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THE Massachusetts Sun
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER:--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
DO THOU Great LIBERTY SPIRE our Souls,--And make our Lives in THY Possession happy,--Or, our Deaths glorious in THY JUST Cause.
VOL. IV.]
THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1774.
[NUMB. 177]
Choice Cheshire Cheesee,
Which will suit the nicest taste, Imported in Capt. Symmes and Capt. Calef from London, And to be SOLD by CHARLES LOWE, Opposite the Boston Stone, in Marshall's-Lane, near the Mill-bridge. Quantity of Cheesee equal in goodness, if not superior, to that imported and sold by him last fall. Excellent FLORENCE OYL , in flasks, warranted good, and the best of Mussard, by the bottle, single pound, or less. OATMEAL by the Bushel, or smaller quantity.
Just Imported, and to be Sold by JOHN and THOMAS OSBORN, At the Painters Arms in Back-street, Leading to Charlestown-Ferry. PAINTERS oil and colours, of all sorts, by wholesale and retail, as cheap as at any place E. Coach, Chair, House and Ship Paintings, &c. with fidelity and dispatch.
Imported in the Ship London, Capt. Calef, And to be SOLD by JAMES FOSTER CONDY, At his Book-Store in Union-Street, Directly opposite the Cornfield, Boston. A large Assortment of the most fashionable PAPER HANGINGS, Which will be Sold at a very low Advance, the most modern Tools in every Branch of polite Arts and Sciences, may be had at said Store (as usual) at such Prices as will give full Satisfaction to the Purchaser. N. B. A Pair of 17 Inch Globes to be Sold cheap.
NEW Pipes of good Faval WINE Atkinson's Store.
TO be sold, a FARM, con- taining about 300 with a good House, barn and Chaise-house, well fenced, small divisions with stone walls, the buildings all in good repair, a mile and an half from a good mill (out of the Port of Boston) and a mile from the mouse and school, a little more than twenty miles from Boston. Enquire of Col. Lincoln of Hingham, Mr. Richings of Boston, or Dr. Beal of said Cohasset.
A MALE Negchild of an excellent breed to be given Enquire of the Printer.
LEE & JONES, Have for SALE at the near the Swing-bridge, A BEAUTIFUL Variety of flowered Lutestrings and Bro. black Paduoy, coloured Tartars and Gorgooyers. Blue and white Cups and Saucers, Gold and Silver and Buttons, Silver and Pink Watches, Men's Silk Hose, Speeches Patterns. Paper hangings, Verdure. Also, a General Assortment ENGLISH GOODS.
NOTICE is hereby given to all who desire Admission into HARVARD COLLEGE this Year, that the Tutors have declined to attend the Busi- ness of Examination on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 19th and 20th Days of July next. J. WADSWORTH, per Order. Harvard College, June 15, 1774.
TO BE SOLD, A SMALL Quantity of extraordinary good Whitehaven COAL, by the Tonnage, at the wharf of THOMAS BROWN, Opposite Crown and Centre, Back-Street. The CHICE PEAS, a few Barrels, DUMB that H. BEEF, RYE, a few Barrels, FLOUR faithful, be SOLD by JOHN BARETT and W.S.
On board the Brig WILLIAM and BETH, lying PULLING'S Wharf DRY Articles just imported from Bristol, viz. cam-coloured Ware Crates, a year, Fathom, Rigging, &c. Elish Duck, different sizes, Jufard in quarter Pot Bottles, Britannia of all sorts, and Flat Irons, Kien Jacks, and two patterned Carriage Machines, with about a hundred Bolts and Nuts. Enquire of KEWHILL COAT, Board said Brig.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, E Hundred Pounds, lawful money which good security will be given. Enquire of the Printer.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, One Hundred Pounds, the Money by a Person in good Business in the Enquire, the Printer.
From the PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE.
LETTER II. To the Inhabitants of the British Colonies in AMERICA.
Brethren, It is not my design to travel through all the ministerial manoeuvres respecting us, since the commencement of the reign. It is not necessary. Sufficient, I trust, it will be, to lay before you such a series of correspondent facts, as will thoroughly convince you, that a plan has been deliberately framed, and pertinaciously adhered to, un- changed even by frequent changes of ministers, unchecked by any intervening gleam of humanity, to sacrifice to a vision for arbitrary dominion, the universal property, li- berty, safety, honour, happiness and prosperity of us, un- tending yet devoted Americans. And that every man of us is deeply interested in the fate of our brethren of Boston. If such a series is not laid before you, the combined force which shall tear up by the roots, and throw out of your midst, every lurking doubt, censure me as an enthusiast, or violently warned by a sense of the injustice practised against my beloved country.
The danger of a father's life, once racked words from a son. Worse than death, in my view, threatens our common mother. Pardon, therefore, a brother's Im- perfections.
Aid a volume of institutions, called regulations-- wrote at first--corrected into other errors--again corrected-- it requiring regulation--and remaining, after all their edits, if not like Draco's ; codes of blood, yet codes of plunder--confounding by the intricacy and multiplicity of their inventions--and complicating for having confounded --says the fourth of George the third, Chap. 12th, titled "An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America, &c." This is the first comet of the kind that glared over these colonies since their ex- istence. Here first we find the Commons of Great Britain, "giving and granting" our money, for the express purpose of "raising a revenue in America."
Busy in guiding our ploughs, felling our timber, or fashioning the circuit of traffic prescribed us, and full veering like ships to their hive, with millions of our gains to Great- Britain, the center of our toils by land and sea, poor harm- less husbandmen and tradesmen! scarce observed the blow-giv- ing images of her generous distinguished virtues, from the splendor of which, in our judgment, those of an- cient Greece and Rome hid their diminished heads--susp- icion could find no entrance. We saw, in the preamble, something of the usual forms "for extending and securing navigation and commerce," were lulled into security, nor could suppose the stroke was aimed at our vitals. An in- fant, that had tottered along a directed walk in a garden, and loaded with flowers had presented them to a mother, would as soon have expected to be knocked down by her-- Not long were we, we suffered to enjoy our tranquillity. The 5th of George the third, chapter the 12th, the ever memorable Stamp-act quickly followed. By this, reciting the former act, the commons of Great Britain "gave and granted" duties, "so called," of our money on almost every piece of parchment, vellum or paper to be used in these co- lonies, and declared every instrument of writing without a stamp to be void. Tax-gatherers of a new kind were ap- pointed to collect these duties. The petitions of our al- semblies, according to its pulsing, on notice received of the design, asserting our right, and supplicating a respect for them, were treated with contempt. You remember the time and its distress. You behaved as you ought. Con- vinced that a people, who wish to be free must resolve to be free, you abolished the "abominable thing"--and pro- ceeded in your usual business, without any regard to the illegal edict-obtruded upon you.
Permit me to add two observations, relating to remark- able attendants on the tax-on comprised in that act, the memory of which is perhaps now faint, from length of time, in some minds.
By the statutes granting duties in England or Great-Britain, special grants have been taken, that no- thing, men should be levied on the subject, under any pretence, whatever, than the ties themselves. These words ran through those acts--"that the officers shall re- ceive the several duties--and no more, and mark the vellum, parchment and paper, &c. with any other fee, or re- ward--which stamp or mark shall be a sufficient dis- charge for the respective duties." And "the com- missioners shall take care, that several parts of the kingdom shall, from time to time, be sufficiently fur- nished with vellum, parchment and paper, stamped and marked as is directed, to the end, that the subjects, &c. may have it in their election either to pay the same of the officers and persons to be employed, at the usual and most common rates above the subject, or to bring their own vellum, parchment or paper, to be stamped or marked as aforesaid."
Was the stamp-act for America like those statutes? Judge. By this it is enacted, "that due Omitting the immense increase of population, in the more northern colonies, and migration from every part of Europe, I am convinced the commercial system of America may be altered to our advantage. You have prohibited where you ought to have encouraged; and you have encouraged, where you ought to have prohibited. Improper restraints have been laid on the exportation of our produce. Would you had twenty! As of parliament in consequence of treaty remain, but an English Minister become a Custom-house Officer in, or for any foreign nation. Much is wrong, much to be amended for the general good of the whole." Mr. Pitt's Speeches. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to the feelings of liberty, as without consent to be taxed, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." Mr. Pitt's Speeches. 1 5th and 6th Eliz. and Mar. 1. c. 2. 30th C. 2. 19, and other Statutes.
any time or more of the commissioners of the treasury, shall, in every year at the prices, at which all sorts of stamped vellum, parchment and paper, shall be sold, &c."
The stamps were kept in England. Ship loads of "all sorts of stamped vellum, parchment and paper," were sent over to us. We had no choice, either to take these or to carry other vellum, parchment or paper to be stamped. We must not only have paid the certain duties imposed, but the uncertain "Prices," which the commissioners should please to "set" for the value of their "vellum, parchment, and paper;" and "penalties and forfeitures" fell upon us, every step we took, without paying these impositions. This surely was not only to be taxed by the parliament, but over again for the same articles by the commissioners.
Here some men, whose minds are strongly impressed with ideas of equity, may ask, if it is possible that even a Bri- tish parliament should so wantonly degrade us? It is as true, as that the port of Boston is THIS DAY shut up.
The "forfeitures and penalties thereby imposed were to be recovered in any court of record, or in ANY COURT OF ADMIRALTY or VICE-ADMIRALTY, ap- pointed or to be appointed, and having jurisdiction in the respective colony where the offence should be committed."
This was no regulation of trade. The facts, to be tried in any dispute, must have arisen within the body of a county--so remote from admiralty jurisdiction on every constitutional principle, as a suit on a bond, or an agree- ment for a freehold. Yet thus, by a few lines, was the inestimable privilege of trial by jury to be torn from you and your posterity. Thus the usurpation of the rights of pro- perty, not in controversies between man and man, on the question of "meum vel tuum," where though wrong by oppression, the wretched loser might draw a degree of con- solation, by reflecting that he had received some consider- ation for the substance taken away, or at least that a country- man gained his soils--but in litigations founded on rigid forfeitures and arbitrary penalties--was to be referred to the incorrect tribunals of single judges--appointed from another country, and personally independent on you-- claiming fees and salaries to be paid out of your money, consumed by themselves.
