The Massachusetts spy (Boston [Mass.]), 1772-03-26 00:00:00

THE Massachusetts Spy
BOOK LANGUAGES and Stationary Store, in Cornhill, Boston, LONDON, Printed for the most S, and Sci-
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Published by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-Bridge, BOSTON.
"DO THOU Great LIBERTY INSPIRE our Souls, --And make our Lives in THY Possession happy, --Or, our Deaths glorious in THY JUST Defence."
VOL. II.]
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1772.
[NUMB. 56.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. The CENTINEL No. XL. No, patriots, if our swords now... They'll want for ever--to this spot I charm thee By the dread words, Revenge and Liberty! This is the crisis of our fate; this moment, The guardian gods of Egypt hover o'er us; They watch to see us act like noble men, And out of ills extract our happiness.
HAVE for a long period back, engaged your atten- tion, my countrymen, on matters that in my opin- ion, were interesting and alarming. To this I was led by my duty as a and from an affection to the land gave me birth. I have only touched the topics: A more entire examina- tion must be left to men whose leisure and abilities render them adequate to the subject. I now take my leave of you, perhaps quit the theatre of political life for ever. But though I declare this my intention, it must be un- derstood in a limited sense. I mean still to be warmest wishes for your prospe- rity and the aspect of the times en- d the sacrifice, I mean to lay down, fortune, my connections, my life, security and defence. This I am by many considerations. You looked to me with candor, and I with some degree of approba- tion. To me it is estimable, and shall be alliance to many misfortunes that me. You will at present al- freedom to offer some advice, ever I would have received no as it accords with the interest of the Massachusett-Bay may be. And my prayers, that you may witness and successful; that you sitteth triumph over those that with parson: And that whatever may the situation, the liberties of the of the Massachusett-Bay may wheat, may be said to you, that it is important and interesting. I honour you by arguments that would Court with them, to be watchful, loyal to your political situation: As a wise nation ever will do. Care- fulness and security are the basis on which spotted found their tyranny; they will therefore be very cautious how they alarm; they will put on the most agreeable appear- ances, and like him in inspiration transform themselves into angels of light, to gull and deceive the people. This is an artful way, and is perhaps generally successful. Man- kind are caught with form. When they see a man, full of devotion, complaisant and engaging, with an apparent kindness and af- fection for them, they give at once into the snare, not reflecting that latet anguis in herba . But my countrymen, we live in a day when we must suspect every thing. It is a common but a true sentiment, if a man is deceived the first time, he cannot be to blame: if he falls a second time into the snare, he must thank himself. This will with justice be your character, my countrymen, if you suffer yourselves to be deceived, when you are so frequently warned and cautioned; when you have laid before you the most powerful argu- ments in nature, life and death, blessing and curse.
it is not the tyrant himself that you fear to guard against. Though he is the mover, yet it is of a machine in thousand parts, who are all They disperse through the of the province, and com- ly the attention of the peo- eat up every sentiment. uated themselves into every
department. Some of the most note among them influence at the bar and in courts; o- thers conceal themselves under the most sacred cover, while the more humble and less qualified crawl into the inferior classes of the citizens. These people are capable of, and have done extensive mischief. This I myself have been witness to, and have trembled for the ark. And in a peculiar manner, in a profession I have just named, I have observed how powerful they have worked on minds, not strong enough to see through the guise, and like the little Foxes we read of, have spoiled the tender vines. Oh! my countrymen, you cannot be sufficiently attentive to these men. Let not outward appearance, let not faces by long trial formed for service, put you off your guard. On the contrary, let them know, that the mode of procedure you de- spise, the intention you resent. If these lit- tle props insignificant in themselves, but taken collectively, alarming, are cut away, the fabric itself will totter. Stripped of these, the mover himself will be naked and weak, and "must bleed at every vein." This subject might as I observed have been largely handled; but I omit this and come to what in my apprehension is more important: And in a peculiar manner is this proper now, as the period approaches when it will have the greatest influence. In a little time will come on, the choice of Representatives. This is an important affair, and essentially so at this season. The time now calls, and for reasons I will presently give, for veterans in the cause of their country. I would have those and those only chose, who from principle are patriots; who animated by a warm affecti- on for this land are not to be intimidated nor cajoled; but who will seriously take into consideration the state of the province, and enter into measures most conducive to its prosperity.
In such seasons it is usual to give in- structions. From them let the sense of the people be collected. Let mankind know, whether in general we reject or are easy un- der our situation. To the people, taken in this sense, I would now address myself; and I would offer something which I would earnestly wish may be contained in these instructions. What I shall propose God knows is not the effect of malice or re- venge; but I propose them as I am con- cerned for the welfare of the province and as I am of opinion they are indispensably ne- cessary.
It seems the Grand Inquest for this coun- ty have declared themselves uneasy with respect to Richardson, convicted of mur- der. Such an opinion from a body of that high nature sufficiently exposes what has been rung out, that the murmurings so frequently heard proceeded only from the discontent of some individuals. This is an affair of the utmost importance. When the execution of a man legally convicted is suspended twenty-two months, and the murderer is then discharged in an unusual manner, society ought to be alarmed. The Grand Jury could not with propriety have proceeded farther than they have done; but there is a body of men, and I affirm it, there is a body of men, who have a right to canvass to the utmost this transaction: And not only this right have the commons of this province, but they are bound to do so by the most forcible considerations. To suppose a court of justice unaccountable for their conduct is a solcism on the principles of a free govern- ment; if so, I know of no body on earth in whom this right of controul is vested but in the commons of this kingdom. Every man in a judicial capacity should consider that some deference should be paid to the sentiments of so high a body, whatever slight notions they may entertain of their own dignity and honour. Sorry would I be to insinuate that this last is really the case,
and if I suspect groundlessly let the suspicion rest on my own head. And the conse- quences even in this view of things may be unhappy. Mankind from conduct in ca- pital instances always judge of behaviour in matters of less moment. The contempt due to the former is frequently transferred to the latter. I am grieved therefore when I see a set of men suspected to be without principle and who are looked on, by the man of letters with contempt, by the pious, with horror, and by the bulk of the citi- zens with execration. I would have you, my countrymen, by all means instruct, command your representatives, that they suffer not blood so long to pollute the land without an enquiry. By no means let this be omitted. It would be a virtual justifi- cation of the act itself. And not only the in- terests of society now require such a pro- cedure, but the interests of posterity, on whom such a precedent permitted, may have an unhappy influence. Oh! my countrymen, I cannot pass by this matter as a slight thing; it lays near my heart. The laws of God, of nature and society all unite with me in enforcing my request. And in this determination may you be as- sisted by him, who is the only source of wisdom; who will never see the laws he has instituted, broken with impunity, and who has once declared, the voice of thy brother's blood CRIETH TO ME from the ground.
