The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal (Boston [Mass.]), 1774-03-31 00:00:00

THE Massachusetts Spy  Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER:--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
DO THOU Great LIBERTY INSPIRE our Souls,—And make our Lives in THY Possession happy,—Or, our Death is glorious in THY JUST Defence.
VOL. IV.]
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1774.
[NUMB. 165.]
WANTS EMPLOY, A MAN that writes a good hand, understands merchants accounts, and can be well recommended. Enquire of the Printer.
SILKS And Superfine BROAD CLOTHS.
A PRIME assortment of Padusoys, Du-capes, Lutestrings; plain and figured Sattins, Damasks, Sarinets, &c.—superfine fashionable coloured Broad Cloths, with suitable Linings and Trimings; To be Sold at an exceeding low rate, by JOHN BARRETT and SONS, At their shop near the Mill-bridge, Boston, Where may be had, all kinds of English, Scotch, India, Hard-Ware and Cutlery GOODS, By Wholesale or Retail, Extremely cheap for Cash or short Credit.
RUSSIA duck, best Petersburg hemp, Dutch rope yarns, also a quantity of choice junk, fit to make into cordage of any size, great part of which will do for rigging small vessels without working over, to be sold at THOMAS WALLEY'S Store on Dock-Square,
Where is to sell by wholesale or retail, Dutch looking-glasses of various sizes, Dutch brushes, single or by the set, hampers of stone ware, viz. quart and pint Mugs and Chamber Pots; a few casks choice Rice, all sorts of Spices very low, Quatmeal per bushel, a parcel of fine Narraganset and Pomfret Chees, new Raisins, Currants, and all sorts of Groceries as usual—except TEA.
N. B. A quantity of choice 3-threaded Seine Twine, for Salmon, Mackerel or Herring Nets. Also, White Beans per bushel.
JOHN HOUSEMAN, MILL-WRIGHT, from LONDON, At Mr. Russell's, Holyoke-Street, South-end, Boston, UNDERTAKES to build or repair most kinds of MILLS now in use, either in Great Britain or America, viz. Water, and Wind Grist Mills, Paper and Saw Mills, &c. and fits up Rollers for crushing of Malt, all in the most new and compleat manner; also Bolting Mills of all kinds, and makes up French stones and fits them up with proper Gore Works, and he has Wire Work for a Cillinder Flour Machine, will warrant it to dress 30 Bushels of Wheat Meal in one hour, and will finish the firsts, seconds, thirds and fourths, fine and coarse Bran at one operation, which by a Cloth Bolting Mill requires many, it will make more or less of the firsts, seconds, &c. by only turning over the partitions, and will prove itself the most useful thing of its kind that has ever been used in these parts. Those who please to favour the aforesaid JOHN HOUSEMAN with their commands, may depend on being served as above, and their favours acknowledged by their most obedient and most humble servant, JOHN HOUSEMAN.
WHEREAS I the subscriber intend leaving off the Baking business very soon, do take this opportunity of returning my thanks to those gentlemen and ladies who have favoured me with their custom, since my late husband's decease. MARY SURCOMB. N. B. A very good horse and handsome chaise to be sold. Enquire of Mary Surcomb. The business will be carried on as usual by Mr. William Flagg. Boston, February 23d, 1774.
This is to acquaint all gentlemen and ladies that the baking business will be carried on as usual, by the subscriber, who is determined to give universal satisfaction. WILLIAM FLAGG.
NEW-YORK, December 3, 1773.
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LONDON.
His MAJESTY's most gracious SPEECH to both Houses of PARLIAMENT, on Thursday, January 13, 1774.
My Lords, and Gentlemen, THE unusual length of the last session of Parliament made me desirous of giving you as long a recess as the public service would admit. I have, therefore, been glad to find myself under no necessity of calling you from your respective counties at an earlier season; and I doubt not but you are now met together in the best disposition, for applying yourselves to the dispatch of the public business.
You will, I am persuaded, agree with me in regretting, that the peace, so long expected, and so very desirable, is not yet effected between Russia and the Porte; but it is with real satisfaction I can repeat, that other foreign powers continue still to have the same pacific disposition with myself. I can have no other wish than to see the general tranquillity restored: For the establishment and subsequent preservation of which, no endeavours of mine, consistent with the honour of my crown and the interests of my people, shall ever be wanting.
In the state of foreign affairs, you will have full leisure to attend to the improvement of our internal and domestic situation; and to the prosecution of measures, more immediately respecting the preservation and advancement of the revenue and commerce of the kingdom. Among the objects which, in this view, will come under your consideration, none can better deserve your attention than the state of the gold coin; which I must recommend to you in a more particular manner, as well on account of its very high importance, as of the peculiar advantages which the present time affords, for executing with success such measures as you may find it expedient to adopt with respect to this great national concern.
The degree of diminution which the coin had actually suffered, and the very rapid progress which the mischief was daily making, were truly alarming. It is with much satisfaction I have seen the evil, in a great measure, checked by the regulations made in the last sessions of Parliament. I trust, however, that you will not stop here, nor think that you have discharged your duty, either to your country or your fellow subjects, without using your best endeavours for putting the gold coin upon such a footing, as may not only completely remove the present grievance, but render the credit and commerce of the kingdom sufficiently secure from being again exposed to the like danger.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons, I have ordered the proper estimates for the current year to be laid before you; and rely on your readiness to grant me such supplies as shall be found requisite in the present situation of affairs.
My Lords and Gentlemen, The experience I have had of your past conduct leaves me no room to doubt, either of your zeal or prudence, in your endeavours to promote the welfare of your country. You will not suffer any parts of the public service to escape your attention; but, various and extensive as those are, you will be careful to select, for your immediate deliberation, such of them as shall appear to be most important: And you can propose no measures, that will serve either to secure or advance the happiness and prosperity of my people, in which you may not always depend on my most hearty concurrence.