This is not of that kind, the "ways whereby we have been taxed."
The act, thus revoked by the 5th of George the third, chapter the 12th. Because it was un- constitutional, as we were not and could not be represented there? No. Because it deprived "three millions" of loyal subjects of their darling privilege of trial by jury, "the birthright of the English."
When the jury laws delivered in their verdict, and it is recorded in court, they are then discharged. And so ends the trial by jury. A trial, which besides the other vast advantages which we have occasionally observed in its pro- gress, is also as expeditious and cheap, as it is convenient, equitable, and certain; for a commission out of Chancery, or the civil law courts, for examining witnesses in one cause will frequently last as long, and of course be full as expen- sive as the trial of a hundred issues; and yet the facts cannot be determined by such commissioners at all; no, not till the dispositions are published and read at the hearing of the cause in court.
Upon these accounts the trial by jury ever has been, and I trust ever will be, looked upon as the glory of the En- glish law. And, if it has so great an advantage over others in regulating civil property, how much must that ad- vantage be heightened, when it is applied to criminal cases! But this we must refer to the ensuing book of these Com- mentaries: Only observing for the present, that it is the most transcendent privilege which any subject can enjoy, or wish for, that he cannot be affected either in his property, his li- berty, or his person, but by the unanimous consent of twelve of his neighbours and equals. A constitution, that I may venture to affirm has under Providence, secured the just li- berties of this nation for a long succession of ages. And therefore, a celebrated French writer, (a) who concludes that because Rome, Sparta, and Carthage have lost their liberties, therefore those of England in time must perish, should have recalled that Rome, Sparta, and Carthage, at the time when their liberties were lost, were strangers to the trial by jury.
Great as this Eulogium may seem, it is no more than this admirable constitution, when traced to its principles, will be found in sober reason to deserve. The impartial admin- istration of justice, which secures both our person and our property, is the great end of civil society. But if that be entirely intrusted to the magistrates, a select body of men, and those generally selected by the prince, or such as enjoy the highest offices in the state, their decisions, in spite of their own natural integrity, will have frequently an involuntary bias towards those of their own rank and dignity: It is not to be expected from human nature, that the few should be always attentive to the interests and good of the many. On the other hand, if the power of judicature were placed at random in the hands of the multitude, their decisions would be wild and capricious; and a new rule of action would be every day established in our courts. It is wisely therefore ordered, that the principles and axioms of law, which are general propositions, flowing from abstracted reason, and not accommodated to times, or to men, should be deposited in the breasts of the judges, to be occasionally applied to such facts, as come properly after stated before them. For here partial- ly can have whole scope: The law is well known, and it is for all ranks and degrees; it follows as a regular con- clusion from the premises of fact pre-established. But in set- tling and adjusting a question of fact, when intrusted to any single magistrate, partiality and injustice have an ample field to range in; either by bold asserting that to be proved which is not so, or more artfully by suppressing some circum- stances, and twisting and warping others, and disguising away the remainder. Here therefore a competent number of sensible and upright jurymen, chosen by lot from among those of the middle rank, will be found the best investigators of facts, and the best guardians of public justice. For the most powerful individual in the state will be taxed with a
powerful individual in the state will be taxed with a
"best preservative of English liberty." No. Because the continuance of the said act would be attended with many inconveniences, and might be productive of con- sequences greatly detrimental to the commerce of this kingdom."
Cool, guarded expressions! breathing the true spirit of the modern philosophy, so prevailing among the higher ranks in that polished kingdom. How much care to avoid inconveniences and daiment to their own commercial inte- rests! How foreign a contempt for all the agents, that powed us down to the earth, while indignation, shame, grief, affection, veneration, and gratitude, combined with in our breasts! They were advised to speak peace to our souls, by nobly asserting an "erroneous principle," for the repeal! No. The freedom of America is the birthright of Great-Britain-- DELENDA EST . Let us repeal the act, but never resign the principle, on which it was founded.
One generous step, however, they did take, becoming Britons. It demands our acknowledgements. Nor should should we withhold them. Why will they not suffer us to thank them for other favours?
The repealing act spoke an indicative language, subject to comments, that might differ on different sides of the At- lantic . We might have been too much agitated between hopes and apprehensions. It would have been unkind to leave us in such a state of anxiety. It would have been unworthy of a free people, who were determined to sub- jugate another free people. Pavimus may steal victories.
Therefore, the same day, I think, in which they re- pealed the stamp-act, in the next chapter, however, they candidly explained to us their sentiments and resolutions, beyond a possibility of a mistake, by the "Act for the bet- ter securing the dependency of his Majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great-Britain."
Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold! All these gather themselves together, and come to thee: Thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee as a Brace doth." Isaiah, Chap. 49.
ing any flagrant invasion of another's right, when he knows that the fact of his oppression must be examined and decided by twelve indifferent men; and that, when once the fact is ascertained, the law must of course redress it. This there- fore preference in the hands of the people that share, which prevents the encroachments of the more powerful and wealthy citizens. Every new tribunal, created for the decision of facts, without the intervention of a jury (whether com- posed of justices of the peace, commissioners of the revenue, judges of a court of conscience, or any other standing magis- trates) is a step towards establishing aristocracy, the most oppressive of absolute governments. The feudal system, which for the sake of military subordination, pursued an aristo- cratical plan in all its arrangements of property, had been in- tolerable in times of peace, had it not been so uniformly diffused by that privilege, so universally diffused through every part of it, the trial by the feudal Peers. And in every country on the continent, as the trial by the Peers has been gradually disused, so the nobles have increased in power, till the state has been torn to pieces by rival factions, and oligarchy has effect has been established, though under the shadow of royal government; unless where the miserable commons have taken shelter under absolute monarchy, as the lighter evil of the two. And, particularly, it is a circumstance well worthy an Englishman's observation, that in Sweden the trial by jury, that bulwark of northern liberty, which continued in its full vigour so lately in the middle of last century, (b) is now fallen into disuse; (c) and that there, though the royal power is in no manner so closely limited, yet the liberties of the commons are extinguished, and the government is dege- nerated into an absolute monarchy. (d) It is therefore, upon the whole, a duty which every man owes to his country, his friends, his posterity, and himself, to maintain to the utmost of his power this valuable constitution in all its integrity, to preserve it to its ancient dignity, if at all impaired by the dif- ferent value of property, or otherwise deviated from its first institution; to amend it, wherever it is defective; and above all, to guard with the most jealous circumspection against the introduction of new and arbitrary modes of trial, which, under a variety of plausible pretences, may in time imperceptibly undermine this best preservative of English Liberty."
BLACKSTONE'S COM. 3d vol. p. 373-381. a "Upon the whole I will beg leave to tell the reader what is really my opinion; it is, that the stamp-act be re- pealed, absolutely, totally, and immediately; that the rea- son for the repeal be assigned, because it was founded on an ERRONEOUS PRINCIPLE." Mr. Pitt's Speech.
(b) Whitecoke of peal. 427. (c) Mod. Un. Hist. xxiii. 22. (d) Ibid. 17.
[To be continued.]
NEW-LONDON, June 10.
At a very full Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of NORWICH, legally warned and held in said NOR- WICH, the 6th Day of June, 1774. The Hon. JABEZ HUNTINGTON, Esq; Moderator. VOTED, We will to the utmost of our abilities, assert and defend the liberties and immunities of British America; and that we will co-operate with our brethren in this and the other colonies, in such reasonable measures as shall in general Congress or otherwise be judged most proper to relieve us from the burdens we now feel, and secure us from greater evils we fear will follow, from the principles adopted by the British Parliament respecting the town of Boston. VOTED, That Capt. Jedediah Huntington, Esq; is Christopher Leffingwell, Esq; Deacon Theophilus Reg- Captain William Hubbard, and Captain Joseph Troup, be a standing Committee for keeping up a correspondence the towns of this and the neighbouring colonies, and they transmit a copy of their Votes to the Committee Correspondence for the town of Boston. Voted very unanimously, A true copy attested. JEBEDIAH HUNTINGTON, Jun. Town Clerk.

A Y, June 20.
T O N.
the House of Representatives of this Colony...
12 Dissatisfied, viz.
THIS House having duly considered, and being deeply affected with the unhappy Differences...
Therefore RESOLVED, That the Hon. JAMES BOWDOIN, Esq., the Hon. THOMAS CUSHING, Esq., Mr. SAMUEL ADAMS, JOHN ADAMS, and ROBERT TREAT PAINE, Esquires, be and they are hereby appointed a Committee...
In the House of REPRESENTATIVES, June 17, 1774. WHEREAS this House taking into Consideration the many Distresses and Difficulties to which the American Colonies, and this Province in particular, are, and must be reduced...
Whereas the said Committee out of the public Treasury, the Sum of FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS, to enable them to discharge the important Trust to which they are appointed...
It is therefore RESOLVED, as the clear Opinion of this House that the Inhabitants of the said Towns ought to be relieved; and this House do recommend to all, and more especially to the Inhabitants of this Province...
In the House of REPRESENTATIVES, June 17, 1774. WHEREAS this and his Majesty's other Colonies, in North America, have long been struggling under the heavy Hand of Power...
On Saturday last the following Address from the Merchants and Freeholders of the Town of Salem, was presented to his Excellency Governor GAGE, viz.
May it please your Excellency, We, who are Merchants and Freeholders in the Town of Salem, beg Leave to present you our dutiful Respects on your Appointment to the Government of this Province.
We are deeply affected with a Sense of our public Calamities; But the Miseries that are now rapidly hastening on our Brethren in the Capital of the Province, greatly excite our Commiseration...
By shutting up the Port of Boston, some imagine that the Course of Trade might be turned hither and to our Benefit: But Nature in the Formation of our Harbour, forbids our becoming Rivals in Commerce with that convenient Mart.
We account it the greatest Unhappiness that this Province, which has ever been foremost in Loyalty to the Kings of Britain... should be the first to feel our Sovereign's severest Displeasure.
A happy Union with Great-Britain, is the Wish of the Colonies: 'Tis their unspeakable Grief that it has in any Degree been interrupted.
