Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1774-07-04 00:00:00, page 3

The following is a copy of the Circular Letter feat by
the Committee for this city and count), to the dis-
Jereat counties in this province.
Philadelphia, June 28, 1774.
Gentlemen,
TH E Committee of Correspondence for
this city and county, beg leave to encl>fe
you printed copies of the Resolves, passed at a
very large and refpedable meeting of the Free
holders and Freemen in the State-house Square,
on Saturday the 18th instant. By the 4th of
those Resolves, you will observe that it was left
for the Commitee " To determine on the most
" proper mode of collecting the sense of this
" province in the present critical situation of
" our affairs, and appointing Deputies to attend
" the proofed congress." In pursuance of this
trust, we have, upon the matured deliberation,
determined upon the mode contained in the two
following propositions, which we hope may
meet with the approbation and concurrence of
your refpe&able county, viz.
“ 1. That the Speaker of the Honorable House
" of Xeprefentatives be desired to write to the
" several members of Assembly in this province,
" requeuing them to meet in this city as soon
"as possible, but not later than theist of Au
“ gust next, to take into their consideration our
“ very alarming situation.
" 2. I hat letters be written to proper per
“ sons in each county, recommending it to
" them to get Committees appointed for their
" refpe&ive counties, and that the said Com
" mittees, or such number of them as may be
“ thought proper, may meet in Philadelphia,
" at the time the S eprefentatives are convened,
" in order to Confu t and advise on the mod
" expedient mode of appointing Deputies for
“ the general congress, and to give their weight
“ to such as may be appointed."
The Speaker of the Assembly, in a very oblig
ing and ready manner, had agreed to comply
with the requett in the former of these proposi
tions ; butwe are now informed that, on ac
count of the Indian disturbances, the Governor
has found it necessary to call the Assembly to
meet in their legislative capacity on Monday
July 18, being ab>ut the fame time the Speaker
would probably have invited them to a confer
ence or convention in their private capacity.
Wnat W 3 have therefore to request is, that, if
you approve of the mode expressed in the second
proportion, the whole or part of the Committee
appointed, or to be appointed for your county,
will meet the Committees from the other coun
ties at Philadelphia on Friday the 15th ofjuly,
in order to assist in framing inftrudlions, and
preparing such matters as may be proper to re
commend to our Reprefentat;ves at their meet
ing the Monday following.
We trust no apology is nc ffiry for the trou
ble we propose giving your Committee of at
tending at Philadelphia; as we are persuaded
you are fully convinced of the necessity of the
closest union among ourselves both in sentiment
and action ; nor can such union be obtained so
well by any other method, as by a meeting of
the county Committees of ech particular pro
vince, in one place, preparatory to the general
qftndc, Imploring rhe SHtang of fctrM lipoh then,
and a finely rcleafe for herfelf, in fail hope that
(he was to change this transitory scene for a better
^berfarce.
On Sunday evening her remains were interred
in the chancel of St. James's Church, her pall
having been fapported to the grave by fix Magis
trates. All denominations of people seemed to
follow as mourners, and at the head of these, as a
true picture of didrefs and furrow, were a bereaved
Efland and eight keeping children. —A pathetic
difeourfe, well suited to the occasion, was deli
vered by the Rev. Mr. Helmuth, Minifterof
the German Lutheran Church of that place.
*, The members of the Society for the relief
of poor and diftrefTed matters of ships, their wi
dows and children, are desired to attend their ge
neral meeting at the London Coffee-House,
this evening, at the sixth hour.
congrels.
We would not cff?r such an affront to the well
known public spirit of Pennsylvanians, as to
question your zeal on the present occasion. Our
very exigence in the rank of Freemen, and the
security of all that ought to be dear to us, evi
dently depend upon our conducting this great
cause to its proper issue by firmnefs, wisdom
and unanimity. We cannot therefore doubt
your ready concurrence in every measure that
may be conducive to the public good ; and it is
with pleasure we can allure you, that all the
colonies, from South-Carolina to New-Hamp
shire, seem animated with one spirit in the
common cause, and confider this as the proper
crisis for having our differences with the Mo
ther Country brought to some certain issue, and
our liberties fixt upon a permanent foundation.
This desirable end can only be accomplished by
a free communion of sentiments, and a sincere
fervent regard to the interests of our common
country.
We beg to be favoured with an answer to this,
ana whether the Committee for your county can
attend at Philadelphia at the time proposed.
Signed by the Chairman.
York-Town, June 24, 1774.