When his Prussian Majesty took possession of Prague, he was surveying one of the principal cathedrals, attended by one of the most dignified Ecclesiastics; and perceiving
the twelve Apostles in rich gold habits, he asked the Priest what was the value of the gilding? "Sire," replied the priest, "they are solid gold." "Gold!" answered his Majesty, "then the Apostles are put to a wrong use, for it was intended by their master they should travel all over the face of the earth for the public good, and behold in your church they are all confined; therefore, to fulfil their master's orders, I will have them immediately made into ducats, that they may travel over the face of the earth."—So Alexander said of the beard of Æsculapius, that it was cruel to suffer his worship to have one of gold in the winter, when wool was so much warmer.
A Letter from Dublin mentions, that the prodigious and continued emigrations from the North of Ireland have at last roused the nobility and gentry of that country to find some expedient to prevent them in future; accordingly, they have just entered into an association to discourage all Monopolizers of land, to portion out of their estates in smaller parcels, and to let those parcels at that moderate rent as will establish an interest to the tenant in the leaves, and enable them to live something like the independent yeomanry of this kingdom. This excellent institution, it is said, was begun by Lord Hillsborough, who at the same time, generously gave releases in full for large arrears due to him by several of his tenants.
Another Letter from Dublin says, "five hundred and seventy labourers, with their wives and children, have within these few months, shipped themselves off at Corke for the Colonies. The County of Connaught is almost drained of inhabitants, in so much that several gentlemen of fortune there have been obliged to offer advanced prices to labourers in Dublin, to undertake works of husbandry in the country. Hand-bills have been distributed, wherein offers are made to the labourers of paying the expences of their journey to several parts of the country. In short the land-holders now beat up for labourers as the King does for soldiers, and I believe with pretty much the same success. Men enlist one day, and desert the next."
A late letter from Berlin, (the capital of the Prussian dominions,) says, that a new treaty of alliance has been concluded between the Empress of Russia and the King of Prussia, by which the latter engages to assist the former against the Turks, with an army of 80,000 men.
On the 18th of November, at night, his Majesty the King of Prussia was attacked by a fit of the apoplexy, which gave a great alarm to the whole court; but it was happily soon over.
By the last accounts from Boston, in New-England, it is said his Excellency Governor Hutchinson has been pleased to appoint Barnavelt Boylston, Esq; now in England, to be senior Captain, with the rank of Major, in Brigadier Brattle's regiment of light horse, with assurances that if Col. Erving should resign the first regiment of foot (which was every day expected) Major Boylston should succeed to be commander thereof. [Mr. J. Boylston is supposed to be author of certain publications in the London papers signed Barnavelt.]
FRIDAY March 25.
BOSTON.
From a late London Paper.
We are informed, from good authority, that notwithstanding the compliments paid by the Americans to the merchants and owners of ships trading to America from London, there are five-hundred chests of tea lately shipped for that continent, and that the duty for the same is remitted before hand by the treasury, to New-York: However, no finess, we are told, will do
with the stiff-necked Americans, and the ship that carries this tea must find protection under a man of war's stern, for land it she cannot, or both ship and cargo will be destroyed. She is chartered, it seems, out and home on the same goods, and to be equally paid for bringing them back, as landing them.
We learn from Marblehead, that sundry articles left to be cleaned at Cat-Island after the destruction of the inoculating hospital there, were lately taken from thence, among which were seven gowns, (the property of some ladies who had the small pox there) several coverlids and blankets, and a quantity of iron ware.—Twenty Dollars reward is offered by Jonathan Glover and company, upon conviction of the offenders, and who, upon their discovery are determined again to try the strength of the county goals.
A letter from Madeira mentioning the late gale of wind at that island, says, "the oldest person here does not remember of ever seeing such a high sea, nor such a heavy gale of wind, and had it lasted an hour longer, all the vessels, which were 20 in number, would undoubtedly have come ashore. That 66 people perished, and it is computed that 100,000 property was lost in goods and vessels."
SATURDAY, March 26.
BOSTON.
Capt. Craig, who arrived at Philadelphia, informs, that the brig—, Captain Packwood, from New-England, overset in lat. 29, and the people were taken off her bottom and carried into Antigua.
Wednesday, the 13th of April, is appointed by authority to be observed as a day of public fast in the Colony of Connecticut.
Yesterday arrived here the Brigantine Brothers, Capt. Chambers, in 16 weeks from Falmouth, but last from St. Eustatia; having with the loss of her main-mast been blown off the coast.
We hear from Newcastle, New-Hampshire, that her Serene Highness Caroline Augusta Harriot, Princess hereditary of Browntonburgh, Duchess of Bontonsburgh and Wormsgrove, Marchioness of Waldegrave, &c. has lately taken up her residence in that town.
MONDAY, March 28.
BOSTON.
Friday last arrived here the Halifax armed schooner, Capt. Rogers, from Carolina; she failed from this place some time since, with James Montague, Esq; son of the Admiral, who was appointed to the command of his Majesty's sloop Tamar, in the room of Capt. Lobb, deceased, stationed at Cape Fear.
Extract of a letter from St. Eustatia, Feb. 23, 1774.
