The Massachusetts spy (Boston [Mass.]), 1771-05-09 00:00:00

A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER :- Open to ALL Parties, but influenced by None. THOMAS, in Union-Street, Boston.
VOL. I.
THURSDAY, May 3, 1771
[NUMB. 10]
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
The CENTINEL. No. II.
THE more I reflect on this opinion of some among us, That the...
the more I reflect on this opinion of some among us, That the...
be two kinds of verdicts, viz. one general, and another at large, or special. As in...
This great man says again, p. 228. "Although the jury if they will take upon them the knowledge of the law, may give a general verdict, yet it is dangerous, for if they mistake, they run in danger of an attain."
By 1th of Edward I, it is enacted, By justiciarii ad officinas capiendas effigiem...
This power of the juries has been attacked, but most severely in the star-chamber court.
I would ask, supposing in our present superior court, the chief justice should be taken off, as has lately been the case, and the four judges left should differ in a point of law, two on one side, and two on the other, what must be the event?
The jury run no danger of adjudging on the law, though they do it opposite to the sentiments of the court. This has been attempted by some judges, who, sensible of their inability to set aside their verdict, have wreaked their vengeance on the jurors.
Bushell brought his Habeas Corpus, and on the return, it appeared he was committed. "for, that contrary to law, and against full and clear evidence, and against the directions of the court in matters of law, they had acquitted, &c."
For the whole, not to multiply words, it appears to me, and from the force of the above authorities I think I have a right to say, that the notion of the jury's having no power to intermeddle with law, is without foundation in law, reason or equity.
A CENTINEL.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
PETERSBURGH, [Russia] January 18.
WE are told, that the Ukraine is afresh visited by the ravages of the plague. In order to prevent its introduction into any part of this country, the empress has prohibited the entry of hemp and flax from that province.
COPENHAGEN, [Denmark] January 28.
We are assured that the produce of the silver mines in Norway has considerably augmented for some time past. They have also discovered in that country a vein of gold, from which great advantages are expected.
STOCKHOLM, [capital of Sweden] Feb. 12.
Our late sovereign the king of Sweden, Adolphus Frederick, expired suddenly, about eight o'clock this evening, at his palace in this city, in the 61st year of his age, and 20th of his reign. London Gazette.
FRONTIERS OF TURKEY, January 20.
The Captain Pacha dares not pass through the Dardanelles, to levy the customary tribute, even from the nearest islands. The Russians have destroyed nineteen Dulcignote vessels, but some barks arrived from Paris now give out, that the Russian squadron has received orders to suspend its operations till next spring, in order to facilitate the negotiations on the tapis for a peace.
marzew for an interview; but the latter way of preliminary requests, that he first deliver up to him the Scur Obresko, Russian Resident, whom the Porte have under an arrest at Constantinople.
valier D'Art has joined the Russian squadron with his fleet, and they are now making dispositions for an enterprise which occasions a good deal of uneasiness in the Archipelago.
