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VOL. II.]
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1772.
[NUMB. 74.
IT must afford a very sensible pleasure to every well wisher to learning in general, and to the Seminary in Cambridge in particular, when any encouragement is given to hope for its prosperity: all of this character, will be ready to improve every opportunity to promote so good a cause. Such an one is now offered to the public in the following
LOTTERY,
granted by the General Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, for the purpose of raising 3200 l. L. M. for building a new hall at Cambridge for the better accommodation of the students
—To the management whereof Joseph Jackson, and William Blair Townsend Esqrs. William Greenleaf, Jonathan Mason, Samuel Austin, and H. Hill, Merchants, have been appointed and duly sworn.
HARVARD-COLLEGE LOTTERY,
consists of 10,000 Tickets, at 6 Dollars each; 3337 of which are prizes of the following value, viz.
1 Prize of 5000 Dollars 5000
1 do. 3000 3000
1 do. 1000 1000
3 do. 500 1500
10 do. 200 2000
15 do. 100 1500
30 do. 50 1500
3276 do. 10 32760
3337 48260
The first ticket which shall be drawn on the first six days, will be intitled to 500 Dollars each. 300
The ticket which shall be drawn last in said lottery, will be intitled to 100 Dollars each. 100
N. B. These are not included in the number of prizes.
6663 Blanks, 48660
Remain for the College 11340
10000 Tickets at 6 Dollars each are 60000 Dollars.
Not Two Blanks to a Prize.
The above Scheme is calculated more to the advantage of the adventurer, than perhaps any other ever yet offered to the public on this continent; when this is considered, together with the generous design of said Lottery, the managers cannot but flatter themselves they shall be able to draw the same in a few months.
As this undertaking is designed solely for the benefit of the College, it is hoped that those who have received the honours of that society, and all others who have at heart the cause of learning, with which the good of society is so nearly connected, will readily and cheerfully encourage it, by becoming adventurers.
Public and seasonable notice will be given of the time and place of drawing; and as soon as the drawing is finished, a list of the prizes will be published in Edes & Gill's Boston Gazette, &c. and the money paid to the possessors of the benefit tickets, within twenty days after a publication of a list of prizes.
Gold as well as silver will be taken for the tickets, and the prizes paid off in like manner, prizes not demanded within twelve months after drawing, will not be paid, but will be deemed as generously given for the purposes aforesaid, and will be applied accordingly.
TICKETS are ready for sale at the houses of Jonathan Hastings and Andrew Boardman, Esqrs. in Cambridge, and at the Stores and Houses of the managers in Boston.
FLOREAT ACADEMIA.
To be LET, A STORE, very convenient for ENGLISH GOODS, and well situated. Enquire of the Printer.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
NAPLES, [Italy] April 10.
HIS country seems to give birth to crimes unequalled in any other part of the world for their cruelty and guilt. Whether it is that this proceeds from the uncommon heat of the climate working upon the blood of the people, or from some other cause, is uncertain; but we have frequent instances here of crimes which are dreadful even beyond credibility. A few days ago two Artisans, who were drinking together, quarrelled in their cups; on which one of them instantly drew a stiletto, and laid his companion dead on the spot. A soldier who was present, resolving to be revenged on the assassin for the murder of the deceased who was his friend, snatched up a knife from a table, and plunged it in his heart. This latter though the blood ran fast from his wound, pursued the soldier holding the stiletto still in his hand, but despairing of overtaking him, he took a barbarous resolution to stab every one that came in his way. He soon laid seven persons dead in the street, and wounded many more. This monster at last, exhausted by loss of blood, fell down; and a Priest coming to his assistance, he raised his arm to stab him, but expired before he could strike the blow. This is the last of many accidents which happened lately in these parts.
ROME, [Italy] April 4. A few days ago the Duke of Gloucester went to see the rarities of the Capitol, and from thence to examine the curious monuments which are in the Hotel of the Conservatori, and those in the museum of the Capitol. The Abbe Visconti, Commissary of antiquities whom whom the Pope had sent as an interpreter, had an opportunity of conversing a long time with the Duke, and communicated to him many of his discoveries, which no person had ever made before him; among others, he demonstrated to him that the figure placed in the Vestible of the Museum, hitherto known under the denomination of the God Pan, does not represent that Heathen Divinity, but the Cyclops Poliphemus, who killed some of Ulysses's companions. His single eye being covered, to this day with modern stucco, prevented its being known whose representation it is.
LONDON, May 2. The company at the Pantheon masked ball, on Thursday evening were near two thousand in number among the characters was a Sultana, Lady Villa, with an astonishing quantity of diamonds, to the value of 30,000 l. half of which was her own property.
By a gentleman just arrived from Paris we are informed the Pretender, from his being so many years devoted to his bottle, had no inclination to the deed of matrimony, but was edged on by the French court to preserve the breed of Stuart, as a future convenience to their machinations. It is likewise said, that the French King has added considerably to the Princess's fortune.
On Thursday the house unanimously resolved, that no bill relating to religion, or the alteration of the laws concerning religion, be brought into their house, until the proposition shall have been first considered in a committee of the whole house, and agreed unto by the house; which resolution was made a standing order of the house.
May 4. It is now confidently said that nothing but the customary supplies will be demanded from the Parliament; and that this advantage is owing to the prudent administration of Lord North, who besides avoiding the imposition of new burdens upon the subject, has paid off 1,800,000 l. of the national debt in the course of the past winter.
On Sunday morning five loaded wagons with provisions, and other necessaries, were sent away from St. James's for D al, to put on board his Majesty's ships destined for the Baltick, to escort her Royal Highness Carolina Matilda to Zell, and this morning several persons belonging to the board of Green cloth, will set out to embark on board the said ships for that purpose.
Carlton house is now fitting up with great magnificence for the reception of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The additional furniture (though that in the Princess Dowager's time was very splendid) it is said, will amount to 15,000 l. and the Prince will reside there the beginning of next winter, as by that time his household will be thoroughly established.
FRIDAY, July 10. BOSTON.
Capt. Jacobson was to sail from London in about a fortnight and Capt. Symmes in a month after Capt. White.
Monday failed Capt. Hall, for London, with whom went passenger Mr. William Phillips, son of William Phillips, Esq; of this town, Merchant.
The Rev. Mr. Thomas Prockway, is ordained to the pastoral care of the church in second society in Lebanon.
CHARLESTOWN, [South Carolina] June 22. On Saturday last his Majesty's armed Schooner St. Lawrence, commanded by Lieutenant Dundas, failed for the Bahamas. Yesterday his Majesty's sloop Merlin, Capt. Fotheringham, having procured the necessaries for which she put in here, proceeded on her return to Jamaica.
