The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1774-07-15 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE  AND  HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday July 15, 1774.
THE
Vol. XVIII.
GAZETTE,  CHRONICLE,  FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 925 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
By the Captains Brown and Loring. arrived at Marblehead from London, we have the following fresh Advices, viz.
HOUSE OF LORDS PROTEST.
Die Mercurij, 11 o Maij, 1774. THE Order of the Day being read for the third Reading of the Bill, intitled, "An Act for the better regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New-England; and for the Lords to be summoned."
The said Bill was accordingly read the Third Time. Moved, that the Bill, with Amendments, do pass. Which being objected to, After a long Debate, The Question was put thereupon. It was resolved in the Affirmative.
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BECAUSE this Bill, forming a principal Part in a System of Punishment and Regulation, has been carried through the House without a due Regard to those indispensable Rules of public Proceeding, without the Observance of which no Regulation can be prudently made, and no Punishment justly inflicted. Before it can be pretended, that those Rights of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, in the Election of Councillors, Magistrates, & Judges, and in the return of Jurors, which they derive from their Charter, could with Propriety be taken away, the definite legal Offence, by which a Forfeiture of that Charter is incurred, ought to have been clearly stated and fully proved; notice of this adverse Proceeding ought to have been given to the Parties affected; and they ought to have been heard in their own Defence. Such a principal of Proceeding would have been inviolably observed in the Courts below. It is not technical Formality, but substantial Justice. When therefore the Magnitude of such a Cause transfers it from the Cognizance of the Inferior Courts, to the high Judicature of Parliament, the Lords are so far from being authorised to reject this equitable Principle, that we are bound to an extraordinary and religious Strictness in the Observance of it. The Subject ought to be indemnified by a more liberal and beneficial Justice in Parliament, for what he must inevitably suffer by being deprived of many of the Forms which are wisely established in the Courts of ordinary resort for his Protection against the dangerous Promptitude of arbitrary Discretion.
2dly. Because the necessity alleged for this precipitate Mode of judicial Proceeding cannot exist. If the numerous Land and Marine Forces, which are ordered to assemble in Massachusetts Bay, are not sufficient to keep that single Colony in any tolerable State of Order, until the Cause of its Charter can be fairly tried, on Regulation in this Bill, or in any of those hitherto brought into the House, are sufficient for that Purpose; and we conceive that the mere Celerity of a Decisor against the Charter of that Province, will not reconcile the Minds of the People to that Mode of Government which is to be established upon its Ruins.
3dly. Because Lords are not in a Situation to determine how far the Regulations of which this Bill is composed, agree or disagree with those Parts of the Constitution of the Colony that are not altered, with the Circumstance of the People, and with the whole Detail of their municipal Institutions. Neither the Charter of the Colony, nor any Account whatsoever of its Courts and judicial Proceedings, their Mode, or the Exercise of their present Powers, have been produced to the House. The slightest Evidence concerning any one of the many Inconveniences, stated in the Preamble of the Bill to have arisen from the present Constitution of the Colony Judicatures, has not been produced. On the same general Allegations of a declaratory Preamble, any other Right, or all the Rights of this or any other public Body, may be taken away, and any visionary Scheme of Government substituted in their Place.
4thly. Because we think that the Appointment of all the Members of the Council, which by this Bill is vested in the Crown, is not a proper Provision for preserving the Equilibrium of the Colony Constitution. The Power given to the Crown of occasionally increasing or lessening the Number of the Council on the Report of Governors, and at the Pleasure of Ministers, must make these Governors and Ministers Masters of every Question in that Assembly; and by destroying it's Freedom of Deliberation, will wholly annihilate it's Use. The Intention avowed in this Bill, of bringing the Council to the Platform of other Colonies, is not likely to answer it's own End; as the Colonies where the Council is named by the Crown, are not at all better disposed to a Submission to the Practice of taxing for Supply without their Consent, than this of Massachusetts Bay. And no pretence of bringing it to the Model of the English Constitution can be supported, as none of those American Councils have the least Resemblance to the House of Peers. So that this new Scheme of a Council stands upon no Sort of a Foundation, which the Proposers of it think proper to acknowledge.
5thly. Because the new Constitution of Judicature provided by this Bill is improper, and incongruous with the Plan of the Administration of Justice in Great-Britain. All the Judges are to be henceforth nominated (not by the Crown) but by the Governor; and all (except the Judges of the Superior Court) are to be removable at his Pleasure, and expressly without the Consent of that very Council which has been nominated by the Crown.
The Appointment of the Sheriff is by the Will of the Governor only, and without requiring in the Person appointed any local or other Qualification; that Sheriff, a Magistrate of great
Importance to the whole Administration and Execution of all Justice, civil and criminal, and who in England is not removable even by the royal Authority, during the Continuance of the Term of his Office, is by this Bill made changeable by the Governor and Council, as often, and for such Purposes as they shall think expedient.
The Governor and Council thus entrusted with Powers, with which the British Constitution has not vested his Majesty and his Privy Council, have the Means of returning such a Jury in each particular Cause, as may best suit with the Gratification of their Passions, & Interests. The Lives, Liberties, & Properties of the Subject are put into their Hands without Control; and the invaluable Right of Trial by Jury, is turned into a Snare for the People, who have hitherto looked upon it as their main security against the licentiousness of Power.
6thly, Because we see in this Bill the same Scheme of strengthening the Authority of the Officers and Ministers of State, at the Expence of the Rights and Liberties of the Subject which was indicated by the insuspicious Act for shutting up the Harbour of Boston.
By that Act, which is immediately connected with this Bill, the Example was set of a large important City (containing vast Multitudes of People, many of whom must be innocent, and all of whom are unheard) by an arbitrary Sentence deprived of the Advantage of that Port, upon which all their Means of livelihood did immediately depend.
This Proscription is not made determinable on the Payment of a Fine for an Offence, or a Compensation for an Injury; but is to continue until the Ministers of the Crown shall think fit to advise the King in Council to revoke it.
The legal Condition of the Subject (standing untainted by Conviction, for Treason or Felony) ought never to depend upon the arbitrary Will of any Person whatsoever.
This Act unexampled on the Records of Parliament, has been entered on the Journals of this House as voted nomine dissensiente , and has been stated in the Debate of this Day, to have been sent to the Colonies, as passed without a Division in either House, and therefore as conveying the uncontroverted universal Sense of the Nation.
The Despair of making effectual Opposition to an unjust Measure, has been construed into an Approbation of it.
An unfair Advantage has been taken on the final Question for passing that penal Bill, of the Absence of those Lords who had debated it for several Hours, and strongly dissented from it on the second Reading; that Period on which it is most usual to debate the Principle of a Bill.
