Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-10-15 00:00:00, page 3

cffming a reward of three pounds for taking up every de,
; . r, ar the fame time affming the militia diet it w d s
, t theirintention to keep them out longer than fix weeks,
lawing Girndhed their quota of the flying camp.Tuis Rep,
ft neceffoy ^r the Efety or every militia-man who had
th? virtue to stay, and which would affect no man who
would with to preserve toe name of a ioidim, is by artful
enemies reptfeured as treating the All ,ciatois like beads
—,O prevent and difcour^ged^fertiou is with fhema,mark
ui opprobrium; and chuse?e«y law which iutyofes bad
men to ex;ft ^ to be comidereo as an mfult on the good.
Can continence, be placid m men who wearing a military
drcis are offended with a panic boy for offering a re
ward for apprehending deferferr? Are they fodders, or
do they mean to do toe duty cf tokber., who are dida
ti^fied with this f VZ.il any man be offended ^ offering a
reward for apprehending highwaymen, but he who is one
himfelf or his a violent propensity to became itch? A
man who withes to hand ins ground in the day of danger
will ever be lolicitoua to have every obstacle laid in the
tf wty of deierters, that he may be sure of support in toe
hour of necessity. Cana y tiring account for such mens
behaviour, butthat they wilhed to fee us defeated, while
they were willing to appear hearty friends to ocr canfe.
We mean not this as a general reflection — We know ma
rc. things happened to alarm the jealoufus and excite the
refintments of the bell hearted of the militia, and that
in the heat of passion it was e^fy to inflame them yet more
—they are little If in any degree culpable. The men who
took the occ lion of this ft,de of their grinds to sow the
feeds of devoid and confusion, and who went c etly from
battalion to battalion and from company to company, are
the men now in our eye; and we are persuaded that had
no such lurking enemies been in the militia, nothing'of
the kind would ever have happened.
Lord Howe is near at hand, and your enemies'know,
that if ever they do any thing to ingratiate them Ives
with Tin and secure their estates, it must be at this time
They know nothing can be effected by a fair and open op
position; but by dividing and dihra&ing you, they may
poffihly succeed—they arc therefore intent on this only;
because that debility and weakness must bethe inevitable •
consequence—A hjute divided agrinft itfelf cannot hand,
and therefore if you litten to their artful fugg ftions and
retrain disunited, you must fall. To the officer they
speak difrefpe&fuily of the private, and to the private
they confute the conduct of bis officer—To one they con
demn this part of the proceedings of the Convention and
to another that, according as they find it suits the perlon
they converse with. What can be the reason of all this?
Why by the one they octroy the affacia rion, and by the
other they defeat the endeavour to dhblifh a government
under your authority, and by both they ruin the general
cause, defeat the measures of the Continent, prepare the
way for a fu mission to the ' nemy, and offer up every
friend to his country and Aflociator to the gallows, and
their estates to confiscation ; and yet to men who harbour
such designs in theft hearts against us, have we the infa
tuation to listen. With regard to the Resolves and Or
dinances of the Convention, they are all temporary and
intended as such : Magistrates to preserve the peace of the
society until the government could fairly take place, &c.
If any one will shew candidly and fairly that the present
fate of our affairs does not justify every ordinance passed
and render it necessary, they will do a kindness to the
Convention in so doing; for they mean to defend no
measure which the state of the times will not.
The Convention, with the best motives and from the
most urgent necessity, hepped so far out of the direct line
of their appointment, it it can be thought out of thatline,
to take every meafiue necessary to secure success which
prudence and a love of the cause and the people could in-•
spire; and they have in this address let an example of
that responsibility which theythink due from representa
tives to their constituents. Having received power from
you, they employed it solely in your service, and framed
a government, wherein the supreme power is lodged in
yourown hands, and only so far delegated as to a& solely
foryourinters ft—This has railed a terrible outcry amor,
those who either have heretofore or now wish to lulb
but not by your authority. Thus having fin fli d their
work in the heft manner in their power, they difflived
therafslves, leaving the further success of your measures
and Constitution to the mercy of him who loves mankind
and gives the enj >yment of Liberty to those only who are
willing to defend it, and ycur own virtue, on which you
molt ultimately depend for success, If you will free your
selves from tb u tyrannical yoke you have heretofore groan•
ed under, and the ariftocratical cue which is at this time
preparing for you.
