Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1774-11-07 00:00:00, page 1

By th! HONOURABLE
JOHN PE N N, Esquire,
Governor xind Commander in chief of tbe province of
Pennffvenia, and counties of New-Caflle, Kent
and Suffer, on Delaware,
A PROCLAMATION.
tf'' I ,,'')" EREAS I bave just received a
^ • letter from the Right Honourable
W "> 'be Earl of Dartmouth, one of
^i his Majesty's principal Secretaries
, ^f^ { of State, informing me, that “it
<< had been represented to his Ma
“ jefty, that the government of Pennsylvania had
" taken a resolution to extend its jurifdidion up
“ to the line fettled by Commissioners between
" that province and Maryland, although the
“ guardians of the heir of Lord Baltimore had
" declared their incapacity, in point of law, to
" concur in a ratification of that line, and confe
" quently their inability to take the like step on
" their part : And it being apprehended that such
" a partial extension of jurifdi&ion might have
“ the effect to disturb the peace of the King's sub
" jeds, fettled on the frontiers of both provinces,
“ and might occasion violence and bloodshed, he
" was commanded by the King to lignify to me
“ his Majesty's pleasure, that 1 should desist from
“ issuing any orders for extending the jurifdi&ion
“ of Pennsylvania. beyond those places where it
" had been usually exercised, until the present
" difficulty on the part of Maryland should be
“ removed, or until his Majesty's further pleasure
“ should be known." I HAVE therefore, in
compliance with his Majesty's commands, thought
proper to issue this my proclamation, hereby
ftri&ly commanding and enjoining all Magistrates,
Sheriffs and other officers of justice, todefift from
exercising the jurifdidion of the government of
Pennsylvania, or the counties ofNew-Caftle, Kent
and Sussex, on Delaware, beyond those places
where the fame hath been heretofore usually exer
cised, until the present difficulty on the par| of
Maryland shall be removed, or until his Majesty's
further pleasure shall be known in the premises,
any thing in any former proclamation contained
to the contrary notwithstanding.
G IKE N under % Hand, and the Great Seal
of the said province of Pennsylvania, at Phila
delphia, the second day of November, in the
year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Seventy-four, and in the fifteenth year of
bis Majesty's reign.
WILLIAM DREWET SMITH,
Has just imported in the last ships from England,
A QUANTITY of Baron Van Haake's
Royal Letters Patent Composition for ma
nuring land.
This valuable Cogipofition has been tried ^ith
the greatest success in England, not only for arable,
meadow, and pasture land, but is also excellent for
hop, turnip, tobacco grounds, and vineyards ;
likewise particularly adapted to kitchen gardens
and nurseries.
JOHN PENN.
By Lh Honour's command,
Joseph Shippfn, Junior, Secretary.
GOD Save the KIN G.
***J ^4+*s-;-^ o++s+***
Abraham UJher and George Henry,
Have imported in the last vessels from London, Li
verpool, Bristol and Scotland, and have for sale,
at their store in Front-street, the fifth door above
Walnut-Greet,
N. B. Abraham Usher requests all those that
are indebted to him, whose accounts are become
due, to make payment.
The above will be fold in quantities not less than
eight pounds to 200 wt. and upwards, with proper
printed directions, at his store in Second-street,
between Market and Chefnut-Greets.
Lately imported from London, ^£refh quantity of
Dr. Hill's American BALSAM,
Of which the virtue and goodness are now so well
known in America.
IT is as infallible, innocent, sure and effectual
a medicine as was ever known in the world, for
all coughs, colds, swimming in the head, and a
very admirable remedy for children in the whoop
ing cough, and in molt all their disorders ; by the
proper use of this balsam, for a reasonable time,
many have received great benefit and relief, and
some are effectually cured of the molt painful rheu
tnatifm, cholic, consumption, &c. &c. Dr. Hill's
own direction is wrapped about each bottle, and to
prevent counterfeiting this medicine, it is only to
be fold in Philadelphia by William Sitgreaves, mer
chant, on the north fide of Market-street, near the
Court house ; at Germantown by Cbriflopber Soever,
printer; at Lancaster by Ludwig Lauman, merchant;
in New-York by Michael Huffman, fliop-keeper; and
by the subscriber, at his house in Kingfefs.
WILLIAM YOUNG.
N. B. At the fame places are fold, Do&or Hill's
new improved Stomachic TinCture, excellent for
al weak Gomachs; it gives a very good healthy
appetite and found digestion, and prevents many
difeales.
A General assortment of MERCHANDIZE,
suitable to the season, which they will fell on
reasonable terms for cafli or short credit.
/^#^^ OBW^
GENERAL
M O ND A Y,
VOL. IV.
' Containing, besides the usual Agronomical Cal
dilations,
TH E times of holding courts in Pennsylvania,
New-Jersey, New-York, Maryland and Vir
ginia ; Quakers general meetings; fairs; rates for
porterage of goods in Philadelphia ; Governor,
Council and Representatives of Pennsylvania, New-
Castle, Kent and Sussex ; Mayor, Recorder, Aider-^
men and Common Council' of the city of Philadel
phia ; Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital ;
Managers of the society for relief of matters of ships,
their widows and children ; Directors of the con
tributionflrip for insurance of houses from fire ;
Managers of the silk filature ; Directors of the Phi
ladelphia library; Commissioners of the light-house;
City Assessors; City Wardens and Street Cornmif
fipners; Land Officers; Governor, Council and
Representatives of New-Jersey; Officers of the Cus
toms for the port of Philadelphia; Court of Ad
miralty ; Admiralty Court of Appeals; Delegates
who attended the General Congress at Philadelphia ;
Justices of the general quarter-sessions of the peace,
and of the courts of common pleas; Prothonotaries
and Sheriffs of the several counties in Pennsylvania;
Judges of the supreme court, and court of oyer and
terminer, &c. Tables ofinterett, coins, tide, roads,
&c. &c.
TO-MORRO W,
At O N E o'clock in the afternoon, at
JOHN H A R T's
VENDUE-STORE,
At the corner of South and Front-Streets,
Will begin the SALE of a neat assortment of
MERCHANDIZE.
Also, a neat Copper STIL L, that holds 64
gallons.
Philadelphia, November 7, 1774.
THE Subferiber, at the sign of the Spin
ing- Wheel in Market-street, intending to
leave tuis far England some time in February, will
fell off at the lowed price for cafli, the large and
general assortment of DRY GOODS he has
now on hand ; among which are, a quantity of fu
perfine and low priced broadcloths of clivers colours,
from 30s. to 6s. 6d. with writable trimmings; Irish
lioil^nds and linens, from 7s. 6d, to ißd. per yard,
&c. Likewise a large aflortment of Jewellery, con
fitting of set shoe, knee and stock buckles; hair
pins, shirt buckles, silver lockets, silver seals, &c.
plated (hoe, knee and stock buckles, pinchbeckditto,
common yellow and white metal ditto, plated fours,
a few pair of best holster pistols, one hundred silver
watches of different prices, with many articles too
numerous fcr an advertisement.
He returns his mofi grateful thanks to his friends
and customers, by whose constant favours he hopes
to be able to make connexions thatwill, when out
unhappy differences with the Mother Country are
fettled, put it in his power to serve them on better
terms than ever.
Just Publifocd, and to be Sold by
JOSEPH CKJJKSHANK,
At his Printing-Office in Market-Greet, be
tween Second and I hird Greets, and opposite
Elbow-Lane, Philadelphia,
POOR WILL'S
POCKET ALMAMACK,
For B ELFAS T,
I^CT The SHIP
PROSPERITY,
W!LL!AM M'CULLOUGH,
Master;
V , A NLY one year old, fails
' a ft> an d has good accom
w,s%'^^^ ,° dations f °r passengers; hav
ing g reat p art o f her cargo en
gaged, will fail with the firfl: flax-feed veflels. For
freight er passage apply to James Stuart, in
F r ? n ,ft re et, or said matter on board at Samuel
Mifflin, Efqr's; wharf.
Caecii County, October g, 1774.
CO MMIT1 ED to my custody, as-
Run-away, on the erst of September last,
an Irishman who calls-himfelf JAMES SWAINE,
and lays he belongs to Mr. Ewing, mate of the
flop Minerva; he has on a bearskin jacket with
sleeves, one ditto without sleeves, bearskin breeches,
°™ "]° es ? an d half-worn felt hat. His master is
desired to pay charges and take him awav.
JOHN HAMILTON, SZ%f.
JAMES CUNNING.
"° .The house wherein he now lives, with a
lease of eight years, either to be let or the interest
to be fold. Likewise four plantations in the New
Purchase to be fold—all expences paid except pa-
T O BE S O L D,
Two Lots of Land, lying in the townflrip of
Hopewell, Cumberland county, Weft New-
Jersey; The firft contains 13 acres, being the north
east cornerfof the Cross Road, well known by the
name of Bowen Town, having on it a good dwell
ing-house and kitchen, with a well of water conti
guous ; also a merchants shop, and an excellent
young apple orchard: The second contains 63
acres, and is excellent wheat land, mostly cleared,
and well watered by a stream running through the
premises. The above lots will accommodate either
Presbyterian, Baptist, Quaker, or Seventh-day Bap
tist, for a meeting, lying within fix miles of the
fartheft. For terms apply to Jonathan Bowen,
Jun. near the premises, or the owner, William
Conner, on Maurice River.
D UNLA P's
For the Y^AR 1775:
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PROCEEDINGS of the CONGRESS,
continued from our last.
To the People of G REAT-BRITAIN,
From the Delegates, appointed by the fever al En
gliJh Colonies of Nevo-Hampfhue, Maffaebufetts-
Fay, Rhode-lfland, and Providence Plantations,
Connecticut, Nenv-rrh, New-,erfey, Pennfyl-va
ma, the louver counties on Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, North-Carolina and Soutb-Carolina, to
confider of their grievances in General Con
gress, at Philadelphia, September sth, 1774.
Friends, and Fellow-Suljeas,
WH E N a nation, led to greatness by the
hand of liberty, and possessed of all the
glory that h p roifm, munificence and humanity can
bedow, defeends to the ungrateful talk of forging
chains for her friends and children, and, instead of
giving support to freedom, turns advocate for sla
very and oppreflion, there is reason to fufpeft (he
has either ceased to be virtuous, or been extremely
negligent in the appointment of her rulers.
In almost every age, in repeated conflicts, in •
long and bloody wars, as well civil as foreign,
against many and powerful nations, against the
open assaults of enemies, and the more dangerous
treachery of friends, have the inhabitants of your
illand, your great and glorious ancestors, "maintain
ed their independence, and transmitted the rights
of men and the blessings of liberty to you their
posterity. ' •"
Be not fnrprized therefore, that we, who are
defeended from the fame common ancestors, that
we, whose forefathers participated in all the rights,
the liberties, and the constitution, you so justly
boast, and who have carefully conveyed the fame
fair inheritance to us, guarantied by the plighted
faith of government, and the most solemn compacts
with British Sovereigns, should refufe to-surrender
them to men, who found their claims on no prin
ciples of reason, and who prosecute them with a
design, that by having our lives and property in
their power, they may with the greater facility en
dive you.
Fhe cause of America is now the object ofuni
verfal attention : it has at length become very fe
rrous. This unhappy country has not only been
oppressed, but abused and misrepresented ; and the
duty we owe to ourlelves and posterity, toyour in
terest, and the general welfare of the British em
pire, leads us to address you on this very important
fubje&.
Know then, That we confider ourselves, and do
inlilt, that we are and ought to be as free as our
fellow fubjetts in Britain, and that no power on
earth has a right to take our property from us
without our consent.
That we claim all the benefits secured to the fub
je& by the English cpnftitution, and particularly
that inestimable one of trial by jurv 4
That ve hold it essential to English liberty, that
no man be condemned unheard, or punished for
supposed offences, without having an opportunity
of making his defence.
e I hat vie think the legislature of Great-Britain
is not authorifed by the condition to establish a re
ligion, fraught with fanguinarv and impious tenets,
or to ere& an arbitrary form of government in any
quarter of the globe. These rights we, as well as
you, deem sacred, and yet, sacred as they are, they
have, with many others, been repeatedly and fla
grantly violated.
Are not the proprietors of the foil of Great-Bri
tain Lords of their own property ? can it be taken
from them without their consent? will they yield
it to the arbitrary disposal of any man, or number
of men whatever?—You know they will not.
Why then are the proprietors of the foil of Ame
rica Icis Lords of their property than you are of
yours, or why should they submit it to the disposal
of your Parliament, or any other Parliament or
Council in the world, not of their election ? Can
'.'^ intervention of the lea that divides\ us cause
disparity in rights, or can any reason be given, why
English fubje&s, who live three thousand miles
from the royal palace, should enjoy less liberty than
those who are three hundred miles didant from it?
Reason looks with indignation on such diftiaions,
and freemen can never perceive their propriety.
And yet, however chimerical and unjust such dis
criminations are, the Parliament assert, that they
have a right to bind us in all cases without excep
tion, whether we consent or not; that they may
take and use our property when and in what man
ner they please; that we are pensioners on their
bounty for all that we possess, and can hold it no
longer than they vouchfafe to permit. Such decla
rations we confider as heretics in English politics,
and which can no more operate to deprive us of our
property, than the interdicts of the Pope can divest
Kings of feeptres, which the laws of the 1 ind and
the voice of the people have placed in their hands.
At the conclusion of the late war—a warrender,
ed glorious by the abilities and integrity 6f a mi
nister, to whose efforts the British empire owes its
fafety and its fame: At the conclusion of this war,
which was succeeded by an inglorious peace, formed
under the auspices of a miniftobf principles, and of
a family, unfriendly to the proteftaut cause, and ini
mical to liberty.—We fay, at this period, and un
der the influence of that man, a plan for enslaving
your felicw-fubje&s in America was concerted, and
has ever since been pertinaciously carrying into ex
ecution.
Prior to this ±ra you were content with drawing
from us the wealtliproduced by our commerce.
You retrained our trade in every way that could
conduce to your emolument. You exercised un
bounded sovereignty ov-r the sea. You named the
ports and nations to which alone our merchandize
should be carried, and with whom alone we should
trade; and though (bine of these reftriclions were
grievous; we nevertheless did not complain; we
looked up to you as to our parent Rate, to which we
THE
ADVERTISER.
NOVEMBER 7th, • 1774.
were bound by the strongest ties; and were happy
in being instrumental to your prosperity and your
grandeur.
We call upon you yourselves to witness cur loy
alty and attachment to the comraon interest of t h e
whole empire: Did we not, in the last war, addrll
the strength of this vast continent to the force which
repelled our common enemy? Did we not leave
our native shores, and meet disease and death, to
promote the fucce< sos British arms in foreign cli
mates ? Did you not thank us for our zeal, and even
reimburse us large sums of money, which, you
confeffed, we had advanced beyond our proportion,
and far beyontyour abilities? You did.
To what causes, then, are we to attribute the
sudden change of treatment, and that system of fl?-
very, which was prepared for us at the restoration
of peace.
Before we had recovered from the distresses which
ever attend war, an attempt was made to drain this
country of all its money, by the oppressive ftamp
a6t. Paint, glass, and other commodities, which
you would not permit us to purchase of other nati
ons, were taxed; nay, although no wine is made
in any country, fubje& to the British Rate, you
prohibited our procuring it of foreigners, without
paying a tax, imposed by your Parliament, on a 1!
we imported. These and many other impositions
were laid upon us, most unjustly and unconstituti
onally, for the express purpose of railing a revenue.
—ln order to silence complaint, it was, indeed,
provided, that this revenue should be expended in
America, for its protection and defence.—Thefe
exh&ions, however, can deceive no jollification
from a pretended necessity of protecting and de
fending us. They are lavishly squandered on court
favourites and ministerial dependents, generally
avowed enemies to America, and employing them
selves, by partial representations, to traduce and
embroil the colonies. For the necessary support of
government here, we ever were and ever shall be
ready to provide. And whenever the exigences of
the state may require it, we sh ill, as we have here
tofore done, cheerfully contribute our full propor
tion of men and money. To enforce this uncon
ttitutional and unjust fchenie of taxation, every
fence that the wisdom of our British ancestors had
carefully ere&ed against arbitrary power, has been
violently thrown down in America, and the inesti
mable right of trial by jury taken away, in cases
that touch both life and property.—lt was ordained
that whenever offences should be committed in the
colonies against partisular ads, impeding various
duties and reflriaions upon trade, the profecutof
might bring his action for the penalties in the courts
of Admiralty; by which means the fubjeft loft the
advantage of being tried by an honest uninfluenced
jury of the vicinage, and was fubje&ed to the fad
necessity of being judged by a single man, a creature
of the crown, and according to the course ofa law,
which exempts the prosecutor from the trouble of
proving his accusation, and obliges the defendant
either to evince his innocence or to fu ffer. To give
this new judicatory the greater importance and, as
if with design to prote& falfe acccufer% it is further
provided, that the judges certificate of there having
been probable canfes cf seizure and prosecution,
shall prote& the prosecutor from a&ions at common
law for recovery of damages.
By the course of our law, offences committed in
such of the British dominions in which courts are
established, and justice duly and regularly adminis
tered, shall be there tried by a jury of the vicinage.
There the offenders and the witnesses are known, and
the degree of credibility to be given to their testi
mony can he ascertained.
In all these Colonies, justice is regularly and im
partially administered, and yet by the conftruTion
of feme, and the direction of other a&s of Parlia
ment, offenders are to be taken by force, together
withall such persons as may he printed out as wit
nesses, and carried to England, there to be tried in
a diffant land, by a jury of Grangers, and fubje&
to all the disadvantages that result from want of
friends, want of witnesses, ahd want of money.
Wl en the design of railing a revenue from the
duties imposed on the importation of tea into A me
rica had in great measure been rendered abortive, by
our ceafng to import that commodity, a scheme was
concert'd by the ministry with the East-India Com
pany, md an a& passed enabling and encouraging
them to tianfport and vend it in the colonies.
Aware of the danger of giving success to this insi
dious manoeuvre, and of permitting a precedent of
taxation thus to be established among us, various
methods were adopted to elude the ftre&e. Tae
people a Boston, then ruled by a Governor, whom
as well as his predecessor Sir Francis Bernard, all
America confiders as her enemy, were exceedingly
embariaffed. The ships which had arrived with
the tea were by his management prevented from re
turning.'—The duties w<uld have been paid ; the
cargoes landed and exposed to sale ; a Governor's
influence would have procured and protested many
pupchalers. While the town was suspended by de
liberations on this important fubje&, the tea was
deft royed. Even fuppoting a trespass was thereby
committed, and the proprietors of the tea entitle d
to damages,—the courts of law were open, and jud
ges appointed by the crown presided in them — The
East India Company however did not think proper
to commence any suits, nor did they even dem md
fatisfaftion either from individuals or from the < im
munity in general. The minify, it feenis, oricU
oully made the case their own, and the great coun
cil of the nation defeended to intermeddle with a
dispute about private property.—Divers papers,
letters, and other u nauthenticated ex parte evidence
were laid before them; neither the persons who
destroyed the tea, Jr the people of Boston, were
called upon to answer the complaint. The minif
trv, incensed by be ng difippointed in a favourite
scheme, were d:t< rmined to recur from the little
arts of fineffe, to open force and unmanly violence.
The port of Boston was blocked up by a fleet, and
an army placed in the town. Their trade was to
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