The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-09-30 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE
AND
HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday Sept. 30, 1774.
GAZETTE,
CHRONICLE,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 936 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd: }
From Bingley's Journal, of July 2, 1774.
TO THE KING,
DEFENDER of the PROTESTANT FAITH.
SIR,
YOUR MAJESTY'S SPEECH from the Throne, to both Houses of Parliament, is, to all Intents and Purposes an ADDRESS and APPEAL to the PEOPLE through their REPRESENTATIVES. As a Subject then I have an unquestionable RIGHT to judge of, and animadvert upon this solemn ADDRESS from the THRONE to the PEOPLE.
The authoritative Publication of the SPEECH implies this Freedom; and the Necessity of the Times urges to a free Exercise of it. It has been very unfortunate for the People of England, that what for many Years past has given the Sovereign the utmost Satisfaction, has given the People the greatest Uneasiness.
Nor have their Ideas been less contradictory respecting the Zeal and Prudence which Parliament have shown to the publick Service.
We acknowledge, with your MAJESTY, that this Session has been very interesting; for we have seen and complain of the most unconstitutional Proceedings that ever any Parliament could furnish out Instances of. Your MAJESTY had a very striking Instance of this but a few Minutes before you gave the Royal Assent to a BILL, that, in its Spirit and Tendency, is subversive of the great Principles of our GOVERNMENT, and a Violation of that Part of the civil Compact by which you are our legitimate KING.
For that BILL the Minister ought to lose his Head; for that Bill no peculiar Circumstances of Embarrassments, had such existed, were a sufficient Cause. Nor was any true Principle of sound Policy the Ground of those Adjustments and Regulations which were falsely deemed necessary by your MAJESTY's Ministers, for the Government of Quebec.
And we apprehend that the Bill is so far from being founded on the clearest Principles of Justice and Humanity, as the Minister would suggest, that some of your MAJESTY's best Subjects scruple not to assert, that it is founded on Injustice and Violation, contempt of Law and Customs of the Realm.
But we will for a Moment, suppose with your MAJESTY, that the Bill will have the desired Effect in quieting the Minds, and promoting the Happiness of your Canadian Subjects.
Is their Quiet to be purchased by the Loss of the Affections of the People at Home? Are your MAJESTY's unconquered Subjects of this Nation to tremble for their Liberties, that Canada might reap the blessed Effects of your conciliating Mercy & parental Tenderness?
Must the Descendants of Men who raised your Family, Sir, to Empire, fear for their ALL, while conquered Provinces, and subjugated Slaves seem the only Objects of royal Favour & Attention?
Most Protestants mourn, while Papists rejoice? Or is such the peculiar Cast of your MAJESTY's Character, or such the Fatality of your Reign, that in the peculiar Instances wherein you mean to adhere to Justice and Humanity; you must go near the Altar, and break your sacred Oath?
thus invalidating the very Assent by which the Law is confirmed. In the present Instance your MAJESTY's protestant Subjects are apt to believe, that an Agreement in Opinion with your MINISTERS would involve them in Contradictions of the most extraordinary Nature;
because it would suppose, that the worst of Men could act upon the best of Principles; and that the veriest Slaves that any affecting Tyrant would with his Tools, could adopt the Principles of Justice and Humanity.
Far different, Sir, are their Principles, and diametrically repugnant their Doctrines. And the greatest Statesman that this or any other Age could boast, has given his Opinion on the Side of the public Conviction.
No, Sir, the Bill did not originate in Justice, nor was it founded in Humanity. We suspect that it made part of the private Stipulations with France, when Lord Bute negotiated the last infamous Peace.
We believe that the Fear of offending the House of Bourbon, and to keep a large Body of Popish Canadians in terrorem against our Protestant Brethren in America, the true Ground and Principles of the Bill; else we are at a Loss to account for its being brought in so late in the Session, and at the Eve of a general Election;
at which Time the most abandoned and insolent Ministers have preferred some Appearances, and paid a little Regard to the People.
The dangerous Spirit of Resistance to your MAJESTY's Government, which you complain you have long seen with Concern in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, is not, Sir, the Effect of Rebellion or Faction abroad, but Rebellion and Tyranny at Home.
On the other Side of the Atlantic was all Confidence, Love, and Loyal Subjection, 'till the fatal Experiment was made to convert Free-born Men into Slaves, and fiducial Subjects into hold Opponents.
Your MAJESTY travels too far for the Cause of these Evils. You, Sir, ought to know, and be able to give a better Account of them, than any Man in the Kingdom;
because they spring from Councils which wicked Ministers hold too near your Person and Throne--from the Enemies of your House, and your Family's Accession to our Government.
These are the Men, Sir, whose Temper and Firmness you commend in the Face of the Public, in the most solemn Act of your regal Capacity, with your Head surrounded with the royal Diadem, the Free Gift of a generous People to your Ancestors, and permissive Grant at present in your Possession.
From the Throne, which can have no other permanent Establishment but Justice and Righteousness, your MAJESTY compliments Men that pay no Regard to either.
These Sir, are your adopted Friends; while the true Friends of their COUNTRY and the Constitution are treated as ill affected to your Government, and Opposers of the King.
To such Men does your MAJESTY venture to give the Royal Promise, that no thing that depends on YOU, shall be wanting to render THEIR Measures effectual.
The People, SIR, most sincerely wish, that this Declaration could be received with those Qualifications and Restrictions, as those Declarations in some of your MAJESTY's former Speeches, though omitted in the last, have been, where your MAJESTY has said, that the Happiness of the People is the primary Object of your Government; and
that you have not, or can have, any other Interests but theirs in View. It is a great Misfortune to a State, when the People can only believe the Prince in Things that tend to make them disloyal.
Your MAJESTY expresses an ardent desire to see your deluded Subjects in America returning to a Sense of Duty, and acquiescing in that just Subordination to the Authority, and maintaining that due Regard to the Commercial Interests of this Country, which must ever be inseparably connected with their own real Prosperity and Advantage.
Your MAJESTY's Subjects in America are more oppressed than deluded. Let TYRANNY cease, and they will return to a Sense of Duty and Allegiance. Let them experience an equal, just, temperate Government; and your MAJESTY will find due Subordination and Submission to Authority.
And when we cease, by unconstitutional TAXES, Violations of CHARTER, and Proscriptions of CITIES and PORTS to oppress the Americans, we shall see them pay due REGARD to our Commercial Interests.
Your MAJESTY's Ministers have raised the Wall of Separation. And while such Men are continued in Power; while the Laws are unrepealed that have sown the Seeds of Diffension, America will never return to a Sense of Duty, and endless Contentions must ensue, till, at length, the Sword must decide Contests which Injustice and Tyranny began.
America must be polluted with the Blood of her Sons; and the Children of our own Bowels, treated with more than hostile Cruelty, will be massacred. Then perhaps we shall be forced ignominiously to sue to France and Spain for an infamous and inglorious Truce, till we can breathe from the unnatural Slaughter of our Brethren to combat with the avowed and traitorous Enemies of our RELIGION and GOVERNMENT.
These, Sir, are not the Visions of enthusiasm, the Dictates of Faction, the Voice of Disaffection, or the Language of Despair. Your Ministers, Sir, as high Priests of Tyranny, have offered up Liberty, even in the public Senate.
Upon the Inspection of the Victim, every man turns aghast. The unfavourable Omens are not derived from vague Conjecture, or sacred Delusions; History informs us how to judge, and there is one Page written in regal Blood, which you, Sir, would do well to consult, to form your Judgment, and regulate your Conduct;
that the Enemies of your Family or Reign may not have an Opportunity to vindicate their Conduct by such an high Precedent, and such a great Example. TRIBUNUS.
To his ROYAL HIGHNESS the DUKE of GLOUCESTER.
SIR,
THE common Form of Respect shewn to Persons of distinguished Rank, is the only Motive of my addressing your ROYAL HIGHNESS second to any Man in the Nation.
Your Highness's late Conduct and Vote in an August Assembly, on one of the most important, and consequential Acts, that the three Estates of Parliament can pass, deserves the Thanks of the Friends of Liberty and Protestantism.
The Memory of the Deed will last as long as our Annals, and save us from the Charge of total Degeneracy. We now look up to YOU, Sir, as the Friend and Guardian of our Rights and Liberties;
we cannot but express our Satisfaction, in seeing the Laws and Religion of the State supported by one, at least, of the illustrious House of Hanover. And we form the higher Opinion of such a noble Discharge of the Trust reposed in your Royal Highness, as one of the GUARDIANS of our LIBERTIES, from the peculiar Situation you are in, and the Relations in which you stand.
The Principles of your Conduct, Sir, are decisive; and we have not the least Shadow of Doubt, that your Vote in Parliament arose from a full Conviction, that the BILL was subversive of the Constitution, derogatory to the Honor and Interest of your ROYAL BROTHER, dangerous to the Establishment, both of the LAWS and RELIGION of this REALM, and fatal in its Effects.
It is great Consolation, Royal Sir, to the People of England, to look forward and presage an unbroken Succession of PATRIOT KINGS in your illustrious Line.
And tho' Providence has been pleased to bless your royal Brother our Sovereign, with a Progeny of hopeful PRINCES, yet as in his Wisdom, GOD, who sometimes setteth up one and pulleth down another, may see fit to remove them from their present State;
it will, no doubt, be some Consolation to them, but much more to us, to think that one of your august House shall sway the SCEPTRE over a free, and consequently a happy People. TRIBUNUS.
WHEREAS the Town of Portsmouth,
at their Meeting of last Monday, chose a Committee to receive Donations for the industrious Poor of the Town of Boston,
therefore said Committee give this public Notice, that they will attend that benevolent Design on Monday and Thursday Evenings of the two next Weeks, from 6 to 9 o'Clock at the House of James Stoodley, Esq;
where 'tis expected, those that are disposed to assist our suffering BRETHREN in that devoted Town, will bring their kind Benefactions.
Portsmouth, Sept. 26, 1774.
CASH or any kind of GOODS
At Cash Price, given by R. CHAMPNEY
for FLAX-SEED, delivered at his Shop or
Store on the Long Wharfe.
BERWICK, Sept. 24, 1774.
IN the twenty fifth Year of her Age, at Berwick, the 19th Inst. Expird the truly amiable Miss MARY CHADBOURN, Daughter of the Hon. BENJAMIN CHADBOURN, Esq; after a lingering Indisposition of several Months. Her Worth & Merit demand the sincerest Tribute of Praise.
Her easy, gentle Deportment; but more especially, her Sympathy, Benevolence, Modesty, Candor, and Magnanimity, rais'd her superior to every Foible of her Sex.
Under the Patronage of her benevolent Parents, she liberally supplied the Wants of the deserving Poor.
Her implicit, filial Obedience, render'd her truly exemplary.
A frank Disposition, a generous Soul, free from the least Dissimulation, irresistibly procur'd her the Love and Esteem of all her Acquaintance.
Whilst a Consciousness of her own Innocence, innate Virtue, and real Goodness, supported her under the most excruciating Pains; under the Pangs of Death; with the greatest Calmness and Serenity.
Ah cruel Death! could'st thou no longer spare?
The sweetly charming Maid, the blooming Fair.
Must thou inexorable, with dread Power,
Cut off the Parents Joys? Ill fated Hour!
O cruel Thought! Too much for mourning Friends,
To bear with Calmness.
But stop ye pearly Drops, forsook to flow:
Nought could avert th' inevitable Blow.
Tho' 'tis a Loss, too grievous to sustain
Without convulsive Grief, Heart-rending Pain,
Our Loss remediless is her sore Gain.
And whilst we pierce Heav'n's Concave with our Cries,
Freed from her Clay, She now seraphick flies,
Midst Guardian Angels, to her kindred Skies.
For Earthly Friends too great a Share of Bliss,
For tender Parents too much Happiness.
Th' ALMIGHTY FATHER, sent and call'd her Home,
To join in heavenly Concert round his Throne.
Thomas Martin,
INTENDING in the Course of the Fall,
to leave this Country for a Time, desires
all who have Demands upon him to apply
therefor.—Those who are indebted to him,
either on Book, or by Note, are earnestly
intreated to make Payment.—And those
upon whom repeated Intreaties can have no
Effect, must expect the Law to take Place.
He has a Number of Articles for Sale at
the lowest Prices for CASH, Flax-Seed, or
Merchantable Boards.
— Amongst which are,—
About Four Tons of HEMP.
A few Pieces of English Duck and
Sail Twine.
Broad Cloths, Blankets, and a Variety of
English Piece Goods, &c.
Clothiers Materials.
Spice and Groceries of all Kinds.
Painters Colours, and Linseed Oil.
A Variety of hard Ware, Amongst which are,
Guns, Pistols, Swords, Hangers, & Bayonets.
Window Glass of Various Sizes.
Shott, Paper-Hangings.
EARTHEN WARE, &c. &c.
WHEREAS the PARTNERSHIP,
between JONATHAN LORING AUSTIN
and Company is dissolved, (by the Death
of Capt. WILLIAM PILLOW) this is to desire
all Persons, who have any Demands on said
Company, to bring in their Accounts to Jo-
nathan Loring Austin, surviving Partner, and
receive their Dues.—And all Persons Indebted
to said Company, either on Book, or by
Notes of Hand, are requested to make immedi-
ate Payment.
To be sold three Fishing Anchors of
about 200 each; Also a Snow of 150 Tons,
between six and 7 Years old, strong built,
and a prime Sailor. Kittery, Sept. 21. 1774.
TO BE SOLD
One Half of a Right of Land,
In Rochester, originally belonging to Nicholas Har-
ford, excepting the fi. & Division.
Enquire of the Printer.

BOSTON Sept. 22.
Upon receiving the last Answer of his Excellency, the Committee met together, and having carefully perused the same, were unanimously of Opinion, That his Excellency's Answer could not be deemed satisfactory to the Country.---And further, that his Excellency in his Reply had been pleased to propose several Questions, which if unanswered by the Committee would leave on the Minds of People not fully acquainted with the State of Facts some very disagreeable Impressions concerning the Conduct and Behaviour of the People in the County and Province. And the following Address was unanimously voted to be presented to his Excellency.
May it please your Excellency, T HE Answer you have been pleased to favour us with to the Address this Day presented to you, gives us Satisfaction so far as it relates to your own Intentions; and we thank your Excellency for the Declaration which you have made, that it is your Duty & Interest to encourage an Intercourse between Town and Country; and we intreat your Indulgence while we modestly reply to the Questions proposed in your Answer. Your Excellency is too well acquainted with the Human Heart not to be sensible that it is natural for the People to be soured by Oppression, and jealous for their personal Security, when their Exertions for the Preservation of their Rights are construed into Treason and Rebellion. Our Liberties are invaded by Acts of the British Parliament, troops are sent to inforce those Acts. They are now erecting Fortifications at the Entrance of the Town of Boston, upon the completing those, the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston will be in the Power of a Soldier who must implicitly obey the Orders of an Administration who have hitherto evidenced no singular Regard to the Liberties of America. The Town is already greatly impoverished and distressed by the Operations of the barbarous Port-Bill. Your Excellency, we are persuaded from Principles of Humanity, would refuse to be an Actor in the tragical Scene that must ensue upon shutting up the Arsenals to the Town, and reducing the Inhabitants by Distress and Famine, to a disgraceful and slavish Submission; but that cruel Work may possibly be reserved for a Successor, disposed and instructed thereto. Daily Supplies of Provisions are necessary for the Subsistence of the Inhabitants of the Town. The Country disgusted and jealous at the formidable Operations now carrying on, survey with Horror, a Plan concerted---whereby the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston may be imprisoned and starved at the Will of a Military Command. They kindly invite them to abandon the Town, and earnestly solicit them to share the homely Banquet of Peace in the Country. Should their Refusal involve them in Miseries hitherto unheard of, and hardly conceiv'd of, the Country must stand acquitted, and will not hold their Liberties so loosely as to sacrifice them to the Obstinacy of their Brethren in Boston.
Your Excellency has been pleased to order the Powder from the Magazine in Charlestown, to forbid the Delivery of the Powder in the Magazine of Boston to the legal Proprietors, to seize the Cannon at Cambridge, and bring a formidable Number from Castle William, which are now placed at the Entrance of the Town of Boston. And have likewise in Addition to the Troops now here, been pleased to send for Reinforcements to Quebec and other Parts of the Continent. These Things, Sir, together with the Disposition of the Ships of War, we humbly think sufficiently justify the Proceedings for which your Excellency seems to be at a Loss to account.
Your Excellency has suggested that Nature has made it easy to cut off the Communication between Town and Country.---Our only Request is, that the Entrance into the Town may remain as Nature has formed it.
If the Security to his Majesty's Troops is the only Design in the Town, we have leave to assure your Excellency that the most certain, and by far the most honorable method of making them secure and safe, will be to give the People of the Province the strongest Proof that no Design is forming against their Liberties. And we again solicit your Excellency with that Earnestness which becomes us on this important Occasion to desist from every Thing which has a Tendency to alarm them, and particularly from fortifying the Entrance into the Town of Boston.
We rely on your Excellency's Wisdom and Candor that, in your proposed Representation to our common Sovereign, you will endeavour to redeem us from the Distresses which we apprehend were occasioned by the grossest Misinformation, and that you will assure his Majesty that no Wish of Independence, no adverse Sentiments or Designs towards his Majesty or his Troops now here, actuate his good Subjects in this Colony; but that their sole Intention is to preserve pure and inviolate those Rights to which, as Men, and English Americans, they are justly entitled, and which have been guaranteed to them by his Majesty's Royal Predecessors. By Order of the Committee,
JOSEPH WARREN, Chairman:
A COPY of the above was delivered to Mr. Sec'y Flucker, by the Chairman, with a Desire that he would as soon as convenient, present it to the Governor, & request his Excellency to appoint a Time for receiving it in Form. The Secretary informed the Chairman the ensuing Day, that he had seen the Governor, and had given him the Copy of the Address, but that he declined receiving it in Form. The Chairman mentioned to him the Importance of the Business, declaring his Belief that the Troops were not in any Danger; and that no Person has, so far as he had been informed, taken any Steps which had indicated any hostile Intention, until the seizing and carrying off the Powder from the Magazine in the County of Middlesex; and that if any ill Consequences should arise that should affect the Interest of Great Britain, the most candid and judicious both in Europe and America, would consider the Author of the Ferment now raised in the Minds of the People, as accountable for whatever Consequences might follow from it. He therefore desired the Secretary once more to make Application to his Excellency, and to state the Affair to him in that serious Manner which the Case seemed to require.---The Secretary accordingly made a second Application to the Governor, but received for Answer, that he had given all the Satisfaction in his Power, and he could not see that any further Argumentation upon the Subject would be to any good Purpose. Upon this, the Committee were again convened, and it was unanimously Resolved, that they had executed the Commission intrusted to them by the Country, to the utmost of their Ability:---And after voting the Reply to his Excellency's Answer should be inserted in the public Papers as soon as possible, they adjourned without Day. It is observable, that every Vote passed by the Delegates of the County, and by the Committee appointed to wait on the Governor, was unanimous.
WE pity every Gentleman in the Army and Navy, who are employed in the dishonorable Business of enslaving this People. Those who act from Necessity, we can forgive; but Men of Honour must forever despise the Man who received a Commission and Instructions from North, on Purpose to distress and enslave AMERICA. The most infamous and unpardonable of all Crimes, is that of destroying the Liberties of a free People. No Man that has a Spark of Honour in his Soul will ever be guilty of so mean, so base, so execrable a Deed! The Time is hastening when AMERICA will shine in all the Glory of LIBERTY, and her abandoned ENEMIES will wish to HIDE their GUILTY HEADS in DENS and CAVES of the EARTH. AMERICANS. Spy, Sept. 22.
BOSTON, Sept. 26.
By Mr. PAUL REVERE, who returned Express from Philadelphia last Friday Evening, we have the following Important Intelligence.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 17, 1774.
SIR, W E received your Favour of the 11th Inst. together with the Resolutions of the County of Suffolk, and communicated the same to the Congress: In Consequence of which they passed the several Resolutions which will be delivered to you by Mr. Revere, together with a Letter from the President. They highly applaud the wise, temperate and spirited Conduct of our People, in their Opposition to the late Act for altering our Constitution. These Resolves will, we trust, support and comfort our Friends, and confound our Enemies. In Behalf of myself and Brethren,
I am with Respect,
Your most humble Servant,
JOSEPH WARREN, Esq;
THOMAS CUSHING.
PHILADELPHIA, 17th Sept. 1774.
SIR, Y OUR Letter of the 11th Inst. directed "To the Hon'ble Thomas Cushing, Esq; and the other Gentlemen of the Congress, Members for Massachusetts Bay," together with the Resolutions entered into by the Delegates of the several Towns in the County of Suffolk, and their Address to his Excellency Governor GAGE, were communicated to the Congress, whereupon the Congress came into the following unanimous RESOLVES, which by their Order I transmit to you to be communicated to the Committee of Correspondence for the Town of Boston.
I am, SIR,
your most obedient Servant,
JOSEPH WARREN, Esq;
PEYTON RANDOLPH.
IN CONGRESS, Saturday, Sept. 17, 1774. A LETTER from Dr. JOSEPH WARREN, andundry Resolutions entered into by the County of Suffolk, on Tuesday the 6th of this Instant, and an Address from the Delegates of the said County to his Excellency Governor GAGE, dated the 9th Instant, were read. Whereupon,
RESOLVED unanimoſly , That this Assembly deeply feels the suffering of their Countrymen in the Massachusetts Bay, under the Operation of the late unjust, cruel and oppressive Acts of the British Parliament---that they most thoroughly approve the Wisdom and Fortitude with which Opposition to these wicked ministerial Measures has hitherto been conducted, & they earnestly recommend to their Brethren a Perseverance in the same firm and temperate Conduct, as expressed in the Resolutions determined upon at a Meeting of the Delegates for the County of Suffolk, on Tuesday the 6th Inst. trusting that the Effect of the united Efforts of North America in their Behalf, will carry such Conviction to the British Nation, of the unwise, unjust, and ruinous Policy of the present Administration, as quickly to introduce better Men and wiser Measures.
RESOLVED unanimoſly , That Contributions from all the Colonies for supplying the Necessities and alleviating the Distresses of our Brethren at Boston, ought to be continued, in such Manner and so long as their Occasions may require.
A true Extract from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMPSON, Secr.
DELEGATES who attend the CONGRESS.
From New Hampshire.
Major John Sullivan, and Col. Nathaniel Folsom.
From Massachusetts Bay.
Hon'ble Thomas Cushing, Esq; Mr. Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Robert Treat Paine, Esq's.
