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vened, and duly acting, have been openly charged with the unpardonable crime of "oppugnation against the royal authority." kave not only to inform your excellency, that this house have voted not to refcind, as required, the refolution of the last house; and that on a divifion on the queftion, there were ninety two nays and feventeen yeas. In all this we have been actuated by a confcientious, and finally, a clear and determined sense of duty to God, to our king, our country, and to our latest posterity: and we most ardently with, and humbly pray, that in your future conduct your excellency may be influenced by the fame principles.

The governor after having received the laft foregoing meffage from the house, directed their attendance in the council chamber, and then and there gave his affent to fuch bills as were ready, and adjourned the great and general court to Wedneíday the third day of Auguft next.

The following are among the acts paffed, viz. An act for granting the fum of thirteen hundred pounds for the fupport of his majesty's governor.

An act for fupplying the treasury with the fum of eighteen thoufand pounds.

An act for fupplying the treasury with one hundred thousand pounds, to be applied for the redemption of government securities that will become due in the year of our Lord 1769.

Bofton, July 11. On Monday laft was published a proclamation, dated the ft inftant, for difolving the great and general court or affembly of this province.

The Beaver floop of war, capt. Belew, arrived here the beginning of last week from Halifax, and anchors now between DorchesterNeck and Caftle-William, near where the Gafpee lately anchored, which has fince failed. Wednesday last came into this harbour, his majefty's armed fchooners Hope, and Little Romney. The next day arrived here his majesty's fhip Senegal.

Bofon, June 23. We hear that the honourable the commiffioners of the customs, and the other officers, who had retired on board his majefty's fhip Romney, in the late disturbance, have fince difembarked, and landed at Caftle-William, where a board was held on Tuesday lait. The collector for the port of Boston is also at the

castle.

Monday last failed the brig Nancy, capt. Brett, for London, in which went paffenger, Benjamin Hallowel, jun. efq; comptroller of the customs for this port.

Boston, July 4. It is faid, that at the very juncture when the governor was pleased to adjourn the great and general court, the honourable board of counsellors were confulting an humble petition to the king, upon the important affair of parliamentary taxation : and the honourable house were debating upon another petition to the fame facred perfon, for the removal of a great man from the high office he holds under his majesty in this province.

Bofton, July 11. It is iaid that one of the feventeen flaves [meaning those members of the affembly who voted for refcinding the refolution in a former affembly] apply'd, very earnestly, to a number of coafters, bound to the fouthward, for a paffage to Martha's vine yard. but upon their enquiring who he was, and finding him tobe lave, they refused him a paffage.

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To the EDITOR of the POLITICAL REGISTER.

SIR,

The following is an accurate copy of a very curious paper, which ought to be preserved in your Register.

Yours, A. B. A Memorial of feveral Noblemen and Gentlemen of the fift Rank and Fortune, prefented to the late King, in 1752.

The Memorialifts reprefent,

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HAT the education of a P. of W. is of the utmoft importance to the whole nation: That it ought always to be intrufted to noblemen of the most unblemished honour, and to prelacy of the most diftinguished virtue, of the most accomplished learning, and of the most unfufpected principles, with regard to government both in church and ftate: That the misfortunes which this nation fuffered, or escaped under K. Charles I. K. Charles II. and K. James II. were owing to the bad education of thofe princes, who were early initiated in those maxims of arbitrary power: That, for a faction to engross the education of the P. of W. to themfelves, excluding men of probity, property, and wholesome learning, is unwarrantable, dangerous, and illegal; That to place men about a P. of W. whofe principles are fufpected, and whofe belief in the mysteries of our faith is doubtful, hás the most mischievous tendency, and ought juftly to alarm the friends of their country, and of the Proteftant fucceffion : That, for minifters to fupport low men, who were originally improper for the high truft to which they were advanced, after complaints made of dark, fufpicious, and unwarrantable methods made ufe of by fuch men, in their plan of education, and to protect and countenance such men in their infolent and unheard-of behaviour to their fuperiors, is a foundation for fufpecting the worft defigns in such minifters, and ought to make all good men apprehenfive of the ambition of thofe minifters: -That, it being notorious that books, inculcating the worft maxims of government, and defending the most avowed tyrannies, have been put into the hands of the P. of W. it cannot but affect the Memorialifts, when they find that the men, who had the honefty and refolution to complain of fuch aftonifhing methods of inftruction, are driven away from court †, and the men who have dared to teach fuch doctrines, are continued in truft and favour That the fecurity of this government being built upon Whig principles, and alone fupported by Whig zeal : VOL. III.

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* Father Orleans's Revolutions of the House of Stuart.

Ramfay's Travels of Cyrus.

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In 1752, Lord Harcourt and Dr. Hayter were dismissed, and

fucceeded by Lord Waldegrave and Dr. Stone.

That the establishment of the prefent Royal Family being fettled in the timely overthrow of Queen Anne's laft miniftry, it cannot but alarm all true Whigs, to hear of schoolmafters, of very contrary principlos, being thought of for preceptors; and to fee none but the friends and pupils of the late lord Bolingbroke intrufted with the education of a prince, whofe family that lord endeavoured, by his measures, to exclude, and by his writings to expel, from the throne of thefe kingdoms: That there being great reafon to believe, that a noble lord has accufed one of the Preceptors of Jacobitifm, it is aftonishing that no notice has been taken of a complaint of fo high a nature; on the contrary, the accused perfons continue in the fame truft, without any enquiry into the grounds of the charge, or any steps taken by the accufed, to purge himself of a crime of fo black a dye : fatisfaction being given to the Governor and Preceptor, who, though a nobleman of the most unblemished honour, and a Prelate of the most unbiaffed virtue, have both been treated in the groffeft terms of abuse by a menial fervant of the family, is derogatory to his Majefty's authority, under which they acted; is an affront to peerage; and an outrage to the dignity of the Church.

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That whoever advifed the refufal of an audience to the Bishop of N. who was fo juftly alarmed at the wrong methods which he faw taken in the education of the P. of W. is an enemy to his country, and can only mean at least, to govern by a faction, or is himself influenced by a more dangerous faction, who intend to overthrow the government, and reftore the exiled and arbitrary houfe of Stuart. But that to have a Scotchman of the most difaffected family, and allied in the nearest manner to the Pretender's first minifter, confulted in the education of the P. of W. and intrufted with the most important fecrets of the government, muft tend to alarm and difguft the friends of the prefent Royal Family, and to encourage the hopes and attempts of the Jacobites.Lafily, the memorialifts cannot help remarking, that three or four low, dark fufpected perfons are the only men whose stations are fixed and permanent; but that all the great offices, and officers, are fo conftantly varied and fhuffled about, to the difgrace of this country, that the beft affected apprehend, that there is a fettled defign in thofe low and fufpected perfons to infufe fuch jealoufies, caprices, and ficklenefs, into the two minifters whofe confidence they engrofs, as may render this government ridiculous and contemptible, and facilitate the refolution which the Memorialists think they have but too much reafon to fear is meditating.

GOD PRESERVE THE KING.

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To the EDITOR of the POLITICAL REGISTER.

SIR,

THE diffenfions among thofe of rank and fortune who feem to agree in nothing but combinations to divide the fpoils of the nation; those confufions, and diftreffes, which perplex every department of administration, and have reduced us fo low in the estimation of foreigners, that even the petty mercantile king of Portugal has prefumed to infult us, together with that contempt of the laws which fo univerfally prevails, are circumftances of the most alarming nature. They fhould excite our ftricteft inquiry into the cause of all thefe evils; they fhould call forth our most vigourous exertion to remove them.

It is not poffible that any fubject can entertain a more exquifite fenfe of the great merit of his prefent Majesty than I do, I revere his virtues, I love his perfon, I can difcern the workings of his noble nature, his benevolence and tenderness for his minifter-galled fubjects, I fee his goodness struggling against the outrageous unrelenting counfels of thofe wretches, who would stop the ftream of mercy. I with him to be happy, to be glorious. Nay, my prejudices in favour of the honeft family from which he is defcended, are fo ftrong, as almoft to difarm me of apprehenfion, in the very midst of danger; but liberty is concerned, and all other confiderations give way, for fhe muft be guarded with the fame watchful jealous eye, under a Titus as under a Nero; the virtues of a reigning prince, should not lull us into torpid fecurity; a minifter at all times ready to corrupt, and a gentry precipitated into every meannefs which can debafe man's noble nature, may poifon the mind of the most virtuous prince; and when the mine is artfully prepared, the train laid, every thing ready for fpringing, it is but applying the match, at one explosion are our liberties deftroyed, and nothing may remain but the painful recollection of how long we might have lived free, and happy, under the Brunfwick line, had we not been fcandaloufly wanting to ourfelves.

Henry the Vth was poffeffed of every great and good quality which could be an ornament to royalty; he was defcended from a race of heroes, whofe great atchievements, recent in the minds of their pofterity, communicated an elevation of fentiment, which few princes in thefe latter ages of fraud, avarice, and intrigue, are by any means capable of feeling. If they had vices, they were the vices of kings; their paffions wore the glofs of heroifm to fet them off, and

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fpread a luftre over the nations they ruled. Obftinacy in princes of no magnanimity aiming at the mark of glory, became, fpirited, determined refolution, in them; and, if they had revenge in their nature, kingdoms and empires alone, were held objects worthy of their vengeance. Yet under that great houfe of Plantagenet, fo teeming with heroes, that out of ten kings immediately preceding Henry the VIth, five were diftinguished for fome, or for all thofe great accomplishments by which monarchs become illuftrious; even in the reign of Henry the VIth, crowned when an infant, king of that realm which his father had conquered, fupported by the reputation of fuch a father, intrenched (one would imagine very fecurely) within the loyalty of his people, the fidelity, affection, and abilities of his uncles: Yet I fay, in that very reign, and in a fituation fo favourable to the peace and happiness of that prince, did an ambitious meddling woman and a wicked minifter, involve this country in all the horrors of civil difcord. If then, n that age of fimplicity, before the fyftem of minifterial corruption was compleat, when patriots were sometimes perrennial, and did not always perifh during the fame feffion in which they had fprung up; ere the royal pedant James had forged general warrants from the Almighty, for enflaving the nations of the earth; ere hireling fycophant hiftorians had found their account in diftorting truth, and endeavouring to reconcile men's minds to a legal arbitrary power, in princes, of trampling upon every thing that is legal; ere Scottish impudence had prefumed to read over the name of Stuart in the catalogue of good kings, and before the Pfeudo-Martyr, that tyrant of fullen and perfidious memory, was held up as the model for future monarch's; if I fay, ere these things had taken place, one bad adminiftration could have produced the calamities I have mentioned, can we at this time be perfwaded that a confidence in the most favourite royal family can dispense but for a moment with that attention which we owe to the peace of our country, to the prefervation of the conftituti n?-The fmalleft reflection upon this important duty will fuggeft, that in a difordered ftate, the firft application for a remedy must be to thofe with whom the laws have depofited the care of the political body: It is therefore to the commons that wer uft have recourie, the laft did undoubtedly lay itif open to fome fmall inputations of quackery, the pretent afford a pleafing hope, that they will approve themfeives honeft and able phyficians; the people have merited their utmost service; they have generously delegated to them that power, which our law at every diffolution fends, in order to

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