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The 17 - of Frulto, we hear, is m^ch fallen
in his A Biands relative to the transit duties; but
v nether this arises from the dread he entertains,
font the harmony now fubfiftiog between the
courts of Great-oritain and Versailles, a very
lew months will discover.
It is confidently faih that Lord Chatham is to
be head of the ministry before Christmas, admi
nistration being obliged to come into his terms,
vox. the Jo e guidance of afairs ; as it is found by
experience the present administration not only
have loft the confidence of the people at home,
but nave caused the alienation of a great number
of his M Jetty's American fubjeds ; both which
t ievances.it is expected, will be red-effed, and a
perfect rec rnediarion brought about by that ex
perienced Statesman.
A correspondent observes, that taking it for
printed that the English Parliament have a right
, > tax the people of America, when and how they
pEaSe; yet there leems fomethiog tyrannical in
condemning men unheard, that it is but juftand
reasonable, while bills are depending in Parliament
relating to them, that they Should be heard by
their agents and council, and that nothing fliould
be done to affect their interests, without their hav
ipg an opportunity of (hewing every objection,
hardship, inequality, or injustice that might at
tend it.
Extract of a better from Paris, Nov. 2.
“ There never was so much unanimity and
good understanding in the ministry of France as
there is under this reign. They mutually assist
one another for the establishment of the finances,
for the liquidation of the national debts, arrears
o' salaries, and the interest upon loans, to ra-efta
bEh the loftcredit. The more they examine into
the preceding administration, the more they dis
cover their dissipation and bad policy. To sum
mon the Chiefs to give an account of their con
duA is beneath the clemency and greatness of
foul of the reigning Sovereign. To pardon the
guilty, ease his fubje&s, and render them happy,
is his ambition.
" The affair of the loans has been on the tapis;
Holland made offers, but afterhaving deliberately
examined into the inexhaustible refourfes of the
Rate, it was determined not to burthen it with
new debts."
From the LONDON GAZETTEER of Nov. 9.
A S a friend to the public in general, I beg
JL leave to suggest one confederation to thole
whom it may concern, respecting the operations
at Boston.
1 donor know what number of inhabitants the
town contains, but I imagine they are very nume
rous ; and as their trade is ar an end, it muJinevi
rably happen that many are reduced to the utmost
distress for want of subsistence, notwithstanding
the largcSEs sent to them by other colonies.
The certain consequence of Scarcity of provi
fon is, the consumption of much unwholfome food ;
and the certain effect of this is, sickness and dis
eases, alnipft pestilential.
Should this be the state of things at Boston,
which that it will be so appears molt probable, is
it likely that our troops, or even the sailors and
marines, shall totally escape the contagion ?
And for what purpose are we exposing a popu
lous city, a considerable part of the Englilh army,
a paitofthe Butifh fleet to such hazards ? Let
those who know inform us ; I cannot. From so
much as I have hearo of the matter, I cannot but
think a little good humour on our fide would
Eave produced the like on the other, and a few
good-natured, sensible people would have fettled
in half an hour a bufiuefs which is made of conse
quence by a few who wi(h to profit by confufion.
There are not a set of more ufeful fubjeCts, nor
more loyal, in any part of the British dominions,
than in America; nay, I think I may add, than in
New-England; but they have their tempers as
well as John Bull; and if he fays sternly they Jball
eat no hard dumplings, they may pofibly reply,
but aveiviH; and about such a wife affair as this
we are hazarding every thing. N. L.
B O S T O N, December 29.
Several extracts from the proceedings ot the
'Continental Congress, are publiihed in the Lon
don papers; also, many accounts of the risings of
the people, throughout New England, occasioned
by the Seizing ofthe powder at Charleftowo.
A gentleman arrived at Salem in a vessel from
Cape Nichola-Moie, which he left the 17th No
vember; just as he was coming away a vessel ar
rived from the island of Cuba, which the left only
two days before, the matter of which informed
him that he was obliged to quit the island in the
greatest hurry, and leave all his cargo behind,
there being so many Spanish vessels cruizing to
intercept all provision vessels bound to the island
of Jamaica, that it was hardly possible for any to
escape; this may be depended on as a fa&, and all
the French and Spaniards were employed night
and day in repairing and building fortifications
with the greatest expedition, and furnishing all
their garrisons with a large stock of provisions and
ammunition; during his stay at the Mole, trans
ports were arriving daily with troops and pro
visions.
