Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1774-08-29 00:00:00, page 2

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arrived at New-York font Falmouth, <we
have the following advices.
B RESLAW, May 21.
WR learn from Poland, that the Regiment
ary Krdczew&i having opposed the Prus
sian troops, and even polled down the Eagles
which had been set up, a strong detachment of In
fantry and Iluffars has been fentagainft him with one
piece of cannon.
Warsaw, June 1. We this moment learn, that
the city of Thorn is environed on all lides by
Prussian troops, which fuffer no person to go in or
out without a partport.
Leghorn, June 1. They write from Palermo,
that a new commotion has happened in that city,in
which 900 men were killed and wounded on both
tides.
Vienna, .June 1. They write from Upper Aus
tria, that the town of Mondfee, confining of
177 houses, is entirely burnt down, togethei with
the parish church, two chapels, and the convent.
The inhabitants are reduced to the greatest dis
tress.
Thorn, June 5. Certain advice being received
that the King of Prussia will in a few days pals by
Czarrrowa, in his way to the Vistula, a deputation
is nominated to compliment his Prussian Majesty.
The Prussians have established an excise office at
Liffomitz, about a mile from hence, and likewise
set up a barrier, through which nobody can pass
by night, which is a great restraint upon us.
Leghorn, une 75. Some accounts from Corfi
ea mention, that the 30th of last month, there
wasa smart battle between the Corticans and the
provincial Corsican regiment in the French ser
vice; in which the latter were beaten, and Col.
Gaffori, and some other officers killed; and on
the fame day the famous Pace Marie, with his
men, cut to pieces a French picquet; which so en
couraged them that they marched immediately to
Caccia, in order to attempt taking the French mi
litary chest, which is deposited there.
Hamburgh, dune 24. They write from Wifmar,
that the Princess of Eutin, future confor to the
Duke of Sudermanland, arrived there the 21st,
'that her marriage by proxy was celebrated the fol
lowing day, and that that Princess was to proceed
towards Stockholm as this day.
Paris, ;une 25. The King said the other day
to a placeman, who often presents him papers
written in his praise: " When lam well spoken
of, I don't want to know any thing of the matter ;
but if any evil is said of me, I Ihall be glad to know
it, that I may amend."
Juneg. An American remarks, that Philip the
second, King of Spain, endeavoured for 70 years to
reduce the brave Hollanders, and notwithstanding
he sent the Duke d'Alba, well known for his cruel
ties, that after having murthered one hundred thou
sand people, and executed two thousand more by
the hands of the common hangman, yet these brave
and Spirited seven United Provinces became a free
and independent republick, and are so to this day.
Query, fays he, if the Americans may not hold
out as long, and at last become a free and inde
"My Lords, you have lived upon the support
and industry of America these forty years ; you
have the great materials of commerce, not only
cheaper from America than you used to have them
from other countries, but you pay for those ma
terials with wrought goods, which overbalances
the account, and draws from them every (hilling
they have. This is the great, the solid, the sup
porting, the salutary contribution which America
pays, and which saves this venerable fabric from
falling into dust. They will either laugh at, or
tefent your present measures with equal success :
if they have coolness they will make you sensible
of what you lose ; if they have recourse to arms,
you must be the firft, perhaps the only fufferers ;
you must be undone ; they may work out their
salvation. I am an old man in public business, my
advice arises from experience ; it may be worth
something ; recal your scanty forces from the
wretched employment of murder ; they are nei
ther able or willing to execute your commands;
be friends with America for your own interest and
your own fafety ; you will want her affection
when her sword is turned against you ; a few rag
ged Highlanders obliged you to call upon a royal
General, and a body of disciplined troops, to save
this country; half a million of brave and despe
rate men nursed to arms must eventually prevail.
I have one word for that Rev. Bench. I want
to know how they reconcile it to the true principles
of chri ftianity, to spill the blood of America like
water ?"
The following is a sketch of a popular Noble
man's speech on American affairs.
