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To Sir GEORGE SAVILLE.
SIR,
If in the unhappy Difference between this Kingdom and the
Colonies Scurrility is to pass for sound Reasoning, and that
Abuse is to carry Truth with it, then certainly we are in the
Right, and America is wrong; but to you, Sir, and the Publick,
I will endeavour to use better Arguments.

This great and extended Empire is composed of different and
distant Parts, viz. Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies.
Over these the King is Sovereign, who by his own Choice resides
in England, where he annually calls the Parliament; and on their being
assembled he acquaints the Commons with his Wants, and orders the
Estimates of the Year to be laid before them, when his faithful Commons
give and grant unto him Part of their own and their Constituents Property,
which they have a Right to do, because deputed and chosen for such
Purposes.

If his Majesty was pleased to go to Ireland, and there call the Parlia-
ment of that Kingdom, and ask, in the same Manner as above, the Com-
mons or Representatives there would give and grant as the English Par-
liament does here.

But suppose his Majesty was pleased to exercise his sovereign Right,
and from Ireland make a short Trip to visit his Subjects in North America,
and there call his Commons of the Colonies to meet him at BOSTON,
and to them, as well as to England and Ireland, make known his Wants.
and order the Estimates to be laid before them, his faithful Commons
of America would also give and grant to his Majesty.

By this Means, the present great Dispute would subside; for each of
these great Communities would, as they ought, give and grant the neces-
sary Taxes.

But as the King is confined to a Body, and that Body to a Place, he
cannot be every Where; and therefore, of the three, chooses England for
his Residence, and sends his Lieutenants to Ireland, New England, New
York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Carolina, &c. These his Lieutenants,
being vested with bis Power and Authority, as being his Representatives,
call the Commons, the Representatives of the People, together, and make
known his Majesty's Wants; when they always have, most freely, given
and granted to his Majesty the needful Supplies for the Support of his
Government.

This is the constitutional Mode of taxing the People of England, Ire-
land, and America; and this ever was the Practice, from the Revolution
down to the Administration of Mr. Grenville.

These three great Communities, England, Ireland, and the Colonies,
all contain his Majesty's Subjects, equally entitled to his Favour and
Protection, and equally entitled to all the constitutional Laws, Rights,
and Liberties, of this free Empire; and as they are all the Subjects of the
same Prince, and no Difference or Pre-eminence being due to any over the
other, I ask, in God's Name, from whence is the Right derived that one
Part of the King's Subjects have of late Years taken upon them to
exercise a Right to tax another part of the King's Subjects? For no Man
will say that a forty Shillings Freeholder, Freeman, or Pot Boiler, in En-
gland, has more Right of Privilege, or a better Title to the constitutional
Laws, than a Man in New England has. How then can those British Vo-
ters delegate a Right to their Deputies which they have not themselves?
It is an Insult to Common Sense, to all Right, and an Absurdity too
gross for any impartial and reasonable Man to adopt.
RATIONALIS.

MADRID, February 1.
We have already given some general Accounts of the Destruc-
tion of Guatimala; but as the following one is more
particular, and exhibits Nature in one of her most awful
and terrifick Appearances, we cannot forbear inserting it.
" On the 3d of June 1773, about five o'clock in the Morning, some
small Shocks of an Earthquake were felt at a large Indian Village about
six Leagues from Guatimala, and very near the coast of the South Sea,
but did then no Damage except alarming the Inhabitants. The Shocks
continued, with trifling Intermissions, till seven o'clock in the Evening,
when the great Effects of Nature began to break forth in all their Ter-
rours: Lightning and Thunder were incessant, attended with a heavier
Rain than ever was known there; the Sea rose in such a convulsive
Manner that it overflowed the highest Banks, and at the same Time the
Land was so agitated by the Earthquake that the Village was destroyed
in a short Time, and not a Trace of it left. The major part of the In-
habitants, on the first Appearance of the Tempest, had fled towards
the City of Guatimala, but found that unhappy Place involved in more
Misery than where they fled from. The two famous Mountains near
that City were in a State of the greatest Eruption: The one, which
emits a liguid Fire, and amazing large Stones, threw out its most en-
raged Force on the City; the other, which in a like Manner issues out
Water, deluged the Land about. The violent Shocks of the Earthquake,
the Lightning, Thunder, and Rain, made one dreadful Scene of Con-
clusion, not to be paralleled. This War of Nature commenced in its
full Force about eight o'Clock in the Evening, and continued raging till
the Night of the seventh Day, in which Time the University, the pub-
lick Courts of Justice, the Cathedral, the parochial Churches, and all
the publick Edifices, were destroyed, either by the Earthquake, by the
Fire and Stones from the Mountain, or by the Impetuosity of the River,
which rose above its Banks, and bore every Thing before it with the
greatest Violence. Chasms of a great Extent were made in the Earth
and many whole Houses, with Numbers of the miserable Inhabitants,
fell in, and were seen no more. On the Night of the seventh, about the
Hour of ten, the Mountain raged excessively, the Earth shook with
great Violence, and the Thunder increased; this lasted about five
Minutes, when the whole City of Guatimala was destroyed, and swal-
lowed in a large Chasm, a Rent in Nature, and the fiery Earth spread
over it in a Manner which soon obscured it from Sight. The Elements
now, as if gratified with their Prey, calmed most surprisingly: By the
Noon of the next Day every Thing was again calm and serene; but the
Face of the Earth was altered, the City was gone, the burning Moun-
tain shook from its Base, and other Rocks sunk with their Tops in the
Earth; the River was parted in many places, and formed into standing
Pools of a bitter smoky Water; and the fine Vale was covered with
Large Stones, and the Lava (cooled) which had issued from the Moun-
tains. The Number of People left is not yet, nor posibly ever will be
really ascertained, as those who may have escaped have not yet been
heard of, except the President of the Audience, the Bishop of the Place,
and about 170 others, who providentially escaped to Trinidad, or Son-
sonate, about thirty Leagues from Guatimala, and about 200 who have
arrived at Porto Bello."

[Guatimala, or St Jago de Guatimala, is the Capital of Guatimala
proper, situated in fourteen Degrees north Latitude, nine Leagues from
the South Sea. The new City was situated on a River, in a beautiful
Valley, about three Leagues from the old one, and was the largest City
in Spanish America; it was the seat of the President and Courts of
Justice of the Audience, a Bishop's See, Suffragan of Mexico, an Uni-
versity, had several fine Manasteries, a Cathedral, and parochial Churches,
exceedingly rich.]

VENICE, February 16. Considerable Additions are constantly mak-
ing to the Russian Fleet, which is now lying in two Squadrons, one at
the Island of Scios in the Archipelago, and the other at Paros. Several
Ships have lately joined them through the Straits of Gibraltar, and two
large Ships passed the Dardanelles. The whole Force of the Russians

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now amount to 114 Sail of Ships, from twenty to eighty Guns, besides
a great Number of smaller armed Vessils, Gallies, Landing Boats, &c.
and the whole Fleet is plentifully supplied with Provisions, Stores, &c.
An Attack is expected to be made very early.

LEGHORN, February 17. Yesterday arrived in our Road the new
Russian Squadron under the Command of Vice Admiral Greig, in 23
Days from Portsmouth, consisting of the Issidorum, Captain Surminoss,
of 74 Guns, the Mironisitz, Captain [damaged, illegible],of 74 Guns, the
Alexander Newsky, Captain Voronori, of 64. Guns, the Demetrius
Donsky, Captain Pajaskoss, of 64 Guns, and the St. Paulus, Captain
Poulisky, of 30 Guns. Admiral Greig's Lady is on Board the Issidorum,
but will disembark here, and take up her Residence at the Hotel of the
Russian Agent. The Squadron will sail tomorrow for the Isle of Paros,
the Wind being very fair.

A great Number of small Vessels, of an entire new Construction, cal-
culated merely for bringing Troops on Shore, have been finished at the
Isle of Paros. It is supposed that the Russian Fleet consists at present of
near 128 Sail, of different sizes, besides those that are expected in the
Months of May and June next.

CONSTANTINOPLE, February 3. Immediately on the Death of
the late Grand Seignior, on the 21st past, the great Officers were called
into the Seraglio. Upon their Arrival, the present Grand Seignior was
conducted out of his Apartments, in which he has been confined forty
four years, into the Apartments of his deceased Brother; and, after
viewing the Corpse, he retired to a Throne erected for him, where the
great Officers were permitted to kiss his Garment. The late Grand
Seignior was interred in the Mosque of [damaged, illegible] Jamesi, four Hours after
his Death. On Thursday the 27th, the [damaged, illegible] appointed for what is called
here the Coronation, the Procession by Land was numerous and magni-
ficent to the Mosque of Ejup, where the Sword was girt on the Grand
Seignior by Nahib Effendi, or Head of the Imir, Vicar to the Sheich of
Conia, and from thence he returned by Water to the Seraglio; 120 Frank
Vessels contributed greatly to the Show, by saluting the Sultan as he passed.

February 23. The necessary Preparations for War are not abated,
and Levies are made with amazing Facility, 42,000 Men being enlisted
for the ensuing Campaign. The Army, besides, is well disciplined, by
the Activity of the Grand Visiar, who is constantiy employed in exercising
the Soldiers; and being an Enemy to Asiatick Indolence and Luxury, he
gives them an Example how they are to support the Fatigues of War, so
that the Soldiery no longer murmur at being drawn out of their Winter
Quarters.

The Treasures of Jasper Aga, who was killed in Bulgaria in October
last, and those of Omar Pacha, who was made Prisoner by the Russians,
have been declared confiscated to the Use of the Grand Seignior. The
former was found to be possessed of 1,350,000 Piastres, and the latter of
1,200,000. The late Grand Seignior being informed, a little before his
Death, of the above great Sums being in their possession, said, "Now I
see the Reason why the great Sums drawn from my Treasury have been
declared insufficient for carrying on the War they have been con-
verted to the Use of those who were [damaged, illegible].
Besides the above Sums, 2,250,000 Piastres will be brought into the im-
perial Treasury, by the Death of Moldavangi Ali Pacha, late Grand Visiar.

Other Accounts say, it has been discovered that Chiaoux Pacha and
Omar Pacha received Presents from and were bribed by Count Roman-
zow, in the late Campaign. Several Millions of Piastres have been found
in their Possession. They both died of the Wounds they received in a late
Engagement, and all their Goods have been confiscated.