A dispute arose here last week whether R. Peter Handasyde Hatley, Esq; appointed by his Excellency the Governor to the office of Collector of his Majesty's customs at this port, vacant by the death of John Hughes, Esq; or George Roupell, Esq; appointed to the same office by the Commissioners of the Customs at Boston, had a legal appointment. This dispute which is of a new impression, must be determined, we are told in Great-Britain. The business of the Custom-house, in the mean time is carried on by Mr. Roupell as Collector and the former officers.
NEW-YORK, July 6. On Tuesday last his Excellency the Governor issued a proclamation, whereby the General Assembly of this province is prorogued to the 8th day of September next.
Last week came to town, from North-Carolina, Mr. Ba thafur K p, late belonging to the sloop Sally, Capt. Hunt, who was cast away on Cape Look Out (as mentioned in our paper a few weeks past) who informs, that a farmer looking for his cattle, found on the shore near Stump Inlet, almost expiring, Mary Tringleth, a young woman, passenger on board the above sloop, who was providentially cast on shore, after being seven days alone on part of the wreck, driving at the mercy of the sea, without any thing to eat or drink. The farmer took her to his house, where by kind usage she soon recovered.
Saturday last the Halifax Packet, Capt. Bolderfon, failed with the mail for Falmouth.
PHILADELPHIA, July 2. On Monday last a court of Oyer and Terminer was held at Burlington, for the trial of Smart, alias McCormick, for the murder and robbery of Elizabeth Knight; when he plead guilty to the burglary, in hopes of being admitted as an evidence against an innocent person one Shreeve, whom he impeached as the murderer; but the Grand Jury, finding nothing to support the indictment against Shreeve, did not find the bill, upon which the Court proceeded, and pronounced sentence of death against Smart, who is to be hanged next Saturday.
SATURDAY, July 11. BOSTON.
Extract of a letter from Falmouth Nova-Scotia June 19
"There has been a great deal of damage done these parts by fire, which has run through the country near fifty miles, and burnt several houses"
ROXBURY, July 7. Yesterday in the forenoon, the Rev. Mr. William Gordon was installed to the pastoral care of the third church in this town.
HALIFAX, June 16. On Saturday the 6th ult. a great fire happened in the township of Lunenburg in this province, which lasted from 4 o'clock in the morning, until late in the evening before it could be extinguished, in which fire, the following persons were sufferers, viz.
Sutherland's farm house, barn and stable. In middle range. Wendel Wieft, two houses, barn, and fence. Nicolas Conrad, house and fence. In Center, Barbara Loflerin, house, fence and grain. Nicholas Smith barn. South division, Cornwallis Morreau, barn, and fence. Johannes Gerhard, house, barn and stables. Henry Koch, house, fence and grain. Jacob Stear, house, barn, stable, plough, cart, fence and grain. Asmus Thiel, house and stable. Johannes Lonus, sen. barn, fence and grain. Johannes Lonus jun. barn. Gottlieb Hobbold, house, barn, stable, fence and grain, &c. In Raby, Casper Zinck, house, barn, stable, fence, and a new cart. Johannes Gorkum, cow, heifer and fence. Nicholas Wolff, house, barn, stable, fence and grain. Johannes Seeburgher, house, barn, stable and fence. Henry Folger, about fifteen bushels of grain. Leonard Newfarth, house, barn, stable and fence. In Kanisberg. Gottlieb Harnish, house, barn, stable and fence. Mrs. Krahner, house, barn, stable, fence and two pigs. Johannes Mosmar, house, barn, stable and fence. Peter Knack, house, barn, stable and fence, &c.
MONDAY, July 13. BOSTON.
The following is a copy of the report of a Committee, appointed by the House of Representatives on the 16th of June last, to consider of a message from the Governor; wherein his Excellency had said, that "his Majesty had been graciously pleased to make provision for his support," and that he "must conclude it cannot be his Majesty's pleasure, that without his special permission, he should accept of any grant from the province" for his ordinary services. This report was by a very large majority, and in a very full house, ACCEPTED, and ordered to be entered on their Journal, viz.
THE Committe appointed to take under consideration a m ss ge from his Excellency the Governor of the 13 h of June, beg leave to report,
THAT the making provision for the support of the Governor of the province, independent of the grants and acts of the General Assembly, is in the opinion of this committee an infraction upon the rights granted to the inhabitants by the Royal Charter, and in derogation of the constitution.
The charter of this province is a most solemn contract, not only between King William and Queen Mary, by whom it was granted, of the one part, and the inhabitants of the province of the other; but also between the heirs and successors of their royal Majesties and the successors of the said inhabitants forever. This appears from the very words and tenor of the charter.
By the said charter it is established and ordained, "That there shall be one Governor to be from time to time appointed and commissioned by the King": And it is also therein expressly granted, that "the General Assembly shall have full power and authority to impose and levy reasonable rates and taxes for the support of his Majesty's

Government of the province: "Of which the support of the Governor is a most material and important part.
That the Great and General Court or Assembly of the province is by the charter vested with the exclusive right of judging what is an adequate support for his Majesty's government of this province, and of determining in what way and manner provision for that purpose shall be made, appears not only from the natural and obvious sense and meaning of the words and terms of the charter, but from the constant and uninterrupted usage and practice upon that charter, for more than eighty years from the time when it was granted.
That the support of the Governor is part of the support of the government of the province, not only has been the constant sense of the General Assemblies of this province, but it also appears from the act of the British parliament referred to in his Excellency's Message, and his Majesty's determination thereon: For in the Message his Excellency informs the House, that he had observed in his answer to a Message of a former House, "that his Majesty had been enabled by an act of parliament to make a certain and adequate provision for the support of civil government in the colonies:" And in this Message he declares, that "he is able to acquaint the House that his Majesty has been graciously pleased to make provision for his support in the station in which he has thought fit to place him;" by which his Excellency cannot be understood to intend any other than his station as Governor of this province. And by the connection of the several parts of the Message, it is most plainly to be inferred, that his Excellency would acquaint the House, that his Majesty had made that provision, in consequence of, and by the power vested in, him by an act of parliament, which enabled him to make provision for the support of the civil government of the colonies. So that unless it should be supposed that his Majesty himself hath mistaken the true sense of the act, it is evidently the opinion of the British parliament, that the support of a Governor is part of the support of the government of a colony.
That the power and authority of providing for the support of the Governor should be vested in the General Assembly, is necessary, to preserve the freedom of the constitution: For, if the King who has the absolute power of appointing and commissioning the Governor, shall also have the power of judging and determining what shall be a reasonable and adequate support for him, and of the ways and means of making provision for that purpose, there remains no check at all upon the power devolved by charter on the crown: And a power without a check, is so far forth destructive of the freedom of the constitution.
