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[VOL. III.]
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1774.
[NUMB. 160.]
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
Mr. THOMAS, In your last Spy I observe you favoured the public with the copy of a commission, granted by the High Court of Admiralty of England, to Jared Ingersoll, Esq; of Philadelphia, taken from the Pennsylvania Journal, with the promise of a letter, published in Philadelphia, on the subject: Since your said publication it has been observed by many in this town, that we have nothing to do with the commission of Judge Ingersoll, as that of Judge Auchmuy, is not of the same tenor. It therefore becomes necessary to inform the public that Judge Auchmuy's commission is of the same date, the same salary, and a verbatim copy of Judge Ingersoll's with this difference only, Judge Auchmuy's district is the provinces of the Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island and Connecticut.
The powers granted by the High Court of Admiralty of England to their deputies in the colonies, being so great and of such an alarming nature, it is highly necessary the whole community, nay the whole continent, should be acquainted therewith: Therefore beg you will favour the public in your next with both commission and letter; together with the oath of office, &c. indorsed thereon, of which the following is a copy that the whole may be seen in one view and discounted upon with that freedom the nature and importance of the subject requires.
An AMERICAN.
GEORGE the third by the grace of GOD, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith: To all and singular our officers and other our liege subjects whomsoever, in and throughout our kingdom of Great-Britain, and other our foreign plantations, colonies, and dominions; and to all persons in general, whom these presents may concern, but more especially to our beloved JARED INGERSOLL, Esq; greeting.
BE IT KNOWN, THAT WE, for good and sufficient causes us thereunto moving, have established, and do, by these presents, establish a Court of Vice Admiralty, at Philadelphia, in North-America, to have original jurisdiction in all causes arising within the limits of our colonies of New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the lower Counties on Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, and within three leagues of the shores thereof. The said Court to have also original jurisdiction in all causes arising from the capture of ships, between the latitudes of forty-one degrees and thirty-six degrees fifteen minutes north; or of ships, whose port of destination shall be within either of our said colonies; the said Court to have also jurisdiction in appeals from the Courts of Vice Admiralty established, or to be established within either of our colonies before-mentioned.
AND BE IT ALSO KNOWN, That we considering very much in your learning, honesty, fidelity, circumspection, and industry, DO, by these presents, make, ordain, constitute, and appoint you, the said JARED INGERSOLL, Esquire, to be Judge of the said Court of Vice Admiralty, established at Philadelphia aforesaid, under the title and title of JUDGE COMMISSARY, DEPUTY and SURROGATE of the Court of VICE ADMIRALTY of Philadelphia, in North-America, with original jurisdiction in all causes arising within the limits of his Majesty's colonies of New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the lower Counties on Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, and within three leagues of the shores thereof; and also, with original jurisdiction in all causes arising from the capture of ships, between the latitudes of forty-one degrees and thirty-six degrees fifteen minutes north, or of ships, whose ports of destination shall be within either of the said colonies; also, with jurisdiction in appeals from the Courts of Vice Admiralty, established or to be established within either of the said colonies: Saving always a right to any or either of the parties, who shall think himself or themselves aggrieved, by such Vice Admiralty Court at Philadelphia, in the first instance, or on an appeal to such Vice Admiralty Court, established at Philadelphia, to appeal either to us in Council, or to our High Court of Admiralty of England; and from thence to our High Court of Delegates, final; and saving likewise, all other the
rights of our High Court of Admiralty of England.
AND WE DO hereby give, grant, and allow, to the said Judge, an annual salary of six hundred pounds, to be paid, in the first place, out of the moiety money arising from the penalties and forfeitures, to be levied within the said colonies and plantations; and if that fund shall not be sufficient, out of the money arising from the sale of old naval stores.
AND WE hereby expressly enjoin and command you the said Judge, upon pain of losing your office, not to take any fee, or gratuity whatsoever, for any judgment given, or business done in your said Court.
AND WE DO hereby commit and grant to you the said JARED INGERSOLL, our power and authority to take cognizance of, and proceed in all causes, civil and maritime, and in complaints, contracts, offences, or suspected offences, crimes, pleas, debts, exchanges, policies of insurance, accounts, charter parties, agreements, bills of lading of ships, and all matters and contracts, which, in any manner whatsoever, relate to freight due for ship hired and let out, transport money, or maritime usury, otherwise bottomry; or which do any wise concern suits, trespasses, injuries, extortions, demands and affairs, civil and maritime, whatsoever, between merchants, or between owners and proprietors of ships, or other vessels, and merchants or other persons whomsoever, with such owners and proprietors of ships; and all other vessels whatsoever employed or used or, between any other persons howsoever had, made, began, or contracted for any matter, cause or thing business or injury whatsoever done, or to be done, as well in, upon, or by the sea, or public streams, or fresh water, ports, rivers, creeks, and places overflowed whatsoever, within the ebbing and flowing of the sea, or high water mark, as upon any of the shores, or banks adjoining to them, or either of them, within the limits and districts before-mentioned, together with all and singular their incidents, emergencies, dependencies, annexed and connext causes whatsoever; and such causes, complaints, contracts, and other the premises above-said, or any of them, howsoever, the same may happen to arise, be contracted, had, or done, to hear and determine the same at Philadelphia aforesaid, (according to the civil and maritime laws and customs of our High Court of Admiralty of England) and to proceed judicially and according to law in administering justice therein.
AND MOREOVER, to compel witnesses (in case they withdraw themselves, for interest, fear, favour, or ill-will, or any other cause whatsoever) to give evidence to the truth, in all and every the causes above-mentioned, according to the exigencies of the law: And further, to take all manner of recognizances, cautions, obligations, and stipulations, as well to our use, as to the instance of any parties for agreements or debts, and other causes and business whatsoever, and to put the same in execution, and to cause and command them to be executed: Also, duly to search, and enquire of, and concerning all goods of traitors, pirates, manlayers, felons, fugitives, and felons of themselves, and concerning the bodies of persons drowned, killed, or by any other means coming to their death in the sea, or in any ports, rivers, public streams, or creek, and places overflowed; and also, concerning mayhem, happening in the aforesaid places; and also, concerning engines, toiles, and nets, prohibited and unlawful, and the occupiers thereof.
