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GENERAL
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
ON Monday the zzd inttant (February) at nine
ollock in the morning, at the dwelling house of
the subscriber, in Market-street above Sixth-street, All
the moveables belonging to the cftate of T HOMAS
riSDEL L, late of this city ropemaker, deceased,
confuting of feather-beds, defies, tables, chairs, &c.
with some china and pla%, such as table and tea-spoons,
a creampot, silver shoe buckles, also a good gold watch,
&c, together with some hemp-hatchels and other uten
sils belonging to the white rope-making business. The
cash to be paid on the delivery of the goods.
All perf f ns having any demands against said estate,
are hereby notified to bring in their accounts properly
adjusted that they may be paid. And all persons indeb
ted thereto, are desired to make immediate payment, to
J© HN DIAMOND, A minilirator.
WHEREAS sundry persons (acting as
Waggon- Matters or Conductors of Teams, Ar
tificers, &c.) under the direction of the late Quarter-
Master General or his Deputies, have been inputted
with Crfh by them, towards their wages CT dhburte
ments, for which they have not yet accounted : All such
persons are hereby required to render accounts, proper
ly attested, ot the appropriation or expenditure of sums
so received, as soon as possible, either at General Mif
flin's Office next door to Mr. James Meafe's in Front
ftreet, Philadelphia^ or to the Deputy of whom the Cash
was received. Thole who neglect complying with this
requisition before the firft day of May next, may expt*!
to be considered as defaulters, and will after that time
be proceeded against as such.
By order of Major-General Mifflin, late ^7. M. G.
Feb. i 3. 6. NATH. CRUNCH.
A quantity of LOGWO O D
To be SOLD. Apply to
SAMUEL' MIFFLIN,
In Market street, Philadelphia.
JOSEPH STAN~SBU-R Y;
Has for SALE by the quantity,
COFFEE, CINNAMON,
V TEA, ALLSPICE,
JARR RAISI NS. PRUNES.
Philadelphia) February io.
One Hundred and Fifty Dollars Reward.
STOLEN last night, out of the fubferiber's liable,
a black HORSE, about fifteen hands high, four
years old, both hind feet white, a star in his forehead,
a small wart under his belly, and his neck rubbed with
the collar; he racks, trot and canters well, and is not
docked.
The fame night was stolen from Mr. Ogden, at the
Middle Ferry on Schuylkill, a RIDING CHAIR,
the body painted an olive colour, the car, age and wheels
red, lined with light coloured cloth, the carriage re
markably strong, the wheels have fourteen spokes in
each, the hubs large, the brass nails chiefly drawn out
of the cheeks and bottom, the braces the chair hangs
on are with fliackle plates ; the whole looks dull, having
been out of use near two years.
The above reward will be paid for Securing the thief,
horse and chai r , or Eighty Dollars for the horse, and
Twenty Dollars for the chair, with reasonable charges,
paid by JONATHAN PENROSE.
TO B E LE T,
And entered upon the middle of March next,
THAT commodious and elegant TAVE R # N on
the Five-mile Round, known bv the name of the
Buck Tavern, formerly occupied by Mr. Daniel Grant,
and lately by Capt. Mufhett, about two miles from the
city: It is a new brick house, two stories high, has
twelve rooms in it, a pump of good water before the
door, with a large frame house two-stories high, defi^n
ed for a billiard-table, &c. also two large (beds and a
(table, together with a garden containing four acres or
thereabouts, well stored with apple, cherry and peach
trees, all of the very best quality ; the garden is paled
all round, and has several summer houses in it: The
wholein compleat good order. For terms apply to the
fubfe iber in Market-street; who has for sale, three
theufand weight of the best English single and double
refined LOAF SUGAR, for which the two emissi
ons called out of circulation will be taken in payment.
JOHN LEVIN S.
WAN F I d;
/^SERVANT MAID, who can cook and do the
" other necessary wo<k of a family; to whom good
wages will be given. Enquire of the Printer.
A (chooser's suit of SAILS to be fold. Enquire
as above.
[Price Fifteen Pence single, One Shilling by the quantity. Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.]
