The Massachusetts spy (Boston [Mass.]), 1771-09-26 00:00:00

THE MASSACHUSETTS SPY
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER:--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
Published by I. THOMAS, in Union-Street, BOSTON.
NOV 8 1916
VOL. I.]
THURSDAY, September 26, 1771.
[NUMB. 30.]
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
THE CENTINEL. No. XIV.
Ye beards! ye pillars of our falling state! Too faithful subjects of a prince ingrate; Say, shall a single hand, such patriots awe, Infult your virtue, and supplant your law?
Mr. BROOKS.
HIS notion that the laws are the standard by which all actions are to be regulated, is not peculiar to the English constitution. We meet with it in monarchies which have long since lost their antient virtue. Some rays beam through the rubbish that surround them, and sparkle amid the ruins of freedom. To allude to a great writer, "the flame still burns, though the altar has crumbled to pieces." Even Ulpian, a famous writer on the imperial laws, though bred in high notions of prerogative, has yet declared, "If a prince sets about any public work, it must be done without injury to any one." Lib. 8. sec. 2. Hadrian and Alexander Severus, both writers on the same subject, are of this opinion. The latter in explaining the Lex Regia , which it is said, militates directly with the doctrine we are upon, has these words, " Nihil tam essentialis est imperii quam legibus gubernare. " Nothing is so essential to a prince as to govern by law." Lib. 4. Before I quit this head, I cannot help transcribing a passage from Mr. Selden, relative to this point. See p. 12. "One may observe, says he, very plainly by the fragment of the Lex Regia , which we have, that the people of Rome did not pretend to authorise their Emperors to do mischief, since it declares, Utique quaecunque ex usu reipublicae, majestate divinarum, humanarum, publicarumque rerum esse consisteret, ei agere, facere jus, potestasque sit, ita uti dicitur, Augustus, Tiberioque Julio Caesari, et Claudio fuit. One sees very well by it, that the people gave the Emperor full power to procure the good of the state, not that he should destroy it." Yea we find instances when this was designed, although enervated, the people were sensible of their rights. We read, populus saepe in tyrannum insurgens, solet dicere se non regem, sed in sui defensionem occidisse tyrannum; sic fecit Romanus populus occidendo Neronem; sic et Senatus dixerat, cum Domitianum extinzerat. De quo Tullius de offic. 3. c. 4. "Occidere tyrannum scelus non esse populo Romano visum est, sed illud pulcherrimum existimat. Fort. opus. de natura legis natura. cap. 7." "The people often rose on their tyrant, declaring that not the King, but the Tyrant they had killed in their own defence; thus did the Romans destroy Nero; this was their opinion when they demolished Domitian, on which point, thus Tully speaks, in his book, de offic. 3. 4. " "To slay a tyrant was never thought unjust by the Roman people, nay, they esteemed it commendable." Thus we see, not only the English law, is clear in this point, but we meet with it in constitutions, where perhaps it might not be expected. What must be then the temper of his mind, who is determined to govern against law, and against the sentiments of nations, who live under different climates, and under different constitutions.
If these things are so, if it is an invariable maxim, that the law alone is the standard of action, we come next in course to consider, whether the Governor in following ministerial instructions, does not set up a different standard, and by making these the rules of government, set aside the law; consequently, if this is proved, we are governed not agreeable to the constitution of Englishmen, agreeable to law, but directly against it.
It is uncontroverted, the Governor religiously adheres to these instructions, in spite of the remonstrances of the people. If then it can be proved, that these instructions are directly contrary to law, and tend immediately to the demolition of our antient constitution, the argument will appear well founded, and my countrymen will readily perceive what use ought to be made of it.
Various have been the instructions that have been sent over by the minister. That which relates to the management of the House of Representatives, I shall pass over; the illegality and unconstitutional nature of it, has been proved by more masterly pens. The other measure also, which relates to taxation, has been largely considered in my 9th number. What at present I am at, will be to throw new light on the matter, and by enforcing it with some new arguments, make the whole appear more conclusive.
It is an invariable maxim in law, and interwoven with the first principles of society, that taxes should ever be proportioned to the situation of the subject. The rich man ought ever to pay a greater sum than the poor man. The contrary doctrine is big with absurdity and imminent danger. The English law abhors partiality. To say that a law is just, equitable and right, and yet to say that it favours one, and bears hard against another, is a solecism. Is not this the case with the present instruction? Does not the minister exempt from taxes, a party of men, who are his tools, sycophants, &c. to the damage of the liege people of this province? Agreeable then to every principle of justice I know of, such a proceeding is against law.
There is nothing more known in our law books, than that protections in general are against law, and ought to be avoided. The present instruction appears to me to be the same thing, and operates in the same manner as a protection . See Cunningham, Bacon, Cowley. Mich. 2. H. 7. Rol. 124 as the rolls are quoted by my Lord Coke. A protection granted to Holmes, his servants, and deputies, resolved to be against law. Pasch. 7. H. 8. Rol. 66. such a protection disallowed, and the sheriff amerced for not executing the writ. Mich. 13 and 14 E. 2. in Hutchcock's case; and many others of later time. See my Lord Coke on this head. It is true, sometimes the law allows protections, but there is nothing it is so cautious about, for where one is legal, an hundred are illegal, which we may see if we turn to the late Judge Fortescue A. reports. Surely, if the generality of protections, nay if one is illegal, it must be such a one as this. Was the protection granted Holmes, a poor vintner, exempting him from a particular evil, adjudged illegal, much more so, that protection which exempts a large body of people from paying their taxes. Holmes's case was illegal, because against a particular private law of trade peculiar to London. The present affair is repugnant not only to the constitution, but to the very principles of society and natural justice.
