The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal (Boston [Mass.]), 1773-01-07 00:00:00

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. II.]
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1773.
[NUMB. 99.]
Custom-House, Boston, 15th Decem. 1772.
WHEREAS there has been great neglect on the part of the owners of sundry vessels in the plantations in not complying with the act of the 7th and 8th WILLIAM 3d. C. 22, and more particularly the 21st sect. wherein it is enacted, "That no ships name registered shall be afterwards changed without registering such ship de nova , which required to be done upon any transfer of Property to another port, and delivering up the former certificate to be cancelled, and in case there be any alteration of property in the same port, by the sale of one or more shares in any ship after registering thereof, such sale shall always be acknowledged by indorsement on the certificate of the register, before two witnesses, in order to prove that the entire property in such ship remains to some of the subjects of Great-Britain, if any dispute arises concerning the same."
And whereas all vessels trading at or belonging to any port in America, the owners or masters of which shall omit to comply with the directions given in the said act, will be liable to the same prosecutions, and penalties as if such vessels were owned entirely by foreigners:
The Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs therefore give this notice, that all persons concerned may govern themselves accordingly.
By order of the Commissioners. SAM'L MATHER, pr. Sec'y.
To be LET,
A Convenient Blacksmith's shop at the North-End. Enquire of the Printer.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of JOHN McGRATH, late of CHARLESTOWN, leather breeches maker, deceased, are desired to make immediate payment to DANIEL WHEALAN, sole executor to the last will and testament of the deceased: And all who have any demands upon said estate are desired to bring them in to said executor, in order to a speedy settlement. Boston, December 27. 1772.
To be SOLD cheap, Cooper's Shop, Warehouses and Wharf in Fifth-street. Enquire of Abigail Marshall, of Boston, in Fifth-street aforesaid, or Francis Marshall, of Newton.
To be SOLD, AS genteel a chimney GLASS as any in America. Also, a very large and elegant room GLASS that will do to match it. Enquire of the Printer.
LOST, between Back-street and the Market, a silver Nutmeg-grater CASE, engraved, with two letters marked thereon: Whoever has found the same is desired to leave it with the Printer, and they shall be rewarded for their trouble.
NEW RICE, Indigo, and a few quintals of choice dumb Fish, brown and loaf Sugars, Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Spices, Cheese, Indian and Rye Meal, Oatmeal, Spermaceti Oil, &c. to be sold cheap for Cash, at
CHARLES LOWE'S Shop in Marshall's-Lane, facing the Boston-Stone. N. B. English Beer and London Porter, sold as usual. Cash given for Bottles.
AMES's, Lowe's, Gleason's (or Massachusetts Calendar) and Sterne's ALMANACKS, to be sold by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-bridge.
DANIEL SCOTT, At his Medicine Store the Sign of the Leopard, South End.
TAKES this method of informing all Gentlemen, Ladies, and others, who have had the Misfortune to lose their Teeth, that he still continues the Business of making and fixing artificial Teeth as usual, in so elegant a manner as to be but little inferior to the natural, either in Use or Beauty, as many who have experienced them can testify: Where also any Person afflicted with painful Stumps or unsound Teeth, may have them removed with a peculiar Dexterity and Ease.--And all Persons who have the Scurvy in their Teeth, which threatens their removal though sound, may have them cleaned without hurting the Enamel, or in the least degree impairing them, and may be supplied with his DENTUM CONSERVATOR, which is an excellent Powder, the best adapted for preserving the Teeth and Gums, and preventing them from Aching, of any Preparation ever offered to the Public: It will cure the Scurvy in the Gums, bring the Teeth to their original Whiteness, and by a continuance of its Use, will preserve both Teeth and Gums in a pure state during life.--It is not pretended that it will perform Impossibilities, that it will make rotten Teeth sound, or will ease them when they violently ach; but it will assuredly preserve those Teeth found that are so, and cause the Gums to adhere to them and prevent those that are decayed in part, from becoming worse.
At the above Store may be had Morgan's useful Eye-Water, which as in so many cases been found serviceable that it must escape the censure of the most critical Oculist--Brigsten's famous Bug Liquid, which effectually destroys those hateful Vermin,--be they ever so numerous.--
An assortment of genuine patentee and other Medicines of the best quality, and Medicine Boxes for Families or Shipping, with exact and particular directions for using them, and a variety of other articles cheap.
The above Powder may be had also of Cox and Berry in Boston, Doctor Kast in Salem, and Dummer Jewett, Esq; at Ipswich
A. ELLISON, Just arrived from LONDON, At the South-End, Boston, next door to Mr. Greenlaw's, and opposite the Sign of the White Horse.
BINDS Books in the various methods; gentlemen's libraries neatly gilt and lettered, and cleaned and fitted up, either in town or country, on reasonable terms.
N. B. He has imported, a Quantity of the best English Pot and Fools-cap Paper, which he will sell very cheap.
To be SOLD, by JONATHAN DAVIS, At his Store on Bull's wharf,
TWO hundred barrels of Tar, Brimstone, West-India and New-England Rum, Jamaica Spirits, Salt, a few bales of Cotton-Wool, Long-Island Hay in bundles.
NEW RICE, Just imported and to be sold by JOHN WINTHROP, At his Store the south-side of Faneuil-Hall, Market.
Also, a few barrels of CHOICE BEEF and PORK.
This day were published, price 1s. 6d.
SEVEN Sermons, viz. I. Of the Unpardonable Sin against the Holy Ghost Or, the Sin unto death. II. The Saint's Duty and Exercise: In Two Parts, Being an Exhortation to, and Direction for, Prayer. III. The Accepted Time, and Day of Salvation. IV. The End of Time and beginning of Eternity. V. Joshua's Resolution to serve the Lord. VI. The Way to Heaven made plain. VII. The future State of Man: Or, A Treatise on the Resurrection. By ROBERT RUSSELL,
At Wardourst in Sussex. Boston: Printed and sold by I. THOMAS near the Mill-bridge.
This Day was published,
The new BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE, shewing the Effects of the Planets and other Astronomical Constellations; with the Strange Events that befall Men, Women and Children, born under them. Together with the Husbandman's Practice: Or, Prognostications for ever. With the Shepherds perpetual Prognostication for the Weather. Also, a brief Discourse on the Natural Causes of Meteors; with an account of several remarkable Earthquakes, Rains, Thunder, Lightnings, Comets, Blazing Stars, &c. that have happened in several Countries. And Observations on the Weather, and Signs foretelling Rain. A brief Collection of all the Members of Man Physiognomized: The Signification of Moles on Men and Women: The interpretation of Dreams: And Pythagoras's Wheel of Fortune. With several other Secrets of Art and Nature, not to be found in any other Book of this Kind and Price. Boston, Printed and sold by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-bridge.
Also, this day was published,
The Happiness and Pleasure of Usury in Christian Societies, considered; in a Sermon preached at a Lecture in Bolton, New-England, on Wednesday, August 26th, 1772.
By ZABDIEL ADAMS, A. M. Pastor of a Church in Lunenburgh. Boston: Printed and sold by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-bridge.
At the same place may be had, Spelling-Books, Psalters, Primers, Accidences, &c. Likewise Psalm-Books, New-England's Memorial; Eschol, or a Cluster of the Fruit of Canaan brought to the Borders, by Dr. Owen; Wise, on the New-England Churches, &c. Small Books for Children, Slates, Sealing-Wax, Wafers, Quills, &c. &c.
TO be sold by Samuel Sloane, at his Distil-House, opposite the Blue-bail and Mason's-Arms, formerly Green-Dragon, New-England RUM, and all sorts of SPIRITS, cheap for cash or Molasses; and as he makes those articles himself, he will warrant them fit for any market.
LEE and JONES, Have for sale at their shop near the Swing-bridge, at the lowest advance,
A Large assortment of Winter GOODS, Stationary; china Cups and Saucers, gold and silver Laces and Buttons; a great variety of LADIES SILKS, SILVER WATCHES, Gunpowder, Brimstone, Nails, Glass, &c. &c. A few pipes of Fyal Wine.
AMES's Almanack, for 1773, just published and to be sold by Russell & Hicks, in Union street, next the Cornfield.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. Mr. THOMAS.
People in all ages have had the utmost abhorrence for USURPING TYRANTS. I am fond of reading Anecdotes of former times, where Tyranny has met with its just reward. I therefore beg you would insert the following Anecdote of the remarkable firmness and justice of Timoleon of Corinth.
TIMOLEON was of noble rank in the city of Corinth, but was more distinguished by his ardent love of liberty, than by his birth. He was naturally mild and gentle, the sweetness of his disposition would not suffer him to hate any but tyrants, and the domestic enemies of his country. He possessed the most unshaken courage to the decline of a very long life, which was tempered, even in his earliest youth, by the most extraordinary and admirable prudence.
He had an elder brother called Timophanes, in every respect the reverse of him, imprudent, rash, ambitious, and ever aiming at illegal power; affecting an appearance of uncommon valour, and a certain ardor in all military exploits, which procured him the admiration of the populace, and, in consequence of that, the highest posts in the commonwealth. Timoleon loved him with the most tender affection, and assisted him in obtaining such offices as were not inconsistent with the freedom of his country, by lessening his errors and setting such good qualities as he possessed in the strongest light they would bear.
In a battle, in which Timophanes commanded the Corinthian cavalry, his horse being wounded, threw him into the midst of the enemy; his troops, except a very inconsiderable number, dispersed; and the few remaining, overpowered by multitudes, were unable to make further resistance; when Timoleon, who served in the infantry, hearing of his brother's danger, flew to his rescue, and covered him with his buckler, as he lay wounded on the field; and, after receiving many wounds himself, obliged the enemy to retire, and at the extremest hazard of his own life, preserved that of Timophanes.
Soon after this action, the Corinthians, for the security of their city, took into their pay a band of four hundred strangers, and gave the command of them to Timophanes; who, without regard to the ties of honour, justice, or gratitude, corrupted them to serve his own ambitious purposes, and render him master of those who had entrusted him with power he was unworthy of; and having cut off many of the best and principal citizens, who were the most likely to oppose his designs, unconcerned, and without trial, declared himself King of Corinth.
This conduct threw the virtuous Timoleon into desperation; he begged, he entreated, he remonstrated, he conjured his brother by every thing most sacred, to repair the injuries he had done his unhappy country, and renounce a power to which he had no claim, but by the most detestable usurpation, and which he could not keep but by the destruction of Corinth. But when he found his admonitions received with contempt, and not heard without impatience and anger, he resolved on a second and more powerful attempt; and taking with him Eschylus, brother to the wife of Timophanes, and Orthogoras, who was their common friend, he returned to his brother, and all three surrounding him, besought him by the piety he owed to the Gods, and by the genius of his native country, before it was too late, to listen to the voice of reason and of virtue. Timophanes at first ridiculed their simplicity, but afterwards, being very vehemently pressed, began to give way to fury and indignation; when Timoleon, yielding to necessity, turned aside, and casting up his eyes streaming with tears to Heaven, covered his face with his robe, whilst the other two with their swords instantly dispatched Timophanes.

From the PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL. To the PRINTERS.
I send you, for the information of the public, the very extraordinary COMMISSION of the JUDGE COMMISSARY of OUR NEW ADMIRALTY COURT: And hope some abler pen will undertake to shew how INCONSISTENT the extensive powers of THAT COMMISSION are with the RIGHTS and PRIVILEGES of BRITISH SUBJECTS. A. P.
GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith: To all and singular our officers and other our liege subjects, whomsoever, in and throughout our kingdom of Great-Britain, and other our foreign plantations, colonies and dominions; and to all persons in general, whom these presents may concern, but more especially to our beloved JAROD INGERSOL, Esq; GREETING.
BE IT KNOWN, THAT WE, for good and sufficient causes us thereunto moving, have established, and do, by these presents, establish a Court of Vice-Admiralty, at Philadelphia, in North-America, to have original jurisdiction in all causes arising within the limits of our colonies of New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the lower counties on Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, and within three leagues of the shores thereof. The said court to have also original jurisdiction in all causes arising from the capture of ships, between the latitudes of forty-one degrees and thirty-six degrees fifteen minutes north; or of ships, whose port of destination shall be within either of our said colonies; the said court to have also jurisdiction in appeals from the Courts of Vice-Admiralty established, or to be established within either of our colonies before mentioned.
And be it also known, That We, confiding very much in your learning, honesty, fidelity, circumspection and industry, Do, by these presents, make, ordain, constitute, and appoint you, the said JAROD INGERSOL, Esq; to be judge of the said court of Vice-Admiralty, established at Philadelphia aforesaid, under the title and title of JUDGE COMMISSARY, DEPUTY and SURROGATE of the Court of Vice-ADMIRALTY of Philadelphia, in North-America, with original jurisdiction in all causes arising within the limits of his Majesty's colonies of New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the lower counties on Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, and within three leagues of the shores thereof; and also with original jurisdiction in all causes arising from the capture of ships, between the latitudes of forty-one degrees and thirty-six degrees fifteen minutes north, or of ships whose ports of destination shall be within either of the said colonies; also, with jurisdiction in appeals from the Courts of Vice-Admiralty, established, or to be established within either of the said colonies: Saving always a right to any or either of the parties, who shall think himself or themselves aggrieved, by such Vice-Admiralty Court at Philadelphia, in the first instance, or an appeal to such Vice-Admiralty Court, established at Philadelphia, to appeal either to us in council, or to our High Court of Admiralty in England; and from thence to our High Court of Delegates, as usual; and saving likewise, all other the rights of our High Court of Admiralty of England.
And we do hereby give, grant, and allow, to the said judge, an annual salary of six hundred pounds, to be paid, in the first place, out of the moiety money arising from the penalties and forfeitures, to be levied within the said colonies and plantations; and if that fund shall not be sufficient, out of money arising from the sale of old naval stores.
And we hereby expressly enjoin and command you the said judge, upon pain of losing your office, not to take any fee, or gratuity whatsoever, for any judgment given, or business done in your said court.
And we do hereby commit and grant to you the said JAROD INGERSOL, our power and authority to take cognizance of, and proceed in all causes, civil and maritime, and in complaints, contracts, offences, or suspected offences, crimes, pleas, debts, exchanges, policies of insurance, accounts, charter parties, agreements, bills of lading of ships, and all matters and contracts, which, in any manner whatsoever, relate to freight due for ships hired and let out, transport money, or maritime usury, otherwise bottomry; or which do any wise concern suits, trespasses, injuries, extortions, demands, and affairs, civil and mari-
time, whatsoever, between merchants, or between owners and proprietors of ships or other vessels, and merchants or other persons whomsoever, with such owners and proprietors of ships; and all other vessels whatsoever employed or used, or between any other persons howsoever laid, made, begun or contracted, for any matter, cause or thing, business or injury whatsoever done, as well in, upon, or by the sea, or public streams, or fresh water, ponds, rivers, creeks, and places overflowed whatsoever, within the ebbing and flowing of the sea or high water mark, as upon any of the shores, or banks adjoining to them, or either of them, within the limits and districts before mentioned; together with all and singular their incidents, emergencies, dependencies, annexed and connexed causes whatsoever; and such causes, complaints, contracts, and other the premises aforesaid, or any of them, howsoever the same may happen to arise, be contracted, had or done, to hear and determine the same at Philadelphia aforesaid, (according to the civil and maritime laws and customs of our High Courts of Admiralty of England) and to proceed judicially and according to law in administering justice therein.
And moreover, to compel witnesses (in case they withdraw themselves, for interest, fear, favour, or ill-will, or any other cause whatsoever) to give evidence to the truth, in all and every the causes above mentioned, according to the exigencies of the law: And further, to take all manner of recognizances, cautions, obligations, and stipulations, as well to our use, as at the instance of any parties for agreements of debts, and other causes and businesses whatsoever, and to put the same in execution, and to cause and command them to be executed: Also duly to search, and inquire of, and concerning all goods of traitors, pirates, man-killers, felons, fugitives, and felons of themselves, and concerning the bodies of persons drowned, killed, or by any other means coming to their death in the sea, or in any ports, rivers, public streams, or creeks, and places overflowed; and also, concerning mayhem, happening in the aforesaid places; and also concerning engines, toils, and nets, prohibited and unlawful, and the occupiers thereof.
And moreover concerning fishes royal, namely, whales, riggs, grampus, dolphins, sturgeons, and all other fishes whatsoever, which are of a great, or very large bulk or fatness, by right or customary ways used, belonging to us, and to the office of our high Admiral of England; and also, of, and concerning all casualties at sea, goods wrecked, flotion, jetson, lagon, things cast overboard, and wreck of the sea, and all goods taken, or to be taken as derelict, or by chance found, or to be found or forfeited, and of forfeitures, trespasses, misdemeanors, offences, enormities, and maritime crimes whatsoever, done and committed, or to be done and committed, as well in and upon the high seas, as all ports, rivers, fresh waters and creeks, and shores of the sea, to high-water mark, from all first bridges towards the sea, in and throughout the limits and district aforesaid, and maritime coasts thereunto belonging, howsoever, whensoever, or by what means soever, arising or happening, and all such things as are discovered and found out; as also all fines, mulcts, amercements, and compositions due and to be due, in that behalf, to tax, moderate, demand, collect and levy, and to cause the same to be demanded, levied and collected, and according to law, to compel and command them to be paid; and also to proceed in all and every the causes and businesses above recited, and in all other contracts, causes, contempts, and offences whatsoever, howsoever contracted or arising, if the goods or persons of the debtors may be found within the jurisdiction of the Vice-Admiralty established at Philadelphia aforesaid, according to the civil and maritime laws and customs of our High Court of Admiralty of England anciently used, and by all other lawful ways, means and methods, according to the best of your skill and knowledge; and all such causes and contracts, to hear, examine, discuss, and finally determine; and also to arrest, and cause and command to be arrested, all ships, things, persons, goods, wares and merchandise, for the premises, and every of them, and for all other causes whatsoever, concerning the same, where soever they shall be met with, or found within the limits and district aforesaid, and to compel all manner of persons in that behalf, as the case shall require, to appear and to answer, with power of using any temporal coercion, and of inflicting any other penalty or mulct, according to the
laws and customs aforesaid, and to do and administer justice according to the right order and course of the law, summarily and plainly, looking only in the truth of the fact.
And we empower you, in this behalf, to fine, correct, punish, chastise and reform, and imprison, and cause and command to be imprisoned, in any gaols, being within the limits aforesaid, and maritime places of the same, the parties guilty, and violators of the law and jurisdiction of our Admiralty aforesaid, and usurpers, delinquents and contumacious absenters, masters of ships, mariners, rowers, fishermen, shipwrights, and other workmen and artificers whomsoever, exercising any kind of maritime affairs, as well according to the afore-mentioned civil and maritime laws, and ordinances and customs aforesaid, and their demerits, as according to the statutes and ordinances aforesaid, and those of our kingdom of Great-Britain, for the Admiral of England, in that behalf made and provided; and to deliver, and absolutely discharge, and cause and command to be discharged, whatsoever persons have been imprisoned in such cases, and are to be delivered, and to promulge and interpose all manner of sentences and decrees, and to put the same in execution with cognizance, and jurisdiction of all other causes, civil and maritime whatsoever, which relate to the sea, or which, in any manner of way respect or concern the sea, or passage over the same, or naval or maritime voyages performed, or to be performed, or the maritime jurisdiction aforesaid; with power also to proceed in the same, according to the civil and maritime laws and customs of our aforesaid court, anciently used, as well those of meer office, mixt or promoted, as at the instance of any party, as the case shall require and seem convenient, committing unto you our power and authority, concerning all and singular the premises, in the several places above expressed, in the manner and under the limitations before described; together with power of deposing and appointing all such officers and ministers, and deputies under you, as shall be necessary for the execution of the said office. (excepting always the Register and Marshal of the said court, the nomination and appointment of whom we reserve to ourselves) by these presents, which are to continue only during our pleasure.
Further, we do, in our name, command, and firmly and strictly charge, all and singular our governors, commanders, justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, marshals, keepers of all our gaols and prisons, bailiffs, constables, and all other our officers and ministers and faithful liege subjects, in and throughout the limits aforesaid, and the territories thereunto belonging, that, in the execution of this our commission, they be from time to time aiding and assisting, and yielding obedience in all things, as is fitting unto you and your deputy whomsoever, under the pain of the law for their neglect, and the peril which will fall thereon.
GIVEN at London, in the High Court of our Admiralty of England aforesaid, under the Great Seal thereof, the Seventeenth Day of October, in the Year of our LORD, One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Sixty-eight, and of our reign the eighth.
GOSF. LEE, FARRANT, Register. This is taken verbatim from a copy certified by the master of the rolls office.
FRIDAY, January 1. BOSTON.
Wednesday last sailed for London, the Captains Hood and Jenkins. With the former of whom went passenger John Cales, Esq; of Ipswich, agent for a number of proprietors and settlers in the eastern parts of this province.
Wednesday se'nnight was ordained at Danvers, the Rev. Mr. Benja. Wadsworth.
Last Wednesday a small sail boat, going down Piscataqua River from Durham, on board which were four persons, viz. Mr. Willey, his wife, wife's sister and brother, were overset by a sudden gust of wind, and Mr. Willey and his wife's sister were drowned.
“About a fortnight ago the following accident happened in Casco-Bay, viz.—As two men, and a lad about fifteen years of age, a Foreigner, named Thomas Lamy, were carrying a bullock in a small boat to an Island, the boat was overset; by which means, the lad, in attempting to swim ashore, was unfortunately drowned; the other two were providentially saved, one by swimming on his oar to an Island, at a considerable distance; the other by keeping on the boat till it surprisingly drifted against the wind, to the same Island.”
SATURDAY, January 2. BOSTON.
This morning, we hear, an express came to town from Newport to Admiral Montague and at noon this day was dispatched back again.
At a general council held last Thursday at the council chamber in Boston, his Excellency the Governor was pleased to nominate Thomas Hutchinson Esq; to be a Justice of the Inferior Court for the County of Suffolk, in the room of Joseph Green, Esq; resigned. Patrick Tracy, Esq; and Stephen Hooper Esq; to be Justices of the peace for the County of Essex. To which nominations his Majesty's Council did advise and consent.
MONDAY, January 4. BOSTON.
Thursday last Capt. Daniel Waters of Malden, and Mr. William Eustis, of Chelsea, being below a gunning after wild fowl discovered on the Graves, part of a wreck and went ashore to see what it was. After observing it, they came up to Malden; and next day went down with a lighter to the wreck, and saved from thence the cables, anchors three pair shrouds, some small rigging, a small part of the sails, and the fore-top sail.—In hawling up one of the anchors in ten or twelve feet water, they drew up one of the people, with mittens on his hands, who had black hair, and appeared to be about nineteen or twenty years of age: He had on a blue fustock, a jacket, a pair of striped trowsers, and blue yarn stockings, whom they buried at Malden, last Saturday night.—By sundry things drove ashore at different islands, and a chest taken up, the papers therein contained make it apparent that she was a topsail schooner, commanded and partly owned by Capt. Pike of Newbury, bound from the Mole to this port, and is supposed to have unfortunately run on the Graves Saturday night the 20th ult. it being then very dark and stormy, when ever soul perished. All persons claiming property in the goods saved, and proving the same, by applying either to Capt. Waters, or Mr. Eustis, aforesaid, may receive them on allowing customary salvage.
NEWPORT, December 21. We hear a house in this town is preparing for the reception of Admiral Montagu and his Lady; so that it is not probable the ships, which are drawing near the town, have any hostile intentions.
Last Saturday arrived here the Arethusa Frigate, Capt. Hammond from New-York.
TUESDAY, January 5. BOSTON.
We hear that the Chief Justices of New-York and the Justices arrived at Newport last Friday; and that Judge Auchmuty, who set out from Roxbury for Middleborough on Thursday last, is from thence to accompany the Chief Justice of this province to Newport: So that by the middle of this week the commissioners will be all assembled, and ready to proceed upon business.
Buried in the town of Boston, in the year 1772, 458 whites, 59 blacks. In all 517. Baptised 373.
List of burials, &c. for the year 1771, stood thus: Buried 431 whites, 63 blacks. In all 494. Baptised in the several churches, 393.
Buried in the town of Charlestown from January 1, 1772, to January 1, 1773. 73 whites and 8 blacks. In all 81. Baptised in the church there 52.
The list of burials and baptisms the year before, stood thus, buried 52, baptised 37.
The October and November Packets are arrived at New-York, but they have not yet received intelligence than what we have already received.
George-Town, December 18, 1772. Last Wednesday was married, by the Rev. Mr. Emeron of this town, the Rev. Mr. John Murray, of Booth-Bay, to the amiable Miss Sukey Lithgow, daughter of the Honorable Col. William Lithgow, Chief Judge of the Inferior Court for the county of Lincoln.
DIED.—At Charlestown, Capt. Nathaniel Sheaffe.
NEW-LONDON, December 25. Last Saturday sailed from hence the sloop Mississippi, (via New-York) having on board a committee appointed by the company of Military Adventurers, to recognise the lands lately granted by the crown to Major Gen. Lyman and the company of Military Adventurers, bounded west on the river Mississippi, and north on the river Yasou, between latitude 32 and 34.
*** For the GOVERNOR'S SPEECH, and some other matters, see this Day's SPY EXTRAORDINARY.

January 7.
WEDNESDAY, January 6. BOSTON.
The following letter from the town of NEWBURY-PORT has been received by the Committee of Correspondence of this town. Viz.
"NEWBURY-PORT, Jan. 1st. 1773."
"GENTLEMEN,"
"THE freeholders and other inhabitants of Newbury-Port in town meeting legally assembled this first of January 1773, have read and considered a letter from the inhabitants of Boston of the 20th of November, together with the other proceedings of that town at a late meeting, and thank them for the free communication of their sentiments on matters so greatly interesting and important. We admire the vigilance and perseverance of our friends there in the cause of liberty, notwithstanding the obstructions they have met with by the indifference of some and the opposition of others; and we highly esteem them for it."
"The rights of this province as they have hitherto been undoubtedly belong to us. The laws of God and the constitution have invested us with them. And in our opinion no power on earth can justly deny us the free and full exercise of them. But, unhappily for us, we are denied this glorious privilege, by the operation of instructions and certain acts of Parliament, which have brought upon us those great and distressing grievances which they have pointed out, and some others that might be mentioned, tending to involve this country in certain ruin. Which is to us a very melancholy and alarming consideration, with regard to our posterity as well as ourselves."
"We should rejoice could we be in any measure instrumental in extricating our country from this unhappy situation: And to this end we trust we shall always be ready to exert our utmost abilities in all legal and constitutional ways."
"At a legal meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of Newbury-Port, January 1773. The foregoing letter being presented to the town for their acceptance, it was read and accepted, and thereupon ordered that the Town Clerk transmit an authenticated copy thereof to the Committee of Correspondence of the town of Boston."
"true copy, attest."
STEPHEN SEWALL Town-Clerk.
The following proceedings of the Town of MEDFORD, were transmitted to the committee of correspondence for this town.
"At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Medford, the 31st of December, 1772, held by adjournment, the committee appointed to examine into public grievances, &c. reported as follows."
"THAT the thanks of this town be given to the respectable inhabitants of the town of Boston, for their patriotic care and vigilance (discovered on several occasions) in endeavouring to preserve our civil constitution free from innovation, and to maintain the same inviolate. And that they, to this end, have now liberally transmitted this, and the other towns in this province, a particular state of our rights and privileges as free British subjects, men and christians, with the infringements made upon the same; which treatise has in general received the approbation of this town."
"And we do assure them, that our assistance shall not be wanting in the use of all such lawful, proper measures, as shall be thought expedient to be adopted for the preservation of our liberties, civil and religious: Being of opinion, that a steady, uniform and persevering conduct in a constitutional way, is the best means under God, for obtaining that end, and a redress of all our grievances. However, at present shall refer matter to, and confide in, the wisdom of the Great and General Court (who are the guardians of our liberties) that they will, at their next session, adopt and prosecute such salutary measures as are requisite for obtaining the end desired."
The said Committee also reported the following INSTRUCTIONS to their Representative, viz.
"TO SIMON TUFTS, Esq; S I R,"
"YOU being the representative of the town of Medford the present year, we your constituents, this day in lawful town-meeting assembled, having taken into serious consideration, the many and alarming grievances, so generally and justly complained of, which the colonies in general, and this province in particular, labour under, as being subversive of the essential rights and privileges of free British subjects, and repugnant both to the letter and spirit of our royal charter—take the freedom to lay before you our sentiments thereupon, to enjoin you as our representative, to use your best endeavours in the honourable"
Hou'e of Representatives at their next session, in promoting and assisting in such constitutional measures as shall appear best, and most likely to obtain a redress of the same.
"It would be too tedious, as well as useless, to enumerate and particularly remind you of all the grievances we suffer at this time, from ministerial and parliamentary proceedings. But it may suffice to say generally, that our sentiments of the claims we are justly entitled to as free British subjects, and also of the infringements from time to time made upon them, are similar to those contained in the pamphlet (now read) which our patriotic brethren of the town of Boston have generously furnished us with; which book we recommend to your serious perusal. In particular we desire, that you enquire into the truth of a report currently spread and prevailing among us, namely, that the honourable Justices of the Superior Court are in future to receive their salaries from the crown: Since such a provision, which renders them so enormously dependent upon the crown, is of so threatening an aspect, so dangerous to the free and impartial administration of justice, as must alarm every serious person who has the welfare of his country at heart; and will give us just reason to fear that the ax is laid to the root of our liberty, with a fixed intention to hew it down. Therefore, Sir, if upon enquiry you find this to be really the case, we trust you will zealously and vigorously exert yourself to avert so formidable an evil, and frustrate the wicked machinations of our inveterate enemies. And in the mean time, that you will endeavour that the honourable Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, Court of Assize and General Gaol Delivery, be amply and honorably supported by grants from the General Assembly, and in such a manner as shall best tend to the maintaining of justice in the land. Finally, that you endeavour that the disputes and differences now subsisting between Great-Britain and the colonies, be speedily and amicably adjusted, and peace and harmony again restored."
Said report being twice read, the town then voted that they accept the same, that it be recorded in the town book, and that the Town Clerk transmit a copy thereof to the respectable committee of the town of Boston.
A true copy, Attest: RICHARD HALL, Town-Clerk.
"At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Pembroke duly warned and assembled according to law, the 28th day of December 1772, after reading a pamphlet received from the Town Clerk of Boston, directed to our Selectmen, by order of the said town, and by a vote approving of the State of Rights of the colonists, and of this province in particular, the list of the infringements and violations of the rights and the letter of correspondence contained in said pamphlet, the following RESOLVES were agreed to, nemine contradicente."
"RESOLVED, That this province, and this town as a part of it, hath a right whenever they think it necessary, to give their sense of public measures, and if judged to be unconstitutional and oppressive, to declare it freely and remonstrate or petition as they may deem best."
"Resolved, That it is particularly necessary, in the present alarming crisis of our affairs, to give our opinion, and cause it to be known, that not a few men only, of factious spirits, as has been falsely represented, but the whole body of the people complain and are uneasy."
"Resolved, That although the British parliament is the grand legislative of the nation, yet according to the original compact, solemnly made and entered into between the King of England and our ancestors, at their first coming into this country, and the present Royal Charter, no legislative authority can be exercised in or over this province, but that of the great and general Court or Assembly, consisting of the King or his representative, his Majesty's Council, and the House of Representatives."
"Resolved, That acts of the British parliament made for, and executed within the limits of this province, are in our opinion against law and the most essential principles of our constitution."
"Resolved, That the attacks that have of late years in this way been made, and by mere dint of ministerial influences, are daily making on our happy constitution, are of a very alarming nature, and ought to excite the jealousy and attention of every member of this community, and that such persons as advise to a submission ought to be esteemed as enemies to their country."
"Resolved, That the rights and liberties, civil and religious, which have been transmitted to us from our illustrious ancestors,
ought to be deemed sacred and kept inviolate by us their posterity."
"Resolved particularly, That the late ministerial manoeuvre, in affixing stipends or salaries to the offices of the Judges of our Superior Court, is an innovation that menaces the total abolition of fair trials and equitable issues at law, and directly affect both the life and property of the subject, as an entire dependance on the crown for a support; has a tendency to bias the mind of the judges and prevent that strict impartiality which ought to attend their decisions. But it is not our design to reflect in the least on the very respectable gentlemen, who at present adorn those offices, but to ground our opinion on the imperfection and depravity of human nature."
