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City of Philadelphia, ORober 2, 177,.
The ASSIZE of BREAD.
FINR Flour, at Eighteen Shillings per Ct.
Middlings, at Fifteen Shillings per Ct.
Rye, at Ten Shillings per Ct.
Whitebread b.oz. Midd. do. lb. oz. Rye do. lb. or.
id.loafis9 7 id.loafiso 8| id.loafiso 11
2d.ditto,o 15^ 2d.ditto, I C 2d.ditto, 1 6;
4d.ditto, 1 14^ 4d.ditto, 2 2f 4d.ditto, 2 12,
hd.ditto, 3 i2f Bd.ditto, 4 5 Bd.ditto,§ ,9
]2d.ditto,s io|i2d.ditto, 6 7 ^?d.ditto,B 6
Set by SAMUEL RHOADS, Mayor.
ANDREW ALLEN, Recorder.
JACOB DUCHE.
WILLIAM FISHER.
SAMUEL POWELL.
AMERICAN STEE L,
To be had at the STORE of
Jeremiah Warder and Sons,
Equal in quality to the best English steel, made by
J. Nancakrow, Steel-maker, from England.
N. B. They have also for sale, T. Crowley's
STEEL, No. 3 . t
WILLIAM SEMPL E,
Has for SALE, at his store in Front street,
A N~U MBER of pieces of green and brown
broadcloths; Walloons, callimancoes, du
rants, coatings and duffils, silk gauzes and lawns,
Spotted fwanfkins, blankets, rugs &c. &c.
't HE SUBSCRIBER begs leave
I to inform those Gentlemen who have been
pleased to employ him by fubfeription, in bringing
the Pennsylvania news-papers, that heis now mak
ing out their r&(pe&ive accompts : And whereas
he has not been troublesome for a considerable time
past in colle&ing, and their accompts not being
large, he flatters himfelf those Gentlemen will not
fail difebarging their balances, when called or at
their refpe&ive homes, which he intends doing in
the course of the three following months, viz. No
vember, December and January, if he (hould not
close his accompts sooner. He remains the Public s
very humble servant,
ALEXANDER ANDERSON,
Eastern Shore Post.
WAS carried off, by mistake as it is
imagined, from the sign of the Ship, on
Chefnut-hill, at the time of the general Review
which was held there in the summer, three Great
Coats and one Surtout Coat, and others left in
their room ; the firft was a double drab, a pale co
lour, the second of the fame colour, the third a
blue duffil, and the furtout a blue nap : They be
longed to officers of the militia. Any person or
persons that has either or all of them, are desired to
bring them to the place they took them from and
take their own back, to prevent further trouble.
J JACOB ZOLL.
Cbrijliana Bridge, Sept 23, >775.
TWENTY bOiLARS REWARD.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the fob
scriber, on Sunday the 10th instant, a dark
brown HORSE, fourteen hands one inch high,
five years old, neither brand nor ear mark, was let
in the tail the day before he went away, and was
nicked in two places which cannot be healed yet ;
he was trimined under the bridle, has a switch tail,
and a small naval gall almost healed up; he is low
in the neck, his mane divided and hangs part on
each fide ; he is high couraged and apt to run off
when mounted; he trots, paces and gallops, but
fondeft of his pace, was marked in the breast with
a collar but almost worn out ; had no (hoes on, and
was tender footed when rode on hard ground.
Whoever secures the horse and thief (hall have the
above Reward, on the thief's being convi&ed of
the fa&, or FOUR DOLLARS for the horse
if brought home, and reasonable charges, paid by
, HUMPHRY CARSON.
FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
I') AN AWAY the 6th instant (September)
( from the subscriber living in Bond's Fared,
Harford County, Maryland, an English servant
nan named J 0 (IN NIGHT, about forty years
Id, a Weft of England man, and (peaks in that
riai:& ; he is about five feet eight inches high,
fort black hair, a down look, loves liquor, and
i apt to swear; had on when he went away, an
c nabrigs shirt and tiowfers, an old hat tarred on
tl: u per fide, and a pair of half worn (hoes ; it is
fu paled he took a flail with him, and that he will
en eavour to pass for a thresher ; he profeffes him
tel a coalier, and he may perhaps have recourse to
fone of the iron works. Whoever takes up said
ferunt and secures him in any gaol, so that his
mater may have him again, shall have, if twenty
mile from home, rWEN TY SHILLINGS,
and f cat of the province, the above Reward, be
lideswl at the law allows, paid by
6 BERNARD REIL Y.
WANTS EMPLOYMENT,
A SINGLE PERSON, a native of Ameri
ca: He understands hook keeping, and would
be glad to serve any gentleman in town or country
as a Clerk. Enquire of the Printer.
WAS TAKEN UP near the Falls
of Schuylkill, a BAY HORSE, ab ut
fourteen hands high, branded on the near (houtder
LS. a little white on his ack'and on his forehead;
no (hoes on. Whoever has loft the frid horse is
desired to come, prove his property, pay ch iges,
and take him away.
t HENRY SWEET.
0 R,
GENERAL
VOL. IV.'
M O N D A Y,
SUPERFINE, middling and coarse broad
cloths; fuperfine caffuners and fagathies ; Su
perfine and middling scarlet coamings and frizes; an
allortment of the fineft coatings and frizes perhaps
ever imputed, with rattinets & fhalloons to match ;
macaroni velvets & velvet ets, plain ditto, royal ribs,
Dutch cords and corduroys, feige denims, cotton
denims and worsted fattincts ; gold and silver, span
gled and basket buttons;* white silk breeches pieces
and other hosiery of various forts; paduafoys, man
tuas, India taffaties, striped and plain Pei fians, fi
gured and plain fattins, figured and plain modes,
womens and mens black Genoa velvets, fuperfine
black hair shag ; chintzes, cottons and callicoes ;
book, jacconet and other muslins; cambricks,
lawns and kentings ; ladies riding featheis; Japan
waiters ; India, Barcelona and English silk hand
kerchiefs ; with a great variety of other articles too
tedious for an advei tifement.
WILLIAM ADCOCK,
At the south-east corner of Second and Market
ftreets, has a large and general assortment of
DRY GOODS, which he will fell, wholcfale
or retail, on reasonable terms for caih, viz.
Now SELLING for CASH ONLY, by
CURTIS C L A Y,
At the corner of Letitia Court, in Market-street,
nearly opposite Mr. Hall's Printing-office,
TH E remains of his store of GOODS,
all in good order, and confining of the fol
lowing articles, viz.—Broadcloths, frizes, scarlet
flannells, Manchester velvets and velverets, black
piufhes, everlastings, camolets, worked damasks,
callimancoes, durants, tammes, fhdloons, tatti
nets, dorfateens, yard wide ftuffs, black ruffels,
worsted breeches patterns, cotton romIB; worsted,
cotton and thread hole ; silk, worsted and thread
mitts ; mens and womens coloured lamb and bea
ver gloves and mitts; callicoes, cottons, printed
linen handkerchiefs, plain and netted silk gauzes,
catgut, Paris net, muslins, hnmhums, book mus
lins, nook muslin handkerchiefs, a great variety of
ribbonds, brown, striped and white flowered man
tuas; narrow perfians and farfanets, black mode,
fine white Marseilles bed quilts, table cloths, I knee
garters, fans, sewing silks, taps, firirt buttons,
black cravats, death-head and basket coat and vest
buttons, nonfepretties, threads, chip and Leghorn
bats, wonted bindings, ivory combs, Whitechap
pel needles, knives and forks, penknives, cutteaus,
(ciffars, cork (crews, temple (pe&acies, metal but
tons, fnuff boxes, (hoe and knee buckles, razors,
