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Vol. IV.]
E great demand for this paper, has of
* ten occaftoncd many good customers being
for which the publifhet is very
firry : He will, in future, endeavour to pre
vent any thing of the like kind
long as he may have the honour of being an
hand-servant to the public.
The gloomy profpelt of public affairs, at
prejent, in this devoted capital, has occasioned
some prefling Demands upon him, which with
great re!u&ance he informs his tujlomers, he
can by no means anjwer without their kind
affjlanee : He is loath to trouble them with a ’
‘ dunning* advertifment, but his affairs ntnke ■
it neeffary : Uis tujlomers in fhe’tiwttry towns
in this province, and those in the other colonics,
he hopes will take p/opcr notti c 0/ it, a/id
conftder there is no pnffibdity, (especially for a
young beginner) in carrying on bufnefs
without regular payments.
A work of this kind, it is well known is at
tended with great expence, and he begs leave to >
mention, that the MASSACHUSETTS
SPY is a third larger than any Hews-Paper
publijhed in this province, and contains as much
News, as nutnj Political Essays, as any in
America ; and is the cheapefi on the globe.
I. THOMAS.'
Bofion, fune 9, 1774.
TO' BE SOLD ty
ROBERT RUGGLES,
At his Shop in Cornhill, a little to the Northward of the
Town Pump, Boston, a large Assortment <>f
English and India GOOD S,
By Wholesale or Retail, extremely cheap for Calh only.
Ament tv hid are the /Mwiug Articles, viz.
Q T R I PT, changeable, Chevauxdefrife,
plain and brocaded half GimpandGaiLndTrimmmg,
el! and 3-4 Luteftrings, Wax Necklaces and Earings,
Ducapes and Padufoys, Blue, white, pink and black
Mohair Grograms, Hats for Women,
Crimion and bluq,C<wkfoy, A very large Allbitmcnt of
Blue, white, green and pink Mens, Womens, Youths
Sarihets, and Girls glazed and un-
Scarlet, crin-fon, white, blue, glazed Gloves and Mitts,
pink, green,drib and black, Galloom and Straping,
plain, spotted and fpriged Stay Cord and Braid,
half ell and 3-4 Sattins Buckrams, —
of all Plices, Yellow Holland,
Rich rose, criinfon and green Brown ditto,
Englilh Damaiks, 3-4, 7-8 and yard-wide Irijh
Blue and white India ditto, Linnens,
Blue, green, changeable and Sheeting Holland,
urab India Taffaties, Table Cloths,
Black English ditto, Napkining Damafkus,
Figured Mode for Capuchines, Diapers and Huckaback,
of mod Colours, Womens and Childrens pack
Half yard, 3-4 and yard wide Thread Stays,
black Allamode, Blue, pink, green and white
Milfinetts and Grizetts, Womens loom-quilted (ilk
Broglipe and Sattinets, Petticoats,
Black and Lead-colour Bom- White Quilting,
bazeens, Gold and Silver Ipangled
Black double AUopcens, Buttons,
Dorfcuccns, Crapes and Gold and Silver Vellum,
Poplins, Gold Pruflian Coat Binding,
Be:.galls, Mecklingburgh ditto,
Worthed Grogr.uns, Gold Braid,
Camblcts and Camblcteuis, _ Gold and Silver Thread,
Drawboys and Everlallings, Silk Twill and Siik and Hair,
Calicoes and Chints, Velvet Collars,
Sagathies and Duroys, Tortoifheil Combs with and
Fullians and Jeans, without Stones,
Wiltons, middling and low
Damascus and Ginghams for Price Broad Cloths,
Mens Waistcoats, Forcft Cloth,
Figured Silk Waistcoat Pat- German Serger,
terns, Half Thicks,
Black Siik Breeches Patterns, Ratteens,
Black, blue and cloth coloured Beaver Coating,
Worked Breeches Patterns, Dufols,
Mens Silk Hole, Baizes,
Mens and Womens Thread, Velvets,
Cotton and Worsted Hose, Stript Swanfkins,
Childrens ditto ail Sorts, Oznabrigs,
Womens black, white and Shalloon and Tammies of
buff coloured Silk Glove-, most Colours,
Mens black ditto, Calamancoes,
Silk Mitts, all Colons, Belt black plain Rufieil,
A neat Assortment of plain, 34,7-8 and yard widcChecks,
spotted, figured and fpriged Mettle Buttons of all Sorts,
Guazes of all Prices, Crewels and Cams,
Beil Tambour Mufiin, Pins and Needles,
Stript, fpriged and checked Threads and Tapes,
Mullins, Sewing Silks of all Colours,
Yard and fix-quarters wide Cambncks and Lawns,
plain Muffins, Long- Lawn,
Brocaded and Satti n Shoes SilkandLmenHandkerchiefs,
and Clogs, Knives and Forks,
Englilh and Lyrm made Ruf- Pen Knives,
ffll and CaPimanco Shoes, Razors.
