Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1774-11-21 00:00:00, page 2

For th Pennsylvania Pack r.
I" OOKING over the last Packet,! cast my
I J eye on a production of a pretty extraordi
nary nature, and as the writer has intimated an
intention of favouring us with a few more of his
sentiments, I would with him to confine his ideas
to the moderate ftiie of his countrymen. —There
is such a thing as enthusiasm in politicks as well
as religion—both ought to be avoided, for men
whose capacities soar not above the common rank,
will be apt to fufped! that there is a degree of in
finity in a production which hurries them in an
infract into the clouds of fancy. I would not be
understood by the Gentleman that I differ with
him in his political opinons refpe&ing the general
cause of American liberty, but 1 would wish to ex
plode some tenets he has infilled on—l honor the
Congress perhaps as much as any man ought to
honor such a refpedable body of men—but then
I conceive there may be a possibility of their being
raiftaken ; they are but mortals, and fheuld any of
their brother mortals apprehend them to have er
red in any of their proceedings, I mould think it
was a duty he owed to his country to point them
out. —During the fefiion, an inviolable secrecy
was observed, and therefore no observations could
be timely made, but if, before the loth of May,
any Gentleman should think it his duty to remark
on the resolves or proceedings, he ought to be at
tentively listened to. The votes of the House of
Commons are published from day to day, and the
fubjeA is freely canvassed out of doors before and
after they pass into laws, and if upon observing the
sense of the nation, they fhould,find them impro
per, they have been repealed. I don't mean that
we should give opposition to any of the measures
recommended by the Congress, even tho' we
should disapprove them.—l would only contend
for the right of speaking our sentiments, against the
next meeting, wherber by way of proposing addi
tions, or alterations.—To be sure theidea of being
perpetually Raviltiac dis enough to make any man
of sensible nerves, sweat thro' every pore.—l ac
knowledge it is a 'great idea, but favours too much
of Romnh barbarity to be admitted into a Pro
tenant's bosom. I love my country, perhaps, equal
to any man on the continent, but, should I lee it
going to deftruajon, and for hinting that profped
be likely to endvrethis aggregate of misery, alas !
I doubt my virtue would fail, and I should violent
ly glide down the stream with the rest of my bre
thren; therefore 1 beg the Gentleman would in
form us whether the ball is irrevocably gone forth,
and whether for speaking my mind, like an honed
citizen, there is certainly a danger of being eter
nally suspended by four cords, and enduring thro'
endless ages, tiie excruciating dislocating pain of
four horrid dragging steeds, without power Effi
cient to tear oft the writhing limbs.—ls there a
fNative feeling heart that does not bleed with
Sympathetic agony at the bare conception?—How
toiok you, then, can a poor devoted victim sustain
the perpetual never ending Hell-like torment pre
pared for him by this prince of misery?
Come foft ey'd Pity, view my writhing frame,
Extend one friendly glance on piercing woe;
1 hen feck the flinty heart from whence it came,
And on that heart let ceaseless torrents flow.
ANTI-TORMENTOR.
From th MORNING POS T.
I THINK I may with the greatest propriety
date the declension of our civil liberties from
the present succession; no sooner did his Majesty
acend the throne but a total change ensued; a
tew roiniftry was chosen, many of the old ones
were rejected, who bad signalized themselves for
their widom and abilities during the late glorious
reign, and the (hameful confeaueoce is still recent;
a peace was concluded with the conquered on their
own terms; a few of our ministry enriched them
feives at the expence of our nation's prosperity;
this will forever fully our Britilh annals, and our
children yet unborn will curse the infamous pro
jectors of so productive a treaty. But to proceed;
is it not an undeniable fa&, that the treasury has
been opened at every election in order to obtain a
majorityin the House of Commons? A majority
wno are to be dictated entirely by the court;
what are we not to CxpeX then from such a pros
tituted House? No wonder that we groan under
such an enormous load of taxes; no wonder the
Americans feel thelike oppression; but how uncon
ftitutionil, how unprecedented to tax tbofe loyal
people? how destructive to our commerce with
them, how does it difaffeAtheir hearts towards
the mother country? They have still aCted with
vigor i opposing so deftrudive a meafure,'and it
is my sincere with that they may with their blood
defend their glorious privileges, and think it an
honour to die in protecting their valuable charters
as at firft established. It is not to be wondered at
that justice is so partially administered, when we
confider the inattention of our ministry to the na
tional interest. Murderers to go unpunilhed, nay
rewarded for (bedding the blood of their country
men ! this is rebelling againftthe (kies, disobeying
the commands of Heaven; and a monarch might
with equal propriety invoke deftruXion on his
head, as dare to pardon this inhuman breach of
the law. But this is not the only stab our laws,
our constitution has received, we have to complain
of the right of election being violated, that grand
privilege on which the balls of our constitution de
pends; and of all other infringements on ths li
berty of the fabjeX, this has the molt deftruXive
tendency: no sooner was this power usurped, hut
our liberties began to totter, for what can be more
dangerous to the constitution than a Parliament's
chafing their own members, rejecting among
themselves a representative legally chosen by a
great majority? But there is another wound which
our constitution has received, namely, an infringe
ment on the liberty of the press. Good God !
