The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal (Boston [Mass.]), 1773-10-28 00:00:00

THE Massachusetts Sun
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
MAY 2 1908
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. III.]
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1773.
[NUMB. 143.
For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y.
Mr. THOMAS.
THE little piece in your last paper, signed "TIME," dated Roxbury, October 4th, I dare say was never written there, whoever was the author, let me tell you it is a mixture of mistake, misrepresentation, abusive insinuations, and absolute falsehood.
Henry A. S., supposed there to be lately appointed a Justice of peace, it is well known has borne that commission near thirty years, and discharged the duties of the office with great fidelity and reputation--is one of the eldest Justices in the country and with great propriety was lately appointed one of the Quorum--His son, the Rev. Mr. A. B. C., did some years ago publish discourses on Religious Liberty , and afterwards A concise View of New England , since reprinted in London, nor was he ever afraid or ashamed to be known as a friend to the constitutional liberties of his country, as well as to good government, and good men. But as to his "figuring in Fleets paper" I dare say it is a groundless and malevolent falsehood: Nor do I believe, he ever descended to dabble in politics, so much as to publish half a column in a common news paper on any political subject for this twenty years. Every one that is acquainted with him, knows his diligence and attention to the great duties of his sacred office, leave him no time "for dabbbling in politics." What view any person could have in giving out such groundless insinuations to the public about him, I cannot tell, unless to create in the minds of many serious good christians a prejudice against him, as unfriendly to public liberties. His affectionate people, all good people who are acquainted with him resent such false insinuations. I am heartily sorry, Mr. Thomas, you were obliged to stain your paper with them. I doubt not you published them with great reluctance.
INTEGRITY.
October 20th 1773.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
A BILLET from Y to X.
Y In his last publication, laid as much as he thought proper, in answer to Z. If X wants the matter more thoroughly canvassed, let him engage Z to write again, upon the affirmative side of the question: Y will then write back, and confute him. Whether X's compliments bestowed upon Y, in last Thursday's paper, were intended as serious, or ironical, is immaterial. Instead of flattery, he rather thinks himself obliged to tell X, that notwithstanding the good sense discovered in some parts of his performance, others are unintelligible. His assertion that a minister by putting "any thing to vote" in the church, "manifestly declares his full approbation of it," is as "palpable and egregious" an "absurdity," as it would be for him "to pretend to nullify or annihilate the vote" after it had passed. His explanation of the negative power, contained in his marginal note, is trite and hackneyed; and has, once and again, been shown to be a mere sophism. Z is as capable, perhaps, of defending "his own opinions, if defensible," as any man. He has dropped the dispute, or rather he never chose fully to enter into it; and Y is content it should sleep, though he is certain he had the best side of the argument to manage.
October 23d, 1773.
From the PUBLIC LEDGER.
LONDON, August 24.
A MAN convicted of carrying on a treasonable correspondence is doomed by the laws to suffer an ignominious death. Compelling the life of the king is high treason, because as head of the commonwealth, the king cannot fail alive; the constitution must fall with him. But shall there be a punishment inflicted upon him who aims at the destruction of
the Chief Magistrate; and shall he escape with impunity, who secretly, treacherously, and creasonably carries on a correspondence to compass the "annihilation of the liberties and the destruction of the LAWS of a free province?" Where is the mighty difference, whether to destroy the constitution, you boldly aim a blow at the king's breast, or through fear you affect to venerate the king, that you may the more effectually undermine the constitution? The end is the same, though the means taken to accomplish that end be somewhat different. Considered in this light, what are we to think of the letters of Hutchinson and Oliver now published? If there is such a crime as "treason against the state," these men have committed it with every aggravating circumstance of TREACHERY: They have privately been endeavouring to subvert those laws which they were sworn to maintain; they have secretly laboured to destroy that constitution they were called upon to preserve; and they have traiterously used their utmost efforts to make his Majesty a party in their base designs, by estranging his heart from a loyal, though golly misrepresented people. Lord North has frequently boasted of the rectitude of his principles; let us see a proof of his rectitude; let us see Hutchinson and Oliver not only stripped of all their employments, but PUNISHED as distributive justice directs. If this be done, we shall think that the premier has some sense of honour left; if it be not done, it will then be manifest that there is a design "to abridge not only American , but English liberties;" and that a crew of traitorous informers are employed by government, as Judas was by the Devil, to sacrifice their country to the most infernal purposes.
The ministry conformable to their own precious feelings have decided the friends of liberty as opposing the measures of government only with a view to SELF . A correspondent begs leave to refer the ministry to Messrs. Hutchinson, Oliver, Paxton, Rogers, and the rest of the Boston gang, who have arrogated to themselves the title of " Friends to Government ." The letters of every one of the junto breathe nothing but a spirit of selfishness . Hutchinson complains about the "small pittance allowed for his support," and intimates a wish that "his salary may be enlarged;" (quire Oliver only wants "to be assured in one shape or the other of "good" per annum, with another office annexed to this salary." He also begs that "his son DANIEL (a witness no doubt) may have a Place , and he promises to second his friend Mr. R's views, if he receives proper security of being rewarded for such services!" What right have the ministry to reflect upon those who compose the opposition? After the Friends of Government have thus discovered their rottenness of heart; gentlemen in administration should in prudence be dumb upon the subject of Venality ; for we now have it under the hands of the friends of government, that they are a KNOT or KNAVES , who would sell the fee simple of their own, and their countrymen's salvation, like Thomas Hutchinson, and Andrew Oliver, for a sep in the King's Dripping-pan .
FRIDAY, October 22. BOSTON.
Further intelligence by the last ships from London and Glasgow.
DUBLIN, August 10.
GENTLEMEN arrived at Liverpool, in the Queen Charlotte, Capt. Booker from New York, relates, that on the 2d of July, the day he sailed, it was currently reported, that the mob of Boston, joined by more than ten thousand of the country people, had arose, surprised Governor Hutchinson in his bed, and obliged him to sign an instrument, whereby he abdicated the command of the province; after which they confined him in his house, under a strong guard, till his Majesty's order of recall, which is daily expected, shall arrive. They then elected a council of 10 persons, with the ti-
tle of administrators, who are invested with the vice-royal powers, to prevent confusion. We hope this news may want confirmation, as an act of that kind, must cut off all hopes of reconciliation with the mother country, it being absolute rebellion to displace a King's chief Governor, and consequently renders those brave assertors of freedom liable to the severest chastisement, by pursuing such desperate and unconstitutional methods of redress.
CARLOW, [Ireland,] July 30. However incredible the following may appear, we are told by gentlemen of undoubted veracity who have seen it, that it is absolutely fact:--A few days ago a duck laid an egg, at the seat of George Nuttal, Esq; at Kildavin, in his county, which had this inscription on it, "And as ye go, preach the kingdom of Heaven is at hand." The inscription is as plain as print, and may be seen at the house of Luke Roach, at Kildavin.
