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Just IMPORTED, and now OPENIN G at
KU H N's
Medicinal and Drug
S T O R E,
The weft fide of Seco d-street, nearly midway be
tween Market and Chefnut-fireeU, and diridly op
posite B'ack-Horfe alley,
A frefh 2nd large Aifortment of well chosen
Drugs and Medicines,
Which will be Sold on the most reasonable terms, either
by Wholesale or Retail.
Orders from the country, and phrfcians Preferptions
carefully attended to. June iz.
N. B. A smart active Bay will be taken as an Apprentice.
Bank of North-America,
JUNE zd, 1733.
THE Stockholders are desired to meet at the Bank
on WEDNESDAY the 18th instant, at Eleven
o'clock, in order to elect Two DIRECTORS,
in the place of Samuel Osgood, enquire, lately return'd
home to Bofcn, and William Bingham, esquire, gone
to Europe.
PRO POSALS for removinc the Che
vauX-de-Frize, from the channel of the river
Delaware, will be received at the Wardens Office, un
til the 15th day of July next. Any person disposed to
undertake that business will plsafe to tend their Propo
sitions in writing.
PROPOSALS for Repairing the Light-House will be
received at the fame place. June 12, 1783.
For Martinico,
THE Brig JASON, now lying at Mr. Bright's
Wharff, between Race and Vice ftrsets. For
Freight or Faffage enquire on bo,rd fijd Brig.
N. B. She is a strong built veffcl, and will carry a
bout 14.00 barrels of floor. June 14.
At tae City Au&ion, on
MO NDAT Next,
The 16th of June, 1783.
At TEN o'Ciock in the MORNING,
Will Commence the SALE
Of 1 Large and very General ASSORTMENT of
MERCHAND I Z E,
(Particular# of which will be published by the BAI on
the Morning of the Da, of Sale)
With a QUANTITY of
Houfnold Goods, Kitchen Furniture,
WEARING APPAREL, &e.
JOHN BAYARD, Audioneer.
To be Sold at Public Vendue,
On WEDNESDAY the 18th Instant, at 12 o'Clock,
at the Coffee- House,
AVery neat FARM, situate on the Germantown
road, at the corner of Turneft-lane, two mues
and a half from the crty ; containing 60 acres or there
abcuts, well improved. There are on the premia#, a
good Brick House, and a Stone Spring hsufe, eight
or ten acres of good watered Meadow, a fine young
bearing Orchard, with many other advantages too te
dipus to enumerate. On several parts of this Faim
there are beautiful commanding views of the city and
river, and would I'uit equally well, from its vicinity to
the town, for the tefidence of a gentleman, or for a
farmer or gardner to improve. The terms of pay
ment will be made easy to the purchaser; and wriith
will be made known at the time of sale, and immedi
ate peffiffion given. June 12.
T O BE SOL D,
On SATURDAY the 14th instant, at the. Cofre-H mfe,
A large three Mast B O A T,
belonging to His Most Chrifti^n Majesty, as (he now
lays at Clifford's wharf, as per the following Invento
ry—l 2 Oats, 1 Foresail, 1 Mainsail, 1 Staysail, 1 Gibb,
X Rudder iron bound.
By order of the CONSUL of France.
Philadelphia June to.
SATURDAY, > Trr Mv n
THE JUNE 14, 1703;
O R, THE
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
VOL. XII.}
Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
Proceedings of the Officers of the Army.
[This ends Paper No. VIII, referred to in the Ad
dress and Recommendations of Congress, inserted in
cur paper of the 29th ult.]
(No. 5.)
Cantonment, 13th March, 1783.
The officers of the army being convened agreeably
to a general order of the 11th instant, the honorable
major general Gates, president, his excellency the com
mander in chief was pleased to address the meeting as
follows:
Gentlemen,
BY an anonymous summons, an attempt hits been
made to convene you together. How ioconfiftent
with the rules of propriety, how unmilitary and how
subversive of all order and discipline, let the good sense
of the army decide.
In the moment of this summons, another anonymous
production was sent into circulation, addressed more
to the feelings and passions than to the reason and
judgment of the army. The author of the piece is en
titled to much credit for the goodness of bis pen; and
I could with he had as much credit for the beatitude
of his heart; for, as men fee through different optics,
and are induced by the reflecting faculties of the mind,
to use different means to attain the fame end, the au
thor of the address should have had more charity than
to mark for suspicion, the man who should recommend
moderation and longer forbearance, or in other words,
who should not think as he thinks, and ad as he ad
vises. But he had another plan in view, in which
candour and liberality of sentiment, regard to justice
and love of country, have no part; and he was right
to insinuate the darkest suspicion to effect the blackest
design. That the address is drawn with great art, and
is deligned to answer the most insidious purposes ; that
it is calculated to impress the mind with an idea of
premeditated iujuftice in the sovereign power of the
United States, and route all those resentments which
must unavoidably flow from such a belief; that the se
cret mover of this scheme, whoever he may be, intend
ed to take advantage of the passions, while they were
warmed by the recollection of pall dihreffes, without
giving time for cool, deliberative thinking, and that
composure of mind which is (0 necessary to give dig
nity and stability to meriures, is rendered too obvious,
by the mode of conducing the business, to need other
proof than a reference to the proceeding.
Thus much, gentlemen, I have thought it incum
bent on me to observe to you, to shew upon what
principles I opposed the irregular and hafly meeting
which was proposed to have been held on Tuesday last,
and not because f wanted a disposition to give you e
very opportunity, confident with your own honor,
and the dignity of the army, to make known your
grievances. If my conduct heretofore has not evin
ced to you, That f have been a faithful friend to
the army, my declaration of it at this time would be e
qually unavailing and improper. But as I was among
the firft who embarked in the cause of our common
country ; as I have never left your fide one moment,
but when called from you on public duty ; as I have
been the constant companion and wifuefs of your dis
tresses, and riot among the last to feel and acknow
ledge your merits; as I have ever considered my own
military reputation as inseparably connected with
that of the army; as my heart has ever expanded
with joy when I have heard its praises, and my in
dignation has arisen when the mouth of detraction
has been opened against it, it can scarcely be supposed,
at this late flage of the war, that I am indifferent to its
interrfls. But how are they to be promoted ? The way
is plain, fays the anonymous addeffer. '' If war conti
nues, remove into the unsettled counry ; there eflablifh
yourselves and leave an ungrateful country to defend it
(elf." But who are they to defend ? Our wives, our chil
dren, our farms and other property which we leave be
hind us? or, in this state of hottile reparation, are we
to ^ake the two firft, (the latter cannot be removed) to
perish in a wilderness with hunger, cold and nakedness?
" If peace takes place, never theath your (words," fays
he, " until you have obtained full and ample justice."
This dreadful alternative o' either deferring our coun
try in the extremes hour of her didrefs, or turning
our asms against it, which is the apparent objd, un
less Congress can be compelled into instant compl -
ance, has something (0 Blocking in it, that humanity
revolts at the idea. My God! wha' can this writer
have in view, by recommending such measures? Can
he be a friend to the army ? Can he be a friend to ths
country? Rather is he not an insidious foe? Some
emissary, perhaps, from New-York, plotting the rum
of both, by (owing the feeds of oifcord and reparation
between the civil and military powers of the continent?
And, what a compliment does he pay to our under
flanaiogs, when he recommends measures, in either
alternative, impracticable in their nature? Eut, here,
gentlemen, I will drop the curtain, because it would bo
as imprudent in me to assign my reasons for this opi
nion, as it would be iofulting to your conception to
suppose you flood in need of them. A moment's re
flection will convince every dispassionate mind of the
physical impossibility of carrying either proposal into
execution. There might, gentlemen, be an impropri
ety in my taking notice, in this address to you, of an
anonymous production ; —but the manner in which that
performance has been introduced to the army, the ef
fect it was intended to have, together with some other
circumflances, will amply juflify my observations on
the tendency of that writing.