AND MOREOVER concerning fishes royal, namely whales, riggs, grampuffs, dolphins, sturgeons, and all other fishes whatsoever, which are of a great, or very large bulk, or fatness, by right or customary ways used belonging to us, and the office of our High Admiral of England, and also, of, and concerning all casualties at sea, goods wrecked, flotson, jetson, lagon, things cast over-board, and wreck of the sea, all goods taken, or to be taken as derelict, or by chance found, or to be found or forfeited, and of forfeitures, trespasses, misdemeanors, offences, enormities, and maritime crimes whatsoever, done and committed, or to be done and committed, as well in and upon the high seas, as all ports, rivers, fresh waters, and creeks, and shores, of the sea, to high-water mark, from all first bridges towards the sea, in and throughout the limits and district aforesaid, and maritime coasts there-
unto belonging, howsoever, whensoever, or by what means soever, arising or happening, and all such things as are discovered and found; and as also all fines, mulcts, amercements, and compositions due, and to be due, in that behalf, to tax, moderate, demand, collect and levy, and to cause the same to be demanded, levied, and collected, and according to law, to compel and command them to be paid; and also to proceed in all and every the causes and business above-recited, and in all other contracts, causes, contempts and offences whatsoever, howsoever, contracted, or arising, if the goods or persons of the debtors may be found within the jurisdiction of the vice admiralty, established at Philadelphia, aforesaid, according to the civil and maritime laws and customs of our said high court of admiralty of England anciently used, and by all other lawful ways, means and methods, according to the best of your skill and knowledge; and all such causes and contracts, to hear, examine, discuss, and finally determine; and also to arrest, and cause and command to be arrested, all ships, persons, things, goods, wares, and merchandise, for the premises, and every of them, and for all other causes whatsoever, concerning the same, whereforever they shall be met with, or found within the limits and district aforesaid, and to compel all manner of persons in that behalf, as the case shall require, to appear and to answer, with power of using any temporal coercion and of inflicting any other penalty or mulct, according to the laws and customs aforesaid and to do and administer justice, according to the right, order, and course of the law, summarily and plainly, looking only in the truth of the fact.
AND WE impower you, in this behalf, to fine, correct, punish, chastize, and reform, and imprison, and cause, and command to be imprisoned in any gaols, being within the limits aforesaid, and maritime places of the same, the parties guilty, and violators of the law and jurisdiction of our admiralty aforesaid, & usurpers, dilinquents and contumacious absenters, masters of ships, mariners, rowers, fishermen, ship-wrights, and other workmen and artificers whomsoever, exercising any kind of maritime affairs, as well according to the above-mentioned civil and maritime laws, and ordinances and customs aforesaid, and their demerits, as according to the statutes and ordinances aforesaid, and those of our kingdom of Great-Britain, for the admiralty of England in that behalf, made and provided; and to deliver, and absolutely discharge, and cause and command to be discharged whatsoever persons have been imprisoned in such cases, and are to be delivered; and to promulge, and interpose all manner of sentences and degrees, and to put the same in execution with cognizance, and jurisdiction of all other causes civil and maritime whatsoever, which relate to the sea, or which, in any manner of way respect, or concern the sea, or passage over the same, or naval, or maritime voyages performed, or to be performed, or the maritime jurisdiction above-said; with power also to proceed in the same, according to the civil and maritime laws and customs of our aforesaid courts, anciently used, as well those of meer office, mixt or promoted, as at the instance of any party, as the case shall require and seem convenient, committing unto you our power and authority, concerning all and singular the premises, in the several places above expressed, in the manner and under the limitations before described; together with power of deputing and appointing all such officers and ministers, and deputies under you, as shall be necessary for the execution of the said office, (excepting always the register and marshal of the said court, the nomination and appointment of whom we reserve to ourselves, by these presents, which are to continue only during our pleasure.)
FARTHER, WE DO, in our name, command, and firmly and strictly charge all and singular our governors, commanders, justices of longing, that in the execution of this our commission, they be, from time to time, aiding, assisting, and yield obedience in all things, as isnting unto you and your deputy whomsoever, under the pain of the law for their neglect and the peril of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, marshals, keepers of all our gaols and prisons, bailiffs, constables, and all other our officers and ministers, and faithful liege subjects, in and throughout the limits aforesaid and the territories thereunto belonging which will fall thereon.
GIVEN, at London, in the high court of our admiralty of England aforesaid, under the great seal thereof, the seventeenth day of October, in the year of our LORD, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight, and of our reign the eighth.
GODF. LEE. Farrant Registrar.
To the JUDGE of the HIGH COURT of ADMIRALTY at PHILADELPHIA.
SIR,
I SHOULD not have chosen to address you through the channel of a news-paper, if the subject was no ways interesting to the public. There is nothing I so much despise, as the felonious robber of private virtue and character, who shelters himself behind the printer, and thence securely stabs in the dark. Nor am I pleased, when I behold the attention of the community, taken up in deciding private differences, on the petty disputes of individuals. These are generally conducted with so much heat and indiscretion, that each party seems anxious only to wound the reputation of his antagonist, and never thinks of defending his own. But on the present occasion I mean to address you "under the stile and title of judge commissary, deputy and surrogate of the court of vice admiralty in Philadelphia." In which capacity, you have a certain relation to the public, and are vested with certain powers, which every individual hath an undoubted right to discuss and examine. Suffer me therefore to appeal to you for a few minutes: Not indeed as a judge, (for I care not how little you are appealed to in that way,) but as a man possessed of virtue and honour.
