The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal (Boston [Mass.]), 1774-05-05 00:00:00

THE Massachusetts Spy
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
MAY 2 1903
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER:--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
'DO THOU Great LIBERTY INSPIRE our Souls,—And make our Lives in THY Possession happy,—Or, our Deaths glorious in THY JUST Defence.'
VOL. IV.]
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1774.
[NUMB. 170.]
Choice Cheshire Cheese,
Which will suit the nicest taste, Just 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.
[This quantity of Cheese is equal in goodness, if not superior, to that imported and sold by him last fall.]
Also, excellent FLORENCE OYL, in Flasks, warranted good, and the best of English Mustard, by the bottle, single pound, or less.
OATMEAL by the Bushel, or smaller quantity.
SAMUEL ELIOT
Informs the PUBLIC, That he has imported in the Ships just arrived from L O N D O N,
A General Assortment of English and India GOODS, a Variety of Irish LINENS, Cutlery and HARD WARE, Pistol POWDER, &c. Which will be Sold by Wholesale and Retail, At his SHOP near the Head of Dock-Square, And at his STORE in WILSON'S LANE.
JOSHUA GARDNER
HAS just imported from LONDON, by Capt. CALEF, A FRESH Assortment of Spring GOODS, which he is determined to sell at the very low Rates for ready Money, at his Shop in Cornhill, just above the Post-Office, BOSTON.
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.
JUST arrived in Captain CALEF, And now Opening,
A FRESH Assortment of English and India GOODS; which will be Sold at the lowest Cash Prices by PARKMAN and MELVILL, At their Shop in Cornhill, near the State-House, Boston.
STOLE out of the Subscriber's Entry last Tuesday Evening, a large Drab-coloured GREAT COAT. If such an one should be offered for Sale, it is desired Notice may be given to ELIAS PARKMAN.
SAMUEL PARKMAN, Informs his friends and customers, he has received per the Captains FOLGER and SYMMES from LONDON, A compleat assortment of Spring GOODS, which will be sold by wholesale or retail, (at his Shop in Union-Street) at a very low advance for cash.
JOHN WHITE Gardner and Seeds man in Seven-Star-Lane, BOSTON, acquaints his Customers, that he has received a fresh assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, by Capt. SYMMES, from L O N D O N.
JAMES HILL, At his SHOP in CHARLESTOWN, Next Door to ISAAC RAND, Esquire's, Has to SELL,
A Variety of fresh GARDEN SEEDS, also Pease and Beans, just arrived per Capt. Symmes, from London. He has likewise for Sale, Glass, Cream- Coloured, Delph and Stone Ware, Groceries, &c. N. B. The Goldsmith and Jeweller's Business carried on at said Shop.
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 Balm of Life, Maredant's Drops, Daffy- y's Elixir, Stoughton's ditto, Essence of Peppermint, Hem- met's much approved Dentifrice for the Teeth, Anodyne Necklaces, Bateman's Drops, Hooper's Female Pills, An- derson's do. Cook's famous Worm Powder, Jellies Drops, Greenough's Tincture for the Teeth, Dittos for the Tooth Ach, Hungary Water, Lavender 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.
SURGEONS INSTRUMENTS, Of all Kinds, Phials of all Sorts, Marble and Glass Mor- tars, Lint, Surgeons Tow, Figs, Raisins, Currants, Prunes, all Kinds of Dye Stuffs, Groceries, Velvet Cords, 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.
For LONDON,
The Ship LONDON, ROBERT CALEF, Master, Now lying at the Long Wharf, Will sail with all Expedition.
For Freight or Passage apply to PETER HUGHES, at his Store in King-Street, Where there is to be Sold,
English, Russia and Ravens DUCK, Pickles in Hamps and Cakes, Cheshire Cheese, Low Sugar, Chip Hats. Boston, April 30, 1774.
For LONDON,
The Brig LEOPARD, BENJAMIN GORHAM, Master, Laying at HANCOCK'S Wharf, Has very genteel Accommodations, And will sail with all possible Dispatch, three Parts of her Cargo being already engaged.—For Freight or Passage apply to JONATHAN WILLIAMS, jun, in Ann-Street.
** As said WILLIAMS proposes to embark in the above Vessel, he earnestly requests those Gentlemen who are indebted to him, to make immediate Payment.
For SALE,
A SCHOONER, Burthen 30 Tons, High Deck, a prime Sailor, and well found. She will be Sold on reasonable Terms. Enquire of the Printer.
WANTED,
To Charter immediately, A SLOOP, OR, SCHOONER, From 90 to 120 Tons Burthen. Enquire of the Printer. Boston, April 20, 1774.
GOOD Encouragement given to JOURNEYMEN TAILORS.— Enquire of the Printer.
SPERMACETI CANDLES, A quantity of Sperma-Ceti Candles, of a superior quality to be sold remarkably cheap by JOHN BEANE. Enquire at William Phillips, Esquire and Son's Store, OLIVER'S-ROOM.
The excessive high price of the NEW Voyage round the WORLD, undertaken by his Majesty's command, performed by Captain COOK, Commander of the Ship Endeavour, and lately published by the Board of the Admiralty, proving an insuperable objection with most readers to the purchase of that book, and many gentlemen having expressed a desire for an addition that might be procured at a reasonable rate; the public are hereby informed that
JAMES RIVINGTON, Of the city of New-York, has for some time past been employed in printing a neat Edition of it in two Volumes at the very moderate price of One Dollar and an half, although the London Edition cannot be purchased under three Guineas.
Also speedily will be published, Upon the same cheap PLAN, Lord CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS to his Son PHILIP STANHOPE, Esq; together with several Pieces on various Subjects.
Published by Mrs. EUGENIA STANHOPE. DIALOGUES on the LAWS and CONSTITUTION of GREAT-BRITAIN. SUBSCRIPTIONS for the above are received by HENRY KNOX, Bookseller, BOSTON.
TO BE SOLD or LET, A Neat and very convenient HOUSE, with a Barn and Chaise House, and about two Acres of Land, including a rich Garden Spot, very plea- santly situated, and a fine healthy Place, not five Miles from Boston Town-House, on a great Road, where most Kinds of Provisions can easily be procured. Enquire of the Printers.
JOHN HOUSEMAN, MILL-WRIGHT, from LONDON, At Mr. Russell's, Holyoke-Street, South-end, BOSTON,
UNDERTAKES to build or repair most kinds of MILLS now in use, either in Great- Britain or America, viz. Water, and Wind Grain Mills, Paper and Saw Mills, &c. and fits up Rollers for crush- ing of Malt, all in the most new and compleatest manner; also Bolting Mills of all kinds, and makes up French stones and fits them up with proper Gear Work, and he has Win Work for a Cylindar Flour Machine, will warrant it to dress 30 Bushels of Wheat Meal in one hour, and will finish the firsts, seconds, thirds and fourths, fine and coarse Bran at one operation, which by a Cloth Bolting Mill requires many, as will make more or less of the firsts, seconds, &c. by only urning over the partitions, and will prove itself the most use- ful thing of its kind that has ever been used in these parts.
Those who please to favour the aforesaid JOHN HOUSE- MAN with their commands, may depend on being served as above, and their favours acknowledged by their most obedient and most humble servant, JOHN HOUSEMAN.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
MR. THOMAS,
THAT nine tenths of the species in all ages have been Asses , has been too well known to their oppres- sors; otherwise so many Baboons would never have dared to bridle, load, ride, and whip them. I am greatly mis- taken if posterity does not refer to this era for instances of a policy which might disgrace a society really composed of Mules and Monkeys . A knot of Foxhunters, Newmarket Jockies and Gamblers , openly usurp the government of both King and country. In Great-Britain the treasure wrung from the hard hand of industry, for the defence of the na- tion is dissipated on the purposes of bribery, corruption and favouritism; in America, people are to be terrified out of their wits with threats of being murdered, banged, drawn and quartered , for rebellion , unless they, even without com- promise, surrender to this bestial government just what por- tion of their substance it pleases to demand.
When the stamp-act was forming and extending to the colonies we were told there was a great load of national debt incurred by a general war, for the payment of which every part of the empire was in justice bound to contribute its proportion. This pretence had weight with many, and had not the mode of collecting the stamp duties appeared troublesome, 'tis questionable whether the publications of those wise and honest patriots who saw through the design, would have had the amazing effect they produced. That appearance is now formed: Indeed it is impossible it should have the least attention paid to it in a day when every idea of national honour, advantage and security is so openly abandoned! The terms are now, "We, the favourites, parasites, and perfsoners , of Great-Britain, are the Government ; and we demand your money to support said govern- ment, its tools and creatures , in all our loyal efforts to sub- vert the constitutional rights, liberties and franchises of the subject." Hereof fail not on pain of our highest displeasure; which, in case of disobedience, shall fall upon you by the hands of a mercenary fleet and army; if we can find any one mad enough to engage in the enterprise, or money enough to be let, on our security , to support so ruinous an expedition ."
In what material circumstance does the above differ from the language of the British court at this day? Or how much this, from the stile of a chief of the wandering Arabs?
If Britons will tell themselves, as Africans do their cap- tives, we may pity the honest men, who by living among such wretches, are obliged to share their fate; but surely none can expect that Americans will be so vile as to surrender their birthrights; not even for a mess of pottage, but for a blustering menace, that unless they part with all that can render life tolerable, their lives shall be taken from them. Those timid fools who give the least heed to the rant of the puffing politicians, as they are justly characterized, who talk of forcing the edicts of a British minister upon America, do not consider that the rapacity, injustice and unconcern for the national honour and safety, in the present adminis- tration, are as well known and as thoroughly detested by all honest and disinterested men in Great-Britain and Ireland as they can be in America—that the body of the nation knows the contest to be unjust on their side, and that success against American liberty would render the very name as well as being of British liberty utterly extinct—that a force in any measure formidable to America would require at least half a dozen millions sterling, which in consideration of that sum's being to be employed for the utter destruction of the American commerce would be difficultly raised by loan in the city of London. Besides, the moment that Great- Britain sent such a fleet and army out of the channel she would then become exposed to the insults of powers which seem by no means over scrupulous how they treat her with all her forces at home, and her colonies, as yet, not fairly detached from her.
SALUST.
To the Printer of the Public Advertiser. SIR,
THE admirers of Dr. Franklin in England are much shocked at Mr. Wedderburne's calling him a thief; but perhaps they will be less surprised at this circumstance when they are informed, that his greatest admirers on the continent agree in entertaining the same idea of him. As an evidence of this, I send you a copy of a poetical fanza, which is engraved under his portrait prefixed to the late French translation of his work, in two volumes, quarto.