We assure your Excellency we shall make it our constant Endeavour to preserve the Peace and promote the Welfare of the Province...
In these Times the Administration of Government must be peculiarly arduous and difficult; but your's we with may be as easy as the Nature of Things will possibly admit...
Richard Derby, 1st. Samuel Webb, Ebenezer Beckford, Jonathan Gardner, 2d. John Barton, Benja. Chapman, Rich. Derby, jun. 3d. Joseph Hodges, Daniel Cheever, Elias Hasket Derby, George Peabody, Tim. Pickering, jun., Warwick Palfrey, John Bray, Israel Dodge, George Williams, Richard Ward, James Cook, Thomas Mason, D. Woodbridge, Rich. Manning, Jonathan Andrew, Miles Ward, Joseph Sprague, Nathaniel Richardson, Abner Chace, Samuel Ward, Jonathan Gardner, jun., Samuel Field, Samuel Hall, John Andrew, Wal. P. Bartlett, David Ropes, David Phippen, Lewis Hunt, Ephraim Ingalls, John Fisk, William West, Joshua Ward, Samuel Phippen, Will. West, jun. Samuel Carlton, Joseph Chipman, John Symonds, Samuel Ingersoll, Abraham Watson, Robert Foster, Edward Smith, William Browne, John Felt, Will. Slewman, George Crowninshield, J. Symonds, jun. Atwater Phippen, Miles Greenwood, J. A. Symonds, George Abbot, John Hodges, J. Crowninshield, James Barr, Joseph Lambert, Edward Gibbons, James Nichols, Larkin Dodge, John Haskins, Joseph Hensfield, Jonathan Lambert, Peter Cluett, John Ditch, George Dodge, John Gull, G. Bodge, jun., Edward Allen, Benja. Daland, Samuel Holman, John Gardner, 3d. David Felt, Stephen Cook, James Diman, jun., Benja. Daland, Samuel Holman, Clifford Crowninshield, Abijah Northey, Joseph Mansfield, William Becket, Robert Peel, John Bickford, Stephen Mafcol, Maf. Williams, Edward Lang, John Towell, Abraham Rand, Benjamin Ropes, Stephen Webb, Will. Nothey, Aaron Wait, David Mason, Benj. Goodhue, Ebenezer Procter, Joseph Clough, T. Procter, jun. Robert Procter, Jonathan Buffum, John Worden, Richard Pike, Stephen Osborn, David Northey, James Gould, Matthew Mansfield, John Gardner, Daniel Maloon, John Saunders, John Barton, Nath. Osgood, Miles Ward, jun., Samuel Blyth, Jona. Nutting, Benja. Ward, 3d., Samuel Symonds, Michael Driver, Frederick Cumbs, Joseph Phippen, David Masury.
HIS EXCELLENCY'S ANSWER.
GENTLEMEN, I Thank you for the obliging Expressions towards me, contained in your Address, and be assured, it will always afford me singular Pleasure to be of use to the Inhabitants of this Town, or any Individuals in the Province.
I feel, as well as you the Inconveniences that the Inhabitants must suffer from shutting up the Port of Boston; and should be glad they would co-operate with my Endeavours to extricate themselves from them, but without their Assistance, I can take no Step towards their relief; I am sorry that the People of that Capital should have given such repeated Provocation to the King and the British Nation, as to force them to take the present Measures in support of their Authority.
SALEM, June 18, 1774.
Last Friday his Excellency the Governor having directed the Secretary to acquaint the two Houses that it was his Pleasure the General Assembly should be dissolved, and to declare the same dissolved accordingly; the Secretary went to the Court House, and finding the Door of the Representatives Chamber locked, directed the Messenger to go in and acquaint the Speaker that the Secretary had a Message from his Excellency to the Honorable House, and desired he might be admitted to deliver it; the Messenger returned, and said he had acquainted the Speaker therewith, who mentioned it to the House, and their Orders were to keep the Door fast: - Whereupon the following Proclamation was published on the Stairs leading to the Representatives Chamber...
By the GOVERNOR.
A PROCLAMATION for dissolving General Court.
WHEREAS the Proceedings of House of Representatives, in the last Session of the General Court, may
necessary, for his Majesty's Service, that the said General Court should be dissolved.
I have therefore thought fit to dissolve the said General Court, and the same is hereby dissolved accordingly, and the Members thereof are discharged from any further Attendance.
GIVEN under my hand at Salem, the 17th Day of June, 1774, in the Fourteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign.
By his Excellency's Command, THO'S FLUCKER, Secretar. T. GAGE.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
Previous to which, his Excellency was pleased to give his Assent to the several engrossed Bills, intitled,
An Act for apportioning an assessing a Tax of Ten thousand three hundred and twelve Pounds, and also for assessing taxes other sums therein mentioned.
An Act for supplying the Treasury with the Sum of Fourteen thousand five hundred and 88 Pounds, for the support of Government the ensuing Year.
An Act to exempt the People called Quakers and Anti-paedo baptists from paying Taxes for support of Ministers settled by the Laws of this Province, and for the building and repairing Meeting-Houses or Places of public Worship.
An Act for maintaining a Light-House upon Brant Point, at the entrance of the Harbour of Nantucket.
An Act for Incorporating a Tract of Land in the County of Worcester, known by the Name of Rutland District, into a Town by the Name of Hutchinson.
An Act in addition to an Act, intitled, An Act for the Incorporating the West Part of the Town of Stockbridge, into a District by the Name of West-Stockbridge.
An Act for the safe keeping of the Records of Proprietors of Lands brought to severality, which had been before held in common.
An Act for reviving and continuing certain Laws that are expired, or near expiring.
Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations June 5. THIS Assembly taking into the most serious Consideration several Acts of the British Parliament, for levying Taxes upon his Majesty's Subjects in America, without their consent, and particularly an act lately passed for blocking up the Port of Boston, which Act, even on the Supposition that the People of Boston had justly deserved Punishment, is scarcely to be paralleled in History for the Severity of the Vengeance executed upon them; and also considering to what a deplorable State this and other Colonies are reduced, when by an Act of Parliament, in which the Subjects of America have not a single Vote, and without being heard, they may be divested of Property and deprived of Liberty, do upon mature Deliberation resolve,
I. That it is the Opinion of this Assembly, that a firm and inviolate Union of the Colonies, in Councils at Measures, is absolutely necessary for the Preservation of their Rights and Liberties, and that, for that Purpose a Convention of Representatives from all the Colonies ought to be held in some suitable Place, as soon as may be in Order to consult upon proper Measures to obtain a repeal of the said Acts, and to establish the Rights and Liberties of the Colonies, upon a just and solid Foundation.
II. That the Hon. Stephen Hopkins, and the Hon. Samuel Ward, Esquires, be, and they are hereby appointed by this Assembly to represent the People of this Colony in a general Convention of Representatives from all the Colonies, at such Time and Place as shall be agreed upon by the majority of the Committees appointed or to be appointed by the Colonies in general.
III. That they consult and advise with the Representatives of the other Colonies, who shall meet in such Congress, upon a loyal and dutiful Petition and Remonstrance to be presented to his Majesty, as the united Voice of his faithful Subjects in America, setting forth the Grievances they labour under, and praying his gracious Interposition for their Relief: And that in Case a major Part of the Representatives of all the Colonies shall agree upon such Petition and Remonstrance, they be empowered to sign the same in behalf of this Colony.
IV. That they also consult and advise upon all such reasonable and lawful Measures as may be expedient for the Colonies in an united Manner, to pursue, in order to procure Redress of their Grievances, and to ascertain and establish their Rights and Liberties.
V. That they also endeavour to procure a regular, annual Convention of Representatives from all the Colonies to consider of proper Means for the Preservation of the Rights and Liberties of the Colonies.
VI. That the Speaker of the Lower House transmit as soon as may be, Copies of these Resolutions to the present or late Speakers of the respective Houses of Representatives of all the British Colonies upon the Continent.
TUESDAY, June 21. BOSTON.
THE following has been just received from a Member of the late patriotic Isle of Burgess of Virginia.
1. Resolved, That the disposal of their own property is the inherent right of the nation; that there can be no property in that which an alien of right take from us without our consent; that the claim of parliament to tax America is, in other words, claim of right to levy contributions on us at pleasure.
2. Resolved, That the duty imposed by parliament upon Tea landed in America, is a tax on the Americans, or levying contributions on them without their consent.
3. Resolved, That the express purpose for which the tax is levied on the Americans, namely for the support of government, misapplication of justice, and defence of his Majesty's dominions in America, has a direct tendency to render them useless, and to introduce arbitrary government and tyranny.
4. Resolved, That a virtuous and steady opposition to this plan of governing America is absolutely necessary, lest even the shadow of liberty, and is duty with every freeman in America owes to his country and to his posterity.
5. Resolved, That East-India Tea be not used in this colony as a duty remains on it for raising a revenue; and that whoever does use it, is an enemy to the liberties of America.
6. Resolved, That the blocking up of the harbour of Boston, or the attempting to submit to the payment of taxes imposed on them without the consent of their representatives, is a most violent and dangerous attempt to destroy the constitutional liberties of all British America.
7. Resolved, That the following Resolutions being entered into by the House of Representatives from this House to meet the other colonies; then to consider and determine on ways the most effectual to stop exports from North America, and such other methods shall be most decisive for securing the constitutional liberties of America against the systematic plan formed for their destruction.
The sudden dissolution of the Assembly prevented the above Resolutions being entered into by the House of Burgess of Virginia.
For the MASSACHUSETTS. MR. THOMAS. In ADDRESS to be transmitted to the Hon. HUTCHINSON, Esq., by the first Ship.
HOWEVER extravagantly your addressers have spoken of your public services, nineteen twenty, at least, of the people of all ranks in North-America upon you as having, for the forced purposes of aggression, and prevent the success of humble petitions for the relief of their sufferings, more than any other man in British colonies, and even more than all our domestic enemies put together; and as having stuck at nothing, however base and perfidious, to accomplish your ends.
