The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal (Boston [Mass.]), 1774-03-24 00:00:00

The 4th, 5th, 38th and 43d regiments, are to relieve the 10th, 14th, 52d and 59th, in North America.
Sir William Bowly, has got the 6th, General Dikes it is said, will have the 50th regt. Monford Browne, Esq; will be appointed to the government of the Bahamas, and Governor Stanley removed from thence to Dominica; vice Sir William Younge.
JANUARY 8. A scheme it is said is now in agitation for the better prevention and suppression of libels, without infringing on that invaluable privilege the liberty of the press.
Should a government be established on the Ohio, it is said, Major Skene will be appointed to preside there.
Saturday a widow woman in Oxford road, left two children locked up in her lodging while she went to market; the one a girl about six years of age; the other, a boy about three: The girl having often heard her mother threaten her brother, that if he cried she would cut his ---- off; and the boy happening to cry during the mother's absence; his sister, having it is supposed, endeavoured in vain to quiet him, dismembered him with a pair of scissors. The mother on coming home, and finding her son in this unhappy situation, was so affected and enraged, that she unfortunately gave her daughter an unlucky blow with a poker, which killed her on the spot.
January 13. Two motions of a distinct kind, but of very singular importance, are expected to be made on Thursday next in the House of Peers.
They write from Constantinople, that the Lieutenant Aga of the Janissaries had summoned all the elders and chiefs of that body, opened to them the critical situation of the army, and declared to them in the name of the Grand Sultan, the Mufti, and the whole high Divan, the great necessity there was for raising a fresh army without the least delay or any further consideration about it, so that they must issue immediate orders for 60,000 Janissaries before the expiration of the Ramadan (Lent) in the defence of the name of Mussulmen, and the Mahometan religion, which was never more likely to receive a greater check from the Christians than at present.
This day his Majesty went to the House of Peers, and opened the Session of Parliament with a most gracious Speech, the substance of which was:
HE took notice of the good effects that had succeeded the temporary distress which had been created by the regulations they had made last Session respecting Gold Coin; and recommended to them in the strongest terms, to prosecute their enquiries still further, into the adulteration of the coin, as a duty they owed to their country. He said, he had the pleasure to inform them, that his neighbours and allies entertained the same pacific sentiments as himself; and lamented that the war still raged between the Russians and Turks. He concluded in the usual manner, with his hope that they would cheerfully grant the usual supplies, the estimates of which should be laid before them.
[In our last we published an account of a late duel, as related by Mr. Temple; we have since received a further account, given by Mr. Whately, his antagonist, viz.]
From the LONDON CHRONICLE, of January 8, 1774.
To the PRINTER. S I R, Clean, 7th Jan. 1774. I called forth into print by Mr. Temple; but the letters I now lay before the public render it impossible for me to remain silent. The following letter from Mr. Temple to me, of the 28th of December, was transmitted to me at this place the day following.
S I R, THERE are some most villainous reports propagated against me. Your confinement, I suppose, must have prevented their reaching your ears. It is said that you fell upon the ground, and when in that situation, unable to defend yourself, I stabbed you in the back, and in several parts of your body. These stories you know to be false; you, therefore, are the proper person to remove the impressions which they have made on the public. I ask no favour of you; my conduct requires none. The state of your health has hitherto prevented my making any application to you. As I am informed, by your surgeon, that you are now much better, I can no longer in justice to myself postpone it. What I have to desire of you is, that you will inform the public whether I did not, in every respect, behave to you like a gentleman, and a man of honour. I am Sir, your most humble servant, J. TEMPLE.
Great-George-street, 28th Dec. 1773. To William Whately, Esq;
I desired my brother to return the following answer before I had seen Mr. Temple's publication dated the 18th, but given to the public the 30th of December.
S I R, Dec. 29th. 1773. MY brother this day received your letter of the 28th December, in which you require him to inform the public whether you did or did not, in every respect, behave to him like a gentleman, and a man of honour. If, on a cooler consideration, you should inform me that you still persist in your desire, and mean to compel him to lay the affair before the public, I am to assure you, that as soon as his health is sufficiently re-established, he cannot, on his own account, have any objection. At present he is at his Surgeon's house in the country, and in too weak a state to attend to this, or any other business. I am, your most humble servant, JOSEPH WHATELY.
P. S. A letter may probably come to my hand the sooner for being directed to me at my brother's in Lombard-street.
Mr. Temple's answer to my brother was as follows:
S I R, Great-George-street, 31st Dec. 1773. I required that justice of your brother which one gentleman has a right to expect from another. You have answered me with an insulting letter. Had your brother when he saw my character attacked by a set of anonymous affissins, under the sanction of his name, stated to the public the whole truth concerning me, neither my reputation would have suffered, nor should we have been forced into a personal contest. If he chooses to pursue the same conduct relative to the new falsehoods which have been, with the most wicked industry, circulated to my dishonour, the censure of it must rest upon him. As to compelling him to a publication, it is my wish that he should be under no compulsion, but that a true sense of what is just and honourable. You speak of cooler consideration of what I have requested. Sir, upon the coolest consideration I repeat, that I ask no favour of him. I expected justice; he has denied it: Conscious of my innocence, I therefore now set him at defiance, and am ready to meet his appeal to the public whenever he pleases, firmly relying upon that justice from them which he has thought proper to deny. I am, Sir, your most humble servant, J. TEMPLE.
Your letter was not left at my house till late last night, or it should have been sooner answered.
This letter makes it a matter of necessity with me mutually to relate the whole transaction.
It was about one o'clock on Saturday, the 11th of December, that Mr. Izzard, called upon me in Lombard-street, and informed me that he waited on me on a very disagreeable affair relating to his friend Mr. Temple. He then produced
the News-paper containing my publication, and pointing out these words, "that is a truth," informed me that that assertion was the part to which Mr. Temple objected and denied, and which he insisted on my retracting. I think I need scarce add, this was refused on my part; upon which Mr. Izzard delivered me the letter containing Mr. Temple's challenge, and appointing the meeting to be at four o'clock that afternoon, at the ring in Hyde Park. Upon my giving my answer into Mr. Izzard's hands, he asked if I proposed having any friend to accompany me; and on my informing him I never chose to involve others in my own difficulties, we parted. I cannot help observing in this place, and whoever refers to the words of my former publication must agree with me, that I deemed myself called forth by Mr. Temple not for any representation given by me of our last conversation, but for an assertion originally and freely made by me from the beginning, and invariably continued, and which contained a fact I must necessarily (viewing the affair in any light) most sincerely wish had never happened, and which therefore nothing but a sense of truth could have induced me to declare. Unskilled, and altogether unpracticed, as I make no scruple to declare myself in the use of arms, and the shortness of the time not admitting of any previous preparation, I provided myself with the only weapon I had at hand, which is the reason, and the only reason, that I appeared on the spot with the sword only. Upon Mr. Temple's expressing himself that he presumed I had pistols about me, I told him I had not; but that if he were provided with fire arms, I was willing to share his arms with him; and upon his fixing upon the spot, he delivered to me one of his pistols, I retired a small space, and desired to receive his fire, which he gave me without effect. I then pointed my pistol in a line with my antagonist's body, but purposely raised considerably above his head. Mr. Temple then drew his sword; I did the same. He soon took occasion to observe to me, that he perceived I was no swordsman, which I readily confessed. Early in the contest he seized my sword with his left hand, and bid me ask my life. I peremptorily refused, and a slight effort disengaged us. I very soon had him at the same advantage. I had his sword secured in my left hand, and my sword at liberty; when I bid him not to ask his life, but to take it unasked. We were again disengaged, and soon I once more availed myself of another opportunity to seize his sword, and again I bid him take his life unasked: He proceeded on each of those occasions as not hearing me, at least he made no reply. I am far from unwilling to make allowance for the infirmity of my opponent. After this I made no further effort to seize his sword, but continued to act on the defensive only, though on several occasions many parts of his body appeared to my judgment to be unguarded, and, with security to myself, open to my attack. My conduct was so obviously defensive, that it was even noticed by Mr. Temple, to whom I made no other reply than that I should defend my life. The contest continued; the countenance of my antagonist still sometimes bearing strongly the marks of passion and rage. It was, I presume, under some such unhappy, ungovernable influence that late in the affair, and not long before we were parted, he declared he would put me to death. But in this part of my narrative let me add, that he never appeared to make any long lunge at me.
