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KEYSER's PILLS, so well known over all Europe
and in this and the neighbouring Rates, for their supe
rior efficacy and peculiar mildness in pe f#&ly curing
every degree of a certain disease without the least trou
ble or confinement; they are also of known efficacy in
the cure ot Rheumatisms, &c.—•—Price Ten Shillings
a Box, with proper Directions.
RYAN's incomparable Worm destroying 'SUGAR
FLUMBS, ufeful to be kept in all families. 4 Price
Seven Shillings and Six pence a Box, with 'uk lD rec
tions for their Use : Many thousands have been cured
by these Plumbs in this country and in Europe: they are
of known effiacy in the cure of agues, whooping or
chin coughs, &c.
MEDICINE CHESTS for Sea Surgeons and Private
Famibw#.^^-__.
ORDERS from Country Practitioners, &c. put up
in most approved Methods: proper Attendance is given
at the above Place in English and Dutch. June 22.
Intelligence Office.
TH E Subferiber having observed
the grea' and general utility of an
INTELLIGENCE OFFICE in
populous and trading cities, begs leave to
inform the Public, that he has opened an
OFFICE for that purpose, at his house on
the east fide of Front-street, eight doors a
bove Market-street; where persons want
ing to purchase or fell Goods, or Property
of any kind—Such as, houses, farms, lots,
horses, carriages, ships, bills of exchange,
continental or state certificates, &c. may
enter and dispose of their refpedive articles
at a moderate premium; secrecy, if requir
ed, may be depended on. Clerks, garden
ers, coachmen, nurses, chamber-maids,
cooks and servants of every description may
enter their names in said Office, after pay
ing Eighteen-pence ; the fame sum is to
be paid by persons who are accommodated
with servants by means of the Office; no
thing charged for enquiries which prove
unfuccefsful. The Public may rest affined,
that no pains nor attention shall be wanting
to render this Office as ufeful as possible, by
their most humble servant,
May 27 . MOSES COHEN.
WILLIAM PERKINS.
Living in Fifth street, three doors above Market-street,
Philadelphia, May 16,
The Subferiber wants to PURCHASE
Anderson's Piih,
Hooper's Pills,
Tanned Leather of all kinds.
He likewif, informs the Public, that he carries on the
CURRYING BUSINESS, and keeps an Assortment of
Saddle, Harness, Soal and Upper Leather, Caiffkins,
Boot Legs, and all other kinds of finifh/d Leather ;
which he will fell at the most reasonable rate. Those
who please to favour him with their custom shall be as
well fervid as in the city, and the favour be grate
fully acknowledged, by their most humble servant,
CAMPHOR,
Calomel,
Cream of Tartar,
Corofivs Sublimate,
Detyhoretic Antimony,
Essence of Bergamot,
HENRY
Druggist ^ Apothecary,
At the north-eart corner of Market and Second-ftreets#
A Large and Neat ASSORTMENT of
DRUGS and MEDICINES,
By Wholesale and Retai'—Among which are,
Just Imported from Europe and to be SOLD, By
TU ESDA Y,
VOL. XI.I Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
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PATENT MEDICINE S.
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Oil of Tar,
Oil of Vitriol,
Red Precipitate,
Sparifh Flies,
Tarter Emetic,
Quick Silver, &c.
I Bateman's Drops,
I Harlem 01,
LAND,
To be Sold by Public Auction,
At the Coffee-Houfe, on SATURDAY, the Sixth
Dry of Juy next, at Six o'Clock in the Evening,
THAT elegant an-' plea ant place, formerly owned
by Mr John Roufr, situate in Paffyunk township,
near the Batcher's Arns, being within one mile 0 the
South-street of thecit, arid lying on both sides of the
road commonly called Route's lane, containing in the
whole about 33 acres, 17 acres of which are on the
easterly fide of said lane, Having a barn, (tables and bar
rack erected thereon, and about fix acres whereof is
orchard, chiefly good winter fruit. 'The remaining 16
acres are on the, westerly 6de of the said lane, with n
e'egant frame dwelling house eroded thereon 32 feet by
30, well finished, being two stories high, with sou
rooms on the fi ft and second floors, besides two good
garrets, with a passage 'through. The whole lined with
a four inch brick wall, and having a good cedar under
the whole, divided into three parts. A kitchen and
piazza adjoining the fame, with a hake-lioufe and oven,
&c. Near the kitchen door it a well of good water with
a good pump in it. The whole in good order. It will
be fold separately. Any perfen who may be inclined
to purchase the Premiers, or a part thereof, at private
file, before the said sixth day o' July hex', may be in
formed of the terms, on application to Afheton Humph
reys, Elijah Brown, or the fuff? iher on the oremifes.
June 22. BENJ. HEMINGS.
The one a large bay, a most excellent riding horse, but
be is homely, and almost nine years old ; the price on
ly 401. The other a likely sorrel, draws well in a cba<
riot or single chair, and makes a vtry good portmanteau
horse, being hardy and trots well, be is fix years old;
the price also 401. Both are healthy and free from any
fault. Enquire of the Printer...
To be SOLD by private Sale, or LET
for a Term of Years, A
T ARGE three flory Brick HOUSE, in which the
'fubferiber now dwells, almost new ; one other ad
joining the former, with a large Lot and Garden there
unto belonging, together with a large Wharf and
Stores thereon ereAed, fufficient to accommodate a
person in a large trade, with a Cooper's Shop, Stable,
Hay-loft and Chaise house, all in good repair. Any
person inclining to purchase, may know the terms by
applying to the fubferiber • ,who has another House in
the neighbourhood for Sale, and sundry Ground rents
to dispose of. Reasonable Credit will be given for
three-fourths of the purchase Money.
BLACK, line, purple,
brown, while, Hriped
and spotted belt Velvets,
Jeans of different colours,
Royal, Lvl and Britan
nia Linens,
Striped & plain Cambricks
and Lawns,
Striped and plain Muslins,
French and Italia, striped,
figured and plain Gauzes,
Striped and plain bordered
gauze Handkerchiefs,
Plain and striped Mantuan,
Common and fuperfine
white Dimity,
Black Sattins and Modes,
Bandana and linen Hand
N. B. They will receive all kinds of GOODS to
Sell on Commission ; and flalt r themkives, from their
former extensive connections in the dry goods business,
&c. they will be able to make speedy S les, and on the
most advantageous Terms. Orders from their Friends in
the country will be punctually complied with. March 20
Two Virginia bred Horses,
Just Imported in the Brig Antonie, Cap
tain Angus, ar d the Ship St James, Captain Trux
ton from France, and ta be Sold, by
Joseph Dean & John Purviance,
At their STORE, the coiner of Wter Hid Spruce
ftreets formerly occupied by M. Thomas Leeper, a
neat ASSORTMENT of DRY GOODS, which
they will le 1 on the lowest terms for cath or country
produce : Amongst which are—
PETER KNIGHT,
Northern-Liberties, April 5.
For Sale, Very Cheap,
O R, THE
THE
kerchie ft,
Mers wire, black and
grey ibued and plain
silk Hole,
Womens white ditto,
M ns thread and worsted
ditto,
Fine purple, red, china
blue, copperplate furni
ture Calicoes,
Daik a^d light ground
Chintz s, Calicoes, Cot
tons and printed Lir arts,
Womens best Km Mitts
and Gloves,
Black 6 k Lac#,
Sewing Silks adopted,
Nankeens, &c.
THERE is only one day in the week that has any
thing remarkable about it, and that day affords
very great scope for observation in London: I mean
Sunday, commonly called a day of rest, though later
commentators, particularly the prariical ones, plainl,
make it out to fignify a day of tumult and Confufion.Tte
morning indeed is generally dedicated to th& pleafurea
of deep, but then that is more from neceflity than in*
clination ; for wages being received the night before, it
becomes necessary to sleep off certain effAs which a
full purse and a.la vifh spirit produce on particular oc
casions. Br^akfaft being over, which with hair-dress
ing, brushing the hobday-fuit, changing shirts, damns#
ing the shoe black and other necessary employments,
generally brings us to twelve o'clock, —nags are then
provided, chaffes hired, whiskeys engaged, and places
taken in the flages for tbefe villages in the vicinity of
London which fine weather, irreligien, turnpike-road#
and custom, have constituted dining and tea-drinking,
places Trere you may fee, on a fine day, madam
from Wapping with fpoufee cooped up in a one horse
shay, like a couple of figs in a brown paper, and inhale
ing the pleasures of Highgate dust with great gusto.
Behind comes the fix- penny-stage, were John Trot, his
wife and daughters, are seated in partie quarree, most
unanimous in the pursuit of a good (billing ordinary^
In the mean time the road is covered with foot patfen
gers, where on a sultry day I have observed D rby mid
Joan in a fad plight from the heat, he carrying the child
and her cloak in one arm, and she in return as heavily
laden with his cane, hat and wig.—But, gentle reader,
turn your eyes to the right! There go half a dozen of aS
sheer Bloods as Farringden can furmfh : there they
drive gee-ho! On their five-drilling loan of lean hacks-
They are for a farther trip than the others, being de- ;
termined to have pennyworths for their money. You.
fee how their horses are jaded already ; but 'ere they
return from Finchley-common you'll not be able to fee
them for the volumes of perspiration which, like a
forced atmosphere, will surround their exhausted
limbs'./
All the town on a Sunday is in motion, and pleafoe
feetns to glide along ^r streets in murmur* and gurg
lings like a stream approaching a cataraA. Soon all
the placid movements are fv allowed up in an undistin
guished vortex of noise and eonfufion, and the calm,
progress that delighted your senses, and won you to
enthusiasm, in a few hours affrights you by its tumul
tuous appearance. Just so is it w,th pleasure hunters
on a Sunday ; they set cut with good humour, ade
fire to please and to be happy ; but wandering from the
source of these delights, they adopt the manners of dif
fipaed life, which they want refinement to make s
greea ble, and betake themselves to the bottle, to whidt
they have been little used, and by which they are of
consequence soon disabled ; all becomes noise and cotte
fufion, agreeable to none but the deluded, and which
ends only when nature, tired with repeated efforts,
clines them to sleep.
Let us direct our eye to the higher walks of life; but
here, indeed, it is impoffble to know Sunday from any
other day. The want of dancing is, perhaps, the on
ly circumflance which fe ms to make any difference#
Cards and music are praAifed as on other days : visits,
routs, and aflemblies, as usual. Let us defend to th^
visitors of coffee rooms. These we fee are crowded
this day ; and when we take a view of the company
we find it composed moftty of half idle, half induftri:
ous, who have no idea of any employment but tte
mechanical one by which they get their bread Ale
houses, among the lower classes, exhibit a fpe&acte
more extraordinary and more (hocking fti!l. Heremen's
very senses are impaired by continual (backing, and the
cares of families neghded for the flifl'ng pleasures of
tobacco, idle and unprofitable conversation, and the
enjoyment of more liquor than nature requires, or con
stitution can bear.
< After the whole circle of men thus employed have
finished the day, what may we imagine their sentiments
would be, supposing them to be possessed of r flexiont
Has not the day been spent in a manner peculiarly iub
profitable, and on which few can lookback with fatis
fa&ion. ? And does not a succession of such praAices
tend to eradicate those principles of piety and sense om
which alone man's happiness depends?
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Just come to hand, and to he S OLD by
y^cob Keehmle,
In Second-street, near R^ce-ftreet, A
Quantity of the best Spanish Olives in ja%
Excellent tr^fh Sweet Oil in jsfs,
Some good tre(h Lime Juice, &c e &c. May >4,
From a late LONDON PAPER.
JUNE 25, i^.
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