ders to authority may say, those are evils, those are suppositions,
mere chimeras, that only have an existence in the fanatical brain
of some disappointed courier, malecontents whose only purpose is to
sow sedition and kindle strife, that they may put out order and reap
the spoils----So let them say, while we for a few moments, reli-
giously enquire into the origin of British America: That all the
Earth be judge, how far the laws of nature and of nations, call
on us, to submit, to this oppressive, this galling yoke.

Our Fathers, natives of Britain; men of spirit and aspiration;
crowded in their native foil, by the narrowness of it’s limits, and
number of its Inhabitants; and some oppressed by the then cir-
cumscription of it’s religious privileges; during death and all the
horrors of savage inhumanity; by permission of their sovereign;
ventured into foreign lands, to a World unknown; there, the
Gods, having crown’d their glorious enterprize with success, they,
by courage and conduct, marked out the bounds, and laid the
foundation, of a new empire, the acquisition of which, hath given
to Britain, a degree of estimation with all the courts of Europe, she
else never could have hoped for: a new world where genius and
science, planted under the standard of liberty, have not disdained
to raise their heads. Foreign nations, have complimented her sons
on the happy progress of the liberal arts among them, and did our
Fathers, some of the best, the bravest of the British Race, expose
their lives and properties, to all the dangers of the deep, through
trackless oceans, to secure to themselves, and to their King, an ac-
quisition so valuable; that their sons should now be reduc’d to the
utmost abject state of slavery! That cruel ambition and disapproved
faction can devise; a state of slavery that would shake even the gal
lie throne!

Let not, what ever other ills assails,
A damned Aristocracy prevail.

True it is, Britain our darling parent, where our Fathers yet have
brethren, friends and patrons, had much share in conquering our
enemies; giving us peace abroad and security at home; for this
we have been ever anxious to make ample acknowledgement, nor
should she deny but that she hath received it, since some of the ablest
of her own, as well as our politicians say, that for the expence of
her arms in America, she hath received sevenfold; that America was
conquer’d in Germany, thereby fixing on us the expence of all
her wars since our existence is a piece of state finesse, calculated
for want of better reasons, to justify oppression. We wish not
however to plead acquittance; but when the first, the foremost
bond of society, the barrier or liberty and property, is broken
asunder and beaten down, by which those sacred Right, shall be-
come a prey, to savage power and oppression; when it shall appear,
to be the only point in view, the determinate plan, of administra-
tion, from their choice, or through all the American Clonies,
if not all the British Dominions, to our present establishment, and
drive us to desperation, that they, thereby may have some plausible
occasion to let loose among us, carnage and devastation, murder
and rapine, it may be to serve some favourite scheme, when admi-
nistration shall take such measures, and a British Parliament frame
such laws; that the consequence of each will be, to expose our
lives and property, our sons and daughters, to the merciless will
of (rapacious villains) sons of licentiousness, accustom’d to vice,
whose unbridled passions, the strictest laws are necessary to control;
when these things shall happen, no other plea will then be urg’d,
but that which nature originally gave to all her sons. What then,
shall we now say on a retrospect of a few years? The consequence
of Ministerial instructions, to his Excellency Governor Martin, was
for sometime, the suspension of all laws, both civil and criminal,
and the present disordered state of the legislation in North-Carolina.
All America, yea Britains too; must be acquainted with: Parlia-
mentary measures have driven man of the Colonies to a very
disagreeable state of oppression. Not to enumerate Parliamentay
omnipotence, by our Almighty Fiat, in the measures adopted to
humble Boston, hath attempt’d to lay, as Caligula to ancient
Rome once wish’d to do; one general fatal stroke, to American
liberty.

How bright! How pleasing must the prospect be, to that man,
or set of men; who, merely from wantoness, or perhaps from envy
and jealousy; accursed evils, twins of hell; first born of satan; pa-
rents of pain; shall by their machinations and councils, drive a
nation of happy, flourishing people; by a constant succession of
those dreadful calamities, to the choice of all the horrors of a bloody
intestine war, or to that more detestable alternative of slavery,
cruel abject slavery.-----Happy, happy; if fallen Angles are
happy. Must the proposer, abettors and conductors, of so
Honourable, so Generous a system of politics be: a sea of loyal blood,
unjustly spilt a rich excheques drain’d, a thriving country ravaged,
a people wasted, a King made murderer, and his reign covered
with infamy; must he be the inglorious outlines, ignoble soliloquy,
each private, contemplative moment, will afford their, then dis-
ordered souls; which, “if not steel’d, against remorse, must go
”down to the grave with pain,” thence to all eternity, how. and
bite their teeth in vain, to expiate the gilt of a day—what less could
be fit punishment, for the blackest sin, in the power of human
nature to commit? In contrast to this, how amiable, how exalted,
in that character; that shall more especially, when plac’d in power,
make peace and content in society; loyalty and privilege in a con-
stitution; and liberty and morality in religion, it’s pecular study:
he needs not my encomium, while he experiences in the approba-
tion of his own merit, ”that good, though disputed, maxim,
”that virtue is it own reward.” How far administration may have
a right, to attach to themselves, either of those characters, Let
the just be a judge.
An INDEPENDENT FARMER.

We at all times receive with pleasure, every Essay and Ar-
ticle of news that appear to us of public use; or fit for publication.
We will adhere to our original plan of neutrality; only with that
our Correspondents, would take the trouble to Point, Accent and
Spell, their Performances.

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To PHILANTHROPOS.

SIR,
THO’ I detest flattery, I cannot avoid approving the justness
of your arguments in so excellently delineating the three
kinds of Publics, of which the world is composed. As the ideas of
men and things, with which you have furnished the Printer, have a
sympathetic affinity with mine, I could wish you would honour me
so far, as to extend your system by adopting another distinction
very prevalent among us: it is so striking at first, that the apolo-
gy requires no introduction, I mean the RIDICULOUS PUBLLIC. My
description will be short, and confined to the proceedings of our
own club, where the Orators talk so much, and determine so little,
that ‘tis hard to tell how our decisions are squared. This is certain,
he that can advance palpable absurdities with the greatest compo-
sure, and stifle the voice of reason by a multiplicity of words, tho’
utterly despised by every discerning mind for consummate ignorance,
and [faded, illegible] total misapplication of his talents: will be considered as a
prodigy of wisdom, and pointed out as a character of singular me-
rit and esteem. I knew a patriotic Gentleman well versed in equi-
vocation, who thought he knew the turns and doublings of argu-
ment which would amuse the vulgar, even to a hair’s breadth, and
has from that insupportable vanity, and self-conceit made himself
the contemptible portrait for general ridicule.

Like the boasting Bobadil in the play, he would have driven all
before him, talked of raising troops no body knows how, and
sending them the Lord knows where! If any one calmly repre-
sented to him the consequence of precipltation in any measure.
Staunch my boys says he, the day is our own.-----If they send
them all; -----And yet not withstanding the fierceness of my
friends elocution, neither his eyes nor countenance are very terrible,
he is only a cat’s paw to the hypocritical crew who encourage him;
but this thing is as proud of that farcical, fanatical name; and
would be thought a senate of himself, at which I am not surprized
as he speaks with greatest confidence of having successfully ad-
dressed many thousand men at one time.-----As I have deter-
mined for various reasons to leave the club, I shall just note two
more of our brethren; the first delivered his solemn nonsense in as
grave a tone as an itinerant Methodist, and with full as indifferent
concern to all the good things of this world; for his Cap had cer-
tainly left the Washer Woman’s at too distant a period, to be
considered as a part of modern dress: though this circumstance
was not the most laughable part of his behaviour. The other
figure was a mighty [creased, illegible] ungracious being, which I would by no
means have mentioned, had he not made use of such disdainful in-
terrogatories, and delivered his inarticulate sounds, so as to swell
the risible muscles of the whole club. I am yours, &c.
SLY BOOTS.

LONDON, June 11.

WHILE we are preparing to punish the Bostonians, for crimes
which they glory in, the maintenance of their supposed
rights and privileges; while we are forming laws to subject the Pro-
testant subjects of England to the power of French Papists; while
we are forging chains for the freeborn people of this country, what
a despicable figure do we make in a dispute with a nest of thieves
and robbers, the common plunderer and licensed pirates of
Africa?

A squadron of our ships under Admiral Dennis, arrives in the
road before Algiers. A letter from the King of England is delive
red to the Dey, in which his Majesty insists upon Mr. Frazer being
received as Consul, and that neither the Consul nor any English
subject be obliged to kiss the Dey’s hand; that the Consul and his
Chancellor may wear swords; and that all Christian slaves who shall
take refuge in any cutter or boat belonging to any English man of
war or frigate, shall be free and not liable to be reclaimed. But
what is the Dey’s answer: Why, truly, that Mr. Frazer shall not
be received as Consul, nor permitted to come on shore; and, in
short, that all the articles are absolutely rejected. To which was
added, that if these conditions did not please the English comman-
der he might set sail again.

Was there ever such a gross affront offered by a little paltry state
to a British King before? Is this among the Glories of the present
reign? But Sir, I beg pardon, perhaps orders are already issued to
bombard this sanctuary of sea-robbers and level it to the very ground.
This I am sure of, that such a resolution would give much more
satisfaction to the good people of England than to see the sword
drawn against their own countrymen, or to find laws established to
deprive English subjects of trials by Jury, and to subject them to
to our natural enemies, the French.

June 18. It is the grandest, the most noble principle a monarch
can maintain, to make the happiness of mankind his only care;
But, alas! it seems as in these days such a glorious principle were
unknown; monarchs are now like the conquerors and heroes of old,
prompted by no other motive than interest and ambition.

The generous, the benevolent spirit of the Turk, who alone
stood forth the defender, the friend of the oppressed kingdom of
Poland, throws the strongest shame on the those Christian powers who
stood the tame spectators of rapine, injustice, and oppression.

June 21. Orders were sent over to Ireland in the course of last
week for four regiments more to hold themselves in readiness to em-
bark for Boston upon a short notice.

An universal Te Deum was Yesterday, we are told, sung in all
the Romish churches in and about this metropolis, on the fair pros-
pect of establishing that true and holy religion both in America
and Great-Britain.

June 23. The plausible pretext for the Quebec bill is, that as
the time of the peace the inhabitants of Canada were assured that
they should enjoy their religion and their ancient laws; they have
rested satisfied under these assurances ever since to the present time;

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and whence says a correspondent, the forwardness of the present
ministry to establish Popery by act of Parliament in the dominions
of a Protestant Prince? The people of Canada took the King’s
word, and were satisfied with the toleration, and what but Toryism
would gratify the Canadians with the Romish religion and the French
laws? Where were my Lords the Bishops? Where were all those
who have denied upon oath the many damnable doctrines and posi-
tions of the See of Rome, when the consciences of the Canadians
were assigned over to the dominions of the Pope?

The following is a Copy of the City Address.

To the KING’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address and Petition of the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Commons of the City of LONDON,
in Common Council assembled, June 23.

Most Gracious SOVEREIGN!
WE your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London,
in Common Council assembled are exceedingly alarmed that a bill
has passed your two Houses of Parliament, entitled, “An act for
making more effectual provision for the government to be entirely
subversive of the great fundamental principles of the constitution of
the British monarchy, as well as of the authority of various solemn
acts of the legislature.

”We beg leave to observe, that the English law, and that won-
derful effort of human effort of human wisdom, the trial by jury, are not admit-
ted by this bill in any civil cases, and the French law of Canada is
imposed on all the inhabitants of that extensive province, by which
both the persons and properties of very many of your Majesty’s sub-
jects are rendered insecure and precarious.

”We humbly conceive, that this bill, if passed into a law, will
be contrary, not only to the compact entered into with the numer-
ous settlers of the reformed religion, who were invited into the said
province under the sacred promise of enjoying the benefit of the
laws of your realm in England, but likewise repugnant to your
Royal proclamation of the 7th of October, 1763, for the speedy
settling the said new government.

