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THE Massachusetts Spy
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial PAPER:--Open to ALL Parties, but Influenced by None.
DO THOU Great LIBERTY INSPIRE our Souls,--And make our Lives in THY Possession happy,--Or, our Deaths glorious in THY JUST Defence.
VOL. IV.]
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1774.
[NUMB. 168.]
Boston, April 15th, 1774.
This day was published, [Embellished with elegant Engravings, I. The Bust of the Honourable John Hancock, Esq; supported by the Goddess of Liberty and an Ancient Briton. II. The Fortune Hunter, a humorous historical piece.]
NUMBER III. of THE ROYAL American Magazine,
OR UNIVERSAL Repository of Instruction and Amusement For MARCH, 1774.
CONTAINING.
An Oration; delivered March the fifth, 1774, at the request of the town of Boston. By the Honourable John Hancock, Esq; On Human Happiness—Essay on the Origin of Letters—Justice and Generosity; or the remarkable History of Wilbraham Wentworth, concluded—A Council to the Ladies—Method of distilling Salt Water—Experiment on Tea—Treatise on the Small-Pox—Dr. Tiffey's method of recovering drowned Persons—The Fortune Hunter, continued—Poetical Essays—A Castle Building—Verses addressed to a Young Lady—A Manuscript found among the Writings of the late Benjamin Pratt, Esq; of New-York—Answer to the Rebus in No. II.—Historical Chronicle—General History of America—Domestic Intelligence—Messages of the Governor, Council and House of Representatives, of the Massachusetts Bay—Marriages and Deaths—Meteorological Observations on the Weather—Governor Hutchinson's History, &c.
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By the Rev. JOHN GILLIES, D. D.
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Boston, April 4, 1774.
DEBATES in the IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS upon the STAMP-ACT, lately enforced there.
AFTER reading the preliminary resolution, by which it was resolved to lay duties on new-papers, pamphlets, and advertisements in any paper, or periodical publication, and also to oblige all printers of new-papers to annex their names to their papers, Mr. Fortescue said, the duty on advertisements would be a great hardship upon the Trustees of the Linen Board, who were obliged to advertise frequently in the country papers, and hoped they would be excepted.
Sir Ponsonby said, he had already declared his dislike of all and every part of the stamp-act, as laying a tax upon justice, and cramping the liberty of the press; but he must now particularly object to tax advertisements, as a tax on trade, which would be sensibly affected by this additional expense; and as every encouragement was rather wanting at this time of declining trade (if a little intended traffic could bear that name) he hoped that gentlemen would not insist on what would manifestly hurt it. That he would not pretend to debate, he would only intreat and implore; he would appeal to humanity, and be a beggar for the beggars.
Mr. Barry was of the same opinion, and moved to postpone the words relative to advertisements, leaving the duty on new-papers and pamphlets.
Mr. Mason replied, that this part of the tax was expected to raise one fourth of the whole stamp-duties, which would be greatly abridged by leaving out advertisements; and some other tax must be found to supply that deficiency, which would bear harder upon the necessities of life than the stamp. This duty would not hurt trade, for it would be repaid by the consumers of the goods purchased. So that 6d. on an advertisement would be so disseminated, that it would be less to individuals than any nominal coin.
Mr. French said, he must oppose including of pamphlets, as it would be a tax on genius in reversion. Anonymous pamphlets have frequently been of the greatest service in stating affairs of consequence, setting people on their guard, and rousing a proper spirit: An anonymous pamphlet, written by Lord Somers, was the great means of the glorious revolution. The pamphlets written by Dean Swift, and the service they did in 1724, against the ruinous measure of Wood's halfpence, are fresh in every one's memory. It may be thought proper to tax new-papers, but pamphlets and advertisements ought to be exempted.
Mr. Prime Serjeant (Hele Hutchinson) answered, that if new-papers only were stamped, and no pamphlets and advertisements, the duty might be evaded. A paper might be printed containing only advertisements, and no news, and thus escape the tax; and, if pamphlets were exempted, there would soon be no new-papers, for by adding one page more, if it contained but only one line, it would become a pamphlet. Taxing pamphlets would not decrease the number of them, for since they have been taxed in England they have multiplied above four-fold. A right honourable Gentleman hath mentioned the liberty of the press; but the liberty of the press could not be hurt by that tax, as the names of the printers only would be published; and if they stuck to legal liberty, they had nothing to fear. But he knew no reason any printer should stand concealed, only to trample on truth, and the character of individuals; as by abuse of the best things, they become the worst, so has this liberty. What was to be understood by liberty, but the privilege of acting conformable to law? Whilst a printer did that, he was safe. Should a man publish anything concerning the parliament that was falsely true, though from those truths he should even draw false consequences, and say such and such a measure of the House would be the ruin of the country, and destroy the liberties of the subject, yet, as these were only the private opinion of the writer, he might be said to be mistaken; and if a prosecution was begun against the printer, a grand jury would hardly find the bill; or, even if it did, no petty jury would find a verdict against the defendant. This would be the liberty protected by law; for liberty is a wild beast of prey, a foe of humanity, till it becomes guided by reason. That if we consider the London news-papers, they have not been less free than before the stamp-act. The richest printer in Dublin, George Faulkner, has been pretty free in his paper, though his name was annexed to it; he had been very patriotic, but, as he was an honest man, he never hurt private characters.
Mr. Barry persisted, that trade would be hurt by a tax upon advertisements, if even the charge was repaid by the consumers; for if the expense is to be made up to the advertiser, commodities would thereby become dearer according to that rule. But the rule would not hold; for as buyers had the choice of going to shops and traders who did not, as well as those who did advise, a commodity must be sold as cheap by the one as the other; therefore, the loss will fall on the traders, and not the consumers.
Mr. Chapman said, he abhorred alike the private assassin, who stabbed the character of an individual in a new-paper, as in a pamphlet; but he feared, to prevent one evil, we might run into another, and the printers names being published might subject them to a prosecution, for what was even legal liberty of the press. It was not here as it was in England, where a man, prosecuted for any bold publication against government, was sure of protection. Here it would be the reverse; for though, if all men were like the right honourable Gentleman (Mr. Prime Serjeant) no juries would condemn a printer, yet no gentleman can say a prosecution, even if the man was acquitted, would not be a heavy punishment, and that a man in slender circumstances might be ruined before his cause came to a trial: To such an evil, men would be timid in printing, and make any submission to the powerful man, who might think himself offended. An instance of this we have in the case of a printer in this city, J— E—, who having in a periodical pamphlet published some reflections on a certain person (Colonel Luttrell) was, on being threatened with a prosecution, so intimidated, that he made a most mean, abject, slavish, and shameful submission.
Mr. Tighe observed, that people had departed from the constitutional liberty of the press, as men, not measures, were attacked; therefore it was necessary the printers names should be fixed to new-papers, which, from their numbers and contents, were become a nuisance, and created idleness,
as now a labourer would hardly go to work till he had read the news.
Colonel Joseph was of opinion, that a stamp-act would not obstruct the just liberty of the press. It would not hinder writers of genius, who, through modesty, diffident of the opinion of the public, or love of retirement, chose to be unknown, from being kept secret. The printers names only were wanted, that an injured person might know where to resort for the justice the laws allowed him, and that an anonymous paper might no longer be a dark lantern, to light the villainous assassin of private reputation to give the wound, and at the same time conceal him from the eyes or reach of the injured.
Serjeant Dennis said, Gentlemen had wandered from the point in question, which was only, whether advertisements should or should not be taxed? He saw no reason why the printer, who, by expecting five shilling from the advertiser, first raised the tax, should not pay a few pence out of it to government.
Mr. Flood thought some tax ought to be laid on advertisements, though it might be thought proper to mitigate the quantum to a smaller sum than first mentioned; but pamphlets surely ought not to be taxed. They were not generally here made use of for the purpose of defamation; that was the province of new-papers, which had dealt pretty largely in it. Some indeed were more moderate than others; some of the anonymous papers had rather discussed measures than attacked men, though they had sometimes fallen into that evil; yet it must be owned, that there had never been so much anonymous abuse, so much low dirty malice, so much senseless defamation, or so much false wanton calumny as in that kingdom put together, in all that vehicle of wickeds and nonsense, the Monitor. It is true a man, wrapt up in conscious integrity, may despise the shafts of scandal, and let the constant tenor of his life give the lie to malice; therefore this abuse of liberty is the more to be slighted, and not made a plea for abolishing that liberty, which may probably be hurt by taking pamphlets wherein a freedom of discussing political points is more the peculiar province than in a new-paper, whose limits will not afford the necessary scope. For the integrity of juries can be but little security, when, in case of a future bad Viceroy, and a future bad administration, the nomination of Sheriffs being in their power, and the impanneling of juries in the power of the Sheriffs, every evil might be apprehended.
Colonel Blaquiere said, he should consider this question chiefly as a mode of taxation. It was thought that this article would produce a fifth part of the whole, and there could be no inconvenience in obliging printers to put their names to what they published, as it could only serve to prevent those writers of more malice than wit, and more security than sense, from dipping their pens in poison, not in ink. If pamphlets were not taxed, the seat of calumny would be only removed from new-papers to pamphlets; for if scandal was extinct in the former, they would soon drop. Every rational freedom of writing was enjoyed in England, and Gentlemen could no more call the stamp-act a tax on justice and liberty, than the duty on wine could be called a tax on religion, because a small quantity of that liquor was used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Mr. Barry withdrew his motion.
