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Philadelphia, Augufi 30.
AL L persons indebted to the estate of Ema
nuel Josiah, deceased, on bond, note or book
debt, are hereby desired to make payment on or before
the 27th of September, to prevent further trouble : And
all persons having any demands on or against the uid
estate, to bring in their accounts, properly proved, to
the fubferibn in South-street.
JAMES JOSIAH, Administrator.
Neau-'ferfc,, September 4.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
At the Forks of Little Egg-harbour, on the twenty
third day of September inst.
TH E armed cutter INTREPID, lately from
New-York, capturd by the fluop Argo and bri
gantine Saratoga, witbeher guns and appurtenances.
She is an exceeding fine vessel of about one hundred and
ten tons, well fitted for a five months cruze, and is re
puted to be the fwifteft failing vessel in America. She
mounts ten very neat double fortified 4 pounders, four
cohorns and fix swivels ; she has also a large number of
^ufkets, pistols, cutkrfes, handcuffs, thumb-fciews,
and is furnished with a compleat medicine chest,
two sets of capital and one set of trepanning instruments,
together with a very good colledion of medical and
chirugical bocks. The books, medicines and inft,u
ments will be fold separately. The cutter may be fitted
to go to sea in a very ffiort time.
At the fame time and place will be fold, the prize
CHANCE, lately from London, bound
to New-York, with her appurtenances, and cargo con
fining of bread, beef, pork, flour oatmal, butter, oil,
vinegar, &c. She is a very fine brig of about two hun
dred tons burthen, and exceedingly well found.
By order of the Court of Admiralty,
JOSEPH POTTS, Marshal.
Philadelphia, September 7.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
At the London Coffee-houfe, on Tuefcay next, the
fourteenth instant, at Seven o'clock in the evening,
4 LOT of GROUND in Moyamenfieg, in the
1 township of Wicaco, about two miles from this
city, containing four acres, (more or lets) well watered
by a branch of a creek that runs through it, and is well
inclafcd with a good new cecar post and rail fence. It
joins lands of Mr. John Stamper and Col. Henry.
Neiu-'Jerfej, September 4.
ON SATURDAY the eighteenth inttant, at
eieht o'clock in the morning, at the house or john
Brich, Eiq; on Morris's Riyer, will begin the tales of
the CARGO of the brig Leporax, captured by Capt.
Stillwell, in the schooner Hawke, confining es tv 0 hun
dred puncheons of old Jamaica Spirits, and a quantity
of old Madeira Wines. At the fame time will be fold
Gid BRIG, a very valuable vessel.
By order of the Court of Admiralty,
JOSEPH POTTS, Marshal.
Philadelphia, September 8.
A R OBBE R r!
ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.
WAS STOLEN from the fuofcriber, living in
V' Pear street, on the 2d inst. between the hours of
two and seven o'clock in die evening, the following ar
ticles, viz. two half Johannefes, one, silver dollar, one
English Billing, between Ifventy and eighty pounds in
old piper money, mostly fifty, (hilling bills, one forty
dollar, and about twenty smaller Cengrefs bill,; allo
two guineas miffing, luppofed to be taken at the fame
time; one small (tone ring, a garnet with two small di
amond fparka on each fide ; half yard and half quarter
fine hook, yard and half wide ; two cambrick handker
chiefs marked M. E. 6 in the middle; one fine filter
ditto, red striped border ; one fine jackonet ditto, striped
at the edge; one linen ditto,, red ground, white spots,
marked M. E. No. 2. a half quarter cf clear lawn, ft.
veral strips of fine cambricks, t^o ^nd a quarter yards
of very fine broad lace of different patterns, one and a
quarter yard pink ribband tacked on narrow tape ; sew
ing silk of different colours, such as pink, pea green and
blue; part of three papers cf pins, several small pieces
of different colour'd silk, one yard pink coloured silk
ferrit ; two piir fine cotton stockings, marked M. P. 3,
one of them a little darned in the ankle; one ounce of
white thread, No. 18, and a bundle containing Several
remnants of ca^co and chintz. 'Tis supposed the thief
entered the house at the trap door, which had been neg
lifted to be fattened. Whoever will dihover the thief
and goods, so that the owner may gt: the goods again
and the thief be brought to puaifhmeirt, shall have the
above reward, or in proportion for any part of the goods.
MARGARET EDWARDS.
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An Eulogium of the Brave Men who have fallen in the
contest with Great-Britain : Delivered on Monday July
5, 1779- Before a numerous and refpedable Assembly
of Citizens and Foreigners, in the German Calvinist
Church, Philadelphia. By Mr. Brackenridge.
- Heroes then ar®fe;
Who scorning coward-felf, for others liv'd,
Toil'd for their ease, and for their fafety bled.
Thomson.
(Concluded from our lafl )
WH AT was in our power we have done with regard
to the bodies of these men : We have paid them
military honors: We have placed them in their native
earth ; and it is with veneration that we yet view their
tombs upon the furzy glade, or on the distant hill. Ask
me not the names of these. The muses fliall tell you cf
them, and the bards fliall woo § them to their songs. The
verse which ihall be so happy as to embrace the name of
one of these, Ihall be immortal. The names of these fliall
be read with the names of Pelopidas, Epaminondas. and
the worthies of the world. Poflerity fliall quote them for
parallels, and for examples. When they mean to dress
the hero with the faireft praises, they fha I fay he was gal
lant and diftinguiflied in his early fall, as Warren ; he was
virtuous and prudent, and intrepid, as Montgomery; he
was young, and faithful, and generous, as Macpherfon;
he fell in the bold and resolute advance, like Haflet and
like Mercer; he saw the honor which his valor had ac
quired, and fainted in the arms of victory, like Harkimer;
having gallantly repulsed the foe, he fell covered with
wounds, in his old age, like Wooster.
The names of these brave men shall be read; and the
earth (hall be sensible of happiness where their bodies are
deposited. Hills of Boston, where the God of arms gave
uncommon valour to the patriot! Here the muses shall
observe the night, and hymn heroic ads, and trim their
lighted lamps to the dawn of morning: The little bab
bling mystic brook, ihall hear the me ody, and, stealing
with a silver foot, shall tell it to the ocean. Hills within
profpe& of the York city, where the enemy, rejoicing
in his early strength, adventured and fought, and where
detracting the engagement, he fled, with precipitation to
his fliips ! On you the t®mb of the hero is beheld, and
fancy walking round, covers it with wild and romantic
shades. Grounds in the neighbourhood of this city * ,
where the foreigner shall enquire the field of battle, and'
the citizen shall fay with confeious pride, as if the honor
was his own, this is the tomb of Witherspoon; that is
the ground where the noble Nash fell! Plains washed by
the Ashley and the Cooper, and before the walls of Charlef
town, where the brave Lincoln now turns away the fury
of the enemy f! Here has the hero fallen, or rather he
has risen to eternal honor, and his birth place fliall be im
mortal. His fame, like a vestal lamp, is lighted up: It
Ihall burn, with the world for its temple ; and the fair af
fcmbiies of the earth shall trim it with their praise.
I will felicitate America through all her plains, and on
% her bcndi£ g rivers: Rivers over whom did the (hade
of silence brood, and,, rolling down, you had it not to tell
of feats of valor to the listening groves. The Kennebec
could not tell of an adventrous band which had Hemmed
its current, and from the cataract and the ridge of hills
had advanced beyond his source. The great St. Lawrence
could not tell of naval battles which had been fought up
on his lakes, or of engagements near his tide; but moved
silent, tho' majeftical, along the antient Huron, and Al
gonquin plaims. The Hudson could convey no account
from the heights where the valiant Gates was fuccefsful•
Heights where though the tombs of the enemy are chiefly
seen, yet because they were brave, I will admit you
to renown, and clothe you with my praises ^. •Even there
shall the foot of bards wander, and the muses fliall delight
to dwell. The Delaware, noble river, that rolls by these
walls ||, could relate of no fort defended on his island, or
fort defended on his bank: The fort of Red bank where
Donop, advancing, fell with three hundred of his 'follow
ers ;and on the eighth day, expiring with his wounds,
penitentially exclaimed, " I tall a victim to my own am
bition, and the avarice of my prince, but deeply sensible
of the kind treatment I have received from my generous
enemy! For this penitential sigh, and the just tribute of
thy praise, 0 Donop, I will mix thee with the fame of he
roes and on thy memory drop a tear.
But why drop a tear? I will lift my eye to fairer pro
fpetts, the woods, and the plains, and the rivers of Ame
° w °°^ ! ex " lf ' 0 P )ains ! and be not in
° rivers ',° f the fame to which you are advanc
ed. When you roll your waters to the ocean, tell her that
l le . n not "\ e h . er °" " h ° flee P u P° n y° u r banks ; chide
her ,', ^ e ro]l her billows foftly to the shores. Nay,
^" de her "° tj f ° r ^ e herfelf has become partial to our
Ihoi es. The ocean has beheld the timber cut from the
mountain, the vessel riling on the flocks, launched upon
§ Plato. * Philadelphia. + Virgil
l Longinus. ||Philadelphia.
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^ , am >. an ^ maintaining an equal combat, on the Bri
'rJ"' ' vit i the ftlip ° f superior force. The ocean has
on dv * lour ° f our noble captain. When they have
fallen, she has embraced their bodies, and has borne them
to the riling springs, and the green caves concealed be
neath her furface. Ocean! thou didst embrace the body
of the gallant Weeks, the intrepid Mugford, the adven
trous Campbel: Ocean! thou didst embrace the bodv of
''.' n °b' e Biddle. Why should the heroes be diHurbed
with forms? Let thy flow be calm Over them: Soothe
them on thy coral beds, and k fs them with thy waves.
Having paid thlt fcefpecl to the memory of these men,
which the annual return of this day demanded, it remains
tliat we soothe the griefs of those who have been deprived
of a father, bereaved of a son, or who have loft a bro
ther, a hufband,or a lover in the contest. Father,, whose
heroic sons have offered up their lives in the debate; it is
yours to recoiled, that their lives wefe given them for the
^ countr y- Tbey have paid the debt ; and.
they shall be sensible of joy, when, with you, in a Hate of
exi ste nc e, they fhalkbehold their names written 011
the jasper walls and pearl-fliining gates fi of Heaven. The
ngel of America th^h write, with his diamond point, the
names of those who have fought at Lexington, at Bunkers
n I°° t^,^ 6 of Canada, at Three Rivers, and before
Quebec : The names of those who have foughtat Still-wa^
ter, at Fort Stanwix, Fort Montgomery, Font Waffiin^.
ton; at the German Flits, at Bennington, and on the
heights adjacent to the heights of Saratoga : The names
of those who have fought at Trenton, at Princeton, at the
Aflbfwamp, at the battle of the Short-hills, at Monmouth,
and on every field of bold encounter, and fuccefsful adion
on the pleasant farms and cultivated foil of Jersey : The
names of those who have fought at Moore's-Bridge in
° r '^'? r ° ina> at the Great-bridge in Virginia, at
Brandywine, at Germantown," on the Schuylkill, on the
islands of the Delaware, and in evfry feeue of glorious ac
tion in the State of Pennsylvania : The names of those who
have fought in other States, resisting the Briton unequal
led in cruelty ; the mercenary of Hesse, of Br.unfwick, of
waldeck, of Aafpach, horrid in his inroad; the Savage,
(so called from his uncultivated ftate)armed with his hatch -
ed, and his knife, and fierce in his ineuriionson the west
ern country; the treafoo-fraught American leagued in
thoughts of hostility with the foreign enemy. The Angel
arrayed in his dazzling robes shall write the.names of those
in the languages of Heaven : in all languages that are, that
, or tha s """ yet f p ri °g fr6m the rife of men.
They shall be read by the seers, the figes, and the heroes
of the world. Daniel who once read the hand-writing on
the wall of Belshazzar: Cato who, in his old age, read
the Greek writings, for the fake of the noble worthies whose
lives are related in them: Catfar, tho' a tyrant, yet from
the greatness of his mind, shall admire our atchievements.
Kings of Memphis, you ihall read the.names of those,"
tho your countenances are dejeded. The hieroglyphics
of your greatness on the pyramids built by you are defac
ed, but the names of those fliall be read for ever. Mon
tesquieu fliall read the names of those who have laid the
foundations of '' the confederate republic," a government
of which he difeourfed as the best model. Hampden fliall
read the names of those, who have overcome that tyranny
which he early combated. Newton, tho'his eye is chiefly
fixed on the globes of light, yet as on earth he disdained
not to mark the <eras of the ads of men, so in Heaven fliall
he sometimes drop his attention to the ftary orbs, and
fliall read the inscription. Great fouls of the world in e
very period ! You shall read the names of those cut in glo
rious capitals with the fair engraving of their aftions. You
Ihall admire the examples of that virtue which you know
yourselves to have possessed, and which has brightly beam
ed forth in others. You fliall exult, and joining in the
loud acclame of the wide Heaven, its arches shall ring with
an Eulogfum.
The names of those shall be read more especially by the
early navigators and the firft difeoverers of America: The
great Columbus, who with Heaven taught sagacity and
mighty reach of thought, conceived the apprehension of a
continent towards the weft; with unconquerable fortitude
of mind explored the sea unknown, big with ftornis; and
with greatly merited success, attained those shores: Ame
rico Vefputius the Florentine, who from the pleasing rela
tion which he writ of his voyages, subsequent to the dif
coyery of Columhus, was fortunate to give his name to
this Continent: Cabot, who coasted North-America from
the bay of Mexico to the cold seas, where the icy moun
tains roll; Raleigh who firft hailed the native of Guiana,
and the native at the mouth of the Roanoque : You, migh -
ty fouls, shall behold the rising glory of the N E W
WORLD, which you had difeovered: You fliall hail
the independance of the States, and Ihall read the names
ofthofe who have assisted to establish them.
The names of those fliall be read with equal admiration
by the early settlers of America : Men pious and virtuous
and fcmpe in their mode of life; who hating tyranny,
and loving liberty civil and religious ; quitted their native
island, adventured on the ocean, penetrated to theft shores,
and chose a residence at once the boundary and the object
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