“ My Lords, Want of health has hitherto pre
vented me from giving my sentiments on the seve
ral bills which have come under your consideration
with refpe& to America; I hope I may therefore
be indulged in the opportunity of travelling out of
the line of the present matter of the day. I shall
endeavour to speak with tenderness and caution;
I know your Lordship's can’t bear much; 1 will
be, if possible, void of offence.—Was I in Boston
I would fay they were wrong, to destroy the pro
perty of the India Company : I fay here, you have
been the original aggressors ; a law is part which
may seal my lips, but were I to speak what I think,
and what I know to be constitutional, I would
tell you—you have in weakness written a dead
letter—vou have let up an image which you dare
not own, and which the people of America laugh
at: I would tell you, you have no right to touch
the pocket, much less the life, of a fellow fubjed
in America ; be submits himfelf to the necefliiy of
your laws relative to trade, and the regulation of
a national commerce, because he fees the necessity;
he agrees to buy the wool, employ the weaver, and
to be measured by the taylor you recommend;
but when he has put on his cloaths, he fays they
are his own ; he fays, you shall not have his coat,
because he is no longer sure of his waistcoat and
breeches.
LOND O N, June 7.
The Quebec aft is the only statute which has
been puffed these two hundred years to establish
It is thought by many of our politicians that the
Quebec aft, so favourable to our enemies and so
prejudicial to the fubjeds of Great Britain, is in
consequence of a private article of the treaty of
Versailles.
The diftinaion attempted to be established by
Lord North between criminal prosecutions and
civil process in a late debate, and his opinion that
the crown can have no interest whatever but in
the former, must be received with equal furprize
and suspicion. In actions of damage on libels, in
questions concerning general warrants, and seizure
of papers, especially when the benefit ofthe habeas
corpus aft is taken away, government unhappily
has as much of what is esteemed interest as in the
severest sentence of criminal law.
A correspondent recommends to the confedera
tion of every member of either House of Parlia
ment who voted for the Quebec bill, a fcrious re
flection on the oath of supremacy taken by him,
and which concludes thus:" And Ido declare,
that no foreign Prince, person, prelate, state, or
potentate, hath, or ought to have, any jurifdidion,
power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority,
ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm; so bep
me God."
June 16. The French King published an or
dinance the 30th ult. prohibiting the importation
of all forts of linen and cotton cloths, either paint
ed or printed, into any of the ports of France, and
has allowed persons poffefTed of these commodities
which are not home-manufactured, only fix months
to dispose ofthem.
Our Cullom House laws will, it is said, undergo
a revision, in order to receive certain amendments
ertential to our commercial convenience.
June 21. Capt. Chubb, in the Sally, arrived
at Bristol on Saturday from Jamaica, on the tith
of May, seven leagues S. W. of Cape Maize, took
up a boat with fix people in her.—They were the
crew of the sloop Jenny, Andrew Grove, matter,
belonging to Falmouth in New-England, and were
bound from Tobago to Tortuga, which they mif
fed, and in their pafTage to America were, on the
22d of April, cast away on a little island.
An universal Te Deum was yesterday, we are
told, sung in all the Romifh churches in and about
this metropolis, on the fairprofpeds of establishing
that true and holy religion both in America and
Great-Britain.
Orders were fenr off to Ireland in the courle of
the last week for four regiments more to hold
themselves in readiness to embark for Buffon upon
a short notice.
June 20. On Saturday afternoon his serene
Highnels Prince Ernest of Mecklenburgh Strelitz,
second brother to her Majesty, arrived at Kew
from Hanover, on a visit to their Majesties.
It is said the French King has recalled the Duc
de Choifeul; and has made known to all France
the restoration of this Minister to his liberty, by
an arret, specially issued for that purpose.
By the most authentic accounts from Boston we
learn, that the method the Bostonians mean to defeat
the late a&s parted by the Britilh legislature, is not
by absolute refinance, but by a deep-laid ylfem of
combination with the other colonies, to break off all
commercial intercourse with their mother country.
pendent empire, while Great-Britain in less than
that time, as it now goes on, may become abjed
Haves.
The Prussian Monarch, we hear, has greatly
lowered in his demandsand altered his tone since
the demise of LouisXV. He now begins to fear
that Great-Britain will be a lead neutral, while
France and the Emperor join to confine him within
the limits he poffefTed at the breaking out of the
general war in 1741.
The North-American ships which cannot pro
cure a freight home, propose taking in emigrants
from a lifter kingdom.
