The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1771-07-11

nE tlCulS q ~ UiiIlOiIo "h' N~''a'''' "
Nib their buGneG 10. morrLw, Whsn they
will stioutn all Monday or Tueiday. as ii
is thou ht imrc Gb'e for the upper houfe to
hnih the whole o! their buiiLefs til to- NOR
row fe'nnght, 70 ,hat the proIogation is now
f1edfor ThuriGay tc'nnight.
Esro6 ofa letter fem L.t5en N0rfb a.
A very extraordinary event has happen
ed ls,el, here in regard TO commerce. Some
days ago French cloths were refuied diipatch
inthc cuRorn houfe and hopt and ilnce then
general order has been ient TO that tribunal
to itdp all goods of French manufs6ture'
which ale either competed of wool, or have
any m x,ure of that material in themi even
their dfuggets arc comprthen6ed. You may
eaEiy conceive what an uproar this has coca
Toned among tie French merchants they
have applied to their envoy here, who bath
ient hoDe ,hcig cafe and written to his couit
for inhluGions."
Some private letters from Liibon meutIon
a very fpirited remembrance in the name OF
the French King having juf srtived.a! cou'tr
eouched in terms extremely humiaIlng to
the pride of The Portugueie Premier.
Yeflerday iome further complaints from
the Briti0h merchants at Llbon and Oporto
were received by the Lfbon mail.
BY the Iait accounts from Brief, twelve
lhips fthe line he'd jua been laid up there,
and tf,eit crews dtfcharged.
On Friday evening maGquerade was Civ
en- for the amufcment OF the chidien Of nobi-
lty inSoho- SqNe, at the houle OF Lord Puget.
Nur:cred in the bolom Of fIivoit andluxury,
il is not to be wondered if they wilhed to
initiate their pappas and mammas, the
bipger children at Mrs. Cornelys's.
MAY 2. Leave given TO bring in Bill,
for granting a bounty on the importation of
white Oak Slaves and Bendings, from the
Province of Quebec in America.
M Aeeaunt of the Procee1ing5 Yejffrday in TIE
Csmf If E*ekeqasr, Nth '.lpf3 TO Alder-
man Oliver, ViZ.
Yeilerday morning precifeIy at ten o'clock
Richard Oliver, Eiq; was brought by writ Ct
Habeas Corpus before the Barons Of the Ex-
chequer, when, after the writ was read, Mr..
Serieant Glynn, made motion for his En-
largement, which be Imported to the follow
ing purport.
He obfcrved, &c that there were various cafes
whce the authority of parliament, (great as
he allowed it to be in many relpecs) could
no, con,roul the cltabiihed laws of the and.
Re inlsHced, in particular, the uanlactlons
Of tie loog parliament, during the civil wars,
and aik.d their LoTdlhips, whether they would
not beunderihe neceiiily of condo inning their
proceedings He faid the Houie of Commons
could furniih them with no kgaI publication,
wher that houfe aRumed privileges they had
no right to ahume. That the cafes of Lord
Shahibury and Mr.. Murray, which had been
urged as cafes aganf this doctrine, were not
at all Gmilar, as the former happened at pc
Rod unfavourable TO the liberty of the fuhjeef,
and when The Judges were deprvable of their
Office at plealuie and as the latter was com
mitment for contempt of the Houie, in the
face of their body, and within their own walls,
and did rot at all clalh with the known and
and eGablilhed laws of the land.
he further obierved, that in the cafe ofthe
King and Potter, Lord Chief Juffice Holt
YVES Of opinion, that the Houfe Of commons
derived their authority from the laws and
andle, me tell your Lordhips (continued the
the SerjeantJ that great Chef Jultice was a
pcrSon as well acquainted wi:h the hifory
and laws of this country, as any Pe,fon that
ever prehded in any Court Of Juiticc. The
the SERGEANT then mentioned the caule of MIR.
divers Commitment in avery fpirited and
-..z.f. .-..,sr and ohCsr,ed thaf the eau(e