Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1773-10-25 00:00:00, page 1

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The PENNSYLVANIA SPY. No. I.
By ^LINURUS PEEPER, Efy
In fpeculis fem. Cicero.
rf^AfoAX E not alarmed, ye virtuous Penn
,jfc^ } fylvanians ! The name, the cha-
B 5 ra&er, the title I have ahumed,
%X ' ^N and the part lam about to a& in
' ^^ ' this happy province, can give no
^c^^r'xf''*? I offence to a people, whose gene
ral character and conduct may be held up as an
example worthy of imitation in any country on
the globe. A spirit of improvement is acknow-t
lodged to prevail universally among you. In re
ligion, in manners, in science, in arts of every
kind, you have made a most rapid progress, and
are advancing still. The least hint towards the
correction of any past mistakes, the least suggesti
on of any new schemes for the promotion of virtue,
ufeful knowledge, found policy, and sober indus
try can never fail of engaging your candid atten
tion, and impartial inquiry
These being the acknowledged chara&eriftics
of my countrymen, I am not under the least ap
prehensions of being checked or opposed in the
execution of my office, unless I should dare to
suggest any sentiment, that might seem to militate
against their beloved freedom and virtue. But as
1 am certain, that this will never be done inten
tionally by me, so I am not afraid to make them
at once acquainted with my plan of procedure# —
That I may never be without a fufficient quan
tity of materials to speculate upon, I mail intro
duce myfelf by some means or other into the
various feenes of public as well as domestic life,
which are exhibited in different pans of the pro
vince, and particularly in this our metropolis. I
shall be able to accomplish this with very little
difficulty ;_for I am not only admitted as a visitor
among the principal families in the city and coun
try, but have likewise the honour of being enrolled
among the members of several refpe&able public
corporations, as well as private clubs, instituted
for the general good.
I ihali sometimes therefore, claim the privilege
of a member, and pop into the hall of the Philoso
phical Society, at some of their evening meetings,
that I may be able to acquaint my countrymen with
their increasing zeal for the promotion of natural
knowledge, and new and ufeful inventions.
As a 'member too, I (hall have a right to visit
and give my opinion upon the choice of books, at
the meetings of the Library Company of Philadel
phia. This will give me an opportunity of making
such observations as will enable the public to
judge, whether the gentlemen entrusted with the
management of that excellent institution, are not
as well qualified for the difebarge of that trust,
and as faithful in the execution of it, as they
ought to be.
Out of regard to the internal police of this
city, I shall endeavour to be present at all the
meetings of the P/orJhipfdthe Mayor, Eldermen and
Common Council, at which, as a member of many
years standing, I claim a right of being heard
—as often as I chufe to speak.
The managers of the Hofritaland House of Em
ployment may expert now and then a few candid
observations upon the state of things in the build
ings under their care. —My intelligence will be
good, for it (hall come from themfeves, as well as
from my own personal infpedion.—The several
other societies incorporated for particular purposes
Fray exped, as occasion calls, some good-natured
ftridurcs upon their condud, and perhaps a few
hints suggested, that will give them no offence.
As I have not the honour of a feat in the
Legislative Body of this province, I shall take the
innocent liberty of reading their votes as they
corae from the press, and deliver my sentiments in
such a manner as never to incur the just censure
of that Honourable Houje.
I know not whether I shall have occasion to
'',eep into the Cabinet Council. —If things are con
ducted for the time to come with as much wisdom
and moderation and harmony, as they have been
for the two or three preceding Administrations, I
shall have little to fay concerning the conduct ei
ther of the legislative or executive branches of
government.
The state of learning and conduct of the Semi
naries throughout this province, and particularly
of the College and Academy in this city, will
pass frequently under my notice. I shall al
low merit where merit is due, and with equal
candour point out their excellencies and defeats.
lam no great Adept in Divinity. But as I
make it a rule to attend public worship regularly
once a week at some of our Churches or Meetings,
I fnall perhaps now and then employ my Specula
tions upon serious fubje&s: But they shall be such
as are of general concern, and come under the
notice and apprehension of plain common sense.
By these means I fnall avoid offending the good
and worthy of every denomination.
