The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-05-06 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freest ADVICES
Friday May 6, 1774.
THE
Vol. XVIII. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
NO. 915 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
By the Ship Minerva, Captain Callahan, arrived at Boston last Sunday in 6 Weeks from London, we have the following
Interesting Intelligence.
L O N D O N, March 8.
THEY write from Ratibon in Silesia, that an Earthquake happened there in the Night between the 26th and 27th ult. in which the parish Church, which had stood 500 Years, fell down and ruined several Houses in the Neighbourhood;---the Fortress upon the opposite Shore of the River Oder was like wise greatly damaged. In the Ball which was fixed upon the head of the Church Tower, an Iron Chest was found sealed up, which was sent to his Prussian Majesty.
IT is now generally understood, that another Governor and Deputy Governor will shortly be sent to Boston.
It is said that some Bomb Vessels are ordered to be fitted out for America.
March 10. We hear the most vigorous Measures are resolved to be taken with the Turbulent and refractory Colonies. Four Regiments of Foot are to be sent to Boston, and six Men of War are to block up the Harbour.
It is Whisperm'd that the Bostonians are to have their Charter taken from them, and that they are to be made a King's Government.
The following is his Majesty's Message which was presented to the House of Commons last Monday by Lord North, signed by his Majesty.
HIS Majesty, upon Information of the unwarrantable Practices which have been lately concerted and carried on in N. America, and particularly of the violent & outrageous Proceedings of the Town & port of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, with a view of obstructing the Commerce of this Kingdom, and open Grounds and Pretences immediately subversive of the Constitution thereof, has thought fit to lay the whole Matter before His Two Houses of Parliament, fully considering as well in their Zeal for the Maintenance of his Majesty's Authority, as in their Attachment to the common Interest and Welfare of all his Dominions, that they will not only enable His Majesty effectually to take such Measures as may be most likely to put an immediate Stop to the present Disorders, but will also take into their most serious Consideration what further Regulations and permanent Provisions may be necessary to be Established, for better securing the Execution of the Laws, and the just Dependence of the Colonies upon the Crown and Parliament of Great-Britain."
The Earl of Dartmouth presented to the Upper Assembly a Message from his Majesty, similar to that presented to the House of Commons, relative to the unjustifiable Outrages lately committed by the People of Boston.
It is asserted that the Earl of Dartmouth will shortly resign on Account of a Disgust arising from different Opinions in the Cabinet respecting the late Disturbances in America.
It is said to be proposed by some in Administration, to revive the Stamp-Act in America, it being apprehended that the Majority of the People would submit to it, if they were properly protected from the Outrages of an ungoverned and licentious Mob, who are spirited up by some Factious and designed Men.
Lord Chatham and the Duke of Richmond, it is said, will attend their Duty in Parliament, as soon as it's proposed to have the American Business seriously agitated; and both, 'tis expected will very much surprise Administration by their Conduct.
Some People insinuate that the Prejudice which a certain House entertains against the Bostonians, originates from an historical Fact, briefly this, that some of their Ancestors under Cromwell, once turned out their Predecessors, and locked the Door.
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Friday, March 11.
THE Speaker took the Chair at three o'Clock: Lord North came in about a Quarter after. The common Business being over, the American Papers were begun to be Read. It appeared from them that the Town of Boston had such a Share in the Transactions relative to the TEA-SHIPS, that it Advances into Real & actual REBELLION. That the People of that Town and Country had actually made and levied WAR on the legal Authority of his Majesty derived not from Custom or Prescription only, but from the absolute & explicit Letter of various Acts of Parliament; that this REBELLION had proceeded to such Lengths, that it flowed from avowed Principles of Resistance, Superiority and Independence: and that it was the Opinion of Governors and other Writers of those Letters and Dispatches, that if Affairs in that part of the World were left to their present situation, that all legal Government would be subverted, & the Independence of the Colonies be Established.
March 11. If the spirited Measures at present talked of should take Place respecting the Americans, the next Cargo of a certain Commodity may be called Gun-Powder Tea, and they must take it with a little Smack of British Spirit.
If there is any Authenticity in the Speeches & Motions we read of, the Americans have no Reason to complain of Want of Representation in the Senate, as Numbers in both Houses are more zealous for the Interests of America than of Great-Britain.
A Great Personage expresses the most angry Disapprobation of the Disturbances in America.
It is said a certain Agent will be restored to his Post.
March 12. There never was, perhaps, since the Revolution, so important a Crisis in the Constitution of this Country as the present State of American Affairs now before an August Assembly;---to Speak neither in the Language of Fear or in the Style of Pomposity, no less than the FATE OF A GREAT EMPIRE, Trembles on the Decision; how much, then, does it become our Legislators, in this general Hour of intricacy, to lay down all their little Cabals, personal Animosities, and interested Differences, & unite their wisest
and coolest Observations for the general Good! To be governed by any other Influence at this Period, though even for a lesser good, brands that Man (which we hope, for the sake of the Cause, does not exist) with no less an ignominious Epithet than that of being a Traitor to his Country.
Councils have been held every Night for this Week past among the Ministry, and they have generally been assisted in their Deliberation by the Crown Lawyers, on American Affairs, which seems to Embarrass them not a little.
A Correspondent observes, the Wishes of some Writers in the News-Papers against our taking any concise Measures with the Americans, asks how the Parliament can possibly decline a concise Plan of Operation, when the colonies have left them no Alternative? The Inhabitants of Boston have not wanted for the Resolution of the Mother-country. Before the Determination of the Mother-country was entered upon, they proceeded to Hostilities; they struck the first Blow, shot our Ships out of our own Harbours; Mal treated our Subjects and destroyed our Property. If we can sit tamely down under Injuries like these;---if we can put up with a Strike, nay a downright Thrashing from our own Subjects, and if we can take from them what the greatest Power in Europe would Tremble to offer us, there is an instant End of England: and out of Respect to what the British Name formerly has been, the Seat of Government should be immediately removed to Massachusetts-Bay, since the People of that Province are the only People on Earth who could Trample on our once-boasted Spirit with Impunity.
March 14. All forcible, as well as pacific Measures will be Negatory and ineffectual with the Boston Rebels; unless their Charter is vacated. It is the Spring and Source of all their insolent and unjustifiable Acts. The Council being chosen by the People yearly must Vote according to their Pleasure, so that in Fact, they are not the Councillors of the King, but the Tools of the Faction. The People of the Massachusetts Province are over represented; the Number ought to be reduced to a fourth Part of the present. Boston, instead of sending four Members should send but two at most, one would do better. Without this previous necessary Step, every other Attempt to bring them to Reason, will be inflammatory, whether the Method be Gentle or Vigorous, it will only be Pruning and Watering the Tree of Sedition, instead of striking at its Root.
