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in their beginnings opposed, your wisdom and experi-
ence shewed you the weakness and wickedness of the per-
sons persuaded, and the creatures persuading them; you
foresaw, and with manly fortitude represented against
them; and when your strong and clear arguments did
not convince, you nobly declined contributing towards
measures of which you saw the dangerous tendency. To
you, my lord, the people of Bristol lift their eyes, trusti-
ting that you will assist them In shewing to the honourable
body, “of which you are a member,” the dreadful con-
dition the trade of this city will be reduced to if any
violent measures should be taken in America. Your lord-
ship knows that the city hath had but little trade to Tur-
key, and even that little is lessened by the present trou-
bles of the Levant; that the Italian trade is become very
considerable; that the severe regulations of the govern-
ment of Portugal, and the edicts of the king of Spain,
hath reduced our commerce with those kingdoms so
much as to make it a most considerable object. Our de-
pendence now is on the American and Irish trades. Sup-
pose the representatives of the India company, on behalf
of themselves, and some governors and crown officers,
whose conduct hath been complained of by the people ,
should be believed, what must be the natural consequence
but determinations unjust to the accused, and hurtful to
the interest of these realms? The India company, whose
conduct hath not always been judged immaculate, and
governors and governmental officers, who have been ac-
cused and never tried, it is hoped these are not to be ad-
mitted as evidence against a body of some millions of the
English nation. I cannot believe what is said of these
accused towns and provinces; are they not to be heard
in answer before determination? We hope, if such at-
tempts are made, your lordship will use the great advan-
tages your elocution and experience give you, in prevail-
ing that both parties may be heard. The people com-
plain of oppression by a monopolizing company, and the
people complain of governmental officers for misdemean-
ors, oppressions, and misrepresenting his majesty’s good
subjects, and striving to raise discord. This was a crime
in Scotland punished with death, under the name of leige
leesing. A peer of the name of Campbell, an ancestor
of the earl of Bute, was condemned to death for this
crime. If instead of hearing the people in their defence,
against the heavy charges laid against them, you should
proceed to judgement against them, and allow allegatato
have the force of probata,this must give no reputation
to the justice of the proceedings of such a court. Sup-
pose this interested, monopolizing company, should pre-
vail, and men of war and armies should be ordered to
force the English in America to drink tea, as they were
sent to force the unhappy people of Indostan to chew
beetel, the effect would probably be the same: There
would be massacres and famine; but no money accruing
to the government. My lord, you know the nature of
trade, which for years flourished under your direction;
you know that North America is mostly supplied from
Great Britain with goods; that teas, amongst others,
were sent by the merchants chiefly from London, to their
correspondents there, whose houses had the advantage
either of the sale or the commission. The people there
complain that a monopolizing company send over teas
on the account of a body corporate;an exclusive body
corporate, which has no rightto trade in America.
Some people opposed this, which they took to be an il-
legal action of the said company. We have heard the
matter so; is it not therefore fitting to try whether this
is so or not, before you justify the company? If the com-
pany have the liberty granted of trading to, and having
warehouses in, America, under any pretence, there is an
end of the trade of Britain; an end of the riches of Lon-
don, Bristol, and Liverpool. The company will be able
to supply, with all manufacturers from China and Coro-
mandel, cheaper than our merchants and manufacturers
can goods from Britain; and we know they can smuggle,
even in the river Thames, how much more in the vast
rivers and coast of America? What must the revenue lose
by such a step? Next, your lordship knowing the mer-
chants and planters in America are indebted to those in
Britain; the sums together are immense. If any distress
is laid on those in America, it will disable them from
paying us, and we from paying duties and excise, as
well as from supporting our families. You see, my
lord, the dreadful consequences of precipitate measures.
We are happy in having a representative of your lord-
ship’s experience, courage, and elocution, and trust in
your preserving us and the nation from ruin.
A MAJORITY of MERCHANTS.

From the BOSTON GAZETTE.
Messieurs EDES and GILL,

THIS country never yet saw a time in which the
people, and of course theirfathersandrepresent-
tatives, ought tostand more firmand play the man;
never was there a time in which a wise, upright, and
steady council of the land, was more necessary to our
common safety. A weak and pusillanimous counsellor,

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at this period, may do more mischief than many wise
and intrepid ones will be able to remedy in an age. Let
us throw aside personal attachment and private connec-
tion; let us consider the evils which we may do by a bad
choice;; evils which it will never be in our power to cor-
rect, though we weep tears of blood. If we have ever
given our suffrages for wicked, base, or unworthy cha-
racters, let us now repent of that great sin, and make
the best reparation of our injured brethren and posterity,
that we have now power and opportunity, by giving our
voices to none but such who have understanding, inte-
grity, and zeal, to guide the commonwealth, in this
storm of power and oppression. Should we be careless
and unconcerned, indifferent or inactive, at this season,
we shall only endanger the great ship of the state, in
which our treasures are laden; then let us bear weightily
on our mind, that we are all embarked in one common
bottom: Lives and fortune, children and posterity,
must be overwhelmed and sink in case of shipwreck. Let
none of us, therefore, make shipwreck of our consei-
ences, lest we not only perish in this world, but most mi-
serably perish in that which is to come.
AN OLD COMMONER.

From the LONDON GAZETTEER of April 5.
A CHAPTER from the lost book of CHRONICLES.
1. The fast. 4. The men of the united provinces of Hol-
land confer with the men of North America. 40. The
final determination of the latter. 45. Mention is made
of another book.