From the Coffee-Houfe and the New Tavern I
@xpe& abundant matter for (peculation. The po-
V 0 L. 111.
litical, commercial, literary and religious interests
of the province will there, no doubt, be learned
ly difeuffed by many a knot of grave and sensible
freeholders.
I have always been an advocate for innocent
amusements, so far as they do not tend to intro
duce luxury and too much didipation. I shall,
therefore, peep once a month into the Assembly-
Room, in Lodge-Elley, and scatter a few hints in
the course of my {peculations, for the benefit of
my fair country-women, whose modesty and good
sense, will, I am confident, secure them a favour
able reception.
The Theatre is but a wooden building, and pro
bably will not last long. But as I have no ob
je&on to a good Play, if well performed, whene
ver the travelling gentry are permitted to pay us
another visit, I fliall make my appearance in the
center of the Pit, and in some future paper give
my candid opinion of the performers, and enquire
how far their occupation and abilities may tend to
edify the good people of Philadelphia.
It would be impoffiblc in the limits of one paper
even to take a cursory view of the whole field that
lies open to my {peculations. Neither do I flatter
myfelf, that my own time or abilities will hereafter
be fufficient to do justice to its several parts as they
occasionally offer themselves. I do, therefore,
present my most refpedfrd compliments to all Poli
ticians, Orators, P oets, Philosophers and Divines,
Members of Corporations for any good purposes
whatsoever. Matters and Students of Seminaries
of learning, Virtuofi, Gimcracks, &c. &c. etc.
residing in or near this famous and flourishing city ;
and intreat them to honour me with such intelli
gence from time to time, as their various prcfef
fions, callings, occupations and amusements will
enable them to procure relative to the fub
jeds I have already enumerated in this paper; and
I do promise on my part, that I will, out of such
communications, extract and publish nothing but
what shall appear to me either ufeful or entertain
ing, and suppress every thing that may have the
least tendency to disturb the good order of go
vernment, the peace of families, or the happiness
of individuals.
That I may not be thought to have undertaken
a talk beyond the reach of common abilities, I am
in duty bound to inform the public, that I am a
Member, and very frequently President of a most
refpedable club of Literati, who at present assem
ble every Thursday evening at the Golden Fleece,
but intend to hold their weekly meetings at the
New Tavern, after it shall be opened.
To this little Junto, whose names and charac
ters I shall probably give in some future paper, I
intend to read every speculation, before it is deli
vered to the press, and submit in every instance to
the determination of a majority. Those who may
think proper to honour me with their correspond
ence, will be pleased to direct: to Palinurus
Peeper, Esq; under cover to Mr. John Dunlap,
Printer of the Fennfylvania Packet.
A.
For the Pennsylvania Packet.
Numb. 111.
To the Parliament of Virginia.
Gentlemen,
NAME S have an influence upon things. It
is by hearing often of the attributes of Kings
that we forget that they are men. It is because
we have heard so much of the unlimited power of
Parliament in Britain, that some people have
thought it wrong to limit it in America. It is
because some of the rights of the colonies have
been founded upon charters, that these colonies
have been supposed to be upon the fame footing
with incorporated towns. It is because our su
preme legislative bodies in America have been cal
led Aflemblies, or Houses of BOrgeffes, that they
have been treated as inferior to the legislative body
in Britain ; and lastly it is because of our later
birth, that we have been abridged of the privi
ledges of children, to which the relation we bear
to our King entitles us, in common with our bre
thren and fellow subjects in Britain.
As you claim the honour of your being the firft
of the colonies that asserted its exclusive legisla
tive power, I have taken the liberty of addressing
this letter to you, to request that you would set
another laudible example to the colonies, by bury
ing the name of a House of Burgesses in that of a
Parliament. This innovation is the more necessa
ry at the present juncture, from the late revival
of the claim of the British Parliament to tax us,
through the medium of the East-India Company.
I need not tell you that you possess all the pow
ers of a British Parliament over your own colony.