Calm thinking Villains, whom no faith can fix, Of crooked counsels, and dark politics. Your kind offices in behalf of the people you have ruin have been many requested by a few fawning hypocrites but we, your present addressers, chose honestly to tell you that if after you have answered your own detestable views you should earnestly, and even successfully solicit a reiteration of all the rights we have been deprived of in the course of about ten years past, he that should acknowledge your merit on that score, would prove himself either a knave or a blockhead.
Do not deceive yourself, Mr. Hutchinson - this is the prevailing sentiment. Your abused countrymen have a vain hope of serving GOD and Mankind, as you have vainly aimed to do heretofore. Your abused countrymen will, never ought, to forgive you: We ought, as christians, to pray that you may have true repentance, that you may be interested in the divine favour and happy after the few, very few remaining days of our life are ended: But it would be offending Heaven by allowing you should ever set foot again in the American land if you should presume so to do, he that would hinder his endeavour, and excite others to join with him in endeavouring to make it impossible for you to exist amongst us though in a private station, would need no evidence of his being as great a wretch as the man would thus tolerate.
He that deserves to die by the hands of public justice, certainly has no right to complain if he can find a part of the globe, where he may be together with some deed comfort, though ever so remote from the country his crimes were committed.
The history you are writing of your own times, if you intend shall be published after your lungs have ceased to move, you may possibly have opportunity to finish, therein to attempt a vindication of your own conduct; be assured that some more important historian will attain all the miseries in which this distressed land is now involved to the assured machinations of Mr. Hutchinson.
Although some part of Dudley's character, as drawn the history of Massachusetts Bay, agrees extremely well with yours, that part where it is said of him, "few men were supported by their friends with greater zeal," never be applicable to you. In truth, notwithstanding the battle of some pretended friends, you have next to none even now.
WEDNESDAY June 22. BOSTON. Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Kent County, Maryland, dated July 1774, to his friend in this town. The inhabitants of this had a general meeting the second instant, and it gave us pleasure to see how heartily they sympathized with us. Twenty-five gentlemen were appointed a com. of correspondence, among whom I have the hon. to be named: After the business was over, a subscription proposed to the committee, which was most cheerfully adopted, and they subscribed some twenty pounds, and none less than five pounds, to be paid in provisions and forwarded for the use of such of our brethren as are reduced to necessity by the cruel hand of session. My advice was to send off a load of Corn, but giving any notice of it, which I concluded with an agreeable surprise to Boston. Words are said to be cheap, but it is universally allowed, that when a man sends out into the country and I dare say will be filled to a large amount. The people who cannot give money give corn. The people of Boston need not be afraid of starving to a compliance. If they will only give a notice, they may make their town the Grainary of Am. We all hope they will stand to their integrity, and fully the honour which they have so justly acquired. Account of our proceedings, accompanied with a letter sent to the committee, and I suppose will be published.
Maryland currency seven and six-pence to a dollar.
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CHARLESTOWN.
With four good Horses, a Waggon, and Tavern every Monday the 1st Day; it puts up at Any gentleman or Ladies who wish to call Admiral Vernon's, Mr. Jourdain's, in Charlestown, also the same Place, Stay Here may be had to converse by Part of this, or any other Distance as five or six Miles. Any Gentlemen or Ladies of the above Stages, will be in Manner, and the smallest Fave By their h S. Charlestown, June 22.

LONDON, June 10.
REPRESENTATIVES of the English CONNECTICUT, May, 1774.
THE taking into their serious consideration the state of the British Parliament, in which their right to impose duties and taxes upon his Majesty's subjects in the British Colonies and plantations in America, for the purpose of raising a revenue, was declared, attempted to be exercised, and in various ways enforced and carried into execution; and especially a very late act in which pains and penalties are inflicted on the Capitol of a neighbouring province; a precedent justly alarming every British Colony in America; and, which being admitted and established, their lives, liberties, and properties, are at the mercy of a tribunal, where innocence may be punished upon the accusation and evidence of wicked men, without defence, and even without knowing their accusers; a precedent calculated to terrify them into silence and submission, while they are stripped of their invaluable rights and liberties, do think it expedient and their duty at this time to renew their claim to the rights, privileges and immunities of freeborn Englishmen, to which they are justly entitled by the laws of nature, by the Royal Grant and Charter of his late Majesty King Charles the second, and by long and uninterrupted possession—and thereupon do declare and resolve as follows, to wit:
I. In the first place we do most expressly declare, recognize, and acknowledge his Majesty King GEORGE the Third, to be the lawful and rightful King of Great-Britain, and all other his Dominions and Countries, and that it is the indispensable duty of the people of this colony, as being part of his Majesty's dominions, always to bear faithful and true allegiance to his Majesty, and him to defend to the utmost of their power against all attempts upon his person, crown and dignity.
That the subjects of his Majesty in this colony, have had, and of right ought to have and enjoy all the rights, immunities, and privileges of free and natural-born subjects within any of the dominions of our said King, heirs and successors as fully and amply as if they and any of them were born within the realm of England; that they have a property in their own estate, and are to be taxed by their own consent only, given in person, or by their representatives, and are not to be dispossessed of their liberties or free customs, sentenced or condemned but by lawful judgment of their Peers, and that the said rights and immunities are recognized and confirmed to the inhabitants of this colony by the Royal Grant and Charter aforesaid, and their undoubted right to all intents, constructions and uses whatsoever.
That the only lawful representatives of the freeborn of this colony are the persons they elect to serve as members of the General Assembly thereof.
That it is the just right and privilege of his Majesty's subjects of this colony to be governed by their General Assembly in the article of taxing and internal police, agreeable to the powers and privileges recognized and contained in the Royal Charter, which they have enjoyed for more than a century past, and have neither forfeited nor suffered, but the same have been constantly recognized by the King and Parliament of Great-Britain.
That the erecting new and unusual courts of admiralty, and vesting them with extraordinary powers, above and subject to the control of the common law courts in this colony, to judge and determine in suits relating to the duties and forfeitures contained in said acts, foreign to the accustomed and established jurisdiction of the former courts of admiralty in America is, in the opinion of this house, highly dangerous to the liberties of his Majesty's American Subjects, contrary to the Great Charter of English Liberty, and destructive of one of their most darling rights, that of trial by juries, which is justly esteemed one chief excellence of the British constitution, and a principal bulwark of English Liberty.
That the apprehending and carrying persons beyond sea, to be tried for any crime alleged to be committed in this colony, or subjecting them to be tried by commissioners, or any court constituted by act of parliament, or within this colony in a summary way, without being indicted by a grand jury, is unconstitutional and subversive of the liberties and rights of the free subjects of this colony.
That any harbour or port duly opened and constituted cannot be shut up and discharged, but by an act of the legislature of the province or colony in which such port or harbour is situated, without subverting the rights and liberties, and destroying the property of his Majesty's subjects.
That the late act of parliament inflicting pains and penalties, on the town of Boston, by blocking up their harbour, is a precedent justly alarming to the British colonies in America, and wholly inconsistent with and subversive of their constitutional rights and liberties.
That whenever his Majesty's service shall require the aid of the inhabitants of this colony, the same fixed principles of loyalty as well as self-preservation, which have hitherto induced us fully to comply with his Majesty's requisitions together with the deep sense we have of its being our indispensable duty (in the opinion of this house) will ever bind us under the strongest obligations which can be given desired, most cheerfully to grant his Majesty from time to time, our further proportion of men and money for the defence, protection, security and other services of the British American dominions.
That we look upon the well-being and greatest security of this colony, to depend (under God) on our connection with posterity, and that it is the humble opinion of this house, that the constitution of this colony being understood and practiced upon, as it has ever since its existence, till now, is the surest bond of union, confidence and mutual parity of our mother-country and us, and the foundation on which to build the good of the whole, whether considered in a civil, military or mercantile light; and of the truth of this opinion, we are the more confident, as it is not founded on speculation only, but has been verified in fact, by long experience found to produce, according to our other circumstances, as many loyal, virtuous, industrious and well-governed subjects, as any part of his Majesty's dominions, and as truly zealous and as warmly endeavoured to promote the best good and real glory of the grand empire which constitutes the British Empire.
That it is an indispensable duty which we owe to King, our Country, Ourselves, and our Posterity, by all lawful means and means in our power, to maintain, defend and preserve these our rights and liberties, and to transmit them entire and inviolate to the latest generations; and that it is our fixed, determined, and unalterable resolution, faithfully to discharge this our duty.
THURSDAY, June 23. BOSTON.
On would think that the poor Cows of the town of Boston suffer enough by being deprived of the Grass with which Nature has so plentifully stored our common this year, without being haggled to pieces with cudgels and bayonets. A shameful degradation of the arms of Great-Britain, Heaven knows, to have them turned upon dumb and inoffensive cattle!
At a general council held at Salem last Wednesday, the Hon. William Brown, Esq; was appointed a justice of the superior court, in the room of the Hon. Nathaniel Ropes, Esq; deceased.
The number of Governor Hutchinson's addressers, consisting of merchants, shopkeepers, pedlars, pettifoggers, &c. amounted to 140; and it is said, great pains were taken throughout Boston, and many other towns, to procure that number, which must certainly appear very contemptible when 'tis considered, that there are full four hundred thousand inhabitants in that province. [Bost. Gaz.]
The solemn league and covenant for a non-consumption of British merchandise is an axe to the root of the tree; by it we establish our own manufactures, save our country from the destruction that
Entrat of a letter from a merchant in PHILADELPHIA to a friend in this town, dated May 31st, 1774.
The plan of opposition to the Boston Port-Bill is not yet settled; but the outlines I think begin to discover themselves pretty plainly, viz. a total suspension of all trade with Great-Britain and the West-Indies, and of exportation of flax-seed to Ireland, until the tea-acts, and all the acts of this year relating to any part of America, be repealed. All servile labour and business by general consent will be laid aside to-morrow (your fatal 1st of June) and divine service, I suppose, will be held in most, perhaps all places of worship in this city.—The Synod of New-York and Philadelphia have appointed a general fast thro' their district some day the latter end of June. Virginia is like to be firm. Maryland has already began her operations. We wait here for the sense of the other colonies; we think our example will have weight, and we would with the best expedients might be the most generally adapted and resolutely performed.—The opposition will not be furious, but serious, slow and persevering.—
Entrat of another letter from PHILADELPHIA dated June 2, 1774.
Yesterday we had a pause in the business of this city, and a solemn pause indeed it was; if we except the friends, I believe nine tenths of the citizens shut up their houses.—The bells were rang muffled all the day, and the ships in the port had their colours half hoisted.—
A spirited and judicious address to the citizens of New-York on the Boston Port-Bill, just come to hand, concludes thus.
Thus then it appears, how severe and indiscriminate the punishment, and how uncertain the relief is, which the act provides; and how highly improbable it is, that a restitution to the Bostonians of their former enjoyments will ever be total, even if they should formally and explicitly recognize the authority of parliament to tax America.
It behoves us therefore, in behalf of ourselves and our posterity, to look to another quarter for that perfect security to which Englishmen are entitled. We have recourse to which we may fly without the risk of being charged, in the worst of times, with constructive treason or rebellion; resources that have already been tried with success, and if employed again with due perseverance, must prove effectual.
We have an extensive and fertile country, so far cultivated and not overstocked with inhabitants, as abundantly to yield us all the necessaries, and most of the comforts of life. Not such is the condition of our fellow subjects in Britain. That country is overstocked. And notwithstanding their extensive commerce and numerous manufactures, thousands of its inhabitants are scarcely above perishing through want. The colonies annually consume near a third part of their manufactures; and of their imports to a very great amount. A total stop to such consumption must in a few months fill that island with bankrupts and beggars, and cover its face with the utmost distress and desolation. On our parts the commodities already imported among us, those which we may manufacture ourselves, and the convenience which our extensive coast and numerous inlets afford us, for risking the importation of commodities from foreign countries, together with the cheapness of provisions, will enable us to bear for a long time, a total suspension of commerce with Great-Britain. This expedient will divert the storm from our land, and repel it to the quarter from whence it arose. There, distress will sharpen remonstrance, and fill the mouths of all ranks with the loudest clamours against taxing America. Necessity from every quarter will press with its usual irresistible force; the controversy will no longer be with America; but between the ministry and the King's subjects in Great-Britain, headed by the respectable and truly virtuous party in the opposition. The contest will be so unequal, that the ministry must soon give way; and a total repeal of the revenue act must take place before the end of the next session of parliament. By these means the mother country will be brought back to the constitutional and just standard of her supremacy, consisting in her power to regulate the trade of the empire, in all its various dispersed parts, and superintend the whole political fabric; to prevent those changes which may work a dissolution, and preserve a dissolution of the grand machine. In this feat of supremacy, every wise, every virtuous American wishes to see her so securely placed, that she may constitutionally sway her sceptre over her American children to the end of the world.
It is true that those means which are necessary for our relief, will be peculiarly mischievous to our brethren in Great-Britain. But the mischief will not lie at our doors. We shall doubtless heartily lament their distresses; but it is not our duty to prevent them by resigning our liberties. They have it in their power to command redress. Let them in one body apply to the crown, nor through a minister, but in person, and with respectful decency. Let them assault the royal and element ear, with their cries and complaints. He will doubtless interpose for their and our relief; let the whole body of British electors instruct their representatives, against the evils under which the whole empire groans; let them behold and lament the dreadful consequences of bribery, and let them resolve for the future, to be incorruptibly virtuous.
Arts, my dear friends, the most malignant and poisonous to your liberties will doubtless be practised by dirty hirelings and base dependants on this side the water, to divert you from the glorious resolution, I have mentioned. To the soft persuasions of such, turn a deaf ear, charm they ever so sweetly. If you do not, they will allure you, and through your ears (can you bear the piercing thought?) your dear, your unoffending posterity, in all ages to come, into the most abject and disgraceful slavery.
The late town-meeting was as full and respectable as ever was known—their unanimity and firmness was never exceeded; not one, thro' often called upon, had any thing to offer in favour of paying for the tea in compliance with the Boston port bill. All appeared disposed to stand the utmost efforts of tyranny, rather than make a free surrender of the rights of America.—The speeches made on the state of American affairs would do honour to any assembly.
A merchant in one of our sea-ports, who has £ 5000 sterling in London, which was to have been remitted him in British manufactures, has now ordered the same to be sent him in money; many others are now doing the same.
The Boston port bill is certainly as anti-commercial as it is anti-charteral and inhuman.
Last evening the committee of correspondence received a very kind and affectionate letter, covering the proceedings and resolves of the respectable town of Farmington, in Connecticut, passed in a very full meeting held there on the 16th instant; of which the first imports, that the act of parliament for blocking up the port of Boston, is an invasion of the rights and privileges of every American; and as such they are determined to oppose the same, together with all other such arbitrary and tyrannical acts, in every suitable way and manner, that may be adopted in general congress.
The last vote respects the distress this town must be reduced to by means of the port bill, and concludes with raising a committee to take in subscriptions of wheat, rye, indian-corn and other provisions, of the inhabitants of that town, and to collect and transport the same to the town of Boston; there to be delivered to the selectmen * of said town, to be by them distributed at their discretion, to those who are incapacitated to procure a necessary subsistence, in consequence of the late oppressive measures of administration.
* Our brethren will take notice that the overseers of the poor, are the legal receivers of all donations for the relief of Boston.
On Monday Evening last died at his Lodgings in this Town, JACOB ROWE, Esq; a Gentleman who has resided with us about three Years, who by his open Deportment, engaging Manners and universal Benevolence, joined with an extensive Knowledge of Mankind, make his Death to be sincerely regretted by a large Circle of Acquaintance.
Several congregational churches we are told, have set apart days of fasting and prayer on account of the present melancholy aspect of our public affairs.
Last Tuesday evening, the committee of correspondence, received the following subscription, from our sympathizing brethren of Marblehead, signed by twenty-eight principal Merchants and Traders in that Port.
WE the subscribers, Merchants and Traders of Marblehead, do hereby offer to our oppressed, but much respected brethren of Boston and other neighbouring towns thereof: During the operation of the act of Parliament, called the Port-Bill, the free use of our stores in this town, reserving only sufficient room for our own goods and merchandise. We likewise assure them of our readiness in seeing to the lading or unlading of their goods in this town, and shall consider ourselves obliged to them for every opportunity of thus saving them expence, and shewing how much we sympathize with and respect them. We confidently depend on their patience and resolution the known characteristics of Bostonians and their neighbours; and hope soon to see them relieved from their distress, and the liberties of America, founded on a permanent basis, by an INDIVISIBLE UNION of the colonies.
Marblehead, June 7th, 1774.
N. B. Such of us as have wharves, do likewise heartily and freely give the use of them to our brethren aforesaid, for landing their goods and merchandise in this place.
MR. THOMAS, Some having attempted to work upon the passions of the honest and conscientious people of this town, whose mild disposition inclines them rather to suffer a thousand injuries than even countenance an injury done to people in a distant place, by persons in the place they inhabit, however little band themselves had in the all, or on the other hand how much fewer they might have endeavoured to prevent the thing's being done which is by some alleged to be a mischief; you are desired to publish the following extract of a letter from Philadelphia, a city where the carriers have given out the people are unanimous in opinion, that injustice and equity the Tea destroyed in Boston harbour last winter, ought to be paid for by the inhabitants of this town.
Entrat of a Letter from Philadelphia, dated June 6, 1774.
'Tis urged by some that Boston ought to pay for the Tea destroyed there. This is to give my reasons why they should not pay for it. 1. Dutied Tea was prohibited by general consent of all North-America, for certainly nothing can make goods more perfectly prohibited, than a general protest against their importation. If this should want form of law, it surely has all the substance of reason that can be necessary to constitute the most absolute prohibition; and if any merchant sends prohibited goods to any port, he consents to risk the loss of them; his folly only is to be pitied. 2. I consider that importation of Tea, not as a mercantile concern of the India company, but as a political medium agreed upon by that Company and the Ministry together to force the Tea-Duty upon America, against their consent; and therefore the destruction of it was not in the least degree, a malicious design of the Bostonians to injure the India company, but a virtuous effort to preserve their own liberties. If a man draws his sword on me to deprive me of life or liberty, and I break his sword, ought I to pay for the sword? If a man shoots me in his house, to deprive me of my liberty, and I break his door, ought I to pay for the door? If I lie at anchor in a ship, and one fires a fire-ship down on me to burn me, and I sink the fire-ship, ought I to pay for it? 3. But here is property destroyed, which ought to be paid for: Then, say I, let those suffer the damage who were the blameable causes of it, and not by any means those who acted from a virtuous necessity, from which they could not be excused, without breach of that duty they owed to their country, to themselves and their posterity. 4. An action cannot be good or advisable, from which bad consequence only, and no good ones necessarily flow, upon a whole country. Paying for the Tea will be deemed repentance, a submission, a renunciation of that virtue by which the liberties of America were saved and saved, and the grand scheme to destroy them abandoned, virtue relinquished, repented of, and put up with shame, becomes a butt of ridicule for an absurd and argues a baseness of soul, which even a friend must view with contempt.
