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THE Massachusetts Spy
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER:--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
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VOL. I.]
THURSDAY, August 1, 1771.
[NUMB. 22.]
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. To his Excellency WILLIAM TRYON. CONSIDERATIONS Sir!
IN this era of excessive loyalty you will not be surprised that addresses replete with such sentiments as your unparalleled behaviour most naturally inspires, pour in upon you from all quarters.
The present address from the metropolis of the British American empire, cannot fail to gratify your highest ambition, as it means sincerely to declare the estimation in which you are held in this and the sister colonies in New-England. And,
1. We cannot sufficiently admire your political address in moulding the whole legislative and executive bodies of North-Carolina so exactly to your wish, that notwithstanding the extreme poverty of that infant and miserable colony, they have rendered you the possessor of the first temporal PALACE, ever heard of in North-America.
2. We equally venerate your gratitude and justice, to those your chosen friends, and instruments, in the encouragement, assistance and protection you afforded to them all and singular, in every species of oppression, robbery and litigious vexation, with which they were graciously pleased to visit the poor ignorant back settlers of your government, undoubtedly created for no other end than to labour for you and your numerous banditti of scoundrels, justly reputed the dregs of the human species.
3. Nor does your senatorial, come a whit short of your political character, in our esteem. How necessary was that notable act of Assembly passed by yourself, your tools and creatures, to make opposition to your unutterable tyranny and undisguised villainy, high-treason, and punishable accordingly! Your patriotism will surely be handed down unrivaled to future ages, for the wise and worthy steps you have taken, to quell those dangerous and rebellious insurgents, only by the laws and arms of 'their own country'.
4. But as if these were wanting a fourth degree of comparison or super-superlative manner of expressing our amazement, we are astonished almost into silence on the contemplation of your military firmness, resolution, and address!!! Who but yourself could have fleeced his heart against every proposal of accommodation, which, the remotest respect to any thing reasonable could suggest, and insisted to the last, that the only terms you had to afford, were a gibbet, a butcher's knife, and a fire? Who could have resolved with half the number of meer mercenaries to fight an army of desperate men drove to the last extremity, and who but the adroit General Tryon could have contrived to get the 'heads of the faction', in a huddle together, and then pour in the most dreadful fire, from every piece that could be brought to bear upon them, and afterwards order the composu of his Te Deum to ascribe the effects of his infernal perfidy to the special interposition of divine providence!
Ages unborn, believe me, Sir, will recount these several extraordinary emanations of your uncommon capacity, in civil, social, military and religious life, with an emotion, which no Marius, Sylla, Cæsar, or even Pontius Pilate, could ever raise; and to conclude, permit me, great Sir, to assure you that it is the ardent wish of tens of thousands, that your royal master may be minutely informed of all your mighty deeds, and led into a thorough acquaintance with the ge-
* A favourite expression of your brother Bernard.
nerous, humane and benevolent principles, from whence they flowed, that at length one of his servants at least may be rewarded according to his works! In which, no one individual more affectionately conspires, than the unmovably loyal
LEON'DAS.
P. S. I would fondly know on what chosen Elisha your mantle has fallen, whose tender mercy allows Regulators the mild alternative of 500 lashes, or perpetual slavery. A warning this I confess to all future Regulators of what they may expect from the humane disposition of Stuartizing Loyalists!
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
THE culture of Arts and Manufactures, &c. has the most direct tendency to make a community rich, and riches have a natural tendency to make them independent: What an amazing odds has the vast quantities of pot and pearl ash made in the ballance of trade between us and England, within a few years past.
Not less considerable would the culture of Silk be in a few years: There is no branch of business that promises such vast advantages as this; Mulberry-trees are more easily raised than any other trees whatsoever, their growth is very quick, their fruit valuable for poultry and hogs. At a moderate computation, one acre of Mulberry-trees in seven years from the seed would produce a neat profit of at least an hundred pounds sterling per annum. The late ingenious Dr. Jared Elliot, has informed us, that a yard square of silk may be made with less expence than a yard square of linen cloth, and this may easily be demonstrated; for when the trees are once planted there is nothing more to be done but to inclose them, and keep them from being destroyed; the lame, the halt, and almost the blind, old persons, and small children, who can do no other business, may tend them.
Much may be done in this town, even now from the few trees which are growing in gentlemen's gardens. That this is not mere amusement, will appear to any one who will call upon Mr. Joseph Belknap, in Anne-street, where they may now see the silk worms in every part of the process. This gentleman has lately made twenty yards of silk-camlet, and is now clothed with silk raised in his own house, but of this more hereafter.
P. S. Mulberry trees may be had of Lieut. Johnson, in Bridgewater, for about one penny a piece, the fall is the best time to transplant them. Six weeks attendance is all the worms require, in that time the whole process is finished.
LONDON, MAY 16. Lord CHATHAM'S SPEECH in Support of the Duke of RICHMOND'S Motion.
My Lords. THE present question has been so frequently agitated, and is so perfectly understood, that it may seem superfluous to enter into the discussion of it on this occasion. The public has certainly formed its opinion, and condemned the decision of the two Houses. That circumstance alone is to me a sufficient motive for refreshing your memories, and for making one attempt more to procure justice to the injured electors of Great-Britain.
It will be said, that this step will create divisions between the two Houses, at a time which calls for the most perfect unanimity. Unanimity in the two Houses is certainly very commendable, when both adhere to the principles of the constitution; but in the case of the Middlesex Election, the commons have daringly violated the laws of the land; and
it becomes us not to remain tame spectators of such a deed, if we would not be deemed accessory to their guilt, if we would not be branded with treason to our country, which now loudly calls for our assistance. Remove but this resolution, which my noble friend has demonstrated to be unconstitutional and absurd; and we have an undoubted right to take this step. We have precedent on our side. Our forefathers exercised this right in the case of Ashby and White, and received the applause of the whole nation. It is ridiculous to pretend that, by this act, we will commit a breach of privilege. The Commons can have no privilege, by which they are authorised to break the laws.
