign of the Cornfield, and by STEPHEN WHITING, jun. at his shop adjoining Mr. Joseph Howe, tinman, near the Mill-bridge.
Just imported by Capt. White, from London, And to be sold by SAMUEL FLETCHER, Cheap for Cash.
A FINE Assortment of English GOODS; also a large Assortment of Paper Hangings, and Earthen Ware; Brim- stone, fifteen-inches Pipes, &c. &c.
To be sold by JOHN BOYLES at his shop in Marlborough-street, next to the sign of the three Doves; An ODE set to Music, consecrated to the memory of the Rev. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, A.M. By one of his friends in Boston, New England.
JOHN BOIT, begs leave to in- form Gentlemen and Ladies, that he carries on his business near the Draw-bridge, where he makes laced and plain CLOATHS, Ladies Riding-Habits, and Josephs. All done in the neatest manner and newest taste. N. B. Those that are so kind as to fa- vour him with their custom may depend on being well used.
DOWNES & DOGGET,
PILOTS, at MARTHA'S VINEYARD, GIVE this public no- tice to all Masters of Vessels, that they have provided themselves with an excellent good pink-sterned SCHOONER, about 15 tons burthen, which constantly cruises off the Vineyard. They therefore take this method of requesting the favours of such Masters of Vessels, who chuse to employ them, to pilot them to Boston, and may depend upon their care and affidavit.
SAMUEL ELIOT,
Informs the Public, that after a long suspen- sion of Business by his strict adherence to the late Non-Importation Agreement, he has now IMPORTED in the Ships just arrived from LONDON,
A LARGE and elegant Assort- ment of English and India GOODS, which will be sold at the very lowest rates, by wholesale and retail, at his shop near the Head of Dock-Square, just above the Mar- ket; where constant attendance will be given, and the favours of his customers duly ac- knowledged.
N. B. Having been lately in England, he flatters himself his GOODS will be found of the best quality, and the lowest price.
ALEX. CHAMBERLAIN, jun.
at his shop in Ann-street, begs leave to inform his customers, that he has just re- ceived a small but compleat Assortment of GROCERIES; also, Glass, Stone, Delf, Cream-coloured and Liverpool WARE: likewise a quantity of Lamb-Black. N. B. Constant attendance given, and fa- vours duly acknowledged.
IMPORTED, In the Vessels lately arrived from England, by SMITH & ATKINSON, And now ready for sale, at their store in King street, Boston.
A LARGE and general Assort- ment of English, India, and other piece GOODS, suitable for the Spring trade, which were purchased on such terms at the different marts in Europe, as enables the im- porters; not only to serve those retailers who purchase their goods here, on the best terms but also to supply those who usually import their assortments, with many articles as low as they are generally imported.
N. B. Russia and English Sail Duck, Ra- vens Duck, Gun Powder, Connecticut PORK, &c. &c. CASH given for Merchantable POT-ASH.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS,
Mathematical Instrument-Maker, Has to sell At his Shop in King-street, Two Doors east of the Sign of Admiral VERNON, Near the Head of the Long-Wharf, BOSTON, A large Assortment of
HADLEY's and Davis's QUAD- RANTS, hanging and standing Com- passes in Brass and Wood, Gauging and Su- veying Instruments, Cases of Instruments large and small Perspective Glasses in Ivory Wood and Fish-Skin; plotting Scales, Ge- ter Scales and Dividers, Surveyors Chain Artificial Magnets with Cases, Sand-Glass from two Hours to a Quarter of a Min Instruments of a new Construction to me- asure Boards, Quarter Waggoner's, Atkins Epitomes, Wilson's ditto, Pattou's Nav- igation, Seaman's Assistants. Calendars, Ma- ner's Compasses rectified, Young Man's Ga- nion, Journal Books, Ink Powder, Quills and Paper, Paper-Hangings. An Assortment of Brass Pocket-Compasses with and without Cards, Box Rules, Scales and Pencils, Jack- Knives, plated Shoe and Knee Buckle, Pinch- beck, Block-Tin, and Brass ditto, Compass Seals, and Watch Keys, &c. &c.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS, in UNION-STREET, near the Market,
Where all Persons may be supplied with this Paper at Six Shillings and Eight Pence, Lawful Money, per Annum; 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 Mr. J. Larkin, chairmaker, and Mr. W. Calder, painter, in Charlestown; Mr. J. Hillier, watch maker, in Salem; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; and Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater.