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other provinces and counties of this government,
2nd to give inflru^ions to our Deputies for the
intended Congrels when chosen, in order that all
may unite in promoting, and endeavouring to
attain, the great and valuable ends mentioned in
the foregoing Resolutions.
On Friday morningdeparted this life, id the I ,h
year of her age, Miss POLLY STILES,
daughter of Captain Henry Stiles, and on the
evening of the fame day her remains were interred
in Christ-Church burying ground.
At a period of life when little more is expected
than the fair presages of future excellencies, this
amiable young Lady pofcfed the most agreeable
accomplishments and virtues of her lex. Her un
derstanding was solid—her fancy lively—and her
manners were engaging. Her virtues flowed from
a native sweetness and purity of mind; her faults
were unknown. But
The colors of exprefon are too feint ;
Let thought describe, what thought alone can paint.
Think what the DAVGHTE^ —Woman—
F R I F. N D foou'd be,
You've then her character —for fuel) was fee.
By the Honourable
J 0 H|N P E N N, Esquire,
Governor and Commander in Chief of the Pro
vince of Pennffvania, and Counties of New-
Caflle, Kent and Su,ex on Delaware.
A PROCLAM ATIO N.
WHERE AS I have received information
that some time in May last, a certain friend
ly Indian man, called JOSEPH IVIPET, was
barbarously murdered in the county of Weft-
Moreland: AN D WHEREAS there is great
reason to believe, that JOHN HINKSON
and JAMES COOPER, of the fame county,
were concerned in the perpetration of the said mur
der: AND WHEREAS it is at all times,
but more especially in the present situation of our
public affairs with the Western Indian Nations, of
the utmost consequence to the peace of the province,
that the perpetrators of such atrocious offences,
not only against the authority of government, but
in direct violation of the treaties with those Indi
ans, should be brought to condign and exemplary
punishment, I HAVE THEREFORE thought
fit, with the advice of the Council, to issue this
Proclamation, A ND DO hereby ftridly charge
and command all Judges, Justices, Sheriffs, Con
stables, and other Officers, as well as all other
his Majesty's liege fubjeds within this province,
to make diligent search and enquiry after the said
John Hinkfon and James Cooper, and to use all
lawful means for apprehending and securing them,
that they may be proceeded against according to
law. AN D I DO hereby promise and engage,
that the public reward of ONE HUNDRED
POUNDS (hall be paid to any person or per
sons, who (hall apprehend the said John Hinkfon
and James Cooper, and deliver them into the cus
tody of the keeper of the goal of either of the
counties of Lancaster, York or Cumberland, or
the sum of FIFTY POUNDS for either of
them.
G IVEN under my hand, and the Great Seal of
the said province, at Philadelphia, the twenty
eighth day of July, in the fourteenth year of bis
Majeftfs reign, and in the year of our Lord
one thous and seven hundred and seventy-sour.
JOHN PEN N.
By his Honour's comman I,
Joseph Shippen, Jun. Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA.
Inward Entries.
Brig Addison, T. Candell, Cadiz.
Sch. Yorke, W. Carlisle, St. Euftatia.
Sch. Joseph, P. Bubier, Guadaloupe.
Sch. Polly, W. Wyer, Ditto.
Brig Peggy and Sally, S. Crawford, Gibraltar.
Sloop Sally, C. Wood, Georgia,
Sloop Two Brothers, J. French, North-Carolina.
Ship Hope, R. M'Clenachan, Newcastle on Del.
Brig Two Friends, P. Brufter, South-Carolina.
Sch. Rebecca, J. Holden, Virginia.
Sloop Thames, W. Worth, Ditto.
Sloop Industry, C. Gale, North Carolina.
Brig John, J. Afhmead, London.
Brig Recovery, W. Lawrence, Liverpool.
Outwards.
Brig Betsy, R. Patterson, Jamaica.
Brig Rebecca, J. Shields, Ditto.
Ship Pennsylvania Packet, P. Ofourn, Liverpool.
Sloop Three Brothers, A. Mills, North-Carolina.
Sloop Joseph, P. Bubier, Marblehead.
Brig Addison, T. Candell, Ferrol.
Snow Sarah, R. Jones, Lisbon.
Sch. York, W. Carlile, Antigua.
Sloop Potowmack, G. Rowe, Maryland.
Schooner Two Brothers, T. Ellis, N. Providence.
Sloop Sally, J. Thompson, New-Providence.
Schooner Polly, W. Newton, New-Providence.
Schooner John, E. Howell, North-Carolina.
Cleared.
Brig Jamaica Packet, R. Stanfbury, Jamaica.
Brig Rachel, L. Simmons, Lisbon.
Brig Molly, J. Mullett, St Kitts.
Sloop Sally, C. Wood, Georgia.
Sloop Ranger, H. M'Cabe, Maryland.
Sloop Ranger, A, Lowell, New-England.
Brig John, J. Afhmead, Barbados.
Brig Ann, A. May, Madeira.
Sloop John, J. Spafford, St. Vincent.
Sloop Sally, T. Alberfon, New-York.
Brig Ann, J. Forster, Dominica.
Sloop Dolphin, A Sweeny, Ditto.
Schooner Supply, Z. Jones, New-England.
Schooner Wray Gaily, G. Wray, Virginia.
Brig Nancy, J. Taylor, Barbadoes.
To the Printer of the Pennsylvania Packet.
S I R,
If you can find room in your paper for the following
RemonJirance, by publijbing it you will obligeyour
friend , Pythagoras.
Trov xii 10. A righteous man regardeth the life of
his beast ; but the tender mercies of the wicked
are cruel.
AS I have been allowed to have already pafTed
through many forms of existence, and that
I might have been at one time a hero, at another
time a philosopher; at one time a carter and at
another a cart-horse, I hope the public will more
attentively hear my plea for the Ipeechlefs, and
Allow me in companion to fay a few words for my
fellow mortals under a brutal form. Having now
the honour and happiness to exist in the human
fliape, and to enjoy the privileges of a chriftian, I
have had an opportunity to rectify and improve
many of my notions and opinions as a philosopher.
I know that the Parent of the universe has in great
wisdom and goodness formed many different ranks
of being, endowed with different degrees of per
ception, inftind and reason, and has appointed
that all should in their places contribute to the ge
neral happiness of the whole; yet still in this wife
connexion and subordination of one rank to ano
ther, he has a due regard to the particular well
being of every rank, and of every individual. The
poor may be called to serve the rich, and the fub
je& to obey his sovereign, and the brute creation
may in many instances be devoted to the services
of mankind. But this Lord of the universe, this
universal Parent, gives no allowance for cruelty
or unnecessary severity in the rich to the poor, or
in any man to his servant or even to the brutes
that are under his care. The faithful dog is of
great utility and sincerely devoted to his master's
service, and he that would not feed him, or would
treat him with cruelty, is generally of a brutal
temper, and cruel to his servants and dependents,
and unkind to the wife ofhis bosom.
The generous horse is another animal that de
serves our regard : He has courage and emulation,
and is proud to carry his matter; he draws his car
riage, plows his lands, and is capable of friendship
and gratitude to the hand that feeds him ; he is
gentle, he is beautiful, and has a distinguished rank
among the herds that graze on the commons.
Solomon gives it as the character of a righteous
man, that he regards the life of his beast; and
God himfelf in his expostulation with the peevish
prophet Jonah, not only mentions in strains of di
vine companion his regard to more than fix score
thousand helpless infants, that were then in Ni
nevah, but he expresses a regard even to their
cattle, that must have fuffered greatly by the ca
lamities of war, if that great city had been destroy
ed. And he foi bad the Israelites to mizzle the
ox that trod out their corn, allowing that faithful
drudge to enjoy a (hare in the fruits ofhis labour:
And we as Christians are under the fame, or strong
er obligations. Tenderness and companion, and
equity and gentleness, are the chara&erillics of all
the true followers of our exalted Redeemer.