"Admiral Perry, with a fleet of six sail of men of war, and several transports, passed by this road about twelve days past; some of the officers came on shore and got liberty to press out of the English vessels; it soon took wind, and the different Captains balked the Admiral's intentions. Various were the conjectures of people:—The destination of the fleet was a great secret; no getting the least intelligence from the officers or men: However, yesterday arrived a vessel that brought intelligence of the fleet's being at anchor at Crab-Island; where the Admiral has absolutely hoisted English colours. This Island the Spaniards have laid claim to, and even gone so far as to take English and other foreign vessels, that have watering, &c. at the Island. It is very plain in sight of Porto-Rico; and one of the frigates it is said, is gone into St. John's, to acquaint the Spanish Governor of this proceeding: And it is reported that two Packets were immediately despatch-

ed to Old Spain. The Spaniards are in the greatest consternation, as they are absolutely hemmed up, and they will be more so if Crab-Island be strongly fortified. It is a very valuable Island. It is said to be as true and large as St. Christopher's; it will certainly make a great noise in Europe. The Dutch factors here have acquainted their correspondents in Holland with this intelligence. The Lord send a WAR, is the general cry here."
We hear the bluffering, hectoring Lindszee was lately broke; that the murderous Capt. Preston died of a bleeding at the mouth; and that the infamous Duddingston took his departure from France to the realms of darkness a few months past. So may all our enemies perish!
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated March 17.
"Capt. Love arrived here, left London the 19th of January, and the Isle of White the 30th. We have a few papers, one as late as the 27th of January: The accounts of the destruction of the tea at Boston is published in the papers of the 22d of January; and our tea ship, the Polly, Capt. Ayers, arrived off Dover 25th of January; no remarks in the papers about either. The paper of the 20th of January, says, the affairs of America will not be taken up by Parliament till the sessions is pretty far advanced. By the papers there has been a great insurrection at Peterburgh, but cannot find out particulars. The Russian troops are ordered out of Poland, and many regiments from the grand army on the Turkish Frontiers, are going for Peterburgh; the remainder of the Russian troops are gone to winter quarters, and a letter from Paris, dated 17th of January, says, it is positively asserted, that orders are given to all our regiments to hold themselves in readiness to take the field upon the earliest notice, and that an army of 100,000 men will be assembled on the Rhine in the Spring. Our London ships were to sail about the 20th of February."
DIED. Mrs. Phillips, wife of Mr. Phillips, rigger.—Mr. Dawson shoemaker.—Mrs. Nawdon widow, in an advanced age, and Mr. John Dymond both in the alms-house.—At Roxbury, Mrs. Elizabeth Pearson.—At Woburn, Mr. Joshua Richardson.—At Salem, Mr. Samuel Blyth.—At Hardwick, Mrs. Wheeler, wife of Capt. Wheeler of that town.—Deacon Christopher Page.—At Grafton, Mrs. Darling, wife of Doctor Timothy Darling.—At Middletown, Mrs. Chauncy, wife of Nathaniel Chauncy, Esq; of that place.—At Cape-Nichols, Capt. Earl, of this town.
TUESDAY, March 29. BOSTON.
A gentleman in England, writes his friend in Philadelphia, "the warlike preparations of the French, I imagine, will alarm all Europe; what their designs are, time must bring forth: The insurrection at Peterburgh, we imagine is set on foot by them, and his Prussian Majesty is at the bottom of the scheme. We expect soon to hear of the fitting out fleets, and sending armies to different parts, as we certainly will not be tame spectators."
LYME, March 17. Yesterday one William Lamson, of Martha's-Vineyard, came to this town with a bag of tea, about 100 weight, on horse-back, which he was peddling about the country. It appeared that he was about business which, he supposed, would render him obnoxious to the people, which gave reason to suspect that he had some of the detestable tea lately landed at Cape-Cod; and upon examination it appeared to the satisfaction of all present, to be part of that very tea; though he declared that he purchased it of two Gentlemen in Newport, one of them it is said a Custom-House Officer, and the other, Captain of the Fort, whereupon a number of the sons of liberty assembled in the evening, kindled a fire and committed the bag, with its contents, to the flames, were it was consumed, and the ashes buried on the spot, in testimony of their utter abhorrence of all tea, subject to a duty for the purpose of raising a revenue in America.
CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina) Feb. 21. Last Wednesday put in here the brigantine Sufannah , of and for Rhode-Island, from Hispaniola , having been blown off.
Captain Haggey, of the ship New-Market , which arrived here last Thursday from London, on the 29th of last month, in latitude 27, 35, longitude 54, met with a sloop in the greatest distress imaginable; five poor emaciated creatures on board accosting him with up-lifted hands, crying, they were "starving alive," and begging relief. She proved to be the George , Richard Justice, master, which had come out from Virginia fifty days before, laden with Indian corn, bound for New-York, and with only one week's provision. They had subsisted for some time on nothing but corn roasted in an iron pot, did not understand navigating the sloop, and in that condition had been driven to and fro, till they met with a vessel from Barbados, which spared them a man to avin-
cate, and a few dried fish, but no water, being short of that article themselves. Upon being desired to send their boat, they acquainted Captain Haggey, that they had none; that it had been cut up and used as firewood, and they had then only the last stick of her, the keel; whereupon he sent them, in his own boat, bread, beef, potatoes, candles, cheese, water and firewood, for a month, to carry them to Antigua, for which island they bore away.
The Cherokee Indians have given the strongest assurance of their peaceable disposition; in consequence of which the alarmed inhabitants of our western frontiers are mostly returned to their settlements, and have erected twelve stockade forts for their future security, should any disagreement happen.
There have been no new alarms on the side of the Creeks. The head men of that nation continue to disavow their having given any countenance to the great outrages, and express much concern thereat. They have declared that "they do not want war, that they have war enough with the Choctaws, against whom a great party of their nation is gone; that as the white people began, and there had been blood spilt on both sides, they hoped matters might be the more easily accommodated; and that the party of mad young men, who committed the murders, shall be called in."
All the settlements near Ogeachie, in Georgia, would have been totally abandoned, had not Mr. Galphin been indefatigable in collecting and encouraging the fugitives to return and build forts, amongst whom he staid fifteen days, while he sent into, and till he obtained satisfactory intelligence from the Creek nation.
