Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1773-12-27 00:00:00, page 2

W ARSA W, Sept. 2%
IT is reported here, that the Turks have puffed
the Danube near Widdin, and that the Court
of Vienna is afembling a great army in the neigh
bourhood of Belgrade.
From,the Danube, Sept. 27. The letters which
have been received regarding the operations of the
Ruffians in the Crimea mention, that they have
received a great check in thole parts ; that Gene
ral Proiorowfki has been wounded, and made
prisoner by the Turks and Tartars; and th.it
Prince Dolgorucki has retired ; so that the Ruffi
ans now possess only two (mail places on that Pe
ninsula. We have accounts likewise, that 40,000
Fruflians are marching towards Poland.
H'afaw, Sept. 28. The following ate some of
the cardinal laws, concerning which, the three
courts will not fuffer any kind of contradiction :
Article I. " The crown of Poland shall be for
ever elective, and never otherwise; and the suc
cession to the throne for ever abolished; so that
whoever shall be guilty of any attempt to render it
hereditary shall be ipso fa&o an enemy of his coun
try, and punished as such.
11. “ For ign candidates to the throne having
been the chief and mod common occasion of trou
bles and divisions among the citizens, it is enabled,
that for the future no person flrall be elected King
of Poland and Great Duke of Lithuania, but a
Pole of noble parentage, native of Poland, and
haying estates therein; and that all foreign Princes
shall be forever excluded.
“ The lons or grandsons of a King cannot be
elected immediately after the death of their father
or grandfather, but there must be an interval of
at least two reigns before they can be eligible.
111. " The government of Poland shall be for
ever republican, free, and independent. The true
principle of this government consisting in the ftri&
execution of the laws, and in the maintenance of
the balance of the powers ofthe three orders, viz.
of the King, the Senate, and the Equestrian or
der, a permanent council (hall, be established, which
shall be veiled with the fulleft executive powers,
and to which rhe Equestrian order, hitherto ex
cluded from all state employments during the in
tervals of the diets shall be admitted, as will be
more fu^y explained in the arrangements hereafter
to be made in concert with the three Ministers.
“ The said permanent council, uniting in the
three orders ofthe State all authority, shall, under
the pr fidence of the King, have the distribution
of all employments and graces."
Stockholm, Sept. 28. Che Dysentery rages with
great violence in some provinces of this kingdom.
In the difhria of Wingaker, consisting of 7000 fouls,
122 have died of this disorder in less than three
months.
Naples, Sept. 28. Their Sicilian Majesties re
turned from the island ofProcita on Saturday last
in the afternoon, remained here that night, and
removed early the next day to Portici. The day
of their Maßfties return to this city an account
was brought from Sicilyof a revolution at Palermo,
the people having been discontented at the high
price of provisions, (fomeeffential articles of which,
at times, were totally wanting) owing to monopo
lizers, one of whom had laden two ffiips with
cheese for Naples, which produced a great scarci
ty ofthat necessary article at Palermo; these ships,
however, were flopped just without the harbour,
and the r cargoes fold at the market price, to the
people, by order of the Praetor Prince Caffaro,
who was fooß after seized with the ftrangury, and
died the 20th instant. This nobleman having
been attended during his illhefs by the Viceroy's
(the Marquifs de Fogliani's) surgeon, a suspicion
arose amongst the rioters, that the Viceroy wished
his death; whereupon they proceeded to the
number of about thirty thousand, to the Vice
roy's palace, where the Prince Pietra Persia, son
of the Prince oßßuttera, a young Sicilian Noble
man, about 20 years of age, happened to be with
the Viceroy. This young Nobleman feeing them
enter the apartment, resolutely asked what they
would have? and, upon being answered, the life
of the Viceroy, and finding they proceeded to ads
of violence, threw his arms round the Viceroy,
and in a firm tone demanded, in the name of his
family, that they should forbear, faying, spare the
life of this innocent old man, or firft take mine.
This spirited conduct checked their fury, and they
agreed to spare the Viceroy's life on his account,
but infixed that be should instantly quit the king
dom; upon which the Prince attended him to the
water-fide, where a Genoefe vessel was prepared to
receive him. Three of the monopolizers goods,
furniture, plate, &c. Were thrown into the fire,
and the rioters having deteded one of their num
ber ferreting some of their effects, immediately
put him to death, which was the only life loft du
ring the tumult. After this the rioters proclaim
ed the Archbishop for their Viceroy
Dre/den; Oft. 4. Letters from Moldavia advise,
that the Austrians have taken possession of the
caflle of Choczim, where there were 400 Ruffians.