1. AND behold! Though the men of America waited
the event, yet they waited for it with fear, and
with trembling; they fasted, and the prayed.

2. They put on sackcloth, they rent their garments,
and humbled themselves in the dust, before the lord their
maker.

3. Even before the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac,
and the god of Jacob, did they humble themselves.

4. And now so it was, that the high and mighty states,
even the men of the united provinces of Holland, lift up
their voices, and cried aloud, saying,

5. O ye men of Boston! And all ye inhabitants of
North America! Why are you so disquieted? And where-
fore is it that your souls are so troubled within you?

6. Seeing that we worship one god, and after the same
manner, turn ye now unto us, let us traffic together,
and let us be as one people.

7. And the men of America answered and said, nay,
nay, but wist ye not that our mother, and our elder bre-
thren, have set their faces against us, and are in wrath.

8. Verily, verily, ye above all men ought to know,
and acknowledge, how pleasant and how profitable it is
for brethren to dwell together in unity.

9. Nevertheless, the high and mighty states, even the
men of the united provinces of Holland, cried out with
out ceasing, and said,

10. Albeit as your mother hath become a step mother
unto you, and as your elder brethren have estranged
their countenances from you;

11. Now then, eschew them in the bitterness of your
hearts, forsake them, and cleave unto us.

12. And behold, we will be as a loving mother, and
as loving brethren unto you, henceforth, and for ever-
more.

13. For lo! Have we not heard with our ears, and
hath it not been told unto us, how that your mother
hath given you vinegar when you have asked for milk?

14. That she hath given you a stone when you have
asked for bread, and that she hath given you a serpent
when you have asked for a fish?

15. Furthermore, have not your elder brethren made
hewers of wood, and drawers of water of you?

16. And are they not now seeking to burthen ye with
heavy burthens?

17. Now fear not ye, but be of good cheer, foras-
much as ye must have heard with your ears, and your
forefathers, who fled from persecution, from the house
of Stuart, and from the land of bondage, must have
told ye.

18. How that in the days old, even in the time of
Philip the Second of Spain, our forefathers were also
fore troubled, by means of a governor called the duke
d’Alva.

19. And behold, they named themselves the poor and
distressed states of Holland, and they humbly besought
Elizabeth, the great queen of your forefathers, for suc-
cour, and she gave them help.

20. And our forefathers united>/em> as one man; they
sprang forth like a green leaf; they became lasting as
the evergreen, and sturdy as the might oak tree.

21. An lo! Do not all the princes of the earth call us
high and mighty at this day>

22. Moreover, we cannot but have heard how the
men of Helvetia struggled in a much older time with
the oppression of their oppressors;

23. Who ruled over them with a rod of iron, and
with an outreached arm.

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24. And how that the angel of the Lord appeared
unto William Tell, and directed his hands and his eyes,
so that he might shoot the apple upon his son’s head,
without hurting the hair upon the head of his son.

25. And by his means the men of Helvetia became
freemen; and behold, are they not called unto this day,
the freemen of Switzerland, even of the thirteen cantons
thereof?

26. Now, then, arise ye also as one man, unite ye to-
gether, gird up your loins, and make your appeal unto
him who sitteth above the clouds;

27. Who rideth upon the wings of the wind, and who
ruleth the waves of the sea, even unto the most high.

28. And feel ye bold in the cause of freedom;

29. For surely ye are not yet to learn that the race is
not always given to the swift, or the battle to the strong.

30. And the men of America answered the men of the
united provinces of Holland again, saying,

31. Why tempt ye us in the day or our distress, even
in the hour of bitter anguish, to forsake our dearly be-
loved brethren, and our lord the king?

32. Surely some deadly enemy towards the household
of our lord the king, and towards his family, must have
beguiled you with lies, touching our mother and our
brethren;

33. For until the men of Belial waxed numerous, and
powerful at home, we lived together in the most perfect
harmony.

34. We were drawn together with cords of love; we
were a constant comfort and support unto each other in
war and in peace.

35. But now an evil spirit hath gone forth for the de-
struction of us all.

36. And lo! It cometh from the North.

37. Some put their trust in chariots, and some in
horses, but we will seek the Lord our God, and earnestly
beseech him not to harden the hearts of our lord the
king, and of our elder brethren, against us.

38. Peradventure the spirit of oppression may prevail,
but for a time; peradventure it may pass over as the pas-
sing of a heavy cloud.

39. And furthermore, wot we not that out of evil
sometimes cometh forth good.

40. But if it should please the Lord Jehovah to visit
us for our sins, and to punish us for our transgressions,
insomuch that should our elder brethren persist in vio-
lence, and should they bring an armed host against us,
to destroy or enslave us, our wives, our concubines, and
our little ones, to force away our flocks and our herds,

41. Then, but not till then, will we resist with the
arm of flesh; we will call for the sword of the Lord,
and of Gideon, and we will seal the covenant of freedom
with our blood.

42. Then, and not before, shall it be fulfilled as it was
written of the children of Israel, and we will say like
them,

43. “What portion have we in DAVID? What inhe-
ritance have we in the son of JESSE? Every man to your
tents, O Israel; and now, DAVID, see to thine own
house.”

