The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal (Boston [Mass.]), 1772-11-19 00:00:00

THE Massachusetts Spy
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
MAY 2 1903
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER:--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
'DO THOU Great LIBERTY INSPIRE our Souls,--And mak- ur Lives in THY Possession happy,--Or, our Deaths glorious in THY JUST Defence.'
VOL. II.]
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1772.
[NUMB. 92.
For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y. To the GENTLEMEN of the B A R; more especially in the Province of the MASSACHUSETTS-BAY.
Gentlemen. THE importance of your profession to the well-being of mankind, has been generally acknowledged by all civilized nations; but few, perhaps, have sufficiently attended to the full extent of its utility. Services whose tendency are preventive only, though in reality most valuable, are least conspicuous. The check you constantly impose upon the most dangerous of powers, confining it continually within its proper boundaries, is not as much perceived as it ought. The penetrating Frederick felt this, and under a most plausible pretext, almost suppressed your order in his dominions. The action drew Hoftannas, the event will draw execrations.
Knowing and inured to the study of RIGHT, your (undebouched) minds cannot avoid the shock which naturally accompanies the sense of WRONG. You know the tenderness of that plant of heaven; this multiplicity and insuperable quality of the weed of hell! You see that vice and violence on the shortest remission of restraint gather force, too formidable to be directly combated. It was undoubtedly this conviction that caused you to exert yourselves in so heroic and disinterested a manner in the time of the never to be forgotten stamp-act. The sacrifice you then made will pass with its history to posterity! Some of you have uniformly manifested the consistence of your native principles with your dignified profession; the vigour and stability of your virtue and patriotism, and more than one, to the immortal honour of themselves and all their political connexions, have devoted themselves voluntary sacrifices for the deliverance of their sinking country. May these shine as the stars for ever and ever!!!
Another capital occasion, gentlemen, now calls for another unanimous exertion of your authority. The bar, with the laws and constitution of their country in their favour, is a formidable power. Declare boldly, gentlemen, what these laws and constitution are, and what they deserve who infringe them. Your interest in the laws is an enhanced interest, you cannot be unconcerned in their violation. A temper is arising in the people which promises you effectual support, and I am much mistaken if throwings over the bar, and denials of the badges of the profession, to gentlemen of most distinguished parts and characters, will be borne with much longer. 'Tis prudent to bear insults so long as to have mankind thoroughly convinced that they are more than the accidental sallies of human weakness; but that point once gained, freemen should let the most haughty villains know, that even the highest magistrates are but servants, invested by them with powers to be used only for their interest and security; and not the gratification of resentments, conceived against worthy gentlemen for doing their duty, in pointing out instances of neglect, or what is worse, a betraying of public trust to the worst of purposes, and conspiring a fatal change of the constitution of their country.
How perplexed will your business be, if in your future practice you are first obliged to consult the humour of the governing minion or mistress, and then square your law, pleadings, &c. to that caprice, which probably in the next controversy may be secretly corrupted to the other side.
As soon as the fundamental pillars of our state are shaken, that miserable slavery ensues where right is vague and unknown. The vindicators of right must therefore
most severely feel the fatal alteration. The crisis is fully arrived when you and we who are bound in duty and interest to support and defend each other must conquer, or fall a prey to power which scorns the limitations of law or reason. I know you have long since stood ready to perform your part, had the people discovered a sufficient warmth and firmness of resolution to stand by you. They have hitherto been irresolute, principally from an incredulity that administration could be so wicked as to resolve to enslave them. That point being settled, many moderate gentlemen, who almost thought themselves Tories, begin to cry out aloud, these measures will not do! All mankind know that the first magistrate ought to be considered the father of the state--to have no will or interest but the happiness and security of the people; and that all in subordinate authority, particularly the arbiters of our lives and fortunes, should be men, fearing God and hating covetousness; in whose hands the scales of justice have an equal poise, and neither passion, prejudice nor interest to bias them to either side. Before such declarers of right you may appear with courage and satisfaction,--before a time-serving tool of power you know not how to order your speech aright.
To sum the matter in short, gentlemen, I conceive it is high time for you to declare that unless judges are left in a condition, as impartial, as we would have juries or common referees, that the administration of justice in its present unnatural and dependent condition, has lost much of the confidence and esteem of the greater and better share of the people, and to remaining will be considered as an engine for the violation rather than protection of our rights, liberties and properties. Such a declaration from you would make the most impudent usurper stare, and cast about him for means to avoid an impeachment.
A few of these wholesome corrections, I think, would serve a good purpose at present. Would beg your favour to consider of them and let the worthy members of our General Assembly have your opinions by the next session, on these and other important matters, more familiarly falling under your notice and contemplation than that of
CLERICUS.
From the PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL. To the MERCHANTS of NORTH-AMERICA.
Gentlemen, THE disinterested patriotism you have shown in the last seven years, will always make an address to you proper, which respects the freedom and prosperity of America.--But your correspondents in London have now made it necessary , and your countrymen will expect you should apply some antidote, to the poison contained in their late address on Lord Hillsborough's resignation.
I believe the annals of America never furnished such a prostitution of public praise: It is committing a robbery on real merit, breaking down all distinction between a good and bad minister.--Let us take a review of his administration, and we may challenge his most zealous advocates to point out one single measure during six years, that can justify the fulsome flattery of that address.--What bounty has he promoted on the products of America? What duty has he taken off, from any necessary article of consumption? How has he encouraged the settlement of new colonies, or the farther improvement of the old?--On the other hand,--What man in Great-Britain, can be named a more violent opposer of the interests of America, during the non-Importation agreement, than this complimented Lord? Your virtuous strug-
gles, he filed rebellious combinations; your peaceful opposition, a treasonable conspiracy. Can you forget his encomium on the Rhode-Islanders for their base and selfish conduct, so inconsistent with the public good, and so different from yours? If you can--see your rivers, harbours, and coasts filled with cruisers upon your trade; the brave seamen of Britain degraded into custom-house officers.--Your streets and keys swarming with spy informers.--The board of customs, with its numerous and expensive train of underlings, and hungry dependants on office. New Admiralty courts with an extensive, and therefore inconvenient jurisdiction.--Pensions on the American revenues:--Governors and Judges holding their offices at the pleasure of the crown, drawing their support from the people, and yet wholly independent of them.--These have been the immediate fruits of this administration, which your correspondents in London, have publicly declared, justly engaged their esteem, and advanced the mutual prosperity of the mother country and its dependencies. --I shall not mention Lord Hillsborough's activity, and zeal in procuring the resolution upon an old obsolete statute; that persons charged with treasonable practices, might be removed to England for trial: His attempts to exclude all agents, not appointed by the concurrent consent of the governors, nor the rewards and encouragement bestowed upon those, whom we have considered the enemies of American freedom. As he was one of several who promoted these pernicious projects,--we should do injustice to the demerits of others, should we ascribe them wholly to him.--What gracious notice he may have taken of the addressers, the writer of this pretends not to determine; but it is a notorious fact, that the most able, and discerning agents have not attended him for months together.--They found him ignorant of the trade, and real interests of America; yet haughty, positive and uncontrollable.--Ever wanting, yet incapable of receiving proper advice and information.--A man of narrow, and defective abilities; an incessant talker, but no reasoner. Wrapped up in the absolute supremacy of the British parliament, he avowed a system of tyranny, and oppression towards the colonies, not to be shaken by any arguments drawn from reason, policy or common prudence. Those therefore who were best qualified to give him information, either declined going to him or left him, disgusted with his ignorance, petulance, and obstinacy. Thus he fell an easy prey to the servile herd of sycophants, who soothed his insolent vanity, and by the vilest misrepresentations rendered him subservient to their own schemes of plundering this unhappy country, by new and oppressive offices.--Yet to this man, have the merchants trading to America, paid the distinguishing honour of a public address, couched in the most respectful terms, bearing a public testimony to a character really deficient of every virtue, and qualification that can distinguish a good man, or an able minister.--Should it pass unnoticed in this country, the consequences may be fatal to our best interests. Every succeeding minister will tread in those paths, which have led to such honour and public applause. It would be absurd to expect a change of measures sanctioned by the approbation of the London merchants, and the silent acquiescence of the inhabitants of America--The evil, therefore, is of an alarming kind, and calls for some immediate remedy.--For how shall we distinguish a virtuous, good minister, if we suffer Lord Hillsborough to enjoy this premature, and unmerited compliment without interruption.--The sense of America is best spoke by, and best heard from, the representatives, who might in some public applica-
tion to Lord Hillsborough's successor, counteract this delusive, and unjustifiable conduct of the London merchants.--But as it has proceeded from the trading interest, the writer submits it to the consideration of the merchants in America, whether some public notice from each capital city, would not have a salutary effect; or at least, whether it is not a duty every gentleman in trade owes to his country, to express to his correspondent in the strongest terms, the general disapprobation of the London address. Unless there are any of so singular an opinion, as to believe, after recollecting the events and transactions of the late administration, that it has been favourable to the trade, prosperity, and government of the mother country and the colonies.
If the above hints should engage some abler pen to delineate the transactions of the American department during the last six years; or to point out some better mode to remedy the present errors, all the writer's ends will be answered, as he is of opinion that indiscriminate praise destroys one of the most powerful incentives to virtue.
BRUTUS.
From the NEWPORT MERCURY. To the PRINTER. Observed a proclamation by Governor Hutchinson, in the last Boston papers, appointing Thursday the 3d day of December next, for a day of thanksgiving to ALMIGHTY GOD, in which there is not a single syllable about PRIVILEGES, either civil or religious !--Whereupon I would humbly ask his EXCELLENCY, Whether the omission of civil and religious privileges is not a tacit confession , That he either has no regard for those privileges, or that (which is more probable) he is an enemy to the liberties and privileges of his COUNTRY? And Whether he has not really sold , as far as was in his power, his own and his country's BIRTHRIGHT for what is, intrinsically , of much less value than a single mess of POTTAGÉ ? How shocking! That the love of that bubble HONOUR , and the meaner love of pelf , should convert the once honest man into one of the basest of God's creation ; a mere sycophantic tool of blind arbitrary power .!!!
PLAIN TRUTH.
FRIDAY, November 13. BOSTON.
We hear that Sir Francis Bernard, bart., has lately had a large estate left him and his children, by a relation that lately died in England, particularly a seat in Aylesbury, which a few years ago was elegantly fitted up by John Wilkes, Esq.
By Letters from Barbados, we learn that it was expected that Sir Francis Bernard would be appointed to that government.
We have advice from England, that Lieu. Duddington, who commanded the Gaspée armed schooner that was burnt at Rhode-Island, is promoted to the rank of Captain, by his Majesty's express command.
We hear from Taunton, that on Wednesday the 4th inst. (it being their training day) the following melancholy accident happened there--Capt. Richard Cobb of that place, having loaded a gun very deeply, laid it on the ground, and discharged it with a fuse; the gun split, and a fragment of about eight inches in length struck him just below the knee and entirely separated his leg, leaving the remainder of the bones at the joint most miserably shattered: On the Saturday following, a consultation of surgeons being held, it was thought advisable to amputate above the knee, he supported the operation with the fortitude of a hero, a character which he had justly merited by his intrepid conduct in the army: He survived the operation but a few hours, dying the next morning. He has left a disconsolate widow and children.

For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. To Mr. AARON DAVIS, jun. of Roxbury. S I R,
THOUGH I am by no means indifferent to my good fame and reputation, considered as a private individual, the concern is augmented to kind of infinity when I conceive my country wounded through my sides. This Sir, I am credibly informed you have been so weak as to do in a very public manner; declaring in the last meeting of the respectable town of Roxbury, that you would have nothing to do with measures wherein you must follow the lead of such men as Mr. Molineux and Dr. Young, who were men of no principles; and added that such concerns should be committed to men of virtue and religion.
For my own part I thought I had given such satisfaction, on that head to every person who could read the public papers, that I should have heard no more of it: but since you, Sir, seem still dissatisfied, I shall once more beg leave to offer my confession of faith to the public; and if you, or any other person find any thing reprehensible in it; I shall take it as a favour to have their objections fairly stated in the papers, that they may be considered and answered with that candour and solemnity that matters of the last importance require. My creed is this,
I believe in one eternal God, whose being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice and beneficence are altogether inconceivable to such atoms of animated matter as are yourself and I.
2dly. I believe that this God possessing infinite space with all its amazing furniture of habitable mansions, created such beings as we are, that they might enjoy the bounties of his grace which must otherwise have run to waste or at least have existed to no purpose.
3dly. I believe that the happiness of his creatures, being the concern of the supreme God himself, ought in consequence to be the concern of every intelligent under his government.
4thly. I believe, that in the order of nature and providence, the man who most assiduously endeavours to promote the will of God in the good of his fellow creatures, receives the most ample reward of his virtue, that peace of mind and silent applause of a good conscience, which administers more solid satisfaction than all the other enjoyments of life put together.
5thly. On the other hand I believe, that the man, who endeavours to build up either his fortune or fame on the ruin of the estate or character of his neighbour, acts contrary to the rule of right, and in consequence must fall short of that approbation, from God and his own conscience, which the performance of his known duty would have ensured him of.
6thly. I, most explicitly believe that all men shall be rewarded for the deeds done in the body, whether they be good or evil, according to the eternal rule of right, by which the sovereign judge of the universe squares all his decrees.
Now Sir, as these are all the principles of religion, that I conceive have any relation to civil society, and these principles are in this free and open manner again declared by me to be the governing rules of my conduct in life; I presume it behoves you to shew me either that they are erroneous, insufficient, or unattended to in my life and conversation.
In either case, Sir, I shall bear your reproof with that meekness and resignation that becomes a man conscious that for all his deliberate actions he must give an account.
You are sensible Sir, that your censure respected my moral character, and had a direct tendency to set that in a most odious light. In the present circumstance of our public affairs this must be highly detrimental if generally believed. It is true enough that the sense of a people is very naturally deducible from the choice they make both of men and measures; and should this great metropolis be so straitened for persons of spirit and capacity to serve them, that such an important trust must in consequence devolve upon a number of meer profligates, it must assuredly manifest the town is indeed in a piteous condition. That this is really the case Sir, you have more than insinuated; and can expect no apology for being thus publicly called upon to produce the grounds of your charge against either of the persons (but especially the subscriber) whom you have so freely treated.
Your urging me into light again in the view where mistaken zeal, bigotry, and less excusable party prejudice has too frequently
placed me, renders it my duty to inform the good people of this province and continent, that I was born of reputable parents, for honesty, hospitality and true piety as any in the county of Ulster, in the province of New York, where I trust in God's goodness they now live in the same reputation. I was early educated in a sense of the importance of virtue and true religion, and before I was eight years old became a very serious enquirer of what I should do to be saved. The doctrines of absolute election and reprobation were at that time strained up to their utmost extent in our country, and it was insisted upon, that unless a sinner could find himself brought to an entire acquiescence in the will of God, provided God's glory required the eternal damnation of that sinner, he could have no sufficient evidence of his being humbled in such a manner as to be a fit subject for renewing grace. God knows how much I prayed and laboured for such a temper of soul, and how heavily I walked for some years, from a certain consciousness I had not yet obtained, and might therefore more probably have fallen among the many consigned to destruction, than the few whom sovereign grace was pleased to distinguish from the crowd. Doing, fasting and praying were all abomination, while performed by me, confessedly a natural man; and yet these very abominations were pressed upon me as duties, for the neglect of which I must expect God's vengeance!
However easily these doctrines may slide down with the bulk of mankind who enjoy the happy capacity of seeing with other men's eyes and judging by their understandings; I never could reconcile these positions with the idea of an all wise and powerful Being, solemnly swearing to his people that he had no pleasure in the death of the sinner, but had rather he should turn and live. On this side there was hope and some comfort, on the other nothing but the blackness of darkness, misery and despair. Hence in some years I became an Arminian, and then naturally pursued the same chain of thought which leads to my present system; the concise principles of which, are,
1st. To believe that God is, and the rewarder of all those that diligently seek him.
2d. To do justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God.
The standard of justice among us men being,
As ye would that others should do unto you do ye also unto them in like manner.
If these are said to be the principles of the christian religion, I say content; let each act up to his principles, and desist from vexing his neighbour with his injurious censures, rash judgments, hard and uncharitable speeches, vain janglings about genealogies, debates about Paul, Cephas, Luther and Calvin; and put on charity which is the bond of peace, leaving graceless zealots to contest their modes of faith, while we endeavour to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour, with all long suffering and godly sincerity.
Knowing that the great Lord of the universe spoke me into being for other ends than barely to stalk about and destroy the fruits of his bounty, I from infancy endeavoured to fit myself for usefulness, and have made as incessant application to business as my nature was capable of enduring; and through God's blessing on my labours, amidst numberless difficulties and disasters of various kinds, I have attained such a portion of knowledge in many things interesting to mankind, as will one day convince them I have aimed at nothing less than being to them an unprofitable servant: And infinitely distant from the being, that in thought, word or deed would do them an injury.
Pursuant to this benevolent plan, when my country was involved in a war with Canada, notwithstanding I lived on the border of Connecticut, in the heart of the country, and was by my profession exempt from every command of the officers, whose duty it was to furnish soldiers for the many campaigns then forwarding I assiduously attended all the musters in my reach in either colony, and incessantly contributed both by verbal and pecuniary inducements, every thing in my power to furnish the needed recruits.
On the same principle of unvaried affection to my country, when the accursed faction, which drove the man from the counsels of his sovereign and service to his country, who had rendered them giddy with conquest and plunder; when those detested miscreants I say, had sold all our conquests, and racked their own country with an odious excise, proceeded still further in the course of their unbounded rapacity, and took upon them to raise monies in the colonies without
the consent of their parliament, and all this with plain and evident intention to rob the industrious merchant and husbandman of their substance to lavish it upon the worthless courtier, pimp and informer, my soul abhorred the villainous usurpation, and from that time to this I have, at the frequent risk of my life, at the sacrifice of all my ease and quiet, and of the greater part of my fortune, which however inconsiderable that may be represented by my adversaries, was before these troubles on a footing with many, who now would be thought the better sort of people, and is not yet so desperate as said envious calumniators affect to have believed. I have, I repeat it, unweariedly and invariably espoused the cause of this my distressed country, and though yet a stranger in this capital, have by these honourable means acquired so much of the confidence of the citizens as to be honoured with their suffrages upon many occasions, and in special on this most important one; wherein nothing in the compass of my power shall be wanting to perfect, honour and vindicate my commission.
From these fair and open representations of plain truths, you are now informed of what sort of a man you have treated at least very uncharitably. If any thing here affirmed can be disproved by you or any one else, I must then sit down with the scandal. I have referred you to the places where you may learn my character from my infancy, and I beg no quarter. Expose and welcome even my foibles; my injuries, even to the meanest of God's creatures designedly inferred I defy mankind to manifest. And if admitting what I have offered, be true, and you think a person of such character deserves to be persecuted notwithstanding, I shall leave the impartial world to determine which best deserves the character of a sincere christian or honest man, yourself or the too often reproached
THO. YOUNG.
SATURDAY November 14. BOSTON.
By the several vessels lately arrived from England, we have the following EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, September 5. DESCRIPTION of the silver cup, presented to Mr. Alderman Wilkes which was first used yesterday at the Globe tavern. "On the upper part according to ancient custom, the city arms, with the "dagger" in the first quarter, are curiously embossed. Beneath is a noble bas relief, very highly finished, which seems to hint an idea of the meaning of the "dagger" or "short sword," in the city arms, different from what the Antiquarians have hitherto suggested, either of the "dagger," as alluding to that with which Sir William Walworth, a Lord Mayor of London, in the time of Richard II. killed Wat Tyler; or, as others suppose, to the "short sword" of St. Paul. The subject of the bas relief is the death of Julius Cæsar in the Roman Senate. He is represented gracefully covered with the toga fallen at the base of a pedestal which supports a statue of Pompey the Great. Brutus, Cassius, and the other noble Romans, conspirators for their country, form a circle around the body, their "daggers" still reeking with the tyrant's blood, after the godlike stroke, raised to Heaven, but every eye fixed on Brutus, who is in the attitude of congratulating Cicero on the recovery of the public liberty, and pointing to the prostrate and expiring usurper. Beneath the bas relief are the following words:
"May every tyrant feel The keen deep searchings of a Patriot's steel!" CHURCHILL.
The figure of Brutus is particularly bold and striking, and the capital of the whole groupe. On the opposite side is an inscription in an oval of oak leaves, "The gift of the City of London to Alderman Wilkes, 1772." The Cup is very elegant, and does great honour to the several Artists employed. It is reported that the Bas-Relief was designed by Mr. Wilkes.
STOCKHOLM, [Sweden] Aug. 15. The day before yesterday there were public prayers in all our churches, to return our thanks to the Almighty, for his assistance in bringing about the late important revolution, in favour of the most amiable of Kings.
Gustavus III. at the age of twenty-six years, has shown that he possesses all the greatness of soul, and all the heroism of the two first of his name. He forgives all past offences, and is continually employing his thoughts for the safety of those who had been his enemies. Many persons who were
arrested (amongst others general Rebeck) signifying a desire to take the oath, were immediately released.
One circumstance of this memorable event should not be forgot: As soon as the corps of officers of the regiment of guards had declared for the King by a general acclamation, his Majesty addressed Baron Liewen, who marched at the head of the grenadiers, saying to him, "If we are obliged, gentlemen, to repel force by force, be careful always to remember that those against whom you act are your brethren."
LONDON, Sept. 8. We learn from Stockholm, that a great number of the principal nobility have refused signing the paper owning the King's independency, in consequence of which they have been banished to their estates.
A merchant at Lisbon writes to his correspondent, by the last post, in the following words: "Some secret expedition is in agitation here; the council frequently assemble, and hold very long debates; and an order is issued for taking an accurate survey of all the warlike stores of his kingdom."
Sept. 9. His Majesty has thought fit, by letters patent under the great seal of Great-Britain, to constitute and appoint Joseph Wanton, Daniel Horsemanden, Frederick Smith, Peter Oliver, and Robert Auchmuty, Esq's to be his Majesty's Commissioners for enquiring into all the circumstances relative to the attacking, taking, plundering and burning the Gaspee Schooner, and to the insults offered or obstructions given on this occasion to his Majesty's officers within the colony of Rhode-Island. His Majesty has ordered a proclamation to be passed under the great seal of Great-Britain, and to be printed and published within the said colony of Rhode-Island, offering his pardon of any of the said offenders, (excepting the persons who wounded Lieut. Dudingston, and excepting two others who assumed to be the Sheriffs of the colony, and the Captain or leader of the insurgents) who shall discover any of their accomplices, and also offering rewards for such discovery.
Sept. 12. Thursday night, at a numerous meeting of the Livery of London, at the Half-Moon tavern, Cheapside, it was resolved by a great majority to support the nomination of the Aldermen Wilkes and Townsend, to be returned to the court of Aldermen at the ensuing election for their choice of Lord Mayor of this city for the year ensuing.
The following removes and promotions, it is said, are determined on for America: viz. Edward Manwarring, Esq; to be Controller of the customs for New-Haven, in the room of George Mills, Esq; who is to be the established Clerk of exports and imports at Boston, in the room of Mr. Thomas Irving, advanced to the Collectorship of Quebec, in the room of Andrew Ainslee, Esq; who is to be a Commissioner at Boston, in the room of John Robinson, Esq; nominated to the office of Chief Justice in Eyre for the new colony of Wales, going on upon the Ohio. William Kemble, Esq; to be Inspector General at New-York, in the room of John Williams, Esq; appointed to be collector of the customs at Salem, in the room of John Fisher, Esq; who is to be advanced to the Collectorship of Boston, in the room of Thomas Harrison, Esq; who, on account of age and infirmities, resigns the employment.
Sept. 12. The first consequences of the late revolution in Sweden, relative to its measures towards foreign powers, it is imagined, will be a formal demand of a restitution of the German dominions wrested from that kingdom by the Danes in the latter part of the reign of Charles the twelfth, part of which (Bremen and Verden) the then King of Denmark sold for a sum of money to George the first.
Sept. 14. 'Tis now whispered in some places, where court news is generally canvassed over, that the Queen of Denmark will not come to England, but return again to Copenhagen: The monarch, her husband, has signified several times in his own dominions, and also given it to be understood here that a reunion would be very agreeable to him, and it is certain it will be perfectly so to the majority of his subjects. Whether our King, her brother, will acquiesce in such a measure, is what is most doubted; yet, if the frequent visits of Baron Dieden to St. James's, of late denote any thing particular, we may pronounce that the Queen Matilda will be restored to her former dignity.
Sept. 15. Private letters from Paris affirm, that no less than four hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling has been remitted to his Swedish Majesty by the Court of Versailles within these last four months.
We are assured by a reputable correspond-

ent, that Lord Townsend as soon as his successor arrives in Dublin, will be declared Master General of the Ordnance, which appointment it is believed by many, will occasion a subordinate vacancy in that department.
Sept. 16. Lord Chatham has not been so free from the gout these many years as he has been within these last twelve months, and his friends therefore hope, that he will be able to attend his Parliamentary duty next winter.
A patent, we are informed, is making out, to create the present Lord Mayor a Baronet.
Sept. 18. Some news, which arrived from America the beginning of last week, occasioned we hear a messenger to be instantly dispatched to the Earl of Hillsborough in Ireland.
Sept. 23. Bets in the city are now five to two that Mr. Wilkes will be Lord Mayor for the year ensuing.
Orders are stuck up at the War-Office for all persons (commissioned and private) absent from regiments on duty in the West Indies and America to join them without delay.
Sept. 25. A correspondent informs us that Lord Dartmouth has signified his determined resolution that the most lenient measures shall be adopted towards the Americans.
Mr. Fordyce the great bankrupt is returned to England, and under examination of his creditors.
DIED ] The Earl of Litchfield.—The Earl of Powis.—Lord Bothwick, a Scots Peer.—Right Hon. John Lord Carrifort, K. B.
MONDAY, November 16. BOSTON.
On the 14. ult. the Reverend Mr. Jacob Burnap was ordained pastor of a new gathered church at Merrimack, New Hampshire.
Wednesday last the Rev. Mr. Jacob Bigelow was ordained pastor of the West Church in Sudbury.
Last Friday se'nnight four oxen were killed by lightning at Belchertown.
Tuesday last sailed the ship Haley Capt. Scott, for London, with whom went passengers, Mr. Henry Laughton, jun. and Mr. Jeremiah Allen.
Yesterday sailed the ship London, Capt. Calef, in whom went passengers Mr. Frederick William Geyer, Merchant, and doctor Lawrence Sprague.
TUESDAY, November 17. BOSTON.
Extract of a letter from Surinam, Sept. 28. "The Dutch have taken fifty one bush negroes, and killed a few more.—They have lately done much mischief in breaking up the plantations, &c."
Extract of a letter from London Sept. 10.
"As by the Royal Charter granted for the American colonies, a reservation is made to the crown of One fifth part of all the silver ore that shall, or may, at any time be found in that country; and as it seems that — Robinson, Esq; and other enterprising gentlemen, are now about entering largely into the mine business of America! In order therefore the more effectually to secure to the crown, his Majesty's said fifth part of the produce of such mines as are already, or shall hereafter be discovered and worked in the said colonies, it is said a patent is now making out appointing Edmund Quincy, Esq (with a salary of 600l. per ann.) to be his Majesty's Inspector-General of all the mines that now are, or that shall hereafter be discovered on the continent of America, with full power and authority to substitute one or more deputies or depute, to act in the different parts of that country."
MARRIED ] Capt. Uriah Gardner, to Miss Sarah Wendell, widow of the late Capt. John Hunt Wendell, of this town, deceased.
WEDNESDAY, November 18. BOSTON.
Josiah Martin, Esq; Governor of North Carolina, issued a proclamation, dated the 28th of August last, prohibiting the exportation of wheat, rye or flour, from any port in that province, to any of the neighbouring governments, or parts beyond the seas, for the space of three months.
MARRIED ] Mr. Samuel Cary, Merchant, to Miss Sally Gray, daughter of the late Rev. Mr. Ellis Gray.
NEW-YORK. November 9. Tuesday last his Majesty's ship Arethusa, Captain Hammond, arrived here from Virginia.
Wednesday the transports with the second battalion of Royal Americans under the com-
mand of Major Ethrington, failed from hence for Antigua.
Capt. Fullerton, in a ship belonging to this Port, that sailed from St. Augustine with troops for St. Vincents, put into Bermuda the 27th of September in a distressed condition, having met with a hurricane on the 17th of same month, in lat. 27, long. 56, the wind at N. E. which was so violent that the ship would not steer, but broached too, and lay on her beam ends for four hours, the hold shifted at the same time, and such a quantity of water therein that it washed against the lower deck, which obliged Capt. Fullerton to cut away his mizen mast, when the ship righted and got before the wind; and by the help of the soldiers with their camp kettles, they got the vessel clear of water after 48 hours hard work, having most of their provisions damaged, and so little fresh water left, that both officers and men were reduced to a purser's half pint per day.
DIED ] Mrs Martha Youngman.—A son of Colonel John Erving.—Miss Ruth Davis, daughter of Mr. Edward Davis, Merchant.—Mr. — Cotten, a noted Cook.—At Chelmsford Stephen Scales Esq.—In the West-Indies, the Hon. Mr. Wislo, a Lieutenant in his Majesty's navy.—He was with Commodore Gambier when on this station.—At Bristol, in England, Mr. Thomas Caine, late mate of Capt. Brown.
Bottles and Coals.
L ARGE handsome Quart Bottles in Hampers, a groce each; and Choice Newcastle Coals, suitable either for Grates or Smiths; to be sold on board the Brigantine Dolphin, James Scott, master, just arrived, lying at the Long-Wharf; or at WILLIAM DENNIE's Store in King-street. Also,
To be SOLD or LET, Said BRIGANTINE , About 7 years old, 180 tons, and well found.
TALLOW CANDLES, At 8d. L.M. or 5s. O.T. by the single pound.
BEST Spermaceti White OYL, Clarified for LAMPS, by the barrel, or in smaller quantities. Sold by
JOHN LANGDON, In Fleet-street, at the head of John Hancock, Esq's. wharf, near the Old-North meeting-house.
JAMES MORTIMER, TALLOW-CHANDLER, At the head of Hancock's Wharf, near the Old North Meeting-house, will sell
GOOD CANDLES, for twelve Coppers by the single pound; and will give half a penny a pound for merchantable tried Tallow by the barrel, &c.
This Day was published, price 1s. lawful money, And to be sold by JAMES FOSTER CONDY, At his store in Union-street, directly opposite to the Cornfield, Boston.
A POEM, entitled the GRAVE. By ROBERT BLAIR, The house appointed for all the living. JOB. To which is added,
An ELEGY, written in a Country Church-Yard. By Mr. GRAY. This pamphlet will fully recommend itself to the best judges and lovers of poetry.
Said CONDY, has by the several vessels last from London, received a general Supply of the most modern
BOOKS, In Law, Physick, History, Divinity, and every branch of polite Literature.
N. B. All those persons who please to purchase at said store, may depend upon buying as cheap as at any store in BOSTON or AMERICA, without exception, and used in such a manner as will leave no room for complaint, but give entire satisfaction.
This Day published, And sold by J. GREENLEAF, at his Store in Marshall's-Lane, Boston.
A Diffusion to Great-Britain, and the Colonies, from the SLAVE TRADE to Africa. Shewing the contradiction this trade bears, both to laws divine and provincial; the disadvantages arising from it, and advantages from abolishing it, both to Europe and Africa, particularly to Britain and the plantations. Also, shewing how to put this trade to Africa on a just and lawful footing. By a native of Great-Britain, and friend to the welfare of this continent. The subscribers are desired to call for their books.
From the PUBLIC ADVERTISER of Sept. 23. To the PRINTER.
PLEASE to acquaint the public, that the address lately presented to the Earl of Hillsborough, by a pretended committee of American Merchants, was a most infamous and clandestine proceeding; that these few who carried it up to his Lordship, did it in a secret and shameful manner; that the most considerable and respectable merchants trading to America were neither consulted in it, or made acquainted with the measure; that those who signed and presented the address are very fearful of having their names made known; that they are a set of prostituted tools of despotism and contract-bunters; that they may be made to appear as such the moment they are particularly and personally pointed out; that the principal merchants trading to that country, have the most contemptible opinion of Lord Hillsborough's abilities, and detest his anti commercial and despotic principles.
I am astonished that the American Merchants do not justify themselves, by publicly declaring that they and their correspondents hold directly opposite sentiments; for however the Merchants in America may be divided in their interests, or modes of proceeding with respect to laws of revenue, they all agree in execrating and deriding the name of H——b and the syst m of his politics.
I hope these insolent and prostituted tools, who have thus daringly insulted the whole body, by styling themselves a committee of American Merchants, may be dragged forth to the bar of the public. Their insignificance conceals them, or their deeds should long since have been brought into light. ATTICUS.
THURSDAY, November 19. BOSTON.
The following is an account of the horrid murder, committed by the crew of a PIRATE schooner, in our bay, last Sunday morning, as near as can be collected from the various reports. Last Saturday evening, sailed from this port for Chatham, Cape-Cod, a schooner, — Nickerson, master; (who having been on a fishing voyage, came here and discharged his cargo, and was returning home) about 2 o'clock next morning, by the light of the moon, they discovered, a top-sail schooner beating down hard upon them, which at length fired and brought them too, a number of men, from the top-sail schooner then came on board Capt. Nickerson, in one boat, and examined him, whether he was bound, what he had on board, &c. They then returned to their schooner, but soon after came on board again with more assistance, in three or four boats, armed with guns and cutlasses. One Nickerson, a passenger on board (and a relation of the captain's) when he perceived their coming, slung himself by a rope over the stern, (thinking their intention was to press some of them) and there continued during the bloody scene; as soon as they came on board, after lashing the helm, and setting the sails, they killed captain Nickerson, and two other men, one of whom was the captain's brother, and the other his brother-in-law named Newcomb, and threw them overboard, they being all the hands belonging on board, except Nickerson, who had slung himself over the stern, as before mentioned, and a boy named Kent; it is said, Nickerson heard one of the pirates say, Let us kill the boy, and another make answer, No, he will do to make punch for us; whether they killed him, or not, is not known, however, the boy is missing. After perpetrating this inhuman deed, they plundered the vessel, knocked out the head of a barrel of rum and drank and wasted the greatest part of it, and taking a considerable sum of money, went off with their booty. When they dropped astern of the schooner, they came so near Nickerson, (the only one supposed to be saved) that he could have set his feet on their heads, but it providentially happened they never perceived him. Some time after they were gone, Nickerson, who could not have survived much longer in the condition he was in, came on board, and made sail for Cape-Cod, and about ten o'clock the same morning, saw a sail, which proved to be Capt. Doane, from Cape-Cod, bound for Boston, and hanging out a signal of distress, Capt. Doane with some of his people came on board, and assisted him in getting into port. The persons who were murdered, were all married men, and have left three disconsolate widows.
Yesterday the Lively sloop of war sailed in quest of the pirates.
The freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, are notified, to meet at Faneuil-Hall (to-morrow at ten o'clock, forenoon, to receive the report of their committee, when it is hoped there will be a very
general attendance; the matters to be considered being of the last importance.
Yesterday arrived Capt. Bruce from London, with whom came passengers, George Erving, Esq; and Mr. Joseph Taylor, merchants.
We hear that Mrs. Catharine Macaulay, the celebrated female historian, has generously presented the Redwood Library, in the town of Newport, a Copy of her works, being six Volumes in quarto.
By a small vessel from Mansfield, we learn, that on the night before last they discovered a great light, bearing S. E. from the Graves, just below the light house, and concluded it must be some vessel on fire, at a considerable distance.
*** Several paragraphs of foreign and domestic intelligence, some advertisements, &c. must be deferred for want of room.
ERRATUM. In page 1, ls. 24. and 25, read, the multiplicity and insuperable quality of this weed of hell.
MARINE LIST.
PORT of BOSTON, November, 17.
ARRIVED Noyes from New-London; Butler from New-Providence; Lacheurs and Cole from Newfoundland; Gray from Maryland; Rogers from Philadelphia; Sturgis from Louisbourg; Gregor from Annapolis Royal; Lowel from Turks-Island and St. Eustatia; How from Hispaniola; Steel, Le Matte, Tetuan and Beal from St. Vincents; Nicholson from Surinam; Littlefield from Barbadoes; Hunter from Glasgow; Delano, Hall, Lyde and Pease from London; Smith from Bristol; Scott from Hull and Newcastle.
PORT of RHODE ISLAND, November 9.
Arrived. Fuller from Hispaniola; Biven from Jamaica; Shaw, Bourk, Adams, Carpenter and Northup from Hispaniola; St. Croix, Lovett, Carpenter and Tillinghast from New-York; Barnard and Gaidner from Nantucket; Almy and Howland from North Carolina; Digges from Maryland; Manchester from Newfoundland; Nickerson, Baker, Baker, Chace, Rider, Black, Baker, Baker, Crowell and Eldridge from Fishing; Simmons from Boston; Lawrence from Whaling.
PORT of NEW LONDON, November 13.
Arrived. Brock from Grenada; Bulings from Falmouth; Denison from New-York; Billings from Guadaloupe; Williams and Higgins from Boston.
PORT of NEW HAVEN, November 13.
Arrived. Sherman, Chew and Forbs from Hispaniola; Ventres from New-York; Bartlett from Plymouth; Osborn from N. Carolina.
PORT of NEW YORK, November 9.
Arrived. Wallace from Jamaica; Ton from Tortola; Willson from Liverpool; Grieve and Deane from St. Martins; Suse and Carpenter from Rhode-Island; Gardner from St. Thomas's; Periam from Turks-Island; Righter, French, Farnes and Clark from North Carolina; Findley from Virginia; Casey from Philadelphia.
PORT of QUEBEC, October 22.
Arrived. Abbott from Oporto; Reeve, from New-York; Atwood from Boston.
WANTED immediately, a WET NURSE , with a good breast of Milk, to go into a family. Enquire of the Printer.
A WOMAN , who can be well recommended, would be glad to go into a genteel family, to take the care thereof, and oversee the COOKING , as she professes herself experienced in that art. Enquire of the printer.
STOLEN out of the house of Mr. Perrey, innholder, on the road between Woods-Hole and Boston, on the 10th instant, the following articles, vizt. One broad red striped jacket, one cozie linen shirt, one child's fine linen ditto, one gauze handkerchief, two pair of worsted stockings, one pair blue the other blue and white spotted, one worsted night cap, one pair dimothy drawers, one pair long trowsers made of sail cloth: They are supposed to be stolen by one John Chambers, (as he has been seen since the robbery was committed with part of the cloaths on) he is a well-set fellow, about five feet five or six inches high, wears his own short curled hair, rather sandy, pitted with the small pox, has lost the use of one of his eyes; he has been a fishing at the Island of St. John's this summer, he came from Halifax in the schooner Mary; Capt. French, and was landed at Martha's-Vineyard a few days before: Whoever will apprehend the thief so that he may be brought to justice, shall receive Two Dollars reward and all necessary charges paid, by CHRISTOPHER PORT.

WILLIAM BEATTY , ha- removed from the store he former- ly improved, on Green's wharf, to that latter- ly improved by Mr. Edward Gray, nex- to Mr. Henry Bass's, and opposite the head of Green's wharf. Where he has now for sale, a fresh importation of LINENS of all widths and prices, just received from his friends in the North of Ireland. Also some very good brown Irish Sheeting, remarkably cheap.
THIS may give notice, to any gentle- men in the country towns, that if they have occasion for a SCHOOL MASTER for this season, they may hear of one, that would be glad to serve them, on as low terms as they can in reason desire.
N. B. Any gentlemen wanting such a one, may hear of him, by enquiring of the Printer.
WANTED , an APPREN- TICE , to a genteel Business. En- quire of the Printer.
JOSEPH GREENLEAF , At his store in Marshall's-Lane, Between the CORNFIELD and THOMAS'S Printing-Office. Boston,
Has for sale, upon the most reasonable terms, A GREAT variety of Broad Cloths , of fashionable colours, from 5s. to a guinea the yard; a good assortment of Irish Linens, Dowlas, Russia Linen and Sheeting of most prices; Shalloons, Cala- mancoes, Russells, Pouad and No. 4 Pins, Cotton Velvets and Veverets, Linen and Silk Handkerchiefs, German Serges, Osna- burgs, writing and printing Paper, Fustians, Jeans, Colchester Baize, Beaver Coating.
N. B. One piece of scarlet, and one do- zen of green superfine Broad Cloth, a genteel Mahogany case for Knives, forks and spoons with plated silver furniture, and sundry o- ther articles, will be sold at or near the bare exchange.
Said Greenleaf takes in Goods to sell upon commissions, and has Large accom- modations for Storage, and a good CELLAR where he can deposit Wines, &c. &c.
Just published in Newport, And to be sold by I. THOMAS , near the Mill-Bridge, Boston,
NEW-ENGLAND'S MEMO- RIAL ; or, a brief relation of the most memorable and remarkable passages of the providence of God manifested to the planters of New-England, in America: With special reference to the first colony thereof, called NEW-PLYMOUTH . As also a nomination of divers of the most emi- nent instruments deceased, both of church and common wealth, improved in the first be- ginning, and after progress, of sundry of the respective jurisdictions in those parts: In reference unto sundry exemplary passages of their lives, and the time of their deaths.
A general assortment of ENGLISH GOODS , Just opened and to be SOLD, by NATHANIEL ABRAHAM , At his Shop opposite the sign of the Seven Stars, in Ann-street, very cheap for CASH only,
Among which are, SQUIRREL and fancy Muffs, with and without Tippets, squirrel and other furr trimmings for ladies cloaks, English Clogs, Shoes and Goloshes, with a variety of silk, silk and cotton, silk and worsted, and all kinds of linen and woollen goods usually imported for men's and women's ap- parel.
Choice French INDIGO By the hundred, dozen or single pound, To be sold by HENRY PRENTISS , At his store the head of Green's Wharf; A L S O ,
CHOICE Lisbon and Port WINES , by the quarter cask, Lisbon OYL by the cask or jar, a few quintals of excellent Dumb Fish, loaf and brown Sugars, Bohea Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Pepper, Al- spice and Ginger by the hundred, dozen, or single Pound, Nutmegs, Cloves, Cinnamon, Mace, Logwood, Redwood, Alum, Cop- peras, &c. &c. As Cheap for Cash as can be bought at any Store in Town.
Imported in the several ships from England, this fall, and in Capt. Brown, just ar- rived, by THOMAS LEE , And to be sold at his Store near the Swing- Bridge,
A General assortment of Piece GOODS , which being purchased by him from the first hands only, he will sell at the lowest advance:
Among which are, A great variety of Broad Cloths, Lambkins, Coatings, Duffsils, Blankets, Colchester and Drapery Baizes, Devonshire Kerseys, German Serges of all colours, em- bosed Serges, a complete assortment of Shalloons, Tammies, Durants and Cala- mancoes, Stuffs of various sorts for womens wear, Irish Linens of all widths and prices, very cheap.
A beautiful variety of new fashion- ed ribbonds, ladies collars and trimmings of all sorts, Pelong fustians, Persians and Sar- nets of most colours, black flowered Satins and capuchin Silks, black China Taffaties, hair and other coloured Grograms, worsted, cotton, thread and silk Hosiery of all sorts; amongst which are an exceeding great varie- ty of women's silk mits and gloves, men's silk hose of most colours, spun silk ditto, black silk breeches patterns, men's silk gloves, &c. &c. &c. &c.
LADIES SILKS. A beautiful variety of fashionable Silks, consisting of almost every sort in use. An elegant assortment of fancy and other colour- ed fustians for ladies cloaks, of the very new- est patterns.
A great variety of book and thick Mussins, Tombour worked ditto ruffles and aprons, Mecklin and Brussels Laces, &c. &c. Gold and silver Laces, and a fresh assortment of gold and silver spangle But- tons, and basket worked ditto. Also, Gun-Powder, Shot, Brimstone, Nails, Taylor's window Glass, Verdigreese, &c. SILVER WATCHES.
NATHANIEL GREENOUGH,
Begs leave to acquaint the WORLD ,
That he has just received from LONDON , an elegant Assortment of Fall and Winter GOODS ,
That are now ready for Sale, at his shop two doors to the northward of the Post Office, just above the Market in Cornhill, Boston,
Among which are, A FINE assortment of superfine middling and low-prized broad cloths , Ratteens, Bath and knapt Beaver coatings, Frizes, 8 4ths Lambkins or Coatings, Kerseys, German Serges, embos- sed ditto, Colchester and Drapery Baizes, Duffsils, Shags, striped and rose Blankets, flannels, Milled ditto for Ironing Cloths, Barekins, &c. divers kinds of Woollens, from 13s. 6d. Old Tenor to a Guinea the Yard.
A variety of articles for Men's Women's and Children's Gowns. A large assort- ment of IRISH LINENS 3-4ths, 7-8ths, and Yard wide, from 7s. Old Tenor, to 45s. the Yard.
The above Articles with a vast many o- thers, too many to be here particularly men- tioned, he will sell as cheap, or Cheaper, than can be bought at any Shop or Store on the Continent. The Quality of his Goods and the townness of his Prices, will abundantly prove it.
N. B. He sincerely thanks his Friends and Customers for their past Favours, and begs they would still continue to lay him under greater Obligations to them by granting him their Custom in future. He shall esteem himself obliged if they will come and view his Goods, that he may have an opportunity of sitting them.
WILLIAM BRECK , At the Golden Key, near the Draw-Bridge, Boston, has imported
A General assortment of HARD WARE GOODS , which will be sold at the lowest rates, by wholesale and retail. ** Brass and iron ware, tin plates, lan- thorn leaves, and all sorts of tin ware, may be had at said place, also a few quintals of good table FISH.
Imported in the last ships from London and Bristol, and to be sold by PETER HUGHES ,
At his Store in King-street, CHOICE Newcastle Coal, Hemp, Cordage, English, Russia and Ravens Duck, Ticklenburgh, Dowlas, broad Cloths, Frizes, Duffsils, beaver Coating, Calamancoes, Poland and common Starch, Florence Oil, printing Ink, writing paper, 4d. 6d. 8d. and 10d. nails, sheathing ditto, Shot, bar Lead, Powder in half and quarter barrels, cod and Mackerel Lines and Hooks, sail, seine and whipping Twine, half and quarter boxes of 6 by 8, 7 by 9, and 8 by 10 Glass, single, double and treble refined Loaf Sugar, 12, 15, 18 and 21 inch Pipes, Doctors Phials, common quart and Cham- paign Bottles in hampers of one groce each, crates of Earthen Ware, Pepper, Cinna- mon, Cloves and Mace, Durham Mustard, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Grindstones, best London Porter in hampers of 3 and 4 dozen.
JOHN SKINNER, PEWTERER,
ACQUAINTS his customers and others, in town and country, that he has removed from the North-End into the house adjoining Mr. Penuel Bow- en's, a little northward of the sign of the Lamb, in Newbury-street, Boston, where he continues to make and sell, by whole- sale, all sorts of pewter ware, usually made in New-England: Also, dishes and plates hammered the same as in London; all who please to favour him with their custom, may depend on being supplied on as good terms as any where in New-England, and as well used by letter as if present; letters or orders for him left with Mr. Edward Holyoke, at Colonel Jonathan Snelling's Store, on Treat's wharf, near the Town- Dock, will come safe and speedily to hand.
Also to be sold or let, a very good DWELLING-HOUSE and LAND , sit- uate and fronting on Clarke's-Square, North-End, with three rooms on a floor, a large entry, a payed yard, a well of wa- ter with a pump and good garden, and back way into Middle-street, pleasantly situated. For particulars enquire of said Skinner.
JACOB HEMET, DENTIST to her Majesty and the Prin- cess Amelia .
BEGS Leave to recommend to the Public, his newly discovered Es- sence of Pearl , and Pearl Detrifice , which he has found to be greatly superior not only in elegance, but also in efficacy, to any thing hitherto made use of for complaints of the Teeth and Gums : Particularly they will pre- serve the Teeth in a perfect sound state, even to old age; they render them white and beautiful, without in the least impairing the enamel; soften such as are loose, keep such as are already decayed from becoming worse, prevent the Tooth-Ach , perfectly cure the Scurvy in the Gums , and make them grow firm and close to the teeth; they likewise render the breath delicate, sweet, and re- medy almost all those disorders that are the consequence of scorbatic gums.
Sold (by appointment of Mr. Hemet) wholesale and retail, by W. Bayley , Perfu- mer, in Cockspur-street, near the bottom of the Hay-market, London, and at William Scott's Irish Linen Store, near the Draw- Bridge, Boston, New-England.
To be SOLD, by NATHANIEL RUSSELL , In Common-street, a little to the north- ward of Dr. Byles's Meeting House, BOSTON ,
A Complete assortment of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE , con- sisting of Clocks, Tables, Chairs, Bedsteads, dumb Waiters, &c. &c. Cheap for Cash.
To be sold by Samuel Sloane, at his Distil-House, opposite the Blue- ball and Mason's-Arms, formerly Green- Dragon, New-England RUM, and all sorts of SPIRITS , cheap for cash or Molasses; and as he makes those articles himself, he will warrant them fit for any market.
A NUMBER of small BOOKS for Children, also Writing-Paper, Bonnet Paper, Brown Paper, Sealing-Wax, Wafers, Slates, &c. to be sold by I. THOMAS .
New Book-Store. JOHN LANGDON , Opposite Mr. THOMAS LEVERETT'S leading to the Market, Informs his friends, and the Public, that he has received in the several last ships from London and Scotland,
A LARGE and Grand Assort- ment of BOOKS in all Arts and Sciences, which, with his former importations, make as large a collection as is to be found at any Store in America. As he intends for Eng- land in the Spring, every Gentleman who may please to favour him with their cus- tom may depend on purchasing at a little more than the sterling cost and charges. The least favours gratefully acknowledged.
MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS , Mathematical Instrument Maker, Has to SELL
At his Shop, at the Sign of Sir Isaac Newton, At the Head of the Long- Wharf, BOSTON ,
THE largest assortment of Had- ley's and Davis's Quadrants ever in New-England; also hanging and standing Compasses in brass and wood; Gauging and Surveying Instruments, Cases of Ma- thematical Instruments with reel joints, half cases ditto; Telescopes of various lengths, in ivory, wood and fish-skin; Plotting Scales and Protractors, Gunter Scales and Dividers, four and two pole Surveying Chains, artifi- cial Magnets with cases, Sand-Glasses from two hours to a quarter of a minute; Instru- ments of a new construction to measure Boards; an assortment of Brass Pocket Com- passes; Box Rules, Jack-Knives, brass and pewter Ink-Stands, plated Shoe and Knee Buckles, Pinchbeck, Block-tin and Brass do. Compass Scales, Watch Keys, &c.
BOOKS. Straits and Mediterranean Pilot, Southern Pilot, Mariner's Calendar, Daily Assistant. Wilson's Navigation. Young Man's best Companion. Patou's Treatise of Navigation, Atkinson's Epitome. A Complete System of Navigation. By John Barrow. Practical Navigation. By John Seller. Large Charts of the English Channel. Large Charts for the Coast of Guinea. Nine Leaves Charts for the Channel and Straits.
Ditto for West-Indies.
STATIONAY. Writing Paper. Dutch Quills. Sealing-Wax. Wafers. Slates. Black Lead and Slate Pencils. Quire Books covered with Marble Paper. Ditto ruled for Journals.
A Variety of Instruments, too tedious to mention, are made and sold at the above place, and as he has had a thorough experi- ence, he doubts not of giving satisfaction. N. B. All instruments with said William's name, will be made true without charge.
JOHN WHITE , Informs the publick, that he has to SELL
ALL sorts of Garden SEEDS , imported from Europe; and seeds saved here, of this year's produce, very suit- able for the West-Indies. Also, a variety of fine English Cherry Trees, and a num- ber of grafted Apple trees, and a great number of standard and trained Currant Trees, Gooseberry Bushes, Quince and Lime Trees. A few English Pear and Plumb Trees, are now ready to be taken up, Horse Raddish, Sweet-Herbs, and a few other articles at his Nursery Garden in Seven- Star Lane, next to the Hon. Thomas Flucker, Esq's. in Boston.
ALL Persons that are indebted to the Printer hereof, will greatly ob- lige him by making speedy payment.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS,
At 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 , Bookseller, in Newbury-Port ; and Mr. M. Belcher , in Bridgewater .