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THE Massachusetts Spy
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER:--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
Published by I. THOMAS, in Union-Street, BOSTON.
NOV 3 1915 BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
VOL. I.]
THURSDAY, September 12, 1771.
[NUMB. 28.]
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. The CENTINEL. No. XII.
-----Leak'd is our bark, And we poor mates stand on the dying deck, And hear the surges roar. --
TIMON of Athens.
O be able in any measure to awaken the attention of my countrymen, and satisfy their minds in things of high importance, I esteem one of the happiest occurrences of my life. Truly if there ever was a period in American history, that required vigilance, and a careful inspection of the times, the present does. I have taken no little pains to run over past scenes, and trace the views that directed, and the principles which actuated men in power, and I think they never were so dangerous, so destructive of order, liberty and harmony, as they seem to be now. That tenderness, and affectionate regard which denominates the father of a people, imperceptibly has vanished, and the love of many has waxed cold. In such a crisis it is high time for a people to look to their own security, and pursue every manly, vigorous and decent plan, that may conduce to the common safety. Conscious that these are the principles which first excited me to express my sentiments on what I thought of moment and concern, I shall still pursue my plan. If in any number I shall be able to effect what I earnestly desire, and be the means of proving beneficial to any of my countrymen, I shall think my time, my labour, and my trouble well spent. The resentment of party, or the little dirty attempts of parasites, or court sycophants, who unable to reason, can only snarl, I heartily despise. I am therefore determined, while I am conscious I act the part of a good citizen, to go on in the method I have begun, and lay before my countrymen every occurrence, every phenomenon in the political world, which I think dangerous to the security of the whole.
I have heard some worthy members of this community, expressing their desires to know my sentiments with respect to the subject of Ministerial Instructions. I had determined upon this long since, and shall coolly examine the subject, as I think it of very great importance to this people. I am then clearly of opinion, that prosecuted as they now are, they are wholly illegal, subversive of government, and will, unless checked, be the total extirpation of our liberties. Whether a governor may lawfully be assisted with the advice of an honest minister, I shall wholly pass over. This, however, I will say even in this view, was this advice, though uprightly intended, counter to the sense of a people, a governor should by no means pursue it. But those things are immaterial and vary essentially from the present case. We meet with instructions big with ruin, inimical in their nature, and directly fatal to the first principles of the constitution. We find these instructions religiously adhered to, and put in execution; of consequence it is not our ancient form of government we live under, but quite a new model. The highest branch of the legislature seems to be vacant, or worse than vacant; and the Representative of the King, in this province is, in fact, the minister of state. Hence there is a schism in the constitution, and a schism of a very dangerous nature. My thoughts on this subject shall be delivered in the following order. I affirm, that the Governor, yea, the Monarch on the throne, is as much bound by the laws of the realm, as the meanest plebeian: That those laws are the sole standard, the sole measure of his actions: That varying from these laws must proceed from ignorant, or very knavish
and designing views, both equally fatal: That the form of government is shifted, and will very soon be totally subverted: That instructions can in no sense of the word be called law, yea, that they militate with law: That History informs us how such a contempt of the law was always treated by a people, and sufficiently warn designing men, to beware how they run counter to ancient custom, and the wishes of a whole people.
These things, my countrymen, are matters of high importance, and I am afraid are not sufficiently attended to. Surely if there is any thing in the distinction between liberty and bondage, if freedom, right, order and harmony are not merely majestic chimeras, but important realities, you ought to be on your guard. It is my opinion that the stamp act, and the act imposing duties on paper, glass, &c. and which made such an eclat on the theatre of America, were not of greater, if so great, consequence as the measures which have lately taken place here. They only established a revenue in America, which it is true was illegal, and justified the measures then pursued. Why were they so dangerous?-- because they destroyed this fundamental birthright of an Englishman: Taxation only by his own consent. These acts, however, did not strike at the form, the vitals and the being of this government; they were only levelled at one of its essential properties. This affair of instructions shifts our very model of government. What is the operation? The minister is in fact the governor of the province, a Being we know nothing of. The good and wholesome laws by which we were formerly governed, are annihilated. The representative part of government have lost all freedom of acting. They are obliged by the minister, to what?--to go into measures the constitution abhors, in short, into whatever acts he chuses. What is the consequence of a refusal? The nominal person in the chair is ordered to refuse his assent to every thing they do. To save him harmlessness, he is gratified with a salary from home, by which means the check of the constitution is wholly taken off. Can any one now say, that the constitution is not impaired. If these instructions are now suffered, they become a precedent, and if continued, our posterity will be as absolutely governed by monarchical unlimited power, as the slaves of Spain or Turkey. Lord Coke, tells us, when any ancient law or custom of parliament is broke, and the crown possessed of a precedent, how difficult a thing it is to restore the subject again to his former freedom and safety. 2d. Inst. p. 529. "It is almost incredible to foresee when any maxim or fundamental law of the realm is altered, what dangerous inconveniences follow." 4th Inst. p. 41. These are the sentiments of this great man, and I wish they may be impressed on the minds of all my countrymen.
It is very curious to observe the links of the chain that seems to be forging for our destruction. Every thing is worked on a sure solid basis. The minister well knew that these instructions could never be carried into execution, whilst the representative body remained free. Their check was a sufficient barrier to this. What does he do? He runs into the artful measure, which was the subject of two or three of the former numbers, namely shifting the balance. He knew very well, that this people were too jealous of their rights, to see them destroyed at one open bold stroke. He also knew, that this silent attack being founded in abstract principles, would not terrify, but would be as sure a blow to the freedom of the people. The Governor is therefore now well guarded against any attempt to shake his security. Having thus
laid the foundation, the consequences more and more open to view. The Governor is ordered (what a title this for a free people!) to remove the house from its ancient habitation, to a remote corner. He is ordered to tell them, not to tax such and such persons, on pain of his dissent to any business at all. He may with equal right be next ordered never to call another house. I shall not be surprized, if the present instructions are admitted as precedents, soon to hear this, and it will be then put in execution in spite of every effort to oppose it.
I am of opinion, had this measure proceeded the stamp act, and been the first hostile design that appeared, it would have been so flagrantly destructive of the constitution, that the scene might have closed with blood. A new era would have been laid in this western world, and the consequences might have dazed Europe. But misfortunes coming on the back of misfortunes, has rendered us insensible to them. The disease has crept on from the extreme parts of the body, till at length it has attacked the vitals. Unless speedily checked we shall soon make a poor figure in American history, and in a distant day posterity may read the following account of us:
About this period, the tragedy of the province of Massachusetts Bay was wholly completed. After all their noise, the minister at length proved superior to them. Their spirits sunk, and they are now a poor, mean, cowering, miserable race, governed by a set of Bathers, who fleece them of the little they had left, and make them hewers of wood and drawers of water!