Whenever they forget themselves, and commit such outrage, we must step forward, and check their usurpation. Their jurisdiction can in no instance be so competent, final, and conclusive, as to prevent us from exerting ourselves in support of the constitution. We are the natural, the constitutional balance to their encroachments. If this be not the case, why, in the name of wonder, were the three estates constituted? Why is our concurrence necessary to establish the validity of statutes? This point is so evident, that it may be left to the decision of the rawest school-boy. If then we must concern ourselves in the making of every law, how much more are we bound to interest ourselves in preserving the very essence of the constitution, in preserving that right which is antecedent to all laws, the right of election? But Lord Middlesex and Lord Bacon were expelled and incapacitated by this House without any opposition from the other branches of the legislature. They were so: but both were cases that only respected themselves, and consequently could not, with any propriety, come under the consideration of any other branch. In the case of Wilkes, I do not complain so much of the personal injury, as the violation of the rights of the people, who are grossly abused and betrayed by their representatives. The cases then being as widely different as North and South, the argument founded on them becomes utterly inconclusive. But let us allow you a succedaneum to your argument; let us suppose that the authority which gives a seat to a Peer, is as respectable as that which confers it on a commoner, and that both authorities are equally affronted by expulsion and incapacitation. Yet still the comparison will not hold; since these Lords received no fresh title by birth or patent, and therefore could not claim a seat after the first expulsion. Wilkes may, perhaps, complain that he was unjustly expelled, but the chief subject of the nation's complaint is, that he was rejected after his re-election. Had not this event taken place, prescription might have rendered the first expulsion valid. If you ask, who should be more tenacious then the commons themselves of their privileges? I answer, that none should be so ready to protect them; and it is sincerely to be lamented, that, by their recent conduct, they have so far forgot their duty, as to add to the long list of venality, from Esau down to the present day; though if we consider matters in their true light, it is the privileges of their constituents that they have betrayed. Having now set up a separate and independent authority, they would acquire, and you would grant them, a new privilege, that of selling their constituents. If you desire to know how this doctrine came to be broached, I must beg leave to acquaint you, that it is as old, nay older than the constitution; the liberty of the people being the first thing for which provision is made in the original institution of government. Though in the case of Wilkes, we have not many instances to prove the contested right, yet it is by
no means the less constitutional; nay it is the more so, that there are no parallel cases in our history; as this circumstance proves that it was never before questioned. The infrequency of the phenomenon may, indeed, like a comet in the firmament, dazzle the vulgar and untutored; but the statesman, versed in political science, it affects no more than the common appearance, its course being equally simple and intelligible. Some have attempted to be very exact in calculating the proportion which the petitioners bear those who have remained quiet; but they have been unfortunate in one circumstance, of which the omission overturns their whole system. They have compared the number of counties, not the number of their inhabitants. They forgot that they are not all equally populous, that the fifteen petitioning counties contain more people than all the rest of the kingdom, as they pay infinitely more land tax. And were they not the more numerous of the two parties, yet the superiority of their wealth entitles them to more consideration than the other counties; for the share of the national burdens, which any part of the kingdom bears is the only rule by which we can judge of the weight that it ought to have in the political balance. This reasoning is founded on the supposition that they entertain sentiments different from one another. But who does not see that they only wanted leaders to rouse them to action: were the case otherwise, leaders were not wanting to excite them to present addresses; and they would certainly have presented them, had they disapproved of the petitions. After considering the vast influence of the crown, we may be justly surprised that fifteen counties had the virtue to assert their rights, and the remainder, independance enough not to counteract them. But, were the majority clearly on your side, you ought to remember that numbers do not constitute right, and that, if no more than one had petitioned, that one ought to be heard, and to have his cause tried, and adjudged by the laws of the land.
This much I thought necessary to say on this head, in order to shew you the necessity of rescinding the resolution on which the present motion is founded. Till it is complied with, we can take no step towards the removal of the present discontents; and I should imagine that this single consideration would be sufficient to induce all honest men to vote for the noble Lord's proposition.
May 14. Yesterday a remarkable cause was determined in the King's Bench in favour of a merchant, who had demands on a person protected by a foreign Ambassador, that person not being a real servant brought over with the Ambassador, but having since procured his protection. Of all the causes determined in law within these 20 years, perhaps no one is of more importance than the present, hardly excepting that of general warrants. The power of defrauding the English in this and many other cases, is too frequently lodged in the hands of foreigners, but it is hoped there never will be wanting men of spirit to assert their rights; and that this check, and a former one in the year 1754, when B---ti's protection was taken off by an Englishman's application, will shew that Foreigners can never hurt us with impunity.
There is a person now in Holland, who is coming over to England, possessed of a very extraordinary method of manufacturing silk, which by an art only known to himself, and in places properly prepared for that purpose, he can multiply to an almost infinite number, particularly salmons, eels, some other fish, and all other river fish, without exception.

For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. To the PUBLIC.
THE warm and moist state of the fore-part of this summer bidding fair for a hot and dry harvest, and this for the production of burning, bilious and putrid fevers, all of them known to be dangerous enough with the best of treatment; but by the least mismanagement as fatal as a plague; I have digested a few thoughts on them severally, and hope they will advantage, at least such persons as are not so deeply learned as to "need none of my instruction."
The present, doubtless the true theory of medicine, considers the human body as a system of sensible, and irritable vessels, glands, and organs; subject to, and influenced by the action of their contained fluids, as well as that of the external air, &c.
The most sensible parts are the nervous; the most irritable, the muscular, particularly those most abounding with recent, and not much indurated mucus. 1. All the muscular parts on being irritated, contract; hence the rational account for the action of the stomach, intestines, lungs, heart, &c. 2. The irritation being too great, or too long continued produces a spasm, cramp, or uneasy contraction of the part, which if general and acting on the sanguinary system must crowd the blood in great quantities to the heart, liver, lungs and brain; whence any of these organs may be overstrained or subjected to a fatal inflammation. Though the kinds of irritating matter are various, I chuse with Dr. Grant to resolve the most frequently troublesome, to that mixture of salt, water and oil, commonly called the serum of the blood, furnishing the matter of the gall, urine and perspiration.
This of all our humours is probably subject to, and productive of, the most changes; the extremes of which may be a leucophlegmacy, or a white flabby swelling all over the body, and a bilious putrid fever.
In an ardent or burning fever, there is always danger of an inflammation in some noble part; and for this undoubtedly the most speedy and effectual application of the lancet is absolutely necessary; after which a purging ptyfan of barley or oat water, with a dram or two of soluble tartar, and an ounce or two of manna with liquorice, or without, as the patient fancies, may be given every day, admitting as much free air as can be borne without chilliness; and gently sprinkling the room with cool water, placing green boughs, &c. in the corners, and gradually abating the heat by every method, even in extreme cases, to the pouring on of cool water; the sole dependance for the cure of the Gombroon fever, which is ardent to the last degree.
