The Massachusetts spy (Boston [Mass.]), 1771-08-08 00:00:00

THE Massachusetts Spy
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER :--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
Published by I. THOMAS, in Union-Street, BOSTON.
NOV 8 1916
VOL. I.]
THURSDAY, August 8, 1771.
[NUMB. 23.]
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
To AMERICANUS.
Courtesy Sir,
HETHER Leonidas's breeches fit conveniently on his hips, or whether he be your match or superior in low in- vective, and mere personal scurrility, collection and invention of the most false and infamous slanders, are matters in which the public are so lightly interested, that I dare say they will excuse a further prosecution of them, and patiently attend to you in detecting any misrepresentations or false colourings, which you may find in the animadversions of this same impudent Leonidas. I am sensible 19-20ths. of the good people of this province would exult in finding a General Howard * in Governor Hutchinson; and however obstinately I abhor the character of a changeling, a flatterer, or a hypocrite, let any advocate for his Excellency condescend to point out one sentence in my writings wherein the truth of fact is exceeded but an hair's breadth, and I will retract, and submit to any species of castigation for my rashness, they may see cause to inflict. Hitherto, I have only been snarled at, and accosted in such genteel terms as these; barbarous rustic, how dares he to insinuate that a ruler absolutely independent on the community, and as obsequious to their most grievous oppressors as melted wax to a signet, differs in any respect from a constitutional governor, a person who can have no interest distinct from that of the people! Cannot this Russian bear be quiet, and wear his chains with humble resignation, to the sovereign will of his betters, without disturbing the world with such an incessant and ill-natured clattering of his fetters? In all ages and countries there have been men of the disposition of Ahab very easily persuaded to avail themselves of the property of their neighbours, nay even of whole provinces, the lives of the owners in any measure notwithstanding. And why should rebellious subjects dare to murmur at the decrees of their lords in America, more than they do in Asia, and many parts of Europe? It is true, they frequently rise up in either place, and take off the head of one tyrant to elevate another, but friends to government hope better things from this refined age and country. Besides it is strongly believed that General Tryon's signal victory over the ignorant back-settlers of North-Carolina, and the barbarous butchery of poor Capt. Merrill will cow their seditious spirits, and teach them submission to any terms a governing minister pleases to enjoin.
Traiterous usurper, unconstitutional tyrant, I confess are hard terms! I wish no person in the British empire could view them with any possible propriety applicable to himself. And gentle Americanus, for once in a way be so kind as to inform us; if the very imputation of treason and tyranny renders the publisher of it so hateful, what must be the condition of the perpetrator and abettor of such enormous crimes. It would affront your understanding to tell you in every paper that power without a check is tyranny. A Governor dependant only on a British minister for his support, will not by your modesty be pretended under any check from this people; can such Governor therefore be
* This generous Soldier when proposed to command an expedition for the enforcement of the Stamp-act, returned for answer, "Sooner will I sheath my sword in my own bowels than use it against my fellow-subjects to reduce them to slavery."
regarded by them in any other light than that of a tyrant? Especially while he manifests an eagerness to carry every measure into execution which plainly evinces a settled determination to enslave them? What is the sophistical Æquitas driving at, but an endeavour to give ministerial, or if he pleases, regal instructions the force of laws? Or at least to divert the resentment of the people from the Governor, if in obedience to such instructions, he should deny his assent to every bill proposed for the well governing of the province, till crown-officers be all exempted from taxes, and the Council and House of Representatives disclaim their right of agency in any person, but such as they may with moral certainty assure themselves will betray them?
That people are uneasy with the incessant multiplication of such intolerable, such ruinous measures, as have been heaping upon them since the hatching of the Stamp-Act, is an error in the constitution of nature, if any where.
It is futile then, to charge it on a few unlettered barbarians, who are (as you inform us) universally despised. Either the capacity of the advocate, the prejudice of the people, or the justice of the cause must form the party in favour of a contested point. It seems you are perfectly satisfied in the two former articles, and a cause founded in uprightness of conduct and fatherly affection to the good people of this country, will certainly be seconded, let who will be its principal promoter.
The days are not yet arrived when a majority of the community are so entirely abstracted from self, as to give up all ideas of interest and personal security, and there still remain rooted prejudices in many minds, that the keys both of our coffers and consciences are as safe in our own keeping, as that of the most dignified despot, civil or ecclesiastical, in this country at least. If these sentiments as alleged above, are implanted in our natures by the kind author of our being, he has certainly made a suitable provision for their preservation. And to be as short as possible in discussing this offensive point with you important Americanus, revolt and rebellion are just as natural and necessary consequences of usurpation and tyranny, as lighter resentments are of less considerable injuries. All the pains I have taken on this head have arisen from a direct opposite motive to that to which yourself and chaste brethren have been pleased to ascribe it, an assurance that if the bulk of the people were sufficiently apprized of the tendency of your infernal politics, they would damp your ardour in the tickling expectation of sharing some executive trust in the absolute monarchy you languish to obtain. I shall still continue my feeble efforts for this beneficent purpose regardless of all the prophecies yourself, and your waggoner, shall collect, invent, republish, and disseminate, till your corps with your memory take leave of mankind together.
LEONIDAS.
B R E W S T E R'S BEST ground and made CHOCOLATE , warranted good and free from any mixture, is sold by JOHN FARMER , successor to the late John Brewster, at the sign of the Chocolate-Cakes in Fifth-street, near the bottom of Cross-street. Choice ground COFFEE to be sold as above. N. B. Said FARMER has for sale, Founder's and Brazier's Ware, of all sorts.
A NEGRO Man to be given away, with a good Bed and Bedding and his Cloaths. Enquire of the Printer.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
CONSTANTINOPLE , [capital of the Turkish empire] April 3.
OT only Giurgewo, but also the city of Sinope, situated on the Black Sea, in Natolia, is taken by the Russians, and three men of war upon the flocks were burnt. The island of Chios having refused to pay a contribution of a hundred thousand piastres, has been taken by the Russians, in spite of all the efforts of the Pacha of the Dardanelles, and the Captain Pacha. Three Algerine chebecs were burnt, and the other ships sent to its assistance were dispersed.
