Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-11-05 00:00:00, page 3

until he 0ha!l be released by order of this Council, or
some other power lawfully authorifed so to do.
Ordered, That the proceedings in John Baldwin's
case be made public.
Extrafl from the Minutes,
JACOB S. HOWELL, Secretary,
In CONGRESS, October 31, 177&
Whereas it is represented to Congress, that tundry
inhabitants cf tkefe United States, to keep Applies
fiom the army, or promote their own interest, have
purchased considerable quantities of CLOATHING,
and refuse to dispose of the fame, unless upon extrava
gant or unreasonable terms.
Reffved, That it be recommended to the Affem
b!ies, Conventions, Councils or Committees of Safety
of the several states, forthwith to take suitable measures
for obtaining for the use of the army such necessary
articles as, being thus engrossed in their refpedive states,
cannot be otherwise immediately procured, allowing to
the owners reasonable prices for the fame; and that
laws be provided, in each of the states, for effectually
preventing MONOPOLIES of NECESSARIES for
the army or inhabitants of the fame.
Extract from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, & cre %.
Extract of a letter from London, dated July 20.
" The Ministry seem f" confident of reducing the
Colonies.with the for midable force which they have sent
for that purp@fe, that they are already employed in de
viling means for keeping them in fubje&ion alter they
have subdued them. Lately there was presented to the
King a project for that porpofe which his Majesty appro
ved of. The proposal is to keep up ten thousand troops,
of which two fliali be battalions cf artillery and two of
light dragoons ; and to establish on the continent two
Biihopricks, the titles of which shall be, the Prote&ors of
the English church.---Such are the brilliant chimaeras
which are spread by the ministerial party, and which the
cppoAte party are labouring to destroy, by publishing to
tne world that the colonies combatting so liberty, will
not yield but to force ; that the force already sent oct by
the mother country, which at present appears irrefiftable
will soon be reduced to nothing ; if the firft consequen-
ces of it should not equal the expectations of adminiftra
tion.---Diffatisfa&ion will soon faceted and diffufe itfelf
through all ranks of people, already much-fatigued with
civil inteltine war; that in this case the consequences
must necessarily be very fatal to England, especially if
strangers taking advantage of these diffentions, and in
support cf America should attack the most remote Eng
lifli settlements and occasion a diversion which will
greatly weaken the power of Great-Britain.
" It appears plainly already that the formidable arma
ments which they are fitting out in the ports of France
and Spain, have no other cbje& but war; that we may be
convinced of this by the evasive answers given to our Anr
baffadors at the Courts of Versailles and Madrid, as we
have them from their representations on that fubje&, that
the distinguished marks of rApect with which they have
received the Deputies of Congress in these two Courts,
does not leave the Haft doubt that a treaty has been alrea
dy farmed between them and the Americans, the effects
cf which in all probability will be felt as soon as I Idepen
dence ffiall be declared, a period which cannot be at,a
great distance, since the refoliations lent to the General
Congress by every of the United States to that effea are
already public, ft is by these means that opposition leeks
to weaken the ipecious reasonings which government
employs, to warn the people of the melancholy conse
quences of the war, information which already begins tg
alarm the nation."
At a Meeting of a number of the citizens oj Philadelphia,
at the Pbdofopbical Society's Fall, November the %d,
SAMUEL HOWELL, Chairmm,
JONATHAN B. SMITH, Secretary.
It was unanimously Refolded, to publish the following
Address to the inhabitants of the Ci) and Liberties of
Philadelphia.
Friends and Fellow-Citizens,
AS a considerable uncafinefs has : risen in the minds
of some of the inhabitants of Philadelphia, from a
fear that it was the desire of those Citizens who agreed
to the refoludons passed at the T-wn-meetings the 21st
and 22d of October last, that the Representatives to be
chosen on the sth of this infant for this city, should
possess not only the power to make the necessary altera
tions in the frame of government formed by the late
Convention, but likeaife to execute the fame, we take
this opportunity of declaring, that after the said Repre
fentatives have finished tie alterations and amendments
in the government, (agreeable to the method propofect in
the 29th resolution palled at the Town-meeting on the
zed of October) it is cur desire that they fhouid issue
writs for the election of an Assembly, and immediately
afterwards dissolve themselves. And for this purpose
we intend to inftruft them previous to their taking their
feats in the house of Assembly.