bow are our noble privileges loft? our glorious
liberties, which were at firft founded on the broad
balls of reason and humanity, dwindled into the
mod despotic slavery! Let us weep, my country
men. How is our fine gold changed! our poliffi.
cd silver become dim! tell it not on th, coasts of
Extrafl of a private letter from Warsaw, Aug. 26.
" Ihe interest which our three neighbouring
united plunderers had, by infixing to eftablilh the
Council Permanent (the worst of all Ariftocratical
forms of government) is very plain. These three
united violating powers, being sensible that their
p: hellion of this country had not the lead foun
dation according to the law of nations, and that
To the Printer of the Pennsylvania Packet.
Good Mr. Printer,
IF private concerns may be heard in theft pub
lick times, I beg leave to have a little room in
your paper. lam a countryman with a wife and
a great family of children, lately come to town to
try for an honest living amoigft you.—By industry
and good management 1 was enabled to bring with
me a good cow, on whose milk my little flock bad
long fubtifted; —not having enough of the one
thing needful, I could not procure a pasture, and
was therefore obliged, amongst other poor people,
to turn her to graze on the commons; but soon,
• to the in.xpreffible confufion of my whole houf
hold, the disappeared, and I can obtain no tidings
of her. Now, what I want of you, good Mr.
Printer, is not so much to find my cow again, but
that you and I may lay our heads together to
prevent my idling another, if I fhonld ever be able
to raise money enough to buy one. 1 remember
to have raed in the Old England Papers, how,
when a man has beeen afflided with some fore dis
order he has published his case, and called upon
good charitable Christian doctors to help him; and
1 have read how that great relief has been afford
ed through the news papers.—And I should be
glad to know why a man has not as much reason
to hope for such charitable Christian ferrice from
a lawyer as well as a doctor, where the case re
quires it?—However, as I said before, Mr. Prin
ter, if you and I can lay our heads together per
haps we may get advice that may, one day, serve
you as well as me, if your cow should ever run
away. Then, good charitable Gentlemen lawyeis,
iffuch there be, I fay if such there be, because a
poor countryman can't be supposed to know the
ways of the town, pray some of you who have
more advice than you can get ready money for,
inform a poor countryman, in behalf of himfelf
and fellow fuiTerers, fird, whether any perlon
keeping a stray cow, or other creature within his
enclosures, is not obliged to give public notice
thereof within a limitted time ; if so, how is that
notice to be conveyed? Is it by a dirty, ill-written
advertisement, at a country tavern, a public cry
ing on a maket day, or a full description in an En
ghih news-paper? The firft I may never fee, and the'
second I may never hear of, but the third I thould
certainly derive some benefit from. Now, pray
Mr. lawyer, if a lawyer will take the pains to
speak without a fee, which of these modes does
the law prescribe, and what is the penalty of
non-compliance on the part of the perlon detain
ing the stray? If the law is deficient and you can
prevail on the Assembly to pass an ad to oblige ail
persons taking up drays to fend, forthwith, a de
scription to the publick papers, under a heavy pe
nalty for negled, I apprehend much family distress
might be prevented. If precedents are lacking in
the courts, for such gratis cases as these, and we
should thereby fail in our design, I hereby promise
that if, by this means I get my Coofhy again, and
you will leave your name with the printer, he shall
dired you where to find as good a bowl of sylla
bub as currant wine, new milk and nutmeg can
make, to a draught of which both he and you shall
be heartily welcomed, by an
Injured Offering Country man.