Jew sharps, and a variety of other articles. 4
INDIAN blankets; fuperfine and common
rose blankets; 8 4, 9 4 and 10-4 green rugs ;
blue, red and mixed duffib ; scarlet and cloth co
loured coatings; 9 4 green baize; red ditto; fu
perfine scarlet roadcloths ; browns and drab co
jouied super ditto ; middle and low priced ditto;
double milled drabs; fine sorest cloths; 11-4 cot
ton counterpanes ; mens, womens and childrens
thread, cotton and worded hose; mens silk, and
silk and worsted ditto; single and double scarlet
worsted caps ; green and cloth coloured silk velvet
ditto; womens bl?ck, white and cloth coloured
silk gloves and mitts ; mens black and white silk
gloves ; lea her gloves and mittens; black silk
gauze handkerchiefs; variety of ribbons ; double
and single woifted dainalks; cambists and camblet
tees ; callimancoes, ruffcis, rattirets, Walloons,
durants and tammies, dorfetrees, brilliants, cr: pes,
bomb zeens, fuperfine cotton velvets, printed dit
to ; corduroy, olive and brown velverets, 7 8 and
3-4 stripe ticket, plain ditto ; 3-4, 7.8, yard wide
and yard 3 8 cotton checks; , 8 and yard wide
Iri(h linens; printed cottons and callicoes ; green
and olive ground India chintzes ; long lawns ; 7' 8
and yard wide clear lawns and cambricks; muslin?,
sewing silks, tapes, bobbings, quality bindings,
ivory and hora combs, green and white ivory han
dle knives and forks, in cates ; buck and bone
handle cutteaus and yiftol cap'd ditto; Barlow
penknives, razors, London pound pins, black and
light coloured India taffaty, black and wlite fat
tins, light blue Mantua, rich luff flowered du
cape, 8 by jo window glass, &c. &c. with sundry
other articles not here inferred.
WANTED IMMMEDIATELY,
A JOURNEYMAN FULLER: He will
have 31. per month i' he under Hands the bu
siness in all its branches ; or if (hearing and pr ffing,
21. los. per month. Enquire of JorjN Heartman,
in Reading, Berks County. §
Frederick County, Maryland, Sept. 18, 1775.
NINE POUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on Sunday lift, the three
following servants, viz. JOHN BURCK;
had on a red striped lincey jacket, old check shirt,
znabrigs trowfers, and old shoes with buckles; has
long Tandy coloured hair, thin visage, and Hoops
mu hin walking. THOMAS FLUDD;had
on a blue furtout coat, shirt and trowfers of home
made linen, old shoes and buckles. ROBERT
FITZGERALD, a hatter by trade; had on
when he went away, a fnuff coloured coar, an ash
coloured jacket, check shirt an. trowfers, a new
felt fafhionable hat, and good shoes with buckles.
Wh< ever takes up said servants and brings them
to the fubferibers at Frederick 1 own, shall have
the above Reward, or THREE POUNDS
currency for each ; and if secured in any gaol, so
that the owners may get them again, shall have
FIVE POUNDS currency for the three, paid
by DANIEL HOWER.
t WILLIAM MILLER.
A. H. SMITH.
THOM AS WES T,
In Second-street, a few doors below Market-street,
has on hand lund'y European and Eart India
GOODS, which he will fell wholelale and re
tail ; among which are,
D U N L A P's
l^jg^^^^
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHNHA R T,
At his Vendue Store, at the corner of South and
Front-str eets,
A NEAT assortment of MERCHANDIZE,
among which are, camblets, worsted dam fks,
everlastings, durants, tammies, fhalloons, velverets,
checks, fiik ferrits, quality bindings, bed furni
ture, furniture cherks, Turky stripes, plush, em
bossed flannels, broadcloths, sorest cloths, naps,
coatings, duffils, ftuff shoes, white Russia sheetings,
ribbonds, silk g-uze, callicoes, cottons, chintzes
and printed linens, gold and silver laced hats, silver
and China handle knives and forks, indigo, pow
der blue, &c. ' bF
N. B. Goods for public and private sale are re
ceived at said Store, and fold for cash only.
.*** To be let, a neat Dwelling house, conve
n2f!] £ ' or a private family. Enquire at said store.
Philadelphia, Jut? 24, 177 c.
