The Massachusetts spy (Boston [Mass.]), 1772-06-18 00:00:00

THE Massachusetts Spy
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VOL. II.]
THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1772.
[NUMB. 70.
From the POLITICAL REG for April 1772.
TO LORD NORTH. MY LORD, I HAVE waited with a degree of impatience natural to a man, who wishes well to his country, for your Lordship's ministerial interposition in behalf of an injured Princess of England, the Queen Consort of Denmark.
As I have some opportunity of being acquainted with the disposition of Lord North, it is, I candidly confess, with regret that I resume the task of censuring a man, who has at least this negative virtue, that he wants the will to do a signal mischief to the state. I desire, however, to be well understood: I intend no compliment to your Lordship's heart; I am yet to learn that it merits any. If, therefore, our prime minister is not anxiously busied in adopting measures, and pursuing schemes to plunge this country into irretrievable ruin, we may thank the dastardly pusillanimity of his nature; we may rejoice at this weakness, as by that alone our safety is ensured; and we ought to exult in the superintending care of providence which hath dealt out its gifts to Lord North with so sparing a hand, that he does not possess a single talent necessary to render him a formidable adversary to public virtue.
Here is, however, a certain dignity in office, which ever will have weight with the vulgar: your brother, the bishop, my Lord, sees this truth daily verified within the precincts of his own diocese; and it cannot be construed into an ill-natured reflection to say, that there are few families in Great Britain more indebted for consequence to the drapery of externals, than the present issue of the Right Honourable Lord Guilford.
The late revolution in Denmark, my Lord, will produce, in all human probability, an entire alteration in the whole system of Europe. Your neutrality during that dark, and, as you have managed matters, mysterious transaction, is culpable in the extreme: I want words wherewith to delineate the absurdity of your conduct: the occasion calls for a species of envenomed satire mortals may conceive, but which, to Lord North's unspeakable comfort, they can never attain.
The situation of the kingdom of Denmark is such, that its very existence depends upon cultivating a lasting and firm friendship with the maritime powers of Europe. Besides the ties of interest and of treaties, there are other political motives which ever would incline Great Britain to support, protect, and defend the Danes, against any combinations which might be entered into for their destruction. But at the same time that we should snatch an handful of people from impending ruin, though we might condescend to interpolate in their behalf, if their situation called aloud for pity and compassion, is this, in the name of goodness and common sense, any thing like a reason, why we should tamely bear their ignominious insults, or suffer the disgrace they have cast upon the English Nation, to pass uncensured or un chastised? I say the English Nation; because as for our ministers, the term disgrace, when applied to them, loses altogether its poignancy, and the most superlative contempt becomes the highest compliment you can possibly pay to their dastardly measures.
An insignificant northern potentate, is honoured by a matrimonial alliance with the King of England's sister. A confused rumour prevails, that she has been false to his bed; the tale spreads, a particular man is pointed out as the object of her licentious affections: our hopeful ministry are, however quite silent; dispatches indeed are sent off to Copenhagen, but the contents of those dispatches are so profound a secret,
that with me it almost amounts to a question, whether you yourself know any thing of the matter; the Duke of Cumberland can keep a secret; Lord Mansfield therefore has entrusted him with a most precious one; you, my worthy Premier, have a strong propensity to loquacity, on which account it might be prudent therefore, in the court, not to place too great confidence in a man who loves speaking so much, that he will talk nonsense for hours, rather than be silent even on a subject which he does not understand: for a different reason, Lord Sandwich, perhaps can develop the ministerial proceedings with regard to Denmark; he is a man of tried veracity, his lips are sealed, and he seldom opens his mouth to any purpose, unless when he is about to betray the cause of some person weak enough to be his friend.
As I am not one of the cabal, I pretend not to dive into the motives for this cautious secrecy: I dare be answerable they are of the extraordinary kind; but that considered in a political light, your Lordship's whole procedure with regard to Denmark is absurd, and with respect to the public, highly criminal. This is a proposition to which every independent man of sense, throughout the kingdom, must readily assent. In private life the honour of a sister is deemed an affair of infinite consequence to a brother. A man of sentiment is anxious to convince his friends and neighbours, that the breath of slander hath traduced her virtue, and he seizes with avidity every alleviating circumstance that can contribute to extenuate her offence, or demonstrate her innocence, beyond the possibility of cavil.
Is our pious monarch cast in a different mould from one of his people? or is he taught to believe that the opinion of his subjects has no manner of relation to his own felicity? are you, my lord, quite void of feeling? have you no warm blood that flows around your heart, that gives your frame a thrilling soft sensation, and makes your bosom glow with affections, ornamental to man a social creature? for shame, my Lord, however wrong you act, you must know better; you must be conscious that the people have a right to be informed of every transaction which concerns the welfare of the state: They are part of a mighty empire, which flourishes only as their happiness is promoted; they have a kind of claim in every person belonging to the royal lineage; how can they peaceably remain neuter, and see their princess imprisoned by a banditti of northern Vandals? with what crime is she charged? what are the proofs of her guilt? a revolution brought about by the artifices of an intriguing woman, is no new thing in Denmark, the very superstition on the Danish monarchy is raised upon such a foundation. Margaret, in right of her son Olaus VI. assumed the reins of government in that kingdom, but not content with her just portion of power, she formed a scheme to depose Albert the lawful King of Sweden: Succeeding in her fratricidal scheme, she condemned him to perpetual imprisonment, and thus obtained the sovereignty of Sweden also.
There is a barbarous ferocity which still clings to the inhabitants of the North, and renders their government subject to perpetual convulsions; but the Danes, I fancy, will be found the only people in our times who have dared to proceed to extremities, that alarm all Europe, nay, dared to imprison an English princess, without giving even the shadow of a public reason for their conduct.
