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Said Roe and Company hope for encouragement
from the public, as they ae determired to pay the
ftri&eft attention to befinefs, and, as,far as in their
power, give fatis^dion to those who pleafcto favour
them with their custom.
They hope to be excused the common mode of tel
ling the public, their goods are remarkably low: they
with, and only wait, for an opportunity of convincing
them, by flawing the quality, and telling the prices
of toar goods, which they flatter themselves, will be
the best and molt pleasing method to convince the
purchasers that their prices are moderate.
To be Disposed of by private
S AL E,
At the CITY VENDUE-STORE, in Front street,
between Market and Arch-streets,
PLAIN and striped Lutettrings,
Sattirs and Peelongs,
Black Sik Laces,
Striped Mullins,
Furniture Chintzes,
Coatfe and fine L^vd Linens,
Womens linen Gloves and Mitts,
Silesia Sheetings,<,
Raffia Duck,
Dutch and Scotch Oznabrigs,
German Serges,
Small Looking Glaff^s,
Writing Paper, &c. &c.
Notice is hereby given to the
Freeholders and other Electors of. the County nf. Phila
delphia, that a Meeting will he held on Business of im
portance, at the House of JACOB NEFF, nea, Chef.
LUt-hill, on Saturday the 2910 inftani, at 1, o'clock
rathe morning. Philadelphia county, Sept. 21
T O B ^—-—-£-—,
A Negro Man, Woman, and two Children: the
.{1 maQuuderftaads driving a carriage and taking care
''ho/fes ; he likewise undeftards all kinds of work
about a farm , the woman can do every kind cf house
work. Apply to the printer.
Superfine Broad Cloths of
various coleus
Second ditto
Brown, claret, olive, black
blue and /ported Cordu
roys
Black Ever! Rings
S^rge D^nefme
Durants of all colours
Shalloons ditto
Cord d& flowered Dimity,
Blue, black, and crimson
callman toes,
Bengali and Ginghams,
A large assortment of
beautiful' Chintzes and
Calicoes
Marseilles Quilting
Black and white Satfins
Black and white Modes
Sarfnetts and Peelongs
White, brown, green, blue
and Rriped elltwidePer
fians
Half yard ditto
Taffetys and Mature,
Brocades and Ltfteftrin,
Sewing Silks of all colours
Cambricksand -Lawns
Flowered and Minionet
L^^ns
^Mullin and Kenting
Handkerchiefs
Plain and (biped Mullin
Bandxhoe and Barcelona
Silk Handkerchiefs
Irish and'Ruffia Sheetings
WALTER ROE, & Company,
At their Store, on the north fide of Market-street,
foui doors below Fourth-ftrcet, in Mr. Owen Jones's
house,
ARE now opening a large and neat assortment of
merchandize, imported in the last vessels frcm
Europe, which they will fell by wholesale and retail,
bn the most reasonable terms, for ready money, viz.
VOL. X.l
THURSDA Y,
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OR, THE
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
irifh, French and German
Linens
Laval! Linens
Three-fourths and Yard
wide Britannia's
Fine and coarse Scoch
Threads
Colour-d ditto
Silk, Cotton, Thread and
Worsted Hole
Silk and Worded Breeches
Patterns
Purple and white Gloves
Ladies Fans
Tapes and Bobbins
Black, Blond arid Thread
Lace
Ribbands
Seven-eights, yard-wide,
and yard and three
eights cotton Checks
Spotted and coloured
Jeans
Pins by the Packet
Pocket Handkerchiefs
Writing Paper
Snuff in Bottles
A neat Assortment of
Glass and China Ware
A tmall Assortment of
Ironmongery
Clock Movements and
Faces
Salt
Cotton by the Bag and.
Smaller quantity
Bohea Tea, ^c. &c. &c.
Office of Finance.