March 15. Yesterday Lord North made the following Motion in the House of Commons, 'That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for the immediate Removal of the Officers concerned in the Collection and Management of his Majesty's Duties & Customs, from the Town of Boston in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, in North-America, and to discontinue the Landing and Discharging, Lading and Shipping of Goods, Wares & Merchandise at the said Town of Boston, or within the Harbour thereof.'
Lord North supported the Motion in a Speech of near an Hour. He was supported by Mr. R. Fuller, Mr. Cavendish, Capt. Phipps, Mr. C. Fox, col. Barre, Governor Pownal, and Mr. Calvert.
The motion was strongly opposed by col. Jennings, Mr. Dempster, Mr. Sawbridge, Mr. Byng, Mr. Dowdeswell, and Lord Cavendish. On Friday next the whole House will resolve itself into a committee for a further consideration on American affairs.
(For more London turn to the last Page.)
NEW-YORK, April 21, 1774.
Last Monday Night arrived at Sandy-Hook, the long expected Tea Ship Nancy, Captain Lockyer, from Antigua, where she had been driven from this Coast. In her Passage back, she met with bad Weather, lost an Anchor from her Bows, had her Mizzen-Mast carried away, sprung her Topmast, and was thrown on her Beam-Ends.--- Ever since her departure from England she has met with a continued succession of Misfortunes, having on Board somewhat worse than a Jonab, which, after being long tossed in the tempestuous Ocean, it is hoped, like him, will be thrown back upon the Place from whence it came:---May it teach a Lesson there, as useful as the preaching of Jonab was to the Ninevites.
On Captain Lockyer's Arrival, after Anchoring his Ship at the Hook, the Pilot thought it best not to bring her up till the Sense of the City should be known. As soon as the Pilot gave Notice, the Committee were immediately informed of the Ship's Arrival and that the Captain solicited for Liberty to come up, to provide Necessaries for his Return, the Ship to remain at the Hook. It appearing to be the Sense of the City that the Captain should have the Liberty he asked, Advice of it was immediately sent him, Care being taken that he should not Enter at the Custom-House, & that no Time should be lost in dispatching him back. Notice of all this was distributed by Hand-Bills all over the City and a select Committee of 14 or 15 Citizens, in a Sloop, were dispatched to lie near the Ship till her Departure. The Capt. arrived on Tuesday, and though very respectfully Treated, was followed from his Landing by a Concourse of People.---The Gentlemen to whom the Tea was Consigned having refused to receive it, the Captain is preparing, with all possible Expedition, for his Departure; and it is fixed that he is to depart from this City on Saturday Morning, and that the Ship is to Sail for London the first fair Wind.
The Land-Office of this Province is ordered to be opened again on the following Terms: "All the vacant Lands are to be surveyed & laid out in Lots from 100 to 1000 Acres each, a Map and Return thereof to be made to the Surveyor-General; the Lands then to be Advertised 4 Months, and sold by Commissioners appointed for that Purpose, to the highest Bidder for not less than Six-Pence sterl. per Acre, per Ann. subject to a Quit of one Half-Penny Sterling.
Saturday the Commerce, Captain Ferguson, arrived here from Glasgow, in 10 Weeks, with 250 Passengers, 200 of which are Servants!
Further Extracts from the London Papers.
It is said, that the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick has left the Prussian and entered into the Dutch Service. Orders are given to put a total Stop to the Exportation of all Copper, Silver and Gold Coin, to Boston, New-York, and Philadelphia, on the Government's Account. Col. Monson, an excellent Officer, is appointed to the eventual Succession of General Clavering, in the Chief Command in India, by a Majority at the East-India House of 336. The Empress of Russia has absolutely recalled General Romanzow from his Command, and she is preparing to renew most vigorously her Operations against the Turks.--- General Dilkes is appointed Col. of the 50th Reg. It is asserted the Parliament will be dissolved after the present Session; and we are told the King has it in Contemplation, that all Sea Officers shall be called by the Rank they bear, in the Manner his Guards now are, by distinguishing the Commanders of his Ships from the Captains of Merchantmen. The relief of the Men of War, and several of the Garrisons in North America, is getting ready to leave England; it consists of six Ships and four Regiments, whose Preparations for departure have given occasion to the credulous Readers of English News Papers to conclude they are going upon Service that must be highly disagreeable to every one that Wishes an eternal Harmony between the Mother Country & her Colonies. The House of Lords were to proceed upon American Affairs on the 3d of March. There will certainly be no state Lottery this year. The drawing of Adams's Adelphi Lottery is commenced. Great Changes are expected at the Boards of Treasury, Admiralty and Trade. General Fraser will be restored by Act of Parliament, to the forfeited Estate of his late Father Simon Lord Lovat.
PHILADELPHIA, April 20, 1774.
Extract of a Letter from London, February 12.
"From the general Spirit of all Ranks of People, the Conduct and Imprudence of the Bostonians is much censured; and if Fame proves true (which God forbid) forcible Measures are intended.--- Yesterday, the Earl of Buckinghamshire made a Motion in the House of Peers, when the Colonists were declared to be in open Rebellion. A Fleet of fourteen sail of the Line was proposed to be sent out to put a stop to all their Commerce; 6 to be sent to Boston; 3 to New-York; 3 to your Place, & the other 2 to be stationed at Halifax to wait the Admiral's Directions; and Ten Thousand Land Forces, under the Command of an able General; the Massachusetts Charter to be forfeited, and as a stigma on that Province, that all their Ships hereafter must call and discharge their Cargoes in Britain, & reload them before they can proceed to a Foreign Market: This Motion was withdrawn till such Time as all Letters and Papers from the different Governors were regularly laid before the House, which (it is said) is to be done To-morrow. I am, sorry to add, that in those forcible Measures, not only the Court, but country party joins; such is my Information, which I pray God, may prove false."
NEW-LONDON, April 19.
Arrived here Sloop Ann, Luke Fortin from St. Christopher's, 20 Days Passage, who on the 8th Instant, Lat. 37. Long. 73. W. came athwart a Schooner wreck'd, her Masts both carried away two Feet above Deck, she's New-England built, about 70 Tons, Turpentine Sides in Yellow Streaks, Gunwale and Port-wales, four Dead-Lights painted Black, Green Stern and Hants. He took up her Main-Boom, some Distance from her; by Appearance this Accident happened a few Days before; both Pumps and Bowsprit in, and one Cable and Anchor on Deck.
Capt. Fortin on the 10th Inst. spoke a Sloop, Benj. Ginney, from the Bay of Mexico, off a Whaling Cruise, having 120 Barrels of Oil, bound to Dartmouth.
BOSTON, April 28.
His Majesty's Writ is issued for calling a Great and General Court or Assembly to be convened here on Wednesday the 25th of May next, being the last Wednesday in the Month, agreeable to the Royal Charter.
