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Concealment too more than who have fo often rewarded Jofuhs and ij the contented Servility bfthpfe Mattet-of -form Tools, with the. NamAof. -MMflers. Thefe, knowing themfelve's be choicn, commonly at The Recommendation ah never, without the of the eternal? -fiand Favor, upon the of whofe Tenure of their Places fpecifi- cjally depends, take great Care' to wink hard, and vo jrretend, nay, are ready upon Oath to' aver; that the-whole Charge of a SECRET IN- TLUEKCE Js merely, a vulgar Error, and the Forgery of Pillion. Ar.d this, even though Abfurd to which their executive Service is required, their Own KNOWLEBCE could e'afily trace to the very Head, or, to fpeak with more critical Propj-iety, to the very No-head, whence it firft fbriing.

How many Changes of thofe Things, called Mi i iters; how many-Collations of places' and Pcnfions hovv many Meafures of Government might be. by the moft evident fpecifi- to invariably the fame Chan- nel" Direction 1 every'-Thing raifguidedV -thus betrayed into in flowe and from whjch every Thing has tefcen ftigated, to Injuftjce, or to by to, ieaftr i give tdnding ms. an Acconqpnee of. Cdn- In this- of the Inftillation into him :6CPrqudices.in Favor of of Prejudices his WeU- they feem hugthemfelves on- their Endeavour to fix on'himetfeh a worfe Reproach than what was reported the XV th, (one of the Weakeft Princes.that: eve? difgraeed Throne) Ixltiifas toldhim of any one, hi 'retained "prejfiony but that Ms to any to not, indeed, he forget "it, as it never made But, oh, how truly pitiable muft the Condition-of any Prince be, and from the firft Moments of ihis.finifter Reign of Faveritifm? then the Figurants of Adminfllratidn, the trite Himly Veil of Government being car riedon by fatisfkd with keeping their Places by of pre-. tended Ignorance, and Subferviency to the nieaneft of.

where is the Wonder that their Intelligence fhould be lefs lefs authoritative than that of riierf'Mafiers in that Cabinet of which they thernfelves.afe never beyond Lobby-members Mercenary Information wilf naturally feek its Reward lefs in the fair official Channel than in that elandeftine one contrived by the Cab net within a Cabinet, and carried bn under the terribly, mifufed "Name Of fea-et Service too couftitutes one of the wretched, ridiculous Arts with which they conceal from Sovereign Government of him; his Part, by his Oftentatiorr of that which they procurft to him for his Satisfaction the Air. of it, as one of the Functions- of Royalty purpofejy left to him, ftrongly corroborates th-at-wry Charge which they deny, like Muxther, of the Exiftence of a Set of Guides- ieeretly taking the Lead, with all the Authority abandoned to them of and Super- royalty, under no that of falsing Appearances, which however they hardly do. But, furely, happy, happy indeed would it have been For this Country if thatDfcnial pfJn- (which thefe Creatures of Favor have fo often repcatedj that they afeperhaps come at Jail to believe femethlng of it themfelves) was a TRUTH. Their. Denial, Matter's not at all a Wonder, ronfidering the'ihameful Mif- u.fe they haw eternally made of it; jn jhefaUe, Impreffions they haye been ever giving him of MEN and and cpnfkieringespecially that this very i A makes one of the pal try Finciles with which they hoodwink their Matter, and imagine they as much deceive the Public, as they have done him.

For of the Prevalence of their Counfels. as to needs, there a -ftronger than the actual State of' the Things themlelves Res ipfa? loquuntur. Or rather they proclaim Advifers. As to their Mifguid- ance.of their Matter, that Ihould be, by thofe under which, the Characters of MEN have been perfidioufly and perhaps indelibly impreffed on his Mind; let the Iffue of the Charge reft on a fair Examination of thefe two -Queftions Whether he has 'rtot'bten'Uniformly -beiet'with jnjtly reputed FALSB Friends, to the oft his jvflly prefliniable ones and it has not been conflantly the fine' qua nan Condition exprejfed or implied, as well' an AiTumption into Offlcej as of Contihua- tion in it, an unreferved Subjection to that jniferable Cabinet of Favor, under the Shame of not being allowed to confefs of its amidft the kniverfal Notoriety of From fuch a pf Information, where is the Wonder that the Stream of Preferment mould run fo foul From fuch an Information it sis, that the two famous Cabinet- are lijppofed to have compiled, der Designations of the JE and the BtAipK-Booit, of which it is rrue to fay, that it knot a of SniiffMatter whether they aftuallgpexift.in Manufcript, or only mentally, in that where it is of the greatefi Importance they mould never exift at -a'l; fince the Procedure we have conibmtly fcen and feh, and are every Moment feeing and feeling, -demonftratively Jprovos the Sub- ftancc of the Fact, under whichever of. the Forms of' EJrpreffion may be propofed, proper or metaphotical, in the LETTER or in the In the GOLDEN LEQEWD may be oWerved Names of thofe preferable Subjects, whofe Value precifery by their Pefeils.

