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Or, Thomas’s Boston Journal. A Weekly, Political, and Commercial Paper i-Open to all Parties, but Influenced by None. . ‘DO thou Great LIBERTY inspire our Souls,-And make our Lives in THYPoffeflion happy,-Or, glorious in thy jusTDefence.’ Vol. ll.] Providence,November 7, 1772. 7i tbeFriends us Liberty and ufeful Knowledge. PROPOSALS For Re printing, by Subscription, TTNGLISH LIBERTIES, or f/ The Free born Subject 1 ! Inheritance. Compiled firft by HENRY CARE, and continued with large additions, by WIL LIAM NELSON, of the Middle-Tem ple, Esq; C O N T A l NING, Magna Charts, or the great charter of Eng hfh liberties) the charter of the bored,the ftatuie De f al’agio non copccdendo, the 1 Habeas Corpus ad, and several other fta- I tutes with comments on each of them. L I W 111, Tne proceedings in appeals of murder ;of fhtp money ; of tonnage and poundage j of Parliaments, and the qualification and choice of members ; of the three est ate?, ’ and of the fcttlemeM of the crown by Parliament. Together with a short history of the fucceL fion, not by any hereditary right: A Ifo a declaration of the liberties of the fubjed, and of the oath of allegiance and suprema cy : The petition of right, with a fbort but impartial relation of the difference between King Charles I. and the long ’ parliament, concerning the prerogative of : the King, the liberties of the fubjed, and ‘ the rife of the civil wars: Of trials by ju ries. and of the qualifications of jurors ; theif pumfhment for mifbehaviour, and of i ? challenges to them. LASTLY,. 'Of Justices of the Peace, Coroners, Confta bies, Church wardens, Overfew* of the Z poor, Surveyors of the highways, &c, With many law-cases throughout the whole. . CONDITIONS. I. This celebnred treatUe f which ought to be in the hands of every Englifbman) wil' be printed in a handsome odavo volume, on a good paper ard a neat type. II; rhe volume to contain about four hun dred pages. IH. The price to fuWcribers (neatly bound) » will be Out Dollar. IV. Those that fupfcnbe for fix books, will be allowed a seventh gratia. V. At soon as me names and tefidence of five hundred fubfcriber* are collected, the work will be immediately put to the press, and comp'cated with all expedition. iVL No money expedtd till the delivery of the books. VU. The names of the fubferibers will be pe. fixed to the work. Subscriptions are received by John Car- TSR, the publi(her,in Providence, and by I. Thomas, near the Mill-Bridge,Button. Imported from Quebec by the left V efleb And to be Sold by JOHN SCOLLAY, Jun. At the corner of Wing* Laney Dock Square, A VARIETY of Martin and Sable MUFFSand TIPPETS, made in the newest Faftion by a Furrier from Paris. At the fame Place may be had, as ufeal, Weft-India and New-England 'Rum, by Wholefa’e of Retail, and Groceries of all kinds । Capen, Olives and Anchovies, lcc.&c. Bk, NEW RI CE, Just imported and to oe (bld bv JOHN WINTHROP, At hit Store ths (buth-frde of Fancuii HaU, Mai het. Ano, a few barrels of i CHOICE . BE t F PORK. THURSDAY, December 17, 1772-- Tbit day was publijhed. And fold by E. Russill, in Union-street, THE Maflachufcttl CALEN DAR, or Wonderful ALMANACK, for the year of out Lord 1773. By Ezra Gleason, a student in Phyfick. Containing the fun and moon's rising and lettings Judgment of the weather. Af peds. Eclipses. Time of high water. Rifmg,felting and southing of the (even stars. Moon's place. Feasts and fafts of the church of England. Quakers yearly meeting! in New-England. ‘ Courts in the province of the Mafiachufetts-Bay, Connedicui, New- Hampshire and Rhode island. Vacations at Harvard College. Also an account of a remarkable boy or young giant whufe amaz ing size and strange features have attraded the attention of'multitqdes who have beheld him ; he is thought to be the greatest curi osity ever seen in America, (with a curi ous plate of said boy.) A new matrimoni al creed addrefied to the ladies in a single /life. An account of feme experiments, by Mt. Miller of Cambridge, on the (owing of wheat: By W. Watfoo, M. D. F. R. S. (Read before the Royal Society.) NeceL (ary bints for thole who would be rich. A receipt for the gout, being a perfcription or regimen of the celebrated Mcuirs. Boer have arid Oltordyke, for the cure of that disease, and has been tried with great gtntleman therewith from (ho age of fifteen to upwards of forty, who Hi mrts perfectly cured of