In a bilious fever this serum by the heat and action of the body, through a warm summer, becomes very plenty as well as highly lixivial, and should any accident hinder its regular secretion, by the liver, and constant flow into the intestines, a very violent fever, and commonly a very dangerous one is caused by it.
The crisis of the blood in this fever always tending to a dissolved state, bleeding, especially a repetition of it, must be cautiously used; though in case of much crowding, or signs of inflammation in the liver, stomach, intestines or brain, one pretty large bleeding from a fair orifice may be highly beneficial. A mild puke, as a grain of tart. emet. dissolved in whey or weak camomile tea, and assisted by two to four grains of ipecac. may then succeed; and should they fail to give a few turns downwards, a draught of the ptyfan above, may be added and repeated in such manner as to keep the bowels in a lax and cool state.
A free use of ripe fruits, indeed every kind of vegetable acid the patient admires, may be indulged at pleasure, and should the flow through the bowels be very plentiful and sharp, a pretty thick barley-water, or saloop lightly acidulated with lemon juice, will be very grateful and beneficial. The patients should be indulged in as much cool-water, posset-whey, infusion of ripe roasted apples, &c. as they please to drink, only with this caution, not to cool themselves too suddenly. An erect posture in the free air, is unanimously recommended by the ablest writers, and all hot stimulating cordials, sudorifcs, or even opiates, if they can be avoided, as strictly forbidden. In fine, the cure of a bi-
lius fever consists wholly in tempering and purging off that acid yellow serum as speedily as possible; and mean while defending the bowels from the abrasion of too much of their internal covering, and afterwards restoring the tone of the injured parts.
The putrid fever being an exalted degree of the foregoing, with some addition; the procedure in the cure will of course, in a good measure be the same, differing only in a constant suspension of the lancet, and a free use of the mineral acids, as the elixir of vitriol, with a final endeavour to procure a very free perspiration, by antimony diaphoretic well supported with warm wine whey. Vinegar sprinkled over the floor is very proper here.
Besides the fevers here mentioned, the moisture continuing or returning in autumn, may very probably produce another, of a very troublesome kind, called by Hoffman, a Mesenteric fever; by Heister, rather a stomacher or intestinal fever, caused by an overcharge of mucus in those parts; the tendency of which humour to putrefaction, brings on a very tedious and dangerous disease; particularly if it be treated with diaphoretic powders, snake root and saffron decoctions, and cordials of syrup of saffron and treacle water, with spr. Lav. comp. and spr. C. C. or sal. vol. and good large blisters. This among the country people deservedly going by the name of the long fever, might be inconceivably shortened by a course of the mild openers above recommended; a free use of Mindererus's spirit which any countryman may prepare who can come at potash and vinegar, for the vinegar being warmed, and the clean potash powdered, the vinegar is put into a wide mouthed bottle, and the potash put in by little at a time, as long as they will produce a fermentation with gentle shaking. The potash will take all the four from the vinegar if enough is put in, and should it make it too flat more vinegar may be added to reduce it to a due standard. For those who are afraid of missing the point in this preparation, they may reduce a good cyder to a considerable flatness with the potash, and if too strong, they may dilute it with spring-water, and drink as they find they can bear.
In any stage of any fever treated in this cooling and gently purging way, should the patient grow chilly, a little warm wine whey sage tea, or any warm diluting liquor will safely and speedily relieve him; after a mild breathing sweat is over, should that succeed, a glass of good wine, or even a cup of sound cyder may prove a better cordial, than the fiery spirits by many very injudiciously administered as such.
In every fever where there is suspicion of a foul or obstructed liver, known by a brown tongue, and bitter taste in the mouth on waking, vomits are always indicated, and nothing is more common than a very uneasy state of the bowels after they have finished their operation. This is caused by the stagnant gall pressed out into the intestines, which must be evacuated by gentle purges, given in a plentiful quantity of fluid, and repeated as often as the gripes urge their necessity.
Neither bark, cordials, nor bitters ought ever to be given, till there is a clear system of bowels and vessels to receive them, for the hurrying on of a foul acid humour through the fine, sensible and irritable strainers of the body must be attended with the most fatal consequences. On the other hand, keeping the patient an hour longer than needs on the cooling and opening regimen, is wasting his strength to no purpose, and putting off his recovery, till a dropsy or cachexy sets in, which slowly conducts him to the grave. T. YOUNG.
AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.
ST. JAGO DE LA VEGA, [Jamaica] April 13. THE principal Planters, Merchants, Traders, and others having petitioned the Governor to convene the assembly, for many weighty and interesting reasons: His Excellency, after laying the same before his Majesty's council for their advice, they were unanimously of opinion, that it was not advisable to call a General Assembly, and therefore he could not comply with the said petitioners request.
Sir George Rodney is shortly expected here with six sail of the line, besides frigates.
Wednesday arrived at Port-Royal, his Majesty's ship Garland, Captain Lynn, from Great-Britain.
ST. CHRISTOPHER'S, May 2: By a sloop from Port-Rico we learn, that a vessel had lately arrived there from Cadiz, with an account that the King and Royal Family had removed from Madrid to Seville, that they were still busy in repairing the fortifications in the different parts of that Kingdom, manning their ships of war, completing the troops notwithstanding the reports of an accommodation with the Court of Great-Britain; that General O'Reily, with fifteen sail of the line and some troops, were to sail in a few days after the vessel left Cadiz for Porto-Rico. The above sloop also brings intelligence that the great preparations for a vigorous defence were making at Porto-Rico, in case they should be attacked by the English.
NEWPORT, July 22. An act is passed in Connecticut to prevent the selling or transporting raw or untanned hides or skins out of that Colony.
Governor Hutchinson has refused to give his assent to a tax bill, because the Commissioners and other Officers under the Crown, are to be taxed by said bill as well as the other inhabitants! So that it is not doubted but, in a short time, all those whose superlative modesty will permit them to assume to themselves the style of Friends to Government, will be entirely excused from paying any the least part of the public expence; while others, really industrious and virtuous people, must be taxed even to the last rag of a garment, to support those who glory in their oppression.