There is one thing more in this instruction that makes it in my opinion evidently illegal. The Governor is ordered to lay the matter before the House; if they refuse to come into the measure, he is then to dissent to all their proceedings; consequently, if through a regard to the consequences that must attend this dangerous situation, they at last assent, it must be owing to force and compulsion. It is only going into one mischief to avoid what they may think a greater. If so, the act must be against their own consent, which every one knows is absolutely necessary in the proceedings of this body. The
common lawyer will tell us, that in dealings between man and man, in every contract, if there is any force on either side, the whole is void. Much more so will it hold good in parliament, which is indulged with higher privileges than any other person or thing whatever. When a person by duress or threats, &c. is forced to an action, when that duress is over, the action can be recalled. The law supposes, though the person consented, that consent was forced, was unnatural, and so ab initio illegal. This holds equally true in the present case, and shews how illegal such an instruction is, which is attended with such consequences. By it a wound is given to the vitals of the constitution, and a wound that perhaps may be severely felt through every part of the British empire.
The sum of the whole argument is this, it is a maxim essential to the existence of every free state, the law should ever be the rule of action. This we find to be the sense of the English constitution, as we have collected from the sentiments of great men who have wrote on the subject. In short, if law is not superior to all , and if every one is not bound to regulate his behaviour by law, the state of nature, anarchy and confusion must ensue. If therefore it appears, that these ministerial instructions are against law, against the custom of the realm, and subversive of the constitution, the consequence is plain and undeniable, a different mode of government is followed than what Englishmen are accustomed to,--that law, liberty, right, freedom and harmony, are chimeras, empty sounds, and that the pleasure of a minister is the only standard by which the actions of the people in this province are to be weighed. That these instructions are thus illegal, I think by this time is pretty evident. The arguments on this point are level with the meanest capacity, and he that runs may read. If these things are true, take care my countrymen, that you be not inattentive to these matters. They are as we have seen, of the utmost importance. Obsta principiis should frequently be inculcated on a people. If these first attacks are disregarded, a nation is undone. O! had they known in this their day, the things that belong to their peace , is a lamentation that is often heard in the political, as well as religious world. This inattention to first attempts has at last thrown monarchies from their fabric, and overthrew the system of empires. Let these things be impressed on the minds of my countrymen, amid every period of time, every vicissitude of event; let this be a prevailing principle, that you think it sacrilege to suffer those rights which the God of nature has committed to your care, to be wrested from you by the arts of wicked men, that you are determined they shall be transmitted a fair inheritance to children unborn, and shall continue unshaken, unimpaired to the latest posterity.
From the GENERAL EVENING POST. To his Grace the DUKE of GRAFTON. My LORD,
THE influence of your Grace's fortune still seems to preside over the Treasury. The genius of Mr. Bradshaw inspires Mr. Robinson. How remarkable is it, (and I speak of it not as matter of reproach, but as something peculiar to your character) that you have never yet formed a friendship, which has not been fatal to the object of it, nor adopted a cause, to which, one way or other, you have not done mischief! Your attachment is infamy while it lasts, and which ever way it turns, leaves ruin and disgrace behind it. The deluded girl, who yields to
such a profligate, even while he is constant, forfeits her reputation as well as her innocence, and finds herself abandoned at last to misery and shame. Thus it happened with the best of Princes. Poor Dingley too!--I protest I hardly know which of them we ought most to lament:--The unhappy man, who sinks under the sense of his dishonour, or him who survives it. Characters, so finished, are placed beyond the reach of panegyric. Death has fixed his seal upon Dingley, and you, my Lord, have set your mark upon the other.
The only letter that I ever addressed to the King was so unkindly received, that I believe I shall never presume to trouble his Majesty, in that way again. But my zeal for his service is superior to neglect, and, like Mr. Wilkes's patriotism, thrives by persecution. Yet his Majesty is much addicted to useful reading, and, if I am not ill-informed, has honoured the Public Advertiser with particular attention. I have endeavoured therefore, and not without success (as perhaps you may remember to furnish it with such interesting and edifying intelligence, as probably would not reach him through any other channel. The services you have done the nation,---our integrity in office, and signal fidelity to our approved good master, have been faithfully recorded. Nor have his own virtues been entirely neglected. These letters, my Lord, are read in other countries and in other languages; and I think I may affirm without vanity, that the gracious character of the best of Princes is by this time not only perfectly known to his subjects, but tolerably well understood by the rest of Europe. In this respect alone, I have the advantage of Mr. Whitehead. His plan, I think, is too narrow. He seems to manufacture his verses for the sole use of the hero, who is supposed to be the subject of them, and, that his meaning may not be unlawfully exported in foreign bottoms, sets all translation at defiance.
