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VOL. II.]
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1772.
[NUMB. 85.
From the POLITICAL REGISTER, for July.
To the PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.
Friends, and Fellow Countrymen,
THE intention of this letter is good, though court sycophants will endeavour to misrepresent it.
The Brunswick Luttrellites of the age (for, by a royal kind of alchymy, they are now joined in name, as well as nature) the Brunswick Luttrellite of the age will condemn an address which deals in plain truth, and wholesome severity, the tribe of Kingsmen will talk of the licentiousness of the press, and affect to despise a paper written in favour of liberty. Your approbation, however, my countrymen, will make ample amends; if you approve, prime ministers and the glittering gewgaws called Kings, may sneer unheeded and despised.
There is a man who once said, he "gloried in the name of Briton;" whether that declaration was not calculated merely to amuse, whether it was not thrown out as a bait to gain the applause of the vulgar, I leave those of my countrymen to determine who have considered the conduct of that man. Is it the act of a Briton to screen murderers from punishment? Is it the act of a Briton to pension braves for killing our countrymen? Is it the act of a Briton to controul the free choice of electors, to bribe a corrupt majority to introduce slavery; and, under a notion of prerogative, to aim at dispensing with the Great Charter, and the laws of England? If these and a multitude of such acts, constitute the character of a Briton, cursed be the man that glories in the name. No, my countrymen, a love of Liberty, an independent spirit, courage, ardour and public virtue, these, mark the man, these point out the Briton; to all such worthies, wherever dispersed, whether in the lordly mansions of the Great, or in the humble cot of Honesty and Temperance, this paper is addressed.
It is the privilege, my countrymen, of freemen, to examine the conduct of their kings, their nobles, their judges, and their representatives. As all power is originally derived from the people, it is their business to see that no improper, no arbitrary use, is made of it. The moment they discover that the persons with whom they have entrusted such a power, aim at curtailing their liberties, that instant the bands of political society are broken, and the people have an undoubted right to call their rulers to a severe account.
The Kings of England stand precisely in this situation; they are merely Dispensers of the Laws, they are themselves bound by the laws, and equally answerable for their misconduct with the meanest subject of their realm. Some of these Kings have forgotten themselves so far, as to attempt to fling away the liberties of Englishmen; in consequence of such attempts, one of them, Charles the first, was tried, found guilty of high treason against the constitution, and justly condemned to lose his empty head for the offence. James the second, intoxicated with vanity, and a dupe to priests, run away to avoid the vengeance which awaited him. His present Majesty's family was promoted from being petty Princes in Germany to the government of these kingdoms; they were well-meaning Protestants, and therefore better calculated than Roman Catholic Princes to govern Protestant dominions, and they were always renowned for virtues of the private kind. There was a spirit and bravery in George the Second, which inclined one to wish for war; that his talents might not be buried in a napkin; and when the Old Man mounted his neighing steed he actually looked like a soldier. Our present monarch is all piety, goodness, temperance, chastity, and so great a foe to irreligion, that he abhors the man who disbelieves the Athanasian
Creed. He is quite orthodox, and therefore all the benedict clergy adore him. In short, he is the very paragon of perfection, and consequently Mansfield, North, Sandwich, Barrington, Holland, Bradshaw and his Majesty's father in-law, Old Simon Luttrell, are all at his devotion. With such a gang of admirers, and a parliament as complying as complying can be, let us take a transient view of the manœuvres of government. The King's parliament is now prorogued, let us see what they have been doing.
The session was opened with a declaration from the throne, that all was peace. North, who is almost as great a coward as Mansfield, hath frequently pronounced, that in his opinion also all was peace. The poor for a long time have been starving; the price of provisions is increased, yet his Majesty's representatives have done nothing to alleviate the distresses of the indigent. The Lord Mayor says, it is not his fault; North is indifferent about the matter, and the King is too much occupied with the more weighty affairs of state, to seek for a remedy. The imprisonment of our magistrates is not touched upon, because that was what might naturally be expected from a ministry, so rigid in their principles, that they spurn at the laws and laugh at public spirit.
A Roman Emperor formerly attempted to invade Britain, his fleet was equipped, he promised his people to perform great feats, he embarked, landed on our coast, ordered his attendants to gather some cockle-shells, and quietly returned to Rome, producing the shells as trophies of his victory and heroic exploits. Our parliament has met; our ministers have promised great things; the summer advances; the parliament is prorogued and nothing done. The Danes have insulted the King's sister, a fleet has been fitted out, countermanded, fitted out and countermanded again. The English minister at Copenhagen has been thanked, but nobody knows for what. The humbug secret is carried on like every other state juggle; the people are not deemed worthy the King's confidence, though each labourer, each peasant contributes to support him and his family. A courier arrives, gallops to St. James's, a banditti, called a cabinet council, is summoned, the courier has an audience, and gallops back to Copenhagen. Whether the nation is insulted is not the question: Whether Britons are despised and maltreated by a handful of foreigners, is not the subject of debate. The grand thing is, how shall we keep this insult a secret from the rabble, the scum of the earth, the People of England; for this Mansfield exercises his cunning; North his obsequiousness; Bute his artifice; and Norton his impudence. The point is carried; the people are kept in the dark; their money is employed in foolish projects; bribes to secrecy and other douceurs; the matter is hushed up; the Queen Matilda one moment is an adulteress, and the next the picture of chastity.
In money matters it has been all cockle-shell work, all trifling. The dastardly minister opens the budget with a subscription and lottery, serviceable to none but his own tools, and supposing a ten years peace, the mission talks of paying off part of the national debt. The parliament, it is true, have passed some road and enclosure Bills, and, as Whitworth, observed, have resolved, that the best season to lay down gravel, or to amend the roads, is in summer. This, perhaps, is the wisest resolution they have entered upon their journals during the session. What, my countrymen, can we call all this but making a pompous parade to gather a few cockle-shells? We speak freely because the press is open, the fiery trial is over, the arbitrary sycophants, with that man at their head, have been defeated, the printers have bravely weathered the
storm, and have made the haven of liberty. Nor does it contradict our assertions, or invalidate our satire, to say that some beneficial acts have passed this session, for what are those acts? Insolvent debtors and bankrupts have been set at liberty; but why? Because they were objects of mercy? No. Because piety reigned at court? No. Because the King feels for the distresses of his people? No. But because a common gaoler, the Marshal of the King's Bench, through his own neglect, suffered many of his prisoners to escape, and to screen him from paying their debts, and prevent his drawing upon the Treasury for the money, an act was framed, by crafty Mansfield, to indemnify his Marshal. To throw dust, however, in the people's eyes, insolvents were relieved, though to save a gaoler was the chief design of the bill.
The Clergy's petition met with a different fate, that was framed upon the principles of freedom, consequently did not succeed; it had respect unto consciences; therefore found few advocates in his Majesty's House of Commons.
These, my countrymen, are the services our Representatives have rendered their country during the session. Whether they deserve our thanks or our censures, let every honest hearted Briton determine; let us, however, my friends, preserve our spirit; let us hold fast our independency, there will come a time when we shall have an opportunity to assert our rights, and severely to punish those who have abused the sacred trust reposed in them by the people.
The age, indeed, is truly vicious; selfishness prevails; corruption stalks forth at noon-day, and patriotism is fled; our virgins put manhood to the blush; our wives riot in debauchery; kept-mistresses are caressed; players and common strumpets set the fashions; our senators nod over cards and dice, revel when awake in the Hundreds of Drury, and are dead to every sense of feeling—but the touch of gold. In short, Vice is a knight companion of the different orders, whilst honest worth and virtue skulk in secret; nor venture to approach the palace, for fear of putting the court out of countenance. Yet, ye patriotic few, despair not; on you depends the preservation of our expiring liberties; cast your eyes on those whom ye think likely to join your efforts; if Wilkes is selfish, and defeats the cause of Freedom, a Saville yet remains; and we never can have reason to lament the loss of Spartan virtue, because in Sawbridge is united the Grecian and Roman patriotism. Let not therefore, my countrymen, the present gloomy state of things dismay you; be prepared, be ready at a moment's warning to assert your rights; too long have we been galled by the yoke of the detestable aristocracy; but the world shall see we can easily shake it off, and that whenever Britons erect the Standard of Liberty, Volunteers will flock to it in MILLIONS.
From the LONDON EVENING POST. To LORD CHATHAM. My Lord;
YOU will forgive the intrusion of a man, who would wish to rouse the sleeping genius of your Lordship into great and noble acts; into acts, which would make your name something more than mortal. If there was not something for the people to grasp at, why should they, through me, address you? Or why claim the exertion of your abilities, but that they know no creature of administration but bends before them? Even Mansfield, the Prince of Evasion, turns pale at the history you shall give; and for why? He knows there is that about you, which serves to annihilate the very seeds of prostitution. Stand forth, my Lord, in the day of adversity, and approve yourself the best and noblest of Senators. Like the old Roman,
if you perish, die exclaiming against the enemies of your country; and route by your fortitude a whole nation, to seek, by repeated complaints, redress for their injured rights and properties. By such a conduct, my Lord, all good men shall applaud you; and the voice of the people, borne down with oppression, starving in a land of luxurious plenty, shall follow you; and I for one, my Lord, will prophecy, that it is not in the power of corruption to prevent your being a conqueror; if your Lordship struggles with true Roman fortitude.
PORTIUS.
PICTURES of the PRESENT TIMES.
 DELUGE of Circulating Paper.  A low Ebb of Real Money.  Waste dissipating Wealth.  Want driving Industry into Exile.  Wisdom in Fetters.  Virtue in Rags.  Presumption in Prosperity.  Prostitution in Triumph.  Justice protecting Villainy.  Religion masking Hypocrisy. And  Power, supplied by Harpies, feeding Corporations with Spoil. 
ANOTHER SKETCH of the TIMES.