The Empress of Russia, on a somewhat similar occasion, was politeness itself; when she condescended to dispatch her husband, she caused a manifesto to be published, wherein she justified her conduct to God, her conscience, and the world. The
present Machiavellian Dowager Julia may send the young Queen's soul to heaven in a night, and through the shameful remissions of you, Lord North, the Prime Minister of this unhappy country, the public may remain ignorant of every circumstance relative to the murder. Be not however deceived; the blood of our sovereign's sister shall not be suffered to cry in vain for vengeance, it shall be heard, it shall be revenged; and what is still more, it shall sprinkle Lord North, and thus affix a stigma upon his forehead, which shall make him wander like another Cain, accursed through the world.
Is it thus a Cecil, thus a Burleigh, thus a Walsingham would have acted in the days of the Protectorate? Would Cromwell have permitted such an indignity to have passed unnoticed? That illustrious character would have dispatched a Blake with all imaginable speed to scour the seas, and chastise the insolence of those northern uncivilized free-booters, had they presumed even to imprison a common English subject, much less an English princess; and as an hostage for her liberty and her life, he would have confined the Danish Ambassador till an express had arrived, procuring her release.
With the generality of persons, example has a most powerful effect. You, Lord North, soar above the common herd; neither precept nor example can touch your soul, or work a reformation in your conduct; you are proof against conviction, and when public or private virtue is in question, you have no hng of humanity about you. Contracts however, like pictures are well disposed, form that agreeable diversity of light and shade which conveys pleasure and instruction to the most indifferent spectator. When therefore I mention Lord Chatham's name; there is no necessity for a comment to elucidate my meaning; his bold, his penetrating, and powerful genius, rescued this nation from despair and ruin, when an epidemic languor seized our frame, he, like some demi-god, revived our drooping spirits; you, my Lord, have again plunged us into all the gloomy horrors of despondency. He--but I desist; when the crawling emmet, or the grovelling worm, shall claim a superiority over mankind, then, and not until then, will I confess that there is the faintest similitude between the Earl of Chatham and the man commonly called Lord North.
I anticipate the jargon of you party, I know the steps taken, and the artifices practised to depreciate a man in the estimation of the world, the force of whose abilities astonished, and kept for a series of years, all Europe in subjection. Continental connections, millions expended, and English blood spilt in Germany; these are stale, these are hackneyed to pieces; I grant, indeed, there is veracity in the man. I grant, indeed, he has his flights, but they are so many daring excellencies; he is not merely a meteor in the political sky, he is a constellation of a superior order; which sheds its benign influence on this our lower world, infuses a genial vivifying heat into our atmosphere, and this contributes to exhilarate our species, and enhance the felicity of human nature.
These praises are not calculated to obtain applauses from the giddy multitude; they are not bestowed, because they may happen to fall within the current of the times; they are not designed to render you, my Lord, less beloved or more detested, than at present, since that is a task beyond any pen to accomplish, but they flow with an honest-hearted sincerity from my inmost soul, and was it possible to conceive, that this paper should outlive the other trifles of thy day, it would be my utmost ambition to have it considered as a monumental tribute to gratitude, justly due to the truly illustrious Earl of Chatham, for the many
distinguished, signal and important services he hath performed for this my native country.
FRIDAY, June 12. BOSTON.
By a letter from Nantucket we learn, that two whaling sloops were taken the beginning of May, off the Bay of Matanza, by a brig and sloop under Spanish colours. They had each 150 barrels of oil on board. A ship from Rhode-Island was going up channel when Capt. Lyde came down.
Capt. Jenkins was arrived in six weeks from Dartmouth. A so Capt. Roach from Carolina; and the Mercury packet, at Falmouth, from New-York.
Captains White, Jacobson and Symmes, were loading in London for this place, and expected to sail some time in May.
On the third of May last seven loaded Battox belonging Albany and Schenectady were lost at Oswego Falls, all the people saved, except one John Shae.
We hear from Leicester, that on Tuesday last a very melancholy accident happened in that town. A son of Mr. William Henshaw, about six years of age, and another lad being in a chamber playing with a gun, which they thought was not loaded, the lad put the muzzle of the gun to the ear of Mr. Henshaw's son, when it went off with a whole charge of partridge shot, which tore his head to pieces, and killed him instantly.
Captain Chambers arrived from London, informs, that yesterday se'nnight he spoke with a mast ship bound into Calco-Bay, then out 25 days from England. She is since arrived but brought no late prints.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
THE infallible way to enslave a free people is to dispossess them of their lands, and they can be free only in proportion as the ballance of lands is in their favour. If they possess the soil absolutely, they are absolutely free; but if the Prince or his Nobles, or both together, are the absolute and entire proprietors of the soil, the people are absolutely and entirely slaves, and rulers in this case, when they are so disposed can and will be tyrants. This was the case with the Egyptians and their King. When a Prince or his ministers make encroachments on the soil, or by any means possess themselves of large portions of it, it is a sign that their aim is to deprive the people of their freedom.
I know very well that the sticklers for prerogative, are fond of the term crown lands, and tell us that charters run in this God-like stile. Of our mere grace we give, &c. and thence conclude that Kings Jure divino are proprietors of the whole lands in their dominions, which they have not very graciously given before, to some of their beloved subjects. This is far from being true, for holy writ informs us, that at the beginning of the world the all bountiful creator gave to MAN "DOMINION over ALL THE EARTH, and over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, &c." This is the only true and solid foundation of man's dominion over the external things. Men then naturally have a right to possess, improve and appropriate any lands, not before possessed, improved and appropriated, till by some act of their own, they shew an intention to abandon it. I think no man of common sense will assert that when men entered into society they abandoned their right of possession and improvement. This would be to give up that which by entering into society they aim to secure, I mean the sure and permanent possession of their property. In a monarchical government then he, who is by the people elected their King by being thus elected, makes no addition to his private estate, for at the very instant that, government is formed, the

unappropriated and unpossessed lands become a joint estate to this new community, and cannot be appropriated by any individual among them, no not by their King, but by some act of this new state. It now becomes necessary that whoever inclines to be severally possessed of any of the unappropriated lands, should become possessed of it by such means as the people in their legislative capacity shall appoint, which is generally by a grant from the King, &c. or when the society, by filling up their territory shall emigrate and possess other unappropriated lands, under the same King, as was the case with our ancestors, the people with consent of a subordinate ruler as the King's Representative; and as the King is their servant, and is appointed to put the finishing hand to all acts of government, and to sign grants, charters, &c. the people have appointed the form, (who are in very fact the proprietors of the land) and consent to release their common right to an individual. — We, that is the original proprietors, of which number is the King of our mere grace, &c.
