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Im this friction we are called upon to make an
address, arbitrarily imposing qualities and defcrip
lions upon acts done in the Colonies, of the true
nature and just extent of which we are as yet in
a great measure unapprized; a procedure which
appears to us by no means consonant to that pu
rity which we ought ever to p\eferve in our judi
cial, and to that caution which ought to guide us
in our deliberate capacity.
2. Because this address does, in effe'A, imply
an approbation of the system adopted with regard
to the Colonies in the Lift Parliament. This un
fortunate system, conceived with so little prudence,
and pursued with io little temper, consistency or
forefight, we were id hopes would be at length
abandoned, from an experience of the mifehiefs
which it has produced, in proportion to the time
in which it was continued, and the diligence with
which it has been pursued; a system which has
created the utmost confufion in the Colonies,
without any rational hope of advantage to the re
venue, and with certain detriment to the commerce
of the mother country. And it affords us a me
lancholy profped of the dispositions of Lords in
the present Parliament, when hue fee the House un
der the preflire of so feoere and uniform an experi
ence, again ready, without any enquiry, to counte
nance, if not to adopt, the spirit of the former fatal
proceedings. ,
But whatever may be the mifehievous designs,
or the inconsiderate temerity, which leads others
to this desperate course, we wish to be known as
persons who have ever disapproved of measures so
pernicious in their past effects, and their future
tendency, and who are not in bafle, without en
quiry or information, to commit ourselves in de
clarations which may precipitate our country into
all the calamities of a civil war.
Richmond, Torrington,
Portland, Ponsonby,
Rockingham, Wycombe,
Stamford, Camden.
Stanhope,
From the St. James's Chronicle, of Nov. 26.
14 friendly warning to whornfeever it may concern.
'' \AZ"°'° 'heddeth man’s blood, byman
\V shall his blood be shed, for in the image
of God made he man." —Gen. ix. 6.
This is a stated Proclamation to all mankind,
from the general deluge to the end of the world,
issued out by the King of Kings, who is no ref
pedor of persons, and extending, no donbt, to
great as well as little offenders; to bodies politic,
as well as individuals: Perhaps it was owing to
Cain's killing his brother Abel, and introducing
such unnatural cruelty into the old world, that
this law was given to the new; and which, with
infinitely more reason than those of the Medes and
Persians, or any finite lawgivers, is never to be
abrogated. Beware therefore Britain (great as
thou ftileft thyfelf) and take heed in time of (hed
ding innocent blood. Let not the blood of a
(perhaps more) righteous, though younger, bro
ther country, cry from the earth, from ever so
distant a part of the earth, to Heaven against thee.
Remember the fate of haughty Jezebel, who little
thought of the dogs licking her own blood before
ber own face, when (by means of falfe accusers
and corrupt judges) ihe was taking away the life
and inheritance of a poor, and really loyal fub
jed, Naboth, because out of conscience he would
not part with his birth-right, the gift of God to
him. But the councils of Heaven Rand firm, and
flie, even in the height of her pride, was thrown
headlong into the street, trodden under foot, and
devoured by the dogs. 1 Kinjs, Ch. 21, and 2
Kings, Ch. 9.]
BO STO N, January '26.
Last Monday a detachment of a hundred men
drafted from the several regiments in this to vn,
and commanded by Major Balfour, embarked
on board a vessel bound to Marfhfield. This
manoeuvre has occasioned many conjectures.—
N. B. We are informed, a number of persons
in that town, well affeded to government, ap
plied for the troops.
NEW-YORK, February 2.
Extract of a letter from London, Dec. 10.
" You will observe, by the King’s speech, and
the address, what are the sentiments ofthis king
dom. Yet I can tell you, that if America will
but sue for grace, (he will find his Majesty ready
to receive her with all the cordiality (he can wish
for; and I am more and more persuaded, that the
servants of the crown, are equally well dilpofed.
