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NORFOLK, May 31, 1774.

A Letter to the Inhabitants of CHARLESTOWN.
GENTLEMEN,
THE occasion is too serious to
admit of apologies for this
unsollicited communication of
our Sentiments to you, at this
alarming Crisis to AMERI-
CAN Freedom; for the time
is come, the unhappy era is
arrived, when the closest union among Ourselves,
and the firmest confidence in each other, are our
only Securities for those Rights, which as Men
and Freemen, we derive from Nature and the
Constitution. The late hostile parliamentary In-
vasion of the town of BOSTON, we deem an At-
tack upon the Liberties of Us all. Of the parti-
culars of that unhappy transaction, we presume,
you are already fully informed, and we doubt not
shudder with us at this systematic mode of de-
priving the unrepresented American of his Rights
and Possessions, and vesting the Crown with such
despotic power over the free-born inhabitants of
the capital of the Massachusetts Bay. What Mea-
sures are most proper to be adopted on this sad
Occasion we are at a loss to point out; but we
look to the wisdom of your city, in conjunction
with the other large commercial Towns on this
Continent, to take more immediately the lead in
these important matters, and to fix upon such ex-
pedients in the regulation of Trade, as may be
most productive of relief to our suffering brethren
of BOSTON, and the general establishment of the
Rights of these Colonies; and you may rest assu-
red, that in every measure conducive to this grand
continental object, you will always meet with our
most hearty concurrence. We are under great
Apprehensions for the People of BOSTON, lest,
they may sink under the weight of their misfor-
tunes; and at the same time that we highly ap-
prove of the Expediency of a Congress, as pro-
posed by several of the Colonies, we think the
Trading part of the community ought particular-
ly to interfere, for nothing but the most speedy
and efficacious measures can relieve them; and if
after all, there should be found an unhappy ne-
cessity to reimburse the India company for that
just punishment they received for their ungene-
rous attempts on our Liberties; we trust there is
no inhabitant of these colonies, who feels and
thinks himself a freeman, but will chearfully put
his hand to his purse, and join in the general ex-
pence. Inclosed we transmit to you the proceed-
ings of the Inhabitants of the Borough of
NORFOLK and Town of PORTSMOUTH,
together with letters and other papers from Bo-
ston, Philadelphia and Baltimore, as also copies
of the Resolutions and other Proceedings of the
members of our late House of Burgesses both be-
fore and after their dissolution. We hope to be
able to inform you more particularly of the col-
lected Sense of the Trade of this colony at the
general meeting of the Merchants next week at
WILLIAMSBURG, when we expect further di-
spatches from the Northward. We hope the fa-
vour of a free and full communication of your
Sentiments on this important occasion, and trust
that your flourishing and respectable province will

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still continue their generous endevours for the e-
stablishment of the Rights of the Colonies, that
the opposition of all America may be as extensive
as the oppression. With the warmest attachment
to the Interests of the Colonies, we are
GENTLEMEN, most Respectfully,
Your most Obedient Servants,

THOMAS NEWTON, junior.
JOSEPH HUTCHINGS,
PAUL LOYALL,
ALEX. LOVE,
SAMUEL INGLIS,
JOHN GREENWOOD,
ALEX. SKINNER,
WILLIAM HARVEY,
NIEL JAMIESON.

A True Copy,
WILLIAM DAVIES, Clerk of the
Committee.

BOSTON, June 2.

The following ADDRESS of the Episcopal Ministers and
Wardens, was presented to Governor HUTCHINSON on Monday
last, at the Castle.

SIR,
THE Ministers of the Episcopal Churches in Boston and the
neighbouring towns, with as many of the Wardens as could
conveniently attend, hearing of your intention to embark in
a short time for England, beg leave to express our unfeigned gra-
titude, for your generous attention and unwearied application to
the important interests of this province, in which your wisdom
and integrity have been equally conspicuous. If any of our fel-
low citizens have viewed your administration in a less favourable
light, we are persuaded it must be owing to some misapprehension of
your Excellency’s intentions.

But that which falls more immediately within our province,
is the regard you have always paid to the interests of religion,
and the favourable notice you have taken of the Church of Eng-
land within your government. Be pleased, Sir, to accept this sin-
cere testimony of our respect and gratitude, together with our earnest
prayers, that the devine blessing may attend you, through the re-
maining stages of your life, and reward you with an eternity of
happiness in this life to come.

