The Massachusetts spy (Boston [Mass.]), 1772-08-27 00:00:00

THE Massachusetts Sun
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial Paper:--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
Published by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-Bridge, Boston.
'DO THOU Great LIBERTY INSPIRE our Souls,--And make our Lives in THY Possession happy,--Or, our Deaths glorious in THY JUST Defence.'
VOL. II.]
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1772.
[NUMB. 80.
FRIDAY, August 21. BOSTON.
By Capt. Munds, arrived at New York, in 28 days from Lisbon, we have received the following
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
VIENNA, [Germany] June 3.
HE Emperor is very frequently in Council, and almost daily receives and sends away couriers, but their dispatches are a profound secret, because his Imperial Majesty receives them with his own hand, and rarely communicates them to any body, or at most, only to one of his Ministers, to whom it may be necessary so to do.
June 6. The House of Austria has actually 300,000 troops exclusive of the militia of the Hereditary Countries, which can be assembled when ever it is thought necessary. The workmen in all the Arsenals are very busy casting cannon, and fitting up arms.
LONDON, May 15. A correspondent says, that the late Secretary to a patriotic society, who eloped with a young lady of fortune, set out last week from Lisle, without his prize, on his way to Italy, he not being married to her as has been reported.
May 16. A letter from Dublin, after reporting the emigrations from different parts of that kingdom, concludes thus:— "Let a humane spectator take a view of our depopulated country, and it cannot fail in his breast to raise the most melancholy and afflicting reflections; villages without inhabitants, farms without tenants cultivated lands running wild, and all originally owing to the cruel and oppressive landlords. Our people throng to America; and who can blame them? Totally unable here any longer to exist by the exertion of industry, they prefer a land flowing with milk and honey to that of famine and abject slavery."
Pride, laziness, and an inordinate love of riches, prevailed over the Spaniards to forsake their native country for the mines of Mexico and Peru; a very different and far more reasonable motive induces the British emigrants, viz. to labour and eat.
One Cudjoe, a black, by the death of an aunt, became last week possessed of a fortune of 2000l. This black was sent over as a present to the late Lord Halifax, as a grateful acknowledgment for his having interested himself so warmly in the cause of the two young African Princes, who were here in the last reign. When Lord Halifax was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, he made this Cudjoe state trumpeter, which place he still enjoys.
YORK, June 2 Some men have been enticed from France who are perfectly acquainted with the French method of manufacturing plate glass; a great manufactory is now established at Ravenhead, near Prescot, in Lancashire, by several men of extensive fortunes, on the estate of Mr. Mackay, a Gentleman of great property in that county. This French method by which plates of glass can be made much larger than by the English mode, has been kept a profound secret, and the men have been procured at the hazard of their lives.
BRISTOL, May 28. Friday evening last a correspondent informs us, that the Rev. Mr. Talbot was insulted in Castle Green by a mob, who gathered suddenly round him: The blood of Britain and the name of Talbot, with execrations, echoing from one end of the street to the other.
LONDON, June 1. Friday being the 29th of May, the two Houses of Parliament should have gone to Church to hear a sermon on the occasion, as usual; but the sullen Doctrines preached by Dr. Nowell in his sermon on the 30th of January last, it is imagined has made the
Members sick of these annual commemorations.
June 3. Mr. M—, the late Secretary to the Bill of Rights Club, about whom all the prints are so unaccountably silent, notwithstanding his honorable treatment of his word, the daughter too of his benefactor, returns, we hear, no more to England these eight years a period which must elapse before Miss Hartford is of age.
June 10. The Parliament of Ireland was prorogued on the 2d of June, to the 14th of July; previous to which an Address was presented to the Lord Lieutenant from the House of Lords and one from the Commons; and a Speech was made to both Houses by the Lord Lieutenant, in which he says, "I feel the most perfect Satisfaction in now repeating to you my acknowledgments for the very honorable manner in which (after a residence of near five Years amongst you) you have declared your entire Approbation of my conduct."
June 15. The true reason, says a Correspondent, that M rs . Bankes and Solander do not go to the South Seas, is, the Court of Spain have strongly remonstrated against our navigating in those seas, and our Court have meanly and cowardly given upon the original design. And to cover their own baseness in this matter, the ship intended for M rs . Bankes, &c. was fitted out in so bad a manner, the Gentlemen could not go in her. This pitiful trick was contrived to throw that blame upon them, which really belongs to the Ministry.
June 17. The Commissioners of the Navy gave Notice, that on the 16th of June they should be ready to treat with such Persons as are willing to let a Cat or Bark of 300 Tons, with two Decks, to carry Stores to Halifax, and afterwards to live as a Store Ship in Boston.—They also give Notice, that on the 30th of June, they should be ready to treat with such Persons as are willing to let Ships to proceed to North-America, to carry Troops from thence to Antigua and Jamaica, for the Relief of the Troops there.
We are informed that Mr. Holloway on Saturday, plead guilty to the indictment against him for writing a certain satirical pamphlet, intitled, A Letter to Sir John Fielding , illustrated with the portrait of a monster; it is said Mr. Wilkes is in high spirits upon the above occasion.
HANOVER, [Germany] June 9. The Queen of Denmark arrived Yesterday at Gorde, in perfect health. It is reported here that Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick will be appointed Commander in Chief of his Prussian Majesty's army.