April 17. We are assured, that the preliminary articles of the peace between the two belligerent powers are signed; that the Porte hath entirely placed its interests in this matter in the hands of his Prussian Majesty; and that Russia will approve of whatever shall be done for her by the court of Vienna. God grant that this good news may be confirmed. In the mean time the preparations for war are continued with the same activity as before.
MADRID , [Spain] May 2. Advices from Cadiz confirm, that the English have been dislodged from St. David's isle by the Spaniards, which makes us apprehend new troubles between the two nations.
WARSAW , [capital of Poland] April 20. According to an exact list, the plague has carried off in this kingdom, 245000 persons, and happily has now ceased.
DUBLIN , [Ireland] June 1. On Monday the 27th ult. a riotous mob assembled, and entered the house of Mr. Peter Heverin, on Usher's Quay, merchant, and took out woollen cloths to a considerable amount, and burnt and destroyed the same; and on Wednesday the 29th, attacked the house of Mr. William Witherington, of Grafton-street, Woollen-Draper, firing several shot, and dangerously wounded a gentleman belonging to his family.
LONDON , May 7. We hear from Portsmouth, that the boat builders are immediately to begin 800 flat bottomed boats, which according to the order, must be completed in ten days.
There is a squadron fitting for the sea, to be under the command of Lord Edgecumbe. Its thought, by appearance, the destination will be out of Europe.
Whether the boats now building are for Commodore Kepple or Lord Edgecumbe, is uncertain.
The troops are still in the Isle of Wight, and it is said, the greatest part of them will be embarked on board the transports, which are victualling for these two expeditions.
The above intelligence we are assured may be depended upon, notwithstanding the pacific aspect all our national concerns seems to wear.
Advices from Vienna inform that the Grand Signior will positively enter Poland the beginning of June, at the head of an army of 300,000 men.
May 15. It is said a Dutch East-India-man has been sunk by a French man of war near the Island of Ceylon, in Asia.
Considerable bets are laid in the city, that a rupture takes place between the French and Dutch within six months from this date; in which both the courts of London and Madrid will by their treaties be obliged to take part.
Measures are already adopted, and will be put into execution with all possible speed, for avoiding the great inconveniences arising
from the want of paper money in the colonies. We are informed, that it is the general opinion of the citizens that Mr. Wilkes will be chosen Sheriff at Midsummer day.
LONDON , May 17. A very great house has stopped payment at Hamburgh to the amount of 200,000. sterling.
Letters from Oporto, by the last mail, bring advice, that an edict is issued, importing, that if any person presumes even so much as to mention the King and Ministry, they shall be banished from Portugal forever.
The Turkish army broke up their camp, and quitted the environs of Adrianople about the end of March, and are gone for Silistria; they have double the number of cannon with them they had in the last campaign.
By a letter from Marseilles, of the 19th of April, we hear, that the Ottoman fleet continues in the straits of the Dardanelles, to defend the passage. Hassan Bey continues at the head of his troops at Lemnos.
May 20. The following promotions are now said to be determined on, viz.
The Earl of Pembroke to be Ambassador to the court of France.
The Earl of Harcourt Secretary of State.
And Lord Rochford Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the room of Lord Townsend, for whom the Master Generalship of the Ordnance is reserved.
A negotiation is said to be on foot between the court of Versailles and Madrid, respecting the island of Corsica to the latter.
May 20. Letters from Sweden inform us, that in the different dock-yards of that kingdom, 30 ships of war, and frigates, are building for the service of France, conformably to one of the separate articles stipulated in the new treaty of subsidy concluded between those two powers.
It is reported that an action of 100,000. damages, will be brought by the Lord-Mayor and Aldermen Wilkes and Oliver, against the president of a certain club.
May 22. Several ships are fitting out in the Thames, for America, to bring home timber for the use of the navy.
We hear it has been intimated to all the foreign ministers, that as both Houses of Parliament have resigned the privilege of protecting their servants in cases of debt, their Excellencies are no longer to expect that indulgence for their domestics, but that every individual of their train, secretary included, must, for the future, be open to the just demands of their creditors.
Advice is said to be received by the Lisbon mail, that his Most Faithful Majesty is about to prohibit all commercial intercourse between his subjects and those of France.
A Correspondent informs us that preliminaries are signed between the Turks and Russians, under the mediation of the Courts of Vienna and Berlin: the terms are said to be as follows:
M. Obrescou restored to liberty. The Crimea ceded to Russia, with the free navigation of the black sea.
Two Islands in the Archipelago, with free passage through Bosphorus and Propontis.
Bender and Moldavia to revert to the porte.
Walachia, and the Turkish part of Transylvania, with Belgrade, ceded to Austria.
Poland to be divided into four parts.
Polish Prussia, and Dantzic, to the King of Prussia.
The country on the frontiers of Hungary, to Austria.
Polish Ukraina to Russia.
The great Duchy of Lithuania, and the rest of Poland, to be erected into an independent monarchy; but whether for the present Possessor of the throne, or some more fortunate Prince, has not yet transpired.

A Nobleman, who lately wrote to Lord Bute on the subject of his return, informed his Lordship, that the public prints were again preparing to attack him, and that the people of England would never suffer him to live among them quietly. "I know that too well, my dear friend, (replied the Earl in his succeeding letter,) but surely they can have no objection to my dying quietly among them; I desire no other favour at their hands; though I doubt not, when the rage of party has subsided, that they will be convinced I could have no interest in being their intentional enemy."
The marriage between the Count de Province, with the Princess Maria-Josepha-Louisa of Savoy, grand-daughter of the King of Sardinia, was celebrated at Versailles last Tuesday se'nnight.
May 24. It is confidently asserted, that some strong efforts will be made next session of Parliament, for introducing an American Representation into the Grand Council of the Nation.