If this Proceeding were to pass without Animadversion, Lords might think themselves obliged to reiterate their Debates, at every Stage of every Bill which they oppose, and to make a formal Division whenever they debate.
7thly, Because this Bill and the other Proceedings that accompany it, are intended for the Support of that unadvised Scheme of taxing the Colonies, in a Manner new, and unsuitable to their Situation and constitutional Circumstances.
Parliament has asserted the Authority of the Legislature of this Kingdom, supreme and unlimited, over all the Members of the British Empire.
But the legal Extent of this Authority furnishes no Argument in favour of an unwarrantable use of it.
The Sense of the Nation on the Repeal of the Stamp-Act was, that in equity and sound Policy, the Taxation of the Colonies for the ordinary purposes of Supply ought to be forborn; and that this Kingdom ought to satisfy itself with the Advantages to be derived from a flourishing and increasing Trade, and with the free Grants of the American Assemblies; as being far more beneficial, far more easily obtained, less oppressive, and more likely to be lasting than any Revenue to be acquired by parliamentary Taxes, accompanied by a total Alienation of the Affection of those who were to pay them. This Principle of Repeal was nothing more than a Return to the ancient standing Policy of this Empire. The unhappy Departure from it, has led to that Course of shifting and contradictory Measures, which have since given rise to such continued Distractions; by which unadvised Plan, new duties have been imposed in the very Year after the former had been repealed; these new Duties afterwards in part repealed, and in part continued, in contradiction to the principles upon which those repealed were given up; all which, with many weak, injudicious, and precipitate Steps taken to enforce a Compliance, have kept up that Jealousy, which on the Repeal of the Stamp-Act was subsiding; revived dangerous Questions, and gradually estranged the Affections of the Colonies from the Mother Country, without any Object of Advantage to either. If the Force proposed should have its full Effect, that Effect we apprehend may not continue longer than while the Sword is held up. To render the Colonies permanently advantageous, they must be satisfied with their Condition. That Satisfaction we see no Chance of restoring, whatever Measures may be pursued, except by returning in the Whole, to the Wise and salutary Principles on which the Stamp-Act was repealed.
  RICHMOND,  ROCKINGHAM,    PORTLAND,  ABERGAVENNY,    ABINGDON,  LEINSTER,    KING.  CRAVEN.    EFFINGHAM,  FITZWILLIAM,    PONSONBY.   
L O N D O N, May 2.
WE hear that the Parliament will not rise till the first Week in July, the Ministry being desirous to know General Gage's Reception at Boston.
May 4. We are informed that the Subscription for the Tickets in the ensuing Lottery are to be given to the American Merchants, in Order to make them Recompence for the Damage they will sustain by the three Boston Bills.
May 7. There hardly passes a Day but the Duke of Grafton is with the King or Queen, which gives Hopes of a very happy Reconciliation of the Royal Family, as soon as the Duke of Cumberland arrives.
Yesterday the Order of the Day was read in the House of Commons, for the third reading of the Bill for the impartial Administration of Justice in Massachusetts Bay in New-England. A Debate arose, which lasted for about three Hours, and upon the Question being put whether the Bill should pass, the House divided, Ayes 127, Noes 24.
The Mass is at length thrown off; open your Eyes, and see Popery established by ----- in Canada, and Slavery in Massachusetts Bay. Heaven protect us, and grant that our Exporters may never become the Importers.
The Agents for the Colonies of New-York, Philadelphia, Rhode-Island and New-Hampshire, have received Orders to attend the Earl of Dartmouth on Monday next, at the Plantation Office, Whitehall, on private Affairs.
May 9. The Bill for procuring Quarters for Troops in N. America will pass the Lower House this Day.
May 10. The upper House was put into a Committee yesterday on the Bill for regulating the future Government of Massachusetts Bay, several Amendments were made during it's Progress through the Committee, which are ordered to be reported to the House this Day.
Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, May 4. "Sailed from Spithead this Morning, the Antelope Man of War, Admiral Gayton, for Jamaica, who is to relieve Admiral Rodney on his Arrival at that Place."
May 5. In the great Debate, on Monday last, against the Bill for regulating the Government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay it was urged, that as the Bill was founded so clearly in the Principles of Injustice, it was no far-fetched Idea to suppose that a numerous and incensed People might resist this Tyranny: What then must be the Consequence of this fine Arrangement? The Town of Boston is very populous; it is the Head of above Seven Hundred Thousand People, who in suffering and Principles are closely connected with her: she is in Possession of plenty of Arms, and her Shiping not badly provided with Cannon; Ammunition they have Plenty; they have farther a numerous provincial Militia; and what is, perhaps of more Consequence, great Numbers of regular Soldiers who have seen the Service of all the last War spread thro' the Province. Suppose a People thus situated should not chuse to bow the Head to your Yoke. What is the Provision you have made for over-awing them? Why a military Governor and four Regiments, sufficient Force (it must be allowed) to quell a Mob that is robbing a Tea-Ship: but very far from being sufficient to overturn the whole Colony of New-England, by reversing it's Constitution, and establishing a mode of Government, which that People will consider as nothing less than mere Tyranny. It may safely be asserted, that four or six Regiments are not Force sufficient to conquer and subdue the People of that Colony; if they resist upon any firm and rational Plan, such a Force will be cut in Pieces, and a Triumph of that Sort to the People of Massachusetts Bay, will resemble the Sword of Rebellion; which once drawn, is no more sheathed. They will strengthen themselves by Success, and you must then undoubtedly destroy the Colony by an odious and expensive War, in order to put in execution these blessed Acts for the better Government of it; all this may be very possible, but where is the Policy of doing it? Upon what Principle is it that you proceed? What comes of your Commerce? Your Export of Manufactures for the Supply, not only of the Consumption of this Colony, but the greater Demand of it's Trade? To be sure an Army and an Expence of a Million or two would enable you to destroy the most powerful English Country, as a Punishment for the Rabble of one of it's Towns breaking Windows or burning some Mills, but who wants to be told that this would be self Destruction? It is just so with Boston, and the rest of this Colony--do them what Mischief you please, you hurt yourselves at every Stroke--not a Musket can be fired--not a Bayonet fixed, but the Effect is felt in your own Vitals--it is to all Intents and Purposes a Civil War, and in nothing more than in its Effects. To be beaten is, ruinous and disgraceful; to be victorious, is to destroy, not to acquire. You may lose every Thing, you can gain nothing. Such is the Contest into which, with heedless Extravagance and inconsiderate Rashness you are going to plunge this Country; with no Views of Advantage, upon no Principles of Policy, and contrary to every Rule of common Sense; it is a Conduct little short of Madness; the Arguments that have been used in favour of these Measures, from proving too much prove nothing: if they can be brought with Propriety in the present Case, you might by their Assistance defend the utter Annihilation of Boston, the Decimation of the Colony, or any other Scheme equally wild. Once depart from the plain Rule, that the Punishment ought to be adequate to the Crime, and you plunge into the inextricable Labyrinth of Folly and Injustice.
By Letters from Rome we are informed that the Pretender and the Duke of Cumberland met at the Burial of a Cardinal; and after the most courteous, silent Address, which drew their Confusion, and the Eyes of the Spectators, they retired in the most princely Style. Though the Papists allow the Superiority of Address to the Chevalier, who, since the Dispute of England with America, has resumed his wonted vigour and Address, and in his Conversation he throws out many Ideas which look like a Voyage to America.
Extract of a Letter from Norwich, April 23.
"It touches my Heart to see the Misery of our poor Weavers. These used to be Orders from the American Merchants; but those being stopped prevent our Manufacturers from being able to employ the poor Workmen."
Commerce is a stronger Tie than Conquest. A brave People will be more useful Allies than either Subjects or Slaves. India and America may one Day prove this Truth!

From the BATH-CHRONICLE, April 28.
Col. BARRE'S SPEECH
On Lord NORTH's motion for leave to bring in a bill, empowering a Governor in North-America to send any Officer who shall commit murder in the Province, to another Colony, or to England, to be tried.
MR. SPEAKER,
RISE with great unwillingness, to oppose this measure in its very infancy, before its features are well formed, or to claim that attention, which this House seems to bestow with so much reluctance on any arguments in behalf of America. But I must call you to witness, that I have been hitherto silent, or acquiescing to an unexpected degree of moderation. While your proceedings, severe as they were, had the least colour of foundation in justice, I desisted from opposing them; nay more—though your bill for stopping up the port of Boston contained in it many things most cruel, unwarrantable and unjust, yet as they were couched under those general principles of justice, retribution for injury, and compensation for loss sustained, I not only desisted from opposing, but assented to its passing. The bill was a bad way of doing what was right; but still it was doing what was right. I would not therefore by opposing it seem to countenance those violences which had been committed abroad; and of which no man disapproves more than I do.
Upon the present question I am totally unprepared. The motion itself bears no sort of resemblance to what was formerly announced. The noble Lord and his friends have had every advantage of preparation. They have reconnoitred the field, and chosen their ground. To attack them in these circumstances may, perhaps, favour more of the gallantry of a soldier, than of the wisdom of the Senator.
But, Sir, the proposition is so glaring; so unprecedented in any former proceedings of Parliament; so unwarranted by any delay, denial, or perversion of justice in America; so big with misery and oppression to that country, and with danger to this—that the first blush of it is sufficient to alarm and rouze me to opposition.
It is proposed to stigmatize a whole people as persecutors of innocence, and men incapable of doing justice; yet you have not a single fact on which to ground that imputation. I expected the noble Lord would have supported this motion by producing instances of the Officers of Government in America having been prosecuted with unremitting vengeance, and brought to cruel and dishonorable deaths by the violence and injustice of American juries. But he has not produced one such instance; and I will tell you more, Sir,—he cannot produce one. The instances which have happened are directly in the teeth of his proposition. Capt. Preston and the soldiers, who shed the blood of the people, were fairly tried, and justly acquitted. It was an American Jury, a new-England Jury, a Boston Jury, which tried & acquitted them. Capt. Preston has under his hand, publickly declared, that the inhabitants of the very town, in which their fellow citizens had been sacrificed, were his advocates and defenders. Is this the return you make them? Is this the encouragement you give them to persevere in so laudable a spirit of justice, and moderation? When a Commissioner of the Customs, aided by a number of ruffians assaulted the celebrated Mr. Otis in the midst of the town of Boston, and with the most barbarous violence almost murdered him, did the mob, which is said to rule that town, take vengeance on the perpetrators of this inhuman outrage against a person who is supposed to be their Demagogue? No, Sir, the law tried them; the law gave heavy damages against them; which the irreparably injured Mr. Otis most generously forgave upon an acknowledgment of the offence. Can you expect any more such instances of magnanimity, under the principle of the bill now proposed?
But the noble Lord says, "We must now shew the Americans that we will no longer sit quiet under their insults." Sir, I am sorry
to say that this is declamation unbecoming the character and place of him who utters it. In what moment have you been quiet? Has not your government for many years past been a series of irritating and offensive measures, without policy, principle, or moderation? Have not your troops & your ships made a vain and insulting parade in their streets and in their harbours; It has seemed to be your study to irritate and inflame them. You have stimulated discontent into disaffection, & you are now goading that disaffection into rebellion. Can you expect to be well informed when you listen only to partisans? Can you expect to do justice when you will not hear the accused?
Let us consider, Sir, the precedents which are offered to warrant this proceeding—The suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in 1745—the making Smugglers triable in Middlesex, and the Scotch rebels in England. Sir, the first was done upon the most pressing necessity flagrante Bello , with a dangerous rebellion in the very heart of the kingdom. The second you well know, was warranted by the most evident facts: Armed bodies of smugglers marched publicly without presentment or molestation from the people of the county of Sussex; who, even to their Magistrates, were notoriously connected with them. They murdered the Officers of Revenue, engaged your troops, and openly violated the laws. Experience convinced you, that the Juries of that, and of the counties similarly circumstanced, would never find such criminals guilty; and upon the conviction of this necessity you passed the Act. The same necessity justified the trying of Scotch rebels in England. Rebellion had reared its dangerous standard, in Scotland, and the principles of it had so universally tainted that people, that it was manifestly in vain to expect justice from them against their countrymen,—But in America not a single act of rebellion has been committed. Let the Crown Law Officers, who sit by the noble Lord, declare, if they can, that there is upon your table a single evidence of treason or rebellion in America.—They know, Sir, there is not one, and yet we are proceeding as if there were a thousand.
Having thus proved, Sir, that the proposed bill is without precedent to support, and without facts to warrant it; let us now view the consequences it is likely to produce. A soldier feels himself so much above the rest of mankind, that the strict hand of the civil power is necessary to controul the haughtiness of disposition which such superiority inspires. You know, Sir, what constant care is taken in this country to remind the military that they are under the restraint of the Civil Power. In America their superiority is felt still greater. Remove the check of the law, as this bill intends, and what insolence and outrage may you not expect? Every passion that is pernicious to society will be let loose upon a people unaccustomed to licentiousness and intemperance. On the one hand will be a people who have been long complaining of oppression, and see in the soldiery those who are to enforce it upon them; on the other, an army studiously prepossessed with the idea of that people being rebellious, unawed by the apprehension of civil controul, and actuated by that spirit which prevails ever among the best of troops. In this situation, the prudent officer will find it impossible to restrain his soldiers, or prevent that provocation which will rouze the tamest people to resistance. The inevitable consequence will be, that you will produce the rebellion you pretend to obviate.
