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' However after having wandered about some time ia its
epopulattd flreels, a decribed half starved poor Britain,
who hearing us speak the English language, and lament
ng the fate of the capital of his country, made upto us,
nd with a dejected countenance, and great humility,faid,
Conclude, gentlemen, you are come from the Empire cf
America, n< rher to trace the ruins of this once famous
1:7, which was the MiPrefs of Europe, the feat of arts,
earmug, trade, and power; But, alas! her glory is va
rifhed, and her fun is set in the Weft ff, if you will ac
cept of my frvices I will conduct you to the most nota
ble and remark ble of its antiquities and ruins.
"To which ^replied, lead on, and you fnall be suita
bly rewarded for your trouble. — Here, fays he, ftocd
Weftminfler Hail §, which was built 1000 years ago, by
Wdl am Rufus, at the Weft end of it was the Courts of
Ju'ic, a little beyond, you fee an old walk that, ?was
par. oft™etwo houses of Parl ament, from whence in vir
tuou< ri :irs4. , their resolutions made the world tremble;
yonder s afi Id of turnips ||, where once flood the mag
mfrent. Palace of White Hall, as to St. James's, there is
no traces of that remaining; I believe it heed some
where near that pond t§ ; but folio • me, and I will shew
yu the r^mai^s of a much more venerable pile of anti
quity, here, fafy the honed Briton, it on Westminster
Abby, . hich was founded, Anno, 796, at the Eafl end
wa; the fafneu ' hapei of Henry VIL in which was in
tered must of our Eng ifn Kirgs and Q^ n s ; that, on the
ri-t, is the remaiuso? Qeen Elizabeth's tomb §t ; that,
on the left, is the tomb of King William 111, who was
once caked our glorious deliverer; as, for the rest, they
are all (wept away by time.
“ The wrole Church had been ornamented with the mo
numents of Admirals, Generals, Poets, Philosophers and
ether men of renown, two of which we only found legi
ble, that of Locke and Newton, some being quite defa-'
ced, others wecould not cemeat on account of the rub
bilh and ruins fallen in upon them; what a melancholy
reflection! that the one end of ths venerable pile once
dedicated to God and his Saints, should be now turned
into a f:ble [f.
“ Asd nad an epitome of this cnee famous city in my
band, I ordered our guide to flvw us the Admiralty-
HguH and Tre.-fury, the former be said, he had remem
bered to have heard ofy but did not know where it flood,
and that tiel iter had not for several ages had any ex
iftance; it being a name without a reality, or that the
kingdom hasn^a treasure, since he reign of henry VII.
He took us next where had flood several squares, but
their names had not come down cf him ; from thence we
passed on to what he call d the Innsof Court *4 which
were the only places we beheld with pleasure, because
there was not one stone left upon another, being all over
grooved with trees porfeffed by Rooks ft, St. Paul's
• Near Dover, or as some historians fay, at Sandwich,
then cal el Portes Kutufoinus, in the year 699 of Rome,
and 55 years before Christ, his firfl descent on Britain^
t Lendon oundedabout the year 49 Anno Chrifli, but
according to some historians, 1107 years before the birth
of Chri ft, and 35c before the foundation of Rome, by the
Trinobanties, and in the time of Samuel the Prophet.
X Sic Iran fit glcria mundi.
iff America.
§ Weftminfler Hall, built Anno 1097, 228 feet long,
66 broad, 90 high, the wall and floor of stone, the cupo
la, Irish oak covered with lead, and supported without a
single pillar; in which are kept the Courts es Chancery,
King's B neb, Common Pleas; and Exchequer.
1 Between the deeeafe of Charles I, and the accession of
Charles 11.
II A field of turnips, out of which it is said George I
was taken and brought to England.
X§ A canal in St. James's park.
(j In her time reformation began.
gift Alluding to the fialls in which the Knights of the
Bath receive, the order of inftellation in Henry the Se
venth, Chapel firft, instituted Anno 1399, at the accession
of Henry IV when a Knight is er,flailed, a bariotr with
Iris arms is hung over his flail, many of those banners
remained there to late as 1769, but any later account of
them is not yet found.
