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and the mate and uihu hand? tt:u* aai4hci»
and went in putfuit cf the whale,after cha
cing for feme time, the mate loft light of the
other boat, and pursued the 'ahale till he
thought there was danger of losing fight of
the fioop, the weather being pretty thick ;
so returned ; expeftingto find the matter and
his hands on board, but when he came up
with the vettel could neither fee nor hear any
thing of them ; he continued cruiting there
about all the ensuing night, keeping a fire in
the caboose and lights in the cabin, and all
next day, but found nothing of them : fothat
it is supposed the matter and al! with him
were loft by the boats being flove by a whale.
THU RS D A Y, August ST"
BOSTON.
TUESDAY last, by Farenheit’a Ther
mometer, was the hottest day we have
had for twenty-two years past, except one,
the Mercury at noon rose to g t degrees ; the
day before it was at go.
The last accounts from North-Carolina
mention that ever y thing is quid there.
We arc informed that Governor Martin
is fafely arrived at Newbern, in North-
Carolina from New-York.
Last Tuesday in the afternoon Commo
dore Gambier made an entertainment tor a
number of Gentlemen and Ladies on hoard
his Majesty’s (hip Salisbury, which in the
evening was handsomely illuminated.
The foundation for the new Baptifl church
being finifhed, yesterday the workmen began
to raifethe building. The Rev. Mr. Still
man was present, in the morning, and made
an occafiona! prayer.
Capt. Mugford, arrived at Matblehead
from Cape Nichola Mole, informs, that a
severe Ihock of an earthquake happened at
Port-au-Prince on the 9th of July, which
destroyed twenty-five houses.
Another account fays, the few remaining
old houses, together with such new ones as
had been lately built, were destroyed.
Last evening Mr. David Weft, dropped
down in Middie-ftreer, and bruised his head
coufrderably ; he was suddenly (eized wiih a
cold trembling fit, with faintnefs. We hear
he is likely to do well.
We hear from Weft ford, that last Saturday
about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the meeting
house tn that town was struck with lightning
and greatly damaged.
Two barns, one at Chebacco, and the o
ther at Andover, were, we hear, last week,
set on fire by Lightning, and consumed, to
gether with a considerable quantity of hay.
Extra?. of a letter from a Gentleman at Fair
field in Connecticut) July 30.
<• Last Sabbath in the forenoon, between
eleven and twelve o’clock, during the time
of public worfhip,the met ting-house at Strat
field, (a parish in the town of Fairfield) was
struck by lightning,by which John Burr,Efq;
and Mr. David Sherman,were instantaneous-
Jy killed, and several other persons consider
ably wounded.” Further particulars in our
next.
The fame day, and about the fame time,
with the above, at the meeting-house at
North-Haven four horses were struck dead
with a slash of lightning, which also struck
down three men, two women and a child,
but they all happily recovered.
Wt hear that one Hopkins, a native of
Maryland, and formerly was of the Queen’s
rangers in America, soon after which he went
into the French service, where he has con
tinued ever ftnee ; has lately been promoted
to the rank of a Brigadier-General, and has
obtained the Government of the Cayes, on
the southern pari of Hispaniola, in the room
of the Chevalier d’Argoufle, who is gone to
Europe.
It is laid feme letters by the last packet,
arrived at New-York, mention the deaths of
the Earl of Halifax, and Earl of Shaftefbury.
The beginning of last week a filhing
schooner arrived at Marblehead, having on
board tour men and two lads, who gave an
account, that fume time before they got in,
one Saturday evening,after the crew had done
supper, the Skipper died very suddenly that
night, and one Russell the next morning.
After supper, Russell challenged the Skipper,
or any other, to drink bumpers of rum with
him ; which being accepted, a pint mug was
filled, and Russell drank it off, the Skipper
then drank the fame quantity: Ruflcll re
peated the fatal draught, which compleated
a quart । but before the Skipper had time to
d;tnk his fccond draught, he fell, and im-
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medially expired. His companion dropped
very fonn after, continued in a lethargic
state till the next morning and then died.
