The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1778-04-22 00:00:00, page 7

filiation, .and whatever good terms they anight
have to offer. But here we find that tne thing
is so far from being impofible, that in the course
of events it hath become highly expedient; and
, that all etiquette is to be laid aside, because the
time for that is pajf Amongst other powers to
be delegated to these proposed Comnuffion^rs,
we are told, the ? may grant general or particular
pardons. How ill suited is such language to the
present ?era--- Pardon is the remission 01 punish
ment by those who have the power of inflating
it. Had the moment of victory his Lordship
mentions arrived, his Maftcr or his CommUh
oners might then have granted pardons innu
merable ; but to talk of pardoning a People, a
Nation, with whom he propofs to treat, is a
downright solecism. To treat is to propose
terms, which the party treated with may either
accept or rejefi at pleafure—buttopar^/j, sup
poses the party so fubjeded as to be thankful
for any terms, nay even to owe their lives to
the mercy of thole who so graciously offer the
pa don. How absurd would it be for his Ma
jeftyT Commiffione.s to address the Delegates
cf America •! r.eir hrit interview in this man~
ver—Genihmer. before we proceed to bafmefs, it
would be ve y , proper you Jhadd teecive the Xing's
mfl gracious pardon for the horrid rebeltins and
&itr dous offerees you have committed 'f hefe
Comm Lionels are aifo to have po ver to fajpend
o&nfiv^ Acts of hatlament-.Formerly they
could only engage that such Ads fhou'd be re r
vijed; now th y.way suspend them—l he dif
ference is but fmTl in reality, aid of no cm
feqbence to as -Jess now than evei---!f hey
could even repeal them it would be no (verity
to burhappin L, since the fame or a lubjequrnt
Parliament might .renew them again, and mAt
certainly would, when a more convergent op
portunity offered. His Lordships thinks it a
matter of convent nee allo that these Comm:f
fi mers fhoGd appoint Governors in the feveial
Provinces --This, and thegranting of pardons,
are much of a piece ; when we are reduced o
the necessity of accepting the one, we ihall
probably fubmt to the other---but we have
reafen to hope that day is far distant ; and, if
we may judge irom the tenor of his Lordship's
fp^ecu, he/is of the fame opinion.
We are next told that the Colonies mufi give
Ist their claim of independency ; but then they are
to be induced to do it by, offers of a valuable
consideration— And what is ihis valuable con
sideration ? —An act of Parliament declaring a
reflation of the exercise of taxation. Not a re
nunciation of the right. We are here on the
fame ground we were at the repeal of the Stamp
at, which was attended with a declaration of
their right to tax when and how they pleated,
hut that from motives cf expediency the, had
agreed to a fufbenfon or cessation of that right.
Cefaion and frf„nfon are words altogether di
lutive, and fall tar short of that security we
claim.—ln short, we find no inducement offered
for the refeinding Independency, but what was
offered in his Lordship's former conciliatory
reflation, and rejected bv us prior to the de
claration of Independency. —He loudly com
plains that that conciliatory resolution was mis
underfood by Congress. If a proposition so im
portant in its con.equences was capable of being
misunderstood; this alone would be a fufficient
reason for our reje aing ir, situated as we were.
For if we could draw inferences from it not in
tended, before it became final, his Lordfhp
might draw the fame inferences after it had been
confirmed ; and of the two meanings of which
it was capable, chufe that which suited him
heft—Proportions of this kind ought never to
be equivocal, or liable to be misunderstood by
either party. His Lmdfhip declares that he
was never for enforcing taxation on America,
and acknowledges that the war has already cost
the nation more than any revenue which could
have been raised by Parliament from America.
Wherefore then has the war been pushed with
such unremitting vigor; and why this expence
of blood and creafure? He tells us, the contest
was for fapremacy. He knows better. At the
beginning of this war, America had no ideas of
fupremacy--nothoughts of Independency.Wncn
flie laid her humble and earnest Petitions at the
foot of the throne, (he abhorred the idea—3ut
the King and Parliament forced her into Inde
pendence—They declared her to be putof their
proteaion —and, slashed with vain ideas at con
t;neft, would net li%n to reasonings, prayers
or complaints -'I bey,thought trAmfelvei sure
of fucceL---but they have not succeeded—-and
now expect we mult forget all that is pall, give
up the independency they find ne die able to
maintain, and go track fvith them---n.,t to the
moment of viToty - but to that period when
we were kneeling at the British throne, requeu
ing to be pur in tne fuuatiun we were in the
year 1763 --arid when trie royal foot spurned
us from h s prelenc".
bi Loidihip vety unfairly alledges, that our
objections to rhe lea-act aioie to 0.1 our fears,
that the Eaft-lndia Company would thereby be
enabled th under-fell oui ^nugg} rs. This ui
finu^tion deleaves not a ferrous refutation —No
one can be induced to believe that the imereits
of a fe w fmuggtes fhcald let „ whole c. nunent
in a flame, and deter mine America to a conduct
w'nMe ccnfequenC'es mult proye oi the mob ie
rious nature, and the final Tue th which couid
not possibly he foieber!.