Capt. White arrived last Monday, and Capt. Calef the same Evening from London. Capt. Calef left Portland Road the 11th of March at Night; on the 11th of April when off the Banks of Newfoundland, he lost his Main-Mast and Mizzen-Top-Mast in a very hard Gale of Wind.
Extract of a Letter from a private Gentleman in London, to his Friend in Boston, per Captain Folger.
"Our Markets at present are very high, Mutton at Five Pence Half-Penny, Beef at Six Pence, Bread at One and Three Pence Half-Penny per the Half-Peck Loaf, Butter from Seven Pence to Twelve-Pence, and Pork at Seven-Pence, per lb.--- So that you may expect a great many Persons from this Place very shortly, from different Motives, some to secure their Interest, and others to reduce the Liberty Folks to drink Tea or drink Water, which may best suit them. From the present Appearance of Affairs, you will have both Soldiers and Sailors to pay you a Visit, in the Course of this Summer."
Passengers in Capt. Calef.---Maj. Fleming to join the Corps at Castle William. Dr. Calef of Ipswich.--- Mr. N. Frazier of this Town, Merchant.--- Mr. Alexander Allen, Mr. Wm. Burges, Mr. Thomas Dickinson of London.
In Capt. Callahan, came Passengers Mr. James Henderson & Mr. John Semple, Merchant, Miss Lee, Frances Huger, Esq; of S. Carolina, Mr. Sprowl and Mr. Morwood.
Capt. Lyde, in a Ship, and the Captains Scot and Shaylar, in Brigs for this Place, were to leave London soon after Capt. Callahan.
Handwritten calculations: 5 25.6 6 150.6 7.10.6 215.7.8 206.4 9.10.8

REMARKS, &c. on some late Laws passed in New-York,
H IS Excellency Governor TRYON, in conformity to the Addresses of the General Assembly of the Colony of New-York, having on the 9th Day of March, 1774, with the Advice of his Council, issued his Proclamation, offering therein large Sums of Money for the Purpose of apprehending and imprisoning the following Persons, viz. Ethan Allen, Seth Warner, Remember Barker, Robert Cochran, Peleg Sunderland, Sylvanus Brown, James Breakenridge, and John Smith.
And whereas his Excellency the Governor, by the same Proclamation, hath strictly enjoined and commanded all Magistrates, Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, and other civil Officers of the Counties of Albany and Charlottee, to be active and vigilant in apprehending and imprisoning the Persons above named; and we the aforesaid Persons, whose Names are hereunto affixt, being conscious that our Cause is good and equitable, in the Sight of God, and all unprejudiced and honest Men, are determined at all Events, to maintain and defend the same, 'till his Majesty's Pleasure shall be known, concerning the Validity of the New-Hampshire Grants. And we now proclaim to the Public, not only for ourselves, but for the New-Hampshire Grantees and Occupants in general; that the Spring and moving Cause of our Opposition to the Government of New-York, was self-preservation: viz. Firstly, the Preservation and maintaining of our Property: And secondly, Since that Government is so incensed against us, therefore it stands us in hand to defend our lives; for it appears by a late set of Laws passed by the Legislature thereof, that the lives, and property of the New-Hampshire Settlers are manifestly struck at; but that the Publick may rightly understand the Essence of the Controversy; we now proclaim to those Lawgivers, and to the World, that if the New-York Patentees will remove their Patents, that have been subsequently lapped and laid on the New-Hampshire Charters, and quiet us in our Possessions, agreeable to his Majesty's Directions, and suspend those criminal Prosecutions against us, for being Rioters (as we are unjustly denominated) then will our Settlers be orderly and submissive Subjects to Government; but be it known to that despotic Fraternity of Law-Makers, and Law-Breakers, that we will not be fool'd or frighted out of our Property; they have broke over his Majesty's express Prohibitions, in patenting those Lands, and when they act in Conformity to the regal Authority of Great-Britain, it will be soon enough for us to obey them. It is well known by all wise and sensible Persons in the neighbouring Governments, (that have animadverted on the Controversy) that their pretended Zeal for good order and Government, is fallacious, and that they aim at the Lands and Labours of the Grantees and Settlers aforesaid; and that they subvert the good and wholesome Laws of the Realm, to corroborate with, and bring about their vile and mercenary Purposes.
And in as much as the Malignity of their Disposition towards us, hath flamed to an immeasurable and murderous Degree, they have in their new-fangled Laws, calculated for the Meridian of the New-Hampshire Grants, passed the 9th of March, 1774, so calculated them, as to correspond with the Depravedness of their Minds and Morals; in them Laws they have exhibited their genuine Pictures. The Emblems of their insatiable, avaricious, overbearing, inhuman, barbarous, and blood-guiltiness of Disposition and Intentions is therein portraited in that transparent Image of themselves, which cannot fail to be a Blot, and an infamous Reproach to them to Posterity.-----We cannot suppose that every of his Majesty's Council, or that all the Members of the General Assembly were concern'd and active in passing so bloody and unconstitutional Set of Laws; undoubtedly many of them disapproved thereof; and it is altogether possible, that many that were active in ma-
king the Laws, were imposed upon by false Representations, and acted under mistaken Views of doing Honor to Government; but be this as it will, it appears that there was a Majority. And it has been too much the Case with that Government, for a Number of designing Schemers and Land-Jockeys, to rule the same. Let us take a View of their former narrow and circumscribed Boundaries, and how that by Ledgerdemain, Bribery, and Deceptions of one Sort or other, they have extended their Domain far and wide; they have wrangled with, & encroached on all their neighbouring Governments; they have used all Manner of Deceit and Fraud to accomplish their Designs: Their Tenants groan under their Usury and Oppression; and they have gained, as well as merited, the Disapprobation and Abhorrence of their Neighbours; and the innocent Blood they have already shed, call for Heaven's Vengeance on their guilty Heads; and if they should come forth in Arms against us, thousands of their injured and dissatisfied Neighbours in the several Governments, will join with us, to cut off, and extirpate such an execrable Race, from the Face of the Earth!
This Piece is not supposed to contain a full Answer to the new constructed Set of Laws aforesaid, for such a large Two-Year old, hath never before been seen in America, it being of an enormous and monstrous Birth; nor is it supposed to give the Legislators their full Characters: But so much and a little more may suffice for the Present. To quote the Laws, and make Remarks thereon, would be Matter sufficient for a Volume: However, we will make a few short Remarks thereon.
I. Negatively, it is not a Law for the Province of New-York in general, but
II. Positively, it is a Law but for Part of the Counties of Albany and Charlottee, viz. such Parts thereof as are covered with New-Hampshire Charters, and it is well known those Grants compose but a minor Part of the Inhabitants of the said Province; and we have no representative in that Assembly. The first Knowledge we had of said Laws was the Completion of them, which informed us that if we assembled, three or more of us together to oppose that which they call legal Authority, we shall be adjudged Felons; and suffer the Pains of Death; and that same Fraternity of Plotters knew, as well as we, and the Generality of the People in the adjacent Colonies, that they have for a Number of Years last past, endeavoured to exercise such a Course of that which they call Law, that had they not been opposed by People of these Grants, (called the MOB) in the executing the same, they would before this Time have been in Possession of that Territory, for which the Laws aforesaid are calculated: Therefore the Case stands thus; if we oppose civil Officers in taking Possession of our Farms, we are by these Laws denominated Felons, or if we defend and aid our Neighbours, who have been indicted Rioters only for defending our Property, we are adjudged Felons for that also. In fine, every Opposition to their monarchical Government is deemed Felony, and at the End of every such Sentence there is the Word Death: And the same Laws further impower the respective Judges, provided any Persons to the Number of three or more, that shall oppose any Magistrate or civil Officer, and are not taken, that after a legal Warning of seventy Days, if they do not come and yield themselves up to certain Officers appointed for the Purpose of securing them; then it shall be lawful for the Judges aforesaid, to award Execution of Death; the same as though he or they had been convicted or attainted before a proper Court of Judicature, &c. The candid Reader will doubtless observe, that the diabolical Design of this Law is, to obtain possession of the New-Hampshire Grants, or to make the People that defend them outlaws, and so kill them wherever they can catch them.
Those bloody Lawgivers know we are necessitated to oppose their Execution of Law, where it points directly at Property, or give up our Property; but there is one Thing is Matter of Consolation to us, viz. that printed Sentences of Death will not kill us, when
we are at a Distance; and if the Executioners approach us, they will be as likely to fall Victims to Death as we: And that Person, or Country of Persons are Cowards indeed, if they cannot as manfully fight for their Liberty, Property & Life, as Villains can to deprive them thereof. The New-York Schemers accuse us with many Things, part of which are true, and part are not; with respect to rescuing Prisoners for Debt, it is false: As to assuming judicial Powers, we have not, except a well regulated Combination of the People, to defend their just Rights, may be called so. As to forming ourselves into Military Order, and assuming Military Commands, the New-York Posseys and Military Preparations, Oppressions, &c. obliged us to it: Probably Messrs. Duane, Kemp, and Banyar, of New-York, will not discommend us for so expedient a Preparation; more especially, since the Decrees of the 9th of March, are yet to be put in Execution: And we flatter ourselves, upon Occasion, we can muster as good a Regiment of Marksmen and Scalpers, as America can afford; and we now give the Gentlemen above-named, together with Mr. Bruh and Col. Tenbroack, and in fine all the Land-Jobbers of New-York, an Invitation to come and view the Dexterity of our Regiment; and we cannot think of a better Time for that Purpose, than when the Executioners come to kill some, or all of us, by Virtue of the Authority their Judges have lately received, to award and sentence us to Death in our Absence. There is still one more notable Complaint against us, viz. that we have insulted and menaced several Magistrates, and other civil Officers, so that they dare not execute their respective Functions; this is true, so far as it relates to the Magistrates: But the Public should be informed what the Functions of those Magistrates are; they are commissioned for the sole Purpose of doing us all the Harm and Mischief they possibly can, thro' their Administration and Influence; and that they might be subservient to the wicked Designs of the New-York Schemers, these are their Functions; and the Public need no farther Proof than the Consideration that they are the Tools of those extravagant Law-Makers; and it must be owned, they acted with great Judgment, in chusing the most infernal Instruments for their Purpose.
Draco, the Athenian Law-giver, caused a Number of Laws (in many Respects analogous to those we have been speaking of) to be written in Blood; but our modern Draco's determine to have their's verified in Blood: They well know we shall more than three, nay more than three times three Thousand, assemble together, if Need be, to maintain our common Cause, 'till His Majesty determines who shall be and remain the Owners of the Land in Contest.
"Wilt not thou possess that which Chemoth thy God giveth thee to possess:" So will we possess that, which the Lord our God (and King) giveth us to possess.
And lastly we address ourselves to the People of the Counties of Albany and Charlottee, which inhabit to the Westward of, and are situated contiguous to the New-Hampshire Grants.-----Gentlemen, Friends and Neighbours, Providence having allotted and fixed the Bounds of our Habitations in the same Vicinity, which together with the free Intercourse of Trade and Commerce, hath formed an almost universal Acquaintance, and Tye of Friendship between us, and hath laid such a Foundation of Knowledge, that your people in general cannot but be sensible that the Title of our Lands is in reality the Bone of Contention; and that as a People, we behave ourselves orderly; and are industrious, and honestly disposed; and pay just Deference to Order and Government; and that we mean no more by that which is called the Mob, but to defend our just Rights, and Properties: We appeal to the Gentleman Merchants, to inform whether our People in general do not exert themselves to pay their just Debts; and whether ever they have been hindered by the Country's Mob, in the Collection of their Dues: But as the Magistrates, Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, Coroners and Constables of the respective Counties that hold their Posts of Honour, and Profit under our bitter Enemies, we have a Jealousy, that some of them may be induced (to recommend themselves to those on whom they are dependant, and for the Wages of unrighteousness offered by Proclamation) to presume to apprehend some of us, or our Friends: We therefore advertise such Officers, and all Persons whatsoever, that we are resolved to inflict immediate Death on whomsoever may attempt the same: and provided, any of us or our Party be taken, and we have not Notice sufficient to relieve them, or whether we relieve them or not, we are resolved to surround such Person or Persons whether at his or their own House or Houses, or any where that we can find him or them, and shoot such Person or Persons dead: And furthermore that we will kill and destroy any Person or Persons whomsoever, that shall presume to be accessory, aiding or assisting in taking any of us as aforesaid; for by these Presents we give any such disposed Person or Persons to understand, that, although they have a Li-

cence by the Law aforesaid, to kill us; & an Indemnification for such Murder from the same Authority; yet they have no Indemnification for so doing, from the GREEN-MOUNTAIN-BOYS; for our Lives, Liberties and Properties, are as verily precious to us, as to any of the King's Subjects; and we are as loyal to his Majesty, or his Government, as any Subjects in the Province: But if the Governmental Authority of New-York, will judge in their own Cause, and act in Opposition to that of Great-Britain, and insist upon killing us, to take Possession of our Vineyards; come on, we are ready to take a Game of Scalping with them; for our marshal Spirits glow with bitter Indignation, and consumate Fury to blast their infernal Projections.
It may be, the Reader, not having seen the Laws referred to in this Piece, and not being thoroughly acquainted with the long and spirited Contest that hath subsisted between the Claimants under New-Hampshire and New-York, nor of the progressive, arbitrary and monopolizing Disposition of the Court-Party of the Latter of these Provinces; may be apt to imagine that the Spirit of this Writing is too severe, inasmuch as it defines whoever presumes to take us as Felons or Rioters, to immediate Death. But let the Wife consider the State of the Cause; 1. Provided we on our Part be taken, we have by them Laws the Sentence of Death already pronounced against us, on proviso more than three of us assemble together to maintain and defend our Property till his Majesty determine the Controversy. And 2. May it be considered, that the legislative Authority of the Province of New-York had no Right or constitutional Power to make such Laws, and consequently that they are null and void, from the Nature and Energy of the English Constitution; therefore as they merit no Place among the Laws of the Realm of Great-Britain, but are the arbitrary League and combination of our bitter and merciless Enemies, who to obtain our Property, have inhumanly, barbarously and maliciously, under the specious and hypocritical Pretence of legal Authority, and Veneration for Order and Government, have laid a Snare for our Lives. Can the Public censure us for exerting ourselves nervously to preserve our Lives in so critical a Situation; for by the Laws of the Province into which we are unfortunately fallen, we cannot be protected in either Property or Life, except we give up the first to preserve the latter; so we are resolved to maintain both, or to hazard or lose both.
From hence follows a necessary Inference, that inasmuch as our Property, nay our Lives, cannot be protected, (but manifestly struck at) by the highest Authority of the Province, in which we at present belong, therefore in the Interim, while his Majesty is determining the Controversy, and till he shall interpose his royal Authority, and subject the Authority aforesaid to their Duty, or reannex the District of disputed Lands to the Province of New-Hampshire, or some Way in his great Wisdom and Fatherly Clemency, put the distressed Settlers under New-Hampshire, on an equal Footing with our Brother Subjects in his Realm, we are under a Necessity of resisting unto Blood, every Person who may attempt to take us as Felons or Rioters as aforesaid; for in this Case it is not resisting Law, but only opposing Force by Force; therefore inasmuch as by the Oppressions aforesaid, the New-Hampshire Settlers are reduced to the disagreeable State of Anarchy, in which State we hope for Wisdom, patience and Fortitude, till the happy Hour his Majesty shall graciously be pleased to restore us to the Privileges of Englishmen.
Signed per Dated at Bennington, April 15th, 1774. ETHAN ALLEN, SETH WARNER, REMEMBER BAKER, ROBERT COCHRAN, PELEG SUNDERLAND, JOHN SMITH, SILVANUS BROWN.
N. B. Whereas Mr. James Breckenridge hath the Honor to be enrolled a Rioter with us we can assure the Public, that this worthy Gentleman hath never been concerned with us in any Mob whatsoever; but that he hath always relied on a good Providence and the regal Authority of Great-Britain, for the Confirmation of the New-Hampshire Charters; Exclusive of any other Measures whatsoever.
When Cæsar reigned King at Rome, Saint Paul was sent to hear his Doom; But the Roman Law in a criminal Case, Must have the Accuser Face to Face, Or Cæsar gives a flat Denial.—— But here's a Law made now of late, Which destines Men to awful Fate, And hangs and damns without a Tryal; Which made me view all Nature through, To find a Law where Men were try'd By legal Act, which doth exact Men's Lives before they are try'd. Then down I took the Sacred Book, And turn'd the Pages o're, But could not find one of this Kind, By God or Man before.
T. R.
***** The Heirs of Samuel Allen, Esq;
late Merchant of London. Are hereby notified to meet at the House of Mr. Joshua Brakett, Innholder in Boston, on Thursday the twelfth Day of May next, ensuing, at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, then to determine upon the Steps necessary to be taken by them for the Recovery of their Lands in the Province of New-Hampshire, which have been taken Possession of by Virtue of Grants from the Heirs of the late Capt. Mason, under Pretence of the said Mason's having been at the Time of his Death the rightful Owner of said Lands.
Roxbury, April 19th, 1774.
ALL Persons that have any Demands on the Estate of Andrew Wiggin, Esq; late of Stratham, deceased, are desired immediately to bring in their Accounts to Dorothy Wiggin of Stratham, Executrix to the last Will of the deceased, in order for Settlement. Apr. 29, 1774,
TO BE SOLD;
A Farm adjoining Kennebunk River, in the Township of Wells, containing about 50 Acres, two Thirds of it under good Improvement; and in due Proportion for Tillage, Mowing and pasture. The Situation exceeding convenient for a Trader or Tradesman, lying at the Head of the Tide. The House and Barn well finished, within 15 Rods of the principal Landing for Boards and other Lumber; and adjoining the Interest of Waldo Emerson deceased, a late and prosperous Merchant in those Parts. Also within a Mile of the Meeting House, and near two Grist Mills, Saw Mill, Iron Works, and Building-Yard. Conditions of Sale may be known at Capt. Kimball's in said Wells, Innholder, or of Moses Little, Esq; in Newbury-Port, Merchant. Wells April 25, 1774.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham ss. WHEREAS Robert Boyes, late of Londonderry, in said County and Province, Esq; and others, received a GRANT from his late Excellency BENNING WENTWORTH, Esq; of two Townships of Land, named Manchester and Sandgate, now under the Jurisdiction of New-York: And whereas great Numbers of Grantees in each of said Townships, gave Deeds of their Rights to said Boyes, which Deeds are now in our Hands, and as Executors to the Testament of said Boyes, we have a Right to sell all of said Lands, not already sold by said Boyes, or as; and all Persons, that gave Deeds in either of said Townships, to Esq; Boyes, are hereby cautioned not to sign Deeds, to any other Person, lest they should come to Damage. And all Persons are also cautioned, not to purchase Lands in any of said Townships, under the Title of Boyes, except from the Subscribers, MATHEW THORNTON. SARAH BOYES. Londonderry April 25, 1774.
N. B. The Reason the Public have this Trouble in the Subscribers have been informed, that a certain Person has got Deeds from sundry, that gave Deeds to Esq; Boyes, and now in our Hands, and has sold to sundry, and no Person has, or ever had a Right to sell any Land belonging to said Boyes's Estate but us.
Four DOLLARS Reward.
RUN away from Capt. Jonas Lovit, of Cape Elizabeth, Innholder, a young Man, whose Name (as he says) is Jacob Towns; and carry'd away with him a silver Watch, glass'd inside, the Chain Leather. A silver Cup, with two Handles, mark'd I. W. with several other Things. He is of a dark Complexion, black Hair, and black Eyes. Had on when he went away a green Jacket, lined with Green; Buff Breeches, & a Felt Hat; carry'd off a Surtout Coat which he stole, lightish brown Yarn Stockings; old Shoes that had been tap'd. Whoever will apprehend said Thief, so that he may be brought to Justice, shall have FOUR DOLLARS REWARD, and all necessary Charges paid by JONATHAN LOVIT. N. B. It is desired any Goldsmith, Watchmaker, or other Person would stop the above Articles, if offered for Sale. Cape Elizabeth, April 29th, 1774.