LONDON, August 14. A dreadful storm of thunder and lightning, &c. began on Friday morning the 13th, and continued till six the next morning, without intermission, St. Peter's steeple, Cornhill, was greatly damaged, part of the entrance from Cornhill thrown down, and the inside damaged; the Obelisk in St. George's fields so much damaged, that it must be rebuilt; a stack of chimneys was thrown down by a ball of fire at New-Bridewell, St. George's fields, which fell where the prisoners where, and greatly hurt two of them; another ball of fire went down a chimney at the back side, past by two women in the room, went through two coal sheds, making holes in the boards without setting them on fire; one of the toll men at Blackfriars bridge was knocked down by a ball of fire, and had his tongue terribly burnt; several masts of ships below bridge were shivered to pieces, and two Dutch boys killed; and a man coming from Kingston was struck dead, and brought to his habitation in the Borough. The Tower wall was split in several places. Mr. Jones and his wife, coming through White-Hart street, he was killed on the spot, and his wife not hurt, though she had hold of his arm. A chimney belonging to the house of Mr. Howard in Fleet-lane, was beat down, the lightning made way into the bed chamber, where Mr. and Mrs. Howard were then lying, but providentially neither were hurt. A gentlewoman, in Cornhill, being terribly frightened by a most dreadful clap of thunder in the night, jumped out of bed, threw herself out of the window, and was killed on the spot.
During the violent storm on Friday evening, the Yonge Baptiste, a large Dutch vessel from Amsterdam, was lost on the Nore sand, and all the crew perished.
August 16, 17. Commissions, it is said, are preparing to pass the great seal for constituting and appointing John Robinson, Esq; Capt. General, and Governor in Chief of Turks island, or Tortuga in the West-Indies. George Mercer, Esq; Governor of Pitsylvania, the new province on the Ohio; and Thomas Pownal Esq; member of Parliament for Tregony in Cornwall, to be Governor General of New-England.
A correspondent says, that some ships which were to sail for New-England, are stopped in the river by the merchants exporters, in consequence of some disagreeable accounts received by the last packet from Boston.
It is said that a great person at the head of a very respectable department in the state, has been reprimanded for trusting his private secretary with some dispatches of importance; and that a resolution has been unanimously taken by those in power, not to entrust for the future their Secretaries in any cases of the like nature.
August 21. We hear the King of Sweden has issued a proclamation, desiring all his subjects who are in foreign services, to return within twelve months, and they shall be advanced each according to his capacity.
Queen Matilda's health is said to be so much on the decline, that nature refuses the nourishment it requires; and her physicians have given it as their opinions, that, unless she change the climate before the winter sets in, she cannot recover; in consequence of this, her Royal brother has renewed his invitation for her coming to England, which it is supposed her Majesty has accepted, and will be here by the beginning of next September.
A letter from Barcelona, dated July 18. says, "Some days past we had an execution here on the Esplanade, by the citadel, and the priest asking one of the malefactors, who was not of the popish communion, what persuasion he died in? He replied, "I die in full persuasion that all mankind are knaves." The priest did not enquire any farther."
It is said letters of recall are sent to Mr. Walpole, the British minister at the court of Lisbon; and that the British factory is preparing to leave that place as they every day meet with more and more oppression.
Within this week there has been many consultations at St. James's, about what measures to take with the people of Boston. GUNPOWDER, it is said, was much talked of.
SATURDAY, October 23.
BOSTON.
Monday last arrived here Capt. Smith from Liverpool, with whom came passengers, Mr. Lee and family, Mr. Booth, Mr. Barker and Mr. Richardson.
Capt. Smith on his passage spoke the ship, Capt. Tyler, belonging to Boston, from Jamaica for Bristol, about 30 leagues west of Cape-Clear. Also, the brig Aurora, Capt. Bishop, from Sheepscut for Liverpool.
Capt. Cochran, from Glasgow, spoke with the following vessels, viz. Sept. 29. in lat. 42, Long. 49, 30, with a brig three weeks from Granada for Belfast, Thomas Shield, Master; October 5th, in lat. 45, 4, Long. 56, with a brig 14 days from Virginia for Whitehaven, George Hutchinson master; October 12, 45 leagues to the Eastward of Cape Ann, with a ship eight days from Piscataqua for Grenada, John Kean, Master; with a Schooner two days from Boston, for the Straits of Belleisle, Thompson, Master.
Tuesday last his Majesty's ship Lively, sailed from hence for England.
Capt. Hatch, who is arrived from whaling, on the 28th of August, in lat. 31, 17, long. 32, 56, spoke with the ship Beaufain, Samuel Parches, Master, bound from Jamaica to London, out 34 days.
PHILADELPHIA, October 13. Capt. Eve, from the Bay Honduras, informs, that a few days before he failed, they had taken three of the run-away negroes; that they chained two of them to a stake, cut off their right hands and then set fire to them; the other was hung in chains, he lived seven days and was then taken down and burnt. Capt. Eve further informs us, that the packet which went to Jamaica, to the Admiral, arrived there the day he failed, in company with his Majesty's ship Garland, in order to suppress the negroes, and when the last where brought in, there were only twenty left in the bush and it was supposed they were lost.
Yesterday afternoon, Capt. Chambers arrived here from London; with whom came passengers, General Lee, Major Dunbar, Major Butler, Capt. Hails, Capt. Richardson.
With Capt. Johnson came 200 German passengers.

MONDAY, October 25. BOSTON.
Wednesday last the militia companies at Dorchester under Captain Clap and Captain Pierce, belonging to Colonel Hatch's regiment, had their training, and performed their exercises to the great satisfaction of the spectators. Also, the company of artillery belonging to, and which were draughted from that regiment, made their first public appearance, under Captain Lemuel Robinson: They were uniformly dressed at their own expence, and reviewed by the Colonel.
Last Wednesday sailed for Halifax his Majesty's ship Fowey, Capt. Jordan.
Last Thursday afternoon Levi Ames, aged 21 years, was executed here for burglary, pursuant to his sentence. He was born in Groton, of a credible family, his father's name was Jacob Ames, and died when he was about two years old; And says he was the first of the family that was ever disgraced. He died very penitent.
We hear that yesterday se'nnight, as Mr. Tobey, of Sandwich, was going from hence to that place by water, he accidentally fell over board, and was unfortunately drowned.
TUESDAY, October 26. BOSTON.
The Brig Sophia, of Philadelphia, Capt. William Haselton, bound to Quebec, was cast-away on Isle Sable: The mate and two men went off in the Yawl and were taken up by a Marblehead fishing schooner, and are arrived at Salem. The Captain of the Brig and five hands were left on the island, with provisions.
On Tuesday the 5th instant, died at Falmouth, in Casco Bay, Mr. Moses Johnson, Student at Law, who was graduated at Harvard College, A. D. 1771.
DIED. Miss Mary Rogers, eldest daughter of Mr. Gamaliel Rogers. Mrs. Esther Hallowell, wife of Mr. William Hallowell, blacksmith. Mrs. Dorothy Stone, widow.
