Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-04-24 00:00:00, page 3

To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiri
tual and T EMPoRAX of G REAT-BRl
tai N, in Parliament affembied.
The M EMORI A L of his Majesty's
faithful Subjects the Representatives
of the Colony of New-York, in Ge
neral Assembly convened.
May it please your Lordfrifs,
WE, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal
fubjeds, the Representatives of the Colony
of New-York, in General Assembly convened, are
conscious, when we address your Lordflrips, that
we are applying to a body who have ever been dis
tinguished for the firmed attachment to the prin
ciples of liberty, and that bappieft result of
them, the Britilh Conftitorion.
We acknowledge ourselves, and the people we
represent, ftridly bound by the ties of faith and
allegiance to our mpft gracious Sovereign, that
we judly owe the fame faith and allegiance as are
due to him from his fubje&s in Great-Britain ;
that we regard him with the utmost veneration,
and that we (hall ever be ready to contribute to his
service, and to support the dignity of his crown
and government.
We edeem ourselves happy in our connexion
witty the parent state, whose true interests are in
separably united with our own; and we are fully
fcnfible, that none but the enemies of both coun
ties could ever wish to disjoin them.
Imprcffed with these sentiments, we confider
ourselves as parts of one great empire, in which it
L-aeccuaig there IhoulJ be fame Supreme regula
That the aft passed in the 14th year of your
friajefty's reign, imposing duties upon certain arti
cles imported into the province of Quebec (the
limits whereof by an ad of the fame year are so
extended as' to comprehend all the Indian country
from Hudson's Bay, to the mouth of the Ohio
river) and reftriding the importation of those du
tied articles to the port of St. John, on the river
Sorel, is injurious to- this colony, as it almost in
ridv destroys our important Indian, trade;
that port being so very remote from this and the
other colonies, that the conveyance of goods thi
ther, for the prosecution of that traffick, must un
avoidably be attended with so enormous an ex
pence, as well nigh amounts to a total prohibition ;
—the unmerited discrimination made by the firft
above mentioned act in favour of the sugar colo
nies, by subjecting the continental colonies to a
larger duty on particular articles, is so detrimental
to the interest of this colony, that we cannot avoid
complaining of it to your Majesty, as a grievance.
We likewise think, the a& prohibiting the le
,feature of,this colony from palling any law, for
rhe emission of paper currency to be a legal tender
therein, is disadvantageous to the growth and
commerce thereof; an abridgment of your Ma
jesty's prerogative (in the prefervatien of which
we are deeply interested) and a violation of our
legislative rights ; and may hereafter disable your
Majesty's fubje^ts, upon proper requisition, and up
on certain emergencies, from granting such aids as
may be necertary for the general fafety of the em
pire. ~ .
Thea& for the regulation of the government of
Quebec, we mud beg leave to mention also to your
Majesty, as the extension of that province and the
indulgence granted by it to Roman catholics, have
given l great uneasiness to the minds of many of
yOur Majesty's American fubjedts.
The late ad for Shutting up the port of Borton,
and altering the charter of the Massachusetts Bay,
we prefome not to mention to your Majesty,.
without firft assuring you, ti^t we in many instan
ces disapprove of the conduct of that province,
and beseeching your gracious interposition in their
favour; we cannot however help obfetving, that
those ads eftablilh a dangerous precedent, by in
flicting punishment without formality of a trial.
With the highest Satisfaction, most gracious
Sovereign,,wc reflect on your royal declaration
from the throne at your happy accession, that it
was essential to the impartial administration of
justice, and one of the best securities to the rights
and liberties of your fubje&s, that your judges
Hiould hold their cqmmiffians durbig good beha
viour; permit us then to pray, that you will be gra
ciously pleased to remove the distinction between
your Subjects in England and thofe^n America, by
commissioning your judges here to hold their offi
ces on the fame tenure: In which case, we beg
leavwto assure your Majesty, that we stand ready
t«give such adequate and permanent salaries, as
will render them independent of the people. ,?