How dreadfully shocking then must it be to me
and others, to lee brutes so often abused in our
streets, by barbarous and unfeeling carters: Thro'
ignorance they drive and urge their horses to per
form what is beyond their power. They know
not, or they are at no pains, to fit their loads to
the nature and declivity of the ground. They
want either care or sense to avoid, in whole or in
part, the obstacles that their team is not able to
surmount. And after the generous horses have
exerted themselves once and again, till they find
the attempt is vain and they can do no more, and
so stand still, the ignorant barbarian for his own
fault pounds and bruises them without mercy and
without measure. Horses in general are obedient
and docile; they soon learn their matter's humour,
and are pleased to conform to his will. The hu
mane farmer loves the tradable leader of his plow
or his team, but these hirelings, bears in human
Shape, abuse and insult these dumb animals, that
most patiently bear their insolence and cruelty, and
cannot complain to their much injured matter of
their wrongs and cruel usage. The cruelty and
unkind usage that, many give to hired horses is also
a crying iniquity, a piece of cruelty to the poor
brute, and great injustice to his matter that hired
him. We Should do as we would be done by;
and such careless, cruel and foolifh riders, who
thus abuse their trulls, would complain bitterly
were they converted to horses, and beat, starved
and abuled ; or were they obliged to hire horses
and have them unfitted for service.
We know that God cannot approve unnecessary
cruelty, and will punish all injustice, ill nature and
severe dealing; in another state such wicked men,
unless they repent, will be cast out of the divine
favour, and will either feel the whips of the fu
ries, or the scourges of a guilty conscience. But
were their guilty Spirits, according to my former
dodrine, condemned to pass into a succession of
asses and cart horses for a thousand years, and
thus confeious of their own past cruelty, be con
demned to bear the lashes of such barbarous car
ters and ass-drivers, how severe and how just
would be their punishment and their condemnation.
Allow me further to plead that all animals
stand in need of rest, and God appointed the sab
bath not only for our improvement in virtue and
religion, but tor the rest and refreshment of our
servants and of the cattle that he has given to affitt
us in our labours. Ho & hard then and how severe
is it, that horses that have been employed in con
stant labour, or hired out to men ofbufinefs thro'
the week, Should, on the labbath, be made to groan
under the fitful loads of men and women battening
to the rendezvous of folly and pleasure? It is not
easy to deScribe the fatal confequetces offuch bad
examples. We ought certainly to join in social
worShip to acknowlege and serve God, to thank
him for his goodness and mercy, and to deprecate
his wrath. But when those that Should take the
leadin what is amiable and excellent, neglect their
duty, how fatally do they mislead others? achild
will argue that my father is a good man, a servant
will fay my master is a wife man, and his poor,
ignorant or wicked neighbours and dependents
will alledge, that such a squire, or merchant, or
magistrate is in high efteein, and yet he goes
abroad on the sabbath, and no where attends on
publick worship; and why, fays every one of these,
Should we pretend to be betteror wiser than they are?
hence we have such a number of house protestants,
and horse protestants in this city, and its environs.
And hence we have a great number of idle loun
gers, and faunterers, and sabbath breakers, that
pester our commons taverns on the sabbath day;
and vaunt of their wicked exploits, by which they
amaze and inflame and draw the ignorant and un
wary into the word of crimes, and Seduce the in
nocent into vice and debauchery. Hence so many
that are brought to a Shameful death, ascribe their
nrft deviations from virtue, and their final ruin to
such bad company, and the breach of the Lord's
day. If the ignorant multitude who have not had
the benefit of an early education, do not attend
publick worship, how will they maintain a sense and
awe of God on their spirits? and as no govern
ment can be supported without evidences given on
oath, how will such ignorant persons fw^ar in
judgment and in righteousness? and yet we Should
remember that our lives and our properties may
depend on their evidence. Therefore where pub
lick religion is neglected the great bond of society
is loosed, and the state is verging to deftrudion.
