Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-05-29 00:00:00, page 1

THE GREAT EXPENCE
attending the publication of this Paper,
obliges the Printer to request those Gentlemen
whole accounts have flood open for it longer than
twelve months, to dilcharge the fame as soon as
poflible.
For CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina)
The Brigantine
JE N N Y '
e rtflß±, XT 6 W laying at the Old
ertrerf; N Ferry-honfe wharf, h,
v^^ 4ruw 'l?%%^ genteel accommodationsfor pal
fengers, and will fail with all convenient speed,
having the greatest part of her cargo ready to go
on board. For freight or paft.ige apply to the said
matter on board, or to Mason and Patton, who
have for sale, a quantity of NEW RICE, <>f
the belt quality, and a few barrels of frefh LIME
JUICE:
TO BE SO L~ D,
By PUBLIC AUCTI ON, on the izth day of
June next,
AL L the Lands lately held with Lebanon Forge,
Situate, lying and being in Harford county, in
the province of Maryl nd, on a large stream of wa
ter called Deer Creek, three miles from the Chap
pel, the fame distance from the Lower Cross Roads,
and twelve miles from Harford. They will be fold
in four lots or divisions—the firft confiding ^f near
three hundred acres, part of a tra& of land called
Arabia Petrea, near one half cleared and the rest in
woodland, being the part next the Chappel, and
extending across the tra& to Deer Creek ; the se
cond consisting of nearly the fame quantity of
clear land and wood land as the former, adjoining
to it, and extending also across the tra(sf to Deer
Creek, on which there is a good feat for a mill ;
the third, intended for a mill feat, containing
about forty acres of Arabia Petrea and twenty-five
acres of a tract of land called Convenience', lying
on each fide of the dream of Deer Creek, including
the forge dam in good order and repair, and the
forge buildings. A grist mill and saw mill may be
erected thereon at a Small expence. The lad lot
consisting of two trails ofland called Rough Stone
and Isaac's Delight, containing near three hundred
acres. Tjie laud in general lies high and healthy,
is well wooded and watered, adapted to farming,
in a well fettled neighbourhood, convenient to
market and to many places of religious wo (hip of
different persuasions. Plots of the land mav be Seen
at John Rumsey's, near the premises, William
Buchannan's, at B Itimore Town, or Benjamin
Rumsey's, at Joppa. The terms of sale and the
title will be made known on the premises that day,
by WILLIAM BUCHANNAN,
BENJAMIN RUMSEY.
T ol BE SOL D,
For want of employ,
A SERVANT GIRL who has five years
and ten months to serve, is healthy, and has
had the small-pox and measles. Enquire of the
Printer.
Philadelphia. May 23, 1775.
FORTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
^^^=n^^ AN AWAY on Sunday
fr^'r? " evening last, from the sub
scriber, a certain J OHN P E
'ERS ° N> about five feet
high, very dim built, pale com
l' plexion, down look, Short curl-
I e d dun or moule coloured haii;
had on when he went away, a
waistcoat, cloth coloured
maccaroni breeches, good Shoes and flockings, buck
beaver hat, talks but indifferent English. Who
ever takes him up and secures him, so that the
fubferiber may have him again, shall be paid the
above Reward, and reasonable charges, by
WILLIAM DEWEES, Sheriff.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on Sunday, the 21st of May
inst. from the fubferiber, Tobacconitt, living
at Market-street wharf, Philadelphia, a servant man
named PETER CAPES ; had on when he
went away, a brown camblet coat and jacket, white
Holland breeches, linen flockings, check Shirt, and
Sioes with carved plated buckles ; he is five feet se
ven inches high, well built, full faced, big nose,
big mouth, thick lips, big grey eyes, speaks good
French and Dutch, but bad English. Whoever
takes up the above run- way servant and secures
him, so that his matter may have him again, may
depend on the above rew rd.
CHRISTIAN GALLY.
