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HAVING observed a Bill for regulating
the Sweeping of Chimnies in this city,
part of the Northern Liberties, and the dithici
ci Southwark, which was published in the Even
ing Post, the 2 Ift instant, laid to be offered the
House of Affably by the Managers of the Con
tribution for the relief and employment of the
poor, which as they fay is " expected to produce
inch fa sum of money as will prevent the increase
of the poor taxes"—doubtlefs it is the duty of
fvery community to make a decent and comfort
able provision for their poor, the common feelings
of humanity will naturally prompt us to it, and
the famed obligations of religion requires it of us,
and to every heart fufeeptibie of the tender rmo
tions of pity, it affords the most exulting delight
to administer comfort to the affliaed, and like
the good Samaritan of old, to feed the hungry,
clothe the naked, and bind up the wounds of as-
Hidtion and adversity, this is truly laying up a
Jafiing and unperifhablt treasure, upon a solid
Security, no less than the assurances of our blessed
Lord bimfrif, who has promised that he will re
pay it again.—The inhabitants of this city have
demonstrated by their munificent aAs of charity
ind benevolence that they are not insensible to the
diftrels of the poor, buthave from time to time,
made ample provision for them, on a rational
and equitable plan of taxation, and many of our
worthy citizens have been volunteers in their ser
vice; amongst those who have distinguished them
fclves most are the Managers of the House of Em
ployment, who with great assiduity have formed
and carried into execution a system of domestic
©economy, truly laudable, and which justly enti
tles them to the thanks of their fellow citizens,
as well as the bieffings and fupplicatiors of the
poor — And I must confefs that the p^eut bill is
a frefh and coroborating instance of ri it unwea
ried attention to the fame benevolent ph/; butit
falls not to the lot of every good, wfl minded
map, to partake of the qualifications rdquihte for
a legislator, or framer of laws, this is a sublime
science, and requires not only greau fugacity,
but an intimate knowledge of the forifprudence
of the country, without these endowments, the
law maker may encreafe the evil which he in
tends to remove; this I apprehend to he the na
ture of the proposed law, which will raise in many
cases more from the poor than the rich, and ge
nerally encreafe the proportion of the expcnces
of the poorest labouring people amongst us more
than they can well bear. I shall therefore offer
a few observations on the principles on which this
bill is framed, not doubting but those Gentlemen
are so much attached to the cause of humanity,
and so desirous of meeting the approbation of their
fellow citizens, that, if they find it oppressive and
disagreeable, they will withdraw their applica
tion.—
It is an invariable maxim in taxation, that pro
perty fhouldbe as equally afTeffed as possibly, by
which means every person in a state contributes
in proportion to their abilities, and the learned
who have July considered this fubjed aflert there
is no way of attaining to this equal taxation so
well as a rate upon real estates, and where any
impost or taxes are laid otherwise, except as fump
tuary regulations, they are mere ads of tyranny,
although they may be framed so as to disguise the
inequality, but they ought to be rejected as found
ed on base and unworthy principles, even if the
burthen should fall heaviest on the rich who are
best able to bear it ; —but when they are formed
so as to bear harder upon the poor or middling class
of people, it then becomes a cruel oppression, and
it behoves every good man and honest citizen to
exert himfelfin opposition to,fuch a law—That
this proposed law is of this nature, might be de
monstrated from its effects universally, but the
case of a worthy neighbour of mine will fully prove
it ; this is not a lingular but too general a case : I
shall therefore mention it as being to the point—
A B , a diligent and ingenious trades
man, has a wife with twelve children, and no
other income than what arises from his own in
dustry (or to speak in metaphor) from the fweal
ofhis brows; his trade requires that he should
keep a fire in his shop—and decency requiresthat
he should have one irtis parlour, and another in
bis kitchen, the circunaftances of bis wife, and
frequent sickness amongst his children, often re
quire that he should have a fire sometimes in ids
wife's and sometimes in his children's chamber ;
we will deprive him of the use of all the rest of
his fire places, as his neceffitons circumftaoces
will not allow him to use them occasionally, should
the state of his family in any wife makeit nece^a
ry, although he pays his rich, and perhaps inex
orable landlord, for the use of all in the" house,
and we will suppose he uses these five chimnies
only, which according to this law cannot cost
him less than „,. per year—when at present they
don't coll him 5/ for what with small fires, and
great care in his good wife, who often runs her
long sweeping brush its full length up their chim
nies, fire keeps them fafe from anydanger of firing
for many weeks. His landlord is an old
batchelor, of at lead £.300 per year, clear estate,
keeps no horde, —is an inmate, and of course ex
:mpted by this bill, —surely one would be apt to
conclude that this old batchelor landlord, to me
rit this peculiar diftiri&ion from the Managers of
be House of Employment, had worthily filled up
hat link in society for which God had created
rim, that he chetifhes some virtuous matron, adds
ronour and dignity to a worthy family by his alli
nce, {Lengthens and enriches the state with his
lumerous offspring, nurtured in the precepts of
irtue and religion by his arduous care, and leaves
race of worthy citizens behind him, an honour
o their parents and an orgament to their country,
—and as a reward for these services he juftlyme
lted such an exemption.—For brevity fake I shall
But may it please your Excellency, we must tell
you, we are determined, if the innocent inha
bitants of our country towns, (for we must think
this man innocentin this affair) must be interrupt
ed by soldiers in their lawful intercourse with the
town of Boston, and treated with the most brutish
ferocity, We shall hereafter use a different style
from that of petition and complaint.