Your Grace's re-appointment to a seat in the Cabinet was announced to the public by the ominous return of Lord Bute to this country. When that noxious planet approaches England, he never fails to bring plague and pestilence along with him. The King already feels the malignant effect of your influence over his Councils. Your former administration made Mr. Wilkes an Alderman of London, and Representative of Middlesex. Your next appearance in office is marked with his election to the Sheriffalty. In whatever measure you are concerned, you are not only disappointed of success, but always to contrive to make the Government of the best of Princes contemptible in his own eyes, and ridiculous to the whole world. Making all due allowance for the effect of the Minister's declared interposition, Mr. Robinson's activity, and Mr. Horne's new zeal in support of the administration, we still want the genius of the Duke of Grafton to account for committing the whole interest of government in the city, to the conduct of Mr. H---y. I will not bear hard upon your faithful friend and emissary Mr. T---t, for I know the difficulties of his situation, and that a few lottery tickets are of use to his economy. There is a proverb concerning persons in the predicament of this gentleman, which however cannot be strictly applied to him. They commence dupes and finish knaves. Now Mr. T---t's character is uniform. I am convinced that his sentiments never depended upon his circumstances, and that, in the most prosperous state of his fortune, he was always the very man he is at present.---But was there no other person of rank and consequence in the city, whom Government could confide in, but

a notorious Jacobite? Did you imagine that the whole body of the dissenters, that the whole whig-interest of London would attend at the levy, and submit to the directions of a notorious Jacobite? Was there no Whig Magistrate in the city, to whom the servants of George the third could entrust the management of a business so very interesting to their master as the election of sheriffs? Is there no room at St. James's, but for Scotchmen and Jacobites? My Lord, I do not mean to question the sincerity of Mr. H---y's attachment to his Majesty's Government. Since the commencement of the present reign, I have seen still greater contradictions reconciled. The principles of these worthy Jacobites are not so absurd as they have been represented. Their ideas of divine right are not so much annexed to the person or family as to the political character of the Sovereign. Had there been ever an honest man among the Stuarts, his Majesty's present friends would have been Whigs upon principle. But the conversion of the best of Sovereigns has removed their scruples. They have forgiven him the sins of his H-----an ancestors, and acknowledged the hand of providence in the descent of the S----- upon the head of a Stuart. In you, my Lord, they also behold, with a kind of predelection, which borders upon loyalty, the natural representative of that illustrious family. The mode of your descent from Charles the second is only a bar to your pretensions to the crown, and no way interrupts the regularity of your succession to all the virtues of the Stuarts.
The unfortunate success of the Reverend Mr. Horne's endeavours, in support of the ministerial nomination of Sheriffs, will I fear obstruct his perseverance, permit me to recommend him to your Grace's protection. You will find him copiously gifted with those qualities of the heart, which usually direct you in the choice of your friendships. He too was Mr. Wilkes's friend, and as incapable as you are of the liberal resentment of a gentleman. No, my Lord; it was the solitary, vindictive malice of a monk, brooding over the infirmities of his friend, until he thought they quickened into public life; and feasting, with a rancorous rapture, upon the sordid catalogue of his distresses. Now, let him go back to his cloister. The church is a proper retreat for him. In his principles he is already a Bishop.
The mention of this man has moved me from my natural moderation. Let me return to your Grace. You are the pillow upon which I am determined to rest all my resentments. What idea can the best of Sovereigns form to himself of his own government - in what repute can he conceive that he stands with his people, when he sees, beyond the possibility of a doubt, that whatever be the office, the suspicion of his favour is fatal to the candidate, and that, when the party he wishes well to has the fairest prospect of success, if his Royal inclination should unfortunately be discovered, it drops like an acid, and turns the election? This event, among others, may perhaps contribute to open his Majesty's eyes to his real honour and interest. In spite of all your Grace's ingenuity, he may at last perceive the inconvenience of selecting, with such a curious felicity every villain in the nation to fill the various departments of his government. Yet I should be sorry to confine him in the choice either of his footmen or his friends. JUNIUS.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, July 13.
Correspondent observes on reading the account of the rebellion of the regulators in North-Carolina, that unless there are new governments made on the backs of the several provinces, it will in a short time be impossible to keep order in the back settlements of the provinces, they being so distant from the seat of Justice; and recommends to his Majesty the appointing three or four new colonies, and to distribute the lands (fifty acres to each) among those provincial troops who had served so long last war, and who were left out of the general proclamation, which included only regulars, his Majesty appointing the Governors and principal officers from the Mother Country.
July 15. It is confidently asserted that Lord Chatham is now busily employed in writing a memorial on the present state of the nation, which he means to present with his own hands to the Sovereign.
It is remarkable, says a correspondent, that during the long and glorious reign of King George II. of 34 years, 4 months, and 3 days not a single petition, address or remonstrance, was ever presented to him for redress of any grievances, whereas during the short reign of George III. of 10 years, 8 months, and 21 days, upwards of twenty petitions, &c. from the city of London and other parts of the kingdom, on account of the most intolerable grievances, have been presented, not one of which has been redressed.
July 25. Lord Mansfield, lately speaking on the freedom of the press, to a nobleman high in office, observed, that this country was likely to be undone by its news-papers "Did they represent the true state of things (said his Lordship) they would be valuable vehicles of public information; but hourly striving rather to confirm than correct the worst prejudices of the people, they become a very capital evil, and, as such, must be confined within the line of some rational regulation." Tremble ye sons of the press! a northern whirlwind is preparing for your destruction!!!!
The last JUNIUS has been sent down to Sir Fletcher Norton at Guildford and we hear with this question, "Is it not a treasonable publication?"
