The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1772-1775, 1774-07-16

quarters Of Enssna are in ,eur favour yen your
yes as you ought, they will aiuredy take your part.
One was nveighing bitterly againt Lord North pre-
fence of gentleman whole means OF information was bet
ter than coon and was told by him that from any change
of oenibe miners little was 90 be hoped in favour of
the rights Of the people;
From rheie adVces il Is plain Americans are, under
Con- to eek redfcis in their virtue, courage and
nmity of which, through the niles of Heaven, there .
now fair profpea throughout the colonies.
On the 18th Of laf month very awful fhoek Of
Earthquake was felt at Cspc-Nichola-Mole.
Extra7 81 Letter from philadelphia, dafad JHrs !, 1874.
Yesterday we had paue in the bufne of this city,
and iocmn pauie indeed it if we except the Friends
believe nine tenths of the citizens hup up their houic
The bells we're rang mued all the day, and the ps i.
the port had their colours half hoihcd."
DIED.l At Halifax, NOva-ScOta, the Hon. Toieph
Ceri6, Efq; one Of Maefys Council, Judge Of the
Inferior Court and Naval-Store keeper.
"ts Several piees from or C~repsader,s, and man,
article, of Intelligence from tbs SoHbsOard, zYb fbe pro
edinps of verai capital RIBS eOnser IN bsbaLf
tbe, Injured 6'sfbr'" i" Bs'"' ss Be omitted for sUaai
Of rosm.
The Reolye, of the aasmbly of Connecticut, will be n,
our next.
WILLIAMSON Fl, in Virginia, May z6.
On Tueiday the houfe of Bureees here came into the
ed with approximations of the great dangers be derived to
Bh America from the hottie inyaon of the city of Bo
ton in our filter colony of MxachuEt- Bay, whole COM
merce and harbour are the 1T of June next to be top
ped by an armed force, deem il highly neceay that the fad
ut day of June be fet apart by the members oths houe as
aday offaing humiliation, and prayer, devouty i'm
pore the divine interpofon for aring the heavy caam-
" which threatens deuetion TO civil rights, ana the
evils Of civil war give heart and one mind, firm
y opPOe, by all u and proper means, every injury A
merican rights and that the minds of his Majey and his
Parliament, may be inprod from above with wdom, mo-
deraton, and uce, from the loysl people of A
merca all cauie of danger from continued puut of meA-
fures pregnant with their RUM. 1t then Ordered that
the members oud attend the Speaker and the to the
Church in this city, the 1T of June next for the pr2o-
aoreiad. Mr.. Price, their Chaplain, directed to preach
iermon fuitable to the occafon.
On Thuriday the 10th, the right hon. the Earl Of Dun
fent MeiIase to the Houle of Bureees requiring
their immediate attendance in the Council chanb when
his Excellency ipoke to them as follows, viz.
Mr.. SPeaker,and Gentlemen Of the Houie Of Burgses
:" IHApE in my band a paper, fEbLGed BY Srdsy or
your boH esnceved in aeb terms az rfe7 bipb apon BIS
Msey and tbe Parliament sfCytGfBrf0u vObie0 maIts
nsaay for ne TO d0asv y0H, and y0H are d0'SAa at
ceYdi1eiy."
The next day the hon. Members of the late Houie of
Bursees the Raleigh tavern, when agreement
unanimously entered into by that patriotic aiemby, in
upport OF the conitutona liberties of America, agsin
the late oppreive act of the Bnrh Parliament rejecting
the of Bolton, which, in the end mutt affect all the
other colonies The agreement Immediately fgned by
the eacr, and all the members of the late Hou well
aby number of clergymen and other inhabitants.
NEw-YoRK, June 9. Laf Monday evening the COM
mee OF correspondence met when they read and ancred
the dispatches brought by Mr.. Cornelius Bradford hom
Bottom. Next MONDAY they win anemble again, after
which it is hoped, their proceedings will be pubhed, for
the information Of their conuens the times critical
and big with intesefng which has oecAGOned the
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their letter Bottom, and uch other proceedings
Judged neeeiary for the fatsaeaiOn of the public.
QUEEN AIMS County, (Maryland.)
10 meeting Of eOzdUableHambey eftbe NagjfrsfcJ ard
ofber relpeefabIe inbGbaH,s Of Queen-Anns Canaty
oyens-TOwn, on tbs 3ab day q May, 1874, hSder
OdebOate upon tbs tendency and sfetf IF tbe Ad OF
parliament for blocking the port and harbour ofBoAon.
"DULY conhdering and deeply affected with the pro-
pe6 of the unhappy htuaton of Great-Brtan and Bth
Amerca,und any kind of dfunon This meeting think
hemelves obliged by all the ties which ought pre-
ieye firm union amongf Americans, ipeedily po-
bic to make known their Continents to their dfreed bre
hren of Bottom, and therefore pubh to the world---
That they look upon the caufe of Bottom in its con-
fequences, to be the common caufe of America.
" That the aa of parliament, for blocking up the pert
and harbour of Bottom, appears to them cruel and oPpre
i've invaon of their natural rights men, and constitutional
nlh.s aEngh fubje6 and if repealed will be found
alton for the utter defhu6fon of American freedom.
That al legal and confitutiona ought to be
ufed by all America for procuring repeal of the Gd a
ofParliament.
&c That the only effsetua for obtaining uch
peal they are preent Of opinion aociatcn under
the ronge ties, for breaking of all commercial Connexions
with Great Britain until the ad act Of parliament be
pealed and the right aumed by parliament of taxing a
merica in all CATS SObatcv0 be given up, and American
freedom aeertaned, and feted upon permanent and coz
Rsutional foundation.
That the mott practicable mode of forming fich
they be meeting of
gentlemen who arc already, a be appointed commit
tees to form an American ntercour and correspondence
upon this mott ntereifins occahon.
F" That in the mean time, they will form fueh parti-