44. And as to the rest of the acts of the men of Ameri-
ca, and the things that they did, their improvements in
the cunning arts and in manufactures, their wares, and
their traffic;

45. Lo! Are they not as yet written only in the book
of fate?

BOSTON, May 30.
The following ADDESS of the episcopal ministers and
wardens was presented to governor Hutchinson on
Monday last, at the castle:

Sir,

THE ministers of the episcopal churches of Boston,
and the neighboring towns, with as many of the
wardens as could conveniently attend, hearing of your
intention to embark in a short time for England, beg
leave to express our unfeigned gratitude for your gene-
rous attention and unwearied application to the impor-
tant interests of this province, in which your wisdom and
integrity have been equally conspicuous. If any of our
fellow citizens have viewed your administration in a less
favourable light, we are persuaded it must be owing to
some misapprehension of your excellency’s intentions.
But that which falls more immediately within our pro-
vince is the regard you have always paid to the interests
of religion, and the favourable notice you have taken of
the church in England, within your government. Be
pleased, sir, to accept this sincere testimony of our re-
spect and gratitude, together with our earnest prayers
that the divine blessing may attend you through the re-
maining stages of your life, and reward you with an
eternity of happiness in the life to come.

His excellency’s answer.

Gentlemen,

Whatever favourable notice I may have taken of the
church of England, the grateful return you have made,
in this mark of your respect, is alone an ample reward,
and will be an additional inducement to me, in whatever
station I may be the remaining part of my life, sincerely
to wish your prosperity, and to contribute every thing in
my power to the advancement of the interest of religion
among you.

On Saturday last a number of gentlemen waited on
our late governor, Mr. Hutchinson, and presented to
him the following address:

To governor HUTCHINSON.

SIR,

We, merchants and traders of the town of Boston,
and others, do now wait on you, in the most respectful
manner, before your departure for England, to testify
for ourselves, the entire satisfaction we feel at your wise,
zealous, and faithful administration, during the few
years that you have presided at the head of this province.
Had your success been equal to your endeavours and to
the warmest wishes of your heart, we cannot doubt that
many of the evils under which we now suffer, would have
been averted, and that tranquility would have been re-
stored to this long divided province; but we assure our-
selves, that the want of success in those endeavours will
not abate your good wishes when removed from us, or
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the true interest of this your native country. While we
lament the loss of so good a governor, we are greatly re-
lieved that his majesty, in his gracious favour, hath ap-
pointed, as your successor, a gentleman who, having
distinguished himself in the long command he hath held
in another department, gives us the most favourable pre-
possession of his future administration. We greatly de-
plore the calamities that are impending and will soon fall
on this metropolis, by the operation of a late act of par-
liament for shutting up the port on the first of next
month: You cannot but be sensible, sir, of the number-
less evils that will ensue to the province in general, and
the miseries and distresses into which it will particularly
involve this town in the course of a few months. With-
out meaning to arraign the justice of the British parlia-
ment, we could humbly wish that this act had been
couched with less rigour, and that the execution of it
had been delayed to a more distant time, that the people
might have had the alternative, either to have complied
with the conditions therein set forth, or to have submit-
ed to the consequent evils, on refusal; but as it now
stands, all choice is precluded, and however disposed to
compliance or concession the people may be, they must
unavoidably suffer very great calamities before they can
receive relief. Making restitution for damage done to
for damage done to
the property of the East India company, or to the proper-
ty of any individual, by the outrage of the people, we ac-
knowledge to be just; and though we have ever disavow-
ed, and don now solemnly bear our testimony against such
lawless proceedings, yet considering ourselves as members
of the same community, we are fully disposed to bear
our proportions of those damages, whenever the sum
and the manner of laying it can be ascertained. We
earnestly request that you, sir, who know our condition,
and have at all times displayed the most benevolent dis-
position towards us, will, on your arrival in England,
interest yourself in our behalf, and make such favourable
representations of our case as that we may hope to obtain
speedy and effectual relief.----May you enjoy a plea-
sant passage to England; and under all the mortificati-
ons you have patiently endured, may you possess the
inward and consolatory testimonies of having discharged
your trust with fidelity and honour, and receive those
distinguishing marks of his majesty’s royal approbation
and favour, as may enable you to pass the remainder of
your life in quietness and ease, and preserve your name
with honour to posterity.----Signed by 125.

His excellency’s answer,

Gentlemen,

You may be assured that I have nothing so much at
heart as to contribute to the relief of my country in
general, and of the town of Boston in particular, from
the distresses which you have described so fully in your
address to me. Your persons and characters are so well
known to me that I am sure you wish to do what may
be necessary on your part, and your sentiments declared
in this open manner, together with your known dispo-
sition to promote peace and good order in the govern,
ment, will, I flatter myself, have a tendency to facilitate
the success of my endeavors. I entirely agree with you
in your just sentiments of his excellency the present go-
vernor, whose administration I hope you will strive to
make easy to himself as well as prosperous to the pro-
vince. I thank you for so warm, affectionate, and re-
spectful an address.

On Sunday last a number of gentlemen of the law
waited on our late governor with the following ad-
dress:

To his excellency governor Hutchinson.

