Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-09-04 00:00:00, page 2

Fro;:: tie Puttie Advertiser;
T^be PEOPLE of GREAT BRITAIN.
Friends, Countr, usen and Felow-SufeGs.
T Y N \VEAR< F 1) in the cause of liberty
ought every free man to be, and though
violence (liquid be avoided, ard popular tumults,
vet an inflexibility Ih ud be Ihewn, and a tenaci'
ous adherence to our rights in the conftrurion,
Specified as would (was it properly exerted) Ligh
ten he bale corrupt advders of deceived Majesty,
and drive them into ob curity. Have we not
seen L6rd Bute meanly fntyking out of Adini
niitratron from app ehenfions as ridiculous AS
common / Fear is the constant attendaruon wick
ed molds and therefore is the anting principle in
ail arbtra^y governments, where the mighy blaze
of horierty and virtue excites fear end apprehend
on ; nor has it been ever seen, that under a tyrant,
any virtue was fufyed to remain. The refplen
dancy o; luch mep became intolerable to the So
vereign, and was a continued reproach to the base
fyeophants or the court : For this reason all vir
tuous men were dedroyed in the triumvirate of
Augudus, Antony and Lepidus, and afterwards
b every Succeeding Emperor; as none but the
flagitious would be partakers in the emoluments
of iuch mongers : And it has been known such
have ever, boe testimony of the very virtue they
have destroyed. Thus, when Augustus catched
his grandson r rating Cicero's works, which the
yonu? Prince endeavoured to conceal, on his fee
ing wnat the youth was perilling, laid, ''Cicero
" was a g r eat man, and a mighty lover of his
“ country,' when, alate! thoe tips, whose words
had charmed every Roman, and laved so many,
and that hani which had been so powerfully ex
tended#n his country 's behalf was leen nailed to
his head, am his head fixed in the forum: A fi-
Loce mote exprelfive of the public calamities
thin the m rl linking periods of his former elo
quence ! Ami this done by the orders of this ve
ry Au/uftus, this monkey of Ingratitude.
But mod Kings htve proved the fcoutge's ofthe
human race ; and even where their inclinations
have oeen good, and it left to their own directi
on, won d have benefited Mankind, have, by the
artdices of bad men about them, been rendered
mischievous, and deservedly hated. Galba, with
every virtue necessary, was the dupe of two, the
mole abandoned, and fell a martyr to their wick
edness, and his own credulity.
It is not by private virtues, dr that denomi
nates the good man, that a good King is denned:
It is only by his care of his people, and conservan
cy of the laws ; for a very good man may be a
very bad K ng. Henry the sixth was a glaring
instance.
It is the custom now to brand the memories of
the dead to revile t e living ; and, by recrimina
tion, to shew virtue never did, nor does exiff.
This is done (1 luppofe) to take off the odium of
the reigning venality, and to render our minds
callous to the feelings which such a corruption
w^ld excite: And when they ean persuade us
thn Lord Russel and Colonel Sidney were pen
sioners to France they may fecceed. So King
William is vnifr.din a late ! iftory, in order to
Grike at the revolution, and bring about the base,
the cuifed machination. This has occasioned
every pamphlet lately published so full of Sove
reign power, so full ofc passive obedience, and so
delhuftive to the constitution ; ths has occafion
cd the defamation, or endeavoured defamation,
of fords Chatham, Camden, Duke of Richmond
and the other protesting Lords: This has excited
the clamour of the Minister and his hirelings
against Mr. E. Burke, Mr. Barre, Sir G. Savile,
and, tqole generoue patriots in the House of Com
mons who (in vain) endeavoured toobiite ate that
extreme reproach on a British Representative in
the affair of the Middlesex Election, and which
was continued on thejournals as a precedent in
fu uro when liberty will receive its last wound ;
so the fame authority which can appoint one mem
ber, could one hundred.
Countrymen, every step taken of late, either
by ministry or the iegiflature, has tended to the
advancement of prerogative, and oppreflion of the
people; though the names of things seem to be
changed, the intent is the fame, and they are
ekeing cut the lyon's skin with the fox's tail.