it; and it {done so much good to several others to whom this salutary regimen has been com municated, that he thinks he cannot do a more acceptable service to the public, than to publish the fame for the benefit of his feV low creatures. A poetical receipt for mar ried ladies to preserve love. To cure the tooth ach. An excellent remedy for agues which has been often tried with great fuc cds. A, remedy for the bloody flux. An infallible cure for a ringworm, never before publilhed. A powder that has restored fight when aimoft blind. To take off freckles. To tike out fpocs of .the small pox. A me thod to prelerve freih meat in summer. A necdote of Agathoclcs taking Cartbsgc, and of the cruelty of the Carthagenians. Of a gentleman Who was persuaded bis legs were ft raw. Of a counfellor at Paris. Of one , wb<> thought he had an Elephant's snout for anefe. Of the ancient Greeks using co mediesto excite laughter ; and of a comedi an who died with the fame. Of a Man who loft part of his beard by killing his wife alter (he was oead. Thoughts on different fub jeds. A petition for Contentment, &c. i To be fold at the above place. Bibles, testaments, prayer-books, Tate and Brady’s and Watt’s psalms, divi ‘ nify and hiftdry books, pfahersjpelling book*, writing-paper, feme of which at the (mail price of ten (hillings per rheam, quills, ink powder best patenteed ink cake, fealing war, wafers, Sec. Sec. This day is publi(hed,and fold at above plate, A difluafion to Great-Britain from the Fave Trade. Subfctibers are dclued to call for their books. At the fame place may be had, just pub lifted, The general pradice of the churches of New-England, relating to bap tism, vindicated : Or fame h flays on this important question, whether the practice of persons owning or renewing the covenant, and having baptism for their children with out coming into full communion, be warrant able? DHivered at several church meetings in Plymouth. Wi:h some letters that paf •fed cn th e fobjef*. By John Concn, A. M. of Fytmmb. ’ * Now in the prefe and will be publifhcd with .. j all speed, ? . A calm and plain answer to the enquiry, why are you a dissenter from the church of England ? Containing some re marks on its dodrioe, spirit, cooftitution, and some of its offices and forihs of devoti on. • By the author of the diffentiag gentle man’s letters to Mr. White; being a sum mary view of the arguments contained in those letters. ... , Likewise in the press, st the fame place, may . .be had in a few days. The cause of the Dissenting Mi nisters ; Addrefled to the Lords fpiriiual and temporal. By Iff del Maudit. To which is added, a copy of the bill proposed for their relief. [ The two last mentioned pamphlets havb had several editions in England in a few months, and ate justly eftcemed by good judges to be the best wrote pieces that have been publilhed on the fubjeft theft many yearsj Thole persons in whose hands proposals are lodged for printing Dr. Watt's Psalms and Hymns upon an efiure new plan, are desired to fend the faefie to E. Ruflell as soon as may be, that an estimation may be madq of ths number of books that will be wanted. The above will be iiontained r coneife pocket volume. Those churches in town or country that use this 1 CHrfton may treat with the publisher on terms. 3aid work will be put tn the ■press immediately, and wiHbe printed on good Milton demy paper, and neatly bound. For the MassachosßtTs SPY. Mr. Thoma*, Pit aft ft £tvt tbtftlltwng a Platt in ytur impartial Paptr. Tt Mr. Aaron Davis, junt in Roxbury. SIR, seeming teal for the public good, and especial ly for our holy religion, ifwwC** to l ol,l * l * n 1 P* ece * n JjMHgaQe the Maflachufetts Spy of Nov. 16, direSed to Dr. Young) if prompted by an honest drfign, renders you an objrd of pity ; if by a spirit of envy, party prejudice Or pride, it renders you truly contemptible. Your ftigmstifing the as A tho rough-paced infidek *nd virulent opposer of religion, and ail this deduced from what he had published as the articles of his faith, is the ftrongett evidence of your fbort coming in themtekncfaof a chrtfiian fpirir, and shews that you want nothing but power to perfecutt with infernal cruel ty. If you can (hew which of the articles es the Ducor's creed indicates his infideli ty, pray let us fee it) if not, acknowledge your fell in ill-natured; fpitefal perfeeutor. Your suggestion that he disbelieves the (captures qf th* Old and New I'ettament, or any part of them, to be a divine revela tion, when every article of his creed is such as both (capture and reason dilate, is still a further proof of your stupid ignorance and diabolical cifpofition. But perhaps you would have us understand that he don't be lieve the whole of the scripture to be a di vine revelation. That will «*ke him no worse, nor more of an infidel than other men, and by no means makes him fingvlar. Are there not many things in the scripture that are dark and mylerious,tbat mankind could never vet agree about the true mean ing of them ? Have not the church of Eng land dtfirnud from the church of Rome for this reaion I Have not the Piefoyterian* difienced from the church of England, and the New-England churches from both of them, the Bapufts from these, and the Quakers from all the rest ? And is not al! this a fuffleient proof that the matters they differ about are no revelation at all, or that they don't underhand them, which is the fame thing f If the scripture is a divine it must be so to every person ei. ther in the literal sense Avidly, or in the feme in which each one receives it accord > ing to his own notion. If the literal sense is to be taken, tranlubftantistion is proved a true dodrine ; for it is laid of the bread, Tbit is my if c. Then pray why do the church of England and other diflenters from the church of Rome d ffer with them about this matter ? And if it be a divine revelation only in the feme each person puts upon it for themfdves, pray teii me by what authority the Dcdor is debarred the judging of it for bimfdf, or why he hath not that right in common with the rest of mankind ? Unless you can answer these questions rationally,! may lup pofe you to be of the fame religious princi* pies of the man who gave me Dr. Young's charader some years ago, when I cnqutr-i ed what fort of a man the Dodor was (for my own information, having at that t ime some business with him) his answer was that he was a strange fort of a fellow ,a man of no religion, and held to bad principles. I then sfked if he was a dishonest man in his dealings ? He told me no, not that he knew of, and be believed he generally had the tharate of an honest man. Then £ enquired his character as a physician ; he toid me he believed he wn a very good doctor and esteemed so in general. 1 then enquired what Im was as a politician; he told me he was a fool. 1 told him I bad conceived a very different opinion of the Do&or from some of his writings in the public prints. On fay* he, the Do&or is a man of good sense and learning, but if he had never meddled with difpuies m religi on nor politicks, he might have been worth a great deal more money than he is now. The cat Was out of the bag; the man had informed me, though he did not intend it, that the Do&or was willing, though at a great loss of his own profit, to serve the public, and that he himfelfwae a true wotfhipper of Mammon, who cared for none but himfelf, nor would stick at any thing to promote his own iotereft. How far yon can promise yourfeif profit by flaadering the Doctor and the whole town of Boston, in such a villainous manner, I cannot tell ; but 1 don't doubt but that your disposition of mind, and your other abili- I ties, may procure you the office of former or a justice of the peace. Whe ther the offices arc equally lucrative I can । not fay ; but among men of sense they are equally honourable under the modern mode , of government. 1 have no plea to make for profane curling and swearing, and am willing to allow it to be a great fault in any man to I praAife it, but as I never heard the Doc tor make use of it in the little acquaintance 1 have had with him, and 1 have no better authority for the truth of it, than the bare aflertion of a man that flinders by wbolc faie, and bath stigmatized the whole town of Boston as fool* or knaves; I (hall suspend my judgment of it, as it is very likely people will in general; for the greeted part of mankind have more sense than to bo led away by so flimfy a proof, and so gene ral a charge. I (hoeld be g’sd you would study your horn-book, both of icligion and politicks, before you appear again in tne public prints, or you will have the fame ill fate you now have, by several writers, (ttz.) to be remaiked at a conspicuous, impudent busy-body. If you have any re ply to make you (hall in proper time be answered by REMARKER. Dtttmbtr fy/l, [7ht about wat rtttwtd by tbt Hartford r [Numb. 96.