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THE Massachusetts Spy
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
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, MARCH 25, 1773.
[NUMB. 112.
FRIDAY, March 19.
BOSTON.
PROCEEDINGS of the town of LEXINGTON.
At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Lexington, legally assembled at the meeting-house in said town, on Thursday 31st of December 1772, made choice of Capt. THADDEUS BOWMAN for Moderator, then after some debate on the unhappy situation of our public affairs, more especially as expressed in the warrant for this meeting, passed the following VOTES or RESOLVES, viz.
I. THAT it is the natural right and indispensable duty of every man and consequently of every society or body of men to consult their own safety, and take measures for the preservation of their own liberty and property, without which life itself can scarcely be deemed worth preserving.
II. That the security of life, liberty and property to a people, is or ought always to be considered as the great end of all government, and is known and acknowledged to be the professed end of the happy constitution of the British government in particular.
III. That when, through imperfections necessarily attendant upon the wisest systems of which fallible men are capable, or through the design of wicked or crafty men in places of power and trust, any laws or acts of government, are found to be obnoxious or oppressive to the subject, it is wisely provided and established by Magna Charta , the petition of rights and other statutes of England, that not only counties, cities and corporations, but also towns and individuals, may consult and go into measures for redress, by petition, remonstrance, or otherwise, as occasion and emergency of affairs may require.
IV. That the inhabitants of this town province, by the royal Charter (a sacred pact between them and the crown) being endowed with all the rights and privileges of English and British subjects, have indispensable both as a people and as individuals, to for themselves when laws, or measures of government, are obnoxious and oppressive, and to sit upon and go into the best measures in power for redress when oppressed. And therefore,
That as the inhabitants of this town look upon themselves in common with their brethren fellow subjects through the province, greatly injured and oppressed in various ways by measures of government, lately and especially those referred to in the warrant for this meeting; they cannot but judge it an inalienable right, and a duty they owe to themselves and posterity, as a town, as well as individuals to take these matters into serious consideration, freely to express their sentiments concerning them, and consult measures for redress.
Then Voted, that a committee of seven be chosen to take into consideration the subject of the warrant this meeting and report on the same at the adjournment, accordingly the following gentlemen were unanimously chosen, viz. William Id, Esq., Isaac Bowman, Esq.; Capt Thaddeus Bowman, Deacon Benjamin Brown, Mr. Suel Bridge, Deacon Joseph Loring, Mr. Jph Simonds.
Then a motion was made, that a letter from the town of Boston and an account of their proceedings at a late meeting, which were in the hands of our Selectmen be communicated to this town, the same were read accordingly. Then voted to adjourn the meeting to Tuesday next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, this meeting stands adjourned accordingly.
At a full meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Lexington, legally assembled, on the 31st of January 1773, being an adjournment from December 31st 1772.—Capt. THADDEUS BOWMAN, Moderator.
The committee appointed by the town at their meeting, on the 31st of December last, to take into consideration the subject of the warrant for said meeting, and report on the same at the adjournment, beg leave to report the following draught of instructions to their representative, viz.
To Mr. JONAS STONE, representative for the town of Lexington.
SIR, IT is not to call in question your capacity, disposition or fidelity, of our estimation of which, we have given the fullest evidence, in the choice we have made of you to represent us, in the General Court of this province; but, in exercising our right of instructing our representative, to open our minds freely to you, upon matters, which appear unto us interesting to ourselves, to the province and posterity, and to strengthen and confirm you in measures, which (we trust) your own judgment would have suggested as necessary and important to our common safety and prosperity, though we had been silent.
Our worthy ancestors, after many struggles with their enemies, in the face of every danger and at the expence of much treasure and blood, secured to themselves and transmitted to us their posterity, a fair and rich inheritance, not only of a pleasant and fertile land, but also of invaluable rights and privileges, both as men and christians, as stated in the royal charter of this province, and secured to us by the faith of the British crown and kingdom.
As we hold due allegiance to our rightful Sovereign King George III. and are ready with our lives and fortunes, to support his just and constitutional government; so we look upon ourselves as bound, by the most sacred duty, to the utmost of our power, to maintain and defend ourselves in our charter rights and privileges, and as a sacred trust committed to us, to transmit them inviolate to succeeding generations.
It is the general voice, at least of the more thinking and judicious among us, that our charter rights and liberties are in danger, are infringed: And upon a most careful, serious and mature consideration of them, as stated in our charter, and comparing them with acts of the British parliament, and measures adopted by the British Court, ministry and government, relating to this, and other American colonies, some of which have been carried into execution among us, we are clearly of opinion, that they have been for some time past, and are, at present, greatly infringed and violated hereby in various instances. And though measures have been gone into, from time to time, by the honorable council and house of representatives of the province, for relief and redress; yet so far from being successful, our grievances seem to increase, and be more and more intolerable, every day.
The unhappy and distressing effects of the measures referred to, are too many to admit, and too well known and felt to require a particular mention. But we cannot forbear observing the glaring contrast, which in some instances, is to be seen between our charter and the resolves and acts of the British parliament, respecting the people of this province, as well as other colonies.
The charter grants to our General Court full power and authority, from time to time, to make, ordain and establish, all manner of reasonable laws, &c. and that such laws &c. not being disallowed by the King, within three years, shall remain in full force, until the expiration hereof, or until repealed by the same authority. But the British parliament have resolved, "that they have a right to make laws binding upon the colonies in all cases whatsoever." So that whenever they please to carry this resolve into execution, they may, by another resolve passed into an act, by one powerful stroke vacate all our charters, and, in a moment, dash all our laws out of existence, or bury them together in one common ruin!
By the charter, the right of taxing the people is lodged in the General Court of the province; (and we think exclusively:) But the late revenue act, which have been (with so many ensigns of power and terror, in open violation of the laws and liberties of this people) put in execution by the Commissioners of the customs, this right is clearly infringed, and the power put into and exercised by other hands.
By the charter, we are vested with all the rights and liberties of British subjects, one of which we know is in Magna Charta , declared
to be that of trial by juries ; and "That no freeman shall be disseized of his freehold, liberties, &c. but by the lawful judgment of his peers, &c." But such is the provision made in the revenue act, and such the extension of the power of courts of admiralty, that men may be disseized of their liberty, and carried from one part of the country to the other, and be tried and sentenced by one judge, for any even the smallest breach of this act, whether real or supposed.
Though the charter provides for the erecting of judicatories, for hearing and trying all manner of offences, as well criminal and capital, as civil, yet, if we are rightly informed, a late act of parliament provides and directs, in some cases, that persons may be seized and carried to England for trial, and that for life. Should this be the case—where is the right of freemen,—where the boasted liberty of English Subjects!
The charter represents the Governor of the province, as Captain General , and as having full power and authority in all military and warlike affairs:—And of himself to appoint all military officers, to erect forts and commit them to the custody of such person or persons, as to him shall seem meet. But can it be said, that this is the truth of fact, when the Governor himself , declares he has no authority over those who have the custody of the most important fortresses, and when garrisons are changed and officers appointed, not only not by the Governor, but even without his knowledge or controul!
Whether this is the state of Castle-William , the principle fortress of this province, appears to us to be a question not unworthy the serious attention, and furthermost critical enquiry of the Great and General Court.
The charter not only vests the General Court of the province, with the right of imposing taxes, but also points out the ends for which taxes are to be raised; one of which is the support of government: Justly supposing that necessary connection between the governing and governed, and that mutual dependance which preserves a due balance between them, which in all well regulated states has been found to have the happiest tendency, to promote good government on the one hand and cheerful obedience on the other. But not enough, that the right of taxation is violated, but the right of determining the merit and services of those that are employed in government must be yielded too. Thus with respect to the first offices among us, the only remaining tie of interest, whereby persons in the service of the public were induced to be faithful in their trust to the people is dissolved: And being entirely dependent on the crown for both place and support, it becomes their interest, at least in many cases, to be unfaithful and partial in their administration with regard to the people. And considering the imperfections of human nature, it is scarcely possible that it should be otherwise, even though the best of men where in authority. For interest will have its influence to blind the eyes, and pervert the judgment of the wisest and most upright.
We have been certified in form, that this is the case, with the Gentleman in the chief seat of government and at the head of the province. And from the best intelligence which we are able to obtain, we have but too much reason to fear, that the same plan has taken place with respect to a number of others, in places of trust and power, of no small importance to the well being of this people. Particularly we have reason to think this to be fact with regard to the Judges of the Superior Court, the highest court of justice in the province, the court, upon the decisions and determinations of which, all our interests, respecting property, liberty or life, do chiefly, if not ultimately depend. And what adds to the indignity of this measure, is, that it is carried into effect, as we have just reason to suppose, at our expence, at the same time that it is against our consent.
Thus the plan of oppression is begun, and so far carried on, that if our enemies are still successful, and no means can be found to put a stop to their career, no measures contrived for a restoration of our affairs, to a constitutional course, as pointed out in our charter, we have just reason to fear, that the eyes of the head of
government being blinded, the sources of justice poisoned, and the hands of administration bribed with interest, the system of slavery will soon be complete. These things are of so interesting a nature, so deeply affecting and so big with the ruin of all our rights and liberties, both civil and religious, that we readily acknowledge, that we cannot so much as transiently view them without a mixture of horror, indignation and grief.
But this is not all—our charter knows no such thing as instructions to Governors; and yet, what have not instructions done to distress this people!
And if, in addition to these, it should be found, upon the enquiry of the guardians of the province, in General Court assembled, (and they have a right to enquire) that the law has not, in all instances, had its course; or that, at any time, measures have been successful to stay justice from offenders, it seems as if it was time to be alarmed and provide for our safety; or else tamely to bow to the yoke, and forever hereafter to be silent.
Whether this representation is just, is submitted, and must be left to time and facts to discover. But that these, among other things, are worthy most serious attention, as subjects of enquiry and deeply interesting cannot be disputed.
And therefore to you Sir, whom we have chosen to represent us, in the great court of inquest, for this province, we do most earnestly recommend it, that you use your utmost influence, that these, as well as all other matters in which the rights and liberties of this people are concerned, are impartially enquired into and dispassionately considered, by the General Assembly, and that measures be pursued, by petition to the throne, or otherwise, as the court, in their great wisdom, shall see meet, for a radical and lasting redress, that thus whether successful or not, succeeding generations might know, that we understood our rights and liberties and were neither afraid nor ashamed to assert and maintain them. And that we ourselves may have (at least) this consolation in our chains, that it was not through our neglect, that this people were enslaved.
WILLIAM REED, per order."
This report being repeatedly read, and the question put, whether the town accept said report; it passed in the affirmative, nemine contradicente .
The town then took into consideration, the letter and proceedings of the town of Boston, which had been communicated to them, and passed upon them as follows, viz.
Upon due consideration of the letter and proceedings of the town of Boston, upon matters of the highest importance and common concern to this province, which has been communicated to us by our Selectmen.—Voted.
That this town entirely concurs with them in their sentiments both as to the nature of our rights, and the high infractions of them by the late measures of government, and with pleasure embrace this opportunity to express the grateful sense they have of the vigilance and patriotic spirit, they, and our brethren in many other towns, have discovered upon this and various occasions, for the preservation of our rights, &c.
Voted also that this town has a right to correspond with other towns, upon matters of common concern,—and that a committee be accordingly chosen, to transmit the proceedings of this meeting to the gentlemen of the committee of correspondence in Boston, and further to correspond with them as well as the committees of other towns, upon matters of common concern, as occasion may require.
Then voted, that five persons be chosen a committee for said purpose. The following gentlemen were accordingly chosen, viz. Capt. Thaddeus Bowman, Deacon Jonathan Stone, Mr. Robert Harrington, jun. Deacon Benjamin Brown, Deacon Joseph Loring.
A true copy as on record,
Attest.
JOSEPH MASON, Town-Clerk.

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SATURDAY, March 20. B O S T O N. By the Harriott Packet, Capt. Lee, arrived at New-York in 43 days from Falmouth. we have the following
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, December 25. ESTERDAY the houses of Lords and Commons broke up and adjourned till after the holidays. The Commons to the 19th and the Lords to the 21st of January next.
They write from Naples, that the Venetian resistant at that Court had received a packet from Oranto, containing an ac- count from Cefalonica, of the important news of an engagement on the 8th of Nov. in sight of Patras, between a detachment of the Russian fleet and a Turkish Squadron, which was destined for the relief of Mehe- met Abouda, in Egypt, against his op- ponent Aly Bey. The Turkish fleet con- sisted of 30 sail, who were totally defeated, and 13 of their ships were either taken or sunk, two took shelter under the cannon of Patras, the rest fled, but were pursued by the Russians into the Gulph of Patras, where they took shelter under the cannon of another fort, but the Russian commander, notwithstanding the fire from the fortress, entered courageously and set fire to them all, and not one of the Turkish vessels escaped. The commander of them, who was son of the Bashaw of Scutari, made his escape on shore, and the rest of the crews followed his example, but the Russians still pursued them, and killed a great number even after they had landed
The question at present under considera- tion with respect to the Boston Judges may be reduced to a short alternative; which is better, to render them wholly independent , or to keep them wholly dependent on the people? The people will not give them bread unless they comply with every popu- lar wish; and unless we say that popularity is infallible, the expounders of the law must go without a provision, or be eternally subject to the caprices of the multitude.
General Gage, commander in chief of the forces in North-America, has received permission to return from that station to Bri- tain, in consequence of his own application. And we hear that he is to be succeeded in the command by General Haldimand.
Yesterday the hon. Charles Fox, kissed his Majesty's hand at St. James's, on being appointed one of the Lords of the Treas- ury, in the room of Mr. Jenkinson, appoint- ed a Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, in the place of Lord Edgecumbe.
Dec. 26. The opposition are not a lit- tle taken in with regard to the enquiry into the expedition to St. Vincents; they did not expect that the ministry would comply with the motion for laying all the papers re- lative to that transaction before the house; and therefore imagine that they have given government a sure triumph, where they only meant to lessen it in the general opin- ion of the kingdom.
It has been asserted that Lord Hillsbo- rough was offered, and refused, a pension of 1000l. a year upon the Irish establish- ment; but we are assured that his Lordship nobly scorned to receive any pecuniary gra- tification on his leaving office; and when he voluntarily resigned an employment of 8000l. a year, government would by no means insult him with an offer of a pension which would scarcely be deemed considerable enough for a private secretary.
Advises are received from Geneva, of a very dangerous insurrection in that city, with a design to cut off some of the princi- pal burghers, and to new model the govern- ment; and that upwards of 2000 men were actually in arms when it was discover- ed. Sixteen of the principals were imme- diately seized, and the rest dispersed.
The most sudden and close fog came on yesterday that ever was known in the me- mory of man. Considerable mischief has been done by coaches running foul of each other, &c. the drivers not being able to distinguish any object at a yard distance.
The House of P—— and B—— at Stockholm, has stopped payment for the sum of one million four hundred thousand dol- lars, (about 313,000l. sterl.) There is no doubt but this failure will in its consequences involve many other capital houses in all the great commercial cities in Europe.
Jan. 2. The great house, which has just stopped, is allowed to be the first in the world. It is no wonder the cities of Am- sterdam and London are in the utmost con-
cern at this important event. There is no foreseeing what will be the con- sequences, but it is certain they will be many and fatal! The current cash of this house was alone half a million sterling.
The Duke of Marlborough, it is said, will accept of the Premiership very soon in a respectable department; not for any ad- vantage to himself, but the pleasure of providing for his long dependent friends.
Preparations are now making at the pa- lace for her Majesty's lying in, and the wet- nurse, and other persons in different stations have received orders to be in readiness to attend.
There is no doubt of a coolness subsisting between the Premier and Lord G——; but the latter, though he has the whole of the late Duke of Bedford's party at his back, is afraid of breaking entirely with Lord N——. Whilst, on the other hand, the Premier seems very careless of the event, as he is convinced that his strength, though it may be weakened by the desertion of so formidable a support, cannot be overpow- ered even by the accession of the Bedford party.
The Hotel Dieu, (one of the finest Hos- pitals in the world) was burnt down at Paris the beginning of January last, and between seven and eight hundred sick persons per- ished in the flames. There was also twelve adjacent houses consumed by the same fire.
The senate at Stockholm was assembled at that place on the 29th of December, by an express order of the King.
Two eminent houses at Lyons, in France, are said to have stopped payment, occasioned by the late failures in Holland.
St. James's, Jan. 2. The King has been pleased to order letters patent to be passed under the great seal of the kingdom of Ireland, for granting unto the Right Hon. Robert Lord Viscount Clare, the Right Hon. Wellbore Ellis, and Charles Jenkinson, Esq., the office or offices of his Majesty's vice- treasurer, and receiver-general and paymas- ter-general of all his Majesty's revenues, pro- fits and casualties whatsoever in the said kingdom of Ireland.
ROME, [Italy] December 13. Yester- day the Arsenal at Civita Vecchia having tak- en fire, a prodigious explosion followed, whereby the Governor's house was blown into the air, the walls of the castle much da- maged, and many persons killed and wound- ed.
LONDON, January 14. A gentleman from Vienna, says that the public library lately opened there, is the greatest in Europe except the Vatican, but the books much better chosen. That there are 300,000 printed volumes, besides 12,000 curious manuscripts in various languages, and is said to excel in each particular kind of learning.
Letters from Copenhagen advise, that the Queen Dowager and Prince Frederick have entirely quitted the court.
The former apartments of the Queen of Denmark are now re-fitting and it is cer- tain her return there is expected.
We have advice that the King William, Gordon, from Newfoundland for London, was on the 20th November taken by a Spanish guarda costa, and carried into Hispa- niola. A vessel was immediately dispatched with advice thereof to Admiral Rodney, at Jamaica.
The Earl of Hillsborough, we are assur- ed, is still consulted on the affairs of the co- lonies.
DEATHS. On the 30th of December at Suindon, in Gloucestershire, William Nash, Esq.; Alderman of Waldbrook ward, late Lord Mayor of London.——On the 1st of January at his house at White-Hall, Sir Richard Glynn, Baronet, Alderman of Dowgate Ward.——They are supposed to have lost their lives by the goal distemper taken from the prisoners, brought before them to be tried.
MONDAY, March 22. B O S T O N.
Proceedings of the Town of WESTMINSTER. "THE freeholders and other inhabitants of Westminster, in town-meeting legally assembled on the 11th day of Feb. 1773, having, with due attention, read and con- sidered a letter from the town of Boston, together with a state of the rights of the co- lonists, and of this province in particular; as also a list of the infringements of their rights; unfeignedly thank them, in parti- cular for this late instance of their vigilance in the glorious CAUSE of LIBERTY; and for their constant patriotic care to keep in- violet our civil constitution."
We fully agree with them in the state of rights of the colonists, and of this province in particular, and of the list of the infringe- ments of those rights.
"We shall at all times heartily join with them in all legal and constitutional mea- sures for the recovery of those inestimable privileges wrested from us, and firmly to secure those that remain; for we are sensible that should we renounce our liberty and privileges we should renounce the quality of men, the rights of humanity, and even our duty to GOD and Man."
"We have no doubt but that the measures which the town of Boston have adopted in communicating their sentiments must be in- tended with very salutary effects, not only to this province, but to all the colonies, and that the parliament of Great Britain, will hereby understand, that it is not the discon- tentedness of a faction (as has been repre- sented) but that the whole people are sensible of the burdens they labour under."
A true copy as of record. Attest  ABNER HOLDEN, Town Clerk."
TUESDAY, March 23. B O S T O N.
Extract of a letter of the 29th of January, from a gentleman in the West Indies.
"The Caraibs are restless, and seem determined that the loss of liberty and pro- perty shall be accompanied with that of life; a determination worthy of a Briton; and as such, should be revered by one, though found in the breast of a poor Carab.——Our troops are sickly, and appear to want that animation, which has hitherto always ap- peared on more glorious occasions; they seem sensible that justice has not drawn the sword.——The expedition was ill judged, and is condemned by every rational being in the West Indies.——One third of the sum expend- ed, given to the Caraibs, would have pur- chased the lands, and they would have re- turned from the island.——They are by no means savages; many of them own twenty and thirty negroes, and have plantations un- der good cultivation."