That confident with the public faith pledged by the said pro
clamation, your Majesty cannot erect and constitute courts of judi-
cature and public justice for the hearing and determining all cases,
as well civil and criminal, with the said province, but as near as
may be agreeable to the laws of England; nor can any laws, sta-
tutes, or ordinances for the public peace, welfare, and good govern-
of the said province, be made, constituted, or ordained, but accord-
ing to the laws of this realm.

That the Roman Catholic Religion, which is known to be
idolatrous and bloody, is established by this bill, and no legal pro-
vision is made for the free exercise of our reformed faith, nor the
security of our Protestant fellow subjects of the Church of England
in the true worship of Almighty God according to their consciences.

”That your Majesty’s illustrious family was called to the throne
of these kingdoms in consequence of the exclusion of the Roman
Catholic ancient branch of the Stuart Line, under the express sti-
pulation that they should profess the Protestant Religion; and ac-
cording to the oath established by the sanction of Parliament in the
first year of the reign of our great deliverer King William the Third,
your Majesty at your Coronation solemnly swore that you would,
to the utmost of your power, maintain the Laws of God, the true
profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant Reformed Religion
established by Law.

”That, although the term of imprisonment of the subject is
limited for three months, the power of fining is left indefinite and
unrestrained, by which the total ruin of the party may be effected
by an enormous and excessive fine.

”That the said bill was brought into Parliament very late in
the present session, after the greater number of the Members of the
two Houses were retired into the Country, so that it cannot fairly
be presumed to be the sense of those parts of the Legislature.

”Your Petitioners therefore most humbly supplicate your Ma-
jesty, as the guardian of the Laws, Liberties, and Religion of your
people, and the great Bulwark of the Protestant Faith, that you
will not give your Royal Assent to the said bill. And your Petiti-
oners, as in duty bound will ever pray.”

Some of the populace behaved very rudely when his Majesty was
passing from St. James’s to the House of Peers, by hissing and
crying out “No Popery, no Frnech government, &c.”

Directly after his Majesty, attended by the Duke of Ancaster and
Lord Bruce, went to the House of Peers, in the usual state, and
gave the royal assent to the following bills, viz. The sinking fund
bill; the lottery bill; the bill for making more effectual provision
for the government of the province of Quebec; the bill for laying
several additional duties on liquors imported into the province of
Quebec, &c. After which his Majesty made the following most gra-
ciouss speech to both Houses of Parliament.

TO BOTH HOUSES of PARLIAMENT,
ON THEIR PROROGATION.

My LORDS and GENTLEMEN,
I HAVE observed, with the utmost satisfaction, the many emi-
nent proofs you have given of your zealous and prudent atten-
tion to the public service, during the course of this very interesting
session of Parliament.

The necessity of providing some effectual remedy for the great
and manifold mischiefs, both public and private, arising from the
impaired state of the gold coin, induced me, at the opening of the
session, to recommend that important object to your consideration:
In the several measures you have taken for the redress of those e-
vils, you have sufficiently manifested, as well our regard to the
general credit, and commercial interest of the kingdom, as to the
immediate ease and accommodation of my people.

The very peculiar circumstances of embarrassment in which the
province of Canada was involved, had rendered the proper adjust
ment an regulation of the government thereof, a matter of no
small difficulty. The bill which you prepared for that purpose, and
to which I have now given my assent, is founded on the clearest
principles of justice and humanity; and will, I doubt not, have
the best effects in quieting the minds and promoting the happiness
of my Canadian subjects.

I have long seen, with concern, a dangerous spirit of resistance,
to my government, and to the execution of the laws, prevailing in
the province of Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England. It proceeded,
at length, to such an extremity, as to render your immediate in-
terposition indispensably necessary; and you have, accordingly made
provision as well for the suppression of the present disorders, as for
the prevention of the like in future. The temper and firmness,
with which you have conducted yourselves in this important business,
and the general concurrence with which the resolution of main-
taining the authority of the laws, in every part of my dominions,
hath been adopted and supported, cannot fail of giving the greatest
weight to the measures which have been the result of your deliber-
ations. Nothing that depends on me shall be wanting to render
them effectual. It is my most anxious desire to see my deluded sub-
jects in that part of the world returning to a sense of their duty,
acquiescing in that just subordination to the authority, and main-
taining that due regard to the commercial interests of this county,

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which must ever be inseparably connected with their own pros-
perity and advantage.

Nothing material has happened since your meeting, with re-
spect to the war between Russia and the Porte; and it is with
pleasure I can inform you, that the very friendly assurance which
I continue to receive from the neighboring powers, vie me the
strongest reason to believe, that they have the same good dispositions
as myself, to preserve the tranquility of the rest of Europe.

Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

I thank you for the supplies, which you have so cheerfully given;
and I see with great satisfaction. that, notwithstanding the ample
grants you have made for the several establishment, and the com-
pensation which has been so properly provided for the holders of
deficient gold coin, you have been able to make a further progress
in the reduction of the national debt.

My LORDS and GENTLEMEN,

I have nothing to recommend to you, but that you would carry
into your respective counties, the same affectionate attachment to
my person and government, and the same zeal for the maintenance
of the public welfare, which have distinguished all your proceed-
ings in this session of Parliament.

His Majesty’s speech being ended: the Lord Chancellor, having
received directions from his Majesty, said:

My LORDS and GENTLEMEN,

It is his Majesty’s royal will and pleasure, that this Parliament
be prorogues to Thursday, the fourth day of August next, to be
than here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to
Thursday, the fourth day of August next.

June 23. ‘Tis said that a Great Personage has taken an addition-
al disgust at another Great Personage’s dividing with the minority,
on Friday last.