May 29. Yesterday the Right Hon. the Earl of Bute set out with his family from South Audley-street, for his seat in Lutton-Loo in Bedfordshire.
It is reported that an action of 100,000 l. damages will be brought by the Lord Mayor and Alderman Wilkes and Oliver, against the President of a certain club.
Several ships are fitting out in the Thames, for America, to bring home timber for the use of the navy.
The Attorney General has entered a Noli Prosequi against the indictment of Witham the Messenger.
A correspondent assures us, that the utmost diligence is using in the harbours of Brest, Marseilles and Rochfort, at which last place there is a squadron of 8 ships of the line, 4 frigates, 3 bomb ketches, and two fireships, with their sails ready bent, to slip out on the shortest notice, all unmoored, and ride at single anchors.
May 31. Letters from Paris of the 24th inst. mention, that several hawkers have been lately taken into custody for vending some arrests, remonstrances, letters of parliament, protests of the Princes of the Blood, &c. and committed to prison. The informers on these occasions have been chiefly coadjutors , who urge that in serving the police by such informations, they act agreeable to the will of God.
The report of yesterday at Jonathan's was, that every thing is settled between the Turks and the Russians, and that the King of Poland is to abdicate in favour of a Prince of Saxony.
The famous Curate, who so long headed the Corsican malecontents in the mountains, was executed at Ajaccio on the 20th ult.
June 3. We hear that a fleet, consisting of the grandships from Portsmouth, and the other Ports, are ordered to cruise, for six weeks in the Bay of Biscay.
The ships of war lately put out of Commission with so much haste, are with equal haste to be put into commission again.
Orders are arrived at Portsmouth for the Marine Captains to go to the different parts of the Kingdom to recruit.
A Gentleman at Hull, whose veracity we can depend upon, assures us, that he saw a letter last week from Bombay, which mentions the Aurora frigate to have been safe of that place when the letter was wrote.
The following letter from Petersburg, dated April 20, has been sent to Prince Galtitzin, minister from her Imperial Majesty to their High Mightinesses the States General.
"A courier is just arrived here from the grand army with advice, that on the 24th of last month, Major General Wiessman passed the Danube, near Tulchi, with 800 grenadiers, in order to make a diversion while an attack was made on this side the river, by General Potemkin, upon the fortress of Torno. Notwithstanding Tulchi was defended by a garrison of 3000 men, and several batteries, M. Wiessman began the attack, and with his small body of troops entirely routed the garrison, took several prisoners, conveyed part of the cannon away in small boats, spiked up the remainder, and pursued the enemy to a considerable distance. The Grand Vizir being informed of this enterprize by a spy, dispatched seven large vessels to destroy the boats which transported our troops; but our forces perceiving this fleet was intended to prevent their retreat,
reembarked with the greater expedition; and immediately attacked and seized seven of the enemy's vessels. General Wiessman repassed the river, and returned safe to Imaïl."
The following are given out as the terms of the treaty of peace, on the eve of being concluded between Russia and the Porte, under the mediation of the courts of Berlin and Vienna: Belgrade, and all the forts on the Danube, to its mouth, and Bender, to be ceded to Austria, as barriers against the Russians and Turks. The intermediate countries between the Neister and Danube, to remain neutral, under their Princes and Waiwodes. All the coasts of the Black Sea, with its ports and harbours, comprehending those of the Crimea, ceded to Russia. The Crim Tartars to become nominally independent. The Russians not to have the free navigation of the Bosphorus and Hellefpont, and to evacuate the Archipelago and its isles. The throne of Poland to be declared vacant, and a free election permitted, by withdrawing of all foreign troops. The Candidates for the Polish throne to be the Elector of Saxony, the present King, and an Arch duke. Should the election not fall on the present King, he is to retain the title of King, to which will be annexed the Duchy of Penin. The King of Prussia to cede his part of Silesia to Austria; and to receive Polish Prussia and Dantzick in lieu of it, guaranteed by Austria.
June 5. This morning, about five o'clock, the Queen was taken in labour, and a quarter before six was safely delivered of a Prince. Her Majesty and the young Prince are as well as can be expected. On this occasion the flags were displayed and the bells were set a ringing: in order to announce the happy event.
The Viceroyship of Ireland is said now to lie between Lord Gower and Lord Weymouth; and it is said that there will be no deputation of Lords Justices, as has been usual in Ireland, during the absence of the Lord Lieutenant, but that the present Lord will be immediately succeeded by a resident Viceroy.
June 6. It is said that a certain Great Personage is at length come to a resolution to dismiss from his service all such of his servants as he finds are grown obnoxious to his people.
June 7. Sir Edward Hawke is said to have declined the acceptance of a Peerage.
One of the daily papers, says a correspondent, having lately mentioned an anecdote of Dr. Johnson, wherein the King is said to have personally complimented him, you are at liberty to insert the following anecdote, which I can avouch for a fact; the public will then be judges how far the King has a right to compliment a man of his principles.
Dr. Johnson, in the last reign, meeting a gentleman of his acquaintance at the Somerset coffee-house, he in the course of conversation, was complaining what a great deal he had walked that morning, and then mentioned being at several parts of the town, and that he last came from the palace. "where?" says the Dr. in his sarcastic manner; "why, from the palace, (returned the gentleman) phaw! phaw! I cried the other, there can be no Palace where there's no King."
The late Mr. Shastoe performed the extraordinary feat of horsemanship, of riding 50 miles within two hours!---thought impossible till he performed it, and won a stake of 12,000l. by succeeding in the exploit.
June 8. This morning two dozen of chickens were sold at Leadenhall-market, for the moderate price of four pounds.
A fow in Newport market brought forth the other day a pig of the following extraordinary make; two bodies complete from the shoulders, four hind feet, two tails, one head, two fore feet only, and four ears. The monster is alive, and is exhibited for a small reward.
It is reported, that on application to the French Ambassador on the disappearance of the Chevalier D'Eon, Count de Guiginea pledged his honour both in his master's name and in his own, that the Chevalier has not been carried off, either directly, or indirectly by any emissary, or without the knowledge of the court of Versailles.
