The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal (Boston [Mass.]), 1773-11-26 00:00:00

THE Massachusetts Spy
MAY 2 1908
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER:--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
DO THOU Great LIBERTY INSPIRE our Souls,--And make our Lives in THY Possession happy, Or our Deaths glorious in THY just Defence.
VOL. III.]
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1773.
[NUMB. 147.]
The SAGES, and STUDENTS of the LAW, in AMERICA;
HAVE now an opportunity of seeing at most of the booksellers shops in the capital towns and cities on the continent, printed proposals with conditions and specimens, for printing by subscription, American editions of the following celebrated works, by the undertaker, ROBERT BELL, printer and bookseller, of Philadelphia.
I. COKE's Commentary upon LITTLETON. Not the name of the author, only, but of the law itself. In one large folio volume, page for page with the last London edition. At sixteen dollars to subscribers, although the London edition is sold at thirty-two dollars.
II. BACON's new Abridgment of the Law. In five volumes quarto. Page for Page with the last London edition. At twenty dollars to subscribers, although the London edition is sold at forty dollars.
III. LELAND's new History of Ireland. From the invasion of Henry II. with a preliminary discourse on the ancient state of that kingdom. In four volumes Octavo, at six dollars, although the London edition is sold at fifteen dollars, and the Dublin edition above eleven dollars.
IV. FERGUSON's Essay on the History of Civil Society. In one volume octavo, at one dollar and a third.
V. A second American edition of Judge BLACKSTONE's Commentaries on the laws of England. In four volumes quarto, at three dollars each volume, and the fifth volume, or appendix, at two dollars; the whole in neat binding. The fourth and fifth volumes of this quarto edition is already printed and sold at five dollars, to those gentlemen who become subscribers for the FIRST, SECOND, and THIRD VOLUMES, which are now printing at Philadelphia by said ROBERT BELL.
Gentlemen who are pleased to approve of these specimens and conditions, by speedily giving in their names as encouragers, will pecuniarily oblige the undertaker, and greatly contribute towards the elevation, and enlivening of Literary Manufactures in America.
In December next will be Published, THE New-England and Nova-Scotia REGISTER, with all the British Lists, and an Almanack for 1774. The subscribers intreat the favour of gentlemen in office, in this and the neighbouring governments, to send them, as soon as may be, a correct list of their different departments; the high sheriffs of the several counties, in particular, will greatly contribute to the usefulness of this work by favouring the publishers, with an exact list of their deputies, and the towns they reside in. The printers are determined to spare no pains in rendering the Register for 1774 as compleat and correct as possible.
MILLS and HICKS.
This Day published, price 1s.
HYMNS and Spiritual SONGS, designed for the use and edification of Christians.
Composed by ELKANAH INGALLS, Preacher of the Gospel.
Sold by P. FREEMAN, in Union-Street, and by P. FREEMAN, jun. near Liberty-Tree.
This Day published, price 9d.
HYMNS and Spiritual SONGS, on several occasions.
By BRIDGET FLETCHER, Late of Westford, deceased.
Printed and sold by I. THOMAS, for R. FLETCHER, of said Westford.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands on, the late Company of AARON DAVIS, jun. and Company, are desired to settle their accounts as soon as possible with the two surviving partners of said Company, viz. NEHEMIAH SOMES, and EBENEZER WALES, at their store on the long wharf,
American Magazine.
To the generous Patrons and Promoters of useful KNOWLEDGE, throughout AMERICA.
THE Editor of the ROYAL AMERICAN MAGAZINE, presents his most respectful Compliments, and informs them, that the first Number will undoubtedly appear on the first of January next, humbly requesting the Favour of their LUCUBRATIONS, which he promises to convey to the World with the greatest Care and Attention. The general Disinterestedness of the Parties addressed, renders it incongruous to petition strenuously for their Favours, but can never diminish the Sense of the Obligation their Reception will lay upon
ISAIAH THOMAS.
Please to direct to ISAIAH THOMAS, Printer in BOSTON, who will lay the several Productions that may be handed him before a Society of Gentlemen, for their Inspection and Approbation.
Those Gentlemen and Ladies who incline to encourage the Royal American Magazine, by subscribing therefor, are desired, if they chuse not to be disappointed of the first Number, to send in their Names with all convenient Speed.
The PRINTERS of all the Public Papers in America, are requested to insert this Advertisement as soon as may be, for which they shall be fully satisfied by their humble servant
ISAIAH THOMAS.
CHRISTIANSTEAD, (St. Croix) October 9, 1773.
RAN away from the Island of St. Croix the 7th of October 1773 in the night, Capt. William Hopkins, commander of the Brig Spywood, belonging to John Waterman of Rhode-Island, without paying his Majesty's duties or custom house charges, for sugars taken off from this Island, on which account, to the detriment of all honest men, no Captain of any vessel is now allowed to lift his anchor before all custom house charges are paid.
For Collector, P. N. PORTH. Deputies, PORTH & HOY.
For LONDON, THE BRIGANTINE DOLPHIN, JAMES SCOTT, master, A remarkable fine sailor, 180 tons burthen, will sail in fourteen days, having three quarters of her cargo ready. For Freight or Passage apply to the Master on board, at the Long-Wharf, or to WILLIAM DENNIS, at his store in King Street. Boston, November 31st, 17, 1773.
This day published, price 1s.
And to be sold by PHILIP FREEMAN, at the blue glove in Union Street, facing the Cornfields near the dock, and by PHILIP FREEMAN, jun. near Liberty-tree, Boston.
TWO Sermons. THE FIRST from Psalm 102. 19, 20. delivered the Lord's day before the execution of LEVI AMES. The SECOND, from Prov. 17, 25. preached the Lord's day after his execution, as a solemn caution to others, especially the youth. To which is added, at the desire of many, an account of his exercise of mind; together with the conversation the author had with him, as he walked with him from the prison to the gallows; by which, compared with his latter conduct, he may be thought, in judgment of charity, to have died a penitent thief.
By SAMUEL STILLMAN, A. M. Pastor of the first Baptist Church in Boston.
ALL persons having demands on the estate of SAMUEL RIDGWAY, late of Boston, Chair-maker, deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts to SAMUEL RIDGWAY, Administrator on said estate, in order for a settlement, and all that are indebted are requested to make speedy payment.
CHESHIRE and Gloucester CHEESE, just arrived, to be sold wholesale and retail, by CHARLES LOWE, in Marshall's-lane.
Just published in Newport,
A MASTER KEY to popery; Containing 300 large Octavo pages.
By D. ANTONIO GAVIN, Born and educated in Spain, some years Secular Priest in the Church of Rome, and since 1715, Minister of the Church of England.
Sold by I. THOMAS, at his Printing Office near the Market, and at his Shop near the Mill-bridge.
Just published, price 6d.
And to be sold by KNEELAND & DAVIS, in Queen Street.
THE Trial of a false Apostle; Preached at Trinity Church, October 25th, 1773, in Rhode Island, by GEORGE BISSETT, A. M. Rector of said Church.
