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Or, Thomas s Boston Journal.
A Weekly, Political, and Commercial Paper :-Open to all Parties, but by None.
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Tbt nttict tnhn at iht letttr figft-'d \ KOL\T.
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' tbt faU wh'g, ttjb w tut Mr,
H ——and his vtry complaijant t-~ ,
what Ittttrs bit may aivtrt bimjtlf
with aailyjrom tbt ftjjts ojbts own mt
tripolis.
From the MIDDLE EX JOURNAL.
To the K—•
HE K ’’ fpewh * rin
within these few ytarK
was a ’ wa v s considered ••
1 jWii the of ,he <
lC r, bccaufe this last W«6
held 10 be the k fVanl
the parties -ot one of your M -’s domes
tick’s. Yow M—*y « r< “ wtWewor
great folly,the event will determine wbich.has
thought proper so deftrov this idea. You
are now confeffediy your own Mintfte% and
as such are accouniab e for every meafute of
your gov«iment. I (hall therefore corf
der the speech you delivered lift I uetday a*
your own proper fpdech, and (hall wm«e
to make a tew rema ks upon it, wi h all the
decency which become* a good fobj-ct, but,
at the fame time with all the freedom, and
even boldnefe, that is expected in one who
, he uw • < “?* r ~c«* ft f our
©wi pO!*' trorwC" Addreflmg yourfeif to
• the i>* H —v nu fey.
“Mi L—— and G-~ —,
M I can itn put an end to this feflnn of
Parliament, without expolfiug the Gtisfac
tion I have felt m observing the temper and
the prudence, vyhich have governed ail your
deliberations dutmg the course of it, and
without returning you my particular thanks
for the ftefh pr .of you have given of your af
fe&ionate attachment to me in the addition*
al security you have provided f r the welfare
and honour of my famny?’—Mow, Sir,
when you talked of putting in end to Ibis
(eflion of Parliament, it would not have been
amiss if you had info med the public why
you did not pul an end to it sooner, whv
you protracted it beyond the usual season.
Wu yon aihamed toconfefs the real reason?
Was you aihamed to confefs that you kept
the Parliament fitting, not for the purpose of
fettling our disputes with foreign Rates,
not for the purpose of regulating the internal
police of the kingdom, not with a view of
setting some bounds to the luxuries of the
rich, nor of relieving the wants and nccefli
(its of the poor; m a word, not for any (in
gle national object ) but merely to gratify
the vanity of a man who had no other merit
than that of having aded as principal p—p
to ooe of your worthcfs favourites ?If it
(hame that retrained you from making
such a confeffion, I give you credit at lean
for this femulance of virtue ; for to be af
fbamed of a mean or a bale acl ion has cer
tainly such a femblancr. But it Was not
(hame, but fear that influenced you. Your
Mwants to pais for a religious man,
though you have no just pretentions to such
a character. The ma(k of it, however, is
very easily worn, provided one observes a
littlecircumfprflion ; but you werejuffiyap
prehenfive, 'eft this mask (hould have beep
pufled off, bad you avowed so ttrong a con;
section at this prolongation of thefeffion im -
plied, with one of the most profligate men in
the kingdom. Ai your M ■ ■ therefore
could think of no falfe reason that
would appear probable, and as the
true reason would not bear the light, you
very prudently assigned no reason at all, and.
left every one to form his conjcdura on Chis
October 8,177 a.
finguar circumstance as his interest, his pal-.)
ikon, or piejudicc ihoj'J duert him.
Indeed of faying, as you do, that you
fell great fat isfartion in observing the tern*
per, and the piudcnce, which have governed
ail the deliberations oi P— —< during the
course of the fcffion, it would have been
more confident with truth, and confequcmly
more luitable to that candor a<'d ingenuity
which (hould ever mark the chwafler of a
K. —, to dec are that you WM highly pW
ed wub the blind and implicit obedience
they had paid to all your imperial dilates,
figbtfcd by your Minister ; for their temper
and their prudence, in the eye of common
sense, amounts to no more.
As to the trefh proof they have given of
their affectionate attachment to you, by paf
frna the Royal Marriage hilt, to which you
plainly allude in the cone ufion of the above
paragraph, I have only to observe, that 1 am
at zealous an advocate as your wi --
can possibly be for a royal marriage biHl 1
only uifler from you with regard to tht mode
of it. The contiouling power (hould be en
tirely in;he hands of the parliament, that is.
of the people : Your Majcfly,
(houid have no concern in it. Your M
is not at liberty to marry as you please j and
for a man, who himfelf is not at liberty 10
marry as he plcales, to be allowed tb
troul the marriage of other people is
to marry at all, except the elaWr
and he only Io get an heir to the crown If
we have such a one to till up a vacancy when
it happens we want no moie. We are al
ready fufticiently buri hen ed with the main
tenance of your numerous family in a tin
gle Rate, without incurring the additional
expence we mull neceflarily bring upon us,
were we io fuffer thim to marry, and to
have their already too great eftablUhment
(till further encreafed. Their cannot, indeed,
be a greater curse to any nation than a nu
merous Royal Family. They are fuie so
rife to the fir ft offices in the army, the navy,
and perhaps even the date, without the least
pretence to merit ; and this furnifhes such a
precedent for prefering interest to merit in all
cases, as must at last extinquifh in the bread
of the fubjed, every (park of honest ambiti
on, every generous desire to excel.
You mhnuate, that the foie intention of
the Royal Marriage bill was to provide an
additional security for the we fare and ho
nour of your family. 1 doubt not but this
was your M-»y’s intention. I doubt not
even but it was the intention of the piefcnt
memal and proftiiute parliament. But I am
sure it was not the intentioh of the people in
general, nor will it be the intention of an
uncorrupt Parllathent, (bou d such a Parlia
ment ever De chosen i for (hould it be cho
fen, it will convince your M——-, that the
case, the convenience and the interest of the
nation, cot the welfare and honour of
your family, were the great objeds of
the Royal Marriage bill. In France the
glory of the Grand Monargue is considered
as superior to the happmefs of the people ;
but 1 trust ihetime will never come in £nga
land when the welfare and honour of the
Brunfwtck family,or of any other family,(hall
be considered as superior, or even etjual, or
even m any the least degree comparable to
the interest of the nation. The French'
King may tell his fobjeih, that they wcrC
made for bun: The Enghfh will take the
roeity of telling (heir K ng, that he wad
nadt for them. The French King may
cell his fobjeds that he is tlkir mailer r The
■ Eoghtb will t-ke the liberty of telling their
King, that he is only their servant and
though their firft .ftrii btK their
servant. . /
And
nf your family ? Do you mean 'hat
’ you. family would be dijhomurtd, if any
male branch of it was to many the daugh
ter of an English Nobleman ? Whatever
your German pride may dirtate, for though
you was born in it is
blood that ftili runs in your veins—l will
take upon me to inform you, that your fa
mily will be so far from being dijhonourtd
by faeh a Connerton,that it wowd on the
contiay, be highly honour'd. The daughter
of an Englilh Nobleman is a fit match, tor
your br Jthers or your fans, or exyn for your
feif. The o 4 uy reafoa why we do not
chufe to allow of such matches, is not from
a to the honour of your family, but I
from a prudent atrntiou to oug own peace I
and quiet. You proceed thus 1 can w 1 b j
great pleasure acquaint you, that the difpo-1
fit ions of the powers of Europe give me the I
strongest reasons to believe, that this nation
will not be diftiubed in the enpymenc of |
' the bleflings of peace, Sir, we believe
as well as you, that we are in no danger of
being disturbed in the enpyment of the
bleflings of peace, which you (übm»t, and,
what is infinitely worfc, while you make a
once brave and high spirited nation fubtrtit
to every species of indignity and infuit from
the feverai poweis of Europe, tor where
Ji the indignity or intuit, where is the tea
L grieat d fficulty to procure a promise of pay
ment of part of the Canada bills. But what
is become of the Antigallican prize i What
is become of the Manilla ranfem f What
fay you to the conq ieft of Coifica by the
French ? What fay you to the treatment
your lifter has met with in Denmark I And
do you not, even now, meanly give up the
intended expedition to the South Seis, for
fear of offend tog the court of Madrid ? You
may therefore felicitate youfeif and the na
tion on the prvfped of not being disturbed
io the enjoyment pf the bleflitigs of peace.
I'he powers of Europe aretoo wife, as well
as too humane, to make war upon a p-ltr-,
upon one from whom they can obtain every
thing by their threats, and b ufters, that
they could poffiMy obtain by force of aim
THE foregting Utur was fir/I publi/htd in
tht Middlefix Jturnal* an ENGLISH pa
and Sit notice taktn ts titbtr by tht
King' his privy council. Lord MANS-
FjELDy ar tht Attorney General} it hat
bun Ttpublijhtd in a neighbouring province,
but wi bear of no projecution commenced n
gninfi the printer. It sums as though i. I'ho
m«s, the, printer oj this paper, it tht only per-
Jon of hit prafeffion, marked out bf a tool of
muoifiertal power for a SACRIFICE For
what rtajon it not known, ttnhfi it be for
pointing a FREE paper. The piect signed
AjloLaM, direlied to the King, in No. til, of
the Spy, we are informed his Etf
celUncy laid before his council about a fortnight
ago, and lafi Tburjday, it is fetid, they unans
moufiy refined' that the Kmg's Attorney beat*
prolecutetbeprinter in what MAh*
NSR HE thinks BEST. IF bet her thedefignoj
tbisprefecutioninbim who fir ft promoted u,wat
not MALICIOUS, we leave iht world to deter
mine, Should the liberty of the prejt be onto
defir oyed far ewe I the remainder ts our inva
luable rights and privileges! lAe may Hurt
edpe&.padltiht on our lips, fetters on our legs,
and only our hands loft at liberty to slave for
our ntoife than Egyptian u(k matkY,
orFIGHT OUR IFAT TU GONS 1 ITU
TIQNAL FREEDOM!
L THOMAS
ALL Feduns wno are indctxcd
to the PRINTER hereof, wou d
greatly oblige him, it lAcjf WX»u d make
payoKAtt
*F *R F D A Y, October X •
B O aS r O N.
Ata general council he d yePe’day at (
the Council Chamber, his Exce icncy the
Governor was phased to nominate, Juhtt
Hill.Efq-, andjofeph Williams* r lqi 10 *«.
luflicra of the peace and of ’be ‘uni
tor the County of S- #> ik : Mde/Wluf
worth, Efy to be a J .Rice of the peace
for the County of Siffuk : Stephen nv
ker, Efy to be a J^ ct lhe Pca<;c
tor the county of Elkx. . ~
Tu which nomination* his IVUjcay s
council did advtfe snd consent ,
St. Vincent, July 4. 1 HE folfowmu
is the humble reprvfentatfon and mcmmpl of
she Council and rtflembly of this flv.»d to
his M-ieftv, on tbe fubjedt of the
datedOa.be. 8, 1771, tcsi lmi ted by iua t
| Excel eucy General UyDoinc loon after hiS
arrival in ’his government, vig.
* May it plcaje your .
“WE your. M jefty’s m ft uu'ifu’ a-«
loval (u‘ fca>b th* Council and tnbly <
your id«nd of Si. Vincent, oh b«b.i I otour
felves and every o be» inhabitant of this in
fant colony, beg e.veoncr muie <*• apptoaclV
your mod excellent M.Jeft , and to ttpic
fent tb yon in the fttongtft Ie ms the
ociswnh which «e me lur oundtdj in or
der tba< v UK Majctty ma), bclo-c it u tuo
traiquitity of this ffland or prefive the
lives and propcitits of your fubj< its.
And whatever icludance we have to initr>
rupt, by our compla nt.‘, thf| happingfe
I which we pray you. Majrlly may cy r tn
jov, yet a ifgard to the trust iep<d'd in ud
for the cr.mnioii good of 'ht> colony wi I not
permit oafo be tile nt under cucOmi'anciS so
claiming ss the prefem ; being auxiuu* th«f
whenever any of thole theadful events hap
pen, which we too well foiefee, We at <t. ft
may be confcous of having difeharged our
duty, ar d leave noth*ng in our conduct pi.
thcr to reproach ouricivcs with, or to ■X
pofe ui to the ccnfuie of others who must
fuffer in,|bc general ruin.
** 1 he fears and aopiehchfions exprefled
in our former address to your Majesty wuh
tefped to the Cao*Tbs of this iflanu tie now
become certain dangers; ana the a.quifiti
on of their land:, however valuable 11
prove to your M jelly’s revenue, has for
some time past been <my a second r and
Very inferior object haVu g yielded to amt it
impoitant and na ufal cui.fi< eration, tl e tc
cuntv of our propoxy, and the Liety of cur
persons. For by the ficts which aie to be
tbe fubjed of our p<eicnt addrefi, we are
pteifuaded that your Maj fly Will observe
with concern the unhappv fruation of you?
fobj and will be eoiiViuCcd that the on
ly aiurnative left at thia day to the Brinlh'
trown, n this, either tamely to acknow
ledge that it has no right of fovcreignty in ibe
lands of the Car; Tbs. ut to conficer them at
a neli of most dangerous Ertl infolcnt rebels.
•* Encouraged aM foppuited by a fewm
fivfdua s, who, legaid els or y« ur Majel-
V* and of <hc pub re iecu’ity, have
made private coni.aCts with ihcfe savages
for the lands they occupy through y< ur toy
al clemency, foe Car.in*, a e now taught o
deny the right of the B.inlh crown to ut
m ‘ft C.aficenble part if the iltnd t f St.
Vincent, and to Effect an independent neu
tfa ity as well as an ex mpnon fr< m all ci
vil ur lubold*nation. Yet 4 few
m<>mh» Fnce, whin we det y expedud to u«
invo ved ut wM| they but too (iton 4 y be
-1 frayed dfcc strong nt 10 that nation
w,di ihu c fubpads and language they bav«
uccn to ung converian*, ahu wnofe mtereits
u»ey afo t.me icaJ) so e pouk to the
prejudice ul tbufe us your and to
ibe fitaifcte of om lives oiia fuiiuoct; It
[Numb. 86.