LONDON, June 23. There are letters which describe the Imperial army at present consisting of 140,000 men compleat, in high spirits, well disciplined, and ready to act on a week's previous notice.
Extract of a letter from Warsaw, June 3.
An Express from Marienbourg to the Treasury has brought the important news that a minister of the finances belonging to the King of Prussia had declared there, that as Polish Prussia was ceded to his master the King of Prussia, all those who had Post under the government, and were willing to enter into the Prussian Service, might continue on the same footing, if they would declare their intention within eight days.
On Saturday two soldiers belonging to the third regiment of foot guards returning from the review at Blackheath, in passing by the King's-arms tavern in Bridge-street, Westminster, one of their guns fired into the room, where the Sheriffs Wilkes and Bull, Mr. Churchill, &c. happened to be drinking, but happily no damage was done except several panes of glass being much shattered. They were both committed to Bridewell.
A correspondent informs us, that passing early yesterday morning by the new build-
ings in the Strand, he was very much struck with the dejected countenances of some hundreds of workmen—who were then dismissed from employment by the unfortunate failure of the Messrs. Adams, who are involved in the present ruin of some capital houses in the city. It is said that the Messrs. Adams employed more than 2000 men in the different departments of their extensive and magnificent undertakings. It seems the poor men had begun their work before the melancholy news of the misfortunes of their employers was communicated unto them: They came down from the walls in silence, and stood for some time in the street in a body; and at last went off, one by one, with every mark of regret for the loss of their masters whose business had supported them and their families for several years.
Yesterday the Court of King's Bench gave judgment in the case of Somerset the Negro, finding that Mr. Stewart, his master, had no power to compel him on board a ship, or to send him back to the plantations.
The public prints have made Lord Harcourt Chief Governor of Ireland, and of course displaced Lord Townshend; what is whimsical enough, however, the King has neither done the one nor the other, or the change would have been announced in the Gazette, among the other intimations communicated by authority.
Mr. Wilkes's political existence is said to depend upon the election for Sheriffs; if Mr. Oliver is chosen, he becomes annihilated in the City, and Mr. Horne obtains a triumph over that Livery, whom he last year insulted for daring to refuse his patron.
Warm applications were made to Col. Luttrell to stand this year for the office of Sheriff, and a body of gentlemen spontaneously offered not only to defray the expences of a poll, if such should be demanded against him, but the expences of the Sherievalty. To this the Colonel replied (after thanking them in the politest manner for their kindness) that in case he should ever have the honour of being chosen a Magistrate for London, he should grudge no charge to which it put him; but that he would not think of such an honour till his parliamentary conduct had shewn the Livery of that great city the wide distinction between real and pretended patriotism.
By a gentleman just arrived from Madrid we are informed, that the court intended shortly to abolish the whole order of Dominican Friars, which is computed to amount to upwards of 300,000 in that kingdom; they are not, however, to be banished as the Jesuits were, nor their goods to be confiscated.
SATURDAY, August 22. BOSTON.
We hear from Lisbon, that his Prussian Majesty ordered his Minister at the Court of Great Britain to inform his Britannick Majesty, that in case he sent a Fleet against Copenhagen, he would immediately march his whole army into Hanover.
We hear that Capt. Farrington in the ship Juno, of this place, was to sail from Bristol for New-York in a few days after Capt. Moore.
The Rev. Dr. Breynton with his family were arrived at Halifax from Newfoundland, having arrived there in his Majesty's ship Panther, Commodore Shuldham.
We hear from Cape-Ann, that as two men were going ashore at Manchester with a boat deep laden with fish from a Schooner lying off that place, the boat sunk soon after they left the vessel, and the men were both drowned.
MARRIED. At Halifax, Capt. Stannus of the 64th regiment to Miss Susannah Gerish, daughter to the Hon. Joseph Gerish, Esq; of that place.
MONDAY, August 24. BOSTON.
Capt. Joseph Bailey of the Sloop Polly who arrived on Friday the 14th of August at Falmouth Caco Bay from Jamaica, on his Passage Saturday the 1st instant about 75 Leagues N. E. from the Havanna, spoke with Capt. James Harris in the Bigantine Union, nine Days out from Mississippi bound for Hispaniola.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in London to another in Boston, dated June 11, 1772.
"How can we be sufficiently grateful to Providence, for the enjoyment of that lovely amiable Blessing Peace; she flourishes in Boston; she sits smiling in the Mother Country, England. Our prudent Minister has banished almost even the Idea of Faction by the gentle acts of universal Benevolence and the returns of Good for Evil. In a word, perhaps this Island never in any Age experienced more profound Tranquility, either in respect of Foreign as well Domestic Connections." [ Mass. Gaz. and Bos. Post Boy.
NEW-HAVEN, August 14. We hear from Goshen, that last Wednesday Se'n-night, a Lad belonging to that Town, named Parmelee, was accidentally wounded with a Pitchfork, of which he died the next Morning.
We hear from Torrington, that a few nights since, the Dwelling-House of Mr. ----- Trail, of that Town, was entirely destroyed by fire, with the whole of his Furniture.
WILLIAMSBURG, [Virginia] July 30. At a Meeting of the Governors and Visitors of the College on Monday last, to make Choice of a President, the Reverend JOHN CAMM, was elected into that Office, and swore in accordingly.
Extract of a Letter from Norfolk, July 8.
"All the Ladies, and almost every order of people here, are become Proselytes to Methodism; the Church is quite deserted. I dare say there were near three thousand People to hear Mr. PILMORE on Sunday, in the Fields. They flock to him from all Quarters, and invite him to preach in every Neighbourhood. The Woman call him The dear divine Man. "
NEW-YORK, August 17. The two Spanish ships lately cast away on Anguilla, as mentioned in our two late papers, were part of a Fleet of 16 sail bound from Cadiz for Vera Cruz, and not for Porto Rico: The largest was formerly an English 74, bought in England after the last war, and the smallest, a French frigate of 34 guns. All the 16 were large vessels, but had no troops on board, and were entirely loaded with dry goods, and it was said the cargo of the two ships cast away, was worth 5,750,000 dollars, almost all which was saved, but the vessel's lost.
KINGSTON, [Jamaica] July 4. The following is an extract of a letter from a gentleman in Pensacola to his friend in this town, dated the 19th of April, 1772.
"Were I to give you all the news of Pensacola, since you left it, you would give me little thanks for my letter I believe, as it would be full of murders, duels, and drownings. I cannot help mentioning however the dismal story of George Harrison's death; it is said, Lieutenant Thomas of the artillery, who was Commissary at Manchac, quarrelled with him about his negroes, whom Thomas had abused, and Thomas drawing his sword demanded if he was prepared, when Harrison unfenced a stick he had, in which was a sword, and attempted to defend himself with it, but he received a wound in his right shoulder, and fell; the other then run him through the eye and nose; Harrison intreated him not to murder him, which instead of cooling seemed to incense Thomas more, who with dreadful menaces stabbed him through the heart. Mr. Thomas is taken up and confined in order to take his trial."

For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
Mr. THOMAS,
THE tranquility of the state and consequent security of every wholesome member of it depends upon a steady adherence to the laws and constitution of our country. When private individuals among the people transgress the remedy is easy, the majority of them never can transgress; when therefore the tranquility of the state is disturbed, we are to look for the cause of it in another quarter; and the whole current of history as well as the evident nature of the thing will warrant us to suspect that the failure lies in "those who are vested with executive and legislative powers avoiding the constraint of known established laws, and taking a liberty of acting according to their own will and pleasure" as Mr. Hutchinson expresses himself. This being a condition inconsistent with the safety of any people, and consequently with any compact they could possibly be supposed to make with any person invested with their authority, must of necessity be a condition founded in fraud or force, or a composition of both, commonly known by the term usurpation. Richard the second, Charles the first, and James the second were striking examples of such dispositions, and I will venture to deny that the peace of a community was ever dangerously disturbed, its rulers being entirely innocent. The delegates of executive power are supposed to be appointed on purpose "to prevent the community from suffering injury." Every one of them is solemnly sworn to execute the trust reposed in him to the best of his skill and cunning, i. e. to the utmost of his power. Is he not therefore justly answerable for all the evils that come upon the commonwealth even from his neglect, much more his procurement? Can any one believe the executive officers of this province entirely blameless of the plunderings, assaults, batteries and dangerous woundings, even of the civil officers in the legal execution of their solemn trust, most riotous endeavours to turn the peaceable subject out of his dwelling by military force, and finally, firing down the citizens in the streets like pigeons? I say, can any one believe that Messrs. Bernard and Hutchinson exerted themselves to the utmost of their power to prevent the whole or any part of these calamities from falling upon this miserable country? If he can he must very slightly have perused the official publications of either. Have not both these gentlemen openly avowed their aversion to the constraint of the known established laws and constitution of this country? Does not the latter though acknowledging the infraction, refuse to take a single step to have it redressed.
Please to attend him in a short recapitulation of his last celebrated message to the venerable commons of this province, designed, as he pretended, to demonstrate that certain resolves and declarations they had ordered to be entered on their journal were not well founded, but on the contrary tended to alter the constitution; which unless it be done with the free consent of the people is a crime of the first magnitude.
The sum of these ill founded and treasonable resolves, he observes, may be comprised in a few words. 'You have declared that the support made for the Governor by other powers than the legislative authority of this province is a material infraction upon the charter,' yet in answer to this he replies 'by this charter a general court or assembly is constituted, and among other powers granted to this assembly are those of making laws not repugnant to the laws of England, and imposing rates and taxes for the service of the crown in the necessary defence and support of government.' Can any one who reads this believe the resolve ill founded? Or how much, or rather how little power of taxing ourselves would Mr. Hutchinson suppose granted us. Men born as free as Mr. Hutchinson's master, must forsooth, even by grant too, have but a partial and precarious power to grant their own monies for the defence and support of their own government! The next article in his summary is, 'that the Governor (supported otherwise than by the free grants of the assembly) is thereby rendered not dependent on the people as the charter prescribes, and consequently not, in that respect, such a Governor as the people consented to' To this were it not upon so solemn a subject the answer would move laughter. 'If you fail of this exclusive right of supporting the Governor, your assertions that the charter prescribes a Governor dependent upon the people, and that you have not, in that respect such a Governor as the people consented to, is altogether without foundation.'
Allowed Mr. Hutchinson; but how can they fail of this exclusive right, unless by an act of Parliament, or more properly a dispensation from the Pope, you can absolve the Prince of his obligation to regard his contracts?