 Empty Churches. Crammed Playhouses.  Parsons without Religion. Women without Chastity. The Girls all Boldness. The Men all Effeminacy. Marriage despised. Concubinage gloried in. Cuckolds without Number.  Prostitutes in every Corner of the Town. Patriots without Common Honesty. Officers without Courage. And a Set of Lawyers so destitute of Principle, That they would plead for the Devil.  A Court full of Folly. The Drawing-room of Treachery. Fiddlers caressed. Men of Sense neglected. And the best Encouragement given to Butterfly Catchers.  An Opposition without Meaning. A Ministry without Abilities. And a *** without a HEAD. 
F R I D A Y, September 23. BOSTON.
Farther Intelligence brought by Capt. Adams from London.
LONDON, July 18.
SUNDAY evening one of the students who was lately expelled the University of Oxford, preached a sermon on Hampstead-heath, where, it is computed, about five thousand persons were assembled on the occasion. A company of about two hundred men and women paraded about the town in the afternoon, singing hymns, &c. but were frequently interrupted and insulted by a young fellow, said to be a shopman to a tradesman in Holborn, who was at length seized by the populace, and very severely handled. The whole was a scene of riot and confusion.
We hear that the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has not been a little mortified at being obliged to pay such honours to his Secretary Sir George Macartney, whilst he himself is only considered in the light of a mere state machine.
July 20. It has been humbly represented to the King, that on Tuesday the 26th day of May last, the Prince Ernest Shallop, Michael Cook Master, in the service of his Majesty's Customs at the port of St. Ives, being on a cruise off the Land's End, saw at an anchor off a cove called Port Gwana, in the parish of St. Levan in the county of Cornwall, about two miles from the shore, a large smuggling vessel, about one hundred tons burthen, with one mast, Cutter rigged, an upright stern without a counter, a great rake in her stern, deep waisted, a short mast head, with a vane upon it painted black, her sails white, with three new pieces about ten or twelve feet long each, in the waist of

her mainsail about half way up, and one whole new cloth in the lee of the same sail, had about thirty men on board, and a six-pared boat; which vessel, as soon as the Prince-Ernest appeared, made sail towards her, and, when she came within pistol-shot, began firing upon her with eight carriage guns, and also with swivels loaded with grape shot and balls about four or six pounds weight, and with muskets, which was continued very hot for half an hour, when the Master of the Prince-Ernest, having no great guns or swivels to make any resistance, ran the Shallop as near as he possibly could to the shore, without, stranding her, and there brought her to an anchor, and then he and his crew took to their boat, and got on shore; during which, the said vessel continued firing great guns and small arms at them; and about an hour after they had got on shore, the boat belonging to the aforesaid vessel, with ten men in her, went along side the Prince-Ernest Shallop, cut her cable, and let her drive, the vessel still continued her fire at the Shallop's people on shore; and after the Prince-Ernest had drove out about a quarter of a mile, she was boarded by the people belonging to the smuggling vessel, who hoisted her jib sail, ran her off about a league from the shore, and after plundering her, it is supposed they scuttled her, as she was seen to sink about seven in the evening of the said day.
A large Vessel, unknown, but supposed to be the Jenny, Moffat, from Boston, New-England, to Hull, ran on shore on the rocks of Scilly, in a violent storm on the 28th ult. The ship was dashed to pieces and every one drowned.
Sir Jeffery Amherst is to be appointed Lieutenant General of the Ordnance in the room of General Conway, turned out for voting against the Royal Marriage-Bill.
July 24. Thirty sail of ships are arrived at Amsterdam from Davis's Straits; all of them (except one) have ten fish each.
July 30. Saturday arrived at her moorings, Blackwall, the Ilseworth Float of timber from North-America. This ship, which is built on a new construction, was the invention of a very ingenious gentleman of that country; and it is hoped will greatly tend to the mutual advantage of Great-Britain and her colonies, by the importation of timber from the latter, in a much better manner than heretofore.
Letters from Algiers, dated, June 7, say "The 16th of last month peace was proclaimed between our state and the King of Denmark; the articles of peace are the same as the former."
Advices from Dublin give a melancholy account of a late dreadful fire which broke out on the 15th instant at Drogheda, by which near half the town was destroyed.
The Duke of Gloucester, we are informed is preparing to set out for Paris in consequence of the pressing invitations which his Royal Highness received from one of the Princes of the blood during his late passage through France.
We hear from Copenhagen that his Danish Majesty, accompanied by prince Frederick, was, on the 7th present at the review, of the foot guards, that the Queen Julia Maria sat in a balcony to see them go through their several evolutions; after which the King went to the French Comedy, and the Queen and her son prince Frederick, set off for Fredericksburg.
Our amiable Queen, who is ever delighted in, and setting good examples, has just finished a very curious tambour waistcoat, for the Prince of Wales.
August 3. Governor Wright, of Georgia, we hear, has resigned that employment, and is to be succeeded by Gove. nor Shirley, of the Bahamas, who will be succeeded by some gentleman sent out from England.
Letters from Poland advise, that another large body of Austrian troops had entered that kingdom, and was in march towards Kaminice.
They write from Dantzick, that the King of Prussia has caused an order to be published, prohibiting the wearing of swords by any people but the military.
Letters from Berlin say, "our King is very busy in causing all the towns of any importance in Polish Prussia to be well garrisoned and strongly fortified. A great number of cannon, and military stores, are daily sending from this place to the above country."
August 4. The following Intelligence was yesterday Morning received by a Merchant of this City from his Correspondent at the Hague:
"At a full Assembly of the Senate, Orders were given for the Fleet of six Men of War lying in the Port of Harlem, to sail with all possible Dispatch for the West-lands."
August 5. At a Meeting of the Planters, Merchants and Captains of Ships in the Jamaica Trade, at the London Tavern, it was agreed that unless there was an Addition of 6d. the 100 Wt. to the old Freight of 3/6 upon Sugar brought from Jamaica to Great-Britain, the Navigation between Great-Britain and that Island must gradually diminish. Public Notice of this is given in the London Papers for the Satisfaction of all Parties concerned.
The Bible is translating into the Swedish language under the inspection of a committee of Theologists appointed by the Diet. They are to have certain appointments to be destroyed by a tax of one per cent, on church benefices for the first year, and an half per cent, after that time, till the translation is perfected. Each book to be printed as soon as translated and submitted to public observation.
SATURDAY, September 26. BOSTON.
By a vessel lately arrived at New York from the Isle of May, we learn, that on the night of the 13th of April, a French Indian, from Bourdeaux, of about 400 tons, was cast away upon that island, the vessel entirely lost, but all the cargo saved.
The measles has proved very mortal at Charlestown, South Carolina.
Extract of a Letter, dated London, July 23, 1772, to a Gentleman here.
"The Instructions of your Town cannot be sufficiently admired. They shew a Strength of Argument, a determined Spirit and just Principles, which must forever do you Honor.—I rejoice to see that your new Assembly is firm. You have nothing to trust to but Perseverance, and that must assuredly triumph at last."
SALEM, September 22. This day is the anniversary of the Coronation of his Majesty King GEORGE the third.—Rejoice, O AMERICA, in the Blessings of his AUSPICIOUS Reign—in which your Property is so WISELY, JUSTLY and MERCIFULLY taken Care of by Courts of Admiralty; and in which any Parts of your Estates will be SECURELY and SAFELY given into the Hands of your gracious Sovereign, or his faithful Servants, whenever the COMMON PEOPLE of Great-Britain, by their Representatives, may be so generously disinterested as to make the Grant!
PROVIDENCE, September 19. Monday Night last some evil minded Person or Persons broke the Windows of several Places of Worship at Rehoboth. Particularly at the Reverend Hyde's, and the Reverend Mr. Peck's Meeting Houses, a great Quantity of Glass was destroyed.
CHARLESTOWN [South Carolina] August 24. Advices from North Carolina, of the 15th instant, inform us, that the western parts of that province are not yet brought into a state of order though the spirit of outrage and violence, is pretty well subdued. His Excellency Governor Martin has been for some time past at Hillsborough, on the south-west frontier, where, it is laid, he has received a petition from the excepted regulators, who it is expected, will, on surrendering themselves, be pardoned. His Excellency is indefatigably employed in restoring peace and quiet to that part of the country. The Cape Fear Mercury of the 12th instant says, "in consequence of some instructions, his Excellency our Governor has summoned a Council, the Judges and Attorney General, to meet at Hillsborough the 20th instant."
August 31. The calling the General Assembly of this province to meet at Beaufort, which is upwards of seventy miles from this town, its usual place of meeting, occasions much speculations and room for many conjectures.
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For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. Mr. THOMAS, Please to publish the following, for the inspection of JOHN MARSHAM. The heir myself of heaven-descended FREEDOM I wish the same bright heritage to ALL.
GRANVILLE in Clementina.
SYMPATHY and compassion are feelings, in some degree, common to all mankind; and these are the only Barriers of all the rights of nature; for in proportion as men can rid themselves of these passions, they lose the obligations they are under to their fellow-creatures, and make violence, rapine and oppression familiar to them.
Men who are thus destitute of every tender sentiment, and who have confessedly abandoned all pretensions to humanity, can act amid the scenes of blood and slaughter; and such are they who are the instruments of enslaving our common brethren in nature, the Africans. But they, who write only in vindication of this slavery, are actuated by as many different motives as curiosity, interest and ambition can supply them with. Some with a desire to know what arguments can be brought by the advocates for their freedom; some because the affluence and luxury of their lives depends on their drudgery, and some also to show their own peculiar ingenuity. The last of these I know to be John Marsham's actuating principle. To be thought learned in antiquity, he aduces a long chronological story, which unhappily for him has not the least connection with the subject of his enquiry? And (what will be more mortifying to him) is altogether false and erroneous. I mean therefore, before I enter upon the merits of the question, to show that J. Marsham is totally mistaken in his chronology. Though I confess, as this bears no affinity to the matter in dispute, I ought as a regular disputant, to pay no regard to it; but as he himself has told me, that the sole motive of his engaging in this argument was a desire to be esteemed learned in ancient chronology, it is for that reason I would beg the indulgence of the public, while I answer him according to his folly, least he be wise in his own conceit.
