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from Congress relative to a promotion of Brigadier Moul
trie, and are of opinion that it would be inexpedient to
promote Brigadier Moultrie, unless a more general pro
motion took place, as some other States think themselves
intitled to a promotion of their General Officers; but as
it may excite uneasiness arid difficulties unless a Conti
nental Officer commands the army in the southern diftria,
it will be best to make a special appointment of Brigadier
" Moultrie to be Commandant of the southern army.
Whereupon.
Refolded, That Brigadier General Moultrie be com
mander, in the absence of Major General Lincoln, of the
southern army during its continuance to the southward of
North-Carolina, with the allowance of Major General on
' a separate command, until the further orders of Congress.
At a Meeting of the Citizens of Philadelphia and the li
berties thereof, on the igth ultimo, at the German
Seboobboufe in this City, it was
Refolded, " That a Committee be appointed to enquire
what persons are now remaining in this city and its envi
rons difaffeFted to the United States, and report the fame
to the Committee of the last Town Meeting as soon as
possible.
The Committee chosen are—William Bonham, Peter
Cooper, William Hardy, Theobald Scheibel, Dodor
Jam-s Fallon, James Rowan, Thomas Hale, Benjamin
Harbefon, Jacob Keehrnle, William Falconer, Francis
Gurney, and George A. Baker.
, Refolded, That this Meeting will, to the utmost of their
power, support the Committee in carrying the above re
solve into execution.
The Committee hereby give public notice to their fel
' low citizens, that they will fit at the Court house in this
c ; ty, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9 to 12
o'clock in the forenoon, where all thole who may have any
evidence again ft such persons, as above set forth, are re
queued to attend.
Philadelphia, June 4, 1779.
JAMES FALLON, Chairman.
Attest, George A. Baker, Secretary.
Extract of a letter from an officer on heard the brig Retalia
tion, commanded by Capt. Bell, dated St. Euflatia, Ma,
20, 1779, to his friend in this city.
" On the 14th instant, in fight of St. Kitts and St. Eu
ftatia, we fell in with an English cutter of <o fix-pounders
and 6 four-pounders, and a brig of 14 four-pounders, who
engaged us both at once. Tae engagement was very hot ;
the musket balls were showered on us like hail, and the
united vengeance of both directed by two inveterate and
IkiUful British commanders, yet none of us were either
killed or wounded. The engagement lasted two glasses.
As we only mounted 10 fix-pounders, 2 four pounders
and 4 swivels, and the engagement was viewed by a vast
.number of fpedators on both islands, it has redounded
much to Capt. Bell's honor: When he went on shore,
which was in about two hours after, it was in the midst of
the joyful acclamations of crouds of people.
" By several gentlemen from St. Kitts we learn, that
the cutter was font out to cruize for Captain Cunningham,
hut is now returned to St. Kitts with five feet water in her
hold, and the brig with considerable dwape,"
iffuiag Hores in their refpeaive difri^s, to examine the
fkte of the provisions and Hores, and fee that their Af
£ Plants are punctual in the discharge of their duty , and
they shall be allowed three dollars per day for their tra
velling expenses in making such circuits :
That an accurate lift of all the Commiffkries of Issues
be made out once in every three months and lodged with
the Bond of War ; and every such Commissary who sh ill
have been in the department for one year, previous to this
date, and now continues therein, shall be intitled to draw
out of the Cloathier General's -store one suit of cloaths for
himfelf and one suit for iris Clerk, to be paid for at the
fame rite that officers in the line are charged for the fame;
and ttyat they continue annually to do the fame until Con
gress mall order otherwise.
