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the Laws, and from them must derive a security for their property,
and those who will not submit to the Law ought not to be
protected by it.

But this Act, it is said, deeply affects all BRITISH AMERICA.
This however is not easy to discover, unless we should on some fu-
ture occasion be madly guilty of a similar offence: then indeed, upon
the like principle of necessity, we may meet a similar chastisement.
For this law, however violent and arbitrary, or the Armament how-
ever formidable, is not intended to compell a payment of taxes; no
such intention is avowed, nor can it ever produce that effect. It
cannot therefore affect us farther, the punishment of the same crime
by a Court of Justice would do, were that practicable; because were
we equally culpable we would be equally amenable to the same
Law.

From what has been already urged no one it is hoped will do me
such Injustice as to suppose me an Advocate or a British taxa-
tion over these Colonies; it is most certainly a duty with which we
ought never to dispense, that of transmitting to our Posterity, the
same sacred Rights which have been handed down to us by our An-
cestors; and we ought to sacrifice our Property rather than relin-
quish our Freedom. But if we must in defence of this glorious In-
heritance sacrifice our Wealth, let us reserve it for such occasions as
may render the benefits resulting from it, essentially and permanent-
ly serviceable. The scheme of a Non-Commercial Association, car-
(The remainder in our next)

ADVERTISEMENTS.

For Sale, by the Subscribers
in NORFOLK.
SADLERY, Oznabrigs, Kendal Cottons, Hats
Checks, Nails of all Sorts; Hoes in assorted,
packages, Barbadoes Rum and Spirit, choice Lisbon
Wine, in Quarter Casks; Madeira Wine, in Pipes
Hdd’s. and Quarter Casks; of Sterling, New York,
and Virginia Qualities; Liverpool bottled Beer, Lon-
don Porter, in Barrels, and half Barrels; Anchors,
Cordage, &c. They have also lately imported a Cargoe
of Goods, they would sell together, to the amount
of about fifteen hundred pounds Sterling, at a low
Advance, for present Produce, or Cash, in October,
next; Consisting of the following Articles. viz.
Muslins, printed Linens and printed Cottons, Calicoes,
Cambricks, London pins, Cinamon, Cloves, Mace,
Nutmegs, Black Pepper, Sagathys, Duroys, Durants,
Tammies, Calimancoes, Fashionable Ribbons, Sattin
Hats, Capuchines, sewing Silk, three fourths, seven
eight’s and yard wide Manchester Checks, Printed
Handkerchiefs, Jeans, Jennettes, Sattinetts, Corderoys,
Dimittys, Barcelona Handkerchiefs, Bed Bunts, Ging-
hams, Tobines, Damascus, Armonzeen, Rich Corded
Tabby; Thread Hose, Black Silk Breetches Patterns,
Felt and Castor Hats, Broad Cloaths, Hardware of
most Sorts, Mens Shoes, Womens Callimancoe ditto,
Delph Bowls, writing Paper, brown Paper, Ink, pow-
der, Wafers, Hair Brooms, Sewing and Seine Twine,
Lanthorns, Candlesticks, Tea Kettles, Coffee Pots,
Shot, 4d. 6d. 8d. 16d. and 20d. Nails, Sheathing and
Deck Nails, Pipes, Saws, Grindstones Iron Potts,
and Ovens; Hempen and Flaxen Russia Linens,
German and blister’d Steel, Garden Spades, Frying
Pans, Sprigs of all Sorts, Queens China, Toys, Glassware,
Earthen ware, of various, Sorts. &c. &c.
GREENWOOD, RITSON, and MARSH.

Stolen out of the House of Mr. Andrew
Stevenson, in ChurchStreet, NORFOLK,
A Silver Punch Ladle, with a Mohogany handle, and a
Dollar in the bottom marked I C M. Whoever brings
it to the Printer of this Paper shall be well Rewarded.
If offered for sale, or pawn, please to stop it.

NORFOLK, 8th June, 1774
THE Debts due to the Estate of Andrew M’Cree
& Co. are now put into the Hands of the
Subscriber, who requests the favour of all those who
know Themselves to be Indebted to the Company, to
Pay their respective Ballances immediately to Him,
who is the only Person that can properly give them
a discharge: The Accounts of those who fail so to do,
will be put into the Hands of Mr. Thomas Claiborne,
Attorney at Law, Norfolk.
Any Person having Demands against the Concern,
or against Andrew M’Cree (now deceased) are desired
to make them known to
WILLIAM M’CREE
The above Advertisement is agreeable to
JAMES AGNEW.

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From Sketches of the History of Man, written by
LORD KAMES.

THE sense of property, weak among savages, ripens gradually till
it arrives at maturity in polished nations. In every stage of the
progress, some new power is added to property; and now for centu-
ries, men have enjoyed every power over their own goods, that a
rational mind can desire: they have the free disposal during life;
and even after death by naming an heir. These powers are suffici-
ent for accomplishing every rational purpose. They are sufficient
for commerce, and they are sufficient for benevolence. But the ar-
tificial wants of men are boundless: not content with the full en-
joyment of their property during life, nor with the prospect of its
being enjoyed by a favourite heir, they are anxiously bent to pre-
serve it to themselves forever. A man who has amassed a great
estate in land, is miserable at the prospect of being obliged to quit
his hold: to sooth his diseased fancy, he makes a deed securing it for
ever to certain heirs, who must without end bear his name and pre-
serve his estate entire. Death, it is true, must at last separate him
from his idol; it is some consolation, however, that his will go-
verns and gives law to every subsequent proprietor. How repug-
nant to the frail state of man are such swollen conceptions! Upon
these however are founded entails which have prevailed in many
parts of the world, and unhappily at this day infest Scotland. Did
entails produce no other harm but the gratification of a distempered
appetite for property, they might be endured, though far from deser-
ving approbation; but like other transgressions of nature and rea-
son, they are productive of much mischief, not only to commerce,
but to the very heirs for whose benefit it is pretended they are made.

Considering that the law of nature has bestowed on man, every
power of property that is necessary either for commerce or for be-
nevolence, how blind was it in the English legislature to add a
most irrational power, that of making an entail! But men will al-
ways be mending; and when a lawgiver ventures to tamper with
the laws of nature, he hazards much mischief. We have a pregnant
instance above, of an attempt to mend the laws of God, in many
absurd regulations for the poor; and that the law author of entails is
another instance of the same kind, will be evident from what follows.