To this follows that the mutual check and dependance of the branches of the legislature is destroyed, and the province exposed to a despotic administration.' And here it is that we have an eminent instance of the straits a man finds himself reduced to who right or wrong must say something. That independence, says he which is inconsistent with a free government, and which the English constitution abhors, and which may properly be termed despotism, is a freedom in those who are vested with executive and judiciary powers from the restraint of known established laws and a liberty of acting according to their own will and pleasure?
Here despotism is entirely confined to executive and judiciary powers. But even that admitted will not serve the turn, as the magistrate, the honourable house levelled their resolve against, is executive as well as legislative; and in either capacity, take away the power in question, and let him be pleased to inform us what remains to bridge his liberty of acting according to his own will and pleasure. 'His Majesty's great tenderness for the rights of his subjects.' I confess I know of no province in the Ottoman empire who have not as strong a check in the constitution of that state over their sanguinary Bashaws. Royal grace and great tenderness, require more substantial manifestations than the bare sounds or dead letters of them now and then appearing in the speeches or messages of despotic ministers, to render them felt and acknowledged by the people. Cumberland, Conway, on one hand; Gloucester, Matilda, on the other, are striking instances of royal tenderness. But had we an Alfred upon the throne his ministers should know that Englishmen require better security for the quiet enjoyment and absolute disposal, of their lives and fortunes, than may be expected from the mercy of any man.
Mr. Hutchinson says that the house, as well as writers in news papers, have confounded the meaning of the words check and dependance, which it seems have no manner of relation to each other, and can only by artifice be pressed into the service of the service of the faction to give false notions of government and stir up discontent and disorder.
According to his improved logic there may be a check in the one party where there is no dependance in the other. This thread is fine but I think wanting in strength; indeed it needs artifice, even to give it the colour of truth. To check a man who is totally independent of me is as practicable for me as to stay the moon or alter the course of tides.
When Mr. Hutchinson draws into precedent the condition of the King, Lords and Commons of Great-Britain; he does not consider the vast difference there really is between the pattern and the copy. The King of Great Britain is with respect to every other potentate really independent, really possessed of a great estate of his own, which the interest of himself and family binds him to take care of; the Lords of the realm are in like manner each the immediate guardian of his own dignity, privilege and property; these noble personages being entrusted or impowered by no man may therefore well be supposed accountable to no man. The Commons of Great Britain being considered as the representatives of the body of the nation have undoubtedly a fair title to exemption from the coercive control of either of the other fore mentioned powers. But will any one pretend that Mr. Hutchinson's condition at all resembles that of the King? Is he so bound to this province that without submitting to the lowest degradation he cannot leave it to inhabit else where? can he declare with any thought of being believed 'that he has no other interest than that of this people.' Is his station hereditary so that his honours and emoluments are permanent to his family, unless forfeited by abdication? In fine, is an officer who holds his place during the pleasure of any being upon earth a proper person to harangue people about his independency? Nay of all men living I should think the man who scarce knows whether a serjeant of the 14th regiment, or the lieutenant of a cutter has more command in this province than himself has, should talk softly of independency! But Mr. Hutchinson it seems can bear any kind of dependance upon any sort of creatures provided he can be free from any controul in the two branches of the legislature which the constitution has appointed as checks upon him. If this be not peevish and perverse I know not what can be thought of it.
If a free Governor be really necessary to render the laws of the province valid (free acts) let us then bend our attention, to that so important object. At present surely we have nothing to hinder us from having one 'as free as the thoughts of man.' It is certain the present nominal possessor of the chair is no more a charter Governor, than the Chevalier de St. George is the lawful King of Great-Britain. Let us then elect a Governor who shall not be forced to depart from his judgment and conscience and sacrifice the whole peace and prosperity of the province to the will of a novice who could enjoin a parliament on pain of dissolution to rescind a resolution which had been made and acted upon by a former house some months after it had had its full effect. They must have very idle notions of POLITICAL FREEDOM who can believe a people in possession of any considerable measure of it, that may be enjoined to do or refrain any thing in life, contrary to the will and opinion of the whole or a great majority of the community.
Mr. Hutchinson very sensible of this, and of the difficulty of reconciling all the unconstitutional usurpations we have suffered to first principles, is pleased to resolve all the hardships into the act of God inevitable providence; a slavish dependance on the meer will of an uncontrollable oppressor is all the redress which can consist with the nature of a subordinate government. I then forbid it just heaven that I should herd among such vassals, who by the law of my creation and the political constitution of my birth-place have a right to redress myself when denied the reparation which reason and law ordain. If tame submission to unsufferable injuries be all the redress Mr. Hutchinson can point out, I am necessitated to tell him we must go further for advice; and if we should find that the evils we endure, arise even from the constitution. I presume our attachment to the tradition of the fathers is not so violent as to remain in chains and fetters out of complaisance to their understandings.
I agree with Mr. Hutchinson that no government (I know of) is perfect, but I must and will complain, and that with some impetuosity if the government I am obliged to support loses of its perfection every day, and verges rapidly from a free government to an absolute tyranny. I am certain the government of this province has not now all the perfection the state will admit of; Mr. Hutchinson himself could mark the area of its declension, and I dare say in its present condition, would acknowledge to a Japanese, if in his country and quite disinterested, that 'nothing could be more dissonant from the spirit of the English constitution.'