The men and lads agreed to conceal the un
happy cause of these deaths; which they did
untill examined by authority.
We hear, the iateft advices from France |
are, That the parliament of the province of I
Britany, being greatly difi'atisfied at the mea- I
iurcs of the French Court, particularly that!
the Duke of Aiguillon, who for many atro- I
cious crimes proved against him, had been ie- ’
gaily condemned to lofc his head, was not
only screened from pumfhment but favoured ;
bv the King, and supposed to be the secret ;
Jireftor of his councils; and that the King I
perfifled in tefufing to permit thcfentcnce to ;
ue executed ; wherefore the parliament had
patted arid pub’ilhcd an order, that all their
members, (especially the Rohan family, and
the nobility, of which the Piince Soub ze, a
great favourite of the King, was the chief J
ihould immediately leave their employments
at Court, and return home, under penalty of
the forfeiture of their efiates. That in order
toccuntcraft these proceedings, the King
had lent a new Governor, properly tnftruft
cd to Runiies, the capital of the province.
That the inhabitants refufed to acknowledge
or admit him ;-r-l hat the King to enforce
obedience, had sent an army of 30,000 men..
That the army were refuted admittance into
the city, and opposed by the inhabitants—
who in the heat of their resentment fired upon
the army and killed about 200 men, not
withflanding which, the folcliers, convinced
that the cause they were sent to support was
unjuft,—declared their readiness to fight a
gainst the enemies of their country, but una
nimously refufed to fire upon their friends and
countrymen, and immediately disbanded.
The confirmation of thisjoews is impatiently
expected.
.MARRIED] Mr. Alexander Ker,
Schoolmaster on board his Majesty’s ship Sa
hfburv. to M.f. E izabeth Thompson.
DIED ] Mrs. Sarah Gill, wife of Mr.
Moses Gill, meichant, and daughter of the
late reverend and -learned Thomas Pi ince,
aged 43 years.-—Suddenly, Mis. Eli
zabeth Simpkins, wife of Mr. John Simpkins,
merchant.-—Mr. Robert Sharplefs.—Mr.
John Brown, chocolate-grinder,aged b 5 years,
supposed to have been taken tn * fir *s he was
going down flairs, from which he fell and ex
pired immediately.- -Suddenly,after drinking
too freely of cold water,Mr. Gray, a journey
man baker; and Alexander MacDonald, la
bourer.-— Suddenly, one Hougen, a pedlar, at
the south end. At Salem, Capt. Ebenezer
Bowditch.- Suddenly, at Charleftown, Mrs.
Trumbell, wife of Mr. JamesTrumbell,jun.
S H I P NEWS.
Yesterday arrived the Gibraltar sloop of
war from a cruize. Also ai rived the Barletta.
Capt. Littlefield, who arrived here last
week from St. Martins.on the 18th ult. spoke
with a brigantine from New-York, bound to
Jamaica, Anthony Purbeck, master, four
days out.
Arrived fromth'u Port. Margaret, Wil
son, at Por tf mouth.— Lydia, Bishop, at
—Hayley, Scot, at Dover. — Susannah,
Juhnfon ; John Galley, Sims; Hannah,
Sims, itGravefend.
Arrived here. Doryick from No<a-
Scotia ; Waterman from Phildelphia ; Croc
ker from Newfoundland ; Stonehoufe from
St. Lucia ; Spence and Carlton from Hispa
niola ; Davis from Cape Nichola Mole ; Ro
gers from Philadelphia ; Alden from North
Carolina.
Cleared out. Gardner to Annopolis-
Royal ; Atwood to Nova-Scotia; Atwood
and Atkins to Newfoundland ; Peterkin to
Virginia j Clark to New-Providence ; Ball
and Whitmarfh to Weft Indies.
To Mr. Richard Draper.
Ree die fling Sir !
IF your customers are fatisfied to maintain
a weekly news-paper, sacred to the ebu
litions of your envy and private resentment,
I have nothing to fay in the affair. But
though I might perfedily equal ycu in random
invefhve, I have north* ambition to conceit
my performances would add any thing con
siderable to the entertainment of my generous
encouragers; whom I with to divert in a
much more agreeable manner, than by any
thing which can arise from the uninteresting
fquabola of Mr. R. Draper, and
I. THOMAS.
For the Massachusetts Spy.
To the PUBLIC.
THE number of fudJeu deaths from ex
affive heat, even here upon this cb J
pehinfula, gives me very uncafy apprehen
sions for the good people in the muic ink nd
Arid umentilatcd parts us t4.c country : To
prevent, or remedy as much as may be, the
ill effects of a bad regimen in this dangerous
period is the design of this eflay.
By intense heat and hard exercise the
b'ood and juices are ratified, and the thinner
parts difeharged in great plenry. The fat
also liquified and mixed with the circulating
fluid tends much to thicken it, and render
its motion through the finer strainers more
difficult. lif all pans of the body the liver
in this case is most fuljtft to d/otder.
Leine in the direst course of all the blorJ,
fat. &c. col’cftcd in the abdomen, and placed
between the thin coveting* of the right hypo
chdndtium and the stomach, it is extremely
liable th have its contents chilled and thick
ned bv cold drink taken down in large quan
tity, by too sudden an expofureto Cold air,
or what is very imprudent, plunging into cold
water, ftrctching at length on the void moist
ground, giafs, &c.
1 he ebnereted fat has after such mifma
nagemenis been discharged by the bowels,
both of man and beast, and the bodies of
cither reduced to /kektons fiom the want of
nouiifhment such a total deprivation of the
digestive juices caufei. From this circum
stance it clearly appears, that as soon as the
patient begins to complain of stoppage of per
spiration, heavy, and fumetimes (harp con
vulsive pains at the heart pit, as if, a cannon
ball was immoveablyftxed in it, a fwunmmg
in the head, ringing in the ears, dimnefsot
fight, Some tea of any kind most agree
able to the taste, (hould be prepared, and
exhibited gradually as hot as the patient can
bear it, and if sugar or honey be not disa
greeable, the more of them is added the
better.
The patient should be held in a mode
rately warm place, and a universal sweat en
couraged by every gentle method. A tea of
lean beef, well charged with crude fal ar
moniac or even common fait, where the
other cannot be had, and drank very warm,
is very serviceable. Purges of calomel and
rhdbarb, each ten grains, made up with
conserve of roses, or even mclaffcs, are ne
cessary, perhaps weekly. Ripe mild fruits
are not only good to prevent the ardent thrift
which tempts to the excessive use of cold
water, but wonderfully serve to remedy the
ill consequences above described. A very
mild and yet cffe&ual remedy will be found
in an infufion of a quarter of an ounce of
rhubaib, and half as much pearl-ash, or fait
or .worm wood, made in a quart of foft spring
or brock water, in a glafcbottle corked j and
taken to ’he quantity of a small tea-cup full,
once or twice a day. *T. YOUNG.
P. S. To prevent injury from sudden
draughts of cold liquors, take a moderate
mouthful, and after holding it some time,
swallow it leifurcly } and thus proceed twice
or thrice till gradually cooled. Moderate
use of spirits should not be forbidden, but to
drink rum when perspiration is hopped by
any accident is to set the body on fire.
For the Massachusetts S>y.
Please to insert the following in your next.
To Mr. Draper.
RECOLLECTING this evening that in
your last magazine of the common
fhore (bakings of Grub-street, your high
mightiness, quitting the Ration of your boasted
establishment, and in imitation of your
gr eaten, usurping the office of censor-gene
ral, has been pleated to bestow upon the
whole class the prefect
year, the honourable title of ‘ incendiariet'
I said to my chamber mate, in the name of
good breeding, so much insisted on of late,
what are we to exped next? Shall every
prerogative-puppy’s shoe black, fcavengeror
chimney-sweeper claim privilege to bespatter
whom he pleases with his audacious ribaldry ?
Or supposing Mr. Political Author, some one
of said incendiaries was to take you by rhe
note, and with a gentle foot at your breech,
conduit you from the ’Change, past the
Weflern corner of the Towp-Houfe; can
you indulge the conceit that the high-rank 1
you have so lately assumed would infi.uence a
Suffolk jury, to find you extraordinary
damages?
U is allowed, an affiult upon you with an
intent to hatter you, d be j
theroyd ream my of fcience*, Would io va. •
endeaveut to determine whether yuui mind
or vour corps' would afford the must pitiful
objett of triumph, but no nne can cot ecke
that such an ignoi ihius has the remutefttight
ful pretence tuentet the lift* m fucavahcr a
manner v.ith such a number of the funs of
lienee; and load them with Bilfingfgate bc
caufe they diufe to have nothing to du with
him.
If his Excellency has in any peculiar man
ner patronized you, all the world must up
braid you with the vile returns you have made
for the favour, by midwifeing into day light
such dtteilable trash in his vindication, as
might draw contempt upon a Rockingham,
if supposed to have his countenance. Had
you Mr. Draper, the judgment of a raw ne
groe, jou would have lupptcfod ;hat unlucky
anecdote intended to greetje the Governor.
Does not every old woman exclaim it Was
intended for a contrail instead of nparallel?
What notice would jeu have him tukel*
Order the Salisbury to batter down th#
Printing-Office, or frpd fur the 29th regi
ment to befiqge the College, and put the
who’c class to the sword! Could his ExceU
lency be influenced by your unhallowed
Ipleen, he would merit an infcripttch
<>n columns; non amahilirhir litcrit PAI ER.
PAI in olu Roman, but ihe Jctuigt
of the people in different charafters, pci haps
thufe used in inftrumems for the refignatiurt
of cattles, vice-admitaltj (hips, and writi of
offifance.
Rctne poor creature from the field of lite
rary, as well as agoniftic combat;. your cfa-
Urfhed condition, fixes you the Icape goat of
all the elegant writers who maintain your en
terteining press with glowing matter. Even
Americanus appeals to you against yourfelf;
and in tne third sentence of the critical per
formance you have * a little more courtly
TO that “ labour to monopolize the abhor
rence of mankind " If both of you let up tot
critics, tramcribe to criticle, and mifphrafe,
as well as mifpell in the very examp you
must be weak, for it could never be your dc
-1 sign to palm upon your readers, that Leoni
das fpeJed abhorrence with an 0, in place of
the e ; and what the to that means, is to me
I ancient Scydiian. Courtly to that
labourer, would be Engliffi, but a pretty
1 weak claim, make the best of it.
But though one should grant you a few
grains of allowance in phrase or orthography,
will that excuse |he badness of your heart and
confufion of your under standing f What had
the publishers or printers of the Spy to do in
the endeavour to slur your character ? Did
not the galling admonition, enforced as you
fay by a threat, most evidently come from
another hand I
Or are you, after the example of your friend
Mein, contriving to multiply enemies, and
rcfolvtng to exasperate them to that degree,
that some of them, may be tempted to usher
you into public notice, by breaking your
bones ?
1 would fain hope the humour of compen
fatingStampMafter sfor the resentments they
may fufter for felling their country is pretty
well over I
1 hope you will not call this threatening,
nor again deserve the repetition of the free
admonitipn given you above, but in future
behave as becomes you
MUSACOLIS.
wanted immediately,
A Journeyman Blacksmith, who
understands SHOEING of HORSES.
Such a one will meet with good encourage
ment, by enquiring of the Printer hereof.
To be fold by
JOHN SYMMES,
At his (hop between the Golden Ball and the
Sign of Admira’ Vernon, Boston, viz.
BEST paste (hoe, knee and stock
buckles ; let hair cnmbs, fpnga and pins
for ladies ; Briflol and marquifate broaches,
garnet and gold ditto, plain gold ditto, Bnf
tol, peebie and mocho buttons ; a few new
patterns of fdver shoe buckles ; best polished
(hoe and knee chapes ; Rones and sparks; .
red, white and amethyst foil; borax i rough
and smooth files; sand paper ; crucibles and
black lead pots ; buckle brushes ; frieZing
punches; brass and iron wire; watch chains
and kep, &c. See.
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