Yesterday the Lord Mayor, Alderman Crosby, Lewes, and Plo-
mer, the Recorder, and City Officers, went from Guildhall to St.
James’s (Alderman Sawbridge joined them in the way) in order to
present an Address and Petition to his Majesty, previous to his go-
ing to the House, relative to the bill for the government of Que-
bec. They arrived at St. James’s a quarter before one. A little
before two, the Lord Chamberlain waited on the Lord Mayor with
a message from the King, which he had committed to writing to
prevent any mistake, and he read the following paper:

”As your petition relates to a bill agreed on by the two Houses
of Parliament, of which his Majesty cannot take public notice, un-
til it is presented for his Royal assent in Parliament, I am com-
manded by the King to inform you that you are not to expect an
answer.”

The Lord Mayor immediately sent the Remembrancer to present
his duty to the King, and inform his Majesty, that they waited to
present their address agreeable to his Majesty’s order, which in a
little time was complied with; when no other answer was given.

June 25. Certain advice is received, that the Spaniards have e-
rected four different forts and settlements in the East-Indies, in op-
en defiance of the treaties subsisting between them and our Court.

June 27. They write from Paris, that a stop is put to the trea-
ty which was negotiating in the late reign for surrendering the island
of Corsica to the Court of Turin; ant that the Sardinian Ambassa-
dor had received instructions to acquaint his master that his Most
Christian Majesty intended annexing it to his own dominions.

June 29. We are assured that the naval preparations at the dif-
ferent sea ports have been ordered to be expedited ever since the ar-
rival of the intelligence from Boston.

A Gentleman at Cadiz writing to his friend in London, says
”There are about 200 shipwrights employed in the dock-yard;
and at Ferrol there are the same number, who are all very busily
employed.

They write from Gibraltar, that the Spaniards have augmented
all their garrisons in the Streights, and that at Barcelona they have
raised an entire new battery of 24 brass guns facing the road.

Orders are sent over to Hanover to keep the troops under con-
stant discipline, and to complete every regiment in the dectorate
with all possible expedition.

His Sardinian Majesty has taken into his pay all the Swiss soldi-
ers which have been lately discharged out of the French service,
and also two regiments of the Walloons, which were dismissed at
the same time.

June 30. A correspondent informs us, that a bill is preparing
to be presented to parliament for establishing the Gentoo religion
among his Majesty’s subjects of Bengal, [creased, illegible], and
Orixa.

July 2. Yesterday Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; late Governor of
Massachusetts-Bay, attended the levee at St. James was graciously
received, and had the honour of a conference with his Majesty.

It is said that the names of those who voted for the Quebec bill
are circulated in almost every city and borough in England and Scot-
land; and the next general election will determine whether the
Pope or the voice of the people is to choose a British Parliament.

July 5. It is supposed there will be as great a clamour raised
at the ensuing General Election against the Quebec bill as there was at
that in 1754 against the Jew naturalization bill.

The King of Prussia, notwithstanding the several representations
made by the British Court, is ultimately determined not to relax in
the most minute particular in his demands on the city of Dant-
zic. The British Cabinet seems to be equally inflexible on the other
hand.

Two couriers were dispatched to the continent in the course of
the last week; one, it is said, to Berlin, and the other to the regen-
cy at Hanover.

They write from Gibraltar, that a Moorish Admiral has just en-
tered the Mediterranean with eleven sail of stout corsairs, fitted out
from Larrache to cruize against the powers with whom the Emp-
ror is at war.

Some spirited measures respecting the payment at the Manilla
ransom are, we are assured, now under consideration.

It may be depended upon that a great number of new brass can-
non is ordered to be cast immediately by the Board of Ordinance.

Orders are sent to Portsmouth for all the volunteer seamen who
enter there, to be immediately put on board the ships which are fit-
ting out for the Mediterranean and the West-Indies.

On Saturday afternoon a countryman was inveighed into a
public house in Chancery Lane by two fellows who pretended an
acquaintance with him, and said, they would treat him with a share
of a pot of beer. While they were drinking, one of them produced
cards, and offered to cut for a shilling, on which the countryman
suspecting them, got up to go away, but they insisted he should pay
for the liquor, and on his refusal they began to threaten him; on
which he gave them both a severe drubbing, and then left them to
pay the reckoning.

July 7. In all probability by this time the inhabitants of Dant-
ziek have been obliged to give up all the privileges of their city, all
their liberties and infranchisements to the King of Prussia: They
have no alternative, except having their city laid in ashes, which is
a fate it is not impossible they may have undergone from their invi-
olable attachment to their lawful Prince the King of Poland.

Yesterday 400 stands of muskets and a quantity of powder and
ball were shipped off at the Tower, on board the Industry transport
for his Majety’s garrison of Fort Louis, on the coast of Africa.

Extract of a Letter from an Officer in the Russian Grand Army,
dated near Bielogorod, the capital of Bessarabia, April 37.

”The operations of the present campaign began very early, and
with putting into execution a plan of General Suwarow’s for posses-
sing ourselves of this province, which would be of the utmost con-
sequence, as we could then, with much ease, transport our troops,
store, &c over the Danube, into Bulgaria. In consequence of this
scheme, General Suwarow took the command of a strong detach-
ment, consisting of 8000 foot, and 3200 horse, with a good train of