If this my countrymen is an agreeable picture, slumber on a while longer, and you will have it in reality: If not, awake thou that sleepest!
I shall in my next pursue the subject more fully. In the mean time, I leave life and death a blessing and a curse with you; choose your portion. On you it depends whether posterity, and children unborn, may live a beggarly race, forever cursing their ancestors; or whether, happy in freedom secured, and a constitution preserved, they may not rise up and call you blessed.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
NAPLES, [Italy] May 14.
ON Thursday last Mount Vesuvius began to send out columns of black smoke with loud explosions; soon after a lava burst forth near the same spot where the great eruption was in 1767. Their Sicilian Majesties are prepared to leave Portici at a moment's warning. But as the lava has taken its course towards Resina, (the spot under which the ancient city of Herculaneum is buried) and does not menace Portici, it is thought the court will not remove. The lava is about five miles in length, has destroyed some vineyards, and is stopped within a mile of Resina. Mr. Hamilton, his Britannick Majesty's minister at this court, had the honour of conducting their Sicilian Majesties to the lava, which happened to be remarkably curious at the moment of their arrival, having just taken its course into a deep trench, forming a most astonishing cascade of fire, the fall of which was perpendicular, and not less than 60 feet.
LONDON, June 20. It is whispered that a certain great personage is desirous that all party feuds may be ended, and that a certain popular gentlemen will absolutely accept of a pension.
A commission is preparing to pass the great seal for appointing a new board of trade.
June 25. Early on Sunday morning his Serene Highness Prince Charles-Lewis-Frederick of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, second brother to her Majesty, arrived in town from Germany, and in the afternoon waited on their Majesties at the Queen's Palace.
Yesterday about one o'clock the Lord Mayor, attended by Alderman Townsend, Oliver, Plumbe, Wilkes, Stephenson, Sawbridge, the Sheriffs, Recorder, Town clerk, and Common Serjeant, opened the court of common hall. When the Recorder came forward on the business to explain the business of the day, he could not be heard for hissing. At length the noise subsided, and he proceeded without interruption, till he came to talk of the distraction of the Livery, and to declare that he had for these nine years served the city, acted according to the dictates of honour and conscience, &c. when there arose an universal hooting and hissing, which did not cease till the Lord Mayor interposed, and convinced the hall, that the business could not go on without the formality of an address from the Recorder. He then made a few observations; after which the several Aldermen who had not served the office of Sheriffs were put up for that office, as were also near twenty commoners, and on the holding up of hands there appeared a great majority for Mr. Alderman Wilkes and Mr. Bull, but a poll being demanded for Mr. Alderman Kirkman and Mr. Alderman Oliver, by Mr. Deputy Judd and George Bellas Esq. as also for Mr. Alderman Kirkman with Mr. Alderman Plumbe, by Mr. Deputy Hopkins and Mr. Rivington; the same was also demanded for Mr. Alderman Wilkes and Mr. Bull. The poll began exactly at half past four, which continued open till six, when the numbers stood as follows, for Mr. Alderman Wilkes 296, for Mr. Bull 276, for Mr. Alderman Kirkman 45, for Mr. Alderman Plumbe 34, Mr. Alderman Oliver 28. The poll was then adjourned till this morning.
After the usual business of the day was over the case and report of the Common Council, concerning the companies refusing to issue summonses to convene their livery, in consequence of a precept from the late Lord Mayor, deceased, were read, when it was unanimously carried, "That Mr. Common Serjeant do forthwith file proper informations of disfranchisement in the Mayor's Court, against the Master or Prime Warden, and the rest of the Wardens of the Company of Goldsmiths; the Master or Bailiff and Wardens of the Company of Weavers; and also the Master or Prime Warden and the rest of the Wardens of the Company of Grocers, London, or such of them as refused or neglected to summon the Liverymen of their several and respective Companies, to appear at a Commonhall, in obedience to a precept or precepts issued for that purpose by our late most respectable Chief Magistrate, Mr. Alderman Beckford, in his second Mayoralty for this city; and that every officer in this city, in his several and respective departments, be assisting therein."
Then the report from the Committee to assist the Lord Mayor and Messrs. Alderman Wilkes and Oliver, in their defence, was read.
A motion was made, that an humble address, Remonstrance, and Petition be presented to his Majesty: Which Address, Remonstrance, and petition being read, was agreed to nem. con.
A motion was then made, and universally agreed to, that the Livery of London, do desire the Common Council to present a silver cup to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, o

the value of 200l. with the city arms engraved thereon, and to Mr. Alderman Wilkes and Oliver one each, of the value of 100l. as a mark of their gratitude for their upright conduct in the affair of the Printers, and for supporting the city charters.
The Sheriffs were ordered, to go to St. James's, to know when his Majesty will be pleased to receive the city address.
Mr. Wilkes had acknowledged that he solicited to be sent Ambassador to Constantinople, but says that he soon dropped the idea. But he has not told us that he laid aside his solicitations because they were fruitless; nor has he told us that, in revenge for this repulse, he wrote his famous letter to the Duke of Grafton, who has been the occasion of his ill success.
According to letters from Venice, advice is received there, that an insurrection had lately happened at Constantinople, which continued for three days before it was suppressed.
When the motion was made yesterday morning at Guildhall for a fresh remonstrance the Lord Mayor stepped forward, and informed the Livery, he would advise that the address be stated, "The Address Remonstrance, and Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery of London, in Common Hall assembled;" for if his Majesty did not pay any attention to this address, it then would be time enough for the Common Council to take the matter up, and present another, his Lordship declaring, that, for his part, he never should either be affraid or ashamed to go to the King at the head of the Livery, or with the Common Council, until the grievances they laboured under were properly redressed.--- After a short pause, the Address was drawn up and read to the Livery, and met with the unanimous approbation of all present.
June 27. The Spaniards are disarming at Cadiz but continue hard at work upon the fortifications.
Yesterday the Lord Mayor, on his return from Guildhall Chapel, went upon the hustings, and gave his vote for Mr. Alderman Wilkes and Mr. Bull.
Though the last Common Hall came to no resolution relative to the intended action against Sir Fletcher Norton, for the imprisonment of the two Magistrates, we hear, it is not laid aside by the party: But that at the ensuing Common Hall, when the Lord Mayor reports his Majesty's answer to the Remonstrance, it will be taken up again.
Yesterday Mr. Bellas was shoved down the stairs, leaping from the hustings, and otherwise roughly treated by the populace.
The Comet, supposed to be that discovered by Monsieur Messier the first of April last, has been seen several times at Tenderden; the first of this instant, May, it was near the star marked Beta, in the foot of Auriga; and on Friday the 17th, at half past ten, was in a right line between Tau and Epsilon in Gemini, about two degrees from the first, and six degrees from the last of those stars; it had about 102 degrees right ascension, and about 29 degrees north declination, with a tail about a degree and a half long, as seen through a refracting telescope.
A writer against Mr. Wilkes says, "It will be much to be wondered at, if any man of wealth and independence ever again takes a public part in defence of the rights of the citizens of London; the treatment of Messrs. Oliver, Townshend, and Bellas last Monday by Mr. Wilkes's friends was equally infamous and unreasonable. These vociferous bellowers for Wilkes and Liberty have the impudence to pretend that they are contending for freedom, and yet would deny their superiors in the contest, all free will and free agency."
A Writer in favour of Mr. Wilkes says, "call to mind the services he has done us; consider that your houses are sacred, your papers safe from general warrants, which but for Wilkes, had now perhaps been let loose amongst you. With penetration to discover, and courage to resist the wicked schemes of an infamous administration, should Mr. Wilkes be unemployed!"
It may be depended on, that a single elderly gentleman of considerable fortune, near Frome, in Somersetshire, has bequeathed an Estate to Mr. Wilkes of 1200l. per annum after his decease; and it is said, that he has already presented the Patriot with a genteel present as a reward for his services.
The late revolt and disturbance in Paris,
mentioned in this paper a few days ago, it seems, was entirely amongst the women; they united in large bodies, and committed many excesses, such as taking away the bread from the bakers, the corn from the market, and meat from the butchers, where they came; not one man was among them, for any man who is caught in such riots his punishment is imprisonment for life. These enterprising Amazons, however, became at last so successful as to be too powerful for the civil power, and were, with much ado, dispersed with the assistance of the military, without the loss of any lives.
One day in the last term the names of public defaulters were called over before the Barons of the Exchequer, amongst whom was Lord Holland when on an affidavit being read, that his Lordship was proceeding to settle his accounts with all possible expedition, the Barons were pleased to grant ten months longer time to finish them.
A person at new Shoreham, who was entrusted lately by a candidate with 3000l. in order to bribe the voters, has lately decamped a la sourdine .
Letters from Lisbon say, that a report prevails there that the French King had threatened to recall his Ministers and Consuls from every place in Portugal, on account of some commercial infringements, which his subjects had lately suffered in that kingdom.
Several ships in the Russian fleet have left the Mediterranean, to return towards the north. By the above circumstance, it is supposed that the treaty of pacification between the Turks and Russians is in great forwardness if not concluded.
July 2. It is said that one reason why Mr. Wilkes stands a candidate for the office of Sheriff is, the opportunity that office will give him of being admitted into his Majesty's presence, and of laying his case before him in person.
A letter from the Hague, dated June 28, says, "It is whispered here, that the King of Portugal hath lately run a new risk for his life, by a poisoned runner, which had been presented to his most Faithful Majesty; but happily it had not the effect which the traitors who sent it expected."
Yesterday came on, at the adjournment of the sessions at Guildhall, the trial of Edward Twine carpenter, for an assault, in seizing the person of J. Wheeble, according to the Royal Proclamation for that purpose, when he was found guilty, fined one shilling, and ordered to be imprisoned for two months in Wood-street Compter.
July 4. A Great Personage has declared he will on no account admit the popular Patriot into his presence, but that when he comes to St. James's in his magisterial capacity, upon any public occasions, he must expect to be received only by the Lord in waiting.
On Monday night an effigy of Mr. Horne, in a canonical habit, with a pen in one hand, and in the other a salt box, intended to represent the treasury box of the Bill of Rights, after being carried through the principal streets in the city, was consumed in a bonfire which the populace made for that purpose before the Mansion house. The like was done in Salisbury-court, Fleet-street.
Yesterday the two Sheriffs, accompanied by one of the under Sheriffs, went at half an hour past ten to Guildhall, and cast up the poll books for the new election of Sheriffs, which they finished about a quarter after three, when Mr. Common Serjeant, in the room of the Recorder, who was at the Sessions House, declared the numbers to be as follows; viz. For Alderman Wilkes 2515; Mr. Bull 2194; Alderman Kirkman 1940; Plumbe 1875; Oliver 119: Whereupon the two first were declared duly elected; which was received by the very numerous concourse of people in the hall, with long and loud acclamations; and the Sheriffs elect addressed the Livery as follows:
Mir. Alderman WILKES: SPEECH.
"Gentlemen, and fellow citizens,
"I THANK you for the honour you have done me, and congratulate you on the complete triumph of this day over the corrupt arts of a profligate administration, the most bare-faced bribery and daring menaces, the many shameful practices of the wretched tools of arbitrary power among us, the insolent mandates of placemen, and the treachery of the pretended friends of liberty and their country. Your firmness and zeal have crushed the united forces of all those,
who mean to enslave this great city. I have not the least doubt that the same happy union among ourselves will always remain a firm barrier against every future attack, from the concealed and insidious friend, or the open enemy.
"Permit me to assure you of the closest attention to every part of my duty, and the faithful discharge of my office. One particular only I must entirely leave to my worthy Colleague, as I am incapable of acting. Petitions from this city to the House of Commons I cannot present at the bar of that house, because I am actually a part of the Representative body of this kingdom, being one of the legal members for this county. The independent and spirited Freeholders of Middlesex have given me as clear a right to a seat in Parliament, as the Electors of any other Knight of a Shire of England can give to any Gentleman. By the most atrocious injustice of a Majority, placed and pensioned by the venal influence of the Minister, I am deprived of the enjoyment of that right, in direct violation of the clearest privileges of a free people. My legal claim however is clear, and shall on all occasions be supported with spirit.
"The Sheriffs, Gentlemen, merit all our thanks for their attentive upright, and impartial behaviour during the course of a tedious poll. To a thorough knowledge of business they joined the utmost fairness and candour. In the whole of their proceedings they have secured the approbation of the public. Their conduct cannot at any time be excelled, but I hope it will be equalled, at least by those, who, through your favour, are to be their immediate successors."
The SPEECH of FREDERICK BULL, Esq. Gentlemen of the Livery, and Fellow Citizens.
"PERMIT me to acknowledge to you the sense I have of the honour you have now called me to, and I cannot but think myself the more obliged, as it was unsolicited by me.
"I should not in these alarming times have waited to be asked to accept, could I have thought myself equal to this important office. However, Gentlemen, as you have been pleased to fix on me, give me leave to assure you, I will do every thing in my power to preserve the peace, and to promote the welfare, the honour and independence, of the city of London."