WILLIAMSBURGH, [Virginia] June 27. We learn from North Carolina, that inconceivable damage hath been done by the late inundation or fresh, which rose higher in many places by nine feet then ever was known in the memory of man. The low lands, which have been cultivated, are in a great measure rendered useless to the proprietors, by the soil being overspread with a vast quantity of sand from the washings of the banks of the rivers, and the houses and flocks of the poor inhabitants totally swept away. An innumerable quantity of fence rails, walnut, and all kind of timber trees, were drifted into the bay of Edenton, and all along both sides of Albermarle Sound, clear to Roanoke island; and every thing seems to wear the face of desolation and calamity. It is not possible, as yet, to ascertain any particular damages which individuals may have received, but it seems more than probable, that from the advanced season of the year, and the scarcity of timber in many parts of the low lands for fencing, no crops will be made in them; from whence every species of distress must be supposed to arise to the poor inhabitants, already bereft of their habitations and stocks.
QUEBEC, June 27. Tuesday last, about two o'clock in the afternoon, the wife of one Joseph Beaume, at Lake St. Charles, being setting or working near the chimney, was unhappily killed by thunder. Upon a strict examination on the body of this unfortunate woman, her head-dress was found to be torn and her head, though not deformed, as soft as a roasted apple; all the bones being calcinated, and as soft as cotton. No other outward marks have been discovered. There having happened several instances of the like kind heretofore in this province, it is hoped that persons will for the future during thunderstorms, avoid approaching near chimneys.
NEW-YORK, July 22. To his Excellency WILLIAM TRYON, Esq; Captain General and Governor in Chief, &c.
The humble ADDRESS of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonality of the city of New-York.
"May it please your Excellency, WE his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Aldermen, and commonality of this ancient corporation, beg leave to present your Excellency our warmest congratulations on your arrival with your family in this colony; and your appointment to succeed our late worthy Governor the Earl of Dunmore, on whom, from a just estimation of his services, his Majesty hath been graciously pleased to confer the Government of his dominion of Virginia."
"With the most lively gratitude, we receive this mark of his Majesty's paternal goodness, in appointing to preside over this his loyal and faithful colony, a gentleman, whose abilities eminently distinguish and qualify him for the discharge of this important trust, and whose irreproachable conduct in the government he lately so honourably filled, is the
strongest presage of our own public felicity.
"The ardour with which your Excellency, as supreme Magistrate in the colony which you lately presided over, undertook that hazardous, though necessary service, in supporting the laws of the country, and the quelling a daring insurrection, justly claiming to the community, and which, if not happily suppressed, might have been attended with dangerous consequences, we think reflects great honour upon your Excellency."
"We cannot leave your Excellency, without intreating your favourable countenance and protection of this corporation, in the full enjoyment of all its franchises and privileges, granted by his Majesty's royal predecessors; nor without offering our most ardent wishes that you may long enjoy the inward and solid satisfaction resulting from an easy, mild, and equitable administration, which we shall ever studiously endeavour to promote, confident from the tendency of your amiable disposition that it will prove a blessing to the people."
New-York, July 18, 1771.
HIS EXCELLENCY'S ANSWER.
"Gentlemen, I RECEIVE with real pleasure your congratulations on my arrival with my family in this colony; and esteem myself happy in being appointed to succeed your late worthy Governor in the command of this most respectable province."
"I conceived it an indispensable duty in me, to carry into execution those active measures I was called upon to pursue, in vindication of the violated civil rights of a province I had then the honour to preside over: but to receive such honourable testimonies of the necessity of that service, from the Mayor, Aldermen, and commonality of this ancient corporation, affords as much inward satisfaction to the mind, as it does me public honour."
"Impressed with a proper sense of my duty, and your favourable opinion of my inclinations, I shall faithfully endeavour to promote the public felicity of this country."
"The corporation of the City of New-York, may be confident of every possible countenance and protection from me, in all its franchises and privileges granted by his Majesty's royal predecessors; and that their studious endeavours to promote the success of my administration, will meet with all suitable returns of respect and gratitude."
WM. TRYON
At the time of offering the above address, Mr. Recorder, in behalf of the corporation, presented his Excellency with the freedom of the city, the seal of which was inclosed in a gold box, and the city arms neatly worked on the lid thereof.
The last advices from North-Carolina say that the disturbances in that province have subsided; the troops which had been employed in the Government's service, were returned to their respective homes and discharged. Most of the regulators, who had been tried and convicted, it was imagined would not be executed, they having the choice either to enlist in the regular service, or receive 500 lashes; some of them have chose the former. Neither of the outlaws have been taken up.
NEW-HAVEN, July 26. about Six weeks since, the Small Pox broke out at Durham, of which several persons have died, and it is feared the distemper will spread through the town.
NEW-YORK, July 25. Monday last, Capt. Yarborough sailed for Newbern, with whom went passenger his Excellency Governor Martin, with his lady and family.
Yesterday his Excellency Lord Dunmore, set out in his new yacht, for Albany. On his passing the fort he was saluted with 15 guns.
THURSDAY, August 1. BOSTON.
FROM Abington we learn, that on Wednesday last, the day appointed for the ordination of Mr. Samuel Niles to the pastoral office in that town, the ministers and messengers from several churches which were sent to, met at the house of Capt. Samuel Jackson in said town, and formed in council. A number of articles were exhibited in writing, by about thirty of the church and congregation against Mr. Niles's doctrine; a public hearing was had in the meeting-house; after the examination ended, the council returned to their room, and sat at times till the next day at noon, when they dissolved without ordaining said Mr. Niles, the reasons why, we have not yet heard.

It is currently reported in town, that a difference has happened between Lord D---e, late Governor of N-w-Y---k, and the present Commander in chief, T---n. The story runs thus, their Excellencies having dined together, with a number of Gentlemen, after dinner Lord D---e told Governor T---n, that he was an undermining, cut-throat scoundrel; Governor T---n then threw a glass of wine in his Lordship's face, on which his Lordship knocked him down: Several Gentlemen interposed and put an end to the affray.
It is said, among a number of toasts lately drank by some great officers of this part of the New World, at an anniversary entertainment at a celebrated seat of learning, was the following, "Governor Tryon;" a certain T---r added, "The honourable, magnanimous, victorious" Governor Tryon. Lord North, the Nettleham Baronet, and a number of the same kidney, were not forgot.
We hear that Faneuil-hall lottery will certainly commence drawing at said hall on the 9th instant.
Last Saturday evening as Mr. Goodwin, ship joiner, at the north-end, was passing from one wharf to another, which were divided by a board-fence that jetted over the end of the wharfs, he unfortunately fell over, broke his jaw-bone and fractured his skull in such a manner that he died about 10 o'clock the next morning.
