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trin, flic has received some necessaries, and is this
day to proceed for the island of Jamaica, with all
her cargo..
Fe'>. 16. We hear front Barbadoes, that the
inhabitants of that illaud have adopted, or intend
to adopt the measures recommended by the late
Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
By accounts from Madeira, we are informed
that on the Nth of December an heavy gale of
wind drove 7 or 8 vrhels alhore.
1 The flowing address to the Court was pre-
Cored by the Grand Jury for this city and county,
on Friday lad, when they delivered in their pre
sentments.
To bis Majeflfs Juflices afembled at the General
Quarter Setons of the Peace, for the citj and
county of Neiv-Tork, Feb. 10, 1775*
Gentlemen,
TY7HILE in the faithful difeharge of our
7 V duty as Grand Jurors, we hand this Ho
nourable Court indictments against several per
sons for breaches of the peace, and offences com
mitted against the person of a reputed informer of
contraband goods.
After acknowledging his most gracious Majesty
George the Third, King of Great-Britain, &c.
as our only true .ind lawful Sovereign, and the
Britiih constitution, as founded on the compact of
its Kings with their fubjets, the laws made in
support of and agreeable to that constitution, to
gether with our oaths and the dictates of our con
fcienc.s, the rules of our action.
We cannot pals by this opportunity of publickly
° joining the general v-ice of our country, in bear
ing teltimony against many oppreflive acts of Par
liament, passed in his present Majesty's reign, re
lative to his American colonies, and which at pre
lent are'the cause of so much trouble and uneasi
ness in the minds of his loyal American fubjets.
Particularly against the power exercised bv the
Parliament, of taxing and making laws binding
Opon the American Colonies in all cases whatso
ever; against those ats which strike at the very
foundation of British liberty, the trial by Juries ;
such are those by which the powers of Admiralty
and Vice Admiralty Courts are extended beyond
their ancient limits; the Judges empowered to
receive their salaries and fees from effects con
demned by themselves; the Officers of his Majes
ty's Customs empowered to break open and enter
houses, without the authority of any civil Magis
trate, founded on legal information; enormous
forfeitures incurred for flight offences; vexatious
informers exempted from paying damages to
which they are ~ju.ftly liable ; and oppreflive se
curity required from owners before they are al
lowed to defend their rights; by all which, the
Jives, liberty, and property of Americans are ren
dered infecufe.
PHILADELPH I A, February 20.
This day theGENERALASSEMBLY
of the province meets here.
The Committee for the City and Liberties
of Philadelphia will meet this afternoon, at Six
o'clock, at the Philosophical Society's Hall.
COMMITTEE CHAMBER, Feb. 18, 1775.
The following letter in answer to one wrote by
the Committee of Correspondence to the Com
mittee of Kent county, inclofinga News-Paper
published by James Humphreys, jun. dated Fe
bruary 11, was read and ordered to be published.
J. B* SMITH, Secretary.
Gentlemen, Dover, Feb. 15, 1775.
XA £ were this morning favoured with your's
VV of the 13th inst. informing us of the pur
port of a piece of intelligence, published in the
Pennsylvania Ledger of Saturday last, said to be
46 an extract of a letter from Kent county on
Delaware," very injurious to the publick spirit
of the inhabitants of this county. We can assure
you, from the knowledge we have of the sentiments
of the inhabitants, that they have not in the least
changed their opinions, with refpet to the im
portant fubjetof dispute between the Mother
Country and the British Colonies in America, and
are as well disposed to make a virtuous stand
against tyranny and oppreflion, from whatsoever
quarter they may threaten us, as the inhabitants of
any other of these colonies; and that the f?id ex
tract is a bale calumny, replete with falfhood, and
only designed by the wicked insidious author to
cause divisions, and excite mutual suspicions and
distrust in the minds of Americans, weaken our
hands, aid prepare the way for an easy victory to
the enemies of America.
We would, therefore, request the favour of
your Committee to call upon the printer of the
above paper, to difeover, if he can, the author of
this piece of slander ; and that th ; s letter may be
published in all the Philadelphia News-Papers.
We conclude, Gentlemen, with our grateful ac
knowledgments to you for your vigilance and care,
in endeavouring to guard and prelerve the rights
and privileges of America in general.
Signed by order of a full Committee for Kent county.
MARK M'CALL, Clerk."
To the Committee of Correspondence for
the City and Liberties of Philadelphia.
In COMMITTE E.
Ordered, That the following letter from Bed
ford county, in this province, be published.
J. B. SMITH, Secretary.
S T R, Bedford County, Feb. 11, 177;.