As to the matter of mentioning another thing, which affects me and all your friends, viz. That a number of repulse people of Boston (some say 40, some 60) have hurried addressed Governor Hutchinson, to implore the me of the Ministry on poor Boston. I would deny this wretched phlegm, but fear I cannot. I should have thought the late proceedings of parliament, had dumb-founded every Tory in America, but could not have imagined that one single one in Boston could have remained unconvinced! The sort of poor spirited animals must have wagged their tail licked the feet of their despots so long as to have had the spirit of an ordinary cur, or they could never do it. To let the rod is a submission that can never be done to any but a righteous chastiser: Implored mercy is a confession of guilt; and to do this without a confession of guilt, is the most abject conduct conceivable. In the case in point, to be really and sincerely convicted guilt, is worse; 'tis in principle to give up all the liberties of America. Can a Bostonian compliment a man of Hutchinson's conduct; who all America believes to be a great instrument of your calamities? Can a Bostonian plore his intercession with your oppressors, oppressors who have violated the laws of God to wrong you? Who have devised you of the wharves, landing places and harbour, which the God of nature, the obligations of civil contract, the law of the land, will conspire to seal to you as your property and right—who have vacated the obligations of social covenants, such as are contained in bills of lading, after parties, &c. and which the laws of Heaven will oblige the conscience of every honest man to fulfil.—I say, the virtue, can the pride of a Bostonian submit to imbrave the mercy of such oppressors, and that too, by soliciting the mediation of their capital tool of oppression! I always had an exalted opinion of the virtue of the Bostonians. I indeed knew they might suffer, but never suspected they could lose their dignity in suffering—safe my warm sentiments. If they give wounds, they will be the wounds of a friend. But I lament to tell you, this duct of a few with you, weakens the hands of your friends, and furnishes occasion to some not over friendly to the Bostonians themselves are melting away. Our port can never save them whilst they want firmness themselves, and whilst they themselves acknowledge that they suffer for their own faults, and not for the cause of American liberty. Depend on it, 'tis the design of the northern colonies to support Boston with their united strength, to make their cause, a common one; but at the same time they greatly rely on your firmness, your prudence, your virtue, and example in the struggle. I am, &c.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
MR. THOMAS, Life and Liberty never shall be parted. HIS is the motto of the country, and we are unalterably determined never to part with our liberties, the expence of defending them be what it may. We told that the ministry of Britain talk of taking away our ARTS! Enemies to God and man! Do they think will submit to tyranny in our own LAND.—Thearty which our fathers purchased with THEIR BLOOD, will defend with OUR BLOOD.
A COUNTRYMAN.
To the FARMERS in America. INCREASE your SHEEP and raise WOOL as far as possible, that you may from this time, wear EXPT CLOTH. FREEDOM.
This Day was Published. (Price three Coppers.) fold at the Printing-Office at the bottom of ROYAL-EXCHANGE Lane, near the Market. FEMALE's ADDRESS to her COUNTRYWOMEN.
The most encouraging from Virginia.
A Transport (with troops) day from Ireland.
It seems now to be the general that a Congress of deputies from all the colonies, be held as soon as possible, in order to concerted measures for defeating the despot's design, who are endeavouring our ruin.
DIED] Mr. Howard, caulkers.—Mrs. Goldthwaite, widow.—At Concord, Mr. Thomas Cordis.—At Farmington, Nova Scotia, the Hon. Benjamin Gerrish, Esq; one of his Majesty's council.—Mrs. Catharine Brown, consort of Mr. Samuel Brown of Wrentham. Miss Elizabeth Greenleaf, Shopkeeper.
From the Essex-GAZETTE of June 21.
HISTORY informs us that there are some nations in the world who pay religious worship to the Devil; thinking and designing, by such means, to flatter, cajole, and keep him in good temper, that he may not hurt them.—Query; Whether the complements lately paid to a certain gentleman of public character, on his departure from this province, did not originate from similar views and sentiments in the authors of them? And further; Whether the votaries, in both these cases, are not likely to fare pretty much alike in the issue?
This day was published,
[Embellished with a very elegant [Quarto] Engraving of an Indian Gazette.]
NUMBER V. of THE ROYAL American Magazine, OR UNIVERSAL
Repository of Instruction and Amusement.
FOR MAY, 1774.
CONTAINING,
An act for blocking up the harbour of Boston.—The tenets of the Socratic Philosophy explained.—The Fortune-Hunter continued.—Hamet; or the Insufficiency of Luxury to the attainment of happiness.—Queries, concerning the good policy of continuing and encouraging the slave trade.—An admirable Recipe for a Consumption.—On Agriculture.—To the 'young Gentleman' whose Letters on female education was published in No. 4.—Observations on Physiognomy and Beauty.—New experiments and observations in Chemistry.—Of the first method of communicating ideas by pictures, and of the origin of letters.—Explanation of an Indian Gazette, giving an account of their battles.—Recipe for the Athana.—On the extraordinary degree of heat which men and animals are capable of supporting.—Reflections on the Fair Sex.—Cruelty of a tyrannic Prince.—The Directory of Love.—Poetical Essays.—A Gentleman's lamentation for the loss of his dog.—Answer to the Rebus in No. 4.—My Choice.—Orthodox Advice.—A Song of Liberty.—Historical Chronicle.—General History of America.—A bill for the impartial administration of justice, &c. in Massachusetts-Bay.—A bill for the better regulating the Province of Massachusetts-Bay.—Domestic Intelligence.—Marriages and Deaths.—Meteorological Observations on the Weather.—Governor Hutchinson's history, &c.
MARTIN BICKER,
Has just received for Sale at his Auction-Room near the Conduit, Boston,
A very large and valuable Assortment of English GOODS, which are the Property of a Gentleman leaving off the Business, therefore they will be sold very low,—Among which are, a very large Assortment of Irish Linens, and Manchester Cotton Velvets,—Cotton Checks, India and English Calicoes,—Sheeting Linens,—Lawns, Cambricks,—Cotton, Thuret and Worsted Hose,—Hankerschiefs of all kinds,—Dowls and Oz nabigs, Bed ticking,—Cotton Sops,—Milk Socks,—English black Taffy,—Breeches Pieces,—Pins,—some Hard-Ware,—Silver and Pinchbeck Watches, &c. &c.
To all Lovers of the noble Science of DEFENCE.
GENTLEMEN who choose to be instructed in the Art commonly called the BACK SWORD, are desired to apply to DONALD M'ALPINE, who will teach them said Science to their entire Satisfaction, at the Room in King-street, near the State-House, lately occupied as a Writing-School: The Hours of Attendance are from 5 till 8 o'Clock in the Morning, from Noon till 1 o'Clock, and from 3 till 5 o'Clock in the Afternoon.—Any Gentleman that chooses to be taught privately, shall be waited upon at such Seasons as are convenient for them, either at the School or their Lodgings.
Said M'ALPINE return his most grateful Thanks to those Gentlemen who have encouraged him: As he is strongly urged to go to another Place, he hopes to meet with such further Encouragement and approbation as shall induce him to continue his Residence in Boston, which would be most agreeable to him.
CAKES for making of shining Liquid
Blackings for Shoes, Boots, &c. These Cakes make with the utmost Ease, by the Addition of Water only, a most excellent shining Liquid Blacking, much superior to any hitherto known; it gives the finest Black and most beautiful Gloss to the Leather, yet never renders it stiff or hard, but on the contrary prevents its cracking, and preserves it soft, pliable, and mellow to the very last, whereby it is rendered more agreeable to the Wearer, as well as much more durable. The Shoes that are blacked with it will neither foil the fingers in putting on, or the Stockings in wearing.
N. B. They are very fit for Leather Bottom Chairs, Chaife, &c.
The above, with a small Alteration, is the London Advertisement of the blacking Cakes, of which Experience proves the Truth.
They are sold by Wholesale and Retail, by
SAMUEL ELIOT,
At his Shop near the Head of Dock-Square.
Where may also be had,
A compleat Assortment of English, India and Scotch Piece Goods, a fine Assortment of Irish Linens, Stationery, Cutlery and Hard-Ware, Kippen's Snuff, Spices, &c.
TO BE SOLD,
A FARM in Cohasset, containing about 80 Acres, well fenced with Stone Wall, with a good House, Barn and Chaife-House thereon, about a Mile and an half from a good Harbour, and one Mile from the Meeting-House, 24 Miles from Boston. Enquire of Colonel Lincoln, of Hingham, Lazarus Beal of said Cohasset, or Mr. Richard Billings, Taylor, in Boston.
A YOUNG Woman with a good
Breast of Milk, would be glad to go into a Gentleman's Family to suckle. Enquire of the Printer.
The following is an extract from a law of the province relative to the observation of the Lord's-Day, of which it is expected due notice will be taken.
"And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall, be recreating, disposing or unnecessarily walking or loitering, or if any persons shall unnecessarily assemble themselves in any the streets, lanes, wharves, high ways, commons, fields, pastures or orchards of any town or place within this province upon the Lord's-Day or any part thereof, every person so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of five shillings, and upon every conviction after due trial, shall be bound to their good behaviour."

POF... O D... IN this... For... Where... WI... for this paper, has of... that... many good customers being... will, in future, endeavour to pre-... any thing of the like kind happening, so... long as he may have the honor of being an... hand-servant to the public.
The gloomy prospect of public affairs, at present, in this devoted capital, has occasioned some pressing Demands upon him, which with great reluctance he informs his customers, he can by no means answer without their kind assistance. He is loath to trouble them with a 'dunning' advertisement, but his affairs make it necessary: His customers in the country towns in this province, and those in the other colonies, he hopes will take proper notice of it, and consider there is no possibility, (especially for a young beginner) in carrying on business without regular payments.
A work of this kind, it is well known is attended with great expence, and he begs leave to mention, that the MASSACHUSETTS SPY is a third larger than any News-Paper published in this province, and contains as much News, as many Political Essays, as any in America; and is the cheapest on the globe.
I. THOMAS. Boston, June 9, 1774.
To the PUBLIC. AS the times are threatening it behoves one and all to go into the most frugal methods to encourage our own Manufactures, and as there is a great consumption of Gloves in this large Country, we can manufacture enough here, to supply the whole Continent, which will employ our own people, and keep a large sum of Money here, which is annually sent to England for Gloves and which are better and cheaper than can be imported from England: It is hoped therefore, that the importation of this article at least will be totally stopped. These may certify, that Philip Freeman, will supply Merchants and Shop-keepers with the following, viz. Buck-Skin GLOVES, Norway Doe, ditto Purple, ditto Wash Leather, ditto Beaver Skins, on the most reasonable terms, at the blue Glove in Union-Street, facing the sign of the Corn-Fields, near the Dock, Boston.
RAN away from the subscriber an apprentice boy, named Josiah Cobb, about sixteen years of age; a short, thick-set lad, had on when he went away a short light-coloured jacket something ragged. Whoever will give information where he may be found, shall be intitled to a reward of two dollars. NATHAN GREEN.