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, living in
. East Pennfborough townfllip, Cumberland
county, on Tuesday the 4th of April last, a servant
man named ALEXANDER CRAG E, about
five feet eight inches high, red f ce, brown eyes
and has a kind of a Stoppage in his speech ; had on
when he went away, a beaver hat about half worn,
a brown hunting flint with a large cape and a long
fringe on it, striped cotton jacket, buckskin breeches,
blue flockings, old (hoes and a large pair of silver
buckles,; he has an indenture with him with Tho
mas Baird's name therein. Whoever takes up the
Ind servant and confines him in Carlisle gaol, or
tarings him to Tobias Hendricks's, (hall have the
above Reward and reasonable charges, paid by
ADAM CRITESER.
O R,
GENERAL
VOL. IV.
M O N D A Y,
Philadelphia made RIFLE S,
For setting an edge to Scythes;
AL ARGE quantity of which are now made
ready for sale, and to be had, wholesale and
retail, at JOHN FOX's, Cutler, in Fourth-
Street, near Market-street. It is beyond a doubt
that they are proved to be superior to any thing
used for that purpose, they being more durable than
any kind of stones, and as cheap in proportion.
Much might be said in favour of them, but the in
cre fine demand for them within tuefe three years
fufficiently proves their value for thepurpo e of
Sharpening icythes, and they are warranted as good
and as cheap as any imported. Good allowance
will be made to those who take them to fell again.
—ls any of fid rifles (hould be found to cut too
sass, they may be brought to any degree of fine
nefs by rubbing a little grease over them.
N. B. A House rt nd Lot of Ground in Second-
Street, near the New Market, to be fold on reason
able terms, and the payment made easy. Enquire
as above.
FO~UR POUND S REWARD.
RAN AWAY on the night of the 21st of
.May inst. from the fubferiber at the Lower
Cross Roads, in Harford county, Maryland, an in
dented servant man named WILLIAM DUCY,
by trade a breeches niaker, ab®ut twenty-four years
old, five feet five or fix inches high, well made,
Short black hair inclining to cud, full faced, iuddy
complexion and a little freckled, speaks with a
broague, l eing from the weft of Ireland; he ap
pears in dress genteel, and on that account m>y not
be fufpe&ed for a run-away, having a new blue
broadcloth coat bound with tape and the holes
worked with the fame, a fine white (hitt; and a
piece of fine country made linen partly bleached,
buckskin breeches, very narrow ribbed white wors
ted flockings, a pair of broid ribbed pepper and
fait coloured ditto, a pair of Slices and a pair of dog
(kin pumps with the laps lined and bound with
white leather, odd (hoe buckles, and a good Iruh
Caroline hat cut a little in the f fhioni Whoever
takes up the said servant, so that the fubferiber may
get him again, shall have the above Reward from
JACOB LEMMON.
N. B. He can write and has forged a pal's, and
intends to go to General Gage.
TO BE S 0 L d'B~Y
ROBERT MACGIL L,
A few doors above the London Coffee-houfe, in
Market-street, Philadelphia,
HE NRY's exposition of the old and new tes
tament, 6 vols. Burkit on the new tettament;
Calderwood's history of the church of Scotland ;
Willifon's works : Doddridge's family expositor, 6
vols. Johnfou's, Bailey's, Young's, Cole's, Boy
er's, Paterson's, and Entick's di&ionaries; Jones's
new geographical gramm r, 2 vols. Gooch's sur
gery, 3 vols. Giant on fevers, 2 vcls. Monroe's
account of the diseases molt frequent in milita y
hafpitals ; Niecewentyt's religious philosopher, 3
vols. Whitton's theory of the earth ; Beatie's eflay
on the immutability of truth; Priestley's essay on
the firft principles of government; Mair's book
keeping ; RoulTeau's eff y on education, 3 vols.
Saxby's British customs; Leland's history of Ire
land, 4 vols. Dictionary of the bible, 3 vols. Jose
phus's works, 4 vols. Helfh m's lectures ; Martin's
philosophical grammar; Rohertlon's history of
Charles the fifth ; Calvin's institutions ; Smollet's
and Jarvis's Don Quixote, 4 vols. Tillotfon's works,
io vols. Tom Junes, 4 vols. Spectator, S vols.
