To the Right Hon'ble the Lords and others of his Majesty's
most Hono'ble Privy Council.

The Memorial of Samuel Shute Esq'r Governor of his
Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay and New
Hampshire in New England.

Sheweth

That he humbly Conceives it will be absolutely necessary for his Majesty's Service in supporting his Royal Prerogative and keeping the People in a just Dependance on their Mother Country, That three independant, Companys be granted to those Provinces, two for the Province of the Massachusetts Bay which is the largest Province belonging to his Majesty in America, the other for the Province of New Hampshire.

One Company he proposes constantly to be in his Majesty's Castle Fort William, which is advantageously scituated on an Island a League's Distance from Boston, is regularly fortifyed and has near one hundred Guns mounted, Commands and guards the Entrance into the Harbour, The other Company to be in the Town of Boston which is very large and has near Eighteen Thousand Inhabitants.

He humbly Conceives the Necessity of having this Company in the Town will appear from the many Riots and Disorders that have been Committed in the Town, and also from the Complaints lately Transmitted from the Judge Advocate and Officers of the Court of Admiralty there to the Lords of the Admiralty here and their Lordships Letter thereon to his Majesty's Secretary of State which accompany'd those Papers, and likewise from the Complaints transmitted by the Officers of the Customs there to the Commissioners of the Customs here, and by the Memorial of the Commiss'rs to the Lords of the Treasury upon that Complaint, all which Papers with the Affidavitts annexed are lodged in the Secretary's Office, Duplicates whereof the Gov'r has by him.

The third Company to be in Fort William and Mary which guards the Entrance into the Harbour of the Province of New Hampshire.

He also humbly Conceives his Majesty's Governor should have a setled Salary independant on the People as his Majesty's Governors of other Provinces in America have, without which it will be impossible for the Gov'r to support his Majesty's 1 Circa 1725. From the State Archives.

Prerogative or faithfully execute the Trust reposed in him, without having mean Allowance they have hitherto made, Curtail'd for his doing so. Moreover under this head, he takes the Liberty to observe (that tho' he is here upon his Majesty's Service and with his Leave) neither of the said Provinces have granted him any Salary for three Years last past, and when any was granted, it was not sufficient honourably to Support his Majesty's Gov'r of those Provinces.

All which is most humbly submitted by

SAMUEL SHUTE,

JEDEDIAH MORSE TO JOHN STOCKDALE.

CHARLESTOWN, June 10th, 1794.

DEAR SIR, In looking over the Catalogue you sent me of new books which you have in the press, I notice Playfair's Philosophical and Political History of the French Revolution, 2 vols. 8vo. which I should be very glad to see, Gay's Fables 12mo the books you are printing by way of retalliation, as they are new to me, the New European Magazine, Perry's New General Dictionary, pocket vol. I wish you to send me also regularly the best of the English Reviews. Also a copy of the portrait of Mr. Adams, our Vice-President, painted by Copely, and to be prefixed to the edition of his works which you are publishing.

In lieu of these I shall send you Dr. Williams' History of Vermont, Judge Sullivan's History of District of Main, both which are now in the press, and will be valuable works. Dr. Belknap's American Biography, 1st vol, 8vo., and Judge Winthrop's new translation of the Revelations, both lately published and ingenious. A new Abridgement of my Geography and such other new publications as are valuable and ingenious. I wish for the Reviews from the commencement of the year 1794. Yours as before,

JED'A MORSE.

List of Books which I send you by Capt. Scott, the bearer Mr. Broome:

Hannah Adam's View of Religions, 8vo. I vol.

* Belknap's Biography, 1st vol. 8vo. I vol. in boards. Winthorp's translation of the Apocalypse Pamphlet.

Abridgement of Amer. U. Geog'y, I vol. 12mo.

LETTER OF JOHN TYLER.

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P. S. There have been printed in the United States, since 1784 (when the 1st Edition was printed) 21,000 copies of my Geography great and small.

You will see that Dr. Belknap, my friend, has often quoted your friend Mr. Edwards. I lent him the copy you sent me. I send you also 4th vol. American Preacher the other volumes are out of print.

[Endorsed] Capt. Scott. With a bundle. Bookseller, Piccadilly, London. Mr. Broome.

a new work

Mr. John Stockdale,

JOHN TYLER TO DANIEL WEBSTER.

May 27, 1842.

MY DEAR SIR, I had hoped that we were done with Rhode Island, but here comes today, by the hands of a special messenger, a call from Gov'r King for protection against a supposed plot of Dorr to invade the State with troops from Massachusetts and other States. I can not think otherwise of it, than as a continuance of the game of brag, which I had regarded as at an end. But I have thought that the safer way was to show a desire to treat the letter of the Governor with the respect of instituting an inquiry into the matter by a secret agent of our own, and I write you therefore to take the matter in hand, and to appoint a suitable person quietly and silently to go to the borders of Rhode Island, and ascertain all that the insurgents are about. A Mr. [Henry] De Wolf of Massachusetts is said to be the military commander. The chief scene of operations is about Woonsocket Falls and Cumberland, and on the borders of Massachusetts. They are reported to have a thousand stand of arms, tents for a military encampment and two pieces of cannon. The 1st of June is talked of for the general meeting, and the insurgents boast of having 2500 men enlisted in their service.

Now I wish to select a suitable person to get in among the people who will be able to find out their real designs. He will of course act confidentially, and will be selected for his prudence and sagacity. Be assured of my constant regard.

JOHN TYLER.

P. S. The town of Thompson in Connecticut is spoken of as Dorr's sometime headquarters.1

1 See Mowry, The Dorr War, 201, but the name of the agent is not given.

AN UNPUBLISHED COMEDY.

In the papers collected by the late Mr. Walter Lloyd Jeffries is a broadside issued in Boston, in December, 1768, inviting subscription to publish a comedy entitled, "The Miser: or the Soldier's Humour," by William Clarke, a soldier of his Majesty's Twenty-Ninth Regiment. Subscribers were referred to Elisha Brown at the ManufactoryHouse, of whom little is known, though he may have been a member of Giles Russell's company in the expedition against Havanna in 1762, under Admiral Pococke and Lord Albermarle. Nor is anything known of Clarke and his unpublished comedy. The Twenty-Ninth Regiment served in America from 1766, except for the years 1773-1776, becoming in 1783 the "Worcestershire Regiment," stationed in Canada. Its colonel from 1766 to 1769 was George Forbes, fourth earl of Granard who died in 1769, and after that year William Evelyn, probably the one of the name who lost his life by shipwreck on Cape Breton, Canada, in 1805. No copy of the pamphlet is known and it is doubtful if the response to the "Proposals" were such as to warrant its printing. The circular in the Jeffries papers is unique and is reproduced by the courteous permission of Mr. William A. Jeffries.