If the reflations of the Congress are peaceable, and
to fend Deputies home, all will yet end well; for
it is irnpoffible, that parent and child should long
disagree, if they will argue together in sober rea
son."
PHILADELPHIA, February 6.
Extract of a letter from London.
" I have by the last Packet an extract of the
Resolves of the Congress held in your city—l
lament and dread the consequences of these re
solves, and the measures that will be taken by the
government— Whether the Colonies are rightor
wrong I will not fay, but I am ofcpinion the le
gislature of Great-Britain will enforce their au
thority over them, and indeed it seems to be
the sense of the British nation in general, that
it ought to be done, but I tremble at the event?'
On the gift ult. departed this life, in New-
York, JOHN BACKHOUSE, late of this
city, Merchant; and the next day his remains
we:e decently interred in the Friends burying
ground—He was a Gentleman of ftrid probity,
and lemarkable for a manly freedom and affability
in com erlation, which rendered him very en
gagi°g to those who had the pleasure of his ac
quaintance.
. The General Assembly of the colony of Vir
ginia, which flood prorogued to the 2d of this
month, is further prorogued by his Excellency
governor Dunmore, to the fecund Thursday in
May next.
FF; Excellency Governor Eden has also fur
ther prorogued the General Assembly of the
province of Maryland, to Tuesday, the 28th in
stant.
We hear that the inhabitants of Kent county,
on Delaware, have collected the sum of Two
Hundred Pounds, for the relief ofthe poor of the
town of Boston, which has been transmitted by
James Sykes, Esq; to a gentleman in this city, to
be forwarded to the Hon. Thomas Cufhing, Esq;
and applied by him to the benevolent purpose of
the generous donors.
On Thursday night last arrived here the (loop
Polly, Capt. Davidson, from Jamaica, but last
from the Havanna, where he was obliged to put
in by sickness ; he conceives himfelf in gratitude
bound to inform the public, that during three
weeks illness in that port, he was treated in the
most humane, friendly, and polite manner ; that
the attention of the physicians, as well as the neat
ness and accommodations of his apartments was
every way equal to what he could expedl in an
Englifn hospital ; that the Governor and princi
pal gentlemen (hewed him every mark of tender -
nefs and refped, and that under God, be is in
debted to their humanity and tenderness for the
restoration of his health.
Capt. Davidson on his passage spoke a (hip from
Virginia to Porto Rico, three days out, all well.
Salem, January 7, 1775.
At a meeting ofthe Committee ofObfervation, ckofen
by the several townftoips in this county, pursuant
to the reflations ofthe General Congress. Pre
sent forty-four members.
ANDREW SINNICKSON, Esq; Chairman.
RESOLVED, That this Committee do
approve of the proceedings of the General
Congress, and, as far as in them lies, will use the
utmost of their endeavours to fee that the different
articles of the association are ftri&ly carried into
execution within their relpe&ive diftri^s. And
the following gentlemen are appointed a standing
Committee of Correspondence for this county, viz.
Robert Johnson, John Carey, Bateman Lloyd, John
Mayhew, William Hancock, Andrew Sinnickfon,
John Holmes, Jacob Scoggin, and William Mecom,
Esquires, Messieurs Thomas Sinnickfon, Samuel
Dick, Robert Wilson, Samuel Nicbolfon, Aaron
Bradway, Richard Smith, Jun. Whitton Cripps,
Wil iam Smith, Allen Congleton, Sen. Henry Jeans,
George Somerville, Thomas Carney, Jun. Jofbua
Shinn, James James, Ijaac Harris, Jacob Debois,
Edward Hancock, John Finley, and John Dickin
son, Sen. By order of the Committee,
SAMUEL FINLEY, Clerk.
