to insert the following in your next._

IT is rumoured, and some say with great Probability, that a
Body of Troops are ordered to be in Readiness at Halifax, to
embark to any Part on the Continent of America, upon the
first Notice of Uneasiness at the Novelties we daily
expect.--It is as certain that America is also in Readiness
to defend their Liberties at the Risque of every Thing
else--there can be no Hesitation whenever the Alternative
shall be Slavery or Death--If therefore they wait to know
whether we will tamely submit to Slavery, the sooner the
Matter is bro't to a Crisis the better.----But while we have
any Opinion of the Integrity and good Sense of the
Parliament of G.B. such Reports will not easily gain Credit.
DETERMINATUS.

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The Freeholders and other Inhabitants of this Town, are to
meet at Faneuil-Hall, on Wednesday next, to consider and
agree upon some effectual Measures to promote Industry,
Oeconomy, and Manufactures, thereby to prevent the
unnecessary Importation of European Commodities, which
threaten the Country with Poverty and Ruin, &c.----

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Timothy Pickering, the father of the distinguished Revolutionary officer
and statesman of the same name, addressed an open letter to King George
III., which is printed in the "Salem Gazette," Oct. 31, 1769. It is a
very quaint production, but it shows the writer's love of simplicity and
downright honesty. He was a sturdy Puritan.

"Oct. 31, 1769.

"TO THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN.

"GREAT SIR,--Your Kingdom is like a House divided against
itself. Something Extraordinary must be done. Our
Parliaments for fifty years past (or some of them) have
ruined the Nation, in making a monstrous Debt by hiring
Money, while greater Sums have been expended in Pride and
Luxury. Thirteen hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling, the
Public Prints tell us, is paid annually to the Dutch as
Interest money. My Advice is that all Rulers and Officers,
who have high Salaries, drop them, except so much as is
necessary for plain Living;--(Samuel had more Honour in his
plain Living with his upright Mind, than Saul had in all his
Princely Grandeur,)--And that all unnecessary Pensions cease
together with military Officers half-pay,