They add, that the conclusion of the peace be
tween the two belligerent powers is still at a great
distance.
Warsaw, OR. 6. According to several letters
which arrived here by yesterday's poll, the Ge
nerals Soltikow and Suwarrow, who had passed
the Danube, haverepaffed that river after having
gained some advantages over the Turks. These
letters, which do not contain any particulars re
lative to the expedition of General Soltikow, give
an account that General Suwarrow hath entirely
defeated a body of 11,000 Turks, taken two Ba
fhaws prisoners, and carried off many trophies.
Rome, OR. C. We learn from Valtellina, that
after the Pope's brief for the extinction of the So
ciety of Jesuits had been read there, the people,
notwithstanding the Pope's order, had the impu
dence to plunder the hordes ofthe Jesuits; which
put theecclefiafticks in fear of their lives, and obli
ged them to fly d
from the Danube, 0R.6. Field Marshal Count
Rotiianzow remains dill in his old quarters, on
the banks of the Danube, where he experts by
the 16th inff. to receive a reinforcement of 15000
men from Poland. It is asserted, that he has or-
ders to oafs the Danube when the above body has
joined him. We have no confirmation of 40,000
Prullians being to march into Poland.
Berlin, OR. 9. The last letters from Warsaw
give us to understand, that peace is not far from
being concluded between Russia and the Porte.
LONDON, ^. 18.
His Majesty fat out from Kew on Saturday
morning last, to visit his Royal dock-yard at Dept
ford, where he arrived at half after nine o'clock,
and was met by the firft Lord of the Admiralty,
and the Comptroller and Surveyor of the navy.
His Majesty employed four hours in viewing the
several works carrying on which heexamined with
particular attention, and expressed the greatest
iatisfadion thereat.
In the course of the last season the East-India
Company had twenty-five fail of ffiips arrived
from their different settlements.
OR. 21. Itis a fad as curious as it is extraor
dinary, that our American colonists begin alrea
dy to look' forward to an sera, which they think
will be signalized by an emancipation from the
tyranny of Britain. The narrow policy and the
confufed government of the mother country, in
conjudion with the tide of luxury which is hastily
overwhelming every rank of the nation, will be
fufficient to sweep the British government to its
dissolution, at least enervate it so greatly that re
sistance will be in vain. On the contrary, every
thing in America is tending to its aggrandifement;
and (as if fate was resolved to hasten the existence
of this wretched country to a period) the High
landers, the only people in Europe who are born
soldiers, are forfaking it to populate and cultivate
the rival country. It is not alledged that it is
possible this can happen immediately; but it is im
possible that it should not happen after the lapse
of some years.
A correspondent fays, “ I remember to have
heard it prophesied, that this nation before the
year 1778 would be the richest in the universe ;
for before that time the poor would be all starved
to death; and when I refled that bread and strong
beer are necessary for the fuppoft of the lower
class of people, and that combinations are every
where forming to deprive them of both, (or which
is the fame, put it out of their power to purchase)
I tremble for the consequence, and can fee no
means left to defeat this dreadful prophecy, ex
cept in the wisdom and integrity of a new Parlia
ment."
On Friday last arrived in the river from Que
bec, the Active, Frampton, with a cargo of wheat,
being the firft vessel that ever came from that port
with grain.
Extract of a letter from the Hague, OR. :6.
“ Sir Joseph Yorke, Ambassador from Great-
Britain, having presented a memorial to the States
General, requeftingthem to appoint proper persons
to fettle a dispute which has arisen between the
English Royal African Company, and our Weft-
India Company, concerning the trade in that part
of the world, their High Mightinesses have ap
pointed two gentlemen, who are accordingly gone
to England on that business.”
Great quantities of gold coin are now fending
to the American colonies, on which account an
additional furnace has been erected in the Mint
office at the Tower, where three furnaces are
now at work, in each of which eight hundred
ounces of gold are melted every day.
Eighty thousand new guineas have been issued
from the mint, since the frefh coinage has taken
place, and the like quantity will be delivered
weekly, till the whole of the light guineas receiv
ed at the bank ate re-coined.