DIED In England, Mr. Joseph Rotch, late of this town, Merchant.
WEDNESDAY, March 24. B O S T O N.
Last Monday the prisoners perceived fire in the new Court House chamber, near the gaol and gave the alarm; it was communi- cated through the funnel of the chimney in the Probate Office, but it providentially hap- pening in the day, with timely assistance, it was soon extinguished, with little damage to that elegant building, and no loss of the pub- lic papers lodged in the several offices.
Extract of a letter from New York.
"Surely Governor Hutchinson overshoot himself in his speech to your Assembly; all agree here, even the warmest friends of ad- ministration, that the ministry will not thank him for it. The answer of your Council and Assembly do them great honour. What will the end of these things be? The struggles of America for liberty, civil and religious, certainly portend something great and good to the subjects of the future grand American empire: However, it is our duty not to give posterity reason to reproach us for indolence and negligence in a cause of such interesting importance; and I hope they will not. Dr. —— and other friends in London, writes to me in the same strain that Dr. —— does to you; giving all desirable assurance, that there is no present danger of the mission of a bishop to any of the American colonies. I think, however, that we ought not to be inattentive to the subject. The episcopal clergy we know will not, and sure we ought not."
Extract of a letter from New York, dated March 10, 1773
"The present political transactions of your province, especially of your General Court, excites the attention of all ranks here:——Your Assembly's reply to your Gov- ernor's late extraordinary speech, meets with general approbation; and well it may, for it is certainly a masterly perfor- mance."
This Day published, price 8d. And to be SOLD, by JOHN LANGDON, At his shop opposite the Post-Office, in Cornhill.
AN address to the inhabitants of the British Settlements in America, upon SLAVE KEEPING.
The author of this pamphlet, (a physician of eminence in Philadelphia) has lately distin- guished himself by the publication of Ser- mons to Gentlemen on Temperance and Ex- ercise, which have deservedly obtained him the character of an elegant and sensible writ- er. The present performance will not only support the reputation he has acquired, but will strongly recommend him to the friends of liberty and humanity.
Drugs and Medicines.
A fresh and large assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES are just imported, and to be sold (either in large or small quantities) for cash or short credit, by PETER ROBERTS, At his shop directly opposite the west door of the Town-house, Boston.
In the above assortment are, MAREDANT'S Antiscorbutic and Walker's Jesuits Drops, Tun- nington's Balsam of Life, Balsam of Horey, France's Female Elixir, Anderson's, Hoop- er's and Lockyer's Pills, and almost every kind of patented Medicines.——Genuine Ex- tract of Hemlock and Candied Eryngo Root. Amputating, Trepaning, and Midwifery, and a variety of other Surgical Instruments, very neat; Iron, Bell Metal, Glass and Mar- ble Mortars, with Pestles, Phials and Gall- ipots per Crate.——Fine Hungary and Laven- der Water, Court Plaster, Smelling Bottles. Sago, Slop, Barley, and British Herb Snuff for the Head-Ach.
Anatto, Madde, and other Dye Stuff, of a superior Quality.——Neat Stone Jars and Jugs of different Sizes.
True Velvet and other CORKS, in any Quantity.——Jordan Almonds, fine Prunes, Jar Raisins and Turkey Figs, C- t., &c. &c.
The above assortment consists of a very great Variety; the Quality and Price of which will convince the Purchaser that they are sold on the most reasonable Terms. Doctors Boxes of various Prices, with proper Directions.
Dr. CALCOTT, From LONDON, A Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. I cure if curable, viz.
KING'S Evil, Wens, Fits, Stone and Gravel, Piles, Tooth-Ach without drawing, Head-Ach, Fevers and Agues, Worms, Asthma, Bloody Flux, Deaf- ness, Sore-Eyes, Vapours, Falling Sickness, Scald Heads, Corns, Pimples on the Skin, Sore Throats, Dropsy, Shortness of Breath, St. Anthony's Fire, Itch, Cancer, Cholick, Canker in the Mouth, Pleurisy, Consumption, Asthmatic Cough, Hooping Cough, Burns, Rheumatism, Scalds, &c. &c. &c.
N. B. I know the Person's Disorder by the first Water made in the Morning, or by their Pulse. I will not take any Person in hand to cure if I know I cannot help them.
Dr. CALCOTT is to be spoke with at the house of Mr. ANDREW DODGE, in Wc- burn.
A POCKET BOOK lost.
LOST in Boston, last Thursday, or dropped on the road to Concord, a Pocket-Book, containing sundry papers: Whoever hath the same and will bring it to the Printer hereof, or leave it with Mr. Taylor, innholder in Concord, shall be well rewarded for their trouble.
THIS DAY, To be SOLD at PUBLIC VENDUE, At TWO o'clock, P. M.
A Good FARM lying on Cambridge Neck, so called, containing one hundred and ten acres; consisting of m- ing, both upland and n- with good pasture and plowland, a very valuable wood lot: Also good one- ing of choice fruit, with a good well house and barn thereon, and the wh- watered: The above said farm to be pur- together or separate, as may best suit For- chaser: the sale to be on the premises. Further particulars enquire of Saml. Soden of Watertown, or of Seth Haskell of said Cambridge.
To all protestants of every denomination, throughout America, and all to religious and civil liberty.
Newport, March 10, 1773.
PROPOSAL For Re-printing by Subscription.
MASTER KEY TO POPE- DRY. In five parts. Part I. Containing A Discovery of the most secret practices of the secular and regular Romish priests in their au- ricular confessions. Part II. A true copy of the Pope's yearly bull of indulgences and pardon of sins, to all those who serve the war against the enemies of the Romish religion. The explanation of the bull, with remarks upon it. Part III. An account of their masses, privileged altars, transubstantiation and purgatory; and of the means the priests take to elude the people. Part IV. Of the Inquisitors and their practices in several instances. Part V. Of their practices, and a list of images, relics, &c.
By D. ANTONIO GAVIN, Born and educated in some years secular Priest in the church of Rome, and since 1715 minister of the church of England.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are taken in by SODO- MON SOUTHWICK, the publisher, in Newport, by all the PRINTERS in North America.
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THURSDAY, March 25. BOSTON.
At a legal meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, at Faneuil Hall on Monday the 8th of March 1773, and continued by adjournment to the 23d. instant.
MR. SAMUEL ADAMS acquainted the Moderator, that he was directed by a committee (of which he was chairman) to make a report; and the same was read as follows, viz.