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PETERSBURGH, %/, 29.
Gallin; public, it not am m,l the haughty 'y^i
ards, left they rejoice; left thej imperioully tri
umph over us. Oh ! my countrymen ! rouze
from the lethargy you have so long lain in; de
fend your glorious privileges at the expence of
your blood ; oppose those daring oppressors of
your country; aft like Englishmen, who dill re
tain the spirit of your forefathers: and I think, if
your greatest honour to maintain your liberties
free and unspotted as they were at firft established.
I shall now take my leave of this fubjed for the
pfefent, hoping that some effectual means may be
made use of, to prevent the impending form,
that we may live a free and independent people,
happy amongrt ourselves; that trade may again
rear her once flourishing head, and that on both
files the Atlantic, plenty, liberty, and freedom,
may redound from fho'/e to shore: we may then
smile at the secret machinations of France, the
open attempts of Spain; disregarding all their plots ;
happy amongst ourselves, enjoying the privileges
of a free people, under the imdes of an auspicious
government. T. H.
WE were greatly furprized here last week at
the arrival of the regiment of Welicolont
fki, a regiment of infantry, another of Hungarian
Hussars, and the two pulks of Cossacks; we know
not the reason for their arrival, but hav'e just
learned that they have received orders to march
for Moscow.
Naples, Aug. 23. Brayers for rain are offered
up in all the churches of this city, the drought
having been of so long continuance.
Florence, Aug. 23. The exeflive heat, and the
total want of ra ; n for more than two months in
most parts of Italy, have greatly prejudiced the
ha-vest. The great Duke is using all the means
in his power to get supplies of corn from other
countries.„
Vienna, Aug. 27. It is generally reported here
that the Empress of Russia has uttered some very
offenfive reflexions to our Ambassador at Peterf
burgh, concerning the encroachment which our
troops have made upon the limits of the Polish
republic, contrary to the late treaty; and we
hear that since that time certain inftrudions have
been sent from our court to the Ambassador at
Peterfburgh.
LONDO N, Sept. 12.
it rg ! t one day or other be reclaimed by a Pa
lihi King, or rather a Folilh King might join his
inrereft with one of these three allied powers, and
commence a war against the other two, in order to
re conquer all those provinces, they have limitted
the power of the King in such a manner, that he is
but a mere cypher, and the only legislative power
is given to the Council Permanent; so that nothing
•ould be undertaken without a previous debate in
that Council, and before any thing is resolved up
on, it is known to the public; so that by institut
ing this form of government, they are now secure
in their pofleffions. The manner with which they
have hitherto wfed our King is really fhameful;
his Majesty has made public all their proceedings,
and candidly declared to a deputation of the dele
gates on the 7th inst. every violent step these unit
ed courts have taken within these two years. The
delegated commission was to resolve upon every
fubjeft as the representatives of the whole nation;
but nothing was resolved upon without force, bri
bery and threatning, by the ministers of the three
united courts. At different audiences these three
ministers had of the King during the whole time
of trouble, they generally told his Majesty in the
name of the three royal robbers, that in case he
would not give his affect to such and such a thing,
33,000 men from each power would immediately
be ordered into Poland, which troops should do
nothing but trouble, torment, and plague the peo
ple as much as possible, and in the mean time ma
nifeftoes should be distributed among the people,
that the King is the cause of all these misfortunes
on account of his private interests, so that his life
will not be secure in his own palace. This is the
manner they have treated the King, the Delegates
and the nation, to the everlasting scandal of the
age, of tyranny, power, and corruption.
Extract of a letter from Vienna Aug. 24.
" It is assured that the Porte isto restore some
provinces which the House of Austria formerly
pofTefTed; and that the Grand Signor consented
that Poland shall remain dismembered as it adually
is. Austria and Pru ffia are guarantees of the treaty
of peace concluded the 21st of July lad."
It is a well-known maxim among gardeners
that a dead dog or cat thrown upon the roots of a
vine, and afterwards covered up with earth is re
maikably efficacious in making such vines to bear.
1 he following fact, though, like many other phi
losophical experiments it may seem attended with
cruelty, yet is so very illustrative of this fubjed,
and at the fame time so curious, that it will well
warrant our giving it here :
Sept. 14. A facetious wag, lately fnppofed to be
in a very dangerous situation, was prevailed upon
to make his will, in which were the two following
articles :—To the patriots in Boston all my reso
lution, perfevera Ke, &c. together with 40,000!.
for the use of their Committee. A grain of wis
dom to the and his C 1; with which
(replied he) they might fettle all matters which
now appear so alarming to their own and their
opponents fatisfadion, without delay or blood
shed.
" Having two fig-trees, which, to all appear
ance, were absolutely dead, I revived them by the
following process : 1 uncovered the foot of these
trees from eighteen inches to two feet around, and
cropped off part of the hairy fibres with feiffars.
I then covered up the roots again, putting over
them a litter of fix young puppies just whelped,
which I had boiled down in water to the consist
ence of paste. Afterwards I filled up the void with
some light earth taken from a pit in my garden at
a very great distance from the trees. My fig-trees,
which were only the shoots of an old trunk no
longer io being, might about four years ago be an
inch in diameter : But at present they are sixteen
inches round, and must this year have props put
under them, on account of the great over-burthen
of their fruit, which exceeds all imagination."
Extract of a letter from Vienna, August 29.
" His Imperial Majesty goes on with great
vigour and assiduity in his preparations towards
taking possession of the Venetian provinces of Dal
matia and Morlachia, in which it is expeded he
will meet the greatest opposition, as the Venetians
have strengthened all their garrisons in those pro
vinces with great numbers ofmen, and have thrown
in very large quantities of military stores and pro
visions, so that most of the garrisons are now ena
bled to endure long sieges. The Venetians have
likewise drawn a very formidable naval force along
the sea coasts of the above provinces, and have
also a considerable squadron at the illand of Corfu,
in the Adriatic."
Two companies of invalids of the Royal Ar
tillery are ordered to embark immediately for Jer
sey and Guernsey, it being judged necessary to
put those islands in a state of defence against any
attempts from the continent which may be very
reasonably apprehended at this critical time, from
their vicinity to the coast of France, and the vin
dictive spirit of the French minister, who has not
forgot the conquest of Belleifle.
Sept. 15. The firft word a Great Person
age fays to Lord North when his Lordship vi
sits him is, “ Well, what news from America ?"
This question too is always dked with much seem
ing anxiety, which is a plain proof, that howe
ver easy and corapofed the Ministry n,ay be about
the matter, he is much concerned.
Extract of a letter /rem Gibra tar, Aug. 20.
" It fcems as it all the powers in the Mediter
ranean were preparing for a w^rF either offenfive
or defenfive, as all the ports are full of whipping,
and the shores covered with troops in Spain and
Barbary particularly. The Emperor ofMorocco
has two very strong squadrons now fit for fea,one
at Sallee, and rhe other at Larache. The states
of Algiers and 7 unis are likewise fitting out squad
rons for sea, but for what purpose these Barbarian
preparations are making, cannot even be guefled at
The Spanish lines up to St. Rocque are very full
of troops, and several new battlements and forts
are built.
Extrafl of a letter from Venice, Aug. 16.
" Ihe movements of the Imperial troops in the
province of Dalmatia and Morlac'ia, are produc
tive of the greatest dilurbance to this republic te
Extract of a let'er from Mans, Aug. 10.
which those provinces belong; both ths Envois
who were dilpatched to the imperial Court, soon
alter the movements complained of began, have
returned without obtaining any anfwtr, or bein?
able to gain a single audience. The troops under -
general Vela, are daily taking possession of cities
and towns almost without oppofiticn, as such an
invasion was by no means expeded, and therefore
no preparation made against it. However, every
defensive preparation is now making with the ute
most vigour and assiduity."
It is a fad that the Spaniards were preparing
with a great farce to attack the East-India Com
pany's new settlement on the island Balambanca,
lately taken possession of by Gov. Harboard, in
the Britannia, when the lad advices came from
thence ; and there is the greatest probability that
they have succeeded, as the factory was too weak
to withstand them.—Capt. Swithin, who went
out commanded of the Britannia, and Mr. Cole,
the Company's agent, were at that time both pri
soners with the Spaniards; and from the accounts
that have been received, their friends are apoie
henfive of their fafety.
Resolved, That 1 nomas Johnson, jun. John
Hall, William Paca, Charles Carroll, Barrister;
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton; Matthias Ham
mond, Samuel Chafe, and Richard Tootell, be
a Committee of Correspondence for this county
and city, and that any three have power to aft.
Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting,
that the gentlemen appointed to represent this
county and city in the late provincial Convention,
together with Charles Carroll, of Carrollton ;
ought to attend the next provincial meeting on the
2ift inst. and have full power to represent and aft
for this county and city.
B O S T O N, November ic.
Province of Massachusetts Bay.
By the GOVERNOR.
A PROCLAMAT IO N.
WHEREAS a number of persons unlaw
fully assembled at Cambridge, in the montli
of October last, calling themselves a Provincial
Congress, did in the most open and daring terms,
assume to themselves the powers and authority of
government, independant of, and repugnant to his
Majesty's government, legally and constitutionally
established within this province, and tending ut
terly to subvert the fame; and did amongst other
unlawful proceedings, take upon themselves to
resolve and diced a new and unconstitutional re
gulation of the militia, in high derogation of his
Majesty's royal prerogative; and also to eled and
appoint Henry Gardner, Esq; of Stow, to-be Re
ceiver General, in the room of Harrison Gray,
E(q; then and still legally holding and executing
that office ; and also to order and direct the mo
nies granted to his Majesty, to be paid into the
hands of the said Henry Gardner, and not to th?
said Harrison Gray, Esq; and further earnestly ta
recommend to rhe inhabitants of the province, co
oblige and compel the several constables and collec
tors to comply with and execute the laid directi
ons, contrary to their oaths, and against the plain
and express rules and directions of the law: All
which proceedings have a most dangerous tenden
cy to ensnare his Majesty's fubjeds, the inhabi
tants of this province, and draw them into perju
ries, riots, (edition, treason and rebellion.
ANNAPOLIS, (in Maryland) Nov. 10.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of Anne Arundel
County and the city -of Annapolis, qualified to vote
for Representatives, on IVedneJday the ninth da,
of November, 1774.
Resolved, That Thomas Dorsey, John Hood,
junior, John Dorsey, Philip Dorsey, John Bur.
gefs, Thomas Sappington, Ephraim Howard,
Caleb Dorsey, Richard Stringer, Reuben Merri
weather, Charles Warfield, Ed. Gaither, jun.
Greenberry Ridgely, Elijah Roboffon, Thomas
Mayo, James Kelfo, Benjamin Howard, Ely Dor
sey, fen. Mark Brown Sappingten, Brice T. B.
Worthington, Charles Carrol, Barrister; John
Hall, William Paca, Thomas Johnson, junior,
Matthias Hammond, Samuel Chafe, Charles Car
roll, of Caroilton; Rezin Hammond, Charles
Wallace, Richard Tootell, Thomas Harwood,
jun. John Davidson, John Brice, John Weems,
Samuel Chew, Thomas Sprigg, Gerard Hopkins,
jun. Thomas Hall, Thomas Harwood, Weft Ri
ver; Stephen Steward, Thomas Watkins, Tho
mas Belt, the third; Richard Green, and Ste
phen Watkins, be a Committee to represent and
ad for this county and city, to carry into executi
on the association agreed on by the American con
tinental Congress, and that any seven have power
to ad.
1H AVE thought it my duty to issue this Pro
clamation, hereby earnestly exhorting, and
in his Majesty's name Briefly prohibiting all his
l ege fubjeds within this province, from comply
ing in any degree with the fuid renditions,' re
commendations, directions, or relolves of the
aforefaid unlawful affemby, as they tegud his
Majesty's highest displeasure, and wenh! aioid
the pain, apd penalties of the i-w. And i do
For the prevention of which evils, and the ca
lamitous consequences thereof;
IF a mistaken zeal has urg'd you on, )
'Tis hard to shake my glass so nearly done, }
The ebbing sands had little more to run;)
If from my daughter's right your claim you bring,
Too early is she Queen while I am King;
Your love for her appears, in that to me
You prai'e the fruit, and yet cut down the tree.
I took up but that Crown you would not wear,
And am no less your conqueror than heir;
If rights divine to monarchs can belong,
That right they FORFEIT, when they DARE
do wrong;
Titles to Crowns from civil contrails spring,
And HE who breaks the laws, dissolves the KING.
From the S t. James's Chronicle.
Dialogue between James the Second and King
William.
J A M E S.
W I LLI A M.