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the article of taxes and internal police; and that the fame
have never been forfeited, or any other way yielded ep,
bat have been con&andy recognized by the King and peo
4. That, therefore, the genera! assembly of tUi colony,
have, in their reprefeautive capacity, the only exclnfive
Shht to lay taxes and imposts upon the inhabitants of this
colony: and every attempt to veil such power in any person
ar tfcrftms whatever, other than the general assembly afore
faid, is aaconftitutional, and hath a manifeft tendency to
deftroydie liberties of the people of this colony.
e. That his Majesty’s liege people, the inhabitants of this
colony, are not bonnd to yield obedience to any law or or
dinances, designed to impose any internal taxation whatso
ever upon them, other tnan the laws or ordinances of the
general assembly aforefaid.
r 6. That all the officers in this colony, appointed by the
authority thereof, be, and they are hereby direded, to pro
ceed in the execation of their refpe&ive offices, in the lame
Sinner as nfual; And that this assembly will indemnify and
re harmless all the said officers, on account of their conduit
, agreeable to this refoludon.
. Bojion , Ntw-England, September 16. The Freeholders
and other inhabitants of the town of Boflon, are to meet at
Faneuil-Hall, at three o'clock in the afternoon, then and
there, agreeable to the request of a number of the principal
inhabitants, to confer upon such measures as (hall appear to
them neceffhry to be taken in confeauence of the damp aft,
and other matters of grievance, ana to determine whether
inftrultions (hall be given their representatives in general as
sembly, for their conduit at this very alarming criiis.
ExtraO es a letter from Quebtek, dated Augufi 3, 1765.
44 This colony is m the greated confufion. Governor
SI— y lad Sunday came into town and took the command of
te troops; the merchants threaten to leave this place entire
ly, as every man who opposes the G—r in any thing may
<spe& a party of soldiers with fixed bayonets to tear him out
of his house and drag him to goal: We have all drawn up
a memorial, and fentit home to the Lords of Trade, deiir
ing that they will have fome compassion on this colony, and
relieve us from the drange feene of anarchy and confufion
which we are plunged into, and that if the civil governor
can command both civil and militanr we can no longer look
qpon our lives and properties as (ecure. God grant that
this petition may have the desired effed!—for you can hard
ly conceive what diitrefsful confufion reigns through the
whole province, from one end to the other.**
Charlefown, South-Carolina , Sept. 2 5.
Extras •/ a letter from London, ‘July 18, 1765.
“ —The alterations at court, you will fee by the London
Gazette and the other papers, are gone to a mod extrava
gant height, and they are not yet over. You may observe
thnr are a heterogeneous composition from the old minidry
and new hands from both houses. The cause of these alter
ations I gave you fome account of in my lad 5 and from what
has appeared since, the regency-bill turns out to have been
the fird matter of difeontent between the— and his mini
ders. They had always persuaded him that it would be in
vain to attempt palling the bill for fettling the regency if the
P. D. was inferred as one of the three persons in the King's
power to appoint Regent, and the bill was brought into the
kfoufe of Lords in a very proper manner to be palled with
out her having such a chance. The opinion of the Judges,
which had determined that by the term Royal Family were
meant the defendants of the late and present King , entirely ex
cluded her. When the commons took up the bill, it was
very calmly afleed, after the fird reading, What the P. D.
had done to delerve this affront ? The quedion remaining
unanswered was immediately succeeded by a motion that
the Princess (hould be inserted, which was agreed to with
out opposition. In this date the,bill was returned to the
House of Lords, where it passed in its altered form as easi
ly as the alteration had done in the House of Commons.
The—-—was a good deal surprised at thus unexpectedly hav
ing his with, and not a little piqued against his miniders,
who in this affair cannot be acquitted of having either fol
lowed the dictates of the enemies of the adminiffration in
eroding the R— 1 will, or of being so weak or negligent as
not to know their own strength in parliament. Mr. G. and
the D. of B. saw their error, and began to take fome mea
sures to insure their party, which measures brought to light
more to their disadvantage. One dep they took to make
their fall the fofter was to lelTen the influence of Lord B.