The nearer they approach a total Want of Tii- kntSj of "H6nbr, of Senfibility, of of Gratitudej of every Virtuei and efpecially of any real Regard for KINO and Cauntry, the higher they are hire to Hand in this conhden- tial Lift. One would Mono- olifts of Favor took the Hint of their Tariff'of lerits from the Head of the Blaqk-Eunuchs of the Turkjih who on the Tender to him for his Purchafe of a Negroc Slave, psyi fpccial Rjbgard to- his Defects i if to a king a.Jet-black Hue, there nrc the Quafiiications of his being totally.unmanned, and withall and dumb, this Jewel of a Creature is above all Price- As to the BLACIC-BOOK, the commented Catalogue of Characters in it Hands on a very different Fooring. Relatively to Perfons ci Abilities to ferve their King, and Country, efpecially if.known to wifli fmcerely and jdii- intereftcdly well their Names are furv to be ftabbed with an Obelifk of Reprobation, Where their Faults (as what Mortal has not Faults?) are overbalanced by their Merits; the more they are lb, they Itand but in the worfe Light: For then their Faults, which would, otherwife, have been 'mentioned as Merits; take their proper Name of Faults, and are with great of Delicacy and Purity ftated as invincible Objections. No Allowance, is made for their Superiority of intrinhc Worth. Such a Ca-ndor was not made for a Black-Book of this of which the- Infpirers never had fo much as an Idea.

Thoy- tb'e me3neft the-moft wprthlefs of his Subjects the Wrongs'they do, of caufe to be dope, fnperadd the.Faifiry of" difevowing their Undoubted Originatioa- from themfelves, of iin VctfomspteVkofe Hono? they will wh.ofe->$erVrice they will have hurt by'thia Power of gemojis over him. Is not then Uieir -of the 'of lalfe. To- 4Jtens It wash.uttheolhefBay,^taWr%tc'h I 1 was'fent to the Jufiitiu-Hultt iot done to a private Individual pretending to an Influence But inuch greater tuuft.the Guih. of thofe PerfohageV rie, Means of Injury to a wSble fraudulent Difavowal Of an they but. too realW HAVE and dertibnSrably never emploj'-ed but to the Detriment and Difhonftr of the Perfon from- whoni they have it.

In this palpable Polition of Things what falutary Lights can be offered, where the BUndnefs is obftinately. wilful, and consequently incurable Even in the.PeqpIe themfelve's there nO Such is the.Rot of the.Tinies; fuch the Epoch of an univerfah Degeneracy. The Glow of mere animal Courage may itill nerve, the Britifh Arms: btft where is the Fire of Genius, where is that noble Spirit of Honor that once animated our Councils Alas )urn they not faint and dim See the molt hamefully Tbrcfid Cofruption deftroy, to the loot, ev cr vital Principle of manly Energy. 'K ivATE INTEREST may incieed ftill a hift to raife many frivolous Parties, but; the 'oBtic CxOOB could hardly-form one 'folic! Jnion, or attract to its Side a fingle Maintained of any Cbnfequence. And on this Defection of the PUBLIC from, itfelf, oh this Defertionby its Parliament, on this national Weakneli it is that the Creatures of Favpr are Ideots enough to ground, their Strength, and to boaft-their Triumph while, among them there is not one FRIENP enough to his King, one Lover enough of his one regardful enough of.