Jackson, who is condemned for a burglary, and who was the evidence against Richardson and Conway, for the murder of Messrs. Venables and Rogers, made the following
most abandoned speech, the other day, on his commitment: "Justice Sherwood (says he) has sent me to Newgate in a coach; he Sheriffs will take me to Tyburn in a cart; and I shall go to Hell, I suppose, in a wheelbarrow."
The following address from the principle inhabitants of the town and port of Sunderland, near the sea, in the county of Durham, was presented yesterday by George Greive, Esq; to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Wilkes, at the Mansion House; and to Mr. Alderman Oliver, at the Old Bailey, where he then was upon the rota.
Sunderland, in the County of Durham. To the Right Honourable BRASS CROSBY Esq; Lord Mayor, JOHN WILKES and RICHARD OLIVER, Esqrs. Aldermen of the city of London.
"WE the gentlemen, merchants, owners of ships, and other inhabitants of this town and port, though remote from, yet as fellow countrymen inseparably united to you all, and to your Lordship in a particular and endearing sense of the word, should deprive ourselves of the greatest satisfaction and complacency, if we did not at this time come forward, and join the public voice in applauding, as we do from the bottom of our hearts, the glorious stand you have made against the determined violence of ministerial despotism, and the progressive inroads of unnatural usurpation.
"With equal horror and resentment, we now see that the right of election, the liberty of the press, the franchises of the metropolis, the sacred charge of magistracy, the personal freedom of individuals, the solemn records and course of judicial proceedings, the salutary acts of H ABEAS CORPUS .---All---All that is dear to Englishmen, and worth their living for, are occasionally to be dispensed with (and perhaps in time totally abolished) in order to carry into execution that surreptitious and sinister plan of power, which already influences and sways every movement of Legislature.
"In so critical an emergency, we are perfectly sensible how much the preservation of our laws and liberties depend upon the steady virtue and inflexible constancy of those illustrious WORTHIES, upon whom the eyes of the whole nation are fixed, and in the foremost rank of whom YOU now stand conspicuously. In this contemplation, we hold ourselves engaged by all the motives which gratitude can dictate, and the love of our country can inspire, to avail ourselves of every constitutional means in our power for the vindication and support of so honourable and distinguished a TRIUMVIRATE."
The King of Spain was sent for from his palace about 20 miles from the city, and the Grand Council continued sitting all day.
The next morning a report was current through Madrid, that his Catholic Majesty gave orders for fifteen thousand infantry, and four thousand horse, to prepare themselves for setting out for France with the utmost expedition, to prevent a revolution in that Kingdom.
We since hear, that the said troops are getting ready for the above purpose.
It is asserted that the French Court, at the instance of some Great Persons has at last agreed to make a compensation to Gen. Paoli, for the estates which that General formerly possessed in the Island of Corsica, said to be worth upwards of 90,000 l.
PARIS, [France] May 24. The court having sent to the Princes of the Blood, to know if the protest signed with their seals was a work which they avowed? They returned for answer; "That it was not with their advice that a protest was printed; that they had delivered their protest, and that they abided by the sentiments therein contained."
HAGUE, [Holland] May 17. According to letters from Vienna, the passing and re-passing of couriers to and from Berlin, and vice versa, have for twelve days been more frequent than ever between those two courts, from which there are also, from time to time, couriers sent to Petersburg; but the contents of all these dispatches still remain a secret. We have, however, reason to believe, that the affairs of which those three powers are treating, are in a very good situation; and that they will soon be settled to the satisfaction of all parties. The unexpected arrival of Count Alexis Orlow, and of Prince Dolgorooki, Russian Noblemen, in that city, and the gracious reception they have met with from the Emperor and the Empress Queen,
who admitted them to an audience, we consider as no equivocal marks of the good understanding which reigns between the Imperial Court and Petersburg; and that, notwithstanding some late and present menaces of the former of those two courts, not to suffer the Russians to pass the Danube, and extend their progress further into the dominions of the Ottoman Porte, beyond that river, yet those two courts perfectly understand each other; which the event will not fail to prove and verify.
AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.
NEW-YORK, July 29.
THE following is an extract of a letter received last week from a gentleman in Pennsylvania, who is distinguished for an uniform attention to the true liberties of his countrymen.
"A kind of internal war is carried on within the bounds of this province, which, if not speedily checked, will have serious consequences to us, and prove as dangerous as the Regulators of North-Carolina: I mean the attempt of the Connecticut people, with a set of lawless banditti from our frontier, to fix a settlement at Wyoming on the North branch of Susquehannah.---There have been frequent engagements between these people and ours, some lives have been lost, and several laws passed against them. We expect daily to hear of another engagement, for they are besieging our people with a large body. It is the opinion of some folks in this country, that if some method is not fallen upon of reducing these frontier rioters to a submission to law, that one general chain will be formed of them throughout the whole continent, as the views and conduct of them all are similar."
NEW-LONDON, July 19. Last Friday night came to town from Philadelphia, Mr. John Chester, of Groton late mate of the sloop Fancy, Capt. Richard Hubbard, owned by Mr. Richard Alsop, of Middletown; which vessel sailed from this port the 19th of December last, bound to the West Indies with a cargo of horses, and on the 25th of the month in lat. 26 long. 63 in a most violent gale of wind the vessel overset, and while they were cutting away the mast a sea struck the vessel which swept the deck of every thing thereon, filled her with water, and washed every person overboard, when the Captain and Super Cargo (Mr. Samuel Farnsworth of Hartford) and five of the people were drowned, but the mate and two of the hands named --- Gilbert and Justus Taylor, both of East Haddam, got on board again, and secured themselves on the bowsprit; three days after this a Schooner hove in sight, and beat the whole day to get to them, but the wind being small they at night stood from them, though within a mile of each other. On the 1st day of January they were all washed off the bowsprit by a sea, when Gilbert was drowned the other two again secured themselves on the bowsprit, and on the 3d of January, Taylor, through hunger, fatigue and despair grew delirious, when Chester at night secured him with a rope, but the next morning he untied himself, while Chester was asleep, who was awakened by his falling into the water, when he was drowned. About six hours after Taylor's death, a snow from Philadelphia, Capt. Dean, bound to Lisbon, was discovered by Chester, in a direct course for him, but when at about a league distance she tacked and stood from him, and after an hour or two she tacked and stood for him, and came within a mile, when the snow was again putting about to leave him, but providentially one of the hands at that instant discovered him, when a boat was sent and took him on board. Chester was so weak that he was not able to stand for a month, and it was owing to the kind usage and prudence of Capt. Dean, under God, that he recovered; great part of his cloaths were washed off his back, and his flesh much chafed and worn off. The day after the vessel foundered they got a cask of water out of the hold, which two days after was carried off by a sea; they also got some pieces of pork which floated out of the fore peak.
