Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-10-15 00:00:00, page 4

For the Pennsylvania Packet.
BRUTUS, SC!?IQ ano CAMILLUS,
Bratus. ,f Thmk , u moll cordially, Scipio, for the
1 nobf? attack you h.wem?E u^on the Con
vention. Yen have father improved apen me.
Scibio. Sir, 'if we -are not exceedingly induftricus
we are rni.r'd 'or ever. We will be nothing more
than common f:e.m?n ofthe S^u;herder: All pow
er crigit/c KA rod derive from ibe people ! And
we are ^be of no m^e CHfi CrarAn than common
mechanics i d plowmen ! We mo I derive the powers
of ^orerung the St; te horn th- m, or d'e not govern at
Bru^r. Nay, Scipio, if their government tabes
p'ace, our d y of gwernNgis ever.
%i h: % I'd be d—d but we Shad govern them yet.
Oar tore I Oor~; Lut industry cn do any thing. .
Chides. Gemkrnce, you me bod; in too great a
pillion to do ITO ) for y ur cause —lt will fuffermare
from such advocates than from i:s wor e enemies. —
Y.u know ny amacbment. I dread every moment an
at -A upon , nbh - Yha'cvcr y n u do in that way
ought to be dore very illy, and whe-e you intend to
mA? the mul <f ahe do n n t afiOt it directly; but
make it a fappofition and then reafen upon it as if it.
were fd.
Bratus. Who could avoid falling into a passion on
such an creation.—Must gentlemen, who bare ruled
the society for a century past be tumbled down to the
Teel of common mechanics io an inßan', and be o
bli^d to conWt their humours before they can have
the leaThacceof filing a department io gev ^nmert.
But if their new plan Should Succeed, it will not be
wetih a ceruLman's while to accept it. No places of
profit are tc b° eftabiiShed in the State, and if any man
undertakes to ferre the public, Jie is to have no more
than a reasonable commendation for f is Services,
Scipio. Rffimj yes, who would n't be in a passion
to be Co glided by a parcel of countrymen — men who
know net de dhfcn me between truth and fadhood, if
uttered with equal boldness and confidence —Yet these
ire the men from whom we arc to derive cur power,
if we Ahull hereafter poflefs any.
Census. You will possess little, I assure you, un'efs
you tike a more prudent way of recovering it. How
could you compare a body, which is to Ue fubje& to
80 anaud chcic. # emoveable every October, and ab
fKve'y eve tided at the end of four years, to the rump
Parliament wh ; ch Cat eighteen years ? Suppose anyone
of them would begin to Shew the force of your argu.
menu how foofh you would look. The arbitrary
run? Parliament fat eighteen years without dissolving
i feif, therefore the Assembly of Peonfylvania will be
tyrannical This is a species of reasoning which all
your pafficn wont make them believe. The fecund
Tuesday in O^ober will annually dissolve them with
out any aft of their own, replies the countryman, and
you are obliged to cape for an answer. The ordinances
of the Convention I am afraid are not so pregnable as
yen and Brutus imagine. They wear very much the
free of necessity, I would therefore have you fay little
about them — And as to the money you charge them
with, when I examine th^r minutes and find that coun
tryman keeping borfes and living at taverns in town in
the midi of harvest take nothing but eight Killings per
day to pay their expences, I fear yen would not be
willing to serve your country on such terms. But
Should they turn the tables upon yen, and prove that
the accounts of the whole Convention amounted to lit
tle more 'ban what twelve cf our friends gave to bis
and tbsir honours and that you took no notice of it,
how fheepTi you must appear! Have patience a little
— [ mean to Serve you by teaching you prudence. Sup
nofe they Should alk you how a body of men, who dif
foived themselves without force or violence in about
ten weeks, coalite charged with Securing to themselves
a perpetuity of power? Suppose thele questions asked
you, what answer would you give? They have no more
power to day than you have, nor can they ever here
after ^e poffefled cf any, except by the choice of the
poop'?. Your conclusion is still worfe—far you would
be puzzled to shew an inftacce where any but a Single
body ever fared a nation from Slavery. If they Should
ask you, where is the Congress? why not grant them
a Governor or Legislative Council? I fear you would
be hc^bled. The Convention has exa&ly done what
you fay the other States have done—they have re
rcvel those parts cf our constitution only, which were
derived from the crown, and fubflituted iq their stead
an executive power founded upon an authority derived
from the people—The only departure they have made
is in the Governor's negative, and it will be hard for
us to prove, that one man is wiser than all the people,
and that what they think right Should not take place,
if he thought it wrong. I ranch fear, to attack a Sin
gle legislative body is taking the bull by the horns. —
If you go to reasoning on the fubje& you will find
yourself worsted. You have committed Several lesser
blunders, but these I have mentioned will do us no
fe vice. Pray coNider well what you publish hereafter.
Brutus. I thought Scipio had gone rather too far;
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I with it may'nt hurt us. I thick, however, I have
pinched their consciences.