his-own Honor, to ftand up and remonftratei Dignity of Loyalty and Truth, againft the- Ruin this horrid by this Meannefs, Futility, and by the Aftar-' chy and Confufion, into which Things have been manifeftly brought by them to in -ftiort, forJthe of Order, with the Cellaiion of Chaos. Onece more then, let not the REPETITION, here, offend!) what is there left for us, Shatnfe df the Grief at the prefent, without Hope for the future A To.the Printer of the Public Advertifer. Sir! Lord Pigot and 16,000 Engjifh are murdered at MadrasGod help pqor Old.England for there is no knowing where this may end. Sixteen Thoufand! Why, Sir, a Lack Is only fo that if the Nabob goes on at this Rate, he will indeed make a plentiful Lack of People. But now we Lacks, I mull tell you what a comical Feltjbw of my Acquaintance fays about them.

He lays a Lack of Rupees at home takes People abroad, and that Lacks of Rupees abroad bring People home in Safety that Lacks of Ho- nefty and Juftice produce Lacks-of Rupees, and that Lacks of Rupees embroider a Blue Goat, and fill its Pockets. Nay, Bob," fays You're wide of the Mark," cries he, inter. NAY a L0YEJ qf. TRWTSL pom 4u and the Re-efta- Peace of the of Gov after 'having created new- Syftfem of Finances, a Commercej new. Military Power, the'King jJrevent the Diforders.a^rifipg.

jroJpithe InacMvity of the Soldiery, is nowjempleying the Troops in repairing fome of the Fortreflesi bat luffieient Number of Men out of each Regiment are to fopply the other FortSiications, efpecially'thofe op the Tt'here has been lately found iq 'diggingvin the Campus Martius, a fineHead of the Emperor Septimus Severus, Father bf Caracalla. Rome, May 2SI have received'-frOm Spain the News of the Death of Cardinal SpU nola della Cewhvwho dkd at oth of thisMonthi i D. O- Exttaii Letter from Paris. our iHiperial every one adniires and regrets De- we have ali'beeh alarmed Svkh Apprchenfion pf agreater Lol's'-rWehad TT Row of, 7 pulh'd. rupting me the Nabob is out of the Quef- tion bis Pockets have been pretty well drain- ed long ago.

I know well enough, fays" he, that fome of your "great Orators talk of his fwalloioing up all the Kingdoms of the £aft indif-cfaw-inately; but this is too much to cram down ours fo he has murdered Lord Pigpt twenty Tlmea; and npw he has mailacred 16,000 EnglHh in a Settlement where it would have been difficult to have muttered the twentieth Part of Nnm'-iT. The Y'-'Sr P- ihh, uui Oi can ic bt cruii i the iii- rcctors. difobey the Proprietors? Can they order a Man to remain abroad, whom the Proprietors order to be recalled forthwith When did they obtain this Power Or have they harncd from Lord Pigot to contradict their Matters, attract againft a Majority I'll be much obliged toyoni, or fome of your knowing Correspondents, to tell me hqw thefe Matters are, fori allure you I lack Iufornja- tioa; Remaining, Sir, Your And mollhuftible Sefyant, StMON SIMPLE. fop iroff his.Blbw, which took Place on hirMajsStyVThigh, and cut an Artery: The King loftla confioflrable'Quantity of out.tishopeebheis now ont of Danger till few Hours the Tranquillity of Eufope hurtgbutbVa Life of his Mpft Chreftlah The Reports of the. Nabob of Arcot having commenced Jfytflities againft the Englilh, are totally abfurd and groundlefs, as the Nabob lives at Madras, under the ProteSion of the Engliflj.

The Report of General Carleton being arrived within a few Miles of Ticcndei oga, is al together, People who know that- Country fay that he won't De able-to reach Ti conderoga before the Middle of July. COrrefpcmdent fays, the Report of Mr.Gaf- coyne's being a Lord of the Treafury is BAM. Though the Contents of the Dilpatches from America; which were'earned by Lord George Germaine to his Majefty at Kew on Saturday, are- carefully concealed froni the Public, yet we are well affurcd by.People who have got a Glimffe of the Secret, that they arc jntirely in Strain'. As 'Goafisma- tion'of this, it is to be obferved, that there me authentic-Accounts bf Sir William Howe being New-York fo Tate "wriie nth of a Time when we might expect his whole Army to be in Motion, if the Operations pf War were to. be'the Bufinefs of the Summer.

A Correfpondent thinks it foraewhat extraordinary, that a Transport'Veifel be appointed by Government, as mentioned in Yetlerday'sPapers, to. lie canllandy in waiting; at Portfmouth. during, the to carry their Difpatch.es to Lord end General Howe. have alrepd-y often feeh the bad of 'trufting Matters of Importance to. "Unarmed Rebels i Expefienee, that teaches others to the Rocks on which they have fplii, woufd feem to be totally by Uiofe ttfeer the Helm of.

our public Had the Flget under Lord Howe, which certainly eiccetis op Sail, been' properly -tioned idoxig. the Coaft of America, is the Opinion of fome Naval Officers of Experience, who are well acquainted with the Navigation of thefe Parts, that the Rebels could not have fent a fingle Veffel to Sea by this Time and that a few Cruizers might have picked up fuch of their Ships as-had got out of Harbour, for Want of fuch a Regulation. By Letters from New-York we are informed, that, when are in Readinefs for the long-intended Expedition, to Philadelphia, the two Brothers are to run againft each other, the one by Land and the other by "Water, for a conhderabJe J3et, to be won by him who arrives hrft at that Place. -The full Particulars of this fpjrited and undeniable Mark of Zeal for the Service, we have not yet learned; but that theyare to jlart exactly at the fame Time, which is to be intimated by the.Firing of a Gun. A Privy Council is fummoned to meet Tor siorrowat St.

James's, after the Levee is over. The Privy Council on Friday laft was remarkably full. Lord Weymouth carriedin the feveral Petitions in Favour of an unhappy Convict, when after they were feverally read, the two, Law Lords are faid to have fpoken near Half an Hour each on the Merits of thctn, as well as various.bad Effects of relaxing, in one Inilance, the Force of the LaWa againft Forgery. One of them is faid to have doled his by obferving, that if Dr. Dodd was Robert Perreau was murdered." Yefterday a Board of Treafury was held, the ightHo.n.

Lord North and all the otherLprds sing prefent the Right Hon. Lord Weftcote was fworn asd took his. Seat at the Board fbr die firil Time as one of the Lords Commiffion- 3, in the Room of Charles Townfend, Efq; HOME CIRCUIT. Lord fihief Juftice. De Grey, Lord Chief Juftice Mansfield.

Hertfordfhire, Monday, July 14, at Hertford, i Jaly 16, at Chelmsford, July 21, atMaidftone. Suifexj Monday, July 28, at.Lewes. Surrey, Wednefday, July 30, at Croydon, i Yefterday his Grace the Duke of Chandos fee out for his Scat at Winchcftcr, where, we hear, his Grace will be married in a few Days to Mrs. Ellifon, Widow of the late Governor Ellifon. ExtraS of aLetterfrom Brufds, June q.

We are informed from good Authority, that Mr. Cunming, Captain of the American Privateer the Surprize, hath fent from Dunkirk to Dr. Franklin at Paris, the Mail with the Letters from London of the 29th of Apri4 laft, which-he took in the Prince of Orange'Paclcct Boat, Capt, Story which Dr. Franklin, on receiving, having, with Mr. Dean, opened, -greatcft Part of the Letters contained in it.

One Cireumftance aftonilhed inanyParfons prefent, "which Meif. Eranilin and after having latisfied Curiofity, andtaltqn as they thoughrthey ihould have Occasion for, Hi not fend away the directed to private Perfons, to might have'been, of great Confe- queace efpedajiy, as they were abfolutely uielcis to them." ThU, Morning an AaJdrfesft frwateer of 18 Guns anchored off this PlfcevaAdfoonafjer feat a Boat 00 Shore and an Officer, wMeh aiarmsd bpi-Coimtry- People; but our were foon dirpellea on their landing, when Ihey aflurcd as tiiey came in a peaceable' Manner, with get fome frefh ProvifioBs, for they aid fBot.want "'to- diftref9 the Poorj accordingly rwe apt them fuch as the Ifland would afford, JOT which they honourably and' immediately vent' on boardttwiighcdLAnchor.Hand fteered off. One of Ijia -Jviajefty's Cutters cam? up fop- -pofias -a Smuggling finding 'it Ship, of Force, and made alt the Sail -they cpuld-from A Letter Jrorn- Liverp.oi>le».!dated June rfo (late Mac -jficarj who has a which Hie ewo.Paya^a%f left the She.BelongedtaifeSaaee pany, and'was. ladeh bound from to Guadaloufe. She 800J.

in Specie on The Maiy Ann, and her Confort, a have £nd Slppps) and carried them i are chiefly Rice' and arc fappoieA ExtraS of a Letter from Guerrifey, Ah American Privateer, ojt twrelye came, into Road Yellerdajr.Motaiag uckedaboat.onjthefirinj; of.the Guds from. the off fhq Ifland took large Brig bound for this, "Port, which they; have fince carried into Cherburgh. had. the Impudence "io of die. Evening a little Iflaad called Jetto, and unluckily carried Lieutenant of Nordiey Independent Com-' panyhere, with the Garrifon Adjntant, 'were mooting for their Diverfion.

Two Gentlemen, of Confeque ate aant to Cherburgh to demand, The Pilferers got nothing GuineyHgsni mens Dirmer, and a few Bottles, of though the Brig they Bya1ued belonging to 'Squire Varioas have been the A- mericza -4 irmy, as to their Appearance Point of Cloathlae, 5pc. However, la Gentleman, who has been in Carolinas, fays, the Troops in thofe Provinces'had at lew as Military Appearance as any common Spldters he had ever faw and thaj.their Regularity of Difopline beyond Europeaji could conceive. It is a Meannefs, fays a Correfpgjidenr, to he abufiye. If Americans ase-r Coward) Paltroons, fhe King's Txpogs have no Olply. to A Man.

never. ggtsA -any Ctspdit bf. beating his South Garo poured libeVaHjf the rich Produce of her Rice Fields into Georgia- at the Crifis when the latter. Qplony -waa- lancing between Inclination' Ajjpreljen- with regard the general A Plenty of Food however furnilliiha them- with j' Spirits, they forgot the, Services, dl old Qgle- who in protected them Spaniards, and forgot the large wnichPaniamentgranted them for their further Security. However, it ad'miuea- isfomeReafon jh their.

Arguments.tha_|; in whatever Parliament was equally.intereftedy*; r. When the Congreis declared fof -Inqia- pendence, a new Mpdfe confequently the iGrit Object to and Adams had -himfelr prepareci auno complete Code of Lavys bnt many were-re-" jected, though with great Sautioh, and an! EiE- planation of Injprbprieryi ijpoip a Dread of too much offending Man, who, to make Ufeof anExpreflion' in a Letter received fome Tirtic from America, was fo clever 'a Fetldw, and fo tlap- gerous a that it was no Man's Intereft to with liitn." We arc allured from undoubted that the Government has refufed-to fupport Dr. Bflrrelliri hisOppofition at the 'Soath Sea Houfe. 4 Dr. Burrellis akcady a very confiderablip Pluralift, 'being of Director of the -Fire -Office, Chahceflcf of the Diocefe of Wprceiler, and alfo cellorof the Diotefebf The Prices of Hops laft Week in Market were: Pockets 2I.

15s. to 4I. 15s. perCwfc. Bags iqs.

to 4I, '53, Pocfcett, orthe Year 1775, zU toil. Bags ditto il. 15s. to 21.10s. Bags and Pockets, Growth of the Yeart774, il.

5s. toil. At Worcefter Prices, were fitctm til. tar 20I. per Ton lower than in the.

Borough and notwithftanding the very Jaw. Prices, great a Drug are old Hops, there were, very few Buyers. The following Inscription on a Tpnab- flone in the Church-yard of Bucklebor Huntingdo'nlhire Here lies my Wife and My Daughter and her i The Father of the Faqiily, Afid both the Childrens Mother. Wednefday laft came on the Election of a Member to ferve for the Borough of Yarmouth, when two Gentlemen were propofed, Mr. Charles Townftend-, the late.Member,and Mr.

William BeckfoEd.Thc Poll began at Eleven p'Clock, and was cloftd at Six, when'thc Numbers, wpre, For Mr. Townfticnd- Mr. Beckf: The Lord'Mayor Yyilcrday. being no Court of Aldej-nyu! Qoiuiaucl the of Bread the fame The y. a the Bill Ltghter ij.