NEWPORT, July 29. We hear from Nantucket, that last Monday se'nnight arrived there a whaling sloop, of which John Osborn was late Master --- said sloop had fell in with a whale some time before between the Grand Bank and the West-Islands, when said master and four hands took one boat,

and the mate and other hands took another, and went in pursuit of the whale, after chasing for some time, the mate lost sight of the other boat, and pursued the whale till he thought there was danger of losing sight of the sloop, the weather being pretty thick; so returned; expecting to find the master and his hands on board, but when he came up with the vessel could neither see nor hear any thing of them; he continued cruising there about all the ensuing night, keeping a fire in the caboose and lights in the cabin, and all next day, but found nothing of them: so that it is supposed the master and all with him were lost by the boats being stove by a whale.
THURSDAY, August 8. BOSTON.
TUESDAY last, by Fahrenheit's Thermometer, was the hottest day we have had for twenty-two years past, except one, the Mercury at noon rose to 91 degrees; the day before it was at 90.
The last accounts from North-Carolina mention that every thing is quiet there.
We are informed that Governor Martin is safely arrived at Newbern, in North-Carolina from New-York.
Last Tuesday in the afternoon Commodore Gambier made an entertainment for a number of Gentlemen and Ladies on board his Majesty's ship Salisbury, which in the evening was handsomely illuminated.
The foundation for the new Baptist church being finished, yesterday the workmen began to raise the building. The Rev. Mr. Stillman was present, in the morning, and made an occasional prayer.
Capt. Mugford, arrived at Marblehead from Cape Nichola Mole, informs, that a severe shock of an earthquake happened at Port-au-Prince on the 9th of July, which destroyed twenty-five houses.
Another account says, the few remaining old houses, together with such new ones as had been lately built, were destroyed.
Last evening Mr. David West, dropped down in Middle-street, and bruised his head considerably; he was suddenly seized with a cold trembling fit, with faintness. We hear he is likely to do well.
We hear from Wessford, that last Saturday about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the meeting house in that town was struck with lightning and greatly damaged.
Two barns, one at Chebacco, and the other at Andover, were, we hear, last week, set on fire by Lightning, and consumed, together with a considerable quantity of hay. Extract of a letter from a Gentleman at Fairfield in Connecticut, July 30.
"Last Sabbath in the forenoon, between eleven and twelve o'clock, during the time of public worship, the meeting-house at Stratfield, (a parish in the town of Fairfield) was struck by lightning, by which John Burr, Esq; and Mr. David Sherman, were instantaneously killed, and several other persons considerably wounded." Further particulars in our next.
The same day, and about the same time, with the above, at the meeting-house at North-Haven four horses were struck dead with a flash of lightning, which also struck down three men, two women and a child, but they all happily recovered.
We hear that one Hopkins, a native of Maryland, and formerly was of the Queen's rangers in America, soon after which he went into the French service, where he has continued ever since; has lately been promoted to the rank of a Brigadier-General, and has obtained the Government of the Caves, on the southern part of Hispaniola, in the room of the Chevalier d'Argouffe, who is gone to Europe.
It is said some letters by the last packet, arrived at New-York, mention the deaths of the Earl of Halifax, and Earl of Shaftesbury.
The beginning of last week a fishing schooner arrived at Marblehead, having on board four men and two lads, who gave an account, that some time before they got in, one Saturday evening, after the crew had done supper, the Skipper died very suddenly that night, and one Russell the next morning. After supper, Russell challenged the Skipper, or any other, to drink bumpers of rum with him; which being accepted, a pint mug was filled, and Russell drank it off, the Skipper then drank the same quantity: Russell repeated the fatal draught, which completed a quart; but before the Skipper had time to drink his second draught, he fell, and im-
mediately expired. His companion dropped very soon after, continued in a lethargic state till the next morning and then died. The men and lads agreed to conceal the unhappy cause of these deaths; which they did until examined by authority.
We hear, the latest advices from France are, That the parliament of the province of Brittany, being greatly dissatisfied at the measures of the French Court, particularly that the Duke of Aiguillon, who for many atrocious crimes proved against him, had been legally condemned to lose his head, was not only screened from punishment but favoured by the King, and supposed to be the secret director of his councils; and that the King persisted in refusing to permit the sentence to be executed; wherefore the parliament had passed and published an order, that all their members, (especially the Rohan family, and the nobility, of which the Prince Soubize, a great favourite of the King, was the chief) should immediately leave their employments at Court, and return home, under penalty of the forfeiture of their estates. That in order to counteract these proceedings, the King had sent a new Governor, properly instructed to Runnes, the capital of the province. That the inhabitants refused to acknowledge or admit him;---That the King to enforce obedience, had sent an army of 30,000 men. That the army were refused admittance into the city, and opposed by the inhabitants---who in the heat of their resentment fired upon the army and killed about 200 men, notwithstanding which, the soldiers, convinced that the cause they were sent to support was unjust,---declared their readiness to fight against the enemies of their country, but unanimously refused to fire upon their friends and countrymen, and immediately disbanded. The confirmation of this news is impatiently expected.