PARIS, [France] February 15. Since the disgrace of the parliament, the following curious paper is circulated here. "The liberty, Sire, that Princes owe to their people, is the liberty of the laws. You are master of the lives and fortunes of your subjects; yet you cannot dispose of them but according to law. It is true, you know none but God above you; but the laws ought to have more authority than you yourself. You do not rule over a free and warlike nation, a slave of her liberties as of her fidelity, a whole allegiance is so much the more sure, as it is founded on the love she bears her masters. Her kings are omnipotent to her, because her tenderness and loyalty set no bounds to her obedience; but her kings must themselves limit their own authority; and in proportion as her love knows no other law than a blind submission, her kings must exact nothing from that submission, but what the laws permit them to exact from it; otherwise they are no longer the fathers and protectors of their people, they are no longer reign over their subjects, they subdue them. The power of your august great grandfather over the nation has surpassed that of all the king's your predecessors. A long and glorious reign had strengthened it; his great wisdom supported it; and the love of his subjects scarce put any farther bounds to it. Nevertheless, he has more than once known how to make it give way to the laws; take them for arbitrators between him and his subjects, and nobly submit his concerns to their decisions. It is not then the sovereign. It is the law, Sire, that ought to reign over the people. You are only its minister and first depositary. It is a law that ought to regulate the exercise of authority; and it is by the law that this authority is no longer a yoke to the subject but a rule that guides them; a help that protects them; a paternal watchfulness, that cures their submission, only because it secures their love. Men believe themselves free when they are governed only by the law; their whole happiness consists then in submission, because that submission constitutes their peace and confidence. Passions, all the inordinate and ambitious which princes mingle with the exercise of authority, far from extending it, rather weaken it; they become less powerful, as soon as they want to be above the laws; they lose when they think to gain; whatsoever renders authority unjust and odious, enervates and lessens it; the source of their power is in the hearts of their people; and however arbitrary they may appear, it is certain they lose their real power, the moment they lose the love of their subjects."
WHITEHALL, March 2. The King having been pleased to grant his royal licence to Robert Melville, Esq; Captain-General and Governor in Chief of his Majesty's islands of Grenada, the Grenadines, St. Vincent, and Tobago, in America, to return to this kingdom; his Majesty has been pleased to appoint William Leybourne, Esq; to be Captain-General and Governor in chief of those islands, in the room of the said Robert Melville, Esq. London Gazette.
LONDON, March 2. A Council is...
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perhaps transpire in a few days, not very much to the satisfaction of this nation. March 28. Yesterday, about one o'clock, the Lord Mayor, attended by his committee, and a vast number of citizens, rechants, and independent gentlemen, went to the House of Commons. The row carriages reached from St. Paul's to King's-croft. The city was all in motion, and the citizens by acclamations testified their approbation of his conduct.
Mr. Wilkes rode in his mother's chariot. Aldermen Stevenson and Turner, Mr. Bellas and Mr. Reynolds, with the rest of the Committee, attended on the occasion.
Mr. Wilkes designed only to attend the Lord-Mayor on his way. When his carriage reached St. Martin's-lane, the populace took off the horses, and drew it to the King's-arms Tavern, Palace-yard.
Lord North was insulted very much, the glasses of his chariot broke, and his wrist cut, when he alighted, he was surrounded by the populace, his hat taken from him and torn into pieces, he however escaped from them, but it is supposed he was much bruised. The two Mr. Fox's and Mr. Hans Stanley, were likewise greatly insulted. Many other Members received the greatest marks of disapprobation from the people. Mr. C. Fox's vis-a-vis was much broken.
The people were so outrageous, that above 200 constables could not keep them in order. The Justices in vain attempted to read the riot act; the People threw mud at them and obliged them to withdraw.
The House, in short, could not proceed to business.
An evening paper of last night says, on Monday a member of the Lower-House was audacious enough to say, that, if the city could not otherwise be quieted, it was time to draw the sword.
Mr. Oliver has the same apartments in the Tower in which Mr. Wilkes was confined when he was committed by the Earl of Halifax; which the wardens have named, "The Altar of Liberty."
March 29. The Lord Mayor said in the house of Commons, that if the ministry meant lenity, in their motion to commit him to the Serjeant at Arms, he did not ask it; he would not accept of it from that Bench, (pointing to the Treasury Bench.) That his health was much better; and that he was very well able and willing to meet any punishment, which they (the Treasury) might inflict. And that if there were any doubts about two punishments, he wished to share the fate of his honourable friend in the Tower.
About 12 o'clock on Wednesday, Mr. Wellbore Ellis moved in the House of Commons, that the Lord-Mayor should be committed to the Tower. Upon which the House divided, 202 against 39. The motion being thus carried, his warrant of commitment was made out, and he was committed to the Tower yesterday morning.