It is reported, that some of the ablest in the
Ministry were against bringing on the bufinels of
the Quebec bill at this time, as it will throw a great
weight in the popular scale at the next general
election, and will coil many of the present majori
ty their leats in Parliament.
When we confider generally the impious and
cruel ambition of Princes, their foolifh pride, their
incoherent projects, and almost universally their
desire of arbitrary (way, shall we not wonder that
they can find, among the basest, any aid lance; but
it is even io— -Minifters have ambition as quell as
Kings.
It is the grandest, the most noble principle a mo
narch can maintain, to make the happinels of man
kind his only care; but, alas ! it seems as in these
days such a glorious principle were unknown;
Monarchs are now like the conquerors and heroes
of old, prompted by no other motive than interell
and ambition.
The generous, the benevolent spirit of the Turk,
who alone flood forth the defender, the friend of
the oppressed kingdom of Poland, throws the
strongest shame on those Chriitrin powers who
stood the tame fpe&ators of rapme, injurtice, and
oppreflion.
June 18. Yesterday the Duke of Gloucester was
present in the Houfeof Lords at the debate on the
Quebec government bill. Lord Mansfield attended
likewise at the determination of an appeal from the
Court of Exchequer in Ireland, but went away as
loon as the order of the day was read.
The present Gallican Monarch has done more
for the ease and benefit or his fubjetts in ten days,
since his accedion, than any of his predecessors in
the course of two centuries have done during the
whole of their refpe&ive reigns. Ihe duties al
ready remitted, and which fell chit By on the mid
dling and lower orders cf the people, amounting
at the lowed computation to 25,000 000 of
livres, or a sum little short of 1,200,000!. fter
lin ^
Such was the tyranny and unfeeling disposition
of the late French King, that in the third day of
his iilnels, on the representation of the Abbe de
Terray, Comptroller General of his finances, he
signed an edict for laying an additional duty upon
wine consumed Within the city and environs of
Paris.
June 28. The (Quebec bill, fays a correspond
ent, is only a well concerted scheme to give a check
to the rest of our colonies, and to keep them in
awe—A difference in religion, laws, and depend
ency, will keep up a strong animosity; and there
is no doubt but every encouragement that can
possibly be afforded to these licenced slaves, these
children of Popery, supported by a Protestant Court,
will be given, in order to subdue those head strong
Colonies who pretend to be governed by English
laws.
Popery and arbitrary power in the British domi
nions.
June 27. They write from Paris that a stop is
put to the treaty which was negociating in the late
reign for surrendering the island of Corsica to the
Court of Turin ; and that the Sardinian AmbafTa
dor had received inftruAions to acquaint his master
that his Most Christian Majesty intended annexing
it to his own dominions.
They write from Amsterdam, that the Dutch
merchants have been given to understand that such
of their ships and cargoes as shall hereafter be found
in any ofthe ports ofCorfica, without French pass
ports, will be seized as lawful prizes.
Great numbers of artificers have been lately
difeharged at Sheffield and Birmingham, on account
of the stop put to the orders for America.
The Union, and three more capital ships, have
received orders to be fitted for sea, and to have their
full compliment of men.
• June 25. A noble Lord, in consequence of a
late excursion, is said to have advertised a certain
Great Board of the necessity of repairing the for
tifications in several of our sea ports, that they
may be provided again? accidents.
Certain advice ' is received, that the Spaniards
have erected four different forts and settlements in
the East-Indies, in open defiance of the treaties
subsisting between them and our Court.
A correspondent remarks that public credit has
met with several shocks under the present admi
nistration ; and when the Quebec bill is considered
in all its consequences, the national faith appears
in no better plight than our public credit.
And why establish the Catholic Religion in Ca
nada, fays a gentleman of the horse guards to a
celebrated Courtier. Because, replied the latter,
Canada commands the whole American continent.
Still I cannot fee the use of the Catholic Reli
gion's taking place in that province, returned the
former. Poh ! poh ! my worthy friend, said the
Courtier, though an excellent soldie r , you are a
very miserable politician: What think you of a
standing army of Catholics on that convenient spot?
Say you so ! replied the officer; I begin to com
prehend you; it would indeed be an admirable rod
for disobedient children.