March 1. Since the Accession of the new Emperour, the Face of
Affairs is considerably altered; and the Preparations for maintaining the
War, which in the Emperour Mustapha's Time were rather in a languish-
ing Condition, are now prosecuted with the utmost Vigour. Recruits
are raising in many Parts of the Empire, several disgraced Generals are
restored to the Army, and his Sublime Highness has publickly signified
that he will take the Command of it himself. Two new Founderies for
the casting of Cannon, Field Pieces, &c. have just been established at
Pera, and one entirely under the Direction of some Franks. M. St.
Priest, the French Ambassadour, has Audiences almost daily of his Sub-
lime Highness, and is in great Favour.

PETERSBURG, February 15. We have received some favourable
Advices from the Army of General Bibikow, one of which is, that a
Detachment of 6000 of our Troops had beat a Body of the Rebels near
Casan, had killed some Hundreds, and had taken a great Number of
Prisoners; and that another Detachment had taken Samara, garrisoned
by 1000 of the Rebels, since which several have surrendered themselves
to General Bibikow, to implore the Empress's Forgiveness. Nevertheless,
our Advices do not seem to speak of the Rebellion as crushed; on the
contrary, the Empress has promised 100,000 Roubles to whoever shall
deliver up Pugatschess, dead or alive, together with a Promise of being
decorated with all the Russian Orders.

Several Ships of War are ready to be launched at Archangel, Revel,
Cronstadt, and here; so that another Squadron will sail into the Medi-
terranean at the latter End of April, which will be commanded by one
of the Orlows.

The Empress has of late received several Couriers from General Bibi-
kow, who mentions the different Advantages which his Troops have ob-
tained over some Detachments of the Rebels; and what gives the greatest
Satisfaction to the Empress, the Nobility of Orenburg, Pensa, Simbirsk,
and Swiaisk, have petitioned her Majesty to permit them to raise a nume-
rous Body from among her Subjects, at their own Expense, to oppose the
Rebels, which Request her Majesty was pleased to grant them.

VIENNA, February 27. The Operations of the Campaign have al-
ready been begun by the Turks, who have sprung from their Winter
Quarters with a most singular Activity, rendered more remarkable by
their well known Indolence when in Winter Quarters. Achmet Benedid,
the Seraskier of Siliftria, has passed the Danube near Oblucife, and at-
tacked a Body of 11,000 Russians under the Command of General Po-
temkin, in a very advantageous Post, which, after a severe Conflict, the
Seraskier of Siliftria possessed himself of, and drove them, with great Loss,
to one of their strong Fortresses on the Banks of the Danube. It is
thought that this Action will put the main Body of the Russian Army in
Motion.

WARSAW, March 2. We are told, by a private Letter from Mos-
cow, that the internal Plot formed by the Footmen of that City, to mur-
der their Masters, was to have been executed in the following Manner :
The Playhouse and Assembly Halls were to have been set on Fire at the
same Time on every Side, and such Nobles and Gentlemen as were not
there were to have been assassinated at home; but this detestable Conspi-
racy was happily discovered in Time, and the Ringleaders secured.

March 5. We are just informed that a Detachment from the Russian
Army has passed the Danube, and attacked a Turkish Corps on their
March to carry Magazines to the Army of the Grand Visar. The Turks
have been defeated, and the Magazines fell into the Hands of the Russians,
which they brought safely to the Army; but no farther Particulars are
yet known.

The Confederates have newly given out several Manifestoes, in which
they exhort their Brethren not to lose their Spirit, assuring them that the
present Sultan is determined not to give up the Cause of Polish Liberty,
but to defend it even at the Expense of the whole Turkish Empire.

Within this Fortnight several Prussian Officers of Rank have passed
through this City, in their way to the Russiian grand Army.

March 7. Our Republick is greatly alarmed with the melancholy
News that the Prussian Troops passed the Vistula the 1st Instant, and
put up the Prussian Eagle on this Side of the River, wherever they arrived.

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They have brought along with them seven very large Baggage Waggons,
laden with Posts, upon the Top of which are fixed the Prussian Eagle, so
that it appears as if this ambitious Prince intends to deprive us of the little
which remained to us; and it is greatly apprehended that he will make
himself Master of the whole Polish Dominions, for it is reported (and
which we have Reason to credit) he will furnish Russia with a powerful
Army against the Porte, for which Russian will cede to him her new
acquired Provinces in Poland.

DANTZICK, March 4. Ever since yesterday, this unfortunate City
has been quite blocked up; for all the Country People in the Districts of
this Place have flocked hither, being drove by a strong Prussian Detach-
ment, which goes from one Village to another within the District of
Dantzick and takes all the young able Men away with them. On the
Road we see loaded Waggons whose Drivers have run away. In short,
all the Houses of the Great and Opulent, and the Huts of the Poor, are
deserted by the male Part of the Family. This Storm came on very
suddenly, and was occasioned, as is imagined, by the Magistrates refus-
ing to deliver up the Natives of West Prussia.

L O N D O N, March 17.
LORD North every Day grows more into Favour with his Sovereign,
if it is possible for him to be a greater Favourite than he has been
for some Months past. A Day or two ago, it is said, his Lordship told
his Majesty that he hoped (as he had great Reason to hope) the Measure
now going to be taken with the Americans would, in the Course of the
Year, prove that his Majesty had done every Thing that was right and just.
His Majesty immediately answered, “ the King who has such an able
Minister can never do his People wrong."

We are assured, from undoubted Authority, that the French King hath
actually raised the Sum of 24 Millions of Livres, solely upon his own
Credit; that the general Opinion at Paris is, that this sum has been raised
in so private a Manner in Order that it might not alarm the British
Ministry, in the present intricate Situation of our American affairs.

However widely the Mother Country has hitherto differed in Sentiments
from her blessed Babes at Boston, she has not proceeded in a single In-
stance to enforce her Opinion with the strong Arm of Authority. The
Bostonians have not preserved the same Moderation, by any Means; from
Words they have proceeded to Blows, and made a downright Seizure of
our Property in our own immediate Ports. Some of our Patriots,
nevertheless, who are continually expressing the greatest Solicitude for
our Honour, not only stand forth the determined Champions of the
Shameful Outrages committed upon us by the Capital of Massachusett’s
Bay, but even make their Court to the English Nation, by encouraging
these lawless Malcontents to persevere in trampling upon the unfortunate
People of England.

It has, we hear, among others Points, been proposed in the Cabinet
to pass an Ad vesting in the Crown the Nomination of the Council in the
Province of Massachusett’s Bay.

An Honorable correspondent has favored us with the following,
which he assures us is the Substance of the intended American Bill. The
Preamble is long, and recites the Disturbances, Outrages, and unwar-
rantable Proceedings, committed by some Persons at Boston. The Bill
then proceeds to enact, that no Ship or Vessel shall land, discharge, lade,
or Ship, any Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, at the said Town of
Boston, or from the Harbour, till they have first made Restitution to the
East India Company for the Damage they have sustained by the Loss of
certain Teas; with a Proviso, that it shall not extend to the unloading any
Ship or Vettel having on Board any military Stores.

It is confidently said, that the American Merchants here have ac-
quainted Lord North that they will be answerable for the Inhabitants of
Boston making Reparation to the India Company for the Loss of their
Tea, but would not be bound for their making any Concession to Go-
vernment.

The Merchants trading to Boston, made an Application yesterday, in
the Forenoon, to Lord North, praying to be heard before the Bill now in
Agitation passes into a Law. The intention of this Address is not to
vindicate the Boston People, or even to pretend to exculpate them in the
least. The Merchants trading to Boston both know and regret the re-
bellious Outrages committed in that Town, and are clearly of Opinion
that England must now assert her Supremacy; but they interpore, in
Order, before coercive Measures are put in Execution, that the Boston
People should be allowed to call an Assembly, and vote, if they please,
a Sum adequate to the Value of the Tea which they have so wantonly
destroyed. The Merchants are to have an Audience this Forenoon.

It is reported, that some Dissentions have arisen in the Cabinet with
Respect to the Affairs of Boston; some insisting, that before they
proceed any farther, a Requisition should be made of such Sums as are
judged expedient to be raised, which, if they refuse, then to punish.
But it does not appear that this Expedient has ever been offered, and the
most strenuous Advocates against them seem doubtful of a Right to tax
them, any other way than by Imports and Exports, the same as is done
on the Goods of foreign countries.

Mr. Fuller, in a Debate on the third Reading of the Boston Bill, having
given his Opinion that a Clause should be inserted to demand a Fine of them
efore their Points were blocked up, and that this Act would probably be
a Means of their refusing to pay their Debts, Lord North said, “ I am by
no Means an Enemy to lenient Measures, but I find that Resolutions of
Censure and Warning will avail nothing. We must therefore proceed to
some immediate Remedy; now is owr Time to stand out, to defy them,
to proceed with Firmness, and without Fear. Let this Bill produce a
Conviction to all America that we are now in earnest, and that we will
proceed with Firmness and Vigour; that Conviction would be lost if they
see us hesitating and doubting; it will be enough to show that Great
Britain is in earnest. The Merchandise now will be landed at Marblehead,
in the Province of Salem, which is putting Boston about seventeen Miles
from the Sea with Respect to foreign Trade. This Restriction will be
continued, as long as they persist in their present Proceedings; it will
operate severely, or mildly, against them, according to their Behaviour.
If they are obstinate, the Measures will be severe; if not, mild. He
believed that Boston would not immediately submit to a Fine, nor to the
Intention of the present Bill, unless it came attended with a Mark of Reso-
lution and Firmness that we mean to punish them and assert our Right.
It is impossible to suppose but some of our own People may in some Degree
suffer a little, but we must compare those temporary Inconveniencies with
the Loss of that Country and its due Obedience to us; they bear no Com-
parison, and the Preference must certainly be given to the latter, and
attended to. The Honourable Gentleman tells us that the Americans
will not pay their Debts due to this Country, unless we comply with
their Dispositions. I believe (says his Lord ship) Things will remain much
in the same State as before. They threatened us with the same Thing of
we did not repeal the Stamp Aft; we repealed that Act, and they did
not pay their Debts. If this Threat is yielded to, we may as well take
no Remedy at all; their Threats will hold equally good to the Fine propos-
ed by the Honourable Gentleman, as to the Operation of this Bill. IF
the Consequences of their not obeying this Act are likely to produce
Rebellion, that Consequence belongs to them, and not to us. It is not
what we have brought on, but what they alone have occasioned; we are
only answerable that our Measures are just and equitable. Let us conti-
nue to proceed with Firmness, Justice, and Resolution; which, if
pursued, will certainly produce that due Obedience and Respect to the
Laws of this Country, and the Security of the Trade of its People, which
I so ardently wish for.