Moreover, this is a most dangerous innovation, as it affords a precedent for future more extensive evil of the same kind: For with equal reason may the crown take and exercise the power of judging and determining, what shall be an adequate support for every other part of civil government, and the ways and means of making provision therefor; which would take away the freedom of the constitution, and establish arbitrary government within the province.
Although it may not be affirmed, that the Governor, by being altogether dependent upon the crown for his support, becomes positively vested with any new powers which were not granted to him by the charter, or that his department in government is enlarged, yet the relation he before stood in to the people, by his dependence on them is altered: That check upon the exercise of the powers that are vested in him by the charter, which was evidently designed to remain in the General Assembly, is annihilated; and he may if he pleases exercise even his constitutional powers, in such a manner as shall be injurious and oppressive to the people without restraint. He is therefore a Governor, not dependent upon the people as the charter prescribes, and consequently not, in that respect, such a Governor as the people consented to at the granting thereof.
The support of government and the means of its defence, ought to depend, and in all free Governments it does depend, upon the grants of the people made by Representatives of their own free election, and the acts of the legislative. And adequate provision is thus made for these purposes, as is judged and determined by the representatives of the people to be reasonable; proportioned to their abilities, and the station and merit of those who are entrusted with the administration. This has been claimed as the undoubted right of the parliaments and people of England, and so adjudged for many ages past.
As it is clearly the right of the legislative of this province, the General Assembly have always made adequate provision for
the support of the Governor: The advice therefore, given to his Majesty, to take upon himself the payment of his Governor, must have been grounded upon false information, or proceeded from a temper inimical to the good people of this province. Whatever may have been the design of administration, it is a measure whereby not only the just right of the General Assembly of this province is rescinded, but the highest indignity is thrown upon it; as though it was either not disposed to make adequate provision for, or not competent judges of, the support of government, upon which the safety and welfare of the people depends.
For these reasons the committee beg leave further to report the following resolutions for the consideration and acceptance of the House.
WHEREAS in and by the charter of this province the full power and authority to impose and levy proportionable and reasonable rates and taxes upon the estates and persons of all and every the proprietors and inhabitants of the province for his Majesty's service in the necessary defence and support of his government therein, is vested in the General Assembly; and the rates and taxes by them imposed and levied for the purposes aforesaid, are to be disposed of according to such acts as are, or shall be in force therein:
And whereas the support of his Majesty's Governor of the province is one material and most important part of the support of his Majesty's government therein:
1. Resolved , That by virtue of the full power and authority granted by the charter as aforesaid, the General Assembly is the constituted judge of the adequate support of his Majesty's Governor, and the rates and taxes necessary to be imposed and levied for that purpose.
Therefore, 2. Resolved , That the imposing and levying rates and taxes, and making provision for the support of the Governor, otherwise than by the grants and acts of the General Assembly, is an infraction upon the charter in a material point, whereby a most important trust is wrested out of the hands of the General Assembly, and it is deprived of a most important part of legislative power and authority vested therein by the charter, and necessary for the good and welfare of the province, and the support and government thereof.
3. Resolved , That the General Assembly of this province hath, ever since the charter was granted, from time to time, by their own grants and acts, made suitable and adequate provision for the support of his Majesty's Governor thereof.
4. Resolved , That the Governor's having and receiving his support independent of the grants and acts of the General Assembly, is a dangerous innovation; which renders him a Governor not dependent on the people as the charter has prescribed, and consequently, not, in that respect, such a Governor as the people consented to at the granting thereof. It destroys that mutual check and dependence which each branch of the legislative ought to have upon the others, and the balance of power which is essential to all free governments. And this House do most solemnly protest, that the innovation is an important change of the constitution, and exposes the province to a despotic administration of Government.
And whereas the General Assembly hath from the beginning made ample provision for the support of his Majesty's Governor:
5. Resolved , That the advice given to his Majesty, that it was necessary for his Majesty's service, and the good and welfare of this province, that certain and adequate provision should be made for the support of the Governor thereof, otherwise, than as has been the invariable practice, by the grants and acts of the General Assembly, was, in the opinion of this House, either grounded on false information, or it proceeded from a temper inimical as well to his Majesty, as to the people of this province.
6. Resolved , That a Message go up to his Excellency the Governor, assuring him that this House is ready to make him the usual annual grant and other ordinary provision for his support: Provided his Excellency will accept the same in full consideration of the ordinary services of government done, or to be done, by him:" And praying his Excellency, that if he is determined in his opinion, that he cannot "without his Majesty's special permission accept of any grant from the province" for his support as Governor thereof, he would make application to his Majesty, that he would be graciously pleased to give further order, that his Excellency may, without restraint, receive his whole support from this government, according to ancient and invariable usage.
The House having passed upon the foregoing Report, a MESSAGE to the Governor, agreeable to their last Resolution was brought
in by order of the House and accepted; and a Committee was appointed to carry the same to his Excellency. A copy of which MESSAGE is as follows, viz.
"May it please your Excellency, THE House of Representatives, after the most deliberate consideration of your message of the 13th of June, are of opinion, that the making provision for your Excellency's support in the station in which his Majesty has been pleased to place you, as Governor of this province, independent of the grants and acts of the General Assembly, and your Excellency's receiving the same, is an infraction upon the rights granted to the inhabitants of the province by the royal charter, and in derogation of the freedom of the civil constitution.
"This house is ready with cheerfulness to make the usual annual grant and other ordinary provision; provided your Excellency will receive the same for your whole support as Governor of the province. Your Excellency has been pleased to signify to the House, your opinion, that you cannot without his Majesty's special permission receive any grant from the province for your support as Governor: If your Excellency is fully determined in this opinion, we pray that you would make application to his Majesty, that he would be graciously pleased to give further orders, whereby you may, without any restraint, receive your support from this government, according to ancient and invariable usage."
This Message was delivered last Saturday. On Friday last his Excellency was pleased to send down to the House the following MESSAGE, viz.
"Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, "I AM informed that in consequence of my answer to your message of the 6th of June, you have passed certain Votes or Resolves, which you have ordered to be entered upon your Journals. As it may be of importance to his Majesty's service that I should have as early knowledge as may be of the proceedings of the House of Representatives, especially in matters of this nature, I must desire you to direct that I be furnished with an attested copy of such Votes or Resolves from your Journals, if any such have been ordered to be entered there.
T. HUTCHINSON. "Province-House, 10 July 1772." This Message being read, the House ordered an attested copy of their Resolves to be made, and sent to his Excellency accordingly.
TUESDAY, July 14. BOSTON. Yesterday the Governor sent the following MESSAGE to the House, viz.
"Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, "I THINK it incumbent on me to put you in mind of the ruinous state of the province house, with the yards, out-houses and appendages. I imagine it must cost double the sum to repair it the next year as will be sufficient at present, and it is most probable that I shall not be able to keep my family there another winter.
"It would be more agreeable to my inclination to reside wholly at my house in the country, and it is for the convenience of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, and other persons who occasionally come there and have public business to transact, that I spend so much of my time in Boston. When the house provided for the Governor is not in a tenable repair, I think there can be no exception if I change the place of my residence."
To which the House this day returned the following ANSWER, viz.
"May it please your Excellency, "IN answer to your message of yesterday, this House beg leave to observe, That they are not unapprized that the province house is out of repair, and that expence might be saved, by making such repairs as are necessary as soon as may be. But that building was procured for the residence of a Governor, whose whole support was to be provided for by the grants and acts of the General Assembly, according to the tenor of the charter: And it is the opinion of this House, that it never was expected by any Assembly of this province, that it would be appropriated for the residence of any Governor, for whose support adequate provision should be made another way. Upon this consideration we cannot think it our duty to make any repairs at this time.
"Your Excellency may be assured, that this House is far from being influenced by any personal disrespect: Should the time come which we hope for, when your Excellency shall think yourself at liberty to accept of your whole support from this government, according to ancient and invariable usage, we doubt not but you will find the Representatives of this people, ready to provide for
your Excellency, a house not barely tenantable, but elegant. In the mean time, as your Excellency receives from his Majesty, a certain and adequate support, we cannot have the least apprehension, that you will be so far guided by your own inclination, as that you will make any town in the province the place of your residence, but where it will be most conducive to his Majesty's service and the good and welfare of the people.
WEDNESDAY, July 15. BOSTON.
We are very credibly informed, that several of the members of a certain Assembly, who voted against the late Resolutions, declared that they would have heartily joined in a Petition and Remonstrance to his Majesty against the independency of the Governor on the General Assembly for his support. Hence we may infer, that the said Independency was on both sides judged to be a dangerous innovation.
Friday last the brig Lord Hyde, Capt. Shoemaker, arrived here from New-York; he sailed from thence last Saturday night in company with the ship Countess of Donegal, Capt. Reed, ship Sommerlade, Capt. Bonner, brig Polly, Capt. Davidson, with another brig and sloop all for this port: These Vessels are to be employed as transports to carry off the 14th regiment of foot. Several of the above transports have since arrived.
Last week arrived the Lizard frigate, Capt. Ingham, from North Carolina: We hear he has been employed in examining the woods in the southern district as far as Florida, in order to determine what supply for the royal navy may be depended upon, from those parts of his Majesty's dominions.
At the late Superior Court at Falmouth Casco Bay, one Solomon Gooding was found guilty of the murder of David Wilson, of Bowdoinham, as mentioned in the papers some time ago.
DIED.] At Newport, Capt. Frederick Hamilton.
SALES by Auction.
THIS Morning, at 11 o'Clock, Will be sold by Public Vendue at a house in Green's Lane,
A VARIETY of House Furniture, belonging to a gentleman who is removing from this province into another, viz. Feather Beds, four post Bedstead with Copper Plate curtains, Mattress, Tables, Chairs, Looking Glasses, Kitchen Furniture, &c. J RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
TO-MORROW, At NINE in the Morning, Will be Sold by PUBLIC VENDUE at the Auction-Room in Queen Street,
A VERY Large and Valuable Collection of BOOKS, in almost every Branch of polite Literature.-- The Books are chiefly New and well Bound.-- Printed Catalogues may be had at the Auction-Room in Queen-Street, the Monday preceding the Time of Sale. J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
On TUESDAY next, At TEN in the Morning, Will be sold by public Vendue, at the Auction-Room in Queen-Street.
A GREAT Variety of English GOODS, among which are Manchester Cotton Checks, fine Irish Linens, fine Lawns, Gauze and Lawn Aprons, Silk Mitts, Bengals, Men and Women's Hose, superfine Broad Cloths, with a great variety of other Goods, the property of a gentleman going to Philadelphia immediately. J RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
A GREAT Variety of genteel HOUSE FURNITURE, viz. 1 Elegant Mahogany Desk and Book-Case, swell'd Front, 1 Dozen Hair Bottom Chairs, 1 Dozen Leather Bottom Ditto, Half a Dozen yellow Moreen Ditto, Neat Mahogany Dining Tables, Bureaus and Pier Tables, Very fine Feather Beds, with four post Bedsteads & Curtains, 1 Field Bed and Bedstead, Wilton and Scotch Carpets, Variety of Looking Glasses, 1 neat Phaeton, with two Sets of Harness, 1 neat Riding Chair and Harness. All Kinds of Kitchen Furniture, with a large Parcel of Cream colour'd Ware, Glass and China, &c. &c.
The above are the Property of a Gentleman who is removing from this Province into another, and will be Sold at PRIVATE SALE, at his House next South of the Meeting-House on Jamaica Plains, on Saturday next, from Nine to One o'Clock Forenoon. For further Particulars enquire of J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer.

For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
Mr. THOMAS,
THE unaccountable conduct of the province of New-York, having been much complained of in the public prints, and of late as I am informed by a petition to the legislature of this province. I have spent a few hours to look a little into the subject matter of so interesting a dispute, and shall endeavour in a few words to state it fairly. It is agreed on all hands, that James the first had a right to grant to the Plymouth company all the lands from the fortieth to the forty-eighth degree of Northerly latitude, and in all that breadth in longitude from sea to sea, provided that no land within that grant were covered by his former grant, or actually possessed or inhabited by the subjects of any other christian state or potentate. And it cannot reasonably be disputed that the Plymouth company had full right to convey all that tract lying between three miles south of Charles river, and the like distance north of the northernmost part of Merrimack river, extending in longitude from the Atlantic to the South Sea, with the original proviso to Sir Henry Roswel, &c. Now New-York alledges against our claim the poor pretence that the King was deceived, in being informed that no subjects of any other christian state did inhabit within the descriptive limits, which say their committee, (vide Smith's history p. 185 renders our charter void, part of the premises being actually possessed by the Dutch. I would readily admit that could the Dutch shew any charters from the states with such well determined boundaries, as are those of either the Council's Charter or Roswel's conveyance prior to James's Charter and coeval possession of some considerable part of the whole, it would have some weight for that extent; but nothing like this is so much as pretended, nor one decisive instrument held up of older date than 1674. This must then most certainly reduce the Dutch claim to particular possession and inhabiting a thing, the Crown seemed perfectly conscious of by the express proviso in their favour. But so eminent is the domain of a few unauthorozised Dutchmen that according to these profound jurists, it destroys, disannuls, and renders void the whole charter; and on this ridiculous or rather scandalous presumption they found their right to disturb and vex thousands of leige subjects holding by every legal species of tenure that ever was known by the general law of nations of England in particular. Vattel p. 149 says, It is equally agreeable to the dictates of humanity and to the particular advantages of the state, to give desert places even to strangers, who are willing to clear the land and render it valuable. This surely the Massachusettenses have done in an evident manner, and not only so, but defended it by an infinite expence of blood and treasure, for a sufficient length of time to create a title had they no other than usucaption. Against all this what is pretended? Arbitrary vacations of charters—arbitrary settlement of boundaries and arbitrary claims of right, never thought of for near a century! It would be absurd (says my author in p. 167) to say that Domain and property being once established, the law of nature can secure (even) to a proprietor, any right capable of introducing disorder into human society. Such would be the right of intirely neglecting the thing that belongs to him, of leaving it for a long space of time under all the appearances of being properly abandoned and that it does not belong to him, and of coming at length to deprive an honest possessor of it who has perhaps acquired a title to it by a burthensome condition. The law of nature which requires that every one should be firm and certain, does not permit their being disturbed in their possessions, 174 1b. All the tranquility, the happiness and security of the human race rests on justice; and the obligation of paying a regard to the rights of others.—As the engagements of a treaty impose on the one hand a perfect obligation, they produce on the other a perfect right.
To violate a treaty is then to violate the perfect right of him with whom we have contracted, and this is to do him an injury, 1841b. Since public treaties and even those that are personal, concluded by a Sovereign, who is invested with sufficient power, are treaties of state, and obligatory with respect to the whole nation, real treaties, made to subsist independently of the person who has concluded them, doubtless oblige his successors; and the obligation imposed on the state passes successively to all its conductors, in proportion as they assume the public authority. Puffendorf law of nature and nations. B. VIII. C. IX. § 2. establishes all this
in rule 2. A successor should keep all the lawful conventions by which his Predecessor has transferred any right to a third.
With respect to the vacation our great committee rest so much upon, I presume no honest man in Christendom will allow that Charles the second had any more right to avoid it than he had to put every inhabitant in the province to death for thinking him a tyrant; and as the lands now in a great measure settled by charter from this province immediately, or by their undisputed consent are fairly within the boundaries of Roswel's conveyance which conveyance no King of Great-Britain could have a right to set aside, it cannot therefore be within the grant of the crown, consequently be the boundaries of James Duke of Y's charter where they may, they cannot from that or any other colourable pretence of crown right disturb these poor settlers and rob them of their ALL in extorting from them such enormous patent fees as they demand.
J U S T U S.
The Substance of the Sheriff's Address to the Livery of London dated at Guildh.-ll. April 6, 1772, is contained in the following paragraph, viz.
OUR particular attention has been bestowed on the many unhappy objects under our care in jails, prisons, and lock-up houses. We have frequently in person attended this essential duty, and afforded every alleviation in our power to the miseries of those, who languish under the loss of the noblest blessing, and most valuable enjoyment, personal liberty. We may congratulate our countrymen, that the number of these unfortunate persons has not been attempted to be increased this Session by any illegal Royal Proclamations, or Commitments during pleasure, made by either of the two houses of parliament. Their late usurpations on the personal rights and privileges of the people seem to be given up and surrendered. The Lords have not dared so unconstitutional an order of imprisonment, nor to impose any fines at their arbitrary will for offences cognizable by Juries. No man has been committed at their bar for what their votes, not the laws, declare seditious, nor for what they so readily find a libel on a brother peer, nor have they ventured to condemn any person on the first original hearing of a cause, which ought to come before them only by appeal from the inferior courts after the verdict of a Jury. The house of commons have tacitly acquiesced in the claim made by many of our worthy fellow citizens for the people at large, that the constituents of this kingdom have a right to be fully informed of all the proceedings of their servants in parliament. Their votes indeed assert. 'That it is an indignity to, and a breach of the privilege of, the house, for any person to presume to give, in written or printed News-papers any account, or minutes of the debates or other proceedings of the house, or of any committee thereof,' but the usurpation was apparent, as well as the indignity to their masters, and the breach of the privileges of their constituents. Their other resolution in consequence fell into contempt. 'that upon discovery of the authors, printers or publishers of any such written or printed news-papers, the house, will proceed against the offenders with the utmost severity.' Several honest printers in defiance of their illegal orders gave the public under their names all the particulars of their proceedings during the last session, which the house so prudently endeavoured to hide in a darkness, suited to their deeds. The most natural effect followed, a general abhorrence of them through the nation. The same persons, who asserted our rights the last winter, have through the present session continued the exercise of it in its fullest extent. Notwithstanding the report of the committee to examine into the several facts and circumstances relative to the late obstruction to the execution of the orders of the house, and to consider what further proceedings may be requisite to enforce a due obedience thereto, was, in express terms that the house should order, that the said J. MILLER be taken into custody of the Serjeant at arms attending the house, the said J. MILLER is still at large, still continues the severest attack upon them by faithfully publishing their proceedings, still brave their indignation, and sleeps secure in the city. Among the number of daily offenders of this kind the c--- majority in the --- of --- have not presumed to commit a single printer, although by the late Royal marriage bill they have invaded the primary inherent rights of humane nature, and the divine institutions, in the persons of the descendants of the late most excellent king, and regard-
less of the cries of the starving poor, employed themselves this whole session only to enslave the family of a prince, whose memory becomes every day more dear and sacred to all true English men. The people are now made the judges of the conduct of their Representatives, and the full exertion of the liberty of the press, the great bulwark of all our liberties, in support of the constitution, with the other acquisitions for the public, will render this era ever memorable in our annals. These triumphs over the ministerial faction we hold more important at this period, because they have been gained, when the chief magistrate of the capital had betrayed the rights he was chosen to defend, and trampled upon the known privileges of all the electors of this great city, which his upright predecessor vindicated with true spirit and courage. Many friends of the cause of liberty we know are apprehensive that the late usurpations will be soon renewed, or at least in the following year. We entreat them not to despond, nor to indulge that gloomy idea. During our continuance in office we will stand forth the protectors of the just privileges of the subject. Your virtue, gentleman of the livery of London, will at the ensuing midsummer give us successors equally zealous and undaunted in the cause of freedom and our country.
JOHN WILKES, FRED. BULL.
THURSDAY, July 16. BOSTON.
Yesterday being the anniversary Commencement at Harvard College, in Cambridge, his Excellency the Governor, his Honour the Lieutenant Governor, a number of the honourable his Majesty's Council, together with the corporation, and the Governors of the College, preceded by the candidates for their first degrees in their gowns, went in procession from the Hall to the Meeting-House, where the exercises of the day were introduced with a preparatory prayer by the Reverend President, then a salutary oration in Latin, the usual Sylogistic Disputations in Latin followed; the audience were next entertained with a dialogue in the Greek, and another in the Syriac Languages, an English Dialogue, and an English Oration, which finished the forenoon services. After which the procession returned to the Hall, where a genteel entertainment was provided.
Between four and five o'clock P. M. the procession proceeded by the Candidates for their second degree returned from the Hall to the Meeting-house, an elegant English oration opened the services of the afternoon, after which the candidates for the Master's degree entered upon their sylogistic disputations; then followed an Hebrew oration, a Latin dialogue, and the valedictory Oration.
The several degrees were conferred in the usual manner previous to the valedictory Oration, a prayer by the Rev. President, closed the academical services of the day.
The degrees of Batchelor and Master of Arts were conferred on the following gentlemen, viz.
BACHELORS of ARTS.
William Chandler, Benjamin Loring, Clement March, Samuel Murray, John Lindall Borland, Jonathan Williams, John Eliot, Samuel Cooke, Samuel Ruddock, George Inman, John Shaw, John Hastings, Paul Whitney, Samuel Haven, Clement Weeks, Joseph Crosby, Thomas-Aston Coffin, Philips White, Daniel Staniford, Joshua-Bayley Osgood, Miles Whitworth, Jonathan Simpson, John Clark, Joshua Barker, Nathaniel Ellery, Joshua Thomas, John Homans, Edward Hill, Samuel Smith, Thomas Burnham, Jesse Rice, William Eustis, Thomas Saunders, Nathan Bond, John Sprague, Martin Herrick, William Fisk, John Hills, Samuel Tenny, Josias Badcock, Daniel Chaplin, Oliver-Wellington Lane, Beza Hayward, Phineas Bowman, Thomas Welsh, Levi Lincoln, Phineas Wright, and John Allen.
MASTERS of ARTS.
Peter Oliver, Jacob Winthrop, John Williams, Peter T'nacher Joseph Lee, Christopher Sergeant, Nehemiah Williams, Theophilus Parsons, William Tudor, John Bulkeley, Nathaniel Webster, Peter Coffin, Nathaniel Tracy, Nathaniel Harrington, Isaac Biglow, Jonathan-Williams Austin, Daniel Jones, Jonas D x, William Bowers, Benjamin Wadsworth, Peleg Wadsworth, Ebenezer Bradish, Elias Fisher, Benjamin Guild, Thomas Moore, James Jewett, Noah Cooke, William Goodhue, Elijah Fletcher, Stephen Peabody, Samuel Coolidge and Moses Dow.
On Tuesday last the Representatives of the people of this province, in a full assembly and only one dissentient, passed a humble Petition and Remonstrance to the KING:
praying that his Majesty would be graciously pleased to take into his consideration, the grievances which his subjects in America labour under, by reason of the Acts of Parliament for raising a revenue with their consent. In this Petition the making provision for the support of the Governor independent of the General Assembly, by virtue of the acts aforesaid, is set forth as a Grievance which threatens the ruin of the constitution.
On Tuesday afternoon the petition of Messrs. Powells and others, the much injured proprietors of the lands lying westward of Connecticut river, including Hindale and many other townships, granted by this province and New-Hampshire, passed in the Honourable House of Representatives. It must give pleasure to every honest man to observe the spirit manifested by every branch of the Legislature on this occasion. We may now depend upon seeing a fair trial of the force of law against such miserable sophistry as this, "the province of the Massachusetts-Bay can claim no title to any lands whatsoever, under the deed to Roswell; because the grant to the council of Plymouth was void for the false suggestion on which it was granted, and the proviso therein contained; as it comprehended lands then possessed by the Dutch." Vid. Conf. Commentaries. 1767 p. 10.
This province has hitherto undeniably manifested an unbecoming degree of tameness in their disputes with their neighbours, but it is hoped the evident consequences of prosecuting such scandalous invasions, have awakened them to make something of a stand, before a few land jobbers at New-York; and the great Colonel Wells in the pine woods, shall drive them all back over the Atlantic to Holland again.
We hear the 14th regiment now at castle William, will embark, in a few days on board the transports, which are employed to convey them from hence. Their destination is yet a profound secret, but the general opinion is that they are bound to the West Indies.
Yesterday arrived in Town from North-Carolina, John Malcom, Esq; late Aid de Camp, to Governor Tryon in his expedition against some of the people in his then government of North-Carolina aforesaid.
The General Assembly of this province, finished their business on Tuesday last.
It is whispered, with what certainty we know not, that the 14th Regiment, &c are to proceed against St. Croix; if the report in the London papers relating to an English fleet's going against Denmark, should turn out to be true, this expedition may be probable, as St. Croix belongs to his Danish Majesty.
We hear his Majesty has been most graciously pleased to order one thousand pounds sterling to be given to the unhappy sufferers by the late fire at St. George's, in Grenada.
The week before last, five or six men died at Philadelphia by drinking too freely of cold water while they were warm.
The Governor and Council of the colony of Connecticut, have thought proper to discontinue the embargo laid on grain in that colony.
MARRIED.] Capt. John Homer to Miss Hannah Carnes, daughter of the late Colonel Carnes.
DIED.] Mrs Mary Boutineau, aged 87 years, Widow of the late Mr. Stephen Boutineau, Merchant.—Mr John Cox, Mason.—Mr. Joseph Brewer, son of Mr. Brewer, carpenter, at the North End.—A Hispaniola, Capt. John Hewit of this town.
ALBANY, June 22. We hear that Sir William Johnson has, after several meetings with the deputies from the Mifflages, who came to him on account of the murder of their people, at length obtained their strongest assurances, that they would not attempt to retaliate on any of his Majesty's subjects, and that they appeared thoroughly satisfied whereupon he dismissed them with very handsome presents, and belts, &c. to the chiefs of that nation.
NEW LONDON, July 10. As it is said in several news papers, the Small Pox is very ripe in New-London, it may be proper to inform the public, that at this time not one person has that distemper, or the symptoms of it, in the town.
To be SOLD at JOHN WINTHROP'S Store, Opposite the East End of Faneuil's Hall, A FEW Chests of Florence OIL of a very superior Quality, Oliver, Philadelphia Flour, Bar Iron, English Loaf Sugar, Cordage, best London Porter, and a few Pipes of sterling Madeira Wine. Also, A few Barre's of excellent TURPENTINE.

Newbury, June 30th. 1772  STRAYED or Stolen out of the pasture of the widow BETTY EMERY, of NEWBURY, on the night of the 25th instant, a Bay MARE, with a black mane and tail, lame in one of her fore feet or shoulders. Whoever will take up said Mare and bring her, or give information, so as that the owner may have her again, shall receive TWO DOLLARS, and all necessary charges paid.
N. B. A SADDLE was taken the same night from the widow SARAH CHASE, with the Crooper nail'd to it; and a Chair BRIDLE from JOSEPH AMES, with ten yards of Tow and Linen Cloth, supposed to be carried off with said Mare.
SAMUEL PARKMAN, Has just received by Capt. Hume from Glasgow, and is now opening,
A LARGE assortment of Scotch Goods, consisting of almost every kind usually imported into this place, among which are, a great variety of beautiful spotted, striped and sprigged lawns and lawn aprons, flowered and striped kenting handkerchiefs, plain and picket gauze, gauze handkerchiefs, bedticks, carpets and carpeting of all widths, tartan plaids, check handkerchiefs, white threads of all numbers, gartering, K1 marnock caps, bibles, testaments and primers, &c. which with a compleat assortment of English and India goods, he will sell uncom- ing ycheap for ready money, at his shop three doors south of the Cornfields in Union-street.
For VIRGINIA, The Sloop  YOUNG-MATTHEW, ABRAM COWPER, master, For freight or passage, apply to said master on board, lying at Minot's T.
Nova-Scotia Grindstones. JUST landed, the compleatest assortment of NOVA SCOTIA GRINDSTONES ever brought into the country, and to be sold by HENRY BASS , at his store adjoining the Golden Ball Tavern at the head of Green's wharf near the Market, Boston, on account of the connections he hath with the Manufacturers, he can afford them vastly cheap or Cash or short Credit.
Just republished in Newport, And to be Sold by I. THOMAS , near the Mill-Bridge.
A few Copies of the entertaining  HISTORY of Philip's WAR; which began in the year 1675. with, the proceedings of BENJAMIN CHURCH Esq. Embellished with 2 elegant Copper-plate prints of Colonel Church and King Philip.
To SELL, or LET,  A GOOD Brick SUGAR-HOUSE, at the North part of of the Town, with the Pan and Cooler and all other Utensils for carrying on the Sugar-Bakers Business. Enquire of the Printer.
The newest  PHILADELPHIA FLOUR, Fine and Superfine; also Cotton WOOL, &c. &c. to be sold upon the most Reasonable Terms, by  JAMES SWAN, At the Store lately improved by Mr. James Blakie, and next to Mr. Ellis Gray's, leading down to Treat's and Spea's Wharfs.
A FEW Quintals of good Table FISH; and PEAS for Shipping; to be sold at  JOHN LOWELL's Store, on Hancock's-Wharf.
To be sold by Samuel Sloane, at his Distil-House, opposite the Blue-ball and Mason's-Arms, formerly Green-Dragon, New England RUM, and all sorts of SPIRITS, cheap for cash or Molasses; and as he makes those articles himself, he will warrant them fit for any market.
Irish Linens.  WILLIAM SCOTT, at his IRISH LINEN STORE In Ann-street, near the Draw-bridge, Boston, has just imported from Ireland,  A LARGE assortment of 3-4ths 7-8th and yard wide Irish Linens of all prices, Table Cloths of all sizes, Diapers, Clouting ditto, Huckabuck, Dowlas, white Ticking, brown Holland, &c.
At said Store are also to be sold, By WHOLESALE and RETAIL, (being a Fresh Importation)
A great Variety of  European and India GOODS, viz.  PLAIN and flowered LAWNS, striped flowered and bordered Aprons and Handkerchiefs, Cambricks, plain and spriged Silk and Muslin Gauzes, plain and Ranleigh Handkerchiefs, black and white Catgut and Paris-Net, Pa'ten, Queens-fancy, Spiders and Lace Net. A Variety of plain, striped and spriged Mullins, such as Jacnets, Mullmulls, Mainfooks, Gold and Coffacs, striped Dorcas and Book Mullins, Manchester and Scotch Checks, check Handkerchiefs; blue and white, red and white, and green and white Furniture Checks with None-so-pretty's to match them. Striped Linens, and Cotton Hollands. White and coloured Janes, pillow Fustian and Thicksets, flowered yard-wide Dimoties, Manchester Velvets, black and white uncut do. white and coloured Russia Drabs, eight and ten quarter Cotton Counterpanes, Damascu's, Ginghams, India Nankens and Mozeens, Variety of Ebony, Ivory, Peddle-Stick and leather mount Fans. French and English Wax-Necklaces, pound Beads, Velvet Collars, Shineal, Gauze, Lace and Garland Trimmings, Blond and Bone Laces, Dutch Laces, Brussels Lace and Footing, common chip Hats and sup-rfine do. with Ribbons of a new Pattern suitable for trimming them.
Ducapes, manteau Silks, striped and changeable Lute strings, black and hair colour Padusoys, Silk Grograms, black and cloth coloured India Taffaties; rose, green, and drab coloured Damasks, plain and spriged Sarfnetts, all colours, green and black all wide Persians; black, white and crimson, plain and flowered Sattins, Lace do. new patterns, Alamodes and Capuchin Silks. A great Variety of low priced all wide Calicoes and stamped Linens, some nice Chintzes. Buff and blue ground do. Patnas, Bastees and Fancy-Grounds. Copperplate Furniture do. Silk Handkerchiefs, Lounge Romall and China Taffaty ditto, Wax Work and Past-do. Lawn and Linen do. A large Assortment of Hosiery, viz Worsted, Cotton and Thread Hole, for Women and children, Mens Worsted and Cotton do. also white, brown, mar-ble and random Thread ditto. Mens black and white and marbled Silk Stockings, white and brown Thread Gloves, all sizes, colours and prices of womens Silk Gloves and Mitts, some open work ditto, Worsted ditto, Ben-galls, Peniafcoes, Crapes, Broglios, Missionets, Russels, green Drab, crimson and black flowered Worsted Damasks, Drawboys, 3 and 4 Thread Lastings, single and double Camblets, Bird's-Eye figured Stuffs, Ploded Tammies, Durants plain Tammies and Calamancoes, corded and Venetian Poplins, Wiltons, Duroys, green and cloth Worsted and Silk Sagathies, black and white super fine Serge Denims, Hair and Worsted Shags, black, white, buff and crimson 3, 4 and 5 Thread Breeches Pieces, Men's green and crimson Velvet Caps, Broad Cloths, German Serges, Sattin Hats, Cap Wire, white and coloured Threads, Sewing Silks and Twiss, Quality Bindings, Silk and Worsted knee Garters, white and coloured Tapes, common Milliners and White Chapel Needles, No. 4, 12 pound and Brass Pins, Stay Trimmings, Buckrams, Ivory Combs, croked, tupee and Danriff Horn ditto, Writing and Bonnet Paper, room and stair Carpeting, Paper Hangings, French Kid Gloves, Ravens Duck and Oznabrigs, Lynn Shoes, plated Buckles, and a variety of Hard-Ware, an elegant assortment of head Ribbons and hat Flowers; Ostrich Feathers and Plumes, with two great a variety of small goods to be inserted in this advertisement. Also,
Bohea Tea by the chest or smaller quantity, Hyson and Souchong Tea, Mace,
Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmegs Pepper, &c. Doctor Hemet's celebrated Essence of Pearl and Pearl Dentifrice, for the preservation of the Teeth and Gums—Bayley's Patent Liquid Blacking for Boots and Shoes. And, As goods are sold at this Store for ready Money only, such persons as buy on those terms will find their advantage in dealing there.
