The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-01-16
JANUARY IS.

proper opportunity for ihirPing them oH.
| Eighteen men were put on boarc veilel w.
ing IF Hog Ldana#. BRiTAtN by The
! arts above deicIlbed, made one Wa,d Of tie
AID regiment deiert, at Crnec2e,' in Gka-
cS2o@rs one Anderjoa Of the fourth bat
TALON Of the train cl artillery; one jim
! HagO)e, Of the 4th regiment of foot, on the
I7;h If Martb / lalt, quaEtered a, Manf.l4,
IN N0ttingbamtbirs the party was com.
manded by Captain Geald He took from
the Ai6frG0r0ngb, Captain Ha1Uker, an Eng
E@ ihrp OF war, lying off BryfeI, fur mln
and one boy; theie men together with lc.e-
raj others were ihipped tB,j?ai on board the
Mary bound to Bolqgns Captain Haa&ias
matter OF S1VagEy in Hass. AT another
time Rogers and he ihlpped at Sbiel4s three
men theie, and many more, to the number
of fifty or ii&'y were uepanned :,.,o me
Frenfb lefvics by them in the coucle Of nine
or ten months, and carefully delivered 10 one
Campbell, on the parade ar Bei5gne. III me
couTis OF tbs time BRITAIN regularly re-
esi0ed one milling per Gxy from Regey, as
pay from the Freneb King, and about q or
80 guineas from Cont GAigaes, for eairt.ng I
them beiides ieveraI iums at different TINS +
from Rqg05. a
BRITAIN, after he had been acquaini o.
w'th Rogers Tome Comfortable time, was -
PRODUCED by him to one Le TSnae,,' Ran
catholic Preit, and one Jean CaLtane the,
had frequent meetings together, and when
britain become little intimate with than.
LIE ffnnf iaId he had a matter of great inn
PoTtance TO communicate, and begged they
might all meet at certain time he then
mentioned atthe Golden CreE ,Cb0ring. CrsG,
which they did LIE 1fnne told them as foon
as they met. that before he cou'd open the
butineis, he mutt enjoin them all in an
cath OF fec,ey and Odminjaer the latramesf,
this was accordingly done, though they all
knew the defign Of meeting b, fore, except
bTif0in,) Lie June txhoued them nearly
IN the following words. e" Gentlemen We
all ProfefS Sne and The only true religion, the
HerffickS are now become 70 numerous, that
uniels f"me frCke is loon Ruck they will o.
veriPread the earth, and the pure and boB yfE-
gf0n OF the church OF Roms mutt dwindle Into
nothing, and we lha m fhor time have no
iaEctuary or place Of refi in the world. II
therefore becomes US Gentlemen as true ca
thoIIcks, TO endeavour BY every means in our
power to extermlnate them from the face of
the earth, it is a deed that viii appear glori-
Gus both in the fight of God and man it is
a cauie in which ! myflf lhoud be happy
10 die martyr. The purpofe CT this meet
ing was to aoqualnt you, that ceGgn was
foimed of letting fire toPert(mpufbDock IarA,
afterwards to the Gsv0nar's houfe, and
then to the 7esVn in different places, for
this purPofe have got certain number cf
balls, made of piteb tar, rein, and other
combnitible matters, hollow within, and in
order TO thew you The execution theie balls
will do, will bum one row before you -
lie ,JtHnf then put little tow into the hole,
touched il with the candle, and it burnt full
quarter of an hour.
This matter being 6nilhed, their next bu-
fineIs was to fix the places of r1ndezvons,
which they did the hrf was tat HaV0nt a
market town in HamtGirr, about 9 miles
N. Z. of P0rJ6nOmb; where they met on
the aft of JAS, 1910 but not having
balls enough ready as they imagined, to put
their diabolical fcheme .6l6faaL5 into execu-
ton, it was deferred iii the 27th, the ia
tai morning and they proceeded to CbiebtRer,
to the W,bits- StUan, where they Rayed ill
late in the evening of the 27ih, and then
made the beft of their way to P1fGueufb
they arrived there little after one in the
morning. Caieane went to Byoker'5 Paint,
and prepared boat to carry them all off,
Britain, lie 1suae, and Rcger5, fet fire to
theDock Yard IN 81 or 81 p aces ; the flames
Aa jQand in The German Sea, 6 Miles
Soutb Of Berwick in Northumberland.