(am'dhs. Ah, Brutus! you too have miffed it ex
ceedingly. I would not be detected in such bare-faced
° lies hr all the advantages we could ever derive from a
Le,fflative Council, How could you ever publifli such
a comment on thecadi of allegiance to the Common-
Weabh? Lis the mod moderate yet e£abli<hed in any
of the United States, and while it prevents yen from
drfrg injured the State, allows you a perfect oppor
tu thy of improving it hereafter. 'Read the oath of
allegiance prescribed in the Jersey constitution, which
has never been found fault with. We can do much
mere in private than in public at any time—Our fort
lyes in undermining, ruining their currency, raising
jeJoufies amongthe associators, and giving intelligence
to Lord Howe. Let us make the most of these, and
we may do yet. To attack truth and justice openlyis
t> submit ourselves to a Shameful defeat. Read the
Lover of Truth and the People, and be more cautious
hereafter —fee how Ire has done for yen.
Sofr. I dont underhand such cenforicufnefs—You
Rik ro body can do any thing but yourfeP. Had
you discovered a grammatical blunder in the constitu
tion ve would have heard of it at every corner.
Cnidas. Dont be angry, Scipio, ycu ceferve credit
for that to be five. You there (hewed your learning
arl acumen —But what is that to the people? They
will tell you <# it may be had Engl;(b,to us it is good
“ fetyfe and easily understood —ln a Lawyer's grammar
“ it is ?ood Engl(h — -The sense to ycu is bad but the
“ Engbfh is carped at. It preserves the different
“ pans cf government free of each other, and that is
“ what we want." Finding such Small faults only
lead perpfe to think that you cannot find greater
ones, which 1 pray may not prove too true in the end.
REMARKS on the CONSTITUTION
PENNSYLVANIA.
IQBSE RV Ein a late Evening Post Several argu
ments in favor of a Single Legislature, as establish
ed by the late Convention of this State. The author
of those arguments, in my opinion, agrees with bis an
tagonist in allowing the danger of a Single Legislature,
but differs from him in the nature of the checks which
are contrived to guard agairft it. C< fappofes that the
People alone Should check the Legislature, and for
this purpose tells us that the Convention have ordere 1
that every law Should be printed before it is paSTed —
that the doors of the Assembly Should always be open —
and that no law Should be passed at Re fame feflion —
Here C. forgets that the citizens of Philadelphia will
be the only centinels of the proceedings cf the Aflem
bly, and that those exigences of government and that
state necffly which compelled the Convention, contrary
to their powers, to dispose of the liberty, property and
lives of the good people of Pennsylvania, will often
oblige the Assembly to dispense with that fe&icn of the
governmentwhich requires the suspension of a hwfrom
one session to another.
In a word, the new system cf government for Penn
sylvania destroys all ideas of representation. It gives
a part of the people, particularly such as frequent pub
lic hoafes where the laws are always to be poßed up
for consideration, a negative upon the proceedings of
the whole Rate. But the condu& of our Convention
Shews us in the strongest light the little good that is to
he expected even from this partial creek upon a Single
Legislature. A few .wife men in the Convention and
many who did not belong to it remonstrated against se
veral of the ordinances and fe&ions of their government
after they were printed for confideraticn, but all to no
purpose ; and no worder, for men generally grow ob
flinate in opinions they have once adapted from contra
diflion.
What reception would the Ordinance for punching
persons who condemn any of the mcafures of the Con
gress, have met with from a wife Legislative Council
or Governor, whose minds had not been enflamed with
the harrangues of demagogues? They would have dif
tinguilhed between the idle speeches of a noisy boy at
a Coffee-Hcufe and open ads of treason —They u juld
never have consigned a delinquent over to the mercy of
a Magistrate to be confined for life, without the benefit
of the habeas corpus a&cra trial by jury. Such pro
ceedings are fit only 'or the dominions of Turkey. They
have disgraced the name of Freedom in Pearfylvania.
Q+*4—*~+* +s?*• ++++ -,*•, •:, -) —Q-
eight Dollars reward.
RAN AWA Y from the fubferiber, living in Hart
ford County, near the Blue Rock, in Maryland, an
Irish Servant man named JAMES M'ANTEK,
speaks bad Eng!ifh, is about thirty years of age, five
feet fix inches high, dark complexion, black hair, d'own
look, and is very much pitted with the small-pox : Had
on and took with him, a coat and jacket of country-made
cloth, of a blue grey colour, two coarse flirts, one fine
ditto, one pair of brown woollen flockings footed with
black, Shoes nailed in the heels, and old copper buckles.