The mischievous effects of English entails were soon discovered:
they occasioned such injustice and oppression, that even the judges
ventured to relieve the nation from them by an artificial form, term-
ed fine and recovery. And yet, though no man would desire more
power over his estate than he has by common law, the legislature of
of Scotland enabled every man to fetter his estate forever; to tyrannize
over his heirs; and to reduce their property to a shadow, by prohibi-
ting alienation; and by prohibiting the contracting debt, were it
ever to redeem the proprietor from death or slavery. Thus many
a man, fonder of his estate than of his wife and children, grudges
the use of it to his natural heirs, reducing them to the state of life-
renters. Behold the consequences. A number of noblemen and
gentlemen among us, lie in wait for every parcel of land that comes
to market. Intent upon aggrandizing their family, or rather their
estates, which is the favourite object, they secure every purchase by
an entail; and the same course will be followed, till no land be left
to be purchased. Thus every entailed estate in Scotland becomes in
effect a mortmain, admitting additions without end, but absolutely
barring any alienation; and if the legislature interpose not, the pe-
riod is not distant, when all the land will be locked up by entails,
and withdrawn from commerce.

The purpose of the present essay, is to set before our legisla-
ture, cooly and impartially, the distructive effects of a Scotch en-
tail. I am not so sanguine as to hope, that men, who convert means
into an end, and avaritiously covet land for its own sake, will
be prevailed upon to regard, either the interest of their country, or
of their posterity; but I would gladly hope, that the legislature
may be roused to give attention to a natural object of no slight im-
portance.

I begin with effects of a private or domestic nature. To the posses-
sor, an entail is a constant source of discontent, by subverting that
liberty and independance, which all men covet with respect to their
goods as well as their persons. What can be more vexatious to a
proprietor of a great land estate, than to be barred from the most
laudable acts, suitable provisions, for example, to a wife and child-
ren, not to mention numberless acts of benevolence, that endear
individuals to each other, and make society comfortable. Were he
ever so industrious, his fields must lie waste, for what man will lay
out his money upon an estate that is not his own. A great proportion
of the land in Scotland, is in such a state, that by laying out a thou-
sand pounds or so, an intelligent proprietor may add a hundred
pounds a year to his rent roll. But an entail effectually bars that
improvement: it affords the proprietor no credit; and supposing
him to have the command of money independent of the estate,
he will be ill-fated if he have not means to employ it more profita-
bly for his own interest. An entail, at the same time, is no better
than a trap for an improvident possessor; to avoid altogether the
contracting debt is impracticable; and if a young man be guided
more by pleasure than by prudence, which commonly is the case
of young men; a vigilant and rapacious substitute, taking advan-
tage of a forfeiting clause, turns him out of possession, and delivers
him over to want and misery.

But an entail is productive of consequences still more dismal,
even with respect to heirs. A young man, upon whom the family
estate is entailed, without any power reserved to the father, is not
commonly obsequious to advice, nor patiently submissive to the fa-
tigues of education: he abandons himself to pleasure, and indulges
his passion without controul. In one word, there is no situation
more subversive of morals, than that of a young man bred up from
infancy in the certainty of inheriting an opulent fortune.

The condition of the other children, daughters especially, is com-
monly deplorable. The proprietor of a large entailed estate, leaves
at his death children who have acquired a taste for sumptuous living.
The sons drop of one by one and a number of daughters remain,
with a scanty provision, or perhaps with none at all. A collateral
male heir succeeds, who, after a painful search, is discovered in some
remote corner, qualified to procure bread by the spade or the plough,
but entirely unqualified for behaving as master of an opulent fortune.
By such a metamorphosis, the poor man makes a ludicrous figure,
while the daughters, reduced to indigence, are in a situation
much more lamentable than are the brats of beggars.

Our entails produce another domestic evil, for which no proper re-
medy is provided, The sums permitted in most entails to younger chil-
dren, however adequate when the entail is made, become in time
too scanty, by a fall in the value of money, and by an increase of
luxury, which is peculiarly hard upon daughters of great families;
the provisions destined for them will not afford them bread, and
they cannot hope to be suitably matched, without a decent fortune.
If we adhere to entails, nunneries ought to be provided.

The remainder of this excellent essay, shewing the public evils
of entails, will be inserted in a future paper.

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

LETTERS from Madrid, of very good authority, mention,
that orders have been issued to complete all their Regiments,
and to build twenty new Men of War.

The Court of Lisbon has just entered into a treaty with the Em-
peror of Morocco; and the Portuguese Ambassador has obtained
leave to reside at Morocco, and to export corn to Portugal.

They write from Parma, that in the beginning of this month,
many terrible shocks of an earthquake had been felt there, by
which the bulwarks of several fortresses have been greatly damaged.

By dispatches arrived here form our Grand Bailiff at Constanti-
nople, we learn that on the 17th ult. the new Sultan had sent two
Chatti Cheriffs to the Divan, which was read before the full Divan;
that his Sublime Highness is immoveably resolved to carry on the
war with Russia at any expence, and to give ear to no proposals of
peace whatever.

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A great quantity of tents and camp equipage are ordered to be
embarked for NORTH AMERICA.

We hear that the bill for regulating the government of the pro-
vince of Massachusett’s Bay, is the last that will be brought in re-
lative to American affairs this session.

The many bankruptcies which have of late happened at the prin-
cipal trading towns of France are attributed to the obstruction of
their African trade, which is occasioned by the Russians; and we
are informed that their Court has informed the Russian Ambassador
there, that the behaviour of the Russians towards the French flag
was inconsistent with neutrality; but whatever the cause may be, it
seems as if the credit of the nation and of the subjects of that king-
dom were entirely at an end.

That prince of men Lord Sandwich, has lately sowed the seeds of
his virtue in Leadenhall-street, where they thrive so fast that a fine
plant is already raised, and because it is not well out of the womb
of time, his Lordship calls it Wombwell.

The said correspondent observes, that a partnership account will
soon be opened between the Naval Premier, and George Wombwell,
who are to join a very large stock of modesty and virtue. My Lord
has pledged his credit (and his word is as good as the security of the
Bank) that Wombwell shall have a seat for Huntingdon, and be one
of the Directors of the East-India Company, for which the mer-
chant will give a very valuable consideration. This happy con-
nexion has already ruined the credit of poor George, who is now
known upon change as a man of as much honesty, modesty, and
virtue, as Lord Sandwich.

The Duke d’Aguillon, the present prime minister of France, is
not a little uneasy at the approaching dissolution of his ministry and
interest; nature being exhausted in the King, it cannot be much
longer supplied by the warmth of a female favourite. Whenever
his dissolution arrives, there will be an end to Madame de Barre,
and to the interest of the Duke d’Auguillon, who will have the
mortification to yield to the Duke de Choiseuil’s party, who are
now in disgrace, through the intrigues of a woman.

The same correspondent observes, that the Dauphin is a Prince
of great merit, who detests the arts and tricks of Barre and her
party, and that on the death of the King, there is no doubt but
Choiseuil and his friends will be restored, and in greater power than
ever.

Madame de Barre is a very extraordinary character, by means of
a little tenement, she has industriously raised herself to such a de-
gree of power as to govern France. That great empire is now led
by an ambitious woman, of no birth; but when the Dauphin reigns.
and Choiseuil is again at the helm, France will be again governed
by a man of great abilities and great virtues. The disgrace which
has long attended the admininistration of France, like a cloud, will
then disappear, and manly sense will shine with greater splendor.