MARRIED. Mr. Alexander Ker, Schoolmaster on board his Majesty's ship Salisbury, to Miss Elizabeth Thompson.
DIED. Mrs. Sarah Gill, wife of Mr. Moses Gill, merchant, and daughter of the late reverend and learned Thomas Prince, aged 43 years.---Suddenly, Mrs. Elizabeth Simpkins, wife of Mr. John Simpkins, merchant.---Mr. Robert Sharples.---Mr. John Brown, chocolate-grinder, aged 85 years, supposed to have been taken in a fit as he was going down stairs, from which he fell and expired immediately.---Suddenly, after drinking too freely of cold water, Mr. Gray, a journeyman baker; and Alexander MacDonald, labourer.---Suddenly, one Hougen, a pedlar, at the south-end. At Salem, Capt. Ebenezer Bowditch.---Suddenly, at Charlestown, Mrs. Trumbell, wife of Mr. James Trumbell, jun.
SHIP NEWS.
Yesterday arrived the Gibraltar sloop of war from a cruise. Also arrived the Bonetta.
Capt. Littlefield, who arrived here last week from St. Martins, on the 18th ult. spoke with a brigantine from New-York, bound to Jamaica, Anthony Purbeck, master, four days out.
ARRIVED from this Port. Margaret, Wilson, at Portsmouth.---Lydia, Bishop, at Liverpool.---Hayley, Scot, at Dover.---Sufannah, Johnson; John Galley, Sims; Hannah, Sims, at Gravesend.
ARRIVED here. Doryick from Nova-Scotia; Waterman from Philadelphia; Crocker from Newfoundland; Stonehouse from St. Lucia; Spence and Carlton from Hispaniola; Davis from Cape Nichola Mole; Rogers from Philadelphia; Alden from North Carolina.
CLEARED out. Gardner to Annapolis-Royal; Atwood to Nova-Scotia; Atwood and Atkins to Newfoundland; Peterkin to Virginia; Clark to New-Providence; Ball and Whitmarsh to West Indies.
TO MR. RICHARD DRAPER.
Recollecting Sir! IF your customers are satisfied to maintain a weekly news-paper, sacred to the ebullitions of your envy and private resentment, I have nothing to say in the affair. But though I might perfectly equal you in random invective, I have not the ambition to conceive my performances would add any thing considerable to the entertainment of my generous encouragers; whom I wish to divert in a much more agreeable manner, than by any thing which can arise from the uninteresting squabbles of Mr. R. Draper, and
I. THOMAS.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. To the PUBLIC.
THE number of sudden deaths from excessive heat, even here upon this cool peninsula, gives me very uneasy apprehensions for the good people in the more inland and unventilated parts of the country: To prevent, or remedy as much as may be, the ill effects of a bad regimen in this dangerous period is the design of this essay.
By intense heat and hard exercise the blood and juices are rarified, and the thinner parts discharged in great plenty. The fat also liquified and mixed with the circulating fluid tends much to thicken it, and render its motion through the finer strainers more difficult. Of all parts of the body the liver in this case is most subject to disorder. Being in the direct course of all the blood, fat, &c. collected in the abdomen, and placed between the thin covering of the right hypochondrium and the stomach, it is extremely liable to have its contents chilled and thickened by cold drink taken down in large quantity, by too sudden an exposure to cold air, or what is very imprudent, plunging into cold water, stretching at length on the cold moist ground, grass, &c.
The congealed fat has after such mismanagements been discharged by the bowels, both of man and beast, and the bodies of either reduced to skeletons from the want of nourishment such a total deprivation of the digestive juices causes. From this circumstance it clearly appears, that as soon as the patient begins to complain of stoppage of perspiration, heavy, and sometimes sharp convulsive pains at the heart pit, as if a cannon ball was immovably fixed in it, a swimming in the head, ringing in the ears, dimness of sight, &c. Some tea of any kind most agreeable to the taste, should be prepared, and exhibited gradually as hot as the patient can bear it, and if sugar or honey be not disagreeable, the more of them is added the better.
The patient should be held in a moderately warm place, and a universal sweat encouraged by every gentle method. A tea of lean beef, well charged with crude salt armonic or even common salt, where the other cannot be had, and drank very warm, is very serviceable. Purges of calomel and rhubarb, each ten grains, made up with conserve of roses, or even molasses, are necessary, perhaps weekly. Ripe mild fruits are not only good to prevent the ardent thirst which tempts to the excessive use of cold water, but wonderfully serve to remedy the ill consequences above described. A very mild and yet effectual remedy will be found in an infusion of a quarter of an ounce of rhubarb, and half as much pearl-ash, or salt or wormwood, made in a quart of soft spring or brook water, in a glass bottle corked; and taken to the quantity of a small tea-cup full, once or twice a day. T. YOUNG.
P. S. To prevent injury from sudden draughts of cold liquors, take a moderate mouthful, and after holding it some time, swallow it leisurely; and thus proceed twice or thrice till gradually cooled. Moderate use of spirits should not be forbidden, but to drink rum when perspiration is stopped by any accident is to set the body on fire.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
Please to insert the following in your next. To Mr. DRAPER.
RECOLLECTING this evening that in your last magazine of the common-shore soakings of Grub-street, your high mightiness, quitting the station of your boasted establishment, and in imitation of your greaters, usurping the office of censor-general, has been pleased to bestow upon the whole class of junior-graduates, the present year, the honourable title of 'incendiaries' I said to my chamber mate, in the name of good breeding, so much insisted on of late, what are we to expect next? Shall every prerogative-puppy's shoe-black, scavenger or chimney-sweep claim privilege to bespatter whom he pleases with his audacious ribaldry? Or supposing Mr. Political Author, some one of said incendiaries was to take you by the nose, and with a gentle foot at your breech, conduct you from the 'Change, past the Western corner of the Town-House; can you indulge the conceit that the high-rank you have so lately assumed would influence a Suffolk jury, to find you extraordinary damages?