Between the hours of twelve and one yesterday morning, the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor attended by his Chaplain and Deputy Serjeant at Arms, left the House of Commons; as soon as his Lordship and the above gentlemen had got into his coach, the populace proceeded to take the horses from his carriage, and immediately joined hand in hand, and drew his Lordship to Temple-Ba: As soon as they arrived there, they shut the gates, and informed his Lordship that on the company he had with him had been drawn to the extent of his boundaries, and insisted upon his immediately getting out of the coach. His Lordship informed them they were not the people they suspected them to be, but one of his friends and his chaplain, who were going with him to the Mansion-House; They gave him three huzzas and then opened the gates, and drew him into the city, to the Mansion-House, amidst loud shouts and acclamations of a pious concourse of people as they passed by. When come to the Mansion-House, insisted none but his Lordship and his domestics should enter, which as soon as it had been done, they then gave a number of huzzas, and then departed very quietly.
Yesterday morning, Right Honourable the Lord Mayor arrived at the Tower, and was lodged at Mr. Shaw's, on the parade, next door to the body tower. His Lordship was in great spirits.
Yesterday morning a crowd of people
was very great on Tower-hill, on which account the gate of the Tower was ordered to be shut.
Mr. Oliver's only offences are, 1st, Having signed a warrant for the commitment of a person against whom information was given on oath of an assault committed by him in the city of London; and 2dly, Having received bail for the same person when he offered it. Both which things, if Mr. Oliver had refused to do, he would have been perjured.
A motion was made, that the Lord-Mayor's table be supported at the expence of the city, during his being a prisoner in the Tower; which was also carried in the affirmative; and it was referred to the same Committee as that of Alderman Oliver.
April 3. In the debate on Thursday morning last in the Lower-Assembly, Lord North, in the close of his last speech, observed, "that he was very sure the mob, who surrounded the avenues to the House, and who had the brutality to attack him, were hired by the minority, to endeavour to affect without doors, what they despaired of doing within." Upon which Mr. W. Burke rose up, and said, "It was a falsehood, a most egregious falsehood; that the minority, to a man, were persons of such honour and consequence, as would scorn even the shadow of such a resource; that such a charge could never come from any man, but one hackneyed in indirect measures; and who could never impute such a proceeding to any body of gentlemen, had he not a mind capable of adopting such himself."
THURSDAY, May 9. BOSTON.
On Monday last arrived here from Halifax, four men of war and a number of transports, with the 64th and 65th regiments, which, we hear, are ordered back immediately.
At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of this town, on Tuesday last, the following gentlemen were chosen to represent them in the Great and General Court the ensuing year, viz.
 Hon. JAMES OTIS, Esq;  Hon. THOMAS CUSHING, Esq;  Mr. SAMUEL ADAMS, and  JOHN HANCOCK, Esq. 
We hear that Mr. --- Hutchinson, youngest son to his Excellency the Governor, is appointed Clerk of the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas and Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the county of Suffolk, in the room of the late Middlecott Cook, Esq.
This morning Capt. Hall arrived here in five weeks from London. The most interesting part of the intelligence brought by him is in this paper.
With Capt. Hall came passengers, Mr. William Palfrey, Mr. Andrew Brimmer, and Dr. William Gray.
We hear that Alderman Sawbridge was likewise committed to the tower. And that five regiments were ordered into the city of London to quell the mob, when the Lord-Mayor was committed to the Tower.
It is said the populace who assembled on the commitment of the Lord-Mayor filled up a space of ground three miles in length.
** Leonidas, to Messrs. Green & Russell, is received, but for the present must be omitted for want of room.
Several Advertisements, some articles of intelligence, &c. must be omitted for want of room.
JOSHUA GARDNER,
Has received by Capt. Lyde, and Capt. Bryant, A fresh Supply of GOODS, Which he will sell at his shop in Cornhill, at his usual low price; among which are a fine Assortment.
