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10 concur with them in every meafure con-
iilfent with your duty to the King and the
welfare of the province. As from the ma,
ture and end of government that duty anc
welfare ihould reiult from and be infepara-
bly, connected with each other we hope
there will never be any initiation between
them.
We are obliged to your Excellency for
the early care you took to trsnfmit to the
Governor of New-York the proceedings OF
the General Court relative to the iettlement
of The line between the two provinces, and
hope you will loon receivs an anfwer.
The fettlement of that line is for many
reafons greatly to be- wifhed, in particular
that all occa(ions may be taken away OF
further difiurbance, between the borderers.
We hope the anfwer you expect from the
Governor of that province, will Thew that
the neceiIary preparatory mealures on their
part, have been or foon will be taken tor
the amicable and final adjufment of that
Line.
We are fully in the fentifnent intinated
by your Excsiiency, that the royal Charter
ought to be comformed TO in the powers and
privileges granted by it but however con-
fortnable to the Charter in your Excelen-
cy's opinion, the converting of the general
Court, at Cambridge may be, its fitting
out Of Bottom is in many reipees very in
convenient We therefore pray your Ex-
cellency to remove it to the Court Houfe in
that town, which, for more than century
has(with very few exceptious) been uninter-
ruptedy the place of its fitting and where,
in our opinion, it will be more for his Ma
ieRy's fervice and the true interef Of the
province, the Court hould be held.
To the feveral public matters your Ex-
celIency expects to propofe to our confide-
ration, we fhall give the clofeR attention and
the utmoR diipatch.
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Onthc 1olh ofMay rhe Rtg MeGis. David
Mac Cluei and Levi FriibIe both educated
by Doctor Wheelock) were ordained al
Dartmouth College for the work Of the mi
nifiIy, with fpecial view to a milton a.
mong the Indians at Nottingham beyond
the Ohio, about SEQ miles diftance from
hence, where it is faid remarkable door is
opened for the propagation ofthe gofpel.-
1 his milton is in couiequence of requeR,
and to be carried on in concert with the ho-
norable board of correspondents in New Jer-
fey, who propofe lending mi1ionary in
company with the above gentlemen.
ARRIVED here. Harris from New Lon
den Cook from Halifax Veilage from
New-Proyidence Blodget from Jamaica
Gulker from Cayenne and ST. EuRatia
Morton from Cape Nichola Leigh from
Dumerara and Saltenudas /; Ackworh and
Gardner from London Cou(on from Brf-
tol Coffin from London Power from Lii
verpool.
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the tom Of BsQon, / 1UM eenty sUifb y'Hr
dkGrs and remoVs ii tbsre. fiji @aH appear
to ME 10 be ntesDGry to continue IN lem' 'f6fr
place, although BY ibs COsfifnti0n I am MADE
The JUICE Of that nee.Dty, yet Y;A tndt1Vsar
BY ansibsr m14age 10 eonvines ysE Of ff, f6Hf
Jou may profAd in your 64JinsG vOitb tbs great
0 (afijfaelian. !. HU lCHlNoON'
Council Cham. Cambridge, May 90, 1874.
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M o N D A Y, June I.
B O IS T o N.

On Saturday laff a committee ofhis Ma
ieRy's Council waited on his Excellency the
Governor, with the following address in an
fwef to his Speech, viz.
MAJ it pjfaJf yonr ExeelltSy,
TITE have taken into confederation your
w Excellency's Speech to both doufes,
and thank you for the readiness you cxPrefs
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LaG Friday the Houfe of representatives
refolved upon the following anfwer to the
Governors Speech to both Houies at the
opening of the ieiiion ofthe general shem-
bly, /; which was prefented to his Excellen-
cy by Mr.. Hancock, Capt. Thomas, Mr..
Adams, Mr.. Phillips, and Mr.. Gorham, viz.
May IL plsaf y'Er Exeslltne,
THE Houle of representatives have deli
= berately conGdered your Speech at the
opening of this SeAion.
Your Excellency is pleafed to FAY, "that
in conformity to the powers and privileges
granted by the royal Charter, we have been
convened at this place, in order to the Elec-
ton of Councillors fol. the enfuing year." i,
is Charter-right that general aflembly
fhall be convened on the Taft Wednelday in
May annually, for the choice of Council
Tors But the converting and holding the
general aHembly atFiarvard- College III Cam.
BRIDGE. is meafure very grievous to US /:
And it requires the grea,ef degree of can
dour to fuppofe il. to be for the good of the
people, which is the fole end for which the
powers vefed in you by the Charter were
granted.
The Town.houfe in Bottom is the accuf-
toned ancient place for holding the general
aiiembly and where alone proviiion is made
for it. Itdoes not appear to us, that there
was any neceflity for convening the aHembly
in this place, nor can we conceive of any for
continuing it here. Without fuch necefity,
the continuing the aAembly in any other
place than the Town-houle in Bottom, will
be very great grievance, and an undue ex-
ercife of your power. And as we cannot
without the greateR inconvenience proceed
TO the confederation ofthe public buiinefs in
this place, which is very preiing and greatly
in arrears by realon of the prorogations of
the laft year, we are conRraned TO lay be-
fore your ExcelIency our earneR requef that
you would be pleafed to remove the ahembly
to the Town houfe in Bottom where we
may with the greateR advantage and dil-
patch, Tanfa9 all fuch public matters as
are now before US, together with fuch others
as your Excellency ihall prOpOie for our con-
liberation.
His ExcELLENcY's ANSWER.
Gentlemen of the Houfe of Representatives,
THGREE sUitb jon that the pS1OFr5 Usifed
4 ~ me BY Charter are to Be exsrrijfd for The
good of the pssphr, and 1 haze made fbis tbF
great s5jlR Of my administration. Iwi6t0
AMID eOtyy thing that JSallaehfar'fO yOE TO
Be gyieVsaS ind atb0sg tennot agree
sUifb ysE that unlkji tbers 2 ssssLlf of hid
ing The cent in (sms st 'ssf ban fbs tsIUn
Of BsGon, IL mgf tbsrsl y J be a grievance 10
remSVx ii frsm thence {; yet 4 SiH fakt. the
JaIir3 matter Of yanr mz0ags info essjfdsyafisn,
and fiji G0N not appear to me neeslGrytS fer Bis
Aejsqy'S JSrvics and fbs g'od q tbs province
to eazfisxs tie Cswt in Jsmf afb0 Plas. than
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EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, AbriI O.

ORD Bute's inau-
ence, great as il may
be imagined, is far
inferior TO that of
Madam Schwellin-
bourg's, one of the
Queens Domefiics.
who, though her Gtu-
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w E D N E S D A Y, June 3
BIO st q N.

This day his Excellency fent the fellow
ing MESSAGE to the Honorable Houfe
of Representatives., viz.
Gsnflemn eftbs Hszjs Of REORGANIZATION,
A S win to have juf understanding
"A of every expreilion in any mehages
which come to me from the Houfe OF Re-
prelentatives, muf defire you to acquaint
me, whether when you fay in your msHage
of the aoth of May, that it does not APP
pear to you there was any necsfity of con-
vening the afirmbly at Cambridge, you
intend my convening it there when firf
removed it from Bcion, or my converting
it there the prefsnt year,. As loon as am
afcevtained OF this l fhall be ready TO give
you full an.wer 20 your mshage.
7. HUTCHINSON.
Cambridge, sd of ITars, I77a.
The .ANSW Err Of the House,
May it plsef y0zr Exesksscy,
IN anfwer 10 your mehsge of this day,
this Houfe beg leave to fay that they
Judge the intention of the expreaion psrti-
cula'ly referred to by your Excellency, as
we'll as of all other exDsflions in their mel-
fage Of the ze'h of May, to be efficiently
clear and plain, and there fore il is altoge-
tber needles to make an explanation OF
them, and hope your ExceIency will not
delay to give afull anfwer to that mefIage.
To which his Excellency returned the fol-
loving Melage, viz.
GenfltnKn q fbs HeuIf of. RsprtIsHfativss.
I MUS + govern myfslf by the meafure.
l. not Of your understanding, but my own.
What appears to you to be efficiently plain
appears to me doubtful and equivocal, as it
may be couRrued one way or the other, 70
in complying with your defire, founded up
on this among other reafons, fhould or
fhould not conform to the inRru9ions of
the King, whole feTvant am. AS referv-
ed as you have been in your anfwer to my
meiiage, / will be unreferved and open
WITH you. Whit YOU difpute the autho-
rity by which at 6rR removed the court
from Bottom, do not intend 70 carry it
thither again, and when(oeyer | fhall re-
ceive his Majefiy's infffuaions for exercif-
ing the juf pSerogative of the crown, in a.
ny cafe, will obleIve them without viola
ton in any degree and when your iBten-
ton la any mefage appears TO me uncertain
and you Tefufe to make il certain, think
it will be efficient Qualification for my re-
tuial to do any thing in confcquence of fuch
meiiage 70 long as the.uncersainty remains.
T. HUTCHINSON.
Council CbamdSr, Cambridge, Jnzs3, I771.
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Mr.. HANcocK's declining feat at the
Council board is very satisfactory to the
tTiends Of liberty among his conRituents.
This gentleman had been chofen FIVE years
fuccefiively, and as often negatived What
ever may have been the motive for bis being
APPRECIATED at Taft, bis cum determination
now ihcws, that he had rather be repre-
tentative of the people, fince he has had 70
repeatedly their Election and confidence.
7beir appreciation is always mark of fncsrs
relpeef, which, in yiytnsRs times, man in
public character feldom fails ofhaying, while
he continues to merit it.
We hear that Capt. Robert Ball from
this place for the Wet Indies, on the 2Sth
of March was wafhed over board, with three
others, two of which were again waihed on
board but Capt. Ball and the other fall
or were drowned.
Laf Thurfday night the dwelling houfe
of Mr.. William lion; in Pond erect,
was broke open AM cat number of valu-
able articles carried away, among which were
filver whittle,a pair of gold fleeve buttons,
filv9 Qck and knee buckles, ieveral pieces
Of .aslinen, upwards of a dozen fhirts,
marked w. T. two table cloths and a nap
kin marked !. T. feyeral holland caps,
muffin cravats,a land tape itocks, feyeral yards
of dowlas and brown meeting, China tea
pots, cups, aucers, cream pot, fugar pot. and
bow, and number of other things-A re-
ward Of ten dollars is offered for the difcove-
ry of The thieves.
Friday laa being the anniversary of the
reforation of King Charles ]. the fame
was obIerved BY the men of war in the Har-
borz, the royal aandard being hoiaed on
board The AdmiraPs ihip,and Ecu de Joye
at orc o'clock,
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S A T U r d Y, AuguR "a.
B q S I O N.

We hear from Lifbon, that bis Pfunian
Majefiy ordered his Minifter at the Court
of Great Britain to inform bis Britannica
Majeity, thai in cafe he len, Fleet againa
Copenhagen, he would Immediately march
his whoe army into Hanover.
We hear that Capt. harrington in the
fhip Juno, of this place, was to fail from
BrifoI for New York in a few days after
Capt. Moore.
The Rev. DR.. Breynton with bis family
were arrived at Halifax from Newfoundland,
having arrived there in his Msjefy's fhip
Panther, Commodore Shuldham.
We hear from Cape Ann, that as two
men were going alhore at Manchester with
boat deep laden with fin from Schooner
lying eft that place, the boa. funk ioOn after
they left the veGsl, and The men were both
drowned.
MARKEDLY At Halifax, Capt. Stan.
nus of the 64,h segment to Mifs Sufannah.
GeIrilh, daughter to the Hon. Joleph Ger
Ii[h, Etp' Of that place.
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iDgs in the Strand, he was very much ffruck
with the dejeaed countenances of lome hun.
dreds of who were
then dilmihed from employment by the un-
fortunate failure of the Myh,s. Adams, who
are involved in the preicnt ruin of Tome Ca
pital houfes in the city,. IL is faij that the
Mellfs. Adams employed more than 1000
men in the different departments of their
ex,eniive and magnificent undertakings. |,
feems the poor men had begun their work
before the melancholy news Of the misfor-
tunes of their employers was communicated
unto them They came down from the
walls in filence, and food for fome time in
the fireet in a body and at laft went of,
one by one, with every mark of regret for
akCOs of their matters whole bvGneis had
hippuuA them and their families for feyeral
yeats:H
As4Eltcrday the Court Of Kings Bench gave
judgment in the cafe of Somerlet the Negro,
finding that Mr.. Stewart, his mater, had
no power to compel him on board a ihip,
or to fend him back TO the plantations.
The pubic prints have made Lord Har-
court Chief Governor of Ireland, and Of
courfe diiplaced Lord Townfhend what is
whimiical enough, however, the King has
neither done the one nor the other, or the
change would have been announced in the
Gazette, among the other limitations CONF
munica,ed by authority.
Mr.. Wiikes's political exilfence is Eaid to
depend upon the election for SerIfs fMr.
Oliver is choien, he becomes annhilated in
the City, and Mr.. Horne obtains triumph
over that Livery, whom he lalf year infulted
for daring to Tefu(e his patron.
Warm applications were made to Col.
LuttreA to Rand this year for the Office of
Sheriff, and body of gentlemen lpontane-
ouny offered not only 10 defIay the expences
of poll, # fuch ihould be demanded againit
him, but the expences of the Sherievaty.
To this the Colonel replied latter thanking
them in the Polltef manner tor their kind
nefs) that in cafe he fhoud ever have lhe
honour of being chofen Maglfrate for
London, he il1ould gr0dge no charge to
which it put him but that he would not
think of iuch an honour tiIl bis parliament
tary condua had lhewn the Livery of that
great city the wide diiiinaion between real
and pretended patriotifm.
By a gentleman juR arrived from Madrid
we are informed, that the court intended
fhortly to abollfh the whole order of Domi-
nican Friars, which is computed % amount
to upwards of 100000 in that kingdom /;
they are not, however, to be banilhed as the
Jefuits were, nor their goods to be con6fca-
ted.
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e. -
3S perial MajeRyrecsives
them with his own hand, land rarely commu
nicates them to any body, or at mott, only
to one of his MiniRers, to whom it may be
neceaary 70 to do.
7rns 8. The Houfe Of Auftria has &C
tually GOO, 900 troops executive of the MI
litia ofthe Hereditary Countries, which can
be Attended when ever il is ;hought neeef-
fairy. The workmen in all the Arienals are
very buly eating cannon, and fitting up
arms.
LONDON, May IS. A correspondent
fays, that the late Secretary to patriotic 10
ciety, who eloped with young lady OF tor"
tune, fet out laff week from Life, without
his prize, on his way to Italy, he not being
married to her as has been reported.
Msy IS. A letter from Dublin, after
reporting the emigrations from different
parts of that kingdom, concludes thus -
IS Let humane fpe6ator take view OF
our depopulated country, and il cannot
fail in his breaft to raife the mott melan-
choIy and aft cling reflections ; village
without Inhabitants, farms without tenants
cultivated lands running wild, and all o.
riginally owing to the cruel and oppreihvs
landlords. Our people throng to Amsri-
ca and who can blame them Totally
unable here any longer to exf by the ex-
ertion of induHry, they prefer land flow
ing with milk and honey to that Of famine
and abi,a lavery."
Pride, lazinefs, and an inordinste love
Of riches, prevailed over the Spaniards to
forfake their native country for the mines
of Mexico and Peru very different and
far more Reasonable motive induces the
Bhtfh emierants, yiz. to labour and eat.
One Cudjoe, black, by the death of
an aunt, became laff week poheded' Of a
fortune of ioocl. This black was TENT
over az a prefent to the late Lord Halifax
as grate''u al acknowledgement for his hav.
ing intercfted himfelf 10 warmly in the
caule OF the two young African Princes,
who were here in the laff reign. When
Lord Halifax was Lord Lieutenant Of Ire
land, he made this Cudjoe fate trumpet,
which place he fill enjoys.
YORK, June oome MO nave oeen
entic,d from France who are perfectly ac-
adainied with the French method of manu-
faauring plate glafs, great mandatory
is now eftablilhed at Ravenbead, near
Prefcot, IN Laacaihire, by Geveral men Of
extenGve fortunes, on the eRzte of Mr..
MsckAy, a Gentleman of great property
in that county. This French method BY
by which plates Of Rlafs can be made much
larger than by the Englilh mode, has been
kept profound fecret, and the men have
Been procured at the hazard of their lives
BRIsToL, Mag aS. Friday evening
IsR a correspondent informs as, that The
Rev. Mr.. Talbot was inlulted in Caffle
Green BY a mob, who gathered fuddenIy
round him The bleed of Britain and the
name of Talbot, with executions, ecboing
from one end of the Rreet to the other.
LONDON, June 4. Friday being the
10th of May, the two Houies OF Parlia-
rnent fhould have gone TO Church to h ar
a f.rmon on the occahon, as ufual but
the fulloms D0annes preached by DR..
NOVEL; in his fermon on the 10th Of ia
5uary lait,, it is imagined has made the
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He Emperor IS very
frequently in Council
and almoR daily re-
ceives and tends away
couriers, Blu, their dif-
patches are a profound
fecret, becaufe his I'm
periaI MaieRyr receives
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B . 5 7 = N.
By CAPT. Mnnds, arrivsd at NesO York, in
a8 days from Lil5su, we have rsffiVed the
following -
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
VIENNA. rGsrm0nYl 1nns Z.
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INTELLIGENCE.

TGwmGnyl June 8.
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>THURSD AY, AuGUsT u, i77a.

ings in the Strand, he was very much fruck
with the detected countenances of fome hun.
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O, oec,l1r MS IS an obtervati0ns which
am fully perfuaded of, and truth thar 70
laces me, under all ne miferies this poor
counuy experiences. The bow is fretched
TO the bigheH tenion, and oPprefIion II
feIf leems TO have gone its utmot length
Since the FRI inifitusion Of government, man
kind in general, ard the Englifh nation in
particular, have always been willing to put
the bcif contribution on appearances But,
however, Tyranny is feldorn coHhned 10 &C.
gree, and the man who dSres invade one
right, will be little fcrupulous to attack ano-
ther. In fuch cafes, the records Of pah ages
teiiy tina, an appeal is frequently made TO
the Gcd Of Nature, for Confirmation Of thoie
rights, which have been lettering under the
hand of power. The iituation Of this people
ieems very near this ultimate point of dePef-
fion. For my own part, | am unable to con
ceive, VIVA. greater marks Of the infecurity Of
our freedom, we politely can have, than
what have been eroEdiag on US. To let US
feel the utmoff force OF their authority, ad-
miniaration, not content With ruinjsg
US on principles, which as they are
abliraef, may terrify but little, they have gone
further, and by one hod attempt, have wIeif-
ed from The induarious farmers the fruit Of
their Iabours and he liOc0f Of their brew,
and turned at their uiVrs and their title snes
70 HarVs. Such an attemp, cannot be treat
ed IN the ufual method. Former attacks
mighr have been rsa(safd on, and proved to
be Illegal. This fets argument at defiance,
and, iaitb VoitsHe, fhouId only be anlwsred
with the thruf of a poniare.
Some people may imagine AN now med
ding with matter in which | have no con-
Germ. They may fipset, thai. as this TRACE
dy was acted CoIcIy in New Z ork, the pro-
vince of the Msfachuietts Bay is not inter
eiled in il. But fuch people fem to be very
little acquainted With antiquity or the hiGo,y
ofpatt periods. Yea, bringing the matter FIJI
nearer, they have SOn6deied but listle the