The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal (Boston [Mass.]), 1774-07-07 00:00:00

Dec. 4, 1907
Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.
Do thou Great LIBERTY inspire our Souls—And make our Lives in THE Possession happy—Or, our Deaths glorious in THE just Defence.
VOL. IV.)
THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1774.
(NUMB. 179.)
THE great demand for this paper, has often occasioned many good customers being disappointed, for which the publisher is very sorry: He will, in future, endeavour to prevent any thing of the like kind happening, so long as he may have the honour of being an hand-servant to the public.
The gloomy prospect of public affairs, at present, in this devoted capital, has occasioned some pressing Demands upon him, which with great reluctance he informs his customers, he can by no means answer without their kind assistance: He is loath to trouble them with a 'dunning' advertisement, but his affairs make it necessary: His customers in the country towns in this province, and those in the other colonies, he hopes will take proper notice of it, and consider there is no possibility, (especially for a young beginner) in carrying on business without regular payments.
A work of this kind, it is well known is attended with great expence, and he begs leave to mention, that the MASSACHUSETTS SPY is a third larger than any News-Paper published in this province, and contains as much News, as many Political Essays, as any in America; and is the cheapest on the globe.
I. THOMAS.
Boston, June 9, 1774.
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EXTRACT of a SERMON preached at the South Church in Boston, November 27th, 1746, by the Reverend Mr. THOMAS PRINCE, occasioned by the surprising appearance of divine Providence for NORTH AMERICA , In the Destruction of the French Fleet and Army, sent to CHEBUCKTAH the preceding Summer; and reprinted at this Time, with a view to encourage and animate the People of GOD to put their TRUST in HIM, and to call upon HIS NAME, under the SEVERE and EVEN DISTRESSES, now taking place in BOSTON and CHARLESTOWN by the rigorous EXECUTION of the late ACT of the BRITISH PARLIAMENT, called the BOSTON PORT-BILL .
Boston, June 30th, 1774. THIS is to forewarn all Persons from harbouring, concealing, or trusting the wife of me the subscriber, as she has eloped from my bed and board with another man, who goes by the name of Doctor Burke; who ever will give information where she may be found, shall be handsomely rewarded for their trouble. his ANTHONY + CAREBELL mark.
TO BE SOLD by DANIEL MCCARTY, In Union-Street, near the Cornfield, HIS whole Stock in trade, consisting of Silk Linings, Wolens, Chinces and Calicoes, Silks, Silk and black Russell Shoes and Clogs, Childrens Morocco ditto, Fans, Gloves, Laces, (furs) very rich) a great variety of China Ware, Glass, Stone and Earthen ware, Spices, &c. &c. at the next Sterling cost for cash. Any person whom it may suit to take the whole or any considerable part thereof, may have them on terms that will be agreeable. —Likewise the house he now lives in to be sold or let, terms very reasonable being a place well suited for trade, with any conveniencies about it and in good repair. Enquire as above.
TO be let a House and Shop in Union-Street, near the Corn-Fields. Enquire of WILLIAM WILLIAMS at the Head of Long Wharf. N. B. All kinds of Mathematical Instruments, to be sold by said WILLIAMS.
In the House of Representatives, June 14, 1774.
WHEREAS there will become due in this month, sundry notes given by the province-treasurer, and sufficient provision having been made for the paying off the same, and if the possessors of such notes should not bring them in to the treasurer to be paid, the province will suffer damage by such neglect.
Therefore Resolved, That the possessors of such notes, who shall not bring them to the province-treasurer, to be paid by the last day of July next, shall not receive any interest on the same, after that time, and the province treasurer, is hereby directed forthwith to cause this order to be published in all the Boston News-papers, three weeks successively, that every one concerned may be notified hereof. Sent up for concurrence. T. CUSHING, speaker. In council, June 15th. Read and concurred. JOHN COTTON, D. Sec'y. THO. GAGE.
Conferred to JOHN COTTON, D. Sec'y. A true copy, attest. The treasurer of the province hereby gives public notice to the delinquent constables and collectors of the province taxes, that they pay the same into the treasury by the 31st of July next. Treasury-Office, June 18, 1774.
From the PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE. LETTER IV. To the Inhabitants of the British Colonies in AMERICA.
Boston, The intelligence received, since the preceding letter was written, seems to render needless every attempt to prove from former transactions,—my first intention of health had permitted—that a regular plan has been invariably pursued to inflame these colonies, and that the act of Parliament for blocking up the port of Boston is a part of the plan. However unprecedented and cruel that measure is, yet some persons among us might have flattered themselves, that the resentment of the Parliament is directed solely against that town. The last advices mention two bills to be passing in Parliament; one, changing the chartered constitution of the province of Massachusetts Bay into a military government: and another, empowering administration to send for and try persons in England for actions committed in that colony.
By these instances we perceive, that administration has not only renounced all respect, and all appearance of respect, for the rights of these colonies, but even the plainest principles of justice & humanity. Were the representatives of the people of Massachusetts Bay called upon to make satisfaction for the damage done to private property in any late tumult there? No. Yet it was known, that those representatives had made ample reparation for the injuries committed on occasion of the stamp act. It was known, that the like reparation had been made by the assemblies of New-York and Rhode-Island. In short, it was known, that notwithstanding the incessant pains taken by many ministers to tease the colonists by oppressions and insults into madness, yet they have with difficulty excited only a few tumults, for which the popular branch of the legislature in the several colonies has ever been ready to atone, upon requisitions from the crown.
Great clamour has been raised at home against Massachusetts-Bay, on account of resolutions at some of their town meetings, and other writings published in that colony; and better it were, that many of them had been suppressed. The truth is—that people animated by an ardent and generous love of liberty saw and peculiarly felt the projects against the freedom and happiness of America. I know them well: and if ever a state deserved the character, they are a moral, religious, quiet and loyal people, affectionately attached to the welfare and honour of Great-Britain and dearly valuing their dependence on her. Observant and sensible, as they were, of the present and approaching evils, some of them adopted a very imprudent, but what appeared to them a very peaceable and justifiable method of discouraging administration from proceeding in such alarming and dangerous measures,—that of speaking in a high tone. Words were opposed to injuries, and menaces, never designed for execution, to insults intolerable. What could they do? their humble petitions were haughtily and contemptuously rejected. The more they supplicated, the more they were abused: by their tears, and heaven knows many they have shed, their persecutions flourished, as trees by water poured on their roots. Their very virtue and passionate fondness for concord, for their mother country occasioned this objected error. "Surely" says Solomon, "oppression maketh a wise man mad," a silly man may disregard it. In playing the fool they shewed their wisdom. This is the true history of those futile pieces, that produced so much solid eloquence in Great-Britain.
By the first of these bills the Governor is to be invested with the power of a justice of the peace; to call out the military to effect, though the minister says in his speech—"I shall always consider that a military power, acting under the authority and control of a civil magistrate, is a part of the constitution." By the second, Americans are to be seized, confined and carried to England, to be tried, that is hanged on charges for acts done in a colony. This is not all. Soldiers and others, who shall commit any offence, such as murdering the colonists, under the pretence of supporting the authority of parliament, shall be carried to England to be tried—that is—acquitted. Of the habeas corpus and trial by peers "that nominis umbra." That the absolute power claimed and exercised in a neighbouring nation, is more tolerable than that of the eastern empires is in a great measure owing to their having united the judicial power in their parliaments, a body separate and distinct from both the legislative and executive, and if ever that nation recovers its former liberty, it will owe it to the efforts of those assemblies. In Turkey, where every thing is centred in the Sultan or his minister, despotic power is in its meridian and wears a most dreadful aspect. 2 Black-stone 260. 270.
Riots and weak publications, by a small number of individuals, are sufficient reasons with Parliament to ruin many thousand inhabitants of a truly respectable town, to disolve charters, to abolish the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, and extirpate American liberty—for the principle reaches all. But in England the press groans with publications, seditious, treasonable and even blasphemous. The discontented swarm over the kingdom, proclaiming their resentments. Many enormous riots have disturbed the public peace. The sovereign has been insulted in passing from his palace to the Parliament-house, on the business of the nation. Is it to be concluded from these facts, that the Body of the People is seditious and traitorous? can his Majesty believe, that he is thought by his English subjects in general to be such a prince, as some of them have represented him? will the two houses of Parliament acknowledge what has been spoken and written and acted against them in England, expresses the sentiments of the kingdom? or will they say, that the people of England have forfeited their liberty, because some of them have run into licentiousness? let a judgment be formed in both cases by the same rule. Let them condemn those or acquit us. Pretences and reasons are totally different. The provocations, said to be given by our sister colony, are but the pretences for the exorbitant severity exercised against her. The reasons are these—the policy, despicable and detestable as it is, of suppressing the freedom of America by a military force, to be supported by money taken out of our own pockets, and the supposed convenience of opportunity for attaining this end. These reasons are evident from the minister's speech. The system is formed with art, but the art is discoverable. Indeed, I do not believe it was expected, we should have such early and exact intelligence of the schemes agitated against us, as we have received. Any person, who examines the multitude of inuendoes published in pamphlets and newspapers in Great-Britain, or the speeches made in either house of Parliament, will find them directed against the colonies in general. The people in that kingdom have been with great cunning and labour, inflamed against the colonies in general. They are deluded into a belief, that we are in a state of rebellion and aiming directly at a state of independency; though the first is a noxious weed that never grew in our climates; and the latter is universally regarded with the deepest execrations by us—a poison we never can be compelled to touch, but as an antidote to a worse, if a worse can be—a curse, that if any colony on this continent should be so mad as to aim at reaching, the rest of the body would have virtue and wisdom enough to draw their swords, and hew the traitors into submission, if not into loyalty. It would be our interest and our duty, thus to guarantee the public peace.
The minister addressing the house of commons, uses several expressions relating to all the colonies, and calls the stoppage of the Port of Boston "a punishment inflicted on those, who have disobeyed your authority." Is it not extremely remarkable, after such a variety of charges affecting all the colonies, that the statue of vengeance should be levelled against a single colony? New-York, Philadelphia and Charlestown have denied freedom of trade to ships sailing under the protection of acts of Parliament. Will not the house commons think the inhabitants of these places "have disobeyed their authority," and that "a punishment should be inflicted on them?" why do we not hear of some measure pursued against those cities? are they immaculate in the eyes of administration and Parliament? has not each of these places done real damage to the East-India company? has there been ever a requisition of compensation for that damage from any of them? why is there such a profound silence observed with respect to them? because they are judged by administration and Parliament more innocent than the colony of Massachusetts-Bay? No. Because administration and Parliament owe us Americans the honour to think, we are such very idiots, that we shall not believe ourselves interested in the fate of Boston, but that one colony may be attacked and humbled after another, without shewing the sense or spirit of beasts themselves, many of which unite against a common danger.
Why were the states of Greece broken down into the smallest submission by Philip of Macedon, and afterwards by the Romans? because they contended for freedom separately. Why the states of Spain subdued by the Carthaginians and afterwards by the Romans? because they contended for freedom separately. Why where the ancient inhabitants of the kingdom, that now harasses us, conquered by their invaders? Tacitus will inform us, 'Nec aliud
Both Houses of Parliament resolved two or three years ago, that persons might be sent for from any of the colonies for acts done there, and tried in England under the old statute of Henry the 8th—made before the colonies existed. The late court at Rhode-Island was established on that principle. The intention of parliament in passing the bill above mentioned is chiefly to screen persons acting in support of their unconstitutional claims. They have declared, they have no doubt but that the 35th of Henry 8th established a just and legal mode of cutting American throats.
"I can live, altho' another who has no right be put to live with me; nay, I can live altho' I pay excises and impositions more than I do; but to have my liberty, which is the soul of my life, taken from me by power, and to have my body pent up in a goal, then thrown into a ship of war, transported three thousand miles across the ocean, to a land of bitter, selfish, furious and revengeful enemies, there thrust into the jaws of dungeon, without remedy by law, and to be so adjudged; O imprudent Ancestors! O unwise forefathers! to be so curious in providing for the quiet possession of our laws and the liberties of parliament, and to neglect our persons and bodies, and to let them lie in prison, and that durante bene placito, remediless! If this be law, why do we talk of liberties? Why do we trouble ourselves with a dispute about law, franchises, property of goods, and the like? What any man can call his own, if not the liberty of his person? I am weary of treading these ways."
Speech of ROBERT PHILIPS, a member of the wife and moderate Parliament that met in the year 1627. Private letters give a further proof of this fact.
adversus validissimas gentis pro nobis utilius, quam quod in COMMUNE NONCONSULTANT. Rarus ad propugnandum commune periculum conventus. Ita dum singuli pugnant omnes vincuntur.
Why did the little Swiss cantons, and seven small provinces of the low countries, so successfully oppose the tyrants, that not contended with an empire founded in humanity and mutual advantages, unassailed and arrogantly strove to "LAY" the faithful and affectionate wretches "AT THEIR FEET"? Because, they wily regarded the interest of each as the interest of all.
Our own experience furnishes a mournful additional proof of an observation made by a great and good man, Lord president Forbes. "It is a certain truth," says he, "that all states and kingdoms, in proportion as they grow great, wealthy and powerful, grow wanton, wicked and oppressive, and the history of all ages gives evidence of the fatal catastrophe of all such states and kingdoms, when the cup of their iniquity is full." Another "truth" as a "certain" is—that "such states and kingdoms" never have been, and never will be checked in the career of their "wantonness, wickedness and oppression" by a people in any degree, dependant upon them, but by the prudent, virtuous and steady unanimity of that people. To employ more words to elucidate a point so manifest, would be the idle attempt of gilding gold.
Surely you cannot doubt at this time, my countrymen, but that the people of Massachusetts-Bay are suffering in a cause common to us all; and therefore, that we ought immediately to concert the most prudent measures for their relief and our own safety.
Our interest depending on the present controversy is unspeakably valuable. We have not the least prospect of human assistance. The passion of despotism raging like a plague, for about seven years past, has spread with unusual malignity through Europe. Corsica, Poland, and Sweden, have sunk beneath it. The remaining spirit of freedom, that lingered and languished in the parliaments of France, has lately expired, by the new modelling their parliaments. What kingdom or state interposed for the relief of their distressed fellow creatures? The contagion has at length reached Great-Britain. Her statesmen emulate the Nimrods of the earth and wish to become "mighty hunters" in the woods of America. What kingdom or state will interpose for our relief? The preservation of our freedom and every attendant blessing must be wrought out, under providence, by ourselves. Let not this consideration discourage us. We cannot be false to each other, without being false to ourselves. We have the firmest foundation of union and fidelity—that we wish to attain the same things—to avoid the same things. The friendship of others might be precarious, suspected, deceitful.
The infinitely great, wise, and good Being, who gave us our existence, certainly formed us for a state of society. He certainly designed us for such a state of society, as would be productive of happiness. Liberty is essential to the happiness of a society, and therefore is our right. The father of mercies never intended men to hold unlimited authority over men. Craft and cruelty have indeed triumphed over simplicity and innocence, in disobedience to his holy laws. The father of mercies never intended us for the slaves of Britons. Craft and cruelty indeed are striving to brand us with marks infamously denoting us to be their property, as much as their cattle. Their pretensions to a right of such power,
"Nor was any thing more advantageous to us against very powerful nations, than their imprudence in not consulting together for the interest of the whole. Conventions for repelling a common danger were rare. Thus, while each state resisted singly, all were subdued." Tacitus (in vit. Agric.
"The act for shutting up the port of Boston, orders, that it shall not be opened until "peace and obedience to the laws shall be so far restored in the said town of Boston, that the trade of Great Britain may safely be carried on there, and his Majesty's duties duly collected, &c." Thus it appears, that the inhabitants renounce the common cause of the colonies, the port may be opened—if they adhere to that cause, it will remain shut.
"To live by one man's will, became the cause of all men's misery." Hooker's Ecclesi. pol.
"It is not universal misery and ruin the same, whether it comes from the hands of many or of one."
Bishop Headley's Hist. on Govt. "Of so contrary an opinion was this good man (Hooker) to that of some others, who can never appose one extreme, without running to another, as had, if not worse; and think they cannot enough condemn rebellion, without giving the divine sanction to tyranny and oppression. This judgment ought likewise to be of the more weight, with such as profess the most profound veneration for the memory of Charles the first, and the honour of the old church of England: Because this treatise, in which it is to be found, was closet out of many others by that prince, to be recommended to his children, as the best instructor they could converse with: and was had in such estimation by all churchmen, from the time of its appearance, that it may well pass not only for his own judgment in particular, but for the judgment of the whole church of England at that time." B. Headley. ibid.
"Would not the unhappiness of this nation in particular have been the same, whether a late king alone, or by a formal law had subjected it to the religion of Rome, and the maxims of France? and upon supposition of such an attempt, would not our late deliverance have been as glorious as great and justifiable; as much wanted and as truly beneficial; as it was upon the attempt of the king alone? would not the invitation of the prince of Orange? the election and meeting of the persons, who made the convention; and the consequent establishment in the protestant line, have been its requisite and its useful? Nay would not the ends of government have been more effectually answered this way, than by submission to a total dissolution of all Happiness at present and of all hopes for the future? How then can it be said, that the ends of government require that degree of submission upon the one supposition, which they were allowed not to be upon the other: when the same misery and destruction must follow a submission in both cases; and the same universal happiness must in both be the consequence of a just

power, not only oppose constitutional principles, but even partake of impiety. The sentence of bondage against us is only issued by the Iron Omnipotence of Parliament . "Non sic inflectere sensus Humano edicta valent."
We cannot question the justice of our cause. This consideration will afford comfort and encouragement to our minds. Let us, therefore, in the first place, humbling ourselves before our gracious Creator, devoutly beseech his divine protection of us his afflicted servants, most unreasonably and cruelly oppressed. Let us seriously reflect on our manifold transgressions, and by a sincere repentance, and an entire amendment of our lives, strive to recommend ourselves to divine favour.
In the next place, let us cherish and cultivate sentiments of brotherly love and tenderness amongst us. To whom under the cope of Heaven, can we look for help in these days of "darkness and trouble," but one to another? O my countrymen! have pity one on another--have pity on yourselves, and your children. Let us--by every tender tie, I implore you--let us, mutually excise and forgive each other our weaknesses and prejudices, (for who is free from weaknesses and prejudices?)--and utterly abolishing all former dissensions and distractions, wisely and kindly unite in one firm band, in one common cause.
I appeal to every man of common sense, whether any measure will be so likely to induce administration to think of an accommodation with us, as our unanimity. Must not, therefore, every measure impeaching the credit and weight of this unanimity, in the same degree obstruct all accommodation? Will not every such measure naturally produce haughtiness, perseverance and fresh rigour in our oppressors? Will not these still more engage us, and place us farther from an accommodation? If the protection and peace we wish to derive from our unanimity be taken from us, by the imprudence of our brethren who break that unanimity, or destroy all respect for it in Great-Britain, and thereby encourage her to seize, what she will certainly think, the lucky opportunity for pursuing her blows, what must be the consequence? We held up a shield for our defence. If our brethren have pierced it through, and rendered it useless--their imprudence will, according to the usual course of human affairs, compel us to change the mode of defence, and drive us into all the evils of civil discord.
What advantages can they gain, that can compensate to men of any understanding or virtue, for the miseries occasioned by their bad policy. Their numbers will be too small, in any manner whatever, to controul the sentiments or measures of America. Their conduct never can prevent the exertions of these colonies in vindication of their liberty. It may by provocations render those exertions more rash and imprudent. But their numbers will be so extravagantly exaggerated, as all facts have been again and again, on the other side of the Atlantic, that Great-Britain may be deceived and emboldened into measures destructive to herself and to us. We are now strenuously endeavouring in a peaceful manner, by this single power--the force of unanimity--to preserve our freedom. Those, who lessen that unanimity--detract from its force--will prevent its effect--and must be, therefore, justly chargeable with all the dreadful consequences to these colonies.
The third important consideration I beg leave to recommend to my countrymen is, to draw such reflections from their situation, as will confirm their minds in that many noble fortitude, so absolutely necessary for the maintenance of those inestimable privileges, for which they are now contending. The man, who feels difficulties arising in the defence of freedom, is unworthy of freedom. God has given the right and the means of asserting it. We may reasonably ask and expect his gracious assistance in the reasonable employment of those means. To look for miracles while we abusively neglect the powers afforded us by divine goodness, is not only stupid but criminal. We are yet free--Let us think like freemen.
In the last place I beg leave to offer some observations concerning the measures that may be most expedient in the present emergency. Other nations have contended in blood for their liberty, and have judged the jewel worth the price that was paid for it. These colonies are not reduced to the dreadful necessity. So dependent is Great-Britain on us for supplies, that Heaven seems to have placed in our hands means of an effectual, yet peaceful resistance, if we have sense and integrity to make a proper use of them. A general agreement between these colonies of non-importation and non-exportation, faithfully observed, would certainly be attended with success. But is it now proper to enter into such an agreement? Let us consider that we are contending with our ancient, venerable and beloved parent country. Let us treat her with all possible respect and reverence. Though the rulers there have had no compassion upon us, let us have compassion on the people of that kingdom. And if to give weight to our supplications, and to obtain relief for our suffering brethren, it shall be judged necessary to lay ourselves under some restrictions with regard to our imports and exports, let it be done with tenderness, so as to convince our brethren in Great-Britain of the importance of a connection and harmony between them and us, and the danger of driving us into despair. Their true interests and our own are the same; nor should we admit any notion of a distinction, till we know their resolutions to be unalterably hostile.
In the mean time, let us pursue the most proper methods for collecting the sentiments of all the British Colonies in North-America, on the present situation of affairs--the first point, it is apprehended, to which attention should be paid. This may be effected in various ways. The assemblies just and well managed defence? Or would the ends of government be destroyed, should the miserable condition of the whole tract of France, which has proceeded from the king's being dissatisfied, awaken the thoughts of the wisest heads among them, and move them all to exert themselves, so as that those ends should be better answered for the time to come."
It was resolved by the house of commons that this Bishop, then Mr. Hoadley and Rector of St. Peter's, London, "for having often heretofore justified the principles, on which his majesty and the nation proceeded in their late happy revolution, had justly merited the favour and recommendation of that house." And accordingly addressed queen Anne, "that she would be graciously pleased to bestow some dignity in the church on the said Mr. Hoadley for his eminent services both to the church and state."
"Whatever dispensers human nature, dispensers the policy of a government, which permits it; and a free state, which does not communicate the natural right of liberty to all its subjects, who have not deserved by their crimes to lose it, hardly seems to be worthy of that honourable name."
