Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1774-08-29 00:00:00, page 4

A ihort extrad from an excellent essay on the
English constitution, written by the late Earl of
Bath, when he was thq great Commoner, Mr.
Pulteney, well worthy the confederation of all
Englishmen at this political crisis.
<{CT~H E coFeahce body of the people of Great-Bri
1 tain delegate, but do not give up; trust,
but do not alienate their rights and their power ;
and cannot be undone, by having beggery or sla
very brought upon them, unless they co-operate
to their own undoing, and,in a word, betray them
ielvcs. We cannot, therefore, fubferibe to those
two sayings of my Lord Bacon, that England can
never be undone unless by Parliament ; and that there
is nothing which a Parliament cannot do. Great-
Britain according to our present constitution, can
not be undone even by Parliament; for there is
Something which a Parliament cannot do. A Parli
ament cannot annul the ccnflitution ; and while that
is preserved, though our condition may be bad,
it cannot be irretrievably so. The legislature is a
Jupreme, and may be called, in one feofe, an abso
lute, but in none, an arbitrary power. It is limit
ed to the pub ic good of the focicty. It is a power,
that hath no other end but preservation; and there
fore can never have a right to defroy, enslave, or de-
Jigneaf to impoverish the fubjeHs ; for the obligations
of the law of nature cease not in society. Should
you therefore pur so extravagant a case as to sup
pose the two Houses of Parliament concurring to
make at once a formal cession of their own rights
and privileges, and of those of the whole nation to the
grown, and ask, who hath the right, andthe means,
to resist thejupreme legijlative power ? I answer, the
who.e nation hath the right; and a peop e who de
serve to enjoy liberty, will find the means. An
attempt of this kind would break the bargain be
tween the King and t'ne'nation , between the repre
sentative and collective body of the people; and would
dissolve the confitution. From hence it follows,
that the nation, which hath a right to preserve this
confitution, has a right to resist an attempt that
leaves no other means of preferring it, but those of
refinance. And from hence it follows,that if the
eonftitution was actually dissolved, as it would be
by such an attempt of the three plates, the people
would return to their original, their natural right,
the right of restoring the fame constitution, or of
making a /;ro one. No power on earth could claim
any right of impofingaco^iWio,; upon them; and
lets than any, that king, those Lords, and those Com
mons, who, having been entrusted to preserve, had
destroyed the former."
Extras of a letter from Norwich, in England,
June 13.
“ What a feene of inifery and distress are the
pernicious measures of the Administration disclo
sing in this city ! The cries of thousands of poor
journeymen weavers, and the clamour of their
unemployed masters, with all their numerous de
pendents of combers, diets, hot- prefers, &c. will
'ere long reach the ears of the weak, tyrannick
Lord that occasioned them, and make his name
and memory as odious in Europe as in America.
Every manufacturer in the home-trade, who, at
this time of the year used to receive prodigious
orders for coarle camblets, callimancoes, and
black and white crapes from the warehouses in
London for the colonies, are now entirely at a
stand, and when business in the foreign houses
decline our work-houses will be crouded with
paupers, the poor rates become infupportably
high, and numberless families be destitute of
bread. It is not many months since a petition
was presented to Parliament by our worthy Mem
bers Sir Hartford Harbord and Edward Bacon, Esq.
setting forth the decay of trade and the hardships
we labour under ; but, akds! how little does a
Prime Minister regard the misfortunes he heaps
upon others, instead of protesting and encouraging
our commerce, he has taken the most direct means
to diminish and destroy it: And for what? To
execute his avowed and secret designs, and to gra
nor any English fubjedt be obliged to kiss the Dey's
hand ; that the Consul and'his Chancellor may
wear swords; and that all Christian Haves who shall
take refuge in any cutter or boat belonging to any
English man of war or frigate, shall be free and
not liable to be reclaimed. But what is the Dey's
answer ? Why, truly, that Mr. Frazer shall not
be received as Consul, nor permitted to come on
shore ; and, in ihort, that all the articles are ab
solutely rejected. To which was added, that if
these conditions did not please the English com
mander he might set fail again.