At Salem, Mrs. Wellman, wife of Mr. Stephen Webb. Mrs. Webb, wife of Mr. Stephen Webb. Mrs. Townsend, wife of Mr. Moses Townsend. And two children; all of the Small-pox. Mrs. Lambert, widow of Capt. Jonathan Lambert. At Kittery, Rev. Mr. John Rogers.
WEDNESDAY, October 28. BOSTON.
Yesterday arrived here Captain SCOTT, in the Brig Dolphin, from London, by whom and by the Snow Sir William Johnston, Capt. Dean, arrived at New-York, we have the following
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, August 17.
THE Premier said a few days ago, that there would be very little business for parliament the ensuing winter, and that for once he might promise himself a serene session. We know he is a great prophet, therefore hope the above will turn out a true prophecy.
Letters from South-America say, that in that part of the world, the seas swarm with Spanish men of war, which come there in order to re-establish the Spaniards in their former possessions in the Island of Lucunia, out of which they have been drove by the Chilians and Sengles, the natives of that place. The same letters say, that the Spaniards will find a difficult matter to carry their desire into execution, as they are a powerful and numerous people, and have fortified the city of Baldivia, and other places, being determined not to live under the Spanish government, having severely felt the cruelty of the Alceides for many years past, which was the real cause of murdering them to free themselves from the Spanish yoke.
A great perionage, we hear, is very averse to a change in the ministry, though it is said he has been solicited to it by those who are now in office, who are ready to resign if they can contribute to the welfare of the nation by so doing. A change of measures it is thought will take place this winter.
Some people of rank, it is said, are deputed to go over to Boston to settle matters there in as amicable manner as is possible; though the authority and dignity of their sovereign is to be strictly supported.
August 19 It is pretty confidently asserted, that a consultation of physicians was held at Kew, on Monday last, on her Majesty's health, and that the cold bath was prescribed to be used as soon as ever it is ascertained her not being pregnant, though the contrary is suspected, which must retard the operations.
A great and amiable lady has lately received a rare and valuable present from the Grand Signior, without having any previous
notice of it; and it is said there have been many deliberations about the propriety of her accepting at all such a gift from one whom this nation is rendering, by aiding, in some respects, the Empress of Russia.
The people have been in expectation a long time of Lord Lyttleton's becoming a part of administration; but we are told he possesses too many of the patriotic qualities of Lord Chatham to accede to the terms of admittance; it is therefore now expected, that the same Jacks will remain in office, and the same measures be pursued as have been for some time past. Quere, will the people remain in the same temper?
How contemptible must that Governor be in the colonies, observes a correspondent, whose honour and veracity are so far doubted, that a full Board of Council and General Assembly should unanimously resolve not to suffer him to take certain original letters and papers into his own hands, least instead of returning, he should destroy them? which appear to have been the case with the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Boston, by the minutes of his Majesty's Council and Journals of the Assembly lately come over from that province.
HAMBURGH, [Germany] August 25 Advices received here from good authority assure us, that the Russian army is in such very bad condition after repassing the Danube, that it will probably be unable to continue the projected operations of the campaign.
LONDON, August 21. A miniature picture of his Royal Highness the Bishop of Osnaburgh, ornamented with jewels, is now preparing by an eminent artist, intended as a present to the Princess Sophia, her Majesty's sister, at the court of Mecklenburgh.
August 22. Yesterday a board of admiralty was held, at the breaking up of which expresses were sent to the several dock-yards of Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham and Sheerness.
The friends of Governor Hutchinson, and the servile followers of the ministry, knowing that the inhabitants of the mother country, from their being unacquainted with the secret motions, and the peculiar facts, which render the letters of the Boston Governor an insult and a treachery to the majesty of the people of his government, have artfully published his letters to Mr. Grenville, hoping that the apparent innocence of their contents will clear him in the general opinion. The gudgeons who are caught by this bait are simple indeed. A little patience will shew that these letters were obliquely designed to aid the establishment of a system of local government, the most arbitrary in its nature, and the most infamous in its purposes, that ever was planned.
America shews signs of a firm resistance to arbitrary government, and unconstitutional innovation: A conduct like this of the present Americans would have done honour to the most virtuous republic which antient history records.
According to authentic letters received at Hamburgh, the Russians gained a great advantage over the Turks the 6th of July; but on the 9th of the same month they were beaten in their turn, before Silistria. Several bodies of Turks, one of which was commanded by the Grand Vizir, at the head of the Janissaries, having surrounded the Russians; the latter repulsed them four different times; but the Turks returning again to the charge, overturned the enemy and gained the victory. Nevertheless, by the wise conduct of General Weiffman, who lost his life in the engagement, the Russians repassed the Danube without being pursued, which seems to denote that the loss was very great on both sides.
August 23. At the drawing room at St. James's on Thursday last, there were but eight ladies present, four of whom are in waiting. This extraordinary circumstance it is thought, was owing to the general opinion of the Queen's illness, which we have the pleasure to acquaint the public is now over, and that her Majesty's health seems to be thoroughly established.
Although the masters of all the New-York ships have refused to carry over the tea with the duty still remaining on it, yet is said that one K——, formerly a sutler at New-York, and a —— Mr. Butler, who in the last war belonged to one of the commissaries in America, are in treaty to transport any quantity of tea, if the India Company will give them a certain commission for selling it when in America. It was said of Lord Shelburne's administration his being led away by low lived, self interested, and designed men, who had neither character nor anything else to lose when they were detected in their ignorance and misinformations: It is greatly to be hoped that Lord Dartmouth will not fall into the same error; nor the
India Company, on this particular occasion, of exporting their tea.
We are credibly informed, that a strong memorial has been sent to the Earl of Grantham, at Madrid, to demand a categorical answer for continuing the great naval armaments in that kingdom, without any apparent signs of hostilities in the Mediterranean seas.
Aug 24. We are told, that the ministry notwithstanding all their boasted affection for his Majesty's person, passed the coinage-act to convince the public that they were no strangers to the extreme levity of the king's head.
The American Letters which have appeared in our papers of Governor Hutchinson and Mr. Oliver, were not sent, as it is reported, to the late Hon. George Grenville, Esq; but to Mr. Whateley, after whose death they were procured in a very extraordinary manner from his brother.
It is said the Colony agents have been given to understand, that if any further opposition is made to the measures of government, the several bounties paid for the encouragement of American produce, on their importation to Great-Britain, may probably be withdrawn.
It is reported that an Ambassador from the Grand Signior is very shortly expected in England, and that no definitive resolution will be taken in regard to the war between the Turks and Russians till he arrives.
It is reported that some important and unexpected business is to be taken into consideration by the cabinet to morrow, relative to recent dispatches from the Courts of France and Spain.
August 25. Lord Chatham is now in a better state of health than he has been for many years past.
The spirit of opposition to government, which has arisen in Ireland, is surprising. The patriots, tired of those little factions into which they used to be divided, are uniting in a formidable and firm body, for the business of the next session of parliament; to that the Lord Lieutenant expects very warm work, and it is hoped he will not be disappointed.
Nothing can more evidently prove the ill conduct or mismanagement of the affairs of the East-India Company, than their becoming exporters of tea to America; a paltry transaction, unworthy of one of the greatest associated bodies in Europe! How are the mighty fallen!
August 26. Yesterday there was a full board of Admiralty, at which Lord Sandwich assisted, and some fresh instructions were sent to the commissioners of the different dock-yards, for expediting the men of war intended for the Mediterranean service.
The repeated accounts received by the ministry of the great preparations making by the Spaniards, not only in their naval departments, but also in their land forces, which are considerably augmented, has occasioned some fresh instructions to be sent to the Governor of Gibraltar and Minorca, and also to Sir Peter Dennis, commander of his Majesty's fleet on that station.
The frequency of couriers passing to and from the different courts of Europe, with the different conferences and cabinet councils held, give reason to think something extraordinary is on the carpet.
An offer has been made on the part of the Porte, highly advantageous to the commerce of these kingdoms, on certain conditions, which are now under consideration; and a resolution is said to be taken, to have and keep up a respectable squadron in the Mediterranean.
The last letters from Senegal advise, that two of his Majesty's frigates had been sent to Sierra Leone, to make a strict inquiry into several irregularities said to be committed by the French traders.
Capt. Jenkins, of the Favourite, arrived at Salonica from Constantinople, give an account of a French frigate of 30 guns being arrived at Salonica, in twenty days from Marseilles, the Captain of which says the French had declared war against the Tunisians.
Orders are given from the War Office, for three regiments of foot, to hold themselves in readiness, to embark on the first notice, for New-England.
For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y. To the Gentlemen, Merchants and Traders of this Province.
GENTLEMEN, AS the general topic of conversation has lately been relative to some quantities of TEA, said to be shipped by the East-India company for this place, New-York and Philadelphia; it has been expected that the merchants and traders would have called a meeting before now on this occasion. For, my brethren, I take it to be
a matter of great consequence to our trade, and it may prove to have a dangerous tendency, and which deserves your most serious attention and deliberation.
If, my brethren, the government had taken off the three pence Sterling per pound duty on importation in America, which was generally thought would have taken place, then the East-India might have attempted this plan with a better face; but while that duty remains a burthen on us, and is for the sole purpose of a revenue, to me it appears, that the evil is so obvious, that it requires no explanation at this time.
The operation of the sale of this Tea when it arrives, may also produce very bad effects; if the gentlemen who are entrusted with this commission, should pretend to sell it by the single chest or smaller quantities, then it will affect a great number of gentlemen who used to import tea, as it will certainly deprive them of the benefit they used to make of the sale of that article—and should any arrive soon, and the article admitted for sale, Tea being now scarce, the East-India company will find a profit on it so as to encourage them to continue their exportations, which I presume will fully supply us, and those gentlemen that have dealt in that article will altogether be deprived of the benefit arising from such business.
Another consequence that will further attend it; by degrees it will drain us of most, if not all our present circulating cash. This is so great an evil, that should it take place, it will in the course of a few years ruin this province, and put us to the necessity of applying to government for a paper currency again. This we formerly found to be so big with many evils and inconveniences, and even the ruin of many distressed widows, orphans, and others, by the depreciation of paper currency, that I even shudder at the thoughts of it.
I am sensible there may be plausible arguments against this position, but at present my design is not to enter into any in this letter, but if any appears, they will be answered with moderation and candour.
For the above reasons and many more that may be added, and for your own interest and preservation, I think it very necessary to beg you will no longer delay to call a General Meeting of the Merchants and Traders together, that they may seriously consider of this momentous affair. I beg you will do nothing precipitately, but I think you may safely follow the example of your brethren at New-York and Philadelphia.
I am, Gentlemen, your most humble servant, A MERCHANT.
NEW FLOUR, To be SOLD, by Samuel Bradstreet, North side the Town Dock.
TO-MORROW MORNING, At TEN o'clock, Will be Sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, At the Auction Room in Queen-street,
A VARIETY of House furniture, belonging to a gentleman going to London, among which are, a mahogany chest on chest drawers, bureaus, desks, tables, chairs, looking glasses, several four post bedsteads, with some excellent feather beds, carpets, kitchen furniture, one trunk of men's wearing apparel, glass and china ware, &c. &c.
J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer. At private sale,
Two neat chaise with harness complete, also, an assortment of superfine, common and low priced broad cloths, ratteens, coatings, Irish linens, brown taffetas of the best kind, and a variety of other GOODS.
New Auction-Room, Cornhill. On TUESDAY next, At TEN o'clock in the MORNING, Will be SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE, At GREENLEAF's Auction-Room, in CORNHILL,
A LARGE and valuable assortment of English, Scotch, and Irish GOODS.
W. GREENLEAF, Auctioneer. The particulars will be in the Monday's papers. N. B. For private sale, at the prime cost, a few pieces of exceeding fine Irish linens very well bought, sundry superfine broad cloths, of good colours, a variety of silks and other fresh goods.
To be LET, A Handsome end of a HOUSE, in Milk-street, near the head of Cross-street. Enquire at the Golden Ball. —Where is to be Sold.
The best of old Sterling Madeira Wine, by the gallon or Dozen; likewise the best of Old Jamaica Spirits by the gallon or larger quantity.

BOSTON. On Monday last there was a general review of the Militia in the county of Middlesex at Cambridge, under the command of General Brattle; there were present, his Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; Admiral Montagu, and a number of gentlemen from this and the neighbouring towns.
Monday last being the anniversary of his Majesty's accession to the throne, the same was observed here by the discharge of the cannon on board the men of war in port.
Capt. Scott in the ship Haley, failed from London with Capt. Scott.
Capt. Hall was to sail in about a fortnight, and the Captains Sheppard and Bruce in about a month after Capt. Scott.
With Capt. Scott came passenger, Capt. MacFarland.
Capt. Scott was offered the tea intended to be sent here, as were several Captains of vessels for this port, but they all refused taking it on board. It was not thought when he left London that the East India company would send any tea, fearing it would meet with a reception not at all to their advantage in America.
There was the most terrible storm in England on the 13th of August, accompanied with thunder and the severest lightning that had been known there for a number of years; many persons were killed in and about London, much damage was done to many public buildings, as well as private houses; several vessels were cast away, the crews of some of which perished.
The inhabitants of New-York have had a meeting, at which they drew up an address to the Captains of those London vessels who refused taking the tea on board, expressing their thanks therefor.
Thursday the 25th of November next, is appointed by authority to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving throughout Connecticut. The Letters of Tho. Hutchinson, Andw. Oliver, &c. which had a tendency to subvert the constitution of this province, were republished in many of the London papers; and were a topic of much conversation there.