It is allowed, an assault upon you with an
intent to batter you, would be innumerable the royal academy of sciences, would in vain endeavour to determine whether your mind or your corps would afford the most pitiful object of triumph, but no one can conceive that such an ignominious has the remotest right to enter the lists in to cavalier a manner with such a number of the lions of science; and load them with Billinggate because they chuse to have nothing to do with him.
If his Excellency has in any peculiar manner patronized you, all the world must upbraid you with the vile returns you have made for the favour, by midwifeing into day-light such detestable trash in his vindication, as might draw contempt upon a Rockingham, if supposed to have his countenance. Had you Mr. Draper, the judgment of a raw negro, you would have suppressed that unlucky anecdote intended to grease the Governor. the Governor. Does not every old woman exclaim it was intended for a contrast instead of a parallel ? What notice would you have him take? Order the Salisbury to batter down the Printing-Office, or send for the 29th regiment to besiege the College, and put the whole class to the sword! Could his Excellency be influenced by your unhallowed spleen, he would indeed merit an inscription on columns; non amabilis his literis PATER PATRIAE , in old Roman, but the scourge of the people in different characters, perhaps those used in instruments for the re-signation of castles, vice-admiralty ships, and writs of assistance.
Retire poor creature from the field of literary, as well as agonistic combat; your established condition, fixes you the scape-goat of all the elegant writers who maintain your entertaining press with glowing matter. Even Americanus appeals to you against yourself; and in the third sentence of the critical performance you have 'a little more courtly TO THAT "labour to monopolize the abhorrence of mankind." If both of you let up for critics, transcribe to criticise, and misphrase, as well as misspell in the very example. you must be weak, for it could never be your design to palm upon your readers, that Leoni-das speled abborrence with an a , in place of the e ; and what the to that means , is to me as dark as ancient Scythian. Courtly to that labourer, would be English, but a pretty weak claim, make the best of it.
But though one should grant you a few grains of allowance in phrase or orthography, will that excuse the badness of your heart and confusion of your understanding? What had the publishers or printers of the Spy to do in the endeavour to flur your character? Did not the galling admonition, enforced as you say by a threat, most evidently come from another hand?
Or are you, after the example of your friend Mein, contriving to multiply enemies, and resolving to exasperate them to that degree, that some of them, may be tempted to usher you into public notice, by breaking your bones?
I would fain hope the humour of compensating Stamp-Masters for the resentments they may suffer for selling their country is pretty well over!
I hope you will not call this threatening, nor again deserve the repetition of the free admonition given you above, but in future behave as becomes you
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POETS CORNER.
WERE I permitted to inspect the rolls, The sacred archives hid beyond the poles; Had I a title, cou'd I make pretence, To search the awful books of Providence; Cou'd I the hidden acts of fate revise, And see the ancient fables of the skies; The chain of causes cou'd I but display, And see how consequences there obey; Discover mighty works of majesty, And know not only what he does, but why. This should be first of all that I'd enquire, And this the utmost bounds of my desire, Why heaven permits the worst of men to rule, And binds the wise man to obey the fool? Why he gives power to princes to destroy, And waste the pleasant world they should enjoy:
Why fame bestows her ill-deserv'd applause, Where violence triumphs on nature's laws: Where justice feels th'oppressive load of might, And usurpation sets her foot on right; And he that's mightiest grown in lust and blood, Scorns human praise, and claims to rule from God. Why heaven provok'd with insults, and with pride, Let's haughty vice the spoils of heaven divide; And the rewards of virtues are possess'd, By him that sinks the man to raise the beast. Why private miracles concern'd for blood, And secret murders are by heaven pursu'd: Nature's at wars, and all the brutes combine, To mix their vengeance with the wrath divine;
The secret horror of the bloody fact, Assists the malefactor to detect; The guilty trembling hand, the falt'ring tongue, Hurries the vengeance of his crimes along; The wand'ring steps the with'd-for flight refuse, And make the guilty wretch himself accuse; Conscience the hated secret will betray, And make himself the debt to justice pay: Hasten the punishment the laws defer, And make himself the executioner; Why shou'd just heaven pursue the junior crime,
But leave exalted criminals to time? For princes guided by the gust of power, In their ambitious heat the world devour. They that have nations in their lust destroy'd, And strove to make the whole creation void; That sacrifice whole kingdoms to their pride, Revel in blood, and nature's spoils divide: These with impunity in peace remain, And heav'n seems so far to command in vain.
In conquest uncontrol'd they tyrannize, And seas of blood can scarce their thirst suffice, Virtue and innocence resist in vain, Whole nations groan, and injur'd lands complain;
The dying breath of millions vengeance calls And cries of orphans scale the heavenly walls, Yet deaf and unconcern'd he neutral stands, Deaf to th'expecting eyes, uplifted hands, As if he'd bid them not look up to him, Referr'd the vengeance back again to them. As their own proper business:
Let them know, What's their known duty, he expects they'll do: He gave them reason to direct the state, And power that rules of power might create; He plac'd it as the sovereign test of law, That this must drive, where that no more will draw:
If that erects a government and throne, This must when it encroaches pull it down; Heaven made no kings, 'twas our own act and deed, Heaven pulls none down---'Tis otherwise decreed:
When he at last to plague the restless tribes, Consents to give a King--the text describes; The groaning people, by those Kings oppress'd, Looking in vain to him for liberty and rest. Till mov'd by just complaints he lets them see, The work's their own, their reason sets them free,
And reason calls to use their liberty. The only clear'd their long incumber'd fight, Open'd their senses to their native right; I taught them wherein obedience did consist, Wherein they must obey, and when resist. I taught them their understanding to obey, Show'd them their right, and let them see the way, That once to fight does more than (*) twice to pray.
(*) 'Tis hop'd none will be so foolish or malicious to censure this simile, as if I despised or undervalued the Agency of prayer; especially of public humiliations, the thing particularly meant here.--But it is an expression made use of to inculcate the necessity and advantage of joining our endeavours in every lawful manner to our Prayers.