July 30. As sixty of the Kings subjects have been murdered, and above two hundred of them wounded in Carolina, through a sad mistaken policy in this Kingdom, and the discontent of the people was increasing, it is expected that disorder and rebellion will soon spread through all the back parts of Virginia, &c. to the great injury of the Sea Coast Colonies, and the commerce of this Kingdom: Now therefore is the time for Ministers to give a substantial proof of their attention to American affairs, as Parliament will certainly enquire into the cause of those murders and insurrections.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in India, October 23, 1770.
"On our arrival here, we found the river full of dead human carcasses, floating up and down, and the streets crowded with the dead and dying, without any one attempting to give them relief; so horribly has the famine raged here, that they who were able to walk and procure food for themselves, were so accustomed to see their fellow creatures perishing before them that it did not even create a painful motion. The numbers that have perished in Calcutta only, amounted (while they found it possible to keep an account) to 10 or 11,000 a week, but afterwards they became so numerous, that they were every morning just gathered together in an heap, and thrown into the river without any possibility of numbering them. I have myself passed by and seen twenty or thirty laid down to die in the length of one street. I have beheld the helpless infant tugging at the empty breast of its mother just expiring, without being capable of affording them the smallest aid. The dying mothers have frequently been delivered of the fruit of their wombs in the streets, and both have immediately been swept up amongst the dead. It was no uncommon sight to see dogs running about with human limbs in their jaws, and I am told that many of the expiring wretches were seen gorging on the bodies of those, who perished within their reach. The third part of this once populous country, is at the smallest computation entirely cut off. The famine is now at an end, though the effects of it are too visible. Those who have withstood the calamity (many of them) are not able to procure food for themselves, and are so numerous, that charity, of which much has been extended, cannot relieve them all. There are many therefore still dying daily in our sight. The stench of the mortality has made the last sickly season very fatal to the Europeans but that occasions no complaints, as it makes room for some of the others, who were waiting to succeed them, and are very numerous in proportion to the business."
August 3. Advice is received that the Empress of Russia has rejected seven of the articles of peace drawn up for ratification between Russia and the Porte.
It is said some very unpleasing accounts were received on Saturday night, in an ex-
press from the British Ambassador at Constantinople.
August 6. They write from Plymouth, that the Regiment lying in the barracks at the Dock there, has orders to hold itself in readiness to embark for North America.
The Earl of Rochford, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, superintends the American department during the Earl of Hillborough's residence in Ireland, so that the execution of the business of the Colonies is in no degree obstructed by his Lordship's absence.
The young King of Sweden is to be crowned at Upsal on the third of September.
It was reported this morning that very satisfactory answers have been received by our Ministry from the Courts of Versailles and Madrid, regarding certain cases now upon the point of being happily terminated.
We hear it is in contemplation at the Admiralty Board to advance the pay of Midshipmen and petty Officers on board the Royal Navy.
AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.
CHARLESTOWN, [South Carolina] Aug. 25.
THE North Carolina Gazette of the 19th of July says, "Upwards of 6000 of the people called regulators have taken the oaths of allegiance to his Majesty and happily returned to their farms and plantations." Their taking the oaths we make no doubt of; but we are informed, that since the battle of Alamance more than 1500 families, whose provisions were exhausted, and settlements broke up, by the march of Governor Tryon's army through Orange and the adjacent counties, have removed into this province, and will be followed by many more: and that the late 'signal and glorious victory' as it has been called, is like to ruin and depopulate a great part of that province.
Last week a Chief of the Oneida Indians arrived here from the Cherokee Country, attended by five or six of his own Countrymen, and about twenty Cherokees. He has been on an embassy to the several tribes on the Ohio, and says he has made a general peace between the English and Indians, as far as the Chickasaws. He has had several conferences with his honour the Governor in council, and proposes to embark in the first Vessel for Philadelphia, in order to return to his own country.
NEW-YORK, September 6. Tuesday last arrived here from Boston, Robert Auchmuty, Esq; Judge of the Vice court of Admiralty at that Place.
THURSDAY, September 26. BOSTON.
BY a gentleman from Philadelphia, we are informed, that 2000 weight of raw silk, had been received into their silature, and that at least 1000 more was expected to be sent thither this season. An example this worthy to be followed by every province on this oppressed continent. Was the culture of silk pushed with any tolerable vigour, in a few years it might become an article of export, superior to that of bone, oyl, furs or pot-ash: Or we might by introducing manufacturers of silk among us, soon be clothed in AMERICAN SILK, and have enough to spare to GREAT-BRITAIN.
The anniversary of the King's coronation falling out on Sabbath-day, the common notice was omitted till the day following. At twelve o'clock the cannon from the batteries in town were discharged, and at one o'clock a royal salute was fired from his Majesty's castle William and ships in this harbour. The Admiral's ship was beautifully decorated with a great variety of colours. Many loyal toasts were drunk on the occasion.
Yesterday the Rev. John Hunt, was ordained, and the Rev. John Bacon installed, colleague-pastors of the Old South Church in this town; the Rev. Mr. Hooker of North-Hampton began with prayer, and the Rev. Mr. Hunt preached an excellent sermon on the occasion, from ii. Timothy, chap. 2. verse 15. "Study to shew thyself approved unto God as a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." The Rev. Dr. Chauncy prayed and gave the charge; the Rev. Mr. Mather made the concluding prayer; after which the Rev. Dr. Elliot gave the right hand of fellowship, and concluded with an address to the church and congregation, in which he took particular notice of their former pious, reverend, and learned pastors.
On Wednesday the 13th instant a Convocation of the episcopal clergy was held in this town, when a sermon was preached at King's Chapel on the occasion by the Rev. Mr. Bafs, of Newbury.
