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hr t^ PENNSYLVANIA EACrET.
all men's office to freak patience,
To those th°t curing under the load of forrocv^
Rut no man's virtue, nor Efficiency
To be so moral, mbeH be Jball endure
The libebimfef. Shakesp^Aß.
PAIN and sickness are the two great evils
which men are accustomed to contemplate
with terror: They are indeed alarming to the foul,
but they are not a little heightened by the force
of imagination, which often represents them to
the mind as more formidable than they really are,
and gives them an additional fling to afflict the
lufferer. But however dreadful sickness and pain
may be, when contemplated at a distance, yet,
like the other scourges of providence, they are
not permitted to exercise their influence withouta
purpose. Men, indeed, are born to fuffer;, but
then it is for something; either as a punifhmeht
For the Wanton abuse of health; or to teach them
that in this world there is no real happiness, no
genuine security but in virtue.
I hope you will excuse me, (for presuming a
little to entrude upon your paper, by fending you
a few thoughts on a fubjed, serious and important;
a fubjed, which I have lately had occasion to feel;
And it may be permitted to those who have been
sick to have the fatisfadtion to contemplate the
danger paif, which fills the mind with a serene
kind of joy, like that which the marriner feels,
when he has just efeaped the terrors of the deep.
Sickness, which naturally carries with it a cessation
of all these junctions that heighten pleasure, alters
the person, who feels as it were from himfelf;
while he has no appetite for enjoyment he is at the
fame time labouring under the severe hand of af
fliction : If his mind continues in full vigour, and
is capable of reflexion, he then begins to wonder
that all the enjoyments of his past life ,now cease
to fuccour him; nor does he find, that the recol
lesion of them yields him as much pleasure, as
they used to do in his hours of health. He it
then disposed to think, that his former pleafurcs
were lying vanities, that they only cheated his
understanding, and that he has been pursuing all
his life, the mere shadow of felicity, while the
substance was at a distance from him. True hap
piness is to be measured by its intenseness and du
ration, and if the happiness which disguises itfelf
tinder the specious shew of pleasure, but which
ought in reality to be denominated folly, is rec
koned intense when felt, he, who languishes on a
sick bed to his experience knows, that it is with
out duration, for i; is now fled, like the hours of
yesterday, and can be no more recalled, than the
years bgond the food. All men who have any re
lish for friendship, set the greatest value upon that
friend, who does not forfake them in the hours
of distress, and all men who have an uncorrupted
relish for pleasure, ought to place the highest va
lue upon that which yields the most comfortable
reflexions, when it can no longer be enjoyed.
This is one grand purpose intended by providence
in inflicting the calamity of sickness. Men whose
passions would not permit them to rest, but lured
them from one toy to another, in the vain pursuit
of what was never to be found, (hut their ears
ageinft the voice of admonition, and charmed their
eyes with fanciful illusions, which, as Shakefpear
finely expresses it, have no more basis, than the
fabric! of a vifen, are now obliged to fuffer a
while an eclipse of gaiety, and in place of run
ning the giddy rounds of frolick, and midnight
revelry, must languish awhile in obfeurity; and
happy for them, if in this period, they begin to
think; for that purpose was it intended, to gain
time for recollection. They for awhile make a
truce with their appetites: They are to examine
their tendency and force, and ought to consider,
whether any thing has been gained by their irre
gular indulgence, and whether they could not wish
that many of the feenes of delight, falfely reckon
ed so, had never been (hewn, or that they had
never taken pleasure in them.
It was a faying of Cardinal Wolsey, when he
found himfelf abandoned by the King, and ready
to be facrificed to the resentment of the nobles ;
0 ! that 1 bad served my God, with as much fidelity
as Ibave my King, be ivould not have forfaken me
in my distress. The Cardinal had fallen from the
highest pinnacle of greatness, which he had main
tained with unfufferable haughtiness, and fuperio
tity; but what did all his splendid wretchedness
amount to, when it only exposed him to unnum
bered enemies, who at last produced his ruin ?