Also, may be had at the same place,
A few copies of the Master Key to POPERY, &c.
A WET NURSE with a good breast of Milk, would be glad to go into a credible family to suckle. Enquire of the Printer.
FRIDAY, November 19.
BOSTON.
The Lord Hyde packet, Capt. Taylor, is arrived at New-York with the Septem. mail.
We hear that in answer to a petition of the Massachusetts Assembly, respecting the Appointment of Judges, &c. his Majesty declared his intention of supporting the supreme Authority and Right of the British Parliament to make laws binding on the colonies; and expressed his great displeasure that principles repugnant to this Right should be held forth in the petition.
NEW-LONDON, November 5. The following RESOLVE passed the present General Assembly. RESOLVED, by this assembly, that the Select-men, in the respective towns, in this colony, at or before the General election in May next shall take, and transmit to his honour the Governor, a particular and exact account of all the persons in their respective towns, as well Negroes and Indians as white persons; distinguishing the number of those, who are under the age of twenty years, from those who are above that age, their sexes, and whether married or single.
And that the Colonel of each regiment of militia, shall also within the time aforesaid, transmit to his Honour the Governor, the exact number of officers and soldiers in his said regiment; thereby to enable his Honour, to prepare a compleat answer to a letter lately received from the Earl of Dartmouth, his Majesty's Secretary of State, for the American Department.
PHILADELPHIA, October 27. By Capt. Wilson we are informed, that almost all the Baymen, or mahogany cutters, at the Bay of Honduras, have left that place, and are settling in Georgia: The reason is on account of the late rebellion of the negroes up the rivers, which makes it very dangerous, as they cannot, with safety, attempt to cut any more mahogany, there being about 20 of the rebels yet out, who can-give no quarter to any white men, but murder all they come across: Mahogany is now very scarce at the Bay, and it is thought, that the trade will soon be at an end. The Baymen are much afraid of some disturbance from the Spaniards, on account of the register ship, which was stranded upon the Northern triangles, as they have made a demand for the salvage of the wreck, which is now out of their power to comply with,
SATURDAY, November 20. BOSTON.
By letters of good authority from England, we are informed that the 14th regiment, now at St. Augustine, the 16th at Pensacola, and the 52d at Quebec, will be relieved next summer; and that the 4th, or King's own, and that the 5th regiments are ordered out for that purpose, but we cannot yet learn what other corps is to be added to them to compleat the relief.
And we are likewise informed, that for the future, the garrisons in the West-Indies will be relieved by regiments doing duty in North-America, which will be always supplied by fresh battalions from Great-Britain and Ireland.
The transports with the 29th regiment, were ready to sail for Great-Britain, from Charlestown, South-Carolina, on the 15th.
Tuesday evening se'nnight, Mr. Saul Avery, belonging to Old-York, was going on board a sloop lying at John Hancock, Esquire's wharf, it being very dark and stormy, fell in and was drowned, he has left a wife and three children.
At a late meeting of the company of military adventures in Connecticut, it was unanimously voted, that they would pursue the most vigorous measures to carry on the settlement of the lands in West-Florida, reserved for them by the Government, as soon as possible. Undertakers are permitted to carry on the settlements of four townships, who oblige themselves to embark with a sufficient number of settlers by the 10th of December next.
It being very dark and stormy one night last week, two fishing boats belonging to this town, coming in from the Bay were unfortunately lost, one of them upon Fawn-Bar, the other on the Spit of Sand: The people we hear were all saved.
DIED.] Mrs. Rogers, wife of Abraham Rogers, housewright.—Mr. Hugh Moore, wharfinger.—Mrs. Hannah Oglesby, wife of Mr. George Oglesby, sugar-baker.—Miss Rebecca Snow, only daughter of Mr. Thomas Snow, at the South-end.—Mr. John Pym, a noted cabinet maker, at the North-end. Mr. David Love, at the South-end.—At Gaudaloupe, Capt. Robert Bell, of this town.—At Salem, Mr. Samuel Barton, of the small pox.—Miss Peggy Sewall, daughter of Mitchell Sewall, Esq.—At Rehoboth, Capt. Daniel Hunt, jun.—At Smithfield, Mr. Nathaniel Mowry.
PHILADELPHIA, October 18. Thursday last the General Assembly of this province met here, when Joseph Galloway, Esq. was chosen Speaker; and Charles Moore, Esq. Clerk of the House. Benjamin Franklin, Esq. is continued Agent for this province; Joseph Fox, Esq. Barrack-Master; and William Crispin, Esq. Collector of Excise. And on Saturday the House adjourned to the 29th of November next.
CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina) October 1. Letters from West-Florida informs us, that it is thought, the seat of government will be removed to the Mississippi, and that a new custom house is actually established at Manchack, where, it is expected, a regiment will be stationed. The tribe of Arkansas, and some other Indians, who had removed to the western side of the Mississippi, being dissatisfied with the Spaniards, are returned to the British territory.
His Excellency Sir James Wright, Baronet, Governor of Georgia, has been pleased to give directions for raising a troop of rangers to be employed in keeping good order among, and for the protection of, the inhabitants in the new ceded lands in that province, above Little River.
Thursday a town-meeting was held relative to the Tea. See the next page.

MONDAY, November 22. BOSTON.
On Thursday last there was a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of this town, when a committee was appointed to acquaint Messieurs Clarke, Faneuil and Hutchinson, that inasmuch as they had declined giving a full answer to the request of the town, at a former meeting, till they should have further intelligence from England relative to the East-India Company's Tea, supposed to be consigned to them; and as a vessel had since arrived from London, it was the desire of the town that they would now give a final answer to their request, viz. whether they would resign their appointment? upon which they sent into the town the following letter, viz.
"SIR, Boston, Nov. 18, 1773. IN answer to the message we have this day received from the town, we beg leave to say, that we have not yet received any orders from the East India Company, respecting the expected teas; but we are now further acquainted, that our friends in England have entered into general engagements in our behalf, merely of a commercial nature; which puts it out of our power to comply with the request of the town. We are, Sir, your most humble servants, RICHARD CLARKE and SONS, BENJAMIN FANEUIL, jun. for self and JOSHUA WINSLOW, Esq; ELISHA HUTCHINSON, for my BROTHER and self.
"Hon. JOHN HANCOCK, Esq, Moderator of a town-meeting assembled at Faneuil Hall."
The answer was voted NOT satisfactory; and the meeting was IMMEDIATELY dissolved.
Last Friday his Majesty's Council of this province met by summons from Governor Hutchinson, to consider a petition of the tea commissioners in this town, praying "to resign themselves and the property committed to their care, to his Excellency and their Honours, as guardians and protectors of the people;" and "that measures may be directed to, for the landing and securing the teas, until the petitioners can be at liberty, openly and safely to dispose of the same, or until they can receive directions from their constituents."
