Mr. Purdie

PLEASE to inform the publick, that the Mary, Capt. [James] Miller, now loading in York river, is partly owned by Mr. John Wilkinson of London, who is likewise owner of two ships, the Lion and Brilliant, that formerly loaded in Virginia; which two ships the said Mr. Wilkinson has let to the Ministry, to carry troops to Boston, to cut the throats of all the Americans.

Quere. Is it not incumbent on every friend of liberty, and his country, to refuse shipping a single hogshead of tobacco on board any ship belonging to such a bloody-minded man as Mr. Wilkinson? Would it not be as proper to send the Mary back, in balast, as the Virginia? Her being chartered by another person cannot be any good objection to sending her away in ballast, since the charterer must have known of Mr. Wilkinson's crime before the Mary left London, and therefore has made himself Particeps criminis, an accessory to the guilt.