Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-10-16 00:00:00, page 1

^^ e,“^UR present disputes with the
'^ y^^/ , Colonies in America have en
gaged the attention of all ranks
*£ ° of people in this country: from
rf"4< , the Senate to the Cellar, all have
~, given their opinions thereon, and
#_'M * ^^m (hey have been as different as
the several Rations they hold in life, or the co
lours of their complexions.
It is an argument made use of by the friends to
America, that B itain has ever since her firft Set
tlements there, ruled her with an arbitrary curb
of power, and imposed (hackles on her trade and
commerce, unfitting the sons of Englishmen to
bear. The present spirit which appears amongst
them to redress their grievances, is no way won
derful they fay, but that it is matter of astonish
ment that they have borne their ill-treatment thus
long. The partizans of government one and all
cry out, that the liberty granted hitherto to the
Americans has most affiiredly caused the present
disturbances, and that if they had been kept all
along under due fubj^ion, arid not indulged in
that unlimited power, they have very improperly
been indulged in, things would not have worn the
face they now do, and that government may thank
themselves for having such disagreeable work cut
cut for them, and which might easily have been
prevented, in crufbing that power in the beginning
which the people of America have for some time
past a (Turned.,
'Tis a principle in politics with the ministerial
party, that power ought not to be given to the
people. Ar: opinion like this could never be pro
pagated by any man who was not more than fuf
pelted of being corrupt. Such doctrine, I think,
cannot be too often exposed, nor do I think an
Englishman can spend his time better at this junc
ture, than to enquire into the nature of power,
and impartially confider in whole hands it may
prove most dangerous, and where it may be most
fffuclu^l far the fr_ty¥ thlt invaluable blelfiAg
Liberty.
Many states, I think, may I* named where the
governing and ministerial part have, by force or
fraud, at some time time or other, overturned the
liberties of the people, and set up absolute domi
nion ; but I believe it will be very difficult to (hew
where liberty, and fuluefs of power in the people,
have encouraged them to disturb the peace of their
country. Some may, perhaps, mention the United
Provinces, bat they eannot be produced as a proof,
for it was oppression that made them revolt. If
we look at home, I hope I may ^ allowed to
fay, (without incurring the name of difaffeded)
that the execution of (hip money, the proceedings
of the Star Chamber, and the imprisonment of
Members, are very evident proofs, that it was
not an overflow of liberty, or too great power in
the people, that excited them to rebel.
Should we look into the governments of anti
quity, we (hall find many proofs in favour of the
people. In the great Rate of Rome I believe we
Shall find, upon the most ex id fewiny, that eve
ry popular commotion was precedel by tome a&
of oppreflion from the senate, and that the power
of the people was always obftru&ed in its legal
operation before they appealed to arms. It was
therefore the spirit of liberty to regain their pow
er, not a wantonness in the people, that occasion
ed such an appeal. The case was the fame in the
Revolution of England. King James usurped the
power of the people, and invaded their liberties,
which made it neteffary for them to apply to fo
reign assistance, and this necessity proves it was
not the power of the people which brought about
that happy event ; for had it been the power of
the people, it would have operated sooner,
and prevented King James from carrying on
his injurious proceedings, which not having pow
er enough to do, rather than acquiefee under
them, they chose to submit their lives and fortunes
to the uncertain chance of war. It was therefore
a want of power in the people which made the
Revolution necessary, not a fulnefs of their power
which accomplished it. It was the ad of a dis
tressed people, not a free people ; for surely a date
cannot be free if the people have not the means of
making themselves so without committing hostili
ties. Liberty therefore cannot be eilabliihed by
the grace and promises of a Prince, since assurances
given from one perlon to another, can only give
a claim, which I presume nobody will call pof-
session.
From hence it is evident that liberty cannot be
established upon any power lodged in the Crown:
on the contrary, experience, as well as reason,
(hews, that liberty can never be secured without
lodging a power in the people fufficient in time of
Seed to restrain and limit the a&s of the Crown.
The power must be free, independent, and uncor
rupt, not fubjed by any force or fraud to be with
drawn from the lervice and protection of those for
whom it was formed. For this power did our an
cestors fight, and for the establishment of it was
the Revolution effected; not a right only to assert
VJL IV.
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O R,
GENERAL
From the Morning Chronicle, July 28.
M O N D A Y,
Patapfeo Ferry, OR 4, 1775.
FORTY DOI LARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber,
on the night of rhe firft inst. the three fol
lowing servants, viz SAMUEL ROWLAND,
an En<lifh cenvift, imported July 1774, in the
Afton Hall, Capt. Parker, from London : He is
about 3 5 years of age, 5 set Bor 9 inches high,
round thouldered, of a very flout make, and has a
remarkable douching wak; talks in the Weft
country dialed, is a good farmer and faw^r, and
hand in working with carpenters tools ; \3re his
own (hurt dark brown hair, but it is said he has a
wig with him : Had on when he went away, a
black anl white country cloth jacket and breeches
wove plain, an old white flannel under ditto, new
blick and white ft >ckings, new coarse (hos tied
m h strings, an oznabrig shirt, and an old felt hat
which he comm niy wears flapped. It is supposed
he nas good cloaths with him, which he pretends
- er. ft ku from him several months ago, and he
has said tlat he had nil eor ten guineas ;he has a
bad countenance, is a verv artful villain, and can
r ad and write tolerably well, so tbit he may forge
a pass, and will certainly change his name.
PA CRICK HURL Y, an Irishman, upwards
of 40 years of age, about 5 feet 9 inches high, of a
swarthy complexion, has a remirkable fear on his
note and upper lip, large boned and ill limbed,
speaks very bad Englilh, and sometimes pretends
he can Ipeak none, has very (hert black hair: Had
on when he went away, an old felt hat bound with
black worsted tape, and turned up like a Highland
bonnet, a blue and white striped linfey jacket, a
very long dauk brown furtout coat much worn,
very old blackish coloured cloth breeches, dark co
loured coarse yarn dockings, old (hoes tied with
strings, and a new oznabrig shirt.—TIMOTHY
O'DONNAL, an Irish lad about 17 or 18 years
of age, about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, dim made,
very Ihort dark brown hair, and speaks with the
broague : Had on when he went away, a new felt
hat, an old black and white country cloth jacket,
(the back skirts (horter than the fore) old breeches
of the fame, light gray yarn dockings, old calf-fkin
Ihoes with the heels worn off, and two good ozna
brig flirts. They went off together from Patapfeo
Ferry in a yawl, and whether they flood down the
Bay to get on board a man of war, or funk the
yawl and went off by land is uncertain.
Likewise ran away from the fubferiber, on the
20th day of July hft, ROBERT JOHNSON,
an Engidh convi&, imported in June last in the
Thornton, Capt Gray ; he is about 5 feet 6 or 7
inches high, of a fair complexion, sandy hair just
long enough to tie when he went off; had several
good upper .nd under jackets, worked flockings,
and three pair of good fhoss ; has had his right leg
broke and set very crooked, which occasioned him
to wear long trowfers, and' fofnetimes a final! Reel
bar, one end fixed in his shoe heel, the other to
his thigh with a leather strap, a nice joint opposite
his knee ; he can, and probably will do without it,
but has a very perceivable limp in his walk ; can
knit worsted and silk gloves and mitts, and has an
assortment of needles for that purpole; is some
thing of a farmer, and when drunk is very talka
tive and pretends to know a great deal of the coun
try, this not being the firft time his Majesty paid
his passage. Whoever takes'up said servants and
secures them in any public gaol, shall have if taken
fifty miles from home, Twenty Dollars, if
one hundred mil's 'I hirty Dollars, and if a
greater distance the above Reward, and reasonable
charges if brought home, or in proportion for each,
p id by JAMES KELSO.
one liberty (for that the law of Nature gives to
all mankind) but a means to feeure ifo, which
the people of England are in pofleffien of; and
this power, by the constitution, is fudged with
their delegates, by whom alone they can ad. 'Tis
plain, therefore, that his not the poiTeffion @f pow
er, but the want of it, that has caused the many
diOurbances in America. 'Tis for a proper portion
of that power that they are contending ; a power
that may be able to make head against any op
pressive or arbitrary ads of the Crown: and surely,
without meriting the name ofmaleqpntent, we may
heartily wilh that their efforts may be crowned with
success. An ENGLISHMAN.
^oss4ssHs ^4 >H4>sH§
%fl publifted and to be fold by
JOHN D U N L A P,
In Market-Street, Philadelphia,
AN
OR A T I O N,
Delivered February 24, 1775, before the
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
Held at Philadelphia, for promoting
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
By DAVID RITTENHOUSE, M. A.
Member of the laid Society.
Dedicated to the DELE GATES of the
Thirteen United Colonies.
TO RE L E T,
By the Subferiber in St. George's, Red Lyon Hun
dre I, Newcastle County,
A GOOD brick Hou'e, and Lot, known by
the name of the George Tavern. The
house is in good rep ir, foor rooms on a floor, two
ftoriet high, and a cellar under the fame ; also good
stables, thed, and a store adjoining the fame ; like
wife about three acres of land, a peach orchard
and garden, all in good order. Any person in
clining to rent he fame, may know the terms by
applying to the fubferiber, living on the premises.
t MARY ROBINSON.
D U N LA P's
tt^l^i^^^^l^^I
BY virtue of a writ to me direded, will
be fold by public vendue, on Monday, the
16th day of October instant, at Three o'clock in
the afternoon, on the premises, Three full, equal
and undivided fifth parts, the whole into five equal
parts to be divided, of and in a certain meffuage or
tenement and lot or piece of ground thereunto be
ionging, fitwate on the north fide of Walnut-street,
between Front and Second -Greets, containing in
front 22 feet, and in depth 51 feet; bounded east
ward by Daniel Radley's lot, westward by ground
of Griffith Jones, northward by ground of Richard
Hill and wife, and southward by Walnut-street ;
late the estate of James Claypole ; seized and taken
in execution by
WI LLIA M DEWEFES, Sheriff.
TO BE SOLD BY"
J 011 N H A R T,
At his Vendue Stoe, at the corner of South and
Front-streets,
A NEAT assortment of MERCHANDIZE,
among which are, camblets, worsted damdks,
eveJaftings, durants, tammies, flialloohs, velverets,
checks, fdk ferrits, quality bindings, bed furni
ture, furniture checks, Turky stripes, plulh, em
bossed flannels, broadcloths, fmeft cloths, naps,
coatings, duffils, fluff /hoes, white Russia Meetings,
ribbonds, silk gauze, callicoes, cottons, chintzes
and printed linens, gold and silver laced hats, fiber
and China handle knives and forks, indigo, pow
der blue, &C.
N. B. Goods for public and private sale are re
ceived ar said Store, and fold f.r c*th only.
,** To be let, a neat Dwelling house, conve
nient for a private family. Enquire at said store.
ALMANA C K,
For the Year of our Lord 1776:
CONTAINING, besides the usual astrono
mical calculations, a variety of useful and en
tertaining matter, in prose and verse.
*** Sold also by William Woodhouse, Book
binder, in Front-street, near Chefnut-ftreet, Phi
ladelphia. f 6
TEN SHILLINGS REWARD.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the sub
-1 J scriber, living near the Sweeles Church, Phi
ladelphia, on Saturday the 7 th inst. (Odober) a
red C O W, with white foots on the right fide of
her neck, fix or seven years old, middling size,
and has a flit in her ear. Whoever secures the said
Cow so that the owner may get her again, (hall
have the above Reward, and reasonable charges for
bringing her home, paid by
£JOSEPH HEWLINGS.
Just PubFjbed and to be fold by
ISAAC COLLINS, Printer,
In Burlington,
The BURLINGTON
~ _ Pittfiurgb, September 23, 1775.
torn, persons concerned in Lands situate cn the
Ohio, granted by the Six Nation Indians by
deed dated at Fort tafox the ttird of November,
3768, to trefuffering Traders, & c . Anno 1763.
A NU MBEK of the Grantees of the said Lands
being met here at the request of William
I RENT, they have desired the fubferibers to give
public raotice, I hat a general meeting of all per
tor^ concerned in the premiles is appointed to be
held at Carlifle, in Cumberland County, Pennsyl
vania, on the second Monday in November next,
which will be the 13th day of the month, then and
there to agree on such matters and things as may
be esteemed meft beneficial for the Grantees, avd
to encourage the settlement of the lands contained
within the grant. I hole who cannot attend' are
to appoint some person properly impowered
to a& for them. ROBERTCALLENDER.
GEORGE MORGAN.
York, August 31, 17,5.
T"" Freeholders and other inhabitants
of York County, entitled to vote for Repre
sentatives in Aflembly, are hereby required to meet
at the Court-house in York Town, on Tuesday the
Seventeenth day of October next, to vote by ballot
or ticket for sixty one persons as a Committee for
York County, to continue for the space of one
y~ ar f then nxt following, (if from the change of
public affairs they may not think it expedient to
d fFolve themselves sooner) and as from the danger
and neeeffities of the time*, powers of the greatest
magnitude may be exercised by those persons or
their Delegates, it is expelled that the meeting of
the freemn will -e general, and that they will be
judicious in the choice of the persons to represent
Each Townfllip is desired to choose an Info &or
to attend at the time and place aforefud, who will
be qualified agreeable to the rules of the ele&ion.
Judges will b e chosen, and the election conduc
ed agreeable to the rules prescribed for the eleftion
of the prelent Committee.
By order oj the Commttee,
JAMES SMIT H, Chairman.
Philadelphia Constitutional Post-Office,
October 10, 1775.
Notice is hereby given, that a
Post will leave this Office on Thursday next
for New-York, and continue to go three times a
week between Philadelphia and New York, fetfing
out every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and
twice every week to the eastward, as far as Ports
mouth, in New-Hampshire. A Post also sets out
every Tuesday and Saturday to the southward, and
proceeds as far as Savannah, in Georgia.
R. BACHE, Poft-Maften
N. B. The Office is kept on the weft fide of
Front-street, a few doors southward of the Coffee
houfe.
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ADVEIII TISER;
O C T O B E R 16th, 1775.
TEN POUNDS REwTkr
RAN A WAY on the night of the lot h inst.
(September) from the hibferiber, living
Qreen Ann's County, Maryland, two servant ^en
viz. GEORGE THOMAS and W L
A^ THOMAS, about five te et s ou , fr
inches high each, well set, and wear tl^r own
black hair commonly tied behind. Said GeOkrr
I homas had on and took with him, an old whne
brotddoth coat without tleeves, uitha red cote
a dark coloured coating waist coat , two pair of
od country made trow, ers , and an o | d
channel pumps. Ihe other had on and toik with
him, an old brown coloured waistcoat, two pair of
country made trofo, and one cou , mad efl irt
Whoever takes u? ft id fe rv a nts and se cures so
, or conveys them to the 0w „ cl , &
have the above Reward, paid by"
XGEORGE temple.
FORTY SHILLING'S Te^Ar'd.
Strayed or STOLEN out of a palturr
near this city a black HOR SE, about four
teen and an half hands high, between (even and
eight years old, trots and canters, at the time he
went away lame in the off (boulder, lately reel'd
and not yet healed up, branded on the near but
tock 0, without shoes. Whoever t.<kes up
hore and thief if stolen, (ball have the abovl Re
ward on eonvidion of the thief, and for tha n
alone, THIRTY SHILLINGS, paid by
ALLEN M'LEAN.
TO BE (—57
A NEAT, light, second-hand POST COACFL
M not much the worse for wear. Any period
inclining to purchase, may apply to Daniel
Smith, at the City Tavern, or to John Hale,
in Lombard-street.
AMERICAN STEE L,
To be had at the STORE of
Jeremiah Warder and Sons,
Equal in quality to the best English steel, made by
J. Nancarrow, Steel-maker, from England.
c 7 hey have a!f ° for fale > T - Crowley's
S TEEL, No. 3.^
WILLIAM SEMPLE,
Has for SAL E, at his store in Front-street
A NUMBER of pieces of green and brown
broadcloths ; Walloons, calamancoes, du
rants, coatings and duffils, silk gauzes and lawns
Spotted fwaafkins, blankets,, rugs, & c . &c.
RICHARD FC )O TM AN,
Is removed to the corner of Vine and Third-ftreets'.
opposite Mr. James Kinnear's Vendue-Houfe'
where he has for sale, for ready money only, on
very low terms,
M iddl I.N G, super and fnperfine broad
cloths, with Ihalloons and rattinets to mater *
Inulf in bottles; a variety of fiiks, confidingcf^e
fallowing articles, v i z . brocades, ducapes, nauu
aloys, mantuas, tobir.es, white and striped fattins
perhans, &c.—Goods received for pnßLe and mil
vate tale. 1
And on THURSDAY next, the qth inst
at One o'clock, at FOOTMAN and J EYES's
Vendue Store, the corner of Vine and Second
ffreets, will begin the sale of a large assortment of
MERCH ANDIZE, finable to the ^{
Tobe SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE
On Saturday the 21st day of October instant, 4
two o'clock in the afternoon, by the fubferiber,
living on the premises,
NI N E contiguous Lors or Pieces of Ground,
situate in the Northern Liberties of the city
of Philadelphia, being part of the plantation com
monly known by the name of the V INEYARD;
No. j, containing 2 acres, 1 quarter and 25 perches.
No. 2 , containing 1 acre, gquarters and 25 perches.
No. 3, containing 2 acres, 1 quarter ard 25 perches.
No. 4, containing 3 acres and 12 perches, on which
is eie&ed a dwelling-hotife and bain. No. 5 , con
tainingl acre, 1 quarter and 8 perches. No. 6,
containing 1 acre, 1 quarter and 8 perches. No. 7'
containing 1 acre, 1 quarter and 8 perches. No. £
containing 1 acre, 2 quarters and ^ perches. And
No. 9, containing 3 acres and 17 perches. On
which premises is planted a young orchard of ap
ple trees and poach trees, having a number cf fine
Springs Sufficient to water the fame, being pleafanr
ly situated for country feats for Gentlemen, having
a fine profpea to the Upper Ferry and Falls of
Schuylkill, likewise the privilege of a public land
ing on Schuylkill River, and of two roads of fifty
set wide. A plan of the whole may be seen at the
London Coftee-houfe, and at the ire<blcriber's.
_ JOHN WEIDMAN.
Frederi<k County, Maryland, Sept. 26, 177 c.
THIRTY POUNDS REWARD.
BROKE out of gaol last night, DAVID
ALSPAUG H, born in Geim^ny, speaks
^od English, is about 40 years of a te, has black
hair tied behind ; had on a blue coat, black plush
waistcoat and breeches, and black stockings; he
speaks very foft and smooth, and affefts to be gen
t,|; has a watch in his pocket. Whoever secures
him in any of his Majesty's goals, shall receive the
above Reward, paid by
L^JIAS FRENCH, Sheriff.
Just Publifoed, and to be Sold by
JOHN DUNL AP,
In Market-Street, Philadelphia,
FATHER ABRAHAM's
A LMANA C K/
For the Year of our Lord y , 7 6.
The Agronomical Calculations by the ingenious
David Rittenhouse, A. M. of this city.
T HE
NUTrf-B. 208.