One or two horsemen and some persons on foot were soon afterwards at no great distance, and making us to see, and my foot, in retreating, happening to slip, I fell first on my sword hand, and then on my left hand; and before I could recover myself several persons were near to us. Mr. Temple stepped up to me and said we should meet again, and even proposed then to withdraw.
I do not recollect that I returned any answer; in a little time Mr. Izzard came up to us, and now finding my loss of blood was considerable, and that my breath was affected in a manner that made me draw my breath with difficulty, I accepted Mr. Izzard's offer to take his coach, which was then in the Park, and near at hand, to convey me to Mr. Sanxay's or Mr. Davenport's my surgeon. In our way to Essex-street, on my mentioning to Mr. Izzard some circumstances of the affair, and particularly my having twice held of my adversary's sword, and the use I made of those situations, he suggested that it would be better to say nothing of the duel, alleging that Mr. Temple was a man of that violence of temper that if any misrepresentation were got abroad which is always, more or less, the case, it might induce him to renew it. The only answer I could make and the only answer I did make, was, that I had neither a motive nor a wish to conceal the duel. Mr. Izzard stayed, and was present with me at Mr. Davenport's, during the greatest part of the time employed in dressing my wounds; and I took opportunities to declare that I did not pretend to be a judge of the points, which, in the eye of the world, constitute fair or unfair fighting, and therefore did not take upon me to accuse Mr. Temple of unfair proceeding, by a declaration thus couched, to refer to myself my own sentiments.
Mr. Temple has called for those sentiments, and I mean they should be intelligibly conveyed in the narrative I have given, and the evidence accompanying it, with respect to such of my wounds as are singular, particularly one on my left side, a little above my hip, which I understand must have been in consequence, not of an oblique but of a direct thrust tending to the center of the body, and one on the back part of my left shoulder. I declare, I know not when I received these hurts; I neither saw nor felt the sword at the time they were given: I must therefore lay it before the public, and appeal to the testimony of others, who happened to be eye-witnesses, or can give information of the transaction, and to the declaration of Mr. Davenport, who first dressed my wounds.
BEING called upon to declare the number and situation of the wounds which Mr. Whately received in a late duel, I do declare there were five only which demanded the attention of a surgeon, or required dressing. Three of these were in the front of the body, viz. one on the inferior part of the right breast, one a little below the collar bone of the left side; the third on the pit of the stomach; this last only was important.
With regard to the two other wounds, one was situated rather below the middle of the left side of the body; the other behind, about the center of the left shoulder blade. Essex-street, Jan. 2, 1774. R. DAVENPORT.
I THOMAS PHIPPS, servant to Mr. Davenport, do declare, that whilst Mr. Whately was in the surgery, to have his wounds dressed, Mr. Izzard's footman told me, that as his master was passing in his coach, near the place the duel was fought, the servants hearing pistols fired, cried out "There's a duel," upon which Mr. Izzard got out of the coach and ran to the spot, ordering his servants to wait his return; that they stood at some distance, nevertheless, not so far, but that they could easily distinguish what passed; that two gentlemen were fighting with swords, a fat, large gentleman, and a lean one; both at that distance unknown to them; that they saw the lean gentleman pressing hard upon the fat one, who retreated, never attempting to push, but seeming to avoid any dangerous thrust; that thus retreating, the fat gentleman slipped down, and while falling, the lean one still kept pushing at him.
Dated this 4th day of January, 1774. T. PHIPPS.
I WILLIAM CANBURN, keeper of the Hanover-square Alehouse, in St. George's row, facing Hyde-Park, do declare that on Saturday the 11th of December last, about four o'clock in the afternoon, standing in my tap-room, and hearing the report of a pistol, I turned my head and saw two Gentlemen in the Park, about two hundred yards distance, and immediately saw one of them fire a pistol; not then apprehending it to be a duel, I did not directly go out of my house, but continuing my eye upon them, I soon after observed them fighting with swords; I went out and heard one of them say the words, "beg your life;" immediately upon this, I leaped over the Park wall, and ran upon them, when one of them, a lusty gentleman, was then retreating, and I heard him say the words, "I act upon the defensive;" I thought he seemed to have the word of it, and cried out, "for God's sake do not murder the Gentleman;" the lusty Gentleman however caught and held his Antagonist's sword once or twice in his hand. The said lusty Gentleman soon after, and I think fell upon his right hand, and I thought I saw him receive a wound in his side as he was
falling, but cannot be certain, being myself very much con-
cerned.
Jan. 4, 1774. WILLIAM CANBURN.
I JOHN BEARDMORE, son to Mr. Beardmore, keeper of the Bailey Mow Livery-stables in Piccadilly, do declare, that on Saturday the 11th of December last, being on horseback in Hyde-park, a hearing the report of a pistol, I turned round and saw two gentlemen, standing at some little distance from each other, in the road which leads round the park near the place where the soldiers are shot; and soon after saw another pistol fired by one of the said gentlemen. As soon as the smoke occasioned by the last pistol, was dispersed, I perceived they were fighting with swords. I rode off immediately for assistance to Grosvenor-gate; and on my return, I found one or them, a lusty gentleman, retreating, who seemed to act entirely on the defensive. Soon after the said lusty gentleman's foot slipped, and he fell upon his sword hand, and in that situation the other gentleman made a thrust at him, which seemed to wound him some where about his shoulder.
Jan. 4, 1774. JOHN BEARDMORE.
I JOHN POULTNEY, keeper of the three compasses, in Green-street, Grosvenor-square, do declare, that on Saturday three weeks, passing under Hyde-park wall opposite to St. George's row, I heard two pistols go off, and hearing a person on horseback say the words, "The gentleman that could have killed the other will be killed at last." I went up to the Hanover-square alehouse, which overlooks the park, and saw two gentlemen, the one lusty, the other slender, fighting with swords; the lusty gentleman soon after slipped, and fell upon his right hand; and while he was in that situation, I saw the slender gentleman make a thrust at him with his sword, which seemed to wound him somewhere on the left side.
Jan. 4, 1774. JOHN POULTNEY.
I have trepanned much on the reader's patience. I have only to add, that as all sort of intercourse, whether hostile or amicable, between Mr. Temple and myself, is at an end for the remainder of our lives, I hope and I trust, I shall never again have occasion to address the public relative to this untoward event.
WILLIAM WHATELY.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
His Majesty OKNOOKORTUNKOGOG's Most Gracious Answer to the HEARTS OF STEEL. Most Noble Hearts of Steel.
I THANK you for your kind and affectionate address, and the assurances you have given me of your attachment to my righteous government, which all good subjects will endeavour to support. I am sorry to find there are any of my subjects "born and educated" within my realms, disaffected to the laws and liberties of a free constitution, and have proceeded to measures subversive of the happiness of my free born subjects, attended with circumstances that manifest a tendency to shake off their constitutional dependence on one of my capital provinces, which must naturally introduce anarchy and confusion that may prove injurious to the rights of my people. You may rest assured of my "attention to the "rights of my American subjects," and that I shall never fail to exert that authority, which the laws of God and nature aided by the most happy constitution, hath provided against the subtle arts, and intrigues of a few disaffected factious persons, who have been clandestinely seeking "an abridgement of what are called English Liberties," and planning the destruction of some of my subjects. I would earnestly recommend to you to cultivate and maintain a spirit of harmony and union among yourselves, which will naturally tend to heighten a felicity so advantageous to the rights of civil society, and render us respected abroad and happy at home. The strong assurances I receive from you, of your determination to support, defend and maintain the rights and liberties of my people, meet with my highest approbation.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
The PREACHER proceeded and said,
WHEN I address the Americans, I speak to the most virtuous rational and free people now on earth; and therefore no word which is "fittly spoken" will fail of producing some good effect. I speak not to flatter my countrymen, but to convince them that they have the fairest prospect for liberty and every other blessing, of any nation in the world, and to stimulate them to continue and increase their exertions to establish virtue and freedom in this glorious land of their forefathers.
"It is the constant theme of tyrants, tories, and the sordid part of mankind, that "no people have virtue enough to enjoy liberty, and therefore they must have masters." This infamous doctrine has been industriously propagated in America, but happy for the people, they have generally too much understanding to be deceived by absurdities which are an insult to humanity.
"When any man's experience shall teach him his money is safer in the hands of a robber than in his own, then he may suppose his liberties will be safe in the hands of tyrants; for all tyrants are robbers. It is indeed strange, and has been matter of astonishment to the most sensible men in every age of the world, that the vilest of all governments, TYRANNY, should so much prevail; that men should suffer the most detested of their species to hold the "rod of empire;" and, to feed infernal ambition and avarice, butcher their innocent brethren and tread their superiors in the dust! I hope and pray that the dark days of despotism may soon pass away "like the morning cloud," and the glorious days of liberty arise like "the clear shining of the sun after the rain."
"The Americans have been more instructed in liberty and understand the nature of government better than any other people, and it might be demonstrated by a "million of reasons," that this country will become superior to every other quarter
of the world. As the sun doth rise in the east and travel to the west, so hath learning and empire; and the present aspect of the world portends the decline of Europe and the glory of America. One limb of tyranny after another will be lopped off until freedom shines without a cloud, and the din of tories shall be heard no more. In a few years the best of the people in Britain and Ireland will come to America, where they may leave their pottery with the animating hopes that they will from generation to generation enjoy the rights of mankind.
"If Britain's rulers should (in consequence of the late opposition to her tyranny) be so infatuated as to send more fleets and armies to inforce her unrighteous acts, we may then conclude, that her destruction is drawing near; and that America will soon dissolve all connections with her old corrupt tyrannical mother, and form a government of her own upon the pure principles of liberty. This will undoubtedly be the case, and therefore every one who is determined to be a freeman, should prepare for it. The remarkable dispensations of providence in favour of this country confirm our faith that we shall always conquer the enemies of freedom; therefore in GOD let us put our trust and never "be dismayed."
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
Mr. THOMAS,
UPON Mr. H.'s elevation to the government of this province, he immediately issued a proclamation, declaratory of his intention to encourage virtue and piety to the utmost of his power. With this declaration I propose, after the manner of PHILALETHES, to reconcile his conduct during the last session of the General Assembly.
When the House of Representatives impeached a Judge for bribery, &c. before the Governor and Council, he denied the authority of the Governor and Council to try said Judge for such crimes as he was accused of; and when the two Houses had fully proved this point he, answering by an act of power, prorogued the Court. Another proof of the uniformity of his conduct is, his refusing his assent to a Bill for preventing Bribery, in the election of Representatives; though copied, MUTATIS MUTANDIS, from an act of the British parliament, for whom he has always professed the greatest veneration, and upon whose account, it is pretended, that the late prorogation took place. As he has assigned no reason for these parts of his conduct, every one who chooses may investigate them. It may now be said that he has kept in office a man, rendered unfit for it by an unanswered accusation of Bribery, of being an enemy to the province, and of endeavouring, as far as in him lay, to subvert its civil constitution. But is his refusing to condemn another vindicating himself? Who can blame him for not trying the Judge? Every man ought to support his own reputation; and "charity covereth a multitude of sins." So true a friend is he to the province, that from regard to its laws and constitution, he first suppressed a remonstrance, and afterwards refused to hear an impeachment for crimes in which the very essence of HIGH TREASON, against the province consists. To the same reason may his rejecting the Bill against Bribery be referred: For some of his favourites would never be elected, should such a law obtain: And he has no other need of favourites, than to keep his FIFTEEN HUNDRED POUNDS STERLING per annum.—Compassion for our fellow men is, I think, reckoned among the christian virtues. That Mr. H. is possessed of it, at least so far, as it tends to encourage luxury, indolence, and other VIRTUES, he has proved by refusing his assent to the Bill prohibiting Slavery. Hence it appears that his behaviour has been perfectly consistent with his declaration.—However, it is necessary to observe, that by virtue he meant Venality, Corruption, Bribery, Injustice and Cruelty.
CHOICE MADDEN, the growth of this province, to be SOLD by JOHN BARRETT, Near the MILL-BRIDGE, BOSTON.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned against crediting Judah the wife of me the subscriber, as I will not pay any debts of her contracting from the date hereof. ZACHARIAH MARQUAND THAYER. Braintree, March 21st, 1774.
DUTCH LACES.
To be SOLD by
JOSEPH PIERCE,
At his Shop in King-Street, Nearly opposite the North door of the State-House, In BOSTON.
DUTCH LACES, and a Large Assortment of ENGLISH, INDIA and SCOTCH GOODS, on very cheap terms for READY MONEY.

Mr. THOMAS, THE repeated efforts of the tools of the British ministry to enslave America, should keep us always upon our guard. Revenue acts, a pensioned Governor, Chief Justice, Attorney General, Admiralty Judge, new fangled Courts of Inquiry, with their attendant swarm of plunderers with which we are surrounded, are circumstances that require the most animated exertions of a people who regard their own safety or that of posterity; for nothing less can prevent this country from falling a prey to these STATE VULTURES. Our enemies being aware that a union of the colonies will be a probable means to preserve us from their ravages, are using their utmost endeavours to prevent it. Mr. Hutchinson, who is possessed of the chief seat in this government, has told the Assembly that his Majesty (he should have said the ministry) disapproves of our provincial committees of correspondence, he well knows that these committees were appointed on purpose to effect a union. We are now informed that the post-office is obstructing intelligence from colony to colony, by subjecting the news-papers to an ENORMOUS POSTAGE, the fatal consequence of which if not prevented, is too notorious to be mentioned, and nothing can prevent it but establishing posts of our own, which may easily be done, and reduce the price of postage considerably. The noble example is set us in Maryland, seconded by Philadelphia, and adopted by New-York, from the former of which places a constitutional post is already established, and there is the greatest prospect of it being extended hither if encouraged by our merchants, &c. as no doubt it will when proper proposals are laid before them. Thus a large sum annually extorted from us by way of revenue and applied to injure and distress, if not destroy us, will be wrested out of the hands of our enemies, two thirds perhaps be saved, and the residue applied to purposes advantageous to OURSELVES.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. ANECDOTE.
AS the source of our public disturbances was lately returning to his country seat, about eight miles from this metropolis, he met an honest countryman who had a hog to sell; after agreeing upon a price he told the man, if he would carry the hog to his house, near half a mile back, he would pay him the value thereof in money. The bargain being made, they jogged along together; and by the way, he enquired of him, what town he lived in, how their people liked the present extraordinary measures, and whether they still continued to drink tea, as usual. To which he received answer, that the proceedings of the towns in general, Boston in particular, met with their warmest approbation; and that their women would sooner take rats-bane than use any of the detested herb. The grandee, continuing his enquiry, asked the man, what they thought of the G—rs, and his conduct; as to that, replied he, I believe he is bad enough, and it would be no matter if he was hanged. Hanged! for what, my honest friend? returned his E—y. Why Sir, he has been the occasion of all our uneasiness for these ten years past; and I am persuaded if he was once out of the way, we should have better times again. Odd's rot him, I would think no more of turning him up, than I would a rabbit. Having by this time reached the house, they dismounted; and a servant was ordered out to help the man with the hog. After it was brought in, the man took an opportunity to enquire of the servant, who it was that lived in that house; who informed him, that it was the G—r — and pray Sir, where is the gentleman? which may be his E—y? He it was, replied the servant, that you came in with. Was it indeed! said the affrighted countryman, who thinking he had committed treason, in telling the naked truth, immediately took horse, and rode off, leaving both hog and money behind him.
MONDAY, March 21. BOSTON.
Thursday the 14th of April next, is appointed by authority, to be observed as a day of fasting and prayer throughout the province of New-Hampshire. The 21st ult. about two o'clock, a smart shock of an earthquake was felt at Westover, the seat of the Hon. William Byrd, Esq; in Virginia. The motion of the earth was so great at Peterborough and Blanford as to move houses off their foundations. We hear that Capt. Welt, of the Schooner Hawk, belonging to Salem and bound to Baltimore, on the 7th ult. took up the crew of the brig Fanny, Capt. Mofley, bound to Lisbon, at the hazard of the lives of his own people.
TUESDAY, March 22. BOSTON.
We hear that on the night of the 4th instant, the dwelling-house of Mr. George Dyer, of West-Greenwich, was consumed by fire; supposed to be purposely done by one in the family. And on the 6th instant, the dwelling-house of Mr. Abiel Brown, of South Kingston, both in Rhode-Island government, was likewise consumed by fire, together with most of the furniture and a considerable quantity of money: The fire was occasioned by a child's going into a room with a lighted candle where a quantity of undressed flax was deposited.
NEW-YORK, March 10. His Excellency Governor Tryon, with his Lady and Daughter, have taken passage for England, in the Mercury Packet, which sails the 6th of April.
CHARLSTOWN [S. Carolina] Feb. 14.
Thursday last, being the day to which the General meeting of the inhabitants had been adjourned, in order to obtain from the Representatives, then expected to have sat in General Assembly, the sense of the people throughout the province, what resolutions, &c. would be most proper to be generally entered into, at the present crisis; and the assembling of the Representatives having been prevented, by a prorogation to the 1st day of March next,—it was thought proper, after the following resolve had been passed, further to adjourn the said general meeting, to Thursday the 3d of March next, being two days after the time, to which the General Assembly now stands, prorogued.
“IV. RESOLVED, as it is apprehended, in case there should be any attempt to remove the East-India Company's tea from the King's warehouse where it now lies, unless to be carried immediately on ship-board, to be returned to the proprietors in England—or any person should imprudently, contrary to the sense of the body of the people, let any house, store, cellar, or vessel to hire, for the reception of the said tea, if it should be proposed to be removed—or the said tea or any part thereof, should be offered or exposed for sale, before the present duty thereon be repealed—that the public peace might be endangered: That in either of these cases, the committee now appointed, have it especially recommended to them, to be diligently watchful, and use every means in their power, for the most expeditious assembling all the inhabitants of this town, for preserving the public peace, and to prevent, if possible, any rash or unwarrantable proceedings, which might draw reflections on the people indiscriminately, should such removal be safe, &c. attempted.”
WEDNESDAY, March 23. BOSTON.
The following is an extract of a letter from PHILLIS, a Negro Girl of Mr. Wheatley's of this town, to the Reverend Sampson Occom, which we are desired to insert as a specimen of her ingenuity. It is dated the 11th of February, 1774.
“Reverend and honoured Sir, “I have this day received your obliging, kind epistle, and am greatly satisfied with your reasons respecting the negroes, and think highly reasonable what you offer in vindication of their natural rights: Those that invade them cannot be insensible that the divine light is insensibly chasing away the thick darkness which broods over the land of Africa; and the Chaos which has reigned so long, is converting into beautiful order, and reveals more and more clearly, the glorious dispensation of civil and religious liberty, which are so inseparably united, that there is little or no enjoyment of one without the other: Otherwise, perhaps the Israelites had been less solicitous for their freedom from Egyptian slavery; I do not say they would have been contented without it, by no means, for in every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression, and pants for deliverance; and by the leave of our modern Egyptians I will assert, that the same principle lives in us. God grant deliverance in his own way and time, and get him honour upon all those whose avarice impels them to countenance and help forward the calamities of their fellow creatures. This I desire not for their hurt, but to convince them of the strange absurdity of their conduct whose words and actions are so diametrically opposite. How well the cry for liberty, and the reverse disposition for the exercise of oppressive power over others agree—I humbly think it does not require the penetration of a philosopher to determine.”
MARRIED.] Mr. John-Coffin Jones, merchant, to Miss Lee.
DIED.] Mrs. Attalanta Prichard, relict of the late Capt. William Prichard, deceased. —Mrs. Mary Biggs.—Miss Sally Stone.—At Salem, the Hon. Nathaniel Ropes, Esq; one of the Justices of the Superior Court. —At Brockfield, Mrs. Katherine Upham. —At Marlborough, Mrs. Elizabeth Harrington. —At New-York, Capt. Thomas Sowers.—At Dublin, the Right Hon. James Fitzgerald, Duke of Leinster.—At Berwick, New-Hampshire, Mrs. Sarah Libbey, aged 88. She has lived with her husband 61 years, and from her has proceeded 10 children, 92 grand children, and 152 great-grand children, in all 254.—At Northampton, Capt. William Lyman.
THURSDAY, March 24. BOSTON.
The committee of correspondence in this town, have received very spirited and judicious letters, from the respective committees in several of the neighbouring colonies; particularly those of New-York, Newport and Providence, on the subject of establishing new and constitutional posts and Post-Offices, throughout English America; instead of inconsiderately encouraging and supporting a parliamentary establishment, that has been the foundation of and precedent for a Stamp-Act, a declaratory law for binding the colonies in all cases whatsoever; a Tea duty, and other attempts to extort our money from us, and infringe on our rights and privileges. The importance of the design, the eligibility of the plan, and the propriety of co-operating with our brethren on this grand enterprise, seems to be so universally acknowledged by the inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood, that it is not doubted but such measures will be adopted by the friends of their country, the guardians of our liberties, as will effectually answer the purpose, satisfy the just expectations of our patriotic countrymen, to the southward, and be a means of strengthening the growing union of the colonies, on which our freedom and happiness essentially depends, and which it is the wish of our enemies to destroy, who are now exerting their utmost endeavours to DIVIDE, that they may TRAN-NIZE.
We hear that Mr. Goddard purports setting out for Salem, Newbury, and Portsmouth, in a few days, in order to lay the plan for establishing constitutional Post-Offices throughout the colonies, before the inhabitants of those great commercial towns, and to solicit their immediate assistance for the furtherance of the important design, in which he must, undoubtedly receive the cheerful aid of every sensible clear-sighted and real son of liberty.
Orders are received from the Earl of Dartmouth to prevent the passing any more bills for the naturalization of foreigners in the colonies.
Some of the resolutions and proceedings at Boston, against landing the East-India company's tea, also the account of exhibiting and burning the effigy in New-York, are published in the London papers.
Capt. Howard Esten, in a ship from London, is arrived at Virginia, having on board five tons of halfpence.
Extract of a letter from London, Dec. 20, 1774.
“The people here, who are friends to America, approve much of your merchants conduct respecting the tea, which you expected from London, and are in great hopes that it will be all sent back.”
Extract of a letter from a gentleman passenger, on board a sloop, John Evans, master, bound from Rhode-Island to Jamaica, dated Turks-Island, February 20, 1774.
“In going through the passage yesterday, we discovered a man of war in the road, and a boat in the offing, having eight armed men in her; she boarded us, who informed it was the Savage sloop of war's boat, and demanded the Captain's papers, who readily delivered them:—After much abuse and ill language from the dirty officer, he ordered the sloop to tow the boat up to Turk's Island. The Captain, and a number of gentlemen and ladies, passengers on board, reasoned and expostulated with the officer upon the hardship and inconvenience of the delay, as one of the ladies was very near her time, &c. which produced nothing but scurrilous language; the man they ordered to the helm was forced therefrom by the Captain; the officer then ordered his men in the boat to fire upon those on the quarter-deck, which they instantly obeyed, and shot Mr. Finlater, a gentleman planter on the island of Jamaica, through the body. The sloop they brought into the road, and the Captain and mate detained on board the Savage all night, but the next day were released and permitted to proceed on their voyage. The surgeon dressed Mr. Finlater's wound, and behaved with politeness; but it is doubtful whether he will recover.”
We learn from Turk's island, that a Schooner belonging to Salem, in her passage from the windward islands, took up a boat with 2 white persons and 4 negroes in her; and that when they were about 2 leagues from the island, was boarded by a cutter belonging to the Savage man of war, and carried into port, where the Captain of the Schooner attempted to sell part of the negroes to pay the salvage for taking them up, &c. but the officers of the Savage held a court upon the Captain of the Schooner, and tried him for FELONY, as though he had stolen the negroes; but were obliged to acquit him: however they took the negroes from him, in order, as was supposed, to convert them to their own use.
We hear that Capt. Brown of Connecticut, on his passage put into Newport harbour, last week, where he received very great abuse from an officer of the Magdalen armed Schooner; the particulars of which we have not yet received.
We hear that Captain McFadden, in a fine new ship, belonging to Mr. William Dennie, from this port for Jamaica, was cast away in going into that harbour.
DIED.] Mr. Joseph Gale.
NEW-YORK, March 15. Notice is hereby given, that the sons of liberty will meet on Thursday night, at 7 o'clock, in every week, at the house of Mr. Jasper Drake, till the arrival and departure of the Tea Ship.
A CARD.
THE Plymouth Professors present their compliments to JOYCE jun. and ask the favour of him to make preparation for a reception of a select Committee from their Body, who propose to honour the Metropolis with a visit
THOMAS'S MARINE LIST.
BOSTON, March 19.
ARRIVED. Cynth and Adam from North-Carolina; Hiram and Kemp, Maryland; Waverley, New-Haven; Ewell, Virginia; Harris, New-London; Valentine and Whitmaria, Surinam; Barnes, Grenada and Saucersdale; Addins, St. Lucia; Rogers, Turks-Island; Peabody, Hispaniola.
NEWBURY-PORT, March 9.
ARRIVED. Jones, St. Lucia.
PISCATAQUA, March 18.
ARRIVED. Hill and Jones from St. Lucia; Gee, Virginia; Goodwin, Turks-Island; Smith, New-York; Elderkin, Rhode-Island.
RHODE-Island, March 14.
ARRIVED. Potter, Turks-Island; Dunwell, Hispaniola; Tilloughly, Grenada and Hispaniola; Gree, Esequibo and Salletuda; Lippit, Georgia; Norris and Litch, Virginia; Corey, Maryland; Wilborn, Hispaniola; Warner, Turks-Island; Wetgate, Philadelphia; Chase, Turks-Island.
ANNAPOLIS, (Maryland) March 3.
ARRIVED. Hudson from Liverpool; Arnaud, Hispaniola; Tuck, Salem; Bracket, Boston; Mullet, London; Straker, Newcastle; Nowells Piscataqua; Gray, Boston; Jehu, Guernsey; Conway, Virginia; Campbell, London.
PHILADELPHIA, March 9.
ARRIVED. Henderson from Cadiz; Martin, Thompson and Dekeyne, Hispaniola; Palmer, Martinico; Conyng-ham, Porto-Rico; Catle, Fero; Cox, Grenada; Cochran and Inkson, St. Eustatia; Hunter, Honduras; Shiel, Jamaica; Bingley, Lisbon; Wilkinson, Barbados; Thompson, Dunn and Atkins, Boston; Moore, South-Carolina; Wright, New-York.
This Day,
At ONE o'clock,
Will be SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
At the Bunch of Grapes Tavern, in King-Street,
A Brick House, Land, Wharf and Dock, near the Swing-bridge, now improved by Mr. Thomas Lee.—The House is large and well built, and has every accommodation needed by a gentleman in trade. Also, a new Store, Chaise-House and Barn on Wentworth's wharf, near the Draw-bridge, with part of the Wharf and Dock.
N. B. The above premises are part of the Real Estate of Thomas Tyler, Esq; late of Boston, deceased, and are the same that were designed to have been sold last Thursday. J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
On WEDNESDAY next,
At TEN in the Morning,
Will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE,
At RUSSELL'S Auction-Room, in Queen-Street,
A LARGE and valuable assortment of ENGLISH GOODS, the particulars of which will be in next Monday's papers. J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
Taken by Execution.
And to be Sold on WEDNESDAY next,
At PUBLIC VENDUE,
At the Royal-Exchange Tavern, in King-Street.
At ONE o'clock, P. M.
A Neat fall back CHAISE and a SULKEY with harnesses complete: They may be seen at the time and place of sale.
M. BICKER, Auctioneer. N. B. Said Bicker has for sale at his Auction-Room, near the Market, a large assortment of Woolen GOODS, with many other articles, which he has orders to sell at an uncommon low rate. (The sterling cost is not expected)
A SMAR LAD is wanted, as an
Apprentice, to the BRICKLAYERS BUSINESS. Enquire of the Printer.
On THURSDAY next,
At ELEVEN o'clock,
Will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE,
At BICKER'S AUCTION-ROOM,
Near the Conduit,
A GREAT Variety of GOODS, as usual. M. BICKER, Auctioneer.
BOSTON PIER.
THE Proprietors of the Boston Pier or Long-Wharf so called in Boston, are hereby notified to meet at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern, in King-Street, Boston, on Thursday the seventh day of April next at three o'clock, P. M. then and there to choose a Moderator, Wharfinger, Clerk, Agent, &c. and generally to do and transact all other matters that may then be laid before them. The Proprietors are desired to take particular notice, that if the Proprietors of two third parts of the interest shall not appear on said seventh day of April, as was the case at their annual meeting of this day, such Proprietors as may be present will proceed on the business beforementioned, by virtue of provision in that case made by an act of the General Court.
JOE PRINCE, Proprietors Clerk. Boston, 23 March, 1774.
To be SOLD,
Extremely Cheap for Cash, or short Credit,
Of any kind of Merchandise,
A SCHOONER
ten months old, between fifty and
sixty tons burthen, well found and
in every respect as good a vessel of
her size as is in America. Enquire of the Printer.
N. B. Said Schooner may be chartered if for a long voyage.
ALL persons indebted to, or have any de-
mands on the late company of AARON DAVIS,
jun. and COMPANY, are desired to make speedy settle-
ment with WALES and SOMES, the two sur-
viving partners, at their store the upper corner, going on
MINOTT T. At which store is to be SOLD,
Good BAIT MACKREL, SALMON in Barrels or Kegs,
New FLOUR, BAR IRON; a Quantity of twice
laid RIGGING and JUNK.
SARAH DAWSON,
Widow of the late Joseph Dawson, Gardner,
At the COLD BATH, New Boston,
Has for SALE, at the lowest rates for cash,
A LARGE collection of grafted
and inoculated ENGLISH FRUIT TREES,
of all kinds; also, a large number of young Apple Trees,
raised from the Seed; likewise Gooseberry and Currant
Bushes, Laylock Trees, Flower Roots, &c.
An assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, imported
from London, with an assortment of ditto raised here, the
latter being most proper for the West-Indies.
Any Gentlemen or Ladies who may want any of the
above articles, and will favour the said Dawson with their
custom, may depend upon the best of usage, and their in-
vours gratefully acknowledged.
WANTED immediately, a young man,
who writes a good hand, and understands accounts,
and can be recommended for his faithfulness, &c. Enquire
of the printer.

POETS CORNER. NANCY CROW.
I. A! whence this impotence of mind, Sure beauty properly defin'd, To learning is a foe; Newton and Pope neglected lie, Eclips'd can no more suply The place of NANCY CROW, The place of NANCY CROW.
II. Let those who wou'd the depths explore, Of modern wit, or ancient lore, To foreign climates go; To me let none propose this task, No proof of nature's force I ask, But charming NANCY CROW.
III. Through the smooth surface of a stream, When brighten'd by the morning beam, We see the sands below; Thus in her face, as smooth, as clear, (Enlighten'd by her eyes) appear The thoughts of NANCY CROW.
IV. Had nature, now too careless grown, Each year the seeds of beauty sown, Sure time wou'd not be slow; Since fourteen summers cou'd produce, A plant so fair, to fit for use As charming NANCY CROW.
V. Alas! said Flora with a tear, No more my roses must appear, No more my lillies blow; For Oh! their boated red and white, Their softness, fragrance, all unite In lovely NANCY CROW.
VI. Let those whom coarser nerves sustain, O'er hills, and dales, through rough and plain, Pursue the bounding doe; 'Tis mine to chase a sprightly fair, (Like Daphne crown'd with golden hair) Coy, tempting NANCY CROW.
Harvard-College LOTTERY, 5000 DOLLARS the highest Prize, Not two Blanks to a Prize.
THE Public are hereby informed, that the Managers of HARVARD COLLEGE LOTTERY, are very desirous the drawing of said LOTTERY should commence as soon as possible; they would therefore be glad those who have subscribed for tickets would send for them and those who intend to be adventurers, would purchase their tickets immediately.
American Magazine.
THE ROYAL AMERICAN MAGAZINE Numb. III. is now in the press. Those Gentlemen who have original pieces, useful extracts, &c. prepared for said number, are requested to forward them, to their and the public's most obedient humble servant. ISAIAH THOMAS.
This day published, [Embellished with elegant engravings of Sir Wilbraham Wentworth; and a Night Scene; two historical Pieces.] NUMBER II. of
THE ROYAL American Magazine,
Or UNIVERSAL Repository of Instruction and Amusement. For FEBRUARY, 1774. CONTAINING,
The Origin of Letters continued—The Character of an American Patriot—Philosophical Reasons for observing the Sabbath—Medical Observations—A Genealogical Problem—Reflections on Generosity—A Winter Piece—An attempt to prove the use of Letters, and the Art of Printing, were known before the Flood—The Reverie—Justice and Generosity—The Fortune Hunter—Sentences worthy of being remembered—Epitome of Captain Wallis's Voyage round the World, continued—Miscellaneous and detached thoughts—The Directory of love—Thoughts on Periodical Publications—Poetical Essays—The Choice—On God—To the Author of the Lines on the Connubial Sate—An Elegy on the Death of a favourite Dog—The Dying Negro—Historical Chronicle—General History of America—Domestic Intelligence—Council's Answer to Governor Hutchinson's Speech—House of Representatives ditto—Messages from the House of Representatives of Massachusetts-Bay to the Governor—Governor's Answers thereto—Marriages and Deaths—Meteorological Observations on the weather.
Printed and sold by I. THOMAS, Boston, and the Printers and Booksellers in AMERICA.
To the PRINTERS. TWO COMPOSITORS, who understand the Business, and will keep steadily and soberly at it, are wanted immediately by the Printer hereof. N. B. Constant employ, and good wages.
To be SOLD VERY CHEAP. A TOPSAIL SCHOONER of about Eighty TONS, high deck, long quarter deck, and very burdensome. Enquire of the Printer.
JONATHAN WILLIAMS, jun. requests those persons indebted to him, to make immediate payment, as he intends for ENGLAND early in the Spring. He proposes to sell of his SHOP GOODS before his departure, therefore will part with them (for the cash only) at the sterling cost by wholesale, and cost and charges by retail.
For LONDON, The BRIGANTINE HOPE, A fine new vessel, has excellent accommodations for Passengers, and will sail as soon as loaded, three-quarters of her cargo being already engaged. For Freight or Passage, apply in Ann-street, to JONATHAN WILLIAMS, jun.
To be SOLD. A NEW COPPER STILL, contains one hundred gallons; three hundred hogheads of Lisbon SALT. Enquire of the Printer.
PROPOSALS For printing by SUBSCRIPTION,
THE Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, M. A. Late Chaplain of the right Hon. the Countess of Huntingdon. In which every circumstance worthy of notice, both in his private and public character is recorded. Faithfully selected from his original papers, Journals and Letters. Illustrated by a variety of interesting and entertaining Anecdotes, from the best authorities.
To which are added, A particular account of this Death and Funeral, and extracts from the Sermons which were preached on that occasion.
By the Rev. JOHN GILLIES, D. D. CONDITIONS.
I. It shall be printed in large Twelves, on good paper and with new and neat types. II. It will consist of about three hundred pages, and the price to the subscribers will be no more than Six Shillings, neatly bound and lettered, although the London edition is nearly double that price. III. It shall be put to the press as soon as 300 have subscribed; and the names of the subscribers printed at the beginning. IV. The books as soon as finished, will be delivered to the subscribers upon paying Six Shillings. V. Those that subscribe for twelve shall have a thirteenth gratis.
Subscriptions are taken in by PHILIP FREEMAN in Union-street, facing the Cornfields, and PHILIP FREEMAN, jun. near Liberty-Tree, in Boston, and by all the Printers and Booksellers on the Continent.
WHEREAS I the subscriber intend leaving off the Baking business very soon, do take this opportunity of returning my thanks to those gentlemen and ladies who have favoured me with their custom, since my late husband's decease. MARY SURCOMB.
N. B. A very good horse and handsome chaise to be sold. Enquire of Mary Surcomb.
The business will be carried on as usual by Mr. William Flagg. Boston, February 23d, 1774.
This is to acquaint all gentlemen and ladies that the baking business will be carried on as usual, the subscriber, who is determined to give universal satisfaction. WILLIAM FLAGG.
GARDEN SEEDS, IMPORTED in Capt. SHEPHARD from LONDON And to be SOLD by
ELIZABETH GREENLEAF, At her shop to the southward of the lane leading to Dr. Eyles's Meeting-house, BOSTON,
EARLY Charlton, early golden hotspur, early Hotspur, large Dwarf, and green Marrowfat, white Rouncival, Ledman's Dwarf and Spanish Marrowfat Peas, large Windsor, Toker, early yellow Dwarf Kidney, and large white Beans, red, purple, orange, and yellow Carrot seeds, early Yorkshire, early Dutch, early sugar loaf, early Battersea, red, large, winter, green, and yellow Savoy, early and late Cauliflower, Cabbage: green and white Gofs, brown duck, Madeira, spotted, and Mogul Lettice seeds; red, white, Spanish, Portugal and silver skin Onion Seed: green and white Endive, swelling Parsnip, red Beet, Thyme, Baum, sweet Majoram, Sage, and summer favory seed; Barlet, salmon, short top and turnip Radish seeds, summer and winter Spinage early and late cucumber, early Dutch and French Turnip Seeds; Parsley, Pepper Grass, Asparagus, Celery, Lavender and white Mustard seeds; water and musk Mellon seeds; summer and winter Squash seeds; Hemp, Rape and Canary bird seed; choice split Pease by the large or smaller quantity—N. B. English GOODS.
GARDEN SEEDS. Imported in Captain HOOD from LONDON, And to be SOLD by
SUSANNA RENKEN, At her Shop near the Draw-Bridge, Fore-street, Boston,
EARLY Charlton, early golden Hotspur, white Rouncival, green Marrow, Spanish Morattos, crooked Sugar and Leadman's dwarf PEAS, Toker, best Windsor, early Lisbon and large Dutch Kidney BEANS, Stanbrugh, Spanish silver-skin and Portugal Onion, orange, early short, early yellow and scarlet Carrot, swelling Parsnip, early Turnip, early short-topped London, Salmon Turnip, Spanish and scarlet Radish, early Frame, white Cabbage, white Gofs, early green Gofs, large green Gofs, bloody Gofs, Aleppo Gofs, brown Dutch, marble, royal brown Dutch, Imperial, Tennishill and Capuchin Lettice, prickly and round Spinage, red Beets, Italian and solid Celery, curled Peppergrass, Indian Cresses, curled and large rooted Parsley, early and late Cauliflower, early Yorkshire, large Battersea, early Dutch, large Scotch, large Winter and Turnip Cabbage, green, white and yellow Savoy, long & early prickly, green Turkey and long Roman Cucumber, Baum, sweet Majoram, Thyme, Rosemary, Lavender and sage Seed, white Mustard, Hemp, Rape and Canary Seed, broad red and fine white Clover, Lucern, Rye Grass and other Grass Seeds, Durham best Flour Mustard, Split Peas, Guocies, English and India Goods all which may be had cheap for Cash.
To be SOLD at the Shop of CHARLES LOWE
In Marshall's Lane, facing the Boston-Stone,
FINE Lisbon OIL, by the gallon quart or less.
Best Durham Mustard, by the pound or less.
Red Herrings, by the hundred or less.
Choice Dorchester Beer, by the gallon or quart.
Fine Currants and Raisins, by large or small quantities.
Dumb and Merchamble Fish, by the Quintal or smaller quantity.
ALSO, Loaf and Brown Sugars, Rice, Flour, Alfice, Nutmegs, Coffee, Chocolate, Molasses, Cotton Wool, Indigo, Raisins, Pepper, Spermacei Oil, Dumb Fish, Indian and Rye Meal.
And many other ARTICLES.
WANTED. TEN GUINEAS, for which ample security will be given. Enquire of the Printer.
This day published, And to be sold at GREENLEAF's Printing-Office, In HANOVER-STREET, BOSTON, A VISION shewing the hidden and future Appearance, the celestial Men and Heavenly Conversation, of the departed Spirit of Mr. YEAMANS, late Student at YALE COLLEGE, to and with Mr. H. GOODWIN, his Friend and Class-mate.
GARDEN SEEDS.
A large assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, Imported from LONDON, in Capt. Shepherd, Also, an assortment of AMERICAN SEEDS, Sold at the following prices (in sterling money) per pound, peas and beans, per bushel, and very cheap per smaller quantities, for ready money only, by
JOHN WHITE, Gardner, and Seeds-Man, in SEVEN-STAR LANE, BOSTON.
Per Bushel. Per Pound. EARLY Hotspur Peas 11. Curled cresses, 2s. 6d. Early Charlton do. 11. White Mustard, 2s. 6d. Early Golden Hotspur, do. 11. Cured Parsley, 2s. 6d. Spanish Morotto do. 11. Red Beet, 3s. Flanders Hotspur do. 11. Solid Celery, 4s. Green Rouncival do. 11. Italian Celery, 4s. Dwarf Marrowfat do. 11. Asparagus, 3s. Large Marrowfat do. 11. Melon of several sorts, 12s. Hotspur Beans, 12s. Water Mellon, 4s. Lisbon do. 12s. Early Yorksh. Cabbage 15s. Windsor do. 18s. Early Dutch Cabbage, 8s. Broad Spanish do. 18s. Early Battersea ditto, 8s. Dutch Running do. 18s. Large English Cabbage, 8s. Early French do. 18s. Late Dutch Cabbage, 8s. Kidney Beans of several sorts. 18s. Large Winter Cabbage, 4s. 6d. Green Savoy Cabbage, 6s. Yellow Savoy Cabbage, 6s. Sugar-loaf Cabbage, 8s. Red Cabbage, 10s. Long green Cucumber, 4s. 6d. Early Cucumber, 4s. 6d. Cale, 2s. Hyllop, 8s. Summer Savory, 8s. Sweet Majoram, 10s. 6d. Thyme, 10s. 6d. Balm, 12s. Sage, 12s. Summer Squash, 4s. Cured Colewort, 5s. White Price, 2s. Dried sweet Herbs— Summer Savory, 1s. Sweet Majoram, 1s. 6d. Sage, 1s. Balm, 1s. Rue, 1s. 6d. Thyme, 1s. 6d. Mint, 1s. Marsh Mallow, 1s. Hyllop, 1s. Garlick, 9d. Shalots, 6d. Horse Radish 5d. half-penny.
ALSO, a large variety of FLOWER SEEDS and PLANTS, too numerous to mention here.
CHOICE PEAS, Isle of Shoals DUMB FISH, BEEF, RYE, a few barrels RYE FLOUR and PORK, to be SOLD by JOHN BARRETT and SONS, near the MILL-BRIDGE.
VELVET CORKS.
Choice VELVET CORKS, By the Quantity or single Groce, To be SOLD by SAMUEL ELIOT, At his Shop near the Head of Dock-Square, Just above the Market.
ALSO, A GENERAL Assortment of ENGLISH and INDIA GOODS; with a fine Assortment of IRISH LINENS.
To be sold, a set of braziers tools cheap, for cash, and a pair of bellows. Enquire of the printer.
GRENADA RUM. A FEW hogheads of choice GRANADARUM, to be sold by JOSEPH P. PALMER, at the lowest store on the south side of the Town-Dock.—Cheese, Coffee, Chocolate, &c. as usual. N. B. NO TEA.
ANY Gentleman who inclines to engage in the Employment of a SCHOOL-MASTER, by enquiring of the Printer hereof, may hear of a good School in a populous seaport town. If agreeable, he may engage in the School for Life, with a good prospect. February 2, 1774.
To be SOLD by CHARLES LOWE, In Marshall's-Lane, opposite to the Boston-Stone, CHOICE CHESHIRE and NEW-ENGLAND CHEESE.
OATS.
QUEBEC and Nova-Scotia OATS. Also, Nova-Scotia Peas. To be SOLD by JOSEPH P. PALMER. At the lowest store on the south side of the Town-Dock.
To be SOLD, A VERY good BILLIARD TABLE, with balls, tacks, &c. compleat. Enquire of the Printer.
All persons indebted to the PRINTER hereof, will greatly oblige him by making speedy payment.
JUST PUBLISHED, And to be Sold by KNEELAND & DAVIS, in Queen-Street,
A POEM, in seven Parts, Containing REFLECTIONS upon A FAREWEL SHIPWRECK. CALM. DELIVERANCE.
Moderate Breeze, AND HARD GALE. RETURN.
PART I. A VOYAGE.—They that go down to the Sea in Ships, that do business in Great Waters; these see the Works of the LORD, and his Wonders in the Deep. Psal. cvii. 23, 24.
PART II. A CALM.—He maketh the Storm a Calm, so that the Waves thereof are still. Psal. cvii. 29.
PART III. A MODERATE BREEZE.—He caused an East Wind to blow in the Heavens and by his Power he brought in the South Wind. Psal. lxxviii. 26.
PART IV. A STORM.—The LORD sent out a Great Wind into the Sea, and there was a mighty Tempest in the Sea, so that the Ship was like to be broken. Jonah. i. 4.
PART V. SHIPWRECK.—And there came down a Storm of Wind on the Lake, and they were filled with Water, and in Jeopardy, And they came to him and awoke him, saying, Master, Master, we Perish. Matt. viii. 23, 24.
PART VI. THE DELIVERANCE.—In my Distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my GOD, He heard my voice out of his Temple, and my cry came before him, even into his Ears. Psal. viii. 6.
PART VII. THE RETURN.—Then are they Glad, because they be quiet, so he brings them into their desired Haven.—Oh! that Men would Praise the LORD for his Goodness, and for his wonderful works to the Children of Men. Psal. cvii. 30, 31.
Dedicated to the Hon. JOSEPH WANTON Esq; Governor of Rhode-Island &c. &c. N. B. A few Copies of the Master-Key to Popery, may be had at the above Place.
Duncan Ingraham, jun.
Has now for Sale at his shop in Union-Street, Boston, a compleat assortment of European Piece Goods.
Suitable for the present Season, Which he will sell great Pennyworths for cash The following
Articles of Hard Ware,
He will sell for near the cost, on examination, they will be found to be very low charged.
Table knives and forks, portmanteau locks, brisa Stag and duffle pruning nails, thimbles, two feet knives, joint rules, tap borers, Penknives, two cases rasps, files, thumb latch- very neat knives and screws, marking irons, gim- forks, blets, frying pans, Jews Scissors, shears, cuttoes, harps, gilt buttons, steel razors, chizzles, gouges, watch chains, quadrille, ges, wheat scythes, cross dishe, very neat brass cut saws, hand saws, cork machines, snuff and tenant and dove tail tobacco boxes, neat pa- saws, curling and pinch-per do ink pots, combs ing tongs, hammers, very of all fors, desk and ry nice padlocks, ele-book case furniture, H. gant brass plate locks and H. hinges of all orout and inside doors, sizes, chest hinges of all box locks, chest and sizes, table butts, cart cupboard locks, secret and chaise boxes, hoes.
ALSO, Several compleat sets shoe makers tools one compleat set carpenter's do.
SILKS
And Superfine BROAD CLOTHS
A Prime assortment of Paduoy's Ducapes, Lucekings; plain and figured satins, damasks, sarfets, &c. — superfine, fashionable coloured broad cloths, with suitable Linings and Timmings.
To be sold at an exceeding low rate, by JOHN BARRETT & 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.
This day was published, price 6d.
The BOSTON
SHEET ALMANACK.
For the year of our Lord God 1774. Being the second after Bissextile or Leap year.
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