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PbUdicipbia^ "June 6. Join Ifugl»es .'i.-
l.'dm province, and William Co rr, Luj*, fo. Ncw
tre appointed Stamp-Ofliccrs.
' of «tf LttUr from ^taiivAoH^ in Virginia.
\ ** On the 12th of May, two of the party of
Cherokee Indians who efcaped from the white
WP>*» went to the houfe ot a blind man, about t
““ mUes from hence, where they tomahawked *
and his wife, and took a very fmall fcalp
of ^he man, but did not disfigure the wOrtian.
e iame day, about four miles from thence,
hfy lying behind a log, a man on horfe-
eame up, and his horle itarfing, threw
when one of the Indians fe.zM and (Iruck
i®thc check with his tomahawk, and ima-
done his bufinefs, left him^ and
the other in atching the horfe, but
rime the man efcaped, putting his
the wound to catch the blood, that
light not track him.”
JMijr 20. Wednefday evening laft
Fairchild, in the brig Chance, ai-rived here
die Bay of Honduras, which place lie left
t5th of April, by him we learn, that Sir W.
by had eftabliflied a civil government in
place, and left a fnow man of war there for
. tke procedion of the trade.
’Msj 27. By letters ftom London, we have
••tetain accounts, th u a claulc is added to the
OQAltiny and de!eition bill, whereby juftices of
fte pMce arc impowered to billet foldicrs on the
inhabitants in America, at their dik retion.“
By letters from England we alio lejrn, that a
»fal will foon be made to parliament, to cn-
the importation of American v/ooi into
informed Rirha*’d Cracraft, jim. of
I, Elq; ancminetit Solicitor, was th«. prr*
whom the publick is fo rnCich indci>i'*d for
tfle return of the duties impciicil by 1 .ord Albe
marle, at the Fdavanna *, his iordfhip having fre
quent private conferences with Mr. Cracrafr,
concerning thofe affairs, to whofe judgment and
ti^duft we owe the happy adjuftment of them,
ymich oiherwife would have !xen attended with
ipeat delays and expencc.
V- JuHe 3. Friday lalt arrived here Capt. tingly,
- informs us, that when he left Brillol, it was
there, that his Majefty was mu^h indil-
and *twas laid he was troubled with the
diforder of which his father died, viz. An
mtoMume in his breaft.
Jateft advices froiti England, among
Kjttmwe. luve many particulars from a gentle^
prefent and heard wll the debates
_ IBcnt when the (lamp bill was bro’t in,
enUefted the following articles, Viz.—
the accounts Vrhich have been publilhcd in
papers (taken firft from ihc Bofton pa-
>7 toa^g to the circumftanccs that attended
pifling of that bill, were extremely errone-
^ That there was no fucli obfervation, during
debate, made by any membi. r in the houfe,
STAc/ where the colomes fund cn juch high pre~
ie^fions of independency on jhi iuprme Ugijlative
authtirity of idreat-Britav.^ a no moiierniing
M%y tbing\ that it wii lo far from being true,
•■that at the debate in the icben the retolv's
pajfed, not a man fpoke \ jr'. did not declare it l :s
opinion that America ough: \ Ir ihai r;.c
ipeako:- in f.v',. - r.f rhe Colnnlc , v :
numerous thun th-jr opi-kofcrs^ m-.-ch better fpej-
.kers, and incomparably liiperior in point of ar
gument, tho’ out-numberM by the rr.inifleria!
party, and dependents on court favour.
The bill was introduced by Mr. Grenville
chalicellor of the exchequer, with a long 4>ecch[
more fpecious than lolid ; the fuhftance of which’
and of all the arguments of the other fpeakers iri
favour of the bill, we are informed, are con
tained, in alrnoft their very word:,, in a pamph-
Ict ^blilhed in London. Several members then
fpole on each fide the quellion, but the moft re
markable in favour of the colomes, was Colonel
Barrz, a gentleman of the army, member for
the ^ough of Chipping-Wycomb, in th^ coun
ty of Bocks : He Was a major and adjutant-g^e-
ral U the taking of Q^.ebeck, where he was
wounded, and for his fcrviccs was rewarded with
thej^acc of governor of a callle, but was dif-
miflfcd from it on his voting againft fome mini-
fferial meafurcs.—— He made a rtioft excellent
Ipecch, Wherein he afletted the colonies rights,
urged their fcrviccs and importance to Grtat-
Britain, relented the hardlhips and indignities
that had been put upon them, particularly i:i
cramping their trade, in extending the juriidic-
tion of the court of admiralty, (fo that a man
migjlt be called i50c> miles from Georgia, to
anlwcr an information laid agiinft him in Hali
fax/ and in the appointment ot pcrlons to places
of high trull and importance, without either
characters or qualifications to fill them with dig
nity, dr difeharge the ncccffary duties. He mcn-
tioa^d the appointment of a judge for one of the
colonic^ who, he fsid, to his certain know
ledge had not long before been obliged to hold
up his hknd at a bar. He obferved that Great-
Bfirain called herlelf the mother country, but
cautioned her to beware that (he did not give the
colonies juft reafon to think her rather a cruel
ftep-damc than a mother ; he faid they had been
planted with little or no coft to Grcat-Britain,
many of them without any, and had amply re
paid her bf their trade, for all the fervices fhc
had ever done them j that the very charges of
the war for which the tax was propofed to be
raifed, was for her own fake, not theirs, who
had likewife been at great expences on their own
account in the fame caule and that it was more
uhrcafonable to impofc a tax upon them for de
fending them, than it would have been to de
ni arid i rcimburfement of the expences of de
fending Portugal and Germany.
He laid the Americans were a brave people,
inflexibly loyal, and afFciflionatcIy attached to his
M^cfty s perfon and family, and the firitilhcon-
ftitution i and ftill retained that high Icnlc and
eftimation of freedom, and thcr native rights,
to preferVe which they quitted iheir native couh-
try, and fled to a wildcrnefs inhabited by barba
rous favages, whom they chofc to encounter,
rather than bear oppreTion; and that If they
were peaceably ro enjoy their rights, tKev would
in a few years be :hr ftrongeft bulwark to the Bri-
tifh monarchy ; that in a lare war they had de
fended thcnilrlves, without any a,T’luncc from
Grcat-Britain, and l)y takipry Cij '*-Br"tor., had
given peace to EngUnd : In it was oh-
ir 1aJ«1 .vli tb
i'avTwi of
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