The late institution of a Chamber of Commerce in this town, it is said, has given rise to an idea of forming a Chamber (or House) of counterpoise."
WEDNESDAY, March 30. BOSTON.
Proceedings of the Town of TRURO.
"AT a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of TRURO, legally assembled on Monday February the 28th, 1774, several persons appeared in the meeting, of whom it had been reported that they had purchased some small quantities of the East-India company's baneful Tea, lately cast ashore at Province-town; and on examining those persons it appeared to the meeting, that their buying this noxious Tea was through ignorance and inadvertance, and that they were induced thereto by the base and villainous example and artful persuasions of some noted pretended friends to government from the neighbouring towns; and therefore this meeting thinks them excusable with an acknowledgement."
"Then the town made choice of Captain Joshua Atkins, Mr. Josiah Atkins, Deacon Joshua Freeman, Doctor Samuel Adams, Messrs. Ephraim Harding, Thatcher Rich, Nehemiah Harding, Benjamin Atkins, and Hezekiah Harding, to be a committee to prepare a proper RESOLVE to be entered into by this town, respecting the introduction of Tea from Great-Britain subject to a duty, payable in America, who, agreeable to desire, returned about half an hour, and then report as followeth."
"WE the inhabitants of the town of TRURO, though by our remote situation from the centre of public news, we are deprived of opportunities of gaining so thorough a knowledge in the unhappy disputes that subsist between us and the parent state as we could wish; yet as our love of Liberty and dread of slavery is not inferior (perhaps) to that of our brethren in any part of the province, we think it our indispensable duty to contribute our mite in the glorious cause of liberty and our country; by declaring in this public manner our union in sentiment with our much respected brethren of Boston, manifested in their patriotic Resolves enclosed in the late letter of their committee of correspondence to this town, and our readiness to afford in our contracted sphere, our best assistance in every prudent measure, in defence, or for the recovery of our rights and privileges, and to avoid being brought into that deplorable state of wretched slavery with which we are threatened by the unconstitutional measures persisted in by administration; and in particular by their late dangerous and detestable scheme of sending Teas to the colonies by means of the East-India company subject to the unrighteous American duty: A scheme as we apprehend designed to take in the unwary, and continue and establish the tribute so unjustly extorted from us.—A tribute attended with the aggravation of being applied to maintain in idleness and luxury a set of worthless placemen and pensioners and their creatures, who are continually aiming at the subversion of our happy constitution, and whose examples tend to debauch the morals of the people in our seaport towns which swarm with them. And as we think the most likely method that we can take to aid in frustrating those inhuman designs of administration is a disuse of that baneful dutied article Tea;
"Therefore, RESOLVED, That we will not by any way or means knowingly promote or encourage the sale or consumption of any Tea whatsoever while subject to an American duty; but all persons whoever they may be that shall be concerned in a transaction so dangerous to the well being of this country shall be treated by us as the meanness and baseness of enemies to their country deserves."
"And though we have the mortification to own that some few persons among us have been weak enough to be led astray by an old RESCINDER from all good resolutions; yet we cannot in
justice to ourselves omit making public, that not any person in this town could be prevailed on to accept of the infamous employment of transporting the Tea, saved out of the Messrs. Clarke's brigantine, from Cape-Cod to the Cattle; but the repeated solicitations of the owner were refused notwithstanding the liberal promises of a large reward, though we had several vessels here unemployed."
"It affords us great pleasure and satisfaction that our highly esteemed brethren of the town of Boston, have made so brave a stand, in defence of American liberty, and that wisdom, prudence, and fortitude accompanies all their proceedings; we return them our sincere and hearty thanks for the intelligence they have from time to time afforded us and hope they will continue their opposition to every measure tending to enslave us, and with their manly fortitude may be increasing under the great public grievances, which by their situation they are more peculiarly exposed to."
JOSHUA ATKINS, ISAIAH ATKINS, JOSHUA FREEMAN, SAMUEL ADAMS, EPHRAIM HARDING, THATCHER RICH, NEHEMIAH HARDING, BENJAMIN ATKINS, HEZEKIAH HARDING, } Committee.
The foregoing after being several times read was voted nem. con. to be expressive of the sentiments of the town, and that it be recorded on the town's book, and a fair copy attested by the Town-Clerk, be transmitted to the Committee of correspondence of the town of Boston."
"VOTED, That the foregoing Committee, be a standing Committee of correspondence for this town."
A true Copy, Attest, DANIEL PAINE, Town-Clerk.
Some curious particulars in regard to a striking likeness of persons.
THERE was never, perhaps, a perfect resemblance. Some contemporary memoirs, however, make mention of different twins, whose complexion, stature, features and even inclinations resembled each other in so great a degree, that those who were most accustomed to see them, were often mistaken on their account. These mistakes are sufficient to justify the English comedy of errors, and the fable of the comedy of Menechmus, which Renard an imitator of Plautus, has made appear with so much success on the French theatre.
Virgil makes the eulogium of two brothers, who were the admiration of their time, by the resemblance of their visage, and the conformity of their humour.
Not many years since twins of about twelve years old, were seen at London, whose stature, complexion, features, and whole figure, appeared exactly the same.—Their parents took pleasure in making them wear cloaths of the same form and of the same colour, which often gave occasion to singular and diverting adventures. They had received the same education, and several, who had taken strict notice of them, assure, that they nearly made the same answers to the same questions; whence it was inferred, that their manner of considering objects was the same, and that they not less resembled one another in their way of thinking and conceiving, than in the features of the body that formed their external resemblance.
