Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-04-24 00:00:00, page 6

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i'll 'iLntl L(»U I mil (aVenJuh.
4\ / rex' iy aQ.nitteJ with Mr. Elks, and
wi h[^ SohJ^o: Genera! TScotUnd, that the
]CT'^i :m vis a exrration to every thing
th ir ?/.: iamt.t had declared ; a Shameful pre-
A i 'cation in i .in hers; and a mean departure
lam eery deJara ionthey had made. They
w.r'c however tailing to purchase peace by any
lan iudon of mini^cr>, and by what was of
to- O)U moment, even by the humiliation of
I' rit:e.t. But the measure was mean in
deed, iu not at all conciliatory. One benefit,
jiMever, was derived from it, for (Ind Mr,
For ii h:s re est ibldhed the credit, and figna
] zed the p wer of the true constitutional
whiggdh principle of refinance. I his had al
iocy reduced the uroudeft tyranny ; had made
it renounce its high declarations, and dorp to
meanness and fraud,, tire fare forerunner of
10 it and difnay. That as. Lord North had
alrraclv been daggered into this unheard of aft
of irresolution.ar.d inconstancy, there might be
fa ne hope of his proceeding to others which
might be really lenient ; if it were not the na
tu.'e of in oafilteucy, not to proceed in any
cer a : n track ; and that the lame want of a
fixd principle which led him to renounce his
firh plin, might induce him perhaps as fud
denlv to re urn 0 it.
That the more of argument on the fide of
mioillry was the mod ridiculous that ever had
been known in Parliament. They attempted to
prove to one fide of the Horde, that t,e mea
sure was a concNlion ; and to the other, that
it was a strong aflertion of authority —jh(l on
the filly principles of the Tea /led, w'hich to
Great Britain was to be a duty of supply, to
tne Americans a tax of regulation.
They were likewise (they faid)aftonifhed at
another extraordinary phenomenon. To this
pay, during the whole course of the American
debates, the ministry have daily and hourly deni
ed their having any fort of contell about an
.American revenue. That the whole was a dis
pute for obedience to trade lams, and to the
general legifadve authority. Now they turn
short—and to confide our manufu.7urers, and
animate our fa'diem, they tell them for the first
time, < the dispute is put on its true
footing, and that the grand contest is,
not for empty honour, but fubflantial revenue."
But manufacturers and soldiers will not be so
conloled, or so animated ; because the revenue
is as much an empty phantom, as the honour ;
and the whole Scheme of the resolution is op
jrefve, affird, and impraßicable —and, what
indeed the minitiers confess, the Americans
will not accept. It is opprefae ; because,
it was never the complaint of the Americans
that the mode of taxation was xot left to them
selves ; but that neither the amount and quan
tum of the grant, nor the application, was in
their tree choice. This was their complaint,
and th^ir complaint was just. What clfe is it
to be taxed by act of Parliament in which they
are not represented, but for Parliament to fet
tle the proportion of the payment, and the ap
plication of the money ? This is the purport of
toe present refoludon. If an act of Parliament
compelled the city of Awferdam, to raise an.
hundred thousand pounds, is not Amsterdam
as effectually taxed without its consent, as if
duties to that amount were laid upon that city?
To leave them the mod^ may be of some ease
as to the Colleßion; but it is nothing to the free
dom of granting ; in which the Colonies are so far
from being relieved by this Refolutton, that
their condition is to be TEN TIMES WORSE
THAN EVER.
For the Minority contended, that it is far a
more oppreflive mode of taxing than that hither
to used. For here no determinate demand is
made. The Colonies are to be held in durance
by Troops, Fleets, and Armies, untilyfafy an d
separately they Shall do —what? until they Shall
offer to contribute to a service which they can
not know, in a proportion which they cannot
guess, on a Standard, whicli they are so far from
being able to ascertain, that Parliament which
is to hold it, has not ventured to hint what it
is they exped. They are to be held prisoners of
war, unless they content to a Rankin, by bid
dng atan auction against each other and against
themselves, until the King and Parliament Shall
Strike down the hammer and fay “ enough."
This Species of Außion to be terminated not
at the diferetion of the bidder, but at the will
of the Sovereign Power, was a kind of absurd
Tyranny, which they challenged the Ministers
to produce any example of, in the Practice of
this or of any other nation. What was said to
be mod like this method of setting the Colony
AiLmbbes at guessing what contribution might
be mod agreeable to us' in some future time,
was the Tyranny of Nebuchadnezzar, who,
having forgot a dream of his, ordered the As
semblies of his Wife Men on Pain of death, not
only to interpret his dream, but to tell him moat
his dream mas
To set the i;n,ra°:cabili!y and abfardity of this
f-heme in the Stronger light, they asked, in case
an assembly made an offer, which Should not be
th rg\ Lfficleit by pedlament, w^ rot the
b..fi; A to walk back agai 1 to America ? rod
so on backwards and forwards as often as the
offer TqTof d parlir, rs? and thus, infieadt f
cbraining peace by this proportion, all our dif
tr ictions and confunons would be encreafed ten
fold, and continued for ever.
It was said indeed by the Minister, that this
Rheme will disunite the colonies. —Tricks in
government had sometimes, it was admitted,
been fuccefiful ; but never, when they were
known, avowed, and hackneyed. That the
Boston Port bill was a declared cheat, ana ac
cordingly far from Succeeding; it was the very
firft thing that united all the colonies against us,
from Neva-Scotia to Georgia.
As to the pretended jullice cf this extorted
contribution, from the debt incurred on the sole
account of America, Col. Barre said, it was
falfe and futile. We mutt defend ear domini
ons wherever they are attacked by our enemies
— but to charge the part attacked as the cause
of the burthen brought on by that defence, is
ridiculous —lt was not the ambition of the Co
lonies, but the designs of France aiming at an
empire in Am.rica, which caused that debt.
The idea of deducting the value of goods sup
posed to be taken by the colonies, because we
ibid cheap, at a time when we did not fuffer the
colonies to make the trial ; and by such arith
metic, to deduce the propriety of their paying
in nearly an equal proportion with the people
of England, (they said) was of a piece with the
rest of the policy and the argument of this pro
found project.
Mr. Burke strongly declared against any scheme,
which began by any mode of extorting revenue
That every benefit, natural, or political, mil
be had in the order of things, and in its proper
season. Revenue from a free people must be the
con/equence of peace, not the condition on which
it is to beobtained. That if we attempt to in
vert this order, ice fall bave^mither peace nor
revenue. If we are resolved to eat our grapes
crude and four, instead of obtaining nourish
ment, we shall only set an edge on our own
teeth, and those of our posterity for ever.
They all urged, therefore, for the reconside
ration until it could be brought to some agree
ment with common sense: They moved, " that
the Chairman do now leave the Chair, and
have leave to fit again."
The Minister, diftra&ed by an oppefition from
such opposite quarters, seemed ready to fink
under it. His allies seemed on the point of
desertion, until the great BUTE STANDARD
was displayed by Sir Gilbert Edict, when molt
of them fell again into order, and tho' afliamed
and mortified, voted with the Minister.
The instantaneous effect cf the few words
spoken by the STANDARD BEARER, after
Lord Nerth had been five times on his legs, and
only made matters worse and worse, was paint
ed bv Mr. Dunning in a vein of the most deli
cate irony.
The numbers upon the division were :
Ayes 274, Noes 88.
which me have tie following advices.
Watertown, Wednesday m rnng, near 10 of the clock.
'¥' O all friends of American liberty, be it
known, that this morning before break
of day, a brigade confiding qf about 1000 or
1,200 men, landed at Phipps's Farm, at Cam
bridge, and marched to Lexington, where they
found a company of our Colony militia in arms,
upon whom they fired without any provocation,
and killed fix men and wounded four others.
By an express from Bolton we find another bri
gade are now upon their mar.h from Boston,
iuppofed to be about 1000. The bearer, Trail
Biflel, is charged to alarm the country quite to
Connecticut; and all persons are delired to
furnish him with frefh horses, as they may be
needed. I have spoken with several who have
seen the dead and wounded. Pray let the De
legates from this colony to Connecticut fee this,
they know Col. Forster, one of the Delegates.
J. PALMER, one of the Committee.
A true copy from the original, per order of the
Committee of Correspondence of Worcester,
April >775-.
Attested and forwarded by the Committees of
Brockline, Norwich, New-London, Lyme, Say
brook, Kilhngfworth, E. Guilford, Guilford,
B.andford, N^v-Haven.
Fairfield, Saturday, Aprilzl, S c'clock.
SINCE the above-written we have received
the following by a second expref-.
Thursday, 3 o'clock , A. M.
SIR,
I am this moment informed by an express
from Woodcock, taken from the mouth of the
express, then two of the clock afternoon, —
That the contest between the firft brigade that
marched to Concord was still continuing this
morning at the town cf Lexington, to which
said brigade had retreated, that another brigade
had, said to be the second mentioned in the let
ter of this morning, landed with a quantity of
artillery, at the place where the firft did. The
provincials were determined to prevent the two
brigades from joining their strength if possible,
and remain in great need of fcccour.'
A'. B. The regulars when in Concord, burnt
the Court Houle, took two pieces of cannon
PHILADELPHIA, ^724, 1775.
An Express arrived at Five o'clock this evening, by
low the Friends Market street Meeting.
HA S imported a frefh affortmeitt of BOOKS,
&c. among which are the works of Flavius
Josephus, translated by L'Eftrange, 4 vols. bound
30s. Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, in 2 vols. bound
1 ss. Family Bibles, Doddridge's Family Expositor,
6 vols. Svo. Vanfweiten's Commentaries, vols.
15, 16, 17 and 18, to compleat the whole; Mor
gagni's,works, 3 yols. qto. most of the modern
authors on Physic and Law. A great variety of
paper hangings, the best writing paper of all sizes,
printing paper, parchment, blank books and sta
tionary of all kinds.
Some curious HARD WA RE.
Guns, pocket and laddie pistols, cutteaus, silk
and leather belts, sword canes, powder flafks, foot
bags, backgammon tables labelled book fafliiQii,
surveying inftuments, pocket cases of ' mathema
tical instruments, globes, thermometers, barome
ters, a variety of fpedacles, shaving equipage, tea
urns, cruet frames, copper scales sorted ; green,
ivory and silver handled knives and forks; com
mon ditto ; plated Spurs, pinchbeck buckles ; stone
and paste shoe, knee and stock buckles; ladies Steel
watch chains; a great variety of pocket-_books,
with and without instruments, &c. &c. Catalogue
may be had gratis.
Keyfer's famous pills, Jesuits drops, and patent
medicines of all kinds.
To be had ar . the fame place, the American editi
ons of the Inflexible Captive and Sethona, tragedies,
is. 6J. each ; New Sermons to Asses, is. 6d. the
Story of TEneas and Dido burlesqued, 3s. gd. Tif
fQt's Advice to the People with reg rd u^ their
Health ios. Dimfdale on the Small-pox, 3s. 9J.
which they rendered ufeiefs; and Ley r. to t d..r
up Concord bridge, on which Captan
(who with many on both files were Moo Ghedi
made an attack upon the King's troops, vU
whicli they retreated to Lexington.
To Col. Obadiah Johnson, lam,
Canterbury. " EB. WILLIAMS.
P.S. Mr. M'Farlan of Plainfield, Merchant,
has just returned from Boston, by way of Pro
vidence, who conversed with an express from
Lexington, who further informs, that 4000 of
our troops had surrounded the firft brigade
above mentioned, who were on a hill in Lex
ington, that the action continued, and there
were about 50 of our men killed, and 150 of the
regulars as near as they could determine, when
the express came away; it will be ' expedient for
every man to go who is fit and willing.
The above is a true copy as received per ex
press from New-Haven, and attested to by the
Committee of Correspondence, from town to
t)wn. Attefl.
Jonathan Sturgis,)
Anbrjvw Rowland, < ,
Tha DDl u S Burr, ^mm^ee.
Job Bartram )
The above was received yesterday at four
o'clock, by the Committee of New-York, and
forwarded to Philadelphia, by Issac Low,
Chairman of the Committee of New-York.
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ISAAC GR A Y,
In Chefnut-ftreet, near Strawberry-alley, hath for
[SALE, excellent Philadelphia bottled
BEER and C YD E R,
Carefully put up for either foreign or domefic use ;
Where also may be had,
OLD Madeira, Lisbon, Mountain and Tene
riffe W INES, by the calk or otherwise;
Claret, Red Port, and Sack Wine, in bottles; old
Jamaica Spirit, Brandy, Geneva, Coffee, Pepper,
Chocolate, Loaf and.Mufeovado Sugars, Indigo,
Spices, Corks, Alfpice, Snuff, double and single
Gloucester Cheese, English Beer, White Wine and
Cyder Vinegar by the barrel or gallon, &c. &c.
ALSO, an Assortment of
GLASS W A R E,
Made at KENSINGTON.
JAMES BUTLAN D,'
Fringe and Lace-Maker, from Bristol,
Continues to make and fell the following articles,
either wholesale or retail, in Front-street, between
Race and Vine. Greets, viz.
COACHMAKER'S laces of all forts in silk
or worsted, figured or plain, with glass firings,
holders, roses, bearers, French nailing, hammer
cloth fringe, &c. all forts of fringe and laces for
beds and other furniture, with lines and toffels, in
gold, silver, silk, worsted, or thread. Gentlemens
coats of arms, and footmens liveries made to any
pattern, olivets or jacks for gentlemens cloaths,
ladies trimmings for sacks or gowns, made to any
pattern in the English or French fafhions, with
many other articles, in the fancy way. Said But
land returns his most humble thanks to his friends
and customers for the favours he has already re
ceived (which have been much beyond his expecta
tions) and hopes for a continuance : He also assures
them, that he hath it in his power now to serve
them better than before, and will make it his par
ticular study to do it ; and he likewise assures thefn
and the public, that no advantage shall be taken
on account of the troubles between Britain and
America, as any person that has had any dealings
with him, knows, that he retails his goods cheaper
than ever they were in this country before, and as
good in quality as are imported, although the ma
terials that those goods are made with, cost more,
and some of them cost twice the money, before they
are put into the loom, that those very goods are
purchased for ready made in England, yet as he
hopes to elEblifh a ufeful manufactory in this city,
he is determined to fell on the lowest terms possible.
N. B. An apprentice is wanted to the said bu
siness, and also a person that understands making
of any ofthe above works.
JOHN SPARHAW K,
At the Book store in Second street, five doors'be-