LONDON, May 21. The Earl of CHATHAM's SPEECH, when he made a motion for the Dissolution of the present Parliament.
MY LORDS, IT is not many years since this nation was the envy and terror of its neighbours. Alone and unassisted it seemed to balance the half of Europe. Nor was the aspect of its affairs abroad more flattering than at home. Concord and unanimity prevailed throughout the whole extent of the British empire. Whatever heats and animosities might subsist between the grandees, the body of the people was satisfied. No complaints, no murmurs were heard. No petitions, much less remonstrances, for redress of grievances, were carried up to the throne; nor were hired mobs necessary to keep the sovereign in countenance by their venal shouts. Nothing was heard on every side but one general burst of acclamation and joy. But how is the prospect darkened! How are the mighty fallen! On public days the royal ears are saluted with hisses and hoots; and he sees libels against his person and government written with impunity; juries solemnly acquitting the publishers. What greater mortification can befall a monarch! Yet this sacrifice he makes to his ministers. To their false steps, not to his own, he owes his disgrace. By their intrigues the last inglorious peace, the origin of our evils, was effected, and approved by parliament, though it was loudly condemned by the nation. By their intrigues the last shameful convention received the same sanction. Were this sacrifice of our honour and interest abroad compensated by the wisdom of our domestic government, it would be some comfort.--But the fact is, that Great-Britain, Ireland, and America, are equally dissatisfied, with the ministry. The impolitic taxes laid upon America, and the system of violence there adopted, have unfortunately soured the minds of the people and rendered them disaffected to the present parliament, if not to the King. Ireland has various reasons to complain. An enumeration of them would be tedious. You may judge of their number and magnitude by the present flame. The measures taken to carry the Middlesex election in favour of the court, the decision of that election, the murders in St. George's fields, the refusal of the Commons to enquire into these murders, and into the conduct of those who advised his Majesty to bestow thanks and rewards upon the persons immediately concerned; the payment of the immense debt contracted by the crown, without inspecting any account; all these circumstances had justly alarmed the nation, and made them uncommonly attentive to the operations of parliament---Hence the publication of the parliamentary debates. And where was the injury, if the members acted upon honest principles? For a public assembly to be afraid of having their deliberations published, is monstrous, and speaks for itself. No mortal can construe such a procedure to their advantage. It, and the practice of locking the doors, are sufficient to open the eyes of the blind; they must see that all is not well within. Not satisfied, however, with shutting their doors, the Commons would overturn the liberty of the press. The printers had spirit, and resisted. The irritated Commons exerted their privilege above the laws of the land, and their servants acted
illegally in the execution of their illegal orders. The magistrates of London undertook the cause of the printers, and the protection of the laws, and of the city's franchises. The Commons still proceeded with the same outrageous violence. They called upon the magistrates to justify their conduct and, would not suffer them to be heard by counsel. These men, who had allowed the prostitute electors of Shoreham counsel to defend a bargain to sell their borough by auction, would not grant the same indulgence to the Lord-Mayor of London, pleading for the laws of England, and the conscientious discharge of his duty. Accordingly they committed him to the Tower, for not violating his oath. The most sacred obligation of morality and religion they vote criminal, when it happens to stand in competition with their assumed privilege. Their next step was the act of a mob, and not of a parliament.--I mean the recognizance entered at Guildhall. We have heard of such violence committed by the French King; and it seems much better calculated for the latitude of Paris than London. The people of this kingdom will never submit to such bare-faced tyranny. They must see that it is time to rouse, when their own creatures dare to assume a power of stopping prosecutions by their vote, and consequently of resolving the law of the land into their will and pleasure. The imprudence, and indeed the absolute madness of these measures, demonstrate that they are not the result of that assembly's calm, unbiased deliberations, but the dictates of weak, uninformed ministers, influenced by those who mislead the sovereign. It is impossible that a grave, and once venerable body of men, if left to itself, should have converted government into a scuffle with a single individual. Were the Commons not absolute slaves to the man who holds the golden keys of the treasury, they could never have rendered the very name of parliament ridiculous, by carrying on a constant war against Mr. Wilkes. To them it is entirely owing that he is become a person of consequence in the state. They first made him representative for Middlesex, and then alderman of London. Now they seem determined to make him sheriff, and, in due course, Lord-Mayor.--When he set their authority at defiance, in the case of the printers, they repeatedly declared him amenable to their jurisdiction, and actually served him with more than one order to attend. Upon being found refractory, they shamefully gave up the point; after punishing the chief-magistrate of the city, they suffered him to escape with impunity, and, in the face of the world, acknowledged him to be their lord and master.
Matters being thus circumstanced, the Commons being both odious and contemptible, there remains but one possible remedy for the evil. In order to save the name and institution of parliament from ruin, the Commons must, according to the earnest request of a majority of the electors of England, and the wish of almost all the nation, be dissolved. This step may restore good humour and tranquillity on the one hand, and good government on the other. Not that I imagine this act alone sufficient. No; I have no such sanguine expectation; I suspect it will prove but a temporary and partial remedy. The influence of the crown is become so enormous, that some stronger bulwark must be erected for the defence of the constitution. The act for constituting septennial parliaments must be repealed. Formerly the inconveniencies attending short parliaments had great weight with me; but now we are not debating upon a question of convenience; our all is at stake; our whole constitution is giving way; and therefore, with the most deliberate and solemn conviction, I declare myself a convert to triennial parliaments. Influenced by all these considerations I move your Lordships to address his Majesty to dissolve the present parliament, as soon as the business of the session is concluded.
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TAKES this method of informing all Gentlemen, Ladies, and others, who have had the misfortune to loose their teeth, that he still continues the business of making and fixing of Artificial TEETH as usual, in so elegant a manner as to be but little inferior to the natural either in use of beauty. Where, also, all persons afflicted with the scurvy may have them cleaned without hurting the enamel, and be supplied with his excellent Powder which cures the Scurvy, whitens the teeth, and keeps them sound during life: He can assure the Public that he has fresh instances every day of the good effects of this powder.
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