This was fird doue by attempting to get the to remove
Mr. Stuart-Mackenzie to another place of rather more pro
fit than the place he had 5 the—was easily persuaded to it
and Mr„S. M. resigned accordingly; fome days passed be!
fore any measure was taken, and when the . mentioned
that Mr. M. (hould be replaced as Mr. G. had proposed, he
found, to his great adorn foment, that the place had been
promised time before to a gentleman that he could with
no degree of honour overlook; by which piece of refinement
in date policy, the —— appeared to have persuaded Mt. S.
M. to resign a place of profit given him for life, without hav
ing it in his power to make up the loss, His—was extreme
ly vexed at this affair, and accused Mr. G. Sec. with making
him acceffary to mofi base and dijbonourable treatment which bis
foul abhorred. The next dep which these falling- datefmen
took to save themselves was the old dale trick offeritifo mi
niders, threatening to resign and leave their mailer without
a servant in any dation over whom they had any power. His
had in fome measure expelled this, and had holden fre
quent conferences with the D. of C. Lord B. and Other fc
lell friends, who were the cause of calling to court Mr. Pitt
and that party; fome of their friends you fee are in ; Mr.
Pitt having no (hare is certainly owing to his refufal, which
yet none who know him attribute to his moderation. Thus
you fee what a dilemma our good and patriot S— , n was
reduced to by designing and weak miniders: the D. of C
(bowed himfelf his mod cordial friend, and his R. H’s de
portment throughout the whole affair is with juilic© highly
applauded. 67
. “ The advocates of the falling party are very full of the
virtue and abilities of Mr. Grenville, an dconfeft that he was
tired of being a cypher , and ad mg to the will of a Favourite •
The friends of the new admimftration retort upon them,
That it was criminal in any minister to be a cypher,and there
fore the publick good required he (hould be so no longer.
“ The murmuring ana difeontent occasioned by the late
taxation in America is so great, that I (hould not wonder if
the present minidry took fome measures to ease the colonies
or set alide the Tax-All; it would certainly gain them the
hearts of the merchants.
“ Mr. Mawbey and Mr. Onflow, two brothers of the turf
and cockpit, and who are extremely vociferous both in the
House and out of it, in favour of Wilkes and that party,
are now both silenced, one with a place, the other with a
Knighthood; C. J. Pratt is dubbed a Lord, and Mr. Dow
defwell, member for WorceAerfliire, one of the cyder coun
ties, who spoke three hours againd the Cyder-AH, and wrote
a mod flaming pamphlet, is also quieted. Oh, Patriotism !
what a Aroke had thou received by these promotions? not
one great person left but John Wilkes and Humphrey Coates,
Esquires! even old Newcadle has quitted the good cause,
he has had one crowded levee already, and no doubt in a
day or two will have a bonfire.**
SA V A N N AH, Octobir 17.
THE Grenville Packet, Capt. Charles Edwards, arriv
ed at St. Kitts the 9th or September lad, and was to
fail from thence the nth for Jamaica, PanfacoU,’ Charlef
town, and back again to Falmouth.
Thursday lad the snow, Dean, mader, from Gambia,
which put into Ty bee by contrary winds on Tuesday the 24th
ult. failed for Charledown.
S3®®®®®®®®®©?®®®®©®©
TO BE SOLD AT VENDUE, on Thursday the 24 th infant ,
ALL the EFFECTS belonging to the effate of James
Bell deceased, confiding of household goods and wear
ing apparel, &c. The sale will begin at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon at the Exchange.
WILLIAM EWEN, ,
ROBERT BOLTON, f vendue-mafters.
Cos be &olb bp tfct feubfcjtbtJß,
A TRACT of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
ACRES of LANDi situate on the Island of Skida
way, bounded north by land of Nathaniel Hunting, south
by land of William Johnflon, ead by Romney marsh, and
wed by marihes of Green Island. At>out 10 acres are clear
ed, on which is a dwelling-houlc; 70 acres is good rice
land, the rest fit for corn or indico. Credit will be given
for two thirds of the purchafc money, paying intered and
giving security if required.
JOHN LONG,
CORNELIUS CONNOR.