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SPEECH of QUEEN ELIZABETH to
< , " Tilbury, under the Command
her Army encamped at U 88 when
of the Earl of Leicester, in
r jwith an Invalion from
these Kingdoms were ihied©xa
Spain.
'’"p'/uadei by fomethatare careful
XX, P take 'heed how we commit our
of our faety tot@j a( _
fe ves to armed multitudes, tor „faithful
fare you I do not delire to live to distrust my faithful and
''Ve^t^a^'fear : I have always so behaved myfelf, that
under God, I have placed my chfefeft strength and fafe
§ uard in the loyal hearts and good wdl of my fubjefts; and
Therefore I am come among you, ayou fee, at this tiff,
not for recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the
xnidft and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you
, I -to lay down for my God and for my kingdoms,
and for my people, my honour and my blood, even tn the
°I know I have the body but ofa weak and feeble woman,
but I have'the heart and flomach of a King, and ofa
King ofEngland too, and think it foul scorn, that Par
ma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe, fliould dare to in
vade the borders of my realm ; to which rather than any
difhonour shall grow by me, I myfelf will take up arms ;
I myfelf will be your General, Judge and Rewarder of
every one of your virtues in the field.
I know already, for ytur forwardnefs, you have de
served rewards and crowns; and we do assure yen, in tue
word ofa Prince, they shall be duly paid you. In the mean
time, my Lieutenant-General shall be in my Head, than
whom never Prince commanded a more noble, a more
worthy fubjed ; not doubting but by your obedience to
my General, bv your concord in the camp, and your va
lour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory
over those enemies of my God, of my kingdoms, and of
my people."
To the Printer of the London Evening Post.
SIR,
BE so kind to allow the speech I herewith inclofe you,
a place in your paper, as it it a very flrong proof of
that noble tpirit, by which, I hope, every Briton will be
actuated in this time of public danger. Capt. Walker is
an apothecary, 68 years of age, and brother in law to
Sir Sam. Hood, Cbmmiffioner at Portf/houth Dock, and
Capt. Alexander Hood, late of the Robust man of war.
The Exonigns upon finding the French fleet were off
Plymouth and 1200 prisoners were to be sent from
thence to this place, where there were no troops to guard
them, voluntarily assembled upon Southern Hay, where
they balloted firfl for the number of them company, and
then each company chose their officers, to~g*ard the pri
soners during their flay.
Mr. Walker was unanimously elected to the command
of the company he was ballotted into. I allure you,
Mr. Miller, the ardour shewn upon thisoc.afion was migh
ty pleading.
Men of all rank flood forward ; even Dr. Parr, a phy
sician of the firfl eminence, shouldered his brown musket
upon theoccafion. May the fame spirit continue to exert
itfelf whenever those perfidious foes shall set foot in this
country.
Exeter, 15th Sept. 1779.
Captain Walker's SPEECH to his new raised
company of volunteers, on their firft appearing under
arms on Southern Hay-Green, Exeter.
Friends, Countrymen, and Fellow Citizens,
IC ALL upon you, by these endearing and animating
expressions, to join with meagainft the common ene
my, at a time when they not only hover about our coasts,
and, as it were, flick to our skirts; but twelve hundred of
them have actually entered into our bowels, and taken up
their residence among us. If I, gentlemen, who have
had the honor of toeing your Mayor, and am now an Al
derman and Justice of Pe.Ke, can quit the fopha of indul
gence, surely you, gentlemen, who have not yet arrived
to those dignities, may with less reluctance forego your en
joyments, and take up arms with me in defence of our
lives and wives, our libery and property.
My Father, gentlemen, published a book, intitled,
The (offerings of the Clergy, in r imesof Popery and per
fecutiou : God forbid it should fall to my lot to publish
the fufFerings of the Laity ! I would rather avert them.
Gentlemen, I feel myfelf brave; may the like sensation
ruth from me to you, as an electrical stroke, and steel your
hearts with British valour.
