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which now threaten the like fate to the land of
our nativity. Consider the importance of„the
parrs you are now to aft, the freedom, the hap
piness of yourselves, and your posterity, of the
whole British nation; and of the oppressed of all
nations, seems now to depend upon you. The
eyes, the anxious hopes of all, are upon you.
Think, oh think ! What ought to be your con
duct, when a charge of such conference devolves
upon you : Providence has placed you in a most
important fation ; fee that you difeharge the du
ties of it with faithfulnefs and dignity. Great
will be your praise, if you do, and your disho
nour, if you do not. Ifthe enormous taxes, that
are laid upon the people in England; and even
those that are demanded of her colonies, were real
ly necessary, far the support of her constitutional
government ; it might be an excuse for proofing
them ; but in that case, both the expediency, and
mode of levying them in America, ifthe colonists
are really freemen, ought undoubtedly to depend
upon their judgment, and determination. But
when we find by woful experience, the principal
design and application of the money, extorted
from the people, is to violate their most sacred
rights, to subvert the English constitution, and
eftabhih a system of opprefiion and tyranny in its
stead; the demand itfelf, is, both an open attack
upon our rights and an insult to our understand
ing; and a tame submission, or an irresolute refu
fal, will justly be imputed to pusillanimity, mean
ness and cowardice.
“ Indeed if the Ministry could effeft their
scheme of taxing the colonies, though it might af
ford them a temporary relief from their present
embarrassment, it would only for a (hort time sus
pend the inevitable ruin that awaits their measures,
which no national funds can possibly long support.
A system of bribery and corruption mutt necessa
rily produce its own speedy deftrudion. So that
if you foould submit to be taxed and enflaved,your
freedom would be facrificed for nothing,—unlefs
to make the rqin of Great -Britain more certain,
and have the honour, or rather dishonour of fal
ling withit. If y#u maintain your rights and free
dom, Great-Britain may possibly recover its con
stitution, through the mere failure of means to
accomplish its deftru&ion. Already the system
of corruption is in the utmost disorder, the streams
of wealth necessary to support it begins to fail, and
many of their sources are quite exhausted, —the
oppressed people are already taxed as much ormore
than they can bear; —trade and manufactories de
cay daily, oppression begins to be generally felt,
and all are alarmed at the consequences.
" The Ministry, who have the East-India Com
pany at command, and do what they please with
them, after having enabled them to draw to
themselves a great part of the national wealth,
have by squeezing it from them again, and laving
a duty on their tea which prevented the sale of it
in America, almost reduced them, as a Company,
to a state of bankruptcy. To prevent this, and
at the fame time to gain the favourite point of fub
jeding the colonies to the payment of taxes impo
sed by the Britiffi Parliament, the scheme was de
vised of the Company's fending their tea to Ame
rica, fubjed to no tax but that imposed by the
Parliament on its arrival there. This was thought
a masterly stroke of the Ministry, whereby they
might accomplish their design on America, and at
the fame time fell the East-India Company's tea,
and enable them to pay the f. 1400,000 which the
Bank then lent them to save them from the bank
ruptcy that threatened them. But I hope my
countrymen in America, will have wisdom and
virtue to avoid the Inare laid for them, the suc
cess of which, though greatly desired by the Mi
nistry, is at the fame time doubted, as well as by
the most refpe&able people who have heard of the
scheme, and would heartily rejoice to find you
have virtue to render it abortive.
" There are are indeed here some sordid spirits,
who think the colonies flourish too faft, and envy
their growing greatness. But these misanthro
pists, are not considerable either in numbers or
abilities.
" If you acquit yourselves properly in this trial,
I have some reason to hope, it will be the last for
midable one, you will have to sustain. Some of
these teas are to be sent to several different colo
nies, to try the spirit of the people, and accord
ing as they behave, they will hereafter be confi
deted and treated,—as freemen, or as slaves. I
have the best authority for what I write, and you
may depend upon the truth of it. There are now
gone down the river, for America, 2000 chests of
tea, three years old, some of it mouldy and un
wholesome, to be fold at public vendue, as low as
iyd. per pound. General Monckton was offered
a commission to go with it to New-York,andland
it under his protection, a$ he was known to be
much esteemed there: But he, who is a true friend
to the colonies, and the rights of a British fubjeft,
nobly refufed, as did also the Captains of the
American ships, to take it on freight. And
numerous are the people here, who join me in
earnest hopes and wishes, that your conduct on this
important occahon, will equally merit applause and
procure to yourselves and country immortal hon
our, and permanent happiness: England will glo
ry in your relation to her, and join you in support
of that freedom, and those principles, that raised
her to grandeur amongst the nations.—Be watch
ful, be firm, and be happy, &c." T.
.7""° 3" This day or to-morrow sets out for
Virginia, the Right Hon. the Countess of Dun
more, fitter to the Earl of Galloway, and to the
Counters Gower, and Lady of the Right Hon.
\ the Earl of Dunmore, Governor of Virginia ; Lord
Fincaftle, the Hon, Alexander and John Murray,
with the Ladies Catherine, Augusta, and Susan
Murray, sons and daughters of those noble per
sonages :—They are accompanied bv Capt. Foy,
&c. of the Royal regiment of artillery; and we
hear are to be met at Annapolis by the Right Hon.
the Earl of Dunmore.
A gentleman that left Bolton the 20th instant,
informs us, that §he day before his departure se
veral calks of tea were burnt opposite the Custom-
House there, in the presence of many thousand
fpeftators.'
Fes. 3. On Tuesday last an elegant entertain
ment was given at Hull's tavern, by the Honoura
ble Gentlemen of his Majesty's Council, to the
Honourable House of Affeinbly of this province.
His Excellency the Governor was on Friday last
seized with a violent attack from a bilious disorder,
which for some time threatened his life; but his
Excellency is now much better.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7.
Married. VINCENT LOCKER-
M A N, Esq; of Dover, to Miss BETSEY
PRYOR, the youngest daughter of Mr. John
Pryor of the fame place. Mr. BENJAMIN
GIBBS, Merchant, to Miss HANNAH
SHEWELL, both of this city.
*, COLLES's Le&ures (as advertised in
our last) begins this morning, at eleven o'clock, and
again at seven in the evening, at the State-House.
*j* Yorick Anzericanus is received and mill be
inserted in our next.
To the Printer of the Pennsylvania Packet.
SI R,
You are requeued to publifo the following Epiflle to
Mr. Curiosity, in arfoer to bis Series,
which appeared some time ago in,our Packet.
To Mr. Curiosity,.
S I R,
TH E manner of your proposing your Queries
to some advertising School-masters disco
vered such conceit of your own mathematical
knowledge, and suspicions of their incapacity to
resolve them, that they determined to pass them
over in that contemptuous silence which such un
generous treatment deferred. Nay, though a so
lution appeared under the signature of a youth,
which to them appeared quite ridiculous; and
though they knew that some one of them might,
with good reason, be fufpe&ed for being the author
of it, yet in pity to you, whose ignorance they
candidly construed to be the cause of your silence,
they resolved to fay nothing until you had time to
learn as much Algebra, and Geometry, as would
enable you to difeover the absurdity of the Soluti
on, and thereby acquire that honour to yourfelf,
which you expe&ed the public would confer on
you for making so bold an attack on the Shool
mifters.
All the return which said School-matters desire
for so much lenity shewn to you, is, that you
would point out the defers of the youth's solution,
and shew how he ought to have proceeded, in order
to find out “ the most Ample value ofx in the known
terms of the equation ;" or clfe candidly to ac
knowledge, that you over-shot your own capaci
ty in the publication.
They also assure you, that whenever you, or any
other shall think fit to propose, in a gentleman-like
manner, any Queries, which shall appear tending
towards utility, that, if they be not stolen, they
will give you all the fatisfadion in their power in
the Solutions of them; but you must never impose
equations from * Simpson's Fluxions, or any other
author, for your own; otherwise, they will pass
them over with the fame silent contempt, as they
have done your two Queries. And the public is
requested to remember, that whenever the School
matters pass over such Queries in silence, it is be
cause they are stolen from some author; as this
will be their constant method of detecting pretend
ing Plagiaries, A SCHOOLMASTER.
* The two Equations mere taken from Simpson's
Fluxions, oflavo edition, page 555. And as the youth's
solution plainly discovers bis childish ignorance in what
be undertook, the Scboolmafers forgive bis attempt on
account of bis puerile fate, notmitbranding that they
mere liable to fuffer by bis forward impertinence.
Aad when be has fived the Equation be so foolifoly un
dertook, they mill then believe, that be mil be capable
of undemanding bisown Queries ; though they doubt
much of his being ever capable of refolding them.
A SOCIETY for Inoculating the Poor.
IT appears from thelaft year's bill of mortality,
that out of 1344 who died in the city and li
berties, above 300 of them periled with the small
pox in the natural way. The chief of these were
the children of poor people, who could not afford
the expence of inoculation, and who were unac
quainted with the most fuccefsful method of treat
ing the disorder, and unable to procure proper
persons to dire& them.
A number of gentlemen having taken these
things into consideration, have fallen upon a me
thod of rendering the benefits of inoculation as
extensive as possible in the city and suburbs.
For this purpose they are providing themselves
with a fund, and have concurred with eight Phy
sicians who have agreed to perform the operation,
and to administer to the patients such medicines
and directions as may be necessary to prepare them,
and also to attend them at their houses, free of
expence.
They have engaged a room in the State-House,
where a number of the Managers and Physicians
will attend every Tuesday, between the hours of
10 and 12 in the forenoon, to receive applications.
They will begin their attendance there on the last
Tuesday of this month.
The MANAGERS are—
Thomas Wharton, Jacob Shoemaker,
Benjamin Morgan, Reynold Keen, Joseph
Fox, William Coates, Thomas Clifford,
Arthur Donaldson, Sharp Delaney, John
Wharton, George Roberts, and David
Deshler.
The PHYSICIANS are—
Doctor Charles Moore, Doctor Adam
Kuhn, Doctor John Kearsley, Dodor Sa
muel Duffield, DoCtorG arardus Cl arkson,
Doctor Thomas Bond, DoCtor William Ship
pen, jun. and Doctor Benjamin Rush.
N. B. Contributions to this benevolent design
are received by any of the Managers, and by
Daniel Roberdeau, Treasurer.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA.
Inward Entries.
Snow Salter, J. Ke\d, Barbados.
Outwards.
N 0 N E.
C LEAKED.
NON E.
TO-MORRO W,
At ONE O'CLOCK, at
JAMES LOUGHEAD's
VENDUE - STORE,
The upper end of Second-Street, will begin the
SALE of a general and good assortment of
MERCH A N D I Z E.
In which are,
A FEW pieces of 7-8 and yard-wide firperfine
cotton checks ; broadcloths in patterns, some
of which are super and (uperfines ; cases of silver
handled knives and forks ; silver watches ; wearing
apparel, &c. &c.
CURIOUS in BOOKS,
and ali SENTIMENTALISTS, who
choose to illumiate and elevate their understandings,
by the most fafe and certain step-ladders to know
ledge, are requested to observe, that a valuable
collection of New and Old BOOKS, will begin to
be exhibited by auction, by ROBERT BELL,
Bookseller and Profeffor of Book AuCtioniering, at
theUniverfal Library, next door to St. Paul's Church,
in Third-fyeet, within the liberties of the city of
Philadelphia, this present MONDAY, the 7th
of February, and to be continued for eight or ten
evenings successively, (Sundays excepted). In this
collection are contained many capital Books, in
arts, feiences, history, divinity, law, physic, &c. &c.
with a numerous catalogue of elegant authors on
the most refined and sublime morality : And a con
siderable lift of novel writers, whose depictive talents
tend to dignify the human mind, by an abundance
of recreative and.inftru&ive entertainment, calcu
lated to guide the youth of both sexes through the
dangerous whirlpool of agitated passions.
Learn to be mife from others barms,
Andyou shall do full well.
Old English Ballad.
*, Gentlemen and Ladies who wish to fell, ex
change, or choose to take the chance of the public
prices, far libraries or parcels of books, will be
waited upon by their refpeaful fervaht,
ROBERT BELL, AuCtidnier.
'Tis not in mortals to command fuc^efs
But me'll do more, Sempronius, me'll deserve it.
Addison's Cato.
f§t Printed Catalogues are given away (gratis)
at the place of sale, next door to St. Paul's Church
Third-street.
For the ENTERTaInaTenT
Qf the CURIOUS.
MR. KINNERSLEY proposes (the
weather being foitable) to exhibit his course
of ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTS
again, at the College, on Monday and Tuesday
next week; and the fame on the following Wed
nesday and Friday; to begin at fix o'clock in the
evening. In this course, confiding of only two
le&ures, above forty curious and interesting expe
riments rill be exhibited, tending to shew the na
ture and properties of lightning, and, which is of
the greatest importance, how to avoid the danger
of it ; —how to secure houses, ships, &c. from re
ceiving any damage by lightning.
The following particulars will, it is presumed, be
thought no inconsiderable part of this Electrical .
Entertainment, viz. Flatties of real lightning visible
under water. Iron heated red hot, and even melt
ed by lightning, whilst under, and in contact with,
common cold water. Experiments on that wonder
fol eleCtric stone, from the East-Indies, called the
Tourmalin, which will become eleftrifed by being
dipt in boiling water; one fide ele&rifed pofitivelv,
the other negatively. A curious represen tation of
the astonishing ele&ric Eel, lately seen in this city;
on touching of which, while in the water, an elec
tric shock may be as sensibly felt as from a live one.
A representation of part of the starry heavens, ex
hibiting a variety of beautiful ele&ric stars.
As the knowledge of Nature tends to enlarge the
human mind, and give us more noble and exalted
ideas of the Author of Nature, and, if well pur
sued, seldom fails producing something ufeful to
man ; it is hoped that an Entertainment of such a
tendency, will meet with suitable encouragement.
Those Gentlemen and Ladies who purpose to attend
these Lectures are requested to be furnifhed with
tickets, that no money may be taken at the door.
Tickets may be had at the bar of the London Cof
fee House, and at Mr. Kinnerfley's house near the
College, at Half a Dollar for each LeCture.
EleCtrical Experiments cannot be well exhibited
in damp or wet weather; therefore if either of the
evenings above, appointed should not prove dry
enough, the exhibition must be defered till some
dry evening after. The firft LeCture of the course
to be on Monday or Wednesday evening; second
Lecture on Tuesday or Friday evening.
N. B. Next April Mr. Kinnersly expe&s to
have room in his house to accommodate two or three
more young Boarders for the College.
M'efl-Jerfej,
WHEREAS the line of partition and
division between the eastern and western
division of New-Jersey, hath not yet been legally
run : And whereas an aCt of the Legislature of the
colony of New-York, and a firnilar aC t of the colo
ny of New-Jersey, have passed, fixing the North
Station Point. And as a final Settlement of the
said line, is a matter of importance, and greatly
concerns the general Proprietors of West-Jersey;
therefoie the Council of Proprietors, at their pre
sent meeting, did agree to give public notice, that
on Friday, the eighteenth of February instant,
there Should be a general meeting of the Proprietors
of the Said wettern division, in order to consult on
suitable measures to be taken to obtain a speedy
settlement 6f the said line. This is therefore to
request a general meeting of the Proprietors of
West-Jersey, on the laid day, at the house of
Joseph Haight, in the city of Burlington, at
eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the purposes
aforefaid. WILLIAM HEULINGS, Clk.
February 4, 1774.
Burlington, "January 1774.
FIVE POUNDS. REWARD.
ELOPED from his Service belonging to the
fubferiber in Burlington, an indented servant
man, by name THOMAS GRIFFITH, a
native of England ; in the former part of his life,
when resident in his Mother Country, kept a tavern
in the city of London, known by the sign of the
King's Arms, in Leaden Hall-street, but for some
yc^s before he left England, rented a considera
ble farm near Bristol. This advertisement implies,
that whoever secures him in any of his Majesty's
gaols in America, and will give intelligence to his
matter in Burlington, shall receive the above reward.,
He is a well-looking man, between the age of thirty
and forty, of a middle Stature, stoops in his w^lk,
and cannot with the fmallcft degree of effrontery
look a man in the face ; has an easy, foft, Smooth
manner of speaking : Was habited in an eld dove
coloured coat and waistcoat, with metal buttons;
an old pair of leather breeches, and flopped hat.
Had with him a bag of cloaths which the fubferiber
supposes may contain three or four Shirts, an old
blown coat, a red waistcoat, Stockings, &c.
BALDWIN WAKE.
WANTE D,
To HIRE by the YEAR,
/\ N elderly man, of a sober character, who has
lived in this country some years, and under
stands the several branches of farming. If he has
a wife who understands the management of a dairy,
flie may be also employed. Enquire of the printer.
Philadelphia, February 4, 1774.
TH E unexpected fuecefs, together with
the general approbation of many refpe&able
Ladies and Gentlemen in this city, who have seen
the fubferiber's ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTS
for some time palt, induce him to postpone his in
tended excursion jo the country tor a few weeks
longer. His apparatus being conftru&ed (by an
ingenious artist) on the most modern plan, and
calculated to be transmitted to any part of the city
on the shortest notice, he will therefore exhibit
every evening (Sundays excepted) at seven o'clock,
to any felc& company of Ladies or Gentlemen who
may please to honour him with their commands,
addrefled to him in Fourth-Street near Spruce-Street.
ARTHUR JOHN O'NEILE.
SPECIFIC DROP S,
For Restoring Health to Mankind.
THESE valuable drops effectually cure pains
in the breast, chiefly arising from colds, weaker
nefs and wafting of the body ; phthifical and con
sumptive coughs ; loss of appetite ; hectic and night
fevers ; Swelling of the feet or legs; hard swellings
of tie joints, attended with pain and weakness;
swelling and hardness of the belly ; griping and
green Stools ; eruptions, boils and impolthumes ;
humour, spots, films or redness of the eyes ; they
purify, enrich and sweeten the blood, open the ob
ftiuded glands, and carry off gross humours. Its
balsamic, cleansing, and healing properties, where
by it abates the too rapid motion of the Sharp putrid
blood ; the rich, Subtile and foftening essence it con
tains ; the ease with which it enters the lacteal ves
sels, is assimilated with the blood, and pervades
the whole animal system, renders it the greatest re
storative and friendly cordial perhaps ever yet dis
covered.
o They impart a kindly warmth and due circula
tion qf the blood, without heating, promote the
Secretions, and gradually remove those obstructions
which are the grand cause of all chronicle diseases.
Of how much benefit to the world must this me
dicine be, which caufeth all the necessary functions
to be rightly performed, in which immediately con
suls that greatest sublunary blessing, Health.
Many children who have been to all appearance
in the last Stage of a consumption, have been per
fectly cured by these drops, even when all other
means had been tried in vain.
That these drops are possessed of the valuable
qualities alcribed to them, many families in the
city of New-York, and several other parts of Ame
rica, as well as in Great-Britain, have happily ex
perienced; at whose request they are made public,
that their fulutary virtues and effects might not be
confined to the narrow circle of private practice;
and in order that people of all ranks may be Sup
plied with a medicine of so great importance, a price
is set upon it vastly below its real worth ;—a proof
that the Proprietor preferred the public good to his
own private emolument. °
Alter all, the author of these drops does by no
means pretend to recommend them after the ridi
culous manner of Quacks, under the pompous title
of an universal catholicon, to cure all the diseases
incident to mankind, but he dare boldly recommend
it as a medicine which will always give relief, in the
most dangerous small-pox, and generally cures the
maladies already mentioned.—ln a word, he is con
vinced, that it will be so powerful an advocate for
its own worth, and so effe&ually plead its own cause,
by affording that relief, and producing such good
effe&s, that whoever once makes trial of it, will
stand in no need of any other testimony to convince
them of its efficacy, or of any other argument to
perfaad^ them to recommend it to their friends og
every similar occasion.
The Specific Drops are fold by Mr. J. Sullivan,
Druggist, in Second-street, a few doors above Arch
ftreet; at Messrs. W. and T. Bradfords book
store ; Mr. W. Woodhouse, Bookseller, in Fror.t
ftreet, near Chefnut-ftreet; and by J. Gallagher,
Merchant, in Front-street, near the Drawbridge,
Philadelphia, at Half a Dollar each phial.
TO BE SOLD B Y
JOHN SPARHA WK,
At the London Book-store in Second-street, five
doors below the Friends Meeting,
AG ENERAL assortment of BOOKS, &c.
among which are, Sterne's Works complete,
in 5 vols. a burlesque translation of Homer, 2 vols.
British Theatre, 12 vols. Lyon's Music, or Note
Books; Young's and Cole's Latin Dictionaries;
Clarke's Homer; Guthrie's Geographical Grammar;
Burn'sJuftice; Macpherfon's translation of Homer's
Iliad ; Doddridge's Family Expositor, 6 vols. gvo.
Henry on the Bible ; Common Prayers, of all sizes
and binding; a great variety of family and small
Bibles, both plain and elegantly gilt ; ditto with
Cunn's notes; an essay on Mural Agency; Slavery
not forbidden in scripture, 1/6; Tiflot's advice to
the people with regard to their health, lof. Dimf
dale's new method of inoculating for the small-pox,
3/9; and a variety of articles in the entertain
ing way. A great affortmen^@f paper hangings,
writing and printing papers, parchment, blank
books, the fineft quills, and stationary of all kinds;
maps of England and Wales, with the cities, bo
roughs and market-towns thereon pasted on wood,
cut in many pieces of various forms, but so as to
make the map cqmpleat when put together, the
whole contained in a small box, ztf designed to
inftru& youth in geography; thermometers'; baro
meters ; hydrometers for proving spirits ; a new
invented instrument for detecting frauds in gold,
portable as a penknife; a new patent Aiding rule,
which performs the fame at one operation as requires
2, 3 or more on the rules heretofore ; back-gam
mon tables, lined and gilt, book-fafhion ; cribhage
and iblitary boards ; battledores ; swords and cut
teaus ; silk and leather belts for ditto ; guns and
pocket pistols; knives and forks, with and without
cases ; surveying compasses ; cases of platting in
struments; surgeons pocket and amputating instru
ments; ditto for the teeth ; the neatest lancet cases,
in green, dog and nurfle, silver mounted; tweezer
cases; fpeaacles; reading glasses ; ditto for On rt
fighted people ; a very good pocket aciomatic tele
scope ; pocket spying griflfes ; convex and concave
mirrors; the belt razors; boxes cf (having and
writing equipage, very convenient for travellers;
letter cases with and without inftrumeuts; the
neatest pinchbeck buckles; stone and paftr shoe,
knee and llock buckles ; crewet frames, enamelled,
green, blue and red ; German flutes with mouth
pieces ; copper scales of various sizes; nests of
weights ; money scales; tea urns, &c. &c.
Ke) fer's pills, patent medicines and drugs of all
kinds, as usual.
At the above place may be had, a quantity of
Weft India and New-England ruin, eight months
old; also window glass, 8 by to and 9 by 11.