CHARLES MA IS E,
Mustard and Chocolate Maker,
BEGS leave to inform the Public in general, that
he will give Forty Shillings per bushel for any
quantity of good clean Mustard-seed, or any fmaft
quantity at that rate for fix months fr,m the date
hereof ; he therefore hopes that farmers and others
will use their heft endeavours to encourage this va
luable manufactory, by cultivating and improving
the growth of so valuable an article, that we may
not now, nor hereafter, have any occasion to im
port from our minifteriabenemies in Great Britain.
Those persons that have, or mav have it to fell,
shall not be disappointed by applying to the Widow
Cunningham, at the Rising Sun ip Market street,
near the Coffee-houfe; to Mr. John Davis, saddler,
near Fourth-street in Market street, or to the Ma
nufactory in Second-street below the New Market,
opposite to Almond-Itieet, at which places ready,
money will ~>e ?iv<n.
N. B. Said Maise stands in the market on mat
ket days, opposite the* London Coffee-houfe; He
returns thanks to his former customers, hopes for
a continuance of their favours, and doubts not but
to merit their efteem.§
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P H I LAD E L PH I A, oa 2 .
The following letters are published by order of the
Honorable Continental Congreh.
Head farters, Cambridge, duguft 11,177^.
" T Understand that the officers engaged in the
JL cause of iberty and heir colin ry, who bythe*
fortune o£ war have fallen into your hands, have
been thrown indiscriminately into a common jail,
appropriated for felons —hat no confiderati®n has
been had for those of the most refpe&able rank,
when languishing with wounds and sickness—that
some of them have been even amputated in this
unworthy situation.
" Let your opinion, Sir, of the principle which
actuates them be what it may, they fuppefe they
a& from the noblest of all principles, a love of
freedom and their country. But political opinions
I conceive, are foreign to this point. The obli
gations arjfing from the rights of humanity, and
claims of rank, are universally binding and exten
sive, except in case of retaliation. These, I should
have hoped, would have dictated a more tender
treatment of those individuals, whom chance of
war had put in your power. No can I forbear
fuggeftiog its fatal tendency to, widen that unhap
py breach, which you, and those ministers under
whom you act, have repeatedly declared you with
to fee for ever closed.
" I beg to be favoured with an answer as soon
as possible, and am, Sir, your very humble servant,
GEORGE WASHINGTON-"
Hie Excellency General Gage.
'' SI R, Boflon, /ug. ig, 1775.
" <' ° '' ie &'° r y °' civilized nations, humanity
JL and war hare been compatible ; and
compassion to the subdued is become almost a ge
neral system.
" Britons,ever pre-eminent in mercy, have outgone
common examples, and overlooked the criminal
in trie captive. Upon these principles, your pri
soners, where lives by the laws of the land are de
fined to the cotd, have hitherto been treated
with care and kindness, and more comfortably
lodged than the Kings troops in the hospitals;
indiscriminately it is true, for I acknowledge no
rank, thatis not derived from the King.
" My intelligence from your army would jufti
fy severe recrimination. I understand there are
of the Kings faithful fubje&s, taken some time
since Dy the rebels, labouring like negro (laves to
gain their daily subsistence, or reduced to the
wretched alternative, to perish by famine, or take
arms against their King and country. Those, who
have made the treatment of the prisoners in my
“ My duty now makes it mcceffary to apprize
you, that for the future I shall regulate my con
dud ftowards those gentlemen, who are, or may
be in our possession, exa&ly by the rule you shall
obfervCtowards those of ours now in your custody.
“ If severity and hardship make the line of your
conduct (painful as it may be to me) your prison
ers will feel its effeds, but if kindness and huma
nity are shewn to ours, I shall with pleasure com
tider those in our hands only as unfortunate, and
they fliall receive from me that treatment to whieh
the unfortunate are ever intitled.
ROTI
T H E
ADVERTISER.