The most superficial knowledge of the English law is sufficient to shew the vigilance, with which the courts of Westminster-hall have always guarded against the encroachments of the courts of admiralty. From the reign of Richard the second, down to that of James the first, we find a continued struggle between them. Nor is it easy to say which ought most to be admired the firmness and resolution of the one, or the enterprize and olacity of the other. But in the reign of James the first, their usurpations on the courts of common law met with such a vigorous repulse, that since that time, they seem to have given up all thoughts of extending their jurisdiction in England. Nor have they been opposed only by the courts of common law. It is now above two centuries since the parliament passed an act to lessen their power. The statute of Henry the eighth enacted, that treason, piracy, robbery, murder, felony, &c. committed on the high sea, should be tried according to the course of the common law. And the practice is now to join one of the judges of Westminster-hall in commission with the judge of the admiralty, to try those offences by a jury. Before the passing of this act, a single judge was vested with a power of life and death: A power, absolutely unknown in any other branch of the English constitution. Even in the army, a court martial must be called, before a delinquent can be sentenced to death. By the 5. Eliz. cha. 5. sect. 50, several offences mentioned in that act, if done on the main sea, and out of the body of any county, shall be heard and tried according to the statute of 28. H. 8. ch. 15, that is, according to the course of common law by a jury. And by the 1. Ann. sect. 2. ch. 9. sect. 4. Captains and mariners belonging to ships, and destroying the same at sea, shall be tried according to the statute of 28. H. 8, that is, according to the course of the common law. From these several acts of parliament, which have thus abridged the power of the courts of admiralty in criminal cases; and from the great variety of determinations at common law with respect to civil actions, it will appear evident, that the jurisdiction of the courts of admiralty in England is narrowed almost to a point. Even disputes concerning captures in time of war, which seem particularly to fall under the cognizance of the admiralty, are now, in trials on policies of insurance, frequently carried into the courts of Westminster-hall. Hence cases of this kind are often found in the books of report, especially in the more modern ones.
If then the judges and the parliament of England for ages past, have been endeavouring to limit, and have actually almost abolished the odious jurisdiction of that civil-law court, and have introduced in its stead the noble trial by jury: What shall we think of the exten-

powers with which the court of Admiralty in England have thought proper to vest you their deputy in Philadelphia?
For the satisfaction of my countrymen, I will here point out the limits of the admiralty jurisdiction, as exercised at this day in England, and compare them with the limits of the same jurisdiction as delineated in your commission. The comparison will show that the powers in your commission, vastly exceed those of the grand court of admiralty in England.
By the law of England, the Admiralty hath no manner of cognizance of any contract, or of any other thing done within the body of any country, either by land or water, nor of any wreck of the sea, for that must be dealt with upon the land before it becomes wreck: * Consequently it hath no jurisdiction to hear causes that arise on bills of exchange, bills of lading, bottomry, bonds, charter parties, policies of assurance, or freights of ships. But in your commission you have express power and authority given, "to take cognizance of, and proceed in all causes civil and maritime, and in complaints, contracts, offences, or suspected offences, crimes, pleas, debts, exchanges, policies of insurance, accounts, charter-parties, agreements, bills of lading of ships, and all matters and contracts, which, in any manner whatsoever, relate to freight due for ships hired and let out, transport money, or maritime usury, otherwise bottomry; or which do any wise concern fuits, trespasses, injuries, extortions, demands, and affairs, civil and maritime, whatsoever, between merchants, or between owners and proprietors of ships or other vessels, and merchants or other persons whomsoever, with such owners and proprietors of ships; and all other vessels whatsoever employed or used, or between any other persons howsoever had, made, began, or contracted for any matter, cause or thing, business or injury whatsoever done, or to be done, as well in, upon, or by the sea, or public streams, or fresh waters, ports, rivers, creeks, and places overflowed whatsoever, within the ebbing and flowing of the sea, or high water mark, as upon any of the shores, or banks adjoining to them, or either of them; and also, to enquire of all goods wrecked." By the laws of England, if death, or mayhem happen within the Thames, or in any other river, port or water, which are within any county, the Admiral or his deputy hath no jurisdiction at all; and in such cases, the coroner shall exercise his office. But in your commission, express power is given "to search and enquire of, and concerning all goods of traitors, pirates, manslayers, felons, fugitives, and felons of themselves; and concerning the bodies of persons drowned, killed, or by any other means coming to their death in the sea, or in any ports, rivers, public streams, or creeks, and places overflowed; and also, concerning mayhem happening in the aforesaid places." By the law of England, the jurisdiction of the Admiralty is wholly confined to the main sea, being no part of the body of any county.** But in your commission, express power is given "to take cognizance of all offences, or suspected offences, and crimes, done, or to be done, as well in, upon, or by the sea, or public streams, or fresh water ports, rivers, creeks, and places overflowed whatsoever, within the ebbing and flowing of the sea, or high water mark, as upon any of the shores or banks adjoining to them or either of them." So that you have, by the law of England, authority to take cognizance of crimes, assault and battery, or any other trespass, if it be committed on the shores or banks of any fresh water port, river, or creek. The word Bank, you will please to take notice, is of so vague a meaning, that it may, for aught I see to the contrary, be construed to include all the city of Philadelphia. By the law of England, the Admiralty hath no jurisdiction over fishermen and ship-wrights as such.—But in your commission, express jurisdiction is given over all "fishermen and ship-wrights," who are certainly a very numerous body of men. Their contracts, their dealings, their offences, are all subjected to your cognizance and examination. The statute of Henry the 8th being made before the settlement of these provinces, ought to be construed to extend to them; and the offender against it, should receive his trial in the colonies by virtue of a commission from the King, as in England. But your commission, as far forth as it operates, is a virtual repeal of this law, under the description of offences, suspected offences, and crimes. It gives you power to try all the offences mentioned in the statute of Henry the 8th, (if committed on the sea, and within the limits of your jurisdiction) according to the laws of the Admiralty. Behold here, sir, a suspending power assumed by the crown. An act of parliament which ordains, that the King shall issue a commission to try offences on the high seas, is controuled and confined in its operations by his Majesty's board of Admiralty.—In truth, and reality, the act is repealed by the King himself. This, surely, is a most alarming innovation in the government of America, and is sufficient to rouse the most inconsiderate among us.
Thus it appears, that your commission gives you the most extensive and dangerous power. It gives you authority to supercede the rules of justice, and to dispense with the established laws of the land. In the reign of King James, the Court of Admiralty complained that their jurisdiction was invaded by the courts of common law; and what was worse, they obtained no redress; for they were not entitled to any. You have it now in your power to make reprisals on them.—If you do not, it is certainly not the fault of those who have employed you.
* 1. Richard 2. ch. 3. 4. Inst. 137. 3 B. Com. 106. † 4. Inst. 141. ‡ 4. Inst. 142. § 4. Inst. 139. ¶ 4. Inst. 137. 140. ** 4. Inst. 137.
