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the ass in th? fable, “'N' differ who are oar mi<&,
we can.mtterry great bur leas, though we raiy leh." It
won! i be something (t-aa©? to hive recorieJ in history,
that America and Ir^laid should receive the bleffiags of
freedom and liberty from the hands of Frenchmen, after
having been refufed them, and the common rights and
p.ivft^ ofmankind and nature by men, who call them
fcves their friends, and on the continent, their country
men an I in fybrt of woom they have at all times lavish-,
el their blend and treasures # and this from men who are
jicenti ^flz tenacious of the fhidow of their own liberty.
Government tells you, g^tk^nn, you are liable to be
h^H by any invaders, (hold they catch you inarms
without a ronmifra from his Mijefty: They express
every ahx% that men of Monor cm be (uppofed to have
f>r friends who have afted spiritedly and difinteref
edl ' In sheir favour, and under the fpeciousnalk of this
friendly anxiety, they propose the giving you commissi
ons - at the fame time, claiming in return a large portion
of your liberties. To suppose, that men of many hun
dreds a year, would give up their liberties and fubjeft
themselves re the treatment of a common militia-man for
fix petre p A r day, argues a weakness of inteileQ in the
ma and hardness of heirtin an attempt of execution. If
good nature and friendly gratitude be the only anting
principle, let them save your l^es without bartering with
you for your liberties: Let them give you commiffioris,
and do you renounce 41 rank and pay ; this will fully
afa^^bh ^v^o^'^
The notion that, men have no right to defend their
country, unless their officers have military commissions,
is too absurd to merit attention.
PHILADELPHIA, April I.
Saturday last the Hon. G neral AffembFy of this Com
monwealth adjourned till the loth of May next. > During
their fitting the, following Laws were passed.
Ift. An Aft far laying an embargo on the exportation
of provifious from this State by sea, for a limited time.
ad An Aft for the preservation of buildings erected
uponthe lands of divers inhabitants of this Common
wealth for theufe of the United States, and veiling such
lands with the buildings in the United States during the
' present war, and to punish persons for waste and trespasses
made or committed thereon, and for other purposes there
in mentioned , i ,
An Ad for veiling the State-howfyin the city of
Philadelphia, the house in high street in the laid city, &c.
and all other real estates belonging to tue public, in the
Commonwealth. h 1
4th. An AH for ere&ing an High Court of Errors and
Appeals. .
/th. An Ad for the more effectual supply and honor
able reward of the Pennsylvania troops in the feryice of
the United States of America
6th. An Ad for the :radua abolition of slavery.
yth. An Ad to compel the feitlemeat of the public ac
counts.
Sth. An Act to alter and amend an Act of Attembj,
intitled, "An Aft for the effectual (uppreffion of public
auctions and vendues, and t? prohibit mala perlons cara
ble of bearing arms from being hawkers and pedlars," so
far as to allow the file by public auction of goods dama
ged or Shipwrecked.
, h. An Ad for confirming and amending the charter
of the German Lutheran Congregation, in and neat tae
city of Philadelphia, in the State of Penufylvania.
xoth. An Ad for re tftablilhing tne charier of the Se
c@bd Prelbyterun Church in the city of Philadelphia, and
for other purposes therein mentioned.
iith. An Ad for incorporating the S kiety formed for
the relief of poor, aged and infirm matters of ihp, their
widows and children..
izth. AiAd for regulating and eftablithing Admiralty
Tur/f+dion.
i^h. A* Ad to restore aad ascertain the value of di
vers fines, penalties and forfeitures, herein after mention
ed, which may be incurred by the breach of certain Ads
of Assembly of this Commonwealth.
14th. An Ad for the amendment of the Laws relative
to the punishment of treasons, robberies, mifprifion* of trea
sons and other offences.
15th. An Aft to increase the punishment of horse steal
ing.
16th. An Ad for the relief of thefuffering inhabitants
of the counties <f Northampton, Bedford, Northumber
land, and Weftmoreland.