We hear that yesterday was set apart for the Ordination of Mr. Niles, to the pastoral care of the Church in Abington. The particulars of which have not yet come to hand.
On Thursday last came on for Trial before the Superior Court at Worcester, the Action of Trespass brought by Ebenezer Cutler of Oxford, Plaintiff, against Robert Pierpont and Caleb Davis, Defendants: The Damages he demanded were 5000l. Lawful Money. We hear the Cause was closed by Mr. Josiah Quincy for the Defendants, and by the Attorney General for the Plaintiff, the day following. When the cause was committed to the Jury, who agreed in about eight hours, and brought in their verdict on Saturday in favour of both the Defendants.
On the 13th instant was committed to his Majesty's goal in Salem, one Bryan Sheehan of Marblehead, Fisherman, on the complaint of Abiah Hollowell, for beating, wounding and bruising her, and at the same time committing a rape. The Magistrates, who committed him, examined him a second time yesterday se'nnight, when they thought proper to remand him to Goal, in order for trial.
Continuation of the list of Field Officers, commissioned in this province. David Philp, Esq; Captain of the Governor's troop of guards, to rank as Colonel.
Third regiment in Middlesex, South part. John Noyes, Esq; Colonel. John Jones, jun. Esq; Lieutenant-Colonel. John Farrar, Esq; Major.
First regiment in Plymouth. George Watson, Esq; Colonel.
Regiment in Plymouth, West division. Josiah Edson, Esq; Colonel. Edward Howard, Esq; Lieutenant Colonel. Benjamin Willis, jun. Esq; Major.
Plymouth, East division. David Stockbridge, Esq; Colonel. Joseph Josselyn, Esq; Lieutenant Colonel.
Third Regiment in Bristol county. Hon. George Leonard, Esq; Colonel. Daniel Leonard, Esq; Lieutenant Colonel. George Godfrey, Esq; 1st Major. Joshua Stearn, Esq; 2d Major.
North regiment in Hampshire. Hon. Israel Williams, Esq; Colonel. Oliver Partridge, Esq; Lieutenant Colonel.
South regiment in Berkshire. John Ashley, Esq; Colonel. Elijah Dwight, Esq; Lieutenant Colonel. John Fellows, Esq; 1st Major. John Ashley, jun. Esq; 2d Major.
At a general council held at the council chamber on Thursday the 12th of September, his Excellency the Governor was pleased to nominate Stephen Jones, Esq; to be a justice of the peace for the county of Lincoln. To which nomination his Majesty's council did advise and consent.
DIED. J Mrs Ballard, Wife of Mr. Ballard, Joiner. At Cambridge, Mrs. Bradish, Wife of Mr. Bradish, tavern-keeper. At London, Capt. James Ball, eldest son of Mr. John Ball, late of this town, deceased.
SHIP NEWS.
This morning the Swan sloop of war failed for Halifax, and the Maria for South Carolina.
Capt. Davis, will sail this morning for London.
Saturday arrived Capt. Callihan, in a ship from London, he failed in company with the other ships lately arrived from thence.
Captain Brace, on his passage from Falmouth, fell in with Admiral Spry, who with six sail of the line was cruising off Scilly, and was detained by him several hours.
Saturday afternoon arrived here the Martin and Tamar ships of war from Nova-Scotia, and last Monday arrived the Viper from Carolina.
ARRIVED here. Burroughs from New Haven; Bosworth from Canso; Smith from Halifax; Shepherd from Madeira; Greely from Turks-Island and St. Lucia; Haynes from St. Croix; Kirkwood from Newcastle; Callahan, and Brace from London.
OUTWARD bound. Warner to New London; Nash to West Indies; Pierpont to South Carolina; Dun to Africa; and Rotch to Europe.
FREDERICK WILLIAM GEYER, desires all those that are indebted to him, either on Bond, Note or Book, to make speedy payment; and those to whom he is indebted, are desired to call for their money, as he intends for Europe early next spring. He also acquaints his customers and others, that he has received a large and general assortment of ENGLISH and INDIA PIECE GOODS, by the last ships from LONDON, which he will sell by retail remarkably cheap, and to those that buy by wholesale for near the cost and charges, for cash only.

BOOKS.  JOHN LANGDON, At the New Book and Stationary Store, opposite the Post-Office in Cornhill, Boston, Has just received from LONDON, A Large and fine Assortment of the most  Modern BOOKS, In all branches of Literature, Arts and Sciences, which will be sold Remarkably Cheap for the cash;
Among which are the following, viz.  HENRY on the Bible, 5 Vol. folio. Ditto on Prayer. Ditto on the Sacrament. Burket on the New-Testament, Folio. Locke's Works, 3 Vols. Folio. Ditto's Essays on Human Understanding. Ditto on Education. Boyer's French and English Dictionary a new edition, with the addition of many hundred words not in any former edition. Rollin's Ancient History, 12 Vol. Mrs. Macaulay's History of England, 4 Vol. Shakespeare's Plays, 9 Vol. Plutarch Lives, 9 Vol. Montesquieu Spirit of Law, 2 Vol. Universal History, 20 Vol. The West-Indian, a new Comedy. The Padlock, a new edition, with a variety of other PLAYS.
Clarke's Homer, 2 Vol. Davidson's Virgil.  SCHOOL BOOKS of every kind. With a variety of the newest and best Books in LAW, PHYSICK, HISTORY, and the CLASSICKS.