It has been reported in town for a few days past, that his Excellency Governor Tryon intends a visit to this metropolis, for the benefit of his health. The congratulating gentry will then have another opportunity to Try on their pens.
On Tuesday last came on here, before the Court of Common Pleas, the cause between Owen Richards, plaintiff, and Benjamin Jones, defendant, for assaultings, tarring, &c. Yesterday the Jury brought in their verdict in favour of the defendant.
It is said, that a certain Governor is hooted at by the boys in the streets of the chief city of his new government.
Saturday last a child of Mr. Daniel Parker, goldsmith, fell through a scuttle at Christ's Church, and received considerable hurt.--And another child fell from a window to the ground, broke one of his arms, and dislocated his shoulder.
On Thursday last came on at the Inferior Court held here, the trial of the cause between the Hon. James Otis, Esq; of this town, and the Hon. John Robinson, Esq; one of the Board of Commissioners, for assaulting, and, with the assistance of others, dangerously wounding said Otis, (as mentioned some time since) for which the jury, after a fair hearing, gave in their verdict 2000 l. sterling damages, and cost of court. Mr. Otis laid his action at 3000 l. and has appealed from the judgment.
We here from North-Carolina, that an Officer of repute, in the Governor's army, relates the following circumstance, as matter of fact:--That after several messengers having passed between the Regulators and Governor, and the time allotted being almost, though not quite, expired; when one of the Regulators, who had waited on the Governor, and received for answer, That he would not have any thing further to say to them, unless they delivered up their ringleaders, lay down their arms, &c. with which message he was returning to his distressed brethren; when an officer said to the Governor, that he thought, that the message, the man was carrying, would only put the Regulators on their guard, and give his Excellency more trouble: On which the Governor told the Officer to call the messenger back. The Officer obeyed, but the messenger refused; on which his Excellency called to him, and told him he should be shot if he did not return: The man returned for answer, that he should deliver his message, and kept on his way, when he was fired at, shot through the back, and killed on the spot. The Governor immediately told his Aid de Camp to order the Captain of the Artillery to fire; but the Captain answered, it was a thing of too much consequence, and would not fire without the Governor's written or personal orders: Upon this the Governor came up, gave orders, and the dreadful slaughter began, while the Regulators were still in council, and numbers were killed by the first discharge of the cannon, before they expected it, or the hour allowed them, by the Governor, was expired. Pennsylvania Journal.
We hear from Newbury Port, that last Sabbath Se'nnight a child of Mr. Balch of that town was baptised by the name of Thomas Hutchinson.
The spirit of naming children, &c. after great Folks, prevails so much in this and the neighbouring towns, that a gentleman the other day, named a favourite Spaniel puppy of his, TRYON. Boston Gaz.
We learn from the island of Hispaniola, that a malignant fever had broke out among the inhabitants of that island, whereof great numbers of them died every day.
We learn from Quebec, that several attempts have lately been made by some evil-minded persons to set fire to that city, particularly in the night between the 6th and 7th of June last in the Lower Town, and on the night following in the Upper-Town, which had well nigh succeeded.
THOMAS BROWN of Hartford, in Connecticut, hath lately discovered a way through the woods from Montreal, to the settlements on the west side of Connecticut river, at a place called Waits Town, above Dr. Wheelock's college. He set out from Montreal on the 8th of June last with 19 horses, 7 Frenchmen and 2 Indians.--Crossed the river Lacol, at a place called Nut-Island, thence travelled six days on good feazable land for a road, and headed the bay of Missisquoi, and from thence a south east course, till he came to Connecticut river aforesaid, was 15 days in the woods, and brought in all his horses. After a suitable road was cleared, it might be travelled in the space of five or six days.--And as such a discovery must be very beneficial to the colonies in general, he would readily undertake it if a proper reward might be provided him. Connecticut Courant.
The following is a list of the Field Officers in this province that have been commissioned by his Excellency the Captain-General.
Honourable William Brattle, Esq; Major General of the militia throughout the province.
Boston regiment. John Erving, jun. Esq; Colonel. John Leverett, Esq; Lieut. Colonel. Thomas Dawes, Esq; Major.
First regiment in Suffolk county. Eliphalet Pond, Esq; Colonel. John Jones, Esq; Lieut. Colonel. Joseph Mayo, Esq; Major.
Second regiment in Suffolk. Josiah Quincy, Esq; Colonel. John Thaxter, Esq; Lieut. Colonel. Hon. James Humphry, Esq; 1st Major. Benjamin Lincoln, Esq; 2d Major.
Third regiment in Suffolk. Nathaniel Hatch, Esq; Colonel. Stephen Miller, Esq; Lieut. Colonel.
First regiment in Middlesex. Hon. William Brattle, Esq; Colonel. Thomas Oliver, Esq; Lieut. Colonel. Abraham Fuller, Esq; Major.
Second regiment in Essex, North division. Jonathan Bagley, Esq; Colonel. Daniel Farnham, Esq; Lieut. Colonel. Nathaniel Currier, Esq; 1st Major. William Coffin, Esq; 2d Major.
Second regiment in Essex, South Division. Stephen Emery, Esq; Colonel. Thomas Gage, Esq; Lieut. Colonel. Joshua Coffin, Esq; Major.
Second Regiment in Worcester. Caleb Wilder, Esq; Colonel. Levi Willard, Esq; Lieut. Colonel. James Richardson, Esq; 1st Major. Gardner Wilder, Esq; 2d Major.
Third Regiment in Worcester. John Murray, Esq; Colonel. Simeon Dwight, Esq; Lieut. Colonel. Joshua Willard, Esq; 1st Major. Joshua Upham, Esq; 2d Major.
Regiment in Hampshire. Hon. John Worthington, Esq; Colonel. Benjamin Day, Esq; Lieut. Colonel. Jona. Bliss, Esq; 2d Major.
Regiment in Cumberland County. Hon. Jeremy Powell, Esq; Colonel.
Third Regiment in Bristol. Hon. George Leonard, Esq; Colonel.
South regiment in Berkshire. John Ashley, Esq; Colonel.
North Regiment in Berkshire. William Williams, Esq; Colonel. Elijah Williams, Esq; Lieut. Colonel. Israel Stoddard, Esq; Major.