We have now, n)oft gracious Sovereign, Rated
our grievances to your Majesty ; we have done it,
we trust, with all the refpccl due to the best of
Kings' and with that decent freedom becoming
the Representatives of a faithful, ancient, and
loyal Colony; and we hare not the leaß doubt,
but that by your merciful mediation and interpo-x
fition, we Shall obtain the desired redress, and
have inch a system of government confirmed to us
by your Majesty, and your two Houses of Par
liament, as will Sufficiently ascertain and limit the
authority claimed by t'he British Legislature over
this Colony, and secure to us those just and inva
luable Rights and Privileges which all your Ma
jesty's Subjects are enti led to. . This, most gra
cious Sovereign, is the sum of our wishes, and the
end of our defines; and .we beg leave to assure
your Majesty, that we are convinced this will be
the only effectual method of quieting the minds of
your Majesty's faithful American fubje&s, and of
restoring that harmony and cordial union between
the mother country and us, which is so efferatial
to the welfare and prosperity of both.—We be
seech your Majesty to believe; that our earnest
prayer to Heaven is, that your Majesty may con
tinue long the happy and beloved monarch of a
brave, a free, a virtuous and united people, and
that your children after you may continue to fill
the British throne to the latest generations.
Bv Order ofthe General Afemb,.
JOHN CRUGER, Speaker.
Assembly Chamber.,)
City of New-York, the ,
25th day of March, 1775, J
ring power. But though we acknowledge the ex
ifteace of such power, yet we conceive it by no
means comprehends a right of binding us in all
cases whatsoever; because a power of so unbound
ed an extent would totally deprive us of security,
and reduce us to a date of the most abje& servitude.
The Colonies, as your Lordihips. know, were
Dot in contemplation when the forms of the Bri-.
tifh Con ftitution were cftablifhed; it folowed
therefore from its principles, when colonization
took place, that the Colonies carried with them
all the rights they^were entitled to in the country
fro 11 which they migrated; but as from their lo
cal circumstances, they were precluded from Far
ing ip thq reprefentatioQ in that legislature in
whichthey had been represented, they of right
claimed pnd enjoyed a 'legislature ,of their own,
always acknowledging the King, or his Repre-'
fentative as one branch thereof; this right they
have pointedly, repeatedly, and zealously averted,
as what only could afford them that security which
their fellow fubjefts in Great-Britain enjoy, un
der a Constitution, at once the envy and admira
tion of surrounding nations; because no money
can be railed upon the fubjeft in Gre^t-Britain,
nor any law made that is binding on him, without
the concurrence of those who have been elected
by the people to represent them. ;
4 For what happiness can the Colorifts exped, if
their lives and properties are at the absolute dis
posal of others, and that power which when re
strained within its just bounds, wiull dispense
light and heat to the whole empire, may be em
ployed like a devouring flame, to consume and
deftray them? n -
Your Lordships wilhexcufe, nay, we doubt not,
w.ll commend us for speaking at this important
juncture, with the freedom becoming the Repre
lentatives of a Free People, when addressing our
felv.es to this most illustrious body.
We therefore beg leave, on this occasion, to
declare,.that we conceive the People of the Co
lonies entitled to &jual Rights and Privileges with
their fellow fubje&s iff Great. Britain.
That upon these principles,, it is a grievance of
a most alarming nature, That the Parliament of
Great-Britain Ihould claim a right to ena6l laws
binding the Colonies in all cases whatsoever.
Incompatible as this claim is with the very idea
of Freedom, your Lordflrips cannot wonder that
the Colonies Should express an invincible repug
nance to it. Absolute and uncontrollable power
in any man, or body of meh, neceiTarjly implies
absolute slavery in those who arc fubjeff to it, even
Ihould such a power not be carried into execution;
yet let it be remembered, that the Liberties of an
Englishman are his Rights; and that Freedom con
fills net in a mere exemption from oppression, but
in a right to such exemption, founded on law and
principles of the Conftitutido.