We should not be furprized, that in such a case,
little regard is paid to horles, or to thebrute cre
ation, when so little regard is paid to theTouls of
servants and children, when so little regard is paid
to the welfare of the state and to the public insti
tutions of our God, and our Redeemer; nay, when
so little regard is paid by such persons to their
own eternal welfare and happiness —But as many
who are here complained of, cannot be supposed to
have considered their conduct in this light, but
may have plausible excuses for going on the Sab
bath morning to their country feats or to visit a
friend, yet it is to be hoped they would avoid
what is lawful in many cases if they considered the
extensive and prevailing force of their examples.
How many are there who are even pinched in their
circumstances, that hire horses and ride abroad on
the Lord's day, to feaft and to drink, and to fro
lic, and spend extravagantly. Thus they not only
contrast an aversion to religion and to a serious
concern for their own fouls, and those under their
eare; but they waste their estates, defraud their
creditors and ruin their families; and vindicate
their conduct by alledging that great, that wife
and good men do not attend on publick worship,
but spend the sabbath as they do. Will the num
bers that do amiss vindicate our conduct ? will we
plead for a pra^ife so deftru&ive to religion and
morality, so hurtful to children and servants, and
to the lower class of mankind ? and which bears so
hard on the brute creation that God has given us
for our ease and assistance in our labours?
Religion and piety improve, exalt, and perfect
our natures, and Should be the chief and maim de
sign and constant pursuit ofour lives. And as our
heavenly father has set a portion ofour time apart
for this purpose, why Should we not improve it ?
and tenderness and humanity are amiable qualifi
cations. They constitute the tender husband, the
dutiful child, the indulgent master, the faithful
servant, the generous friend and sympathizing
neighbour; and this friendly disposition is notcon
fined to the human race, it reaches also to the brute
creation, and prevents ill nature and unnecessary
severity to our domeftick animals, those dumb ob
fequions attendants given us in great goodness by
our heavenly father. It is god-like to be kind
and benevolent, and to promote happiness. And
hence the wife man tells us, that a merciful man
regards the life ofhis beast, but thetender mercies
of the wicked are cruel. I might mention bull
baiting and cock-fighting, and other useless and
barbarous practices, but as fuc'n savage diversions
are losing credit, and justly abhorred by the
generality of humane and good men, it is to be
hoped that the fame good sense and politeness will,
in all other refpe^ts, foften our tempers and work
a general reformation of manners.
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OFFI C E
For the 'SALE of REAL ESTATES.
TO BE SOLD by public vendue, on Wed
nefJay the 3 1 of August, at three o'clock in
the afternoon, at the late China Factory in the dif
tri& of Southwark, a pair of large mill dones,
each done fuirounded with a circle of cast iron,
weighing about two tons and an half, and run on a
circular cast iron plate of the fame weight : Also a
wrought iron axis and a large fhaft on which they
run. The dories are fixed in the manrer of a Tan
ner's bark mill, for which purpose they would be
Very ufeful.
Sundry iron bolts, gudgeons, screws and burrs
of various sizes.
Pieces of barr-iron and iron work of different
forts.
A fhaft and frame work of a large mill, which is
surrounded by a cedar frame of set work, hooped
with iron ; the infi Ie is paved with very smooth large
fl.it done, which will be fold in such manner as will
bed suit the purchasers : —They are very proper to
grind paint upon.
Sundry large tubs and vats of various shapes and
sizes, very suitable for soap boilers, &c.
Two iron doves, with their pipes.
A rolling press, for copper-plate printing ;-=and
other articles made use of in the china fa&ory.
* # # Some of the buildings, and ground on which
they stand, are to be let on ground-rent, by
MATTHEW CLARKSON,
EDWARD BONSALL.
MADE AND SOLDBY
ROBERT PARRI S H,
At his house in Third-street, a few doors above
Arch-street, and nearly opposite the Golden Swan
tavern, Philadelphia.
n OLLING SCREENS, for cleaning wheat
" and flaxfeed, confiding of four different forts of
wire each, calculated to great exa&nefs, and found
by experience to answer well ; final! bolts for
Indian meal in mills, standing screens, shoe and
(hoot dittos wire reding sieves of different forts,
suitable for Indian meal, wheat, or other grain,
also for iron ore, sugar, ground bark, &c. fliort
cloths for millers, found by experience to exceed
any other kind, and a variety of wire work, suita
ble for cellar windows, fring houses, and many
other uses ; DUPCH FANS of different forts,
with good improvements, suitable for most kinds of
grain ; several forts of boxes vrith knives for cutting
draw, and curriers beam boards of lignum vitae.
Also at the fame place are made all forts of planes,
suitable for carpenters, cabinet makers, coach-ma
kers, coopers and others, a d are allowed (by the
bed judges) to be as conipleat and good as thole
made in London ; any person applying as above
may depend on being fervid with all reafonahle
dispatch. All orders from town or country (had be
carefully attended to.
N. B. Boxes 01 chests, with an assortment of va
rious kinds of tools (very convenient for farmers,
mailers of vessels, and others) will be sorted and put
up upon a fliort notice.
PYTHAGORAS.
PLAN of an English Grammar School
for Young Misses.
TH E fubferiber begs leave to solicit the attenti
on of the public to the following plan of an
English school, for the inftru&ion of young mifles irt
the English language, taught grammatically, and
as a language ; which he proposes to open, if he
meets with due encouragement, on Monday the
9th day of August, at the corner of Fourth and
Market-streets, opposite the Collector's.
I. In the firft, or lowest class will be arranged
the children who have been but imperfectly taught
to read ; with whom the utmost pains (hall be taken
to correct all bad habits in reading, and to form a
just pronunciation.
~. In the second class the misses (hall be initiated
into the grammatical institutes ; and these strongly
impressed upon the mind by frequent parsings of the
most approved sentences and lessons.
3. In the third class, the fair pupil dial! be intro
duced to an acquaintance with the syntax and go
vernment, each of which shall be inculcated, in a
course of reading such authors, as may engage the
attention, and amuse, as well as inftru& the open
ing mind; as Croxall's TEfop, the Moral Mifcel
lanv, the Britiflt Plutarch. In this class the pupils
will be frequently exercised in the declension of irre
gular and defective verbs; and the exercises of par
ting will be continued.
4. The fourth class will be formed out of those
scholars, who, being most perfed in their gramma
tical exercises, are ready to be inftru&ed in the
proper and elegant method of reading prote. ne
books n fed in this class wi I be chiefly, the Hilary
of the Worl 1, Introduction to Polite Learning, Oe
conomy of Human Life, Seneca's Morals, coll Ci
on of improving passages from ancient and modem
histories.
5. In the fifth class the young ladies shall be
taught to read with propriety and elegance some of
the bed poetical compositions in rhime and blank
verse, feleCed from the works of Milton, Pope,
Young, Thompson, Mason and Gray.
The scholars of the fourth and fifth classes drill
also be accustomed to write familiar letters, hv way
of evening exercises. And those who require it ihall
be indru&ed in writing, and the rudiments of arith
metic.
A chapter in the bible fli all he read every morn
iag and evening, in rotation, by all the scholars
who are capable of reading didinCly, and without
hesitation.
That the fbbfcriber may have it in his power to
do justice to his pupils, he means to take no more
than thirty, on the moderate terms of fifteen dril
lings entrance, and fifteen drillings per qu>rter.
If any parents or guardians should chufe to have
their children or wads privately inflruC din the
Eiglifh grammar, in reading with propriety, and
writing famili r letters, the fubferiber Kill wait
upon them at their own houses, at any time f om
seven to nine in tire forenoon, and from five to eight
o'clock in the evening.
The indulgence of the public to th ; sund^rt k : rg
dial! meet with the utmost c.re and diligence on the
part of its devoted servant,
IJAMES TWIFOOT.
N. B. Any petfon who is defirons to know of the
fubferiber's charaCer and abilities, by apolyino -to
him shall have competent fitisfa&ion, and from ^en
tlemen of the fird reputation in this city.
TO BE SO L D,
A NEGRO LAD, ftrortg, healthy apd well
made; he has had the small pox and measles,
is good tempered, sober, honest, and bandy at any
kind of house work, and with proper care would
make a good plantation negro. Enquire of the
Printer.
Nezu-York, July 27, 1774.
FIFTY POUNDS REWARD,
WHEREAS on the 19th of June lad past,
a certain JOSEPH 1 HORP was
entrusted with a considerable sum in H df Johannes,
of nine penny weight, to be delivered by him at
Quebec, and as he has not yet made tris appearance
there, with other suspicious cii cumdances, it is ap
prehended he is gone off with the money. He is a
native of England, about fix feet high, swarthy
complexion, very dark keen eyes, and pit ed with
the finall pox, of a slender make, hoops as lie w Iks,
talks rather flow, with some small impediment nt
his speech. He lived some time in Bufton, front
whence he removed to Quebec, assuming t' e charac
ter of a merchant in both places; lie was allo once
in trade in New-€altle, Virginia, and lias a brother
fettled there. It is believed he went on board
Captain John F. Pruym, for Albany, and took with
him a blue cafimer, and a dark brown cloth suit
of cloaths.
Whoever secures the said Joseph Thorp in any
of his Majesty's gaols on this continent, Dull be
entitled to ten per cent, on the sum recovered, and
the above reward of FIFTY POUNDS when
convift d. Apply to Curfon and Seton of New-
York, Joseph Wharton, jun. ot Philadelphia, Ro
bert Chiritie, of ISaltimore, Junes Gibson, and
Co. Virginia, John Bonfield, of Quebec, Melatiih
Bourne, or John Rowe, of Boston. It is r<qu<fb d
of those who may have seen this Joseph Thorp, since
the 19th of June last past, or know any thin, efthe
rout be has taken, that they convey the most early
intelligence thereof to any of the above perlons,
which will be gratefully acknowledged.
All Mailers of veff-ls are forewajned from taking
him off the continent.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
RAN away the 18.11 of July last from
the fubferiber,anegroe man, named PRINCE,
about nineteen years old, five feet four or five inch
es high, is a smart active fellow, a very black com
plexion, and is apt to grin and laugh when talxed
to by his equals, and is fond of strong liquor : H d
on and took with him a brown cloth coat and jc
ket, with red collar and cuffs to the coat, white licit
and trowfers, pretty good shoes, and an old hat ;
He is a fly fellow, and has run away from his for
mer matters, both here and in New England, from
whence he came, and it is likely he may go that
way, as he has before attempted to do, and been
taken up and brought home. Whoever takes up
and secures him, so that his master may have him
again, shall have the above reward and reasonable
charges, paid by Joseph Fox, blacksmith and far
rier, in Philadelphia, or
Dr. AN PHONY YELDAL L.
W A N T E I),
A WET NURSE; fi # e mutt he a healthy,
cleanly woman, her character uncxcc.>t.om
ble, if within two or three miles of town, the more
agreeable. Enquire of the Printer.
AJOURNEYMAN PRINTERwiII
fl meet with Employment for a conliderable
time, by applying to S FEWART H ERBE RT,
Printer, in Lancaster.
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