AS some of my worthy friends have thought (not a little to my disadvantage) that I was a signor to the address to the late governor Mr. Hutchinson, I beg leave thro' the channel of your paper, to acquaint them, that it is a mistake, and easily to be accounted for, when the resentment is allowed for which the reading of this list raises in the breast of every friend to the community, together with the near relation Mr. Greenwood bears with that of Nathaniel Greenough; but his friends may be assured he never saw the address, till it was in the paper of 30th instant, and consequently never signed it. The said NATHANIEL GREENOUGH
Has imported in the several vessels arrived here this spring, a large assortment of English goods, suited to the season, among his goods are CHINA WARE, SPICES, and a grand assortment of HOSIERY. Mens Silk Hose, Plain White Ribb'd and Random, Men's Women and Children's Thread and Cotton ditto. Men's and Women's Black and White Silk Gloves, Women and Childrens Black White and Colour'd Silk Mitts, &c. &c. &c. The small-est favour of those who will please to favour him with their Custom shall be esteemed and regarded by him.
SILKS And Superfine BROAD CLOTHS.
A PRIME assortment of Padufoys, Du-capes, Lutestrings; plain and figured Sattins, Damasks, Sarfets, &c. -superfine fashionable coloured Broad Cloths, with suitable Linings and Trimmings; To be Sold at an exceeding low rate, by JOHN BARRETT and SONS, At their shop near the Mill-Bridge, Boston, Where may be had, all kinds of English, Scotch, India, Hard-Ware and Cutlery GOODS, By Wholesale or Retail, Extremely cheap for Cash or short Credit.
THE following Articles are to be sold extremely cheap, and for which any kind of Merchandise will be taken for pay, viz. A genteel Riding Chair, one double and one single Sley, an excellent smoke-Jack, with chains, &c. and one common ditto complete; two Iron Cranes, one large walnut Table, a long entertaining ditto. With many other articles useful in a public house. Also, a complete set of Founders Tools, such as patterns for casting almost every article usually made in brass, with furnace, lion mortar, Furnace, Foot Wheel, &c. &c. Like-wise a few barrels of Cyder. Enquire of the Printer.
TO be sold or let, only for want of Em-ploy, a young Negro man, who is capable of trans-acting any business in a family. Enquire of the Printer. TO BE LET.
For one, two or three Years, And may be entered upon immediately, A LARGE convenient Dwelling-House, in Beverly, near the Ferry, with four Rooms on a Floor, and a good Wharf. For further Particulars enquire of Capt. WILLIAM MORGAN, the Owner, living in said Beverly.
CHOICE MADDEN, the growth of this province, to be SOLD by JOHN BARRETT, Near the MILL-BRIDGE, BOSTON.
This day was published, price 1s. 6d. And sold by EDEB & GILL, in Queen-Street, OBSERVATIONS on the Act of Par-liament commonly called the BOSTON PORT-BILL; with Thoughts on Civil Society and Standing Ar-mies. Dedicated to the Freeholders and Yeomanry of the Country. By JOSIAH QUINCY, jun.
Painters Oil and Colours. JUST ARRIVED, A GENERAL Assortment of Painters Colours and Oil, and to be SOLD by CHARLES SIGOURNEY, At his Shop at the Head of Dock-Square, Boston. A L S O, Window Glass, Nails of all sorts, &c. &c. A L S O, An Invoice of Painters Colours, To be SOLD, very low, consisting of Red and White Lead, Spanish White and Brown, and a few Casks of OIL. [Being a Consignment.] Steel Plate MILL SAW S.
A NUMBER of Very fine En-glish Steel Plate MILL SAW S suitable for the Eastward, are superior to any ever in America before, just arrived, and to be SOLD by CHARLES SIGOURNEY, At his Shop at the Head of Dock-Square, Opposite Greenleaf's Auction-Room, Boston. With a Large Assortment of all Sorts of Braizery, Ironmongery, Cutlery and Ship Chandlery GOODS, Consisting of every Article that is Imported in the Hard Ware Branch, and too many to be enumerated in an Advertisement. Those who want to purchase by Wholesale, will find it worth their while to call, as he is determined to sell as low as any person in town. A L S O, Double refined English Sugar, Copperas and Allum.
A Boarding School for young Ladies, after the most approved English Method will be opened from this Time forward by ELEANOR DRUITT, In Hanover-Street, near Concert-Hall. The Ladies, besides being tenderly and carefully looked after, and instructed in every Part of their Behaviour, are taught English and French grammatically, all Sorts of Needle-Work, plain and in Colours, Tambour, Grotto, Bude, Bugle, and Paper-Works. Her Terms will be the most moderate and such as to convince the Enquirers they are reasonable indeed. Those who shall be pleased to intrust her with the Care of their Children, may rely that the Aimment of those desirable Ends, shall ever engage her assiduous Attention. Epistolary Correspondence, Writing and Arithmetic in the most concise Manner, taught by JOHN DRUITT. Recreation and Exercise as contributing to the Health and Vigour both of Mind and Body, go Hand in Hand with a Variety of Employments. The Faults and Defects of young Persons are sought to be rectified by erudition, mild and gentle Usage, Encouragements and Rewards, rather than severe Treatment, except when it is absolutely necessary. The Day School as usual.
CALEB BLANCHARD, IN UNION-STREET, Begs leave to inform his Friends and Customers, that he has imported by Captain SYMMES and LYDE from London, a fresh assortment of Summer Goods, which he will sell at the very lowest prices for ready Money, viz.
DUTCH LACE, Chevaux-de-rize and Blond Laces, Gauze Handkerchiefs, an As-sortment of Calicoes, &c. India Dimity, Jamet, Sprig'd and Striped Mullins, Bengalls, Nankeens, ngee Romalls, black and blue Ostrich Plumes, Skeletel and Cap-Wire, Allamode, Sarfets, Sattins, Ribbons, own Trimming, Hose's belt Pumps, Silk ditto, girls and ladies Morocco Pumps, Cambricks, Lawns, a fine Assortment of men's and women's worsted, thread and cottonose, Breeches Pieces, Morris's Patent Gloves and Mitts, per-fine and other Cloths, Dumoy, Wiltons, Serges, ens Duck, Dowlas, China Ware, paper neff red Trunk-fish Linens of all widths, Spices, Royal Ribbs and Conys of most colours, also, ladies white riding Hats, witue Ostrich Plumes, boys white and black round Hats Fes, Jennets, Dimity, buff, white and scarlet Clothish Shallons, India Calicoes, black, buff and white Silk Sh-es Pieces, with a large and General Assortment of GCS, in the Worsted, Woollen and Haberdashery way, es riding Gloves.
CYRUS BALDWIN HEREBY informs his Customers and others that he purposed to embark for London early next; and that he is now selling off his Stock in Trade, cong of a large and valuable Assortment of English, Indd Scotch GOODS, very cheap for Cash, at his Sn Cornhill, near the State-House, Boston. Among which are,
A large Assortment of superfine, midg and low priced Broad Cloths, with Trimmings, En Serges, Wiltons, Jeans, Fustians, Cotton Velvets, Ed Worsted Plushes, Furniture and other Calicoes, Fve Checks, Irish Linens, Cambricks, Lawns, Thick h Book ditto, Silks for Ladies Gowns of various Sd Colours, some of them at the sterling Cost; a bal Assortment of Ribbons, Quality and Shoe Bindings-terings, Tapes; a fine Assortment of Silk, Thread, d and Cotton Hosiery; Carpets and Carpeting, eg Glass, with a Thousand other Articles, not here men. Very neat superfine Chip Hats at the Sterling Cost. Those who have the Cash to pay, will may find it for their Advantage to apply to said BALD-He earnestly requests all Persons that are indebted on Note or Book, to make speedy Payment.
TO be sold, for want of employ, a healthy NEGRO BOY, about nine years, who can be well recommended for his honesty. re of the Printer.
LOST, supposed to be stolen, - A VER TABLE SPOON, marked I. Nost new. If it should be offered for Sale, it is desired be stopped, and information given to the Printer.
OATS, Pease, Philadelphia Flour and Bar Iron; also warranted Scythes and Axes. A few neat Fowling Pieces, and a small Quantity of Snuff, to be sold cheap at the lowest Store on the South Side of the Town-Dock, by JOSEPH P. PALMER.
JEREMIAH ALLEN Informs his Friends and the PUBLIC, That he has received by the LONDON, Capt. CALY, And is now opening for Sale, At his Shop in Ann Street, a little North of the Draw-bridge, by Wholesale and Retail.
A Compleat Assortment of Brazery, Cutlery and Ironmongery GOODS, purchased from the most approved Manufacturers in Great-Britain, and which he doubts not will give satisfaction both in Price and Quality to those who please to favour him with their Custom. Among which are the following, 2d. 3d. 4d. 6d. 10d. and 20d. NAILS, Sheathing and Boat ditto, London Pewter Dishes, Plates and Bacons, Tankards, Quart and Pint Cans; Quart, Pint and Half Pint Tea Pots, Cream Pots, Tea Tongs, Table and Tea Spoons, Bottle Cranes, Wine Measures, Red and Close Stool Pans, Brass Kettles and Skillets, Bell-metal ditto, Warming and Frying Pans, Desk and Book Case Furniture of all kinds, Brass Knockers, Ball Bolts, Clock Pins, Screw Rings, Knobs, Brass Scales and Weights, Money Scales, Brass and Iron Candlesticks, also a few Pair Princes Mettle in the newest Taste, Steel spring, japanned and iron Snuffers, polished Steel Shovel and Tongs, Bellows Box and Flat Irons, Box Iron Grates, Bed Screws, half and quarter Carrier, Knife Boxes, make Castors, Bed Caps and Torn Buckles; silver, ivory, buck, bone, horn and maple handle Knives and Forks, Penknives of all sorts, Razors, Scissors and Cuttoes, Snuff and Tobacco Boxes, Horn and Ivory Combs; gilt, plated and lacquered Coat and Breast Buttons; Shoe, Knee and Stock Buckles of all kinds, Temple and Dutch Spectacles, also a few Pair Temple of an extra Quality, Brass and Iron Locks and Hinges of all sorts, Carpenters and Joiners Tools, Awl Blades, Shoe Nippers and Pincers, English and French Gun Flints, Shot Belts and Powder Flasks, Powder and Shot, Bar and Sheet Lead, 10 by 8 Glass, 2 and 3 pitched worsted Wool Combs; best Clothiers Shears, Smiths Anvils and Vises, Iron Spades, Beaver, Castor and Felt Hats, also a few white furred ditto with Gold Buttons and Loops for Ladies, Peg-tooth and cross-cut Saws, Steel and Iron Plate Hand Saws, fast, ten-nant and key hole ditto, Files and Rasps of all sorts, rymblets, Tap and Bung Borer, Bamboo, Dogwood, solid, joint and hazel Angling Rods of all kinds, a few of the neatest Bamboo Rods that perhaps was ever in America, spare Tops for Rods, Cod and Mackerel Lines, Hair and silk ditto, best Hurly Hooks, ditto on Gimp and Hair, Snap Hooks, 6 and 10 Stave Reeds, 10-Yard fly Line Gimp, Landing Nets, fly-goose, float painted Corks, Brass Winches, Brads and Tacks of all sorts, Nail Nippers, Nutt Crackers, Cork Screws, Brass and paper Ink Pots, Brass Beer Cocks, Pin-kissing Irons, Chair Center and Deueling Belt Crutch Head Cloth, Table, Shoe and Buckle Brushes, Curling and Pinch-ing Tongs, Wool Cards, Seives and Seive Bottoms, Houle Bells, Pound Beads, No. 1, 2 and 3 Silks, Kitchen Jacks, compleat Brass and Iron Wire, Curry Combs, Dripping Pans, Corn Fans, painted Scale Beams, Horse Flems, Brass and Steel Thimbles, Rat and Moue Traps, Tin Plates, Look-ing Glasses of all kinds, a few Pair Gold and Gold and white oval Glasses in the Palmyra Taste, either with or without Jerendoles.