SIR,

A firm persuasion of your inviolable attachment to the
real interests of this your native country, and of your
constant readiness, by every service in your power, to
promote its true welfare and prosperity, will, we flatter
ourselves, render it not improper in us, barristers, and at-
tornies at law in the province of Massachusetts Bay, to
address your excellency upon your removal from us, with
this testimonial of our sincere respect and esteem. The
various important characters of legislator, judge, and
first magistrate over this province, in which, by the suf-
frages of your fellow subjects, and by the royal favour of
the best of kings, your great abilities, adorned with a
uniform purity of principle, and integrity of conduct,
have been eminently distinguished, must excite the esteem,
and demand the grateful acknowledgements, of every
true lover of his country, and friend to virtue. The pre-
sent perplexed state of our public affairs, we are sensible
must render your departure far less disagreeable to you
than it is to us. We assure you, sir, we feel the loss;
but when, in the amiable character of your successor, we
view a fresh instant of the paternal goodness of our most
gracious sovereign, when re reflect on the probability
that your presence at the court of Great Britain will
afford you an opportunity of employing your interest
more successfully for the relief of this province, and par-
ticularly of the town of Boston, under their present dis-
tresses, we find a consolation which no other human
source could afford. Permit us, sir, most earnestly to
solicit the exertion of all your distinguished abilities in
favour of your native town and country upon this truly
unhappy and distressing occasion. We sincerely wish you
a prosperous voyage, a long continuation of health and
felicity, and the highest rewards of the good and faith-
ful. We are, sir, with the utmost cordial affection,
esteem and respect, your excellency’s most obedient and
very humble servants.----Signed by 24.

His excellency’s answer.

Gentlemen,

The relation to the bar which I stood in for many
years together makes this mark of your affection and
esteem peculiarly acceptable. I feel the distress coming
upon the town of Boston. I am confident nothing will
be wanting on your part which may tend to promote the
free course of law, and that peace and good order in
government which seems to have been made the condi-
tions of obtaining relief from this distress. You may be
assured that nothing shall be wanting on my part which
may tend to procure this relief for you as speedily and
effectually as may be. You certainly may be happy un-
der the administration of his excellency the present go-

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easy. They absolutely tremble with a dread of the junc-
tion of the colonies, and a suspension of trade with Great
Britain, which, at this critical season, must bury the
authors of this complicated, treasonable conspiracy,
against the peace and security of the nation, in the ruins
of their own scheme. It is given out here, by some of
the crew, that your chamber of commerce have written
letters to Chambers, offering if he will be easy, and re-
turn, they will pay him for his tea, and provide him the
command of a good ship. But this report gains no cre-
dit here.”

Last Monday evening the committee of correspondence
met, when they read and answered the dispatches brought
by Mr. Cornelius Bradford from Boston. Next Monday
they will assemble again, after which, it is hoped, their
proceedings will be puplished, for the information of
their constituents; the times are critical, and big with
interesting events, which has occasioned the committee of
correspondence at Philadelphia to promulgate their let-
ter to Boston, and such other proceedings as were judged
necessary for the satisfaction of the public,

Extract of a letter from one of the members of the house
of assembly of New Jersey, and one of the committee of
correspondence which consists of nine members, dated June 2, 1774.

”I returned yesterday from New Brunswick, where
six of our committee met. We answered the Boston
letters, informing them that we look on New Jersey as
eventually in the same predicament with Boston, and
that we will do every thing which may be generally a-
greed on. We have signed a request to the governor to
call the general assembly, to meet at such times as his
excellency may think proper, before the first of August
next. Our committee is well disposed in the cause of
American freedom.”

Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated June 2.

Yesterday we had a pause in the business of this city,
and a solemn pause indeed it was; if we except the
Friends, I believe nine tenths of the citizens shut up
their houses. The bells were rang muffled all the day,
and the ships in the port had their colours half hoisted.”
Extract of another letter from Philadelphia, dated June 4.

”I pity our brethren in Boston, they are very severely
punished; but some of their friends here, and I fear with
you also, are too warm, and to serve them seem wil-
ling to draw us into the same dilemma; but surely this
is not the way to serve the general cause. We can be of
more use to our brethren when whole than when broken,
and I cannot let go my hopes that we may, by a joint
petition of our rights to the crown, prevent things from
going to extremities, and get Boston restored to the same
liberties with the other colonies; but some wish to push
all things into confusion. With them I can never join,
while any other expedient is left. Our letter to Boston
is a moderate one, yet warm and firm enough. You
have do doubt seen it, as a copy was sent to your com-
mittee, who are of our sentiments, and I hope will con-
tinue cool.”

We hear that Francis Masseres, esquire, late attorney
general of Quebec, and now one of the barons of the
exchequer, has wrote a pamphlet upon the necessity of a
representation of the American colonies in the parliament
of Great Britain, of which we may probably give some
account very soon.

A fort is already laid out, and to be immediately con-
structed, at Crown Point, in the room of the old one
lately burnt down.

Saturday last, being the anniversary of his majesty’s
birth day, when he entered the 37th year of his age,
at 12 o’clock his excellency general Haldimand, attended
by a number of gentlemen, walked to the common, where
they were received by a royal salute from the train of
artillery, and the royal Welch fusileers, then under
arms, after which his excellency returned to his residence,
where his majesty’s and other loyal healths were drank,
under the discharge of a royal salute from Fort George,
his majesty’s shop Swan, James Ayseough, esquire, com-
mander, and sundry other vessels in the harbour. The
Swan man of war made a beautiful appearance, adorned
with a fine variety of colours. In the evening some very
curious fireworks were exhibited, and the city was very
handsomely illuminated.

The committee of correspondence for the city of New-
York have ordered circular letters to be sent to the super-
visors of the several counties within this colony, re-
questing them to communicate the same to the several
inhabitants.

On the 17th of last month a very awful shock of an
earthquake was felt at Cape Nichola Mole

By accounts from St. Christopher’s, we learn that
admiral Parry, with is squadron, were at Crab Island,
which gave the governor of St. John De Porto Rico
such umbrage, that he would not supply the fleet from
his territories with any fresh provisions, although ao-
plied to.