AT a meeting of the Committee of Infpe&ion
and Observation, chosen on the third day of
December, 1774, agreeable to the eleventh resolu
tion of the Continental Congress, by the inhabi
tants of Kent county, on Delaware, held at Dover
in laid county, on the seventh day of December,
>774> an d continued by adjournment to the twenty
fecond of the fame instant, were present, Melfa,
Thomas Collins, Isaac Carty, William Cahoon,
Silas Snow, Imanuel Stout, John Brinckle, Andrew
Lackey, Rifden Bishop, Charles Hillyard, Vincent
Lockerman, Jun. William Rodney, James M'Mul
lan, Charles Marim, John Dill, James Moore,
William Merideth, Ezekiel Anderson, Edward
Filher, Doctor James Tilton, and Richard Bassett,
Esquire.
I HOMAS IRONS, Esq; Chairman.
The proceedings of the Continental Congress
were read and considered, and unanimously ap
proved of; and thereupon it is resolved, That eve
ry member of this Committee w.ll, and every per
son in the county ought, to use their utmost endea
vours to carry into execution the Association agreed
on by the said Continental Congress, in every part
thereof.
And the Committee do most earnestly recommend
to the merchants and traders of this county, a due
observation and attention to the ninth article of
the Association entered into by said Congress, viz,
" That such as are venders of Goods or Merchan
dize will not take advantage of thefcarcity of Goods
that may be occasioned by this Association, but
will fell the fame at the rates they have been re
fpc&ively accustomed to do for twelve months last
pall. And if any vender of Goods 01 Merchandize,
ihall fell any such Goods 01ahigher terms, or fnall
in any manner, or by any device whatsoever, vio
late or depart from this agreement, no person
ought, nor will any of us deal with any such per
son, or his or her fa&or or agent, at any time
thereafter, for any commodity whatever."
1 he Committee also do recommend to all vend
ers of Goods, a serious perusal of the eleventh ar
ticle of the said Allociation, viz. '' That a Com
mittee be chosen in every county, city and town,
by those who are qualified to vote for Representa
tives in the legtflature, whose business it shall be
attentively to observe the conduct of all peifons
touching this Association ; and when it shall be
made to appear to the fatisfaftion pf 2 majority of
any such Committee, that any person within the
limits of their appointment has violated this Asso
ciation, that such majority do forthwith cause the
truth ofthe case to be published in the Gazette, to
the end that all such foes to the rights of British
America may be publicly known, and universally
contemned as the enemies of American liberty ;
and from thenceforth.we refpedively will break off
all dealings with him or her."
And whereas the said Congress by their seventh
refolve,,did, for themselves and the inhabitants of
the several colonies they represented, firmly agree
and associate " To use their utmost endeavours to
improve the breed of sheep, and increase their num
ber to the greatest extent, and to that end to kill
them as sparingly as may be, especially those ofthe
most profitable kind." We having taken said re
solve into consideration, do resolve that we will not,
and that no person in the county ought to purchase
for themselves or others, or use in their families or
elsewhere, any ewe mutton or lamb, from and af
ter the tenth diy of January next until the tenth
day of September next.
And tiie Committee do also recommend to the
farmers of this county, that they should the ensuing
spring, sow and endeavour to raise large crops of
flax,' which will tend to encourage frugality, (eco
nomy and industry, and promote agriculture, arts,
and the manufactures of this county.
On motion, unanimously resolved, That the
thanks of this Committee be given by the Chair
man to the Gentlemen who represented this go
vernment in the late Continental Congress, for
their faithful difeharge of that important trust.
Published by order of the Committee,
Thomas Nixon, Jun. Clk.
Extrafl of a letter fr in an eminent merchant in Lou
don, dated December 7.
'' The present unhappy troubles between Great-
Britain and her Colonics will prevent the merchants
here from executing any orders, till they subside,
whatever may be the result of the American Con
gress."
On Saturday fe'ennight, as Robert Fi-ld, Esq;
of Whitehill, New-Jersey, was going in a canoe on
board his fhallop, he unfortunately fell overboard
anl was drowned. He had only his negro matt
with him, who threw over the paddle to him, but
Mr. Field funk immediately. By this untimely ac
cident, his relations, friends and neighbours have
loft a worthy and agreeable companion.
Last Wednesday was married, Mr. GEORGE
EMLEN, merchant, to Mil's SALLY FISH
BOURNE, both of this city.
On Thursday, the 26th ult. was married, in this
city, Mr. JOHN COCKSHOT, merchant, to Miss
SALLY RIVERS.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA.
Inward Entries.
Brig Union, S. Williams, Hispaniola.
Sloop Sally, T. Alberfon, New-York.
Ship Lyon, J. Wilson, Corunna.
Sloop Polly, J. Davifon, Jamaica.
Sloop Peggy, D. Van Voorhin, Grenadoes.
Outwards.
Brig Nancy, J. Brice, Londonderry.
Ship (Catherine, J. Barron, Lisbon.
Ship Sally, J. Burrows, Gibraltar.
Cleared.
Brig Kitty, J. Robinson, Jamaica.
Sloop Ranger, J. Mitchell, Maryland.
Sch. Tryall, R. Ham, South-Carolina.
Sloop Freedom, T. Nve, New-York.
Ship Commerce, G. Duck, Falmouth.
Snow Chatfworth, T. Numes, Dominica.
Ship Betty, J. Graham, Liverpool.
Ship Belle, T. Jones, Jamaica.
Sloop Sally, T. Alberfon, New-York.
Sloop Bentham, J. Rivers, Ditto.
Sch. Gull, J. Ross, Grenadoes.
Sloop Betsy, W. Watson, Virginia.
§s§ 4-4.-$ -J- $ $--,s#-|-±-.,-f $ $4,
'Juft Publijbed, and to be Sold by
JOSEPH CRUKSHANK,
PRINTER, in Market-street, Philadelphia,
SOME EXPRESSIONS of ANN
C R,O W L E Y, daughter of Thomas and
" AR X Crowley, of London, daring her last ill
ne's, from the 23d ofthe First month 1773, to the
12th of the Second month 1774. With an intro
du&ory I eflimony concerning her, from the family.
So teach us to number our days that ive may apply
cur hearts unto Wifidm. Psalm xc. 12.
They are also to be had of ISAAC COLLINS,
Printer, in Bur ington.
'W A N 1E 5;
A JOURNEYMAN MILLER, at Sche
nectady, in York government, who can be
well recommended for his knowledge in the busi
ness, and is qualified to fuperiutend the building
of a mill. Apply to OwEN Jones, Junior.
TO BE DISPOSED OF,
rn HE TIME of an English servant GIRL,
who has about three years and three months
to ierve, can be well recommended for her honesty
and sobriety, and fold far no fault but want of em
ploy. Enquire of the Printer.
To be SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
on the fifteenth day of March next, at Two
o'clock in the afternoon, on the premises,
ALL that mefluage or tenement, public inn
or tavern, where Thomas Babb now dwells,
known by the name of Grubb's Tavern, situate
in Brandywine hundred in the county of Newcastle,
on the great road leading from Philadelphia thro'
Chester to Wilmington, together with the planta
tion and tract of land thereunto belonging, con
taining about 145 acres, of which 30 acres is choice
woodland, 18 acres of meadow ground, of which
3 acres is banked improved marsh, the rest arable
land. Its front on Delaware river renders it very
convenient and ealy to mud and improve the whole
at pleasure. The beautiful and exteilfive profpe&
of the said premises, with its situation about mid
way between Chester and Wilmington, renders it
extremely convenient either for a Gentleman's feat
or for a tavern, or any public business, and is so
well known that it is unnecessary to fay more about
it. Attendance will be giren on the day of sale,
and the conditions made known by
ADAM GRUBB.
N. B. The premises may be entered upon the
25th of March next.
SOLD B Y
Doctor D A Y,
In Vine-street, between Third and Fourth streets,
Philadelphia,
r r II E right and genuine Scotch Pills, at
1 Eighteen Shillings per dozen Boxes ; he hath
also by him a seldom or never failing bottle of
drops for the asthma or consumption, price One
Dollar: He continues felling his seldom or never
failing pills for the ague, rheumatics, or feurvy in
the blood, and many other disorders.
F OR SA L E,
On board the brig Union, Samuel Williams, mas
ter, lying at Bright and Pechin's wharf,
MO LASSES and COCOA. Said brig
is for sale, or will take a freight for Salem",
or any other place that may be agreeable to laid
Williams.
W A N T E IT
As MAR T lively Negro Boy, about fourteen
or fifteen years of age. Any person having
such an one to dispose of, may Lear of a purchaser
by applyingjo the Printer.
Wilmington, Jan. 26, 1775.
THREE POUNDS REWA RD.
LT^^ CTOLEN last night, out
°' a ftahle in the pofifffien
°' " e '"bfciiber, living in
Wilmington, a finall BAY
?I < p^ A HORS E, with a fev white
'™ S ° n bisforehead; no brand
£Tthat is known, not trimmed,
° r ver Y little > has middling
fqtiare hip!, and a spavin lemp
on the inside of one of his hind legs, which canfes
him to limp, especially when lie g'allo; s, or after
riding, which it is thought will prevent the thief
from taking him far cf; he trots, and paces a lit
tle, and is food all round. Any person who will
take up the thief and horse, so that theJormer
may be brought to punishment, shall have the
above Reward, or for the horse alone, THIRTY
SHILLINGS, paid by
JOSEPH HEDGE. 1
JOHN YOU N G, Jun.
At the Sign of the English Hunting Saddle and
Fire Buckets, in Market-street, next door to the
New Printing-Office,
MAKES in the best manner, and fells at the
molt reasonable rates, mens and womens
laddies of the newest fafhions, allo foot cloths, bri
dles, pillions, housings, saddle cloths, piltoi bags,
saddle bags, portmanteaus, and all kinds of laddie
and military furniture, &c.
Portmanteau hair trunks for travelling, made of
any dimenfiori, at the shortest notice.
Fire buckets, leather caps and holders.
He has also a large and very n-at assortment of
faddlery ware which he retails at the lowed prices,
for caffi.
Likewise black, green, blue, and purple silk vel
vet New-Market riding caps, (London make) ex
ceeding neat.
N. B. Said Young has several tra&s of valuable
land in Bedford, Cumberland, and Northumberland
counties that he will fell cheap, or rent on very ealy
terms.
CONVEYANCIN G.
ABSTRACTS of titles made and fettled,
arbitration and other bonds, awards, bills of
sale, charter parties, declarations, pleas, demurrers,
copartnerfhip deeds, wills, letters of attorney,
deeds of gitt, marriage settlements, hrortgages, and
every other branch of conveyancing drawn, perus
ed, and fettled in the most accurate manner and
with the greatest dispatch, by WILLIAM
GRIPFI FH S one of the Attorneys of bis Ma
jesty's Court of King's Bench, Sollicitor of the
High Court of Chancery, and fen of the late Tho
mas Griffiths of Clifford's Inn, Special Pleader
and Commissioner of Bankrupts.•
N. B. He lives at Mrs. Sarah Whitebread's in
Front-street, between Arch and Race-streets.
WH EREAS I the fubferiber signed
seven promiffary notes, payable to Edward
Graham, of Shearman's Valley, in Cumberland
County, the firft of which, for the sum of thirty
pounds, became due on the 27th day of November
last; the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth, for
twenty-five pounds each, will become due on the
27th of November, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and
1780 ; and the last, for five pounds, on the fame
day in the year 1781, upon condition that the said
Edward Graham would make me a good and legal
title to a tra& of three hundred acres of land, lying
in Shearman's Valley, in the County of Cumber
land: But as the said Edward Graham has often
refufed to comply with his above mentioned con
tract, though I have often requeued him so to do,
I have taken this method to forewarn all perlons
from taking an alignment of the said notes, or ci^
ther of them, as 1 am determined not to pay any
of them until I am legally compelled thereunto
JOHN Gar es.
TO BE RENTE D,
For a Term of Years,
THAT noted Grist Mill on Duck Cre^k, Kent
County, on Delaware, within one short mile
of rhe Cross Roads, and two miles of a landing
that conveys flour to Philadelphia market at a (mail
expence ; the is in good order for merchant and
country work, having two water wheels and three
pair of stones, one of which is the best French
burr, (the water is plenty greatest part ofthe year) is
in the midst of a fine wheat country, and may have
the choice of wheat to make fuperfine flour ; small
boats and canoes come to the mill tail, and flic his
great plenty of county grist : There is a barn, lia
ble and some fruit trees, and about eight or ten
acres of meadow to be let with the mill. For fur
ther particulars enquire of Ann Holliday, Ad
ministratrix to the estate of Richard Holliday ;
or to Robert Holliday and Warner Mif
flin, near the premises, or to William Craig,
in Philadelphia.
TEN POUNDSREWARD.
ST OLEN out of the stable of the fubferiber,
in Queen Ann's county, Maryland, on Thurs
day night the zzd of December, a grey H ORSE,
about fourteen hands high, eight years old, un
branded, trots and gallops, and has glass eyes ;
also taken with him, a new saddle and half-worn
bridle, the saddle is marked under the skirt with the
letters R.Dawson.—Oue ANDREW O'BRYON,
born in Ireland, a cooper by trade (but fometimts
profeffes to be a miller) a thick well set fellow,
about twenty-five years of age, five feet fix or eight
inches high, black hair tied behind, black eyes,
round face, and his nose somewhat turning up at
the end, ran off the fame night, and is Wrongly
fufpe&ed to have been the thief: Stole and took
with him a new pale blue broadcloth coat and
waistcoat faced with blue India Persian, and
breeches, one pair of white Russia drab breeches;
his own wearing apparel was a light coloured Ger
man serge coat, blue furtout, and black knit
breeches better than half worn : He also Hole and
took with him two new ruffled shirts unmarked,
one pair of new single channel'^! boots, and one
pair of new saddle bags marked on the under part
of the flap with the letters P. Downes. Whoever
takes up said O'Bryon, gnd secures him in any of
his Myefty's gaols, so that he be brought to public
punifhmeut, shall receive FIVE POU N D S,
and for the horse and saddle FIVE POUN D S,
betides reasonable charges, paid by
ROB'ERT DAWSON.
Philadelphia, January 4, 1775.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, an li:h
servant lad named JOHN DAVISON,
by tiade a barber, about nineteen or twenty years
of age, five feet three or four inches high ; Id
on when he went away a grey coloured beaULn
coat with yellow metal buttons, a red waist oar. a
pair of leather breeches, a pair of blue rib'd & th
ings, and a pair of pinchbeck buckles; Who v r
takes up the said servant and brings him to his
master, shall have the above Reward.
PHILIP CLAMPHER.
N. B. All matters of vessels and others are for
bid to carry him off at their peril.
E s o',
a TRACT of valuable L AND; in Caroline
/~{county, (formerly Don hefte l ) in the pro
vince of Maryland, containing 516 acres, lying
between the north-call and north-weft fork of
Nanticocke River, about five noirs fiom navigable
water, and twenty two faiilcs from MufmeFien I
Landing, on Delaware : About 130 arr<§ of tie
faiA traa are cle:red, with good improvements
thereon, 50 acres may be made in r o meadow, the
remainder well timbered ; it lays high,, and is ex
cellent for wheat. Time will be given for payment
if required, upon good fi curitv.
For terms apply to WILLIAM ENNALLS,
Junior, in Dorcl.cfter county. ,