WATTS's and Tate and Brady's PSALMS, to be sold by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-Bridge. Also, A variety of small BOOKS for CHILDREN.
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.
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. To JOSHUA FULLER of Newton in the county of Middlesex, in said Province, Gentleman, one of the Principal Proprietors of a Township of Land lying in the late Province of Maine, on little Amoscoffin River, granted by the Great and General Court on the 11th Day of June A. D. 1771. to you and others. Greeting.
WHEREAS you, with four others, Proprietors of the tract of land above mentioned, have made application to me for a warrant for calling a meeting of the Proprietors of said Township for the purposes herein after mentioned: You are therefore, in his Majesty's name, hereby required to notify and warn, in time and manner as the law directs, the Proprietors aforesaid, that they meet at the Dwelling House of Capt. Nathaniel Coolidge, Innholder, in Watertown, on Tuesday the twenty-fifth day of July next, at eight o'clock forenoon, to transact the following matters, viz. To choose a moderator of said meeting, a Clerk of the Proprietors, Assessors, a Collector or collectors of taxes and a Treasurer. To determine how future meetings of said Proprietors shall be called. To determine what sum or sums of money, shall be raised to defend the interest of the said Proprietors, and for defraying necessary charges, as also the manner in which said money shall be raised. To choose a committee to prosecute or defend any action or actions wherein the interest of the Proprietors or their Assigns are or may be concerned, with full power of substitution. To see what other committees are necessary, and to choose them. As also to ascertain the claims of any person pretending to have an interest therein. To see what former votes of the Proprietors they will ratify and confirm.
GIVEN under my Hand and Seal, this 25 day of April, in the twelfth year of his Majesty's Reign, A. D. 1772.  S. DANFORTH, Justice of the Peace throughout the said province.
IN pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the Proprietors of the Township therein mentioned, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time, and for the purposes set forth in said warrant.
JOSHUA FULLER. A true Copy. attest,  ALEX. SHEPARD jun. Prop. Clerk.
DANIEL SCOTT, At his Medicine Store the Sign of the Leopard, South End.
TAKES this method of informing all Gentlemen, Ladies, and others, who have had the Misfortune to lose their Teeth, that he still continues the Business of making and fixing artificial Teeth as usual, in so elegant a manner as to be but little inferior to the natural, either in Use or Beauty, as many who have experienced them can testify: Where also any Person afflicted with painful Stumps or unfound Teeth, may have them removed with a peculiar Dexterity and Ease:—And all Persons who have the Scurvy in their Teeth, which threatens their removal though sound, may have them cleaned without hurting the Enamel, or in the least degree impairing them, and may be supplied with his DENTIUM CONSERVATOR, which is an excellent Powder, the best adapted for preserving the Teeth and Gums, and preventing them from Aching, of any Preparation ever offered to the Public: It will cure the Scurvy in the Gums, bring the Teeth to their original Whiteness, and by a continuance of its Use, will Preserve both Teeth and Gums in a pure state during life—It is not pretended that it will perform Impossibilities, that it will make rotten Teeth sound, or will ease them when they violently ach; but it will assuredly preserve those Teeth sound that are so, and cause the Gums to adhere to them and prevent those that are decayed in part, from becoming worse.
At the above Store may be had, Morgan's useful Eye-Water, which has in so many cases been found serviceable, that it must escape the censure of the most critical Oculist—Brigsten's famous Bug Liquid, which effectually destroys those hateful Vermin,—be they ever so numerous.—
An assortment of genuine patented and other Medicines of the best quality, and Medicine Boxes for Families or Shipping, with exact and particular directions for using them, and a variety of other articles cheap.
The above Powder may be had also of Cox and Berry in Boston, Doctor Kast in Salem, and Dummer Jewett, Esq; at Ipswich.
EBENEZER HANCOCK, At his shop in Marshall's Lane, between the sign of the Corn-fields and the Mill-Bridge; begs leave to acquaint his former good customers and others, that he has just opened for sale,
A FRESH assortment of Hard-Ware Goods, which he is determined to sell at the very lowest Advance, for Cash only:—Those who please to favour him with their Custom may depend upon being well used; and all favours gratefully acknowledged. Boston, June 8, 1772.
To be SOLD very cheap for cash, or English Goods, a new Fall-back CHAISE, and also a SULKEY, very neatly made, with Harnesses for each compleat. Enquire of the Printer.
A VARIETY of Mezzotinto PRINTS, and very neat Engravings, imported in one of the last vessels from London, to be sold by
STEPHEN WHITING, opposite the sign of the Cornfield, and STEPHEN WHITING, jun. about half-way between that and the Mill-Bridge; where may be had, at a low price, Looking-Glasses, of almost all sizes, from one inch in length up to thirty-six, by twenty in width.
At the same places, Glasses not exceeding thirty by eighteen may be new silvered. Glasses and Pictures of all sorts framed and gilt as well and as cheap as any where in America.
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.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS,
At the South Corner of MARSHAL'S LANE, leading from the MILL-BRIDGE into UNION-STREET, where all Persons may be supplied with this Paper at Six Shillings and Eight Pence Lawful Money, per Annum, unsealed, and Eight Shillings sealed and directed; and where Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received and ADVERTISEMENTS taken in—PRINTING in its various Branches, performed in a neat Manner, with the greatest Care and Dispatch, on the most reasonable Terms.—Small, HAND-BILLS at an Hour's Notice. SUBSCRIPTIONS for the SPY are also taken in by J. Larkin, Chairmaker, and Mr. W. Calder, Painter, in Charlestown; Mr. J. Hiller, Watch-maker in Salem; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; and Mr. M. Bocher, in Bridgewater.