I could fay many more things, gentlemen, of equal
weight, if the time would perrnt; but I trust what I have
already said, will fuffice with men of your prowess, head
ed by such officers as have now the honor to hand before
you.
' HILA DELPHI A, January it.
Ae hear that on Thursday afternoon last, as the ship
Revolution, Capt. M'Norton, was lying atanchor in the
Delaware, a large cake of ice Came across her cable, which
cut the fame; upon which the was ran alhore on Dun-cks's
° ar ' °?pofite Bombay Hook- The fhi, and car
^°"'" ° e Lv-d with the loss of her forerna' cut, and
mammaft carried away.
We are informed by ^gentleman, who arrived in this
'^ Harbour yesterday afternoon, that the
Brmfh fr.p of war the Roebuckfeun,, a frigate of 28
guns, a small armed vessel and a transport, have been drove
amove near that place.
To the Printer of the London Evening Post.
SIR
BY adverting the public as follows, it is hoped you
may serve the hate and oblige a fall friend.
TRUTH.
I. O S T.
DURING the diminishing reign of George the Third,
amidst abounding wealth, or swept away by a torrent of
diffipatiou, the manly and free spirit of the Eoglifh people,
principally owing to their indolence, together with the vil
lainy of their servants.
Whoever can recover it, will reap the vast fatisfaaion
of laving a kingdom, and be had in everlasting remem
brance.
from the LONDON GAZETTEER.
Huzza ! Huzza! Huzza !
On? hat,
One watch-coat,
One b^dy coat,
Four vests, on^ for winter and three for summer,
Four pair of breeches, two for winter and two for
summer,
Four shirt%
Four stocks,
Six pir 0 flockings, three pair worsted and three
thread,
Four pair of shoes.
For which arrives of eloathing the officers shall pay,
on receipt thereof, one half more than the prices at
which the fame were currently fold before the com
mencemcat of hoftilitier in April, 1775: and for this
egd the rn chafing Agents employed on Continental
account shall transmit to th: Clothier General, with the
cloathing they shall refpeaiveiy purchase, the prices
marked thereon at iterates zforefaid, and also corred:
invoices of the fame, and copies of such rates and in
voices, to the Board of War. And all eloathing pur
chased on Continental account by the refpe&ive States
flrail be valued, marked and invoiced in like manner,
and copies of such invoices and rates also transmitted to
the Board of War and the Clothier General : the eloath
ing so purchased shall be distributed to and among the
Sub or State Clothiers, to be issued by them to the Re
gimental Clothiers, and by the latter to the officers of
the regiments and corps; and the laid regimental clothi
ers shall receive from the officers, oh delivery of the
clothing, the pric S thereof so fixed ; and they sh 11 e
very three months fettle the.r accounts of monies receiv
ed for loathing with the Audit rs of the Army in which
they (hill serve, and pay the monies whih in such settle
ments fit dl be found charge able to them or in their hands
to the Paymaster-General or Deputy Pay master-General
of the army or detachment in which luch Regimental
Clothier shall serve. And the said Paymaster General or
D-puty-Paymafter-Generrl shall make returns of the a
meunt of all fu:h monies so received to the Board of
Tr^alury, that tie said Paymaster General 01 Deputy-
Prymafter Gen rd ma, be duly charged with the fame.
The Auditors making such fetthmems with the Regi
mental Clorh:era shall transmit to the Paymaster or De
puty-Faymafter-General abftra&s of such fadements,
Specifying the balances due from the Regimental Cloth
iers refpedively, that in cases of negle& they may be
duly called on for payment of the fame: Copies of such
abftra&s shall allo be transmitted to the Board of Trea
fu,. Excepting from this rule of distribution all ft .ff.
t fficers not taken from the line, who are to receive their
c oathing immediately from the Clothier-General ; or,
if attached to the corps of or refilling i n any State at a
distance from the Cl tuier-Generai's Acre, from the Sub-
Clothier of such State ; paying for the fame at the rater
Wilmington, in the Delaware State, Dec. 30, 1779°
The General Assembly of this State have appointed the
Honorable John Dickinson, Nicholas Vandyke and Tho
mas M'Kean, Esquires, Delegates to represent this State
in Congress for the ensuing year—And have also appoint
ed the said Delegates, and George Latimer, Esquire, or
any two of them, Commissioners on the part of this State,
to meet Commissioners from the several States, from New-
Hanipihire to Virginia, inclusive, in Convention at Phi
ladelphia the firfl Wednesday in January, for effecting a
general limitation of prices.
And yesterday they adjourned to the 2Zd of May next,
having passed the following public laws :
1. An Aft for railing One Million Three Hundred
and SixtyThoufand Dollars in the Delaware State between
the firft day of February and the firft day of October in
the year One thousand (even hundred and eighty, and for
other purposes therein mentioned,
2. An Aft to prevent Foreftaliing and Engrossing, and
for other purposes therein mentioned.
3. An Aft for the appointment of Trustees of the Ge
neral Loan Offices in the refpedive counties of this State;
4. A Supplement to an Aft, intituled, " An Aft for
the more easy and speedy recovery of small Debts."
5. An A& to prevent the exportation of Provisions
from this State beyond the feastor a limited time.
6 A Supplement to an Aft, intituled, “An Afi for
establishing a Militia within this State."
7. An Aft for the Amendment of the Laws for efla
blifliing the salaries and allowances to the President, Jus
tices of the Supreme Court, and Justices of the Courts of
Common Pleas, and Orphans Courts of this State, the
fees of the other Civil Officers therein after mentioned,
and the allowances to Jurors and Witnesses.
EXTRACT from the Journals of Congress.
THURSDAY, November 25, 1779.
WH ER E AS C>ng:efi, by sundry resolutions,
h^ve provided that eloathing be furnifhed to of
ficers of the line and others at prices proportioned to
their pay; but no enumeration of the articles intended
to be comprehended in a suit of cloaths having been
made, or any rules explicitly laid down for the delivery
of or pa, ment for the fame ;
Resolved, That the following articles be delivered as
a suit of cloaths for the current and every succeeding
year of their service, to the officers of the line and ftaff
intitled by any resolutions of Congress to receive the
fame, viz.
At a Meeting of the American Philosophical
Society, on Friday the 7th instant, at the University m
this city, the eleftion for the choice of officers for this
year, was held agreeable to their laws, when the following
Gentlemen were chosen, viz.
DoHor Benjamin Franklin, President.
Doctor Thomas Bond, Sen. 1 \.
David Rittenhoufe, and / Vice Prefi Jents
James Wilson, Efquires,>
DoHor William Smith,\
The , Secretaries.
Owen Biddle, Esquire, and(
The Rev. Mp .William White, J
Lewis Nicola, Esquire,
Doctor Samuel Duffield, and > Curators.
Doctor Benjamin Rush, 3
John Lukens, Esquire, Treasurer.
HE MEMBERS of the LIBRARY
COMPANY cf Philadelphia, met pursuant
to advertisement on the 6th infant, net being compe
tent to the passing of a Law with the concurrence of the
DireaorS present, adjourned the business of the meeting
to Tuesday the fit fl day cf February next, at which day
it is hoped every Member desirous of keeping the Li
brary open will attend in person or by proxy at the
Library Apartments, to determine on the Law mention
ed in the said ad vertifement. Unless immediate steps be
taken, this public and beneficial Initiation, which has
hitherto done honor to its founders and supporters will
become totally ufclefs.
Javary 10. ANDREW ROBESON, Sec.
WHITE SWANSKINS;
Also an assortment of
Irish Linens, Chintzes, Blue Callicoes,
Ofnabrugs, &c.
TO BE ^OLD BY
COXE, FURMAN AND COXE,
In Water street, below Pine street, Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, January 10.
A RO B BE R Y.
ON Saturday evening the 8 h inst. between the
hours of Seven an^Ten o'clock, the fubferibe's
store, next door below Do&or Chovett's, in Water-
Krert, between Market and Arch streets, was opened
with a falfe key, and the following Goods stolen; viz.
one sugar loaf covered over with canvas, marked GS,
weight about 41 lb. one bag of goose foot, No. 1, ap
pears to have been mixed ; one bag of p ; geon (hot, No.
3, each bag containing about 40 lb. fifteen and a half
pounds of black pepper, and about four and a half
pounds of tea. Whoever will apprehend the thief or
thieves so that they may be brought to juftire and the
Goods recovered, shall receive ONE HUNDRED
D.O LLARS reward, or in proportion for any part
of them.
WILLIAM M'DERMOTT.
Philadelphia, January 8.
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED AWAY about two weeks ago, a
dark brown C O W, having her right horn broke
cff. Whoever has taken up said Cow and will bring her
to the fubferiber, shall have the above reward.
HENRY KEPPELE, Jun.
WAS taken up by the fubferiber, living in
Oxford Towurtio, Philadelphia Counit, about
the seventeenth of April, 1778, near the 7 mile stone cn
the Bristol Road, a black MARE, with a star in her
forehead, about fourteen hands hi. h, tn years old.
The owner is desired to come, prove propertv, pay
charges and take her away, or fire mil be fold Accord
ing to law, by
NICHOLAS STAUTTS.
aforefaid. And all monies so received by the Clothier*
General or such Suo or State-Ciethiers, shall be placed
to the credit of the United States, and accounts tie eaf
duly tranfm tted to the Board of Treasury. The Clothi
ier-General to be charged in the feitkment of his con
tingent account with the monies so received, and the
Sub or State- Clothiers to be accountable for ard pay the
monies received by them to the order of the Executive of
the State, appointing them refp r &ivel, • an d the State
to be charged in its cloathm- Account with the amount
of such monies. Excepting alio all ft ff effiers who
receive comm flions on their expenditures of public mo
nies, who are not to receive any cicathing provided at
Continental expencc>
Taat all eloathing ifttfed to non -commi toned officers
and soldiers, inlifted artificers and waggoners, beyond
that allowed to them as a bounty, shall also be valued and
paid for at the rate before-mentioned ; but no non-rom
miffi ned officer, soldier, waggoner or artificer, shall be
i. titled to purchase in any one year out of the public
store any other additional articles than those of hats hofc
shirts and shoes, and not more of these than are absolute
ly neceffiry, and net exceeding the number of the like
articles allowed as their bounty cloathin.
That all the eloathing before mentioned for officers
in the line and soldiers, shall be issued on returns certi
fied by the Commanding Officer of the corps to which
they belong; all eloathing to ftaff officers on the certifi
cates of their Principal with the army or in the diftrift
within which they shall serve; to artificers on the certi
ficate of the Commanding Officer of their corps; and to
waggoners on the certificate of the Qgarrermaftcr Gene
ral, one of the Assistant Quartermasters General, or of
the Deputy Quartermaster General employing them, or
0! the Waggonmafter General or Deputy Waggon
mailer General under whom they serve.
That no ftaff officer, artificer or waggoner, not being
engaged for at lead one year, shall receive Loathing;
and if any such officer, artificer or waggoner, being en
gaged for one year or more, after receipt of such eloath
ing, shall quit the service before the expiration of the
term for whi h he or they are or thill be engaged, he or
they shall forfeit and pay the full value of such Loath
ing, and be fubje& to all other penalties and inconve
niences attending bis or their breach of contract or de
ftrtion.
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The FIRST VOLUME of the
UNITED STATES
MAGAZIN E,
Is just puHifhed and to be fold by
FRANCIS BAILEY, Printer,
In Market street, three doors weft of the Poft-Office•
Who has for SALE,
A LARGE quantity of Writing Paper, Keyfer's
'' Pills, &c.