The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-06-11

that Colonel Keith, the Bri.iih Minltter,
having very little hopes of an sccommoda-
ton between the King and Queen, waited
only for an anfwer to fome dispatches to re-
turn to England.
The Budget will be opened, and the At
fairs of America will come on in the lower
Aaemby in the Courle of this Week.
The principal Infurgents, caed Hearts OF
Steel, or Oak Boys, have been apprehended
and ient to Dublin.-lt is faid upwards OF
1000 Families are preparing to fes of for
America from Ireland on Account OF the
troubles in that Kingdom.
Ab,I ~. The bill for. enforcing the
payment Of ty,hes from the people called
Qyak.rs is deferred till the goth init.
When the DrHenting miniaers lately
waited upon Lord North, at the lrsafury,
for the Rsgium Dsnum, the annual royal
bounty of two thoufand pounds for the re-
lief of their clergy, Lord North offered on
his part voluntarily, on their part HnloEfiffd,
a repeal of their fubfcription. This efer oc-
cafoned meeting at their library in Red
crols Street, where it was not the mott cor
daily received it being oblerved, tina, GO
vernment never granted any favour to Dit
lenters, without fome fecret view to their
own interetf and enoumeut, left alto fuch
favour fhould prove, in any manner, inJuT-
Gus to the eRablilhed Church, with the
friends Of whom they lived in harmony
and peace. This compliment of Lord North
to the Dhenters will it is thought, be a
powerful and leading argument next winter
for the repeal OF the thirty nine Articles |;
by which refined firoke of policy the parti,i
on wall between the ChIuch and Meeting
iOiH be fbr0sa doSUn.
Letters received by the lai Dutch Mail
remark, that his Britannia Majelty had act
ualiy ordered all his Electoral Troops 10
Hanover to aGemble Immediately at Ham
burg. This advice was received from the
River Elbe, on the 27th of Taft month; and
as the town Of Hamburgis fituated 70 that
few thoufand troops quartered there, and
in its neighbourhood, may, with great faci-
lily, take ptltiiion of all his Danih Ma
ieRy's dominions in Germany,it is generally
EcScieaured that the Elec,or of Hanover will
avail himlelf of the troubles Teigning at pre-
feidi in Copenhagen, to feize and make
-hmlelf matter of fuch Dani(h dominions as
may lie contiguous to the Electoral Domin-
ions of Hanover.
II is beyond doubt, that Prince MaHe-
rano, AmbsHador from the King of Spain,
has, on the part of his Royal Matter. mott
ifrongly remoufrated againff any Brtifh
lhips of war entering the South Seas, on the
fcore of making discoveries in that part of
the globe and has even gone 70 far as to
declare, that after 70 juh and amicable a
remembrance, the King of Spain will be
under the ablolute neceiiity of indicating
his own fovereign rights to thofe feas, and
confequently lhali give orders to ieizs all
fhips of war that ihall be found making dif-
coveries in or tbro' the South Seas, without
q fpecial lieence from the Crown of Spain
Notwithstanding this heetoring, blufering,
Ouixotic language, Captains Cook and
AOulhSabA uaFC lC1CAfNu kliSit Aaudi OiuClo
for falling, and mof probably will meet
with aU0rm reception from the Spaniards,
after they fhaIl have psGed the Stfeights of
Magellan. Spain, it is known, has for this
twelvemonth paG, had frong and amofl
ndubitabie proPenGty to 60 to war with
Great Britain and thar event mott certain
ly would have happened many months ago
had il not been foE the debility of France j;
dOubtIefs the King of Spain cannot pitch
upon fairer opportunity that what has been
offered him by the Engliih nation.
BRIsToL, Hpra 10. We are informed
that Britain, who is in our gaol to take his TIL
al at the next aHize for forgery, Rll periifis in
his being principal in fetting Portfmouth-
Dock on fire, and that he has iufficen, me.
terials at his command to make full diico-
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