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ft tie Printer oftie pon&a* Chronicle. g j ft T AS the Ur* letter of a Governor of one ofonr province*, aoenfiag hii people of rebel]ions irtntiens, hby many her* thought foldent (round for infiiltfqr penalties on focb aabeani, without/ornr evidence', and withotrt knowing what it may have to lay wit* wftifteation: I wife you would give the ptfblicfc the following extrad of a letter, in which accufatiofc* jof the colonic* from ofliccrs of government reftding there are let in. a light very iijftumt from that they have ufoally been con sidered in.—lt.was written here at the time o! our Uft year’s disputes, by one who had lived long in America, k newt he people and their affair* ex tremely well—and was equally well acquainted with the temper and prac tices of government officers. Speaking of the opinion entertained in Bri tain of the Americans, he fays, ** Much hits bean laid of a virtual rtfrt- Jentati* e, which the colonies are supposed to have here. Os that I under. Band nothing. But I know what kind of actual rtf>rtfe*ttitio*, or rather mi/rtfrefe*tatien, is continually made of them, by tbofe from whonf minl fters chiefly ha/e their information.’ Governors and other officers of {he Crown, even the little officers of the revenue sent from hence, have all at times fome account to give 6f their own loyal and faithful condnd, with which they mrx feme contrary character of th people that tends to place thatcondud in a more jdvantageous light. Every good thing done there in the assemblies, for promoting his Majesty’s service, was obtained by the Governor’s influence: He proposed, he urged strongly, he managed parties?;—there was a great oppofition;—the aflembiy were refraAory and difaffeded ; —but his zeal and dexterity overcame all difficulties. And if thro* his own imprudence, or real want of capacity, aoy thing goes wrong, he is never in fault; the aflembiy and the people are to bear all the blame; they are fadious, they are turbulent, disloyal, impatient of government, difrefpedful to hin Wytfly't Representative Then the Custom-House Os. leer represents the people as ill inclined to Smuggling. Dutch and French goods (by his account) swarm in the country; nothing else would be used if it wen not for his extreme vigilante ; which, indeed, as it takes up all his time, he hopes will he conudered in the allowance of n larger /alary.— Even the Mi Senary Clergy, to Whom all credit is due, cannot forbear acquainting the Biihops, and their other fuperiorshere from whom they receive their stipends, that they are indeed very diligent in their refpe&ive missionk } bat that they meet with great difficulties from the adverse ‘dif pofition of the people;—Quakers oppose them in one place, Prelbyteri nns in another :—this country swarms with thwarting hereticks ; t'other with malevolent fe&aries i—lnfidelity gains ground here, Popery is coun tenanced there. Their unwearied endeavours, which are never wanting, scarce fuffice to parent the colonists being overwhelmed with vice, irre ligion, ignorance, and error!—Then the Military Officer, who ha* ferr ed in the colonies, rep refen ts them as abounding im -wealth j the profufe ta bles they nfed to spread for him in their hofpitsable entertainments con vinced him of it ; for theft he saw daily When Kq dined from house to house, and therefore he had reason to imagine it was their-common way ofli ving; (though in truth that was extremely different and much more suitable to their circnmftance*.) But, opulent as he supposes them, they muff, in bis opinion, be the meanest of mortals to grudge the.payment of a trifling tax, efpedally as it is to maintain soldiers. Thus air* iuntio, how Can it be otherwise, bur that the governing people in Britain fliould con ceive the moft unfavourable idea of Americans,- as unworthy the name of Eagiifhmen, and fit duly to be fuubb’d, curb’d, Buckled and plunder ed.’* NEW YORK. Jvtfi 15. Jj Y the arrival es a number of (hip* from Old France, at Martinice, 3 w 'th about 15,000 barrel* of flov,. Sec. an ordinance was publifticd, rbidding the importation nlto that island of any Bnglifti flour or idea) af ter the 15th of June, and bread after the ift of July ; that the inhabitant* urfere foalarmed at the prohibition, that they had pur chafed large quan tities at a very high rate from moft of the islanders, and the Governor was obliged, to quiet the populace, to declare to them, in tafe of neceflity, they (hould be supplied out of the King** (lores, which had the deiircd ef lea. We lean* from Dominica, that they are bofy building many houses there, and have erefted a bridge over the river by fubfeription ; that the fur veyors agree thatiflaad t* larger than Martinique, and that much more of the land is capable of cultivation than was at firft expeAed ; that they had a profpeA of great crop* of coffee next year; and there was plenty of fagar at market; that many vefltls had lately failed from thence with their load* | and that three Guineymen arrived there a few month* since, and ibid their Have* very well- * \ J 'mm 16. By a gentleman from Fort Pitt we are informed, that on the 17th of May last, the Indian* voluntarily brought and “delivered up 11 horfe* which feme of their people had llolen from our back settlements last fall 1 and the greeted hir atony and peace subsided between them and •ur people. Cel. Croghao wa* on Ms way to that place, in order to at tend, or hold, a congsef* with the Indians.. The* the traders are prohibited, under the penalty of 5001. from leav ing Pittfimrg, in order to trade with the Indians in their own-towns, yet so treat is the advantage to be made by it, that they frequently venture to break the law and hazard the penalty. Jmm as. From. New-Providence we have an account, that of the three Frenchmen lately carried in there as pfifoners, for murdering the Captain of a French Hoop from Miffifippi for Cape Francois, in March lad, one turned King’* evidence, upon which the other two had been condemned to die, and accqrdingly one was executed the 29th May last, and after wards hung in chains, and that the other was to undergo the feme punilh asent the Friday following. Tho (loop had also been-taken up and brought in. r By letters from Virginia we have certain intelligence, that Capt. John Howard has set up at Warwick cn James's River, Virginia, in ordfer to ncourage th* inhabitants of the back settlements to continue on the cul. tare of hemp, by receiving and disposing of it to their advantage for a certain per cent. He intends to (hip to Great-Britain, where his corre %cpdttt inform him that good hasp trill fell for joi. or jal. Berlin; per too, befiday the 11. Berlin* boon#; and he correspondence wiraanv gentleman that wHI, upon Iniu.... having a flock Os hemp by him. fond a vdfcl into James’s River to n wick, to pnrehafe heap, chiefly with calh, tho* he will take feme winill good rum, fire. And a* he will have hemp of different qualit W he will fellat-differeat pr - , fronl about jys.'Vfrgini* currency end •pwards per hundred. - .. /* The evening of the 14th raft. Capt. Fell arrived here in fix weeks from Cork, from whence he failed the 4th of May, and informs vs, that ni transports had just arrived there from England, to take on board the rej** meats that were to embark at that place for America. •** Capt. Honey, of the Diligence, in so days from Newfoundland 3r tfvdfl here leftTburfday. In soundings he fell in with great qaamh;# dead flffi, of all forts, fome of which they took on board, and q a exami nation were found to be frefli and good, and not long dead. , Since our last failed for Halifax, his Majesty’s (hip Garland, Capt St John, with whom went passenger Col. James Robertfim, Barrack mailer General for North America. v Newport, Rhode-Ijland, June is. The General Aflembiy of this colo ny met at the Court-Houle in this town on Tueftay last. On Thursday they entered upon the consideration of the petitions, (preferred at a for mer feflion of the aflembiy) of the gentlemen who fuffered by the riots in this town, in the month of.Auguft, y 76^; and after debating upon the affair, thequeftion was put. Whether compensation fliould be allowed or ndt? which pafled in the affirmative. It was afterwards voted by the Low. er House, that the petitioners be direded to lay before tbe house, opoa oath, an account of their losses; accordingly, on Saturday, Dr. Moffat exhibited an account of the damage sustained by him, amounting to nig* hundred and sixty pounds flerling. This account not being so particular in the enumeration of the articles as the house expeded, it was reje&ed The whole was then referred to the next feflion sand in the mean tim* the petitioners are to make out lifts of their refpedive loffe*, and eftimat* their value, in as particular a manner as may be, for the iafpodion 0 f th* house. . June 10. Some vessels, arrived here from Jamaica, just without found tngs, met with a quantity of dead fiih, fuppoled to be the fame as men tioned under the New-York head. Cbarlcftovm, July l). From North Carolina, we are informed, That Governor Tryon.-with the commtffioners appointed for that purpose, joined by the Chiefs of tbe Cherokee nation, on of June, began to run out the boundary line between. North-Carolina and the Cherokee hunting-grounds, at the corner tree on Reedy River, where the line be hind the province terminates. Tha fnrveyors went a north course ct miles, marking as they went into the mountains; and on the 13th of Jamu they marked fcverl tree* on the top of Mount Tryon, on the head wa.- ters of White Oak and Pacolet Creeks, running into Green and Broad Ri vers j but several obstacles having impeded a further furvey r it was agreed by the whole, that the boundary ihould be a dited line from the said marked trees to Chifwell’s mines in Virginia) which being fettled and agreed upon, proper instruments were drawn up, and signed by the par ties present, to be transmitted to his Majefty,—The Indians Were so high ly f with l -*- kUaniia'. {’•■Jwf nfio& to their several requisitions, that tftey complimented him with the war name of tW Great HToif of North* Carolina. Morfday Ia ft the schooner Dorcas, lattfy arrived from Martinique, la* •den with wines, ram and molafles, with her cargo,’ was condemned in the Court of Vice-Admiralty of tbit province; and is jaft adverttfed for falc thia day., , , Rxtr*a fa Utttr rrm Nnu-FwiShuv, JateJ Junt *4, i?6y. m ■ “-—By a veflel in uireedays from Porto Prince, in Cuba, we are &% fared, that all the Jefum in that tOand had been fcized a few days before (he failed, together with their papers and effcas, to a very codkkrabie amount, and carried to Havana, in order to be lent from thence to Old* Spain ! They had not the leall notice or apprehension of thia extraordina ry revolution, till they saw thcmfelves surrounded in their convent*, &e by a number of foldiera, and their persons and properties conveyed under guard to the principal port in the island. is all the news we hav# of any importance.——’* ih Barba Jet , April 15. Yesterday morning, abont at mi* nute* after fix o c.ock, a smart (hock of an earthquake was felt here, which laded about 10 or 1 a fcconds, but did no damage. From the violent agi taiidb of the water for fome hours after, we are apprehenfivo we (hall hear of its being more feyere clfc where. May 16. On Tuesday the 12th inflant the bill for rebuilding the town of St. Michael on a regular plan received the alTent of the Council. ’ We “ C lnforni€d . lh the 2d of May lad, in !at. 34. 20, and Weft long. 33. ao. the brigt. Lord Dungannon, of Belfaft, from Cork* fell in with a brigt. loaded with lumber, that was full of water f the greatest part of her decks torn up, and withont arty person on board; the fails were unbent, and (he had neither anchors nor cable*. She was aboat lao tons burthen, had* horfc head, and her wiodlafs wat fixed bu* fore the foreman. Her main top-mad had been, carried away, but the rest of her snaft* were Handing. It is believed the people must have bee# saved. T A . KE £y J ohri Goldwire at Moont-Pleafaat, the two follow ing STRAYS, viz. A Brown B.ay Horse, near 14 hands high, a bout fix years oW, having a small star on his forehead, branded on the offbuttock 7R. And a Yellow Bay Horse, about 13, hands high, about eight years old, branded on the off buttock M. Martin Reijander informs of a GREY HORSE, it and a half hand* high, branded on the near (houlder and buttock tR, and on theofffltool* der Tv. and has a large blue spot on hi* right check. . w “ofoever owns any of the above drays may have them of the rcfpcc nve informers, by applying to, and proving their property before Ebcnezcr, July 3 , * 7 6 7 . JOHN ADAM TREUTLEN. CASH will be given for a QUANTITY of GOOD BEESWAX- Apply to dm jinn ter of this paper.