His first quotation is from 9th of Genesis 25, 26. he cites this to prove that the curse, uttered by Noah, relates to "Ham, his second son, and all his posterity for ever." "And here I flatly deny it;" and call on him to read his Bible. The passages he quotes stand thus. "And he said, cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. "And he said, blessed be the Lord of Shem; and CANNAN shall be his servant." On this variation I shall make no comment until I come to the merits; only observing, that if I have cited these passages right, then Marsham's quotation is a perversion of scripture, which must be imputed either to his ignorance of the word of God, or to a wicked intention of "fighting against it." It is hard to say, which of these characters he would give the preference to. He may take which he will. He next says, that "Canaan with his eleven grandsons he left in the possession of Canaan, from the land of Hamath even unto Gaza." I suppose our Chronologist means from Sidon to Gaza, for Hamath and Gaza were both one, being the possession of the youngest of Canaan's sons, the Hamathite, as Sidon was that of the oldest. New Chro. of Egypt. And the passage he quotes stands thus; "From Sidon, as thou camest to Gerar unto Gaza. Ham had no such a son as Mizor as our chronologist supposes; but as he afterwards says, that this "Mizor, sat down at Zoan in the land of Mizraim." I would charitably suppose, he only mistakes the name of Ham's son for that of the soil: For Mizraim, the second son of Noah, after the separation at Babel went down into lower Egypt, and peopled both sides of the Nile: After that the place also was called Mizraim after its founder. New Chro. of Egypt.
Our chronologist (for I make all his quotations his own opinion) then goes on to say, that, "in Egypt he (viz. Ham) was long worshipped under the title of Jupiter Ammon." So far is this from the truth, that Ammon King of Egypt, who was after wards worshipped by the name of Jupiter Ammon, was son and successor to Amosis; and the reason of his being worshipped, as a deity, was, because the long and tedious wars which were carried on by his father Amosis and Grandfather Miphramuthosis against the shepherds, were happily and successfully ended under him, and the monarchy enlarged into a great and extensive Empire; and the Egyptians
disdaining to worship the same Gods with the Shepherds, whom they had conquered, from that time deified their Kings; and these very Shepherds, whom the father and grandfather of Ammon had been so long fighting against, were in all probability, the descendents of Ham and Mizraim. Ibid.
Thus I think I have shewn that all that parade of ancient learning, adduced by Marsham, is a mere bubble of air, and has no foundation in fact or truth. Which convinces us of the truth of Solomon's observation, "the tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright; but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness." But we will not be too severe. Let us see whether he has said any thing at all material. Perhaps his whole writings are meant rather as a burlesque on the subject than any vindication of it.
The Proposition laid down by Marsham is in effect this, that the slavery of Negroes is not repugnant to the natural rights of mankind. To have proved this, in my humble opinion, he ought to have shewn either that the Africans have no natural rights existing, and so could not be injured in that respect; or if they have any, they are of that sort, that seizing on them by force, and snatching them from their country and relations, is no violation of them. But instead of recurring to the common feelings of men, for the proof of natural right or wrong, he refers immediately to scripture, and affirms it to be natural to enslave them, because of divine institution: So that natural law, and the precepts contained in the Bible are with him one and the same; and thence (as what was Law, under the Mosaic dispensation, is not law under the christian) we may infer that what was once naturally right, may not be so always, contrary to the first principle in metaphysics, that the laws of nature are immutable and eternal. But Marsham soon found that nature would give him no aid: And therefore we find him, in his fourth section, directly contradicting what he laid down in his second, as the proposition, which he intended to prove. For says he, in this 4th section "contrary to every principle of human nature, these people are made slaves." Now before, he impliedly told us that he intended to prove, that slavery was not contrary to the natural rights of mankind. Again in his 5th section he says, "I lay it down as a fact, where a whole people have, contrary to the common notions of mankind, been bought and sold as slaves, the cause must be supernatural." Give him rope enough, and he will hang himself.
Well then if we have driven him (or rather if he has driven himself) from the seat of nature, let us follow him to his dernier resort, revelation. He says there was a divine curse pronounced against Ham, and his descendents: This we have shewn to be a direct falsehood, by the same text of scripture which he cited to prove it; and we say the curse as it is there expressed, has no more relation to Ham, or any of his children except Canaan, than it had to the inhabitants of the Moon: So that if the present Africans are the immediate descendents of Ham and Mizraim, as Marsham says is fact, then they are not the people under the curse; even supposing the curse was lasting. Now for a moment we will grant this supposition to be true, that the curse was to remain forever. Yet that it is, notwithstanding a CRIME, to be the instruments of this curse, I would observe, that there is always a distinction made in revelation, between a general fiat or determination of the Deity, and his injunctions upon any particular person or people, to perform a particular act. By this general fiat I mean not the permissive decree so learnedly entered into by Marsham, in his last publication, to no purpose unless to seem learned. I apprehend Divine mean, by this permissive decree, God's necessary prescience of all events, not made known to man: Whereas by a divine fiat, I mean God's indefinite fore ordination of some particular events, revealed to man. The opposite to this is, his will particularly opened to some particular person or people. In this case it becomes a duty to perform the will of God, though contrary to our natural notions of right; in the other it is wicked and unjustifiable. Thus when God enjoined the Israelites to extirpate the people of Canaan, it became their duty to do it, because the divine commands were particularly laid upon them; however abhorrent this command might be to that grand principle in the law of nature, hurt nobody. So also when he commanded Abraham to offer up his son Isaac, it was religion in him to set about it; but had it been left indefinite, who was to have performed it, it would have been unnatural, wicked and ungodly for Abraham to have attempted it; although it had been apparently the design of the Deity that it should be done by somebody. But when God determined that Jesus Christ

should be crucified by the hands of men, this divine institution by no means exculpated the Jewish Centurion and his band, who perpetrated this act; because they were not particularly commanded by heaven to do it. Now let this be applied—for arguments sake it is granted that the posterity of Canaan, or if you will, the present Africans, by the divine sanction given to the words of Noah, were declared to be servants to their brethren forever; yet as this revelation is in nature of a general determination of the Deity, it can never excuse the artifice, rapine and violence made use of to enslave them: Although thereby the "wise reasons" of divinity are answered. For the purposes of God are frequently brought about by the wickedness of men.
These are the consequences, even if we grant the curse of Canaan was to be lasting and durable; but I think it is plain and clear from the words of the curse that it was only temporary and particular; for taking it in its greatest latitude it can only import that Canaan and his children should be made subject to the posterity of Shem or Japheth; and this was effectually done in the performance of God's promise to Abraham, who was an immediate descendent and of the tenth generation from Shem: This promise was, the rooting out of the Canaanites; which answers and compleats all the purposes of the curse, and is the most rational way to account for it. So that after they were driven by Joshua from their native country, which was a curse to them indeed, be their next settlement where it may, either in Africa or America, or be their colour white or black, their features regular or deformed, they became as absolutely entitled to all the privileges, rights and immunities of nature, as any people under heaven.
If these reasonings are conclusive, then Marsham must show, either that it is not contrary to the natural notions of right or wrong to enslave, or must point out some passage in scripture particularly enjoining the people of America to enslave those of Africa, before he can convince them, that it is their duty; but, on the contrary, without an alteration of natural law, or the particular commands of Heaven, every moment that any one retains a freeman of Africa, as his slave, he is not only a destroyer of the natural rights of mankind, but a despiser of the laws of God, and a murderer to his own conscience.
MANE T O.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
Mr. THOMAS,
If you will insert the following in your next, you will oblige one of your female readers,
MARY TRUTH.
SEEING by the papers, that the stretch of prerogative is still carried on, viz in making the Judges independent of the people as well as the Governor, it raised such an Amazonian glow in my breast, that I thought I could be willing to be disrobed of one side, the better to shield my country with the other. When I read the above news, I said in my heart, Is New-England asleep! What, my countrymen, have you no compassion for the partners of your bosoms! No sympathy for the fruit of your loins! that you can suffer one link after another to be fastened to the chains of your slavery, (Isachar like? What! is there not a Barak in the land? Are there no Deborahs to be found amongst us? Arise, my countrymen! consult what is to be done, and the Lord will be with you: O believe his word, when he bids you call upon him in the day of trouble, and he will hear you—Ask wisdom of him, and he will give you liberally, such that all your adversaries shall not be able to gainstay. If you supinely yield to this stretch of tyrannic power, how long will it be, think ye, before you will be ordered to admit a Papist into your Council, and to be your judge? And where is the ruler amongst you that would act the part of Governor Melville, to give up a large income rather than forsake his oath, or break in upon the constitution: I fear my Countrymen, you will find many who would sooner bow, cringe, or even kneel, for a place of profit, than do like that worthy Governor, which noble act will make him honoured and beloved by those who never saw him.
'Tis brave to meet the world, stand fast among Whole crowds, and not be carried in the throng.
But O cursed Idol, Self,— The wretch who worships thee would dare to tread,
With impious feet, on his own father's head, To 'scape a rising wave, when seas the land invade;
To gain the safety of some higher ground, He'd trample down the dyke that fence his country round,
Amidst a general flood, and leave the nation drownd.
Watts on Cowardice and Self-Love.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
To Mr. HUTCHINSON.
SIR,
WHEN any branch of the administration by their conduct manifest that they mean to establish an Interest, distinct from, and opposite to, that of the people, their government becomes a tyranny, for which Charles lost his head. You have been told over and again that you were in pursuit of such a scheme; and now what was ever reasonably supposed being positively confirmed. Do you not fear the people will deal with you in a manner suitable to the merits of your general conduct, and no longer questionable intentions? It is acknowledged that the twentieth part of what has been directed to you under different signatures, addressed to a real constitutional father of this people might with great propriety be called seditious; it is therefore plain that your circumstance alone can warrant a treatment, which your confederate Bernard, considered as an attempt to overthrow the very being of government, and this people seem frankly to acknowledge, that as matters now stand, they would be far from repining at a very material change.
