The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-03-12

Fart George, Nty T5rk, VIM. TRYON.
!, 18th February, 1871.
Extract from his Majeay's inRruetions to
Governor TRYON.
i" Wberea, Jtv~ai inconvNuisness bdvt ariC-
sc en- 10 our GevrnmeafJ, in tb1 plantHfi0ns,
" BY Gifts and prefSnts made to CIR G'vern-
:" w5 BY the General a0SmbhS FIR the pre-
" vsnfing fbtreef for the future, 1t is cur sx-
=" PRES will and plsafars, that nriibsr y'a our
" GOverHm, Commander in ebiff, or Pr5lidenf
"ftbs council Of our Jaid province Of Nts0-
+" Trk, fr the time being, dc girv Jour or
{" their eogSat to The paDing any has0 or al,
" for any gif~ trtlfnt to be made to ysn or
4" them, BY the A0smbly, and that neither ysn
" nor they do reesiOts any gif or prs'tnt from
/" The aDcm6S or others on any account, or in any
q" manner sUbatlStVsr, np0n pain Of our higbsf
" &jpsaIn's, and Of being recalled fr ON that
" cur govsrnmenf" n true copy. Ten.
EDMUND TANNING, P. Secry.
Extrat7 Of a. letter fran ST. CbriRopbsr,
January 20.
We have certain advice of the town of
St. George, at Grenada, being entirely con.
fumed by fire, on the 27th Of laa month /;
and that little or no dry goods, houlhold u.
tenhls, or proviiions, have been preferved /:
but three houfes upon the hill, viz. the court
houfe, cuffoms, and one other, have efcaped |;
the whole Bay-Town entirely confirmed.
Such is the dffrefs of the inhabitants, that
many of them are lodged on board the fhip-
ping and others are forced to take ihelter
with the humane in the country"
Another letter from the fame place men,
tons the town Of St. George being deffroy-
ed and that the lois was computed at three
hundred thoufand pounds ficrling.
ALBANY, february 3. On Monday laii
departed this life Mr.. llaac Lanhngh, aged
90 Years and months he had two bro
theirs, one Of whom died the 9th of Deem
Der 1867. aged sc years J months, and the
other on the goth of June 1871, aged 81
years, g months and nineteen days. The
age of the three brothers added together a.
mount to Az years, 8 months and lo days.
ExtyaH Of a letter from NesU-York.
By laff poif forwarded to you an ac-
count of fales of feventeen barrels of pot ain
asLfA fold in the London market, which is
u1dS ubtedy much lower than you expected
p6 reafons iet forth in maDy of the public
papers) | would therefore advife you to be
cautious in the purchafe of afhes the ap-
preaching feaion for / have particular in
formation from London, on which you may
rely, that pot and pearl aibes will be fold
there for at leaf one third lefs this coming
fealon than the Taft, occaGoned by the large
quantities daily arriving at that market 70
much in Mort, that il was there thought, A.
merca could not fupply the quantity in five
years, that is now there landed within few
months yaf.
QUEBEC, January 80. On Monday the
2oth infant, was RAbbed, by Elizabeth
M'Lauchen, Samuel Chaut,o of the sad regi.
ment, of which wound he expired "a hours
after.-The woman is in confinement, and
will be tried at the prelent aflizes.
NEw-LoNDeN, February 28. Yefer-
day fe'nnight Capt. Buckland of Hartford
arrived here in noop from the Wei Indies,
and on Tuefday laf the loop wasl to the
care of the mate and pilot to be carried in
to Connecticut river fhe arrived at Say
brook the fame evening, when the pilot and
hands went on Gore, leaving the mate and
boy on boaId the veilel an hour or two at
ter, drove out of the river, it is fuppofed by
means of The ice, was forced to fea and
has not fince been heard of.
HARTFORD, Mayeb 3. We have heard
that the following bridges were fwept away
by the food, viz. The large bridge at Wind.
for, with one at POquonnock, one at Suffrage
and one at Pennington, all bridges of great
confequence to the public, together with al
moa all the bridges of lefs importance on
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