We hear from Anguilla, that there has been a great
mortality in that island, which has carried off a number
of the inhabitants, among the rest his honour lieutenant
governor Roberts. That island ahs been remarkably
unhealthy since the two Spanish ships were stranded on
that coast.

When the principle people of Marblehead and Boston
received information that some of the mercenary inhabi-
tants had addressed governor Hutchinson, they hissed
them, and shewed every other mark of disapprobation.

PHILADELPHIA, June 9,

AS many people are desirous of knowing what steps
were taken by the inhabitants of this city, on the
late application made to them by their brethren of Boston
upon receiving the act of parliament for shutting up their
general concern to the liberties of all, the inhabitants of
the different counties of his province should be made ac-
quainted with the proceedings of the metropolis, that
they may approve or dissent from them, as they shall
see cause, you are therefore requested to publish the
following articles, viz.----At a meeting of between two
and three hundred of the respectable inhabitants of the
city of Philadelphia, at the city tavern, on Friday even-
night, May 20, 1774, agreed, that a committee be ap-
pointed to correspond with our sister colonies; that John

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separation is incompatible with their natural ideas and
high notions of liberty and freedom, in the pure, unadul-
terated sense, in which antient, not modern, patriots
have conceived them. Thus circumstanced, Britain
should confirm to America her original privileges and
immunities without blemish; her powers of distinct le-
gislation and taxation, under the immediate control of
the crown and its governors; the trade and navigation
of America should be so limited as to make the same
mutually useful; America should look up to Britain for
defence and protection, and for the encouragement of
her trade, and good government of her police; America
must abandon her illicit trade with Holland and France,
and receive such necessaries of life and conveniency as her
industry and her fertile soil have not yet produced, from
Britain, Ireland, and her sister colonies; America must,
by her own special act, bear a proportional part of the
expenses of government; America and Britain must con-
clude that their interests and security are inseparable; and
they must look upon the promoters of seditious sentiments
to revive dissentions, and lead their affections astray from
each other, as enemies to both, and tools to foreign
powers.

The protest of part of the people of Annapolis against
the resolves lately entered into by that city.

To the PRINTERS.

Annapolis, May 30, 1774.

A PUBLICATION of the enclosed protest, support-
ed by a considerable number of the inhabitants of
the city of Annapolis, will, it is presumed, furnish the
most authentic grounds for determining the sense of the
majority on a question of the last importance.

We whose names are subscribed, inhabitants of the
city of Annapolis, conceive it our clear right, and most in-
cumbent duty, to express our cordial and explicit disap-
probation of a resolution, which was carried by 47 against
31 at the meeting held on the 27th instant. The resolu-
tion against which we protest in the face of the world is
the following: “That it is the opinion of this meet-
ing that the gentlemen of the law of this province bring
no suit for the recovery of any debt, due from any inha-
bitant of this province to any inhabitant of Great Britain
until the said act be repealed.” Dissentient, because we
are impressed with a full conviction that this resolution
is founded in teachery and rashness, inasmuch as it is
big with bankruptcy and ruin to those inhabitants of
Great Britain, who relying with unlimited security on
our good faith and integrity, have made us masters of
their fortunes; condemning them unheard for not having
interposed their influence with parliament in favour of
the town of Boston, without duly weighing the force
with which that influence would probably have operated,
or whether, in their conduct, they were actuated by wis-
dom and policy, or by corruption and avarice. Because
whilst the inhabitants of Great Britain are partially des-
poiled of every legal remedy to recover what is justly due
to them, nor provision is made to prevent us from being
harassed by the persecution of internal suits, but our
fortunes and persons are left at the mercy of domestic
creditors, without a possibility of extricating ourselves,
unless by a general convulsion; an event, in the con-
templation of sober reason, replete with horror. Because
our credit as a commercial people will expire under the
wound; for what confidence can possibly be reposed in
those who shall have exhibited the most avowed and most
stirking proof, that they are not to be bound by obligati-
ons as sacred as human invention can suggest?

ADVERTISEMENT.
To be SOLD cheap, for ready money
A FOUR WHEELED SULKEY,
for a single horse; also a horse for
the saddle or chaise, but would best suit a
lady’s riding. Enquire of the printer.

PHILADELPHIA NEWS CONTINUED.

June13. On Wednesday last the following petition
was presented:
To the honourable John Penn, esquire, governor and
commander in chief in and over the province of Penn-
sylvania, &c.
The petition of sundry inhabitants of the province of
Pennsylvania,

Humbly sheweth

That since the recess of the assembly of this province,
the proceedings of the British parliament towards Ame-
rica, and particularly an act lately passed against the
town of Boston, have filled the minds of your petitioners
and others, their fellow subjects, with deep anxiety and
concern; that your petitioners apprehend the design of
this act is to compel the Americans to acknowledge the
right of parliament to impose taxes upon them at plea-
sure; that the precedent of condemning a whole town
or city unheard, and involving all its inhabitants, of
every age and sex, and however different in political
sentiment or action, in one common ruin, gives universal
alarm. Deeply impressed with these sentiments, and at
the same time solicitous to preserve peace, order, and
tranquility, we do earnestly entreat the governor to call
the assembly of the province as soon as it can convenient-
ly be done, that they may have an opportunity not only
to devise measures to compose and relieve the anxieties of
the people, but to restore that harmony and peace be-
tween the mother country and the colonies, which has
been of late so much and so unhappily interrupted. And
your petitioners shall ever pray, &c.------Signed by
near nine hundred respectable freeholders, in and near
the city of Philadelphia.

To which his excellency was pleased to return the
following answer.

Gentlemen,

Upon all occasions, when the peace, order, and tran-
quility, of the province require it, I shall be ready to
convene the assembly; but as that does not appear to be
the case at present, I cannot think such a step would be
expedient or consistent with my duty.

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Last Thursday evening about twelve hundred mecha-
nics of this city and suburbs assembled at the statehouse,
to hear a letter and other papers read, from the mecha-
nics of the city of New York, and to form such resoluti-
ons as should be judged proper for their future conduct
at this most alarming and critical time, when American
liberty is so deeply wounded, and her rights so unjustly
invaded, by levying taxes on us without our consent for
the purpose of raising a revenue, and for refusing pay-
ment of those illegal taxes, blocking up with divers ships
of war the port and town of Boston, thereby most un-
justly depriving that once flourishing town of its whole
trade, the inhabitants of their private property, and the
labouring poor of the means of subsisting themselves and
families. These proceedings of the parent state against
her American children call aloud upon all Americans to
assemble, consult, and determine firmly, to pursue such
measures for their own and neighbours future security as
shall be judged most likely to avert the present calamity,
and secure to them the perfect enjoyment of their liber-
ties and properties upon a fixed and lasting foundation;
for which purpose the mechanics of this city did propose,
and intend at this meeting to form, such resolutions, to
co-operate with the committee of merchants, and to
strengthen their hands, as will convince the world Ame-
ricans were born and determine to live free, and that
they never will be slaves; that liberty is their birthright;
they cannot, they will not give it up. But since the
sending out the hand bills for calling this great assem-
ly, information was received that the present committee
have sent expresses to all the southern colonies for their
advice on this alarming occasion, and returns to those
expresses are expected in a very few days. That the com-
mittee had determined to call a general meeting of all
the inhabitants in the city and county, to be held here
next Wednesday, the 15th instant, at 3 o’clock in the
afternoon, then to chuse one grand joint committee to
correspond with the committees of the neighbouring
provinces, and to adopt such measures, to be pursued
by all as their united wisdom shall direct: Wherefore
it is judged best at present to omit going into particular
resolutions, or appointing a particular committee to re-
present the mechanics, as the grand general meeting is
so near at hand.

As it was judged there would not be sufficient time to
give proper notice to the county, it was agreed, on Sa-
turday last, by the committee and a number of the most
respectable inhabitants called to advise on the present
occasion, that the general meeting be postponed to Sa-
turday next, at or near the statehouse, at three o’clock,
P. M. at which time and place the inhabitants of this
city and county, qualified to vote for representatives, are
desired to attend, in order to take into their considerati-
on on certain propositions prepared to be laid before them.

Extract of a letter from Pittsuburg, dated May 30.

”I arrived here last Wednesday with Messieurs Dun-
can and Wilson, guarded by a party of Delawares, who
treated us with a great deal of kindness, and gave us
great reason to think they mean nothing but peace and
friendship from all their actions. The Shawanese have
raised 20 warriors to strike the Virginians, who were to
set off last Monday. I fear all the traders are killed at
the Shawanese towns, as there was a party of Mingoes
gathered for that purpose. I am of opinion it will be a
general Indian war, though colonel Croghan thinks the
matter will be settled in a short time.

Extract of a letter from Bedford, dated May 30.

”I suppose you have heard of the Indians being killed
at Whaling; since that time Indian White Eyes, Mr.
Duncan, and Mr. Saunderson, who were sent down the
river from Fort Pitt, in order to accommodate matters
with the Shawanese, are returned, but had hard work
to get back. The Delawares who at present seem to be
friends, had enough to do to save their lives, and as to
the poor traders down among the Shawanese, no person
can tell whether they are dead or alive. White Eyes, on
his return to Fort Pitt, said the Shawanese were for war,
and that 40 odd of them are at present out, intending a
stroke, as is supposed, at some part of Virginia. The
Delawares say they will not go to war; but there is no
dependence on them; we expect every day to hear of their
striking in some quarter. It is lamentable to see the mul-
titudes of poor people that are hourly running down the
country; such of them as stay are building forts. God
knows how it will turn out with them. We intend, as
soon as we hear of any damage being done, to erect for-
tifications here. The Shawanese themselves day that
they have nothing against Pennsylvania, but only Virgi-
nia; ‘though we may depend as soon as they strike Vir-
ginia, they will also fall on us.”

WILLIAMSBURG, June 23.

An address of thanks to the reverend Mr. William
McKay, rector of Northampton parish, in the county of
Richmond.

REVEREND SIR,

WE his majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the
inhabitants of Northampton parish, deeply im-
pressed with the highest sentiments of gratitude, humbly
beg leave thus publicly to return you our sincere and
unfeigned acknowledgements, for the truly spirited and
patriotic sermon you was pleased this day to deliver
from your pulpit.

The Neptune, Punderson, is arrived in York river.

We have likely received several pieces and would
most willingly oblige their different authors; but the
very great length of some of them will, we hope, apolo-
gize for our not giving them a speedy publication.

WILLIAMSBURG, June 20, 1774.

LOST, a WARRANT, under the hand and seal of
his excellency the earl of Dunmore, granted to
Edward Wilkinson, and by him assigned to me, for 200
acres of land in Augusta, on the western waters, directed
to the surveyor of that county. Any person that will
deliver the same to Mr. James Southall, of this city, or
to me, in Berkeley county, shall have 20s. The public
are hereby warned against taking a conveyance of the
said warrant; and the several surveyors are requested to
observe this advertisement. 2+ R. RUTHERFORD.

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To be SOLD, at public auction, at Westmoreland court-
house, on Tuesday the 27th day of September, being
Westmoreland court day,

TWENTY very likely VIRGINIA born SLAVES.
Credit will be allowed until the 10th of November
following, on giving bond and good security. The
bonds to bear interest from the date, if not punctually
discharged. tdf RICHARD PARKER.

To be SOLD, by execution, for ready money, at
Ayett’s warehouse, on Wednesday the 13th of July,
TWENTY seven likely VIRGINIA born NEGROES,
consisting of men, women, boys, and girls, the
estate of col. James Quarles, deceased, to satisfy three
judgments, obtained in York court by the executors of
Philip W. Claiborne, deceased.
2 GOODRICH CRUMP, S. Sheriff.

ON Friday the 15th of August next will be SOLD,
at Chesterfield courthouse, to the highest bidder,
for ready money, by virtue of a deed of trust, from
Thomas Branch, deceased, to John Pankey, Bernard
Markham, and Robert Goode, a tract of LAND, in
Chesterfield county, about nine miles from Manchester
town, containing 150 acres. 3 JOHN PANKEY.

FOR SALE,

A TRACT of LAND in Gloucester county,
Petsworth parish, containing 1170 acres, lying
upon Poropotank river, and convenient to fish and
Oysters. The plantation is in good order for cropping
has a valuable dwelling house upon it, all necessary out-
houses, barns, orchards, &c. and a mill upon an excel-
lent stream of water. Also 2675 3/4 of land in the same
county and parish, which will be sold in lots to suit pur-
chasers. Application is to be made to the next general
assembly for an act to dock the intail of the above lands.
They will be shewn by Mr. Lewis Booker, of whom the
terms may be known.

TO BE SOLD,

A TRACT of LAND, containing 1600 acres,
in the county of Dunmore, on both sides the
North river Shanandoah, and in the forks of Smith’s
creek and the said river; about 400 acres are low grounds,
part of which cost the subscriber 3l. per acre; the rest is
level, and well calculated for farming. There is on the
premises a dwelling house, 38 by 32 feet, 5 rooms on
the lower floor, and 4 fire places, 3 rooms above, with
a good cellar, a storehouse, smith’s shop, kitchen, quarter,
a large barn, stables, and all other outhouses, with about
20 acres of good timothy meadow now in grass, and 100
acres more may be made. One half of the purchase
money will be expected when a title is made, and exten-
sive credit for the remainder.
3+ B. HARRISON.

AS I purpose giving up the charge of the store now
under my management at Petersburg, on account
of Mess. William Cuningham and company, of Glasgow,
to Mr. Alexander Hanburgh, on the 1st of September
next, I beg the favour of all those who have had dealings
with me on account of the above mentioned company,
to settle their accounts before that time, and grant bond,
or some other specialty, that no dispute may arise there-
after. The store will be supplied with goods, and carried
on to the same extent as usual, by Mr. Hanburgh.
3 THOMAS GORDON.

THE different creditors of the late Mr. Augustine
Smith, of Middlesex, deceased, by forthwith
sending states of their several accounts, either to J.
Ambler, esquire, in York, or to col. William Churchill,
in Middlesex, will much oblige their humble servant,
2 JOHN SMITH.

THE clearing the Seven Island falls, in James river,
will be let to the lowest bidder, on the 3d Thurs-
day in August next, at which time any person inclinable
to undertake the same may depend on meeting a sufficient
number of trustees at the place, who will pay down one
half of the money, upon the undertaker’s giving bond
and security for the performance of the same.

LANDED from Liverpool, four BALES, marked C I.
The owner may have them on paying the charges
to ISSAC YOUNGHUSBAND, who has for sale a parcel of
low priced Irish LINENS.

A SOBER, diligent young man, who can write a
tolerable good hand, would willingly engage with
any merchant as a clerk. Any one wanting such a per-
son may hear of him by applying to the printer hereof.

STRAYED, or stolen, from Mr. Edward Walker’s, in
Dinwiddie, on the 20th of April last, a small bay
horse, with a hanging mane and switch tail, shod before,
trots and gallops, and is branded on the near buttock S,
or a figure of 8; the under part of his mane, on the off
side, is cut, by reason of its thickness, on the near side
is a kind of a feather, beginning about half the root of
the mane, and continues to the ear; he is 6 or 7 years
old. Whoever conveys him to the said Mr. Walker
shall receive 5 dollars reward, and if to me, in Williams-
burg, ten dollars. 3 JOSEPH CRAWLEY.

We received THREE SHILLINGS with the following
advertisement, which is the principal reason for our insert-
ing it. In order that it may not lose any of its merit, the
reader has it verbatim.
TUMBLING TOM

NOW Rising 8 years 13 hands and 1 Inch High
Stands This Season at Calloden & will Cover mares
at 5s. the leap and 3s. 9d. the Season his Coular nor pe-
digree ant Worth mentioning I will not be accountable
for any Mares that Shall be Lost for I have no pasteridge
(Some Gentlemens Cureosety may lead them So fare as
to be desirous of knowing What his Name derive from
Which may be done in a few Words that is when Rod
he often Tips all nice a& follows the bole.+ H. L{illegible; smudged) e

TO BE SOLD,

THE noted and well accustomed TAVERN, at pre-
sent occupied by the subscriber lying in James
City county, about 15 miles from Williamsburg, on the
main road leading to New Kent courthouse and Ruffin’s
ferry, with 500 acres of land in good order for cropping,
and 6 fields under good fence. The terms of payment
will be made easy by the subscriber.
THOMAS DONCASTLE.