[The P# inters o, th# englifo and German news papers in
this State are requeued to infers the above in their papers.]
P H I LADELP fTTa, October i.
Extras ofa letter from Cape Nikola Mo'e, dated ep. lß.
" I he French here are to a man in tavor of Arn fi
Ci ilcre arc 10 000 men in this island, iooo°here,
who with ro Negrees arc busily employed in bui ding
forts, an I a French war is inevitable. A French fri°
gate arrived the^ot er day from France with orders to
the General to protea all American vessels: Api ot boat
belonging to a merchant in Philadelphia was taken the
day before yesterday anil lent to J unaica; a Frenchfn
gare of 36 guns and a Gnarda Cofa, which last hoisted
Continen at Colours were imuediatriy sent after her,
with orders to follow her into Port Royal harbour, if
they could t overtake her before, and demand her;
what will be trie con quenches time will difeover. The
French were very much exasperated at her being taken,
which was within two leagues of the land."
Extract of a letter from the camp, dated Ofleber 10.
„''/""" frigates and three tenders paffQ Mount'
" Islington the ninth ind.—lt is said an express arri
ved at Head Quarters, informing that the (hips have
got to Col. Paillip's between nine and ten miles above
us. and have taken two row grilles, a flbop and two
Schooners, or a fchconer and two Hoops, and that they
were landing feme men there.
" Lord Sterling isexebanged for Gov. Brown cf
Providence, and Matter Lovell for Major Skccne."
, The General Affemoly of the State of Mew Jetfey,
lately fitting at Princeton, was adjourned laftTuelddy
so the 13. h or November next, then to meet at Bur
lington.
^ COUNCIL of SAFETY, Pbiladffia,
Gaoler 12, 1776.
Whereas it has been represented to the Council that
feme perlons in this State, preferring their own private
emolument to the duties of humanity and the public
£'°' ,h^v e monopolized and engrohed whole cargoes or
large quantities cf S ALT, and as it is the practice of
every well regulated State, net only to difeourage, but
even to punish all monopolizers of the neceff^ies of
life, and as such evil practices at this time are pernicious
and very unjustifiable, as for the want of an established
government provision cannot be made against them, and
being desirous to give every reasonable encouragement
to the importers cf such article this Council do °
Refine, That they will allow the generous price of
Fil I TEN SHILLINGS per bushel, fur
every bushel of SALI that may be imported into
this State,' and delivered to them, uotil the fifteenth
day of November next; the fame to be fold cut to the
public in imall parcels at the firft cost, by such person
or persons as they may hereafter appoint, in order that
the necessities of the good people may be supplied at
as reasonable a rate as possible, and the rapacious prac
tices of avaricious men defeated ; it is therefore ear
neftiy recommended to said importers not to demand a
higher price than is here offered, and to make report to
tins Council of the quantities they have, or may import,
that they may be treated with for the purchase of the
lame. • Extrafl from the Minutes,
JACOB S. HOWELL, Secretary.
In C OUNCIL of SAFETY,
Phtladefbia, Odeberi^, 1776.
Revived, That the several Colonels of the Associa
tors in this State do as fcon as possible make return to
the Council of Safety of the number of ;i^s and ac<
coutrements in their refpedive battalions, that this
Board may take proper measures to supply their defi
ciencies. Extract from the Minutes,
JACOB S. HOWELL, Secretary.
Head Quarters, Perth-Amboy, Oft. 12, 1776.
Colonel Ailifon's battalion of Pennsylvania Associ
ators having done their duty while in camp as good
and orderly soldiers, and furnifhed heir full comple
ment for the Flying Camp, are hereby dismissed the
service of the States, and permitted to return home.
SAMUEL GRIFFIN, Dep* Adjutant Gen.
Te the FREEHOLDERS and ELECTORS
^PENNSYLVANIA.
TH E people of Pennsylvania have long been wish
ing for toe eftabliffiment of a legal government.
They watched the motions of the late Convention wi h
impatience, and when they expelled upon their adjourn
ment to be called to the exercise of theirufual privilege
of electing Representatives in Assembly, in the usual
manner, they were Surprized to find an obfacle thrown
in the way of that privilege by an oath unknown to our
former Constitution, and unpra&ifed in any free country.
Had every part of the government been as unexcep
tionable as it is the reverse, this oath, binding every
elector to maintain every part of it unaltered for seven
years, would have been equally unnecessary aad unjust.
File principles of a free government fli u d always
be contained in a BiLL cf Rights. This should be
so contrived as to include every essential privilege of
human nature, and it should remain unaltered forever
^Conftitution is nothing but the execution of a Bill
of Rights, just as laws are the execution of a Constitu
tion. Ihe vicissitudes and exigences of human affairs
require that occasional alterations fliould be made in the
former, and ficquent alterations in the latter. Both
these may be done by a Legislature without the least vio
lence being done to the Bill of Rights, and without the
riecefhty of a septennial Convention.
In ore of the Ordinances of the Convention I find a
clause confirming ail the laws of this State and declar
ing them to be in force till altered by a future Assembly.
By the law regulating elections in this State no such
oath is requited as that mentioned in the Ordinance for
appointing an election on the sth of November. I appeal
therefore to the good sense of the people cf Pennfvlva
ma, whether a fubfequeneOrdinance can repeal a law
which had been ceclared in force by a previous Ordi
nance of the fame Convention ? It cannot. Let no man
therefore propose, or take the oath of allegiance pre
^ciioed by the Convention, if he has any regard to the
fafety, liberty and honor of this State. LUCIUS.
<^^,^W%u> s.i%<i.fy&^^^
Philadelphia, Tenth Month Bth, 1776.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
DANAWAY ora the morning of the 6th instant,
CHARLES BARTHOLOMEW, a Dutch
fervent lad, about ,7 years of a^e and about 5 feet high,
has a down bafhful lock, remarkable straight hair ct a
light brown colour, his person rather spare, a little pit
ted with tn? fund pox ; had on and took with him, a
half worn felt hat, an old fuperfine broadcloth jacket of
a fleN colour, without fleev«s, ragged about the button
h des, a half worn flirt of fine ravens duck, blue striped
holland trowfers, thread flockings, a frock and trowfers
of coarse tow linen, his other deaths not known. It is
apprehended he will endeavour to ger on board some of
the aimed vefleb in this port. The above Reward will
be paid for taking up said lad and feeding him in the
Work-house of this city. § RUMFORD DAWES.
fufipublifad and t 9 be fold by JOHN DUNLAP,
in Market-frect, IVihadefbia,
•EXTRACTS,
. From the JOURNALS of
c o ng r e s s,
RELATIVE TO THE
Captures ahd Condemnation of PRIZES, and the
^t ng cut PRIVATEERB; together Mth the
Rules and Regulations of the N A VY, and Idn uni
ons to the Commanders of private SHIPS of WAR.
fuft published and to be fold by J() H D UNLAP,
in Market free, Philade folia,
RU L E s
AND
A R TI C L E S
For the better government of the TROOPS rrifed,
or to be railed and kept tn pay °y & "C t the ' xpeyice
cf the United States fAM'R'C A.
ON 1 EIURSDAY next, at nine o'clock,
at FOOIMAN a^d jEYS'V n ur ftc e,
the corner of Vine Ind Secon'- 're t,wl3, in thr fal3
of a large allotment 01 M ERCHANDIZ E, Suita
ble to the season, confining t s ; ad and n, . sloths,
naps and plains, fwanfkins, beaifkins and duffi coat
ings, home made cloth, worfteu and hair ph.A,, ni
b< ffed flannels, velverets, cotton flocking, ft , ^ and
plain M^ntuas, Wiltons, Brill I fn^s, fhalh o^, ca li
mancoes, durants, tammies, ratune.s, oft. dAn fc
worsted hole, striped Holl nd, - n da >andkerct
cotton romal handkerchiefs, 1 ettas ; Dr 1c f,, Char
lotte <.nd ma caroni stripes, Britannias. end leather
foals, cotton counterpains, & c . &c. Al % a great vari
ety of genteel Wearing Apparel, Houfholj F u niture,
_
Tobe SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE,
^Y':"'^^ the ! 6thin ft. (Oftobe:) at the Coffee
xiouie in Philadelphia, at five o'clock in the afternoons
A COMMODIOUS lot of ground finite on the
north fine of Mulberry or Arch street, between
'^^ a ?. d Fifth - ft r^t3 from Delaware, in the city
of 1 hdaoelphia, nearly opp ( fi !e to the Church Burying
ground, containing in breadth on Eid Mulberry cr Arch
Itree! 37 feet, \nd in length 140 feet to a large alley called
Ap,ie-t:ee Alley, extending from Fourth-free: to FiQh
ftieet. There are on the said lot feme old buildings
which now let for 421. ics. per ann. and the lot is clear
of ground rent. Any person desirous of viewing the pre
mhes before the day of fate, is desired to apply to the
owner, living in Third-ft eet, Philadelphia.
JOSEPH WATKINS.
This Day is published, printed and to be fold by R O
BERT AITKEN, Printer nd Bookie ler, oopo
fite the London Coffee-houte, Fiont-ftreet,---contain
ing nearly 240 pages, large o&avo, in blue boards,
(price One Dollar)'
The JOURNALS
Of the PROCEEDINGS of
CONGH E S S,
Held at Philadelphia from January to May, 1776, f
WilliamJburg, Virginia, Oflober c, -iff
BY virtue of a decree of the H n. Court of
Admiralty of th ; s State, will be fold at public
vendue, for ready money, on Monday the 21st infant
at the home of Mrs. Watts, on Chingotea.ue, the fliv
CAROLIN E, of London, lately made 2 prize by the
HMequin privateer, C p.. Woolley, of Bakim ,re, with
her bins, rigging and rn teruls, bring nb< ut 200 t^rs
burthen, plantation built, about fix years old, but hav
ing becu ftf nded on the coast E^ la d, has been finee
rebuilt, and btr keel, ffern, stern p; ft, man o her fut
toc^s arm floor timbers, of Englifli o^k ; she is fupp&ed
to be equal, if not fupe ier to / new Amercn built % ef
fel. An inventory of her Lib, riggi ,§ a r <mat I@.m:y
be seen at the fublcriber's, or on board fa. /hip. U
At the fame time will be fold pltcf her car?o cor fining
of choice MUSCOVADO SUGARS, and RUM, flip
ped on board Lin ft p from Jamaica for the Loi don m r
ket. And on the following day will commence the tide
of the r fidae ot the cargo, confiding of 400 hogfhe^ds t f
SUGAR, and 117 puncheons of RUM, at Pitt's Land
ing, on Pocemcke River, in ChOaptake By; which
lies convenient for transportation to any part ofVigini 1,
Maryland, .or Philadelphia market, and will continue
until the whole is difyofed of.
t 1 BE!t_PO WELL, Marffial.
q^H E Subferiber has for sale, at the Head
^ of Elk, a SLOOP about four years old, 75
tons or 500 barrels burthen, tails very lift, and wed
found. She was built by one of the belt workmen in
Virginia, for his own use,
I ZEBULON HOLLINGSWORTH.
TO E S 0 '
rap WO BRICK HOUSES, ahneft rt % the one
J three stories high, with a piazza and kitchen of
brick; the other two dories high, with a kitchen; vet 7
convenient for any gentleman that has bufintfs at t'e
lower part of the city near the water fide : Thly will be
fold either (eparate or together, as may heft tun the pur
chaser. Enquire of the Printer.f
FIVE POUNDS REW AR D.
If ENT away yeferday evening, ayourg A'egro cun
'' man named B£T, of middling future, fat and like
ly. She had on a blue fallow jacket and petticcor, white
linen bandkerrbiet and efrer, black leather kigh heeled
foes, fiver buckles, and blue worked dockings with clocks.
She took with her a new check Rack andyeUrafvffjacket
and petticoat, a white jacket and petticoat, a blue and
white famped cotton ditto, with fandr, other clocks, G „d
has had her ears bored for ear rings he said Negro be
longs to a gentleman of Maryland, and it is" supposed foe }
concealed in this city. Whoever brings her to me. at the
fg" of the Blue Ball in t hefart fireet, Pkiladekphia, fall
have the above Rezvard.
O6Y. 5. MICHAEL CLARKE.