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meet for the purpose of lightening Terfels off the
bar, and for towing them into the harbour: A
precaution always taken by the Spaniards while
St. Augustine was in their poflelfion.
We arehkewife informed from St; Augustine,
that a dock yard is to be established at St. Mary s
in East-Florida, for the use of his Majesty s navy
in the Southern Diftrifl of North-America.
B OSTO N, Feb. 7.
The great contest at present between the friends
es government and the friends of liberty, seems
to be, whether the judges of the superior court
(hall receive their faiaries As usual by the grants
of the General Assembly of this province, or be
dependent upon the crown for their support.
Both Gdcs agree that if the latter takes place, our
courts ofjudice will be turned into courts of po
liticks, and those who for the future are to hold
the Rations of venerable judges, will be, equally
with crown officers, under too strong a temptation
to pervert law and justice, in compliance with the
humour or intercit of a weak or corrupted Biituh
Miniftcr.
Extract ofa letter fam Plinth, Feb. I, 1774.
judge Oliver and Mr. Hutchinson came to
town lad Thursday, no doubt with intention to
insult us, but to their great mortification, they
never before met with so warm a reception—On
Friday evening the town appeared to be very un
cafy, which alarmed the tories, who gave out
that forty men armed were ready to defend Col.
Watson s house, and indeed a number were there
the greater part of the night, armed with loaded
guns and kettles of hot water; but notwithstand
ing their vigilance, a tribe of Indians met at
Col. Watson's and Boot-Cap'd Mr Hutchinfori's
fley.—Saturday morning forte four faces appear
ed, but not much said by the tories, the whigs
continuing very uneasy that the consignee did not
decamp and retire to Cheffamuttock.—Sunday the
Conferee went to Meeting, the people much dif
fitisfied: T he worthy Veteran Capt. J —n with
inoft of his family and several others came to our
Meeting, declaring they could not worship with
a man who had done all in his power to ruin his
country. 4 —Monday morning a general diffatisfac
tion thro' the town; Cot Watson much alarm'd,
made it bis business to talk with all he met, and
assured them that Mr. Hutchinson should go out
of town asdoon as the fley could be repaired, and
desired thatthe people would be patient till the
morrow. The people insisted that he should go
out immediately ; and ifMr. Hutchinson had not
gone off that afternoon, I dont know what would
have been the consequence."
Iff Let theenemies to their country, from the
condu& and fate of the fugitive Configures, learn,
that it is unfafe to aid a tyrant in any attempt to
,save a people born and determined to remain free.
In theHou fe of Representatives, Feb. 5, 1774.
Ordered, that Mr. Adams, Mr. Phillips, Col.
Borers, Col. Warren, and Col. Lincoln, be a
Committee to wait on his Excellency the Gover
nor with the following answer to his speech to
both Houses at the opening of this fellion.
May it please your Excellency,
OUR speech to both Houses at the opening
I of this session, has been duly considered in
the House of Representatives.
The equitable adjustment of the disputes which
have subsisted between the English inhabitants of the
town of Edgartown, and the Indians of Martha's
Vineyard, refpeeing the claim to the island Chap
poquiddeck, had the particular attention of the
two Houses of this Assembly in the last session. A
Committee was then appointed to repair to the
place in the recess of the Court, and report the
circumstances of that affair. Their report is dai
ly expe&ed, and we trust that the difference will
-be fettled to the reasonable Satisfaction of the In
dians before the close of the present session.
With pleasure we hear from your Excellency,
that there is reason to expert his Majesty's con
firmation of the settlement of the western line of
this province, where it is bounded on the eastern
line of the province of New-York. This Settle
ment, not only tends to bring to an issue, a dis
pute which has been the source of much mifehief,
but also to establish harmony between his Majesty's
colonies ; upon which their own fafety and welfare,
as well as the interest of Great -Britain, at this
juncture more especially, so much depends.
