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The HIGHEST PRICE
IS GIVEN TOR
CLEAN LINEN RA GS,
B Y
JOHN D UN LA P.
"to BE SOLD BY
JOHN DUNL AP,
, ( Bound or unbound)
ANY QUANTITY OF
DILWORTH'S SPELLING BOOK,
Printed on fine ftro^ paper and ^ new type.
N. B. Those whe buy by the thoufaad shall have a
large allowance.
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Gifford irc^jhit, Cumberland County, Jan. 14.
NOTICE is hereby given. That there
is in the ca,e of the fahferiber, a chefnut co
loured KOKSB. with a Urge far in hit fore
head in the form or, fa^rt, about nine ye rs old, be
tween fourteen and fifteen hand, high, pacers and trots.
Alfa the following Goods, viz. two fhsets, two fine
ibirts, one ruffled, the other plain, one check ditto, one
coarse ditto, four pr.it c f £lO% a fad^te arid b, idle, and
a small great-cart. The above Korfri and Goods were
acknowledged by a certain John Walker to have been
brought out of the Commons of Philadelphia. The
owner or owners arc desired to coroe, prove property,
and take them awav in two months from the date here
of. or they will be fold for the charges of keeping, by
y PATRICK VANCE.
N. B. The above Horse and Goods were brought out
of the Commons aforefaid, about the tenth of Septem
ber la*.
GEN °E RA L
Philadelphia, January zf.
STOPPED,
By the fubfcribefy on iufpicion of being ftelen,
EIGHT fh^ts. two silk handkerchiefs, fix aprons,
ten mifify and one üble-cloth. Ary prffem ap
plying to Benjamin Paschall, Esq; proving proper
ty and paying charges, may have them again.
Also STOPPED, and may be seen at the office of
Plunket Fleelon, E'q; two filv&r watches, two fil
„r tea-spoons, one marked with a cypher, one ditto
pap.fpoon, part of a piece of fail-cicth and a recount of
ditto, about two and a half yards of black p!vffi, five
yards of light home-made doth, two pair of wemer.g
leather ffioes, one light broadcloth women's cloak with
a hood, a remnant of b;^wn doth, zad sundry other
articles formerly advertif&i.
ALEXANDER CARLYLE, Constable.
To be LET by said Carlyle, a TAN-YARD
compteat, ia which ib^re is a quantity of good BARK,
aifo a DWELLING-HOUSE in the fame, if
wanted.
w a s fan "u~ n" b,
On the twenty- sixth of January last, in ^arket-ftreet,
near Seventh-street, Philadelphia,
A LEATHER POCKETBOOK, containing
fl a quantity of Continental currency, with fame
sere. Whoever hit loft the fame, fey describing the
contents and paying charges may have it again by ap
plying to HUGH KNOX, in Lower Motion town
-4bips Ch^er county, near Charles Humphreys's mill.
Philadelphia, February 4..
GAME to the Stables at the Conneftogo
Waggon, on Wednesday evening the id instant,
a black MARE, about thirteen hands high, fup,ofed
to be about thre^ years old. Audi 04 Friday morning
about furv rife, a derk hay HORSE came to the
above place ; it isfuppo&d he had just been' rode hard,
a, he was in a gre^t „mt , he is about fourteen and a
half hands high, and supposed to be about eight or rime
years old. The owner or owners are defined to come,
prove their property, pay charges and take them away.
JOHN JARVIS.
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WRAPPING PAPER
By the REA M,
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN D U NL AP.
TO BE L E T,
And entered upon immediately,
A LARGE commodious POTHOUSE in the
city of Philadelphia. The Kiln is uncommonly
fyrge, and the Houle crofted on a corner lot, one hun
dred fat dhp on one ftrect end fifty feet in width on
another. For firms enquire of the Printer.
TUESDAY,
[ Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ]
The EFFECTS of the CRUSADES on the Maß-
Btrs, Commerce, and Policy of Europe.
( Conclued from our last. )
BU T these beneficial consequences of theCrufad# took
place slowly; their influence upon the state of pro
perty, and consequently of power, in the different king
doms of Europe, was mere immediate as well as difeern
able. The Nobles who assumed the crufs, and bound
themselves to march to the Holy Land, loon perceived
that great turns were necessary towards defraying the ex
pences of Rich a distant expedition, and enabling, them to
appear with suitable dignity at the head of ther vaflris.