"THE committee appointed "to consider what is proper to be done, to vindicate the town from the gross misrepresentations and groundless charges in his Excellency's message to both houses" of the General assembly, "respecting the proceedings of the town at their last meeting," beg leave to report.
"THAT having carefully looked over the several speeches of the Governor of the province, to the council and house of representatives, in the last session of the General Assembly, they find that his Excellency has plainly insinuated;
"First, that the said meeting of the town was illegal in itself.
"Secondly, that the points therein determined were such, as the law gives the inhabitants of towns in their corporate capacity no power to act upon; and therefore, that the proceedings of said meeting were against law. And,
"Thirdly, that the inhabitants thus assembled advanced, and afterwards published to the world, such principles as have a direct tendency to alienate the affections of the people from their sovereign. And he plainly asserts that they "denied in the most express terms the supremacy of parliament, and invited every other town and district in the province to adopt the same principles."
"We have therefore thought it necessary to recur to the methods taken for calling said meeting. And we find that three petitions were preferred to the Select-men, signed by 198 respectable freeholders and inhabitants, making mention of a report that then prevailed, and which since appears to have been well grounded, that salaries were allowed to be paid to the Justices of the Superior Court of the province by order of the crown; whereby they were to be made totally independent of the General Assembly and absolutely dependent on the crown: And setting forth their apprehensions that such an establishment would give a finishing stroke to the system of tyranny already begun, and compleat the ruin of the liberties of the people. And therefore earnestly requesting the Selectmen to call a meeting, that this matter might be duly considered by the town, and such measures taken as the necessity and importance thereof required. Whereupon the Selectmen issued a warrant for calling a meeting accordingly. All which was strictly agreeable to the laws of this province, and the practice of this and other towns from the earliest times.
"By an act of this province made in the fourth year of William and Mary it is enacted; That, "when and so often as there shall be occasion of a town meeting for any business of public concernment to the town there to be done, the constable or constables of such town, by order of the Selectmen, or major part of them, or of the town clerk by their order, in each respective town within this province shall warn a meeting of such town," &c. And by another act made in the 2 George 1. it is enacted; That "When and so often as ten or more of the freeholders of any town, shall signify under their hands to the Selectmen, their desire to have any matter or thing inserted into a warrant for calling a town meeting, the Selectmen are hereby required to insert the same in the next warrant they shall issue, for the calling a town-meeting."
"But were there no such laws of the province, or should our enemies pervert these and other laws made for the same purpose, from their plain and obvious intent and meaning, still there is the great and perpetual law of self-preservation, to which every natural person or corporate body, hath an inherent right to recur. This being the law of the creator, no human law can be of force against it: And indeed it is an absurdity to suppose that any such law could be made by common consent, which alone gives validity to human laws. If then the "matter or thing" viz. the fixing salaries to the offices of the Judges of the Superior Court as aforesaid, was such as threatened the lives, liberties and properties of the people, which we have the authority of the greatest assembly of the province to affirm, the inhabitants of this, or any o-
ther town, had certainly an uncontested right to meet together, either in the manner the law has prescribed, or in any other orderly manner, jointly to consult the necessary means, of their own preservation and safety. The petitioners wisely chose the rule of the province law, by applying to the Selectmen for a meeting; and they, as it was their duty to do, followed the same rule and called a meeting accordingly. We are therefore not a little surprized, that his Excellency, speaking of this and other principal towns, should descend to such an artful use of words; that "a number of inhabitants have assembled together, and having assumed the name of a legal town meeting," &c. Thereby appearing to have a design, to lead an inattentive reader to believe, that no regard was had to the laws of the province, in calling these meetings, and consequently to consider them as illegal and disorderly.
"The inhabitants being met, and for the purpose aforesaid, the points determined, his Excellency says, "were such as the law gives the inhabitants of towns in their corporate capacity no power to act upon." It would be a sufficient justification of the town to say, that no law forbids the inhabitants of towns in their corporate capacity, to determine such points as were then determined. And if there was no positive legal restraint upon their conduct it was doing them an essential injury, to represent it to the world as illegal. Where the law makes no special provision for the common safety, the people have a right to consult their own preservation; and the necessary means to withstand a most dangerous attack of arbitrary power. At such a time, it is but a pitiful objection to their thus doing, that the law has not expressly given them a power to act upon such points. This is the very language of tyranny: And when such objections are offered, to prevent the people's meeting together in a time of public danger, it affords of itself just grounds of jealousy, that a plan is laid for their slavery.
"The town entered upon an enquiry into the grounds of a report, in which the common safety was very greatly interested. They made their application to the Governor, a fellow citizen as well as the first magistrate of the province: But they were informed by his Excellency, that "it was by no means proper for him," "to acquaint them whether he had or had not received any advices relating to the public affairs of the government of the province." Their next determination was, to petition the governor, that the General Assembly might be allowed to meet at the time to which it then stood prorogued: But his Excellency refused to grant this request, lest it should be "encouraging the inhabitants of other towns to assemble," "to consider of the necessity or expediency of a session of the General Assembly." Hitherto the town had determined upon no point but only that of petitioning the Governor: And will his Excellency or any one else affirm, that the inhabitants of this or any other town, have not a right in their corporate capacity to petition for a session of the General Assembly, merely because the law of this province, that authorizes towns to assemble, does not expressly make that the business of a town meeting? It is the declaration of the Bill of Rights, founded in reason, that it is the right of the subjects to petition the King: But it is apparent in his Excellency's answer, that the inhabitants of this town were in effect, denied, in one instance at least, the right of petitioning his Majesty's Representative. Which was the more grievous to them, because the prayer of their petition was nothing more, than that the General Assembly might have the opportunity of enquiring of the Governor into the grounds of the report of an intolerable grievance, which his Excellency had before strongly intimated to them, it was not in his power to inform them of, "consistent with fidelity to the trust which his Majesty had reposed in him."
"We have been the more particular in reciting the transactions of that meeting thus far, in order that the propriety and necessity of the further proceedings of the same meeting may appear in a true point of light.
