single Pound, dipt and mould Candles at the lowest
Price.

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Every week the burials and baptisms in Boston were thus inserted in the
papers. The following is from the "Gazette" of Nov. 23, 1767:--

Buried in the Town of Boston since our last, Five Whites.
Three Blacks. Baptiz'd in the several Churches, Four.

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This custom was continued many years. We take the following from the
"Massachusetts Centinel," April 2, 1788:--

BURIED _in town last week_ 11--BAPTISED 14.

Published by BENJAMIN RUSSELL, near the State-House, Boston.

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General Wolfe's Manifesto from the "Boston Gazette," Dec. 10, 1759.

_As the Manifesto lately published was only a Translation
from a French Manuscript, we are requested to publish the
following, which is_

_General_ WOLFE's Manifesto,
_as written by Himself._

THE formidable Sea and Land Armament which the People of
_Canada_ now behold in the Heart of their Country is
intended by the King my Master to check the insolence of
_France_;--To revenge the Insults offered to the _British_
Colonies, and totally deprive the _French_ of their most
valuable Settlements in _North-America_.

For these Purposes only is the Formidable Army under my
Command intended.

The King of _Great-Britain_ wages no War with the
Industrious Peasant, the sacred Orders of Religion, or the
defenceless Women and Children: To these in their
distressful Circumstances His Royal Clemency offers
Protection. The People may remain unmolested on their Lands,
inhabit their Houses, and enjoy their Religion in Security.
For these inestimable Blessings, I expect the _Canadians_
will take no Part in the Great Contest between the two
Crowns; But if by a vain Obstinacy, and misguided Valour,
they presume to appear in Arms, they must expect the most
fatal Consequences; their Habitations destroyed, their
sacred Temples exposed to the Fury of an exasperated
Soldiery; their Harvest utterly ruined, and the only Passage
of Relief stopped up by a most formidable Fleet.--In this
unhappy Situation, and closely attacked by another great
Army, what can the wretched Natives expect from Opposition!

THE unparelelled Barbarities exerted by the _Fren