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Extract of a letter from Captain Duff, of the East India Company's Artillery
at Bengal, dated February 26, 1773. [damaged, illegible] to his [damaged, illegible] a Gentleman of the
County of Moray.

" A few Days ago I happened [damaged, illegible] on a shooting party with
several Gentlemen of the Military, and [damaged, illegible]
considerable Distance from them, when they put up a very large [damaged, illegible]
who directed his Course towards me. Immediately fired at him, which
had no other Effect (being small Shot) than that of irritating him, inso-
much that he slew at me with great Fury. I kept him at Bay a conside-
rable Time with my Fowling Piece, on which was fixed a Bayonet, as
is usual in this Country when we go a-shooting; but at last I was rendered
very weak, occasioned by the Loss of Blood, having received many
Wounds in my Face, Arms, and several Parts of my Body; and none of
my Companions appearing to my Assistance, they having all made off,
the Animal made a furious Effort, by leaping upon me, which threw
me down. He immediately got upon me, and was ready to tear me in
Pieces, when I stretched out my Hand to the Muzzle of my Piece, and
unfixed the Bayonet, with which I aimed a Blow so judiciously that I
pierced his Heart; he instantly fell down dead upon me. I believe I may
venture to observe, that never vas any Man nearer being devoured by a
voracious Animal than I was won the above Occasion. I consider my
Deliverance as an Act of Providence."

March 24. It may be depended on, that a Sloop of War sailed from
Plymouth fourteen Days ago for Boston, with Orders to bring to England,
in Irons, Mess. Hancock, Row Adams, and McIntosh. McIntosh has
been very active among the lower Order of People, the others among the
higher.

They write from Berlin, that Lieutenant Major Schwerin, at the
Head of a Detachment, was actually ordered to march towards Dantzick
and take Possession of that City in Case the Magistracy do not immedi-
ately proclaim his Prussian Majesty the legal Owner of the Port of
Dantzick.

By a Letter, of pretty good Authority, we are informed that the Em-
perour, notwithstanding his Intimacy with the King of Prussia, still seems
to be jealous of the powerful Any which is at present cantoned in Sile-
sia and upon its Territories; for which Reason he has ordered ten Regi-
ments to march into Poland, to join the Austrian Army there, and it is
confidently asserted that the Head Officers have secret Orders to watch
the Motions of the Prussian Troops very closely. They add, that it ap-
pears as if the Emperour was apprehensive that the King of Prussia might
be a great Obstacle in his Undertakings.

They write from Vienna, that the Emperour has ordered six Regi-
ments of Foot, and two of Horse, to enter Poland, and take Possession
of every Place that the Russians shall evacuate.

They write from Lisbon, that the Mount Carmel, a Portuguese Man
of War of 64 Guns, was lost off the Western Islands, and all the Crew
perished.

By a Letter from Constantinople we are informed that the Janisaries
set on Fire the Hotel of the French Ambassadour at Pera the same Day
the present Sultan was proclaimed Successor to the Throne.

They write from Warsaw, that Debates run very high on the Means
for raising the Sums of Money necessary for the State, and for an Allow-
ance for the King's private Use; and some think that the three Powers
who dismembered so great Parts of the Polish Territories must interfere,
and settle the Matter for them at last.

Orders are sent to the Commissioners at Portsmouth to gild and paint
the Barsteur in a very elegant Manner, ready for the Reception of their
Majesties.

We are informed that the Prince of Wales and the Bishop of Osnabrug
will accompany their Majesties to the intended Review at Portsmouth.

The new State Bed that is fixed up in the Royal Apartments at St.
James's, preparatory to the baptizing the young Prince, is made of Crim-
son Velvet lined with white Satin, and richly ornamented with Gold
Lace.

A Letter from Zell says, that a certain Queen has given over all Hopes
of being restored to her former Dignity, and resolves to finish her Days
in her present Residence; on which Account Orders are given to repair
her Palace during the Summer Season, which she intends to spend at Pi-
ramond and Mont Brilliant, where she expects a Visit from her Brother,
who is now on his Travels.

We hear that a Treaty of Marriage is on Foot between Lord Stanley,
Grandson and Heir to the Earl of Derby, and Lady Elizabeth Hamilton,
eldest Daughter to the late Duke of Hamilton.

General Fraser will, we hear, have an Irish Peerage, and one of the
vacant Red Ribands, as soon as his paternal Estate is recovered.

Letters from Moldavia mention that the Russian grand Army was pre-
paring to pass the Danube about the latter End of last Month, so that we
expect very soon to receive some News from that Quarter.

According to authentick Advices from Polish Prussia, we are informed
that new Orders have been issued through all their Provinces, that every
Town, Village, and Borough, is to raise a certain Number of Recruits,
to the Amount of 20,000 Men, and that these new Recruits are to be
fitted out before the Expiration of April and sent to Graudnitz, the Con-
sequence of all which is expected to be known at the Opening of the next
Campaign between the Russians and the Turks.

This Morning No. 1917 was drawn a Prize of 50,0001. in the Adelphi
Lottery. The Ticket is the Property of the Mess. Adams.

March 22. In the House of Commons, the Order of the Day, for the
second reading of the Bill for the immediate Removal of the Officers con-
cerned in the Collection of the Management of his Majesty's Duties and
Customs from the Town of Boston, in the Province of Massachusett’s
Bay, in North America, and to discontinue and discharge the landing and
shipping of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, at the said Town of Boston,
or within the Harbour thereof, was read.

Mr. R. Fuller said, the Bill would be of total Destruction to this
Country if it passed; that, in his Opinion, the Mode of Punishment
ought to be altered to a Fine of 20,000l. to the East India Company, for
the Demolition of their Tea, and another Fine to his Majesty, for Damages
done; and that he would recommend them to follow the Examples men-
tioned of Edinburgh, Glasgow, &c. He concluded with saying, “ First
fine them; and if they refuse to obey your Orders, then put this Act in
Force.”

A Motion was then made, that this Bill be now committed, which
was carried in the affirmative without a Division. No other Debate
ensued.

March 23. His Majesty's Message of the 7th Instant, and the Ameri-
can Papers, laid before the House the 7th and 11th Instant, were referred
to the Committee on the Boston Port Bill.

At Half after three o'Clock the Order of the Day on the Boston Port
Bill being read, the House accordingly resolved itself into a Committee
thereon ; and, after a considerable Time spent therein, the Chairman
acquainted the House that the Committee had filled up the Blanks, and
had made several Amendments thereto, and that he would report them
whenever the House thought proper to receive them. Ordered, that the
Report be now received; and the Report being made accordingly, some
farther Amendments were then made, and the Bill ordered to be read a
third Time the next Day, if then engrossed.

Several Clauses in the above Bill were objected to in the Committee.

Mr. C. Fox spoke with great Energy and Ability against the Clause
which empowers his Majesty to open the Port of Boston, on the inhabi-
tants returning to their Duty. He said, that it was the Legislature of
Great Britain that they had offended, and it was to that alone they should
sue for Pardon; observing, that such a Clause was, in fact, nothing less
than giving up the Authority and supreme Power of Parliament, to be
exercised at the Discretion of those in Office. Mr. Oliver dwelt much
upon the many fatal Consequences it might produce, in Respect of the
Trade and Commerce of this Country. Lord North appealed to the Judg-
ment of the House if the Punishment did not fall short of the Offence, if
they still continued refractory; and if they returned to be peaceable Sub-
jects, the Bill, by the Clause alluded to by Mr. Fox, would then be not a
Measure of Severity, but Favour. Mr. Jenkinson spoke very vehemently
against the Bostonians, and arraigned their Conduct in the strongest
Terms. Mr. Gascoigne said, that some Accounts were received of their
making Preparations for a State of actual Rebellion. Mr. Byng con-
demned the Principle of the Bill, as punishing the Innocent for the Crimes
of the Guilty. General Conway condemned the Conduct of the Mother
country towards the North Americans for a Series of Years back, but
approved of the Bill, as the best Measure that could be pursued in the
present Situation of Affairs in that country. Colonel Barré, Mr. Ward,
Mr. Herbert, and Mr. Dempster, likewise spoke on the above Occasion;
the two former partly in Favour of the Bill, the third directly, and the
Last Gentleman on the general Idea of a compensatory Clause.

March 25. By Letters from an Officer of Distinction abroad, we have
Authority to assure the Publick that the French are now making a very
great naval Armament at Toulon; that the Sailors at all the Ports of
the Mediterranean are already impressed for the Fleet, and those at Roch-
fort are immediately commanded to join the Toulon Shipping.

The Russian Ambassadour waited upon Lord North yesterday, and
acquainted him that he had received certain Intelligence from his Court
of the general arming of the French in the Mediterranean.

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It is said that Major General Mackay will be appointed Commander
in Chief of the Forces in North America.

March 26. On Thursday Evening the Ceremony of the christening of
the young Prince was performed in the great Council Chamber at Saint
James's, by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. His Royal High-
ness was nained Adolphus Frederick.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 25. The Order of the Day for the
third reading of the Boston Bill was read, which occasioned a very strong
Debate, of four Hours, between Lord North, Governour Pownall, Mr.
E. Burke, Mr. Sawbridge, &c. in Regard to some Clauses in the Bill.
At eight o'Clock the Lobby was cleared, for a Division; but the Oppo-
sers of the Bill gave it up, and the Bill was read a third Time, and passed.

The following is an Epitome of the BOSTON BILL.

The Bill sets forth, that dangerous Connections and Insurrections have
been fomented and raised in the Town of Boston, by divers ill affected
Persons, to the Subversion of his Majesty's Government, and to the utter
Destruction of the publick Peace and good Order of the said Town, in
which Commotions and Insurrections certain valuable Cargoes of Teas,
the Property of the East India Company, on Board certain Vessels lying
in the Harbour of Boston, were seized and destroyed. That, in the pre-
sent Condition of the said Town and Harbour, the Commerce of his
Majesty's Subjects cannot be safely carried on there, nor the Customs
payable to his Majesty duly collected, and it is therefore expedient that
the Officers of the Customs should be forth with removed from the said
Town. And therefore the Bill enacts, that it shall not be lawful for any
Person or Persons to lay on Board any Ship or Vessel from any part of the
Town and Harbour of Boston, between Nahant Point and Alderton
Point, any Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, to be transported to any
other Country, or into any other part of the Province of the Massachu-
sett’s Bay, or to discharge or lay on Land within the said Town, or upon
any of the Places aforesaid, out of any Ship or Vessel, any Goods, Wares,
or Merchandise, to be brought from any other Country, or any other Part
of the said Province, upon Pain of forfeiting the Goods, and of the Ship
or Vessel into which the same shall be taken.

