Burleſque, or Ridicule on the Inoculator, &c. in treating a Character of low Life with a ſort of ſtrain'd Sublime, in a Pt manner; but were ſurprized to find two Gentlemen, not in the Queſtion, having given no Shadow of Offence, called Illiterate, Ignorant, &c. This (as they prophesied) the Town takes very much amiſs. Bn was repreſented in a ſoft Manner, as illiterate, ignorant, raſh, &c. only with reſpect to the Small Pox, and the dubious, dangerous Practice of Inoculation; theſe Gentlemen are called ſo in groſs. Why ſhould Gentlemen otherwiſe well qualified be called illiterate, Ignorant, &c. becauſe they did not idle away four Years at Colledge, as ſome of our learned Men have done?
The Operation it ſelf is not much greater than Bleeding, Bliſtering, &c. to the Eye; and here they reſt, and form a prejudice in Favour of it; not proceeding farther to conſider ſeriouſly the Evidences of its diſmal Conſequences, and Inſtances amongſt our ſelves of the violent high Fevers it hath prodcued. Old Mr. Wb in a few Hours underwent the hot Service of Bleeding Vomiting, Blisteriag, Pultices, &c. and narrowly eſcaped with his Life. Is this no more than Bleeding or Bliſtering? Infatuation I think is like to be as Epidemick a Diſtemper of the Mind, as at preſent the ſmall Pox is of the natural Body.
Weſtfield, July 19.
Mr. Daniel Bagg from Albany reports that there has lately been a great Fire at Quebeck, by which 150 Houſes are laid in Aſhes.
Boſton, Auguſt 2.
At a Town's Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the town of Boſton (legally warn'd) for electing four Gentlemen to ſerve them in the great and general Court or Aſſembly to be held in Boſton, on the 23d Inſtant, John Clark, Eliſha Cook, William Hutchinſon Eſqrs; and Mr. William Clark Merchant, were by a great Majority choſen their Repreſentatives.
On laſt Thursday Morning ſixty odd Soldiers went on Board the Tranſport from Caſtle William, being part of thoſe Troops which were raiſed by the Government, to check the daring Inſults and intended Hoſtilities of the eaſtern Indians, and by eleven at Noon they ſailed from Nantucket. It is not doubted, but that they reached Arrowſick by the next Day in the Evening, the Wind blowing freſh at South-weſt and Weſt South-weſt during that Interval.
The whole Quota deſign'd for the Expedition will (in all likelyhood) be there in a few Days, and there is no queſtion, but that (by the Bleſſing of God) ſuch a Number of Troops, ſo well equipt and led by ſuch Officers, will be more than ſufficient to put a ſtop to the threatning Danger, and bring the Indians to our own Terms.
Nothing can be more grateful to those poor, affrighted Strangers in thoſe Parts than this well-timed Expedition, for it cannot be imagin'd with what Horrour and confuſion thoſe poor People were ſiezed, when they received the cruel (but unexpected) Menaces of thoſe treacherous Barbarians.
Boſton, Auguſt 5.
His Excellency the Governour having iſſued out a Proclamation to make Veſſels perform Quarentine that come from France, &c. The following Letter from a Phyſician at Aix (giving an Account of the Plague) may not be amiſs.
The Contagious Diſtemper, which has become the Reproach of our Faculty here for above a Month paſt, is more violent than that at Marſeilles; it breaks out in Carbuncles, Buboes, livid Bliſters, and purple Spots; the first Symptoms are grievous Pains in the Head, Conſternation, wild Looks, a trembling Voice, a cadaverous Face, a coldness in all the extreme Parts, a low unequal Pulſe, great Pains in the Stomach, Reachings to Vomit, and theſe are follow'd by Sleepineſs, Deliriums, Convulſions, or Fluxes of Blood, the Forerunners of Sudden Death. In the Bodies that are open'd, we find Gangrenous Inflammations in all the lower Parts of the Belly, Breaſt and Neck. Above fifty Perſons have died every Day for three weeks paſt in the Town and Hoſpitals. Moſt of them fall into a dreadful Phrenzy, ſo that we are forc'd to tie them,
Boſton, Aug. 7. Entered Inwards.
Samuel Northey Sloop Sarah and Mary, Edward Limington Richard and Elizabeth, John Snoad, Scconer Ann, & John Rows Sloop Speedwell from North Carolina, Rich Foſter Briganteen Adventure and Richard Thomas Briganteen Hauk from Surranam, Francis Fowles Snow George from Briſtol, Joſhua Pickman Pink Lark, and Wiillam Scot Ship Ea-gle from London, and Robert Butler Ship Margaret from the Iſle of May.
Cleared Out.
John French Ship Barbadoes Merchant, and John Stevens for New Hampſhire, John Sampſon, Charles Whitfield, and James Cahoon for Newport, Peter Murdoch, and Jer. Attwarer for Connecticut, John La Goſs Sloop Tryal, & Francis Bignals Sloop Grayhound for Leward Iſlands, Jeremiah Dwent for St. Chriſtophers, William Maſon ⟨Sloop⟩ Pelican for Maryland, Roger Dench and Peleg Durfie for Newfoundland, and Samuel Dolly for North Carolina.
Outward Bound.
Thomas Eliſon Sloop Joſeph for New-York, Joſeph Farrington Ship John and Mary for Leward Iſlands, John Dauvergne Ship Durel for the Bay of Biſcay, William Brocks Ship Sarah for Weſt Indies, Nehem. Done Sloop Mary Ann for Barbados, Joſeph Biſſel Sloop Dove for Annapolis-Royal, Mal. Salter Sloop Fiſher for North-Carolina, Robert Butler Ship Margaret for London.
BOSTON: Printed and Sold by J. Franklin, at his Printing Houſe in Queen Street, over againſt Mr. Sheaf's School, where Advertiſements are taken in.
