Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1774-03-07 00:00:00, page 1

For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
The following does no? appear t, be in the order of
time, by tie conclufa, but Ifend them as they
come to light.
FRAGMENT the IV.
From the avorb of Yorick AmericAnus.
,A-%AA)NCE I was a happy father ; a
} /T^ , sweet angel like babe clung to his
^-c^ fond mother's breast, and wan
^% ~ ^ty,ton'din her arms; his little spark
r ^^ { li n g e y es eager to disclose the faint
XSY-Y/\r+' impressions etch'd on his infant
mind, thrilled ajoy through my foul, which was
heavenly to feel—all the sweetness of unspotted in
nocence beamed through every look, and I gazed
with delight, whilst die clasped him to her bosom;
all the wealth of the Indies, was far beneath the
value of my darling boy: The unfriendly passions
had not yet taken root; naythe foil of his foul
feem'd incapable of producing them.—Oft have I
stolen to his curtains, after leaving him funk in the
nurturing arms of deep, and found his little foul,
animating every feature, with spreading arms, and
uplifted eyes, as it engaged in serial intercourse
with his maker, and ready to start from its earth
ly mansion: Sweet heavenly innocence would I
cry, snatching the beloved babe to my bosom, and
is there in nature a wretch so devoid of feeling as
to injure one of theft.—What though it pleased
an all-wife Providence to deprive me of my boy !
I revere the arm that smote me, and view with a
degree of soothing anguish the blefling c of others;
though they recall to my mind the objed of my
once doating affe&ion, my heart expands towards
them, and unites with that sweetness and innocence
so strongly depicted in their countenances —To
parents principally would I apply, more especially
to those who hare felt the heart-piercing stroke,
of loosing a beloved, perhaps an only child—Ye
fathers, ye mothers, ye tender anxious guardians
of helpless infancy, stand round and gaze with
wonder—ye Arabs of the defart, ye savages of
the wilderness, ye swarthy Hottentots beyond the
line, ye fierce and mighty of the sorest, ye mon
gers of the deep, crowd round in horrid range,
and fay which amongst you all deserts its offspring?
—Methinks I hear them unite in one dilmal yell,
all, all, defend, protect their young; 'tis Nature's
grand decree, and cursed is the wretched being that
breaks the heavenly order. —But whence this gene
ral fummons?— Thohas torn the helpless infant
from the breast ?— IVho has deprived the sweet in
nocents, of a mother's anxious watching care ? Is
there a worse than monster in human Shape, that
has broken through the foleinn band.—Why
Shrinks thou back—speak out, and brand the
wretch if such a one there be—And must I fpeak—
well, take it then whoe'er thou art —I have been
told, and with horror I heardit, that 'tis the fate
of many a poor unhappy Have, to have her new
born babe torn from her arms, and given away
for ever, like a kitten or a puppy, by her cruel own
ers, merely because they do not choose the trou
ble of these poor little intruders.—Are you a fa
ther or a mother ? have you ever felt the ties of
parental affection ? have the tender cries of a help
lefsinfant ever pierced your breast? has your heart
ever yearned to the child of your loins? have all
the powers of nature been raised within you when
you have seen them languish in pain and sickness?
have your fouls ever been poured out in supplica
tion for their reliefand restoration? and can you
then thus cruelly inflia such unmerited pain .'—
Think you not that these poor unhappy wretches
are fufficiently wretched in their state of abje& Sla
very, without this wanton aggravation of their
misery? or think you, that the great God of the
tiniverfe, who has bestowed on every other of his
creatures, that strength of affection so necessary
for the preservation of their species, has for once
waved the exercise ofhis wisdom, and framed them
devoid of those passions, which form the basis of
our happiness on earth? But alafs ! with blushing
and confufion of face I am forced to acknowledge,
that man, formed in the image of his maker, the no
blest part of his creation, in these, and numberless
other instances, finks himfelf beneath the rank in
which his creator has placed him.—These, my
Gratio, are sentiments which I would wifli one in
your station to urge—you whom all revere, you,
my Gratio, methinks might some how interpose in
behalf of the wretched mothers, and save their
tawny offspring.—You have taught me to feel the
full force of plaintive woe; but alafs my pow
er to do the good I could with, is circumscribed.
We have often agreed, that a Prince with the
heart of David, the head of Solomon, and the ar
bitrary power of an eastern Monarch, would make
mighty reformations in a nation; were these
devolved on the friend of my Gratio, I am well
assured that not a Have master would be left alive
• —But stay, my friend, judge not too rashly, I mean
no more than to emancipate their slaves, and of
them I would make a ufeful and happy people, on
lands now uncultivated and waste—Adieu, my
Gratia.
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GENERAL
V O L. 111.
MONDA Y,
The C ITIZ E N. No. 11.
Dulce ridentem Lalagen amabo,
Dulce loqucnt&m. Horace.
IT has been observed, that in those nations
where there is the most general intercourse be
tween the sexes, the women are most sensible and
the men most polite. This will be accounted for
by considering that we generally adopt the senti
ments, and contrad the manners, of those with
whom we are conversant. I Shall therefore em
ploy this paper in aligning some reasons which
prevent, and the advantages which might attend
a more general intercourse.
The young gentlemen of our day seem to take
very little plealure in the company of the ladies.
They tell you there is neither entertainment or
improvement to be found in it---That fafhions and
dress take up so much of their time, as to leave
no leisure for any thing else. This they are
themselves to be blamed for. Did they Shew a
proper regard for the conversation of the fair sex;
did they properly prize intellectual beauties; did
they introduce Subjects of moment, they would
find the ladies could speak on them with elegance
and propriety. I have had the happiness of being
acquainted with several ladies who in this way
excelled; and a good sentiment delivered by an
agreeable woman, has an additional beauty---
There is a foftnefs and gentleness in their natures
well fitted to overcome the ruggedness of ours.
Sympathy and companion, virtues which adorn
humanity, are eminently conspicuous in the female
sex, from whom we may learn to feel them.
Exclusive of Religion, I know of nothing which
refines the sentiments so much as the conversation
of a modest woman.
On the other hand, as the beautiful part of the
creation, by their necessary employments, have
not the advantages for acquiring knowledge which
our sex have, the company and conversation of
the gentlemen is a means of procuring what their
contracted education must otherwise deny them.
If the ladies Shewed a proper regard to men of
merit, it would be an additional incitement to the
gentlemen to improve themselves. But pardon
me when! fay, this is too little the practice of the
present day ;---in order to gain their approbation,'
it is not only necessary, that a man Should have a
good opinion of himfelf, but by his behaviour he
must shew them that he has: While the man of
sense pays the most delicate compliment in his
power, by approaching them with the greatest de
ference and refpe&, they disregard this real ac
knowledgement of their merit, and readily listen
to those studied epithets of flattery which the fop
has committed to memory, and repeats to every
lady he is acquainted with.
As I before observed to the gentlemen, I must
now fay to the ladies, that the improvement of
the other sex in a great measure depends on them;
they have much in their power---their unbounded
influence over our sex gives them an opportunity
of moulding us as they please---Discard the flat
terer---Blufh not, my fair countrywomen, to en
tertain him who values you for your internal as
well as external endowments : The man of sense
is the best judge of what is really valuable---
Observe the qualifications in you he values; endea
vour to cultivate and improve them; thus will
there be no need of flattery; you will really pos
sess those virtues, which it now gives you so much
pleasure to be told of.
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WHEREAS a certain WILLIAM MENTZ
has printed and published for sale, without
my knowledge or consent, a pamphlet entitled
" The Vision of Thomas Say," which is but an in
correft and imperfect part of what I propose to
make public; neither do I know how or where he
got the copy, as I never intended what I have
wrote on that head Should be published during my
life. The publishing any thing in any man's name
without his knowledge or consent is, in my opini
on, very unjustifiable, and often attended with ill
consequences: It is therefore hoped the public will
discourage such unwarrantable practices, by not
purchasing the said pamphlet ; and all printers are
hereby desired not to aid or assist the said Mentz, or
any one else, in such wrong proceedings, which
will oblige their friend,
THOMAS SAY.
PHILADELPHIA BOTTLED
AMBER BEER AND PALE CYDER,
Warranted good, and carefully put up, fit for the
Weft-Indies, or any other climate, to be fold by
ISAAC G R A Y,
In Chefnut-ftreet, near Strawberry Alley,
Who bath also for SALE,
OLD Madeira, LiSbon, Mountain and Tene
ritfe wines, by the calk or smaller quantity ;
choice red Port, claret and other wines, in bottles;
old Jamaica spirits; brandy, Geneva, and London
porter ; fuperfine Hyfon tea, loaf sugar, coffee,
chocolate, mace, cinnamon, cloves, nutmegs, pep
per, alfpice, good indigo, madder, redwood, and
bottling corks ; Sharp white wine and cyder vine
gar, by the barrel or gallon; Cheshire, Gloucester
and home made cheese, &c.
Orders executed with care and dispatch.