T atler, 4 vols. Rambler, 4 vols. Guardian, 2 vols.
female Ipe&ator; Shaftfbury's charafteriftics, 4 vol.
Plutaich's lives, 8 vols, Rollins's ancient history,
io vols. Brook's natural history, 6 vols. Salmon's
gazetteer; Telemachus, 2 vols. Duncan's elements
of logic ; Messiah, 2 vols. Paradise loft ; Tiffot on
health ; Thomson's works; Thomson's seasons;
life of Buncle, 4 vols. Prince Eugene; Hervey's
Iheion and Afpafio, 2 vols. Hervey's letters ;
Montesquieu's spirit of laws; Vertot's history of
the Roman republic, 3 vols. Hill's, Fisher's, Wil
son's and Panton's arithmetic; Ilawney's measur
ing, age of Lewis the fourteenth, 2 vols. Seneca's
morals ; cbffical dictionary ; Yorick's sermons, 2
vols. Fordyce's ditto ; Ogilvie on providence ; la
dy's mifeehany, 2 vols. Roderick Random, Rcuf
feau's new Eloisa, 3 vols. Julia M.ndeville; histo
ry ot Emilia Beville; advantage of deliberation ;
Counters de Sancerre's letters; Raffelas Prince of
Abiffinia ? the hermit, 2 vo|s. Humphrey Clinker,
3 vols. Gil Bl s, 4 vols. Campbell's dissertation on
miracles, containing an examinatir n of the princi
ples advanced by Hume ; Temple's miscellanies ;
Chapman's treaufe on education ; Cyrus's travels -
a hind let loose; Voltaire's history of Peter the
great; Vertot's history of the revolution in Swe
den ; Pomfret's poems; lucubrations us Caffer
Greybeard ; Boston's illustration of the Christian
religion, 3 vols. Hale's contemplation; Rowe's
letters from the dead to the living ; Gray's works -
M'Ewen on the types ; Gay's fables ; Ramsay's po
ems ; Yorick's fcntimental journey, 2 vols. niflory
of Charles the twelfth of Sweden; Crookfhank's
history of the church of Scotland ; brown on liber
ty ; choice emblems for youth ; trader's sure guide;
Owen on fin ; la Ptinceffe de Cleves ; difeours fur
Thittoire univerfelle, 2 ton. Jett and song books ;
also a variety of chapman and childrens books.—
Where may be had, a general assortment of blank
books and dationay, &c.
N. B. Said Macgill makes ladies etwees, with
or without inft;uments ; also Morocco and common
pocket books of dirierent fives, where (hop-keepers
and others may be (applied with any number to
fell again, upon as reasonable terms as any import
ed from England; likewise date and asses-skin me
morandum books.
T O BE L E T,
A pleafmt genteel HOUS E well situated.
Enquire of the P RIN TE R.
D U N L A P's
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H^O^^^^^^'
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.
[ Continued from our last. ]
AS to the Salutatory Oration, and those up
on the Education of young Ladies, and
upon Politeness, although they did credit to the
young Gentlemen who delivered them confider-'
ed as College exercises ; yet the nature of the
fubjeffs did not admit of any reference to the
prelent state of cur affairs. But the conclufich
of the piece on ancient Eloquence contains some
thoughts worthy of public attention.
Fhe Speaker * observes that “ our modern
improvements, with all their advantages, lead us
often to substitute strokes of mere art, instead of
the marvelous force of genuine nature, regulated
and assisted by art. In" short, whether the dif
ference of manners and laws, and the good sense
of the moderns,, which chooses to address the
judgment rather than the passions, or whether the
fewer disorders in the present governments afford
less scope for the exertions of oratory; yet still it
might be expected in greater perfection in the pa
rent country, which enjoys a popular government,
if it were not for defects in education, and future
negligence and dissipation in public life. But
wnatever may be in this, since it appears that tr e
oratory is inimical to tyranny and fiavery, refuf
ihg to dwell with either ; and that the earlier
periods of Rates are most favourable to eloquence,
where liberty is in full vigour, where luxury hath
rot enervated, and venality cannot restrain, the
native efforts of a foul fired with the love of jus
tice; we may therefore hope that eloquence will
resume her former glory in these American regions.
