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< ',^^^HEN a fubjeCt from your Majesty's
q ^^S — once happy American dominions,
(?! W^a shall dare to advance to yourthrone,
^l -"'p much has he to encounter: The
} ta'"s L prejudices in your royal breast will
, divert your attention, and cast an
unpropitious biafs on the natural honesty of your
mind. A Prince surrounded by adulating cour
tiers, and flattering favourites, may be expelled to
receive with ungracious mein, the humble applica
tion of obfeurity; but I mean nevertheless, to at
tempt the passage, and force an entry to your roy
al ear. You have been bred up under the courtly
influence of that ill-framed sentiment, that the King
Gin do no wrong; and when the measures of your
government have been odious to your people, their
modesty of opinion, and reverence of royalty, have
taught them to level at your Majesty, through the
heart of your minister: The virulence of fa^ion,
as courtiers are pleased to term it, has ever spent
its force on your Servants, and kept a refpe&ful
didance from your royal person; but the times,
may it plcale your Majesty, call for more explici
tude of Sentiment; and ungrateful as the address
may prove, to an English monarch, a fubjeCt will
now boldly introduce himfelf to your royal pre
sence, and tel! you truths, which, though they may
be unpleasing to hear, are necessary for you to
know. Your Ministry I shall release, and charge
on your Majesty alone, the execution of measures,
which promise to disgrace your government, and
disturb your throne.
Know, royal Sire, that your Ration at the head
of a mighty empire, is an appointment under Hea
ven, for the happiness of the people, and that when
ever you consent to the exercise of a power that
will distress your fubjeCts, that hour you pervert
the end and intention of your government, and
weaken the flipports of royalty. Your fubjeds,
royal Sire, have a title to happiness, equal with
their Sovereign, and will dare to tell you so, when
ever you attempt to deprive them of it.
It is your Majesty's Singular fortune to be placed
at the head of an empire, which, for fplendour and
extent, will probably exceed all the nations of the
globe; but by the Strange fatality of your genius,
I fear you are about to reduce a set of loyal, ge
nerous fubje&s to the dread alternative, of oppo
sition to your Parliament, or difgraceful Slavery.
What glowing honors can your Majesty wiSh to
derive from ruling a nation of Slaves ? or what
mighty atchievements do you expert to perform
against a people above three thousand miles dis
tant, who are nearly half the number of your fub
jeds in Britain : distress them I confefs you may,
but conquer their opinions you can't, tho' all the
choicest Hower of your youth, and the Stern vigour
of age, Should embark in the unjust and unnatural
cause: Why, then, will your Majesty persist in an
attempt which will involve ruin on innocent thou
sands abroad, and so weaken your government at
home, that your Majesty and your royal line may
mourn too 1 te at the event; an event which your
inveterate enemies will avail themselves of with
j°y-
Your Parliament, it is true, give a seeming sanc
tion to the nation for your conduct, but as foie head,
and ultimate decisive finifher oftheir proceedings,
to you we look for protection— You are our Sove
reign and Ruler, and not our fellow fubjefts in
Parliament; If they unjustly tempted you with the
property of others, the virtue of Royalty ought
to have rejected the proposal with disdain. Their
design seems to have been to wrest cur effects into
their own hands, in order, thereby, ultimately to
preserve their own, and the more effectually to in
duce your Majesty tojoin in the robbery, they have
offered you a part of the spoil. It was in your
Majesty's power to have rejected it, a power which,
by every tie of honor and interest, you ought to
have exercised. You are ndt only the formal but
accountable head of government; if your Ministers
recommend wrong measures, 'tis all they can do;
'tis from your Majesty alone that they are to re
ceive their offence, and to you, royal Sire, and not
to them, we look for redrefs.—lt is impossible for
us to rest fatisfied with censuring a Minister of
State, the mere tool of a day: Our duty to our
selves, our difeernment as men, demand of usa
closer investigation of the cause of our grievances :
We trace them up to the throne, from whence,
tho' they might not originate, they have ultimate
ly issued, nor could they have affected us without
your approbation. Your prerogative, as King, in
vested you with power to suppress the unjuftifiable
invasions of our fellow-fubjeCts the Parliament, and
we claim it as our unalienable right to step forth
with firmnefs, and prefer our complaints.
The ostensible causes of our present uneasiness,
such as the Revenue ads, extension of the jurisdic
tion of the Courts of Admiralty, &c. &c. and the
just abhorrence which they have excited in every
American breast, long since have reached your
royal ear, as they have been echoed from one
end to the other of your extensive American do
minions, and re-echoed through the pritifh isles.
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PHOCION'S LETTER to the K .
GENERAL
VO L. 111.
MONDA Y,
O R,
When the news ofthe unjuftitiable outrage in Bos
ton upon the property ofthe East India Company
arrived at your court, would it not have been con-
Gftent with every idea of natural justice, .and con
sonant to the Strict principles ofthe English consti
tution, to have cited the offenders to answer the
charge. If individuals were not to be found, why
was not a demand of reftitutidn made to the town.
Had France or Spain insulted your kingdom would
you immediately have made reprisals without the
formality of a complaint?—No—we know you
would not. Your conduct to the Spaniards when
they diffeized you of Falkland Islands and degra
ded your British flag, at a time when the nation
raged at the affront, convince us that you prefer
red the enjoyment of a prudent peace, to the un
certain iffueof a bloody war. Why then are your
own fubjeCts to be treated with less justice, with
less humanity?
Let us examine the late American edicts, per
haps we may there develope the cause. Your
firft aft called the Boston Port Bill, after depriving
the town of its trade and thereby involving the in
nocent with the guilty, winds up with a clause im
powering your Majesty virtually to repeal the said
aft by proclamation, with the reservation to your
Majesty, your heirs and successors, of the right
“ to aflign and appoint the extent, bounds and
“ limits of the port or harbour of Boston, and
also to appoint " such and so many open places,
" quays and wharfs within thejaid harbour, creeks,
" havens and islands for the landing, difebarjng,
" lading and flipping of goods" as you or they
" shall judge necefary and expedient."
Here the most incautious observer must difeover
that the Parliament have vetted your Majesty with
the absolute possession of the estates of that ex
tensive harbour, with power to bellow them on
whom you please, for you are not to be informed
that the value of landed estates in a trading town
arises purely from their Situation. Those of Bos
ton have been created and established at an immense
expence, but by the late Port Bill rest now in your
Majesty's breast to affix their value, by determining
where and on whole land the trade of the port
shall be carried on ; and further, the said aft ini
powers yourMajefty to remove the trade FOREVER
from the said town, and to eftabhih the fame in
such other parts of the said harbour as your Ma
jesty shall think proper, whereby any of your fa
vourites, by purchasing beforehand, at a low rate,
such tracts within the laid Bay as you shall deter
mine to assign lor the " landing, discharging, lading
" and flipping of goods," may become great and
mighty landlords to the diltreis and ruin of the
prefect landed interest of the said town. A clause
so big with power to your Majesty, must certainly
alarm the Subject. Your favourites, or Princes of
the blood if you please, may have veiled in them
for a trifling confideiation the whole lands of a town
whose trade must be equal to the town of Borton,
unless from a retrofpe&ive view of broken charters
and forfeited royal faith, the wretched inhabitants
should seek a surer fudenance in other climes.
I mean not to animadvert on those ads but to con
fine my observations, royal Sire, to the later pro
ceedings of your government.
As the law was designed to punilh pall crimes,
and the conditions of pardon were therein ena^cd;
when thoe conditions are once complied with, in
what page of jullice are we to leek for the reasons
of this cruel reserve? Is it the more effectually to
rob you of your peoples love, or to render you
more absolute by so vail an acquisition of power.
When a judge is to reap benefit from the decision
of a cause, the laws of the land require him to de
feend from the bench ; but as the nature of your Ra
tion, royal Sire, denies such a defeent to your
Majesty, ought you not so far to have amended
the ad in question as to remove every doubt and
scruple of your being interested in the event; as it
now Hands, you have poffefled yourfelfby a cruel
edict of the aCtual pioperty of your innocent fub
jeCt, forji long as you deprive an innocent citizen
of the right of using his eftate,Jo long you keep an
unjuftifiable poffedion of it, a possession which in
any man, less than a King, would be deemed a
robbery and a fraud; though these may be harSh
terms 10 a Princely ear, and terms which monarchs
but Seldom meet with, yet when Kings defeend
to aft the unfatherly part of distressing their Sub
jects by affixing the imperial fignate to cruel de
crees, it will extort the voice of murmur from the
mildell breast.
We beseech you, royal Sire, to look round your
dominions at home, and give one instance of simi
lar exertions of power: similar offences we can find
many. Your militia aft was opposed with open
force. Your turn pike laws have been condemn
ed, and toll-bars broken down. Your metropo
lis has been difbaded with mobs, and tumults,
and your royal person insulted, yet when have you
shewn such a keenness of resentment, and such an
attack upon the property of innocent individuals ?
—Blush, royal Sire,< for to u kingly a partiality.
We are all equally yourfubje&s, and if preference
is due to any it is to your Americans, men who
have never revolted agaiaft your family, as your
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fubjeCts in Britain have done, but are warmly and
religiously attached to your interests ; and were
you, royal Sire, to visit your western dominions,
you would find amongst them more true reverence
and dutiful allegiance to your person and family
than in the land which boasts you for their native
King. Your guards might be cast off, for every
man would vie in protecting you. I will not pre
sume to trespass too long at my firft interview: but
beseeching you to ponder on the probable event
and effect of such a law, I shall beg leave to retire
from your royal presence, asking permission to re
new my visit at a future day.
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TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN AND PETER CHEVALIER,
* BOUT fifty thousand feet of excellent maho
, gany and thirty tons of logwood; also Lisbon
wine, Jamaica spirits, molasses and coffee. -They
have, in their poHtßion three boxes marked AT
number ito 3, lately imported in the snip P
Two Brothers, Robert Adams, master, from Bris
tol. The owner is desired to call or fend for them.
SAMUEL HOWELL desires all
perlons indebted to him for German palfengers,
or otherways, whole debts are due, to call and dis
charge the fame, or they may expeft to have their
bonds and accounts put into the hands of an At
torney, to be put in suit.
Said Howell has for sale, a quantity of Jamaica
spirit, best GB wool cards, sheathing paper, and a
few bogheads of American hollow glass ware, well
sorted.
On Wednesday next will be pubhjbed, and fold by
J O HN D UN L A P,
In Market-Street, Philadelphia,
A FEW
POLITICAL REFLECTIONS,
Submitted to the Consideration of the
BRITISH COLONIE S,
By a Citizen of Philadelphia.
'T HESE Reflexions were periodically published
in this paper; and the Printer having had a call
for all the Surplus numbers remaining on hand af
ter supplying his fubferibers, he has ventured to
republish them, and turn them abroad without
comment or recommendation.
JF Mr. CHARLES HARV EY,
I. who came from Cheftei in Er Jam!, and of late
years kept the Joiners Arms in Chefnut flreet, Phi
ladelphia, is living, he may hear of his nephew
GEORGE HAKVEY, late from London, by
enquiring of Mr. Henry Miller, Printer, in
Rtce-hreet.
WA NT S EMPLO
A YOUNG MAN of good charaQer, to serve
a gentleman as a w liter in travels or at home,
which business he has followed from his youth.
Enquire of the Printer.
Philadelphia, August 25, 1774.
INTELLIGENCE OFFICE,
In Second Itreet, between Race and Vine-streets,
and near the Red Lion tavern.
THE INTELLIGENCER informs his
kind friends, and the Public in general, that
for the more conveniently doing the business of his
Office, he has removed into his house in Second
ftreet, situated as above-mentioned, where he is de
termined to give constant attendance, and to supply
appliers on the fliorteft notice.
Wanted on hire, several maids; also wet nurses
wanting places, and several lads to go apprentices.
To be fold, the times of several Dutch and Eng
lish servants.
I have to fell, a large assortment of American
flint glass, whul^fale or retail, exceeding cheap ;
also some articles of books and flationary, and black
ink by the quart or smaller quantity; also a hand
foine table set of blue and white China.
Deeds, wills, indentures, bonds, powers of at
torney, articles of agreement, and other writings
drawn, letters and advertisements wrote, accounts
stated and adjufled, and books potted ; also debts
coffered, bills of exchange and any kind of goods
fold on commission, money procured on interest,
and the Brokers business done in all its branches,
and business in general tranfaaed and done to suit
molt persons, with secrecy, cure and punctuality at
said office, by JAMES HU ME,
Intelligencer and Broker.
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
1) AN AWA V the night of the 25th of August
hilt, from the fubferiber living in Third-street,
near Vine-street, Philadelphia, a black man have,
named GLASGOW, but may probably change
his name to GLOUCESTER, having been
some part of his life known by that name as his
owner has been informed, Virginia born, about 48
years old, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, is lively and
active of his age, a good groom, coachman and
house-servant, having been from his infancy bred
in thole several wavs : He took with him an old
negro cotton coat and lapelled jacket, a pair of
buckskin breeches dyed purple, a white linen shirt,
brown thread stockings, good (hoes, and an old
beaver hat. He is supposed to have gone towards
Winchelter in Virginia, having a wife there who is
a very indifferent huffey, and only left that last fall
with the fubferiber. Whoever takes up and secures
him, so that his matter may have him again, shall
have the above Reward and reasonable charges,
paid by JOHN MAGILL.
ADVERTISER.
AUGUST 29th, 1774.
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7if Published and to be Sold by
JOHN DUNL AP,
In Market-Street, Philadelphia,
A SUMMARY VIEW of the RIGHTS
^BRITISH AMERICA. Set forth
] , ^ RESOLUTIONS intended for the in-
? f the present Delegates of the people
of V ngtma, now in convention. By a Native and
Member of the House of Burgesses.
It is the endijpenjible duty ej the faprcme magistrate
to c^r fyfelf asaPin f er the whole con,,.unity,
a^d obliged tofu,port rs dimity, and afin to the peo
ple ^tb juface, their va^ K «s rights, ^b e ^ould
Jaittyul to the great trufl npoled in him.
just Pubtifed and to be Sold by
BENJAMIN TOWN E,
In Front-street, near the London Coffee-houfe,
. (Price only is. 6d.)
CONSIDERATIONS
ON THE
MEASURES CARRYING ON
With refpea to the British Colonies in North-
America.
There is neither King or Sovereign Lord on earth, v,hn
has beyond his own domain power to lay one farthing
on bis fubjedts without the grant and consent of thoje
who pay it, unless be does it by tyranny and violence.
Philip de Commines, Chap. io3.
Just imported in the Sophia, from London,
A parcel of
PORT W I N E,
In hampers of three dozen eacli, warranted of th#
vintage 1769, and of an excellent quality,
TO BE SOLD BY
JOSEPH WHA RTON, Junior,
In Front-street, near the Drawbridge;
WHERE also may be had, genuine Madeira,
Lisbon and Sherry W INES, in pipes,
hogtheads and quarter calks.
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, 3 fer
vapt man named WILLIAM BAILEY,
about five feet seven inches high, of a finooth
complexion, mild address, knows something of
the weaving business, writes a good hand, has
kept a school for some time pass, and 'tis probable
may have a forged pass with him: Had on a white
coat and waiftroat, and old furtian breeches: I<4
was seen in Philadelphia in May lutt, and it is sup
posed is gone either towards Baltimore or Lan
carter. Whoever will secure the said servant in any
of bis Majesty's gaols, shall have the above leeward,
on givingnotice to Mr.JoHN Kennedy, merchant,
in Baltimore, Mr. John Boyle, merchants,
in Philadelphia, or to the fubferiber, meichant, of
New-York, who will pay all reasonable charges 10
conveying him to gaol and bringing the account ia
JOHN SHAW.
ALL PERSONS indebted to the
ertate of Stephen Carmick, deceased, ei
ther by bond, note, or book debt, are detired to
pay off their refpt&ve balances : and those who
have any demands against said estate, to furuilh
their accounts properly proved.
ANNA CARMICK, Executrix.
JOSEPH SWIFT, Executor.
T O-MO R R O W,
At ONE o'clock in the afternoon, at
JOHN H A R T's
VENDUE -STOR E,
At the corner of South and Front-Streets,
Will begin the SALE of a neat aflortment of
M E RCHAN D 1 Z E.
Cecil County, August zi, 1774.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
ES CAPED from the fubferiber, on Monday
the 2th instant, a certain JOHN YORKE,
by trade a carpenter, about 43 years old, 5 feet 9
inches high, well set, of a sandy complexion, and
red eyes. Whoever will apprehend him, and secure
him in any or his Majesty's goils, so that the fub
icriber may have him again, shall receive the above
Reward, from
Kingfefs, Philadelphia County, Aug. 17, 1774.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, a Dutch
servant lad, named CASPAR FINCE;
he is 18 years of age, about $ feet high, has short
reddifli curled hair, a freckled face, final! blue eyes,
and has at times a cast in them : Had on an old felt
hat, a white and red spotted handkerchief, an old
white fwanfkin jacket (mended before) with white
metal buttons, homespun shirt, tow trowfers, and
old shoes with brass buckles. Whoever takes up
said servant, and brings him to the fubferiber, or
secures him in any gaol, so that his matter may have
him again, shall receive the above Reward, and
rcafonable charges, paid by
JOSEPH PEMBERTON, Grazier.
TH E potent enemies of America laid
open, being some account of the baneful
effects attending the use of difilled spirituous liquors,
and the Slavery of the Negroes, to be lold by
HALL AND SELLARS, JOSEPH
CRUKSHANK, and JOHN DUNLAP,
Price Two Shillings, half bound.
THE
JOHN HAMILTON, Sheriff.
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