I shall also send you an attempt of a translation of them, that the English reader may be able to judge of the simi- larity between the idea of Mr. Wedderburne, and that of the French Philosopher, with whom all the Philosophers in Europe entirely concur. It will even be seen that Foreign- ers represent him as much more impudent and audacious in his thefts than the English Orator (though he was under no restraint from a regard to truth) has ventured to in- sinuate.
I am, Sir, your humble servant, HOMO TRIUM LITERARUM.
IL a rai le feu des dieux, Il fait fleurir les arts en des climats sauvages. L'Amérique le place à la tête des sages, La Grece l'auroit mis au nombre de ses Dieux.
In ENGLISH. To steal from Heaven its sacred fire he taught, The Arts to thrive in savage climes he brought: In the new World the first of Men esteem'd; Among the Greeks a God he had been deem'd.
From the LONDON CHRONICLE. A GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT of the KINGS of ENGLAND.
GEORGE the Third, grandson of George the Second, the son of George the First, who was cousin to Queen Anne, the daugh- ter to King James the Second, who was son to Charles the first, the unfortunate son of James the First, who was third cousin to Elizabeth, the daughter to Harry the eighth, who was son to Henry the seventh, the cousin to Richard the third, who was uncle to Ed- ward the fourth, the cousin to Henry the
sixth, who was son to Henry the fifth, the son to Henry the fourth, who was the grand- son of Edward the third, the son of Edward the second, son to Edward the first, who was son to Henry the third, the son of King John, who was son to Henry the second, the cousin of Stephen, who was nephew to Henry the first, the son of William the Con- queror, who was a—SON OF A WHORE.
FRIDAY, April 29.
BOSTON.
We hear the King has been pleased to appoint Thomas Irving, Esq; Inspector of Im- ports, and Exports for North-America, to be Receiver General of his Majesty's quit rents in South-Carolina; a place of honour and profit.
Thomas Jordan, Esq; of the Fowey Man of War, having resigned his Commission, Capt. George Montagu is appointed, from the King's Fisher, to the command of the Fowey; Capt. James Montagu, from the Tamer, to the King's Fisher; and Lieut. Thornby, to the Tamer.
At a Court-martial on board the active Man of War, on Friday last, the boatwain of the Tamer, was tried for Mutiny, found guilty, and is now under sentence of death.
NEWBURY-PORT, April 20.
Last Monday the Rev. Mr. David Tappan, of Manchester, was ordained Pastor of the third Parish and Congregation in Newbury.—The Rev. Mr. Hibart, of Almsbury, made the first prayer; the Rev. Mr. Jewett, of Rowley, preach- ed an excellent and well adapted sermon from these words, Titus chap. iii. ver. 8. "And these things, I will, that you affirm con- stantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works." The Rev. Mr. Parsons, of Byfield, prayed and gave the Charge; the Rev. Mr. Chandler, of Rowley, made the last prayer; and the Rev. Mr. Hale of Newbury, gave the Right Hand of Fellowship. Each part was performed with much propriety, and good order. Attention and solemnity observable through the whole transaction.
Yesterday a fire broke out at the house of Major Goodwin, in Newbury, but by the dex- terity of the people it was happily extinguished without doing much damage.
PORTSMOUTH, April 22. We hear from Falmouth, Caico-Bay, that a Lamb, was lately lamed there, which had upon its forehead, an image of the late fashionable high head dres- s of the ladies. It is there looked upon as an extraordinary production of Nature.
NEW-YORK, April 4. Yesterday morning about nine o'clock died in a very advanced age, Dr. James Magra, a gentleman of great learning, and a Physician of the most exal- ted eminence.
PROVIDENCE, April 6. The Anabaptist society in this town have purchased a large and commodious lot, for the purpose of erecting a new meeting-house, which we hear cost near six thousand dollars.
NEWPORT, April 18. Last Wednesday week, a young woman of about 16, and a child of about five years old, children of the widow Diamond of North-Kington, went into a large cave, to get some sand, when a considerable quantity of sand fell upon, and killed them both; they were found the next Saturday, both in an erect posture.
A few days past, a child was killed in like manner, in Warwick.
Extract of a letter from Johnson-Hall, dated the 28th of March.
"In consequence of a meeting held by Sir William Johnson, last November, with the Chiefs of the Six Nations, concerning the mur- der of the four French men on Lake Ontario, whose boat they also plundered, there arrived here yesterday, three runners, or messengers from them, to acquaint Sir William, that a number of the Sachems were on their way hi- ther, with two of the murderers whom they are to deliver up to justice; they have also paid so much regard to Sir William's admonitions to them at that treaty, that they are now bringing down a quantity of skins and furs to make up the Frenchmens losses; this is more than they could ever be prevailed upon to do before, and Sir William is hopeful, this pre- cedent, will be of very great service, as it cer- tainly will deter others from being guilty of the like in future."

ALEXANDER WEDDERBURN, Esq.
A VERY extraordinary pamphlet has been lately sent over from your side of the water, and the substance of it has since been reprinted in Boston. It contains an account of several very important matters on both sides of the political debate between Great-Britain and her colonies; the letter of Dr. Franklin to Lord Dartmouth on one side and Mr. Mauduit's petition to the Lords of the Committee on the other; your very spirited speech against Dr. Franklin, and that gentleman's silence in answer; the report of the Lords of the Committee and the resolutions of the town of Peterborough. As your speech is the most considerable part of the pamphlet, it is to that I shall chiefly confine my remarks. Being published in a manner so authentic, you will give me leave to consider it as a just, or at least a favourable, representation of what you really delivered on the occasion. You will give me leave to suppose that your speech was really as contemptible in point of argument, as full of violent declamation, and as little to the purpose of vindicating the two American Governors, as it appears in the pamphlet, that asserts it to be yours. Your publisher (if you were not yourself the publisher) violently prejudiced against the Americans as he has shown himself in the remarks he has annexed, undoubtedly set your argument in as striking a point of light as his memory and abilities would permit. If he have not done justice to your merit, if you are really a man of more sense than he has represented you, if you are capable of writing a single paragraph in the argumentative way, that shall not be founded on the falsest assertions and conducted with absurdity the most glaringly sophistical, you ought not to rest one moment till you have given the public a new edition of your speech, corrected and amended by the author. In one point we have the utmost reason to believe that the pamphlet has not done justice to your abilities. We were assured beforehand that in the virulence and effrontery of sarcastic declamation, it surpassed every thing that had been advanced on the subject, and that all future railers against America and Dr. Franklin must borrow their topics from the speech of Mr. Wedderburn. Now I would be very far from detracting from the merit of this performance; I acknowledge it to be a most admirable piece of Billinggate; I allow that it contains every essential property of that kind of writing; that it is composed in a strain the most contemptuous and sarcastic; that it abounds with the most virulent abuse; that it has scarcely the least appearance of argument, and that hardly a single period has its foundation in truth. Yet give me leave to say that it has not answered the expectations of the public, or demonstrated, as it was affirmed by your admirers that it would demonstrate, your superiority to all mankind in the Billinggate of the bar. For contemptibly as you seem to think of the abilities of Americans, I assure you we have very many among us, who can talk as many hours on the same subject, with as much virulence, as much dogmatism and as much fallacy; and with as little modesty, as little argument and as little attention to propriety of grammar or expression. This apparent want of energy in your printed speech, we are sensible must be attributed chiefly to your editor. For we are assured that many of the most shining passages were omitted in the publication; particularly your whole attack on Dr. Franklin in his literary capacity, the delicacy of your pun in filing him bono trium litterarum , and your declaration that the man ought to be expelled from the Royal Society, who is universally acknowledged to be one of its greatest ornaments. All this your editor hath omitted, from a strange fancy he had probably taken that the gentleman, who in the view of all the world, had made the most important discoveries in philosophy, and displayed the most penetrating genius of any writer, since the days of Newton, could scarcely be injured in his fame, by the censure of Alexander Wedderburn: Or perhaps from an opinion he had conceived that some little regard to the universal judgment of mankind should set limits in some cases even to the privilege of fiction, that rhetorical figure of the bar. Taking it for granted therefore that, however many beautiful passages may have been omitted, the printed speech is a just representation of that which you delivered, so far as your publisher judged it could be any way serviceable to the cause in which you were engaged, or yourself were willing to avow your own sentiments and expressions, I beg leave to consider some parts of it with more minute attention. The design of your speech was to vindicate the conduct of the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of this province, and the sentiments expressed in their letters, against the address of the House of Representatives, praying for their removal from their posts in the government. You have chosen to rest their defence on the following points of argument, which you doubtless imagined were convincing and demonstrative; that the address of the House of Representatives is very much like a story in Juvenal; that Mr. Hutchinson enjoyed in some degree the confidence of this people, till the arrival of his letters discovered his sentiments; that Dr. Franklin is much like Zanga; that the Governor's letters, whether good or bad, are of a private nature; that the Doctor has six constituents in Boston; that besides the letters in question, there was one written by a Mr. Roome; that the Doctor was not an Agent for the province; that there was a state of rights and grievances published in Boston, which you believe he had a share in composing; and that the resolutions of many towns in this province, and particularly those of Peterborough are very striking and curious. These, with your unsupported assertions of the innocence and goodness of your clients, your repeated sarcasms on the character and conduct of Dr. Franklin, and your applauded pun in calling him a prime conductor make up the whole argumentative part of your speech. It is true, there is a chasm in the first part, where it seems you gave a narrative of the behaviour of Mr. Hutchinson and the people of this province during the last ten years. Here, one would think you had the fairest opportunity by your peculiar manner of narration to have laid something to the purpose of vindicating your clients. I have no doubt but in this part you employed all the powers, art, plausibility and exaggeration. By what strange infatuation has it then happened, that the only part of your speech, which seems to have been to the purpose, is the only part, which is omitted in the publication? Why is the vindication of our Governor's conduct left in a blank? Did it contain less of truth and probability than the other parts of your declamation? Did you or your publisher suppose that story would appear false, absurd and ridiculous to the world, which was received with such applause by the Lords of the Committee? Or did you so conceive that to leave the whole narrative in a blank was the best panegyric you could make on the conduct of Mr. Hutchinson and his associates? There is some humour in your application of the lines from Juvenal; but had you related the whole story, you could scarcely have shown any traces of resemblance; nor would Mr. Hutchinson have cause to thank you for the hint of applying to him the name of Sejanus; a man infamous in his political character, who was raised to the highest stations in the reign of Tiberius, and when his arbitrary conduct and insatiable rapacity had rendered him the object of universal hatred, on a change of times, was torn in pieces by the people. You endeavour in a very curious manner to prove Mr. Hutchinson's merit, from those acknowledgements of his abilities, made by the committee, who drew up the address. "In their second resolution, you say, they acknowledge the high character in which Mr. Hutchinson stands upon account of his eminent abilities. In the very outset of their address, they acknowledge the good use he had made of those abilities; for (you add) he could not have enjoyed their confidence, as they say he heretofore did, if he had made a bad one." Mr. Wedderburn, there are such vipers, as dissimulation, fraud and hypocrisy. I can easily suppose you have little or no idea of them. Your talents are probably of another kind. But we have not advanced so far in the refinements of vice, but that those who harbour the worst designs usually endeavour to conceal them under the appearance of virtue. Nay if I mistake not, you were once yourself a patriot. You insist that Mr. Hutchinson enjoyed the confidence
of this people till the time of the arrival of his letters, because he was sent with the commissions to settle the limits of the boundary between the provinces of New-York and the Massachusetts-Bay. At this time you assert, that "the party leaders did not dare to set their faces against the general sense of the people;" those very leaders, who in other parts of your speech are represented as entirely governing the Assembly, whom you call a set of ignorant farmers, and affirm that they know nothing of what they are about. I cannot but observe that the power of these leaders at Boston is great or small, according as makes best for your purpose. When any thing is done by the province, which seems to show the least degree of confidence in their Governor, then he is at once a man, universally beloved by the people, and the party leaders dare not utter a word against him. But when his conduct is censured by the joint voice of the whole province, expressed in the resolutions of the Council and House of Representatives, and the votes of almost every particular town, then truly these leaders are exalted into a kind of demigods, who, you tell us, fit in their secret cabal, dictate to their assemblies, raise a flame in the province, and spread it throughout America. In the same manner you talk of Dr. Franklin; sometimes he moves in an orbit far inferior to a colony agent; presently he is the first mover of all the disturbances in the provinces, and the only person, who has raised and supported the opposition of America to the impositions of the British parliament: As though not a single American had any feeling, except Dr. Franklin. We cannot but laugh at such representations in America; I know not how they may be applauded on your side of the water.