DIED. The Hon. Judge Bunch of New-Providence.--Capt. Benjamin White, in the London trade.--Mrs. Comrin, widow of the late Captain Comrin.--Miss Agnes Gardner, daughter of Mr. Robert Gardner Ship-Wright.--Mr. Spriggs House-Wright. At Salem, Mrs. Mercy Swan, wife of Mr. Ebenezer Swan, tailor. At Stanmore, Middlesex, in England, the Hon. Lady Tryon, mother of the Hon. William Tryon, now
Governor of New-York, and also mother of the Hon. Miss Tryon, one of the Maids of Honour to the Queen.
The Funeral of Mrs. Sarah Comrin, will be attended this afternoon, from the house of Dr. James Lloyd, head of Queen-Street.
S H I P N E W S. Saturday evening arrived here the Beaver sloop of war from a cruise.
Last Tuesday arrived the sloop of war Rose, from New-York.
Yesterday sailed the Senegal sloop of war on a cruise.
His Majesty's ship Mermaid is arrived at Halifax, from this port.
ARRIVED here Hepburn, Brocks and Bolkley from New-Haven, Tiley from New-London, Rich and Levit from Nova-Scotia, Paine from Maryland, Hewit from North-Carolina, Lewis from Newfoundland, Tuck from Gaspée, Morton and White from Hispaniola, Riordan from St. Croix, Stevens from Lisbon and Falmouth, Mackey from Cape Nichola, Atwood from Halifax.
OUTWARD bound. Lord to New London, Paine to Maryland, Simpson to Virginia, Wardwell to Newfoundland, Guliker to New Providence, Bartlett to West-Indies.
ARRIVED from this port. Freeman, Huton, and MacNeal, at Quebec.--Smith at New-York.
In the first page of this paper, col. 1. line 25. for in, read of, New-England. After article 4. for these read there.
B R E W S T E R'S BEST ground and made CHOCOLATE, warranted good and free from any mixture, is sold by JOHN FARMER, successor to the late John Brewster, at the sign of the Chocolate Cakes in Fifth street, near the bottom of Cross-street. Choice ground COFFEE to be sold as above. N. B. Said FARMER has for sale, Founder's and Brazier's Ware, of all sorts.
A NEGRO Man to be given away, with a good Bed and Bedding and his Cloaths. Enquire of the Printer.
A WOMAN of a good character, at Charlestown, with a young Breast of Milk, would be glad to take a Child to suckle. Enquire of the Printer.
For NORTH-CAROLINA, The Schooner HARLEQUIN, Bound to CAPE-FEAR, Will sail in about Ten Days. FREIGHTERS will please to apply to WILLIAM HOSKINS near Deacon Barrett's, in Middle-Street.
To be SOLD, very reasonably, A GENTEEL dwelling HOUSE , with a convenient Garden, Yard and Pump, pleasantly situated in Winter-Street, opposite to Dr. Sprague's. Enquire of the Printer hereof.
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 loose their teeth, that he still continues the business of making and fixing of Artificial TEETH as usual, in so elegant a manner as to be but little inferior to the natural either in use or beauty. Where, also, all persons afflicted with the scurvy may have them cleaned without hurting the enamel, and be supplied with his excellent Powder which cures the Scurvy, whitens the teeth, and keeps them sound during life: He can assure the Public that he has fresh instances every day of the good effects of this powder.
Said SCOTT has for sale, in bottles, Brigden's famous BUG Liquid , which effectually destroys those vermin be they ever so numerous, without hurting in the least degree the finest furniture, it has no smell, and a much speedier effect in its operation than any heretofore used; if it is applied as directed in the printed bill given with each bottle no bug will come near the bedstead for years.
Past favours he thankfully acknowledges
JUST IMPORTED, In the Diana, Capt. Perkins, from LONDON, And to be sold by SAMUEL PARKMAN, At his shop three doors above the Cornfields, in Union-Street, Boston: A NEAT and Fresh Assortment of ENGLISH and INDIA GOODS, which he will sell by Wholesale or Retail, as Cheap as can be bought at any store in town.
Fifteen Inch PIPES, By the box or gross, to be sold by ARCHD. CUNNINGHAM, At his shop in Fore-street, Near the Draw-Bridge, Boston. Also, BLACK Silk Handkerchiefs, by the single dozen or larger quantity, very cheap; Bohea Tea, by the hundred or dozen, warranted good; choice Hyson Tea at four dollars the pound, and Souchong Tea at two dollars the pound, choice Currants by the hundred weight, Legwood by the hundred weight. A Pot of very fine TAMARINDS to be sold, if applied for soon.
JAMES FOSTER CONDY, At his store in Union-street, Boston. Would inform his customers and others that he has just received from London, A COLLECTION of BOOKS, In LAW, PHYSIC, DIVINITY, and in every branch of Literature, &c. which he will sell on the most reasonable Terms. Bibles of all sizes, Testaments, Psalters, and Primers, &c. Also, Stationery, Account Books, Slates, Ink-powder, &c. Likewise, Microscopes, Theodolites, Candle Screens, Spectacles of a new Construction, Sliding Rules of a new invention, large and small Perspective Glasses, Gunter Scales, Steel Pens and Compasses, Mathematical Instruments, &c. &c. &c.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Mathematical Instrument-Maker, Has to sell At his Shop in King-street, Two Doors east of the Sign of Admiral VERNON Near the Head of the Long-Wharf, BOSTON, A large Assortment of HADLEY's and Davis's QUADRANTS, hanging and standing Compasses in Brass and Wood, Gauging and Surveying Instruments, Cases of Instruments, large and small Perspective Glasses in Ivory, Wood and Fish-Skin; plotting Scales, Gunter Scales and Dividers, Surveyors Chains, Artificial Magnets with Cases, Sand-Glasses, from two Hours to a Quarter of a Minute, Instruments of a new Construction to measure Boards, Quarter Waggoner's, Atkinson's Epitomes, Wilson's ditto, Paterson's Navigation, Seaman's Assistants, Calendars, Mariner's Compasses rectified, Young Man's Companion, Journal Books, Ink Powder, Quills and Paper, Paper-Hangings. An Assortment of Brass Pocket-Compasses with and without Cards, Box Rules, Slates and Pencils, Jack-Knives, plated Shoe and Knee Buckles, Pinchbeck, Block-Tin, and Brass ditto, Compass Seals, and Watch Keys, &c. &c. N. B. Said WILLIAMS makes and mends all sorts of Mathematical Instruments.
