The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1771-09-26

Lord Cha,ham is now buhly employed in
writing a memorial on the preient fate OF
The nation, which he means to preient With
his own hands to the Sovereign.
1t remarkable, fays a cOrrsfpo1dert, that
during the long and glorious reign Of King
George II. of "a years, \ months, and 3 days
not Gngle petition, address or remembrance,
was ever preiented 10 him for redrefs of any
grievances, whereas during the fhort reign
of George III. of 10 years, 8 months, and 81
days, upwards of twenty petitions, &c. from
the city of London and other parts Of the
kingdom, on account of the mott intolerabe
grievances, have been prefcnted, not one OF
which has'been redreiled.
fuy 25. Lord Mansfield, lately fpeak-
ing on the freedom of the prels, TO noble
man high 10 office, oblerved, that this coun-
try was likely to be undone by its news papers
IS Did they reprefent the true fate of things
(fald his Lordlbip) they would be valuable
vehiclss of public information ; but hourly
llrivng rather TO confirm than correct the
WORT prejudices of the people, they become
very capital evil, and, as luch, mfnf &c con
fined within the line of iome rational regula-
tion." Tremble ye fons Of the Prels a no.
thern whirlwind is preparing for your de-
Rruetion!!!l!
The Taft TUNIUS has been fent down TO
SirFletcher Norton at Guildford and we hear
with this auction, g Is ii NOT a tIealonabe
publication I"
TnB 90. As lixty of the Kings GubjeGts
have been murdered, and above two hun
dred ofthem wounded in Carolina, through
FAD miGaken policy in this Kingdom, and
the dlicontent of the people was increahng,
it is expected that diiorder and rebellion will
loon fpFead through all the back parts of Vir-
glnia, &c. to the great injury of the Sea
COAT Colonies, and the commerce of this
Kingdom: Now therefore is the time for
Minfeys to give a fubfantial proof of their
attention to American affairs, as Parliament
will certainly enquire into the caule of thoie
murders and infuneetions.
Exra3 q "a letter from a gentleman in India,
Oe7Ober 70, 1910.
On our arrival here, we found the river
full of dead human carcaHes, floating up and
down, and the freets crouded with the dead
and dying, without any one attempting to
give them relief; 70 horribly has the famine
ragged here, that they who were able to walk
and procure food for thsmfelves, were 70 ac-
cuRomed to fee their fellow creatures PERTH
ing before them that it did Aot even create
painful motion. The numbers that have
periihed in Calcutta only, amounted while
they found it poiiible to keep an account) to
10 or 1900 week, but afterwards they
became 70 numerous, that they were every
morning juh gathered together in an heap,
and thrown into the river without any poh-
,bility of numbering them. | have myfelf
pahed by aud feen twenty or thirty lain
down to die in the length of one freet. |
have beheld the helpless infant Juggling at the
empty breaa Gifts mother juf expiring, with
out being capable of afording them the fmal
eft aid The dying mothers have frequent
~ been delivered of the fruit of their wombs
in the freets, land both have Immediately been
fwePt up amongR the dead. /: was no UNI
common fight to fee dogs running about with
human limbs in their jaws, and am told
that many Of the expiring wretches were Geen
gorgng on the bodies of thoie, who PERTH
ed within their reach. The third part of
this once populous country, is a, the lma-
eft computation entirely Gu, off. The ia
mine is now at an end, though the effects of
it are toe viGble. Thoie who have with
rood the calamity (many of them) are not
able to procure food for themfelves, and are