The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-04-09
THURS DAY, APRIL 9, 1872.

Yeifefday at a court of Common Council
held al Gudhall, motion was made, that
the Lord-Mayor be leqpea DIT, csll Com
mes Fall, for the pulPofc of in0Sfctng this
city's Representatives TO fupport the lnierd.
ed motion of Mr.. Alderman Sawbridge in
the Houie Of Commons, Rejecting frienniai
/ Parlisments.
A Correspondent wlhes to know If the
Lord Mayor is not liable TO proiecuron tor
refuiing TO call Common-hall on the requi-
iition, of his fellow citizens.
Ii is Eaid that the truth of the following
account may be depended on The OF
flee of Commander in Chief, fthe forces of
Hanover being vacant, the Pnceis of Brunf-
wick came over on puTpoie to iolicit the CO.
mand for the Prince of Brunfwiek, and to her
great disappointment ihe found, that the be-
haviour the Prince during the late war was
not fufhcient recommendation, but that the
important command of all the forces Of Han
over muf be conferred on raw and unexpe-
rienced officer, a Prince of the luxurious
houle Of Mecklenburgh Streliiz. This ac-
counts for the fudden departure of the Pin
cels of Brunfwick.
IfLord North lhould realizc his intended
plans for reducing the prices ofthe necellaries
oflife, he will be as popular minifter as
this kingdom ever knew.
Lord Mansfield is certainly very III, and
fuppofed to be much worfe than has yet been
hDkd in the news papers.
,ESrna,y II. The houfe met about
thlEe) O'Clock, and having very little or no
ahHfmefs, to do, feveral pahages from fer
mon preached before the houie on Thurfdsy
the goth Of January laf, by DR.. NOVEL;,
which, by the deGre of the Houie, had been
printed, as is cuaomary in fuch cafes, when
ieldonl more than ten or twelve Members
attend (if 70 many were read by a member
in his place, which appeared 70 offenlive (the
thanks of the houle and the requeft for print
ing it being affixed TO the Germon) that the
members feemed much enrsged and the
more 70, as they were drove 10 kind Of per-
pexity TO know what was TO be done, as the
Houfe feemed universally to condemn the
joGtrine contained in thofe pahages that
were then read. A motion was made by
ore of the members, that for the future no
other pcrlon preach before that Houfe on
the goth of January, except the Chaplain.
This motion was withdrawn, as il might
convey diffant idea of fort Of dGegard
to the reh of the clergy, A fecond motion
was made, that in future the thanks of that
houfe be not given TO any iemon preached
before it, till the fermon was firit printed.
This ALTO after much debate was Withdrawn,
and the order of the day read, and loon at
ter adjourned 20 Tuefday.
A correspondent fays, he is not able, or
we not daring enough, to account for the
motives that could influence or the prote6ti-
on that would counenance this tory Divine
to preach before the members of this Houie
Of Commons fuoh barefaced ahertions I; he
has therefore delired US to print thele often
five Psfages at large from the fermon, leAv
ing the unerring public to sfign realons for
lUch confummate ahurance and as imall
but full illulfration of his own, that we would
not neglect printing the title page of the fer
mon, which we here do, as we'll as thofe
offeniive pafages therein.
Il SERMON pre0ebtd bsfarf the HOUSE IF
COMMONS, at ST. MagOref!, n.y.
ngRer, onTbHrJ day, January fbt 90, I772
BY THOMAS NOVEL;, ID. ID. pyin-
dpk Of St.Ma'y'5 Hall, Kings prsflDSr Of
modern hjtfory, GndpHLlie SrGtST in the mi
vfyGy Of O|fS'd.
L" 1t has indeed been frequently a1ered
that this tempeff'was RATED by other caules
that the deipotic dilpohtioa, the arbitrary pro-
cet ding and the tyrannical government Of