The history of the lords of Scissome, related by Pasquier, may also serve as a demonstration, that nature sometimes takes pleasure in copying herself: "Nicholas and Claudius de Rossia, twins, the one lord of Scissome, the other of Origny, were born the 7th of April, 1548, with so great a resemblance to one another, that their nurses, in order to distinguish them, were obliged to fix to them bracelets of different colours. This conformity, which they brought with them from their mother's womb, was not only visible in their size, and the features of their face, but also in their manners, gestures, behaviour, will, and inclination. This induced their parents to clothe them in the same garb, and they had some difficulty themselves to distinguish them."
Charles ninth, was often pleased, in the midst of five hundred gentlemen, to place them both together, and consider them for a long time, with the view, if possible, of finding some mark of difference in them. But after making them pass and repass in the crowd, and appear before him, he could never exactly discern which was which, nor could any of the company. The lord of Scissome was a very great friend of the lords of Fervaques, and the wives of these two lords had often mistaken his brother for him. There were two particulars very remarkable in them; the one, that having been as gentlemen brought up from their youth in all sorts of manly exercises, among others, in playing at tennis, in which they were both very expert, though Origny surpassed his brother, who, from time to time, had unequally matched himself; to remedy which, he left off playing, pretending to go for some necessity of nature; and soon af-
ter his brother, who was a looker on, supplied his place, and getting the better of his antagonist, won the game, without any one of the players, or those that were in the gallery, knowing any thing of the change. The other particular was, that they were both addicted to the same passions. Origny became enamoured of the viscountess of Esclavole, a beautiful, rich, and virtuous lady, and made overtures of marriage to her. The same tender attachment possessed immediately the heart of Scissome, who was quite ignorant of his brother's addresses, but being apprised of them, he altered his purpose to the advantage of Origny, who married her. The same accidents that happened to the one in the course of life, happened also to the other; the same sickness, the same wound at the same time, and in the same parts of their bodies; and when Scissome was taken ill of the disease he died of, in the thirtieth year of his age, Lord Origny was, at the same instant of time, attacked by the same disease, but recovered by the skill of his physician; an unskilful one, who had ill treated him, having fallen to the lot of his brother; but when he heard the news of his death, he had such a languor of spirits, and such fainting fits, that he was once thought dead.
The courtiers of the Emperor Augustus brought into his presence a young Greek who resembled him in every feature. It is hereupon related, that the Emperor, having long examined him, asked at last, by way of pleasantry, if his mother had been ever at Rome? "No, please your imperial majesty, answered the young Greek, who perceived the drift of the question, but my father was there several times."
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. The stranger that dwelleth with you, shall be unto you, as one born amongst you, and thou shalt love him as thyself. For ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am, &c. Leviticus, xix. 34.
Thou shalt not oppress a stranger. For ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Chapter xxii. 19. The LORD your GOD, the GOD of GODS; and LORD of LORDS, a great GOD, a mighty and terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh rewards. He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore strangers: For ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Deut. x. 17. 18. 19.
MR. THOMAS, AN article of news from New-York sayeth, orders are received from lord Dartmouth, to prevent the passing any more bills, for the naturalization of foreigners, in the colonies. How doth these orders agree with the divine law in behalf of strangers, Leviticus, xix. 34.
If the Jews, who were a peculiar people, and by divine appointment separated from the rest of the nations of the world, were commanded to esteem a stranger as one born amongst them: How does such orders sit upon a Governor of a nation of Christians, who from other weighty reasons is to look upon all Christians, from what country soever, as their brethren, and of whom the most are descendents from progenitors, who were once strangers in the country of which they are now natives.
If so numerous a people, whose native country was too small for them, and who on that account were obliged, themselves, to quit their native soil, and look out for a livelihood in the adjoining countries, were not only commanded to suffer strangers to dwell with them, but to deem them as one born amongst them, which ipso facto and without even a formality naturalizeth them to all intents and purposes: It seemeth to be an indispensable law of nature. What then should we say of orders from one who presideth over a council of men, who are made guardians of an uncultivated hemisphere? Don't he seem like the dog in the fable, who being made keeper of the stable hindered the ox from eating the hay, which himself had no occasion for. Let me ask such counsellors, what hath made the English masters over North-America, and put the Colonies in so flourishing a condition? Is it not because they observed the commandment; and are not these orders if observed, to procure a two fold mischief, first impeding the population of North-America, and secondly, an encrease of the jealousy of the Americans, which to endeavour to remove would be good policy in a British minister. This seemeth to be a forerunner of something worse, nothing less than a stop to the emigration of their British and Irish starving tenants; for otherwise their order would be very trifling. Since the Princes in Germany have long ago stopped the emigration, knowing that it is strengthening the English and weakening themselves.
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THURSDAY, March 31. BOSTON. By the ship RICHMOND, Captain LOVE , arrived at PHILADELPHIA, from LONDON , we have the following advices, viz.
LONDON, January 19. The affairs of America, it is now said, will not be taken up by Parliament till the sessions is pretty far advanced.
January 21. Lord Viscount Pitt, son to the Earl of Chatham, is to embark next month for North-America to make the tour of the British colonies on that continent.
January 22. The last letters from Paris advise, that orders have been sent to the officers of all the regiments in the service of France, to provide themselves with field equipages without delay; and to be in readiness to march upon the first notice. A very little time will shew whether this news is to be depended upon.
A correspondent says, the celebrated Junius is at last discovered to be the Reverend Philip —gen . He was originally a great acquaintance of Mr. Horne's, and a cotemporary of his at Cambridge. Mr. R—gen was there celebrated above all others for his classical abilities. Mr. R—gen was in London during the whole time of Junius's publications, for a considerable time before, and ever since he has been abroad. He is now resident at Orleans in France, where he cuts a very conspicuous appearance, having married a beautiful and accomplished young lady, sister to the celebrated Mrs. G—r . Nor does he make it any secret, where he resides, that he is the author of Junius.