You remark facetiously that "of the late provinces have taken on themselves to fix the limits of the King's charters." If you mean any thing by this, it must convey a censure on Mr. Hutchinson himself, whom you are fond of representing as the principal actor in that affair.
All the remaining part of your speech is wholly impertinent to the point in debate, and contains only your attempt to fix a reproach on the conduct of Dr. Franklin. Had you discovered any thing new in the behaviour of that gentleman, with which the world were not before acquainted, you might have laboured with more hopes of success: But your misrepresentations of known facts, joined with the apparent futility of your remarks upon them, can never fix a lasting stain on so respectable a character. All you can do is to furnish a little fuel to keep up the fire of party zeal, and afford a few topics of declamation to those second-rate people, who having no opinions of their own, show a laudable flexibility in adopting those of others.
You inform us in a note, that you cautiously avoid entering into the question whether the letters were good or bad (indeed it was not worth your while) but confine only whether they were public or private. This point, you well knew, had nothing to do with the defence of the writers; but you had another work in hand: Dr. Franklin was to be raised, and you knew no better way to introduce your philippic.
Dr. Franklin had asserted, as a reason for transmitting these letters to America, that they were public letters, to public persons, on public affairs, and intended to produce public measures. You take up these words, and spend some pages in attempting to confute them. As I look on this part of your speech to be the ablest specimen of your argumentative powers, I shall beg leave to consider it a little more closely.
You judged very well in placing your most powerful argument first. They were private letters, you say, because in one of them there is a paragraph returning thanks to an old lady of seventy, for some civilities shown to the writer's children at Nonsoch. You have here selected perhaps the only stroke of a nature merely private, which is contained in these letters; and would argue concerning the design of a correspondence, which contains among other things a project for altering the constitution of this province, from a casual passage, which is beside their general purpose. Had these writers spent fifty years in sending letters of thanks to an old lady at Nonsoch, not a man in the kingdom would have thought them worth animadversion. You in the next place deny that the letters were written to persons in public stations, because you tell us Mr. Whately at that time and for two years before and after, was only a private member of parliament. I fear it will be necessary for us to explain the terms we make use of, before we can proceed any further in the argument; for I am apt to imagine that you have a very different notion of the meaning of the word private , from that which is conveyed to the rest of the world. Indeed I can more easily account for your insisting that these are private letters, when I hear you talking of private members of parliament. For to report your own expression concerning the letters, if members of parliament are men in a private station only, I know not what can be reckoned public. But I am ready to acknowledge that it was not merely their having been written to men in public stations by public officers, which gave the right of transmitting them to America. It was their contents, their tendency, the design of the writers, and the use, which it is well known, Mr. Whately made of them. This Dr. Franklin asserts, by saying that they were written on public affairs, and intended to produce public measures: Affections, which you pretend not either to confute, or deny, but content yourself with asking, whether every man does not write in the same way, whether this is a crime of so heinous a nature as to put Mr. Whately's friends out of the common protection, and deprive them of the rights of common humanity; with one or two other interrogations of the same general nature, easily answered and nothing to the purpose.
For, Mr. Wedderburn, if the zeal of party, the bias of fees, or the prospects of promotion, to which your ambition has already sacrificed your patriotism and your honour, have not entirely deprived you of your share of common sense, I desire you to make a little use of it on this occasion. If the crime of publishing this secret correspondence be really so great as you endeavour to represent, consider who is the man, on whom the blame must at last fall, and your reproaches be finally pointed. The man is the deceased Mr. Whately, to whom these letters were originally addressed. He it was, according to your expressions, who violated the injunctions of secrecy, which were laid upon him by his friends. He it was who first communicated them to others, and considered these letters as of a public nature, which you assure us were merely private letters of friendship, containing only the lamentations of our Governors over the forlorn state of this province and thanks to the old lady at Nonsoch. He it was, who by giving them to a third person, quitteed all his right and title to them, "as part of the property of the Whately family;" deprived himself of the power of obeying the injunctions of the writers, in concealing their names, and began that circulation of them, which after their passing through several hands, ended in their being given to Dr. Franklin, with a view to their being transmitted to America. If you think the letters were wholly of a private nature, you must turn the whole torrent of your declamation from Dr. Franklin to the deceased Mr. Whately, and add to the fury of your invectives, a circumstance more disgraceful, that he betrayed the confidence of his friends.
But there is no need of charging Mr. Whately with a fault. He never considered the letters as private, or looked upon those injunctions of secrecy as expressing any thing farther, than a desire of concealment from those persons, who would report their contents to the people of this province. Every man of common sense knows that they were designed to communicate accounts of the state of affairs in America, to the leading party in the British administration. Mr. Whately knew that if he had not made this use of them, he should not have answered the intention of his correspondents. They transmitted intelligence of a public nature; they meant this intelligence to be made public; they only wished to have their own names concealed, that the province might never know from what hand they received the wound. This is evident from the very expressions they use in those passages where they enjoin secrecy and concealment. "I have wrote with freedom, says one of them, in confidence of my name's not being used on the occasion;" and again, "If there be no necessity for it, I think it would be best, it should not be known that the intelligence came from me." By this
last passage it is evident, that the writer gave Mr. Whately leave, if he thought there was a necessity for it in order to accomplish the proposed plans, to make public also the person's name, from whom he received the intelligence. Mr. Whately it seems thought there was such a necessity, when he gave away the letters without crating the name. Dr. Franklin is chargeable with the same fault only in consequence of the same opinion.
In regard to the observations you make concerning the letter of this Mr. Rome, I have only to ask you how this letter came to be in England and to be handed about by Mr. Whately, if it was not applied to a public design, as an evidence of the iniquitous tendency of the laws in the colony of Rhode-Island, and of the proceedings of their courts to defraud their English creditors; for this, you tell us, was its purport. The friends of these letter writers, Mr. Wedderburn, were the only persons, who made public their correspondence.
I shall for the present leave you in full and undisturbed possession of your entire misrepresentation of the manner in which these letters were sent to America; your true and faithful narrative of the troubles of Mr. Rome; your comparisons of Dr. Franklin to thieves, assassins and receivers of stolen goods; and your deep reflections on the nature of his agency. Not but that each of these contains much matter for animadversion, and striking examples of your attention to truth, as well as unparalleled modesty, ability and candour. But really I am tired of the subject; I have spent three or four hours already in writing, which I think quite as much time as your speech can deserve. I may hereafter perhaps give you some further remarks, if I can find leisure for that purpose, and think the subject worth so much attention.
There is one passage in your speech, which I am inclined to single out and place by itself, that we may observe its features in a clearer point of view. "My Lords, you say, we are perpetually told of men's incensing the mother country against the colonies, of which I have never known a single instance."
It is a great pity, Mr. Wedderburn, that our eyes are placed in such a situation, that we can discern every other object, except our own faces.
It is justly observed that some particular stories have a local merit and lose all their humour by being transplanted. The legends of travellers are very entertaining, as long as they treat of countries with which we are entirely unacquainted. While they keep their flying dragons in the wilds of Ethiopia, settle their giants as far off as Patagonia, and make words freeze in the air no nearer than at Greenland, we allow them to tell all the fine stories they please, Of the cannibals that each other eat,
The Anthropophagi and men, whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders; as we find it expressed in Shakespeare. The same is the case with the representations you give of the designs and transactions of the Bostonians. These parts of your speech were excellent in England; for it is situated at three thousand miles distance: At Boston they lose all their merit; for we are on the spot. This observation is particularly applicable to the latter part of your speech, especially where you give us a specimen of your talents at conjecture, and abilities as a commentator, in your remarks on the state of rights and grievances published in this province, which you labour through two or three pages to ascribe to Dr. Franklin; remarks, which to those who know the state of that matter appear, I assure you, very entertaining and diverting.
In your account of the mighty effect of Mr. Hutchinson's speech in defence of the British administration, which, you tell us, stunned the faction, checked the progress of their town-meetings, and stopped the train they had laid to blow the province into a flame, did you really design panegyric or burlesque? For my part, I think they appear best when considered as an admirable imitation of the grave irony of Cervantes. The world know that this speech held up to view in the most striking light the point of right (which even Lord Hillsborough wished to keep out of sight) and urged the assembly to declare their sentiments on that point with greater plainness, fortitude and spirit, than either themselves, or the British administration intended or desired. These effects were well known and the occasion of them openly disapproved in England.
The sentiments of America concerning the conduct of Great-Britain are universally known, nor will the terror of your tongue make us afraid to avow them. I am very far from approving every step that has been made in America; some measures have doubtless in some places been taken, that were unjustifiable, rash and precipitate; the spirit of party and the rage of private resentment has too often mingled with the spirit of freedom; and individuals have entertained sentiments that were absurd and unreasonable. In all contentions there will be grounds of censure on both sides: In all parties some will be found ignorant and precipitate. Who was the aggressor, is ever the most rational enquiry, when we would determine the merits of the cause. Oppression makes a wise man mad. And as much as we may disapprove every tendency to faction, I think, considering the nature of mankind, the moderation, which has been generally shown, throughout America, under every species of insult and contempt, is the circumstance most worthy of admiration, and conveys a very high compliment on the steadiness of those leaders, whom you endeavour to represent as the ringleaders of sedition. The moderation of Dr. Franklin in particular, and his disapprobation of all factious or treasonable measures are as well known to the world as his firmness in the cause of American freedom. Your insinuation, that his leading motive has been a desire to supplant Mr. Hutchinson and succeed to his post, is too contemptible to deserve an answer, and fit only for a man of ambition without virtue, to suggest or believe.
You censure Dr. Franklin for not declaring himself on the subject of the letters before the duel between Mr. Temple and Mr. Whately. His conduct since evinces the integrity of his heart. The same spirit which prompted him to avow the part he had acted in that affair after the duel was over, would have urged him to have appeared sooner and prevented the mischief, could he by any possibility have foreseen it. Had he any sinister views, he might to this day have been concealed. And surely no one can blame him for being unwilling, unless necessarily called upon, to stand forth the butt of court-indignation, when he knew the spirit of the times, and was sensible it would be easy to find a Wedderburn to revile him.
I fear, Sir, the length of my letter will weary you. But we are told you spoke above two hours yourself. I must beg leave therefore to trespass a little farther upon your patience and my own, while I make a remark on the sentiments you ascribe to the celebrated letter writers, and the apparent tendency of the letters.
I was never one of those, who considered these letters in the worst point of view, or treated the writers as absolutely the worst of villains. I can allow that a man of an honest heart might be deceived in his opinions and can forbear to denounce damnation against a Governor, for the heresies of his political creed. I can make every suitable allowance for the bias of our judgments may insensibly acquire from the alurements of interest and the prospects of ambition, from the emotions of gratitude and the warmth of resentment, as well as from the desire every person in public station will feel, of answering the expectation of his employers and approving himself faithful in their service. But surely the principles contained in these letters are destructive of every idea of American freedom; the misrepresentations with which they abound, and which it is scarcely possible to conceive to be the mere offspring of ignorance or mistake, are equally repugnant to every appearance of truth or reality; and it seems to be the principal design of the writers, to make the public good give place to their own private interests, and by these partial representations of the state of the province, provoke the British administration to send an armed force to Boston, by whose assistance they might be secured in the enjoyment of those posts, pensions and salaries, which they so ardently request, and for which they were so ready to sacrifice the liberties of their country. I wish I knew how to apologize for the dissimulation of the man, who
could at the same time so frequently declare in private conversation, that the opposition of America to the imposition of taxes by the British parliament was grounded on principles, the most just in their nature, and that he disapproved of it only as imprudent, because we were not yet strong enough to oppose them.
In these letters you will find the first hints given of the expediency of levelling the vengeance of administration against individuals, and of taking off the popular leaders, as penalties of that kind best adapted to the crimes of the Americans. Yet you assert that the writers feel no spark of resentment even against the individuals that have done them this injustice, that their private letters breathe nothing but moderation, and that if the conduct of a few should provoke a just indignation, they would be the first and you trust the most efficacious sollicitors to avert its effects and excuse the men. I was about to express my astonishment at this effrontery; but I recollect myself. You are a lawyer and in the highway of promotion. You are already Solicitor General and a distant prospect of the seals.
I have the honour to be, AN AMERICAN.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
MR. THOMAS, WE are greatly alarmed at the present condition of our Superior Court of Judicature. We have for a long time been plagued with men in whom we could not confide. We have thought our lives and fortunes unsafe. We have seen instances of such an undue influence, as have justly excited our fear, and sometimes have raised our indignation. It is madness to trust ourselves in the hands of our enemies. Ignorance and party-zeal have too long usurped the seat of learning and candid disquisition. The lift of promotions since the accession of the present governor to the chair, compels us to connect together the ideas of an infamous, unprincipled renegade with that of a modern friend to government. The death of Justice Ropes has occasioned a vacancy which we wish to see filled up by a learned and upright judge. We are sure that no man who has sold his country is fit to decide upon the lives and properties of his countrymen. We cannot bear forever—we think we have borne too much—Our children must suffer for our tameness in times past. Our consciences upbraid us with our negligence. We look to the honourable the Council Board, to prevent a pensioned Governor from placing a base, time-serving Justice upon the Bench. We pray them to use the constitutional power in their hands to save us from ruin, but we are determined if reasoning and praying are found ineffectual with men, to cast ourselves upon all-gracious providence. The many Treaſards of the MASSACHUSETTS-BAY.
SUPERFINE Broad-Cloths and Shalloons, with almost every Kind of English Goods usually imported from London to this Place, imported by SAMUEL AUSTIN, And to be Sold quite low for the Cash at his Shop in Union-Street.
JAMES HENDERSON Just returned from LONDON, begs Leave to inform the Public, that he has brought with him AN Assortment of GOODS, suitable for the Spring Trade, which he will sell by Wholesale and Retail, at his Shop in Ann-Street, next Door to Mr. William Scott's Irish Linen Store, Boston. N. B. Among which is a Variety of very fashionable SILKS.
TO BE SOLD, by ROBERT RUGGLES, At his Shop in Cornhill, a little to the Northward of the Town Pump, Boston, a large Assortment of English and India GOODS, By Wholesale or Retail, extremely cheap for Cash only. Among which are the following Articles, viz.
 STIRP, changeable, Chevaudeſſe, plain and brocaded half Gimp and Garland Trimming, and quarter ell Luteſſings, Wax Necklaces and Earrings, Ducapes and Paduſſys, Blue, white, pink and black Mohair Grogams, Hats for Women, Crimson and blue Cordesoy, A very large Assortment of Blue, white, green and pink Mens, Womens, Youths and Girls glazed and unglazed Gloves and Mitts, Scarlet, crimson, white, blue, pink, green, drab and black, plain, spotted and sprigged half and quarter ell Sattins of all Prices, Yellow Holland, Brown ditto, English Damaks, 3-4, 7-8 and yard-wide Irish Linnens, Blue and white India ditto, Sheetings Holland, Blue, green, changeable and drab India Taſſeties, Table Cloths, Black English ditto, Napkinimg Damaskus, Figured Mode for Capuchines, Diapers and Huckabuck, of most Colours, Womens and Childrens pack Half and quarter yard wide Thread Stays, black Allamode, Blue, pink, green and white Mifſinetts and Grizetts, Womens loom-quilted silk Broglioos and Sattinetts, Petticoats, Black and Lead-colour Bom-bazens, White Quilting, Black double Allopeens, Gold and Silver ſpangled Dorſetteens, Crapes and Buttons, Poplins, Gold and Silver Vellum, Bengal, Gold Pruſſian Coat Binding, Worſted Grogams, Mecklenburgh ditto, Camblets and Cambleteens, Gold Braid, Drawboys and Everlaſtings, Gold and Silver Thread, Calicoes and Caints, Silk Twiſt and Silk and Hair, Sagathies and Duroys, Velvet Collars, Fuſtians and Jeans, Tortoiſhell Combs with and without Stones, Wiltons, Superfine, middling and low Damaskus and Ginghams for Price Broad Cloths, Mens Waiftoats, Forest Cloth, Figured Silk Waifcoat Pat- German Serges, terns, Half Thickes, Black Silk Breeches Patterns, Ratteens, Black, blue and cloth coloured Beaver Coating, Worſted Breeches Patterns, Duffils, Mens Silk Hoſe, Baizes, Mens and Womens Thread, Velvets, Cotton and Worſted Hoſe, Striſt Swankins, Childrens ditto all Sorts, Ozanbrigs, Womens black, white and Shalloons and Tammies of buff coloured Silk Gloves, moſt Colours, Mens black ditto, Callimancoes Shoes, Silk Mitts, all Colours, Beſt black plain Ruſſell ditto, A neat Aſſortment of plain, 3-4, 7-8 and yard wide Checks, ſpotted, figured and ſprigged Mettle Buttons of all Sorts, Guazes of all Prices, Crewels and Carvas, Beſt Tambour Muſlin, Pins and Needles, Striſt, ſprigged and checked Sewing Silks of all Colours, Muſlins, Cambricks and Lawns, Yard and ſix-quarters wide Long Lawn, plain Muſlins, Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs, Brocaded and Sattin Shoes and Clogs, Knives and Forks, English and Lynn made Ruſ- Pen Knives, ſell and Callimanco Shoes, Razors, Childrens ditto, Buckles, A neat Aſſortment of Bruſſels Pepper, and other Thread Laces, Cinnamon, from gl. to 3s. 9d. old Cloves, Tenor per Yard, Mace, Blond Laces, And a Variety of other Black Bone Laces, all Prices, Articles. 
** WEDDERBURN'S Speech, sold at the Printing-Office in School-Street.

L O N D O N. H O U S E O F C O M M O N S.
Monday, March 7.
THIS day the speaker took the chair at two o'clock, several private bills, &c. were received. Lord NORTH said, he had a message from his Majesty to present to the house, and desired leave to bring it in. It was read, setting forth, that of late several uprisings had arisen among his subjects, any information of which he had ordered such papers as could give any information of the proceedings to be laid before both houses of parliament, hoping to have their assistance in seeing the laws duly executed. Lord North then presented a bundle of papers respecting America, the heads of which were red over, purporting to be letters to and from Massachusetts Bay, Boston, New-Hampshire, &c. letters from Lord Barrington, Lord Hillsborough, Mr. Grey Cooper, &c.
Mr. RICE moved, that an address be presented to his majesty for his great goodness in ordering his message, and the American papers to be laid before the house, and to assure his majesty that his faithful commons would, without delay, exert every means in their power to see the laws duly executed in America, &c. He prefaced his motion with a long account of the rise and progress of the American rebellious proceedings, and was much for using spirited measures to bring them to a compliance.
Lord CLARE said, he agreed with the honourable gentleman, and hoped he should find this measure carried through with unanimity; he should therefore second the motion.
Mr. DOWDESWELL spoke greatly against the propriety of measures that had been heretofore adopted, and said, let those wise heads who brought us into the trouble now extricate us. He was very severe on administration throughout his speech.
Colonel JENNINGS said he should object to the words "every means," and should move an amendment, that "proper means."
Mr. ELLIS said nearly the same as Mr. Rice, and was for spirited measures being used.
Mr. E. BURKE desired his Majesty's speeches from 1768 to 1770, and the answers, might be read, (all which tended to America,) and the last answer was nearly the same as the present address proposed, setting forth, that his faithful commons, would, without delay, exert every means, &c. He said he had looked carefully over the journals, and could not find one measure that parliament adopted that session although their promise to his Majesty; he should therefore be against their promising again, unless he was sure they meant to perform.
Mr. SOLICITOR GENERAL said it was not right to recriminate on persons that had done wrong heretofore. He observed, that the matters that would come before the house, in the examination of this great question, were no less than this—Is America any longer to be dependant on this country? How far is it to be connected or dependant? To what degree? In what manner? And among other questions, it will certainly arise, whether the subordination of the colonies should not be given up? If Parliament cannot enforce obedience, it ought certainly to enquire the consequences of its failure; but at all events, it is what gentlemen should attend to in the most serious manner. To enter into the consideration dispassionately, with temper and sobriety—that conviction may become the only mother of the resolutions we may come to. He said, the questions would be extensive; complicated, and, perhaps, dubious; it would, therefore, certainly demand the most ardent attention.
Mr. E. BURKE, in a speech of near an hour and an half, set forth the absurdity of the proceedings concerning America heretofore, saying, were we to expect any good from the same persons who adopted those measures? He said, we wanted a change of Governors both at home and abroad; and was extremely severe on the noble Lord North, and administration, and arraigned the whole of their conduct. On recapitulating the whole of the Stamp-Act, he said, before they presented their address, promising to redress evils, it would be more parliamentary to enquire whether those abuses existed; as to recriminating, it was very proper, as we might then see and learn from experience what good might be produced.
Lord GERMAINE said, in his opinion, our repealing the Stamp-Act had made the Americans think we had no right to tax them, and in a great measure was the cause of our present misfortunes.
Mr. E. BURKE replied to him. General CONWAY, in a short, but masterly speech, set forth the nature of the proceedings heretofore, and said, in his opinion, had the Stamp-Act not been repealed, we should entirely have lost America; he said, we must now come to a resolution, either to tax or not to tax America; in his opinion, we had no right to tax them; that they were a loyal people, as might be seen by their former conduct.
Mr. W. BURKE spoke much in favour of the Americans. Colonel BARRE, in a spirited speech, arraigned the ill advice of using spirited measures, and said, their being thus factious, proved more strongly, that they were bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh.
Lord NORTH said, as the time allotted for the reading the papers was Thursday, but as there were more of them than he first imagined, he had no objection to postponing the reading of them until Friday next, and on Monday next to resolve upon them.
March 9. Mr. Edmund Burke, in the House of Commons on Monday, vehemently declaimed against the adoption of hostile measures with respect to the Colonies. He affirmed, that the evils subsisting in America were of a civil nature, and that, to propose military remedies for the correction of civil abuses, was to act in direct contradiction to every principle of sound policy; besides, the execution of a plan of the kind had been, and would be, in every popular government, found impracticable. The magistrate must act in concert with the military, or every effort of the latter, would prove futile and abortive. Every law process relative to the life, liberty or property of an English subject, bespeaks a popular origin, from the presentment of the Grand Jury to the final adjudication of a Petit Jury. The principles of government, therefore, should have respect to the Democracy of the Constitution; and, as that allowed of no appeal to the sword but in conjunction with the civil power, where the Magistrate refused to co-operate, a military force must turn to little account. These positions, applied to America, would, Mr. Burke said, hold good in every respect: The introduction of an army would not change the opinions of the Colonists; the men who thought themselves ill-treated now, would not be of different sentiments when the bayonets were pointed to their breasts; and unless, by an alteration of measures, you effected a change in the opinions of men, you might destroy numbers, without being able to establish any permanent sovereignty over the multitude who survived the sanguinary policy. Mr. Burke concluded by advising a Change of American Governors, the folly of the present having brought on the mischiefs of which we now complained; and when the Colonists seemed averse to contending the authority of the mother country, one of the Governors [Hutchinson], at once to gratify his vanity and expose his ignorance, absolutely challenged the Assembly to a dispute about the right of taxation, and the first principles of legislation! like Duns Scotus, and the school-men of old, who stuck up papers challenging men who held opposed opinions to a public disputation! Was not this to risk the dignity of a Representative of Majesty in the logical quibbles of a word-catcher? Nor was it otherwise than natural that men of this stamp must be contemned by the wise, and laughed at even by the vulgar.
We are assured the Dean of Gloucester's scheme, to separate Great-Britain entirely from the North American colonies, and declare the inhabitants a free and independent people, meets with great countenance amongst the principal leaders in administration.
In case the above measure should be adopted, we shall
save near 400,000. per annum, by being able to withhold the payment of any civil or military emoluments and rewards to the colonies; for which, payment of bounties on the receive at present no other also be another saving of near 200,000. The Right Hon. Lord North will have a sum of money at the Cockpit, Whitehall, this day at one o'clock.
A correspondent at the west end of the town, on whose information we can depend, has sent us the following authentic list of the new promotions and removals, viz.
Lord Beauchamp to be a Lord of the Treasury, in the room of Jeremiah Dylon, Esq;
Mr. Cornwall to be a Lord of the Treasury, in the room of Charles Fox.
Mr. Dylon to be Cofferer of the Household, in the room of Hans Stanley, Esq; who is appointed Governor of the Isle of Wight for life (but without any additional pension as was reported.)
Sir William Meredith to be Comptroller of the Household, in the room of Lord Pelham, who is appointed a Lord of the Bed-chamber.
Councils have been held every night for this week past among the Ministry, and they have generally been assisted in their deliberations by the Crown Lawyers, on American affairs, which seem to embarrass them not a little.
It is said to be proposed by some in administration to revive the stamp-act in America, it being apprehended that the majority of the people would submit, if they were properly protected from the outrages of an ungoverned and licentious mob, who are spirited up by some factious and designing men. A Lye!
March 11. The miscreant ministerial writers labour hard to misrepresent the present controversy between Great-Britain and her colonies. It is not, as they shamefully insist, reducible to the following question, "Whether the mother country shall or shall not retain her supremacy?" Her right of supremacy is indisputable; but if the abuses that right by every effort of illegal taxation; if she protects a set of scoundrel Governors in their base designs to enslave a brave and a free people; if Great-Britain does all this, and the Bostonians, rouzed with sensibility at the injuries they sustain, happen to express their sentiments in an imprudent manner, the question then is, "Whether they shall or shall not be put to the sword?" This is the query; and the debates on which now occupy the British councils.
So much depends upon the measures adopted, respecting the colonies, that it is not hyperbole to say, our very political existence is at stake. The minister should not advert to those counsellors who advise severity. The Americans are too powerful to endure with implicit reverence an hostile attack, even from what is called the parent state: They are too spirited to kiss the hand which enchains them, and should administration, by an appeal to the sword, dare to violate the consequence of American allegiance upon the fate of a combat, the mercantile part of this country will have but too much reason to execrate the folly prevalent in the British Councils.
The new projected colony on the Ohio, granted to Dr. Franklin, and some other obscure persons, containing no less than thirty millions of acres, opens a place of refuge for every insolvent and every fraudulent debtor on the continent of America. The merchants of London, and those of the other seaport and manufacturing towns in this kingdom, will be at the most part of the expence of settling this new and very necessary colony, even without so much as intending it; and then they will find it as difficult to settle accounts with an honest gentleman on the banks of the Ohio or the Wabache, as with one in the kingdom to come.
A correspondent asserts, that if the pusillanimous gang, of infamous memory, who repealed the Stamp-act, had been gibetted long since; the Americans had been at this time our very liege and dutiful subjects.
From what has past within the space of the present week, in Council, upon American business, the knowing people hint, that before mid-summer's day next, the nation, as well as all Europe, will be thoroughly convinced that we have not a pusillanimous ministry.
March 12. It is a mighty argument with popularity, that Government has not yet been able to reconcile the unhappy disputes between the Mother Country and the Americans, and the inability to effect that desirable reconciliation, is constantly mentioned as a charge against the Ministry, though our Patriots are perfectly sensible that the fault is entirely owing to themselves. The Ministry have evidently nothing more at heart, than a proper accommodation of these unfortunate differences. It is their first study and their first wish, because it is obviously their first interest,—but the Gentlemen in the opposition will not suffer them to accomplish it. They are continually exciting the Colonies to demand concessions, which the Mother Country can never consistently allow; and then they exclaim because our differences are not reconciled.—In like manner they are hourly deplored the loss of our American trade; and yet with the very same breath advising the Americans not to deal with us.—In fact, their whole patriotism is a dispicable avarice of employment; and their whole labour, an endeavour to disperse the Administration. To do this, every bait must be thrown out, to catch the ignorant; and every artifice made use of to inflame the discontented: so they can succeed to office, no matter what becomes of the public good. This poor kingdom may be sacrificed to her dependences, and the British Parliament be reduced to the necessity of rescinding its laws at the command of a provincial Assembly. Can we restrain our indignation at the bare idea of so mortifying so abject a proposition? Is not every thing English maddened in our bosoms, at the remotest thought of crouching to the creatures of our formation? Have we erected Colonies to be our masters, not to be our intendents and shall we suffer that intolence to assume the name of Patriotism, which arraigns the warrantable exercise of our own authority? Surely we can never suffer such a wantonness of temerity.—No—We shall rather pour our universal execrations on the Traitors who would lead us into such a turpitude, and hypocritically urge pretensions to our gratitude, while they are actually labouring for our destruction.
Yesterday in the house of Commons, after the private business being done, about half past three o'clock, the order of the day was read, for taking into consideration his majesty's most gracious message, together with the several papers relative to the present state of some of his majesty's colonies in North America, when Mr. Hails the clerk read No. 1. Extract of a letter from Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated Boston, 4th of November, 1773, inclosing No. 2. Copy of a letter to Thomas and Elisha Hutchinson, delivered at their house in Boston the 2d of November, 1773.
No. 3. Copy of a printed paper posted up in the town of Boston on the 3d of November, 1773.
No. 4. Copy of a narrative.
No. 5. Copy of a narrative; and also
No. 6. Copy of a letter from Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated Milton, near Boston, the 6th of Nov. 1773.
No. 7. Copy of a letter from Mr. Richard Clark and company, and Benjamin Faneuil and company, to John Hancock, Esq; dated the 4th of Nov. 1773.
No. 8. Copy of a vote of the Town Meeting at Boston, the 5th of Nov. 1773.
No. 9. Copy of a letter from Thomas Hutchinson, junior, to John Hancock, Esq; no date. And also,
No. 10. Extract of a letter from Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated Boston, Nov. 15, 1773. And also,
No. 11. Copy of a letter from Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated Boston the 2d of Dec. 1773. Inclosing
No. 12. Copy of a petition of Richard Clark and sons, Benjamin Faneuil, and Thomas and Elisha Hutchinson, and of the proceedings of the Council thereupon.
No. 13. Extract from the Massachusetts Gazette of the 26th of Nov. 1773.