It will be to no purpose to tell us, that your commission pursues the common form of all other commissions to Judges who are appointed by the Court of Admiralty. Allowing this to be true, (which, by the way, does not appear) the danger to the liberties of these countries, is not the less on that account. In England, where the Courts of Westminster-Hall can send writs of prohibition to the Civil Law Courts it is not very material what are the words of the commission to the Court of Admiralty. But in America, the case is widely different.
It may be justly doubted, whether our Superior Courts of common law have a power to stop the proceedings of a Court of Admiralty. I do not indeed pretend to say exactly what may be the provincial laws of the other colonies on this head. But in this province at least, I think the Supreme Court has no such power. Suppose then your successor in office should think proper to try a cause on a policy of insurance; which is expressly one of the objects of your commission. To say that he will never make this use of his power, and that there is no danger of it, is language fit only for those who are totally ignorant of every idea of law. In such a case, let me ask you, to what tribunal should we apply to prevent him from going on to a determination? For may part, I know of none. But perhaps you will say, there lies an appeal from such a decree, either to the King in Council, or to the High Court of Admiralty in England. Be it so. Yet you must own, that the expence and delay, naturally attending appeals to England from these provinces, are most discouraging circumstances in their way, and are doubtless the causes why so few are carried hence. Besides, in the present case, I apprehend an appeal would signify nothing. If it was to be made to the King in Council, we should probably be told, that the Judge had not gone beyond the line of his duty, as chalked out in his commission, and that that was the only rule he could possibly go by. Or if the appeal should be made to the Admiralty in England, it is highly improbable, that a Court, which has been so fond at all times of extending its jurisdiction, would merely for that reason, reverse a judgment given by one of its inferior branches. We know too much of the policy of the times, as well as of the great influence of a certain eminent Chief Justice, to suppose that appeals against the jurisdiction of a Civil Law Court, would be listened to with much attention.
The times in America, Sir, are critical and important; every step, taken by the mother country, in which we are the least interested, should be watched with a jealous eye. The spirit of administration in England, has ran violently for some time past, towards arbitrary measures. To promote these measures, the civil law is certainly a most complete instrument. In your hands indeed there may not be so much danger from it. But we are not always sure of having a man of probity to fill the office. Your successor may be a very different man. Laws cease to be any security, when they trust to what men will do, and neglect to guard against what they may do.
You will perhaps suspect this letter comes from some gentleman in office, whose interest is in danger from your Commission. But rest assured, Sir, it does not. Whatever may be my character and profession, I cannot help thinking, and I hope you will excuse me in telling you so, that the execution of the office you hold must wound every feeling of honour and delicacy. You know what I mean. Your salary of 600 l. a year is to be paid, in the first place, out of the moiety money arising from condemnations made by yourself as a judge. This Sir, people will think, looks too much like being party, judge and jury. The administration of justice should not only be pure, but like Caesar's wife, should not even be suspected.
R U S S E L.
Judge Auchmuty's Commission is indorsed thus. Province of the } ROBERT AUCH- Massachusetts-Bay. } MUTY, Esq; with- Boston, January 31. 1769, } in named, took the oaths appointed by act of parliament to be taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy; repeated and subscribed the test or declaration therein contained, together with the oath of abjuration. And also took an oath that he would faithfully perform the duties of the office to which he is appointed by virtue of the within written commission, according to his best skill and judgment. Before me, FRA. BERNARD.
F R I D A Y February 18. B O S T O N.
On Saturday February 12th, the secretary of the province was directed by the House of Representatives, without delay, to deliver to his Excellency the Governor the following remonstrance and petition, for the removal of PETER OLIVER, Esq; from the Superior Court.
Province of the MASSACHUSETTS-BAY. To his Excellency the Governor and Council. THE house of representatives of this his Majesty's province beg leave to remonstrate to your Excellency and Honours, that the Hon. Peter Oliver, Esq; the Chief Justice of the Superior Court, of Judicature, court of assize and general goal delivery over the province, a court wholly erected and constituted by the great and general court or assembly by a power granted to the said general court by the royal charter, declining any more to take and receive the grants of the said general assembly for his services as chief justice of the said superior court, hath accepted, taken and received a salary and reward granted to him by his Majesty for his services as aforesaid, from the 5th day of July 1772, to the 5th day of January 1774: And that the said Peter Oliver, Esq; chief justice of said superior court hath plainly given this house to understand by a writing under his hand, his resolution for the future to accept the salary and reward for his services as aforesaid, which he affirms is granted to him by his Majesty during his residence in the province as chief justice of said superior court. Now this house humbly conceives, that if his Majesty had not been misrepresented by his
ministers and councillors touching the way and manner prescribed by the royal charter for the support of his government in this province, he would not have ordered such salary and reward to be made to the said Peter Oliver, Esq; Nevertheless he the said Peter Oliver, Esq; from his own knowledge of the charter and constitution of the province must have been assured that by accepting and receiving the same and resolving to continue so to do, he hath therein done and resolved to do, contrary to the usage and custom of the justices of the said superior court, since the creating of said court invariably used and improved; contrary to the plain sense and meaning of the said charter and against the known constitution of this province.
The house would further represent to your Excellency and Honours, That the said Peter Oliver, Esq; hath received the said salary and reward out of the revenue unjustly and unconstitutionally levied and extorted from the inhabitants of the American colonies; and that he hath acted and done in a manner as aforesaid against the known sense of the body of the people of this province most fully and expressly declared in the several resolutions of divers houses of representatives and otherwise.
And it is the opinion of this house, that the said Peter Oliver, Esq; hath by his conduct as aforesaid perversely and corruptly done that which hath an obvious and direct tendency to the perversion of law and justice in the said superior court: That he hath thereby proved himself an enemy to the constitution of this province; and has placed himself under an undue bias, detached himself totally from his connection with this people and lost their confidence. And that he hath rendered himself altogether disqualified any longer to hold and act in the office of a justice of the said superior court:
WHEREFORE it is the prayer of the representative body of the people of this province, That your Excellency and Honours in council would be pleased to order that the said Peter Oliver, Esq; be not suffered any longer to sit and act in his office of chief justice, and that he be forthwith and without delay removed from said court.
In the name and by order of the House, T. CUSHING, Speaker.
S A T U R D A Y, February 19. B O S T O N.