As it is with poverty, so it is often with sick
ness; it serves to difeover to a man his extreme
iofignificance, and how little his existence adds to
the general weal, or pleasure offocicty. To day,
if he sparkles at a party of pleasure, and to mor
row is thrown upon a bed of agony, h^ absence
but little affects those who remain; they think of
him, as a thing that is past, a flower that yesterday
bloomed, but now is withered; and as he came
to give them pleasure, or to join with them in it,
he is cast out of their thoughts, as an impertinent
intruder, and is no more minded than the lothfomc
weed which is trodden under foot. He receives
little comfort from those gewgaws of a day, who
but lately flione with him ; and the butterflies which
buzzed around him, know him no more. They
cannot choose to visit the chambers of the sick,
there is no incantation there; they fly from it, as
from a pestilence, and have no fouls formed for
sympathy; and as it is natural for every one who
thinks he is departed from this world, to cast one
longing lingering look behind, he has not from them
the comfort of a falling tear; he dies unlamentcd,
nor is there one pious drop at clofihg his eyes.
If sickness then thus serves to difeover to a man
tl e real estimate of his importance, and the infi
delity or cold indifference of his companions, it
ought to teach him to place his happiness in that
which will never forfake him, and that alone is
tirtue. It ought to teach him, that they who
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encourage him in a course of licentiousness, will
be the firft to forfake him; and for such associati
ons as these, a man pays very dear, who barters
his innocence.
Sickness likewise teaches us, how to estimate
health ; with what care it ought to be preferred,
and how foolidi those arc who fell this blessing for
a bauble. lam no friend to a fettled gloominess
of temper: A man ought to be cheatful, to main
tain an evenness of spirit, love his friends, and doat
upon his favourites; but this should be done with
the grand reserve of never facrificing virtue to
gaiety, and for the transitory flaflies of %rt and
pleasantry, the lasting qualities of good-nature,
sincerity and honour.
DRACO.
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TO BE SO L D,
A LIKELY NEGRO WFNCH, who can
I waffi, iron, cook and do all other kind of
house-work, extremely well ; (he has had the small
pox and meafels. For further particulars, enquire
of the Printer.
N, B. She has had neither husband nor child.
ALL PERSONS indebted to Capt.
WILLIAM KIDD, deceased, are re
queued to make speedy payment, and those who
have any demands against the ellate a # e desired to
fend in their accounts to be adjusted and paid by
JOSHUA HOWELL, Executor.
The very great DEMAND
FOR THE
UNIVERSAL ALMANACK,
TH E calculations of which are performed by
the ingenious D. Rittenhouse, A. M. of
this city, has already obliged the printer to strike
off another impression ; and as this will be the last
impression for 1774, he requests those who applied
when he had none, and others who are willing to
encourage this Almanack, to supply themselves im
mediately.
They are fold at JAMES HUMPHREYS,
Junior's printing-office, at the lower corner of
Black-horse alley, in Front-street.
Where, ALSO, may be had, writing paper,
school and chap books, parchment, pasteboard,
quills, and all other kinds of STATIONARY.
FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, living in
New-York, on theist of this inst. (November)
an Irifli servant man named JAMES ROS S-
B O UTO M, a weaver by trade, and loves drink;
he is a simple down looking fellow, with a four coun
tenance, pitted with the small-pox, has straight
black hair, a blemish on his left eye, and walks
fiooping and heavy footed; had on when he went
away, a brown (hort coat and wai cioat, tow trow
fers, light blue stockings, and an old wool hat : It
is fufpe&ed he is in Philadelphia, and has changed
his name. Whoever takes up and secures the said
servant, (hall have the above reward, and reasona
ble charges, paid by the fubferiber, or James
Riddle in Philadelphia.
JOHN BECK.
Just imported, and now opening for fate, by
DANIEL DRINKER,
At his Ware-house in Walnut-street, between Se
cond and Third streets,
A NEAT assortment of CHINA, GLASS
and EARTHEN WARES.
Genuine SHERRY and LISBON WINE,
In Quarter Casks ;
B RAN D Y, in Hogsheads;
And excellent
PORT WI N E,
In Hampers of three dozen each, to be fold by
JOSEPH WHARTON, Ju Nl or,
Near the Drawbridge in Front-street.
Imported in the Pennsylvania Packet, Captain Os
borne, from London, by
JOHN SULLIVA N,
D RU G G I S T,
At the east fide of Second street, above Afch-ftreet,
and the next house below the sign of the Moon
and Stars,
A GENERAL assortment of Drugs and Me
dicines of the firft quality, genuine Patent
Medicines, &;c. &c.