By what has been said it appears that men from the original grant of the supreme Governor have a right to improve and possess, unmolested, any tract not before improved, that if they come into possession of lands improved by others, they must procure a relinquishment, that when this is obtained, they hold under God himself the original and rightful proprietor; and until they forfeit their title by the laws of the land which were in force when they came into possession, or relinquish their right, no man can have any just pretence, to dispossess them of it.
This doctrine I now intend to apply to the case of the distressed inhabitants of about fifty townships, which were set off from this and New-Hampshire province to New-York where an enterprising tool of the present abandoned ministry is attempting to dispossess the industrious farmers of their lands, unless they pay 720 dollars per township, which they call half patent fees for a patent under the seal of New York, also pay a quitrent of 2/6d. sterling per annum for every hundred acres, which with the expence of solicitors, &c. will amount to more than a thousand dollars a township.
In order to shew the impropriety, injustice and tyrannical usurpation exercised over those townships, it will be necessary to shew that they came lawfully and rightfully into possession — Those of them who hold originally under this province (whose right was possessed and improvement) have as clear a right to enjoy their estates as words, compacts and bargains can give them. William and Mary in their charter to this province (to use the royal stile) give and grant unto the inhabitants of this province all the lands described in the charter, "To have and to hold the said territories, tracts, countries, lands, hereditaments and all and singular other their appurtenances to our said subjects the inhabitants of said province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England & their successors to THEIR ONLY proper use and behoof FOREVERMORE." "To be holden as of our manor of East Greenwich by fealty only, in free and common socage." That is, free from all corporal service or vassalage, and subject only, to a quit-rent, which according to the constitution of this government is the one fifth part of what are called royal mines. If the soil had been the real and undoubted property of King William, the relinquishment is so fair and just that it can never revert, but by the free act and deed of the last lawful proprietor, unless forfeited as aforesaid.
I take it for granted that every man doth know that there are such words in the charter as these, viz. "provided also that it shall and may be lawful for the said Governor and general assembly to make or pass any grant of lands lying within the bounds of the colonies of the Massachusetts Bay &c. We do hereby will and ordain to be and continue forever of full force and effect without our further approbation or consent" I also take it for granted, that it is a matter of great notoriety, that several of those oppressed townships were granted by this province in conformity to the charter.
[ To be continued. ]
SATURDAY, June 13, BOSTON.
This Day the following Message was delivered to the House by the Secretary, viz. Gentlemen of the House of Representatives. BY inspecting the Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives in April 1771, you will find that, in Answer to a Message from that House, I
then observed that his Majesty had been enabled, by an Act of Parliament, to make a certain and adequate Provision for the Support of the Civil Government in the Colonies as His Majesty shall judge necessary.
"I am now able to acquaint you that His Majesty has been graciously pleased to make Provision for my Support in the Station in which he has thought fit to place me, and, as this is judged to be an adequate Support. I must conclude it cannot be his Majesty's pleasure that, without his special Permission which has not yet been signified to me, I should accept of any Grant from the Province in consideration of the ordinary Services of government done or to be done by me.
T. HUTCHINSON.
Council Chamber, Cambridge, June 13, 1772. Monday last the body of a man was found floating near a wharf at the South part of the town: Upon taking it ashore it proved to be Mr. Thomas Rowe, a native of the North of England, who had been impressed some time since out of Captain Skimmer, and carried on board one of the men of war; and supposed to be drowned in attempting to swim from her, about ten days ago.
The body of a man was also drove ashore at Snake-Island: — It was supposed to be a Seafaring man, who, in attempting to swim from one of the ships in the harbour some time ago, was drowned.
MARRIED.] Elisha Hutchinson, Esq; second son of his Excellency the Governor, to Miss Polly Watson, eldest daughter of Col. Watson, of Plymouth.—Mr. James Tyng, only son of Colonel Ezezer Tyng, of Dunstable, to Miss Rebecca Russell, second daughter of the Honorable James Russell, Esq; of Charlestown.—Captain William Ruggles, to Miss Mary Loring.
CHRISTIANSTEAD, [St. Croix] April 28.
BY a gentleman arrived from Antigua, we learn, that a ship from Dublin for Philadelphia, having put into Antigua through stress of weather, among other passengers who landed, was a certain supposed adventurer, calling himself Capt. Price and attended by two servants; this person frequented some of the second-rate taverns, had a bill brought in for his and servants expence, of which he scrupling to pay some articles, was arrested: but by some means finding the publican had not the proper licence for retailing of liquors, he brought information against him, and had him condemned in the fine, of which our Captain had half, thereby paid his bill, & put money in his pocket. Finding this likely to turn out a good trade for him, he declared he had on his list 40 more punch sellers, under the same predicament. — This brought a general odium upon him, he was pointed at as an informer, & some people proposed to punish him in the modern manner, by tar and feathers. This was attempted one night, and the house wherein he was, surrounded, but the Captain found means to withdraw, and getting thro' a prickly-pear fence, deemed impassable, he sought refuge in the house of a Clergyman, who dreading the mob, was conducting him to the guard, when they were met by a great number of people, some with bludgeons, a blow from one of which felled the unhappy Price to the earth, from which, taken up speechless, and carried to the hospital, he expired in two days: the coroner's inquest brought in their verdict, Wilful Murder. Since which four persons are taken up on suspicion and committed to goal.
PHILADELPHIA, June 4. A schooner from Boston for Dominica was spoke with the 14th of May, in lat. 34. long. 60. out 8 days.
A Woman named Elizabeth Knight, who lived alone in a small log house, on the road to New Jersey, and maintained herself by selling cakes, &c. was found murdered in a most barbarous manner, her house ransacked, and her drawers, &c. broke open, by some villains who got off undiscovered: the Governor of New Jersey has offered a reward of fifty pounds for apprehending them.
On Tuesday last we had here a most surprising change of weather, so that the mercury of a thermometer, which hung in an open entry, and stood at 85 degrees at two o'clock, P. M. at nine o'clock in the evening, was fallen to 61 degrees.
ALBANY, May 25. Last week an express arrived at Schenectady, with the disagreeable intelligence, that on Sunday the instant, seven loaded Batteaux were lost at Oswego falls, all the people were saved, except one John Sheba, of Schenectady. NEW YORK, June 8. We hear also from Flanders, that false Dollars of 1750,
have lately been discovered passing their. On the 10th of February last, Mr. Biffion Wetherwax, of Raynebeck, in Dutch-county, was cut for the stone in the bladder, by Mr. William Jepson of Hartford, and a large stone extracted; and, in seven weeks from the operation, was healed up well and sound.
Wednesday morning three companies of his Majesty's 60th, or Royal American regiment, arrived here, under the command of Major Fuser, from Montreal.
The Harriet Packet beat, Capt. Oake, failed last Friday with the mail for Falmouth.
MONDAY, June 15, BOSTON.
At a COUNCIL held at the Council-Chamber Cambridge, June 13th 1772. His Excellency acquainted the Board that he was restrained from removing the General Court to Boston whilst the Assembly continued to dispute the authority by which he was directed to cause it to be held in any place except Boston: And laid before them the signification of his Majesty's pleasure made to him by one of his Majesty's principle Secretaries of State, together with his Speech to the two Houses, and the several messages which had passed between him and them the present session, and required the advice and opinion of the Council upon their oaths as Councillors, whether consistent with this signification of his Majesty's pleasure to him he may now remove the Court to Boston: The Council thereupon gave their opinion and advice unanimously in the affirmative. A true Copy, attest. THO. FLUCKER, Secr.
His Excellency then directed the Secretary to acquaint both Houses respectively, that it was his pleasure the Great and General Court be adjourned to Tuesday next, then to MEET AT THE COURT HOUSE IN BOSTON, which was done accordingly.
We have advice from Rhode-Island, that on Tuesday last, as his Majesty's armed schooner Gaspée, commanded by Lieutenant Duddington, with about 16 or 17 men, was going up Providence River she ran ashore at high water at a place about seven miles below the town; and that about two o'clock the next morning a number of men, (some of the decoitons of the schooner's people say only about fifty, others, perhaps more frightened than the rest, make them 150) came along side of her in five or six boats; upon the first notice whereof the commander instantly got out of bed and came upon deck with his pistol and a sword, and fired the pistol at the boats, which was returned by the discharge of another from them, when the ball went through his wrist, as his hand was hanging down by his side, and lodged in his gown; the people in the boats immediately took possession of the vessel, without any further damage, (except a slight wound which one of the sailors received by a flick) and bound the crew, and after dressing the Captain's wounds as well as they could, put them all on shore, they then set fire to the schooner, which, with all her stores, &c. were entirely consumed.
We are told that the Captain of the schooner, after he was wounded and secured, desired that his money and papers might be delivered him, the former was complied with, but the latter, with every thing else he had on board, were destroyed: — It is said he is in a fair way of recovery.
The Governor of Rhode Island has issued a proclamation, offering a reward of one hundred pounds sterling, for the discovery of the persons concerned in this affair.
Last Friday afternoon the Bonetta sloop of war, Chpt. Squires, failed from hence with dispatches for England.
DIED.] Miss Jackson.—Mr. Jacob Burrill, gunsmith, aged 22.—Mrs. Alice Banks, consort of Dr. Banks, of Pembroke, New-Hampshire, and daughter of Mr. Thomas Benley, of this town. Mrs. Jane Pierce, widow, age 84.
ARRIVED here. Williams from New-London; Burroughs from New-Haven; Brown from North-Carolina; Smithwick and Jones from Grenada; Kent from Surinam; Parsons and Dodge from St. Lucia; Burker from Lisbon; Lyde and Chambers from London.
TUESDAY, June 16, BOSTON.
This day the Great and General Court met at the Court-House in Boston.
On the tenth instant a large ship with three decks was spoke with by a fisherman near Mount-Desert, under jury masts, bound from England to Kennebec, and was then out forty two days.
From Cumberland in Nova-Scotia, we have a melancholy account of the death of Thomas Colhoon, Esq; of Hopewell, (formerly of Baltimore county in Maryland) together with his brother Mr. William Colhoon; and two other young men, the latter end of April last; who having been at a stone quarry, some few miles distance from their homes in a canoe, it is presumed were returning home with a number of grindstones; it being night, the wind pretty fresh, and the tide very rapid, it is supposed they overset, and where drowned, near two miles from the shore, as their bodies were all found two days after at that distance, some of them nearly buried in the sand and mud: The elder Colhoon, (Thomas) has left a widow with one child and very near lying in again. The other two were unmarried.
A dialogue between a RULER and a SUBJECT. Continued.
RULER. AT our last conference you seemed to be out of humour because of the treatment our petitions have met with. Do you think the King and parliament are obliged to grant us all our requests?
SUBJECT. No; but they are bound to treat us as freemen, with kindness and respect, and never imposed any thing upon us contrary to the fundamental principles of our free constitution.
R. They deny that they have violated the constitution; they say the parliament is the supreme legislature, and has a right to make laws to tax the King's subjects in every part of the nation.
S. We know the parliaments of Great-Britain have no right to tax the Americans any more than they have to tax the inhabitants of France. They think they have power to tax us, and they seem to be determined to claim a right wherever they can extend their power.
R. You don't seem to understand politics thoroughly; talking about our constitutional rights, charter-privileges, &c. is perfectly idle. — It has always been a maxim among the nations, and with designing statesmen, that "power gives right." — And your pleading that we are not represented in the British parliament, and therefore cannot constitutionally be taxed, will avail nothing. You may depend upon it Great-Britain never will give up her claim, and her parliaments will tax the colonies so long as they are subject to her.