The laws of this province are made for the protection of the people and of every individual. There is no doubt but the people will at all times be ready to assist the magistrate in the due execution of those laws for the protection of any individuals, being in the peace of God and the King. No man can be said to be in the Peace of God and the King, while he is attempting to overthrow the civil constitution, or compact between the King and the subject. His Majesty's Council are not in the sense of the petitioners, if they intend any thing to their purpose, the constituted protectors of the people. They are one branch of the General Assembly; and by the charter or constitution they, with the Governor, may hold and keep a council, for the ordering and directing the affairs of the province.
No one it is presumed desires them to resign their appointment; on the contrary, as they are too wise a body to be drawn aside from their appointment by the artifices of designing men, it is justly to be expected that they will in this and all other instances keep precisely to it. The safety of the government and of the people depend much upon it. Their department by no means admits of their condescending to become the trustees and storekeepers of certain factories for the East India Company. As well might they become the trustees of all the individuals, and ex officio be the storekeepers of every store in the province; and this is to be feared would induce such a multiplicity of private business as to leave them no time to do the duties of their department, viz. the ordering and directing the affairs of the province.
TUESDAY, November 23. BOSTON.
We hear from Montreal, that on Friday the 17th ult. was fixed up his Majesty's Busto on the place d'Armes, in a Portico of the Tulcan order erected for that purpose, in grateful memory of his Majesty's benefaction to the unhappy sufferers at the dreadful fire, which raged in that city on the 18th of May, 1765.
A letter from Sr. Augustine, of Sept. 26, says, the 29th regiment, under the command of Lieut. Colonel Carr, now about to leave the province, both officers and privates have lived in the greatest harmony and friendship with the inhabitants, who sincerely regret their departure."
MARRIED.] Mr. Russell Sturges to Miss Betsy Perkins.—At Lynn, Mr. Joseph Purrell, jun. to Miss Hanchman of that place.—Mr. Caleb Champney, glaizer, to Miss Elizabeth Bears.—Mr. John Pecker, to Miss Sukey Hovey.
WEDNESDAY, November 24. BOSTON.
A letter from London of a late date, advises a gentleman here, not to purchase any of the tea now coming, as immense quantities lie rotting in the East-India Company's warehouse, which they will crowd in by ship loads in case this is taken off.
Another letter says, twelve million weight of tea, has been for seven years in the India Company's warehouses rotting, which on our receiving what is coming, will be also sent. Americans! defeat this last effort of a most pernicious, expiring faction, and you may sit down under your own vines and fig-trees, and none shall hereafter DARE TO MAKE YOU AFRAID.
The infamous murderer Ebenezer Richardson, Esq; being driven from Philadelphia, is again returned to Stoneham.
Extract of a letter from New-York, dated November 3, 1773.
"I have this day been informed by good authority, that the East-India company, suspecting that the words in the act—disbursed them from the payment of any customs or duties whatever—would extend to exempting their tea, in such cases, from the American duty, have taken the opinion of the Attorney and Solicitor-General, &c. and find, that the American duty being only chargeable on tea when imported into America, was by no means included in the duties, with which it is charged, when exported from England, or sold at their ware houses in London. This was a great disappointment to their hopes, as they suspected that the Americans would not buy it, even though they sent it to their very doors, on such terms. It is therefore affirmed, in several letters from gentlemen of credit in London, that Lord North has offered a gilding for the pill, by which we shall certainly find it very palatable, viz. He proposes that the company shall send their tea to America giving security for the payment of the duties, and that the teas are to be landed here, and the proper officers to return certificates of the quantity, &c. to England; on which the duties are to be paid there by the company, into the treasury, whence it is to be remitted, by an easy rotation, to the commissioners at Boston, to be paid out to their creatures, who are to suck the blood of the people, who are to drink this same undutied and yet dutied tea. It seems that the duty, in North-Carolina, has been paid, for some years past, in this very manner nearly, viz. by draughts attending proper certificates sent to England, because it was found that cash was not to be obtained in that province, to pay the duties there.—Thus the duty is absolutely to be paid in America, for the purpose of raising a revenue, to support improper officers in America, only the method of negotiating this business is a little different, from the usual one. Are the Americans such blockheads as to care whether it be a hot red poker, or a red hot poker which they are to swallow, provided Lord North forces them to swallow one of the two. If the matter be duly explained, surely the people will unanimously agree to send the tea to the place from whence it came, or to a worse place."
MARRIED.] Mr. John Johnson, to Miss Patty Spear.—Capt. Samuel Avery to Miss Sally Briggs.—At Bolton, by the Rev. Mr. Gofs, Mr. Jonathan Ball, jun. of Lancaster, to Miss Polly Pratt, of Bolton.—At Lynn, Mr. Joseph Turrell, jun. to Miss Betsy Hanchman, daughter of the late Nathaniel Hanchman, Esq; of that place.
DIED.] Mr. Hugh Moore, Warfinger.—Capt. Frost.—Mr. Charles Venner.—Mr. Healey, goldsmith.—At Reading, Deacon Daniel Putnam.—Dr. Daniel Putnam, Mr. Joshua Putnam.—All in one family, a father and two sons.—At Salem, Capt. Samuel Barton.—At Portsmouth, Mrs. Hannah Sheaffe, consort of Mr. Jacob Sheaffe, of that town.—At Newport Rhode-Island, Capt. Joseph Bull, tide surveyor there.—At Gaudaloup, Capt. Robert Bell, of this town.
James Foster Condyl, has Imported in the ship Haley, Capt Scott, from London,
A FRESH Collection of Books, &c. in every branch of polite literature art and science; which with his former supply makes up a very large assortment, and are sold at his Store in Union Street, directly opposite the Cornfield, Boston, upon the lowest term.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, August 23.
ALTHOUGH the masters of all the New-York ships, have refused to carry over tea with the duty still remaining on it, yet it is said that one K— formerly a sutler at New York, and a Mr. B—, who in the last war belonged to one of the commissaries in America, are in treaty to transport any quantity of tea, if the India company will give them a certain commission for selling it when in America.—It was fatal to Lord Shelburne's administration the being led away by low-lived, self interested and designing men, who had neither character nor any thing else to lose.
August 28. Capt. Kembell, who for many years hath been employed as master of a ship to New-York, is appointed naval officer for the province of New-York! a place worth at least 500l. a year, sterling, and procured for him by his brother in law Lord Gage.
Capt. Jo. Harrison (in the merchants service) was by Lord Rockingham thought fit to be his Lordship's private secretary! and was afterwards made Collector of Boston, a place the most lucrative (the Governor's excepted) of any in that province; and which he now holds as a sinecure: The ministry having occasion for his advice and assistance.
Capt. Benjamin Hollowell (many years in a merchant ship) was by the ministry thought so able and clever, that he was at once made a commissioner, and his brother Comptroller of the customs at Boston.
Capt. Nevin was, from the same service made a collector of the customs, and a counsellor, at New Hampshire! And several other Captains have been thus promoted, so that the American ship masters, of late, look up very high in the road of preferment.
FRIDAY, November 29. BOSTON.
Extract of a Letter from a Nobleman in Great Britain, to a Gentleman in this Province, dated 9th of August last past.