Was there ever such a gross affront offered by a
little paltry State to a great King before? Is this
among the glories of the present reign? But, Sir, I
beg pardon, perhaps orders are already issued to
bombard/his fan&uaryof sea-robbers and level it to
the very ground. This lam hire of, that such a
resolution would give much more fatisfaflion to
the good people of England than to fee the sword
drawn against their own countrymen, or to find
laws eftabliflied to deprive English fubjeds of trials
by Juries, and to fubjed them to our natural ene
mies the French.
From th: St. Jakes^ Chronicle of June 11.
WHILE we are preparing to punilh the Bof
toniaos for crimes which they glory in, the
maintenance of their supposed rights and privileges ;
while we arc forming laws to fubjed the Protestant
fubjeos of England to the power of French Pa
pists; while we are forging chains for the free
born people of this country, what a despicable
figure do we make in a dilpute with a nest of thieves
and robbers, the common plunderers and licensed
pirates of Africa?
A squadron of our ships under Admiral Dennis
arrives in the road before Algiers. A letter from
the King of England is delivered to the Dey, in
which hts Majesty insists upon Mr. Frazer being
received as Consul, and that neither the Consul
P HILADEL P HIA: Printed by J OHN DUNLAP, at the Ne^eft PrifoOfr^M^ , h
Subscriptions at Ten Shillings per Annum, Advertisements, &c. are thankfully received for this p^ '
tify his pride, his folly, and bis resentment. Be
cause a licentious rabble in Bolton destroyed a
dutied article which one of the wisest men in this
nation has proved ought not to have been taxed,
and which would not have been destroyed, if the
ihips that carried it had not obstinately perfiftedin
landing it; for that reason, 1 fay, a whole city,
a whole province, must fuffer all the direful effects
of ministerial vengeance. The worthy Magistrate,
theinnocent merchant, the honest tradesman, the
well-disposed poor, all, all, must be treated with
the most unexampled, the most diabolical rigor
for the outrage of a few, have, 'like the city of
London, their humble petitions and just remon
strances ridiculed and difregaded, their charter
violated, their ports blocked up, their trade re
moved, their inhabitants dragged 3000 miles for
trial, and to complete the tragedy, and their Ila
very, a military Governor and troops sent over
to inforce the ministerial mandate. Excellent mea
sures these to ftirup a civil war at home, compel
the exasperated Americans to take up arms and
to ruin the trade of the Mother country. But what
ever gratification such measures may afford to a
wrong-headed deluded minister, they are highly of
fenfive to unemployed and impoverished manufac
turers, whose business is their dependance and sup
port, and who are too sensible of the loss, not to
carfe those who would deprive them and their pos
terity of it. Happy is it for Lord North that he
is not a tradesman, lamenting for orders, and dis
tressed for remittances. Unhappy for him that
the kingdom at large condemn his American mea
sures, and are ashamed of his condud. In a
word, pensioners may flatter, and levees may ap
plaud, but it is too clear, that unless he conciliate
the esteem of the colonies by a repeal of the cruel
deftrudive laws he has framed, and restores the
trade he has taken away, that he will kindle a flame
hd will find himfelf unable to quench, and load him
felf with the,execrations not only of innumerable
poor that may be deprived of employment in the
manufactory of this city, Birmingham, Sheffield and
Yorkshire, but those of every sensible and spirited
person in the kingdom."