Lord Lyttleton's history of Hen. 2d. "Without goodness, power would be tyranny and oppression, and wisdom would degenerate into craft and mischievous contrivance." Archbishop Tillotson's sermons.
"Etiam si non sit molis dominus; tamen est miserum posse, si velit." Cicero. Even if a sovereign does not oppress yet it is a most miserable condition for the subjects, that that he has the power, if he has the will.
Blackstone 161. "Edicts cannot so bend the common sense of human creatures."
"By justice (saith the scripture) the throne is established," and "by justice a nation shall be exalted." I reiterate justice to Nebuchadnezzar's tree, shading not only the palace of the king and the house of nobles, but sheltering also the cottage of the poorest beggar. Wherefore if now the blast of imagination hath so blasted any of the branches of this tree, that either our persons or goods or possessions have not the same shelter as before, let us not therefore neglect the root of this great tree; but rather with all our possible means, endeavours and unfeigned duties, both apply fresh and fertile mould unto it and also water it even with our tears, that so those blasted branches may be recovered and the whole tree again prosper and flourish." Mr. Greville's speech in the parliament that year 1727.
that may have opportunities of meeting, may appoint deputies to attend a general congress, at such time and place as shall be agreed on. Where assemblies cannot meet, such of the people as are qualified by law to vote in election of representatives may meet and appoint--or may request their representatives to meet and appoint.
When the inhabitants of this extended continent observe that regular measures are prosecuted for re-establishing harmony between Great-Britain and these colonies, their minds will grow more calm. Prospects of accommodation, it is hoped, will engage them patiently and peaceably to attend the result of the public councils, and such applications as by the joint sense of America, may be judged proper to be made to his Majesty and both Houses of Parliament.
"Ditter is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without right." Proverbs xvi.
BOSTON. By the Captains Title and Merrick from Falmouth , and the Captains Gordon, Brown and Loring , from London , arrived at Marblehead and Salem , we have the following
FRESH INTELLIGENCE. L O N D O N.
In the house of Commons, April 25. THE order of the day for the second reading of the bill for the more impartial administration of justice in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, being read, Mr. Dowdeswell rose, and condemned the bill in the strongest and most spirited terms. He said, it was a mode of procedure unknown to the constitution or annals of this country, to strip any body of men of their charter rights without trial, or indeed without examination; it was in fact punishing unheard, upon evidence ex parte, and by an ex post facto law. He insisted, that before they were stripped of a single franchise, much more of their corporate or political capacity, their delinquency, should be proved, or the offences which were supposed to imply it confessed, or the principles which led to it publicly avowed and asserted; that the present bill was no less than punishing a supposed crime, without evidence on one side, or confession on the other; and, that for his part, upon any principle of justice or precedent, he could not possibly see in what manner the House could proceed to pass judgment, without first hearing the party in their own defence.
Mr. Dyson denied that Parliament were confined by the rules laid down by the Honourable Gentleman who spoke before him. He contended that there was nothing new in the present mode of proceeding; and, that if precedents were to direct us on the present occasion, the history of parliament was full of them.
Mr. Sarubridge said, he should continue to the last to fix his face against the bill; that it was one of the most tyrannic measures that could possibly be devised; that it was difficult to decide which of the three bills was the worst; but the present seemed rather to deserve the first place; that the title of the bill was the very reverse of what it pretended; for instead of the word impartial, it should be partial; and that the only consolation he had was, that the pernicious and destructive designs of the present Ministry would most assuredly be counteracted by their own folly.
Colonel Barre said a few words, and was as usual, extremely pointed, severe, rational and convincing; but the question being repeatedly called for, though the debate did not continue above three quarters of an hour, the bill was committed for Friday without a division.
April 27. At four o'clock the House went into a Committee on the Bill for regulating the Government of Massachusetts-Bay in North-America. The bill underwent a great number of alterations in the Committee, several amendments being made, and clauses proposed, some of which are to be offered again on the third reading. At six o'clock the House rose, so far from thence to the time the Committee broke up, there were hardly members sufficient to make a quorum.
April 28. The order of the day for receiving the report from the committee on the bill for the better regulating the government of Massachusetts-Bay being read, Mr. Dowdeswell offered to present a petition from William Dullan, Esq; agent for the council of the said province. A very warm and well supported debate ensued. A motion being made, that said Bollan's petition, presented to the House the 14th of March last, might be read, which was read accordingly; and another motion being made, that the present petition be brought up, the question was put, and the House divided, ayes 32, noes 195. A motion was then made, that the report be received on this day four months. The combatants returned again to the same ground, and the question being put at 8 o'clock it passed in the negative without a division.
April 29. At four o'clock the house went into a committee on the bill for the impartial administration of justice in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England. Several clauses were offered by Mr. Wallace , which were received, and several amendments were made to the bill, and agreed to. Ordered to be reported on Monday.
It is said the parliament will not rise till Thursday the 17th of June, at soonest.
We hear from Chippingham , that the woolen trade there, in the Devizes, and all the neighbourhood, is very dead; that the journeymen clothiers and their families are running about the country in a most miserable condition to seek bread, which is owing to the merchants in Bristol not making the usual provision for shipping America.
Extract of a letter from Norwich , April 23. "It touches my heart to see the misery of our poor weavers. There used to be orders from the American merchants; but those being stopped, prevent our manufactures from being able to employ the poor workmen."
May 6. The bill for the better providing suitable quarters for Officers and Soldiers in his Majesty's service in North-America reported, with amendments, and ordered to be engrossed.
A scheme is in agitation for establishing a mint for silver coinage at New-York , for the better regulation of American currency.
May 9. The bill for procuring quarters for troops in North-America will likewise pass the lower house this day. The order of the day for the third reading of the bill for the impartial administration of justice, &c. in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, being called for, the bill was read, and a very warm debate ensued. At 6 o'clock a motion was made that the bill do pass; the question being put, the house divided, Ayes 127, Noes 24.
A whimsical thing happened on Friday in St. James's Park ; a domestic of the French Ambassador was running in a great hurry down the Birdcage walk . Why in that haste? What is the matter? (cries a drill sergeant, stopping him.) Sad news! we are all ruined! (cries the Frenchman) the King of France is dead! You lie, you traitor, (returns the drill sergeant, and knocks him down) the King of France is alive and merry, God be thanked, at the end of the mail.
May 10. Yesterday the Earl of Dartmouth laid before the upper assembly several papers relative to Quebec .
Yesterday the bill for the impartial administration of justice in the province of Massachusetts-Bay; the bill for providing quarters for the troops in North-America; the Hull Harbour bill, and the bill for repairing Ayr road were presented to the upper house.
The whole nation begins to be alarmed again about the gold coin, and guineas not wanting ten-pence, nor even eight-pence, are almost universally refused. But from whence springs these alarms, and what foundation is there to ground an opinion on that none but the coin of the present king will be current after this session? Certainly it is that no such acts is in agitation as is expected, and the alarm which is now so general is only raised by some designing people, who, if they succeed but a few days will find the means to ruin thousands, and enrich themselves.
Members have been sent for from all parts of the kingdom both for and against the opposition, so that warm work is expected this week at Westminster . It is said that lady North will speedily be created a baro-
ness of Great-Britain, and that Sir William Meredith will be honoured with an Irish peerage.
Something is now brewing by Col. B-- , Sir G-- , S-- , and two or three equally great men, which Lord N-- greatly apprehends will turn out very bitter.
May 11. By a letter received from America we are informed, that Adams, Hancock, Row, and Mackinob , the four leaders of the Bostonians, have got notice of the designs formed by administration to seize their persons, and have taken effectual methods to evade the orders sent over for that purpose.
May 12. Yesterday a petition from several natives of America, was presented to the upper assembly, praying leave to be heard against the bill for regulating the future government of Massachusetts-Bay, and likewise against the bill for the impartial administration of justice in the above province; the same was accordingly read, and ordered to lie on the table.
Another petition was afterwards presented from Mr. Bollan , agent for the council of Massachusetts-Bay, praying that he might be heard against the regulating bill. A debate then arose whether Mr. Bollan should be called to the bar. At last the question being put, the contents were 21, not contents 57.
The order of the day was then read for the bill to regulate the future government, &c. to be read a third time; which being done, and the question put whether the bill should pass, another strong debate arose: the Duke of Richmond spoke first, and was answered by Lord Sandwich, Lord Lyttleton, Lord Shelburne, Lord Rochford, Lord Dartmouth, Lord Camden, Lord Mansfield, and the Marquis of Rockingham , which closed the debate.
The question was then put and the house divided upon the question, that the bill do pass; contents with the proxies, 92, not co. contents, with the proxies, 20.
Strong has been the reports all this day that the great warior and philosopher of the north has unexpectedly ended his days.
Even wagers are now laying in the city that the King of Prussia is dead.
The politics of Europe are expected to take a most sudden change: every thing now bears the prospect of war, from the confusion into which the different interests will be thrown. In apprehension of this, stocks are expected to have a sudden downfall.
May 14. The king and Queen's going down to Portsmouth is not as yet finally fixed on; it depends partly upon the motions of parliament, which are not as yet regulated, and partly on the French King's death. If the latter should take place, the mock review may be changed into an actual one, and Admiral Pye be succeeded by Admiral Saunders .
It is whispered in many places, that the death of the King of France will be the cause of many great men losing their heads in that kingdom. The Duke de Choiseul has ventured to Paris , and is very busy; the Duke de Auguillon and Madame Barre begin to find their friends falling off amazingly. In short Paris and Versailles are in some measure, all in confusion. The people do not hesitate to speak their minds, and it must be a miracle that prevents a civil war. This is expected, and if they go on as they have begun, it is thought arbitrary power will be very short lived there.
The produce of North-America which used to be sent yearly to Great-Britain, is reckoned at about four millions sterling; the manufactures of Britain, and other commodities returned from thence, at nearly the same sum; the debts due from people in America to the British merchants here, at about six millions or a year and an half of that commerce, taking the time past by that to come; supposing, therefore, the Americans to act out of resentment in their present contest, as they did in that of the stamp-act, we shall then have yearly, until the final settlement of this affair, manufactures to the value of four million, sterling left, and on the hands of our merchants and master manufacturers, or we shall have workmen and poor people put out of employ, and carried adrift in that proportion. These are some of the difficulties and distresses which we are, for the sake of a little skill with our colonies, going to bring on ourselves, and which must be perpetually magnifying and increasing, as long as the unnatural contest shall continue.
The upper assembly yesterday, went through the bill for regulating the government of Quebec .
The present critical situation of France occupies all conversation at the west end of the town. Every runner of Buckingham House eagerly says, before he is asked the question, the King of France is not dead. He says so, because his employers wish it. The life of the French King was an insurance-office for peace to Great-Britain. He is now no more. The insurance-office is shut. And those bewildered miscreants, who have been imposing the false glare of peace, by submitting to repeated impulses; and of plenty, by lilient to Scottish projects, now swallow and echo the last lie of the hour, viz. that the King of France is alive. It is a custom in France whenever the King is so extremely ill as to be past all hope of recovery, then to bring the crown and place it, for a few moments, upon his bed. This ceremony has been performed. The House of Bourbon never had so favourable an opportunity for commencing a war with Great-Britain. The colonies dismembered, Scotland involved, Ireland depopulated, and England insulted. Can it be imagined, that Broglie and Choiseul have not full and authentic intelligence of all the madness and folly of our Court?
Another correspondent sent us information this morning, that it may be depended upon, the King of France is dead. This event, the most knowing of the ministry say, will produce a war.
Last night died his Grace the Duke of Cleveland . The title (with the estate of eight thousand pounds per annum, which is entailed upon the title) comes to the Duke of Grafton ; who now takes the title of Duke of Cleveland .
From the [London] MORNING POST, May 14. TO LORD N O R T H.
MY LORD, IT is but seldom I trouble your Lordship or the public with my sentiments touching parliamentary affairs, my profession leads me to the pursuit of a different study, and my attention is never engaged in any political broil, in which those of my profession are not deeply concerned; and be assured, my Lord, that nothing less than the certainty of that once honourable profession sinking into contempt, and bringing on it the curses of the injured innocent, and the detestation of all men, could have induced me to take up my pen. I revere the name, and have studied the duty of a soldier from my infancy; and when that duty was confined to the legal protection and defence of the state, and the laws of the realm, it was a pleasure as well as an honour to wear a cockade; and suffer me to remind your Lordship, that in the old King's days, a soldier had a friend in every house: The last reverse, now alas! only brings to mind that we once were happy.
It is only within the circle of a few years past, that the army, my Lord, could with any degree of propriety be deservedly branded with the epithets of military executioners; that firebrand of cruelty, that very sperm and essence of Scottish tyranny, Lieutenant General M-- , began the bloody tragedy, by massacring the people, and clipping the ears of the civil magistrates in Canada , about the year 1761; since which the succession of a brutal and corrupt administration have, with equal violence to the known laws of God and society, made streams of innocent blood flow in the streets of our capitals, both at home and abroad, to the disgrace of human nature, and the total dishonour and infamy of the army.
The time is now coming, and we hope is near at hand, when that blood unjustly and wantonly spilt in Great-Britain, and in America, will from the earth call out aloud for vengeance, the perpetrators brought to condign punishment, and the land, as well as the name of Soldier, be freed from the curse.
Your expedition to Boston goes on rapidly, my Lord, and you carry, your measures in parliament with as much ease,
and with as high a hand, as if the whole power of legislation and taxation were vested in your bosom solely. But my Lord, are you sure those measures will take on the west side the Atlantic? And have you considered well and reconciled yourself to the consequences if they should not? Perhaps your Lordship depends upon the circumstance of the people of Boston acting in open and avowed rebellion to justify every part of your conduct; there, my Lord, you will find yourself fatally mistaken. The inhabitants of that town, and indeed of the whole province, are too great politicians to be ever drove into a measure of that nature, they have disputed every inch of ground with you, upon the principles of the British constitution, and the express letter of their charter. You had fully lost the field, and now you are preparing to attack them upon new ground--by condemning them unheard, and stripping them of every right and privilege at one stroke. How earnestly does your Lordship strive to make that brave and hardy race of men desperate, and to force them into that rebellion the enemies of the state so much wish for! And how stupidly insensible and regardless of the consequences, which you must know can be nothing less than inevitable ruin and bankruptcy on the trading part of this kingdom.
What a happy era for the court of Versailles, who have long wished for a favourable moment to regain their possessions in the western world; but be that as it may, it is well worth your Lordship's while to reflect how contemptible you must appear in the opinion of every thinking and judicious man, when it is made known that those very measures which you have fostered, and are now palming upon the House of Parliament, were planned and formed in Boston, by those enemies to mankind, Hutchinson, Flucker, Oliver, Sewal, Trobridge, Paxton and Ruggles , and delivered into your hands ready cut and dried, by Sir Francis Bernard . These facts (which are known to but few people) I shall take occasion to elucidate in my next, and will conclude this letter with the invocation of the poet;
If, ye powers divine! Ye mark the movements of this nether world, And bring them to account, Crush! crush! those vipers, Who, fangled out by a community to guard their rights, Shall, for a grasp of filthy ore, or paltry office, Betray them to the foe.
A SOLDIER.
HOUSE OF LORDS. PROTEST. Die Mercurii, 11 o Maij, 1774.
THE order of the day being read for the third reading of the bill, intitled, "An Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New-England;" and for the Lords to be summoned:
The said Bill was accordingly read the third time.
Moved, That the bill, with the amendments, do pass.
Which being objected to,
After a long debate,
The question was put thereupon.
It was resolved in the affirmative.
  Contents 69 } 92   Proxies 23   Not contents 20 } 20   Proxies 0 
Discontents. BECAUSE this bill, forming a principal part in a system of punishment and regulation, has been carried through the House without a due regard to those indispensable rules of public proceedings, without the observance of which no regulation can be prudently made, and no punishment justly inflicted. Before it can be pretended, that those rights of the colony of Massachusetts-Bay, in the election of Councillors, Magistrates, and Judges, and in the return of Jurors, which they derive from their charter, could with propriety be taken away, the definite legal offence, by which a forfeiture of that charter is incurred, ought to have been clearly stated and fully proved; notice of this adverse proceeding ought to have been given to the parties affected; and they ought to have been heard in their own defence. Such a principle of proceeding would have been inviolably observed in the Courts below. It is not technical formality, but substantial justice. When therefore the magnitude of such a cause transfers it from the cognizance of the inferior Courts, to the high judicature of Parliament, the Lords are so far from being authorised to reject this equitable principle, that we are bound to an extraordinary and religious strictness in the observance of it. The subject ought to be indemnified by a more liberal and beneficial justice in Parliament, for what he must inevitably suffer by being deprived of many of the forms which are wisely established in the Courts of ordinary resort for his protection against the dangerous promptitude of arbitrary discretion.
2dly. Because the necessity alleged for this precipitate mode of judicial proceeding cannot exist. If the humerus land and marine forces, which are ordered to assemble in Massachusetts-Bay, are not sufficient to keep that single colony in any tolerable state of order, until the cause of its charter can be fairly and equally tried, no regulation in this bill, or in any of those hitherto brought into the House, are sufficient for that purpose; and we conceive, that the mere celerity of a decision against the charter of that province, will not reconcile the minds of the people to that mode of government which is to be established upon its ruins.
3dly. Because Lords are not in a situation to determine how far the regulations of which this bill is composed, agree or disagree with those parts of the constitution of the colony that are not altered, with the circumstance of the people, and with the whole detail of their municipal institutions. Neither the charter of the colony, nor any account whatsoever of its Courts and judicial proceedings, their mode, or the exercise of their present powers, have been produced to the House. The slightest evidence concerning any one of the many inconveniences, stated in the preamble of the bill to have arisen from the present constitution of the colony judicatures, has not been produced, or even attempted. On the same general allegations of a declaratory preamble, any other rights, or all the rights of this or any other public body, may be taken away, and any visionary scheme of government substituted in their place.
4thly. Because we think, that the appointment of all the members of the council, which by this bill is vested in the crown, is not a proper provision for preserving the equilibrium of the colony constitution. The power given to the crown of occasionally increasing or lessening the number of the council on the report of governors, and at the pleasure of ministers, must make these governors and ministers masters of every question in that assembly; and by destroying its freedom of deliberation, will wholly annihilate its use. The intention avowed in this bill, of bringing the council to the platform of other colonies, is not likely to answer its own end; as the colonies, where the council is named by the crown, are not at all better disposed to a submission to the practice of taxing for supply without their consent, than this of Massachusetts-Bay. And no pretence of bringing it to the model of the English constitution can be supported, as none of those American councils have the least resemblance to the House of Peers. So that this new scheme of a council stands upon no sort of foundation, which the proposers of it think proper to acknowledge.
5thly. Because the new constitution of judicature provided by this bill is improper, and incongruous with the plan of the administration of justice in Great-Britain. All the Judges are to be henceforth nominated (not by the Crown) but by the Governor; and all (except the Judges of the Superior Court) are to be removable at his pleasure, and expressly without the consent of that very Council which has been nominated by the Crown.
The appointment of the Sheriff is by the will of the Governor only, and without requiring in the person appointed any local or other qualification; that Sheriff, a magistrate of great importance to the whole administration and execution of all justice, civil and criminal, and who in England is not removable even by the royal authority, during the

continuance of the term of his office, is by this bill made changeable by the Governor and Council, as often, and for such purposes as they shall think expedient.
The Governor and Council, thus intrusted with powers, with which the British constitution has not trussed his Majesty and his Privy-Council, have the means of returning such a jury in each particular cause, as may best suit with the gratification of their passions, and interests. The lives, liberties, and properties of the subject, are put into their hands without control; and the invaluable right of trial by jury, is turned into a snare for the people, who have hitherto looked upon it as their main security against the licentiousness of power.
6thly, Because we see in this bill the same scheme of strengthening the authority of the officers and Ministers of State, at the expense of the rights and liberties of the subject which was indicated by the inauspicious act for shutting up the harbour of Boston.
By that act, which is immediately connected with this bill, the example was set of a large important city (containing vast multitudes of people, many of whom must be innocent, and all of whom are unheard) by an arbitrary sentence, deprived of the advantage of that port, upon which all their means of livelihood immediately depend.
This proscription is not made determinable on the payment of a fine for an offence, or a compensation for an injury; but is to continue until the Ministers of the Crown shall think fit to advise the King in Council to revoke it.
The legal condition of the subject (standing unattainted by conviction, for treason or felony) ought never to depend upon the arbitrary will of any person whatsoever.
This act, unexampled on the records of Parliament, has been entered on the Journals of this House as voted nemine dissentiente , and has been stated in the debate of this day, to have been sent to the colonies; as passed, without a division in either House, and therefore as conveying the uncontested universal sense of the nation.
The despatch of making effectual opposition to an unjust measure, has been construed into an approbation of it.
An unfair advantage has been taken on the final question for passing that penal bill; of the absence of those Lords who had debated it for several hours, and strongly dissented from it on the second reading; that period on which it is most usual to debate the principle of a bill.
If this proceeding were to pass without animadversion, Lords might think themselves obliged to reiterate their debates, at every stage of every bill which they oppose, and to make a formal division whenever they debate.
7thly, Because this bill; and the other proceedings that accompany it, are intended for the support of that unadvised scheme of taxing the colonies, in a manner new, and unsuitable to their situation and constitutional circumstances.
Parliament has asserted the authority of the legislature of this kingdom, supreme and unlimited, over all the Members of the British empire.
But the legal extent of this authority furnishes no argument in favour of an unwarrantable use of it.
The sense of the nation on the repeal of the stamp act was, that in equity and sound policy, the taxation of the colonies for the ordinary purposes of supply, ought to be forborne; and that this kingdom ought to flourish itself with the advantages to be derived from a flourishing and increasing trade, and with the free grants of the American assemblies; as being far more beneficial, far more easily obtained, less oppressive, and more likely to be lasting than any revenue to be acquired by parliamentary taxes, accompanied by a total alienation of the affections of those who were to pay them. This principle of repeal was nothing more than a return to the ancient standing policy of this empire. The unhappy departure from it, has led to that course of suffering and contradictory measures, which have since given rise to such continued distractions; by which unadvised plan, new duties have been imposed in the very year after the former had been repealed; these new duties afterwards in part repealed, and in part continued, in contradiction to the principles upon which these repealed were given up; all which, with many weak, injudicious, and precipitate steps taken to enforce a compliance, have kept up that jealousy, which on the repeal of the stamp-act was subsiding; revived dangerous questions, and gradually estranged the affections of the colonies from the mother country, without any object of advantage to either. If the force proposed should have its full effect, that effect we greatly apprehend may not continue longer than whilst the sword is held up. To render the colonies permanently advantageous, they must be satisfied with their condition. That satisfaction we see no chance of restoring, whatever measures may be pursued, except by recurring in the whole, to the wise and salutary principles on which the stamp-act was repealed.
RICHMOND, ROCKINGHAM, PORTLAND, ABERCAVENNY, ABINGDON, LEINSTER, KING, CRAVEN, EFFINGHAM, FITZWILLIAM, PONSONBY.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. Mr. THOMAS.
So much has lately been said, written and printed against the committee of correspondence for the town of Boston, more especially in the part they took in the non-consumption agreement that it is become eminently necessary to set their conduct in that matter, in a fair point of light; that honest minded people may not be led to conceive that in that important matter, they acted without due regard to the grand design of their appointment, the reception and communication of interesting intelligence throughout the province. It is well known that on the reception of the Port Bill at New-York, our friends in that metropolis were so much alarmed for our distress, and the consternation they conceived so unprecedented an edict would throw us into, that they immediately sent an express to us, with a copy of the bill enclosed in a letter which did honour to America, and was in great part published in our papers. In this letter, in letters from Newbury-Port, Providence, Newport, and several other respectable towns, an immediate suspension of trade with Great-Britain (some said Ireland and the West Indies) was recommended, as the only measures to be depended upon for the recovery of our invaluable rights, now attacked afresh and in good earnest. The best returns in our power were made to these kind offers of advice and assistance, and a meeting of our merchants at length being called, whether principally to promote a since sufficiently known, but then industriously concealed address, or a non-importation agreement, we pretend not to determine. However, the merchants did meet in greater numbers than were probably expected by the gentleman who issued the notification. I am induced to this opinion by the absence of the gentleman from the second meeting at the coffee-house, and also of the instrument itself, which was expected to be produced. The suspension of trade was talked of in this meeting, and there was a short adjournment to the west room of the state-house. The address after being repeatedly applied for in vain by the merchants, and neither address nor addressers desiring to make their appearance, a censure of their conduct and solemn disclaim of the measure, and mode of conducting it was drawn up, and voted nem. con. if not unanimously, and published. At this meeting the suspension of trade was again taken into consideration, and a very respectable committee appointed to obtain subscriptions for a suspension of trade with Great-Britain, countermanding orders, &c. Several worthy merchants signed, and did countermand their orders; and the town of Providence was in such forwardness to adopt the plan that they even proposed unloading some vessels, nearly fit for sailing, if we could assure them that Boston alone, would generally countermand their orders. This we were unfortunate enough not to be able to do; for about this time the noted letter was handed about on change, declaring, as was given out, that even the committee of New-York had wrote us we had no assurance to expect from them. Soon after this the merchants had their last meeting, and their Clerk requesting the late letters from the other colonies, they were laid before them; and the result of that meeting was a declaration that they look upon themselves released from their conditional engagement, without the least apology or further proposal. A conduct of this sort might be reconcilable to gentlemen who looked no further than whether a
stoppage of all goods would be greatly superior in public advantage to the loss they might suffer individually. But it shocked the friends of the constitution both in city, and country, who had been most active, and measured things on the large scale, to think that Boston was the besieged city—that she was called upon by her nearest and most respectable neighbours, to suspend trade; and without giving one public reason for so doing, said she would not. From hence originated the dreadful non-consumption agreement! Our inestimable brethren in the country, the wise and hardy yeomanry, said they had too long been the dupes of mercantile perfidy—they remembered those few self-interested traders who had sold them in the last struggle for our rights, when we were on the very point of securing them. They saw their names, not to a non-importation agreement, but in an address to Mr. Hutchinson, where "they testify the entire satisfaction they feel at the wise, zealous and faithful administration" of a man to whom the whole continent (with very inconsiderable exceptions) ascribe the troubles of North-America; and they resolved to take the affair into their own hands. Several towns drew up covenants in such terms as best suited them, and one in particular, had unanimously agreed to discontinue trade entirely; and not one nor a few towns became thus inspired, and the spirit had spread at least forty miles inland from the southern border of the province before the Boston committee had heard the least intimation of it. It was proposed to them as a plan indispensable to our deliverance; and without equivocation or desire to shift the praise or blame of it from themselves to any others, the committee in the most public manner acknowledged their having planned, printed and dispersed to the several towns in the province, a non-consumption agreement. To this very service they were pointed by the spirit of a vote, passed the
in a very full meeting of the town; and in every step of their conduct they endeavoured to avail themselves of the best advice they could obtain from the most understanding persons they had access to. If the agreement did not suit the several tastes and interests of all their fellow citizens and countrymen, it was not through their want of care, pains, repeated and continued consideration, upon a subject confessedly the most weighty and difficult that ever came before them. On sending out the agreement, committees came in from some neighbouring towns, proposing amendments; and without pretending that their model should be imposed upon their fellow countrymen they immediately issued a circular letter, signifying, that in that nor any other measure did they pretend to dictate to their brethren, but conceived that any form retaining the spirit and general intention of their covenant, would undoubtedly answer every end proposed by it. The committee of Worcester, for instance, were pleased to differ very materially from the committee of Boston, in proposing that all goods imported before the 31st of August should be sold without exception; and said committee having in their opinion made sufficient provision that the country might not be imposed upon by goods imported after the stipulated time, they very freely recommended the Worcester covenant in preference to their own. All these facts were fairly stated in open town-meetings, and well supported by the committee; and indeed, as far as I can recollect, were not disputed by their opponents. But the whole weight of the blame laid upon them, was for issuing an instrument, hurtful to the trade, and inductive of perjuries, discords and animosities among friends and neighbours, without having the least prospect of answering the proposed end. None pretended that the British parliament had a right to grant the monies of the colonists—the strongest adversaries of the committee declared their opposition to the claim. No better measure was proposed to avoid a submission to it; and finally every plausible objection to it terminated in a bare suggestion that the time for the reception of goods from England was too short. But it was answered that the many gentlemen who had countermanded their orders had voluntarily given up their full importation; and no reason could be assigned why one should not give up a half year's profit as well as another, when indeed no trade nor property of any kind seemed safe as things were going. They observed that by lengthening out the time for the reception of goods enormous quantities might be ordered, which instead of "DELEGATING", the manufacturers to represent us, as the Philadelphia wisely expresses it, would render them quite easy till the ensuing election is over; and then farewell liberty in every part of Christendom. This is a concern of too much importance to be risked against a few trifling accommodations and adjustments of penceless. The good sense of Newbury-Port and Providence, with many other towns, perceived the necessity of drawing up the shipping to the wharves, and not exporting nor importing a farthing's worth to or from Great-Britain, &c. Would to God the merchants who had a non-importation forced upon them whether they would or not, had been as spirited and consistent with their acknowledged duty! How abject must the men appear in the eyes of mankind, whom no species of oppression can divert from the pursuit of so small a gain as might be made by picking gold off gingerbread? Would not a man of true wisdom and spirit forsake his all, and risk his very life, rather than run the venture of having his person and property subjected to the absolute disposal of a British minister? And if laws may be obtained by that minister to controul the one and command the other in all cases whatever, who can say he is a freeman, or that he really owns a farthing? Putting off the time we should oppose such a violent attack upon us, discovers too great a disposition to submit to it. And certainly a plain counteracting of the party who are in pursuit of the acknowledged sole measure to be depended on for relief, without even proposing any substitute in its stead, is declaring to the world, that in the esteem of such opponents, LIFE, LIBERTY and PROPERTY are not worth contending for. To refer all to the decision of the approaching congress; in my judgment, extremely impolitic. A relaxation in some articles of absolute necessity, and some modifications of the general agreement must be inevitably left to their wisdom; but certainly the more the resolutions of every part of the continent is manifested, to maintain their sacred rights, at all hazards and extremities, the more strong will be hands of their delegates.
Whoever would endeavour to render the committee odious to their fellow citizens and countrymen, by affirming that they defamed every person indiscriminately, as the vilest of mankind, who signed the address to the late Governor Hutchinson, imposes upon the public at large, before whom the obnoxious letters were freely read, and by whom the discrimination must be remembered, in the Philadelphia letter especially, and in the New-York was promised to be given thereafter, but it seems has hitherto been omitted; the printed list having by no means been the production of the committee, or to their knowledge of any one member of their body. That those persons who on all occasions have taken the side of our oppressors, some of whom have entered into agreements for the salvation of our rights, and in the most shameful manner violated them, declaring openly their disregard for their country's posterity, or any thing besides their own private property—that these with the goodly number of conscientious votaries for the damnable doctrine of passive obedience and non-resistance, not in the mild sense of the honest quaker, who will injure no side, but in the rigid sense of the flaming Jacobite, who would resist to the last extremity, every one who would even open his mouth in favour of the rights of mankind; or affirm that James the second was rightfully expelled the throne of Great-Britain—that these, I say are capable not only of being satisfied, but of instigating others to any degree of prostitution to prop the character of their tottering hero, the committee did believe; and that men of better character did let that address on foot, remains to be proved. The manner in which it was conducted gave no one the highest opinion of their principles. But that Henry Lloyd, Esq; or any other persons in that list of similar character and conduct in public and private life, are the prostitutes intended, by their letters, I dare venture to assert no unprejudiced man of common sense who heard them read, had in contemplation. CANDIDUS.
ADVERTISEMENTS omitted will be in our next.
THURSDAY, July 7. BOSTON.
There is not a town of any consequence on the continent of North-America, but is justly alarmed with the proceedings of the British Parliament, and are taking necessary steps to strengthen the Union of the colonies, and thereby defeat the cruel designs of arbitrary power.
Sailed this day for England, in the ship Captain, Admiral Montague and family.
Since our last arrived a number of transports from Ireland, having, on board the fifth and thirty-eighth regiments of foot: They are now encamped on the Common.
Three Transports are failed from hence, said to be gone to New-York, to bring hither the regiment of royal Welsh Fusileers.
Friday last arrived here from England, Vice Admiral Graves, in the Preston Man of War of fifty guns.
Tuesday his Excellency Governor Gage, arrived in town from Salem.
Several loads of Wheat, as presents from our brethren in the country to the poor of this place, arrived in town this week, and are deposited in the town granary.
Four regiments, and a company of the royal artillery, with 8 field pieces, are now encamped on the common, one or two other regiments are soon expected.
A guard is placed at the entrance of the town to prevent the desertion of soldiers.
DIED. J. Mrs. Mary Cunningham, the wife of William Cunningham, Wharfinger. Her funeral will be attended at 5 o'clock to-morrow afternoon.
A BOSTONIAN, A COUNTRYMAN, A FRIEND, &c. &c. with the proceedings of the town of Pepperell, together with some domestic intelligence, must be omitted for want of room.
WINDHAM, Connecticut, 23 June, 1774. To the SELECT-MEN of the Town of Boston. GENTLEMEN,
TIS with pity mixed with indignation, that we have beheld the cruel and inhuman attacks made by the British parliament, on the loyal and patriotic town of Boston, who seem destined to feel the force of ministerial wrath, the whole weight of parliamentary vengeance, levelled at them in a manner so replete with cruelty and injustice, as must strike every heart with horror, and fill every breast with rage, that is not entirely void of every sentiment of honour and justice, and callous to all the common feelings of humanity. But when we consider the cause of all these calamities, that it is nothing less on your part, than a strict adherence to the fundamental principles of the constitution, which when attacked, you dared openly to assert, vindicate, and to stand foremost in the glorious cause of liberty; in which you were contending not only for your own, but ours, and the common rights of every American; when we reflect that it is this for which you are suffering such horrid cruelties, for which your streets have been stained with blood, and for which you now feel the horrors of a military government, we are overwhelmed with a conflict of tumultuous passions, and filled with that manly ardour which bids us join you, hand in hand, and suffer with you in the common cause; nay even, if the sad exigence of affairs should ever require it, to determine, in defence of every thing for which life is worth enjoying, to meet that death which will be glorious, and infinitely preferable to a life dragged on in that low servile state, which is evidently planned for us, and which nothing less than the most heroic fortitude, and the highest exertions of every civil and christian virtue can prevent. Give us leave therefore, Gentlemen, to intreat, to beg, to conjure you, by every thing that is dear, by every thing that is sacred, by the venerable names of our pious forefathers, who suffered, who bled in the defence of liberty, not to desert the cause at this trying crisis, but to use your utmost influence in pursuing and persevering in every measure, which may have a tendency to promote the desired effect.
Gentlemen, we hereby assure you, that to the utmost of our power, we will assist you in every measure necessary for the common safety, not regarding our own private views and interests when in competition with the public good.
This town is very sensible of the obligations we, and with us, all British America, are under to the town of Boston, who have been, and still are, the generous defenders of our common rights and liberties, we know you suffer greatly, and feel for you. As a testimony of our consideration of your misfortunes, the town on the 23d instant, at a legal and very full meeting, unanimously chose a committee to procure subscriptions for your present relief. Accordingly we have procured a small flock of sheep, 258, which at this season are not so good as we could wish, but are the best we had, and the people of this town were almost unanimously in contributing to this purpose.
This small present, Gentlemen, we beg you would accept, and apply to the relief of those honest, industrious poor, who are most distressed by the late arbitrary and oppressive acts. And rest assured that if the parliament does not soon afford you relief, and there should in future be any need of our assistance, we shall with the utmost cheerfulness, exert our influence to that purpose.
We are, Gentlemen, with great respect, Your most obedient and very humble servants, SAMUEL GRAY, NATHL WALES, jun. EBENEZER DEVOTION, EBENEZER MOSELEY, HEZEKIAH BISSELL, JOSEPH GENING, WILLIAM DURKEE, JOHN HOWARD, HEZEKIAH MANNING, Committee of Correspondence.
AT a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of WINDHAM, legally warned and held in WINDHAM, June 23, 1774.
NATHANIEL WALES, jun. Esq; Moderator.
This meeting being impressed with a deep sense of the present alarming aspects of divine providence, over the British colonies in North-America, arising from the present distressed situation of the capital of a neighbouring province; in having their harbour and port blocked up by ships of war in hostile array, to the terror of the people; totally and actually obstructing all commerce by sea, into, or from said port; thereby forcibly preventing the due performance of all private maritime contracts, rendering useless their whole navigation, stores and wharves; built and erected at a vast expence of the inhabitants; a principle which threatens ruin and destruction, both to the liberties and properties of every subject throughout the whole British empire.
And being further alarmed by a bill late depending before the parliament of Great-Britain, for regulating the government of the Massachusetts-Bay, too long here to be recited, though replete with arbitrary threatened destruction to all corporations in Great-Britain, and of all chartered rights in America; in a view of those as well as many other impending dangers and calamities, and from a firm belief and persuasion, that there is a supreme almighty, infinitely good and merciful Being, who sits at the helm of universal Nature, by whom Kings reign, and Princes decree justice, who has the hearts of all the Princes and Potentates of the earth in his hands and under his almighty controul; and however faulty the instruments and procurers of those calamities may be, yet considering our sins and iniquities, they are just, as coming from the hands of GOD, and are to be averted by humiliation, deep repentance and reformation: We therefore sincerely wish and hope a day will soon be appointed for General Fasting and Prayer, as recommended by our late General Assembly, and beg further to intimate to our brethren in the several towns in this colony to render the observation of that day more agreeable to the divine direction, viz. To undo the heavy burthens, and let the oppressed go free, to distribute to the necessities of the distressed, that on that day, we be united in opening our hearts, in contributing to the relief of the injured and oppressed, indigent inhabitants of the town of Boston; especially those who are more immediately so, by the means
of the late iron hand of oppression on that worthy metropolis. But fully to express our sense of the late attempt upon the town and port of Boston, the arbitrary attacks on the most sacred rights of communities, the violent deprivation of private property and liberty, and those most virulent efforts to break down the great barriers of civil society, founded on the solemn compact of Kings, a principle, proclaiming sudden destruction upon all corporations throughout the British dominions, at the will and pleasure of a vengeful British ministry, even without complaint, notice, trial or constitutional adjudication of forfeiture—Woods Fall, and English language is deficient—but this is in part executed, and much more than all, threatened only under pretence, at most, that some of the inhabitants of Boston or the neighbouring towns, have committed a trespass on the property of the East-India Company, a company (horrendum dictu) who have spread destruction over the eastern world. Behold the tragic scenes in that eastern clime, the mother of millions, by sword and baneful famine, depriving those innocents of the necessities of life, who by the favour of heaven and their own industry were overflowing with the wealth and profusion of the Indies, and all to satisfy the insatiable lust of gain and oppression! Let the Spanish barbarities in Mexico, and the name of a Cortez, be sunk in everlasting oblivion, while such more recent, superior cruelties bear away the palm, in the history of their rapine and cruelty. (Though many worthy individuals of that body no doubt ought to be excused from the general imputation.)
"We applaud the solemnity of the noble Virginians and Philadelphians in their religious observance of that memorable first day of June; we approve their opinions and sentiments as to the threatened calamities and dangers impending America: As also the Maryland resolves, with the others, by many worthy towns and bodies of people in this and the neighbouring provinces. We only with there may be no delay in appointing time and place for a general congress, which can only give union, firmness and stability to the whole. We impatiently wait for injured Boston to give the lead in that appointment. Providence has no doubt put into our hands the means to work out our temporal salvation, which has been repeatedly suggested. Let us, dear fellow Americans, for a few years, at least, abandon that narrow contracted principle of abstract self love, which is the source of every vice. Let us for once feel for our country and posterity! Let our hearts expand and dilate with the noble and generous sentiments of benevolence, though attended with the severe virtue of self-denial. The blessings of Heaven attending, America is saved. Generations yet unborn will rise and call you blessed, and the present generation will (by future) to the latest period of American glory, be celebrated and extolled as the happy instruments, under God, of delivering millions from thralldom and slavery, and securing permanent freedom and liberty to America.
"We cannot close this meeting without expressing our utmost abhorrence and detestation of those few in a devoted province, filling themselves, ministers, merchants, barristers and attorneys, who have against the sense and opinion of the rest of that extensive government, as also this vast continent, distinguished themselves in their late fawning, adulating address to Governor Hutchinson, the scourge of the province, which gave him birth, and the pest of America! His principles and conduct, evidenced by his letters, and those under his approbation, are so replete with treason against his country, and with the means of self exaltation as cannot be palliated by art, nondistinguished by facility.
"In general we esteem those address a high handed insult on the town of Boston, and the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in particular, and all the American colonies in general. Those sullen merchants may plead their profound ignorance of the constitutional rights of Englishmen, as an excuse in some degree. But for those who title themselves barristers and attorneys, they have either assumed a false character, or they must in some measure be acquainted with the constitutional rights of Englishmen, and those of their own province. For them to present such an address is a daring affront to common sense, a high insult on all others of the profession, and treason against law. And from that learned profession, who are supposed to be well acquainted with the English constitution, and have the best means, and are under the greatest advantages, to defend the rights of the subjects, and who have been famed as the greatest supporters of English liberties, for any of them to make a sacrifice of all, to their paged of vanity and fulsome adulation, is mean, vile and unpardonable, and cannot be accounted for upon any other principles, but those of their master who would sacrifice his country to become the independent head of a respectable province, and the few leaders of this infamous law band would it seems give their aid and support therein to obtain the first places in his new kingdom. The addressing clergy we leave to the reproaches of their own consciences, but lament to find they are the first in their ignominious homage to their idol.
"The foregoing is a true copy taken from Windham town records! Attest. SAMUEL GRAY, Town-Clerk."
DUNCAN INGRAHAM, jun. At his Store in Union-street, Boston, HAS now on hand an assortment of EUROPEAN GOODS, which he will sell at a very moderate profit for Cash, Wholesale and Retail. N. B. A quantity of Raven's DUCK, and a few boxes of 22 inch PIPES.
SUSANNA RENKEN, Informs her Customers and others, THAT she has removed from Fore-street, to a little above the Hay-Market, where she has for Sale, a variety of English and India GOODS, Groceries of all sorts, West-India and New-England Rum.
A FEW excellent TURTLE, just imported from New-Providence, And sold very cheap At OTIS'S Store, Merchants-Row, No. 2. With many other articles too tedious to enumerate, By Wholesale and Retail.
CREAM WARE. TWO Crates of elegant Cream penciled Ware, one crate of Galley Pots, several Bags, Spikes, Deck and Sheathing Nails of different sizes, six barrels of Dunam Mustard in quarter pound bottles, a few boxes 18 inch tipt Pipes, one Case of Hats from Beaver to Felt, with a few Pipes and Quarter Cakes of Fyal Wines, to be sold Cheap by WILLIAM HOSKINS.
STOLEN from the subscriber on the 30th of June last, a white spotted MARE, ten years old, about fourteen hands and an half high, a small mane and tail, with one of her fore hoofs split. Whoever shall take the thief and Mare shall have TEN DOLLARS reward, and for the Mare only, Six Dollars. Cambridge, July 4, 1774. EBENZER BRADISH.
RUN away from the subscriber on Monday last a NEGRO MAN, who goes by the name of Charles Perril. He is small of stature, remarkable white skin for a negro, pitted with the small pox, about 27 years of age, and very talkative: Had on when he went away, an old hat, check shirt, a blue jacket, and long striped trowsers. Whoever takes up the said Negro, and will bring or send him to me, shall have Two Dollars reward, and all necessary charges paid. ISAIAH THOMAS.
THIS is to forewarn all persons from trusting MARY, the wife of the Subscriber, as she has closed upon my bed and board, and behaved in a very unbecoming manner: I will pay no debts of her contracting from the date hereof. Boston, July 4, 1774. BENJAMIN FOSS.

Choice Cheshire Cheese, Which will suit the most taste, Just imported in Capt. Symmes and Capt. Calef from London, And to be SOLD by CHARLES LOWE, Opposite the Boston Stone, in Marshall's-Lane, near the Mill-bridge. [This quantity of Cheese is equal in goodness, if not superior, to that imported and sold by him last fall.] Also, excellent FLORENCE OYL , in Pints, warranted good, and the best of English Mustard , by the bottle, single pound, or less. OATMEAL by the Bushel, or smaller quantity.
Just Imported and to be Sold by JOHN and THOMAS OSBORN, At the Painters Arms in Back-Street, Leading to Charlestown-Ferry. PAINTERS OIL and colours, of all sorts, by wholesale and retail, as cheap as at any place N. B. Coach, Chaise, House and Ship Painting, &c. done with fidelity and dispatch. in Boston.
Imported in the Ship London, Capt. Calef, And to be SOLD by JAMES FOSTER CONDY, At his Book-Store in Union-Street, Directly opposite the Cornfield, Boston. A large Assortment of the most fashionable PAPER HANGINGS, Which will be Sold at a very low Advance. Also, the most modern Books in every Branch of police Literature, Art and Science, may be had at said Store (as usual) at such Prices as will give full Satisfaction to the Purchaser. N. B. A Pair of 17 Inch Globes to be Sold cheap.
LEE & JONES, Have for SALE at their Store near the Swing-bridge, A BEAUTIFUL Variety of flowered Lutestrings and Brocades, black Padufoys, coloured Taffeties and Gorgoreans. Blue and white China Cups and Saucers, Gold and Silver Lace and Buttons, Silver and Pinchbeck Watches, Men's Silk Hose and Breeches Patterns. Paper Hangings, Vertigrease. Also, a General Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS .
NOTICE is hereby given to all who desire Admission into HARVARD COLLEGE this Year, that the Tutors have determined to attend the Busi- ness of Examination on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 19th and 20th Days of July next. J. WADSWORTH, per Order. Harvard College, June 14, 1774.
TO BE SOLD. A SMALL Quantity of extraordinary good Whitehaven COAL , apply to THOMAS BROWN, At the Crown and Sceptre, in Back-Street.
CALEB BLANCHARD, In Union-Street. Bega leave to inform his Friends and Customers, that he has Imported by Captain Symmes and Lyde from London, a fresh assortment of Summer Goods, which he will sell at the very lowest prices for ready Money, viz.
DUTCH LACE , Chevaux-de-Frize and Blond Laces, Gauze Handkerchiefs, a fine As- sortment of Calicoes, &c. India Dimity, Jackonet, Spig'd and Strip'd Mullins, Bengal, Nankinees, Lungee Romalls, black and blue Ostrich Plumes, Skeleton and Cap-Wire, Allamode, Sarfets, Satins, Ribbons, Gown Trimming, Hosiery's best Pumps, Silk ditto, girls and miles Morocco Pumps, Cambricks, Lawns, a fine Assortment of men's and women's worsted, thread and cotton Hose, Breeches Pieces, Morris's Patent Gloves and Mitts, Super- fine and other Cloths, Duroys, Wiltons, Serges, Ravens Duck, Dowlas, China Ware, paper red net Trunks, Irish Linen of all widths, Spies, Royal Ribbs and Corduroys of most colours, also, ladies white riding Hats, with blue Ostrich Plumes, boys white and black round Hats Fustians, Jennets, Dimity, buff, white and scarlet Cloths, buff Shallons, India Calicoes, black, buff and white Silk Breech- es Pieces, with a large and General Assortment of GOODS , in the Worsted, Woollen and Haberdashery way, ladies riding Gloves.
CYRUS BALDWIN HEREBY informs his Customers and others, that he purposes to embark for London early next Fall; and that he is now selling off his Stock in Trade, consisting of a large and valuable Assortment of English, India and Scotch GOODS , very cheap for Cash, at his Store in Cornhill, near the State-House, Boston. Among which are,
A large Assortment of superfine, middling and low priced Broad Cloths, with Trimmings, German Serges, Wiltons, Jeans, Fustians, Cotton Velvets, Hair and Worsted Plushes, Furniture and other Calicoes, Furniture Checks, Irish Linens, Cambricks, Lawns, Thick Mullin, Book ditto, Silks for Ladies Gowns of various Sorts and Colours, some of them at the sterling Cost; a beautiful Assortment of Ribbons, Quality and Shoe Bindings, Gar- terings, Tapes; a fine Assortment of Silk, Thread, Worsted and Cotton Hosiery; Caps and Carpeting; Looking Glasses, with a Thousand other Articles, not here mentioned. Very neat superfine Chip Hats at the Sterling Cost. * * * Those who have the Cash to pay, will most surely find it for their Advantage to apply to said BALDWIN . He earnestly requests all Persons that are indebted to him on Note or Book, to make speedy Payment.
TO BE SOLD. A FARM in Cohasset, containing about 80 Acres; well fenced with Stone Wall, with a good House, Barn and Chaise-House thereon, about a Mile and an half from a good Harbour, and one Mile from the Meeting-House, 24 Miles from Boston. Enquire of Colonel Lincoln, of Hingham, Lazarus Beal of said Cohasset, or Mr. Richard Billings, Taylor, in Boston.
CHOICE MADDER , the growth of this province, to be SOLD by JOHN BARRETT, Near the Mill-bridge, Boston.
SILKS And Superfine BROAD CLOTHS. A PRIME assortment of Padufoys, Du- capes, Lutestrings; plain and figured Satins, Da- masks, Sarfets, &c.—superfine fashionable coloured Broad Cloths, with suitable Linings and Trimmings; to be Sold at an exceeding low rate, by JOHN BARRETT and SONS, At their Shop near the Mill-bridge, Boston, Where may be had, all kinds of English, Scotch, India, Hard-Ware and Cutlery GOODS, By Wholesale or Retail, Extremely cheap for Cash or short Credit.
Mr. THOMAS. As some of my worthy friends have thought (not a little to the late Governor Mr. Hutchinson, I beg leave thro' the channel of your paper, to acquaint them, that it is a mis- take, and easily to be accounted for, when the resentment is allowed for which the reading of this list raises in the breast of every friend to the community, together with the near found, Nathaniel Greenwood bears with that of Nathaniel Greenough; but his friends may be assured he never saw the address, till it was in the paper of 30th instant, and consequently never signed it. The said NATHANIEL GREENOUGH Has imported in the several vessels arrived here this spring, a large assortment of English goods, suited to the season, among his goods are CHINA WARE, SPICES, and a grand assortment of HOSIERY. Mens Silk Hose, Plain White Ribb'd and Random, Men's Women and Children's Thread and Cotton ditto. Men's and Women's Black and White Silk Gloves, Women and Childrens Black White and Colour'd Silk Mitts, &c. &c. &c. The small- est favour of those who will please to favour him with their Custom shall be esteemed and regarded by him.
TO THE PUBLIC. As the times are threatening it behoves one and all to go into the most frugal methods to en- courage our own Manufactures, and as there is a great con- sumption of Gloves in this large Country, we can manu- facture enough here, to supply the whole Continent, which will employ our own people, and keep a large sum of Mo- ney here, which is annually sent to England for Gloves and which are better and cheaper than can be imported from England: It is hoped therefore, that the importation of this article at least will be totally stopped. These may certify, that Philip Freeman, will supply Merchants and Shop-keepers with the forts following, viz. Buck-Skin GLOVES, Norway Doe, ditto Purple, ditto Wash Leather, ditto Beaver Skin, on the most reasonable terms, at the blue Glove in Union- Street, facing the sign of the Corn-Fields, near the Dock, Boston.
THE following VOTE was passed by the CORPORATION of HARVARD- COLLEGE on May 31st, and on June 2d 1774, confirmed by the honourable and reverend board of overseers, viz. "CONSIDERING the present dark aspect of our pub- lic affairs, VOTED, that there be no public COMMENCE- MENT this year; and that the candidates for their first and second degrees, after having been presented nomination to, and approved by the honourable and reverend board of over- seers, shall receive their degrees in a general diploma, signed by the Corporation. Provided that on or before the 13th day of July next, they bring to Dr. Appleton, senior fellow of the Corporation, a certificate from the steward, that they have paid the stated fee for a degree, and have discharged all college dues required by law, except for the public dinner on Commencement day; also a certificate from the librarian, that they have returned in good order or replaced all the books they have borrowed from the library." A true copy. Attest. NATH. APPLETON, senior fellow of the Corporation of Harvard-College. N. B. The meeting of the overseers is adjourned to the 14th of July, so that they who do not apply before that time, cannot have their names inserted in the general diploma, nor be admitted to their degrees this year.
M. B. GOLDTHWAIT, Bega leave to acquaint his friends and the Public, that he has just received by Capt. Symmes, a fresh supply of DRUGS and MEDICINES, Which he sells Wholesale and Retail, at his Shop near the Mill-bridge, Boston; amongst which are the following, Patented Medicines.
LOCKYER'S Pills, Cephalic Snuff, Turlington's Balsam of Life, Maresdant's Drops, Dai- fy's Elixir, Stoughton's ditto, Essence of Peppermint, Hem- mets' much approved Dentifrice for the Teeth, Anodyne Necklaces, Bateman's Drops, Hooper's Female Pills, An- derson's do. Cook's famous Worm Powder, Jesuits Drops, Greenough's Tincture for the Teeth, Ditto for the Tooth Ach, Hungary Water, Lavendar do. Eau de Luce. Likewise, Court Plaister, Lip Salve, Smelling Bottles ve- ry neat of different figures, genuine Carolina Pink Root, and Squire's Grand Elixir. Also, SURGEONS INSTRUMENTS, Of all Kinds, Phials of all Sorts, Marble and Glass Mor- tars, Lint, Surgeons Tow, Figs, Raisins, Currants, Prunes, all Kinds of Dye Stuffs, Groceries, Velvet Coats, with many other Articles too numerous for an Advertisement, all Fresh and Genuine. N. B. Doctor's Boxes put up for Masters of Vessels and private Families with every necessary direction.
JUST IMPORTED, by JOSIAH WATERS and SON, And to be SOLD at their Shop in Ann-Street, PAINTERS OYL and COLOURS, of all Kinds, in large or small Quantities, Window Glass—Brushes, &c. All Kinds of Pipes, Spices and Groceries as usual, A few of Split Pease, Powder, &c. At the same Place may be had, A most elegant Assortment of PAPER HANGINGS. N. B. PAINTS prepared for House or Ship Painting. House and Ship Painting performed with Care and Dispatch.
Just come to hand, and to be sold at the Printing-Office in School-Street. A few Copies of the Amorous Buck: or a Memorandum Book for Revellers. Being a collection of such jocular SONGS, now in vogue, as will provoke the laugh in spite of grief, care, distress, the hyp- or vapors, to which is added, a collection of comic sen- timents, toasts and hob-nombs, never before printed. By BUMPER ALNIGHT, Esq;
Painters Oil and Colours. JUST ARRIVED, A GENERAL Assortment of Painters Colours and Oil, and to be SOLD by CHARLES SIGOURNEY, At his Shop at the Head of Dock-Square, Boston. ALSO, Window Glass, Nails of all sorts, &c. &c. ALSO, An Invoice of Painters Colours, To be SOLD, very low, consisting of Red and White Lead, Spanish White and Brown, and a few Casks of OIL. [Being a Consignment.]
Steel Plate MILL SAWS. A NUMBER of Very fine En- glish Steel Plate MILL SAWS suitable for the Eastward, are superior to any ever in America before, is just arrived, and to be SOLD by CHARLES SIGOURNEY. At his Shop at the Head of Dock-Square, Opposite Greenleaf's Auction-Room, Boston. With a Large Assortment of all Sorts of Braizery, Ironmongery, Cutlery and Ship Chandlery GOODS , Consisting of every Article that is Imported in the Hard Ware Branch, and too many to be enumerated in an Advertisement. Those who want to purchase by Wholesale, will find it worth their while to call, as he is determined to sell as low as any person in town. ALSO, Double refined English Sugar, Copperas and Allum.
WHEREAS on the night of the 6th of this instant June, the dwelling-house of the subscriber, of Hanover, in the county of Plymouth, inn- holder, was broke open and entered by some villain or vil- lains, who also broke open a desk and stole from thence a Sum of Money, which was contained in two purses, one a white silk knit with silk strings, and the other made of black glove leather with strings of the same; also a large old-fashioned silver Watch, maker's name Windmills, Lon- don, No. 5641. TEN DOLLARS Reward is offered to any person who will detect the thief or thieves, so as he or they may be brought to Justice. DAVID JACOBS.
JEREMIAH ALLEN Informs his Friends and the PUBLIC, That he has received by the LONDON, Capt. CALEF, And is now opening for Sale, At his Shop in Ann-Street, a little North of the Draw Bridge, by Wholesale and Retail, A Compleat Assortment of Braizery, Cutlery and Ironmongery GOODS , purchased from the most approved Manufacturers in Great-Britain, and which he doubts not will give satisfaction both in Price and Quality to those who please to favour him with their Custom. Among which are the following, 2d. 3d. 4d. 6d. 1od. and 2od. NAILS, Nailing and Boat ditto, London Pewter Dishes, Plates and Basins, Tankards, Quart and Pint Cans; Quart, Pint and Half Pint Tea Pots, Cream Pots, Tea Tongs, Table and Tea Spoons, Bottle Cranes, Wine Measures, Bed and Close Stool Pans, Brass Kettles and Skillets, Bell- mettle ditto, Warming and Frying Pans, Desk and Book Case Furniture of all kinds, Brass Knockers, Ball Bolts, Clock Pins, Screw Rings, Knobs, Brass Scales and Weights, Money Scales, Brass and Iron Candlesticks, also a few Pair Princes Mettle in the newest Taste, Steel springs, japanned and iron Snuffers, polished Steel Shovel and Tongs, Bellows Box and Flat Irons, Box Iron Grates, Bed Screws, half and quarter Carriers, Knife Boxes, make Caskers, Bed Cans and Turn Buckles; silver, ivory, buck, bone, horn and maple handle Knives and Forks, Penknives of all sorts, Razors, Scissors and Cuttoes, Snuff and Tobacco Boxes, Horn and Ivory Combs; gilt, plated and lacquered Coat and Breast Buttons; Shoe, Knee and Stock Buckles of all kinds, Temple and Dutch Spectacles, also a few Pair Temple of an extra Quality, Brass and Iron Locks and Hinges of all sorts, Carpenters and Joiners Tools, Awl Blades, Shoe Nippers and Pincers, English and French Gun Flints, Shot Belts and Powder Flasks, Powder and Shot, Bar and Sheet Lead, to 18 by 3 Gals, 2 and 3 pitched worsted Wool Combs; best Clothiers Shears, Smiths Anvils and Vises, Iron Spades, Beaver, Caster and Felt Hats, also a few white furred ditto with Gold Buttons and Loops for Ladies, Peg-tooth and cross-cut Saws, Steel and Iron Plate Hand Saws, saw, ten- nant and key hole ditto, Files and Rases of all sorts, Gimblets, Tap and Bung Borets, Bamboo, Dogwood, ash, joint and hazel Angling Rods of all kinds, a few of the neatest Bamboo Rods that perhaps was ever in America, spare Tops for Rods, Cod and Mackerel Lines, Hair and silk ditto, best Hurly Hooks, ditto on Gimp and Hair, Snap Hooks, 6 and 10 Stave Reeds, 10-Yard by Line Gimp, Landing Nets, fly-goose, stout painted Corks, Brass Winches, Brads and Tacks of all sorts, Nail Nippers, Nutt Crackers, Cork Screws, Brass and paper Ink Pots, Brass Beer Cocks, Pink- ing Irons, Chair Center and Deueling Belt, Crutch Head Cloth, Table, Shoe and Buckle Brushes, Curling and Pinch- ing Tongs, Wool Cards, Seives and Seive Bottoms, House Bells, Pound Beads, No. 1, 2 and 3 Silks, Kitchen Jacks, compleat Brass and Iron Wire, Curry Combs, Dripping Pans, Corn Fans, painted Scale Beams, Horse Flemis, Brass and Steel Thimbles, Rat and Mouse Traps, Tin Plates, Look- ing Glasses of all kinds, a few Pair Gold and Gold and white oval Glasses in the Palmyra Taste, either with or without Jerendoles.
CAKES for making of shining Liquid Blacking for Shoes, Boots, &c. These Cakes make with the utmost Ease, by the Addition of Water only, a most excellent shining Liquid Blacking, much superior to any hitherto known; it gives the finest Black and most beautiful Gloss to the Leather, yet never renders it stiff or hard, but on the contrary prevents its cracking, and pre- serves it soft, pliable, and mellow to the very last, whereby it is rendered more agreeable to the Wearer, as well as much more durable. The Shoes that are blacked with it will neither fail the fingers in putting on, or the Stockings in wearing. N. B. They are very fit for Leather Bottom Chairs, Chaise, &c. The above, with a small Alteration, is the London Advertisement of the blacking Cakes, of which Experience proves the Truth. They are sold by Wholesale and Retail, by SAMUEL ELIOT, At his Shop near the Head of Dock-Square. Where may also be had, A compleat Assortment of English, India and Scotch Piece Goods, a fine Assortment of Irish Linens, Stationary, Cutlery and Hard-Ware, Kippen's Snuff, Spices, &c.
A YOUNG Woman with a good Breed of Milk, would be glad to go into a Gentle- man's Family to fuckle. Enquire of the Printer.
TO BE SOLD by ROBERT RUGGLES, At his Shop in Cornhill, a little to the Northward of the Town Pump, Boston, a large Assortment of English and India GOODS, By Wholesale or Retail, extremely cheap for Cash only. Among which are the following Articles, viz. STRIPT , changeable, Chevaux-de-Frize, plain and brocaded half ell and 3-4 Lutestrings, Ducapes and Padufoys, Mohair Grogams, Crimson and blue Cordeloy, Blue, white, green and pink Sarfnets, Scarlet, crimson, white, blue, pink, green, drab and black, plain, spotted and fringed half ell and 3-4 Satins of all Prices, Rich rose, crimson and green English Damasks, Blue and white India ditto, Blue, green, changeable and drab India Taffeties, Black English ditto, Figured Mode for Capuchines, of most Colours, Half yard, 3-4 and yard wide black Allamode, Miffinets and Gizetts, Broglioes and Satinets, Black and Lead-colour Bom- bazens, Dorsetteens, Crapes and Poplins, Bengalls, Worsted Grogams, Camblets and Cambleteens, Drawboys and Everlastings, Calicoes and Chints, Sagathies and Duroys, Fustians and Jeans, Wiltons, Damascus and Gingham for Mens Waistcoats, Figured Silk Waistcoat Pat- terns, Black Silk Breeches Patterns, Black, blue and cloth coloured Worsted Breeches Patterns, Mens Silk Hose, Mens and Womens Thread, Cotton and Worsted Hose, Childrens ditto all Sorts, Womens black, white and buff coloured Silk Gloves, Mens black ditto, Silk Mitts, all Colours, A neat Assortment of plain, spotted, figured and fringed Guazes of all Prices, Best Tambour Mullin, Strip, fringed and checked Mullins, Yard and six-quarters wide plain Mullins, Brocaded and Satin Shoes and Clogs, English and Lynn made Rus- sell and Callimanco Shoes, Childrens ditto, A neat Assortment of Brussells and other Thread Laces, from 9l. to 3s. 6d. old Tenor per Yard, Blond Laces, Black Bone Laces, all Prices, Chevaux-de-Frize, Gimp and Garland Trimming, Wax Necklaces and Earrings, Blue, white, pink and blue Hats for Women, A very large Assortment of Mens, Womens, Youths and Girls glazed and un- glazed Gloves and Mitts, Galloon and Strapping, Stay Cord and Braid, Buckram, Yellow Holland, Brown ditto, 3-4, 7-8 and yard-wide Irish Linnens, Sheeting Holland, Table Cloths, Napkin Damaskus, Diapers and Huckabuck, Womens and Childrens pack Thread Stays, Blue, pink, green and white Womens loom-quilted silk Petticoats, White Quilting, Gold and Silver spangled Buttons, Gold and Silver Vellum, Gold Prussian Coat Binding, Mecklenburgh ditto, Gold Braid, Gold and Silver Thread, Silk Twist and Silk and Hair, Velvet Collars, Tortoiseshell Combs with and without Stones, Superfine, middling and low Price Broad Cloths, Forest Cloth, German Serges, Half Thick, Ratteen, Beaver Coating, Duffel, Baies, Velvets, Striped Swanskins, Oznabrigs, Shalloon and Tamnies of most Colours, Calamancoes, Best black plain Russell, 3-4-7-8 and yard-wide Checks, Mettle Buttons of all Sorts, Crewels and Canvas, Pins and Needles, Threads and Tapes, Sewing Silks of all Colours, Cambricks and Lawns, Long Lawn, Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs, Knives and Forks, Pen Knives, Razors, Buckles, Pepper, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, And a Variety of other Articles.
To all Lovers of the noble Science of DEFENCE. GENTLEMEN who choose to be instructed in the Art commonly called the BACK SWORD , are desired to apply to DONALD M'ALPINE , who will teach them said Science to their entire Satisfaction, at the Room in King-Street, near the State-House, lately occupied as a Writing-School: The Hours of Attendance are from 5 till 8 o'Clock in the Mornings, from Noon till 1 o'Clock, and from 3 till 8 o'Clock in the Afternoon.—Any Gentlemen that choose to be taught privately, shall be waited upon at such Seasons as are convenient for them, either at the School or their Lodgings. Said M'ALPINE return his most grateful Thanks to those Gentlemen who have encouraged him: As he is strongly urged to go to another Place, he hopes to meet with such further Encouragement and approbation as shall induce him to continue his Residence in Boston, which would be most agreeable to him.
AMERICAN INK-POWDER. Experienced and found to be equal, if not superior to any imported. The excellent Qualities of this Powder are, that it makes the best black Writing-Ink, and is very convenient for Gentlemen, Merchants, Attorneys and others that travel, it being not cumbersome and liable to those Mishances that other Ink is. The Ink may be made in large or small Quantities, as is most convenient. As freezing is cold this may be made with a little Brandy or other Spirits not liable to freeze. One Quality peculiar to this Ink is that though the Writing be exposed to ex- treme wet, it alters not, but will remain as long as the Paper endures. This Powder decayeth not by keeping. Note, the above Powder has an Ingredient in it that pre- vents Ink from becoming thick and mouldy. Any Person by applying to ANN NORTON , nearly opposite the Post-Office in Boston, or SAMUEL NORTON , the Maker, in Hingham, may be supplied with any Quantity of said Powder, as low by the Gross, as the Best.
TO BE SOLD, A PAIR of black Dutch HORSES, as also a neat WAGON and HORSES. For further Particulars apply at Mr. BRACKETT's, in School-Street.
JUST PUBLISHED, And to be sold by JOHN KNEELAND , next to the Treasurer's Office, in Mill-Street, REMARKS on the Rev. Mr. Hopkins's Answer to a Tract, intitled, "A Vindication of the Power, Obligation and Encouragement of the Unregene- rate to attend the Means of Grace," &c. By MOSES HEMMENWAY, A.M. Pastor of the first Church in Wells. N. B. A few of the above Author's Vindication may be had at said Kneeland's Office. * * * Those who have Subscriptions in their Hands are re- quested to return them immediately.