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VOL. II.]
THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1772.
[NUMB. 69.
AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.
SAVANNAH, [in Georgia] April 29.
THE general assembly of this province met on Tuesday the 21st instant, when the Honorable Commons House made choice twice of Noble Wimberly Jones, Esq; to be their Speaker, but he was rejected by his Honour the President. Next day the House chose him a third time, when he declined taking the chair; then Archibald Bullock, Esq; was elected, who being presented to the President was approved of, and his Honour was pleased to deliver a Speech to both Houses, of which the following paragraph is an extract, viz.
"Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the assembly."
"IN a letter I have received from the Earl of Hillsborough, one of his Majesty's Secretaries of State, respecting the conduct of the assembly in February 1771, particularly in their imprisoning the Deputy Secretary, for declining to be examined by a committee of that assembly upon oath, and that of an unusual nature, I am commanded to signify to you his Majesty's disapprobation of the measures pursued by that assembly, and his firm resolution not to suffer the continuance of any assembly that shall adopt such unjustifiable claims, and presume to arrogate powers so dangerous to the liberty of the subject. And in another letter I have lately received from his Lordship, in respect to the proceedings of the late assembly, I have it also in command from the King to signify to you his Majesty's disapprobation of their conduct, in regard to the unwarrantable and unconstitutional doctrines and principles held forth in their resolution relative to the Governor's right of negativing the Speaker, and his Majesty's resolution to resist with firmness every attempt to violate the constitution; that his Majesty is, however, graciously disposed to believe that such doctrines are not the sense of the people in general, but that they have been taken up in a moment of inconsiderate heat, as they do not correspond with those sentiments of loyalty and duty so repeatedly expressed by his Majesty's faithful subjects in Georgia."
On Saturday the 25th, his Honour the President sent the following message to the Commons House.
"Council Chamber, 25th April 1772."
"Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the assembly."
"I AM extremely sorry to find by your journals that some very exceptional minutes are entered; I particularly mean, your third choice of Noble Wimberly Jones, Esq; as your Speaker, upon whom I had, agreeable to his Majesty's express directions, twice put a negative, and that your choice of your present Speaker was only in consequence of his declining the chair. If this minute is to stand upon your journals, I have no choice left but to proceed to an immediate dissolution; I therefore desire you will come to a present and speedy determination to recede from it; if you do, I shall with the most unfeigned satisfaction proceed to business, which you cannot but be sensible will be of the highest advantage to the province."
"I shall expect your immediate answer to this message, that my conduct may be regulated by it, and shall for that purpose remain in the Council Chamber."
JAMES HABERSHAM."
In consequence of the foregoing message, the following address, signed by the Speaker, was presented to his Honour the President, by Mr. Cochran and Mr. Farley.
"To his Honour JAMES HABERSHAM, Esq; President and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's province of Georgia, Chancellor and Vice Admiral, and Ordinary of the same."
"The Humble ADDRESS of the Commons House of Assembly."
"May it please your Honour."
"WE his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Georgia, in
General Assembly met, are very unhappy to find, by your message to us of this day, that any minutes entered in our journals, should be construed by your Honour in a manner so very different from the true intent and design of this House. Conscious we are, Sir, that our third choice of Noble Wimberly Jones, Esq; as our Speaker, was not in the least meant as disrespectful to his Majesty, or you his representative, nor thereby did we mean to infringe on the just prerogative of the Crown. We have seriously reconsidered that particular minute which seems to have given your Honour so much offence, and cannot perceive wherein it is contrary to the strict mode of parliamentary proceeding, or repugnant to any thing communicated to us by your Honour. We were hopeful that no further impediment would have arisen to retard the urgent business of the public, and still flatter ourselves that we may be permitted to do that justice to our constituents which they have a right to expect from us; and we do sincerely assure your Honour that it is our hearty wish and desire to finish the business recommended to us by you with all harmony and dispatch."
The same day his Honour the President desiring the immediate attendance of the House in the Council Chamber, the Speaker, with the whole House, attended his Honour accordingly, when he was pleased to make the following Speech, dissolving the Assembly, viz.
"Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the Assembly."
"WHEN we met in Assembly I was truly disposed to enter upon the public business in such a manner as to promote and facilitate, as much as in me lay, such matters as were immediately necessary for the welfare of the province, in which I hoped to be candidly assisted by every branch of the Legislature."
"As a proof of this on my part, I did, in a few hours after I was made acquainted with your choice of a Speaker, and before I had returned an answer to your message on that head, communicate to most of the members of your House his Majesty's instructions to me to put a negative on such person as should be chosen Speaker by you, and after giving you some time to consider, I then acted in obedience thereto, and directed you to proceed to the choice of some other person. Notwithstanding this, you a second time chose the same gentleman, and although I then ought to have proceeded to a dissolution of the Assembly, yet, out of tenderness to the province, and that the consequence of my taking such a step might be avoided, I ventured to put a second negative on him, and gave you directions once more to choose another person as your Speaker. Your next message acquainted me that you had proceeded to a choice, and upon your presenting Archibald Bullock, Esq; your present Speaker, I approved of him, and went upon the usual business of the session: But on finding by your journals that, previous to your choice of Archibald Bullock, Esq; you had a third time chosen Noble Wimberly Jones, Esq; your Speaker, and that only in consequence of his declining you had made your present choice, still anxious for the public good, and willing to remove every obstacle that might impede our acting together with that candour and harmony that I hoped would subsist between us, I communicated to your Speaker two days ago my exceptions to the minute entered on your journals respecting your third choice of Mr. Jones, and that I could not possibly proceed to business while it was suffered to remain."
"After so much time to deliberate on his head, I was in hopes not to have been under the necessity of sending you a message this morning, which I did that you might not plead you were unacquainted in a public manner with my objections, and that you would, by a ready acquiescence in what my
duty obliged me to require of you, have enabled me to have concurred with you in carrying on the public business. In this I am sorry I have been mistaken, and that the address you have presented to me, in answer to my message, by no means clear up the point in question, and obliges me, in pursuance of his Majesty's commands, to proceed to a dissolution of this assembly."
"From this clear and plain state of the fact as it stands between us, I think I may with great propriety submit it to the judgment of all good and unprejudiced men, whether the inevitable bad consequences to this province which I am certain will attend the step I must take, is the effect of my conduct or yours. I do therefore, pursuant to his Majesty's commands, dissolve this General Assembly, and the same is accordingly dissolved."
JAMES HABERSHAM."
KINGSTOWN, [Jamaica] April 18. The Model: man of war, which arrived at Port Royal, on Friday last, from a cruise, was we hear, near being lost, for going down on the Main to the leeward of Carthagena, she unfortunately touched upon a reef, where she beat her false keel off, and was obliged to throw several of her guns and stores overboard, but luckily, after continuing there near forty hours, she got off. And what is more agreeable to relate, they by aid of a new retracting instrument, invented by the ingenious and worthy commander, got their guns, stores and even their false keel aboard. So that we hope to see it recorded in the future annals of naval history, that Capt. Wheelock of his Majesty's ship of war, the Model, was the first commander that entered a Port with his keel on his deck.