If the grand bulwarks of our constitution are
thus violently torn away, and the powers on earth
prove unfriendly to the cause of virtue, liberty and
humanity, We are flill happy. We can appeal
to him, who judgeth righteously; and to him we
chearfully leave the event.
To bis Excellency General Gage.
Extras of a letter from a Gentleman in London, to
bis friend in this Town, dated Dec. 24, 1774.
“ The proceedings of the General Congress
and of your Colony, have had every effed you
could wish, upon the people, the Parliament, the
Ministry and the Merchants. The petition of the
When I confider the many taxes which the
poor of this city are already burthened with, I
am furprized at this attempt to increase them, as
I know from some experience, that you must pick
the meatfrom between their children's teeth as it
were, or take the garments from their backs,
should you carry this law into execution—for
what purpose is their burthens to be made hea
vier and their conditons more wretched? is this
confident with the benevolent plan on which our
poor laws are founded and the House of Employ
ment erected ? —no Gentlemen, if your funds are
not fufficient to support the poor, which I am not
fatiilied to be the case, apply for a further law
to raise in an equal andjuft manner, by an impar
tial affefTment of property, as heretofore, a fuffi
cient fund for that purpose.—ls the people will
not consent to provide in this equal way for the
support of the poor, you will be difeharged from
any reflexions for negligence or inattention to
your duty, and will have the testimony ofagood
conscience let me advise you against any
devices to extort money from your fellow
citizens, by a specious shew of utility.—lt is
a dishonest fubterfuge, especially when it falls hea
vy on the poor and exempts the rich—such a plan
cannot fail to create disgust in your fellow citizens,
and instead of having the blessings of the poor you
will be deprecated by them.
To commend would be more agreeable to my
disposition than to censure, I shall therefore for
bear any ftri&ures on particular parts of the bill,
many of which will be extremely inconvenient and
burtbenfome to the people as well as absurd, if
any regulation of the sweeps was necessary, which
I donot believe tube the case; but in hopes that
you will desist from your attempt when you have
reconsidered the matter, I conclude for the pre
sent. Your's and the public's
Philadelphia, March 29, 1775. C. D.
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BOST O N, March 20.
Thursday lafi the fillewirg Remorfrance was pre
sented to his Excel ency.
May it please your Excellency,
WE these eXmen of the town of Billerica,
beg leave to remonstrate to your Excel
lency, That on the Bth of this instant, March,
one Thomas Ditfon, an inhabitant of said town
of Billerica, was tarred and feathered, and very
much abused by a party of his Majesty's 47th re
giment, under the command of Lieutenant Col.
Nefbitt. As guardians for said town, and from
a regard to the liberties and properties of its in
habitants, we cannot but resent this procedure.
Your Excellency must be sensible that this aX is
an high infraction on that personal security which
every Englishman is entitled to; and without
which his boasted constitution is but a name.
It is Efficiently unhappy for us, that we find
troops quartered among us for the purpose of en
forcing obedience to ads of Parliament ofGreat-
Britain, in the highest sense iniquitous, cruel and
unjufl. It is still more unhappy, if these troops,
instead of preserving the character which British
troops once had, should pour in additionai insult,
and be guilty of the most brutal outrages. We
hope your Excellency will take some proper steps
for accommodating this affair; for we assure you,
we cannot, consistent with our duty, pass this mat
ter over. We have been told by your Excellency,
that you never meant to difurb the intercourse be
tween the town and the country. Confidingin this,
we have palled and repaffed in our usual manner.