Resolved, That all Deputy Qparter-Mafters General
who tranfaH business upon commissions, shall not be en
titled either to pay or rations; but where they all with
out receiving such commissions, whether Rationed at a
post or with the army, they Brill be allowed two hundred
dollars per month, two rations per day, and forty dol
lars per month fubfi fience:
That the pay of an Assistant Quarter Master be one
hundred and forty dollars per month, and the usual ra
tions and subsistence:
That the pay of a Deputy Waggon Matter General be
one hundred dollars per month and one ration per day,
and twenty dollars per mongo subsistence, and that a Wag
gon Master be allowed eighty dollars per month, one ra
tion per day, and ten dollars per month fubfifteuce:
That a Deputy Commissary General of Forage attending
the main army, or attached to an army in a separate de
partment, be Flowed the fame pay and rations as a De
puty Quarter Mafier- General ailing without commissions:
That the Assistant Commiflaries of Forage, either at
• tending the army to collect forage on a march, or thofs
employed in purchasing under the principal purchasers in
diftriAs, shall have the fame allowance as the Assistant
Deputy Quarter -Makers-General ; and the Forage Mas
ters who attend the receipt and issues of forage at posts or
magazines, and one with each brigade of the army, be
allowed the fame pay and rations as Waggon Masters;
That all StafFOfficers who serve with the army, shall
be allowed eloathing on the fame conditions as officers in
the line, provided they engage for a year or longer.
The Committee appointed to enquire into the state of the
Pennsylvania troops, and to report whether an additional
Brigadier is wanting for the troops of that State, and to
whom was referred a letter from Mr. President Reed to
the Delegates of the State of Pennsylvania, which was laid
before Congress the 26th of January last, brought in a re
port, and the fame being read,
Refolded, That an additional Brigadier be appointed
for the Pennsylvania troops, and that to-morrow be align
ed for the appointment.
Col. W. Irwine was nominated by the Committee.
Mey 12. Gongrefs proceeded to the election of a Bri
gadier for the State of Pennsylvania, and the ballots be
19g taken,
Colonel William irwine was elected.
May >3. The Board of War report,
That they have taken into confederation the reference
his friend in this city, dated June 3
" This morning lam informed by a gentleman of ve
racity, that an express arrived yeftefday at Baltimore from
Governor Johnston, informing that two ships of force,
supposed to be frigates, were founding up the bay, and
that there appeared eight or ten other vessels in their rear;
that Col. Brice of Annapolis, in one of our galleys, had
been down to reconnoitre the enemy, and left them at 9
o'clock on Tuesday evening, just off James's island, near
the mouth of Patuxent, and that he had fired a few eigh
teen pound fliot at the two fortmoft ships, which were
founding the ba,, that they toolc no .notice of him, and
that he was so anxious to know who- and what they were,
and went so ciofe to them that at length he was obliged
to put into Choptank. This I have thought it neces
sary to inform you o', as my last was so flattering."
By several accounts fron. the southwestward, since our
last, of theist ioflant, by Capt. Cannon, we have great
reason to believe, is not without foundation, though no
messenger is arrived with the particulars
*[* The REPUBLICAN SOCIETY meets tHs even
ing precisely at seven o'clock at M-. Duff's tavern. Tne
Members are requeued to be punctual in their atten
dance.
Mr. PRINTER,
I AM one of those who think that a regulation of primes
is abfelutely necessary. I am fore every man inert
with it, as the only means to get rich. Some people think
that we ought to have a regulating law—but Ido not con
ceive that the regulation of prices is the bufim fs of govern
ment, neither do I with to fee such an example set, if it
can be otherwise effected, left it fliould Income an exam
ple for the legislature to do it hereafter as a matter of
right.
We have all been wrong in our notions of getting rich.
It is true, we have got money. I have more money than
ever I had, but I ahn poorer than I ever was.
I had money enough some time ago to buy a hogshead
of sugar. I fold it again and got a great deal more money
for it than it cost me; yet what I fold it for, when I went
to market again, would buy but a tierce I fold dint tierce
for a great deal of profit; yet the whole of what I fold it
for would afterwards buy buta barrel. I have now more
money than ever I had, yet I am not so rich as wuen I nad
less : This is what ( have experienced myfelf, and I believe
every man in town and country feels the fame lots. lam
sure we shall all grow poorer and poorer unless we all fall
on some method to lower our prices, and then the money
We have to (pare will be worth something. lam ciao to
fee the affair began upon. May God give it success ; and
let all the -people fay AMF, N.
From the United States MAGAZINE,
For MAY 1779.
.King GEORGE the Third's SOLILOQUY.
OD AMN this Congress, damn each upfart state,
On whose commands ten thousand warriors wait :
From various climes that dire assembly came,
True to their trust yet hostile to my fame ;
'Tis these, ah these, have ruin'd half my sway,
Difgrac'd my arms, and led my realm artray.
