The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal (Boston [Mass.]), 1772-12-31 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 Deaths glorious in THY JUST Defence.
[VOL. II.]
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1772.
[NUMB. 98.]
This day were published, Price 1s. 2d. SEVEN Sermons, viz. I. Of the Unpardonable Sin against the Holy Ghost: Or, the Sin unto death. II. The Saint's Duty and Exercise: In Two Parts. Being an Exhortation to, and Direction for, Prayer. III. The Accepted Time, and Day of Salvation. IV. The End of Time and beginning of Eternity. V. Joshua's Resolution to serve the Lord. VI. The Way to Heaven made plain. VII. The future State of Man: Or, A Treatise on the Resurrection. By ROBERT RUSSELL , At Wardour in Sussex . Boston: Printed and sold by I. THOMAS near the Mill-Bridge.
This Day was published, The new Book of KNOWLEDGE , shewing the Effects of the Planets and other Astronomical Constellations; with the strange Events that befall Men, Women and Children, born under them. Together with the Husbandman's Practice: Or, Prognostications for ever. With the Shepherds perpetual Prognostication for the Weather. Also, a brief Discourse on the Natural Causes of Meteors; with an account of several remarkable Earthquakes, Rains, Thunder, Lightnings, Comets, Blazing-Stars, &c. that have happened in several Countries. And Observations on the Weather, and Signs forecasting Rain. A new Collection of all the Manners of Men Physionomized: The Signification of Moles on Men and Women: The interpretation of Dreams: And Physiognomy: With several other Secrets of Art and Nature, not to be found in any other Book of this Kind and Price. Boston, Printed and sold by I. THOMAS , near the Mill-Bridge.
Also, this day was published, The Happiness and Pleasure of Unity in Christian Societies , considered; in a Sermon preached at a Lecture in Boston, New-England, on Wednesday, August 26th, 1772. By ZADIEL ADAMS, A. M. Pastor of a Church in Lunenburg . Boston: Printed and sold by I. THOMAS , near the Mill-Bridge.
At the same place may be had, Spelling-Books, Psalters, Primers, Accidence, &c. Likewise Psalm-Books, New-England's Memorial; Eschol, or a Cluster of the Fruit of Canaan brought to the Borders , by Dr. Owen ; Wife, on the New-England Churches, &c. Small Books for Children, Slates, Sealing-Wax, Wafers, Quills, &c. &c.
A. ELLISON , Just arrived from LONDON , At the South-End, Boston, next door to Mr. Greenlaw's , and opposite the Sign of the White Horse . BINDS Books in the various methods; gentlemen's libraries neatly gilt and lettered, and cleaned and fitted up, either in town or country, on reasonable terms. N. B. He has imported, a Quantity of the best English Pot and Fools-cap Paper, which he will sell very cheap.
NEW RICE , Just imported and to be sold by JOHN WINTHROP , At his Store the south-side of Faneuil-Hall, Market. Also, a few barrels of CHOICE BEEF and PORK .
NEW RICE , Indigo, and a few quintals of choice dumb Fish, brown and loaf Sugars, Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Spices, Cheese, &c. to be sold cheap for Cash, at CHARLES LOWE'S Shop in Marshall's-Lane , facing the Boston-Stone . N. B. English Beer and London Porter, sold as usual. Cash given for Bottles.
ALMANACKS. AMES's, Lowe's, Gleason's (or Massachusetts Calendar ) and Scarne's ALMANACKS , to be sold by I. THOMAS , near the Mill-Bridge.
To be SOLD cheap, A. COOPER'S Shop, Warehouse and Wharf in Fish-street . Enquire of Abigail Marshall , of Boston, in Fish-street aforesaid , or Francis Marshall , of Newton .
DANIEL SCOTT , At his Medicine Store the Sign of the Leopard , South-End. TAKES this method of informing all Gentlemen, Ladies, and others, who have had the Misfortune to lose their Teeth, that he will continue the Business of making and fixing artificial Teeth as usual, in so elegant a manner as to be but little inferior to the natural, either in Use or Beauty, as many who have experienced them can testify: Where also any Person afflicted with painful Stumps or upgrown Teeth, may have them removed with a peculiar Dexterity and Ease. And all Persons who have the Scurvy in their Teeth, which threatens their removal though sound, may have them cleaned without hurting the Enamel, or in the least degree impairing them, and may be supplied with his DENTUM CONSERVATOR , which is an excellent Powder, the best adapted for preserving the Teeth and Gums, and preventing them from Aching, of any Preparation ever offered to the Public: It will cure the Scurvy in the Gums, bring the Teeth to their original Whiteness, and by a continuance of its Use, will Preserve both Teeth and Gums in a pure state during life. It is not pretended that it will perform Impossibilities, that it will make rotten Teeth sound, or will ease them when they violently ach; but it will assuredly preserve those Teeth sound that are so, and cause the Gums to adhere to them and prevent those that are decayed in part, from becoming worse. At the above Store may be had, Morgan's useful Eye-Water , which has in so many cases been found serviceable that it must escape the censure of the most critical Oculist-- Brigsten's famous Bug Liquid , which effectually destroys those hateful Vermin,--be they ever so numerous. An assortment of genuine patentee and other Medicines of the best quality, and Medicine Boxes for Families or Shipping, with exact and particular directions for using them, and a variety of other articles cheap.
The above Powder may be had also of Cox and Berry in Boston, Doctor Kast in Salem, and Dummer Jewett , Esq. at Ipswich.
To be SOLD, by JONATHAN DAVIS , At his Store on Bull's-wharf , TWO hundred barrels of Tar , Brimstone , West-India and New-England Rum , Jamaica Spirits , Salt , a few bales of Cotton-Wool , Long-Island Hay in bundles.
For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y. Mr. THOMAS , To PETER OLIVER, Esq. and other prerogative gentlemen, who often use the hard word REBELLION in their speeches and writings.
SIR and GENTLEMEN, IN perusing the works of that learned and excellent patriot Algernon Sidney , of glorious and immortal memory, I was much pleased with his discourse upon rebellion; in the definition of which I humbly conceive there is a wide difference in sentiment between him and your honour. However as I may not be altogether a competent judge in this matter, I beg leave to present you Col. Sidney's opinion, which at leisure yourself and your countrymen may compare with your own, I hope to advantage. I am yours, CLERICUS . The general revolt of a nation cannot be called a rebellion.