S. Then you don't pretend to maintain that Britain has a constitutional right to tax the Americans?
R. No; only the right that power gives.
S. Then the will not long have any right agreeable to your hypothesis.
R. I hope you don't imagine that Britain's power is near to an end in America?
S. If the present absurd system of policy is pursued, I believe a very few years will terminate all her authority here.
R. What I do you think the Americans will rebel?
S. No; but I believe they will take care of themselves.
R. What do you mean by taking care of themselves.
S. Set up a government of their own, after the example of the UNITED PROVINCES, and other states who have been oppressed.
R. Would that be lawful? Would not that be rebellion?
S. It would be acting agreeable to the law of nature, and that is always binding. As to rebellion, nothing deserves that name which is agreeable to the law of nature. Nothing binds the colonies to Britain but interest, and when it becomes their interest to break off from Britain, they certainly will do it.
R. How long do you think it will be before the Americans set up a government of their own?
S. If the present arbitrary measures are pursued, it is not probable they will continue their union with Great-Britain fifteen years; perhaps not half that time.
R. How is it possible for the Americans to defend themselves, since they have not one ship of the line?
S. They want none; It is only giving a free trade to all nations and they will defend us; for it has long been a maxim of policy among the nations in Europe not to let one nation acquire too much power: therefore they will not suffer, any nations to be conquered with whom the other nations have a gainful commerce. It will be the interest of the nations in Europe to preserve us for the benefit of our trade, therefore we shall be secure without any expence. A well regulated militia is all that we shall ever

want for our defence in America. R. Then you have no doubt but America will soon be an independent state. S. No; the thing becomes every day more and more certain. The first shock that Great-Britain meets with the Americans will break off, unless she soon alters her conduct towards them. R. Such a thing would be a shocking affair to us officers who are dependent on the crown and ministerial favour; we who have the character of tories will be cast out as evil . S. That you would; and you would be condemned as much by the King and people in Britain, as by the Americans. R. Why should the King blame us? We have done every thing in our power to carry his orders into execution. S. The King will condemn you for not telling the truth; for not warning him of the danger there was that the Americans would revolt if their grievances were not redressed. R. We are afraid to tell the naked truth lest we should offend the Ministry and lose our posts. S. Do not you think such conduct deserves a "naked" halter? For these things you will justly be condemned as traitors. R. It requires more virtue than men are possessed of in this day to pursue the public good when that contradicts self-interest. I know of no man who would relinquish an income of a hundred sterling a year for any considerations of duty to the King, or the public. We talk of the duty we owe to our "royal master" but self is above our royal master or royal mistress; or any other consideration. S. In this I believe you say truly. R. A certainty is better than an uncertainty; If I should become a whig, and pursue the public good, I must lose my present income, and perhaps never live to see tyranny wholly abolished, therefore I intend to bang on as the rest of the tories do, drink my Lord Hillsborough's health and say, O Bute O Bernara , live forever! S. Then I must bid you an eternal farewell. R. What! Part forever—I hope we shall meet in heaven; for there we shall have no clashing interests, no discord about government. S. There are no avaritious sordid minds in heaven; none are admitted into those harmonious regions of love and freedom, who never wished happiness and freedom to mankind. R. I hope you do not think all those who are called tories, will go to eternal shades: You can't suppose such a good man as Governor H. will miss of heaven, and dwell where "hope will never come." S. As to Governor H. or any others, I do not determine their fate. I leave that to the supreme JUDGE. But the page of eternal truth assures us, that he who prefers his honour or interest , before the welfare of mankind, shall not see the kingdom of God. R. You grow serious—such notions do not do for statesmen. S. Man, who is bound to eternity, ought to be serious. Can any thing equal the stupidity of those, who for the enjoyment of a title or lucrative post , will give up a good conscience and the hope of Heaven! This is madness to perfection! By what rule shall we square our conduct, so as to deserve the love of mankind, keep a good conscience, and have the hope of Heaven? S. Make the word of God your counsellor; do to mankind as you would have them do to you in like circumstances; banish from your minds the sordid love of gain , and mean ambition ; let the public good which is the end of all government, ever be the object at which you aim; let virtue and religion adorn your lives; and a desire to promote the honour of God, and the happiness of mankind, shine, in all your conduct—Then you will live beloved and useful, die honourable and happy, and your memory be blessed. R. In truth, I believe there are but few such rulers as you have described. S. Don't your breast burn to obtain such a character? If it don't, it is a sure evidence you have nothing noble in your soul. —Can you reflect without horror, upon the conduct of those sordid mortals, who to gratify the vilest passions, plundered their country and murdered liberty! Can you look into your own breast and find such passions their without detesting yourself? Nothing is so astonishing to me, as the conduct of a vile selfish ruler, who for the sake of some low momentary gratifications, sacrifice the godlike pleasure of doing good —of promoting the interest and happiness of mankind—who lose immortal renown, the applause of heaven and earth, for a few
gilded scenes of earthly grandeur! Such sordid souls ought to die unpitied—they must sink down to the shades accursed! R. I have nothing to say for ignoble rulers; I heartily wish there was a reformation among them. S. Set the example, yourself; always consider it is your highest good to promote the welfare of mankind; that if the honour of God and the happiness of your fellow men be your highest ambition and supreme desire, honour and pleasure will attend all your days, brighten all the scenes of life, and sweeten every enjoyment in time—Your name will be dear to mankind, had in grateful remembrance, and the memory of your glorious deeds will never be blotted out! and what is infinitely greater than the love of man, God himself will approve, and reward every noble action with eternal honour. I must now Sir bid adieu, may you always so conduct, that you may approve of your actions when every work shall be brought into judgment with every secret thing .
WEDNESDAY, June 17. BOSTON
Capt. Jesse Newcomb, who arrived here Yesterday from Newfoundland, informs that on Monday the 8th of June, one John Jones, a seaman on board his vessel, being delirious run from his cabin jumped over board, and was drowned, all attempts to save him proved ineffectual.
