Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1774-09-05 00:00:00, page 1

p HOCION’sfW LETTER tothe
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^,%^ F my former address, most
& ^T \ ' g rac '°" s Sovereign, has not too
'd?/' ,'^f^ much irritated your Royal mind,
^-gV ' %'^ 1 ° Permit your casting an eye of
,g' %T< ^ attention on the writings of a
o f man who is utterly unknown to
' " '-** your Majesty, I (hall again pre
sume to intiude into your presence, and futni(h
you with a few more animadversions on the last
amazing American ads.
Whoever attentively peruses the a& for the
“ impartial administration of justice, &c." in the
province of Massachusetts-Bay in New-England,
passed since my arrival in England, must be asto
nished at the effrontery of the title; every reve
rential idea in favour of Royalty, must revolt
from his boforn, and be facceeded by the most in
effable contempt: That the firft potentate in Europe
should give a fandion to folfoood, and fuffer his
servant infamaudy to publdh it to the world with
a Le Rd le veut, will long remain as a brazen mo
nument of Royal peccability. Have you, Royal
Sire, forgotten the records of struggling liberty,
when Englishmen obtained that glory of their con
stitution, the trial by Jury, and that Jury their
Peers—good men of the vicinage—or did your
northern preceptor, cautiously extras the inftru^-
ive page, when he taught you the history of vour
country —-did he teach you to believe the wretched
doctrine of the “ right divine" to reign with des
potism over your fubje^s, and leave you a con
firmed infidel to the principles of a just and equal
distribution of happiness. Will you fay that your
Parliament supported your proceedings, and that
the consent of the British nation will fu fficiently
juftify the step; I grant your Majesty, ifthat nation
,will abandon their liberties to tire difoofal of a
wretched crew, devoted with the blinded zeal to
assist in ruining the date, I have no pretentions to
interfere, nor will any American think himfelf
bound to hold up a hand of opposition: The rights
of Englishmen, their liberty, their property, their
lives, are at their own disposal, and if with the
detestable meanness of slaves, they choose to
prostrate them at your Majesty's feet, let the peo
ple of America fay Amen; but when they surrender
their own, if they should ridiculously give and
grant to your Majesty, the distribution and dispo
sal of the lives and liberties of your American
fubjeds, 1 am bold toaffpre you, Royal Sire, that
you will find in the n a determined resolution to
refill
Isit possible you could believe, that the a& you
compleated by your Royal word, was an ad for
the " impartial adnilflration of Juflice."
When the most infamous and abjeft of yourgrove-
Jing dependants, shall have wantonly deprived an
honest citizen of his life, shall it be deemed an
“ impartial adniiniff ation of,ufice" to wrest
the desperate villain from the hands of his coun
trymen, and remove him three thousand miles
distant from every possibility of conviction. When
a man who has the spirit to oppose your unwar
rantable strides into the fields of power, mail be
come obnoxious to your views, the aslyou have
now passed, will authorize any abandoned despe
rado to plunge a dagger in his bread in the face
of thousands, upon some (hallow pretence of op
posing your laws: and left by the humanity and vir
tue of an English Jury, the horrid murtherer
Should be juftlv condemned, your Governors are
uuthorifed and empowered to " fettle and assess a
" reasonable sum," as you are pleased to term it,
to be allowed for the expences of perhaps some
perjured wretch, to evidence on behalf of the as
sassin; which reasonable sum is determinable by
your Majesty or your Governor, and may amount
to whatever rate the wretch (hall demand as the
price of his villainy. This is an A—t of P— t,
obtained for the absolute perverfon of Justice, a
thing before unheard of in a British senate.