TO BE LE T,
For a term of years, and immediately entered upon,
rpHEWESTER OGLEMILLS, fitua
q ted on Gwin's Falls, a never failing Itream
in Baltimore count), Maryland, within 11 miles to
the westward of Baltimore town, in the neighbour
hood of an extensive farming country, on the Fre
derick road, and very convenient to the great road*
to Cumberland and York counties in Pennsylvania,
from whence the greatest quantities of wheat are
brought to the Baltimore market. -The rnill-houfe
is built of done 95 by 35, three stories high. Two
merchant mills with French burr Rones, and a grill
mill with Cologne and overshot wheels to each pair
of hones, the merchant mills were rebuilt this last
winter, the running gears all new, and in the belt
order, bouting gears that goby water, with a new
rolling screen, wind-mill and Boulting chests, con-
Krufted alter the newest and best manner. There
is joining a convenient little lodging room, built of
done, with a fire place for the accommodation of
the miller. The grist mill built new this spring,
under the fame roof, in a separate apartment, and
quite independent of the other works; where if re
quired may be finifhed a convenient room, with a
fire place for a family. There is Hables for twelve
horses, fix or eight acres of land, capable of being
made grass ground, with a dwelling-house and (hop,
now occupied by a cooper, who is providing barrel
timber for the ensuing season. Any person inclina
ble to rent may know the terms by applying to the
fubferiber on the premises, or of John BROW n mer
chant in Philadelphia, WILLIAM LYON.
Marcus Hook, Chefler county, PennfyTcania,
August ictb, 1774.
TH E fubferiber purposing to travel this
fall, intends felling by public vendue, at
his house near Marcus Hook, on Saturday the tenth
day of September next, chiefly all his stock of high
bred and country HORSE S, amongst which is
the great and much admired covering horse called
GIANT; several of the belt high bred breeding
MARE S, one of which is the celebrated NANCY
DAWSON, bred by Col. William Armstrong;
she won the purse at Bridgetown, Charleftown and
three other different places the fame season ; a va
riety of fine C OLTS of the very belt blood, some
got by Dove, some by Figure, and others by the
great beauty Pennsylvania Farmer; also several
genteel HACKand CARRIAGEHORSES.
The above horse Giant is a genuine DRAY
HORSE, imported from England ; he is near 18
hands high, 17 inches round the knee joint, and is
allowed to exceed any horse on this continent for
size, ttrength and abilities in drawing; his breed
therefore from half bred or country mares are vast
ly approved of for the draught or carriage. The
purchasers on paying one half of the money down
will be allowed fix months credit for the remainder,
giving security if required. The file to begin at
12 o'clock, when attendance will be given.
ARCIII B A IQ£I C K.
New-York, July 5,"17&~
RAN AWAY from his security, a certain
JAMES HUNT, a New-England young
man, by trade a hatter, wore his own hair, smooth
faced, and Lender, is supposed to have gone to Phi
ladelphia or Carolina to work at his trade. Who
ever shall apprehend and take him up, and lodge
him in any of his Majesty's gaols, so that his Tc'u
rity may get him again, shall have FOUR POUNDS,
New York currency, Reward, and all reasonable
charges paid, by applying to the Printer hereof, or
to the fubferiber living in New-York.
NESBITT DEANE.
L O S -77
On Wednesday the 3d inst. August on the road
from Bristol to Philadelphia.
A GREEN morocco POCKE T BOOK,
with silver clasps, which contained about
twelve (hillings in money, a pair of stone knee buc
kles and sundry papers of no use but to the real
owner. Whoever has found the fame and delivers
it with its contents to the Pi inter, fl;all receive ONE
GUINEA for their trouble.
'w'a'n t s a FL ac~e7
A WET NURSE with a good breast of milk,
" who can be well recommended. Enquire of
the Printer.
JAMES B UTLA ND,
Fringe and Lace Maker, from Bristol,
BEGS leave to inform the Public, that he
makes and fells the following articles, in Front
ftreet, between Race and Vine-streets, viz. fringe
and lace of all forts, for beds and other furniture,
with lines and toffels of all kinds, either in gold,
silver, silk, worsted or thread; coach-makers laces,
and other trimmings for ditto ; faddlers orrifs,
fringe, bridle reins, &c. gold, silver or silk jacks or
frogs for ladies riding dresses ; ditto for gentlemens
cloaths; gentlemens coats of arms or footmens li
veries made to any pattern; silk knee garters ;
ladies trimmings in gold, silver or silk, in the Eng
lish and French fafhions, with turbands, fheneals
and gimps, &c. fringe, gimp and fheneal trim
mings for silk and cloth cloaks ; all kinds of velvet
trimmings, with a number of other articles.