ALBANY June 1. We hear that David Ramsays an Indian Trader; who has resided some time past to the westward of Niagara: happened last spring to be assaulted by, or had a difference with some of the natives a Scuffle ensued in which three of them were killed; these he buried under the snow, and imagining it was not safe for him to remain longer there, he put his effects into a canoe, and retreated with his brother and an Indian child their attendant, to a place nearer to the Fort at Niagara; he had not been long there until a party of Indians came to trade with him, to whom (as he understands the English language) he overheard his attendant relate his adventure with their brethren; as it was not possible for him to escape, he ordered his brother to give them as much rum as they would drink hoping they would get intoxicated and give him the opportunity to get off; however they seized, bound and poured a pint of rum down his throat. Then fate down to deliberate in what manner they should put him to death; his brother supplied them plentifully with Rum, and taking the Advantage of its operation upon their Intellects, secretly conveyed a knife to him, with it he soon disentangled himself and dispatched four of his Antagonists, together with the urchin who betrayed him, the rest escaped; he then came and delivered himself up to the garrison at Niagara, from whence a party of Soldiers went and brought in his goods. A gentleman, who lately came from Cherry Valley, informs us, that coming down the Mohawk river, he fell in with a company of Indians, who were on the way to complain to the honourable Sir William Johnson, of the above related affair: It is hoped, that Sir William's extensive influence, among the Indian nations, will produce an accommodation, and prevent their making reprisals upon the defenceless traders and settlers upon the frontiers; and, in fine, the unspeakable calamities of an Indian war.
THURSDAY, June 18. BOSTON.
By a Letter from New-Orleans, we hear that French Vessels are not suffered to trade there. Also, that the French Inhabitants of Louisiana, are so disgusted at the Tyranny they groan under, that most of them will soon quit that Province;
EBENEZER FULLER, late master of the schooner John and Elizabeth, belonging to John Simpson, Esq; of North-Carolina, testify and declare that I sailed from Port Royal in Jamaica on the 29th day of October, 1769, bound for North-Carolina, but meeting with contrary winds and very bad weather was forced to bear away for La Vera-Cruz, where I arrived in said schooner the 25th day of December following; and that for several days before our arrival we were so reduced that we had nothing to subsist upon but boiled molasses and sugar; that the next day being the 26th of December, 1769, I the said Ebenezer Fuller, with Ichabod Simpson my mate, and six foremast men, were by the express orders and command of the governor of La Vera Cruz, taken prisoners and confined under a
guard of twenty three Spanish soldiers on board said Schooner, without the least cause given or crime committed by myself or any of my crew; that on the first day of January, 1770, the governor attended by the custom-house officers came on board the said Schooner and threatened me and my crew with death if we did not deliver up the keys of our chests, and the keys which belonged to the vessel; we therefore deliver'd our keys and the governor and officers, robbed the Schooner and chests, and gave strict charge to the soldiers to keep myself and crew under confinement; —that I the said Fuller and my crew were accordingly confined on board said Schooner until the 30th day of October following, when she sunk by the neglect of the Spaniards, the worms having eat out her bottom; we were then carried on board a Spanish vessel and there confined until the 7th day of January 1772, at which time the governor came down to the vessel, and ordered myself and crew to embark for the Havanna, at the same time robbed me of two negroes, being part of my cargo: that we remained still under confinement until the 6th day of February last, when we sail'd for the Havanna, at which place we arrived the second day of March following. While I the said Fuller was at the Havanna, I saw Capt Peter Beard of Jamaica, with a number of British Seamen, in number about fifty who were in close confinement without a shot on their backs (Beard excepted) and hardly covering to conceal their privities; they inform'd me their living was hard, having but half a bit per day allowed them to subsist on, that they were allowed nothing but bullock's lights and bad bread, and that they eat nothing else. While I was at La Vera Cruz, a large ship arriv'd from Spain and brought with them a very valuable negro belonging to Mr. Glas of Port Royal, which negro was decoyed on board said ship out of a pilot boat, and forcibly carried away and said negro was esteemed as good a pilot as any in Jamaica; —that on the 28th of said March, I the said Fuller sail'd for North-Carolina, leaving the abovementioned Beard and company in Goa, in which they had, some of them, been confined eighteen months; —said Beard desired the last time I saw him that I would publish his case in the papers, that the world might know how the subjects of his Majesty of Great-Britain were treated. On my arrival at North-Carolina, I protested, which protest was made at the office of Mr. Thomas Jones, Notary Public, at Edenton, North-Carolina.
EBENEZER FULLER. Boston, 17th June, 1772.
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 Tickings, 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, viz. plain and flowered Lawns, striped flowered and bordered Aprons and Handkerchiefs, Cambricks, plain and sprigged Silk and Mullin Gauzes, plain and Ranleigh Handkerchiefs, black and white Catgut and Paris-Net, Paten; Queens-fancy, Spiders and Lace Net. A Variety of plain, striped and sprigged Mullins, such as Jacnets, Mulmulis, Mainfooks, Gold and Coffacs, striped dorcas and Book Mullins, Manchester and Scotch Checks, check Handkerchiefs, blue and white, red and white, and green and white Furniture Checks with None-so-pretty's to match them. Striped Linens, and Cotton Hollands. White and coloured Janes, pillow Fustian and Thicksets, flowered yard-wide Dimoties, Manchester Velvets, black and white uncut do. white and coloured Russia Drabs, eight and ten quarter Cotton Counterpanes, Damascus's, Ginghams, India Nankins and Mozuns, Variety of Ebony, Ivory, Peddle-Stick and leather mount Fans. French and English Wax-Necklaces, pound Beads, Velvet Collars, Shimeal, Gauze, Lace and feriting. Common Chip Hats, and superfine do. with Ribbons of a new Pattern suitable for trimming them.
[Remainder in our next.]
Just republished in Newport, And to be Sold by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-bridge.
A few Copies of the entertaining HISTORY of Philip's WAR; which began in the year 1675, with the proceedings of BENJAMIN CHURCH, Esq.
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. To JOSHUA FULLER, of Newton in the county of Middlesex, in said Province Gentleman, one of the Principal Proprietors of a Township of Land lying in the late Province of Maine, on little Amaro-soggan River, granted by the Great and General Court on the 11th Day of June, A. D. 1771, to you and others. Greeting.
WHEREAS you, with four others, Proprietors of the tract of land above mentioned, have made a petition to me for a warrant for calling a meeting of the Proprietors of said Township for the purposes herein after mentioned: You are therefore, in his Majesty's name, hereby required to notify and warn, in time and manner, as the law directs, the Proprietors aforesaid, that they meet at the Dwelling House of Capt. Nathaniel Coolidge, Inholder, in Watertown, on Tuesday the twenty-fifth day of July next, at eight o'clock, forenoon, to transact the following matters, viz. To choose a moderator of said meeting, a Clerk of the Proprietors, Assessors, a Collector or collectors of taxes and a Treasurer. To determine how future meetings of said Proprietors shall be called. To determine what sum or sums of money, shall be raised to defend the interest of the said Proprietors, and for defraying necessary charges, as also the manner in which said money shall be raised. To choose a committee to prosecute or defend any action or actions wherein the interest of the Proprietors or their Assigns are or may be concerned, with full power of substitution. To see what other committees are necessary, and to choose them. As also to ascertain the claims of any person pretending to have an interest therein. To see what former votes of the Proprietors they will ratify and confirm.
GIVEN under my Hand and Seal, this 25 day of April, in the twelfth year of his Majesty's Reign, A. D. 1772. S. DANFORTH. Justice of the Peace throughout the said province.
IN pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the Proprietors of the Township therein mentioned, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time, and for the purposes set forth in said warrant.
JOSHUA FULLER. A true Copy, attest, ALEX. SHEPARD. Prop. Clerk.
Nova-Scotia Grindstones.
JUST landed, the completest assortment of NOVA SCOTIA GRINDSTONES ever brought into the country, and to be sold by HENRY BASS, at his store adjoining the Golden Ball Tavern at the head of Green's wharf near the Market, Boston, on account of the connections he hath with the Manufacturers, he can afford them vastly cheap for Cash or short Credit.
[For the benefit of the Insurers,] TO-MORROW MORNING at ELEVEN O'CLOCK, Will be Sold by PUBLIC VENDUE at the Auction Room in Queen Street, 25 Casks 4d. 6d. 8d. 10d. Nails Damaged.
J. RUSSELL Auctioneer. TO-MORROW XI O'CLOCK.
At the Royal-Exchange Tavern, KING STREET, On TUESDAY, next, at Ten o'clock in the Morning, will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE,
A LARGE assortment of ENGLISH GOODS (the property of a person leaving the Province) amongst which are, fifty pieces of yard wide Irish Linens, N. B. The particulars in Mondays papers. A. BOWMAN, Auctioneer.
BOOKS.
IN ALL Arts and Sciences, received from London by the last ships to be sold very reasonable by JAMES FOSTER CONDY, at his store in Union-Street, opposite to the Cornfields, Boston. Also a large assortment of STATIONARY, &c &c &c.
SADLERY GOODS.
A compleat assortment of Sadlery goods, just imported, and to be sold by R. G. CRANCH, at his shop on the Exchange, in King-street;
Among which are, A QUANTITY of English Trees, plated Bits, Stirrups, Spurs, and almost every article that can be enquired for in the Sadlery way.
Country Saddlers may depend on being well served on as good terms as at any shop or store in the province.

HARD-WARE GOODS.
Just imported by WILLIAM BRECK At the Golden Key near the Draw-Bridge, A GENERAL assortment of Pewtery, Ironmongery, Brazery and Cutlery Wares...
To be SOLD by
Jolley Allen,
At his shop in Marlborough-Street, Boston, the shop Dr. Gibbons formerly improved A very LARGE and NEAT Assortment of English and India GOODS...
As the said Allen is determined, on an entire New Plan, His WHOLE Stock in Trade he will sell, either by Wholesale or Retail, at a very little more than the Sterling cost and charges,
He flatters himself that the advantage that may arise to his customers, will be equal if not superior to their purchasing at any wholesale or retail shop or store in town or country.
N. B. Choice Green and Bohea TEA, and all kinds of Spice, likewise Indigo, Looking Glasses, best of India China, with Delph, Stone and Eastern Ware. &c. &c.
JACOB HEMET, DENTIST 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...
Sold (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 Luth Linen Store, near the Draw-Bridge, Boston, New England.
JOHN BARRETT & SONS,
Have imported in the last ships, A N universal and very neat assortment of London Bristol, Birmingham and Sheffield HARD WARE and CUTLERY GOODS which, with a great variety of English and European Goods suitable to the season, such as Chintzes, Calicoes, Linens, Jeans, Fustians, Pennicots, Bengals, Checks, Damascuses, Nankings, Lorettoes, Lutestringes, Laces, Cotton, Silk and thread Hose, Mitts &c. &c. they are determined to sell by wholesale for Cash or short credit, and by retail for Cash only, at the very lowest rates.
the famous BELLSIZE ARABIAN, will cover this season at 12s a leap, or 18s the season, or 20s a Colt. He is a son of the famous horse called Morefah and his mother is of the best race that the great Sultan or Emperor Muiah Abalah ever had, and he is both by sire and mother of the best blood and true Arabick race in all Barbary. He is of an iron grey colour, 17 hands high, and the handsomest horse in America. He is kept at Mr. WILLIAM PUTNAM's stable in Danvers, where mares may be taken good care of. Said horse is to be sold, if any person will give the value of him. Enquire of MOS MANFIELD.
MOS MANFIELD.
Newport, April 27, 1772.
Now in the Press,
Reprinting by SUBSCRIPTION,
NEW-ENGLAND'S MEMORIAL: Or a brief Relation of the most memorable and remarkable Passages of the Providence of God manifested to the Planters of New-England, in America; with special Reference to the First Colony thereof, called NEW-PLYMOUTH...
Published for the Use and Benefit of present and future Generations.
By NATHANIEL MORTON, Secretary to the Court for the Jurisdiction of NEW PLYMOUTH.