He has a few dozen phials of the Hungarian crip
ple curing Oil, famous for its extraordinary virtues
throughout Holland, Germany, the Netherlands,
and now made public in England..
He fells M'Ginnis's inimitable Tincture and Den
tifrice, which in less than ten days infallibly cures
the feurvy, and other disorders of the gums; like
wise Drops that immediately case the most violent
tooth ach.
He takes this method to acquaint his friends and
customers, that they may depend that all his Drugs
are new and frefh. Country practitioners who may
favour him with their orders, (hall find every en
couragement to continue them.
THE VOFES of the Honourable
House of Representatives of this pro
vince, for the current year, concluding with 'the
last September session, are now compleat, and to be
fold by HENRY MILLER, printer in
Race-street, opposite Moravian Alley: Where al
so may be had, the Weekly Votes, from Monday
the 29th ult. to Saturday the 4th inst.
ANTS EM PLOY,
AM IDDLE aged man, well acquainted with
the dry goods or country business, and can be
well recommended. Enquire of the printer.
TO BE SO L D,
ALARGE quantity of POTATOES, of
the early fort, extraordinary good of their
kind, at a very low price for ca(h only. Apply to
the Widow BUTLER, in Loxley's Alley, Arch-
Freet, Philadelphia.
N.B Gentlemen, Merchants, Tradesmen or
others, may have their books fettled or accounts
drawn out with the greatest exa&neri and secrecy,
and at a moderate rate, by applying as above.
Philadelphia, Dec. 4,177 L
Fok C O R K,
The BRIG
BOSCAWE N,
NOBLE CALDWELL,
Master:
XXTILL fail in three weeks '
VV having the greatest part
^ify^^MMl of her cargo engaged. For
freight or passage apply to An
drew Caldwell, or said master on board, at
William Allen, Efqi's. wharfi
For N E W R Y,
fa The SHIP
BETS E Y,
%^^&%& SAMUEL KYLE, Master,;
" e g reate st part of
her cargo ready to take on
and will fail with all
speed. For freight
or passage apply to Joseph Carson, in Market
ftreet, or to the Captain on board, at Samuel
Mifflin, E^r's. wharf.
, N. B. Just imported in said ship, and to be fold
by Joseph Carson, a large quantity of Irilh linens,
from gr. to 5/. per yard ; a few tons of smiths coal ;
a few groce of black quart bottles, and a few
hogsheads of Liverpool beer.
Just imported in the last vessels from London and
Bristol, and to be fold, by
DAVID DESHLE R,
At his store on thenorth fide of Market-street, about
mid-way between Second and Third-streets,
PAINTERS colours, white and red lead,
Spanish brown, litharge, Venetian red, yellow
ochre, umber, Spanish white, verdigreafe, Prussian
blue, vermilion, antimony, white vitriol, allum,
magnes, brimstone, English glue, linseed oil, sweet
oil, per gallon and quart, spirit of turpentine, fieel
and iron plate hand laws, tenant and compass ditto,
pannel ditto, law setts, firmers, stocked, heading
and mortifeing chizzels, gouges, carpenters ham
mers, lathing hatchets, plane irons, coinpaffes,
spike and nail gimblcts, augers, pincers, carpenters
best box rules, hiding ditto, turning chizzels and
gouges, brass knob locks, English and Dutch chest
locks, drawer ditto, H and H L hinges, chest ditto,
padlocks, brass knob and thumb latches, bolts,
wood screws, shoemakers hammers, pincers, and
nippers, shoemakers knives and awl blades, rasps,
knives and forks, pocket and pen-knives, butchers
ditto, razors, taylors (hears, feiffars, (hoe buckles,
brass ink-pots, brass cocks, coat and jacket buttons,
gun locks, ivory and horn combs, temple and com
mon fpe&acles, flieep (hears, bricklayers and plaif
terers trowels, curry combs, black lead pencils, saw
mill files, half round and flat ditto, three square and
round ditto, blackfiniths rasps, marking irons, can
dlesticks, brass garnishing nails, tobacco boxes, fine
and coarse brass wire, rat traps, fnuffers, Dutch
feythes and sickles, cutting knives, gun barrels,
copper and iron teakettles, frying pans, iron squares,
fafn lines and pullies, pepper and coffee mills, brass
handles for drawers, escutcheon desk hinges and
locks, caftors, cloak hooks, curtain rings, brass
knobs, 3d. Bd. rod. and lad. nails, sprigs, fine
clout nails, flat and box irons, cotton and linen
checks, handkerchiefs, striped cotton and linen
Hollands, 7-8 and 6-4 bed ticks, 6-4 and 1-2 bed
bunts, cotton velvets, cambricks and lawns, 7.8
and yard wide linen, ell-wide (heeting, Ruflia ditto,
Walloons and tammies, durants, callimancoes, cam
blets, l>road cloths, Indian blankets, mens and wo
mens stockings, silk knee garters, sewing silk, scars
and hair buttons, coloured and ditching threads,
pepper, alfpice, ginger, nutmegs, faffron, mace,
cloves, indigo, cinnamon, Camphire, sugar, tea,
coffee, chocolate, frefh red and white clover and
Timothy feeds.
ABRAHAM USHER,
Has imported in the last (hips from London, Hull,
Liverpool and Glasgow,
ALARGE and general assortment of Europe
an and East-India GOODS, suitable for the
present season, which he will fell on low terms for
cash or (hort credit, at his store in Front-street, the
firth door above Walnut-street.
Just imported in the Friendship, Capt. M'Culloch,
from Belfaft, a neat assortment of fine
IRISH L I N E N S,
Now opening and to be fold for Cash only, by
CHARLES EDD Y,
WHO expe&s by the firft vessels from Liver
pool, a large quantity of coarse linens,
Meetings and dowlafs, to compleat the above as
sortment.
Just imported in the last vessels from Britain, and
to be fold remarkably cheap for cadi, by
ALEXANDER BARTRAM,
Next doer to the Indian King, in Market-flreet,
Philadelphia,
A General assortment of MERC II AND IZE,
suitable to the season, amongst which are, a
variety of patent ribbed and plain worded hose; silk,
cotton, and thread ditto, of all qualities and sizes ;
a large quantity of broadcloths and trimmings, with
most other articles generally imported, all of which
he is enabled and determined to fell on low terms,
having imported them from the different manufac
tories in England, &c.
N. B. Also a good assortment of books and sta
tionary, China, Queen's ware, plain and enamelled
glass wares, &c.
TH E public are hereby informed, that
the reason the Cohanfey Lottery did not
commence drawing at the time proposed in the
scheme, was it's not being full at that time ; but
as (bon as the few tickets which remain on hand are
disposed of, the drawing will begin. The public
will be informed of the drawing three weeks before
it commences.
W A N T' E D,
A LAD about fourteen or fifteen years of age.
who can write a tolerable hand and cypher,
Such a one who is smart an active, and is willing
to go into a store in the country, may have a good
place by enquiring of the Printer.
Fox N EW R Y,
The SHIP
MINERV A,
^^\ FRANCIS FEAR'S,
Master;
C HE is a fine stout vefe| , h "
°excellent accommodations
for parfengers, and will certain
ly fail with the firft flaxfeed (hips, great part of her
cargo being already engaged. For freight or pas
sage apply to the Captain on board at Neill's wharf,
below the Drawbridge, or to Joseph Wilson in
Chefnut-ftreet.
CA ME to the fubferi ber's plantation,
on Shearman's Creek, in Cumberland Coun
ty, sometime in the month of August 1772, a forref
MARE, about fourteen hands high, twelve years
old next Spring ; die paces and trots, has no brand
or ear mark, but has a star and snip, and some sad
dle marks. I adverti fed the said mare when (he firft
came, until the 30th of August: last. The owner is
desired to come, prove his property, pay charges
and take her away.
HENRY HEATLY.
AN OFFICE,
For the SALE of REAL ESTATES,
is now established,
WHERE all persons having Houses, Lots,
Lands, Plantations, or Ground
rents to fell, may be assisted in the disposal of
them, for a reasonable commission ; and those who
are desirous of making purchases, will have an op
portunity, out of a great variety, to be suited in
either of the above particulars.
Regular entries will be made of all estates offered
for sale, with the terms on which they are to be
disposed ; draughts or plans of each will be exhibit
ed at the office, and at such other places as particu
lar circumstances may render necessary; and the
whole, or such parts as the owner thinks proper,
will be advertised in the public news-papers.
I he utility and advantage of this undertaking
must appear obvious, on considering that by this
means je//erj and buyers will at once know where to
meet each other, and (from the great encourage
ment already received, which there is reason to
hope will become general) all estates offered for sale
will be seen at one view.
The terms, upon which this business will be tranf
a&ed, may be known, by applying to Matthew
Clarkson, Notary Public and Conveyan
cer, in Front-ftret, near the London Coffee -house,
where the office is kept, or to Edward Bonsall,
in fourth street, opposite the weft end of Union
ftreet, Philadelphia.
The following Lots to be let on GroVndrent.
One lot, 40 feet on Cedar-street, by jj feet z
inches on the east fide of Frent-ftreet.
Several lots on the east fide of Front-street, ex
tending 130 feet, to Penn-street (having two
fronts) and lieabout 160 feet to the northward of
Cedar-street.
A number of lots, situate on the north-fide of
Green-street (near the barracks) extending from
Front-street to the westward of Third-ffreet. Also
several other lots, on both sides of Second and Third
ftreets, adjoining Green-street.
Ninety feet of ground on the weft fide of Sixth
ftreet, between the north fide of Cherry Alley and
Saflafrafs-ftreet, by 99 feet in depth ; to be divided
in several lots if required.
The following particulars to be SOLD,
A plantation containing upwards of 80 acres,
whereof 43 are excellent meadow, enclosed in good
bank, supported by a well built done wall, 17 acres
of well timbered woodland, an orchard, of the best
grafted fruit, and good gardens, neatly enclosed,
a neat brick, and a new frame dwelling-house and
kitchen, with large commodious barn, &c. it is si
tuated at Point-no-Point, about three miles from the
city : The purchaser paying a <very small part of
the consideration money, may have seven yearscre
dit for the remainder, giving security and paying
interest.
A plantation in Abington townfliip, Philadelphia
county, ten miles from the city, one mile from Ox
ford Church, adjoining Joshua Morris, Esq; it con
tains 125 acres, 12 whereof are good meadow, and
has a fufficient quantity of excellent timber ; there is
a large convenient done dwelling-house and kitchen
thereon ; allo alarge done barn, smith's (hop, &c.
One fourth of the purchase money being paid at the
time of sale, three years credit will be given for the
remainder, on good security.
A plantation in Oxford townffiip, seven miles
from the city, on the great road to Bristol, known
by the name of the Glebe land; it contains upwards
of 65 acres, some of which is meadow, and more may
be made ; there is a good log house, Tabling, and a
well of good water on the preinifes. A part of the
purchase money to be paid down, the remainder to
continue at interest, on good security, at the plea
sure of the purchaser.
A lot, of between three and four acres of excel
lent meadow ground, in Moyamenfing, adjoining
land of Mr. William Ilenry, and others ; it is en=
cloled with a good fence, and has a large~ftable
erected thereon, which will contain many tons of
hay. Any time will be given for the greatest part
of the purchase money upon proper security.
A house and lot, situate on the south fide of High
or Market-flreet ; an excellent stand for bufinels.
A lot of ground, situate on the Weft fide of Front
ftreet, just above the Bank Meeting House, con:
taining 20 feet front, and 160 feet deep, on which
are two tenements.
A brick house, three stories high, a few doors
below Spruce-street, on the weft fide of Front street,
rents at £. 40 per annum, and has lately been put
in very good repair; the lot is 16 feet font, by
about 40 feet deep. The termswill be made easy
to the purchaser.
A house and lot situate on the east fide of Front--
street, between High and Chefnut-ftreets ; the lot ic
24 feet front on Front and Water-streets.
A lot to the eastward ofthe above, on the east fide
of King or Water-street, ofthe fame front, extend
ing into the river Delaware, with a good wharf, &c.
A lot on the weft fide of Front-street, about 49
feet to the northward of Saffafrafs street, 20 feet
front and 102 feet deep to an alley which runs into
Saflafrafs-ftreet ; on this lot are four two flory brick
tenements, with a good baker's oven, a pump, &c#
the whole rents for £sl per annum, and is fubj^a:
to a ground rent of £3 55. currency.
A corner lot, 49 and a half feet on the north fide
of Mulberry or Arch-street, and 112 feet on the
weft fide of Seventh-street.
Wanted to Purchase,
Groundrents, well secured, to a large amotint d
Money to be lent on interest in the city of
county of Philadelphia.