I shall now mention what may perhaps amaze some people. I cannot help it. It is sufficient for me if I think it my duty to say it before my countrymen, and if I can justify and defend my conduct. You may remember a paper that has made no little noise, signed MUCIUS SCÆVOLA. He has advanced some bold truths. But al- though the creatures of administration have threatened and the archers have shot at him, "his bow has yet remained in strength." He has had the happiness of finding his notions justified by his country- men, and the same Grand Jury who be- haved so spirited in Richardson's case, have in fact attested to the truth of them. For my own part I am convinced of nothing more than of the reality of what he asserts. This opinion was not caught hastily, but founded on arguments, which arguments I laid before the public in two of my num- bers: and surely this is an important point. Either what Mucius says is true or false; if the latter, Why is he not punished? The conduct of the Grand Jury, and the general opinion of the people, will make any man suspect that it is not false; at least he will be doubtful. Admitting it in this light, admitting it to be only doubtful, it is a doubt of SO HIGH A NATURE that it ought by all means to be solved. The existence of the community demands this: But if it should happen to be true how does the argument acquire force. How can an hour approach a governor, when they know in their souls he is not a legal one? How can they permit the business of the province to come forth under the sanction of a man who has no authority for such a sanction? Your interests, your all de- mands of you my countrymen, that you solemnly require those whom you shall commission, to make a point of this matter; order them to examine whether the opin- ion now circulating is true or false. If they find the latter, the rights of the governor demand their public attestation to his char- acter; if they find the former the rights of the community require an explanation. Let them act like men. Let them openly say so. Let them not by submitting to a ruler whom in their souls they disavow, betray a littleness of behaviour. Let them exert themselves, and let mankind know that they have too much spirit to be made tools of; that they will struggle hard for the constitution they are bound to pre- serve, and will if possible hand it down to latest ages.
I have now done with my subject. The long intercourse we have had together, makes me leave you my countrymen with some regret: But it is only a change of form, at heart we are the same. With cheerfulness do I resign you to a kind pro- vidence, and to the care of that Being who once had a favour for this people, and who I trust will still be propitious to the rem- nant of Judah. And in the tranquility of my retirement this will be my solace, an idea that I have in any measure been ser- viceable to this people, and that I have been in the least instrumental in defending and securing the rights, the liberties and the freedom of mankind.
And now retired, I'll gently pass my short reserve of time, In calm reflections on past periods: And in an even course my thoughts shall flow, Enjoy the present hour, nor fear the last. While thou my country shall erect thy head, Peace spread her balmy wings and plenty boom: Thy bright example shall convince the world, Whatever storms of fortune are decreed, Virtue and Freedom shall at last succeed. SHAKESPEARE.
AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.
ST. GEORGE'S, [Grenada] December 10. COPY of a LETTER from one of the suspen- ded MEMBERS to his Excellency Gov. LEY- BORNE, on the Receipt of the suspension.
SIR, I HAVE had the honour of receiving your Excellency's suspension of me from being a member of his Majesty's council for this Island. As the suspended Members will shortly present your Excellency with their joint reasons for refusing to consent to the swearing in Mr. Chanteloupe as a member of his Majesty's council, your Excellency will now permit me to say, that as my conduct was the result of the maturest deliberation, and founded on motives of great public concernment, I cannot but fe- licitate myself on the internal approbation which has followed it, and which, in its true estimation, is infinitely more grateful than the warmest and most distinguished ministe- rial approbation can possibly be.
I trust, Sir, that I shall at all times, and at the peril of all consequences, contribute my utmost endeavours to defeat a measure so to- tally illegal and unconstitutional, and so pregnant with danger, as the introduction of the French Papists in this island into the Council, Assembly and other offices of trust, which is now with extreme violence at- tempted to be carried into execution; and I do not live without hope that the accumu- lated grievances, which have been heaped upon the injured and oppressed inhabitants when considered by the constitutional re- dresser of all wrongs--a just and wise parli- ament--will insure to the author of them that reward which he doth so justly merit.
I can never, Sir, regret my retreat into a private situation, when I can no longer re- main in a public one, but by sacrificing my own opinions, judgment, and conscience. I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
St. George's, December 4th. 1771. The following are the joint reasons of the late members of his Majesty's council in Grenada, for their conduct.
Because, WE think that the many acts of Parliament which restrain the crown from employing in places of trust and power all persons whatever who profess the Roman Catholic religion, are not to be dis- pensable with by any prerogative of the King; and that the inability all such persons are at present in, by law, of holding offices, is not any otherwise to be removed, but by an act of Parliament of Great-Britain.

ALMANACKS.
AMES's, Low's, Bickerstaff's, Massachusetts Calendars and SHEET ALMANACKS, to be sold by I. Thomas, near the Mill-Bridge.
To be SOLD,
For little more than half the worth.
A NEW DUTCH SLEY that will carry fourteen persons, fitted for four horses. Enquire of the Printer.
Imported from LONDON, and to be sold by ELIZABETH CLARK & NOWELL,
At their shop, six doors to the southward of the Mill-Bridge, Boston,
EARLY Charlton, early Hotspur, and large Marrowfat Peas; golden Hotspur, large Sugar, Spanish Moratoes, dwarf Marrowfat and green Marrowfat Peas; large Windsor Beans; early yellow, dwarf, early speckled, dwarf and large white dwarf Beans; early Yorkshire Cabbage Seed, early Dutch Cabbage, large Winter green Savoy, Battersea and yellow Savoy Cabbage Seeds, Orange, early, yellow and purple Carrot Seed, swelling Parsnip seed, early pickling and large pickling Cucumber seed, double Pepper-grass, and sweet Majoram seed, silver skin'd Onion, Summer Savory, Balm, Thyme, and round Spinage Seed, early Colliflower, late ditto, early and winter Turnip seed, red Beet seed, &c. All warranted to be of the true and genuine sort.
For the TEETH and GUMS. JACOB HEMET,
DENTIST to her Majesty and the Princess Amelia.
BEGS Leave to recommend to the Public, his newly discovered Essence of Pearl, and Pearl Dertifice, which he has found to be greatly superior not only in elegance, but also in efficacy, to any thing hitherto made use of for complaints of the Teeth and Gums: Particularly they will preserve the Teeth in a perfect sound state, even to old age; they render them white and beautiful, without in the least impairing the enamel; soften such as are loose, keep such as are already decayed from becoming worse, prevent the Tooth-Ach, perfectly cure the Scurvy in the Gums, and make them grow firm and close to the teeth; they likewise render the breath delicate, sweet, and remedy almost all those disorders that are the consequence of scorbutic gums.
Sold (by appointment of Mr. Hemet) wholesale and retail, by W. Bayley, Perfumer, in Cockspur-street, near the bottom of the Hay-market, London, and at William Scott's Irish Linen Store, near the Draw-Bridge, Boston, New-England.
THOMAS LEE,
At his Store near the Swing-Bridge, Has imported in the ROCKINGHAM, just arrived from LONDON;
SERGES of all colours, Kerseys and Flannels, which will be sold unusually cheap.
SILKS.
A beautiful variety of LADIES SILKS, of almost every kind.
Brussels and Mecklin Laces; Gold and Silver Laces; Gold and Silver rich basket Buttons.
A large Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS, suitable for all seasons, at the lowest rates.
IRISH LINENS of all widths and prices from 7s. 6d. old tenor the yard, very cheap.
Also, Paper Hangings, Powder, Shot, Bar-Lead, Russia, Ravens and English Duck, Osnaburgs, Salt-petre, Verdigrise.
CASH given for BEES-WAX.
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of DAVID BELL, late of Boston, Brick-layer, deceased, are desired to make immediate payment to William Bell, and Elizabeth Bell, Sole Executrix to the last Will and Testament of the deceased; and all who have demands upon said Estate, are desired to bring in their accounts.
To be sold by JOSEPH ROACH and SONS, at their Store in King-street; Good Petersburg Hemp, Cables and Cordage of all sizes, Russia and Ravens Duck. Also a few Barrels of Allum and Copperas.
JOHN LANGDON,
At the New Book and Stationary Store, opposite the Post-Office in Cornhill, Boston, Has just received from LONDON, A Large and fine Assortment of the most Modern BOOKS,
In all branches of Literature, Arts and Sciences, which will be sold Remarkably Cheap for the cash;
Among which are the following, viz. HENRY on the Bible, 5 Vol. folio. Ditto on Prayer. Ditto on the Sacrament.
Mrs. Macaulay's History of England, 4 Vol. Montesquieu Spirit of Law, 2 Vol.
Universal History, 20 Vol.
SCHOOL BOOKS of every kind.
With a variety of the newest and best Books in LAW, PHYSICK, HISTORY, and the CLASSICKS.
BIBLES of all sorts, viz. Large Church Bibles, Folio, Family, Quarto, Octavo, Mission and Pocket ditto, by the Dozen, or single.
Likewise, a large and complete assortment of STATIONARY, Accompt-Books of all sorts, Paper of all sorts and sizes, Ink Powder, Quills, Sealing-Wax and Wafers, Press-Paper, some of a superior sort to any ever imported, &c. &c. &c.
THIS is to give Notice to the
Public, that there is a large Tract of good Land to be given off in Lots, from one Hundred to a Thousand Acres per Family; upon the Estates or Lordships of Berthier, and New-York, the property of the Honourable Captain James Cuthbert, Esq; lying on the North-West side of the River St. Lawrence, Province of Quebec, distant from that City forty-six Leagues, from three Rivers fifteen, from Montreal fifteen, and about the same distance from Lake Champlain, where the River from said Lake, empties itself into St. Lawrence, opposite to said Estates.
The Conditions are, viz. The Lands to be given off forever: The Quit-rents at the rate of two Bushels and a half of Wheat, and one Spanish Dollar, per hundred Acres, per Annum, with the customary alienation Fines upon a Sale, and the first two years free of rents.
Any Person, or Persons, that inclines to take up any of said Lands, may apply to Mr. Stephen Tuttle, Land Surveyor at Fort Miller, in the County of Albany; or to the Proprietor at his Manor of Berthier, who will inform them of the quality and situation of the said Tracts: They are esteemed among the best Lands in the Province, for raising all sorts of Grain, and hath already, settled on them, above six hundred Families, (there is also good Fishing and Hunting) and the Land now proposed to be given off, lies about two Leagues back from the River St. Lawrence.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Mathematical Instrument Maker,
Has to sell At his SHOP, formerly known by the name of The Crown Coffee-house, At the Head of the Long-Wharf, King-street, BOSTON,
A Large Assortment of
HADLEY's and Davis's QUADRANTS, hanging and standing Compasses in Brass and Wood, Gauging and Surveying Instruments, Cases for Instruments, large and small Perspective Glasses in Ivory, Wood and Fish Skin; plotted Scales, Gunter Scales and Dividers, Surveyors Chains, Artificial Magnets with Cases, Sand-Glasses, from two Hours to a Quarter of a Minute, Instruments of a new Construction to measure Boards, Quarter Waggoner's, Atkinson's Epitomes, Wilson's ditto, Pattou's Navigation, Seamen's assistants, Calendars, Mariner's Compasses rectified, Young Man's Companion, Journal Books, Ink-Powder, Quills and Paper, Paper-Hangings. An Assortment of Brass Pocket-Compasses with and without Cards, Box Rules, Slates and Pencils, Jack-Knives, plated Shoe and Knee Buckles, Pinchbeck, Block-Tin, and Brass ditto, Compass Seals, and Watch Keys, &c. &c.
N. B. All sorts of Mathematical Instruments are made and repaired by the above WILLIAMS. Those who will favour him with their Custom may depend upon being well used, and have their work done with fidelity and dispatch.
216 An Assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, London in Capt. Cazneau, to be sold by
DAVIDSON, widow, to the sign of the Star-lane, Boston, (the nearest house but down the lane, on the left, to the Hon. Thomas Flucker, Esq.) viz.
EARLY Golden, Hotspur, early Charlton, large and dwarf Marrowfat, green Rouncival, large Sugar, and Bush Peas; Windsor, long Pod, and an assortment of Kidney Beans; early Yorkshire, early Battersey, early Dutch, early Sugar Loaf, Winter and Green Savoy Cabbage, red ditto; Colliflower, Sweet Majorum, and Thyme, with many others too numerous to be here mentioned. Also,
A Collection of the best Sorts of grafted and inoculated ENGLISH FRUIT TREES, as Cherries, Pares, Apples, Quinces, Lime Trees, English Elms; red and white Dutch Currant Bushes, English Gooseberry Bushes of all Sorts, Asparagus Plants of the large early Sort. Likewise, all sorts of PLANTS in their season, as Cabbages, Colliflowers, Savoy, Celery, Endive, Marjoram, Thyme, Savory, Sives, Sage, Mint, &c. with all Sorts of dried sweet Herbs.
