Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1773-12-13 00:00:00, page 2

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WE have long wondered here at theiupincnefs
of the English nation, under the Pruflian
impuiitions upon its trade entering our port. We
did not till lately know the claims, ancient and
modern, that hang over that nation, and therefore
could not fufped that it might fubniit to those
impositions from a sense of duty, of from princi
ples of equity. The following edift, just made
public, may, if serious, throw some light upon
this matter:
“ Frederick, by the grace of God, King of
Prussia, &c. &c; to all present and to come, health.
The peace now enjoyed throughout our dominions,
having afforded its leisure to apply ourfelvcs to the
regulation of commerce, the improvement of our
finances, and at the fame time the eating our do
meftie fubjeds in their taxes: For these causes,
and other good considerations us thereunto mov
ing, we hereby make known, that after having
deliberated these affairs in our council, present
our dear brothers, and other great officers of the
state, members of the fapre, we, of our certain
knowledge, full power and authority royal, have
made and issued the present edi<ff, viz.
" Whereas it is well known to all the world,
that the firft German settlements made in the
inland of Britain, were by colonics of people,
Subjects to our renowned ducal ancestors, and
drawn from their dominions, under the conduct
ofHengift, Horfa, Hella, Uffa, Cerdicus, Ida, and
others; and that the said colonies have flourished
under the protection of our augufthoufe, for ages
past, have never been emancipated therefrom, and
mt have hitherto yielded little profit to the fame.
And whereas we ourfclf havein the last war fought
for and defended the said colonies against the
power of France, and thereby enabled them to
make conquests from the said power in America,
for whieh we have not yet received adequate com
pensation. And whereas it is just and expedient
that a revenue should be railed from the said co
lonies in Britain towards our indemnification ; and
that those who are descendants of our ancient fub
jeas, and thence ftillowe us due obedience, should
contribute to the replenishing of our royal coffer's,
as they must have done, had their ancestors re
mained in the territories now to us appertaining:
We do therefore hereby ordain and command,
that from and after the date of these presents,
th<,re (hall be levied and paid to our officers of the
customs, on allgoods, wares, and merchandizes,
amd on all grain and other produce of the earth
exported from the said island of Britain, and on
all goods of whatever kind imported into the fame,
a any of four and a half per cent, ad valorem,
for the life of us and our successors.—And that
the fail duty may more effectually be collected,
we do hereby ordain, that all ships or vessels
bound from Great-Britain to any other part of
the world, or from any other part of the world
to Great-Britain, ffiall in their refpe&ive voyages
touch at our port of Koningfberg, theie to be un
laden, Searched, and charged with the said duties.
“ And whereas there have been from time to
time difeovered in the said island of Great-Britain
by our colonists there, many mines or beds of iron
stone ; and sundry fubjeds of our ancient domini
on, fkilful in converting the said stone into metal,
have in times pad transported themselves thither,
carrying with them and communicating that art;
and the inhabitants of the laid island, presuming
that they had a natural right to make the best use
they could of the natural productions of their
country fortheir own benefit, have not only built
furnaces for smelting the said ibne into iron, but
have ereCted plating forges, fitting mills, and
ftcel furnaces, for the more convenient manufac
turing of thq fame, thereby endangering a dimi
nution of the said manufacture in our ancient do
minion. We do therefore hereby farther ordain,
that from and after the date hereof, no mill or
other engine for flitting or rolling of iron, or any
plating forgeto work with atilt hammer, or any
furnace formaking steel, shall be eroded or con
tinued in the said Island of Great-Britain: And
the Lord Lieutenant of every county in the said
island is hereby commanded, on information of
any such ereCtion within this county, to order and
by force to cause the fame to be abated and de
stroyed, as he ffiall answer the negled thereof to
us at his peril.—But we are nevertheless graci
ously pleased to permit the inhabitants of the laid
island to transport their iron into Prussia, there to
be manufactured, and to them returned, they
paying our Pruflian fubjeds forthe workmanship,
with all the costs of com mission, freight, and rifque
coming and returning, any thing herein contained
to the contrary notwithstanding.