WHEREAS on the night of the 6th of this instant June, the dwelling-house of the subscriber, of Hanover, in the county of Plymouth, inn-holder, was broke open and entered by some villain or villains, who also broke open a desk and stole from thence a sum of Money, which was contained in two purses, one a white silk knit with silk strings, and the other made of white glove leather with strings of the same; also a large old-fashioned silver Watch, maker's name Windmills, London, No. 5641. TEN DOLLARS Reward is offered to any person who will detect the thief or thieves, so as he or they may be brought to Justice. DAVID JACOBS.
TO BE SOLD. A PAIR of black Dutch HORSES, as also a neat WAGON and HORSES. For further Particulars apply at Mr. BRACKETT's, in School-Street.
THE following VOTE was passed by the CORPORATION of HARVARD-COLLEGE on May 31st, and on June 2d 1774, confirmed by the honourable and reverend board of overseers, viz. "CONSIDERING the present dark aspect of our public affairs, VOTED, that there be no public COMMENCEMENT this year, and that the candidates for their first and second degrees, after having been presented nomination to, and approved by the honourable and reverend board of overseers, shall receive their degrees in a general diploma, signed by the Corporation. Provided that on or before the 13th day of July next, they bring to Dr. Appleton, senior fellow of the Corporation, a certificate from the steward, that they have paid the stated fee for a degree, and have discharged all college dues required by law, except for the public dinner on Commencement day; also a certificate from the librarian, that they have returned in good order or replaced all the books they have borrowed from the library." A true copy, Attest. NATH. APPLETON, senior fellow of the Corporation of Harvard-College. N. B. The meeting of the overseers is adjourned to the 14th of July, so that they who do not apply before that time, cannot have their names inserted in the general diploma, nor be admitted to their degrees this year.
M. B. GOLDTHWAIT, Begs leave to acquaint his friends and the Public, that he has just received by Capt. Symmes, a fresh supply of DRUGS AND MEDICINES, Which he sells Wholesale and Retail, at his shop near the Mill-Bridge, Boston; amongst which are the following, Patented Medicines.
LOCKYER'S Pills, Cephalic Snuff, Turlington's Balsam of Life, Maredant's Drops, Daffy's Elixir, Stoughton's ditto, Essence of Peppermint, Hem-net's much approved Dentifrice for the Teeth, Anodyne Necklaces, Bate-man's Drops, Hooper's Female Pills, An-derdon's do. Cook's famous Worm Powder, Jescuits Drops, Greenough's Tincture for the Teeth, Ditto for the Tooth Ach, Hungary Water, Lavendar do. Eau de Luce. Likewise, Court Plaster, Lip Salve, Smelling Bottles ve-ry neat of different figures, genuine Carolina Pink Root, and Squire's Grand Elixir. Also, SURGEONS INSTRUMENTS, Of all Kinds, Phials of all Sorts, Marble and Glass Mor-tars, Lint, Surgeons Tow, Flgs, Ralfins, Currants, Prunes, all Kinds of Dye Stuffs, Groceries, Velvet Corks, with many other Articles too numerous for an Advertisement, all Fresh and Genuine. N. B. Doctor's Boxes put up for Masters of Vessels and private Families with every necessary direction.
TO BE SOLD. ROBERT RUGG At his Shop in Cornhill, a little to the North of Town Pump, Boston, a large Assortment of English and India GOODS, By Wholesale or Retail, extremely cheap for Cash. Among which are the following Articles, viz STRIPT, changeable, Chevauxdegrise, plain and brocaded half Gimp and Garland Trim ell and 3-4 Lutestrings, Wax Necklaces and Ea Ducapes and Padufoys, Blue, white, pink and Mohair Grogams, Hats for Women, Crimson and blue Cordefoy, A very large Assortment Blue, white, green and pink Mens, Womens, Y Sarfets, and Girls glazed a Scarlet, crimson, white, blue, glazed Gloves and M pink, green, drab and black, Galloon and Strapping, plain, spotted and fringed Stay Cord and Braid, half ell and 3-4 Sattins Buckrams, of all Prices, Yellow Holland, Rich rose, crimson and green 3-4, 7-8 and yard-wide English Damasks, Linnens, Blue and white India ditto, Sheeting Holland; Blue, green, changeable and drab India Taffeties, Table Cloths, Black English ditto, Napkin Damasks, Figured Mole for Capuchines, Diapers and Buckabu of most Colours, Womens and Children Half yard, 3-4 and yard wide Thread Stays, black Allamode, Blue, pink, green and Misfietens and Gizetts, Womens loom-quil Broglines and Sattinets, Petticoats, Black and Lead-colour Bom-bazens, White Quilting, Black double Allopeens, Gold and Silver Buttons, Dorsetteens, Crapes and Popins, Gold and Silver Veil Bengal, Gold Prussian Coat B Worsted Grogams, Me-kingburgh ditto, Camblets and Cambleteens, Gold Braid, Drawboys and Everlastings, Silk Twist and Silk and Calicoes and Chints, Velvet Collars, Sagathies and Duroys, Tortoiseshell Combs w Fustians and Jeans, without Stones, Wiltons, Superfine, middling an Damasks and Ginghams for Price Broad Cloths Mens Waistcoats, Forest Cloth, Figured Silk Waistcoat Pat-terns, German Serges, Black Silk Breeches Patterns, Half Thick, Black, blue and cloth coloured Ratteens, Worsted Breeches Patterns, Beaver Coating, Mens Silk Hose, Duffs, Mens and Womens Thread, Velvets, Cotton and Worsted Hose, Stript Swanskins, Childrens ditto all Sorts, Oznabrigs, Womens black, white and Shalloon and Tamn of buff coloured Silk Gloves, most Colours, Mens black ditto, Calamancoes, Silk Mitts, all Colours, Best black plain Ruffell A neat Assortment of plain, 3-4, 7-8 and yard-wide Cicks spotted, figured and fringed Mettle Buttons of all Srs Guazes of all Prices, Crewels and Canvas, Best Tambour Muslin, Pins and Needles, Stript, fringed and checked Threads and Tapes, Mullins, Sewing Silks of all Colours, Yard and six-quarters wide Cambricks and Lawns, plain Mullins, Long Lawn, Brocaded and Sattin Shoes and Clogs, Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs, English and Lynn made Rus- Knives and For sell and Callimanco Shoes, Pen Knives Childrens ditto, Razors, A neat Assortment of Brussells Pepper, and other Thread Laces, Cinnamon, from gl. to 3s. 9d. old Cloves, Tenor per Yard, Mace, Blond Laces, And a Variety Black Bone Laces, all Prices, Articles, &c. to his friend
JUST IMPORTED, by JOSIAH WATERS and SON, And to be SOLD at their Shop in Ann-Street, PAINTERS OYL and COLOURS, of all Kinds, in large or small Quantities, Window Glass - Brushes, &c. All Kinds of Pipes, Spices and Groceries as usual, A few of Split Pease, - Powder, &c. At the same Place may be had, A most elegant Assortment of PAPER HANGINGS. N. B. PAINTS prepared for House or Ship Painting. House and Ship Painting performed with Care and Dispatch.
JOSHUA GARDNER HAS just imported from LONDON, by Capt. CALY, A FRESH Assortment of Spring GOODS, which he is determined to sell at the very lowest Rates for ready Money, at his Shop in Cornhill, just above the Post-Office, Boston.
The PUBLIC Are hereby informed, that JOHN JOY Has received from LONDON, A large and compleat Assort-ment of Drugs and Medicines, Of the best Quality. A L S O, Surgeons Instruments, of every Kind, finished in the neatest Manner; with a full Assortment of Groceries and Dye Stuffs, which were purchased by him with the Cash, he will on very reasonable Terms at his Shop, the North-ner of William's Boston. Practitioners and may be supplied with or small Quantities, ter or otherwise, as though they were pr Medicine Bo-rious Prices, for private Families, in the neatest Ma
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At the Bottom of ROYAL EXCHANGE-LANE, near the MARKET, Dock-Square (Mr. T. WALLEY's Store) where all Persons may be supplied with this Paper at and Eight Pence Lawful Money, per Annum, unsealed, and Eight Shillings and directed; and where Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully ADVERTISEMENTS taken in.-PRINTING in its various Branches, performed neat Manner, with the greatest Care and Dispatch, on the most reasonable HAND-BILLS at an Hour's Notice. SUBSCRIPTIONS for the SPY are also in by J. Larkin, Chairmaker, and Mr. W. Calder, Painter, in Charlestown; in Salem - M. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; M. Belcher, in Bridgewater; and by Dr. Elijah Hewins, in Stoneham.