How much reason have your Majesty's Ameri
can fubjeds to abhor and detest your Board of
Commifoners, when they are told from the Throne
with all the solemnity of attendant Peers and Com
mons, that this Boardis to stand paymaster to every
venal call of tyrant oppression. But admitting,
Royal Sire, that you have accommodated your
foul to the enormous principle, offacrificing every
idea of justice, at the shrine of your power, and
that you can calmly give up the happiness of four
millions of your fubjeds to be the sport of ministe
rial corruption, yet have you no fears,no apprehen
sions arifiig in your Royal bread, that in this
grasp after unlimitted rule, you may fail in the
attempt; and that by making one rash and fatal
lunge at the bosom of America, your foot may
flip, and you may rife no more.
Pis the duty of a fubjeft to protest and defend
his Prince, to screen him from every possibility of
da ger ; therefore, with that honest loyalty which
en lames the bread: ofevery American I (hall bold
ly s /doer in your Royal ear that the day you
touch he person of an American felon, and rescue
Lia from the justice of his country, that day robs
M^fl^e ^^^^
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GENERA L
VOL. 111.
M O N D A Y,
O R,
you of a jewel that is the greatest ornament of your
crown. It is impofhble that you should qxped an
unmanly and tame submission to a decree that has
trampled down the greatest priviledge which En
glishmen boast; and depend on it, Royal Sire, if we
are to be slaves, that never can happen till every
effort has been tryed without effe&.
I will venture to proceed a little further. Do
you not know, great Sir, that the exalted Ration
of a Prince, points to him the propriety of pre
ferring the dignity of his rank, that the word of
royalty should be immutably honest and sincere,
and that when Princes commit a breach in their
contrasts, their fubjeds are released from their
allegiance, and that the obligation is mutual : How
comes it then, that your Majesty, regardless of
every sense of Kingly honor, and plighted faith,
should consent to a law for the deflation ofapro
tincial charter, acknowledged in the very pream
ble of the bill, to have been "granted by letters
patent under the great sea of England, made in the
third,ear of the reign of their late Majesties King
William and Qieen Mar,," and for what has this
punishment been infli&ed ?—Are you not loft in
confufion for youifelf and your Parliament, when
you are forced to acknowledge, that contrary to
every established principle of the laws of your
realm, you have admitted an exparte evidence, and
from that evidence alone have formed your deci
sion, whilst your servants refufed even to hear the
criminals at the bar of the house ? Let a fubjed,
Royal Sire, tell you, that neither you nor your ob
sequious Parliament dared to have treated onefn
g'e inhabitant of the island of Britain as you have
treated a whole loyal province, arraigned, tried, and
condemned unrepresented and l unheard ; your tools
and your servants were the only evidences against
them. When an open and a&ual rebellion raged
in the very heart of the kingdom and your Royal
grandfather's fubjeds were taken in the field of
battle, did he condemn them to the ax and the
halter without trying them by the laws of the
land—but it seems rebellion against the crown of
Great-Britain is a fin of a feinter dye than the
most trivial breach of the civil law in your reign,
when committed by an American. Had he laid
all Scotland under an arret of his royal displea
sure, and confifcated their estates to his private
use, with equal justice might he have supported
the measure : but your fyltem of government is
infcrutinable, and past finding out ; —the natural
enemies of your royal line are become your chief
eft favourites, and the nearest connexion of those
who would once willingly have torn the, British
diadem from your much honoured grandfather's
temples are advanced to the firft Rations in jour
government.