HOSIERY from the Makers; such as white breeches patterns, black and coloured ditto; men's marbled, plain and ribbed worsted hose, men's silk and worsted ditto, cotton and worsted ditto, women's worsted hose, women's black and coloured worsted mitts and gloves, women's silk mitts and gloves, striped and plain worsted caps, green and crimson mock velvet ditto, with a general Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS. All which will be sold on the most reasonable terms by Wholesale and Retail for ready money.
JUST IMPORTED in the Captains Whitehead & Bryant from London, By SAMUEL ELIOT, jun. And to be sold very cheap at his store opposite the east end of Faneuil-Hall, A Variety of English Piece Goods, Suitable for all Seasons, viz.
 IRISH Linens, 3-4ths. 7-8ths. and 1 yard wide,  Drab, black and white Tammy,  Drab and black Calimancos,  Stripped and plain Cambleteens,  Double Camblets, Dorsetteens,  Yard wide and half yard Grogams,  Superfine black and midling priced blue and drab Cloths,  Best mixed blue and drab German Serges,  Kerseys, drab and blue Shalloons,  Black Lasting, Duffel Blankets,  Wax Beads, Cambricks, Lawns,  Printed Linnens, blue and white,  Dowlas, Metal Buttons,  Twist and Twist Buttons,  Buckram, Thickett,  Check Handkerchiefs,  7 8ths. and yard wide Cotton Check,  Ebony Fans, Scotch Thread,  No. 4. No. 12, and No. 10, Pins,  Black English Taffety,  Silk Handkerchiefs, Pound Silks,  Men's fine and midling worsted Hose. 
Also, BOHEA TEA by the chest, hundred or dozen; PEPPER by the bag or less, Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Cloves and Mace, Florence OYL, Allum, Brimstone, Copperas, Ticklinburgs, and Osnaburgs, Russia Duck, &c. &c.
NATHAN FRAZIER, Begs leave to inform the Public, That he has just imported from LONDON, A Large and Compleat Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS, Suitable to the Season,
(Particulars in our next.) Which he will sell, Wholesale and Retail, at the lowest advance for ready money, at his Shop the corner of Wing's-Lane, near the Market, Boston.
[All Gentlemen and Ladies, both in Town and Country, who are pleased to honour him with their custom, in either of the above-mentioned ways, may depend on the very best usage, and a grateful acknowledgment of their favours]
For the Benefit of Mr. MORGAN. To-morrow Evening, at Concert-Hall, A GRAND CONCERT of MUSIC, accompanied by FRENCH HORNS, &c.
By the Band of the 64th Regiment. Tickets at half a dollar each to be had at the usual places. To begin at 7 o'clock.
To be sold by JOHN BOLYES at his shop in Marlborough-street, next to the sign of the three Doves; An ODE set to Music, consecrated to the memory of the Rev. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, A.M. By one of his friends in Boston, New England.
ALEX. CHAMBERLAIN, jun. at his shop in Ann-street, begs leave to inform his customers, that he has just received a small but compleat Assortment of GROCERIES; also, Glass, Stone, Delph, Cream-coloured and Liverpool WARE; likewise a quantity of Lamb-Black.
LONDON, MARCH 22. A concise account of what passed on Wednesday in the House of Commons.
MR. Alderman Trecothick moved, that as the Lord Mayor is ordered to attend in his place this day, he may be assisted by counsel.
Mr. Baker seconded the motion. Mr. Wellbore Ellis moved an idle preamble, by way of amendment.
This was debated several hours. Mr. Wedderburn, to shew his principles, or rather to shew that he has no principle at all, took an opportunity, like a coward, Mr. Dunning and Colonel Barré, being absent, to make a most violent speech against the opposition. He abused every body who had either within or without doors, opposed the conduct of the ministry. He defended the late illegal proclamation; and said the House of Commons had no right to enquire whether that measure was legal or not. If the legality of it was disputed, it was a question
proper only for a court of law to determine.
