This volume was prepared and edited by authority of the State of New Jersey, at the request of the New Jersey Historical Society, and under the direction of the following Committee of the Society: WILLIAM NELSON, GARRET D. W. VROOM, FREDERICK W. RICORD, WILLIAM S. STRYKER, EDMUND D. HALSEY. N.. Numb. The Bofton News-Letter. L Published by Authority. Froth Monday April 170 Monday April 4 1704 . From all this he infera That they have hopes of Alliftance from: France, otherwife they would never be fo impudent; and he gwes Reafons for his Ap prehensions that the French King may fend Troops thither this Winter, t. Because the English & Dutch will not then be at Sea to oppose them. 2. He can then beft fpare them, the Son of Action beyond Sea being over. 3. The Expe&tation him of a given confiderable number to joyn then., may incourage him to the undertaking with fewer Men if he can but fend over a fuflicient number of Officers with Arms and Ammun tion. He endeavours in the reft of his Letters to an Lenden Wing-Poft from Decemb, ad.. to 4rb. 1703. Eters from Scotland bring us the Copy of Sheer Lately Printed there, Intituled, 4 Jeafouable alarms for Scotland In a Letter from a Gentleman in the City, to bis Friend in the Country, concerning the prefent Danger "Kingdom and of the Preteftent Religion. This Ltter takes Notice, That Pap its fwarm in Nation, that they track more avowedly than erly, and that of late many Scores of Priests & ves an come thither from France, and gone to North, to that Highlands & other places of the try. That the Minifters of the Highlands and fwer the foolish Pretences of the Pretender's being a Proteftant, and that he will govern us according Non gare in large Lifts of them to the Commit the General Aflembly, to be laid before the to Law. He fays, that being bred up in the Reli ha-Council gion and Politicks of France, he is by Education & Itiker fe oblerves, that a great Number of otated Enemy to our Liberty and Religion. That all perfons are come over from France, the Obligations which he and his family owe to pretence of accepting her Majelly's Gracious the French King, mult necefiafily make him to be Incity bus in reality, to increafe Divisions in wholly at his Devotion, and to follow his Example; etion, and to entertain a Cort fpondence with that if he fit upon the Throne, the three Nations B: That their ill Intentions are evident from must be oblied to pay the Debt which he owes the ang b, their owning the Interest of the French King for the Education of himself, and for led King 3ames VIII. their fecret Cabals, Entertaining his fuppofed Father and his Eamily. and acir buying up of Arms and Ammunition, And fince the King must restore him by his Troops, neter they can find them. if ever he b. reitored, he will fee to fecure This heads the late Writinge, and Actings his own Debt, before thofe Troops leave Britain. of for detended perfons, many of whom are The Pretender being a good Proficient in the French for Pry had r; that feveral of them have de- and Remifh Schools, he will never think himself cash the protather embrace Popery than con fufficiently aveng'd, but by the utter Ruine of his. for for the ant Government; that they refufe Proteftant Subjects, both as Hereticks and Traitors. ign, and fueen, but ufe the ambiguous word The late Queen, his pretended Mother, who in King aneme of them pray in exprefsWords cold Blood when the was Queen of Britain, advis'd and genera Royal Family, and the charita to turn the West of Scotland into a hunting Field, hKinds Prince who has few'd them will be then for doing to by the greateft part of the s, nor longs. He likewife takes notice of Nation, and, no doubt, is at Pains to have her pre fon laterago found in Cypher, & directed tended Son educated to her own Mind: Therefor fays that thome thither from St. Germain, he fays, it were a great Madnels in the Nation to e themfelvis greatest Jacobites, who will not take a Prince bred up in the horrid School of Ingras kade now ws by taking the Oaths to Her Matitude, Perfecution and Cruelty, and filled with from St. Gathe Papifts and their Compa bject, comonaina fet up for the Liberty of to ke afrary to their own Principles, but that pup Divifion in the Nation. He comicy aggravate thofe things which the emiplain of, as to England's refusing to al afredom of Trade, &c. and do all they ment Divifions betwixt the Nations, & to Barrels of thofe things complain'd of." cobes, be fays, do all they can to per Nation that their pretended Ring is a ht in his Heart, tho he dares not declare it Mider the Power of France; that he is ac with the Miftakes of his Father's Go ill govern us more according to Law Randomfelf to his Subjects. Leyangnific the Strength of their ewa Party, Che Werknels and of the other, in are, and haften be Underting antelves out of their Feurs, and into, Wheel 2nored accounting their purpoft. Rage and Envy. The Jacobites, he fays, both in Scotland and at St. Germains, are impatient under their prefent Straits, and knowing their Circum tances cannot be much worse than they are, at prefent, are the more inclinable to the Undertaking. He adds, That the French King knows there cannot be a more effectual way for himself to arrive at the Univerfal Monarchy, and to ruine the Proteftanci Intereft, than by letting up the Pretender upon Throne of Great Britain, he will in all probability, attempt it; and tho' le fhould be perfuaded that the Defign would mifcarry in the clofe, yet he can not but reap fume Advantage by imbroiling the three Nations. the From all this the Author concludes it to be the Inter ft of the Nation, to provide for Self defence and lays, that as many have already taken the Alem, and are furtuthing themfelves with Arms and Ammunition, he hopes the Government wilb not only allow it, but encourage it, lince the Nati On ought all to spear as one Man in the Defence THE FIRST AMERICAN NEWSPAPER. RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. EDITED BY WILLIAM NELSON. VOLUME XII. I. SOME ACCOUNT OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS, PARTIC- BRARIES IN WHICH THEY MAY BE FOUND. PART II. 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