MARRIED Mr. Nathaniel Davis Printer, to Miss Ruth Thayer, of Braintree.
DIED Mrs. Patience Cazneau, wife of Mr. William Cazneau, Merchant, young daughter of the late Capt. John Hamock Wine Merchant, deceased.
PHILADELPHIA, October 8. Advice being received that the East-India company, notwithstanding the virtuous resolution of the Americans not to import tea, while it remained subject to the payment of a duty in America, had resolved to send out a large quantity of tea, on their own account and risque, in order to be sold in this and the neighbouring provinces, the inhabitants of this city, assembled at the State-house, on Saturday last, and unanimously entered into the following resolves, viz.
RESOLVED , That the disposal of their own property is the inherent right of freemen; that there can be no property in that which another can, of right, take from us without our consent; that the claim of parliament to tax America, is, in other words, a claim of right to levy contributions on us at pleasure.
II. That the duty imposed by Parliament upon tea landed in America, is a tax on the Americans, or levying contributions on them, without their consent.
III. That the express purpose for which the tax is levied on the Americans, namely, for the support of government, administration of justice, and the defence of his Majesty's dominions in America, has a direct tendency to render assemblies useless, and introduce arbitrary government and slavery.
IV. That a virtuous and steady opposition to this ministerial plan of governing America is absolutely necessary to preserve even the shadow of liberty; and is a duty which every freeman in America owes to his country, to himself, and to his posterity.
V. That the resolution lately entered into by the East India company, to send out their tea to America, subject to the payment of duties on its being landed here, is an open attempt to enforce the ministerial plan, and a violent attack upon the liberties of America.
VI. That it is the duty of every American to oppose this attempt.
VII. That whoever shall directly or indirectly countenance this attempt; or in any wise aid or abet in unloading, receiving, or vending the tea sent, or to be sent out, by the East India company, while it remains subject to the payment of a duty here, is an enemy to his country.
VIII. That a committee be immediately chosen to wait on those gentlemen, who it is reported, are appointed by the East India company to receive and sell said tea, and request them, from a regard to their own character, and the peace and good order of the city and province, immediately to resign their appointment.
By Letters from London and from good authority, we are assured that the East India company have determined upon sending three vessels with tea, one of them for Boston another for Philadelphia, and the third for this port, and it is most confidently expected, that no duty will be paid upon these teas in America. [Yo k G z]
DIED M. Samuel Ridgway: His funeral will be attended this afternoon, when his wife and children are desired to attend.
This day was published, Price 7 coppers single, and 20s. O T the dozen, [Illustrated with a neat Engraving, of the WICKED STATESMAN, or the TRAITOR to his Country, at the hour of DEATH.]
And to be SOLD by ISAIAH THOMAS, At his Printing-Office, near the Market, and at his Shop, near the Mill Bridge.
THE Massachusetts Calendar; OR, AN ALMANACK For the Year of our Lord CHRIST, 1774; Being the second after Leap Year. By EZRA GLEASON.
Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, New-England, lat. 42. deg. 23 min. north, but will serve, in most respects, for Nova-Scotia and the four New-England Governments.
This Almanack contains one quarter part more than Almanacks generally do, and is embellished with that which will make it both Useful and Entertaining.
CONTAINING, A short piece on Patriotism, or the Love of one's Country, (with an Engraving.)
The four Seasons of the Year, exhibiting the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, and the parts of the Body governed thereby, (with a cut.)
The names of the Planets and Aspects; Eclipses for the year 1774; Names and Characters of the Twelve Signs; Remarkable Days; Time of the Superior and Inferior Courts sitting in the four New-England Governments; Sun's rising and setting; Time of High Water Morning and Evening; Moon's Rising and Setting; Changes of the Moon; Time of the Sun's entering the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac; Judgment of the Weather; Vulgar Notes for the year 1774. A L S O,
Of the Sun; of the Earth; of the Visibility of Matter; of the Fixed Stars.
An Account of a Woman's being killed by an Erruption from the Earth, in a most remarkable manner; some Remarkable Sayings; Miscellanies; Maxims, which every person ought to bear in mind; some Directions in Husbandry.
THE UNBELIEVER'S CREED. Useful and Approved Receipts, viz. for a Billious Cholick; for an Astmatick Cough; From the Ear-Ach from Cold; a very good Eye Water; for the Falling Sickness; for a Flux; for the Gout in the Stomach; for the Gravel; for the Ick; for Sore and Running Legs; for the Measles; for the Cholick in Children; to prevent Sea-Sickness; a new Cure for the Tooth-Ach, in a Letter.
Some pieces of POETRY, viz. the entertaining Tale of the FARMER'S BLUNDER; on the Twelve Signs; What is Man? the Lutanist; the King of Europe, a jest. LIKewise,
Roads to the several Principal Towns in her province, and the Continent, and the best Houses of Entertainment, and the Distance they are at from the State-House, in Boston, also the distance from one place to another.
Bookfellers, Shopkeepers, Traders, &c. may be supplied on very advantageous terms, to sell again, by the Hundred, Groce or Dozen.
To be SOLD, A LIKELY healthy slave, about eighteen years of age, he is fit for any kind of labour. For further particulars, enquire of the Printer.
CYRUS BALDWIN, Hereby informs his customers and others, that he has to sell cheap for cash at his shop in Cornhill, near the State house in Boston;
CHOICE Sauchong and Hyson tea, pepper, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, mace, and nutmeg; best Kippen's snuff and indigo. Six muffs and tippets, furr ditto, looking glasses. Superfine scarlet drab cloth for men's cloaks, with scarlet cloths of all prices. Superfine, midling, and low priced, broadcloths.
Kersey, ratteens, bea skins, lambs skins and beaver coatings, with trimmings to match them, bazzes and flannels.
A fine assortment of shallons, tamies and durants, a large assortment of worsted hosiery, silk thread and cotton ditto, silk and worsted, silk and cotton mixed ditto.
Furniture and other calicoes, carpers and carpeting, couch plads, English shoes, clogs and gaiters.
Children's Morocco shoes, Lyon shoes, and Gaiters, with a general assortment of goods suitable for all seasons. All cheap for cash.
Insurance on Vessels and Goods. AT the Insurance Office of EZEKIEL PRICE near the Exchange, INSURANCE, May be made on vessels, cargoes, and private adventures, at VERY LOW PREMIUMS, full one quarter part less than formerly. Note well—In case of loss the Insurance will be PUNCTUALLY PAID.
Now in the Press and almost finished. THE Master-Key to Popery; containing 300 pages, price only 3s. and 6d. to those who subscribe before the work is done; afterwards the price will be more.—It will positively be completed and read to delivery to the subscribers, the beginning of November. Subscriptions are taken in by SOLOMON SOUTHWICK, in Newport and by the Printer hereof.
To be LET, A COMMODOIOUS, genteel, Dwelling house in Waite's street, near Doctor Byles's meeting house, with a garden, yard, and a good well of water. Enquire at the sign of the Swan in Orange street, fourth end of Boston.
Duncan Ingraham, jun. Has just received, per the Dolphin, Capt. Scott, from London.
A VARIETY of lambkins, beavers, and coatings for fursuits, which, (with a very genteel assortment of European Goods before on hand) he will sell great penny worths, at his shop in Union Street, Boston. N.B. A few elegant china patterns just arrived to be sold it soon applied for, uncommon low. Hyson tea, none supeior, China ware, Kippen's snuff, &c. &c.
MR. FLAGG begs leave most respectfully to acquaint the public that having obtained leave of the gentlemen Selectmen for the use of Faneuil Hall, he intends, THIS EVENING, To perform a GRAND CONCERT of vocal and instrumental music, the Band to be led by Mr. MORGAN. The first Part.—Periodical Overture. Hunting Song. Harpsichord Concerto. The Grand Chorus of Hallelujah from the oratorio of the Messiah. The second Part.—Coronation Anthem. Solo violin. Song and chorus the Hero comes Overture. Concerto. Liberty song and chorus. There will be upwards of fifty performers.
Tickets to be had at Messrs. Cox and Berry's Lee and Roberts's, and at the Printer's hereof at half a dollar each.
As Mr. Flagg is about to leave this province soon, he begs the assistance of his friends and acquaintance to enable him to do it in an independent manner.
SILENT WILDE, Hereby informs his former customers and others THAT he hath engaged to ride from Boston to Northampton, Deerfield, &c. for the term of one year, beginning from third week of November next, and to carry each one that shall employ him, one of the Boston weekly news-papers, &c. as usual during said time, at two dollars each: To ride once a fortnight the one half of the year, and the other half every week: One dollar to be paid him at the end of six months, the other at the year's end. He desires all those that incline to take the news-papers of him, that they would leave their names at the taverns, in the respective towns where they reside, and they may depend upon being punctually served therewith. On suitable encouragement he proposes to ride through Westminster, Templeton, &c.
Travelling Traders, &c. are requested to call at RUSSELL's Printing-Office, next the Cornfield, Union-street, where is this day published, price 3 coppers, (adorned with three plates, representing the execution, the Minister, and Levi Ames) A DIALOGUE between Christ, Priest, Prisoner, Death, and the Devil, occasioned by the trial, condemnation, and execution of Levi Ames, aged 21 years. Particularly adapted for the recluse of Youth in this degenerate age. At the same place may be had, The Execution Hymn, which was sung to Levi Ames and a considerable audience, assembled at the prison, on the Tuesday evening before his execution, and was designed to have been sung at the gallows: To which is annexed, The Christian Exercises and Dying Soliloquy, or the comfortable hope and wonderful conversion of Levi Ames, which was read to him and approved of, before his execution. May be also had, Almanacks for 1774.
On THURSDAY next, At ELEVEN o'Clock, Will be Sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, At BICKER's Auction-Room, Near the Conduit.
A GREAT variety of GOODS, as usual. M. BICKER, Auctioneer.
TICKETS for Mr. FLAGG's CONCERT, which is to be this evening at Faneuil Hall, are sold by the Printer hereof.
This day published, Price 7 coppers single, and 3s and 4d per dozen. And to be sold by
MILLS & HICKS, At their Printing Office in School Street, BICKERSTAFF's Boston ALMANACK, for the year of our Redemption 1774; being the second after leap year, the fourteenth of the reign of GEORGE III, and from the creation of the world, according to the best history, 5774, but the 78th from the horrid, Posh, High church Jacobine Plot. Wherein may be found all the necessary, useful, and fitting for such a work. Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, N. E. lat. 42. 25. N. To which is added,
I. The Head of OTEGOOWCOOW, Son of a New-Zealand Chief. II. The Head of a Chief of New-Zealand, according to their custom. III. A representation of a WAR CANOE of New-Zealand, that was between 50 and 60 feet long, rowed with 18 paddles, and adorned with a very fine head, two large eyes, a heart-shaped tongue, and feet and hands carved very neatly; all engraved on copper. IV. Head of KING GEORGE II. V. Head of his present Majesty, KING GEORGE III. VI. The ANATOMY of MAN'S BODY, as governed by the Twelve Constellations.
CONTENTS. The preface; wherein the Author complains of the caprices and prejudices of mankind; and particularly of the prerogative assumed, by Printers, over persons of his character and occupation, who traverse superior regions, and are proper Inhabitants of another World: After apologising for his preface-writing, he draws a simile between the compiler of an ALMANACK and a MIDWIFE; and concludes with a curious Disquisition of the word Almanack.
Vacations at Harvard college. Thoughts on several subjects.
An account of the natives of New-Zealand, from a journal of a voyage to the South-Sea, in his majesty's ship the Endeavour, faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sidney Parkinson, Draughtsman to Joseph Banks, Esq; on his late expedition round the World, by John Hawkesworth, L. L. D. [a book so highly esteemed, that the author received 6000 guineas for the copy]
Humerous poetical lines by a gentleman who lived in the neighbourhood of some Iron mills, and had a wife, whose larum was too loud. The Wager.
The direct lineal descent of George III. and an ode addressed to his majesty.
A character of England, said to have been found among the posthumous papers of St. Everemont.
A curious method of lightening a ship in a storm.
Obliquity of the ecliptic for the first day of each month in the year; time of the sun's entrance into the twelve signs; eclipses; vulgar notes; calendar; judgment of the weather; sun's rising and setting; moon's place, rising, setting, full and change; time of high water, morning and Evening.
Distances of the principal towns on the continent from Boston, with the intermediate distances, in computed miles, and the best houses for travellers to put up at.
Time of the Superior and Inferior Courts sitting in the provinces of Massachusetts Bay, New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island and Connecticut.
The Lawyers fair. Friends yearly meetings. A useful table of interest.
An account of the inhabitants of Otaheite, another newly discovered Island in the South Seas, containing, among many other particulars, a description of a most extraordinary society, called the ARREOY, the members of which have assented to a scale of dissolute sensuality wholly unknown to every other nation whose manners have been recorded from the beginning of the world to the present hour; and which no imagination could possibly conceive; it is composed of both sexes, and every woman is common to every man; the moment any of these women are delivered of a child, it is smothered, to prevent its being an incumbrance to the parents, &c.
The fatal effects of revenge.
The art of dying worsteds, cottons, linens, &c. of various colours. How to make flax soft and mellow. Waters for taking out spots in cloth, and for taking off spots in the face and prevent the hands from chopping. How to remove freckles, sunburn, tan and pimples in the face. A fine water for beautifying the face. Receipts for curing worms, the itch, gout, bite of a mad dog, &c.

POETS CORNER.
For the MASSACHUSETTS S P Y.
M. THOMAS,
I find you a few paradoxical remarks on the last piece emitted from Poet's Corner, the 14th instant, not altogether incongruous to the pathetic sentiments of the author: As to the congruity, or pertinency of the performance, I must leave it to the captious reader to determine.
The PARADOX.
A P O E M.
A DAM in Paradise was free To taste the fruit of ev'ry tree, But one, and only one, we're told, That grew within the sacred fold. The scene is alter'd since his fall! Some are forbid to eat at all! But like CAMELEONS live on air, Or starve for want of better fare! Th' Apostle says, the rule is good, He that wont work, shall lack his food— True Master PAUL! but in this age We're wiser grown, and do preface Industry more than idleness The public now may prejudice! Wherefore to work is deem'd a crime, More than the moiety of our time! The hour is fix'd, as by a line, He that exceeds, must pay a fine! Th' industrious BEE indeed may mourn This loss of time! but ev'ry drone Will bless the head that did contrive, To banish labour from the hive! He'll boast in triumph! without dread, Devour the sweet, he never made! From work (thro' all the summer) pause, Like Bears in winter—fuck his claws! Hence join the chorus of the day, As work's a sin—'tis best to play. FINIS.
Irish Linens.
Just arrived in Capt. SMITH, from Liverpool A Variety 3-4ths, 7-8ths, and yard wide Irish Linens of all prices. These Linens are remarkably low charged, and are to be sold at the lowest prices for cash only.—At the store lately improved by Mr. William Beatty, deceased.
Elm Trees.
WANTED IMEDIATELY A Number of young thirsty Elm Trees, those commonly called English Elms, for which a good price will be given.—Enquire of the Printer.
ALL persons who have any demands on the estate of JOHN BECHAM, late of Charlestown, deceased, are hereby required to bring in their accounts to John Becham sole executor, to the said estate.—All such as are indebted to the said estate, either by book, bond, or note, are desired to make immediate payment to the said Executor.
TO BE SOLD,
A Farm in the town of Maiden, which contains sixty-five Acres of good improved Land. Enquire of JOHN BECHAM, in Charlestown.
THIS is to notify the proprietors of Pearson-town in the county of Cumberland, that at a legal meeting of said proprietors held at Falmouth in said county on the 20th day of April 1773, a tax of twelve shillings lawful money was voted to be raised on each proprietors right for the support of the minister, and other charges of carrying forward the settlement of said township, and to request them to pay said tax, to Ephraim Jones, of said Falmouth, Treasurer of said propriety, otherwise their rights will be advertised for sale as the law directs.
ENOCH FREEMAN, } MOSES PEARSON } Committee, STEPH. LONGFELLOW, } Falmouth, October 14, 1773.
Isaiah Thomas,
INFORMS the public that he has REMOVED his PRINTING-OFFICE from the Corner of Marshall's Lane, near the Mill-bridge, to the Foot of Royal Exchange-Lane, the room improved for sixteen years past, for an Auction Room.
Windlasses.
WILLIAM SMITH , Shipwright, begs leave to inform such Merchants or Captains that want Windlasses, that he has improved on the late patent Windlass, and has contrived a new plan by which two men will have a strain equal to seven in less time, and fixed the palls to catch twenty-four times in once going round. This Windlass will not cost as much money as the late patent windlass, by at least one fourth, and the improvement may be fixed to any common windlass, with a power far greater than the late patent windlass. The model has been surveyed by several gentlemen, who unanimously agree that it is the greatest improvement yet made.—Gentlemen by directing for William Smith, at Miss. Bean's in King-street, Boston, shall be immediately waited on.
N. B. The said Smith plans, draws and constructs all sorts of vessels and oversees them while building, being versed in constructing ships or vessels for most trades, having served a regular apprenticeship to one of the best at Stitt in the River Thames.
Andrew Newell,
MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER From LONDON.
At his Shop just below the Sign of Admiral VERNON, in King-Street, Boston, IMPORTS and SELLS,
A Great variety of Pocket Cases of drawing instruments, long and short hand drawing pens, brass compasses with shifting points, plain ditto beam compasses for drawing large circles, bowes for drawing curved lines, sets of feather-edge scales in brass, ivory or wood, plain ditto or plotting ditto in ditto, gunters two feet and one foot scales in brass and wood, protractors of all sorts, parallel ruler from six to thirty-six inches, circumferentors, the principal instrument for surveying, plain tables for ditto, Theodolites for ditto, four and two pole surveying chains, measuring wheels for surveyors, horizontal sun dials for all latitudes, universal sun dials, Barometers, ditto Thermometers in one frame, pocket ditto in flag een cases, spirit thermometers in box scales for houses, hydrometers in ivory, ditto in copper with weights, &c. for proving spirits.
A great variety of Dollon's patent telescopes from one to four feet in length, Achromatic opera and perspective glasses, spy glasses of various lengths with four or six glasses, microscopes for viewing linen, Wilson's pocket ditto, flowered pocket ditto, Diagonal machine for viewing of prints, large book ditto, variety of prints for ditto, reading glasses set in frames, concave in ditto for short-sighted persons, burning ditto in ditto, watch-makers glasses in ditto, microscope glasses for all ages.
STATIONARY.
Guinea Pilot, Streights ditto, West-India ditto, southern and Streights ditto, mariners calendar, mariners compasses, daily assistant, Guinea charts, Mercator charts from America, &c. Newfoundland and ditto, North-Carolina ditto, South Carolina ditto, Bay Chesapeake ditto, West-India ditto, Honduras ditto, Musquito shore ditto, maps of the city of London, best black lead pencils, ivory memorandum books with do. Journal books in marble covers, Journal ditto ruled, red Morocco pocket books with steel locks, black leather ditto with clasps, ass-skin memorandum books, leather ink holders, pewter ink pots, best patent cake ink, sealing wax and waters, best dutch quills, writing paper.
N. B. Genteel India joint walking canes with swords, box beam money scales with weights, &c.
A Variety of other instruments, too tedious to mention, are made, repaired and sold at the above place. Where any gentleman by letter or other direction, may depend on being as faithfully served as if present.
And as he had a thorough experience from one of the most noted artists in that branch in the city of London, he doubts not of giving ample satisfaction to every one who pleases to favour him with their custom, which will be gratefully acknowledged by their humble servant, ANDREW NEWELL.
At the neat Sterling Cost, A PARCEL of UPHOLSTERERS and other GOODS, are selling off by NATHANIEL LANGDON, at his Shop, in Cornhill, nearly opposite to the Post Office.
Imported in Capt. Calef from LONDON, by
Jonathan Williams,
A General Assortment of FALL GOODS,
Which, with those he has by him, he proposes to run off by Wholesale and Retail as soon as possible, he does not lay at the Sterling cost, nor at what advance, but requests his kind friends to favour him with a visit, that he may have an opportunity of shewing how reasonable his prices are according to the qualities of his Goods, and if they should think it advantageous to buy of him, he will be much obliged to them for their custom; if not, he cannot expect it.