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For LIVERPOOL,

THE ship Greenwood, Mackey Reed, master. loads
at Norfolk, has two thirds of her cargo already
engaged, can take 200 hogsheads of tobacco, on liberty
of consignment. Any gentleman inclined to ship by her
will please to send their orders either to Mr. Richard
Taylor, of Petersburg, Mr. Richard Squire Taylor, in
King William, or to us, at Norfolk.
GREENWOOD, RITSON, & MARSH.

THE debtors to Messieurs Perkins, Buchanan, and
Brown, late of London, merchants, having paid
no regard to a former advertisement I think it expedi-
ent to call on them in this manner once more to request
payment of their debts to me, as attorney of the assignees
under the commission of bankrupt. I am advised, that
under this commission, which issued the 5th of August,
1773, every interest Mess. Perkins and company then had
become vested in the assignees of their effects; that the
assignments to Mess. Barlow and company, and Mess.
Holland and company, of January and April 1773, be-
ing executed by Perkins and Brown alone, were for that
reason (without offering any other) incompleat and su-
perseded by the assignment, under the commission afore-
said; and that payments and engagements to pay to Mess.
Barlow and company, and Mess. Holland and company,
under colour of their respective assignments, are abso-
lutely void, and that the assignees under the commission
have yet a right at law to recover all the debts due to
Mess. Perkins ad company. But to remove all object-
ons, I will indemnify every person for what I shall re-
receive of them for debts contracted with Mess. Perkins,
Buchanan, and Brown. CHARLES YATES.
To be SOLD, and entered on the 1st of September next,

THE only TAVERN in the town of Manchester,
at the falls of James river, with every convenience
for a public house; several of the out houses are newly
finished. Besides the houses used for the tavern, there
is a good new house, well finished, with a room below,
and 2 above, where the family may live quite retired,
and a large garden newly paled in, with 5 or 6 acres of
land, which runs above 300 feet on the main street in a
valuable part of the town, and capable of improvements.
At this tavern are constantly boarded 20 gentlemen at 25l.
each per ann. Besides servants. Long credit will be given
for part of the purchase money, giving bond, with ap-
proved security. 3* BETTY TODD, junior,
To be sold, to the highest bidder, on the 1st day of Sep-
tember next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, and
entered upon at Christmas.

A PLEASANT seat upon Potowmack river, late the
property of Richard Foote, deceased. It lies in
the lower parish of Stafford county, contains 200 acres
of high level ground, and the same quantity of fine firm
marsh, has a convenient dwellinghouse of four rooms on
a floor, many necessary outhouses, and a good peach and
apple orchard, thereon. For fish and wild fowl, few
places, within many miles, are equal to it. The sale
will be on the premises, and twelve months credit will be
allowed, on giving bond, with approved security; the
bond to carry interest from the date, if not punctually
discharged. Five per cent. discount will be allowed for
ready money, and an indisputable title will be made by
William Stuart,
Richard Foote,,
George Foote,

WANTED, as a clerk for the church of Richmond
town, a sober man, of a good character, that reads
and sings well, and understands teaching psalmody; he will
meet with great encouragement, besides what is allowed
by the vestry. For further particulars apply to the church-
wardens, or Samuel Du Val, near Richmond. 2+

I FIND it necessary to give this public notice, that
Jasper Mauduit Gidley was dismissed from being my
collector in September last, and that no receipts given
by the said Gidley for money on my account, since that
time, will be allowed by me; and I request the favour of
the gentlemen of the law, in the different counties, to
retain in their own hands any bonds or accounts of mine
delivered them by the said Gidley, either before or after
September last, and be kind enough to let me know, by
a line what steps they have taken on such bonds and
accounts. THOMSAS MASON.

THE subscriber begs leave to inform the public that
as soon as the courts proceed on their docket, he
proposed to practice as an attorney in the county courts
of York and James City, and in the court of Hustings at
Williamsburg, and to continue his practice in New Kent
and Charles City courts; and as his whole time and atten-
tion will be employed in this business, he thinks he can
safely promise the utmost diligence and punctuality in it.
He proposes to attend at his lodgings, at Mrs. Rind’s;
in Williamsburg, the day before the courts of York,
James City, and the Hustings, and in all public times,
to receive the commands of those that will employ him.
At other times, his clients letters left there will be for-
warded to him in New Kent by a careful hand, who
will receive and pay such money at Williamsburg as the
conveniency of his clients requires. Titles will be exa,
mined, and conveyances drawn, with care and dispatch,
by 4* B. DANDRIDGE.

PURSUSNT to a decree of the worshipful court of
Amherst, will be exposed to sale, at the courthouse
of the said county, on Monday the 4th of July next, be-
ing court day, to the highest bidder, for ready money, a
valuable tract of land in the said county, whereon Joseph
Magann now lives, situate on the main Carolina road,
about 10 miles from Lynch’s ferry, whereon is a good
plantation, with orchards, and all convenient and valu-
able houses, well calculated for carrying on the business
of ordinary keeping to advantage, also two valuable
slaves, of the estate of the said Magann, to satisfy a
judgement lately obtained by Daniel Gaines, gentleman,
against the said Joseph Magann, in the said county court
of Amherst. 3* GABRIEL PENN.

NORFOLK, June 13, 1774.

THE subscribers have for SALE MADEIRA WINE,
BARBADOS RUM, CANE, SPIRIT, and
MOSCOVADO SUGAR.

PHRIPP and BOWDOIN.