On Monday following the two Houses passed a resolve for the adjournment of the Superior Court from Tuesday the 15th instant, (being the day on which it was by law to be holden) to a further day; it being judged by the two houses altogether improper that the Chief Justice should sit and act under the present circumstances, and uncertain what opinion or resolution he might have formed on the matter. The resolve was laid before the Governor, but his Excellency declining to give his assent thereto.
Tuesday last the superior court, court of assize and general goal delivery was opened here: The honorable judge Trowbridge, in the absence of the chief justice having given the charge to the grand jury, the said court was adjourned to Tuesday next.
Tuesday afternoon his Excellency the Governor was pleased to send the following Message to the Honourable house of representatives, viz.
"Gentlemen of the house of Representatives, "THE Secretary has presented to me a written paper purporting a remonstrance against Peter Oliver, Esq; chief justice of the superior court, for receiving and for having declared that he will continue to receive the salary which has been granted to him by the king, and thereupon praying in the words following, "that your Excellency and Honours would be pleased to order that the said Peter Oliver, Esq; be not suffered any longer to sit and act in his office of Chief Justice, and that he be forthwith and without delay removed from said Court." This Remonstrance the Speaker who has signed the same in the name and by order of the house, directed the secretary to deliver to me.
"Considering that some expressions in your remonstrance carry another aspect, it may be necessary to observe to you that the council, except when they are considered in their legislative capacity, or as a court for the probate of wills and granting administration and for determining cause of marriage and divorce, are by the constitution to be advising and assisting to the governor, and do not make one court or judiciary body with the Governor; but the Governor is considered as an integral part and has authority from time to time at his discretion to assemble and call the council together. Any thing in your remonstrance which has a contrary aspect may have proceeded from inadvertence.
"There are other parts of your remonstrance which appear to me very exceptionable, but I chuse to avoid all controversy with you except it shall be my indispensable duty.
"I think it proper to acquaint you that his Majesty having been pleased to direct warrants to be prepared for the payment of salaries to the Chief Justice and to the other Justices of the superior court, I received, as governor of the province, the earliest notice of this declaration of his Majesty's pleasure, in order as I conceive that, as far as might appertain to me, I should conform thereto.
"If I should comply with your request or take any steps in order to the removal of the Chief Justice from his place, merely for receiving what is thus granted him by the King, I should make myself chargeable with counteracting his Majesty and endeavouring to defeat his royal intentions expressly signified to me, with a contempt of his royal authority, and with a breach of the trust reposed in me by my commission, and I should fear some mark of his royal displeasure. I am therefore in duty to the King obliged to decline your request.
"I will by the first opportunity transmit a copy of your remonstrance to be laid before the King, and I shall conform to such further signification of his Majesty's pleasure as I may hereafter receive." T. HUTCHINSON.
Province-House, 15th February 1774. On Wednesday the 16th, the House ordered the following Message to be carried up to the Council Board, by Mr. Hancock, Mr. Phillips, Major Hawley, Captain Greenleaf, and Mr. Allen, of Gloucester, viz.
"May it please the honourable Board, "THE House of Representatives beg leave to acquaint the honourable Board that Peter Oliver, Esq; Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature over this province, declining any more to accept and receive the Grants of this Assembly for his services as a Justice of said Court, hath contrary to the known Constitution of the province, and the invariable usage and custom of said Court, accepted and received a Salary and Reward granted to him by his Majesty for his said service, from the 5th of July 1772, to the 5th Day of January 1774: which salary and reward he hath taken and received, as has been fully made to appear to this House, out of the revenue unjustly and unconstitutionally levied and extorted from the inhabitants of the American colonies.—And the said Peter Oliver, Esq; hath also given this house clearly to understand, by a writing under his hand, a true copy of which, together with certain resolutions of this house thereupon, will be laid on the council table, that he is determined for the future to accept the salary and reward, which he affirms is granted to him by his Majesty during his residence in the province as Chief Justice of the said superior court.
"The house would further acquaint the honorable board that they did on the 12th of this instant February, pass a remonstrance and petition to his Excellency the Governor and Council, setting forth that the said Peter Oliver, Esq; by his conduct as aforesaid, acting against the known sense of the body of the people of this province, most fully and expressly declared in the several resolutions of divers Houses of Representatives, and otherwise hath detached himself totally from his connections with them, and lost their confidence; and praying that he might not be suffered any longer to sit and act in the office of Chief Justice of the said Superior Court; but that he might forthwith be removed therefrom: Which remonstrance and petition the House did on the same day specially charge the secretary to deliver to the Governor without delay.
The honorable Board will please further to be informed, that his Excellency by his message of yesterday, acknowledged
that the said petition and remonstrance had been laid before him, and expressly declared to this house, that "he was obliged in duty to the King to decline their request;" and also signified to the house, that he should not take any step for the removal of the said Chief Justice on that account. A copy of said remonstrance and petition, with his Excellency's said message, will also be laid on the Council table.
"Now this house, having after the most mature deliberation, judged the matters aforementioned, to be of the most weighty importance to this province, do think themselves bound in duty to their constituents, thus explicitly to represent them to the Honourable Board, that the Honourable Board may duly advise thereon, and act and determine as in their own wisdom they shall think proper.
The papers referred to in the foregoing message were afterwards by order of the House laid on the Council table.
M O N D A Y, February 21. B O S T O N.
On Friday last the whole House of Representatives waited on his Excellency the Governor in the Council Chamber, where the Speaker delivered to him the following Petition for the immediate removal of Peter Oliver, Esq; from the Superior Court, viz.
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. To his Excellency the GOVERNOR.
THE House of Representatives being still deeply impressed with a sense of the importance and necessity of removing Peter Oliver, Esq; Chief Justice of the Superior Court, now wait on your Excellency with this repeated petition, to which we hope your Excellency will not give a denial, and pray that your Excellency would be pleased to take our remonstrance and petition, to the Governor and Council of the 12th instant, into your further consideration; and although your Excellency has signified to this house, that you shall not take any steps for the removal of the Chief Justice from his place, yet, as it is in the judgment of this house, a matter of the most weighty concernment to this province, We pray that your Excellency would please to take the advice of his Majesty's Council thereon. We do with the greatest propriety urge this matter, as we find in the Royal Charter that the principal end of the institution of the council is to be advising and assisting to the Governor, in ordering and directing the affairs of the province, and that they are expressly appointed for that very end: And your Excellency determining on this matter by yourself, would be to order and direct one of the most important affairs of this province, without the advice and assistance of the council, and contrary to the most evident design of the charter.