Court and City Register for 1771. All Kinds of Magazines that are published in London.  BIBLES of all sorts, viz. Large Church Bibles, Folio, Family, Quarto, Octavo, Minion and Pocket ditto, by the Dozen, or single. Likewise, a large and compleat assortment of STATIONARY , Accompt-Books of all sorts, Paper of all sorts and sizes, Ink-Powder, Quills, Sealing-Wax and Wafers, Press-Paper, some of a superior sort to any ever imported, &c &c &c.
N. B. Those who please to favour him with their custom will find the Books of the best Edition, and bound in calf, which is superior to any bound in sheep, and the price very low.
ANDREW BARCLAY, At the Gilt Bible in Cornhill,  HEREBY informs his customers and others, that he has just imported from Glasgow, a neat Assortment of  BOOKS,
in Divinity, History, Novels, Arithmetick, &c. Where also may be had, Brady and Tate's Psalms, gilt or plain; Watts's ditto, with or without Hymns, gilt or plain; Tans'ur's and Williams's Singing Books; Large and small Bibles; Testaments, Psalters, Spelling-Books, and Primers; Writing-Paper, Wafers, Sealing-Wax, Quills, Ink and Ink-Powder, &c.
Likewise, all Sorts of Binding, Lettering, and Gilding, done in the neatest and best manner. Those who please to favour him with their custom will be served with fidelity and dispatch.
Now in the Press, and speedily will be published, Price 3s. old ten. single, and 22s. 6d. the doz. Embellished with FOUR Plates, neatly engraved, viz. 1. The BOSTON MASACRE , on the evening of the 5th of March 1770. 2 The four Seasons, with the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac. 3. The King of Denmark. 4. Mr. Weatherwise.
And will be sold by I. THOMAS, in Union-street,  THE Massachusetts CALENDAR; or an  ALMANACK, for the year 1772, Being Bissextile, or Leap-Year. Containing, (besides the Calendar, Eclipses, Judgment of the Weather, Courts, Remarkable Days, Sun and Moon's Rising and Setting, High Water, &c. &c.) a Variety of Matter, both Curious, New and Entertaining.
FILES. Just imported, and to be sold by  RICHARD CRANCH, Near the Mill-Bridge, Boston,  A GENERAL Assortment of  FILES, from one inch to fifteen inches long; and of as many different shapes as could be procured.
HOPE STILL CAPEN, Has just imported from LONDON, By Captains Collyer, Fellows, and Scott, A fine Assortment of  ENGLISH and INDIA GOODS, Suitable for the Season; Which he is determined to sell at the very lowest prices, by WHOLESALE or RETAIL for Cash or short Credit, at his Shop in Union-street, at the sign of the Cornfields, viz.
SCARLET, crimson, green, black, blue, chocolate, drab, mixed and other coloured broad cloths, with trimmings for the same; green, scarlet, blue, mixed and drab coloured ratiens; bearkins, lambkins, half-thicks, Colchester and diapery baizes; blue, drab and cloth coloured Devonshire kerseys and plains; red, blue, mixed and drab coloured coatings; duffs and flags, German serges of various widths, colours and prices; duroys and sagathies, tus-tians and jeans; flowered serges, white swanskins, shalloons, tammies, durants, calamancoes, ruffs; double and twisted camblets, plain brown cambleteens, striped, green and changeable ditto, yard wide spriged ditto, figured duroys, Mecklenburgh, Dorsetteens, Irish camblets, Venetian poplins; crapes; green, crimson and cloth coloured yard and half yard wide worsted gograms; miffinets, pink and cloth coloured velvet and velveretts, Manchester and Scotch checks, linen and cotton Hollands, English and Scotch bedticks, diaper and huckabucks; cambricks and lawns, black and white catgut, Pariset, black and white gauze; picket, striped and figured ditto; black, blue, figured and plain satins, English and India tassies and Persians; figured mode, changeable mantua silks; black, green, blue, white and pink half yard and half ell Persians; white, blue, green and pink half ell sarfnets, 3 4ths. 7-8ths. yard wide and sheeting Irish linens, dowlas, Russia linen, osnaburgs, Ravens duck, Russia drab; men's buckram, brown and white stay ditto, white tabby, staytick, yellow Holland and stay trimmings; black, white and coloured breeches patterns; men's and women's worsted, thread and cotton hose; silk gloves and mitts, worsted ditto; a very pretty assortment of fur and snail trimmings for Ladies cloaks, black bone lace, white blown ditto, scarlet and white ditto; a great variety of silk, linen and Kenting handkerchiefs; fans, men's crimson and green sham velvet caps, green, scarlet, and striped worsted ditto, quality bindings, shoe and coat ditto; lettered garters; seal and ball twiss; deaths head, mohair, basket and twiss buttons; mettled and horn ditto; chip hats and bonnets, white and coloured threads, tapes, knee-garters, sewing silk of all colours; writing and press paper; wax necklaces, round beads, sleeve buttons; wool and cotton cards; needles, pins, ribbons, ferrets, knives and forks, cuttee knives, shears and scissors, penknives, fountain pens; buckles, thimbles, snuff boxes; ivory, bone and horn combs, pole ditto; Bohemia tea, cinnamon, cloves, nutmegs, mace, allspice, pepper; best made Lynn shoes, whalebone, crown soap, &c. &c. &c.