" We do not however think fit to extend this
our indulgence to the article of wool, but meaning
to encourage not only the manufacturing of woolen
cloth, but also the railing of wool in our ancient
dominions, and to prevent both, as much as may
be, in our said island, we do hereby absolutely
forbid the transportation of wool from thence
even to the mother country Pruflia; and that those
inlanders may be farther and more effectually re
strained in making any advantage of their own wool
in the way of manufacture, we command that
none ffiall be carried out of the county into ano
ther, nor shall any worsted bay or woollen yarn,
cloth, fays, bays, kerfeys, serges, frizes, drug
gets, cloth serges, Walloons, or any other drapery
Luffs, or woollen manufactures whatsoever, made
tip or mixt with wool in any of the said counties,
be carried into any other county, or be waterborne
even across the smallest river or creek, on penalty
of forfeiture ofthe fame, together with the boats,
carriages, herfes, &c. that ihall be employed in
removing them. Nevertheless our loving fub
jeds there are hereby permitted (if they think
proper) to use all their wool as manure for the
improvement of.their lands.
" And whereas the art and mystery of making
hits hath arrived at great perfection in Prussia,
and the making of hats by cur remote fubieds
ouphtto be as much as possible retrained. And
for as much as theiflanders beforementioned, be
ing in poffe£on of wool, beaver, and other furs,
have presumptuously conceived they had a righ t
to make some advantage thereof, by manufa&ur- 1
ing the fame into hit*, to the prejudice of ottr
domestic manufacture, we do therefore hereby
ftridly command and ordain, that no hats or felts
whatloever, dyed or undyed, finished or unfinifhed,
ffiall be loaden or put into or upon any vessel,
cart, carriage or horse, to be transported or con
veyed out of one county in the said island into
another county, or to any place whatsoever, by
any person or persons whatsoever, on pain of for
feiting the fame, with a penalty of five hundred
pounds sterling for every offence. Nor shall any
hat-maker in any of the said counties employ more
than ' two apprentices, on penalty of five pounds
sterling per month ; we intending hereby that such
hat-makers, being so restrained both in the pro
duction and sale of their commodity, may find no
advantage in continuing their buhnefs. —But left
the said islanders should buffer inconveniency by
the want of hats, we are farther graciously pleased
to permit them to fend their beaver furs to Prussia;
and we also permit hats made thereof to be ex
ported from Prussia to Britain, the people thus
favoured to pay all costs and charges of manufac
turing, interest, commifiion to our merchants,
insurance and freight, going and returning, as in
the case ofiron.
" And lastly, being willing farther to favour
our said colonies in Britain, we do hereby also
ordain and command, that all the thieves, high
way and street robbers, house breakers, forgerers,
murderers, so -tes, and villains of every deno
mination, who have forfeited their lives to the
law in Prussia, but whom we, in our great clemen
cy do not think fit here to hang, shall be emptied
out of our gaols into the said island of Great-Britain
for the better peopling of that country.
“ We flatter ourselves that these our royal re
gulations and commands will be thought just and
reasonable by our much favoured colonies in Eng
land, the said regulations being copied from their
own statutes of io and I I Will. 111. C. IO. —$
Geo. 11. C. 22 —23 Geo. 11. C 29 —4 Geo.
I. C. 11. and from other equitable laws made by
their Parliaments or from inftruCtions given by their
Princes, or from resolutions ofboth houses entered
into for the good government of their own colonies
in Ireland and America.
" And all persons in the said island are hereby
cautioned not to oppose in any wife the execution
ofthis our edict, or any part thereof, such oppositi
on being high treason, of which all who are fufped
ed shall be transported in fetters from Britain to
Prussia, there to be tried and executed according to
the Prussian law.,
" Such is our pleasure.
" Given at Potsdam this twenty fifth day of
the month of August, one thousand leven
hundred and seventy-three, and in the thir
ty third year of osr reign.
" By the King in his Council.
" RECH! M^SSIG, See."
Some take this edict to be merely of the King's
jeux d' esprit : Others suppose it serious, and that
he means a quarrel with England: But all here
think the affection it concludes with, " that these
regulations are copied from ads of the English
parliament refpeding their colonies," a very inju
rious one; it being impossible to believe that a
people distinguished for their love of liberty, a
nation so wife, so liberal in its sentiments, so just
and equitable towards it! ,neighbours, should, from
mean and injudicious views of petty immediate
profit, treat its own children in a manner so arbi
trary and tyrannical !
LOND O N, Sept. 20.