Mr. Dowdeswell said the proclamation was illegal; and parliament had not only a right to enquire into it, but to know who advised his Majesty to issue it. He said, instead of censuring the Lord Mayor, for going, as some might think, beyond his due bounds, they ought to begin with correcting their own errors.
At length the house divided on the amendment; 194 for it, and 83 against it.
The question, as amended, was then put, and the ministry put a negative upon it altogether.
General Conway next moved, "That the Lord Mayor may be assisted this day, by counsel on all points, except such as may contravert the privileges of this House." After some debate, the ministry carried this motion. [Thus the Lord Mayor's counsel can be of no use to him, as they are not permitted to argue upon that ground, where he puts his defence.]
The order of the day was then called for That John Wilkes, Esq; do attend.
Sir Joseph Mawbey stood up, and gave a letter to the speaker from Mr. Wilkes.
The Speaker immediately charged Sir Joseph with disrespect, in delivering him a letter in the chair; said he had a right to do as he pleased with the letter, that he should not read it, and that he would put it into his pocket; which he accordingly did.
The ministry took part with the speaker, and abused Sir Joseph Mawbey most grossly. Sir Joseph defended himself with a good deal of spirit; and said Mr. Wilkes could not act otherwise, unless they would permit him to take his seat, and hear him in his place.
General Conway jumped up, and in great rage, called Sir Joseph Mawbey to order. Said the house had decided that matter, and would never permit it to be called in question by any person.
Mr. Dowdeswell supported Sir Joseph Mawbey. Said he should have done exactly the same; he would not have delivered the letter, until the order of the day was called for.
Mr. De Grey abused Mr. Wilkes exceedingly. Said that Mr. Wilkes and Mr. Oliver were two officious assistants to the Lord Mayor, in hopes of being made considerable; and moved that Mr. Wilkes's attendance might be put off for two months.
He was not seconded. Lord North likewise abused Mr. Wilkes very much. Said what would be punishment to others, would be reward to him; called him a wretched, undone man; and moved that Mr. Wilkes's attendance might be put off to Monday next.
Mr. Sawbridge said Monday was appointed for his motion (for triennial parliaments); and as Mr. Wilkes was a party with the Lord Mayor, he ought to attend with his Lordship this day.
Lord North carried his motion.
In regard to Mr. Wilkes, it is intended to wink him out of sight. (Thus Lord North can, when he pleases, make the house blind; and, as on Monday last, when Mr. Oliver spoke, and avowed the part he had taken, and added, that he was as much a principal as the Lord Mayor, for he had advised his Lordship to do what he did. Lord North can make them deaf; and the two Onslows he has ordered to be dumb. Why did he not issue that order three weeks ago?)
Mr. William Morgan, the Lord-Mayor's Clerk, with the minute book of recognizances, was then called in, and ordered up to the table. The book was opened, and the recognizance of William Witham, messenger to the house, read.
The Aldermen Oliver, Sawbridge, Trecothick, and several worthy members of parliament, were so shocked at this arbitrary attack on the laws of the land, they could not bear to be spectators of an alarming transaction which they would follow, and therefore immediately vacated the house.
Lord North moved, that the recognizances may be erased out of the Mayor's book.
Lord Beauchamp seconded the motion. Then, as they had the clerk in their custody, they
A motion was then made, and the question proposed, prosecution, suit, or peremptory or carried on the said pretended affair. It was ordered

POETS CORNER.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. Mr. THOMAS, Not having seen a solution of the Acrostic Rebus, published in your SPY, No. 5, I here send you one which has lain by me ever since that publication.
THE curious Spider, mocks the pride of art, And Friendship's but Affection of the heart; Great Britain's Navy awes the subject main, Our various Duties, preachers should explain; By Writing fair our thoughts 'on pinions speed, And Idleness will make us poor indeed: Crosses approach us all, none shun distress, Nor crowns, nor wealth, can purchase Happiness. These eight initials to your eyes convey That SANDWICH boasts the beauties of the day.