"My sentiments in general, with respect to America, are too well known to require any declaration of them at present.—One thing I am certain of, that no Governor who follows the instructions of a British ministry will be agreeable on your side of the world, except a very different set of maxims should take place with administration. I never doubted the loyalty of your countrymen, nor do I know of any other Loyalty than obedience to the laws, enacted by ourselves in a body of representatives. The first magistrates execute these laws by accountable ministers, and represent the Majesty of the People at large. Another system of loyalty has been broached of late, but by God's favour and the strength that he may be pleased to afford me, I will not suffer it to have dominion over me. A stranger to your particular sentiments of legal freedom, I shall conclude this letter with a paragraph of one from the Great P-T-T to me a few days ago, viz.
"On the other side the Atlantic, we view a world not yet enervated by luxury nor tainted with corruption; of course, ardent and resolute for LIBERTY. How affecting the spectacle! How does the Honst Daughter shame the Profligate Mother !"
A correspondent writes, "For my own part I would be less alarmed at the landing of the bedding of those unhappy persons who died at Bagdad of the plague, than one chest of the slave making TEA. Philadelphia and New York merely shudder in doubt of our firmness; one ace of departure from the general resolution to destroy, or at best return it, without touching the shore, would so lower us in their esteem, that a reinstatement in their confidence would be ever after absolutely impracticable. How fatal this would be to our common liberty, Mr. Hutchinson, at least knows, if any one else pretends ignorance of it."
Yesterday was observed as a day of public Thanksgiving, throughout this province, Connecticut, and New-Hampshire.
Dr. Latham, the celebrated and successful Suptonian Inoculator, is engaged for the Essex hospital.
We are well informed, that a number of credible inhabitants in this town, have dropped the pernicious practice of drinking foreign teas.
DIED.] Suddenly, Mr. John Mico Wendall merchant, his funeral will be attended to morrow afternoon, at 4 o'clock.
*** Speedily will be published at Russell's Printing office, the trial of James Somersett, a negro, lately determined in England.
*** ADVERTISEMENTS, &c. &c. omitted will be in our next.
NEW-YORK November 18. We have certain advice by the Packet, that a ship for New-York, and another for Philadelphia, to bring the East-India Company's Tea, were actually engaged—probably another for Boston.—But that the matter was managed with the utmost secrecy, and every Artifice would be used to introduce it by some means that we might scotch it, or be able to counteract it.
NEWPORT, November 22. We are assured that 50 or 60 families in this town, who have constantly used tea in their houses for a long time, have lately entirely abstained from that pernicious herb; and that numbers of others are on the point of abandoning the disgraceful practice of tea-drinking. As a most useful hint to tea-drinkers, we can assure them from the best authority, that all Bohea Tea, as well as Green, by being kept a considerable time, will breed a kind of insect, somewhat resembling a flea, which renders the tea more pernicious to health than it would otherwise prove; and therefore, as the East India company are so anxious to force their rotten tea into this country, it is most probable that it is greatly damaged by these insects, so that they cannot sell it at home, for which reason it behoves the Americans to be very cautious in buying tea of any kind, more especially what comes from England: but the surest way to be safe is to drink none.
Printing Office, Newbury-Port, Nov 23d.
On Saturday, the 4th of December,
will be published,
NUMBER I. of
A New Weekly NEWS-PAPER,
To be entitled,
The ESSEX JOURNAL,
AND
MERRIMACK PACKET:
OR THE
Massachusetts and New-Hampshire
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
(To be distributed and given, GRATIS, to the
Inhabitants of both Provinces.)
THOSE who incline to ADVERTISE
in said paper, in this or the neighbouring
Towns, may find it GREATLY to their
ADVANTAGE, especially the Merchants and
Shopkeepers in BOSTON; as a very
large Number will be printed off, and distri-
buted throughout the Provinces of Massachu-
setts Bay and New-Hampshire, [Gratis.]
ADVERTISEMENTS are taken in
at the Printing-Office in Newbury-Port, and
by ISAIAH THOMAS, Printer, near the
Market, Boston, at very reasonable prices.
Samuel Eliot,
Informs his friends, and the Public, that he has
imported in the Hayley, Capt. Scott,
A N assortment of 3-4ths. 7-8ths.
and yard wide IRISH LINENS, which
have been procured on the best term.
A variety of Hosiery, &c. which
with the Goods he had before received this Fall,
compleat a general assortment of
English, Scotch and Irish Piece
GOODS.
He has also imported a variety of
Cutlery and Hard WARE,
Pepper, Cinnamon, Cloves and Nutmegs,
A few casks of Gun Powder.
All which will be sold by wholesale and re-
tail, at his shop near the head of Dock's-Square,
and at his store in Wilson's-lane.
To the PUBLIC.
WHEREAS ROBERT HAL-
LOWELL Esq; Comptroller of the
Customs, in Boston, has currently reported,
that the subscriber some two months since,
robbed him of his purse in the Market; and
on the strength of that presumption, informed
Mr. Henderson Inches, also lately robbed, that
I was the person who probably did it; I beg
leave to inform the public in this manner, that
Mr. Inches came to my house with an officer,
who staid with me till Mr. Inches brought
Mr. Hallowell, who viewed me, and still con-
ceiving I was the guilty person, desired leave to
search my house, chest, desk, &c. which I
granted; then referred to Mrs. Doyle, for a
better knowledge of me as the robber of Mr.
Hallowell, to whom I also accompanied them,
and Mrs. Doyle declared the quite contrary of
what Mr. Hallowell expected; on which Mr.
Inches very civilly dismissed me. Now there-
fore in justice to my much injured character,
I call upon Mr. Hallowell, or any one else,
to produce any one circumstance, in my life or
character that should render me liable to any
such imputation. If he in particular cannot, I
presume he will think himself in justice obliged
to render my innocence as public, as he aimed
to do my guilt. SAMUEL THOMSON.
Boston November 24th 1773.
On TUESDAY next,
At TEN in the Morning,
Will be SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
At GREENLEAF's Auction-Room,
in CORNHILL,
A LARGE assortment of En-
glish GOODS.
W. GREENLEAF, Auctioneer.
The particulars in Monday's papers.
TO BE SOLD,
At ISAAC WINSLOW's store
At the End of King-Street,
NEW-England rum, Philadel-
phia flour, ship bread in casks, loaf and
brown sugar, rice by the cask, also some good
soles TEA, if applied for immediately.

For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y. To the AMERICAN COLONIES.
OUR exertions in the great cause of freedom have been noble; and they must be continued with redoubled vigour. The time is now come which requires your united strength and wisdom. Act agreeable to the character of FREEMEN, and you shall continue FREE. You need not be instructed in the rights of mankind; you know them. The principles held up in my treatise on government, which you have approved and highly honoured, are, that whoever invades the liberties of the people, is guilty of treason, and may justly be punished by them, be his character high or low; and if he oppose them by force, he thereby becomes their enemy, and may be opposed by force until he is brought to reason, or to ruin—The application of this doctrine is easy, and you will naturally make it.
