Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-12-11 00:00:00, page 1

*M U S K ET S
STOCKED in the best and neatest manner, by
E p W A R 1) P 0 LE,
In Maiket-ftreet, near the Court-house, Ph'ila,
delphia;
-<—Y HERE may be had, the best kind of
VV wires and brushes for firelocks, priming
flafles find oil bottles to fit in the cartouch boxes,
rnufket and, piftdl balls, musket and piltol car
tridges, and cartridge formers. Allo cartridges
made upon moderate terms, by the hundred or
larger quantity.,
N. B. A very neat cutteau de chafe, a final!
sword and a fufee,.to be fold at the above plaee.
y^ published, printed and fold by
R. Al T K E N,
Printer and Bookseller, opppfite the London Cof
fee-houfe, in Front-Rreet, Philadelphia, [Price
Two £timings and Six Pence]
A SHORT
I NT RODUCT I O N
T 0
ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
With CRITICAL NOTES.
Ry the Right Reverend Robert Lowth, D. D.
Lord Bilhop or Oxford.
To the P ÜBLI C.
A Grammatical study of our own language makes
no part of the ordinary method of inftru&ion ;
and it is very seldom that we apply ourselves to it
afterward. Yet the want of it will not be effectu
ally fuppiied by any other advantage whatsoever.
Much practice in the polite world, and a general
acquaintance with the best authors, are good helps ;
but alone will hardly be fuffirient : we have writers,
who have enjoyed these advantages in their full ex
tent, and yet cannot be recommended as models of
an accurate style.
It will evidently appear from Dr. Lowth's notes,
Bn his excellent En„ldh Grammar, that our best
authors have committed gross miltakes for want of
a due knowledge ot the English Grammar, or at
least of a proper attention to the rules of it. These
notes are fufficient to evince the necessity of the
study of Grammar in our own language; and to
admonish those, who let up for authors, that they
would do well to confider this part of learning as an
object not altogether beneath their regard.
To be SOLI) or RENTED,
For a Term of Years,
ONE hundred acres of good L A N D, lying
on Little Choptank, within four miles of
Taylor's blind, Dorchester County, Maryland:
On laid land is a good new dwelling - boule, and
£(h, fowl and oysters to he had a all seasons of the
year within a very fm 11 distance from the house.
—One other place lying at the Head of Saffafrals,
Kent County, Maryland ; a lot of ground contain
ing nearly fix acres, on which is a good dweiling
houfe, store-house, kitchen, (hoemaker's (hop, and
tanyard, but fomewbat out of repair. For terms
apply to the subscriber, living at Back Creek, Caleb
County, Maryland.
X ' WILLIAM WOOD.
JONATH A^MEREDI fH,
Tanner, Currier, and Leather Cutter,
In Third-street, between Market and Chelnut
ftreets, Philadelphia, has for SALE,
ALA RGE quantity of boot legs and vamps,
equal to any imported ; a large quantity ot
South-Carolina foal leather; ditto of this country
tannage; calfskins and upper leather of all forts ;
coach roofs, covering leather, harness ditto, and
all kinds of leather for faddler< and coacbmakers,
which he will fell on the most reasonable terms.
—Orders for any quantity of the above-mentioned
articles compleated in the best manner, on the
Ihortett notice.§
~f~o BE SOL D,
A N extraordinary good and large IRON
'' CHEST, made in the best and strong
est manner. Enquire of PHILIP BE
NEZET, at the corner of Market and
Third-streets, t
VOL. V. NUMB. 216.
. D U N L A P's :
Omi
O R,
GENERAL
# M O N D A Y,
TO BE SOLD BY
J 0 II N H A RT,
At his VENDUE STORE, the corner of South
a^d Front-streets, A neat assortment of
M E R C II A N D IZ E,
Among which are,
BROADCLO THS, naps, boatings, forreft
)cloths, embossed flannels, velverets, silk fer
rets, furniture checks, Turk, tiripes, bed furniture,
buff (hoes, camblets, worsted damasks, everlastings,
du ants, tammies, (balloons, callimancoes, hair
pluffi, worthed breeches patterns, bandano handker
chiefs. Irilh linen's, mufeov-do sugars, coffee, bran
dy, gin; a neat effartment of iron pots, kettles,
bake ovens, doves, &c.
N. B. GOODS tor public and private sale are
received at said Store, and fold tor Cash only.
To be SOLD, wholesale and retail, by
GEOKG E RAN K 1 N,
Next door to the firm he formerly kept in Second
dree+, between Market and Chefnut (treeis,
-^ ¥ J EST-INDI A rum, Jamaica spirits, New
, V bury rum, best French brandy, Holland
Geneva, country ditto, Lilb >n and mountain wines,
coffee and (pices. He dwells cordials and manu
fiftyrc/chocolate in the belt manner.—He has also
to dispose of for want of employ, a sprightly ser
vant lad, aged about seventeen years, having three
years and an half to serve. Likewise, a lew jairs
of the firft quality sweet oil.