Weare now in circumstances similar tothofe
which produced the greatest orators of ancient
days. The sense of Liberty is deeply implanted
in every bosom. We have not yet departed far
fiori that simplicity of life and purity of manners,
which distinguished ancient republics. Our Go
vernments are popular. Ihe arts and feiences are
fall advancing among us, and our present diffi
cult situation urges us to every effort for our po
litical lafety. These confederations should lead
us to cultivate this noble art, and cannot fail to
produce men, who, pleading our great American
cause, shall consume all before them, with the
ardent blaze of a Demosthenes, or the wide
spreading flame of a Tully.
“ This flame, my dear fellow fludents, lam
Eire, now begins to burn in your bosoms; and
therefore I need fay no more to recommend the
study of an art, which will render you illustrious
in life, and transmit your names with honour to
the latest posterity."
The next piece, being ah express essay upon a
fubjecff peculiarly interesting atthis time, will not
admit of extracts, without destroying its connec
tion, and therefore follows entire- -
On the FALL of EMPIRESf.
" A T this time of public danger, public tri
al, and public calamity, when even the
arts and feiences can scarce clairftattention, and
our country's fare alone—now awfully suspended
in the balance of human events'Lengrofies every
thought; I was at a loss what fubjedlto choose
meriting your notice. A melancholy one seemed
most suitable to the present complexion of things;
and therefore, with that humility and diffidence
becoming my youth, I determined to venture
a few fen iments on the Fall of Empires; judging
that they might be to us as a beacon let upon a
perilous place !"
“ I was the more encouraged to this, as the clas
sic writers, cur late masters, will lend me much
aid. for to have read them, merely as intro
ducing us to the knowledge of a dead language;
would have been to little purpose, if we had ne
g'eded the nobler lessons which they reach us—to
mark the fate of kingdoms, and particularly the
fleps by which Rome, imperial Rome, rose to the
summit of human glory, and fell again—low as
the dust of the earth , no longer civilizing and a
dorning the world ; no longer fbining as a city
upon an hill, nay, upon seven hills, but trampled
under the feet of barbarian swarms !"
"1 he cause of this mighty downfal had been long
foretold by Jugurtha—“ I'enaHs civitas! Mox
peritura, femptorem invenias." —Luxury and her
twin daughters, Venality and Vice tumbled the
“ nurse of heroes, the glory of empires," the
pattern of every human excellence, from her
once unenvied height, to the lowest abyss of in
famy and perdition ! When virtue and honour,,
which drew a willing fubjedion from lurrounding
nations, chafed to diftinguilh her; when that fu
peiir genius and enthusiastic love of ilert, which
railed her to eminence, and taughr her—" Par
cerefubjeCis, et declare fferbos." changed their
complexion into rapine and oppreflion: whenthat
impartialjuftice which protested the innocent,
and enrolled the fathers of the fta fr e among their
go Is, was converted into the venal voice of sena
tors prostituted to the highest bidder; when that
independent spirit which could derive all the sub
stantial comforts of life from a few acres of ground
* Thomas Ennat, R. B.
f Spoken b) iVilliam Moors Smith, A.B.
(^gl®U&^Wil
T HE
ADVERTISER.
M A Y 29th, 1775.
degenerated into a rapaciou foefs, which whole,
provinces could not fatisfy; when Generals and
Commanders Were not called from a hardy edu
cation in the camp dr at. the plough, but from
brothels, and all the effeminate scenes ofvoluptu
oufnefs and vice—l fay, when this melancholy
reverse ofcharaaer took place, then contempt of
government, licentiousness, fadion and anarchy
ertfued. The empire tottered on its foundation,
and the mighty fabric funk beneath its own
weight !"
," Such is the flux of human affairs ! As the bo
dy natural carries from the cradle the feeds of its
own diflolution, which ripen fafter or flower, as
fed by the hand of corruption and doth, so it is
in the body politic. Empires carry in them their
own bane, and proceed, in fatal round, from
virtuous industry and valour, to wealth and con
quest; next to luxury, then to feu! corruption
and bloated morals; and, last of all, to sloth;
anarchy, slavery and political death.