The Duke of Cumberland, we are told, means
to visit most of the Courts in Europe, in conse
quence of which he will stay abroad two years.
Sept. 23. It is said that his Excellency William
Tryon, Governor of New-York, will be created a
Knight of the Bath, in the room of the late Sir
William Beauchamp Prodor.
Sept. 24. They write from Rome, that the plate
found in the different colleges and churches belong
ing to the Jesuits is valued at one million of feudis,
and has been all confiscated It has also been dif
eovered that the Jesuits had lodged in the bank of
Venice, three years since, immense sums of money,
for which they had 60,000 feudis per arm. which
is now flopped.
They write from Paris that one Dr. D
was last month broke upon the wheel there, for
the murder of a priest. The Dodor was feventy
four years of age, it is said, and had twelve wives
living.
They write from Amsterdam, that a person in a
capital way in the banking business at Antwerp,
has lately disappeared with 700,000 ducats private
property.
Extract of a letter from Cleves, Sept. 31.
" The Council of Regency in this city have
published a Placart here, and throughout the
whole Dutchy, dated the 16th of this rwonth, the
tenor of which is as follows:
We Frederick, by the Grace of God, King of
Prussia, to all and every one of our well beloved
and faithful fubjeds, greeting.—Altho' you are
already informed that you cannot circulate any
Bulls or Briefs from the Pope, without haring
received our approbation concerning them, we do
not in the lead doubt, that you will conform to
that general order, in case that the Pope's Bull for
the suppression of the society of Jesuits fnould be
brought to the tribunal of your jurifdi&ion.
Wherefore we have judged it necessary to remind
you again of it; and as under the date of Berlin
of the 6th of this month, we have resolved for
reasons which moved us thereto, that this anni
hilation of the society of Jesuits lately promulgcd,
should not be published in our dominions; we
graciously order you to take within your jurisdic
tion the necessary measures for the suppression of
said Bull from the Pope; for which purpose, you
will immediately on receipt of the present, express
ly forbid in our name, under penalty of being se
verely punished, all Ecclefiafticks of the Roman
Catholic, Religion, dwelling within your jurisdic
tion. to publish the said Pope's Bull, which anni
b' .s the society of Jesuits. We enjoin you
.ee this order flridly put into execution, and
give us immediate notice in case that any foreign
dignified clergymen should attempt to fHp into
this country any Bulls of that nature.
Sept. 29. Orders are arrived here to prepare
provisions and pilots for five Ruffian ships of the
line, which will arrive some time in the month of
Odober in a port in the Englilh channel, in order
to take the said provisions and pilots on board, and
then fail for the Archipelago.
They write from the Hague, that the states
General have just ordered 1800 feamert to be raised
which are to man those vefTels that are ordered
to cruize in the north sea.
Oft. 2. A noble Lord has lately had a scheme
presented him hy which the public are to be re
leased of two thirds of the national debt in about
19 years, provided we are at peace, and that
without any additional tax on the people.
Extras of a private letter from Rome, Aug. 31.
" His Holiness, notwithstanding the extreme
rigour with which he proceeds against the Jesuits,
is disposed to render them service of a spiritual
kind; for which purpose he has drawn up a ma
nual of devotions peculiarly adapted to their pre
sent situation. In the con feffional part of one of
them are these remarkable words: We acknow
ledge with confu fion of face, that though we de
rived the name of our lately-suppressed order from
Jesus, yet too many of us have aded as if the Devil
himfelfhad been the author of our principles."
Oft. §. A letter from Warsaw, dated Sept. 18,
fays," Count Potocki, Starofte of Belzk, son
to the Waiwode of Kiow, some time ago, with
out the consent of his father, married the young
Countess of Komorowflci, who not long after her
marriage, was taken away by force, and it is said
she was drowned, which has occasioned Komo
rowfki, the father of the young Countess, to enter
a process against the family of Count Potocki,
particularly against the Starofte of Belzk."
Extract of a letter from Lifoon, Sept. 8.
" By a vessel just arrived in the Tagus, from
Magadore, a Portuguese fettlcment on the coast
of Africa, we have advice, that the St. Antonio,
a Portuguese man of war, had been ran away with,
and the Captain and crew murdered in the fol
lowing manner :—She had been on a cruise, and
being foul, put into a small cove on the slave coast
to careen. The crew were on shore during the
careen, and were overpowered and killed by the
natives, who launched the vefel, and were seen
in much distress by a small Englilh ship that put
in soon after at Magadore."