To conclude Mr. Hutchinson's very abstruse problem may be solved in a few plain words; if he be an absolute master over the people of this province in the nature of things he ought to rule without a check i. e. be independent; if a servant be accountable for his conduct.
CHARICLES.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
Mr. THOMAS,
As the glory of Religion, and the well-being of the Church of Christ, are of great importance, the following may deserve attention.
IT is the common practice among the reverend Ministers of the congregational order, when a man offers himself, to be examined as to his abilities and qualifications, for the work of the ministry, upon finding them suitable therefor to give him a licence (as it is called) for that work. This licence gives him full power and authority to preach the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ; otherwise the one would not conscientiously let, and the other would not submissively with reverence and satisfaction hear, him preach. As soon as the man has got this licence he goes forth even in the vineyard of the son of God, and there labours, perhaps five, six or more years before he is ordained unto that sacred work, during which time, he has no authority in the apprehension or judgment not only of the people, but also of the ministers, to baptize or to administer the sacrament. This, to me appears strange, and because it has of a long time appeared so, and no prospect of a remedy appearing, I am constrained in conscience to enquire into the propriety and equity of this proceeding.
Which is the most sacred, the ministration of the gospel unto mankind for their recovery from condemnation and misery, which contains the only means to lead us to the knowledge and enjoyment of God, and consequently to eternal life and happiness; or the sprinkling of water upon the faces or bodies of mankind, together with the adminis-
tration of the sacrament? Is the dipping the hand into water, and sprinkling it about or upon a part of a mortal body, which can never wash away the least sin or guilt, more sacred or more solemn than the preaching that word, that doctrine, which is able to save souls from guilt and misery, and to lead them to endless glory? Is the giving a few pieces of material bread to the people, of greater solemnity and important consequence than the imparting unto them that spiritual bread, that preternatural food, which will nourish their souls with consolation, peace, joy, holiness, immortality, endless and unspeakable felicity?
It is true, in baptizing and administering the sacrament, Ministers stand and speak in the name and authority of God, of Christ and of the Holy Spirit, but this alters not the case, because when they preach the gospel they stand and speak in the name and authority of the eternal Deity, and exhort men to be reconciled unto God in Christ's stead. This is plain from reason and scripture, yea, the scripture not only teaches, that a minister, when he preaches the gospel to the people, stands, and speaks in the name and authority of the eternal Deity, but also that the gospel is beyond comparison more sacred and holy than the ceremonies of baptism and the Lord's supper; either of which is but an emblem or shadow of the substance, or of that valuable pearl which is contained in the gospel, with this reason concurs, at least mine does, which makes me think that if this matter were impartially enquired into, even without pride and that strange lothness which is incident to our frame to correct our errors, every man's reason would concur with it. If then the case be so, why may not a man have licence and authority to administer the sacrament and to baptize as well as to preach the gospel? If a man has a right and authority to touch the substance and to divide it unto men, may he not also touch the shadow of that substance? Is the figure or sign of a thing more sacred and untangible than the thing itself? I suppose indeed that this way of giving licence to men, is agreeable to the Platform of New-England Churches, and that it has been of long continuance and practice. But what then? If it be an error it ought to be corrected, notwithstanding its being of long continuance, or agreeable to the platform of all the churches upon the face of the earth. Yea, not at all the less for that, because if the whole world countenance an error, and if it be of many thousand years continuance, it is not a whit the less an error, and is as much offensive to God, as it was when it first entered. This I think needs no proof, because an error in regard to giving men authority to preach, and in all other regards, is a departure from or a transgression of the will, law and appointment of God; which can never be altered by the will of man, or by any error long persisted in.
But here arises a difficulty. If candidates should have licence given them as well to baptize, and to administer the Sacrament, as to preach the gospel, and this licence should be judged sufficient to give them full power and authority to do so, ordination will at once be made useless, for if they once have full power and authority in the above regard, they need no more. But let it be so and the giving candidates a licence of the above nature, to preach the Gospel only, does in part render ordination useless too, this is clear, for if the whole of ordination be rendered useless by giving candidates all power and authority in regard of the Gospel and ordinances, it is in part rendered useless, by giving them only some power and authority in regard of them. This proves sufficiently that candidates ought to be ordained before they have any licence or authority at all to preach the gospel. Not indeed that a man may not have liberty to preach a few times, for this seems necessary, that he may have opportunity to recommend himself and his doctrines to those who are to ordain him. But for a man to have licence and thereby in the judgment of men of most ranks, to have full power and authority to preach the gospel to the whole church, and to all mankind, and thereby to instruct the ignorant and to teach babes, before he is ordained, if ordination is of divine right and authority, carries with it too gross an absurdity to pass without notice and correction; for if a man can have lawful and full power and authority to preach the gospel, before ordination, he can have lawful and full power and authority to do every thing also that relates to the church and to mankind, so far as they are concerned in the gospel, or method of redemption, which renders ordination useless and futile too, for it is folly to give a man a power and an authority to do that which he has already full power and authority to do. But this is grossly absurd, if ordination be of divine right and authority, as all allow.

It may be intimated indeed, that a licence does not give a man full power and authority to preach the gospel, but only gives him liberty to recommend himself and his doctrines to ministers and people...
Wherefore it is desired that this error may be righted, if it be one, for the sake of Christ and the love of God. But if there are no means used to right it, supposing it an error...
