The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-03-05

oh ooAIu, WHICH HloisiieS Was iegaily import
ed, and the duties paid Taft week -:
rhefe three hogfheads of molai1ts, we are told
belonged TO poor man, who has now loft
the full value OF all he was worth under hea-
ven !--Some FAY this p.r.t-c-l fchoo-
ner belongs to K. Co.. the Tn d; but we
ihould think it little below his Br-t.n.c
Majefy to keep men of war employed in
robbing fome of the pooreit fubje6ts, who
are fcarcely able TO procure the common
neceiiaries of life; when thofe men of war
mlght be 70 we'll employed, Especially at this
time, agalnlt Spain, who has inlulted the
Birth Flag in almof all parts of the globe,
within theie eighteen or twenty months pait,
md Os,y lately in the Welt Indies and FAX
and lnand. take CARE Of
your PROPER TIES For, according to
prelent appearances, you may foon expect
10 have your Fire Wood SElSED, if il be
transported by water from one pace TO ano-
ther without clearing and entering. The
above fcheoner has number of fwivel and
carriage guns. Since the above account was
received, we are informed that his M-y's
lchooner Galpee has been cruiiing our rivers
for near week palt /; but for what intent
we cannot learn, unleis it be to meet, and
manfnRy attack, thole enemies who have
lately treated with contempt the whole En-
glib nation.
1t is faid the BIB miniftry think ID
much iafer though little more dilgrafefui,
but that is no matter) to keep their men of
war, Frigates, Cutters, armed Sloops and
fchooner,, cruiling on the COATS, and plum
dering the navigation, sc. of their induRr-
Gus, unarmed North American friends than
to attack their naughty, daring and inluIting
enemies, the French and Spaniards
By gentleman from Connecticut, we
are informed, that few days paft as Dro-
yer was returning from Bottom to Conneeti-
cut, with comfortable fun of money a
bout him two men waylayed and killed
him but while they were robbing and bu
ryng him fled came upon them, in which
were feveral men, who purfued the murder
ers and had them in Worcefer Jail in an
hour after the murder was committed.
NEw-LoNDoN, February z8. LaR
Friday morning there was the greateR
fre(het at Norwich landing that has been
known for 80 years paif, occAGoned by a
fudden shaw and the breaking up of Shetuc
ket-rver. The rife of the water was 70 fud-
den that there was not time to lecure but a
final part of the goods which were expoied.
Upwards of 5000 buihels of falt, large
quantity OF fugars and other Wet India
goods, ALTO OF European goods to a confde
rable amount are loR Add to this the lois
the town has fuaained IN bridges this feafon,
md tits faid the town has fufered about
3oool. damage.
We hear that about ten days ago, al
lchooner from this place, Crowell, Mater,
was ieized at Bottom, under pretence of her
having eighr hoglheads of fugar on board,
which had not been cleared at the cuftom-
houle in this port.
SALRM, Mareb 3. notwithstanding the
report that DR.. KAT had taken up the body
Of Bryan Sheehen, we can now acquant the
public that between thirty and forty perfons
lah Friday fe'nnight opened his grave,
where they found him lying nearly in the
fame fate he was buried in, the afternoon he
was executed.
We hear from Liverpool in Nova Scotia,
of the following fingular, unhappy occur
renee. A Number of School Boys, for their
|amuiement, in the abfence of their matter,
formed lhemfelves into what they called a
court and Immediately exercifed their au-
thority in the trial of a boy for wearing re-
markable ragged cloaths, who was 6rlt fen.
fenced to be whipped Bet as this punilh-
ment was faid to be inadequate to the crime,
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