Mr. Chapman moved to strike out the word pamphlets. Mr. Scott said, he thought new-papers, not pamphlets, were the proper conveyance for political knowledge, and pamphlets were generally appropriated to literature and science: But if they alone were to be untaxed, they would be worse than new-papers; and, being larger, would be only a larger species of scandal. The petty dealer in calumny would then have nothing to do but to extend his malice, and become a wholesale merchant of destruction. That for his own part, he was always glad to be abused; for, if it showed he had enemies, it showed also that they had that method of venting their malice, without which they might, perhaps, be so swelled with stifled spleen, that they might stab him at some corner. Yet, although he despised it, and men of such known abilities, known talents, and avowed integrity, as his honourable friend below him (Mr. Flood) might defy scandal, yet that was not universally the case, and some method should be taken to save them from it, which might be materially hurt by it. Women, for example, had not usually that strength of mind; their reputations ought to be held sacred, and defended against a set of ruffians, who would so far pervert truth, and give a loof to malevolence, that a woman would be afraid to go to church, lest some of them might publish (in that most infamous of all papers ever known) that she was going on some shameful errand. For these reasons, he should think a stamp-act was rather a warrant for a legal free press, than restraint; and no printer was ever prosecuted here for such legal liberty.
Dr. Clement replied, that one Harper, a printer, had been prosecuted, and a proclamation issued against another.
Mr. Scott asked, if either had a verdict against him? Mr. Prime Serjeant said, in regard to the true liberty of the press, he thought in a free country, every public measure, and every public man, was a proper subject for discussion. That his station, as a servant of the Crown, and the share he had in administration, rendered him so far accountable to the public, that he applauded writers, who canvassed his actions, which ought to stand the test of the public disquisition.
But it is far otherwise with merchants, women, and people in trade, whose reputations might be materially injured by such vile detraction, as had lately flowed so much in a particular paper. So that none could advertise in that paper, who had any regard for public tranquility and private character. As the printer of that paper was not so publicly known, as to be accountable for the base, unjust and dishonest injuries, he had done to worthy and virtuous people, by publishing indiscriminate calumny, some of these people had complained to him, and had led to this idea, which ought not to dishearten any honest printer. In regard to advertisements, he proposed they should be mitigated, if gentlemen would not give any farther opposition to this general, and, what he thought, useful idea.
Mr. George Hamilton said, the advertising the sale of houses and lands, by bringing so many bidders, was one cause of the high price thereof, and ought to be taxed.
Colonel Brown thought it proper to tax licentiousness, which could no more affect the just liberty of the press, than the act against chalkers could prevent the lawful use
of a knife; and that he looked upon a wound in his body better than one in his character, as it may easily be cured, would not pain him so much, and might excite the pity and compassion of his friends, and not their hatred or contempt.
Mr. Chapman persisting in his motion, the question was put, whether the word pamphlets should stand part of the resolution, and there appeared ayes 107, noes 45.
The resolution was then agreed to, as were the subsequent, only, instead of six-pence on each advertisement, Mr. Prime Serjeant moved for two-pence, which was carried.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY, To Dr.—S, E—T—p—, and J—T—gs all of S—h in the county of B— under pimps; common porters send greeting.
WHEREAS ye have falsely reported, that the meeting of the people at the Old-South meeting house in Boston, in December last, consisted only of men of our denomination; and have taken unwearied pains to scandalize the proceedings of said meeting, and to bring upon us the resentment of the town of S—h, who have ever discovered their regard to the liberties of the people, by endeavouring to persuade them to protest against the doings of said meeting; by which conduct you not only discovered your malevolence towards us your superiors, but a disregard to the interest of your town; and a fixed enmity against your country: For all which we think you deserving that recompence of your error which is meet. We therefore notify you, that whenever you give us opportunity, we will present you with a dress very becoming persons of your character. A PORTER per order.
To Mr. LUKE DEMOCRITUS of New-York.
MY DEAREST SIR,
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A plain and sure method to raise the ITALIAN MULBERRY TREE, which produces the best food for silk worms.
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WEDNESDAY, April 20.
BOSTON.
By Capt. Folger who arrived here yesterday from London, and the Lord-Hyde-Packet, Captain Teyries, arrived at New-York, we have the following Intelligence, viz.
VIENNA, [Germany] February 9.
USTAPHA III. Emperor of Turkey, who died the 21st ult. in the 59th year of his age, was the eldest son of Achmed III. who was destroyed in 1730. This last Emperor ascended the throne the 29th of October, 1757, on the death of the Emperor Osman. He has left an only son, the Sultan Selim, born the 24th of December 1761, and three daughters, the eldest of whom, aged about 14 years, is already the widow of two Grand Vizirs. The Sultan Abdulhamet, his brother, hath been proclaimed Emperor, in consequence of the right of succession established in Turkey, where the crown descends to the eldest of the family.
WARSAW, [Capital of Poland] Feb. 5. We are assured that the Court of France has offered, for the second time, its mediation to that of Peterburgh; and it is intimated, that the peace may probably be concluded without assembling a congress.
FRANKFORT, Feb. 15. Some letters from Russia announce, that the rebels have been attacked and defeated by Colonel Freiman; whilst other advices say, that the sedition has been suppressed, and that their number increases daily. According to what is reported here, a certain court labours earnestly to bring about a peace between Russia and the Porte, for the latter has already offered a second time her mediation, from whence great hopes are formed that this great work will at length be perfected; for the Grand Signor has recommended in the strongest terms to his brother, as his successor, to incline to peace; and it is well known that the present Grand Vizir has always expressed pacific dispositions.
CONSTANTINOPLE, January 23. At half an hour after twelve the Grand Signor expired, and at half an hour after two the guns from the Seraglio announced his successor Abdul Hamet.
LONDON.
January 28. Letters from Boston complain much of the taste of their fish being altered: Four or five hundred chests of tea may have so contaminated the water in the harbour, that the fish may have contracted a disorder not unlike the nervous complaints of the human body. Should this complaint extend itself as far as the Banks of Newfoundland, our Spanish and Portugal fish trade may be much affected thereby.
January 30. It is said that the tea thrown into the sea at Boston, is valued at 18000l. at 1s. 6d. the pound. The whole sent to America, is said to be about 300,000l. worth, which is returning home, not being suffered to be landed.
It is given out, and believed, that administration will enforce the duty upon tea in America. If they intend to be consistent, there is no other line of conduct for them to pursue. Many of the principal persons now in office opposed as vigorously as possible the repeal of the Stamp-act, therefore they cannot adopt those principles which they so recently condemned in others. On the other hand, a spirited attempt to exact obedience, will, without doubt, bring the dispute to a decision.
The dispute with America is now become more serious than ever. It is reduced to the decisive question, Whether the right of taxation be here or there? There is no medium which can be adopted with honour or safety on either side. No problem of expediency can now be stated; for the opposition in America is not the sum levied, but to the right of levying it.
January 31. The faithful services of Dr. Franklin to his American constituents, have been most graciously requited by the minister's taking from him the office of Post-Master General of North-America, which he held jointly with John Foxcroft, Esq; who is to remain sole Post-master General of that department; and a bill in Chancery is ordered to be commenced against the Doctor, to compel a confession from whence he derived the letters to Mr. Whately, that have occasioned the late unhappy dissensions between Governor Hutchinson, the late lieutenant Governor, the honourable the Council, and the house of Representatives of the Massachusetts-Bay.
February 2. Mr. Wedderburn's attack upon Dr. Franklin, and the Americans, before the Privy Council on Saturday last, was gross, brutal and vulgar. However, all the runners and tools of the Court cry it up as a most excellent performance. This Gladius of the bar produced no fault or argument; all was rant, ribbaldry, and declamation against the Agent, for having done his duty. Dr. Franklin did not speak. Mr. Dunning replied to Mr. Wedderburn. He did not fully approve of the repeal of the Stamp-act. From his speech there seemed ground for suspicion, that Lord Shelburne's party are endeavouring to make fair weather at St. James's. Mr. Cornwall's pension was an earlier and stronger proof of it. The speech being ended, the lawyers and Dr. Franklin retired. The council are said to have debated the matter, and to have been unanimous in their opinion. The report they are to make to the King is said to be highly in favour of Governor Hutchinson; from which it is imagined, he will be further complimented with a letter of thanks. The Agent, who, for doing nothing more than his duty, in his official capacity, was reviled in the bitterest terms, and in the evening of the same day, he was informed, by letter from Lord Shelburne, that his Majesty had dismissed him from his office of Post-master in America.
It has been given out, that six regiments, and some men of war, are to be sent to Boston. But the latter opinion is, grounded upon its being more consistent with the genius of our Court, that orders will be sent to Boston to seize the Committee-men, and send them over here to be tried upon the act of the 26th of Henry VIII.
The manner in which a celebrated Agent obtained the very extra-dinary letters which have occasioned so much noise, is said to be from the late Mr. Fitzherbert, who had them of Mr. Whately, to whom they were written. This is not given as the fact, but is the report that is current of that matter.
The affairs of America at present occupy the whole attention of administration, and it is agreed on all hands to be now the most important business that has come under consideration since the accession of the present King.
Among the variety of circumstances which happened at Boston, previous to the throwing the tea into the sea, one deserves particular notice. Governor Hutchinson sent for a gentleman, who is Colonel of a regiment of militia, and informed him, he apprehended a riot would speedily happen, and desired him to have his men ready to quell it. The Colonel acquiesced, and retired; but presently recollecting, that possibly the Governor and himself might differ in their ideas of a riot, he returned to the Governor, and desired to have his Excellency's definition of a riot, lest they might mistake each other; as for instance, said the Colonel, your Excellency may order a number of troops to march into the town, and thereby disturb the peace; I may think this a riot, your Excellency may think otherwise. I may see a number of people assembled, in a very quiet manner, to consider upon something which nearly affects their interests. Your Excellency may, perhaps, call this a riot; I may call it a very orderly meeting. There was no retrenchment.
February 3. On Saturday last the Privy Council met to hear the arguments for and against the petition of the assembly of Boston (which was some time since presented by their Agent, Dr. Franklin) "praying that his Majesty would be pleased to remove the Governor, &c." Serjeant Glynn and Mr. Dunning were counsel for the petition, and urged very strongly the expediency and necessity of granting the prayer of it. Mr. Solicitor General was employed on the other side, and instead of answering the learned arguments of his brethren, in refuting the allegations of the petition, contented himself with pronouncing a most severe philippic on the celebrated American philosopher, in which he loaded him with all the licenced scurrility of the bar, and decked his barrague with the choicest flowers of Billinggate. The Doctor seemed to receive the thunder of his eloquence with philosophical tranquillity and sovereign contempt, whilst the approving smiles of those at the board clearly showed that the coarse language can be grateful to the politest ears.
The King of Prussia, in one of his epistles, calls Dr. Franklin, "ce nouveau Promethée." Our correspondent says, that he could not help wishing, while the Solicitor General was pouring forth his tide of scurrility, that the American Prometheus could have causered fire from Heaven to blast the unmann'd railer.
February 4. The Clerks in the Plantation office are extremely busy at this time in regulating and adjusting the American accounts for the inspection of Parliament.
His Majesty has given orders for laying before the Lords of the Council an account of the exports to America since the conclusion of the late peace.
The Ministry have not yet come to any resolution what to do with America. Their councils are discordant, their penetration superficial, and their courage rank cowardice. In a word, America, like France or Spain, is now a match for them. They are unequal to the business, and therefore true types of the hand that made them; nor is it difficult to guess for what purpose they are continued in office, since daily experience convinces the whole world, the British empire is mouldering away in their hands.
Among the many illiberal reproaches made use of by the Solicitor General against Dr. Franklin, which were so far upon the Greek model, (as the scouts of office boat of) that they highly partook of the Athenian Billinggate; he spoke of his being a man of letters with great contempt, by punningly saying he was so far a man of letters, that he was homo ludens litterarum (a term of reproach used by Plautus to the worst of characters) said he ought to be expelled the Royal Society, of which the Doctor is a Member, and ignoramus as wantonly compared his conduct to that of Zanga in Dr. Young's Revenge, which he concluded by observing, was in favour of the African Prince, who was by much the honester man. There is no party man so violent as an apostate.
We hear that Mr. Wedderburne, by the late exertion of his oratorical powers, has shown government to what lengths he is willing to serve them, that nothing less than the seals are talked of as a recompence for so industrious a servant.
One of the vacant blue ribbands is likewise talked of for Governor Hutchinson, as the proper reward for the man who, in the Court phrase, it is said, has faced every danger for the service of his country.
By all account from New-England, the people are in such a ferment about the tax upon Tea, and the East-India Company's sending at this time such a quantity of it there, as bids fair to disturb the peace of all the colonies in America. The conduct of government towards all our colonies has been highly detrimental and injurious to the trade and commerce of this kingdom. The Ministry do not seem to know, that the principal advantages which this country can reap from its colonies, are the increase of its trade and commerce, and also of its navigation. But it is the misfortune of this nation to have persons in power who turn all public advantages into private jobs; and instead of increasing the trade, commerce and intercourse of this kingdom by the means and intercourse of its colonies, they study to impose taxes upon our fellow-subjects in those countries, in order to create places of profit for their creatures and dependants. This is the source and foundation of all the uneasiness and disturbances which have arisen, and are now got to the greatest height in our American colonies; and this is the cause that hath deprived this nation of almost all its trade and commerce with them. For the taxes which the Ministry have in vain endeavoured to saddle upon them, were such as would have raised only a trifling sum, such as could have been of no public service or benefit whatsoever, but were calculated merely for promoting the interest of the Minister, by enabling him to provide for more of his dependants. And thus the advantages of trade, commerce and navigation of this kingdom, with its colonies, have been lost in endeavouring to create places of profit for the creatures of the Ministry.
February 5. The little junto finding themselves (what all the world knew before) unequal to the American business, and the Eaves-dropper, Lord Hillsborough, being puzzled, have at length resolved to bring it into Parliament. Lord North is to bring resolutions, ready cut and dried, from Mr. Stuart Mackenzie, and Parliament, which is only a form, is to have the honour, or rather the drudgery, of passing them.
The place lately held by Dr. Franklin, of Postmaster in America, from which his Majesty was pleased to dismiss him on Saturday last, is given to Mr. J. Garnier, Lord Weymouth's acquaintance; a gentleman well known at Arthur's in St. James's-street.
By certain advices from New-York, we learn that the American sons of liberty, being fearful their humble petitions to his Majesty and Council will be without effect, are come to an unanimous determination not to part with their liberties but with their lives, and are accordingly preparing for either peace or war.
The whisper is revived, that Parliament will be dissolved at the end of the present session. The civil list is now in the 17th quarter of arrear.
So vastly, beyond all conception, have our American colonies increased within the last twenty years, that a Gentleman lately arrived from thence, who had the best means of information, and was at the greatest pains to obtain an account of their numbers as accurate as possible, assures us, that there is not less than two hundred and forty thousand men on the militia roll in the seven northern provinces.
We bear the scheme of the Americans is to give land to every soldier that is sent over against them, whether from England, Scotland or Ireland; by which means we shall furnish them with a sufficient force to beat ourselves.
LONDON, February 10. The papers relative to the affair at Boston, are preparing to be laid before a great assembly, that business being to come on after the affair of literary property is determined.
Extract of a letter from Gosport, February 7. The Venus frigate in this harbour is now fitting for the reception of the Duke of Cumberland, who means in the spring to go up the Straights. Capt. Balfour is nominated to be his royal Highness's Captain.
February 15. Yesterday some dispatches were received from the American colonies. The same day the Earl of Dartmouth had a conference with his Majesty at St. James's.
The printer of a daily paper attended yesterday according to order, and on his examination, relative to a letter printed in his paper last Friday, reflecting on the speaker, informed the Assembly the author of the said letter was Mr. H.
Ordered, that Mr. H. do attend the Assembly this morning.
A motion was made, that the printer be taken into custody and committed to Newgate; debates arose.
Extract of a letter from the Hague, February.
The last letters from the banks of the Danube seem to intimate more than ever the desire of the Turks to make peace, and go so far as to say, that the Porte has sent a person of rank to the Russian head quarters, to treat with the field-marshal Romanzow upon this subject.
February 17. Yesterday about one o'clock, John Wilkes, Esq; attended by Humphrey Cotes, and John Scott, Esq; and several gentlemen, freeholders of Middlesex, went to the parliament Coffee-house in old palace-yard, Westminster, and at two o'clock proceeded from thence to Mr. Stracey's room adjoining to the house of commons. He then told Mr. Stracey (the clerk appointed to swear in the members after the first day of a new parliament) that he came to take the oaths and his seat as member for Middlesex, pursuant to a summons from the sheriffs for that purpose: the above gentleman gently replied, that according to the constant practice of that house, no person could take the oaths as member, after the first session of a new parliament, unless he produced his certificate. Mr. Wilkes, for answer, told Mr. Stracey, that the clerk of the crown would not grant him; and the other saying the oaths could not be administered without it, the business ended; and Mr. Wilkes, after having paid his proper respects to the gentlemen present, returned to the coffee-room, and in a short time after, to his own house. A great number of his friends filled the different avenues leading to the house of commons, and gave him three cheers on his going to, and coming from, the house.
February 24. It is said orders are given to the tower for preparing 5000 stand of small arms, to be sent to America.
February 26. On Thursday last, about half an hour after six in the evening, the Queen was happily delivered of a prince; they are both likely to do well.
February 27. A correspondent observes, that he never had a perfect idea of the Star-Chamber proceeding till the 26th of last month at the hearing of a certain American petition. It was then that shameful scene was represented to him, in which a brutal crown lawyer was encouraged to abuse with the utmost rancour and malignity the amiable and illustrious Sir Walter Raleigh.
February 28. Dr. Franklin, we hear has since his fracas with the ministry, voluntarily resigned his American Agency; nobly declining to receive the wages of his conscription; a day longer than he found himself in a capacity to do them any essential service.
Howard, Esq; was on Wednesday last appointed one of the surveyors general of the customs in the room of John Temple, Esq;
LONDON, February 28. They write from Ratilbrot in Silesia, that an earthquake happened there in the night between the 26th and 27th ult. in which the parish church, which had stood five hundred years, fell down and ruined several houses in the neighbourhood; the fortresses upon the opposite shores of the river Oder was likewise greatly damaged. In the hall which was fixed upon the head of the church tower, an iron chest was found sealed up, which was sent to his Prussian Majesty.
On Friday last Mr. C. Fox resigned his place as one of the Lords of the treasury. It is said Sir William Meredith is appointed in his room.
This day the lower assembly will go into a committee of the whole house, to take into consideration the permitting the exportation of flour, bread and biscuit, to New-Foundland, for the supply of the fishery.
There never was so crowded a court as was yesterday at St. James's; not a foreign minister, nor scarce a peer in town, but what attended to congratulate his Majesty on the birth of another Prince.
It is said that the real cause of having no state lottery this year is, that the arrears on the civil list will be paid out of the sinking fund, and that no part of the national debt is to be paid off.
The Neptune, Wallace, from Philadelphia to Cadiz, is put into Lisbon, after throwing over board 120 barrels of flour.
March 1. Mr. Temple, who fought a duel sometime ago with Mr. Whately is dismissed, by command of his Majesty, from the employment which he held in America.
March 3. Col. Jennings's motion relative to American affairs is postponed till to-morrow.
The ship Buchanan, of Greenock, Capt. James Moody, from New-York to Bourdeaux, laden with 2500 barrels of flour, was lost on the 22d of January near Bourdeaux; the whole crew perished, 1800 barrels of the flour were saved.
Several farmers and artificers from the north-siding of Yorkshire, and the south part of the county of Durham are preparing to embark for North-America.
At the Court at St. James's, the 7th day of February, 1774.
PRESENT, THE KING'S most Excellent Majesty,
Lord Chancellor Viscount Falmouth Lord President Viscount Barrington Duke of Queensberry Lord Le Despencer Duke of Ancafter Lord Cathcart Lord Chamberlain Lord Hyde Earl of Suffolk James Stuart Mackenzie, Esq; Earl of Denbigh Hans Stanley, Esq; Earl of Sandwich George Onslow, Esq; Earl of Rochford Sir Jeffery Amherst Earl of Dartmouth Charles Jenkinson, Esq; Earl of Bristol Sir John Goodricke Earl of Pomfret
WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board, a report from the right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs, dated the 29th of last month, in the words following, viz.
At the Council-Chamber, Whitehall, the 29th of January, 1774.
By the right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs.
PRESENT,
Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Cathcart Lord President Lord Hyde Duke of Queensberry James Stuart Mackenzie, Earl of Suffolk General Conway (Esq; Earl of Denbigh Wellbore Ellis, Esq; Earl of Sandwich Sir Gilbert Elliot Earl of Rochford Hans Stanley, Esq; Earl of Marchmont Richard Rigby, Esq; Earl of Dartmouth Sir Early Wilmot Earl of Buccleugh Thomas Townshend, jun. Esq; Earl of Hardwicke George Onslow, Esq; Earl of Hillsborough George Rice, Esq; Lord George Sackville-Jermain Lord Chief Justice de Grey Viscount Townshend Sir Lawrence Dundas Viscount Falmouth Sir Jeffery Amherst Lord North Sir Thomas Parker Bishop of London Charles Jenkinson, Esq; Lord Le Despencer
YOUR Majesty having been pleased by your order in council of the 10th of last month, to refer unto this committee, an address of the house of representatives of the province of Massachusetts-Bay, complaining of the conduct of Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; Governor, and Andrew Oliver, Esq; Lieutenant Governor of that province; and humbly praying that your Majesty would be pleased to remove the said Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; and Andrew Oliver, Esq; from their posts in that government.—The Lords of the committee did, in obedience to your Majesty's said order of reference, proceed on the 11th of this instant to take the petition of the said house of representatives into consideration, and were attended by Benjamin Franklin, Esquire, filing himself agent for the said house of representatives, and from whom the said petition had been transmitted to the Right Honourable the Earl of Dartmouth, one of your Majesty's principal Secretaries of state, and likewise by Israel Mauduit, Esquire from whom application had been made to this committee, humbly praying on behalf of your Majesty's said Governor and Lieutenant Governor, that he might be heard by council in relation to the address of the house of representatives of the said province; and the said Benjamin Franklin, Esq; having thereupon prayed, that he might in that case
be heard also by his council at a future day—the Lords of the committee did, in compliance with the petition of the said Israel Mauduit, Esq; and at the instance of the said Benjamin Franklin, Esq; think proper to appoint a future day to resume the consideration of the said petition of the house of representatives of Massachusetts-Bay, and to allow council to be heard on both sides thereupon.—And their Lordships having been this day attended by council on both sides accordingly, and heard all that they had to offer, and having maturely weighed and considered the whole of the evidence adduced by the said Benjamin Franklin, Esq; upon which the said house of representatives did come to the several resolves, which are the foundation of their said petition to your Majesty: The Lords of the committee take leave to present to your Majesty, that the said house of representatives, have by their said petition taken upon themselves to bring a general charge against your Majesty's said Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and to complain of their conduct, "as having a natural and efficacious tendency to interrupt and alienate the affections of your Majesty from that your loyal province—to destroy that harmony and good will between Great-Britain and that Colony, which every honest subject would strive to establish—to excite the resentment of the British administration against that province—to defeat, the endeavours of their agents and friends to serve them by a fair representation of their state of facts—to prevent their humble and repeated petitions from reaching the ear of your Majesty, or having their desired effect; and finally charging your Majesty's said Governor and Lieutenant Governor with having been among the chief instruments of introducing a fleet and an army into that province, to establish and perpetuate their plans, whereby your Majesty's said Governor and Lieutenant Governor have been not only greatly instrumental of disturbing the peace and harmony of the government, and causing unnatural and hateful discords and animosities between the several parts of your Majesty's extensive dominions, but are justly chargeable with all that corruption of morals, and all that confusion, misery and bloodshed, which have been the natural effects of posing an army in a populous town."—But the Lords of the committee cannot but express their astonishment, that a charge of so serious and extensive a nature against the persons, whom the said house of representatives acknowledge by their said petition to have heretofore had the confidence and esteem of the people, and to have been advanced by your Majesty from the purest motives of rendering your subjects happy, to the highest places of trust and authority in that province, should have no other evidence to support it but inflammatory and precipitate resolutions, founded only on certain letters, written respectively by them, and all but one before they were appointed to the posts they now hold, in the year 1767, 1768 and 1769, to a gentleman then in no office under the government, in the course of familiar correspondence, and in the confidence of private friendship, and which it was said, and it was not denied by Mr. Franklin, were surreptitiously obtained after his death, and sent over to America, and laid before the assembly of the Massachusetts-Bay; and which letters appear to us to contain nothing reprehensible or unworthy of the situation they were in; and we presume, that it was from this impropriety, that the council did decline on behalf of the assembly any intention of bringing a criminal charge against the Governor and Lieutenant Governor; but said that the petition was founded solely on the ground of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor being, as they alleged, now become obnoxious to the people of the province; and that it was in this light only that the said petition was presented to your Majesty. And there being no other evidence now produced, than the said resolutions and letters, together with resolutions of a similar import by the council of the said province, founded, as it was said, on the same letters.
The Lords of the committee do agree humbly to report, as their opinion to your Majesty, that the said petition is founded upon resolutions, formed upon false and erroneous allegations, and that the same is groundless, vexatious, and scandalous, and calculated only for the seditious purposes of keeping up a spirit of clamour and discontent in the said province.—And the Lords of the committee do further humbly report to your Majesty, that nothing has been laid before them, which does or can, in their opinion, in any manner, or in any degree, impeach the honour, integrity or conduct of the said Governor or Lieutenant Governor; and their Lordships are humbly of opinion, that the said petition ought to be dismissed.
His Majesty taking the said report into consideration was pleased, with the advice of his Privy Council, to approve thereof; and to order, that the said petition of the house of representatives of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, be, and it is hereby dismissed this board, as groundless, vexatious, and scandalous, and calculated only for the seditious purpose of keeping up a spirit of clamour and discontent in the said province. G. CHETWYND.
Several articles of domestic intelligence, some foreign affairs, &c. must be omitted.

THURSDAY, April 21. BOSTON.
On Friday last arrived his Majesty's Ship Swan, Capt. James Aycough, from New-York.
His Majesty's Schooner, Hope, George Dawson, Commander, sailed last Thursday, for Philadelphia.
We are informed that in consequence of his Majesty's pleasure, signed by the Secretary of State to his Excellency Governor Franklin of New-Jersey, letters patent have lately passed the great Seal of that province, incorporating a number of gentlemen for the benevolent purpose of raising a Fund for the relief and support of the widows and children of deceased Presbyterian Clergymen.
The 15th of September last there was a violent Hurricane at the Musquito-shore, in which a ship of six hundred tons foundered about four leagues to the westward of the Island of Rattan; the master and crew saved themselves in the long-boat: She belonged to Mr. Mader of London, was bound to the Bay of Honduras, and consigned to Valentine and Leigh.
The above Hurricane was so violent at the windward part of the shore that the Musquito Men lost all their cattle, plantain walks, &c. and were reduced to such extremity as to be obliged to repair to Black-River for provisions, with which they were plentifully supplied, and returned to their respective homes well pleased.
On the first of May the King's regiment of foot will march from Quebec to garrison the several forts of Niagara, Le-Detroit and Michilimackinac, in the room of the tenth regiment, which is ordered down to that city, and there to embark for England on the arrival of the regiments expected in the summer to relieve them.
It is said that in the intended coinage at the Mint, we are to have the profiles of the king and queen upon the guineas and half guineas; but it is not yet fixed whether they are to be vis-a-vis , like Philip and Mary, or one upon the other, like King William and his queen.
On Capt. Folger's arrival on the Long-Wharf, a certain new made Justice, notable for a certain instance of non-resistance in the island of Antigua, formerly noticed in this paper, crowded through the people, who surrounded Capt. Folger, with an air of importance, and very anxiously enquired how the people in England received the news of the destruction of the Tea? or whether there was no talk of sending out Troops to Boston. Capt. Folger answered there had been a considerable stir on the arrival of Capt. Scott; and himself and passengers had been examined before Lord Dartmouth, but that in the midst of the bustle the Philadelphia Tea Ship came up; and the whole current of evidence manifested that Boston took every measure in their power to send the Tea shipped for them home in like manner, and were by the Governor and Custom-House prevented, and for that cause only destroyed it; and upon this consideration the people in general rather commended than blamed them. The Justice on receiving this melancholly account of things changed air and countenance immediately, and walked off in a much less haughty gait than he approached with. Some have been farcical enough to remark that it is no wonder that the Justice and several of his brethren seem chop-fallen at Folger's account of affairs, as their appointments can serve no valuable purpose whatever, if no troops should come to require their orders for firing on the people!
A Passenger in Capt. Folger says, that as Lord Dartmouth was busily examining evidences concerning the destruction of the Tea at Boston, a Clerk of the House of Commons came to him and informing him of the arrival of the Philadelphia Tea Ship, observed it was in vain to make further enquiry about it, for the continent was all in a flame; and upon this his Lordship immediately dismissed the examinants.
We hear that upon the first news of the Tea being destroyed at Boston, and the dreadful denunciations which were given out against that obnoxious Carriage a Committee from the North American Merchants waited on Lord Dartmouth to be informed, whether their property might be safe if shipped to that apparently devoted capital? The large cargoes on board half a dozen ships some and hourly expected, seem a pretty satisfactory answer that the town will not yet be laid in ashes, whatever might be the fate of the Committee, who are again talked of to be sent for and tried on the bugbear statute of Henry the eighth.
Yesterday arrived in this Town from the Eastward, Mr. William Goddard, by whom Letters are received from the Committee of Correspondence of Portsmouth, Newbury, Newbury-Port, Salem, &c. expressive of the hearty concurrence of the Gentlemen of those Towns with the Proposal of erecting a Post-Office upon constitutional Principles, throughout this Continent. Subscriptions are set on foot in each of them, and they have already succeeded beyond the most sanguine expectation in all. The removal of Doctor Franklin from the Post-Office has added fresh Spirit to the Promoters of this salutary Plan, as several viewed an opposition to his interest at a time when he had signally served the cause of America as a very disagreeable object; but all reluctance from that quarter must now vanish, and all the friends of Liberty rejoice that they have now an opportunity of taking up a Gentleman discarded by an unprincipled ministry for the faithful discharge of his duty, and placing him above a dependence on their caprice, in the grateful arms of his applauding Countrymen.
We learn from Natick, that the following accident lately happened there, viz. three boys being out a hunting of robbers, two of them brothers, named Ernes, the oldest 13 years old the other 10; the latter having a gun loaded with shot, as he was turning round the gun went off upon the half bend, and the whole charge of shot with a wad of hair entered near the groin of the former, on the left side, and lodged in the rim of his belly, so that it is doubtful whether he can recover.
Last Thursday four young lads went to Braine-tree in a canoe, and on their return stopt to fish between Castle-William and Dorchester-Bay, but meeting with no success, in endeavouring to hoist up the killick they overset the canoe, whereby one of them, an apprentice to Mr. Geyer, Stone-Cutter at the fourth end, about 19 years of age, was unfortunately drowned; the others were saved by a boat that was going to the Castle, who took them off from the bottom of the canoe, to which they had held till they were almost spent.
Last Monday fe'night about eight o'clock, a young man passing towards fore-street, through the boarded alley, was suddenly attacked by two men; supposed to be Irish; who asked who came there? The young man answered, a friend; they immediately seized him by each arm; and one of them drew out an uncommon long knife, and said, if you do not deliver what you have got, I will run you thro'; he replied, do what you will, I will not deliver any thing; the other took a very large club he had before concealed, and with one or two blows in the head knocked him down, they then kicked him in several parts of his body and ran off, leaving him much bruised, and very bloody on the ground, where he lay near half an hour almost senseless.
We hear from Penobscot River, that Major Moors's house took fire on the night following the 26th of February last, and was intirely consumed with all his provisions and chief of his furniture; his loss is computed to be about five hundred pounds.
Last Tuesday evening we had a very severe thunder storm accompanied with lightning, which struck the house of Mr. Enoch Brown, on the Neck, but we do not learn of any great damage done thereby.
We hear that the gentlemen who went passengers with Captain Hall, from this place, to London, were all examined before Lord Dartmouth, respecting the destruction of the East-India company's tea.
This day arrived, Captain Symmes from London. Captain White, sailed with Captain Symmes, for this Port, from London, Captain Cales a week before him. This morning arrived the Tamar sloop of war from North-Carolina.
Extract of a letter from Norfolk, Virginia. "A few days ago arrived here the brig Abby, Captain Herbert, from London, by whom we learn, that the fate of the East-India Company's Tea at Boston had reached England some time before his departure, but did not make that stir as was at first expected. There have been several meetings of the company to consider in what manner they shall proceed with respect to this noisy affair, the result of which it is imagined, will be the taking of the duty lately imposed on the above-mentioned article. We also learn that the Tower of London caught fire by some accident, about the beginning of January last, which consumed some considerable part of it, as also two or three houses that were at a little distance therefrom—Luckily the fire, through the activity of the people, did not reach the ammunition, if it had, great part of London must inevitably have perished. And that on Saturday the 15th of January last, Lord Townshend, Sir Jeffery Amherst, and Sir Charles Frederick, went to the Tower, viewed the place where the fire happened, and expressed their anger at a large quantity of powder being clandestinely lodged in the cellar of one of the houses, as it might have been attended with the most dangerous consequences. Lord Townshend ordered several new cisterns, fire cocks and buckets, to be fixed in different parts of the Tower, to be in readiness to supply the engines, if a like accident should happen; likewise that the Stationer's shop should be removed from the White Tower, as it was dangerous to keep so large a quantity of paper near the Magazine. Lord Townshend mentioned the great impropriety of having but one entrance into the Tower, and proposed building another Drawbridge from the Devil's Battery to Iron-gate; as, should fire happen at the present entrance, it would be impossible either to convey engines to it, or for the inhabitants to escape."
DIED.] Mr. Thomas Chapman.—Mrs. Thankful Jepson, Wife of Mr. Jepson.—Rev. Hull Abott, of Charlestown.—Miss Elizabeth Newell.—Mr. Cheeseman.—Captain Samuel Snow.—At Beverly Mrs. Deborah Duty.—At Newbury-Port, Major Joshua Coffin.—Mrs. Butler, Widow of the late Captain Butler.—At Nottingham, the Widow Smith.—At Barbados, Mr. Eliza Thayer, Son of Ebenezer Thayer, Esq; of Braintree.—At Cambridge, Deacon Samuel Sparhawk.
FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS SPY. To Mr. A. Z.
I HAVE carefully attended to the account you gave the public in the last Evening-Post ; and what related to me, discovers, either your great ignorance, or great wickedness; for the several representations of me, are grossly false, if not insidious. It therefore seems a pity that you call yourself the member of any particular church in the protestant world; for the member of a church should be, at least, a person of knowledge and a good moral character; and therefore not take up and spread abroad an ill report of his neighbour.
You know, Sir, or might have known, that my coming to you last February was in consequence of a prebiterial appointment; and yet my coming was not chargeable to the congregation, of which you profess yourself a member. You also know that I undertook the journey in a very difficult season, from a professed desire to show kindness to the living and to the dead. And, pray Sir, what did I do, the few days I was in town, that stirred you up to deceive the public by a train of falsehoods about me?
Even in your first setting out, you have deceived the public, by saying that "long since, I renounced the congregational form of church government, &c." Indeed, Sir, at my ordination I did openly renounce all forms of church government that I had been acquainted with, and particularly the Say-Brook Platform . And I continued satisfied with particular forms for several years, until by Dr. Colman's goodness, I received the prebiterian form of church government. This I read, and was convinced that it was
both scriptural and rational; nor have I seen reason to alter my opinion about church government since that day.
Another thing wherein you have deceived the public this, viz. you say, that "I drew the form of a call, in order to be presented to Mr. Murray." The truth of the case was, that several of the elders and some others applied to me for advice respecting the settlement of a minister, and some of them mentioned Mr. Murray. I told them they must excuse me from advising to him, until they offered something by way of satisfaction to the church. But I would advise them, as well as I could, a method to take in calling a minister to settle with them. And the method I advised to was, that on a day of fast and prayer for that end, they should draw up and submit a call to Mr. Any body, and present it to the prebiterian their approbation. And, pray Sir, did I give any bad advice in all this? Or was I to blame in excusing myself advising to Mr. Murray? Especially when you say I admitted him into my pulpit. If you had said, I did not forbid him: I did not intermeddle: I did not let people into a flame by opposition to his preaching, as have been wile enough to do with regard to the ben-congregation in this town; if, I say, you had given public this account, you would have come nearer the truth, how much soever, I esteem Mr. Murray. I did nor could I invite him to preach, as the case stands, the numbers of other ministers press him into their pulpit.
I am pretty much of a stranger to the particular manner your society have taken, though I have been informed they have subscribed a call to present to the Prebiterian favour of Mr. Murray, which if they do, I suppose Prebiterian will give them some answer.
As to my encouraging your society to send for Mr. Murray, there is not the least shadow of truth in it: nor afraid that he would eclipse my glory, if he should with me. So far from it, if he stood right in the visible church, and my people should unitedly desire I should look upon it a great favour from God, if he were happily settled with me in the decline of my life.
But what seems as surprising as any of your falsehoods, is that you should have the front to say, that "I made not rid tempt to reconcile the divisions of the society, &c." That an evidence that you did not attend the fact with the church, of which you call yourself a member. Had you joined with them in the public worship of that day, you might have been a witness with many others, that I laboured according to the ability God gave me, to be a healer of your breaches, and recommended unity of spirit in the bond of peace.
As to the cession you speak of, I am something at a loss for your meaning: Whether you mean a number of rescinders , or some that withdrew , or disclaimed an office, or whatever, must be left with you to explain. I spoke with as many the session as I could collect, and consulted with them, and advised them in the best manner I was able.
And now, Sir, consider that your abusive letter will have a rehearsing another day, when A. Z. cannot hide your real name nor person. This is from your injured brother, Boston, April 21, 1774. J. P. of N. P.
MR. THOMAS. Be pleased to present to your readers the following short address, of a prophetic Pennsylvanian, to Lord North, in consequence of the happy dismission of Dr. Franklin from the ministerial Post-Office in America, extracted from a London Paper of the 5th of February last. Heartily congratulate my countrymen on this auspicious event, and am persuaded they will now unanimously join in verifying the prediction of our absent friend; and I believe I may say, without any extraordinary gift of prophecy, that a constitutional American Post-Office will be permanently established in six Weeks from this 21st day of April, 1774.
A NEW-ENGLAND-MAN. To LORD NORTH.
MY LORD, As an American, give me leave to assure your Lordship that I think the dismissing Doctor Franklin from the office of Post-Master General in North-America, at this particular crisis, one of the most fortunate events that could have happened for that country! It was that gentleman that brought the Post-Office in America to be of some consequence, and to yield something of a revenue to the mother country. The people there never liked the institution, and only acquiesced in it out of their unbounded affection for the person that held the office, who had taken infinite pains to render it convenient to the several colonies. But what will follow now, my Lord? I'll tell you: The Post from Philadelphia to Boston is that alone which produces any profit worth mentioning; the others, taken together, do not more than maintain themselves; and between Philadelphia and Boston, you may depend on it, the Americans will immediately set up a carrier of their own, which you, with all your brethren in power, together with Lord Hillsborough's abilities! cannot prevent, and thereby they will entirely starve your Post between those capital cities; and thus will happily end your boasted Post-Office so often given as a PRECEDENT for taxing the Americans. A PENNSYLVANIAN.
THOMAS'S MARINE LIST. BOSTON, April 20.
ARRIVED, Thomson from Halifax; Leighton, Maryland; Ryder, Morris and Lynde, from New-Haven; Moor, New-York; Williams, New-London; Johnson and Goddard, St. Lucia; Hallet, St. Croix; Blake, Demarara; Moor, Cape-Nicholas.
SALE and MARBLEHEAD, April 16.
ARRIVED, Williams, from Lisbon; Cloutman, Maryland; Leighton, Virginia; Hill, Cadiz.
NEWBURY-PORT, April 12.
ARRIVED, Coats from Hispaniola; Newman, Guadaloup.
RHODE-ISLAND, April 12.
ARRIVED, Brown from St. Croix; Hatch, Dagget and Simmons, North-Carolina; Field, Nantucket; Godfrey, Surinam; Whitney, Hispaniola; Freebody and Warner, New-York; Burr, Brooks and Talbot, New-London.
NEW-HAVEN, April 15.
ARRIVED, Woodcock from Dominica; Throp, Boston; Gorham, New-York.
NEW-LONDON, April 15.
ARRIVED, Gove from Guadalupe; Carew, Nantucket.
NEW-YORK, April 12.
ARRIVED, Cox and Cooper, Rhode-Island; Burnham, St. Christopher; Law, Georgia; Moore, St. Croix; Starr, Jamaica; Barnard, Boston; Beekman, St. Eustatia; Coffin, Nantucket; Kennedy, Madeira.
April 14. ARRIVED, Fuller from St. Kitts; Bell, St. Eustatia; Westcott, St. Jago; Burroughs, Rhode-Island; Ackworth, Boston; Galatian, Falmouth.
PHILADELPHIA, April 6.
ARRIVED, Bunting from Virginia; Rowe, Maryland; Patterson, Turks-Island; Brown and Griffin, Hispaniola; Jones, Pica-tagua.
New Auction Room Cornhill, To Morrow at TEN o'Clock,
Will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE,
At GREENLEAF's Auction-Room,
A VARIETY of English Goods as usual,
and a large assortment of CUTLERY and HARD WARE.  W. GREENLEAF, Auctioneer.
The sale will begin at TEN o'clock and be continued on Tuesday next.
POTASH.
CASH given for POTASH by JONATHAN MASON, at his shop next door to the sign of the Buck and Glove near the State-House, Boston. N. B. To be sold by said Mason, choice Gun Powder and best Philadelphia Bar Iron.
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advise an improper exertion of power. It is the true interest of Great-Britain to acquire and retain, not to alienate the affections of her colonies; and this can only be done by kind usage, and always considering them as they must certainly deserve to be considered, in all respects on the same footing as ourselves, and of right entitled to every privilege that we in England enjoy.
The colonies are so many distant provinces of the British empire, which add strength, dignity, and power to the mother country, and will continue to do so infinitely more; but if, instead of improving this vast accession of dominion, to our advantage, we make enemies of our friends and fellow subjects, and thereby convert this blessing of heaven into a curse, then indeed we may have cause to lament over our unprofitable conquests, whilst every other power in Europe would of that book, our distractions and divisions, which they already for an addition to their power to encourage.
The public are hereby intreated to heal the wounds between JAMES RIVINGTON, Esq. which Mr. Of the city of New-York, has for some time duty of every employed in printing a neat Edition of it in two Volumes, at the very moderate price of One Dollar and an half, although the London Edition cannot be purchased under three Guineas.
Also speedily will be published,
Upon the same cheap PLAN, LORD CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS to his Son PHILIP STANHOPE, Esq; together with several Pieces on various Subjects.
Published by Mrs. EUGENIA STANHOPE. DIALOGUES on the LAWS and CONSTITUTION of GREAT-BRITAIN. SUBSCRIPTIONS for the above are received by HENRY KNQX, Bookseller, Boston.
Just arrived and now opening at the Store of DUNCAN INGRAHAM jun. In Union-Street, Boston,
A variety of
English, India, Irish and Scotch GOODS,
Which will be Sold by Wholesale and Retail,
At his usual low prices for Cash,
The following articles are part of his assortment, viz.
  Chints, Mozereen for Waistcoats, Alamodes,   Callicoes, Lorettes for ditto, Lutestrings,   Nankens, Brunswicks, Perfians,   Muffins, Broad-Cloaths, Fine Chip Hats,   Sattins, Serges, Skellings,   Irish Linens, Baizes, Pound Wires,   Dowlas, Brollos, Dutch Laces,   Oznabrigs, Jubiles, Writing Papers,   Ticklenburgs, Callimancoes, Royal Ribbs,   Diapers, Russells, Satinets,   Russia Drabs, Shalloons, Looking-Glasses,   Cambrieks, Tammies, Neat dress. do.   Lawns, Sagathees, Ravens Duck,   Checks, Gauzes, Russia ditto,   Fusians, Gauze Handkerchiefs, Black fur Caps,   Jeans, Nettings, Black Plumes,   Striped Hollands, Milles Court Heel, India Jeans,   Morocco Pumps, Infants ditto, China Ware. 
A L S O, Gun Powder, Shot, Spices, Scythes, Sickles, Loaf Sugar, &c. &c.
WHEREAS the Co-partnership of SCOTT and GILL was mutually dissolved the 21st of February last: All Persons indebted are requested to make immediate Payment to MOSES GILL: And all to whom the Company is indebted, are desired to bring in their Accounts to said GILL , for Adjustment, and receive their Ballances. Boston, 6th April 1774.
N. B. The Business is carried on as usual, by MOSES GILL , where the Customers of the late Company, and all others, may be well served.
GUN POWDER, just imported, and choice Connecticut PORK, to be sold cheap by said GILL.
TO BE SOLD, by GAWEN BROWN, In King-Street,
SUNDRY new CLOCKS, one ditto second-hand, with japanned Case, best Silver WATCHES, some go on Diamonds, and some with a Cap over the work, finished by the best Hands.—Cheap for the CASH.
TO BE SOLD or LET, A Neat and very convenient HOUSE, with a Barn and Chaise House, and about two Acres of Land, including a rich Garden Spot, very pleasantly situated, and a fine healthy Place, not five Miles from Boston Town-House, on a great Road, where most Kinds of Provisions can easily be procured. Enquire of the Printers.
To be LET, And may be entered upon in three weeks, A SHOP in King-Street, two doors below the sign of Admiral Vernon, now in the occupation of Messrs. JAMES LANE and SON. Enquire of William Thompson.
NEW RICE. A few casks to be sold cheap, at the store of PENUEL BOWEN, Opposite to the Golden Ball, A L S O,
NEW Flour, Genuine Spanish and French Indigo, best Hamburg ground Madder, old Logwood, new Redwood, Allum, Copperas, &c. Chocolate warranted pure, Spices of all kinds, choice Cheshire Cheese, ditto exceeding low-priced if applied for soon, ditto Weymouth, rich and mild, ditto Connecticut, in good order for shipping. With a general Assortment of West-India GOODS. All at the lowest rates for cash.

WEDNESDAY, April 20. BOSTON.
By Capt. Folger who arrived here yesterday from London, and the Lord-Hyde-Packet, Captain Jeffries, arrived at New-York, we have the following Intelligence, viz.
VIENNA, [Germany] February 9. MUSTAPHA III. Emperor of Turkey, who died the 21st ult. in the 59th year of his age, was the eldest son of Ahmed III. who was destroyed in 1730. This last Emperor ascended the throne the 20th of October, 1757, on the death of Selim, his brother, who had been on the throne since 1754. He has left an only son, the Sultan Abdulhamet, born the 24th of December 1761, and three daughters, the eldest of whom, aged about 14 years, is already the widow of two Grand Vizirs. The Sultan Abdulhamet, his brother, has been proclaimed Emperor, in consequence of the right of succession established in Turkey, where the crown descends to the eldest of the family.
WARSAW, [Capital of Poland] Feb. 5. We are assured that the Court of France has offered, for the second time, its mediation to that of Peterburgh; and it is intimated, that the peace may probably be concluded without assembling a congress.
FRANKFORT, Feb. 15. Some letters from Russia announce, that the rebels have been attacked and defeated by Colonel Freiman; whilst other advices say, that the sedition is still continuing, and that their number increases daily. According to what is reported here, a certain court labours earnestly to bring about a peace between Russia and the Porte, for the last already offered a second time her mediation, from whence steady hopes are formed that this great work will at length be perfected; for the Grand Signor has recommended in the strongest terms to his brother, as his successor, to incline to peace; and it is well known that the present Grand Vizir has always expressed pacific dispositions.
CONSTANTINOPLE, January 23. At half an hour after twelve the Grand Signor appeared before the Seraglio, after two guns from the Seraglio announced his arrival.
LONDON, Feb. 28. Letters from the Continent, dated the 24th, inform us of a GENERAL Assortment of ENGLISH and INDIA GOODS; with a fine Assortment of IRISH LINENS.
JONATHAN WILLIAMS, jun. requests those persons indebted to him to make immediate payment as he intends for ENGLAND early in the Spring. He proposes to sell of his SHOP GOODS before his departure, therefore will part with them (for the cash only) at the sterling cost by wholesale, and cost and charges by retail.
JOHN HICKEY, SILK-WEVER and SCOURER, from DUBLIN, Living in Royal Exchange-Lane, Boston, WOULD inform the publick that he will do any thing in the business as cheap and as well as can be done in England. He also dyes and presses country cloth, dyes blue on Linnen and Cotton that shall hold its colour, for nine shillings old tenor per pound; He also takes black out of Silks or Crapes renews the colour of Scarlet when faded, cleans Gold and Silver Laces, dyes Men's Clothes or cleans them without ripping them, and they shall not stain; He cleans a Coat for ten shillings old tenor, Jackets and Breeches in proportion; he dyes and cleans English Goods, and makes them up again as before at the most reasonable terms; he also dyes blacks of all sorts as cheap as Hatters, and without retting of any thing that he undertakes.
Said Hickey cleans Leather Breeches at the best and cheapest rates. Lodging also may be had at the above Hickey's.
RHODE-ISLAND, to wit. IT is hereby publicly made known unto all the creditors of ELEAZER TREVETT, an insolvent debtor, that they may if they see cause, appear before the Justices of the Superior Court, at the Colony-House, in Newport, on Tuesday the third of May A. D. 1774, and there exhibit and prove their several demands, and appoint assignees for receiving and distributing said insolvent's estate, because the same Justices have appointed that day and place for those purposes. By order J. GRELEA, jun. Clerk.
A WOMAN, that can be well recommended, with a young breast of milk, would be glad to go into any gentleman's family to suckle. Enquire of the Printer.
To the PUBLIC. AS the method lately practised by the subscriber, in having a person at his door, to invite gentlemen and others to his public sales, has given dissatisfaction to some gentlemen, shopkeepers in particular, to avoid giving offence, he shall desist from that practice for the future, and pursue one as follows, which he flatters himself cannot fail to give universal satisfaction, as he sincerely wishes to do:—The public are most earnestly requested to remember, for their own advantage, that for the future, notice will be given of the time his public sales begin, by sounding of a bell, which he has purchased for that purpose; which is erected over his Auction door, near the Market, Boston; Where constant attendance is given, both early and late, to receive the favours of all such who are pleased to confer upon their much obliged, most obedient and very humble servant, MARTIN BICKER.
To be SOLD, A VERY good BILLIARD TABLE, with balls, sticks, &c. compleat. Enquire of the Printer.
WANTS EMPLOY, A MAN that writes a good hand, understands merchants accounts, and can be well recommended. Enquire of the Printer.
WANTED immediately, a SCHOONER or SLOOP, from forty-eight tons to sixty. Enquire of the Printer.
To be SOLD, A GOOD SADDLE HORSE, warranted sound. Enquire of JOHN HINCKLEY, Farrier, near the Mill-Creek.
A Gentleman in good business would be glad to hire TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS for six months, by giving the usual interest and good security. Enquire of the Printer.
NY Gentleman who inclines to engage in the Employment of a SCHOOL-MASTER, enquiring of the Printer hereof, may hear of a good one in a populous seaport town. If agreeable, he may go to the School for Life, with a good prospect.
SMART LAD is wanted, as an Apprentice, to the BRICKLAYERS BUSINESS. Enquire of the Printer.
To be SOLD, NEW COPPER STILL, contains one hundred gallons; three hundred hogheads of SALT. Enquire of the Printer.
WANTED immediately a sober, active Lad, as an APPRENTICE, to a genteel business. Enquire of the Printer.
CHOICE PEAS, Isle of Shoals DUMB FISH, BEEF, RYE, a few barrels RYE FLOUR, PORK, to be SOLD by JOHN BARRETT and SONS.
To the PRINTERS. TWO COMPOSITORS, who understand the business, and will keep steadily at work, are wanted immediately by the Printer hereof. N. B. Constant employ, and good wages.
Westborough, March 29, 1774. RAN away from the Subscriber on Sunday last, an apprentice lad named JOHN WRIGHT, about twenty years of age, dark complexion, short black hair, about five feet six inches in height, thick and well set. Carried of with him two suits of cloaths the coat and jacket of one suit of a reddish colour, the other a blue coat and striped cotton jacket, two pair of yellow leather breeches, one sheep and the other buck skin, two striped tow shirts and three cotton and linen ditto, one new beaver hat, and other much more, three pair of shoes, one pair of which were new, five or six pair of stockings; with one pair of long and another pair of short trowers.—Said Wright is by trade a Blacksmith.
Whoever will take up said apprentice and secure him, so that I may have him again, or bring him to me, shall have FOUR DOLLARS reward, and all necessary charges paid by JAMES GODFREY. N. B. All masters of vessels and others are hereby cautioned against harbouring concealing, or carrying off said apprentice, as they would avoid the penalty of the law.
SARAH OLIVER most respectfully acquaints the Public, that she continues to keep her SCHOOL, by the Mill-bridge, with good Accommodations for BOARDING young LADIES, and teaches to work Coats of Arms, Embroidery, Tenths and Queen Stitch, Marking, with all Sorts of plain Needle Work; and takes this Opportunity to return her Thanks to all her Friends for past Favour, and assures them she will exert her utmost Abilities in the Improvement of all young Ladies that may apply to her.
FIFTY DOLLARS Reward. LAST Night the Dwelling House of the Subscriber was broke open, and from thence were taken the following articles, viz. one pair of silver chafing dishes; one pair of butter cups; one silver can; two large soup spoons; one pepper box; six large table spoons; six tea ditto and a strainer, marked E. D. maker's name D. Hanchman; all except the spoons, which have a hand for a crest; a silver tea pot; one ditto sugar dish; a boat for tea spoons; one pair of tea tongs; five tea spoons and a cream cup; two porringer and two salt-cellars, all marked E. S. one silver tankard without a lid, marked S. D. 1. S. one silver can marked I. E. an old fashioned pepper box, marked A. E. six large table spoons, marked E. S. one silver salver, no mark upon it, the foot resembling the mouth of a tunnel; silver tankard marked A. B. one silver porringer without any mark; three table spoons S. marked A. B. one old spoon marked I. S. four tea spoons no mark; one pair tea tongs; maker's name of these not D. Hanchman; I Hurd, some of them, and some B. W. with other small articles. Whoever will take up the thief or thieves, so as he or they may be brought to justice, and the plate recovered, shall be paid the above reward, and a reasonable reward for any part of the plate, in proportion to its value, per me. Fairfield, Connecticut. THADDEUS BURN. March 15, 1774. N. B. If any of the above plate should be discovered in Boston, please to give notice to John Hancock, Esq; and an adequate reward shall be given.
To be SOLD by JOSIAH WATERS and SON, At their Shop in Ann-Street, A FEW barrels of choice BEEF, a few small casks of Split Pease, Groceries, Paints, &c.
JOHN HOUSEMAN, MILL-WRIGHT, from LONDON, At Mr. Russell's, Holyoke-Street, South-end, Boston, UNDERTAKES to build or repair most kinds of MILLS now in use either in Great-Britain or America, viz. Water, and Wind Grift Mills, Paper and Saw Mills, &c. and fits up Rollers for crushing of Malt, all in the most new and compleatest manner; also Bolting Mills of all kinds, and makes up French stones and fits them up with proper Gore Work, and he has Wire Work for a Cillinder Flour Machine, will warrant it to dress 30 Bushels of Wheat Meal in one hour, and will finish the firsts, seconds, thirds and fourths fine and coarse Bran at one operation, which by a Cloth Bolting Mill requires many, it will make more or less of the firsts, seconds, &c. by only turning over the partitions, and will prove itself the most useful thing of its kind that has ever been used in these parts. Those who please to favour the aforesaid JOHN HOUSEMAN with their commands, may depend on being served as above, and their favours acknowledged by their most obedient and most humble servant, JOHN HOUSEMAN.
WHEREAS I the subscriber intend leaving off the Baking business very soon, do take this opportunity of returning my thanks to those gentlemen and ladies who have favoured me with their custom, since my late husband's decease. MARY SURCOMB. N. B. A very good horse and handsome chaise to be sold. Enquire of Mary Surcomb. The business will be carried on as usual by Mr. William Flagg. Boston, February 23d, 1774.
This is to acquaint all gentlemen and ladies that the baking business will be carried on as usual, by the subscriber, who is determined to give universal satisfaction. WILLIAM FLAGG.
SARAH DAWSON, Widow of the late Joseph Dawson, Gardner, At the COLD BATH, New Boston, Has for SALE, at the lowest rates for cash,
A LARGE collection of grafted and inoculated ENGLISH FRUIT TREES, of all kinds; also, a large number of young Apple Trees, raised from the Seed; likewise Gooseberry and Currant Bushes, Laylock Trees, Flower Roots, &c. An assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, imported from London, with an assortment of ditto raised here, the latter being most proper for the West-Indies. Any Gentlemen or Ladies who may want any of the above articles, and will favour the said Dawson with their custom, may depend upon the best of usage, and their favours gratefully acknowledged.
GARDEN SEEDS, IMPORTED in Capt. SHEPHARD from LONDON And to be SOLD by ELIZABETH GREENLEAF, At her shop to the southward of the lane leading to Dr. Byles's Meeting-house, BOSTON.
EARLY Charlton, early golden hotspur, early Hotspur, large Dwarf, and green Marrowfat, white Roundwif, Ledman's Dwarf and Spanish Marrowfat Peas, large Windsor, Toker, early yellow Dwarf Kidney, and large white Beans, red, purple, orange, and yellow Carrot seeds, early Yorkshire, early Dutch, early sugar loaf, early Battersea, red, large, winter, green, and yellow Savoy, early and late Cabbage, Cabbage: green and white Goss, brown duck, Madeira, spotted, and Mogul Lettuce seeds; red, white, Spanish, Portugal and silver skin Onion Seed: green and white Endive, swelling Parsnip, red Beet, Thyme, Baum, sweet Majoram, Sage, and summer savory seed; scarlet, salmon, short top and turnip Radish seeds, summer and winter Spinage early and late cucumber, early Dutch and French Turnip Seeds; Parsley, Pepper Grass, Asparagus, Celery, Lavender and white Mustard seeds; water and milk Mellion seeds; summer and winter Squash seeds; Hemp, Rape and Canary bird seed; choice split Pease by the large or small quantity. N. B. English GOODS.
GARDEN SEEDS, Imported in Captain GOSEY from LONDON, And to be SOLD by LYDIA DYAR, At her Shop near the North Battery, Boston.
EARLY charlton, early hotspur, golden hotspur, large marrowfat, dwarf marrow, blue marrow and Spanish morotto Peas, large Windsor, large Toker, early Lisbon, early Hotspur, early yellow Dwarf, early speckled ditto, and early white Beans with black eyes, early Yorkshire, early Dutch, Sugar Loaf, Battersea, large winter, green and yellow Savoy, early and late Cabbage seeds, beet Cabbage Lettuce, white Goss, green Goss, marble and brown Dutch Lettuce Seeds, best double Pepper Grass, round Spinage, short top and Salmon Radish, scarlet Radish, double Parsley, white Spanish, silver-skin and red Onion Seeds, long green prickly and early Cucumber Seeds, sweet Marjoram, Thyme, Baum, Sage, early Dutch, and late Turnip Seeds, large swelling Parsnip, red Beets, Orange, golden coloured, early yellow and purple Carrot Seeds, red Clover, Herbs Grass, and Canary Seeds, winter and summer Squash, long French Turnip, Hyssop, and a variety of Flower Seeds; warranted to be new and good. (4 m.)
GARDEN SEEDS, Imported in Captain HOOD from LONDON, And to be SOLD by SUSANNA RENKEN, At her Shop near the Draw-bridge, Fore-street, Boston.
EARLY Charlton, early golden Hotspur, white Roundwif, green Marrow, Spanish Marrowfat, crooked Sugar and Ledman's dwarf PEAS, Toker, best Windsor, early Lisbon and large Dutch Kidney BEANS, Stranburgh, Spanish silver-skin and Portugal Onion, orange, early short, early yellow and scarlet Carrot, swelling Parsnip, early Turnips, early short-topped London, Salmon Turnip, Spanish and early Radish, early Frame, white Cabbage, white Goss, early green Goss, large green Goss, bloody Goss, Aleppo Goss, brown Dutch, marble, royal brown Dutch, Imperial, Tennishall and Capuchin Lettuce, prickly and round Spinage, red Beets, Italian and solid Celery, curled Peppergass, Indian Cress, curled and fine rooted Parsley, early and late Cabbage, early Yorkshire, large Battersea, early Dutch, large Scotch, large Winter and Turnip Cabbage, green, white and yellow Savoy, long & early prickly, green Turkey and long Roman Cucumber, Baum, sweet Majoram, Thyme, Rosemary, Lavender and sage Seed, white Mustard, Hemp, Rape and Canary Seed, broad red and fine white Clover, Lucerne, Rye Grass and other Grass Seeds, Durham best Flour Mustard, Split Peas, Groceries, English and India Goods all which may be had cheap for Cash.
GARDEN SEEDS, Just IMPORTED in Capt. HOOD, From LONDON, And to be SOLD by ANNA JOHNSON, At the head of BLACK-HORSE LANE, A Large Assortment of Garden Seeds, Pease, Beans, &c. Among which are,
EARLY charlton, early golden hotspur, Ormand hotspur, Spanish morotto, white roundwif, dwarf marrowfat and bush pease, large Windsor, true early Lisbon, early yellow six weeks white kidney and fine toker beans, early Yorkshire, Dutch sugar loaf, battersea, savoy, red and broccoli cabbage seed, colliflower, cucumber, onion, carrot, turnip, radish and lettuce of all sorts, round spinage, endive, celery and asparagus, thyme, Baum, sweet marjoram, broad clover, white Dutch clover, la lucerne, rape, canary, and an assortment of flower seeds and herbs grass seed. Also, a variety of other seeds not mentioned; all which were imported from the Seeds Men in London, and are warranted to be fresh and good and of the last year's produce.
To be SOLD at the Shop of CHARLES LOWE In Marshall's Lane, facing the Boston-STONE, FINE Lisbon OIL, by the gallon quart or less. Best Durham Mustard, by the pound or less. Red Herrings, by the hundred or less. Choice Dorchester Beer, by the gallon or quart. Fine Currants and Raisins, by large or small quantities. Dumb and Merchantable Fish, by the Quintal or smaller quantity. ALSO, Loaf and Brown Melofies, Sugars, Cotton Wool, Rice, Indigo, Flour, Raisins, Allspice, Pepper, Nutmegs, Spermaceti Oil, Coffee, Dumb Fish, Chocolate, Indian and Rye Meal. And many other ARTICLES.
ALL persons indebted to, or have any demands on the late company of AARON DAVIS, jun. and COMPANY, are desired to make speedy settlement with WALES and SOMERS, the two surviving partners, at their store the upper corner, going on MINOT'S T. At which store is to be SOLD, Good BAIT MACKREL, SALMON in Barrels or Kegs, New FLOUR, BAR IRON; a Quantity of twice aid RIGGING and JUNK.
This day published, And to be sold at GREENLEAF's Printing-Office, In HANOVER-STREET, BOSTON, A VISION shewing the sudden and surprising Appearance, the celestial Men and Heavenly Conversation, of the departed Spirit of Mr. YEAMANS, late Student at YALE COLLEGE, to and with Mr. H. GOODWIN, his Friend and Class-mate.
RUSSIA duck, best Peterburg hemp, Dutch rope yarns, also a quantity of choice junk, fit to make into cordage of any size, great part of which will do for rigging small vessels without working over, to be sold at THOMAS WALLEY'S
Store on Dock-Square, Where is to sell by wholesale or retail, Dutch looking-glasses of various sizes, Dutch brushes, single or by the set, hampers of stone ware, viz. quart and pint Mugs and Chamber Pots; a few cakes choice Rice, all sorts of Spices very low, Oatmeal per bushel, a parcel of fine Narragansett and Pomfret Cheeses, new Raisins, Currants, and all sorts of Groceries as usual except TEA. N. B. A quantity of choice 3-threaded Seine Twine, for Salmon, Mackerel or Herring Nets. Also, White Beans per bushel.
SILKS And Superfine BROAD CLOTHS.
PRIME assortment of Padufoys, Dupes, Lutestrings; plain and figured Satins, Damasks, Sarhens, &c.—superfine fashionable coloured Broad Cloths, with suitable Linings and Trimmings; To be Sold at an exceeding low rate, by JOHN BARRETT and SONS, At their shop near the Mill-bridge, Boston, Where may be had, all kinds of English, Scotch, India, Hard-Ware and Cutlery GOODS, By Wholesale or Retail, Extremely cheap for Cash or short Credit.
Harvard-College LOTTERY, 5000 DOLLARS the highest Prize, Not two Blanks to a Prize.
THE Public are hereby informed, that the Managers of HARVARD COLLEGE LOTTERY, are very desirous the drawing of said LOTTERY should commence as soon as possible; they would therefore be glad those who have subscribed for tickets would send for them and those who intend to be adventurers, would purchase their tickets immediately.
CHOICE Madder, the growth of this province, to be SOLD by JOHN BARRETT, Near the MILL-BRIDGE, BOSTON.
NATHANIEL SEAVER, Informs the Public, and his customers in particular, that he continues to keep the shop lately occupied by SEAVER and CANNES; where may be had, a large assortment of ENGLISH, India and Scotch Goods, suitable for the season, upon the very lowest terms for cash. N. B. Said SEAVER returns his humble and hearty thanks to his kind customers for the favours already shown, and further assures them that he will do every thing in his power to serve them.
A SCHOOL will be opened the first MONDAY in April next, by Mrs. COLLINS, at her house opposite to Mr. TILESTONE's Writing-School, North-End; where MISSES may be taught Painting on Glass, Dresden, Embroidery; Queen, Tenths and Irish Sticking, Coats of Arms, Marking and plain Sewing. Whoever may please to favour her with the care of their Children may depend on her care and assiduity in their instruction.
MILLENNARY. SUNDAY articles of MILLENNARY To be sold at Mrs. MEZCOM's, a little to the northward of Concert-Hall, opposite Greenleaf's printing-office; Satins of the newest fashion for Cloaks and Bonnets, the nicest Chip-Hats, and the common sort for covering. An assortment of genteel Ribbons, Persians, Alamoses, fewing Silks, and Muffins, Gloves and Mitts, Gimp-Trimings, Gauses, Blond Lace and Edgings, black ditto, Cap-Wire, Tooth-Brushes, Silk Laces for Stays, Pins, Needles, Threads, Tapes, Bindings, Durants and Tammies. Also, ready made Caps and Hoods, &c. &c. &c. * All sorts of MILLENNARY Work done with care and expedition as usual.