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fide of the Atlantic was all confidence, love and
loyal fubjeSion, till the fatal experiment was made
to convert free-born men into (laves, and fiducial
{objects into bold opponents. Your Majesty tra
vels too far for the cause of thcfe evils. You,
Sir, ought to know, and be able to give a better
account of them, than any man in the kingd m ;
because they spring from counsels which wicked
minivers hold too near your person and throne—
from the enemies of youi house, and your family's
accefhon to our government. Fhefe are men, Sir,
whole temper andfirwnefe you commend in the face
of the public, in the most fulemn a& of your re
gal capacity, with your head furroended with the
royal diadem, the free gift of a generous people to
your ancestors, and by permissive g r ant, ^prefent
in your pofTeffion. From the throne, which can
have no other permanent t'lablifhment but justice
and riJueoufnefs, your hLfcty compliments men
that pay no regard to either. These, Sir, are
\ our adopted ft iends ; while the true ftiends of their
country, and the co. Hirution are treated as ill af
fe&d to your gove ament, and oppof^rs of the
ling. 1g such men does your Majesty venture
to give the royal promise, that nothing that depends
on Y 0 U fa// be wanting, to render T HEIR
^nffores effeAual. The people, Sir, most fincere
f w'h, that this declaration could be received
with those qualifications and reftriftions, as thole
declarations in feme of your Majesty's former
Speeches, though omitted in the laid, have been,
from Ne LesDOV Evening Post, offers go.
TAKING, DEFENDER ofthe PRO
TESTANT FAITH.
SI R,
^7 OUR Majesty's fpeecb from the Throne to
{ both UotiKsof Pariiament, i.-, to all intents
and purposes, an address and appeal to the people
through their representatives. As a fabjeA, then,
I h;ve an unquestionable right to judge of, and ani
n^dvert upon this solemn address from the throne
to the people. The authoritative publication of the
speech implicits this freedom; and the necchny of
the times urges to a free exercise of it.i
It has been very unfortunate lor the people of
England, that what for many years pail has given
the Sovereign the utmefl fotisfafiion, has given the
people rhe preatef uneafinejs. Nor have their ideas
been less contradictory refpe^ing the zee! and pru
dence which Parliament have (hewn to the public
service.
We acknowledge, with your Majety, that this
al assent to a bill, chat, in its spirit and tendency,
is fubve:fiveofthe great principles of our govern
ment, and a violation of that part of the civil com,
past by which you are our legitimate King. For
that All the minister ought to lose his head ; for
that bill no peculiar circumstances of embarraf
ment, had such existed, were a Efficient cause
Nor was any true principle of found policy the
ground of those adjustments and regulations which
were falsely deemed necefor, by your Majesty's
mhifters, for the government of Quebec. And we
<o ochend that the bill is so far from beingfdmded
■ ti^ cieereft principles of juflice and humanity, as
them: " * would luggeft, that some of your Ma
;al\ hI uid^as fctuple not to assert, that itis
f: ; ^< ^ : \sj{, an d violation, contempt of
lav 1 a -I cudons of the realm. But we will, for a
m : ; : repo': woh vour Majesty, that, the bill
v di wive the if hred efEa in quieting the minds,
and:fkffbmfi of your Canadian fab
{ ri GDr quirt mbe purchased by the lori
ofthe.flions of the people at home' Are your
X odvf uccoccuercd ); Nets of this nation to
t, . ri'rri, ifi, rws, tiat A in-Mu might reap
tr. .ycer couAL^ng mercy and
parental unde: ^E „{ ri' .he defeendams o' men
who r, i'ri your fa ^h , ° empoc, tear ft,
their A LL, while conquered provinces and rib
jugged dares fecm the only q^risef roy d Evour
and auction: Must Pro'cßm s©m,n,<.': le Ih
pills rejoice ? Oris such the peculia f your
Majesty's character, or such the fatality of your
reign, that in the peculiar inPances wherein you
m n to adhere to justice and humanity, y^u mud
go near the altar and break your (acred oath?
