should be a further adjournment of this Signed by order of the Provincial Concongress; therefore

gress, Resolved, That after the business ne

JOHN HANCOCK, President." ceffary to be immediately dispatched shall be finished, he congress be diffolved. “ Boston, Dec. 12. The day before

And this congress being deeply im- yesterday it was moved in provincial pressed with a fense of the increasing congress, that arms be immediately tadangers which threaten the rights and li- ken up against the King's troops. But one berties of the people of this province of the members got up, and told them, with total ruin, our adverfaries being such a motion was infamous, when at still indefatigable in their attempts to the same time the members knew, that carry into execution their deep-laid plans neither Connecticut nor any of the southfor that wicked purpose ; and confider. era colonies meant to oppose his Majeing the indispensable necessity that an af- fty's arms. On which account the consembly of the province should be very gress immediately diffolved, and a new frequently fitting, to consult and devise one is to be chosen, to meet the joth of measures for their common safety; there- next month. — At Plymouth they are fore

now beating up for volunteers to attack Resolved, That it be, and it is hereby the troops : the parties fent for a parfon Earne tiy recommended to the several to pray for them, who refused to comtowns and districts in this province, that ply; but he was obliged to attend on each of them do forthwith elect and de- being sent for a second time, on penalty pute as many members as to them shall of being shot.” seem necessary and expedient, to repre “ Portsmouth, New Hampsbire, Dec. 16. sent them in a provincial congress, to be We have been in confufion here for two beld at Cambridge on the first day of days past, on account of an express from February next ensuing; to be chosen by Boston, informing, that two regiments such only as are qualified by law to vote were coming to take possession of our for representatives in the general assem- fort. By beat of drum 200 men immebly, and be continued by adjournment, diately assembled, and went to the castle as they shall see cause, until the Tuesday in two gundalows, who on their way next preceding the last Wednesday in were joined by 150 more, and demandMay next, and no longer; to confult, ed the surrender of the fort; which deliberate, and resolve, upon such fur- Capt. Cochran refused, and fired three ther measures, as (under God) shall be guns; but no lives were loft : upon effe&ual to save this people from impend. which they immediately scaled the walls, ing ruin, and to secure those ineftimable disarmed the Captain and his men, took liberties, derived to us from our ance- pofleffion of 97 barrels of powder, put stors, and which it is our duty to preserve it on board the gundalows, brought it for pofterity.

up to town, and went off with it to some And considering the great uncertainty distance in the country. Yefterday the of the present times, and that unexpect- town was full of men from the country, ed important events may take place, who marched in in form: they chose a from whence it may be absolutely necef- committee to wait on the Governor; sary that the delegates who may be elect- who assured them he knew of no such ed as above proposed, should meet foon- design as sending troops, ships, &c.” er than the day aforementioned, it is re “ New-Town, Sussex county, Nov. 24. commended to the several towns and Yesterday David Campbell, a pedlar, districts, that they instruct and authorise was discovered in offering to sale a pamtheir faid delegates to assemble at Cam- phlet, intitled, A friendly address to all bridge aforesaid, or any other place, up- reasonable Americans, on the subject of our on notice given them of the neceffity political contentions, sc: a work highly thereof, by the delegates that may be injurious to the cause of American libercbofen by the towns of Charlestown, ty, speciously recommending the base Cambridge, Brookline, Roxbury, and principles of passive obedience to tyran· Dorchefter, or the majority of them, in ny, calculated to excite jealousies and such way as they fall judge proper. divisions among the inhabitants of the And it is. further recommended to the different colonies, and terrify weakdelegates to be elected, that they con- minded persons into subrnillion to the form themselves to such inftructions, late oppressive acts of parliament. The

VOL. XXXVII.

man,

man, as soon as questioned, protested New Books; with the Prices, Publishhis innocence; and, the dangerous tendency of the pamphlet being declared to

ers Names, Remarks, and Extracts. him, he promised to sell no more of

[The Signatures annexed, show 10 whom we them, one only having been disposed of. are indebied for the remarks, &c.; M. denoting

This day the county-committee called Monthly Review; C. Critical Review; G. him before them, when he declared, that Gentleman's Magazine, &c.] these infamous pamphlets were delivered to him by Mr Rivington of New York, A journey to the Western Islands of Scot. printer, who recommended them as ex

Land. [By Dr Johnson.] ss. boards.