We therefore hope your Excellency will make it
evident by your conduct, that you are determined
the intercourse shall be preserved, and we be not
buoyed up with promises, which in the end, we
urthappi y find, not tobe depended upon. Lieutenant
Col. Ne&t is an officer under your Excellency's
command: Of you, therefore, We demand fatis
fa&ion, iJ the insult committed by him. We
think it is 1 1 your power. We beg your Excel
lency, that the breach now too wide between
Great -Britain and this province, may not by such
brutality of the troops, still be encreafed. We
assure you, Sir, it always has been, and still is,
our sentiment and prayer, that harmony may be
restored ; and that we may not be drove to the
last distress of nations.
not revetfe this pi&ure by a companion of my
honest neighbour with him, I shall leave it for
my readers to supply; I shall only take notice, that
this will undoubtedly be the unequal case with
many other tradesmen, widows and poor labour
ers, the most of them not rated above £.B in the
poor tax, which afTeffed at 3d. in the pound, is 2f.
not one of all these but are obliged to use one fire
place all the year round, which will cost them 9/.
per year, and I dare affirm that at present it does
not colt them 2/. on an average ; this will make
a difference of yr. which will be equal to railing
their taxes to l6fd. in the pound, when thole of
the rich are not advanced la. perhaps.
Another letter of Dec. 28, fays, “ Notwith
standing the pacific appearances held out, there is a
determination to persi st in the prefontJfem of mca
fares.''
Another letter, dated January 4, fays, " The
number of your friends among the people at large
increases every day—The Ministry are determined
to persevere in the great fyfem of American taxation
—1 hey are alarmed at the unanimity of the Con
gress, and the people of the MafTachufetts-Bay
and their Provincial Congress, which are univer
sally approved of here by the friends of English
Liberty—My earnest advice is to prepare for
the worst, and persevere in the plan adopted
by the Congress.—Lord Chatham and Lord Tem
ple approve entirely of the proceedings of the
Congress.—For Heaven's fake, for your own fake,
and that of pofterity,^^/ re/ax^w Vig llance."
BY virtue of a writ to me directed, will be fold
by public sale, on Monday, the 3d day of
April next, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, on the
premises, two tra&s or pieces of land, situate in
the townflrip of Cheltenham, about two miles from
Webb's tavern, in Abington, and at the junction
of the White-marsh and Oxford Church roads, and
on the westerly fide of the Lime kiln road, two
trails or pieces of land, with the appurtenances ;
one of them containing 16 acres and a quarter : The
other of them containing 12 acres; late the estate
of a certain Christian Edel, the elder, deceased ;
seized and taken in execution, by
WILLIAM DEWEES, Sheriff.
Extract from the Minutes of Chester Count, Com
mittee, March 20, 1775.
PURSUANT to adjournment and pub
lic notice given, the Committee of Chester coun
ty met at the house of Richard Chiney, in
East Caln.
On motion, Ordered, That Mr. Hockley, Mr.
Johnflon, Mr. Gronow, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Fra
zer, Mr. Moore, and Mr. Taylor, be, and they
are hereby appointed a Committee to essay a
draught of a petition to present to the General
Assembly of this province, with regard to the
manumission of slaves—especially relating to the
freedom of infants hereafter born of black wo
men, within this colony,—and do make report
of the fame to this Committee, at their next
meeting.
On motion, Ordered, That each member in
this Committee will use his utmost diligence in
collecting the fcvcral sums of money, fubferib
ed for the use of Boston, and pay the fame into
the hands of Anthony Wayne, Esq; Trea
surer, at the next meeting of this Committee.
The Committee then adjourned to meet at the
house of David Coupland, in the borough
of Chester, on Wednesday the 31st of May
next. B, Order of the Committee.
FRANCIS JOHNSTON, Secretary.
*#' *A Court of Oyer and Terminer for the
County of Philadelphia, will be held at the State
House in this City, on Monday the loth day of
April inst. at to o'clock in the forenoon, of which
all concerned will please to take notice.
tit The fubferibers to a plan of an American
manufacture of Woollens, Cottons and linens, are
requested to call upon the Treasurer, Joseph Stiles,
at his house, in Arch-street, to pay the firft moiety
of their fubferiptions.
By order of the Managers,
JAMES CANNON, Secretary.
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Continental Congress was presented through the
hands of Lord Dartmouth. —The anlwer was in
these words, " His Majesty has been pleased to
receive the petition very graciously, and to fay,
that as it was a matter of gi eat importance he would
lay it before the two Houses of Parliament." —
The Miniffry begin to disavow individually the
late measures, and to accuse Mr. Hutchinson as
the instigator of the whole—You have every thing
to expeft from that firmnefs and unanimity which
havethus fhakea their Councils, confounded their
plans, and fetjhem mutually at variance—perse
verance in the fame spirit, is that alone which will
obtain effectual redress— Appearances are certain
ly favourable, bat not so as to juftify the leaf re
iniffion of those measures which have produced this
temper."
Another letter fays, “ I havebeen im the coun
try with Lord C m; he very highly approves
of the petition of the Congress—The interior ca
binet, which rules every thing, appears convinced
of the necessity of redreis, but are determined to
give it with as little grace as pollible—They had
two Councils to decide upon receiving or rejecting
the petition ; the firft was divided, thefecond had
a majority for receiving. The faX is, the cogent
reasoning on which your demands are founded,
meets the approbation of the public, and renders
your cause irrefiftably popular."