An American Merchant says, that the most easy and natural me-
thod to reconcile the differences between Great Britain and her Co-
lonies, and to preserve the dependency of America and the digni-
ty of the mother country is, by granting the Colonies the liberty to
have manufactures of their own, and a foreign trade in British ves-
sels, under the sanction of their own representation and taxation;
this, he says, is on the principle of the Americans, and consistent
with the true interest and dignity of Great-Britain.

The same gentleman says, that if the ministry will hear truth and
reason, and let virtue and justice hold the scale, the differences might,
soon be settled to the satisfaction of the colonies and the mother
country.

The late act regarding the Bostonians, says an Americans, seem
to be well calculated both for chastising and soothing those people
to a future observance of that duty which the mother-country de-
mands from them; whilst the other colonists of that continent es-
cape the rigour of that art, by an apparent disapprobation of their
conduct. But believe it who will, that they only disapproved of a
part of it, as they themselves now do; and that every other part
demonstrative of oppositlon to every ministerial measure, supposed
to be an infringement upon their liberties, will turn out so far pre-
cedental to them, that their similar oppositions to the like real or
imaginary grievances, must a length impel our government to de-
stroy the trade of every sea-port there, and Great-Britain also with
these people, which already seems irrecoverable.

The Americans, says a correspondent, never murmured at the na-
vigation-act, but the stamp-act stirred up such resentment in them,
as to only dissemble a slight kind of commerce with us from that
period, until it entirely dwindled away into a more profitable fair,
or illicit trade with other nations; which is at this time found ra-
ther too endearing to be relinquished.

We learn from good authority, that General Barker, at the head
of the Company’s forces, has drove the Marratas from the country
of the Rohilla’s, and has preserved the valuable and rich possessions
of our allies and neighbours the Rohilla’s, and the Visier Sujah
Dowlah from the depredation of those powers, and with one
brigade forded the River Ganges at Ramgant, and obliged the Mo-
rattas to retire to the Decan, after having ravaged, with uninter-
rupted sway, for four years, the countries of the King, Rohillas’ and
Jauts, and Patans. Perfect peace and tranquillity being restored in
those parts, it is said the General is returning to Europe, having
ended this short campaign much to his own honour, and the great
emolument of the Company.

The master of a Dutch vessel arrived in the river from Cadiz in-
forms us that while he was in the bay four Spanish ships of the line,
and five transports sailed for the West Indies, with troops for the
reinforcement of their garrisons; that the Spaniards had besides in
the bay one ship of the line, and two frigates, and that three more
of the line were expected to come out of the harbour in a few days.

The Dog Star rages very much at this time among the ladies of
quality. The lady of a celebrated nobleman has been discovered at
a Bagnio with her gallant; and another amour is detected between
an Irish Lord and a Noble Countess.

A report prevails here, that the French are fitting out a large
fleet at Toulon, intended for the Mediterranean, to assist the Turks
against the Russians.

April 6th, One David Ingoe, a Black, went to the lodgings
of Judith Monk, a prostitute, near Old Street, and cut her throat
in so shocking a manner with a large clasp knife, that she expired in
a few minutes. It seems the girl, who had lain in about five weeks,
had swore he was the father of the child, which, it is said, occa-
sioned his committing the horrid deed. The delinquent made his
escape.

Every night this week several persons have been found lying in
the streets of this metropolis dead——drunk.

The Prussians have begun to fix up new eagles. The first is in
Cujavia, a league from Thorn, on the Vistula; and the other is be-
hind Zadrose. It is said that, they will extend the frontiers to
Lowlezeck, three miles from Thorn, and from thence towards Lu-
braniec and Colo. Seven waggons laden with boundary posts and
eagles are arrived at the estate of M. Niewieszinski at Branic.

Extract oif a Letter from Berlin, March 20.
”Our Monarch is highly exasperated at the behaviour of the
Dantzic magistrates, who have refused to own his sovereignty over
that city, or to deliver up to him all the inhabitants there of what
is called New Prussia. The King has therefore dispatched his ulti-
matum to M. Reichard his agent there, whom he has ordered to
inform the magistrates, that they shall immediately submit in eve-
ry respect to his authority, or should they make any resistance, the
city shall be treated as a conquered one in the time of war. This
ultimatum his Majesty has taken proper means to enforce, by or-
dering several detachments of troops to block up the city.”

They write from the Hague that Prince Gallitzin has just recei-
ved advices of the taking of Casan by General Bibikow’s troops.

Letters from Cadiz, advise, that the greatest naval preparations
are now making in the Spanish ports.

We learn, by Letters from Bucharest, the capital city of Wal-
lachia, of the 10th March, that the whole Grand Russian Army
was in Motion, and hourly expected to march. We are in hopes
they will be able to pass the Danube.

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April 21. Lord North presented to the Speaker several extracts
of letters, and the third Boston Bill, “ for the impartial admini-
stration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done
by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots
and tumults, in the province of Massachusett’s Bay.” The Bill was
read a first time; upon which Mr. Sawbridge arose, and observed,
that it breathed nothing but a spirit of despotism throughout; that
it was but a part of that tyrannic system which accompanied the
whole of our conduct towards the Americans; that they deserved
every act of injustice Administration had hitherto devised to inflict
on them, if they were such creatures, such mean, abject wretches,
such tame, willing slaves, to submit to the present bill; that the
proposed mode of trial was the most extraordinary that was ever heard
of; for who were the persons who could be prevailed on to come to
England to give evidence of a fact which was committed at Boston;
and sure to force them to make such a voyage, would be cruelty in
the extreme.

All the material parliamentary business it is expected will be fini-
shed by Thursday, the 12th of May.

Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, April 4.
:The East India Judges, and other passengers, embarked on Sa-
turday on board the India ships, but they cannot proceed on their
voyage as the wind is changed to the westward.”

Orders are sent to the Commanders of the men of war appointed
for the protection of the Newfoundland Fishery, to be in the
Downs on or before the 1st of next month.

Extract of a Letter from Venice, March 14.
”An action has just happened between two small squadrons. of
the Russian and Turkish fleets, in which the latter were overcome.

We have a number of ships fitting out in this port, which are or
dered for Spithead with all expedition; but their destination is not
yet known, but is thought for America.

From the LONDON GAZETTE. April 5.
PETERSBURGH, March 11. By the last accounts received from
General Bibikow, we have great reason to believe that he will soon
be able to disperse the rebels. A caravan arrived here yesterday
with a large quantity of silver, and some gold, from Cathrineburg.

A report prevails at the West end of the town, that Governor
Pownall is shorty to be appointed to a North American government.

America, at the lowest computation, is supposed to contain three
millions of souls, which, at an average tax of 6s- 8d. for each per-
son, would produce a revenue of one million sterling.

The King was attended yesterday to the House of Peers by the
Duke of Ancaster and the Earl of Oxford; when his Majesty gave
the royal assent to 29 public and private bills, including those men-
tioned yesterday, and also to the following, viz.
The bill for continuing an act for establishing certain free ports
in Jamaica.
The House of Peers yesterday adjourned to the 14th instant, and
the Commons to the 12th.
The bill to allow further time for the inrolment of deeds and wills
made by Papists, &c.
The bill to dissolve the marriage of Richard Heatly, and to enable
him to marry again.
An act for regulating the width and length of wheel-carriages,
and for mending and explaining an act of the 13th of his present
Majesty, and for indemnifying persons offending against the said act.
The bill to enable the Duke of Buccleugh, the Duke of Queens-
bury, &c. to reduce certain annuities granted by the Company of
the Bank of Ayr in Scotland.

Of the five flaming patriots that figured away in the year 1770,
Cornwall and Meridith have fallen, Germaine and Barre are totter-
ing, and Burke alone keeps his former position.

Advice is said to have just been received, that a French ship of
force from Brest, bound for the West Indies, in her passage has plun-
dered several trading vessels and schooners. It is added, that she
sunk a ship belonging to New York, because they did not immedi-
ately bring too when they were ordered.

Trade is the body politic as blood to the body-corporate; if it
has its free circulation, it is apt to relieve the wounded, or most
needy part of society (the meanest); but if obstructed by limitations,
restrictions, and confinement, or otherways disordered in motion,
it will probably weaken one part and over-nourish another. These
effects shew the injury which monopolies do to society, and the ne-
cessity of making trade free and open to all. Great riches in private
men is dangerous in all states, and great poverty in the rest produ-
ces equal mischief in a free government. They are evils which re-
quire serious attention, and a more equal distribution. In their
present state they both make too violent an alteration in property,
and must necessarily produce violent convulsions in government.

We hear from a person whose veracity we can depend on, that
L—— N—— has a design of suppressing the East India and all other
Companies, to lay the trade open and free. This sensible and spiri-
ted p——m——r very judiciously observes, that monopolies are e-
qually dangerous in trade, in politics, and religion: A free trade, a
free government, and a free liberty of conscience, are the undeni
able rights and the blessings of mankind.

The East India Company have thought on a mode of legislature
at a period when their dissolution approaches, and at a time when
they will have no power to carry it into execution. The Ministry
are concerting measures for AMERICA, but do not consider how dif-
ficult it will be at this distance to carry them into execution by force
against the Sense and Interest of the People. The Ministry deceive
themselves if they think of executing measures in the Colonies with
as much facilitation as they propose them and carry them through
the House of Commons.

Lord Chatham is silent, Capt. Phipps is a convert to the doc-
trine of Administration, and the able Lord Germaine is steering due
NORTH; so that the ablest advocates in opposition to the Ministry
have received their price, and deserted the colours of Fame to fight
under the more lucrative banners of Administration.

Lord North has certainly proved himself the ablest FINANCIER and
the greatest STATESMAN that we have had for many years: with
regard to the former, the happy condition to which he has brought
the affairs of the East-India Company, our Gold Coin, and the re-
venue of the State, is a proof which nobody can deny: and with
respect to the latter, his abilities and address have defeated the op-
posite party, and brought over the ablest members of opposition to
his interest.

Administration, it is said, have relaxed in their proposed mea-
sures towards the Bostonians; and it is now whispered, that the re-
gulating Bill will be withdrawn, if they pay obedience to the Boston
Port Bill, and the latter be likewise never enforced on certain im-
plied conditions.

A correspondent assures us that the famed Dr. Goldsmith took
James’s Powder contrary to the earnest entreaties of his apothecary,
which produced such disagreable consequences as in the end proved
fatal. When so great a man has been lost to society by taking a
fashionable Medecine, it is hoped that it will be a lesson to all our
Readers not to take any noted nostrum whatever without consulting
a Physician.

It has been estimated that during the unhappy disagreements
with the Colonies, Great Britain, exclusive of the Government
duties, sustained a loss of more than 500 Guineas per day.

When a certain Great Personage reviewed the 43d regiment on
Saturday last, he told one of the officers, to march the men, and
quarter them at Halifax; about an hour afterwards, counter orders
were sent, desiring the Men, to hold themselves in readiness, to em-
bark for abroad at an hours notice.

The above Regiment, it is said, is the Regiment fixed upon to
go to Boston.

Captain Phipps expatiated largely on the merits of General
Gage. He urged many powerful reasons against bringing the offen-
ders to be tried in Great-Britain; dealt pretty freely with the cha-
racter of Governor Hutchinson, as a Governor, a Politician, and a
Man; and said, the public were little indebted to him at either side
of the Atlantic.

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The Bostonians have declared, that rather than submit to the
tyranny of the Mother Country, they will abandon the Sea Coast,
and associate with the native Indians in the back country.

There is no extraordinary supply of military stores or camp equi-
page ordered to America, nor is it the intention of the Ministey
to act with severity, if it can possibly be avoided.

A correspondent desires to be informed, whither it would not be
adviseable to establish a Parliament in America for the Colonies, and
choose the centrical place for that purpose.

The workmen are repairing the Proof House on Tower wharf; as
it is imagined there will soon be plenty of work for the persons em-
ployed here.

We are informed, the inhabitants of Canada have sent over to
England a petition, praying for the establishment of a Legislature
in that Province.

BRISTOL, April 2. Last Saturday Wm. Brown a Journeyman
Woolcomber at Wells, cut his throat and soon expired.——The eve-
ning before, the father of a young woman that he courted, forbade
him his house: enraged at this treatment, he went to the Serjeant
of a Regiment that lies in that City to enlist; they sat up very late,
and it was then agreed for them to sleep together. The Serjeant
got up early in the morning to write a letter, and left his penknife
on the table, with which this young man committed the rash deed.
The young woman he courted is almost distracted, and his parents
are inconsolable.

Wednesday Sir John Dalrymple, at the bar of the House of Com-
mons, as an instance of the loyalty of the town of Glasgow, told
the following story, and desired the House would attend to him:

” When the Pretender was to pass through Glasgow, he sent
notice to the Inhabitants a day before, in order that they might pre-
pare to receive him; but the Inhabitants detesting the man, and
knowing the unjustness of the cause he was engaged in, instead of
appearing joyful of the honour intended to be conferred upon them,
all shut up their shops and windows, and the whole town seemed to
be in mourning; this (added Sir John) had such an effect on Charly,
that it struck more dampness on his and his followers spirits, than
if they had seen 100,000 English soldiers and cannon before them;
and, as a further proof of the loyalty of Glasgow, there was but one
person in the whole town that joined the Pretender; this person (ad-
ded Sir John) had the good luck not the be taken by the English,
but the town of Glasgow would not suffer such a rebel to escape pu-
nishment; for on his return to Glasgow they hung him up in the pu-
blic market, as a disapprobation of his conduct.”

HOUSE of COMMONS May 24th.
At a quarter past three o’clock Lord North came, and the order of
the day, for the whole House going into a Committee on the Boston
bill, was read. The Speaker left the chair, and the House resolved
itself into a Committee, Mr. Grey Cowper, Chairman.

Lord North spake for a considerable time in support of the bill,
and the clauses were all agreed to, and the blanks filled up. The
Committee broke up immediately, and made their report, when the
bill was ordered to be read a second time immediately and ingrossed.

Mr. R. Fuller made a motion, that instead of the Boston bill,
a fine of 20,000£. be inflicted on the Bostonians for their demolishing
the tea belonging to the East India Company. The motion occasi
oned a debate of upwards of four hours, the principal speakers in
which were Lord North, Mr. Jenkinson, Mr. Herbert, General
Conway, Mr. Gascoigne, Mr. Ward, Colonel Barre, and Mr. Mon-
tague. On the opposite side, Mr. Byng, Mr. Dempster, Mr. Fuller,
Mr. C. Fox, Mr. Oliver.

EXTRACT of a Letter from Jassy, Feb. 22.
”Advices have arrived here that several detachments of the Russi-
an army which were posted on some islands of the Danube near to
Silistria have been attacked and drove from thence by the Turks,
who have become possessed of all the cannon, ammunition, &c. and
two large magazines of corn. This unexpected stroke has much em-
barrassed the Russians, as the troops were placed on those islands to
to favour the crossing of the army, in order to make a fresh attack
on Silistria. The Turkish posts are full of men, and well supplied
with provisions, ammunition, &c. especially at Widdin, Caranson,
Bazardie, and Varna.”

IRELAND.

Yesterday arrived a mail from Ireland, by which we received the
first Faulkners Dublin Journal, with the stamp. In this paper Mr.
Faulkner tells us, “ In consequence of the heavy Stamp Tax being
laid on all news papers, the coffee house people have, in consequence
thereof, without an Act of Parliament laid an additional duty of a
halfpenny on each cup of tea and coffee, and three halfpence on
every breakfast eat at their houses in the morning, by raising the
price from six-pence halfpenny to eightpence, Such are the good
and blessed effects of the Stamp Act.”

We hear from Dublin, that most of the soldiers of the regiments
expecting orders from Ireland to America, who know and know not
that country, openly bespeak themselves the happiness of handsome
wives, comfortable lots of land, and habitations on that Continent,
by a full exercise of their industry, and a removal of their present
stations, first caused by a decay of its encouragement in their native
country, by the oppressions of their masters and landlords.

PHILADELPHIA.

EXTRACT of a letter from a Gentleman near Glasgow to his Friend
in this City March 14, 1774.
” The distress of the common people here is deeper and more gene-
ral than you imagine. There is an almost total stagnation in our
manufactures, and grain is dear; many hundreds of labourers and
mechanics, especially weavers in this neighbourhood have lately in-
dented and gone to America, to be employed in the work of that
country for full four years. If any of your colonies desire to set up
manufactures of linen, of stamping, &c. they have now an oppor-
tunity as favourable they could wish for; they may immediately get
from this country plenty of workmen as well skilled in these manu-
actures as any they will leave behind. But I hear it is affirmed by-
smany, that poor people in general are like to be as unhappy in Ame-
rica as at home.

” Some of our half politicians were so far left to themselves, that
they wrote lately to a Secretary of State with the view of stopping
emigrations to America by some coercive acts. Letters were wrote
by Sheriffs to Highland ministers desiring them to make up lists of
all who had emigrated from their respective parishes, for two years
past. The Highand clergy, some of them at least, were alarmed,
imagining there was some design to make them tools of oppression
and tyranny. The aim is silly beyond measure, for if such an act
was made, it would have just the contrary effect of what was inten-
ded by it.”

To the INHABITANTS of the CITY and COUNTY of
PHILADELPHIA.
THIS DAY being the first of June, when the inhabitants of the
town of Boston, our brethren and fellow subjects, suffering in
the common cause of liberty, are to have their port and harbour
shut up——and to be excluded from all commercial intercourse, ex-
cept an allowance of wood and provisions just necessary to keep them
from perishing with want and cold, in consequence of an act of
Parliament lately passed for that purpose. Many of the inhabi-
tants of this city, of most denominations propose to express their
sympathy and concern, for their distressed brethren, by suspending
business on this day: and will be glad of the concurrence of such of
their fellow citizens, as approve of the measure.

To the PRINTERS of the PENSILVANIA JOURNAL.
OBSERVING in the Pensilvania packet of this day, a Notifi-
cation “ that a number of persons composed of the members

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” of all the Societies in this city met, and unanimously agreed, that it
” would be proper to express their sympathy, for their brethren
” at Boston, by suspending all business on the first day of next
” month.”—The people called Quakers, tho’ tenderly sympathising
with the distressed, and justly sensible of the value of our religious
and civil rights and that it is our duty to assert them in a christian
spirit; yet, in order to obviate any misapprehensions, which may
be concerning us, think it necessary to declare, that no person or
persons were authorized to represent us on this occasion, and if any
of our community have counteranced or encouraged this proposal
they have manifested great inattention to our religious principles and
profession, and acted contrary to the rules of christian discipline esta-
blished for the preservation of order and good government among us.
Signed on behalf, and at the desire of the Elders and Overseers
of the several meetings of our religious society in Philadelphia
and other Friends met on the occasion, the 30th of the 5th
month, 1774. JOHN REYNELL.
JAMES PEMBERTON.
SAMUEL NOBLE.

To all the ENGLISH COLONIES of NORTH-AMERICA.
Laws, that shocks Equity, is Reason’s Murder.
Hills Merope.
REMEMBER the fable of the bundle of sticks given by the fa-
ther to his sons; it could not be broken, until it was divided.—
We must stand or fall together: for the Boston port act carries in it
principle and effects the certain, if not immediate destruction of all
the liberties in America, the ruin of all our property, and greatly
endangers the safety of our persons; its nature is so malignant, and
its operation will be so fatal to our whole temporal happiness, that
it cannot fail to awaken the attention of all America. The most
deliberate widom, the steady council, and firm resolution of Ame-
rica, never was, and it is hardly conceivable, ever can be more ne-
cessary than in this dreadful crisis.

I don’t pretend to be able to comprehend all the evils, or to
point out all the consequences of that affirming Statute: but a few,
that occur, appear to me, to deserve great consideration.

1. The Legislative power, by which it was enacted, is founded
in a direct violation of the most essential and fundamental principle
of the English constitution, viz. that no Englishman shall be bound
by any law, to which he has not consented.

2. The ordinary object of human laws is either the attainment
of some benefit, resulting therefrom or the remedy of a mischief.
But this is a mere statute of Vengeance, wreaked on the Bostonians,
for opposing the Parliamentary Duty on Tea, and is therefore a
practical proof, as well as dreadful sample of a disposition in the
British Parliament to hurl mighty destruction against all who oppose
their impositions, whenever it is in their power to cause their resent-
ment to be felt.

3. The interest ruined by this Act of Parliamentary Vengeance
is immense, ’tis the trade and navigation of an antient metropolis
of one of the richest and oldest provinces of English America, whose
dignity and merit are second to none on this continent, whose inha-
bitants are almost wholly of English descent whose affection for the
English nation, and attachment to the Hanoverian succession have
been rapturously warm, whose patience and perseverance, whose ex-
pence of lives and treasure in commencing and extending the con-
quests and settlements of English America, all far exceed the utmost
claim or boast of any other English Colony: But they oppose the
Tea Duty; therefore their merit is forgotten, their honour is laid in
the dust; their interest obtrained by long painful industry, to the a-
mount of hundreds of thousands, is ruined, their traitors are cheri-
shed and encouraged, their humble and dutiful Petitions are rejec-
ted, their claims of right, founded in nature, in the English consti-
tution, and in their Charter, under the sacred sanction of the public
faith, are spurned out of sight, with anger and contempt.

4. The extent and operation of this baneful Act is mostly con-
fined to the harbour of Boston, and its appendages, but its prin-
ciple extends to every inch of English America. The Bostonians
have as good a right to their harbour, their shipping, their wharves,
and landing places, as they have to their houses, gardens, streets,
commons, country seats, and plantations; and as good a right as
the Philadelphians have to theirs, and therefore, nothing can be
more manifest, than this, viz. That the same principle, the same
power, that can seize on and wrest the one, can, with equal right
and authority seize on and wrest all the others, out of the hands
and use of their present proprietors, and therefore it follows by a
consequence, which I dare say, the British Parliament don’t mean
to deny, that if we presume to oppose any Act they may make,
however oppressive and tyrannical we may deem it, or even to af-
front any peevish officer they may appoint over us, or without any of
these, if they should even conceit we affront them, or if without even
such conceit, they should take it into their heads to exercise the ab-
surd plenitude of their power over us; I say, in any of these cases,
the same Parliamentary Power which has deprived the Bostonians
of their harbour, wharves, landing-places, &c. can, with equal au-
thority, deprive any and every English Colony on the continent of
theirs, and accordingly send a sufficient force of ships and soldiers,
to stop every port in them, and put an end to all their navigation
and trade, and not that only, but drive them all from their houses,
streets, cities and plantations. I appeal to the Public, if these are
strained consequences, and if the power, that can do the one, can-
not, with equal right do all the rest.

5. This fatal Act, as far as it relates to personal convenants and
contracts only makes void all bills of lading, charter parties, &c.
relating to vessels and cargoes destined to the port of Boston, and
which may arrive there after the first day of June next; but the
principle of this, manifestly extends to all written contracts and co-
venants whatever sealed or unsealed; to all deeds of lands, mortga-
ges, indentures, covenants, bonds, bills, notes, receipts, &c. for
there can be no doubt that the same power which is able to vacate,
by sovereign authority, convenants and contracts relative to naviga-
tion, made by private persons on reasonable and lawful considera-
tions, can vacate also all covenants and contracts relating to inland
affairs so that if we should happen to disapprove of the Tea-duty,
the Boston Port Act, or any other law the British Parliament may
see fit to make, we may expect soon to be visited with a law from
them, vacating all our deeds of land, indentures of servants, bonds,
&c. empowering all our servants to run away, and every rascal that
pleases to enter on our estates and turn us out of our houses, &c.

6. This dreadful extent of power is claimed by the British Parlia-
ment on whom we have not the least check, and whose natural pre-
judices will ever induce them to oppress us,—they are not of our
appointment, they do not hope for our votes, or fear the loss of
them at future elections, they have no natural affection for us, they
don’t feel for us, they never expect to see us, and therefore do not
court our smiles, or dread meeting our angry countenances.—When
they vote away our money, the dont at the same time give that of
their own and their best friends with it, but on the contrary they
ease themselves and their friends of the whole burden they lay on
us, and therefore will always have strong inducements to make our
burdens as heavy as possible, that they may lighten their own. In-
deed in every view of this Act, it appears replete with horror, ruin
and woe: to all America, it matters not where it begins to operate,
no colony on the continent is exempt from its dreadful principle,
nor can any one that has a seaport avoid its execution.—But how-
ever ghostly, grinning and death-like, this awful threatening power
lowers over us, I doubt not there are means left to America to avoid
its effects and virtue enough to induce every individual to throw a-
side every little consideration, and unite with unmoveable firmness
in the important business of self preservation. We have reason to
think this is the last effort of the power that would oppress us; if
it takes place, we are undone, undone, with our posterity. If we
oppose and avoid it, we may still continue to enjoy our liberties,
and posterity will look back to this alarming period, and will ad-
mire and boast the virtue of their ancestors that saved them from
slavery and ruin. A YOUNG BROTHER.

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The INHABITANTS of the BRITISH COLONIES
in AMERICA.

BRETHREN,
IT is not my design to travel through all the ministerial manoeu-
vers respecting us, since the commencement of this Reign. It
is not necessary. Sufficient, I trust, it will prove to lay before you
such a series of correspondent facts, as will thoroughly convince you,
—that a plan has been deliberately framed, and pertinaciously ad-
hered to, unchanged even by frequent changes of Ministers, un-
checked by any intervening gleam of humanity, to sacrifice to a
passion for arbitrary dominion the universal property, liberty, safe-
ty, honour, happiness and prosperity of us, unoffending, yet devoted
Americans——And that every man of us is deeply interested in the
fate of our brethren of Boston.

If such a series is not laid before you, the combined force of
which shall tear up by the roots, and throw out of your bosoms,
every lurking doubt, censure me as an enthusiast too violently warm-
ed by a sense of the injustice practised against my beloved country.

The danger or a father’s life once racked words from a dumb son.
Worse than death, in my view, threatens our common mother.
Pardon, therefore, a brother’s imperfections.

Amidst a volume of institutions called Regulations——wrong at first
——corrected into other errors——again corrected——still requiring Re-
gulation——and remaining after all their editions, if not like Draco’s
codes of blood, yet codes of plunder——confounding by the intricacy
and multiplicity of their inventions——and confiscating for having
confounded*—appears the fourth of George the Third, chap. 15th,
stiled “ An Act for granting certain duties in the British Colonies
and Plantations in America, &c.” This was the first comet of this
kind, that glared over these Colonies since their existence. Here first
we find the Commons of Great-Britain “ giving and granting” our
money, for the express purpose of “ raising a Revenue in America.”

We, busy in guiding our ploughs, selling our timber, or failing in
the circuits of traffic prescribed us, and still veering like Bees to their
hive with millions of our gains, to Great-Britain, the center of our
toils by land and sea, poor harmless Husbandmen and Traders! scarce
observed the blow given us. Our hearts filled with confidence by con-
templating the pleasing images of her generous distinguished virtues,
from the splendor of which, in our judgment, those of ancient
Greece and Rome hid in their diminished heads—suspicion could
find no entrance. We saw, in the preamble, something of the usual
forms,” for extending and securing navigation and commerce, were
lulled into security, nor could suppose the stroke was aimed at our
vitals. An infant that had tottered along a directed walk in a gar-
den, and loaded with flowers had presented them to a mother,
would as soon have expected to be knocked down by her.——

Not long were we suffered to enjoy our tranquility. The 5th of
George the Third, Chapter the 12 th, the ever memorable Stamp-
Act, quickly followed. By this, reciting the former act, the Com-
mons of Great-Britain, gave and granted,” duties, so called, of our
money on almost every piece of parchment, vellum or paper to be
used in these Colonies, and declared every instrument of writing
without a stamp to be void. Tax gatherers of a new kind were
appointed to collect these duties. The petitions of our Assemblies
previous to its passing, on notice received of the design, asserting
our rights, and supplicating a respect for them, were treated with
contempt.

* “ Omitting the immense increase of people, by natural popula-
” tion, in the more northern Colonies, and the migration from every
” part of Europe, I am convinced the whole commercial system of
” America may be altered to advantage. You have prohibited
” where you ought to have encouraged; and you have encouraged,
” where you ought to have prohibited. Improper restraints have
” been laid on the continent in favour of the islands. You have but
” two nations to trade with in America. Would you had twenty.
” Let acts of Parliament in consequence of treaties remain, but let
” not an English minister become aCustom-house officer for Spain,
”or any foreign power. Much is wrong, much may be amend-
” ed for the general good of the whole. Mr. PITT’s Speech

LONDON.

VIENNA, March 31. All the accounts from the Ottoman empire
mention the vast preparations making by the Turks to continue the
war against Russia with vigour. The Grand Vizar’s army is prepa-
ring to approach the Danube, to support several detachments which
are to cross that river, to intercept all the supplies of provisions,
which the Russians expect to receive by water, by cutting off all
communication with their fleet.

LEGHORN, March 23. According to authentic advices from the
isle of Paros, the Russian Commander there has received particular
orders from Petersburgh to sail immediately with the whole fleet to-
wards the Dardanelles, so that the enemy may be attacked by sea
and land with the greatest vigour, at one time.

PARIS, April 15. The following ships have actually received or-
ders to be fitted out with the utmost expedition at Toulon, viz. The
Tonant of 84 guns, the Languedoc of 74 guns, the Province of 64
guns, the Intrepid of 54 guns, the Thetis of 32 guns, the Topaz of
24 guns, and the Serene of 18 guns. This fleet is to be command-
ed by Admiral Count Estaing, who is appointed Governor General
and Commander in Chief of his Majesty’s colonies in the East-In-
dies; and we have the greatest reason to think that this fleet is de-
stined for that part of the world.

Lord North said, that the proposed bill was meant no other than
as a temporary one to be solely dependent on its operation on the
eventual conduct of the Bostonians; for he wished and hoped, there
would be no occasion for enforcing it; that tho’ it was asserted, with
some degree of confidence, that there were letters received from Bo-
ston of good credit, which said that the town was ready to make
reparation to the East-India Company for the losses they had su-
stained; he was sorry to inform the House, that there was authen-
tic information received yesterday, that on the last day of February,
or in the month of March, the Fortune had arrived in the port
of Boston with tea on board, and that the mob had assembled in a
tumultuous manner, gone on board this ship, and destroyed the
cargo.

Lord Beauchamp said, that without some such law as the present,
the soldiery would be rendered entirely useless, and their situation
must be terrible indeed; if they refuse to perform their duty or obey
their superiors on one hand, or execute them on the other, they
would be, in all probability, equally liable to suffer.

Previous to the question being delivered to the Chairman Lord
North explained the intentions of the bill, traced its several out-
lines, and obviated many of the probable objections that might be
made to it; said, in particular, that he proposed that offenders
should be removed for trial to other colonies, or, if government
thought that justice could not be had there, that in case they should
foe brought to Great-Britain, the expence to be paid by the public.

He informed the Committee, that it was intended to send four re-
giments of foot to Boston; that General Gage was to be invested
with the civil and military command of the Province; and in con-
formity to this arrangement, Governor Hutchinson had already
taken his passage for Europe.

Colonel Barre spoke very strongly against the motion, condemning
with all imaginable freedom, spirit, and ability. He said he well
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but might be easily led; that they were tenacious of their Liberty
woul not be dragooned out of them, and scorned to be slaves; the
if the General must go, he should carry the sword in one hand, and
the olive branch in the other; but for his part he thought it ex-
tremely improper to remove the present Governor, who, in his o-
pinion was a very capable and experienced man.

Mr. Sollicitor General observed, that the objection raised to the
mode of trial would come to nothing when properly considered;
that it was an established ancient mode of proceeding, well warran-
ted in reason, policy and justice; that in a recent instance, the
case of the Sussex smugglers it had been found necessary; and that
their crimes and that of the Bostonians were in a a great manner
similar.

Mr. T. Townshend agreed with Captain Phipps in all he advan-
ced, except relative to the personal character of Governor Hutchin-
son, on whom he bestowed very high encomiums.

Mr Dowdeswell contended warmly against the motion, and took
it in several lights, with great ability, and evinced, if words could e-
vince, its pernicious tendency. He by no means thought with the
Captain relative to either the integrity or abilities of Hutchinson.
He meant not, he said, to reflect on Gen. Gage, whom he looked
upon to be an experienced officer; but since he was to go, he wished
he had been sent with the fleet, not before it.

Hon. Mr. Montagu was violent in favour of the bill, and was by
no means sparing of similies suited to an university education, but
whether on the banks of the Cam, the Isis, or the neighbourhood
of Leith, we will not pretend to determine.

General Conway was not totally against the bill, but wished that
tender conciliating measures might be adopted, and said, that al-
though the noble Lord had given notice of his intentions, he was
still far from being sufficiently prepared to decide with certainty up-
on a question of so much delicacy, and so great a magnitude, and
concluded by hoping that further time might be given.

Mr. Van contended, that to adopt ilenient measures would be
summit of folly, if not pusillanimity; that the inhabitants of Boston
were in a state of actual rebellion, and deserved punishment suited
to the enormity of their crimes.

The bill is to be read a second time on Monday next, and to be
printed for the use of the members.

At four o’clock the order for the second reading of the bill for re-
gulating the government of Massachusett’s Bay came on, which pro-
duced a warm debate that continued till almost seven o’clock; when
a motion being made to, committing the said bill, it passed in the
affirmative without a division.

EXTRACT of a Letter from COPENHAGEN, March 27.
”Baron Saldern, who has been in disgrace at the court of Pe-
tersburgh, we hear, fled to Switzerland: he was discovered to have
kept up a private and treacherous correspondence with the court of
France during the whole time of his having been uncommonly great
at the court of Petersburgh, and disclosed every thing that passed in
the cabinet to France; he is likewise deprived of all his places and
pensions at our court, and it is suspected that his intimate friend
baron Sch———n will share the same fate.”

CHARLES TOWN.

HIS Honour the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased to pro-
rogue the General Assembly of this Province to Tuesday the
seventh Day of June next.