AS impostors seldom make lies to pass in the world, without putting false names upon things, such as our author endeavour to persuade the people they ought not to defend their liberties, by giving the name of rebellion to the most just and honourable actions that have been performed for the preservation of them; and to aggravate the matter, that not to tell us that rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft. But those who seek after truth, will easily find, that there can be no such thing in the world as the rebellion of a nation against its own magistrates, and that rebellion is not always evil. That this may appear, it will not be amiss to consider the word, as well as the thing understood by it as it is used in an evil sense.
The word is taken from the latin rebellare , which signifies no more than to renew a war. When a town or province had been subdued by the Romans, and brought under their dominion, if they violated their faith after the settlement of peace, and invaded their masters who had spared them, they were said to rebel. But it had been more abused to apply that word to the people that rose up against the decemviri, kings or other magistrates, than to the Parthians or any of those nations who had no dependence upon them; for all the circumstances that should make a rebellion, were wanting, the word implying a superiority in them against whom it is, as well as the breach of an established peace. But though every private man singly taken, be subject to the commands of the magistrates, the whole body of the people is not so; for he is by and for the people, and the people is neither by nor for him. The obedience due to him from private men is grounded upon, and measured by the general law; and that law regarding the welfare of the people, cannot set up the interest of one or a few men against the public. The whole body therefore of a nation cannot be tied to any other obedience than is consistent with the common good, according to their own judgment: And having never been subdued or brought to terms of peace with their magistrates, they cannot be said to revolt or rebel against them, to whom they owe no more than seems good to themselves, and who are nothing of or by themselves, more than other men.
Again, the thing signified by rebellion is not always evil; for though every subdued nation must acknowledge a superiority in those who have subdued them, and rebellion does imply a breach of the peace, yet that superiority is not infinite; the peace may be broken upon just grounds, and it may be neither a crime nor infamy to do it. The Privernates had been more than once subdued by the Romans, and had as often re-
belled: Their city was at last taken by Plautius the consul , after their leader Vitruvius and great numbers of their senate and people had been killed; being reduced to a low condition, they sent ambassadors to Rome to desire peace; where when a senator asked them what punishment they deserved, one of them answered, "The same which they deserve who think themselves worthy of liberty." The consul then demanded, "what kind of peace might be expected from them, if the punishment should be remitted?" The ambassador answered, "If the terms you give be good, the peace will be observed by us faithfully and perpetually; if bad, it will soon be broken." And though some were offended with the ferocity of the answer; yet the best part of the senate approved it as "worthy of a man and a freeman" and confessing that no man or nation would continue under an uneasy condition longer than they were compelled by force, said, "they only were fit to be made Romans, who thought nothing valuable but liberty." Upon which they were all made citizens of Rome, and obtained whatsoever they had desired.
I know not how this matter can be carried to a greater height; for if it were possible, that a people resisting oppression, and vindicating their own liberty, could commit a crime, and incur either guilt or infamy, the Privernates did, who had been often subdued, and often pardoned; but even in the judgment of their conquerors whom they had offended, the resolution they professed of standing to no agreement imposed upon them by necessity, was accounted the highest testimony of such a virtue as rendered them worthy to be admitted into a society and equality with themselves, who were the most brave and virtuous people of the world.
But if the patience of a conquered people may have limits, and they who will not bear oppression from those who had spared their lives, may deserve praise and reward from their conquerors, it would be madness to think, that any nation can be obliged to bear whatsoever their own magistrates think fit to do against them. This may seem strange to those who talk so much of conquests made by kings; immunities, liberties and privileges granted to nations; oaths of allegiance taken, and wonderful benefits conferred upon them. But having already said as much as is needful concerning conquests, and that the magistrate who has nothing except what is given to him, can only dispense out of the public stock such franchises and privileges as he has received for the reward of services done to the country, and encouragement of virtue, I shall at present keep myself to the two last points.
Allegiance signifies no more (as the words ad legem declare) than such an obedience as the law requires. But as the law can require nothing from the whole people, who are masters of it, allegiance can only relate to particulars, and not to the whole. No oath can bind any other than those who take it, and that only in the true sense and meaning of it: But single men only take this oath, and therefore single men are only obliged to keep it: The body of a people neither does, nor can perform any such act; Agreements and contracts have been made; as the tribe of Judah , and the rest of Israel afterward, made a covenant with David , upon which they made him King; but no wise man can think, that the nation did thereby make themselves the creatures of their own creature.
The sense also of an oath ought to be considered. No man can by an oath be obliged to any thing beyond, or contrary to the true meaning of it: Private men who swear obedience ad legem , swear no obedi-

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ence extra or contra legem: Whence they promise or swear, can detract nothing from the public liberty, which the law principally intends to preserve. Though many of them may be obliged in their several stations and capacities to render peculiar services to a prince, the people continue as free as the internal thoughts of a man, and cannot but have a right to preserve their liberty, or avenge the violation.
If matters are well examined, perhaps not many magistrates can pretend to much upon the title of merit, most especially if they or their progenitors have continued long in office. The conveniencies annexed to the exercise of the sovereign power, may be thought sufficient to pay such scores as they grow due, even to the best: And as things of that nature are handled, I think it will hardly be found, that all princes can pretend to an irresistible power upon the account of beneficence to their people. When the family of Medices came to be masters of Tuscany, that country was without dispute, in men, money and arms, one of the most flourishing provinces in the world, as appears by Machiavel's account, and the relation of what happened between Charles the eighth and the magistrates of Florence, which I have mentioned already from Guicciardin. Now whoever shall consider the strength of that country in those days, together with what it might have been in the space of a hundred and forty years, in which they have had no war, nor any other plague, than the extortion, fraud, rapine and cruelty of their princes, and compare it with their present desolate, wretched and contemptible condition, may if he please, think that much veneration is due to the princes that govern them, but will never make any man believe that their title can be grounded upon beneficence. The like may be said of the Duke of Savoy, who pretending (upon I know not what account) that every peasant in the Dutchy ought to pay him two crowns every half year, did in 1662 subtly find out, that in every year there were thirteen halves; so that a poor man who had nothing but what he gained by hard labour, was through his fatherly care and beneficence, forced to pay six and twenty crowns to his Royal Highness, to be employed in his discreet and virtuous pleasures at Turin.
FRIDAY, December 25. BOSTON.
We hear from Grafton, that the Rev. Mr. Aaron Hutchinson, on account of alienations of affections in some of his people, arising from the unhappy disputes between him and some of his brethren, lately earnestly asked, with strong reasons pressed, and with great struggles, at length obtained an honourable dismission from pastoral relation, by the unanimous advice of an ecclesiastical council and by a major vote of the brethren of the church present: Whereupon his pastoral relation was declared to be dissolved, in the presence of the Council; and is likely to remain so, notwithstanding the town have hitherto refused their concurrence.
