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A Weekly, Political, and Commercial Paper >-Opep to All Parties, but Influenced by None.
'DO thou Great LIBERTY inspire our Souls,—And makers Ures in THYPoffeffion happy,—Or, pyr Deaths in thy just Defence/
Vol. ll.]
This day wart publijbed, is. td,
QEVEN Sermons, vis. I. Of the
O Unpardonable Sin against the Holy
Ghott : Or, the Sin unto death 11. The
Baim*i Duty and Exercise: In Twp Farts.
Being an Elhortarion to» and Dtreftion br 9
Prayer. lit The Accepted Time, and
Day ofSihation. IV. The End of Time
and beginning of Rternitv. V, Jojbuat
Refutation tn feme the Lord. VL The
Way to Heaven made plym. VH k The fu
ture State of Man : Or, A Treaufe on the
Refurre&on. 4. . . „
M ROBERT RUSCatL.
At
Boston: fold by I. TkoidA.
near the Mil!.Bridge.
Tbit Day was fablifadk
The new Book of Knowledoc,
fhewtng the Effr&s of the Pianws and o
thet Aft onomical Conftellatione ; wish the
ft ring' Erentt that byfai Men, Women
and Children, born under them. Toge
ther with the Hflfbandtnan’s Praaice: Or,
Prognostications forever. With the Shep
herds perpetual Progaofticttion for the
Weather. ATo, a brief Discourse on the
Natural Cause! of Meteors; with an nc-
Count of several remarkable Earthquakes,
Rains, Thunder; Lightnings, Comets,
Biasing Start, Ac. that km happened in
fever al Countries. And QWervatiom on
the Weather, and Sigfls <*SW*tag Rain.
A*» if SB Mulamiim of
Ma- PfcylngnamHed i ▼*» Signiftoiewrt
of Moes on Men and Women ’ Tbo Wk
ter prr ration of Lhraihs : AtitF Amarus’l
Wncef of Fortune. With feverai other
Secret! of Art and Nature, nt It beared
in any other Book of this Kind and Zrtae.
Boftw,Printed an* fold by L.Thoma!,
near the MUI-Bridget
Asa this day was WsbHfltd 9
The Happinds and Pleafare of
Unity in Chriman Societies, confidtred ; in
a Sermon preached at a Leisure in Bohon,
New-England, on Wednesday, Aoguft
* to ADAMS, A. M-
Pastor of a Church in, Liwnburgb.
Bcftpa.- Printed and fold by L Thomas;
near the Mill Budge.
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At the fame place may be Sad,
Spelling-Books, Patera, Primers,
AccWencm*. dto Likewifc PWm-Books,
New-Errand’s Memorial; Efahol, os a
of the Fruit of Caneao brought to
the Borders, by Dr. Owen; Wife, oft the
New England Chukchee. fee. Small Book!
for Children, Slates, Sealing-Wax, Wa
feri, Quiili, Sep. dec. r • ; <
A. BI LHO N,
Just arrived from London,
At the South End, Boflb-t, next door to
Mr- and oppo&e the Sign
Of the White Horfe*
*TJINDS Books in the various
JLz method*; gentlemen’s libraries neatly
gift and lettered, and e'eaaed and hued up,
either io town or- coucUy, on rcafanablc.
term!.
N. B. He has impacted, a Quantity of
the best English Pat and Fools-cap Paper,
which he will fell very cheap.
NE W RICE,
Just imported and t© t»e fold by
John winthrop,
Albi; Store the south-side of Fancud Hall,
Market.
* ' AlB 0. a few barrels of
l* . .'CHOICE
SELF -and PORK. ‘
Or, Thomas s Boston Journal.
THURSDAY, December 31, 1772.
■ II I I 1
NEW RICE; Indigo, onH »|
lb* qaintah of choice dumb Fish, I
i brown and luat Sugars, Tei, Coffee, Cho
e coiatei Spices, Cheese, kc. to be fold
• cheap fxCaft, at
• CHARLES LOWFi
1 Shop in M*ihit.’i-L»ne, Facang <he Bos
-1 tOd-STONB.
1 X. B. English Beer and London Porter,
B fold as usual.
f> Cash givei for Bottles.
5 ' .IM lull ■iii i. —. ■ nun i ■ . 1
Almanacks.
’ A MES's, Lowe'S, demon's (or
XX Maflfdtufotts CaleedOi) a»d Sserne*s
ALMAMaOU to be fold by LTho
si as, near Iha Mill- Bf-dgt.
■■■■ — ,■....» ■■■■
. To be SOLD cheap,
A Cooper’s Shop; Warchoufes
and Wharf in Fuh-ftreet. Enquire
1 of Abigail Matfhall, of Boston, in Fdft.
* street aforefaad, Of Francia MarfbaU, of
» Newton.
• DA NIE In SCOTT,
» ■ *
At bia Mediant Store the Sign of the
. - Laapwdy South End.
J T'AKEb this method of infbrm
i mg ill' Gentlemen, Ladies, amUnr
i theta, who have had the MisfortunejbWe
. their Teethe tbit Htßfll continues t*e®4
I metric atf fbfog ptificTarfen
t as ufoal, in fe elegant a manner «•- toBe"
• but little inferior to the natural, cither in Use
i br Beauty, ai many who have exptrieeced
f them can teftify : Where also any Person
f afflicted With painful Stumps or unfouud
■ Teeth, may have them removed with a pe
i e»liar Dexterity and Ease.—And all Perfont
who have the Scurvy in their Teeth, which
threatens their removal though found, may
r have them cleaned without hurting the En|-
■ met, or in the least degree impairing them And
i may befupplkd withhisOiNTiu.uCowsua
i vatoh, which is an excellent Powder, the
I best adapted for prefaving the Teeth awi
Gums, and preventing them from Achjng,
of any Preparation ever offered to the Pub
lic ! It Will cure the Scurvy in the Gums,
I bring the Teeth to their original White Mis,
and by a continuance of its Use, will Pro
ferve both Teeth and Gums in a pure Bate
during life.—-It is not pretended that it will
i perform Impossibilities, that it will make
rot tea Teeth found, or will case them when
1 1 they violently ack; but it will dliuredly
1 preserve thole Teeth found that are so, and
t cause the Gums to adhere to them and pre
• vent thofc that are decayed in past;
•. becoming work.
_ At the above Store may be had a
Morgan’s qAful Eye-Wares, which
has in so many cases been found serviceable 1.
that it must escape the ccnfure of the most
’ critical famous Bug la-'
1 quid, which effectually defiroys those halo*
Tul Vermiq,—*be they ever so numerouK—
' An afTortment of genuine patenteed and
' (*her Medicines of the best quality, and
> Medicine Boxes for Families or Shipping.
Iwith ex*# and particular dtredions for ufe
hlg them, and a variety of other articles
cheif. \
► The above Powder may be had also ofi
Cox and Berry in Beftun, Dodor Kaft in
Salem, and Dummer Jowett, E(q;atlpfwich.
f'o be S O LD* bv ’
JONATHAN DAVIS,
At his Stotnon Bnii’s-wburf,
TWO handred barrels of Tar,
Brimftoqe, WeftMadj* and'New-
England Rum, Jamaica Spirits. Salt, a few
bale* of Cotton-Wool,Long. khndHir i o
bundle*.
For the Massachusetts SPY.
Mr. Thomas,
T» Pitm Olivbr, and ttbtrprtrtgc
tivt who afltn uft the hard
nerd REBELLION in their fatchti and
writings
Sir and Gentlemen,
perusing the worts of
that learned and excellent
WT j ygy patriot Algernon Sidney,
K* 0 " 011 ’ i mmt > rt al
" I wss much
pleated with his discourse
upon rebellion; th the definition of which I
*bt»mbly conceive there is a wide difference
in fentimeftt between him and your honour.
However as I may not be altogether a com
petent in thit matterj I beg leave to
ptetent ydu Col. Sidney’* opinion, which
at leifore yourfdf and your countrymen may
compare with your Mm, I hope to advan
tage. I am your’s,
' CLER IctlS.
nagehtml rwait tfa nanmeanntt be toUed
a rtbeilien.
* AS impostors feidom make lies to pass
is the world. without putting hdfe names
open things; foch «u our author endeavour to
pet hade the people they ought not to defend
their liberties by ghiwg the name of rebel
hon to the Juli and hMotsrabik anions
IhMhaeebeen performed for thepeferva.
them » and to aggrtthm the matter,
ftaroU to teHan that rebellion to hketb® fin
bgtXtchcraft. But those who ftek after
truth, wiP easily find, that there dan be no
fach thing to the wndd at the rebellion of a
nation again# its own nugiftrafes, andthat
rwbellioa to not always evil. That thh may
appear, it will not bo amiA to eonfidet the
■tord, ■■ web as she thing underftobd by it
as it is used in aw evil sense.
*♦ The woad ■ taitun from the l«irt re
bilUrt. which flgnihea no mote than to re
new a war. When a sown or province had
bees subdued by the Roman*, and brooght
under their domtoiav* if they violated their
Earth after thn fetstemem of peace, and in
vaded their asaftm who had /pared them,
they were find to rebel. Bet if had been
mor* abfusd to apply that word to the peo
ple that rob up agatod rhe decemviri, kings
or other megiftram, than to the Parthians
or any Of those nations who had no depen
dence upon thorns alltbecireumftances
that should make a rebetoon, were want
ing, ton m»d implying a fapertority
to them agbnft whom it is, as Well
as the breach of* an eftabliftfed peace.
Busttoougbevury private onn finely taken,
be fubjeet to the commands of the magif
smtoi the whole body of the people is not
so । for he ia by and for the people, and the
pmpte is neither by nor for him. The o
bedienoe due to Mm from private men is
grounded upon, and measured by the gene
ral law; and'that law regarding the wet
fare of the people, cannot set up ihe interest
of one or a few men against the public.
Fhe whole body therefore of a nation can
not be tied to any other obedience than
is confident with the commengood, ac
cording to their own Judgment: And hav
ihg never been subdued or brought to terms
of peace with their magistrates, they cannot
be said to revolt or rebel again# them, to
whom they owe no more than seems good
to themselves, and who are nothing of or
by themselves, more than other men? *
• 4 *• Again, the thing figntfied by rebeUiofl
is not always evil * for though every sub
dued nation must acknowledge a superiority
in tbofe who have subdued rheas, and re
bellion does imply a breach r.f she peace, yet
that superiority is not infinites the peace m«y
be broken upon just grounds, and it may be
neither a crime nor infamy lo do it. The
Privernates bad been more than once fub*
deed by the Ream n> and bad as often re*
i belled Their city was at last taken by
Plautius the c< as J, after their leader Vitru
' vius and great numbeta of their fenaie and
I people had been killed ; being reduced, to a
low condition,they feat ambafLdors toßome
to desire peace; where when a fenster ask
ed them what punifbment they deferved*
• one of them answered, u The fame which
M they deserve who think themfelvci wor
•• thy of liberty/’ The confui .then de
manded, what kind of peace might be
expected from them, if the punifomeat
“ Ihould be remitted The ambaffodor
answered, “ Ii the terms you give be good,
. “ the peace will be observed by m foithfuL
ly aad perpetually; if bad* it will soon
“ be broken.” And though feme were
offended with the ferocity of the answer; yet
the best part of the senate approved it as
u worthy of a men and a freeman;’* and
canfeffing that no man or nation would con
tinue under an uneasy condition longer than
they were compelled by forte, laid, •* they
“ only were fit to be made Romans, wbn
“ thought nothing valuable but liberty.’*
Upon which they Were ail made citiiona of
Rome, and obtained wbatfoever they had
defiied;
“ 1 know act how thio matter caw be
carried to a greater height ; for if It were
poffiblej that a people refilling opprefion,
■Wjvmdiating their own liberty, could
commit a crime, and incur either gpsk or
infamy, the Priveruetes did, who had been
often subdued, and often pardoned j bsst e
ven to the judgment of conquercrs
whom they had offended, the refoluttoa
they profeffed of ftandtog to no agreement
imposed upon them by neceility, was *o
counted the highest teuimony of fueb a vim
tue as rendered them worthy to be admit*
ted into a society and equality with them
fclves, who were the njofl brave and vista*
ous people of the world.
“ But if the patience of a conquered
people may have limits, and they who will
not bear opprefiion from tbofe who had
spared their lives, may deserve praise and
reward from their conquerets, it would be
madness to think, that any nation can be
obliged to bear whatsoever their own ma
gistrates think fit to do against them. This
may fecm strange to those who talkfo much
of conquests made by kings; immunities,
liberties and privileges granted to nations;
oaths of allegiance taken, and wonderful
benefits conferred upon them. But having
already said as much aa is needful concern
ing conquests, and that the rtugiftrata who
has nothing except what is given to
only difoenfe out of the public flock such
franchifes and privileges as he has received
for the reward of fer vices done to (be coun
try, and encouragement of virtue, 1 sh all *
present keep myfelf to the two last points
“ Allegiance fignifies no more (as the
words ad lagtm declare) (han such an obe
dience as (he law requires. But as (be law
can require nothing from (he whole people,
who are matters of it, allegiance can only
relate to particulars, and not to (he whole.
No oath can bind any other than those who
take it, and that only in the true sense and
meaning of it: But fmgJe men only take this
oath, and therefore Angle men are only ob
liged to keep it: The body of a people nei
ther does, nor can perform any fueb ad:
Agreements and coatrads have been made;
as the tribe of Judah, and the rest of Kuti
afterward, made a covenant with David,
upon which they made him King; but no
wife man can think, that the nation did
thereby make themselves the creatutes of
their own creature.
“ The sense aifo of an oath ooght to be
considered. No man can by an oath be ob
liged to any thing beyond, or comrwy te
the true meaning of it: Private men who
fwcar obedience ad legem, (wear no obedu
[Numb. 98.