The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1772-1775, 1774-05-12

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and groas tbey cead dc fbe hs Scay T00aid ad44"ff
them greatly. 50 ai, T. tbe Dotf" ba, oHy g'f lHf" a1
ornded old zUomar tales &c tsh rs on WfoHfaey, DC 04a
ber nor expse bbg any more; far f' ran S a1ee<,
fbe DEBTORS ceaHfyyAaen, f6e B9f'nHn 4peSa % .
az fbey are noqu inoenf. IbaVs menEsd 10 sfHs i0'
for t5e door eoad NOT bring an9ber o" roe s0b0 e'hsenf
into bis Neuvs-bate, mesres J fbi day. not even ff9e
for qobieb be ayent no, fbe colony g go5ifb bn Jon go
verroy. He bar aizpays caHfi0apy av0ded alo70iHg any
dGpybane 10 berlin there. Indeed I)aPef bii bringing
f6e Bsgoniaas alzvay5 tbe front Of danger, NetP P~
ofbnfo ySzsrge binle on them for banmg TIN fbe f's'H
Nor, Jan Eytv yeays ago. However thai may be, be
real BOfoSan, and Con way teygFVe, y DC peace 0h
tyaae,ozs elsfs, but Engiand and -nied "ers S'Hid
Nayeb "a We are told BY writer's IN favour OF me
Bofonans, with much afurance than truth, Ina.
their tIade does bot eaih with OURS Now their PnhspH
trade is their NEwFoUNDLAND FISHERY, and BY eier
cloene to the banks, they have not only rValed US hu
anot totally carried off the Fhey Trade from the wen OF
England We iha now examine anqgher OF Their PORTIONS,
the benefit DER led England from Amerean-ogi
il is another valuable branch OF trade IN when tey ~
rvalled 1t certainly would be better tor hnglano 70 ou
her own ips BY which ihp-eapenters "ouidho
bread nitead OF being IoCeo dDod11 iOu5N W."
of employmen into the French and SPanh doek-ysfa'.
Be6dcs the American-but veels trah compared
to Englifbu hips they contracted OF green tmoe
and may jufy he iaid to be HALF ROTTEN "heh MIX
launched. This is well known fact and when they are
tent here for c they will not fetch near one nan wha'
they colt. Witnc this port, where 10 many OF them nave
lain and are now lying tumbing pieces. Our Merchants
know this we'll they have made the experiment of building
ps in America and of buying Amerean-bult hPs here,
but they now find il much their advantage 10 oua
at home, which is greatly the practice Another thhg
ought to be obierved, that the Americans have oNhk-
BUILT themieyes, as we have ovER-TRADED ouneNss
In America there are too many Merchants, and England
has given them too mach credit. The Bottom wachones
arc filled with goods and but few afomers The Boion-
an TO carry ON the appearance Of bu6nei, es up vee
as il is called, 60 be built he iometmes pays the Carpenter
three quarters of the value in goods ard iometmes the
whole value, the triAng advance OF fifty per cent on
each article. What fort Of veiiel Carpenter will build
for Merchant who pays him in pins and needles, Man
cheler checks oes fockings, broad cloths, linens and
Olnaburgs, may elly be conie6tured. his THING, tor
il does not deerve the name OF SHIP, at a launched,
and before the Merchant is able TO load her or 10 get
freight, ie often lies nine months the wharf, which does
not much improve her crazy half rotten ics Home how
ever ihe COMES congned 70 the Engnih Merchant as pay
nrcnt for his roc s, and woctu remittance The is What
coli fifteen hundred pounds in America VIII not fell here
for FIVE hundred and the market often 70 overlooked that
NOT an offer will be made for heI. Yet this detr'Stve
trade the American carries from year to year as 1t 1t was
highly profitable ill want of credit and powers Of Attorney
force him to ihut up to drramp. The lat argument
advanced in favour OF America is, that IS iuppof9the
Wea-lnda iands with provions." This IS granted; but
il alto fact thar has robbed IRELnNp of this Trades
The Boonan adyocaIes be fure the greAtea
their own way in the world they rob Of provo
and ihcry ide and Of ihp building, and then moiey
tell US il IS all tor good They re:ue pay their debts
and that, il ieems, is for our good too
By authentic account from Bottom informed, that
the Bohonans were before in fuoh fate OF riot and
dorder they arrived The uphoders of icen
toune, who men OF property, begin TO trembc, think
ing that the Reimbursement of the EatIndia company will
fail mofly uroa THEM. They now with 10 put flop TO
the outrage Of the popu!lee but find themeves unable
TO accomplish *. They gave proof of this diponfon
when the euiom-houe officer lately 10 harbaronay
treated. ion OF OF the leading in Bottom endea
voured to ecue the poor wTetoh and got into the
cart to hinder his being rrt and taed, but without effect
for he was knocked down with billet OF WOOD and tumb
led out of the cart and then they proceeded the cruees
mentioned in former paper. What renders their treatment
of this man more unmany and avage IS, that he is old,
almof natural, ard 70 timd that child may fgightcn
him and re was put into petty place IN tie eu:toms
merely TO keep him from faryng.
It is general oberyaton, that deinqueus, who ought
to hide hemyes in privacy, the mott forward to preis
upon the public, and thinking to ruin their opponents, BY
happy make only expoie their own snavey. The Boito-
mans and Rhode Flanders, by pubhng Mr. Romes letter.
10 fully Eating the CRIMINAL ooluion OF the MIR
CHANTS of Rhode and the JUDGEs Of their cour
which has loft that Gentemans correspondents in London
76,oool. have given the whole world the mof irking
proofs of their niovency ard rogue. Their folly too is
mott glaringly oonpiouOus, as well as the performs who
STOLE the New-England letters for if the thief inead
of burning Mr.. Roes letter. ehoie to iend it his bottom
correspondents, evidence of his activity of their caue
rey they hemilyes ought to have deoyed this record
of their flame for certainly nothing but the inipnaon
OF their evil genius could prompt them TO tell all the world
that they debt 76.coo and that they could
be foeed to pay it, becau the Judges of their courts
choen by hemielyes, and always gave judgment agzn
their creditors. Ever fnce the f ettlement of New
England all their public nlueons and rebelons have
had but trivial effect in opening the eyes of this eonnty
when compared to the POWERFUL OPERATION that
this letter has had the minds Of the Merchants in gene
raj, and the whole naton At moderate computation,
il is thought that lefs than MILLION is due
70 This knndnrn the cnnncs of Rhode Iand and Con-