W; s the punishment inflicted by this cruel law to
have been temporary and local, and your Majesty no
way benefitted by the change, possibly the ardor of
our resentment might not have reached to your
Royal ear ; but when we fee a large and opulent
province bereft of their ancient and much valued
priviledges for the rash and ill judged proceedings
of a licentious rabble, unknown and unfoaght for ;
when we find your Majesty seizing into your own
hands those very powers which are wrested from
ycur people, to what can we attribute this unrigh
teous usurpation but to a fettled and determined
resolution in your Majesty to avail yourfelf of
every miftep of your lubjeds to (lengthen the
chains preparing for America. 'Tis truly amaz
ing to reflect on the late revo ution of American
liberty ; a revolution which may not long be doom
ed to stand alone, for fate seems big with the
changes of empire. How far England may be in
terested in the event it may not become me to con
jedure, but if the virtue and difeernment of her
rulers are to be her only support, her best friends
may prepare their fable, and her enemies display
their processions of joy: but, disappoint them,
Royal Sire, and convince the world that you are
determined to regain that happy pinnacle of glory
on which you flood at your accession t<the throne;
a period in which Fortune held you forth as her
darling son, and blessed you with the honest love
of twelve millions of fubjeas : fubje&s whose
greatest joy was the glory of their Monarch, and
who reverenced you with more real zeal than per
haps ever fell to the lot of a British Prince.—ls
such love, such esteem, my gracious Sovereign, un
worthy your pofleffion, or is your heart grown cal
lous to the tender affeaion^ of humanity—you are
yet a,^^ man, and I will not believe you desti
tute of every honest passion your fubjeas would
with you possess; return but to the duties of your
Ration, make yonr fubjeds good your chiefeft care,
and you may still hope to reign over a brave, affec
tionate, and loyal people.
You know, Royal Sire, that your Parliament
have ever implicitly confided in your will and wis
dom, and that whatever you have intimated to
them as necefiary for the welfaie of your domini
ons, they have instantly (lengthened your hands
to enforce. A Prince so beloved by the represen
tatives of his people, can never be said to rule with
a rod of iron: 0 ! Happy Rate, 0 ! golden age—
why then (hall your faithful American fubjeas,
D U N L A P's
f~i-^ißi —- -— r ’*
feel thus heavily the burthen of Royal ddpleafure.
If manly freedom and independency of spirit in a
nation reflect honour on the Prince that holds the
reigns of government, the noble opposition which
your American fubje&s are now determined to
fupport'would endear them to any monarch on
earth, who had not imbibed the barbarous desire
ofdefpotic sway. To (hew then, Royal Sire, that
you prefer the refplendant glory of freedom, to the
paultry varnish of abje&ion, tell your servants in
Parliament, that you conceive it to be more for
the honour of your Crown, to possess the love,
than the hatred of your American fubjeds, and that
it is your Royal will that they instantly repeal the
three afts reflecting the Massachusetts Bay. The
opinion they have ever entertained of the fublimit y
of your judgment, will readily induce them to
submit to your demand, and to declare to the world,
that they have but one heart, one voice, (I will
fay one purse) with their Sovereign.
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Benjamin Dam's and Robert Roberts,
Hive opened a store in Market-street, opposite to
Jacob Barge's, and next door to the sign of the
Bear, where they have to fell, wholesale and re
tail. on the most ie<finable terms, for cash only,
JA MAIC A spir it% Wdlndia and continent
rum. molasses, old French brandr, Geneva, and
or li.l;' Madeira, Lisbon and Fyal wines; loaf,
lumoaud mnfeovado sugars; tea, coffee, chocolate,
muttard, pepper, alfpice, ginger, copperas, brim-
Ho , madder, logwood, indi o, ftarcb, rice, pow
der and (hot, I.nip oil, &c. &c. &c.
N. B. The Hatters business cirried on at the above
place as usual.
To the FREEHOLDERS and o-hers, Elec
tors for the city and county of Philadelphia.
Gentlemen,
ENCOURAGED by your past generous,
I spirited and exemplary favors, for which I
return you my most sincere and he.rty thanks, I
apain intend to Hand a candidate for the Sheriffs
office, for which end I humbly solicit arid request
the continuance of your votes and interest at the en
suing eleaion, which dial! ever be had in grateful
remembrance by,
GfNTLtMEN,
Your much obliged friend and humble servant,
WILLIAM DEWEES.
To the FREEHOLDER S and others, Elec
tors for the city and county of Philadelphia.
