The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal (Boston [Mass.]), 1773-11-04 00:00:00

THE Massachusetts Sun
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
MAY 2 1908 MAY 2 1908
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER:--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
DO THOU Great LIBERTY INSPIRE our Souls,--And make our Lives in THY Possession happy, Or, our Deaths glorious in THY JUST Defence.
VOL. III.]
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1773.
[NUMB. 144.
This day was published, Price 7 coppers single, and 20s. O.T. the dozen, [Illustrated with a neat Engraving, of the WICKED STATESMAN, or the TRAITOR to his Country, at the hour of DEATH.]
And to be SOLD by ISAIAH THOMAS, At his Printing-Office, near the Market, and at his Shop, near the Mill Bridge,
THE Massachusetts Calendar; OR, AN ALMANACK
For the Year of our Lord CHRIST, 1774; Being the second after Leap Year.
By EZRA GLEASON.
Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, New- England, lat. 42. deg. 25 min. north, but will serve, in most respects, for Nova-Scotia and the four New-England Governments.
This Almanack contains one quarter part more than Almanacks generally do, and is embellished with that which will make it both Useful and Entertaining.
CONTAINING,
A short piece on Patriotism, or the Love of one's Country, (with an Engraving.)
The four Seasons of the Year, exhibiting the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, and the parts of the Body governed thereby, (with a cut.)
The names of the Planets and Aspects; Eclipses for the year 1774; Names and Characters of the Twelve Signs; Remark- able Days; Time of the Superior and In- ferior Courts sitting in the four New-Eng- land Governments; Sun's rising and setting; Time of High Water Morning and Even- ing; Moon's Rising and Setting; Changes of the Moon; Time of the Sun's entering the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac; Judg- ment of the Weather; Vulgar Notes for the year 1774.
ALSO, Of the Sun; of the Earth; of the Di- visibility of Matter; of the Fixed Stars.
An Account of a Woman's being killed by an Erruption from the Earth, in a most remarkable manner; some Remarkable Sayings; Mescellanies; Maxims, which every person ought to bear in mind; some Directions in Husbandry.
The UNBELIEVER'S CREED.
Useful and Approved Receipts, viz. for a Billious Cholick; for an Astmatick Cough; From the Ear-Ach from Cold; a very good Eye Water; for the Falling Sickness; for a Flux; for the Gout in the Stomach; for the Gravel; for the Itch; for Sore and Running Legs; for the Measles; for the Cholick in Children; to prevent Sea-Sick- ness; a new Cure for the Tooth-Ach, in a Letter.
Some pieces of POETRY, viz. the en- tertaining Tale of the FARMER'S BLUN- DER; on the Twelve Signs; What is Man? the Lutanist; the King of Europe, a jest.
LIKewise,
Roads to the several Principal Towns in the province, and the Continent, and the best Houses of Entertainment, and the Dis- tance they are at from the State House, in Boston, also the distance from one place to another.
*$* Booksellers, Shop- keepers, Traders, &c. may be supplied on very advantageous terms, to sell again, by the Hundred, Groce or Dozen.
To be SOLD,
A LIKELY healthy slave, about eighteen years of age, he is fit for any kind of labour. For further particulars, enquire of the Prince.
Insurance on Vessels and Goods.
AT the Insurance Office of EZEKIEL PRICE near the Exchange, INSURANCE,
May be made on vessels, cargoes, and private adventures, at VERY LOW PREMIUMS, full one quarter part less than formerly.
Note well--In case of loss the Insurance will be PUNCTUALLY PAID.
Duncan Ingraham, jun.
Has just received, per the Dolphin, Capt. Scott, from London,
A VARIETY of lambkins, bea- vers, and coatings for fursuits, which, (with a very genteel assortment of European Goods before our hand) he will sell great penny worths, at his shop in Union Street, Boston.
N.B. A few elegant chintz patterns just arriv- ed to be sold if soon applied for, uncommon low. Hyson tea, none superior, China ware, Kippen's snuff, &c. &c.
CYRUS BALDWIN,
Hereby informs his customers and others, that he has to sell cheap for cash at his shop in Cornhill, near the State-house in Boston;
CHOICE Souchong and Hyson tea, pepper, allspice, cinnamon, clove, mace, and nutmegs, best Kippen's snuff and in- digo.
Silk muffs and tippets, fur ditto, looking glasses. Superfine scarlet drab cloth for men's cloaks, with scarlet cloths of all prices.
Superfine, middling, and low priced, broad- cloths.
Kerseys, ratteens, bearskins, lambkins and bea- ver coatings, with trimmings to match them, beavers and flannels.
A fine assortment of shalloons, tammies and du- rants, a large assortment of worked hosiery, silk thread and cotton ditto, silk and worsted, silk and cotton mixed ditto.
Furniture and other calicoes, carpets and carpet- ing, Scotch plaids, English shoes, clogs and galoshes.
Children's Morocco shoes, Lynn shoes, and Goloshoes, with a general assortment of goods suitable for all seasons. All cheap for cash.
SILENT WILDE,
Hereby informs his former customers and others,
THAT he hath engaged to ride from Boston to Northampton, Deer- field, &c. for the term of one year, beginning from third week of November next, and to carry each one that shall employ him, one of the Boston weekly news-papers, &c. as usual, during said time, at two dollars each: To ride once a fortnight the one half of the year, and the other half every week: One dollar to be paid him at the end of six months, the other at the year's end. He desires all those that incline to take the news-papers of him, that they would leave their names at the taverns, in the respective towns where they reside, and they may depend upon being punctually served therewith. On suitable encouragement he proposes to ride through Westminster, Tem- pleton, &c.
Now in the Press and almost finished.
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From the PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL.
PHILADELPHIA, October 13.
WHEREAS the infamous EBENE- ZER RICHARDSON , convicted of PERJURY and MURDER , has, at the instance of his special friend, Charles Paxton, been sent to this city as a pensioner to the --honorable Commis- sioners at Boston; and in consideration of his many signal Services , has by them been rewarded with a quarterly payment, out of the money levied on the Americans, by Act of Parliament, without their consent: And whereas the said RICHARDSON , riot- ing in the spoils of his country, lurks about the wharves of this city, seeking an oppor- tunity to distress the Trade of Philadelphia, and enslave America: And in order more effectually to answer his vile purpose, has intimately connected himself with a certain T—— , a Tide-Waiter here, who publicly declared "he would not only associate with the VILLAIN, EBENEZER , but with the DEVIL himself, if so ordered by the COMMISSIONERS ." Now it is expected, that all lovers of liberty, in this Province, will make diligent search after the said RICH- ARDSON , and having found the bird of darkness, will produce him, tarred and fea- thered at the Coffee-House, there to expiate his sins against his country, by a public re- cantation.
TAR AND FEATHERS.
N.B. The above RICHARDSON ap- pears to be a man of 40 years of age, is about 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high, pretty thick and broad across the shoulders, has a very ill countenance, and down look, [ Cain's Phys ] mostly wears a flopped hat, a pils burnt cut wig, and a blue furtout coat, with metal but- tons.
PHILADELPHIA, October 20.
The description in our last paper, of the phys, of the Villian EBENEZER RICHARDSON , being very accu- rate, he was last Monday discovered skulk- ing at the North end of this city; and be- ing closely pursued by many well wishers to peace and good order, very narrowly escap- ed (by means of a wood) the Tar and fea- thers , which had several days before been prepared for HIM. As the city of Philadel- phia is now, and forever must be too hot to hold this paricide, he will in all probability, try his fortune in New-York; and if, con- trary to expectation, he should not there meet his reward, but should experience a- nother hair breadth escape, he may probably as a dernier resort, fly to the arms of his dear, dear P——, the surest and safest asy- lum for complicated villainy, on this side the Atlantic.
FRIDAY, October 29.
BOSTON.
By a Schooner, in about a week from Ha- lifax, we learn, that his Excellency Francis Legge , Esq; lately appointed Governor of the province of Nova-Scotia, in the room of Lord William Campbell, arrived here from London, in the brig Adamant , Capt. Crowne: We are also told, that Lord Campbell, with his family, were soon to em- bark on board the above brig, on their re- turn to England.
PROVIDENCE, October 16. Capt. Sa- muel Dunn, jun. from Cape-Nicholas, con- firms the account inserted the week before last, relative to English vessels being ordered from several ports of Hispaniola; and further says, that two Jamaica men were lately se- ized and condemned at Port-au-Prince.
NORWICH, October 28. The season has been so very mild, that a mess of green peas was picked the last week in this town, spon- taneously grown from seed produced this year.
SATURDAY, October 30. BOSTON.
Further European Intelligence by Capt. Scott, from London.
LONDON, August 22.
GOVERNOR Hutch- inson is expected home by the return of the New-York Packet, which failed from Falmouth last Wed- nesday.
It was yesterday re- ported that Lord Hillsborough will again fill an important office in Administration greatly to the advantage of the Bostonians.
By a letter from Halifax in Nova-Scotia, we are told, that a clergyman's wife died there in the midst of last November, and was not buried till the beginning of May following, the ground being so hardened with the frost, that no pick-ax or crow could enter it; and what is wonderful, though the body was kept thus long, it had not a fætid smell till two days before it was interred.
The Americans because too virtuous to give up their rights, or suffer their liberties to be wrested out of their hands, have been misrepresented to the King, as a factious and disloyal people; but their conduct since the discovery of the despicable arts of villainous treachery, of Hutchinson and his associates, should recommend them to his Majesty as the reverse of what he hath been taught to believe them: For certainly nothing but a principle of loyal and sincere attachment to the King's person and government, could have restrained them from instantly hanging up those shameful traitors, who for selfish purposes have basely traduced, and secretly as infamously endeavoured to prejudice their sovereign against them.
It is said, that a certain Courtier told Mr. Wilkes the other day, that the ministry wished him success at the next election for mayor, as it would ruin his popularity. Tell your friends, replies Mr. Wilkes, I would have them clench the business by re- storing me to my seat in parliament; and whatever may be the consequence to me, it will be the only chance they can ever have of becoming popular themselves.
As a supplement to the coinage-act, a wag advises, that a bill should "pass, mak- ing it lawful to weigh every minister's head before he is invested with the office of premier." Was such a law now in force, our correspondent thinks that to determine the specific gravity of Lord North's head, leaden weights and scales should be used, as truly emblematical of the lamp contained therein.
It is said that upwards of 30,000 soldiers have been insisted in this kingdom for the Hon. East-India company's service, since the commencement of the last war; which is an extraordinary drain of laborious hands, and a real loss to the nation, when it is con- sidered that scarce one ever returns home.
The Governors of Jamaica, Gibraltar and Minorca, have received orders to re- pair to their respective governments with- in a month from this date.
What tells very much in favour of Mr. Hutchinson is, that he has never desired to be recalled; he is conscious his conduct will bear the strictest examination.
Yesterday arrived here his Majesty's schoo- ner Hope , Capt. Dawson, from Halifax.
Salisbury, August 16. Monday last as two servants of —— Jones, Esq; of Ave- bury, in this county, were plowing in a field near Salisbury, they found a large earthen pot, containing more than 2000 pieces of Roman coin, in fine preservation.
The abolishing slavery in Bohemia is al- ready attended with such good effects, that it is thought that kingdom will shortly be- come the granary of the empire.

Lisbon, July 24. From the vigilance of the King's Secretary, a farther discovery will probably be made of the contrivers of the abominable conspiracy against the life of his Majesty. Some noble families allied to the church are suspected, and it is not unlikely but many others of inferior rank are engaged in the diabolical affair. The cause of it is said to proceed from his Majesty's striking off that bigotry and superstition that prevailed here, and endeavouring to possess his subjects with more liberal sentiments. The jealousy of the clergy took the alarm, and the priest who made the attempt was an enthusiast.
LONDON, August 26. Orders are given for shipping off a quantity of goods for America, to distribute amongst the chiefs of the Indian tribes in alliance with Great-Britain.
Extract of a letter from Paris, August 17. "Our Charge d' Affairs is positively ordered to leave London, and to give directions for the sale of every thing belonging to our Ambassador."
"Our Commissaries de Cheveau are ordered to leave England with all the horses bought up for the service of our cavalry, and to discontinue their contracts, as they now cease."
"A Marshal of France will leave Paris to-morrow, and command the camp of forty battalions now forming at Lisle."
"Another Marshal is appointed to the command of our grand camp. All our officers are posting to their quarters, and we are now chanting the vespers of a glorious war, which we regard with the same certainty as sun-rise."
Tuesday last died at his seat at Hagley, in Worcestershire, George Lord Lyttleton, Baron, Frankley, of an inflammation in his bowels, in the 64th year of his age. His Lordship left one son, Thomas, now Lord Lyttleton, and one daughter, Lucy, married to Lord Valentia, of the Kingdom of Ireland. — If the most amiable character can draw a tear from his countrymen, his Lordship truly deserves it: He was a tender husband, a fond father, a true patriot, and a sincere christian.
Extract of a letter from Berlin, August 7.
"The motions that have been observed amongst our troops at different times within these last eighteen months, and by the warlike preparations which have been carried on thro' all his Prussian Majesty's dominions during that time, it seems past all doubt that peace will not continue long. All the new troops are ordered into the different fortifications, and the old ones have received orders to march towards the Polish territories. Magazines are forming in such abundance, that a war of ten years continuance would not consume them; and within this fortnight orders have been given for altering all the soldiers muskets to enable them to fire more expeditiously, and that their shot may do execution at a great distance."
We hear that several ladies of fashion are determined at the next meeting of Parliament to petition for leave, during the summer season, to wear silk or linen breeches, the heat and weight of their petticoats being quite an incumbrance, and no longer to be borne by ladies of taste and spirit; whilst those whom nature hath not favoured with a fine pair of legs, are for petitioning against the bill, some of them artfully insinuating, that if the ladies are indulged in this, the next favour they will ask will be, under the same pretence, to go without breeches or petticoats during the dog days.
Extract of a letter from Paris, August 20.
"By a sheveling boat I have an opportunity of sending you this important information, that by a courier arrived last night at the Hague, from Paris, Madame Barre is disgraced. The Choiseul party are triumphant; and war will be declared against England in less than ten days. The H— and V— now send orders to sell instantly out of our funds."
MONDAY, November 1. BOSTON.
By a vessel arrived here this morning from New-Providence, we hear that it was very sickly there, and that a whole company of his Majesty's troops, excepting three or four, lately sent there from the regiment stationed at St. Augustine, had died.
We hear from Kennebec, that yesterday se'nnight Capt. James Heath (who had the care of building some Vessels there for a Gentleman in England) and a Negro Man, were both unfortunately drowned by the over-setting of a Boat off a Place called Long Reach, in the River: Mr. Heath's Body was taken up in about a quarter of an hour after, but no signs of life appeared.
Yeste-day sailed for London the ship Mary Ann, Cap. Symmes.
TUESDAY, November 2. BOSTON.
A most impudent theft was committed on Sunday, in time of the forenoon service, at Woburn; a villain entered the house of Mr. Samuel Carter of that town, and in the presence of a young woman, broke open a desk, took from thence about 100l. old tenor and made off.
Extract of a letter from New-Providence, to a gentleman of character in this town, dated October 6.
"This country was never known to be so sickly as at present; whole families have been swept away; a company of the fourteenth regiment, doing duty here, have suffered very much: Lieutenant Hallwood and Ensign Matier, together with nine men, out of thirty-one, have died within these three weeks, Capt. Blackett, who commands, has been dangerously ill, and is far from being well at present; the rest of the company are so bad that they cannot mount a single centinel, not even over the magazine."
Saturday last arrived here the brig Speedwell, Capt. Saunderson, with a number of passengers, from Hull.
By a vessel just arrived from New-Providence, we learn, that two companies of the 14th regiment had arrived there from St. Augustine, and that they all died in the course of a week except two.
WEDNESDAY, November 3. BOSTON.
A letter from a gentleman in Charlestown South Carolina, to his friend in New-London, (dated the 5th ult.) says, "We are starving for want of provisions and are much in want of your country produce—not one potatoe yet from the northward."
We hear, that his Excellency Francis Legge, Esq; is arrived at Nova-Scotia, from England.
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated October 8, 1773.
"As far as we can yet judge Lord Dartmouth is no enemy to America; and supposing him the warmest friend, he is but one of many, who have the direction of public affairs: And it is not to be expected that in so short a time, he should be able to convince his fellow Ministers, the parliament and thousands of others, that the measures pursued in America ought to be rescinded. If no new attack is made, and he is endeavouring by degrees to get back to the old ground, it is as much as we can expect, though perhaps not so much as we wish. The Rhode-Island commission was a measure resolved on, before Lord Dartmouth was in office, and I am well informed, the issue of it, had been very acceptable to him."
"I am far from thinking with Junius Americanus, that if Lord Dartmouth cannot do every thing for us, he ought to resign, and thereby put it out of his power to do any thing.—I should suppose that he may do a great deal of good, by remaining in office, though he may be wrong in some things, and perhaps over-ruled in others."
MARRIED. J. Dr. John Stedman, to Miss Polly Quincy, Daughter to Mr. Henry Quincy, Merchant.
DIED. At Milton, Mr. Alexander Boies.—At Malden, Capt. Jabez Lynde, of a cancer.—At Framingham, Mrs. Lydia Haven, widow of Mr. Elkanah Haven, deceased.—At Falmouth, Casco-Bay, Mr. Moses Johnson, student at law, who was graduated at Harvard College in the year 1771.—At Portsmouth, Mr. John Pierce.—Mrs. Mary Manning, wife of Mr. Thomas Manning.—Mrs. Wentworth, of a dropsy wife of Mr. John Wentworth, of Easttown; she had been tapped six times, in which she had 126 Quarts of water taken from her.—Miss Sally Pears.—At Newport, Mrs. Ann Mumford, confort of Mr. Benjamin Mumford, of that town.
American Magazine.
THOSE gentlemen, in this and the other provinces, who have subscription papers in their hands for the ROYAL AMERICAN MAGAZINE, are earnestly desired to return them by the 15th inst. to their humble servant ISAIAH THOMAS.
A Schooner.
To be sold extremely cheap for cash or short credit, or any kind of merchandize. A Schooner between fifty and sixty tons burthen, six months old, well found, a very remarkable fast sailor, and in every other respect as good a vessel of her burthen, as ever was built in America without exception. Enquire of Enoch BROWN.
MASSACHUSETTS-BAY. By the GOVERNOR. A PROCLAMATION For a Public THANKSGIVING.
WHEREAS it is our incumbent Duty to make our frequent, public, and thankful Acknowledgment to Almighty God, our great Benefactor, as well for the Mercies of his common Providence as for the distinguishing Favours which at any Time he may see meet to confer upon us: And whereas among many other Instances of the Favour of Heaven towards us of a public Nature, in the Course of the Year past, it hath pleased God to continue the Life of our Soveraign Lord King GEORGE—of our most gracious Queen CHARLOTTE, and of the rest of the Royal Family—to succeed his Majesty's Councils and Endeavours for preserving Peace to the British Dominions—to continue to us a good Measure of Health to proper our Husbandry, Merchandize and Fishery.
I HAVE therefore thought fit to appoint, and I do, with the Advice of his Majesty's Council, appoint Thursday, the Twenty-fifth Day of November next, to be a Day of Public Thanksgiving throughout the Province, exhorting and requiring the several Societies for religious Worship to assemble on that Day, and to offer up their devout Praises to God for the several Mercies aforementioned, and for all other Favours which he hath been graciously pleased to bestow upon us, accompanying their Thanksgivings with fervent Prayers, that, after they shall have sang the Praises of God, they may not forget his Works.
And all servile Labour is forbidden on the said Day. GIVEN at the Council Chamber in Boston, the Twenty-eighth Day of October, in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c. Annoq. Domini, 1773.
T. HUTCHINSON. By his Excellency's Command, THOMAS FLUCKER, Secr'y. GOD SAVE THE KING.
In December next will be Published, THE New-England and Nova-Scotia REGISTER, with all the British Lists, and an Almanack for 1774. The subscribers intreat the favour of gentlemen in office, in this and the neighbouring governments, to send them, as soon as may be, a correct list of their different departments; the high sheriffs of the several counties, in particular, will greatly contribute to the usefulness of this work by favouring the publishers, with an exact list of their deputies, and the towns they reside in. The printers are determined to spare no pains in rendering the Register for 1774 as compleat and correct as possible.
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* Preparing for the Press and on suitable encouragement will speedily be published, THE REVIEW: A Serio Comic, Heroic P O E M, In three Parts.
IN Commemoration of the peerless Exploits of (a) the most magnanimous (b) Sergeant General PROTEUS, (c) and his very modest and humble imitator Major BLUSTER, lately exhibited at — a little village near the metropolis; in the presence
Several of the author's friends having candidly signified to him, that the intended work would labour in regard to subscriptions, from the obscurity of some of the terms made use of in the proposals published in the Port Boy of Monday last; he has thought it prudent to renew them in this day's Spy, with such explanatory comments (in several marginal notes) as may tend to remove the difficulty in the way of the publication; in which he flatters himself with the hope of the most generous patronage of all truly military spirits.
(a) A certain officer having been pulled by the nose by another of inferior rank; upon its being mentioned to him by a friend soon after, made this gallant christian reply, "that he could
of some of the best characters in the province. The fame being the second specimen of military merit on the new Plan of Reformation. (d)
The Poem will be divided by the Major's (e) three words of command; Make ready—Present—Fire.
The first part will, of course, contain the preparatory exercises of the (f) respective Platoons.
This part to be closed with the song of good old Simeon, (g) "Now lettest, &c." proposed by the General to be sung, by him, at the head of his regiment, on this occasion: The harmony of which with the other parts of the performance will most happily illustrate the native (h) ANTIPERISTASIS in the General's character.
In the second part will be accurately described and in true Heroics, the magnificent appearance of the battalion, the sumptuous attire, formidable aspect, amazing activity, intrepid courage, and yet inimitable propriety of conduct to conspicuous in the General; the exuberant pomposity of Major Bluster; the infinitely various manœuvres of the detached companies, particularly the (i) SECTIONS: In fine the surprising order, beauty and consistency of the several movements, in divisions and battalion.
In this part will be recited, at large, many new (k) and elegant speeches made to the populace, by the General, when acting the Part of Corporal, on this truly illustrious day, with some (l) as new and striking words of command given by the Major to the regiment.—DRUMS, &c.
This division of the subject to conclude with a tete-a-tete conversation (m) between the General and some of the privates in one of the companies, during the Review, on the beauty and propriety of some of the intended evolutions.
The third and last part to be composed of the firings by wings and battalion, (n) quitting the field, wheeling by fours, (o) paying the marching salute, &c. &c.
The whole to be closed with a song set to music, in praise of the QUICK STEP, so notably executed by Major Bluster, (p) who to compleat the Farce, dismounted to officiate as Lieutenant Colonel.
The Poem is designed to encourage a military spirit in officers and soldiers through the province.
** Subscriptions are taken in by, the Printers with whom the conditions are lodged. Arma Virumque cano. Virgil.
not be sufficiently thankful for restraining grace." Fox's history of the Martyrs. He that subdueth his spirit, than he that taketh a city. Solomon.
(b) It is not felony (even in a general officer) by any law of this province, to mistake a Spoonoon for an Halbert, or a King's day.
(c) Proteus—see a pamphlet published some years since, intitled "The Monster of Monsters."
(d) His E---y (we hear) intends in the course of the year ensuing, to make examples of all the regiments in the province.
(e) "Mind! I shall give but three words of command, and that is, Make Ready, &c."
(f) "General! shall I tell 'em now, Officers repair to your RESPECTIVE PLATOONS."
(g) Fellow-soldiers; if you will behave to-morrow as to do honour to the regiment, I'll sing the song of good Old Simeon, and depart.
(h) Antiperistasis. The violent action of opposite qualities in the same subject.
(i) SECTIONS. A favourite movement with the General, and the subject of his most unremitted contemplation and converse in all companies, for six weeks before the review.
(k) Do stand off! Pray stand off! wont you let the Governor see? the Governor has as good a right to see the right wing, as any of you, &c.
(l) "The minute you see the Governor appear in sight, do you all fall too, and drum like the nation—Keep on—don't stop."
"As soon as ever see my sword as high as my face, do all pull trigger for blood, and then go and load as fast as you chuse."
"As soon as we've fired, do you drum a roll, first strike; Flam, that's one; then drum a roll."
(m) "I know this would not do if we were going to face the enemy, but it will do very well now."
(n) An entirely new motion invented by the General, pro hac Vice.
(o) General! how shall we draw them off? Answer. It is not a t---'s matter.
(p) Unhappily for many persons present, the beauty of this air of the Major's was lost upon them, from the rudeness of the rabble; who notwithstanding all that could be said or done to prevent it, would crowd in, and become an OBSTACLE to the SPECTACLE.
On THURSDAY next, At ELEVEN o'Clock, Will be Sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, At BICKER's Auction-Room, Near the Court.
A GREAT variety of GOODS, as usual. M. BICKER. Auctioneer.

THURSDAY, November 4. BOSTON.
Yesterday there was a numerous assembly of the inhabitants of this and the neighbouring towns, at Liberty Tree, agreeable to a notification that had been the day before issued, "To hear the persons to whom the tea shipped by the East India Company is consigned, make a public resignation of their office as consignees, upon oath—and also swear that they will reship any teas that may be consigned to them by said company, by the first vessel sailing for London." The assembly having waited till twelve o'clock, the time set, then appointed a committee of respectable inhabitants of this town, to wait on Mr. Clark and Son, the two Messrs. Hutchinsons, and Mr. Faneuil, reported to be the consignees, who were together at Mr. Clark's store, and acquaint them, that as they had neglected to attend, they should think themselves warranted in looking upon them as the enemies of the people; and having read the message to them, were peremptorily answered, that they should pay no regard to it, which the people (who were waiting in the street) being informed of by the committee, they were returning back to Liberty Tree, there to consult what steps were proper further to be taken. But some of them being irritated with the haughty manner with which the answer was said to be given, turned back and shewed some marks of their resentment and then dispersed.—It is expected there will be another meeting of the people, to bring this matter to a conclusion, if it is not prevented by the above named gentlemen giving reasonable satisfaction to their fellow citizens and brother merchants who are universally alarmed with their conduct.
It is said, and not contradicted, that the Governor proposed to some of his Council who were with him Yesterday, to go down in person , to suppress the people assembled before Mr. Clark's warehouse, provided they would accompany him; an instance of heroism this! Query—Was not the design of this to give a colouring to the Company of grenadiers, which were ordered from the Castle to Milton, to make their appearance in this town, under a pretence that his own person was in danger; and thus to lay a foundation for more letters to be laid before the ministry.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Philadelphia, to his correspondent in Boston, dated the 13th of October, 1773.
"Our people are alarmed at the scheme of shipping Tea to the Colonies by the East India company; I have not known so sudden and so universal an appearance of discontent. We are to have a general meeting this week to concert measures to defeat the infernal scheme; and in a probability it will be impossible to land it here, without throwing us into the most violent convulsions, should there be any force to aid the landing of it: The commissioners appointed to sell it, have not yet explicitly expressed their sentiments; but should they not gratify their fellow citizens by declaring they will not receive the tea, in a few days you may expect to hear of the most resolute measures. Nothing can check our spirit unless we find ourselves deserted by our neighbours. As to New-York, we are assured that all is in motion there, as well as here. But from Boston, we see, that the duties on Tea have been regularly paid. If it is not so, a greater service could not be rendered at this time, than to give proper assurances of it. After all the efforts of our friends in Boston, should they be the occasion of repressing the present spirit, it will confirm many prejudices against them, and injure the common cause essentially, in future."
"Your infamous Richardson , who has been concealed from public view until very lately, was yesterday haunted about, and very narrowly escaped. But a certain A. T—— who was supposed to have been his associate and patron here, was turned out of the Coffee-house in a very ignominious manner.—I pity him:—He always appeared to be decent and very civil; but to be subjected to a Murderer convict , is so injurious and unsafe, that his appointment here by the Commissioners could be only with a view to provoke to a riot: And if T—— made him his friend it could not be expected that the populace could well distinguish between them."
The agents appointed by the East-India Company, for the sale of their teas in Philadelphia, are determined to have nothing to do with so pernicious a business.
Tuesday night last a number of sailors entered a house in Royal-Exchange-Lane, and cut and bruised a lodger therein in a cruel and barbarous manner.
Matter.—At Providence, Capt. William Butcher.—At Mansfield, Rhode-Island, the Rev. George Wheten, pastor of the church in Cleremont.—At Haverhill, Mrs. Elizabeth Bayley, relict of Joshua Bayley, Esq.
SALEM, November 2. The Town, at a full meeting held last Wednesday, voted, by a large Majority, to allow an inculcating Hospital, large enough to accommodate an hundred Patients, to be built by Subscription; and appointed a committee to look out for a suitable spot whereon to erect it; as also to prepare a draught of articles for the Government and regulation of the same. The meeting was adjourned to the Monday following, (Yesterday) when the committee made report of a suitable place for erecting the Hospital, together with articles of regulation; which report was unanimously accepted, and the necessary Officers immediately chosen for carrying the same into execution. The place pitched upon for the situation of the Hospital is at the South East corner of the great pasture.
MARRIED.—At Salem, Capt. John Gardner to Miss Mary Peele, both of that town.
For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y. Mr. THOMAS,
PERHAPS in the annals of no state has a crisis appeared more interesting than the present is to us. Despotism with all its horrors stares us full in the face, and taunts us with undisguised destruction. Taxation without consent and monopoly of trade, establishing itself together. The man who can view such an event as this without concern, must be as blind to future events as the lowest Hottentot. Let the trade be monopolized in particular hands or companies, and the privileges of these companies lie totally at the mercy of a British Ministry, and how soon will that ministry command all the power and property of the empire? What did ever a prince want to render his power absolute but an unlimited access to the purses of his subjects? Is not such an access almost established throughout the British dominions? What must the consequence be, if it can really and permanently be fixed? What indeed, but the most dreadful train of intolerable evils that ever overwhelmed a people! In the first place the trade which maintained millions in competency, and thousands in opulence, will quickly forsake its former channels and leave millions, as we may say, aground upon the dry sands—with these must fall the tradesmen of every occupation, the victualler, the poulterer, the farmer, all must sink into one common heap of ruin.
But how shall we help ourselves, says a well meaning citizen while the authors of our distress are supported by the civil power of the state, and in case that should prove insufficient, a military aid will undoubtedly again be called in, and plunge us into the same dismal condition, under which for some past years we have most bitterly groaned. What can the people do, when there is no regular remedy for their grievance, either in the courts of distributive justice or even their High Court of Parliament? To assemble in a body, and attempt to deal with commissioners of stamp papers, revenue acts, or tea sales, will subject us to prosecutions civil and criminal; and in case any of them lost their lives, or had the receptacle of this pestilential commodity destroyed by fire, the action against the actors and abettors would be capital. This is indeed, righteously the case in a time when man lives in peace and good neighbourhood with all around him. Mutual protection in the liberty of our persons, quiet enjoyment, and absolute disposal of our respective properties, is the bond of society; and while this remains firm and uninjured, no man can refuse that protection to any member of the community who requires it; but in case any man or number of men invade the liberties of a people, impose any restrictions, or extort any contributions from them, without their consent, such a party openly dissolves the pact of society; turns every member loose into the primitive state of nature, and leaves every one to provide for his own security in the best manner he can. When the constitution of a country is overthrown, its laws are hanging walls, ready to crush the parties to pieces they were framed to defend. Laws against mobs and riots in particular were designed to secure the benefit and wholesome citizen from the outrage of any number of evil minded persons, combined to do him an injury; and certainly it must be very criminal, for persons on any private pique against a man, to attack his person or destroy his property in a riotous and tumultuous manner; but let all men remember that the evil mind in the deer, and the innocence in the sufferer, are
crime! Now if any one can persuade himself that a thousand gentlemen, whose whole lives are examples of humanity and good breeding, can at once become a banditti of rioters, robbers and murderers, and out of mere wantonness, or something infinitely worse, fall upon and destroy the persons, or properties of persons living in the peace of God and the King, i. e. doing unto all men as they would that others should do unto them, he can doubtless reconcile himself to a conclusion equally natural, viz. that to aid and encourage the measures of our destroyers, and to oppose and defeat those of our preservers, supporters and defenders, is his indispensable duty. And I declare that when I become assured that this is the general sense, of the good and lawful men of the county of Suffolk, by whom I must be tried, if accused of any of the above conditioned malfeasances I shall let taxation, monopoly and every other species of oppression, injustice and violence imposed on the people at large, pass as much unnoticed by me, as they have long been by hundreds as deeply interested in the event as
CAUSIDICUS.
For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y. Mr. THOMAS, I HAVE heard some of the lower class of people reflect on the principal gentlemen who went to deliver the mind of the body, to the Tea commissioners, that on their haughty refusal to give the satisfaction the public so justly expected, they did not join the people in their effort to bring them to a compliance by force. These worthy citizens ought to be informed, that the Committee had nothing further in charge than to deliver the public voice to them. Their obstinate refusal to comply with the desire of their fellow-citizens, in declaring their resignation of the ruinous commission is certainly unjustifiable, but in such a rencounter, there was danger of lives being lost, which is not to be ventured upon till the last extremity. If after this fair declaration of the public sense, they still persevere in their resolution to destroy their country, all the world will applaud the spirit that, for the common preservation, will exterminate such malignant and dangerous persons.
A Committee Man.
For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y. Mr. THOMAS,
ONE proposes, that whereas the peace of this community is inevitably destroyed, if the unconstitutional commissioners, &c. which for some years past have been introduced upon us, get leave to remain any longer here; That the Select men who are the fathers of the town, assemble and go in a body to them, respectively declaring their apprehension, that the people are not safe while they reside among them, and setting a time for their departure. And in case they do not comply with the proposal, for the whole body of the people to rise and expel them, as infected and dangerous persons. X Y.
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A Large Assortment of GOODS, as usual. W. GREENLEAF, Auctioneer. A Variety of valuable Goods for Private Sale.
To be SOLD by Archibald Cunningham, CHOICE Lisbon, Corcavilla and Claret wine by the quart e ck. Madeira wine in half pipes, Lisbon id. per cask, raisins per cask. Turkey figs per cask, fresh cur- rants per hundred or dozen, almonds, the best of split peas per cask or bushell, green capers per cask, per pound or in butts, spices of all kinds by the pound or larger quantity, the best of Hylon, Souchong and Bohea Tea, all war- ranted good; coffee, ginger, allspice, fennel, crown soap, indigo, black, cloth coloured and white silk handkerchiefs per dozen, very fine black silk by the pound, mustard in bottles per dozen; china cups and saucers, a good assort- ment of glass, delph and cream colour'd ware, corks by the quantity or single gross, allum, redwood, copperas, waste paper, loaf and brown sugar, dutch heath brushes.
N. B. A quantity of best bay bait Mackerel per the barrel, a few choice pickled ones to be sold if applied for directly.
Jonathan Williams, jun.
Has imported in the Dolphin, Capt. Scott from LONDON, a number of the most fashionable
BROAD CLOTHS ; which makes his assortment more complete than it ever yet has been—His superfines are the very best that are made in England, and all the others will be found on examination to be very cheap according to their qualities, of which he only requests the impartial judgment of the pur- chaser.—Every kind of trimmings exactly matched, and an elegant assortment of gold and silver spangle and death-head buttons. He has also some very neat printed velvets for gentle- men's waistcoats, which are very beautiful, as well as cheap and durable—He still keeps up his elegant assortment of
English goods in general,
At his shop opposite the Drum-Makers. And as he trades for ready-money only will endeavour by selling low to induce his cus- tomers to part with that precious article. N. B.—Several articles at the sterling cost.
Jeremiah Allen,
Informs his friends and the public, that he has received per the Dolphin, Capt Scott, from LONDON,
A new supply of Goods
In the Hard-Ware branch, Which he doubts not will give the purchaser a general satisfaction as those he brought with him, both in point of goodness and price. Among which are the following articles, viz.
LONDON Pewter Dishes plates and basins, cans, tankards, tea- pots and bottle cranes, wine measures, table and tea spoons, bed and close stool pans, brass kettles and skillets, frying and warming pans, desk and book case furniture, brass knockers, castors, bed caps, cloak pins, knobs, screw rings, bell bolts, scales and weights, brass and iron candle- sticks, also a few of Prince's metal in the neatest taste, steel spring and japan'd snuffers, fire shov- els and tongs, bellows, kitchen jacks, andirons, box and flat irons, Box iron grates, bed screws, curriers knives, Cox's make, silver, ivory and bone handle knives and forks, penknives, raz- ors, scissars, taylors shears, cuteaux, snuff box- es, horn and ivory combs, coat and breast but- tons, shoe and knee buckles temple and Dutch spectacles, locks and hinges of all sorts, carpent- ers and joiners tools, powder and shot, English and French flint, bar and sheet lead, 6 by 8, 7 by 9 to 8 London crown window glass, worsted, wool combs, clothiers shears, anvils and vices, awl blades and shoe tacks, nippers and pincers, beaver, castor and felt hats, black and white winter caps, bambo, logwood, solid joint and hazel angling rods, hair and silk lines, best kirby and common hocks, kirby hooks on gimp and hair, snap hooks, landing nets, flies, goose floats, corks, fly line, gimp, brass wincher, span-tops for rods, English and German steel, London T D 15 inch pipes, a large assort- ment of looking glasses, the most elegant, pe-haps, ever offered for sale in America, also a few pair in the Palmyra taste, with jere- doles. Nails, brads, tacks, &c. and almost every article in the hard ware way.
This Day Published, [Price 8d.] And SOLD by JOHN BOYLE, Next door to the Three Doves, in Marl- borough Street,
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