But your Lordihips cannot be ignorant that this
claim has been exercised in such a manner as to
give the Colonies the utmost uneasiness, and the
most unexceptionable grounds of complaint.
Duties, for the express purpose of railing a re
venue in America, have been imposed upon feve
rs! articles imported diredly from Great-Britain,
or the Britfh Colonies, and on foreign wines, an
article which does not in the leaf! Interfere with
the products of Great Britain, or any ofits Colonies.
The Jurifdiaion of the Admiralty Courts has
been extended beyond its anciect limits; the
Judges of those Courts inverted with new and un
confhtutionaLpowers ; the fabje&s in America, in
many cases, divefeed cf that invaluable privilege,
a trial by Jury, and a diferimination highly inju
rious, held up between us and our fellow fubje&s
in Great-Britain. r
Ads have been parted for the purpose of sus
pending the Legifl^ture of this Colony from the
exercile of its constitutional powers, till it should
comply with requisitions which it had before judg
ed improper; and laying an unreasonable restraint
upon us, with refpe& to the emission of a paper
currency to be a legal tender within the Colony.
, Officers employed in the administration of jus
tice have been rendered independent of the pco
people, with refped both to their salaries, and the
tenure of their Commissions, whereby they are
freed from those checks to which, as servants of
the public, they ought to be fubje&, altho' the
Representatives cf the People have ever been ready,
arid now declare their willingness to make suitable
provision for their support.
New and unconstitutional a&s have been puffed,
and conftru&ions made of an old one, by which
the American fubje& is directed to be tried for
offences, either real or supposed; notin the place
where the fad was committed, where his witnesses
reGde, and their characters are known, but in ,a
strange country, where his witnesses may not at
tend, and where their credibility cannot be as
certained..
We are extremely unhappy that occasion has
been given us to add to the catalogue of our griev
ances, the laws enaded in the Jaft session of the
late Parliament, for Cutting up the port of Borton,
for altering the government of the Massachu
setts-Bay and for the impartial administra
tion of justice in certain cases in that province.
Altho' it is not our intention to enter into a
jollification of the mCafures which occasioned those
A&s, or to intimate an approbation of the mode
pursued for redressing the grievances ofwhich they
have been produ&ive, yet we cannot help viewing
them as forming precedents of so dangerous a na
ture, as must render the privileges, the property,
and even the lives of all his Majesty's American
fubjeds precarious and insecure.
By other acts of the fame session, the bounds of
the Province of Quebec tire confidefably extended;
the Roman Catholic Religion may be construed to
be eftabfifhed throughout that Province; and such
regulations are enabled refpe&ing its trade, as not
only hold up a diferimination between the Conti
nental and other Colonies, injurious to the for
mer, but in the establishment of the port of entry,
cannot fail totally to deprive this Colony of an ex
tensive and important commerce, which it for
merly carried on with the native Indian inhabi
tants of that vast tra& of country now included
within the bounds of that government.
These ^re the principal grievances under which
our Constituents at p;efent labour; but though we
conceive it our duty thus fully to lay them before
your Lordships, we beg leave to assure you, that
we shall always cheerfully submit to the constitu
tional exercise of the supreme regulating power,
lodged in the King, Lords; and Commons of
Great-Britain,; and to all a&s calculated for the
general weal of the empire, and the due regulation
of the ferade and commerce thereof. .1 . \,
^ We conceive this power includes a right, to lay
duties upon all articles imported dire&ly into the
Colonies, from any foreign country or plantation,
which may interfere with products or manufactures
of Great-Britain, _or any other part of his Majef-'
ty's dominions; but that it is essential to Freedom,
and the undoubted rights of our Constituents that
no taxes be imposed on them, but with their con
sent given personally, or by their lawful Reprefen
tariyes. . -., '
Whilst therefore we entertain such dispositions of
obedience to the lawful powers of government ;
of allegianceto our most gracious Sovereign, and
attachment to the parent country: We humbly hope
that yourLofdfhips will aid and concur in redressing
our grievances, removing all causes of diffen
tion with Great-Britain,— ; —and establishing our
Rights and Privileges upon a foil'd and lading foun
dation. ' ; $
And your Memorialifts shall ever pray.
Byorderof the 'Ger.eral /lfembly,'
C JOHN CRUGER, Speaker.
Assembly Chamber,^
fyofNew.York, zfe>
ayb of March, 1775.)
PHILADELPHIA, ^79.4.
The Committee for the City and Liberties
of Philadelphia will meet this afternoon, at Six
o'clock, at the Philosophical Society's Hall.
Extrafl fom the proceedings of the Baltimore
Committee. - April 14, 1775.
THE Committee of Observation for Balti
more Countv, reflecting on the many mif
chiefs and disorders usually attending the fairs
held at Baltimore Town, and willing in all things
ftri&ly to observe the regulations of the Conti
nental Congress, who in their eighth resolution
have advised to difeountenance and discourage
every species of extravagance ind dissipation,
especially all horse racing, ,cock fighting, &c.
have unanimously resolved to. recommend it to the
good people of this county, and they do hereby
eArneftly request, that they will not themselves,
nor will fuffer any of their families to attend, or
in any wife encourage the approaching fair at Bal
timore Town., And all persons are desired not
to ere& booths, or in any manner prepare for
holding the said fair. We are persuaded the in
habitants of the town in particular, will fee the
propriety of this measure, pnd the necessity of
enforcing it,, as those fairs have been a nuisance
long complained of by them, as serving no other
purpose than debauching the morals of their chil
dren and servants, affording opportunities of gam
ing, and the vilest immoralities.
CUSTOM-HO U'3 E, PHILADELPHlA.IA.
$ I nward Entries.
Ship Aurora; I Read, London.
Ship Elizabeth, W. Shroudy, BriftoL
RrigF^ cy. T Murdoch, St. Vincents &St.Euftatia.
Brig Kitty, J/Rohinfon, Jamaica#
Sch. T yal, j. Warden, St. Euftatia.
Brig Bachelor, G. May, Jamaica.
Sch. Hope, T. Former, North - Carolina,
Sch. Lovely, J. Walfli, Halifax.
Brig R-becca, J. Shields, Antigua,
Ship Molly, T. Randall, St. Übes.
Brig Friendship; F. Illingworth, Jamaica,
S'oop Industry, T. Hutchings, Bermuda.
Sch. Betsy, S. Hall, Virginia.
I OUTWARDs,
Brig Nancy and Molly, R. Bethell, Miffifippi.
Brig lovely Lass, W. Cattle, Jamaica.
Brig Two Friends, P. Brufter, London.
Snow Dickenfon, J Johnson, Bristol.
Brig Kitty, J. M'Fetri ck, Jamaica.
Brig Nancy, J.,Martin, Ditto. 1
Sch. Bally, S. Crocket, North paroling
Brig Ann, J. Chatham. Lilbof.
Brig Kitty, J. Robinfob, Grenadoes.
Cleared...'
Brig Sea Nymph, W. Moore, South-Carolina.
Sloop Thomas, E. Cogfhall, Virginia.
Brig Sufaana, W. Niches, Antigua.
Sch. Sally, W. Bray, Virginia.
Ship Ha monv, S. Crawford, Milford.
Ship Sally, S. Covele, Falmouth.
Slod> Robert, C. Metcalf, Virginia.
Sch. Sally; R Goodwin, North Carolina.
Sloop Kmg Fisher, J. Strange, Rhode Bland.
Sloop Mermaids S. Nowell, Pifc taqua.
Sloop George, K. Justice, Virginia.
Brig Molly, j. Mullet, St. Kitts.
Brig; Dolphin, J. Hunn, Jamaica.
Sch. Sally, S. Crocker, North Carolina.
Sloop Frances, D. Sebaftone, Ditto.
Brig Jenny, W. Workman, South-Carolina.
Sch. Polly, A. Joyne, Virginia.
A LIST of L E FTERS remaining in the Post-
Office in Burlington. Aprilzi, 1775.
A. 'T'HOMAS Anderson, Cheflet Townfaip;
I honors Adams, Burlington.
, B. Elijah Bond; near Trenton Robert Beve
redge, Burl^to,, (2.) Job Burkit, Northampton
Townfbip. David Brotherton, Hides Town.
C. Jonathan Carmalt, David Collins, Mouht-
Holly. ..
'• Ashton Dixon, Little Egg-Harbour, (2.)
F, James Fargafop, Chefler Townfoip. 1
G. Meths. William 0 rritlon and James Wi
den, Cape May. Messrs. William Golden and
James Garritton, Ditto. Joseph Garwood, Glou
cester County. Henry Graff, Amwell. John Guf
faffi Mount Holy.
H. John Hinchman, Ffq; Hattenfeld. Charles
Hole, Mount-Holly, Mr. Hobfon, Burlington.
L. Thomas Ladd, Bordentown.
M. Meilis, M'Elroy and Finley, Salem. Patrick
M Gianahan, M^nt Hope Furnace. John M'Col
lifter, Piles Grove. Richard Moufley, William
Legg, Burlington.
R. Evan Reynolds, near frenton. Daniel Rice,
Bordentown.
S. Aaron Schuyler, William Scott, Burlington.
Nicholas Stupper, Hides Town. Martha Steven
lon, Bordentown. Samuel Sharp, Mansfield.
T. Rev. + Mr. Townsend, Salem. Peter Touch,
Burlington.,,
W. Robert Wallis, Burlington. Thomas Wood
ward, Arnes Town. Caleb Wallace, New-Jerfa.
PRE M'IUM S for the year 1775, '° he given by
the Managers of the Contributions jar promoting the
culture o, SILK in the province qJ Ytnnfylvania,
fabjed to the following Conditions on the part of the
Claimants, viz.:
,C ON D ITI O N S.
CT"" H E Cocoons or Balls for which any premium
i^ to be demanded, mult be found, merchant
able, arid all fingle*; they must be all raised in the
province of Pennsylvania, and brought to the Fila
ture at Philadelphia for sale, or to be reeled for the
claimants own me, on or before September 1, 1775;
fatisfaßory proof must be given to the Managers
that the Cocoons w&e all raised at one crop, with
in the 'claimant's single family, and that over and
above the Cocoons r brought tc the Filature, one
twentieth of the whole crop has been reserved, cut
of which the claimant must engage to raise good
e ^A f° r which, if to be fold, the Managers will
give a dollar per ounce
'PREMIUMS.
ift. For the gteateft quantity of Cocoons, not left
thanfo/y thousand, Fifteen Pounds.
2d. For the next greatest quantity, not less than
fifty thcufand, Ten Pounds.
3I For the next greatest quantity, not less than
forty thousand, Five Pounds.
4th. For the next greatest quantity, not less than
thirty thousand, a Silk Reel and Copper Kettle,
on the best conftru&ion. -u;
sth. To that person who shall, produce to the
Managers, the best specimen or sample of raw Silk,
of his or her own raifing,and reeling, not Ifs than
than thirty-two ounces, a Silk Reel and Copper.
Kettle as above.
6th. For the second and third next ^eft fimpleg
of raw Silk, not less than jlwee/z ounces, a compleat
Silk Reel, each. •+ ><.
7th. To that perfen who (hall raise twenty thou
sand Cocoons entirely on the white or Italian mul
berry tree, of the claimant's own planting and cul
tivation, Five Pounds, if;-
Bth. Two more premiums of Three Pounds
each, to those fwb persons who shall raise not less
than fy/ee„ tboufand Cocoons each, entirely on the
Italian mulberry tree, as aforefaid,
PRICES i for the Year 1775.
Besides the encouragement cffeied above, the
Managers hereby agree to give the following prices
for Cocoons, railed in either of the provinces of
Pennsylvania,: New-Jersey, or Maryland, or the
three lower counties on Delaware, viz.
For all merchantable Cocoons of the firft crop
brought to the Filature before the 15th of July,
Three Shillings per lb- from thence to the 2 sth
of the fame month, .Three Shillings and Six-
Pence ; from thence to the sth of August, Four.
Shillings ; from thence to the 25'h of the fame
month, Four Shillings and Six Pence ; from
thence to the end of the season, Five Shillings,
Qr Five Shillings and Six Pence, if extraordi
nary goodcand thoroughly dried. For Cocoons of
the second crop, a price in proportion to their qua
lity and dryness. The feeds of the white or Italian
mulberry tree and Silk Worms eggs, to be had
gratis, by applying to John Kaighn, in Second
ftreet.
N.B. Those wf? are desirous to propagate either
of the above, are rtquefted to make Speedy appli
cation, or the fcafbn will be too far advanced.
The Managers, on determining the premiums
for last year, adjudged the premium of Fifteen
Pounds to Phebe and Pleafants Milnor, of Bucks
County, for raising and .felling at the Filature,
66,500 Cocoons; and Te.u Pounds to Susannah
Wright, of Lancaster County, for railing and fell
ing as aforefaid,.s2,soo Cocoons.,
A person qualified to prepare raw Silk fit for
the loom, will meet with good encouragement by
applying to either of the Managers, viz. D< dor
iridium Smith, Able James, Joseph Fox, Reynold
Keen, Thomas Clifford, Benjamin Morgan, Cwex
Biddle, William Smith, Broker, Robert Sti ettle Jones,
Clement Biddle, Henry Kepple, Jun. Richard Wells,
John Kaighn..
* The double Balls ought to he kept for feed,
,F'l C E
For the SALE of REAL ESTATES.
On Wednesday the 3d of May, at three o'clock in
the afternoon, will be fold by public vendue, on
the premises, > .';.
TEN Lots of Ground, situate on the weft fide
of Paffyunk Road, and north fide of Hudson's
Lane ; being part of the estate of Anthony Duchte,
jun. deceased, and fold in pursuance of his last will
and testament, by desire of Mr. Andrew Doz, ex
ecutor. PLANS may.be seen at the Office, the
Coffee-hotife, and at the tavern opposite the pre
mises. MATTHEW CLARKSON,
EDWARD BONSALL.
so be disposed of at Private Sale,
A very commodious Country Seat, with 29
acres of good land, about two miles from the city,
situated on a remarkable healthful eminence, com
manding a beautiful view of the river Schuylkill;
there is a compleat ice house, void bath, and other
Conveniencies.'
Many other plantations, also houses, ground
rents, and lots, in and about the city, to be fold,
and let on ground-rents, at said Office, which
would take up too much room in a news paper to
be partly nearly described.
Fok LIVERPCO L,
^^ The SHIP
r 1 PHILADELPHIA,
~JOHN WINNI N G,
T Yl^G^tWifr. Alien,
!-' Efquire'swharf ; will fail'
i n tw ° weeks. For freight or
t^^OT^^^ parage apply to Andrew
Caldwell.
TO BE SoTTd B~Y
ROBERT AMIE L,
In Third-street, Philadelphia,
GENUINE old Madeira, by the pipe or quar
ter calk; a few dozen of excellent Claret,
and a small quantity of Citron, with every; other
article of WEF GOODS. Also genuine MaC
cuba S N UFF, in bottles.
A (QUANTITY of
SPIRITS and SUGAR,,
Just arrived in the brig Ann, Charles Davis, mat
ter, from Jamaica, lying at Evans's wharf, ta
be fcld by
JOSIAH HEW E $,
Of whom may be had Spermaceti Candles
TO BE SO L Ll
1 Entire or Divided,
AL ARGE lot of ground, fronting on Mora
vian-alley and Fetter Lane. For terms apply
to Lewis Weiss.
AJ OURNEYMAN who under
stands PRESS WORK is wanted.-
Apply to the Printer.