Gentlemen,
H E honour you conferred upon me last year,
in placing me did upon the return for your
C oroner, merits ray sincere and most grateful ac
knowledgments ; and as I intend to (land a candi
date for the said <ffi e at the ensuing election, I
erneftly r quell the continuance of your votes and
interest, the favour of which (hall be ever esteemed
by Your refpeafiil and obliged friend
JOHN KNI G FI T, Coroner.
Maryland and Newcastle
ragged Money exchanged, at a very mo
derate allowance, by T HOMAS H ARRI S,
at his store in W ater-ftieet, a few doors below the
Drawbridge.'
The SONS OF SCIENCE
may be supplied with the following capital Works
in literature, by the molt celebrated authors, at
BELL's Book store, next door to St. Paul's
Church, in Third Ibeet, Philadelphia,
CT-! HE complete dictionary of arts and Lienees,
.A i n which the whole-circle of human learning
is explained, by Cr ker and others, with cuts, 3 vols.
Lord Bacon's works, 4. vols. Locke's works, 3 veils.
Universal History, 7 vols. Rapin's history of Eng
land, 3 vols. Fanning's new feftem of Geography,
2 vols. Johufon's great EnAifh Diaionuy, 2 vols.
Patrick and Lowth's Commentary on the Bible, 5
vols. Tillotfon's works, 3 vols. Claike's works, 4.
vols. Burkit on the New I eftament ; Burnet's his
tory of the Reformation, 3 vols. Alley's large col
le&.on of Voyages, 4. vols. Buller's Law of Nifi
Prius ; Reports of Sir Edward Coke, 7 vols. Parli
amentary Debates, 20 vols. Grove's works, 10 vols.
Robertson's Charles V. 3 vols. Blackstone's Coih
mentaries and Appendix, 5 vols. &c. &c. &c &c.
I he Amtricin edition ot L E I, A N D's History
of I RELAND, 4 vols. will be published on
Monday next.
SiGNIO R S O D I,
Late principal DANCER at the Opera in Paris
and London,
AC QUAINTS rhe Ladies and Gentlemen of
tins city, that he has opened a public School,
at his Room in Clielnut tirect, at the back of the
Fountain Tavern, where he will teach the following
Dances, viz.
And all the Dances that arc danced in the several
Courts in Europe.
A. B. Signior SODI will wait on Ladies and Gen
tlemen at their own houses ; and will likewise give
private attendance, at certain hours, in his own
School.—An evening school will he opened, when a
(ufficient number of fchoiars shall offer.
Signior Sqdi is to be spoken with at Mrt. East
wick's, in Walnut-street, between Front and Se
cond-streets.
The Minuet,
The Minuet Dauphin,
Louvre,
Allemande,
La Bretagne,
La Marie's,
The Pafpie,
ADVERTISER.
SEPTEMBER sth, 1774.
Rigadooß,
New Minuet by four,
New Minuet by eight,
Cotillons,
Cotillion step,
The Hornpipe,
English Country Dances,
io^Yl^R^^'''^^^
DANCING and FENCING.
Agreeable to an invitation from several refpedable
families in this city.
Mr. P I 'k E,
fen,ears a teacher in Cher lefloavn, South-Carolina,
is arrived, and purposes if the weather be favoura
ble, to open his „ CHO 0 L Jor the tuition of youn?
Ladies and Gentlemen, on or about the zotb of
this infant.
HE flatters himfelf that his abilities as a master of
his profeffion, may be fufficiently known, as
many very refpe&ahle gentlemen of the above pro
\nnce are at present in this city. Ladies and Gen
tlemen may be waited on at their own houses if
agreeable, to be taught cotillions and other fafhion
able dances.
"'B' T^e use of the small sword taught three
mornings in the week, and an evening fcbool as
usual.
CHARLES ALL EN,
UPHOLSTERE R,
Lately from London and Paris, &€.
TS removed to a drop ofMr.George Do^i 's°, at the
ILn of the Crown and Jewels,i Front-fleet, the
lecond door from the upper corner of Market fleet
where his kind customers, and the Public in gene-'
ral may be fupphed with work of all f orts , n the
Up iolder) branch, according to the newest tall and
taimen, and at the most reasonable prices. Ue
makes ail forts of field, feftoon, and canopy fed
drapery, window curtains, fluff fofas, settees
couches, French elbow, easy, corner and backdool
chairs, convention (tools, with beds and matraffes:
He puts up all forts of paper bangings, and m: kes
Venetian blinds for windols.-As he has hah
honour to serve several Gentlemen of the firft rank
in this city with general fatisfaftion, he flattens him
-7' h a $° ntinua nce of the Public's favors.
A. B. Orders will be complied with on the ihort
eit nonce.
lobe SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
on Monday the io th clobber, on the premiles,
on H E following tracks of LAND in London-
A derry township, in Chester county, viz.
Lot i. A plantation containing about iqa'acres
neur one third of which is cleared : There is on ita
good log house, barn, (table, fpiing.houfe, orchard,
&c. and about 6 or 7 acres of meadow before the
door ; now in the tenure of John P.cken.
L ^ , A P lantat ? on containing about 110 acres,
one half cleared, with much such improvements on
it as above described ; now in the tenure of James
rogue. J
Lot 3 . A plantation containing about i£o acres
°, e ", cleared, with such improvements on it as
above described ; now in the tenure of the Widow
Corlby.
"' ' A plantation containing about 190 acres,
cne bait cleaied, with a new log barn, v<ty coral
orchard, and other improvements like those before
described ; in the tenure of Robert Grimes.
^c°'i' ?'° P' artat i°"s, about 280 acres, one
half cleaned, and improvements 011 each mu h the
', m e as those above described ; in the tenure of
Vvnbam Chaffin and David Breckenrig.
Lot 6. A plantation containing about ^BO acres,
rear one hall cleared, with a good two dory log
house, 10 or 12 acres of meadow, and other im
provements like those above described ; in the te
nure of James Gibson.
The above described tra& s of land being one of
the molt healthy situations in Pennfi lvani; on the
g, cat load to Lincaller, about 16 miles from New
port, and in a neighbourhood where the produce
of grain will always fetch the P^i delphia market
price at mills or malt-houses within a mile ( fHvir
barn, a school on the tra&, and pl 3 cs ufvm'm
very contiguous; brinies being cantble of great nn'-
provement, efyeci dly in a gnat deal of fire nra
dow, which may be made on ,each place with very
little expense, renders it quite needless to f,v
thing in their commendation. The w hole premi $
may be viewed till the time of file, wlrci wil b r u
r/h.e above named day, at one o'clock, at the foil
P l ,"^^ when they will be perem.to
rily fold. Attendance will be given by
CHARLES ALLF N.
N. B. There is no l-afe on any of these pl n^i
ons.—L the weather should he bad on the day
pointed, the sale will be put off till the firft fair
° r ?„" niore agreeable to the gentlemen attending'
will be carried on at the nearest tavern, called the
Crnfs Keys or Halfway House, about a mile aid
a half from the premia s.—Cons TraHe time will
be given for payment of most part of the money.
CHARLES CIS T,
PRESENTS his service to inftru& young
gentlemen in the German and Latin languages,
or in either of them, and acquaints the public, that
he intends to commence his ledures at the begin
ning of the month of October next. As it will be
necellafry, with refoedl to the age and proficiency of
the fchoiars, to form clades and fix hours, for this
puipole he requests that those who Mil employ him
in this business, would be pleased to give him some
no 1 e thereof beforehand. He is to be spoke Mth
at Mr. Henry Miller's, Printer in Race-street.
T O - M ORR O W,
At ONE o'clock in the afternoon, AT
JOHN H A K T's
V ENDUE - STO R E,
At the corner of South and Front-Streets,
Will begin the SALE of a neat affortmerit of
M E R C HA N D 1 Z £.
T HE
NUM B. 150.