** The Inns of Court, beside the two Temples, are
Grey's Inc, Lincoln's Inn, New loh, Furneval's Inn,
Staple's Inn, Barnard's Inn, Thavy's Inn, Clifford's
Inn, and Sargeant's Inn.
ft A Rook is emblematical of a Lawyer : Those an,
cient nurseries of jurisprudence, at last produced men so
venal and corrupt, that they advised the making laws,
which proved the deflru&ion and overthrow of the Bri
tish Empire, and th? final reparation of her Colonies and
her.
Mr. DuNL A F)
S the Inftorical observations of Travellers and Cir
s cum Navigators, h?ve aboveall other writings, been
ift admired Gy the carious and judicious of all nations,
• folloving extract from the remarks of two North
nerican Travellers about the year 1980 who making the
lr of Europe, touched at EUihind to trace the ruins of
jonce farooutcry of London ; taken verbatim from
3 oritat mauuLript, published by the Editor some years
whin he raided in that kingdom.
Yorn's, &c.
RATIONALIS.
g; A FTER ap : .ffage of 40 days, we arrived in
Brit on, oil landed on the fame spot which
flius Carar bad done 2000 years before # ; here a poor
h<rml pr<cur ius two horses, which carried us through
ro d< aud miserable villages, to London f, where our
foniihment was inexpressible, to find this once imperial
ty, which was founded by cladms Carfar, the capital of
urope, whose circumference was 24 miles, and which, a
'tie more than bet zoo years ago, contained 1 million
Ipeople ; whose Churches and Palace severe almost inou
itrable, whole trade was extended round the habitable
lob", and whole conquering arms had subdued a great
art of Asia, ehtlived A ric-, and was sovereign of North,
ut now Imperial America : I fay, to find this ancient
id once mill august city, new fallen to a similar decay
cd ruin, with Brlbec, Perfepolis, Palmira, Athens, and
Lome, caused me to refled, on tne tranfitcry slate of all
rings in this worlds„
it St. Paul's, was founded Anno 610, en the ruins of
the Temple of Diana, by Ethelbert, a Saxon King ; con
sumed in 1666 in the fire of London, and rebuilt by Sir
Christopher Wren.
* Guild Hall, built Arino 14.00 in the reign of Henry
IV, Son of John of Gaunt, and Grand Son of Edward
111.
|| Alluding to young Allens, who was shot May 10th,
1768, in St. George's fields, by Macleane ; and George
Clark, killed at Buntfo d, December 8, the fame year by
Balfe and Macquirke, who all obtained the royal pardon
for those horrid murders.
I Thomas Harley, a Lord Mayor of London, was of
the Barbers company of Freemen; a contractor of cloath
ing for the army, and Member of Parliament at the fame
time.
f Royal Exchange, founded by Sir Thomas Greefham,
round the area of wh ch flood in niches, the statutes of
the King's of England from Edward I. The seven pil
lars comprehending the American walk, is where the
Merchants, and Captains of (hips who traded to that
Country before it became an Empire, met every day.
4- Before the final defttuftion ofthe Bank of England,
the purchasers in the 3 per cent flocks, by fraudulent Afts
of Bankruptcy, werealmoft ruined, by their being paid
at 881. and 901. per cent flock, which should have been re
deemed at full value, by contrast : Tte chief instruments
in compleating the deflruftion of this famous depository
of our National Credit, were the Ear's of Egremont and
Halifax, Secretaries of State, in 1764 ; and George Gren
ville, firft Lord of the Nominal Treasury, and Chancel
lor of the Exchequer, who firft introduced trade with the
Spaniards in America, and proposed the infamous and e
ver memorable Stamp AR, in 1765, which was repealed
the next year, by the succeeding Ministry, thus, the
Duke of Grafton, firft Lord of the Nominal Treasury,
Lord North, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Vifcaunt Wey
mouth, Bails of Rochford and Hillsborough, Secretaries
of State ; about which time, Paper Currency was prohi
bited in America; and in 1768, the Revenue A& was
paffed'; and all Commercial intercourse with England,
prohibited by the Americans, until the obnoxious Reve
nue Ad should be repealed.
Cathedral tt next presented itfelf to our view, , this ftu
penduous building in a great measure had refilled the all
devouring feythe of time, for its walls are frill entire;
the East end only hath fuffered, and t^e cupola fallen
down, it must when perfed, have beenas wonderful in
fight, as expeniivein building, and is at once a convincing
proof, not only of their knowledge in Architecture, but
of the great riches of this once free, and powerful na
tion.