D U N LA P's
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February 4, 1774,
BY ORDER of the Orphan's Court will be
fold, by public vendue, on the 14th day of
March next, on the premises, a tra& or parcel of
LAND, containing 150 acres of choice good
land, well watered, and the uncleared part is well
timbered ; in a healthy part of the country, about
seven miles from Newport, and one mile from Oc
ceffion Meeting-house, in the manor of Steining,
Millcreek hundred, and county of Newcastle ; part
of the real estate of Harman Gregg, deceased.
There are about 70 acres of it cleared and in good
fence, some meadow, and more may be made, a
bearing orchard, a considerable number of young
trees planted in the fields, and some old buildings.
Attendance will be given by the fubferiber at the
said place on the day of sale.
MARY GREGG, Administratrix.
AGENTEEL dreffedyoung woman,
who a considerable time ago took out of a
Shop in this city three and a half yards of black
fattin, in order to shew her mamy, as she laid, but
never since returned, is now desired to return it,
or the value; if not, she may expe& to meet with
such treatment as she deserves. The owner never
could fee her since (though near two years) till a
few days ago, when she was walking with some
people he did not know, and for fear of offending,
omitted speaking until firft giving this notice; but
if this does not move her memory to call, let her
not be surprised if some day She is tip'd on the
shoulder.
For CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina)
fr^^. The Brigantine
SEA NYMPH,
JOSEPH BLEWER,
Master;
A NEW vessel, conveniently
" provided with genteel ac
commodations for passengers ;
will fail with all convenient
speed. For freight or passage apply to Joseph
Blewer, at his house in oouthwark, or on board,
at Mr. Joseph Sims's wharf, or to Daniel Robin
son, at his dore on said wharf, who has for sale,
Carolina SOAL LEATHER, NEW RICE,
PINK ROOT and TOBACCO.
For CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina)
Z^^ The Brigantine
&CHARLESTOWN PACKET,
SAMUEL WRIGHT,
Master;
SHE " provided with genteel
° accommodations for paffen
%!^^^%„„gers ; two thirds of her cargo is
ready to go on board, and will
fail with all convenient speed. For freight or pas
sage apply to Uriah Woolman, William
Sykes, or said matter on board, at Clifford's wharf.
N. B. Rice, Indigo of the firft quality, wine in
quarter calks, Albany Peafe, and Carolina Soal
Leather to be fold, enquire as above,
to-m 0 r r 0 w,
At ONE O'CLOCK, at
JOHN HART's
VENDUE-STORE,
At the corner of South and Front-Streets,
Will begin the SALE of a large and neat
assortment of
MERCHANDIZE.
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By the Earl of Halifax Packet, Capt. Bol
derson, arrived at New-York in 11 iveeks
y?om Falmouth, ave have the folio-wing advices.
B A S S O R A, 7^,27.
KERIM KAN, regent of Persia, has sum
moned the Turks who command in this city,
to deliver up the Persians, Armenians, and others,
fubjeds of Persia, who are fettled here under the
dominion of the Porte. There is great reason to
think the obje& of this demand is to oblige the
Persians, &c. to purchase their liberty of conti
nuing here.
Scarce were we delivered from the pestilence,
when Kiab, Chief of an Arabian Hord, came to
besiege us, and continues still before this place;
his people pillage, according to their custom, all
parts that are defencelefs, and have burnt the
Turkish and other vessels that were on our coast
and in the port. Our trade fuffers greatly from
their incursions. The chief of the Englilh fac
tory is fled, with all of that nation to Bombay,
and no ship from India has since arrived here.
Aleppo, Aug. 31. The Turks fay, that they
have not for 86 years past experienced the cala
mity of the plague to that degree they have late
ly at Baffora and Bagdad. On the 19th of Janu
ary last the plague broke out in the suburbs of the
last mentioned place, and began to spread into the
city ; and in the months of February, March, and
April, its progress was so rapid, that ouf of
400,000 inhabitants, there remained but a fourth
part. The inhabitants of Hela, Irnan Aly, Iman
Huflein, and Iman Mouffa, all proved the victims
of the contagion. The Pilgrims who came to
those places in April, as usual, to pay their devo
tions, found nothing but dead caicafes and empty
habitations. The Pilgrims from Iman Aly, and
the Jew families who had efeaped from Bagdad,
T HE
ADVERTISER.
M ARC H 7th, 1774-
went to Baffora, and carried the contagion there.