JOSHUA GARDNER, Has received per Captain Fellows and Scott, a further supply of goods, consisting of the following articles, in the LADIES way, viz.
MUFFS and tippets a variety of fur trimmings, black and white gauze, figured dress ditto, Pariset, black and white catgut, black and coloured tassies, plain black peeling satins, rich thick ditto, black and crimson spriged satins, black and other coloured figured modes, black and coloured sarfnets, fine covered cap wire, and 12 bowed skeetons; a great variety of black and coloured snail trimmings; a large and fine assortment of ribbons of the newest taste, edgings, footings, blond, and bone lace, with many other articles, all which will be sold on the most reasonable terms.
A GENTEELE HORSE.  FOR Sale, an excellent HORSE, suitable for Chase, or the Saddle. Enquire of WILLIAM BARRELL or SAMUEL SELLON where said Horse may be seen.
NATHAN FRAZIER, Informs his customers and others, that he has imported in the ships lately arrived from LONDON, a Large and very elegant assortment of  English and India Piece GOODS, Suitable for the FALL TRADE, which are now ready for Sale at his Store, the Corner of Wing's Lane, near the Market, Boston; ALL which he is determined to sell, both by Wholesale and Retail, on the most reasonable Terms for Cash or short Credit:
Among his Goods are the following, viz  A NEAT assortment of fashionable coloured broad cloths of all prices, with trimmings to match; a fine choice of newest fashion gold and silver thread buttons; gold and silver vellum, thread, cord, braid, binding and knee garters, silk knee garters; German and embossed serges, plain and napped Bath beaver; lambkins, ratiens, frizes, bearkins, 6 4ths coatings, whitneys, duffs, whipsey ditto, milled and common drapery baize, Colchester ditto, flannels, striped linseys, milled swanskin, half thicks, Yorkshire plains; a large assortment of Devonshire and Yorkshire Kerseys, forest cloths, Manchester velvets, checks and dimities; black silk velvet, and velvet for capes; drawboys, everlastings, double camblets, cambleteens, shiverets, diamanteens, flatterts, brocaded montareens, worsted gograms; plain and corded Venetian poplins, coloured crapes, rich Denmark lusters, grizets, brotios, bombazeens, aliapeens, brilliants, dorsetteens, silk camblet, plain and flowered ruffs, worsted damask; a prime choice of tammies, durants and calamancoes; hosiery of all kinds, furniture check with none for pretties to match, Irish linens and sheetings, bedticks, dowlas, brown Hollands, 7 8ths. 6-4ths. and 8-4ths. huckabuck. Russia linen and diaper, clouting and napkin damask and diaper, diaper and damask table cloths, cambrick and lawns, long lawns, book mufin, gauzes, catgut, plain and spriged satins of most colours, striped and brocaded lute strings, plain and changeable lute strings and mantua silks; English and India damask and tassies, plain and figured modes, rich sarfnets, broad and narrow Persians, pelones; a fine assortment of gimp and snail trimmings; cap, blond, bone, trolly and coxcomb laces; ribbons, silk ferrets, silk mitts and gloves, worsted ditto, silk romals; bandana, lute string, negligee and Barcelona handkerchiefs, cravats, calicoes and chintzes, blue and white, and red and white copper plate furniture, with lines and tassels to match; white cotton counterpains at the sterling cost; check linen handkerchiefs, blue and white, and red and white stamped ditto, osnaburgs and tickleburg, Russia and ravens duck; a good assortment of paper hangings; women's, maid's and children's packthread stays, brown buckram, half stiffened stays ditto, yellow Holland and all sorts of stay trimmings, muffs and tippets, fur trimmings, Norway doe gloves, ditto lined with fur, best buff buck ditto, glazed and shammy men's women's youths black lamb ditto, women's and maid's best kid gloves and mitts, sampler canvas and crewels; English brocaded and satin shoes and clogs; an assortment of looking glasses, writing-paper, account books, wafers and sealing wax, black satin and mode hats, plain and trimmed chip hats and bonnets, *** Cutlery ware of various sorts; powder, shot and flints, alum, copperas, brimstone, salt-petre, 18-inch and 21-inch best London pipes, pepper by the bag or smaller quantity, cinnamon, cloves, nutmegs, mace, English loaf sugar, Bohemia and Hyson tea, with a great variety of other articles, to numerous to particularize.
Shopkeepers in town and country, may be supplied with compleat assortments of the above: And those who send by letter, may depend on being as well used, as if present in person.
BREWSTER'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, by Wholesale or Retail. Choice ground COFFEE to be sold as above.  N. B. Said FARMER has for sale, Founder's and Brazier's Ware, of all sorts.
ROBERT RUGGLES, Has just imported from LONDON, by the Captains Collyer, Fellows, and Scott, A Large and General Assortment of  ENGLISH and INDIA GOODS, Which he will sell on the most reasonable Terms, by Wholesale or Retail, at his Shop in Cornhill, a little to the northward of the Town Pump, viz.