Mr. THOMAS, Please to give the following striking Portrait of a TYRANT, from Jure Divino, a place in the SPY.
INstructing satyr tune thy useful song, Silence grows criminal, where crimes grow strong; Of meaner vice, and villains sing no more, But monsters crown'd and crime enrob'd with power.
At vice's high imperial throne begin, And search the ancient prodigies of sin; With pregnant phrase and strong imperial verse, The crimes of men and crimes of Gods rehearse.
Rise, mighty seraph, from thy fancy'd grave, And speak tho' 'tis to those thou can't not save;
What tho' thy labour should to men be vain, And the world's bondage must its time remain; Let willing slaves in golden fetters lie, There's none can save the men that choose to die;
Yet some to voluntary mischief bow, That fain wou'd shun their chains if they knew how; And these from thy inspired lines will see, How they chuse bondage, when they might go free,
Thy long lamented silence, satyr, break; Open thy ancient oracle, and speak.
Tell us how man by heaven ite's made free, An undoubted claim to liberty: The bondage which his nature feels within, Is not his nature's happiness, but sin: And when he stoops to an unequal force, It can't excuse his guilt, but makes it worse. The freedom heaven bestow'd, was given in vain,
Unless he does the mighty gift maintain. And when he parts with the supreme bequest, He slight the bounty, and betrays the trust; Rise, satyr, tell us, What's a willing slave, And speak, tho' 'tis to them thou can't not save.
Speak to resisting ages in a strain, Shall bring the world to miracles again. When reasons wondrous empire shall begin, Tyrants without shall fall like those within; Nations shall listen to thy mighty word, When satyr has their wand'ring sense restor'd And set the scepter up, to rule the sword.
Then tell us, satyr, let thy lines explain, What things a tyrant;
Paint the infernal man. His birth, his fortune, and his fate rehearse, No limner can describe him like thy verse;
A monster form'd of all the shapes of sin, something of man without, all devil within, To phant's his sable mist'ry can unfold, His story must be felt, it can't be told.
He that with mighty Ninus hunts for men, An murder half the world at once like Cain;
He Nero suck the blood that gave him life, And search engend'ring nature with his knife;
He Diocl'san, drink a nation's blood, At first contemn and then usurp the God;
At paints the kalander with sacred red, Lifts the innocent among the dead; At blasts whole nations with insulting breath, And with destruction and make sport with death.
Like England's crook back, murders and entreats Like Charles the ninth, embraces those he hates,
He that can levy war with all mankind, Can cut his father's throat and sell his friend; Ravish the chaste, the sanctify'd profane, Can pull down right, and wrong by force maintain;
Mortgage his faith, and trample on his word, And hew his crown out by his lawless sword. Like Cortez can a nundred millions slay, Dream death by night and finish it by day. With pious Peter, cant of Heav'n's commands, Pray with his lips and, murder with his hands.
Can sleep with blood and never start at crime, And make his mischiefs, like his power, supreme.
Buy justice, sell oppression, bribe the law, Exalt the fool and keep the wise in awe; Damn all religion, gods and men defy; These openly blaspheme, and those destroy. Embrace the guilty, innocents condemn, And execute without pretence of crime. Can sacrifice whole nations to his lust, With pleasure kill and think that pleasure just.
Can burn and sing dance to the waving flame, And in his country's ashes raise his fame; Insult the wretched, trample on the poor. And mock the miseries mankind endure; Can ravage countries, property devour, And trample law beneath the feet of power. Scorn the restraint of oaths, and promis'd right
And ravel compact in the people's fight; With indignation scorn to reign by rules; That thing's a tyrant; and that people fools.
BOSTON, MAY 2.