Ows invalidating the very assent by which the
law is confirmed. In rhe present instance your
MALitys Fret.Fant fujeAs are apt to believe,
that an agreement in opinion with your Ministers
would involve them in contradictions of the mr ,ft
extraordinary nature; became it would rippefe,
that the worst of men could aft upon the belt of
principles; and that the veriest haves that any af
fedi^g tyrant would with for his tools, couC! adopt
the principles of justice and humanity. Far dif
ferent; Sir, are their principles, and diametrically
repugnant their doctrines. And the greater hatf
man that this or any other age could ever boast, has
given his opinion on the fide of the public conviCi
cn. Nr, Sir, the bill did not originate in justice,
jefyn has been ven interflin,; for we havefeen and
complain of the most unconiHrutional proceedings
that ever any Parliament could furnifh out instan
ces of. Your Majeffy had a very (hikinginftance
of this but a few minutes before you gave the roy-
v. hich time the most abandoned and infclent minis
ters have preferred some appearances, and paid a
little regard to the people.
The dangerous fririt of re,fiance to your Majeftds
government, which you complain you hcr°e Tn .seen
with concern in the province of MaflacEJetts day,
is not, Sir, the effect of rebellion or fciftion abfoM.
but rfe'Em and tranny at home. On the other
ror was it founded in humanity. We fufpeQ that
it made part of the private stipulations with
Fiance, when Lord Bute neg: dated the last infa
mous peace. We believe that the fear of offend
ig the Hot fe of Bourbon, and to keep a large bo
dy c' °opi, : nidians in terrorew against our Pro
iedant brethren in America, the true ground and
principles of the bill; else we are at a loss to ac
court for its being brought in so late in the lef
frons, and at the eve of a general election; at
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where your Majesty l^faid, that the happihefs
of the people is the primary object of your govern
ment ; and that you have not, or can have, any
other interest bur theirs in view. It is a great
misfortune to a state, when the people can only
believe the Prince in things that tend to make them
disloyal.
Your Majesty exprefles an ardent define to fee
your deluded fubjefls in America returning to a sense
of duty, and acquie cing in that just subordination to
the authority, and maintaining that due regard to
the commercial interest/ of this country, which must
ever be inseparably connefied with their own real
prosperity and advantage. Your Majesty's fubjeAs
in America are more oppref than deluded. Let
tyranny cease, ana they will return to a sense of
duty and allegiance. Let them experience an
equal, just, temperate government; and your Ma
jesty will find due Subordination, and submission
to authority. And when we cease, by unconsti
tutional taxes, violations of charter, and proscrip
tions of cities and ports to oppress the Americans,
we Shall fee them pay due regard to our commercial
interests. Your Majesty's ministers have raised
the wall of separation. And while such men are
continued in power, while the laws are unrepealed
that have sown the feeds of diffention, America
will never return to a sense of duty, and endless
contentions must ensue, till, at length, the sword
must decide contests which injustice and tyranny
began. America must be polluted with the blood
ofher sons; and the children of our bowels, treated
with more than hostile cruelty, will be massacred.
Then perhaps we Shall be forced ignominiously to
sue to France and Spain for an infamous and in
glorious truce, till we can breathe from the unna
tural Slaughter of our brethren, to combat with
the avowed and traiterous enemies of our RELI
GION and GOVERNMENT.
Qtery. What is the difference between Alge
rine heathens falling English white men, and Eng
lish chriftians felling African black men ?—and
whether it is not necessary to confider of some
means for the difeouragement or prevention of
such an inhuman practice, particularly at this
junßure; the account whereof would add agreater
luftre to our own contest for liberty, as it may be
handed down to succeeding generations, and save
us from the application of the following maxim:
“ Turfe est doflori cum culpa redarguit iffum."
A Friend to Liberty.
