The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-10-13 00:00:00, page 1

Philadelphia, October 2, I'7B^
A CITY COUR T will be held
at the Court-house, on MONDAY, the 15th in
ft^nt, at Ten o'Clack in the meaning; of whih all
Conffab es and persons bound by recognizance to ap
pear at laid Court, are to take notice;
WILLIAM WILL, Sheriff.
- JU ST IMPORTE D,
In the last VefTels from Europe,
AND TO BE SOLD, By
WILLIAM NICHOLS,
At his STORE, on the Nor'h Side of Market street,
opposite the Indian King,
A Large and General Affortmefit of the
.FOLLOWING ARTICLES, viz.
SCARLET, brown, I
purple, black, green, ?
blue, light coloured, fu 1
ptrfine and second B'oad-j
elothfy
Scarlet, brown, blue,|
light and coloured fu-1
perfine K-japi & Coat-
Blue, grey,, light and
tsarlet DuffiK & Frizes,
White, buff and Scarlet
Caffinftrs and Wiltons,
Crmion, brown,' blue,
ftrip'ed, black, fpott'd
and corded Velvets and
Velv,rft,
Olive & white Corduroys;
Tik>ts and Duroons,
Tarragons,
Childrens worsted Hose,
Pink, blue, black and
cloth coloured Duroys,
Prunellas and Durants,
Tammies arid Sattinets,
Crimson, green, fky-b'ue
and pink Ruffins', Mo
reen- and CallinTancges,
Jeans, Fustians and Beav
ers,
Camblets and Hairbines
of all colours and fine
nefs,
Corded Worsteds and
Everlastings,
Serges and Serge de Jeanr/
Blue and white Plains .nd
Halfthicks,
7-8, 3 4, and apron-wide
cotton & linen Checks,
An assortment of Iri(h
Linens,
Fine and coarse Hollands,
Yard and half yard and
3 8 brown and white
Sheetings,
Brittannias and Plattella
royals,
Lavals, Ponturies, Ozna
brigs and Ticklenburgs,
Sail and Dock Cloth,
Marseilles Quilting,
Plaim and corded Dimities
ani lDiapers,
Wid^ and narrow Russia
Sheetings, Powiats and
Flanders Ticking,
Jaconet and took Mellins,
Tapes, Bobbins & Laces, #
Plain and figured K at
ings, kenting Handker
chiefs and Catgut,
Plain & million:! Lr>n6;
Cambrick,;
Said NICHOLS returns his 'beft
Thanks to thole who have heretofore fa
voured him with their Custom, and hopes,
in future, from his Attention to Business,
and Willingness to Please, that it will be
the Interest of his Customers to continue
their Favours.
SATURDAY, OCT OBER i& 17^
THE
^qffiftf^
OR, T H E
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
VOL. X.l Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence. [NUMB. 794.
1 Millionet Handkerchiefs
I ard figured Apron Pat-
I terns,
f Plain and figured Gauzt#
and gauze Handkef
;chiefs,
1 Womens Gloves of all Co
lours,
Ditto fiik Mitts,
Mens silk Glover,
A beautiful Afforfmerit
of dark and light
Chintzes,
Elegant chintz Bed-pat
terns,
Fine and coarse Calicoes
and Cottons,
Ginghams and Bengalis,
Nankeens and Dunkens,
DUcapes, Paduafoys,Man
tuai, Luteftrngs, Bro
cades, Modes and Taf
fi'ties,
Green, blue, claret,
bloom, orangey and
white 2-4 and 3-4 ell
Persians and Sannch,
Pekings, Mexicans and
Mufflemans,
Ell wide Persians,'black
and coloured,
Mens, women and child,
rens cotton and thread
Hose,
Elegant Tambotir Waift
coar Patterns;
Best Seeing silk;
Black Thread,
Coloured ditto,
Silk and linen Handker
chiefs,
Black and coloured Bar
celona ditto,
Best Scarf Twist, Mohair
and Buttons;
Black and white Blond
Laces and Edgings,
Thread ditto,
Painted, figured and plain
Rib'aoGs,
Superfine, second arid
cowrie Bolting-Cloths,
Plated Buttons,
Skeleton ard hoop Wire,
Belt Toll* Gartering,
Cotton Cord and Toffels,
Ba^dno, silk and cotton
Roir rila,
Quality and narrow Bind
in,s and Ferrets;
; Snuff Boxes,
[ With many other Arti
cles, tuo tedious to enu.
Imerate.
From the LON DON PUBLIC ADVERTISER;
Dated June 5, 1781.
On the IDE A of REBELLION.
IT has been laid that the American colonies are the
property of the king of England; and the colonies
his people; that they are Englishmen to all intents,
and live under its government as by law eftabliffied ;
and that their defence again fl his troops is absolute re
bullion.
The revolution in 1688 was also a rebellion ; it wz's
the virtuous consequence of a gross abuse of the roy
aloffice, under a bigotted and pernicious king ; every
man concerned in it, has been and still is, ro the opi
nion of all Subsequent pretenders to the English throne;
and their adherents, absolute rebels.
If a fen in defending b^mfelf against a father, who
attempts to rob or murder him, can be deemed a re
bel, the resistance of the Americans agamft a power
arbitrary in itfelf, having for its object an obedience
to the parliament of Britain, wherein they have no
Share, is rebellion: who in their senses, unawed by
power, and interefled only in truth, will ' presume to
ftigma'tize a repulsion of forte by force, under an in
vision, with the Spiteful name of rebellion? is the
king.of England to treat America as an heritable pro
perty, because by the law of nations die belonged to
him under mere difeovery and occupancy ? But it is
said too, that as her fobs have ever since lived under
his government, they edg'd not to govern theinfelves.
Ths might be reasonable, if the former were admini
stered to the joint advantage of the governed ; the af
fillance; protection or encouragement, call it what
you will, that the Americans have received from Bri
tain; has been no more than fovring a barley corn a
mong them that has produced us a score of that fruit
ful grain.
Our profit from America was immense before we
oppressed her, and proved ouffelves unworthy the con
fidence of her people, who, in their minor date, were
Subject to the author ty of the Britilh legislature on
principles they had never examined; but when they
found that dominion was fought among them, they
were alarmed, they then considered their true condi
tiob; and found tnemfelves confined 1 by a variety of
aCts which had created a contraband tfade; their alarm
was enervated by the stamp aft, which vias moderated
by its almost immediate repeal; from this moment they
Ceased to look up to our legislature with their wonted
unfufpefting esteem; what had once happened might
might happen ' again; the damp-aft was evidence of
of an intentionro make them tributary ;an injury may'
be forgiven though orily intended, but it (is seldom
forgotten; one well meant offence, though ineffectual,
gives occasion to fu'ppofe that at a more convenient
rime it may be carried into execution.* The confidence
of the Americans was fti'aken, and all ou/ future acti
ons but encreafed their suspicions and' their animosity ;
the artful deluding tea bill ccrnpleated the, quarrel ;
a part of America revolted at it ; the inflammation
Spread, and refinance was resolved upon throughout ;
they remonstrated wish and petiti@oed the throne ;
they and their Supplications were despised, and they
were at last proclaimed arid' proscribed as rebels^
they yet hoped for relief, but when our gazettes teem
ed with addfeffes, inviting the majesty of the English
people to arms againf tthem, then, and not till then;
their hopes expired; their blood recoiled at us, and
they instantly concerted new guards for their future
Safety ; they refilled the British force by force, and
their refinance has been termed rebellion.
As treason foppofes an offence against the' king and
his kingdom, the Americans are in no wife guilty of it ;
they are only defending tbemfelves ; they have not
quitted their homes to injure the king of England or
his kingdom ; on the contrary they are invaded by his
troops,- consequently their defence against them can be
no more than refinance ; and forced as they were to de
clare their independence of this country, they owe no
allegiance to the government of it whatever; they are
enemies to ou invasions, but not rebels, Since none
but lawful Subjects caw possibly be So, either by flying
in the face of th fe laws, or the execution of them by
their' lawful Sovereign, which they contributed to
enact. If they were rebels, every' injured arid invaded'
State must be considered as rebellious in the minds of
their intruders ; but it is an idle and thalicious appel
lation, and made uSeof as a parrot does, found with
out having any knowledge of its meaning. Admini
firation are in rebellion, not the Americans: On our
parts we have done violence and infringed upon our
con flifition, in fomenting a war unauthorized by mo
ral or political justice or humanity.
And yet this miniftepial rebellion is not against the
Americans but durfeWes: They^re invaded while we
are imposed upon : British freedom is now in a course
of Struggle for exigence in America, and though op
posed by the mmillry under the idea of a declaratory
aft, asserting a fight ' in the Eritifh parliament to bind
America in all cases whatever. Parliament have firice
of nec<~ffity declared that it is not their intention to
bind her in the case of a revenue; thence giving up
the primary but desultory object which, from an ob«
flinaie adherence to, ocfyifioned the war ; but the fol
ly of it was Seen too' late; independence had been de
clared. and dominion whs nursed as the sole principles
of the invasion of America! ~
. Where then is the idea of rebellion ? at Poonah, or
in the dominion of an eastern nabob: it is certainly no 6
in. America ; we there sue for submission 'o a Superior
power, but are opposed on the principles of liberty by
men who delight in the name of Englishmens Convin
ced of our attempts to render them Subordinate, and
destroy that equality which alone can make men tru
ly free, Gney make a glorious Band on principles of
otili !y-.,
Their refinance is thus a Social and political virtue,
Since the mi (chiefs.at ifing from it may be inferior; and
beat no proportion to what may lie expiated under an,
obedience and submission to a foreign and eXtrinfic .
power ; for as it id allowed that the Americans have a
right to independency if they can Support it, their en
de vours to do it canin no sense be called rebellion;
if conquest attend our depredation and hostility, they
may € called tlie vanquished; but they will never de-
Serve the namte of rebels, until they oppose their own.
lawg; and traitors' like, destroy the obligation they
owe to themselves in their own peculiar Social and po
litical compact -unti then they are neither triable or
punishable as rebels by any law oh earth, nor are thg.
they defined as fj'ch, in any byt the tyrant's code,-,
whidh every honefl man i& 60@d in conscience to de
left and annul. ALFRE D.
@®®^^o@@^&®@,
Port if Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ff.
To ALL inborn it may concern,
KtOTIIE s hereby given, That a Court of AdniN
ra| y will be held ^t the State house, in the City
of Philadelphia, on Monday th, I,h day of Odo er,'
inftiat, at 10 o'C'ok n the F orenoon, for the Trial
of the Sloop or V ff I called ^e AMELIA, burthen'
about go tons, taken^ brought into this Port, and li-•
belled a ;ainft as prize by William Robeson (qtii
tarn, & ) To the end, that ail perlons concerned'
may appear and ihew cause, if any there be, why a I
D cree Should not p^f, pufuant to the Prayer cf the
Libel, &c. By Order el th, Jpdge,
October rw JAMES READ, Regifter.<
Port of Philadelphia, Pennfylv.ua, fl.
To ALL whom it may concern.
LT OTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Ad-'
" miraliy will be he.d at the S ate-'hoyfe, in tie city
wf Philadelphia, on Saturday, the 13th of O^obef, inft.at>
ten o'clock in the Forenoon, for toe Tr ; al of the 101.
lowing negroes, to wit, JWm Fortin, Robert Coffin,'
Primus, Richard, George Miller, Mary, James, and
Thomas D^vis, taken out of tfie fh!p or veflel of war,
belonging to the kiri^ of Great Britain, the Savage,
at sea, ard who are brought into this port andfibdied
against by George Geddes, (qui tam &c,) to the end,.
that all perfects concerned may appear and shew c: use, if
any there be, why a decree Should not pass punuarit to'
the prayer cf the libel &c
OSio. 8. Bv Order of the Judge,
JAMES READ, Regifter.'
On MONDAr Next s
At TWELVE o'clock at 'Noon,
At the Coffee-Houri,
Will be Sold by Public Auction,
THE
Privateer Brigantine Rambler,
with all her Guns, Taku, Apparel and Fouitu'e, a
greeable to an inventcry to be teen at the place of 1a %
and at the marlhal's wharf, ^her- She now lays, being
a prze retaken by the privateer Fair A African.
By oidr of the Cour:o Admiralty,
09. 8. ' CLEMENT BIDDLE, Mulhal.
FOR S A.L E,_
The Schooner Rambler,
As (he row lays at Molten's wharf ; (he is Virginia
built, fails iemarkibly last, and, carries anout 260 bar
rels o' fl >nr. Fur t^inu applv tn
oao.fr JOHN PURVIANC&