It is said that a motion will be made, in the first Common Council, for allowing Mr. Wilkes 1500l. out of the Chamber of the City, towards defraying the expence of his high office.
Great bets are still depending whether Mr. Wilkes will be admitted by the higher powers to serve the office of Sheriff or not. But many are of opinion, that no objection will be made to him, merely to avoid the tumult and disorder which such refusal would occasion.
According to letters from Vienna, the Court of Petersburg is actually meditating an expedition to the frontiers of China, and the Mogul's country, which will be carried into execution after peace is made with the Grand Seigneur.
ST. JAMES'S, July 2. Last night the ceremony of christening the young Prince was performed in the Great Council Chamber by His Grace the Arch Bishop of Canterbury. His Royal Highness was named Ernest-Augustus.
LONDON, July 9. We have the pleasure to acquaint the public, that the Earl of Rochford has sent a very spirited memorial to the French court, insisting on the immediate payment of the money due on account of the Canada papers; and that a firm resolution is at length taken, that this matter shall no longer remain the disgrace of our public conduct, and a stain on the national honour.
The Venus frigate is ordered to be fitted out in the most elegant manner at Portsmouth for the reception of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, who is going to the Mediterranean.
The following is a copy of a letter received on Tuesday night at eleven o'clock by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, from the Earl of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain.
"My Lord, July 9, 1771. "AS in consequence of the notice given of the time your Lordship proposes setting out to-morrow, the Livery may be induced to attend your Lordship to St. James's, I have the King's command to acquaint you, that it being unprecedented to admit the Livery upon such occasions, as well as impracticable to introduce so numerous a body, no persons beyond the number allowed by law to present petitions to the throne will be ad-
mitted, except your Lordship, the Aldermen, Common Council, and City Officers.
I am with the greatest respect, &c. HERTFORD."
July 10. Yesterday morning the Lord Mayor, caused copies of the above letter to be stuck up in divers parts of the city, that the Livery might be acquainted with the same.
Yesterday morning his Majesty came from Richmond, and gave audience to several of the ministry and principal officers of state, previous to his receiving the Address, Remonstrance and Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c.
July 11. The Lord Mayor has made Mr. Alderman Wilkes a present (for his new chariot) of the two fine long-tailed horses which he had when he served the office of Sheriff.
Yesterday the Lord Mayor attended by the Aldermen Stephenson, Trecothick, Townshend, Sawbridge and Oliver, the two Sheriffs, &c. with upwards of 100 of the Common Council, in about 50 carriages, attended by the committee appointed from the Livery to attend the Lord Mayor into the King's presence, with Sir James Hodges (Town Clerk) the City Marshal, &c. &c. proceeded, amidst the greatest acclamations of the people to St. James's, with the following Address, Remonstrance, and Petition, which was read to his Majesty by the Town-clerk, viz.
"Most gracious Sovereign, "WE your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Livery of the city of London, in the anguish of our hearts, beg leave to approach your royal person, and deeply to lament that we still suffer, together with many others, all those great and unparalleled grievances, which we have before submitted to your Majesty, with the hope of a full and speedy redress from our sovereign, as the father of his people.
"The same arbitrary Horse of Commons which violated the sacred right of election, and scate among themselves, as a representative of the people, a man who was never chosen into parliament, have, the last session, proceeded to the most extravagant outrages against the constitution of this kingdom, and the liberty of the subject, of which your Majesty is by law the great guardian. They have ventured to imprison our Chief Magistrate, and one of our Aldermen, for disobeying their illegal orders, and not violating the holy sanction of their oaths to this great city, as well as their duty to their country. They have, by the most artful suggestions, prevailed upon your Majesty, to suffer your royal name to give a pretended authority to a proclamation, issued at their express desire, contrary to the known laws of the land. At length they proceeded to the enormous wickedness of erasing a judicial record, in order to stop the course of justice, and to frustrate all possibility of relief by an appeal to those laws, which are the noblest birthright and inheritance of all the subjects of this realm.
"During the unjust confinement of our representatives, they proceeded to a law, depriving the citizens of London of a considerable part of their property in the soil of the river Thames, solemnly granted to them by divers charters, and confirmed by the authority of parliament; and under colour of equity, inserted in that law an unusual saving clause, subversive of the known and established laws of property; they have, without any pretence of an abuse, superseded the conservancy of the river Thames, in the liberty, which the citizens of London have enjoyed from the conquest.
"We therefore your Remonstrants, again supplicate your Majesty to restore our rights, and to give peace to this distracted nation, by a speedy dissolution of parliament, and by removing your present wicked and despotick ministers for ever from your councils and presence."
HIS MAJESTY'S ANSWER. "I SHALL ever be ready to exert my prerogative, as far as I can constitutionally in redressing any real grievances of my subjects; and the city of London will always find me disposed to listen to any of their well grounded complaints: It is therefore with concern, that I see a part of my subjects still so far misled and deluded, as to renew, in such reprehensible terms, a request, with which, I have repeatedly declared, I cannot comply."
July 12. It is confidently asserted, that the Treasury Board have sunk above 20,000l. within this month for secret services.
July 16. It is said some precedents have been found where the Barons of the Exchequer have set aside persons who have been

chosen to serve the office of sheriff. The searching for such precedents makes it to be imagined, that there is an intention of using them, if possible, against Mr. Wilkes.
Yesterday some dispatches arrived in Town from Lord George Greville Montague, his Majesty's Governor of South-Carolina, which were forwarded to his Majesty at Richmond.
July 17. Monday some particular dispatches were sent off from Lord Hillsborough's office, for his Excellency Governor Tryon at North Carolina, relative to the affair of the Regulators.
Gen. Paoli will certainly leave this kingdom before the end of next month, he having received a commission from his Danish Majesty, appointing him to a command in his service.
All the Foreign Ministers and their Ladies have been invited to be present at the ensuing Installation of the Knights of the Garter.
July 18. The measure adopted by the Ministry for making the American Governors independent of the provinces, seems very well calculated to secure the dominion of the mother-country: while the Governors depended entirely upon the provincial assemblies for their salary, they were always slaves to the party preponderating, and were often led into concessions, not a little injurious to the supremacy of England: the removal of the cause therefore will naturally annihilate the effect, and we shall not make the guardians of our rights the unavoidable betrayers of our prosperity.
July 20. Admiral Montague, now commander in North America is appointed Rear Admiral of England, in the room of Admiral Holburne, deceased.
It is expected that Admiral Montague, a relation to Lord Sandwich, will be appointed Master of Greenwich Hospital a place of considerable emolument, in the room of the late Admiral Holburne.
