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oftheir toil and labour in oritifi ^nry and riot.
Is this a lots to be regretted? If it is, I know who
-will regret it. Their feelings indeed are very great,
^ri f^r them you mu^ arefwer rt that awful bar,
-•/here your royalty will but aggravate your con
demnition. As to the tyranny of their leaders, it is j
indeed lo gross and thread bare an absurdity, that 1
wouhl advde your Mfyfty to d op it for tire future
fir the*mere lake of is vulgarity. In thh contest,
the people in reality had no leaders. They fled,
{pentane ufty and felf-led, to extingt sh the com
roon fire; and for contusing with the greater regu
hrity, the mea'u es which you compel them to
adopt, they afterwards appointed the proper officers.
Those officers, (which to fe^ve yev'r ptsrpofe, you
call leaders) c.nnot tyrannize over them, hecaufe
they are continued by the people, and by them re
moveab'e. N°r will any c^rlcierati^v rekinde in
their hearts a foirit hf ip, at, to their former Sovereign.
That flame, Sir, and an ardent one it was, and
more ardent than that of your fubjefls in Britain,
you have cxHn^nifhed, totally exdnguifhed, with
torrents of blomi, not leaving afi s gle (park to light
up the anttent blaze. And aS f^r their mother corn
try — America, Sir, is our mother coun'ry, and
Great-Rritain, making the most of the figure, teuld
Pwer claim m be more than our grand mother, and
that fie has been a mod unnatural one is written in
fich charaAers of blood as none of your Aimfey
coaxi g$ will ever obliterate.
raid thl they miF enable me <with the concurs 'ice
and /import of my parliament to accomplifo, &c.
A^ dto we are to aHid the parliament, it teems, in
effecting our own bondage. Pray, Sir, do not flatter
ycu-felfwi'h To vain an imagination. We have too
geat a reverence for the infttuaionfsof our mother,
to fd'owthe irfidioas advice of our grind mother,
so evidentlycaiculated for our detbuftiorr
H 0 RTENTIU S.
L A X' C A S T E R, February 25
We hear from good authority that Col. William
Coa's, who was lardy taken and carried into Phila
delphia, was treated with inhuman i salts through
the ft ^ets, and has been confined in a room with per
Tons tick of a putrid fiver, and in which two field
'officers died while he was there.
On the ??d of December last arrived at Wilming
ton, Cape Fear, Captain Cutri, commander of the
Menjt, from Europe, whither he wall speedily return.
In GENER AL ASSEMBLY of Pennsylvania,
Friday, February 20, I^B
Ja M E s M Ls Nit, Equire, Sp ak/r, adrireffed
himfeif tothe Houle, and told then? that be was very
fenhblc that be bid ben Ceded tochat honorable
office at the opening cf this Assembly, merely because
their former worthy Speaker could uot at that *ime,
with any po&ble regard to the (ituaron of his fmdy
and doneftic affairs, accept it; but that as the fame
urgency did not now exist, he hoped that he might
now be induced to fill that feat: And that hr there
fore resigned the said office of Speaker, and desired
that the House would ele& snathe- io his room.
No member opposing the said motion, Mr. M'Lene
then left the chair :—Whereupon the Clerk deman
ded of the House, Whether they accepted the said
resignation, and whether they would now ,rccred#.o
the eh-dion o' another Speaker? which being an wer
ed unanimously in the affimotive, they immediately
pf?ce°ded to he said ele^ion by ballot, and the r e
upon John Bayard, Enquire, was unanimously cho
fen, and accordingly placed in the chair.
ft was then moved, That the thanks of this House
be given to James M'Lene, Esquire, the late Speaker,
for his services while in the chair, which was u^a
nimjufly carried in the affirmative; and it was there
up n ordered that the Speaker be directed to fignify
rhe fame to Mr. M'Lene in the eame of this Houle;
which was immediately done.
Extras from the Minuter,
JOHN MORRIS, Junior,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
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T O BE S O L D,
By the fubferiber in King-street, a little above the
Gaol, 3rd nearly opposite the sign of the Brushes,
A QUANTITY of Copperas, of the heft quality,
by the pound, hundred or barrel. Likewise Su
ga, Tea, Pepper, Alfpice, Rosin, Salt, and sundry
other articles too tedious to mention.
Lancaster, Feb. ± 3 . GEORGE STREYLEY.
Weft-NantmtU flo^njhtp, Cbefier County, Feb. 17.
AL L persons who are indebted to the estate
of Michael Graham, Senior, deceased, are
desired to make speedy payment to the executors : And
all perform having any just demands against the said
estate, are desired to produce thfir 'accounts properly
poved, aganit the firtt of April next, that they may
be paid by us, JASON CLOUD,\
MICHAEL GRAHAM, Executors.
JOHN GRAHAM, >
I tancafler, F c lruar,2% 1778.
pow id the press, and will be published on Monday
next, the fecund day of March, by FRANCIS
BAILEY, in King-street,
SIX FOLII ICAL DISCOURSES,
Founded on the Scripture.
By HUGH MONTGOMERY BRACKENRIDGE.
AF EW copies of Doctor Price's OBSER
VATIONS on CIVIL LIBERTY,
miy ue h^d of JOHN DUNLAP, in Queen
ffreet, Lancaster.
February 2, 177^.
TO BE SO L D,
Bypublic vendu", on Monday the 2d day of March,
at Ir o'clock in th? forenoon, on the premises,
A N elegant COUNTRYSEAT in Bucks
£ I County, fourteen miles from Philadelphia,
containing one hundred and eight acres, bounding
00 the river Delaware and on Bristol road, with as
elegant a house as any in the county, two barns,
fables, and all kind of oct honfes well built and
partly new; there are about twenty acres of mea
dow, a . % d wood in proportion to the place, an old
orchard of good common fruit, a young orchard of
the best grafted Toit been planted about fix years,
a g/eat variety of pear treelf, peach trees, plumb
ttees, and cherry trees, all g-af^ed of the best fruit:
The whole plantation is fenced with red cedar ports
and white cedar rails; th^re is a f Ont on the river
of one hundred rods, and the house on a fine emi
nence about twenty rod from the river, in a genteel
neighbourhood And remarkably healthy.
Oh the fame day wi 1 be fold, all the stock, hoof
hold goods, and fatmingutenfi's; consisting of cows,
horses, sheep, hogs, hay, wheat, rye, Indian corn,
buck wheat, potatoes, grain in the ground, and a
number of other things too tedious to insert. The
place will be ftrtick off precisely at three o'clock,
that the purchaser. if he chufes, may have an op
portunity of buying any of the stock or other arti
cles. 7he condition of sale will be made known on
the day, and attendance given by the fubferiber,
who lives on the place. Any Gentleman that has
a mind to purehafe the place, I shall be ready to
Lew it to him any time before the day of sale.
JOSEPH PENROSE.
TO BE SO L D,
At PRIVATE SALE,
A 'ALUABLE Plantation, containing upwards
^ 1 o f two hundred acres or land, situate in Charles
' own Pownthip, Chester County, adjoining the river
Schuylkill, the lign ot the Bull tavern, and near to
Moot Hall : There is on laid plantation a very good
two story stone dwelling-houle, % let by 36, two
r>oms cn a floor, with an excellent cellar under the
wh >le, a very good well of wat. r near the house, a log
bon, ftabies, and a large new sh.-d that wid hold five
terns and horses, with many necessaries for keeping a
pibliv house of entertainment, for which it is well fi u
aed and now under licence; about half cleared, the
• her h If well timbered with black and white oak and
hickory, about ten acres of gool meadow cleared, and
Several acres more may be made with little expence;
about one honored young bearing apple trees which
bring exce lent fruit. Anv person inclining to pur
chase may, on application to the owner living on the
premises, lee tae land and know the terms.
WILLIAM GRAHAM.
T 0 BE S 0 L D,
By PRIVATE SALE,
qr< W 0 hundred acres of good LAN D, situate in
& Drummore Township, Lancaster County, sixty
acres of which are cleared, a small house and barn
thereon, a young bearing orchard, some meadow made,
and a large quantity more may be made and watered.
The title ind fputable, and clear of quit rents. Terms
of sale will be made known by Andrew or John
Caldwell, living near the premiles.
JOHN MARSHAL.
TO 3 s6L D,
By the fubferiber, living in Lancaster,
TH E following trains of Land, viz. 12g acres of
land, by warrant of 1753, in Upper Paxtang
T ownfhip, County of Lancarte. 5 2 5 acres of patent
ed land, between Filing Creek and Mahony, in Tur
but lownfhip, and County of Northumberland; pa
tented 325 and 200 acres adjoining. 1155 aces of
located land, surveyed on the Shawnee Cabin Creek,
County of Bedford. 266 acres of land, situate on both
sides of the great road leading to Fort Pitt, adjoining
lands of Mr. William Elliott, Cumberland County.
For terms of tale apply to
LEVY ANDREW LEVY.
NO I ICE is hereby given to David
Cochran, belonging to Col. Miller's battali
on, and James Doak, belonging to Col. Rankin's
battalion of the Pennsylvania Militia, to make imme
diate return to William Means, Commiflary, of
three barrels of Salt they took gear Smithfield, the pro
perty of John Fulton, otherwise they may depend on
being prolecuted as the law dircas in cases of private
property.
Faf-)v,n;„ghffl, February 2^, r~?T
TO BE l"e i,
ANOTED Tavern mid Plrititption, to he entered
on the 25th of -March- .The plantation contains
ab-mt 65 acres, better than one half cleared, about 5
or 6 acres meadow, three goo.i fr&ftme fields, a new
done house and kitchen, the house is well calcul ted
for a tavern, Hands in a pleMant situation, & good well
of water, good stables, a barn ana sheds, a youn^
bearing orchard, and extraordinary garden : The road
lead by laid house from Pcachbottom mod M'Caifs fti
ri?s to Christiana Bridge, from the Head of Elk to
Lancaster, three other roads, one called the Limestone
road, another leading to Marlborough, and the other
to Charl ftowrt and the two lower ferries on Sufqtte
hanna. The laid tavern will be let for one; two, or
three years. Any perlon inclining to rent the fam<,
may know the terms by applying to the fubferiber, on
'^—^!l__JE^^ J unior -
Duck Creek, February ~ 1775.
r^ HIS is to give notice to all those wno arc in-
A debted to the late effate of V. illiam B-aler,
merchant, of Duck Creek, in the county of Kent up
on Delaware, to come in and fettle the fame by the firft
o' April enluing, it being the fecund tinfe of advertis
ing and it will he the lalt, therefore thole who neglect
it may depend on the conftquence. And ail those that
hare any demands against trie said estate are defiled to
prove their accounts and bring them in, that they may
be paid again' the said time. ^
SARAH BAK.ER, Administratrix.
WHEREAS John Gilliian, formerly
ot Hanover Township, Lancaster County, did
obtain four bonds of me, for the payment of Ejfty
Pounds each, the fi ft of which Was due rhe firft of May
last, and each of the others due yearly; and the laid
Gillflan has removed to Virginia, and I have reason to
think that he has aligned the said bonds to some per
lon in this State : I do therefore hereby give notice to
any person that has any of said bonds to call on me for
the aoney when due, as I will not pay the interest of
it, as my bonds are secreted.
JAMES VOUN G, Senior.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARb,
STOLEN from Camp, on the 18th inlt (Febru
ary? a black MORSE, between thirteen and
fourteen hands high, a small star in his forehead and a
fear of a cut under his right eye, a small switch tail
with the hair rubbed off at the root, some grey saddle
foots and a number of grey hairs over his body and in
his mane, branded on the near buttock thus, y ^, but
as he is rough haired it cannot be perceived, four years
old, a natural trotter, strong made and spirited. Who
ever will secure the horse and thief, so that the owner
may get his horse and the thief be brought to justice,
shall have the above reward, or EIGHT DOLLARS
for the horse and TWELVE DOLLARS for the thief
paid by SAMUEL HAY, Major,
xft Pennsylvania Reg.
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
DESERTED from Capt. John Marshal's compa
ny, in the 13th Pennsylvania regiment, command
ed by Col. Walter Stewart, a loldier lately inlifted,
named Frank M'Cue, a native of Ireland, speaks a
good deal on that dialed; about thirty years of age,
five feet seven or eight inches high, dark complexion;
and hair cut Ihort behind , had on when he went away
a half worn hunting shirt, his other apparel very in
different ; his place of residence was mostly in Little-
Britain Townfhi,, Lancaster County. Whoever ap
prehends said deserter and secures him in any State
gaol, so that he may be brought to the regiment, shall
have the above reward and all reasonable charges, paid
by ^MARSHAL, Capt. 13th P. Keg.
IN obedience to a Resolve of Assembly, the
Committee of Public Account# hereby give notice
to all perlons accountable for Public Monies in their
hands, that they have appointed Monday the 23d of
this infant, to meet at the Court-house in Lancafter
where they will continue to fit from day to day, till
the 16th es Mirch, in order to fettle the Public Ac
counts. And all former or present County Treasurers
Collectors of Excise, County Lieutenants, and others
concerned, whose accounts have not either been finally
fettled by former Committees, or adjusted by the late
Committee of Assembly to September last, are hereby
r quired to attend at the time and place above menti
oned, to exhibit their refpeftive recounts and pay the
balances. Those who do not comply with this notice
will certainly be treated as public defaulters, with the
utmost rigour of the law. JAMES READ,
JOSEPH GARDNER,
Lancaster, JAMES ANDERSON,
Feb. 8, 1775. LUDWICK LAWMAN,
WILLIAM CLARK.
TH E Committee appointed by the Ho
nourable House of Aflembly, to fettle the Ac
counts of the late Committee and Council of Safety
give public notice, that they will attend for that puZ
pose at the Court-House in Lancaster, on Monday the
23d day of February, and continue to fit from day to
day till the joth of March. All perfons.therefore, who
have accounts a^ainft the said Committee or Council of
Safety are requeued to exhibit them with proper vouch
rs : ,And all fwch who have received monies by their
or either of their orders, are desired forthwith to ac
count for the fame at the time and place above mea
tinned. JOSEPH GARDNER,
Lancaster, WILLIAM CLARK,
Feb. %, 1,7%. JACOB S. HOWELL,
WILLIAM THORN&