THE House of Representatives in the late session of the General Assembly, having on the second day came to a resolution not to address the Governor on his appointment to the chair, proceeded to consider his Excellency's speech to both Houses at the opening of the session: And a committee for that purpose reported the following answer, which was agreed to by the House, and sent up by Mr. Hancock, Mr. Samuel Adams, Mr. Ingersol of Great Barrington, Capt. Brown, and Capt. Darby, viz.
"May it please your Excellency,
"THE House of Representatives have given all due attention to your speech to both houses at the opening of this Session. The violent proceedings of the Spanish Governor of Buenos Ayres in dispossessing his Majesty's subjects of their settlement at Port Egmont, has raised the indignation of all who have a just concern for the honor of the British crown. Such an act of hostility, we conceive could not but be followed with the most spirited resolution on the part of the British administration, to obtain a satisfaction fully adequate to the insult offered to his Majesty, and the injuries his subjects there have sustained. Your Excellency tells us, it is probable satisfaction may have been made for this hostile act of the Spaniards: If it is so, the public tranquility of his Majesty's dominions so far as it has been disturbed, by this unwarrantable proceeding, is again restored; and therefore it seems to us reasonable to suppose, that the proposed plan of augmentation of Troops on the British establishment is already receded from, which renders any consideration upon that subject on our part unnecessary.
"We owe our gratitude to his Majesty for his repeated assurances expressed to your Excellency by his secretary of state, that the security of his dominions in America will be a principal object of his most gracious care and attention. This province has frequently in times past expended much blood and treasure for the enlargement as well as the support of those dominions: And when our natural and constitutional rights and liberties, without which no blessing can be secure to us, shall be fully restored and established upon a firm foundation, as we shall then have the same reasons and motives therefor as heretofore, we shall not fail to continue those exertions with the utmost cheerfulness and to the extent of our ability.
"As your Excellency has no particular
interior business of the province to lay before us, it would have given us no uneasiness, if an end had been put to the present assembly, rather than to have been again called to this place: And we are unwilling to admit the belief, that when the season for calling a new assembly agreeable to the charter shall arrive, your Excellency will continue an indignity, and a grievance so flagrant and so repeatedly remonstrated by both houses, as the deforcement of the general assembly of its ancient and rightful seat.
"Your Excellency is pleased to acquaint us in form, that you have received his Majesty's commission appointing you Captain-General and Commander in chief in and over the province. Your having had your birth and education in this province, and sustained the highest honours, which your fellow subjects could bestow, cannot fail to be the strongest motives with your Excellency to employ those powers which you are now vested with, for his Majesty's real service and the best interest of this people. The duties of the Governor and the governed are reciprocal: And by our happy constitution their dependance is mutual: Nothing can more effectually produce and establish that order and tranquility in the province, so often disturbed under the late unfortunate administration: Nothing will tend more to conciliate the affections of this people, and ensure to your Excellency those aids which you will constantly stand in need of from their representatives, than, as a wise and faithful administrator to make use of the public power, with a view only to the public welfare: And while your Excellency shall religiously regard the constitution of this province; while you shall maintain its fundamental laws, so necessary to secure the public tranquility, you may be assured, that his Majesty's faithful Commons of this province will never be wanting in their utmost exertions to support you in all such measures as shall be calculated for the public good, and to render your administration prosperous and happy."
On Thursday the 25th of April a motion was made that a message be sent to his Excellency the Governor, to pray that he would be pleased to inform the House, whether any provision was made for his support, as governor of this province, independent of his Majesty's Commons in it: And the reasons for the motion being explained, wherein the danger to be apprehended from such an independence, as it would destroy the balance of power and influence, between the several branches of the legislative body of the province, and the just grounds of jealousy that it had actually taken effect, were set forth, whereupon a committee was appointed to consider the motion; who the next day reported the following message, which was accepted in the House, and sent by Mr. Samuel Adams, Brigadier Ruggles, Mr. Hensley, Col. Bowers, and Mr. Godfrey, viz.
"May it please your Excellency,
"THE House of Representatives after enquiry of the secretary cannot be made certain whether you have yet given your assent to two bills which were laid before your Excellency early in this session: The one for granting the sum of five hundred and six pounds, for your services when Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief; and the other for granting the usual sum of thirteen hundred pounds to enable your Excellency, as Governor, to carry on the affairs of this province.
"And as your Excellency was not pleased to give your assent to another bill passed in the last session of this assembly, for granting the sum of three hundred and twenty-five pounds for your services, when in the chair, as Lieutenant-Governor, the House are apprehensive that you are under some restraint; and they cannot account for it upon any other principle, but your having provision for your support, in some new and unprecedented manner. If the apprehensions of the House are not groundless, they are solicitous to be made certain of it, before an end is put to the present session; and think it their duty to pray your Excellency to inform them, whether any provision is made for your support, as Governor of this province,
independent of his Majesty's Commons in it."
The same day, the House (having before passed a bill for the better regulating the Militia of the province) for the encouragement of the young gentleman students of Harvard College, who appear to be ambitious of excelling in military art, so necessary to be inculcated at this time, agreed upon another message to his Excellency the Captain-General and Governor of the province; and sent up the same by Mr. Pickering, Brigadier Ruggles, Capt. Dix, Dr. Holton, and Major Gallison, viz.
"May it please your Excellency,
"THE House having a disposition at all times, and on all occasions, to encourage every art and science tending to the well being of this province, take the liberty to address your Excellency, and to desire you would be pleased to give order that one hundred of the province arms may be deposited in Cambridge, for the use of such students of Harvard College as may be disposed to acquaint themselves with the art military, and to be under the care of the Governors of said College during your Excellency's pleasure."
His Excellency the Governor on the same day was pleased to send down to the House the following message by the Secretary, viz.
"Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
"I COULD not, consistent with my duty to the King, give my assent to the bill passed the last session for granting three hundred and twenty five pounds for my support. Before the close of the present session I shall assent to or reject the bills which shall have passed the two Houses, as it shall appear to me the same duty requires of me.
"You are solicitous to be informed whether any provision is made for my support as governor of the province independent of his Majesty's Commons in it. By the expression his Majesty's Commons, I suppose you would be understood to intend the House of Representatives. I must observe to you, that the King, Lords, and Commons, our supreme legislature, have determined it to be expedient to enable his Majesty to make a certain and adequate provision for the support of the civil government in the colonies as his Majesty shall judge necessary.
"I will not enter into a dispute with you upon the propriety of this provision. It may not however be amiss to acquaint you that I have not received the full instructions and other appendages to his Majesty's commission which I have reason to expect. When I shall receive them, I will communicate such parts of them to the House of Representatives as I shall think for his Majesty's service.
"In the mean time, I am the only sufferer by declining or delaying my assent to any bills for my support, and I think your constituents will not blame me for being willing to avoid burdening them, with this support by the increase of the tax upon their polls and estates, while there is any probability that it may have been provided for in another way.
T. HUTCHINSON."
Cambridge, April 25, 1771.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS,
Informs his Customers That he has just IMPORTED from LONDON, By Capt. Calef;
A GENERAL Assortment of ENGLISH and INDIAGOODS, which he sells cheap for cash at his shop in Cornhill, Boston, three shops southward of the Post Office. Also, STATIONARY, CUTLARY, GROCERIES, &c.
JOHN BOIT, begs leave to inform Gentlemen and Ladies, that he carries on his business near the Draw-Bridge, where he makes laced and plain CLOATHS, Ladies Riding Habits, and Josephs. All done in the neatest manner and newest taste.
N. B. Those that are kind as to favour him with their custom may depend on being well used.
A YOUNG MAN of a good character, capable of attending a store, wants Employment; who would willingly settle in any part of the English West Indies on reasonable encouragement. Enquire of ISAIAH THOMAS.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS, in UNION-STREET, near the Market.
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