WE were yesterday favoured with your let
ter inclofing the resolves of the Provincial
Convention, and we have the pleasure to inform
you that we not only unanimously and heartily
accede to them ourselves, but (it being the time
of the appeal) we had the opportunity of com
municating them to a large number of our consti
tuents, who to a man fignify their warm appro
bation of them—For our own parts we consider
such prudent and patriotic resolves (whatever may
be the issue of our present unhappy dispute with
our Parent State) to be the most effectual means
of promoting industry, economy, wealth, peace,
freedom and happiness amongst a loyal people,
who, confident with true loyalty, are determined
to hand down that liberty to their posterity which
they have enjoyed at the expence of so much of
the blood of their British forefathers.
It is with peculiar fatisfation we afore yon,
that the people in this county shew the greatest
unanimity, and even anxiety, in complying as far
as in them lies with the resolves of the Congress
and of the Convention. For that purpose we
have fuhferibed a sum of money, and advertised
through the county that certain premiums will be
given to the persons who shall excel in such
branches of manufactures as we have recommend
ed them to apply themselves to —being such as
we from our local and other circumstances could
hope to undertake with any profpet of success,
and such as will be of most general use, and most
conducive to promote the great end we all have
in view.
It was impossible for us, by reason of our dis
tance, to attend the Convention on such short no
tice as we had; but you will be informed before
this time, that the three firft named of us were,
amongst others, deputed for that purpose; and
they, in the capacity of Deputies for this county,
as well as all of us in that of the Committee of
Correspondence for the fame, take this method
to teftify our thankful acceptance of every one
of the resolves of the Convention, and that we
confider ourlelves as much bound by them, to
every intent and purpose, as if we had been pre
sent when they were entered into.
George Woods,
Robert Galbraith,
Dacid Efty, Committee
fames Piper, } of
George Funk, Correspondence.
Frederick Naovgel,
Samuel Davidson,
To Joseph Reed, Esq; President of the Provin
cial Congress of Pennfylvania>
At a general meeting of the freeholders and other
inhabitants of the city and county of Burlington,
in New-jersey, qualified to vote for Representa
tives in the Legislature, held at the Courts Fioufe,
on 1 uefday the 14th of February, 177 g.
PETER TALLMAN, Esq, in the Chair.
THE association entered into by the General
American Congress, convened at Philadel
phia on the sth of September last, was read and
approved.
Refolded, That in pursuance of the iith arti
cle of the said association, a Committee of Obser
vation for this city and county, be now appointed
for the purposes in that article mentioned
And the following persons were accordingly
chosen, viz. James Stirling, Colin Campbell,
William Smith, Jonathan Hough, Esquires, John
Coates, Thomas Fenimore, Thomas Reynolds,
Esq; Joseph Budd, Jonathan Middleton, Joseph
Borden, Esq; John Wood, William Newbold,
Isaac Pearson, Esq; Randle Mitchell, Wil iam
Lewis, Peter Tallman, Esq; William Potts, John
Black, Joseph Read, Esq; Peter Shirafs, Thomas
Budd,jun. Charles Read, Esq; John Evans, Jo
siah Foster, Joseph Stokes. Esq; John Cox, Abra
ham Hewliogs, Baldwin Wake, Esq; Samuel New
ton, Jacob Perkins, John Leek, Eli Matthis,
and William Pharo.
Refolded, That the said Committee shall be and
continue for one year from this time, unless the
measures of the next General Congress shall make
an alteration necessary.
Signed by Order of the Meeting.
'PETER TALLMAN, Chairman.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in Boflon, to
his friend in this city, dated Feb. 1, 1775.
“ The day appointed by the Provincial Congress
for a public thanksgiving, a number of persons, in
this town, shewed their disapprobation thereto, by
opening their (hops as usual, for which they were
treated in an uncivil manner, and those persons
were said to be Quakers. I therefore think it my
duty, as an honest, impartial, and most unbiased
member oftbis community, and one who wishes no
thing more ardently than that a true, fair, and
candid representation of fads might appear, to as
sure thee, and I can of my own certain know! dge
assure thee, that it isa most malicious and injuri
ous falfehood, and no doubt, propagated by the
base enemies ofour invaluable confti utional rights
and privileges, for the most vile and malevolent
purpofes—for I do well know, that the Friendsin
this town, did not open theirfhops on said thanks
giving day; norhavel heard the least unfriendly
or uncivil expression uttered by any wf the inhabi
tants of this town against them, as a people, for
many years ; but, on the contrary, I do n^ort cer
tainly know, that they are always, and on all oc
cafiors, treated with full as much (and I think
more) catholic tenderness, friendly and neighbour
ly kindness and affection,than persons of any other
fed or denomination amongst us."