The following LAW was made and passed by the General Assembly of the colony of Rhode-Island, at their sessions in Newport, on the 1st of March 1663, and not since repealed, viz.—“BE it enacted, That no freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or deprived of his freehold, or liberty, or free custom, or be outlawed or exiled, or otherwise destroyed, nor shall be passed upon, judged, or condemned, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of this colony. And that no man, of what estate and condition soever, shall be put out of his lands and tenements, nor taken, nor imprisoned, nor disinherited, nor banished, nor any ways destroyed or molested, without being for it brought to answer by due course of law.”
SATURDAY, December 26. BOSTON.
By a gentleman who arrived at Piscataqua last week from Grenada, and came to town on Monday, we are informed, that five weeks ago he was at St. Vincents, the English troops were then in good health, that he did not hear of the Death of any of the officers of the 14th Regiment, but two or three of the privates had died—That about three hundred of the Charibs had surrendered to the English General, who sent them on board the ships, to prevent their return to their Brethren:—That there had been several skirmishes between small parties; but no general attack was expected to be made until the Admiral arrived at Antigua, where his ships were repairing the damages they received in the late hurricane.
YESTERDAY arrived the cruiser sloop of war from New-York.
Tuesday the 22d of this Instant December, was observed in the ancient town of Plymouth, as a day of public festivity, in commemoration of the important event, the landing of their forefathers in that place. In the morning the Rev. Mr. Robbins (having been previously requested) delivered to a numerous and respectable congregation, (consisting of a number of the reverend gentlemen of the clergy and others, inhabitants of Plymouth and the towns in the vicinity) a discourse adapted to the occasion, from those remarkable words of the Psalmist, “For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children, that the generations to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children, that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God; and keep his commandments.” The profound silence and solemn attention which was observable throughout this vast concourse of people, sufficiently demonstrated their approbation of the sentiments of the speaker.
A plain and elegant entertainment was prepared at a public house, at which the gentlemen of the clergy, and a large number of others, the most respectable of the congregation were present; the afternoon passed in recapitulating and recollecting a variety of curious anecdotes of our venerable predecessors, subjects at this time peculiarly pleasing. The evening was spent at OLD COLONY HALL in the most social manner.—Joy, gratitude and pleasure were apparent in the countenances of every person, through the whole of this agreeable day and evening.
TUESDAY, December 29. BOSTON.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of character in England to his friend at Boston.
“Our tyrants in administration are greatly exasperated with the late manoeuvre of the brave Rhode-Islanders; as a regard to the rights of the subject and the principles of justice, never marked the measures of the present wretched conductors of the wheels of government, you will not be alarmed when I tell you that they have determined to vacate the charter of that colony; to effect this purpose, which in their own apprehension will be attended, with some difficulty: Admiral M— is ordered, with the small craft which are with him, to line the harbour of Rhode-Island, with positive orders to apprehend the persons concerned in the enterprise above mentioned. Awed by this hectoring commander and his gallant squadron, these bitter pills are to be crammed down their throats; but the friends of true British freedom are not without hopes that the stomachs of that heroic colony will reject the dose prepared for them; be united our dear suffering brethren, be steady and success awaits you; freedom, glorious freedom, will be the purchase. We believe that the ancient British spirit of independence which once blest this Island, has improved by transplantation, and preserves its vigour in the breasts of Americans; cherish it my dear friends! And by relieving yourselves save this small remnant of the virtuous in Britain.”
WEDNESDAY, December 30. BOSTON.
The following Letter was lately received from Cambridge, viz.
To the Committee of Communication and Correspondence at Boston;
“THE committee appointed by the town of Cambridge to write to the committee of communication and correspondence at Boston, gladly embrace this opportunity. In the name and behalf of the said town of Cambridge, and with the most sincere respect, they acknowledge the vigilance and care discovered by the town of Boston, of the public rights and liberties: Acquainting you, that this town will heartily concur in all salutary, proper and constitutional measures, for the redress of those intolerable grievances, which threaten, and if continued, must overthrow the happy civil constitution of this province.
“It is with the greatest pleasure we now inform you that we think the meeting was as full as it has been for the choice of a representative, for a number of years, if not fuller, and that the people discovered a glorious spirit, like men determined to be free. We have here inclosed you a copy, of the votes and proceedings of this town at their meeting, so far as they have gone.”
These were inserted in our last.
“We would add, may the town of Boston, the capital of this province, rejoice in perpetual prosperity. May wisdom direct her in all her consultations. May her spirited and prudent conduct, render her a terror to tyrants. May every town in this province, and every colony upon the continent, be awakened to a sense of danger, and unite in the glorious cause of liberty. Then shall we be able effectually to disappoint the machinations of our enemies. To conclude, that this land may be purged from those sins which are a reproach to a people, and be exalted by righteousness; that God almighty may be our God, as he was the God of our fathers; and that we may be possessed of the same principles of virtue religion and public spirit, which warmed and animated the hearts of our renowned ancestors, is the sincere prayer of your friends in the common cause of our country, the committee of the town of Cambridge.”
EBENEZER STEDMAN, per orat. MARRIED. Mr. Charles Sigourney, to Miss Sally Fraizer, Daughter to Capt. John Fraizer.—At Roxbury, Mr. Thomas MacCarty, late of this town, merchant, to Miss Cotterell.—At Cambridge, Mr. Palfgrave Wellington, to Mrs. Abigail Sewall, daughter of Thomas Sparhawk, Esq; of that place.
DIED. Mrs. Thankful Leonard, wife of the late Dr. Leonard, and daughter of the hon. Thomas Hubbard, Esq;—Mrs. Abiah Griffith, wife of Mr. John Griffith, school master,—Capt. Hopestill Foster.—On his passage from Jamaica to this place, Mr. Henry Deering, late of this town Merchant.—At St. Croix, Mr. Ezekiel Hearsey, late of this town.—Mr. Richard Thayer.—Mrs. Brewer, widow of the late Mr. Thomas Brewer, mast-maker.—Mrs. Harrison, wife of Mr. William Harrison, tallow-chandler.—At Cohasset, Samuel Cushing, Esq.—At Bridgewater, Mr. Nathan Packard.—At Ipswich, Samuel Rogers, Esq.—Miss Sarah Rogers, daughter of the Rev. Nathaniel Rogers of that place.—At Barnstable, Mrs. Sarah Sturgis, wife of Capt. Thomas Sturgis.—At Portsmouth, Mr. Thomas Bickford, schoolmaster, of that town.
PORT OF BOSTON, December 28.
ARRIVED. Delano and Noble from North Carolina; Williams from New-York; Olyer, Abrahams, Nichols and Doane from Newfoundland; Cook and Atwood from Halifax; Harris from New-London; Hatch from Maryland; Davis from Philadelphia; McLeod from Louis-NEWPORT, December 21.
We hear a letter to our governor, from Admiral Montagu, was read at the General Assembly, held at Providence, last week: In which letter the Admiral, we are told, requests his Honour the Governor, that Capt. Keeler of his Majesty's ship Mercury now in this harbour, might be permitted to come on shore, without being insulted, and protected from arrests, &c.—! Now it is certain that Capt. Keeler has often been ashore in this town and other parts of the colony, and we never heard of his having received the least imaginable insult: But as for his being protected from arrests, we are humbly of opinion, that neither Capt. Keeler nor his Excellency Admiral Montagu himself, has any more right of protection from arrests, than any other the least or poorest of his Majesty's subjects.—For the truth of which opinion, we are not afraid to appeal to the PEOPLE of Great-Britain; though we don't chuse to be transported thither for trial.
Query, Whether Capt. Keeler will publicly declare that one single attempt was ever made to insult him in this town?
Last evening arrived the Lizard frigate, and this morning an armed schooner, both from Boston.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of JOHN McGRATH, late of CHARLESTOWN, leather breeches maker, deceased, are desired to make immediate payment to DANIEL WHEALAN, sole executor to the last will and testament of the deceased: And all who have any demands upon said estate are desired to bring them in to said executor, in order to a speedy settlement. Boston, December 27. 1772.
WANTS a PLACE, A Young WOMAN, who can do all kinds of work in a house. Enquire of the Printer.
To be LET, A Convenient Blacksmith's shop at the North-End. Enquire of the Printer.
A piece from MARBLEHEAD signed “The WHIGS of the PLACE,” and some other matters, must be deferred.
From the NEWPORT MERCURY.
To be or not to be, that's the question. Whether our unalienable rights and privileges are any longer worth contending for, is now to be determined. Permit me, my countrymen, to beseech you to attend to your alarming situation.
The stamp-act you opposed with a spirit and resolution becoming those who were truly solicitous to transmit to posterity those blessings which our fore-fathers purchased for us in the wilds of America, at an immense expence of blood and treasure.—But behold an evil infinitely worse, in its consequences, than all the revenue laws which have been passed from the reign of Charles the first, to this time, now threatens this distressed, piratically plundered country.
A court of inquisition, more horrid than that of Spain and Portugal, is established within this colony, to enquire into the circumstances of destroying the Gaspree schooner, and the persons who are the commissioners of this new-fangled court, are vested with more exorbitant and unconstitutional power.—They are directed to summon witnesses, apprehend persons not only impeached, but even suspected! And them, and every of them, to deliver to Admiral Montagu, who is ordered to have a ship in readiness to carry them to England, where they are to be tried.—I here of the commissioners are a quorum, who are directed to apply to General Gage for troops to protect them in their offices, and preserve the colony from riots and disturbances.—The royal commission for these gentlemen, together with their instructions, is transmitted to Admiral Montagu, who upon being notified that they are convened in conformity to their appointment, is to attend them, and then deliver their commission and instructions, and to be aiding with his sage counsel and advice, whenever necessary.—So much has transpired respecting this alarming Star-Chamber inquisition.—And who among the natives of America can bear it without emotion!—Is there an American, in whose breast there glows the smallest spark of public virtue, but who must be fired with indignation and resentment, against a measure so replete with the ruin of our free constitution.—To be tried by one's peers, is the greatest privilege a subject can wish for; and so excellent is our constitution, that no subject shall be tried but by his peers.—This establishment is the grand barrier of our lives, liberties and estates; and whoever attempts to alter or invade this fundamental principle, by which the liberties of the people have been secured time immemorial, is a declared enemy to the welfare and happiness of the King and state.—The tools of despotism, and arbitrary power, have long wished that this important bulwark might be destroyed, and now have the impudence to triumph in our faces, because such of their fellow subjects in America, as are suspected of being guilty of a crime, are ordered to be transported to Great-Britain for trial, in open violation of Magna Charta:—Thus are we robbed of our birth-rights, and treated with every mark of indignity, insult and contempt; and can we possibly be so supine, as not to feel ourselves firmly disposed to treat the advocates for such horrid measures with a detestation and scorn, proportionate to their perfidy and baseness?—Luxury and avarice, a more fatal and cruel scourge than war, will before long savage Britain, and ultimately bring on the dissolution of that once happy kingdom.—Ambition, and a thirst for arbitrary sway, have already banished integrity, probity, and every other virtue, from those who are entrusted with the government of our mother country:—Her colonies loudly complain of the violences and vexations they suffer by having their monies taken from them, without their consent, by measures more unjustifiable than highway robbery; and applied to the basest purposes, those of supporting tyrants and debauchees.—No private house is inaccessible to the avarice of custom-house officers: No place so remote, whither the injustice and extortion of these miscreant tools in power have not penetrated.
Upon the whole, it is more than probable, it is an almost absolute certainty, that, according to the present appearances, the state of an American subject, instead of enjoying the privileges of an Englishman, will soon be infinitely worse than that of a subject of France, Spain, Portugal or any other the most despotic power on earth: So that, my countrymen, it behoves you, it is your indispensable duty, to stand forth in the glorious cause of freedom, the dearest of all your earthly enjoyments; and, with a truly Roman spirit of liberty, endeavour to prevent the fastening of the infernal chains.

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now forging for you and your posterity, or nobly perish in the attempt! To live a life of rational beings, is to live free; to live a life of slaves, is to die in chains. Ten thousand deaths, by the sword, or the axe, are infinitely preferable to a miserable life of slavery, in chains, under a pack of worse than Egyptian tyrants, whose avarice nothing less, than your whole substance and income will satisfy; and who, if they cannot extort that, will glory in making a sacrifice of you and posterity, to gratify their master, the king , who is a tyrant, and the father of tyrants and of liars.
AMERICANUS.
TURSDAY, December 31. BOSTON.
The following may be depended upon as a genuine extract of the letter from Lord Dartmouth, to the Governor of Rhode-Island, dated Whitehall, Sept. 4, 1772.
"The particulars of that atrocious proceeding (referring to the burning the Gaspee schooner) have by the King's command been examined and considered with the greatest attention; and although there are some circumstances attending it, in regard to the robbery and plunder of the vessel, which separately considered, might bring it within the description of an act of piracy; yet in the obvious view of the whole transaction, and taking all the circumstances together, the offence is in the opinion of the law servants of the crown, who have been consulted upon that question, of a much deeper dye, and is considered in no other light, than as an act of high treason, viz. levying war against the King.
"And in order that you may have all proper advice and assistance in a matter of so great importance; his Majesty has thought fit, with the advice of his privy council, to issue his royal commission, under the great seal of Great-Britain, nominating yourself and the Chief Justices of New-York, New-Jersey, and the Massachusetts-Bay, together with the Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court established at Boston, to be his Majesty's commissioners for enquiring into and making report to his Majesty, of all the circumstances relative to the attacking, plundering and burning the Gaspee schooner. The King trusts, that all persons in the colony will pay a due respect to his royal commission, and that the business of it will be carried on without molestation; at the same time the nature of this offence, and the great number of persons who appear to have been concerned in it make every precaution necessary. His Majesty has therefore for the further support in the execution of this duty, thought fit to direct me to signify his pleasure to Lieutenant-General Gage, that he do hold himself in readiness to send troops into Rhode-Island, whenever he shall be called upon by the commissioners for that purpose, in order to aid and assist the civil magistrate in the suppression of any riot or disturbances, and in the preservation of the public peace. I have only to add upon that head, that his Majesty depends on the care and vigilance of the civil magistrates of the colony, to take the proper measures for the arresting and committing to custody, in order to their being brought to justice, such persons, as shall, upon proper information made before them, or before his Majesty's commissioners, appear to have been concerned in the plundering and destroying the Gaspee schooner.
"It is his Majesty's intention in consequence of the advice of his privy council, that the persons concerned in the burning the Gaspee schooner, and in the other violences which attended that daring insult, should be brought to England to be tried; and I am therefore to signify to you his Majesty's pleasure, that such of the said offenders as may have been or shall be arrested and committed within the colony of Rhode-Island, be delivered to the care and custody of Rear Admiral Montagu, or the commander in chief of his Majesty's ships in North-America for the time being, or to such officers as he shall appoint to receive them; taking care that you do give notice to the persons accused, in order that they may procure such witnesses on their behalf as they shall judge necessary; which witnesses together with all such as may be proper to support the charge against them, will be received and sent hither with the prisoners."
A letter from the Country, dated December 28, 1772.
"AS the town I live in is situated at a great distance from Boston; the votes and proceedings of that town at a late town-meeting did not come to the hands of our Select-Men till a few days past. I have had the opportunity of perusing them, and
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think that some of the grievances enumerated therein are new, at least I never heard of them before; particularly the new act of parliament for the better preserving his Majesty's dock-yards, &c. which appears to me to be as violent an attack upon the liberty of the colonists, as the act for raising a revenue without our consent is upon our property. The extravagant power given to the commissioners of the customs is quite new to me, and as shocking as it is new; I never read any part of their commission before; it is a pity the whole has not been published in the news papers. I perceive also that the Court of Admiralty, which at the late Mr. Dummer in his defence of the charter I think expresses it, should be confined to its proper element the sea, is extending its power on the land; and more of our landed property than we are aware of, may very soon be tried by one dependant, pensioned judge without a jury. In short I think we in the country are much obliged to Boston for holding up our rights and the violations of them in one view; it is what I have often wished to see. I am one who you know always speak of my superiors, though with freedom, yet with decency; I cannot easily conceive how the Governor can be "always ready to gratify the inhabitants of the town of Boston upon every regular application to him on business of public concernment to the town," as he says he is, and yet refuse to gratify them in their request concerning the judges being made independent of the grants of the people for their support. I cannot see but their application was regular as well as polite; and as the matter is of public concernment to every corporate body or town, as well as individual, it must needs be eminently so to so large a town as that is: Nor can I see how his gratifying them upon any regular application of public concernment to them can be inconsistent with fidelity to the trust reposed in him by his Majesty, as he strongly intimates it may, unless perhaps in a matter that may relate to war with a foreign enemy. I should think he would have acted more like the father of his people, and friend to the inhabitants of his native town as well as province, if he had candidly answered their request. There is something so strained in his answer to their petition, in giving it a turn as if they had a mind he should "yield to them the exercise of that part of the prerogative," viz. of meeting the Assembly when he shall judge necessary; or, as if, by complying with their request that the Assembly might meet at the time to which it then stood prorogued, he should yield to them the prerogative, and incur the displeasure of the King; I say there is something so forced in all this, that the opinion I once had of his great good sense is altered. However I shall add no more on this head, lest I should say too much. The uncertainty whether the Assembly would soon meet, made the further proceedings of the town the more necessary. And if it should meet in January, I hope it will not prevent this town from explicitly declaring their sense of the public grievances. I think it necessary that every town should do it at this time for many reasons; more especially as Lord Dartmouth, the new minister, is said to be a friend to the colonies, and may be glad of intelligence directly from the people. I am your's.
The following PETITION was signed by a number of inhabitants of DEDHAM; and last Monday presented, viz. "TO THE SELECTMEN of the town of DEDHAM; "GENTLEMEN, "WE the subscribers, freeholders and inhabitants of said town, having heard that a letter from the town of Boston has been addressed to you as Selectmen, accompanied with a recapitulation of the rights of the colonists; and of this province in particular, and a list of the infringements on those rights, with the desire of the town of Boston that the same may be communicated to this town; and having also heard, that in addition to the independency of the Governor of the province and other innovations and grievances, an establishment for the support of the Judges of the Superior Court independent of the free gift of the commons of the province, is already, or very soon will be made, to be paid out of the American revenue, raised against the consent of the colonists, which establishment, at the same time it affords no ease to the people, being raised out of divers articles, imported which are useful and necessary to be used, is a measure which we think will be attended with great and manifest evils, prevent justice and be the cause of great oppression in the land; We therefore think it not only respectful to our brethren of Boston, who have kindly offered us their sentiments on matters of the
importance to us, as to our own sense, that our silence may not be construed as giving up or surrendering those invaluable rights and liberties, which were purchased by our ancestors with toil and hardship and defended with their blood.