NEW-LONDON, May 29. Captain Josiah Burnham, who arrived here last Friday from St. Vincents, on his passage the 20th instant, in Lat. 38. 00. Long. 70. 40. saw the wreck of a sloop bottom upwards, her keel considerably bruised as if she had lain much on the ground; her mast and bowsprit hanging to her by some rigging; the mast appeared to have been cut away near the deck, the bowsprit white as a new one, her bottom pitch, or pitch and sulphur; she appeared to be about 80 Tons, and lately wrecked. Capt. Burnham's boat being out of repair he could make no further discovery.
Last Sunday morning Mr. Clement Leach of this town was found dead in his bed.
Last Sunday night a barn belonging to Mr. David Harris, of Bozrah, in Norwich, was struck by lightning, which burnt the roof considerably; but some of the boards being ripped off by persons near at hand, the barn was preserved.
The same night a steer was killed by lightning at about half a mile distance from the above barn.
NEW-HAVEN, May 29. Last Tuesday, one Stephen Murray, (a Frenchman, who has resided here these ten or twelve years) was found hanging on a tree, near this place, with his neck dislocated. The Coroners Inquest brought in their verdict, SURCIDE.
NEWPORT, June 1. The brig Dolphin, Capt. Henry Weeden, bound on a voyage for wood, to bring to this Market, was cast away yesterday le'night, at the town of Westerly, in this colony, the vessel lost, rigging, sails, &c. saved. 'Tis said the loss of this vessel was occasioned by being detained a considerable time by one of the board of Commissioners cruisers, of which we hear there are, at this time, seven on this coast, including the Beaver and Gaspee now in this Harbour.
Poor New England!—The Spaniards taking your wharves in the West Indies, and your (pretended) friends taking and harassing your trade on your own coasts, and even in your Harbours and little Coves and Creeks!!!
NEW-YORK, June 1. Capt. Dobbs, in 18 days from Coracoa, informs, that the Spaniards on the Spanish Main, had taken several Dutch vessels belonging to Coracoa, and that two sloops, of twelve guns, and completely manned, were fitted out there, in order to protect their trade on the Main.
PHILADELPHIA, May 28. The Scotch Presbyterian Church in Spruce-street, we hear, is to be opened for public worship this Evening, at seven o'clock, when a Charity Sermon will be preached, in order to expedite the finishing said Church.
By Captain Scott, in six weeks from Lisbon, we are informed, that about ten days before he failed, a severe shock of an Earthquake was felt in that city, which greatly alarmed the inhabitants; and about a week afterwards they had another shock, but not so violent as the former.
By Captain Inkson from Grenada, we learn, that a few days before he failed, Governor Leyborne issued a proclamation, setting forth, that if the French inhabitants did not take the oath of Allegiance to his Majesty, within 25 days from the date thereof, they must depart that Island; unless they gave sufficient reasons for the contrary.
From the PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE.
To the PRINTERS.
Cecil County, Maryland, May 11, 1772. I HAVE often been astonished at reading the Boston News, having generally in it very extraordinary occurrences, of accidents and providence, &c. among which acts of providence; they tell us of one on the 23d of April last, viz. that the wife of Mr. Stetson, of Braintree, was delivered of her fourth pair of Twins, and two single births within eight years—I suppose that was communicated to the public, in order to agrandize Mr. Stetson's ability and character, and more especially as a gentleman of that place. And if it becomes practicable, that such Feats be communicated to the public, I think with no less propriety may I inform the public, that the wife of Richard Dobson, near the head of Elk, was delivered of five children in fifteen months, three still born children, and at another birth Twins. And of a gentlewoman, near Whiteclay-creek, New-Castle county, who was delivered of four live born children at one birth, and in twenty months after of Twins. These two matters are real facts; and unless the gentlemen of Boston and the Northward, can out-strip us here of the Southward, I beg they may not cram the News-papers with such inconsiderable matter.
MONDAY, June 8.
BOSTON.
On the 24th of May at Night John Clarke and James Daniels, Prisoners for Theft, &c. broke out of the Goal in Newport, Rhode-Island.
We hear from Milton, that on the 31st ult. in the Afternoon, in the Time of Public Worship, a Gold Watch was stolen out of the House of His Excellency the Governor; some strolling Fellows being seen to pass by, were stop't, and the Watch found, they were committed to Goal in this Town, and are the same, that broke out of Newport Goal last Week.
Last Saturday Capt. Cazneau sailed for London, in whom went Passenger Mr. Edmund Quincy of Stoughtonham.
We hear from Kennebec, that on or about the 25th ult. three men being in a canoe, some difference happened between two of them, viz. Solomon Goodwin and David Wilson, the former struck the other on his head with the edge of an Oar, and knocked him overboard, whereby he was drowned. Goodwin has since absconded. The body of Wilson was taken up and buried on the 27th.
Last Thursday his Majesty King George III. entered the 35th year of his age: On

which occasion Admiral Montague's ship in this Harbour was beautifully attired with the colours of all nations: His Excellency's troop of Horse Guards commanded by Col. Phips, the company of the train of Artillery, commanded by Major Paddock; a new company of Grenadiers, commanded by Lieutenant Pierce, in a regular uniform, and well disciplined, with the regiment of militia under the command of Col. Erving, were mustered, and performed their several Exercises in the Common; after which the whole body of Horse and foot marched into King-street; his Excellency the Governor, the Honorable his Majesty's Council, and a number of other gentlemen of distinction, were in the Council Chamber, viewing the procession, &c. from the Balcony and windows; after which his Majesty's health was drank, when a Royal salute was fired from all his Majesty's ships of war in this Harbour, Castle-William, and the Batteries in town, which was followed by three volleys from the Horse Guards, and the regiment, and by the field pieces belonging to the Train. The balconies and windows in all the streets, through which the troops marched were filled with vast crowds of spectators, who expressed great satisfaction on this joyful occasion; and between two and three o'clock, the whole body was dismissed. The Honourable his Majesty's Council dined with his Excellency at the province-house. The officers of the regiment dined with Col. Erving, at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern in King-street. The train company provided a dinner at the Royal Exchange Tavern in King-street; where his Majesty's and other loyal healths were drank: In the Evening they exhibited some elegant fire-works from the balcony of said house in honour of the day. The whole was conducted to the pleasure and satisfaction of all the spectators, and with the greatest decency, joy and decorum.
TUESDAY, June 8.
BOSTON.
This day Capt. Lyde arrived from London, by whom we have the following
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, April 13.
HE petition that was presented from the City of London on Tuesday last, for an act to allow the importation of corn, &c. from the American colonies, was ordered to lie on the table, as were also all the other petitions from other parts of the kingdom; from which it is inferred, that the importation will not be allowed this session.
There are no less than twenty six appeals now waiting to be heard by the House of Lords, five of which are against decrees of the present Chancellor.
The act lately signed by his Majesty, said to be an act to take off one shilling per lb. on all black and singlo teas, is a mistake, it should have been said an act to explain and amend an act for taking off one shilling per lb. on all black and singlo teas, which expires on the 5th of July next, at which time the shilling per lb. will be again laid on.
An account of the difference between British and Irish pay of the 64th and 65th regiments of foot, serving in the year 1768, is laid before the House of Commons.
COPENHAGEN, [Denmark] March 28. The Attorney General Uldahl, who is appointed to act for the Queen, and defend her cause, has already had several conferences with her Majesty at Cronenbourg. We are informed, that her Majesty is greatly indisposed, and that she has been twice blooded. The Queen Dowager is entirely recovered from the hurt she met with in her leg.
VIENNA, [Germany] March 28. The Court has sent to the Porte, the last proposals of Russia, without which that power will not consent to a treaty of peace, viz. 1 that Crimea shall be declared independent. 2. That the Empress shall remain in possession of Asoph, with liberty of trade and navigation on the Black Sea. 3. That all the provinces conquered by the Russian arms during the war shall be restored to the Grand Signor.
LONDON, April 14. The English masters and pilots of the Russian squadron, who went from England under the command of Rear Admiral Elphinstone, and are returned, have not been able to obtain their wages.
We are authorised to assure the public, that an experiment is shortly to be made of a machine, invented by D. Dominiceti of Checea by which he engages to prove that provisions may be dressed for one thousand persons, in three hours time, with less
fire than is commonly used in a parlour grate, and in all the various methods of cookery. It is said to be constructed on the most simple principle, and to be one of the most ingenious inventions ever seen in this kingdom.
A cause, of great importance, relative to the property of an island called Mill island, has for some days been heard by a Committee of the Privy-Council at the Treasury. This place lies near Philadelphia, in the river Delaware, and has been settled for many years, though it is alleged that the property has never been legally granted by the Crown; in consequence of which Lord Rochford has petitioned for and obtained it, as far as the King's right extends and the trial now turns on these questions; whether it has not been granted by his Majesty's predecessors, and whether after the term of a certain possession, the Crown has a power to dispossess the inhabitants?
April 15. We hear the Secretaryship of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has been lately, more than once, hinted to Mr. Burke which he unhesitatingly refused, except Lord Rockingham was to be the Viceroy."
The Duchess of Cumberland, it is said, supports the dignity of her station, having all ceremonies performed on the knee, and her Gentleman holding the privy-purse behind her.
Upon the estate of a nobleman in administration, several small vessels attend every night to convey sheep to the coast of France.
A correspondent recommends the following as a short way to reduce the price of provisions: hang the engrossers, drown the salesmen, burn the carcass-butcher, transport the mealmen, put the bakers in the pillory, imprison the butter-factors, and compel every farmer to bring his whole stock of grain to market, within six months after it is threshed.
The Pretender was married the 28th of last month at St. Germain's, in France, by Proxy, to a Princess of Stolberg, who set off immediately for Italy to join him.
Extract of a letter from the Countess of M——n now residing at Paris, to her friend in Scotland.
"A number of people of rank and fashion in this capital have been missing from time to time; some of them were found in the river, from which it was concluded that they had made away with themselves. However, one night as a gentleman was walking along the streets, he was accosted, as he imagined, by a woman of the town: she conducted him to her lodgings; entering the outer door, she locked it, and put the key in her pocket; after which she led him through several entries using the same ceremonies at each; arriving at last at her chamber, she left him on purpose to fetch wine or other cordial; in her absence he began to reconnoitre the room, and peeping into a closet, he discovered two dead men, who he supposed had been newly deprived of life. You may imagine what his feelings were on such an occasion; what ever they were, they did not bereave him of a noble presence of mind, which suggested to him the only expedient that, in all probability could have saved him. At her return he told her, that he thought a small collation would be proper for him before he went to bed, for he stood much in need of something to eat, and, if she pleased, he would go to a neighbouring tavern, and give orders concerning it: she opposed his going; he still insisted, and added, that the need not be afraid of his leaving her; to convince her that he had no such intention, he would let his watch and purse remain until his return; and, throwing them upon the table, she permitted him to walk off; he soon returned with a party of men, and, upon searching the house, two ruffians were with arms hid in a large chest, who being apprehended, and put to the torture, confessed that they had robbed and murdered all those that were missing; that the two men who were found in the closet, were so lately murdered, that they had no time to conceal them; and that the gentleman who made the discovery would also have been made away with, if he had staid a few minutes longer in the house."
April 16. On Friday died, at Streatham, Elizabeth Russel, aged 108. Upon stripping the body of the deceased, to the great surprise of the beholders, the characteristics of manhood were found in goodly proportion. The manner of the deceased's life furnishes strong hints for what purpose the feminine appearance was assumed. Fortune-telling was the chief business of this hic vel hæc homo .
Extract of a letter from the Hague, April 10. According to the last advices from Copenhagen, sentence of death will soon be pronounced against the Counts de Struenfee and de Brancy, Counsellor Struenfee, the Count's Brother, Colonel Falkenchi'd, and
the Professor Berger. These advices add, that Colonel Keith, the British Minister, having very little hopes of an accommodation between the King and Queen, waited only for an answer to some dispatches to return to England.
The Budget will be opened, and the Affairs of America will come on in the lower Assembly in the Course of this Week.
The principal Insurgents, called Hearts of Steel, or Oak-Boys, have been apprehended and sent to Dublin.—It is said upwards of 1000 Families are preparing to set off for America from Ireland on Account of the troubles in that Kingdom.
April 17. The bill for enforcing the payment of tythes from the people called Quakers is deferred till the 30th inst.
When the Dissenting ministers lately waited upon Lord North, at the Treasury, for the Regium Donum , the annual royal bounty of two thousand pounds for the relief of their clergy, Lord North offered on his part voluntarily , on their part unsolicited , a repeal of their subscription. This offer occasioned a meeting at their library in Redcross Street, where it was not the most cordially received it being observed, that government never granted any favour to Dissenters, without some secret view to their own interest and emolument, lest also such favour should prove, in any manner, injurious to the established Church, with the friends of whom they lived in harmony and peace. This compliment of Lord North to the Dissenters will it is thought, be a powerful and leading argument next winter for the repeal of the Thirty nine Articles; by which refined stroke of policy the partition wall between the Church and Meeting will be thrown down.
Letters received by the last Dutch Mail remark, that his Britannic Majesty had actually ordered all his Electoral Troops in Hanover to assemble immediately at Hamburg. This advice was received from the River Elbe, on the 27th of last month; and as the town of Hamburg is situated so that a few thousand troops quartered there, and in its neighbourhood, may, with great facility, take possession of all his Danish Majesty's dominions in Germany, it is generally conjectured that the Elector of Hanover will avail himself of the troubles reigning at present in Copenhagen, to seize and make himself master of such Danish dominions as may lie contiguous to the Electoral Dominions of Hanover.
It is beyond a doubt, that Prince Masserano, Ambassador from the King of Spain, has, on the part of his Royal Master, most strongly remonstrated against any British ships of war entering the South Seas, on the score of making discoveries in that part of the globe: and has even gone so far as to declare, that after so just and amicable a remonstrance, the King of Spain will be under the absolute necessity of vindicating his own sovereign rights to those seas, and consequently shall give orders to seize all ships of war that shall be found making discoveries in or thro' the South Seas, without a special licence from the Crown of Spain. Notwithstanding this bellowing, blustering, Quixotic language, Captains Cook and Furneaux have received their final orders for sailing, and most probably will meet with a warm reception from the Spaniards, after they shall have passed the Straights of Magellan. Spain, it is known, has for this twelvemonth past, had a strong and almost indubitable propensity to go to war with Great Britain; and that event most certainly would have happened many months ago had it not been for the debility of France; doubtless the King of Spain cannot pitch upon a fairer opportunity that what has been offered him by the English nation.
BRISTOL, April 16. We are informed that Britain, who is in our gaol to take his trial at the next assize for forgery, still persists in his being a principal in setting Portsmouth-Dock on fire, and that he has sufficient materials at his command to make a full discovery of the same.
WATERFORD, [Ireland] April 7. By a private letter from a gentleman in the north, to his friend in this city, we learn that whole villages have embarked at different Ports there for America, and that numbers of others were preparing to follow their example; so that in a short time we shall see that once flourishing province reduced to beggary, and entirely depopulated.
DEAL, April 16. This morning came down and sailed immediately, the Minerva, for Boston.
LONDON, April 18. Thursday last an express was sent to the War-office from Chelmsford for a military aid to protect the provision carts travelling to the market, and the mills in that county, from the outrages
of the populace, who have committed great excesses, not only there, but in many parts of the kingdom.
Yesterday the Lord Mayor, attended by Mr. Sheriff Bull only, went to St. Paul's it being good Friday, where a sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Evans, his Lordship's Chaplain; not one Alderman was there.
A gentleman lately arrived from Dunkirk says, that during three weeks stay at that place, no less than 400 sheep arrived there from different parts of England in smuggling vessels.
Extract of a letter from Warsaw, March 31.
"The Confederate General Marshal Zarembra who was posted with his troops at Petrikau, was a few days ago attacked by Col. Lapuchin, who commanded a detachment of Cossacks, and seconded by Col. Drewitz, who totally routed Zaremba's Corps: Zaremba himself, with most of the officers under him, are killed, and few of his Hussars and Uhlands escaped. Another of Zaremba's corps was defeated at Kockziana. 11 men killed, and 50 taken prisoners."
"Sixteen battalions of Prussian troops are in full march for Great Poland, from whence we expect acts of hostility every post-day. Major General Prince Fabulow, who came from Petersburg with a legion of light troops, is arrived at the environs of Warsaw."
"By letters from Polish Prussia we learn that a corps of 15,000 Prussian troops have encamped near Marienwaerder, and the Prussian cordon has extended itself as far as Lissa, Ratwitch, and Zduni."
A letter from Bruhl's, dated April 3, says, "the Princess of Stolberg, who was lately married by proxy to the Chevalier de St. George, is the youngest daughter of the Prince de Horne by his lady, a daughter of the late Thomas Bruce Earl of Aylesbury, who settled in this country."
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY, Mr. THOMAS,
His Excellency the Governor of this province, in his speech at the opening of the present General Assembly, tells them, that "in conformity to the powers and privileges granted by the royal charter they had been convened" at Cambridge; the most candid construction of which is, that he had "thought proper" to exercise his own judgment, and agreeably to the letter as well as the spirit of the charter, whereby he is vested with the full power of convening, adjourning and proroguing the assembly as he shall judge necessary, he had now convened them at that place. Whatever might be the latent intentions of the Governor, an instruction from the crown is prudently kept out of sight. The House of Representatives, in direct answer to the speech say, that the convening the assembly at Harvard College is a measure very grievous to them, that they see no necessity for it, and cannot suppose it is for the public good, for which end alone the powers vested in the Governor are granted. That they cannot without the great inconvenience proceed to business there, and that the continuance of the assembly at that place, or out of the town of Boston, will be a very great grievance, and an undue exercise of his power. Not the least hint is here given of their supposing themselves to be held there by virtue of an instruction, the mention of which had been so grievous to his Excellency before; and indeed it might have been foreign to their purpose of answering the speech, if there had been any mention made of instructions, since his Excellency declares they were convened in conformity to the charter, which knows nothing of instructions. The Governor in reply, to all appearance in a very placid temper, declares, that he wishes to avoid every thing which should appear to them to be grievous; he promises to take the subject matter of their answer into consideration, and if it should not appear to him to be necessary that the assembly should be continued out of the town of Boston he would remove them to that place; at the same time he avers, that the constitution has made him the judge of such necessity, of which, if it should appear to him, he will endeavour to convince them by another message. It is natural to conclude either that his Excellency was then released from any obligation to a former instruction, or that he himself was convinced that it was repugnant to the charter, and therefore was determined to act the Governor, and make use of his own judgment, as the constitution had empowered him to do. Thus matters stood on the 30th of May; when every one was flattering himself with the expectation of the court being again permitted to sit in its ancient place in Boston, (which was given out by some of his Excellency's most particular friends) or at least that winter, in the

he would, agreeable to his promise, offer them reasons to convince them of the necessity of their being continued at Cambridge. But on the 3d of June, instead of doing the one or the other, he sent another message to the House, wherein he acquaints them of a certain doubt in his mind, whether by the word convening in their message, they referred to his first removal of the Assembly from Boston, or his convening it at Cambridge the present year! How his Excellency could admit of such a doubt is a matter of speculation and curiosity among the people; and some are so disrespectful as boldly to affirm that it is impossible that a doubt of the intention of the house could arise in the mind of a man of sense; they add that his Excellency's own intention in putting such a curious question to the House, is obvious to all. The house declined any explanation because they judged it needless, their expressions being already sufficiently clear. But his Excellency, cannot yet fully understand it, still thinking them doubtful or equivocal; and to be sure, no one can suppose that their expression "the convening of the General Assembly at Harvard College" after his Excellency had just told them they were convened there, is to be understood, their being convened the present year; how unnatural and forced must such a construction appear! No, the words "convening the General Assembly" more properly mean the removal of a former Assembly some years ago; by the same rule of construction when the House prays his Excellency to remove the Assembly to the Town House in Boston, they are not to be understood to mean the removal of the present Assembly, but the convening the Assembly in 1769. In this message of his Excellency, is the first mention that has been made of the King's instruction, or even reference to it in the course of the present session. The Governor refuses to remove the court to Boston; and declares in a high tone and with how much pertinence let others judge, that "whenever he shall receive his Majesty's instructions for exercising the just prerogative of the crown in any case, he will observe them without violating them in any degree;" which no one has cause to doubt. Let me just ask who keeps the province in a flame now? And to whom is it to be imputed that the Assembly is held out of the town of Boston, and from what principle, to the great injury of the people and without being able to shew the least necessity. LUCIUS.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. To Messrs. EDES & GILL.