Thomas Fee, who murdered the Creek Indian named the Mad
Turkey, at Augusta, for the apprehending of whom considerable
Rewards were offered by the Governour of Georgia, the Lieute-
nant-Governour of this Province, and the Superintendant of Indian
Affairs, was taken up and committed to the Goal at Ninety Six;
and on Saturday: April 30th, a Number of armed men came to
the said Goal and demanded the Keys of the Goal, threatening
him with Death if he did not immediately comply with their Com-
mands, but he absolutely refusing to give up the Keys, they broke
open the Doors of the Goal, took out Thomas Fee, freed him from
his Irons, mounted him on a Horse, and carried him clear off. We
are sorry to learn, that this daring Breach of the Laws meet with
the approbation of many people in that Part of the Country, not-
withstanding the very fatal Consequences which in all probability
will result from it.

ON Sunday last arrived here from Georgia David Taitt, Esq;
Commissary of Indian Affairs for the Creek Nation appoin-
ted by the Honourable John Stuart, Superintendant, &c. Mr.
Taitt brought the Deputies from that Nation formerly mentioned,
to Savannah and informs us. “ That the said Deputies, named E-
mist signo and Neathlacco, Chiefs of the Creek Indians, upon their
Arrival seemed much disappointed that the Superintendant was not
there. His Excellency Sir James Wright, Baronet, wrote immedi-
ately to Mr. Stuart, giving him Notice of their Arrival; but the
Governour’s Letter, being sent by a Gentleman who had some busi-
ness to transact at Beaufort, did not reach Mr. Stuart’s hands till April
15th, six Days after its Date. The Superintendant immediately
dispatched an Express to Georgia, set out himself on the 17th, and
arrived at Savannah on the 19th, before which, Sir James Wright
had finished his Conferences with the Indians, who were impatient
to return home, in order to prevent any evil consequences that might
balaproly arise from the Murder of their countryman, named the
Mad Turkey, by Thomas Fee at Augusta and which they had not
heard of till their coming to Savanah; they determined, neverthe-
less, to wait for the Superintendant, who met them at Sir James
Wright’s House on wednesday, April 20th, when he confirmed the
Governour’s Talks to them in every Respect; having fully conferred
with them respecting the late Murders, and Messages sent them by
this Cherokee Indians, dismissed them, after the Conference had
lasted about three hours, in all Appearance very well satisfied. The
same Day the Deputies set out on their Return to the Nation, and
escorted beyond Ogcechie by a detachment of the Grenadier and
light Infantry Companies ofMilitia.”

NEW HAMPSIRE.

EXTRACT of a Letter from the Committee of Correspondence for
Portsmouth, dated May 19, 1774. to the Committee of Corre-
sponucede for the Town of Boston.

” We think the late Act Parliament to shut up the Port of
Boston of a most extraordinary Nature and fatal Tenden-
cy; administration are taking every Method to disunite the Colo-
nies, thereby so render the noble opposition to their arbitrary and
destructive Measures abortive: We hope a firm Union of all the Co-
lonies will still subsist, and that such a Plan may be devised and re-
solutely pursued by all, as may prevent the cruel Effects of this Act.

A New SONG,
In Spring, my dear Shepherds, your Flow’rets are gay ;
They breath all their Sweets in the Sun-shine of May;
But hang down their Heads when December draws near,
The Winter of Life is like that of the Year.

The Larks and the Linnets that chant o’er the Plains,
All, all are in Love, while this Summer remains,
Their Sweethearts in Autumn no longer are dear,
This Winter of Life is like that of the Year.

The Season for Love is when Youth’s in its Prime;
Ye Lads and ye Lasses make use of your Time;
Tge frost of old Age will too quickly appear,
The Winter of Life is like that of the Year.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

PORTSMOUTH, June 7, 1774.
THE SUBSCRIBERS have for SALE,
WEST INDIA and CONTINENT Rum, MUS-
COVADO and Loaf Sugar, TENERIFF
Wine, Molasses and Coffee.
JOHN MITCHELL, & Co

NORFOLK, June 7, 1774.
I INTEND leaving this COLONY soon
THOMAS HUDSON.

NORFOLK, June 7, 1774.
The SUBSCRIBERS have for SALE,
GENUINE MADEIRA Wine,
Six Years Old,
WEST INDIA Rum, MUCOVADO Sugar,
Coffee, Pimenta, Indigo, Geneva, in
Cases and Casks; Hard Soap, Barrels of Mackrell,
PHILADELPHIA Beer in Barrells, and a Quan-
tity of neat MAHOGONY Furniture; Also Flour,
and Ship Bread.
HARMANSON & HARVEY.

NORFOLK, June 6, 1774.
For CHARTER to any Part of Europe.
THE Sloop GRACE and
SALLY, CHRISTOPHER
WILSON, Master: Will carry a-
bout Six Thousand Bushels of
Grain, in her LOWER HOLD, and
300 or 350 Barrels between
Decks.———For Terms, Ap-
ply to GILCHRIST & TAYLOR.
N. B. She has, two Decks laid Fore and
Aft.

NORFOLK, June 6, 1774.
JOURNEYMEN SHOEMAKERS well Recommen-
ded, by applying to the SUBSCRIBER, will
meet with the best Encouragement,
WILLIAM FORSYTH.

TO BE LET ON CHARTER
TO any PART of EUROPE, or the
WEST-INDIES,
The BRIGANTINE, HAMILTON,
A New Vessel, now on the Stocks, and
will be ready to take on Board by
the 20th, Instant.
ROBERT GRAY, & Co.
N.B. We have for Sale Barrelled Pork, Beef, and Herrings;
Also, Salt Butter in Firkins; Hogs Lard in small Kegs, and a quan-
tity of JAMAICA Coffee.

NORFOLK, June 2d. 1774.
AS the SUBSCRIBER intends leaving
the COLONY soon, those who
have any Demands against him, are de-
sired to give in their Claims, that they
may be adjusted,
WILLIAM GLEN

NORFOLK, June 6, 1774.
I INTEND to leave this COLONY soon.
ISHMAEL MARYCHURCH

RUN away last Night, from on board the Sloop
Grace and Sally, Chiristopher Wilson Master,
lying in this Harbour; A Yellow negro fellow named
Caeser, about five feet seven or eight Inches high, 26
or 27 years old, much pitted with the small Pox, has
a wild stare in his Eyes, which is observable at first sight,
he is an artful specious fellow, and may pass himself
for a free Man: We cannot describe his dress, as he
carried off with him all the Sailors Cloaths he could lay
his hands on.
He was formerly the property of Mr. Charles Yates,
on Rappahanock River, and lately sold in Antigua;
whoever secures him in any Goal, and informs the sub-
scribers so that they may get him again, shall receive
forty Shillings Reward.
GILCHRIST and TAYLOR.
N. B. It is supposed he went up Rappahanock in
a Craft that left this place last Night.
NORFOLK, June 9th, 1774.