To be 3 0 L D or L ET,
And may be 'entered upon the firft of April,
~ VALUABLE PLANTATION in Charles
fl town township, Chaffer county, containing about
one hundred and .thirty acres. Enquire of the Printer.
T O B S'o"l-D;~
△ SMALL STACK of coarse firft crop H A Y,
n confiftin? of about five tons. Apply to ISAAC
MORTON, below the New-Market, Philadelphia,
F ORSAL E,
A LAW LIBRARY.
JT consists in a numerous collection of the meft ap
proved BOOKS, both antient and modern,
Abridgments, Reports, &c. &c. The Printer can in
form where the Books may be seen, and allo of the
terms of sale.
TO BE SO L D,
^LARGE bay carriage HORSE, sixteen or se
venteen hands high, seven years old, well broke
and in great spirits. For terms enquire at the Stables
back of the City Tavern,
AL l persons possessed of receipts or vouchers
for lIORSES taken by General Green or Ge
neral Wayne, and the Officers under their command,
in or about the month of March last ; also all persons
having HAY taken or destroyed by order of His Ex
cellency the Commander in Chief, and having proper
certificates, with appraifements of the value at the time
taken or destroyed, are desired to present the lame at my
Office in Chelnut street, for payment.
JOHN MITCHELL, D. (Q M. Gen.
A few Tons of well-cured HA Y,
To BE SOLD Bf
THOMAS DE WE ES,
In Fourth-street, Philadelphia.
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W. H. D.
TO THE
KING of GREAT-BRITAIN.
S I R,
YOUR royal voice to your Parliament, on the 27th
of November last, has at length reached the ears of
Freemen on the western shore of the Atlantic: And, those
Freemen are convinced, it is a found very different from
the r ? ar ' n ^ of a Lion, when lafhmg his nervous tail, and
bribing his ihaggy mane, he means to display the “ most
active exertions," “ against all his enemies." Accustom
ed, Sir, ¥ you have been, to have your most gracious
speeches mod humbly echoed back to your flattered ear;
it is time that you ihould receive the observations of,Free
men. As a Freeman, I therefore take the liberty, Royal
Sir,, to give my sentiments upon y©ur late speech to your
Parliament.
You begin with telling them, that " you have called
them together in a conjuncture which demands their most
serious attention. 2 ' But, as that most serious attention
was, by the neceffi'y of your affairs, always demanded,
as often as you have called this Parliament together, to
wiiat purpose has your Majesty now pronounced an entire
sentence, in which there is nothing new, but its exigence ;
and in which there is nothing inftrudive or informing?
Without doubt, it was to convince them by your firft
words, that you did not intend to fay any thing of im
portance: and, your Majesty's speech well warrants this
conclusion from its firft sentence.
Pile speech proceeds—" In the time of profound peace,
without pretence of provocation or color of complaint,
the Court of France hath not forborne to disturb the pub
lie tranquility, in violation of the faith of treaties, and
the general rights of fovereigris, at firft, by the clandes
tine supply of arms to my revolted fubj^fes in North-
America ; afterwards, by avowing openly their support,
and entering into formal engagements with the leaders of
the rebellion, and, at length, by committing open hoflili
ties and depredations on my faithful fubjeßs, and by an
actual invasion of my dominions." —Permit me, Sir, to
confider these positions separately.
When a war actually existed between America and
Great-Britain, and of such a nature too, as interested all
the world in its consequences, and particularly France;
and, when at the fame time, the Imperial and Prussian
forces had actually taken the field, and all Europe was
arming by sea and land; to call such a time, a “ time of
pro ound peace," is certainly not to speak so as. to be un
derstood---nay, it is absolutely to atifreprefent the fa&.
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But, I will give the conjuncture its proper defection;
and examine in what light your Majefty's complaint will
thenftand. According to such description it will Hand
thus.
In a time of a dangerous war, which I had commenced;
and which, in its consequences, involved the interests
and if I succeeded, threatened the very fafety of France'
that Court autborifed by the law of nations end the gene
ral rights of sovereigns to take measures for her security
without pretence of provocation, or colour of complains
hath not forborne to disturb the public tranquility,- by,
among other a&s and doings, committing open hostilities
and depredations on my faithful fubjeft, and by an a&ual
invasion of my dominions,,
.M°% Sir, admitting such hoßihties, depredations and
mvaftoß to be true, yet, they being made in the conjunc
ture I have accurately defcribec. they certainly were not
committed <witb ut pretence of provocation, or colour of
complaint, as your Majesty affefts they were: nor, in vi
olation of the faith ot treaties, and the general right- of
Sovereigns For, in the firft place, your Majesty bad kin
,°^"^ Wls "' en actually pfofecating p dangerous war,
which put the fafety of Franco, or at lean her interests at
hazard. Secondly, 110 treaty which you had formed with
France, ferbad her to take measures against that hazard.
France by taking such measures, and, the open
hostilities, depredations ana invasion of which you com
plain, may be such measures, not only did not violate,
but actually and vigorously did maintain and exercise the
general rights of fovereigris under the law of nations, as
laid down by Grotius, Poffendorf, and every other civi
lian. And, Fourthly, rhe King of Pruff?s conduft,
supported by the Crown of Great- Britain, in iirvading
Saxony, and then obliging the S xon army to lay dow'^
their aftns at Pirna, before the King of Poland, Elector
of Saxony, had committed hostilities against his Prussian
Mijefty, d^monftrates the practice tender the law of na
tions in the conjunfture I have described, and juftifrath^
conduct of the Court of France in committing," aye, Sir,
and in commencing, as I ihall more pointedly (hew, bad
France done so, hostilities on the faithful fabjefts and in
vasion of the dominions of Great-Britain. But, Sir, Sir,
when you had on the 18th and 19th of June last, by force
of arms captured the Licorne and the Pallas, frigates be
longing to the Court of France; and that it was after that
period, that that Court firft committed “ open hostilities
and depredations on your faithful fubjeßs," and made
" aftual invasion of your dominions," it seems somewhat
singular that you ffiould have the b^dnefs, in the face of
the world, to charge the Court of France with having
committed open hostilities and depredations on your faith
ful fubjeds, and with having actually invaded your domi
ons in time of profound peace, thereby disturbing the public
tranquility, and vi@la.-mg the faith of treaties and the ge
neral rights of sovereigns, vjdhtutpretence of provocation,
er colour of complaint!
As to the clandestine supply of arms by the • Court of
France sent to the people in North-America, before, as
you have Rated, the formal engagements between France
and the United States; I have no reason to think that;
your Majesty has proof on this point. The Congress
know of no such supply ; and to be sure, they, to whom
you are pleased to fay such supplies were sent, are to be
thought to know, at least, as much of this matter as your
Majesty. But, Sir, be pleased to hear what they fay up
on th ; s fubje&. They unanimously dec) re, “ That His
Most ChriArin Majesty, the great and generous al'ly of
these United States, did not preface his alliance with any
supplies whatever sent to America." However, your
Majesty " hath not forborne" to pronounce to the con
trary.
Nor can the Court of France entering into formal en
gagements with Congress 'at the time she did, tend to cri
minate that Court, on the charge of violating " the faith
of treaties, and the general rights of sovereigns." First,
because no treaties fubfifling between your Majesty and
the Crown of France, precluded that Crown from enter
ing into formal engagements with an independent nation.
Secondly, because the engagements of which you complain
were entered into by France, with an independent nation
in the full peffeffion and exercise of sovereignty---a corn
pleat sovereignty which had existed for nineteen months,
immediately preceding those engagements.
Nor was the object of those engagements, a violation
of the faith of treaties and the general rights of sovereigns.
First, becatife the object was hot to interrupt the peace
subsisting between France and Great-Britain, but only to
repel the war, if you Ihould commence it upon France;
and to continue it, until the independence of the United
States Ihould be secured by the treaty which should restore
peace. Secondly, because the United States, with whom
those engagements were contrasted, were at the time,
free, sovereign and independent, and had been 10 for
nineteen months before; and you were not, under thefaws
of nature and nations, entitled to their allegiance and go
vernment. And, Thirdly, because the general rights of
sovereigns, so far from incapacitating, absolutely anthor
i fed His Most Christian Majesty to enter into those at
gagements, such as they were, at the time he did.