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there being at prefect no demand here for such a peftilenual
commodity .—{it ir hoped no man, who has the lead pre
tence to the character of a gentleman, a freeman, or an ho
ned man, or who would desire not to be thought an enemy to
his country, to the Engliih constitution, and to mankind,
will'ever purchase or apply for one damped paper whatever
in convenience! he may ok reduced to. None can poftibly be
equal to the loss of every thing valuable in the Engliih con
ftaction, and the entailment of ilavery upon all fuccecding
generations.] u
An officer of one of the men of war with a number of ma
rines, took the command ofCapt. Holme's (hip, and oblig
ed her to come to off* the castle: Whether the (hip and her
whole cargo, or only the damped papers are to be leizM, as
[illicit goods we can't yet learn.—lt is hoped that if she is
obliged to break bulk before the mailer makes report, his
E—y the G—r will secure her from a seizure by the custom
house officer.—lt is certain the captain was not fullered to
proceed to port, nor the owner to come on board.
It being cucumber times with many of the taylors in town
\ they beg the prayers of all good people that the (lamp-ad
’ may be repealed, as mod of their cuuomers have declared
.they will have no new cloaths made, until such time as said
. ad is repealed. * f
. The following are the Indrudions of the Freeholders and
other Inhabitants of the Town of Bollon, to the Hon.
*. James Otis, Efij. Thomas CuQiing, Esq. and Mr. Tho
\ mas Gray, their ReprefenUtives in General AlTembly.
Gentlemen ,
At a time when the Britiih American fubjeds are every
where loudly complaining of arbitrary and unconllitutional
.innovations, the town of Bollon cannot any longer remain
fifent, without just accusation of inexcusable negled. We
therefore, the freeholders and other inhabitants, being le
gally affembied in Faneuil Hall, to coufider what Heps are
neccftary for us to take at this alarming crisis, think it pro
per to comrounicateto you oar .united sentiments, and to
give you our inftrudion thereupon.
... It fills 1 us with very great concern to Bad, that meafores
.havebeen adopted by the Britiih Ministry, and ads of par
.l lament made, which press hard awn our invaluable rights
and liberties, and tend greatly tofeftxefs the trade of the
province, by which we have heretofore been able to contri
bute so large a (hare towards the enriching of the mother
. Bur we are more particularly alarmed and aftonilhedat the
called the Stamp A &,by which a very grievous, and we ap
prehend unconllitutional tax is to be laid upon the colonies.
By the royal charter granted to our anceltors, the power
.of making laws for our internal government, and of levy
ing taxes, is veiled in the General AlTembly: And by tne
fame charter the inhabitants of this province are entitled to
all the rights and privileges of natural free born fubjeds of
Great-Bntain: The raoft eiTential lights of Britiih fubjeds
are those of being represented in the lame body which exex
cifes the power of levying taxes upon them, and of having
{their property cried by juries: These are the very pillars of
the Britiih constitution, founded in the common rights of
mankind.—lt is certain that we were in no sense represented
iu the parliament of Great-Britain when this a& of taxation
was made: And it is also certain that this law admits of our
properties being tried, in controversies arising from internal
concerns, by courts of admiralty without a jury: It follows,
that at once it annihilates the . moil valuable privileges of
our charter, deprives us of the eflential rights of Britons,
and greatly weakens the bell security of our lives, liberties
and estates, which may hereafter be at the difpoial of
judges, who may be strangers to us, and perhaps malicious,
mercenary, corrupt and oppressive.
But admitting that we had no complaints of this nature,
we (hould dill nave reason to except against the inequality
of these taxes :—lt is well known that the people of this pro
vince have not only fettled this country, but enlarged and
defended the Britiih dominion in America with avast expence
fjf treasure and blood: They have exerted themselves in the
moll dillinguithcd services for their k‘ n ß by which they
have often been reduced to the greatest distress: And in the
late war spore especially, by their surprising ekertions, they
have brought upon themselves a debt almoll infvipportable:
And we are well assured that if these expenftve services, lor
which very little if any advantage accrued to themselves, to
gether with the neceifary charges of supporting. and defend
ing his MajeftyVgovernment here, had been duly ellimat
xd. the monies designed to be drawn from us by this aft
would have appeared greatly beyond our proportion.
We look upon it a. a pewUar Urdffrp. that when the
representative body of this province had prepared and fenc
forward a decent rcmonftrance against these proceeding
while they were depending in the house of commons, it Bull
ed of admittance there : And this we esteem the more ex’
traordinary, inasmuch as, being unrepresented, it was the
only method whereby they could make known their objeai
ons to measures, in the event of which their constituents
were to be so deeply interested.
Moreover this aft, if carried into execution, will become
a further grievance to us, as it will afford a precedent for
the parliament to tax us, in all future time, and in all such
ways and measures, as they shall judge meet, without our
consent.
We therefore think it our indifpenfible duty, in justice to
ourselves and posterity, as it is our undoubted privilege, in
the moll open and unreserved but dppent and refpe&fuj terms
to declare our greatest diffatisfaflion with this law: And we
think it incumbent upon you, by no means to join in any
publick measures for countenancing and affifttng in the exe
cution of the fame: But to use your bell endeavours in the
General AlTembly, to have the inherent, unalienable rights
of the people of this province asserted and vindicated, and
left upon the publick records, that posterity may never have
reason to charge the present times with the guilt of tamely
giving them away.
It affords us the greatest fatisfa&ion to hear, that the con
gress proposed by the house of represen tatives of this province
is contented to by the reprefenutives of moll of the other co
lonies on the continent.—We have the warmell expectations
from the united councils of that very rcfpedable committee:
And we may with the ftri&eil propriety enjoin upon Mr.
Otis, a member of the fame, being also one of the repre
sentatives of this town, to contribute the utmost of his abi
lity, in having the rights of the colonies Hated in the clear,
est view, and laid before the parliament; and in preparing
an humble petition to the KING our sovereign and lather,
under whose gracious care and prote&ion we have the great,
est reason to hope, that the rignts of the colonies in general,
and the particular charter rights of this province, will be
confirmed and perpetuated.
. We further inftruft you to take particular care that the
bell (economy may be used in expending the publick mo
nies, and that no unaccustomed grants may be made to those
who serve the government: And we in general recommend
to your cm, that the monies of the province, drawn from
the individuals of the people, at a time when almoll every
avenue of our trade is obftru&ed, may not be applied to any
other puruofes, under any pretence of necessary contingent
charges, but what are evidently intended in the a& for lup?
plying thetreafury.
.*• SAVANNAH, Octobii xa.
OT a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabi
tants of the city of Boston in New-England, in
September last, it was unanimouily voted, That
the Hon. James Otis, Esq. the Hon. Samuel
Walles, Esq. the Hon. Harrison Gray, Esq,
the Hon. Royall Tyler, Esq. Joshua Henlhaw and Jnhn
Rowe, Efqrs. and Mr. Samuel Adams, be a committee to
draw up and transmit to the Right Hon. Gen. Conway and
Col. Ilaac Barre, several addresses, humbly expressing the
sincere than ks of that metropolis for their noble, generous,
and truly patriotick fpeechcs, at the last session of parliament
in favour of the colonies, their rights and privileges; and
that copies of the fame be desired, that they may be deposit.
ed among their molt precious archives. They also voted.
That those gentlemens pictures, as soon as they can be ob
tained, be placed in Fancuil-Hall, as a Handing monument
to all posterity of the virtue and justice of their benefa&on,
and a tailing proof of their gratitude.
It is said tnat Sir George Savile, Sir William Baker, and
fome other members of parliament, spoke in favour of the
colonies, as well as Gen. Conway and Col. Barre.
An officer of a man of war it’s said has been killed in
Maryland in‘endeavouring to support a ftampmaa when in
distress.
From New-York of the id instant we learn, that themn
miffioners from several of the colonies were arrived these In
order to attend at the congress, and the rest were daily ex
peded.
Lord Adam Gordon arrived at New-York on the 30th of
September last, having finiihed his tour through North- A
merica, and it was laid would fail for England in the firft
packet.