There are Claufes inflicting Penalties on Wharfingers suffering Goods
to be landed, shipped off, or Water-born, at or from their Wharfs, or
for aiding and assisting in the shipping or unshipping Goods, Wares, or
Merchandise; for obliging Ships moored or lying at Anchor, or hovering
in the Bay, or within a certain Distance from the same, to depart to some
other Harbour or Station, except Ships laden with military Stores for the
King's Use, or laden with Fuel or Victual for the Sustenance of the In-
habitants of the Town of Boston, or Ships having on Board Goods at
the Time mentioned in the Bill. Directing, that all Seizures, Penalties,
Forfeitures, shall be made and prosecuted by an Admiral, chief Com-
mander, or commissioned Officer of his Majesty’s Fleet or Ships of War,
or by some of the Officers of the Customs, or by some other authorised
by the Commissioners of the Treasury; and inflicts Penalties on such
Officers and Persons as shall take any Bribe to connive at such lading or
unlading, or doing any other Act whereby the Goods, Wares, and Mer-
chandise prohibited, shall be suffered to pass inwards or outwards, or
whereby the Penalties and Forfeitures inflicted by the Bill may be evaded.
Directing, that the Forfeitures and Penalties inflicted by the Bill shall be
prosecuted for, and applied in the same Manner, as other Penalties and
Forfeitures inflicted by any Act, or Acts, relating to the Trade or Re-
venue of the British Colonies or Plantations in America, are directed to
be prosecuted for, recovered, and applied, by two Acts of the 4th and
8th Years of the Reign of his present Majesty. Declaring, that every
Charter Party Bill of Lading, and other Contract for consigning, shipping,
or carrying any Goods or Merchandise to or from the said Town or Har-
bour, made or to be made, or entered into, so long as the Act shall re-
main in Force, shall be void. Empowering the King, whenever it shall
be made appear to him, in Privy Council, that Peace and Obedience to
the Laws shall be so far restored in the said Town of Boston that the Trade
of Great Britain may be safely carried on there, to assign and appoint the
Extent, Bounds, and Limits of the said Port or Harbour; and also to
assign and appoint the Quays and Wharfs for the landing and discharging,
lading and shipping of Goods, as his Majesty shall judge necessary, and
to appoint such Officers of the Customs as his Majesty shall think fit.
Declaring, that the Bill shall not extend to enable the King to appoint
such Port, Quays, Wharfs, or Officers in the said Town, unless full
Satisfaction shall have been made to the Company for the Damage sus-
tained by them for the Destruction of their Goods sent to the said Town
on Board certain Ships, and to the Officers of his Majesty's Revenue
and others who suffered by the Riots and Insurrections in November,
December, and January last; allowing the general Issue to be pleaded in
Actions brought in Pursuance of the Bill.

The Lords yesterday read a third Time, and passed, without Amend-
ments, the Bill for establishing certain free Ports in Jamaica.

A Petition was presented by the Lord Mayor in Behalf of the Natives
of North America; which being read, was ordered to lie on the Table.

Yesterday the Earl Percy took Leave of his Majesty, and this Day will
set off for Ireland to join his Regiment, and from thence to North Ame-
rica.

The Ministry have received some Accounts from America which have
occasioned the holding several Councils. It is reported, that something
very atrocious has been attempted against the Lieutenant Governour of
the Massachusett’s Bay.

They write from Dantzick, that several Pieces of Cannon, and a
Detachment of the Prussian Artillery, have just arrived in that City.

Late Accounts from Naples say, that Father Givoanio, being at Sup-
per with his two Nieces, and blaming one severely for a proposed Marriage,
on her answering rashly, he struck her, upon which she stabbed him to
the Heart.

Some Letters from Constantinople say, that the new Sultan has already
given Proofs of his Generosity and Justice; for instead of following the
Example of some of his Predecessors, in mutilating and even strangling
his nearest Relations, his Highness has heaped Favours on the young
Sultan Selim, Son of the deceased Emperour. He kept the young Prince
with him eight Days, promised to be a father to him, ordered the
Apartments alloted for him to be made more spacious and agreeable,
and directed an Apartment for the young Prince's Mother to be contigu-
ous to her Son's.

The following may, perhaps, be of some Use to our Country Farmers.
The Sieur Rosing, Master of Economy to his Prussian Majesty, in East
Friesland, has just made publick, that he found out, by physical Princi-
ples, and great Experience, that the only infallible Remedy to prevent an
epidemical) Distemper among the Cattle is to drive them twice every Day
into a River; and those Farmers who are not near a River should throw
over their Cattle, twice every Day, a great Quantity of Water. He has
likewise made an Experiment on Cattle which have been infected, and
very near Death; that by throwing over them a great Quantity of Water,
till they began to shiver, they have been recovered.

March 31. The following Reports were current last Night, at the
weft End of the Town: That General Keppel had wrote a Letter,
dated Nice, in Italy, in the Vicinity of Toulon, and directed to his Bro-
ther the Admiral, acquainting him that the French were fitting out a
very formidable Fleet at the latter Place; that by the best Information
that could be had, considering that no Strangers were admitted into the
Docks, Arsenals, &c. it was said to be almost ready to put to Sea; and
that its Destination was believed to be for the Archipelago, to join the
Turks against the Russians.

Through the same Channel we learn that a Camp is marked out near
Metz, in Lorraine, for 40,000 Men, and two more near Rochfort and
Quesnoy, near Valenciennes, of 20,000 each.

A Correspondent, on whose Authority we can depend, informs us that
the French Ministry have discovered that Admiral Greig (who lately sail-
ed for the Mediterranean with a Squadron to reinforce the Russian Fleet)
bas positive Orders to force the Passage of the Dardanelles, and to lay
Constantinople in Ashes; in Consequence of which, Orders have been
received at Toulon to equip, with the utmost Expedition, 18 Ships of
the Line, with a proportionable Number of Frigates and Bombketches,
in order to join the Turkish Fleet, and to defend Constantinople. This,
in all Probability, will bring on a War between Great Britain and France,
as we are bound in Honour to assist the Russians in Case they should be
attacked by the French, In the Meantime, it is not to be wondered at
if the French Nation looks with an evil Eye on a Russian Squadron
riding triumphant in the Mediterranean, as it has greatly interrupted,
nay almost destroyed, their Turkey Trade, and occasioned all the
Bankruptcies which have happened late in Marseilles, and other Ports of
the Mediterranean.

Nothing is now spoke of at Paris but War. The military Gentlemen
are all in the highest Spirits, but the Intentions of the Court are entirely
confined within the Circle of the Cabinet; nothing whatever, relative to
the Objects of Deliberation, having as yet transpired.

It is shrewdly conjectured, that the warlike Preparations now going
forward in France are intended against the Russians.

An Order has been issued, within these few Days, at Versailles,
which shuts up every Port from Calais to Bayonne, so far as that no Per-
son whatever is permitted to leave the Kingdom without a Royal Pass,
signed by the Secretary of State.

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We are assured, from good Authority, that great Preparations are now
making all over the Kingdom of France, in both the military and naval
Departments.

The Report still prevails that a French Army is drawing together
upon the Rhine, and that they are filling vast Magazines in that District.

It is beyond a Doubt, says our Correspondent at Paris, that the Duke
de Choiseul will soon be restored to his former Post in the Administration.
The King likes the Duke D'Aiguillon for his Premier very well, in Time
of Peace; but as he has a Prospect of War, Choiseul, he thinks, will
serve his Turn better.

It is now a Matter of very great Doubt when we shall see an Ambas-
sadour here from the Court of France.

They write from Paris, that there are lately sailed from Brest, for the
West Indies, the following Ships of the Line, viz. the Guirlande of 70,
the Hardie of 60, and the Mignone of 60 Guns; each has a Regiment
of Troops, and six Months Provisions on Board.

By Letters from Venice, we learn that the Turks are resolved to pro-
secute the War against the Russians with redoubled Vigour, and that they
have engaged several French Engineers in their Service.

An Express, brought by the Mercury Packet, Captain Sharp, which
is arrived at Kinsale, from Bengal and Fort St. George, gives an Account
of the taking of Tanjour by General Smith, which will prove of very
extraordinary Advantage to the East India Company. The Account
says, that General Hastings has confirmed a Nabob in his Father's Do-
minions, on his paying the Company a considerable Sum, and a certain
yearly Tribute. Advice is also received that the Lord Mansfield East
Indiaman, Caprain Frazer, is lost at Bengal, the Crew saved.

They write from Vienna, that the Emperour will commence a War
with the Porte; for the present Turkish Sultan seems to be totally igno-
rant of War, and believes that he is able to carry on a War against
both Russia and Austria. So that, if the Emperour should be obliged
to commence a War with the Porte, he will give his new Acquisition in
Poland to the King of Prussia, by which Means the latter will become
Master of three Fourths of Poland, and will be the most powerful Prince
on the Continent.

They write from Berlin, that the King of Prussia still continues very
ill of the Gout; and that they are pressing and enrolling Men through
all his Dominions, notwithstanding his Army consists of near 200,000
Men already.

Extract of a Letter from Minorca, March 6.

" All the Powers of the Mediterranean are now much engaged in
making Preparations, both by Sea and Land. The Spaniards and French
are fitting out Ships at all their Ports; the Spaniards in particular, who
have Docks, and are building Ships, in the Island of Majorca. The
Genoese are fitting out Ships and raising Forces, and the like Measures
are taking by the Florentines and Venetians. All the States of Barbary
are fitting out naval Armaments, avowedly in favour of the Turks."

This Day his Majesty went in State to the House of Peers, and gave
the Royal Assent to the following Bills, viz.

The Bill for the immediate Removal of the Officers of the Customs
from Boston, in Massachusett's Bay.

The Bill to make perpetual the Act for regulating the Trials of contro-
verted Elections.

The Bill for the Pay and Clothing of the Militia.

The Bill for the Relief of Prisoners acquitted of Crimes, but retained
for their Fees.

The Bill to enable his Majesty to grant to General Fraser the Lands
and Estates of the late Lord Lovat.

The Bill for appointing Commissioners to execute the Land Tax Act.

The Bill relative to the Preservation of Turnpike Roads.

And also to several Road, Enclosure, and private Bills.