"Resolved, That if the measures so justly complained of by this province and the other colonies on the continent, are persisted in and enforced by fleets and armies, they must, (we think of it with pain) they will in a little time, issue in the total dissolution of the union between the mother country and the colonies, to the infinite loss of the former and regret of the latter."
"Resolved, That the Representative of this town be instructed, and accordingly he is instructed to use his utmost efforts, the next session of our General Assembly, to obtain a radical redress of our grievances."
"Resolved, That a Committee for Grievances be chosen, to correspond with the several Committees of the same denomination in our metropolis and the other towns through the province, and report to this town such proposals, as may be thought proper to remove our unpartial elected hardships. And accordingly the following gentlemen were chosen for the above purpose, and ordered to transmit a copy of the proceedings of this town, at their present meeting, to the Committee of Correspondence at Boston."
JOHN TURNER, ABEL STETSON, DE. JEREMIAH HALL, SAMUEL GEALD, SETH HATCH.
A true copy from Record.
Attest. JOHN TURNER, Town-Clerk.
PEMBROKE, December 31, 1772.
To the gentlemen of the Committee of Correspondence within the Town of Boston.
"GENTLEMEN,"
"WE the committee of correspondence, chosen within the town of Pembroke, herewith inclose the proceedings of a town meeting held at the town of Pembroke on the 28th of December, 1772; and hereby inform you that we are ready and willing to hold a correspondence with you and the other town committees of correspondence within this province, when, and so often as it shall be thought necessary, to support the cause of liberty and property; and so subscribe ourselves hearty friends and well-wishers in the cause aforesaid."
JOHN TURNER, ABEL STETSON, JEREMIAH HALL, SETH HATCH.
THURSDAY, January 7. BOSTON.
A letter from Plymouth in England, dated Oct. 4, says, "Yesterday came in a fleet of transports, to take in troops for St. Vincent's, in the West Indies."
ST. VINCENT, October 3. On Monday last as a party of the 32d regiment was marching to join the troops encamped near Niamboo river, they were attacked by the Caraibs from amongst the bushes. A great many of the savages were killed and wounded; of the King's troops a corporal and four men were killed and wounded; a negro who attended them was likewise killed. It seems that a Frenchman who was standing upon a hill adjacent to the place where the engagement began, gave the Caraibs the signal when to fire: the villain is since apprehended, was sent to Kingstown, and put on board one of his Majesty's ships of war. 'Tis to be hoped he will meet with such punishment as is adequate to his deserts.
Same day the Caraibs set fire and burnt down the plantation of Mr. Bruce at Wachilabeau, and killed some of his negroes.
One of the Caraibs that delivered himself up last week to his Excellency the General, was found in arms against his Majesty; and on Wednesday last he was hanged at Callinqu.
Thursday morning, about nine o'clock, the Caraibs burnt down the plantation of Monsieur Lacroix, and killed some of his negroes: Immediately after that barbarous transaction, they came to the next estate (Monsieur Pradie's) with an intent to set it on fire; but by the vigilance of a detachment of the southern regiment of militia under the command of
Capt. Glynn, they after reconnoitring the militia (who were willing for an engagement) thought proper to take themselves off to their lurking places of abode. Had it not been for the above detachment being posted at Monsieur Pradie's, not only his, but every estate in the Valley of Ouarivaroo would have been destroyed. In the afternoon a party of the troops, under the command of Colonel Harry Alexander, joined the foot command by Captain John Kennedy, and marched to Lacroix's estate; but none of the savages appearing they returned to their post.
Same day arrived at Calliaqua, from North America, a transport ship, with four companies of the 13th regiment, under the command of Major Alexander M c Kenzie. The rest of the transports, with the other companies, are hourly expected.
'Tis reported, that a plantation adjacent to Mr. Kair's is wholly burnt by the Caraibs.
Much damage has been done by the savages to several plantations in the island, but have not as yet been informed of the particulars.
This morning the artillery was ordered to proceed to Niamboo river, where the Caraibs have made a strong entrenchment on the other side. The troops and artillery are expected to gain that important pass on Wednesday next.
His Excellency the General ordered a transport vessel for Grenada, in order to bring here the remainder of the 70th regiment.
Several Caraibs, besides some Frenchmen in their interest, have within these few days been taken prisoners by the different detachments of his Majesty's troops and militia, and sent on board one of his Majesty's ships of war lying in Kingstown Bay.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
Mr. THOMAS.
Please to insert the following in your valuable paper and you will oblige your constant reader. ACCOUNTRYMAN.
IN the late protest against the proceedings of the late town meeting at Marblehead we find the following reason, viz. "Because the voters at said meeting do, by some of their resolves, absolutely determine and pass final sentence, concerning some matters which have been controverted between Great-Britain and the colonies, without giving a hearing to one of the parties; which is contrary to a known maxim of equity, and their procedure would (in our humble opinion) have appeared more candid and impartial, had they first heard what Great-Britain could have offered, on her side the question." I would only ask the gentlemen who signed the above protest this plain question, viz.
"Have not we (the colonists) already heard what Great-Britain could say on her side the question, as a highway robber who meets me on the road and demands my purse, namely with sword and pistol at my breast."
WHEREAS John Fraiser is going to Scotland in the brig Chance, Abraham Hunter Commander, if the said Fraiser is a servant to any person whatever, they are desired to inform the said Captain Hunter.
Now in the press, and will be published in a few days,
AN ORATION on the Beauties of Liberty or the essential rights of the Americans. Delivered at the second Baptist-Church in Boston, upon the last annual thanksgiving, from Mic. 7. 3—That they may do evil with both hands, earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward, and the great man he uttereth his mischievous desire, so they wrap it up.
Humbly dedicated to the right honourable the Earl of Dartmouth. Printed and sold by D. KNEELAND, and N. DAVIS.
This Day was published, price eight coppers, The BOSTON
Sheet ALMANACK,
For 1773.
Very useful for Merchants, Shopkeepers and others, to paste or hang up in Counting-houses, Shops, &c.
Printed and sold by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-bridge.
There may be had at BICKER's Auction-Room, Near the Conduit, Boston,
At 10 per cent. lower than the Sterling cost, A Few pieces of red and blue Duff's, Duffl. Blankets, Rattens, Kerseys, Forest-cloths, &c.
N. B. He has for sale, a variety of Goods none can be had cheaper

Providence, November 7, 1772. To the Friends of Liberty and useful Knowledge. PROPOSALS For Re-printing, by Subscription, ENGLISH LIBERTIES, or The Free born Subject's Inheritance. Compiled first by HENRY CARE, and continued with large additions, by WIL- LIAM NELSON, of the Middle-Tem- ple, Esq;
CONTAINING, Magna Charta, or the great charter of Eng- lish liberties; the charter of the Forest, the statute De Tallagio non concedendo, the Habeas Corpus act, and several other sta- tutes with comments on each of them. LIKEWISE, The proceedings in appeals of murder; of ship money; of tonnage and poundage; of Parliaments, and the qualification and choice of members; of the three estates, and of the settlement of the crown by Parliament.
Together with a short history of the succes- sion, not by any hereditary right; Also a declaration of the liberties of the subject, and of the oath of allegiance and suprema- cy; The petition of right, with a short but impartial relation of the difference between King Charles I. and the long parliament, concerning the prerogative of the King, the liberties of the subject, and the rise of the civil wars; Of trials by ju- ries, and of the qualifications of jurors; their punishment for misbehaviour, and of challenges to them.
LASTLY, Of Justices of the Peace, Coroners, Consta- bles, Churchwardens, Overseers of the poor, Surveyors of the highways, &c. With many law-cases throughout the whole.
CONDITIONS. I. This celebrated treatise (which ought to be in the hands of every Englishman) will be printed in a handsome octavo volume, on a good paper and a neat type. II. The volume to contain about four hun- dred pages. III. The price to subscribers (neatly bound) will be One Dollar. IV. Those that subscribe for six books, will be allowed a seventh gratis. V. As soon as the names and residence of five hundred subscribers are collected, the work will be immediately put to the press, and completed with all expedition. VI. No money expected till the delivery of the books. VII. The names of the subscribers will be perfixed to the work. Subscriptions are received by JOHN CAR- TER, the publisher, in Providence, and by I THOMAS, near the Mill-Bridge, Boston.
MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Mathematical Instrument Maker,
Has to SELL At his Shop, at the Sign of Sir Isaac Newton, At the Head of the Long Wharf, BOSTON,
THE largest assortment of Had- ley's and Davis's Quadrants ever in New-England; also hanging and standing Compasses in brass and wood; Gauging and Surveying Instruments, Cases of Ma- thematical Instruments with steel joints, half cases ditto; Telescopes of various lengths, in ivory, wood and fish-skin; Plotting Scales and Protractors, Gunter Scales and Dividers, four and two pole Surveying Chains, arti- ficial Magnets with cases, Sand-Glasses from two hours to a quarter of a minute; Instru- ments of a new construction to measure Boards; an assortment of Brass Pocket-Com- passes; Box Rules, Jack-Knives, brass and pewter Ink-Stands, plated Shoe and Knee Buckles, Pinchbeck, Block-tin and Brass do. Compass Scales, Watch Keys, &c.
A Variety of Instruments, too tedious to mention, are made and sold at the above place, and as he has had a thorough experi- ence, he doubts not of giving satisfaction. N. B. All instruments with said William's name, will be made true without charge.
To be SOLD, by NATHANIEL RUSSELL, In Common-street, a little to the north- ward of Dr. Byles's Meeting-House, BOSTON,
A Compleat assortment of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, con- sisting of Clocks, Tables, Chairs, Bedsteads, dumb Waiters, &c. &c. Cheap for Cash,
Imported from Quebec by the last Vessel, And to be Sold by JOHN SCOLLAY, Jun. At the corner of Wings Lane, Dock Square, A VARIETY of Martin and Sable MUFFS and TIPPETS, made in the newest Fashion by a Furrier from Paris. At the same Place may be had, as usual, West-India and New-England Rum, by Wholesale or Retail, and Groceries of all kinds; Capers, Olives and Anchovies, &c. &c. &c.
To be sold for eight guineas, A SERVANT Girl, who has three years to serve. Enquire of the Printer.
To be SOLD, A Schooner burthen 65 tons, with a long quarter deck, a prime sailor, and well found in every respect. Sold or exchanged for a vessel of 90 or 100 tons, and the difference paid. Enquire of LEWIS GRAY, at his house, New-Boston.
IRISH LINENS. WILLIAM SCOTT, At the IRISH LINEN STORE in Ann- street, near the Draw-Bridge, Boston, Has just imported from Ireland,
A Large quantity of 3-4, 7-8 and yard-wide Linens of all prices, Diapers, clouting ditto, Huckaback, Dow- las, Table Cloths, 9-ths wide, Sheerings, white Ticken, brown Hollands, &c. A great variety of European and India Goods, amongst which are broad Cloths, Lambkins, Coatings, Baizes, &c. silk and worsted Stuffs, Poplins, Crapes, Denmark Lustres, Muslins, Dorsetbees, Camblets, worsted Damasks, &c. Satins and capuchin Silks of all colours, with lace and fur trimmings, Ducapes, striped and plain Lutestring, English Damasks, &c. a large assortment of Ribbons, Gauzes, striped and flowered Jaconet and 6-4 wide book Muslin of all prices; Jersey, Aberdeen knit, and patent ribbed men's worsted Hose, ditto plain of all colours, for men, women and chil- dren; with too great a multiplicity of goods, suitable for the season, to be enumerated in an advertisement, all which will be sold at the lowest reduced prices for ready money only. Excellent Gloucester Cheese, French Indigo, Teas, Coffee, Spices, &c. patent Cakes for making the liquid shining blacking for shoes and leather bottomed chairs, &c. a number of low priced bound Books of divinity, Bibles, Testaments, &c.
JACOB HEMET, DENTIST to her Majesty and the Prin- cess Amelia.
BEGS Leave to recommend to the Public, his newly discovered Es- sence of Pearl, and Pearl Dentifrice, which he has found to be greatly superior not only in elegance, but also in efficacy, to any thing hitherto made use of for complaints of the Teeth and Gums: Particularly they will pre- serve the Teeth in a perfect sound state, even to old age; they render them white and beautiful, without in the least impairing the enamel; fasten such as are loose, keep such as are already decayed from becoming worse, prevent the Tooth-Ach, perfectly cure the Scurvy in the Gums, and make them grow firm and close to the teeth; they likewise render the breath delicate, sweet, and re- medy almost all those disorders that are the consequence of scorbutic gums.
Sold (by appointment of Mr. Hemet) wholesale and retail, by W. Bayley, Perfu- mer, in Cockspur-street, near the bottom of the Hay-market, London, and at Wil- iam Scott's Irish Linen Store, near the Draw- Bridge, Boston, New-England.
This Day was published, And sold by E. RUSSELL, in Union-street, THE Massachusetts CALEN- DAR, or Wonderful ALMANACK, for the year of our Lord 1773.
By Ezra Gleason, a student in Physick. Containing the sun and moon's rising and setting. Judgment of the weather. As- pects. Eclipses. Time of high water. Rising, setting and southing of the seven stars. Moon's place. Feasts and fasts of the church of England. Quakers yearly meetings in New-England. Courts in the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, Connecticut, New- Hampshire and Rhode-Island. Vacations at Harvard College. Also an account of a remarkable boy or young giant whose amaz- ing size and strange features have attracted the attention of multitudes who have beheld him; he is thought to be the greatest curi- osity ever seen in America: (with a curi- ous plate of said boy.) A new matrimoni- al creed addressed to the ladies in a single life. An account of some experiments, by Mr. Miller of Cambridge, on the sowing of wheat: By W. Watson, M. D. F. R. S. (Read before the Royal Society.) Necess- ary hints for those who would be rich. A receipt for the gout, being a perscription or regimen of the celebrated Messrs. Boerhave and Ostdyke, for the cure of that disease, and has been tried with great success by a gentleman afflicted therewith from the age of fifteen to upwards of forty, who is now perfectly cured of it; and it has besides done so much good to several others to whom this salutary regimen has been com- municated, that he thinks he cannot do a more acceptable service to the public, than to publish the same for the benefit of his fel- low creatures. A poetical receipt for mar- ried ladies to preserve love. To cure the tooth-ach. An excellent remedy for agues which has been often tried with great suc- cess. A remedy for the bloody flux. An infallible cure for a ringworm, never before published. A powder that has restored sight when almost blind. To take off freckles. To take out spots of the small pox. A meth- od to preserve fresh meat in summer. A re- cipe of Agathocles taking Carthage, and of the cruelty of the Carthaginians. Of a gentleman who was persuaded his legs were straw. Of a counsellor at Paris. Of one who thought he had an Elephant's snout for a nose. Of the ancient Greeks using com- edies to excite laughter; and of a comedi- an who died with the fame. Of a Man who lost part of his beard by kissing his wife after she was dead. Thoughts on different sub- jects. A petition for Contentment, &c.
To be sold at the above place. Bibles, testaments, prayer-books, Tate and Brady's and Watt's psalms, divi- nity and history books, psalters, spelling books, writing-paper, some of which at the small price of ten shillings per ream, quills, ink powder best patenteed ink cake, sealing- wax, wafers, &c. &c. This day is published, and sold at above place, A dissuasion to Great-Britain from the Slave Trade. Subscribers are desired to call for their books. At the same place may be had, just pub- lished,
The general practice of the churches of New-England, relating to bap- tism, vindicated: Or some Essays on this important question, whether the practice of persons owning or renewing the covenant, and having baptism for their children with- out coming into full communion, be warrant- able? Delivered at several church meetings in Plymouth. With some letters that pas- sed on the subject. By John Cotton, A. M. of Plymouth.
Now in the press and will be published with all speed, A calm and plain answer to the enquiry, why are you a dissenter from the church of England? Containing some re- marks on its doctrine, spirit, constitution, and some of its offices and forms of devoti- on. By the author of the dissenting gentle- man's letters to Mr. White; being a sum- mary view of the arguments contained in those letters. Likewise in the press, at the same place, may be had in a few days.
The cause of the Dissenting Mi- nisters; Addressed to the Lords spiritual and temporal. By Israel Maudit. To which
is added, a copy of the bill proposed for their relief. [The two last mentioned pamphlets have had several editions in England in a few months, and are justly esteemed by good judges to be the best wrote pieces that have been published on the subject these many years.]
Those persons in whose hands proposals are lodged for printing Dr. Watt's Psalms and Hymns upon an entire new plan, are desired to send the same to E. Russell as soon as may be, that an estimation may be made of the number of books that will be wanted. The above will be contained in a concise pocket volume. Those churches in town or country that use this version may treat with the publisher on easy terms. Said work will be put in the press immediately, and will be printed on good Milton demy paper, and neatly bound.
This Day was published, price 1s. lawful money, And to be sold by JAMES FOSTER CONDY, At his store in Union-street, directly oppo- site to the Cornfield, Boston,
A POEM, entitled the GRAVE. By ROBERT BLAIR, The house appointed for all the living. JOB.
To which is added, An ELEGY, written in a Country Church Yard. By Mr. GRAY. This pamphlet will fully recommend it- self to the best judges and lovers of poetry. Said CONDY, has by the seve- ral vessels last from London, received a ge- neral Supply of the most modern
BOOKS, In Law, Physick, History, Divinity, and e- very branch of polite Literature—Bibles, Testaments, Psalm-Books, Psalters, Prim- mers, Books for the amusement and instruc- tion of children, &c. &c. &c.
STATIONARY, &c. Writing Paper of every sort, press Paper, account Books of every size and quality, gentlemen and ladies, pocket Books very neat, as-skin and ivory memorandum Book Quills, Pens, Ink-Powder, leather In- Pots, various sorts of Pensknives, writing Books, glass Ink-Pots, glass sand and Slates, Wafers, red and black sealing Wax, wooden sand Boxes, shining Sand, Pen- and pounce Boxes, black lead I Trunks, Ink Jugs, slate Paper, Parchm- ivory Folders, nose Spectacles, temple d- ditto green Glasses, double temple Spec- cles, mathematical Instruments, ditto h Cases, Dividers and steel Pens, sliding Rules, &c. &c. &c. A L S O, Barometers, air Thermometers, ditto for boiling Water, Diagonal Machines for viewing of prints—reading Glasses, glas- ses for near-sighted persons, concave and convex Glasses, watchmaker's Glasses, a convex Glass for drawing landscapes, acro- matic perspective Glasses, perspective Gla- sses from four inches to four feet in length, pocket Globes, small ditto mounted, Mi- croscopes steel pen-Engines, Maps of New- England, ditto of New-York, ditto of the world, &c. &c. &c. N. B. All those persons who please to purchase at said store, may depend upon buy- ing as cheap as at any store in BOSTON or AMERICA, without exception, and used in such a manner as will leave no room for complaint, but give entire satisfaction.
New Book-Store. JOHN LANGDON, Opposite Mr. THOMAS LEVERETT's leading to the Market, Informs his friends, and the Public, that he has received in the several last ships from London and Scotland,
A LARGE and Grand Assort- ment of BOOKS in all Arts and Sciences, which, with his former importations, make as large a collection as is to be found at any Store in America. As he intends for Eng- land in the Spring, every Gentleman who may please to favour him with their cus- tom may depend on purchasing at a little more than the sterling cost and charges. The least favours gratefully acknowledged.