The Sun.
London, England, 1812-09-19 00:00:00

RESOLUTIONS.

-Whereas the inhabitants of Boston and its Vici.-
nity, here assembled, cherish with solicitude the'
union and independence of the United States, and
the liberties of the people—and whereas it is their
most solemn conviction, that the course of mea-
sures adopted by the Administration of the, gene-
rat Government, for several years past, has a ten-
dency to dissolve that union, to impair that inde-
pendence, and to endanger those liberties ; and
whereas in a more especial manner they consider
the late rash, unnecessary, and ruinous declaration
of war against Great Britain, and the consequent
connection with France ; if, indeed, such connection
do not already exist, as we have great reason to
apprehend,—which, must inevitably grow, out of
such a war, as fatal to our union,, independence,
and liberty ; a war undertaken without due no-
tice to our citizens without adequate naval pre..
parations,—Without permitting.the return of the
vast property now in-the, possession and power of
the nation against which war is ,declared ; a war
whose first, future, awl certain effects will be, to
impoverish .the'eastern and navigating States,who
will be compelled. to bear its principal burthens,
and great 'majority of whose representatives voted
against it ; and whereas the inhabitants of thii
town and vicinity, from a reluctance to counte-
nance a belief that they are officiously diSposed
Unduly to influence their fellow-citizens, and pro-
mote any of the incalculable consequences which
often result from the indignation of a free and in- ,
jured people, whose interests are betrayed by their
public servants---a belief which has been studiously
and wickedly inculcated by men high in office -in
the national and state Governments—have since
the declaratioin of: war abStained from any public
declaration of their sentiments, under tha.., con-
viction that a sense of interest, and dutywould
slead-the. (rood people, of other towns and counties
to afford them an example which they might with
propriety follow ; but the friends of administra,
tion and of war, not satisfied with their appear-
ance, have.endeavoured to procure an expression
of .approbation front their deluded followers, in
this and other States, which is calculated to ex-
hibit a false:and deceptive standard of public opi-
nion, and encourage a perseverance in their de-
structive measuees, and thus have made it our
duty, as far as'in us lies; to counteract the ten-
dency of such gross deception :—Therefore,
Resolved, as the opinion of the Citizens assem-
bled in this-place, that while we acknowledge the
constitutional power of Congress to declare war,
.and /he (ay of the citizen to abstain from forcible
resistance to such a measure ; yet we do not :air-
render, but on the contrary- will maintain, at every
haz,ard, the right secured to us by our State Consti-
tution, of peaceably expressing our opinions,
either as inAvidual citizens, of a collective body,
on that' series of disastrous measures which for
years past has been tending towards, and' has at
last ,terminated in the most distressing of national
Evil—War !—a war waged against a people nobly
struggling for the meintenance of their own free-
dom, and that of other nations, endangered by
the fraudulent, sanguinary, and impious assault of
the greatest military tyrant .by whom the world
has ever been scourged. ,
Resolved, That we assert a right, and that we
will exercine it,- to deprecate the war,—to explain
its cause and consequences,s—so that the voice of
this great -people may rise up against its authors
,and in a tone which shall convince all who abuse
the trust committed to them by the people, that
their day of account is at hand; and that they
must expiate the offence of destroying the public
:prosperity a jeopardizing the government and

tinibn of these -)sttittes,. bribe neg3eet, 'contempt
and it!di.,,,rnation of that
.por,tion of the peopf.,,
which fallen yittints to tiaat natfilaced confi-
de ace.

Resofved, that the declaration of -war, under
existing circumstances, is sincerely to be depre-
ceed, as it tends to impair the attachment -of the
people to the union of these States and -thus to
endanger its existence, by sacrificing the interests
and prosperity of one portion of them, to gra-
tify the pride, resentment, and mistaken policy of
another.

Resolved, That in a free Government, it is at
all times the right, and in seasons of public eala-; .
nifty, it is the solemn duty of every citizen freely
to communicate his opinions upon the measures' of
the Government, and upon the motives of the
men who administer it, to the end that those mea-
sures and motives may be universally known, and'
may be dilly weighed and ,consilered,. .wheti
the people are called upon to exercise the right of
suffrage : and that,we will therefore discounte
Dance all attempts to check the freedom of speech
and of the press; and that we will with heart and
hand rally round and support all those• who iriOy •
(by any combination of . Men whatever) be ine=
naded with injury td fbeif per Sons Or their pro.;
perty, for the independent exercise of their natu.;
ral and constitutional rights, and that we will pre•
serve the peace and 'tranquility of this town, and
suppresS every riotous or unlawful assembly which
may, by night or day, be collected for the purpose
of restraining any man froth the expression, or
injuring him for the promulgation of sentiments
and opinions which he may lawfully declare and •
publish. •
Resolved, That the appearance of armed meet
in the peaceable, constitutional, and civil assem
-blies of the citizens,—Whether the said persons •
art in the pay of the Government of the United'
States, or merely armed for the occasion—is
measure highly indecorous and alarming ; inas-
much as its first tendency Is to overawe the free-
Born of deliberation, and its'final effect to destroy
the privilege of discussion, or to produce the wan-
ton. dusion of the blood of our citizens--and`
that, for these reasons, such intermingling of per.. -
sons so armed ought to be diScouraged and repro-

Resolved, farther, That the Honourable the _
Sengors of the county of Suffolk, and tbe Repre-
sentatives of the town of Boston, in the General
Court of the Commonwealth, be and are heteby
appointed a Committee, and are earnestly request-
ed to meet and digest such a system of mea-.3ures
and resolutions, as in their opidton the exigency,
of the times, and the awful and alarming situation
of the country may require ; and they are request-
ed, as sown as they shalt deem it expedient, to ap-
ply to the Select Men of Woston for a regular and
constitutional town meeting, when the said sy's'-'
tem may be discussed ; and such firm, vigorous,
and effectual" measures may be adopted as may"
suit the circumstances of the country ind may, be
worthy the character of this ancient and patrtait
metropolis. ' .

A true Copy.---Attested
H. D. SEDGAVICK, Secretary,

MILFORD, SEPT. 14.--A most horrid murder
was committed this day, on the body of James
Dean, in the 'service of Mr. Watens, who plies the
passage from Bulw_ell to Milford. A person,
about 40 years of age, five feet nine-inches high,
dressed in a bluejacket -and trowsers, stout mr,de,
of verydark complexion,-and who has lost Y part
of one of his great toes, describing himself as a
sailor, came to.
,Mr. Waters's house, at nulwell,
last night, sayMg- that he had come from Teril3v,
was looking for a Ship, and requeated a night's
lodging, which he was accommodated with and
thiS morning, about six o'clock, hearing.Mr.Wa-
ters give his boy 3G shillings, with directions tv -
go to Milford,. the stranger said he would go over
and try to get a birth ; and if he could not suc-
ceed, be Would give the boy his breakfast, and re- .
tarn with him, to see what he could do at Ang;r:.
It happened ko be a very thick-fog, and the cries of
Murder were distinctly heard from the, Milliard
shore ; -they were supposed to proceed from some
• ,
boy on hoard.; a vessel,-chastiSed by the master;
however; some time after, similar cries were
again heard, and a boat was diScovered by an ar-
tilleryman- near the- shore, from which proceed-
ed the cries of murder, but in :a fainter. voice, and
a cask or something else was thrown into the wa;
ter, after Which the boat put of, and was obscured
in a thick Tog. The- soldier alarmed some of the
neighbours, and in about an. hour arterwards the
Bulrvell paisage boat was discovered near Ilubble• .
stone with a quantity of blood in it. Every pos-
sible exertion was used by the Magistrates in or-
der to detect the murderer. About nine o'clock,
the body of the unfortunate boy was picked up,
his throat being cut. in:a slicking manner, with
other. marks of violence.