A correspondent observes, on the state of the
inhabitants in the duchy of Cleves, if they refufe
obedience to the Pope's Bull, they are to be ex
communicated as heretics; and if they comply,
the King of Prussia will puoifh them as rebels.
An extras of a letter from the Orkneys fays,
“ The weather here having for some time been
very rough, has retarded the intercourse between
the islands, and done great damage."
Oft. 6. As the several articles of life are at
present rated, it appears by a nice calculation, that
every country gentleman who has an income of
10001. per ann, pays no less than 3501. of it in
taxes and excise.
Monday afternoon a duel was fought in a field
near Hoxton, occasioned by a political dispute,
between a clerk belonging to a public-office and a
Liveryman who had polled for Mr. Wilks, where
in the former was run through the body, and now
lies at the point of death.
Oct. 7. The 66th regiment of foot, commanded
by Lord Adam Gordon, is just returned from Ja
maica, where it has been Rationed nine years, and
is ordered to Berwick upon Tweed. The above re
giment has been three times recruited since it left
England; and, including officers and private
men, there are only 15 out of 550 that have lived
to return to their native foore.
A poor illiterate shepherd in Devonshire has
inoculated upwards of five hundred people since
May last, all of whom have had the small-pox,
and recovered.
The Jane, Moran, from Jamaica for London,
a miffing ship, is fafe arrived at Dover; 30 per
cent, was refufed on her on Tuesday night.
The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered a
monthly return to be made of all the stores ex
pended in his Majesty's dock-yard.
The Ruffians have at length taught their ene
mies the Turks to fight. A generous foe should
never pufli things to extremity. The most des
potic power upon earth cannot counteract the de
signs of nature. Russia is, by along and bloody,
though fuccefsful war, deprived of inhabitants,
and exhausted in wealth. The Turks may now
insist upon terms which the Ruffians, in the height
of conquest, would not grant.
The present Grand Vizir of the Turks, Mouffom
Oglou, who is the bravest officer in their army,
has always shewed the greatest disposition to peace
of any man in their empire; the fame abilities
which gave him such a superiority in the field,
enabled him to comprehend the fatal tendency of
a war under the present weakness of the Turkish
empire.
Oft. 9. Like the people of England, who are
starving in the midst of plenty, the Empress of
Ruflia is in the greatest distress for men and money
in the midst of conquest: With this difference on
ly, our scarcity will every day be less and less
known, while her's will every day be growing
more and more distressing.
Letters from Paris by yeftarday's mails advise,
that Count Broglio, who was nominated to receive
Madame the future Countess of Artois on the fron
tiers of that kingdom, received an order on the
2fth ult. to repair to his estate at Ruffee, in An
goumois, to which place he is ordered into exile.
The reason of this is not known.
,The contractors with Government f r making
gunpowder, have received orders for delivering
in 4000 tons of that commodity into his Majes
ty's storehouses at Portsmouth, and 200 at Sheer
ness.
Yesterday an express arrived from the (Qneen of
Denmark and was immediately forwarded to their
Majesties at Kew.
A certain composer of mufick, in the service of
the King of Prussia, died lately at Potsdam. His
Majesty cxpielfed very great sorrow for his death,
ind killed him most magnificently: People were
at a loss to aflign a reason for the friendfhip which
this King pretended to have for the musician, when
the world knows his Majesty is an utter stranger to
sensibility. However, the true cause is easily ac
counted for; the King pretends to be a great
composer in mufick himfelf; the musician was mo
dest, and always confeffed his inferiority, and
celebrated the compositions of his Royal Master.
The trutli is, the King is but a second rate
scratcher of notes, and his principal composer was
inferior to him. We never envy those whom we
excel. What a blessed people must the fubjeds of
this monarch be, who can boast that they have a
Prince, who is the greatest warrior, philosopher,
poet, legislator, musician, and robber, in all his
dominions !
Oft. 12. It is positively determined on, that no
fliips of war shall in future be built in Merchants
Yards, as in the course of last war the exigences
were so great, that contrast ships were built at
double the expence, of green timber, which foou
after rotted. In consequence of this laudable re
solution, a fufficient number of fhipwrigbts will be
confequenly employed, and our navy always kept
upon a referable footing.
OR. 13. A gentleman returned from the inte
rior part of North-America, beyond the Ohio, in
forms us of a nation of Jews being difeovered
among the Indians, who call themselves the tribe
of Naphthali. Their religions woifhip, and their
tenets correspond with those in Europe ; but their
function so remote, and their not being engaged
in traffic like their brethren on this fide the Atlan
tic, are circumstances our correspondent cannot
account for.
Oft. 14. The officer who escorted the Abbe
Terray, when he was carried from Paris, desired
him not to be melancholy, since he might very soon
be recalled. “ Friend fays he, when one's con
science is easy, we need no coniolatien, Besides,
when justice is banished, those who remain have
most reason to be troubled."
On Tuesday the ferjeant who was ordered to be
shot, but afterwards reprieved, for enlisting men
and fending them into the French service, receiv
ed two hundred and fifty lashes on the Parade in
St. James's Park. He was so extremely weak
after receiving the punishment, that he was obliged
to be supported by two soldiers to the hospital.
He is to receive the fame number again as soon as
his strength will permit, and afterwards be drum
med from the regiment.
B OSTO N, Nov. 29.
ExtraCt of a letter from a Nobleman in Great-BrW
tain, to a Gentleman in this Province, dated 9th
of August last past.
" My sentiments in general, with refpe& to
America, are too well known to require any de
claration of them at present. One thing lam
certain of, that no Governor who follows the in
ftrudions of a British ministry will be agreeable
on your fide of the world, except a very different
set of maxims should take place with administra
tion. I never doubted the loyalty of your coun
trymen, nor do I know of any other loyalty than
obedience to the laws enabled by ourselves in a
body of representatives. The firft magistrates
execute these laws by accountable ministers, and
represent the Majesty of the people at large.
Another system of loyalty has been broached of
late, but by God's favour and the strength that
he may be pleased to afford me, I will not fuffer
it to have dominion over me. A stranger to your
particular sentiments of legal freedom. I shall
conclude this letter with a paragraph of one from
the Great PITT to me a few days ago, viz.
" On the other fide the Atlantic, we view a
world not yet enervated by luxury nor tainted
with corruption; of course, ardent and resolute
for LIBERTY. How affecting the fpcdacle!
How does the Honefl Daughter shame the Pro
fligate Mother."
Yesterday morning arrived here the ship Dart
mouth, Capt. Hall, in 8 weeks from London,
with 114 chests of the long expected and much
talked of TEA: Captain Hall firft came to an
anchor near the castle, and this morning came up
and anchored of the Long wharf.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 9.
On the firft instant, his Excellency the Governor
issued two proclamations, declaring his Majesty's
assent to two and his difallowance of two other
a^s of the Legislature of this Province.
CONFIRME D.
An act for eflablifting the boundary, or partition
line, between the colonies of New-York and New-
Jersey, and for confirming titles and pejefons.
Pafled in Feb. 1771.
An aCt to fettle and eflablifh the line or lines of
defon between the city ^New-York and the Toivn
foip of Harlem, so far as concerns the right of foil
in controversy. Faffed in March, 1772.
DISALLOWED.
An aft more effectually so prevent private lotte
ries. An aCt to prevent infectious difempers in the
counties therein mentioned. Faffed in March, 1772.
The Corporation of the city of New-York,
having lately revised and republished their laws,
have desired the clauses of a Law for regulating
negroes, mulattoes and other saves, to be re-pub
lished in the news-papers. By this law, no ne
groe, mulatto or Indian slaves, above the age of 14
years, (and not in company with his master, mis
tress, or some [white person of the family, that
owns or hires them) shall appear in any of the
streets, lanes or alleys of the city, south of frefh
water, after 9 o'clock, without a lanthorn, and
alighted candle in it, under the penalty of being
publickly whipped, not exceeding 15 lashes, un
less the owner will pay 2s. to the taker up, to
excuse the fame. Any person may take up such
saves, and carry them before the Mayor, or an
Alderman; or if at an unseasonable hour, lodge
them in the watch house till next morning.
Extract of a letter from Charleftown, South-Carolina,
dated N^v. 20, 1773.
“ The Tea affair makes a great noise here, but
nothing is yet done; it will be prevented landing,
without doubt."