17th. An Ad to revive an AH intitled, “ An Ad to
preventthe trespassing upon the um 11c efe ' grounds lying
in the townships of Paffyunk, Moyamenfing, Northern
Liberties, and Germantown, in the county of Philadel
phia," and to extend the said Ad to the adjoining town
ship of Bristol in the fame county, and to prevent (wine
from running at large within the said townships for a li- $
mited time. ->
18th. An Ad of free and general pardon and indem
nity for the offences therein mentioned.
19th. An Ad for incorporating the American Philo
sophical Society held at Philadelphia, for promoting ufe
ful knowledge.
xoth. An Ad to cure a defed in an Ad of Assembly
intitled, " An Ad to confirm the estates and interests of
the College, Academy and Charitable School of the city
of Philadelphia; and to alter and amend the charters
thereof, conformably to the Revolution and the Confu
tation of this Commonwealth, and to ered the fame in
to an University ;" and also an error in the date of an
other Ados Assembly iptitled^ " A Supplement to an<
Adintided, An Ad for the attainder of divers traitors
if they render not themselves by a certain day, and for
vetting their estates in this Commonwealth, and for more
effedually discovering the fame, and for afeertaining and
fatisfying the lawful debts and claims thereupon.
li ft. An Ad to prevent trespasses and waste from being
committed upon the lands of absent persons, and upon
vacant and unappropriated lauds.
' 22d. An Ad to render the revenue arising from the
excise on wine and spirits, and on licences to be granted
to public houses, effective and equal to the public necessi
ties.
23d. An Ad to grant to Henry Guest an exclusive
right for the term of five years, of making oil and blub
ber, from materials of his own difeovery.
34th. An Ad for the effedual recovering and fecur-
ing the fines, forfeitures awl other monies due or belong
ing to the Commonwealth, for the use of the fame.
25th. An Ad direding the apportioning and affeffiag
of county rates and levies, poor rates, the taxes to be lay
ed for the opening, amending Qd repairing of roads and
highways, the taxes to be layed for supporting the night
ly watch, the lamps and pumps, and for pitching, paving
and cieanfiag the Greets, lanes and alleys, and for regu
lating, making and amending tie water-courses, and com
mon sewers in the city of Philadelphia, conformably to
the State taxes on taxable persons, and on estates real
and person, f for explaining and amending the Ads pas
sed in the year 1770, for afteffiag and levying the (aid
State taxes and for increasing the recompense of Coun
ty Commissioners and Assessors.
26th. An Ad to enable William Climghan, Thomas
Bull, John Kinkead, Roger Kirk, John Sellers, John
Wilson, and Joseph Davis, to build a new Court House
and Prison in the count, of Chester, and fell the old
Court-House and Prison io the borough of Chest r.
2 7th. An Ad for the regulation of the Militia of the
Commonwealth of P c nnfylvania.
zith. An Ad to discontinue a road called Palmer's
Lane, in the township of the Northern Liberties, in the
county of Philadelphia, and near the Lower Falls of
Schuylkill
29th. An Ad to repeal divers Ads of Assembly of
this Commonwealth herein after mentioned, for prevent
ing foreftalling and regrating, and for the encouragement
of fair dealing; and an Ad intitled, an Ad to permit the
making of whiskey and other spirits from rye, barley or
the malt made thereof, under certain reftridions therein
mentioned, and to prohibit the diftilbog any whilkey or
other spirits from any other grain, meal, malt or flour.
10th. An Aft for procuring a supply of provisions and
otrer necessaries for the use of the army.
gift. An Ad further to continue such parts of an Ad
intitled, "An Ad toimpower the Supreme Executive
Council and Justices of the Sapreme Court, to apprehend
fufpeded persons, and to increase the fines to which per
sons are liable for negleding to perform their tour of Mi
litia duty," as relates to the apprehending of (ufpedid
perlons.
gzd. An Ad for firiking the sum of One hundred
thousand pounds in Bills of Credit, for the present support
of the army, and for eftabhfliing a fuffd for the certain
redemption of the fame, and for other purposes therein
mentioned.