By the accounts from Bristol of their last year's importation of sugars from the West-Indies, it appears to have been twenty thousand hogheads, which is five thousand more than ever was introduced into that port in any one preceding year.
January 26. A letter from the lower Elbe, dated January 13, says, "The insurrection of Russia is at present the topic of every conversation. It seems to have happened in the most critical time, when fresh troops were greatly wanting; but by this unhappy event they are not only disabled from raising any new troops, but have been obliged to recall many regiments that were upon their march for Moldavia; and the troops which were cantoned about Warsaw have received sudden orders to march for Petersburg. It is suspected that many of the principal men in the empire will lay hold of this opportunity, and that a total revolution will be the consequence of it. In the mean time couriers to Vienna, Berlin, and Copenhagen, from Petersburg, are more frequent than ever; and the current reports are very disagreeable."
Extract of a letter from Paris, January 17. "It is very positively asserted that orders are given to all our regiments to hold themselves in readiness to take the field upon the earliest notice, and that an army of 100,000 men will be assembled upon the Rhine in the Spring."
January 27. The cause of the late commotions in Russia is owing to the appearance of the Czarina's husband, real or pretended we know not, as that Monarch was said to have been degraded and died in confinement. The report, however, is credited at the west end of the town.
The money lying in the Exchequer on the 5th of this month, arising from the surplusses of the sinking fund, amounted to 137,000. which, it is said, will be appropriated towards making good the supply granted for the present year.
It was confidently asserted at the Hague, when the last letters came from thence, that a new congress was appointed for negotiating a peace between the Russians and the Turks.
The following illustrious persons are busily employed in studying the four rules of arithmetic:
His Majesty, Addition —to his family; The Ministry, Multiplication —of their party; The Parliament, Subtraction —from the public purse; And
The Patriots, Division —among themselves Monday evening Mr. Alderman Trecovich was seized with a paralytic stroke, and we are informed, continues very ill.
The Americans are about to vote the East-India company the sum of 16,000. as a compensation for the rejection and destruction of the tea sent out by that body.
Mr. Van said in the House of Commons, that great sums were expended to protect the Bostonians, &c. who by their conduct did not deserve protection; that instead of keeping troops there at a vast expence, we might only send them over able officers, and teach them how to fight; that they were numerous enough to defend themselves against an enemy, but not strong enough to rebel against us.
Salem hospital being now clear of patients is to be shut up by order of that town.
Yesterday the inhabitants of this town met according to adjournment.
The Hon. John Hancock, Esq; having on account of health, declined serving as a fireward, it was voted unanimously, that the thanks of the town be given him for his good services in that office a number of years past.
Mr. John Smith and Mr. Joseph-Pierce Palmer, were at the above-mentioned adjournment chosen clerks of the market.
The last meeting stands adjourned to Friday the 3d of April, at three o'clock.
The town chose a committee to purchase the Clock of Gaven Brown, and to have the same moved on the Old South church.
The insolence of a certain Publican at Weston, has drawn on him the indignation of the people in that and the neighbouring towns, a number of whom lately assembled to compliment his person, but he having fled, we are informed they broke his windows and shewed other tokens of their resentment.
DIED. Mr. William Bulfinch.—Captain John Lloyd, of this town, at Anguilla.—At New-York, the Rev. William Mills, minister of the presbyterian church at Jamaica on Long-island.—At Philadelphia, Captain Gideon Villeneuve, lately from London.—John Lort.
NEW-YORK, March 24. On Tuesday last, at the Exchange, a very genteel entertainment was given to his Excellency our Governor, by the gentlemen of this city.
Our Tea ship is hourly expected, she having failed from Antigua for this port, thirty-one days since.
THOMAS'S MARINE LIST.
BOSTON, March 31. ARRIVED, Blany and Solier from Cape Nichola; Collins St. Vincent and St. Lucia; Parith, New-Haven; Clap, North-Carolina; Thatcher, South-Carolina.
PORTS OF SALEM AND MARBLEHEAD, March 28. ARRIVED, Herrick, from Virginia; Saven, Alicante; St. Barbe, Soloranga; Knowlton, Batcown and Davis, North-Carolina; Smith, St. Eustatia; Smith and Wellman, Maryland; Buffington Dominica and Tortuga; West, Anguilla; Bailliff, Cadiz.
PISCATAQUA, March 25. ARRIVED, Batchelder, Gaudaloup; Trefthen, Virginia; Jones, Georgia; Smallcomb, New-Haven.
RHODE-ISLAND, March 21. ARRIVED, Durfee, Tillinghast, and Warren, Hispaniola; Bradford and Smith, St. Eustatia; Packard, Turks-Island and St. Eustatia; Batty, Barbadoes; Smith and Stillwell, Egg-Harbour.
NEW-HAVEN, March 25. ARRIVED, Tilley from the West-Indies, Parmele from St. Christopher, Lewis from Boston; Horsey, Gracy, and Brooks from New-York.
NEW-LONDON, March 25. ARRIVED, Hall from Pownalborough, Brown from Salticuda.
NEW-YORK, March 24. ARRIVED, Brais from South-Carolina, Folgen from Nantucket, Waterman from North-Carolina, Gorham from St. Christopher, and Beard from Nantucket.
PHILADELPHIA, March 16. ARRIVED, Voorhies, from St. Croix; Davidson, Hispaniola; Candler, St. Ubes; Osborne, Vigo; Richardson, Jamaica; Welch, Barbadoes; Coffin, Lisbon; Hodgkinson, St. Eustatia; Waterman and Coffin, Nantucket; Rogers, Boston; Bunner, Georgia; Mumford, Rhode-Island; Lockton, Bermuda; Gowland London; Fleming, New-Castle, on Tyne.
March 21. Abel and Wilkin from Hispaniola, Gensell from Lisbon, Simmons and Carlile from South-Carolina, Mitchell from Turks-Island, Villeneuve and Love from London.