If a clan of unrighteous men in Britain, with a few of their tools in America, should enslave this great, free and growing people, astonishment must seize every generous mind, and all will view it as the most unaccountable event in the history of mankind.
But it cannot be, Liberty has taken deep root and will reign in America. Five millions of people born and nourished in freedom and enlightened by learning, cannot, unless heaven is against them, be enslaved. The history of the world does not produce such an instance; neither does it shew one people or country, at the age of this, equally glorious. America, will undoubtedly exhibit new scenes of human glory, surpass all other people and nations, and be the most delightful abode for all mankind on this globe.
A misguided administration in Great-Britain, has for a number of years, pursued plans calculated to destroy the nation; and it fully appears, that nothing but the stern virtue of this country can resist the despotism which now threatens to involve all in ruin—It is therefore the indispensable duty of the Americans to defend their own rights from every approach of tyranny. So sunk is Britain in debt, in corruption, and every abomination, you have very little reason to expect that wisdom and justice will ever again govern her conduct towards you; and therefore your safety, under providence, depends intirely upon yourselves. You cannot consent with your safety and freedom, suffer pensioned, or which is the same thing, bribed men to rule over you—nor allow any set of men to prosecute measures which strike at the root of liberty—and it will doubtless be considered by the Americans, (if the British administration should let another session of parliament pass without fully redressing their wrongs and injuries) whether the dernier resort for their liberties, and only Asylum for freedom , is not an American common wealth ?—you are now in a condition to redress your injuries and establish your own rights, and you will degrade yourselves if you should ever petition any man or men again for relief. L O C K E.
For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y.
To Mr. HUTCHINSON.
SIR,
FROM a natural aversion to heap, even necessary castigation upon the most ill-deserving member of the society I belong to, I have for several months suffered your measures to enslave this country to pass unnoticed in that direct and pointed manner in which I have on some former occasions addressed you. My intimates have not failed on this account to chide me, with a failure of duty which they observe, but too prevalent throughout the province. And by way of apology for resuming a task, of which I doubt not you would readily have excused me, I beg leave to recite their remonstrance. They say the usurpation, of which you are the principal executive instrument, find that by accumulating grievances they nearly take off our attention from the whole of them. We clamoured when the duties were laid on paper, painters colours, glass and tea, and a board of commissioners were established in the capital to enforce the collection of them. Immediately on the back of that came your pension of 200. per annum, and on the heels of that your 1500. salary, with a cargo of instructions as vexatious, insulting and intolerable as they were usurping and unconstitutional. Amidst all this, and to cram down all the oppressions a rash hot-headed, upstart, could project, with your own and cabal's assistance,
we had a fleet and army sent to menace, and perhaps murder us, for any thing we could ever find to the contrary; for why not destroy one community of British subjects, to divide their spoil, and render them slaves at meer mercy as well as another? This, Sir, you remember did end in blood, and had it not been for our heroic elder brethren, your paternal tenderness would never have prevented its further effusion. It was doubtless as indefensible by British acts of parliament or the sense of the omnipotent former of them, that the troops should be expelled from Boston, as India bonded goods reshipped in non-importation time, or tea sent back at this time. In this dreadful condition we were drove to appeal to all mankind, and to the second resource of aggrieved subjects to petition the throne. What success had this measure Mr. Hutchinson? A partial repeal of the tea act took place somewhere about that time, on principles avowedly unfavourable to the colonies, and our fortress castle William was demanded, to be put into the hands of men, who had already (and appear on all occasions-eager to) shed our blood. With this demand you complied without the least hesitation, or real consultation, as ever I could learn; how consistent with your duty, will doubtless one day be matter of serious enquiry! Hardly recovered from the consternation into which we were thrown by such a bare-faced surrender of all the monumental strength of the state, we found our supreme executive bribed by the same power from whom we had experienced all the foregoing cruel invasions of our rights. This last step could not fail to alarm the whole body of a people, who had some foretastes of the influence of this novel dependence, and originated the establishment of a means of communicating just ideas, of our rights, grievances, and the absolute necessity of uniting together, to reclaim the former, and repel the efforts of the power, which would confirm and aggravate the latter. In consequence of a more effectual opposition to one part of your favourite scheme, to destroy us, than you probably expected, a powerful body was actually thrown into the anti-ministerial scale, and through their influence the source of your existence as a pensioner, had like to have been cut off. You trembled at the news! like a most obdurate Jewish idolater you offered your sons to Moloch , rather than part with that Mammon of unrighteousness , for the acquisition and retention of which you have perpetrated iniquity enough to damn whole empires, were it equally divided among their inhabitants. You have laboured, twisted, bullied, coaxed, misrepresented the state of the whole matter, both in the public papers, and private conversation; recommending the same to your Colonel Ponds, Justice Hewins's, and the wretched herd of your detestable tools, who serve the Devil, at least for small wages, whether Job served his creator for naught or no. A mighty favour indeed it would be for this province to barter the current silver for a pernicious, enervating, corrosive and poisoned drug; that in a mercantile sense has been indeed a drug on hand these seven years! Is the tea then so indispensable an article of our diet, that we must rush on political-perdition to obtain it? Were the tax laid upon it but one farthing old tenor per chest, while that is to be extorted without pretence of equivalent or any agreement with the contributor, and were all the tea in the India company's warehouses, bought up with the nation's money, as votes, acts of parliament are said to be, and sent over to be bestowed on us, barely to obtain the condition of a universal acquiescence in the right of the British, Irish or any other parliament than our own, to grant our monies, I would esteem myself as innocent in persuading my countrymen to drink rats-bane dissolved in weakened aqua-fortis, on condition that I might have a reward of five per cent on the gains of the Doctors who endeavoured to remedy the havoc it would make. This, Sir, your conscience tells you is no exaggeration. I confess my trade would bring death something quicker than yours. But death is an Asylum from slavery, which many a savage has heroically seized on! do not mistake me, Sir, for an advocate of the cowardly crime of self-murder on any other terms than to free ourselves from tyranny so firmly established, that our escape or deliverance from it appears really impossible. In that case a man cannot be said to be the proprietor or tenant of his life, under the supreme disposer of it; another has usurped it, and all things torn from the rightful possessor by lawless force, are of right remanded by the same means.
