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THE Massachusetts Sun
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
MAY 2 1908
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VOL. III.]
THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1773.
[NUMB. 123.]
FRIDAY, June 5. BOSTON.
In COUNCIL, June 1, 1773.
THE Committee having reported to the Board the following answer to the Governor's speech at the opening of the General Court, the same was read and unanimously accepted, and thereupon ordered, that William Brattle, Jeremiah Powell, James Pitts, Benjamin Greenleaf, and Jedediah Prebble, Esqrs. be a Committee to present the same to his Excellency. THO'S FLUCKER, Secr'y.
"To his Excellency THO. HUTCHINSON, Esq; Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, &c. The ADDRESS of his Majesty's COUNCIL.
"May it please your Excellency,
"THE Board have duly considered your Excellency's speech at the opening of the General Court.
"It gives us great pleasure that the Boundary Line between this Province and New-York is so amicably settled. By this settlement, if confirmed by his Majesty's gracious approbation, the animosities among the borderers, which have been carried to a great height will probably be quieted, and not again disturb the peace of the neighbouring parts of the two provinces.
"We humbly hope for that confirmation; and in the mean time shall be ready to concur in any suitable order for running the agreed line as soon as may be. We thank your Excellency for the part you have had in this negotiation.
"Agreeable to your Excellency's recommendation, we shall take into consideration the Right Honourable the Earl of DUNMORE's letter, with the act accompanying it, passed by the General Assembly of Virginia for preventing the counterfeiting the paper-money of the other colonies. As we are happily without a paper currency in this province, we can have no benefit from the act of Virginia: Notwithstanding which, we have, as your Excellency justly apprehended, the same disposition to do a good office for the neighbouring colony, as if the benefit were to be reciprocal: Especially for a colony which has rendered itself respectable by its laudable concern for American liberty.
"We shall also consider what your Excellency has recommended relative to some further provision for preventing the counterfeiting the gold and silver currency established by the laws of this province; and shall be ready to concur in any act that shall be proper and most effectual for that purpose.
"With respect to the application made by the Indians on the Eastern Frontier, we think your Excellency judged right in not giving them encouragement to expect the indulgence of a priest. However, if they would be satisfied with a protestant missionary, we should think it an advisable measure to send one to reside among them. We are of opinion with your Excellency, that it may be very proper to furnish them with goods, agreeable to their desire, at some place nearer to their settlement than Fort Pownall: And this good effect beside others, would result from it, that in that case, having less occasion to be among the English inhabitants near the fort, there would be proportionable the less danger of quarrels and contention with them.
"Your Excellency having expressed your readiness cheerfully to concur in all matters that may properly come before the two Houses "so far as the duty which you owe to the King and to the province will permit," the Board on their part, with equal cheerfulness will be ready to concur in all such matters, if the concurrence be consistent with the like duties they owe: which duties, so long as the constitution shall be a rule of conduct, they humbly conceive cannot possibly militate with each other.
His EXCELLENCY'S ANSWER.
"I THANK the Gentleman of the Council for this address. It always gives me pleasure when my endeavours for the public service met with their approbation.
We hear that his Majesty's ship Captain in heaving down at the dock yard in Halifax to careen, sprung her main mast, but she would be ready to sail some time the beginning of this month.
SATURDAY, June 6. BOSTON.
We hear from the inland parts of Connecticut that the woolen manufacture goes on there amazingly; that one manufacturer makes several thousand yards of cloth in a year; and it is said that Connecticut, in four years more, will be able to supply themselves and Rhode-Island with woolens.
PHILADELPHIA, May 26. Captain Johnson, from Cape-Nicholas, informs that a few days before he sailed a French frigate arrived at that place, and seized thirteen English vessels, belonging to different ports on the continent, the masters whereof hired a Bermudian sloop to go to Jamaica with letters to the Admiral, requesting his interposition in their behalf, but it was generally thought the vessels would be confiscated, as many of their hands were returning home; and that the French are very strict in searching every vessel from the colonies, and all counterfeit coin found on board they confiscate, but the light money they detain in their hands until the vessels are ready for sailing, when it is returned, they being determined to take none but the genuine Spanish or Portuguese gold.—On the 18th instant, in lat. 34: 23. Long. 71: 37, Capt. Johnson spoke the snow Adventure. Capt. Wilson, from New-castle, on Tyne, for Maryland, with a great number of passengers, who were very sickly; and the same day he spoke a sloop from Virginia for Antigua, three days out.
NEWPORT, May 31. Last Tuesday arrived in town, the hon. Judges Oliver and Auchmuty; and the next day, it is said, they met at President Wanton's house, on the business of the GASPEE: And yesterday arrived Capt. Freebody from New-York, with whom came the hon. Judge Horsmanden and lady, and the Hon. Judge Smyth.
Just before Capt. Freebody left New-York, Capt. Rotch arrived there from the Mole, and informed, that himself, and all the other vessels which had been detained by the French, were dismissed and turned out of the harbour.
We hear that two of the Gaspee's men arrived on board one of the men of war in this harbour, from Boston, last week, said to have been sent for from England, as witnesses to support some extraordinary charges.
A number of ladies met, on Thursday last, at the house of the Rev. Dr. Stiles, and spun, on sixty wheels, 183 skeins of linen thread, which they presented to Mrs. Stiles:—The quantity spun on each wheel, being a little more than three skeins is nearly double of what they call a day's work in England and Ireland. Thus it is evident we could, in a few year, beat Great-Britain in manufactures, if not in the arts of war, plunder and massacre!!!
Last Thursday arrived the Cruiser sloop of war, Capt. Howe, from a cruise; but we do not hear he brought in any thing more than he carried out.
LONDON.
From the PUBLIC ADVERTISER. To the PRINTER,
THE futile nonsense of Junius Americanus in your paper of Friday last, may be returned in a very few words. He blindly and arrogantly places the subjects in America and the subjects in Great-Britain upon a level, which is directly contrary to the nature of things and to common sense. From whom do the inhabitants of Great-Britain hold their lands? From no people under heaven but themselves. From whom do most of the inhabitants of the British colonies in America hold their lands? NOT FROM THEMSELVES, but from Great-Britain. The whole long laboured quotation therefore
from Mr. Locke about property, were it to be true as gospel, only militates against the argument of Junius, who has not perceived that Mr. Locke speaks of absolute property, and not of such property as that of most of the Americans. But even Mr. Locke's argument, however specious it may appear in theory, is far from being just and true; for in every act of parliament in Great-Britain, regarding a public tax thousand of proprietors are obliged to part with their property against their own consent, without ever dreaming that they have thereby lost their liberty. It has been proved that less than 3000 constituents; many of whom may not even be freeholders, may send Representatives into the House of Commons sufficient, with the consent of the King and House of Lords, to tax all the inhabitants of Great-Britain.
Does one foot of land on the Banks of the Mississippi belong to the American colonists? no. The lands on the eastern bank of the Mississippi, for the extent of 1000 miles, are the property of the people of Great-Britain, or of the King as trustee for the people of Great-Britain. Should the British nation think proper to colonize those lands, would they therefore part with the property of them, so as in no case to have ever any demands upon them? A colonist, who after humble solicitations, obtains from Great-Britain a grant of 100 acres of land in America, for the quit-rent of half a crown, has no right to cry out for absolute independence. When he bawls forth, "all is now my own, and the state has no right to a farthing from me without my own consent, or the consent of my representative," he claims a right which no freeholder even in Great-Britain possesses, and much less a colonist who stands in the light of a perpetual leaseholder from Great-Britain. Salus Populi is the suprema lex; and when a tax is raised for the public defence, it is not so much the free possessor who gives a part of his property, as the aggregate body of the people who demand it, and should he refuse, it would be taken from him whether he would or not. The colonist will most graciously accept of lands from Great-Britain for nothing; but should Great-Britain ask for a small part of the produce of those lands to help to defray the public expence, the colonist immediately cries out, he is treated as a slave and robbed of his property. One would hardly imagine that such nonsense could find advocates. To most candid and unbiased people, Governor Hutchinson will appear to breathe nothing in his speech but the words of truth and soberness, and it remains for the Bostonians to shew by their reply; whether they are actuated by a factious spirit, or by hearts of loyalty and true affection to that community, of which they themselves make but a very small part.