These, Sir, are not the visions ofenthufiafm, the
dilates of fadion, the voice of difaffedion, or the
language of despair. Your ministers, Sir, as high
priests of tyranny, have offered up liberty even in
the public senate. Upon the infpedion of the
victim, every man turns augur. The unfavoura
ble omens are not derived from vague conje&ure,
or sacerdotal delusions; history informs us how to
judge; and there is one page written in regal blood,
which you, Sir, would do well to consult, to form
your judgment, and regulate your condu&; that
the enemies of your family or reign, maynot have
an opportunity to vindicate their conduct by such
an high precedent, and Such a great example.
It is great consolation, Royal Sir, to the
people of England, to look forward, and presage
an unbroken fucceflion of patriot Kings in your
illustrious line. And though Providence has been
pleased to bless your Royal brother, our Sovereign,
with a progeny of hopeful Princes, yet, as in his
wisdom, God, who sometimes fetteth up one, and
pulleth down another, may fee fit to remove them,
from their present state; it will, no doubt, be
some consolation to them, but much more to us,
to thmk that one of your august house shall sway
the feeptre over afree, and consequently a happy
people. TRl + BUNUS.
TN th- Gazette of the 7th instant, we are in &
l formed that " two English vessels had been ta
ken by the Algerines, and carried into Algiers,
where the crews were barbarously treated, and dis
posed of in the Slave Market." I was
at once struck with the melancholy account ; but
how was I Shocked and abashed when but a few
hours after reading it, I beheld a middle aged
African raised and expofea on one of the flails in
the Shambles of Philadelphia market at Public
Sale, as a Slave for life ! and this in the capi
tal of Penofylvania, a land high io profeffion of
Liberty and Christianity.
S 1 R,
H E common form of refoe& Shewn to per
-1 sons of distinguished rank, is the only mo
tive of m addreflmg your Royal Highness second to
any man in the nation. Your Royal Highness's late
cobduft, and vote, in an august AfTembly, on one
of the most important, and consequential ads, that
the three eftares of Parliament can pass, deserves
the thanks of the friends of liberty and Protestant
ism The memory of the deed will last as long
as our annals, and save us from the charge of total
degeneracy. We now look up to YOU, Sir,
as the friend and guardian of our rights and liber
ties; and we cannot but expre's our fatisfa&ion,
in feeing the laws and religion of the state supported
by one, at least, of the illustrious House of Hano
ver. And we form the higher opinion of such a
noble discharge of the trust reposed in your Royal
Highness, as one of the guardians of our liberties,
from the peculiar situation you are in, and the re
lations in which you stand.
The principles of your conduct, Sir, are deci
sive; and we have not the icaft shadow of doubt,
that your vote in Parliament arose from a full con
vidion, that the bill was subversive of the consti
tution, derogatory to the honour and interests of
your Ro}al brother, dangerous to the eftablifh
inent, both ofthe laws and religion of this realm,
and fatal in its effects.
Fo hi< Royal Highnfs the Dube ^'Gloucester.
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TRIBUNUS.
To the FREEHOLDERS and others, Elec
tors for the city and county of Philadelphia.
Gentlemen,
EN COURAGED by yoar past generous,
spirited and exemplary favors, for which I
return you my mod sincere and hearty thanks, I
again intend to stand a candidate for the Sheriffs
office, for which end I humbly solicit and requert
the continuance of your votes and interest at the en
suing election, which (hall ever be had in grateful
remembrance by,
Gentlemen,
IP H E honour you conferred upon me last year,
1 in placing me firft upon the return for your
Coroner, merits my sincere and molt grateful ac
knowledgments ; and as I intend to stand a candi
date for the said office at the ensuing election, I
earnestly request the continuance of your votes and
interest, the favour of which (hall be ever esteemed
by Your refpe&ful and obliged friend
JOHN KNIGHT, Coroner.
To the FREEHOLDERS and others, Eleaors
for the Borough and County of Chester.
Gentlemen,
I Acknowledge the favour done me in voting me
on the return for Sheriff's at the two preceding
elections, and now once more earnestly solicit your
votes and interest for my continuance in said office,
at the ensuing election; which favour, if granted,
as also those past, (hall, with sincere gratitude, be
acknowledged and remembered by
Your assured friend,
HENRY HAYES, Sheriff.
For L O N D O N,
The SHIP
fr RECOVER Y,
A DAVID MCCULLOUGH,
Master;'
W T ^ L fa " wi ' h *" ex Pedi
' tion, having twothirdsof
™m her cargo ready to put on board.
''She is a stout new ship, and has
good accommodations for passengers. For freight
or passage apply to Peter January, or said mas
ter on board at Capt. Knox's wnarf, or at his house
in Water-street, the corner of Catherine- street,
Southwark.
To the PUBLI C.
AVERY elegant engraving of WILLIAM
PEN N, firft Proprietor of the Piovince, is
just pubhfhed. This portrait was taken by Mr.
Du Simitiere, in this city, from a bufto in the
possession of William Logan, Esq, done by
Silvanus Bevan, from the life ; it is the only
likeness extant, and said to be a very faithful repre
sentation of the Founder of this pro vince. The en
graving is executed by one of the firft artists in
London. The plate, and all the impressions from
it, are in the city, fix only excepted, designed as
prevents for particular perlons in London: no im
pression can therefore be bad from this plate but of
Mr. Du Simitiere, at his apartments at Mrs.
Robinson s in Moravian Alley, or Inch perlons as
he may appointto dispose es them.
WHEREAS on the 19th of June last past,
a certain JOSEPH THORP was
entrusted with a considerable sum in Half Johannes,
of nine penny weight, to be delivered by him at
Quebec, and as be has not yet made his appearance
there, with other suspicious circumstances, it is ap
prehended he is gone off with the money. He is a
native of England, about fix feet high, swarthy
complexion, very dark keen eyes, and pitted with
the final! pox, of a (lender make, stoops as he walks,
talks rather flow, with some small impediment in
his fpeecb. He lived some time in Boston, from
whence he removed to Quebec, assuming the charac
ter of a merchant in both places; he was also once
in trade in New-Cadle, Virginia, and has a brother
fettled there. It is believed he went on board
Captain John F. Pruym, for Albany, and took with
nim a blue cafimer, and a dark brown cloth suit
of cloaths.
To the FREEHOLDERS and others, Elec
tors for the city and county of Philadelphia.
New-York, July 27, 1774..
FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.
Benjamin Davis and Robert Roberts,
Have opened a (tore in Market street, opposite to
Jacob Barge's, and next door to the sign of the
Bear, where they have to fell, wholesale and re
tail, on the molt leafonable terms, for cash only,
JAM lICA spirits, Weft-India and continent'
J rum, moliffes, old French brandy, Geneva, and
cordials; Madeira, Li(bon and Fyal wines; loaf
lump and mu covado sugars ; tea, coffee, chocolate',
muriard, pepper, alfpice, ginger, copperas, brim
ho e, madder, logwood, indigo, ftjch, rice, pow
der and (hot, lamp oil, &c. &c. &c.
N. B. Pae Hatters business carried on at the above
place as usual.
Mr. P I K E,
Ten ,ears a teacher in ChaGfown, South-Carolina,
is arrived, and purposes if the weather be favoura
ble, to o;en kis S CHOO L for the tuition afyeung
Ladies and Gentlemen, on or about the 2.oth oj
this infant.
[_, E flatters himfelf that his abilities as a matter of
ri his profefimn, may be sufficiently known, as
many very refpeaable gentlemen of the above pro
vince are at prelent in this city. Ladies and Gen
tlemen may be waited on at their own houses if
agree ible, to be taught cotillions and other fafhion
able dances.
N. B. The use of the small sword taught three
mornings in the vveeK, and an evening school as
u ual.
Whoever secures the said Joseph Thorp in any
of his Majesty's gaols on this continent, (hall be
entitled to ten per cent, on the sum recovered, and
the above reward of F IFT < POUNDS when
convicted. Apply to Curfon and Seton of Nrw-
York, Joseph Wharton, jun. of Philadelphia, Ro
bert Chiiftie, of Baltimore, James Gibson, and
Co. Virginia, John Bonfield, of Quebec, Melatiah
Bourne, oP^John Rowe, of B riton. It is requested
of those w ho may have seen this Joseph Thorp, since
the 19th of June last past, or know any thing ofthe
rout he has taken, that they convey the molt early
intelligence thereof to any of the above persons,
which will be gratefully acknowledged.
Ail Matters of veffcls are forewarned from taking
him . tt the continent.
DANCING and FENCING.
Agreeable to an invitation from several refpe&able
families in this citv.
Gentlemen,
Your much obliged friend and humble Servant,
WILLIAM DEWEES.
SENIOR S O D I,
Late principal DANCER at the Opera in Paris
and London,
AC QUAINTS rhe Ladies and Gentlemen of
this city, that he has opened a public School,
at his Room in Chefmut-ftreet. at the back of the
Fountain Tavern, where he will teach the follow ing
Dances, viz.
The Minuet, Rigadoom,
The Minuet Dauphin, New Minuet by four,
Louvre, New Minuet by eight.
Allemande, Cotillons,
La Bretagne, Cotillion step,
La Marie's, The Hornpipe,
The Pafpie, English Country Dances,
And all the Dances that are danced in the feverai
Courts in Europe.
N. B. Signior Sodi will wait on Ladies and Gen
tlemen at their own houses ; and will likewise give
private attendance, at certain hpurs, in his own
school.—An evening school will be opened, when a
fufficient number or scholars shall offer.
Signior Sodi is to be spoken with at Mrs. East
wick's, in Walnut-street, between Front and Se
cond-streets.
Tobe SOLD by FUHLit VLAI U £,
on Monday the 10th ofO&ober, on the premises,
TH E following tracts of LAND in London
derry township, in Chester county, viz.
Lot I. A plantation containing about 190 acres,
near one third of which is cleared : There is on it a
good log house, barn, stable, spring-house, orchard,
&c. and about 6 or 7 acres of meadow before the
door ; now in the tenure of John P.cken.
Lot 2, A plantation containing about 110 acre,
one half cleared, with much such improvements on
it as above described ; now in the tenure of James
Pogue.
Lot 3. A plantation containing about 180 acres,
on? half cleared, with such improvements on it as
above described ; now in the tenure of the Widow
Corfby.
Lot 4. A plantation containing about 190 acres,
one half cleared, with a new log barn, very ^ood
orchard, and other improvements like those before
described ; in the tenure of Ro! ert Grimes.
Lot 5. Two plantations, about 280 acres, ore
half cleared, and improvements on each much the
fame as those above described ; in the tenure of
V^illiam Chaffin and David Bieckenrig.
Lot 6. A plantation containing about 380 acres,
near one half cleaicd, with a good two story log
house, 10 or 12 acres of meadow, and other im
provements like those above described ; in the te
nure of James Gibson.
The above described tracts of land being one of
the most healthy situations in Pennsylvania, on the
great road to Lancaster, about 16 miles from New-
Port, and in a neighbourhood where the produce
of grain will always fetch the Philadelphia market
price at mills or malt-houles within a mile of their
barn, a school on the trad, and places of worship
very contiguous; besides being capable of great im
provement, especially in a' great deal of fine mea
dow, which may be made on each place with very
little expence, renders it quite needless to fay any
thing in their commendation. The whole premilts
may be viewed till the time of sale, which will begin
on the above named day, at one o'clock, at the h.it
described plantation, when they will be perempto
rily fold. Attendance will be given by
CHARLES ALLEN.
N. B. There is no lease on any of these plantati
ons.—ls the weather should be bad on the day ap
pointed, the sale will be put off till the firft fair day,
or, if more agreeable to the gentlemen attending,
will be carried on at the nearest tavern, called the
Cross Keys or Half-way House, about a mile and
a half from the premises.—Considerable time will
be given for payment of most part of the money.
Burlington, %th Mo. (August)
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