BY virtue of a writ to me directed, will be fold
by public sale, on Monday, the 3d day of
April next, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, at the
house of Edward Wells, in Upper Dublin, two cer
tain tra&s or pieces of land, situate in the town
ship of Upper Dublin aforefaid, one of them con
taining —acres ; bounded by land of Derrick Ty
son, and Burke's land: The other of them con
taining 15 acres and 38 perches; bounded by land
of Joseph Hubbs, Jacob Gubler, and others ; with
their refpeAive improvements and appurtenances ;
late the estate of Valentine Puff, the elder, decca
fed ; seized and taken in execution by
WILLIAM DEWE E S, Sheriff.
PHILADELPHIA, April 3.
Ex'radl of a letter from Barbados, March 6, 1775.
Our annual flips from London are daily ar
riving, by which we learn the American cause
gains ground, which it is said will produce a
repeal of some of the ads of Parliament com
plained of—lt is confidently asserted that Lord
North has declared that he will not be answer
able for the consequences that may ensue, by
an attempt to enforce the ads, as it is not a
measure of his own ; from whence it is hoped he
will impeach the authors, before the sessions are
over.
Baltimore, March 17, 1775.
70 BE SO L D,
By the Subferiber, the following LOTS and TRACTS
of LAND, in the province of Pennfjlvania, viz.
TRACT containing 6000 acres of very valua
ble LAND, lying on the waters of Cbillifquake x
in the fork of Sufauebannah, about twelve miles from
Sunbury (formerly Fort Augusta) the count, town of,
Northumberland •,which from its favourable Jitu ation
at the junflion of the two branches of that river, bids
fair to become the greatej? commercial inland town in
Pennsylvania. The quality of said trafl of land is
excellent, surpassed by few of equal extent in the new
purchase, being a rich deep mould on a Emeflone bottom.
It abounds in fine meadow grounds, the whole trafl
being exceedingly well watered by a variety of ferings
befdes the different branches of Chillifquake creek, on
one of which (near the center of the trafl) is a ver,
good mill feat. The fituatiim is in man, refpefls fa
vourable, in an extensive valley of good land, capa
ble of making a good settlement around it, and ver,
convenient for bringing the produce to market, at a
trifling expence, by the nnvigation of Susquehanna,
being only „r 6 miles from the eaf and 7 or 8 miles
from the weft branch of that river. To the latter there
is a good waggon road already opened. The whole of
this trail is accurately surveyed, and divided in the
most commodious manner, into 21 different plantations,
so as to accommodate each with a proportion of mea
dow grounds and water. A plan thereof ma, be seen
by an, persons desirous of viewing the lands, l, apply
ing to Samuel Hunter, Esq; at Sunbury, ^bo is
autborifed to agree with any persons inclining to pur
chase, or by applying to the fubferiber. Notwithfand
ing the divijion of this trail into different plantations,
the owner has no objeflion to fell it altogether, if more
agreeable to any society or company of purchasers.
A Plantation, containing 276 acres of uncultivated
land, adjoining to lands of Samuel Martin, on Bright
field's creek, about two miles from the mouth vuhicb
empties into funiata, and about five miles from the
mouth of that fine navigable flream: At lea, 30 yr 40
acres oj meadow ma, be made on this place, which is
watered through the whole extent b, the aforemention
ed creek, an which a saw-mill might be erelled to great
advantage, as the bills around abound with fine tim
ber. It's convenient situation to the navigation of
Juniata and Sufquehannab renders it ver, valuable.
An, persons inclining to purcbafe may apply to Mr.
Frederick Watts, near the mouth of Juniata,
or to the fubferiber.
A Plantation containing 185 and 3-qrs. acres of
land, on Tuffey's Run, about four miles from Bedford,
on which there is a small dwelling-house, and about
25 acres of cleared land.
Also federal very valuable improved lots adjoining
the town of Bedford, on one of which, at the weft end
of the town, is a very commodious dwelling-house, a
barn and a fill-hcufe built over a fine spring.
For terms of said Lots and Lands, near Bedford,
apply toGEORGEWooDs, orKoßEßTGalbreath,
Esquires, in Bedford, or to the Proprietor in Balti
more, Maryland.
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Cbffler County, March 13, 1775.
Tobe SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
on the sth day of April next, on the premises,'
A VALUABLE Plantation or Trad ofLand,
„ situate in the township of East Bradford, con
taining ab@ut 32 acres of excellent land, about -0
acres thereof cleared, the other well timbered,
with a good two story log house, a well of Water at
the door, a log barn almost new, and other out
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money, will be given by
CHARLES RYANT.