OCTOBER 2d, !775°
“ Till I read your insinuations in regard to
Ministers, I conceived that I had acted under the
King ; whole wishes, it is true, as well as those of
his Ministers, and of every honest man, have been
to fee this unhappy breach for ever closed; but
unfortunately for both countries, those who long
since projected the present crisis, and influence the
councils of America, have views very distant from
accommodation. I am, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
THOMAS GAGE."
George Washington, Esq;
Head Barters, Cambridge, Aug. 19, 177 g.
" S.IR,
“ TADDRESSED you on the eleventh instant in
JL terms which gave the faireft scope for the exer
cise of that humanity and politeness, which were fop
pofed to form a part of your charader. I re
monstrated with you on the unworthy treatment
shewn to the officers and citizens of America,
whom the fortune of war, chance, or a mistaken
confidence, had thrown into your hands.
" Whether British or American mercy, forti
tude, and patience, are most pre eminent—whe
ther our virtuous citizens, whom the hand of ty
ranny has forced into arms, to defend their wives,
their children, and their property, or the merce
nary instruments of.lawless domination, avarice
and revenge, best deserve the appellation of rebels,
and the punishment of that cord, which your af
feCted clemency has forborn to inflict; whether
the authority, under which I ad, is usurped, of
founded upon the genuine principles of liberty,
were altogether foreign to thefubjed. I purpose
ly avoided all political disquisition; nor shall I
now avail myfelf of those advantages, which the
sacred cause of my country, of liberty, and hu
man nature give me over you, much less shall I
stoop to retort an inve&ive. But the intelligence
you fay you have received from our army requires
a reply. I have taken time, Sir, to make a drift
enquiry, and find it has hot the least foundation
in truth. ,Not only your officers and soldiers
have been treated with a tenderness due to fellow
citizens and brethren, but even those execrable
paracides, whose councils and aid have deluged
their country with blood, have been protested
fiom the fury of a justly enraged people. Far
from compelling or permitting their assistance £
am embaraffed with the numbers who crowd to
our camp, animated with the purest principles of
value, and love of theft country. You advise
me to give free operation to truth, to punish mis
representation and falfehood. If experience stamps
virtue upon council, your's must have a weight,
which few can claim. You best can tell how
far the convulsion, which has brought Inch ruin
on both countries, and shaken the mighty empire
of Britain to its foundation, ma, be traced to
these malignant causes.
“ You affe&, Sir, to despise all rank, not de
rived from the fame source with your own. I
cannot conceive one more honourable than that
which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a
brave and free people, the purest source and ori
ginal fountain of all power. Far from making it
a plea for cruelty, a mind of true magnanimity and
enlarged ideas would comprehend and refpef lit.
“ What may have been the ministerial vie^s,
which have precipitated the present crisis, Lex
ington, Concord, and Chariettown, can best de
clare. May that God, to whom you then appeal
ed, judge between America and you. Under his
providence, those who influence the councils of
America, and all the other inhabitants of the
United Colonies, at the hazard of their lives, are
determined to hand down to posterity these just
and invaluable privileges which they received from
their ancestors.
hands, or of your other friends in Boston, a pre
tence for such mealures, found barbarity upon
falfehood.
“ I would willingly hope, Sir, that the fenti,
ments of liberality, which f have always believed
you to possess, will be exerted to correct these
misdoings. Be temperate in political disquisition;
give free operation to truth, and punish these who
deceive and miireprefent, and not only the effeds
but the causes of this unhappy conflict will be re
moved.
“ Should those under whose usurped authority
you aft, controul such a dilpofitjpn, and dare to
call severity retaliation, to God who knows all
hearts, be the appeal for the dreadful conferen
ces. I trust that British soldiers, asserting the
rights of the state, the laws of the land, the being
of the constitution, will meet all events with be
coming fortitude. They will court victory with
the spirit their cause inspires, and from the fame
motive will find the patience of martyrs under
misfortune.
“ I shall now, Sir, close my correspondence
with you, perhaps for ever. If your officers, our
prisoners, receive a treatment from me different
from what I wished to (hew them, they and you
will remember the occasion of it.
I am, Sir, your very humble fer.vant,
Cc^lG^e. G. WASHINGTON.
NUMB. 206.