The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-05-07

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your domeffic felicity, equally encreale, I'M
till venerable old age, fhall bring your hoary
hairs with honour to the grave. And when
the trumpet fhAll found on the latter awful
dirfion day, may you, with your Royal
matter, be amongG the happy number to
whom the King Of ali Kings from his right
hand fhAll call, {" Come We bleiIed of mn
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared fol
you ftom the foundation ofthe world"
am, with great duty, and
equal reipea, &c.
JOHN COGHtLL KNAPF.
E attorney at I0s0. de b. K.
CITY sfNew-7srk, StGs0rgs's day.
His Excellency received Mr.. Knapp and
his addreis with that klndnels and atfabliiy,
which 70 much belpeak the humane, good
and great man.
PORTSMOUTH, AprH a.. We hear
from Hale's- Town, that one day the begin
ming of laf week, Benjamin Whining, Eiq;
High Sheriff Of the county of HIl.lborough
having taken perlon { whole name we bave
not heard) with a writ, fol cutting tn
KINGS TIMBER, sc. was re queited OF
the perion for leave to go at large, I'LL the
next morning, when ne iald he could bring
bail. This the Sheriff granted, and tina
night lodged in public houie, IN fAid Hales
Town, with an sfEiaant OF deputy he had
with him But for his clemency and good
nature, mark the eyent,--EarIy the next
morning, the faid peTion came to the cham
Der door, and told Mr.. Whiting he hid
got bail to which the Sheriff anlwered IT
was very we'll, but added, he need no, have
hurried quite 70 much, but have topped till
it was lighter, sc. However, that he would
get up and wait on him. While he wf
dreiing thirty or forty perfons IN d'fgulfA
with black faces, sc. ruined into the room
with clubs, SC. upon which Mr.. Whining
Tetreatcd back to the wall, and having got
at his pifols, declared he would lhoot the
fra man that approached him, and it is
thought would thus have defended himfelf,
bur tome OF theie fellows having got up in
the garnet, took up The floor, and loon over
powered the Sheriff, and his aiiiltant, whom
they abuicd aed beat in mott ihamful mao
ner, then went to the barn and cut The car,
tails and Mains off bo,h their hoIles, end
ordered the Sheriff and his man to mount
and 90 of which they prudently complied
with, and Immediately proceeded TO Colonel
COTE, and Colonel Lutwych's, who gave
orders for luficien, number of men to arm,
and proceed with the lhenf, if poAible to
take and bring the rioters to jultice Which
it is hoped, will foon be accomplished.
May 1. We here that the rioters inf1llf-
borough county, being fenfbIe of their Error,
have delivered themfelves up to juftice, and
appear very penitent court Is ordered to
bind them over for trial, which will come on
before the honorable hyperion court at Am
herif next September.
WILLIAMsBuRcH, in Vrg:nia, April
o. We are informed that the noted JOHN
EYRE, Efq; who, though man of fortune,
was lately tranfported into this country for
(iealing paper, died about three days after
his arrival and that FIVE and-twepty hun.
bred pounds in bank notes, and 6fty gui-
meas, were found in bis poGelIion.From fone
letters found about him he appears to have
been one of the greateif mifcreants that ever
exiRed be had LOFT leg, and was Of a
mott ruefuI figure, an index, as it would
feem, of the depravity of his heart.
NEWPORT, Abril ~. We are juf now
informed from Little Compton, that .lait
Thurlday was found drove aihore, at place
called Quickfand Pond Beach,in thar town.
fhip,a 6lh- bout, of about 10 feet keel, three
barrels of meal, and one of potatoes allo a
chef with the name of Capt. Jofhua Brown
cut on the Lid :-Inhde the chef were foms
cloaths, baton of meat, Bread, sc.
Extra5 Of q letter fran gentleman IN Len
don, dated March q, I772.
III do not spprehend, that the Miniltr!
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