HAIR Grograms, grizetts, mif-fineets, silk crapes, Demark lustres, Irish camblets, worsted grograms, poplins, camblets, calamancoes, taberes, tammies, durants, drawboys, Irish linens, diaper table cloths, cotton checks, laced satins, plain ditto, brown and yellow holland, toed and brocaded clogs, superfine Bath beavers, lambkins, frizes, rateens, duffil, blankets, baizer, German serges, embossed ditto, wainities, kerfies, cotton velvets, flannels, everlastings, cotton denims, serge ditto, shaloon, worsted mts and goves, breeches patterns, London and Lynn made women's shoes, a few best superfine 10-4ths. rose blankets, ermines, Capuchin furs of all colours, snail trimmings.
With a variety of other Articles. Note, he has by him a quantity of second, third and low priced Broad Cloths, which he will sell to great advantage by Wholesale, as he intends to deal principally in Superfines, of which he now has an elegant assortment, with every kind of trimming, particularly new fashioned buttons, just imported.
To be SOLD at the Shop of CHARLES LOWE, In Marshall's-Lane, facing the BOSTON-STONE,
Loaf and brown Melasses, Sugars, Cotton Wool, Rice, Indigo, Flour, Raisins, Pepper, Currants, Allspice, Figs, Nutmegs, Spermaceti Oil, Coffee, Dumb Fish, Tea, Indian and Rye Meal, Chocolate, &c. &c. &c.
EBENEZER SIORER, Informs his Customers that he has Imported from LONDON,
A n assortment of GOODS suitable for the Season, which he sells as usual at the lowest rates for Cash at his Store in Union-Street.—He has also to sell Choice Connecticut PORK.
Superfine Harry the Eigth and Merry Andrew C A R D S, Made by CHRISTOPHER BLANCHARD, London, are to be SOLD by CALEB BLANCHARD, in Union-street, BOSTON, by Large or Small quantities, Where ALSO may be had
A Large and fresh assortment of GOODS in the woollen, linen, silk, haberdashery and stationary way, just imported in the ship Mary-Ann, Capt. Symmes, from London.—He sells at the lowest prices. All favours are duly acknowledged.
For HULL and NEW-CASTLE, The brigantine WILLIAM and ELIZABETH, WILLIAM RUGGLES, MASTER, Laying at Wheelwright's wharf, will sail with all speed.—For freight or passage apply to the Master on board, or of Mr. HILLCOAT, at his lodgings at the widow Fosdick's.
CHARLES GEDDES, CLOCK and WATCHMAKER and FINISHER, from LONDON,
At his shop just below the sign of ADMIRAL VERNON, in King-street, Boston, makes, mends, cleans, repairs and finishes all sorts of CLOCKS and WATCHES in the best and neatest manner and on the most reasonable terms.
WANTED, IMMEDIATELY, FIFTY POUNDS Lawful Money, for which good security will be given. Enquire of the Printer.
Extreme Cheap for Cash.
Just arrived in Capt. Calef from LONDON, and now ready for sale at the Shop of
Duncan Ingraham, jun.
In Union Street, Boston. A complete Assortment of EUROPEAN GOODS, That are well bought, Wholesale and Retail, Constant attendance is given, and every favour duly acknowledged,
Among his Goods are the following, viz. SUPERFINE , middling and low priced broad cloths, with suitable trimmings, German serges, kerfies, bearskins, coating, bath beavers, lambkins, duffil, rateens, Yorkshire plains, flannels, Colchester and drapery baizes, halfthicks, in boxed serge, 6 4, 7-4, 8 4, 9-4 and 10-4 blankets, Tripped ditto, whitneys, a complete assortment of mens womens and childrens hose, milled gloves and caps, 3 4 and half all plain and figured satins, capuchin silks, English and India tasaties, persians, sarinets, crapes, poplins, Denmark lustres, messineus, grazes, brolios, budetts, jubilees, dorsetteens, camblets, cambleteens, figured stuffs, shalloons, tammies, durants, calamancoes, figured and plain drawboys, twild velvets, velveretts, black russell, quilted petticoats, white loom quilting checks, Irish linens all widths, dowlas, bedticks, diaper and damask table linen, womens and childrens pompadour, blue and purple satin leather gloves worked backs, mens best buck gloves, gauze handkerchiefs satin borders, furniture checks, Russia and raven duck, sicklenburgh, osnaburgs, Russia drabs, diapers, bandanno and romall handkerchiefs, carpets and carpeting, calicoes, gauzes, cutguts, nettings, silk mts and gloves, mullins, fatinets, fustians, jeans, cambricks, lawns, ivory and horn combs, penknives, razors, scissars, thimbles, worsted and cruel, childrens red and green morocco shoes and pumps; bone, blond and troll laces, chevaux de frise lace, snails pins, needles, writing and Royal board paper, bindings, sewing silks and all other goods usually imported from Europe.
N. B. Bibles, testament, spelling books, psalters and primmers, cinnamon, nutmegs, cloves, mace, China ware, best Hyson tea, clogs, goloshes, English and Lynn shoes, very genteel muffs and fur trimmings, boys white and black fur beaver caps, plumes for ladies riding hats, merry Andrew and Highlander playing cards, pound beads, &c. &c. &c.
TO BE LET,
A convenient Dwelling-house, with a shop in the front, in Prince-street, leading to Charlestown ferry, said house has two lower rooms, four chambers, a good cellar, and an excellent well of water in the yard. For particulars apply to HENRY PRENTISS,
Who has to SELL, At his Store on the Head of GREEN's wharf, Choice French Indigo, Loaf and brown Sugar, Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Pepper, Spices of all sorts, Rice, West-India Rum, Albany Peas, Logwood, Redwood, Copperas, Port and Frontineac Wine, Raisins, Oil by the Jar, Barcelona Handkerchiefs; a few pieces of Striped Muslin, Muslin Handkerchiefs and Cravats—cheap for cash as can be bought at any store in town.
A Prime assortment of Padusoy, Ducapes, Luestrings; plain and figured Satins. Damasks, Sarinets, &c.—Superfine, fashionable coloured Broad Cloths, with suitable Linings and Trimings,
To be sold at an exceeding low rate, by JOHN BARRETT & 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, Extreamly cheap for cash or short credit.
NARRAGANSETT CHEESE.
Chocolate and Spermaceti Candles, Onions, Brown and Loaf Sugar, Glass Ware, Few English Goods, &c. &c. To be Sold by
Joseph P. Palmer, At Store No. 18, South side of the Town-Dock.
ALL persons indebted to the PRINTER hereof, would greatly oblige him, if they would discharge their small accounts, in order to enable him to pay some large debts, necessarily contracted to carry on his business.
At the Bottom of ROYAL EXCHANGE-LANE, near the MARKET, Duck-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. Small HAND-BILLS at an Hour's Notice. SUBSCRIPTIONS for the S P Y are also taken in by J. Larkin, Chairmaker, and Mr. W. Calder, Painter, in Charlestown; Mr. J. Hiller, Watchmaker, in Salem; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater; and by Dr. Elijah Hewins, in Stoughtonham.