Cadell. cellent pamphlets, and very saleable. Previous to his appearance before the oF this journey, which pofterity will committee, the man, being convinced of confider as no lefs claflical, and is, his offence, and defirons to satisfy the in truth, far more interesting, than that people, had voluntarily confented to of Horace to Brundufium, we shall give their being burnt by the hands of the a short epitome. common hangman; and they were burnt Our author, having long defired to accordingly, in presence of a numcrous visit the Hebrides, was induced, in the concourse of people. The pedlar, ha- autumn of 1773, to undertake the jourving promited to be more cautious in fu- mey, by finding, in Mr Boswell [the ture, was diimified.” [31.)

friend of Paoli], a companion, whose On the 7th of November, a discovery be- acuteness (he says) would help his ining made, that there were eighteen theep quiry, and whose gaiety of conversation, in a floop in the harbour of New York, and civility of manners, are sufficient to bound for the West Indies, a number of counteract the inconveniencies of travel citizens informed the captain, that the in countries less hofpitable than those exportation of sheep was contrary to a which they passed. They left Edinburgh resolution of the continental congress: Aug. 18. directing their course norththe sheep were landed, and returned to ward, along the eastern coast of Scotthe proprietor; and the people difperfed land, and accompanied the first day by quictly

another gentleman (unnamed), who A letter from New York, dated, Dec. could ftay with them only long enough 26. says, “ The butchers in general that to sew thein how much they lost at se attend the market in Philadelphia, in or- paration. As they crcfkd the frith o der to coinply with the affociation of the Forth, they first viðted Inchkeith, a smal congress, and to increase the breed of isand, never before vifited by either of sheep, have solemnly agreed, and pledged our author's companions, though con. themselves to the public, that they will ftantly lying within their view. This is not hereafter purchase any ewe miitton described as nothing more than a rock or lamb until the first day of May next, covered by a thin layer of earth, wit! nor any ewe lamb from the said first day the ruins of a small fort, little injured by of May until the first day of O&ober fol- time. Through Kinghorn, Kirkaldy lowing ; nos will they after the first day and Cnpar, they then proceeded to S of January kill any ewe mutton or lamb, Andrew's, a city once archiepifcopal on any aco or pretence whatsoever, where lodgings trad been provided fo until the first day of May following ; nor them," by the interposition of some in any ewe lamb whatever from the faid pisible friend,” at the houfc of one of th first day of May until the first day of professors, whose “ easy civility,” an October following."

* elegant lettered hospitality,” are am “ New York, Dec. 15. Letters by the ply rewarded by as elegant an clogium kaft packet bring information, that his But this kindness did not contribnte : Majesty has been graciously pleased to abate the uneasy remembrance of an o found a profesordhip of divinity in the niversity declining, a college alienate college of this city, with a falary from and a church profaned and hatening 1 home; and to appoint the Rev. John the ground.” On these several topis Wardill, 4. M. at this time in England, our author descants with his usual energ to be the Royal Professor; the first in- and pathos, paying a compliment, i tance, we apprehend, of the like nature the way, to the modern Latinity" in American"