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artillery, and otherwise extremely well provided. On the 28th of
last month we began our march from the grand camp near Jaffy,
strongly animated by the hopes that the Turks had no intelligence
of our design, nor could gain any, time enough to through impe-
dements in our way. We had fatiguing marches, as the woods
which we were obliged to cut down, were very thick in our way,
but by labour we soon overcame these difficulties, and on the 9th
inst. we entered the province of Bessarabia, and set up our tents to
rest a day, after so hard a march: some light troops of horse, were
however sent out to scour the country, and procure us intelligence
whether an information had been received of our design. In the
evening they returned, and brought advice, that they had seen se-
veral of the roving herds of Tartars who inhabit this province, who
fled as soon as they perceived our men, but they overtook many of
them, yet could not learn any thing that led them to believe that
the Turks could have the least notion of our scheme. On the next
morning our tents were struck and we pursued our march onward
to Bielogorod, which is the capital of the province, and is a strong
fortress generally well garrisoned, situated on the north-east shore
of the Black Sea. (There are likewise two other strong towers and
fortresses, named Kilia Nova, and Kilia Vecchia, which are on the
same shore, at the mouth of the Danube, and which would have
easily fallen into our hand after the possession of Bielogorod.) We
had arrived within fifteen leagues, when we were surprised by the
return of our advanced guards, with advice, that they had discove-
red a large body of Turks, very advantageously posted, within a few
miles of the town. This intelligence by no means please us, yet
as we were so very far advanced, it was impossible for us to retreat,
and accordingly we made preparations for attacking the Turks
in their post; and on the 16th in the morning, arrived in full sight
of them. We encamped very advantageously, and extremely near
to the Turkish entrenchments: however they gave us no time, but
began the attack immediately. We had fortunately places our ar-
tillary in such a manner, as to do great execution among the Tur-
kish foot; and as their horse were chiefly composed of raw, unex-
perienced soldiers, after an engagement of little more than two hours,
we prevailed, routed them, and pursued them almost up to the walls
of the town, where they fled for refuge. Their camp, with six pie-
ces of cannon, some ammunition, and other things of value, were
left entirely at our disposal. We also took 400 prisoners; on the
Turkish side 320 were killed, and 200 wounded; we lost 97 men,
and 104 wounded. From our prisoners we learnt, that our design
was known before we marched from Jaffy, to the Seraskier of Silis-
tria, who had ordered this detachment under the command of Bas-
sa-Achmet-Menhenent, his eldest son, to oppose us: that it consis-
ted of 12,000 horse and foot, including the garrison, and detach-
ments from the two Killias, which had been drawn out on notice of
our approach. The next day, being Sunday, the General ordered
a thanksgiving to be observed for the victory, which was most strict-
ly attended to. The next day we were preparing to make our re-
gular advances towards taking the town, 150 of our men were ei-
ther killed or taken prisoners by an unexpected sally of the Turks.
However we continued our operations with the utmost vigour till
which, after undergoing some few amendments and alterations,
were agreed to: half the number of the Turks marching out with
military honours, and the rest remaining as prisoners of war. The
town, cannon, &c. were delivered into our hands, and we are now
preparing for thereduction of the two Kilias.

Extract of a letter from DANTZICK, May 31.

”Our magistucy determined yesterday on the threats of the two
allied powers, to acknowledge the territorial rights of Prussia over
this port, provided Prussia would declare the conditions on which
the use of the port is to be secure to the town. The Russian mi-
nister, Count Golofskin, said that he had orders not to accept of
that resolution, The Prussian Privy Counsellor M. Reichard, in-
sisted upon the answer being plain yes or no. This afternoon the
States held their assemblies again, to chuse which answer they
should give, but broke up without concluding on either.

What a scene of misery and distress are the pernicious measures
of the administration disclosing in the city! The cries of thousands
of poor journeymen weavers, and the clamour of their of unemployed
masters, with all their numerous dependents of combers, dyers, hot-
pressers, &c. will e’re long reach the ears of the weak, tyrannic
Lord that occasioned them, and makes his name and memory as o-
dious in Europe and America. Every manufacturer in the home-
trade, who, at this time of the year used to receive prodigious or-
ders for coarse camblets, calimancoes, and white and black crapes
from the ware-houses in London for the Colonies, are now entirely
at a stand and when business in the foreign houses decline, our work
houses will be crowded with paupers, the poor rates will become insup-
portably high, and numberless families be destitute of bread. It is
not many months since a petition was presented to Parliament by
our worthy members Sir Harbord Harbord and Edward Bacon, Esq.
setting forth the decay of trade and the hardships we labour under;
but alas! how little does a Prime minister regard the misfortunes
he heaps upon others, instead of protecting and encouraging our
commerce, he has taken the most direct means to diminish and de-
story it: And for what? To execute his avowed and secret designs,
and to gratify his pride, his folly and his resentment. Because a
licentious rabble in Boston destroyed a dutied article which one of
the wisest men in this nation has proved ought not to have been
taxed, and which would not have been destroyed, if the ships that
carried it had not obstinately persisted in landing it; for that reason,
I say, a whole city, a whole province, must suffer all the direful ef-
fects of ministerial vengeance. The worthy magistrate, the inno-
cent merchant, the honest tradesman, the well-disposed poor, all
all, must be treated with the most unexampled, the most diaboli-
cal rigor for the outrage of a few; have had, like the city of London
their humble petitions and just remonstrances, ridiculed and disre-
garded, their charter violated, their ports blocked up, their trade
removed, their inhabitauts dragged 3000 miles for trial, and to
complete the tragedy, and their slavery, a military Governor and
troops sent over to enforce the ministerial mandate. Excellent mea-
sures these to stir up a civil war at home, compel the exasperated
Americans to take up arms and to ruin the trade of the Mother-
country. But whatever gratification such measures may afford to a
wrong-headed deluded minister, they are highly offensive to unem-
ployed and impoverished manufacturers, whose business is their de-
pendance and support, and who are too sensible of the loss, not to
curse those who would deprive them and their posterity of it. Hap-
py it is for Lord North that he is not a tradesman, lamenting for
orders, and distressed for remittances. Unhappy for him that the
kingdom at large condemn his American measures, and are ashamed
of his conduct. In a word, pensioners may flatter, and levees may
applaud, but it is too clear, that unless he conciliates the esteem of
the colonies by a repeal of the cruel destructive laws he has framed,
and restores the trade he has taken away, that he will kindle a flame
he will find himself unable to quench, and load himself with the ex-
ecrations not only of the innumerable poor that may be deprived of
employment in the manufactory of this city, Birmingham, Sheffield
and Yorkshire, but those of every sensible and spirited person in the
kingdom.”

Extract of a letter from Derry, in IRELAND, June 14.

You cannot conceive the ferment the Presbyterians are in on
account of the late act. Multitudes are daily arriving here to go to
America. There are five large ships in this port ready to sail,
which will take at least 500 passengers which will amount
to 2500 souls of the most industrious people in the kingdom.”

Extract of a letter from PARIS, June 20.