The remainder of his Lord^ip's fpcech tends
chief!., to exculpate bis own conduct, ana to
account for his not oftering leaionabb terms to
America at such periods as it might be thought
would have produced happy conicquences. In
order to thi , he has recourse to his hrh reason,
viz. that he waned for the moment of.victory;
but acknowledges that he is disappointed in bis
expectations: N r 'r does .he Item to flatter him
felf with any hop< ,of irs future ariivw; not
withstanding he expatiates rather pempUufly cn
the numbers and ltfcng~h of .the Lula arm, in
America.
Ipieteid not to confid'er minutely the nature
and confluences G this extraordinary speech:
It ^ i I, no doubt, be ttn&ly icru unled b able
hands. But - am of oohLm, that as the ex
pence and Bufferings of our injured country
have been vtiy great, we ought to watch with
a jeaLus ere every kerning 1 hange of princi
ples or con met in our hunerto mvcteraie rne
.mj, left ..e fhouid he induced by plauhbie ap
pearances to rehx in our detcnlive piepaiarions,
and rnev Ihouid obam that lupura cy over ns
by fubtletv, which they have not been able to
tftabhffi by theiword. We have ad m.c/caion
in the world to believe :h it cis Lordihip's
Speech v 23 nor dictated by a love ut e<, of any
regard to julfice-- necefaty alone has induced
him to propose thefr feming offers of reco rci
lia'icn. The frmeTove, the tain- jud,^ fab.
fitted, or ought to have iubfr ed, ,c#is ago—
nor has any new cucumrtanoec arisen that Ihould
en.crcafe.his regard ri r us, 01 his desire of pro
moting our in emits. We nave declared to all
the world that, afrer unrig every reasonable
means for reconc.il aton with these former
friends, we found ouT lees compelled to throw
alide all confidence in then clemency, <ll sub
mission to their power.—We have publicly as
serted our rights as a free peopl —we have ap
pealed to God and the world for the re&itude
of cut intentions, and pledged every thing fr
cred for the support of that indepero ency,
which, by fine blessing of heaven, we have hi
therto been enabled to maintain. Shall < c
then for any weak, delusive proposals o' an in
sidious Minister, who has uniformly laboured
for cur ruin, xehgn the advantages we have so
dearly bought, and tender ourselves contempti
ble in the eyes of every warlike nation, and
the scorn of impartial posterity. Independency
is the barrier we have raised, nor can we recede
from it with honour or security —that once
broken down, we throw our/e ves again under
the hand of oppreflion, and the bloody steps
ue have trod must be trodden over by our mise
rable posterity. We have reason to derive great
consolation from his Lordship's speech we
find he grows sick of the talk he has under
taken —t very sentence seems to declare that we
are a free people, and that the mighty powers
of G:eat Britain are not able to enslave us
The offers he makes are in substance nothing
—They reserve to Great Britain all the powers
(be ever oimed to have over us, and only pro
mise a cation of the erercife of them—an^ no
more. Ine effect this foeech ougin to have on
all of us is this, to animate our hopes, double our
diligence, and encourage us to the full exertion of
QL if or. —ln this fixation we may with fecu
iny wait events, be they what they may.
I am, Sir, &c. T.— P.— 7
April 24, 1778.
L^ft night, on the reading of Lord Norths
fpcech and the deci ration of Coiprefs thereon,
the two folio vino beers <f One lb oofand Dol
lars e^ch we e offerer', but n t accepted.
Grit, I hat /even £u op<an P wets vohld
accede to the independence of America in feveo
anontbs.
Second, That Great Britain willl solicit tbo
interpolni^n of America (within the above
mentioned iiite) to make matters up -for her
between bra. ce and Spin.
it is laid ' ; i&t General Howe goes soon for
England, and will be succeeded in his com
mand b Lord I ownfhend.
The drafts' the t ^0 B I's proposed by Lord
North, in his fpcech, are drawn verv cx^ily
in the terms in which he defertbes them. We
fhali give them to our readers in our next.
^^ ^b^^^l^ '#:l^M &t^&d^
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
CIOI, E N out op the jiab^oj the fubferik,,. Iking nt
Little Chichi, on Harris's Road in Mownfey Temsn
foty, Lunc/tfer County, a dark ray Station, jo^rteen and
a hap bands high, v4b a roje and ;eather ox each fide of
bis neck, a white stet or feather in hi, eye, a black foot
on the pit of his breafi. a safe on ea<b dj bis fore thighs, bis
tavo bind feet white, fixyears old this gr^ff, a Cft, carri
age, andafreest runner Tbeabove regardfor the borfe
andthief or Fifty Dollars Ber the h^fe -ml,, wl
be paid by GEORG.f RRI Z,
TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS REWARD,
grOLE N, on the night of the
£, zid nUGnt, (Mirch) bom the Milina Camp, .t
B,ga<t's lavern >n Bucks counts, a chefnut sorrel
A# AR 2, bc/weep4 xnd < v h ?rs old, a h out 14. Hands
Vigh, a a,atuiai iiuttcr, branded on the buttock G N, a
bt2.& filler race, . few grey hairs in her mane, ^huh
is very tethr, .$$ is her tail; (h s like'v, fquao built,
round hodi d, very Or, ;r~ food all ro^nd.—Whoever
takes up laid r # re^d thief, and fe< u 0 the thte : in
*ny .{OQ so that he may be 'rough, t. justice, (ball
have he atr-ve reward, or Twenty Pounds for the
^reo,!), and all reaforahlt charges, on delivering
h^ to tae fubferiber at Euftem.
ISA4C SIDMAN.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
^ T3LEN, in:enight of th. a,th N^(M.net)
0 worn th..ld f fiber, A Eari N^triEl t^nihip,
Chrtter count;, brown MARE, 4 years ohi tins
Ipriu ^ betweeu 14. and 15 hands hi^h, has a froaii star
in er fereead, neither orand no; ear mark ; ii (hod
before. Whoever ftcMrs the mare, so that the owner
may hav^her again, (hall have Twenty Dollars reward,
or tot the thief and nitre F rty Dollars, and reafan
abk charges, co be paid by JOHN CLYNE.
Lanrafler, March $ 1778.
WAS FOUND the 7 th infant, and
left in the care of Mr. William Atlee in Lan
ceftrr, a next hanger, or cietteau de chaffe, which it
dupoof/i to belong to some Gntieanxn of the Army.
If tne owner of it will apply to Mr. Atlee it will be
delivered to him, on paying the charges of this adver
tlfem nt, and forue tin'all gratuity promised by Mr.
Atlee 0 the fi <rier.
^l7 HEREAS John Gillilan, formerly
fry ot Hanover TownOuD. L ncaftrr County, d d
o' tain four bonds o f me, fw the pa,m«nt of Fifty
Pound; each, thr fi ft o' whi^h was due the firft of May
daft, and eaca 0 the others due yearly; and th Lid
GiiHlaa has removed to Virginia, and I have reason to
think that he has sffigned tTe said bonds to Some ptT
fqn in this State : I do therefore hereby give notice to
any person that has any of Did bonds to call on me for
the mrney when due, as I will not pay the inhered of
it, a# my bonds are secreted.
JAMES YOUNG, SenEr
}D O hereby certify, That an advertifemeni;
interred in the Pennsylvania Packet, desiring Mr.
David Cochran, Adjutant to Cui. Mdfr's b^tt^-
on, and Mr. James Doak, Quarter-Matter to Col.
Rankin's battalia, immediately to make returns to
me for three barrels of Sait taken in Shu. fi Id, the
property of John Futon, otherwise they might de
pend or being prel.xwed as the law dire&s in cafesef
private property, is ungenerous, and dir^ai, in oppo
sition to my orders 10 the above named John Fulton.
Also tost the above S It sjaftly fettled by the arove
named Cechran and Doak.
William Means, formerly Commifary
to the P^nufylvania Mlita,
ANY person that will give inform:.ti nos the au
thor who infefted the advertisement as above.merti
ontd by Mr. Means, to the mhicriher, frail receive
EIGHT DOLLARS R.wad.
David Cochran,
T O BE L'E F,
And ma be entered or the 20th inffant, (Apr il)
~ PLANTATION fitu:ue ; r the Great Valiev,
ft in B.rt Townflu/, Lancaft County, one hun
dred acres of cleared land and twenty acres of good
meadow. A"o a quantity of horned cattle for sale.
For terms apply tc Jam s Miller, on th- picmifes,
or to Francis Bailey, Pemta, in Laus^er.