The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-02-06
LONDON,

@-,ls1Fy5 at B'ack-Friars TO be
fhipPed on board the veilel which is 70 car
ny them to America. There are amongf
thefe unhappy wre,ches, two carts ioaced
with Gck, whole fench in particular affected
many perions, and may probably produce
malignant dilorder.
Lord North, we hear, determines in the
courIe Of next Gefions to bring in bill for
rhe purpofe of leilen;ng the number OF execu-
tons, and combining capital criminals (un ets
convicted of murder) TO iome public work
for life, where it is polIible their iabours may
make an attonement for the violations they
have committed upon the laws of then
country.
The patriotic parry in the IEiih houfe Of
Commons, we hear, intend, iince they have
carried the quefion againf enyea)fng the
number of the revenue commlfioners, to
make motion for reducing the prelent board /;
which conflts of fevcn members, as leldom
more than three ever reGde in the kingdom
for the tranlaction of public bufinefs.
BY an inceflsnt rain which fell laf week,
the river Tees fwclled upwards of twenty
feet perpendicular higher than the oIdef
man can remember. Thirty four lhips were
wrecked on Sunderland bar, and on the
North and South fand, three golfers were
filled with water, one engine entirely ruined,
out of 700 keels belonging to the river
Wear, not 100 are found fafe. Nineteen
houfes were walhed away at Biggate, Bar
nard Cattle, and number of work -houfes
furniture, flock in trade of many pelfons
fwept away. At Yarum half the town is
fwept away, 46 perfons mlEng
Extva3 of a litter from merchant in Cadiz,
to bis eOyrtlbandsat in London, d.fed on 20.
"AC FIVE o'clock this afternoon, the We
IA Cruz Spaniih frigate Don Antonio dc
Ia Vega, Commander) arrived here from the
lie Of Falkland, after paaage OF thirty
five DAYS; and two hours after, one Sect
ian Irih Tailor, who has been for Tome time
in the Spanlh fervce, and failed in he fame
frigate) came to ny houfe.-This fellow
aAures me, that or The fifteenth or iix,eenth
of July, two Engiih ihips arrived at that II.
land, in order to take pofedion thereof, in
conformity 10 the convention lately irned
between the Spaniih AmbafladoI and Lord
Rockford f; that the Commodore prefened
his orders TO the Spani(h Commander, but
that he raifed 70 many difficulties about the
reftitution, whether it was to be Of the whole
Hand, or barely fPort Egmont, that after
three days conference upon the matter, the
Englilh fhips were forced to depart yet it
is not known for what port they fet fail
The Tailor could not inform me what was
The purport or fubfance of the difficulties
ftarted However, the fact is what | have
related, and that the relfitu;ion was not made
Ii is ALTO very certain, that the Vera Cruz
was pupofely difpatched hi,her, to give in
formation Of this affair to the court, and
that for the greater fecreoy of it, the Captain
has his orders to pretend, that he comes i'm
medlstely from Buenos Ayres, and to fuff.r
nobody to come aihore. The lailor in my
houle, being one of thoie who rowed the
boat that brought alhore the court difpatch-
es, watched his opportunity to elope, and in
hopes of handiome gratuity, for bringing
the news to an Englllhman, fed 70 my
houfe to communicate ii to me, as, through
the Captains great Garrett is kept profound
iecTe, from the public.
+" This is 70 very intereaing piece of in
te'Iigence thar beg you wilI Immediately
cauie it TO be inferred in our pubic papers,
that the nation may not be flrpriied and i'm
poied upon, but prepared aganf every event
that may happen and if you have an init
macy with any of our Miniaers, you will do
well TO communicate it to them, and pro-
duce this very letter Of mlre, to convince
thrm of The reality of the matter, SC"
P.S. By the next pof you may ex-
peSf farther particulars relative 10 this affair.