It is thought that Sir John Bently, Knight, Vice Admiral of the White, one of the present directors, will succeed to the governorship of Greenwich Hospital, in the room of the late Admiral Holburne.
Several letters from the Levant mention the continued successes of the Russians over the Turks. so that the fate of Constantinople is expected to be known before Christmas.
Orders were on Tuesday last sent from the admiralty office, to the Commissioners of Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, for an immediate account to be transmitted of the number of frigates which are fit to be employed as cruizers, with their names, number of guns, &c.
Extract of a letter from Stockholm June 7. The King has caused to be published throughout his states, that from this time to the 1st of November, all his faithful subjects without any distinction, may have free access to the foot of the throne, every Monday Tuesday, and Wednesday, from four to five o'clock in the evening; and that he will receive their complaints, and answer their petitions.
THURSDAY, September 12. BOSTON.
ON Monday last came on before the Superior Court held here, the trial of Wilson, for the supposed murder of one Murray, as mentioned in this paper some time since: The Jury brought in their verdict "Not Guilty".
On Wednesday the 28th of August, was held the first Commencement at Dartmouth College, in, the province of New-Hampshire, which was attended by Governor Wentworth with many of the Council, a respectable body of the Clergy, and a concourse of other people beyond all expectation.
We hear the chief difficulties at Machias are amicably settled.
With Capt. Fellows from London came passenger Mr. Jonathan Williams, jun. Son of Jonathan Williams, Esq; of this Town.
MARRIED.] At Charlestown, Dr. Isaac Foster, to Mrs. Mary Russell.
DIED.] On Sunday evening last, after a long confinement, in an advanced age, Mrs. Elizabeth MacCleland; and on the day following the Husband of the beforementioned deceased, whose ages compleat 150 years: Their remains were interred in one grave last evening.--Miss Mary Langdon, only child of Edward Langdon jun. deceased, a very amiable young lady.--At Shirley, Mr. Iho. Little, A.P.
FREDERICK WILLIAM GEYER, desires all those that are indebted to him, either on Bond, Note or Book, to make speedy payment; and those to whom he is indebted, are desired to call for their money, as he intends for Europe early next spring. He also acquaints his customers and others, that he has received a large and general assortment of ENGLISH and INDIA PIECE GOODS, by the last ships from LONDON, which he will sell by retail remarkably cheap, and to those that buy by wholesale for near the cost and charges, for cash only.
SHIP NEWS.
Sunday last arrived here his Majesty's sloop of war King's Fisher, from Eng and.
ARRIVED from this Port. The London, Calef; Argo, Bryant; and the Thames, Darby; at London. The Lively and Bonetta sloops of war, at New York.
ARRIVED from Rhode Island. The Providence, Gilbert, at London.
ARRIVED here. McNeil from Quebec; Howley from New Haven; Goodrich from New-London; Sweetser and Cook from Newfoundland; Pain from St. Kitts; Bartlet from St. Croix; Boas from Scicily and Truro; Mac Daniel from St. Martins; Church from Lisbon; Smith from Turks-Islands; Nicholson and Johnson from Cape Nichola; Troth from Figuera; Hensley from Bristol; Beales from St. Christopher; Fellows from London; Paine from Bermuda; Reily from Glasgow.
OUTWARD bound. Morton, Howes and Peppes to West Indies; Adamson from Surinam; Payne to St. Christopher; Howes to river St. Johns; Goodrich to New-London; Atwood to Quebec; Skimmer to Hull; Jarvis to London.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. To the K I N G. S I R E,
TO our unspeakable grief and consternation we find, another petition and remonstrance of the livery of London, has been delivered to your Majesty, setting forth the intolerable injustice and tyranny of your ministry; and a parliament as evidently devoted to their will, as if they, and not the people, had elected at least two thirds of them. The barefaced corruption in the last general election, the treatment of the first county in your dominions respecting their member, the seating a member for them whom they distrusted, and abhorred more than they would have done Judas Iscariot, had he been offered in his stead; the imprisonment of their magistrates for doing their duty according to their oath of office; and finally their arbitrary compulsion of the erasure of a record, and other encroachments on their property, done with apparent intention to vex them, give all your subjects to fear, that a continuance of the same corrupt, rapacious and iniquitous administration will in like manner proceed to oppress, plunder and murder, in every part of your dominions, every person who shall manifest the least reluctance to their most unreasonable will. All the colonies groan under the most flagrant invasions of their constitutional rights in having an arbitrary tribute levied upon them, and their accountable servants rendered their independent lords. In one of the colonies a military force has set law at defiance, and drenched the streets with the blood of the inhabitants: In another, corruption, extortion and oppression, was so openly abetted by government, that the people were driven to arms, and cruelly destroyed, when by the laws of God and nature they should have been redressed.
To complaints, petitions and remonstrances from your ancient, opulent and respectable county of Middlesex, your council advise you to answer, that you see with concern a part of your subjects still so far misled and deluded, as to renew a request with which you have repeatedly declared you cannot comply!
Can we then at a thousand leagues distance from the throne, expect a more favourable notice than they. Surely, no! A sincere regard for your glory and happiness, obliges me to advise you, that I see much danger in this mode of proceeding. Petitions to a King are dreadful things! A supposed wrong done by government to one, is supposed to be done to every one; for under a government which makes not the laws and constitution the rule of its action, no honest man
believes himself safe. Your subjects have been taught that Kings, governors, constitutions and laws, are all made and maintained for the security of their freedom and happiness. They look upon your Majesty and all your subordinate officers as their accountable servants, and feel the most bitter reluctance that either, much less the whole body, should assume the condition of absolute lords. If this be a prejudice or delusion, it is so rooted a one, that they conceive their duty and allegiance to your person and family grounded upon it. If we your present most loyal and affectionate subjects are misled in grumbling at illegal exertions of regal power, our ancestors were infinitely more misled when they rose up against the Lord's anointed, and in defiance of his plea of divine hereditary right to plunder and controul them at pleasure, cut off his head, and finally expelled his family the kingdom, to make room for your ancestors; who countenanced these delusions as the fundamental constitutions of the empire. It has been observed by several understanding men, that hereditary prejudices are dangerous to combat, and none can suppose him a real friend to your Majesty who would expose even a delusion, which supported your claim to the throne.
This matter is the more serious, as the bulk of your subjects at the present day, are nearly divested of every prejudice that counteracts their own interest; and should a few more of your answers to the most reasonable and dutiful prayers of your distressed people, resemble what we have had, that personal affection which filled your empire, will greatly diminish, if it does not become utterly extinct.
The dissatisfied part of your subjects are a greater part than your ministry would have you believe, and some think, that of the honest, independent and sensible, it nearly occupies the whole. Should this be in reality the case, it is high time for your Majesty to suspect that your counsellors may as probably be misled as your people; and the latter having no interest separate from that of their sovereign, at least gives them a strong claim to your confidence. That your Majesty, and your numerous family may long remain the objects of our highest veneration and esteem, by making the laws and constitution of this country, the rule of their government, is the unfeigned prayer of your most dutiful subject, P R O B U S.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. MR. THOMAS,
THE paragraph I sent you last Thursday sc'ennight relative to ----- Fellows, having half his fine remitted by his E---y, I believe is a mistake, but if the writer in the Massachusetts Gazette, Sept. 5. had been more modest, it would have afforded me as much conviction. When I penned the paragraph, I had no intention to misrepresent a fact, nor to excite the irascible passion in Mr. Detektor's breast, but since it is accidentally roused, let it rage, that it may be seen that "anger is a foolish and brutal passion, and when let loose, generally disappoints itself, and misses its end," as I can assure Mr. Detektor his has done.
Just imported from LONDON, And to be sold at the lowest advance, Wholesale and Retail, by CYRUS BALDWIN,
At his store in Cornhill, near the Town-house, SUPERFINE, middling and low priced Broad Cloths, German Serges and Halfthicks, Kerseys, Rattens, Bearskins, Coating, Lambkins, plain and napped Cambleteens, Shalloons, Tammies, Durants, Drawboys and Lastings, Men's worsted Hose, Breeches Patterns and Caps, brown Thread Hose and Gloves, Women's and Children's worsted Hose and Mitts, Carpets of different Sizes, Floor and Stair Carpeting, Plads, Check, Linen and other Handkerchiefs, Scotch and English Lawns, Irish Linens and Dowlas, Silk and Muslin Gauzes, Spiders-net and Catgut, Ribbons, Ferrits and Quality Bindings, Shoe and Knee Buckles, Penknives and Scissors, Bohemian Tea, Pepper, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace and Nutmegs, &c. &c. &c.
N. B. Part of the above being a Consignment, will be sold under the common advance. Those that please to favour said Baldwin with their Custom, may depend on being as well used by order as if present.
This day was published, price one pistareen. A LETTER to the Rev. ANDREW CROSWELL, occasioned by his Brief Remarks on the Satirical Drollery at Cambridge, last Commencement Day. By SIMON the Tanner.
Sold by EZEKIEL RUSSELL, opposite the Founder's Arms, in Marlborough-Street; and at KNOX's London Book Store, in Cornhill. Sold also by B. EMERSON, in Newbury Port.
At the same Places may be had, if applied for immediately, a few of the Second Edition of Mr. CROSWELL'S REMARKS, which occasioned the above Letter.
Just published, price 4s. 6d. old tenor. A NARRATIVE of the Captivity of Mrs. MARY ROWLANDSON; Who was taken prisoner by the Indians with several others; and treated in a most barbarous and cruel manner by those vile savages. Printed and sold by Z FOWLE, in Back-Street, near the Mill-Bridge.
Samuel Parkman,
Has just received by the Captains Colleyer and Fellows from LONDON, a compleat Assortment of
Fall and Winter GOODS,
Which he is determined to sell at the very lowest Prices by Wholesale and Retail, at his Store three Doors south of the Cornfield, in Union-street; among which are, NAPPED and plain Bath Beavers; mixed Coatings; scarlet, blue, green and mixed Rattens; Bearskins; 3. 4ths. Lambkins, Halfthicks; Baizes of all Colours, Widths and Prices; blue and cloth-coloured Devonshire Kerseys; Yorkshire Plains; scarlet, crimson, blue, white, green, chocolate, mixed, and a Variety of other coloured, low-priced Broad Cloths, with Trimmings of every Kind to match; scarlet Whitneys; 6. 4ths. 7. 4ths. 8. 4ths. and 9. 4ths. Blankets; striped Duffil ditto; German Serges of all Colours and Prices; white Swankin, flowered Serges; Shalloons, Tammies, Durants, Calamanco, Russells, plain brown Cambleteens; striped, changeable and green ditto; brown, double and twisted cambiets; Irish Camblets, Crapes and Briliants; crimson, green and cloth coloured, half yard and yard wide worsted Grogams; crimson, green and cloth coloured flowered Russells; yard wide, plain and striped Venetian Poplins; yard wide worsted Figures, Missinettis; pink and cloth coloured Brolio, black figured Drawboy; crimson ditto, plain and figured Everlasting; Pompadore; black, claret, olive and drab Velvet and Velveretts; 3 4ths. 7. 8ths. yard wide and Apron-width Manchester Checks of all prices; 3. 4ths. and 7. 8ths. Dowlas, some as low as 6s. old ten. the yard; 3. 4ths. 7. 8ths. and yard wide Scotch and English Bedticks; half yard, half ell and 3. 4ths. Diaper and Huckabucks; Clouting Diapers, Cambricks and Lawns; yard wide and 6. 4ths. fine Book Muslin; plain black and white Gauze, picket and figured ditto; black and white Catgut; black and white Gauze Handkerchiefs; a Variety of Linen, Cotton and Silk Handkerchiefs; figured and plain Satins of all widths and prices, English and India Taffetas and Persians; half ell and 3 4ths wide, brown and changeable Lutestrings and Mantua Silks; black and cloth-coloured worsted ditto; Women's black worsted Gloves; a fine Assortment of FUR and SNAIL TRIMMINGS for Ladies Cloaks, black Bone Laces; white blown ditto, scarlet and white ditto; Men's worsted and cotton Hose; Women's blue, pink and black ditto; black, white and cloth coloured Breeches Patterns; Men's crimson and green Mock Velvet Caps; scarlet, green and striped Worsteds Caps; Men's worsted and milled Yarn Gloves; Osnaburghs, Ticklingburgh, Raven's Duck, Quality Bindings; Shoe and Coat Bindings, Lettered Garters, Twist and Mohair Buttons; Gold and Silver Basket Buttons, Metal and Horn ditto, Matthewman's and large Dish Buttons; coloured and white Thread, sewing Silks of all Colours, Tapes, Needles, Pins, Ribbons, Ferrits, Chip Hats, Wax Necklaces, Pound Beads; Shears, Scissors, Penknives, Buckles, Sleve Buttons, Snuff Boxes, Razors, Writing Paper; Brown Buckrams; Silk Knee Garters, Russia Linens, Ivory, Bone and Horn Combs; Wool and Cotton Cards; Best Lynn made Shoes, and many other Articles.

POETS CORNER.
The GENUINE ENGLISHMAN.
A familiar Epistle.