From the PUBLIC ADVERTISER. To the PRINTER,
YOUR anonymous correspondent in last Tuesday's paper calls it arrogance to place the subjects in America and the subjects in Great-Britain upon a level; and to prove it, asks and answers, "from whom do the people of Great-Britain hold their lands? From no people under Heaven From whom do most of the inhabitants in North-America hold their lands? NOT FROM THEMSELVES, but from Great-Britain. Does one foot of land on the banks of the Mississippi belong to the American colonists? No, the lands on the eastern bank of the Mississippi, for the extent of one thousand miles, are the PROPERTY of the people of Great-Britain, or of the King, as trustee for the people of Great-Britain." Thus far your positive correspondent. To me, however, it seems, that the subjects in the two countries are more upon a level than he imagines. Britain was formerly the America of the Germans. They came hither in their ships; found the cream of the land possessed by a parcel of Welch Caribba, whom they judged unworthy of it, and therefore drove them into the mountains, and sat down in their places. These Anglo Saxons, our ancestors, came at their own expence, and therefore supposed, that when they had secured the new country,
they held it of themselves, and of no other people under Heaven. Accordingly we do not find that their mother country, Germany, ever pretended to tax them; nor is it likely, if she had, that they would have paid it. So far then the level is clear; for unless Great-Britain had a property in the lands of America, before the colonists went thither, it does not appear how they could take lands of her to hold on any terms. Now the fact is well known, that Britain had not a foot of land in New-England; and that when the first settlers went into that country, they found it possessed by various tribes of Indians, from whom they either purchased or conquered what they now enjoy. European nations have indeed pretended, some, that the Pope could give them a right to the lands of America; others, that sailing along the coast there, landing on some beach unseen by the natives, and branding a post with the arms of their own country, created a right to as much of the internal territory as they should afterwards think proper to claim. But 'one would hardly imagine,' as your writer says, 'that such nonsense could find advocates.' And yet he himself tells us, 'the lands on the eastern bank of the Mississippi are the property of the people of Great-Britain.' That is the French claimed them, because one of their nation discovered them by sailing down that river in a canoe, and at the end of the last war gave up that claim to the English. Whatever right this conquest conferred, give me leave to say, is as much a right of the colonies as of Great-Britain; for they had man for man with her in the armies that fought for it.
But if Englishmen should come with this parchment right in their hands, and bid an Indian nation settled there, remove in consequence of it, I believe they would say, what your correspondent says on the other side of the question, 'that it is directly contrary to the nature of things, and to common sense.' Thus Cassini the French Astronomer discovered with his telescope that district in the moon, which, in honour of his sovereign, he called Louisiana . By a successful war, perhaps, we might oblige Louis to give it up, and agree that it should henceforth, in all maps of the moon be called Nova Britania , and be held by King George as trustee for the people of Great-Britain. But if Englishmen could fly as well as sail, and arriving there should claim the country upon that right, the native inhabitants, to acknowledge and submit to it, must be Lunatics indeed .
In fact, neither the grantor nor grantees of these chimerical rights, ever understood more by them than that they were an exclusion of other Englishmen from the respective boundaries of each grant. The Grantees to obtain some title, were obliged to purchase of the Indians, or conquer them at their own charges. And if they had insisted that the crown should put them in possession of what was granted, the grant would probably never have been made. This purchase and conquest, with the expence of settling and clearing the lands, have occasioned many of the grants to be relinquished, as not worth holding. And most of those who went through with their undertakings, find they have dearly earned or paid for what they now possess. And yet notwithstanding what this writer says, I believe he cannot produce an instance since the settlement of the country, of any one colonist's refusal to pay the stipulated quit-rent to the crown, on any pretence whatever. His accusation, therefore, in this point is injurious and quite without foundation.
Since a good understanding between the parts of a great empire, is the strength of the whole, what beneficial end can it an-
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MONDAY, June 7. BOSTON. By the Captains Jenkins, Coffin and Hall who arrived since our last from London, we have the following
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE
LONDON, March 31. Correspondent at the court end of the town informs us, that our Ministry are at present in the most perplexing situation imaginable, occasioned by the last dispatches from the continent. The Prussian monarch (whose ruling passion is to make himself a MARITIME POWER) now meditates the conquest of Swedish Pomerania, and is on the point of marching a powerful army into that country. The French King bound by the most solemn treaties to guarantee and defend all his Swedish Majesty's dominions, has demanded a passage through Hanover for an army which is ready to march to the assistance of his ally the King of Sweden. If this passage is granted to the French troops, Frederick THREATENS to take possession of the Electorate of Hanover; and thus between the black Eagle of Prussia and the Gallic Cock, our Ministry may be fairly said to be "between Hawk and Buzzard."
April 1. The following six persons, by holding the most distinguished posts of the realm, are supposed to be in the actual enjoyment of little less than FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS per annum:—William Murray Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of England—John Murray Earl of Dunmore, Governor of Virginia: This Nobleman's father, William Murray, was in both rebellions of 1715 and 1745, in the last of which he was taken and brought prisoner to the tower of London, and had most certainly lost his life by the axe or the halter but for the intercession of the then Earl of Dunmore, his brother, who obtained his late Majesty's pardon for him. David Murray, Viscount Stormont, Ambassador extraordinary at Paris; Robert Murray Keith, Knight of the Bath, Ambassador extraordinary at Vienna, being the two first courts in Europe, John Murray, Esq; Ambassador at Constantinople, Sir Basil Murray Keith, Governor of Jamaica.—Note, The two Keith's have sunk the name of Murray out of respect to their patron, lest their rapid advancement from obscurity should prejudice the cause.
April 3. Lord Bute, it is said, will soon set off for Paris, and not upon his own private business. April 5. An evening paper says, "By an express by the way of the low countries we are informed for certain, that the Empress of Russia, by her vigilant machinations, has absolutely seized the unhappy King of Poland, and carried him off murdered, is without doubt—by this sanguine heroine, who has a knack at kidnapping kings. If she continues to succeed in such stratagems, she may take a fancy to the crowned heads of all Europe, as Herodias did to that of the Baptists." April 7. The Duke of Cumberland Packet is arrived from New-York in 32 days passage. The alliance now entered into between Great Britain, France and Spain, against the King of Prussia and other of the continental powers, was preferred chiefly for the following reason; because, should an alliance with Prussia have taken place, the payment of a certain subsidy, due to the magnanimous Frederick for his services last war, would have been stipulated for, previous to adjusting the articles of the compact.
It is strongly reported that the King of Prussia, has demanded of England the sum of 300,000l. that has been due to him ever since the last war, according to treaty. Another report is, that the King of Prussia has offered to relinquish his demand, provided the King of Great Britain will enter into an alliance to assist him in opposing any attempt that may be made against him by France or Russia.
However erroneous the people of Boston may be in their ideas of liberty, and the exemption from the power of the British parliament, yet the extreme honesty of the meanest of them surpasses conception, of which the following proof should be made known to their Mother country, where such different principles prevail.—A fire suddenly broke out at Capt. Jordan's, commander of his Majesty's ship Fowey, his plate, lady's jewels, trinkets, and all the furniture were thrown out of windows amongst a very numerous mob with little expectation of recovering a single article; but to his astonishment he has not lost the value of six pence, for the next
day the whole was brought him by various persons, even part of a bottle of wine in a decanter which they were drinking at the time the alarm was given. How different the daily conduct of their abandoned parent!
April 9. A correspondent says, the Prussian minister was heard to say the evening before his unexpected departure, that his master would soon do by Hanover as he had done by Poland, if our court did not remain quiet respecting his conduct towards the latter.
It is said that Lord Rochford, Secretary of State for the Southern department, finding his health and abilities so much on the decay, that he is determined to resign immediately after the present session; and it is said Lord Weymouth will succeed him.
Extract of a letter from Dantzick. "The King of Prussia dropped an expression a few days ago, which has occasioned infinite speculation here. In a public conversation he observed, "The Emperor is very young, and I am very old—yet the time may not be very distant when he and I may divide Germany between us." This expression was spoken with an air seemingly careless; but those who know in what manner the king of Prussia speaks his mind, will not forget it."
April 13. Mr. Charles Fox will most certainly have a considerable employment in administration, should England engage in a war.
April 14. It is the general opinion, that this will be, by much, the longest session of parliament in the present reign.
April 15. A divided nation, divided colonies, a divided parliament, and a miserably divided national commercial house, divided against itself; who are to be the glorious instruments of a general conciliation, the great prince of peace, we fear, alone can know.
April 16. If the door-keepers of the House of Commons should refuse to admit Mr. Wilkes on the 26th inst. Mr. E. Burke declares that he will move in the house, not only to dismiss them from their employments, but also to commit them to Newgate for offering so gross an insult to the member of that house.
The speaker of a certain great assembly, it is reported, has actually told the premier that he is greatly afraid of giving orders to the door-keepers to refuse admittance to Mr. Wilkes on the 26th inst. as he had received certain information that Col. Barre intends in that case to move for an impeachment against him.
PARIS, [France] April 5. The rumours of a war are now renewed with more force than ever, and have greatly influenced our public funds, which have fallen considerably within these few days.
ROTTERDAM, [Holland] April 14. The last letters from Paris assure us that nothing is talked of there but war.
LONDON, April 17. Governor Hutchinson's speech to the House of Representatives at Boston contains much art; the house's reply much honest, undisguised sincerity.
It is almost self-evident now that a general rupture throughout Europe is not far off, and at the same time that Britain (like the insipid Athenian, who was banished the town because he did not engage on either side of the question) has formed her alliance with such powers as may enable her to recover that credit she had gained at the eve of the late memorable peace, and which she could not have lost, but from choosing a weak and puerile council.
Last week Major General Dalrymple arrived from St. Vincent's.
April 19. It is imagined by our politicians, that the death of the Russian General Totleben, will facilitate the Ottoman overtures for peace.
Reports are very current in the city, that two or three great failures are expected in the course of a fortnight.
A person arrived from Cadiz, says, that the Spaniards have lately embarked 1500 soldiers for America.
Lord Belmont is now so well recovered though the ball is not extracted, that his physicians and surgeons have pronounced it unecessary to attend him any longer, and we near his Lordship will set out for Ireland in a few days.
The Nester, Rolland, from New-England to the Leeward Islands, is lost near Antigua.
A correspondent observes, that it is now near two years since THE FAMOUS SIR FRANCIS BERNARD OF NETTLEHAM, (for his honest and faithful services in America) was appointed a Commissioner of Excise with a thousand pound a year in Ireland! which salary has been regularly paid every quarter. Still THE BARONET has never yet been in Ireland, to do even an hour's service for such two thousand pounds of the
public money, but is suffered to remain here in England, scrabbling in the news-papers for HIS LORD HILLSBOROUGH, and against our American colonists, encouraging HIS MAN HUTCHINSON, by all possible means, to keep up the flame in America to the utmost, as being the likeliest, and indeed the only chance, for bringing THEIR CHOP FALLEN FRIEND into place again.
DUNKING STEWART, JOHN ROBINSON, and MAJOR ROGERS, Esqrs. have lately joined the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in our American colonies, and there is great reason to hope and expect, that SIR FRANCIS BERNARD will very soon be able to induce LORD HILLSBOROUGH and GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON to become members of the same society.
A correspondent informs us, that, in the late conferences with Count M. and our Ministry, the former, amongst a number of other arguments to break off the tripple alliance, urged his master's being a blood relation of his Majesty's. Upon which Lord S-d-d-ch wittily remarked, "That must certainly be a mistake, for that his master proved himself rather a bloody relation the war before last."
The prudence of the States General in refusing to enter into the treaty of alliance just concluded between Great Britain, France, and Spain, and resolving to observe a perfect neutrality, is much applauded every where but at St. Jeme's.
Extract of a Letter from Venice, March 11. "We have just received advice here that an engagement happened on the 13th of last month off the Island of Cyprus, between three ships of the line belonging to the Russian fleet, and four Turkish frigates and six galleys. The fight was obstinately maintained for four hours, but at last the superior force of the Turks prevailed; one of the Russian ships was sunk, another taken, and the last escaped by favour of the night: on the side of the Turks two galleys were sunk, and one of the frigates blown up."
April 20. The bloody expedition to St. Vincent's, and the infamous project of transporting the poor Caribs to an uninhabited island, are measures that will fix a stigma upon our ministers not to be wiped away by any subsequent decent actions they may happen to blunder upon. We are taught to look upon the Caribs as so many savages; but with all their ferocious notions, was it ever known that they were capable of forming a scheme so cruel, so inhuman, as that lately formed by the ministers of George the Third? What could the most uncivilized barbarians do more than first attempt to cut the throats of an harmless inoffensive people; and if that failed, project a plan for kidnapping them from their native country, to land them on an uninhabited desert island, there to shift for themselves or starve as chance should direct. Yet this very plan was projected in a British council! This very plan was agreed upon by a British minister; and attempted to be executed in the name of a king whom courtiers hold up as a pious monarch at the instant that he is countenancing schemes that would disgrace a Mahometan, cause a blush in the cheeks of a wild Indian, and make a downright savage shudder with horror, and curse him for his brutality!
Blood-minded HYPOCRISY! Canst thou wear so smooth a form!
Extract of a letter from the Hague, April 13. "According to our letters from Madrid, the Spaniards are very active in raising recruits, which they dispose of in the national regiments. In the foreign regiments in the service of Spain, they admit of all the officers from the confederates of Poland that offer themselves, and give them the same rank they held at home. This and the great armaments that are making in all the sea ports of Spain are certain proofs that this court has some important design in view."
April 21. A patent is said to be making out for the creation of his Excellency William Dalrymple, Esq; to be a Baronet of St. Vincent's.
It is said that the Sheriffs will not be punished for what they have done, but for what they have omitted to do; not for summoning Wilkes, but for neglecting to summon Luttrell.
Last week several journeymen whitesmiths were engaged, on good encouragement, to embark for Boston and New-York.
April 22. Lord Barrington acquainted the House of Commons yesterday, that he had a matter of great importance to lay before them in a few days.
Various reports prevailed yesterday, and Tuesday evening, that a storm was gathering in the political hemisphere; but whether it will proceed from the north or the south, has not been yet sufficiently discovered.
Yesterday there was a very sudden and unexpected fall in all the public stocks.
We hear from undoubted authority, that orders were issued yesterday for equipping a powerful armament with all possible expedition. Various are the conjectures as to the destination of the above armament: Some people pretend that it is to sail directly for the Mediterranean, in order to protect the Russian squadron against the combined fleets of France and Spain, which are now preparing to attack them.
It is certain that our ministry have refused all the offers which have been made them from the courts of Versailles and Madrid.
Yesterday those political Barometers the stocks fell considerably, occasioned by the prospect of war.
Extract of a letter from Paris, April 11. "Thursday last embarked on board the transports, lying in Catwater, the 7th regiment and the Welch Fusiliers; the former for Quebec, and the latter for New-York, and now wait for a fair wind to sail."
The fow, Cummings, from New-York for Belfast, is lost on the coast of Ireland, with 600 hogheads of flax seed on board, and two of her crew are drowned.
The Duchess of Gordon, Capt. Wynn, from London for New-York, very richly laden, having met with blowing weather on Sunday last, and lost her bowsprit, is put into Cowes to refit.
A correspondent says, "The reports relative to the supposed intended ruptures with some powers, and alliance with others, are so very various and contradictory, that little credit is now given to them, as they are thought to be stock-jobbing manœuvres."
By sundry accounts from Cleveland, in Yorkshire, we are advised, that great numbers of people have sold their effects, and resolved to transport themselves to America.
Orders were yesterday given for equipping, with all possible dispatch, sixteen ships of the line, and four frigates. They are to be commanded by three Admirals. Lord Howe is one.—The courtiers, about St. James's, allow we are on the most friendly footing with France and Spain; What then is the object of this fleet? Is it to escort the French transports, carrying a French army, up the Baltic? Or to act in concert with the combined fleets of France and Spain, against the Russian, in the Archipelago?
The approach of war is now so strongly confirmed from all quarters, that the creatures of Lord Mansfield can no longer deny it. France has been preparing these four months; and till within these few days has lulled us into a fatal security of neutrality.—Can we be neuter and behold her fleets riding in the Baltic and Mediterranean? The Quay of Dunkirk is nearly finished; her coasts are filled with warlike stores and men. In a word, her object in the north is, to support Sweden against Denmark and Russia; and in the Mediterranean, to support the Turk against Russia and the Emperor: And we have not only hitherto been the dupes of this accursed policy, but are, so long as France pleases, to continue in this dark and blundering situation; unless the flames of war alarm us to a just sense of our folly and danger. The plan laid down, and now pursuing by France, will inevitably draw in every nation in Europe into the war; and we, from being the great umpire in such disputes, are sunk to the low state of tools to France, acting by a second or third hand, under French councils. But how should it be otherwise, when it is notorious to the whole world, that ever since the last infamous and treacherous peace, we have had an administration without abilities, and a court without honour. No man can be at a loss where to find the most ungrateful of the human species—the consummate hypocrite. At home and abroad he is equally despised. None commend him, but those who find their interest in it. A set of low wretches he keeps about him, who flatter him with ideas of greatness, or which nature denied him all comprehension. The king of Prussia's claims on the mouth of the Vistula, will prove fatal to our Baltic trade; the state of Ireland will prove fatal to the linen manufacture; the state of the East-India company, and of all public and private credit, in England, will prove fatal to our manufactures at home. The people will, and they do, daily, in great numbers, emigrate to America; where the impotence and tyranny of this reign are now despised.
As soon as Lord North came to the House of Commons yesterday, the Speaker rose, and acquainted the House, that he had received a letter from the Sheriffs of Middlesex, signed "Richard Oliver," and "Watkin Lewes," in answer to a circular letter he had written to them by order of the House; that he had the purport of their answer in a note, which he had in his hand, which was, "that they had summoned John Wilkes, and John Glynn, Esqrs; as Knights of the Shire for the County of Middlesex;" that he would read it, if the House pleased, but that he imagined there was no occasion for so doing, as it had been already very faithfully copied in all the news-papers.—At the instant the Speaker had done, his Lordship called for the order of the day, and no person rising to speak on either side, no further notice was taken of the affair.
April 23. We are credibly informed, that a proclamation will soon be issued out for the encouragement of seamen to enter, for the more expeditious manning of the Royal Navy.
Wednesday orders were dispatched to Dublin for two regiments on the Irish establishment to hold themselves in readiness to embark for the West-Indies.
We are well informed, that a war is now unavoidable, for that orders are given for equipping fifteen sail of the line and four frigates; and that Lord Sandwich has promised a great personage that they shall be ready for sea in twelve days. Press warrants are expected to be out this day.
The command of the above fleet, which is intended for Channel service, is to be given to Admiral Pye, who is to hoist his flag on board the Queen, a 90 gun ship.
It is said that Lord Bute is very ill, and constantly attended by Dr. Fordyce.
By the last authentic letters from Copenhagen we learn, that the Queen Dowager's party have entirely lost all their influence. The King himself seems roused from his lethargy, and appears now fully sensible that every charge exhibited against his consort, Matilda, and her supposed associates, was set on foot only to answer the political purposes of a party who act in confederacy with the King of Prussia. It is cer-

...that a marriage has been proposed to his Danish Majesty, to which he at first appeared by no means averse, but several circumstances having lately transpired, he now expresses his utter abhorrence of the measure, and has even intimated to his confidants something more than a wish that a reconciliation may take place between his consort and him. This has alarmed the Queen Dowager's party, who immediately notified to the Court of Berlin this alteration in his Majesty's sentiments, so unfavourable to the views of the Prussian Monarch.
A correspondent at the Admiralty informs us, that 15 ships of the line are already put in commission; and that as soon as they are equipped, they are to set sail for Gibraltar, where they are to join the squadron under Sir Peter Dennis.
The grand fleet destined for the Mediterranean is to be commanded by Sir Charles Saunders; it consists of 15 sail of the line and four frigates, viz. one of 90 guns, four of 74, and ten of 64.
It is said that France and Spain, by a secret treaty with the Porte, are to fall upon the Russian fleet as soon as the armistice between the Turks and Russians expires.
The French fleet fitting out at Toulon, under the commander of the famous Count d'Estaing, consists of twelve ships of the line; they are to be joined by a Spanish squadron, at Carthagena, and are to act in conjunction against the Russians.
April 24. The tars are all in high spirits at the prospect of another brush with the Dons and Morscurs.
The Captain of a ship from the West-Indies reports, that he was brought to at sea the 3d instant, by four Spanish men of war, who detained him near seven hours; and after breaking open many letters, which he was bringing to England, suffered him to proceed on his voyage.
The island of Mount Desert, in the province of New England, (a fine fertile tract of land of about twenty-five thousand acres) was obtained by Governor Bernard in a very extraordinary way (over and above the usual grant of salary) from the people of Boston; when they thought him (what he professed himself to be) an honest man, and a friend to constitutional liberty. The valuable island Sir Francis is said, hath at last agreed to give up to his son Yona than on his intended alliance with L. H.—his family.
T U E S D A Y, June 8. B O S T O N.
Some time since Dr. Benjamin Church of this town performed the nice and important operation of couching upon the eyes of Mrs. Hodges, Aet. 56, who had been some years totally deprived of sight. She is now capable of distinguishing colours very well, and her sight is returning daily.