ALEX. CHAMBERLAIN, jun. Would acquaint his friends and others, that he continues to sell upon the lowest terms the following Articles, at his shop in Ann-street, viz.
NUTMEGS, Ginger, Rice, Mace, Flour, Allum, Cinnamon, Cloves, Copperas, Brimstone, Superfine Hyson and Logwood, Redwood, Bohea Tea, Hard Soap, Green Coffee, 18 inch Pipes, Chocolate, Short ditto, Sugars, Starch, Indigo, Florence Oyl, Pepper, Pimento, Loaf Sugar, &c. Likewise a neat Assortment of Cream, Stone, Glass, Delph, Nottingham and Liverpool WARE. N. B. His own personal attendance will be given early and late, and favours thankfully acknowledged.

POETS CORNER.
ODE to Mr. Alderman OLIVER. By a LADY.
NO more to join in festive dance, Content and jocund mirth advance On Britain's smiling plains: No more to hail the coming spring, With carols blythe the vallies ring, From all her nymphs and swains. The graces and the loves are fled, And sudden horror reigns instead, And damps the muse's fires: Yet still, in plaintive notes, and flow, Accorded to a nation's woe, I hear their trembling lyres. Oppression lifts her iron wand, And waves it o'er an injur'd land, Triumphant in her might: Wake! Britain, wake! at freedom's call, Ere yet thy drooping laurels fall, By foul corruption's blight. In time awake! O let not here Dishonour'd freedom drop a tear, In Albion's long-lov'd clime: Albion whom haughty Spain has fear'd, And France's sicken'd sons rever'd, Through all the walks of time. Why was thy sword with vict'ry crown'd? Why pres'd thy foes the blood-stain'd ground? What power thy legions bles'd? Let Agincourt and Cressy own, Whence rose the trophies of renown That deck'd Britannia's crest. And why, to emulate their praise, Her glories in meridian blaze Burst o'er Germania's plain? Why young and brave, yet great and good, Did Wolfe, exulting, pour his blood, Ah! too untimely slain. Sweet liberty, in all her charms, Refulgent, glittered on their arms, And fir'd each warrior's soul: To Gallic power untaught to bow, She wreath'd each dying hero's brow, That nobly scorn'd controul. England! thy glory rose in vain Whence do the slavish sons of Spain Smile at thy baffled right? They saw thy sinking spirits fall; Saw courtiers thy bold sons appall; And triumph'd at the sight. Yet patriot names again shall rise, On fame's bright columns to the skies, With every virtue join'd: Friendship's strict faith, untainted truth, And all the gen'rous warmth of youth, To fire the free-born mind. Each heart-felt sorrow to bequeath, Benevolence, with April smile, Gilding woe's dewy tears; And fortitude, with arm of steel, To vindicate the public weal, And chace a nation's fears, Britain! for thee that arm was rear'd, When dauntless OLIVER appear'd, With native virtue warm: Avenge his wrongs! Avenge thy own! That freedom, on her sea-girt throne, May brave th' impending storm. Staffordshire. CAMILLA.
From the POLITICAL REGISTER, for May. To the PRINTER.
THE arguments, used in defence of the late proceedings of the House of Commons would have a considerable weight with me, if I could persuade myself that the present House of Commons were really in that independent state in which the constitution meant to place them. If I could be satisfied that their resolutions were not previously determined in the King's cabinet, that no personal resentment was to be gratified, nor any ministerial purpose to be answered, under pretence of asserting their privileges, I own I should be very unwilling to raise or encourage any question between the strict right of the subject, and that discretionary power, which our Representatives have assumed by degrees, and which, until of late years, they have very seldom abused; while the House of Commons form a legal representation of the people, while they preserve their place in the constitution, distinct from the Lords, and
independent of the crown, I think to contend with them about the limits of their privileges would be contending with ourselves*. But the question will be materially altered, if it should appear that, instead of preserving the due balance of the constitution, they have thrown their whole weight into the same scale with the crown, and that their privileges instead of forming a barrier against the encroachments of the other branches of the legislature, are made subservient to the views of the sovereign, and employed, under the direction of the minister, in the prosecution of individuals, and the oppression of the people. In this case, it would be the duty of every honest man to stand strictly to his right;--to question every act of such a House of Commons with jealousy and suspicion, and wherever their pretended privileges trenched upon the known laws of the land, in the minutest instance, to resist them with a determined and scrupulous exactness. To ascertain the fact, we need only consider in what manner parliaments have been managed since his Majesty's accession.
He found this country in that state of perfect union and happiness which good government naturally produces, and which a bad one had destroyed. He promised to abolish all distinctions of party, and kept his word by declaring Lord Bute his favourite and his Minister, by proscribing the whole whig interest of England, and filing every place of trust and profit under his government with protestant Tories, notorious jacobites, and Scotchmen of all denominations. He abolished no distinctions, but those which are essential to the safety of the constitution. King, Lords, and Commons, which should for ever stand clear of each other, were soon melted down into one common mass of power, while equal care was taken to draw a line of separation between the legislature and the people, and more particularly between the Representative and constituent body of the Commons. The lower house distinguished themselves by an eager compliance with every measure that could be supposed to gratify the King personally, or to humour the vindictive passions of his royal mother. When Mr. Wilkes was to be punished, they made no scruple about the privileges of parliament; and although it was as well known as any matter of public record and uninterrupted custom could be, "that the members of either house are privileged except in cases of treason, felony, or breach of the peace," they declared without hesitation, "that privilege of parliament did not extend to the case of a seditious libel;" and undoubtedly it would have been the same if Mr. Wilkes had been prosecuted for any other misdemeanor whatsoever. It was upon that occasion that Sir Fletcher Norton, the patron of privilege declared in the house, that if he were a judge in Westminster Hall, he should regard a vote of the House of Commons no more than a resolution of a company of porters.--To shew us his politeness, he preserves his stile;--to shew us his morality, he changes his opinion.