" So fenhble was Lycurgus of the truth of this
dofbine, that all political evils spring from luxu
ry, and that luxury herfelf is nursed by wealth,
that great idol which all men adore—l fay, so fen
lible was he ofthis, that the chief object of all
his laws was to render Sparta inaccessible to both.
But his experiment was in vain. There is no per
fection in human affairs, and it is a melancholy
reflexion that our greatest blessings and greatest
misfortunes may often be traced to the fame
source. The Spartan lawgiver, gloriously ani
mated with the love of liberty, wished to preserve
it by the exclusion of what he considered as its
greatest foes, wealth and luxury. But he seems
not to have reflected that there can be no true li
berty without fecuiity of property ; and where
property is secure, industry begets wealth; and
wealth is often productive of a train of evils na
turally deftruftive to virtue and freedom !
“ Here, then, is a fad dilemma in politics. If
we exclude wealth, it meft be by regulations in
trenching too far upon civil liberty. If(lie is ad
mitted, the fyren luxury, by fume called her
daughter, intrudes at her heels, and gradually
contaminates the whole family from which she is
said to spring,
" What is to be done in this case? Must we,
to secure the firft of blessings, liberty, strangle
her offspring in the birth? Would not this be in
evitable death to the parent ? Or, is there tri
pr>per life of wea th and civil happiness, the ge
nuine descendants of civil liberty, without abusing
them to the nourishment of luxury and corruption ?
To fay there is not, would be a disgrace to mo
dern morality as well as policy, improved, as they
ought to be, by a purer system of re ! i^ion.
The grand object then of modern legislation,
has been to regulate the use of wealth, but not to
exclude it. And to this end, all systems of edu
cation, all laws, all the efforts of parriotifir,
ought to be dire&ed. It is a pervetfion of names,
to call luxury a genuine defeendent, or even
the most distant relation of that illustrious fami
ly, which have true liberty for their head."
" IS Mandeville's principle could be admits
ted, that luxury is beneficial to mankind, by
disseminating the Superfluities of the rich, a
mong the poor, it must be a different fort of
luxury from what he describes. It must not be
that which ebnfifts in dull, felfilh, animal enjoy
rnent|; in minds flupified, and bodies enervated,
by wallowing for everin one continual puddle
of voltiptuoufnefs; For who are they who are
benefited by this? Are they not the very blotch
es and impofthumes ofhuman nature, the para
sites of the great, and the panders of their vice ?
And who are they that are injured by it? The
industrious part of the community, and families
veneiable perhaps for antiquity, as well as vir
tue. Wealth had better be consigned back to
the bosom of the earth, and buried ten thoufaqd
fathoms deep, than circulated for such purposes
as these; and the excuse offered for Such a cir
culation of it, is an insult upon mankind, while
a^s of liberality, beneficence, and above all,
love to our country, would Spread it abroad fl
the world, like the silent dews of Heaven, and
the balmy breath of Spring; not contaminating,
but refreshing and invigorating all around."
" I here is a certain degree of elegance,, and
a liberal consumption of the produce both of
nature and art, which become those who are
bleft with affiuence.; and if such with for true
luxury, we quarrel not with the name—Go!
enjoy the luxury, net of mere animal nature, but
the luxury of rational being, nay of Heaven it
ftl'—the luxury of doing good."
Go,likethe fun, ] e t bounty Spread her run,
And fliine your Superfluity away
To Gnkiog worth a cordial hand, go lend;
With better fortune go furpufe a friend l '
Go cheer the modest 'granger's lonely date,
Or Snatch an orphan family from fate.
I bifc are Inch deeds, as*ali with tears adrrre,
Such de&ls as spring fi o m virtue's noblest fire,
Dteos that, beyond ambition's vulgar aim.
Secure a firm, an everlasting fame."
[ (sxc.uued in tl, Fourth !'.,<'
NUMB. 188.