From the Pennsylvania Gazette of November 3.

Boston (New England,) October, 24. Last Wednesday forenoon it was said, the high sheriff of the county of Suffolk, had orders to clear the province manufactory-house in the town of Boston, for a number of years superintended by a Mr. John Brown, in behalf of a certain company, and lately on his own account. Mr. Brown, being informed the order was to be put in execution that day, detained some persons to serve as evidences of the transaction. About two o'clock the sheriff came, attended by the lieutenantgovernor, and approaching the hall window, out of which the people leaned to receive them, the sheriff said he was sent by the authority of the province, to demand possession of that house, and to require Mr. Brown to clear it forthwith, for the reception of his majesty's troops; and observed that he had brought his honour along with him, that his advice might have the more weight in moving Mr. Brown to resign the house quietly. Mr. Brown questioned the sheriff with respect to his warrant, which he said was an order from the governor, founded on a resolve of council, whereby the governor was empowered to clear the house. Mr. Brown said he never had any lawful warning to leave the house, and did not look upon the power of the governor and council sufficient to dispossess him; and finally told him, that he would not surrender his possession to any till required by the general court, under whom he held, or was obliged thereto by the law of the province, or compelled by force. His honour replied, that Mr. Brown was a tenant at will of the province, that the governor and council were the remaining authority of the province, which he looked upon sufficient to warrant the proceedings; observed that Mr. Brown must be very ill advised to think of withstanding that authority, and wished him to consider better than to involve himself in consequences so disagreeable as must attend his refusal. Mr. Brown to this returned, that his counsel were of the ablest in the province, and he should adhere to their advice, be the consequences what they would. The sheriff then left the windows, and walked up the eastermost stairs, rapped modestly at the door, and nobody answering, soon returned, acquainted Mr. Brown, he had done enough for the whole in the steps taken with him. The sheriff in his return, took out and read a paper to Mr. Brown, containing, as he said, a transcript of a minute of council, and instruction from the governor, to clear the factory forthwith. Mr. Brown first requested, and afterwads demanded a copy of his order, which he refused, referring him to the secretary's office, where after divers applications, he was there first put off, and then finally denied.

Mr. Brown, still retaining apprehension of violent measures, kept his doors and windows shut, and suffered none to enter without caution: this caused the men working in the cellar to keep one VOL. II.

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of the lower sashes moveable, to pass from the cellar to the yard. Thursday in the forenoon, the sheriff, with another gentleman, where seen reconnoitering, and between twelve and one o'clock, the sheriff came to the east end of the factory, where was the window aforementioned, at which one of the weavers had just gone out; the young man, seeing the sheriff approach the window, turned hastily to prevent his entering, but notwithstanding his efforts to that purpose, the sheriff entered the window, sword in hand. Mr. Brown, then at some distance in the cellar, hearing the scuffle, hastened to the window, but a loom intervening, the sheriff had fully forced entry before Mr. Brown could oppose him: a small scuffle happened between them, in which neither party received much hurt; two of the sheriff's deputies, and a servant, following, one of whom was soon after sent to the officer of the piquet, with a written order to come, with his guard, to the factory immediately. On his arrival the sheriff ordered him to place centinels at each door, two or more at the gate, and ten in the cellar; then read him a paper, giving him full possession of the yard, charging him to let any one come out of the house, but none go in. Finding the people gather fast about the gates, orders were issued for another company, the posting of which gave the complete idea of a formal blockade. Friday morning bread and water were denied, and no person allowed to speak to them for several hours; the sick were denied the visits of their physicians, and Dr. Church's apprentice pretty roughly used, in attempting to convey them medicines.

Some gentlemen deploring the imminent ruin of their country, and fearing some ill consequences from the resentment of the people, who had been insulted by the guards, &c. kept with them, to moderate their temper; while others laid before the members of his majesty's council, the distress and danger they conceived the people subjected to by these unprecedented actions. The council. assembled, and after some deliberation waited on his excellency, and signified their advice to clear the factory, intended no more than to clear it by law. His excellency said, it appeared to him to impower him to clear it as he most conveniently could; however, it seems the consequence of this meeting was a recall of the troops about seven o'clock that evening, leaving a small guard in the cellar, and one or two at the window.

It were to be wished that the principal officers may, for the future, admonish all subalterns and private men to speak with respect of the laws of the country, as a contrary behaviour must inevitably introduce that anarchy and confusion it was pretended they were sent to suppress.

Thus this extraordinary affair, which has been made the subject of so much conversation in town at present rests.

It is said that his majesty's ship Romney is under sailing orders for Halifax, on board of which Commodore Hood is to hoist his broad pendant, and proceed to Boston, where the fleet will rendezvous for the future.

Last week the lady of the Hon. John Temple, Esq. was delivered of a son, and yesterday forenoon he was baptized in Trinity Church by the name of Grenville. His excellency General Gage, and Robert Temple, Esq. stood god-fathers.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Fort Stanwix, dated the 17th of October.

"A great body of the Indians are already assembled here, and by expresses arrived yesterday, from other distant tribes, at present on their way hither, it is judged that in a few days their number will be increased to at least three thousand. Sir William Johnson, whose attention to the business of this Congress is indefatigable, and who has a surprising influence over these savages, has brought here goods as well as cash, to a very large amount, to be distributed in presents to the different nations; but by the advices received yesterday, of the great numbers coming in, he is apprehensive that what he has at present here, though large, will be insufficient, and has therefore despatched expresses for a further supply of both: he has also been necessiated as provisions fall short, to purchase a large number of live oxen, and has given directions for more to be brought here: in short he devotes his whole study, to promote the matters of the Congress, which it is thought will be attended with the most beneficial consequences."

Gaz. Dec. 13, 1768.

Boston, New England, Nov. 7. We hear that next Tuesday sails from Piscataqua for England, John Fisher, Esq., brother to his excellency Governor Wentworth, and lately dismissed (by the board of commissioners) from his office of collector of his majesty's customs for the ports of Salem and Marblehead; much regretted by the whole country; for although rather strict, yet he was punctual and impartial in his office, and in private life, esteemed by all an humane honest man: what his faults (or his imputed faults are) is not yet made public.

We hear from Hampton, that another large barn of Col. Moulton's, near his mansion-house, was consumed by fire last Wednesday night, in which was a considerable quantity of grain. It is supposed it was set on fire by some evil-minded person.

By a vessel from South Carolina, via Rhode Island, we learn that the ship Providence, Clarke, master, bound from Colrain to New York, on the 9th of September, in lat. 36° lon. 34°, sprang a leak, which increased so fast, that the captain and twelve others, among whom were Mr. Jonathan Clark Lewis and lady, of this

town, passengers, left the ship on the 11th, in a small boat, and after being in her eight days, in great distress, they were met with and taken up by the Friendship, Captain M'Cowen, bound from Glasgow to S. Carolina, where they happily arrived the 24th of October. They were obliged to leave nineteen of the people on board the ship, the boat not being sufficient to contain any more, who, it is feared, have all perished.

Friday last, Capt. Vincent arrived here from Jamaica, by whom we have advice, that on the 22d of September, his honour Roger Hope Elletson, Esq., lieutenant-governor of that island, dissolved the assembly there, for their not complying with his majesty's express command, for repayment of the moneys issued by the treasury of Great Britain, for the island subsistence of the troops stationed there during the discontinuance of their assembly; the reasons which the assembly gave for not complying with the requisition, having been deemed insufficient by his majesty. That writs were issued for a new election on the 26th. And that on the 30th his excellency Sir William Trelawny, governor of that island, arrived at Port Royal, from on board the Jason, Antrobus,

Esq. commander.

The fleet from Ireland, it is said, consists of twelve sail, and contains two thousand men.

Wednesday afternoon we had uncommon hard thunder for the season. At Charlestown, we hear, that the bake-house of Mr. Thomas Rayner was considerably damaged by the lightning, which tore one side of the roof to pieces, struck a lad down that was at the boltingmill, broke the mill and burnt the bolting-cloth. The lad soon recovered without receiving any hurt.

Last Tuesday, upon complaint made by the select-men of this town, before Richard Dana and John Ruddock, Esquires, two of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Suffolk, a captain of the 59th regiment, mentioned in the warrant, and others unknown, stood charged with advising several negro slaves in that town, to beat, abuse, and cut their masters' throats; promising them a reward if they would appear at the place of parade, to make them free. Upon examination of the witnesses, the said justices ordered the captain to give bond and surety, to appear and answer to the court of assize in March next, and for his good behaviour in the meantime.

It is said that the select-men have given it in charge to the town watch, to see that good order is observed in the night, and that they take up all negroes whom they should find abroad at an unseasonable hour.

It is said that the deputy sheriff, who is by the law and the constitution a conservator of his majesty's peace, was opposed by the military in attempting to serve a warrant from Mr. Justice Dana and Ruddock. A sufficient number of the town inhabitants were, at the same time, as they always have been, ready and willing to assist the civil officer in the legal discharge of his duty.

The 14th, 29th, and a detachment of the 59th regiment, are now quartered in different parts of this town, excepting a part of the 14th, which still occupy the Court-house! Whether their being thus quartered in the body of the town, while the barracks at the castle, within its limits, are entirely empty, be legal, still remains a question. As no one of extraordinary abilities has attempted to vindicate this conduct, common sense must decide it to be directly against the act of parliament in that case made and provided; the town is hereby put under a grievance for which a remedy is manifestly provided by that act. Besides both the inhabitants and the soldiers are in more danger of corrupting each other when they are in the town, than they would be if they were at the castle, agreeably to the plain design of the king and parliament; and desertions which have already happened, may still be made much more conveniently, from the one than the other. The latter of these considerations, indeed, lies with the gentlemen of the army; but they will allow, that the civil magistrate is, by law, the only constituted judge of the former. The pleas that are made use of for keeping the troops in the body of the town, are the protection of the commissioners; and the preservation of the peace: with regard to the first, it may be asked, who protected them during their residence in the town, when there were no troops, till their voluntary retreat to the castle? And who protected them in their frequent excursions into the country during the summer past? Their behaviour in town, was, indeed overbearing and imperious, but the least injury was never once offered to them. And as to the peace of the town, we may appeal to the oldest men among us to say whether in their remembrance, it has been so often and so notoriously broken as it has been (not by the inhabitants) since the arrival of the new conservators of it!

The worshipful the commissioners of the customs having voluntarily, and of their own free will and accord, made a retreat in June last, to his majesty's Castle William, it is said, design to make their re-entrance into this metropolis, with all their retinue, this week: so that the town will be again blessed with the fruits and benevolence of the board, as well as their examples of true politeness and breeding: a happiness which it was given out a year ago our sister colony of Virginia would have purchased at the expense of ten thousand pounds sterling. O fortunatos Bostonienses!

Last night, departed this life after a short illness, Mrs. Lydia Kneeland, consort of Mr. Solomon Kneeland, a noted leather-dresser in this town.

We hear from Roxbury that about 5 o'clock this morning departed this life, greatly lamented, Mrs. Lucy Winslow, consort of Isaac Winslow, Esq. of that town.

London.

Gaz. Dec. 26, 1768.

We hear that at a coffee-house westward, where many political