We do assure your Excellency that the "written paper," which you are pleased in your message of yesterday to say "purported a remonstrance against Peter Oliver, Esq;" was in truth the remonstrance and petition of this House, passed after the most mature deliberation, by a very great majority, in a very full house.
Your Excellency will please to consider that this house is well knowing to the general sense of their constituents in this matter; and we can now assure you, that the continuance of the Chief Justice in his place, will increase the uneasiness of the people without doors, and endanger the public tranquility. We therefore earnestly intreat your Excellency, that while we are in this instance "employing the powers with which we are entrusted in promoting the tranquility and good order of the government," we may, agreeable to your declaration in your speech to both houses, find that you are ready to give your consent to a request of the house intended for that and other great and important purposes; and that your Excellency will immediately take every step for the removal of the Chief Justice from the Superior Court.
Thus the reader hath a true account of this most momentous affair, as it has hitherto been transacted among the several branches of the legislature. The house of representatives press the removal of the Chief Justice with a becoming firmness and decency: They expressly declare that his continuance in his place will encrease the uneasiness of the people, and endanger the public tranquility. This alone would be a sufficient reason, at least why a prudent Judge should remove himself by a resignation, if he "dares not refuse the King's grants" while he holds his office. The Governor it is supposed will not remove him, from a motive said to be obvious. If his Excellency would condescend to take the advice of a private and obscure individual, he would well consider THE END of an obstinate refusal to comply with so REASONABLE a request made to him by the REPRESENTATIVE BODY OF A FREE and DETERMINED people."
FALMOUTH, [Casco-Bay] February 12. "MANY people being apprehensive that there will be a difficulty in preventing some individual persons from selling TEA, even tho' this town should vote against it: We think proper to declare to you that you need not doubt of your resolutions being carried into execution; for we whose names are hereunto subscribed, will engage that no person in this town, great or small, rich or poor, shall dare to counteract your design."
Thomas Tarbuck, Peter Pitch, Abraham Wildfowl, David Plaister, Benjamin Bruff, Oliver Scarcrow, Henry Hand-Cart. Committee for tarriug and feathering.
NEWBURY-PORT, Feb. 9. Last Monday failed for London, the ship Susannah, Captain Bailie, with whom went passengers, Mr. Phillips White, jun. merchant of Almsbury, and Mr. John Johnson, Merchant, of Salem.
We hear from Gorham, near Falmouth, that the dwelling-house of Captain Daniel Eldridge, of that place, was lately consumed by fire, with every thing in it: The family were awaked by the howling of a dog, and found the house full of smoke, which in about three minutes after, was all in a flame: Captain Eldridge got out all his family except one of his children (a pretty boy about seven years old) who perished in the unrelenting flames.
February 16. We hear from Hamstead, in New-Hampshire, that lately, an empty coxcomb, having a greater share of impudence than brains, in raking through the streets of that place with a horse and sledge, and abusing an honest labourer, engaged with his team in his lawful calling, obtained a faithful and genteel flagellation, without money or without price; the marks of which, nothing but a dissolution of body will erase.
NORWICH, February 17. We hear from Albany, that on Sunday the 23d. ultimo, a very uncommon and melancholy affair happened there. A farmer who lives, at Normanskill twelve miles distant from the city, had a male child about two months old, which he was desirous to get baptized; for that purpose, he, with his wife, the child, and a female neighbour, got into a sled, at eight o'clock in the morning, and proceeded to the city; they arrived at the English presbyterian church when the mother unwrapped the child and, to her great surprise and sorrow, discovered that it was frozen dead by the intense cold.

POETS CORNER.
From the ROYAL AMERICAN MAGAZINE. A PROPHECY of the FUTURE GLORY of AMERICA. To years far distant, and to scenes more bright, Along the vale of time extend thy sight, Where hours and days and years, from yon bright pole, Wave following wave, in long succession roll; There in pomp, for ages without end, The glories of the WESTERN WORLD ascend! See, this blest LAND in her bright morn appears, Walk'd from dead slumbers of six thousand years: While clouds of darkness veil'd each chearing ray; To savage beasts and savage men a prey. Fair FREEDOM now her ensigns bright displays, And peace and plenty bless the golden days. In mighty pomp AMERICA shall rise, Her glories spreading to the boundless skies: Of ev'ry fair, she boasts th' assembled charms, The queen of empires and the nurse of arms. See where her HEROES! mark their glorious way, Arm'd for the fight and blazing on the day: Blood stains their steps; and o'er the conqu'ring plain, 'Mid fighting thousands, and 'mid thousands slain; Their eager swords promiscuous carnage blend, And ghastly deaths their raging course attend, Her mighty pow'r the subject world shall see, For laurel'd conquest waits her high degree. See, her bold vessels rushing to the main, Catch the swift gales, and sweep the watry plain; Or led by commerce, at the merchant's door, Unlade the treasures of each distant shore; Or arm'd with thunder, on the guilty foe Rush big with death and aim th' impending blow; Bid ev'ry realm, that hears the trump of fame, Quake at the distant terror of her name."
Boston, February 6, 1774. This day was published, (Price Ten Shillings and Eight Pence per annum, to Subscribers, Five Shillings and Eight Pence to be paid on subscribing) [Embellished with a (Quarto) View of the Town of Boston, and several ships of war in the harbour; also, the Thunder Storm, an affecting historical piece, elegantly engraved on copper.]
NUMBER I. of THE ROYAL American Magazine, Or UNIVERSAL Repository of Instruction and Amusement. For JANUARY, 1774. CONTAINING,
The Origin of Letters—To the Literati of America—Liberty in general—Description of the Sufocatio Stridula—Remedy therefor—Thoughts on Matrimony—Female Education—The Address of America's Genius, to the People in the American World—Against Idolatry and Blasphemy—The Bible the Book of Knowledge—The Cultivation of Indigo in this Province—To die Woollen blue—To print on Linen or Cotton—To die tanned Skins of a durable blue—The Old Man—The History of Literature—Advice to the Ladies—Power of Money—Epitome of Capt. Wallis's Voyage round the World—The Thunder Storm—POETICAL ESSAYS.—A Prophecy of the future Glory of America—Tobacco—Description of America—A Thought on the connubial State—An Elegy to the Memory of Miss E. I.—To Lucinda on a New-Year's Day—A Song—HISTORICAL CHRONICLE—General History of America—Domestic Intelligence—Governor Hutchinson's Speech, Marriages, Deaths, &c.—Meteorological Observations on the Weather, &c. &c. Governor Hutchinson's History of the Massachusetts-Bay. Printed and sold by I. THOMAS, Boston, New-England, and by the Printers and Booksellers in AMERICA. (But a few copies were printed more than were subscribed for; those who do not chuse to be disappointed of the first number, are requested to be speedy in subscribing.)
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   Per Bushel. Per Pound.     Early Hotspur Peas 11. White cresses, 2s. 6d.   Early Charlton do. 11. White Mustard, 2s. 6d.   Early Golden Hotspur do. 11. Cursed Parsley, 2s. 6d.   Spanish Morotto do. 11. Red Beet, 3s.   Flanders Hotspur do. 11. Solid Celery, 4s.   Green Roundival do. 11. Italian Celery, 4s.   Dwarf Marrowfat do. 11. Asparagus, 3s.   Large Marrowfat do. 11. Mellon of several sorts, 12s.   Hotspur Beans, 12s. Water Mellon, 4s.   Lisbon do. 12s. Large Winter Cabbage, 15s.   Windfor do. 18s. Early Dutch Cabbage, 8s.   Broad Spanish do. 18s. Early Butterfat ditto, 8s.   Dutch Running do. 12s. Large English Cabbage, 8s.   Early French do. 12s. Late Dutch Cabbage, 8s.   Kidney Beans of several sorts. 12s. Curled Winter Cabbage, 4s. 6d.   Green Savoy Cabbage, 6s.   Yellow Savoy Cabbage, 6s.   Sugar-leaf Cabbage, 8s.   Red Cabbage, 10s.   Long green Cucumber, 4s. 6d.   Early Cucumber, 4s. 6d.   Cale, 2s.   Hysop, 8s.   Summer Savory, 8s.   Sweet Marjoram, 10s. 6d.   Thyme, 10s. 6d.   Balm, 12s.   Sage, 12s.   Summer Squash, 4s.   Curled Colewort, 5s.   White Orice, 2s.   Dried Sweet Herbs —   Summer Savory, 1s.   Sweet Marjoram, 1s. 6d.   Sage, 1s.   Balm, 1s.   Rue, 1s. 6d.   Thyme, 1s. 6d.   Mint, 1s.   Marsh Mallow, 1s.   Hysop, 1s.   Garlick, 9d.   Shalots, 6d.   Endive, 5d.   Horse Radish, 5d.   Round Spinage, 2s. 6d.   Prickley Spinage, 2s. 6d.    ALSO, a large variety of FLOWER SEEDS and PLANTS, too numerous to mention here.
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THE Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, M. A. Late Chaplain of the right Hon. the Countess of Huntingdon. In which every circumstance worthy of notice, both in his private and public character is recorded. Faithfully selected from his original papers, Journals and Letters. Illustrated by a variety of interesting and entertaining Anecdotes, from the best authorities.
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LOST. Supposed to be taken through mistake, on the 15th of January, from the house of Eleazer Baker, at the sign of the Punchbowl, in Brooklyn, a MEAL BAG, containing a Pillow Case, in which was an ACCOUNT-BOOK of about four quires of paper, bound in parchment, about one half wrote through. Whoever will return the BOOK to the owner, who may be known by inspecting it, or to the abovementioned Baker, shall have a DOLLAR reward for their trouble, and no questions asked.
Dorchester, Feb. 7, 1774. RAN away last night from the subscriber, a NEGRO LAD, about twenty years of age, about five feet and a half high, had on when he went away, an old blue great coat, a mixed coloured jacket, blue cloth breeches, a checked linen shirt, blue yarn stockings. Whoever will take up said NEGRO, and deliver him to the subscriber shall have TWO DOLLARS reward and all charges paid. JOHN ROBINSON.
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SCHOOL-MASTER, by enquiring of the Printer hereof, may hear of a good School in a populous seaport town. If agreeable, he may engage in the School for Life, with a good prospect. February 2, 1774.
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THE INDEPENDENT WHIG: OR, A DEFENCE of PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY, and of our ECCLESIASTICAL ESTABLISHMENT, Against the extravagant Claims of Fanatical and Disaffected CLERGYMEN.
CONTENTS. DEDICATION to the Lower House of Convocation. Number 1. The Introduction. 2. The design of this paper. 3. Of the Contempt of the Clergy. 4. Of the Explication of the Scripture. 5. The Unfitness of bad Clergy to teach others. 6. Of Creeds and Confessions of Faith. 7. Of uninterrupted Succession. 8. Of uninterrupted Succession. Part 2. 9. Of the Clearness of Scripture. 10. Of Ordination. 11. The advantageous Situation of the Clergy, strangely inconsistent with their common Cry of Danger. 12. The Enmity of the High Clergy to the Reformation, and their Arts to defeat the End of it. 13. The Church proved a Creature of the Civil Power, by Acts of Parliament, and the oaths of the clergy. 14. The Clergy proved to be Creatures of the Civil Power, by the Canons, and their own public Acts. 15. The Absurdity and Impossibility of Church Power, as independent on the state. 16. The Inconsistency of the Principles and Practices of High-Church; with some Advice to the Clergy. 17. Reasons why the High-Church Priests are the most wicked of all men. 18. A general Idea of Priestcraft. 19. Ecclesiastical Authority, as claimed by the High-Clergy, an enemy to religion. 20. Of Chaplains. 21. A Comparison between the High-Church and Quakers. 22. Priestcraft corrupts every thing, and perverts the Use of Words. 23. Of Zeal. 24. Of Persecution. 25. Of Consecration. 26. Of Faith and Morality. 27. Of Fasting. 28. Of Authority. 29. Of Education. 30. Of Education. Part 2. 31. Of Ceremonies. 32. Of Ceremonies. Part 2. 33. The Ignorance of the High-Church Vulgar, and its causes. 34. Of Fasting. Part 2. 35. Of Reason. 36. Of the Peace of the Church. 37. The Enmity of the High-Clergy to the Bible. 38. Of Penances, and Religious Revellings. 39. Priests afraid of Ridicule. 40. Of Priestly Cruelty. 41. Of High-Church Atheism. 42. ditto. Part 2. 43. ditto. Part 3. 44. ditto. Part 4. 45. ditto. Part 5. 46. All Priestly Power inconsistent with the Gospel, and renounced by it. 47. The same subject continued. 48. An Inquiry into Religious Establishments; with a further Confutation of the impious and absurd Claims of High Priests. 49. Of the three High Churches in England. 50. An Analogy between ancient Heathenism and modern Priestcraft. 51. Priestly Power founded on the Weaknesses of human Nature. 52. The folly of the Clergy's demanding Respect when their Characters are bad, with the Equity of universal toleration, and of judging for ourselves. 53. Of mutual Charity and Forbearance. 54. The Vanity as well as Wickedness of Persecution. 55. Force and Fraud, how opposite to the Spirit of Religion. The very different Effects of religious Liberty and false Zeal. 56. Mutual Bitterness and persecution amongst Christians, how repugnant to the Gospel, and how shocking to a rational Pagan. 57. Of the strange Force of Education, especially in Matters of Religion. 58. In what only true Religion consists.
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Duncan Ingraham, jun. Has now for Sale at his Shop in Union-Street, Boston, a compleat assortment of European Piece Goods. Suitable for the present Season, Which he will sell great Pennyworths for cash. The following Articles of Hard Ware, He will sell for near the cost, on examination, they will be found to be very low charged. Table knives and forks, portmanteau locks, brass Stag and duffle pruning nails, thimbles, two feet joint rules, tap borers, knives, rasps, files, thumb latch penknives, two cases very neat knives and forks, scissars, shears, cutoes, rasps, chizzles, gouges, wheat scythes, cross dish, very neat brass cut saws, hand saws, cork machines, snuff and snuff and dove tail tobacco boxes, near paws, curling and pinching irons, combs, ing tongs, hammers, ve- book case furniture, H. gant brass plate locks and H. hinges of all for out and inside doors, sizes, chest hinges of all box locks, chest and sizes, table butts, cart cupboard locks, secret and chaise boxes, hoes.
A L S O, Several compleat sets shoe makers tools one compleat set carpenters, &c.
This day was published, price 6d. The BOSTON SHEET ALMANACK, For the year of our Lord God 1774; Being the second after Bissextille or Leap year.
CONTAINING, Many things both useful and entertaining. Proper for merchants, shopkeepers, &c. to paste or hang up in their stores, shops, &c. Printed and sold by I. THOMAS, near the Market, and MILLS & HICKS, in School-street.
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IRISH LINENS. William Scott,
At his Irish Linen Store, in Ann Street, between the Flat Coccut and Draw Bridge, Boston, has imported from Ireland.
A LARGE quantity of 3-4ths. 7-8ths. and yard wide Linens, Diapers, Table cloths, Sheerings.
Said Store is also furnished with a great variety of European and India GOODS, Suitable for the season, amongst which are some nice cinnamon coloured and mixed Bath coatings, superfine blue and scarlet knapped ditto, cloth coloured scarlet and crimson broad cloths, forest cloths, baizes, duffles, &c.
Double Camblets, Camblets, Denmark and Prussian suitings, crapes, doffettens, Irish camblets, grizes, silveretts, misionets, &c.
Black and cloth-coloured India taffetas, flowered and plain black, white, crimson and pink satins, capuchin silks, farsnets and modes of all colours; Hosiery plain and ribbed.
His general assortment for Men's and Women's wear consists of two great a multiplicity to be enumerated in a public advertisement. All which will be sold by wholesale and retail at the lowest reduced prices for ready money only, a few very large Scotch Carpets.
A fresh Importation of Doctor Hemet's celebrated Essence of Pearl and Pearl Dentifrice for the preservation of the Teeth and Gums, to be sold at the London prices, cakes for the liquid shining Blacking for shoes, boots and Leather bottom chairs.
A few pieces of Ducapes, Lutestrings and English Damasks, to be sold at the sterling cost; a large quantity of flowered Scots Lawns, on the same terms.
SILKS And Superfine BROAD CLOTHS.
A Prime assortment of Padusoys, Ducapes, Lutestrings; plain and figured satins, damasks, farsnets, &c. — superfine, fashionable coloured broad cloths, with suitable Linings and Trimmings,
To be sold at an exceeding low rate, by JOHN BARRETT & SONS, At their Shop near the Mill-Bridge, Boston, Where may be had, all kinds of English, Scotch, India, Hard-Ware and Cutlery GOODS. By Wholesale or Retail. Extremely cheap for cash or short credit.
Just published, (price 11s. L. M. well-bound.) And to be SOLD by James Foster Condyl, at his BOOK STORE in Union-street, directly opposite the Cornfields, Boston.
An Abridgment of Burn's Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer: To which is added, An APPENDIX, containing some general rules and directions necessary to be known and observed by all Justices of the Peace.
Also to be sold at said store, (very reasonably) the following books printed in America, viz.
Blackstone's Commentaries, 5 vol. Robertson's History of Charles 5th 3 vols. 8vo. Hutchinson's history, 3 vols. 8vo. Paladium of Conscience, 4to. Evans's poems, 8vo. Vicar of Wakefield, 12mo. Dissenting Gentleman's answer to Mr. White's three Letters, 12mo.
PAMPHLETS. Poem, entitled the Grave. Doddrige's Family Religion. Smith's Essay on Universal Redemption. Recovery from Sickness. Rush, on Mineral Waters. Critical Commentaries against Bishops: Sermons to Doctors in Divinity. (Lord Sommers) on Nations and Kings. (Death.) A Poetical Essay. Letters from Yorrick to Eliza. Sermons to Asses. History of Bellisarius, &c. &c. &c.
At said store may be had, the most modern and esteemed books, in every branch of polite literature, arts and sciences, (catalogues may be had at said store) at such prices as will fully satisfy the purchaser.
A LARGE quantity of LIGNUM VITAE, of different sizes, uncommon straight and sound; to be sold cheap for cash, or barter for any merchandise that may offer and suit the owner. Inquire of the Printer.
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