The Honourable ALGERNON SIDNEY's LETTER against BRIBERY and ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT; written to his friends, in answer to theirs, persuading his return to England.
I AM sorry I cannot in all things conform myself to the advices of my friends; if theirs had any joint conformity with mine, I would willingly submit my interest to theirs; but when I alone am interested, and they only advise me to come over as soon as the act of indemnity is passed, I cannot wholly lay aside my own judgment and choice. I confess, we are naturally inclined to delight in our own country, and I have a particular love to mine; I hope I have given some testimony of it; I think that being exiled from it is a great evil, and would redeem myself from it with the loss of a great deal of my blood: But when that country of mine, which used to be esteemed a paradise, is now like to be made a stage of injury, the liberty which we hoped to establish oppressed, all manner of prophane ness, loofness, luxury and lewdness, set up in its height; instead of piety, virtue, sobriety and modesty, which we hoped God, by our hands, would have introduced; the best of our nation made a prey to the worst, the parliament, court and army corrupted, the people enslaved, all things vendible, and no man safe, but by such infamous means as flattery and bribery; what joy can I have in my own country in this condition? Is it a pleasure to see all that I love in the world, sold and destroyed? Shall I renounce all my old principles, learn all the vile court-arts, and make my peace by bribing some of them? Shall their corruption and vice be my safety? Ah! no! better is a life among strangers, than in my own country upon such conditions. Whilst I live I will endeavour to preserve my liberty; or at least I will not consent to the destroying of it, I hope I shall die in the same principle in which I have lived, and will live no longer than they can preserve me, I have in my life been guilty of many follies, but, as I think of no meanness I will not blot and defile that which is past, by endeavouring to provide for the future. I have ever had in my mind, that when God should cast me into such a condition, as that I cannot save my life, but by doing an indecent thing, he shews me the time is come wherein I should resign it. And when I cannot live in my own country, but by such means as are worse than dying in it, I think he shews me I ought to keep myself out of it. Let them please themselves with making the King glorious, who think a whole people may justly be sacrificed for the interest and pleasure of one man, and a few of his followers: Let them rejoice in their subtlety, who by betraying the former powers, have gained the favour of this, not only preferred, but advanced themselves in these dangerous changes. Nevertheless, perhaps, they may find the King's glory is their shame, his plenty the people's misery; and that the gaining of an office, or a little money, is a poor reward for destroying a nation! (which if it were preserved in liberty
and virtue, would truly be the most glorious the world,) and that others may find they have with much pains, purchased their own lives and misery, a dear price for that which is worth keeping; nor the life that is accompanied with it: The honour of English parliament have ever been in making the nation glorious and happy, not in selling and destroying the interest of it, to satisfy the lusts of one miserable nation! that, from so great a height of glory, is fallen into the most despicable condition in the world, of having all its good pending upon the breath of the vilest person! it! cheated and sold by them who traffick infamous traffick; equal almost in guilt to that of Judas! in all preceding ages, parliament have been the pillars of our liberty, the defenders of the oppressed: They who formerly could bridle Kings and keep the ballance between them and the people, are now by the instruments of all our oppressions, an sword in his hand to destroy us: They themselves led by a few interested persons, who willing to buy offices by themselves, by misery of the whole nation, and the blood of the most worthy and eminent persons: Dtable bribes, worse than the oaths now in use in this mercenary court. I mean to neither my life nor my liberty to any means; when the innocence of my action not protect me, I will stay away till the flood overpassed. In short where Vane, Lambert, Hallerigg cannot live in safety, I cannot live at all. If I had been in England, I should have expected a lodging with them: Or, though they may be the first, as being more eminent than I, I must expect to follow their example in suffering, as I have been their companion in acting. I am most in amazement at the mistaken informations that were sent to me by my friends full of expectations, of favours and employments. Who can think that they, who imprison them would employ me, or suffer me to live, when they are put to death? If I might live, and be employed, can it be expected that I could serve a government that seeks such detestable ways of establishing itself? Ah! no! I have not learnt to make my own peace by persecuting and betraying my brethren, more innocent and worthy than myself. I must live by just means, and serve to just ends, or not at all, after such a manifestation of the ways by which it is intended the King shall govern. I should have renounced any place of favour into which the kindness and industry of my friends might have advanced me, when I found those that were better than I were on'y fit to be destroyed. I had formerly some jealousies, the proclamation for indemnity, increased them; and the imprisonment of those three men; and turning out of all the officers of the army, contrary to promise, confirmed me in my resolution, not to return.
To conclude: The tide is not to be diverted nor the oppressed delivered, but God, in his own time, will have mercy on his people, he will save and defend them, and avenge the blood of them who shall now perish, upon the heads of those who, in their pride, think nothing is able to oppose them. Happy are those whom God shall make instruments of his justice in so blessed a work. If I can live to see the day, I shall be ripe for the grave, and able to say with joy, LORD! now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, (so Sir Arthur Hallerigg on Oliver's death) farewell my thoughts as to King and state, depending upon their actions. No man shall be a more faithful servant to him than I, if he make the good and prosperity of this people his glory; none more his enemy, if he doth the contrary. To my particular friends I shall be constant in all occasions and to you a most affectionate Servant,
A. SIDNEY.
FIFTY DOLLARS Reward.
LAST Night the Dwelling House of the Subscriber was broke open, and from thence were taken the following articles, viz. one pair of silver chasing dishes; one pair of butter cups; one silver can; two large soup spoons; one pepper box; six large table spoons; six tea ditto and a strainer, marked E. D. maker's name D. Henchman, all except the spoons, which have a hand for a crest; a silver tea pot; one ditto sugar dish; a boat for tea spoons; one pair of tea tongs; five tea spoons and a cream cup; two porringers and two salt-cellars, all marked E. S. one silver tankard without a lid, marked S. D.