But the genius of the feudal system writ averse to the im
position of extraordinary raxes, and fubjeds in that age
were unaccustomed to pay them. No expedient remain
ed for levying the sums require, but the sale of their oof
feffions. As men were infamed with romantic expecta
tions of the splendid conquefis which they hoped to make
in Asia, and possessed with such zeal for recovering the
Holy Land as (wallowed up every other p^ffion ; they re
linquished their ancient inheritances without reluctance,
audfcrprices far below their vhlue, that they migut sally
forth as adventurers in quest of new ftttlements in un
known countries The Monarchs of the different kingdoms,
none of whom had engaged id the firft Crulade, eagerly
seized this opportunity of annexing considerable territo
ries to their crowns at small expence. Besides this, seve
ral great Barone, who perifhedia the Holy War, having
left no heirs, their fiefs reverted of course to their respec
tive Sovereigns, and, by these accefflons of property $
well as poweer taken from the one fcafe and thrown into
the other, the regal authority increased in proportion as
that of the Ariftocfacy declined.
The absence, too, of many potent vaffafs, accustomed
to controul and give law to th&i, Sovereigns, afforded
them an opportunity of extending their prerogative, and
of acquiring a degree of weight in the constitution which
they did not formerly possess. Tothefeciicum fiances we
may add, that as all who affuraed the cress were taken under
the immediate protection of the church, and its beavieft
anathemas were denounced against such as ihoold difqpiet
or annoy thofewhe had devoted themselves to this service;
the private quarrels and hostilities which bamflird tran
quillity from a feudal kingdom were fufyeuded or extin
guished ; a more general and Ready adrainiftration of jus
tice began to be introduced, and some advances were made
towards the establishment of regular government in the
fevetal kingdoms of Europe.
The commercial effete of the Crusades were not lefa
considerable than those which I have aherdy mentioned.
The £rft armies under the Standard of the cross, which
Peter the hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon led through
Germany and Hungary to CnaflautinG,te> fuffyed so
much by the length of the march, as well as the fi&cen<f6
of the barbarous people who inhabited those countries,
that it deterred others from taking the fame route; so that,
rather than encounter so many dangers, they chose to go
by sea. Venice, Genoa and Pisa furnished the ttanfperts
on which they embarked. The fam which these cities re^
chived merely for freight from such numerous armies was
immense. This, however, was but a small part of what
they gained by the expeditions to the Holy Land ; the
Crusaders contrasted with them for military fibr„ and
provisions ; their fleets kept on the coafl as the army ad
vanced by land ; and, (applying them with whatever was
wanting, engrafted all the profits of that lucrative , branch
of commerce. The success which attended the arms of the
Cruftders was productive of advantages flill more perma
nent. There are charters yet extant, Staining grants
to the Venefans, Pifans aad Genoefe, ^? m tenfl ex^n
five imraarW* $ in the fevergl f&thmei^s u.„ch the Chris
tians made in Asia. All the commodities whkh they im
ported or exported are thereby exempted from every Im
pofitiou ; the property of intire suburbs in Crime of the
maritime towns, and of large Greets and houses in others,
is vetted in them ; and all ©weflions arising among persons
fettled within their precia&, or who traded under their
protection, are apfointed to be tried by their own laws
and by Judges of their own appointment-
When the Crusaders seized Con ftaatinople, and placed
one of their own number on the Imperial throne, the Ita
lian States were likewise gainers by that event. The Ve
netians who had planned the enterprise, and tooka con
siderable part in carrying it into execution, did not neg
left to secure to themselves the cheif advantages redound
ing from its faccefs. They made themselves masters of
part of the ancient Peleponnefus in Greece, together with
force of the most fertile Islands in the Archipelago. Ma
ny valuable branches of the commerce, which formerly cen
tered in Con ftantinople, were transferred to Venice,
Genoa, Pisa,
Thus a succession of events occasioned by the Ho
ly War, opened various sources, from which wealth flow
ed In such abundance into these cities, as greatly promoted
their liberty aid independence^
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ADVERTISER
To tie Printer of the Pbn,sylvania Packet
T has been the misfortune of this country not to have
profited' (ufficiently by tire experience of older nations.
When the way ofexecutinga particular bafinefa had been
pifylymarked out and fettled in every nation of Europe,we'
have chosen to perhia some ^himfica! scheme of our own,
which had been exploded on ..the fulieft trial by those
who lived before us.—There are many inflanc.es *f this ;
but there are nope more firiking than the practice intro
duced by Controls in the Courts of Admiralty, of admit
ting persons to claim as neutrals,bound to the ports of the
United Spates upon the,path of the Captain, or others on
board in contradieion to the papers.-So wide a doer is
open for frauds under this practices that the Continental
cr^izers and privateers must ever be fubje&ed to iufoptr
ab|e difcoufteroep ts so long as it continues.
As an infianceof th m great care wl^ch is thought ne
cessary to be used in order to prevent impefitions on this
bead, I fend you a translation of oe regulation concern
ing neutral yeffels, made on the 26th July, 1,78, by the
King of France t—A Prince of whose wisdom and good
neffi, if the nations could be afford! in every monarch, the
world would have been very little troubled with difputea
about the ferras of government. STEADY.
REGULATION concerning the Navigation of
Neutral Vessels in time of War. July 26, 1778. (
frHE King having caused a representation to he, made
= of the ancient regulations concerniog the navigation
of neutral vessels during war h,Maieflyhas been plcafed
to confirm them, and to add others which may most effec
tually prefetve the rights of neutral powers and the inte
reds of their (£%'£&, with such precautions as will pre
vent the abuse of their flags. With this view His Majes
ty has ordained; and doth ordain, ?$ follows:
Article i. His Maieffy forbids any of bis armed
ships t® Rop and bring into the ports of fair king-,
dom the veftls of neutral powers, although they shall kavo
failed from the ports of ^ enemy § • Xctepting always such
as carry fuccours to places which are befieprd, invefled or
blockaded. With refoa toveffdsofneiffiH Rates which
are loaned with contraband ^ood, and defined for an ene
my, they may be flopped, qnd the hid goods fliail be
telzed and condemned: but the ve c el and the remainder
of the cargo fha!l berd%fed : nnlefs the (aid contraband
goods amount in value to three fourths of the whole car
go, in which case the whole of the veffe! and cargo shall
be condemned. His MajettyobverthefefF referoes to him
felf the right of revoking the freedom granted by this ar
ticle, if the powers at war sh 11 not, within fit ninths
after the publication of this regulation, grant the fame
freedom
e. The rafter# cf nffiral vessels fholl be obliged on the
fas to prove the property to be nemral, by p?ffpor% bills
@f lading, one ayleaft of which shall Specify the (aid neu
fel property, or mail contain an exafl G declaration. And
as to charter parties and other papers ' which fha!l not be
figged, His Majesty declares they ffiall be void and of no
effect
3. All captured vessels of what nation foevet the, may
be, neutral or allied, froth which it foil be proved, that
any papers were thrown overboard, or otherwise suppres
sed or Withdrawn, fh.Jl be adjudged to be good prize, to
gether with their cargoes, ran the Angle proof of papers,a
vin,, been thrown overboard ; arid without requiring any
ex^mtaation o' whatdie papers were, by whom they ^r^
thrown overboard, or whether fufficient papers remain
on hoard to prove that the (hip and cargo belong to friends
or alis.
: 4) * pass or licence flail serve <& one reyfr only,
f%d th"" icon friers ^fy; void, •'•it is proved .h?t the
veffcl TOrWiich it warranted was not at the time of
granting it in force on/ of the ports of the prince who
granted it.
5. No regard ffiall be paid to the paffpor's of neutral
powers, if those who shall have obtained them, fyll be
found to have contravened them, or if the passport shall
mention a different name of the veffe! from that which
shall be mentioned in the other papers on board ; unlefa
the proof of the change of name ,and of the identity of
the vessel shall be found in those very papers and they
shall have been acknowledged by the pullie outers, at
the place of departure, and have been registered before
the chief public officer of the place.
6. Tn thelik& manner no regard shall be paid to puff
ports granted by nutal or allied powers,either to the own
ers or masters cf veffris, who are fubjeßs of States at war
with his Majefty,unlefs they have been naturalized, or shall
have removed their residence into the States of such pow
ers, three months before the firft of September of this
present year. And the said owners and masters of veffeis
fubj^Rs of a State at war, who may have procured such
naturalization, shall not have theadvantage thereof, if af
ter it was procured, they shall have returned into the ene
toy's State, there to continue their commerce.
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& in the French, Anxotaati&n.
FEBRUARY 8, 178%
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