”In the course of last week, our Archbishop was informed that
some Protestants assemble daily in a Privat House, where, after
singing spiritual psalms, they read a chapter of scripture; the arch-
bishop acquainted his Majesty with it, who ordered that the house
be instantly pulled down, and the performers be prosecuted with
the utmost severity.”

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FROM the Caledonian Mercury, in Scotland.

Extract of a Letter form Genoa, May 24.

”According to advices from Rome, the Chevalier
STUART (commonly called the Pretender) is prepa0
ring to set out on a voyage to New-England; and se-
veral assert that he will go on board some Spanish
vessels which are ready merely for that purpose.

Extract of a letter from PARIS, June 26.

The Archbishop of Paris, who has suffered grievous torture for a
long time from a stone in his bladder, at length determined to un-
dergo the operation of cutting, which was performed on the 22d.
May. The stone extracted is of a grey colour, of the shape of a
macaroon, but inclining to an oval. His Grace is as well as can
be expected after such an operation. He is 71 years of age.

We are credibly informed, that orders were sent to Ireland for
the strictest guard to be kept to prevent the raising recruits by the
French and Spanish emissaries, who are said now to swarm in that
kingdom.

POLITICAL SPECULATIONS.

It is no Wonder that the Protestant Religion is discountenanced
in the present reign: Lord Bute was Preceptor to his Majesty, and
we all know the Caledonian Faith to be TRANSUBSTANTIAL. The
King, God bless him! is very devout, and attends Divine Worship
with a truly Christian attention; this the world may easily perceive
from the old Maxim, NUNQUAM LIBERTAS GRATIOR EXTAT
QUAM SUB REGE PIO.

It is said that the white Rose, formerly wore in Scotland on the
10th of June is to be changed into a red one for the future; the
late Act respecting the Protestant Religion having made all distinc-
tion unnecessary.

When General Wolfe conquered Quebec, and the British soldiers
carried the standard of glory through Canada, little was it imagi-
ned that they were sacrificing their own liberties, to set up the re-
ligion of our enemies in the dominions of England, and pave a di-
rect road to arbitrary government.

It has been reported that a most beautiful set of horses, with an
elegant whole-length drawing of the Pope, is now on its way from
Rome, as a small acknowledgement from his Holiness to Lord
North, of the very great respect he entertains for that Statesman,
on account of his very warm support to the ROMAN CATHOLIC
RELIGION.

BOSTON, AUGUST 26.

We hear that Governor Gage has thought fit to deprive the Hon.
John Hancock, Esq; of his commission as Colonel of his Excellen-
cy’s Company of Cadets. In consequence of which the Company
have had a meeting, the result of which was to return his Excel-
lency the standard, (with his arms) which he presented to them on
his arrival here, a committee was accordingly choes for that purpose,
who waited on his Excellency, at Danvers, wand delivered him the
standard, which was accompanied with an an address from the com-
pany, wherein they informed his Excellency, that the looked upon
themselves no longer as the Governor’s independent Company.

Province of Massachusetts Bay.

By the GOVERNOR,

A PROCLAMATION.

WHERERAS certain hand-bills have been posted In
sundry places in the town of Salem calling upon the
merchants, freeholders and other inhabitants of said
town, to meet at the Town-House Chamber on Wed-
nesday next, at nine o’clock in the morning, to consider of, and
determine upon measures for opposing the execution of divers late
acts of Parliament

And whereas by a late act of Parliament, all town-meetings cal-
led without the consent of the Governor, (except the annual meet-
ings, in the months of March and May, are illegal.

GIVEN at Salem the 23 day of August, 1774.
By his Excellency’s command, THOMAS GAGE
THOS. FLUCKER, Secretary.

GOD save the King.

At a meeting of the freeholders, and other inhabitants of Salem,
held yesterday at the County-House in that place, the Hon. Richard
Derby, Esq; Mr. John Pickering, jun. Mr. Jonathan Ropers,
Captain Timothy Pickering, Capt. Jonathan Gardner, jun. and
Captain Richard Manning, were chosen deputies from the several
towns in the county of Essex, to be held at Ipswich on the 6th of
September.

His Excellency the Governor, early in the morning of the same
day, issued a proclamation forbidding the above or any town-meet-
ing--sent for the Committee of Correspondence, and demanded of
them, if they were the authors of the hand-bills, issued for calling
said meeting, to which they answered, they and some others were.

His Excellency desired they would immediately require the people
assembled to disperse, or he should send the High Sheriff, and if
there was any opposition, he was determined to support him.

We hear that a new Assembly is to be called to meet at Salem,
the 26th of October next.

The following is taken from the Massachusetts Spy.

We this moment learn from Salem, that the Governor sent for
the Committee of Correspondence, while the people were in meet-
ing, and questioned them, whether they were concerned in issuing
the notification for the meeting? to which they answered in the
affirmative. – It is further said, the Governor has since sent his
warrants and taken up the said Committee of Correspondence of
Salem.
--Quere, What will become of this?

On a late spirited SUBSCRIPTION.

’Twas an happy Device, I thought then, and think still,
For if Brandy won’t save them, we know Nothing will.

On the Poor of BOSTON being employed in
Paving the Streets,

IN spite of Rice, in spite of Wheat,
Sent for the BOSTON poor – to eat.
In sptie of Brandy, one would think,
Sent for the BOSTON Poor – to drink;
Poor are the BOSTON Poor indeed,
And needy, tho’ there is no Need:
They cry for Bread; the mighty Ones,
Instead of Bread, give only Stones.

RISUM teneatis? ha! ha! he!

August 28. Last Monday week when the Hon. Isaac Royall
Esq; was informed by the Governor, that he was appointed by his
Majesty’s Mandamus, to be one of this Majesty’s new Council, he<
as a worthy Patriot, absolutely declined accepting a Seat at the new
appointed Board.

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HAMPTON, September 13th, 1774.

INWARD ENTRY.

Schooner St. Andrew, John Sinclair from New-York; with
Rum, Molasses, Load-Sugar, Vinegar and Flour.

