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Reed and Forde,
Hzve now opened, at the STORE formerly occupied
by Budden, Lawrence, and Company, in Front-Sheet,
two doors above Market- ftre^t,
A neat Assortment of MERCHANDIZE,
Which they will fell low for Specie, Bills of Exchange,
or the new Emissions of any of the Rates.—
Among which are
BEST fuperfine and second Cloths, of white, blue,
green, brown, orange, and Bargee colours,
Caffimers of different colours,
Irilh and French Linens, Britannias and Dowlas,
Cotton and linen Checks,
Chintzes and Calicoes,
Camblets, Cambleteer and Merklingbergs,
Crapes, Poplins, Meffinets and Brilliants,
A neat variety of verry fine thread Hole,
Cambricks, Lawns and Kertings,
Catgut and Gauzes,
Belt Luteftrings, Earftnets ard Persians,
Peelon«s,, A'hmodes, &c. A LSO,
Weft- India Rum and Jamaica Spirits by the hogshead,
Mufeovado Sugars,
Coffee in barrels and lag',
Soap and Candles in box.j ; with a variety of other ne
c^ffary Articles,
U ITf'G 001557
To be Sold, reasonable for Cafb, By
Samuel Lewis Wharton,
At his Store, the fifth door north of the corner of
Walnut-street, in Water-street; Consisting of the fol
lowing Articles.
AN elegant Assortment of plain and
figured Silks,
Tamboured and silk knit Vests,
Black silk breeches Patterns,
Sewing Silk of different colours,
Silk Umbrelloes,
Plain and figured Ribbands,
Blond Lace, Gauzes, cap Wire,
Chintzes,
Manchester Muffins,
Cotten and thread Stockings,
Linen Jeans,
White and coloured Threads,
Pins, plated shoe and knee Buckles,
Folio and quarto writing Paper,
Wafers and Sealing wax,
ALSO, A handsome Assortment of Cambricks,
A few English Saddles, Bridles, Futils, Pistols, Bar
iron,
A neat London made chamber Clock,- (
An elegant, rich, velvet, embroidered Cushion, &c. for
a pulpit, deft, and communion table; the whole fi
nished in the newest fafhion, and designed for a
church in the United States.
To be Sold by public Vendue,
At the Cofefe-House, in the City of Philadelphia,
On WEDNESDAY,
The zzd Day of this Instant =At SIX o'Clock in
the Evening ;
A three story Brick Meffuage,
and two story Erick KITCHEN, and Lot of GROUND
lituate on the north fide of Callowhill Street, and on the
weft fide of Front-street, in the township of the Northern
Liberties, in the county of Philadelphia, containing in
breadth, on the said Front-street, 20 feet, and in length,
on the said Callowhill ftree*, 68 feet 10 inches, and on
the north fide thereof 70 feet 4 inches. Suhjt& to a
rent charge of Five Pounds fterl. per ann. Oue and to
become due on the premises , late the estate of Charles
Lawrence, shipwright, deceased.; and to be fold in
purfuanqe of his lift will and testament, by
WILLIAM DEWEES, Executor.
August 3.
LOST between Milner's Ferry and the Coffee
House, on Monday evening the 13th inst. the fol
lowing notes, a Pennsylvania note in favour of Widow
Hilan for 88 1. indorsed by major Torrey ; a Jersey-
Bate note for 70 1. in favour of John Ryan, indor ed
by Major Torrey, with a small parcel of Jersey mo
ney. Whoever has found the fame, and will deliver
toem to tne Town- Major, ihall be handsomely reward
ed.
VOL.. X.)
SATURDAY, AUGUST is, 1780
THE
IPOWWPMI
_ O R, THE
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
Duplicate N 6 ' 6.
SIR, Whitehall, 18th Feb. 1781.
I Received your several letters numbered from one to
fix, by different conveyances; but had 110 oppor
tunity of writing to you since the firfl of them came to
hand, until now, by the way of Halifax.
It must have given you great pleasure to find the co
lony had encreafed so considerably during your ab
sence, and I hope it will continue to flourish and its
numbers augment by the natural increase and longevi
ty of its inhabitants, and the accession of new settlers
from the revolted provinces, but I must not encourage
you to expert that any measure for inviting emigrants
from the British dominions in Europe, will meet with
countenance here: this country and Ireland being too
much exhaufled to admit of sparing any of their in
habitants to people diflant territories*.
The name of New-Ireland you proposed giving the
island has already been appropriated to another coun
try ; but as you date many inconveniences to have ari
sen t'o the inhabitants from its present name, I fee no
objection to your changing it from St. John's to New-
Guernsey, or New Anglefea, which will distinguish it
effectually from all other British provinces. It was
with no small degree of astonishment, that I perceived
the expence of the garrison stated in your estimate to
amount to eleven thousand pounds per annum: for I
never intended that a detachment of more than 100 men,
commanded by a captain, Should have been Rationed
there ; nor can I conceive by what accident the gar
rison has been composed of fix companies; and you
judge very rightly, in supposing such a force will not
be continued upon the island. Your proposal to briga
dier general Maclean, of augmenting Mr. Calbeck's
independant company to 100 and withdrawing the o
ther five, I think very judicious, and I have written
to fir Henry Clinton and general Maclean, to carry it
into effect.
Nothing can be more absurd than the erecting works
of great extent, where there is only a small force to
defend them ; and I lament that so much of the pub
litmoney should be wafted thro' the want of discretion
in the engineer, and I have directed the board of ord
nance to order him to desist from his great and expen
sive conftrudions, and to put up a; block-house, and
quit the island immediately.
By messieurs Watson and Rafhleigh's ships, which
carry this, 300 Hand of arms, and a proportion of am
munition, are sent to the care of brigadier general
Maclean at Halifax, to be forwarded to you, in the
vessels which come to bring away the five companies,
as a present from his majefiy to the militia ofSt John's.
The opening easy communications throughout the
island, by military roads, is a measure which requires
more confederation than you appear to have given it :
for at the fame time it would enable the militia more
readily to affembie, it would ' afford an enemy the
means of penetrati,° into the island from every quar
ter, destroying the settlements and attacking the capital
on all sides, and by ways they were not expected to come.-
In the present weak state of the island, the want of good
and open roads may be considered as a great fecurit y
to the settlements ; and the inhabitants, from their
knowledge of the country, will always find means of
getting to the capital, or principal parts, before an
enemy can make a serious attack, and the garrison and
militia of the neighbourhood, will be fufficient to re
pel any predatory one, especially when the enemy is
prevented from coming other way than by sea. As
the island increases in population and the settlements
extend, communications will of course be opened, and
if the danger of predatory attacks from an enemy is
* Th's Is a different language from that held out to
entice men to enlist in their service in Great-Brirain
and Ireland —-All the new railed troops were assured
they should become settlers immediately, and the farce
was carried so far as to permit their families to embark
wth them for America—Mutiny and defection have
been often the consequences of this dec^ don; witness
throne at Dorchester, mentioned in general Greene's
letter, ^mong the t o^p: lately arrived at Chaikflewn
from Ireland --The'e deluded people may judge from
this letter of the Mindn Hero, what faith is 10 be
placed in affurancea of brdth miniftm.
Continuation of Letters found
on board the British Packet,
bound to New-York, but ta
ken on her passage and carried
into France.
BALTI MOR E,, August 7.
To the PRINTE R.
By publishing the following charge, delivered by
judge Hanson, to the grand jury of the special court,
lately held at Fredericktown; and the Sentence pro
nounced by his honour, on the persons who were at
that court arraigned arid found guilty of high-treason,
in “ inlifting men for the service of the king of Great-
Britain, and administering an oath to them, to bear
true allegiance to the said king, and to obey his officers
when called on," you will oblige many of your custo
mers, as such a publication, at this time, will evince
to the world, that the unnatural enemies of this state
cannot hope to escape with impunity; and may tend,
in some degree, to deter others from the perpetration
of like offences.
Your correfpondenf cannot omit remarking, that
the sentiments contained in the charge and sentence
bespeak a maturity of judgment, a dignity of sou(
and a humanity of heart that would do honour to any
court of justice in the uhiverfe.
Your's, A, B.
Gentlemen of ^he grand jury,
"YOU are convened to execute a trust of the iafi im
-1 portance to your country. It is a trust which no
good citizen .would wish to decline, when he reflets
that, upon' fie faithful administration of just laws, the
fafety of individuals, the preservation of government
and the very being of focft ty ultimately depends.'"'
The.inftitution of the trial by jury, has been fane
tified by the experience of ages. The founders of the
English laws erected this strong barrier between the li.
berties of the people, and the prerogatives of the
crown. With admirable wisdom they ordained, that
no person Should be called upon to answer for a capital
offence, unless upon the accusation of twelve, or more
of his fellow fubjeHs, the grand jury ; and that, before
judgment Should pass against him, he must be declared
guilty by the unanimous fuffrage of twelve others, his
equals, and neighbours, indifferently chosen, and' Su
perior to all suspicion.
The framers of the several governments in the united
Gates, were fully persuaded of the value of this singu
lar institution, when they unanimously recognized it
as one of their mod dear and sacred rights ; and no
ME N in desperate circumflances will embrace the
mod trifling objeds, and frequently contem
plate as realities mere potential exigences. Plunged
into difficulties of the most serious magnitude by their
own folly or wickedness, and feeling an impotency in
extricating themselves, they fix upon the assistance of
others as an eligible boon ; and anticipating with rap
ture the happy effe&s of such an acquisition, substi
tute their withes for facts, and having effectually de
ceived themselves, impose a fatal delusion upon others
equally interested. Thus it happened with he phan
taftic fir Henry Clinton, when he informed lord George
Germain that the people of Vermont had returned to
their allegiance to the king his mater. As the British
ministry were well versed in the ads of briber, and
corruption, they attempted, through general Haldi
map, governor of Canada, to seduce those people from
their warm attachment to the best of causes, and en
gage them in their nefarious schemes. Unfortunate for
these flagitious violators of the most sacred ties, the
government of Vermont despised their base insidious
attempts, and sent the original letters received from
general Haldiman, to the United States in Congress as
sembled, for their information. This Mr. Rivingtort
can teftify, as the letters were intercepted and carried
into New-York. The legislature of Vermont in June
last, appointed three gentlemen with full powers of add
ing that state to the general union, and of taking their
feats in Congress accordingly. Those gent'emen are
now in the city of Philadelphia upon that important
business. This Shews how falfe and absurd the British
accounts are, when they have objects of consequence
in view. Their deceptions may afford them tempora
ry advantages in some parts of Europe; but detection
will ever make them appear as contemptible as they
are base and ungenerous. Tories cry out, if the late
publications of intercepted letters are genuine, their
eyes are at last opened, and they no longer doubt the
establishment of American independence ; but they Hill
think they are mere political manoeuvres—Should any
honest man wish to afeertain the fad, he may Satisfy
himfelf by applying to the Office of the Secretary of
Congress, where he may fee the original letters.
thereby encreafed, the force, to resist them will be pro
onably augmented, and the mifehief and advantage ba
lance each other in that refpe&.
In am, Sir, your most obedient
and humble servant,
(Signed) GEO. GERMAIN.
Governor Patterson.
[NUMB. 770.