France aids them now, (I play a desperate game)
And fun-burnt Spain, they fay, will do the fame.
My armies vanquifh'd, and my heroes fled,
My people murmuring, and my commerce dead,
My fhatter'd navy, pelted, bruis'd, and clubb'd,
By Dutchmen bully'd, and by Frenchmen drubb'd;
My name abhorr'd, my nation in disgrace,
What fliould I do in such a mournful case ?
My hopes and joys are vanish'd with my coin,
My ruin'd army, and my loft Burgoyne !
What shall I do? confefs my labours vain,
Or whet my tusks, and to the charge again.
But where's my force? my choicest troops are fled,
Some thousands crippled, and a myriad dead.
If I were own'd the stoutest of mankind,
&d hell with all her rage infpir'd my mind,
Could I at once with France and Spain contend,
And fight the rebels on the world's green end?
Yet rogues and savage tribes I must employ,
And what I cannot conquer will destroy.
Is there a robber close in Newgate hemm'd?
Is there a cut-throat fetter'd and condemn'd ?
Haste, loyal slaves, to George's flandard come,
Attend his lectures when you hear tee drum,
Your chains I break, for better days prepare,
Come out my friend from prison and from care:
Far to the weft I plan your defp'rate way,
There 'tis nc fin to ravage, burn, and flay ;
There without fear your bloody trade pursue,
And shew mankind what British rage can do.
Ye daring hosts that croud Columbia's Ihore,
Tremble, ye traitors, and exult no more ;
Flames I shall hurl with an unceasing hand,
Till fires eternal blaze throughout your land,
And every dome and every town expires,
And traitors perish in the unfeeling tires.
But hold—tho' this be ail my foul's desire,
Will my own towns be proof to rebel fire ?
If in revenge my raging foes should come,
And burn my London it would strike me dumb,
To fee my children and my queen in tears,
And these tall piles come tumbling round my cars,
Would to its inmost caverns fright my mind,
And stun outflf, the boideft of mankind.
Curs'd be the day when firft I saw the fun,
Curs'd be the hour when I this war begun ;
The fiends of darkness then infpir'd my mind,
And powers unfriendly to the human kind:
My future years I consecrate to woe,
For this great loss my foul in tears fliall flow.
To wafting grief and fallen rage a prey,
To Scotland's utmost verge I take my way ;
With Nature's storms eternal concert keep,
And while her billows rage, as fiercely weep:
O let the earth my rugged fate bemoan,
Aud give at least one Sympathizing groan.
We have the pleasure of informing our readers, that
Captain Barry, in the brig Delaware, with four others,
arrived in this port yesterday, in fourteen days from
Hispaniola, loaded with Wert-India produce and dry
goods.
Extract ofa letter from a gentleman at4he Head of Elk, to
Philadelphia, sane 4.
FIFT f DOLLARS RETARD;
9 AN AW AY in the night of the 2dlnrt. from
the fuoiertber, living in Font fti% near PdU^'6
Bridge, a HAFAri named JOHN SMITH, abnuc
fi.e f.^t four inches high, tan cowphxion, and light
g<ey eyes; Hui on a Laver hat, a Russia linen fhT.-f,
a blown cra\ leather breeches, thread flocking; tod
shoes, and silver buckles : He dlfo took with himiud
goQ coats, one a London brown arid the other a pWa
hrowr, two white fonts, a blue cott'ori handkerchief, a
p>.a 6 new boots, .nd a pair of plated spurs. A fellow
went off with him d.< fed in a blue coat ikied «nd edged
witn r:d, with leather breeches, due woclien flockings;
an fh.it boots; of a fair complexion and likely facr-
Whoever tikes up ride Did Heffi;n and scores him, so
tnat I tray have mm again, shall receive the above re
ward ami lealonablc charges, paid by
BENJAMIN G. EYRE.
i 0 BE SOLD BY
J O H N GROVE S;
The weft fide of F.ont-ftreet, bei^ea Market Ind
Chefnut-ttreets, at the store lately occupied by Mess.
C x and Lawrence,
R ° "°y * e hogfhe^d, Sinjar by the hogshead or bar
rel, Coffee by the bag, Boulting-cloths, &c. 6.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
WAS STOLEN last night, from the house of
$ Samuel Potts, the sign or the Wheat Sheaff on
the Bristol road, eight miles from Philadelphia, the
following articles, viz. two feather beds with Griped
ticks; five sheets, two Russia and three home made ;
one calico bed quilt, one fide India, the other tide dark
calico; one pale blue and yellow home made corerlid,
wove in di monds. The above articles were stolen by
a person who came for lodgings; a man of a dark com
plexion, with black hair, of a middling size, Hoops a
little; had on a cloth-coloured great coat, and leather
breeches. Whoever apprehends laid thief and goods,
so that the thief be brought to justice, fh % ll have the
above reward, or FIFTY DOLLARS for the
goods, paid by
June 4. SAMUEL POT T£.
SIXTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY last night from the fubferiber living in
Alexandria, a likely young Negros man, named
DICK, about 24 years of age, a low well set fellow, has
three remarkable fears on each fide his face, bein^his
country mark, speaks very little English; had on an< took
with him, a country linen shirt, a brown ditto, a fuper
fine red broad eloath double breasted jacket, a blue coat,
country linen trowfers, and many other cloathes; also a
large old bed rug: He knows the country very well, @d
did bel®ng to Dr. William Mills, of North-Carolina, from
whom he ran away about three years ago, and was put in
to Lancaster gaol, and on hie return to Alexandria, I pur
chased him ofan Agent, appointed by Dr Mills to fell
him. Whoever takes up said Negro, and secures him,
so that I may get him again, shall have the above reward,
and ail other expences paid, if brought home.
MICHAEL G-RETTER.
'April 5, 1779. 1.
COX AND LAWRENC E,
Have for sale at their store in Front-street, below Wal
nut, street, next door to Mess. Conyngham, Nefbitt.
and Co's.'
fyfADEIRA Wine by the pipe, quarter-cwfk or
gallon; French Brandy, Wert-India Rum, Muf
covado Sugar in barrels, and a quantity &f the belt Vir
ginia Cotton*
^,HE SYNOD of New-York and PhL
ladelphia, t k ng into confederation the low and
declining state of religion and the abounding of iniqui
ty amongst us, for which ankoly God yet continues t?
visit our country with his righteous juety ments, appoint
the fourth Thursday of July to be ohferved by the
Chu^ch+a under their .care, as a Day of Public Falling
and Prayer.
JOHN EWING, Moderator.
Philadelphia, June 4.
nr H E Commissioner? for confiscated Estates
& in th - county 01 Philadelphia, and the Lieutenants
of laid counts are deft ed to meet the Commiffionets
appointed to fettle their ac< bun s on the fifteenth of this
intt*nt, at Cel. Benjamin M'Veaucm's, in Frankford,
at Ten o'flock in the forenoon, with their accounts,
in cider to proceed to fettl rnent as the Law directs.
BENJAMIN MWEAUGH, ?
ROBER I CURFY, > Commissioners.
JACOY LAUGHLIN, )
The UNITED STATES
M A GAZIN E,
F>r M A V,
I. just pu'lifned an 1 to be fold by FR A.NCIS
BAIL £Y, in Marktt-fheet,
CorCs'n'n^, ?rabng,t a variety & entertaining pieces,
% CH A RG E delivered t, the graduates in medi
> Cine, &c. Mat-ria's for an account of the taking
Fort M^ n. Remarkable encounter of a White-man
and two Indians. Signal prowess of a woman in a com
bat Nth I me Indians. Method of preparing green tea
in A mer ca. The conftirution of the C Mhmonwealth of
P-nHliv - a. Kicg George the Third's fokloqu},
A J Auneymaji Bookbinder may have employment;
by applying to F aneis Baily.
W A N-T E D,
To frperin^nd the hulmefe cf a FAR M in MuiyDnd,
A PERSON sober, careful, indurfricu#, ard well
fL a°qu dated with Agriculture arid the management
cd bo?k. Such a perlon wdl oe treat'd with by appli
cation to IV ILLIAM BELL, in Front-street, n^ar
Ar.i.-fti\.&t, 'Philadelphia.