" Not far from hence is Guild Hail *, whidh has esca
ped the annihilation of time, much better than any other
public edifice we have fieri; here it was that the indus
trious and frugal citizens, chose their four Members to
represent them in Parliament ; yonder you fee a flatute
of not a nominal, but a real and able patriot, Sir. John
Bernard; but alas! there are but very few such characters
to be met with, for firice tris time, which is about two
hundred and forty years ago, Members of Parliament
became Commissioners, Stock Jobbers, Contractors, Lot
tery Ticket dealers, as well as Ministers; and the
rights and privileges of the fubjeA were conflantly
violated, not only by bribery, corruption, and ^very fpe
ci?s of villainy, but Admi'nififation themselves, have
with brazen front openly ato wed the perversion of Pub
lic Treasure, and have contrould the electors in their inhe
rent rights of electors, whose blood | |has, more than ®nce,
been fpilt for defending such rights ; from which time we
rapidly funk, into the melancholy slate you now behold
us : But follow me, and yuto will soon be convinced of
the former magnificence of this onct famous city.
" Thtfe, are the ruins of the Manfion-Houfi; here,
cur Lord Mayors resided, you fee the extent of ground it
covered; nothing cf that vast pile remains, but yonder
wall, next to which, with some old materials, a barber |
who calls himlelt Harley, has built that fliop, and affirms
himfelf to be a defeendant of Robert Harley, Earl of Ox
ford, who was prime Minister about 270 years ago, I
advised him not to 6oaft of his pedigree, for his Ancettor
had been a Traitor.
" At a very small diflance from hence flood the Royal
Exchange f, seven pillars, and the south weft corner you
fee are yet landing, all the rest, is'one entire heap of
ruins; and, in that great area yonder, which you wow
fee turned intoa Cow yard, thousands of Merchants as
sembled every day, when trade was extended to every
part ofthe known world, and particularly to your's, out
of which great and opulent fortunes were made; -wretch
ed as you fee me appear, I am the descendant of one cf
them, but the miftakesand obfiinacy of our Princes, join
ed to the venality of their Ministers, in former ages,
fighting the battles of all the powers in Europe, subsidi
zing its Princes, and (pending more, than one hundred
and fifty millions, in keeping up numerous landing ar
mies, influencing Parliaments, hiring foreign mercenaries
for the diabolical (bucfruitlefs) purpose of subjugating
and enslaving yourcountry, has at length ruined the tra
ding, and with them, all other parts of this once flourifh
ing kingdom.^
" But, tioheft Briton, where flood the Bank? Follow
me Gentlemen, fays he, and you will soon fee the fpotj we
did so, and found it an universal ruin, scarce ohe stone
left upon another, altho' it was built so late as 1732, its
progress and prosperity, indeed, was very rapid, as a proof
of it, in about 30 years after its foundation, the directors
were enabled by an A& of Parliament, to buy and pull
down above one hundred houses, chiefly, to have an easy
and uninterrupted access to their's, and to enlarge the for
mer building, but, its fall was as fwift + ~, for it had not a
firm basis to fland on; its greatest gain confifled in discount
ing Bills of Exchange and Notes, and the emission of their
own Notes : This, tho very beneficial to them, was ne
vertheless a canker-worm to the adventurous Merchants,
with whose ruin, and the total lot's of our trade, their dif
coanting has not only ceased, but their notes become use
less.
" From thence our guide hastened us on to the South-
Sea-House, this was become a mere Jakes, though in
i„o, it was called a South-Sea-Company, incorporated
by a Royal Charter, under which name, it ruined a great
part of the nation, and many of the belt families in it,
fcr whi-h its Directors were punished by Parliament, yet
the bubble Was kept u,,'and the name of the Company
fuffered to exist for many , ears after, with twenty-four
Directors, with salaries of 150!. Sterling per annum each,
when they had not 6 pence trading fleck in the world, nor
had they any thing to do, but to pay dividends on a small
part of the national debt, which ought to have been done
at the Bank.
" Although fatigued with this days journey, we order
ed our guide to condod us to the East-India House, that,
fays he, has been destroyed these 190 years, for the blood
they filed in about 1760 in India, called fcr the righteous
vengeance of Heaven, which overtook them, and they
are expelled in all Asia; the barbarity and inhumanity
committed by them in the Mogul's Empire, about 220
years ago, history tells you, their own Directors at that
time acknowledged.
“ I could, gentlemen, conduct you to many other dis
tinguished ruins, such as the town, custom house, church
es, hdfpitaLss squares, &c. but trefe which you have seen,
I believe, you will think fufficie^t marks of this great ci
ties deflation, whole merchants were princes, whose traf
ficks were the honorable of the earth, but whose posterity,
alas ! are cow scattered over the whole world, and more
Specially to the empire of America, whither they were
followed by most ofour belt artizans and mechanics; and
wh ch is the real cause of your present power and gran
deur.
“ This is very true my friend, replied my companion,
but it was owing more to the depravity of youg rulers,
who, firft throw you into convulsions, and ended in your
ruin : As for instance ; do we net read in your annals, that
when a man| flood forth for the liberty of his country, he
was feezed by illegal warrants, committed to the tower,
outlawed, forced to become a fugitive, and accused of
being the blafphenaer of his God, when he was never tri
ed or convinced of any such horrid crime.
About the fame time, the American empire, which now
gives laws to so many regions, were fubjeft colonies ;
who being treated more like aliens than fellow fubjeds,
caused great disturbance, which eventually ended in your
ruin, and their imperial grandeur ; fcr whilst the impor
tant matter of right was in dispute, and the now imperial
Americans were supplicating, and remenftrating for re
dress of their grievances, your ministers were running
horses at newmarket. These with many other ads of
diffipatipn, intemperance, injustice, violence, ignorance,
and despotism ; all introduced by a baneful favourite,
ar? the true cause of your present forlorn and wretched
condition.''
X John Wilkes, Esq; committed to the tower.>
|| The Earl of Bute.
MkMX^MMiMMM^^^
WANTED to Purcbafe,
AS MALL Plantation, on or near the river Schuyl
kill, or some of its branches, at the distance of
fifteen or twenty miles from Philadelphia, and in a good
neighbourhood. Enquire of the Printer.
'j/ Paffyunk, May 15, 1780.
To be SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE;
On the twentfofeventh instant, between the hours of
three and four o'clock in the afternoon, on the
premises,
A Certain five acre LOT of very rich MARSH
MEADO W, ploughed, and lowed with timothy
feed four years ago ; situated near the new ferry leading
to the Province island, adjoining meadow of Henry Elves
westerly, and to Penrofe's arid Roberdeau's weftefly
and southerly. The said premises being seized for re
fufing to pay the public taxes.
Due attendance will be given.
By order of the County Commissioners.
Philadelphia, May 22, 1780.
To be SOLD by Public Auction.
On Saturday the 27th instant, at twelve o'clock at
noon, at the Coffee-Hcufe,
A VALUABLE PLANTATION, situated in Rye
townfllip, Cumberland county, containing two
hundred ana sixty five acres and 73 perches, with al
lowance, bounded by lands of Alexander Poor, Henry
M'Lafkey, and John Riddle. The land is good, 25,
acres of which cleared, and now in rye, Indian corn
and oats, and some meadow clear and fit for the feythe,
on which is a gooddwelling house, barn and stable. A
draft cf the premises may be seen at the time and place
of sale. A good title will be given to the purchaser.
N. B. The lower to be the reaper.
STI*— IW« Xi— iite— tel.!., .i..... OTC —._— emu CTycQtoQg
Philadelphia Manufacture.
TO BE SO L D,
By the fubferiber at bis MANUFACTORY in
South-Alley, extending from Fifth to Sixth.ftreet,
between Market and Arch streets.
A VARIETY of GOOD S suited to every sea
son of the year, viz. Jeans, Sagathies, Everlafc
ings, Shalloons, Coatings, &c.
SPINNERS employed as usual.
SAMUEL WETHERILL, Jun;
Wooddrop and Joseph Sims,
At their Score in Water-street, below the Bridge, Phi
ladelphia.
A N assortment of Irish linens, oznabrig and Sects
thread, jeans, indianets, Manchester cnecks, Ban
dona handkerchiefs, knives and forks, penknives, feif
fors, sleeve buttons, and a few cases of gineva.
A likely young HORSE, to be fold. Enquire as a
bove.
CA ME to the Plantation of the fubferiber, living
in Fredryffren township, Chester county, the r oth
instant May, a small sorrel HORSE, branded on the
near shoulder with the letter W, a small star and shed
before. The owner is desired to come prove his proper
ty, pay charges and take h m away.
JOHN ROWLAND,