Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1774-09-05 00:00:00, page 2

wy the Tip St. George, %A?b? Inglis, arrto
eh here from London, we have the following
advices.
LEGHORN, June.ls.
rj^HE Grand Duke, our Sovereign, arrived
I at this place on Monday last, accompanied
by Count Francis Colloredo, and yesterday after
noon went to view the Ruffian (hips of war in our
road, which saluted his Royal Highness with a
triple discharge of their artillery. His Royal
Highness continued some time on board the Ad
miral's ship, and partook of some refrefhments pre
pared for him. He afterwards returned to his pa
lace, where he held public audience, and to-mor
row he is to set out for Fife.
Petefburgh, June 17. Admiral Knowles, who
had entered into the service ot Russia, has asked and
obtained his difmiffion. This officer is returning
to England, but he is to retain the half of his ap
pointment.
Warsaw, June 2§. The Prussian General Van
LoiToW, is said to have sent a challenge to Prince
Anton Sulkoufki, who set out yesterday to accept
of it.
Vienna, June 27. This day at noon the Turkish
envoy had his public audience of the Emperor,
with the usual formalities; on his return to his
hotel a splendid entertainment, in the Turkish
taste, was prepared for him, at the exfience of the
Court. On Tuesday next the said envoy is to have
an audience of the Empress Queen at Schonbrun.
IVarfaw, June 29. The long expelled courier
from the Ruffian grand army arrived yefteiday at
the hotel of General Romanus; and we have the
pleasure to learn that the late reports of the Ruf
fians being defeated by the Turks on the other
fide of the Danube, are entirely void of foundati
on; and that, on the contrary, the Ruffian troops
under the command of the Generals Kamonflcy and
Szuwarow, have gained several important victo
ries over the Turks in the course of the last month.
It is true that the Austrian General Borke has, by
mere accident, fallen into the hands of the enemy
with a few Hussars who attended him; but every
thingelfe, finee the 7th of May, has been greatly
to the advantage of the Ruffians.
It is confidently affeited that a great mifunder
flanding has of late taken place between the Em
peror and the King of Prussia, occasioned by some
p:ercnions made by the Elector of Saxonv to the
republic of Poland, and some claims made by
Prince Charles of Saxony to the dutchy of Cour
land, in which the are Supported by the court of
Vienna; and we hear that these pretensions are
to be brought before the Dyet by the Austrian
Micider.
The King of Prussia has taken poffeflion of se
veral places in Great Poland, and bis troops have
1 lately possessed the cities of Gneffen and Zain.
What is mutt furprizing, they make the Polish
garrisons prisoners of war.
They write from Dantzic, that a Ruffian fleet
of fix Ihips of the line and four frigates is ordered
into the Baltic, in order to oppose any maritime
power that fltall endeavour to support the Dant
zickers againfl the claims of the King of Prussia.
Paris, ju, 4. The King has aAually recalled
the Count de Broglio from his exile, and has
The number of emigrants is supposed fully to
equal the number of tons of (hipping ; the emi
grants then will be 43,720. It were to be wiihed
we had an estimate of the other ports of Ireland.
By the fame hand we are favoured with the
following accounts of the emigrations from Ireland
from the third of August 1773, to the 29th ofNo
vember following, which was taken in Philadel
phia, and the other towns, upon the emigrants be
ing landed there, and transmitted to our corres
pondent by the Isabella, Captain Fleming.
At New-York, ..... 1611
At Philadelphia, .... 2086
At Charleftown. _ _ _ 966
At New-Jersey, -- 3 26
At Halifax, — - — ~i6
At Newport, Rhode Illand. — - 717
Total of emigrants from Ireland in
four months, - - - . 6222
From England, Scotland, and Germany, there
have landed at the above ports within
the fame period, - - - 1400
From the lile of Man, - - 56
LONDO N, July 14.
On Monday evening last a large Dutch (hip, la
den with tar, oil, and other commodities, was,
by some accident, set on tire and burnt, off the l(le
of Wight. The master and crew got fafe in their
boat to Cowes.
The following is a true account of the number
of (hips which have failed with passengers to Ame
rica, from the ports of Londonderry, Belfall,
Newry, Laine, and Purtrufh, in Ireland.
(Londond.
r I Belfaft,
c^ Newry,
^ I Larne,
[Portrufh,
granted him permission to return to court.
Hamburgh, July 7. It is said here, that the court
of I.ondon has acknowledged the territorial right
of the King of Prussia to the city of Dantzick, and
that the latter has been informed, that his Britan
nick Majesty will not meddle in the affair.
Sh. tons.'
• 7 195 0
7 1820
4 1200
2 400!
2 + 560'
22 5870
From
J ul y 25,
1769, to
Mar. 25,
1771, be
ing one ;
year aad ;
an half.l
From
Mar. 25,
<771, to
Mar 25,
T773'be
ing two
! years.
' Sh. tons.
22 6300
17 445°
14 4400
7 1 75°
2 500
62 17400
From
Mar. 25,
1773' to
June 25,
<774 be
ing one
year and
an half.
Sh. tons.
21 6350
{ 9 535°
2© 6450
7 2050
I 250
68 20450
22 5870
62 17400
152 437 2 0
From the London Evening Post.
THERE are some things in the bill for the
establishment of a civil government in Cana
da, well worthy attention. This bill does not bare
ly allow a toleration to the exercise of the Romifh
religion, but gives it a legal establishment over its
several members and communicants in as full and
ample a manner as is at present exercised by the
Gallican church. It does not only provide that
the native French (hall resort in disputes concern
ing property to their own laws, but expressly or
dains, " 1 hat in all matters of controversy rela
tive to the property and civil rights of the fubje&s
therein resident, whether Canadian or English, re
sort fliall be had to the last's of Canada, and not to
Extract of a 'etterfrom the Hague, July ^.
“ According to the last letters from Warsaw,
the delegation is adjourned for fix weeks, previ
ous to which the Courts of Vienna and Berlin de
livered in plans of their refpedive territories in
Poland; but the Court of Peterfburgh is to fend
commissaries to join others appointed by the Re
public to fettle their limits on the Frontiers of Li
thuania. These letters add, that the Prussian troops
have begun to cut off all communication with Dant
zick, but that they have not formally blocked up
that place, as has been reported."
“ Letters from Paris advise, that the Royal
Family are so well recovered, that it is expended
they will soon appear again in public. The return
of the old Parliament will, it is thought, take place
in a short time. The Court of France proposes
in future to fend out but two Ambassadors, one to
the Court of Vienna, and the other to that of
London. The ministers sent to other Courts are
to be only of the second rank, and it is proposed
to extend their commissions for a longer term, in
order to save the expence of travelling. To some
places it is intended, for the future, to fend no
ministers; and by these several regulations it is
expected that at least 500,000 livres per annum
will be saved."
It is now whispered that the Emperor of Ger
-many was incog, at Versailles at the time of the
death of the French King, and that it was he that
suggested to his brother-in law, Louis the XVlth,
those measures which have acquired that monarch
his prefect high reputation.
We are informed that afmall quantity of quick
silver has lately been difeovered in the mines of a
gentleman near Truro, in Cornwall; acircumftance
which proves Camden, and most of the old writers
who have given any account of the productions of
this country, were not wrong in asserting that
mettal was a produce of this island, though none
of our naturalists for many years pall have been
able to find any.
Wednesday night it was reported at the weft
end of the town, that orders were that day sent
from the Admiralty for four fail of men of war of
the line and two frigates to be fitted out immedi
ately for the Weft Indies.
Orders are given for (hipping off sixty cannon,
and some ordnance stores, for his Majesty's garri
lon at Placentia, in the Gulph of Florida.
A Nobleman of high diftinAion will, we hear,
be shortly sent to the Prussian court, in a public
character.
Orders are issued from the war office for an ex
aft survey of all the military ftorcs in Great-Bri
tain to be given in by the 4th of OXober, in order
to lay the fame before the Parliament.
July 16. The imports from Lisbon, which used
formerly to bring in upwards 0f700,0001. annually
to the King's revenue, now scarcely produce half
that money ; and from Oporto the imports are
considerably less : not half the number of vessels
are employed that were twenty years ago, and
many of them return halfempty; for which rea
son the merchants in that trade are daily varying
their connexions, and drifting them from Portugal
into the Madeira and Streights trade.
When the lad pacquet left Amsterdam, there
was a report that the Dutch Admiral Van Rey
ter, in the Eaihlnlies, had taken two French
Hoops of war, and carried them into Batavia, for
assaulting and firing on the crew of the PYncefs of
Orange, a Dutch Eaft-Indiaman, at the mouth of
Bengal river in September last: that that com
plaint was made to the French commanding offi
cer, but he delaying to give fatisfaftion, the Dutch
officer went after and took them, till ample recom
pence is obtained.
It is believed, that as soon as the King of France
emerges from his present confinement, he will pre
pare himfelf for some enterprizes which muftinfal
liably shake the present tranquility of his neigh
bours.
Some letters from Peterfburgh advise, that great
commotions were in the cabinet, in consequence
ofthe late losses, and that several of the counfel
lors arc strongly inclined to accept the Turkish of
fers for a peace, as the rebellions in the provinces
far from being quelled, are stronger than before.
It is said Count Panin is desired to resume his
functions, who some time since desired leave to re
sign, as he then strongly opposed carrying on the
war against theTurks, as it would, in the end, he
thought, be greatly prejudicial to Raffia.
They write from the Hague, that a very final!
loan of 50,000 ducats was attempted to be raised
there for the use of his Polish Majesty, but was
immediately ordered to be dropped by authority
of the States.
July 15. This day a Cabinet Council will be
held at St. James's upon affairs of great importance,
but no part of the fubjed matter has as yet tran
spired.
A certain gallant Admiral and Commissioner,
we hear, threatens to resign, on account of some
flight thrown upon him by the noble Lord Who
preGdes at that Board.
A great engineer has lately given it as his opi
nion, that the bafons, sluices, &c. at Dunkirk,
could be put in the fame state they were, previous
to the late peace, in less than twelve months, and
that with no other aid but the bare assistance of
the present garrison.
Field Martial Count Lafci will Shortly be sent
in a public character from the Court of Vienna to
Versailles.
the laws of England. But the most extraordinary
clause of all is, inveiling the Crown with the
power of appointing a council, which are to ad
with the Governor as the supreme legislature for
enabling and repealing laws, &c. Some of the ine
vitable conlequences of it are, however, too plain
to be mistaken. In the firft place, no Protestant
will reside in a place where his property and other
personal rights are to be decided by laws, to the
language in which they are written he is an entire
stranger, and though he were not, his whole life
would be a time short enough to gain a competent
knowledge of: And in the second, that the legis
lature, who are to be the framers of the laws, must
be Frenchmen and Papists, as none other can be
supposed to be fufficiently versed in the laws of
Canada, which are ftridly copied and formed on
the provincial customs, prevalent in the western
provinces of Old France.
WHEREAS it is thought that a non-con
sumption agreement, generally come into
by the consumers of British manufactures in Ame
rica, will greatly faciliate, and be the best means
of rendering firm and effectual the non-importati
on agreement, so universally proposed and recom
mended ; and in order that it may be done in a
way easy, fafe and abiding, it is thought necessary
that the several towns in this colony should, by
their Delegates, appointed for that purpose, meet
together, either in a general meeting of the whole
colony, or by county meetings, in the several coun
ties, in order to draw such agreement, for the peo
ple in the several towns to subscribe, as fliall best
answer the proposed end.
WHEREFORE the Committee of Correspond
ence for the town of Hartford, with the advice and
delire of several of our brethren in the neighbour
ingtowns, that such a measure might be adopted,
do propose and desire that a meeting of the several
towns in the County of Hartford, by their Dele
gates, and of all the towns in the several counties
in this colony, that fliall fee fit, and prefer such
general convention to a separate county meeting,
may be held at the state-House in the town of Hart
ford, on Thursday the 15th day of September
next, in order to unite and compole an agreement
for the non consumption of British manufactures,
goods and merchandize, that may be universally
acceded to, and inviolably kept and observed by
the people of this colony. Dated in Hartford the
20th of August, A. D. 1774.
Per Order of the Committee,
SAMUEL WYLLYS, Clerk.
We this moment learn from Salem, that the
Governor sent for the committee of correspondence
while the.people were in meeting, and questioned
them, whether they were concerned in issuing the
notification forthe meeting, to which they anlwer
ed in the affirmative. It is further said, the Go
vernor has since sent his warrants and taken up the
said committee of correspondence of Salem.
Quere, IVbat will covie of this ?
Province of Massachusetts-Bay.
By the Governor,
A PROCLAMATION.
WH E REA S certain hand-bills have been
posted in sundry places in the town of Sa
lem, calling upon the merchants, freeholders, and
other inhabitants of laid town, to meet at the town
house chamber on Wednesday next, at nine o'clock
in the morning, to confider of, and determine up
on measures for opp sing the execution of divers
late a&s of Parliament.
And whereas by a late aft of Parliament, all
town meetings called without the consent of the
Governor, (except the annual meetings, in the
months of March and May) are illegal.
I do hereby ftric'tly prohibit all persons from at
tending the aforefaid, or any other meeting not
warranted by law, as they will be chargeable with
all the ill conferences that may follow thereon,
and aniwer them at their utmost peril.
G IKEN at Salem the 2\d day of 4uguft, 1774.
THOMAS GAG E.
By his Excellency's command,
Thos. Flucker, Secretary.
GOD save the KING.
BOSTO N, Augufl 2^.
A correspondent has sent us the following,
viz. “ We hear from Plymouth, that such was the
indignation of the people against their new made
counfellor, George Watson, Esq ; that on the last
Lord's day (which was the firft time he was seen
there since he took the oath) a great number of the
principal inhabitants of that town left the meet
ing-house, where they used to worship, immediate
ly upon his entering it: being determined not to
worship in fellowfllip with one, who was sworn to
support that change of our constitution, which not
only profeffedly establishes despotism among us,
but which they think tends rapidly, and is ultimate
ly intended to introduce the Popifh religion into
this country."
We hear that his Excellency the Governor in
tends to call a new general assembly together some
timein Odober next.
At a meeting of the freeholders and other in
habitants of Salem, held yesterday at the court
house in that place, the Honourable Richard
Derby, Esq; Mr. John Pickering, junr. Mr. Jo
nathan Ropes., Capt. Timothy Pickering, Capt.
Jonathan Gardner, jun. and Capt. Richard Man
ning, were chosen deputies to represent that town,
at a meeting of deputies from the several towns in
the county of Essex, to be held at Ipswich on the
6th of September.
G G made great parade in his en
deavours to prevent the meeting at Salem yester
day; a proclamation was polled up, forbidding
the fame; a deputy fheriff was Rationed at the
court-house, in order to give notice to the Gover
nor when the people proceeded to bufioefs ; and
to crown all, two companies of the 59th regiment
were on their march to the court-house, to aid
the fheriff in dispersing the meeting. The people
however, met at the time appointed, chose their
deputies, and then returned to their refpedive bu
sinesses.
HARTFORD, August 23.
N E W-L OND O N, August 26.
A correspondent remarks, that the mode of op
posing the Britifli Parliament by petitions and re
monstrances only, is the most effectual Rep that can
be taken to betray the liberties of America.
N E W-Y O R K, Aug. 29.
Robert Y6tes, Peter Sylvester, and Henry Van
Schaack, Esquires, are appointed Delegates for
the city and county of Albany, to attend the Grand
American Congress at Philadelphia, the firft of
September next.
John Harring and Henry Wifner, Esquires,
are appointed Delegates also for the like purpose,
for the county of Orange.
The aft imposing duties upon certain liquors, See.
imported into Quebec, we are informed is to take
place on the firft day of May, 1775.
PHILADELPHIA, September 5.
Extrafl •/ a letter from London, July 8, 1774,
" The Fox Indiaman, bound to New England,
has on board 30 chests of tea, (hipped on the 6th
day of July by Anthony Bacon, Esq; of London.
This tea is generally supposed to be a {peculation
of the Minister."
Extract of a letter from Boflon, Aug. 20, 1774.
" Letters by Captain Scott have this moment
arrived: He brings intelligence that the people in
England are rubbing up their eyes, and begin to
awake. Governor Tr—n is said not a little to
contribute to this : He told the Lords of Council,
that it would not do to treat the Yorkers as he did
the Regulators; they were very different kind of
men: He laid all the force he had could not have
saved the Tea, and therefore he sent it back. He
was asked, what he thought of the present mea
sures adopted towards the Americans? He an
swered, they would undoubtedly produce a con
gress: And what would be the result of that? He
replied, he could not take upon him to fay; per
haps the loss of all North-America."
On Wednesday last failed from Chefler-Town,
Maryland, the schooner Endeavour, Capt. Har
ding, bound for Salem, having on board 3000
bushels of indian corn, contributed to the reliefof
the labouring poor of Boston, by the inhabitants
of Kent and Queen Ann's counties.
Captain Maitland, from Black River, in Ja
maica, on the 22d ult. in lat. „, about 25 leagues
from the Coast, spoke a brig from Lucea bound
to Georgia, who informed him that the day before
they had spoke with several vessels that had left
Jamaica the 26th of July, bound to different ports
in America; and on the 27th, in lat. 37 : 44,
long. 76, spoke a snow from Marblehead bound
to South-Carolina.
With Captain Maitland,came passengers, George
Brookes, Jun. Esq; Mrs. Mary Brookes, Mife
Zeeles, and the two Miss Seniors.
The Gentlemen appointed by the different pro
vinces to attend the general Congress, are arrived
here.
We hear the Physicians of Philadelphia, have
agreed to inoculate no patients for the small-pox,
during the fitting of the Congress, as several of
the northern and southern Delegates have not had
that disorder.
On Thursday evening was married, at Somer
ville, near this city, Mr. CHARLES
THOMSON, to Miss HANNAH
HARRISON.
The drawing of the Delaware Lottery was corn
pleated on Thursday last; the lift of the fortunate
numbers with the prizes is now preparing for the
press, and will be publilhed in a few days.
RESOLUTIONS entered in 0 at Savannah in
Georgia, on Wednesday the IO'A day of Auguf,
1774, at a general meeting cf the inhabitants of
the province, affmisled to confider the fate cf tee
colonies in America.
Refolded, nemine contradicente,
TH A T his Majesty's fubjetls in America
owe the fame allegiance, and are entitled
to the fame rights, privileges, and immunities,
with their fellow fubjefts in Great-Britain.
Rejoiced, nemine contraaiernte, That as protec
tion and allegiance are reciprocal, andunder the
British conffitution correlative terms, his ^a
jefty's liege fubjeds in America have a clear and
indisputable right, as well from the general
laws of mankind, as from the antient and estab
lished customs of the land, so often recogni
zed, to petition the Throne upon every emer
gency.
Refolded, nomine centre dicente, That we appre
hend the Parliament of Great-Britain hath not,
nor ever had, any right to tax his Majesty's Ame
rican fubjeds ; for it is evident beyond contra
diction the constitution admits of no taxation
without representation ; that they are coeval and
irreparable ; and every demand for the support
of government should be by requitiron made to
the several horses of Representatives.
Refolded, n??rine contract.er,t,, That it is con
trary to natural judice, and the eftallifhed bw
of the land, to iranfporx any pe,fon to Otcat-
Rfolmed, ncmine contradicente, That an aft of
Parliament, lately passed, for blockading the port
and harbour of Boston, is contrary to our idea
of the British constitution : Fi r st, for that it in
effect deprives good and lawful men of the use
of their property without judgment oftheir Peers ;
And, secondly, fir that it is in nature of an
ex poflfafio law, and indiferiminately blends
as objects of punishment the innocent with the
guilty: Neither do we conceive the fame jufti.
fied upon a principle of necessity ; for that nu
merous instances evince that the laws and exe
cutive power of Boston have made fufficient pro
vision for the punishment of all offenders against
persons and property.
Refolded, renine confradicente. That the aft
for aholifhing the charter of the Massachusetts-
Bay tends to the subversion of American rights ;
for, besides those general liberties the original
settlers brought over with them as their birth
right, particular immunities were granted by
such charter as an inducement and means of
fettling the province : And we apprehend the
said charter cannot bed iffolved but by a volun
tary surrender of the people representatively de
clared.