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THE Massachusetts Spy
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
ROSI 21 VIN MAY 2 1773
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER:--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
DO THOU Great LIBERTY INSPIRE our Souls,--And make our Lives in THY Possession happy,--Or, our Deaths glorious in THY JUST Defence.
VOL. III.]
THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1773.
[NUMB. 124.
FRIDAY, June 11. BOSTON.
Thursday fe'nnight his Excellency the Governor was pleased to send the following message to the House of Representatives.
"Gentlemen of the house of representatives, "I AM informed that certain private letters said to have been wrote by me to a gentleman in England lately deceased, were Yesterday laid before your house, and that you have come into a resolution or Vote that they tend to subvert the constitution.
"I have never wrote any public or private letter with such intention, and am not conscious of any letter which can have such an effect. Before you take any further proceedings, I must desire that a transcript of the proceedings of Yesterday be laid before me, and that I may be informed to what letters they refer, in order to my considering what steps are proper for me to take upon the occasion."
T. HUTCHINSON."
To which the house on Saturday returned the following ANSWER.
"May it please your Excellency,
"IN answer to your message of the third of June, the house of representatives have resolved, that the date of certain letters now before them, referred to in the message, together with a transcript of the proceedings thereon, as requested by your Excellency, be laid before you.
"And as your Excellency has been pleased in your message to say, that you have never wrote any public or private letters, with an intention to subvert the constitution, it is the desire of this house, that your Excellency would be pleased to order, that copies be laid before us, of such letters as your Excellency has written of those dates, relating to the public affairs of this province, together with such other letters as your Excellency shall think proper."
SATURDAY, June 12. BOSTON.
General Gage will soon embark at New-York for England.
A boat with eight persons on board, overset at Powles-Hook, New-York, last Monday fe'nnight, whereby two men and a boy were drowned.
PHILADELPHIA, June 2. We are assured from the best authority, that neither the collector or comptroller of this port have received any advice, with regard to the appointment of E. Richardson, mentioned under the Boston head, from whence it is concluded the above is premature, and the good people of this city may rest easy, as it is presumed, a fellow of so infamous a character will not dare to shew his face here.
NEWPORT, June 7. Friday last being the anniversary of the birth day of our most gracious sovereign, when he entered the 30th year of his age, the union flag was displayed at fort George, and at twelve o'clock a royal salute was fired; at one, salutes were also fired by his Majesty's ship Mercury, and the Swan and Cruiser sloops of war, now in our harbour; the loyal healths were drank, and the usual demonstrations of joy shewn in honour of the day.
On this occasion several vessels at the north-end of the town, displayed their colours in honour of the day, upon which Capt. Keeler, senior officer of the port, dispatched his cutter, under the command of one of his petty officers, with positive orders to strike all the pendants, as his Majesty would be justly incensed on being informed through one of his Secretaries of State, that any merchant vessels were permitted to wear improper colours, it being an in-
dignity to the British flag.---Were these sort of folks as punctilious with regard to the laws of humanity, justice and morality, their haughtiness in those other, frivolous matters, would be somewhat less intolerable.
HARTFORD, June 1.
In the House of Representatives of the colony of Connecticut, Friday, 21st May, 1773.
Mr. Speaker, having laid before the house a letter from the Speaker of the house of Burgess-es of the colony of Virginia, containing certain resolutions entered into by said house, on the 12th of March last:
"This house taking into consideration the contents of said letter, the above mentioned resolutions, and the reasons on which they are grounded, are of opinion that they are weighty and important in their nature and design, calculated and tending to produce happy and salutary effects in securing and supporting the antient, legal and constitutional rights of this and the colonies in general, do approve of and adopt the measure.
"AND THEREUPON RESOLVE, That a standing committee of correspondence and enquiry, be appointed, to consist of nine persons, viz. The hon. Hezekiah Silliman, Esq; William Williams, Benjamin Payne, Samuel Holden Parsons, Nathaniel Wales, Silas Deane, Samuel Bishop, Joseph Trumbull and Erastus Wolcott, Esqrs.
"Whose business it shall be, to obtain all such intelligence, and to keep up and maintain a correspondence and communication with our sister colonies, respecting the important considerations mentioned and expressed in the aforesaid resolutions, of the patriotic House of Burgess-es of the colony of Virginia, and the result of such their proceedings from time to time, to lay before this house.
"Resolved, That the Speaker of this house, do transmit to the Speakers of the different Assemblies, of the British colonies, on this continent, copies of these resolutions, and request that they would come into similar measures, and communicate from time to time, with the said committee, on all matters wherein the common welfare and safety of the colonies are concerned."
MONDAY, June 14. BOSTON.
Wednesday last his Excellency the Governor was pleased to send the following message to the honourable House of Representatives, viz.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives. BY your committees you have laid before me the dates of six original letters with my signature to them, which have been brought into your house and read, together with other letters from several other persons. You have also laid before me an extract from the journal of your proceedings, by which it appears you are of opinion, that the tendency and design of the letters thus read was to overthrow the constitution of this government and to introduce arbitrary power into the province.
I find by the dates of the letters with my signature that, if genuine, they must be private letters wrote to a gentleman in London, since deceased; that all, except the last, were wrote many months before I came to the chair; that they were wrote not only with that confidence which is always implied in a friendly correspondence by private letters, but that they are expressly confidential; notwithstanding which, they contain nothing more respecting the constitution of the colonies in general than what is contained in my speeches to the Assembly, and what I have published in a more extensive manner to the world; and there is not one passage in them which was ever intended to respect, or which, as I am well assured the gentleman to whom they were wrote, ever understood to respect, the particular constitution of this government as derived from the charter.
I am at a loss for what purpose you desire the copies of any letters the originals of which you have in your hands. If it is with a view to make them public, the originals are more proper for that purpose than copies. I think it would be very improper and out of character in me to lay my private letters before you at your request. My public ones I am restrain-
ed from laying before you without express leave from his Majesty. Thus much however I may assure you, that it has not been the tendency and design of them to subvert the constitution of this Government, but rather to preserve it intire, and I have reason to think they have not been altogether ineffectual to that purpose.
T. HUTCHINSON.
Council Chamber, 9th June, 1773.
Last Friday a committee of the honourable House of Representatives waited upon his Excellency the Governor, with the following ANSWER to his SPEECH at the opening of the present session.
May it please your Excellency,
"YOUR speech at the opening of this assembly informs us, that the commissaries appointed by this government and the government of New-York, have amicably agreed upon a boundary line, on the eastern part of New-York, from the south to the north boundary of this province, and that the Governors of the respective provinces have consented thereto. It gives us a very particular satisfaction to find that an end is put to this controversy, at a time when harmony among his Majesty's American colonies is become so important and necessary: We hope this agreement will meet with the royal approbation. In the mean time, we are of opinion that it will tend to the establishment of the peace of each government, and that it will be of utility to the borderers, to have this line run and marked as soon as possible.
As we have the same disposition to do any good office for a neighbouring colony as if the benefit was reciprocal, the house will take into consideration some effectual measure to prevent the counterfeiting the paper currency of Virginia, according to the request of the Governor of that colony, although we are without a paper currency in this province. We consider ourselves bound, as far as may be proper for us, to consult the welfare of every colony: And it will afford us a singular pleasure to have it in our power to contribute to the good of that colony, which has distinguished itself by a generous zeal for the safety and prosperity of all.
The other matters recommended in your Excellency's speech will have their due consideration in this house: And every thing before us that concerns his Majesty's service and the true interest of the people, which are inseparably connected, will have all that attention which the duty we owe to the King and to our constituents shall require."
NEW-YORK, June 7.
Friday last his Excellency General Gage, gave a grand entertainment to a great number of the merchants and military gentlemen of this city, at Hull's tavern: The just sense the inhabitants of this place have of his conduct during a command of ten years in America, is fully evinced by the following ADDRESS.
To his Excellency the Honourable THOMAS GAGE, General and Commander in Chief, of his Majesty's Forces in North-America. The humble ADDRESS of the corporation of the Chamber of Commerce, of the city of New-York.
May it please your Excellency,
"WHEN we review your conduct as Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces, and reflect on the happiness derived to this colony, from your eminent justice, from the discipline and good order of the army, and your constant attention to secure to North-America the solid effects of a series of victories so glorious to the British arms;--when to these we unite your engaging manners, and polite and obliging deportment: We feel, Sir, in common with the rest of our fellow citizens, the liveliest sentiments of esteem and respect for a character so truly valuable. These impressions, as they encrease the regret with which we consider the approach of your departure for England; cannot fail of exciting in us a warm desire, thus publicly, to testify the high sense we entertain of your exalted merit.
"We are persuaded, Sir, that as you take with you the deserved applause of the colonies, and the cordial affections of the inhabitants of this city, long honoured by your immediate residence; so your zeal and fidelity in the discharge of a trust, the most important, will re-
commend you to the favour and approbation of our gracious sovereign.
"Premit us, to wish your Excellency, your amiable lady and family, an agreeable passage to your native country; and every degree of felicity, both in public and private life, to justify due to your distinguished virtues.
"By order of the Chamber, THEOPHYLACT BACHE, President. Chamber of Commerce, New York, June 4. 1773"
His Excellency's ANSWER.
"To the gentlemen of the corporation of the Chamber of Commerce, of the city of New-York.
"Gentlemen,
"IT is a circumstance the most flattering to me, that my public and private conduct should meet the approbation of so respectable a body; and I return you my best thanks for your polite and affectionate address.
"I have resided long amongst you, and lived happily with you and your fellow citizens, so it is natural that I should leave you with regret and concern: And I beg you to believe, that I carry with me sentiments the most friendly to the colonies in general, and the warmest wishes for the prosperity and happiness of the inhabitants of New-York.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY, Mr. THOMAS,
SUCH has been the miserably distracted state of our government of late years, that matters of considerable moment to many, have passed, in a manner without notice; the public attention having been fixed on the very being of our free constitution, which has been tottering under the usurpation of power. I cannot boast that our fundamental rights are yet in that happy and secure condition a wise man would wish; but the distress of many worthy unfortunates, urges me to trouble the public with my complaint of our want of a proper provision in favour of insolvent debtors. It has been matter of surprize to every one I have heard mention it, that this province only should remain destitute of so necessary a law as a reasonable Bankrupt-act. I cannot think any member of our present patriotic House of Representatives would oppose such a motion; and undoubtedly his Majesty's Council, would most readily concur in liberating from needless misery persons, who at liberty might improve and enjoy life, but now languish in hopeless confinement.
It is said that no act is harder to be framed in such manner as to answer all the purposes intended, and that should be justly intended by such a law. Doubtless the matter is somewhat perplexing, but the wisdom of the legislative in this enlightened era, is certainly very respectable; and be the difficulty what it may, the distressed, oppressed and aggrieved, must look up to them for remedy. No action should be without remedy, nor any grievance without means of redress. I cannot persuade myself that in so universally acknowledged a hardship, relief will be much longer deferred, our fathers well knowing that the repeated disappointments of longing expectation drive many good members of society to remediless despair!
S Y M P A T H O S.
On FRIDAY 25th June, inst.
At TEN in the Morning, Will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, At the house of Mr. William Jones, Behind the Old Brick Meeting-House,
A VARIETY of household furniture, consisting of a mahogany desk and book case, mahogany tables, leather bottom chairs, looking glasses, chest of drawers, one green harateen bed, feather beds, bedsteads and bedding, kitchen furniture, &c. &c.
J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer. The furniture may be viewed the day before the sale.

TUESDAY, June 15. BOSTON.
Friday last arrived here the ship Henry, Capt. Taylor from London, in fifty-one days passage, who, the 29th of May, on the banks of Newfoundland, spoke with Capt. James Scott in the ship Haley, from this port for London, all well.
Capt. Merrett from Cadiz, on the 11th ult. felt a severe shock of an earthquake.
Last Wednesday a negro fellow was committed to goal here for attempting a rape on a white woman.
DIED ] Mrs. Thornton, widow of the late Mr. Thornton pavior.---Mr. John Duppée Mathematical Instrument Maker---A child of Mr. John Welsh, Carver; who has likewise three other children dangerously ill, supposed to be occasioned by their eating something of a poisonous nature.---Mrs. Eunice Vales, widow.---Mrs. Ann Corben.---At Portsmouth, Mrs. Sarah Penhallow, Consort of Mr. John Penhallow and eldest daughter of Hunking Wentworth, Esq.
WEDNESDAY, June 16. BOSTON.
PROCEEDINGS of the Town of WOBURN At a legal meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the Town of WOBURN, duly warned and legally assembled, at the meeting-house, of the first parish in said town, on Thursday the 14th day of January, A. D. 1773.
It was moved, that the letter of correspondence and the pamphlet therein contained, from the town of Boston, directed to the Selectmen of this town, be read, which was accordingly done, and after some deliberation thereon, it was moved, that a committee, consisting of nine persons, be elected, maturely to weigh and consider the important matters therein contained, and what is best to be done thereon. Said number of persons was duly elected, and directed to report to the town at their next meeting, by adjournment, and the meeting was adjourned to Monday the first day of February next.
On Monday the first day of February, 1773, the inhabitants of said town being legally assembled, by adjournment, from the 14th day of January last, the committee then chosen, reported as followeth, viz.
"RESOLVED, 1st, That we have no disposition to cast off government, or find fault with the British constitution, as by law established, or to murmur against our civil rulers, obstruct their influence, weaken their authority, or discourage their hearts. But so long as they keep within the bounds of the law of God and the free constitution, by which they are empowered, our bonds of allegiance and obedience to them are sacred and absolutely indispensable.
"Resolved, 2dly, That the King of Great-Britain is our rightful sovereign, having ascended the throne, according to the British constitution, and with the universal voice and approbation of the people, throughout the British empire. And we look upon it one of the brightest gems in his crown, that he rules over a free people, and not over slaves, and that his government is limited by the laws and constitution of the realm, as well as the obedience of his subjects. The whole kingdom as well as these colonies, have enjoyed the blessings of this happy constitution of government, since the Hanoverian line has filled the throne.
"Resolved, 3dly, That every part of the empire of Great-Britain has a just right to expect, that no power of government be exercised, but what is intirely consistent with the British constitution, by which the King of Great-Britain holds his crown, and the people their liberty and property, and all that is dear to them in life.
"Resolved, 4thly, That every part of the British empire has an undoubted right to petition the King of Great-Britain, that all decrees and statutes of parliament, which are unconstitutional and distressing to them, may be disannulled and made void, and that such petitions are not to be esteemed petitions of favour, but right, and stand upon the same footing in law as all other petitions of right, and if well founded, the aggrieved are intitled to a redress.
"Resolved, 5thly, That all the colonies, and this in particular, is greatly oppressed by the execution of acts of parliament, that are contrary to the constitution, contrary to the rights of the subject, and contrary to their sincere and hearty petition and that a concern for the happiness and prosperity of this people, call upon them in a public manner, to unite in all lawful prudent and effectual means in their power, to assert and defend their rights, and
recover those that are unjustly wrested out of their hands.
"Resolved, 6thly, That we look upon the guilt of enslaving and taking away, or disannulling the rights and liberties of a free, loyal and religious people, in the single point of it is injustice, as vastly exceeding common murder.
"Resolved, 7thly, That the rights of the colonists, and those of the Massachusetts-Bay, in particular, have been infringed upon, by the British administration, in too many instances here to particularize, and that the violation of those rights, threaten this province and continent with unavoidable ruin.
"Resolved, 8thly, That we look upon these following, among many others, to be matter of heavy grievance to us of these colonies, and this in particular, viz. That the British parliament have assumed a power contrary to the constitution, of making laws to bind us, without our consent, either in person or by our representative; and in consequence of those laws, have taken away our money without our consent, and converted it to uses destructive of our best interest, to support a number of unconstitutional officers to prey upon our very vitals: And the manner in which our governor receives his support, we look upon as an innovation of our rights, and a manifest token of reproach and contempt upon this province.
"The delivering up Castle William, which we look upon the property of this province, and under the jurisdiction of it, and the key of our defence, into the hands of troops, over whom our governor declares he has no power or authority, is just matter of grievance to this people.
"That the officers of the customs are invested with such an exorbitant power, and the efforts made to screen them from paying their just quota for the support of government, is repugnant to the laws and privileges of this colony.
"Our being deprived in a great measure of the right of trial by juries, by extending the power of the Court of Vice-Admiralty to such an enormous degree, we look upon as removing one grand bulwark and security of our property. And we esteem the late act, relating to his Majesty's dock-yards, made by the British parliament and extended to these colonies whereby it is put in the power of the King's officers to seize a person for certain crimes committed, or supposed to be committed in this country, and drag him away for trial, to any county in Great-Britain, where the King or his successors shall please to direct; to be very oppressive and directly contrary to Magna Charta. That the fixing salaries or stipends to the offices of the superior judges in this province, so as to make them intirely dependant on the crown both for their creation and support, and on his Majesty's pleasure for their continuance in office, and intirely independent on that people whose property, lives and liberties depend on their opinion and decisions, we look upon very greatly alarming, as it is contrary to the spirit of our charter, and attended with great and manifest evils, and may be the means of great oppression in the land.
"Resolved, 9thly, That the governor and superior judges of this province ought to have salaries annually granted to them by this province, equal to the dignity and importance of their respective offices.
"Resolved, 10thly, That it is our opinion, that our most gracious sovereign has no design to oppress us, or take from us our fundamental essential rights and privileges, as Englishmen. But if the present state and circumstances of these colonies could be properly laid before him, he would grant us a redress of our grievances.
"Resolved, 11thly, That a committee of correspondence be elected, and that the Town-Clerk be directed to give an attested copy of the proceeding of this meeting to the said committee, and that they transmit the same to the committee of correspondence for the town of Boston.
"Then the vote was called, to know if the town would accept said report, and it passed unanimously in the affirmative.
"A true copy. Attest,
JAMES FOWLE, Town-Clerk." The persons hereafter named were chosen a committee of correspondence, viz. Deacon Samuel Wyman, Mr. Robert Douglass, Doctor Samuel Blodgett, Mr. Loammi Baldwin, and Deacon Timothy Winn.
"Also Voted, That the following instructions be given to our representative.
"A copy. Attest,
JAMES FOWLE, Town-Clerk."
"To Mr. OLIVER RICHARDSON.
"SIR,
"We the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Woburn, in confidence
of your ability and integrity, having chosen you to represent us in the honourable House of Representatives, in this province, are willing to do all in our power, that your hands may be strengthened, and your endeavours succeeded at this critical and alarming conjuncture of our public affairs, therefore take this opportunity to let you know our sentiments thereon, and what we think necessary to procure a redress: This we believe will be agreeable to you, that as you are inclined, so you may be able to answer our reasonable expectation from you.
"We look upon it, that our rights and liberties, as Englishmen, are infringed upon by a number of unconstitutional edicts, that have of late passed in the British parliament, which would be needless for us at this day to particularize to you; and we have reason to fear, that without the design of our most gracious sovereign, an iron yoke is preparing for our necks, whereby being stripped of our important privileges, we may be fastened down in hopeless, irrecoverable bondage.
"We therefore instruct you, as our representative, to use your influence in the honourable House, of which you are a member, in a constitutional way, to have our grievances redressed, and that the present unhappy disputes and differences that subsist between Great-Britain and the colonies may subside, and that they may be united in harmony, and love stronger and firmer than ever.
"We also instruct you, that you endeavour that a petition of right be presented to his Majesty; and we have reason to hope, since there has been so happy a change in the American department, that such an one may now reach his Majesty's most gracious ear. And we should be exceedingly glad that his Excellency might be prevailed upon to join in such a petition, and use his influence with his Majesty in our favour.
"We further instruct you, to do all in your power, that the governor and the judges of our superior court, have such provision annually, made by this province for their support, as is equal to the dignity and importance of their respective offices.
"We esteem it our honour and interest to remain in connexion with our mother country, if we can, in the enjoyment of our rights and privileges: We have already done and suffered much in this land for the common cause, and if proper requisitions were made should be willing to do more; yea, we are willing to run all hazards for the common good of the empire.
"We can sacrifice our treasure and our blood in the cause of King and country; but we cannot prove such traitors to God, ourselves and our country, as actually to make a sacrifice of our fundamental privileges, liberties, and a good conscience, to the arbitrary pleasure of any man or number of men; this is too great a sacrifice and vainly to be expected. For that we judge would be inconsistent with the laws of nature, the great law of self preservation, bound upon us by our maker. Or if we had a right by the law of nature to exchange our freedom for slavery, yet in a state of government, and as members of a free community and kingdom we cannot do it, because in this state we hold our liberties and privileges, jointly and in common with the rest of our fellow subjects, and therefore cannot give them up without betraying those of the community and kingdom, to which we belong, and which we are bound with life and fortune to preserve; nor can we give them up, consistent with the affection, care, and duty which we owe to our posterity, whose natural birth-rights they are. They are ours to enjoy and ours in trust to keep, but not to give up. And shall we by any means be accessory of betraying the invaluable rights to which our children are born, and of entailing a wretched slavery on our posterity, born and unborn, to the latest generation; this would be to them a great wrong and injustice.
"But to conclude, we confide in your integrity and resolution, that you will not consent to any measures that may have the least appearance of submission, to any unconstitutional edicts that may prevent us, or our posterity, from asserting and enjoying our invaluable English privileges and liberties.
THURSDAY, June 17. BOSTON.
Yesterday the honourable House of Representatives passed the following RESOLVES, which were carried by a very great majority, viz.
RESOLVED, That the letters signed Tho. Hutchinson and those signed Andw. Oliver, now under the consideration of this house, appear to be the genuine letters of the present governor and lieutenant-gover-
nor of this province, whose hand writing and signatures are well known to many of the members of this house: And, that they contain aggravated accounts of facts, and misrepresentations; and that one manifest design of them was to represent the matters they treat of in a light highly injurious to this province, and the persons against whom they were wrote.
Resolved, That though the letters aforesaid, signed Tho. Hutchinson, are laid by the Governor in his message to this House of June 9th, to be "private letters wrote to a Gentleman in London, since deceased," and "that all except the last, were wrote many months before he came to the chair," yet they were wrote by the present Governor, when he was Lieutenant Governor and Chief Justice of this province; who has been represented abroad, as eminent for his abilities as for his exalted station; and was under no official obligation to transmit intelligence of such matters as are contained in said letters: And that they therefore must be considered by the person to whom they were sent, as documents of solid intelligence: And that this gentleman in London to whom they were wrote, was then a member of the British parliament and one who was very active in American affairs; and therefore that these letters however secretly wrote, must naturally be supposed to have, and really had a public operation.
Resolved, That these "private letters" being wrote "with express confidence of secrecy," was only to prevent the contents of them being known here, as appears by said letters; and this rendered them the more injurious in their tendency, and really insidious.
Resolved, That the letters signed Tho. Hutchinson, considering the person by whom they were wrote, the matters they expressly contain, the express reference in some of them for "full intelligence" to Mr. Hollowell, a person deeply interested in the measures so much complained of, and recommendatory notices of divers other persons whose emoluments arising from our public burdens might excite them to unfavourable representations of us, the measures they suggest, the temper in which they were wrote, the manner in which they were sent, and the person to whom they were addressed; had a natural and efficacious tendency to interrupt and alienate the affections of our most gracious sovereign King George the third, from this his loyal and affectionate province: to destroy that harmony and good-will between Great-Britain and this colony, which every friend to either would wish to establish; to excite the resentment of the British administration against this province; to defeat the endeavours of our agents and friends to serve us by a fair representation of our state of grievances; to prevent our humble and repeated petitions from reaching the Royal ear of our common sovereign; and to produce the severe and destructive measures which have been taken against this province, and others still more so which have been threatened.
Resolved, That the letters signed Andw. Oliver, considering the person by whom they were wrote, the matters they expressly contain, the measures they suggest, the temper in which they were wrote, the manner in which they were sent, and the person to whom they were addressed; had a natural and efficacious tendency to interrupt and alienate the affections of our most gracious sovereign King George the third, from this his loyal and affectionate province; to destroy that harmony and good-will between Great-Britain and this colony, which every friend to either would wish to establish; to excite the resentment of the British administration against this province; to defeat the endeavours of our agents and friends to serve us by a fair representation of our state of grievances; to prevent our humble and repeated petitions from having the desired effect; and to produce the severe and destructive measures which have been taken against this province, and others still more so which have been threatened.
Resolved, As the opinion of this house, That it clearly appears from the letters aforesaid, signed Tho. Hutchinson and Andw. Oliver, that it was the desire and endeavour of the writers of them, that certain acts of the British parliament for raising a revenue in America, might be carried into effect by military force; and by introducing a fleet and army into this his Majesty's loyal province, to intimidate the minds of his subjects here, and prevent every constitutional measure to obtain the repeal of those acts so justly esteemed a grievance to us, and to suppress the very spirit of freedom.
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this house, that as the salaries lately appointed for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Judges of this province, directly re-

pugnant to the charter and subversive of justice, are funded on this revenue; and as these letters were wrote with a design, and had a tendency to promote and support that revenue, therefore there is great reason to suppose the writers of those letters were well knowing to, suggested and promoted the enacting said revenue acts, and the establishments funded on the same.
Resolved , That while the writer of these letters signed Tho. Hutchinson , has been thus exerting himself by his "secret confidential correspondence," to introduce measures destructive of our constitutional liberty; he has been practising every method among the people of this province, to fix in their minds an exalted opinion of his warmest affection for them, and his unremitted Endeavours to promote their best interest at the court of Great-Britain.
Resolved , As the opinion of this house, that by comparing these letters signed Tho. Hutchinson with those signed And. Oliver, Cha. Paxton and Nath. Rogers , and considering what has since in fact taken place conformable thereto, that it is manifest there have been for many years past measures contemplated, and a plan formed by a set of men born and educated among us, to raise their own fortunes and advance themselves to posts of honour and profit, not only to the destruction of the charter and constitution of this province, but at the expence of the rights and liberties of the American colonies.—And it is further the opinion of this house, that the said persons have been some of the chief instruments in the introduction of a military force into the province to carry their plans into execution; and therefore they have been not only greatly instrumental of disturbing the peace and harmony of the government, and causing and promoting great discord and animosities, but are justly chargeable with the great corruption of morals, and all that confusion, misery and bloodshed, which have been the natural effects of the introduction of troops.
Whereas for many years past, measures have been taken by the British Administration, very grievous to the good people of this province; which this house have now reason to suppose, were promoted, if not originally suggested by the writers of these letters; and many efforts have been made by the people to obtain the redress of their grievances;  Resolved ,
That it appears to this house, that the writers of these letters have availed themselves of disorders that naturally arise in a free government under such oppressions, as arguments to prove, that it was originally necessary such measures should have been taken, and that they should now be continued and encreased.
Whereas in the letter signed Cha. Paxton, dated Boston harbour, June 20, 1768, it is expressly declared, that "unless we have immediately two or three regiments, it is the opinion of all the friends of government, that Boston will be in open rebellion"
Resolved , That this is a most wicked and injurious representation, designed to inflame the minds of his Majesty's ministers and the nation, and to excite in the breast of our sovereign a jealousy of his loyal subjects of said town, without the least grounds therefor, as enemies of his Majesty's person and government.
Whereas certain letters signed by two private persons, viz. Thomas Moffat and George Rome, have been laid before the house, which letters contain many matters highly injurious to government and to the national peace:
Resolved , That it has been the misfortune of this government from the earliest period of it, from time to time, to be secretly traduced and maliciously represented to the British Ministry, by persons who were neither friendly to this colony, nor to the English constitution.
Resolved , That this house have just reason to complain of it as a very great grievance, that the humble petitions and remonstrances of the commons of this province are not allowed to reach the hand of our most gracious sovereign, merely because they are presented by an agent to whose appointment, the governor, with whom our chief dispute may subsist, doth not consent; while the partial and inflammatory letters of individuals, who are greatly interested in the revenue acts and the measures taken to carry them into execution, have been laid before administration, attended to, and determined upon, not only to the injury of the reputation of the people, but to the depriving them of their invaluable rights and liberties.
Whereas this House are humbly of opinion, that his Majesty will judge it to be incompatible with the interest of his crown and the peace and safety of the good people of this his loyal province, that persons should be continued in places of high trust and authority in it, who are known to have, with great industry, though secretly, endeavoured to undermine, alter and overthrow the constitution of the province:
Therefore, Resolved , That this house is bound in duty to the king and their constituents, humbly to remonstrate to his Majesty, the conduct of his Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; Governor, and the Honourable Andrew Oliver, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor of this province; and to pray that his Majesty would be pleased to remove them forever from the government thereof.
Immediately after the foregoing Resolves were passed, the House appointed a committee of five viz. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Adams, Colonel Han-
cock, Major Hawley and Colonel Leonard, to prepare a humble petition to his Majesty, remonstrating against the conduct of his excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; Governor, and the Honourable Andrew Oliver, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor of this Province; and to pray that his Majesty would be pleased to remove them forever from the government thereof.
Capt. Coupar and Capt. Winn are arrived at New-York from London; by them we learn—That eight sail of the line are ordered for the Mediterranean immediately; six are to be fitted out with all expedition, with some frigates for the West-Indies, and eight more, making in the whole twenty-two ships of the line, which are designed for Asia and America.—Another account says, that thirty-two sail of the line are fitting out.—That an embargo was laid on the Irish victuallers.—That the commissioners of the victualling-office had received orders for getting ready 27,000 tons of salt provisions, for the use of the men of war.—That this fleet was intended to watch the motions of a very large fleet of French, Spanish, Portuguese and Danish, collecting together in the Mediterranean.—That the language of the politicians in Holland, was entirely bestowed on the subject of a general war in Europe, which it was confidently asserted would take place openly before the latter end of June.—And, That Capt. MacBride, was ordered to convoy the Queen of Denmark to England Tuesday se'nnight, General Gage with his lady and family, with Major Sherif, Capt. Kemble and Capt. Dobson, embarked, and sail from New York, for England.
Friday last the powder was began to be removed from the old Powder-House to the new; the old one we hear is to be demolished.
We hear that some discoveries have been made relative to Ansel Nickerson, the person now under confinement as the supposed murderer of three men and a boy, on board a Schooner, as formerly mentioned, which makes it very probable, that he was the barbarous perpetrator of that horrid crime.
It is reported that some men, high in authority among us, will shortly embark for England.
DIED. Hugh Hall, Esq; formerly a noted Justice of the Peace in this town.
ARRIVED. Summers, Burroughs and Hawley, from New-Haven; Patterson, Maryland; Cook, Halifax; Higgins, New London; Whiteridge and Mackay, St. Lucia; Gibson, Grenada and St. Eustatia; Walker, Surinam; Grant and Slemman, Martinico; Hall, Coffin, Jenkins and Taylor, London.
As our readers are desirous of having the Letters, written by the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, &c. (which are now the topic of conversation) published in this paper, we shall begin with the first, as it stands in the pamphlet, (this day published by Edes & Gill) and continue them 'till the whole are finished.
Letters of the GOVERNOR, &c. "Boston, 18th June, 1768."
"SIR, "AS you allow me the honour of your correspondence, I may not omit acquainting you with so remarkable an event as the withdrawal of the commissioners of the customs and most of the other officers under them from the town on board the Romney, with an intent to remove from thence to the castle."
"In the evening of the 10th a sloop belonging to Mr. Hancock, a representative for Boston, and a wealthy merchant, of great influence over the populace, was seized by the collector and comptroller for a very notorious breach of the acts of trade, and, after seizure, taken into custody by the officer of the Romney man of war, and removed under command of her guns. It is pretended that the removal and not the seizure incensed the people. It seems not very material which it was—A mob was immediately raised, the officers insulted, bruised and hurt, and the windows of some of their houses broke; a boat belonging to the collector burnt in triumph, and many threats uttered against the commissioners and their officers: No notice being taken of their extravagance in the time of it, nor any endeavours by any authority except the governor, the next day to discover and punish the offenders; and there being a rumour of a higher mob intended Monday (the 13) in the evening the commissioners, four of them, thought themselves altogether unsafe, being destitute of protection, and removed with their families to the Romney, and their remain and hold their board, and next week intend to do the same, and also open the custom-house at the castle. The governor pressed the council to assist him with their advice, but they declined and evaded calling it a brush or small disturbance by boys and negroes, not considering how much it must be resented in England that the officers of the crown should think themselves obliged to quit the place of their residence and go on board a king's ship for safety, and all the internal authority of the province take no notice of it.—The town of Boston have had repeated meetings, and by their votes declared the commissioners and their officers a great grievance, and yesterday instructed their representatives to endeavour that enquiry should be made by the assembly whether any person by writing or in any other way had encouraged the sending troops here, there being some alarming reports that troops are expected, but have not taken any measures to discountenance the promoter of the late proceedings; but on the contrary appointed one or more of the actors or abettors a committee appointed to wait on the governor, and to desire him to order the man or war out of the harbour."
"Ignorant as they be, yet the heads of a Boston town meeting influences all public measures."
"It is not possible this anarchy should last always. Mr. Hollowell who will be the bearer of this tells me he has the honour of being personally known to you. I beg leave to refer to him for a more full account."
"I am with the greatest esteem, Sir, "your most humble and obedient servant, "THO. HUTCHINSON." [To be continued.]
For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y. Mr. THOMAS,
PLEASE to publish the following extract from Hutchinson's History of the Massachusetts Bay, vol. 1. page 391, marginal note, as is follows, viz.
"Of all that were concerned in the late government (meaning that of the infamous Sir Edmund Androsse) Mr. Dudley felt most of the people's resentment. Oppression is less grievous from a stranger than from one of our own country. Danforth writes to J. Mather, "Mr. Dudley is in a peculiar manner the object of the people's displeasure even throughout all the colonies where he hath set judge; they deeply resent his correspondence with that wicked man, Randolph, for overturning the government. "
"The governor and council, though they have done their utmost to procure his enlargement, yet cannot prevail, but the people will have him in gaol, and when he has been, by order, turned out, by force and tumult, they fetch him in again, &c."
"Happy had it been for the author of this history, his family, and his country, had he, and the rest of the conspirators against this country's peace, freedom, and happiness, remained to this day of the same mind as when he penned the above marginal note."
RESOLUTION. For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y. Mr. THOMAS,
YESTERDAY Charles P——n went to a tallow-chandler's shop in this town on pretence of selling some grease; but in reality to learn what the popular opinion was, concerning himself. The honest tradesman very readily favoured him in this particular, assuring him that he believed the general opinion was consistent with his own, which was, that Mr. P——n was a very active instrument in the procurement of all the calamities this country had suffered. P——n express great concern for what had happened; said he never thought matters would have come to the pass they did, and never conceived that his confidential letter would have found its way to America.
The public is now no longer in suspense on whom should be charged the blood of our slaughtered fellow citizens, 'the providence of God, (as one plunderer yesterday observed to another who was brought before him on account of a new discovery) bringing such things to light as the perpetrators could not believe discoverable by mankind.'
Reflect, O great Criminals with what supreme indignation an honest and sensible people must view you sitting in judgment upon the lives of little ones! Had you not put off every thing that constitutes the man, such a farce would be impossible to you!!! V I N D E X
LONDON, April 19.
HEY write from Boston, in New-England, that Mr. Hutchinson, finding himself so exceedingly disliked by all classes of people throughout that province, has given up all thoughts of remaining among them, and that his design in making such imprudent speeches (labouring to revive heats and animosities in that country) is intirely to recommend himself for a pension when he leaves that place. Governor Bernard in such plans having succeeded so very greatly, his successor is copying after him in every particular, is in comfortable hopes of the like success. Mr. Hutchinson was many years moderator of the Boston meetings, and when he was there paying his court for popularity, no man was higher in maintaining the rights and privileges of such meetings, which he now says are factious and unlawful.
April 21. An old halspay officer observes, that the juncto of Lord Hillsborough and Governor Bernard, has acquired new strength by the late arrival of his Excellency General Dalrymple, who (as the news papers announce) has had a long conference with his Majesty, and it must have been an important one, as the General seems to have come home with so much Alacrity to tell of his marvellous exploit! In truth, says this correspondent, the General, (even if he was not a Scotchman) ought to be promoted, at least to a regiment, for his uncommon valour at St. Vincents, and his intrepid conduct in the glorious expedition, which he had the honour of commanding against the town of Boston in 1770, when at the head of two old regiments he retired with so much dignity and humness from that town.
Our natural strength is exhausted in conception, and a ten years war, carried on by the court, at an enormous public expence, against all the tried friends of the house of B——n. Every tick of law, every engine of tyranny, every nerve of corruption, set up to destroy these men. The actors in this horrid drama, have been the ——s, ——s, and ——s. No wonder the civil list is so shamefully in arrear. Does the Sovereign, of this once respectable country, live with the dignity of a private gentleman of only five thousand pounds a year? yet he has eight hundred thousand pounds clear of all deduction, from England; The clear revenue of Hanover, after defraying all the expences of the establishment, is above two hundred thousand pounds more; with the crown revenues of all the conquests during the last war, amounting to no inconsiderable sum. Yet all these are not sufficient:—The civil list is notoriously in arrear.—Is it not astonishing, that the King should continue his confidence in those men who have brought him into this distressed situation. How can he think, that under them, the English nation will take a part in the approaching war? The public, so far from having any confidence in them, utterly abhor them.
A Journal of ELIZABETH WOODVILLE, wife, afterwards, of King EDWARD, IV. Written by her before her first marriage; an excellent lesson to the Fair Sex of the present age.
MONDAY morning.—Rose at four o'clock, and helped Katherine to milk the cows.
Six o'clock.—Breakfasted. Seven o'clock.—Went out with the Lady Dutchess, my mother, into the court-yard; fed five and thirty men and women, and chid Roger very severely for expressing some dissatisfaction in attending us with the broken meat.
Ten o'clock.—Went to dinner, —John Gray, one of our visitors, a most comely youth;—but what's that to me.—A virtuous maiden should be entirely under the direction of her parents.—John eat but little,—Rose a great many tender looks at me
Three o'clock.—Poor farmer Robinson's house burnt down by an accidental fire.—John Gray proposed a subscription among the company for the farmer's relief, and gave no less than five pounds himself to this benevolent intention.—Memorandum—never saw him look so comely as at that moment.
Four o'clock.—Went to prayers. Six o'clock.—fed the poultry.
Seven o'clock.—Supper on the table.—Delayed to that very late hour on account of poor farmer Robinson's misfortune.
What a striking difference between the character of ladies of those days, and that of our modern women of fashion..
New Auction-Room, Cornhill. On TUESDAY next at Ten in the Morning Will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, at the Auction-Room, Cornhill A great variety of English Goods. WILLIAM GREENLEAF, Auctioneer. (The particulars in Monday's papers.)
This Day published, And Sold by JOHN BOYLES next door to the Three Doves in Marlborough-street.
A Sermon preached to the Ancient and Honourable ARTILLERY-COMPANY, in Boston, New-England, June 7th, 1773. Before the Anniversary of their Election of Officers. By SIMEON HOWARD, A. M. Pastor of the west church in Boston. A truly Martial and Patriotic Discourse.
BOOKS. JAMES FOSTER CONDY, Has imported in several of the last vessels from LONDON,
A COLLECTION of the most esteemed BOOKS, which with his former collection makes up a very large assortment in law, physick, history, divinity, classics, navigation, husbandry, Agriculture, &c. ALSO, A large collection of plays, children's and Chapman's books, bibles of every size and quality, psalters, primers, spelling-books, and psalm books, Grove on the sacrament, Doddridge family religion, a poem entitled the Grave, recovery from sickness, Smith's essay, dissenting gentleman's answer, town and county officer, &c. Stationary of every kind, also, telescopes, microscopes, hanging and pocket thermometers, three inch pocket and mounted globes, one and a half inch globes, candle screens, gunter scales, money scales, mathematical instruments, Surveying instruments, diagonal glasses for viewing prints, a barometer, large and small perspective glasses, &c. &c. &c. Which will be sold upon the lowest terms, at his Bock store in Union-street, directly opposite the Cornfield BOSTON. N. B. Neat paper hangings, cheap.

Worcester, May 25th, 1773 L AST night the dwelling house of Wm Swan, of Worcester, was broke open, and the following articles stolen, viz five pair of Stone Earing Rings, half a dozen Tea Spoons, partly finished, five pair Stone Sleeve Buttons, one Gold Necklace, sundry pair Silver Shoe Buckles, one pair partly finished; together with about 12l. in cash, viz. one Johannes, one Guinea, six Crowns, the remainder in Dollars.
All well disposed persons are desired to apprehend the Thief, for which a Reward of SIX DOLLARS will be given. If the article are offered for sale, it is desired they may be stopped. WILLIAM SWAN.
At the Irish Linen Warehouse, In King street, Is just imported, from the North of Ireland, A Large and general assortment of Linens, from one to seven shillings per yard. These goods come from 15 to 20 per cent cheaper than last year, and will be sold in the like proportion cheaper at the Warehouse: A great variety of the most fashionable printed muslins, calicoes, cottons, linens, &c. A complete assortment of Manchester, cotton, and linen checks, damask and diaper table cloths of all sizes, napkins and toweling, huckabuck, Irish and Russia sheetings of all prices fifty pieces superfine linens from 3s. 6d. to 5s. 9d per yard, will be sold at prime cost.
LEMON and ORANGE Juice, that is most delicate for punch, to be sold by JOHN CROSBY, at the sign of the basket of lemons, South-End.
THOSE persons indebted to the INSURANCE OFFICE, kept by the subscriber, whose premiums have been due twelve months, will be sued to July Court, unless prevented by immediate payment. June 10, 1773. NAT. BARBER.
HOSIERY, From the manufacturers, uncommonly cheap, To be sold at the store of DUNCAN INGRAHAM, jun. In Union-street, Boston, Where any person may be supplied with silk, cotton, thread and worsted hose of all prices; with a very genteel assortment of GOODS in general, Wholesale and Retail, for cash. N. B. Some of the hose are of a very superior quality.
To be SOLD, THE northerly end of a HOUSE and land in Orange-street near the Hay-Market, or a house and land in Pleasant-street, opposite the tan-yard. Enquire at said house.
LEE and JONES, Have imported in the several ships from ENGLAND this spring, and have for sale at their STORE near the Swing-bridge, a large assortment of European and India GOODS, Suitable for the Spring and Summer season, At the lowest rates, A beautiful variety of Ladies Silks, of almost every kind and rich Brussels and Mecklenburg laces. PAPER HANGINGS, VELVET CORKS, SILVER WATCHES, China ware, looking glasses, alum, brimstone Also an invoice of exceeding low priced Irish Linens, &c. &c. Very cheap.
CASH given for POT-ASH, SALT, and unmerchantable POT-ASH, and a preference for those of the best quality, by ROBERT GOULD, at his Store in Back-street, near the Mill-bridge, or at his pearling works by Charlestown Ferry, where may be had, the best manufactured Pot-Ash for making soap, also Pearl Ash, by wholesale or retail.
BLANEY and BAKER, At their shop on ROXBURY HILL, Nearly opposite the Meeting-House, continue to sell, LIVERPOOL ware of all kinds, and all sorts of English, India, Scotch, Irish and West-India GOODS, at their USUAL LOW RATE, notwithstanding the report which some ill-natured person has endeavoured to propagate to their injury, viz That they were mistaken in the cost of their goods, but had lately discovered their error and advanced the prices, which report is as false as it is malicious.
To be LET, A Convenient Stable and Chaise House, near the Quaker meeting. Enquire of the Printer.
RICHARD SALTER, Begs leave to acquaint his customers and others, that he has for sale at his Shop in Cornhill Boston, near the Post Office,
A LARGE and general assortment of English, India and Scotch Goods, suitable for all seasons, consisting of most articles usually imported to this market, which he will engage to sell as cheap as can be bought at any store or shop in town, by wholesale or retail.—Also pepper, and all sorts of spices writing paper, ink powder, sealing wax and wafers, mariners compass, kalenders and epitomes, a few dozen of Tate and Brady's psalm books with hymns compleat, with and without tunes, testaments, &c. also, a large assortment of women's and children's calamanco, everlast-ing and leather shoes and pumps, of a superior quality, and the best French Indigo, women's and children's stays, beaver hats of the best kind &c. &c.
Irish Linens. WILLIAM SCOTT, At his IRISH LINEN Store in Ann-street, Near the Draw-Bridge, BOSTON, Has just Imported from IRELAND, A LARGE quantity of 3-4, 7-8 and yard wide linens of all prices diaper clouing, ditto huckabuck, dowlas, table cloths, sheetings, white ticking, brown and yellow holland, &c.
Said store is also furnished with a great variety of European and India Goods suitable for the season; the assortment consisting of too great a multiplicity to be enumerated in a public advertisement; all which will be sold by wholesale and retail at the lowest reduced prices for ready money only.
Dr. Hemet's celebrated essence of pearl and pearl dentifrice for the preservation of the teeth and gums, also patent cakes for making the liquid shining blacking for boots, shoes and leather bottom chairs, are sold there. Ducapes, lute strings, rich English damask, Scotch flowered lawns—and a few boxes of 8 by 10 window glass to be sold at the first cost.
To be SOLD, by NATHANIEL NOYES, At his shop on the South side of Faneuil Hall market,
A Large and fresh assortment of DRUGS, &c, with a number of genuine patented medicines, viz. Lockyer's, Hooper's, and Anderson's Pills, British Oil, Bateman's Drops, Godfrey's Cordial, Tur-lington's Balsam, Squire's grand Elixir, Hill's Balsam of Honey, Walker's Jesuit Drops, genuine Hungary and Lavender Water: And a few bottles of Eau de Luce, very cheap.
To be SOLD, by NATHANIEL RUSSELL, In Common-street; a little to the northward of Dr. Byles's Meeting-House, BOSTON,
A Compleat assortment of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, consisting of Clocks, Tables, Chairs, Bedsteads dumb Waiters, &c. &c. Cheap for Cash.
All persons indebted to Mr. Timothy Mosman, for News-papers, carriage, &c. are desired to pay their respective dues up to the 3d of this instant May. In doing which they greatly oblige their humble servant. T. MOSEMAN.
English, India and Scotch GOODS, Imported and sold, by HUMPHRY PALMER, Near Mr. Mann's tavern, WRENTHAM.
HE has received a quantity of GOODS, by Capt. Folger lately arrived from London, which, with his former stock makes a very good assortment.
He is determined to sell at such low prices, as (he doubts not) will give general satisfaction to his customers.—To have enumerated articles would have been tedious. But he has studied to supply himself with almost every article he can think of, suitable for his situation, that those who ride a few miles, to supply themselves with what they want at his store, may not be disappointed.
All favours conferred on him will be most gratefully acknowledged. N. B. He sells exceeding good tea, indigo and other West-India good.—suitable goods will be taken in barter
JEREMIAH ALLEN, Informs the public that he hath arrived from England, with a large and select assortment of Braizery, Cutlery and Ironmongery WARE,
The most compleat perhaps in the province, and which he is now opening at his shop lately improved by Mr. SAMUEL FLETCHER, a little northward of the Draw-Bridge. As he had the opportunity of his own choice at the Manufacturers, and purchased every article himself at the most unexceptionable rate, he will supply those who please to favour him with their custom either by whole sale or retail, of the best quality and at the lowest price.
Among which are the following articles, viz.
NAILS, tacks and brads of all sizes, brass kettles and skillets, warming pans, frying and dripping pans, English and German steel, powder, shot, sheet and bar-lead, best English and French flints, London pewter dishes and plates, basons quart and pint cans, tankards, quart and pint jacks, measures; pint, pint and half and quart tea pots, tea and table spoons, bed and close stool pans, pewter, bottle crains, all sorts of Carpenters, Joiners and Tanners tools, coffee mills with pewter hoppers, copper, brass and iron chafin-dishes, brass and money scales, Brass weights in piles, painted scale beams, polished steel shovel and tongs, princes mettle, brass and iron candlesticks, box and flat irons, box iron grates, sheep and neat leather bellows, steel and iron snuffers, velveteen corks, cork screws, pickels of all sizes, handles and escutcheons; handles, lock, hinges, &c for desks, chest of drawers, book cases, &c. cloak pins, brass buttons and rings, Shoe-makers hammers, knappers, pincers, knives, size sticks, awl blades, tacks, and awl hafts; cross-cut saws, steel and iron plate hand saws, best steel plate tennant pannel, saw and key hole saws, files, rasps and augers of all sorts, also a few new invented augers, iron spades, coat and breast buttons, horn and ivory combs, sewing and darning needles, brass and paper ink pots; shoe, cloath, buckle, teeth, bottle, crutch, lead, printers, paint and tar brushes, mops, wiping and packing twine, chalk and sash line, hazel and dog wood angling rods, hooks of all sizes, box wood rules gimblets, tap and bung borers, long shutter and plate bolts, pullies and lines, chest, cupboard and trunk locks Brass, and iron door locks, stock and pad locks, hinges of all sorts, snuff and tobacco boxes. A great variety of shoe and knee buckles, sleeve buttons, silver, ivory, buck, sham-buck and split bone knives and forks, penknives, cutteaux, scissors, razors, taylors and womens shears razor straps, soap boxes, powder machines, shot, belts, men and womens thimbles, nut crackers, knitting needles, centre and dowling bits, Cloathiers shears, wool combs, vises, Curriers knives, corn fans, kitchen jacks, 7 by 9 and 6 by 8 window glass, looking glasses of all sizes. also a few pair ditto the newest fashion in the Palmyra taste, beaver, beaveret, castor and felt mens and boys hats.
To the Bakers, &c.
To be SOLD, For CASH or Short CREDIT, At Sore N o 6 leading down to Treat's and Spear's wharves, a little South of the East-End of Faneuil Hall market, by JAMES SWAN, Choice Philadelphia
FLOUR, fine, superfine and the best Baltimore ditto. Bar Iron, Brown and Loaf Sugars, Coffee, Tea by the 6lb. 12lb. or 100lb. Pepper, Chocolate Indigo, &c. &c. All which it is believed his customers and others upon trial will be made sensible, he sells as cheap as at any store in town.
Best Hyson Tea, At 6l. per pound, To be SOLD at the Store of DUNCAN INGRAHAM, jun. In Union-Street, Boston:
Where every article usually imported from Europe, may be purchased on the lowest terms for Cash. A L S O, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Cloves, Mace, Pepper, China Ware, Wool-Cards, English and Lynn Shoes and Pumps of the best kind, &c. &c. &c.
Choice sterling MADEIRA WINE, From three to six years old, At BLANCHARD'S Wine cellar, Dock-square, Boston, And all other WINES as usual, Old Jamaica spirit, West-India, and New-England rum, London Porter Imported in bottles in the last ships; Cherry Rum. N. B. A new and elegant assortment of Paper cheap.
This dog publishes the price and picture of each d. And now ready to be delivered to the subscribers.
At the Printing Office in School-street.
A n attempt to illustrate the great subject of the PSALMS shewing, that the principle and ultimate design of them were to exhibit the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow; in both which his disciples are sharers with him. With a digression on BAPTISM; in which is considered the subjects of it, the mode of it, and the meaning of that expression, buried with him in baptism ; to which are annexed, some observations on the work of the Holy Spirit, and the difference between the faith of God's elect and the faith of Devils. From the holy scripture. Is in a letter to a friend.
Jolley Allen, Advertises all his good old friends, customers, and others, that he has again opened shop, opposite to the sign of the three doves in Marlborough-street Boston, and has for sale, at the lowest prices, the following articles:
MUSCOVADO sugars of various sorts and prices, single, middle and double refined English loaf sugars, lately imported, pepper, Bohea tea, coffee, spices of all sorts, indigo, raisins, currants, starch, ginger, copperas, alum, pipes of all sorts, bell Durham flower of mustard, and most other kinds of groceries, too many to enumerate, which he will sell from the largest to the smallest quantities.—likewise a very large and compleat assortment of Liverpool and Staffordshire ware, which he will engage to sell by the crate or single piece, as low as at any store in town.—Playing cards, wool cards, seive bottoms, a few pieces of Olaburgs and Tickleburgs. No. 4. and No. 12 pins, a few pieces of loofes ster-fetts, damasks, lorettoes, burdettis, Brunswick mozeens, &c.
Also at said Allen's may be had, genteel boarding and lodging for six or eight persons, if it should be wanted, for a longer or a shorter season, likewise good stabling for ten horses and carriages.
N. B. If any person inclines to hire the above stable and place for the carriages, may have a lease of the same for 10 years, or less time, from the said Allen, and, if should be wanted on the same premises, can be spared, room for forty or fifty horses and carriages. It is as convenient a place for letting of chariots, coaches, chaise, flays, ulkeys and horses as any in Boston.
To be SOLD at the Shop of CHARLES LOWE, In Marshall's-Lane, facing the BOSTON-STONE,
 Loaf and brown Sugars, Melasses,  Rice, Cotton Wool,  Flour, Indigo,  Pepper, Raisins,  Allspice, Currants,  Nutmegs, Figs,  Coffee, Spermaceti Oil,  Tea, Dumb Fish,  Chocolate, Indian and Rye Meal,  &c. &c. &c.   Cheshire and Narragansett CHEESE. A few barrels of good shop SUGARS. A large assortment of near PAPER HANGINGS.
To be SOLD, On board a brig just arrived, lying at Mr. Hancock's wharf,
THE best New-Castle COALS, very cheap for ready cash.
ALL persons that have any demands on the estate of Gee Hodgkins, late of Boston, Mariner, deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts to Mary Hodgkins or John Lowell, executors, and all persons that are indebted to said estate, are desired to make immediate payment.
All persons indebted to William Williams for the News-papers and carriage, are desired to make preparations to pay off their balances by the last of May.—And all such persons inclining to encourage said Williams in six months longer riding are desired to send their names and places of abode to the different stages where he leaves the papers. N. B. The said Williams expects the pay every three months. Their humble servant, WILLIAM WILLIAMS.
All persons indebted to the PRINTER hereof, will greatly oblige him by making speedy payment.