Childrens ditto, Buckles,
A near Assortment of BruCel’s Pepper,
and other Thread Laces, Cinnamon,
from 9!. to 3s. gd. old Cleves,
Tenor per Yard, ’ Maor,
Llond Laces, And a Variety of other
I U.k Bone Laces, all Prices, Articles.
Or, Thomas’s Boston Journal.
THURSDAY, June 30, 1774-
This day was publilhed,
[Embeliilhed with a very elegant [Quarto] Engraving of a
Indian Gaeette.]
N U M B E R V. of
THE ROYAL
American Magazine,
Or Univkmsal
Repository of Inftrudion and Amusement.
For MAY, 1774.
CONTAINING,
An aft for blockading the harbour of Boston—The tenets
of the Socratic Philosophy explained—The Fortune-Hunter
continued—rlamet; or the Infuffidency of Luxury to the
attainments of happiness—-Queries, concerning the good po
licy of continuing and encouraging the flare trade—An ad
mirable Recipe for a Consumption—On Agriculture—To
the ‘ young Gentleman' whole Letters on female education 1
atas publijhed in No. 4— ObfervStions on Phyliognomy and
Beauty—New experiments and observations in Chemiftty
—Of the firft method of cortimunicating ideas by piftures,
and of the origin of letters—-Explanation of an Indian
Gazette, giving an account of their battlei—Recipe for the
Asthma--On rhe extraordinary degree of heat which men
WM animals are capable of fupporting—Reflcftions on the
Fib Sex —Cruelty of a tyrannic Prince--The Directory of
Love.—Pobtical Essays—A Gentleman s lamcnu- <
tion for the lot* ofhis dag—Anfwtr to the Rebus in No. 4
—-My Choice—Orthodox Advice— A of Liberty.—
Historical ChboMet r—-Gener.il History ot Amr--
r:ca—A bill for the impartial adminilhaiion of justice, to.
in Mafliichufetts-Bay—A bill for the better irgutaung the
Province cf MiflachufeKs-Bsy—D >mefti* Intelligence—
Marriages and Deaths— Observations on the
Weather—Governor Hutchinson’s biliary, Ac.
This Day was Publiflied.
. [Price three Cuppers.]
And fold at the Printing-Office at the oottom o£ Royal- ■
Exchange Laue, near the Market.
AF EM a L E’s addr es s
to her C O U N T R Y w (> M EN.
pHARLESTOWN Stage No. i. Lets
V-J out with four good Hories for Salem, from Mr.
Woait’s Tavern every Morning at 8 o’Clock, and returns
the fame Day ; it puts up at Mr. Goodhue’s in Salem.
Any Gentlemen or Ladies who wants a Patiage are desired
to call at Admiral Vernon's, in King-llrect, Borton ; or
Mr. Woart’s, in Charleftown, and leave their Names.—
Also al the lame Place, Stage No. 2. with four good'
Hories may be had to convey any Gentleman or Lady
to any Part of this, or any other Province, or at so small
a Distance as five or fix Miles.
Any Gentlemen or Ladies who choose to go in either
of the above Stages, will be accommodated in the best
Manner, and the finallcft Favour will be acknowledged,
By their humble Servant,
SAMUEL LORD.
Cbariefiown, June 22, 1774.
American ink-powder.
Experienced and found to be equal, if not superior
to any imported, The excellent Qualities of this Powder
are, that it makes the best black Writing-Ink, and is very
convenient for Gentlemen, Merchants, Attomies and
others that travel, it being nut cumbcrfome and liable to
those Mifchanccs that other Ink is. The Ink may be
made in large or (mall Quantities, as is most convenient.
As freezing is cold (his may be made with a little Brandy or
other Spirits not liable to freeze. One Quality peculiar
to this Ink is that though the Writing be exposed to ex
treme wet, it alters not, but will remain as long as the
Paper endures. This Powder decayeth not by keepfog.
Note, the above Powder has an Ingredient in it that pre
vents Ink from becoming thick and mouldy.
Any Person by applying to ANN NORTON;
nearly opposite the Poll-Office in Borton, nr S AM UE L
{(ORTON, the Maker, in Hingham, may be fuoplied
with any Quantity of laid Powder, as low by the Gross,
as the Bntilh.
To all Lovers of the noble Science of DEFENCE.
Gentlemen who choose tube
inftnkled in the Art commonly called the BACK
SWORD, are desired to apply to DONALD
M ‘ A L P 1 N E, who will teach them laid Science to
their entire Satisfaction, at die Room in King-theet, near
' the State-Houle, lately .occupied as a Writing-School !
The Hours of Attendance are from 5 til! 8 o’Clock in the
Morning, from Noon till 1 o'Clock, and from 3 till 8
o'Clock in the Afternoon.—Any Gentlemen that choose
to be taught privately, (hail be waited upon at such Seaions
as are convenient for them, either at the School or their
Lodgings.
Said M'Alpike return his most grateful Thanks to
those Gontiemen who have encouraged him : As he is
Ihongly urged to go to another Place, he hopes to meet
with such further Encouragement and approbation as shall
induce him to continue his Residence in Boston, which
would be most agreeable to him.
TO BE SOLD,
A FARM in Cohaflet, containing
1 X about 80 Acre, well fenced with Stone Wall,
with a good House, Barn and Chaise-House thereon, aboot
a Mile and an half from a good Harbour, and one Mile
from the Meeting-House, 24 Miles from Boston. Enquire
of Colonel Lincoln, of Hingham, Lazarus Beal of laid
Cohaiiet, or Mr. Richard Billings, Taylor, in Boston.
A YOUNG Woman with a good
Breast of Milk, would be glad to go into a Gen’ le
man’' Family to tackle. Engobe of the Printer.
CAKES for making of (hiring Liquid
Blacking for Shoes, Boots, &Q These Cakes make
' with the utmoit tale, by the Addition of Water only, a
most excellent iLining Liquid Blacking, much foperiur to
1 any hitherto known j it giVts the fineft Black and most
■ beautifol Glols to the Leather, yet never lenders in flirt or
; hard, but on the contrary prevents its tracking, and pre
serves it foft, pliable, and mellow to the very lull, whereby
it is rendered more agreeable to the Wearer, as well aS
much more durable. The Shoes that ate blacked with it
will neither foil the fingers in putting on, or the Stocking*
in wearing.
N. B. They aie very fit for Leather Bottom Chairs,
Chaise, tn.
The above, with a fmill Alteration, is the London
Ad»ertifenicnt of the blacking Cakes, of which Experience
proves tlie Truth.
They ate fold by Whulefale and Ret til, by
SAMUEL ELIOT,
At his Shop near the Head of Dnck-Squaie.
Where may aIA» be had,
A cqmple.it Aifortment of Engiiih, Lidia and Scotch Piece
Goods, a hnc Aifortihenr of Irilh Linncns, Stationary,
Cutlery and Hard-Ware, Kipprn's Snuft', Spiers, Ac.
OA T S, Peale, Philadelphia b lour and
Bn.- Iron ; also warranted ScVtlies and Axes.”
A few neat Fowling Pieces, and a small Quantity of Snull,
to be foi l cheap at the 1 weft Store on the South Side of
the Towi -Douk, by
JOSEPH P. PALMER.
w.»»■; .... i jsss aasc
From the P h N N S Y L V A N 1 A GAZETTE.
L E T T E R 111.
To the Inbal'itants of the BAtijh Colonics tn
America.
nrrrbrcni
THESE are the wmds of the deJaratorv aft, mention
ed in the tail letter, “Whereas feverai of the Houles
of Reprpjcncaujex in his Majesty’s colonies and plantations
in Am<rita have of late, .igainp law, claimed to themiclvcs,
m to the getxiral aiTcmblics oi the fame, the fete and tidu
five right of impofi.ig duties and taxa upon his Majesty’s
fubjcSi in tie fid i and plantatiw, and have, in
puiiuance of Inch claim, palled certain votes, refohitions
and orders, dut,gatc>y to ti e authority cf f artia
went, and ineonfiflent with the dependancy of the laid co
lonics and plantations, A’c. therefore be it declared, Ac.
that the said colonies and plantations in America have been,
ara, and of right ought to be, fubordlnate unto, Ind depen
dant upon the imperial crown and parliament of Great-Bri
tain, and that the King's majesty, by and with the advice
and content of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com
mons of Gnat-Britain, in parliament allembled, had, bath,
and of right ought tt Lave, foil power and authority to make
laws and statutes, offofficient force and validity to bind the
colonies ard people of America, fubjefts of the crown of
• Great-Britain, in all casbs
From the croud of objefts, each prelfing for attention,
that prelent themfelvex to the mind of a Brhijb American,
on reading this aft, I beg leave to feleft and particularly
mention only two, that you, collecting them, and taking
a just view of your present fit nations, may feel that and only
that resentment, Ipringing from virtue, and guided by wil
dom, which the most worthy and the most peaceable men
must approve.
The resolutions, Ac. mentioned in this aft, were those
caused by the ftamp-aft. These principal points are firmly
afeerted in them— the exclufrve rigut of taxation, and tlie
right of trial hy jury. The parliament well knowing how
liarlh and jarring it would found in Englilh ears to fay, the
right of trial by jury was “ derogatory t» tie Icgijlat 'nr au
thority of [>a>hame>X, and inconjipent with the dependancy df
the colonies, planted toeir most direst battery against die
right of taxation--Common sense and the experience of ail
nations, at not a Jingle cnfance ouuri to tbe contrary, cois
vincing them, if that gave way, a general ruin would soon
ensue, and all the rest would follow in the train of the chief,
like captive Noblet attending their conquered Prince.
However, not quite fatisfied with the flow work of e»-
terminating them in detail, but improving upon an imperi
al hint, it was judged fitted, upon the whole, so to con
solidate them, that, as if the Britiyh-Arr.cricant had nut
“ »ne neck," afir.gUfirake might dispatch millions—bylub
jefting us at once to the decrees of parliament in all caps
mtbatfoever.
Widely different was the aft of the 6th of George the
foil, chap, jth, “ for the better securing the dependancy of
the Kingdom of Ireland," Sk. By that aft Ireland was
declared “ to be fubordlnate unto and dependant upon the
■ imperial Cm own • of Great-Britain." These words
“ and parliament” are not >n it. It is Ibid indeed, that
“ the King, with the advice and consent of the lords and
commons of Great-Britain, in parliament allembled, lad,
and of rigli. ought to have, power and authority to make
laws and statutes, of furtkicot force and validity to bind tbe
kingdom and ;eople of Ireland."
Compare the aft, and you will find the rft for America
copied trom that of Ireland j but in the last mentioned, the
annihilating words-—“ in all cases •wbatfoeter' are not to
be found. The people of Ireland have been for fevers) cen
turies bound by Engiiih statutes for regulating their trade,
and for other purposes, and this ftatut'e, therefore, only
aflerted the uluai authority over them. Their vitals, the
exclusive right of taxation, and the right of trial by jury,
* A tax granted by tbe Parliament of England Jba'l
not bind thrje of Ireland, beoasefe they are not Jumm-.rcd to
ct,r Parliamentand again, “Ireland bath a Par/antert
,f Us ecu. ", and maketh and aitcreib lavs; and cur fiaratts
da not Laid them, tecOnfe they do not fend Incglts to cur
parlcamtue .• But their perfom are the King's lubjeft’, /.*<
’at the inhabitants of Cauts, Gakixgny, and Guteunc, vbde 1
they nnt.au I under the King's fulfeaion."
I Blagl*io>*» vol. a. p. tet, num th* year L-
[Numb. 178.
have been we fined. If it was tire Intention of the Britiih
parliament to .exncifc a “ power and authority" over tha:
kingdom, daftruflive of these rights, it Is not cxpredol...it
is nor implied.* Why were the unlimited words omitted 11
that aft I Gr, why when the fords snd commons were co.
!yin|a pbttein, which there fathers set them, did theyd. ■
brm the tranfeript by such ctftem Houriihrs.
The truth is—the fitlie s too much revered the Englhh
principles, for which they hid been upon the point of il.e.! •
ding their blood in placing their (overeign on his throne, f,
flagrantly to violate *ern—or, if their conduft was not di
tefted by justice, thev dared nut thus to provoke tbe have,
generous inhabitants of that ancient kingdom.
“ Are there yet ti e treafurert of wbickedncfi in t ‘•t btUfe,
“ and the pant mrafuie, that it abominable. The ilcou.l
“ thereof urc Jidl of midence" Micah, Ch. vi.
ai P. P. Autler.tf the I.FTTJU tv tie InhARI
TANT* ts the dllkl UH CuLQNItS ill
S I R,
'J' HE declaratory aft, pallid by tj.c Psdiament, al du
time they repealed the flatbp-aft, was foch a viulatwi
of the courtirution, such an aflumptiun of new powers, so
subversive of liberty, and so deilruftivc of property, that it
defervrs particular oblervation, that it has hitherto pa fe I
unnoticed, is owing to the gratitude and joy with wlw i
Amsms received therepe.il of the lLunp ad. For tl.t
fame reason the principle, on which the repeal was fiundrd,
was luflered to pals without animadveriion ; and the people,
who claimed the repeal st a point of cyuity and right, re
ceived it with gratitude as a free gift.
The Englilh constitution, whole ohjed is liberty, hat,
for the preserving that liberty, ami for the fecuiity of at>>-
petty, vsftod peculiar powers in the diften nt brandie qftlic
Itsgiflature, which arc to be exerdfed for the good and fafety
of the fubjedt. Salos populi luprema lex est. The abuf:
of thele powers, or the attempt of one branch of thejegif
lature to extend its peculiar powers, so at to those
of the others, lias been the foundation oi many civil wars
and ftruggleS in Britain.
From the carlieft period of the Engiiih canilitulion.
it has ever been deemed the prerogative of the er mn to
grant charters to the fub/fts, and terms of to
conquered countries, who were taken under the dominion
of the crown. And statute of quo wartauto. i<chof
Edw. i. exprefly declares, that, “ illi qui habrnt chaini
regales, fecundum 1 hartgi ilhs ct csrundem nh litudmein
judfcciiturt" On whicll ifotute Lord Cuke observes, “in
the firft place, thft as it was cnaftrd, ex fpeciali Gratia
Domini Rews, “ it bindi tbe King," and nnfeyuently in
binding tbe King, mus alfvhnd hit Parliament ; in the Ic
cond place, trom the worth caiundem plenitudinein, that
thia liatute is to be construed “ as fully and benelu dly for
the charters, as tlu: law was taken nt the time when char
ters where grmited." In the third place, lays he, “ cer
tainly this siKient ftatutc was a direftion to the Ages of the
law, fortheir eonftruftion of the King's Charters, asitap
peareth in our books." ..
On this foundation reflvMrfcclaratory aft refpefting Ire
land. When Henry the xd/conquered Ireland, he granted
the Irilh peace, and annexed them to his crown on thia con
dition, “ That the Kingifop and people of Ireland Ihould
for ever be governed by the Tam* mild laws as England wis
governed." And the statute palled in Ji Edw.nd 3d. con
firms and renews this charter, by declaring, that Li*. Ma
jesty's fubjefts in Ireland, being either natives of that King
dom, or Englifli-born fubjefts only resident there, “ fint
veri Anglici, et fob, eifdem degrant Domino et Regimine,
et eifilein Legibus utantur.” And hence tbe aft of the 6th
G. 1. chap. 6, aflumea no nenu power, lays no new restric
tions upon his M-jcfty a good fobjefta of Ireland, nor claims
any nevi right, but limply deciares “ that the King's Ma
jesty, by and with the advice and consent of dm Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great-Britain,
in Parliament artembled, hath full power and authority to
make laws, of fuftkient force and valid, y to bind tin: King
dom and people of Ireland.
Here is no charter violated, no claim of power, to drpt lie
them of property, or levy taxes on them witl>out their eon
fent. Their pailiamenr, their right of trial by jury, and
of granting supplies to their king in tlicir own way f n the
fopport of government, administration of juftke, anti de
fence of the Kingdom, remain untouched. But die la.
ratory aft palled against America 5..0f Geo- Hl. in viola - 1 m
of their charters, declares, that the claim of tbe h >ufe* <>f
reprefentivra in huMa,dly'v colonies and plantation iv Ame
rira, to the foie and exclujbi.e right of impolmg duties *1
taxes upon his majefly’a luby4u in the laid colonies and
plantations, is agamd law ; tlut the votes, rrf'dutiwM and
orders, palied >n purJuaoce of farh claim, aie derogaiory u
the legislative authority of Parliament; that the said co' •
niea and plant, uona in America have been, are, and of 1. *
ought to be, iubordiiute unto, and dependant upon, use im -
pesiai Crown and Parliament of Great-Britain, and the
King's Majesty, by and with the advke, Ac. hath, sard of
right ought to have foil power and authority to maiM,Lw
and statutes, of fuflkient force and validiiy tu Lind U,c <O
- and people of America, fubjefts of the Ctiuur. of
Greit-Brit.un in all cam wHATsonvr*. What
is this but with the high hand of power to break daw/, the
barriers of the constitution, and make us tci.aatt at will oi
our lives, liberty and property.-—
There was • time when the Crown held lands in £ng.
land, “ sacra, patrimonia, coionar," the annusl tet *
of which, if now resumed, would amount towear four mil •
lions fteiling. Th*fe have been conveyed to fubjofts, ami
are now liela ‘xy virtue of cha-ten from the Crowp. if tlx*
charts regales or chartered rights of the colonies can im vio
lated and aroiu J oy Parliament, what fe.urity can die
pciicfTtrs ol thole lathis have for the eltales they enjoy. L.
the Parliament try the experiment on their feiluw-lubhfts
in Great-Britain, and : idge of tlx |nßprr and diipdri.m
of the colonies, by thi etieft fodialiep uul produce «r- ",
themlelvn. 1
A Loyal Amxxuan. A. ".
Embata in the xd Letter. Fer this kln!\<'C
kind;" for Alexander fcoms it, r. “ Alexarders leo<n , ’ ,
for prosperity of m, r. “ polfenep-o. ,- «;' k* lee, and i,!- J
•rict, r. “ falariss.