No. 14. Copy of a paper printed at Boston, dated the 1st of Dec. 1773. And also,
No. 15. Copy of a letter from Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated Boston Dec. 15, 1773. And also,
No. 16. Copy of a letter from Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth dated Boston Dec. 17, 1773. And also,
No. 17. Copy of a letter from Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated Boston Dec. 20, 1773. And also,
No. 18. Extract of a letter from Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated Boston Dec. 24, 1773.
No. 19. Extract from the Minutes of Council of the Massachusetts Bay on the 21st of December, 1773. And also,
No. 20. Extract of a letter from Governor Hutchinson to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated Boston, Jan. 4. 1774. And also,
No. 21. Extract of a letter from Major General Haldimand to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated New-York, the 3d of November 1773. And also,
No. 22. Extract of a letter from Major General Haldimand to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated New-York December 28, 1773. And also,
No. 23. Extract of a letter from Major General Haldimand to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated New-York, Jan. 5, 1774. And also,
No. 24. Copy of a paper referred to in Major General Haldimand's letter Jan. 5, 1774. And also,
No. 25. Extract of a letter from Major General Haldimand to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated Feb. 2, 1774. And also,
No. 26. Copy of a letter from Governor Tryon, to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated New-York, Nov. 3, 1773. Inclosing,
No. 27. Copy of a printed paper, intitled, The Alarm, No. 1, dated New-York, Oct. 6, 1773.
No. 28. Copy of a printed paper, intitled, The Alarm, No. 2, dated New-York, Oct. 9, 1773.
No. 30. Copy of a letter from Gov. Tryon, to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated New-York, Dec. 1, 1773, inclosing
No. 31. Memorial of the Agents of the East India Company, praying that the Tea shipped by the Company may, on its Arrival, be taken under the protection of government.
No. 32. Minute of Council, relative to the Tea shipped by the East India Company. And also
No. 33. Copy of a letter from Gov. Tryon to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated New-York, Jan. 3, 1774. And also
No. 34. Copy of a letter from Gov. Tryon to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated New-York, Jan. 5, 1774, inclosing,
No. 35. Extracts from the Minutes of the Council of New-York. And also
No. 36. Extract of a letter from Lieutenant Governor Bull to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated Dec. 24, 1773.
No. 37. Extract of letter from Governor Wentworth to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated New Hampshire, Dec. 17, 1773, inclosing
No. 38. Notification of the Select Men of the Town of Portsmouth.
No. 39. Resolves of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, respecting the Tea. And also
No. 40. Copy of a letter from the Lords commissioners of the Admiralty to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated the 20th January, 1774; and so on to No. 109.
When the two clerks had finished reading of them, the House broke up at six o'clock, and adjourned the further consideration to Monday next.
Yesterday there were strict orders that no person whatever should be admitted into the house of commons, nor had any member the liberty to take in his friend.
We are assured, from tolerable good authority, that a treaty has been opened for some time between the Bedford, Rockingham and Shelburne parties. If so, it will be impossible for the minister to maintain his ground.
It is further asserted, that Lords Chatham and Temple mean to throw their whole weight to support the above triumvirate.
Lord Chatham is hourly expected in town, not only to be present at the debates in a Great Assembly, but also, it is said, to endeavour to conciliate all differences between Great-Britain and her colonies.
Colonel Barré declared the proceedings of the Americans were not so inconsistent as ours; they had been uniform in their conduct throughout, which would never be the case with us: He said, we talk of using spirited measures; did we consider already that our expenses of the army and navy were more than we could support; we have no money to squander away; let us unite our power and wisdom together, and make some salutary laws for them, and he would be bound they would obey.
March 15. Sir Joseph Mawbey moved in the House for leave to bring in a petition from William Bolland, Esq; in behalf of the Council and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, and Agent for that Colony setting forth the Acta Regia of Queen Elizabeth, and the statutes and charters of the several succeeding Princes, certain privileges and immunities had been granted to such persons as would settle on the continent of North-America; that those settlements had been carried on under the direction of the ablest and wisest men, who had interest and weight during those reigns; that the settlers had every difficulty to encounter that could be expected from a wild and inhospitable climate, but with equal labour and resolution they had conquered all obstacles that lay in their way; and praying, that the said Bolland should be permitted to produce to the House an authentic copy of the Acta Regia of Queen Elizabeth, and of such other papers as may tend to shew the ancient rights and privileges of the said colony. The petition was accordingly brought up and read, and by a motion of Sir Joseph's ordered to lie on the table.
The order was read that all persons who shall be found in the galleries, or any other part of the House, not members, or persons belonging to the House, shall be taken in custody by the Sergeant at Arms, and not released without the Speaker's order.
Mr. T. Townshend exclaimed against such a proceeding, and said that if it was enforced the Sergeant would now be obliged to take into custody near 200 persons, among whom were forty Ladies, and the taking them into custody he imagined was entirely a new proceeding.
Mr. T. Caswell said the Ladies were to be excepted.
The galleries with all the avenues leading to them, were cleared of all but the Ladies.
A Ministerial Paragraph EXTRAORDINARY.
The province of Massachusetts-Bay has been in a state of distraction for years. The Bostonians carried every thing before them. The King, civil officers and even his troops, were driven out of that seat of sedition: And the merchants who refused to join in their plans against the trade of England, were obliged to fly the province, after seeing their effects plundered. The persons who should have protected the injured merchant, were the people who headed the mob against them. The magistrates themselves led on the rioters; and he was most respected, no matter for his station or abilities, who went furthest in denying the right of parliament over them. The factious smugglers, and the sticklers for a common-wealth, set men of low characters at the head of the mob, while they in secret direct their operations. The low fellows, fond of being raised into notice, implicitly obey their masters. But as soon as this country takes serious measures, and puts them into execution, the Boston rioters will scamper behind their counters, or to their daily labour, then assume an affecting hypocritical air, clasp their hands, cast up their eyes to heaven, wonder if the King knows their oppressed situation, and are sure that parliament must have been misled, otherwise they would not have so grievously vexed the hearts of the Lord's people.
On THURSDAY the 26th Instant, At NINE in the Morning, Will begin the Sale at PUBLIC VENDUE, At RUSSELL's Auction-Room in Queen-Street, A large and valuable Collection of new and old BOOKS, in almost every Branch of polite Literature. Printed Catalogues may be had gratis the Monday preceding the Sale, of J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
B O S T O N.
The MINISTERIAL party in England, have employed themselves and every two-penny pamphleteer, the result here in London, to write SQUABS against the column, particularly against the "factions" and "rebellious Bostonians." Many of their productions are inserted in this day's paper, and the postscript which accompanies it, under the column head.
From the English papers, letters, &c. it appears that the ministry were not a little confounded that the good sense and spirit of the colonies had rendered abortive their late schemes to establish a revenue and monopolize their trade. That they were at a loss which way to shew their resentment without a greater injury to themselves, and the nation than to us—the people in general applaud our conduct and our friends say, that if we continue firm and united, we shall ward off the slavery intended, and escape the condition of the people of Ireland and many in England, who so hardly get one meal of flesh for a dinner in a twelvemonth, y reason of taxes, duty, &c. to support placemen and pensioners—that the illiberal treatment of the great Dr. Franklin is despised by foreigners as well as the independent part of the nation, who now look upon the friends of America in the present dispute with the ministry as the wittest and best friends of America—that the commissioners and their tribe were to be removed from this town; and a new Governor and Lieutenant Governor soon appointed—that all parties appeared against resuming any more troops among us upon a hostile intention.
Capt Chatham, who is arrived at Philadelphia from Cadiz, on the 7th of April, in Lat. 37. Long. 72, met with the wreck of a Schooner, which he supposes to have been overlet a few days before in a squall: Capt Chatham, by cutting a hole in her quarter deck as the lay full of water on her Beam Ends, took out a chest which contained the Captain's pocket book, papers, &c. by which it appeared she was called the Royal Oak, Rufus Ripley, Master; navigated with four hands, bound from North Carolina to Plymouth, 1500 Bushels of Corn, Staves, and some Lard; and was owned by Isaac Drew, of Duxbury: the people it is thought are all lost.
On Wednesday last the first Regiment of Militia in the County of Essex, was mustered at Salem, and reviewed by his Excellency.
An Indian youth, about twenty years of age, who called himself Ezra Rubin, belonging to a tribe of Indians in Connecticut, and who some time ago came to Dartmouth College, to obtain an Education, was drowned there the 19th of last month, by accidentally falling out of a Canoe in crossing the river at that place: his body was taken up soon after.
DIED. Mr. Eliphalet Parker; his funeral is to be attended this afternoon.
New-York April 28. When the people assembled on Saturday morning, to see the departure of Captain Lockyer, their resentment was risen to high against Capt. Chambers, whom they had considered as a friend to their rights, and deserving their confidence, that if he could have been found, it is thought his life would have been in danger: Happily, however, he was concealed till his departure, early on Sunday morning, and we are assured he got on board the Nancy, Capt. Lookyer, and is failed with him for England.
For more London and Boston news, &c. see the POSTSCRIPT, to this day's paper.
AMERICAN MAGAZINE.
THOSE Gentlemen who are inclined to favour the Royal American Magazine, for MAY, with their Productions, are desired to send them with all convenient Speed, to the Publisher.
T O M O R R O W,
At TEN in the Morning,
Will be Sold by PUBLIC VENDUE,
At RUSSELL's Auction-Room,
In Queen-Street,
A VARIETY of genteel house furniture, among which are, a neat mahogany desk and book-case, chest of drawers, bureau, dining tables, tea table, card table, crimson harrat bed with window curtains and easy chairs, sofas, pier and dressing glasses, leather bottom and chamber chairs, a neat eight day clock, silver handle knives and forks, and white ivory handled ditto in stagreen cases; a great variety of China, among which is a tea set, enameled; cream coloured, stone and delph ware; kitchen furniture, &c. &c. Also the wearing apparel and other effects of an Officer lately deceased; fulkey and harness. J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
On WEDNESDAY 11th Inst.
At TEN in the Morning,
Will be Sold by PUBLIC VENDUE,
At RUSSELL's Auction-Room,
In Queen-Street,
A GREAT Variety of English GOODS and some HARD WARE. J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
Tuesday next will be published,
No. IV of the Royal
American Magazine,
Or UNIVERSAL
Repository of Instruction and Amusement.
For APRIL, 1774.
WHEREAS Benjamin Hall, the Son of the late Hugh Hall, Esq; deceased, a person Non-Compos, has, by the instigation of some ill-minded person (well knowing he was under guardianship) been indefatigable in their endeavours in seducing said Hall, to marry, no doubt with a view to get what was left him by his late father, and it is currently reported they have succeeded in their endeavours: This is therefore to forbid all persons from harbouring or concealing the said Non-Compos, or to trust him or his pretended wife, as his guardian is determined not to pay any debts they have or may contract. J. TURELL.
AS I shall speedily, to the confusion of a certain little jundo, make it evident to the Governor and Council, that the guardianship placed over me, was wickedly, surreptitiously and illegally procured. I shall at present take no further notice of Mr. Turell's false advertisement, published in Messrs. Mills and Hicks's paper last Monday, than just to satisfy my pretended doubting, notable guardian (who withholds all my effects from me) that I am legally married, as will appear to his great mortification by the following copy of my certificate, viz. "This may certify all whom it may concern, that Benjamin Hall and Sarah Marrow were lawfully married this day, by Joseph Kidder. Dunstable, New Hampshire, the 22d of April 1774." As I have at present occasion for some of my own money this kind guardian would do well to remit and supply his ward thereof with, at his sister Nelson's in Middle-street, Boston. BENJAMIN HALL.
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,
Also, the most modern Books in every Branch of polite
Literature, Art and Science, 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.

POETS CORNER.
FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
Mr. THOMAS,
By the last Vessels from LONDON we have the melancholy Account of the Death of Capt. ADAM WINTHROP, of the Brigantine LYDIA, in the Prime of Life, who was struck over by the Boom on the 11th of February last, on his Voyage from hence to LONDON, and was drowned. He was a Defendant from the FATHER of this Colony, and second Son to the Honourable Dr. WINTHROP, of Cambridge; was educated at Harvard College, where he received the Degree of Master of Arts in 1770. This young Gentleman was endowed with good natural Abilities, and many genteel Accomplishments, of a Disposition humane, generous and benevolent. But alas!
CEAN! thou dreadful and tumultuous Home Of Dangers; at eternal War with Man! Death's Capital, where most he domineers, With all his chosen Terror frowning round, Wide-opening, and loud-roaring on for Prey! Too faithful Mirror, how dost thou reflect The melancholy Face of human Life! Self-flattered, unexperienced, high in Hope, When young, with sanguine chear, and Streamers gay, We cut our Cable, launch into the World, And fondly dream each Wind and Star our Friend. But where is he can fathom the Event? His flight PHILANDER took
I lov'd him much; but now I love him more. Like Birds, whose Beauties languish, half-conceal'd, Till mounted on the Wing, their glossy Plumes Expanded shine with azure, green and gold: How Bieldings brighten as they take their Flight! Friends, our chief Treasure! how they disappear! PHILANDER gone! th' insatiate Grave has op'd Its watery Mouth, and clos'd on blooming Youth. With awful Voice it calls upon my Soul. "Eternity vast Ocean lies before thee. There, there, thy much belov'd PHILANDER falls. Give thy Mind sea-room, keep it wide of Earth, That Rock of Souls immortal; cut thy Cord; Weigh Anchor; spread thy Sails; call ev'ry Wind; Eye thy great Pole-Star; make the Land of Life; And soon this wretched Spot, not worth thy Care. With ardent Hope anticipate the Skies, Where triumphs Immortality and Bliss."
JEREMIAH ALLEN
Informs his Friends and the PUBLIC, That he has received by the LONDON, Capt. CALEF, 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 Brazieri, 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 Basins, Tankards, Quart and Pint Cans; Quart, Pint and Half Pint Tea Pots, Cream Pots, Tea Tongs, Table and Tea Spoons, Bottle Crainers, Wine Measures, Bed and Close Stool Pans, Brass Kettles and Skillets, Bell-mettle ditto, Warming and Frying Pans, Delf and Book Cafe 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 new West Taste, Steel springs, japanned and iron Snuffers, polished Steel Shovel and Tonges, Bellows Box and Flat Irons, Box Iron Grates, Bed Screws, half and quarter Carriers, Knave Boxes, make Castors, Bed Caps and Turn Buckles; silver, ivory, buck, bone, horn and maple handle Knives and Forks, Penknives of all lotes, Razors, Scissars and Cuttoes, Snuff and Tobacco Boxes, Horn and Ivory Combs; gilt, plated and lacquered Coat and Breast Buttons; Shot, 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, half, ten-nant and key hole ditto, Files and Rasps of all sorts, Gimblets, 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 Huly 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 Tracks of all sorts, Nail Nippers, Nutt Crackers, Cork Screws, Brass and paper Ink Pots, Brass Beer Cocks, Pinking Irons, Chair Center and Deuling Belts, Crutch Head Cloth, Table, Shoe and Buckle Brushes, Curling and Pinching Tonges, Wool Cards, Seives and Seive Bottoms, House 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 Mouse Traps, Tin Plates, Looking Glasses of all kinds, a few Pair Gold and Gold and white oval Glasses in the Palmyra Taste, either with or without Jerendoles.
JOSEPH BILLINGS,
Of BOSTON, TAILOR, Has received by the Ship JOHN, Capt. WHITE, From LONDON,
SUNDRY Pieces superfine Cloths , with Shalloons, &c. to match; also four-threaded Patterns, all which he is determined to sell at the lowest Rates for Cash, at his STORE, leading to SPEAR'S Wharf. Those who are pleased to favour him with the Making of their Cloaths, he will take for Pay, New-England and West-India Rum, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Molasses, Flour, Ship Bread, Cocoa, Chocolate, Beef, Pork, Cordage, &c. The above Cloths, &c. being a Consignment, he will cut a Suit of Cloaths as elegantly, and make them up as cheap and as well as any advertising Tailor from the city of London.
TO BE SOLD, by GAWEN BROWN,
In King-Street, SUNDRY NEW CLOCKS , one ditto second-hand, with japanned Case, best Silver WATCHES, some go on Diamonds, and some with a Cap over the work, finished by the best Hands.—Cheap for the CASH.
DUNCAN INGRAHAM jun.
In Union-Street, BOSTON, A variety of English, India, Irish and Scotch GOODS , Which will be Sold by Wholesale and Retail, At his usual low prices for Cash, The following articles are part of his assortment, viz. Chints, Callicoes, Nankens, Mullins, Sattins, Irish Linens, Dowlaisses, Oznabrigs, Ticklinburgs, Diapers, Rusfia Drabs, Cambricks, Lawns, Checks, Fustians, Jeans, Striped Hollands, Mozeeens for Waistcoats, Lorettes for ditto, Brunswicks, Broad-Cloaths, Serges, Baizes, Broliens, Jubilees, Callimancoes, Russells, Shalloons, Tamnies, Sagethees, Gauzes, Gauze Handkerchiefs, Nettings, Millis Court Heel Mo-rocco Pumps, Infants ditto,
ALSO, Gun Powder, Shot, Spices, Scythes, Sickles, Loaf Sugar, &c. &c.
THE Gentlemen and Ladies of the town are hereby made acquainted that THOMAS TURNER has taken charge of the DANCING SCHOOL, on behalf of his brother who is absent. Those who please to send their children, may depend there will be the strictest regard paid to their being instructed in the politeest and most approved method; likewise the utmost order and decorum preferred.
THIS is to for-warn all persons from trusting SARAH the wife of me the subscriber, who has behaved in a very unbecoming manner, as I will pay no debts of her contracting from the date hereof. EDWARD BUNCH. Boston, April 4, 1774.
POTASH. CASH given for POTASH by JONATHAN MASON, at his shop next door to the sign of the Buck and Glove near the Sate-House, BOSTON. N. B. To be sold by said MASON, choice Gun Powder and best Philadelphia Bar Iron.
NEW RICE. A few casks to be sold cheap, at the store of PENUEL BOWEN, Opposite to the Golden Ball, ALSO,
NEW Flour, Genuine Spanish and French Indigo , best Hamburg ground Madder, old Logwood, new Redwood, Album, Copperas, &c. Chocolate warranted pure, Spices of all kinds, choice Cheshire Cheeses, ditto exceeding low-priced if applied for soon, ditto Weymouth, rich and mild, ditto Connecticut, in good order for shipping. With a general Assortment of West-India GOODS. Choice Table Flth, Half Boxes eighteen Inch TD Pipes, fifteen ditto. All at the lowest Rates for Cash.
WHEREAS the Co-partnership of SCOTT and GILL was mutually dissolved the 21st of February last: All Persons indebted are requested to make immediate Payment to MOSES GILL: And all to whom the Company is indebted, are desired to bring in their Accounts to said GILL, for Adjustment, and receive their Balances. Boston, 6th April 1774.
N. B. The Business is carried on as usual, by MOSES GILL, where the Customers of the late Company, and all others, may be well served. GUN POWDER , just imported, and choice Connecticut PORK, to be sold cheap by said GILL.
MOSES CLEVELAND, In confidence that the example of those public spirited gentlemen, who have subscribed to the proposal for raising the sum of sixty pounds, lawful money, to enable a post to ride weekly between NORWICH and BOSTON, will influence others to be liberal to an establishment which, it is evident, must be productive of great commercial advantages to both towns and the intermediate country.—Induced by these considerations, said Cleveland has undertaken (although there is 21 L. 10 S. wanting to complete the abovementioned sum) to set out from the printing-office in NORWICH every Thursday, immediately after the publication of the Norwich News-paper, for the space of one year from the date hereof. He will proceed through WINDHAM, POMFRET, MENDON, &c. and arrive at BOSTON on Saturdays, remain there until Monday morning, and return to Norwich by the same road he went. He will carry this and other papers, and the Royal American MAGAZINE, and deliver them to such gentlemen as are pleased to encourage them, with the utmost regularity. Those who choose to employ him, to carry letters, small bundles, or to do any business for them, may depend upon his care and fidelity.
N. B. Said Cleveland has employed a post to ride every week from NORWICH to HARTFORD, serve the customers with News-papers, Magazines, and do such other business as he may be employed to execute.
SARAH DAWSON, Widow of the late Joseph Dawson, Gardner, At the COLD BATH, New Boston, Has for SALE, at the lowest rates for cash, A LARGE collection of grafted and inoculated English FRUIT TREES , of all kinds; also, a large number of young Apple Trees, raised from the Seed; likewise Gooseberry and Currant Bushes, Laylock Trees, Flower Roots, &c. An assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, imported from London, with an assortment of ditto raised here, the latter being most proper for the West-Indies. Any Gentlemen or Ladies who may want any of the above articles, and will favour the said Dawson with their custom, may depend upon the best of usage, and their favours gratefully acknowledged.
CHOICE PEAS , Isle of Shoals DUMB FISH, BEEF, RYE, a few barrels RYE FLOUR and PORK, to be SOLD by JOHN BARRETT and SONS,
To the PRINTERS, COMPOSITORS, who are ready at it, and will keep steady and N. B. Constant —mediately by the Printer hereon. and good wages.