Towards the end of March the Christians and
Francs took the necessary precautions to escape
the infection : But the Muffulmen felt the efte&s
of it most dreadfully. Eight thousand Turks in
one quarter of the town only, died between the
15th and 25th of April; and out of s'oo dome-
Picks belonging to the Governor, he had but one
slave left alive, who was employed in fetching
rice for the subsistence of his master. There were
100,000 in that city, out of which 80,000 died,
5000 escaped into the Persian gulph, 5000 others
recovered from the distemper, and 10,000 were
so happy as to escape the infection. The hot wea
ther in May put a flop to the distemper at Bagdad,
and by the 10th of June Baffora was free from it.
An Armenian Roman Catholic Priest, 80 years of
age, who pradifed as a physician, entirely escaped
the infedion, though exposed to the utmoftin
relieving others. The tribes of Arabs, encamped
between Baffora and Bagdad,fuffered prodigiously.
Kerim-Kan, regent of Persia, by drawing a lina
of Troops along the frontiers of his kingdom, pre
served it from contagion. The Chief of the En
glish factory at Baffora retired to his country
house, but the plague purfwing him, he found means
to escape to Mafcat on board a small English ves
sel. The merchants and other English there, en
deavouring to follow his example, embarked on
board another vessel, but had the misfortune tube
taken by the pirates of the island of Karek, and
carried to Benderik, a port in Persia, where they
are treated but indifferently. The sick they left be
hind in the hospital all died. The Bishop of Baby^
lon Shut himfelf up, in hopes to escape the infemion
by that means; but, having loft all his domefticks,
was forced to go out to procure subsistence, and be
ing seized with the plague, died of it.
Conflantinop'e, OR. 4. The deference ffiewn to
the French Ambassador by the Porte, in releasing
Prince Repnin at his requisition, in which he was
backed by the BritiSh Ambassador, gives room to
presume that the Porte intends, in case Russia ap
proves of it, to give these two Ambafladors the
precedency in meditating a peace ; at least, it is
certain that for some time past they have had fre
quent conferences together.
Conflantinople, Oil. 4. The Tartar Han, who
had failed with our fleet for the Crimea, far from
having succeeded in his enterprize, had been ob
liged to quit that peninsula. We learn also front
the Grand Vizier's camp, that last month four
Pachas, with between 30 and 1.0,000 men, made
an attempt upon Carafoujou, but after a Sharp
Skirmish, were not only constrained to abandon the
field of battle, but also to fly, with the loss of
their heavy artillery, baggage, military stores and
provisions.
Malta, OR. 4. This day came into our port, a
TurkiSh vessel, taken by one of our Ships, laden
with barley, beans, &c. and had fix Turks and
three Hebrew merchants on board. A few days
ago also came in here a vessel with 45 Turks, men
and women. She was laden with divers forts of
merchandize. Eight Turks were killed, and fe
▼eral Maltese wounded in the engagement. It is
observable that in the attack the women threw
their own children into the sea, to prevent their
being made slaves; but every possible means were
used by the Maltese to save them.
Madrid, Oe. 5. The court of Spain seems de
termined not to be fatisfied alone with the entire
ruin of the jefuits, but has resolved to strike en
tirely at the root of papal and ecclesiastical power.
This great work is begun by his most Catholic
Majesty having demanded of his holiness the sole
right of nomination and investiture of all the Bi
shops in the Spanilh dominions; and has likewise
requested the Pope's Bull for the abolition of the
order of St. Dominick in Spain.
Meflina, Oft. 12. The last letters from Paler
mo mention, that the inhabitants of this place arc
still under arms, that they keep the gates of the
city Shut, and a constant patrole to keep any of
the principal inhabitants from absenting them
selves ; many of whom they have obliged to join
them to prevent the return of the Viceroy. These
letters add, that the Viceroy difeovered several
Noblemen among the seditious, and that one of
them Struck at his arm with his fabre, just as he
was entering the fiShing-beat to go on board the
Ship which brought him here, where he has not
yet made bis entry.
Naples, Oft. 19. We have accounts from Sicily,
that the Burghers and people of Palermo, finding
that the Archbishop's indulro and the decree of
the sacred council have not yet been ratified bv
his Sicilian Majesty, are preparing for the worst;
they have walled up three gates of the town, and
mount a strong guard at the fourth, which does
not permit any of the nobility to go out; and such
as have already retired to their country feats have
been brought back by threats of the deftruffion of
their boules if they did not immediately return;
they oblige two of the nobility to mount guard
with them at the gate of the town, and are so fear
ful of a furprize that they do not allow the church
bells to be rung ; they are constantly employed in
NUMB. 124.