TH E Subscriber has for fa!e, or to rent,
a Plantation of 300 acresjof excellent unim
proved land, cn the weft branch of Sufquehannah,
in a good settlement. Another tr 2& of 224. acres,
in Shearman's Valley, with 20 acres of wheat and
meadow thereon, under good fence, and a snug
house and orchard, about fi.e miles from a naviga
ble river. Another tra& containing 208 aer.s of
unimproved land, on Big Buffaloe Creek ; There
is on it at least 75 acres of beautiful bottom or mea
dow land. Another Plantation containing 218
acres, with about 10 acres of wheat in the ground,
situate about twenty miles from Carlisle. Five
other valuable trafts, differently situate in Cum
berland County, near meeting- houses, mill and
market, in thi center of the settlements.
t ALEXANDER POWER.
Was alfocommitted to the goal of the famecounty,
on the 31st day of August last, a negro man, who
calls his name WIL L, and fays he belongs to Mr.
John Veale, of Chetter County, Province of Penn
sylvania: He is a well set fellow, little more than
twenty years of age, five feet fix or seven inches
high; his eloathing was an oznabrugs shirt and trow
fers and a new felt hat.- The matter or matters
of the above mentioned servants and slave, are de
sired to pay their fees and take them away.
§ EZEKIEL FORMAN, Sheriff.
October 24, 1775.
WHEREAS a certain John Joyce,
a Do&or, came to the house of Arthur
Miller, in Lorgan Townihip, Cumberland Coun
ty, on the 17th day of this instant, andon the 19th
died and bis body was committed to us the sub
scribers, overseers of the poor of said Township:
We therefore desire, that if the said John Joyce
has any friends or legal heirs, they will come pro
perly attested, pay charges, and receive his goods,
within thirty days after the date hereof, or we will
be obliged to make public sale thereof to defray
his funeral expences.
X FRANCIS GRAHAM.
WILLIAM MONTGOMERY.
TEN POUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living in
Socking Township, Northampton County, a
Duich servant man named PHILIP SUPERT,
twenty years of age, about five feet high, wears his
own brownish hair ; had on when he went away, a
brown jacket without sleeves, Russia linen shirt and
trowfers, and old fnoes with brass buckles in them.
Whoever secures said servant so that his mAfter may
get him again, shall have the above Reward, paid
by . X WILLIAM BAKER.
.. — r
WHEREAS a certain Woman came
to my house in Newport, Newcastle Coun
ty, on Delaware, on or about the 23d day of Octo
ber last, and left vith me a black silk CLOAK,
which (he said. die found on the King's great road,
directing me to give it to the owner when called
for, him or her paying charges on the fame : And
whereas said Woman nor the owner of said Cloak
have never since appeared, I think proper to give
this public notice to any person who has loft such a
Cloak, to come and prove his or her property, pay
charges, and have it again.—LOST at the fame
time, a fine white shirt, a blue and white striped
cotton jacket, a pint decanter, a wine glass, and a
half gallon case bottle. Whoever returns said arti
cles in such order as when taken away, may depend
on proper charges to be paid by me
fz ELIZABETH BEATY.
, Ca?ci! County, November 6, 1775.
THIS day was committed to my cus
tody as a Run-away, by the name of JOHN
M'AFEE, an Irishman, about thirty years of age,
five feet ten inches high ; has on an old blue fear
nought great-coat, old hat, and leatherapron : He
acknowledges himfelf to be a servant to Mr. Curtis
Grubb. His matter is desired to pay charges and
take him away.
t JOHN HAMILTON, Sheriff.
CheAer-Toum, Maryland, October z6tb, 177;.
WAS committed to the goal of Kent
County, in the province of Maryland, @n
the third inst. three whitemen, who fay they be
long to Mr. James Kelsey, at Patapfeo ferry, in
Anne Arundle County, Province of Maryland.
One of them calls his name TIMOTHYDO
NOLAND, and lays he is from Ireland, about
nineteen years of age, five feet eight or nine inches
high, Render made. One other calls his name
PAPRICK HURLE Y, and fays he is from
Ireland, about thirty years of age, five feet nine or
ten incheshigh. The other calls his name SA
MUEL STILL, and fays he is from England,
upwards of thirty years of age, about five feet eight
or nine inches high. They fay they came off in a
yawl, in which they crossed Cheffapeake Bay, and
landed near Worten Point, in the County where
they are now confined.
L O S T,
At the Review on the zoth of June last, in this city,
ALAR GE red leather POCKET-BOOK,
with two memorandum-books or journals,
one o: which was just began ; two letters directed
to Benjamin Henfhaw ; some notes, orders, and
other papers, which can be of no value to any but
the owner. There was allo in the Pocket-book
Six Pounds Ten Shillings, -Jet fey and Pennsylvania
money. Whoever brings the said Pocket-book,
Memorandum-books and other papers, flrail be in
titled to all the money so found in said book, and
THIRTY SHILLINGS besides; or if they
return all but the Pocket-book and money, they
(hall be intided to TWENTY SHILLINGS,
paid by the Printer hereof, and no questions
afked.X
h ^L<^.t— :_~ - t'frt
A tew PIPES ot choice
TENERIFFE WINE,
PORT WINE by the auarter-cafk dr doz.
