Maryland Gazette July 1768

O M E Letters from JConftantinople mention, that a dangerous Confpiracy was difcovered among & & $ &i% feveral of the Grandee* of the Em-' I S I 5 I pire, during the Illnefs of the Grand Sigmorj but that proper Meafures had been taken to prevent the threatened Mifchief._ April 16.Advices brought over i* the laft Utrecht Gazette, fey, that they have Letter* n>m ConlUntinople, which aftually announce the Ortth of the Grand Signior.Letter! from France advife, that the Diftemper amoog the horned Cattle it again broke out at Rochefort, ind its Environs, many of which are daily car-titJ off by it.fanl it.On Saturday laft between a and 3000 Coalbtiven, ill neatly drefled, divided into feveral Gang*, nch carrying a Streamer, with Mufic playing before ytm, went from Wapping, and waited on William Btdford, Efq; in Soho.Square, with a Petition, fet-Mg forth their Grievances, and praying Redrefs.We heir that a popular Preacher,) on his polling at Brtntford, being alked, who he was for ?He replied, ;jr hii Brother Sqnintum, whom he hoped, would now become one of the Eleft.We hear from Scotland, that a late Election Dinner hid coft Three Hundred and Seventy-four Pounds i:er!':ng.fynl 19.On Saturday Night fome Difpatches, faid to be of fome Importance, were fent away to Falmouth, ,:j be put on board the Packet-Boat bound for New-York, for Major General Gage, Commander in Chief i; his Ma jelly'i Forces in North-America.4/ri/i6.It is remarkable, that the Name of J. \ilkes, Efq; was not inferted in the London Gazette, j returned Member for Middlefex, 'til laft Saturday Evening, on which Day a grand Council had been preioaily held, at which the. Earl of Chatham was pre-|int.We re afTured, as an abfolute Fact, that the Day 'ificr a Lite popular Election was over, a Perfon of Dil-; nflion hrul an Audience of a great Perfonage, who i:ked him if he had got hit Windows broke, to which lie replied in the Negative; upon which tfce great Periiiuge, with the moft placid Countenance, laid, tbat S3 Damage -was done except to a few obfluuttt Ptoflt.BOSTON , Jiuu 16.Friday laft, towards Evening, the Officers of the Cuf-Uiau for tliii Port nude .aSeizure of .aSloop, belonging ___ GENTLEMEN, ";'~ rA FTER the Repeal of the late American sfamp-' Aft, we were happy in the plcafing Profpeft of a Reftoration of that Tranquillity and Unanimity among' ourfelves,-and that Harmony and Affection Ixtweeii our Parent Country and us, which had generally fubfifted before that deteftable Aft-But with the utmoft Grief an4 Concern, we find that we flattered ourfelves too foon, and that the Root of Bitternefs h yet alive.The Principle on which that Aft was founded countiues in fall Force, and a Revenue is (till demanded from America., We have the Mortification to obferve one A& of Parliament after another p:.lFed for the exprefs Purpofe of railing a Revenue from us ; to fee our Mouey continually collefting from us without our Confent, by an Authority in the Conftitution of which .we have no Share, and over which we have no kind of Influence; or Controul j-to fee the little circulating Cafli that remained ambng us for the Support of our Trade, from Time ' to Time tranfmitted td a diftant Country, never to return, or what in our Estimation is worfe, if poAible, appropriated to the Maintenance of Swartcs of Oftcwt and Penfioner* in Idleneft and Luxury, whofe Exav> IT,:;^p ie h a Tendency to corrupt our Morals, and whofe arbitrary Dilpofitions will trample on our Rights.Under all thefe Misfortunes and AJHiftions, hoover, it it our fixed Refolution to maintain our Loyalty and Duty 'to our molt gracious Sovereign, a Rgwence and dae Subordination to the Britifli Parliaments the fupreme Legiflative in all Cafcs of Nrceffity.Tfcr the Prefervation of the whole Empire, and our cordial and fincere'Affeftion for our Parent-Country j and to ufe our utmoft Endeavours for the Prefervation of Peace aad.Order among ourfelves ; waiting with anxious Expectation, for a favourable Anfwcr to the Petitions and Solicitations of this Continent, for Relief.At the fame Time it is our unalterable Refolution, at all Tiroes, to alfert and vindicate our dear and invaluable Riglui and Liberties, at the utmoft Hazard of our Lives and Fortunes i and we have a full and rational Confidence that no Defignt formed againft them' will ever profper.That fuch Defigns have been formed, and ar (till in being, we have realon to apprehend.A Multitude of Place-men and Penfioners, and an enormous Train of Underlings and.Dependants, all novel in this Country, we have Ken already : Their imperious Tempers, their rain, inconfiderate, and weak Behaviour, are well known.In this Situation of Affairs, feveral armed Veflels, and among the reft, his Majefty's Ship of War, the Romney, have appeared in our Harbour j and thelaft, as we believe, by the exprcls Application of the Board of Commiflioners, with defign to overawe and terrify the Inhabitants of this Town into bafe Compliances, and unlimited Submiflion, has been anchored wfchin a Cable's Length of the Wharfs.But palfing o?er other Irregularities, we are allured, that the laft alarming Act of that Ship, viz. the violent, and, in our Opinion, illegal Seizure of a Veflel lying at a Wharf, the cutting of her Fafts, and removing her with an armed Force'in hoftile Manner, under the Protection of the King's Ship, without any probable Caufe of Seizure that we know of, or indeed any Caufe that hat yet been known, no Libel or Prolecution whatever having yet been inftitutecl againft her, was, by the exprefs Order, or Requeft in Writing, of the Board of Commiflioners to the Commander of that Ship.In Addition to all this, we are continually alarmed with Rumours and Reports of new Revenue Afts to be pafled, new Importations of Officers and Penlipner* to luck the Life-Blood of the Body Politic, while it is dreaming from the Veins ; frefh Arrivals of Ships of War, to be a ftill feverer Reftraint upon our Trade; ' and th Arrival of a Military Force, to dragoon us into Paflive Obedience ; Orders and Requifitions tranfmitted to New-York, Halifax, and to England, for Regiments and Troops, to prefervc the Public Peace.Under the Diftrettej arifing from this State of Things, with the highell Confidence in your Integrity, Abfli-Letters from NoAh-Carolma, mention, that there are great Diftui bances in tliat Province, occasioned by the Aft of Parliament, prohibiting the iffuing of any more Paper Currency.NEWPORT, June 6.Laft Saturday Capt.Thomas Teagle Taylor, arrived here from Virginia, by whom we are informed, that in his Paflage to Virginia, on the i+th of April laft, about 14. Leagues from Chingoteague Shoals, he took up a ScaCheltt which, on Examination, prov'd to be one Capt.Dalling's, from North-Carolina, bound to Pifcataway, his Owners named Shcrburn -.In the Cheft were fundry Cloaths, about Seven Pounds of Carolina Paper Money, feveral Letters to Gentlemen in Bofton and Pifcataway, with a Number of other Papers, and the Journal j all which are fo much damaged, they are Icarcely legible.N E W -Y O R K, Junt a 5 .ended (at leaft.with Regard to its d.ilruftivc Fu-\l fomewhere about Warwick-Furnace, in Chefter-tu I " How awful are the Difpenfations of Providence i I JEHOVAH " rides in'the Whirlwind, and J " '"' Storm."He commands the Snow and they obey his Word.Let us adore let us t p. s.Much as I was furprized at the'prodiJi I ous Size of the above defcribed Hail-Stones, 1,, I much more fo, in reading, a few Days fmce,'an Ac'1 count given by Dr. HOOKE, in forae of his PhilofopyJ cal Papers, collected and publifhed by Mr. DgHAii.-Jlhat he had taken the Dimenfions and Figures of ftr7 ral Hail-Stones which fell in England, meafuring Tliiri teen Inches in Circumference."

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