Brig Jenny, James Welch from New-York, with Ballast.

Sloop Cedar, Martin Murphy form Philadelphia; with Rum
Wine, Bar-Iron, Soap, Chocolate, Earthen Ware, Chairs and
Leather.

Schooner Peggy, James Pastuir from Grenadoes with Rum.

Sloop Betsey, Francis Hudson form Jamaica; with Rum, Ma-
hogony, Ginger, and Pimento.

Brig Kingston Packet, Joseph Turner from Hull; with Euro-
pean Goods, and Passengers.

CLEARED OUTWARD.

Snow Planter, David Bowers for London with Tobacco, and
Hhds. Staves,

Sloop Barrie, Andrew Watson Commander for Antigua, with
Corn and Shingles.

Ship Dorothy, John Butler Commander for Leith; with To-,
bacco, Tar, and Staves.

Sloop Lively, John Cox Commander for Antigua; with Corn,
and Shingles.>

NORFOLK, September 15*

Extract of a Letter from New-York, dated September 7.

”About two o’clock last Monday afternoon, we had an ac-
count here, transmitted by one Col. Putnam, who lives abou sixty
miles from Boston in Connecticut government, that the ships and
army had destroyed that city by a Bombardment; but as we have had
no regular expres from the spot on the occasion; it is not credited,
and I really believe there is no foundation for any part of the re-
port.”

P. S. Since writing the above, some Gentlemen have arrived
from Boston, who contradict the report entirely.

On Saturday last, Mr. JOHN WILKINS departed this Life: His
Character as a Gentleman and as a Merchant, recommended Him
to the general Esteem and Favour of all with whom he was known
to, or connected with.

FOR SALE,

THE SLOOP NONPAREIL, Burthen
3200 Bushels; Built for private Use, and of an
easy Draught of Water---Four Years Old, and well
fited. For Term, apply to
NICHOLAS B. SEABROOK.
Norfolk, September 14, 1774.

FOR SALE,

A Vessel now on the Stocks, One hundred and
twenty Tuns Burthen; calculated for stowing
Tobacco or Sugar; will be finished in December next.
For terms, apply to
WRIGHT WESTCOTT.
Norfolk, September 13, 1774. tbctf.

THE Subscriber at his Manufactory, or at his Store in Church-
Street, Continues to make and sell all sort of Candle and
Soap, at the lowest Prices.---He is willing upon having a mode-
rate Allowance for Trouble, to manufacture Tallow for any Gentle-
man or Family, who may have a Quantity for that Purpose: the
Terms will be easy—those may apply as above,
MORTO BRIEN.
N. B. Without Flattery, he can assure the Public in general,
that he is fully qualified to do any Piece of Work, in the Way he
professes; as such he has been known by many Gentlemen who
have been so good as to Favour him with Employment.
NORFOLK SEPTEMBER 14, 1774.

I DO hereby give Notice, that the Partnership of
HARGRAVES & ORANGE is Dissolved by mu-
tual Agreement: Mr. HARGRAVES having purchased
my Part of the Stock, has taken the Whole on himself.

Those who have any Demands against said Con-
cern, are desired to apply to Mr. HARGRAVE,
WILLIAM ORANGE.
Norfolk, September 13th, 1774.

ANY Person that wants BILLIARD BALLS
of any Size, may have them, or old ones
turned over, by applying to
HARDRESS WALLER. Church-Street.
Norfolk, September 13th, 1774.

IMPORTED in the last Ships from BRITAIN, and to be sold
by the Subscriber at Captain FRANCIS PEART’S: Fine and
Coarse HATS, Broad CLOTHS, white and coloured FUSTIANS,
JENNETS Shapes for VESTS and BREETCHES; Silk and Thread
STOCKINGS, Mens SHOES; and a small parcel of the most ap-
proved BOOKS. JOHN PEW.
NORFOLK Sep. 14, 1774.

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POETRY.

OH such a fight! I’ve been upon the course,
And he may talk his nonsense till he’s hoarse:
What matters an old Canterbury story?
Upon my soul, Portsmouth’s in it glory.
Such galloping, such gambling and such betting,
Such capering, such cutting and curvetting!
Oh! such a world of bothering and of noise,
So many Country hacks and College boys:
Then there is such a riot and a rattle
With lists of terrible, terrible high-bred cattle;
LIST of the SPORTING LADIES, Sir! – O Lord,
This foolish Poet’s no where, take my word,
He’s jaded at two heats as I’m alive;
’Tis well it’s out of rule to start for five.
What signifies his farce! ‘tis all a jest;
Upon my soul, Firetail’s a lovely beast---
So sleek, so trim, so slender and so thin,
They lead him out, and then they lead him in.

Oh, if that Roman fellow now was there,
(What was his name?) that made his horse Lord May’r;
He might have choice and plenty, a whole stud
Of Senators and Consul’s, thorough blood.
What neighing after one another’s spouses,
What snorting and what kicking in both houses!
Shake but the sieve, as sure as I am born,
There’s none amongst ‘em but wou’d come to corn.
Why such a hair-brain’d spark might think it wit
To turn his stable loose into the Pit:
Long-tail and bob-tail, blacks and sprightly bays,
And filthy duns and old flea bitten greys,
Young high-bred fillies, and fine dappled mares,
And braying Critics with long pricking ears:
Stand by your Poet, Sirs; and keep your places,
You’ll get no harm at our Portsmouth races.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

WOOLENS.
The Subscriber expects in Daily, per the KING-
STON Packet, Captain JOESEPH TURNER from
HULL. A large Assortment of Coarse
WOOLLENS, viz.

SIX QUARTER Cloths with necessary Trimmings:
and other small Packages (value about 40l. sterl.
each.) Consisting of Coarse Duffels, Frizes, Fear-
noughts, Half Thicks, Bearskins, KENDAL Cottons
Negro Blanketing, Bed Blankets, White Plading,
Ruggs of different Kinds and other Goods, which he
will sell reasonable for Cash or short Credit.
JOHN STONEY.
Norfolk, September 5th, 1774.