September 12, 1781,
IN purfunnce of an a& of the United States in Con
gress afferebled, Notice is hereby given, that propo
lais will be received in this office, from the date hereof
until theist day of October next, inclusive : For fupply
in ^ by contrast, the rations deliverable by the public
at the post of Wyoming, to such Officers, Soldier# and
others, as are or may be entitled to them, from a certain
time to be fixed in the contrast until the expiration of
twelve months thereafter. The rations to consist of
One pound of Bread, r
One pound of Beef, or three quarter of a pound
of Pork,
One gill of good Wirfcy,
And of One quart of Salt, \to every hundred
Two quarts of Vinegar,) rations.
81b. of Soap, \ to every seven hun
31b. of Candles, ) dred rations.
The contractors to issue the said rations: The pay
ments to be made in gold - r silver at the times to be
Stipulated in the contra:. The proposals to bs fentin
Sealed and to contain the lowest prices, and longe
terms of payment at which the parties will contra^. ^
N. B. The Stipulations tc be entered into may be
feefl in the draft of a contra at this office
TO BE SOL D,
By the Subferiber,
THAT beautiful Situated Farm, ca'led F A.I R
VIE W, containing two hundred and Sixty five
acres.of land: Ont hundred acres of which are extraor
dinary good meadow, and well bank'd, having lately
been put into the best order; another hundred acres
are fit for the plow; and the remaining Sixty five are
woid land about two miles from the house. A beauti
ful two story frame hopfe well finished, forty-four Let
front by thirty-eight feet deep, four rooms on a floor,:
with fire places in each, a good garret with four good
rooms Suitable for Servants, in one of which is a fire,
place ; a large entry, ten rtcet by thirty-eight, through
the centre ; four good airy cellars under the whole,
paved with brick and separated by lattice, one of them
was designed lor a kitchen, having a fire place and oven
in it. A well of good water at the door: a fine fpring
houfe on a never failing Stream, a few ya^ds from the
house, capable of containing the milk of a large dairy ;
barn, ftabies, cow-house with stall& for twenty fix C t
tle, cyder-house, two large Sheds, barracks, coach, house,
granary, corn cribs, &c. two fine orchards of bet ten
two and three hundred apple-trees ; one of themtontain
ing about ninety -trees is in its prime, and the other
began to bear this season: peach orchard, pears, plumbs,
and cherries of ihefbeft kind ; a good garden near the
heufe. The whole under good fence, with cedar and
rails.§
This plantation is Situated in a good neighbourhood,
on the river Delaware, and on the great road from Phi
ladelphia to New-York ; nineteen miles from Philadel
phia, half a mile from the borough of Bristol, and one
mile from Burling ton in New-Jersey. For farther par
ticulars enquire of the fubferiber on the premises.
JOHN CLARK.
Philadelphia, Sept. 21.
The Subferiber begs leave to in
form the PUBLIC, and his FRIENDS more particu
larly, thzt he is removed to that commodious and well
known stand, at the Sign of the King of Prussia, in
Race-lheet, between Third and Fourth streets, where
he is furnished with large and excellent LIVERY
STABLES. All Gentlemen who shall please to favour
him with their Cuftorp, may depend on being received
in the best Manner, and the greatest Care and Atten
tion paid to themselves and horses: By their humble
Servant, ISAAC ALLEN, Junior.
ABSENTED himfelf this morning^a Negro LAD,
named DUBLIN, about 14, years of age, well
left and likely, has a pleaUnt countenance, born in the
XV est- ladies, is sensible and ipeaks English pretty well:
Had on when he went away, a coat and overalls of ua
b'eached country made linen, a waistcoat of yellow
cloth with yellow metal buttons, a round hat with fib.
ver loops, and had on shoes and dockings. Whoever
takes up 'he above described Negro, and delivers him
to JOHN WILCOCKS, Esquire, shall receive a
GUINEA Reward. Philadelphia, Sept. 24.
T HE
LONDO N.
HOUSE otCOMMON S, June 12.
ABOUT four o'clock Mr. Fox came down, and o
pened hisspeech by frying, that after having been
a witness of the want of success in a motion feme time
ago made by an honourable friend cf his refpe&ing A
merica, (Mr. Hartley) he should not now rife to make
another, had not fomefrefh matter cometo light, which
seemed to render it abfohrely.neceffar,. What he al
luded to was the dispatches lately received from lord
Cornwallis, and published in the Gazette. He said,
when he had spoke on the motion of his honourable
friend, he had then predi&ed what this . Gazette had
confirmed ; and did not believe the Gazette was form
ed on what he had foretold, notwithstanding it so ex
a&ly tallied withwhat he dreaded. He then paid lord
Cornwallis many very high compliments for his activity
and military (kill. He said he (lord Cornwallis) had
been led to believe that a march into the southern colo
nies would be attended with no difficulties, yet that was
evidently not the case, for the rains had so swelled the
rivers that they had obftru&ed him. He said ministry
in that house always said that the inhabitants in the fouth
trn colonies were those most friendly disposed to our
government; yet thatin no refpe& appeared. He said,
when the ministry wanted supplies to be voted, and wifli
"V' 0 ^°™ '"' ^luiements for going on with the Ame
rican war, they represented the American army as con
futing of very few, arid those ill-furnifhed and accou
tred, and discontented; but in that estimation they
meant only the American Standing army; they never
included the militia, which was a Strong and formidable
body of troops ; yet when any viapry was gained, they
then praised the valour of the kin # 's troops in Standing
against so many thousands of the Americans, and then
they carefully included the militia.
Mr. Fox then reasoned to Shew under what greatdif
advantages this country carried on the war, compared
to the French, whose troops being joined with Ameri
cans, and in a country amicable tothem and their cause,
found no difficult, in obtaining provisions, while our
2rrr! y was obliged to be Supported with provisions from
Britain. He then said he did not wish this country to hold
cutymmedia ely independence to America ; he did not
wish that to be done ; but he wished to give America
independence, on condition of securing to this country
some advantage by a treaty to be previpufly entered
into.
Mr, Fox concluded his speech, replete with close,
found, and convincing arguments, by moving that the
speaker leave the chair, and the house resolve itfelf into
a committee to confider on the state cf the war in Ame
rce ; and in the committee, he said, he should move a
resolution, recommending it to his majesty's ministers
to propose term; for peace with America : For the pre
fect, he ooved for the house going into the committee.
LorriWeftcote answered Mr. Fox, and said, could
he conceive the motion of the honourable gentleman
to have a tendency in the least to that defined end he had
in view, the restoring peace, he would gladly support
it; but he feared it woulri not. The gentleman had
called the American war an accursed war; for his part
he conceived it much more so than those wars that
were distinguished by the appellation of holy wars; it
had been, he said, a cruel war to many, and to him a
mongst others, having loft in it a son he dearly loved.
His lordship said he Should on Several grounds objeft
to the present motion, as he conceived it unconstituti
onal; for that the constitution of this country being
composed of monarchial, ariftocratical and democrati
cal branches, in the firft of which the power of making
peace and war was lodged, he therefore thought any
such recommendation wed d be an encroachment of the
democratic on the monarchic part, and therefore im
proper. If his majesty's miniftm, his lordship added,
should ever have it in their power to make peace on ad
vantageous terms, and negle& or refofe it, then let the
house cf commons call them to a Severe account, and
let a punishment equal to the magnitude of their of
feree be infl &ed on them ; but till they came before
them so accused, and convinced thereof, he held the
house of commons had np right whatever to interfere
with the executive part of the constitution, to which
branch the right of making peace and war certainly to
longed. He therefor should oppose the motion.
The hon. Mr, Pratt said a few words in support of
Demotion.
S:r Thomas Clarges Gid he had voted on a former
ocerfion for the continuance of the American war, on
an affurarice from ministry, of their fuccels; that
he had Seen nothing in the least of that tendency, and
Should therefore support the present motion.
Mr. T. Townfh nd spoke in support of the motion ,
he laid the American war only tended to enrich knaves,
who procrastinated it while they drained the pockets
of the people of this country, and the fools were the
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