The Massachusetts Spy

The following address from the principal inhabitants of the town and port of Sunderland, near the sea, in the county of Durham, was presented yesterday by George Greive, Esq; to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Wilkes, at the Mansion House; and to Mr. Alderman Oliver, at the Old Bailey, where he then was upon the rota.

Sunderland, in the County of Durham.

To the Right Honourable Brass Crosby Esq; Lord Mayor, John Wilkes and Richard Oliver, Esgrs. Aldermen of the city of London.

"We the gentlemen, merchants, owners of ships, and other inhabitants of this town and port, though remote from, yet as fellow countrymen inseparably united to you all, and to your Lordship in a particular and endearing sense of the word, should deprive ourselves of the greatest satisfaction and complacency, if we did not at this time come forward, and join the public voice in applauding, as we do from the bottom of our hearts, the glorious stand you have made against the determined violence of ministerial despotism, and the grievous inroads of unnatural usurpation.

"With equal horror and resentment, we now see that the right of election, the liberty of the press, the franchises of the metropolis, the sacred charge of magistracy, the personal freedom of individuals, the solemn records and course of judicial proceedings, the salutary act of Habeas Corpus.---All---All that is dear to Englishmen, and worth their living for, are occasionally to be dispensed with (and perhaps in time totally abolished) in order to carry into execution that surreptitious insidious minister plan of power, which already influences and sways every movement of Legislature.

"In so critical an emergency, we are perfectly sensible how much the preservation of our laws and liberties depend upon the steady virtue and inflexible constancy of those illustrious WORTHIES, upon whom the eyes of the whole nation are fixed, and in the foremost rank of whom YOU now stand conspicuous. In this contemplation, we hold ourselves engaged by all the motives which gratitude can dictate, and the love of our country can inspire, to avail ourselves of every constitutional means in our power for the vindication and support of so honourable and distinguished a TRIUMVIRATE."