§ Killington. §
Whereas the Proprietors of the Township of Killington, in the Province of New York, have been legally Notified to pay the taxes voted and assessed on each Proprietor's Right, to me the Subscriber; and the following proprietors being yet delinquent in whole or in part; this is therefore to Notify said Delinquents, that their Rights, or so much of them will be sold at public Vendue, on the 16th Day of May next, at eleven o'Clock before Noon, at the Court House in Newport, Rhode Island, as shall be sufficient to pay the said taxes with the incidental Charges. £. 1. £. 1. Daniel Rindge 18 Elijah Weedon 18 Ephraim Dennet 18 John Flegg, junr. 9 Daniel Pearce, Esq; 18 David Heald 18 Benjamin Sherburn 9 John Rindge 18 Jonathan Heath 18 John Dennet 18 Samuel Gibson 18 Daniel Wentworth 18 Richard Nason 18 John Dawning 18 Nathaniel Pearce, Esq; 18 Sampson Sheafe 18 James Westgate 18 Joseph Heath 18 Alexander Bradford 18 Ashbel Stiles 18 Zephaniah Heath 18 Ichabod How 18 Tho. Phipps Darrel 3 0 James Steedly 18 Edward Upham 9 Wm E. Treadwell 18 JONATHAN OTIS, Collector. Dated at Newport Rhode Island, April 16, 1774.
Immediately for a Term of Years, the Dwelling-House
OF JOSEPH BREWSTER, where he now lives at the North End, leading to Col. Boyd's. It's very convenient for Entertainment, Stabling, Cbaies, &c. with a fine Garden, and Well in the middle. Also a fine Spring in the Cellar, which is never dry; with many other Conveniences. Whoever inclines, the sooner the better, upon account of the Garden. Enquire at said House, next to Col. John Tufts Mason's, Cross Street.
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 examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Capt. Ebenezer Hale, late of Hampstead in said County, Gentleman, deceased, represented intestate, hereby give Notice, that we will attend upon that Business at the House of the said deceased, in Hampstead aforesaid, on the last Wednesday of May, and the five following Months, from nine o'Clock before Noon 'till five in the Afternoon, of said Days. Hampstead, April 28, 1774. Jesse Johnson, John Calf } Commissioners.
RAN away from WILLIAM STINSON of Dunbarton, in New Hampshire, a NEGRO MAN named Jack, about 40 Years of Age, 5 Feet 6 Inches high; bad on a dark, mixed, homespun Coat, striped Lining; a striped homespun Jacket, washed Leather Breeches, and a Beaver Hat. Whoever will take up said Negro, and have him secured in some of his Majesty's Goals, and send Word to Stephen Holland, Esq; of Londonderry, or convey him to Mr. Darius Abbot of Andover, in the Massachusetts Government, so that his Master may have him again, shall have ten Dollars Reward, and all necessary Charges paid, by WILLIAM STINSON. April 14, 1774
The Co-partnership
Of the Subscribers being mutually dissolved the first Instant, they request all those who have Accounts open with them, to come and settle the same. And all who are Indebted to them by Book or Note, to make Payment without Delay, as they determine to bring their Affairs to a close as soon as possible. JONATHAN JACKSON, JOHN BROMFIELD. Newbury port, March 22. 1774.
THE Subscriber having quitted the Business he has been in of late Years, desires all Persons with whom he has Accounts open, to call and settle the same—And all who are Indebted to him, either upon Book or by Note, to make speedy Payment, more especially those whose Debts have been long standing. The Business will be carried on as usual by his Sons. PATRICK TRACY. Newbury port, March 22.
Jackson, Tracy and Tracy
BEG Leave to inform the Public that they have taken the Business lately carried on by their Honoured Father, in which they request the Continuance of his good Customers and the Custom of all others, with whom a mutual Advantage is to be obtained. They shall carry on the Distillery as usual. They have by them an Assortment of English Goods, which they will sell by wholesale upon reasonable Terms, and so as to afford a Profit to the Purchaser.
Clocks and Watches
Cleaned and Repaired in the cheapest and best Manner, by Nathaniel Sheafe Griffith in Portsmouth, who has a Workman from London, which Work shall be done with Fidelity and Dispatch: And who has all Sorts of Watch Materials, Springs, Chains, Keys, and Seals, &c. An Assortment of Silver plated Buckles and Buttons. Said Griffith gives Cash for old Gold and Silver. WATCHES sent from East, West, North or South by Post Riders, will be mended, cleaned and sent back with great Care.
PURSUANT to a LAW of this Province, for making Rates and Taxes, that every Person may pay in Proportion to their Estate and Income, the Select-Men of Portsmouth Request the Inhabitants of said Town, to give them an exact Invoice of the following rateable Articles, viz. All Male Polls of 18 Years old and upwards, all Male-Slaves from 16 to 45 Years old, and Female Slaves from 16 to 45 Years old, the Number of Horses, Oxen, and Cows of 4 Years old and upwards: Also all Horses and Cattle of 2 and 3 Years old: Also the Number of Acres of Orchard, Arable, Mowing and Pasture Land, and the neat yearly Income of Houses, Mills, Wharves & Ferries; All Stock, whether Money in Hand, or at Interest, or improved in Trade.
The said Select-Men will attend at Union Hall, in Portsmouth aforesaid, every Tuesday in May and June next, from Four to Eight of the Clock Afternoon, to receive Invoices; but if any Person should refuse to comply with this Request, they may expect to be dealt with as said Law directs. 6. w.
Portsmouth, April 29, 1774. Warrantee and Quitclaim Deeds, Justices Blanks, Bail Bonds, Shipping Papers, &c. Sold at the Printing Office.

From the Whitehall Evening-Post of March 15. Substance of the American Papers read before the House of Commons on Friday last (with Remarks.)
THESE Papers consist of Copies and Extracts of Letters from the Commander of the Forces and from the several Governors in America: of Threats and Prophetic Warnings to the Gentlemen to whom the Tea was consigned; Narratives of Transactions; of Copies of Letters from the several Consignees at Boston to a Ringleader of a Faction in that Town; of Votes of the Town of Boston, previous to the Arrival of the Tea; of a Petition of the Consignees to the Council of Massachusetts, praying "that they and their Property might be taken under their Protection," with the absolute Denial of the Council (observe, of his Majesty's Council) to afford the least Support or Assistance, or even a Promise of it; of Notes from the India-House; of Letters from the Admiral commanding in Boston Harbour, & from Lieut. Col. Leslie, of the 64th Regiment, in Barracks at Castle William; of a Proclamation of the Governor against the seditious Meetings of the Inhabitants, which they treated with inefable Contempt; of Copies of treasonable Papers printed in America; of a Copy of the Transactions of the Massachusetts Council, condemning the Destruction of the Tea, and advising legal Prosecutions against the Perpetrators, which they well knew no Person would dare to carry on, and expressing their own Abhorrence of the unjustifiable Deed, although they would not take any previous step to prevent it, even when petitioned for that very Purpose. So far relative to the Massachusetts .
The Papers written and printed from the other Colonies are exactly of the same Nature. They are the regular official Informations of the different Governors transmitted to the American Secretary of State, with Copies of all the inflammatory fugitive Papers, Hand-Bills, Alarms, Resolves of Town-Meetings, and Minutes of Council: in short, the whole Budget of Abuse that has been vented against Parliament and the Ministry from New-England to the Carolinas, was read to themselves on Saturday last.
As there was no Outrage committed but at Boston , it would be superfluous to narrate all the incendiary scribbling and printing in the different Colonies: it may suffice just to observe, that all the printed Bills were fully larded with the Phrases of "desperate Plans of Despotism," "ministerial Designs to ruin their Liberties," "Slavery," "galling Fetters," "forging infernal Chains," "Popery," "despotic Rule," &c.
The Massachusetts Council appeared in a very jesuitical point of View: They would not give the least Assistance or protection to the Consignees, or to the East India Company's property: They would not even take into Consideration the landing and securing the Teas. By their Replies it would seem, that they rather rejoiced in the Opposition formed by the Faction; and if they did not openly range themselves on its Side, at least by their Neutrality, and the purport of their Answer, it was sufficiently evident, that they did not even wish to interpose as Mediators. The Consignees "prayed to resign themselves, and the property entrusted to their Care, to the Council, not only as their Guardians and protectors, but also those of the People at large." But these worthy Gentlemen thought proper to have nothing to do with them; and rather hinted that the Tea Scheme was calculated to disturb the peace of the Town and Province.
The Letters from the different Governors contain a minute and regular detail of the State of their different provinces, but particularly of the Capitals of each, from the first Intelligence of the Tea's being shipped at home, to its Arrival in America and return back or Destruction.
Above all the rest of the Advices, Governor Hutchinson's Letters are the most precise, exact and circumstantial. He endeavoured both to sooth and intimidate the Faction. It was he himself who advised the Consignees to apply to Council for their personal Safety, and security of their property; for his two eldest Sons were two of the Consignees. He also during the Height of their turbulent and unlawful and seditious Assemblies, before the Destruction of the Tea, sent the Sheriff to the Town-Meeting at Boston, commanding them to break up and depart. When the Sheriff, Mr. Greenleaf, arrived in the Hall, and intimated "that he had a paper to read from the Governor," the Faction put it to vote, "whether he should be permitted to read it or not?" After some Debate, permission was granted, and the Sheriff accordingly pronounced the Governor's orders for them to disperse. The instant he had finished, the Faction saluted him with an universal Hiss, which continued, and accompanied him out of Doors. The proclamation was afterwards published in the Gazette, from whence it was copied into other papers, and criticised and commented upon with every Mark of Contempt and Indignity. Before the Arrival of the Tea, the Governor, who is very insinuating, appeared to have taken every Measure that Prudence could suggest, both for the Safety of the India property, and the Safety of the Consignees. The principal Leader of the Faction was applied to; he commanded the Governor's Company of Cadets, but it was not to be expected that the Leader of the Faction would muster the Cadets to oppose his own party and his own plots. The Application of Course had no Effect. Perhaps Acquiescence was expected, though it might be deemed proper, in point of Duty, to make the Request, or rather to issue the Order.
By Governor Hutchinson's Letters, the People of the Town, or the Faction, obliged Mr. Rotch, the Owner of Capt. Hall's Vessel to demand a Clearance outwards, from the Custom-House, in order that the Tea might be carried back. Mr. Rotch resisted a long Time; but his person being threatened, nay his Life, at last made him comply. The Custom-House refused to grant him an illegal Clearance. The Governor was then applied to for a Pass, without which the Vessel would have been stopped at Castle-William; but this was also refused to Mr. Rotch because it was totally inconsistent with the Duty of a Governor to grant a pass to a Vessel that had not been regularly cleared at the Custom-House. This Negotiation, or Insurrection, or Rebellion, came to a Crisis about the Middle of December. The Faction sitting in Town-Meeting, heard the Account of the Refusals above-mentioned from Mr. Rotch. It appears they expected such Answers, and were prepared for the Event; for immediately after Mr. Rotch's Account, signals were given both from within and without the Meeting. A Number of Men disguised, boarded the Vessels containing the Tea, and as it is said threw the whole into the Sea, though some Unbelievers may think that, not a little of it may be purloined, and that Madam Thetis had not so strong a Dish of Tea that Evening as some people may imagine.
This is a recollected summary of what was heard with regard to the Facts, as they happened in regular Progression. The Opinions of the Writers, as far as may be judged from what is expressed in their Letters, now come to be mentioned.
Upon the Face of the whole Transaction, in every Colony where the Tea arrived, it is evident that the Governors acted with the utmost prudence and Circumspection. It happened that the Ship bound for Boston was the first that reached her destined Port: Every civil precaution seems to have been tried to preserve the Peace of the Town; his Majesty's Council, the Cadets, and the Militia, were all applied to without Effect; the Sheriff read a Proclamation to the Faction, commanding them to dissolve their Assembly, and this Proclamation was immedi-
ately afterwards inserted in the Gazette: Both the Sheriff and the Proclamation were treated with Insult. The People of Boston seem on this Occasion, to have been fairly tried; the Governor seems to have taken, from the Beginning a Determination not to call either on the naval or Military Force, then in the Bay and at Castle Island. The loyal and peaceable people of that Town were altogether left to the Exercise of their own Judgment, and they have given all the World a notable Proof of it, by wantonly destroying a valuable Property, when all they had to do was to keep firm in their Resolutions, not to buy or drink any of it; they will however, pay for their outrageous Pastime, they must make good the Loss; and they will feel the indemnification the more bitter, as they must pay for a Commodity which they declare they did not taste and which they pretend to abhor.
The other Governors, after the Accomplishment of the Boston Exploit, wisely agreed to let the Tea be carried back, as what had already happened, was sufficient to rouse the English Nation and Parliament; and by this prudent conduct they put it out of the power of the People under their Government to act in the same foolish and frantic Manner as the People of Boston.
As to Governor Hutchinson, if it had not been for his Resolution not to irritate the People, by calling in the Assistance of the Navy, the Tea would have been saved; but as the Bostonians always made great Complaints of the Interposition of the Navy and Army, and not only declared, but swore, they had always begun every Disturbance, every rational Man will be glad to find that their Governor gave them no such Plea on this Occasion: They were left to their own Will and Pleasure, and behaved ten Times worse than ever.
It appears, by all the Letters from America, that nothing can be done there by Officers, civil, Military, or Naval, to effectuate the Re-establishment of Peace in that country; they can make no Movement, even the most trifling, but what is exclaimed against by the licentious Bostonians, as an Infringement of their Liberties. They have therefore remained, for these three last Years, in total Inactivity, submitting to the Insults of Faction with the most patient Endurance, in Hopes that Parliament, by an Alteration and Regulation of their absurd CHARTERS, will at last relieve them, and all the rest of his Majesty's good Subjects in the colonies.
Governor Hutchinson's settled Opinion is, "that no Effort in the colonies by any Body of Men civil or Military, can remove the Evils that now Reign amongst them. It is Parliament, and Parliament only, which can restore that turbulent country to Peace, and bring Order out of confusion." And it is said, that his Letters for these six Years past have uniformly inculcated and held forth the same Doctrine.
The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered ten Vessels from 350 to 600 Tons, to be taken up on Government Account.
NEW-YORK, April 25.
On Monday last Advice was received from Philadelphia, that Capt. Chambers of the Ship London , of this Port, had taken on board in London, 18 Boxes of fine Tea, which were regularly cleared, and the mark and numbers were taken from the Cocket by Capt. All, of Philadelphia. As Capt. Chambers was one of the first who refused to take the East-India Company's on board, for which he received the Thanks of the Citizens, they could not believe that he knew of the Tea being on board, but supposed it was ship't by some ministerial Tool under some other denomination, in order to make an Experiment of this mode of introducing Teas to America: However the Committee were determined to examine into this Matter with great Vigilance.
Wednesday Capt. Lawrence arrived from London, who confirmed the Account of Captain Chambers having on board 18 Boxes of fine TEA, but could not tell who was the Shipper or to whom they were addressed.
Friday at Noon Captain Chambers came into the Hook; the pilot asked him if he had any Tea on board. He declared he had none. 2 of the Committee of Observation went on board of Chambers, and informed him of the Advices received of his having Tea on board, and demanded a sight of all his cockets, which was accordingly given them, but the cocket for the Tea was not found among them, nor was the mark or number on his manifest.
About 4 o'clock, p.m. the ship came to the wharf, when she was boarded by a number of the citizens. Capt. Chambers was interrogated relative to his having the Tea on board, but he still denied it. He was then told it was vain to deny it, for there was good proof of its being on board; for it would be found, as there were committees appointed to open every package, and that he had better be open and candid about it; and demanded the cocket for the Tea; upon which he confessed it was on board, and delivered the cocket. The owners and the committee immediately met at Mr. Francis's where Captain Chambers was ordered to attend. Upon examining him who was the shipper & owner of the Tea, he declared that he was the sole owner of it. After the most mature deliberation, it was determined to communicate the whole state of the matter to the people, who were convened near the ship; which was accordingly done. The MOHAWKS were prepared to do their duty at a proper hour, but the body of the people were so impatient that before it arrived, a number of them entered the ship, about 8 o'clock, p.m. took out the Tea, which was at hand, broke the cases and started their contents in the river, without doing any damage to the ship or cargo. Several persons of reputation were placed below to keep order, and about the companion to prevent ill-disposed persons from going below the deck. At ten o'clock the people all dispersed in good order, but in great wrath against the Captain; and it was not without some risque of his life that he escaped.
On Saturday at 8 A. M. all the Bells in the City rang, pursuant to notice published on Thursday. About 9, the greatest number of People were collected at and near the Coffee-House that was ever known in this City. At a quarter past 9 the Committee came out of the Coffee-House with Capt. Lockyer, upon which a band of music attending, played, God save the King. Immediately there was a call for Capt. Chambers, — where is he? where is he? Captain Lockyer must not go till we find Capt. Chambers to send back with the Tea Ship. This produced marks of fear in Captain Lockyer, who imagined some mischief was intended him; but upon assurances being given him to the contrary, he appeared composed. — The Committee with the music, conducted him through the multitude, to the end of Murray's Wharf, where he was put on board the Pilot boat, and wished a safe passage; upon which the multitude gave loud huzza's, and
many guns were fired expressive of their Joy at his departure. The Committee of observation at the Hook, have cognizance of him till a fair wind offers for his departure from thence. — Thus to the great mortification of the secret and open enemies of America, and the joy of all the friends of liberty and human nature, the unity of the Colonies is maintained in a contest of the utmost importance to their safety and felicity.
B O S T O N, May 2.
We hear the King has been pleased to appoint Thomas Erving, Esq; late Inspector of Imports and Exports for North-America, to be Receiver-General of his Majesty's Quit-Rents in South Carolina, a Place of Honor and Profit.
Daniel Chamier, Esq; of Baltimore Town, in Maryland, is appointed Commissary of Stores & Provisions in America, in the Room of Robert Leake, Esq;
It is thought that the Hon. John Temple Esq; is not dismissed from his Post under Government.
It is said that Dr. Franklin intends visiting America in June next.
Capt. Chatham, who is arrived at Philadelphia from Cadiz, on the 7th of April, in Lat. 37, Long. 72, met with the Wreck of a Schooner, which he supposes to have been overset a few Days before, in a Squall: Capt. Chatham by cutting a Hole in her Quarter-Deck as she lay full of Water on her Beam-Ends, took out a Chest which contained the Captain's Pocket-Book, Papers, &c. by which it appeared she was called the Royal Oak, Rufus Ripley, Master; navigated with 4 Hands, bound from North-Carolina to Plymouth, with 1500 Bushels of Corn, Staves, and some Lard: and was owned by Isaac Drew, of Duxbury: The People it is tho' were all lost.
Last Monday the Rev. Mr. David Tappan of Manchester, was ordained Pastor of the the 3d Parish and Congregation in Newbury.
PORTSMOUTH, May 6.
Capt. York, who arrived here last Wednesday from the West-Indies, informs, that on Sunday last he spoke with the Ship Felicity , Henry Nutter, Master, from this Port for London, on the Eastern Edge of George's Banks, all well on Board.
***** JUST PUBLISH'd,
And Sold at the Printing-Office, Portsmouth, A RATIONAL EXPLICATION OF
St. JOHN'S VISION OF THE Two Beasts
In the XIIIth Chapter of the Revelation, Shewing, that the Beginning, Power, and Duration of POPERY, are plainly predicted in that VISION, and that these Predictions have hitherto been punctually verified.
By SAMUEL LANGDON, D. D. Pastor of the First Church in Portsmouth.
***** TO BE SODD,
By PUBLIC VENDUE on Tuesday the 10th of May next, Five o'Clock P. M. at the Mansion-House of the late Reverend ARTHUR BROWNE, deceas'd,
A Large Number of valuable BOOKS,
Belonging to the Estate; a CATALOGUE thereof to be seen any Time at said Place.— All Persons having Books belonging to said Estate, are once more desired to return them, and that have Demands are desired to exhibit them to the Executors, for immediate Settlement. Portsmouth, April 20, 1774.
Ninety Quintals of Scale Fish, To be sold at Public VENDUE on Tuesday next, 12 o'Clock, at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, In- holder in Portsmouth. The Fish to be viewed any Time before the Sale. Enquire at the Printing Office.
All Persons indebted for this Paper, are desired to make payment.