Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-06-24 00:00:00, page 1

G E%N E RAL
NUMBER IL
%the PEOPLE cf PENNSYLVANIA.
^ N^ ^^ HE Tories have at length occupied
& ^^ .; their lad:pod. They now acknow
„ ^ r ^ vledge that independence is inevitable,
'for ' ^ * but endeavour to persuade us that a
, ^^ ' 5 formal declaration of It is unnecef
^ ^ * ^.^ fary, and that ^e are already as in
dependent as we can be of the crown
or Britain. It is in vain to urge the advantages we Atari
derive in farming foreign alliances from an immediate
dec) v anon of I^dependence. The campaign they tell
us is c.mme iced, and France cannot receive cur nia
hife to time enough to help us before the next year.
Bent terrified, ye poor creatures, with a word, nor
put off the day any longer that is to exalt you to the
rank of men. Your posterity will look upon it as the
birth day of permanent liberty to this country.
Should an immediate declaration of Independence
take place, we fhil! then only have crossed the Red
Sea of our difficulties—A wildemefs will Rill be before
us. We have been enftaved with European ideas,
manners and laws. Hereditary tight to power, titles,
excise laws, &c mud all be laid in the duff before we
can ex >e& to eftabiifh, or reap the fruits of good go
vernmen in the colonies.
Y >u will be in danger, my dear countrymen, from
men who wish, ^nd aim to unite the p r e ( ent contending
parties ia our p ovince. Where men agree in an ob
je&. hot differ only in the means of obtaining it, there
it is proper to reconcile thera to each other, and whe
ther paiis are taken o r not ft r this purpose, a coalition
w:' always take place sooner or later between them.
Many people who signed the Remonhrance in a few
year's wil emb ace the present advocates for a free and
independent government in their arms, and execute
the men who handed it to them. These people love
liberty—They have only committed a mistake in the
we^h of edabbfhog it cn a permanent oundatom
Av nd only, my countrymen, a union with Tories and
Crown Officers, who have shewn themselves inimical
to the medures of the Cmgrefs. Some of them will
probably form begin to bellow for Independence. But
be not decked. They have delayed their repentance
tih rhe orders were given to drive away the cart. It
is now too lire for them to hope for a reprieve. They
aim only to be continued in office. Remember the
conduct of Qneen Ann's Tory Ministry, who attempt
ed to bring the Stewart family to the throne near thir
ty years after they we^e expelled from it.
I would by no means exclude men of propertv from
the confidence of the people, provided they poke's un
derdanding, integrity and public spirit. But always
remember that they derive no right to p^wer from
their wealth, and that a freeman worth only fifty pounds
is en tied by the laws of our province to all the pri
vileges of the sirs Nabob in the country. Remember
the influence of wealth upn the mo als and principles
of mankind. Recoiled how often you have heard the
flift pticip es of government lubverted by <he cabs of
Cato, a^d other Catalines, to make way for men of
fortune to declare thei fentimems upon the übjed of
Independence, as if a minority of rich men were to
govern <he majority of virtuous freeho ders in the pro
vince Honor, liberty and life (and these are the
common portions of every freeman is Pennsylvania) are
worth all the wealth in the world.
A WATC lIMA N.
For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
A DI ALOGU E between a CITIZEN and a
FAR M E R.
Farmer. T '{[ 0 W do you do my friend? Pray what
do vou citizens mean by asking so high
iprice for tea, coffee, sugar, rum, and other Weft
lndia goods ? —
Citizen. The extraordinary price of those articles
is cccafioned by their scarcity, and the late extraordi
nary r fits in importing thun.
Farmer. The poor people in my neighbourhood are
how unable to purchase them, and they declare that
they cannot live without them.
Citizen Habit sometimes makes us slaves t© the
most pein cions prances. Rum, sugar, coffee, and
tea arc by no means necessary to the support of life,
but ma the contrary have 2 tendency to defray it.
V 0 L. V.
MONDA Y, JUNE 24th, 1776.
P U N L.A P.'s
They are all luxuries, insomuch that could our tern
perate -me ftus come forth from their graves and fee
their defeenda^ts lolling for hours together over tea
cups and fLp bow's, they would blush at their folly
and hasten back tetheir gravesin order toconceal them
selves from inch thamefril fights
Farmer, But I have been told that they are cheap
er diet than ini'k bread, better, and the natural di
et cfths country.