Tn confluence of a letter from the Committee
of Philadelphia, the inhabitants of this town met
on &onday the 21st ult. Michael Swope, Esq;
was appointed Chairman, who explained the de-
Jign and cause of the meeting; the distressed date
of the inhabitants of Boston ; and the nature and
tendency of the a&s of Parliament lately passed.—
After due deliberation, the following Resolves were
come into, non. con.
I,^pHAT we will concur with our brethren
I of Philadelphia and Sifter Colonics, in any
aonditutional measure in order to obtain redress.
2. That it is rhe opinion of this meeting, that
the inhabitants of Boston are now fuffering in the
common cause of liberty.'
3. It is directed, that to obtain the sense of our
fellow inhabitants of York County upon the pre
sent important and alarming occasion, notice Ihall
be given to the inhabitants of this county, that
they^ or such as (hull be delegated by the several
1. That the Ad of Parliament for shutting up
the port and harbour of Button is an ad of the
highest oppreflion, and a violation of the liberties
of America.
2. That as we confider the inhabitants of the
said town as fuffering in the common cause of Ame
rican freedom, we will assist them to obtain re
dress by every legal ad in our power.
3. That it is our opinion the most constituti
onal and effectual method for obtaining such re
dress is, by having a general Congress of Commit
tees, to be composed and chosen out of the mem
bers of the different assemblies of each colony.
4. That a Committee be formed in this coun
ty, consisting of fix persons, namely, William Ed
munds, George Taylor, Lew:s Gordon, John
Okely, Peter Kachlein and Jacob Orndt, Esquires,
to correspond with our Brethren in Philadelphia,
and the other counties of this province, and to co
operate with them in such measures, as shall be
judged most proper for the general good.
5. Tnat the Committee be desired to receive
the fubferiptions of such charitable persons in this
county, who shall incline to support the distressed
and fuff-ri g inhabitants ofthe town of Boston ; —
and Resolved, that it is the duty of every inhabi
tant of this county to contribute, according to his
circumstances, to relieve their fuffering brethren;
the monies raised by such fubfeription to be dispo
sed of forthe use of the inhabitants of the said
town of Boston, in such way as the Committee
fliall think fit.
1 HOMAS M'KEAN, Esquire, Chairman.
The Chairman opened the occasion of the
meeting with a speech of about two hours in length,
in which the royal charters or original compares
made by the several Kings in behalf of the nation
of Great-Britain with the firft settlers of the Bri
tish colonies in North-America; the constitutional
rights of the colonists as men, as freemen and
English fubjeds; the breaches of those compacts
and invasion of those rights by the several ads of
Parliament since the year 1764, and the distress of
our Brethren in Boston and the province of Mas
sachusetts-Bay for averting and defending the
rights and liberties of America, were considered
and fully explained; and the most probable mode
of relief, and restoring peace and harmony between
Great-Britain and these colonies was pointed out.
The whole was concluded by reading the wife,
spirited and truly patriotic proceedings of the Pro
vincial Committee ofMaryland, and a letter which
the Chairman had just received from one of that
Committee.
6. That William Edmunds, Esq; the Repre
sentative in Assembly for this county, be required
by his Brethren of the Committee of Correspond
ence now appointed, to attend and meet rhe other
Representatives of Assembly of this province, in
case the Speaker of the Houle shall think proper to
call them together upon this deeply interesting
and alarming occasion; and that it is the opinion
of his constituents here, that he do give bis attend
ance accordingly.
On Wednesday last upwards of five hundred of
the most refpefable Freeholders of the county of
Newcastle, and ten gentlemen deputed and fully
impowered to ad in behalf of the borough of
Wilmington and Christiana Hundred, met at the
Court-House in the town of New-Castle, and
unanimously chose
GEORGE TAYLOR, Efq;in the Chair.
IT being Considered, that it was necessary for all
the counties of this province to join with their
brethren of Philadelphia, in expressing their sen
timents upon the present interesting occasion, re
lative to the oppressive Ads of Parliament lately
passed in Great-Britain, tending to destroy the
liberties of North-America, it was unanimously
resolved as follows,
3. That a refpedable Committee be immedi
ately appointed for the county of New-Castle, to
correspond with the lifter colonies and with the
other counties in this government, in order that
all may unite in promoting and endeavouring to
attain the great and valuable ends mentioned in
the foregoing resolution.
4. That the most eligible mode of appointing
deputies would be by the Representatives of the
people of this government met in their legislative
capacity, but as the House of Assembly have ad
journed themselves to the thirtieth day of Septem
ber next, and it is not expelled his Honor our
Governor will call them by writs of summons on
this occasion, having refufed to do the like in his
other province of Pennsylvania, therefore that
the Speaker of the Honourable House of Assembly
be desired, by the Committee now to be appointed,
to write to the several Members of Assembly,
requeuing them to convene at New-Caftlc on any
A Committee of thirteen persons were then
chosen for this town, to remain till altered by
another general meeting, which they were au.hu
rifed and directed to call.
At a meeting of the Justices, the gentlemen of the
bar, Grand-Jury, and principal inhabitants of
the county of Northampton, held at Rafton, on the
2 1// day of June inst.
After which the following refolutior.s were
agreed to, without a difcnling voice.
RESOLVED,
J. rr HAT the aft of Parliament, for fliut-
JL ting up the port of Boston, is unconsti
tutional; oppressive to the inhabitants of that town;
dangerous to the liberties of the British colonies;
and that, therefore, we confider our Brethren at
Boston, as fuffering in the common cause of Ame
rica.
2. That a congress of deputies, from the seve
ral colonies in North America, is the most proba
ble and proper mode of procuring relief for our
fuffering Brethren, obtaining redress of American
grievances, securing our rights and liberties, and
re-establishing peace and harmony between Great-
Britain and these colonies, on a constitutional
foundation.
tOMilips in the county, do meet at the Court
house in York-Town, on Monday the 4th of July
next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, to enter
into such constitutional Resolves as may be for
the pubic good, and tend to restore the liberties
of ILitifh America.
5. That the Committee now to be chosen con
sist of thirteen perlons, to wit, Thomas M'Kean;
John Evans, John M'Kinly; James Latimer,
George Read, Alexander Port'er, Samuel Patter
son, Nicholas Van Dike, Thomas Cooch, Job
Harvey, George Monro, Samuel Platt and
Richard Cantwell, and that, any seven of them
may ad.
0. That the said Committee immediately set on
foot a fubfeription for the relief of such poor in
habitants of the town of Boston, as may be de
prived ofthe means of subsistence by the ad of
Parliament, commonly stiled the Boston Port Bill.
The money arising from such fubfeription to be laid
out as the Committee shall think will best answer
the ends proposed.
7. That the inhabitants of this county will
adopt and carry into execution all and singular such
peaceable and constitutional measures, as shall be
agreed on by a majority of the colonies, by their
deputies, at the intended congress ; and will have
no trade, commerce or dealings whatsoever with
that province, city or town in the British colonies
on this continent (if any such flcould be) or with
any individual therein, who shall refuse to adopt
the fame, until the before-mentioned ad of Parlia
ment, and two other bills refpeding the province
of MafTachufetts-Bay depending in Parliament (if
passed into ads) are repealed.
Signed by Order,
DAVID THOMPSON, Clk. Com.
Salem, New-Jerfy, July 1, 1774.
'HE inhabitants of the county of Salem,
are earnestly called upon to attend a Gene
ral Meeting of the county, at the Court-House in
the town of Salem, on Friday the fifteenth day of
July inst. at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to con
fider of some proper measures to be taken in sup
port of American freedom, at this alarming crisis.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA.
Inward Entries.
Snow Patty and Peggy, R. Hardie, Lisbon.
Sch. Britannia, J. Martin, Hispaniola.
Sch. Dove, N. Birtlet, Grenadoes.
Sl. Bold D fiance, J. Muffon, Tortola & St. Croix.
Br. Two Brothers, J. Stephens, Jamaica & Hifpan.
Brig Patty, T. Raulins, Antigua.
Brig Georgia Packet, G. Bunner, Georgia.
Sch. Nancy, J. Lockhart, North-Carolina.
Sloop Polly, T. Buck, Ditto.
Sloop Sally, T. Alberfon, New York.
Sloop Bentham, J. Rivers, North-Carolina.
Sch. Mulberry, W. Bennett, Virginia,
Brig Nancy, D. Vanvooris, Tobago.
Outwards.
Brig Sea Nymph, W. Moore, South-Carolina.
Cleared.
Sloop Two Brothers, B. Clarke, N. Providence.
Brig Ann, J. Eve, Jamaica.
Sch. Britannia, J. Stanwood, Portsmouth.
Sloop Henrietta, J. Carty, Maryland.
Ship Molly, G. Johnston, Briftoh
Sch. Happy, Return, J. Chatfield, Georgia.
Sloop Hopewell, T. Tucker, St. Kitts.
Sloop Catherine, J. R. Morris, Maryland.
Brig Morning Star, W. Price, St. Crcix.
Schooner Martha, A. Tappen, New-England.
Big John and Richard, D. Wdkinfon, Barbados.
Brig Polly, W. Greenway, Virginia.
Sloop Sally, T Aloerfon, New Yoi k.
Sloop Peace & Plentv, R. Mumford, Rhode-Ifland.
Sch. Rebecca, J. Holden, Virginia.
Sloop Charming Nancy, J. Waikenfhaw, Jamaica.
Ship Nancy and Suky, J. Robinson, Falmouth.
Sloop George, R. Justice, Virginia.
Sloop Peggy and Berfy, D. Ferguson, New-York.
Sloop Fanny, W. Allibone, Dominica.
City of Philadelphia, June 27, 1774.
The ASSIZE of B R E A D.
Fine Flour, at Twenty-one Shillings and Six
pence, per Ct.
Middlings, at Eighteen Shillings and Six-pence,
to Nineteen Shillings per Ct.
Rye, at Eleven Shillings and Six-pence, per Ct,
Whitebread Ib.oz Midd. do. lb. oz. Rye do. lb. oz.
id.loafiso 63 id.loafiso 7^ id.loafiso 10^
2d.ditto,o 13! 2d.ditto, 0 14-3 2d.ditto, 1 4^
4d.ditto,i iol 4d.ditto, 1 13; 4d.ditto,2 9
Bd.ditto, 3 5 Bd.ditto, 3 11 I Bd.ditto, 5 2
I2d.ditto,4 154 I2d.ditto, 5 B,!l2d.ditto, 7 11
*ss-$-„ssss,ssss-s<,^§
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
DAN AWAY from the fubfriber, living in
Philadelphia, a negro man named CAIS AR,
about 22 years of age, 5 feet four inches high, well
made, with a long neck and falling shoulders,
walks upright, has bandy well made legs, with
thick muscular calves, large mouth and lips, much
inclined to laugh when he speaks, remarkable talk
ative, and fond of playing scraps of tunes on the
fife; he is of a middling black colour. He having
taken a pipe box with sundry cloath, may change
bis drels. The above Reward will be paid on his
being fecuied, by PHILIP WILSON.
N. B. Matters of vessels and others are forbid to
take or harbour said negro at their peril.
ALEXANDER BARTRAM,
Next door to the Indian King, in Market-street,
PROPOSES to leave this city in a short time,
and is determined to fell off his large flock of
goods, remarkably cheap forcafh only. Confiding
of a large aflbrtment of DRY GOODS and
CROCKER Y, &c. some of the particulars of
which will be inferred in our next.
This Day is publdhed (price is. 6d.) by
JO HN SPA RHAW K,
At the London Book-dore, in Second-street, Phi
ladelphia,
OB SERVATIONS on the A6t of Parliament
commonly called the BOSTON PORT
BILL; with THOUGHTS on Civil Society
and Standing Armies. By Josiah Quincy, Jun.
The above may be had of Messrs. Noel and Ha
zard and Mr. Hugh Gaine in New York, of Mr.
William Achman in Annapolis, M iryland, of Mrs.
Rmd in Williamfburgh, and of Mr. Robert Wells
in Charleftown, South-Carolina.
AY OUN(.; MAN who can be well
recommended, writes a good hand and un
derstands book keeping, would be glad of employ
ment in a retail or wholesale store, being something
acquainted with goods. Any one whom this may
suit, by leaving a line at the Printers, will be wait
ed on.
day, not later than the firfl of August next, to
take into their most serious consideration our very
alarming situation, and to appoint deputies to at
tend at a general congress for the colonies, at such
time and place as shall be generally agreed on.
“ The Tea Act passed the session following,
viz. 1767. And when the bill was brought in
to Parliament, the Mihifter, (Charles Town
send, Esq;) declared that he was now " pr
eceding on ground, which the Americans them
selves had already yeilded."—There does not
appear to have been any distinction made at that
time between duties laid for one purpose or an
other. The word regulation, when applied to
trace and commerce, appears to have been con
fideted in the fame light, as it is when made
use cf in the foregoing aufwer to the objection
Rated, and fecms to denote the general system of
laws, by which the affairs of the colony, or of
trade, are governed.
And this was the general language through
America.
What I would deffe above all things, is that
we would review the ground on which we for
merly wished to stand, and be convinced that
the use of our reason and deliberation in all our
condud ate indifpebfible duties, in these truly
perilous and serious times. To assist us in both
these points, 1 shall give the sentiments of two
celebrated PcrnJylvanians, the one declaring
what ground we ought to stand on, and the
other contending for that moderation, of uhich
he himfelf is a shining example—The persons I
mean are Dr. Franklin and the Pennsylva
nia Farmer—men who have a better chance
to be heard at present than the writer of this.
Extracts from Dr. Franklin's examination bes re
the HoUje of Commons on the repeal of the Jian- -
ad.
Q " Did you ever hear the authority of Par
liament to make laub for America quclhoned
till lately ?"
A. " The authority of Parliament was allow
ed to be valid in all laws, except such as fax'd
lay Internal Taxes. It was n^ver dijfaed tn
laying duti s to regulate trade."
Q " Was it an opinion in America before
1763, that the Parliament had no right to lay
taxes and duties there ?"
A. " i never heard any objedion to the right
of laying duties to regulate commerce ; but a right
to lay internal taxes was never supposed to be in
Parliament, as we are not represented there."
^ an you shew there is any kind of differ
ence between the two taxes (external and inter
nal) to the Colony on which they may be laid f"
A. " I think the difference is very great. An
External tax is a duty laid on commodities
imported. That duty is added to the firft cofi,
and other charges on the commodity, and when
it is offered to sale, makes a part of the price.
Ifthe people do not like the,sice, they refuf it, the,
aie not obliged to pay it. But an Internal tax
is forced from the people without their content,
if not laid by their own representatives. The
famo-rd fays, we shall have no commerce, make
no exchange of property with each other, nei
ther purchase nor grant, nor recover debts ; we
shall neither marry nor make our wills, unless
we pay such and such sums, and thus it is in
tended to extort our money from us, or ru : n us
by the confequencc of refufing to pay it."
It is evident from the above extracts, that the
apportion which Dr. Franklin here avows to du
tialh article, is the REFUSING TO PURCHASE
them ''
On these parts of the Doftor's answers, a New-
England writer, who it is presumed wil also be
better heard at present than the writer hereof,
ha the following remarks. (See Connecti utjo rn.
o f 'J u "' 2 4)
% the Printer of the Pennsylvania Packed,
sir,
IN last week's Journal we have a performance
of a very lingular nature; the profefihd de
sign of which is to laugh all moneia^cn and Cif
paffionate measures out of uoors, and to set up
in their dead, as the dandard of patriotism, the
furious conduct of ungoverned zeal. The au
thor in his conclusion, eveh dares so far to af
font our understanding, as to advise us, in our
choice of delegates for the congress, to beware
hfthefe " who affedthega boFModeration.’'
—The inhabitants of this city have been long
refreshable for their rational and Ready zeal in
the true cause of liberty ; and the very firft ad
vice they f resolved to give to the town of Lof
ton, on the prelent alarming occasion, was to
recommend to them " prudence, frmnets and Mo
deration"—But, in the Rile of this writer,
all who advise '' moderation"—are to be confix
dered—" as more artful and dangerous than the
" blustering instruments of tyrants."
Time, however, will ffiew who have beer, the
best friends to liberty and their country, —your
rational arid moderat ) or those called your Spi
rited men ?
I dont mean to enter into any difeuffon of the
fubjeCt, nor to confider whether the line which
the Americans run at that time was well or ill
founded; but only to recall to our mines what
was that line, and the extent of their claim, in
order that we may form some judgment what
were the sentiments cf Parliament when thy pal
fed the t ea ad, viz. Whether they thought them
selves within the line prescribed by the Ameri
cans their selves, or transgressing the fame ?
The New-England writer then concludes with
quoting the following paragragh from the Penn
sylvania Farmer—with refpeft to moderation—
" We cannot all with too much caution in
" our disputes. Anger produces anger; and
" differences, that mi^ht be accommodated by
“ kind andrefped ul behaviour, may by impru
" deuce be enlarged to incurable rage. In quar
" rels between countries, as well as in those be
“ tween individuals, when they have risen to a
" certain height, the firft cause of diffention is
" no longer r.membered, the minds of the per
“ ties being wh 11, engaged in recollecting and
" referring the mutual excretions of their dis
" like. VI hen feuds have re bed that fatal
" point, all considerations of reason and equity
" vanish, and a bl:nd fury governs, or rather
" confounds all hings,—a people no longer re
" gard their interest, but the gratification <f
" their wrath."
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