* To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following
ANSWER.

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

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

To GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON.

SIR,
WE, Merchants and Traders of the town of Boston, and others,
so now wait on you, in the most respectful manner, before
your departure for England, to testify for ourselves, the entire satisfac-
tion we feel at your wise, zealous, and faithful Administration,
during the few years that you have presided at the head of this
Province.—Had your success been equal to your endeavours, and
to the warmest wishes of your heart, we cannot doubt that many
of the evils under which we now suffer, would have been averted,
and that Tranquillity would have been restored to this long divided
province; But we assure ourselves, that the want of Success, in
those endeavours, will not abate your good wishes when removed
from us, or your earnest exertions still on every occasion to
serve the true interest of this your native country.

While we lament the loss of so good a Governor, we are greatly
relieved that his Majesty, in his gracious favour, hath appointed
as your successor, a Gentleman, who, having distinguished himself
in the long command he hath held in another department, gives
us the most favourable prepossession of his future administration.

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The present perplexed state of our public affairs, we are sensible,
must render your departure far less disagreeable to you than it is to
us,—we assure you, Sir, we feel the loss,—but when, in the amiable
character of your successor, we view a fresh instance of the pa-
ternal goodness of our most gracious Sovereign,—when we reflect on
the probability that your presence at the Court of Great-Britain, will
afford you an opportunity of employing your interest more success-
fully for the relief of this province, and particularly of the town of
Boston, under their present distresses, we find a consolation which
no other human force could afford. Permit us, Sir, most earnestly
to solicit the exertion of all your distinguished abilities in favour of
your native town and country, upon this truly unhappy and distres-
sing occasion.

We sincerely wish you a prosperous voyage, a long continuation
of health and felicity, and the highest reward of the good and
faithful.

We are, Sir, with the most cordial affection,
Esteem and respect, your Excellency’s most
Obedient and very humble servants,
Robert Auchmuty, Jonathan Sewall, Samuel Fitch, Samuel Quin-
cy, William Pinchon, James Putnam, Benjamin Gridley, Abel
Willard, Andrew Cazneau, Daniel Leonard, John Lowell, Daniel
Oliver, Sampson S. Blowers, Shearjashub Bourn, Daniel Bliss, Sa-
muel Porter, David Ingersoll, Jerimiah Dummer Rogers, David
Gorham, Samuel Sewall, John Sprague, Rufus Chandler, Thomas
Danforth, Ebenezer Bradish.

To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following
ANSWER.

Gentlemen,
THE relation to the Bar which I stood in for many years toge-
ther, makes this mark of your affection and esteem peculi-
arly acceptable.

I feel the distress coming upon the town of Boston. I am con-
fident nothing will be wanting on your part, which may tend to
promote the free course of law, and that peace and good order in
government which seems to have been made the conditions of ob-
taining relief from this distress. You may be assured that nothing
shall be wanting on my part which may tend to procure this relief
for you as speedily and effectually as may be.

You certainly may be happy under the administration of his Ex-
cellency the present Governor, and I have great reason to join with
you in a testimony to his amiable disposition and character.

An Address presented to Governor HUTCHINSON, by sundry
Gentlemen of Marblehead, June 2.
To Governor HUTCHINSON.

SIR
HIS Majesty having been pleased to appoint his Excellency
the Hon. Thomas Gage, Esq; to be Governor and Com-
mander in Chief over this province, and you (as we are informed)
being speedily to embark for Great-Britain: We the subscribers,
merchants, traders, and others, inhabitants of Marblehead, beg
leave to present you our valedictory address on this occasion. And as
this is the only way we now have of expressing to you our entire
approbation of your public conduct, during the time you have
presided in this province, and of making you a return, of our
most sincere and hearty thanks, and for the ready assistance
which you have at all times afforded us, when applied to in matters
which affected our navigation and commerce, we are induced from
former experience of your goodness, to believe, that you will freely
indulge us in the pleasure, of giving you this testimony of our sincere
esteem and gratitude.