"His Excellency having thus frowned upon the reasonable petitions of the town; and they, having the strongest apprehensions, that in addition to, or rather in consequence of other grievances not redressed, a mortal wound would very soon be given to the civil constitution of the province; and having no assurance of the timely interposition of the General Assembly, to whose wisdom they were earnestly solicitous to refer the whole matter, the town thought it expedient to state as far
as they were able the right of the colonists and of this province; to enumerate the infringements on those rights, and in a circular letter to each of the towns and districts in the province, to submit the same to their consideration: That the subject might be weighed as its importance required, and the collected wisdom of the whole people as far as possible obtained. At the same time, not "calling upon" those towns and districts "to adopt their principles," as his Excellency in one of his speeches affirms; but, only informing them that "a free communication of their sentiments to this town, of our common danger, was earnestly solicited and would be gratefully received. We may justly affirm that the town had a right at that meeting, to communicate their sentiments of matters which so nearly concerned the public liberty and consequently their own preservation. They were matters, to use the words of the province law, of "public concernment" to this and every other town, and even individual in the province: Any attempt therefore to obstruct the channel of public intelligence in this way, argues in our opinion, a design to keep the people in ignorance of their danger, that they may be the more easily and speedily enslaved. It is notorious to all the world, that the liberties of this continent and especially of this province, have been systematically and successfully invaded from step to step: Is it not then, to say the least, justifiable in any town, as being part of the great whole, when the last effort of tyranny is about to be made, to spread the earliest notice of it far and wide, and hold up the iniquitous system in full view. It is a great satisfaction to us, that so many of the respectable towns in the province, and we may add, gentlemen of figure in other colonies, have expressed, and continue to express themselves much pleased with the measure: And we encourage ourselves, that from the manifest discovery of an union of sentiments in this province, which has been one happy fruit of it, there will be the united efforts of the whole in all constitutional and proper methods to prevent the entire ruin of our liberties.
"His Excellency is pleased to say in one of his speeches, that the town have "denied in the most express terms, the supremacy of parliament." It is fortunate for the town, that they made choice of the very mode of expression which the present House of Representatives in their wisdom made use of, in stating the matter of controversy between the Governor and them. And after what they have advanced upon the subject, it appears to us impossible to be shown that the parliament of Great-Britain can exercise "the power of legislation for the colonists in all cases whatever," consistently with the rights which belong to the colonists, as men, as christians, and as subjects; or without destroying the foundation of their own constitution. If the assertion, that the parliament hath no right to exercise a power in cases where it is plain they have no right, hath a direct tendency to alienate the affections of the people from their sovereign, because he is a constituent part of that parliament, which seems to be his Excellency's manner of reasoning; it follows as we conceive, that there must never be a complaint of any assumption of power in the parliament, or petition for the repeal of any law made, repugnant to the constitution, lest it should tend to alienate the affections of the people from their sovereign. But we have a better opinion of our fellow subjects than to concede to such conclusions: We are assured they can clearly see, that a mistake in principle may consist with integrity of heart; and for our parts, we shall ever be inclined to attribute the grievances of various kinds which his Majesty's American subjects have so long suffered, to the weakness or wickedness of his ministers and servants, and not to any disposition in him to injure them. And we yet persuade ourselves, that could the petitions of his much aggrieved subjects be transmitted to his Majesty, through the hands of an honest, impartial minister, we should not fail of ample redress.
"His Excellency's argument seems to us to be rather strained, when he is attempting to shew, that we have "invited every other town and district to adopt our principles." It is this; The town says, "if it should be the general voice of the province, that the rights as stated do not belong to them, (trusting however, that this cannot be the case) they shall lament the extinction of ardour for civil and religious liberty: Therefore, says his Excellency, the town invited them to adopt their principles." Could it possibly be supposed that when his Excellency had declared to the whole province, that we had invited every other town
and district in the province to adopt the same principles, he intended to avail himself of such an explanation! Much the same way of reasoning follows, (though it would not be to the reputation of the other towns, if it should have any weight) That because their consequent doings were similar to those of this town, therefore they understood that they were invited to adopt the same principles, and therefore they were thus invited to adopt them.
"Upon the whole; There can be no room to doubt but that every town which has thought it expedient to correspond with this on the occasion, have acted their own judgment and expressed their own principles: It is an unspeakable satisfaction to us, that their sentiments so nearly accord with ours; and it adds a dignity to our proceedings, that when the House of Representatives were called upon by the Governor to bear their testimony against them, as "of a dangerous nature and tendency," They saw reason to declare, "that they had not discovered that the principles advanced by the town of Boston were unwarrantable by the constitution."
The foregoing report was accepted in the meeting, nemine contradicente , and ordered to be recorded in the town's book, as the sense of the inhabitants of this town.
It was also voted, that said report be printed in the several News Papers, and that the committee of correspondence be directed to transmit a printed copy thereof to such towns and districts as they have or may correspond with. Attest.
WILLIAM COOPER, Town-Clerk.
At the above meeting, Mr. John Coffin was chosen a Fire-ward in the room of Mr. James Richardson, who had the thanks of the town for his services. Mr. Andrew Black, Mr. Samuel-Allyn Otis, and Capt. John Pulling, were chosen to serve as Wardens: Mr. Benjamin Hammet a clerk of the market, in the room of Mr. Samuel Barret, And Mr. William Todd a Constable.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in London to his friend in this town, dated January 9, 1773.
"Some circumstances are working in favour of America, with regard to the duties; it is found by the last year's account transmitted by the Commissioners that the balance in favour of Britain is but about eighty-five pounds, after payment of salaries, &c. exclusive of the charge of a fleet to enforce the collection.—It is further observed, that the India Company is so out of Cash that it cannot pay the bills drawn upon it, and at the same time so out of credit that the bank does not care to assist them; whence they find themselves obliged to lower their dividend, the apprehension of which has sunk their stock from 280 to 160, whereby several millions of property are annihilated, occasioning private bankruptcies and other distress, besides a loss to the public treasury of £. 400,000 per ann. which the company by agreement are not to pay into it as heretofore, if they are not able to keep up their dividend at 12½; and as they have at the same time tea and other India goods in their warehouses, to the amount of four millions as some say, for which they want a market, and which if it had been sold, would have kept up their credit. This shews the great importance of losing the American market, by keeping up the duties on tea, which has thrown the trade into the hands of foreigners. This gives some alarm and begins to convince people more and more of the impropriety of quarrelling with the Americans."
MARRIED.] Mr. John Simpkins, Upholster, to Mrs. Mehitable Torrey widow of the late Mr. Samuel Torrey, Merchant. —Mr. James Lamb, jun. to Miss Betsey Lefebure.—Mr. John Boies, of Milton, to Miss Peggy Duncan, of this town.—Mr. Thomas Allen, Staymaker, to Miss Ayres.
DIED.] Charles Hay Esq; Captain of his Majesty's Sloop Tamar now in this harbour.—Miss Susanna Bulfinch, aged 70, wife of Mr. Adino Bulfinch.—Mrs. Bethiah Jennings, wife of Mr. Levi Jennings, Hatter.—Mrs. Sarah Deyman, wife of Mr. Deyman, Cordwainer.—Miss Jemima Adams, aged 23.—Mr. M c Cloud, Lighterman in an advanced age.
On Tuesday last died, (at the house of Mr. Jonas Clark, in Cornhill, Mrs. Sarah Dunton, in the 86th year of her age. Her funeral will be attended to-morrow at five o'clock in the afternoon, when her relations and friends are requested to attend.
CHARLESTOWN, [S. Carolina,] March 5 Josiah Quincy, jun. Esq; an eminent counsellor at law in Boston, arrived here last week from that town intending to make the tour of the continent.

This Day is PUBLISHED, And SOLD by EZEKIEL RUSSELL, next the Cornfield, Union-Street.
A Calm and Plain Answer to the Enquiry, Why are you a Dissenter from the Church of England? Containing some remarks on its doctrine, spirit, constitution, and some of offices and forms of devotion. Dedicated to sacred truth; to liberty; to the interest and cause of JESUS CHRIST, the only King in his kingdom the Church; to the conscience and consideration of every man, who expects to be judged, and who hopes to be saved by JESUS CHRIST. By a Lover of truth and peace.—Nothing more need be said to recommend the above performance, and to excite a desire in the lovers of truth and religious liberty to be the owners of it, than to assure them that it is the work of the learned and excellent Michael Towgood, author of the Dissenting Gentleman's Letter to White.
Also, this day published. And sold at the same place. The Case of the Dissenting Ministers; addressed to the Lords Spiritual and temporal. By Israel Mandeville. To which is added, a copy of the bill proposed for their relief. The fourth edition. It is sufficient to say, that this publication went through three editions in London in a few weeks, and is justly characterized one of the best and most spirited pieces of the kind.
At the same place may be had, if applied for immediately.
THE elegant Poem, which the committee of the town of Boston had voted unanimously to be published with the Oration: With observations relating thereto; together with some pertinent extracts from an ingenious Composition never before published.—The ingenious author discovers an unparallelled fertility of invention, and a thorough acquaintance with the English language, in the luxuriant representations of the valour and achievements of the British soldiery; as well as a thorough knowledge of the avenues to the human heart; to raise or sooth the passions, to create the most delectable sensations by touching every tender fibre of the soul, seems to be his peculiar talent; in energy of diction, and sublimity of thought he stands unrivaled in the American world; in short, possesses all those powers of the mind, fitted to distinguish him at the head of the empire of letters, and to render real service to his country; to these objects may ever be directed these excellent talents. We cannot think we promise too much, when we say it is the best performance ever printed in America; but this the reader may determine by the following extracts which are now presented to them.
After following her armies home from a victorious warfare throughout every quarter of the globe, he delights us with the most magnificent scene that can well be conceived, where the imagery, the sentiment, and in short, all the powers of genius are surprisingly charming: At the close of that part where he describes the triumphant march of the British soldiery to the capital, he makes the following reflections, which no less characterize their humanity than their heroism, on both of which the ironical poem had thrown the most false, the most atrocious calumnies: Barbarian ravage hung the pagan car, The spoils of empires, and the waste of war; In fields of death did Cæsars laurels bloom, And sham'd the triumphs of imperial Rome; Whose wreath renown'd to mightier Tamar (yields, Fam'd for the feats of more illustrious fields; He half the world in one great day withstood; And bid the rising crescent set in blood; From tyrant power, preserv'd the realms of (Greece, And o'er Byzantium stretch'd the palm of (peace; Yet conquer'd kings in chains inglorious led, And captive queens with sordid offal fed: Not so, the Briton gleans the field of war, Nor such the trophies of a Brunswick's car;
To be SOLD at JOHN SAVAGE'S Store, No. 13, on the Long-Wharf, A Quantity of superfine and common FLOUR; Bran, Corn, Oats, Rice, Bar-Iron, Sole-Leather, Proof Glasses, Rum, Sugar, Melasses, Chocolate, and cases of Bottles.
A TAYLOR that is a good workman, being at present out of employ, would be glad to work at low wages by the day or week, in any gentleman's family. Enquire of the Printer.
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 unlovely 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 sound, 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 Kaff in Salem, and Dummer Jewett, Esq; at Ipswich.
IRISH LINEN. WILLIAM SCOTT, At the IRISH LINEN STORE in Ann-street, near the Draw-bridge, Boston, Has just imported from Ireland,
A Large quantity of 3-4, 7-8 and yard-wide Linens of all prices, Diapers, clouting ditto, Huckabuck, Dowlas, Table Cloths, 9 8ths wide Sheetings, white Ticken, brown Hollands, &c. A great variety of European and India Goods, amongst which are, broad Cloths, Lambkins, Coatings, Baizes, &c. silk and worsted Stuffs, Poplins, Crapes, Denmark Lustres, Missinets, Dorsetteens, Camblets, worsted Damasks, &c. Satins and capuchin Silks of all colours, with lace and fur trimmings, Ducapes, striped and plain Lutestrings, English Damasks, &c. a large assortment of Ribbons, Gauzes, striped and flowered Jacquet and 6 4 wide book Mullin of all prices; Jersey, Aberdeen knit, and patent ribbed men's worsted Hose, ditto plain of all colours, for men, women and children; with too great a multiplicity of goods, suitable for the season, to be enumerated in an advertisement, all which will be sold at the lowest reduced prices for ready money only.
Excellent Gloucester Cheese, French Indigo, Teas, Coffee, Spices, &c. patent Cakes for making the liquid shining blacking for shoes and leather bottomed chairs, &c. a number of low priced bound Books of divinity, Bibles, Testaments, &c.
Uo be SOLD, by NATHANIEL RUSSELL, In Common-street, a little to the northward of Dr. Byles's Meeting-House, BOSTON,
A Compleat assortment of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, consisting of Clocks, Tables, Chairs, Bedsteads dumb Waiters, &c. &c. Cheap for Cash.
American Ink-Powder, Experienced and found to be equal, if not superior to any imported.
THE excellent qualities of this Powder are, that it makes the best black writing-ink and is very convenient for gentlemen, merchants, attorneys, and others that travel, it being not cumbersome and liable to these mischances that other ink is. The ink may be made in large or small quantities, as is most convenient. As freezing is prejudicial to ink, when the weather is cold this may be made with a little brandy or other spirit not liable to freeze. One quality peculiar to this ink is that though the writing be exposed to extreme heat, it dries not, but will remain as long as the paper endures. This powder decayeth not by keeping. Note, the above powder has an ingredient in it that prevents ink from becoming thick and mouldy.
Any person by applying to ANN NORTON, nearly opposite the Post-office in Boston, or SAMUEL NORTON, the maker in Hingham, may be supplied with any quantity of said powder, as low by the gross, as can be imported, and the smallest favour in this way will be most gratefully received.
TWENTY DOLLARS Reward.
WHEREAS on the 20th inst. one JOHN KETCHUM, came to the house of the subscriber and hired a black HORSE, about 14 hands and an 11/2 high of the following marks, viz a very full eye, the hair cut under his throat, very remarkable switch mane and tail when he went from me, trots and paces, carries his fore feet low, his hind feet wide, and what is more remarkable is that on each side where the girt buckles are placed, the hair is worn off close to the skin, whoever will take up the said man and horse shall have for their trouble Twenty Dollars, and for either of them Ten Dollars each, and all necessary charges paid by WILLIAM ROGERS.
N. B. Said KETCHUM is a tall man near fifty years of age, something marked with the small-pox, light eyes, had on a high coloured suit of coat; the same morning he took the horse he shipped himself on board the brig America, John Mirot, master, for Surinam, and received a month's pay, and it is supposed he is gone to Connecticut or New York, as he had a family in the former province.
To be SOLD at the Shop of CHARLES LOWE, In Marshall's Lane, facing the Boston- STONE,
Loaf and brown Melasses, Sugars, Cotton Wool, Rice, Indigo, Flour, Raisins, Pepper, Currants, Allspice, Figs, Nutmegs, Spermaceti Oil, Coffee, Dumb Fith, Tea, Indian and Rye Meal, Chocolate, &c. &c. &c.
The above articles sold very cheap. Cash given for bottles.
Just IMPORTED in Capt. JARVIS, from LONDON, and to be sold by ANNA JOHNSON, At the head of Black horse lane, near the Rev. Dr. Pemberton's Meeting house: A large assortment of
Garden Seeds, Peas, Beans, &c., among which are,
EARLY charlton, early golden hotspur, Ormnd hotspur, Spanish morato, white roundical, dwarf marrowfat and bush peas, large Windsor, true early Lisbon, early yellow six weeks white kidney and fineoker beans, early Yorkshire, Dutch, sugar loaf, batavia, savoy, red and broccoli cabbage seed, collyflower, cucumber, onion, carrot, turnip, raddish and lettuce of all sorts, round spinach, endive, celery and asparagus, thyme, baum, sweet marjoram, broad clover, white Dutch clover, la lucerne, rape, canary, and an assortment of flower seeds and herds grass seed: Also a variety of other seeds not mentioned; all which were imported from the seeds-men in London, and are warranted to be fresh and good and of the last years produce.
ANDREW NEWMAN, WHITE SMITH.
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he makes and repair all kinds of scale beams, steel yards and lock as reasonable as can be done in Boston.
N. B. Said Newman served his apprenticeship to Mr. John McClench late of Boston, White-Smith. By enquiring of Mr. Blake, the Town-Sealer the public may be informed of the quantity of his scale beams and steel yards.
Said Newman works in the shop now improved by Mr. William Jasper, Cutler, from London, just below John Hancock, Esq's new brick buildings near the Mill-Creek, Boston.
New England COD and M FISH HOOKS.
ABRAHAM CORNISH, At his Manufactory at the head of Hutchinson's wharf North End, Boston,
HAVING received a quantity of the best STEEL WIRE by Capt. Walsman, of which he has been long disappointed by a mistake of the shipper, in sending it to Boston in Lincolnshire in Old-England, and from thence returned to London.—As it is scarce possible such a mistake will again happen; he begs leave to acquaint his friends and the public, that they may now and in future depend upon being supplied with the best Cod and Mackerel Hooks, as the p by wholesale for cash on delivery, as they are imported into America; and as the Fishermen who made trial of his Hooks last season, found them to correspond with his former advertisement, viz their being much superior to those imported from England, and as much depends on the goodness of the hooks in catching fish, he flatters himself with the favours of all importers, and those concerned in the Fishery.
N. B. His Hooks are all marked A. C. on the flat of the stem of each hook.
In the House of REPRESENTATIVES, Feb. 4. 1773
WHEREAS doubts have arisen concerning the validity of the sales of the lands of such as were called delinquent proprietors of the township of Alfield , in the county of Hampshire , made by the assessors or committees of the proprietors of the said Alfield , for the years 1763, 1764, and 1765, and actions are now depending in the law for recovering the possession of parcel of said lands from the persons who purchased the same or from such as hold under them: And whereas it will tend to the great quiet of the said township if such sales should be adjudged invalid and insufficient in law: THEREFORE,
RESOLVED , that George Leonard, jun. Esq; Jedediah Foss, Esq; and Mr. Thomas Denney, be a committee fully authorized and empowered to repair to the said town of Alfield , to hear the committee of the proprietors, and also each of the persons or their Representatives whose lands have been sold in the years & in manner as aforesaid, & to judge and determine what the lands thus sold were truly worth at the time of the sales over and above the sums for which they were in fact sold, together with all the damage, which may have actually accrued to each of the proprietors of the said lands respectively by means of the sales aforesaid; and the Committee are to make report of their doings at the session of this Court in May next, that such order may be then taken for establishing and rendering valid the sales aforesaid, as to the Court shall then appear to be just and equitable; and all proceedings in the law grounded upon the invalidity of such sales are stayed in the mean time. And the committee of this Court shall give public notice in all the Boston news-papers of the time and place of meeting, that so all persons interested may attend if they shall see cause. Sent up for concurrence. T. CUSHING, Speaker.
In COUNCIL, Feb. 5. 1773.— Read and concurred, Tho's FLUCKER, Sec'y. Consented to, T. HUTCHINSON. A true copy. Attest.
Tho's FLUCKER, Sec'y. The above-named committee of the General Court hereby give notice to all concerned, that they purpose to meet at the dwelling house of Mr. Samuel Belong, at Alfield aforesaid, innholder, on the 26th day of April next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, for the purposes in the foregoing order mentioned.
Geo. LEONARD, jun. per order. March 5, 1773.
LOST , supposed to be stolen at the late fire near the Mill-pond; a bag marked Daniel Rea, a pair of light single sole boots, with sundry other articles supposed to be in the bag; if offered for sale it is desired the person may be stopped and notice given to the printer, or to JOHN SYMMES living near the place where the fire was.
By ORDER OF COURT, Will be sold by Public Vendue, on the 20th of April next at 4 o'clock, P. M.
THE real Estate of Mrs. DORCAS INGRAHAM, late of Boston, deceased, consisting of a commodious dwelling House, with yard and garden Land adjoining, situated in Auchmuty's-Lane, the house in repair.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS,
the South Corner of MARSHAL'S LANE, leading from the MILL-BRIDGE into UNION-STREET, where all Persons may be supplied with this Paper at Six Shillings and Eight Pence Lawful Money, per Annum, unsealed, and Eight Shillings sealed and directed; and where Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received;—ADVERTISEMENTS taken in—PRINTING in its various Branches, performed in a neat Manner, with the greatest Care and Dispatch, on the most reasonable Terms. Small HAND-BILLS at an Hour's Notice. SUBSCRIPTIONS for the SPY are also taken in by J. Larkin, Chairmaker, and Mr. W. Calder, Painter, in Charlestown, Mr. J. Hiller, Watchmaker in Salem; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookkeeper, in Newbury-Port; and Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater.