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VOL. IV.) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1774. (NUM
From BINGLEY'S JOURNAL, of July 2, 1774. To the KING, DEFENDER of the PROTESTANT FAITH.
SIR,
OUR Majesty's Speech from the Throne to both Houses of Parliament, is, to all intents and purposes, an address and appeal to the people through their representatives. As a subject then I have an unquestionable right to judge of, and advert upon this solemn address from the throne to the people. The authoritative publication of the Speech implies this freedom; and the necessity of the times urges to a free exercise of it.
It has been very unfortunate for the people of England, that what for many years past has given the Sovereign the utmost satisfaction, has given the people the greatest uneasiness. Nor have their ideas been less contradictory respecting the seal and prudence which parliament have shown to the public service.
We acknowledge, with your Majesty, that this session has been very interesting; for we have seen and complain of the most unconstitutional proceedings that ever any parliament could furnish out instances of. Your Majesty had a very striking instance of this but a few minutes before you gave the royal assent to a bill, that, in its spirit and tendency, is subversive of the great principles of our government, and a violation of that part of the civil compact by which you are our legitimate King. For that bill the minister ought to lose his head; for that bill no peculiar circumstances of embarrassment, but had such existed, were a sufficient cause. Nor was any true principle of sound policy the ground of those adjustments and regulations which were falsely deemed necessary by your Majesty's Ministers, for the government of Quebec. And we apprehend that the bill is so far from being founded on the clearest principles of justice and humanity, as the minister would suggest, that some of your Majesty's best subjects scruple not to assert, that it is founded on injustice and violation, contempt of law and customs of the realm. But we will, for a moment, suppose with your Majesty, that the bill will have the desired effect in quieting the minds, and promoting the happiness of your Canadian subjects: Is their quiet to be purchased by the loss of the affections of the people at home? Are your Majesty's unconquered subjects of this nation to tremble for their liberties, that Canada might reap the blessed effects of your conciliating mercy and parental tenderness? Must the descendants of men who raised your family, Sir, to empire, fear for their ALL, who conquered provinces, and subjugated slaves seem the only objects of royal favour and attention? Must Protestants mourn, while papists rejoice? Or is such the peculiar cast of your Majesty's character, or such the fatality of your reign, that in the peculiar instances wherein you mean to adhere to justice and humanity, you must go near the altar, and break your sacred oath? thus invalidating the very assent by which the law is confirmed. In the present instance your Majesty's protestant subjects are apt to believe, that an agreement in opinion with your Ministers would involve them in contradictions of the most extraordinary nature; because it would suppose, that the worst of men could act upon the best of principles; and that the worst slaves that any affecting tyrant would wish for his tools, could adopt the principles of justice and humanity. Far different, Sir, are their principles, and diametrically repugnant their doctrines. And the greatest statesman that this or any other age could ever boast, has given his opinion on the side of the public conviction. No, Sir, the bill did not originate in justice, nor was it founded in humanity. We suspect that it made part of the private stipulations with France, when Lord Bute negotiated the last infamous peace. We believe that the fear of offending the house of Bourbon, and to keep a large body of Popish Canadians in servitude against our protestant brethren in America, the true ground and principles of the bill; else we are at a loss to account for its being brought in so late in the session, and at the eve of a general election; at which time the most abandoned and insolent ministers have preferred some appearances, and paid a little regard to the people.
The dangerous spirit of resistance to your Majesty's government, which you complain you have long seen with concern in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, is not, Sir, the effect of rebellion or sedition abroad, but rebellion and tyranny at home. On the other side of the Atlantic was all confidence, love, and loyal submission, till the fatal experiment was made to convert free-born men into slaves, and fiducial subjects into bold opponents. Your Majesty travels too far for the cause of these evils. You, far, ought to know, and be able to give a better account of them, than any man in the kingdom; because they spring from counsels which wicked ministers hold too near your person and throne—from the enemies of your house, and your family's accession to our government. These are the men, Sir, whose temper and firmness you commend in the face of the public, in the most solemn act of your regal capacity, with your head surrounded with the royal diadem, the free-gift of a generous people to your ancestors, and permissive grant at present in your possession. From the throne, which can have no other permanent establishment but justice and righteousness, your Majesty complements men that pay no regard to either. These Sir, are your adopted friends; while the true friends of their country, and the constitution are treated as ill affected to your government, and opposers of the King. To such men does your Majesty venture to give the royal promise, that nothing that depends on YOU, shall be wanting to render THEIR measures effectual. The people, Sir, most sincerely wish, that this declaration could be received with those qualifications and restrictions, as those declarations in some of your Majesty's former speeches, though omitted in the last, have been, where your Majesty has said, that the happiness of the people is the primary object of your government; and that you have not, or can have, any other interests but theirs in view. It is a great misfortune to a state, when the people can only believe the prince in things that tend to make them disloyal.
Your Majesty expresses an ardent desire to see your deluded subjects in America returning to a sense of duty, and acquiescing in that just subordination to the authority, and main-
taining that due regard to the commercial interests of this country, which must ever be inseparably connected with their own real prosperity and advantage. Your Majesty's subjects in America are more oppressed than deluded. Let tyranny cease, and they will return to a sense of duty and allegiance. Let them experience an equal, just, temperate government; and your Majesty will find due subordination, and submission to authority. And when we cease, by unconstitutional taxes, violations of charters, and proscriptions of cities and ports to oppress the Americans, we shall see them pay due regard to our commercial interests. Your Majesty's ministers have raised the wall of separation. And while such men are continued in power, while the laws are unenpealed that have sown the seeds of dissentions, America will never return to a sense of duty, and endless contentions must ensue, till, at length, the sword must decide contests which injustice and tyranny began. America must be polluted with the blood of her sons; and the children of our bowels, treated with more than hostile cruelty, will be massacred. Then perhaps we shall be forced ignominiously to sue to France and Spain for an infamous and inglorious truce, till we can breathe from the unnatural slaughter of our brethren to combat with the avowed and traitorous enemies of our RELIGION and GOVERNMENT.
These, Sir, are not the visions of enthusiasm, the dictates of faction, the voice of disaffection, or the language of despair. Your ministers, Sir, as high priests of tyranny, have offered up liberty even in the public senate. Upon the inspection of the victim, every man turns aghast. The unfavourable omens are not derived from vague conjecture, or sacerdotal delusions; history informs us how to judge, and there is one page written in regal blood, which you, Sir, would do well to consult, to form your judgment, and regulate your conduct; that the enemies of your family or reign, may not have an opportunity to vindicate their conduct by such an high precedent, and such a great example.
TRIBUNUS.
To his ROYAL HIGHNESS the DUKE of GLOUCESTER.
SIR, THE common form of respect shown to persons distinguished rank, is the only motive of my addressing your Royal Highness second to any man in the nation. Your Highness's late conduct, and yet, in an august assembly, on one of the most important, and consequential acts, that the three estates of parliament can pass, deserves the thanks of the friends of liberty and protestantism. The memory of the deed will last as long as our annals, and save us from the charge of total degeneracy. We now look up to YOU, Sir, as the friend and guardian of our rights and liberties; and we cannot but express our satisfaction, by one, at least, of the illustrious house of Hanover. And we form the higher opinion of such a noble discharge of the trust reposed in your royal highness, as one of the guardians of our liberties, from the peculiar situation you are in, and the relations in which you stand.
The principles of your conduct, Sir, are decisive; and we have not the least shadow of doubt, that your vote in parliament arose from a full conviction, that the bill was subversive of the constitution, derogatory to the honour and interest of your royal brother, dangerous to the establishment, both of the laws and religion of this realm, and fatal in its effects.
It is great consolation, royal Sir, to the people of England, to look forward, and presage an unbroken succession of patriot Kings in your illustrious line. And though providence has been pleased to bless your royal brother, our Sovereign, with a progeny of hopeful Princes, yet, as in his wisdom, God, who sometimes setteth up one, and pullerh down another, may see fit to remove them from their present state; it will, no doubt, be some consolation to them, but much more to us, to think that one of your august house shall sway the sceptre over a free, and consequently a happy people.
TRIBUNUS.
L O N D O N. Lord CHATHAM's Speech in the House of Lords, on the third reading of the bill for the providing the officers and troops in America, with quarters.
THE unfavourable state of health, under which I have long laboured, could not prevent me from laying before your Lordships my thoughts on the bill now before you and on the American affairs in general. If we take a transient view of those motives which induced the ancestors of our fellow-subjects in America, to leave their native country to encounter the innumerable difficulties of the unexplored regions of the western world, our astonishment at the present conduct of their descendants will naturally subside. There was no corner of the world into which men of their free and enterprising turn would not fly with alacrity, rather than submit to the slavish and tyrannical principles which prevailed, at that period in their native country. And we shall wonder, my Lords, if the descendants of such illustrious characters spurn, with contempt, the hand of unconstitutional power, that would snatch from them such dear bought privileges as they now contend for? Had the British colonies been planted by any other kingdoms than our own, the inhabitants would have carried with them the chains of slavery, and spirit of despotism; but as they are, they ought to be remembered as great instances to instruct the world, to what a stretch of liberty mankind will naturally attain when they are left to the free exercise of themselves. And, my Lords, notwithstanding my intention to give my hearty negative to the question now before you, I cannot help condemning, in the severest manner, the late turbulent and unwarrantable conduct of the Americans in general, and the riots in Boston, in particular. But, my Lords, the mode which has been pursued to bring them back to a sense of their duty to the parent state, has been so diametrically opposite to the fundamental principles of sound policy, that individuals, possessed of common understandings, must be astonished at such proceedings. By blocking up the harbour of Boston, you have involved the innocent trader in the same punishment with the guilty profligates who destroyed your merchandise; and instead of making a well concerted
effort to secure the real offenders, you clap a naval and military extinguisher over their harbour; and punish the sin of a few lawless rapaces and their abettors, upon the whole body of the inhabitants.
My Lords, this country is little obliged to the framers and promoters of this tea-tax; the Americans had almost forgot, in their excess of gratitude for the repeal of the stamp-act, any interest but that of the mother-country, there seemed an emulation among the different provinces who should be most dutiful and forward in their expressions of loyalty to their royal benefactor; as you will readily perceive by the following extract of a letter from Governor Bernard to a noble Lord then in office.
"The house of representatives, (says he) from the time of opening the session to this day, has shown a disposition to avoid all dispute with me; every thing having passed with as much good humour as I could desire. They have acted, in all things, with temper and moderation; they have avoided some subjects of dispute, and have laid a foundation for removing some causes of former altercation."
This, my Lords, was the temper of the Americans; and would have continued so, had it not been interrupted by your fruitless endeavours to tax them without their consent: but the moment they perceived your intention was renewed to tax them, through the files of the East-India company, their resentment got the ascendant of their duty, and hurried them into actions contrary to all laws of policy, civilization, and humanity, which, in their cooler hours, they would have thought on with horror; for I seriously believe, the destroying of the tea was much more the effect of despair, than that of design.
But, my Lords, from the complexion of the whole of the proceedings, I am apt to think, that administration has purposely irritated them into those late violent acts for which they now so severely smart; purposely to be revenged on them for the victory they gained by the repeal of stamp-act, a measure to which they seemingly acquiesced, but at the bottom they were their real enemies. For what other motive could induce them to dress taxation, that father of American sedition, in the robes of an East-India director, but to break in upon that mutual peace and harmony which then so happily subsisted between them and the mother country? My Lords, I am an old man, and will advise the noble Lords now in office, to adopt a more gentle mode of governing America; for the way is not far distant, when America may vie with these kingdoms, not only in arts, but in arts also. It is an established fact, that the principal towns in America are learned and polite, and understand the constitution of the empire, as well as the noble Lords who guide the springs of government; and consequently, they will have a watchful eye over their liberties, to prevent the least encroachment of an arbitrary administration on their hereditary rights and privileges.
This observation is so recently exemplified in an excellent pamphlet that comes from the pen of an American gentleman, that I shall take the liberty of reading to your Lordships his thoughts on the competency of the British Parliament to tax America, which, in my opinion, sets that interesting matter in the clearest point of view.
"The high court of Parliament (says he) is the supreme legislative power over the whole empire; in all free states the constitution is fixed; and as the supreme legislative derives its power and authority from the constitution, it cannot overleap the bounds of it, without destroying its own foundation; or the constitution afterwards retains and limits both sovereignty and allegiance: And therefore his Majesty's American subjects, who acknowledge themselves bound by the ties of allegiance, have an equitable claim to the full enjoyment of the fundamental rules of the English constitution; and that it is an essential unalterable right in nature, in-grafted into the British constitution as a fundamental law, and ever held sacred and irrevocable by the subjects within the realm; and that what a man has honestly acquired, is absolutely his own; which he may freely give, but which cannot be taken from him without his consent."
This, my Lords, though no new doctrine, has always been my received and unalterable opinion; and I will carry it to my grave, that this country had no right, under Heaven, to tax America. It is contrary to all the principles of justice and civil policy, which neither the exigencies of the state, or even the acquiescence in the taxes, could justify upon any occasion whatever. Such proceedings will never meet with their wished-for success; and instead of adding to their miseries, as the bill now before you most undoubtedly does, adopt some lenient measures, which may lure them to their duty; proceed like a kind and affectionate parent over a child whom he tenderly loves; and, instead of those harsh and severe proceedings, pass an amnesty on all their youthful errors; clasp them once more in your fond and affectionate arms; and I will venture to affirm, you will find them children worthy of their sire. But should their turbulence exist after your proffered terms of forgiveness, which I hope, and expect this house will immediately adopt, I will be among the foremost of this illustrious assembly, to move for such measures as will effectually prevent a future relapse, and make them feel what it is to provoke a fond and forgiving parent! A parent, my Lords, whose welfare has ever been my greatest and most pleasing consolation. This declaration may seem unnecessary, but I will venture to declare, the period is not far distant, when she will want the assistance of her most distant friends; but should the all-disposing hand of Providence prevent me from affording her my poor assistance, my prayers shall be ever for her welfare. Length of days be in her right hand, and in her left, riches and honour; may her ways be ways of pleasantness, and all her paths be peace.
B O S T O N.
AT a meeting of Delegates from every town in the county of Essex, in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, held at Ipswich, in the said county, on the 6th and 7th days of September 1774, viz. for Salem, the Hon. Richard Derby, jun. Esq; Mr. John Pickering, jun. Jonathan Gardner, jun. Capt. Richard Timothy Pickering, jun.—Danvers, Dr. Capt. William Shillaber.—Ipswich, Cap
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia. The Congress opened last Monday, and Peyton Randolph, Esq; was chosen Chairman. Charles Thompson, Secretary: There is a guarantee of the door of the house (Carpenter's Hall) in which they meet, and the result of those meetings are confined to themselves, that scarce the least syllable of their proceedings reach the ears of the expecting public: The worthy Farmer, together with Thomas Whining, Esq; are both, by the united voice of the respectable body of delegates, called in, to give their assistance, to the great satisfaction and pleasure of the people. We were alarmed last Tuesday by an express from Boston, and yesterday by another from New York; it has now in some measure subsided. The physicians here, it is said, have agreed to inoculate no patients for the small-pox, during the sitting of the Congress, as several of the northern and southern delegates have not had that disorder."
MARRIED. J. Mr. William Phillips, jun. merchant, to Miss Meriam Mason, second daughter of Mr. Jonathan Mason. At Reading, the Rev. Mr. Swain, of Wenham, to Miss Elizabeth Hartshorne, of that place. At Rhode-Island, Hon. Sir John Trevelle, Knight of Malta, and Captain of Cavalry, in the service of his most Christian Majesty, to Mrs. Abigail Stoneman, of Newport. At Charlestown, South-Carolina, Mr. Joseph Scott, to Miss Katy Adams.
DIED. J. Mr. John Soring, baker.—Mrs. Fisk, widow.—Mr. Joseph Waldron.—At Salem, John Leech, Esq; Mr. Samuel Orne, merchant.
Custom-House, Port of Salem and Marblehead, Sept. 19. ARRIVED. Hinkley from Newfoundland, Rodgers, Greenock, Brooks and Hawley, New-Haven; Hurd, Miller, and Williams, New-London, and Barnum, New-York.
On WEDNESDAY next At TEN in the Morning, Will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, at RUSSELL's Auction Room in Queen-street, A variety of HOUSE FURNITURE belonging to a Person going out of the Province. * Particulars in Monday Papers. J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
WRITING and Arithmetic, to be taught in Evenings. The School to be opened the first Monday in October next, at the Writing School-House, in Queen-street, and to be continued for the Season. Where due Care will be taken for Instruction in its various Branches, as usual, and it is hoped will meet with a like Acceptance, which shall be the Aim of the Subscriber—an Assistant in one of the public Schools. Sept. 19, 1774. WILLIAM DALL, jun.
To be SOLD, by JONATHAN DAVIS, Mr. En. BULL's Wharf, the following West-India Goods, viz. Mr. Capt. CHOICE St. Vincent and Barbadoes Capt. Jac. Rum, Jamaica Spirits and Sugar, Race Ginger, Lee, Ffiggston Wool, Indigo of the best Quality, Turks-Island Salt.—Methuen-Said Davis also has to Sell, Eight Thousand Pipe Boxford, Gves, which are at Salem, the Terms of Sale of which Hovey.—to be known by enquiring of Mr. HASSETT DARBY, Fuller, Dr. Salem, or JONATHAN DAVIS, of Boston.
Several pa, To be SOLD, in WORCESTER, fairs, and the GOOD Dwelling House and Barn, tended by the together with a good Garden, and about Half an acre of Land, with a large Brook running through the after consultation of said Land, well situated on the Street, opposite nine persons Court-House, in the most public Part of the Town. The co-erson inclining to purchase may enquire of EDMUND they thought S, on said Premises. this time: W. B. Said Place is extraordinary good for a Shopkeeper, debated on and adefadin of any Sort, &c. &c. Delegates, one
DRUGS and MEDICINES. The Delegates exported from LONDON, and SOLD by county, to meet to AMOS COTTING, and determine on the countopp, half a Mile East of the Meeting House, in dent for the importance MARLBOROUGH, qualifications FRESH Assortment of Drugs and wisdom and prudence. Ground Madder, and other Dye Stuff becoming freemen; Gins, Curranis, Turkey Figs, Hungary Water, the sentiments of our sister, King's Honey Water, Court Plaster, province, with submitting, &c. Also genuine Patent Medicines, provincial assembly, and in's Balsam, Godfrey's Cordial, Mill's Balsam congress,—do, in the as Drops, British Oil, Essence of Peppermint, lowing resolves, viz. James's Fever Powders, Anderson's Scotch
1. That the several colonies female Pills, Cephalic Snuff. just rights of the colonies, AONS INSTRUMENTS, being subjects of deliberation. (Very neat) renders it expedient for this co, in Fifth Sinn Cafes, ditto, in Velvet minations respecting them; exc Cafes, Midwifery Instruments, much operation requires immediate female Catheters according to Doctor parliament, entitled, "an act for Lances, four in a Case, Fifth-king government of the province or, or single. Teeth Instruments of all New-England," being a most constitutional and charter rights are sold as cheap as can be bought in version of the government of our liberties; and having be arbitrary exertions, and milit carried into execution; and the Public are hereby inviolable attachment we own Branch of Business in my Way, and fential to, and distinguish ally to that making HOES. And and from a tender concern matters, by providing a convenient Shop, are bound to purchase all real and a large stock, I purpose to begin the attempts to enforce an imber nex, and continue in that Branch may be defeated. ng but I shall meet with sufficient Encou
2. That the Judges, Justices whom my Ambition prompts me to this county, appointed agreeable who are well Wiflers to American of the province, are the only those Jacobites that would inflame their we may lawfully obey: Tng their Suffrage for the Execution of any remove these officers, except, shall not through my Hands, nor by suant to the charter and that under me, be supplied with a single one, these officers to continue in t first given, that such Tool is to be ena trusts, as if the aforementioned a Grave his Feet deep, to hide one c been made: And that whilst of those obnoxious Wretches. Th by any official conduct in co neighbouring Governments, may be su vigorously support them the Numbers they may want, to carry on the indemnify them in their perfs leasonable Notice, whose Favours w lawful doings, yield a ready obligation on me, to acknowledge my 3. That all civil officers in public's most obedient and very hum persons, who shall dare to cond SAMUEL WATERS mentioned act, for violating under 6th, 1774.
the province, are, and will be its unnatural and malignant end PUBLISHED, of this body, such men, while tings, elegantly bound and lettered) and so contribute to involve the JOHN BOYLE, at his Shop, in of a civil war, are unfit for civil Harborough-Street, not to be tiled by the labour of TY SERMON
miles supplied with his clothi ing Subjects, viz.—I. The Fol 4. [This 4th resolve, which is omitted by the direci n of blehead and Danvers, they declaration inserted in this paper fluos and improper.] 5. That a committee be raised William Browne, Esq; of Sale with great this county has viewed into execution acts of parliament ruin his native land: That while tinue the respect for several year to detach from every future co flit in supporting, or any bary edicts of parliame necessity of considering Pastor of a Church

POETS. [The following have been spoken on the altering the Charters of the LLO of Massachusetts-Bay. written by the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Shipley, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.]
IT is of such great importance to compose or even to moderate the dissensions, which subsist at present between our unhappy country and her colonies, that I cannot help endeavouring, from the faint prospect I have of contributing something to so good an end, to overcome the inexpressible reluctance I feel at uttering my thoughts before the most respectable of all audiences.
The true object of all our deliberations on this occasion, which I hope we shall never lose sight of, is a full and cordial reconciliation with North-America. Now, I own, my lords, I have many doubts whether the terrors and punishments, we hang out to them at present, are at least do means of producing this reconciliation. Let us at least do this justice to the people of North-America to own that we can all remember a time when they were much better friends than at present to their mother country. They are neither our natural nor our determined enemies. Before the stamp-act, we considered them in the light of as good subjects as the natives of any county in England.
It is worth while to inquire by what steps we first gained their affection, and preserved it so long; and by what conduct we have lately lost it. Such an enquiry may point out the means of restoring peace, and make the use of force unnecessary against a people, whom I cannot yet bear to consider as our brethren.
It has always been a most arduous task to govern distant provinces, with even a tolerable appearance of justice. The viceroys and governors of other nations are usually temporary tyrants, who think themselves obliged to make the most of their time; who not only plunder the people, but carry away their spoils, and dry up all the sources of commerce and industry. Taxation in their hands, is an unlimited power of oppression: But in whatever hands the limited power of taxation is lodged, it implies and includes all other power. Arbitrary taxation is plunder authorised by law: It is the support and the essence of tyranny; and has done more mischief to mankind, than those other three scourges from Heaven, famine, pestilence, and sword. I need not carry your lordship's own knowledge, or out of your own dominions, to make you conceive what misery this right of taxation is capable of producing in a provincial government. We need only recollect that our countrymen in India, have in the space of five or six years, in virtue of this right, destroyed, and driven away more inhabitants from Bengal, than are to be found at present in all our American colonies; more than all those formidable numbers which we have been nursing up for the space of 200 years, with so much care and success, to the astonishment of all Europe.
de cause is, that a mother who placed her natives under a yoke, and joined with common interest.
You ought to be historical. It is to the slavery of buying British goods whether they will or not. He issues a proclamation, accusing them of unlawful, hostile, treasonable combinations, and threatening almost half a million of free-born subjects with the pains due to treason and rebellion, if they dare to enter into such resolutions. This, I think, is designed as a precedent for all America.
But let me ask that redoubtable Bingham at the head of his six regiments, and part of eighteen cannon, what law have those people broke by their agreements? Where are the sundry statutes made and provided to prevent Englishmen from refusing not to buy British manufactures? Shall we suspect that his Excellency is mean enough to lie to impose upon the populace? Or does he imagine that at the head of that despicable phalanx, he has a right to make laws for the whole continent, by which our eating and drinking shall be treason, rebellion, and any other higher crime?
A CAROLINIAN. No. IV. N. B. The Carolinian thinks the following PETITION an exemplification of the above.
To his most exalted HIGHNESS, the most Potent, the most Omnipotent BASHAW THOMAS, lately appointed by the Illustrious Sultan SALEM III. to the Subduction of the mighty Province of B.
THE PETITION of Three Hundred Thousand AMERICANS, most humbly represents, THAT whereas your Petitioners were made by the same God of Heaven with your highness, and once thought it no harm to breathe in the same air: And whereas it is notorious, that unaided by the arm of the potent Divan, our forefathers, at the expence of their own money and blood, have settled this great empire: have extended the dominion and commerce of their mother-country, and for more than a century past have enjoyed, unmolested, the common privileges of human nature, been affectionate subjects, and raised your master's crown from the obscurity which a little isle was only able to afford it.
And seeing it has from time immemorial been the privilege of the dog to cry out when he is whipped, that you would at least indulge the Americans so far as to suffer them to complain un gagged, when they are chastised for un luckily presuming to think that they were Englishmen.
* The reason why the present Ministry preferred Gage to Hutchinson for the Execution of the present plan of Tyranny is plain, the one is a lawyer, and is accustomed to view the barrier of the law as unformidable. The other is a Soldier, and consequently by profession has an higher opinion of the Sword. The instruments of oppression must be fit for the Purpose.
FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS SPY. TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF THIS PROVINCE. Shrewsbury, September 15th, 1774. IN the paper published last Monday, by Mills and Hicks, which a Scotch Tory in this town favoured me with a light of, we had part of a letter from the late Governor Hutchinson, the author of all our woes; and as vessels may, from time to time arrive, we shall not fail to be plagued with extracts of his letters, and paragraphs of his own writing, or procuring, reprinted here from the London papers, mentioning his kind representations in our favour, his prayers and intercessions on our behalf, and his humble hopes of success; not one word of which will be true, but fabricated purely to deceive honest people, and, if possible, even the very elect, into a good opinion of that same Governor Hutchinson.
reinstated in your favour, that way may be made for the return to this government, contrary to the present devout and fervent prayers of all-wishers to their country. It is impossible he should ever ask for a restoration of all your rights and privileges: If he ever should of some of them, it will be from motives entirely selfish. He will be far from deserving thanks. A partial deliverance, unwelcome in what way soever obtained, would be doubly so if through his hated instrumentality. What part he will take, "is extremely uncertain, but that" he will endeavour to serve himself, "is most certain;" and if he should think he could do this effectually by your total destruction, he would not fail most earnestly to seek it. TYCHICUS.
FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS SPY. MR. THOMAS, WE pity every gentleman in the army and navy, who are employed in the dishonourable business of enslaving this people. Those who act from necessity, we can forgive; but men of honour must forever despise the man who received a commission and instructions from North, on purpose to distress and enslave America. The most infamous and unpardonable of all crimes, is that of destroying the liberties of a free people. No man that has a spark of honour in his soul will ever be guilty of so mean, so base, so execrable a deed!
MONDAY, September 19. BOSTON.
The committee of the delegates from the several towns in the county of Suffolk, who presented the address to the Governor (inserted in our paper last week) on receiving his answer, met together, and having carefully perused the same, were unanimously of opinion, that his Excellency's answer could not be deemed satisfactory to the county. And further, that his Excellency in his reply had been pleased to propose several questions, which, if unanswered by the committee, would leave on the minds of persons not fully acquainted with the state of facts, some very disagreeable impressions concerning the conduct and behaviour of the people in this county and province. And the following address was unanimously voted to his Excellency.
May it please your Excellency, THE Answer you have been pleased to favour us with to the address this day presented to you, gives us satisfaction so far as it relates to your own intentions; and we thank your Excellency for the declaration which you have made, that it is your duty and interest to encourage an intercourse between town and country; and we intreat your indulgence while we modestly reply to the questions proposed in your answer. Your Excellency is too well acquainted with the human heart not to be sensible that it is natural for the people to be soured by oppression, and jealous for their personal security, when their exertions for the preservation of their rights are construed into treason and rebellion. Our liberties are invaded by acts of the British parliament, troops are sent to enforce those acts. They are now erecting Fortifications at the entrance of the town of Boston; upon the compleating those, the inhabitants of the town of Boston will be in the power of a soldiery who must implicitly obey the orders of an administration who have hitherto evidenced no singular regard to the liberties of America.
Your Excellency has been pleased to order the powder from the magazine in Charlestown, to forbid the delivery of the powder in the magazine of Boston to the legal proprietors, to seize the cannon at Cambridge, and bring a formidable number from Castle-William, which are now placed at the entrance of the town of Boston. And have likewise, in addition to the troops now here, been pleased to send for reinforcements to Quebec and other parts of the continent.
Your Excellency has suggested that nature has made it easy to cut off the communication between town and country. Our only request is, that the entrance into the town may remain as nature has formed it. If security to his Majesty's troops is the only design in the late manoeuvres, we beg leave to assure your Excellency that the most certain, and by far the most honourable method of making them secure and safe, will be to give the people of the province the strongest proof that no design is forming against their liberties. And we again solicit your Excellency with that earnestness which becomes us on this important occasion to defer from every thing which has a tendency to alarm them, and particularly from fortifying the entrance into the town of Boston.
We rely on your Excellency's wisdom and candor, that, in your proposed representation to our common sovereign you will endeavour to redeem us from the distresses which we apprehend were occasioned by the greatest misinformation, and that you will assure his Majesty that no wish of independence, no adverse sentiments or designs towards his Majesty or his troops now here, actuate his good subjects, in this colony; but that their sole intention is to preserve pure and inviolate those rights to which, as men and English Americans, they are justly entitled, and which have been guaranteed to them by his Majesty's royal predecessors.
journey without day. It is of use, that every vote passed by the delegates of the county, and by the committee appointed to wait on the Governor, was unanimous.
FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS SPY. MR. THOMAS, You are requested by your friends and customers, to publish the inclosed in your next Thursday's Spy. Let the proximity of it be no objection, it will gratify those who gave their attendance at Marshfield, and simulate the zeal of the common people. I am your friend and humble servant, A PLIMOTHIAN.
ON the evening of the 6th instant, a large number of people collected at Plymouth, in consequence of the bells ringing, drums beating, &c. when they were informed, that a visit was proposed the succeeding day to N. Bay Thomas, of Marshfield, one of Lord North's new-fangled peace-officers.
THESE may certify my fellow-townsmen, that I having been appointed by his Majesty, one of the Council of this province, have resigned my seat at the board, and communicated my resignation to Governor Gage, on Thursday last.
Plimouth, Sept. 6, 1774. GEORGE WATSON. Wednesday morning the people assembled, and having marched as far as Kingston, formed a procession, and were joined by large parties in their way to Marshfield, where they found a vast concourse of their brethren, from the several towns of Pembroke, Scituate and Hanover, drawn up in regular battalia, and parading before the Rev. Mr. Shaw's.
To Nathaniel-Ray Thomas, Esq; SIR, WHEREAS you have accepted a seat at the council board, under the new unconstitutional establishment, and have sworn to execute the late oppressive acts of parliament, which has occasioned great uneasiness, and the meeting of a large and respectable number of people from every part of the county, for the purpose of demanding your resignation of the aforesaid obnoxious office: These are to inform you, that we expect you resign the same, within ten days from this time, and publish it in the Boston papers. Otherwise you may compel us to take measures agreeable to ourselves, as well as to you.
The business of the committee being finished, they reported their proceedings to the lodge, which were unanimously voted to be satisfactory, and having given three cheers in approbation of their conduct, dispersed, each to his respective habitation. No injury was offered to the property or person of any individual; the utmost decorum, propriety and decency, were observed through the whole affair.
Several gentlemen attending, thinking the object of pursuit too insignificant to merit the least degree of notice; and that it would rather gratify his vanity, by bringing him from the realm of obscurity into public view; and this is the reason he has been neglected so long; but however inconsequential he may be in himself, he has derived so much consequence from his late appointment, that unless he complies with the requisition of the county, and returns to his primitive nothingness, a storm will break over his head, that no tears of contrition will be able to divert.
There may be had (if applied for soon) at BICKER'S Auction-Room, near the Market, BOSTON, AN elegant Assortment of Cambleteens and Cotton and Linnen Checks; also a great Variety of other Articles, suitable for the approaching Season.
ISAIAH THOMAS, the Printer and Publisher of this Paper, has REMOVED his PRINTING-OFFICE, from the Bottom of Royal Exchange-Lane, to the South corner of Marshall's Lane, near the Mill-bridge, where his Office was formerly kept.
PUBLIC VENDUE. This and To-Morrow Evenings, at BICKER'S Auction Room, near the Market, BOSTON, Where will be Sold, A VERY large and valuable Assortment of English Goods, suitable for the approaching Season; also, Feather Beds, Delfs, Pinchbeck Watches, &c. M. BICKER, Auctioneer. This and To-Morrow Evening, 7 o'Clock.
MUSICAL CLOCKS. TO BE SOLD, A NUMBER of Musical Clocks, which play a different Tune each Day in the Week, on Sunday a Psalm Tune. Enquire of BENJAMIN WILLARD, Clock and Watch Maker in Roxbury-street, near Boston. Where all Sorts of Clocks are made in the newest Form, and warranted to measure Time without Variation, and to go many Years without Cleaning. Also, Clock Cases are made at the same Place in various Forms, and in the best Manner, and cheaper than can be purchased in LONDON, and conveyed with Clocks to any Part of the Country.
N. B. Said WILLARD likewise informs, that all Branches of this Business are carried on at his Shop at Grafton. Just Imported, and to be SOLD, RICE, Cotton Wool, Coffee and Sugar, by the Hoghead or Barrel, and a small Quantity of Beaver. Enquire of PETER SIGOURNEY, near the Draw Bridge.
ALL persons that have any Demands on the Estate of Mr. JOSEPH JACKSON, late of Boston, Truckman, deceased, are desired to bring in their several demands to ABIGAIL JACKSON, sole Executrix to said estate; and those who are indebted to said Estate are requested to settle and pay the same to said Executrix, immediately.
ADVERTISEMENTS omitted for want of room, will be in our next.

WEDNESDAY, September 20. BOSTON.
By the Ship Hayley, Capt. Scott, who arrived at Salem yesterday, in seven weeks from London, we have received the London Papers to the 27th of July, from whence we have extracted the following Intelligence.
ST. JAMES'S, July 22. His Majesty in council was this day pleased to order, That the parliament, which stands prorogued to Tuesday the fourth day of August next, should be further prorogued to Thursday the fifteenth day of September following.
LONDON, July 18. It is said that Governor H-----n has been repeatedly closeted at Kew, at Whitehall, and at St. James's, since his arrival; and we are assured his opinion gives much spirit to the ministry, as it entirely coincides with their own.
Lord North was with the King a long while yesterday, and it is said, that some unwelcome news brought him to town.
INTelligence EXTRAORDINARY. We hear, that in consequence of the passing two late acts, many promotions will take place, among which the following are said to be already determined on:
Lord North, commissioner of supplies to the College of Jesuits. Jere Dyson, Esq;—Clerk of the Holy Inquisition. Thomas Brathwaite, Esq;—Secretary to the See of Rome. Charles Jenkinson, Esq;—Runner to ditto. Charles Fox, Esq;—Arch-Treasurer of the Holy Romish Empire. Edmund Burke, Esq;—Professor of Oratory in the University of Paua. Colonel Barre, Esq;—Colonel of the American White Boys. Mr. Sawbridge, Esq;—Keeper of Liberty-Tree, Boston. Lord Chatham, Esq;—Superior of the Holy House of Loreto. Mr. Harley, Esq;—Clothier to the Indian Bush-fighters. Archbishop of Canterbury, Esq;—Sovereign Pontiff. Mr. Horne, Esq;—Crucifix Maker to his most Catholic Majesty. Mr. Wilkes, Esq;—Moderator of the Meetings at Faneuil-Hall.
His—King of Canada, by the Title of Chevalier de St. George. Lord Mayor, Esq;—Tea-Man to the Pope.
July 19. The Nancy, Williams, from New-York, is arrived at Barcelona, after throwing overboard great part of her cargo.
July 20. Lady Holland is given over by her physicians, in consequence of which she has made a will.
Accounts are lately arrived from Spain, which positively assert, that there are no less than twenty-eight men of war of the line now ready for sea, in the several ports of Carthagena, Ferrol, and Cadiz, at less than a week's notice.
July 21. Yesterday the Earl of Dartmouth, secretary of state for the plantations, arrived in town from his seat at Sandwell-hall, in Suffolk, and afterwards had a numerous levee at his house in Charles-street, at which several of the colony agents attended.
When a small relaxation of the Popery laws came on in the Irish house of Lords, the bench of bishops were unanimous against the bill: when the establishment of Popery and arbitrary power was argued in the English house of Lords, the right Reverend bench voted for the mode. A correspondent wishes to know how their religious principles can differ, when both are supposed to profess the same faith?
It is said the King has violated his coronation oath. If this be fact, and that matters are not properly taken notice of, do not the English deserve to be enslaved?
Three families of fortune, in the province of Leinster, in Ireland, have actually sent a person to New-York and Maryland, to bring over an account of the land, the purchase of an estate, soil and situation, as they intend going over to settle there. These families will be a considerable loss to that part of Ireland, as they maintain a number of dependants, and employ many labourers.
We are informed that a ship of a small construction, to mount 64 brass guns of a proportionate size, is ordered to be built for the prince of Wales, for the purpose of initiating his royal Highness in the naval art: It is to lay at anchor off Richmond.
July 22. Notwithstanding the parade which our court made a few years ago concerning Falkland's Island, pretended to assert the justice of the nation, the honour of the flag, &c. it is now certain that our people have ABANDONED that island. Whether this is in compliance with some PRIVATE AGREEMENT made with the Court of Spain when the island was restored to us, is a question which will instantly occur to every man; and whoever reflects but one moment on the DETERMINED PACIFIC COMPLEXION of our Court, will be as readily provided with an answer.
July 23. The native of Otaheite, who was at Court the other day, had received some instructions for his behaviour in addressing his Majesty, but so great was his embarrassment when his Majesty approached him, that he forgot every thing but that of kneeling; and when his conductors endeavoured to make him speak to the King, he could only stretch out his hand, and get out the familiar phrase of how do ye do? which, it seems, was the first English phrase he learned, and has been the common term of salutation daily made use of by him ever since to all strangers. His Majesty very freely shook him by the hand. The innocent native freedom of this Indian visitor caused a good deal of mirth and pleasantry among the noblemen, &c. attending the levee.
July 25. A singular agreement was entered into at the New-England coffee-house, on Friday last between an eminent merchant in the Crescent, and a gentleman of fortune in the West-Indies: The former deposited with the latter the sum of 500 guineas, on consideration of receiving one guinea per day, until the acts relating to the port of Boston are repealed, with a proviso, however, that the bargain should be void if they were not repealed by the 25th of Dec. 1776.
July 26. Letters from Gibraltar say, that the number of Barbary strong armed Corsairs daily increase, so that the Mediterranean seas swarm with them, especially the Algerines, who employ a great number of European ship-builders in their dock-yards, give them great encouragement, and allow them the liberty of following their own religion, with the same freedom as in their native country. The letters add, that at Algiers they have two large men of war upon the stocks, which are built under the direction of an Englishman; they will mount 70 guns each.
July 27. It is reported, that there is a design of passing an act next session of parliament, for restoring to all Roman Catholic Peers of this realm, their ancient rights of sitting in parliament.
It is said, that his most christian majesty has published an ordinance at Paris, which makes the supplying the Corsicans with stores of any kind a capital crime, punishable with death; and all the foreign ministers at that court have been given to understand that this edict will be executed with the utmost rigour.
The present national debt is full a hundred and forty millions, and the annual interest of the same full five millions and a half; to which the current expenses being added, makes the annual out-goings about thirteen millions.
A COW LOST. STRAYED from the Owner, last Saturday, a brindle coloured COW, middling Size, about six or seven Years old. Whoever can inform the Printer where she is, shall be handsomely rewarded, and all Charges paid.
N. B. She had a small Piece cut off the Side of one of her Ears, about the Size of a Dollar.
NEW-YORK, Sept. 15. By Captain Adams, lately arrived from the West-Indies, we learn that the militia of the Island of Hispaniola are embodied, and constantly exercised; and, that the greatest pains imaginable are taken to make them acquainted with military discipline.—Also, that they expressed the greatest satisfaction at the hopes of a rupture between Great-Britain and her colonies.
We are credibly informed that subscriptions are opened in the towns of Halifax, and Quebec; and, that in the latter, upwards of 3000 bushels of Wheat have been subscribed, for the relief of the town of Boston.
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, September 13. "Yesterday came to town the delegates from North-Carolina.—Their resolves for a non-importation from Great-Britain is to take place the first of January next, and a non-exportation to Great-Britain the first of October 1775."
"The Congress are very busy, but their proceedings are kept a profound secret." On Friday last, numbers of the following Card were distributed about this city, viz.
A CARD. New-York, September 9th, 1774. THE thanks of the public are presented to those worthy citizens, who have, to their immortal honour nobly refused to let their vessels for the base purpose of transporting troops, ammunition, &c. to oppress the brave defenders of American liberty, who are already suffering in the common cause.—Such patriotic conduct merits applause, as much as a contrary one would the contempt and indignation of every generous mind.
From the NEW-YORK JOURNAL. Mr. Holt, The following, in substance, having been offered, by Messrs. Pelatiah Welsher, and Samuel Breck, to Mr. Rivington, who refused to insert it, unless he were paid twelve shillings, it was then carried by the same gentlemen to Mr. Gaine, who said he would publish it in his last paper, but could not for want of room, though he promises it shall be in his next. In the mean time, you are earnestly requested to publish it in this week's Journal; and, by so doing, you will greatly oblige many of your customers, and the friends to AMERICAN FREEDOM.
BOSTON, August 29, 1774. A REPORT having been industriously propagated in New-York, that the principal inhabitants of this town are converting the donations of their brethren in the neighbouring colonies, which were intended for the relief of the suffering poor of this place, to their own private emolument, contrary to the charitable intentions of the benevolent contributors: And as such report is entirely without any manner of foundation, the public are desired not to credit it; the following narrative being, a true state of the case.
On the reception of the Boston port act, the chief concern of the principal inhabitants was to provide relief for all such whose support depended on their daily labour; and, in the next place, for those tradesmen, whose small funds, though sufficient for the common purposes of life, yet would soon be exhausted, if their resources were cut off. They considered the employment of all these, especially the former, as a much more prudent measure than feeding them without any employment at all. They therefore adopted such plans of business for their exercise, as were likely to be the most useful to the public, as well as most conducive to the health and good order of the employed. Accordingly, the labourers were set to cleaning docks, making dykes, new-laying old pavements in the public squares, &c. These were all public concerns, and of no advantage to any individual, any further than as a member of the community to which he or she belonged. Not a single wharf, dock, dyke, or pavement, belonging to any individual, was ordered to be made or repaired; but only such as by the constant usage of the town, had always been supported at the expence of the public.
The principal inhabitants of this town have invariably considered the generous benefactions of their charitable and patriotic brethren in the other colonies, as given entirely for the relief of their indigent fellow citizens. But would it not be offering the greatest insult to the good sense of their benevolent neighbours, to suppose that they intended to maintain a very great number of healthy, able-bodied people in idleness, which must certainly be attended with great prejudice to them, as well as to the town in general, both now and hereafter?—Or that, they regret to see and hear that our poor citizens are employed in works which will be a public benefit?
Should the public interest of the town of Boston be finally advanced by these services in saving some future taxes, [and they even become a small compensation for the inconceivable damage which it is now sustaining, by a suspension of all its principal business] can it be imagined that, there is a single person, in the almost endless list of contributors, who is sorry to find, that which he voluntarily gave, is like to be productive of public advantage? It is much more candid, as well as charitable, to think that it must be a matter of the greatest satisfaction to every benevolent mind to hear, that what was only intended for one good purpose, had answered two.
A FRIEND TO BOSTON. On Monday the 5th instant five transports failed from Boston for Quebec, to receive on board the 10th and 52d regiments; and the same day three other transports failed for this port to take on board the 47th, and five companies of the royal regiment of Ireland, now on their march hither from Philadelphia; these troops are to join the others encamped at Boston under general Gage's command.
Last week twelve tons of gun-powder were shipped for the use of the provincial troops in New-England, by way of Rhode Island.
FREDERICK-COUNTY-(Virginia) July 23. Yesterday being the day appointed by our lawsuit for the election of burgesses, a great part of the county assembled at Winchester, among whom it was universally agreed to shew their detestation to the presumption of the G— of Massachusetts-Bay, that his effigy should be first hanged, and then suffer the flames, accompanied by his darling proclamation. An image was fabricated truly like him, as he must appear to the mind's eye of every American, grim as Pluto, and deformed as Vulcan. It was decorated with a soldier's coat, a grenadier's cap, and a wooden sword. Thus accoutred, with a rope round his neck, in the fatal cart, supported by an African, he was conducted through the town, attended by a rejoicing multitude, and then suspended on the highest gallows an American G— was ever yet honoured with. The proclamation was read by Mr. A. White, attorney at law, who made a very spirited and handsome speech to the people, exhorting them to be unanimous, as the certain means to preserve their liberties. The torch was then applied, and the flame, as it pleased to destroy the base destroyer of liberty, embraced him with uncommon ardour, and devoured him in an instant.
PORTSMOUTH, September 16. Thursday last arrived here Captain Norman, in the Fox Manxship, with 30 chests of Tea, consigned to Edward Parry, Esq; who refused the consignment; upon the people's being acquainted with this repeated insult (of the East-India company) to the colonies, they were greatly alarmed, and had almost absolutely determined to oblige the ship to return to London, with the Tea only, but through the polite behaviour of the captain, who was ready to submit to any thing the people through proper order on the occasion, he was permitted to send the Tea to Halifax, when it was put on board Captain Fernald, who failed for Halifax with it last Sunday. In future no such indulgence will be allowed to the enemies of America.
SALEM, September 20. Letters from a gentleman in Philadelphia, to his friends in this place, dated the 2d instant, say, "The whole attention and conversation is wrapped up in the Congress, and every mouth wishing them
* The expence of paving the streets in the town of Boston is always defrayed by a public tax on all the inhabitants.
Success—they are greatly respected, as men of wisdom, from whom the people ardently expect the salvation of America. Every one prays for their success,—the Canadien bill serves greatly to cement them to our welfare and the unanimity expected in their councils almost assures them of it. What measures will be adopted is as yet very uncertain; some think non-exportation and non-importation to West-Indies and Great-Britain, others only to Great-Britain: But by what I can gather it will be only with Great-Britain for the present, and the West-Indies conditionally, at some future meeting of the Congress, if they find the first ineffectual. General Gage is most severely handled in the papers here and at Virginia, for his taking his appointment. Government has not in this place one who dares appear its advocate. The members from Virginia were just now received with ringing of bells, and other marks of a most hearty welcome. Upon the whole, every thing bears a most promising appearance for the future welfare of America."
The behaviour and motion of the troops in Boston, last Sabbath, occasioned a suspicion that another secret expedition was on foot; on which, we hear, the inhabitants of Watertown assembled with their arms, for the protection of some pieces of cannon deposited in that place for the use of the people.
THURSDAY, September 22. BOSTON.
At a meeting of the freeholders of this town, yesterday, at Faneuil-Hall, the following gentlemen were chosen to represent them in the General Assembly, to be held on the 5th day of October, viz.
The Hon. Thomas Cushing, Esq; Mr. Samuel Adams, The Hon. John Hancock, Esq; William Phillips, Esq;
The meeting stands adjourned to this day at 3 o'clock, P. M. Last Monday Capt. Jonathan Greenleaf was unanimously chosen to represent the town of Newbury-Port in general court.
Mr. Jabez Fisher is unanimously chosen to represent the town of Wrentham.
We have papers and letters from Capt. Scott, to the 27th of July, by which we are informed, that Governor Hutchinson's representation of the state of our affairs were very pleasing to the ministry, who were led to expect a payment of the tea, and a submission to, and acquiescence in, the late Acts of the British Parliament, by the friendship and zeal of the addressers to Governor Hutchinson, who have been represented as a majority of the men of Property and consequence in this town—that the operation of the Boston Port Act would greatly contribute to bring it about, the merchants in England and the friends of Government in Boston not being much injured by that measure, but only the West-Indiatriaders, who had been always bowling for a non-importation of British goods, which no ways effected their own trade—that a non-importation agreement would not be approved of by the other colonies, and must prove abortive in this—that in consequence of these apprehensions, and not having heard of the non-consumption covenant, the first report of which will strike them like a thunder clap—large quantities of goods were shipped and shipping for the colonies; that the unsafeness of the people on account of the Quebec bill had not subsided, and the dislike and opposition of the manufacturers to the measures of administration were greatly increasing, as well as the number of able writers in our favour, but that the colonies must notwithstanding expect a departure from their great oppression, by their own fortitude and wisdom, and not the honour and justice of a nation corrupted and vitiated in almost every part, whose feelings, rather than their understandings must be applied to—that the troubles of Europe were far from being composed—and the jealousy of ministry with respect to the measures of the new administration in France must operate in favour of this afflicted and distressed people.
The inhabitants of this province, and of this town in particular, ought to be informed, that that dirty Scotch pedler, John Mein, formerly a vender of books, and pretended Printer, in this town, employs his whole time in gaming and writing the most audacious falsehoods, coloured with the greatest facility against this town and province. His lucubrations appear every day in the [London] Public Ledger. It is said Government has settled a salary of 200l. per annum on this Thane, no doubt with a view to support him in searching the records of Grub-street, to find language fit for his purpose, and adapting it to the good people of Massachusetts-Bay.
Our worthy brethren in the country may be assured, that some of the most intelligent, affable and civil of the troops, now quartered in this capital, daily make excursions into our country towns, in disguise, where they mix with all sorts of people, prompting the talkative to tell all they know, and the weak and immoral to tell much more. Now, as secrecy is the characteristic of our enemies, so openness and frankness, is peculiar to our honest husbandmen: When the former, therefore, are SPIES in the land, the latter ought to be reserved, and UPON THEIR GUARD. A word to THE WISE.
A correspondent informs us, "that in travelling three hundred miles in New-England, he has not seen one person who gave the least countenance to the late tyrannical measures of parliament; but on the contrary, the people in every part of the country are prepared to meet the last efforts of tyranny, and are determined to spend all their treasure and their blood in defence of their rights."
An old warrior in the country, has constructed a machine for fighting, which he says, for a close attack, is much superior to a bayonet, or any other instrument ever yet in use. The art of war is the universal study, all are animated with the highest ardour for liberty, and, "O save my country, heaven! is the universal prayer."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Middleton, in Connecticut, to his friend in Boston, dated Sept. 15, 1774.
"I embrace this opportunity to acquaint you, that the town of Hartford, has subscribed about 1400 bushels of grain, to proceed to Boston next week, and the town of Middletown has subscribed about the same quantity; the towns of Kennington and Middle-Hadden have each of them subscribed 600 bushels, the whole of which you may expect in Boston next month, for the innumerable poor, &c. The false alarm has enraged the people greatly, about twenty thousand were preparing, and some of them already marched for your relief, and I presume in five days there would be eighty thousand men to assist you, which is more than Great-Britain can spare.—A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand."
A great number of hands are now employed in erecting Barracks on the Common for the troops there encamped. Last Week the cannon at the batteries back of governor's island were removed by order of the General.
Wednesday last the Rev. Mr. David Osgood, was ordained a pastor of the church at Medford.
We cannot learn by the last advices from Philadelphia, that any part of the proceedings of the grand Congress of the colonies convened there, had transpired, except that the greatest harmony and unanimity subsisted among them; and that they having agreed that the mode of voting should be that each should have one voice.
We hear collections are making in the several towns in the colony of Rhode-Island, for the suffering inhabitants here: It is said fifty hundred dollars are already raised in the town of Newport; and that the honourable Joshua Babcock, Esq; of Westerly, has generously subscribed one hundred dollars for the like purpose.
The Newport Gazette of last Monday says, that "the alarm which went through the country last Saturday and yesterday forenoon, reached New-York on Monday, and had not the accounts been soon contradicted, it is very certain there would have been 60 or 80,000 men in arms, near Boston, in two days, not as some Tories infamously insinuate, for the purpose of rebellion; but in defence of ALL that is valuable, dear, holy, and sacred."
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, Sept. 19. "The Congress opened last Monday, Peyton Randolph, Esq; was chosen Chairman. Charles Thompson, Secretary: There is a general meeting, and the result of those meetings are confined to some among themselves, that scarce the least syllable of their proceedings reach the ears of the expecting public: The worthy Farmer, together with Thomas Whining, Esq; are both, by the united voice of the respectable body of delegates called in, to give their assistance, to the great satisfaction and pleasure of the people. We were alarmed last Tuesday by an express from Boston, and yesterday by another from New-York; it has now in some measure subsided. The physicians here, it is said, have agreed to inoculate no patients for the small-pox, during the sitting of the Congress, as several of the northern and southern delegates have not had that disorder."
MARRIED. J. Mr. William Phillips, jun. merchant, to Miss Meriam Manton, second daughter of Mr. Jonathan Manton.—At Reading, the Rev. Mr. Swain, of Wenham, to Miss Elizabeth Hartshorne, of that place.—At Rhode-Island, Hon. Sir John Trevelyan, Knight of Malta, and Captain of Cavalry, in the service of his most Christian Majesty, to Mrs. Abigail Stoneman, of Newport.—At Charlestown, South-Carolina, Mr. Joseph Scott, to Miss Katy Adams.
DIED. J. Mr. John Sorin, baker.—Mrs. Fisk, widow.—Mr. Joseph Waldron.—At Salem, John Leech, Esq; Mr. Samuel Orne, merchant.
Custum-House, Port of Salem and Marblehead, Sept. 19. ARRIVED. Hinkley from Newfoundland, Rodger Greenock, Brooks and Hawley, New-Haven; Hurd, Miller, and Williams, New-London, and Bernard, New-York.
On WEDNESDAY next At TEN in the Morning, Will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, at RUSSELL'S Auction Room in Queen-street, a variety of HOUSE FURNITURE, belonging to a Person going out of the Province. * Particulars in Monday Papers. J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
WRITING and Arithmetic, to be taught in Evenings. The School to be opened the first Monday in October next, at the Writing School-House, in Queen-street, and to be continued for the Season. Where due Care will be taken for Instruction in its various Branches, as usual, and it is hoped will meet with a like Acceptance, which shall be the Aim of the Subscriber—an Assistant in one of the public Schools. Sept. 19, 1774. WILLIAM DALL, jun.
To be SOLD, by JONATHAN DAVIS, At BULL'S Wharf, the following West-India Goods, viz. CHOICE St. Vincent and Barbados Rum, Jamaica Spirits and Sugars, Race Ginger, Cotton Wool, Indigo of the best Quality, Turks-Island Salt. Said Davis also has to Sell, Eight Thousand Pipe Staves, which are at Salem, the Terms of Sale of which may be known by enquiring of Mr. HASKETT DABBY, of Salem, or JONATHAN DAVIS, of Boston.
To be SOLD, in WORCESTER, A GOOD Dwelling House and Barn, together with a good Garden, and about Half an Acre of Land, with a large Brook running through the Middle of said Land, well situated on the Street, opposite the Court-House, in the most public Part of the Town. Any Person inclining to purchase may enquire of EDMUND HEARD, on said Premises. N. B. Said Place is extraordinary good for a Shopkeeper, or a Tradesman of any Sort, &c. &c.
DRUGS and MEDICINES, Imported from LONDON, and SOLD by AMOS COTTING, At his Shop, half a Mile East of the Meeting House, in MARLBOROUGH.
A FRESH Assortment of Drugs and Medicines. Ground Madder, and other Dye Stuff, Spices, Ralins, Currants, Turkey Figs, Hungary Water, Lavender Water, King's Honey Water, Court Plaster, small Ivory Syringes, &c. Also genuine Patent Medicines, viz. Turlington's Balm, Godfrey's Cordial, Mill's Balm and Bateman's Drops, British Oil, Essence of Peppermint, Lockey's Pills, James's Fever Powders, Anderson's Scotch Pills, Hooper's Female Pills, Cephalic Snuff. SURGEONS INSTRUMENTS, (Very neat)
Pocket Instruments, in Fifth Skin Cases, ditto, in Velvet Pouches, with silver Cases, Midwifery Instruments, much improved, Male and Female Catheters according to Doctor Hunter, Cases of best Lances, four in a Case, Fifth-skin, ditto, two in a Case, or single. Teeth Instruments of all Sorts. N. B. The above are sold as cheap as can be bought in Boston.
THE respectable Public are hereby informed, that I the Subscriber, living in Sutton, intend to leave every other Branch of Business in my Way, and apply myself wholly to that of making HOES. And having prepared Matters, by providing a convenient Shop, necessary Help, and a large Stock, I purpose to begin the first Day of October next, and continue in that Branch only, not doubting but I shall meet with sufficient Encouragement from those whom my Ambition prompts me to serve; I mean those who are well WISHERS to American Freedom. But those Jacobites that would inflame their Country, by giving their Suffrage for the Execution of any unconstitutional Act, shall not through my Hands, nor by any Person for or under me, be supplied with a single one, unless Security be first given, that such Tool is to be employed in making a Grave six Feet deep, to hide one or more of the Heads of those obnoxious Wretches. The Gentlemen in the neighbouring Governments, may be supplied with what Numbers they may want, to carry on the Business, by giving reasonable Notice, whose Favours will be an additional Obligation on me, to acknowledge my theirs, and the Public's most obedient and very humble Servant, SAMUEL WATERS Sutton, September 6th, 1774.
JUST PUBLISHED, (Price Nine Shillings, elegantly bound and lettered) And to be Sold by JOHN BOYLE, at his Shop, in Marlborough-Street.
TWENTY SERMON on the following Subjects, viz.—I. The Fall of Man. II. Danger of Duplicity in Religion. III. The Excellency of the Human Soul. IV. The Dominion of an Overbearing Deity a Reason for Joy and Praise. V, VI. Charity more excellent than Faith or Hope. VII. Preaching to the Spirits in Prison. VIII. Red Sea, Blood of Christ. X and XI. The Connexion of Duties and Comforts of Religion. XII. The Use of Family-Religion. XIII. The Use of the Sacrament of religious Education. XIV. The Use of the Table of the Lord rendered convenient. XVIII. Practical Observations on the Sermon on the Mount. XIX. Man's Duty to Dust from whence he was taken. By ANDREW PASTOR of a Church.

POETS CORNER.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. An ELEGY on the TIMES.
O BOSTON! late with ev'ry pleasure crown'd, Where commerce triumph'd o'er the fav'ring gales, And each pleas'd eye, that rov'd in prospect round, Hail'd thy bright spires, and bles'd thy op'ning walls!
And ye, whose heaven in sullen gloom is dapp'd, To run with joy the vain, luxurious round, Bles'd the full banquet with the charms of wine, And roll the thundering charet o'er the ground!
THE English Grammar SCHOOL
lately kept, in Main-Street, by Mr. WARD, is THIS DAY opened, by WILLIAM PAYNE, who begs Leave, to assure, all such as shall please to favour him with the important Charge of educating their children...
LEFT in the Hands of BENJAMIN GOLDTHWAITE, and to be Sold at his Shop, just above CONCERT-HALL, Boston, Superfine Fears, white and pompadoro Broad Cloths...
Said GOLDTHWAITE has many other Things for Summer wear, such as Silk Breeches Patterns, very good Wool-ditto, 3, 4 and 6 threaded, striped Damascus, figured Silk, corded Dimity, Silk Tambour Shapes for Waistcoats...
SARAH DAWSON, Widow of the late JOSEPH DAWSON, Gardner, at the Cold-Bath, at New-Boston, has got for Sale this Fall, a large Collection of grafted and inoculated English Fruit Trees...
Any Person who may want any of the above Articles and will oblige the said SARAH DAWSON with the Custom, may be assured they will be Sold at the very lowest Rates, and all Favors gratefully acknowledged. N. B. The COLD BATH is now in good Order.
WHEREAS the Assessors are required by Law to give reasonable Warning to the Inhabitants, to bring to the Assessors, true and perfect Lists of their Polls and Rateable Estates...
In Conformity to the Law, the Assessors of the Town of Boston, do hereby notify the Inhabitants of said Town, that they shall attend at their Chamber, at the East-End of Faneuil-Hall Market, to receive the same, from Wednesday the seventh, to Friday the thirtieth of September...
TO BE SOLD, A LARGE convenient Dwelling-House and Shops, very pleasantly situated in Dedham a Quarter of a Mile below the Reverend Mr. HAVEN's Meeting-House...
ALL Persons that have any just Demands against the Estate of JOHN TATE, late of Boston, Mariner, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to JAMES TATE, Administrator on said Estate...
WILLIAM BRECK, begs leave to inform his Friends and Customers, that he has removed from his Shop, at the Golden Key in Ann-Street, to a Shop near the Hay-Market, next door to Dr. Daniel Scott's...
A general assortment of Hard-Ware Goods, together with a full assortment of Tin-Ware, at the lowest prices for Cash.
WHEREAS the great and general court or assembly of this province, at their session begun and held at Boston on the sixth day of January 1773, by an act then passed intitled, "An act to make provision for the assessing the monies upon the lands of the proprietors in the township of Ashfield..."
which are due from the said proprietors to defray the charges hereinafter mentioned, and to provide a method for the collecting and levying the same, appointed us the subscribers a committee to ascertain and determine what was then due to the Rev. Mr. Jacob Sherwin, minister of said Ashfield, for and towards his settlement in the ministry there by virtue of his contract with the proprietors...
Table with 3 columns: No., £., s., d. Lists various lots and amounts.
The owners of the several lots aforesaid are hereby notified that much of their respective lots aforesaid will be sold at public vendue, to be opened on the 28th day of December next, at the dwelling-house of Samuel Beiding, in Ashfield aforesaid, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon...
Choice Cheshire Cheesee,
Which will suit the nicest taste, Just imported in Capt. Symmes and Capt. Cales from London, And to be SOLD by CHARLES LOWE, Opposite the Boston Stone, in Marshall's-Lane, near the Mill-Bridge.
SILKS And Superfine BROAD CLOTHS.
PRIME assortment of Padufoys, Du-capes, Lutestrings; plain and figured Satins, Damask, Sarinets, &c. - superfine fashionable coloured Broad Cloths, with suitable Linings and Trimmings. To be Sold at an exceeding low rate, by JOHN BARRETT and SONS, At their shop near the Mill-Bridge, Boston.
FIFTY POUNDS Reward.
WHEREAS on the 19th of June last past, a certain JOSEPH THORP, was entrusted with New-York with a considerable Sum of Money in Half Johannes, of Nine Penny Weights, to be delivered by him at Quebec, and as he has not yet made his Appearance there, with other suspicious Circumstances, it is apprehended he is gone off with the Money. He is a Native of England, about 35 Years of Age, six Feet high, swarthy Complexion, very dark keen Eyes, with Pimples on his Face, and pitted with the Small-Pox, of a slender make, stoops as he walks, talks rather slow, with some small impediment in his speech, wears a wig and is very fond of Smoking. He lived some time in Boston, from whence he removed to Quebec, assuming the Character of a Merchant in both Places; he was also once in Trade in New-Castle Virginia, and has a Brother settled there. He went on board Captain John F. Poyam, for Albany, and landed at Poughkeepsie, from whence he hired a Wagon to carry him to New-Haven. He took with him a blue Causer and dark brown suit of Cloths. Whoever secures the said JOSEPH THORP in any of his Majesty's Cools on the Continent shall be entitled to ten per cent. on the Sum recovered, and the above reward of Fifty Pounds when convicted. Apply to Curson and Seton of New-York, Joseph Wharton, jun. of Philadelphia, Robert Christie, of Baltimore, James Gibson and Co. Virginia, John Bensfield of Quebec, or Matthias Bourne of Boston. It is required of those who may have seen the said Joseph Thorp, since the 19th of June last past, or know any thing of the route he has taken, that they convey the most early intelligence thereof to any of the above persons, which will be gratefully acknowledged. All Masters of Vessels are forewarned from taking him off the Continent.
JOHN HUNT
BEGS Leave to acquaint his Customers and others, that he has entered into a Partnership with JOSEPH SHERBURNE, jun. under the Firm of HUNT and SHERBURNE. And that they have for Sale, a large and complete Assortment of London, Sheffield, Birmingham and Bristol HARD WARES, consisting of too many Articles to be enumerated. All which they are determined to sell by Wholesale and Retail, at the very lowest Rates, at their Shop next Door northward of the Sign of the HIRAZ and Crown, in Cornhill, Boston.
TO BE SOLD, A RIGHT of Land containing 500 Acres, in a Township granted by the Great and General Court of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, to Samuel Livermore, Esq.; and others, lying on both sides of Androscoggin River, adjoining Sylvester Townships, in the County of Cumberland. Enquire of the Printer.
CORNISH's New-England Cod-Fish HOOKS, &c.
ABRAHAM CORNISH, Fish-Hook Maker from EXETER in ENGLAND, ACQUAINTS his Friends and the Public, that he has removed from his Manufactory at the North-End of Boston, to the upper part of CHARLESTOWN, where he continues to make all sorts of Fish-Hooks, warranted of the best Quality; - being made of the best Wire only, better shaped to take Fish, and each Hook prov'd before put up, (which is not done in England. (From several years Experience, they have been found much superior to any imported, and are universally approved; for which reason, he flatters himself, that all concerned in the Fishery, will favour him with their Custom, as they will thereby promote their own private interest, and render this Country an efficient Service, by establishing a Manufacture necessary to its Prosperity. - For the better accommodating those who may purchase his Hooks, they are sold by Messieurs LEE and JONES, near the Swing-Bridge in Boston, who will always keep by them a sufficient Quantity to supply the American Fishery. Said LEE and JONES, have for Sale, a few Hogheads of Jamaica and Barbadoes Rum, genuine Kippen's and Rappie Snuff, a Variety of Looking Glasses, a Quantity of Lynn Shoes, a few Cases of blue and white China Cups and Saucers, Corks, Gold and Silver Laces; a Variety of Stone, Glass, and Cream-coloured Ware, Silver and Pinchbeck Watches, a Variety of Silks, Laces and Muslins, Tambour Mullin Aprons and Ruffles; and a general Assortment of Piece-Goods. Also, NAILS of all Sorts to be delivered at MARBLEHEAD.
WILLIAM BRECK, continues to sell, as usual, A general assortment of Hard-Ware Goods, together with a full assortment of Tin-Ware, at the lowest prices for Cash.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS,
This is not meant as a caution against defending our rights with our blood, if we should be driven to that extreme; but only against the impolitic zeal of those, who seem disposed to let loose the rage of popular resentment, and bring immediate ruin to a crisis in this province; although a general and far more promising measure are proposed by the voice of the colonies, and though the congress is to consult on the state of our grievances, and to determine the line of our conduct.
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 per Annum, unsealed, and Eight Shillings sealed and directed; and where Articles of Intelligence, &c. are the usual received; - PRINTING in its various Branches, performed in a neat Manner, with the greatest Care and Dispatch, on the most reasonable Terms. Six Hours' Notice SUBSCRIPTIONS for the SPY are also taken in by J. Earkin, Chairmaker, and Mr. W. Calder, Painter, in Charlestown; Mr. J. Hiller, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater; and by Dr. Elijah Hewins, in Scituate.