From Rhode-Island.
Hon. Stephen Hopkins, Esq; Hon. Samuel Ward, Esq;
From Connecticut.
Hon. Eliphalet Dyer, Silas Deane, and Roger Sherman, Esq's.
From New York.
James Duane, John Jay, Philip Livingston, Isaac Low, Col. William Floyd, and Henry Weſner, Esq's.
From New-Jersey.
James Kinsey, William Livingston, John D'Hart, Stephen Crane, and Richard Smith, Esq's.
From Pennsylvania.
Hon. Joseph Galloway, Samuel Rhoads, Thomas Mifflin, Charles Humporys, John Morton, Edward Biddle, and George Ross, Esq's.
From Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex Governments.
Cæsar Rodney, Thomas M'Kean, and George Read, Esq's.
From Maryland.
Mathew Tilgham, Thomas Johnson, jr. Robert Gouldsborough, William Paca, and Samuel Chase, Esq's.
From Virginia.
Hon. Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and Edmund Pendleton, Esq's.
From North Carolina.
William Hooper, and Joseph Hewes, Esq's.
From South Carolina.
Hon. Henry Middleton, John Rutledge, Thomas Lynch, Christopher Gadsden, and Edward Rutledge, Esq's.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 19.
ON Friday last the Honorable Delegates, now met in general Congress, were elegantly entertained by the Gentlemen of this City. Having met at the City Tavern about three o'Clock, they were conducted from thence to the State-House by the Managers of the Entertainment, where they were received by a very large Company, composed of the Clergy, such genteel Strangers as happened to be in Town, and a Number of respectable Citizens, making in the whole near Five Hundred.
After Dinner, the following TOASTS were drank, accompanied by Music and a Discharge of Cannon.
 1. The KING.  2. The QUEEN.  3. The Duke of Gloucester.  4. The Prince of Wales and Royal Family.  5. Perpetual Union to the Colonies.  6. May the Colonies faithfully execute what the Congress shall wisely Resolve.  7. The much injured Town of Boston, and Province of Massachusetts-Bay.  8. May Great-Britain be just, and America free.  9. No unconstitutional standing Armies.  10. May the Cloud which hangs over Great-Britain and the Colonies, burst only on the Heads of the present Ministry.  11. May every American hand down to Posterity pure and untainted the Liberty he has derived from his Ancestors.  12. May no Man enjoy Freedom, who has not Spirit to defend it.  13. May the persecuted Genius of Liberty find a lasting Asylum in America.  14. May British Swords never be drawn in defence of Tyranny.  15. The Arts and Manufactures of America.  16. Confusion to the Authors of the Canada Bill.  17. The Liberty of the Press.  18. A happy Reconciliation between Great-Britain and her Colonies, on a constitutional Ground. 
 19. The virtuous Few in both Houses of Parliament.  20. The city of London.  21. Lord Chatham.  22. Lord Camden.  23. Bishop of St. Asaph.  24. Duke of Richmond.  25. Sir George Saville.  26. Mr. Burke.  27. General Conway.  28. Mr. Dunning.  29. Mr. Sawbridge.  30. Dr. Franklin.  31. Mr. Dulany.  32. Mr. Hancock. 
The Acclamations with which several of them were received, not only testified the Sense of the Honor conferred by such worthy Guests, but the fullest Confidence in their Wisdom and Integrity, and a firm Resolution to adopt and support such Measures as they shall direct for the public Good at this alarming Crisis.
BOSTON Sept. 26.
Thursday last, being the Anniversary of his Majesty's Coronation, the Guns at Castle William, and of the Batteries in this Town, also on board the Men of War in the Harbour were fired at Noon.---His Excellency the Governor received the Compliments of the Gentlemen of the Army and Navy, &c. at the Council Chamber.
We hear the Town of Hartford in Connecticut, have contributed 1400 Bushels of Grain, Middletown about the same Quantity---Kennington 600---Middle Haddam 600, and other Towns in that Colony are doing the same for the Relief of the Poor in this Town.
Wednesday last the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of Boston met at Faneuil-Hall, for the Choice of Representatives to serve in the Great and General Court to be convened at Salem the 5th of next Month, when the following Gentlemen were chosen, viz. The Hon. Thomas Cushing, Esq; Mr. Samuel Adams, Hon. John Hancock, Esq; and William Phillips, Esq;
Last Friday the Town made Choice of Dr. Joseph Warren, Dr. Benjamin Church, and Mr. Nathaniel Appleton, to serve as Delegates in the Provincial Congress, to be held at Concord on the second Tuesday of October next, in Addition to the four Representatives of this Town---and the following Instructions for our Representatives were voted, viz.
GENTLEMEN,
A s we have now chosen you to represent us in the Great and general Court to be held at Salem on Wednesday the 5th Day of October next ensuing: we do hereby instruct you that in all your Doings as Members of the House of Representatives you adhere firmly to the Charter of this Province granted by their Majesty's King William and Queen Mary, and that you do no Act which can possibly be construed into an Acknowledgement of the Act of the British Parliament for altering the Government of the Massachusetts Bay, more especially that you acknowledge the Hon. Board of Councillors elected by the General Court at their Session in May last, as the only rightful and constitutional Council of this Province. And as we have Reason to believe that a conscientious Discharge of your Duty will produce your Dissolution as an House of Representatives, We do hereby impower and instruct you to join with the Members who may be sent from this and the Neighbouring Towns in the Province, and to meet with them at a Time to be agreed on in a general Provincial Congress, to act upon such Matters as may come before you in such a Manner as shall appear to be most conducive to the true Interest of this Town and Province, and most likely to preserve the Liberties of all America. At a Meeting of the Select Men and Committee of Correspondence, Sept. 24, 1774.
OUR Friends in the Neighbouring Towns and the Country in general, having expressed their Uneasiness lest the Workmen in this Town, by assisting the Army in building Barracks should give Occasion of Umbrage to their Friends who dwell more remote, whether in this or the neighbouring Colonies, particularly to our Brethren of New-York, who have nobly rejected the Application of the Barrack-Master for Mechanicks and other Assistants from that place;---Therefore having debated this Matter in Compliance with the Application of our Friends in the Country,---It is the Opinion of this joint Committee that should the Mechanicks or other Inhabitants of this Town, assist the Troops by furnishing them with Artificers, Labourers, or Materials of any Kind to build Barracks or other Places of Accomodation for the Troops they will probably incur the Displeasure of their Brethren, who may withhold their Contributions for the Relief of the Town, and deem them as Enemies to the Rights and Liberties of America, by furnishing the Troops with Conveniences for their Residence and accomodation in this Town.
By the public Papers and Letters from London, to the 30th of July we are informed, that Governor Hutchinson's Representation of the State of our Affairs were very pleasing to the Ministry, who were led to expect a Payment of the Tea, and a Submission to, and acquiescence in, the late Acts of the British Parliament, by the Friendship and Zeal of the Addressers to Governor Hutchinson, who have been represented as a Majority of the Men of Property, and Consequence in this Town---that the Operation of the Boston Port Act would greatly contribute to bring it about, the Merchants in England, and the Friends of Government in Boston not being much injured by that Measure, but only the West-India Traders who had been always bawling for a Non-importation of British Goods, which no Ways affected their own Trade---That a Non-Importation would not be approved of by other Colonies, and must prove abortive in this; that in Consequence of these Apprehensions, and not having heard of the non-consumption Covenant---large Quantities of Goods were shipped and shipping for the Colonies:---That the Uneasiness of the People on Account of the Quebec Bill had not subsided, and the Dislike and Opposition of the Manufacturers to the Measures of Administration were greatly increasing, as well as the Number of able Writers in our Favour, but that the Colonies must notwithstanding expect a Deliverance from their great Oppression, by their own Fortitude and Wisdom, and not the Honour and Justice of a Nation corrupt and vitiated in almost every Part, whose Feelings, rather than their own Understandings must be applied to---that the Troubles of Europe were far from being composed---and the Jealousy of the Ministry with respect to the Measures of the new Administration in France must operate in favour of this afflicted and distressed People.
In Capt Scott came Passengers two Gentlemen from Hamburg, one of them a Physician, the other a Merchant, in Order to settle among us.
Capt. Scott has brought a Bell for Rev. Dr. Cooper's Meeting-House, which weighs upwards of 27000 wt. and is the generous Present of the Hon. John Hancock, Esq; to that Society.
In Capt. Hill came Passenger William Jones, Esq; of Bristol, Merchant and Capt. Abraham Browne, of this Town. Capt. Cales, in the Ship London, for this Place, (in whom Mr. Nathaniel Wheatley and Lady, had taken Passage,) was to sail from London the Day after Capt Hill, and Capt. Callahan, in the Ship Minerva, about the 10th of August.
Letters from London say,---"That every Thing remains quiet there; that it was expected the Tea destroyed here would be paid for, and that Things would soon return to their usual good Order."
A Letter from Philadelphia says, "That every Proposal made in the Congress was unanimously agreed to, and that it was expected they would break up about the first of October, unless something unexpected should prolong their Sitting."

George Hayley, Esq; Brother-in-Law to Mr. Wilkes, and a noted New-England Merchant, is chosen one of the Aldermen of the City of London for Cordwainers Ward in the Room of Sir Henry Banks deceased.
We hear that James Murray, Esq; of Bruff-Hill, is appointed Inspector of Imports and Exports, and Register of Shipping in North America, in the Room of Thomas Irving, Esq; preferred.
Capt. M'Davitt, who is arrived at New York from Bilboa, informs that he left at that Place the Brig Sally, Capt. Wyatt St. Barbe, the Brig Union, Ross, and Collins in another Brig, all belonging to Marblehead, and bound to Cadiz with full Freight.
Extract of a Letter from Philadelphia, Sept. 18. "The Contempt and Abhorrence in which Adders, Protests, and sworn Councillors are held here inexpressible."
Extract of another Letter from Philadelphia, Sept. 18. "I send the Votes of Yesterday, which is the only Thing the Members of the Congress are at Liberty to Mention, even to the People out of Doors here. THE CONGRESS will support BOSTON and the Massachusetts, or PERISH WITH THEM; But they with that Blood may be spared, if possible, and all Ruptures with the Troops avoided."
Capt William Wyer, of the Brig Polly, arrived at Cape Ann, last Saturday, from Tetuan, on the Coast of Barbary in 47 Days, informs that the Alarm Frigate arrived from Smyrna, at Gibraltar, a few Days before he sail'd, with Advices that the Russians and Turks had a Battle near the Danube, in which the latter were defeated with the Loss of 60,000 Men, which Battle it was generally supposed, would settle the present Russian and Turkish Wars.
NEW-YORK, September 19. On Friday last, Numbers of the following CARDS were distributed about this City.
A CARD. NEW YORK, Sept. 9. 1774 THE Thanks of the Public are presented to those worthy Citizens, who have to their immortal Honor, nobly refused to let their Vessels for the base Purpose of transporting Troops, Ammunition, &c. to oppress the brave Defenders of American LIBERTY, who are already suffering in the common Cause. Such patriotic Conduct merits Applause, as much as a contrary one would the Contempt and Indignation of every generous Mind.
Yesterday Evening Numbers of the following Hand Bills were distributed about this City:
TO THE PUBLIC. As the Merchants of this City have so nobly refused letting their Vessels to the Tools of Government for the base Purpose of transporting Troops and military Stores to Boston, for enforcing the cruel and arbitrary Edicts of a corrupt Ministry, on that virtuous People now suffering in the glorious Cause of American Freedom, it is therefore hoped no Pilot will be found so lost to all Sense of Duty to this Country, as to assist in that detestable Work. Mr. Francis Post inadvertently engaged to make some Casks for the Transportation of Arms; and Mr. Jonathan Hampton, in like Manner, undertook to contract with House Carpenters, for the Purpose (as is supposed) of building Barracks at Boston; but when their Fellow-Citizens represented to them the Tendency of their Conduct, they immediately declined the abominable Service. After these laudable Examples of the Merchants and Tradesmen of this City, there is no Doubt but their patriotic Conduct will be followed by all their Fellow Citizens. But notwithstanding, should any sordid Miscreant be found amongst us, who will aid the Enemies of this Country to subvert her Liberties, he must not be surprised if that Vengeance overtakes him, which is the Reward justly due to Parricides. THE FREE CITIZENS.
NEW-YORK, Sept. 14. 1774. NEW-YORK Sept. 19. The Owners of Vessels here have to their immortal Honor, nobly refused to let them for the base Purpose of transporting Troops and military Stores to Boston, for enforcing the cruel & arbitrary Edicts of a corrupt Ministry, on that virtuous People, now suffering in the glorious Cause of American Freedom. Yesterday, afternoon one of the Transports arrived here from Boston: She sail'd with two or three others, who are to take on board the 47th, and five Companies of the Royal Irish Regiment, to join those encamped at Boston.
Salem, September 27. Last Saturday Mr. Eleazer Moses, jr. of this Town, lost his Life by falling into a Tanner's Vat. Last Saturday Morning a Distill House at Marblehead, belonging to Col. Gallison, took Fire and was very considerably damaged before the Flames were extinguished. On Sunday last came to this Town, one Nutting of Cambridge, in order to engage a Number of Carpenters to assist in building Barracks for the Troops at Boston; but those of that Occupation here being informed that it would be disagreeable to their worthy, oppressed Brethren in that Town, as well as to the Country in general, nobly refused having any Thing to do in so disgraceful a Service; and the poor ----- very prudently decamped the following Morning.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 22. We hear from AMHERST, in the County of Hillsborough, That on Tuesday last 4 or 500 Men, from different Parts of the County, assembled there: After chusing a Chairman, they made Choice of a Committee of five Persons, to wait on JOSHUA ATHERTON, Esq; and desire his Attendance on the Court at 3 o'Clock Afternoon, to answer to a Number of Things alleged against him; particularly, his endeavouring to prevent said Town from chusing a Person to meet at Exeter in order to elect Delegates for the General CONGRESS: Mr. Atherton attended with the Committee, and it was found inconvenient to proceed to Business in the Court House, the Crowd being so great, a Committee with Mr. Atherton went into a Tavern, where a Number of Articles was drawn up by said Committee, signed and sworn to by Mr. Atherton, and read by him to five several Companies one after another, who voted it satisfactory: Mr. Atherton having ordered the whole Body a Treat at his Expence, was conducted home in Safety. Some of the Persons assembled, having met one Samuel Parker, a Deputy Sheriff, a Person, who for his Conduct was obnoxious to them, they caused him to sign a Paper, asking Pardon for the Abuse he had given the Body then assembled, and renouncing his said Office forever. Zachariah Cutler, Esq; a Person inspeck'd of being an Enemy to the LIBERTIES of America, could not be found. The whole Body then went into a Consideration of; and bore public Testimony against some of the many Grievances said County labors under, viz. The Clerk of the Inferior Court's Office being kept in Londonderry, out of said County, and a great Distance from the Shire Town. The Register of Deeds Office being kept in the Town of Hollis, quite on one Side the County; which Grievances, with many others, they declared they would see redressed; and then dispersed in Peace without doing any Damage. September 22, 1774.
We hear from Old York, that on Friday last, a Quantity of TEA arrived there, said to be from Liverpool; upon which the Town assembled, and chose a Committee to take and secure it, 'till further Discovery could be made, and it was put into a Store of Capt. Groro's; and the Evening following a Number of Pick-wacket Indians came into Town and broke open said Store, and carried it off; which has not been heard of since. The Quantity of Tea was said to be about 150 wt. and belong'd to Capt. James Donnel and the Master.
   CUSTOM HOUSE, Piscataqua, Sept. 28.   Inward Entries. FROM.     Ship St. John, Jonathan Dove, Lisbon.   Brig Dove, Jonathan Jewett, St. Thomas's.   Brig Thomas and Martha, Jonathan Parsons, St. Kitts.   Sloop Sally, Nathaniel Newman, Ditto.   Sloop Victory, John Junkins, Tortola.   Snow Dispatch, Joshua Stacpole, Montserrat.   Clear'd Outwards FOR.   Brig Resolution, Samuel Stacy, West-Indies.   Brig Carton, William Bailey, Glasgow.  
BOSTON, Sept. 22. By the Ship Haley, Capt. Scott, who arrived at Salem Yesterday, in 7 Weeks from London, we have received the London Papers to the 29th of July, from which we have extracted the following Intelligence.
ST. JAMES'S, July 22. HIS MAJESTY in Council was this Day pleased to order, That the Parliament, which stands prorogued to Thursday the fourth Day of August next, should be further prorogued to Thursday the fifteenth Day of September following.
LONDON July 18. Lord NORTH was with the KING a long while Yesterday, and it is said, that some unwelcome News brought him to Town. If we have any War (says a Patriot a few Days since) all the old Rogues must turn out, for Nobody will lend them a Shilling. Allowing that to be the Case, said a Ministerial By-Standard, the new Rogues will turn in, and pick it out of their Pockets.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY. We hear, that in Consequence of the passing two late Acts, many Promotions will take Place, among which the following are said to be already determined on:
LORD NORTH, COMMISSIONER of Suplies to the College of JESUITS.  JERE DYSON, Esq;---Clerk of the Holy Inquisition.  THOMAS BRADSHAW, Esq;---Secretary to the See of Rome.  CHARLES JENKINSON, Esq;---Runner to Ditto.  CHARLES FOX,---Arch Treasurer of the Holy Romish Empire.  EDMUND BURKE,---Professor of Oratory in the University of Padua.  Col. BARRE,---Colonel of the American White Boys.  MR. SAWBRIDE,---Keeper of Liberty-Tree, Boston.  LORD CHATHAM,---Superior of the Holy House of Loretto.  MR. HARLEY,---Clothier to the Indian Bush Fighters.  ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY,---Sovereign Pontiff.  MR. HORNE,---Crucifix Maker to his most Catholic Majesty.  MR. WILKES,---Moderator of the Meetings at Faneuil-Hall.  His ----- KING of Canada, by the Title of Chevalier de St. GEORGE. 
LORD MAYOR,---Tea-Man to the Pope. Accounts are lately arrived from Spain, which positively assert, that there are no less than 28 MEN of WAR of the Line now ready for Sea, in the several Ports of Carthagena, Ferrol, and Cadiz, at less than a Week's Notice.
July 28. A Gentleman who writes from Boston sends the following odd Piece of Intelligence; that the People in most Parts of America are more willing to comply with every Thing that may tend to the Welfare of the Mother Country, and the Support of Government, than the commissioned Blockheads there are for making them do so.
A Council will sit this Morning, said to be on special Intelligence, lately sent from America.
It is said the Americans, at this Time, owe the Merchants of Great-Britain and Ireland, near four Millions Sterling.
July 29. His Majesty has been pleased to appoint Capt. Edward Foy, of the royal Regiment of Artillery, to be Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New Hampshire.
James Grouard, HATT-MAKER, Opposite Dr. LANGDON's Meeting-House, HEREBY informs his Customers and others, that he has HATTS of all Sorts, ready made, and to be sold by wholesale or Retail, at the lowest Rate for Cash or other Pay that may suit.
N. B. He requests all Persons indebted to him, either by Note of Hand, or on Account, to come and settle the same immediately, or otherwise they may depend the same will be put in Suit. Portsmouth Sept. 26,
TO BE SOLD, By JACOB SHEAFE, junr. A Few Barrells of good Connecticut PORK. Also,---PITCH per Barrell,--- And STONE LIME per Hogthead, &c.
Came to this Town last Tuesday in the Stage,
Mrs. Ame Leech, Who is but 25 Inches in Height, 57 Years of Age, a perfect Woman, of natural good Sense and Understanding, and perhaps may be thought a WONDER of the present Day. Gentlemen and Ladies may visit her at Mrs. Willson's, near the School-House at the North End of the Town, where their Curiosity may be satisfied for the small Sum of six Coppers each Person; and Boys and Girls at three Coppers each.
Imported in the last Ships from London; And TO BE SOLD
By John M c Master
On Spring Hill, Portsmouth, A Large Assortment of English & Scotch Goods, suitable for all Seasons, which will be sold by Wholesale and Retail, on such Terms as must appear reasonable to every Judge of the different Articles.---A large Assortment of new-fashioned SILKS, plain, flowered and brocaded---Irish Linnens of all Wedths,---Broad Cloths, from 5s. to 28s Lawful Money per Yard---Guns, Felt and Castor Hatts of most Sorts,---with many other Articles two tedious to mention.
N. B. To be sold at the above Store, a large Assortment of RIBBONS, at the Sterling Cost, with Charges.
CASH given for FLAX-SEED, at the above Shop.
As this Paper No. 936, compleats the 18th Year since its first Publication, I must now take Leave of a Number of the delinquent Customers, unless they make Self-Application of the following Advertisement, which has been published Four Weeks successively.
The Publisher. Read on,---consider,---and apply the following....
The Customers of this Paper
are earnestly desired to pay off what they may be in Arrear immediately, as the Publisher is under a Necessity of raising Money to carry on his Business, and purchase Paper, which he does now with great Difficulty and extraordinary Charge, as it is all brought 70 Miles on Land carriage. He hopes every Customer will send at least one Dollar, that the Paper may not be wholly stopped, as there are now the most interesting Matters depending that ever were in this Country.
The Merrimack Post Rider, whose Year is now up, will not carry News-Papers after this Month, unless the Customers punctually pay off; Likewise the Eastern Post, and the other who Rides on Connecticut River to the College.
The Meeting of the Proprietors of RELHAN stands adjourn'd to Monday next Four o'Clock Afternoon, at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth.
WE the Subscribers being appointed Commissioners by the Hon. JOHN SHERBURNE, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c for the County of Rockingham, to Receive and Examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Theodore Hilten, late of Newmarket in the County aforesaid, Yeoman, deceased, Intestate, Represented Insolvent, hereby give Notice, that we will attend upon that Business at the House of Joseph Doe, Innholder in said Newmarket, on the second Tuesday of October next, and on the second Tuesday of the three following Months, from three of the Clock Afternoon of each Day until six of the Clock in said Days. Walter Bryant, } Commis: Joseph Doe, } Seners.
Newmarket, Sept. 12, 1774.
TO BE SOLD, a Large Commodious Dwelling-House, situated in Portsmouth, between Liberty Bridge and Dr. Haven's Meeting House---For Particulars, enquire at the Printing Office.
Notice is hereby further given, that the Sale of the Lands in PIERMONT, which was some time past Notified for Sale, and was not Sold, is adjourned to Monday the third of October next, and to Monday the tenth of said October, at which times all the Delinquent Proprietors Lands will be sold at ten of the Clock in said Day at the House of Capt. Zechariah Fols, in Portsmouth, if the TAX is not paid before. Portsmouth, Sept. 26. 1774. Richard Jenness.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Capt. John Lewis, late of Portsmouth, Mariner, deceased, are desire'd to bring in their Accounts to Ellis Hight of Portsmouth, sole Administrator to said Estate in order for Settlement.
ALL PERSONS who have any Demands against the Estate of Walter Weeks, late of Greenland, deceased, are desire'd to exhibit the same well attested, to his Son William Weeks, Executor of the last Will of the deceased --- And all Persons Indebted to the same Estate, are requested to make speedy Payment.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or have any Demands on the Estate of Joseph Dame, junr. late of Newington, deceased, are desire'd to bring in their Accounts immediately to Patience Dame, of Newington, Administrator to said Estate, in order for speedy Settlement.
Ranaway from me the Subscriber Living in South Hampton, on the 4th of September last, an Indented Servant, named DAVID PAGE, between 18 and 19 Years of Age, a large stout Fellow---Had on when he went away, a Suit of light colour'd Home made Cloaths---Whoever will apprehend the said BOY and return him to his Master again, shall have ONE SHILLING Reward paid by me Onesipherus Page.

TO BE SOLD By George Craigie
At his Store in Portsmouth, A General Assortment of
English Goods,
Exceeding Cheap for CASH,
Among which are the following, Viz.
SUPERFINE and low priz'd Broad Cloths, Wiltons, German Serges, Ratteens, Kerseys, Flannels, Baizes, Swanskins, Thicksetts, Fustians, Cotton Velvet and Velverits, Shalloons, Tammies, Durants, Calamancoes, — plain and striped Camblets, — yard wide Crapes, Poplins, figured Stuffs, Grograms, Russells, worsted Damasks, Bombazeen. — A great variety of fashionable Galicoes and Patches, — black, cloth and sky blue Tassities, — Black Satin, Capuchine Silk, — sky blue, cloth and black all wide Persians, French Alimode, Barcelona and other Silk Handkerchiefs, Linnen, Kenting and Cotton ditto, black and white Gauze, black and white Catgut, 3 qrs. 7 8ths & yard wide Linnens, strip'd, plain & flower'd Lawns, demy Cambrick, Lawn Aprons, fiesia Linnen, Nankeens, Ginghams, Check Linnen, Dowlas, strip'd Holland, yellow Holland, Stay Braid, — black, blue, white, and Crimson Satin Hats, — black and white Laces, snail Trimings. Mens and Womens Thread, Cotton and Worsted Hose, Mens white silk Ditto, silk & worsted Gloves and Mitts, Womens English and Lynn Calamanco Shoes, Castor and Felt Hatts, — white Lamb Gloves, black Glaz'd dit. white Kid dit. — Breeches Patterns, Kilmarnock, Worsted and mock Velvet Capps, white and brown Buckram, silk Knee Garters, Scarf Twist, sewing Silk, coloured & white Threads, Twist, Metal & Horn Buttons, Shoe Bindings, silk Ferrits, Ostrich Feathers, Ivory, crooked horn and Barbers Combs, Qualities, Garterings, Tapes, Pins, white Chappell Needles, Cap-Wire, Skilletons, Looking Glasses, Cloth, Shoe, Buckle, and Floor Brushes, — Horse Whips, Warming Pans, Frying Pans, Flat Irons, Box Irons, Brads and Iron Candlesticks, Shovels and Tongs, Bellows. — A large Assortment of Iron Ware, — Case Knives, Pen, Cuttoe, and Jack dit. Sleeve Buttons, Jews Harps, Spectacles, — Snuff Boxes, Shears, Scizars, Thimbles, Razors, Knitting Needles, Spurs, Tobacco Boxes, Shoe Knives, Awlblades, Shoe Tacks, Shoe Nails, Pinchers, Nippers, Hammers, Gimblets, Tapborers, Hinges, — and Locks of all sorts. — A variety of metal, shoe, and Knee Buckles, Brads Cocks, large and small Files, Glue, — Handsaws, Pewter, Platters, Plates, Pots, Porringers, Basins, blocktin Spoons, — Bibles, Testaments, Pсалters, Spelling Books, Primers, Cartridge & Writing Paper, Paste Board, Ink Powder, Sealing Wax, Wafers, Slates, 4d. 6d. 10d. and 20d. Nails, 3d. 4d. 5d. 6d. Brads, Oznabrigs, Ticklinburgs, Powder, Shott, Lead, German Steel, Cod-Lines, Fish Hooks, Twine, Time Glasses, Velvet Corks, Seives, pound Beads, Keppins Snuff, Wool Cards.
A good Assortment of Crockery Ware. West-India and New-England Rum. — Molasses, by the Hoghead or Barrel. — Loaf Sugar by the Hundred. — Brown Sugar and Flour by the Barrel. — Cotton, Chocolate and Rice, by the Hundred. — Pepper, Allspice, Ginger, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, Raisins, Starch, Red Wood, Log-Wood, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
BOSTON, Sept. 22.
To His Excellency THOMAS GAGE, Esq. CAPTAIN-GENERAL and COMMANDER in CHIEF, of His MAJESTY'S PROVINCE of MASSACHUSETTS BAY.
May it please your Excellency, THE County of Suffolk being greatly, and in their Opinion justly alarmed, at the formidable Appearances of Hostility, now threatening his Majesty's good Subjects of this County, and more particularly of the Town of Boston, the loyal and faithful Capital of this Province; beg Leave to Address your Excellency, and to represent that the Apprehensions of the People are more especially increased, by the dangerous Design now carrying into execution, of repairing and mantling the Fortification at the South Entrance of the Town of Boston, which when completed, may at any Time be improved to aggravate the Miseries of that already impoverished and distressed City; by intercepting the wonted and necessary intercourse between the Town and Country, and compel the wretched Inhabitants to the most ignominious State of Humiliation and Vassalage, by depriving them of the necessary Supplies of Provisions, for which they are chiefly dependant on that Communication.
We have been informed that your Excellency, in Consequence of the Application of the Select-Men of Boston, has indeed disavowed any Intention to injure the Town in your present Manoeuvres, and expressed your Purpose to be for the Security of the Troops, and his Majesty's Subjects in the Town. We are at a Loss to guess, may it please your Excellency, from whence your Want of Confidence in the loyal and orderly People of this County could originate; a Measure so formidable carried into Execution, from a preconceived tho' causeless Jealousy, of the Insecurity of his Majesty's Troops and Subjects in the Town, deeply wounds the loyalty, and is an additional Injury to the faithful Subjects of this County, and affords a strong Motive for this Application: We therefore intreat your Excellency to desist from your Design, assuring your Excellency, that the People of this County are by no Means disposed to injure his Majesty's Troops; they think themselves aggrieved and oppressed by the late Acts of Parliament, and are resolved by Divine Assistance, never to submit to them; — but have no Inclination to commence a War with his Majesty's Troops: — and beg Leave to observe to your Excellency, that the Ferment now excited in the Minds of the People, is occasioned by some late Transactions; by seizing the Powder in the Arsenal at Charlestown; by withholding the Powder lodged in the Magazine of the Town of Boston, from the legal Proprietors; insulting, beating and abusing Passengers to and from the Town, by the Soldiers, in which they have been encouraged by some of their Officers; putting the People in Fear, and Menacing them in their nightly Patrolt into the neighbouring Town, and more particularly by the Fortifying the Isle Avenue by Land to the Town of Boston.
In Duty therefore to his Majesty and to your Excellency, and for the Restoration of Order and Security to this County — we the Delegates from the several Towns in this County, being commissioned for this Purpose, beg your Excellency's Attention to this our humble and faithful Address, assuring you that Nothing less than an immediate Removal of the Ordnance, and restoring the Entrance into that Town, to its former State, and an effectual Stop of all Insults and Abuses in future, can place the Inhabitants of this County, in that State of Peace & Tranquility, in which every free Subject ought to live.
By Order of the Committee,
Boston, Sept. 10, 1774. JOSEPH WARREN, Chairman. [ See the Gov's Answer to the above in this Paper the 16th Inst. ] From the Public Advertiser, May 10, 1774.
WHEN I read the Fable of the old Woman who killed her Hen to get all the golden Eggs at once, I thought it the most unmeaning of all Aesop's, as neither my Master nor my Father could make out a Case for me to which I could apply it cleverly; but our present Conduct towards the North-Americans is exactly the Thing, and convinces me that there are Statesmen infinitely more foolish than the old Woman; — for could she have bro't her Hen to Life again she never would have attempted a second Experiment. We have it in our Power to restore Life and Vigour to our American Trade, but instead of so doing, we seem determined not only to destroy it effectually, but to make that industrious People our Enemies, or at least to put the Nation to an immense Expence in supporting an Army and Navy from which we can derive no other Consequence than impoverishing them to our own Ruin; for as to the Pretext of ascertaining their Dependence on Great-Britain, no Man in his Senses can seriously make Use of it, as the Americans never attempted to deny it, tho' they refused to be taxed by us. Every thinking Englishman must feel how inexpedient it would be for us that they were to be taxed otherwise than by themselves in their Assemblies. Let not Lord North, however, be blamed for pushing the Plan of Despotism laid down for him. The Primum Mobile has been filly enough to recommend a Plan which he's too short-sighted to foresee the fatal Consequences, and his Successors, under his Direction, must carry it on, or give Way to others who will, or even do worse if possible. It was upon the same Principle that the great Pitt adopted continental Measures, though so much against his own Judgment.
YE PRINTERS OF AMERICA, MAKE it known through all the REGIONS of LIBERTY, that not one Town on this Continent hath countenanced the Usurpation of the British Parliament to Tax the Colonies, notwithstanding the Arts which ministerial Tools have used to deceive the People. All that the whole FACTION against the Freedom of this Country have been able to effect, is nothing more than raising a little Cabal in a few Towns.
Let this be remembered to the Honour of AMERICANS and let the dirty Wretches, who are the Tools of TYRANNY, gnash their Teeth and melt away. OBSERVATION.
All Persons that have any Demands on the Estate of Samuel Walton, late of Soug-begon W. St. No. 3, (now Amberst) deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts immediately to William Walton, of said Amberst, Administrator on said Estate, in order for Settlement. — And immediate Payment of all Debts due to said Estate is also requested.
September 6th, 1774.
Whereas Mary, the Wife of me the Subscriber, has of late run me greatly in Debt, this is therefore to forbid all Persons trusting her on my Account, as I will not pay One Penny for any contract from the date hereof. Kittery, Sept. 14th 1774. JOHN LILLEY.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
§ New-Durham §
WHEREAS the Proprietors of New Durham have been legally Notified, to pay sundry Assessments levied on each Proprietor's Right, notwithstanding which, many of said Proprietors have neglected paying the same, either in whole or part, which obliges the Subscriber to give Notice, that on the tenth Day of October next, at 10 o'Clock in the Forenoon will be Sold at Public Vendue at the House of Mr. John Burnam Hanson, Innholder in Dover, so much of each Delinquent's Right or Share of Land as shall be sufficient to pay said Taxes with all incidental Charges. The Delinquents are the Owners of the following original Rights, viz.
   l. s. d. l. s. d.     Ebenezer Smith 1 15 0 John Burnam 1 3 6   James Driaco 1 15 0 John Footman 1 3 6   Joseph Duda jr. 2 7 0 Tho. Stevenson 1 3 6   Tho's Tabb 2 7 0 Win'p Burnum 1 3 6   Sam'l Wille 2 7 0 Ichabod Dumbo 1 3 6   Joseph Stas 2 7 0 Benmor Duda 2 7 0   Thomas Wille 2 7 0 Nicbo. Duda 2 7 0   Miles Randal 2 7 0 Tho's Chisley jr. 2 7 0   Job Runnalls jr. 2 7 0 John Johnson 1 3 6   Jona. Durgin 2 7 0 Nat'l Frost 1 3 6   Abel Leathers 2 7 0 Tho's York 2 7 0   Joseph Chisley 2 7 0 Wm Durgin 2 7 0   Daniel Rogers 2 7 0 Joseph Smith jr. 1 15 0   Simon Randal 1 3 6 Eleazer Bickford 2 7 0   Sam'l Adams 2 7 0 Valentine Hill 1 15 0   John Edgerley 2 7 0 Benja. Bennet 2 7 0   Stephen Jones jr. 2 7 0 John Malen 2 7 0   Abra. Bennick 2 7 0 Rich'd Dumbo 2 7 0   Wm. Jackson jr. 2 7 0 Caleb Wakelm 2 7 0   Eliphalet Daniel 2 7 0 Lemuel Chisley 2 7 0   John Durgin & } 2 7 0 Nicbo's Periman 2 7 0   Francis Durgin } 2 7 0 Joseph Smith 0 17 6  
Durham, September 14th, 1774.
VALENTINE MATHES, Collector.
At Time and Place aforesaid will be sold at Public Vendue, to satisfy a former Tax, so much of the Rights or Shares that follow (in said New Durham) as will pay the Sums affixed to the Names of the under-mentioned Proprietors, with incidental Charges:
   l. s. l. s.     John Footman 0 17 0 John Johnson 0 17 0   Tho' Stenson 0 17 0 Nat'l Frost 0 17 0   Samuel Wille 1 14 0 Joseph Duda jr. 2 16 0  
Dover, September 14th, 1774.
JOHN BURNAM HANSON, Collector.
TO BE SOLD, At Public VENDUE,
On Monday the 13rd Day of October next, at 2 o'Clock Afternoon, at the House of Jonathan Gage in Dover
A commodious Dwelling-House, very valuable, and pleasantly situated on Cochecho Landing, and may be well improved for a Trader; being the Estate of Moses Varney, who lives on the Premises — the said House has six Fire Places, a compleat Cellar under the whole House, with a large Arch; together with Four Acres of Land adjoining on the Water Side. — Also a one Story House on the above Premises, 18 by 30 Feet, well finished, with a good Cellar. — They may be sold together or separate, as will best suit. — The Premises may be viewed any Time before the Sale — Conditions to be known at Time and Place of Sale.
Dover, Sept. 21. 1774.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That one JOHN WAITE, Mariner, ship'd himself on Board the Ship FOX at London, for Piscataqua, ZECHARIAH NORMAN, Master, and by Accident fell from the main Shroud, which occasioned his Death — He was a Native of New England some where about Roxbury — If any of his Relations, really so, apply to the said Master, they may have what Cloaths and Effects belongs to him, paying for this Advertisement: ZECHARIAH NORMAN.
Four DOLLARS Reward.
STRAYED from the Township of Shelburne, on Amascoggin River, in the County of Grafton and Province of New Hampshire, on or about the 15th of July last, a Chestnut colour'd MARE about 14 Hands high, short Tail and short thin Man, Trot well, and has a Scar on one of her Buttocks. Whoever will take up said MARE, and give Information thereof, or return her to the Subscriber, shall have Four DOLLARS Reward, and all necessary Charges paid by JOHN PEIRCE.
Portsmouth, August 24th, 1774.
To be sold, a LOT of Interval, in New-Hepton, the Property of the Reverend Dr. HAVEN of Portsmouth. Enquire of the Printer.