Gentlemen, I WAS most disagreeably surprised at reading the DIRECTION given to my piece in your last paper. Self-consistency is the character I almost adore in others, and uniformly treat the neglect, or wilful deviation from it, with pity, contempt or detestation. If in any of my political essays you had found any thing that could countenance such a direction, I should have remained silent. I mean only thus to advertise the public, that I am not one iota nearer the acknowledgment of an independent despot for my Governor than I was at the time the offensive paper of like signature with this was published. Nor is my aversion to such acknowledgment at all diminished by Mr. Draper's Yoman, who has complemented me with the rest of my countrymen of being the slaves of an absolute servant. MUCIUS SCÆVOLA.
WEDNESDAY, June 11. BOSTON.
Last Saturday the House of Representatives appointed a committee to wait on the Governor with the following MESSAGE, which was not delivered till Yesterday, his Excellency having been in the mean time at Middleborough.
May it please your Excellency, THE House of Representatives beg leave to acquaint your Excellency that a motion was made on the first Friday of this session, to assign a time for the consideration of a suitable grant for the support of his Majesty's Governor of the province. But it being suggested to the house that your Excellency was not pleased the last year to give your consent to a bill which passed both Houses of Assembly in their first session for granting the sum of thirteen hundred pounds for the support of your Excellency, the house thought proper to defer the attendance of the Secretary to give information touching this matter; who expressly said that your Excellency did not give your consent to said bill. This house is wholly at a loss to account for that measure; unless your Excellency is
made for the support of your Excellency, otherwise than by the grants and acts of the General Assembly of the Province. By the Royal Charter it is incumbent upon the General Assembly to make adequate provision for the support of his Majesty's government of this province, and every act for the making such provision, is to be originated by the House of Representatives.
The support of his Majesty's Governor of the province is an important part of the support of his Majesty's government here.
If provision is made for the support of your Excellency otherwise than by the grants and acts of the General Assembly, it is absolutely requisite that this house should be acquainted with it. They therefore pray that your Excellency would be pleased to inform them, Whether provision is made for the support of your Excellency as Governor of this province, in any way and manner other than has been heretofore used and practiced, to wit, by the grants and acts of the General Assembly; and if it is so, in what way and manner that provision is made.
His Excellency was pleased to say, that he would return to the House an answer to the foregoing message.
CHOICE ANCHOVIES and CAPERS, in large and small Quantities, lately imported in Capt. Acworth, and to be sold by WILLIAM LAMBERT at the Three Sugar Loaves, little above the Draw-bridge.
SILENT WILDE, Rider from Boston to Northampton, Deerfield, &c.
ADVERTISES, that as the Time of his last Engagement ends with the News the 4th Monday in June next, he hopes his Customers will not fail of being punctual in their Payment: And he hereby Notices those who are in Arrears with him for past Services, to pay on or before the Time abovementioned, otherwise he is determined, however disagreeable to him, to put their Accompts into the Hands of an Attorney, as he has not yet been able to settle with the Printers for News-Papers formerly had of them
And further gives notice, that he proposes, (provided he can have some greater Encouragement than he has received in times past, otherwise he must drop his Design) to ride his usual Circuit thro' the Term of another Year, to begin with the First Monday of July next, to ride once a Week, the one half of the Year, and once a Fortnight the other half, and to supply each of his Employers with one of the Boston Weekly News-Papers and carry their private Letters, &c. as usual, during said Term, at 12s. each, the one half to be paid at the End of six Months, the other half at the End of the Year.
Said Wilde has a Farm near the Meeting House in Shutesbury, containing 86 Acres, with a House and Barn, and a good Orchard thereon, and about 30 Acres under Improvement, which he proposes to sell, and if not disposed of by Wednesday the 8th Day of July, then to be sold at Public Vendue, at the House of Mr. Martin Kellog, Inholder in Amherst, at One o'Clock on the said Day.
May 22, 1772.
The famous BELLSIZE ARABIAN, will cover this season at 12s. a leap, or 18s. the season, or 20s. a Colt. He is a son of the famous horse called Moreah and his mother is of the best race that the great Sultan or Emperor Mullah Abalah ever had, and he is both by sire and mother of the best blood and true Arabian race in all Barbary. He is of an iron grey colour, 17 hands high, and the handsomest horse in America. He is kept at Mr. WILLIAM PUTNAM's stable in Danvers, where mares may be taken good care of. Said horse is to be sold, if any person will give the value of him. Enquire of AMOS MANSFIELD. Salem, June 3 1772
JOHN BARRETT & SONS, Have imported in the last ships, AN universal and very neat assortment of London, Bristol, Birmingham and Sheffield HARD WARE and CUTLARY GOOD, which, with a great variety of English and European Goods suitable to the season, such as Chintzes, Calicoes, Linens, Jeans, Fustians, Peniascoes, Bengals, Checks, Damascus, Nankings, Lorettoes, Lutestring, Laces, Cotton, Silk and thread, Hose, Mitts &c. &c. they are determined to sell by wholesale for Cash or short credit and by retail for Cash only, at the very lowest rates.
THURSDAY, June 11. BOSTON.
NOTWITHSTANDING the many insults that have been offered to the British nation, in different parts of the Globe, a war seems to be as far off as ever.
We hear that an express arrived last night to Admiral Montague from Providence, informing him that a number of people in two sloops boarded his Majesty's sloop Gaspée, Capt. Dudingston, bound the men carried the schooner on shore and burnt her. Particulars in our next. To what a dreadful dilemma are the people reduced! They must suffer themselves to be plundered, or
Last Tuesday Capt. Lyde, arrived here from London, with whom came passengers William Story, Esq; James Murray, Esq; and Capt. Sheppard of this port.
The same day Capt. Chambers, arrived here from London.
Last Thursday se'nnight being the annual Convention of the Ministers in this province, a Sermon well adapted to the occasion was preached at the Old South meeting house, by the Reverend Mr. SAMUEL LOCKE, President of Harvard College. We hear the collections are in future to be a fund for the relief of widows of Ministers deceased.
The three following paragraphs are extracted from a London paper of April 17th, 1772.
A correspondent says, that the following taxes are paid for bread; a land-tax on the ground the wheat grows on, a land-tax on the ground the wood grows on it is baked with, a tax on the very water it is made with, a tax on the yeast it is worked with, a tax on the salt used in it, besides a reasonable allowance the baker hath, or ought to have, for house-keeping being doubled. For beer he says are paid the following taxes; a land-tax on the ground the barley grows on, a land-tax on the ground the hop grows on, a tax on the water it is brewed with, 3 different taxes laid on malt at three different times for three different uses, 3 different taxes on the coals it is boiled with, a tax on the copper it is boiled in, 2 different taxes on the staves the barrels are made of to put it in, a tax on the hoops the staves are bound in, a tax on the yeast it is worked with, a tax on the candles the brewers servants use in brewing, 3 different taxes laid on the publican at three different times for his licence to sell, and 2 taxes for the tankard we drink out of; in all 26.
From Scotland we learn that several villages are in necessity and distress, having neither cheese, butter, corn, nor flesh.
The bill brought into the House of Commons for the further relief of his Majesty's Protestant subjects, dissenting from the church of England, dispenses, we are told with that part of the act made in the fifth year of William and Mary, which requires subscription to sundry articles, mentioned in the statute, made in the thirteenth year of Elizabeth.
The only qualifications required in this bill from dissenting Ministers, are that they shall take the customary oaths of allegiance, subscribe the declaration against Popery, and also a profession that they believe the scriptures of the old and new testament, to contain the mind and will of God, and that they receive them as the rule of faith and practice. Justices of the peace will be appointed to administer the declaration and to keep a register, wherein are to be inserted the names of those Ministers, who offer to make such oaths and subscribe such declarations. It will further specify in contradiction to one part of the "act for the uniformity of public prayers," that ministers disabled from preaching any sermon or lecture by the act Charles the second, shall, upon taking the oaths, and subscribing the declaration, be exempted from the penalty of imprisonment, and be duly qualified to preach, expound, or exhort. In order to prevent persons from fraudulently qualifying themselves as dissenting Ministers, this bill will enact, that every person offering to qualify himself as a dissenting Minister at the general Session of the Peace, shall produce to the Justices a testimonial, signed by some Protestant dissenting Ministers, purporting that the person so offering himself is a man of a good moral and christian character, and that they are willing to receive him as a dissenting Minister. The same qualifications will entitle a man to teach or instruct youth, in the capacity of a public tutor or schoolmaster, and exempt him from every penalty, to which, by any law or statute whatever, he may be subjected. These we are informed, are the heads of this lenient and salutary bill; and should it pass, we sincerely hope that, by removing every obstacle that may affect tender consciences, all strife and contention will cease among us, and nothing but
mutual forbearance, toleration, and christian good-will prevail.
MARRIED. At Philadelphia, Hon. Richard Penn, Esq; Governor of Pennsylvania, to Miss Polly Masters.
DIED. At Salem, Mrs. Mercy Goodhue, Keeper of the Kings Arms Tavern, in that town. At Milton, Miss Elenor Clark, youngest daughter of Mr. Richard Clark, Paper Maker at that place. Mr. Bowles son of Mr. Bowles, Carver. Mrs. Bartlett aged 72. Mr. Peter Fisher son of Mr. Fisher, Truckman. At New-York, Mr. Thomas Walton, Merchant.
Friday last about noon, died suddenly at Wilmington, Mrs. Alice Banks, consort to Doctor Banks of Pembroke, New-Hampshire, and daughter to Mr. Thomas Bentley of this town, on the road to Boston. Mrs. Banks had been for some time ailing, and expecting advantages from the sea air, advice of the Physicians in Boston, and the sight and conversation of her friends, proceeded thus far, and submitted to the arrest of that frequent interrupter of human projections; leaving behind her a son of twenty-two months old, and a sorrowful husband. Her remains were brought to town, and interred last Sunday evening.
Her now cold reliques formerly possessed the noblest virtues of the human breast; Rose up the whitest character in life, The tenderest mother and the fondest wife, So loth to blame, so ready to commend, She seldom made a foe, nor lost a friend. Tell this, my muse, to numerous friends who knew, Yea enemies too, will say what's wrote is true."
ARRIVED here. Rogers from Philadelphia; Cushing & Thacher from Maryland; Hawley from New-Haven; Bray from Lisbon; Trip from St. Eustatia; Paine from St. Martins; Willis from Surinam & St. Eustatia; Davis from Cape-Nichola; Freeman from Jamaica; Nichols, & Bruce from St. Ubes.
NEW-YORK, June 4. Capt. John Hunt in the Sloop Sally, from New-York to Charlestown, was cast away the 4th of May, on Cape Look-out Shoals, 10 Leagues from Land, the Vessel and Cargo intirely lost, with seven Persons, viz: one Sailor, by Name Swane, a young Woman named Triger, two Children of Mrs. Jacobs, a Jewels that was going for a Nurse for Major Butler, another Woman that was going to her Husband who is a Blacksmith in Charlestown, and a Negro Boy of the Captain's; the rest of the people with much Difficulty, got safe to the Shore, fifteen in Number, in the Boat, after being in her fifteen Hours. the Captain was once knocked overboard, but with much Difficulty he was got in.
NEW-HAVEN May 5. Last Tuesday evening, between ten and eleven o'clock, the ship Polly, lying at the Pier in our Harbour, was discovered to be on fire, between decks, which had got to so great a head, that it could not be extinguished. It being high water and the vessel light, she was towed by a number of boats, near the shore where she was almost entirely consumed.
EBENEZER HANCOCK, At his shop in Marshall's Lane, between the sign of the Corn fields and the Mill-bridge; begs leave to acquaint his former good customers and others, that he has just opened for sale,
A FRESH assortment of Hardware Goods, which he is determined to sell at the very lowest Advance, for Cash only: Those who please to favour him with their Custom may depend upon being well used; and all favours gratefully acknowledged. Boston, June 8, 1772.
SADLERY GOODS. A compleat assortment of Sadlery goods, just imported, and to be sold by R. G. CRANCH, at his shop on the Exchange, in King-street;
Among which are, A QUANTITY of English Trees, plated Bits, Stirrups, Spurs, and almost every article that can be enquired for in the Sadlery way.
Country Saders may depend on being well served on as good terms as at any shop or store in the province.
Said Cranch, makes and sells all sorts of Saddles, Bridles, &c. on the lowest terms for Cash.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, A Journeyman PRINTER, who CAN and WILL work, no other need apply. Enquire of ISAIAH THOMAS

Newport, April 27, 1772.
Now in the Press,
Reprinting by SUBSCRIPTION,
NEW-ENGLAND'S MEMORIAL: Or a brief Relation of the most memorable and remarkable Passages of the Providence of God manifested to the Planters of New-England, in America; with special Reference to the First Colony thereof, called NEW-PLYMOUTH: As also a Nomination of divers of the most eminent Instruments deceased, both of Church and Common-Wealth, improved in the First Beginning and after the Progress of sundry of the respective Jurisdictions in those Parts: In Reference unto several exemplary Passages of their Lives, and the Time of their Death.
Published for the Use and Benefit of present and future Generations.
By NATHANIEL MORTON, Secretary to the Court for the Jurisdiction of NEW PLYMOUTH.
DEUT. xxxii. 10. He found him in a desert Land, in the waste howling wilderness he led him about; he instructed him, he kept him as the Apple of his Eye.
JER. ii. 2, 3. I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine Espousals, when thou wentest after me in the Wilderness, in a Land that was not sown, &c.
CONDITIONS:
 I. It shall be printed on good Paper, in a Page exactly as large as that of Colonel CHURCH's History.  II. It will contain about 230 Pages, and will be printed on an excellent Type, and in a neat and correct manner.  III. The Price to Subscribers Three Shillings Lawful Money, sewed in blue Covers to be paid on Delivery of the Books, which perhaps is as reasonable as any Book, of the same Kind and Bigness, ever printed in England or America; and shall never be had of the Printer at a lower Price than what the Subscribers give.  IV. The names of the Subscribers, shall be printed with the History.  V. Those who subscribe for six Books, to have a Seventh Gratis. 
** SUBSCRIPTIONS are taken in by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-Bridge, Boston, and by SOLOMON SOUTHWICK, of Newport, Rhode-Island, by whom this work is undertaken.
As there can be no History so useful and important to any People, as that which relates immediately to their Ancestors and themselves; it is not doubted but this work will be zealously encouraged; that so the Knowledge of the Dangers and Hardships which our Fore fathers were exposed to, in the first Settlement of this once howling Wilderness, may be handed down to the remotest Ages of America, as a Pearl of great Price.
HATS manufactured and sold by the advertiser, at his Shop near the St. Conduit, Boston, who hopes he has given such satisfaction to his customers as will induce them to continue
their favours which will be gratefully acknowledged by their humble servant, MARTIN BICKER.
N. B. He has to sell, the best of French rapee snuff, very cheap for cash, by the bottle, hundred, dozen, or single bottle.—choice Hyson and Bohea TEA, by the dozen or less. Loaf and brown Sugars, Coffee, Flour, Rice, Cotton, Melasses, and all sorts of Spices &c.
Just republished in Newport, And to be Sold by Edes and Gill, Printers, in Queen-street.
A few Copies of the entertaining HISTORY of Philip's WAR; which began in the year 1675, with the proceedings of BENJAMIN CHURCH, Esq.
Embellished with 2 elegant Copper-plate prints of Colonel Church and King Philip.
To be sold by Samuel Sloane, at his Distil House, opposite the Blue ball and Mason's Arms, formerly Green-Dragon, New-England RUM, and all sorts of SPIRITS, cheap for cash or Molasses; and as he makes those articles himself, he will warrant them fit for any market.
HARD-WARE GOODS.
Just imported by WILLIAM BRECK At the Golden Key near the Draw-Bridge, A GENERAL assortment of Pewtery, Ironmongery, Brazery and Cutlery Wares, also Powder and Shot, 7 by 9.6 by 8 and 5 by 7 Glass; Tin plates, Iron and Brass Wire, Lanthorn leaves, sand Glasses, Brushes, Mops, Lines and Twine, broad and narrow Bunting, with a general assortment of Ship Chandlers and Tin Ware; which he sells either Wholesale or Retail at a very small Profit for Cash only.
To be SOLD by Jolley Allen, At his shop in Marlborough-Street, Boston, the shop Dr. Gibbons formerly improved A very LARGE and NEAT Assortment of English and India GOODS, Suitable for the Seasons, Consisting chiefly of all kinds, the Particulars too numerous for an Advertisement. As the said Allen is determined, on an entire New Plan, His WHOLE Stock in Trade he will sell, either by Wholesale or Retail, at a very little more than the Sterling cost and charges,
He flatters himself that the advantage that may arise to his customers, will be equal if not superior to their purchasing at any wholesale or retail shop or store in town or country. N. B. Choice Green and Bohea TEA, and all kinds of Spice, likewise Indigo, Looking Glasses, best of India China, with Delph, Stone and Earthern Ware. &c. &c.
JACOB HEMET, DENTIST to her Majesty and the Princess Amelia.
BEGS Leave to recommend to the Public, his newly discovered Essence of Pearl, and Pearl Dentifrice, which he has found to be greatly superior not only in elegance, but also in efficacy, to any thing hitherto made use of for complaints of the Teeth and Gums: Particularly they will preserve the Teeth in a perfect sound state, even to old age; they render them white and beautiful, without in the least impairing the enamel; fasten such as are loose, keep such as are already decayed from becoming worse, prevent the Tooth-Ach, perfectly cure the Scurvy in the Gums, and make them grow firm and close to the teeth; they likewise render the breath delicate, sweet, and remedy almost all those disorders that are the consequence of scorbutic gums.
Sold (by appointment of Mr. Hemet) wholesale and retail, by W. Bayley, Perfumer, in Cockspur-street, near the bottom of the Hay-market, London, and at William Scott's Irish Linen Store, near the Draw-Bridge, Boston, New-England.
NATH. & JOSEPH CRANCH, Lately from ENGLAND, IRONMONGERS and GUNSMITHS, Hereby inform the Public, that they have taken a Shop nearly opposite the sign of the Lamb, in Newbury-street, Boston, where they now have for sale,
A VARIETY of Articles in the Gun Way, viz. Barrels, Locks, Brass Mounting, Forged Work for Locks, Pocket Pistols, Very handsome finished Guns, &c. which were all bought of the Makers in England with Ready Money, and will be sold as cheap as can be bought any where in this country.
They have likewise for Sale a Parcel of excellent hard London PEWTER, and several other Articles in the Hard Ware way. Also, an Assortment of Linens, Broad Cloths, Pins, Paper Hanging, &c. which will all be sold at the very lowest Advance for Cash.
N. B. Said JOSEPH stocks and finishes Guns, and does all kinds of Work in the Gun Way; he also grinds and polishes Razors, Scissors, Penknives, &c. in the best and cheapest Manner.