With resp & to the advice given by the author, to
fufpeCt the man who shall recommend moderate mea
sures and longer forbearance, 1 spurn it, as every man
who regards that liberty and reveres that jußice for
which we contend, undoubtedly mull ; for, if men are
to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a mat
ter which may involve the most serious and alarming
consequences, that can invite the confederation of man
kind ; reason is of no use to us. The freedom of fpeecli
may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led,
like sheep to the daughter. I cannot in justice to my
own belief, and what I have great reason to conceive
is the intention of Congress, conclude this address,
without giving it as my decided opinion, th^t, thac
honorable body entertain exalted Sentiments of trie
services of the army, and from a full conviction of
its merits and (offerings, will do it complete justice :
that their endeavours to difeover and effablifh funds
for this purpose have been unwearied, and will not
cease till they have succeeded, I have not a doubt.
But like ail other large bodies, where there is a va
riety of different interests to reconcile, their determi
nations are flow. Why then should we diftrud them^
And in confequrnce of that distrust, adopt measures.
which may call a (hade over that glory which has been
so justly acquired, and tarnish the reputation of an
army which is celebrated through all Europe for its
fortitude and p'atriotifm ? And for what is this done ?
To bring the objed we seek nearer? No, most cer
tainly, in my opinion, it will cast it at a greater dis
tance. For inyfelf, and I take no merit in giving ihe
assurance, being induced to it from ;rincip'es of gra
titude, veracity and justice, a grateful sense of the
confidence you have ever placed in m , a recolleaica
of the cheerful affifiauce and prompt obedience 1 have
experienced from you, under every viciflitude of
fortune, and the sincere afFe&ion I f<el for an army £
have so long had the honor tocotnmand, will oblige me
to declare in this public and foiecan manner, that mt
the attainment of compleat justice for a'l your tod*
and dangers, and in the gratification of every wish, so
far as may be done confidently witii the great duty I
owe my country, and those powers we are bound to re
fpea, you may freely command my services to the ut
most extent of my abilities.
While I give you these assurances, and pledge my
felf in the mod unequivocal manner, to exert whatever
ability I am possessed of In your favour, let me entreat
you, gentlemen, on your part, not to take any mea
sures, which, viewed in the calm light of reason, will
lessen the dignity and fully the glory you Itave hither
to maintained.—Let me requeff you to rely on the
plighted faith cf your country, and place a full con
fidence in the purity of the intentions of Congress ; that,
previous to your dissolution as an army, they will
cause all yom accounts to be fairly liquidated, as di
refted in the resolutions which were publithed to you
two days ago; and that they wit adopt the most et
feßual measures in their power to render ample justice
to you for your faithful and meritorious services. And
let me conjure you in the nam of our common coun
try, as you value your own sacred honor, as you re
fpeft the rights of humanity and as you regard the
military and national charact r of America, to express
your utmost horror and dettflation of th^ man, who
wishes, under any specious pretences, to overturn the
liberties of our country; and who wickedly attempts to
open the flood gates of civil discord, and deluge opr
riling empire in blood.
By thus determining, and tints aßing, you vill
pursue the plain and aired road to tie attainment of
your wishes; you will defeat the insidious designs of
our enemies, who are compelled to rrfort from open
force to secret artifice. You will give one more df
tinguifhed proof of unexampled ponotifm and patent
virtue, rifieg (u peiio, to the preifure of the most com
plicated fufferings : and you will, by the dignity of
your condutl, afford occasion f r pofifrity to lay,
when (peeking of the glorious example you have ex
hibited to mankind— ' had this day been wanting, toe
world had never Pen the lad Rage of perfefbea ^0
whi^h human nature is capable of attaiung."
[NUMB. 1054.