The Bishop of London was so thoroughly con
vinced by the Earl ofChatham's arguments against
giving Popery and arbitrary power a legal establish
ment in any of the Britilh dominions, that he re
tired, and would not vote in support of the bill.
June 23. The plausible pretext for the Quebec
bill is, that at the rime of the peace the inhabitants
of Canada were assured that they should enjoy
their religion and their ancient laws; they have
rested Satisfied under these assurances ever since
to the present time; and whence, fays a corres
pondent, the forwardnefs of the present Ministry
to est blifh Popery by ad of Parliament in the do
minions of a Protestant Prince? 1 he people ofCa
nada took the King's word, and were fatisfied with
the toleration, and what but Toryifm would gra
tify the Canadians with the Romifh religion and
the French laws? Where were my Lords the Bi
shops ? Where were all those who have denied
upon oath the many damnable doctrines and positi
ons of the See of Rome, when the confeiences of
the Canadians were assigned over to the dominions
of the Pope ?
From the unpopularity of a certain great perso
nage, no state tafl< is said to be more grievous than
his oceafional visitations to a certain great boufe at
the weft end of the town.
The Quebec government bill appears to be an ad
palled in favour of the abdicated family; and we
are furry to fay it, but it is necessary to be said,
that his Majesty must certainly have very unfaithful
Servants about him, as this ad does manifeftly es
pouse principles of the most treasonable nature.
Indeed we cannot but call it treason against both
Prince and People: it is treason against the King,
because that which eftabli<hes Popcry and tyranny
in any part of the British dominions, does certain
ly tend to disestablish his Majesty's right to the
Crown: and it is treason against the People, as the
eftabl fliment of Popery and arbitrary power de
stroys the very principles of their free constitution,
arid tears up by the roots all their rights and li
berties.
A very handsome penlion on the British establish
ment, we hear, is to be fettled on a certain Gover
nor in America, as a reward forhis faithful services.
June 22. However distant in the British domi
nions Popery may be established, it can be no ar
gument but that in time the infection may spread
hither, even to the feat of the British empire, and
he must be a mere empirick inde d who should ven
ture to assert, that because a man has only the gout
in his toe', it will never remove to the nobler parts.
It may be depended upon that our Ambassador
at the court of Portugal has for some time part so
licited letters of recall, which have at length been
granted him.
Extrafl of a letter from Dantzick, May 3T.
“ Our Magistracy determined yesterday on the
threats of the two allied powers, to acknowledge
the territorial rights of Prussia over this port, pro
vided Prussia would declare the conditions on which
rhe use of the port is to be secured to the town.
The Ruffian minister, Count Golofkin, said that
he had orders not to accept of that resolution.
The Prullian Privy Counfellor M. Reichard, in
lifted upon the answer being plain yes or no. This
afternoon the States held their assemblies again, to
chufe which answer they should give, but broke
up without concluding on either.
“ The third afTembly gave the council to un
derstand, that without treachery they could not
give up the territorial right of the town. The ci
tizens seemed determined to fee the worst."
It is said, Upon a certainbill having puffed both
Houses, the Chevalier de St. George quitted Pa is
in high spirits, and is gone to carry the news in
perlon to his Holiness the Pope.
A plan is under consideration for carrying on
the Herring and Cod fishery, on the coart of Shet
land, in a more extensive mariner than has been
yet attempted in this kingdom.
The Lord Dunlace, Sheetcr, from Maryland;
and the Ncrdefl<a, Lumberg, from Gottenburgh,
which last was deemed a miffing ship, ate both
fafe arrived at Cork.
The poor in many parts are beginning to rife on
account of the excessive high price of Corn; and if
it is not lowered before winter approaches, we may
expert to hear ofdreacful consequences.
A correspondent informs us, that a bill is pre
paring to be presented to Parliament for establish
ing the Gentoo religion among bis Majesty's fub
je&s in the kingdom of Bengal, Pahar, and Orixa.
A scheme is in agitation for building a military
house on Portsmouth Downs, capable of holding
I ;oo men, in the fame manner as those at Bred
and Toulon.
Extraßofa letter from Derry, in Ireland, June 14.
“ You cannot conceive the ferment the Presby
terians are in on account of the late aft. Multi
tudes are daily arriving here to go to America.
There are five large ships in this port readv to fail,
each of which will take at leatt 500 passengers
which will amount to 2 500 fouls of the most indus
trious people in the kingdom."
July 2. Yesterday Thomas Hutchinson, Esq;
late Governor of Massachusetts Bay, attended
the levee at St. James's, was graciously receiv
ed, and had the honour of a conference with his
Majesty.
The French King we hear is resolved to aug
ment the pay of the officers who were reformed in
the year 1764, and to fill up the vacancies which
may happen in the standing regiments with such of
them as are fit for actual service.
It is said that the names of those who voted for
the Quebec bill are circulated in aimoil every city
and borough in England and Scotland; and the
next general election will determine whether the
Pope or the voice of the people is to choose a Bri
tish Parliament.
The Phcebe, Barten, from Dominica; with the
Lydia, Dean, from Philadelphia; and the Eliza
beth, from Cape Fear, are arrived at Liverpool.
Extract of a letter from Paris, June 17.
" The King having caused a lift of the prison
ers confined in the Baftile to be laid before him,
took notice of one who had been shut up there 40
years. His Majesty would know the cause of so
long a confinement, and was told that the unhappy
man had spoken ill of the late King. " He has been
fufficiently puniflied, replied his Majesty; this man
must be old; let him be immediately difeharged;
but let this be done with caution, left it should
produce a dangerous revolution in him." The
prisoner was accordingly brought out of the Baf
tile, and carried out of town for an airing; and
the firft word he uttered, when he found himfelf
free, was to fay," Ah, undoubtedly Louis the
XVth is dead !"
Orders are sent over to Hanover to keep the
troops under constant discipline, and to complete
every regiment in the electorate with all possible
expedition.
His Sardinian Majesty has taken into his pay all
the Swiss soldiers which have been lately difeharged
out of the French service, and also two regiments
of the Walloons, which were dismissed at the fame
time.
June 30. His Majesty has been pleased to ap
point Lieut. Edward Abbott, of the Royal regi
ment of artillery, to be Lieutenant Governor of
Fort Detroit in North-America.
July 5. ,It is supposed there will be as great a
clamour railed at the ensuing General Election
against the Quebec as there was at that in 1754
again? the Jew naturalization bill.
We are assured, that a certain visiting Prince
has so far happily succeeded in the execution of
one of his commissions, as to have gained ptrmif
fion for a great and disgraced Lady at Zell to re
turn to her native kingdom, but incog.
July 6. It is remarkable that the two articles of
beer and British spirits, the duties on which are
paid chiefly by the lower orders of the people,
raise a greater revenue than all the taxes of real
luxury put together, and exceed in the proportion
of at least fix to one; the duty upon wine, which
is chiefly the beverage of the great beer, Deluding
the tax on malt, producing a revenue of 1,500,000 k
and geneva 500,000!. in the whole 2,ooo,cool
while that raised on wine seldom exceeds 200,000 k
per annum.
The King of Prussia, notwithstanding the seve
ral representations made by the British Court, is
ultimately determined not to relax in the mod mi
nute particular in his demands on the city of Dant
zic. The British Cabinet seems to be equally in
flexible on the other hand.
June 29. We are assured that the naval prepa
rations at the different sea ports have been ordered
to be expedited ever since the arrival of the intel
ligence from Boston.
A gentleman at Cadiz writing to his friend in
London, fays, “ There are above 200 shipwrights
employed in the dock-yard; and at Ferrol there
are the fame number, who are all very busily em
ployed.
They write from Gibraltar, that the Spaniards
have augmented all their garrisons in the Streights,
and that at Barcelona they have raised an entire
new battery of 24 brass guns facing the road.
A letter from Paris of the 25th ult. fays, " bis
Highness the Prince of Monaco is just arrived here
to ratify the treaty between his Highness and our
Court, as is customary on the demile of the Kings
of France.
Two couriers were dispatched to the continent
in the course of the last week; one, it is said, to
Berlin, and the other to the regency at Hanover.
They write from Gibraltar, that a Moorish
Admiral has just entered the Mediterranean with
eleven fail of ft ut Corsairs, fitted out from Lar
rache to cruize against the powers with whom the
Emperor is at war.