N. B. The above articles of silk and worsted are
made of the produce of America; and any persons
having silk of their own may have it manufactured
into any of the above articles, or made proper for
making silk Hockings, sewing silk, ribbons, &c.—
Either men or women that have been used to any of
the above branches in other countries, or any that
are willing to learn, from ten years old and up
wards, may have employment either by the month
or as apprentices, by applying as above.
WAS FOUND, on the 28th of
June last, at the upper end of Front- street,
Philadelphia, a leather POCKET BOOK,
with a small sum of money in it. The owner
proving his property and paying the charge of this
advertisement, may have it again, by applying to
Benjamin Gorgas, near the place above men
tioned, and opposite to Mr. George Leib, tanner.
MADE and SOLD by
ROBERT PARRI S H,
At his house in Third-street, a few doers above
Arch-Hreet, and nearly opposite the Golden Swan
tavern, Philadelphia.
ROLLING SCREEN S, for cleaning wheat
and flaxfeed, consisting of four different forts of
wire each, calculated to great exaftnefs, and found
by experience to answer well; small bolts for
Indian meal in mills, Handing screen„ shoe and
(hoot ditto; wire reding sieves of different forts
suitable for Indian meal, wheat, or other grain,
also for iron ore, sugar, ground bark, &c. 'ihort
cloths for millers, found by experience to exceed
any other kind, and a variety of wire work, suita
ble for cellar windows, spring houses, and many
other ules ; DUTCHFANS of different forts
with good improvements, suitable for most kinds of
grain ; feverai forts of boxes with knives for cutting
draw, and curriers beam boards of lignum vitae. °
Also at the fame place aremade all forts of planes,
suitable for carpenters, cabinet-makers, coach-ma
kers, coopers and others, and are allowed (by the
best judges) to be as compleat and good as those
made in London ; any person applying as above
may depend on being served with all reasonable
dispatch. All orders from town or country shall be
carefully attended to.
N. B. Boxes or chests, with an assortment of va
rious kinds of tools (very convenient for farmers
matters of vessels, and others) will be sorted and put
up upon a short notice.'
SARAH H USSE Y,
TAMBOUR and EMBROI D ERE R,
at Mrs. Lastwick s in J alnut-ftreet, between
Front and Second-fti eets,
LEGS leave to inform the Public, that Hie
I teaches the tambour and embroidery, the open
w °% ? he elegance of shading, and to spangle and
purl: to certify the propriety of her work, (he has
just tinilhed a variety of elegant pieces, which, she
flatters herfelf, will be approved of. Ladies will be
waited cn at their own houses one hour in the day
for 9 L c urr , nc y each ; and any Lady that will please
to do her that honour, may depend on being com
pleatly taught. , °
N. B. Ladies gowns, ruffles, aprons, fliades and
w °.'f b % neatl y wrought; also Gentlemens
wantcoats, knee garters, sword knots, &c.
TO BE DISPOSED O F,
THE TIME of a Dutch servant Man, that
has about three years to serve, fit for town cr
country : He has been used to work about a brew
ery, and underttands something of coopering- aged
about twenty-four years, and of a hearty hal'e con
stitution. For further particulars enquire of the
Printer.
T WO DOLLARS R EWARD.
W A d S ,°" Tuesday the 19th of July,
aPUI of the Pointer breed, about four
w e °l?'h S ° d ' r l '^" of his ^e, remarkably
well hung arm high bred, both his ears brown liver
colour, bis Back and rump of the fame colour in
pots, ami us tail docked long; he was seen to fol
low a tieman the next day, who is requeued to
retain him to the fubferiber if in his possession.