I have been bred a soldier, have served long, I respect the profession, & live in the strictest habits of friendship with a great many officers; but there is not a country gentleman of you all, who looks upon the army with a more jealous eye, or would more strenuously resist the setting them above the controul of the civil Power. No man is to be trusted in such a situation. It is not the fault of the soldier, but the voice of human nature, which, unbridled by law, becomes insolent and licentious, wantonly violates the peace of society, and tramples upon the rights of human kind.
With respect to those gentlemen who are destined to this service they are much to be pitied. It is a service, which an officer of feeling and of worth must enter upon with reluctance; a service in which his only merit must be, to bear much, and do little.—With the melancholy prospect before him of commencing a civil war, and embrowning his hands in the blood of his fellow-Subjects; his feelings, his honour, his life are hazarded, without a possibility of any equivalent or compensation. You may perhaps think a law, founded upon this motion, will be his protection. I am mistaken if it will. Who is to execute it? He must be a bold man indeed who makes the attempt. If the people are so exasperated, that it is unsafe to bring the man who has injured them to trial, let the Governor who withdraws him from justice look to himself. The people will not endure it; they would no longer deserve the reputation of being descended from the loins of Englishmen if they did endure it.
When I stand up as an advocate for America, I feel myself the firmest friend of this country. We stand upon the commerce of America. Alienate your Colonies, and you will subvert the foundation of your riches and your strength. Let the banners of rebellion be once spread in America, and you are an undone people. You are urging this desperate, this destructive issue. You are urging it with such violence, & by measures tending so manifestly to that fatal point, that, but that a state of madness only could inspire such an intention, it would appear to be your deliberate purpose. In assent to your late bill, I resisted the violence of America, at the hazard of my popularity there. I now resist your phrensy at the same risque here. You have changed your ground. You are become the aggressors, and, offering the last of human outrages to the people of America, by subjecting them, in effect, to military execution. I know the vast superiority of your disciplined troops over the provincials; but beware how you supply the want of discipline by desperation. Instead of sending them the olive branch you have sent the naked sword. By the olive branch I mean a repeal of all the late laws, fruitless to you, and oppressive to them.
Ack their aid in a constitutional manner, and they will give it to the utmost of their ability. They never yet refused it, when properly required. Your journals bear the recorded acknowledgments of the zeal with which they have contributed to the general necessities of the state. What madness is it that prompts you to attempt obtaining that by force which you may more certainly procure by requisition? They may be flattered into any thing, but they are too much like yourselves to be driven. Have some indulgence for your own likeness; respect their Murphy English virtue ; retract your odious exertions of authority, and remember—that the first step towards making them contribute to your wants, is to reconcile them to your government.
BOSTON, July 4, 1774.
Public and Solemn Protest, made in Boston. WHEREAS at a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of this Town, held at Faneuil-Hall the 27th Instant, and from thence adjourned to the South Meeting-House, Copies of certain Circular Letters, wrote by the Committee of Correspondence, so called, for this Town, to the other Towns in the Province, and other Places on the Continent, and Answers thereto from the several Towns & Colonies were read, likewise a certain Circular Letter, accompanied with a Solemn League and Covenant of a most dangerous Nature and Tendency, which hath been drawn up by the said Committee of Correspondence, Copies whereof have been by them clandestinely dispersed through the Province, without the Consent or Knowledge of the Town, and recommended to the People of the Country, to execute without Loss of Time, "least their Enemies should defeat its Purpose."—These Points being fully spoke to, with Candor and Moderation by Gentlemen of different Sentiments, it was at length motioned and seconded, That the Committee of Correspondence be censured by the Town and dismissed from any further Service in that Capacity. After some Discussion on the Subject and other Letters produced and read, the Question was put and passed in the Negative.
WHEREFORE, we the Dissentients do now make this public and solemn Protest against the Doings of the said Committee, as such, against the Solemn League and Covenant aforementioned, and against the Proceedings of the Town so far as they have adopted the illegal Proceedings of the said Committee of Correspondence, for the following Reasons, viz.
First, Because, with regard to the Solemn League and Covenant aforementioned, we look on it to be a base, wicked & illegal Magazine, calculated to disturb and ruin among Merchants, Shop-

keepers and others, in this Metropolis, & affect the whole commercial Interest of this Province; to put a Check at once to our Industry, by stopping the Exports of all the Staple Articles of our Trade, such as Oil, Pot and Pearl Ash, Flax Seed, Naval Stores, Lumber of all sorts, and likewise Cod-Fish by way of Spain and Portugal, the Proceeds of which go to Great-Britain as Remittance for Goods; also will put an End to a very valuable Branch of Trade to the Province of Ship-building; to create unhappy Divisions in Towns and in Families; to open a Door for the most wicked Perjuries, and to introduce almost every Species of Evil that we have yet felt, and cannot serve any good Purpose.
Secondly, Because that the Committee of Correspondence in many of their Letters held forth Principles, which instead of extricating us from our Difficulties, serve, in our Opinions, still further to involve us, to which Principles we cannot accede.
Thirdly, Because that the Committee of Correspondence, in some Letters that were read from them to New-York, Philadelphia and other Places, particularly two to New-York of the 28th and 30th of May--have--falsely, maliciously, and scandalously vilified and abused the Characters of many of us, only for dissenting from them in Opinion--a Right which we shall claim, so long as we hold any Claim to Freedom or Liberty.
Signed by 129 Gentlemen, chiefly Merchants. Boston, June 29th, 1774.
TO BE SOLD BY Hannah Bunbury,
At her SHOP on Spring-Hill, SUNDRY Articles of MILLINARY, very cheap for Cash, among which are, a genteel assortment of Blond Lace, Treble-Ruffles, printed and other Ribbons of newest fashion, Smelting Bottles with Tortoiseshell Cases, Tambour Needles with Ivory Cases, Ladies Tortoiseshell dressing Combs, Blond-Laces, plain and figured Gauze, Cyprus Gauze, plain and figured Sattins, &c. Also, three exceeding genteel Quadrille Sets of Mother Pearl and Cases.
Newly Imported,
And to be sold very cheap for Cash, By OLIVER BREWSTER,
At his Shop in Pitt-Street, opposite Dr. Hall Jackson's,
NICE Callicoes and Patches, Ditto Copper-plate Furniture and Counterpanes, Cambricks, plain & flower'd Lawns, Aprons and Handkerchiefs, Muslin, Cat-Gut, Gauzes of all sorts, Ditto Aprons and Handkerchiefs, Spider Net, Paris Net, Cap Wire and Buckram, Barcelona & Paste Handkerchiefs, Irish Linnens and Sheetings, Russia Drab, Ravens Duck and Douglas, Clouting Diaper and Table Cloths, Cotton Check and Bed-Ticks, coloured and white Thread, all Numbers, Chip and Sattin Hatts, Black Persian, Alamoide Sattin and Capuchine Silks, Laced Sattins and Sarfennets, Nankeens, Mozeens and Ginghams, Dutch and Chivex de Frize Laces, Fashionable Ribbons, painted Gauze and stamped dit. Ducapes, plain and striped Lutestrings, Silk and Worsted Mitts and Gloves, Womens and Mens white and brown Thread ditto, white unglazed ditto, Ostrich Feathers, sewing Silks, Ivory, crooked-Horn & Barbers Combs, Men's and Women's Thread, Cotton and Worsted Hose, Umbrellos and Fans, Rich English Damasks, Cotton Velvet and Velverets, Thicksets, Breeches Pieces, and Royal Ribbs, Paste and other Rings; Tassities, -- Pins, Needles, Tapes, Qualities and Garterings, &c.
Dr. Hemet's celebrated Essence of Pearl, and Pearl Dentifrice for the Preservation of the TEETH and GUMS, at the LONDON Prices.
As his Stay in Town will be but short, Gentlemen & Ladies will do well to apply soon, who will find it to their Advantage in dealing with him.]
HUGH HENDERSON
At his Store opposite the Printing Office, has just opened a new Assortment of Summer and other Goods, which he will sell cheap for Cash only.
Said Henderson requests those who are indebted to him by open Accounts or Notes of Hand, to make speedy Payment, or he will put said Accounts and Notes of Hand in Suit without further Notice.
George's Stone LIME
To be sold by SAMUEL ROWLES, by the Hhd. A General Assortment of ENGLISH and WEST-INDIA GOODS, at his Shop opposite the Post-Office, Portsmouth, very cheap for Cash.
Thomas Martin
HAS for Sale at his Store in Portsmouth, a general Assortment of English piece Goods, Ladies Hatt Feathers, Boys fashionable whimsy Hatts, Cloak Trimmings, &c. &c. Spice and Grocery of all Sorts.
A Variety of HARD WARE; -- among which are Brass Kettles of all Sizes, Sickles, Glass of several Sizes, Hollow Iron Ware, Sheetlead, Guns, Pistols, Swords, Hangers, &c. -- Clothiers Materials, viz. Alom, Coperas, Madder, Ground Redwood, Redwood, Fustic, Logwood, Tenter Hooks, Cards, Press-Paper, &c.
Painters Colours, such as dry Whitelead, Spanish Brown, Spanish and spruce Yellow, Redlead, Umber, Verdegreafe, Brushes, Pencils, Linseed Oyl, Lampblack, Whitelead and Spanish Brown ground in Oyl, in Cags of half and Quarter Hundred Weight.
Various kinds of SHIP CHANDLERY. Sadlers Ware, Earthenware, Glass & China Ware, sundry Kinds of Stationary, &c. &c.
All which he will sell at the lowest Price for Cash, Merchantable Boards, or Potash. He earnestly intreats those indebted to him to make speedy Payment.
TO BE SOLD, By ROBERT FERGUSON,
At his Store in Greenland, General Assortment of English, Scotch and West India GOODS, cheap for Cash.
Province of New Hampshire, July 7, 1774.
Relhan.
PURSUANT to a Vote of the Proprietors of RELHAN, impowering their Clerk to call a Meeting of said Proprietors, upon an Application to him, of more than one Sixteenth Part of said Proprietors: and such an Application being made for that Purpose, the Proprietors are hereby notified and warned to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth on Friday the 29th of July Instant, at 4 o'clock P. M. then and there to act upon the following Matters and Things; 1. To choose a Moderator. 2. To see what further Encouragement the Proprietors will give for the immediate completing the Settlement of said Town. 3. To receive and examine the Accounts of any Persons who may have any Demands on the Propriety. 4. To appoint a Committee to examine the state of the Treasurer and Collectors Accounts. 5. To see what Encouragement the Proprietors will give for the building of Mills and to agree with a proper Person for that Purpose. 6. To agree upon a Method for Payment of the King's Quitrents in future. 7. To appoint a Committee to bring any Action or Actions of Ejectment or Trespass against any Person that possess any Land in said Town by any supposed Right prior to the Charter of said Town. Lastly, To consider of the most effectual Means to promote the Advancement of the true Interest of the Town.
JOHN WENDELL, Proprietors Clerk.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That His Majesty's Inferior COURT of Common Pleas that is by Law to be holden at Dover, within and for the County of Strafford, on the First Thursday next following the second Tuesday in July current, will then be adjourned to the third Tuesday in said July current. And that His Majesty's COURT of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, which by Law is to be holden at said Dover, for the County aforesaid, on the second Tuesday in July current, will then be adjourned to the Thursday next following the third Tuesday in said July current; of which all Persons concerned, are desired to take Notice, and govern themselves accordingly. Dated at Dover the 2d Day of July 1774. By Order of Court, E. THOMPSON, Clerk.
Runaway away from his Master
an Indebted Servant, named Elisha Thomas, bound to me by the Selectmen of Northampton, 49 or 50 Years of Age, about five Feet and half high, wears his own Hair, has the Gent frequently in one Hand, had on a Cloth colour'd suit of Cloaths. I hereby caution all Persons from entertaining him, as I will pay no Debts of that sort. Zechariah Towle.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Vincent Torr, late of Dover, deceased, are desired to settle the same immediately with Andrew Torr, of said Dover, sole Executor to the Last Will and Testament of said deceased.
Warrantes and Quitclaim Deeds, Justices Blank, Bail Bonds, Shipping Papers, &c. Sold at the Printing Office.
A Quantity of Tyre Iron for Cart-Wheels, To be sold by JOHN EVANS.
TO BE SOLD
Sundry Rights of Land, viz.
In Leavitt's Town No 97 in the first and 6 in the second Division. In Sanborntown No. 11 in the first and 51 in the second Division. In New Britain No. 30 in the first and second Division. In Middletown No. 61 in the first and second Division. In Monadnock No. 2; No. 18 & 19 in the 10th Range No. 14 in the 9th Range; No. 2 in the 7th Range. In North Monadnock No. 11 in the 8th Range, No. 11 in the 9th Range, No. 2 in the 7th Range. In Monadnock No. 4; No. 14 in the 12th Range, No. 16 in the 10th Range.
Enquire of the Printer.
TO BE SOLD, (Remarkably cheap)
A valuable FARM in Dover,
containing about 120 Acres, with the Buildings thereon, formerly the Property of Stephen Evans of said Dover, situated and bounded as follows, viz. Southerly by Benjamin Ewan's Land and Bellimen's Bank River, so called; Westerly, partly by Land formerly Stephen Otis's, and partly by Hezekiah Cook's Land; Northerly by Daniel Evans, and Benjamin Ewan's Land, and Easterly by a Road leading from Littleworth, so called, to the aforesaid River. Enquire of Nathan Frazar of Boston, who is the present Owner of said Farm.
Whereas Application hath been
made to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Grafton, by the Owners of more than one sixteenth part of the Township of Rumney, in said County and Province of New Hampshire, to warn and call a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Township to be held at the House of Capt. Alexander Craige, in said Rumney, on the fourth Tuesday of July next, at one of the Clock Afternoon to act on the following Articles, viz. 1st To choose a Moderator to govern said Meeting. 2d To choose a Proprietor's Clerk and all other Proprietors Officers the Proprietors shall think proper, which Application is made by the Subscribers.
Alexander Craige 1 Right. Edward Averatt 1 Right. Zebadiah Berry 2 Rights. James Heath 2 Rights. Joseph Harbour 1 Right. Peter Myfoss 1 Right. Richard Smart 1 Right. Thomas Ramsey 1 Right. Moses Ordway 1 Right. Benjamin Fuller 1 Right. Samuel Hodge 1 Right.
Pursuant to which Application, I hereby notify and warn said Proprietors to meet at the aforesaid Time and Place for the Purposes in the Application mentioned.
DANIEL BRAINERD Just. Pac.
Rumney June 28. 1774.
ALL PERSONS having any Demands on the Estate of Mark Wallingford, late of Somersworth, in the County of Strafford, deceased, are desired to bring their Accounts properly vouched, to John Wentworth and Thomas Wallingford, Esqrs; Executors to the last Will and Testament of said deceased. And all Persons indebted to said Estate, are desired to make speedy Payment to avoid further trouble.
Somersworth, July 6, 1774.
WE the Subscribers being appointed Commissioners by the Hon HENRY RUST, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills for the County of Strafford, to examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Mr. Samuel Clark of Lee, in said County, deceased, Represented Intestate, hereby give Notice, that we will attend upon that Business at the late House of said deceased, in Lee, the second Monday and Tuesday in July Instant, and the second Monday and Tuesday in the two following Months, from ten o'Clock before Noon to five Afternoon. Ebenezer Thompson, Herculius Moony.
Lee, July 6, 1774.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Honorable JOHN SHURBURNE, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c for the County of Rockingham, Commissioners, to receive & examine the Claims of the Creditors to the Estate of Sarah Gilman, late of Kingstown in said County Widow, deceased, represented intestate, and six Months from the 2d. Instant, being allowed for that Service. This is to give Notice that we will attend that Business at the House of Lt. John Pearson, Innholder in Kingstown, on the last Monday of this and the five next following Months, from four to seven o'clock P.M.
JOSIAH BARTLETT } Com. JOHN NOYES, } commissioners
Kingstown June 4th, 1774.

Moldavia, March 27. A large Body of Turks, consisting of 18,000 Men and upwards, with a fine Train of Artillery, commanded by Achmet Benaid, the Seraskier of Silistria, have crossed the Danube from Darastria in Bulgaria, Romani-Wivar in this Province, which Town they have made themselves Masters of. Marshal Romanzow had left a Garrison of 6000 Men there when he retired into Winter Quarters at Jassy, & strongly fortified it, as some large Magazines were formed there; having Occasion to draw 2800 Men from the Garrison in an Important Service, left the rest a defenceless Sacrifice to the Turks, who planned and executed the scheme with the utmost secrecy and precipitation.
Dantick, (in Poland) April 2. The insolent exertion of power which the Prussians now exercise over the inhabitants of this city is almost inconceivable; no person's property is safe. All the soldiers who have lately arrived, added to those before here, are more than 11,000 men, and they are all quartered, with a great number of horses upon the inhabitants of the city and vicinity; and if the people make any opposition to such arbitrary proceedings, force, and the greatest cruelty are used. Three of the magistrates, and some of the principle burghers, who have refused to take the oath of allegiance to his Prussian Majesty, are confined, and their effects seized.
Constantinople, March 4. Besides the dispositions which the Sultan has made for prosecuting the war with vigour, he has given proofs of his regard to the trade of the country. He has given leave to bring all sorts of merchandise from other countries and has taken off the prohibition of gold and silver stuffs and laces, which the shops were full of, and which have all been sold off within a few days. He has ordered all the palaces and mosques to be repaired, & likewise all the public buildings that have been damaged by fire, and has revived several manufactures that have laid dormant. He also confirmed the toleration of the Jews, and the privileges of the Christians, who are from hence forward allowed to wear cloths of all colours except green, which is reserved for a distinguished class of Mussulmen.
L O N D O N.
April 29. The King is an enthusiastic Admirer of Lord North, whom his Majesty considers as a very able Financier, and a great Statesman. Like a great General, Lord North every Day gains ground in the Opinion of his Royal Master, in whose Esteem he is so well seated, that it will be impossible for any Party whatever to shake his Authority. In short his Lordship may be Minister as long as he pleases; and so great has been his Success, that he seems to have surmounted every Obstacle, and that he will hold the Reins of Government as long as the late Duke of New-Castle and perhaps longer.
Another Correspondent remarks that although Lord North may think he has extinguished every Spark of Opposition, he will soon find himself mistaken, and that the expiring Flames of Patriotism will again blaze, and (like the Sun after being eclipsed by a Cloud) will shine with greater Splendor. English Subjects may be convinced by Reason, but never will be subdued by Force: Violence cannot defeat them. The illegal Exertion of Authority in the House of Commons, and the violent Measures against America, are such national Objects, that the Ministry will not get rid of them with much Ease and Honour as they seem to imagine. The Subjects of a free State will not be harassed by any illegal Exertions of Power at Home; neither will the remote Subjects of the same free Nation subscribe to the Doctrine of passive Obedience and Non resistance . America will be free, and it will not be in the Power of any Ministry to make them dependent and subservient to their Purposes. The Event of the present Dispute will prove that the Paragraph Writer is not a false Prophet.
April 30. We hear from Chippenham, that the Woolen Trade there, in the Devizes, and all the Neighbourhood, is very Dead; that the journeymen Clothiers and their Families are running about the Country in a most miserable Condition to seek Bread, which is owing to the Merchants in Bristol not making the usual Provision for furnishing America.
May 14. The Produce to North-America which used to be sent yearly to Great-Britain, is reckoned at about Four Millions Sterling; the Manufactures of Britain, and other Commodities returned from thence, at nearly the same Sum; the Debts due from People in America to the British Merchants here, at about six Millions, or a Year and an Half of that Commerce, taking the Time past by that to come; supposing therefore, the Americans to act out of Resentment in their present Contest, as they did in that of the Stamp-Act, we shall then have yearly, until the final Settlement of this Affair, Manufactures to the Value of four Millions Sterling left and heaped on the Hands of our Merchants and Master Manufacturers, or we shall have Workmen and poor People, put out of Employ, and turned adrift in that Proportion. These are some of the Difficulties and Distresses which we are, for the sake of a Trial of Skill with our Colonies, going to bring on ourselves, and which must be perpetually magnifying and increasing, as long as the unnatural Contest shall continue.
L O N D O N, May 14.
Last night died his Grace the Duke of Cleveland. The title (with the Estate of Eight Thousand Pounds per Annum, which is entailed upon the Title) comes to the Duke of Grafton; who now takes the Title of Duke of Cleveland.
The King and Queen's going down to Portsmouth is not as yet finally fixed on; it depends partly upon the Motions of Parliament, which are not as yet regulated, are partly on the French King's Death. If the latter should take place, the mock review may be changed into an actual one, and Admiral Pye be succeeded by Admiral Saunders.
It is whispered in many places, that the Death of the King of France will be the cause of many Great Men losing their Heads in that Kingdom. The Duke de Choiseul has ventured to Paris and is very busy; the Duke de Auguillon and Madame Barre begin to find their Friends falling off amazingly. In short, Paris and Versailles are in some Measure, all in Confusion. The People do not hesitate to speak their Minds, and it must be a Miracle that prevents a Civil War. This is expected, and if they go on as they have begun, it is thought arbitrary power will be very short lived there.
The French King has received Extreme Unction; previous to which he has had all the other Rites of the Church, which have not been administered to him since the War before last, when his Life was despaired of in Flanders. Madame du Barre and Madame R----- have both left the Court.
General Paoli, it is reported, has lately refused the Offer of an Employment in America.
The services of Mr. Hutchinson are said to be held in so capital a Light that a Patent of English Peerage is talked of for him.
Great wagers were laid Yesterday upon 'change, and at the principal coffee houses about it, that Lord North's passing the Bill, for removing the Custom house, &c. from Boston, is groundless, and very justly so, upon that very famous prophecy of scripture, taken from the 4th chapter of the prophet Habbakuk, and the 4th verse.
N E W - Y O R K, June 30, 1774.
Advices from Annapolis in Maryland, of the 24th Instant are, that the Deputies of the different Counties in that Colony had met there the 22d Inst. and after debating upon the Manner of their Proceedings, and the Effect of the Boston Port and other Bills, they had resolved not to import from or export to Great-Britain, any Goods or Merchandise until those Acts were repealed, at which there were present 93 Deputies.
His Honour Governor Penn hath required the Attendance of the Members of the Assembly of Pennsylvania to meet the 18th of July.
A Committee of Gentlemen, Inhabitants of this Province, will in a few Days be appointed to meet the Representatives of the other Colonies, at the ensuing Grand Continental Congress, to be held on the first Day of September next, at a Place that shall in the interim be fixed on, agreeable to the Measures lately concerted by the Hon. House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay.
The Right Honourable the Earl of Dunmore has ordered Writs to be issued for the Election of a new Assembly to meet as speedily as possible, at Williamsburgh in Virginia: When the distracted state of Affairs on the Ohio, will be laid before the Members.
B O S T O N, July 11.
We hear that the Acts for the impartial Administration of Justice in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, and for the better regulating the Government of the said Province, are to take Place the first Day of August.
The Hon. Committee of Correspondence for Connecticut, are to meet at New-London on Wednesday the 13th Inst. to agree upon some proper Measures to obtain Redress of all American Grievances, and to choose a Committee to meet the Committees of the other Colonies in the general Congress to be held at Philadelphia the first Day of September next.
Since our last arrived in Town three Waggon Loads of Grain from the Towns of Groton, Pepperell and Wrentham, for the Relief of the industrious Poor of this Town.
Friday last One Hundred and Five Sheep were received from our worthy Friends in Pomfret, in Connecticut, for the like charitable Purpose. And we hear the Taverners on the Road were so kind as to refuse receiving any Payment for Entertainment or Forage.
The Toies give out that the Present of Sheep sent from the generous Town of Windham, came only in consequence of Money sent from Boston to purchase them. How weak, how false, how little, and how low.
On Friday his Majesty's Ship Captain, Admiral Montague, sailed for England, being relieved from this Station by the Arrival of Vice-Admiral Greaves.
Extract of a Letter from London, April 19, 1774. "Thirteen different Letters are sent to such Men as Administration thinks will accept of Presents and Favors, with Addresses for each Man to do his utmost to influence and cajole the Ignorant, to deceive and mislead the wise. Money is sent to some one Printer in each Colony to be faithful to their Interest; use your best Endeavours to find them out and expose them; watch your News-Papers and be prudent, don't be rash in any Thing; be firm and steady."
Extract of a Letter from London, dated May 12, 1774. "It will be very proper for you to inform the Inhabitants of all North-America thro' the Channel of the News-Papers, and request the Printers of every Colony to reprint the same, that it is a constant Practice now with the Ministers here to open all Letters from America that come through the Channel of the Post Office, which are directed to those that they suspect of being Friends to the injured and most oppressed Americans; therefore it is necessary to be cautious what Letters are sent by the Packet, or by any Captain who will not undertake to deliver them as directed with his own Hands. If it will be of any public Utility you may also inform America, that some public spirited American Merchants were very anxious, and exerted themselves a good deal to get a Petition from the general Body of Merchants to the House of Commons against the iniquitous and unjust Boston Port-Bill. But it is no less strange than true, that this Plan was totally defeated by the Boston Merchants alone, viz. Haley and Hopkins, Champion and Dickson, Lane, Son & Fraser and Harrison, refusing to join, or be at all concerned in such a Petition. As these Merchants seemed in the first Instance to be the most deeply concerned in point of private Interest (exclusive of Gratitude) it was expected that some of them should take the Lead; which every one of them refusing, no one else would venture on it left those stirring most, who appeared at present, least concerned, should do the Cause more Harm than Good; so a Stop was put to the whole Business here, and consequently in Bristol, Liverpool and the principal Manufacturing Towns in England, where they expected such a Step to be taken at London, and were ready to follow the Example. After this, Champion and Dickson, Fraser, Hopkins and Harrison, waited privately on Lord North, to implore his Mercy; he told them that Government was determined to proceed on their Plan, which was so settled that the Merchants in England would hereafter get their Debts better paid than ever they were before; with which they came back most perfectly satisfied. Had the above Merchants come forward, I do not believe one North American Merchant from Nova Scotia to Florida would have refused to join in the Petition, unless it had been Mr. John Blackburn, a Merchant in New-York & Philadelphia Trade, & Mr. William Molleson, (a Scotchman) in the Maryland Trade, who, I am told has been very busy in traducing those Americans here, that have honestly borne their Testimony against the iniquitous Bills by their Petition. I know every Thing written here to be Truth, therefore as such you may publish them."
Extract from the celebrated Pennsylvania FARMER's 4th Letter now publishing through the Continent.
THE important Consideration I beg Leave to recommend to my Countrymen is, to draw such Reflections from their Situation, as will confirm their Mind in that many noble Fortitude, so absolutely necessary for the Maintenance of those inestimable Privileges, for which they are now contending. The Man who fears Difficulties arising in the Defence of Freedom, is unworthy of Freedom. God has given the Right and the Means of asserting it. We may reasonably ask and expect his gracious Assistance in the Reasonable Employment of those Means. To look for Miracles while we abusively neglect the Powers afforded us by divine Goodness, is not only stupid but Criminal. We are yet Free. Let us think like Freemen.
In the last Place I beg Leave to offer some Observations concerning the Measures that may be most expedient in the present Emergency. Other Nations have contended in Blood for their Liberty, and have judged the Jewel worth the Price that was paid for it. These Colonies are not reduced to the dreadful Necessity. So dependant is Great-Britain on us for Supplies that Heaven seems to have placed in our Hands Means of an effectual, yet peaceable Resistance, if we have Sense and Integrity to make a proper use of them. A general Agreement between these Colonies of Non-Importation and Non-Exportation,
faithfully observed, would certainly be attended with Success. But is it now proper to enter into such an Agreement? Let us consider that we are contending with an ancient, venerable and beloved parent Country. Let us treat her with all possible Respect and Reverence: Though the Rulers there have had no Compassion upon us, let us have Compassion on the People of that Kingdom: And if to give Weight to our Supplications, and to obtain Relief for our suffering Brethren, it shall be judged necessary to lay Ourselves under some Restrictions with regard to our Imports and Exports, let it be done with Tenderness so as to convince our Brethren in Great-Britain of the Importance of a Connection and Harmony between them and us, and the Danger of driving us into Despair. Their true Interests and our own are the same; nor should we admit any Notion of a Distinction, till we know their Resolutions to be unalterably Hostile.
In the mean Time, let us pursue the most proper Methods for collecting the Sentiments of all the British Colonies in North-America, on the present Situation of Affairs: the first Point it is apprehended, to which Attention should be paid. This may be affected in various Ways. The Assemblies that may have Opportunities of Meeting, may appoint Deputies to attend a general Congress, at such Time and Place as shall be agreed on. Where Assemblies cannot meet, such of the People as are qualified by Law to Vote in Election of Representatives may meet and appoint, or may request their Representatives to meet and appoint.
When the Inhabitants of this extended Continent observe that regular Measures are prosecuted for re-establishing Harmony between Great-Britain and these Colonies, their Minds will grow more Calm. Prospects of Accommodation, it is hoped, will engage them patiently and peaceably to attend the Result of the public Councils, and such Applications as by the joint Sense of America, may be judged proper to be made to his Majesty & both Houses of Parliament.
"Batter is a little with Righteousness, than great Revenues without Right." Proverbs xvi.
"By Justice (saith the Scripture) the Throne is established," and "by Justice a Nation shall be exalted." I resemble Justice to Nebuchadnezzar's Tree, shading not only the Palace of the King and the House of Nobles, but sheltering also the Cottage of the poorest Beggar. Wherefore if now the Blast of Indignation hath so bruised any of the Branches of this Tree, that either our Persons or Goods or Possessions have not the same Shelter as before, let us not therefore neglect the Root of this great Tree; but rather with all our possible Means, Endeavours and unfeigned Duties, both apply fresh and fertile Mould unto it and also water it even without Tears, that so those bruised Branches may be recovered and the whole Tree again proper and flourish." Mr. Cressfield's Speech in the Parliament that set in 1727.
The Ship Lady Gage, Capt. Mesnard, is arrived at New-York in 52 Days from London, in whom came Passenger the Honourable Mrs. GAGE, Lady of his Excellency our Governor; Col. James and Lady; Major Kemble; Captain Groves; Captain Blakeney; Lieutenants Lentall, Wood, Blake & Beckwith, and several others.
Capt. Scott, of this Place, it is said, was to sail from London sometime in June.
Yesterday a Child was christened at Dr. Eliot's Church by the Name of Molinus.
PORTSMOUTH, July 15, 1774.
Yesterday was observed as a Day of Fasting and Prayer, in this & the neighbouring Towns, agreeable to Notice given in the last Paper.
Yesterday was also kept as a Day of Fasting and Prayer in Connecticut, Rhode-Island and Massachusetts Governments.
We hear that several People at the Eastward have died of eating Clams.
WANTED a good industrious WOMAN, to live in a Family in this Town, that understands sewing and ironing, and can be well recommended; for such a one, good Wages will be given. Enquire of the Printer.
Portsmouth July 13, 1774.
ALL PERSONS that have any Demands on the Estate of Waldo Emerson, late of Wells, in the County of York, deceas'd, are hereby desire'd to exhibit their Claims to Edward Emerson of York, in said County, Administrator to said Estate, or to Samuel Hancock of Wells, aforesaid, Attorney to said Administrator. And those who are indebted to said Estate, are desire'd to make speedy Settlement thereof. York, July 13, 1774.
TO BE SOLD, About Ten Acres of Land, mosty inclos'd with good Stone Wall. A good Dwelling HOUSE, BARN, and Out Houses, a good WELL of Water, a Wharfe, and other Accommodations, very conveniently situated for the Fishing Business, lying at Cape Porpoise, near the Harbour. Enquire of Elisha Byles, living on the Premises. Arundel, July 12, 1774.
§ Dorchester §
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. Grafton. THE delinquent Proprietors of Dorchester, are hereby Notified, that unless they pay the Sums hereinafter affixed to their Names, together with the Charges of advertising, and all other incidental Charges, so much of their Lands will be sold at public Vendue to the highest Bidder, at the House of Capt. Aaron Storis in Hanover, Insbolders, on Monday the eighteenth Day of August next, at one o'Clock, P. M. as will pay the sum.
  The delinquent Proprietors are as follows   Samuel Wing £ 3 Nathaniel Ray Thomas £ 3   Thomas Bingham 3 John Marshall 3   Abijah Smith 3 Ephraim Ham 3   James Melcher 3 George Marshall, junr. 3   Samuel Hubart, Esq; 3 Witsman Claggett, Esq; 3   Hanover, July 6, 1774. JOHN HOUSE, Col.