It might be wise in you to consider whether this so much desired REFORM had better flow spontaneously from the parties who have with so much pain endeavoured to seal our destruction, or from the avenging hands of men who consider tyrants as less tolerable in civil society than the most ferocious beasts of prey; and themselves more highly criminal in suffering the former to ravage their country than the latter.
CLERICUS.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
New-London, September 19, 1772.
Mr. THOMAS,
WE have been credibly informed, that a curious discourse was lately delivered in Boston by a certain Small Doctor of Divinity, the extent of whose abilities we in this town are well acquainted with, from these words, Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together. The plain meaning of which, to a common understanding appears to be neither more nor less than this, that Jerusalem was a close-built town. But our puny divine, it seems, with wondrous sagacity discovered a recondite sense in them, namely, that the Parliament of England hath authority to establish articles of faith and to settle every thing relative to divine worship. In consequence of this wise interpretation, he roundly asserted, that whoever should call in question any of their decisions about these matters, was an impertinent—let his character on other accounts be ever so respectable. He very decently intimated to his E—— the G——, that such as come med occasionally were but Hypocrite—But, at the same time, we heard with pleasure, that the Rev. audience, to whom this discourse was principally addressed, expressed their resentment at the affront offered them by so paltry and ridiculous a performance, in their presence.
TO-MORROW MORNING,
At TEN o'Clock,
Will be sold by Public Vendue,
At BOWMAN'S Auction Room,
North side of the Market,
A large assortment of English Goods
Amongst which are,
EIGHTY Pieces of Irish Linens, 25 of which are uncommonly fine, also Broad Cloths, Rattens, Baizes, Frizes, Blankets, Veilveteens, Breeches patterns, Stockings, Calamancoes, Dorsetteens, Irish Camblets, Cambleteens, Camblets, Figured mode, Bedrickens, Checks, Handkerchiefs, paper. Likewise a great Variety of Ship Carpenters, Joiners and Blacksmiths Tools, a Quantity of Sailors wearing apparel, a Quantity of Codlines, &c. &c. &c. To morrow Ten o'Clock.
DUNCAN INGRAHAM, jun.
Acquaints his Friends and the Public of the Arrival of a very Large and Elegant Assortment of
ENGLISH, India and Scotch GOODS,
which are now ready for Sale, at his Shop in Union-Street; opposite Samuel Grant, Esq. and son, where he gives constant Attendance, and will sell Wholesale and Retail as cheap for Cash at any any Store in America.—His Prices will show the Goods well charged, and doubts not of giving satisfaction to all who please to favour him with their custom.
N. B. He has almost every Article usually enquired for in that way.
NATHANIEL GREENOUGH,
Beps leave to acquaint the
WORLD,
That he has just received from LONDON, an elegant Assortment of
Fall and Winter GOODS,
That are now ready for Sale, at his Shop two doors to the northward of the Post Office, just above the Market in Cornhill, Boston, Among which are,
A FINE assortment of superfine middling and low-priced broad cloths, Rattens, Bath and knapt Beaver coatings, Frizes, 8 4ths Lambkins or Coatings, Kerseys, German Serges, embossed ditto, Colchester and Drapery Baizes, Duffles, Shags, striped and rose Blankets, flannels, Milled ditto for Ironing Cloths, Barekins, &c. divers kinds of Woolens, from 13s. 6d. Old Tenor to a Guinea the Yard.
A variety of articles for Men's Women's and Children's Gowns. A large assortment of
IRISH LINENS,
3 4ths, 7 8ths, and Yard-wide, from 7s. Old Tenor, to 45s. the Yard.
The above Articles with a vast many others, too many to be here particularly mentioned, he will sell as cheap, or Cheaper, than can be bought at any Shop or Store on the Continent. The Quality of his Goods and the lowness of his Prices, will abundantly prove it.
N. B. He sincerely thanks his Friends and Customers for their past Favours, and begs they would still continue to lay him under greater Obligations to them by granting him their Custom in future. He shall esteem himself obliged if they will call and view his Goods, that he may have an opportunity of tuting them.
RAPEE SNUFF.
ST. Vincents, Mackaba, and common Rapee, to be sold at GILLESPIE'S Shop, at the sign of the Cross pistols, Boston; where also may be had, best Virginia TOBACCO, exceeding mild pigtail, fine, common, shag and square cut Tobacco, by the dozen.
Some cream coloured WARE, at the sterling and choicest.
To be LET.
A WELL accustomed SHOP and House in Hack-street, at the corner of Prince-street, leading to Charlestown-Ferry, it is a very good place for a Shop-Keeper, Grocer or an Apothecary either of which is very much wanted in that part of the town. To be let separate or together. Enquire of the Printer.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Thursday the 29th of October next at Eleven o'Clock, A. M. (if not before disposed of at private Sale) the following Parcels of Real Estate lying in Gloucester, late the Property of NATHANIEL ALLEN, Esq. viz:
A Mansion HOUSE, Yard and Garden, situated in Forestreet, with a good Well of Water, and other Accommodations, now improved by said Nathaniel Allen, Esq;
A WHARF opposite to the afore-mentioned House 404 Feet in length, with 24 Feet of Flatts on each Side, a large Warehouse in good repair, and other Buildings thereon.
A Piece of LAND lying contiguous to said Wharf, bounded on Forestreet, about 7 Rods in Front and 6 Rods in Rear. Also a Piece of LAND with the Buildings on it, bounded on Middle-street, and Back-street containing about two Acres. The Sale to be on the Premises.
The whole is very well situated for a Gentleman inclining to carry on the Fish Business, and will be sold together, or separately as may suit, and the Terms for Payment will be made easy. Any Persons choosing to purchase at private Sale, may treat with Capt. Jonathan Freeman, at his House in Hanover Street, Boston.
Marblehead, September 20, 1772.
ALL persons that have any demands against the Estate of Capt. ALEXANDER WATTS, late of Marblehead in the county of Essex deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts to RACHEL WATTS, Executrix of the said Alexander's Testament.
And all persons indebted to said Estate are desired to make payment to the said Executrix.
MONDAY, September 28.
BOSTON.
Last Saturday a vessel arrived here from the West-Indies, the master of which informs, that he stopped at St. Lucia, where he was told, that the day before, they had there a very violent gale of wind, in which all the vessels lying in the road were obliged to put to Sea; and that a great number of lives were lost on shore, occasioned by the heavy rains, and the sea breaking in, which overturned and destroyed many of their houses:—The above vessel brought in with them two negro men, which they took off the wreck of a sloop from the Bay of Honduras, the master of which (whose name we have not yet learnt) with the rest of the crew all perished.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in London, August 1, 1772.
"I am very sorry to acquaint you that your G. has carried unaccountably the Salaries of the Judges to be paid independent of the People, which all the World believes must have failed in. The Argument made use of by that Gentleman of the Interest and Safety of the Crown Affairs there, and the Well being of Government in general, were the great Objects that prevailed."
TUESDAY, September 29.
BOSTON.
It is said, That the Earl of Hillsborough had resigned as Secretary of State for the American Department, on Account of the Settlement of a Government at the Ohio; and that Lord Dartmouth succeeds him in that Department.
ARRIVED at London. The Dolly, Cazneau, Union, Peale, the Mortlock, Jones, the Neptune, Deiano, from Boston, Hagman and Kitchingham, from New-England, Shand; Gilbert, and Sheldon, from Rhode Island, Choune from Halifax, Colvill and Rogers, from New-York, Capt from Philadelphia. At Falmouth. The Harriet Packer, Oak, from New-York. Capt. Hall and Capt. Lyde from this Place, were also arrived in London.
WEDNESDAY, September 30.
BOSTON.
It is said that the burning of the Gaspee Schooner at Providence, notwithstanding it was in the colony of Rhode-Island, was much talked of in England.
A number of French chairs and some other cabinet work, imported by the Duke of Gloucester from France, were lately landed in England.
We hear that the inferior clergy, in England, the curates in particular, intend to petition parliament at their next meeting for redress of the many and great oppressions, imposed on them by their Reverend but Egyptian task-masters, who refuse them salaries adequate to their laborious duty.
MARRIED, J. Mr. Thomas Hill, jun. Distiller, to Miss Nancy M'Neil, Daughter of Mr. Archibald M'Neil, of this town.
DIED, M. s. Catherine Cowell, aged 57. Wife of Mr. Cowell. Cooper.—Mrs. Badger, widow.—Mrs. Beehead, Dr. Joseph's late wife, formerly of Charlestown.
THURSDAY October 1.
BOSTON.
Tuesday evening Capt. Reed arrived from Newcastle, he spoke with Capt. Roach, at St. Georges Banks, from Hull, out nine weeks, bound for this port.
Capt. Scott in a brigantine from this port, and bound for Hull, who was supposed to be lost, is arrived at Newcastle.
Mr. Henry Bowers, jun. lately arrived at New-York from London.
NEW-YORK, September 24. With Capt. Chambers from London, came passenger the Rev. Dr. Miles Cooper, President of King's College.
We hear his Majesty has been pleased to appoint the seven oldest Captains, in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, to the Rank of Major, in the Army.
LONDON.
August 6. Universal rejoicings at Lisbon, on account of the death of a Prime Minister.
The whole cargo of a ship from America, with flour to be sent back—as unmerchantable—A French fleet was lost in the East-Indies, on the last of February—An army of 40,000 effective men now in the capital and suburbs of Paris.
Several pieces of Speculation, some Domestic Intelligence, &c. must be deferred for want of room.
ABOUT 70 Tons of Choice clean Chipped LOG-WOOD, free of Slumps, to be sold. Enquire of the printer.

From the OXFORD MAGAZINE.
To the PRINTER.
I HAVE long thought that the rulers in B----n may vie in luxury and debauchery with those of any other kingdom. Who are the greatest drunkards? --- Those at the helm---Who are most addicted to gaming?---Those at the helm---Who set the most glaring examples of adultery, fornication, &c.--- Those at the helm---Who are so regardless of the cries and distresses of the poor as not to endeavour to reduce the extravagant high price of provisions?---Those at the helm.
A N E C D O T E.
AT the rehearsal of one of M. de Voltaire's Tragedies, Mr. Cramer, Bookseller at Geneva, (and Voltaire's own immediate publisher) was finishing his part which was to end with some dying sentences; when Voltaire, all despotick over those he thinks dependents, cries out aloud, "Cramer, you lived like a Prince for the four preceding acts, but at the fifth you die like a Bookseller." Dr. Tronchin the Boerhaave of this age, being present, could not help in kindness interfering; adding withal, "Why Monsr. de Voltaire, can you ever expect to have Gentlemen be at the expence of dresses and the fatigue of getting such long parts, if you thus continue to upbraid them? On the contrary, I think they all deserve the greatest encouragement at your hands; and as to my friend Cramer, I declare, that as far as I am a judge he dies with the same dignity that he lived." Voltaire, who detests advice or being informed by an inferior, (for an Author is, in his eye, beyond even an Æsculapius, were he living) made this cool reply: Pr'ythee, Doctor, when you have got Kings to kill, kill them your own way, let me kill mine as I please."
From the NORTH BRITON.
Extracts from the FREEMOLDER'S Political CATECHISM.
[Continued from No. 79.]
Q. WHO is most likely to take a bribe?
A. He who offers it. Q. Who is likely to be frugal of the people's money. A. He who puts none of it in his own pocket.
Q. You seem by this to be averse from chusing such as accept places and gratuities from the crown. What is your reason for this partiality?
A. I am far from thinking that a man may not serve his king and his country faithfully at the same time. Nay, their interests are inseparable. Mr. Such-an one, my lord's steward, is a very honest man; and yet, if I had any affairs to settle with my lord, I would chuse my neighbour for a referee rather than my lord's steward.
Q. Why is frugality of the people's money so necessary at this time?
A. Because they have run out much, and are still much in debt. My father and I paid our share of many millions, and have heard there are many more to pay. I grudge not this prodigious expence, as far as it has been the necessary price of liberty; but as it would grieve me much to see this blessing ravished from me, which has cost me so dear; so it would give me double grief to have it purchased from me by my own money.
Q. Who are those who are careful of the trade of the nation?
A. Such as are willing to keep it from all vexatious interruptions by inspections, entering into houses, seizures, suits, and the oppression of tax gatherers, as much as possible; such as are willing to take off the burthensome duties which encrease the expence of workmen, and consequently the price of the manufacture.
Q. But as you have a freehold, would you not be willing to be excused from paying three shillings in the pound, by laying excises upon other parts of our consumption?
A. No doubt but every landed man would be glad to be free from paying three shillings in the pound; but, at the same time, I would not raise by another tax, two shillings in the pound, nor one shilling in the pound for a perpetuity; for parliaments who have no more to give, may be disappointed in the redress of their griev-
ances. Then it is utterly impossible to raise by excises what shall be equivalent to three shillings in the pound, without the ruin of trade; for the excises, which are settled already, generally speaking, raise double the duty upon the people, of what they bring into the government.
AT the School in Queen-street, such as incline either to be taught, or to practice, for their amusement or profit, WRITING and ARITHMETICK, may have an opportunity, as a school will be opened therefor on the first Monday in October next at 6 o'Clock P. M. and to continue the usual time and hours, by an assistant (or uther) of one of the public school's. In this attempt, such as are curious may learn, besides the usual hands, Roman and Italian Print, all the black hands, as Old English, German Text, and every other hand even to old Court hand.
As the youth in this first essay for himself is determined to exert every faculty for the good of those who favour him with his tuition, so he hopes by them to lay a foundation for future approbation in the business he is so assiduously devoting himself to, namely that of a Writing-Master. Enquire at said School.
This day was published, price 10d.
A SERMON, preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Mr. SAMUEL NILES, to the pastoral Care of the Church of Christ in Abington.
By EZRA WELD A. M.
Pastor of a Church in Braintree.
Printed and sold by ISAIAH THOMAS, near the Mill-Bridge.
TO be sold for the sterling cost and charges, a quantity of GOODS to the amount of about 100l. sterling, charged, very low, consisting of all sorts of London Sheffield and Birmingham Cutlery, Ironmongers, Founders, Braziers and Pewterers Ware, just imported from London and Bristol in one of the last vessels from London, if it does not suit the purchaser to take the whole at sterling cost, he may take half the assortment at the same rate.
N. B. Bills of Exchange, old Copper, Brass or Pewter, will be taken in part pay, and the pay made easy to the purchaser. The original Invoice to be seen by Enquiring of the Printer.
For Nova-Scotia, (Up the Bay of Funday) To sail in 10 days at farthest The Sloop PEGGY, JAMES BURTON, master For Freight or Passage, apply to WILLIAM M'KEAN, or on board the vessel, lying at Tudor's wharf.
To be SOLD by JOSEPH PALMER & SON, At their Store, at the lower end of King, Street, Boston;
SPERMACETI CANDLES: Also, An Assortment of ENGLISH, SCOTCH and IRISH GOODS.
They have also to sell, at the House of JOSEPH GREENLEAF, Esq; in Hanover Street, near the Orange-tree, A good Assortment of IRISH LINENS. Also, BRISTOL BEER, by the Cask or single dozen.
N. B. The above Goods will be sold Wholesale or retail, for little more than the Sterling Cost and charges.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of JOHN GOULD, Esq; late of Boston, Merchant deceased, are desired to make immediate payment to THOMAS BROWN, Attorney to SARAH TROUTBECK, sole Executrix to the last Will and Testament of the deceased: And all who have demands upon said Estate are desired to bring them in to said Attorney, in order to a speedy settlement.
** The Distilling Business is still carried on, and all the customers of the deceased are invited to apply or send for what Rum &c. they may want occasionally, as they may depend upon being supplied upon the best terms, and with as much care and dispatch as formerly.
WHEREAS, about the latter end of last March, Seven IRON POTS, without any directions, were put on board the Schooner PIERIX, ROBINSON CROCKET, master, bound for Casco-Bay, and as no owner has ever applied for them either here or at Casco-Bay, it is supposed they were put on board by mistake: And on August last Six Bolts of RUSSIA DUCK, were put on board said vessel, in the same manner as the above. The owners of the above mentioned articles, are desired to apply to said master, on board said Schooner, now lying at the Mill-Creek, by which means they may have their POTS and DUCK again, proving their property, and paying charges. Boston, September 10, 1772.
This Day Published, the Second Edition. Price 3s. 4d. neatly bound and lettered.] And Sold by JOHN BOYLES, Printer, next Door to the Three Doves, Marlborough Street; R. DRAPER, Printer in Newbury-Street; EDES and GILL, Printers in Queen-Street; H. KNOX and J. LANGDON, Stationers in Cornhill; and by J. F. CONDY, in Union-Street.
A VINDICATION of the Government of NEW ENGLAND CHURCHES; drawn from Antiquity; the Light of Nature; Holy Scripture; its Noble Nature; and from the Dignity Divine Providence has put upon it. ALSO, The Churches Quarrel Espoused: Or, a Satirical Reply to certain Proposals made, in Answer to this Question,---What further Steps are to be taken that the Council may have due Constitution and Efficacy in Supporting, Preserving, and Well-Ordering the interest of the Churches in the Country? LIKEWISE,
A Platform of Church Discipline: Gathered out of the word of GOD, and agreed upon by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches assembled at Cambridge, 1648.
A Confession of faith, owned and consented unto by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches assembled at Boston, New England, May, 12, 1680.
To which is annexed, An Extract from a Book intitled, NEW-ENGLAND'S LAMENTATIONS, wrote by the Rev. Mr. John White, late Pastor of the first Church in Gloucester; to which is subjoined a Letter by another hand, shewing Reasons for adhering to our Platform as a rule of Church-Government, and objections against Ruling Elders answered.
This Work is so highly approved of by Mankind in general, (and especially by those who are allowed to be the best Judges) that it has gone through two Editions in about 6 Months; and as many Persons were disappointed of a Copy in the former Edition, it is hoped they will not be backward in furnishing themselves therewith in the present. Is Ecclesiastical LIBERTY worth preserving? So are Mr. Wise's Works in Vindication thereof.
SUBSCRIBERS are desired to call or send for their Books to John Boyles, the Publisher.
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 Detritrice, which he has found to be greatly superior not only in elegance, but also in efficacy, to any thing hitherto made use of for complaints of the Teeth and Gums: Particularly they will preserve the Teeth in a perfect sound state, even to old age; they render them white and beautiful, without in the least impairing the enamel; soften such as are loose, keep such as are already decayed from becoming worse, prevent the Tooth-Ach, perfectly cure the Scurvy in the Gums, and make them grow firm and close to the teeth; they likewise render the breath delicate, sweet, and remedy almost all those disorders that are the consequence of scorbutic gums.
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 Irish Linen Store, near the Draw-bridge, Boston, New-England.
To be SOLD on reasonable terms, The following TRACTS of LAND, lying in the county of Lincoln, being part of the real Estate of the late JAMES HALSEY, deceased, viz.
ONE Lot of Land, lying on Jeremy Squam Island, so called, containing 112 acres and 40 rods; one ditto on the east side of Sheepscot River, No. 44, containing 100 acres; one ditto on the same side of said river, Letter U, a choice tract.
ALSO, The following TRACTS of LAND, lying in the Township of New-Boston, in the province of New-Hampshire, viz.
No. 121, one hundred and fifty acres. No. 94, one hundred and fifty acres. No. 64, one hundred and fifty acres. No. 20, one hundred acres. No. 22, fifty acres.
Those who incline to purchase the whole, or any part thereof, by enquiring of the Printer hereof, may receive further information. Likewise, to be SOLD,
A convenient Tenement, at the north part of Boston, having two rooms on a floor, with good water, and a large handsome Yard and Garden spot. Enquire as above.
DANIEL SCOTT, At his Medicine Store the Sign of the Leopard, South End.
TAKES this method of informing all Gentlemen, Ladies, and others, who have had the Misfortune to lose their Teeth, that he still continues the Business of making and fixing artificial Teeth as usual, in so elegant a manner as to be but little inferior to the natural, either in Use or Beauty, as many who have experienced them can testify: Where also any Person afflicted with painful Stumps or unsound Teeth, may have them removed with a peculiar Dexterity and Ease.---And all Persons who have the Scurvy in their Teeth, which threatens their removal though sound, may have them cleaned without hurting the Enamel, or in the least degree impairing them, and may be supplied with his DENTIVM CONSERVATOR, which is an excellent Powder, the best adapted for preserving the Teeth and Gums, and preventing them from Aching, of any Preparation ever offered to the Public: It will cure the Scurvy in the Gums, bring the Teeth to their original Whiteness, and by a continuance of its Use, will Preserve both Teeth and Gums in a pure state during life---It is not pretended that it will perform Impossibilities, that it will make rotten Teeth sound, or will ease them when they violently ach; but it will assuredly preserve those Teeth sound that are so, and cause the Gums to adhere to them and prevent those that are decayed in part, from becoming worse.
At the above Store may be had, Morgan's useful Eye-Water, which has in so many cases been found serviceable, that it must escape the censure of the most critical Oculist---Brigden's famous Bug Liquid, which effectually destroys those hateful Vermine,---be they ever so numerous.---
An assortment of genuine patenteeed 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 Kaff in Salem, and Dummer Jewett, Esq; at Ipswich.
To be SOLD, On board the Brigantine HERMIONE, CHOICE Newcastle COALS. Enquire at PETER HUGHES's Store in King Street.
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 each or Molasses; and as he makes those articles himself, he will warrant them fit for any market.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS,
At the South Corner of MARSHALL'S LANE, leading from the MILE-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. Cullen, Painter, in Charlestown; Mr. J. Hillen, Watchmaker, in Salem; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; and Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater.

WEDNESDAY, October 7. BOSTON.
Yesterday arrived here the Captains Higginson and Cales from London, by whom we have the following
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, August 7.
Letter from Paris, dated July 31, says, "Mons. Pereire who employed himself many years about the art of teaching deaf and dumb persons to speak, and it must be owned, had made great advances in that useful branch of natural knowledge; but the ingenious Abbey de l'Appee brought it quite to perfection. An enquiry has been made into the number of deaf and dumb persons, which amounts to 150 at Paris, and 2250 in the whole kingdom of France."
August 8. An evening paper of last night says that Capt. Jones is respited.
Certain advices are received from Paris, that the French have sustained a loss of eight men at war, several transports, and upwards of 2000 seamen, by the hurricane at the Isle of Bourbon, in the East Indies, in April last.
Aug. 11. By the last advices from Lisbon, we hear, that the court had threatened to arrest and imprison some of the most capital merchants there, for interfering in behalf of their countryman the unfortunate Mr. Connell.
By accounts from Cadiz, we hear, that the Irish regiments of Hibernia and Utonia have lately received orders to march from the interior parts of the kingdom, in order to embark from that port for the Havannah.
Aug. 12. On Saturday night no less than four messengers were dispatched to the continent from the offices of the secretaries of state: One of them is sent to Madrid.
By letters from Alexandria in Egypt, the account of the total defeat of Ali Bey is confirmed in every particular.
Aug. 13. The Russians have formed a squadron of 12 small vessels, which is said to be allotted for an expedition against the Isle of Cyprus and the coast of Syria.
Two regiments of Austrian hussars, and one of infantry, are encamped before Lemberg, and some others are expected, whilst 3000 Russians are in actual possession of the place.
It is said that Polish Prussia will be under foreign dominion next September.
Aug. 14. On Wednesday the Earl of Hillsborough kissed his Majesty's hand on being created an Earl of Great Britain.
Aug. 15. Yesterday, and not before, as mentioned in the morning papers of yesterday, the right hon. Lord Dartmouth kissed his Majesty's hand at St. James's, on being appointed secretary for the business of the American colonies, and a Lord of Trade; in the room of the Earl of Hillsborough; after which his Lordship was sworn of his Majesty's most hon. privy council, and took his place at the board accordingly: His Lordship went afterwards and presided at a board of Trade and Plantations at Whitehall.
We are assured that the Premier has declared that he will neither offer to, nor listen to terms of accommodation for the present, with the leaders in opposition.
The interest of a certain northern nobleman is fallen so low, that the Premier is the present favourite, and acts independently of him.—This is attributed to the death of a certain great lady.
Yesterday morning there was a meeting of the French, Dutch, Russian, and Imperial ambassadors, at the Prince Mazarano's, in Great Ormond-street, Queen square, supposed to take leave of him before his departure.
Patents of creation are preparing for Lord Hillsborough, and also for Lord Bathurst, father of the Lord Chancellor, creating them Earls of this kingdom.
It is now said that Lord Hillsborough is to go to Ireland, as Lord Lieutenant, before the next session of parliament in that kingdom, and that Lord Stormont is to continue ambassador at the Court of Vienna, and Lord Harcourt at Paris.
It is true that the King of Poland wrote a letter with his own hand to his Majesty, supplicating the interference of this court with three great powers, (the Emperor of Germany, the Empress of Russia, and the King of Prussia) respecting their designs on Poland; as his Polish Majesty had reasons to fear that their private intentions were not correspondent to their public avowals.
Letters from Lisbon, by the last mail, say, that the English merchants residing there, are treated in so contemptuous a manner by the Portuguese, that many of them are preparing to leave the place.
SALES by Auction.
TO-MORROW MORNING, At ELEVEN o'Clock, Will be Sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, On Greene's wharf,
A LARGE quantity of Shop Sugars in Hogheads and Barrels. J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
TO-MORROW EVENING, Will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, At the Auction-Room near the Conduit, A Variety of ENGLISH GOODS. The sale to begin at six o'clock.
MARTIN BICKER, Auctioneer.
To be sold at Public Auction, To the highest bidder, On TUESDAY the 13th inst. at One o'clock, at the British Coffee,
A SCHOONER, Forty-five tons burden, a prime sailor, has been always employed in the Cod-fishery, is well found, and now fit for the sea. She is now lying at Wheelwright and Bernard wharf. An Inventory of particulars to be seen at the time of sale.
New Book-Store.
JOHN LANGDON, Opposite Mr. THOMAS LEVERETT's leading to the Market, Informs his friends, and the Public, that he has received in the several last ships from London and Scotland,
A LARGE and Grand Assortment of BOOKS in all Arts and Sciences, which, with his former importations, make as large a collection as is to be found at any Store in America. As he intends for England in the Spring, every Gentleman who may please to favour him with their custom may depend on purchasing at a little more than the sterling cost and charges. The least favours gratefully acknowledged.
THOMAS LEE, Has imported in the last ships from England, and has for sale, at his Store near the Swing-bridge, VERY CHEAP, A LARGE Assortment of Fall and Winter GOODS: Gun-Powder, Shot, Allum, Brimstone, Nails, Glass, &c. &c. Also,
LADIES SILKS, of almost every Kind; Brussels and Mecklin Laces, Gold and Silver Laces, and Buttons, &c. &c. &c.
MARTIN BICKER, Acquaints his Friends and the Public, that he lately received a supply of WINTER GOODS, Which are to be sold by Wholesale or Retail, near the Prime cost. Constant attendance is given at his Auction-Room, near the Conduit, and the smallest favours thankfully acknowledged, Amongst his Goods are,
MIDLING and low priced Broad Cloths, Kerseys, Rariteens, Serges, Half-thicks, Bearskins, Lambkins, Tamies, Gamblets, Gambletcens, Crapes, Calamancos, 3 4ths. 7-8ths. and yard-wide Irish Linen, Bedticks, Breeches Pieces, Hose, Handkerchiefs, &c. &c.
WILLIAM BRECK, At the Golden Key, near the Draw-bridge, Boston, has imported.
A General assortment of HARD WARE GOODS, which will be sold at the lowest rates, by wholesale and retail. *** Brass and iron ware, tin plates, lanthorn leaves, and all sorts of tin ware, may be had at said place, also a few quintals of good table FISH.
ABOUT 70 Tons of Choice clean Chipped LOG-WOOD, free from slumps, to be sold. Enquire of the Printer.
*** W. X. and sundry other pieces, likewise some foreign and domestic intelligence, and a number of advertisements, must be omitted for want of room.
JUST IMPORTED, And to be sold by wholesale or retail, Extremely Cheap for Cash, by JOSHUA BLANCHARD, jun. At his Shop over BLANCHARD'S Wine Cellar, Dock-Square, Boston,
CHOICE Cheshire Cheeses, Gloucester ditto, Bohea and Hyson Tea, English Leaf Sugar, double and treble refined ditto, Nutmegs, Cloves, Mace, Cinnamon, Pepper, Ginger, Currants and Prunes, Best Durham Mustard in pound, half and quarter pound Bottles, best Florence Oil in uncommon large Flasks, Brimstone, Alum, Copperas, Salt Petre, Split Pease, 15 and 18 Inch TD Pipes, large Bowl Hunters ditto, Painters Oil and colours, Leaf Gold, Sieve Bottoms, No. 4 and 12 Pins, English Sole Leather, Osnaburgs, Ravens Duck, Gun-Powder in half Barrels and quarter Barrels, Shot of all Sizes, Bar Lead, large and small Slates, Playing Cards; a neat assortment of cream coloured and glass ware, sewing twine, &c. A L S O,
Brown Sugars of various sorts, Coffee, Cocoa, Chocolate, Cotton, Indigo, Snuff, Redwood, Logwood, new Flour, choice Dumb Fish, &c.
N. B. All sorts of Wines, West-India and New England Rum, Brandy, Jamaica Spirits, &c. sold at the above said Cellar as usual.
THE Subscriber informs the gentlemen and ladies in town, that he proposes to open an ENGLISH GRAMMAR-SCHOOL for the instruction of youth, in a house adjoining to the Treasurer's office; now improved by Mr. Greenleaf.
From eight o'clock to eleven in the morning, and from two to five in the afternoon, he will teach reading and English grammar; and from eleven to twelve in the morning, and from five to six in the afternoon, will teach writing, arithmetic, English grammar, logic, composition and elegant letter writing on business, Friendship, &c. Price fifteen shilling per quarter. No fire money nor entrance will be required.
As many gentlemen have recommended such a school, as being much wanted in the town, and encouraged the subscriber to open one; he hopes for the double satisfaction of promoting the public interest and his own.
As he has spent many years in teaching youth, he apprehends, by the application of the rules which he has collected from observation and experience, he can learn children to read in less than half the time they commonly spend in learning; and in a short time correct a bad pronunciation, which they often contract, and if not early corrected becomes habitual, and is a lasting blemish to their reading or discourse.
The knowledge of English-grammar, logic and composition, is so essential in education, that no person can make any figure in the lettered world without it; therefore it must be a great advantage to all who have not had a polite education, to acquire those parts of learning. Young masters and misses who are arrived to years of understanding, may acquire a sufficient knowledge in grammar and composition in a short time.
Gentlemen and ladies, who incline to send their children to the school above mentioned, are desired to engage them soon, and leave their names with the subscriber at his lodgings, Mrs. Holbrook's, near the common.
JOSEPH WARD.
Boston, October 5. 1772. N. B. As a number of children have been engaged since writing the above, the school will be opened next Monday.
If a sufficient number should offer, for an evening school, to be instructed in any of the above mentioned branches of learning, the school will be kept Monday and Wednesday Evenings.
THURSDAY October 8. BOSTON.
At the training on Tuesday at Cambridge, a young man, named Richardson, belonging to the artillery company, having a number of cartridges, &c. in his pocket, they by some means took fire, which hurt him in so terrible a manner that his life is despaired of.
Capt. Thomas, from a whaling voyage, in lat. 41. 5 N. long. 52. 20. spoke with the ship Sampson, Henry Coupar, commander, from New-York bound for London, on the 31st of August last, all well on board. And on the 20th of September last, spoke with the schooner Friendship, Thomas Vezier, master, five days out from this port, bound for Newfoundland, all well on board.
ARRIVED here. Davis from Turks-Islands; Reed from Newcastle; Pote from Bristol; — from whaling; — Davis from Turks-Islands; Cordis from Cape
Nicholas Higginson and Cales from London; Brown from Bristol.
Capt. Cazneau is next expected from London.
BASSETERRE, [St. Christopher] September 2. No state, though ever so happily circumstanced, can promise itself duration of felicity. We may flatter ourselves, indeed, but vain is that flattery if the hand of providence interferes to blast our hopes. We mentioned in our last, that when the paper went to press a gale of wind continued, and that evening several vessels were drove ashore, viz. a sloop belonging to Mr. Satterthwaite was stranded near Londonderry fort, one of Mr. Corlet's, and another of Mr. Reaps of Nevis, at the salt ponds, with all the hulk; three others at Sandy point, yet still the measure of our woes was not full, that dreadful event was reserved for Monday the last day of August. Words are too faint to paint the horrors of that day! The hurricane began about nine o'clock in the morning, and continued with unremitting fury, almost north, until eleven; in which time about forty houses were levelled with the ground, and the helpless inhabitants beyond expression wretched: horror and dismay seized all ranks and conditions, and destruction seemed suspended by a thread over the heads of all. The new Court House was rent in ten thousand pieces, and hardly left the foundation standing. Some part of the roof of the church carried away; the roofs of the houses of Misses Henderson and Murray, and Mr. Stary and Sanderson's were carried bodily into the streets. The largest tamarind trees were torn up by the roots, and removed to considerable distances from the places where they grew. By this storm upwards of forty houses, besides out offices, inclosures, negro houses, &c. &c. were thrown down. Mr. Rawlin's and Mr. Beach's houses on the hills were demolished, and all the vessels in the road drifted to sea. About twelve the storm began again from the southward, with redoubled vigour, and proved by far more dreadful than before. The vessels were all drove back again and wrecked. It is impossible for us to give a just account of this terrible visitation of providence in this day's paper, our accounts being too imperfect to be relied on; for, as we mean to be as circumstanced as possible in the accounts, we shall give of this ruinous disaster, we shall suspend the particulars till we are better informed: as to generals we shall at present only observe, that Richard Matthews Esq. (some say Mr. James Matthews,) Mrs. Brown, near Sandy Bay, Mr. Gaitwood, and Mrs. Thomas Reist of the late Mr. Isaac Thomas, were all killed by the fall of the house where they were; that the church of Cayon has not one stone upon another; that Nicholas town church is in the same situation; that every house in Deep Bay is totally destroyed; that not more than ten houses remain up in Sandy Point; that all the buildings in Charles Fort are laid smacks smooth with the ground; that Old Road is one continued wreck; that Basseterre has lost about one hundred houses; that there are not ten negro houses left in the whole island; that most of the wind mills, at least in the Basseterre quarter, have had their round houses carried away; and the next year's crop will at least fall short fourteen or fifteen thousand hogheads of sugar. Yet amidst this general detail we must beg leave to introduce to the readers attent a on two cases most distressfully circumstanced; we mean that of Mrs. Bibby in Irish town, and Mr. John Fahy, junior. The first, a widow, and her daughters, young ladies of reputation, had their house in an instant reduced to atoms, and their wearing apparel whirled into the air, inasmuch as to leave them destitute of a second suit; but though their loss does not amount to a half of the tythe of what others have sustained, yet they have lost their ALL; and the reader must observe they have neither husband, father, or brother, to protect them. With regard to Mr. Fahy, most of what he had in the world was centred in his tavern. His large flock of liquors, his household furniture, and his books, are inevitably lost; and so sudden was the fall of his house that he had scarce time to remove his wife and daughter, before the walls gave way, and crushed all within them to shivers. It is said that the damage sustained in the single parish of Cayon, amounts to more than two hundred thousand pounds sterling exclusive of the crop; and some are of opinion the general loss is more than a million.
NEWPORT September 23. We hear the last snow, St. Catherine's, has been met with at a since fire was quitted by her crew, and stripped of her shrouds, by a whaleman.
LIST of LEADERS remaining in the Post Office, will be in our next.

[The following is inserted by particular desire.]
Copy of a letter to the officers of ministerial tax, in
GENTLEMEN,
IT is not less than twelve years since I have known this sort of collection, when taken from men contrary to their will and conscience, to be oppression and sacrilege, which oppression I have so long suffered, notwithstanding I have borne testimony against the unreasonableness and injustice thereof.
Last year I applied to some of the assessors, and requested that I might be free from this oppression. I had no reason given of the justice or equity of the demand, but was told the law required and they were under oath to assess me in that manner; but I could get no satisfaction that this law was made, or this oath taken upon just ground, or with a very good conscience.
I would intreat you, Sirs, to consider the presumption, danger, and evil consequences of a law made by any other than a divine authority, to direct, order and maintain the worship of God. Does it not stand as fair to maintain any idolatrous worship which the major part of the community shall look upon to be right, as it does the only true worship for which it was pretended to be made? Nay, the very making such laws, where the divine revelation is professed to be believed, is a great step towards idolatry, and is departing from the true worship, and is denying, rejecting and counteracting the sovereign authority and government of him whose worship they pretend to maintain, and so stands as a bar against any true reformation.
What has been the effects of all the laws of this kind made in all ages? Has it not been the persecution, bloodshed and martyrdom of those who worshipped the true God and would acknowledge no other than his authority sufficient to direct in matters respecting his worship? Was it not such laws that obliged our fore-fathers, the first settlers of New-England, to leave their native land? And did they not with satisfaction and delight encounter and go through the great outward difficulties of settling here for the sake of having liberty to worship God according to his own will manifested to them in his word and in their consciences? And ought it not to be for a lamentation that when another generation arose, they did not look upon it that the law of God was sufficient to direct, order and maintain his worship? I refer to that shameful and self-inconsistent act made at Boston, in the fourth year of King William and Queen Mary, (1692) intitled, an act for settlement and support of ministers, wherein after many and grievous impositions, in which neither the word of God nor the consciences of men are permitted to dictate, it is wrapt up and covered by way of flattery, and in direct contradiction to the former part of the act, in these words, "the respective churches in the several towns within this province, shall at all times hereafter, use, exercise and enjoy all their privileges and freedoms respecting divine worship, church order and discipline."
I would ask what the churches privileges and freedoms are, and why they may not have the freedom to pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers into his harvest, and why they may not have the privilege to wait upon him to send such in his own time, without being driven along and forced by order, warrant and taxes, into subjection to that authority which has usurped the place of their divine head and law-giver.
Now, Sirs, if instead of your exactions upon me to maintain what you call the worship of God, you would tell me of a place upon earth, where the true worship of God is upheld and maintained, where the divine presence, good-will and approbation are manifest, I would gladly repair to that place and devote the little I am, and have, to the benefit of the true worshippers; it is what I have long been seeking, and what I shall be glad to find.