Can you deny, Mr. Hutchinson, that an absolute despotism is established here? Can you believe so humane a people as this will willingly quit the amicable state of law-
ful and constitutional civil society , where every one enjoys the freedom of his person, the right of conscience and security of his honestly obtained acquisitions, whether of good fame and consequent trust among his fellow-citizens, or the other goods of fortune, as lands, monies, &c. now under, the guardianship of themselves and their equals alike concerned in the preservation of them, to plunge headlong into a state of wrong, violence, flattery, falsehood, rapine, torture and murder? where the caprice of one or a few, on all occasions determines the fate of all: Where the Bastille , rack and gibbet still the murmurs of the oppressed; and half starved wretches magnify the bounty of their King for kindly suffering them to draw water out of the Seine, and carry it on their backs to supply the city of Paris. Despotism you know, Sir, produces all this, as naturally as fire does heat, and yet for a few precarious moments enjoyment of a little useless cash, you can rush upon such paracide! Consider Mr. Hutchinson! Can you say in your heart, there is no God ? Can you think of a judgment to come and not tremble? Blood has already besmeared the streets of that metropolis which afforded you the first vital breath. Innocent blood, as yet unappeased impeaches your measures as the cause of its effusion. You are again labouring to draw on a repetition of the tragedy. Ruthless barbarian! does it not shame you when even a Tryon, on your application, refused to be an accomplice in your scheme of establishing government? But leaving religious considerations, and admitting for once that God is not in all your thoughts ; Do you imagine yourself capable always to deceive and abuse Man? Will your bare mention of the word government satisfy your countrymen, that the present system of unconstitutional and intolerable tyranny is the government they ought to revere and support? Was ever a lawful government supposed to have other objects in view, than the good of the people over whom it was erected? Did ever the distinction of friends to government in opposition to the friends, defenders of the rights of the people take place in this territory since Andros left it, till your administration? And what, Sir, do political writers stile a government in opposition to the rights of the people; or what does such a governor, his aids and abettors deserve from the people? Protection, no doubt by military and civil officers; that peace and good order may be maintained while he in the face of the sun is insuring their destruction! insatuated man! your Dæmon has left you long since, but not before he had ripened you for an example hardly to be paralleled in any age or country. Well said the prophet that the heathen who know not the law are accursed . Accursed indeed should we be, if we did not know, that there was a time, when resistance by force of arms was the warranted duty of a community! And is not that time directly consequent upon our petitioning the throne to no purpose? Is not that time arrived to us? Have we not degraded ourselves by a scandalous repetition of petitions and remonstrances, which served only to persuade a tyrannic administration that we dare go no further, than to petition and resolve about grievances? Are we not insulted with an assurance that instead of being called home and tried, for infinitely worse crimes than Byng was shot for, you may retire to a pensioned sinecure? I would gladly be informed whether that plotting, perjured, patron of private assassination, who advised the 'taking off' a number of our best citizens is to succeed you in the chief seat of government! Have not you yourself some six years since acknowledged we had a right of resistance, had we power, even in the dawning of a day which now scorches every green herb? In fine, have not the inroads upon our civil constitution been so flagrant, so numerous and continued, that it would be a treasonable acquiescence in us, to endure them any longer? A state at open enmity with its head, is a political monster: Happy is it for states that their heads are political creatures, which they may, by common consent, cast off at pleasure! Your behaviour, Mr. Hutchinson, has, according to every salutary maxim of state, returned the word to this people and after doing justice with it upon yourself, they may entrust it in what hand they please in future. You cry peace, peace! but there is no peace saith my God to a trampler on the rights of his country! The inherent rights of nature, and the constitution entitle us "to DIS- TURB, pursue and suppress the ministers of ARBITRARY power as common enemies and oppressors, and assert the original form
* A state prison, where the grand monarque on any information of misdemeanor, can shut up any subject during life, without judge, jury, evidence or examination whatsoever.
of government." You have conspired the alteration of our civil government in its very fundamentals, and endeavoured by every means in your power to accomplish the change. You have, as much as in you lay, engaged to subject us to a military tyranny; you have even connived at the wounding a peace officer, by a band of soldiers who by force of arms rescued a prisoner out of his hands, and carried him off in triumph. You were applied to by the justice in whose presence this outrage was committed; and what, Great Sir, came of it? These were the supporters of your's, and Mr. Paxton's government, and were not to be discouraged. You are now abundantly anxious for another set of peace officers of like principles. You have attacked the press more than once, with as much violence as you were capable of exerting; and in that enterprize, aimed at the annihilation, of our security by grand juries, by ordering a pensioned Attorney-General to prosecute by information. These are a few instances of the many thousand in your political management that deserve to be laid before the world in answer to Colonel Pond's challenge at a public entertainment to point out one instance wherein you have violated the charter. It is said you have leave to depart this province. This undoubtedly gives you an opportunity to manifest whether your regard for its peace and good order, is real or pretended. By removing yourself, family and principal accomplices from among us, and giving the British ministry a true account of the state of the province, you might prevent much mischief, and obviate numerous evil consequences which your perseverance will render inevitable. I tell you this, not that I fear a trifling scuffle, for I am certain it must produce happy effects to the people, but to put you more in the wrong if you do not observe it. One thing I cannot conclude without touching upon, that is the wonderful petition of yourself from Milton to yourself in privy council in Boston, in the superb character of protector of private property , to amuse the people with expectation till this pestilence was introduced among them. We expect nothing from your wisdom or goodness on this head Mr. Hutchinson, and shall regard the engagement you endeavoured to extort from our selectmen, to use their influence to maintain the peace, as far as that relates to wholesome members of the society only. Public enemies have no right to peace or protection. Indeed the security of the common-wealth indispensably requires their expulsion. E. LUDLOW. * Acherley Constitutio Britan. p. 123.
For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y.
Mr. THOMAS,
WE have been contending for many years for our rights and liberties; it is high time to do something more effectual than petitioning, writing and talking. A few persons in the several colonies, with a view to gain have been the principal cause of the troubles we have met with, and are therefore chargeable with the robberies and murders which have been committed by the soldiers and Tories in this country. Such persons, are public enemies, and how long public enemies shall be tolerated is submitted to American justice. In the mean time, it is hoped the traitors will repent and reform before judgment overtakes them.
The bugbear of a standing army , which once terrified some feminine minds, has lost its influence; for the Americans can derive advantages from them, and have already done it. But should any persons be instrumental of bringing in soldiers again, with a design to establish tyranny, no doubt the people will think themselves authorized by the law of nature to destroy all such enemies to the public.
American policy, is now reduced to a system, the people understand their rights, know how to defend them, and to deal with their enemies. May we go on and prosper until there is not an enemy to freedom left on the continent of America. Y. Z. &c.
For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y.
Mr. THOMAS,
WE have been pleasantly amused by the friends of the tea confignees giving out, they had come into the measure of the people, and were willing to give up the tea to be housed and kept under inspection of a committee of the trade or the town, till the duties were taken off. And this mighty concession was received with such an air of satisfaction, as if it was presumed that all was of course to be now easy, but these good gentlemen, are hereby informed that this is too firmly a blind to deceive or divide a well-advised community. We know that on a certificate of its being LANDED here, the tributary is by an agreement to be paid in London. Landing therefore, is the point in view by the tools of administration; and every nerve will be strained to obtain it. ARGUS.

