Country Journal Or The Craftsman (Newspaper) - April 12, 1829, London, Middlesex The C O U N T R Y JOURNAL THE C R A F T No. By CALEB of April 12, 1729. CALEB N V E R Mr. S you have in the Caufe of and onr unfortunate I was that you not have taken any Notice of an Article from in the Daily t Journal of March 21II, which that the John Trounce was arrive a1 there l but in her a FRENCH Man of War had taken out her as Turks and two I it is in the that if the Goods appear not to belong to the Owners may have them or ed to but tills does not feem to give any Satisfaction to concerned in for we may from the Cafe of our plundered Merchants in the what is to be expected from Applications of this but tins to have been or even in whole laden with Tripeline the what Authority or Pretence a French Man of War could have to feize them We be glad to know whether there is any Article in the Treaty of which us from trading with all that happen not to be at Peace with 6r that any of War had Intelligence that a French was laden with the Spaniards were at open with us both by Sea and Land I no improbable I the Commanders Ships had any Power to make Prize of j Had this Ship been bound to with military to be made ufe of I grant that there would have been fome Appearance of a Caufe for though perhaps it would not have altogether even that but there not feem to be the Shadow of a why Swe not or carry Goods for a with whom we are at Peace if it be not contrary to and decs not affect the of any of our I Mr. that reckoned the Freight and Mediterranean which to us by our of and ft it certainly ought to be but if the or any ether Power continue this and we think fit to allow or at that is of fo much lefs Importance than we generally and you have represented it. I only that we feem to be under very peculiar of all our other heavy and Interruptions in we are not allowed to even this Branch of and our Enemies to come to any Accommodation with will us to enjoy the Fruits of that which we have isien to It looks as if the Powers of both Friends and were confederated and to unite their to prive us of all our Trade at There is another very material Article of Foreign News in your of 29th of laft which fome The of the Company were informed by their about a Year that they had received insupportable by the Seizures of the winch obliged their Directors to reduce their at to 4 ter but they were at the fame with Hopes that would be taken to procure as would put into a or one of your Trade of the We have keen often that the King of Spain obliged to caufe the Prince and all her to be immediately to the Company's but after Year's vaia Expectation of and after the moil punctual of our Stipulations fullering the and all their vail to return we are told at that the Spaniards continue the fame Prevarications La Vera and other Parts of the Weft they made ufe of before the Signing of theft It Is faid that the Ship is actually and as much of her as had hot hen fent to or away by the that they irad alfo put the into cf the Company's but they were forced to the Money they had been valued in the King of and to deliver any due on Account of the Negro and alfo Debts due on Account of former annual pretending that the Order only the Prince Frederick and her -In that the had but doubted of any It is to that the delivered are but and perhaps the Company may find obliged been to fit contented with the of an empty for if Advices prove I it looks too much like and affords but all the other unhappy Sufferers by the Depredations of the Spaniards for Years We it is hit that He wHl continue his Endeavours to obtain all Satisfaction for our as well as Security for our future but in order to it is to his with a full and Account of and it particularly incumbent on the Proprietors of the to make a Enquiry into the Condition of their what their Lc lies in- general are called really whether they are all juilly imputed to the and what They urge in of and their pre I think fach an Examination high -ly expedient on two Fir that we may not charge the Spaniards with more than we can and to prevent the Danger of another precipitate Reduction of our by our too implicitly Management of I your humble c fa CALEB fo friend ' BY this thou that thy Fame hath reached to Places in this far remote from the great City wherein thou and as thy Writings are in fome Things agreeable to they are read by Friends in but as I apprehend that they are in fome Particulars I deal plainly with thee concerning as thou to plead for a Freedom of arid i Liberty of the we approve thy fo and expect that thou wilt in this act as the Sons of Men too which is to contend fox Liberty When they are but not grant it to when they are ki I am alfo to in form that we are mach edified by many of thy they feem to contain both a literal and a figurative This we are the more it has the general Practice of were called to be a - Novy as Errors thou in thy it is apparent that thou doft endeavour to ftir up Wan and who are of a peaceable hereb thou and too much to depend upon the Arm of Some of our Friends have had a that the Times are and even at wherein great called Men of be converted into Ships of and perhaps this h already in part Oh I muft here that my and the Bowels of cf our Friends after Trade for without we can enjoy but lew of the good Things of World and whom thou that the good Things of the World are but the faithful Remnant Friends the peaceable and quiet fo in Men of high to be of and do believe that are the in which many ancient Prophecies be it that our Nation of late hath hardly lifted up the and many that they have not for fome time learned any more the Art - I tell we believe are the Times long in which Kings Jhall be which is much better than delighting in and being Men of Caleb I If thou wert as fant in Sacred thou to be in- thou that the MenK thou do well in giving any who asks for their their and a Rumor hath reached our that they are about fo to do but me not for I mean not hV the with which they cover too to Here thou haft for thy He that can let him What remains but to that my and the Breathings of Friends that the Eyes of thy inward Man may be and that thou become more and more in thy HEZEKIAH From Beverly in Place of my the 11 th Day of the in FOREIGN A F Extract of a Letter from Jan. 18, 1728-a you in my that we were very much upon die Arrival of Ship the with our Governor and the the Contents of which were kept but the Governor thereupon immediately called a Council of which met accordingly the 7th when his in his told that the of their Meeting to about proper for the The Preparations and Conduct of the Spaniards in and their continued Depredations and interrupting of out lawful in by fuch as are to be to act by Orders from make the much at and lays us under an Obligation to provide any or as indeed he was to by his upon juit that their Naval and Preparations pointed this He then recommended which he thought to be done on this and gave them feme Directions for their in cafe of We are accordingly very Li repairing all our and putting the in a of Defence is i 1 a very good will be very and above 200 Negroes are at Work upon the have now 9 Men of War on and