Extract of a letter from Dantzick, OR. 21.
“ This once independent and flourifhing city,
is now in a state of the most miserable distress.
The age of liberty has passed away, and that of
the most violent arbitrary power has succeeded.
The insolent violence and inhumanity of the offi
cers of a certain power, in every department, is
beyond description. A few people having gathered
near the Custom-House yesterday, to prevent the
punishing an inhabitant for fomefmall crime, were
fired amongst by a party of Prussian soldiers, when
four were killed, and many severely wounded."
A correspondent fays, “ An attempt by poison
has been lately made on the life of his holiness
the Pope, by one of his domestics, which was
providentially prevented."
Advices from Holland mention, an engagement
near Malta, between some French and Ruffian
ffiips of force, but that the particulars are not yet
known.
OR. 22. A commission is said to be preparing to
appoint General Keppel commander in chief of his
Majesty's forces in Ireland.
OR. 23. A letter from Germany mentions, that
the King of Prussia has determined on taking away
the county of Diepholt from the principality of
Ofnaburgh, and threatens the like to Ravensburg.
They write from Paris, that there had been
flrong debates in an assembly of the Sorbonne,
the beginning of this month, with respect to the
bull for the extinction of the jefuits.—Some of
the doctors declared the bull to be dictated from
worldly policy, to which his holiness ought not
to have given his consent. A Bishop, distinguish
ed by the ftri&nefs of his principles, has printed
a pastoral letter against the above bull, but the
King has forbad its publication.
OR. 25. Letters from Rome advise, that the
reason for the revolt ofthe people at Palermo, was
on account ofthe Viceroy's granting permission for
exporting grain and oil, to the fame Genoefe, who
in 1764, during a great dearth of provisions, had
amassed no less a sum than half a milion of crowns
by his monopolizing the necessaries of life.
OR. 26. It was yesterday reported at St.
James's, that his Majesty had sent a congratulato
ry letter to his holiness the Pope, for hi, spirited
conduct in suppressing the Jesuits.
We are allured by a person who pretends to
speak from the most authentic information, that
nothing has prevented the resignation of Lord
North, since his difference with the friends of the
late Duke of Bedford in March last, relative to
India affairs, but waiting to fix on a proper period
to succeed him. J —n was proposed, but was
rejected in the closet.
A snow packet from La Vera Cruz to Cadiz,
brings a remarkable article of intelligence, that a
large body of native Mexicans, joined with some
Creole Spaniards, have revolted and made them
selves masters of Merida in Mexico.
By several recent dispatches from Paris, we
learn that something bordering upon a revolution
has been attempted at Versailles; and the Courts
of Vienna, Madrid, and Turin, were at the bot
tom of it. The objects of this combination, or
conspiracy, were two ; that is, either to have
forced the King of France instantly to declare war
against Great-Britain, or, in case of refufal, to
have seized his person. The dispatches actually
mention, that the Duke de Broglio, Count de
Guignes, and two other Noblemen, had in effect
so far got the French King into their poffeflion,
that the Duke de Broglio absolutely told his Ma
jesty, that he would go to Turin as Ambassador
extraordinary, and that the Count de Guignes
must and should depart that very instant for the
Court of Great-Britain. Happily for the King,
the Duke d'Aguillon, who had previously intimated
to his Majesty the general outlines of his conspi
racy, had obtained a letter de cachet a few mi
nutes before these bold demands upon the King
were made by the Duke de Broglio; when the
King feeing the necessity of seeming to give way
to the Duke de Broglio, pretended to yield him
felf up entirely to him. The Duke de Broglio,
overjoyed with this conquest, was going from the
King's apartments; but to his great astonishment
was presented with the letter de cachet in less than
a minute de par le Roy. The denouncement of
this plot seems to account for Lord Stormont's
long absence from the Court of Versailles; for
had it succeeded, and had Lord Stormont been
there on the spot, it is far from being improbable
but his person, or at least his papers, would have
been seized."
Extraß of a letter from Worcester.
" On Tuesday last the following gentlemen
were nominated at the town Hall, to succeed the
late Mr. Crabb Boulton in Parliament, viz. Mr.
Kelly, Mr. Withers, and Mr. Rous. The num
bers were almost twenty to one in favour of Mr.
Kelly; the other Candidates being very much
biffed, while he was carried in triumph through
the city, bv the freemen, who filled the air with
Liberty, Trade, and Kelly for ever.
A letter received last Friday from Bruges, by
a gentleman at the weft end of the town, allures
us, that on the night preceding the date of the
letter at ten o'clock, all the superiors of the En
glish College of Jesuits in that town, were suddenly
expelled and turned into the street, to the great
furprize and amazement not only of themselves,
but of the whole town. The students, or young
Jesuits, were fuffered to remain—but they relented
the inhuman treatment of their superiors so much,
that they tore and destroyed almost all the windows,
rooms, and furniture, and afterwards deferred the
College, to take their fate along with their supe
riors.
Dublin, Nov. 1. The Shepherdess, Wright,
from Baltimore in Maryland, with tobacco, flax
feed, rice, and lumber, for this port, was overfet
in a gale of wind off Ufhant, on the French coast,
and totally loft the 9th instant. The Captain and
crew were taken up by a Weft-Indiaman from
Martinico, and carried next day into Nantz.
CHARLES-TOWN, (S. Carolina) Dec. 6.
Last Wednesday evening came in over the bar,
and the next morning anchored before the town,
the fliip London, Alexander Curling, master, from
London, with no less than tivo hundred and fifty
feven CHESTS OF TEA on board, which
were (hipped by the East-India Company in Lon
don, and consigned to Roger Smith, Esq; and
Messrs. Leger and Greenwood, merchants here,
to be by them received and disposed of in this
province, after the payment ofaduty of three pence
sterling a pound, imposed (in the year 1767) by
the very fame aR of parliament of Great-Britain,
which also laid the (since repealed) duties on pa
per, paints and glass, for the expref purpose of rai
fng a revenue in America, WITHOUT OUR
CON SENT, and which duty on Tea was, by
the Ministry, expressly declared to be retained,
not for the fake of the revenue it might produce,
but merely to eftablilh a precedent, to confirm the
power assumed by the fame parliament, in the decla
ratory aR, to pass laws, BINDING UPON
1 HE COLONIES in all cases what
soever—which, if admitted in America, will be
acknowledging an equal power to raise hearth-mo
ney on, and to tax the colonists for even the light of
heaven —and render representatives oftheir choice
merely nominal.
So great a quantity of Tea arriving at once,
under luch circumstances, justly gave an universal
alarm. For, though the importations of a few
chests, from time to time, in the several London
ships, had been overlooked (not being fufpeded)
thole who thought it would be criminal tamely to
give up any ofour essential rights as Britifli fubje&s,
and involve our poflerity in a state little better than
slavery, began to look about them, and to think
it high time to contend, legally, and to dispute the
assumed power.
In these circumstances, hand bills were distri
buted on Thursday, and advertisements stuck up
at all the usual and most publick places, inviting
all the inhabitants, without exception, particular
ly the landholders, to assemble in the Great-Hall
over the Exchange, at 3 o'clock on Friday after
noon, as well with a view to prevent any rash or
violent proceedings, as to take the sense of the
people so colleded, what would be absolutely ne
cessary to be done in the present case.
The inhabitants accordingly met on Friday—
and a very worthy and honourable gentleman,
having been unanimously requested to take the chair,
was placed therein.
After some time spent in calm deliberation, it
appeared to be the sense of the people, that the
gentfemeh i^ trade ffiould be requeued to enter
immediately into a written agreement, not to im
port any more Teas, that would pay duties, laid for
the unconstitutional purpofc of raijing a re
venue upon us, without our CONSENT —which
sense being declared by Mr. Chairman, the form
of a proper agreement was called for, approved
of, and signed, by several of the gentlemen pre
sent, and runs in the following express words,
viz.
ff E the underwritten, do hereby agree, not to im
port either direffly or indircßly, any Teas that
twill pay the present duty, laid by an aR ofthe Bri
tish parliament, for the purpose of raif ng a revenue
in America.
It was next proposed and agreed to, that the
gentlemen to whom the East-India Company's
Tea had been consigned, should be desired to at
tend; and that Mr. Chairman should acquaint
them, that the receiving the said Tea, fubjeß to a
duty which they apprehend to be unconstitution
ally laid, would be exceedingly difapreeable to their
fellow-citizens, and the body of inhabitants of this
province; and that therefore it was requested, they
would not accept the said commifon, Lut return the
Tea to the proprietors thereof, in the fame bottom
that brought it.
Mr. Smith, and Messrs. Leger and Greenwood,
accordingly attended; and Mr. Chairman having
delivered what he had in charge, those gentlemen
severally shewed the regard they had for their
country, by declining to receive the Tea, as the
people had requested—and Mr. Smith added to
his lasting honour, that he had determined some
weeks before it arrived, not to have any concern in a
business, which his countrymen conceived to have so
fatal a tendency. This was followed by repeated
thanks, and loud shouts of applause.
Captain Curling, apprehending himfelfinvolvel
in some difficulties, by this determination, then
desired to be informed, how he should extricate
himfelf from them. He was answered, “ by
" keeping ail the Tea on board his vessel, and re
" turning with it to England."
A committee was then appointed to wait, the
next day, upon such gentlemen in trade, and other
importers, as were not present, with the agree
ment already signed by several, not to import any
more Teas, fubjeß to the aforefaid duty, in order
that they might add their names: And the com
mittee were, Capt. Gadsden, Col. Pinckney,
Thomas Ferguson, Charles Cotefworth Pinckney,
Efqrs. and Mr. Daniel Cannon. Then the meet
ing was dissolved, after unfeigned thanks had been
returned to the Chairman, c<c.
On Saturday the said Committee diligently and
faithfully performed what was requested of them:
And we have the pleasure to inform the public,
that upwards of 50 refpe&able names were that
day fubferibed to the agreement. Some gentlemen
were absent, others desired a little time to consi
der of the matter ; they will both have an oppor
tunity to fubferibe their names, as soon as it is
determined in whose hands the agreement shall be
lodged.
In the mean time, the principal planters and
landholders have thought it proper to enter into
another agreement, which is signing very fail, and,
we are told, runs in these words, viz.
hN E ? the undersigned, inhabitants of this province,
being now fully convinced, that we have vainly
flattered ourselves, with hopes of the repeal of an ah
of parliament of Great-Britain, passed in the year
1767, impofng a duty on Teas imported from thence,
for the purpose of raising a revenue upon us, in
America, without our consent, D 0 hereby solemnly
promise and agree, each for him or herfelf, that we
will not, either direßly or indireßly, import, buy or
fell, or any way encourage or countenance the im
portation, buying or fe ling, any Teas that will pay
the aforefaid duty : And that we will not purchase
any goods of any person or persons whenever, that
fall hereafter import, buy or fell, any such Teas :
And this we do, because we conceive, that the pay
ment of such duties will be acknowledging a power,
which the British Parliament hath afamed, and
which we deny them to have under our exce lent con
futation, " to tax us against our consent."
The establishing of Tea ware-houses in America,
by the ///^Company, 'tis said, is intended to pave
the way for introducing large Faßories for other
goods at all the principal ports, and then to bring
in an Honourable Board of ExclsE.
A tranfport-ffiip is put into Jamaica, with Capt.
Johnston's company of artillery on board, bound
from New-York for Pensacola. The ship is called
the Eagle.
Capt. Effes, of one of our coasters, on Wed
nesday last, conduced into Beaufort harbour, a
sloop called the Success, the master's name Batten,
out upwards of 30 days from Dominica, of and
for New-England, that had been afliore on Cape
Romain, where (lie left her anchors, and sustained
other damage.
BOSTO N, Dec.];.
The following is a copy of the RESOLVES
of the town of Marblehead, inclofed in a very
refpe&ful letter from the Commtitee of Corre
fpondenee for that town, to the Committee for the
town ofßofton.
Tit a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants
of Marblehead, qaa'ified to vote in town affairs
according to law, duly warned and legally con
vened, the 7th day of December, 1773, pursuant
to ajornment.
Deacon Stephen Phillips being Moderator.
The following Resolves were unaninloufly passed.
RESOLVED as the opinion of this town,
I. That Americans have a right to be as
free as any inhabitants ofthe earth; and to enjoy
at all times, an uninterrupted possession of their
property.
2. That a tax on Americans without their con
sent is a measure deftru&ive of their.freedom; re
fleding the highest difhonour on their resolutions
to hipport it; tending to impoverish all who sub
mit toit; and enabling to dragoon and enclave all
who receive it.