The ipecious name of Parliamentary Supremacy,
is adopted to falcenaie and make you believe the
opp Tion in America is an oppoficion to the peo
ple of this country, and a rebellion to the lupre
macy of parliament. Thus words are made to
convey ideas of what never existed, in order to
imbictery mr minds againlt our oppreflfed, innocent
brethren of North, -Ainerica, and under a nation
that a revenue railed in North-America would
alleviate our burdens here,man) worthy men have
come into the measure from its seeming utility :
But whoever has carefully observed the conduct
of admnitration latterly, must fee, that any al
leviaion of the enormous load is by no means the
intention of the Minuter; nay, he not only draws
his own security from his fu/pofition, that the
monied man's fears of his property in the fund's
wit prevent his resentment, but secretly hopes
tobringhis ( cheme of defpotiim to perfection from
the cnlequentialimbecility.
C an we be so blind as not to fee every part of
what is extorted from Ireland, is applied in peri
lous as infamous as frequent for services (as they
are called) to enslave then country. Should any
revenue be torn fom the Americans, it would
only add power to iniquity, and enc eale the force
of corruption.
Cm a people, such as we are, who have so great
a share of rhe legdla/ve power, be too jealous ?
Should we not be always lulpicious when it has
been the co^ffant practice of Kings to deftray the
liberties of mankind? Can we be too much on
our guard agaipft a Nobility who never loved us,
aid only from their necessities ever regarded us ?
sot could they, the oppressions of Bohemia, Mo
ravia, rod Poland would have been felt here•
whole diilipations and iniquitous modes of life
render them fit tools in the hands of a corrupt
Ministry, and the detestation of the truly virtu
ous; yet this would be nothing, were not the
representatives of the people so degenerate, so al
tered, so loft to all feelings of the rights of their
condiments, as to fandlion an infringement, de
ftruftive of bur liberties, and which may make
bat House an "House of Delegates, or Deputies,
and iur government an absolute monarchy, or
cruel aristocracy.
But as the divine mercy would have been ex
unded to the five cities deftroved by fife, had
five righteous perform ,een found, we have hopes
the iduftrious minorityin the Upper House, and
the one hundred ard.^ve in the House of Com
mons, will ward off the impending calamity on
this unhappy nation. Your's,
One or the Public,
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'CONSTANTINOPLE. May 3 .°
O^H E new corps of artillery, commanded by
ft Chevalier Tott, went through several dif
ferent manoeuvres with the cannon which were cast
under his direction. They likewise exercised with
bayonets fixed on their guns in pretence of the
Grand Vizir, the Mufti, and the Reis Effendi,
who testified their fatisfa&ion on this occasion by
presenting Chevalier Tott with a rich fur cloak.
We are affined the Chevalier is going to eftablilh
a military academy, and that he has sent to France
for the instruments he wants.
Vienna, May 24. They write from Conftanti
hople, that the Sultan, in consequence of repeated
complaints from all the provinces of his empire,
against their refpedive governors, had been oblig
ed to make use of severity; that he had ordered
Maderris Osman Bafhaw to be beheaded, whose
head was afterwards exposed several days at the
seraglio gate; that 17 Bafbaws of Three Tails
had been deposed and banished; that Achmet
Effendi Was allo disgraced; and that Sahib Gherai,
nominated Khan of Crimea, was arrived at Con
stantinople, having fled from that peninsula, on
account of a general revolution that had happened
there; and that Dewlet Gherai, newly ele&ed
Khan in his room was going to lend a solemn em
bafly to the Porte to notify that event.
,L OND O N, June 1.
If the not toasting a Ministry (fays a corres
pondent) be a proof of its being disliked, this of
all the adminif rations that ever was known, is
the most unpopular. For (continues he) who gives
Lord North, Lord Sandwich, or Lord Mansfield
as his toast ?—No man; even the friends of the
Minister are ashamed to toast him, but when cal
led upon, constantly give Lord Chatham, Lord
Camden, Sir George Saville, or some other po
pular Gentlemen.
A correspondent desires Mr. Miller to inform
bis readers, why he did not print the intelligence
from Salem in the Essex Gazette at length. He
prints only “ ungrateful T ," which may be
either Tyrant or Traitor. He is informed the firft
is the word in the American paper, but it might
have been Traitor ; for when the head of Charles
I. was cut off, the executioner holding it up to
the people, said, “ Behold the bead of a Traitor"
—to the Constitution.
A correspondent recommends it to Governor
Hrtebinfon to remember, that at the time Judas
received the thirty pieces of Silver, he was in line
spirits, and thought he Should have been greatly
benefited by the money; but the period f^zz after
followed, when guilt and remorse overtook him,
(too late to repair the injury done, and the an
guilh of his foul too great to be endured) when
he went out and banged bimfelf.
June 2. The Premier's groupe of venal scrib
blers, who would as readily dip their pens in hu
man blood as in ink, declaim against the Ameri
cans for not <r as quietly submitting to taxations
as the people of England do, when it is notori
ous that no unconfti utional or oppressive tax was
ever yet “ quietly'' Submitted to in England; wit
ness the cyder tax, ena&ed and repealed in Lord
Bute's administration.
'June 10. It was a :uftom with the Romans
after gaining any Signal vidory in defence of their
liberties, to dedicate a temple to CoNCORD. Have
not the Americans a double right to such a dedi
cation? z #
Ireland is at this time fiddled with pensions to
the amount of i2,00e1. per annum, which has been
granted to different persons who had governments
in North-America within these ten years.
Bets of two to one were made at the New-York
Coffee-House, last night, that the famous fpeech
maker, Col. G. will iofe his night cap in North-
America ; and if the Americans in their turn,
Should think of confiscating the estates of thole
who have been their avowed enemies, 'tis probable
the Col. will lose his rice plantation at Florida.
June 12. We hear that government is going to
contrast for mahogany beams for the Service of
the navy, which are to be brought hither from the
bay of Honduras at as cheap a rate as oak timber
can be purchased among ourfetoes; and it is of
greater durability.
Extraff of a lett^from the Hague, June ^.
“ Their High Mightiness have just received
some very disagreeable intelligence from the East-
Indies, or they entertain a jealousy of the deSigns
of some power againtt their fettlemenis in India,
from the preparations which are now going for
ward. Eight Ships of the line, four frigates, trans
ports, &c. are ordered to be got ready immedi
ately, on board of which there are to embank fix
regiments of foot, ,ith a train of artillery, Stores,
etc. When this armament is compleated, it is to
Sail to Batavia, there to take further orders. Va
rious are the {peculations on this measure; but
such privacy is observed refpe&iog it, that the real
intention cannot be conjectured with any certainty."
June If. A correspondent writes, that Mr.
Pitt said, that America was conquered in Germa
ny; but he now prophesies that the liberty of
Britons will be preferred in America.
Lord North is quite worn out for the want of
the fatfoo!, which his Lordfliip moved the house
for to grant him; but America Seems to threaten
his Lordfliip with a pillow instead of a footftool,
upon which he is to :ay his tyrannical head, and
to answer and repent for his past cruel and arbi
trary meals re&rfued against them.
Advice is just received from Lisbon, that Mr.
James, an English gentleman, has been appointed
Surveyor of his Majesty's dock yards in the Rio
de Janeiro.
From the above place we have likewise advice,
that his Partuguefe Majerty has ordered the Sa
laries of the English workmen io the armory to be
considerably augmented.
June 17. Yesterday were issued out at the Pay-
Office, Whitehall, 365 days pay to the General
Staff Officer, in America.—Also 365 days pay
to the Governor and Staff Officers in garrison at
Gibraltar—Likewise 365 days pay to the Gover
nor and Staff-Officers in garrison at Minorca, from
the 25th of December 1773 to the 24th pf De
cember 1774, both days inclusive.
An evening paper asserts, that several persons
of the firft distinction have come to a refolntion of
making application to his Majesty for a fufpeniion
of hostilities in America.
June 19. Since the breaking up of the Council
on Friday last, meirengers have been dispatched
from the Secretaries of State's offices, to our Mi
nisters at Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen, and
Sir Joseph York in Holland.
It is to be hoped that man will never escape pu
nishment who (at the head of a government, and,
as it were, in the chair of Majesty) Should have
said, and given it under his hand, that tb^re must
be an abridgment of English liberty !
Friday last Lord TownShend laid before his
Majesty at St. James's, plans ms all the forts and
fortifications in Ireland, lately taken, together
with their Situation and pre ent state, as th^y hav^
been transmitted here by the Lord Lieutenant,
and on Saturday a messenger was sent to Dublin
with dispatches for the Earl of Harcourt, said to
be instructions for the immediate repairing the
castles, forts, &c.
It is certain, that within this fortnight it was
concluded upon in full council at Versailles, to
reduce thelaud forces and augment the navy; their
land forces at this time confining of upwards of
eighty-thousand effective men, which 'tis said will
be reduced to fifty.
Extras of a letter from Rome, May 27.
" It is Said that on Monday next, or about that
time, the Abbot Ricci, and all the rest of the
Fx-Jefuits, will be let at liberty. It is reported,
that the Pope confulfed the Catholic Powers on
that head, declaring that he could not difeover any
thing in the pleadings held in the time of his pre
decessor against these people, which required their
perpetual imprifoqment; to which the above-men
tioned Powers answered, that it was equal to them
whether they were confined or set at liberty. It
is reported, that there are apartments fitting up in
Cardinal Torregiani's palace for Abbot Ricci, and
that the rest will occupy apartments in the house,
which they formerly occupied as religious."
CHARLESTOWN, (S. C.) test Is.
Capt. Conyers, who arrived this day from St.
Christopher, informs us, that a most extraordina
ry swell set in there from the South on the 31st of
July last ; that though attended with but little
wind, it was so very violent as to oblige twenty
nine vessels, lying in Basseterre Road, to put opt to
sea. Four vessels were loft, three of which were
from North - America. Capt. Conyers adds, that
they were in daily expe&ations of hearing of great
damage done in Guadaloupe, Dominica, Marti
nico, &c.
Extract of a letter from a mafier of a vessel at Gib
raltar, dated ul, 2d, to bis owners here.
' 'We have been under an apprehension here
for some time past of being attacked by the Spa
niards, who have a fleet of 7 fail of the line, 12
frigates, 413 transports, at Carthagena, with
33,000 troops ready to embark, and more daily
arriving from the interior provinces, they have se
veral vessels cruizing without the Streight s mouth,
and search all English vessels they meet. One put
is here whose hatches they broke open, and exa
mined a bale of goods. There are likewise 6or
8 fail of the line and several frigates at Cadiz, rea
dy to put to sea at the shortest notice, supposed to
be intended to join their grand armada, which they
give out is designed against Algiers. The English
letters are supposed to be flopped, none baring
been received these two last posts; 2nd a letter
from an English gentleman in Spain tends to con
firm our apprehensions. We have three men of
war in the Streights, the Medway of 64, Admi
ral Mann, and the Zephyr Hoop here. The Alarm
frigate is Rationed off Carthagena, to watch their
motions. There are here 7 regiments, confiding
of upwards of 3000 men, and every thing is in the
greatest readiness to give the Dons a warm recep
tion Ihould they fancy to pay us a visit."
W ATER 1' O W N, Vug. 21.
The following perfidious Advertisement Jbo'off)
early a date) we have just received, and fall
insert it verbatim, leaving it for the reader to
make bis own comment.
By the Govern 0 R.
A PROCLAMATION.
W r HEREAS notwithstanding the repeated
assurances of the Selectmen and others,
that all the inhabitants of the town of Boston
had bona fide delivered their fire arms unto the
persons appointed to receive them, though I had
advices at the fame time of the contrary, and
whereas I have since had full proof that many
are perfidious in this refpea, and have fecre ed
great numbers: I have thought fit to issue this
proclamation, to require of ^1 persons who have
yet kny^re arms in their pofleffion immediately to
lurrendcr them at the court-house, to such persons
as (hall be authorized to receive them; and here
by do declare that all persons in whose peffeiLon
any fire-arms may hereafter be found, will be
deemed enemies to his Majerty's government.
Given at Tfon, the Nineteenth day of June,
1775, in the Fifteenth year of the reign ofour
Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace
of God of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland,
King, Defender of the Fath, &'c.
By his Excellency's THOhiAS GAGE,
command, Thomas Flicker, Secretary.
GOD save the K I N G.
C A MERTDGF, ft,24.
We hear from Swanfey, that Captain Dayley
arrived there a few days ago, and reports, that
be spoke on the ceaft with a vessel bound to Phi
ladelphia, Captain Cambridge, whs left London
the 26th of June, and said that the Lord Mayor
of London, atthe head ofthe Livery, had Mailed
on the King, and demanded of him, that no more
troops Ihould be sent to America, as the kingdom
was in a defeocelels state while France and Spain
were arming and preparing for war. That the
King had promised to fend no more. That Loid
North had been stoned by the populace as he paged
the street in his coach.
WORCESTE R, Mgfo,
General Gage, we hear, has seized the donation
stores in Boftoo, and placed a strong guard over
the fame.
It is said for a certainty that the enemy have dis
mantled thepart of CaftleWilliam which commands
the harbour of Boston, and biowed up the walls.
NO RW I C H, Vuguft2l.
This mornihg arrived an express from General
Schuyler at Ticonderoga, to the Governor, which
occasioned his calling a Council, and fending off
Col. Mott, the Chief EngiPeer.
F AIRFIELD, Vuguft 29.
Last evening was married, at the feat of Thad
deus Burr, Esq; by the Rev. Mr. Elliot, The
Honorable JOHN HANCOCK, Esq;
President of the Continental Congress, to Mils
DORO IHY QU INC Y, . daughter of
Edmund Quincy, Eiq, of Boston.
N E W-Y OR K, Vuguft
On 1 uefday last the following was published in
a hand-bill through this city.
“ Sir, Oyfer Bond; 27th Vuguft,
" Your favour of the nth instant came duly to
hand, and I (hould have failed for Haerlem without
loss of time, had I not received the following im
portant intelligence from Gen. Wallington, viz.
“ Vug. 23, 1775 Yesterday I received ad
vice from Boston, that a number of transports have
failed ona second expedition, for frefh provisions.
As they may puifue the fame course, only ad
vancing farther, we think Montaug Point, or Long
Island, a very probable place of their landing ; I
have therefore thought best to give you the earli'eff
intelligence; but Ido not mean to confine your
attention or vigilance to that place ; you will
please to extend your views as far as the mifehief
may probably extend."—Thus far from the intel
ligence. I will farther inform you, that the Kmg
filher last Wednesday went up the Sound, with se
veral small cutters, reconnoitring the north fide
of the island; and Thursday there followed past
this place two top fail vessels, which I apprehend
to be transports, as they fired two signal guno
when they weEt through the Race.—l would
therefore recommend it to the Provincial Congress,
to keep a 'good guard upon Queen's county, as I
imagine their design is to get ftook from Hunting
ton, Lloyd's Neck, or Flushing ; and as we hope
to secure ail the stock upon this part ofthe inland,
you may exped the Boston fleet will proceed fur
ther up Sound.
lam, Sir, your moftubedi'^nt humble servant,
DAVID WOOSTER
“ To P.V.B. Livingston, Esq; President," &c.
We hear from Providence, that bn Tuesday the
22d inst. his Majesty's ffiips the Rose, Swan, and
Glasgow, attempted to go to Province, and got
within 8 miles of the town, when two of them
ran ashore and the other came to an anchor. Soon
after arrived a brig and a sloop inward bound
from the Wefl-lud#es, thele were immediately
chafed by tn^ men ot war s barges and 3 Cutters',
till they ran ashore at Warwick, where they'
were boarded by the man of war's men, in tight
of a great number of people who had aflemb,ed
on the Inore. Fhere were in the harbour two
arm.d Schooners fitted out by the town of Provi
dence for the protection of their trade, and were
going to convoy a fmali fleet down the river. A
(mart engagements then began and lifted three
hours and an half, during which an incessant lire
was kept up between the two Ichoonets and the
brig and sloop, which the people on board often
attempted to get off, but as often were driven
from the windlaifes. But at last they cut the
brigs cable and carried her off, with the Captain
on board, who refuted to quit her; the fioup we
le took and brought into the harbour, tho' fired
upon by the man of war as we passed them. We
had not a man killed or wounded, which ;°s fur
prizing. Upward, of 30 cannon ball were picked
up on the Gore. It isiuppofed many of the ene
my are killed. The men of war are at prefect
in Bristol harbour, where they have begun to rob
and plunder the plantation of Mr. William WtlLls.
A gentleman from Albany informs, that when
he left that place 700 of the Mohawk and Onon
daga Indians had arrived there declaring them
feives to oe our friends in the prelent contest.
They fay they are connected by marriage, and
other ways with trie Canadians, and hope to brin,
them over to our fidq, notwithstanding all Gover
nor Carlton s endeavours to the contrary.
Captain Jenkins who left (Quebec the 21st of
July infoims, that the Canadians seemed well
pleased with the procee % ofthe Colonies ; that
he understood they ha<. fed and highly ap
proved a letter sent the Continental Cun
grels. That ship bre w -$ per hun
dred, white bread 31. < %Th it
fix or seven transports n • £
for Boston, and one of r.
inhabitants uneafjr,ap & • e
garrifen in a poor fta; . n
twenty-five regulars ir. 4
taken molt of the can
batteries at St. John' d
not with him above ^ 1-
mitted 3 or 400 C^
to take up arms agair re
was only one vessel of ,„
he saw a letter fro^' ac
St. John's, to hfy<.'°- er
that he was so )
to re-take the torts^ * %<
aot had his /oathsu ..