Extras of a letter from a Gentleman in Boflon,
February 6.
“ In my last I gave you some account of the
Rate of politics here. The Tories in this town,
andindeed every where, sensible what effects a con
tinental union inuft prodice, towards the subversi
on of their infernal system of oppression, tyranny
and rapine, are muttering their whole force and
straining every nerve to contravene the salutary
measures the people are prosecuting for their deli
verance. Incapable of reafoningus out of our sen
timents, they are now aiming, by intimidating, to
divert us from the execution of tbtonly plan, that
can refeue the colonies from the jaws of political
perdition. They are perpetually holding up to
view all the terrific consequences of treason and
rebellion, wilfully miflaking, or stupidly imagin
ing the inhabitants of this province deeply involved
in both. Not considering that a state, the funda
mentals of whose constitution are subverted, which
is indisputably the case with the Massachusetts, is
reduced to a state of nature, and, therefore, can
not be guilty of crimes, peculiar only to a regular
constitutional form of government. —But they bel
low to the winds—their scheme is seen through,
and they detested. So generally are the principles
of liberty disseminated, and so deeply fixed, that
nothing but arms, that supreme lex of tyrants,
will be able to suppress the generous ardor which
now stimulates our countrymen to defend, at all
hazards, the freedom handed down to them from
their ancestors; nor will they be slaves without the
most obstinate and bloody concerts
" Our Provincial Congress met last week, but
nothing has as yet transpired: They confix of 178
members and act with great unanimity.
" The final! pox is lurking about in different
parts of the town and it is apprehended will spread.
A pestilential fever prevails in the army, which is
even more dreaded than the small pox. How dif
trefsful is the state of Borton ! Surrounded and in
sulted by a numerous fleet and army—(hut out
from trade—and deprived of all the advantages of
law process !"
We hear that the Anniversary Oration
before the American Philosophical Society, will be
delivered by David Rittenhouse, A. M. on
Friday evening the 24th inst. at fix o'clock, in the
College, the Society's Hall on former occasions
of this kind, having been found too final! for the
accommodation of the audience.
WHEREAS sundry species of Gold Coin
have heretofore passed in this province at
rates under their value, in proportion to Half
Johanneffes, and we esteeming it of consequence
that the different kinds (hould be put as nearly on
a footing as possible, do agree to receive them at
the following rates, viz.
Devt. Gr. Value.
English Guineas, weighing 5 6£l 15 0
French Ditto, - - - 54 114 0
Moidores, - - -6 18 2 5 0
French Mill'd Piftoles, - 4 4 1 7 0
Spanish Mill'd Ditto, - 4 6 1 8 0
Unmilled Ditto, - - 4 6 1 8 0
Four Piftoles, or Cobs, 17 0 512 0
Merediths & Clymer, Jonathan Dawes,
Samuel Howell, William Jackson,
John Ross, John Mifflin,
David Franks, William Davis,
Tho. Geo. & Jon. Mifflin,Richard 13ache,
Conyngham,'Nefbitt&Co. Jobn&Clement Biddle,
John Wilcocks, Isaac Hazlehurft,
Blair M'Clenachan, Samuel Howell, junior,
John Pringle, Stephen& Jof. Shewell,
John Bringhurft, Thomas Lawrence,
George Emlen, junior, Samuel Mifflin,
Ezekiel Edwards, Luke Morris,
Barclay & Mitchell, Samuel Carson & Co.
George Davis, Jonathan Brown,
Thomas Penrofe, Robert Ritchie,
George Bartram, Richard Wells,
James Stewart, Andrew Allen,
Joseph Whitall, Thomas M'Kean,
Richard Vaux, William Alien,
John Nixon Benjamin Chew,
Meafe & Caldwell, Archibald M'Call,
(Jeorge Mead & Co. Mifflin & Irwin,
John Bayard, Samuel Pleafants,
John Boyle, Joseph Dean,
Willing, Morris & Co. Charles Eddy,
John Morton, John Brown,
John Meafe, Edward Milner,
Peter Long, John& Peter Chevalier,
William Allison, Samuel Rhoads.
For the Pennsylvania Packet.
The following letter rasas written by a young Lady
ofthis city, lately deceased, *to her neice, a child
of three years old.
LAST night I promised my dear Betsy a let
ter, and I now set down to write it.—But
what shall I write, or what can you understand.
Myaffeflion for you is so great, that when I
think of you the thought affords me the utmost
pleasure, and leads me to anticipate the joys that
your friends will have in feeing you repay, by your
tender assiduities, the cares that you cost them io
your infancy, and driving to excel in virtues and
accomplishments, the most praise worthy of your
sex. My wishes for you, and my hopes of you are
ofthe most sanguine nature, for I already fee in
you, or fancy I do, a sensibility of heart greater
than what in general fs perceptible in children of
your age. You are as yet insensible of flattery,
and may it always have the fame effeA upon "ou
that it has at this time; but may you have dis
cernment to distinguish (what founds so much
alike) the language of a real friend and that of a
flatterer. May you value one as heartily as you
despise the other. May you be susceptible of friend
fhip in the most extensive and expressive meaning
of the word, and may you meet with those that
are alike worthy of it. May you be a much greater
wonder than a woman uho keeps a secret, a wo
man handsome without knowing it, and upon that
condition only do I with you beauty. May you
meet with admiration without envy, applause with
out censure, and praise without detraction. May
you be exempted from the crosses and disappoint
ments that your friends have met with, and may
your father never be five years absent from you.
I do not wi(h you riches without wishing you cha
rity, and if you want the latter may you be with
out the former. But above all things may you
serve the author of your being not through fear
but gratitude. And that all these wishes may be
accomplished in you is the sincere desire of her,
who for the firft time in her life fubferibes herfelf
Your affedionate Aunt,
March 14, 1773. S. E.
* The charaßer of this lady ovas given in Number
164 of thss paper, under the name of Amelia.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA.
Inward Entries.
Sch. Hetty, S. Davidson, Hispaniola.
Brig Jenny, J. Lockton, St. Euftatia.
Brig Jamaica Packet, R. Staufbury, Jamaica.
Ship Two Brothers, R. Adams, Lilbon.
Outwards.
Brig Union, S. Williams, Salem, N. England.
Brig Nancy, J. Martin, Jamaica.
Sloop Polly, S. Davidson, Ditto.
Brig Polly, R. Lightb^dy, Antigua.
Sloop Peggy, D. Van Vooi hies, St. Croix.
Brig Polly, W. Greenway, Briltol.
Sloop Fanny, W. Allibone, St. Vincents.
Brig Peggy, G. Thompson, Jamaica.
C I rA RED.
Ship Britannia, J. Souder, Cork and Newry.
Ship Albion, J. Crippen, Liverpool.
Brig George, W. Hayman, Barbados.
Brig Nancy, J. Martin, Jamaica.
Brig Union, S. Williams, Salem, N. England.
Ship Catherine, J. Carr, Lisbon.
Brig Greyhound, C. Biddle, Grenadoes.
ISAAC BOSTON, a large well set
man, about 43,'ears old, <witb redijb c toured ba.r
and eye-broavs, avears a da k coloured cut unrig, has
a fen anith him about sixteen years of age, about free
uveehs ago took the following freight prom Mr. John
Corrie Y oJ Hobb's Hole, on Rappahannock, ivbicb aves
to bane been de ivered at Colchefer, on Roiucwin&ckr.
3 bbes 0/ def-India rum, 2 tierces of spirits, 1 bbd.
of faddlery, 1 bale of cordage, 1 do. rolls, 2 baftets of
cheese, 1 case of loaf sugar, some leading lines, a bun
dle of boxes ivitb sundry dry goods, 10 iron potts, 1
bbd. of cyder, 1 box of font et oranges, and 200 befools
of -wheat. The oeffel is a febooner that carries about
600 bu/bels, has no fl roads nor spring flay, her quar
ter deck is lined ivitb tarpaulin, and Jbe rasas lately
foeatbed, <wbicb is plain to be seen. Thefaid Boston
f,f re ffed in a blue duffil over jacket, andJlriped
I irginia cloth troffers; be isfond ofdri,k, and very
impertinent auben in liquor. There is a confirmation of
bis endeavouring to make off voitb the vcffel aid carl
go, and it is thought be vsill pufb to Carolina, but may
probably flop )ome time at Pocamoke, on the Eaflern
Shore, in Maryland, where be has two brothers and
oneffer living. Whoever apprehends thefaid Boston,
and fecu-es the cargo, shall have a Reward of
1 WENTY POUNDS, on application to Mr.
James Mills at Urbanna, Mr. John Corrie at
Hobb's Hole, Mr. Samuel Jones at Cedar Point,
in Maryland, or to JOHN MILLS.
February 15, 1775.
E S E are to give notice to the Creditors of
William Wills, and John Fort, Junior,
prisoners confined for debt in the gaol of Burlington',
that they be and appear before Robert Smith and
Thomas Rodman, Esquires, two of the fudges of
the Court of Common Pleas for the Count, of Burling
ton, at the boufe of Jofepb Haight, on Saturday ike
'Sth of March next, to shew cause why the said
debtors, should not be difeharged, agreeably to an aft
of the leeijiature, entitled "An AElfor the Relief, &c.
of insolvent Debtors."
TO BE SOLD BY
SAMUEL WILLIAMS, Joiner,
At the corner of Petti's Alley, in Fourth-street, be
tween Market and Chefnut-ltreets, Philadelphia,
TEN thousand feet of Mahogany, in logs,
plank and boards; twenty thousand feet of
1' alnut plank and boards ; a very large quantity
of seasoned bedhead fluff, and half inch poplar and
gum boards ; four inch and two inch poplar, oak
and ash plank; red cedar coffin boards; rule joint
fluff, chair pannel boards, and inch maple boards;
sacking bottoms; bedstead screws; allo a large
quantity of cheese, &c.
Philadelphia, February 20, 1775.
WHEREAS the partnership of Bryan
and Pickering, Joiners, is dissolved, all
persons indebted to said partnership are requeftd
to make immediate payment to Bryan and Pick
ering, so that they may be enabled to difcharze
the debts against said partnei lhip. Pickering
continues in the (hop in Watt r-ttreet.
N. B. I homas Bryan hath removed fom the
(hop in Water-ttreet, and continues the Cabinet
and Chair-making business on the caff fide of
Front- street, the lecond door below Race-street.
Philadelphia, February 20, 1775.
AL L Persons indebted to the elite of
William Thomas; lave ofthe dil(ri& of
Southwark, deceased, arc requested to make im
mediate payment; and those who have any just
demands against said est .% a defied ra ferine
their accounts to the sigh of rhe Red Cow, in
Soubhwark aforefud, properly attched. or . Satur
day the eleventh of March next, that they may be
adjusted by MARY THOMAS, fecutrix.
THOMAS THOMAS,?
ISAAC WARNER, j Ex tutors.
Tobe SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
at the London Coffee house, on the 1 sth day of
the Third month (called March) at fix o'do k
in the afternoon,
AS MALL brick meffuage or tenement, and
trad or piece of land, (late part of the eltare
of William Bettle, Tanner, deceased) about three
mil, distant from the city, situate on Turner's
Lane, in the Northern Liberties of the city of Phi
ladelphia, and on another lane lately laid out 33
feet wide, containing 8 acres and 76 perches, ftrift
measure, whereon is a young orchard, a well of
choice water by the door, and sundry other im
p ovements. The above described premises are
viry suitable for a Gentleman's country-feat. Any
person inclining to purchase the fame may have
credit for the greatest part of the purchase money,
g ving fatisfa&ory security and paying interelt.—
For further particulars apply to
SARAH BETTLE, Executrix.
SAMUEL BETTLE,?
JOSEPH HOWELL, 5 E) " c ^ors.
Philadelphia, February 20, 1 7-75.
TO BE S O L D,
Or exchanged for a House and Lot in this city,
A PLANTATION containing one hundred
and lixty odd acres of land, part cleared and
fit for plowing, and part hath good oak wood on
it, a small dwelling-houle, some fruit trees, good
water, and the inhabitants may be supplied aith
filh all the year : It is fituaied about twenty miles
from this city, and there is a good road,to it. The
title is indifput^ble. Any person may know the
terms by applying to the subscriber, at the corner
of Second and Lombard-lteets, near the New-
Market. SARAH BROUGHLO N.
N. B. If it suits the purchaser the money ma,
lay in his hands, on giving security and paging
interest.
AW OMAN with a bood bi<,i tof
milk, would be glad to take in a child to
nurle, about four miles from this city : She can
be well recommended. Enquire of the Printer.
Newport, February 10, 1775.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD:
RAN awAY from the subscriber living m
" Newport, Ne Seattle county, on Delaware, an
Irilh teiwant man named J AMES WIN TE R-
B OTTOM, a lower looking fellow, about 24.
or 25 years of age, ai>out 5 feet 6 inches high; he
has a round fat face, small eyes, and 1 indy colour
ed frizly hair; had on when be went away a brown
coat and j icket, a pair of cotton velvet breeches
with buckles at the knee, and a pair of brown cloth
breeches with a button on the knee band; he has
with him 4. white fonts, 3 check ditto, and a wo
man's fllift, marked I. L. he allo has 'a wool hat,
bound with tape, is much given to strong liquor
and swearing ; bis left leg has lately been lore and
cured. Whoever takes up said fei vant, and se
cures him in any of his Majesty's gaols, so that the
subscriber may have him again, shall be entitled to
the above reward, and reasonable charges, paid by
JAMESLATTIME R.