For LIVERPOOL, the
BRIG MOLLY, JOHN
COLLINS, MASTER;
will sail in a month---can take in
(besides what’s already engaged}
about fifty Hhds. of tobacco, on
liberty of Consignment. For terms, apply to
GREENWOOD, RITSON, & MARSH
Norfolk, September 6, 1774.

THE SLOOP POLLY,

JACOB FOX, Master;
ESTABLISHED as a PACKETT, to
go constantly between this Place and
NEW-YORK; has exceeding good Accom-
modation for PASSENGERS, and will car-
ry them upon very moderate Terms.

Any Gentlemen having GOODS to ship,
by directing then to the Subscriber, may
depend on the greatest Care being taken of
them; and should the Vessel not be here
when they arrive, they will be landed with-
out any Expense to the Proprietor (Grain excepted;) He proposes
taking a very low Freight. THOMAS HEPBURN.
NORFOLK, June 30, 1774.

WANTED

A PAIR of Young BAY GELDINGS,
not under fourteen hands and an half high,
half blooded and well match’d: A good price will be
given for such, if brought to the Portsmouth Races,
by ATCHISON & PARKER.
Norfolk, August 11, 1774.

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PAINTING, CARVING, and GIL-
DING, of SHIPPIMG in the LON-
DON TASTE, executed in the neatest
Manner by the Subscriber:

SUCH as Ships, Heads, Tassarells, quarter pieces
and Badges.---Gentlemen who are pleased to
Favour him with their Commands, may depend on
the greatest Punctuality and Dispatch.---All sorts of
ornamental Embellishments in Painting, will be done
in the most approved Taste.
Colonel VEAL’S Wharf, THOMAS MASON
Portsmouth, July 27, 1774. from London.

ALL GENTLEMEN holding Subscription Papers for the
PORTSMOUTH RACES, are requested for give them in-
to the Printer hereof as soon as they can. The Subscribers to said
Races may pay the Sums they have subscribed for, to Mr. JOHN
SHEDDEN in Norfolk; to Mr. RICHARD NESTER in Portsmouth,
or to either of the Trustees, who expect to have the whole of the
Subscription Money collected by the tenth of next month.
GEORGE VEAL.
JOHN GOODRICH senr.
HENRY BROWN. Trustees
SAMUEL KER.
JOHN MITCHELL.
Portsmouth, August 10, 1774.

RUN away from the Subscriber in Hallifax coun
ty in Virginia, a convict servant boy named
ISAAC HART: calls himself a Jew, is about sixteen
or seventeen years of age, dark complexioned and has
a down look; is about five fee three or four inches
high, has nothing very remarkable about him except
his ear, which turns in towards his head in a very
uncommon manner. Whoever delivers the said boy
to Myslef, or to Mr. SAMUEL DAVIES at Petersburg,
shall receive Forty Shillings if taken within one hun-
dred and above fifty miles from home, and in pro-
portion for a greater distance.
RICHARD BAYNE.
September 3d, 1774.

JAMES HALDANE
COPPER-SMITH, and BRASS FOUNDER,
in CHURCH STREET near the CHURCH, NORFOLK.
Continues to carry on his BUSINESS as Usual

MAKES and Sells all sorts of Copper Work, viz.
Stills, Brewing Coppers, Sugar Boilers, Ful-
lers, and Hatters Coppers, Brass MILL Work, Capu-
chin Plate-Warmers, Tea Kitchins, all sorts of Ship,
Fish, and Wash Kettles, Stew Pans, Dutch Ovens,
Tea Kettles, Sauce Pans, Coffee and Chocolate Pots, &c.
at the most Reasonable Rates; He gives the best Pri-
ces, for Old Copper, Brass, Pewter or Lead.

Those who are so obliging as favour me with their
employ in the mending or tinning Old Work, may
depend on having them soon done, and in the neatest
and compleatest manner.<.br>JAMES HALDANE.
N.B. He makes and mends all Sorts of Pewter Worms for
Stills, &c. and Plummers Work, such as Leaden Cisterns for
catching Rain Water; Ship and House Work, &amp.c.&c.
Norfolk, August 16, 1774.

FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.

WHEREAS on the 19th of June last past, a certain
JOSEPH THORP was entrusted with a considerable sum,
of Half Johannes, of nine penny weight, to be delivered by him at
QUEBEC; and as he has not yet made his appearance there, with
other suspicious circumstances, it is apprehended he is gone off with
the money. He is a native of ENGLAND, about six feet high,
swarthy complexion, very dark green eyes, and pitted with the
small pox; of a slender make, stoops as he walks, talks rather slow,
with some small impediment in his speech. He lived some time in
BOSTON, from whence he removed to QUEBEC, assuming the cha-
racter of a merchant in both places; he was also once in trade in
NEW-CASTLE, VIRGINIA, and has a brother settled there.
It is believed he went on board Captain JOHN F.PRUYM, for AL-
BANY, and took him a blue casimir, and a dark brown cloth
suit of clothes.

Whoever secures the said JOSEPH THORP in any of his Ma-
jesty’s goals on this continent, shall be entitled to ten per cent. on
the sum recovered, and the above reward of Fifty Pounds when
convicted. Apply to CURSON and SETON of New-York;
JOSEPH WHARTON, junr. of Philadelphia; ROBERT CHRISTIE,
of Baltimore; JAMES GIBSON, and Co. Virginia; JOHN BOND-
FIELD of Quebec; MELATIAH BOURNE, or JOHN ROWE of
Boston. It is requested of those who may have seem this
JOSEPH THORP, since the 19th of June last past, or know any
thing of the rout he has taken, that they convey the most early
intelligence thereof to any of the above persons; or GREEN-
WOOD, RITSON, & MSARH, in Norfolk; the Favor will be
gratefully acknowledged.
All Masters of vessels are forewarned from taking him
off the Continent.

COFFEE to be Sold CHEAP for CASH, or
on Short CREDIT, by
HARMANSON and HARVEY,
NORFOLK, September 1st, 1774.