I. S. one silver can marked I. E. an old fashioned pepper box, marked A. E. six large table spoons, marked E. S. one silver salver, no mark upon it, the foot resembling the mouth of a tunnel; silver tankard marked A. B. one silver porringer without any mark; three table spoons marked A. B. one old spoon marked I. S. four tea spoons no Mark; one pair tea tongs; maker's name of these not D. Henchman; I Hurd, some of them, and some B. W. with other small articles.
Whoever will take up the thief or thieves, so as he or they may be brought to justice, and the plate recovered, shall be paid the above reward, and a reasonable reward for any part of the plate, in proportion to its value, per me.
Fairfield, Connecticut, THADDEUS BURR. March 15, 1774.
N. B. If any of the above plate should be discovered in Boston, please to give notice to John Hancock, Esq; and an adequate reward shall be given.
To be SOLD by JOSIAH WATERS and SON,
At their Shop in Ann-Street, A FEW barrels of choice BEEF, a few small tacks of Split Pease, Groceries, Paints, &c.
To be LET,
And may be entered upon in three weeks, A SHOP in King-Street, two doors below the sign of Admiral Vernon, now in the occupation of Messrs. JAMES LAMB and SON. Enquire of William Thompson.
great wisdom, in recommending and pointing out to our serious consideration the state of the gold coin of this kingdom, as well on account of its very extensive importance, as of the peculiar advantages which the present time affords for conducting and executing with success any measures touching this great national object: We saw, with the deepest concern, the difficulties and distress in which the nation was on the point of being involved, by the very alarming degree of diminution which this coin had actually suffered, before the evil was checked by the regulation, made in the last session of Parliament, we beg leave to assure your Majesty, that, with a just sense of our duty to our Marking, fellow subjects, we will exert our this Opportunity to accomplish the great work for past Favours, and such a footing, as apply to her.
MOSES CLEVELAND,
IN confidence that the example of those public spirited gentlemen, who have subscribed to the proposals for raising the sum of sixty pounds, lawful money, to enable a post to ride weekly between NORWICH and BOSTON, will influence others to be liberal to an establishment which, it is evident, must be productive of great commercial advantages to both towns and the intermediate country.—Induced by these considerations, said Cleveland has undertaken (although there is 21 l. 10 s. wanting to complete the abovementioned sum) to set out from the printing-office in NORWICH every Thursday, immediately after the publication of the Norwich News-paper, for the space of one year from the date hereof. He will proceed through WINDHAM, POMFRET, MENDON, &c. and arrive at BOSTON on Saturdays, remain there until Monday morning, and return to Norwich by the same road he went. He will carry this and other papers, and the Royal American MAGAZINE, and deliver them to such gentlemen as are pleased to encourage them, with the utmost regularity. Those who choose to employ him, to carry letters, small bundles, or to do any business for them, may depend upon his care and fidelity.
N. B. Said Cleveland has employed a post to ride every week from NORWICH to HARTFORD, serve the customers with News-papers Magazines, and do such other business as he may be employed to execute. Norwich, March 23, 1774.
To be SOLD, A SCHOONER
Forty Tons burthen, Now lying at the North part of BOSTON. For further particulars, enquire of BRECK & HAMMATT at their store, the Corner of Green's Wharf.
JOHN HICKEY, SILK-DYER and SCOURER, from DUBLIN,
Living in Royal Exchange-Lane, BOSTON, WOULD inform the publick that he will do any thing in the business as cheap and as well as can be done in England. He also dyes and presses country cloath, dyes blue on Linnen and Cotton that shall hold its colour, for nine shillings old tenor per pound: He also takes black out of Silks or Crapes renews the colour of Scarlet when stained, cleans Gold and Silver Laces, dyes Men's Clothes or cleans them without ripping them, and they shall not stain: He cleans a Coat for ten shillings old tenor, Jackets and Breeches in proportion; he dyes and cleans English Goods, and makes them up again as before at the most reasonable terms; he also dyes blacks of all sorts as cheap as Hatters, and without rotting of any thing that he undertakes.
Said HICKEY cleans Leather Breeches at the best and cheapest rates. Lodging also may be had at the above HICKEY's.
Just PUBLISHED, and to be sold at GREENLEAF's Printing-Office,
Near Concert-Hall, Boston; THE General Practice of the New-England Churches, relating to Baptism, further vindicated, being an Answer to the Rev. Chandler Robbins. Subscribers are desired to send for their books. Subscribers also, for Dr. Cooper's Sermon at the Dudleian Lecture, are desired to send for their books. Also, just published, the History of George Barnwell. N. B. To be sold at said office, blank Writs and Summons, also Complaints, Warrants, Judgments, Commitments, &c. for the Use of Justices, never before published.
Westborough, March 29, 1774.
RAN away from the Subscriber on
Sunday last, an apprentice lad named JOHN WRIGHT, about twenty years of age, dark complexion, short black hair, about five feet six inches in height, thick and well set. Carried of with him two suits of cloaths the coat and jacket of one suit of a reish colour, the other a blue coat and striped cotton jacket, two pair of yellow leather breeches, one sheep and the other buck skin, two striped tow shirts and three cotton and linen ditto, one new beaver hat, and other much more, three pair of shoes, one pair of which were new, five or six pair of stockings; with one pair of long and another pair of short trowers.—Said Wright is by trade a Blacksmith.
Whoever will take up said apprentice and secure him, so that I may have him again, or bring him to me, shall have FOUR DOLLARS reward, and all necessary charges paid by JAMES GODFREY.
N. B. All masters of vessels and others are hereby cautioned against harbouring concealing, or carrying off said apprentice, as they would avoid the penalty of the law.