GENTEEL Boarding for G- Strangers and others, may be had of T. H. O. M. R. U. S. S. E. L. L., at the house lately occupied by Mr. Benjamin Bagnall, deceased, near the Sate-House, Boston, a very noted place for this business, being in a good situation and well known to be a large and commodious house, where persons have only to apply to be convinced how agreeably they can be accommodated. N. B. Said Russell continues his Taylor's business as usual, at the above place.
A SMART LAD is wanted, as an Apprentice, to the BRICKLAYERS BUSINESS. Enquire of the Printer.
GARDEN SEEDS. Just IMPORTED in Capt. HOOD, From LONDON, And to be SOLD by ANNA JOHNSON, At the head of BLACK-HORSE LANE, A Large Assortment of Garden Seeds, Pease, Beans, &c. Among which are,
EARLY charlton, early golden hot-spur, Ormand hotspur, Spanish morato, white reuncival, dwarf marrowfat and bush pease, large Windsor, true early Lisbon, early Yorkshire, Dutch sugar loaf, bettersea, favoy, red and broccoli cabbage seed, cauliflower, cucumber, onion, carrot, turnip, radish and lettuce of all sorts, round spinach, endive, celery and asparagus, thyme, baum, sweet marjoram, broad clover, white Dutch clover, la lucerne, rape, canary, and an assortment of flower seeds and herbs grass seed. Also, a variety of other seeds not mentioned; all which were imported from the Seeds Men in London, and are warranted to be fresh and good and of the last year's produce.
GARDEN SEEDS. Imported in Captain HOOD from LONDON, And to be SOLD by SUSANNA RENKEN, At her Shop near the Draw-Bridge, Fore-street, BOSTON, EARLY Charlton, early golden Hotspur, white Roundival, green Marrow, Spanish Moratoces, crooked Sugar and Leadman's dwarf PEAS, Toker, best Windsor, early Lisbon and large Dutch Kidney BEANS, Stranburgh, Spanish silver-skin and Portugal Onion, orange, early short, early yellow and scarlet Carrot, swelling Parsnip, early Turnip, early short-topped London, Salmon Turnip, Spanish and scarlet Radish, early Frame, white Cabbage, white Gof, early green Gof, large green Gof, bloody Gof, Aleppo Gof, brown Dutch, marble, royal brown Dutch, Imperial, Tennishall and Capuchin Lettice, prickly and round Spinnage, red Beets, Italian and solid Celery, curled Peppergrass, Indian Cresses, curled and large rooted Parsley, early and late Colliflower, early Yorkshire, large Buttersea, early Dutch, large Scotch, large Winter and Turnip Cabbage, green, white and yellow Savoy, long & early prickly, green Turkey and long Roman Cucumber, Baum, sweet Majoram, Thyme, Rosemary, Lavender and sage Seed, white Mustard, Hemp, Rape and Canary Seed, broad red and fine white Clover, Lucerne, Rye Grass and other Grass Seeds, Durham best Flour Mustard, Split Peas.—Groceries, English and India Goods all which may be had cheap for Cash.
GARDEN SEEDS. Imported in Captain GORHAM from LONDON, And to be SOLD by LYDIA DYAR, At her Shop near the North Battery, BOSTON, EARLY charlton, early hotspur, golden hotspur, large marrowfat, dwarf marrow, blue marrow and Spanish morotto Peas, large Windsor, large Toker, early Lisbon, early Hotspur, early yellow Dwarf, early speckled ditto, and early white Beans with black eyes, early Yorkshire, early Dutch, Sugar Loaf, Buttersea, large winter, green and yellow Savoy, early and late Colliflower Seeds, best Cabbage Lettice, white Gof, green Gof, marble and brown Dutch Lettice Seeds, best double Pepper Grass, round Spinnage, short top and Salmon Radish, scarlet Radish, double Parsley, white Spanish, silver-skin and red Onion Seeds, long green prickly and early Cucumber Seeds, sweet Marjoram, Thyme, Baum, Sage, early Dutch, and late Turnip Seeds, large swelling Parsnip, red Beets, Orange, golden coloured, early yellow and purple Carrot Seeds, red Clover, Herds Grass, and Canary Seeds, winter and summer Squash, long French Turnip, Hylop, and a variety of Flower Seeds, warranted to be new and good. (4 m.)
FIFTY DOLLARS Reward. LAST Night the Dwelling House of the Subscriber was broke open, and from thence were taken the following articles, viz. one pair of silver chaffing dishes; one pair of butter cups; one silver can; two large soup spoons; one pepper box; six large table spoons; six tea ditto and a strainer, marked E. D. maker's name D. Henchman, all except the spoons, which have a hand for a crest; a silver tea pot; one ditto sugar dish; a boat for tea spoons; one pair of tea tongs; five tea spoons and a cream cup; two porringer and two salt-cellars, all marked E. S. one silver tankard without a lid, marked S. I. S. one silver can marked I. E. an old fashioned pepper box, marked A. E. six large table spoons, marked E. S. one silver salver, no mark upon it, the foot resembling the mouth of a tunnel; silver tankard marked A. B. one silver Porringer without any mark; three table spoons marked A. B. one old spoon marked I. S. four tea spoons no Mark; one pair tea tongs; maker's name of these not D. Henchman; I Hurd, some of them, and some B. W. with other small articles. Whoever will take up the thief or thieves, so as he or they may be brought to justice, and the plate recovered, shall be paid the above reward, and a reasonable reward for any part of the plate, in proportion to its value, per me. Fairfield, Connecticut, THADDEUS BURR. March 15, 1774.
N. B. If any of the above plate should be discovered in Boston, please to give notice to John Hancock, Esq; and an adequate reward shall be given.
CHOICE MAIDEN , the growth of this province, to be SOLD by JOHN BARRETT, Near the MILL-BRIDGE, BOSTON.
SILKS And Superfine BROAD CLOTHS.
A assortment of Padufoys, Dupapes, Luteftrings; plain and figured Satins, Damasks, Sarinets, &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.
RUSSIA duck , best Petersburg hemp, Dutch rope yarns, also a quantity of choice junk, fit to make into cordage of any size, great part of which will do for rigging small vessels without working over, to be sold at THOMAS WALLEY'S Store on Dock-Square, Where is to be sold by wholesale or retail, Dutch looking-glasses of various sizes, Dutch brushes, single or by the set, hampers of stone ware, viz. quart and pint Mugs and Chamber Pots; a few casks choice Rice, all sorts of Spices very low, Oatmeal per bushel, parcel of fine Narragansett and Pomfret Chees, new Raisins, Currants, and all sorts of Groceries as usual—except TEA. N. B. A quantity of choice 3-threaded Seine Twine, for Salmon, Mackerel or Herring Nets. Also, White Beans per bushel.
JOHN HICKEY, SILK-DYER and SCOURER , from DUBLIN, Living in Royal Exchange-Lane, BOSTON, WOULD inform the publick that he will do any thing in the business as cheap and as well as can be done in England. He also dyes and presses country cloth, dyes blue on Linnen and Cotton that shall hold its colour, for nine shillings old tenor per pound: He also takes black out of Silks or Crapes renews the colour of Scarlet when stained, cleans Gold and Silver Laces, dyes Men's Clothes or cleans them without ripping them, and they shall not stain: He cleans a Coat for ten shillings old tenor, Jackets and Breeches in proportion; he dyes and cleans English Goods, and makes them up again as before at the most reasonable terms; he also dyes blacks of all sorts as cheap as Hatters, and without rotting of any thing that he undertakes. Said HICKERY cleans Leather Breeches at the best and cheapest rates. Lodging also may be had at the above HICKERY'S.
To the PUBLIC. AS the method lately practised by the subscriber, in having a person at his door, to invite gentlemen and others to his public sales, has given dissatisfaction to some gentlemen, shopkeepers in particular, to avoid giving offence, he shall desist from that practice for the future, and pursue one as follows, which he flatters himself cannot fail to give universal satisfaction, as he sincerely wishes to do:—The public are most earnestly requested to remember, for their own advantage, that for the future, notice will be given of the time his public sales begin, by sounding of a bell, which he has purchased for that purpose; which is erected over his Auction door, near the Market, Boston: Where constant attendance is given, both early and late, to receive the favours of all such who are pleased to confer upon their much obliged, most obedient and very humble servant, MARTIN BICKER.
A WOMAN , that can be well recommended, with a young breast of milk, would be glad to go into any gentleman's family to suckle. Enquire of the Printer.
RAN away from the Subscriber on Sunday last, an apprentice lad named JOHN WRIGHT, about twenty years of age, dark complexion, short black hair, about five feet six inches in height, thick and well set. Carried of with him two suits of cloaths the coat and jacket of one suit of a redish colour, the other a blue coat and striped cotton jacket, two pair of yellow leather breeches, one sheep and the other buck skin, two striped tow shirts and three cotton and linen ditto; one new beaver hat, and other much more, three pair of shoes, one pair of which were new, five or six pair of stockings; with one pair of long and another pair of short trowers.—Said Wright is by trade a Blacksmith. Whoever will take up said apprentice and secure him, so that I may have him again, or bring him to me, shall have FOUR DOLLARS reward, and all necessary charges paid by JAMES GODFREY.
N. B. All masters of vessels and others are hereby cautioned against harbouring concealing, or carrying off said apprentice, as they would avoid the penalty of the law.
SARAH OLIVER most respectfully acquaints the Public, that she continues to keep her SCHOOL, by the Mill-Bridge, with good Accomodations for BOARDING young LADIES, and teaches to work Coats of Arms, Embroidery, Tenths and Queen Stitch, Marking, with all Sorts of plain Needle Work; and takes this Opportunity to return her Thanks to all her Friends for past Favours, and assures them she will exert her utmost Abilities in the Improvement of all young Ladies that may apply to her.
Just Imported and to be Sold by JOHN and THOMAS OSBURN, 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 in Boston. N. B. Coach, Chaise, House and Ship Painting, &c. done with fidelity and dispatch.
WANTS EMPLOY , A MAN that writes a good hand, understands merchants accounts, and can be well recommended. Enquire of the Printer.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS,
At the Bottom of ROYAL EXCHANGE-LANE, near the MARKET, Dock-Square, (over Mr. T. WALLEY'S Store) where all Persons may be supplied with this Paper at Six Shillings and Eight Pence Lawful Money, per Annum, unsealed, and Eight Shillings sealed and directed; and where Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received; ADVERTISEMENTS taken in.—PRINTING in its various Branches, performed in a neat Manner, with the greatest Care and Dispatch, on the most reasonable Terms. Sm. II HAND-BILLS at an Hour's Notice. SUBSCRIPTIONS for the SPY are also taken in by J. Larkin, Chairmaker, and Mr. W. Calder, Painter, in Charlestown; Mr. J. Hiller, Watch maker, in Salem; Mr. B. Emerton, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater; and by Dr. Elijah Hewins, in Stoughtonham.