Friday last being the anniversary of his Majesty's birth day, when he entered the 36th year of his age, the same was observed here in the following order. In the forenoon the troop commanded by Col. Phipps;—the company of Cadets, commanded by Col. Hancock, with their band of music;—the militia of the town, commanded by Col. Ewing with the train of artillery, commanded by Major Paddock,—and the company of grenadiers, commanded by Major Dawes, belonging to the regiment, with their band of music, mustered and formed into a regiment in the common, when the militia went through their exercise to admiration! From thence, at one o'clock, the regiment marched into King-street, when they again went through the exercise and firings to the approbation of many thousand spectators, and about three o'clock were dismissed. The officers of the regiment, with the non-commissioned officers, dined at the Royal Exchange Tavern—the company of cadets, the bunch of grapes—the artillery company, at the British coffee-house—and the grenadier company, at Major Dawes's; at which several places many loyal toasts were drank.
The Honourable House of Representatives on the occasion, met at the Court-House at five o'clock, and drank his Majesty's and many other loyal and patriotic toasts.
W E D N E S D A Y, June 9. B O S T O N.
Capt. Hatch arrived at London from this port the 10th of April.
Capt. Hall left London the 23d of April, and while he lay in the Downs, they received an account that 1400 men were impressed in one night, in order to man a fleet to be immediately fitted out to join the Russian fleet in opposition to France, who had fitted out a large fleet to join the Turks.—Proclamations were likewise issued, offering a reward of 3l. to all able-bodied seamen who would voluntarily enlist.
MARRIED.] The honourable David Higgins, Esq; of the Isle of St. John's, to Miss Betty Prince, daughter of Mr. John Prince, merchant of this town.—At Charlestown, Mr. Benjamin Wood, to Miss Sally Wait, of that town.
DIED.] Jacob Royall, Esq;—At Tewkesbury, Joseph Stafford, Esq; a very celebrated astrologer.
LONDON April 22. An ATTESTED COPY of a LETTER from JOHN WILKES, Esq; to the Right Hon. Sir FLETCHER NORTON, Knt. SPEAKER of the House of Commons. SIR,  Prince's-Court, April 20, 1775. IN pursuance of your orders to the Sheriff of Middlesex, on the 7th of this month, to summon the Representatives of this County, I have received a letter from Richard Oliver, Esq; and Sir Watkin Lewes, requiring my "Attendance in the House of Commons, on the 26th day of this instant April," with a declaration, "that the House of Commons intend to proceed with the utmost severity against such of their Members as shall then neglect to attend the service of the House."
The two Gentlemen, Sir, as well as every man of sense and principle in the kingdom, could not entertain a doubt, that the legal Members for Middlesex were Mr. Glynn and myself, the persons who were chosen into Parliament by a majority of the Freeholders. The summonses in consequence issued to us by their express directions. The sentiments, however, of the House of Commons appear to me very different, and not less in direct opposition to every idea of justice, than to the rights of the people. It is too evident, they mean a continuance of their former injuries to the County of Middlesex, and the Nation at large, by their still suffering Mr. Luttrell to sit in Parliament, the pretended Representative of Freeholders, who voted against him. In this spirit of injustice they intended the summons should issue to a Gentleman, who has no pretence to a seat in the House of Commons, but finds his usurpation supported by their fraud and violence.
I have not been remiss, Sir, on this occasion in duty to my worthy Constituents, and to my Country. I neglected no opportunity of demanding the seat, to which I was so honourably chosen, nor have I failed to protest frequently, both to the Parliament and Nation, against this injustice done to the Freeholders of the County of Middlesex, as being suffered to be represented only in part by Mr. Glynn, altho' with the highest reputation to himself, and the most essential benefit to the Public. On the 27th of January 1769, I demanded in person, at the bar of the House of Commons, to be admitted and sworn in, as one of the Knights of the Shire for this County. In a letter to you, Sir, as Speaker, on the 20th of March 1771, I declared, "In the name of the Freeholders of Middlesex, I again demand my seat in Parliament, having the honour of being freely chosen, by a very great majority, one of the Representatives for the said County. I am ready to take the oaths prescribed by law, and to give in my qualifications as Knight of the Shire." I now to you, Sir, as Speaker, renew the same claim in the strongest manner, for the injured people of England, and my Constituents, the Freeholders of the County of Middlesex. I will never cease to support with all the clear right I derive from them by all constitutional modes of redress, till every, the most minute, trace of the late flagitious proceedings be utterly done away, and the guilt fully expiated.
The people, Sir, are anxious that the House should embrace the opportunity, which now naturally offers, of reviewing their conduct, of doing a necessary piece of justice by rescinding that arbitrary resolution of May 8, 1769, which virtually repeals the Great Charter and the Bill of Rights in the important point of the freedom of election, 'that Henry Lawes Luttrell, Esq; is duly elected a Knight of the Shire for the County of Middlesex.' While this resolution remains in the Journals of the House, I assert that the House of Commons in the person of one man, illegally deprived of his seat in Parliament, have disfranchised all the people of England, and in the person of another have assumed to themselves the right of nominating to any county, city, or borough, in defiance of the legal electors. The right of election is in the people, which they hold absolutely independent of the House of Commons, who are only the guardians of that, and every other less sacred, right. The present majority have betrayed their trust, and given up those invaluable privileges, which they were chosen to defend and protect. Our ancestors held the freedom of election, subject only to the law of the land, to be of the essence, as well as the nobler part, of the franchise. Their posterity have been robbed of this first, this distinguishing, and favourite honour of Englishmen by a venal Senate—hitherto with impunity.
It is scarcely possible to imagine a precedent more fatal to the free constitution of any state, or more alarming to the Members themselves, who, indulging in supine ease and luxury, amid the cries of the starving poor, unfeeling as unrepenting, now glory in the rich spoils of this ignoble victory over their bleeding country, and perhaps their posterity. I wish to awaken them by a sense of their own danger, since they are deaf to the voice of truth and liberty. Should the resolution I have mentioned not be rescinded, the precedent is at hand to justify the future violence of any Minion or Minister against themselves, on the slightest act of disobedience or neglect. It is not necessary to call in a Jury of our countrymen to try the fact on oath. A complaisant and corrupt majority may be induced, after a mock examination of two or three witnesses not sworn, to vote any man, obnoxious to a despotic Court or Ministry, guilty of a libel, even against a profligate Peer, to expel him the House, and adopt in his room some forward slave of power, who will court and kiss the base chains, forged by a tyrant, without any appeal having been made by the party pretending to be aggrieved by the libel either to the law of the land or of honour. Such a precedent is now on record, the most admired page in the thirty folio volumes of the Journals, and engraven on the cankered hearts of our modern Courtiers and Ministers.
The reverence I have for Parliaments, Sir, has induced me to state the mischief, with which we are threatened, should the resolution not be rescinded. By the servile and iniquitous conduct of the present House of Commons, the regard of the people to that part of our constitution is visibly weakened. The majority of
the Members are abhorred as the instruments of ministerial Tyranny, not revered as the protectors of the rights of the nation. They are become odious as well as criminal; for, from the meanest and most interested motives, they have totally subverted the constitution, and effected an absolute dissolution of that fair and equal system of power, by which we have hitherto been, and alone can be legally governed. They have fallen into the lowest state of humiliation and contempt. If however they persevere in the violation of our fundamental rights, if they continue actuated by the same spirit of usurpation and lawless violence, one hope still remains, the wisdom and virtue of a future independent Parliament, which cannot fail soon to give vigour and success to the honest efforts of all real patriots for the restoration of the constitution, and to pour just vengeance on their guilty Predecessors.
I am SIR, Your most humble Servant, JOHN WILKES. Right Hon. Sir Fletcher Norton, Speaker of the House of Commons. [It is said the above letter to the Speaker will be ordered by the House of Commons to be burnt by the hands of the common hangman, and the author sent to Newgate.]
THURSDAY, June 10. B O S T O N.
With Capt. Hall, from London, came passengers, Mr. Richard Crew, merchant of London, Mr. Thomas Melvil, of this town, and several English artificers.
Last Tuesday evening the coroners inquest sat on the body of a woman, wife to a labourer in town, known by the name of little Dick, who it is supposed was killed by her husband.
Tuesday last, a porter, named Pendergast, supposed to be in liquor, fell down in King-street, and a truck going over him, put an end to his existence.
A correspondent has sent us the following, "We hear by a person from Salem, that on Saturday last, a report prevailed there, of the G——'s being confined in the gaol of this town and bound in chains, by order of the House, and that for writing the letters that have lately transpired through an infinite happy turn of providence."
We hear from good authority, that the families of some men of distinction, in this town, were thrown into the greatest confusion, on hearing that the extraordinary letters, which are now the topic of conversation, were returned here from England.
Yesterday some copies of the letters lately returned from England, were laid before the Hon. Commons House of Assembly, and in the afternoon the copies were compared with the originals: The galleries were opened, and a great concourse of people attended to hear their contents, who were filled with abhorrence of the measures proposed to ruin the constitution of this unhappy province.
It is said another budget of letters are returned in one of the last ships from England.
Monday last being the anniversary of the election of officers of the ancient and honourable Artillery Company, the following gentlemen were elected for the ensuing year, viz.
Major Thomas Daws, Captain, Capt. Ephraim May, Lieutenant, Lieut. Joseph Webb, Ensign.
In the forenoon, a very excellent, and well adapted sermon was preached before the company by his excellency the Governor, the members of his Majesty's Council, and a number of the Hon. House, &c. by the Rev. Mr. Simeon Howard, pastor of the west church in this town, from Galatians, iv. 1. Stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. After which the Company elorted the above gentlemen to Faneuil Hall, where they dined as usual. The company were all dressed in their new uniform, they made a fine appearance, were accompanied by a band of music, and performed the military exercises to general acceptance.
The Letters read in the Commons House of Assembly yesterday, were signed by Messrs. Hutchinson, Oliver and Paxton, names which will be but seldom blessed by posterity, and which the present generation are as much disaffected to, as they are to that of the notorious Bernard.
DIED.] Of an apoplectic fit, Mrs. Rebecca Hodgdon, aged 57, relict of the late Mr. Benjamin Hodgdon, of this town, her funeral will be attended to-morrow afternoon, at 5 o'clock, from her house in Summer-street, near Trinity church, where her friends and acquaintance are desired to attend.
** The proceedings of the town of Salem on the 7th inst. came too late to be inserted in this day's paper; as did also the proceedings of several other towns.
The Marine List. Proposals for the American Magazine, several paragraphs of foreign and domestic intelligence, must be deferred for want of room.
Sympothos, Touchstone, &c. are received, but must be deferred.
Mars, authenticating the intelligence in our last, and in opposition to the planet in the last Evening Post, respecting the Cadets, must also be deferred.
The MESSAGES between the House of Representatives and the Governor, relative to his letters of administration; and a number of ADVERTISEMENTS omitted, shall be duly noted in our next.
A REMARK on LIBERTY. LIBERTY is the life of life—the morning of mercies—the beauty of creation—the happiness of men—the joy of angels—the kingdom of seraphs—and the transcendent blessing of the gospel. For the sake of the sublime liberty of the gospel, Mr. ALLEN has taken the prophet's stretch of thought; namely, the wings of the morning , that he may be free, to go forth in the high road of Zion in the chariots of salvation, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison door to those who are bound.
As the blessing not only of creation, but those of salvation were lately shut out at the south part of Boston, Mr. Allen, out of love to the gospel, and out of gratitude to his kind friends, and to be entirely free to preach the gospel; has fitted up (at present at his own expence) at the west part of Boston, near Mr. Simons's, a suitable building, now called the TABERNACLE for the worship of God , which God willing, next Lord's day two o'clock will be opened with an oration upon the beauties of sacred or apostolical liberty; from the Prophet's words, upon the wings of the morning , Psal. cxxxix. 9, 10. when a collection will be made to defray the expence. N. B. The place is to be free, without exception, for ministers of every denomination to preach therein.
HOSIERY,
From the manufacturers, uncommonly cheap; To be sold at the store of DUNCAN INGRAHAM, jun. In Union-street, Boston.
Where any person may be supplied with silk, cotton, thread and worsted hose of all prices; with a very general assortment of GOODS in general, Wholesale and Retail, for cash. N. B. Some of the hose are of a very superior quality.
TO-MORROW MORNING,
At ELEVEN o'clock. Will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern in King-street, A Quantity of SUGARS in hogsheads and barrels. J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
At Capt. ATKIN'S store, Near Charlestown-Perry, TO MORROW, at five o'clock in the afternoon will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, TWO hundred and fifty Quin-tals of large bank Jamaica FISH; to be seen at any time before the sale at said store. ANDREW OLIVER, Auctioneer.
New Auction-Room, Cornhill. On TUESDAY next a Tea in the Morning, Will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, at the Auction Room, Cornhill. A great variety of English Goods. WILLIAM GREENLEAF, Auctioneer. (The particulars in Monday's papers)
THOSE persons indebted to the INSURANCE OFFICE, kept by the subscriber, whose premiums have been due twelve months, will be sued to July Court, unless prevented by immediate payment. June 10, 1775. NAT. BARBER.
LEMON and ORANGE Juice, That is most delicate, for going to pouch, to be sold by JOHN CROSBY, at the sign of the basket of lemons, South End.
To be LET, A Convenient Stable and Chaise House, near the Quaker meeting. Enquire of the Printer.
At the Irish Linen Warehouse, In King street, Is just imported, from the North of Ireland,
A Large and general assortment of Linens, from one to seven shillings per yard. Those goods come from 15 to 20 per cent cheaper than last year, and will be sold in the like proportion cheaper at the Warehouse: A great variety of the most fashionable printed muslins, calicoes, cottons, linens, &c. A complete assortment of Manchester, cotton, and linen checks, damask and diaper table cloths of all sizes, napkins and toweling, huckabuck, Irish and Russia sheetings of all prices, fifty pieces superfine linens from 3s. 6d. to 5s. 9d. per yard, will be sold at prime cost.
Worcester, May 25th, 1773. LAST night the dwelling house of Wm Swan, of Worcester, was broke open, and the following articles stolen, viz. five pair of Stone Earing Rings, half a dozen Tea spoons partly finished, five pair Stone Sleeve Buttons, one Gold Necklace, sundry pair Silver Shoe Buckles, one pair partly finished; together with about 12l. in cash, viz. one Johannes, one Guinea, six Crowns, the remainder in Dollars.
All well disposed persons are desired to apprehend the Thief, for which a Reward of SIX DOLLARS will be given. If the articles be offered for sale, it is desired they may be stopped. WILLIAM SWAN.

ower to represent the colonies here as un- reasonable and unjust, if they object to a compliance with exactions they think un- constitutional? Perpetual abuse and false representation may exasperate and alien- ate on both sides. It may divide. It can never unite. This writer says, 'the colo- 'nists will most graciously accept of land 'from Great-Britain for nothing; but 'should Great-Britain ask for a small part 'of the produce of those lands to help to 'defray the public expence, the colonists 'immediately cry out he is treated as a 'slave, and robbed of his property.' Now it happens that FACTS shew this charge also to be groundless; and that the wri- ter does not, in his own phrase, use the words of 'truth and soberness.' The grant of lands for nothing, I have already spoken to; and I here add, that Great-Bri- tain never asked for a small or any part of the produce of those lands to help to defray the public expence, but it was immediate- ly, voluntarily and freely given, in propor- tion to the abilities of the people. But there is some difference between asking and taking by force — The old way , and the best , in my humble opinion, was for the crown to ask supplies, and then they were grant- ed to an extent beyond its expectations. The new way is to make an act of parlia- ment to levy duties on the colonies with- out asking , and send a fleet and army to en- force it. A landlord engaged in an ex- pensive law suit, may borrow money of his tenants who respect him; or by shewing them that their interest in the event is the same with his, he may receive their volun- tary contributions towards the support of his litigation; but if he should declare he has a right to take from them whatever he thinks proper , and should go from house to house among them with a parcel of armed servants, extorting money (word in hand, perhaps it might be justly called robbery ), at least it would be manifest that the want of money was not his only want—that he wanted honesty—and it would be found in the end that he also wanted understanding.
As a friend to both countries, being connected with both, I wish Governor Hutchinson had thought of some other sub- ject for his speech, and not revived need- lessly a dispute that can end in nothing but mischief. I am sure he could not ex- pect to convince an individual there by such known false facts and sophistical rea- soning. Here the discourse appears plau- sible, by chiming in with national and mi- nisterial prejudices, and therefore I think it written to recommend himself here, and not to do service there. It has been indu- striously printed and circulated here before the assembly's answer could come over. To that however I leave it, only reminding its readers of the equitable rule, Audi et alteram partem .
The hackneyed argument of your corre- spondent, that all the freeholders in Ameri- ca ought to be taxed by parliament, though they have no share in the choice of its members, because many people in England are so taxed without having any share in that choice, seems to be arguing from bad to worse . If any here are unjustly deprived of that privilege, restore it. Do right at home, if you please and then make that a precedent for doing right abroad: But ne- ver think that doing wrong at home, will justify your doing wrong all the world over. The argument is a confession indeed, but contains not the least shadow of a justi- fication . I am, Sir, A NEW-ENGLAND-MAN.
From the Maryland Gazette.
ANNAPOLIS, [Maryland] May 20. Last Friday was held the election for this city, when Messrs. William Paca, and Matthias Hammond, were chosen by a very great majority of the freemen, indeed, without any opposition; much was expected, as Mr. Anthony Stew- art had long declared himself a candidate for the city, even before a vacancy by the resignation of Mr. Hall, whose friends in the county in- sisted upon his taking a poll there. Mr. Stewart's private character justly recommended him to the esteem of his fellow citizens; but as he was originally proposed to turn out Mr. Hall, or Mr. Paca, who stood high in the esteem of the people, and as a strong suspicion was entertained of his political principles and court connection, Mr. Hammond was put up in opposition to him, and on the morning of the e- lection to great was the majority of votes for Mr. Hammond, that Mr. Stewart thought it prudent to decline.
The polls being closed, and Messrs. Paca
and Hammond declared duly elected, it was proposed, and unanimously approved of, to go in solemn procession to the gallows, and to bury under it the much detested proclamation. A description of the funeral obsequies may not be disagreeable to the public.
First were carried two flags with the follow- ing labels, on one LIBERTY, on the other, NO PROCLAMATION. Between the flags walked the two Representatives: A clerk and sexton preceded the coffin; on the left, the grave digger, carrying a spade on his shoulder. The proclamation was cut out of Antilon's first paper, and deposited in the coffin, near which moved slowly on two drums, with muffled drums and two fifers playing a dead march: After them were drawn six pieces of small cannon, followed by a great concourse of citizens, and gentlemen from the country, who attended this funeral. In this order they proceeded to the gallows, to which the coffin was for a while sus- pended, then cut down and buried under a dis- charge of minute guns. On the coffin was the following inscription:
THE PROCLAMATION The Child of Folly and OPPRESSION born the 26th of November 1770 departed this Life 14th of May 1773. and Buried on the same day by
THE FREEMEN of Annapolis. It is wished, that all similar attempts against the rights of a free people, may meet with equal ab- horrence, and that the court party, convinced by experience of the impotency of their interest, may never hereafter disturb the peace of the city, by their vain and feeble exertions to bear down the free and independent citizens
CASH given for POT-ASH SALTS, and unmerchantable POT- ASH, and a preference for those of the best quality, by ROBERT GOULD, at his Store in Back-street, near the Mill-Bridge, or at his pearling works by Charlestown Ferry, where may be had, the best manufactured Pot-Ash for making soap, also Pearl Ash, by wholesale or retail.
RICHARD SALTER, Begs leave to acquaint his customers and others, that he has for sale at his Shop in Cornhill Boston, near the Post-Office,
A LARGE and general assort- ment of English, India and Scotch Goods, suitable for all seasons, consisting of most articles usually imported to this market, which he will engage to sell as cheap as can be bought at any store or shop in town, by wholesale or retail.—Also pepper, and all sorts of spices, writing paper, ink-powder, sealing wax and wafers, mariners compass, kalenders and epito- mes, a few dozen of Tate and Brady's psalm books with hymns compleat, with and without tunes, testaments, &c. also, a large assortment of women's and children's calamanco, everlast- ing and leather shoes and pumps, of a superior quality, and the best French Indigo, women's and children's flays, beaver hats of the best kind &c. &c.
BLANEY and BAKER, At their shop on ROXBURY HILL, Nearly opposite the Meeting-House, continue to sell,
LIVERPOOL ware of all kinds, and all sorts of English, India, Scotch, Irish and West-India GOODS, at their USUAL LOW RATE, notwithstanding the report which some ill-natured person has en- deavoured to propagate to their injury, viz That they were mistaken in the cost of their goods, but had lately discovered their error and advanced the prices; which report is as false as it is malicious.
Irish Linens. WILLIAM SCOTT, At his 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 diaper clouting, ditto huckabuck, dowlas, table cloths, sheetings, white ticking, brown and yellow hol- land, &c.
Said store is also furnished with a great variety of European and India Goods suitable for the season; the assortment consisting of too great a multiplicity to be enumerated in a public ad- vertisement; all which will be sold by whole- sale and retail at the lowest reduced prices for ready money only.
Dr. Hemet's celebrated essence of pearl and pearl dentifrice for the preservation of the teeth and gums, also patent cakes for making the liquid shining blacking for boots, shoes and leather bottom chairs, are sold there.
Ducapes, luteffirings, rich English damask Scotch flowered lawns—and a few boxes of 8 by 10 window glass to be sold at the first cost.
English, India and Scotch GOODS, Imported and sold, by HUMPHRY PALMER, Near Mr. Mann's tavern, WRENTHAM.
H E has received a quantity of GOODS, by Capt. Folger lately arrived from London, which, with his former stock makes a very good assortment.
He is determined to sell at such low prices, as (he doubts not) will give general satisfaction to his customers.—To have enumerated articles would have been tedious. But he has studied to supply himself with almost every article he can think of, suitable for his situation, that those who ride a few miles, to supply themselves with what they want at his store, may not be disap- pointed.
All favours conferred on him will be most gratefully acknowledged. N. B. He sells exceeding good tea, indigo and other West-India good—Suitable goods will be taken in barter
JEREMIAH ALLEN, Informs the public that he hath arrived from England, with a large and select assortment of Braizery, Cutlery and Ironmongery
WARE,
The most compleat perhaps in the province, and which he is now opening at his shop lately improved by Mr. SAMUEL FLET- CHER, a little northward of the Draw-Bridge. As he had the opportunity of his own choice at the Manufacturers, and purchased every article himself at the most unexceptionable rate, he will supply those who please to fa- vour him with their custom either by whole- sale or retail, of the best quality and at the lowest price.
Among which are the following articles, viz.
NAILS , tacks and brads of all sizes, brass kettles and skillets, warming pans, frying and dripping pans, English and German steel, powder, shot, sheet and bar-lead, best English and French flints, London pewter dishes and plates, basons quart and pint cana, tankards, quart and pint jugs, measures; pint, pint and half and quart tea pots, tea and table spoons, bed and close stool pans, pewter, bottle crains, all sorts of Carpenters, Joiners and Tan- ners tools, coffee mills with pewter hoppers, copper, brass and iron chaffin-dishes, brass and money scales, Brass weights in piles, painted scale beams, polished steel shovel and tongs, princes mettle, brass and iron candlesticks, box and flat irons, box iron grates, sheep and neat leather bellows, steel and iron snuffers, velvet corks, cork screws, sickles of all sizes, handles and escutcheons; handles, lock, hinges, &c. for desks, chest of drawers, book cases, &c. cloak pins, brass buttons and rings, Shoe-makers hammers, knippers, pincers, knives, size sticks, awl blades, tacks, and awl hafts; croiss-cut saws, steel and iron plate hand saws, best steel plate tennant panel, saw and key hole saws, files, rasps and augers of all sorts, also a few new invented au- gers, iron spades, coat and breast buttons, horn and ivory combs, sewing and darning needles, brass and paper ink pots; shoe, cloath, buckle, teeth, bottle, crutch, lead, printers, paint and tar brushes, mops, wiping and packing twine, chalk and sash line, hazel and dog wood ang- ling rods, hooks of all sizes, box wood rules, gimblets, tap and bung borers, long shutter and plate bolts, pullies and lines, chest, cupboard and trunk locks Brass, and iron door locks, stock and pad locks, hinges of all sorts, snuff and to- bacco boxes. A great variety of shoe and knee buckles, sleeve buttons, silver, ivory, buck, sham- buck and split bone knives and forks, penknife, cutlery, scissors, razors, taylors and womens shears after straps, soap boxes, powder machines, shot, belts, men and womens thimbles, nut crackers, knitting needles, centre and dowling bits, clothiers shears, wool combs, visses, Curriers knives, corn fans, kitchen jacks, 7 by 9 and 6 by 8 window glass, looking glasses of all sizes, also a few pair ditto the newest fashion in the Palmyra taste, beaver, beaveret, castor and felt mens and boys hats.
To the Bakers, &c.
To be SOLD, For CASH or Short CREDIT, At Sore No. 6 leading down to Trent's and Spear's wharves, a little South of the East- End of Faneuil Hall market, by
JAMES SWAN,
Choice Philadelphia
FLOUR , fine, superfine and the best Baltimore ditto.
Bar Iron, Brown and Loaf Sugars, Coffee, Tea by the 6lb. 12lb. or 100lb. Pepper, Chocolate, Indigo, &c. &c.
All which it is believed his customers and others upon trial will be made sensible, he sells as cheap as at any store in town.
ALL persons indebted to the PRINTER hereof, will greatly oblige him by making speedy payment.
Jolley Allen,
Advertises all his good old friends, custo- mers, and others, that he has again opened shop, opposite to the sign of the three doves in Marlborough-street Boston, and has for sale, at the lowest prices, the following articles:
MUSCOVADO sugars of va- rious sorts and prices, single, middle and double refined English loaf sugars, lately imported, pepper, Bohea tea, coffee, spices of all sorts, indigo, raisins, currants, starch, ginger, copperas, allum, pipes of all sorts, best Durham flower of mustard, and most other kinds of groceries, too many to enumerate, which he will sell from the largest to the smallest quanti- ties.—Likewise a very large and compleat as- sortment of Liverpool and Staffordshire ware, which he will engage to sell by the crate or single piece, as low as at any store in town— Playing cards, wool cards, scive bottoms, a few pieces of Osnaburgs and Ticklenburgs. No. 4. and No. 12 pins, a few pieces of sooties ster- lets, damasks, lorettoes, burdets, Brunswick mo- zeens, &c.
Also at said Allen's may be had, genteel boarding and lodging for six or eight persons, if it should be wanted, for a longer or a shorter season, likewise good stabling for ten horses and carriages.
N. B. If any person inclines to hire the above stable and place for the carriages, may have a lease of the same for 19 years, or less time, from the said Allen, and, if should be wanted on the same premises, can be spared, room for forty or fifty horses and carriages. It is as convenient a place for letting of chariots, coaches, chaise, flays, ulkeys and horses as any in Boston.
To be SOLD at the Shop of CHARLES LOWE, In Marshall's-Lane, facing the Boston- STONE,
Loaf and brown Melasses, Sugars, Cotton Wool, Rice, Indigo, Flour, Raisins, Pepper, Currants, Allspice, Figs, Nutmegs, Spermaceti Oil, Coffee, Dumb Fish, Tea, Indian and Rye Meal, Chocolate, &c. &c. &c. Cheshire and Narragansett CHEESE. A few barrels of good shop SUGARS. A large assortment of neat
PAPER HANGINGS.
To be SOLD, by NATHANIEL NOYES, At his shop on the South side of Faneuil Hall market,
A Large and fresh assortment of DRUGS, &c., with a number of ge- nuine patented medicines, viz Lockyer's, Hooper's, and Anderson's Pills, British Opi- Bateman's Drops, Godfrey's Cordial, Tur- lington's Balsam, Squire's grand Elixir, Hill's Balsam of Honey, Walker's Jesuit Drops, ge- nuine Hungary and Lavender Water: And a few bottles of Eau de Luce, very cheap.
Best Hyson Tea,
At 6l. per pound, To be SOLD at the Store of DUNCAN INGRAHAM, jun.
In Union-Street, Boston: Where every article usually imported from Eu- rope, may be purchased on the lowest terms for Cash. A L S O,
Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Cloves, Mace, Pepper, China Ware, Wool-Cards, English and Lynn Shoes and Pumps of the best kind, &c. &c. &c.
Choice Sterling MADEIRA WINE, From three to six years old, At BLANCHARD'S
Wine cellar, Dock-square, Boston, And all other WINES as usual, Old Jamaica spirit, West-India, and New-England rum, London Porter
Imported in bottles in the last ships; Cherry Rum. N. B. A new and elegant assortment of Paper cheap.
To be SOLD, On board a brig just arrived, lying at Mr. Hancock's wharf,
THE best New-Cattle COALS, very cheap for ready cash.
ALL persons that have any de- mands on the estate of Gee Hodgkins, late of Boston, Mariner, deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts to Mary Hodgkins or John Lowell, executors, and all persons that are indebted to said estate, are desired to make immediate payment.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS,
At the South Corner of MARSHALL'S LANE, leading from the MILL-BRIDGE into UNION-STREET, where all Persons may be supplied with this Paper at Six Shillings and Eight Pence Lawful Money, per Annum, unsealed, and Eight Shillings sealed and directed; and where Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received;— ADVERTISEMENTS taken in.—PRINTING in its various Branches, performed in a neat Manner, with the greatest Care and Dispatch, on the most reasonable Terms. Small HAND-BILLS at an Hour's Notice. SUBSCRIPTIONS for the SPY are also taken in by J. Larkin, Chairmaker, and Mr. W. Calder, Painter, in Charlestown; Mr. J. Hiller, Watchmaker in Salem; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater; and by Dr. Elisha Hewins, in Stroughtonham.