"We therefore desire of you, gentlemen, that you would as soon as may be call a meeting of the town according to law; to take under due consideration the letter aforesaid, and other matters mentioned in this paper and act thereon as the town in sound wisdom shall judge the importance of them shall require;
"Dedham, December 23, 1772."
The following is a copy of the Instructions given by the town of CHARLESTOWN to their Representative in General Assembly, viz: To Mr. NATHANIEL GORHAM, one of the Hon. House of Representatives in this province.
SIR,
BEING chosen by us, the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Charlestown, to the important trust of a representative, we rely on your paying proper attention to our advice and instructions whenever we think fit to offer such as we judge conducive to the public good; which we now DO, not from any difference of your ability, or distrust of your integrity; but that at this critical time, your hands may be strengthened, and your mind eased by knowing the sentiments of your constituents.
It being reported, and we fear not without foundation that salaries are annexed, by order of the crown to the offices of the honourable Justices of the Superior Court in this province, whereby they are made entirely independent of any grant from our Great and General Court. This step (if really taken) requires the attention of every person, subject to their jurisdiction, who hath life or property depending; and is an innovation of most dangerous consequence. As nothing can be of more importance, to the happiness of any people, than the absolute independence of those, who are to pass finally on their lives and properties, so nothing can make our honourable Justices of the Superior Court more absolutely dependent, than their receiving their salaries, at the sole will of that power, with whose substitute their commission originates, and without whose consent, they cannot be dismissed, be their administration ever so glaringly corrupt, which has a tendency to check the true spirit of liberty in this province—to prevent a free inquiry, into the violations of our excellent constitution which have been and we fear may still be made—manifestly calculated to bribe such judges, as may be capable of being bribed—secure their decisions, in favour of a corrupt administration, or by withholding the salaries, cause them to resign, and the places filled with such persons, as will answer their purpose. In order to prevent these and other dangerous effects, which may follow, from the absolute dependence of the judges, upon the crown for their support; We advise and instruct you, to exert yourself, that the salaries of the honourable justices of the Superior Court be raised, so as to be adequate to their important stations and services, and as independent both on Prince and people as possible.
We would not be understood, that the foregoing is the only grievance we have to complain of, there are many more that might be pointed out: At present we shall mention only these—The first and greatest grievance, and indeed the foundation of almost all the rest, is the raising a revenue by an act of the British parliament, from the colonies, without their consent, and applying it contrary to their approbation. To possess the fruits of his labour in security, is the greatest happiness man can enjoy; to be deprived of them, against his consent, the greatest oppression. But to see them applied towards supporting in indolence and luxury, persons inimical to our constitution, is such insult joined to oppression, as may well justify all our complaints.
The extension of the jurisdiction of the Courts of Vice-Admiralty is another grievance, which we apprehend is of most dangerous consequence.
Great as these grievances are, our distress is encreased, by reflecting on an act passed in the last session of the British parliament, entitled, An Act for the better preserving his Majesty's Dock-Yards, Magazines, Ships, Ammunition and Stores. An act in the framing of which our legislature had no share, and which strikes at the greatest of blessings, personal security to the innocent; as it exposeth the lives and fortunes of the most virtuous, to the low revenge of any who are
vile enough to be guilty of perfidy, or abandoned to so sacrifice an honest man, to secure the favour of some powerful patron, which we have the greatest reason to fear, as by this act the accused may be removed for trial to any county in England, where he, by being a stranger, loses that benefit which would arise from his good reputation, was the trial by a jury of the vicinity. One of the justest complaints against the inquisitorial court in Romish countries, is the apprehending persons suddenly upon suspicion, and conveying them to places, where they can have no assistance from their friends, in making their defence; and in our opinion, nothing in any protestant country approaches nearer to an inquisition than the powers granted in the late act. Since this is our alarming situation, and every thing dear to us as men and British subjects is held in trembling suspence; since the fate of unborn millions may be depending; it is our special advice and instruction to you, (at this time of danger and distress) that you exert your utmost endeavours, in every constitutional way, in the General Court, to procure a speedy redress of all our grievances and a restoration of that happy harmony which lately subsisted between Great Britain and her colonies. But above all, we advise and caution you, against giving your consent to any measures which may seem like recognizing the power assumed by the British parliament; or in the least preclude us or our posterity from asserting our rights, as men and British subjects—We with you succeed in your endeavours, and which we cannot but flatter ourselves (from the late happy change in the American department) you will meet with.
At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Charlestown, legally assembled, the 7th December 1772, and continued by adjournment to the 28th of said month. Voted nem. con. that the foregoing instructions be recorded and a copy delivered to Mr. Nathaniel Gorham our Representative, and signed by the Clerk in behalf of the town.
A true copy from record,
Attest. SETH SWEETSER, Town Clerk.
The following is a true copy of a Letter from the Town of CHARLESTOWN
"TO the Committee of Correspondence of the Town of Boston.
"Charlestown, Decem. 28th, 1772.
"GENTLEMEN,
"THE Select-Men of this town, at a town-meeting, legally assembled, the seventh of this instant, December, communicated a letter, which they had received from you, by order of your town.
"We desire you, gentlemen, to acquaint the inhabitants of the town of Boston, at their meeting, that viewing ourselves equally interested with them in the common cause of natural and constitutional liberty; do return them our thanks for that vigilance and activity so often exercised by them for the general safety. That the aforesaid letter, with the annexed pamphlet, containing their sentiments upon matters of general concernment, has been considered by us, and that it gives us pleasure to receive the thoughts of our brethren upon the situation of public affairs, at this alarming season. We agree with them, that our rights are in many instances broke in upon and invaded, and that it is our desire and intention to co-operate with our brethren, in every part of the province, in all proper and legal measures, for the recovery of such as are wrested from us, and for the security of such which we still enjoy—sincerely hoping, that the all-wise God, will direct to such measures as shall be effectual for that purpose.
By order and in behalf of the town,
SETH SWEETSER, Town Clerk.
At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Charlestown, legally assembled, the 7th December, 1772, and continued by adjournment to the 28th of said month, voted, nem. con. that the above letter should be sent to the committee of correspondence of the town of Boston, and signed by the Town Clerk in behalf of the town.
A true Copy from Record,
Attest. SETH SWEETSER, Town Clerk.
MARRIED. At Concord, Captain Duncan Ingraham of this town, to Mrs. Mary Merrick, of that place.
To be SOLD,
A genteel a chimney GLASS as any in America. Also, a very large and elegant room GLASS that will do to match it. Enquire of the Printer.
LOST, between Back-street and
the Market, a five Nutmeg-grate CASE, engraved, with two letters mark thereon. Whoever has found the same is desired to leave it with the Printer, and the
shall be rewarded for their trouble.

Providence, November 7, 1772. To the Friends of Liberty and useful Knowledge PROPOSALS For Re printing, by Subscription, ENGLISH LIBERTIES, or The Free born Subject's Inheritance. Compiled first by HENRY CARE, and continued with large additions, by WILLIAM NELSON, of the Middle-Temple, Esq;
CONTAINING, Magna Charta, or the great charter of English liberties; the charter of the Forest, the statute De Taliagio non concedendo, the Habeas Corpus act, and several other statutes with comments on each of them.
LIKEWISE, The proceedings in appeals of murder; of ship money; of tonnage and poundage; of Parliaments, and the qualification and choice of members; of the three estates, and of the settlement of the crown by Parliament.
Together with a short history of the succession, not by any hereditary right: Also a declaration of the liberties of the subject, and of the oath of allegiance and supremacy: The petition of right, with a short but impartial relation of the difference between King Charles I. and the long parliament, concerning the prerogative of the King, the liberties of the subject, and the rise of the civil wars: Of trials by juries, and of the qualifications of jurors; their punishment for misbehaviour, and of challenges to them.
LASTLY, Of Justices of the Peace, Coroners, Constables, Churchwardens, Overseers of the poor, Surveyors of the highways, &c. With many law-cases throughout the whole.
CONDITIONS. I. This celebrated treatise (which ought to be in the hands of every Englishman) will be printed in a handsome octavo volume, on a good paper and a neat type. II. The volume to contain about four hundred pages. III. The price to subscribers (neatly bound) will be One Dollar. IV. Those that subscribe for six books, will be allowed a seventh gratis. V. As soon as the names and residence of five hundred subscribers are collected, the work will be immediately put to the press, and completed with all expedition. VI. No money expected till the delivery of the books. VII. The names of the subscribers will be prefixed to the work. Subscriptions are received by JOHN CARTER, the publisher, in Providence, and by I THOMAS, near the Mill-Bridge, Boston.
MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Mathematical Instrument Maker, Has to SELL
At his Shop, at the Sign of Sir Isaac Newton, At the Head of the Long Wharf, BOSTON.
THE largest assortment of Hadley's and Davis's Quadrants ever in New England; also hanging and standing Compasses in brass and wood; Gauging and Surveying Instruments, Cases of Mathematical Instruments with steel joints, half cases ditto; Telescopes of various lengths, in ivory, wood and fish-skin; Plotting Scales and Protractors, Gunter Scales and Dividers, four and two pole Surveying Chains, artificial Magnets with cases, Sand-Glasses from two hours to a quarter of a minute; Instruments of a new construction to measure Boards; an assortment of Brass Pocket Compasses: Box Rules, Jack-Knives, brass and pewter Ink-Stands, plated Shoe and Knee Buckles, Pinchbeck, Block tin and Brass do. Compass Scales, Watch Keys, &c.
A Variety of Instruments, too tedious to mention, are made and sold at the above place, and as he has had a thorough experience, he doubts not of giving satisfaction. N.B. All instruments with said William's name, will be made true without charge.
And to be sold by JOHN SCOLLEY, Jun At the corner of Wings Lane, Dock Square A VARIETY of Martin and Sable MUFFS and TIPPLES, made in the newest Fashion by a Furrier from Paris. At the same Place may be had, as usual, West-India and New-England Rum, by Wholesale or Retail, and Groceries of all kinds; Capers, Olives and Anchovies, &c. &c. &c.
To be sold for eight guineas, A SERVANT Girl, who has three years to serve. Enquire of the Printer.
To be SOLD, A Schooner burthen 65 tons, with a long quarter deck, a prime sailor, and well found in every respect. Sold or exchanged for a vessel of 90 or 100 tons, and the difference paid. Enquire of LEWIS GRAY, at his house, New-Boston.
IRISH LINENS. WILLIAM SCOTT, At the IRISH LINEN STORE in Ann-Street, near the Draw-Bridge, Boston, Has just imported from Ireland, A Large quantity of 3-4, 7-8 and yard-wide Linens of all prices, Diapers, clouting ditto, Huckaback, Dowlas, Table Cloths, 9 5ths wide Sheerings, white Ticken, brown Hollands, &c. A great variety of European and India Goods, amongst which are, broad Cloths, Lambkins, Coatings, Baizes, &c silk and worsted Stuffs, Poplins, Crapes, Denmark Lustres, Millinets, Dorsetteens, Camblets, worsted Damasks, &c. Satins and capuchin Silks of all colours, with lace and fur trimmings, Ducapes, striped and plain Lutestring, English Damasks, &c. a large assortment of Ribbons, Gauzes, striped and flowered Jaconet and 6 4 wide book Muslin of all prices; Jersey, Aberdeen knit, and patent ribbed men's worsted Hose, ditto plain of all colours, for men, women and children; with too great a multiplicity of goods, suitable for the season, to be enumerated in an advertisement, all which will be sold at the lowest reduced prices for ready money only. Excellent Gloucester Cheese, French Indigo, Teas, Coffee, Spices, &c. patent Cakes for making the liquid shining blacking for shoes and leather bottomed chairs, &c. a number of low priced bound Books of divinity, Bibles, Testaments, &c.
JACOB HEMET, DENTIST 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; fasten 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 scorbatic 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, New-England.
To be SOLD, by NATHANIEL RUSSELL, In Common-street, a little to the northward of Dr. Byles's Meeting-House, BOSTON.
A Compleat assortment of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, consisting of Clocks, Tables, Chairs, Bedsteads, dumb Waiters, &c. &c. Cheap for Cash.
This Day was published, And sold by E. RUSSELL, in Union-street, THE Massachusetts CALENDAR, or Wonderful ALMANACK, for the year of our Lord 1773.
By Ezra Gleason, a student in Physick. Containing the sun and moon's rising and setting. Judgment of the weather. Aspects. Eclipses. Time of high water. Rising, setting and southing of the seven stars. Moon's place. Feasts and fasts of the church of England. Quakers yearly meetings in New-England. Courts in the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, Connecticut, New-Hampshire and Rhode-Island. Vacations at Harvard College. Also an account of a remarkable boy or young giant whose amazing size and strange features have attracted the attention of multitudes who have beheld him; he is thought to be the greatest curiosity ever seen in America. (with a curious plate of said boy.) A new matrimonial creed addressed to the ladies in a single life. An account of some experiments, by Mr. Miller of Cambridge, on the sowing of wheat: By W. Watson, M. D. F. R. S. (Read before the Royal Society.) Necessary hints for those who would be rich. A receipt for the gout, being a persecution or regimen of the celebrated Messrs. Boerhave and Ofterdyke, for the cure of that disease, and has been tried with great success by a gentleman afflicted therewith from the age of fifteen to upwards of forty, who is now perfectly cured of it; and it has besides done so much good to several others to whom this salutary regimen has been communicated, that he thinks he cannot do a more acceptable service to the public, than to publish the same for the benefit of his fellow creatures. A poetical receipt for married ladies to preserve love. To cure the tooth-ach. An excellent remedy for agues which has been often tried with great success. A remedy for the bloody flux. An intallible cure for a ringworm, never before published. A powder that has restored sight when almost blind. To take off freckles. To take out spots of the small pox. A method to preserve fresh meat in summer. Anecdote of Agathocles taking Carthage, and of the cruelty of the Carthaginians. Of a gentleman who was persuaded his legs were straw. Of a counsellor at Paris. Of one who thought he had an Elephant's snout for a nose. Of the ancient Greeks using comedies to excise laughter; and of a comedian who died with the fame. Of a Man who lost part of his beard by kissing his wife after she was dead. Thoughts on different subjects. A petition for Contentment, &c. To be sold at the above place.
Bibles, testaments, prayer-books, Tate and Brady's and Watt's psalms, divinity and history books, psalters, spelling books, writing paper, some of which at the small price of ten shillings per ream, quills, ink powder best patent ink cake, sealing-wax, wafers, &c. &c. This day is published, and sold at above place, A dissuasion to Great-Britain from the Slave Trade. Subscribers are desired to call for their books. At the same place may be had, just published,
The general practice of the churches of New-England, relating to baptism, vindicated: Or some Essays on this important question, whether the practice of persons owning or renewing the covenant, and having baptism for their children without coming into full communion, be warrantable? Delivered at several church meetings in Plymouth. With some letters that passed on the subject. By John Cotton, A. M. of Plymouth. Now in the press and will be published with all speed,
A calm and plain answer to the enquiry, why are you a dissenter from the church of England? Containing some remarks on its doctrine, spirit, constitution, and some of its offices and forms of devotion. By the author of the dissenting gentleman's letters to Mr. White; being a summary view of the arguments contained in those letters. Likewise in the press, at the same place, may be had in a few days.
The cause of the Dissenting Ministers; Addressed to the Lords spiritual and temporal. By Israel Maudit. To which
is added, a copy of the bill proposed for their relief.
[The two last mentioned pamphlets have had several editions in England in a few months, and are justly esteemed by good judges to be the best wrote pieces that have been published on the subject these many years.]
Those persons in whose hands proposals are lodged for printing Dr. Watt's Psalms and Hymns upon an entire new plan, are desired to send the same to E. Russell as soon as may be, that an estimation may be made of the number of books that will be wanted. The above will be contained in a concise pocket volume. Those churches in town or country that use this version may treat with the publisher on easy terms. Said work will be put in the press immediately, and will be printed on good Milton demy paper, and neatly bound.
This Day was published, price 1s. lawful money, And to be sold by
JAMES FOSTER CONDY, At his store in Union-street, directly opposite to the Cornfield, Boston,
A POEM, entitled the GRAVE. By ROBERT BLAIR, The house appointed for all the living. Job.
To which is added, An ELEGY, written in a Country Church Yard. By Mr. GRAY.
This pamphlet will fully recommend itself to the best judges and lovers of poetry.
Said CONDY, has by the several vessels last from London, received a general Supply of the most modern
BOOKS, In Law, Physick, History, Divinity, and every branch of polite Literature—Bibles, Testaments, Psalm Books, Psalters, Primers, Books for the amusement and instruction of children, &c. &c. &c.
STATIONARY, &c.
Writing Paper of every sort, press Paper, account Books of every size and quality, gentlemen and ladies, pocket Books very neat, as skin and ivory memorandum Books, Quills, Pens, Ink-Powder, leather Ink-Pots, various sorts of Penknives, writing Books, glass Ink-Pots, glass sand ditto, Slates, Wafers, red and black sealing-Wax, wooden sand Boxes, shining Sand, Pounce and pounce Boxes, black lead Pencils, Trunks, Ink Jugs, slate Paper, Parchment, ivory Folders, nose Spectacles, temple ditto, ditto green Glasses, double temple Spectacles, mathematical Instruments, ditto half Cases, Dividers and steel Pens, sliding Rules, &c. &c. &c. A L S O,
Barometers, air Thermometers, ditto for boiling Water, Diagonal Machines for viewing of prints—reading Glasses, glasses for near-sighted persons, concave and convex Glasses, watchmaker's Glasses, a convex Glass for drawing landscapes, aeromatic prospective Glasses, prospective Glasses from four inches to four feet in length, pocket Globes, small ditto mounted, Microscopes steel pen-Engines, Maps of New-England, ditto of New-York, ditto of the world, &c. &c. &c.
N. B. All those persons who please to purchase at said store, may depend upon buying as cheap as at any store in BOSTON or AMERICA, without exception, and used in such a manner as will leave no room for complaint, but give entire satisfaction.
New Book-Store.
JOHN LANGDON, Opposite Mr. THOMAS EVERETT's leading to the Market.
Informs his friends, and the Public, that he has received in the several last ships from London and Scotland,
A LARGE and Grand Assortment of BOOKS in all Arts and Sciences, which, with his former importations, make as large a collection as is to be found at any Store in America. As he intends for England in the Spring, every Gentleman who may please to favour him with their custom may depend on purchasing at a little more than the sterling cost and charges. The least favours gratefully acknowledged.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS, at the South Corner of MARSHAL'S LANE, leading from the MILL-BRIDGE into UNION-STREET, where all Persons may be supplied with this Paper at Six Shillings and Eight Pence Lawful Money, per Annum, unsealed, and Eight Shillings sealed and directed; and where Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received;—ADVERTISEMENTS taken in—PRINTING in its various Branches, performed in a neat Manner, with the greatest Care and Dispatch, on the most reasonable Terms. Small HAND BILLS at an Hour's Notice. SUBSCRIPTIONS for the SPY are also taken in by J. Larkin, Chairmaker, and Mr. W. Calder, Painter, in Charles-town, Mr. J. Hill, Watchmaker in Salem; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; and Mr. M. Becher, in Bridgewater.