Buchanan, and observing, at St. A

drew

drew's, only one tree, which “ might the weird fifters ;” at Fochabers, a feat be a show in Scotland, as a horse in če of the Duke of Gordon, faw the firft ornice.” Over the frith of Tay, they pas- chard ; and, at Nairn, entered on the fed, by Dundee, to Aberbrothock, a Highlands, there “firit sering peat-fires, monaftery renowned in the history of and hearing the Erse language.". From Scotland, and ftill magnificent in its the house of Mr Macaulay, the minifter Tuins; thence proceeded to Montrose, a who published an account of St Kilda, * clean, airy, well-built” town; and they visited Calder.Cattie, of which Macwere then drawn out of their way to the beth was Thane, and, from this ancient house of Lord Monboddo, by the tower, went to a most regular modern magnetism of his conversation.” At A- fortification, Fort-George, where the e. berdeen, our travellers were politely no- legant conversation of Sir Eyre Coote, ticed by Sir Alexander Gordon, known, the governor [distinguished by his actwenty years ago, to Dr Johnson, in tions in India), was preferred, by our London, and now Professor of Phyfic in author, to the delicacies of his table. the King's college. Both the old and Ab, in this route, our author must new city, and also the colleges, are unavoidably have crossed the Spey, and briefly described, and we are told, that have passed near, if not over, the field of the writer had the freedom of the city Culloden, we cannot help wondering at politely given him in the town-hall, by his ftudiously avoiding to mention that the Lord Prosoft. “ The honour con- decilive battle; and cannot but be of oferred (says the Doctor) bad all the de- pinion, that most of his Englith readers, corations that politeness could add, and, at least, will think the scene where the what I am afraid I should not have had fate of three kingdoms was really deterto say of any city south of the Tweed, I mined, of no less importance than any of found no petty officer bowing for a fee." the imaginary actions of Macbeth, though To Slanes-Cattle, built on the margin of celebrated by Shakespeare. the fea, the seat of the Earl of Errol, At Inverness, " the capital of the they were invited by his Lordfhip; and, Highlands," they quitted their postwith Mr Boyd, visited Dun Buy (the chaise for horses, now entering a counpelisw rock), a rocky peninsula, disco- try“ upon which, perhaps, no wheel loured by the dung of innumerable fea- bas ever rolled;" and on the banks of fowls, and the Ballers of Buchan, a rock Loch Nefs, visiting, by the way, and perpendicularly tubulated, of which the describing, a Highland 'hut, and the cedescription cannot be read with indiffe- lebrated fall of Foyers, rode to Fort rence.' Pursuing their journey, our tra- Augustus; of which the courtesy of Mr Fellers faw peither flocks nor herds, and, Trapaud, the governor, is not forgotin thefe 200 miles, had observed only ten. Two days more brought them, one tree not younger than themselves. through the Highlands, to the western At Banff, their next stage, nothing par- coaft; hearing, as they passed, of the ticular was observable, but the incom- raising of rents, and consequent emigramodiousness of Scotch windows, which tion of the inhabitants; and painting, kept them very closely nut. Through with a glowing pencil, the hills and riCullen they proceeded to Elgin, a place vers, and, in particular, one pleasant of little trade; and here, describing the bank, which firft suggested the thought ruins of that cathedral, the Doctor af- of this narration. Leaving our author ferts, that “our own cathedrals (also) philosophically to investigate the reason are mouldering by unregarded dilapida- of those peculiarities which generally tion," and that the monuments of fa- distinguish such rugged regions, and, afcred magnificence are despifed.” This terwards, as philosophically to sleep on intelligence is new and alarming, and we a bundle of hay, in his riding-coat, we could wish that these dilapidated churches hasten to the Ine of Sky, where Dr Johnhad been specified, especially as, on ma- fon and Mr Boswell landed Sept. 2c. and ny (English) cathedrals, to our know were met on the fands, and entertained ledge, great sums have lately and very at Armidel (his feat) by Sir Alexander judiciously been expended. But to re- Macdonald. From Sky, they were in: turn: To Forres they went forwards vited to the Ife of Raafay, which lies the same day, "to an Englishman classic eaft of it, the arrival of strangers having ground,” being “ the town to which soon excited rumour and curiosity. For Dlacbeth was travelling, when he met the manners and customs of thc natives

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we must refer to the work ; observing compose such a work, with so few ideas, only, that our travellers came thither too in this enlightened, than in that barbalate to see “ a people of peculiar appear- rous age, the suppression of knowledge ance," as only the language and their being rather more difficult than its free poverty now remain, and of those the communication, firit is attacked on every side, and the o But we must now fail through a storm, ther gradually abated. In Raasay, at Mr with our traveller, to the islands of Col, Macleod's, the Laird's, they found no one continued rock, thinly covered with thing but civility, elegance, and plenty; earth, but very populous; Ulva, “rough there was also music and dancing, beau- and barren;" Inch Kenneth, though ty and gaiety, and Erle songs sung by small, remarkably pleasant and fertile, Jadies; so that, could our itinerant Ho- and once a seminary of ecclefiaftics; Sanmer “ have found an Ulysses, he had diland, a rock of four acres; Icolmkill, fancied a Phæacia.” Not to mention his or lona, in early ages the great school wisdom and sagacity, Mr Bofwell, howo of theology, and the reputed cemetery ever, is, in some other respects, not un- of the Scottish Kings; and Mull, in exlike the hero of the Odyssey, as

tent perhaps the third of the Hebrides;

from whence reimbarking for Scotland, mores bominum multorum vidit et urbes; they reached the main land O&t. 22.

In and some luxuriant imaginations might, these little voyages they were accompaperhaps, form a comparison between the nied either by Sir Allan Maclean, who, inands of Calypło and Paoli.

with his two daughters, high born, po. Mr Macdonald, and his lady, Flora lished, and elegant, as they are, and Macdonald [xi. 630.], "a name that will their servants, are the only inhabitants be mentioned in history with honour, if of Inch Kenneth, or by the young Laird courage and fidelity bé virtues," enter- of Col, a moft “ amiable man, who, tained our voyagers at their return to while these pages were preparing to atteft Sky; from whence they crossed an arm his virtues, perished in the passage beof the sea to Dunvegan, a rocky promi. tween Ulva and Inch Kenneth” [xxxvi, nence west of Sky, to which they were 503.]. Proceeding. southward to Inalso invited by the Laird, and where the verary, they were kindly entertained by storms fome time (though not disagree- the Duke of Argyle, at his splendid seat; ably) confined them. Ulinish, and its and then traversing Glencroe, black dun, or ancient fort, caverns, &c. next and dreary region, now made eafily parattracted their observation. Their sub- fable by a military road, passed, through sequent stages were, Talisker, in Sky, a pleasant country, to the banks of Lochthe house of Col. Macleod, an officer in Lomond, and the house of Sir James the Dutch service; Coriatachan, where Colquhoun, owner of almost all its thirty they where hospitably welcomed by Mr inands, which next morning they furMackinnon; Oftig, of which Mr Mac- veyed in a boat. Near this loch they pherson is minifter, (both in Sky); and, passed a night with Mr Smollet, a relaat Armidel, finished their observations tion of Dr Smollet, to whose memory on that isand, which occupy 100 pages. he has raised an obelisk, on the banks And here Dr Johnson discovers his opi• near the house in which he was born nion, that the poems of Offian are im- [xxxv. sco. 543.], and were there met poftures, as “the editor, or author, (he by a post-chaise, which conveyed them affirms), never could fhew the original, to Glasgow. From thence they directed nor can it be shewn by any other.” To their course to Auchinleck (Stony field), which Mr Becket has replied in the pa. the paternal seat of Mr Bofwell's father, pers, that “ the originals lay in his shop one of the Lords of Seffion; from thence in 1962, for the inspection of the curi. returned to Edinburgh, “ where (says ous; and that proposals for publishing our author) I passed some days with men them were frequently advertised.” To of learning, whose names want no adconvince the incredulous, the editor, yancement from my commemoration, or therefore, has now no resource but the with women of elegance, who, perhaps, depofiting them in some public library; disclaim a pedant's praise;" and, after though, as to the merit, if it be intrinfic, describing a peculiar subject of philofoit is just the same whether Ofian or Mac. phical curiosity," a college of the deaf pherson was the author, and, perhaps, and dumb, who are taught to speak, to it may be no less an effort of genius to read, to write, and to practise arithme

tie by a gentleman whose name is Braid- power lodged somewhere in the society, Songs (xxxi

. 342.], the Doctor con- has been universally held as an uncondudes bis narrative as follows.

troulable maxim in theory, by all writers * Such are the things which this jour. on government, from Aristotle down to

se has given me an opportunity of fee- Sidney and Locke; and has been as uniring

, and such are the reflections which versally adopted in practice, from the that light has raised. Having passed my despotism of Morocco, to the republic time almoft wholly in cities, I may have of St Marino: as long as government been surprised by modes of life, and ap- subsists, subjects owe an implicit obepearances of nature, that are familiar to dience to the laws of the supreme power, men of wider survey, and more varied from which there can be no appeal but conversation. Novelty and ignorance to Heaven. We for some years past poft always be reciprocal, and I cannot have been multiplying ineffectual rebat be conscious that my thoughts on folves, petitions, and remonstrances, and sational manners are the thoughts of one advancing claims of rights, &c.; our peubo has seen but little.”

titions have at last been neglected, or reOf " the things" here described, we jected, or censured; the principles on bare thus endeavoured to give a brief which we found our claims, have been rpitome, a mere skeleton, as it were, of formally denied. To what, or to whom, the work; but, as for “ the reflections," shall we have recourse? Shall we appeal which may be considered as its flesh and to the King of Massachuset's-bay, to the Wood, its life and spirit, for them we King of Connecticut, to the King of bat refer to the original, which, though Rhode-island, against the King of Great the author may, perhaps, “ disclaim a Britain, to refcind the acts of parliament pedant's praise, we cannot help saying, of Great Britain, to dispense with the 3 Fortby the author of the Rambler. G. laws, to which, as a necessary and effi

Dr Johnson's book may be regarded cient part of that body, he has so recent3 a valuable supplement to Mr Pen- ly given his affent? Ridiculous as these saat's two accounts (38.) of his northern questions may appear, I am afraid they capeditions. – Mr Pennant travels, chief- are but too much of a piece with doc

in the character of the naturalist, and trines which have been lately broached, antiquary; Dr Johnson in that of the inculcated every where, and almost every maalist, and oblerver of men and man- where received. The colonies are con163. The former describes whatever is ftitutionally independent of each other : remarkable in the face of the country, They formally acknowledge themselves -the extraordinary productions of Na- loyal and dutiful subjects of his Majesty 11,- the ruins, the relics, and the George III.; but severally claim an extecuments of past times; the latter emption from the authority of the British pres us his observations on the common parliament. A doctrine so repugnant to secarances and productions of the soil the ideas of all our fellow-subjects in G,

dimate, with the cuftoms and cha. Britain, can, I trust, bave no place in steristics of the inhabitants, just as par- your assembly. The business you have telars and circumstances chanced to to transact, is too serious to be trified polent themselves to his notice. The with; the confidence reposed in you, enous Cambrian delights in painting too facred to be sacrificed to idle fophiftry Hime scenes, and pleasing pictures; and visionary distinctions: the fate of de the learned English Rambler seems America may depend on your resolves ; tu to confine his views to the naked they should be founded on principles bach, - to moralize on the occurrences that are plain and intelligible, that are o nas journey, and to illustrate the cha- marked with the authority of universal aters and fituation of the people whom opinions and truths. vifited, by the fagacity of remark, The supreme power of the British parand the profundity of reflection. M. liament over her colonies, was ever, till Heater from a Virginian to the members of very lately, as universally acknowledged a casgrefs to be held at Philadelphia. by ourselves, as by our fellow-subjects 7. 663.]

in England. It usurps no claim to in.

fallibility in its opinions, but gives the EXTRACT S.

fubject á legal right of petitioning, reThat no political society can subfift, monftrating, of proposing plans of retakes there be an absolute supreme formation and redress, Nevertheless,

though