Citizen. Nothing can be more falfe than that af
fernon. They are not even fubftitures for the natu
rai dut of this ountiy, for inftcad of leffering the
confumprion ofbread, mfk, and butter, they p mot
to ano re plentiful acd frequent use of them Teased
coffee, with the incenfiJerabk quantity of sugar uled
with them afford no nourishment to the body.
, Farmer. I tear ®urpmr people will grow tired of
the present firm ft for liberty, unless the price of
thole Weft India articles can be reduced.
Citizen. lam sorry to bear such a sentiment from
the lips of an American. What let liberty in / com
petition with a dilh of tea or coffee !—unworthy prac
tice ! Think my friend of the many Sacrifices which
the defenders of liberty have been obliged to make in
every age and country. Think of the fuffcrings of
iome of our countrymen, during their confinement
with their enemies for eleven long months in the town
of Boston. They wanted not only the luxuries, but
even the necessaries oflife, and yet they bore their Ji
taation with patience and magnanimity.- Instead
of complaining of he want of luxtines, let us rather
rejoice that we are calted to facrifice them in the pre
fe t glorious ftrugg'e. While we can feed upon the
manna of g ;od bread, mi k, butter, coeele. beef, ve
getables of all kinds, and above all upon Liberty,
let us never dilgrace curfelves by longing after the
fleih p ,ts of Egypt.
Fancier. 1 am pleaded with your primitive notions
of temperance and liberty, but I must here afli you
another qurfhuh Suppose the farmers should take it
into heir heads to rails the price of their bread, but
ter, beef &c. in the manner that your merchants have
railed the price of Weft India goods, what would the
po-r people in the city do for a livelihood ?
Citizen Wo are not in the lead afraid of your ask
ing exorbitant prices for your produce while there is
such a quantity of it in this country. But fuppqfe it
was otherwise, the inability of the poor to purchase
Weft India goods would enable them the better to buy
the more necessary articles of diet which you lent to
market, so that the high price of rum, sugar, tea,
coffee, &c. i&ftead of beinga disadvantage is rather a
blessing to them —I beg leave in my turn now to afte
you a question. Do you fell your wool and flax at
the fame price you did wo years ago?
Farmer No: They are advanced to double and
treble their uhial price.
Citizen. What is the reason of this?
Farmer. Because they are very scarce, and the de
mand for them is greater than ufuai.
Citizen. Here then you have balanced the accompt
with the citizens. Cloathingis more necessary to the
poor than tea or coffee, and yet you have advanced
the price of it Let the citizens and farmers there
fore excuse each other, and let both rest fatisfied that
the advanced price of their re,edtive articles of trade
are calculated to promote temperance, frugality and
industry in our country, and that these virtues are ab
iolurely necessary to the liberty, happinels and glory
of a people.
To the Printer oj the Pennsylvania Packet.
SI R,'
q, HE following is an extract of a letter from Mr.
I Jacob Robfunen, the ingenious foreigner who of
fered his service iait summer to dire& tie Salt-petre
Wo ks in our ctr, and after wafting three months
among us was at last rejected by the P nrU,lvania Af
fembiy, and the management of the Works committed
to an illiterate German, whole fu:cefs h .s by no means
equalled his promises, or the withes of the public. Mr.
Robfamen was immediately afterwords employed by a
Committee of the CongfeL, and sent to ere& Sdt-petre
Works in Virginia, from whence he,writes as follows.
Warwick, May 22.
'' The bearer, Mr. —-, is, a ftnfrih man. I wi(h
you would cirry him to the Salt-petre Works in your
city. I think he could do service there by recommend
ing the fame method I have pra&ifed here. I have made
TH E +
ADVERTISER.
at the different Works four thousand seven hundred
weight of .Nitre, and fnall make ' far greater quantity
at the feme places. What has ohieflvobhru&ed nn ope,
rations is the want of kettles, with which this cooy ?3
illy furuifhed. I was last week tent for to VVTiamfburg,
to assist in forming a plan to make the mnu f &>r, of
Sdt petre general through the C lony. Immense quan
tities may be made litre, for there is rot a fi*glc tobacco
barn (or curing house as they are caiied) but what yields
from ico to igo pounds of Nitre, and cf these boules
there are in 01; thoufsnds in the colony. I am about
erecting Bay-frit Works on the lea there, and have near
ly clompleated a Powder-mill which can make 150015:
of Powder per week."
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J OH N „M E A S E}
Below the Drawbridge, hat for SALE,
][, XCELLIdN T old Mrohii a Wine, und Jamaica
Spirit, fit for immediate use ; Port VlO :rhe
uc q parity, .by the cozen ; a few kegs of ficfn PadY 5 ;
MA. Iles, and Philadelphia Rum; Shao in barrels; and
a finall Quantity of Indigo.
Just printed and nona feeing by
R O BERT B E L L,
Next door to St. Paul's Church, in Third street,
(Trite Fewo >£*!?:>©)
qpHETRUE INTERIM T 0 BRI LAIN,
£ set forth in regard to t~he I OLONIES; ^dihe
only means of living in peace and harmony uh Pom.
Including five different pl ns, f r tfh&.rw? this defitabie
event. By JOS. TUCKER, D. D. Dean o- Glu
cefier, author of the eff-.v on the advantages and difad
vantaggs which re f uctivelv attend France and G eat-
Britain, with regard to tade.
To which is added by the Printer, 7 few more Words
cn the Freedom of the Press in A merica.
N. B. At laid Bell's may be had„ Do& r Jones on
WOUNDS and FRACTURES, &e &.
F-()-ur'e-waTr d:..
^ T 0 LEN from the fubicriber, living in Gwiret
(, Townfllip, Philadelphia County, on the evening of
the 6-h intt (Jum.) the following articles, v r a half
worn blue great-cr a*, a new blue coat and jacket, a new
felt hat with white lining, a pair of r.vckfkio breeches
half worn, a striped jacket, an old tod under ditto, red
fluff for an under ditto, with red lining and vriouwngs,
two pair of blue flockings, one pair new datk Hue, rib
bed, one pair of calf fkir shoes partly new, one pair of
old pumps, one new fine sh rt, one ditt ft x diftp,rly
new, a pair of old ffriped trow fers, two mw colon
handkerchiefs, two pair, of silver fleece biton , 2 pair
of time buckles, a partly new blue and white coverlid,
ditto rue, two new tow ffieets, two wallets, a black lea
ther pocket-book with a few shillings of money therein;
allo Several other articles. The above goods were Arlen
by a negro man who calls himfelf William Moore,
about five feet fixinches high, and about thirty years of
age ; what be bad on at tb^ time is uncertain, as he did
not live near the fobferiber's. Whoever Retires said
thief and goods, so that the fnbferiuer may have the
goods, and the thief be brought to justice, fliall have the
above Reward, paid by
X JACOB KNEEDLER.
BY virtue of a writ to me directed, will be fold by
public vendue, on Thursday, the 27th day of June
iult. at fix o'clock in rhe evening, at the City Tavern,
a certain meffuage or tenement, and let or piece «f
ground, situate on the east fide of Second-street from
the river Delaware, and between Walnut arid Spruce
ftreets, containing in front on Second-ttreet aforesaid
19 feet § inches, and in length or depth 98 feet, bounc
ed northward with ground of Samuel Powell, Esq;
eastward with ground of Laac Vanneft, feuthward with
ground of Jonathan Evans, and westward with Second
ftreet, together with the appurtenances; late the ek.te
of Johri Ingles, deceased ; seized and taken in exeeurion
by WILLIAM . DEWEES, Sheriff.
BY virtue of a writ to me dire&d, will be told by
public vendue, on Friday, the 28th day of Jure
inlt. at five o'clock in the evening, at the Bhiehople,
near the Fennfylvania Hospital, lately occupied by Mr,
Hsnry Neill, all theeftate, right and inter; it of a cert on
Joseph Dodd, of and in a certain lot or square cf ground,
situate eastward of the said hospital, and bounded north
ward with Spruce-street, teftward with Seventh rtnet,
southward with Pine-street, arid weftwid ui.h Eiglth
ftreet, now in the tenure of the 1 ruftems or Manners
of the Pennsylvania Hospital aforeßid ; itized and t;4<n
in execution by
w illi A
C' AM E to the plantation of the fubfcribtr,
, in Plumftead Township, Backs Lemtv, aboutrg
middle as May last, a small ro?n hi A R E, a' out rime
years old, firong and well made. T h e ? wner is dTrf-d
to come, prove his property, p y chains ;.&i tke hex
away. f WILLIAM LA RT.
/ N U c M B. 244.