Boston, March 3, 1772.
STOLEN, out of the shop of JOSEPH POPE, Watch maker, at the south-end, last evening, by breaking of a square of glass, FOUR SILVER WATCHES, with only the inside cases; maker's name of one Byfield, of another Shepherd, the other names not yet ascertained, the outer cases were left in the shop. Should they, or either of them be offered for sale, it is requested they may be stopped and notice given, or whoever by any means shall stop them, or either of them, so as the said Pope may obtain them, shall be handsomely rewarded, and if the thief be stopped and brought to justice, shall have TEN DOLLARS reward and all necessary charges paid by JOSEPH POPE.
N. B. If any person will deliver the said Watches to the abovementioned JOSEPH POPE, or leave them at THOMAS's Printing-Office, near the Mill-Bridge, shall receive the above reward, and no questions asked.
To be SOLD very reasonable, A SMALL quantity of exceed- for immediately. Enquire of the Printer.
W I N E S.
To be sold at BLANCHARD's Wine-Cellar, Dock-Square, Boston, CHOICE old sterling Madeira, Fine generous Old Red Port, Teneriffe, Malaga, and All other WINE as usual. London Porter, Brandy, West-India and New-England Rum, Old JAMAICA SPIRIT, Ringleaf. Brads and Iron Wire, properly prepared for wiring bottles; Brads Cocks.
To be SOLD by
JOHN SAVAGE,
At Store No. 13, Long Wharf, NINE thousand wt. of Cocoa, 1500 wt. of Chocolate, 50 barrels of Flour, one ton of Ship Bread, Sixty Hogheads of Saltadudas Salt, proof Glasses, safe Bottles single or by the dozen, Butter, Brimstone, Coffee, white Beans, Rum, Sugars, Melasses, cases with bottles, from 6 to 15 each. By wholesale or retail, cheap for cash.
ROBERTS & LEE,
TAKE this method to acquaint the public, that they have removed to the shop lately occupied by Mrs. De Jersey, nearly opposite the Old Brick meeting-house, Cornhill, Boston; where they have for Sale, A Large and Valuable Assortment of JEWELLERY,
To be sold by Samuel Sloane, at his Distil-House, opposite the Blue-ball and Mason's-Arms, formerly Green-Dragon, New-England RUM, and all sorts of SPIRITS, cheap for cash or Molasses; and as he makes those articles himself, he will warrant them fit for any market.
Just arrived, and to be sold by C. L O W E,
In Marshal's Lane, Boston, Near Thomas's Printing-office,
A VERY large Assortment of Paper-Hangings of the newest patterns and best colours, of various Prices. Choice London Porter, Dorchester, Ringwood, and Bristol Beer, either Bottled, or draughted in Hogheads, Barrels, or by the gallon.
N. B. Masters of Vessels Passengers, or Others, may be supplied remarkable cheap for Cash. Cash given for Bottles.
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay.
To JOHN SAVAGE, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, Gentleman, one of the principal proprietors of the Tract of Land herein after mentioned. Greeting:
WHEREAS you, with five others, proprietors of a certain tract of common and undivided land, situate in the county of Lincoln, at and near a place called Pemaquid, in the eastward parts of said province, granted by the council of Plymouth, in G. Britain the year 1631, to Robert Aldsworth and Giles Eldridge, known by the name of Pemaquid Lands: have made application to me the subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace throughout the said Province, for calling a meeting of the proprietors of said tract of land, for the purposes hereafter mentioned, you are therefore in his Majesty's name, hereby required to notify and warn, in time and manner as the law directs, the proprietors of the same tract of land, to meet at the dwelling house of Stephen Minot in Boston aforesaid, Merchant, on Thursday the seventh day of May next, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on said day, to act on the following articles, viz.
To choose a Moderator of said meeting. A Clerk of said proprietors. Assessors. A Collector of taxes. And a Treasurer. To see what method the propriety will take to defend their title or titles, against all encroachments. To see what money is necessary for the defence of the proprietors titles, or any other necessary uses, and to grant the same, to be assessed on the proprietors, or on their Lands, from time to time, as they shall think proper. To chuse an Agent, or Committee, to prosecute or defend, in any manner, the right or rights wherein the interest of the propriety, or that of their assigns is concerned; with full power of substitution. To see what other committees are necessary, and to chuse them. To call to account any person or persons, indebted to said propriety, and to prosecute as they find occasion. To choose a committee for sale of delinquent proprietors lands. To see if they will call any former Agent or committee to account, as they find necessary. To see what former vote, or votes, of the proprietors, they will allow, and ratify and confirm the same, as they find necessary, or what method they will take about it. To see what lands the proprietors will grant for public uses, as they shall think proper. To see what method they will agree upon, for the division of their lands, or consider what they will dispose of, as they find occasion. And to agree upon a method for calling proprietors meetings for the future.
Given under my hand and seal, this second day of March in the twelfth year of his Majesty's reign, Annoque Domini 1772. JONATHAN SEWALL.
In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the proprietors of the undivided tract of land therein mentioned, are hereby notified and warned to meet at time and place, and for the purposes set forth in said warrant.
JOHN SAVAGE.
JUST-IMPORTED, and To be sold cheap for CASH, by JOSEPH PALMER, At his store in King-street, Boston,
A GOOD assortment of Scots Handkerchiefs, Irish Linens, brown and white Sheetings, Housewife Linen, Dowlas, Russia Linen, Osnaburgs, Ticklingburs, Broad Cloths, Shalloons, German Serges, Colchester Baize, Lambkins, a few fashionable Silks, a few hogheads of Bristol Beer, and some other articles. Also, Spermaceti Candles, as usual.
BOSTON: Printed by ISAIAH THOMAS, At the South Corner of MARSHAL'S LANE, leading from the MILL-BRIDGE into UNION-STREET.
Where all Persons may be supplied with this Paper at Six Shillings and Eight Pence, Lawful Money, per Annum; and where Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received, ADVERTISEMENTS taken in---PRINTING, in its various Branches, performed in a neat Manner with the greatest Care and Dispatch, on the most reasonable Terms.--- Small HAND-BILLS at an Hour's Notice. SUBSCRIPTIONS for the SPY are also taken in by J. Larkin, chairmaker, and Mr. W. Calder, painter, in Charles-town; Mr. J. Hiller, Watch-maker in Salem; Mr. B. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; and Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater.

LONDON, Nov. 28.
To his GRACE the DUKE of GRAFTON.
WHAT is the reason, my Lord, that, when almost every man in the kingdom, without distinction of principles or party, exults in the ridiculous defeat of Sir James Lowther, when good and bad men unite in one common opinion of that Baronet, and triumph in his distress, as if the event (without any reference to vice or virtue) were interesting to human nature, your Grace alone should appear so miserably depressed and affected? In such universal joy, I know not where you will look for a compliment of condolance, unless you appeal to the tender, sympathetic sorrows of Mr. Bradshaw. That cream-coloured gentleman's tears, affecting as they are, carry consolation along with them. He never weeps, but, like an April shower, with a lambent ray of sunshine upon his countenance. From the feelings of honest men, upon this joyful occasion, I do not mean to draw any conclusion to your Grace. They naturally rejoice, when they see a signal instance of tyranny resisted with success; of treachery exposed to the derision of the world; — an infamous informer defeated, and an impudent robber dragged to the public gibbet. But, in the other class of mankind, I own I expected to meet the Duke of Grafton. Men, who have no regard for justice, nor any sense of honour, seem as heartily pleased with Sir James Lowther's well-deserved punishment, as if it did not constitute an example against themselves. The unhappy Baronet has no friends, even among those who resemble him. You, my Lord, are not yet reduced to so deplorable a state of dereliction. Every villain in the kingdom is your friend; and, in compliment to such friendship, I think you should suffer your dismal countenance to clear up. Besides my Lord, — I am a little anxious for the consistency of your character. You violate your own rules of decorum, when you do not insult the man whom you have betrayed.
The divine justice of retribution seems now to have begun its progress. Deliberate treachery entails punishment upon the traitor. There is no possibility of escaping it, even in the highest rank, to which the consent of society can exalt the meanest and worst of men. The forced, unnatural union of Luttrell and Middlesex, was an omen of another unnatural union, by which indefeasible infamy is attached to the house of Brunswick. If one of those acts was virtuous and honourable, the best of Princes, I thank God, is happily rewarded for it by the other. Your Grace, it has been said, had some share in recommending Colonel Luttrell to the King; — or was it only the gentle Bradshaw, who made himself answerable for the good behaviour of his friend? An intimate connection has long subsisted between him and the worthy Lord Irnham. It arose from a fortunate similarity of principles, cemented by the constant mediation of their common friend Miss Davis.
Yet I confess I should be sorry that the opprobrious infamy of this match should reach beyond the family. We have now a better reason than ever to pray for the long life of the best of Princes, and the welfare of his Royal issue. I will not mix any thing ominous with my prayers; — but let parliament look to it. A Luttrell shall never succeed to the crown of England. If the hereditary virtues of the family deserve a kingdom, Scotland will be a proper retreat for them.
The next is a remarkable instance of the goodness of providence. The just law of retaliation has at last overtaken the little, contemptible tyrant of the North. To this son-in-law of your dearest friend the Earl of Bute, you meant to transfer the Duke of Portland's property; and you hastened the grant, with an expedition unknown to the treasury, that he might have it time enough to give a decisive turn to the election for the county. The immediate consequence of this flagitious robbery was, that he lost his election, which you meant to insure to him, and with such signal circumstances of scorn, reproach and insult (to say nothing of the general exultation of all parties) as (excepting the King's brother-in-law Colonel Luttrell, and old Simon his father-in-law) hardly ever fell upon a gentleman in this country. In the event he loses the very property, of which he thought he had gotten possession; and after an expence, which would have paid the value of the land in question twenty times over — The forms of villainy, you see, are necessary to its success. Hereafter you will act with greater circum-
spection, and not drive so directly to your object. To snatch a grace, beyond the reach of common treachery, is an exception, not a rule.
And now, my good Lord, does not your conscious heart inform you, that the justice of retribution begins to operate, and that it may soon approach your person? — Do you think that Junius has renounced the Middlesex election? — Or that the King's timber shall be refused to the royal navy with impunity? — Or that you shall hear no more of the sale of that patent to Mr. Hine , which you endeavoured to screen by suddenly dropping your prosecution, against Samuel Vaughan , when the rule against him was made absolute? — I believe indeed there never was such an instance in all the history of negative impudence. — But it shall not save you. — The very sunshine you live in is a prelude to your dissolution. When you are ripe you shall be plucked. JUNIUS.
P. S. I beg you will convey to our gracious master, my humble congratulations upon the glorious success of peerages and pensions, so lavishly distributed as the rewards of Irish virtue.
THURSDAY, March 19. BOSTON.
THE cold, (a disease) which lately so universally prevailed in this province, we hear has circulated throughout the whole continent, by which many persons have died.
The drawing of the New-Castle Lottery, we find by an Advertisement in the New-York Gazette, is postponed until the 23d instant, when it is certainly to commence.
Last Friday morning early, was found in a rope-yard, expiring, one Matthew Haines, a sea-faring man, who lately came from New-York. It fully appeared to the jury of inquest who sat on the body, that he was frequently in liquor, and the preceding day was much intoxicated therewith; and they, as also the Doctor who was called, apprehended that he got into the rope-yard, and lying on the ground, and it being exceeding cold, and he in liquor, by that means came by his death.
From a late London paper. By the Martin sloop of war, arrived a few days since from Jamaica, an account is received of two of the principal planters, men of immense fortune in the island of St. Domingo, having been lately executed there by order of the French governor, for circulating some of the English papers from Boston and Virginia, which they have translated, in order to excite the people to support their liberties after the example of the British American subjects.
MARRIED. Mr. John Boyles, to Miss Celia Gay. — At Providence. Mr. William Hall, of Boston, to Miss Freeloove Franklin of that place.
DIED. John Neal, Esq; of the Island of St. Croix, a worthy Merchant and much respected. — Mrs. Elizabeth White, wife of Captain John White, in the London Trade. — Capt. John Dorrington. — At Cambridge Mrs. Twing, aged 101. — Mrs. Williams, aged 102. — Mr. Holden aged 96. — At Sudbury, the Rev. and venerable Mr. Israel Loring, pastor of the west church in that town, in the 90th year of his age and 66th of his Ministry. — At Eastham, the Rev. Mr. Joseph Crocker. —
NATHAN FRAZIER, and FREDERICK WM. GEYER, beg leave to inform their respective customers and others, that they have entered into Partnership, under the FIRM of FRAZIER & GEYER, and that they have for sale, at their shop the corner of Wings-Lane, near the Market, Boston, a general assortment of English, India and Scotch Piece Goods, suitable for all seasons; where either of their said customers, &c. may be supplied (Wholesale and Retail) at the lowest advance for cash, or short credit.
ARRIVED here. Gorham from North-Carolina; Burroughs from New-Haven; Sisson from Rhode Island; Coffin from St. Eustatia; Driver from Cape Nichola's Cook from Salsertuda; and Bass from South-Carolina.
OUTWARD bound. Davis to Philadelphia; and Laha to Halifax.
From the POLITICAL REGISTER. A seasonable reflection on the EDUCATION of PRINCES, by the Persian Philosopher, Saadi.
A WISE, learned, and prudent governor, presided over the education of the son of a Sultan. Attentive to the care of choaking up the seeds of vice, and making those of virtue to vegetate in his royal
pupil, he often found it necessary to arm himself with rigour, and to thwart the inclinations and favourite passions of the young prince. This prince impatiently bore with a yoke that seemed odious to him, and sought to shake it off, by complaining to his father of the pretended severity of his master. The Sultan, who was fond of his son, reproached the governor with his harsh treatment, telling him, he would have shown more indulgence for the son of a private person. "Prince, replied the governor, if we ought to inspire the love of virtue into all men, those who, by their birth, are destined to command some time or other of their life, ought to be excited to virtue more than others, because the happiness or unhappiness of the people depends on their good or ill inclinations. Princes cannot endeavour too much to make themselves perfect, if they are ever so little solicitous concerning their reputation: The vices or virtues of private persons commonly die with them, but the great are held out as a spectacle to all the world; their actions, their words, pass from mouth to mouth, and are transmitted from age to age; their lot is either perpetual honour, or perpetual infamy."
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As we are very ignorant, and bear much noise made about an Excise Act, which is likely to pass the house, we request that such as can inform us, would, by your means, be so kind as to answer the following queries, and they will greatly oblige their humble servant.
AGRESTIS MULTITUDO.
 Query 1. IF this act should in a few years be found to affect the liberties or properties of the people will we then have an assembly that will repeal it?  2. If we should have such an assembly, will the Governor who shall then rule over us pass said repeal bill?  3. If both Governor and Assembly should be so good, will the then ruling Monarch of Great-Britain confirm the same?  4. Does the clause about locks, doors and closets mean that any magistrate shall have authority to grant to any officer the right of breaking any door, closet, or lock in any house, at any time of day or night, when such officer shall please to entertain any suspicion of any person?  5. And if such power is given, can we keep said officer from inspecting such writings, papers, &c. as may be laid up in said places, if we please; or if said officer chooses to inspect said papers, &c. must he have the privilege of so doing in order to satisfy his doubts?  6. If this power be granted, can any future Junius keep from being detected if he should happen to reside in Pennsylvania?  7. Shall such officers have authority to clap a seal on such doors and closets as may not be convenient for them to search at present, without the owner having a right to break such seals, until they (said officers) shall please to find leisure to open said doors and closets?  8. Are they who are generally appointed to such offices, men of such uprightness and integrity as never to entertain suspicions of the innocent; nor to subject such the degrading offices of delivering up the keys of such doors and closets as shall contain their most secret transactions, and their most valuable papers, to the inspection of a man of whom they know no more than that he has entertained a suspicion of them; and has declared so before a magistrate?  9. Can he who entertains a suspicion of my honesty, be a fit person for me to commit my keys to?  10. Is this authority granted to magistrates of the nature of General Warrants, or is it worse?  11. If this law be of the nature of such acts as we have complained so much of lately, where did it take its rise? Is he a good man, and of well known integrity and love for the liberties of the people, and security of property, who first promoted it?  12. If, when we consider the situation of Americanus, who would have entailed misery and vassalage over this free country, we have not reason to think ourselves indebted to him for bringing another monster into the world? 

216 A seafaring man nam- ed John belonging to the ship Lucy, son, of Liverpool, in going Frob the vessel, in this harbour, fell in- to the dock, and notwithstanding he was but a very short time in the water, was drowned.
A man named Richardson, who used to sell oysters, in this city, was also drowned last week in this harbour.
NEWPORT, March 9. Last Wednes- day sen'night a very high mill dam, in S. Kingstown, belonging to Mr. Chaplin, was broken down by a great freshet, when the dam and a vast flood of water fell on a small house, which stood close under it, and drowned a negro woman and a child, who were asleep in the house.
Last Saturday arrived the brig Revenge, Capt. Evan Malbone, in eighteen days from the Mole, by whom advice is received from Hispaniola, that all trade with the English is stopped in all parts of that island, except at the Mole.
Not long ago a gentleman who was not a native of Ireland, went to a stationer's shop and proposed buying a map; upon being asked what map he would be pleased to have, replied that he wanted a map of some UNKNOWN part of the world.
Last Saturday, at the superior Court held in this town, came on the trial of Conrad Flack, for the murder of his wife, as men- tioned in this paper last November:—
The case appeared so clear to the Jury, that he had no premeditated design of mur- der, they gave in their verdict Man- slaughter , without leaving their seats.
March 2. Early last Wednesday morn- ing a very extraordinary affair happened in this town, viz. A negro man named Pri- mus, belonging to Thomas Crafton Esq; having borrowed two dollars of his wife, liv- ing with Evan Malbone, Esq; lost the money at gaming a few days before; and finding his wife had three dollars more in her trunk he broke it open and took out the dollars, and two handkerchiefs, which he also lost in like manner. After they had got to bed on Tuesday night, his wife asked him about the money, and told him she must have it again; upon which a quarrel ensued for some time. Towards day the fel- low got up, went down into the kitchen, fire into the garret, where his wife lay, and put it among her clothes, and then got her upon the floor, endeavouring to break her neck; upon which she cried out murder and fire; This alarmed the house, and Mr. Malbone jumped out of bed, and run- ning into his kitchen to get water, he found it in a blaze; however he happily soon extinguished that, and hearing the cry of fire up stairs still continue he told them to leave off hollowing, for the fire was all out; but finding the noise did not cease, he took his buckets and water and ran up garret, which he found full of smoke, and the negro fellow still striving to break his wife's neck; but he broke the fellow's hold before he had quite executed his design, pushed him down stairs, and out of his house. Mr. Malbone went up garret a- gain, put out all the fire, and then went and waked Mr. Crafton, who got up and dressed himself, to go in search of the ne- gro; and looking towards the still house, which was nigh his dwelling house, saw one of the windows open; so concluding he was there, got the key, and with Mr. Malbone, went and unlocked the door; —where they found every cistern open- ed, and a fire just blazing up against the rum room, which they extinguished, but looking round, immediately discovered an- other fire breaking out in the wood room, which they also extinguished; and then proceeding to shut the cisterns, they found he negro drowned in one of them,—This negro fellow had a-ways been an excellent servant; and was never known to have any difference with his wife before; but having lost his own money, and that which he had borrowed and stolen, by the pern- icious custom of GAMING, too much practised by WHITES as well as Blacks; 'tis probable he could not bear the thoughts of the reproach, which would be cast upon him, and to prevent any discovery being made by his wife, determined to murder her.
The morning on which this scene was acted, the wind blew very high at west; and, in all probability, in an hour more the fires would have got to such a head, that great part of the south end of the town must have been destroyed.
It is hoped this tragical event will prompt our Justices of the peace, Sheriffs, and all others his Majesty's civil officers, to exert themselves in putting a stop to the vile prac-
tice of gaming among negroes, white boys, &c. in the streets, and other places.
Last Thursday sailed from this Port, for London, with a fine westerly wind, the ship Charlotte, Capt. Rogers: also the ship Hibernia, Capt. Chace, for Waterford, in Ireland, with whom went passenger Mr. Henry Bowers, jun. of Swaney, merchant.
PHILADELPHIA, December 27. On Thursday last a brig with molasses, belong- ing to Marblehead, from Cape Nicola Mole, ran ashore on Cape Henlopen in the fog.—The people with the cargo will be saved, but the vessel lost.
We near that Francis Hopkinson, Esq; of this city, is appointed collector of his Majesty's customs for the port of Newcas- tle on Delaware.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Lon- don, to his correspondent in this city (in- serted by request)
"It is necessary to acquaint you of our last grand installation of officers for the an- cient masonry in this kingdom, viz. His grace the most noble John Duke and Mar- quis of Athol, Marquis and Earl of Tulli- bardine, Earl Strathlay and Strathardle, Viscount of Balquider, Glenalmond and Glenlyon, Lord Murray, Belveney and Gask, heritable Captain and Constable of the Castle and Constabulary of Kincleavy, one of the sixteen peers of Scotland, Knight of the most noble and most ancient order of the thistle, was attended by about three hundred officers in the Lodges in England, and installed Grand Master of the most ancient and honourable fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, to preside over that part of Great Britain called Eng- land, and Masonical jurisdiction thereunto belonging; and Laurence Dermott, Esq; deputy Grand Master, William Clarke, Esq; and John Christian, Esq; jun. Grand War- dens, William Dickey, jun. Esq; Grand Secretary, and Thomas Smith, Esq; Grand Treasurer.—We have no account by memo- ry or writing of any installment equal to this for grandeur, elegance, solemnity and festivity, which must appear evident hav- ing the patronage of so graceful and noble a personage, whose dress was extremely magnificent, and his officers in the grand- est uniform suitable to the occasion.—And his grace nobly contributed a handsome purse of guineas to the grand charity.— In short, to give a minute account of this happy event, would be to write a large vo- lume on a subject, were it not that I know our happy situation will give you great pleasure."
By Captain Allen, from Barbados, we learn, the schooner George, Captain Sib- bald, from Newfoundland for this place, on the 5th of December, in lat. 39, long. 32. met with a violent gale of wind at N. W. which lasted two days, and obliged him to lay to a hull, when the wind shifting a sea struck the vessel, and over set her, carried away the boat, companion, binicle, and eve- ry thing off the deck, shifted the ballast, and stove all the water casks in the hold, started the lower deck and carried away all his sails, except the fore sail and jib; but by cutting away his foremast she righted again, though half full of water; in which dismal condition they continued (having no other provision than the salt fish that floated about the hold, nor no water but what the heavens afforded) till the 20th, when they were luckily met with by Capt. Steel, from this Port for Bar- badoes, who took them on board, 21 souls in all, among whom were a woman and child, and carried them in with him.
NEW-HAVEN, March 6. Capt. San- ford, of Milford, is arrived in the West- Indies, after a tedious passage of 56 days, and lost three fourths of his horses off deck, with all his small flock.
Capt. Humphreys, of Derby also is ar- rived in the West-Indies; he failed from hence about the middle of December, who three days after he got out shipped a very heavy sea, which carried the most of his horses and other stock off his deck.
Capt. Griffing, of Guilford, on his passage from thence to the West-Indies, lost fourteen of his horses.
Capt. Joseph Bryant, in a large sloop from Milford, we hear, run ashore on Bermudas, where the vessel is entirely lost but the people and all the cargo saved, which Capt. Bryant has shipped on board a Bermudian vessel, which he had charter- ed, and in which he pursued his voyage to the West-Indies where he was first bound.
NEW-LONDON, March 6. We have received the following account of the loss of the sloop Mary Ann, Captain Stephen Buckland, which was mentioned in our last to be drove out of the mouth of Con- necticut river, viz. About an hour after the people went on shore at Saybrook, a
large cake of ice parted both the sloop's cables, when she drifted on Lyndes's point, where she lay upwards of an hour and then drifted into the sound, with only the mate (Mr. Samuel Cotton) and a boy named George Cropper, belonging to Vir- ginia, about 14 years old on board: They made no sail during the night, and in the morning found the vessel to have drifted between Plumb-Island and Gardiner's Is- land; when the mate concluded it possible, to push up into Newport; but the wind rising and blowing a hard gale from West North West and the sails and rigging froze stiff, they found it impracticable to work the vessel to advantage; so that about four o'Clock in the afternoon she drove on Bren- ton's Reef, where the vessel in a short time bilged: They lay there till the next morn- ing, being almost buried in water; and the weather very cold, the mate held the lad in his arms to prevent his perishing; in the morning he (the mate) swam on shore, and soon after a boat went aboard, when they found the lad was drowned on the Cabin floor. The bottom of the Sloop is beat out, and her cargo consisting principal- ly of Salt, almost all lost.
Captain Adams from Guadaoupe, on Friday last put into Tarpaulin-Cove, where the Gaspée armed Schooner had in custody a large Schooner, deeply laden from the West-Indies, which she had seized near the above place, and was bound to Boston with her. A Sloop was also seized about the same time near Tarpaulin-Cove, by one of his Majesty's cruisers, who are uncommonly vigilant about this time.
CHARLESTOWN, [South Carolina] Feb. 20. A letter from Savannah in Georgia, of the 11th instant informs us, that the day before, a mulatto boy, twelve years old, died there of the hydrophobia, having been bit by a dog about six weeks before he was seized with any symptoms of the terrible disorder. The inhabitants of Savannah are, with much reason greatly alarmed, not knowing where the horrid calamity may stop, as it seems several dogs, some children, and two grown persons were bit by dogs, which were at that time only suspected to be mad, and the matter passed over unnoticed, until the miserable exit of the unfortunate boy. It was thought orders would be immediately issued for killing all the dogs in and about the town. The hydrophobia, or canine madness, one of the most dreadful evils hu- manity is subject to, has not of late years made its appearance in any part of the con- tinent of North America; till now it has been almost totally unknown in these south- ern provinces.
February 25. The schooner Dispatch, Tunis Montagnye, Master, bound from Phi- ladelphia, to Teneriffe, with a cargo of corn, sprang a leak and was obliged to put into Jamaica the latter end of last month; her cargo greatly damaged.
By late advices from Jamaica, we are in- formed, "that immediately on the arrival of the Marquis de Torres at the Havannah, he dispatched expresses all over Cuba, for the inhabitants to put themselves in the best state of defence, and issued Orders for all the Guarda Costas to repair, as soon as possible, to the Havannah."
We learn that writs are now making out for electing members to represent the inha- bitants of this province in the Commons house of assembly. They are to bear test the 22d instant, returnable on Thursday A- pril 2d. The days of election are Tuesday and Wednesday the 17th and 18th day of March.
We learn from Wilmington in North Carolina, that the arrival of a considerable number of vessels in Cape Fear river, had occasioned naval stores to rise very high, 12s 8d. per barrel for tar, being given there, paid in cash or bills of exchange.
The ship Beaufain, Daniel Curling, master, lately sailed for London, with whom went passengers, the Hon. Andrew Turnbull, Esq; and Mr. Penman of East-Florida.—This ship carried a cargo said to be worth near se- venty thousand pounds sterling, all the pro- duce of this province, except about 15000 lb. of indico, raised and cured in East Florida, for which we are told three pounds currency the pound was offered and refused.
Upwards of three hundred people have lately arrived at Wilmington, in North Ca- rolina, from the Isle of Sky, who intend to settle in that province.
On the fourth instant, the Honourable James Habersham, Esq; Commander in Chief, &c. of that province of Georgia, issued a proclamation, prohibiting the export- ing or carrying without the limits of said pro- vince, any Indian corn, until the first of September next. The reasons given for the said prohibition are, the market price of that
useful grain being above 2s 6d. per bushel, by reason of the shortness of the last crop in that province and the large and daily export- ations, whence there is great reason to be- lieve, that the inhabitants and others may be greatly distressed.
His honour James Habersham, Esq; Commander in Chief, &c. of the province of Georgia, has issued a proclamation, re- quiring all the inhabitants of the town of Savannah, Hamlets of Yamacraw, Ewer- burgh and the Trustees Gardens, to keep their dogs confined within their severa- lenclosures; also promising a reward to every person who shall kill their dogs, of two shillings and six pence per head, and the same reward for killing every dog that shall be found, at large, in the town of Sa- vannah, the common belonging thereto, or in the said Hamlets, within one month from the 12th instant. The proclamation sets forth, that there lately have been, and now are, several mad dogs in Savannah and other places adjacent thereto, that a mulatto child in Savannah had died, as mentioned in our last, of the bite of a mad dog; and that his honour, by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council, in order to quiet the minds of the inhabitants, and to guard them against further injury of the kind, had thought fit to issue the said proclamation, which was ordered to be forthwith published by the Provost Marshal.
Rice 80s. the 100 lb.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The PRESENTMENTS of the GRAND JURORS for the body of this province, at a Court of general sessions of the peace, Oyer and Terminer, assize and general goal deli- very, begun and holden at Charles-Town, on Monday the 20th day of January, 1772.
I. WE present, as a grievance, the want of creditable persons to act as magistrates; such persons in general holding that commission only to exempt them from rendering other services for the good of their country, and by which the ex- ecution of justice is often entrusted with par- tial, unjust, trading justices, to the great hurt of honest good men, and hurtful to the pro- vince in general.
II. That sufficient regard is not had to the character of those men, who are intrusted with the commission of the peace, which ap- pears by again empowering a present acting justice, Fenwicke Bull, who was some time ago deprived of that commission from his bad practices, publickly confessed by him- self.
III. We present, as a grievance, the O- ffice of Constables, being in the execution of persons of a mean low character, whose po- verty and ignorance subject them to take bribes, by which villains do often escape jus- tice.
IV. We present, as a grievance, the ge- neral neglect of the Militia officers, in not muster the Militia according to law; and also, that the patrole-acts are not properly enforced.
V. We present, as a grievance, the great number of dram shops, and tipping-houses in Charles-Town, such as entertain Negroes and other disorderly persons; and recom- mend, that the magistrates, would be more vigilant in suppressing such pests of society.
VI. We present, as a grievance, the ge- neral bad state of the public roads through- out the province, and the road between Charles-Town and the quarter-house in particular; and recommend Toll-Bridges, as a proper means to have them kept in better order for the future.
VII. We present, as a very great grie- vance, the disorderly behaviour of the town- watch, by which they defeat the good end intended of watching and preserving the pro- perty of the people and town from harm, in- stead thereof they become a very great nui- sance by beating and abusing Negroes sent on errands by their masters with tickets, and letting others escape who have none; by which irregularities the Negroes in general do disregard them, and if they can but raise the sum of ten shillings to pay for their re- lease, are not afraid of being out all night.
VIII. We present, as a grievance, the e- recting of booths in the high-way in the time of the Races, as being very dangerous to persons travelling thereon in the night.
IX. We present, as a grievance, Negroes being allowed to keep horses, and carry fire- arms, contrary to law.
Signed, Benjamin Singelton, Foreman, Mathurin Guerin, John Hume, Thomas Corbett, Francis Gottier, Thomas Heyward, sen. James McCall, John Neufville, Timo- thy Crosby, David McKee, Thomas Fer- guson, Henry Reeves, William Prierion, Abraham Waight.