It affords great Satisfaction to this House, to
find, that his Majesty has been pleased to put an
end to an undue claim heretofore made by the
Governors of this province; grounded upon a
supposition, that the consent of the chair was ne
cessary to the validity of the judicial ads of the
Governor and Council. Whereby their proceed
ings, when fitting as the Supreme Court of Pro
bate, and as the Court for determining in cases of
marriage and divorce, have been so often impe
ded. Ihe royal order, that the Governor (hall
acquiesce in the determination of the majority of
the Council, refpeCts not the Council only, but
the body of the people of this province. And
bis Majesty has therein shewn his regard to jufice,
as well as the interest and convenience of his fub
jecls, in referring a clause in the charter from a
conftruCtion, which in the opinion of this House,
was repugnant to the express meaning and intent
of the charter, inconsistent with the idea of a
Court of Justice, and dangerous to the rights and
property of the Subject.
Your Excellency is pleased to inform the two
Houses, that you are required to lignify to them
his Majesty's disapprobation of the appointment
of Committees of Correspondence in various in
stances which fit and act during the recess of the
General Court by prorogation. You are not pleas
ed to explain to us the grounds and reasons of
his Majesty's disapprobation : Until we shall
have such explanation laid before us, a full an
swer to this part of your speech will not be ex
pected from us. We cannot however omit fay
ing upon this occasion, that while the common
rights of the American fubjeAs continue to be at
tacked in various inßances, and at times when the
several Assemblies ate not fitting, it is highly ne
aehary that they should correlpond with each
other, in order to unite in the most effectual
means for the obtaining a redress of their griev
ances. And as the fittings of the General As
semblies in this and most of the colonies depends
upon the pleasure of the Governors, who hold
themselves under the direction of Administration,
it is to be expected, that the meeting of the As
semblies will be so ordered, as that the intention
piopofed by a correspondence between them will
be impracticable, but by Committees to fit and
aft in the recess. We would moreover observe,
that as it has been the practice for years past, for
the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of this
province, and other officers of the Crown, at all
times to correspond with Ministers of state and
persons of diftinCtion and influence in the nation,
in order to concert and carry on such measures of
the British Administration, as have been deemed
by the colonists to be grievous to them, it cannot
be thought unreasonable or improper for the co
lonists to correspond with their Agents as well as
with each other; to the end that their grievances
may be so explained to his Majesty, as that in
his jußice he may afford them necessary relief.
As this province has heretofore felt the great mif
fortune of the displeasure of our Sovereign by
means of misrepresentations, permit us further to
fay, there is room to apprehend his Majesty has
in this inßance been mifinformed : And that there
are good grounds to fufpeCt, that those who have
mifinformed him have had in meditation further
measures deftruCtive to the colonies, which they
were apprehensive would be defeated by means of
Committees of Correspondence fitting and acting
in the recess of the refpedive Aflernblies.
It must be pleating to the good people of this
province to find, that the heavy debt which had
been incurred by their liberal aids through the
course of the late war, for the subduing his Ma
jesty's inveterate enemies and extending his terri
tory and dominion in America, is io nearly dis
charged. Whenever the House of Representa
tives shall deem it incumbent upon them to pro
vide for any future charges it will be done, as it
ought, by such ways and means as, after due de
liberation, to them shall seem meet.
In the mean time, this House will employ the
powers with which they are intruded, in support
ing his Majesty's just authority in the province ac
cordingto the royal charter, and in dispatching
such public business as now properly lies before
us. And while we pursue such measures, as tend,
by God's blessing, to the redress of grievances,
and to the reßoration and establishment of the
public liberty, we perfwade ourselves that we
shall at the fame time, as far as in us lies, most
effedualiy secure the tranquility and good order
of the government, and the great end for which
it was inflituted, the fafety and welfare of the
people.
From the BOSTON EVENING POST.
May Liberty and Truth forever reign !
AL THOUGHI am an advocate for Great-
Britain, I trust that the generous Americans
will hear with candour what I shall offer in favour
of the Parent Country. The principles of hu
manity not only forbid all injuries to mankind, but
inculcate universal benevolence, and inspire the
noble mind with ardour for the happiness of all his
species. This humane affection will ever be warm
for our own country and nation; nor will differ
ence in sentiment, or injuries which arise from
error in judgment, extinguish it. I therefore be
lieve that the Americans, being animated with
those manly sentiments which freedom inspires,
will ever consult the welfare of Great-Britain;
and if they should be thus generously disposed,
they will permit me to point out what conduct in
them will be most advantageous to Britain. Which,
in Short, is, to preserve their own rights. —This is
the sum of their duty to the Parent Country, and
the greatest favour they can do her ; for if they
lose their rights, she will inevitably be enflared;
and if die is enslaved, she will soon become a pro
vince of France. These truths are clear to every
one who knows the Rare of Britain. Her un
bounded luxury and prevailing wickedness are
frequent fubjeCts of declamation ; but there are
but few who are properly impressed with their fa
tal tendency, and her imminent danger of total
ruin — The riches of the East and the Weft fail
to fatisfy the demands of luxury, and the com
merce of the world can never make avarice and
tyranny fay, it is enough —These evil paflions are
not to be Satisfied, and therefore to cure them
they must be opposed. I therefore, who am warm
with love to Great-Britain, and make her welfare
my study, give it as my heftjudgment, after long
and mature deliberation upon this important fub
jeCt, that the colonies cannot so effectually pro
mote the interest of Britain, as by preferring all
their rights and liberties intire, and opposing eve
ry encroachment upon them ; for this will rouse
the dormant spirit of liberty in England, give a
check to luxury and a spring to virtue ; it will
animate the good and restrain the bad ; it will open
the eyes of the people to fee their injuries, and sti
mulate them to obtain a redrefs.—lt is evident to
a demonstration, that the establishment of arbi
trary power in America (as hath been wickedly
attempted) would eventually be the deftrudion
of Britain ; and therefore the Americans are bound
by the double obligation of duty to themselves and
to the Parent Country, to preserve inviolate all the
rights of humanity. Thus it appears, that Great-
Britain is under the strongest bond of duty and
gratitude, to return her grateful acknowledgments
to the Americans, for their virtuous and manly
exertions in the great cause of Liberty.
A FRIEND to BRITAIN.
NEW- YOR K, Feb. 14.
Capt. Hynfhaw, from Gibraltar, but last from
the Weft-Indies informs us, that about the 20th
of October lad, a Leghorn frigate of 36 guns, took
and brought into Gibraltar, a Moorilh frigate of
26 guns and 280 m&n, and drove ashore three
others of the fame fort at Cape Spartell, arid that
many of their people were drowned.
Capt. Hynffiaw touched at the lfle of May for
water, and was told of a pirate sloop being off
that island, mounting 8 guns, commanded by a
Frenchman, and 'twas said the came from Cora
coa; had taken some provisions out of two wha
ling sloops, took the Captains on board his vef
lel, Shewed them a large quantity of dry goods,
and desired they might pay themselves; and that
it was imagined the pirate had taken the goods out
of a schooner that was a tender to a Ihip from Li
verpool that had been on that coast.
Capt. Hynfhaw failed from the Weft-Indies in
company with the brig Friendship, Capt. Illingf
worth, for Philadelphia, who arrived here last
Friday night, not being able to get into the Capes
of Delaware.
Capt. Raynolds from Tobago, the firft of Ja
nuary spoke with Capt. M'Eyres, from Dominica,
in the snow Union, bound for Philadelphia, all
well on board ; and a few days ago with a schoo
ner, lumber loaded, but did not learn the Cap
tain's name.
Feb. 17. The business of Kayafhoto, the great
Ohio Chief, accompanied by several other princi
pal Indians, with Sir William Johnson, Bart, was
to deliver the substance of several conferences held
amongst the Indians at and near the Ohio, whither
he is returned with several speeches, belts, &c.
from Sir William, tending to produce a change in
the conduct of those who have lately been disposed
to create troubles in that quarter; and the Indians
to the northward have, on their parts, sent some
spirited messages to those unruly people.
We are informed the inhabitants of Canada hate
sent over to England a petition praying for the
establishment of a legislature in that province.
Letters by Monday's poll from Boston intimate
his Excellency Governor Hutchinson's intentions
of embarking for England upon the close of the pre
sent session of the great and general court.
We hear the 48th regiment is arrived, from
Ireland, at the Grenades, to relieve the 70th bat
talion, which is to embark for England in the
transports that brought the former.
PHI LA D ELPHI A, Feb. 21.
Married. MIERS FISHER, Esq; At
torney at Law, to Miss SALLY RED
WOOD, daughter of Mr. William Redwood,
Merchant, formerly of Rhode-Ifland, but now of
this city.
Several pieces have been lately sent to the printer
for publication, some of which are too long for a
News paper, and others cannot be inserted before he
hasan opportunity of freaking with their authors.
*#* Ready Money given for clean linen rags,
by the Printer hereof.
CUSTOM HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA.
Inward Entries.
N o n e.
Outwards.
Snow Dickenfon, J. Johnson, Letterkenny,
Cleared.
Sloop Carlotte, J. Coburn, Virginia.
City of Philadelphia, February 14, 1774,
The ASSIZE of B RE-A D.
Fine Flour, at Twenty-one Shillings and Six
pence, per Ct.
Middlings, at Eighteen Shillings and Six-pence,
per Ct.
Rye, at Eleven Shillings and Six-pence, per Ct.
W'!e^e n dlb.o~ 'didd l . do. lb. oz Rye do. lb. oz.
iddoafiso 6| id.loafiso 71 idloafiso io' #
2d.ditto,o 13' 2d.ditto, o 14% 2d.ditto, 1 4^
4d.ditto,l ioi %d.ditto, 1 13; 4d.ditto,2 9
Bd.ditto, 3 § Bd.ditto, 311 Bd.ditto, § 2
I2d.ditto,4 15JI2d.ditto,5 B||i2d.ditto, 7 11
The C ITIZ E N. No. I.
Qiid verurn atque decens cure & rogo, & ontnis in
hoc sum:
Condo et compono, quit mox depromere possum.
Horace.
WHEN a man undertakes to hold a literary
intercourse with the public, he is ge
nerally accused both of folly and arrogance—folly
in attempting what has been so often attempted in
vain, and arrogance in wishing to be thought wiser
than his neighbours. Indeed the fad fate of the
many periodical papers which have been begun in
different parts of our continent, is but poor en
couragement to undertake a talk in which so many
writers abler than myfelf have failed—But as I
have reason to think my motives for writing are
different from theirs, I flatter myfelf with better
success. If we confider that most of them took up
the pen from a desire of being known and honoured,
we need not wonder that they soon laid it down.
The cold indifference with which they are firft
received, chills the ardor which prompted the
undertaking, and as Fame was the only obje& of
their pursuit, they quit with disgust a track iri
which they imagine she is not to be found. The
Essayist who now a-days writes with the hope of
popular applause, will find himfelf most sadly mis
taken: The generality of readers, offended at the
profeffions of wisdom he appears to make, resolve
with themselves to discourage his attempts, and
deny him the approbation they imagine he covets.
As to myfelf, I have no such end in view; my
ears are now too old to be tickled with the fea
ther of applause, and I am too well acquainted
with the world to exped or desire it. As the
Citizen therefore is no candidate for praise, may
he not venture to promise himfelf a better recep
tion and a longer life, than most of his American
predecessors? The confeioufnefs of his intentions
being upright, will support him in his labours,
arid serve to console him, should they prove un
fuccelsful.
To prevent this misfortune, and as far as pofli
ble to insure them success, it may be necefory to
give a short account of myfelf; for there are readers
of a certain cast, to whom no writer is acceptable
with whole chara&er they are unacquainted, and
therefore they infill upon knowing his history, be
it ever so infignificant. Though I am heartily
obliged to this kind cdriofity, which gives me so
fair an opportunity of praising myfelf, yet to fatis
fy it now would be exceeding the bounds I have
prescribed to myfelf; for as I intend my visits
shall be frequent, so I am determined they shall
not be long: I must therefore postpone it till some
future paper, and shall conclude this with a short
sketch of my intended labours.
And here 1 shall not follow the example of so
veral of my predecessors, who, after having pre
sented the public with a pompous bill of fare,
were so far from providing the rich entertainment
they promised, that they provided none at all—
but shall rather imitate him who, as Horace tells us,
“ Nonfumum ex folgore, fed exfuno dare lucem
“ Cogitat.”
I shall therefore only in general fay, that I shall
endeavour to make “ Truth and Decency my con
stant care and enquiry"-—to raise the head of mo
dest Merit arid recommend it to the hotice of the
world-=to intice the young to the practice of Vir
tue, by drawing her in her genuine charms, and
to deter them from following Vice, by plucking
off the mafl< that conceals her deformity. The
gay world shall frequently be the fubjed of my
Speculation, from whence I shall Strive to banish
the fafliionable follies, by laughing them out of
countenance ; and perhaps I may now and then
devote a paper to the sole use of the Ladies, for
whom I have the sincerest esteem and most pro^
found veneration.'
That I niay be the better enabled to carry on
this design, I would beg the correspondence of all
Such as wish to encourage it. Having Set up the
standard, I invite every virtuo^Pennfylvanian to
enlist under my banners, arid to tombat the nu
merous train offices which begin to infeftour city.
After having so fuccefsfully repelled the attacks of
Slavery, let us not Spare its accurled associates.
Remember, my countrymen, that America can
not long be the land of Freedom, unless it be the
land of Virtue;
b.
TO-MORROW MORNING
At NINE O'CLOCK, at
JAMES LOUGHEADG
VENDUE -STORE
The upper end of S ECO Nb.ST R E E T, will begin the
)£ of a general assortment of
MERCHANDIZE,
C^nffing of
SUPE R and Aiperfihe broadcloths, in patterns
and pieces ; best 10 4 rose blankets ; mens
youths and boys felt hatsj mens, womens, boys
C °% in L d 'bread hose, & Ci together with
houfhold and kitchen furniture, wearing apparel
&c. hand ' ed kniv “ forks in
On THURSDAY Next,
The 24th Instant, at One O'CLOck, at
FOOTMAN and JEYES's
VENDUE-STOR E,
The corner of Vine and Second-streets, will begin
the S ALE of a large assortment of
MERCHANDIZE;
Amongst which are
FI NE and coarle broadcloths, bearfkin< and
duffils, napt coatings; linen and cotton checks ;
Itiped and Ipotted lawns, silk gauzes, fuperfind
clear lawns and cambricks ; India perfians, banda
no handkerchiefs, tape bordered ditto, taffaties;
diaper and damalk tablecloths; woifted breeches
patterns; sewing silks; powder blue; Hyfon tea in
canisters, &c. &c. Alio, a quantity of PLA TE,
confining of silver waiters; tankaids, coffee and
tea pots, salts, tea spoons, cream jugs, silver cans;
punch drainers and ladles, soup bafons, &c. &c.
Houlhold and kitchen Furniture, Wearing Apparel;
Philadelphia, Feb. 21, 1774..
']'HIS is to inform the Public, that
A GRACE PARKER, from London, is
removed from Pewter-platter Alley to Market
ftreet, between Sixth and Seventh streets, where
she will open a school on Monday the 28th instant,
to teach young ladies reading and spelling, and all
forts of needle work in the bed and neated manner.
Those ladies and gentlemen who please to intruft
their children to her care, will much oblige their
most obedient humble servant,
GRACE PARKER.
A BILLIARD TABLE
To BE SO L D.
Enquire of the Printer.
WAS FOUNDS
A DUTCH BIBLE and PRAYER Book;
&1 The owner, by applying to the Printer hereofi
and pro^n^his property, may have them again.
Philadelphia, February j 8, 1774
TEN POUNDS REWARD;
WAS STOLEN, out of the house of the
fubfcriher, on Mon lay the 14th inst two
small SILVER WAITERS, London made
crest, neck and head of a unicorn. Whoever will
difeover the thief, so that he or the may be prose
cuted to conviction, and recover and deliver the
waiters to the fubfcriher, mail receive the above
reward, or FI V E POUND S for the waiters,
Silversmiths and others, to whom such may be of
fered for sale, are requested to stop them.
X M. N ESBIT T;-
W A N T E D,'
To attend a STORE ih an agreeable part of
the country,
A YOUNG MAN who understands the retail
1 business, that can be well recommended for
sobriety and honettv, and speaks the Dutch lan
guage. Such a person, by applying to the printed
hereof, will hear of good encouragement;
ALT, PERSONS that are indebted
to the estate of JOHN COX, late of the
city ofPhih.delphia, deceased; either by bill, bond
note, of book debt, arc requeued to nnke payment;
and all those having any demands against the Did
estate, are desired to bring in their accounts, in
order that they may he fettled by
Paul coy '
THOMAS BARCLAY,? Administrators.
CHARLES WEST;)
ALL PERSONS indebted to Mr,
WILLIAM PRICE, now in Eng
land, are defiled to pay their frefpe&ve de hs to
William Pollard, Merchant of this city, who
is fully authorized by said William Price to re
ceive the fame.