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THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1772.
[NUMB. 75.
FRIDAY, July 17. BOSTON.
On Tuesday last, his Excellency sent the following MESSAGE to the House, by Mr. Secretary Flucker.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, IN consequence of my message to you of the 10th instant you have caused to be laid before me the report of a committee, accepted and ordered to be entered upon your Journals. This report contains certain resolves or declarations which, as I conceive, are not well founded but, on the contrary, tend to alter the constitutional dependence of this colony upon the crown and upon the supreme legislative authority of Great-Britain.
The sum of those resolves or declarations may be comprised in a few words. You have declared that the support made for the Governor by other powers than the legislative authority of this province is a material infraction upon the charter, that the Governor is thereby rendered not dependant on the people as the charter has prescribed, and and consequently not, in that respect, such a Governor as the people consented to, that the mutual check and dependance of the branches of the legislature is destroyed, and the province exposed to a despotic administration. You have likewise asserted that the assemblies ever since the charter have made adequate provision for the support of the Governor, that the advice to his Majesty to make provision for this support proceeded from false information or from a temper inimical to his Majesty and to the people of the province, and you have desired me to make application to his Majesty that I may without restraint receive my whole support from this government according to ancient and invariable usage.
In support of these declarations you have first alleged, that the Charter is a solemn contract between King William and Queen Mary and their successors on the one part, and the inhabitants of this province forever on the other. If you meant no more by a solemn contract than what is implied between the crown as the grantor of certain powers and privileges and the inhabitants of the colony as the grantees by which they acquire a right to the use of those powers and privileges until the charter in whole or in part shall be legally vacated, I would take no exception, but when you afterwards alleged that by virtue of this contract a power devolved on the crown of appointing a Governor, there is too great room to apprehend that some may suppose this contract to be something of the nature of the Pacta Convenera , or agreement settled by treaty, between two independent states, which supposition would have such a dangerous tendency as it is necessary for me to define very particularly the nature of a charter from the crown upon the principles of the English constitution, and to remind you of the particular circumstances which attended the grant of our charter.
It is a part of the prerogative of the crown, as well as of the power and authority of parliament, to constitute corporations or political bodies, and to grant to such bodies a form of government and powers of making and carrying into execution such laws as from their local or other circumstances may by necessary, the supreme legislative authority of the British Dominions always remaining intire notwithstanding. Now in order to share in the benefit of this authority, our ancestors, by their Agents, did not propose a treaty nor any thing of the nature of the Pacta convenera which I have before mentioned, but as subjects of England first petitioned to Parliament that by a legislative act their vacated charter might be restored, and, failing of success, afterwards, to use the words of the present charter, "made their humble application to King William and Queen
Mary, that they would be graciously pleased to incorporate their subjects in the colony, and to grant and confirm to them such powers, privileges and franchises as, in their royal wisdom, should be thought most conducing to their interest and service and to the welfare and happy state of their subjects in New-England." The powers thus granted were not, as you strangely alleged, devolved on the crown by our ancestors, but passed from the crown to its subjects. By this charter a general Court or Assembly is constituted, and among other powers granted to this Assembly are those of making laws, not repugnant to the laws of England, and imposing rates and taxes, for the service of the crown, in the necessary defence and support of the government. You have taken pains to prove, what would not have been denied, that the support of the Governor must be included in the support of the government, and you say that by the grant of full power to raise taxes you have acquired an exclusive right of supporting the Governor, and therefore the support of the Governor by the crown must be an infraction upon the charter. Consider gentlemen, where this argument will carry you. The same clause which impowers the Assembly to tax the people for the support, impowers it also to tax for the defence of government. The defence and support of government are in their nature, duties, attended with burdens, rather than privileges; the powers given to the Assembly to tax are in order to compel to the performance of these duties. Can it be supposed that this grant of power, to compel the people to submit to this burden of taxes, for the defence of the government, should exclude the crown from affording its aid for this defence when it shall be necessary. If you are in danger of being attacked by a foreign power, has the crown deprived itself of the right of ordering a fleet for your defence, and must the colony be left to this power, and would you, in that case, refuse this aid because you have an exclusive right of defending the government yourselves? Your charter gives you equal right to this objection in the case of defence as in the case of support.
Should not so heavy a charge against the crown as that of making an infraction upon your charter and wresting out of your hands powers vested in you, have had something more than the shadow of an argument for its support? A support so feeble that I have no need to call my to aid the act of Parliament which enables the crown to do what has been done, and which, if your claim from the charter had been better founded than it is, would have been sufficient to have rendered it of no effect.
If you fail of this exclusive right of supporting the Governor your assertions that the charter prescribes a Governor dependent upon the people, and that you have not, in that respect, such a Governor as the people consented to, is altogether without foundation.
You are equally unfortunate in your notions of the mutual check and dependance which each branch of the legislature ought to have upon the other, as also in the nature of a free government, and of the English constitution.
The mutual check which each branch of the legislature ought to have upon the other consists in the necessity of the concurrence of all the branches in order to a valid act, and when any one branch withholds this concurrence it is properly a check upon the other two. So far as this may be said to be a dependance, I agree with you, but this is not sufficient for your purpose, for the same check will remain in each branch when the salary of the Governor is paid by the crown as when it is paid by the province. Now this check does not affect that freedom and independence in each branch, which is the glory of the English
Constitution, and which will not admit that any one should be compelled by the others to any act against its judgment. If I should violate this freedom and independence of the Council and House of Representatives, I should justly incur his Majesty's displeasure. Is it not reasonable that the Governor should be intitled to the like share of freedom and independence, in the exercise of his judgment, with the other branches? That independence which cannot consist with a free government, and which the English constitution abhors and which may probably be termed despotism, is a freedom in those who are vested with executive and judiciary powers, from the restraint of known established laws and a liberty of acting according to their own will and pleasure. This restraint, in your constitution, will remain the same whether the Governor receives his salary from the crown or from the province. Thus by confounding the sense and meaning of the words check and dependance, you have given a plausible appearance to your argument. This is an artifice which has often been made use of by writers in news-papers with design to give false notions of government and to stir up discontent and disorder, but I am far from attributing any such design to the members of the House of Representatives in general.
Let me add, that the English constitution is founded upon these principles of freedom. The King, Lords and Commons have this mutual check upon each other, they are, notwithstanding, altogether free and independent, and, that this freedom may be preserved intire in the crown, we find that, ever since the hereditary revenue have ceased, a revenue known by the name of the civil list, has been established among the first acts of every reign, not temporary, or from year to year, but during the life or administration of the prince upon the throne. I have reason to think, that if the Governors of this colony may be made equally secure of an adequate provision for their support the crown will never interpose.
You find the same spirit of freedom run through the several offices in the English government. The salaries of such persons as are intrusted with the executive and judiciary powers do not depend upon grants made by the House of Commons, in proportion to their abilities, station and merit, as you say it is essential to a free government that they should do, but certain fixed salaries and emoluments are annexed to their offices. Indeed nothing can be more dissonant than your system from the spirit of the English constitution.
You have made a forced construction of a clause in your charter, and have then made a very essential change in your constitution, that it may agree with this construction.
By your charter the legislative power consists of three branches, and the consent of the Governor is expressly declared to be essential to every valid act of government. You say notwithstanding that he is constitutionally dependant upon the people for his support and that this dependance is intended as a check. This check must be by withholding his support when, in some case or other he shall act, or refuse to act contrary, in your judgement, to the duty of his station. If he gives up his own judgement and conforms to yours, does not the act in such case cease to be the act of the Governor, and become the act of the House of Representatives, and will not this so far destroy one branch of the constitution.
Let me add further, if a Governor departs from his own judgement and conscience, is he not highly criminal, and will not the House of Representatives, which compels him to it, be at least equally guilty with him?
I am sensible, that when all other exceptions to this representation of your constitu-
tion are taken away, you will ask what security have we then against the oppression of a Governor? The answer is obvious, the law and the constitution are your security, if he departs from them, there is a power superior to him, to which he is accountable for his male administration. This is all the redress which can consist with the nature of a subordinate government.
No state of government is perfect, if we have all that perfection which the state we are in will admit of, we have no reason to complain. Indeed we have no reason to fear redress from any oppression. So tender has been our most gracious Sovereign of the rights of his subjects, that although I should humbly hope for royal forgiveness in case of inattention to some point of no great importance which might affect the Prerogative yet I may not expect the forgiveness of any wilful invasion of your liberties.
If when you declare that the assemblies ever since the charter have made an adequate provision for the support of the Governor you intend a provision suitable to the dignity of his station, and not merely such as in the judgement of the House the particular merits of the Governor might require, you will not be able to maintain your assertion; on the contrary it evidently appears that in some instances the support of the Governor has been delayed until he has complied with the measures of the Assembly and in others defalcations have been made from it, in order to effect the same purpose.
If you had known the provision made for the support of the Governor to have been, as it probably was, in consequence of the advice of his Majesty's privy Council, you would not have declared that such advice was grounded upon false information, or proceeded from a temper inimical to his Majesty and to the people of this province.
After thus declaring my opinion of your proceedings and giving you my reasons in support of such opinion, you will not expect that I should make my application to his Majesty, agreeable to one of your resolves and to your message by your committee, to allow me to receive my whole support from this government. Your Votes or Resolves I must transmit to be laid before his Majesty.
I have had repeated occasion to make my humble application that the doings of the House of Representatives may be considered in the most favourable light.
I will do the same upon this occasion, from my personal knowledge of the majority of the members of the House who voted for the acceptance of this report I am well assured they have not done it from sinister views and purposes, but that they have been induced to form an erroneous opinion of the rights and powers of the several branches of the legislature. I wish that this may palliate what it is not in my power to justify or excuse.
T. HUTCHINSON.
Province House, 14 July, 1772.
After reading the Message Mr. Secretary acquainted the House that His Excellency directed their attendance forthwith in the Council-Chamber: The House attending accordingly his Excellency's assent was signed to twenty six bills, (the titles of which are in the last page.)
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For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY. To Mr. HUTCHINSON.
SIR,
SINCE that venerable body to whom you directed your late message, is now incapable of returning you their collective answer, you will undoubtedly indulge an old correspondent, through this grateful channel, to offer you some pertinent observations upon that finished piece.
You set out with remarking, that the report by them accepted, and ordered to be entered on their Journals, contains certain resolves, which you conceive are not well founded; but, on the contrary, tend to alter the constitutional dependance of this colony upon the crown, and upon the supreme legislative authority of Great-Britain. You have pretended to give us the sum of those resolves and declarations, and the allegations brought for their support; and with all the gravity of a German Pedagogue infer, that from their arguments there is too great room to apprehend that some may suppose this contract to be something of the nature of the Pacta conventa , or agreements settled by treaty between two independent states; which supposition, you tell us, would have such a dangerous tendency, that it is necessary for you to define very particularly the nature of a charter from the crown of Great-Britain upon the principles of the English constitution.
After all this parade, not to writers in newspapers, but to the venerable Commons of the Massachusetts-Bay, where is this constitutional dependance of this colony on the supreme legislative authority of Great-Britain once attempted by you to be described? Your jumble of words about part of the prerogative of the crown, as well as of the power and authority of Parliament to constitute corporations, will serve as well to determine the perpetual motion, as the thing proposed. Had Euclid's Definitions been as perplexed and indeterminate as yours, our progress in the Mathematics had been much retarded by them. Could you flatter yourself, to imagine that such a volley of nonsense could lead people to or from any sort of conclusions whatever? A wonderful discovery indeed we have derived from your sublime politics, that the crown and the authority of Parliament can constitute corporations, and enable them to make bye laws and even carry them into execution: And cannot the Great and General Court of this province do the same? Where then is the force of your very particular definition? I suspect there will still be great room left to apprehend some may suppose this contract to be something of the nature of an agreement settled by treaty, charter, or what else you may chuse to call it. But in several parts of your message you seem to manifest a very light esteem of the rights referred to the people by the charters.
They are only to be used until the charter in whole or in part shall be legally vacated. This it seems can be done at pleasure, whenever a tyrant orders his Attorney-General to issue process in a high commission court against it. I would take it as a favour to be directed to the law of nature or nations, on which the voidance of such solemn and mutually beneficial contracts is founded. My books are certainly quite silent upon it, and Vatel, whom I have of late seen often quoted, holds the direct contrary; supposing that a treaty, or grant, by charter, letters patent, or how you please, even those that are personal , (much more political and colonial) concluded between a Sovereign and the people, they are treaties of the most sacred nature, and highly obligatory on both sides. Was not the charter of James I. such a treaty? Did not Charles I. amplify and confirm it? What right then had Charles II. to vacate it? But it was done; and I will readily admit, that could you be personally interested in the event, few precedents in either of those diabolical reigns would much shock your delicacy.
I am, notwithstanding all the legal and constitutional transactions of the Stuart family, still much in the dark about the right of the crown to revoke such solemn charters. I cannot see how you have in the least obviated the danger of some people's apprehending a contract of relinquishment of the general domain of a country, claimed only by right of discovery, to a colony of people engaging to take and maintain possession of it, under the allegiance of the contracting sovereign, to be something of the nature of a Pactum conventum : Neither can I conceive how any community can be incorporated, upon the principle of the British constitution, without any possible influence in the supreme legislative by
whom their every action is to be controuled. A supreme legislature, entirely independent on the people over whom it is exercised, is nothing less than a supreme tyranny; and the man who strains his every nerve, to persuade his country to submit to such a usurpation, such a fundamental subversion of their laws and constitution, is a supreme traitor, and should be made a superlative example of. The impunity of Sylla gave Rome a Cæsar. But whence are we to apprehend this mighty danger of endeavouring to maintain the natural and charter rights of free subjects? Do we claim any independence on the crown that should alarm the nation? Have we not as cheerfully taken part with our Sovereign in all his wars, as any subjects he has upon earth. But what have we to do with the Lords and Commons of Great Britain? In their legislative capacity they are guardians of their own and constituents rights, against the encroachments of the crown, but who can shew the instrument by which they are constituted the conservators of the rights of Americans? If such a pact as this can be produced, it may thenceforth be proper enough to talk of the constitutional dependance of the Commons of America, on the legislative authority of the deputies of the Commons of Great-Britain.
It seems as if you could never get over the notion of reducing a complete commonwealth, possessed both of the soil and sovereignty of a territory more extensive than many a German Principality, to the condition of some pitiful corporation. Did you ever hear of a corporation with a King at the head of it, invested with legislative and executive powers, even to the power over life and limb, and right of making peace and war with other nations? Are not all the corporations you so uncivilly compare this Great Province to, included in one small island; perhaps ten or twenty of them in a county, where, in common with the rest of their fellow-citizens, they elect deputies to represent them in the great council of their country? But indecency, however unbecoming a gentleman in your station, is not your only failing. The worthy Marchmont Nedham has marked a few out-lines of your moral and political character in very striking terms, which I hope his masterly pencil will fill up and finish in season. Your long winded quibble about defence and support of government is really despicable. Who does not know they are burthensome, and who can be presumed so stupid as to be persuaded, that the present tyrannic mode of extorting our monies without our consent, and lavishing nine-tenths of them on the scoundrels concerned in the pillaging of them, are alleviatory circumstances? Did not the author of the Mirror esteem the gatherings of treasure, and ordinances which ought to be made by the common consent of the King and his counties, but then made by his clerks, by aliens and dependants , an intolerable grievance?
Is not this our present unhappy case? Are not the acts of Parliament, you so insulting ly teaze us with, and the gatherings of treasure, made without the common consent of our towns or counties? But all this and every other kind of argument and authority must be lost upon a man, who can call plain and undeniable articles of a charter a meer shadow; and by coupling them with any other chimeras which arise in his mind, endeavour to turn them to ridicule, and in the fancied triumph, sneer at the whole representative body in as cavalier a manner as a West India planter might be supposed to do at his Negroes. "You are (small folks) unfortunate in your notions." You are a pack of silly ignoramus who talk of constitution, compact, law, reason, justice and birth-right, but give me one act of Parliament, one decree of chancery however villainously urged and obtained, and a fig for you all.
I shall probably consider your talk about the mutual check in a future paper, this having already exceeded the common limits of LEONIDAS.
For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.
I HAVE read Mr. Hutchinson's last message to the Hon. House of Commons of this province: He declares that their resolves are not well founded, but tend to alter the constitutional dependance of this colony upon the crown, and upon the supreme legislative authority of Great-Britain. This bold declaration can have nothing to support it. That the resolves are well founded , every one who has read the charter, or contract, entered into by King William and Queen Mary, and the first settlers of this PROVINCE, must be convinced; without entering into the debate, I am very willing to appeal to all such: But, that the resolves tend
to alter the constitutional dependance of this people on the supreme legislative authority of Great-Britain, I absolutely deny, because there never was any such dependence ; and I defy Mr. Hutchinson, and all the able defenders of his cause, to prove there now is any such dependence formed: I am sure no mention is made of any such in the compact, or so much as hinted at. Such a dependence would be totally inconsistent with Magna Charta, the province charter and common sense. The supreme legislative, according to the English constitution of government, consists of three branches, the first, and most essential, is, representatives chosen by THE PEOPLE, and no man will have the impudence to say, that any member of the British parliament sits there by the suffrage of the good people of this province. By Magna Charta, no man shall be subject to any laws but such as he has consented to personally, or by his representative: In the province charter it is stipulated, that the people of this province shall have and enjoy all liberties, immunities and privileges of free and natural born subjects, TO ALL INTENTS, CONSTRUCTIONS AND PURPOSES, as if they had remained in England, and common sense teaches the same doctrine.