A private Letter from the North of Europe says, that the King of
Sweden, in Conjunction with the King of France, and jealous of the
Generosity which the Empress of Russia has shown to the King of
Denmark, in ceding to him the whole Dutchy of Holstein, is drawing
together all his Forces by Sea and Land, and insists that his Brother be
created Duke of Courland, whilst the present Duke is to be declared
Governour or Viceroy of the Crimea.

By an authentick Letter from Constantinople, we are informed that
some foreign Ministers had demanded an Audience of the new Sultan,
at which they laid before his Sublime Highness the Offers of their Royal
Masters, as Mediators, to effect a Peace between the Porte and Russia;
but they received the following Answer, that his Sublime Highness in-
tends to see the Success of the next Campaign, and when he finds it
necessary to make Peace with his Enemies he will do it without the
Mediation of any Christian Power.

Advices from Venice mention an Engagement between three Venetian
and four Turkish Ships off the Isle of Candia, in which the former were
victorious.

They are under great Alarms in Holland, on Account of the late
Inundations. Several of the Dikes have suffered greatly. Inspectors
and Workmen have been sent to several Parts, and 3000 of the latter
are near the Mouth of the Meuse, in South Holland. The Increase of
the Waters in the Canal, and in the Lake of Harlem, have alarmed the
neighbouring Country; the latter of which has overflowed its Banks, and
the Water still continues to increase daily.

On Tuesday was launched at Deptford, his Majesty's Ship the Cum-
lend, a fine Vessel of 70 Guns.

They write from Hamburg, that the Journey the King of Denmark
intended to take to Travendahl, to be present at the Marriage of his Bro-
ther, Prince Frederick, to the Princess of Mecklenburg Schwerin, will
not take place; and that this Ceremony is put off till August, when it
will be performed at Copenhagen.

Within this Week past the Court of France is said to have given our
Court to understand that they should be under the disagreeable Necessity
of arming against Russia, but with no other View than to compel her to
agree to an equitable and honourable Peace with the Turks.

Extract of a Letter from Kinsale, in Ireland, March 20.

" This Week the Mercury Packet, from Fort St. George, in the East
Indies, arrived here, after a Passage of three months and sixteen Days,
with several Despatches for the East India Company. By the Purser, we
learn that the Affairs of the Company are in the most flourishing State
ever known; and that on the 17th of December last the Lord Mansfield
Indiaman was lost, and all the Crew perished except 24, sixteen of whom
were sent up the Country, and have not since been heard of. The Purser
also informs us that the Company's Troops have been at War with the
King of Tanjour, and have taken sixteen Elephants, laden with immense
Treasure, together with the King and his family."

Yesterday the Adelphi Lottery finished drawing, in Change Alley;
when No. 1358, being the last drawn Ticket, was entitled to a Prize of
25,000l.

On Sunday Night, between ten and eleven, a Gentleman and two
Ladies in a Hackney Coach were stopped and robbed between Knights-
bridge and Kensington, by a single Highwayman, of what Money they
had about them; who rode off with his Booty, with seeming great Com-
posure, towards Town. The Audacity of this Man was remarkably
singular, as it was a fine Moonlight Night, a Number of people passing
and repassing, and the Patrol not 100 Yards from the Spot where the
Robbery was committed.

In the HOUSE of COMMONS, March 28th, the Lord Advocate of
Scotland made a Motion for Leave to bring in a Bill to repeal an Act
made in King James's Reign, whereby the Persons working in Collieries
and Salt Works in Scotland, after having worked a Year therein, should
become the Property of the Proprietors of the Works for Life; by which
Means whole families became absolute Slaves, and transferrable in the
same Manner, with the Works, as a West Indian Estate is transferred
with the Slaves upon it. The Motion met with no Obstruction, as it
was founded upon Principles of Liberty; but Sir Lawrence Dundas
wished that they might not be released all at once, but by Degrees, as it
would greatly injure the Proprietors Works.

The House resolved itself into a Committee to take into Consideration
his Majesty's Message of the 7th instant and the American Papers of
the 7th and 11th of this Month, which accompanied it. Lord North
then rose, and explained to the Committee the Necessity there was for
regulating the Government of Boston. He remarked on the present
Method of choosing the Council, of appointing the Judges, the Admi-
nistration of Justice, and the Power of the Governour, and concluded
by moving for Leave to bring in a Bill “ for the better regulating the
Government of the Province of Massachusett’s Bay, in North Ame-
rica.” Colonel Jennings, in a short Speech, opposed the Motion; as
did Mr. Byng, who very fully entered into the Question, and spoke
with great Freedom and Ability. Mr. C. Fox spoke in Favour of the
Measure. Lord George Germaine approved of the Principle of the
Motion, but condemned it as being in several Instances defective. He
observed, that the Military in that Country could not act effectually,
nor with Safety perform their Duty; or, if they did, they ran the
Risk of falling a Sacrifice to the civil Power, and that it was by mere
Chance Captain Preston escaped being hanged for the Performance
of his Duty. Lord North said, that he was much obliged to the
noble Lord for the several Hints he had thrown out, and that he

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meant the Committee should not be closed, that Gentlemen might
suggest their several Ideas on the Subject. Captain Phipps spoke for
some Time, and desired an Explanation of several Matters, in his Opi-
nion, but importantly stated by the noble Mover. Governour Pownall
informed the House of the Manner of choosing the Council, the Power
of the Governour, &c. He said, that the Bostonians were a religious
People, honest in their Dealings, peaceable Subjects, and well inclined
to the British Government. This Encomium creating a Laugh, the
Governour said, that he was well warranted in asserting what he did;
but that the best Subjects, by repeated bad Treatment, might be
rendered turbulent and seditious. Mr. Fuller and Mr. Dempster
spoke against the Motion. It was at length agreed to by a great Ma-
jority, and a Bill ordered to be brought in on it. The Committee sat
for about two Hours, and the House rose at nine o'clock.

April 1. Leave is given to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the Act
of the 25th of Geogre the II. for annexing the forfeited Estates in Scotland
to the Crown, so far as the same relates to the granting Leases of the
said Estates.

At the Petition of the Magistrates of the Burgh of Dumfernline,
subscribing for themselves, and in Name and in Behalf of the whole
Council and Community of the said Burgh, and the numerous Linen
Manufacturers thereof, was presented to the House on Wednesday,
complaining of the Decline of the Linen Manufacture of Great Britain
and Ireland, which the Petitioners allege will be entirely lost, if some
Remedy be not speedily provided; and setting forth, that some Years
ago there were 1000 Looms employed in the said Burgh and its En-
virons, which are now greatly reduced, although the Petitioners are
sensible that the Numbers could soon be increased to double that Num-
ber, if proper Encouragement was given, by discharging the Importation
of foreign Linen. And they are well satisfied that the said Town, in
Conjunction with other Manufacturers of Table Linen in Great Britain
and Ireland, are fully able to supply the whole Demand of Damask,
Diaper, and all kinds of Table Linen, both for Consumption and Ex-
portation. And therefore praying the House to take the Premises into
Consideration, and give such Aid and Relief therein as they shall think
proper. The Petition was referred to the Committee on the Linen
Business.

Both Houses of Parliament are adjourned till after the Holidays.

Extract of a Letter from St. Andrews, in Scotland, March 15.

" There was given here this Evening, by a Person of Distinction, a
masked Ball, where there was a brilliant Company of Ladies and
Gentlemen. The Novelty of such an Entertainment, in this part of
the World, attracted even many who were unaccustomed to frequent
other publick Diversions. The several Characters were admirably sup-
ported, and many bon Mots passed upon the Occasion. Mr. D. appeared
in the Character of a Highland Chieftain, Mr. A. as a Merry Andrew,
and Miss H. as a Shepherdess, which were well supported."

We are assured an ingenious Gentleman has drawn up a Plan for the
Improvement of the British Fishery, which has been approved of by
Lord North, and will speedily be carried into Execution.

At the launching of the Cumberland, on Tuesday last, a Scaffold,
which had been erected by the Water Side, and on which a Gentleman,
two Ladies, and three Children, were standing, gave Way; by which
Accident the Gentleman, one of the Ladies, and two Children, were
drowned.

Tuesday a Painter fell from a tvo Pair of Stairs Window, in Bishopsgate
Street, together with the Machine whereon he stood, by which Accident
both his Legs were broke, and he was otherwise very much bruised.
The Paint Pot struck au old Clothesman, who was passing by, so violent
a Blow on the Head, that he expired as he was carrying to the Hospital.

Wednesday a Waterman, shooting at a mad Dog, in Gravel Street,
Rotherhithe, with a Piece loaded with Ball, he unfortunately shot a
Shopkeeper in the Breast, who was crossing the way from his own House,
and killed him on the Spot.

On Saturday last a melancholy Accident happened at a House the Cor-
ner of Catharine Street, in the Strand, by the Maid's falling down Stairs
with a fine Boy of four Months old in her Arms; and pitching upon the
back Part of his Head, so fractured his Skull, and disordered his Brain,
that he languished until Tuesday Evening and died. What still adds to
the Misfortune, the Maid, who was excessively fond of the Child, though
not much hurt by the Fall, has continued in a delirious State ever
since.

On Saturday a Man was conducted to Halifax, in Yorkshire, charged
with having poisoned a young Woman at Northowram, and the happen-
ing to be with Child by him, he prepared a Dose of Poison, which he
carried to her, and at the same Time threatened that if the refused to take
it he would directly put an End to her Existence by stabbing her with a
Knife, which he held in his Hand for that Purpose, whereupon she was
compelled to yield to his infernal Command. She was opened by a Sur-
geon on Thursday, who declared she was poisoned. He is committed to
York Castle.

Yesterday Lord North moved for Leave to bring in a Bill for the ap-
propriating the private Estates of Bankers to the Discharge of their Part-
nership Debts, in Case of Bankruptcy; likewise to hinder certain Bankers
from using any Trade, or from dealing in any Goods, Wares, or Mer-
chandise whatever; and for the more severe punishing such Clerks belong-
ing to Bankers as shall be found to embezzle their Masters Property. An
Amendment was proposed and agreed to, which was, to insert " any
Banker within the Cities of London and Westminster, or within ten Miles
adjacent;" as, if the Bill extended to Bankers in general, it would en-
tirely ruin those in the Country Towns. A few other Objections were
made to the Bill being brought in, as it was too late in the Session; but
on the Question being put, it was agreed to without a Division.

The Bill for regulating Mad Houses has passed the House of Commons.

The Consideration of the Bill to enable the Governour and Company
of the Bank of Scotland to increase the capital Stock of the said Company
is postponed to the 14th of April.

Yesterday being Maunday Thursday, his Majesty's Alms were distri-
buted at Whitehall, viz. to 35 poor Men and Women, three Els of
Holland, a Piece of Woollen Cloth, a Pair of Shoes and Stockings,
twenty Shillings in a Purse, 35 Silver Pence, a Loaf of Bread, and a
Platter of Fish, to each.

The Cumberland Man of War, of 70 Guns, lately launched at Dept-
ford, is ordered to be put into Commission, and the Command to be given
to Captain Bentley.

Wednesday the Cooks began to make Preparation at the Mansion
House for the Easter Feast. Mr. Hudson, his Lordship's Cook, who
had the role conducting of it, has particular Orders that no Expense may
be spared to make the Entertainment as elegant as possible. A very grand
Piece of Confectionary is likewise preparing to be placed upon the three
Tables in the Egyptian Hall.

The Practice of Duelling is now so common, that no less than three
Trades gain considerably by it; the Sword Cutler, the Gunsmith, and
the Undertaker. It were to be wished that the Hangman came in for
his Share of Employment too.

A respectable Writer, now living, says of the King of Prussia: " He
has established a Reputation on the surest Foundation, by that necessary
and equitable Effort in Policy, the delivering his Subjects from the Jaws
of the Lawyers, who, before his Time in Brandenburg, sported with
the Sufferings of the Wretched, and saw unmoved the Tears of the
Widow. In the Prussian Dominions, the Decision of Causes cannot be
protracted to a tormenting and devouring Length. How long this will
last is hard to say, unless the King has the Art of making his Subjects
virtuous, as well as obedient to his Edicts. The Suits in Brandenburg are
now brought to a speedy Issue, at an easy Expense; a Regulation which
could never be made but by the singular Attention of a sovereign Prince.
Why it is not done in a limited, as well as in absolute Monarchies, I
know not; unless, in certain Instances, Slavery is preferred to Liberty,
or the Name of Liberty to the Reality of it. The Law is certainly an
excellent and a necessary Profession, but too many are bred up to it;
consequently, in Pursuit of a Support, they deviate from the original
Design, by perplexing with injurious Refinements that which it is their
Duty to make plain and intelligible."

Extract of a Letter from Petersburg, March 3.

" Great Preparations are making for the Opening of the next Cam-
paign, which will begin with the Siege of Oczakow. The Train of
Artillery which is to be employed there have received the necessary Or-
ders.---General Bibikow has sent a Courier from Casan, with the
agreeable News that the Troops which he sent toward the Province
of Wartha, against the Rebels, have had a Battle with them, in
which the former were routed, and driven into the Woods, whither
they were pursued by the Conquerors; 600 of the Rebels were
killed on the Spot, and 200 made Prisoners, among whom is one
Bergman, formerly a Lieutenant in the Guards, who, with his younger
Brother, were banished to Siberia, after having undergone the Punish-
ment of the Knout, &c. for robbing and murdering a Merchant about
six Years ago."

Extract of a Letter from Dundee, in Scotland, June 22, 1774.

" Among the several Entertainments of this place, the Speculative
Society, claims the Pre-eminence Formed on a rational System it hath

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become the Report of great Numbers, who feast on the Knowledge
and Ingenuity of the Speakers. Tribes of Families, deserting the Card
Tables, flock thither, and acknowledge the Superiority of Philosophy.
This Institution promises great Success: Various Questions are here
discussed, in a masterly and becoming manner; here the young Men may
be trained up to Oratory and graceful Deliverance, and afterwards become
an Ornament to the grand Council of the Nation. Drinking entereth not
the Walls of this Society, and Harmony and good Order keep the Porch.
This Society hath taken for a Device a Card on which is represented a
View of the Society upheld by the three female Figures, Virtue, Elo-
quence, and Contemplation; and supported by two masculine Ones,
Knowledge and Learning; and the Motto is, Dignum sapienti bono-
que est."

That Great Statesman Lord Chatham, in a Speech in the House on the
American Stamp Act, observed, that there was no Happiness without
Freedom, no Freedom without Security of Property, unless the Power to
dispose of it belonged in the Owners of it. Therefore, no People can be
free but where Taxes are imposed by their Consent, personally, or by
Representatives. If the Colonies are equally entitled to Happiness with
the Inhabitants of Great Britain, and Freedom is essential to Happiness,
they are equally entitled to Freedom; if to Freedom, and an exclusive
Right of Taxation is essential to Freedom, they are equally entitled to
such Taxation.

On Wednesday Night a Man went to Sir Jeffery Amherst's, and asked
for Lady Amherst, saying he had got something for her Ladyship. The
Maid carried a Band Box into the Parlour, where, on opening the same,
its Contents proved to be a fine Girl, which caused much Laughter. It
was kept that Night, and yesterday Morning it was sent to Brownlow
Street Hospital to be taken care of.

It is said, notwithstanding great Preparations are making to terrify the
Americans, their friends conceive great Hopes from the Wisdom and
Integrity of Lord Chatham, who doth not confine Liberty to the Island
of Great Britain, and doubt not but he will again repeat, in favour of the
misrepresented Americans the Poet's Advice about a Wife:
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Moderation [damaged, illegible]; for if
he was to pique himself on a Quickness of Apprehension, and a
Promptitude of Decision, his Country might be suddenly plunged into
inextricable Dangers. God knows, we have no Reason to find Fault
with our present Administration for their Rapidity of Determinations ;
they have allowed the New Englanders full Time and Scope to display
their Designs; they have allowed them to proceed from the first Step of
Disorder to the last Act of Rebellion. Faction at home may blame
them for their Lenity, but the Devil himself cannot accuse them of Rash-
ness. One is apt to suspect that a refined Policy was shrouded under
their seeming Indifference, and that they purposely allowed the factious
New Englanders to advance to declare Rebellion, in Order that the un-
animous Approbation of the whole Kingdom might accompany their
Resolves to chastise and to reform the Rebels.

A Correspondent most fervently hopes, in Case Administration should
ever be induced to yield up the Rights or this Nation again, as was
infamously the Case in the Year 1766, to the audacious Claims of a
Crew of traitorous Insurgents (a Circumstance which, under the Wisdom
and Ability of Lord North's Administration, he thinks there is little Rea-
son to fear) that we shall at least leave them in the State we found them
before the late Peace, before so much of our Blood and Treasure
had been lavished upon them, and at all Events restore Canada to
France.

It is a pleasant Argument which the Americans wage against our Parlia-
mentary Supremacy over them. “ The people of England (say they, for
they scarcely honour us with the Name of Mother Country) are interested
in the Dispute, and consequently cannot be an impartial Tribunal," But,
with all possible Deference to this Reasoning, are not the People of Ame-
rica interested in the Dispute, and are they not equally prejudiced in their
own Favour? Suppose, however, we relinquish the Terms of Sovereign
and Subject, and say that a Dispute subsists between a Mother and a
Daughter, should not the latter, in common Decency, be the first to
make Concessions? And is it not, in common Sense, most likely that
the Merits of the Contest should lie on the side of the former, when we
consider not only her superior Tenderness as a Parent, but recollect her
superior Maturity.

WHITEHALL, April 2. Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; Governour of
the Province of Massachusett’s Bay, in North America, having humbly
requested his Majesty's Leave to come to England, the King has been
graciously pleased to comply therewith, and to appoint Thomas Gage,
Esq; Lieutenant General of his Majesty's Forces, to be Captain General
and Governour in Chief of the said Province, and Vice Admiral of the
same, during his Majesty's Pleasure.

YORK, March 8. Last Saturday sailed from Hull for Fort Cumber-
land, in Nova Scotia, the Two Friends, Watt, with Iron Ware, Linen
and Woollen Drapery, Household Furniture, &c. and 99 Emigrants,
chiefly from the Northern part of this County.

GLOUCESTER, January 4. This Day a great Number of the Inha-
bitants and Voters of this Town assembled on the River, the same being
entirely frozen over, our new intended Candidate having on Sunday last
given away upwards of 401. in Bread and other Charities at the old
Church, and left with his Agent here 100 Guineas, for the Purpose of
Merriment, to be disposed of by giving a Bullock roasted whole, and two
Hogsheads of Ale, to the Publick, and a Ball for the Ladies in the Even-
ing. By Way of Novelty, the Bullock was agreed to be roasted on a
temporary Hearth and Fire, a Place prepared for the Purpose on the Ice
which having been put into Execution, the populace assembled, supposed
to be upwards of 2000, but before their Departure, the Ice, from the
Pressure, giving Way, upwards of 100 Persons were severely ducked,
If the Matter had ended there, it would have been very happy; but sorry
am I to acquaint you that upwards of twenty Persons were drowned,
amongst whom is our worthy Friend Bob H , bis Wife, and a
of Child about a Year old; and poor H_____, from the Swan, standing
Cook, shared the same Fate."

LEEDS, January 4. At Saddleworth, in this County, a Man was
some Time ago taken ill, and to all Appearance died, as he could not be
perceived to breathe. In this Situation, he remained for the Space of six
Weeks; during which Time he received no other Nourishment than now
and then a small Quantity of Milk, which the Doctor poured into his
Mouth, at the same Time stopping his Nostrils, lest it should come out
again there. After lying in this Condition the above Time, he came to
himself, and is now in as good a State of Health as ever he was in his
Life. The Apothecary who attended him perceived his Pulse at Intervals
to beat, or he certainly had been buried before he had finished his
Trance.

GLASGOW, March 31. The Friends of America have brought into
the present Disputes between Great Britain and her Colonies the old Ques-
tion about the Right of Taxation. Many People are of Opinion, that
Great Britain has no Right to tax her Colonies, unless they are represented
in Parliament; but this Question is, in a great Measure, foreign to the
present Dispute. The Question is not whether Great Britain is to tax
America, but whether or not the Americans are to be punished for wan-
tonly destroying the Property of the Merchants of Great Britain, in Defi-
ance of all Laws human and Divine. The Americans might have refused
to buy and use the Tea, but they had certainly no Right to destroy it.
Such a Punishment, therefore, as will oblige them to make an adequate
Restitution for the Damage they have done, is most highly proper. A
severe Punishment will be imprudent, as it would immediately recoil
upon the Mother Country, and our Merchants would suffer greatly, by
the Want of Remittances, and the Loss of their Trade.

Extract of a Letter from Falkirk, March 29.

" On Monday last was launched in the Canal, at the mooring Place
near Bainsford Drawbridge, a neat Vessel, named the Lady Charlotte,
Burthen between forty and fifty Tuns, built chiefly for the Canal Navi-
gation and Coasting Trade. At this Launch the most Part of the Inha-
bitants of Falkirk, a great Number of Ladies and Gentlemen of the
Country adjacent, and several Persons from remote Places, were present.
This is the first built Vessel launched in the Canal, and she is particularly
adapted for that Navigation. She came very well off, and made a fine
Appearance. The great Concourse of People who attended cheerfully
joined in repeated Huzzas, and other Demonstrations of Joy, on this
Occasion."

Extract of a Letter from Wigton, in Galloway.

" I am sorry to inform you that the Spirit of Emigration has also be-
come epidemical in this country. Between 2 and 300 People are to em-
bark at Whitehorn, in a few weeks, for America. The Country will
suffer not only from the Loss of its inhabitants, but also from the Loss of
its Wealth ; some of these Emigrants being People of Property, it is sup-
posed they will carry some Thousands in Cash along with them."

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P O E T S C O R N E R.
Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur: That Man is wise who
speaks little.

VAIN is the Flash of human Wit,
In vain the [illegible] Dryden writ;
Reason is best express [illegible] Words,
Sense and Propriety in [illegible] Words.
Art may wild Phrases sure to find,
Penn'd to mislead the honest Mind;
In flowery Paths may Rhetorick stray,
To lead the Soul herself away.
Question on Question Logick pens,
Unto what Purpose, to what Ends?
In Errour's Maze to push Mankind,
Pleasing to snare, and gay to blind,
As Grottos, Woods, and dusky Shades,
Unto no View the Eye invades,
Confusion 'tis alone supplies
A Scene of Pleasure to our Eyes.
Learning so hobbles every Sense,
Or pleases more than it convince;
Queries, Doubts, Arguments perplex,
Unnecessary Quibbles vex.
In the Initials may be seen
The full, my Friends, of what I mean;
Unto the Motto cast your Eyes,
Renounce all Rhetorick, and be wise.

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To the PRINTER of the PUBLICK
ADVERTISER.
SIR,
IT is with great Concern and Apprehension, as a Well wisher to this
Country, that I consider her present Situation in Respect to the
Colonies. The Measures that have been taken of late Years, regard-
ing that extensive Part of the British Empire, have been of such a
Tendency as to bring Matters to a most alarming Crisis, and seem to
have hurried on the Fate of that Country much sooner than natural
Events, and the regular Progression of Things, would have effected
it. If we examine the History of America, we find it to be simply
thus: A Number of Adventurers, some urged by Necessity, others
actuated by Principles of religious Liberty, and others perhaps merely
influenced by a Spirit of Adventure, determine to explore the immense
Wilds of the Western World. Encouraged thereto by Government,
and the Royal Voice, that promised them the full Enjoyment of their
religious and civil Liberties, and the undisturbed Possession of their Pro-
perty, as Pledges of Security, Charters are given them, in which the
Faith of Government is engaged. These Charters empowered them to
enact such Laws as they should find necessary, and to adopt such Modes
of Taxation as they thought eligible. To recapitulate the Inconveniencies,the
Toils, and Dangers, that the first Settlers of the inhospitable Wilder-
ness experienced, is unnecessary; they will occur to the Reader's Imagi-
nation, more forcibly than my Pen can describe them. Suffice it to
observe, that for a long Series of Years they were harassed by every
Difficulty, every untoward and embarrassing Circumstance that could
perplex and fatigue the Mind, and most literally did they eat their bitter
Bread by the Sweat of their Brows. That the Case is considerably alter-
ed now is well known: The dark, and almost impenetrable Forest, no
more remains impervious to the Day; but Pan, Ceres, and Pomona,
have banished the solitary Driads; the [illegible] begin to laugh and sing,
and the Sons of the first unhappy Sufferers begin to repose from the
Alarms, and relax from the severe unremitting Toil, of their distressed
Ancestors; in short, to live more at Ease upon the Fruit of the Industry
of their Fathers.

A few Persons among us, of inordinate Appetite, wish to partake of
their little Feast with them; and because denied a Participation of what
they have not the Shadow of a Right to, would forsooth fall pell-mell
upon them, and cut their Throats for not relinquishing the well-earned
Meed of painful Industry, not considering that they have been all along
labouring more to our Emolument then their own. Is this the Reward
of persevering Toil, to have its scanty Morsel snatched away? Is the
Planter, who cherishes the tender Sappling, and nurses it up to the vigo-
rous Tree, to be denied the first Fruits? And is this the Faith of
Government, that should be inviolate as the Justice of Heaven?

But I hope I see with the Eye of false Prophecy, and that my Appre-
hension is a baseless Fabrick. I hope (nay, fervently pray) that the
Wisdom of Administration will restore Affection and Loyalty to near five
Millions of Subjects, whose filial Attachment to their Mother Country
many shallow and evil-minded Politicians have endeavoured, but in vain,
to sap. Their Union, I flatter myself, may yet for a long Time subsist,
and their reciprocal Glory and Advantage may long continue to flourish.

And when the Day shall come (the Fate of all)
That Britain's Glory, Wealth, and Power, must fall,
Then shall her Sons (for such is Heaven's Decree)
In other Worlds another Britain see,
For what she is America shall be.
COLUMBUS.

WILLIAMSBURG,May 19.
ON Saturday last, about five o'clock in the Evening, we had here
a most extraordinary Storm of Hail, some of the Stones being as
large.as Pigeons Eggs; and by Accounts from other parts of the Country,
particularly Gloucester, Middlesex, and Henrico, we find that the
Storm was much more violent with them, some of the Hailstones mea-
suring five Inches and a Half, and weighed Half an Ounce. It was
preceded by an uncommon Roaring in the Air, and continued between
two and three Minutes; and a heavy Shower succeeded, which lasted
about five Minutes. Great Damage has been done to the Windows, the
Shingles were knocked off several Houses, and what Wheat escaped the
Effects of the late Frost is entirely ruined; so that it is feared there will
hardly be Seed Wheat for another Year, at least in many Parts of the
Country.

The Fowey Man of War, of twenty Guns, Captain Montague, is
arrived in Hampton Road, from Boston, to relieve the Tartar, Captain
Meadows, who sailed immediately for that Port, by express Orders from
the Admiral.

Extract of a Letter from London, March 19, 1774.
" A Bill is now in Parliament to stop up the Port of Boston, till the
King pleases to restore it. This is, in Fact, to destroy the Town,
because the Inhabitants have had Spirit enough to declare that they will
be free; and the Ministers say it is intended as an Example to all the
other Colonies, whenever they shall dare to assert their Rights. But
they think it most prudent to begin with one Colony first, therefore all
the Colonies are equally concerned in this Attack upon Boston. And it
alarms all prudent and thinking Men here very much, as they conceive
all the Colonies will certainly unite to oppose this Measure against Boston;
and in that case they have most dreadful Apprehensions, as they think
America, when united, cannot be hurt by this Country. There is one
Comfort, however, left; that the Bulk of this Country, notwithstanding
all the Railing of the ministerial Writers in the Papers, are strongly in
Favour of the Conduct of the Americans: And even some of the Mini-
sters are much against the violent Measures intended, but the Majority
has prevailed.”

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Extract of another Letter from London.
" The Privy Council's Report on the Boston Petition proves pretty
plainly that you are to expect no Favours from hence, but you have the
Means of Security in your own Hands, and you will be unwise not to use
them. By all Means, approve, when the Assembly meets, of the Con-
duct of the Northern Colonies respecting the Tea; and resolve, that any
Attempt to enforce the Duties on any Colony will be deemed by you a
gross and open Violation of the Liberties of all America."

Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in England, to his Friend in this city.
" The American Business engages at present the whole Attention of
every One here, from the K____ to the Shopkeeper. I am told, by
several Members, that Lord North said, in the Bill, some Alteration of
the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay would be introduced, and declared
that the Punishment of Boston was intended as an Example to all the
other Colonies, who should be treated in the same Manner whenever
they dared to resist the Shackles which it is determined they shall wear.
That it was necessary, and prudent, to punish one Colony at a Time;
and Boston being the foremost in asserting their Rights, it was proper to
begin with it first. This, you may be assured, is the Language of
every ministerial Man. They believe that the other Colonies will look on
quietly and see Boston destroyed, but I flatter myself they will be mis-
taken. Every Thing at present seems to me to be very properly situated
in New York, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina; and if the Virginia
Assembly does but stir in the Business, I have no Doubt there will be a
perfect Union among all the Colonies, which is indeed more absolutely
necessary now than at any Time before, as the Attack is intended against
the Whole: And I am of Opinion it will check the sanguine Spirit of
your Enemies here, if they find the Colonies firm and closely united.
Indeed, it is evident you have no Alternative but to resist, united; or
submit, and be Slaves, at once."

ARRIVALS. Liberty, Outram, in York River. Brilliant, Bennet,
from Glasgow, Assistance, Farish, from Whitehaven, Nancy, Cuning-
ham, from Hull, Success, Green, from London, and Peggy, Fisher,
from Liverpool, in James River. Nassau, Wignell, and Molly, Parry,
from Liverpool, Neptune, Kennedy, from Glasgow, and Muir, Richard-
son, from Antigua, in Rappahannock.______, Boucher, from London,
________,Wallace, from Cadiz,______, Park, from Glasgow; in
Potowmack.

Captain Wignell spoke with Captain Kitchen, from Norfolk, bound
for Cadiz, the 29th ult. in Latitude [illegible] Longitude 40, all well.

Captain Conway, of the Sloop Friendship, who arrived last Tuesday
off Cape Henry, from Grenada, spoke with the Brigantine Polly, James
Tutor Commander, from Philadelphia the 21st ult.abreast of Sombrero,
25 Days out, bound for Tortola, all well.

We have not been able to procure the Act of Parliament, relating to
the Town of Boston, for this Week's Paper; but our Readers have the
Substance of it, and will see the whole in our next, as we know it is
arrived.___Not a single Newspaper care from the Northward Last Week
by the Post, therefore it is not known whether the Men of War and
Troops are yet arrived before Boston; although, from the Circumstance
of our not receiving Papers as usual, it would seem as if this Armament
had laid an Embargo upon the Northern Intelligence.

To Mess. P U R D I E & D I X O N.
By inserting the following Proposals for the Consideration of the House of
Burgesses, in your useful Paper, you will oblige a great Number of your
Readers.

1. THAT it be enacted that the Vestries of every Parish be elected
by their Parishioners respectively, every ten, twelve, or fourteen
Years; which will effectually remedy the many and various Impositions,
and illegal and arbitrary Measures, that are so frequently and justly com-
plained of. It will quiet and ease the Minds of Numbers of Parishioners,
will prevent the frequent Applications to the Assembly for Redress, and
will thereby have a great Deal of Time and Expense.

2. That for the Despatch of Business in the County Courts, and a
more effectual Method of coming at Justice, it be enacted that the Courts
in every County respectively, or a Majority of them, be empowered, on
some Court Day, annually to nominate and appoint twenty four of the
fittest and most able Men of their County (not being of the Bench, nor
of the Bar) to serve as Jurymen for the Year ensuing; twelve of whom
to attend and serve (if required) every Court Day, either alternately or
indiscriminately, or the whole twenty four, when so many of the Causes
are ready for Trial as to require two Juries in one Day. The said Jury-
men to be subject to a Fine or Penalty for Non-attendance, or refusing to
serve when required, unless in Cases of Sickness or Disability, or other
reasonable Excuse be offered to the Satisfaction of the Court. And when
a sufficient Number of the said Jurymen is not present, that then the
Sheriff summon enough of the Bystanders to make up the Deficiency;
and that they, or such of them as serve, shall be paid, by the Party cast,
some moderate Fee, just enough to defray their reasonable Expenses.
Moreover, that whenever there are to be any new Magistrates added to
the Commission of the Peace, the Court shall nominate for that Purpose
some of the said jurymen who have served the most constantly and
diligently, and none else. This may encourage the Jurymen to inform
themselves with the Laws of their Country, and instill into them a better
Notice of Equity. By this, or some such Law, the present Evil of weak
Juries will be removed, the Causes will be determined with much more
Despatch and Justice, and in Time our Benches will be filled with abler
Magistrates.

NORFOLK, May 3. Yesterday was celebrated in this place the
Anniversary of ST. TAMMINY, the tutelar Saint of the American
Colonies. At one o'clock a Royal Salute of 21 Guns, from a Battery
erected for the Purpose, ushered in the Rejoicings of the Day; and in
the Evening a grand Entertainment was given, at the Masons Hall, by
the Sons of the Saint, to which there was a general Invitation, and the
Company exceedingly numerous and brilliant, consisting of near 400
Persons. At six the Ball was opened, by one of our worthy Burgesses,
in the Character of KING TAMMINY, properly accoutred in the an-
cient Habit of this Country, at which Time another Royal Salute was
given. The Ladies, whose fair Bosoms on this Occasion seemed more
particularly animated with a generous Love of their Country, indulged
the Company with their Presence till four in the Morning; and after their
Retirement, the Sons of ST. TAMMINY, according to the immemo-
rial Custom of these Countries, encircled their King, and practised the
ancient mysterious War Dance, so highly descriptive of the warmest At-
tachment and Freedom of Spirit. The Whole was conducted with the
strictest Decorum, and to the universal Satisfaction of the Assembly;
while the Cordiality with which the Sons of the Brother Saints, St. George,
St. Andrew, St. Patrick, and St. David, entered into the general Mirth
of the Evening, gave particular Pleasure; and was truly emblematical
of that happy Union which has long subsisted between the Parent State
and her Colonies, while Britain was just and America was free, and
which every Lover of his Country would with should fill subsist, for
Ages yet to come.

But should Corruption, with despotick Rage,
Seize the strong Pillars that support the State,
Strain every Nerve to pull Destruction down,
To blend in Ruins Freedom and her Sons,
And crush our growing Empire in its Youth,
Then let us rouze Submission from her Knees,
And stand like Heroes firm in its Defence;
Then let one Spirit of a BRUTUS reign,
And martial Sounds be Musick to each Ear;
While some great Prince, of BRUNSWICK's glorious Line,
Ranks our wide Armies, and inspires to War.
Thus shall we see, and triumph in the Sight,
While Malice frets and fumes, and gnaws her Chains;
AMERICA shall blast her fiercest Foes,
Shall brave the dismal Shocks of bloody War,
And in unrivall'd Pomp resplendent rise,
And shine sole Empress of the WESTERN WORLD.

The Members of the Society for promoting
useful Knowledge are desired to meet on Tuesday the
31st of this Instant.

^**^*The Piece from NORFOLK will have a Place
next Week, and that signed A POOR PLANTER
shall be attended to as soon as possible.

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MAY 19. 1774.
AGREEABLE to the Act of Assembly for
clearing Rivers and Creeks, the Court of Cumberland have ap-
pointed Commissioners to agree with any Person, or Persons, willing to
undertake the clearing of Willis's River in the said County. The Sub-
scribers give Notice that they will attend at Horn Quarter Bridge, on the
said River on Thursday the 9th of June, to let, to the lowest Bidder,
the said Work. Bond and Security will be required of the Undertaker,
for the due Performance of the same.
GEORGE CARRINGTON.
JOHN WOODSON.
JOSEPH CALLAND.
THOMAS TABB.
ROBERT SMITH.
JOSEPH CARRINGTON.

IN May 1773, or near that Time, I gave
my Bond to John Reid, of Amherst County, for one Hundred and
twenty five Pounds Currency, payable in April 1774. I forewarn any
Person from taking the said Bond of Reid, as I will not pay any of the
Money till such Time as the said Reid fulfils his Bargain with me.
(2) CHARLES SIMS.

MAY 14, 1774.
WHEREAS Mr. William Robins, of Glou-
cester County, has made a solemn Contract with the Subscriber,
in Terms to this Effect, that for the Loan of 501. he obliges himself
to make a lawful Lease of his Land up the Neck, so that the Subscriber
and his Wife shall enjoy the same, and work what Hands they think pro-
per upon it during his Life, Rent free, and that they shall not be disturbed
by any Person; and farther says, if he can lawfully sell the same unto
the Subscriber he will for 150l. observing that he is to make Use of what
Timber he wants: I am compelled to let the Publick know what En-
cumbrance the Land lies under, and that I insist on the Agreement being
confirmed. (1) THOMAS C. AMORY.

LOST between Colonel Burwell's Ferry and
Williamsburg, an old SILK POCKET BOOK,
having in it some Money, and Papers of no Use to
any but the Owner. Any Person finding the same
shall have 10s. on delivering it to
BENJAMIN ALLEN.

To be SO L D,
TWO valuable Tracts of LAND, one containing 500 and the other
351 Acres, adjoining each other, lying in Guilford and Surrey
Counties, North Carolina, upon Dan River; whereon are high, dry, and
healthy Situations, a very good place for drawing the Seine or setting
Traps for fish, convenient to Courthouse, Church, Meeting House,
Mill, &c. a good Range for Stock of any kind, and the Land is in the
Heart of a good Wheat and Tobacco County, either of which, or any
other Commodity, may be advantageously disposed of at Campbelton.
For Terms apply to the Subscriber, near the Premises.
(∥) ADAM TATE.

To be SOLD, agreeable to the Will of Joseph Tate,
deceased,
A TRACT of 490 Acres of LAND, near the Land of Mr. Adam Tate,
most of which is low Ground and rich high Land; in short, it is
very little inferiour to any in the Province. The Terms may be known
by applying to the Subscribers.
ADAM TATE,
JOHN TATE,
JOSEPH TATE, Executors

To be RENTED for a Term of Years,
THE Plantation known by the Name of Mulberry Island, upon Dan
River, near the aforesaid Lands. The Terms may be known by
applying to the Subcriber, at Guilford Courthouse.
JOHN TATE.

Just imported, and to be sold for ready Money only,
A NEAT Assortment of PAPER HANGINGS for Rooms, Stair-
cases, &c. forty per Cent. cheaper than they have ever been sold
in this Place. Also a Quantity of ready made SACKING BOTTOMS
of different sizes, Brass Nails, Upholsterers Tacks, Brass Casters for
Tables and Bedsteads, Bed Screws of the best Kind, Brass Caps to cover
the Heads of Ditto, small Brass Rings, Brass Hooks, Pullies for Draw-up
Window Curtains, &c. JOSEPH KIDD.

MAY 16, 1774.
RUN away, from the Snow Carlisle, Wil-
liam Binsley Master, now lying at York Town, three indented
Servants, viz. ANTHONY WILLIAMS of Monmouthsire, a middle
sized Man, wears his own Hair, about 25 or 26 Years of Age, by Trade
a Tailor. JOHN FIELD, who says he came from Herefordshire, middle
fixed, 25 or 26 Years of Age, and is a Hostler or Gentleman's Man.
WILLIAM MACKNELL of Whitehaven, about 19 Years of Age, wears
his own Hair, and is of a low Stature. Whoever takes up the said Ser-
vants, and delivers them to the Master on Board, or secures them in any
of his Majesty's Jails, so that he gets them again, shall have 20s. Reward
for each. (2)

STRAYED or STOLEN, from Mr. Robin
son's Quarter, about three Miles from Williamsburg, a BAY HORSE
about four Feet high, four years old, with a Star in his Forehead, a
hanging Mane and Switch Tail, his left hind Foot white, appears to be
a little lame in his fore Shoulder, but has no Brand. Whoever brings the
said Horse to me, at the above Plantation, shall have 40s. Reward, if
taken out of the County; if in the Neighbourhood, 10s. Reward.
(I∥) ROBERT HAYES.

TAKEN up, in Amherst, a DARK BAY MARE about four Feet
seven or eight Inches high, eight or nine Years old, a Blaze in her
Face, one hind Foot white, some Saddle Spots, and branded on the near
Buttock N. Posted, and appraised to 10l.
RICHARD CAMP.

TAKEN up, in Charlotte, a DARK IRON GRAY HORSE COLT
about two Years old, three Feet ten Inches high, not dockt,and
branded on the off Buttock I C. Posted, and appraised to 30s.
THOMAS READ

TAKEN up, in Charlotte, a YELLOW BAY HORSE COLT a
Year old last Spring, three Feet eleven Inches high, but neither
dockt nor branded. Posted, and appraised to 40s.
DAVID JAMES.

TAKEN up, in Charlotte, a BLACK MARE COLT, about a Year
old last Spring, four Feet high, a small Star in her Forehead, but
neither dockt nor branded. Posted, and appraised to 55s.
DAVID JAMES.

TAKEN up, in Halifax County, a RED and WHITE STEER
about two Years old, marked with a Crop an Underkeel in the
right Ear, and a Swallowfork in the left. Posted, and appraised to 20s.
ROBERT WOODING.

ALL Persons may be supplied with this PAPER at 12s. 6d. a Year, and have ADVERTISEMENTS (of a moderate Length) inserted in it for
3s. the first Week, and 2s. each Week after._____ ^**^* All Sorts of PRINTING WORK done at this Office in the neatest Manner, with
Care and Expedition.