Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-07-22 00:00:00, page 1

To BE S OI,D OR R E N T E D,
01 keaionabie Terror,
A STOP. V and hat trained dwelling-boufe, plea
jQ fantly limited in Charles. Town, Maryland, five
roms on a floor, seven fire-places in said rooms, with a
ki chen, scullery; grunery, carriage house, daoles, meat
h. use, yard, a large garden, four lots under poll and
rail fence; late the property of the Rev. Mr. John Ha
milton, deceased. For terms inquire of the fub/criber,
living near the Head of Elk, Cased Countv.
June, 1776. CHARLES RUMSEY.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAV from the fubferiber, living near
Cantwell's Bridge, New-Castle County, Giitthe 4th
inst (July) an apprentice lad named BENJAMIN
MERCER, about 19 years oi age, 5 feet 2 inches
high, well made, a smooth round face, fair complexion,
wore his hair tied; Had on and tock with him, a blue
cloth coat, a striped Dam^fcus vest, a brown Huft ditto,
a pair of old buckfki.ll breeches, a ptir of white drilling
ditto, three home made linen flirts, one new, and one
Irii'h linen ditto, marked I. F. a country made felt hat ;
by trade a fhotmakcr, be took a fickle with him. Who
ever takes up and secures said apprentice fothat his master
may g et hi m again, fhyll have the aheve Revani and rea
sonable charges, paid by ROBERT MELDRUM.
N. B All makers of vessels are forbid to harbour or
carry him off at their pe,il, as it is thought he will en
deavour to get on boo d a priv alter.
The most futcefsful remedy in all fcoibutic cases ever
differed. They haveielieved great numbers in this
province, as well sip ftoO'^p *r, „,, Engi „y I, : :i tt
tne Carolinas, and ate to be had at rtf a bottle of
NICHOLAS B ROO KS,
At his Dry Goods, Pi&ure and Jew Eery Shop, in Se
cond-street, three doors above Black-horse alley.
THAT Maredant's anti-scorbutic DROPS,
prepared only by John Norton, Surgeon, will per
fectly curt the molt inveterate scurvy, leprosy, pimpled
faces of ever id long landing, so as never to return again :
Likewise the evil or ftruma, fittula, piles, old obstinate
fores or ulcers; and, by purifying the blood, prevent
malignant humours of every kind from being thrown
"upon the lungs, &c. tiie following remarkable cures will
fii fficientl, prove.
Te Mr. Norton, Surgeon, Golden-Square, London.
SIR lam cured, by the use as Maredant's Drafts, of a
mos afflicting disorder of thefccrbftic kind, utter trying every
medicine that could be thought offer my relief in vain. My
case was as follows .• Ifof bad small pimples feme out on. my
bead andface;in a little time after my face was covered
•with blocbes, andon the fide oj my nofefpungy fefb grew, as
big as afmall nut ; the fame round my eyes and mouth, though
not so large, with bloches on my body, arms, and in the
palms of m, hands, attended with so violent a pain in my
head, that 1 had a/moft left the fight of my left eye, the pain
being mojily upon that fide. I was in this Jituation till 'Ja
nuary last, when, by Providence, I met a gentleman, who
was then at Bath, but is foregone to the wejl Indies : He
♦ recommended Mr. Norton's Drops to me, by which medicine
he bad been curedoj most Locking ulcerated legs. lam now
in perfe:l health, and am continual, prayingjar the welfare
ofthe author of so valuable a medicine.
John Attwood, Toy maker, Market-place, Batb.
See the following Case.
I was afflicted with a mfjhockiug leprosy, attended with
violent rheumatic pains, so that my life was quite miserable ;
I tried every tiing that could be thought of jqr my relief in
vain. lam now perfectly cured by the use of Maredant's
drops, as my neighbours can toffy, who knew the Locking
condition I was tn. John Forster, at the Rose, at
Welling, in Kent.
Mary Cohfon cured of a scorbutic humour on her bead and
face attended with a violent hoarseness andfoortnefs oj hriatb.
A nioft extraordinary cure by the use of Maredant's dre ps.
To Mr. Norton, Su geon, Golden square, Londoi.
Sir, l take this method of returning you my mo, Jincere
thanks for the cure of my fan, which was effected by your
mo, excellent drops ; two, ears and an half ago be had the
small pox, immediately a'ter that a mo, violent humour fet
tled in both his hands which were so bad that be entirely
101 l the use of them ; the bones were so much affected that tvuo
pieces feparakd and came away. The humour in bis hands
was a tended with aimed as violent a one in bis face which
formed an entire scab over the whole, and smelt intolerably.
In foort, be, was in so much mre r y, and without hopes of re
covery (as I had bad the opinion of the mo, eminent without
effect, who called it the king's evil) that 1 de),aired of bis
life. In gratitude for [0 extraordinary a cure, I have def
rel this to be made public, Any per, n, by calling at my
bosfe, ths Talbot Inn, in the Strand, may be informed of
every particular, and fee the child. Charles Ashley.
N.B KEYSER's genuine PILLSto be had at the
above ihop. Good allowance i+ made to people who fell
afon.
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G ENERA L
V OL. V.
MONDA Y, JULY 22 d, i„6.
D U N L A P's
,ufl publifred and to he fold D JOHN DUNLAP,
in Marketfired, hPadelphia,
OBSERVATIONS
on the
Nature of CIVIL LIBI. <T Y, the Principles
of GOVERNMENT and the Justice and
Policy of the WAR wifi AMERICA.
To "whib is faded,
An APPEND X, containing a fate of the Nation
al Debt, an estimate df the money drawn from the
Public by the taxes, and an recount of the National
Income and Expenditure fine the lag War.
heu wiferi csves; non Hoften, inimicaque caftra,
Veftras Spes uritis. VIRG.
By RICHARD PRICE, D.D. F.R.S.
*** This learned, judicious lad liberal author had
the ,thanks of the Common Council, and the Freedom
of the (dry or London prefenre 1 to him in a gold box,
for this his much admired mofc excellent pamphlet on
Civil Liberty—And for which he also deserves the
united thanks of America.
^XTRACT from the WORK.
Of the Nature ^Liberty in General.
IN order to obtain a more diCta and accurate view
of the nature of Liberty as uch, it will be ufe'ul
to confider it under the four following general divisi
ons.
First, Ph,feet! Liberty.—- — Secondly, Moral Li
berty. Fhirdly^ INIf • Lw M) AndfGur^h-:.
Jy, Civil Liberty These heads comprehend under
them all the different kinds of liberty. And I have
placed Civil Liberty last, because I mean to apply to it
al! I shall fay of the other kinds of Liberty.
By Physical Liberty I mean that principle of
frontaneity, orJef determination, which c^nititutes us
Agents ; or which gives us a command over our a&ions,
rendering them properly ours, and not effects of the ope
ration of any foreign cauie Moral Liberty is
the power of following, in all circumstances, ourfenfe
of right apd wrong; or ofading in conformity to our
reflecting and moral principles, without being cootroul
eJ by any contrary principles. Religious Li
berty fignifies the power of exercising, without mo
.legation, that mode of religion which we think best;
or of making the decisions of ourown conferences, re
fpedtog religious truths, the rule of our condua; and
not any of the decisions of others. In like manner,
Civil Liberty is the power of a Civil Society or
State to govern itfelf by its own discretion ; or by laws
of its own making, without being fubjeft to any foreign
diferetion, or to the impofiti>ns of any extraneous will
or power.
It fhou!d be observed, that, according to these de
finitions of the different kinds of liberty, there is one
general idea, that runs through them all; I mean the
idea offelf-direßion, or fe fgovernment. Did our
volitions originate not with curfelves, but with some
cauie over which we have no power; or were we un
der a n^ceffity of always following some will differ
ent from our own, we should want Physical Li
berty.
In like manner; he whose perceptions of moral ob
ligation are contrpu!ed by his passions has loft his Mo
ral liberty ; and the most common language applied to
him is, that he wants fff government.
He likewise who, in religion, cannot govern himfelf
by his convi&ions of religious duty, but is obliged to
receive formularies of faith, and to pradife modes of
worship imposed upon him by others, wants Religiose
liberty. And the community allo that is governed,
not by itfelf, but by some will independent of it, and
over which it has no controul wants Civil liberty.
In all these cases there is a force which Hands oppa
fed to the agent's own will; and which, as far as it
operates, produces frvitude. In the firft case, this
force is incompatable with the very idea of voluntary
motion ; and the fubjec'tof it is a mere passive instru
ment which never alts, but is always cTed upon.
In the second case; this force is the influence of passi
on getting the better of reason ; or the brute overpow
ering and conquering the will of the man. In the
.third case; it is human authority in religion requiring
conformity to particular modes of faith and worship,
and superseding private judgment. And in the last
case, it is any will diftin& fiora that es the majority of
fa*l
THE
ADVERTISER
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a community, which claims a power of making laws for
it, and disposing ofits property.
This it is, I think, that marks the limit, ortbat lays
the line between liberty and favery. As far as in an,
ioftance, the operation of anyfcaufe comes in to rertram
the power of felf government, so far slavery is introdu
ced: Nor do I think that a preciser idea than this of
liberty and slavery can be formed.
I cannot help wilhing I could here fix my readers
attention, and engage him to confider carefully the dig
nity. of that bleffiog to which we give the name of Li
berty, according to the reprefenretion now made of
it. There is not a word in the whole compass of lan
guage which expresses so much of what is important
and excellent. It is, in eve-y view of it, a blessing
truly sacred and invaluable Without Ph,fical liber
ty, man would be a machine adted upon by mechanical
foriogs, having no principle of motion in himfelf or
command over events ; and, therefore, incapable of all
merit and demerit. Without wera! liberty he is %
wicked and detestable being, fubje& to the tyranny of
base luffs, and the sport of every vile appetite.
And without religious and civil liberty he is a poor and
abjed animal, without rights, without property, and
without a confeience, bending his neck to the yoke,
and crouching to the will of every filly creature who
has the insolence to pretend to authority over him.
Nothing, therefore, can be of so much consequence to
us as liberty. It is the foundation ot all honour, and
the chief privilege and glory gs our natures.
^<¥>&,<¥&«{fr+dß^kOfr^g^rfb,%
TEN POUNDS REWARD,
RAN AWAY from the fuofcribe^splantation, in Sufex
County, on Delaware, on the %th da, of Atril, 1775.
a Negro wench named SA R A H, about twenty years of
age, well made, and about five feet five or fix ffhes high,
with tolerable thick lips and a down lock'; had remarkable
long wool on her bead for a Negro, which Jbe ufuafty tied
on the top : Hud on and took with her, funds, rood home
made cloaths. The above Reward will be paid to any
person <who will deliver the said wench to the fubferiber,
living in Snow hill Town, Worcester County, Maryland,
or to Burton Waples, living ?n Sussex County ajorelaid;
or £ IGHt POUNDS ij confined in any gaol so that
the fu scriber may get her again, with all reasonable char
ges paid by NATHANIEL WAPLES.
N. B. It is fuppofedjbe left the county aforefaid about the
latter end of October or the firft of November last, wiib a
Negro fellow named PETE R, belonging to Thomas Ro
binson, of the count, aforefaid, who ran awa, about that
time :He is about twenty ,ears of age, a thick, well set
fellow, and about five feet fix inches high ;it is imagined
he bad about 6or %l. c a jh, and well eloathed: He has re
markable hair, .temple locks, unkfs cut off by flawing. It
is wed known that the said wench was harboured and kept
k, the fellow aforefaid during the above interval, and it
was supposed foe was with child by said fellow when foe
ran away, and that the, will try to pafsjor free Negroes
and as husband and wife. The woman can read.
FIVE P O UNDS REWARD?
STRAYED or STOLEN, on Saturday the firft
of June last, out of a pasture near the Point- House,
on Gloucester Ro?d, a brown MARE, about twelve
or thirteen han Is high, (even or eight years old, a na
tural trotter, has a final! ft,ar in her forehead ; the pro
perty of the fubferiber. Whoever Secures the laid Mare,
so that the owner may get her again, ihall ha^e THREE
POUNDS Reward, but if stolen and the thief convifted,
shall have the above Reward, paid by
_J EDW A.RD LASKEY._
TO B E L E T,
And entered on immediately,
A BLACKSMITH'S SHOP a rd TOOLS,
near Salem, in West-Jersey., in 2 very good place
for country business, there being many able farmer#
round : It will fait none but a fryde man. Anv perfoa
may be infeyhed of the particulars by applying to
JOSEPH SMITH, on the premises. J
DESERTED on Monday the 16th infant (June)
in tire city of Philadelphia, from Captain James
CIRIBR'S company, of the firft regiment of the Cor.U
nental Regulars, commanded by Coiorel Hand, a cer
tain RICHARD PARKER, a native of Ireland,
about 28 or 30 years of aye, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high,
black curly hair, and pitted with the tin ^.pux; had on
buckfkiu breeches, a whitish coloured cloth jacket, and
cparfe thirt. Wh'ever takes us laid deterter and brings
him to the regiment at Long-lfland, or puts him in any
gaol on the Continent, shall have the a'»oie Reward al
r©onable charges, paid by
J JAMESCR lER, Captain.
NU MB. 245.