ANDREW DEXTER, In Hanover-street, a little to the Southward of the Mill-bridge, Boston, has opened, and now has to dispose of, both by wholesale and retail,
GOODS of various sorts, fresh and new, from different ports. He could mention the ships by which he received them, and the names of the respective commanders; but most people know that this will not affect either the quality or the price. He could assert that they were bought with ready money, came immediately from the manufacturers, and are the best of the several kinds that were ever imported. All this he could say.—All this indeed is easily said:—But if he should add that shopkeepers may have his English Goods as cheap as from the Merchants in London, he fears that some folks would call it puffing, and others would give it even a worse name. If his goods are cheaper than they are sold at any other shop in town, it is abundantly sufficient. He will not, however, roundly affirm any such thing. He only wishes good people, country Shopkeepers in particular, as they pass along, would be kind enough to call and inform themselves. After they have viewed every article he has got, though they should not then chuse to purchase even one of them, he will nevertheless own himself under great obligations, and will kindly thank them for having given him reason to hope that, at some future time, they will favour him with their Custom.
To be SOLD, Cheap, A NEW Genteel Fall-back CHAISE, with Harness and every Thing compleat, warranted to be made of good Materials, and the Workmanship well executed. Enquire of the Printer.
DANIEL SCOTT, At his Medicine Store the Sign of the Leopard, South End.
TAKES this method of informing all Gentlemen, Ladies, and others, who have had the Misfortune to lose their Teeth, that he still continues the Business of making and fixing artificial Teeth as usual, in so elegant a manner as to be but little inferior to the natural, either in Use or Beauty, as many who have experienced them can testify: Where also any Person Hitted with painful Stumps or unsound Teeth, may have them removed with a peculiar Dexterity and Ease.—And all Persons who have the Scurvy in their Teeth, which threatens their removal though sound, may have them cleaned without hurting the Enamel, or in the least degree impairing them, and may be supplied with his DENTIUM CONSERVATOR, which is an excellent Powder, the best adapted for preserving the Teeth and Gums, and preventing them from Achimg, of any Preparation ever offered to the Public: It will cure the Scurvy in the Gums, bring the Teeth to their original Whiteness, and by a continuance of its Use, will Preserve both Teeth and Gums in a pure state during life.—It is not pretended that it will perform Impossibilities, that it will make rotten Teeth sound, or will ease them when they violently ach; but it will assuredly preserve those Teeth found that are so, and cause the Gums to adhere to them and prevent those that are decayed in part, from becoming worse.
At the above Store may be had, Morgan's useful Eye-Water, which has in so many cases been found serviceable, that it must escape the censure of the most critical Oculist—Brigsten's famous Bug Liquid, which effectually destroys those hateful Vermin,—be they ever so numerous.—
An assortment of genuine patented and other Medicines of the best quality, and Medicine Boxes for Families or Shipping, with exact and particular directions for using them, and a variety of other articles cheap.
The above Powder may be had also of Cox and Berry in Boston, Doctor Kast in Salem, and Dummer Jewett, Esq; at Ipswich.
THE Gentlemen who subscribed with EDES and GILL, for the American Edition of BLACKSTONE'S Commentaries on the Laws of England, are desired to apply for the Second Volume. A few of the First Volume may be had, by applying as above.
Imported in the several ships this Spring from London, by
THOMAS LEE, At his store near the Swing-Bridge, Boston, A VERY full and compleat Assortment of PIECE GOODS:
LADIES SILKS, (with which he is constantly supplied) of the newest fashions; he has now by him a most elegant variety, composed of almost every kind in use:
Book and Thick Muslins, Tombour worked ditto, rich Brussels and Mecklen Laces.
IRISH LINENS, RIBBONS, PAPER HANGINGS, Rich and Basket-worked Gold and Silver BUTTONS, GOLD and SILVER LACES, WATCHES of various sorts, also, Warranted Gun Powder, Shot, Nails, 6 by 8, 7 by 9, and 8 by 10 Window Glass, genuine Kippen's Snuff, Allum, Russia, Ravens and English Duck, Osnaburgs, Verdigrise, &c.
** Said LEE receives all his Goods from first Hands only, and will supply Shopkeepers and Traders on as good Terms as any person in Boston.
The greatest encouragement to those who purchase with present Money.
New Book-Store.
JOHN LANGDON, Opposite the Post-Office, informs the public that he has just received from London, a Large and Grand
Assortment of BOOKS, Which he is determined to sell so cheap as to give entire satisfaction to the purchaser.
The following Catalogue he presents to the gentlemen of the Law, viz.
 BACON's new Abridgments of the Law, 5 vols. The fifth Vol. may be had alone.  Burrow's Reports, 3 vols. Folio.  Lord Ramond's do. 3 vols. Folio.  Peer William's do. 3 vols. do.  Hobart's do.  Shinner's do.  Plowden's do.  Ventriss's do.  Lilly's practical Register, 2 vols. Folio.  Ditto Entries.  Hawkin's Pleas of the Crown.  Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England, 4 vols. 4to.  Ditto Analysis.  Cunningham's Law Dictionary, 2 vols. 4to.  Jacob's do.  Hawkin's Abridgment of Cook.  Law of Evidence.  Trial's p. Pais.  Gilbert on Devises.  on Tenures.  Cases in King's Bench.  Motloy de Jure Maritimo.  Law Tracts.  Attorney's Pocket Book. 2 vols.  Practical Register of the Common Pleas.  Barnes's Notes, 4to.  Fitzherbert's new Natura Brevium.  Essays on Crimes and Punishments. 
With a large Variety of the best and most approved Authors, in History, Physics, &c. &c.
Likewise, large Church Bibles, Folio Bibles, Quarto Bibles, Octavo Bibles, Minion Bibles, Bibles with Cans Notes, Common Bibles at 12l. O. T. the Dozen. Pocket Bib'es in 1 or 2 vols. neatly Gilt. Court and City Register for 1772.
All Kinds of Magazines that are published in London. School Books of every Kind.
With a large Assortment of Stationary: Account Books from 2s. to 6l. Lawful Money a piece; Writing Paper from 10s. to 10l. a Rham; Ink-Powder, Sealing Wax, Wafers, patent Cake Ink, clothiers and Cartridge Paper of all prices, Bonnet Boards, Ink-Stands of various Sorts, Ivory Books and Ivory Folders, best Pen-Knives, Quills, &c. &c.
Psalters, Primers, Spelling Books, Psalm Books, with or without Tunes, by the Groce or Dozen, as, as Cheap as at any Store or Shop in Town. Every Person who pleases to favour him with their Custom may depend on purchasing very Cheap and the least Favour gratefully acknowledged.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS,
At the South Corner of MARSHAL'S LANE, leading from the MILL-BRIDGE into UNION-STREET, where all Persons may be supplied with this Paper at Six Shillings and Eight Pence Lawful Money, per Annum, unsealed, and Eight Shillings sealed and directed; and where Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received. ADVERTISEMENTS taken in.—PRINTING in its various Branches, performed in a neat Manner, with the greatest Care and Dispatch, on the most reasonable 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; Watch-maker in Salem; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; and Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater.