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GENERAL
WAS TAKEN UP, between New-
Castle and Marcus-Hook, in the river Dela
ware, on the 29th of April last, FIVE PLANK.
The owner may have them, on proving his pro
perty and paying charges, by applying to the sub
scriber in Water-street, the corner of Walnut-street.
ROBERT MARFFAT.
For CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina)
_ The Brigantine
SEA NYMPH,
„fl^§ JOSEPH BLEWE R,
Master;
^^W^9 A NEWveffel, conveniently
'' provided with genteel ac
commodations for passengers ;
will fail with all convenient
speed. For freight or passage apply to Joseph
Blewer, at his house in Southwark, or on board
at Mr. JofephSims's wharf, or to Daniel Robin
son, at his store on said wharf, who has for sale,
Carolina foal-leather, new rice, pink-root, and
tobacco.
For NORTH-CAROLINA,
h The SLOOP
"^J& CHARLES and JAMES,
JAMES HEATH, Master;
"A TOW lying near the Swede's
ire^^i Church. For freight or
pillage apply to William Rey
nolds, hatter, in Second - (Ireet,
eppofite the New-Market, or said master on board.
This Day is Published, and to be Sola by
JOH N DUNLA P,
In Market-Street, Philadelphia,
The SCHOOL FOR WIVES,
The MACARON I,
AND
The MAN OF BUSINESS,
Three excellent new Comedies.
'"I ' H E firft volume of the Works of Jo
sephus ; the firft volume of Sterne's Works;
the surprising, yet real and true Voyages and Ad
ventures of M. Pierre Viaud, with the Shipwreck;
an Essay on the character, manners and genius of
women in different ages; and, Dr. Rudi's Oration,
may be had of JOHN DUNLAP.
T O BE.SO L D,
A Handsome four-wheeled CARRIAGE,
luitable for a family, made in the belt manned
with glasses before and behind ; it being made for
a person who has now no occasion for it, the price
tvill be lower than common : The cyphers or orna
ments can be put on to suit the purchaser. For
further particulars enquire of William Tod, in
Arch-street.
TB~E L E T,
/(WHARF and STORES near the Draw
bridge, and two BREWERS COPPERS
to be fold. Enquire of
ANTHONY MORRIS.
TO-MORRO W,
At ONE o'clock in the afternoon, AT
J O H N hart's
VENDUE- STORE,
At tb.e corner of South and Front-Streets,
Will begin the SALE of a neat assortment of
Merchandize.
SILVER WATCHES,
A variety of materials suitable to the business of
clock and watch-making, gold scales and weights,
&c. just imported and to be fold by
Jo H N WO O D,
CLOCK AND WATCH-MAKER,
At his shop in Front-street, the corner of Chefnut
ftreet; where is done all kinds of clock and
watch work, with care and dispatch.
ALL PERSONS indebted for this
PAPER, whose accounts have been twelve
months (Landing, will much oblige the Printer by
discharging the fame, as Toon as convenient.—
Country Gentlemen are requeued to fend their sub
scription money, or appoint some person in Phila
delphia to pay it, in order that the great difficulty
of cohering such small sums may be obviated.
HERRINGS and SHA D,
By the half barrel or quantity § ALSO,
BAR IR O N, TA R,
And such GOODS as he usually kept, t® be
SOLD on Stamper's Wharf, by
LEVI HOLLINGSWORTH.
A PERS ON who writes a good hand,
understands merchants accounts, and can be
well recommended for his sobriety and diligent at
tention to business, would -be glad to have the
keeping of a few sets of books, of constant employ
ment in any good compting-houfe. Enquire of the
Printer.
CHOICE CYDER,
By the hogshead or barrel, to be SOLD by
JAMES MATH E R,
In CHESTE R.
V 0 D. ILL
M O N D A Y L
O R,
From the LONDON PACKET.
To f^e Members of /fe House ^Commons of
Gentlemen, , -
F FREEDOM is supposed to be the greatest
blessing any country can enjoy—why should
you then want to deprive a nation of their essenti
al right? It cannot derive from motives of disinte
rested views, but rather preluding a ministerial
power, productive of the most pernicious effeds,
and would reduce by stratagem the very foundati
on of the Americans constitution: The colonies
ground all their opposition to your tyranny by a
most certain rule, which governs their conduct in
real justice. I mean the charter grant. You
know well, that it's contrary to that fundamental
maxim. To destroy the properties of your fellow
creatures, can no otherwise be deemed than a
downright robbery, which I imagine would chag
rine the ambition of your despotic government.
You may villify your passions, and let your resent
ment spring from revenge; it will only terminate
to make you appear objects of companion—lllite
rate in promoting the welfare of this country, ye
are too well known. America has hitherto been
in a state of revolution. What's thecaufe? Why
it is owing to your tyrannical proceedings towards
them. The inhabitants of Boston, after using
every measure to fend back the detestable poison,
but without effe&, Was at last compelled to the
extremity of either living for ever in a state of
servitude, or enjoy the blessings of heaven; to
maintain which they destroyed the whole commo
dity with great valour, and to the fatisfadion of a
harraffed people. You may, peihaps, surmise
this step to be rebellious ; yet if you properly sub
due your judgement, by a little prudence, you
will undoubtedly fee the impropriety of encoun
tering with those who will not allow of your jurif
diaion over them. You may perhaps alledge one
reason for insulting them ; —for not paying their
quota to the support of government. Yet if you
properly state the case, it must be in favour of the
colonies. They are willing to contribute to the
requirements of Parliament in a just manner; but
you wont allow them to be judges. A very un
reasonable thing indeed, that a man must not know
the propriety ofthat which he appropriates to the
use of any particular, but is forced to comply.
This to me is a fufficient argument, what the ve
ry bottom of your hearts befpeak—attrocious to
the very last degree, and utterly deprives many
poor creatures of a subsistence, while you devour
half the collection in gaming, licentiousness, and
all thepolluting enjoyments ofyour depraved minds.
Your conditions must certainly appear very obvi
ous to you; remorse of conscience will undoubt
edly force you to lament the many gross underta
kings against a civilized people. It is in vain my
repeating to you the advantages arising from true
liberty, because you have loft it, never to be re
trieved, without the affirtance of providence, whose
blessings I believe will in no great measure be ex
tended unto you again, for instead of recompen
sing him, you derided his works; and now to an
awful period, the fltill of the orator is wanting to in
troduce regular measures for reconciliation.—The
dececorous situation you are now in, craves for
the most minute intercourses of experienced wri
ters—they will soon lay before you the deplorable
case, and convince your ignorant minds, that the
power of a Prince consists not in eradicating, or
being guided by a set of men divested of common
humanity. It is a conceived opinion, though
equally prevalent, that your characters consist of
variegations, which is, infidelity of a corrupt na
ture, derived from tumulting ears, and causes the
worst of prodigality.
IMPARTIAL.
From the LondoK Gazetteer.
A C A R D.
TH E referable society of profligates, (harpers,
rakes, coquettes, demireps, macaronies,
whores, bawds, pimps, bucks, bloods, &c. &c.
with the Devil at their heels, present their com
pliments to the inhabitants of th^ city of London
and its environs, and congratulate them upon the
numerous appearance of company at the fate
milked ball at the Pantheon, where no fewer
than 2000 masks figured away (and not 200 only,
as maliciously suggested;) this good success at firft
setting out, we doubt not will be so far pursued,
as to give in time a mortal wound to thqfe gloomy
phantoms religion and morality, and to every
amusement by fomefa/felj accounted rational and
manly; which we are the rather emboldened to
hope for, as the acquiescence of the dignified
clergy, magistrates, and allo our molt gracious
and pious Sovereign himfelf gives us the utmost
reason to think that they all rather approve of
these our no&urnal a ffemblies, than with to lup
prefsthem. Bytheir favour, therefore, and by the
continued countenance of the nobility and gentry,
an increase of our jovial meetings is as cordially
wished for as sanguinely expelled by us, that
D UNLA P's
Great-Britain.
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From the St.JAMES'sCHRONICLE.
TYRAN N Y.
WH ERE laws have fix'd the bounds of right
and wrong,
There tyrants never will be fuffered long.
Tyrants I call those, who on any score
Their fubjeds hurt, or, break the oaths they've
swore.
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B, the Minerva, Captain Callahan, arrived
at Boston, in fix <weeks from London, <we
have the following Interesting Intelli
gence, viz.
LONDO N, Marchi.
YESTERDAY Lord North presented to
the House of Commons extracts and papers,
relative to North-America, and that his Majesty de
sired the House would take them into con fideration ;
when the titles being read, Mr. Rice got up, and
made a sensible but short speech, and said, there
might have been mismanagement somewhere, but
it was time now to fee whether America was not
to be obedient to this country; he thought it not
proper to fay any thing at this time upon the fub
jed till the papers were read, and therefore should
Only move that an humble address be presented,
to thank his Mrijefty for his message, and afire his
Majesty that this house will take the said papers
into consideration, and to assure him further, that
they will pay due obedience to the laws of this coun
try. Lord Clare got up and seconded the motion,
and hoped that it would pass without one dissent
ing voice. Governor Pownal spoke next, rind
hoped that no one would be against the motion,
as it was a thing of the greatest consequence to
this nation. Mr. Burke then got up, and desired
the clerk to read the several Speeches from the
Throne, and address from the House, relative to
taking the affairs of America into consideration,
and likewise a resolution which was upon thejour
nals, which the clerk could not find, and which
Mr. Burke said was something extraordinary ; he
should sooner suppose it to have been torn out,
than to think the House could have overlooked
Rich a resolution; he went through all the affairs
of America, and the different a&s of Ministers; said
that when the American Ramp-ad was repealed, all
was quiet; but, fays he, you call them a factious
people; may I fay bone ofmy bone, and flefh of my
fiefh ; theonly way to make them a subservient peo
ple is to have wile Magistrates to govern them,
and then they will obey ye: He was answered by
Lord Germaine, who agreed in some part with
thereby the small and odious remairs of virtue,
modefly, ceconomy, decency, honesty, industry,
sincerity, &c. may become utterly extinct ; and
that in their places dissipation, debauchery, sloth,
luxury, and their concomitant, bankruptcy, may
succeed. We also presume masquerades may
conduce to the encouragement of trade, these times
offcarcity, for the dresses, &c. as well as be be
neficial to their Italian inventors, and in an emi
nent manner promote the interest of lawyers,
prodors, gaming-house, bawdy-house, and bag
nio-keepers, be of service to jailors, Jack-ketch,
and answer every other infernal purpose.
TKNEW not of the heating before the Privy,
Council on the petition of the Assembly and
Council of New-England against their Governor
and Deputy-Governor, till it was over. I have
been told there was a most extraordinary number
of Privy Counfellors present on the occasion, and
the chamber as full as it could hold; and by all
that I can learn, the only point in question ought
to have been, " Whether the people of New
" England are so irritated against the Governor
" and Deputy Governor as to have loft all confi-°
“ dence in them," in which case the King's bufi
hels cannot be carried on, except by force and
violence, that is, in a way, no friend of the King's
Could wish it to be carried on in.
Can any peaceable spirit arhongft us wish to fee
a precedent ofa whole people profeffing their ha
tred ofa Governor, and petitioning for his remo
val, petition without effe& ? I think not; it would
resemble a determined tyranny, which it is impos
sible for me to fufpe& being intended in any part
of the British empire. “ Children obey your pa
“ rents ; parents provoke not your children to
“ wrath." .
A man once riding a high-spirited horse and
managing the bridle wrong, the horse being ill
rode, kicked and plunged; the ridei kept spur
ring and kicking, and increased the rage of the
noble beast. A friend of the rider feeing himjna
nage so madly, cried out, Jean Mentres, vous le
plus sage. Take this little fable, and use it, ye
who are in power, and (hew yourselves to be the
wiser people. Yours,
From A LONDON PAPER.
ADVERTISER.
^BB
A King's Friend.
M A^Y 16th, 1774-
Mr. Burke, but said that as to the stamp-ad he
voted for it, and against the repeal of it, and if
that had not been repealed, you would not have
heard of these diflentions now. Mr. Dowdefwell;
Colonel Barre, and Mr. William Burke, spake in
the debate against the proceedings of Administra
tion ; laid that they had several papers before them.,
before, and nothing done on the occasion. The
Sollicitor General, and Welbore Ellis, answered
them by faying, we ought now to take these pa
pers seriously into confideration,and not to reprove
either this Minister or that Minister, but give all
past condoa up, and fee if this Parliament could
not make something of them, whether they had a
right or not to tax them. Lord North only got
up to acquaint the House, that if they thought
Friday next a proper day to read the papers, and
Monday following to any motion gentlemen might
think proper, which he said could not be done
well both in one day, which was agreed to. The
address then was carried, and ordered to be pre
sented by such Members as are of his Majefty9
most honourable Privy Council.
A Cabinet Council was held at the Lord Chan
cellor's on Saturday night on American affairs.
There were present the Earls Gower, Sandwich,
Rochford, Dartmouth, Suffolk, and Lord North.,
with the Attorney and Sollicitor General.
Letters from the Frontiers of Turkey, brought
by the mail wkich arrived on Sunday, advife,that
a proposal has been made for a ceflation of arms
between the Turks and Ruffians, and that, nei
ther party seeming averse to the measure, it was
expe&cd soon to take place.
Orders are dispatched to Ireland to prepare
fix regiments to be ready to embark at a week's
notice.
March 10. The remains of opposition seem to
have loft all principle. The colonies are in open
revolt; but that gives them infinite fatisfadion.
They have long fixed their hungry eyes on the
Treasury to no purpose. In the present crisis, they
think they have some chance of partaking the sweets
of office, by opposing the good of their country,
and the punishment of the Boston niutineers. They
imagine they will perplex the Minister, and per
haps overfet him in their factious storm; but they
will only expose themselves to the disgrace and
detestation of every true patriot; for the question is
reduced to this, whether the Colonies (hall give
laws to England, or England to the Colonies.
We hear the most vigorous measures are refolr
ed to be taken with the turbulent and refractory
Colonies, Four regiments of foot are to be lent
to Boston, and fix men of war are to block up the
harbour.
It is now generally understood, that another Go
vernor and deputy Governor will shortly be femt
out to Boston. ; ,
We hear the content for Sheriffs on Midsummer
daynext will be between two Scotchmen, and two
North-Americans fc/A imported.'
, March 9. The Earl of Dartmouth presented
to the Upper-House on Monday a message from
his Majesty, wherein his Majesty was most graci
ously pleased to recommend to their serious consi
deration the late disturbances in America, parti
cularly the unjuftifiable outrages lately committed
at Boston; to which most gracious message, an
humble address was immediately moved for, and
ordered to be presented to his Majesty by the
Lords with white ftaves.
It is whispered that the Bostonians are to have
their Charter taken from them, and that they are
to be made a King's government.
March 11. If the spirited measures at present
talked offhould take place refpeding the Americans;
the next cargoe of a certain commodity may be cal
\ed gun-p&ivder tea, and they must take it with a
little Imack of British spirit.
If there is any authenticity in the speeches and
motions we read of, the Americans have no rea
son to Complain of want of representation in the
Senate, as numbers in both Houses are more zea
lous for the interests of America than of Great-
Britain.
Councils have been held every night for Qis
week past among the Ministry, and they have ge
nerally been assisted in their deliberations by the
Crown Lawyers, on American affairs, which seems
to embarrafi not a little.
March 12. There never was, perhaps, since
the revolution, so important a crisis in the consti
tution of this country as the present Rate of Ame
rican affairs, now before an August assembly; to
speak neither in the language of fear, or in the
style of pomptfiy, no less than the fate of A
great empire trembles on the decision; how
much, then, docs it become our legislators, in
this general hour of intricacy, to lay down all
their little cabals, personal animosities, and inte
rested differences, and unite their wisest and cool
est observations for the general good ! TX be go
verned by any other influence at this period.though
even fora lesser good, brands that man (which we
hope, for the fake of the cause, does not exist)
with no less an inglorious epithet, than that of
being a traitor to his country.
T H E
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