A sincere Enquirer after Truth.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. MR. Hutchinson seems sensible that his answer to the resolves of the Honourable House of Representatives, will throw them into a consternation...
There are no more branches to our legislative than to that of Great Britain; his Majesty the King of Great Britain, we acknowledge as our supreme Magistrate, but circum-
scribed in his government of this province by the laws and constitution thereof, and as answerable to US, for any departure from this rule of administration...
In this province we consider the person whom the King nominates and commissions, as the King's majesty, but do not own a subjection to him in the double capacity of King and Governor.
If it be agreeable to the law of nature as well as to the English constitution, that rulers should be accountable to those over whom they preside...
MASSACHUSETTENSIS.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. MR. THOMAS, IT is whispered that the judges of the Superior Court are also become pensioners of the ministry.
executive and judiciary powers being freed from the constraint of known established laws, is despotism. In this case even the law-makers have no more check upon them than on the mandarins of China.
SIMON ZELOTES
TUESDAY, August 25. BOSTON.
Last Friday Afternoon a melancholy Accident happened at Charlestown. Mr. Jacob Whitemore and Wife of that Town, returning home in a Chaise...
MARRIED. The Rev. Mr. JOHN BROWN of Hingham, to Miss HEPZIBAH EMMES, only daughter of Mr. SAMUEL EMMES, of this Town.
PHILADELPHIA, August 12. Monday night last arrived here the brig Lovely Lass, Capt. Waid, from Jamaica, who informs, that on Saturday, July 25th, at 8 o'clock A.M.
WEDNESDAY, August 26. BOSTON.
Richard Harrison, Esq; having been appointed Deputy-Collector for the Port of Boston, on Tuesday se'nnight took the Oaths and officiates at the Custom-House.
We hear John Butler, Esq; of Halifax is appointed Agent-Victualer and Pay-Master to his Majesty's Forces in Nova-Scotia and Newfoundland...
Letters by Captain Symmes mention, That Sir Francis Bernard, Baronet, has recovered a good State of Health. Mass. Gaz. Capt. Higginson was arrived at London from Salem.
At Malaga, the William, Brace, from Boston.
His Majesty's Ship Arethusa, Capt. Hammond, is arrived at New-York. We hear she is going to Virginia, where she is to be stationed.
Last Week sailed from Newport, the Rast Snow St. Catharina, Capt. Smith, containing upwards of a Thousand Tons of Timber.
Saturday Night the 8th Inst, when the Thunder and Lightning were so severe, as has been mentioned, a House near Kelley's Ferry in Warren was struck...
Last Week Capt. Wood arrived here from the Bay of Honduras:—About a Fortnight before, a young Man named Burditt, only Son of a Widow Woman in this town, fell from the Fore-Top Mast-Head down upon Deck...
Influenced by None.
Glorious in THY JUST Defence.
[NUMB. 82.
power degrading to human nature, and subversive of the true ends of public life. We may observe whispering, and gazing, almost in every part of worshipping assemblies...
By the Duke of Cumberland Packet-Boat, Capt. Goodrich, arrived at New-York, we have received London news to the 30th of June...
L O N D O N.
June 24. Came on at Guildhall, the election for Sheriffs for this city and county of Middlesex for the year ensuing...
June 30. It is said that General Conway will be appointed Commandant in Chief of his Majesty's forces in North America...

For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
Mr. THOMAS,
THE tranquility of the state and consequent security of every wholesome member of it depends upon a steady adherence to the laws and constitution of our country. When private individuals among the people transgress the remedy is easy, the majority of them never can transgress; when therefore the tranquility of the state is disturbed, we are to look for the cause of it in another quarter; and the whole current of history as well as the evident nature of the thing will warrant us to suspect that the failure lies in "those who are vested with executive and legislative powers avoiding the constraint of known established laws, and taking a liberty of acting according to their own will and pleasure" as Mr. Hutchinson expresses himself. This being a condition inconsistent with the safety of any people, and consequently with any compact they could possibly be supposed to make with any person invested with their authority, must of necessity be a condition founded in fraud or force, or a composition of both commonly known by the term usurpation. Richard the second, Charles the first, and James the second were striking examples of such dispositions, and I will venture to deny that the peace of a community was ever dangerously disturbed, its rulers being entirely innocent. The delegates of executive power are supposed to be appointed on purpose "to prevent the community from suffering injury." Every one of them is solemnly sworn to execute the trust reposed in him to the best of his skill and cunning, i. e. the utmost of his power. Is he not therefore justly answerable for all the evils that come upon the commonwealth even from his neglect, much more his procurement. Can any one believe the executive office of this province entirely blameless of plunderings, assaults, batteries and dangerous woundings, even of the civil officers, the legal execution of their solemn trust, most riotous endeavours to turn the peaceable subject out of his dwelling by military force, and finally, firing down the citizen in the streets like pigeons? I say, can any one believe that Messrs. Bernard and Hutchinson excited themselves to the utmost their power to prevent the whole or any part of these calamities from falling upon this miserable country? If he can he must very slightly have perused the official publications of either. Have not both the gentlemen openly avowed their aversion to the constraint of the known established laws and constitution of this country? Does not the latter though acknowledging the infraction, refuse to take a single step to have redressed.
Please to attend him in a short recapitulation of his last celebrated message to the venerable commons of this province, signed, as he pretended, to demonstrate certain resolves and declarations they ordered to be entered on their journal, not well founded, but on the contrary tended to alter the constitution; which to be done with the free consent of the people is a crime of the first magnitude.
The sum of these ill founded reasonable resolves, he observes, may From the ... You have A LETTER to the ...
SUCH Princes who have been supposed by their subjects to possess but a small share of understanding, have often succeeded best in their tyrannic purposes of enslaving the people; they are not suspected of having such bold designs till it is too late to oppose them. Under the delusion of your weakness we are taken by surprise, and attributing the late arbitrary measures to your tools of Ministers, we have suffered ourselves to become a prey to the cunning of a Prince of the Brunswick line, whose only right to govern over us is our good will and pleasure. After having resisted the more manly attacks of the race of Stuarts, it is dastardly indeed to fall a prey to your low cunning. They had the now long exploded doctrine of hereditary right, and the infernal custom of regal despotism, to plead in their behalf. But men, yet alive, can remember the time, when your Dominion extended only over the barren electorate of Hanover. Before fraud, dishonour, and perfidy, had wrested from
the heroic Charles of Sweden, in the day of his misfortunes, your other German estates.
To preserve our Liberties we took off Charles's head. After a second trial of the same Royal Family, in defence of our religion, we were forced to banish them from government. A strange combination of circumstances threw us afterwards under the subjection of a Dutchman. William also made some few attempts to enslave us; but, though he had courage, penetration, and as much genius as generally fall to the share of an Hollander, he could not accomplish his purposes.
We may remember him, however, and thank him for these memorable favours which he did to this great Empire. He laid the foundation of our national debt, he suffered himself and his Parliament to be bribed by the East India Company, and he palmed upon us a race of foreigners as our hereditary Sovereigns. By the first he laid the foundations of our misery, and the source of our corruption; by the second he laid down a royal example for our Majesty to follow; and by the last we are undone, at least as far as a superlative low craftiness hath been able to filch away the Liberties of a brave people.
You are head of the Church in the most extensive sense of the word; for not a benefice can be given away without your royal will and pleasure. You have the entire command of the army in your hands; for Barrington is a most contemptible creature in the eyes of all mankind. Lord Sandwich under your direction, is the first Lord of the Admiralty; we all know his character. Your Chancellor is a F—l, though he, a few days ago, professed himself to be the keeper of your conscience. But your Chief Justice is something worse than a F—l. His first principles were fixed to another House than your's, having lost them, like a virgin once debauched, there were no bounds to his profligacy. When he took the oath of Abjuration all the semblance of honesty forsook him. He has never been his own man since.
We have often found men change their creed outwardly, but never an instance of a sincere attention to what they have been caught up to an aversion of. Lord Dunbar was a sincere friend of the Pretender's; but Mansfield can never be so to your family. Yet you and he are united by principle in many particulars. Both want to destroy the liberty of the Press. Bad men must ever have that object in view: For whilst the interest of the people may be plainly laid before them, tyrants must tremble. Even the sanction of a corrupt Parliament cannot secure them from that punishment which should ever await on him that dares to think that Britons will be slaves.
Your Majesty was so sensible that, generally, liberty depended so much on that of the Press that it was your first care to suppose it. You knew that you could not without tyranny become a tyrant, whilst the people were freely informed of their danger. Your reign, therefore, commenced with the prosecution of the pious, honest, well-meaning Mr. Annet. Under the mask of religion, in that instance, you drew an unwary jury aside from their duty so far as to convict him, and afterwards the savage disposition of a Mansfield was satiated, in the execution of a most barbarous sentence.
Your next attack on the liberty of the Press was not altogether so successful. Although it was directed against so bad a man as Wilkes, yet the nation would not allow even a wretch like him to fall a victim when he was suffering in such a glorious cause. Yet being with your own peculiar obstinacy bent on the same design of destroying that only remaining liberty which your subjects in general enjoy, of communicating their grievances to one another by the means of the Press, you set loose Mansfield against the whole body of the printers and publishers for Junius's letters. Thank God! You were both baffled in that attempt. An English Jury had so much common sense as to distinguish that truth cannot be deemed a libel. Yet we are in danger of losing the liberty of the Press. Though open attacks have failed, the design is not laid aside; and we may lose that by fraud, which could not be taken away by force.
The plan now is to bribe or buy up the
right of the different papers, not only here in England, but in foreign countries. And when you have got them all into your own hands, your subjects may be kept in as great ignorance as the French, many of whom, at this hour, know not that Canada belongs to us.
Your Majesty hath given us a notable proof of the success of this new doctrine in the silence preserved with regard to the disgrace of your lovely sister Matilda. But have a care! Provoke us not too far! Remedy is still to be found, and we may there assert our rights in MILLIONS.
To be SOLD, for want of employ, A LIKELY, healthy NEGRO Man, about 27 years of age, fit for town or country business. Enquire of the Printer.
LOST, about twelve days ago, a red Morocco POCKET-BOOK, (the owner's name at length, in capital letters, stamped thereon) full of papers which will be of no service to any person but the owner. Whoever has found the same, and will leave it with the printer hereof, shall receive TWO DOLLARS reward, and no questions asked.
This day was published, price 10d. A SERMON, preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Mr. SAMUEL NILES, to the pastoral Care of the Church of Christ in Abington. By EZRA WELD A. M. Pastor of a Church in Braintree. Printed and sold by ISAIAH THOMAS, near the Mill-bridge.
To all Master-Builders and Contractors for Building THIS is to give Notice, that there are public Buildings, consisting of a Church, Court-house and Jail, to be immediately carried on at Charlotte town, island of St. John, in the gulph of the river St. Lawrence. Such persons as are willing to undertake the same, are to apply for further particulars, at the bar of the British Coffee-House.
To be SOLD or CHARTERED, A BRIGANTINE, Burthen about 130 tons, well built and equipped, a prime sailor, two years old. Enquire of DEAN & PENNY, at their store on Scarlet's Wharf, where may be purchased, a quantity of Jamaica SUGARS cheap for cash or Jamaica Fish.
To be SOLD, A single decked BRIGANTINE, About Eighty tons burthen, a prime sailor and well found. Enquire of the Printer.
To be SOLD cheap For half the Cash down, A Convenient Dwelling HOUSE, near the Market, in good repair, with an Out house and Pump in the Yard. Enquire of the Printer.
To be SOLD by JOSEPH PALMER & SON, At their Store, at the lower end of King Street, Boston;
SPERMACETI CANDLES: Also, An Assortment of ENGLISH, SCOTCH and IRISH GOODS.
They have also to sell, at the House of JOSEPH GREENLEAF, Esq; in Hanover street, near the Orange tree, A good Assortment of IRISH LINENS. Also, BRISTOL BEER, by the Cask or single dozen.
N. B. The above Goods will be sold Wholesale or retail, for little more than the Sterling Cost and charges.
To the PUBLIC.
THE subscriber takes this method to inform his friends, and the public in general, that he has prepared a complete Room, in his dwelling house, near the Conduit, for the RECEPTION of GOODS to be sold at
PUBLIC SALE; Those who are pleased to favour him with their commands, may rest assured that the greatest punctuality and honour will be strictly observed. As the situation is very suitable for said business, he flatters himself the result of his undertaking will be attended with mutual advantage to his employers and self, therefore respectfully solicits the favour of the public, and the same will be thankfully received by their humble servant MARTIN BICKER.
N. B. He has to sell, at private sale, a neat assortment of Broad Cloths, 3-4ths. 7 8ths. and yard wide Irish Linen, 3-4ths. and 7 8ths. Check, Garlix, Dowlas, Bed-ticking, knit Patterns, Velverets, Shalloons, men's and women's Hose. Handkerchiefs, Ticklinburg, Osnaburgs, Kilmarnock Caps, &c. &c. Also, a few dozen Beaverett Hats made in this town, to be sold cheap.
JACOB HEMET, DENTIST to her Majesty and the Princess Amelia.
BEGS Leave to recommend to the Public, his newly discovered Essence of Pearl, and Pearl Dentifrice, which he has found to be greatly superior not only in elegance, but also in efficacy, to any thing hitherto made use of for complaints of the Teeth and Gums: Particularly they will preserve the Teeth in a perfect sound state, even to old age; they render them white and beautiful, without in the least impairing the enamel; fasten such as are loose, keep such as are already decayed from becoming worse, prevent the Tooth-Ach, perfectly cure the Scurvy in the Gums, and make them grow firm and close to the teeth; they likewise render the breath delicate, sweet, and remedy almost all those disorders that are the consequence of scorbutic gums.
Sold (by appointment of Mr. Hemet) wholesale and retail, by W. Bayley, Perfumer, in Cockspur street, near the bottom of the Hay-market, London, and at William Scott's Irish Linen Store, near the Draw-bridge, Boston, New-England.
To be SOLD, A VERY handsome HOUSE with two rooms on a floor, a good large yard and garden, with a rain water Cistern, pleasantly situated at the southerly part of Boston, the third house to the northward of Dr. Byles. Any person inclining to purchase the said house may have it at a very reasonable price. For further particulars enquire of the printer.
New Book-Store. JOHN LANGDON, Opposite the Post Office, informs the public that he has just received from London, a Large and Grand
Assortment of BOOKS, Which he is determined to sell so cheap as to give entire satisfaction to the purchaser. The following Catalogue he presents to the Gentlemen of the Law, viz.
BACON's new Abridgments of the Law, 5 vols. The fifth Vol. may be had alone. Burrow's Reports, 3 vols. Folio. Lord Ramond's do. 3 vols. Folio. Peer William's do. 3 vols. do. Hobart's do. Shinner's do. Plowden's do. Ventris's do. Lilly's practical Register, 2. vols. Folio. Ditto Entries. Hawkin's Pleas of the Crown. Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England, 4 vols. 4to. Ditto Analysis. Cunningham's Law Dictionary, 2 vols. fo. Jacob's do.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS,
At the South Corner of MARSHAL'S LANE, leading from the MILL-BRIDGE into UNION-STREET, where all Persons may be supplied with this Paper at Six Shillings and Eight Pence Lawful Money, per Annum, unsealed, and Eight Shillings sealed and directed; and where Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received and ADVERTISEMENTS taken in—PRINTING in its various Branches, performed in a neat Manner, with the greatest Care and Dispatch, on the most reasonable Terms.—Small HAND-BILLS at an Hour's Notice. SUBSCRIPTIONS for the SPY are also taken in by J. Larkin, Chairman, and Mr. W. Calder, Painter, in Charles-Town; Mr. J. Hiller, Watchmaker, in Salem; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; and Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater.