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Some spirited metres receding the payment
cfthe Manilla ransom are, we are allured, now
under consideration.
It may be depended upon that a great number of
new brass cannon is ordered to be cast immediate
ly by the Board of Ordnance.
Orders are sent to Portfmonth for all the vo
lunteer Seamen who enter there, to be immediately
put on board the Ships which are fitting out for
the Mediterranean and the Wet Indies.
July 7. In all probability by this time the inha
bitants of Dantzick have been obliged to give up
all the privileges of their city, all their liberties
and infranchifements to the King of Prussia: They
have no alternative, except having their city laid
in ashes, which is a fate it is not impossible they
may have undergone from their inviolable attach
ment to their lawful Prince the King of Poland.
Yesterday 400 stands of muSkets and a quantity
of powder and ball were Shipped off at the Tower,
en board the Industry transport, for his Majesty's
garrison at Fort Louis, on the coalt of Africa.
From the London Evening Post.
OCCASIONAL REFLECTIONS.
A KING of England is the head magistrate
of a free people, and is bound to obey the
laws equally with his fubje^s.
The people of England are as free as their
Kings, as the actions of both of them are limited
by those laws only, to which both of them have
given their confects.
A King of England, though limited by the laws,
is'the greatest, as well as happiest of earthly
Princes, as they give him all the powers imagina
ble of doing good, and restrain him only from
doing evil.
The grandeur of a King of England is now flip
ported at the expence of his people, who, for their
own honour, maintain him in the greatest splendor.
A King of England as well as the army of it,
may be truly said, to eat the people's bread; for
they give both of them the money to buy it.
Kings as well as armies, have sometimes been
very ungrateful to their real benefactors, as both
of them have been too apt to think themselves
obliged to those only, who have been entrusted
with the distribution of the public money, and to
despise and ill-treat those who actually gave ir.
The army thanks the King, and the King thanks
his Parliament; but the people at large, who are
the real givers of the money to support them both,
hive often been not only unthanked, but grievously
misused by them. So dogs fawn upon and lick
the hands of the servants who feed them, and snarl
and snap at their masters who pay for their food.
The fin of ingratitude hath been ever esteemed
bv all mankind as a crime of the blackest nature.
There are many degrees of it, but the greater the
benefits conferred are, the greater is the ingrati
tude of him who repays them with injuries. Of
all the degrees of ingratitude which man can con
ceive the highest is, when a people shall have given
to a Prince a most glorious crown, and he in return
shall attempt to take a way their rights and liberties ;
for such a Prince would then repay the greatest of
all benefits by the greatest of all injuries. In
stances of such high ingratitude, it is to be hoped,
for the honour ofhuman nature, are but very rare ;
but in whatever country such an instance shall
happen, the folly of the people would be equal
to the ingratitude of the Prince, if they did not
take away their crown again. Justice as well. as
their own well-being, would demand it. In this
free country, such an instance of ingratitude can
never happen, because the power of our Kings is
bounded by the laws which limit our obedience to
them. They cannot extend their power beyond
the laws, without dissolving the allegiance of their
fubje&s. The laws are the boundaries of our obe
dience. We are obliged to obey our Kings so
long as they maintain the laws, and no longer.
From the St. James's Chronicle.
A NEW SONG.
Surfed to bate been fang by Goody N -h, by
•way of lullaby to the foundling brat, the Popifo
Quebec bill.
To the tune of " 0 my Kitten, my Kitten."
OM Y baby, my baby.
And O my baby, my deary,
And was its papa alham'd
To own his bantling here-e ?
My dear little Popifh puppet,
So like its dad, Lord B—te-e !
O naughty papa, to drop it,
And the B ps all fit mute e !
Then up with the Papists, up, up,
And down with the Protestants, down-e ;
Here we go backwards and forwards,
And all for the good of the Crown-e.
And we will have gossips in store,
Ard reverend B ps to bless it ;
Lord Chatham shall teaze it no more,
But let my Majority dress it :
That thou (halt have plenty of clouts,
The B ps will tear up lawn sleeves-e ;
Then be no more, child, in thepouts ;
Hush, hufhy, my baby—what grieves-e ?
Then up with the Papists, &c.
Then down with the fam'd reformation,
Each church, each chapel, and meeting ;
While I'm overfeerof the nation
I'll cherifliand fofter my sweeting.
Then heigh for the fine wooden flioes ;
And heigh for a cock-horse to ride-e
And heigh for processions and shews;
And heigh for a Smithfield firefide-e.
Then up with the Papists, &c.
Then high for the penance and pardons,
And heigh for the faggots and fires ;
And heigh for the Popifh Churchwardens,
And heigh for the Priests and the Friars;
And heigh for the rareefhew relics
To follow my Canada Bill-e,
With all the Pope's mountebank tricks:
So prithee, my baby, lie still-e.
Then up with the Papists, &a
From the South-Carolina Gazette.
Tothe LADIES of South-Carolina.
My Sifters an / Country-women,
AT a time when the scourge is held up, not
over this country only, but all America,
and one of our sister colonies now buffering under
the iron hand of power, in the general cause of
American liberty ; and that too, fora matter which
chiefly refpeds our sex. Surely, my Sifters, we
cannot be tame fpe&ators, when so much remains
with us to do, and may be reasonably expelled of
us. —By our petfifting hitherto, in the use of the
East India TEA, we have opposed our friends,
and assisted the enemies of America, to enslave our
selves and posterity.—Let us now make it evident
to the world, that we have some regard for our
country, and our offspring, by joining chearfully
under the faith of a promise to each other, to fore
go the use of all foreign tea, as also, every kind of
East India goods; we shall thereby disappoint our
enemies, (who no doubt build much on our weak
ness in this refped) and greatly assist our hufbatlds,
brethren, and countrymen, in this their arduous
firuggle- l am credibly informed, that many ref
peCtable families in this town, have already let the
laudable example.—Every mistress of a family,
may prohibit the use of tea and Eaft-lndia goods
in her family, and among her children: under the
present circumstances, every article from thence,
is replete with poison, and Should be rejected with
scorn. No longer let our vanity, ambition, and
pride, work in opposition to our countrymen, now
labouring to procute us the free enjoyment of the
fruits of their induftry;—but let us rather ftrengtb
cn their hands by a hearty concurrence with them.
Besides, it will probably induce them to forego
the use of wines, which are equally pernicious ; —
they will not refufe to pay this compliment to our
felf-denial, and public virtue. Our children yet
unborn, call upon us to join with our brethren and
countrymen, in saving this devoted land.—On
Heaven alone, and our general unanimity, the sal
vation of America depends. We have no long
er any confidence in the British Parliament :
We have nothing now to hope from that unho
ly inquisition, but cruelty and injustice.—
By one ad they rob us of our property, and by
another of out lives. We blush for such pitiless
wretches, who after fuffering themselves to be
trampled on, and plundered at home, now join
the unfeeling herd of Court Sycophants, to rob
and murder millions of brave and loyal Americans,
whom they have basely fold. How fallen from
their national character! How loft to humanity!
The constitution must indeed be at the last gasp,
when those who should be the guardians and pro
testors of the rights and liberties of the people
throughout the wide extended dominions of Great-
Britain, so fhamefully betray their trust, and bar
ter the lives and fortunes of their fellow-fubjeds,
for places of profit.—But 'tis well if matters rest
here; these late ads refpeding America, seem on
ly a prelude to what they may shortly find will be
attempted at home. All their schemes for some
time past smells strong of Popery; it therefore be
hoves us to do all we can, to avert the impending
evil.—Should matters come to extremity, (as 'tis
too likely they may, from the insolence of a licen
ced foldiety) I tremble for the consequence. Those
who have fathers or brethren, husbands or children,
have much to fear; but let not a single \Vifn escape
us, that they should ever give up the cause, but
with their lives; rather let us perish with them,
and be buried together in the ruins of our country.
—And let our enemies remember, that liberty as
well as religion, will always flourish under perse
cution. A PLANTER'S WIFE.
BOSTO N, Migtfifr
We hear that his Excellency Governor Gage
desired the attendance of the Selectmen of this
town at the Province-House on Saturday last,
when he informed them of that clause in the late
ad of Parliament forbidding town-meetings with
out special leave of the Governor, and gave the
fame to them to read, which being done, his Ex
cellency told them he was ready on application to
give liberty for a town's-meeting if he should judge
it expedient ; and being told that the province law
had been the rule oftheir conduct in those matters,
he said he was determined to carry the ads of
Parliament into execution, and they must be an
swerable for any bad consequences.
August 18. We hear that Governor Gage has
thought fit to deprive the Hon. John Hancock, Esq;
of his commission as Colonel of his Excellency's
company of cadets In consequence of which the
company have had a meeting, the result of which
was, to return his Excellency the standard, (with
his arms) which he presented to them on his arri
val here, a committee was accordingly chosen for
that purpose, who waited on his Excellency, at
Danvers, and delivered him the standard, which
was accompanied with an address from the compa
ny, wherein they informed his Excellency, that
they looked upon themselves ne longer as the Go
vernor's independant company.
N E W-Y 0 R K, %-§•
On the 17th inst. a boy about 14. years of age,
an apprentice to Mr. Benjamin Knap, of Danbu
ry, having occasion to go down into a well, only
12 feet in depth, was so affected by the damp, that
he immediately became motionless, and lay at the
bottom of the well; Mr. Knap, feeing the boy in
this situation, attempted to go to his relief, but
was seized immediately in the fame manner, as
were also a third and fourth person who went to
his assistance, a fifth person, who had a rope tied
round him, after being let down only four feet
from the furface, fainted away and was obliged to
be drawn up immediately; the people assembled
then procured large hooks, and dragged them up,
to appearance quite dead; but by rubbing, admi
niftring volatiles, and bleeding freely, the twofirft
that were drawn out, cameto themselves so far as
to be able to speak in about ten minutes; but Mr.
Knap continued lifelefs for about half an hour,
but by constant friaion with fait and brandy, he
also recovered in about two hours: The boy,
notwithstanding every possible means, could never
be reflated to the least appearance of life or motion ;
John Rutledge, Esq; another of the Delegates,
with his family, is coming by way of New-York.
The Hon. Thomas Cufhing, Esq ; Mr. Samuel
Adams, John Adams, and Robert Treat Paine,
Esquires, Delegates from Boston, are expected in
town this evening.
Col. Nathaniel Fulfon,and Major John Sullivan
Delegates from New-Hampihire are arrived here.
Died. Mrs. PASCO, daughter of Mr.
Samu L Howell, of this city, Merchant, and
wife of George Pasco, Esq; of Jamaica, from
whence die lately came for the recovery of her
health, aged 18 years.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA.
Inward Entries.
Brig Speedwell, J. Cox, Greuadoes.
Brig Nancy, J. Hanfe, Jamaica.
Sch. Nelly, J Scott, Hispaniola.
Brig Cornelia, J. Forster, Ditto.
Sloop Sally Third, T. Wilson, St. Croik.
Sloop Peggy, A. Moore, Ditto.
Sloop Polly, M. Gilbert, St. Euftatia and Tobago.
Sloop Ranger, W. Wood, St. Kitts and Anguilla.
Sloop Polly, J. Davidson, Jamaica.
Brig Three Brothers, J. Davis, Antigua.
Brig Ranger, C. Biddle, Hispaniola.
Ship Nancy and Pollv, W. Sutton, Cadiz.
Ship Morris," T. Bell, Madeira.
Brig Harriot, J. Clubb, Alicant.
Brig James, J. Smith, Cadiz.
Sch. Lively, J. Leech, North-Carolina.
Sch. Happy Return, B. Chadfield, Georgia.
Brig Sea Nymph, W. Moore, South-Carolina.
Sloop Betsy, W. Undrill, Virginia.
Sloop Two Brothers, J. Havens, North-Carolina.
Ship Betsy, S. Kvle, Newcastle on Delaware.
Sloop Polly, G. Walton, North-Carolina.
Sch Betsy, J. Richards, Ditto.
Sch. Bonaventure, J. Waterman, Nantucket.
Outwards.
Brig Thomas, J. Baxter, St. Kitts.
Brig Peggy, J. Garrigues, Cadiz.
Brig Lucy, J. Pyner, Hispaniola.
Brig Prince of Wales, J. Woods, St. Euftatia.
Snow Goodwill, H. Richardson, Liverpool.
Sloop B tfy, P. Lacey, Virginia.
Brig Dolphin, J. Hunn, Jamaica.
Brig Sea Nymph, W. Moore, South-Carolina.
Ship Butcombe, W. Phillips, Jamaica,
Brig Industry, P. Hodgkinfon, Nevis.
Brig Harriot, J. Clubb, London.
Sloop Peggy and Betsy, D. Ferguson, New York.
Sch. Happy Return, New London.
Cleared.
SI. Peace & Plenty, R. Mumford, Rhode-Ifland.
Snow Nancy, P. Robinson, New-York.
Sch. Polly, W. Wyer, Dominica.
Sch. Fame, J Hilton, Virginia.
Sch. Betsy, F. Savage, Ditto.
Ship Britannia, J. Souder, Lisbon.
Sloop Bentham, J. Rivers, New-York.
Brig Broker, G. Giffin, Jamaica.
Brig Barbados Packet, W. Hawkins, Barbados.
Sloop Hope, R. Winter, North Carolina.
Sloop Peggy, A. Moore, Salem, New-England.
Sch. Tryall, J. Bradford, St. Euftatia.
Brig Kitty, G. Lochtie, Jamaica.
Brig Charlotte, P. Parker, Ditto.
Sloop Charlotte, J. Erwin, Virginia.
Brig Jenny, J. Lockton, London.
Sch. Kitty, j Robinson, Dominica.
Ship Minerva, D. Gregory, St. Kitts.
Tothe LADIESo/PENNSYLVANIA.
Dear Ladies,
UNITE 1) as we are by interest and affecti
on, we flatter ourselves we need make no
apologies for addressing you on this occasion; so
far from thinking them necessary, we doubt not
you will receive, as a sisterly freedom, the liberty
we take in communicating our sentiments to you.
Give us leave, in the firft place, to condole with
you on the unhappy change that a few past years
have produced on this extensive continent; our
political hemisphere, which, 'till of late, we have
always beheld serenely bright, is now full of
clouds that we much fear will burst in tempests
o'er our heads. We propose not, Ladies, to en
ter into the much agitated fubjeCt of American
grievances ; of this, alas! you will undoubtedly
hear too much for your peace of mind; your hus
bands, your fathers, and all your dearest friends
of the other sex, have, no doubt, frequently dif
cuffed,in your presence, this momentous point; on
the determinations of such friends, we may all
fafely rely ; let us then, dear Ladies, co-operate
with them in their honest endeavours to extricate
America from the evils that threaten her: Much,
very much, depends on the public virtue the La
dies will exert at this critical juncture; permit us,
therefore, to exhort you, to be firm in withstand
ing luxuries of every kind, but above all, as the
most pernicious of all, that you will (as we have
universally done) banish India Tea from your ta
bles, and in its stead substitute some of those aro
matic herbs with which our fruitful foil abounds.
We mean not to boast of the conduct of the Vir
ginians in this arduous trial ; they know they do
nothing more than their indrfpenfablc duty, in the
PHILADELPHIA, fyfl 29.
On Sunday evening the 21st inst. after five days
illness, died, in her prime of life, Miss POLLY
FRANKS, second daughter of David Franks,
Esq; of this city—a younglady whose sweetness of
temper, elegance of manners, cheerful conversation
and unblemished virtue, endeared her to all her con
nexions, and especially to her now mournful parents,
who found her in every part of life a shining ex
ample of filial duty and affection.—Her remains
were interred, on Monday forenoon, in Christ
Church burying ground, amid the tears ofher nu
merous acquaintance and relatives.
Last Monday the brig Sea Nymph, Captain
Moore, arrived here from Charleftown, South-
Carolina ;with whom came paflengers Christopher
Gadsden, and Thomas Lynch, Esquires, two
more of the Delegates nominated to represent that
colony at the ensuing Congress.—The lady and
daughter of Mr. Lynch, Thomas Parsons, Esq;
and a number of other gentlemen, came passen
gers in the fame vessel.
On the 16th instant there was a meeting of the
several committees of the county ofOrange, when
Henry Wifner, and John Haring, Esquires, were
chosen delegates for that county, to meet at the
congress at Philadelphia, on or about the firft day
of September next.
the others are like to do well, although the, yet
complain of feeling very great pressure at their
breads.
Philadelphia, August 24, 1774.
TH E fubferiber is no v wanting a number
of NEGROES; men, women, boys or
girls; farmers, house negroes or tradefinen, that
are real (laves and good titles: Any perlons that
have such to dispose of, pleale to apply to the, at the
London Cotfee-Houfe, on Market days, from eleven
o'clock to one, and at other times at my house, the
north end of Second-street, ®ppofite to the Bath ; and
should I be in the country, please to leave the de
scriptions of the Negroes, and where to be found,
with Mr. John Young, jun. saddler, in Market .street.
To be rented, for the term of five years, a good
Merchant Mill, within a little diflance of Bal
timore, in Maryland, which is always employ
ed, on a never failing stream, situated in a tine
wheat country, with three pair of stones, and every
thing in the compleateft order, equal to any I have
seen in this province. The advantages from hog<,
owing to the valuable range about the mill, will
amount to near 2001. per annum.
There is also to be fold, on the premises, on the
third Thursday in October, a very profitable Ordi
nary, at King William Court-house in Virginia,
with 600 acres of valuable land adjoining it : The
Ordinary and the several good tenements have rent
ed for 1701. per ann. and are now well worth 200 L
One of the houses is 72 by 20 feet, with a piazza
the whole length of the house ; the second is 40 by
18 feet, and the third 32 by 16 feet, with two large
stables and all other convenient out houses; also a
long accuttomed store; the whole within two miles
of navigation. The purchaser may have poss nion
on the firft day of November, on paying one fifth of
the purchase money, and giving bond and security
for the payment of one fifth yearly until the whole
is paid. For further particulars apply to
BENJAMIN BANNERMAN.
Lately Published, and to he Sold by
JOHN D U N L A P,
In Market-Street, Philadelphia,
THE J UI) GMEN Tof whole
KINGDOMS and NATIONS, con
cerning the Rights, Power and Prerogative
of KINGS, apd the Rights, Privileges and
Properties of the P EOPLE.
BY LORD .SOMMERS.
To ATTEND in a SHOP.
A YOUNG MA N, well acquainted with dry
goods, and who can be unexceptionably re
commended ; none other need apply. Enquire of
the Printer.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY frorr the fubferiber, living in
„the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia, on the
(August) an apprentice lad named JOHN
CROCKER, by trade a house carpenter, about 17
years of age : Had on when he went away, a half
worn flalh-flteved red everlasting jacket, a pair of
oznabrigs trowfers, check Ihirt, good Ihoes with
brass buckles, and an old beaver hat muGh too 1 irge
for him in the crown : Said lad is about five feet
three inches high, fair complexion, wears bis own
dark brown curled hair, and Itoops in bis walk : He
came from Bristol last April with Capt. Seymour
Hood. Whoever takes up said lad and brings him
to his master, shall have the above Reward, and
reasonable charges, paid by
Carlisle, August 16, 1774.
WHEREAS the fubferiber, oh the
fifteenth day of August instant, did give
unto JAME S DAVIS, of the town of Carlifle,
two bonds, one for the payment of thirty-four
pounds, the other for the payment of twenty-eight
pounds; and as I have not received a valuable con
sideration for the fame, this is to forwarn all persons
from taking an alignment of said bonds, as I am
determined not to pay them unless compelled by law.
WILLIAM HOLMES.
Sacrifices they have made, and are farther willfrg
to make; neither do we doubt, but the gopd La
dies of Pennsylvania will go as far, in promoting
the general happiness, as our country women, or,
even the steady matrons of Rome ever Went, for
the public good ; in short, we have the fulleft de
pendance that the fair-fex of Pennsylvania, Virgi
nia, and of all America, will be so far instrumental
in bringing about a redress of the evils complain
ed of, that history may be, hereafter, filled with
their praises, and teach posterity to venerate their
Virtues.
We have the honor to subscribe ourselves,
your affectionate
Country-Women of Virginia^
Williamfourgh, August 7, 1774.
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TO BE SOLD BY
GEORGE MEADE and Co.
AFE W quarter calks and dozens of excellent
Port ; choice mufeovado sugar in hogsheads,
tierces and barrels ; a few pipes, hogsheads and
quarter calks of old Madeira wine 5 red Port wine,
Weft-India rum, &c. &c.
—w A" N T E 57
CA ME to the plantation of the fub
feriber, inWeft Pennfboroueh townflip, Cum
berland county, a dark chefnut coloured MARE,
about fix years old, with a blaze, branded on the
near shoulder D. N. and on the off shoulder A. R.
as also on the near buttock. The owner is desired
to prove his property, pay charges, and take her
away. ALEXANDER M'BRIDE.
August 25, 1774.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
P AN AWAY, from the fubferiber, living in the
" borough of Wilmington, New-Castle County,
on Sunday the 21f t inst. an Irilh servant lad, na
med CHARLES WALL, by trade a Tan
ner, about five feet four inches high, about nine
teen years old, is a strong well-let artful fellow,
with remarkable thick ancles, has lightilh brown
hir, lately cut, a fear under bis chin, pretty sub
tle, but not talkative unless when in liquor; he can
read a little, but not write: Had on and took with
him when he went away, a turkey striped jacket with
beeves, and an under jacket of white coating, lined
with flannel, one fine fliirt, a pair of striped blue and
white trowfers, a pair of new shoes with yellow metal
buckles in them, a half worn caftor hat, bound
round with black ribbon, and one round the crown
for a band, and a striped blue and white silk hand
kerchief. Whoever takes up the said servant, and
secures him in any of his Majesty's goals, so that his
matter may have him again, shall have THREE
POUNDS reward, and if brought home, the above
reward, paid by
CHARLES WHITELOCK,
ISAAC COOPER.
N. B. All masters of vessels are hereby warned
not to carry him off at their peril.