The Massachusetts spy (Boston [Mass.]), 1772-07-02 00:00:00

THE Massachusetts Spy
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VOL. II.]
THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1772.
[NUMB. 72.]
Irish Linens.
WILLIAM SCOTT, at his IRISH LINEN STORE In Ann-street, near the Draw-bridge, Boston, has just imported from Ireland,
A LARGE assortment of 3-4ths 7 8th and yard wide Irish Linens of all prices, Table Cloths of all sizes, Diapers, Clouting ditto, Huckaback, Dowlas, white Ticking, brown Holland, &c.
At said Store are also to be sold, By WHOLESALE and RETAIL , (being a Fresh Importation)
A great Variety of European and India GOODS, viz.
PLAIN and flowered LAWNs, striped flowered and bordered Aprons and Handkerchiefs, Cambricks, plain and spriged Silk and Muslin Gauzes, plain and Ranleigh Handkerchiefs, black and white Catgut and Paris-Net, Palten, Queens-fancy, Spiders and Lace Net. A Variety of plain, striped and spriged Muslins, such as Jacnets, Mullmulis, Mainfooks, Gold and Coffacs, striped Doreas and Book-Muslins, Manchester and Scotch Checks, check Handkerchiefs; blue and white, red and white, and green and white Furniture Checks with None-so-pretty's to match them. Striped Linens, and Cotton Hollands. White and coloured Janes, pillow Fustian and Thicketts, flowered yard wide Dimoties, Manchester Velvets, black and white uncut do. white and coloured Russia Drabs, eight and ten quarter Cotton Counterpanes, Damascus's, Gingham, India Nankeens and Mozeens, Variety of Ebony, Ivory, Peddle-Stick and leather mount Fans. French and English Wax Necklaces, pound Beads, Velvet Collars, Shimeal, Gauze, Lace and Garland Trimmings, Blond and Bone Laces, Dutch Laces, Brussels Lace and Footings, common chip Hats and superfine do. with Ribbons of a new Pattern suitable for trimming them.
Ducapes, manteau Silks, striped and changeable Lutestrings, black and hair colour Padufoys, Silk Grograms, black and cloth coloured India Taffaties; rose, green, and drab coloured Damasks, plain and spriged Sarfets, all colours, green and black all wide Persians; black, white and crimson, plain and flowered Satins, Lace do. new patterns, Alomodes and Capuchin Silks. A great Variety of low priced all wide Calicoes and stamped Linens, some nice Chintzes. Buff and blue ground do. Patnas, Baftes and Fancy Grounds. Copperplate Furniture do. Silk Handkerchiefs, Longee Romall and China Taffaty ditto, Wax Work and Paste do. Lawn and Linen do. A large Assortment of Hosiery, viz Worsted, Cotton and Thread Hole, for Women and children, Mens Worsted and Cotton do. also white, brown, marbled and random Thread ditto. Mens black and white and marbled Silk Stockings, white and brown Thread Gloves, all sizes, colours and prices of womens Silk Gloves and Mitts, some open work ditto, Worsted ditto, Bengalls, Peniafoes, Crapes, Broglio, Missinets, Russells, green Drab, crimson and black flowered Worsted Damasks, Drawboys, 3 and 4 Thread Lasings, single and double Camblets, Bird's-Eye figured Stuffs, Ploded Tammies, Durants plain Tammies and Calamancoes, corded and Venetian Poplins, Wiltons, Duroys, green and cloth Worsted and Silk Sagathies, black and white superfine Serge Denims, Hair and Worsted Shags, black, white, buff and crimson 3, 4 and 5 Thread Breeches Pieces, Men's green and crimson Velvet Caps, Broad Cloths, German Serges, Sattin Hats, Cap Wire, white and coloured Threads, Sewing Silks and Twist, Quality Bindings, Silk and Worsted Knee Garters, white and coloured Tapes, common Milliners and White Chapel Needles, No. 4, 12 pound and Bias Pins, Stay
Trimmings, Buckrams, Ivory Combs, crooked, tupee and Danriss Horn ditto. Writing and Bonnet Paper, room and stair Carpeting, Paper Hangings, French Kid Gloves, Ravens Duck and Oznabrigs, Lynn Shoes, plated Buckles, and a variety of Hard-Ware, an elegant assortment of head Ribbons and hat Flowers; Ostrich Feathers and Plumes, with two great a variety of small goods to be inserted in this advertisement. Also,
Bohea Tea by the chest or smaller quantity, Hyson and Souchong Tea, Mace, Cinamon, Cloves, Nutmegs and Pepper. Doctor Hermet's celebrated Essence of Pearl and Pearl Dentifrice, for the preservation of the Teeth and Gums--Bayley's Patent Liquid Blacking for Boots and Shoes. And,
As goods are sold at this Store for ready Money only, all such persons as buy on those terms will find their advantage in dealing there.
From the OXFORD MAGAZINE.
Adventure of the GREEN PEAS.
THE following anecdotes contain some singular and truely comic events, as they really happened at Paris, without any alteration, or addition of circumstances.
In the Spring of the year, a young gentleman of great fortune, being desirous of presenting something very rare to his mistress enquired in the suburbs of Paris for Green Peas, and with great difficulty procured four half pint pottles; for each of which he paid six Louis d'ors; a most extravagant price; but it was the only valuable present he could think of, which the delicacy of his mistress would not make her refuse. For the lady was of a haughty disposition, and would not have accepted any thing which might subject her to the imputation of selfishness.
It is not certain if the Cavalier gave orders, that she should be informed of the price, or whether the season of the year, and her knowledge of their rarity made her guess it; however, as she was more of the coquette than the epicure, she could not help telling the messenger, that the gentleman who bought them, apparently had more money than wit.
Her mother, who was naturally avaritious, finding her of this opinion, proposed to sell the Peas; and after some altercation she got the better of her delicacy, and made her consent to send them to the market, where none had appeared, nor indeed was such a rarity expected. The old lady luckily was acquainted with a woman, whose business it was to give intelligence to the stewards of people of quality, or every thing scarce, the first of its kind that was to be purchased.
This woman undertook the commission to sell the Peas, and set out in the intention to carry them to the hotel of the Prince de Condé , who was to give a superb entertainment that day to the foreign ministers.
In the interval, another admirer of the young lady paid her a visit, and the conversation turned upon the backwardness of the spring, he accidentally mentioned the scarcity of Green Peas, which made him conjecture she had a desire to taste them: He therefore shortened his visit, making some plausible excuse, and repaired to the most celebrated fruiterers in Paris; but to his mortification, all the intelligence he could procure was, that none had yet appeared, except four pottle, which an old woman had been seen conveying to the Prince de Condé's . The hopes of our enamorado now revived; he lost no time, and fortunately overtaking the woman, who knew him, before she reached the hotel, he thought himself very happy to obtain them at the moderate sum of thirty Louis. The emissary, equally overjoyed, returned to her employers with the money, and told the young lady who had purchased them. But though she had no
objection to the money, she was extremely piqued to find her favorite lover had bought them, not doubting but they were designed for some formidable rival; and in this conjecture she was confirmed, by the abrupt manner in which he had shortened his visit, and left her. Distracted with jealousy, she imparted her sentiments to a female visitant, and both were earnestly employed in railing at the infidelity of mankind; when behold one of the servants of the suspected lover was introduced, who brought a basket from his master, decorated with the flowers in season, and covered with nosegays, which being removed, the triumphant fair discovered the Green Peas, and thus her chagrin was instantly converted to immoderate fits of laughter at this droll adventure. As for the visitor, being quite familiar in the house, and fond of dainties, she insisted on eating the Peas, that they might not cause any more confusion in the family. But as her motion was easily discerned, they went no further than the rules of politeness required, and only dressed one pottle.
After the lady was gone, a new council was held, to deliberate on the disposal of the remainder. The daughter had now no objection to sell them again, but the mother having a lawsuit in hand, thought it more for her interest to send them to her attorney, which was accordingly done; and occasioned a very warm dispute between him and his wife: Madame loved good cheer, and insisted on regaling her friends with this rarity; but the attorney knew better how to serve his own interest, and sent them to the Marquis ***, who had promised to procure him preferment.
But scarce were the Peas set down upon the table, when the lover who had adorned the basket with flowers, came to visit the Marquis, and seeing his present to his mistress, thus, as it were, fly in his face, he concealed his resentment, but took the first opportunity to pay a visit to his perfidious mistress; who very coolly thanked him for his Peas, adding, that they had an excellent flavour: Enraged at her carrying the matter so far, he then told her, that she must wait till the Marquis had tasted them, before she gave her opinion of their goodness. The lady at a loss to guess his meaning, and confounded at the violence of his transports, demanded an explanation; he then related to her the incident, but she not suspecting what had happened, affirmed that they were not the same Peas; this enraged him still more, and he required to see the basket in which he himself had placed the pottles, and which he had adorned with flowers; not being able to produce it, the quarrel seemed to admit of no terms of accommodation; when in came the Peas again. The Marquis, who had a secret inclination for the lady, (the greatest beauty in Paris) thought them a very proper present for her. Our lover was now fully convinced that the Marquis could not be so absurd to send his mistress her present to him, yet he was convinced they were the same Peas: The mother therefore was obliged to confess the truth; it was then determined to sacrifice the travelling Peas to the calis of nature; and they were accordingly consumed by the parties most deeply interested in their fate.
On FRIDAY the 17th of July,
At NINE in the Morning, Will be Sold by PUBLIC VENDUE at the Auction-Room in Queen Street, A VERY Large and Valuable Collection of BOOKS , in almost every Branch of polite Literature.-- The Books are chiefly New and well Bound.-- Printed Catalogues may be had at the Auction-Room in Queen-street, the Mon- day preceding the Time of Sale.
J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
FRIDAY, June 19. BOSTON.
By the ship Jupiter , Captain Ewing, arrived at Philadelphia, from Londonderry, we have the following
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, April 15.
HE reason now given, why no ships are sent out to bring the Queen of Denmark to England is, that she has declared she never will quit that country until her character has been cleared and vindicated. This spirited conduct has staggered all her enemies, and it is the more happy for her that she took such a resolution, as it seems to have been the only possible change remaining for re-establishing her injured reputation.
It is reported, that a compleat list of the French and Spanish navy has been procured, which is to be laid before a great assembly.
April 18. The French Ambassador was on Wednesday at St. James's. It is reported that he has lately received advices, which contain fresh and strong assurances from the King his master of the pacific inclinations of that monarch, and his steady resolution to adopt no measures against his Britannic Majesty, which may tend to interrupt the mutual peace of the two kingdoms.
Lord Holland, it is said, will speedily be appointed President of the council, in the room of Lord Gower, who goes to Ireland in the room of Lord Townsend, who comes over to preside at the ordnance board of this Kingdom.
We are informed, that a Great Person, in imitation of the King of Sweden, intends to order 50,000 l. to be laid out in buying corn, to be given to poor families, who are alhamed to let their straits be known.
The reports of the affront which the Duke of Gloucester received at Rome, are said to have arisen from the following circumstance. The Pretender meeting the Duke one day in public, bowed to him, which the Duke returned only with great coolness, as he did not immediately recognize the Chevalier's person; however meeting him a second time in public, the Duke complaisantly apologized, and interested himself so much in the Chevalier's favour as to hint that a pension was in great forwardness for him in this kingdom; but just as matters were in a right train, the Pretender, knowing the Duke was to pay a visit on a particular day, took care to stop him in his carriage, and the Duke's servants being ordered to make way for THE KING OF ENGLAND immediately obeyed; the Pope hearing of the matter commanded the Pretender, to keep his house during the Duke's stay in Rome, and the Chevalier, besides that mortification, will go without an income which would have been very useful in his circumstances.
April 20. The following are the powers who, in all probability, will be involved in a war; should our court take so rash a step as to send a fleet to the Baltic; France and of course Spain and Naples, Prussia, Sweden, if not the Emperor and Empire besides the Principals.
April 21. The last advices from Constantinople and the Levant seas, say, that the Prussian fleet was lying off the island of Cos, and was making every necessary preparation to force the passage of the Dardanelles early in the summer. And that the Porte apprized of this, as well as of the armaments fitting out on the Black-Sea, had ordered additional defences to be raised, to strengthen the former, and had caused a chain of forts to be built, in order to prevent the approach of the enemy by the way of the latter.

A letter from Hamburg says, that a British Minister having mentioned to a Monarch, famous for wit as well as courage, that Sir Robert Murray Keith had represented, in a most spirited manner, to the Danish Court, that the King his master's honour was lodged in his Royal sister, and that whatever they did to her would be resented by Great Britain; the Northern Hero answered, "I should not thank any of my ministers that should lodge my honour in so slippery a place."
On Monday the Princess Amelia's agent paid 500l. to the trustees, as a subscription from her Royal Highness to the unhappy sufferers by the fire at Grenada.
April 23. Last week died Mr. Philip Mason, at the George Inn, at Utk, in Monmouthshire; a man of remarkable large size; he measured round the wrist 11 inches; at his arm, near the shoulder, 21 inches; round the breast, five feet; body, six feet one inch; thigh, three feet one inch; calf of the leg, two feet one inch, and small of ditto, one foot seven inches; and, notwithstanding his bulk, was extremely active. Extract of a letter from Copenhagen March 26.
"You have frequently desired me to write you some particulars of the very interesting proceedings at present carrying on in this country. The reports propagated on this occasion are so many and various, that it was impossible hitherto to send you anything in the least to be relied on. The proceedings of the commissions, however, being now finished, herewith you will receive the contents of the speech made by the Attorney General Udahl (the Norton of this country) in defence of the Queen, on the 16th of the present month, the day the said commission sat.
"In an advertisement prefixed to this speech, mention is made of the late revolution in Denmark on January 17th; of a commission being appointed by his Danish Majesty, to try the persons charged, with having projected a revolution to the detriment of the King, &c. also that sessions and trials have been held almost every day since. The commission have been to Cronenburg, to hear the defence of the Queen on certain imputed articles; that as there are persons concerned that cannot absolutely be ranked with the subjects of her Majesty, there arises a problem, "Whether a subject of the kingdom can be appointed their judge." The names of the gentlemen of the commission, are next mentioned, being in number 39; and the advertisement concludes with informing the public, that during the sitting of the Commission his Majesty discharged Mr. Udahl of his oath, in order to enable him to perform, with the greater spirit and impartiality his duty to his clients; and Mr. Attorney General acquitted himself well. For this purpose he had previously been at Cronenburg, to confer with his great client, on this affair; he afterwards made a speech in that assembly, with which he entered on the defence.
"The speech to which the foregoing is an introduction, does not contain any particulars of the Queen's examination or defence, but rather some observations on the nature of the business then before the great commission, and a recommendation to them of a strict adherence to impartiality, preparatory to the Attorney General Udahl's defence of the Queen. The most material passages are as follows:
"The King himself now submits his own conduct to your judgment; his most gracious condescension allows you in certain respects not to consider the monarch; you are allowed an unlimited liberty to examine, approve, or censure all actions; and the same condescension allows me also to speak all my thoughts, and to undertake the vindication of the defendants.
"In whatever light I consider this affair, I find so much matter for reflection in the proceedings against the person of the Queen, that I cannot absolutely approve the whole. Equity bids us now to consider the King and his Royal consort in a two fold point of view, in the same instant in which the order for her imprisonment was given and executed: we must consider them either as majesties, or as a married pair; and the former view I think to be now the chief object under our consideration.
"One of the most important questions necessarily and immediately arising from the very name of Majesty, is this, "how far a crime of state can be imputed to the Majesty of a Queen, without degrading her to, and treating her like, the class of the subjects of the Kingdom and the King." And how is it possible to admit such a degradation? The connection in which she stands as a royal consort, cannot, give the least right to such a step. To mention but one of the arguments: as after the King's de-
mise, and during the minority of his successor, the law allows a Queen Dowager's Majesty to be entrusted with the helm of the state; this very same right also tacitly implies for, and adjudges to a Queen a total exemption from subjection, even during the life of her royal spouse, though a Queen is very far from being intitled to guide the helm of the state during the life of her consort. And does not her high birth as a Princess of a foreign state, also directly and absolutely exempt her from that subjection; I think, yes, it does. Can then such a personage lawfully be proceeded against as a subject of the state? Not even to mention here, that it is to a Queen's person the whole state owes the preservation of the royal line, does the not give us lawful heirs to the throne? she therefore cannot possibly be treated in the same manner as one who is a native of the state, or an acquired subject of the crown, and whose subjection only depends on the Monarch's Majesty.
"But we must not content ourselves with having here considered the side of Majesty; we will direct our attention to another point of view; we will consider her only as a married consort; we will pass over all those rights, of which an absolute monarch may avail himself, rigorously to proceed against his subjects, and to adjust his sentence on them to his own wisdom. Yet even here also I am far from finding, that a husband has an unlimited power over his wife's person: Marriage being only a "covenant whose end consists in mutual help and propagation of their race." Are then not ecclesiastical courts instituted for the welfare of a state, on purpose only to protect these rights, to maintain their order, and to see justice done the party who brings their complaints against the other before these courts? and can then any sentence be determined upon before both parties have been heard, and that equitable maxim "audiatur et altera pars," been observed?
"Consider well, gentlemen, whether in hoc statu, and in this instance, the reverse has not already happened. That violence with which Queen Carolina has been treated notoriously shews her degradation from her rank, her birth and her right as a royal Consort; nay, in general, from that tie by which she is connected with the monarchy; and the only way of restoring her in some measure to the splendor of her condition and her prerogatives, is to restore her to liberty; and how far matrimonial obligations can be abolished, may most safely be judged by the ecclesiastical laws of our state.
"Your own wisdom, gentlemen, your love for justice, and your impartiality, make me hope, that the arguments I am now laying before you, and such as I shall further alledge, will meet with your unbiased and mature consideration. It would be needless here to recapitulate all what that great personage has alledged in her own defence. All these papers are in your hands. Read and judge yourselves, and then your own sentiments cannot but coincide with my thoughts, and approve of my arguments, of which I will lay before you a deduction, more ample and I hope, much more solid, than what the few minutes I am allowed to speak before you can admit.
"The King has appointed you Judges, and on your determination alone the protection of the rights of Majesty, the preservation of monarchical power, and the support of the Kingdom's liberty, will depend. In consequence to your sentence only offences will be viewed in a stronger or milder light; and you are entrusted with the power of degrading a personage from her high birth, her prerogatives, and her rights of Majesty; nay, entirely to divest her of them. You only now are to act as definitive judges between a royal husband and his consort, whose rights and obligations in this respect have always been equal. We can only defend ourselves, and our defence can be derived from no other arguments than those of justice and equity."
It is said that a great personage has signified that if upon examination his sister should appear to be innocent, he is determined to have ample satisfaction for the cruel treatment she has already suffered by imprisonment, &c.
DUBLIN, April 25. The corporation of Londonderry have presented the freedom of that city, in a silver box to Richard Johnson, Esq; of Gilford, in the county of Down, as a mark of their approbation of his conduct, and in testimony of the true sense they have of the services he has done this kingdom, by his active and spirited conduct in endeavouring to suppress the northern insurrections and to bring the persons therein concerned to justice.
SATURDAY, June 27. BOSTON.
Last Monday se'nnight, as Mr. Joseph Davis of Barnstable, was weighing an anchor on board a vessel, the poll not taking fast hold in the windlass, the handspike sprung in his face which fractured his jaw bone in a terrible Manner.
At a General council held at the council chamber in Boston, on the 19th instant, his Excellency the Governor was pleased to nominate Joseph Root, Esq; William Billing, Esq; Abraham Burbank, Esq; to be Justices of the Peace for the county of Hampshire, Mr. Hock Cushing to be a coroner in Plymouth county. Mr. Erastus Sergent, a coroner for Berkshire county. To which nominations his Majesty's council did advise and consent.
DIED In Red-lion-street, London, Capt. Bond, late commander of his Majesty's Ship Gibraltar, on the American station.
NEWPORT, June 22. On Tuesday the 16th instant a number of young ladies met at the Rev. Solomon Townsend's in Barrington, who on forty five whist span 1950 knots of good linen yarn, which they presented to Mrs. Townsend—Mrs. Lydia Low span 63 knots, which was the most spun by any one of said ladies.
The same day died, very suddenly, universally esteemed, and greatly lamented, by all her acquaintance, Mrs. Catherine Gardner, consort of Mr. Nathan Gardner, of South Kingstown.
Last Tuesday James Bud and Lemuel Guffine, were apprehended and committed to goal in this town, on suspicion of being concerned in counterfeiting and passing New-York and Jersey paper money. About a week before, they, with some others, came from Nantucket in a sloop, and anchored in Mackerel Cove, a little within our Light House, where these two left her and came to this town, and agreed with an engraver to cut them a plate for the escutcheon or border of a forty shilling bill, for which purpose they cut out the printed part of the bill, and gave the engraver the other part cut into two or three pieces. But before the engraver had quite finished the plate, he accidentally saw a New York bill, which Bud had passed to another man, by which he discovered the real business he was about, and immediately informed Judge Hazard of the same. After Bud and Guffine were examined, the sloop was brought into this harbour, and being searched, upwards of fifty pounds of York and Jersey money was found, including a small sum Bud and Guffine had about them. They confessed but little on the examination: But it might be easily perceived that one Wills of Connecticut, one Smith of New-York, and a number of others were concerned in this affair.
Last week arrived at Warren the Schooner Sword Fish, Capt. Collins, from a whaling voyage of between 6 and 7 months, and brought in about 360 barrels of oil. We hear another vessel is arrived at Nantucket, with near the same quantity.
Last Saturday evening, Robert Clark and Thomas Robertson, confined for theft, broke out of the goal in this town, and made their escape; about the same time John Brown confined for debt, made his escape.
Last Saturday a young male child was found dead in the vault of a necessary house in this town, which appeared to have had a blow on one of its temples, the coroner's inquest returned, that the child was murdered by some person unknown.
MONDAY, June 22. BOSTON.
We hear the Honourable his Majesty's Council, and the Honourable House of Representatives have made choice of the Rev. Mr. John Hunt, for their Chaplain respectively.
We hear from Rochester, that on the 5th instant the wife of Mr. Nathaniel Snow, of that place, aged about 70, having eat her dinner as well as usual, soon after complained of great distress at her stomach; after walking the room a few minutes, she went out at the door; and tarrying longer than the folks within expected, her husband being anxious about her, went out to see if any thing had befallen her; and, to his great surprise, found her a few yards from the house prostrate upon the ground, and lifeless.
The Rev. Mr. John Keep is ordained Pastor over the church and congregation at Sheffield.
ARRIVED here. Bridsey and Goodspeed from New-Haven; Whitney from New-York; Hinckley and Gorham from Philadelphia; Gray from Maryland; Andrews
from Salteruda; Mango, Alexander and Mackay from St. Lucia; White from North Carolina, Reed from Newfoundland, Elwell from Falmouth, Great-Britain; Hume from Greenock; Wells from St. Croix.
PHILADELPHIA, June 18. By Captain Ewing, from Londonderry, we learn that the account published of the killed and wounded, between the King's troops and the Hearts of Steel, was much exaggerated, as there had only been slight skirmishes between them; that many of the insurgents were taken prisoners, and some of their ringleaders executed, and that many were daily bringing in; and that the country was pretty peaceable when he came away.
Extract of a letter from London, April 10. "The cruelties exercised upon the innocent natives of Bengal, for some years past, and the scene of rapine that has been carried on there, by the servants of the company, call aloud to heaven itself for vengeance, and demands the utmost attention of the legislature, to prevent the evil from becoming irretrievable. I wish something effectual may be accomplished, before the houses separate; but I much doubt they will not be able to get at the bottom of the mischief, and of course be obliged to leave things as they are. There are many rich villains to be dragged out into open day, but their very plunder screens them, and will enable them to evade the blow. The issue of this important affair the public expect with impatience."
"In regard to the ministry in general, I think them upon a very permanent footing. Lord North rises in the general estimation every day. He is confessedly the most able man in the house of commons, and conducts the public business there with great candor, moderation and firmness; never losing his temper in the midst of the greatest opposition, but preserving that dignity of behavior, so becoming his station, and discovering, upon all occasions, that courage and equanimity, which a consciousness of acting with a pure intention can alone inspire. The King, unsolicited, has given him the garter, and I believe even his political enemies (for personal he has none) will allow it is well bestowed."
Extract of another letter from London, Ap. 11. "A very extraordinary application has been made to the Earl of Rochford, for a grant of the islands in the river Delaware. His petition has gone so far as to pass the board of trade, and a report has been made from thence, setting forth, that there is no reason why his majesty should not allow the petition. As those islands do not seem to be included in any of Mr. Penn's grants of the province; that they are chiefly in a state of nature, unimproved, without the jurisdiction of any court in the province; and that they are a refuge for felons and outlaws. Mr. Penn has exerted himself a good deal in this matter, and it now is before the lords of the council, where testimony has been adduced to invalidate every thing set forth in the report of the board of trade, in the judgment of every candid bystander. The thing will be concluded on tuesday, and, it is much to be feared, will pass the council in the noble lord's favor, greatly against the rules of justice, and perhaps to the total ruin of many poor families, who depend solely on their possessions in these islands for their support."
Extract of a third letter from the same place, April 15.
"The application respecting the islands in the river Delaware, which I mentioned in the other letter I wrote by this opportunity, was to have been determined this day. But Lord Rochford, much to his honour, withdrew his petition, upon the principle, that those people who first possessed themselves of those islands, while they were in a state of nature, and raised them to their present state of culture and improvement, were best entitled to the royal favor, supposing the islands not to be within any of the grants made to the Penn family."
SAMUEL PARKMAN, Has just received by Capt. Hume from Glasgow, and is now opening,
A LARGE assortment of Scotch Goods, consisting of almost every kind usually imported into this place, among which are, a great variety of beautiful spotted, striped and sprigged lawns and lawn aprons, flowered and striped kenting bandkerchiefs, plain and picket gauze, gauze handkerchiefs, bedticks, carpets and carpeting of all widths, tartan plaids, check handkerchiefs, white threads of all numbers, gartering, Kilmarnock caps, bibles, testaments and primers, &c. which with a compleat assortment of English and India goods, he will sell uncommon cheap for ready money, at his shop three doors south of the Cornfields in Union street.

From the NORTH BRITON. Extract from the FREEHOLDERS Political CATECHISM.
Q WHO are you? A. I am T. M. a freeholder of Great-Britain.
Q. What privilege enjoyest thou by being a freeholder of Great-Britain?
A. By being a freeholder of Great-Britain, I am a greater man in my civil capacity, than the greatest subject of an arbitrary Prince; because I am governed by laws, to which I give my consent; and my life, liberty and goods, cannot be taken from me, but according to those laws. I am a freeman.
Q. Who gave thee this liberty?
A. No man gave it me. Liberty is the natural right of every human creature. He is born to the exercise of it as soon as he has attained to that of his reason; but that my liberty is preserved to me, when lost to a great part of mankind, is owing under God to the wisdom and valour of my ancestors freeholders of this realm.
Q. Wherein does this liberty which thou enjoyest consist?
A. In laws made by the consent of the people, and the due execution of those laws. I am free not from the law, but by the law.
Q. Wilt thou stand fast in this liberty, whereunto thou art bound and entitled by the laws of thy country?
A. Yes verily, by God's grace, I will; and I thank his good providence that I am born a member of a community governed by laws and not by arbitrary power.
Q. What dost thou think incumbent upon thee, to secure this blessing to thyself and posterity?
A. As I am a freeholder, I think it incumbent upon me to believe aright concerning the fundamental articles of the government, to which I am subject; to write, speak, and act on all occasions conformably to this orthodox faith; to oppose, with all the powers of my body and mind, such as are enemies to our good constitution, together with all their secret and open abettors, and to be obedient to the King, the supreme magistrate of the society.
Q. Rehearse unto me the articles of thy political creed?
A. I believe that the supreme, or legislative power of this realm resides in the king, lords and commons: that his majesty king George the second is Sovereign, or supreme executor of the law; to whom upon that account, all loyalty is due; that each of the three members of the legislature are endowed with their particular rights and offices; that the King, by his royal prerogative, has the power of determining and appointing the time and place of the meeting of parliaments; that the consent of king, lords and commons, is necessary to the being of a law, and all the three make but one lawgiver; that as to the freedom of consent in making of laws, those three powers are independent, and that each and all the three are bound to observe the laws that are made.
Q. Why is the legislative power supreme?
A. Because what gives law to all, must be supreme.
Q. What meanest thou by loyalty to the king?
A. I have heard that loy signifies law ; and loyalty obedience according to law; therefore he who pays this obedience, is a loyal subject: and he who executes the king's, commands, when contrary to law, is disloyal and a traitor.
Q. Is it not a maxim in the law, that the king can do no wrong?
A. It is; for since kings do not act immediately by themselves, but immediately by their officers, and inferior magistrates; the wisdom of the law provides sufficiently against any undue exercise of their power, by charging all illegal acts, and all kinds of male administration upon their ministers; by the great regard which is paid to the king by this maxim, laying him under an indisputable obligation, not to screen his ministers from public justice, or public enquiry.
Q. What dost thou mean by the royal prerogative?
A. A discretionary power in the king to act for the good of the people, where the laws are silent, never contrary to law, and always subject to the limitations of the law.
Q. Is not then the king above the laws?
A. By no means; for the intention of government being the security of the lives, liberties, and properties of the members of the community, they never can be supposed, by the law of nature, to give an arbitrary power over their persons and estates. King is a title, which, translated into several lan-
guages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power, as there are kingdoms in the world; and he can have no power but what is given him by law; yea, even the supreme, or legislative power is bound, by the rules of equity, to govern by laws enacted, and published in due form: for what is not legal is arbitrary.
Q. How comes it that those, who endeavour to destroy the authority and independence of any of the branches of the legislature, subvert the constitution?
A. By the fundamental laws of the constitution, the free consent and mutual concurrence of the three members is necessary, to the making of a law: therefore if the consent of any of the three is wilfully omitted or obtained by terror or corruption, the legislature is violated; and instead of three there may be really and effectually but one branch of the legislature.
Q. Canst thou illustrate this by an example?
A. The royal authority, and that of the house of peers, were both destroyed by the house of commons, and by a small part of that, in the late civil war; so that the very form of government was annihilated.
Q. Can you give me an instance, where the form of government may be kept, and yet the constitution destroyed?
A. Yes. The forms of the free government of Rome were preserved under the arbitrary government of the emperors. There was a senate, consuls, and tribunes of the people; as one might say king, lords and commons; and yet the government under the emperors was always despotic, and often tyrannical; and indeed the worst of all governments is tyranny sanctified by the appearance of law.
Q. By what means fell that great people into this state of slavery?
A. I have read the Roman history, and by what I can judge, it was by faction, corruption and standing armies.
Q. All those things might happen to Romans; but did ever any parliament of this nation give up the liberty of the people?
A. Yes. A packed parliament, in Richards the second's time, established by a law the king's arbitrary power, and with leave to name a commission with parliamentary authority. Parliaments in Henry the eighth's time were slaves to his passions, and one gave the king a legislative authority. And there are many instances of parliaments making dangerous steps towards the destruction of the liberty of the people.
Q. Who were the English monarchs, who were most indulgent to the liberties of the people?
A. The great king Alfred, who declared that the English nation was as free as the thoughts of man; the glorious monarchs, Edwards the first, Edward the third, and Henry the fifth, who would not let his people swear to him till he had an opportunity of swearing to them, at his coronation. And the immortal queen Elizabeth, who declared it by law high treason, during her life, and a premunire afterwards, to deny the power of parliament in limiting and binding the descent, or inheritance of the crown, or the claim to it.
[To be continued.]
TUESDAY, June 30. BOSTON.
We hear that the honourable board of commissioners have appointed Capt. William Rhoades of this town, to be guager and weigher for the Port of Charlestown, South-Carolina.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in London, dated April 14, 1772.
"This day hath produced the defeat of Lord Rochford's petition for the Delaware islands, which I mentioned to you in my last: To my great astonishment, this morning the Attorney General, after having spoke some time to the petition, informed the Lords, that his Lordship had signified his desire to him of not prosecuting that matter any farther, not desiring to solicit, or receive the King's favour, to the detriment of a number of people, who have been long settled. This may be a very agreeable piece of intelligence to the concerned, as it was to me who am not interested in it further than my regard to truth influences me. Something should be done by all island owners jointly, to prevent the event of any such measures in future which may be contrived to rob them of their property unjustly.
MARRIED at Northborough Mr. Zephaniah Briggs, Merchant, to Miss Margaret Lambert, third daughter of Thomas Lambert, Esq; late of Reading, deceased.
DIED Mr. Edward Edwards — Mrs. Mary Randall, wife of Capt. Randal. — At Hingham, Mr. Samuel Gill — M.S. Mercy Whitten — At Cambridge, Mr. Timothy Tuttle, jun. belonging to New-Ha-
ven; he was taken ill very suddenly and died in about five minutes.—At Haverhill, James M'Hard, Esq; one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Essex.—At Salem, deacon James Ruck.—Mr. Nathaniel Archer, cooper.—At Grafton, Mr. Nathan Goodell, son of Mr. Joseph Goodell; who returning from a wedding, late the evening before, is supposed to have rode several miles after he was in the agonies of death; yet insensible of death's approaches, till in his last moments, by a bitter cry he signified, that he was going, and immediately expired.—At Providence, Miss Hannah Olney, daughter of Mr. Richard Olney.—Miss Susannah Jackson, daughter of the late Stephen Jackson, Esq; —At Killingly, Capt. Sias Hutchins.—At Salem Mrs. Susannah Mason, Relict of Mr. David Mason late of Boston Epholsterer, deceased.
From the NORTH BRITON.
YE ministers! who every hour Extort your arbitrary power; Tell me what difference there can be 'Twixt tyrant king, and ministry. In the detested Stuart's reign, One tyrant was the worst; But now we justly may complain, We're with a hundred curs. But still despotic crew! beware; Remember Stuart slain: One tyrant was too much to bear; Shall then a hundred reign? What! hear ye not the general cry? The universal groan, That, wing'd with curses, cleaves the sky, And shakes our monarch's throne. Blind to your fate, where are your eyes? Ye second sighted crew! What see you not the scaffold rise, And Tyburn wait for you? Oh! soon may vengeance with your blood To freedom consecrate the wood! Each Briton then shall take a part, And wear the relick near his heart.
The newest PHILADELPHIA FLOUR, Extra and Superfine; also Cotton WOOL, &c. &c. to be sold upon the most Reasonable Terms, by JAMES SWAN, At the Store lately improved by Mr. James Blakie, and next to Mr. Ellis Gray's, leading down to Treat's and Spear's Wharfs.
To be SOLD at JOHN WINTHROP's Store, Opposite the East End of Faneuil-Hall, A FEW Casks of Florence OIL of a very superior Quality, Olives, Philadelphia Flour, Bar Iron, English Loaf Sugar, Cordage, best London Porter, and a few Pipes of Sterling Madeira Wine.
A FEW Quintals of good Table FISH, and PEAS for shipping; to be sold at JOHN LOWELL's Store, on Hancock's Wharf.
To SELL, or LET, A GOOD Brick SUGAR-HOUSE, at the North part of the Town, with the Pan and Cooler and all other Utensils for carrying on the Sugar-Bakers Business. Enquire of the Printer.
Newbury, June 30th. 1772. STRAYED or Stolen out of the pasture of the widow BETTY EMERY, of NEWBURY, on the night of the 25th instant, a Bay MARE, with a black mane and tail, same in one of her fore feet or shoulders. Whoever will take up said Mare and bring her, or give information, so as that the owner may have her again, shall receive TWO DOLLARS, and all necessary charges paid.
N. B. A SADDLE was taken the same night from the widow SARAH CHASE, with the Crooper nail'd to it; and a Chair BRIDLE from JOSEPH AMES, with ten yards of Tow and Linen Cloth, supposed to be carried off with said Mare.
Just republished in Newport, And to be Sold by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-Bridge.
A few Copies of the entertaining HISTORY of Philip's WAR; which began in the year 1675, with the proceedings of BENJAMIN CHURCH Esq. Embellished with 2 elegant Copper-plate prints of Colonel Church and King Philip.
THURSDAY, July 2. BOSTON.
We are informed, that the INDIANS in "the only loyal colony" (Rhode Island) have returned like a dog to his vomit, and a sow to her wallowing in the mire; it is said, that two Custom-house officers at Newport, went on board an inward bound vessel from the West-Indies, and were pretty busy, in their way, when unluckily some of these Savages came on board, bound the Custom-house officers, and blacked them, then unloaded the vessel, and after whipping their prisoners set them at liberty.
Quere, Whether eight or ten regiments, and six, or more sail of the line, may not soon be expected to quell such a daring (if it had been in Boston) rebellion!!!
We hear that there is great likelihood of being but very small crops of wheat in the western and southern provinces.
We hear the following alteration is to be made with respect to the army in America, viz, at Quebec 8th or King's regiment, and 21st or Royal North British; at Montreal 26th; at Three Rivers and Lower Posts 52d; at Det-ot and the upper posts 20th; at New-York two regiments of Fusileers; and at Jamaica two battalions both, or Royal Americans.
We hear the small-pox is very rise at New-London.
By a gentleman arrived from Waterford in Ireland in eight weeks we learn that the disturbances in Ireland were almost subsided.
The public may be assured upon the best authority, that the petition lately presented to his Majesty for an American Bishop was rejected; it having been considered, in its true light, as the desire of a few meddling priests, and not of the people.
The person who is supposed to have committed the murder, near Col. Williams's iron-works, at Stockbridge, was seen with him in New-Canaan and Richmond the latter end of May last; he had with him a small pack, tied up in a handkerchief, which he carried hanging down his back on an ax-helve. He is a large bodied man, with sandy coloured hair, and is supposed to be a High-Dutchman.
NEW-YORK, June 25. We hear from Brookhaven, that on Thursday night last about midnight, a barn belonging to Mr. Samuel Davis of that place, was discovered to be all in flames, so that the fire could not be extinguished till the barn was burnt to the ground. The persons who assembled on this occasion, perceived another barn to be on fire at both ends, but as the fire had been but lately kindled it was soon suppressed; and while they were about it, they perceived a third barn, at a little further distance to be also on fire, which they suppressed. These fires were supposed to have been designedly kindled by a runaway Negro, who had belonged to Mr. Davis.
CHARLESTOWN, [South-Carolina] June 15. The sixth section of the circuit-Court act, which gives power to the Judges to determine certain cases in a summary way, is much the subject of conversation at present.
RICE, four pounds ten shillings the 100 lb
The mention made in our last, of Capt. Stevens's arriving from London was owing to a wrong information, it should have been Capt. Elwell from Falmouth.
This day was published, price 1s. 4d. L. M. Illustrated with an elegant Copper-Plate print,
THE TRIAL of ATTICUS For a RAPE;
A humorous performance that will not fail of proving diverting to some, and possibly be disagreeable to none.
Sold by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-Bridge.
SILENT WILDE, Rider from Boston to Northampton, Deerfield, &c.
ADVERTISES, that as the Time of his last Engagement ends with the News the 4th Monday in June next, he hopes his Customers will not fail of being punctual in their Payment: And he hereby Notices those who are in Arrears with him for past Services, to pay on or before the Time abovementioned, otherwise he is determined, however disagreeable to him, to put their Accounts into the Hands of an Attorney, as he has not yet been able to settle with the Printers for News Papers formerly had of them.

EBENEZER HANCOCK, At his shop in Marshall's Lane, between the sign of the Corn-fields and the Mill-Bridge; begs leave to acquaint his former good customers and others, that he has just opened for sale,
A FRESH assortment of Hard-Ware Goods, which he is determined to sell at the very lowest Advance, for Cash only:—Those who please to favour him with their Custom may depend upon being well used; and all favours gratefully acknowledged.
Boston, June 8, 1772.
DANIEL SCOTT, At his Medicine Store the Sign of the Leopard, South End.
TAKES this method of informing all Gentlemen, Ladies, and others, who have had the Misfortune to lose their Teeth, that he still continues the Business of making and fixing artificial Teeth as usual, in so elegant a manner as to be but little inferior to the natural, either in Use or Beauty, as many who have experienced them can testify: Where also any Person afflicted with painful Stumps or unsound Teeth, may have them removed with a peculiar Dexterity and Ease.—And all Persons who have the Scurvy in their Teeth, which threatens their removal though found, may have them cleaned without hurting the Enamel, or in the least degree impairing them, and may be supplied with his DENTUM CONSERVATOR, which is an excellent Powder, the best adapted for preserving the Teeth and Gums, and preventing them from Aching, of any Preparation ever offered to the Public: It will cure the Scurvy in the Gums, bring the Teeth to their original Whiteness, and by a continuance of its Use, will Preserve both Teeth and Gums in a pure state during life.—It is not pretended that it will perform Impossibilities, that it will make rotten Teeth sound, or will ease them when they violently ach; but it will assuredly preserve those Teeth found that are so, and cause the Gums to adhere to them and prevent those that are decayed in part, from becoming worse.
At the above Store may be had, Morgan's useful Eye-Water, which has in so many cases been found serviceable, that it must escape the censure of the most critical Oculist.—Brigden's famous Bug Liquid, which effectually destroys those hateful Vermin,—be they ever so numerous.—An assortment of genuine patenteeed and other Medicines of the best quality, and Medicine Boxes for Families or Shipping, with exact and particular directions for using them, and a variety of other articles cheap.
The above Powder may be had also of Cox and Berry in Boston, Doctor Kast in Salem, and Dummer Jewett, Esq; at Ipswich.
ANDREW DEXTER, In Hanover-street, a little to the Southward of the Mill-bridge, Boston, has opened, and now has to dispose of, both by wholesale and retail,
GOODS of various sorts, fresh and new, from different ports. He could mention the ships by which he received them, and the names of the respective commanders; but most people know that this will not affect either the quality or the price. He could assert that they were bought with ready money, came immediately from the manufacturers, and are the best of the several kinds that were ever imported. All this he could say—All this indeed is easily said:—But if he should add that Shopkeepers may have his English Goods as cheap as from the Merchants in London, he fears that some folks would call it puffing, and others would give it even a worse name. If his goods are cheaper than they are sold at any other shop in town, it is abundantly sufficient. He will not, however, roundly affirm any such thing. He only wishes good people, country Shopkeepers in particular, as they pass along, would be kind enough to call and inform themselves. After they have viewed every article he has got, though they should not then chuse to purchase even one of them, he will nevertheless own himself under great obligations, and will kindly thank them for having given him reason to hope that, at some future time, they will favour him with their Custom.
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. (L.S.) To JOSHUA FULLER, of Newton in the county of Middlesex, in said Province, Gentleman, one of the Principal Proprietors of a Township of Land lying in the late Province of Maine, on little Amascoggin River, granted by the Great and General Court on the 11th Day of June A. D. 1771. to you and others. Greeting.
WHEREAS you, with four others, Proprietors of the tract of land above mentioned, have made application to me for a warrant for calling a meeting of the Proprietors of said Township for the purposes herein after mentioned: You are therefore, in his Majesty's name, hereby required to notify and warn, in time and manner as the law directs, the Proprietors aforesaid, that they meet at the Dwelling House of Capt. Nathaniel Coolidge, Innholder, in Watertown, on Tuesday the twenty-first day of July next, at eight o'clock forenoon, to transact the following matters, viz. To choose a moderator of said meeting, a Clerk of the Proprietors, Assessors, a Collector or collectors of taxes and a Treasurer. To determine how future meetings of said Proprietors shall be called. To determine what sum or sums of money, shall be raised to defend the interest of the said Proprietors, and for defraying necessary charges, as also the manner in which said money shall be raised. To choose a committee to prosecute or defend any action or actions wherein the interest of the Proprietors or their Assigns are or may be concerned, with full power of substitution. To see what other committees are necessary, and to choose them. As also to ascertain the claims of any person pretending to have an interest therein. To see what former votes of the Proprietors they will ratify and confirm.
GIVEN under my Hand and Seal, this 25 day of April, in the twelfth year of his Majesty's Reign, A. D. 1772. S. DANFORTH, Justice of the Peace throughout the said province.
IN pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the Proprietors of the Township therein mentioned, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time, and for the purposes set forth in said warrant. JOSHUA FULLER. A true Copy. attest, ALEX SHEPARD jun. Prop. Clerk.
Nova-Scotia Grindstones. JUST landed, the compleatest assortment of NOVA SCOTIA GRINDSTONES ever brought into the country, and to be sold by HENRY BASS , at his store adjoining the Golden Ball Tavern at the head of Green's wharf near the Market, Boston, on account of the connections he hath with the Manufacturers, he can afford them vastly cheap or Cash or short Credit.
SADLERY GOODS. A compleat assortment of Sadlery goods, just imported, and to be sold by R. G. CRANCH , at his shop on the Exchange in King-street; Among which are, A QUANTITY of English Trees, plated Bits, Stirrups, Spurs, and almost every article that can be enquired for in the Sadlery way. Country Saddlers may depend on being well served on as good terms as at any shop or store in the province. Said Cranch, makes and sells all sorts of Saddles, Bridles, &c. on the lowest terms for Cash
HARD-WARE GOODS. Just imported by WILLIAM BRECK At the Golden Key near the Draw-Bridge, A GENERAL assortment of Pewtery, Ironmongery, Brazery and Cutlery Wares, also Powder and Shot, 7 by 9.6 by 8 and 5 by 7 Glass; Tin plates, Iron and Brass Wire, Lanthorn leaves, sand Glasses, Brushes, Mops, Lines and T wine, broad and narrow Bunting, with a general assortment of Ship Chandlers and Tin Ware; which he sells either Wholesale or Retail at a very small Profit for Cash only.
BOOKS, in all ARTS and SCIENCES, Received from London by the last ships, To be sold very reasonable by JAMES FOSTER CONDY, At his store in Union-Street, opposite to the Cornfields, Boston. Also, A large Assortment of Stationary, &c. &c. &c.
New Book-Store. JOHN LANGDON, Opposite the Post-Office, informs the public that he has just received from London, a Large and Grand Assortment of BOOKS, Which he is determined to sell so cheap as to give entire satisfaction to the purchaser. The following Catalogue he presents to the gentlemen of the Law, viz.
BACON's new Abridgments of the Law, 5 vols. The fifth Vol. may be had alone. Burrow's Reports, 3 vols. Folio. Lord Ramond's do. 3 vols. Folio. Peer William's do. 3 vols. do. Hobart's do. Shinner's do. Plowden's do. Ventriss's do. Lilly's practical Register, 2. vols. Folio. Ditto Entries. Hawkin's Pleas of the Crown. Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England, 4 vols, 4to. Ditto Analysis. Cunningham's Law Dictionary, 2 vols. fo. Jacob's do. Hawkin's Abridgment of Cook. Law of Evidence. Trial's p. Pais. Gilbert on Devises. —on Tenures. —Cases in King's Bench. Molloy de Jure Maritimo. Law Tracts. Attorney's Pocket Book. 2 vols. Practical Register of the Common Pleas. Barnes's Notes, 4to. Fitzherbert's new Natura Brevium. Essays on Crimes and Punishments.
With a large Variety of the best and most approved Authors, in History, Phy- &c. &c. &c. Likewise, large Church Bibles, Folio Bibles, Quarto Bibles, Octavo Bibles, Mission Bibles, Bibles with Cans Notes, Common Bibles at 12/ O. T. the Dozen. Pocket Bibles in 1 or 2 vols. neatly Gilt. Court and City Register for 1772. All Kinds of Magazines that are published in London. School Books of every Kind.
With a large Assortment of Stationary: Account Books from 2s. to 6/. Lawful Money a piece; Writing Paper from 10s. to 10/. a Rham; Ink-Powder, Sealing Wax, Wafers, patent Cake Ink, clothiers and Cartridge Paper of all prices, Bonnet Boards, Ink-Stands of various Sorts, Ivory Books and Ivory Folders, best Pen-Knives, Quills, &c. &c. Platters, Primers, Spelling Books, Psalm Books, with or without Tunes, by the Groce or Dozen, as Cheap as at any Store or Shop in Town. Every Person who pleases to favour him with their Custom may depend on purchasing very Cheap and the least Favour gratefully acknowledged.
The famous BELLISZE ARABIAN, will cover this season at 12s. a leap, or 48s. the season, or 20s. a Colt. He is a son of the famous horse called Moresfah and his mother is of the best race that the great Sultan or Emperor Mullah Abalah ever had, and he is both by sire and mother of the best blood and true Arabian race in all Barbary. He is of an iron grey colour, 17 hands high, and the handsomest horse in America. He is kept at Mr. WILLIAM PUTNAM's stable in Danvers, where mares may be taken good care of. Said horse is to be sold, if any person will give the value of him. Enquire of AMOS MANSFIELD.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, A Journeyman PRINTER, who CAN and WILL work, no other need apply. Enquire of ISAIAH THOMAS.
WATTS's and Tate and Brady's PSALMS, to be sold by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-Bridge. Also, A variety of small BOOKS for CHILDREN.
A VARIETY of Mezzotinto PRINTS, and very neat Engravings, imported in one of the last vessels from London, to be sold by STEPHEN WHITING, opposite the sign of the Cornfield, and STEPHEN WHITING, jun. about half-way between that and the Mill-Bridge; where may be had, at a low price, Looking-Glasses, of almost all sizes, from one inch in length up to thirty-six, by twenty in width. At the same places, Glasses not exceeding thirty by eighteen may be new silvered. Glasses and Pictures of all sorts, framed and gilt as well and as cheap as any where in America.
To be SOLD very cheap for cash, or English Goods, a new Fall-back CHAISE, and also a SULKEY, very neatly made, with Harnesses for each complete. Enquire of the Printer.
JACOB HEMET, DENTIST to her Majesty and the Princess Amelia.
BEGS Leave to recommend to the Public, his newly discovered Essence of Pearl, and Pearl Dentifrice, which he has found to be greatly superior not only in elegance, but also in efficacy, to any thing hitherto made use of for complaints of the Teeth and Gums: Particularly they will preserve the Teeth in a perfect found state, even to old age; they render them white and beautiful, without in the least impairing the enamel; fasten such as are loose, keep such as are already decayed from becoming worse, prevent the Tooth Ach, perfectly cure the Scurvy in the Gums, and make them grow firm and close to the teeth; they likewise render the breath delicate, sweet, and remedy almost all those disorders that are the consequence of scorbutic gums. Sold (by appointment of Mr. Hemet) wholesale and retail, by W. Bayley, Perfumer, in Cockspur street, near the bottom of the Hay-market, London, and at William Scott's Irish Linen Store, near the Draw-Bridge, Boston, New England.
To be sold by Samuel Sloane, at his Distil House, opposite the Blueball and Mason's Arms, formerly Green-Dragon, New-England RUM, and all sorts of SPIRITS, cheap for cash or Molasses; and as he makes those articles himself, he will warrant them fit for any market.
CHOICE ANCHOVIES and CAPERS, in large and small Quantities, lately imported in Capt. Acworth, and to be sold by WILLIAM LAMBERT at the Three Sugar Loaves, little above the Draw-Bridge.
Imported in the several ships this Spring from London, by THOMAS LEE, At his store near the Swing-Bridge, Boston,
A VERY full and compleat Assortment of PIECE GOODS:  LADIES SILKS, (with which he is constantly supplied) of the newest fashions; he has now by him a most elegant variety, composed of almost every kind in use: Book and Thick Muslins, Tombour worked ditto, rich Bruffs and Mecklen Laces. IRISH LINENS, RIBBONS, PAPER HANGINGS, Rich and Basket-worked Gold and Silver BUTTONS, GOLD and SILVER LACES, WATCHES of various Sorts, also, Warranted Gun Powder, Shot, Nails, 6 by 8, 7 by 9, and 8 by 10 Window Glass, genuine Kippen's Snuff, Allum, Russia, Ravens and English Duck, Osnaburgs, Verdigree, &c. Said LEE receives all his Goods from first Hands only, and will supply Shopkeepers and Traders on as good Terms as any person in Boston. The greatest encouragement to those who purchase with present Money.