To tb s Printer of the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET,
SIR,
By giving the following a place in your paper, you
will oblige your obedient humble servant.
IT is furprizing to every well wisher to the American
cause, that our rulers which I wished to think th#
wisest and jufleft men among us, can't find out how to
make the Continental money good, though the Honora
ble the Congress have, at £rft pledged the faith, honor
and all what is sacred to the Tqirtceen United States, for
the redemption ofit ; it is a folly to fay, (hall Congress
pay dollar for dollar to such which have obtained 20, 30,
40, or more for cae? doth this increase the numbers of
dollars for which the States are security? it were to be
wished indeed, that such a diferimination could be made,
it would be well, and Congress might begin by their
Staff Officers, which madeimmenfe fortunes, not per fas,
but per nefas. It is a folly likewise tothink that engrof
fers, foreftallers and (peculators have large quantities of
Continental money by them, they take care to lay it out
immediately.
It is an absurdity to think that the States ihould pay
their debts in the niidft of a bloody war. I am an old
man, and never heard of any k ; ngdom or nation per
forming such an unnatural talk. Tne depreciation is
feelingly eft^blifhed by a late resolve of Congress, and
effeds no difaffetted or in plain words the internal ene
my, which have none or very little by them, but such
who have from the beginning fupporfed the cause as well
personally as with part or the whole of their fortunes.
And if Congrtfs proceed in such or such like measures,
they will rum many thaufands of their best friends, and
J am Afraid loose al! their credit with foreign nations ; our
posterity will curse their aaceftors for having fuffered a
set of men to undothem in such a manner. Our internal
enemies will upraid and laugh at us, asking us where is
your faith now, had you not done better if you had join
ed us, you and your families wauld not have been beg
gars.
• • Now as there are laid before the public many plans,
one fell in my mind, which isthir. •Congress struck Two
hundred millionsof dollars. I suppose there are two and
one half a million of fouls in the Thirteen United States:
I suppose likewise, we fink in a reasonable time two hun
dred millions, divide it by two and one halfa million which
will be eighty dollars per foul, now as it is unreasonable
to except such proportion from the poor, therefore Q
middle class and the rich will pay a greater proportion to
ease the former, above all our rulers should not assist in
a further depreciation- of our currency, let Congress re
feint their last resolve, and by another resolve promifo
the faithful performance of their firft prorcifes of making
their money good, which will immediately appreciate it,
and what will Congress, or any body eife loose by it, the
people at large pay themfeives, and our faith remains e
flablifhed at home and abroad.
An Old Faithful Friend to the
American Cause.
•, The CONSTITUTIONAL SOCIETY meets
this evening at fix o'clock, at the Court-Heufe, on parti
cular business.
April 1.
w^«^)tw^x^xb:4
WANTE D,
In a (mail family,
A MAN who underhand# the management of bor
" fe&nd that cap do any kind of house work : Such
a ore being well recommended for honesty, sobriety and
industry, mly he informed of an exceeding good place
by enquiring of the Printer.
To he fold, an assortment of paints ground in oil, en
quire as above.
just P iChed and to be So^, by
FRANCIS BAILE Y,
In Market ftrcet, Philadelphia,
A TABLE or FRENCH VERBS, aux/i
---aries, regulars, and irregulars, corfognted through
out all thrir tenses and nidods, and Viewing how to foiin
their simple ten tea from their infinitive moon, aa< ihow
to find their infinuive, mood from their terminations:
To ener with remarks on particulars irregularities,
inscribed to re American Philosophical Socie
ty, by Mr. Carre.
This t^ble is particularly calculated for the use of the
Colleges, Schools and Academies wh fee the French lan
guage is tauthfo and it is not only fit for beginners,
but ev;n for pAfGin who have already acquired a con
fiderahle kn/^iedg^ot th- French tongue; the num
berlefa irregularities of the French verbs being seldom
veil known even by the datives, this table ftiews them
all in a most dihin& manner, ^,lone may at a fingla
glance find out ^ny irregularity of any particular verns.
TO BE 'SOLD BY
HUMPHREYS and ROBER TS,
At their Steel Store in Market-ftrect, between Fourth
and Fifth-ftreets, Philadelphia.
A Large QU ANTI TY of
STETI SAW-MILL SAWS,
Neatly finirtud, and equal in quality to any ever ira
pot^d from Europe.
TO BE S O
APIECE of GROUND containing fifteen
acres and twenty-one perches, with a large two
lory brick tenement thereon, commonly knewn by the
name of the Chapel, liquated on the road leading
from Franckford 10 thcUld Yoik Road, about four miles
Lorn this city, and one mile above the Rising Sun. In
quire of the P. inre;.,
TO BE SOLD
An ahnoft 'New SULK E Y,
Lined and covered with Leather.
For further particulars enquire of the Printer.
AV A N T E D;
Tn a Public part of the Town,
A CHAMBER, a Front room for ah office, and
Boarding for a single G^nthman. Any good fa
mily that accommodate a per foo in this way, may apply
to the Printer.
IX7 " "'" "'' on ™ e "S'" "^Lnt, at the
y/ sign of the Bull's Head, ia Strawberry alley, a
little bay HORSE, with cart gears. The owner is
desired to come, prove Ids propwty, pay charges, and
take him away.
BENJAMIN MYERS.
March 30, 1780.
One Hundred Pounds Reward.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, living in Vin
cent town(hip, Chester county, and State of Penn,
fylvania, a MULATTO SERVANT MAN, mined
John Epler, about five feet Un inches high, a thick
well made fellow, a forgeman by trade, given to liquor,
and when drunk very abusive and quarrelsome ; had
on when he went away a suit of linen cloathi, the coat
es mackerony cht, edged with, red cloth, the jacket
and breeches edged with the fame, a new hat, a pair of
white woolen fteckings, and a new pair of pumps, with
plated buckles. He took with him a red cloth coat,
made after the fafhion, with red silk mohair buttons, a
ftiiped linfey jacket of red and yellow stripe, lined with
tow linen, and the buttons of red mohair, a pair of good
buckskin breeches, and three shirts, one of new lwnp
linen, and the others about half worn. Any peon
apprehending the aforefaid mulatto^ and securing him
in any goal, to that his matter can have him again, (hall
have the above reward, and all reasonable charges p id,
by JOHN YOUNG.
March 30, 17S0.
To be S OLD by Public Auction,
At the Coffee-Houfe, un Saturday theist
of April, at 12 o'clock,
The SNOWPOLLY, as per Inventory.
WILLIAM BROWN,
Auctioneer.
Philadelphia, March %gtb, 1780.
LAST night the house of the fubferiber was broke
open, and the following stolen out of it, viz.
Ten Shirts, fix rufled rind four plain, five marked B. H.
No. 6, the others marked B, H. numbers forgot.
Six Neckcloths,
One pair Russia Sheets, marked E. H. No. 4.
Oue Damask Breakfift Cloth,
Six Towels,
One pair Pillow Cases, marked B. H.
Six Shifts,
One spotted Silk Handkerchief,,
Two pair Silk Stockings,
One White Cotton Skirt, fringed,
Two Dimety Under Petticoats,
Two pair White Holland Gloves,
Four Linen Aprons,
Five Night Caps,
Two Gowns, one Striped Purple and White, the other
Striped and spotted,
Onebrge Copper Tea Kettle,
Two pair Thread, and one pair Cotton Stockings,
One Flowered Lawn Apron &c. &c.
Whoever apprehends thiefor thieves together with the
goods, shall have Three Hundred Dollars reward, or
Two Hundred Dollars for 'h good , or in proportion
for any part of them. BENJAMIN HCGELAND.