THO' Rous'd in Greek and Latin tongue. Which Verse is short, and which is long;
An English heart and head I send, Not as a scholar, but a friend: Hee I could prove by wise example In works voluminous and ample, That Homer taught in Heathen Greek, The language which we learn to speak; That old Anacreon catches song In tan's and delta's while yet young: That poets all, except the Dutch, If Critics will allow 'em such, Compose the poems they excel in, In uncouth th' me and awkward spelling; For blockhead may return from school A Latin, Greek, or Hebrew fool: In truth and reason still a block, Tho' deeply read in hic, hæc, hoc. Still blund'ring in the learned road, Still stumble on his qui, quæ, quod: Still labour in a barren ground, Void of sense but full of sound: Plodding on with muddled brains, And blindly searching dark remains: What Horace said, or Virgil tho't, How Tully spoke, how Cæsar taught; While Britain seems to yield to Rome, Abroad in arms, in arts at home: Shall falsehood honest truth betray, O! flav's reach freemen what to say? Our worthies shine in brighter fame Than Roman or a Grecian name: Ideal Locke instructs our youth To understand the naked truth: While Newton leads each ductile soul From orb to orb, from pole to pole; From far to far directs our way, As certain and as bright as they: With mother tongue, and mother wit A Prior and a Pope have writ: In home spun English verse I write What love of country can indite, Devoted to our home-brew'd drink, I speak what natives ought to think; Doubly inspir'd all health I send, By country ale to country friend.
R A B B I T S.
A NUMBER of fine English RABBITS to be sold very reasonably. Any person inclining to purchase the whole or part of them, may enquire of ISAIAH THOMAS.
New in the Press, and speedily will be published, By JOHN DUNLAP. At the Newest Printing-Office in Market-street, Philadelphia, and will be delivered to the Subscribers agreeable to the original Proposals, price bound 5s. Philadelphia currency, printed on a fine paper, and an elegant type;
ALL the POETICAL WRITINGS, and some other PIECES, of the Rev. NATHANIEL EVANS, A. M.
Late Missionary in Gloucester County, New-Jersey, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Killmurray, of the Kingdom of Ireland.
N. B. As the List of the Subscribers will be committed to the press in a few weeks, it is hoped, that all who are desirous of encouraging this publication, and who may not yet have subscribed, will send their names, without loss of time, to the Printer hereof.
** The Subscribers shall have their books printed on a fine writing paper.
B R E W S T E R's
BEST ground and made CHOCOLATE, warranted good and free from any mixture, is sold by JOHN FARMER, successor to the late John Brewster, at the sign of the Chocolate-Cakes in Fish street, near the bottom of Cross-street, by Wholesale or Retail.
Choice ground COFFEE to be sold as above.
N. B. Said FARMER has for sale, Founder's and Brazier's Ware, of all sorts.
Cash given for old Pewter and Brass.
JACOB HEMET,
Denial to her Majesty, and the Princess Amelia. BEGS leave to recommend to the public, his newly discovered Essence of Pearl, and Pearl Dentifrice, 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 preserve 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 Scurvey in the Gums, and make them grow firm and close to the teeth; they likewise render the breath delicate, sweet, and remedy almost all those disorders that are the consequence of scorbutic gums.
Sold, by appointment of Mr. Hemet, wholesale and retail, by W. BAYLEY, perfumer, in Cockspur-street, near the bottom of the Hay-market, London; and at WILLIAM SCOTT's Irish Linen store, near the Draw Bridge, Boston, in New-England.
Imported in the last ships from LONDON, by
SAMUEL AUSTIN,
And to be sold at his store in Union Street, Boston, two doors south of the Cornfields,
A large and compleat Assortment of
English, India, and Scotch Goods,
Which he is determined to sell as Cheap as a one for Cash; viz.
CRIMSON, scarlet, black, blue and Ravens grey broad cloths, with a variety of other colours; a large assortment of silks, as English and India damask, taffaties, striped and flowered lute strings, changeable mantua silks, double Persians, pink, blue, purple and black capuchin silks and trimmings, plain and flowered satins; lawns and cambricks, messines and crapes of all colours, Dorsetteens, Prussianets, double and single allapeens, grazetts, mohair Padusoys, striped and flowered camblets, Irish linens and sheeting of all widths and prices, Russia sheeting, Russia drab, and ravens duck, velvets and velveretts, shallons of all colours, black, brown, pompadour, cloth colour, blue and green drawboys; cloth colour and black worsted breeches pieces, everlastings and amens, baize of all widths and colours, yard wide flowered stuff, thicksets, white and coloured fustians, half yard and yard wide flowered and plain diapers and corded dimity, men's and women's worsted, thread, cotton, and silk hose, boys and youths worsted hose: A large and genteel assortment of patches, chintzes, and calicoes, of the newest fashion and taste, striped cotton Hollands, check and flowered silk and linen handkerchiefs, silk and worsted gloves and mitts, threads, pins, needles, ribbons, qualities, shoe-binders, silk ferrets, 3 4ths 7-8ths. and yard wide cotton checks: A variety of mohair and metal buttons, silk, twift, silk and hair, and mohair, sewing silk of all colours, beafskins, duffs, ratteens, coatings, duffil and other blankets, black and white, flowered and plain gauze, black and white cat-gut, osnaburghs, ticklingburgh and dowlas: A large assortment of ivory, bone and ebony stick fans, chipt hats, coarse and fine sieve bottoms, writing paper, English loaf sugar, ell wide swanskin for ironing-cloths, canvas and crewels, very fine white stay-ticking, narrow and broad striped bedticking, yellow Holland and stay trimmings, kid and lamb gloves and mitts, diaper and damask table cloths, clouting and other diapers: A large assortment of muffsins, among which are some elegant and beautiful sprigged muffsins for ladies gowns and aprons, sagathies and duroys, Bengals, peniascoes, German ferges of all colours, black, blue, green and red worsted and hair plushes, wool-cords, silk laces: A large assortment of Looking-glasses, prints for curtains and gauze handkerchiefs, diaper, Holland and common tapes, white flannel and swanskin, ivory and horn combs, mould and wire shirt buttons, worsted damask, double ruffsels, yard wide and half yard poplins, sprigged and plain; a few dozen of women's silk mitts as low as twelve pounds old tenor the dozen. Also, Women's English and Lynn made shoes, &c. &c. &c.
JOSHUA GARDNER,
has just imported in the Lydia, Capt. Collyer from LONDON; and in Capt. Rotch, from BRISTOL;
A fine Assortment of
Fall and Winter GOODS,
Which he is determined to sell at his usual remarkable low prices, at his shop in Cornhill, the second shop above the Post-Office.
Among which are the following articles, viz
BATH beavers, frizes, half-thicks, coatings, duffs, Drapery and Colchester baize of all colours, German ferges; a fine assortment of low priced, middling and super-fine broad cloths with trimmings, London and Bristol shallons, calamancoes of most colours, tamies and durants, plain brown cambleteens, green ditto, striped and mixed cambleteens, best double camblets, dorsetteens, garras, Irish camblets, Venetian poplins, superfine plain black ruffel for shoes or quilts, black plain everlastings, Yorkshire plains; mixed green and scarlet whitnies; claret, drab and black cotton velvets; 3 4ths. 7-8ths. and yard wide Irish Linens; 3 4ths. and 7-8ths. dowlas; 3 4ths. 7-8ths. yard wide and apron Manchester checks; 7-8ths. and yard wide cambricks and lawns, plain and flowered Scotch lawns for Aprons and Handkerchiefs, clouting diapers, striped Hollands, white figured gauze, white gauze handkerchiefs, white thread and blond lace, black bone lace, capuchine silks, plain black satins, taffaties, Persians, pink and white half-ell ditto, black lute string; plain, scarlet and crimson satins, rich crimson spriged satins, gimp and garland trimmings, blue and white, red and white spotted linen handkerchiefs, silk handkerchiefs, children's red Morocco shoes, Lynn shoes of the best quality, men's, women's and children's stockings of several sorts, 3 and 4 thread breeches patterns, women's plain and flowered satin gloves and mitts, black, white and coloured silk mitts, white and coloured glazed gloves and mitts, black and white silk gloves, worsted mitts and gloves, tapes, qualities, shoe bindings, pins, needles, sewing silks, silk twift, wax and Scotch threads, lettered garters, striped tapes, silk knee garters, crewels, stay cord and braid; white, brown and half stiffened buckrams, ribbons, silk ferrets, twift and metal buttons, horn and ivory combs, shoe and knee buckles, pen knives, cuttoes, scissors, horn buttons, sleeve buttons, thimbles, table and tea spoons, tea tongs, snuff boxes, ink pots, wax and glass necklaces, chip hats, &c. Also,
Shot, 6 by 8 and 7 by 9 window Glass, London wool-cards, Ravens Duck, writing and bonnet paper, press paper, Ink-powder, pewter, &c. &c. &c.
Those persons who please to favour him with their custom may depend upon having their penny worth for their penny.
F I L E S.
Just imported, and to be sold by RICHARD CRANCH, Near the Mill-bridge, Boston,
A GENERAL Assortment of FILES, from one inch to fifteen inches long; and of as many different shapes as could be procured.
He has also to sell, a great Variety of WATCH-MAKERS TOOLS, And Materials for Watch Work.
For PORTSMOUTH, in New Hampshire, The sloop ABIGAIL, GEORGE PIERCE, master, Now lying at the
Upper end of the Long-wharf WILL sail in eight days, being partly freighted. Freighters or Passengers may apply to the Master on board.
N. B. Said PIERCE purposes to ply the two ports of Boston and Piscataqua, once in sixteen or eighteen days at farthest, and will carry freight as follows, viz. Hogheads, 5s. barrels, 10d. Trunks and Chests, 3s. 6d. Bales of different kinds as cheap in proportion. Iron at 10s. per ton, Lead 10s. Passengers at 5s. each.
Boston, September 5, 1771.
ROBT. GARLAND CRANCH,
Sadler & Jockey-cap maker, from London, At the bay Horse, on the Exchange, in King street, Boston;
Takes this method to inform his friends, and the Public, that he has imported from the makers, by Captain Rotch from Bristol, A compleat Assortment of
SADLERY GOODS,
To be sold at the lowest advance for cash;
CHECK Swanskin flirrups, for saddle-cloths. Chaise bits, White ditto. Watering bits, Woolen girth, and Chains for watering forcing web, bits, Mohair fringes, Black girth buckles, Straining webb, Silvered staples, and plates, Diaper ditto, Girth webb of all sorts, Globe nails, Kidderminster cloths, Yellow staples, and plates, Saddle rugs, Sadlers tools, as frainers, Boot strapping, hammers, shears, Dog collars, with brass creasing-irons, awls, plates, Steel heads and throats, punches, pricking-irons, rivetting hammers, &c. &c. Tinned ditto, Whips of all kinds, Red bazils, Whip thongs, Silk lashes, Curry combs and Belt Nottingham whip brushes, cord, Mane combs, Fine horse nets, Fine plated spurs, Body Roule webb, Steel spring ditto, Belt White chapel needles, Heel ditto, Tinned 3d nails, Polished swivels for martingales, Ditto small tacks, Polished rings for ditto, 2d and 3d clout nails, Brass rings for ditto, 4, 6, 8, and 14 oz. Tinned ditto for ditto, tacks, Brass charges for shot belts, Fine polished flirrups irons, Steel garter buckles, Best tinned ditto, Women's flirrups, Swivel ditto, Curbs and hooks, Fine polished Weymouth bits, Shoemakers awls, Snaffles ditto, Flat sets, No. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, Pelham bits, Rippon ditto, Castle-Howard ditto, Inlet girth and forcing buckles, Hollow trenches, for Ladies silk reins, for colts, bridles, Solid ditto, Worstid ditto, Best iron caverns, Brass fastenings for Bredoons, saddle bags, Fine Ladies chain bits, Saddle trees, Diamond jointed Pelham bits, Portmanteau chains, Twisted snaffles, with staples and rivets, Wheel ditto, Seat ferge, Double ditto, Snaffles of all sorts, Spur rowells, Hunting bits, Square staples, Weymouth snaffles, Wuh fundy other Fine polished jointed articles.
N. B. He likewise makes all sorts of gentlemen's and ladies hunting saddles, with furniture of all kinds, on the lowest terms; plain saddles, from 6 to 8 dollars; welts, from 8 to 10 dollars, with every article in proportion; all favours received will be gratefully acknowledged.
A YOUNG Man, well experienced in Book Keeping, and who writes a good hand, would be glad of going into a store for a short time. He will agree on very easy terms. Enquire of the Printer.
A YOUNG Woman with a good breast of milk, would be glad to go into a family as a wet nurse. Enquire of the Printer.
ALL persons having any demands on the estate of Dr. SAMUEL WHEAT, late of Boston, deceased, are hereby desired to bring in their accounts to Hannah Wheat, of Newton, Executrix, Alexander Sheppard, of said Newton, or to William Wheat, of Boston, her attorneys, in order for an immediate settlement. And all persons indebted to said estate are, once more! desired to pay their balances to either the above, as they may expect otherwise to be sued at October court, without any further notice.
** Said HANNAH WHEAT, would be glad to take boarders.
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