You have no superior but the King, or his Repre
sentative who resides amongst you. Should you
acknowledge the power of the British Parliament
to tax you, you will have no security against the
encroachments of the firft Parliament in Ame
rica that shall become more powerful than your
selves. The British Parliament is nothing but
your elder sister. Affection is due to her —But
D U N L A P's
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obedience is a tribute due only to the King. You
derived your Parliament with all its free and am
ple powers from a contrast equally solemn, and
binding with that signed by King John at Runny
Mead. You have nothing to fear for centuries
to come, while you continue under the protection
of the Crown. You are defended against its en
croachments by the power you have derived from
the people, lour Parliament is the sole palladium
of,our liberty.—Should the King of Britain ever
invade your rights, he ceases, according to the
principles of the British constitution, to be King
of the dominion of Virginia.
1 hefe are sentiments of true loyalty as well as
liberty. They are designed to re feue your Parli
ament fr • the usurped jurifdi<tion of your elder
lifter, and to place it, under proper limitations, in
the handt of the King. Did the Ministers of our
Sovereign fully comprehend the nature and ex
tent of their master's prerogative in America, they
would impeach that man for high treason who firft
broached the right of the British Parliament to
tax the colonies.
This, Gentlemen, is the only balls upon which
you can claim or ftpport your privileges. In the
diftindions which have been aimed at, of external
and internal taxes, there are inexplicable difficul
ties which have served only to weaken the nerves
of Patriotism in America. No superior wisdom
or eloquence will be necessary to explain or en
force your claims, while they arc founded upon
the simple principles of the British constitution.
The lyftem of the British empire can only be re
gulated by these principles. If wheels are thus
taken out of a wheel, the single hand of Judice
will be fufficient to set the whole machine in mo
tion.—Wisdom will hardly be necessary to keep
it in order.
HAMPDEN.
Philadelphia, 03. 20, 1773.
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JOHN FIE L D,
At his Hore in Water-street, next door below
the fcuth-eaft corner of Water and Chefiiut
ftreets, hath just imported in the last ships from
London, Hull, Liverpool and Glasgow,
AVERY general assortment of MERCHA N
DIZE; suitable to this season, which he will
dilpofe of on very low terms, for calh or Ihort
credit.
Philadelphia, OB.her 21st, 1773.
TO BE SOL D,
By way of PUBLIC V'ENDU E, at the Lon
don Coffee-houfe, on Wednesday, the twenty
fourth of November, at 6 o'clock in the evening;
A TRACT of PATENT L A N'l),
containing 100 acres, firuate in Baltimore
county, in the province of Maryland, about 35
miles from Baltimore town, in the settlement of
Little Pipe creek, and adjoining Lands of Anthony
Haines and others. Part of this land is already
cleared, some other part may be conveniently turn
ed into meadow ground, and the remainder is wood
land. For particulars enquire of WILLIAM
ROBERT S, near the premises, or of
REESEMEREDITH,
EDWARD PENINGTON,
THOMAS WHARTON, jun.
EDWARD PO LE,
G R O C E R,
INTENDS removing his GROCERY STORE
this week, to the house lately in the tenure of
Jedidiah Snowden, in Market street, between Front
and Second-streets, and within three doors of John
Dunlap's printing-office, where he proposes carry
ing on the Grocery Business in general ; and he
requests the favour of his former customers, and the
publick, which he will endeavour to merit by a con
stant application to business, felling good Goods,
and on the lowed terms.
N. B. The house wherein the said POLE now
lives is to be let, and is in an excellent stand for
business, situate in Second-street, between Chefnut
and Market streets.
'T O BE SO LD,
A HOUSE and lot, in a very convenient situ
ation for any business, conne&ed with water
carriage up or down Delaware, being near the Draw
bridge in this city, nearly opposite Capt. Donnell's,
where Mr. Andrew Doz lately lived ; also two lots
being 33 feet front on Queen-street, in the didri& of
Southwark, and 100 feet deep, having a good dwell
ing house erected thereon, with a pump of excellent
water before the door. Enquire of
JOHN MOYES.
October 18, 1773.
THREE DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY this morning, from the sub
scriber, a servant mag named EDWARD
DOHERTY, but very probably may change his
name; he is about five feet two inches high, black
curled hair, of a dark complexion, weais a black
coat, old sheepskin breeches, dark coloured dock
ings, and old Ihoes lately half-idled, but perhaps
may change his cloaths. Whoever takes up the
said servant, and brings him to the fubferiber, in
Oxford Townfllip, Cheder County, shall have the
above reward^ and reafonahle charges, paid by
WILLIAM LAW.
T H E
ADVERTISER.
OCTOBER 25th, 1773.
WANTS A PLAC E,
AW O MA N who can attend children, teach
them to read, write, and work at their needle,
and can also cook, and do the business of a house
keeper; die can be well recommended. Enquire of
the printer.
October 19th, 1772;
STRAYED or STOLEN.
From the fubferiber, out of Samuel MaceMuff^
pufture, in Weft Nantmill township, Cheder
county,
AN iron g-ey poney, about ten or eleven hands
high, branded on the near buttock with a
brand unknown ; his main hangs naturally to the
near fide, trimmed under the bridle top, a fmril
hurt under the saddle, food before with cue new
shoe and an old one, upwards of four years old :
He was in verv gocd order at the time. Whoever
takes up the said horse, and fends or gives notice
to Samuel Macelduff, to the fubferiber, or to John
Biddle at the Indian King in Philadelphia, 'frall
have TEN SHILLINGS reward, and if ^olen,
for the thief; TWENTY SHLLIN GS,
paid by
JOHN SULLIVAN.
Philadelphia, October 4, 17736
ON MONDAY, the 11th initanfy
the fubferiber opened an FVE A 1 A G
SCHOOL, at hri Schoul-houfe in Elbow line,
next door '0 the Harp and Crown tavern, w^er^
will he taught Writing, Arithmetic, B>ok keeping,
and dome practical branches of the Mathernwi by
WILLIAM OLIPHANT.
Philadelphia, OBober 4th, 177;
A NIGHT SCHOOL
Is opened by the fubferiber, and a well qualified
ahidant, at his fcbool-houfe in Union street, near
Second-street,
WHERE are taught in an expeditions and
approved manner, the Englifli language
grammatically, writing, arithmetic, book-keeping,
geometry, trigonometry, men furation of fuperficies
and biids^ gauging, surveying, navigation, geo
graphy, dialling, algebra, &c. &c.
"ANDREW PORTER.
TO BE SO L D,
AS TRONG hearty woman fervent, who has
about two years and an half to serve, very
suitable for the country. Enquire of the printer
hereof.
A few HOGSHEADS cf
OATEN Me a l;
To be fold by Captain HUNTER, on board the
fllip Alexander, at the wharfbelow Willing and
Morris's, by the hogshead or half hogmead, at
Thirteen Shillings per hundred.
W A n't E D,
In a small family,
AW OMAN that can be recommended for her
honesty and sobriety, and who understands
cooking and housework : Very good wages will be
given to such a person, and no other need apply.
Enquire of the printer.
TO BE SO L D,
TH E time of an Irish servant woman, who has (
three years and an half to serve, fit for either ,
town or country. Enquire of the Printer.
A neat alfortment of MERCHANDIZ
Is just imported in the latt Ihips from London,
to be fold on reafonahle terms, by
SAMUEL SANSOM, Junior,
At his store in Water-ftrey, midway bet^caftyty,
ket and Arch-rtreets, ‘
H O R S
AP AIR of handsome Efoprs
be fold, warranted found, ard not fold for
fault: They are pretty wed broke ttfla carriage.
Enquire of Mr. Little, at tin.Jffi
HOSIERYAN D S : : ST'
To be fold for ready money only, at the fto^&ef
WILLIAM^ EMP
" A y
AF EW healthy young N | G%R O M F, f;F
who have been vied to cmmtffobik,?nd are
sober and industrious. Apply to me printer.
TH E MEMBERS
Jersey Medical Society are defireCT^^|
member, that their next meeting itor.l&ty&^nkeT
ninth of November next, at the hoffe of
LIAM Hicks, in Princeton.
THOMAS WIGGINS, SecretarM
BAKER and WEI ST,
At the sign of the White Fleece, the cornertof
Chefnut and Second-streets, have for sale,
AL ARGE and general assortment of E uropenn
and East-India GOODS, imported in the
last vessels from London, which they will fell whole
sale and retail, remarkably low for cash. Likewise
a neat assortment of carpets and carpetings, of all
widths and fixes.
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