Whoever takes up and Retires said Servant, so that his
matter may have him again, thill receive the above Rert
ward, and reasonable charges, paid by
Se, 1. 10, 1776. t ADAM MCLUNG.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
r, AN AWAY from the city of Ljihrgtrn, in
State cf New : Jerfey, on Tuesday evening the 24th
of September inst. a certain J AMES LA NNIN G,
country born, a saddler by trade, about 21 or 22 years
of age, a slender made fellow, fair complexion, ight
hair, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high ; he generally &c^ $
a uniform coat, blue turned up with red, but bar a va
riety of eloathing with him, the particulars noFknown
to the fubfcribeis. It is supposed from Several circum
ttarces that he interds going to sea in feme vessel from
Philadelphia, in company with a young man cf his ac
quaintance from Hunterdon County; ail masters of ves
sels are therefore particularly requeued not to carry him
off —He has in his peffeffion a considerable firm of mo
ney, sundry goods, and papers of value, all belonging
to the county of Burlington : It is therefore hoped that
ail friends to their country will aid in apprehending such
an attrocious villain, who (under caver cf friendship to
the American cause) has been guilty of deceiving and
defrauding the Public.—And whoever apprehends and
Genres him in any gaol Shall be entitled to the above
Reward, and seasonable charges if brought into this
county arid properly secured, from
PETER TALLMAN, Chairman of the Com-
EDWARD THOMAS, and [ntittec.
+SAMUEL RODGERS, Jun.
Philadelphia, 'ScMember 27, 1776.
TEN DOLLARS REWA R 1),
FO R apprehending, and confining, in the most con
tiguous gaol, a Negro lad named B UTLER,
about 17 years of age, the property of the fu bfcriher,
living in Second-fireet. He is tail and flm, has high
check bones, Short wool on his head, and a tear on one
of his cheeks: He werft off the 9th of Anguft]aft from.
Germantown, cloatbed in an oznabrigs ffiirt,'.jacket and
breeches. He was both in Virginia, and it is thought
has either bent bis course that way, or is employed ar,
secreted by Some worthless oerfon in or about this place.
FIVE POUNDS reward will be giv/n if delivered
to me in Philadelphia, or to Mr. Robert Christie in
Baltimore, and the fame sum to any that will inform
who harbours him, if secured in their pcflkffion.
ROBERT GILMOUR.
Philadelphia, September 19, 1776.
LOST, a large well finished H ANG^ R,
with Belt and Chains complete, ;vppo<c to nave
been taken out of the front parlour of Captain Francis
Wade's house in Fourth-street. Should a fulpicious per
son c^er a Hanger for fa!e, it is hoped those to whom it
may be offered will examine into his right.
Alfi) loft, a CARRIAGE WHIP, with a Silver
head, of this country make, half worn, marked with the
letters RH in a large cypher; the owner is confident of
having left it at some house in this city, but has forget
where. If it be in the peffeffion of any perfoh who may
fee this advertisement, he will be pk^feC to fend it to
the fubferiber, who will pay a reward of THIRTY
SHILLINGS for the Hanger, belt, &c. if delivered
to him, and the further sum of THIRTY SHIL
LINGS for the difeovery of the thief.
FRANCIS WADE.
THE HIGHEST PRICE is given
for all forts cf 1., I NEN RAG b, by
THOMAS BENNETT, at his Shop in Mar
ket-Street, two doors above Front-Street, and oppefite
the London Coffee-houfe, where may be had, Writing
and Wrapping PAPE R, by the large cr small quan
tity.
rHR flTTelT^E^r^.
RAN AWAY on Friday, the 6th inst. (Septem-
Pitts-Grove,
one mile below the Sweed Meeting-house, in Salem
County, West-Jersey, a mulatto man named PETER,
about 3; years of age, 5 feet 6or 7 inches high, ffout
and wed made, is fond of Strong liquor, and when drunk
very fancy and talks a great deal of his abilities as a far
mer; he formerly lived with David Frank:, Esq; cf
Philadelphia, and was purchased of him about five years
ago by his present master. As he was seen going to
wards Salem it is probable he may make fur Penn's-
Neck. He had on and took with him, a li^ht mixed
fuperfine cloth coat and waistcoat, a red hair plush jack
et, a white jacket with a belt before, green calimanco
breeches, a holland Shirt, three Stocks, a pair cf white
plain cotton Stockings, a pair of light coloured silk ditto,
a pair of tow trowfers, one red spotted and one black
silk handkerchief, a pair of pumps, cne of which ia
patched on the fide, Square filve#fhoe-buckles, and an
old hat. Whoever Secures the laid fellow in any gaol So
that his mafteq. may have him agaita. Shall receive tha
above reward, and reasonable charges if brought home,
or to Samuel Purviance and Sons in Philadelphia.
SAMUEL PURVIANCE.
CAME to the fubferiber's, in East Cain
Townfuip, Chester Cdnrty, on the 14th of Jily
lr.lt, a milch C OW, of a redkh colour, with a white
belly, very old, and was almost raft her milk for want
of milking. The owner is Retired to come, prove his
property, pay charges and take her awav.
XHENRY BARKER.
C' ENTEEL Boarding and Lodging for
F youth, in a private family and an agreeable part
ot toe city. Enquire of the Printer. ,
CHOICE JESUITS BARK, OPIUM
C, and SPANISH FLIES, lately imported and
to oe fold at the Bar of the Indian King, Market-Greet.
As the above excellent Dngs are Scarce at thl time,
to accommodate a greater number of tbe Gertkmen of'
the Faculty, the Bark will be fold in quantises from
one to fix pounds ; the Opium and Spanish Flies from
two to four ounces.f