In your public administration, we are fully convinced, that the
general good was the mark which you have ever aimed at, and we
can, Sir, with pleasure assure you, that it is likewise the opinion of
all dispassionate thinking men within the circle of our observation,
notwithstanding many publications would have taught the world
to think the contrary; and we beg leave to intreat you, that when
you arrive at the court of Great-Britain, you would there embrace every
opportunity, of moderating the resentment of the government a-
gainst us, and use your best endeavours to have the unhappy disputes
between Great-Britain and this country, brought to a just and e-
quitable determination.

We cannot omit the opportunity of returning you in a particular
manner, our most sincere thanks, for your patronizing our cause,
in the matter of entering and clearing the fishing vessels at the
Custom-House, and making the Fishermen pay Hospital money;
we believe it is owing to your representation of the matter, that we
are hitherto free from that burthen.

We heartily wish you, Sir, a safe and prosperous passage to Great-
Britain, and when you arrive there, may you find such a reception,
as shall fully compensate for all the insults and indignities which
have been offered you.

Marblehead, May 25, 1774.
Richard Hickly, Samuel Reed, John Lee, Robert Ambrose,
Jonathan Glover, Richard Phillips, Isaac Mansfield, Joseph Bubler,
Richard Stacey, Thomas Procter, John Fowle, Robert Hooper, 3d,
John Prince, George M’Call, Joseph Swasay, Nathan Bowen, Tho-
mas Robie, John Stimson, John Webb, Joseph Lee, Sweet Hooper,
Henry Saunders, Robert Hooper, John Gallison, Jacob Fowle.
John Pedrick, Richard Reed, Benjamin Marston, Samuel White,
Joseph Hooper, John Prentice, Robert Hooper, jun. Thomas
Lewis,

Governor HUTCHINSON’s Answer.

Gentlemen,
”So kind an address from so many gentlemen of respectable
characters in the town of Marblehead, requires my most grateful
acknowledgments. You may be assured of my endeavours, as far
as shall fall within my sphere, to obtain what you desire.
THOMAS HUTCHINSON.

The following is a PROTEST of the Merchants and Traders
of this town, unanimously voted at a very full meeting on Tuesday
the 24th instant, viz.

”Whereas a paper, called an Address to Governor Hutchinson,
has been handed about and signed in a private manner by sundry
persons, who stile themselves Merchants, Traders and others of the
town of Boston; and whereas the Merchants and Traders duly no-
tified and met, having been refused a copy of said paper, although
requested by their Committee, and apprehending said address is in-
tended to justify the administration of Mr. Hutchinson, when Go-
vernor of this province; we hereby utterly disclaim said Address,
and disavow a measure so clandestinely conducted, and so injurious
in its tendency.”

May 30. Tuesday last the Justices of the Court of General
Sessions of the Peace for the county of Suffolk, presented the
following ADDRESS to his Excellency General GAGE.

Province of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY.
To his EXCELLENCY the Honourable
THOMAS GAGE, Esq:
Governor, Commander in Chief, and Vice Admiral of the said
province, and Lieutenant General of his Majesty’s forces in
North-America.

Sir,
THE Justices of his Majesty’s Court of General Sessions of the
Peace for the County of Suffolk, are happy in having an
opportunity before the close of the present term, at once to testify
their loyalty to the King, to pay your Excellency their dutiful
respects on your advancement to the chair of Government in this
province.

The appointment of a gentleman of your Excellency’s eminence
and character, we esteem as a mark of the royal favour. We flatter
ourselves that it will be acceptable to the people over whom you
preside, as it may afford them encouragement that the powers

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with which you are invested, will invariably be applied to the pro-
motion of their peace and prosperity, and thereby they may lose
the remembrance of their former troubles.

We are sensible to the cares of government are at all times
burthensome, and are peculiarly so when increased by any public
dissensions. We therefore wish your Excellency THAT wisdom
which is from above to direct you in every department both of
office and duty, are that under your auspices the people of your
charge, may ever enjoy the BENEFITS resulting from a just and
due execution of the laws, even security to their persons and pro-
perty, and the happiness for British subjects.

The administration of justice will consider as the principal duty
of Kings: in this way, conformable to OUR duty, we would tender
your Excellency the earliest assurances that the executive powers
wherewith we are trusted, by our commission, shall in all re-
spects be employed for the preservation of the peace and good or-
der of this country, and that both as citizens and magistrates, we
will afford every [creased, illegible] in our power, toward rendering your
Excellency’s administration easy and happy to yourself and effective
of the most permanent tranquility and welfare to this com-
munity.

To which Address his EXCELLENCY was pleased to return the follow-
ing ANSWER.

GENTLEMEN,
THE loyalty you express to the King, and your kind address to
me on my appointment to this government, claim my war-
mest acknowledgments.

I receive the greatest satisfaction in the assurances you give of your
intentions towards the preservation of the peace, and welfare of the
community, and return your thanks for the assistance you offer to
render my administration easy and happy.

I beg you to believe that as it is my duty, so it is my inclination
to give a close attention to the administration of justice, and the due
execution of the law and that I shall exert every power lodged in
my hands, for the protection of his Majesty’s subjects, that every
individual may enjoy the blessings peculiar to a British constitution,
by being secured both in his person and property.

This day his Excellency was pleased to make the following
SPEECH to both Houses.

Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the General
Assembly,
HIS Majesty having been pleased to appoint me Governor and
Captain General of his province of the Massachusetts-Bay,
and my commissions having been read and published, I have met
you for the election of counsellors for the ensuing year; on which
business you have been convened agreeable to your charter. And as
that work is finished, you will proceed as you shall judge fit, to the
consideration of such other matters as may properly come before
you, and that you judge ought to be entered upon previous to the
first of next month. And you will be assured that I shall with
pleasure concur with you to the utmost of my power in all matters
that tend to the welfare and prosperity of the province.

I make mention of the first of next month, because I have the
King’s particular command for holding the General Court at Sa-
lem, from that day, until his Majesty shall have signified his royal
will and pleasure for holding it again at Boston.

The honour of my appointment to the command of this govern-
ment being so lately [creased, illegible], and the time since I took it upon me
so very short, I have not at present any matter to lay before you,
farther than to acquaint [crease, illegible], that the Provincial Treasurer having
informed me, that [creased, illegible] provision is made for the redemption of
the government securities that are now, and will become due in June
1775, you will have no other burden upon you but to supply the
treasury for the support of government for the ensuing year.
Council Chamber }
May 26, 1774.      } T. GAGE.

While the town was in a meeting on Wednesday last, a letter was
brought from Mr. James Boles, of the town of Milton in the neigh-
bourhood of Boston; in which that Gentleman, for the encourage-
ment and relief of the town, freely and generously offered the use of
his nitting-mills, with all its utensils gratis, so long as the harbour
shall remain shut up; the mill left in the like good repair as it is at
this time. The town voted thanks to Mr. Boles for this kind offer.

It is said that a stock of three of four hundred Pounds, will be
sufficient to keep this mill going; in consequence of which many
hands may be employed making of Nails.

Boston May 26. Yesterday according to the Charter, the Great
and General Court of Assembly of the province met at the State-
House, and after the gentlemen who had been returned Representa-
tives, were sworn in and had subscribed, they chose for their Speaker
the HON. Thomas Cushing, Esq; who being approved by the Go-
vernor, they chose for their Clerk, Mr. Samuel Adams, after which
with the Governor and Council of the last year, they proceeded to
the old Brick Meeting House, and heard an excellent sermon on the
2d verse of the 19th Chap. of Proverbs. When the righteous are
in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked bear rule, the
people mourn.

After an elegant entertainment, (at which were present with
his Excellency, the Gentlemen of the Council, the House of Re-
presentatives, the Clergy, the Officers civil and military, and several
other Gentlemen) many loyal toasts were drank, and guns fired
from the several batteries.

In the afternoon the Honourable Commons House of Representa-
tives met and chose in twenty-seven Gentlemen Counsellers for
the year ensuing.

Next day his Excellency, according to his privilege by Charter
rejected the following thirteen of the number, viz. the Honourable,
James Bowdoin, Samuel Dexter, John Winthrop, Timothy Da-
nelson, Benjamin Austin, William Phillips, Michael Farley, James
Prescot, John Adams, Norton Quincy, Jerethmael Bowers, Enoch
Freeman, and Jedediah Foster, Esquires.

June 1. Yesterday Capatin Calahan sailed for London, with
whom went passengers, his Excellency Governour Hutchinson,
Elisha Hutchinson, Esq; his second son, and Miss Hutchinson, his
Excellency’s youngest daughter.

Yesterday arrived here several transports from England with troops.

Same day his Excellency Governor Gage set out for Salem.

His Majesty’s ships, frigates and schooners, are now placed in
such a manner in Boston harbour, as to prevent any vessels going
out, or coming in, agreeable to the act of Parliament for blocking up
said harbour, which took place yesterday; so we have reason to ex-
pect that in a little time the town of Boston will be truly in a dis-
tressed and melancholy situation———God send us speedy relief!

Thursday last arrived here his Majesty’s ship Tartar, Capt. Mea-
dows, from Virginia.

The Regiment on board the transports arrived yesterday we are
informed is the 4th, or Kings own which is to encamp on Boston
Common.

EXTRACT of a letter from BOSTON May 28.

”Our Assembly have received Advice from the best Authority,
that Doctor Franklin’s Successor in office is authorized to open all
Letters directed to the Committees of Correspondence, and inspect
their Contents.”

Every Town in every Colony of America from which we have
heard, consider the case of Boston as their own, and agree, in Sen-
timents, to unite their Strength, and exert every Faculty in the
most determined persevering Endeavours to preserve their Rights
and Liberties against the tyrannical Encroachments of great Britain.
To this End a Congress is soon expected; and a total Suspension
of all commercial Intercourse between the Colonies and Great Bri-
tain and Ireland at least, it is generally believed will very soon take
Place.

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bail) in order to their being tried at the next assizes on a charge of
piracy, &c. when the bills were found. It appeared in the course
of depositions, that on the 11th of September last, in very bad
weather, in consequence of false lights being discovered, the Captain
bore for the shore, when his vessel, whose cargo was valued at 19,000£.
went to pieces, and all the crew, except the Captain and his wife,
perished, whom the waves had brought on shore upon part of the
wreck. Nearly exhausted they lay for some time, till the savages
from adjacent places rushed down upon the devoted victims. The Lady
was just able to lift a handkerchief up to her head, when her husband
was torn from her side. They cut his buckles from his shoes, and
deprived him of his covering. Happy to escape with life, he hasted
to the beach in search of his wife; when horrible to tell, her half-
naked and plundered corpse presented itself to his view. What to
do, Capt. Chilcot was at a loss; Providence, however, conducted
him to the roof of a venerable pair, who bestowed upon him every
assistance that his hard case required, who, in a short space, had
been reduced from affluence to a most deplorable state. The Cap-
tain’s wife, it seems, at the time the ship went to pieces, had two
bank bills of a considerable value, and 70 Guineas in her pocket.
There were five others concerned.

April 9. Yesterday morning about five o’clock, two revenue of-
ficers stopped a post chaise and four, on the Kent-street road, from
whence they made a seizure of French laces, silk stockings, &c. to
a very large amount. They were the property of a lady of distinc-
tion near one of the squares.

Yesterday the wife of one Aaron Brethwin, a barber, in Oxford-
street, was apprehended, and committed to prison, for wounding an
officer, who came to arrest her husband, in so terrible a manner in
the belly with a carving knife, that it is thought impossible for him
to recover.

The Wolfe, Watts, from Virginia, arrived in the Downs, spoke
with the Britannia, Smith, for Quebec, on April 4, in middle chan-
nel between Ushant and Scilly, and all well.

Saturday as one of the workmen employed in rebuilding the
house that was burnt some time ago in Great Queen-street, was
pulling down a wall the lever broke, and his foot slipping, he
fell into a cellar, and falling on his feet, his weight forced open
a small door, when some others looking, and seeing some steps,
went down upwards of one hundred, and then came to a large
place paved with stone, and in it a leaden coffin; upon opening it,
they found a man upwards of seven feet four inches high, and
a stone at the head, marked N. T. 1540.

EXTRACT of a letter from LONDON

”There is a persuasion here that America will see, without any
interposition, the ruin of Boston. It is to the last importance to
the general cause that your conduct should prove the opinion erro-
neous. If once it is perceived that you may be attacked and destroy-
ed piecemeal, it is certain that every part, in turn, will feel the
vengeance which it would not unite to repel, and a general slavery
must ensue. The colonies should never forget Lord North’s decla-
ration in the House of Commons, that he would not listen to the
complaint of America till she was at his feet. The character of
Lord North, and a consideration of what surprising things he has
effected toward enslaving this country, makes me own that I trem-
ble for yours. Plausible, deep, and treacherous, he has not passions
to divert him, no pursuits of pleasure to withdraw him, from that
accursed design of deliberately destroying the liberty of his country.
A perfect adept in the arts of corruption, and indefatigable in the
application of them, he effects great ends by means almost magical;
because they are unseen. In four years he has overcome the most
formidable opposition in this country, from which the Duke of
Grafton fled with terror; at the same time, he has effectually en-
slaved the East India Company, and made the vast revenue and ter-
ritory of India, in effect, a royal patronage. Flushed with these
successes, he now attacks America; and certainly, if we are not
both firm, united, and wise, he will triumph in the same manner
over us. In my opinion, a general resolution of the colonies to break
off all commercial intercourse with this country, till they are se-
cured in their liberties, is the only advisable and sure mode of de-
fence.”

An extraordinary petition from the province of Pensylvania, it
is said, will shortly be presented to Parliament.

On Wednesday last Lord D______ went out to spend the evening,
and ordered his coachman to be with him at eleven o’clock; the
coachman not being to his time, his Lordship went home in ano-
ther gentleman’s carriage; and as they were passing through Berkly-
square a man in disguise came up and demanded his Lordships watch
and money. His Lordship’s man-cook spent the evening out also;
and when he came home, he shewed his Lordship’s Gentleman what
a bargain he had bought. My Lord soon after called for his Gen-
tleman to undress, to whom he related that he had been robbed of
his watch and five guineas. The Gentleman said that he believed
that he knew where his Lordship’s watch was, and that he believed
the cook had got it. The next morning an officer was sent for, and
both cook and coachman were taken into custody. The watch was
found upon the cook.

Yesterday morning the body of a woman, stripped entirely na-
ked, was found with her throat cut in a ditch in a field near Wal-
worth in Surry. It was very much emaciated and disfigured, and
is supposed to have lain there some weeks. It is imagined she was
first murdered and then robbed by some footpads.

The ACCOUNT between BRITAIN and her COLONIES
candidly stated.

AMERICA stands clearly indebted to Britain for her ori-
ginal existence; for her happy constitution; for the lenient
and tender indulgence and support extended to her in her infancy;
for the protection of her territories and her commerce when inva-
ded hostilely by an usurping power; for establishing her limits on a
solid and permanent basis, immoveable and incontrovertible; and
for extending her possessions at an enormous expence; for underta-
king a long, bloody, and expensive war in support of her rights, and
the future security of her property and trade; for securing a foreign
market for such of her commodities as the British dominions cannot
consume; and for the annual expences of supporting a government
and military establishments in the provinces and islands in AMERICA.

On the other side of the account, GREAT-BRITAIN is indebted
to her colonies in AMERICA for the consumption of her manufac-
tures; for immense sums arising from duties and excise on the com-
modities of AMERICA; for the balance which the AMERICAN pro-
ductions exported to foreign countries, bring in favour of Britain;
for the consumption of India goods, which leave a considerable re-
venue in duties, and great gains behind; for the gains arising by the
AFRICAN trade; for the nursery of able mariners that are raised by
the vast navigation carried on between BRITAIN and AMERICA;
but above all, for the influence and consideration which the exten-
sive and populous dominions of BRITAIN in AMERICA give her with
other states, as a martial powerful and commercial nation. With-
out the support of BRITAIN, AMERICA must become tributary to
some other nation; without AMERICA, BRITAIN would cease to
be an opulent, powerful nation; their interests are inseparable, and
their separation is incompatible with their natural ideas and high
notions of liberty and freedom, in the pure unadulterated sense in
which ancient, not modern, patriots have conceived them.>/p>

Thus circumstanced; BRITAIN should confirm to AMERICA her
original privileges and immunities without blemish; her powers of
distinct legislation and taxation, under the immediate controul of
the Crown and its Governors; the trade and navigation of AME-
RICA should be so limited as to make the same mutually useful;
AMERICA should look up to BRITAIN for defence and protection,
and for the encouragement of her trade, and good government of
her police; AMERICA must abandon her illicit trade with HOL-
LAND and FRANCE, and receive such necessaries of life and conve-

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indignation, shame, grief, affection, veneration, and gratitude com-
bated within our breasts! They were advised to speak peace to our
souls, by nobly assigning an “ erroneous principle,” for the repeal.
No. The freedom of AMERICA is the Carthage of GREAT-BRITAIN
—DELENDA EST. Let us repeal the act, but never resign the prin-
ciple, on which it was founded.

One generous step however they did take, becoming BRITONS.
It demands our acknowledgments: Nor should we withold them.
Why will they not suffer us to thank them for other favours?

The repealing act spoke an indecisive language, subject to com-
ments, that might differ on different sides of the Atlantic. We
might have been too much agitated between hopes and apprehen-
sions. It would have been unkind to leave us in such a state of
anxiety. It would have been unworthy of a free people, who were
determined to subjugate another free people. PARMENIOS may
steal victories. ALEXANDER scorns it.

Therefore the same day, I think, in which they repealed the
Stamp-Act, in the next Chapter, however, they candidly explained
to us their sentiments and resolutions beyond possibility of a mi-
stake, by the “ Act for the better securing the dependency of his
Majesty’s dominions in AMERICA upon the Crown and Parliament
of GREAT-BRITAIN.”

”Lift up thine eyes round about: And behold all these gather
” themselves together, AND COME TO THEE: Thou shall SURELY
CLOTHE thee with them all, as with an “ornament, and BIND
them on thee, as a Bride doth.” Isaiah, Chapter 49.

NORFOLK, June, 23.

Extract of a letter dated Pittsburg, May 30, 1774.
”I arrived here last Wednesday with Messrs. Duncan and Wil-
son, guarded by a party of Delawares, who treated us with a great
deal of kindness, and gave us great reason to think they mean no-
thing but peace and friendship from all their actions. The Shaw-
anese have raised 20 Warriors to strike the Virginians, who were to
set off last Monday. I fear all the Traders are killed at the Shaw-
nese towns, as there was a party of Mingoes gathered for that pur-
pose. I am of opinion, it will be a general Indian War, though
Col. Croghan thinks the matter will be settled in a short time.”

Extract of a letter from Bedford, May 30.

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

HAMPTON.

CLEARED OUT from this Port, from the 16th to the 23d June
1774.

The Schooner Betsy and Leah, Capt. Sears, for Granada, with
8000 feet Scantling, 10,000 feet Plank, 14,000 Staves, and 10,000
Shingles.

ENTERED inwards Sloop Success, Capt. Bohanan from Philadel-
phia, with 32 Tierces Rum, 10 Barrels Beer; 5 Tierces Loaf Sugar,
6 Wheat Fans, 12 Windsor Chairs, 1 Ton Hay, 10 Boxes Soap, 10
do. of Candles, 1 Ton Barr Iron and 18 Boxes Lemons.

ARRIVED Sloop Peggy, Lemuel Watson from St. Christophers,
with 72 Hogsheads Rum.

*^{*</* A Letter to the 89 Members who signed the late Associa-
tion, will certainly appear in our next.}

RUN away from the subscriber
in Norfolk county, on Mon-
day the Thirtenth of this instant,
a negro man named Peter, about
twenty three years of age, of black
complexion, about five feet six in-
ches high; he had on when he went
away, a brown serge jacket, lin’d
with white plaid, oznabrig shirt and trowsers. Any
person that will bring the said slave to me, shall have
Five pounds if taken out of this colony, and Forty
shillings if taken in Virginia.
JOSIAH HERBERT.

RUN away from the subscriber,
a young Virginia born negro
man, named Ben, about twenty
one years of age, has a very black
skin, well made, with remarkable
white teeth, has a scar across one
of his eye-brows; hehad on an oz-
nabrig shirt, no other cloaths; he run
from the constable as he was a-going to whip him. I
forwarn all masters of vessels, to receive him on board
as they may be sure to answer the consequence if they
do. I will give the sum of Ten shillings, to any person
that shall take him up in Norfolk county and deliver
him to me; or if taken out of the county, the sum of
Twenty shillings.
June 23. 1774. SOLOMON EDEY.

Wants a Place, as Tutor in a Gentleman’s Family,
A YOUNG Man of unexceptionable character, who has had
a liberal education at a very noted seminary of learning in a
neighbouring province; and is capable of teaching Arithmetic,
Geometry, and Algebra, with their application to the most useful
branches of the Mathematics, as Plane and Spherical Trigonome-
try, Mensuration, Gauging, Dialling, Navigation, Surveying, Conic
Sections, the doctrine of Projectiles, Geography, use of the Globes,
Projection of the Sphere, Astronomy, &c. As natural Philosophy,
and the Mathematics have always been his most favourite studies, he
hopes his abilities and mode of teaching will afford complete satis-
faction to any Gentleman who employs him.

N. B. A line directed to J. W. M. M. and left at Messrs. Dun-
can & Co’s. Printing-Office, Norfolk; or at Messrs. Purdie and
Dixon’s Williamsburg, will meet due notice.
NORFOLK, June 23, 1774.

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AMERICANS!

TYRANNY without a covering now stares
you all in the face! Without the least shadow
of justice your estates, your sacred liberties, are de-
manded by the voice of the cannon, and with the
sword pointed at your breasts! You must ALL unite
to guard your rights, or you will ALL be slaves! It is
not the rights of Boston only, but ALL America
which are now struck at! Not the merchant only,
but the farmer, and every order of men who inhabit
this continent. I can see contained in this infernal plan
of tyranny, Stamp acts, Land taxes, Revenue acts
without number—and all the evils and calamities that
wicked spirits ever invented, or human being ever suffer-
ed since the curse of tyranny has ravaged the world!
—! —! O Brothers! let you hearts be knit together
stronger than death—our interest is one, if we lose our
liberties our fortunes are no more—we are equally
miserable—every species of cruelty and insult in one
black cloud hang over our heads! Brothers! shall
we despair amidst the rattling chains which are formed
to bind us hand and feet. God Forbid! Let every
breast swell with disdain at the impious thought.

Our enemies have invaded the sacred rights of na-
ture, therefore let us defend them so long as we have
life, and I believe that the Great God who gave them
to us, will look down with gracious approbation, and
give us and our childern cause to rejoice in his salva-
tion. We must instantly break off all commerce with
that country which is now forging chains for us—ban-
ish all luxury, and return to the frugality of our venerable
forefathers—then Britain will soon feel the injustice,
and be forced to restore our rights in full measure.
This plan is easily executed and will insure success—but
if it were possible for this measure to fail, we can do
that which will not.

Brothers! Let us think of our heroic ancestors who
fought and bled and died for this country—Let us
think of our aged fathers and mothers—think of our
wives and children—Let us look forward to posterity,
and kindle with the complicated idea of our import-
ant duty in this great day of contest.
AN AMERICAN.

SPRING: a NEW PASTORAL.

WHEN approach’d by the fair dewy Fingers of Spring,
Swelling Buds open first and look gay;
When the Birds on the Boughs by their Mates sit and sing,
And are danc’d by the Breezed on each Spray,

When the Wood-Pigeons sit on the Branches and coo,
And the Cockow proclaims with its Voice,
That Nature marks this for the Season to woo,
And for all that can love to rejoice;

In a Cottage at Night may I spend all my Time,
In the Fields and the Meadows all Day,
With a Maiden whose Charms are as yet in their Prime,
Young as April, and blooming as May.

When the Lark with shrill Notes sings aloft in the Morn
Let my Fairest and I then awake,
View the far-distant Hills which the Sun-Beams adorn,
Then arise, and our Cottage forsake.

When the Sun shines so warm that my charmer and I
May recline on the Turf without Fear,
Let us there all vain Thoughts and Ambition defy,
While we breathe the first Sweets of the Year.

When the Ev’ning grows cool, and the Flow’rs hang the Heads
With the Dew, then no longer we’ll roam;
With my Arm round her Waist, in a Path thro’ the Mead,
Let us hasten to find our Way home.

When soft Rest is requir’d and the Stars lend their Light,
And all Nature lies quiet and still;
When no Sound breaks the sacred Repose of the Night,
But at distance the Clack of the Mill;

With Peace for our Pillow, and free from all Noise,
So that Voices in Whispers are known,
Let us give and receive all our nameless soft Joys
That are mus’d on by Lovers alone.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

KEMP’s Landing, JUNE 13th, 1774.
THE Subscriber begs Leave to inform the
PUBLIC, that he has opened Shop at KEMP’s
^Landing, where he proposes Practicing the several
^Branches of PHYSICK, SURGERY, and MID-
^WIFRY.——Diligent and constant Attendance
will be given, and the most moderate Charges
made
By their obedient humble Servant,
JOHN HODGSON.

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