Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-10-16 00:00:00, page 2

From the, Sr. J.AnES'j CHRONICLE.|
The Ilan who praises eve, Thing and every Body.
T \ E who has looked ever so little into the
J 3 world, and -bfeivedihe ways of mankind,
mutt have* seen that men of the deft capacities,
man endowed with wit and furnished with learn
i g, do not make equal advances to e'afe and hap
q^ sos condition; nor are they so generally ।
acceptable to what is called the belt company,
as neutrals in iociety, and perlons of mere nega
tive virtue.
Mod' people ax; afraid of the witty man; his
^rih is often accompanied with raillery which
is remembered with keen resentment when the
Brilliancy of his fancy and the quickness of Lis
conceptions which set the tables on a roar are for
gotten. The learned companion becomes tedious
from his manner of irAruAing, and his fuperiori
ry in argument begets difeuft, Thb mere assiduous
mao, without any other quality than perseverance
will ever gain his point; and the smooth pliable
aflhciate, by approving every thingihat is done,
ard assenting to every thing that is said, will be
fare t> gain friends and patrons in abundance.
J .k Merit and Torn Blunt are flighted and neg
jehd, while Will Simper and Bob Fraokair are
courted and caressed. There is no partytof plea
sure without tbele foft cushions of society who
yield to every impreilion, and on whom every bo
dy may lean for support.
But besides the pliable easy simpering friend,
who from a total deficiency of lenfe and spirit never
ventures to contiada# you, there is a flatterer of
a different species, who gains your good will in a
storm of kindness as Heaven is won by violence :
One ofthis fort gets into your good graces by loud
and outrageous complailance, and repeated affida
vits of approbation ; such a one is my friend Jack
Soundwell, who will make oath that the architec
ture of your house, though planned by a common
builder, is superior to any of the designs of Vitru
vius and Inigo Jones ; there is not a table or cur
tiin that he does not speak of with as much rap
ture as a connoisseur would praise the portraits of
Reynolds, or the landscapes of Wilfoh. Your
wife, children, fervanrs, in Ihort, every thing be
longing to y° u he (wears are patterns of beauty,
honesty, perfection, and what not? I have heard
him hold forth half an hour in praise of a boiled
turkey, and make a tine panegyrick on a well but
tered apple pye.
1 hadtbegood fortune to meet Jackat the house
of an old friend of mine, who is esteemed a very
g^od orator. Scarce were we seated when Jack
began to found forth my friends praises; he swore
his last Speech upon American affairs was the fineft
he'ever heard in his life; d n me, fays Jack,
if you did not unite the thunder of Demofthemes
and the lightning of Cicero—this compliment, ab
surd as it was, I fo-nd rather tickled than displeas
ed my friend, and Jack was just going to challenge,
hot only Greece and Rome, but all the world, to
produce such a speaker, when we were happily
summoned up flairs to dinner. I will not givemy
readers the mingled oaths and praises bestowed on
every dish of meat, and every bottle of wine.
When the dessert was placed on the table Jack un
luckily recollected that he was fond of currants,
and asked for some; though I believe, said he, lam
rather premature, for they are scarcely ripe yet:
But now I think on it.they muff be ripe in your
garden, for I will be hanged if yon havenot more
fun than all your neighbours put together. The
currants were brought in, and the servants, for the
lake of keeping them cool, put them in a large
cabbage leaf. Now Jack launched into the most
Violent and exaggerated praises; he swore that they
were the large# and ripe# currants he had ever fecn
or tasted. This was so direftly opposite to the
truth, that ray friend grew unealy, and said to him
a little peeviffily, Nay, dear Sir, no more of this,
for Heaven's, fake; the e are the best currants I
can give you, but every body fees that they are
very small and unripe. Well, well, fays Jack, I
give op the currants, but d n me if I will not
maintain that the cabbage leaf they were brought
in on is thrtne# that ever was produced in any kit
chen garden in England.
SIMPLICIUS.
To the MINISTER.
MY Lord,
HOW great feever maybe your offences, you
are certainly, at present, an objed of com
panion. I really do not know a man in this na
tion, except the King, lb much to be pitied.
You have inadvertently plunged into a sea of
troubles, out of which it is impossible you fhoulci
ever emerge. I verily believe you did not at firft
intend the ruin of this nation; because it was easy
to forefee that your own must be the inevitable
consequence. I cannot suppose that, like the
bero ®f Fox Tails and Fire Brands, you had any
consolation in the idea @f pullidg down the house
over your head, and perilling with the nation,
'whole corn you had let on fire for your diversi
on. No, my Lord, I acquit you of every inten
tion incompatible with your probable interest.
You were of opinion that your political system
was practicable ; you were confirmed in that opi
nion by the founding, brass, and tinkling cymbals
on the lame bench with you. They, honeftmen !
have served your Lordship as such Lords should
ever be served, and ^sluch men will serve every
Lord. They have, like +^ ignes fatui, fluttered
and capered on the fur% U% bog, to no other
purpose than to lead your Lordlhip into it. There
you now Rick up to the chin. You were too lit
tle of a Phiiofopher to diftmguifh those unsub
stantial fire ghosts from the torch that would have
conducted you to the temple of Farae. You con
sole yourfclf probably in your wretched situation
with th# hope that the King will take you by the
hand and pull you out. But, my Lord, if the
dirty attempt should happen to require greater
power than his sacred Majesty possesses, the con
sequence must be, that instead of his pulling you
out. you will pull him in, and down you go toge
ther, like the Plymouth Philosopher, never to rife
again. But enough of the nasty idea.
It fe necefLry, abfoltrely necessary, at this very
critical juncture, to enquire coolly, atyi dispassi
onately, whether the Americans be actually in a
Rate of rebellion? And that the question may be
properly understood, let us firft fix a pofirive
meaning to the term. Your pensioner Dr. John
son denies rebellion to be,infurrefiion again)/ law
fid authority. Wh^t is lawful authority? Your
Lordflrip will fell me—'• It is the authority of
Common or statute law; in other words of ancient
celom, or of ads of Parliament." You are right,
my Lord. But, I prefunae your general rule will
admit of fume exceptions. Let us suppose, for
indance, a corrupt Parliament influenced by a
despotic -Minister (the very reverie of your Lord
ship) mould at any time enaft laws, palpably sub
versive oftheconftittition, and evidently deftru&ive
of that liberty which it is the duty of Englishmen
to defend to the la# drop of their blood, agair.ft
all authority whatsoever. Let us suppose that an
attempt to tax an unrepresented part of the King's
dominions, is contrary to the fundamental princi
ple of the constitution. Let us farther suppose this
to be the opinion of the nation in general, and of
a considerable majority of the independent Mem
befsin both Houles ofParliament. Let us, I fay,
my Lord, suppose, that your proceedings against
America are illegal, uncon ftitntional, tyrannical;
it will followthat to call the Americans rebels, is
urjuft, ridiculous, absurd, childish. But the
strongest proof that you yourfelf do not think them
in a state of rebellion, is, that you fuffer them to
be publicly aflifted by fubferiptions from this
kingdom ; blit your authority, it seems, is limited
by Temple-Bar. * * *.
LOND 0 N, July 31.
From the Quebec Gazette of June 19.
By his Excellency GUY CARLETON, Captain-
General and Governor in Chief in and over the
Province ofQu, b zc,and the Territories depend
ing thereon in America, Vice-Admiral of the
fame, and Major-General of his Maj fly's Forces,
commanding the Northern Diftrifi, &c. &c.
A PROCLAMATION.
" a r " e '"°° prevails in many
VV of his Majesty's colonies in America,
and particularly in some of the neighbouring ones ;
and whereas many of the said rebels have, with
an armed force, made incursions of late into this
province, attacking and carrying away from thence
a party of his Majesty's troops, together with a
parcel of stores and a vefTel belonging to his Ma
jesty, and are at present actually invading this
province with arms in a traiterous and hostile man
ner, to the great terror of his Majesty's fubjeds,
and in open defiance of his laws and government,
falfly and maliciouPy giving out, by themselves and
their abettors, that the motives for so doing, are
to prevent the inhabitants of this province from
being taxed and oppressed by government, together
with divers other falfe anddeditious reports, tend
ing to inflame the minds of the people and alienate
them from his Majesty: To the end, therefore,
that so treasonable an invasion may be soon defeat
ed, that all such traitors, with their said abettors,
may be speedily brought to justice, andthe public
peace and tranquility of this province again restor
ed, which the ordinary course of the civil law is
at present unable to effect, I have thought fit to
issue this proclamation, hereby declaring, that un
til the aforefaid good purpose can be attained, I
shall, in virtue of the powers and authority to me
given by his Majesty, execute martial law, and
LONDO N.
DECLARATION of the Emperor ^Morocco.
THE war that has just been declared between
us and the King es Spain cannot be attribut
ed to reciprocal interests, as generally happens be
tween Christian powers. If the cause of our de
claration had been pretensions we formed to many
millions, we should have given them up sooner
than declared war solely for money.
The end of our declaration against the King of
Spain is not a view of advantage; its true and only
motive is the defence of our faith, and the King of
Spain to defend his: And notwithstanding it is
the King of Spain that has brought on the war by
sea, we give our imperial orders to all our officers
and commanders not to hinder arty Spanish flrip
from taking provisions, &c. in all the ports of our
dominions. Any Spanish Ihip that would come to
our ports, when once they are in fight of land they
shall be perfeftly fafe from our cruizers both com
ing and going; and if any Spanish ship should
be drove by Rrefs of weather on our coast,
and afraid of being stranded, they shall be permitted
to come into any of the po ts of our dominions that
may be most contiguous (hoisting their colours at
the stern) and they may refit and return with
fafety.
With regard to the places on the sea coast,
which the King of Spain pretends belong to him,
they are neither his nor ours, but belong to Al
mighty God alone; and they shall be taken by
him to whom they shall be given.
Be it known, that according to the law of the
Muffelmen, it is not permitted to the Moors to
turn their backs when they make war against the
Christians, however superior the number they have
to combat may be, but to fight till they conquer
or die: And the flares that they take arc to be
set at liberty when their ransom is paid, or with
out any ransom; which la# method is the most
meritorious ; and while they are kept they are not
to be obliged to work beyond their strength, and
are to be fed with the fame food as ourselves, and
whoever fails in these points does not follow the
law of the Muffelmen. We think the Chriflian
Religion enjoins the fame treatment to Moorish
slaves. As soon as the Spanish slaves which are
at Algiers shall be in our power, we shall deliver
them up gratis. Such is our pleasure. Given at
our Imperial Camp, Fez, the 17th of the month
Ramadan of the year of the Hegira 1188.
Signed by command of his Imperial Majesty,
S. SUMBEL.
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By Captain Robinson, arrived here from Lon
don, me have the following intelligence.
The following anecdote of the young Marquis
of Granby is laid to be a fad, and has been the
fubje& of much conversation at many genteel ta
bles last week, and which created him many en
comiums :—Being at Court a few days ago, the
King, after retiringand converting with him some
time, said, " 1 am now convinced that your brave
father is dead; had he been living he would have
effectually chagifed my rebellious fubje&s in Ame
rica before this time." To which it is said, the
Marquis made the following reply : Sire, I am
afraid my father would have objected to an Ame
rican expedition: he never was ambitious of View
ing his bravery, but against the enemies of Eng
lishmen.?
Aug 1. It required some years for the King's
troops to subdue the French in America, when
assisted by the Provincial forces, and when all the
British continent was united in one cause. How
vain then must have been the expedation of our
fojlifh Ministers here, that it would only be the
work of a few months for a few regiments, rein
forced, indeed, by three Generals, to over-run a
whole country now as strongly united against them.
By letters from the country it appears, that the
most industrious recruiting parties do not enlist
above one man a week; so hateful and unnatural
appears our present warfare with the Americans,
even to simple uninformed peasantry.
An anonymous correspondent fays, “ Letters
from Berlin advise, that the King of Prussia is
marching an army of 40.000 men towards the
frontiers of Hanover, which it is thought he will
take possession of, unless the 300,0001. due to him,
according to treaty ever since the last war, is im
mediately paid."
Orders are gone over to take up the Colone's
Lee and Gates of Virginia. The latter served
under the brave Generals Wolfe and Monckton
in the last war.
In the reign of Augustus, Quintillius Varus, at
the head of the best and choicest legions of the
whole empire, either for valour, discipline, or
experience, invaded the territories of the Ger
mans, and being induced to follow them into their
forefts and marshes, was attacked by night, and
entirely cut off, with the loss of his whole army.
This defeat so affeded Augustus, that he never
after recovered his spirits. He was heard often,
in the greatest anguish, to cry out, “ Varus, re
store me my legions." Should our parliamentary
army go out of their intrenchments, the Ameri r
ricans will cut them off to a man; And should
our natural enemies, the French and Spaniards,
who have a large fleet now at sea, invade us when
the flower of our army is loft in America, will
not our Sovereign, who has been made the dupe
of B ,M , and G , cry out in the
words of Augustus, " Gage, restore me my soldiers."
Aug. 3. General Clinton writes to a friend in
the following terms: “ We are in tolerable good
spirits, but we have no victuals, nor no money to
buy any with."
Extract of a letter from Liverpool, July 30.
" Yesterday the Albior., Capt. Crippen, from
Philadelphia, in a hard gale of wind ,and thick
weather, struck upon Hoyle Bank, it being flaw
ing tide she beat all the way over into Hog Lake,
as it blew hard and the sea ran high; she there
received considerable damage, and at high water
she parted her cable and drove on fl/ore.
Some capital impeachments are already spoken
of as a certainty, presently after the meeting of a
certain august 'affembly.
Some persons who are ffiortly expe&ed from
America, 'tis whispered, will never hold any post
under government again.
As every Rebel, who is taken prisoner, has in
curred the pain of death by the law martial, it is
said that government will charter several trans
ports, after their arrival at Bofion, to carry the
culprits to the East-Indies for the Company's ser
vice, as it is the intention of government only to
punish the ringleaders and commanders capitally,
and to fuffer the inferior Rebels to redeem their
lives, by entering into the Eaft-ladia Company's
service. This translation will only render them
more ufeful fubjeds than in their native country.
A correspondent fays, that the advising the im
portation of foreign troops (on any pretence what
ever) into any part of the Britiih empire, is High
Treason to the constitution.
Bv the above proclamation it appears, that the
province of Canada is not a tittle behind the other
colonies in a spirited contention against the lawless
views and principles of the present despotic Mi
nistry.
Aug. 4. Upon the next attack at Boftos, Gen.
Clinton is to have the chief command, and under
him Lord Percy; the confederation of which
gives great apprehensions to the latter's illuflrious
family.
taufe the fame to be cemeTd throughout this
province, and to that erd I shall order the militia
within the fame to be forthwith raffed ; but as a
fufficient number of commrilions to the several of
ficers thereof cannot be immediately made out, I
shall in rhe mean time direct all tholehaving any
militia commifligns from rhe Hon. Thomas Gage,
the Hon. James Murray, Ralph Burton, and Fre
derick Hadiman, Elqrs. heretofore his Majesty's
Governors in this province, or either of them,no
obey the fame, and execute the powers therein
mentioned, until they shall receive orders from
me to the contrary ; and I do accordingly, in his
Majesty's name, hereby require and command all
his fabjeds in this province, and others whom it
may concern, on pain of disobedience, to be aiding
and affixing to such commissioned officers, and
others who are or may be commissioned by me, in
the execution of their said coinmillions for his
Majesty's service.
Given under my hand and seal of arms at Mon
treal, this 9th day of June, one thousand
seven hundred and feventy-five, in the fifteenth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the third, by the Grace of God, of
Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, and so forth.
GUY CARLETON.
By his Excellency's command,
H. T. CRAMAHE.”
A letter from Plymouth, dated July 31, fays,
“ The Orpheus frigate, in ordinary here, is or
dered into the dock, and to be fitted out for fo
reign service; but no Captain is yet appointed,
or at least come down. Plymouth is now a very
forrowful place, the late news from Boston has
watered many a cheek here; the officers of ma
rines, who were wounded and killed in the attack,
mostly were of this place. The lower fort of
people too came in for their share, or rather more,
butno account received in private fpecify the names
of the soldiers of that corps. All the wives and
families of the common men aretherefore sighing
and weeping, least their husbands and fathers
should be among the killed."
General Washington, who was lately appointed
Generaliflimo over the Provincials, has fefufed any
salary, and is to attend to the hazardous and ar
duous duty allotted him from principle only.—A
most noble example, and worthy of imitation
Great-Britain, particularly at this time; for if
there were a few disinterested patriots like Wash
ington, the supplies of the Mother country would
soon lessen the national debt, without any requisi
tion from the Colonies.
Aug. 8. We hear from good authority, that
Captain Cook, who lately arrived in the river
from the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship the
Endeavour, has difeovered an island of a vast ex
tent, and well wooded, in the g r eat Pacified
Ocean, between Juan Fernandes and the continent
of China. The island, it is said, is inhabited b~
a race of people as singular in their manners as
they are whimtical in their appearance. As the
greatest secrecy is observed, and every precaution
used to to prevent the particulars from transpiring
before they are laid before the Lords of the Ad
miralty, nothing further can yet be known; how
ever, it seems to be the prevailing opinion, that th®
proper latitude has not been difeovered fcr facili
tating the passage to the East-Indies, so much
wished for: A doubt cannot remain of the possi
bility of the discovery, as, but some few years ago,
some State Exiles made their escape from the de
farts of Siberia in a vefTel they seized, and with
out the fmaileft knowledge either of astronomy or
navigation, got fafe to japan, and came through
the Streights of Magellan to feme of our settle
ments, and from thence to Europe.
A letter from Rome of the i() r h of July fays,
“ It is actually known that theco® ier extraordi
nary, dispatched to Lisbon the sth of this month
by the Commander Almada, Ambassador from
Portugal at this court, is the bearer of the brier,
relative to the Concordance between the Holy See
and the court of Lisbon, begun under the preced
ing pontificate, and brought to a cenchuion by the
We hear that General Fraser has informed go
vernment, that he will raise a regiment, which
will be ready to embark for America by the firft
of September next, provided the General is allow
ed to nametne officers.
The Ministry are 10 determined on carrying a
land and window tax in Ireland, that several bo
roughs are already promised to custom house offi
cers, iubaltern officers in the army, and many
people who have not the least title to such a situa
tion either from rank or property.
Aug. 7. Cloathing for 9000 Canadians is al
ready flipped for Quebec; which will be follow
ed very soon by cloathing for 5000 more. The
uniform is buff waistcoats and breeches, and greoa
coats faced with red.
A correspondent fays, that one of the Genera!
Officers in Boston, in a letter to his brother in
London, remarks that our men are much better
soldiers than the Provincials, but that their Com
mander in Chief is a much better soldier than ours.
It is certain that three thousand persons in the
nail making business are out of employment, and
two thousand more are soon expe^ed to be in the
fame condition, entirely owing to our unhappy
differences with America.
A'^'J? fr The c'nfuLg DCi<m ts Parliament is
l^eto be a warm one. The payment of 60,oco!.
Civil Lt# debts, and the addition of zc,oool.a
year to that revenue, wil 1 come with a fine grace
from a Minister whose measures will lefcn the
finking fund 500,0001. a year, at a time that the
nation is actually engaged in an unfuccefsful Ame
rican war, on the eve of a Spanish and French
war, and bull ed by Austria, Prussia, and Sweden.
But matters will go on very smoothly: posts, pla
ces, jobs, and contrasts, will be so persuasively
eloquent, that the interests of Great-Britain may
take care of themselves.
The Ministry stand so much in need cf pens to
support their measures, that pensions are ordered
to the author of Remarks on the principal AQs of
the last Parliament, to the Dean of Gloucester,
and to Sir John Dalrymple, for their American
publications. Dr. Johnson and Dr. Shebbeare
are at the duty work again.
There cannot be a greater proof of the effect
of Ministerial power, by means of corruption,
than the silence of Junius, and the author of the
heroic cp.ftle and poftfeript, during the present
abominable system of American measures. Junies
to be so loud on the paltry follies of a Grafton,
and so silent while his country is hurling to head
long ruin, has a dismal appearance. What are
Mr. Hine's patent, and the business of Balf and
Macquirk, compared to the deftruftion coming
upon us at present?
The principal adventurers, who care net how
near the British glory may be t® its setting, what
storms may be brewing, what clouds may lower
on our political horizon, if, araidft the darkness
and confufion, they can distance their competitors,
and (however unfairly it matters not) come in firft
oars at the next winiferial regatta.
Desperate gamesters, who are ready to set upon
a single cast, the nation's prosperity, freedom and
existence, provided they have a chance for sweep
ing the stakes.
. Abandoned prodigals, who long to throw away
for a trifle their most precious inheritance.
Insatiable leeches, who only strive to wriggle
themselves into a vacant place, where they may fix:
their fangs, and drain into their ever-drawing maw
the last drop from the exhauued veins of their ex
piring country.