DEUT. xxxii. 10. He found him in a desert Land, in the waste howling wilderness he led him about; he instructed him, he kept him as the Apple of his Eye.
JER. ii. 2, 3. I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine Espousals, when thou wentest after me in the Wilderness, in a Land that was not sown, &c.
CONDITIONS:
I. It shall be printed on good Paper, in a Page exactly as large as that of Colonel CHURCH's History. II. It will contain about 230 Pages, and will be printed on an excellent Type, and in a neat and correct manner. III. The Price to Subscribers Three Shillings Lawful Money, sewed in blue Covers to be paid on Delivery of the Books...
** SUBSCRIPTIONS are taken in by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-Bridge, Boston, and by SOLOMON SOUTHWICK, of Newport, Rhode-Island, by whom this work is undertaken.
As there can be no History so useful and important to any People, as that which relates immediately to their Ancestors and themselves; it is not doubted but this work will be zealously encouraged; that so the Knowledge of the Dangers and Hardships which our Fore-fathers were exposed to, in the first Settlement of this once howling Wilderness, may be handed down to the remotest Ages of America, as a Pearl of great Price.
HATS manufactured and sold by the advertiser, at his Shop near the flat Conduit, Boston, who hopes he has given such satisfaction to his customers as will induce them to continue their favours which will be gratefully acknowledged by their humble servant, MARTIN BICKER.
N. B. He has to sell, the best of French raper snuff, very cheap for cash, by the bottle, hundred, dozen, or single bottle.—choice Hyson and Bohea TEA, by the dozen or less. Loaf and brown Sugars, Coffee, Flour, Rice, Cotton, Melasses, and all sorts of Spices &c.
To be sold by Samuel Sloane, at his Distil-House, opposite the Blue-ball 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.
CHOICE ANCHOVIES and CAPERS, in large and small Quantities, lately imported in Capt. Acworth, and to be sold by WILLIAM LAMBERT at the Three Sugar Loaves, little above the Draw-Bridge.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, A Journeyman PRINTER, who CAN and WILL work, no other need Enquire of ISAIAH THOMAS.
Imported in the several ships this Spring from London, by
THOMAS LEE,
At his store near the Swing-Bridge, Boston, A VERY full and compleat Assortment of PIECE GOODS:
LADIES SILKS, (with which he is constantly supplied) of the newest fashions; he has now by him a most elegant variety, composed of almost every kind in use:
Book and Thick Muslins, Tombour worked ditto, rich Brussels and Mecklen Laces.
IRISH LINENS,
RIBBONS,
PAPER HANGINGS,
Rich and Basket-worked Gold and Silver BUTTONS,
GOLD and SILVER LACES,
WATCHES of various Sorts, also,
Warranted Gun Powder, Shot, Nails, 6 by 8, 7 by 9, and 8 by 10 Window Glass, genuine Kippen's Saff, Allum, Russia, Ravens and English Duck, Osnaburgs, Verdi grece, &c.
** Said LEE receives all his Goods from first Hands only, and will supply Shopkeepers and Traders on as good Terms as any person in Boston.
The greatest encouragement to those who purchase with present Money.
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 gentleman 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.
Ventriss'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. folio.
Hawkin's Abridgment of Cook.
Law of Evidence.
Trial's p. Pais.
Gilbert on Devises.
on Tenures.
Cases in King's Bench.
Molloy de Jure Maritimo.
Law Tracts.
Attorney's Pocket Book. 2 vols.
Practical Register of the Common Pleas.
Barnes's Notes, 4to.
Fitzherbert's new Natura Brevium.
Essays on Crimes and Punishments.
With a large Variety of the best and most approved Authors, in History, Physics, &c. &c.
Likewise, large Church Bibles, Folio Bibles, Quarto Bibles, Octavo Bibles, Mission Bibles, Bibles with Canons Notes, Common Bibles at 12s. O. 1. the Dozen. Pocket Bibles in 1 or 2 vols. neatly Gilt.
Court and City Register for 1772.
All Kinds of Magazines that are published in London.
School Books of every Kind.
With a large Assortment of Stationary: Account Books from 2s. to 6l. Lawful Money a piece; Writing Paper from 10s. to 10l. a Rham; Ink-Powder, Sealing Wax, Wafers, patent Cake Ink, clothiers and Cartridge Paper of all prices, Bonnet Boards, Ink-Stands of various Sorts, Ivory Books and Ivory Folders, best Pen Knives, Quills, &c. &c.
Platters, Primers, Spelling Books, Psalm Books, with or without Tunes, by the Groce or Dozen, as Cheap as at any Store or Shop in Town. Every Person who pleases to favour him with their Custom may depend on purchasing very Cheap and the least Favour gratefully acknowledged.
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...
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 patentee and other Medicines of the best quality, and Medicine Boxes for Families or Shipping, 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
ANDREW DEXTER, In Hanover-street, a little to the southward of the Mill-bridge, Boston has opened, and now has to dispose of, both by wholesale and retail,
GOODS of various sorts, fresh and new, from different ports. He could mention the ships by which he received them, and the names of the respective commanders; but most people know that this will not affect either the quality or the price. He could assert that they were bought with ready money, came immediately from the manufacturers, and are the best of the several kinds that were ever imported. All this he could say.—All this indeed is easily said:—But if he should add that shopkeepers may have his English Goods as cheap as from the Merchants in London, he fears that some folks would call it puffing, and others would give it even a worse name. If his goods are cheaper than they are sold at any other shop in town, it is abundantly sufficient. He will not, however, roundly affirm any such thing. He only wishes good people, country Shopkeepers in particular, as they pass along, would be kind enough to call and inform themselves. After they have viewed every article he has got, though they should not then chuse to purchase even one of them, he will nevertheless own himself under great obligations, and will kindly thank them for having given him reason to hope that, at some future time, they will favour him with their Custom.
EBENEZER 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 Hard-Ware 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.
Boston, June 8, 1772.
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. Calder, Painter, in Charlestown; Mr. J. Hiller, Watch-maker in Salem; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; and Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater.