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To the Printer of the NORFOLK INTELLIGENCER.

SIR,
AS the Privilege of living
under a free Govern-
ment, induces many to
communicate their Sen-
timents on the present
Discontents, which have
roused all Ranks of Peo-
ple; I hope to claim your
Indulgence from that pu-
blic spirited Principle. If
we examine the origin of
Power as far back as the
Assemblies of ancient Greece, we shall find Men of
consummate Wisdom, possessing every valuable Quali-
ty which adorns a private Station, and carrying those
acquirements into every Branch of their ADMINISTRA-
TION; Hearing with Candor, bearing with Patience, and
determining with TRUTH, Actuated by that public Spirit
which is the Essence of Freedom; their Decisions were
observed with solemn Reverence and TRUTH. While
the highest Points of Interest and Liberty are discussed
with equal Freedom in such general Assemblies. Our
Rights like the Radii of a Circle verging to one Point,
must center in the general good of the whole. There
are fundamental Principles in all Governments, by
which alone the civil Equality of the Laws can be
preserved. It is by preserving, these inviolate, that Na-
tions arrive at their meridian of Glory, and that the
Constitution of Britain so happily modelled, first
founded her original Splendor; and is still so respec-
table in the eyes of Europe. Liberty should be free
from all Restraint, but such as the Laws of the Land
prescribe, therefore all Proceedings unsanctioned by
the Principality of the Constitution, must fall to the
Ground. Now as Laws are reciprocal Bonds which
uphold the machine of Government, each Branch of
Legislation preserving an Equilibruim, contributes to
the Honour, Strength, and Dignity of the Nation.
For the executive Power of the Crown can have no
undue Influence, while neither of the Estates inter-
fere with those powers which are constitutionally vested
in other hands. From these Premises it will appear
that Power thus constituted, being founded on imme-
morial Custom, and directed by uniform Principle is
supreme. Nor can moderate Men ever dream of draw-
ing such an Authority into Contempt from crude
Murmurrings without Doors; If they should, Where
shall we find Courage and Conduct to resist Oppression
and Contempt? Where shall the peaceable find an
Asylum from the tumultuous Threats of the unwary.
Is not a due Obedience to legal Authority, a funda-
mental Principle in all Governments. Are we exempt
from those Ties, or can we countenance a set of Men
who are violating all Laws human and divine without
Distinction. As there is no Perfection in Human Na-
ture, the best may be deceived. The erroneous No-
tions of a few, certainly gave Birth to the Commo-
tions to the Northward. No One has a just Title to
Charge the Whole with the Misconduct of a few, as I
cannot suppose the disguis’d Chevaliers who destroy’d
the Tea at BOSTON, could have been countenanced,
or their proceedings connived at by Men of distin-
guished Character. The Operations of Nature are
flow and chronical Diseases in political as well as hu-
man bodies they must not be cauterized by violent corro-
sives, yet they may yield in both to judicious and well
timed specifics of the palliative kind. For the truth
of this appeal to the medical Tribe, and rest my Ve-
racity on their verdict. It is the BOSTON Port Bill
which has awakened the MINDS of the People, and
filled them with such alarming apprehensions, and it
is equally certain that the Commercial Interests of the
Colonies should be a leading Object of Parliamentary
Attention. If AMERICA is in a flourishing State, Bri-
tish Power will be aggrandized, which is the sole and
the firm Barrier of our Defence. That every honest
struggle for liberty is praise-worthy must be allowed
by all who set a just Value on the dignified Character
of a free People. Nothing convinces me so much of
the loyalty of the Colonists, as their frequent dutiful
Applications to the Throne for Redress when aggriev-
ed, nor can any Thing disgust me more, than to hear
them charged with that Republican Spirit, which all
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test and reject. Tho’ the Formation of beneficial Laws
is the greatest Stretch of human Sagacity, Crude No-
tions will imperceptibly undermine the political Sy-
stem in the wisest States. The pretended Magic of in-
spiration will gain many Prosylites to superstition.
Thus the imperceptible Hand of Time will discover
true Patriotism from that ambitious Zeal, which after
long convulsing the Frame of Government, will subside
into a Calm at last. A real Patriot comprehends all
that is good and great; A lover of his King, a Friend
to his Country, and thereby a noble Pattern of public
Virtue to all succeeding Ages.

Far be it from me to suppose that the American
Soil could not produce such exalted Beings: Yet as
the Colonies are not at present Independent States,
nor can they be their Friends who advise them to oppose
their Mother Country. As the Boston Port Bill has
given Rife to much Speculation, I think the best Use
we can make of ours, is to petition the Government
for a Repeal of that Act under the Sanction of such
Concessions as the Dictates of Honour prescribe; and
to certify our Disapprobation of Tyranny, and Re-
spect for Loyalty at the same Time. Indeed I think
it the Duty of all Ranks of People, to unite in so con-
ciliating a Measure, and liable to be attended with
such happy Consequences. From these Premises it
may be necessary to consider what the Bostonians have
a right to expect from us, and whether their Com-
plaints are well or ill founded. For admitting the
Necessity to contribute to their Support, which is at
best but an equivocal Duty, till we have first conside-
red our own Situation. Their Grievances at Present
very imperfectly understood, should be stated to us
with the most distinguished Impartiality: I cannot help
viewing with compassionate concern, the Measures in
which some regardless of the true Interests of Society,
would willingly embark us in. For as all Commu-
nities are governed by stated Laws, and have separate
Interests to pursue, certainly they should be settled on
a firm Base before the Collective Views of the whole
are discussed.

I am informed by those who are conversant in Mo
ney Matters, that, that glittering Commodity has not
been seen among us for a considerable Time, But
like a Bird of Passage has taken her Flight to more
happy Climes. As the Impudence of a Few has in-
troduced much Confusion in BOSTON, and we have it
in our Power to live in Harmony and Peace. Let us
pay a deliberate Attention to our own essential Con-
cerns; If our Trade is depressed, if we are really har-
rassed by exorbitant Taxes; it is a very ill chosen Junc-
ture to oppose those who can Relieve, Support, and
Confirm us in these MATERIAL POINTS. But I am of
Opinion, that the Outages at BOSTON, have arisen
from a despondency of Sentiment, on finding their
Trade cramped by the Duty on TEA, and considering
it as the immediate Measure of the India Company,
fully determined to aggrandize themselves, and repair
former Losses by exporting that pernicious Weed to the
Continent. Beside I must strongly inculcate a proper
Consideration of our Strength, in this small trading
Town, where for want of Leisure and Experience, we
cannot determine the Power of Government with Ac-
curacy and Precision: For the will without the
Means, must always prove inefficacious; as Desires are
generally strongest in the Frame, when the Power to
support them becomes Extinct. I would therefore in
like Manner as it was proposed, to Store and take an
Inventory of the Tea; first advise that a Calculation
should be made of the immense Debts we own LON-
DON, BRISTOL, &c. and devise Ways and Means for
the Payment. This would be an Association of an
honourable Stamp, which would not only convince
Mankind on the other Side of the Atlantic, that we
are not solely governed by Self-Interested Principles,
but would establish our Dignity, as Members of So-
ciety, and reveal our Political Consequence. This
Mode of Proceeding would be consistent with strict Ju-
stice and expressive of sound Policy. These are two
Hints which may not suit every Reader, for to con-
vince some that it is possible for the Crown to be Right,
in any one Measure, would be harder than to Convert
a Mahometan to the Christian Faith. There may be
Flaws in the State Machine, but if we should attempt
to mend them, the Experiment would equal, if not
surpass that of the rash Phaeton and perhaps be at-
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are totally free from any Party Views; As no Man
more admires the Independance of a liberal Mind,
I have no other Wish than that my Sentiments should
be canvassed with that poignant Sagacity, which supe-
rior Genius suggests; Therefore, Sir, If what I have
advanced is consistent with that Neutral Plan which
you have promised to observe, I hope it will obtain an
early Admission.

CANDIDUS.
Norfolk Borough,
June 14. 1774

CONTINUED from our LAST.

carries along with it such an inefficacy, as must convince every delibe-
rate Observer, that it has never been maturely considered, and
could only be adapted by those who have more Patriotism than
Prudence. Manufactures and Commerce are the only Sources of
real Wealth; the former of these this Country at present does not,
and for many Years to come cannot enjoy in any considerable De-
gree; an extensive Commerce is the sole Fountain from whence we
can draw pecuniary or political Riches, and when this is dried up,
our growing Independance will stagnate; and we must sink into our
original Imbecility. It has been generally observed that this Coun-
try can do better than any other, without mutual traffic with other
Nations, as we have all the necessaries of Life among ourselves;
and were this Hypothesis not very easily confuted, it might perhaps
have been admitted. If political Theorists confine this Remark to
NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, MARYLAND and PENSYLVANIA,
the truth of it may be granted them; but in what a miserable Si-
tuation would the more Southern and Northern Provinces be, whose
very Existence depends upon their Foreign Trade, as they produce
but few of the Articles more immediately necessary for the support
of Life, and from the Nature of their Soil and Climate never can
make enough to sustain their numerous Inhabitants. So that were
the Avenues of Commerce shut up, these Colonies would not be
able to find Money to procure Nourishment, and they have no-
thing that the Corn Provinces want from them in Barter. Yet al-
lowing that the general produce of BRITISH AMERICA justified the
Observation, no Nation or People in these modern Ages can long
exist in a State of Freedom, who live entirely abstracted from, and
unconnected with others; because where there is not a constant cir-
culation of Money or Commodities, there can never be any Equa-
lity among the People; and it is demonstrable that Riches among
the Land-holders, and Dependance, the sure concomitant of Po-
verty, among the inferior Classes, must always be productive of Ty-
ranny. But were a Plan of this Nature to be now resolutely A-
dopted and adhered to, throughout all BRITISH AMERICA, how
deplorable would be the Fate of Thousands, unacquainted with A-
griculture, unprovided with the Necesaries of Cultivation, and bred
to such Arts and Sciences as would then become superfluous; in
such a Situation they must either remove to other Countries where
their Industry might be beneficial to them, or live here the abject
dependants on the bounty of others, who in all probability having
no Market to encourage their Labour, would make not more than
they could consume. Allowing for the difference there is between
the Sentiments and practices of ancient and modern Politicians, we
may form some tolerable conjectures of what would be our condition,
living altogether within ourselves, by enquiring into the situation of
the LACEDEMONIANS in like circumstances. At the time when
LYCURGUS planned his Code of Institutions, Property among the
SPARTANS was very unequally divided. This sagacious Law-giver
destroyed all inequality at one Blow. The property of all the lands
in the State was thrown together, and became at the disposal of the
Legislator, who forbade every branch of industry to the Citizens,
and divided the lands into equal portions among them, hereby re-
ducing all to an equality in point of fortune. But in order to com-
pleat his plan of making them live within themselves, he found it
necessary to introduce slavery among the lower ranks in his Repub-
lic; and the Lands were cultivated by the Helotes, who were o-
bliged to deliver a determinate Quantity of the Produce to the Pro-
prietor of the Ground, and were only permitted to reserve enough
for their own Support. The austere frugality which he introduced
among them was such as it would be allowed to attempt to imitate;
and their being bred to nothing but Arms, rendered them secure
from Foreign Attacks, as their Poverty and martial Disposition left
no State any Thing to expect from them, but a bloody resistance.
And if among a People where the Lands were equally divided, and
Luxury was unknown, Slavery was an essential in the Constitu-
tion; how much more unavoidable would it be, where no such e-
quality ever was, or it is presumed ever will be introduced, and where
habitual Luxury has rendered a Spartan Oeconomy impracticable.
We have neither the same Poverty of Soil from Nature, nor the
same martial Spirit from Education to guard us against the enter-
prizes of contending Princes; and a Country which may be made
an inexhaustible Source of the true Riches of a State, would not
long be left to enjoy itself in tranquility, amidst the jarring Interests
of Nations. An able Minister would therefore disregard our Non-
Commercial Association, as being destructive of that very end for
which it was designed; and would undoubtedly see that we must in-
evitably fall into that Pit which we had dug for Great Britain, and
destroy the very Sinews of a lasting and effectual opposition to his
Measures. And if the British Merchants will not interpose for our
Relief when they desire an Interest from our Commerce, we cannot
reasonably expect it, when we have withdrawn that Interest from
them. But it is said, that by refusing to pay our Debts to them,
we will make them our Advocates; but surely a Denial of Right
to others destroys our Claim to it from them. Rather ought we to
accelerate our Remittances to them, and thereby engage them to be
more tenacious of the Liberties of a People from whose traffic they
derive such Advantages.

A Subject of this Magnitude might excuse a more extensive dis-
cussion, but the Limits of a Newspaper forbid it. Should this
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shall think proper to indulge Me, I may perhaps again encroach up-
on your Press; unless in the mean time some more judicious Pa-
tron of Liberty should Improve upon these Hints, and favour the
PUBLIC with his Sentiments on a Subject so intimately connected
with their Happiness.
COLUMBUS.

NGRFOLK, May 30th, 1774.
At a General Meeting of the
Merchants, Tradesmen, and
other Inhabitants of the Bo-
rough of NORFOLK, and Town
of PORTSMOUTH, on Monday
the 30th of May, 1774.

VOTED,
THAT THOMAS NEWTON junr. Esq;
one of our late worthy Burgesses, be ap-
pointed Moderator, and WILLIAM DAVIES,
Clerk of this Meeting.

Mr. NEWTON accordingly took the chair,
when the letters and other papers transmitted
from BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND BALTI-
MORE, together with the resolution of the late
house of Burgesses of this Colony, and the asso-
ciation of the late Members and others after the
dissolution of the General Assembly, were seve-
rally read and heard, and upon the question
put,

RESOLVED,
THAT THOMAS NEWTON junr. JOSEPH
HUTCHINGS, JOHN GOODRICH,
PAUL LOYALL, JAMES TAYLOR,
MATTHEW PHRIPP, ALEX. LOVE,
ROBERT SHEDDEN, ROBERT TAY-
LOR, SAMUEL INGLIS, SAMUEL KER,
HE RY BROWN, JOHN GREENWOOD,
NEIL JAMIESON, JOHN MITCHEL,
ALEX. SKINNER, WILLIAM HARVEY,
THOMAS BROWN, ROBERT GILMOUR,
or any five of them be a committee to correspond
with several committees in the different com-
mercial towns of this continent, on the impor-
tant subject of those papers, and acquaint them
with the sentiments of the inhabitants of these
towns; and to take such other steps for the re-
lief of our suffering brethren of BOSTON, and
the establishment of the rights of the colonies,
as to the committee shall appear most expedient
and effectual.

WILLIAM DAVIES, Clerk of the Meeting.

Wednesday the first of June was observed in
this place, and in Portsmouth as a day of solemn
fasting and prayer, and sermons suitable to the
sad occasion were preached in both towns. The
uncommon attention shewn to the appointment,
by the strictest observance of the day, is a proof,
however vainly our foes may dream of disunion
among us, we are united throughout this exten-
sive continent, that the colonies are a band of
brothers, and that an injury to One will be re-
sented by ALL.

The letter from the committee to Charlestown,
Boston and Baltimore, shall be inserted in our next.

TO THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT
MAJESTY.

I Have paid some attention to a whole squadron of rhetorical ar-
guments relative to the present dispute between Great Britain,
and her charter colonies in America, and the removal of the Cu-
stom-house from Boston; but I do not find either in the Partizan or
Patriot any one salutary of favourable conclusion whereon to ground
a reasonable reconciliation to the honour of the litigants. The claim
and pretensions on both sides the Atlantic having been so singularly
stated for the opinion of the Public, appear of too delicate a nature
to say precisely what that mode must be that can really produce so
desirable an event.

Delicate as the question is, I will venture to take it by quite a-
nother handle, and in the plainest manner, intelligent to the pea-
sant, throw in my mite in a few observations rather appearing per-
tinent to the solution, than impertinently offering what the greatest
men have declined, to decide a question so interesting in its conse-
quences for the honour, dignity, and welfare, of this great king-
dom.

With submission, we should first entertain a high opinion of the
encrease of population, and its utility to the Merchant and manu-
facturer: and, for arguments-sake, only go so far back as the year
1725, when the five principal provinces of North America took from
Great Britain no more of her manufactures than about 18 or 20,000 £.
a year; but since that period, and before the passing the Stamp-act
the Americans have exceeded that demand in difference from 20,000 £.
to 500,000 £. a year in these provinces; and there is not a doubt re-
maining of the demand and consumption of your manufactures, in
proportion to their encrease of emigrants, were a prudent confidence
places in their loyalty and affection.

Secondly, your Majesty’s American subjects seem entirely placed
by Divine Providence as a general mart of nursery here, your only
respectable trade and commerce is left, that can advantage these
kindoms, by an annual consumption of your wares, manufactures,
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take a further idea of this commerce 100 years hence, their demand
and consumption will naturally keep pace with their encrease of po-
pulation, by the consumption alone, which pays a great encrease of
revenue, even in the gross manufactory of the merchandize they
take from these kingdoms.

Thirdly, the Geography of America should be clearly understood,
the different climates in which to enlarge every improvement for the
general benefit of trade and commerce; the nature of her ports and
harbours; their impossibility of building fleets; nay, even their trade
with each neighbouring province by sea, may be suppressed in a mo-
ment. Surely, Sire, while you remain Sovereign of the seas, you
cannot suppose they should give these kingdoms a moment’s uneasi-
ness: thus situated, it would be uncharitable to entertain the least
apprehensions of a revolt, and throwing off that dependance they
never can adopt in favour of any other power upon earth.

Fourthly, the Americans, upon a moment’s reflection, are at
this day only in an infant state of existence; and I know not of any
one argument that can more effectually elucidate this fact, than
that the estimate of the duties arising upon the imports into the se-
veral provinces and governments upon the whole continent of North
America, grounded upon the statutes of the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th
of your Majesty’s reign, do not raise a clear yearly revenue of
14,000 £. sterling money. And when I speak of duties, I am to be
considered to give it the most extensive latitude of what this vast
territory consumes: upon the whole imports which pay duties to
your Majesty’s revenue, grounded upon those acts of trade, and
every other law, as remote back as the act of navigation, an esti-
mate whereof I will once more humbly presume to lay before your
Majesty, on which you will best form a competent judgment of
the utility and inutility of American taxation, by which to draw
the line of eligibleness of the one, in preference to the danger of the
total alienation of their affections.

The Custom-house at the port of London confirms this estimate,
to which I beg leave to refer your Majesty.

I have exceeded considerably, notwithstanding I have even inclu-
ded the duty raised upon the rice exports to the southward of Georg-
ia, and also some duties raised upon indico paid in the Colonies
going coastways to the northern provinces.

I shall next consider, and particularly enumerate a few of
the advanrages arising from our connection with America; and first,
the exports of rice to the southward of Cape Finisterre are conside-
rable, (to say nothing of indico produced at the Carolinas and Geor-
gia, which will admit of a duty at the expiration of the bounty)
the duties on which are paid in at the port of London; next the
great vent and consumption of British manufactures, their trade to
to the sugar islands, and how much these Colonies depend upon
New England for supplies of horses for their mills, beef, pork, corn,
flower, biscuit, rice, cod-fish, mackrel, lumber, staves, hoops, head-
ing, &c. without whose assistance, and which are sold reasonable,
the Planters could not possiblysend sugars cheap enough, or in suffici-
ent quantities, to answer the European markets; their trade to
Great Britain with timber, planks, masts, knees, hemp, flax, pitch,
tar, rosin, turpentine, oil, whale-fins, &c. are considerations too
momentuous to be sacrificed, and convincingly prove them, far more
general utility to Great Britain, the benefits and blessings whereof,
would fain flatter myself will infinitely over-balance the few duties
to the revenue by any ill-placed or ill-judged taxation.

To warrant this opinion, I refer your Majesty to the conclusion of
this subject, which carries its own weight and conviction, and ought
to open the eyes of Parliament. Inseparably united as these king-
doms are with an American commerce, how far their measures are
pursued with rectitude, how far the removal of the Custom-house
from Boston will answer any good purpose to the revenue and the
British manufactures.

If this resolution is taken in order to enforce them into a sup-
mission to the suffrages of taxation, or if to enforce an obedience to
pay the duty on the tea imports under the 7th of your Majesty’s
reign, the business is but half done in either case; for while the
right of taxation remains an undetermined point on their parts,
while they claim an exemption from taxation under the express
words of the charter, every rigorous measure only inflames and a-
lienates their loyalty and affection, and in the end equals a prohibi-
tion for the vent and consumption of your manufactures; add to
this the inconceivable embarrassment of the poor artificer and Ma-
nufacturer, whose families involved in the utmost want and distress,
and a thousand other consequential ills, will be as universal as the
tax upon tea injudicious; because I must insist, with your Majesty’s
permission, that this grand point ought not more to consist in
the consideration of the Parliament’s undoubted Right of taxation,
than what commodities you can and ought with propriety to lay a
tax upon; and if you mean by an hostile armament to force them
into a submission to receive the tea duty, you must pass another law
to oblige them to drink it, a distinction, I am persuaded, that can-
not for a moment escape your Majesty’s Royal attention.

That your Majesty, on reconsidering these observation, would
be graciously pleased to suspend for another year the executing of
any rigorous proceedings against the charter governments, till some
more interesting reasons may be assigned to make that step necessary,
without any dishonour or reflection upon the measure.

I am, with the most profound respect.
Broad Court, Long Acre, March 31, 1774.

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

LOWER ELBE, MARCH 21.

OUR advices from Dantzick are very different and contradictory.
Some say that the city is blocked up and besieged by the Pru-
ssians; others say that the Dantzickers have complied with the
claim of the King of Prussia, have proclaimed him master of their
port, and put themselves under his protection. Others again assert,
that the Prussian Minister there has declared, that his master in-
tends not to commit the least violation, but that the detachment
which was sent to the environs of that city was for no other reason,
than to pick up the refugees who had fled from Polish Prussia and
settled there.

March 22th, We learn from Moldavia, that the Grand Vizir
is dangerously ill; and as he would not give the command in
chief to any of his officers, it is supposed that the Russians will
take advantage thereof, and attack the Turkish grand army.

They write from Constantinople, that the standard of Ma-
homet has been erected there as a sign that the Grand Sultan himself
will go to the war, in order to defend the Empire and the religion.
if this should be the case, the Russians will certainly have a very
bad chance. They add, that their fleet consists at present of near
200 sail, and their seamen are very well disciplined; their command-
ers are chiefly Frenchmen, so that the Russian fleet will be hardly
able to resist them.

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IRELAND.

Extract of a Letter from Kildreys near Dungannon, in Ireland.
”About a fortnight ago a shocking murder was committed near
Tynan, in the county of Armagh. A man who was very much
addicted to drunkenness, coming home one night at a late hour,
accompanied with a tippling associate, found his wife gone to bed;
upon which he desired her to rise and get some supper ready, but
she refused, as she had to take care of an infant which she was de-
livered of a few weeks before; upon this his companion departed,
and he immediately stabbed his wife in three several parts of the bo-
dy with his knife. After she was dead, he dragged her out, to the
garden, where he made a hole and buried her. On the next mor-
ning, a brother of her’s, who lived in the neighbourhood, came, as
he usually did, to see whether or not she was alive; as, from the bar-
barous usage she was always treated with by her husband, he had
reason to fear he would kill her sooner or later: no answer being
made on his rapping at the door, he forced it open, and perceiving
a quantity of blood on the floor, he traced it to the place where she
had been thrust into the earth, which, whilst he was opening, the
murderer made his escape; but the country being alarmed, he was
closely pursued, taken prisoner, and committed to Armagh gaol;
and next week he is to stand his trial at the assizes that are to be
heldthere.”

LONDON.

APRIL 7. A Correspondent has sent a dialogue, to which he says
he was an ear witness:

Dr. First.——Pray how do you cure the tooth ach?

Dr. Last.——I always pluck ‘em out. Are you a Doctor?

Dr. First.——Yes, a political Physician. I am a Member of Par-
liament, and of course being one of the great Council of the Na-
tion, have a right to give my opinion on all the diseases of the
State.

Dr. Last.——Indeed! that’s pure. Pray Doctor, if twenty or
thirty riotous lawless people in a town, consisting of between twenty
and thirty thousand inhabitants, were to commit a trespass, what
remedy would you prescribe!

Dr. First.——Oh, nothing more easily done. I would beat the
town about their ears; and with fire and sword I would exterminate
the whole inhabitants from the face of the earth. Delenda est
Carthago.

Dr. Last and Dr. First together.——Nothing like a radical cure;
no, nothing like a radical cure; no, nothing like a radical cure.

The bill to alter the constitution of the province of Massachusetts
Bay, is in substance, viz. The Council to be chosen no longer by
the House of Representatives as the charter directs, but by the King
in his Privy Council, and to submit during his Majesty’s pleasure.
The Judges, Sheriffs, and Magistrates, to be chosen by the Gover-
nor and Council, with a power to the Governor to remove them
without the advice of his Council. The manner of chusing the
Juries is altered, and no town meeting to be held but the annual
one.

April 8. We are assured from the politicians at the West end
of the town, that a large fleet, greater than is given out at presente
is ready for sea the beginning of next May, whose destinations
occasions various conjectures: some say it is to reduce the mutinous
spirit of the Americans; some contend it is to keep an eye upon the
motion of our good friends the Dutch and French, who have been
for some time preparing their fleets for sea; whilst others, still more
sagacious, destine it for the West-Indies, to be a check upon the Spa-
niards, who have a powerful fleet at the Havanna.

It is said that some bomb-vessels are ordered to be fitted out for
America.

BOSTON.

May 13. Arrived here his Majesty’s Ship Lively, Capt. Bishop,
in 26 Days from England, in whom came his Excellency General
Gage, who is appointed Governor and Commander in Chief of
this province:—His Excellency landed at Castle William, under a
Discharge of the Cannon of that Fortress. And on Tuesday the
Troop of Guards, Regiments of Militia, Company of Artillery,
and Grenadiers, as also the Company of Cadets, appeared under
Arms in KING-STREET. At 11 o’Clock his Excellency left the
Castle under a discharge of the Cannon of that Fortress, and pro-
ceeded on board his Majesty’s Ship Captain, having previously given
Notice of his Intention to Land on the Long Wharf. At 11,
His Majesty’s Council, the Secretary of the Province, the Magi-
strates, High Sheriff, Marshall of the Court of Vice Admiralty, the
Selectmen, and many other Gentlemen, preceded by the Cadet
Company, received him there upon his Landing, and under the
discharge of the Cannon of the Admiral’s Ship and the Batteries
in the Town. Upon his passing up King-Street his Excellency
received the standing Salutes from the officers of the respective
Corps.

His Majesty’s Commission appointing him Captain General and
Governor in Chief of this Province, &c. were then published in
the Council Chamber, and after the usual Oaths were admini-
stered, his Excellency was pleased to Issue a Proclamation, requir-
ing Officers whose commissions would otherwise cease and deter-
mine, to continue in the exercise of their respective Commissions
until further orders. Three Vollies were then fired, and Cheers
given by a vast Concourse of People collected on this Occasion.

After his Excellency had received the Compliments of his Ma-
jesty’s Council, of the Gentlemen in Commission of the Peace,
the Episcopal and Dissenting Clergy, Military Officers, and a
great number of other Gentlemen, he proceeded (escorted by the
Company of Cadets) to the Faneuill Hall, where an elegant Dinner
was provided for his Welcome Reception.

On Wednesday last the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of this
Town met again at Faneuill Hall by ajournment: and the com-
mittee which had been appointed on the preceding Friday, to re-
ceive and consider of proposals, support and employment of such
as well be sufferers by the operation of the cruel edict of the
British Parliament, reported that that several judicious proposals
have been made, and that they were convinced that ways and
means would be found for the relief of the Inhabitants in the time of
Distress. They recommended to their fellow Citizens, patience,
fortitude and a firm trust in GOD, and desired further time to agree
upon the report. The meeting was therefore adjourned to Monday
the 30th Instant, at ten of the clock in the Forenoon; by which
time, it is expected, we shall have encouraging news from some of
the Sister Colonies.

Previous to the adjournment the Town thought it their duty to
pass the following VOTES, viz.

1st. That the trade of the town of Boston has been one es-
sential link in that vast chain of Commerce, which, in the course
of a few Ages, has raised New-England to be what it is, the
Southern Provinces to be what they are, the West-Indies to their
wealth, and, in one word, British empire to that height of opulence,
power, pride, and splendor, at which it now stands.

2dly. That the impolicy, injustice, inhumanity and cruelty of
the act aforesaid, exceed all our powers of expression. We there-
fore leave it to the just censure of others and appeal to GOD and
the world.

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An APOLOGY for the late CONDUCT
of AMERICA.

THERE are those who are clearly
of opinion, that the Commons of
Great Britain have a right to give
and grant away the property of the
Americans.

If such people are consistent in
their notions, they must allow that
the Americans would be justified in
refusing to make good such gifts,
and to comply with the requisi-
tions contained in such grants.

And if they would be justified in refusing to comply with such
requisitions, it must also be allowed that there is a line of conduct
which it would be proper for them to pursue, and that they are not
left altogether without a remedy.

They that are most violent against the Americans for their con-
duct in the affair of the tea, would do well if they endeavoured,
before they passed judgment upon it, to obtain proper ideas of
right and wrong, and qualified themselves to distinguish what is un-
lawful from what is inexpedient only, otherwise they may be led
to condemn, as criminal, measures that were ill-judged only; and
by the false colourings of jcsuitical writers, may be induced to be-
lieve actions to be unjustifiable and wrong, that were only impoli-
tic and foolish.

I think the affair of the tea is, in general, rather ill understood,
and that the constitution of England, the fundamental law of pro-
perty, and the unalienable right of human nature, seem to have
been but little regarded in this dispute, concerning American tax-
ation.

That the constitution of England has been but little regarded,
must appear evident, when it is considered what the spirit of that
constitution is with respect to its idea of taxation. Does the Legi-
slature levy a tax upon the kingdom in the same manner, and with
the same pretensions as the King of France, by his edict, imposes
as he pleases to lay on their property, but they have no right to
lay taxes upon his subjects: —certainly not: The Commons give and
grant for themselves and their constituents; the Lords answer for
themselves; and the King by his assent and acceptance of such gifts,
binds the parties to fulfil the contract, and gives the deed the sanc-
tion of the law. But say the advocates for American slavery, tax-
ation is a necessary part of legislation, forgetting, or rather infa-
mously misrepresenting the truth, which is, that our constitution
knows of no arbitrary legislative money bills, nor acknowledges any
other source of taxation but free gift. Can any man, then have
a right to give away another man’s property?——certainly not. And
the Commons of Great-Britain may give and grant away as much
as they please of their own property, but they have no right to
give and grant away the property of the Americans.

So much touching the constitutional part of this dispute, which I
should have thought too obvious to have required any discussion, had
there not appeared to have been much pains taken to confound the
two very distinct ideas of legislation and taxation, and to persuade
mankind that legislation, which is essential to all government, is nu-
gatory without that power, which is incompatible with the very
end of Government itself, “an arbitrary and unlimited power of
taxation;” for the end of Government is the preservation of pro-
perty, and there can be no property where there is an arbitrary
power of taxation; for what property can any man have in that
which another can, by right, take from him when he pleases, a-
gainst his consent?

And that the fundamental law of property has been but little
attended to in this dispute, the application of the foregoing obser-
vation will sufficiently demonstrate; for what security can the Ame-
ricans be said to have in their property, if the people of Great-Bri
tain can give and grant it away when they please? or rather, Can
they truly be said to have any property at all, if the people of
Great-Britain have, under this pretended right of taxation, a power
of taking from them, when they please, what they possess, and of
using and disposing of it afterwards in what manner they think
proper?

But how are the rights of Human nature violated in this dispute?
To this I answer, that the law of nature, being founded in reason
and justice admits of property; for the better preservation of
which, and for the use and enjoyment of it in peace and quiet,
men entered into society. If, therefore, any man, or body of men,
claim a right to take away at pleasure from other men their pro
prety, and to dispose of it as the please, such claim tends to a dis-
solution of society, and it is repugnant also to the law of Nature,
as it would place mankind in a worse condition than the state of
<Nature, wherein they had a liberty to defend their right against the
injuries of others.

Unfortunately also for these flaming advocates for the high pre-
rogative doctrine of a necessary and unlimited right of taxation in
the British Legislature, and who assert that the power of legislation
in the regulation of commerce, without that of unbounded taxation
also, would be nuggatory and futile, must mention the case of
Scotland before the Union, and Ireland. If the Legislature must
necessary be possessed of that power, with respect to America, why
wasit not necessary with respect to Scotland before the union? and
why is it not, at this moment, necessary with respect to Ireland? If
the machine of Government cannot move on without this power
over the poor dispersed, divided, and defenceless Americans, how
could it so long have moved on without the same power over the
rebellious Scots, or the discontented and fickle Irish.

I could mention also the CHARACTER of the Americans, which
could be entirely subverted by this right of taxation; those who
in their unjust pursuits, not to violate the constitution and polity
of Great Britain, the fundamental law of property, and the rights
of human nature, will pay, I am afraid, but very little regard to
chartered rights.

But what line of conduct is to be observed by that people whose
liberties and property are invaded? in answer to this question, I shall
beg leave to subjoin a few short extracts from Locke: “Tyranny
is the exercise of power without right. Wherever the power that
is put in any hands for the government of a people, and the pre-
servation of their properties, is applied to other ends, and made use
of to impoverish, harrass, or subdue them to the arbitrary and
irregular commands of them that have it, there it presently be-
comes tyranny, whether those that use it are one or many. Where
the law ends, tyranny begins. The exceeding the bounds of au-
thority is not more justifiable in a King than a Constable, but becomes
so much more faulty, that he has more trust put in him. May the
commands, then, of a Prince be opposed? To this I answer,
that force is to be opposed to nothing but an unjust and unlawful
force. Where the injured party may be relieved, and his damages
repaired by appeal to the law, there can be no pretence for force
which is only to be used where a man is intercepted from appealing
to the law; for nothing is to be accounted hostile force but where
it leaves not the remedy for such an appeal; and it is such force
alone that puts him that uses it into a state of war, and makes it
lawful to resist him. Men can never be secure from tyranny, if
there be no means to escape it, till they are perfectly under it; and
therefore it is that they have not only a right to get out of it, but
to prevent it.”

Bearing these axioms of eternal truth in our minds, let us now
take a slight view of the controversy between Great Britain and
America.

The three estates of Great Britain claiming a supreme legislative
power over Great Britain and its dependencies, the commons of
Great Britain claim an absolute and unlimited right of giving and
granting away the property of the Americans.

America admits the supreme legislative power of Great Britain as

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

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

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

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, Calicoe,
Cambricks, London pins, Cinamon, Cloves, Macce
Nutmegs, Black Pepper, Sagathys, Duroys, Durants,
Tammies, Calimancoes, Fashionable Ribons, Satin.
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, Armozeen, 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, Qeens China, Toys, Glass ware,
Earethen ware, of various, Sorts. &c. &c.
GREENWOOD, RITSON, AND MARSH

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 Kets, and a quan-
tify of Jamaica Coffee.

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APRIL 14. There is a report that Parliament will not be pro-
rogued this year, but be kept sitting during the summer by adjourn-
ment, from an apprehension that the affairs of Europe, or America,
or both, may require their sudden interposition and assistance.

The commercial interest of England must be very materially af-
fected while the unhappy disagreements prevail between her and the
Colonies; since the natural disposition of the Americans will lead
them to put up with the produce of other countries, tho’ of inferior
quality, rather than apply to that, by which they consider them-
selves as having been treated with oppression and tyranny.

LONDON, April 14.

THE following Extract of a Letter from Madrass, will properly
introduce to your Readers an authentic Journal of the Siege and
Capture of Tanjour;

”When I arrived in this place the Council were busy in planning
an expedition against the ill-fated Rajah of Tanjour, for having
dared to assert the rights descended to him from a long line of an-
cestors. In short, his country was convenient for the Nabob, and
for others who wanted money: His destruction was therefore re-
solved upon nem. con. The feeble, if they are rich, have none here
but foes. The army took the field.”

An authentic Journal of the Siege of Tanjour.

”About the middle of July the army began to assemble at Tri-
chinopoly; the 31st they took the field, and the 3d of August they
marched from the Sugar Loaf Rock under the command of General
Smith and the Nabob’s second son, Modal ul Mulch. The 6th they
came before the place, and after a smart skirmish between the Na-
bob’s two regiments of regular cavalry and the Tanjour horse, in
which the latter were totally broke and dispersed, the army encam-
ped to the westward of the place about two miles and a half distance,
and they seized upon a village half-way between them and the fort,
where they established a post. As we were in doubt what part some
of our neighbours might take in this quarrel, our Engineers were im-
mediately set to work to fortify the camp, which they finished in a
very complete and regular manner by the 20th; and as the rest of
the army had been employed in opening a communication with the
country round, and in preparing materials for the future operations
of the siege, plenty appeared in the camp, and the evening of that
day all the enemies out-posts were attacked at once. Fletcher, at
the head of a chosen body of men, marched into the very centre
of their horse camp, while Vaughan attacked and stormed two Pa-
godas in front of our encampment, and within 500 yards of the
fort. The same night an entrenchment was thrown up between
these two Pagodas of about 300 yards in length; and thus commen
ced the beginning of the first parallel.

”Next morning a heavy fire from the fort took place upon the
post. Although the trench was incomplete, the Pagodas served as
an excellent shelter to the men. All hands were employed the suc-
ceeding nights in completing the trenches, extending them to the
right and left, and in forming redoubts for their defence; but be-
fore these could be accomplished, the morning the 24th, the whole
force of the enemy made an attack upon the trenches, their horse
towards the rear, and their Seapoys and Colleries in front and flank;
in the defence of which, Fletcher, who commanded, was wounded
in two places with arrows; and when Colonel Vaughan came down
to relieve him, he was in doubt whether he should be able to main-
tain his post: However, by sending a small party to attack the ene-
my’s Seapoys and Colleries, which drove them from their ground,
while the Colonel, with the rest of the detachment, kept the horse
in awe; though he was obliged to draw his whole force out of the
trenches he kept his post till the Nabob’s horse and the grenadiers
of the army came to his assistance.

”The enemy then retired, and the trenches were saved. About
six in the evening the grenadiers took possession of the five Pagodas
to the left of their lines, about 400 yards from the fort. Towards
evening the trenches were extended, and their flank covered with a
redoubt, the whole forming the first parallel, and embracing a very
large proportion of the west face of the fort.

”At the right extremity of the parallel a six gun battery was e-
rected, a four gun battery to the left; and in the centre two batte-
ries were constructed, one indented for four pieces of cannon, and
another for 12 pieces of ordnance, of the mortar tribe, of all forts
and sizes. These opened on the morning of the 27th, to take off
the defences of the place, and to dismount their guns, and with
good effect. The night of the 29th, the sap began a little to the
right of the centre battery, and ran 300 yards in that night. Tren-
ches were run from the right and left of the first approach, and at
the extremity of the left a battery for four guns was erected in the
night of the 1st of September at or about 250 or 300 yards from the
walls; and in the night of the second, the trench to the right with a-
nother battery of four guns, at about the same distance, was con-
structed. These formed the second parallel, and the batteries were
to serve for broaching the inner wall and cavaliers. All these, and
a mortar battery at about 150 yards from the walls, were finished by
the 4th, the night of which the approaches from the second parallel
began. By the 6th they had advanced within a few yards of the
crest of the Glacis; at night they extended a communication about
150 yards along the face; and the 7th they established a lodgment
for their infantry. Here the sap battery was constructed, and from
thence a shaft or gallery was sunk for a passage into the ditch. Both
were finished by the night of the 13th; and the 14th, in the mor-
ning, the two batteries upon the flanks of the second parallel were
opened about noon; the sap battery of eight 24 pounders opened al-
so to batter the sauze braye; and the gallery into the ditch was un-
masked. That night they filled up a great part of the ditch with
loaded fascines and sand bags. The 15th the batteries continued to
play upon the place; a practicable breach was made by night, and
before day-break of the 16th the passage over the ditch was com-
pleated; however, as they were not pressed for time, and as they
had abundance of ammunition, they continued to play upon the ad-
joining works so as to make the breach large and capacious all that
day; and at eight o’clock this morning (19th September) accounts
arrived at the Durbar, that the place was taken by storm the mor-
ning of Friday the 17th of September.

”By the last accounts arrived this 19th of September at five
this afternoon, they did not attempt to defend the breach; our
people marched through the town almost without opposition; they
say only three grenadiers are wounded. The Rajah, Monagee,
Dabier, &c. are retired to a Pagoda, and at that time had refused
quarter.

”20th of September, the Rajah, Monagee, and all their fami-
lies ware made prisoners.”

The Nabob of Arcot, before the surrender of Tanjour, agreed
With General Smith, that provided he forbore to pillage the town,
but delivered it into his hands without damage, he would engage to
pay him ten lacks of pagodas, or about 400,000 £ sterling.

APRIL 6. A constant reader says, that all persons who favour
the dragooning the Bostonians, indicate as little sound policy as
they do of humanity; what a savage disposition must these betray,
who can be gratified with nothing less than the unnatural butchery
of their fellow-subjects, by recommending the horrors of the sword;
such would, no doubt, have been joyful Spectators of the French
and Irish massacres, and have chuckled at the carnage.

When the infamous Buckingham prevailed on his master, Charles
the First, to lend a ship of war, and seven armed merchant-men,
then in the employ of the Crown, to the French King, to be used
at the siege of Rochelle, the honest tars, actuated with a true British
spirit, and love of religion, all mutinied, rather than serve against

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the Rochellers, who were contending for their liberty and religion.
The commanders also of the merchant ships refused to engage in an
action so repugnant to honour and conscience. And though Vice
Admiral Pennington, who commanded the King’s ship, fired upon
them to bring him to, yet the brave Sir Ferdinand Gorges resolutely
broke through, and retuned with his ship to England: The re-
maining ships were delivered to the French; but all the officers and
sailors, notwithstanding great offers made, immediately deserted.
Not an individual amongst a crew of that honest hearted though
licentious class of men, one gunner excepted, was then found disso-
lute enough to serve against their distressed brethren the French Hu-
gonots. The miscreant gunner was afterwards killed in charging a
cannon before Rochelle, and his death, which was deemed a judg-
ment, gave pleasure and satisfaction to the whole English nation.

The House of Commons has long been the terror of people who
for want of reflection, and a becoming a spirit, submitted to an au-
thority which has no existence of itself, and therefore no legal power
to punish. It is a body politic, or an invisible body subsisting once
in intelligentia legis; a body politic, without either foul or con-
science, as the law calls it.

Letters from Vienna say, that the report of a war between the
Prussian, Austrian, and the Turkish empire grows stronger every day,
they go on and are enrolling men, the stillcarried on with vigour over
all Imperial dominions; and what increases their suspicion of a war,
is that the Empress-Queen has just resigned to her son, the Emperor,
all power and authority concerning military affairs, and the business
of war.