Mr. Hutchinson, speaking of the charter, says, "If you (meaning the Hon. House) mean no more by a solemn compact than what is implied between the crown, as the grantor of certain powers and privileges, and the inhabitants of the colony as the grantees, by which they acquire a right to the use of those powers and privileges until the charter in whole, or in part, shall be vacated, I would take no exception," (no more would the Grand Turk, were he to ASSUME the chair) "but when you afterwards alledge, that by virtue of this contract, a power devolved on the crown of appointing a Governor, there is too much room to apprehend that some may suppose this contract to be something of the nature of the Pacta conventa , or agreement settled by treaty, between two independent states, which supposition would have a dangerous tendency." That this contract does devolve on the crown a power to nominate (and also to commission) a Governor, is very evident, otherwise the power would to this day have remained with the people, as it was before this agreement with King William took place, and that he could not have had the power unless thus devolved upon him, is too notorious to need proof. This people once enjoyed that power, they gave it up for certain reasons, and have a right, as I apprehend, when ever it is misused, and it appears best to them, to resume it. But why Mr. Hutchinson should fancy, from the resolves aforesaid that "some may suppose this contract to be something of the nature of an agreement settled by treaty between two independent states," I cannot divine, for not one word about states is mentioned in the whole charter, it is a simple contract between King William and Queen Mary, their heirs and successors on the one part, and the inhabitants of this province and their successors on the other. Whoever affirms that the crown is the grantor of powers and privileges to the inhabitants of this province, and that the people hereby acquire a right to the use of those powers and privileges, advances a doctrine contrary to the Law of Nature . The crown, or, to speak plainer English, the person who wears it, I mean the King, considered as an individual, has neither powers nor privileges which he can confer on the people, neither has he any property, in any thing, but what he has purchased with his money, or has been conferred upon him by the people. In his political character, as King, he receives privileges and powers, but without the people he can bestow none: And when the people invest a Prince with any powers or prerogatives, it is to be exercised for their good, but the powers with which he is thus invested were never intended him when used otherwise; for, says Mr. Locke, "The end of government being the good of the community, whatever alterations are made in it, tending to that end, cannot be an encroachment on any body, since no body in government can have a right tending to any other end; those only are encroachments, which prejudice or hinder the public good. Those who say otherwise, speak as if the Prince had a distinct and separate interest from the good of the community, and was not made for it, the root and source from which spring almost all those evils and disorders which happen in kingly governments. And indeed if that be so, the people under his government are not a society of rational creatures entered into society for their mutual good; they are not such as have let rulers over themselves to guard and promote that good; but are to be looked on as a herd of inferior creatures,"
under the dominion of a master who keeps them and works them for his own pleasure or profit. If men were so void of reason, and brutish, as to enter into society upon such terms, prerogative might indeed be what some men would have it , an arbitrary power to do things hurtful to the people."
Had it even been stipulated by the charter that the King should, not only nominate and commission , but also PAY , yet it could never be supposed that his British parliament would violently force money out of our pockets for this purpose, this being actually the fact, it is mere farce to say that the King doth pay him. Should I agree with any person to do me a piece of service, for a stipulated sum to be paid by me in compensation for such services, and by force and arms take money out of his pocket to fulfil my agreement with him. Mr. Hutchinson himself would say I was a robber, this reasoning applies itself.
Mr. Hutchinson seems much worried with the TRUTH of this proposition, That, he is not such a Governor as the people consented to , probably, he may conclude, that, therefore, he is a Usurper : His reasonings or rather quibblings to get quit of this conclusion I leave; undoubtedly, it will be noticed by the Hon. House, who (notwithstanding the low opinion Mr. Hutchinson has of their judgment, or virtue, insinuated in these terms, "induced to form an erroneous opinion of the rights, &c.") are more than his match, and perhaps may convince him by their future conduct, that, ENGLISHMEN WILL NOT BE GOVERNED BY INDEPENDENT DESPOTS. MUCIUS SCEVOLA.
From the NEWPORT MERCURY. To the PRINTER.
WE are very much mistaken if there be not something now brewing, in some parts of Europe, which will infallibly free this country from the worst of temporal curses, under which it at present groans, the curse of being tyrannized over by a parcel of dependant tools of arbitrary power, sent hither to enrich themselves and their MASTERS, on the Spoil of the honest and industrious of these colonies ; whom Satan envies as he did, Adam and Eve in paradise; and therefore has let loose his Legions to work their final overthrow. But we have this to comfort us, the Devil has always been frustrated in his endeavours to counteract the the plans of the Almighty; and as we doubt not the settlement of North-America, and advancing it to a MIGHTY Empire, is one of those plans, we may piously rest assured that all the POWERS of EARTH and hell, combined, shall not be able to prevail against it. Firm in this assurance, we shall from time to time, through your valuable paper, communicate such comforting hints as our discoveries may afford. Mean time we rest your well wishers, and humble servants, A COMMITTEE OF OBSERVATION.
SATURDAY, July 18. BOSTON.
We hear that the Commissioners of the Customs for North-America, &c. have established a Custom-House at Turk's-Island, which is now included in the government of the Bahamas.
We hear from Needham, that last Thursday se'nnight, a son of one Mr. Chamberland of that place, about 17 years of age was drowned in the mill-pond there.
MARRIED.] Nathan Cushing, Esq; of Scituate, to Miss Abigail Tilden, of Pembroke.
NEWPORT, July 6. Capt. St. Croix, who left New-York last Friday, and arrived here yesterday, informs, that about four hours before he sailed, he was credibly informed, that the Indians had burnt Sir William Johnson's house, and that Sir William had taken shelter in one of the castles in that quarter. [This report must be void of truth.]
Yesterday arrived here Capt. William Bourk, late Master of the Brig Minerva, of this port, who was bound from the Bay of Honduras for Europe, [as mentioned in this paper under the New-York head] who informs that himself and six more, viz. Captain James Davis, of the ship Marquis of Granby, Capt. William Chambers of the schooner Polly, of New-Providence, Richard Hayward, Benjamin Knox, John Nichol, and James Fisher, went ashore on the 12th of May at Swan's Island, in one boat to look for a good watering place, their vessels being short of water; but the wind and the tide prevented the vessels getting near in with the island that day, so they concluded to stay ashore until next morning, in hopes they

July 23.
The MASSACHUSETTS SPY for 1772.
would get in with the island:—When morning came they could but just discern their vessels; when they put off and endeavoured to get on board; but soon after the wind and the sea rose so high that their boat was almost filled, and they were obliged to keep before the wind and could neither fetch the vessels nor the island—next day seeing nothing of the vessels, they concluded to make the first land they could, and after being in the boat eight days without scarce any thing to eat, they reached Rattan. Benjamin Knox and Richard Hayward died in the boat, and Capt. Davis and John Nichol died almost as soon as they landed.
MONDAY, July 20. BOSTON.
Last week Capt. Jarvis, in the ship Hannah, sailed for London, in whom went passengers, Mr. George Green, of this town, merchant, and several Spanish gentlemen who belonged to the ship which was carried in to New-London, last fall, in distress.
Last Friday se'nnight a shower of hail fell at Southborough, Attleborough, &c. some of which were as big as bullets, and destroyed several fields of corn and rye; and it is said, it lay on the ground seven inches deep till next morning.
Yesterday arrived his Majesty's ship Mercury from Halifax; also a snow in 60 days from Glasgow; and a brig from Quebec.
It is said that the Counts Struenfee and Brandt were executed at Copenhagen in the following manner: They first had their hands cut off, next their heads, and then their bodies quartered, and laid upon the wheel, and their heads and hands fixed upon iron spikes. Struenfee behaved very penitently but Brandt was remarkably bold—Some people in England scruple the truth of their being executed, as it was not in the London Gazette.
DIED] Mr. Edmonson.—At Marshfield, John Gooch, Esq.; late of this town.—At Salem, Mr. William Jeffry, one of the clerks of the Inferior Court for the county of Essex.
ARRIVED here. Whitney from New-Haven; Rogers from Philadelphia; Ingersoll from Newfoundland; Vincent from Jamaica; Winslow from Mountserrat; Andrews from Turks-Island and Hudson from Cape Nichola.
TUESDAY, July 21. BOSTON.
By a vessel arrived from Falmouth we learn—That the bill for the relief of protestant dissenters has passed the Commons—That Mr. Pignerelli, was beheaded at Rome for his satirical writings against the Holy See—That a dreadful fire had consumed twenty houses in London—That a supper at the Pantheon in London, for 1500 of the Nobility, &c. cost 1250l. for victuals, and 500l. for wine, sterling—That Jonathan Britain, a person, who declared he could give great insight into the villainous actions of some servants of the British crown, relative to the fire at Portsmouth was sentenced to be hanged!—That the Counts Struenfee and Brandt have been executed at Denmark; though it is thought this news wants confirmation.—That the French court are in great want of money and have offered the Island of Corsica for sale.—That three 74 gun ships, two bomb ketches, a fire ship, and a yacht, were ordered to be got ready for the sea at an hour's notice.—That the Queen of Denmark wears deep mourning, for her murdered reputation.—That two shocks of an earthquake happened at Lisbon, on the 5th of April at midnight, which continued two minutes, but did no damage—That Major Rogers who was so serviceable in the command of a body of irregulars in America, has just obtained a commission from his Majesty for finding out the north-west passage in that quarter. He is to be allowed three pounds a day for himself, and four shillings each for fifty companions of his own chusing. From the intimate acquaintance this gentleman has with the country, his knowledge of the Indian language; and above all having the object much at heart, the scheme seems to promise a very successful issue.—That George Mills, Esq; is to be appointed a Commissioner of the board of Customs at Boston, in the room of Robinson, Esq; who goes out with Major Rogers (at a handsome allowance) to assist in exploring the interior parts of North America. That three of the young Princes are preparing for inoculation—And, that in case a war with Denmark should take place, the Duke of Grafton will again be at the head of affairs, Lord Camden have the seals, and the Bed-
ford faction have the distribution of the loaves and fishes. These accounts are from the 11th to the 17th of May.
Besides those mentioned in our last, a degree of Master of Arts, was conferred on Mr. Nathaniel Porter, graduated in 1768, and the Rev. William Gordon of Roxbury; Nathaniel Niles, A. M. educated at Nassau-Hall, was admitted ad eundem .
At a general Council held at the Council-Chamber in Boston, on Wednesday the 8th instant, his Excellency the Governor was pleased to nominate, Joseph Green, Esq; to be a Justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the county of Suffolk And on Tuesday last his Excellency was pleased to nominate, George Godfrey, Esq; to be a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum, for the county of Bristol. David Wyer, jun. Esq; to be a Justice of the Peace for the county of Cumberland. To all which Nominations his Majesty's Council did advise and consent.
Among the Gentlemen who received their first degree at the late Commencement, was the only Son of Ralph Inman, Esq; of Cambridge; who upon that occasion gave a very extensive invitation, in the name of himself, lady and son, to the circle of their acquaintance, to dine at his seat last Thursday. We are informed by some of the company present, that they found a table of about 150 feet, under a canopy on the green before the house, spread with an elegance as if directed by the fancy of a Fairy Queen, but at the same time capable of giving the most solid satisfaction to the whole school of Epicurus while the sideboards range would have put a new smile upon the cheeks of Bacchus and his jovial train. Poor Venus indeed and her nymphs must have burst with envy, had they been present to examine, at one single prospect, a brilliant group of more than eight score ladies.
WEDNESDAY, July 22. BOSTON.
On Monday last a large shop, occupied by Mr. Sumner house-wright, in Board-Alley, near Trinity Church, caught on fire, which entirely consumed the same together with a number of tools, &c.
We hear that the 14th regiment now at Castle William, where they have been in durance for upwards of two years, will soon embark for the Island of Barbadoes, the place of rendezvous: It is said that St. Croix, is the object aimed at. We are told that a garrison of twenty men will be left at the Castle, and, considering the great additional strength of that fortress (since the withdrawing the provincial troops) considering also the natural bravery of the twenty to be left there, and that they have erected a new and stout Black house at the back part of the Castle, we may rest easy though the united fleets of France and Spain should attack them. N. B. His Majesty now pays for our defence with our money.
NEWPORT, July 19. Last Monday sail'd the Beaver ,—It might reasonably be expected, (if any thing reasonable could be expected from the present adm-nistr-t-on of G— B—n) that said ship was gone to the Havanna, to demand a number of British subjects , who have for a long time, been starving in the loathsome jails at that place! But such an act of humanity can scarce be even hoped for in the present ERA! —Fortunes for numerous dependants are not to be obtained by such christian acts of benevolence and mercy.
The Beaver sloop arrived here from a cruise on Saturday night, without having taken a single prize, the coast being, as we learn, entirely clear of natural enemies: and we should be extremely glad to inform our readers of its being as clear of all other enemies.
THURSDAY, July 23. BOSTON.
It is said that at the late festivity held at the town of Cambridge a certain great man from Rutland, after drinking Lord Hillsborough, North, Bute and the Baronet of Nettleham, proposed as a toast, "confusion to S. Adams and party," and though he presumed himself in company with a chosen band of staunch enemies to the rights of this colony, a very small number pledged it; and even Mr. T----- G---, in general supposed Courtier enough, so freely handled the C---l that it seems the forward gentleman has been convinced, his zeal to please the very few of his own tyrannic kidney, had pushed him to a length from which he would gladly retreat, honore dimidio salvo . What return can a man expect from a country, who proposes to toast the confusion of its most jealous, disinterested and inflexible friends and patrons?
We hear that Mr. Joseph Turell of this town, merchant, is appointed one of the Clerks of the Court of Common Pleas, for the county of Suffolk, in the room of Mr. _____ Hutchinson who has resigned.
We hear that the 14th regiment embarked yesterday on board the transports and that they are to sail to-morrow.
Yesterday a child about seven years of age, fell off from a wharf at the North-end and was drowned.
The bill for the relief of Protestant Dissenters which passed the House of Commons, was carried on a division 75 against nine.
We hear from Cockfokly, in A bany County, that on the 3d ult. there fell at that place a most violent shower of Hail, some of which where as big as geese eggs. The damage done by it was very great.
MARRIED.] At Dunstable, by the Rev. Mr. Merrell, Dr. John Taylor of Lunenburgh, to Mrs. Anna Pool, relict of the late Mr. Fitch Pool of this town merchant.
DIED] Mrs. Johanna Carnes, wife of Mr. Edward Carnes, merchant, and daughter of Major Jennings late of Charlestown, deceased; her funeral will be attended this afternoon at five o'clock, when his friends and acquaintance are desired to attend.—Mr. John Gearry, wine-copper.—At New-York, the Hon. Colonel Richard Maitland, Deputy Adjutant-General to his Majesty's troops in America.
PRINCETOWN, [New-Jersey] July 7. About two weeks ago, some coals were discovered to have been put at the south end of Dr. Witherspoon's house together with the bottom of an old chair, which was stuffed between the boards: Happily they went out, and no damage was done. The President procured a watch for some succeeding nights, but as the attempt was not renewed, the thing was forgot, and the coals was supposed to get there by accident.
Last Wednesday evening one Gaa, a barber, smelling a stench like burning rags, searched narrowly about, and at length discovered a large coal wrapped up in a piece of linen, which in a few moments would have set the house on fire. This and the foregoing attempt, convinced them that there was some mischief brooding, and accordingly they seized an old man, who has since been found innocent.
On Friday night we were alarmed with the cry of fire; a small light was discovered in Mr. Baldwin's barn; but the whole barn was in a blaze before any body arrived; it was beyond our power to save it. All that could be done was to save the neighbouring barracks. Our steward lost most of this year's hay a vast deal of grain and straw, a waggon, a new saddle, and all his implements of husbandry, &c.
While the Collegians were at the fire, some persons entered the College and ransacked their rooms, and carried off a quantity of plunder.
Extract of a letter from Baltimore county, in Maryland, dated July 1, 1772.
"In our neighbourhood, at Mr. Paca's quarter, on Deer Creek, a cow lately brought forth a calf with a head representing that of the human species; differing principally in the situation of the eyes and ears, the latter being on the neck and the former on each side of the head where the ears ought to have been."
NEW-HAVEN, July 10. Last Wednesday evening, about half after nine o'clock, began here an extraordinary appearance of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Light, which ended with the morning twilight, while it continued it was for the most part of uniform lustre, but there were some intervals when it almost disappeared. The main body lay above the horizon, in the form of a regular arch, the highest part of which might be about nine or ten degrees above it, and directly under the Pole star. The arch subtended 120 degrees of the horizon, and was mostly of a palid hue; from which, as a ground work, there would frequently dart forth in quick succession, brighter beams of light, resembling pillars of smoke, in forms of pyramids, to the height of about 25 degrees above the horizon.
But what was most extraordinary attending the general phenomenon, was a very conspicuous and constant corruscation or flashing of light from the forementioned arch, which, by an undulatory motion, would spread promiscuously through all parts of the appearance, like flashes of lightning from clouds; but no noise was heard from it. The lustre was so great in some parts, that the two pointers in the constellation of the Great Bear were almost rendered invisible, which otherwise would have been very conspicuous, as the sky was very serene during the whole.—The wind at due north.
On SATURDAY next, At ELEVEN o'clock, Will be Sold by PUBLIC VENDUE at the Auction-Room in Queen-Street, FIFTEEN Casks of 4d. 8d. 10d. 20d. 24d. and sheathing NAILS, damaged. J. RUSSELL, Auctioneer.
JOHN HODGSON, Hereby informs the Public, THAT he carries on his Business of a BOOK BINDER, at his Shop opposite Mr. Philip Freeman's jun. near Liberty-Tree, the shop Mr. John Greenlaw lately improved, where he engages to execute any orders he may receive as neat as any London binding, and at the most reasonable prices. Gentlemen waited on at the shortest notice, and the smallest favours gratefully acknowledged. N. B. Orders from the Country strictly attended to.
To be SOLD by JOSEPH PALMER & SON, At their Store, at the lower end of King Street, Boston;
SPERMACETI CANDLES: Also, An Assortment of ENGLISH, SCOTCH and IRISH GOODS, and a few Casks of PRISTOL BEER.
They have also to sell, at the House of JOSEPH GREENLEAF, Esq; in Hanover street, near the Orange tree, A good Assortment of IRISH LINENS.
N. B. The above Goods will be sold Wholesale or retail, for little more than the Sterling Cost and charges.
THE Proprietors of BOSTON PIER, otherwise called the LONG-WHARF, in the town of Boston, are, in conformity to an Act of the Great and General Court, passed the last Session, Incorporating the said Proprietors, hereby notified to meet at the British-Coffee-House in King-Street, in Boston aforesaid on the first Wednesday of August next, being the fifth Day of said Month, at three o'Clock in the Afternoon, then and there to choose a Moderator and to fix on some Method, for raising Money for defraying the Charges of such new Work and Repairs, as have already been, or may then be determined and voted, to be effected, and for calling future Meetings of said Proprietors; and generally to transact any other Business that shall properly come before them, and be for the interest of the Propriety. Boston, July 21st, 1772. JOB PRINCE, Proprietors Clerk.
Imported in the last ships from London, by JAMES PERKINS Two doors below the British Coffee-House, North-side Kingstreet.
A LARGE and neat assortment of single, and double Flint Glass Ware, plain, enameled and engraved, cut Wine Decanters and Salts. Likewise
Cream coloured Delph and Flint Ware, Bohea, Souchong and Hyson. Tea, Mustard in pound, half pound, and quarter pound Bottles, ditto by the Dozen or Pound, without Bottles, Choice fresh Gorgonia Anchovies in Bottles or by the Pound, green Capers by the bottle or pound, Jordan Almonds, Florence Oil, English pickled Walnuts, very fine red Herrings, Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace and Pepper, Poland and common Starch, 15 and 18 Inch glazed Pipes, double and single refined English Loaf Sugar, Gloucester and Cheshire Cheese, groun Rice, &c. &c. &c.
Also, Naragansett Cheese, Chocolate by the Box or Pound, French Indigo, with many other Articles in the Grocery way.
N. B. Stone Jugs, 2nd Pickle Pots. All the above articles will be sold as cheap as at any Store in Town.
July 6. He has just imported a large Assortment (in addition to the above) of Cream coloured Stone, Delph and Glass Ware:—Shopkeepers in Town or Country may be supplied by Wholesale or Retail. He has a few choice Hams of Bacon.
TO BE SOLD, A HOUSE in Union-street, near the Market, with four rooms on a floor, a good Yard, Garden, Chaise-House, Stable, Well, Cistern, and many other accommodations, very well situated for a Shopkeeper. For particulars enquire of the Painter.

BOSTON.
The following ACTS passed the last Session of the General Assembly, viz.
An Act for supplying the Treasury with the Sum of Ten Thousand three Hundred Pounds.
An Act to enable the Province-Treasurer to issue his warrants to the Assessors of the several Towns, Districts and other Places within this Province, agreeably to the Valuation and Apportionment agreed upon by the House of Representatives at the Session of the General Court in May, 1772.
An Act for ascertaining and limiting a Time for the Returns of Executions that have or may be issued by the Treasurer or Receiver General of this Province, against any delinquent or defective Constable or Collector.
An Act to prevent the Currency of the Bills of Credit of the Governments of New-York, New-Jersey and Nova-Scotia.
An Act to enable Sheriffs, Deputy Sheriffs, Coroners and their Deputies, and Constables, to make Sale of Goods and Chattle taken by Execution.
An Act for incorporating the proprietors of Boston Pier, otherwise called the Long-Wharf, in the Town of Boston.
An Act in addition to and explanatory of the several Laws already made relating to the Removal of poor persons out of the Towns whereof they are not Inhabitants.
An Act to amend and carry into Execution an Act made in the fifth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intitled "An Act for raising by Lottery the Sum of three Thousand two Hundred Pounds for Building another Hall for the Students of Harvard College to dwell in."
An Act for continuing an Act intitled, "an Act for establishing and regulating the Fees of the several Officers within this province hereafter mentioned."
An Act in addition to an Act intitled, "an Act to prevent Fraud in Cord-Wood exposed to Sale."
An Act for changing the Christian Name of Willard Wheeler, from Willard to William Willard.
An Act for altering the time for holding the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, and Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex.
An Act for altering the Time of holding the Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Inferior Court of Common Pleas in the County of Cumberland, from the third Tuesday of April and the third Tuesday of October, to the last Tuesday of March and the last Tuesday of October annually; and for establishing one other Court of General Sessions of the Peace and Inferior Court of Common Pleas to be held in said County annually for the future.
An Act for incorporating the Plantation called Naragansett Number One, in the County of York, into a Town by the Name of Buxton.
An Act for erecting the North Part of the Town of Uxbridge in the County of Worcester, into a District by the name of Northbridge.
An Act for the subjecting the Inhabitants of a Part of the Town of Danvers, called the Neck of Land, hereafter described, to the Charge of maintaining and supporting certain Bridges and highways.
An Act for annexing certain Lands lying in the Town of Harwich, in the County of Barnstable, (called Poatnimicut with the Inhabitants thereon, to the Town of Eastham, in the same County.
An Act for confirming the Titles and quieting the Possessions of the Proprietors of the Town of Townsend.
An Act in addition to and in explanation of an Act intitled, an Act for incorporating the Southerly Part of Rutland and the Northerly Part of Leicester in the County of Worcester, into a District by the Name of Paxton.
An Act for granting a Tax of one Penny Half-Penny per Acre yearly, for the Term of five Years successively, on all the Nonresident Proprietors of Lands in the Town of Ashby in the County of Middlesex, and for subjecting the Lands of such of the Proprietors as neglect or refuse to pay the said Tax, to be sold for the Payment thereof.
An Act making Provision for the Collection of a Refuse of certain Assessments
of the Town and second Parish in Scarborough in the County of Cumberland.
An Act for granting a Tax of One Penny per Acre yearly, for the Term of three Years successively, on all unimproved Lands in the District of Shelburne in the County of Hampshire, and for subjecting the Lands of such Proprietors as neglect or refuse to pay the said Tax, to be sold for the Payment thereof.
An Act for regulating Town-Meetings in the Town of Danvers.
An Act for granting a Tax of Two Pence per Acre, for one Year next to come and of One Penny per Acre, for a second Year next to come, on all the Lands in the District of Hubbardston in the County of Worcester, and for subjecting the Lands of such of the Proprietors as neglect or refuse to pay the said Taxes to be sold for the payment thereof.
An Act to prevent the Destruction of Oysters in Charles and Mistick Rivers.
An Act for continuing sundry Laws that are near expiring.
DANIEL SCOTT,
At his Medicine Store the Sign of the Leopard, South End.
TAKES this method of informing all Gentlemen, Ladies, and others, who have had the Misfortune to lose their Teeth, that he still continues the Business of making and fixing artificial Teeth as usual, in so elegant a manner as to be but little inferior to the natural, either in Use or Beauty, as many who have experienced them can testify: Where also any Person afflicted with painful Stumps or unsound Teeth, may have them removed with a peculiar Dexterity and Ease.—And all Persons who have the Scurvy in their Teeth, which threatens their removal though sound, may have them cleaned without hurting the Enamel, or in the least degree impairing them, and may be supplied with his DENTUM CONSERVATOR, which is an excellent Powder, the best adapted for preserving the Teeth and Gums, and preventing them from Aching, of any Preparation ever offered to the Public: It will cure the Scurvy in the Gums, bring the Teeth to their original Whiteness, and by a continuance of its Use, will Preserve both Teeth and Gums in a pure state during life.—It is not pretended that it will perform Impossibilities, that it will make rotten Teeth sound, or will ease them when they violently ach; but it will assuredly preserve those Teeth found that are so, and cause the Gums to adhere to them and prevent those that are decayed in part, from becoming worse.
At the above Store may be had, Morgan's useful Eye-Water, which has in so many cases been found serviceable, that it must escape the censure of the most critical Oculist—Brigden's famous Bug Liquid, which effectually destroys those hateful Vermin,—be they ever so numerous.—
An assortment of genuine patented and other Medicines of the best quality, and Medicine Boxes for Families or Shipping, with exact and particular directions for using them, and a variety of other articles cheap.
The above Powder may be had also of Cox and Berry in Boston, Doctor Kast in Salem, and Dummer Jewett, Esq; at Ipswich.
A VARIETY of Mezzotinto PRINTS, and very neat Engravings, imported in one of the last vessels from London, to be sold by
STEPHEN WHITING, opposite the sign of the Cornfield, and
STEPHEN WHITING, jun. about half-way between that and the Mill-bridge; where may be had, at a low price, Looking-Glasses, of almost all sizes, from one inch in length up to thirty-six, by twenty in width.
At the same places, Glasses not exceeding thirty by eighteen may be new silvered. Glasses and Pictures of all sorts framed and gilt as well and as cheap as any where in America.
To be LET, A STORE, very convenient for ENGLISH GOODS, and well situated Enquire of the Printer.
IT must afford a very sensible pleasure to every well wisher to learning in general, and to the Seminary in Cambridge in particular, when any encouragement is given to hope for its prosperity: all of this character, will be ready to improve every opportunity to promote so good a cause. Such an one is now offered to the public in the following
LOTTERY, granted by the General Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, for the purpose of raising 3200 l. L. M. for building a new hall at Cambridge for the better accommodation of the students.—
To the management whereof Joseph Jackson, and William Blair Townsend Esqrs. William Greenleaf, Jonathan Mason, Samuel Austin, and H. Hill, Merchants, have been appointed and duly sworn.
HARVARD-COLLEGE LOTTERY, consists of 10,000 Tickets, at 6 Dollars each; 3337 of which are prizes of the following value, viz.
 1 Prize of 5000 Dollars 5000  1 do. 3000 3000  1 do. 1000 1000  3 do. 500 1500  10 do. 200 2000  15 do. 100 1500  30 do. 50 1500  3276 do. 10 32760  3337 48260 
The first ticket which shall be drawn on the first six days, will be intitled to 50 Dollars each. } 300
The ticket which shall be drawn last in said lottery, will be intitled to - - } 100
N. B. These are not included in the number of prizes.
6663 Blanks, 48660 Remain for the College 11340
10000 Tickets at 6 Dollars each are 60000 [Dollars,]
Not Two Blanks to a Prize.
The above Scheme is calculated more to the advantage of the adventurer, than perhaps any other ever yet offered to the public on this continent; when this is considered, together with the generous design of said Lottery, the managers cannot but flatter themselves they shall be able to draw the same in a few months.
As this undertaking is designed solely for the benefit of the College, it is hoped that those who have received the honours of that society, and all others who have at heart the cause of learning, with which the good of society is so nearly connected, will readily and cheerfully encourage it, by becoming adventurers.
Public and seasonable notice will be given of the time and place of drawing; and as soon as the drawing is finished, a list of the prizes will be published in Edes & Gill's Boston Gazette, &c. and the money paid to the possessors of the benefit tickets, within twenty days after a publication of a list of prizes.
Gold as well as silver will be taken for the tickets, and the prizes paid off in like manner, prizes not demanded within twelve months after drawing, will not be paid, but will be deemed as generously given for the purposes aforesaid, and will be applied accordingly.
TICKETS are ready for sale at the houses of Jonathan Hastings and Andrew Boardman, Esqrs. in Cambridge, and at the Stores and Houses of the managers in Boston.
FLOREAT ACADEMIA.
EBENEZER HANCOCK, At his shop in Marshall's Lane, between the sign of the Corn-fields and the Mill-bridge; begs leave to acquaint his former good customers and others, that he has just opened for sale,
A FRESH assortment of Hard-ware Goods, which he is determined to sell at the very lowest Advance, for Cash only:—Those who please to favour him with their Custom may depend upon being well used; and all favours gratefully acknowledged.
To be SOLD very cheap for cash, or English Goods, a new Fall-back CHAISE, and also a SULKEY, very neatly made, with Harnesses for each complete. Enquire of the Printer.
WATTS's and Tate and Brady's PSALMS, to be sold by I. THOMAS, near the Mill-bridge. Also,
A variety of small BOOKS for CHILDREN.
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 Dentifrice, which he has found to be greatly superior not only in elegance, but also in efficacy, to any thing hitherto made use of for complaints of the Teeth and Gums: Particularly they will 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; fasten such as are loose, keep such as are already decayed from becoming worse, prevent the Tooth-Ach, perfectly cure the Scurvy in the Gums, and make them grow firm and close to the teeth; they likewise render the breath delicate, sweet, and 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.
To SELL, or LET, A GOOD Brick SUGAR-HOUSE, at the North part of the Town, with the Pan and Cooler and all other Utensils for carrying on the Sugar-Bakers Business.
Enquire of the Printer.
The newest PHILADELPHIA FLOUR, Fine and Superfine; also Cotton WOOL, &c. &c. to be sold upon the most Reasonable Terms, by
JAMES SWAN, At the Store lately improved by Mr. James Blakie, and next to Mr. Ellis Gray's, leading down to Treat's and Spear's Wharfs.
A FEW Quintals of good Table FISH, and PEAS for shipping; to be sold at
JOHN LOWELL's Store, on Hancock's Wharf.
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.
New Book-Store. JOHN LANGDON, Opposite the Post-Office, informs the public that he has just received from London, a Large and Grand
Assortment of BOOKS, Which he is determined to sell so cheap as to give entire satisfaction to the purchaser. The following Catalogue be presented to the Gentlemen of the Law, viz.
BACON's new Abridgments of the Law, 5 vols. The fifth Vol. may be had alone.
 Burrow's Reports, 3 vols. Folio.  Lord Ramond's do. 3 vols. Folio.  Peer William's do. 3 vols. do.  Hobart's do.  Shinner's do.  Plowden's do.  Ventriss's do.  Lilly's practical Register, 2 vols. Folio.  Ditto Entries.  Hawkin's Pleas of the Crown.  Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England, 4 vols. 4to.  Ditto Analysis.  Cunningham's Law Dictionary, 2 vols. fo.  Jacob's do.  Hawkin's Abridgment of Cook. Law of Evidence.  Trial's p. Pais.  Gilbert on Devises.  on Tenures.  Cases in King's-Bench. 
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, unsealed, and Eight Shillings sealed and directed; and where Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received and 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. Hill—Watch-maker in Salem; Mr. R. Emerson, Bookseller, in Newbury-Port; and Mr. M. Belcher, in Bridgewater.