AT a meeting of the delegates from the se
veral towns in the county of Plymouth,
according to adjournment, December 22, 1774.
Refolded, That such justices in this county,
who have not made, or shall not in one month
from this date, make reparation for the injury
done their country by addressing General Gage
and Governor Hutchinfoo, in the manner they
did, at the last July term in this county, are and
ought to be edeemed enemies of the country,
and after the expiration of one month from the
date hereof, be dealt with, as the virtue and re
sentment ofthe people in the country shall direct.
(A true Copy.) THOMAS LOTHROP, Clk.
,By a gentleman from Liverpool we are inform
ed, That the merchants, and people in general,
at Liverpool, and as far round as he could learn,
were heartily disposed in favour of America ;
I hat Sir William Meredith declared openly, be
fore and at his ele^ion for Liverpool, his fenti
ments ^gainft the metfures of adniniftiatfon to
wards the colonies: That the order of his Ma
jesty in council, prohibiting the exportation of
gun powder, arms, &c. had ifopped ten or fifteen
large (hips there, alrnoftready for the sea, bound
to the coast of Africa.
Capt. Lothorp, from Turk's-Lland to New-
London , on the 26th of November, in Lat. 2^ N.
and Long. 7 rW. met with the Hull of afchooner
difmafted ; file had bright sides and black stern,
with yellow mouldings, red quarter-boards, with
white Flower de Luces, a lumber-port forward
and another abaft; had find ballast, about 12
hogSheads of MelaSLs, and about two feet of wa
ter in her hold ; appeared to be eastern bui t,
about a year old, with a long quarter-deck, her
cabin papered; had been ft.-ipped of every thing
worth taking, the melaffes excepted, and had no
person on board,
PHILADELPHIA, foarvg.
The Committee of the City and Liberties
of Philadelphia will meet this afternoon, at Five
o'clock, at the Philosophical Society's Hall.
On Sunday morning, theist inst. departed this
life, just entered into her 16th year, Miss RE
BECCA DOZ, youngest daughter of Mr.
ANDREW DOZ, and on the Tuesday fol
lowing her remains, attended by many fympathe
tic friends and refpe&able inhabitants, were de
posited in Christ Church burying ground.
It is a little remarkable that this young Lady
unknowingly should have drawn so exaCt a portrait
of herfelf when, about five months ago, flie fe
leded the following lines for a deceased companion,
" Her pleasing converse bv gay lively sense
" In/'pir'd; where moral wisdom live, floone,
" Without the toil of art: and virtue glow'd
" In all her smiles, without forbidding pride."
Her natural qualities, her acquirements, the
degree of excellence to which (he had attained,
are her Funeral Eulogy : they are known.
" Silence speaks more eloquently than words !"
Ht a general meeting of the inhabitants of the coun
ty of Cumberland, ie New-Jersey, held at
Bridge-town, on Thursday, the 22d day of De
cember, 1774.
H E articles ofthe AfTociation entered into
by the American Continental Congress
being publicly read, were unanimously approved
of; whereupon it was resolved, that a committee
of thirty-five persons be appointed to carry the
fame into execution throughout the county; ac
cordingly the following persons were chosen, viz.
Abraham Jones, Thomas Malkell, Ephraim'Har
ris, Silas Newcomb, Ephraim Seely, Daniel
Elmore, Jonathan Ayres, Elijah Hand, David
Bowen, and Joshua Brick, Esquires; Messieurs
John Wheaton, Benjamin Mulford, Abijah
Holmes, Thomas Brown, Joel Fithian, Daniel
Malkell, John Gibbon, Michael Hofhell, Tho
mas Daniel, Jonathan Smith, William Aul, Jo
seph Sheppard, Isaac Preston, Samuel Leak,
Mark Ryley, John Buck, Ezekiel Foster, Joseph
Newcomb, Jonathan Lore, John Terry, Gideon
Heaton, Richard Wood, Joshua Ewing, John
Laning, and Thomas Ewing.
As soon as the committee were chosen, they
were publicly informed, that a quantity of Tea
had been secretly landed at Greenwich, and that
the inhabitants of that town had taken the alarm,
and had cholen a pro tempore committee of five
persons, to take care of the fame until the com
mittee of the county was chosen; the general com
mittee then withdrew, in order to confider what
should be done in the affair, and came into the
following resolution, namely, That this Commit
tee, being ignorant of the principles on which the
laid tea was imported, or whence it came, and
not being able to get information thereof, by rea
son of the importer's abfer.ee, do think it belt to
have it privately Stored, and agree to meet at ten
o'clock to-morrow, in order to take care of the
fame. Accordingly they met the next day agree
able to appointment, and found to their furprize
that the tea had been destroyed, by persons un
known, thenight before, at the time the commit
tee were fitmg at Bridgetown ; whereupon the
committee further entered into the resolves fol
lowing :
I. That we entirely disapprove ofthe destroy
ing the abovementioned tea, it being entirely con-'
trary to our resolves.
11. 1 hat we will not conceal, nor protest from
justice, any ofthe perpetrators ofthe above fact.
Extrafl from the minuter of the Committee,
Thomas Ewing, Clerk.
To the Printer of the Pennsylvania Packet.
Pieafe to insert the following in your paper, which
will ob.ige several of your readers.
I BELIEV E our times have not produced a
parallel with the prefect, in which the dis
pleasure of the Almighty so evidently appears in
the confufions and mifearriages ofthe state, occa
sioned undoubtedly by the general depravity of
the people, and their forgetfulnefs ofGod, which
seems to have rendered them ripe for correction.
Nothing more is at any time requisite in order
to bring this to pass, than the Almighty's with
drawing his divine aid and immediate support to
any people, and leaving men to pursue their own
ways, which lead them into error and confufion
as certainly as their most languine enemies could
desire.
We may blame the conduct of one another, as
though the evils felt were wholly chargeable upon
them, when perhaps they had the least ffiare, and
deserve the least blame in the a& we censure; and
so it needs must be, while people judge from with
out, by their own heedless apprehensions: They
look upon the last hand through which an evil
came, as the sole productive cause; when it may
be that inadvertency, or some unavoidable acci
dent, might utterly difeoncert the intentions of
the aftor, who is nevertheless exposed to the re
sentment of those who have most of all contri
buted to his ill success: It being the Grand Ene
my's business to divert mankind from considering
the real cause of their afflictions, by presenting in
struments as the only source of their misfortunes;
well knowing that so long as the productive cause
of our miseries exists, the deßrnCtiori of the ia
ftrument will avail nothing to our security.
What greater insensibility of a Divine Provi
dence can there be, than to suppose that by en
gaging and defeating our outward enemies, our
peace would be eftablilhed, though our sis re
mained the fame? when, in truth, were all Tofe
who now oppose ns cut off, our fafety would not
be one tittle nearer than at present, unless the
enemy within was vanquished; for whilst we con
tinue in our fins he whole cower over us co Ifills
therein, will ner@r want instruments to work our
ruin. There is not a foul, capable of knowing
its duty to God, but daily adds to, or diminzhes
this power: There is no neuirality here. Thole
who eled a Reprefeotative may as well fay they
had no hand in bringing in the man they vored
for, as those who have refilled the conviction of
God's grace can fay they had no hand in intro
ducing the present calamities.
To know the cause and nature of a malady, is
absolutely neceflary in order to point out the cure.
If outward defects proceed from an inward griev
ance, in vain do we attempt to remove them by
external remedies, as they will inevitably break
out again if the root is not extirpated.
It highly promotes the mifehievous purpose of
our greatest I nemy, to have it imagined that our
trc übles proceed from the ambitious views of our
neighbours, the neglect of our superiors, or the
mifbehaviour of officers; we are thereby diverted
from confideringthe real source of these evils. To
those who only look without the latent cause is
concealed, but is plainly evident to those who
truly believe in the omnipotence and justice of
God: They know affuredlv, that all the designs
of the mod inveterate enemies are known to him,
and every attempt controuled by his power—that
the welfare of a nation A pendeth not on the con
duct of a few, farther then he fees meet to use
them as tie instruments of his will, to bring about
such events as the condition of those whom it
concerns may require: This being admitted, how
obvious are the means to avert the impending
calamities ? and how striking the necefiity of a
speedy application to them.
Outward dependance seems now to be more
than ever an ineffectual resource, a circumstance
that may in mercy be permitted to invite us to a
more sure defence ; to take up fuciiweapons as
never failed of victory.
Our adversaries were undoubtedly (to me at
least it appears so) raised up against us through
our iniquities; and as every tranfgreffbr has con
tributed thereto, so every one, without exception
of rank, Ration or condition in life, may be an
ufeful soldier in this war, by setting their hand
to a general reformation; removing thereby the
cause, and the effects cannot but disappear. An
objection may arise from the subtle difeourager of
whatever tends to a work which must end in his
defeat, that in so general a declension, what can
the efforts of so few as be likely to engage in this
manner avail? The answer is easy, as many can
witness ; that no one ever shut a door in this ser
vice for nought. The reward of those who do
engage is certain, though the number should not
be fufficient to obtain a total exemption fr@m a
public scourge, wherein the righteous may out
wardly fuffer with the wicked; for the treasure
of the righteous being out of the reach of mortals
cannot be taken from them, neither car the dorms
and tumults in time, deprive them of the peace
laid up in store for them hereafter.
“ Why transgress ye the commandment of the
“ Lord that ye cannot prosper ? Pecauie ye have
“ forfaken the Lord he hath forfaken you." 2d
Chron. xxiv. 20.
Whilst the Colonies are so justly alarmed with
the impending danger of the loss of English liber
ty, it may not be amiss for them to turn their
attention towards the Negro Captives, which mav
be a means (under the all commanding hand of
Providence) to avert the impending scourge.
“ Is not this the fad that I have chosen ? to
“ loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the
“ heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free,
“ and that ye break every yoke." Isaiah liii. 6.
To the Printer of the Pennsylvania Packet.
Your giving the following little extract from Thorn
foil's much admired poem on Winter, a place in
your next paper, ^iil oblige many, if not all of
your cufomers.
little think the gay licentious proud,
Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ;
1 hey, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth,
And wanton, often cruel, riot watte;
Ah little think they, while they dance along,
How many feel, this very moment, death
And all the fad variety of pain.
How many fink in the devouring flood,
Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,
By Shameful vaiience betwixt man and man.
How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms;
Shut from the common air, and common use
Of theirown limbs, How many drink the cup
Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread
Of misery. Sore pierc'd by Wintry winds,
How many Shrink into the sordid hut
Of cheailefs poverty. How many shake
With all the fiercer tortures of the mind,
Unbounded paflion, madness, guilt, remorse ;
Whence tumbled headlong from the height of life,
They furnish matter for the tragic muse.
Even in the vale, where wisdom loves to dwell,
With friendship, peace, and contemplation join d,
How many, rack'd with honest pallions, droop
In deep retir'd distress. How many Stand
Around the death-bed of their dearest friends,
And point the parting anguish. Thought fond man
Of these, and all the thousand namelels ills,
That one incessant struggle render life
One feene of toil, of Suffering, and of fate,
Vice in his high career would stand appall'd
And heedless rambling impulse learn to think;
The chnfcious heart of charity would warm,
And her wide wish benevolence dilate;
The social tear would rife, the social fah;
And into clear perfection, gradual bliss,
Refining still, the social passions Work.
*** T ^ public are cautioned to beware of
counterfeit Maryland Eight Dollar bills; as some
of them are now passing here, dated April i o th
I 77T —They look much blacker than the ge
nuine bills, and are altogether so badly done that
they may be easily detected.
, On Tuesday last, at the Ek<?G n for Officers cf
toe American Philosophical Society, the iGioMna
were chosen: 5
PRESIDENT
Do&or Benjamin Fran. lin.
VICE PRESIDENTS
G , LOWA ^ ^T Sam^l Rhoads,
Eq; Do&or Thomas Bond.
„? EC R F, T ARIE S.
Doxor William Smith, Robert STRETTrL
Jones, Doctor Benjamin Rush, Richard
WELLS.
CURATORS
Rittenhous G Thomas Bond,
Doctor Duffield. > J
treasure r.
Ikomas Coombe, Esq;
CUSTOMHOUSE, PHILADELPHIA
Inward Entries
N O N E.
, Outwards.
Stoop Mariah, S. Balle, London.
Ship F/iendfliip, T. lann, Falmouth.
Sch. Sally and Jenny, J. Sands, St. Lucia.
_. Cleare d.
Brig Dove, W. Timmons, Surinam.l
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, ^ u ^ publijbed, and to be fold by
JOSEPH CRUKSHANK
At his Printing office i H Market street, betv^ri
, r |" r j streets '"^ opposite Elbow-
Lane, Philadelphia,
POOR Will's POCKET
ALM A N A C K,
For the YEAR 1775.
a n l bt<adebbia, January '^, 177 c.
C A M E to the fubferiber's liable, 5 in
Fourth ftre t, between Lombard and South-
Itreets, on Fuefd ly evening about dusk, a lot tel
HORSE and a b ay M ARE : The Horse has a
ftnpe of white down his face, and had a 1^ r<,, )A
about his neck ; his off bind foot is white, "about
fourteen and a half hands high, and is (hod Before-
The Mare is also flhod before, has a ft .r in he)
forehead, and is about four een bands high. 2he
owners are desired to come, prove their pronerty,
pay charges and take them away.'
_ BENJAMIN HEMINGS.
Philadelphia, January 7, 1775.
To the P U B 1 I C.
WHERE AS Thomas Adair, late of Li
verpool, born in or about Hollywood, near
Beifaft, in Ireland, Mariner, has openly commit
ted that cruel a& of Bigamy; and as fufficient
proofs against this villain doth appear, Ido here
by promise to pay, or cause to be paid, the fiini of
TE N POUNDS, to any person or persons that
will apprehend or take up the hid Adair, and
bring him to me the fubferiber, in South v ark, or
commit him to the gaol of Phil delohia, or any of
his Majesty's gaols. And as there is no law in
Pennsylvania to prevent these cruel a£ts ofinfamy,
I hope all good men, particularly the fathers of
children, will apprehend the above villain, and all
such vill tins, that they mav he brought to condign
punishment. JOHN JONE S.
. "'. 'he frid Adair is about five feet five
inches high, of a fair complexion, well set, wears
his own light brown hair tied behind, and talks in
the Scots and Irish dialed : He has a variety of
changeable cloaths, and was formerly mate of the
fhm Liverpool, Capt. Beard.
Philadelphia. January 177 c.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, an Irish
servant lad named JOHN DAVISON,
by tiade a barber, about nineteen or twenty years
of age, five feet three or four inches high ; had
on when he uent away a grey coloured bearskin
coat with yellow metal buttons, a red waistcoat, a
pair of leather breeches, a pair of blue rib'd Lock
ings, and a pair of pinchbeck buckles. Whoever
takes up the said servant and brings him to his
mailer, shall have the above Reward.
PHILIP CLAMPHER.
N. B. All matters of vessels and others are for
bid to carry him off at their peril.
TO BE S'Dr
And may he entered on the 16th of May next,
AHO USE and LOT situate in the borough
of Chester, now in the tenure of Mrs. Mar
garet Carrey: It has been a noted store for many
years past, and is the most convenient Hand for
business in the place. The house is built ofbrick,
very commodious, two stories high, has three rooms
on the firft floor, beiides a large store in the front,
four rooms on the second, and three ceiled garrets
above; also cellars under the whole, contrived in
the belt manner. There is likewise a stone Tore
houfe adjoining, which has been used for a fdt
store, and will contain many thousand bushels, a
large garden neatly fenced with cedar boards, a
stone liable, with room above fufficient to contain
several tons of hay, a chaise house and I'undry other
conveniences; the whole in good repair.
Also to be SOLD, and entered on the twelfth
of April next, Eighteen acres of extraordinary
meadow ground, n>w in the tenure of Mr. David
Cowpland : Part of this land is rich improv'd
marsh, and from its fruition on Cheder c,eek,
which abounds with great quantities of rich mud,
the whole of it, at a very trifling expence, may he
brought to whatever degree of fertilitv the owner
pleases. There may likewise he opened on the
premises a good stone quarry, whicu lies elofe on
the edge of the creek, where flats ma. conflartlv
ply to carry away the done;. Any person inedrfog
to purch te, may know the terms by applying to
the fubferiber in Philadelphia.
DAVID JACKSON.
If the premises are not fold before the firk of
M rch next, they will then be leafed for a teim
of years.
N. B. The fubferiber rentiers those that are in
debted to him, to pay off their relpcdive accounts
without further notice, and those to whom he
Hands indebted, to call for their motley.
B E S 0 1. D,
Or exchanged for a FARM within twenty miles
cf trie city of Philadelphia,
TWENTY seven acres of meadow, and
fix acres of upland, with a good brick boule,
barn, and a v^ry line orchard, with a variety of
other fruit trees: It lies in Pahyunk townffiip,
about four miles from the city of Philadelphia, anp
can be rented for ninety pounds a year. Also, a
House and Lot in Second street, between Union
and Pine-Hreets, near the New Market in Phiia tl
phia, which can be rented for forty pounds a year.
Enquire of JOSEPH PENROSE.