Lord Chatham’s ideas are that the people of America are
not represented here, there is no foundation to tax them; but
that from necessity, we must regulate and direct system of com-
merce.——The people of America think so too.

Last Thursday arrived at Plymouth eight transports which are
to take on board for Ireland the 2d. and 23d regiments of
foot.

You are desired to insert the following very extraordinary extract
of a letter from Vienna, dated March 13.
ANONYMOUS.

HAVING this instant obtained a copy of the inclosed, contain-
ing such important news of the successes of the Russians, I
take the earliest opportunity of communicating them to you. The most
strict secrecy is observed relative to the dispatches just received from
Constantinople, yet it is whispered, the Russians have made two
descents to cut of the communication between Constantinople and
and the army.

”after the total defeat of the Turkish fleet in the black sea, by
the brave Russian Admiral Kinsebergen, often distinguished by sin-
gular acts of courage, when he possessed only the rank of Captain,
we immediately sailed to Kilia. with seven Turkish caravels, twenty
four large galliots, besides galleys, feluccas, and five capital French
merchant ships: the remains of the united Turkish fleet in the Pont
Euxine, or, as the Turks call it, Hara Degnizi, were sunk and
burnt, during a running engagement that continued two days.

”We embarked at Kilia, on board these Turkish and French
prizes, now serving as transports, as well as on board the Russian
fleet, 25,000 regular infantry, a numerous detachment of artillery,
with a large train of battering cannon; this detached corps of
troops being sent, by the orders of his Excellency Field-Marshal
Count Romanzow, Generalissimo of the Imperial Russian armies in
Turkey, to compleat a brilliant coup de main before the commence-
ment of the ensuing campaign.

”On the 28th of February, the Russian grand fleet anchored in
the Bay of Foros, having lost in a violent storm, the preceding day,
one frigate, and three transports, upon the rocks of Cape Emene.
——The fleet being formed into three squadrons, with nine bomb
vessels in the front, and three transports in the rear of the center di-
vision, an incessant cannonade, from the right and left squadrons,
with a continued shower of shells from the bomb vessels, begun
early in the morning upon the rich city of Bourgas, and the bom-
bardment continued with an uninterrupted stream of fire till sun-
sett; at which moment nothing appeared more beautiful than the
domes of the mosques, with the glittering crescents gilded by a
setting sun, in the most animating climate in Europe. The mix-
ture of the white buildings, with the pleasing palm, enriched with
the dignity of the stately cedar, with the enchanting verdure of the
ramparts, as well as a large extent of plain, spotted with villas,
with mosques, with gardens, picturesque woods, and the whole
scene bounded by a crescent of blueish mountains, formed in ap-
pearance a region of bliss, that seemed the favourite residence of
the seraglio of Mahomet.
The Remainder in our Next.

NORFOLK, June, 15.

On Tuesday last was married here Miss Davis, Daughter to the
Reverend Mr Richard Davis of this place, to Mr SAMUEL INGLESOM

On Saturday last a young girl unfortunately fell
thro’ the seat of a necessary House, nigh 8 feet
from the ground into the mud — luckily a person
who happened to be coming by, got down in
time to save her life.

THE Piece to be transmitted to the
CAROLINA’S will be in our next.

ABOUT Eight Months ago, a Bare Box was delivered to the
Door for the Publisher of this Paper by Mistake: Con-
taining 4 Dozen Bottles of Snuff, marked John Dalyell & Co.
on each, the outside Package marked W. D. The Owner on ap-
plying to the PUBLISHER, will have it by first Opportunity. Being
but lately arrived he had it not in his Power to discover the Mistake

PRINCESS ANNE, June 16th 1774.
RUN AWAY from the SUBSCRIBER two NEGRO
Men and a Negro Woman, namely: Peter, a slim fel-
low about twenty five years old, a dark Mulatto, a
little pockmarked with a sullen look and bushy head, born
in Jamaica. Will, a stout fellow, an AFRICAN; about
25 Years of Age: Scar’d on the cheeks after his Coun-
try Fashion, his Right Fore-Finger and Left-Thumb
Nails off, Part of one of his Toes off, speaks very little
English. Candace, a dark Mulatto Wench, about 20
Years Old, a VIRGINIAN, much marked with a whip,
very Artfully. Whoever will apprehend them or
either of them, so that I Get them again, shall have the
Following REWARDS. FOR PETER, Ten Dollars, For
WILL. Four Dollars, and For CANDACE, TWO Dol-
lars, and all reasonable charges.
WILLIAM HANCOCK.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

RUN away last Night, from
on board the Sloop Grace
and Sally, Christopher Wilson,
Master, lying in this Harbour; A
Yellow negro fellow named Caeser,
about five feet seven or eight Inches
high, 29 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

RUN away from the subscriber
in NORFOLK, an Appren-
tice Boy, named William Forbes,
about 20 years of Age a Silver
Smith by Trade, had on, when he
went away a Bearskin Jacket lin’d
with white Flannel, a pair of
white Breetches, white Shirt, thread Stockings, a pair
English made Shoes, with Pinchbeck pierced Buckles,
He stoops in his Shoulders; wears his own Hair, some
times treads a little Knock Knee’d; he is very much given
to drink, and when drunk, affects to imitate the Irish
accent.
Whoever takes up the said Apprentice, and deliver
him to the subscriber in NORFOLK, shall receive Three
Pounds Reward. I forewarn all Masters of vessels, and
others from harbouring him at their Peril.
June 15th, 1774. JAMES MURPHREE.

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, Apply to
GILCHRIST & Taylor.
N. B. She has, two Decks laid Fore and
Aft.

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.

NORFOLK, June 7, 1774.
The SUBSCRIBERS have for SALE,
GENUINE MADEIRA Wine,
Six Years Old,
WEST INDIA Rum, MUSCOVADO 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

^**^*The PUBLISHER of this Paper hopes his READERS will
Pardon him for the many Innacuracies in his last; as he was un-
prepared and hurried. The Cause thereof being now in Part re-
moved, he hopes to give his FRIENDS that Satisfaction which they
have an undoubted Right to Claim, and look for.

In a PUBLICATION dedicated to their Service by such a Behavi-
our constantly adhered to, he can alone merit their Countenance
and Protection.