We think it our duty further to declare to you, that we
wifli for no alterations to be made in the Constitution
which shall ass & the great and fundamental principles of
a fee government, such as, Liberty of Conscience—
Trial by Juries —Freedom of the Press —Annual Elec
tions-- and the Division and Rotation of Offices But
while we acknowledge these parts of the Contention to
bepeifi-ftiy just, and highly agreeable to ir, we think
ouifelves bound to declare, that it contains flaws whiQ
in alittle while will render those inestimable bleffihgs of
no efficacy.
You have been told that we are connected with the
Tories, and that we are aiming to bring back the 1 te
royal and proprietary power of this State.---We deny the
charge. We appeal to Heaven for ,he purity of our in
tentions, and we call up®n those men who have propa
gated this calumny, to prove, that we baveever aimed at
any thing else than at the eltablifhment of a free and
confident government upon the sole authority of the
people. We have publickly declared our attachment to
the independance of this and the other United States,
We have embarked our All in the present glorious con
test for their independence, and many of us have exposed
ear lives in its defence.
You have been told, that we aim to eftabliKi a power
in the State which has been branded with the jufilj odi
ous and unpopular name of a Houle of Lords. We deny
this charge with the fame solemnity that we do the last.
We disclaim all legislative power that is not derived fiom
the yearly choice of the people, and it is because we
esteem the sacred FOWER of tne PEOPLE to be above
all other power, that we have appealed to them from
the tribunal of the Convention. By ®ur preference cf a
mixed and tempered legislature to that established by the
Convention, we declare, that we wish for a government
that di: II not fuffer the poor and the rich alternately to
be the prey of each other.
In order to induce you to submit to the new form of
government, you have been told that you can knew no
thing of its defeds till you have experienced them. Did
we reason in this manner when the King of Britain offer
ed us slavery through a number of arbitrary a&s of Par
liament? Did we wait till the chains were fixed upon us
before we resisted ? We did not. Even the people of Ca
nada opposed the arbitrary frame of government contri
ved for them in the Quebec Bill before they experienced
its deftru&ve efF.&s upon the remains of their liberty.
A seven years familiarity with slavery, may render us
ever afterwards unfit to assert and maintain the privileges
of freemen.,
We are now on the brink of a precipice. There are
more evils in our new frame of government than have
been pointed out by the pen or tongue of any man. The
prejudices and passions of a whole community are let
looie by it upon every man's property, liberty and life,
through the medium of the legifltnre—the courts of
law—and the political INQUISITION, called the COUN
CIL of CENSORS. We conjure you, therefore, by the
remembrance of past diffi ulties, through which we have
' ftruggled ,ogetber—by the profpeifts of the common dan
gers which are before us—by the honour of Pennsylva
nia—and by the buffings of fiee and equal government,
to confider seriously what you are doing, before you take
another step 111 support of the new Constitution.
Let not the rath action of a single day add the inhabi
tants of Pennsylvania to the number of those unhappy
people in federal European Countries, who have undone
j^mltkes by a hasty and ill-judged exercise of their
QWN po>er.
Signed by Order and in Behalf of the Meeting,
SAMUEL HOWELL, Chairman.
To the Printer of the Pennsylvania Packet.
AM IDSTthe general anxious expectation of the un
certa;n events of war; whilst in;my of your leaders
are engaged in the necessary toils of public butinefs, others
pursuing, with an unaccountable keenness, the gratifi
cation of avarice or ambition, an I some immerged in the
ever fluctuating ocean of internal politics; it may be ac
ceptable to a few of your readers, perhaps, to be infor
med, that on Saturday latt, in the afternoon, Mercury
appeared wholly on the Sun's disk, from five minutes after
four until sun-set ; the greatest distance cf Mercury from
the Sun's nearest limb seemed to be about ten seconds;
but the air being hazy, and the Sun near the horizon,
the undulation of its limb was so great no measures could
be taken with any accuracy. Your's, &c.
D. R.
To the FREEMEN of Pennsylvania.
AW RITER under the signature of Cafia, having
addressed you in two of the papers last in the Eve
ning Post, No. 278, with much subtlety and apparent
sagacity in the principles of government, I beg your at
tention to the following observations upon his specious
performance. In the firft place I would note that to
me his definition of a government is quite new, and cal
culated on purpose to favor his final conclutioa that this
wonderful icheme being adopted would have freed you
from the trouble of appointing Censors and a septennial
Convention. But why even two thirds, or suppose four
fifths of the legiflirme, fliould be trusted with regula
ting representation and limitation of the time of offices,
I can only account for on the effects such powers hive
already produced, and the longing desire some gentry
among us have of enjoying a like opportunity to aggran
dize themselves and families.
The constitution of Great^hitain had this deadly
poison in its executive part, at least that the right of elec
tion or regulation of representation, never was equitably
fettled, and the cause of this was evidently the depend
ance that right had upon the arbitrary will of a com
pound legislature, neither branch of which were ever
under the effectual controul of the people, and two of
them conleffcdly quite independent. The consequence
was plain. The number of free and independent elec
tors, which was at all times the eye fore ot Courts, was
diminished as faft as pofli de, and the right of election
(ported away to the canialle in the venal boroughs, in so
bale a manner as dishonors our species. Who could
believe that the monster prerogative could have dared to
make such difference in the condition of the fubje&,
that the moving over certain imaginary lines would cut
him off from his right in one case, and on the other hand
a meer arbitrary edi& shall invest a very vagabond with
the power of exercising this right, barely by interloping
in this privileged place, and for a few days boiling a
pot there. To prevent such dangerous, such iniquitous,
such scandalous absurdities from making place in the State
of Pennsylvania, and to regulate every article which
change of circumstance and ripened experience shall in
form us is necessary to the further perfection of our alrea
dy venerable lyltem, cur late wife anl patriotic Convent
ion, established their Council of Censors and septennial
Convention ; well knowing that if they entrusted the
power of altering one punctilio of that constitution to
any body of men they thould appoint to ad within its
express limitation, they thereby should have made the
legislature their own carvers, and in a convenient time
had them as independent, nay indeed as absolute mas
ters of the lives and fortunes of their constituents in
Pennsylvania as they row are in Great- Britain. But of
such a black treason thank Heaven they were incapable,
and notwithstanding all the impudent and illiberal trath
that difaff Cted ambition is pleased to vent against them,
I am fathfied the grand cut-lines of their frame of ga
v rnment will command the applause of future ages !
If any thing Should happen to be imperfect in a plan of
government, surely time should ne given te the inhabi
TO BE SO L D,
A NEGRO MAN, thirty years cf age, hearty and
well made, understands farming well, and is fit for
country work in general : Sold for no fault, but want
of employ. Enquire of the Printer.+
Nezu Brunswick, Oflobe - ?8, 1776.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED or STOLEN from Amhev, on the
19th or zoth of last month, a black STALLtO N,
near fifteen hands high, has a white face and feet, Small
eyes and ears, paces, trots and gallops, is fl ck cf cru
r2^, arid goes fometbing near with his hind legs
Whoever secures said horse and gives information to the
subscribers, so that they may have him a, ain, ffiall have
the above Reward, and all reasonable charges, paid by
__§__FETER AND JOHN VAN EMBURGH.
LEFT in the stable of Minne V.Voorhies,
of New-Brunswick, about the middle of July lass,
an oid black HORSE, about fifteen hands high. ' The
owner is desired to take him away, or he will he fold to
pay charges.y
T 0 'ITE SOLD °
JOHN LI S L E,
In Third-street, a few doers from Church ahey, partly
opposite Jeremiah Warder's,
Twenty-one tierces of MOLASSE S,
And a quantity of hackled H E M P. §
ICHAEL-O' LEARY, whTc^
into Baltimore last summer, is requeued to kt
Thomas Bennet, at Philadelphia, know where he is
as soon ^s poflible.
Philadelphia, November 2, 1776.
FRANCIS WAD E,
WHOSE absence for some time past obliged him
to shut up Ids Brewery, thinks it neceffuy to
give this public notice to his former cudo uers ana others
that are disposed to make trial of his BEER, tfiate
has began to brew for the season, and has now ead; to
turn out the different kinds of BEER as usual, equal
in quality to any in this city.
The highest prices will be given by said WADE for
good clean winter or spring Barley and Malt. §
tants of the whole State to deliberate upon it, and take
each others minds upon the amendment as they did by
their Delegates, in the establishment of the constitution.
A contrary proceeding can only throw the State into
disorder and confusion, as we have already but too un,
happily experienced ; and we pray God that the number
of our brethren who have too haffily determined upon
points of too much difficulty to be decided at firtt thought
would return to that state of calmness and cool, delibeia
tion which has long been the chara&eriftic of the Per.n
fylvanians. One of the People.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
THIS DAY at one One o'clock, at
JOHN H ART's Vendue Store, will begin
the file of a large and neat assortment of ME R
CHANDIZ E, among which are—Forty pieces of
Oznabrug, thirty pieces of Russia drilling, twenty pieces
of roan linens, cotton velvets, plushes, Shalloons, ratinets,
broadcloths, cotton counterpanes, napkins and tadc
clcts, sewing silks, japaned waiters and bread-b fkrts ;
bombazeens, crapes, indigo, china, window glass, gin in
cases, and a neat assortment of fi ks. Abb household
furniture, wearing apparel, &c.
FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD,
n AN AWAY from the fubferiber, living in Krg°-
fefs Townfllip, Philadelphia County, rn'ihe giftof
October, an Irish servant gi:l n med JEAN GAU
of a low size but pretty fat and th:ck, of a brown com
plexion, marked with the findl-pcx, hrs fh;rt bl+
hair, and a fcai on her under lip ; had on vihm sh ent
away, a new striped linen gown, a purple fi k bonnet
almost new, an old flack caimanco quilt, a dit yel
low striped lincey petticoat, a pair of low heeled leather
ihoes, and blue yarn flockings ; took with her two short
striped linen gowns, one a dark stripe pieced at the
sleeves with another fort, the oilier a light homespun
ditto almost new, one check apron, one tow ditto on?
purple lincey ditto, two white handkerchiefs, cne'a sin
gle kenting and the other linen, a final! check cotton
ditto, one lawn cap and two linen ditto. Whoever
takes up said servant girl and secures her in any gaol, so
that her matter may get her again, ffiall have the above
Reward and reasonable charges, paid by
f THOMAS LAYCOCK.
SI X POUNDS R
WAS LOST on the 2d of October, a squat bay
M AR < with a hog mane, and "an O upon the
near shoulder and on the left buttock. And on the 31st
of October was stolen, a bay HORS E, with a white
snip upon his nose, raw boned, fbmewhat cat hammed,
and has a pretty long switch tail. Whoever brings the
above Mare and Horie to the fubferiber, living in Bran
dywine Hundred, about two m'les from Grub's Tavern
shall receive THREE POUNDS for each, and the fame
reward tor the thief or thieves, paid by
± JOHN CURTE S.
THREE POUNDS REWAR D.
rr< HE Work-shop of the luolcriber was broke open
X on Saturday night, the 2d inst. (November) and
the following GOODS taken out, vz. twenty, four
retd or summer deer ficins in the hair, one feather bed,
blanket and flieet, and three pair of leather breeches just
fcowered. As it is likely the (kins may be offered tor
sale to some fki^ners, they are requested to flop them arc!
the thief. Vendue-mafters are requested to give informa
tion it the bed and blankets should be offered them for
sale. The above Reward will be paid to any person who
shall difeover the goods so that the owner may have them
again, or for the thief or thieves so that they may be
brought to justice, by
1 JOHN HALLBFR'STA CT .
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