The influence of the crown over the resolutions of both houses continues to operate with equal force, though now it assumes a different appearance. The liberty of the press, besides giving a daily personal offence to the Princess of Wales, must always be formidable, therefore always odious to such a government as the present. Prosecutions have been attempted without success. The privilege of parliament, which had been so shamefully surrendered to answer one ministerial purpose, must now be as violently as-
* "The necessity of securing the House of Commons against the King's power, so that no interruption might be given either to the attendance of the members in parliament, or to the freedom of the debate, was the foundation of parliamentary privilege; and we may observe, in all the addresses of new appointed speakers to the sovereign, the utmost privilege they demand is liberty of speech and freedom from arrests. The word privilege means no more than immunity, or a safeguard to the party, who possesses it, and can never be construed into an active power of invading the rights of others."
serted to answer another. The ministry are of a sudden grown wonderfully careful of privileges, which their predecessors were as ready to invade. The known laws of the land, the rights of the subject, the sanctity of characters, and the reverence due to our magistrates, must all give way, without question or resistance, to a privilege of which no man knows either the origin or the extent. The House of Commons judge of their own privileges without appeal: they may take offence at the most innocent action, and imprison the person who offends them, during their arbitrary will and pleasure. The party has no remedy;--he cannot appeal from their jurisdiction; and if he questions the privileges which he is supposed to have violated, it becomes an aggravation of his offence. Surely, Sir, this doctrine is not to be found in Magna Charta. If it be admitted without limitation, I affirm that there is neither law nor liberty in this Kingdom. We are the slaves of the House of Commons, through them we are slaves of the King and his ministers.
The mode, in which the House have proceeded against the city magistrates, can neither be reconciled to natural justice, nor even to the common forms of decency. They begin with shutting their doors against all strangers, the usual name, by which they describe their constituents. Some of their debates appear in the public papers. The offence, if any, is certainly not a new one. We have the debates as regularly preserved as the journals of parliament*; nor can there be any honest reason for concealing them. Mr. Onslow, however, thinks it necessary to persecute the press, and the House of Commons mean enough to take part in his caprices. Lord North, who had so lately rewarded the Reverend Mr. Scot with the best living in the King's gift, for heaping invectives equally dull and virulent upon some of the most respectable characters in the kingdom, is now shameless enough to support a motion against the liberty of the press, with the whole influence of the crown. That their practice might be every way conformable with their principles, the House proceeded to advise the crown to publish the proclamation universally acknowledged to be illegal. Mr. Moreton publickly protested against it before it was issued; and Lord Mansfield, though not scrupulous to an extreme, speaks of it with horror. It is remarkable enough that the very men, who advised the proclamation, and who hear it arraigned every day both within doors and without, are not daring enough to utter one word in its defence, nor have they ventured to take the least notice of Mr. Wilkes for discharging the persons apprehended under it.
The pretended trial of the Lord-Mayor and Mr. Oliver, resembled the dark business of a Spanish inquisition, rather than the fair proceedings of an English court of judicature. These gentlemen, as magistrates, had nothing to regard but the obligation of their oaths and the execution of the laws. If they were convinced that the Speaker's warrant was not a legal authority to the messenger, it necessarily followed that, when he was charged upon oath with a breach of the peace, they must hold them to bail. They had no option. Yet how have they been treated? Their judges had been partially summoned, by treasury mandates, pressing attendance, and demanding a vote of condemnation. They were tried and condemned at midnight, without being heard by themselves or their counsel, on the only point, on which their justification could possibly depend. In short, Sir, a question, strictly of jurisdiction, was referred to numbers, and carried like a common ministerial measure. The next step was to force the Lord Mayor's clerk, by the terror of a prison, to erase the record of a judicial proceeding, held regularly before the chief magistrate of the city. Lord North himself made the motion, and declared that the constitution could not be safe, until it was carried into effect. They then resolved that all prosecutions for the assault
* Grey's collection of debates, in ten volumes, was published under the direction of the late Arthur Onslow, Esq.
(which, though charged upon oath, they call a pretended one) should be stopped. I wish that grave and sober men would consider, independently of the other questions before us, how far this particular precedent may extend. If the House of Commons may interpose in a single instance, between the subject, who complains, and the laws, which ought to protect, I see no reason why they may not, at any time, by their vote, stop the whole course of justice through the kingdom. Besides the injury done to the subject, their granting a nisi prosequi is in effect an encroachment upon the royal prerogative.
Many circumstances of insult have been mixed with these measures of violence. Their pretended lenity to the Lord Mayor, which he nobly refused to accept of, amounted only to an offer of the garrets of the House for the place of his confinement instead of the Tower; and though it be of less moment, it is still worth observing, that the indignity offered to the city is aggravated by the time expressly chosen for imprisoning their chief magistrate. Not content with interrupting all city business, they fixed upon Easter, because it is the chief city festival, and found a contemptible gratification in putting a stop to the amusements usual at this season, and depriving a public charity of the customary collections, which they knew must be reduced to nothing by the absence of the Lord-Mayor.
Nothing remained but to keep up a terror and alarm through the kingdom by appointing committees of enquiry. This double Star-Chamber was moved for long after midnight, and lists partially sent round by the messenger of the treasury. Where will these arbitrary, these iniquitous proceedings end? The ministry, I doubt not, have a plan prepared, but it is such a one, as they neither dare openly avow, nor uniformly adhere to. One day they appoint committees of inquisition to sit de die in diem !--the next thing we hear is that the committees are adjourned, and the members of them dispersed into the country. After advising the King, very unnecessarily, to go to parliament, they come to him while his equipage is in waiting, contradict their own advice, and endeavour to stagger his resolution, at the moment when he has most occasion for it. They alone are answerable for all the indignities heaped upon the King's person, since they could not but foresee, that the people would take the earliest opportunity of resenting the imprisonment of their magistrates.
When the Princess of Wales was named in the House of Commons, where was that zeal, which some people boast of, for their royal master? the mother of their sovereign was branded by name, as the authoress of all our calamities, and the assertion passed without censure or contradiction.
Sir, I most truly lament the condition to which we are reduced; and the more so, because there is but one remedy for it, and that remedy has been repeatedly refused. A dissolution of the parliament would restore tranquillity to the people, and to the King the affections of his subjects; the present House of Commons have nothing to expect but contempt, detestation and resistance. This violent state of things cannot long continue. Either the laws and constitution must be preserved by a dreadful appeal to the sword; or (what probably is intended by the present system of measures) the people will grow weary of their condition, and surrender every thing into the King's hands, rather than submit to be trampled upon any longer by five hundred of their equals.
A WHIG.
JOSIAH QUINCY, jun. has removed his office from the South side of King-Street, to the room under Messrs. Edes and Gill's printing-office, directly opposite the New Court-House, in Queen-Street.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, A Journeyman Blacksmith, who understands SHOEING of HORSES. Such a one will meet with good encouragement, by enquiring of the Printer hereof.