SUPERFINE blue, cinnamon, green, white, chocolate, Pompadour and mixed broad cloths, middling and low priced ditto; ratiens, bearkins, lambkins, beaver coatings, Devonshire kerseys, Yorkshire plains, half-thicks; crimson, pink, and green Colchester baize; red, blue, green and white drapery baize, white flannel, embossed serge, German serge, of all colours; green carpets for bedlides; shalloons, durants and tammies, of all colours; calamancoes of all colours; black drawboy, black and green everlastings, double camblets of all colours; cambleteens of all sorts; yard-wide stuff, poplins, Dorsetteens, miffinets, grizets, gograms and crapes; ruffs, Beligals; black, olive, blue and drab velvet and velveretts; 3-4ths. 7-8ths. yard wide, and apron check, striped Holland, cotton gowns, bed tick and bed bunts; 3 4ths. 7-8ths. and yard wide Irish linen, 7 8ths. gauze, sheeting Holland, diapers and huckabuck, clouting diaper, table cloths, osnaburgs and tickleburg, ravens duck, Russia drab; men's and women's worsted, thread and cotton hose; men's black, white and mixed silk hose; black buff, blue and crimson worsted breeches patterns, black silk, ditto figured silk waistcoat patterns; silk and worsted mitts and gloves; cambricks and lawns, long lawns, muslin, black and white catgut, black and white spriged gauze, plain white gauze, green, brown, yellow and blue India damask, lute strings, tassies, satins, alamo, Persians, and capuchin silks, fur and snail trimmings; black bone lace, white thread and blond lace, silk knee garters, gold and silver ditto; a variety of gold and silver buttons, gold and silver vellum, gold and silver thread, women's blue, pink, white and green silk loom quilted petticoats, calamanco ditto; a variety of ribbons, sewing silks of all sorts, qualities, gartering, silk, ferrets, pins and needles, threads and tapes of all sorts; brown and yellow Holland, buckrams, stay cords, braid, gallooms and strapping; white tabby for stays, women's and children's packthread stays; bed ticks and bed bunts; thickset and fustians, silk and linen handkerchiefs, marking canvas, crewels, silk and hair, and silk twiss, twiss buttons, metal buttons of all sorts, snuff boxes, tobacco boxes, knives and forks, jack knives, penknives, razors and scissors; a variety of paper hangings, also Bohemia tea, cinnamon, nutmegs, cloves and mace, wool and cotton cards, women's Lynn made shoes and Goloshes, whale-bone, &c.
WANTS a place in a Gentleman's Family, a careful sober woman, who can do all kind of household work, and can be well recommended. Enquire of ISAIAH THOMAS.
A WOMAN of a good character, with a young breast of milk, would be glad to take a child to suckle. Enquire at I. Thomas's printing-office.
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ALL THE POETICAL WRITINGS, and some other Pieces, of the Rev. NATHANIEL EVANS, A. M. Late Missionary in Gloucester County, New-Jersey, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Killmurray, of the Kingdom of Ireland.
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POETS CORNER.
WHAT can the reason be, when tyrants reign, Heav'n blasts them not before that we complain:
When with exalted crimes they plague mankind, And ruin those they rather should defend;
Will they entitle Heav'n to their mistakes, And think he owns the mischiefs for the monarchs makes?
No man was ever yet so void of sense, Or own'd so great a flock of impudence:
The gift he gives, he locks that we maintain, And till we strive, we cry to Heav'n in vain.
Must with what power they have, their right defend;
In vain they for divine assistance stay, Unless they learn to fight as well as pray;
With approbation, often with success. Nor is it just mankind should look for aid,
Those that the agency of man deny, Allow he always has a power to die:
He that will hang himself, and then expect Th' Almighty negative must him protect,
He ne'er prevents the men that will be slaves; 'Tis left indiff'rent to the general choice,
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JACOB HEMET, Dentist to her Majesty, and the Princess Amelia. BEGS leave to recommend to the public, his newly discovered Essence of Pearl, and Pearl Dentifrice,
Sold, by appointment of Mr. Hemet, wholesale and retail, by W. BAYLEY, perfumer, in Cockspur-street,
Imported in the last ships from LONDON, by SAMUEL AUSTIN, And to be sold at his store in Union-street,
CRIMSON, scarlet, black, blue and Ravens grey broad-cloths, with a variety of other colours; a large assortment of silks, as English and India damask, tassaties, stripped and flowered lute-strings,
SAMUEL PARKMAN, Has just received by the Captains Collyer and Fellows from LONDON, a compleat Assortment of Fall and Winter GOODS,
NAPPED and plain Bath Beavers; mixed Coatings; scarlet, blue, green and mixed Ranters; Bearskins; 8-4ths. Lambkins, Halfhicks; Baizes of all Colours,
Just published, price 4s. 6d. old tenor. A NARRATIVE of the Captivity of Mrs. MARY ROWLANDSON;
RABBITS. A NUMBER of fine English RABBITS to be sold very reasonably. Any person inclining to purchase the whole or part of them, may enquire of ISAIAH THOMAS.
ROBT. GARLAND CRANCH, Sadler & Jockey-cap-maker, from London, At the bay Horse, on the Exchange, in King-street, Boston;
SADLERY GOODS, To be sold at the lowest advance for cash; CHECK Swanskin for saddle-cloths, White ditto, Woolen girth, and surcingele webb,
N. B. He likewise makes all sorts of gentlemen's and ladies hunting-saddles, with furniture of all kinds, on the lowest terms;
JOHN CUSHING, Acquaints his friends, and all who please to favour him with their custom;
THAT he has removed from the Sugar-house in Back-street, lately improved by him and company, to the Sugar-house (formerly improved by Mr. James Smith, deceased,) in Brattle Street, near Dr. Cooper's meeting-house,
A YOUNG Woman with a good breast of milk, would be glad to go into a family as a wet-nurse. Enquire of the Printer.