Ann-Street Advertisements. To be SOLD by  Archibald Cunningham,  CHOICE Lisbon, Corcavilla and Claret wine by the quarter cask, Madeira wine in half pipes, Lisbon oil, per cask, raisins per cask, Turkey figs per cask, fresh currants per hundred or dozen, almonds, the best of split peas per cask or bushel, green capers per cask, per pound or in bottles, spices of all kinds by the pound or larger quantity, the best of Hylon, Souchong and Bohea Tea, all warranted good; coffee, ginger, allspice, starch, crown soap, indigo, black, cloth coloured and white silk handkerchiefs per dozen, very fine black silk by the pound, mustard in bottles per dozen, china cups and saucers, a good assortment of glass, delph and cream colour'd ware, corks by the quantity or single gross, allum, red-wood, copperas, waste paper, loaf and brown sugar, dutch hearth brushes. N. B. A quantity of best bay bait Mackerel per the barrel, a few choice pickled ones to be sold if applied for direct y.
Jonathan Williams, jun. Has imported in the Dolphin, Capt. Scott from LONDON, a number of the most fashionable  BROAD CLOTHS; which makes his assortment more compleat than it ever yet has been—His super-fines are the very best that are made in England, and all the others will be found on examination to be very cheap according to their qualities, of which he only requests the impartial judgment of the purchaser.—Every kind of trimmings exactly matched, and an elegant assortment of gold and silver spangle and death-head buttons. He has also some very neat printed velvets for gentlemen's waistcoats, which are very beautiful, as well as cheap and durable—He still keeps up his elegant assortment of  English goods in general, At his shop opposite the Drum Makers. And as he trades for ready-money only will endeavour by selling low to induce his customers to part with that precious article. N. B.—Several articles at the sterling cost.
Jeremiah Allen, Informs his friends and the public, that he has received per the Dolphin, Capt. Scott, from LONDON,  A new supply of Goods In the Hard-Ware branch. Which he doubts not will give the purchaser a general satisfaction as those he brought with him, both in point of goodness and price. Among which are the following articles, viz  LONDON Pewter Dishes, plates and basins, cans, tankards, tea pots and bottle cranes, wine measures, table and tea spoons, bed and close stool pans, brass kettles and skillets, frying and warming pans, desk and book case furniture, brass knockers, cutlors, bed caps, cloak pins, knobs, screw rings, bolts, scales and weights, brass and iron candle sticks, also a few of Prince's metal in the neat taste, steel spring and japan'd snuffers, fire shovels and tongs, bellows, kitchen jacks, andiron box and flat irons, Box iron grates, bed screws, curriers knives, Cox's make, silver, ivory and bone handle knives and forks, penknives, razors, scissors, taylors shears, cutteaux, snuff boxes, horn and ivory combs, coat and breast buttons, shoe and knee buckles, temple and Dutch spectacles, locks and hinges of all sorts, carpenters and joiners tools, powder and shot, English and French flints, bar and sheet lead, 6 by 8, 7 by 9, 10 by 8 London crown window glass, worsted, wool combs, clothiers shears, anvils and vices, awl blades and shoe tacks, nippers and pincers, beaver, castor and felt hats, black and white winfor caps, bambo, logwood, solid joint and hazel angling rods, hair and silk lines, best kirby and common hooks, kirby hooks on gimp and hair, snap hooks, landing nets, flies, goose floats, corks, fly line, gimp, brass winches, span-tops for rods, English and German steel, London T D 15 inch pipes, a large assortment of looking glasses, the most elegant, perhaps, ever offered for sale in America, also a few pair in the Palmyra taste, with jerendoles. Nails, brads, tacks, &c. and almost every article in the hard ware way.
Duncan Ingraham, jun. Has just received, per the Dolphin, Capt. Scott, from London,  A VARIETY of lambkins, beavers, and coatings for furriers, which, (with a very genteel assortment of European Goods before on hand) he will sell great pennyworths, at his shop in Union Street, Boston. N.B. A few elegant chin-z patterns just arrived to be sold if soon applied for, uncommon low. Hylon tea, non-superior, China ware, Kippen's snuff, &c. &c.
To be SOLD at the Shop of  Charles Lowe, In Marshall's-Lane, facing the BOSTON- STONE,  FINE Lisbon OIL, by the gallon, Quart or less. Best Durham Mustard, by the pound or less. Red Herrings, by the hundred or less. Choice Dorchester Beer, by the gallon or quart. Fine Currants and Raisins, by large or small quantities. Dumb and Merchantable Fish, by the Quintal or smaller quantity. ALSO, Loaf and brown Melasses, Sugars, Cotton Wool, Rice, Indigo, Flour, Raisins, Allspice, Pepper, Nutmegs, Spermaceti Oil, Coffee, Dumb Fish, Tea, Indian and Rye Meal, Chocolate, &c &c. &c.
CYRUS BALDWIN, Hereby informs his customers and others, that he has to sell cheap for cash at his shop in Cornhill, near the State-house in Boston;  CHOICE Souchong and Hylon tea, pepper, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, mace, and nutmegs, best Kippen's snuff and indigo. Silk muffs and tippets, fur ditto, looking glasses, superfine scarlet drab cloth for men's cloaks with scarlet cloths of all prices. Superfine, middling, and low priced, broad cloths. Kerseys, ratteens, bearskins, lambkins and beaver coatings, with trimmings to match them, beavers and flannels. A fine assortment of shalloons, tamies and durants, a large assortment of worsted hose-y, silk thread and cotton ditto, silk and worsted, silk and cotton mixed ditto. Furniture and other calicoes, carpets and carpeting, Scotch plaids, English sh-ss, clogs and galoshes. Children's Morocco shoes, Lynn shoes, and Goldshoes, with a general assortment of goods suitable for all seasons. All cheap for cash.
Insurance on Vessels and Goods. AT the Insurance Office of EZEKIEL PRICE near the Exchange,  INSURANCE, May be made on vessels, cargoes, and private adventures, at VERY LOW PREMIUMS, full one quarter part less than formerly. Note well—In case of loss the Insurance will be PUNCTUALLY PAID.
SILKS And Superfine BROAD CLOTHS.  A Prime assortment of Padusoys, Ducapes, Lutestrings; plain and figured Satins, Damasks, Sarfets, &c.—Superfine, fashionable coloured Broad Cloths, with suitable Linings and Trimmings. To be sold at an exceeding low rate, by  JOHN BARRETT & SONS, At their Shop near the Mill-Bridge, Boston, Where may be had, all kinds of  English, Scotch, India, Hard-Ware and Cutlery GOODS. By Wholesale or Retail, Extremely cheap for cash or short credit.
SILENT WILDE, Hereby informs his former customers and others,  THAT he hath engaged to ride from Boston to Northampton, Deerfield, &c. for the term of one year, beginning from third week of November next, and to carry each one that shall employ him, one of the Boston weekly news-papers, &c. as usual, during said time, at two dollars each:—To ride once a fortnight the one half of the year, and the other half every week: One dollar to be paid him at the end of six months, the other at the year's end.—He desires all those that incline to take the news-papers of him, that they would leave their names at the taverns, in the respective towns where they reside, and they may depend upon being punctually served therewith.—On suitable encouragement he proposes to ride through Westminster, Templeton, &c.
All persons indebted to the PRINTER hereof, will greatly oblige him by making speedy payment.
The Sons of Science in America, Are by this notification informed, that, under their auspicious influence,  ROBERT BELL, Printer, Bookseller, Humble Provedore to the SENTIMENTALISTS and Hand Servant to the Friends of LITERATURE,  HATH now fully accomplished a decent AMERICAN Edition of the splendid Judge BLACKSTONE'S  COMMENTARIES ON THE  LAWS of ENGLAND. In FIVE VOLUMES. The Fourth and Fifth Volumes of which are now ready to be delivered to the Subscribers at Messrs. Edes and Gill's Printing-Office, in Queen Street, Boston. * * * Those encouragers who make speedy application for this celebrated work will peculiarly oblige the undertaker, and greatly contribute towards the elevation and enlivening of Literary Manufactures in America.
To be sold, two eight day Clocks, made in London, warranted to be good. Enquire of the Printer.
Andrew Newell, MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER From LONDON, At his Shop just below the Sign of Admiral VERNON , in King Street, Boston,  IMPORTS and SELLS,
A Great variety of Pocket Cases of drawing instruments, long and short hand drawing pens, brass compasses with shifting points, plain ditto beam compasses for drawing large circles, bows for drawing curved lines, sets of feather-edge scales in brass, ivory or wood, plain ditto or plotting ditto in ditto, gunter's two feet and one foot scales in brass and wood, protractors of all sorts, parallel rulers from six to thirty-six inches, circumferentors, the principal instrument for surveying, plain tables for ditto, Theodolites for ditto, four and two pole surveying chains, measuring wheels for surveyors, horizontal sun dials for all latitudes, universal sun dials, Barometers, ditto Thermometers in one frame, pocket ditto in shagreen cases, spirit thermometers in box scales for houses, hydrometers in ivory, ditto in copper with weights, &c. for proving spirits.
A great variety of Dollon's patent telescopes from one to four feet in length, Achromatic opera and prospective glasses, spy glasses of various lengths with four or six glasses, microscopes for viewing linen. Wilson's pocket ditto, flowered pocket ditto, Diagonal machines for viewing of prints, large book ditto, variety of prints for ditto, reading glasses set in frames, concave in ditto for short-sighted persons, burning ditto in ditto, watch-makers glasses in ditto, spare spectacle glasses for all ages.
A great variety of Hadley's and Davis's QUADRANTS, Azimuth compasses, amplitude ditto, mariners ditto for Biangles, cabin ditto of all sorts, pocket ditto of all sorts, sand glasses from four hours to a quarter of a minute, black mineral half-hour glasses on an entire new construction, half and quarter minute ditto.
STATIONARY. Guinea Pilot, Streights ditto, West-India ditto, Southren and Streights ditto, mariners calendar, mariners compasses, daily assistant, Guinea charts, Mercator charts from America, &c. Newfoundland ditto, North-Carolina ditto, South-Carolina ditto, Bay Chesapeake ditto, West-India ditto, Honduras ditto, Mosquito shore ditto, maps of the city of London, best black lead pencils, ivory memorandum books with do. Journal books in marble covers, Journal ditto ruled, red Morocco pocket books with steel locks, black leather ditto with clasps, afs-skin memorandum books, leather ink holders, pewter ink pots, best patent cake ink, sealing wax and wafers, best dutch quills, writing paper.
N. B. Genteel India joint walking canes with swords, box beam money scales with weights, &c.
A Variety of other instruments, too tedious to mention, are made, repaired and sold at the above place. Where any gentleman by letter or other direction, may depend on being as faithfully served as if present.
And as he had a thorough experience from one of the most noted artists in that branch in the city of London, he doubts not of giving ample satisfaction to every one who pleases to favour him with their custom, which will be gratefully acknowledged by their humble servant,  ANDREW NEWELL.
This day was published, Price 7 coppers single, and 20s. O.T the dozen, Illustrated with a neat Engraving, of the WICKED STATESMAN , or the TRAITOR to his Country, at the hour of DEATH.
And to be SOLD by  ISAIAH THOMAS, At his Printing-Office, near the Market, and at his Shop, near the Mill Bridge,
THE  Massachusetts Calendar; OR, AN  ALMANACK For the Year of our Lord CHRIST , 1774; Being the second after Leap Year. By EZRA GLEASON. Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, New-England, lat. 42, deg. 25 min. north, but will serve, in most respects, for Nova-Scotia and the four New-England Governments. This Almanack contains one quarter part more than Almanacks generally do, and is embellished with that which will make it both Useful and Entertaining.
CONTAINING, A short piece on Patriotism, or the Love of one's Country, (with an Engraving.) The four Seasons of the Year, exhibiting the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, and the parts of the Body governed thereby, (with a cut.)
The names of the Planets and Aspects; Eclipses for the year 1774; Names and Characters of the Twelve Signs; Remarkable Days; Time of the Superior and Inferior Courts sitting in the four New-England Governments; Sun's rising and setting; Time of High Water Morning and Evening; Moon's Rising and Setting; Changes of the Moon; Time of the Sun's entering the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac; Judgment of the Weather; Vulgar Notes for the year 1774. A L S O,
Of the Sun; of the Earth; of the Visibility of Matter; of the Fixed Stars. An Account of a Woman's being killed by an Erruption from the Earth, in a most remarkable manner; some Remarkable Sayings; Mscellanies; Maxims, which every person ought to bear in mind; some Directions in Husbandry.
THE UNBELIEVER'S CREED. Useful and Approved Receipts, viz. for a Bilious Cholick; for an Astmatick Cough; From the Ear-Ach from Cold; a very good Eye Water; for the Falling Sickness; for a Flux; for the Gout in the Stomach; for the Gravel; for the Itch; for Sore and Running Legs; for the Measles; for the Cholick in Children; to prevent Sea-Sickness; a new Cure for the Tooth-Ach.
Some pieces of POETRY , viz. the entertaining Tale of the FARMER'S BLUNDER ; on the Twelve Signs; What is Man? the Lutanist; the King of Europe, a jest.
LIKEWISE, Roads to the several Principal Towns in the province, and the Continent, and the best Houses of Entertainment, and the Distance they are at from the State-House, in Boston, also the distance from one place to another.
* * * Booksellers, Shop-keepers, Traders, &c. may be supplied on very advantageous terms, to sell again, by the Hundred, Gross or Dozen.
CHARLES GEDDES,  CLOCK and WATCH MAKER and FINISHER , from LONDON,  AT his shop just below the sign of ADMIRAL VERNON , in King-street, Boston, maker, mends, cleans, repairs and fitches all sorts of CLOCKS and WATCHES in the best and neatest manner and on the most reasonable terms.
This Day published, price 1s. 4d.
A NEW Book of POEMS; On several Occasions. By ELHANAN WINCHESTER, jun. Preacher of the Gospel, and author of the Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Poems, designed for the use and edification of Christians. Printed by I. THOMAS , for the Author. Sold by P. FREEMAN , in Union-street, and by P. FREEMAN, jun. near Liberty-Tree.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS,
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