If you cannot tell this, will a law made to impose a form of religion upon God's people, or an oath taken to maintain it by oppression, be a covering broad enough to wrap yourselves in? Or will it serve for a bed in which your consciences can long sleep?
I beg your patience. How has the God of Israel rewarded the General Assembly of this province, for affording him their aid and assistance in making laws to order and maintain his worship? Has he not contended with them by fire and sword? Has not the house of their assembly no less than three times been consumed by fire, and many other remarkable calamities we have suffered? Are not the representatives of the province at present in a great measure deprived of their power and influence, even in disposing of worldly affairs? And is not the authority that is exercised in the province prostituted to cover blood and to oppress the people? Would it not have been as well if the civil authority had taken care of their own affairs and submitted to the divine precepts for direction in divine worship? And how can you expect, Sirs, that things will be better? Or how can you, with any face, look for redress of grievances, or that liberty will flourish in New-England, while you, under the influence of such impositions (and perhaps too with a thought of doing God service) are depriving your neighbours of the liberty of disposing of what they have for the advancement of religion and godliness, according to the dictates of their own consciences and the disposition of their own wills? I cannot expect, Sirs, any longer to be deprived of this liberty, not do I think you will blame me for not being so unmanly and servile as meanly to subject myself to such impositions, which are offered in the face of all godliness and humanity. So leaving it to an impartial judgment, pray that you would exercise a conscience void of offence towards God and towards man, that you may enjoy the blessing that I with you, which is peace and prosperity in this world and joy and happiness in that to come. Sirs, in all reasonable service and demand I am yours to serve,
January 1st, 1772. P. S. I hope Sirs, you will take it favourably that I have spoken something plain in this address; I could not otherwise answer a good conscience, nor would it be likely to answer the desired end, which is reformation, in which every one's interest is concerned and which must certainly take place if ever we would enjoy the divine blessing or the benefit of social communion one with another. If you find any thing contrary to truth and equity, please to let me have opportunity to answer it and acknowledge my weakness.
NATHANIEL GREENOUGH, Begs leave to acquaint the WORLD, That he has just received from LONDON, an elegant Assortment of Fall and Winter GOODS, That are now ready for Sale, at his shop two doors to the northward of the Post-Office, just above the Market in Cornhill, Boston, Among which are,
A FINE assortment of superfine middling and low-prized broad cloths, Ratteens, Bath and knapt Beaver coatings, Frizes, 8-4ths Lambskins or Coatings, Kersies, German Serges, embossed ditto, Colchester and Drapery Baizes, Duffels, Shags, striped and rose Blankets, flannels, Milled ditto for Ironing Cloths, Barekins, &c. divers kinds of Woollens, from 13s. 6d. Old Penor to a Guinea the Yard.
A variety of articles for Men's Women's and Children's Gowns. A large assortment of
IRISH LINENS 3-4ths, 7-8ths, and Yard wide, from 7s. Old Penor, to 45s. the Yard.
The above Articles with a vast many others, too many to be here particularly mentioned, he will sell as cheap, or cheaper, than can be bought at any Shop or Store on the Continent. The Quality of his Goods and the lowness of his Prices, will abundantly prove it.
N. B. He sincerely thanks his Friends and Customers for their past Favours, and begs they would still continue to lay him under greater Obligations to them by granting him their Custom in future. He shall esteem himself obliged if they will call and view his Goods, that he may have an opportunity of serving them.
DUNCAN INGRAHAM, jun. Acquaints his Friends and the Public of the Arrival of a very Large and Elegant Assortment of
ENGLISH, India and Scotch GOODS. which are now ready for Sale, at his Shop in Union-Street; opposite Samuel Grant, Esq; and son, where he gives constant Attendance, and will sell Wholesale and Retail as cheap for Cash at any any Store in America.—His Prices will show the Goods well charged, and doubts not of giving satisfaction to all who please to favour him with their custom.
N. B. He has almost every Article usually enquired for in that way.
RAPEE SNUFFE. ST. Vincents, Mackaba, and common Rapee, to be sold at GILLESPIE'S Shop, at the sign of the Cross pistols, Boston; where also may be had, best Virginia TOBACCO, exceeding mild pigtail, fine, common, shag and square cut Tobacco, by the dozen.
Some cream coloured WARE, at the sterling cost and charges.
To be LET. A WELL accustomed SHOP and House in Back-street, at the corner of Prince-street, leading to Charlestown-Ferry, it is a very good place for a Shop-Keeper, Grocer or an Apothecary either of which is very much wanted in that part of the town. To be let separate or together. Enquire of the Printer.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue, On Thursday the 29th of October inst. at Eleven o'Clock, A. M. (if not before disposed of at private Sale) the following Parcels of Real Estate lying in Gloucester, late the Property of NATHANIEL ALLEN, Esq; viz.
A Mansion HOUSE, Yard and Garden, situated in Forestreet, with a good Well of Water, and other Accommodations, now improved by said Nathaniel Allen, Esq;
A WHARF opposite to the aforementioned House 40+ Feet in length, with 24 Feet of Flats on each Side, a large Warehouse in good repair, and other Buildings thereon.
A Piece of LAND lying contiguous to said Wharf, bounded on Forestreet, about 7 Rods in Front and 6 Rods in Rear.
Also a Piece of LAND with the Buildings on it, bounded on Middle-street, and Back-street containing about two Acres. The Sale to be on the Premises.
The whole is very well situated for a Gentleman inclining to carry on the Fish Business, and will be sold together, or separately as may suit, and the terms for Payment will be made easy. Any Persons choosing to purchase at private Sale, may treat with Capt. Jonathan Freeman, at his House in Hanover-street, Boston.
Marblehead, September 20, 1772. ALL persons that have any demands against the Estate of Capt. ALEXANDER WATTS, late of Marblehead in the county of Essex deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts to RACHEL WATTS, Executrix of the said Alexander's Testament.
And all persons indebted to said Estate are desired to make payment to the said Executrix.
WHEREAS, about the latter end of last March, Seven IRON POTS, without any directions, were put on board the Schooner PHOENIX, ROBINSON CROCKET, master, bound for Casco-Bay, and as no owner has ever applied for them either here or at Casco-Bay, it is supposed they were put on board by mistake: And on August last Six B. bits of RUSSIA DUCK, were put on board said vessel, in the same manner as the above. The owners of the above mentioned articles, are desired to apply to said master, on board said Schooner, now lying at the Mill-Creek, by which means they may have their POTs and DUCK again, proving their property, and paying charges.
Boston, September 10, 1772.
This Day Published, the Second Edition. Price 3. 4d. neatly bound and lettered And Sold by JOHN BOYLES, Printer, next Door to the three Doves, Marlborough Street; R. DRAPER, Printer in Newbury-Street; EDES and GILL, Printers in Queen-Street; H. KNOX and J. LANGDON, Stationers in Cornhill; and by J. F. CONDY, in Union-Street.
A VINDICATION of the Government of NEW-ENGLAND CHURCHES; drawn from Antiquity; the Light of Nature; Holy Scripture; its Noble Nature; and from the Dignity Divine Providence has put upon it. Also, The Churches Quarrel Espoused: Or, a Satirical Reply to certain Proposals made, in Answer to this Question,—What further Steps are to be taken that the Council may have due Constitution and Efficacy in Supporting, Preserving, and Well-Ordering the interest of the Churches in the Country? LIKEWISE,
A Platform of Church Discipline: Gathered out of the word of GOD, and agreed upon by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches assembled at Cambridge, 1748. AND, A Confession of faith, owned and consented unto by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches assembled at Boston, New England, May, 2. 1680.
To which is annexed, An Extract from a Book intitled, NEW ENGLAND'S LAMENTATIONS, wrote by the R. v. M c JOHN WHITE, late Pastor of the first Church in Gloucester; to which is subjoined a Letter by another hand, showing Reasons for adhering to our Platform as a rule of Church Government, and objections against Ruling Elders answered.
This Work is so highly approved of by Mankind in general, (and especially by those who are allowed to be the best Judges) that it has gone through two Editions in about 6 Months; and as many Persons were disappointed of a Copy in the former Edition, it is hoped they will not be backward in furnishing themselves therewith in the present. Is Ecclesiastical LIBERTY worth preserving? So are Mr. Wite's Works in Vindication thereof. SUBSCRIBERS are desired to call or send for their Books to John Boyles, the Publisher.
AT the School in Queen-street, such as incline either to be taught, or to practice, for their amusement or profit, WRITING and ARITHMETICK, may have an opportunity, as a school will be opened therefor on the first Monday in October next at 6 o'Clock P. M. and to continue the usual time and hours, by an assistant (or uisher) of one of the public schools.—In this attempt, such as are curious may learn, besides the usual hands, Roman and Italian Print, all the black hands, as Old English, German Text, and every other hand even to old Court-hand.
As the youth in this his effort for himself is determined to exert every faculty for the good of those who favour him with his tuition, so he hopes by them to lay a foundation for future approbation in the business he is so assiduously devoting himself to, namely that of a Writing-Master. Enquire at said School.
This day was published, price 10d. A SERMON, preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Mr. SAMUEL NILES, to the pastoral Care of the Church of Christ in Abington.
By EZRA WELD, A. M. Pastor of a Church in Braintree. Printed and sold by ISAIAH THOMAS, near the Mill-Bridge.
TO be sold for the sterling cost and charges, a quantity of GOODS to the amount of about 100l. sterling, charged very low, consisting of all sorts of London, Sheffield and Birmingham Cutlery, Ironmongers, Founders, Braziers and Pewterers Ware, just imported from London and Bristol in one of the last vessels from London, if it does not suit the purchaser to take the whole at sterling cost, he may take half the assortment at the same rate.
N. B. Bills of Exchange, old Copper, Brass or Pewter, will be taken in part pay, and the pay made easy to the purchaser. The original Invoice to be seen by Enquiring of the Printer.
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. Hill, Chairmaker, in Salem; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; and Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater.