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THE Massachusetts Spy
Dr. Thomas's Boston Journal.
Great LIBERTY inspire our Souls—And make our Lives in thy Possession happy—Or, our Deaths glorious in thy just Defence.
IV.) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1774. (NUMB. 189.)
JOIN OR DIE
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
TO TREASURER G— A WRITER in a late Spy asserts that you made many promises not to be a mandamus Councillor. Every body that knows you, can witness to the truth of what he affirms. You was, nevertheless, one of the foremost to take the oaths. You hastened to securer destruction to your country. You agreed, more than a year ago, with its most inveterate enemy, to serve in the office. He promised to procure your appointment. He transmitted a list which contained your name, to the ministry. This was done soon after the Council passed their resolves relating to his letters. You have, since that time, repeated your declaration that you would not accept, if appointed. You have been long used to look one way and row another. Your double dealing in politics has been notorious. But nobody stigmatized you so freely before the last administration, as he that was the last administrator. Though a very JANUS himself, he severely censured you. You have heard the homely proverb of the pot and kettle. Since that you have considered him as your friend and patron. You have ever since been his obedient servant. He has made use of you to answer his pernicious purposes. He thoroughly knew you; but his case was difficult: He had few friends. His greatly superior abilities taught him how to manage you so as to effect his designs. He knew your dependance on him for continuance in office would insure your aid. He at length involved his native country in misery and ruin. You afforded him all the assistance in your power. If you doubt whether every body in this town speak of you as I do, ask plain hearted Solomon . Though his business is smugling, he sometimes adverts to politics.
Among other things, you are charged with reproaching widows. I have heard of a very worthy widow in a certain town a few years ago. Her name I shall not mention. She was in the bloom of life. An old Dotard made love to her. She wanted to rid herself of his fawning importunity. To effect this she was necessitated to tell him she had no thoughts of marrying. At the time when she said so, she had none. Afterwards, upon a worthy gentleman's paying his addresses to her, she changed her mind. Could the old Dotard be justified in comparing this to a solemn breach of promise?
Your resolutions were absolute. They were often repeated. Every Member of the Houses of Representatives of late years can testify this. They were uttered a little before several last Wednesdays in May. They were repeated in the winter sessions following. In the winter sessions civil officers are chosen, and the House grant salaries in the same sessions to the servants of the government. Your patriotism never appeared as a steady principle. At such times you would ask like a political enthusiast. When your ends were answered you were in tother box, or trimming between court and country.
Of all vices Ingratitude is the most sordid. This is a trite saying. You have a fortune. You acquired it by the favour of the people. Time was when your circumstances were low and scanty. You had nothing then to do in the way of trade. Tilson had left off going to Jamaica. You spent your time in talking about New-Lights . You ridiculed them and their teachers. You made mock sermons. You went about from shop to shop to read them. At length necessity obliged you to seek for some other employment. You turned your thoughts to the Treasurer's office. You said things of Foye which the golden rule would not justify. By arts and stratagems you got to be elected his successor. These are well remembered. They will never be forgot. The people put you into their best office. To requite them you trample upon their dearest rights. You have been continued in the office about twenty years. Your annual grants have been liberal and generous. You have been better paid than any other officer in the government. For some of your extraordinary grants there was scarcely any colour. You made entertainments. You talked on the popular side. You sometimes made honest people think they were obliged to you, when you had only done the common duty of your office. It is an advantage to an aspiring man to have the receiving and paying of all public monies. The public creditors and debtors make a great part of the community. You improved this advantage to secure your places of Councillor and Treasurer. You often concealed selfishness and ambition, under pretences of friendship. It is often under the disguise of patriotism. What artifices! Your own conduct has now sufficiently detected them.
The Nettlebark Baronet you talked against with much freedom: Yet you were upon good terms with him. He allowed you that liberty that you might be better able to gain intelligence to carry to him. You were employed by his successor in the same dirty business. How often did you in that way dishonour the honourable office of a Councillor! He did not, however, give you the same indulgence to speak against him. You had, to secure your places, said as he thought, enough of all conscience before he came to the chair.
think of the time when you must leave it. The destroyers of their country's happiness are not in the fairest way to secure their own happiness. Certainly your political conduct needs to be bitterly repented of. This hint is honestly meant. Though I have freely censured you, I will you well through every period of your existence. Adieu. GALLIMAUFRY.
MONDAY, September 12. BOSTON.
On Friday last the Selectmen of this town again waited upon his Excellency the Governor with the following Address, viz. May it please your Excellency, THE Selectmen of Boston, on the earnest desire of a number of gentlemen of the town and country, again wait on your Excellency to acquaint you, that since our late application, the apprehensions of the people, not only of this but of the neighbouring towns, are greatly increased, by observing the design of erecting a fortress at the entrance of the town; and of reducing this metropolis in other respects to the state of a garrison. This with complaints lately made, of abuse from some of the guards posted in that quarter, in assaulting and forcibly detaining several persons who were peaceably passing in and out of the town, may discourage the market people from coming in with provisions as usual, and oblige the inhabitants to abandon the town. This event we greatly deprecate, as it will produce miseries which may hurry the province into acts of desperation. We should therefore think ourselves happy if we could satisfy the people that your Excellency would suspend your design, and not act to the distresses of the inhabitants occasioned by the post-bill, that of garrisoning the town. JOHN SCOLAY, Chairman of the Selectmen.
THE GOVERNOR'S Answer.
GENTLEMEN, WHEN you lately applied to me respecting my ordering some cannon to be placed at the entrance of the town, and you term the erecting a fortress; I fully expressed my sentiments, that I thought you was satisfied the people had nothing to fear from that measure, as no use would be made thereof, unless their hostile proceedings should make it necessary; but as you have this day acquainted me, that your fears are rather increased, I have thought proper to assure you, that I have no intention to prevent the free egress and egress of any person to and from the town, or of reducing it to the state of a garrison, neither shall I suffer any under my command to injure the person or property of any of his Majesty's subjects. But as it is my duty, so it shall be my endeavour to preserve the peace, and promote the happiness of every individual; and I earnestly recommend to you, and every inhabitant, to cultivate the same spirit. And heartily wish they may live quietly and happily in the town. Boston, Sept. 9, 1774. THO. GAGE.
To the Gentlemen Selectmen of the town of Boston. Last Friday morning, one Valentine Ducket, a deserter from the 65th regiment, now at Halifax, was shot in the rear of the camp in the Common, pursuant to the sentence of a court martial. He was born at St. Peter's parish in Derbyshire, and was but 21 years of age.
Saturday last most of the 59th regiment marched from Salem to this place, and are now stationed on the Neck at the entrance of the town; where great hostile preparations are making as though an enemy was approaching, when it is thought by some, the greatest number is among ourselves. The public are hereby informed that George Watson, Esq; (who was lately appointed by mandamus from his majesty, one of the unconstitution council of this province) has resigned his seat at said board, and communicated his resignation to governor Gage by letter the first instant.
We hear from Shutesbury, that on Monday last night, the inhabitants of that place met and erected a pole with a flag of LIBERTY! as a signal of the general spirit of resentment in that town, to the late oppressive acts of parliament.
The town of Marblehead have agreed that their regiment of militia shall turn out four times in a week, with arms and ammunition according to law, in order to perfect themselves in the military art. Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Windsor, (Nova Scotia) to a gentleman in Halifax, dated August 22, 1774. "Such a spirit of liberty breathes even here at Windsor (and I hope will through the other townships) that a chest of that infamous tea, the property of the East-India company, which had been privately conveyed from your town, in order to be sent to Cornwallis, was, with the greatest difficulty, conveyed into Mr. George Dechamps's store; not a person being found to assist in doing the same, until Mr. Eurburidge and Mr. Isaac Dechamps assisted with their own hands. Had it not been immediately sent by water to Cornwallis, it would have shared the fate of the Boston tea. The trucks which brought it to this place, though deposited in Mr. Dechamps's yard, was taken out on Saturday night and totally demolished, being cut to pieces. The above may be depended on as fact."
A Malt-ship arrived at Portsmouth, last Thursday, from London, having on board 30 chests of tea, consigned to Edward Parry, Esq; of that place, the people were determined it should not be landed in that province: the consignee and Capt. appeared willing to do every thing in their power to prevent any uneasiness to the inhabitants; it was generally thought the tea would be sent to Halifax.
Twelve pieces of Cannon were last week brought from Castle-William and placed at the Fortification. Extract of a letter from Governor Hutchinson, dated London, July 3, 1774. "Let the tea be paid for by or in behalf of the town, as soon as may be; and I hope you will do as much to promote this as possible. I find my applications every where to have more weight than I could expect, and the prospect of your speedy relief to be fairer every day:—If finally obtained, I shall think it one of the most happy circumstances of my life."
Issac Low, Esq; being under the necessity of going by way of Powles-Hook, was escorted to the Ferry Stairs by a considerable number of respectable inhabitants, with colours flying, music playing, and loud Huzzas at the End of each street. When they got down to the river, he, in a very polite manner, took leave of the inhabitants, six of whom accompanied him and his Lady over, with music playing, GOD SAVE THE KING.
The inhabitants then returned to the Coffee-House, in order to testify the like respect to the other three gentlemen, viz. JAMES DUANE, PHILIP LIVINGSTON, and JOHN ALSP, Esquires.
About half past nine the procession began, and was conducted in like manner as above. When they arrived at the Royal Exchange (at which place they embarked) JAMES DUANE, Esq; in a very affectionate and moving manner thanked the worthy inhabitants for the honour they had conferred upon them, declaring for his own part, and he had it in command from the whole of his Brother Delegates to acquaint them, that nothing in their power should be wanting to relieve this once happy, but now aggrieved country.
When the gentlemen got under way, they were saluted by several pieces of Cannon, mounted on this joyous occasion, which was answered by a greater number from St. George's Ferry; these testimonies and three huzzas, bid them go and proclaim to all nations, that they, and the virtuous People they represent, dare defend their rights as PROTESTANT ENGLISHMEN.
After the gentlemen had got a little distance from town, a considerable number went to St. George's Ferry to celebrate their departure, waiting the salvation of the colonies from that hour, well knowing in whom they have placed the greatest confidence that ever men were intrusted with. There were many loyal, constitutional, and spirited toasts drank, sealed with frequent discharges of Cannon, and attended with this declaration, that each and every of them, solemnly avowed, they would support at the risk of their lives, the sacred and dear, just resolutions as our Delegates in conjunction with those worthy gentlemen of the colonies should think necessary to adopt for the good of the common cause. The day was concluded with, GOD SAVE THE KING.
John Harring and Henry Wefner, Esq; Delegates for Orange county, we are told, are gone to Philadelphia, to attend the Congress.
We hear Col. Philip Schuyler, is chose a Delegate for the county of Albany. HARTFORD, Sept. 6. On Tuesday last, being the day the county court was to sit at Springfield, a great concourse of people, judged to be about 3000, assembled at the court-house in that place, and appointed a committee to wait on the court, and request their appearance among the people, which they immediately complied with, when they very willingly signed the following engagement, viz. "We the subscribers, do severally promise, and solemnly engage to all people now assembled at Springfield, in the county of Hampshire on the 30th day of August 1774, that we never will take, hold, execute, or exercise, any commission, office, or employment whatsoever, under, or by virtue of, or in any manner derived from any authority pretended or attempted to be given by a late act of Parliament, entitled, 'an act for the better regulating the government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New-England.'
Iraisi Williams, Oliver Partidge, Timothy Dwight, Thomas Williams, John Worthington, Joseph Hawley, William Williams, Simeon Strong, Moses Bliss, Jonathan Ashley, Elisha Porter, Caleb Strong, Samuel Fowler, Jonathan Bliss.
NORWICH, Sept. 1. Yesterday was observed, agreeable to our worthy governor's proclamation, as a day of fasting and humiliation throughout this colony.
ST. CROIX, July 9. On the 3d of June, about five o'clock in the morning, some small shocks of an Earthquake were felt at an India village, about six leagues from Guatemala, and very near the coast of the South-Sea, but did then no damage except alarming the inhabitants. The shocks continued with trifling intermissions till seven o'clock in the evening, when the effects of nature began to break forth in all their terrors; lightning and thunder were incessant, attended with a heavier rain than was ever known there; the sea rose in such a convulsive manner, that it overflowed the highest banks, and at the same time the land was agitated by the earthquake, that the village was totally destroyed in a short time; and not a trace of it left. The major part of the inhabitants on the first appearances of the trumpet, had fled towards the city of Guatemala, but found no shelter there, that unhappy place being involved in more misery than where they fled from. The two famous mountains near that city were in a state of the greatest eruption: the one, which emits a liquid fire and amazing large stones, threw out its most enraged force, on the devoted city; the other, which in a like manner issues out water, deluged the land about, and was full fraught with destruction. The violent shocks of the earthquake, the lightning, thunder and rain, made one dreadful scene of confusion not to be paralleled. This war of nature commenced in its full force about 8 o'clock in the evening, and continued raging till the night of the 17th day, in which time the university, the public courts of justice, and cathedral, the parochial churches, all the public edifices, were destroyed, either by the earthquake, by the fire and stones from the mountains, or by the impetuosity of the river which rose above its banks, and bore every thing before it with the greatest violence. Chasms of a great extent were made in the earth and many whole houses, with numbers of the miserable inhabitants fell in and were seen no more. But how can the anguish of the unhappy sufferers be described? The acts of devotion which their tortured fears prompted them to use were all in vain; their priests swallowed up, struck dead, or otherwise destroyed in the very moment of administering absolution. Many appalled by the scene, stood fixed, and received the inevitable death that awaited; those who escaped from the city were encircled with dangers and death, the fields afforded no shelter, the earth was convulsed, as with pain, and the volcanos and rocks with which that country abounds, were raging with fire, and throwing out stones of a most prodigious size.
On the night of the 7th, about the hour of ten, the mountains raged exceedingly, the earth shook with great violence, and the thunder encreased; this lasted about five minutes, when the whole city of Guatemala, was destroyed was swallowed in a wide chasm, a rent in nature; and the fiery earth spread over in a manner which soon obscured it from sight. The elements now as gratified with their prey, calmed most surprisingly; by the noon of the next day every thing was again calm and serene, but the face of the earth was altered, the city was gone, the burning mountain shook in its base, and other rocks sunk with their tops on the earth; the river was parted in many places, and formed into standing pools of a bitter, smoky water, and the fine vale was covered with large stones, and the lava (cooled) which had issued from the mountains. The numbers of people lost are not yet nor possibly ever will be, really ascertained, as those who may have escaped have not yet been heard of, except the president of the audience, the Bishop of the place, and about 170 others, who have providentially escaped to Trinidad, or Sonsonate, about thirty leagues from Guatemala, and about 200 who have arrived here.
This event may be considered as one of the most dreadful that ever happened: in its beginning, continuance, and consequence. equally dreadful and tremendous. The vicious lives of the inhabitants of that fated city, and in fact of many other cities of Spanish America, would justify an opinion that the great creator of all things did not suffer such a punishment to fall in vain."
SALEM, September 9. In the Brig Julius Cæsar, Capt. Pea, arrived thirty-three chests and three half chests of Bohea tea; but so great is the spirit of opposition in this as well as the neighbouring towns, to the measures pursued by the present administration, that no sooner had the news of its arrival reached the town, than it spread great consternation, if possible, in the countenances of people than the loss of Fort William-Henry, or the repulse of Ticonderoga in the late war, when most of us imagine the French and Indians would soon march to the gate of Boston: However our fears soon subsided on the arrival of Mr. Smith, of Boston, who was sent for by an express from the gentlemen Selectmen and the committee of correspondence, who have conducted with the greatest prudence and caution on this occasion. It appears that the above tea was a consignment from Messrs. Ayre and Montgomery, merchants in London, to Messrs. Smith and Atkinson, merchants in Boston, who have behaved in the most genteel and polite manner to the committee and people of the town, by voluntarily declaring it as their determination that their tea should not be landed, and have promised to return it in Capt. Lyde, who is soon to sail for London, if permission can be obtained from the commissioners of his majesty's customs, to whom application is making for that purpose; which if not granted, they will consent to return it in the Brig it came in without breaking bulk.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
Mr. THOMAS, A Correspondent desires you would insert the following Extract from the Earl of Chatham's Speech, delivered some time ago in the House of Lords.
"IF we turn our eyes towards America, the prospect is equally distressful.—Much has been said of the disobedience of the colonies to the mother country.—My opinion, with regard to America, is the same now, it ever was. My opinion is this, we ought to do justice, before we expect obedience.—I feel the warmest regard for America: I love the Americans, because they love liberty; liberty has spread, like a vine, from this country to the colonies; liberty flourishes in the wilds of America! I honour the plant; I revere the tree; and I would cherish the branches. As to any tumults that may have happened in America, they are the ebullitions of liberty; they are only some breakings out in the skin of the body politic, which, if rudely restrained and improperly checked, may strike inwardly, and endanger the vitals of the constitution.—I desire your lordships to consider by what a precarious tenure the liberties of one part of the British Empire would be held, if the other part were to be made slaves.—During your recess in the country, no doubt your worships have read that excellent book, The Age of Charles the fifth. "
L O N D O N.
July 4. Gold and silver penny crosses, an article of female dress disused since the latter end of queen Anne's reign, are, since the passing of the Quebec bill, much worn by the ladies at court; upon which a great personage has remarked, that they are very pious, as well as becoming ornaments.
WHEREAS the Assessors are required by Law to give reasonable Warning to the Inhabitants, to bring to the Assessors, true and perfect Lists of their Polls and Rateable Estates they are possessed of, on the first Day of September, and Incomes by Trade or Faculty, and Gain by Money at Interest.
In Conformity to the Law, the Assessors of the Town of Boston, do hereby notify the Inhabitants of said Town, that they shall attend at their Chamber, at the East-End of Faneuil-Hall Market, to receive the same, from Wednesday the seventh, to Friday the thirtieth of September, at the usual Hours, on every Day in the Week, except Lord's Days and Saturdays, and no longer.
And if any Person or Persons shall not bring in a List of their Estates as aforesaid, he or they for neglecting will not be entitled to any Abatement. Boston, August 22, 1774. By Direction of the Assessors.
TO BE SOLD.
A LARGE convenient Dwelling-House and Shops, very pleasantly situated in Dedham a Quarter of a Mile below the Reverend Mr. HAVEN'S Meeting-House, eleven Miles from Boston, on the main Road leading to Providence, very suitable for West-India and English Goods, both of them are very much wanted in said Dedham, about one Acre of good Land now improved as a Garden, and a small Barn almost new.—Enquire of JEREMIAH GORE, of Boston, Truckman; or JESSE BROWN, of said Dedham, Sadler.
Richard D. Jonathan C. Timothy R. Capt. Will.

POETRY. A V. S. ... The Altering the Charters of the ... ELO of Massachusetts-Bay. ... Jonathan Shipley, Lord Bishop of ... ST. ASAPH.
IT is of such great importance to compose or even to moderate the dissensions, which subsist at present between our unhappy country and her colonies, that I cannot help endeavouring, from the faint prospect I have of contributing something to so good an end, to overcome the inexpressible reluctance I feel at uttering my thoughts before the most respectable of all audiences.
The true object of all our deliberations on this occasion, which I hope we shall never lose sight of, is a full and cordial reconciliation with North-America. Now, I own, my lords, I have many doubts whether the terrors and punishments, we hang out to them at present, are the surest means of producing this reconciliation. Let us at least do justice to the people of North-America to own that we can all remember a time when they were much better friends than at present to their mother country. They are neither our natural nor our determined enemies. Before the stamp-act, we considered them in the light of as good subjects as the natives of any county in England.
It is worth while to inquire by what steps we first gained their affection, and preserved it so long; and by what conduct we have lately lost it. Such an enquiry may point out the means of restoring peace, and make the use of force unnecessary against a people, whom I cannot yet forbear to consider as our brethren.
It has always been a most arduous task to govern distant provinces, with even a tolerable appearance of justice. The viceroys and governors of other nations are usually temporary tyrants, who think themselves obliged to make the most of their time; who not only plunder the people, but carry away their spoils, and dry up all the sources of commerce and industry. Taxation in their hands, is an unlimited power of oppression: But in whatever hands the power of taxation is lodged, it implies and includes all other powers. Arbitrary taxation is plunder authorised by law: It is the support and the essence of tyranny; and has done more mischief to mankind, than those other three scourges from Heaven, famine, pestilence and the sword. I need not carry your lordships out of your own knowledge, or out of your own dominions, to make you conceive what misery this right of taxation is capable of producing in a provincial government.
It is a cause, that a mother country never existed before, who placed her natives and her colonies in the same equal footing; and joined with them in a fair sharing on one common interest.
You ought to consider this, my lords, not as a mere historical fact, but as a most important and invaluable discovery. It enlarges our ideas of the power and energy of good government beyond all former examples; and shews that it can act like gravitation at the greatest distances.
The good genius of our country had led us to the simple and happy method of governing freemen, which I have endeavoured to describe. Our ministers received it from their predecessors, and for some time continued to observe it; but without knowing its value. At length, presuming on their own wisdom, and the quiet disposition of the Americans, they flattered themselves that we might reap great advantages from their prosperity by destroying the cause of it.
I do not now enquire whether taxation is matter of right; I only consider it as a matter of experiment; for surely the art of government itself is founded on experience. I need not suggest what were the consequences of this change of measures. The evils produced by it were such as we still remember and still feel. We suffered more by our loss of trade with them, than the wealth flowing in from India was able to recompence.
I desire to have it understood, that I am opposing no rights that our legislature may think proper to claim: I am only comparing two different methods of government by your old rational and generous administration, by treating the Americans as your friends and fellow-citizens, you made them the happiest of human kind; and at the same time drew from them, by commerce, more clear profit than Spain has drawn from all its mines; and their growing numbers were a daily-increasing addition to your strength.
If there is any truth, my lords, in what I have said, and I most firmly believe it all to be true; let me recommend it to you to resume that generous and benevolent spirit in the discussion of our differences, which used to be the source of our union.
Our ears ought to be open to every complaint against the governors; but we ought not to suffer the governors to complain of the people. We have taken a different method, to which no small part of our difficulties are owing. Our ears have been open to the governors, and shut to the people.
And there is not a man amongst us, not the warmest friend of administration, who does not sincerely wish that act had never been made. In fact, they only ask for what we wish to be rid of. Under such a disposition of mind, one would imagine there could be no occasion for fleets and armies to bring men to a good understanding.
ty; and to let existing rights sleep, while they acquired their own personal business. Now, my lords, on this occasion, can they find no excuse, no pretence, no invention, no happy turn of language, no one colourable argument for doing the greatest service, they can ever render to their country?
With regard to the people of Boston, I am free to own, that I neither approve of their riots nor their punishment. And yet if we inflict it as we ought, with a consciousness that we were ourselves the aggressors, that we gave the provocation, and that their disobedience is the fruit of our own imprudent and imperious conduct, I think the punishment cannot rise to any great degree of severity.
I own, my lords, I have read the report of the Lords Committee of this House, with very different sentiments from those with which it was drawn up. It seems to be designed that we should consider their violent measures and speeches, as so many and determined acts of opposition to the sovereignty of England, arising from the malignity of their own hearts, one would think the mother country had been totally silent and passive in the progress of the whole affair.
To reason consistently with the principles of justice and natural friendship, which I have endeavoured to establish, or rather to revive what was established by our ancestors, as our rule of conduct for the government of America; I must necessarily disapprove of the bill before us; for it contradicts every one of them.
But let us coolly enquire what is the reason of this unheard of innovation. Is it to make them peaceable? My lords, it will make them mad. Will they be better governed, if we introduce this change?
Let me add further, that to make any changes in their government, without their consent, would be to transgress the wisest rules of policy, and to wound our most important interests.
And there is not a man amongst us, not the warmest friend of administration, who does not sincerely wish that act had never been made. In fact, they only ask for what we wish to be rid of. Under such a disposition of mind, one would imagine there could be no occasion for fleets and armies to bring men to a good understanding.
Having spoke so largely against the principle of the bill, it is hardly necessary to enter into the merits of it. I shall only observe, that even if we had the consent of the people to alter their government, it would be unwise to make such alterations as these.
My lords, I have ventured to lay my thoughts before you, on the greatest national concern that ever came under your deliberation, with as much honesty as you will meet with from other men, and with a melancholy assurance, that not a word of it will be regarded.
But whatever may be our future fate, the greatest glory that attends this country, a greater than any other nation ever acquired, is to have formed and nursed up to such a state of happiness, these colonies whom we are now so eager to butcher.
We seem not to be sensible of the high and important trust which providence has committed to our charge. The most precious remains of civil liberty, that the world can now boast of, are now lodged in our hands; and God forbid that we should violate that sacred deposit.
Let us be content with the spoils and the destruction of the east. If your lordships can see no impropriety in it, let the plunderer and the oppressor fill his hands. But let not the love of liberty be the only crime you think worthy of punishment.
But if the tendency of this bill is, as I own it appears to me, to acquire a power of governing them by influence and corruption; in the first place, my lords, this is not true government, but a sophisticated kind, which counterfeits the appearance, but without the spirit or virtue of the true:
Cambridge, September 4th, 1774. THESE may certify the public, that I had not the assistance of Mr. Ebenezer Bradish of Cambridge, in removing the powder from Quarry-hill in any manner whatever. D. PHIPS.
WHEREAS it has been reported to my disadvantage, that my horses were assisting in removing the two borrowed cannon, from Cambridge to Boston, from whence they came; it is true one of them was, but when I let the horses I let them to go in chaise, and did not think it was for the purpose of removing the cannon, if I had, they should not have gone about any such business, which has proved so disagreeable to my countymen. And what Col. Phips has certified as above, with this my declaration, I hope will be satisfactory to the public. EBENEZER BRADISH.
This day published, [And will be ready to be delivered, to-morrow, to the subscribers, at GREENLEAF'S PRINTING-OFFICE in Hanover-street near the ORANGE-TREE; embellished with an elegant engraving] NUMBER VII of the ROYAL AMERICAN MAGAZINE, or Universal Repository of Instruction and Amusement, for JULY, 1774.
SARAH DAWSON, Widow of the late JOSEPH DAWSON, Gardner, at the Cold-Bath, at New-Boston, has got for Sale this Fall, a large Collection of grafted and inoculated English Fruit Trees of all Sorts, consisting of a Number of Pear and Plum Trees of different Sorts; also, a large Number of young Apple Trees, preserved from the Seed; likewise, Garden Seeds, saved this Summer, more suitable for the West-Indies or Carolina, than any imported. Any Person who may want any of the above Articles, and will oblige the said SARAH DAWSON with their custom, may be assured they will be sold at the very lowest Rates, and all Favourites gratefully acknowledged. N. B. The COLD BATH is now in good Order.