Any perron who will bring said dog to me, shall
receive the above Reward, with thanks.
JOHN HALES.
e^l^hVn?"" pr ° ved by his ^
TO B E s'o 'LT7
A NEGRO LAD, strong, healthy and we!l
rnade; he has had the small-pox and measles
f^dt,^,^, sober, honest, and handy at
kind o ihoufe work, and with proper care would
make a good plantation negro. Enquire of the
Printer, 1
V A r C H E ST
SILVER and PINCHBECK, of various pri.
ces, just imported and to be fold by
J O FI N WO O D,
Clock and Watch-maker in Front-street at
the corner of Chefnut-ftreet.
'huadelpbta, July 27, 1774.
?n f ^ rw "" a " P ersons from tiulting
LIZABE 1 II my wife, on my account,
as x amdetermined not to pay any debts of her
contrasting from the date hereof.
HENRY CARY
M OSES FI A R T,
Pencil and Picture Frame Maker, from
London,
qiAKE S this method to acquaint the Public,
I that he is fettled in Second-ttreet, near Al
- Philadelphia, where he fells all forts
of pictures and frames, plain and gilt, in the new
est and neatest fafhion, wholesale and retail, much
cheaper than imported.
He likewise makes all forts of Porto Crayons of
different colours for drawing.
Just imported in the last vessels from Europe, and
to be fold on the lowest terms, by
JONATH AN ZA N E,
At his Ware house in Second-street, between Mar
ket and Chefnut-ftreets, at the sign of the Hand
saw,
ALAR GE and general assortment of ire
mongery, fadlery, brass ware, dye fluffs a:'
painters colours ; also seine, sewing and ball twfee ;
fullers press paper ; cotton, wool, stock and jack
cards ; wool combs, flax and hemp hatchells, rid
dles and sieves, hair cloth of a good pattern for
chair bottoms, oil and other flints, shot, bar lead,
sundry forts of whet-stones, bed cords and laces,
plow and jack lines, plushes and saddle cloths,
horse brushes and mane combs, plated and other
spurs, hand bellows, English and American glue,
surveyors chains, with sundry other goods too te
dious for an advertisement.
Ready money and the best market price will be
given for red and white clover and Timothy giafs
feeds, at the aforefaid Ware-house.
ALEXANDER BARTRAH,
Has just received from the manufacturers, by Capt.
Afhmead,
A LARGE assortment of HOSIER Y,
I I among which are some fuperfine white and
brown thread hole both ribbed and plain, double
and single silk capes, large silk mitts of the firft qua
lity, patent net ditto, thread and cotton ditto, mens
thread gloves, maccaroni jacket patterns, &c. all
remarkably cheap.
Jult imported in the John, Captain Afhmead, from
London, and to be fold by
RICHARD VA UX,
At his store the corner of Chefnut and Water- streets,
being the store lately occupied by Pemberton and
Ed wards, —
PRINTED callicoes, cottons and linens; blue
and black China taffaties ; a neat assortment
or crimson, blue, green and yellow bed damasks;
fagathies, durants and callimancoes; Russia Raven
duck, thread and cotton hose, Irish linens, sewing
silk in 1-4. lb. cambricks and lawns, together with
a variety of other DRY GOODS, which he will
dispose of on reasonable terms.
TWENTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on the 21H of July last, from
' the fubferiber, in Cecil county, Maryland, an
indented servant man, named BENJ AM I N
WARRINGTON, about 5 feet 8 inches high,
a thick chunky fellow, of a dark complexion, and
wears his own brown hair tied behind ; had on when
he went awav, a brown coat, waistcoat and breeches.
He is a Weft-countryman, and may have his old in
dentures with him. Whoever takes up said fellow
and brings him home to the fubferiber, shall have
the above Reward; and reasonable charges, paid by
WILLIAM CROKER.
Burlington, Btb Mo. (Augvfl) 13, 1774
P R O P O SA L S°
For Printing by Subscription (under the ap
pointment of the General Assembly)
A NEW EDITION of the
L A W S
Of the Colony of NEW-JERSEY.
To qvbicb quill be added,
The OR DINANCE eftablifoing tie Fees of the Court
of Chancery, and a quell digefed I ND £ X.
CONDITION S.
'• T™ I f quork, to be comprised in one volume, folio,
of about 600 pages, including the preface and
index, to be printed on a beautiful r^qv type, and pood
paper.
'!: "' I°™' f ° fubferibers not to exceed Thirty-five
Shillings, neatly bound in calf, and lettered.
111. Two Dollars to be paid at the time of fuhferis
ing, the remainder on the delivery of the booh.
IV. If more than one thoufandfouid be fabfcribed
for, a proportionable abatement to be maae in the price.
V. Great care and pains will be taken to render this
edition as complete as pcflible.
, The price to other purcbafers will be conf.dera
bly higher than to fubferibers.
,Ibis volume it is expelled wilt include the laws of
toe next session of dffemby, but as they will natural^
be placed at the end of the book, its publication will not
be thereby retarded after the number of fubferibers is
known. And as the work will be attended with great
expence, is much wanted by the public, and a/%1 rea
dy for the press, the Editor requefs those who are de
frous of becoming fubferibers to be Jpeedy in their ap
plications, that be may be able the footer to afeertaia
the number necefory to be jlruck cff.
Subscriptions to be taken in by Cortland Skin
ner, John Combs and John Smith, Efauires, of the
city oj Perth-Amby; John Weiheriil and John
Moores, Enquires, 0 f Midflefex; Edward Taylor and
Richard Lawrence, Esquires, and Edmund Williams,
merchant, of Monmouth ; Stephen Crane, Henry Gar
ritfe and Elias Boudinot, Esquires, of Efex ; Hen
drick Fisher, John Roy and Jonathan D. Sergeant,
Esquires, of Somerset; Theunis Dev and John De
mared, Enquires, of Bergen; James Kinley, Thomas
^ reen Hewlings, John Lawrence and Samuel
Alhnfon, Esquires, and Isaac Collins, printer, of the
c "f°J Lui lington; Henry Paxton <z,/d/inthony Sykes,
Esquires, of th county of Burlington ; John Hinchman
and Robert b. Price, Esquires, and Samuel Shaw,
attorney at law, of Gducefler ; Grant Gibbon and
benjafnin Holme, Esquires, of Sadm; John Sheppard
and Theophilus Elmer, Esquires, of Cumberland'; T< -
nathan eland and Eli Eldridge, E/quires, of Cape-
Ma,; Samuel Tucker, John Meheim and Huw ^\-
len, Enquires, of Hunterdon; Jacob Ford and Wilh.,„
Winds, Empires, of Morris ; Nathaniel Pettit a,M
Thomas Anderson, Efquu es, ofSuffex; Joseph Rfal
and Miers Filter, Enquires, in Philadelphia ; an 1
Jernes Duane, Esquire, and George Bonne air
chant, in New-York.
N. B. The Editor, Samuel Allinson, begs the
favour of the above-named Gentlemen, 10 forward co
him tbeir rejfove lifts oj fubferibers, so that be ma,
recede them by tbefrf dy of the nth mmib (Novem
ber) next.
LUCY and CHARITY LEONARD,
In Second-street, between Chefnut and Wainat
ftreets, and directly opposite the Golden Fleece
tavern,
HAVE just imported in the Sophia, Captain
Williams, from London, a variety of Euro
pean and East Indian GOODS, amongst which
are, brown and white Russia sheetings, low priced
7-8 and yard wide Irish linehs, Irifli sheetings, cal
licoes, cottons and chintzes, peelongs, Persians,
taffaties, fattins, Mantuas, fai fanets, mullins, 3
variety of silk and thread gauzes, silk, thread and
cotton hole, and a neat assortment of Millenary,
&c. &c. which they will dispose of by wholesale
or retail on very reasonable terms for cafli.