And Old BARBADOS SPIRIT,
By the hogshead or quarter-calk,
TO BE SOLD BY
GEORGE MEADE and Co.
GRAINS and YEAST,'
TO BE HAD OF 1
ROBERT HARE and Co.
At the Porter Brew-House between Vine and
Race-streets, in Water-ltreet. J
#
November it, 177 c. 1
THIRTY SHILLINGS REWARD)
C FRAYED or STOLEN from the sub-t
O scriber, in Coventry Township, Chetter Coun-1
ty, a likely sorrel MAR E, near fifteen hands
high, seven years old lalt spring, lias a white (far
on her forehead, thick long mane mixed with white
hairs and part hanging the near fide, paces well.
Whoever secures the said Mare so th^t the owner
may have her again, shall receive the above Re
ward and reasonable charges, paid by
§ SUSANNA WELLS.
T O BE
THE TIME of an Englifl) servant Man, by
trade a blacksmith, and understands forging
gun barrels. Enquire of the Printer.- ft
<,+&-fy-b-fro ^
To the Printer of the Public Advertiser.
S I R,
TH E ads of our national tragedy is begun ;
A horrid feene is opened : How it will be
closed Heaven only knows ! But if the “ Titie
leaf foretells the nature of the tragic volume, it must
end as little to the benefit and reputation of the
authors, as to the public interest and fatisfadion.
One box of fpe&ators will indeed be highly pleased
with the representation. What a delightful spec
tacle for our late enemies ! If any thing can com
fort them for their numerous losses and humiliati
ons, it must be their agreeable profpe& of our
destruction, preparing with our own hands. All
our honour, all our firmnefs, all our strength and
wealth is to be called forth, exerted, and con
centered to this one point. More generous blood
has been already fpilt than would have been ex
pended in the conquest of Mexico. The gazette
indeed comforts us in the midst of these calamities,
by telling us how gloriously this man behaved,
how nobly that died; animasq; magne prodigus.
Such consolation but adds to our miseries, when
we refled to what better purposes such valour
might have been employed. This valour well di
reded against proper obje&s, might have recover
the Manilla ransom ; might have vindicated the
insult at Falkland's Island. To purchase a mo
mentary peace with Spain, we gave up eight hun
dred thousand pounds, still due, by that! ransom,
and at the very time when we seemed most deter
mined to declare war, secretly edgaged to relin
quish and abandon that island. We meanly kissed
the hand that gave the blow; we were afraid where
no fear was; bore dishonourably what might have
been resented fafelv, nay, what ought to have
been resented in any circumstance, and at any ha
zard; but, in a contest with our fellow fuhje&s,
where the justice of the cause is doubtful, no Scru
ples alarm our breasts, they are fteele'd against
companion. Instead of foftening towards eacli
other by degrees, we rush headlong to war; a
war of the most bloody kind. A civil war mull
now determine whether the authority ofthis coun
try over North-America mult be maintained or
TO BE SO L D,
And may be entered upon next April,
ALO T of LAND situate in Newtown, Bucks
County, 50 feet front by 150 feet deep, on
which there is a new log liable, a new stone dwell
ing-house two Rories high, the Jimenfions of which
ate 19 by 27 feet, two rooms on each floor, and a
cellar under the whole. The said House and Lot is
pl^afantly situated, and convenient for public or
private business. The terms of sale will be made
known by apply ing to the subscriber on the premises.
ANDREW M'MINN.
N. B. It might suit a Stocking-weaver well, as
that trade is much wanted in the town, &c.
Wilmington, noth of nth Month, 1775.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
SUPPOSED to be Stolen, from the
borough of Wilmington, about the firft of this
instant, a light bay HORSE, about fifteen hands
high, mod before with Reeled flhoes, has a large
head, fmaliifh neck, and narrow breast, off which
the hair was chafeef with a bread-plate; paces well,
but has in his trot a kind of hop with the near fore
foot; is high hip and crupper boned, and when
hard rode has a lump or puff of wind on the near
fide ot his neck, where he is trimmed for the bridle;
is a well carriaged horse, fix or seven years old.
It is supposed that he was stolen by one Welch,
who is adverti fed and described by David Cowpland,
of Chelter, in the Penn fylvania Journal, No- 1719,
and had such a horse at said Cowpland's. Who
ever secures laid horse, so that the owner may have
him again, shall have the above Reward, and if
brought home reasonable charges, paid by
JOHN YARNELL.
N. B. It is thought said Welch took him over
Dunk's Ferry into the Jerfeys.+
T H E
ADVERTISER
DECEMBER iith, 1775.
subverted. We have committed the firft and
dearest interests of this country to the decision of
the sword, whose double edge bears equally
against us: Each fide cuts to the bone : For whe
ther the enthutiaft of America bleeds, or Britift
and Irish valour fall, the national ftrehgth is im
paired ; the whole community fuffers; an exas
perated, determined and united people have fought
their remedy in refinance; we have felt the man
ner of it. Vanity and presumption encouraged
men here to think they would not resist: The
firft betrayed us into this error, the last made us
persist in it. A system oflies dressed up to de
ceive the nation, and impose on Parliament, has
been invented. But where are now those wretch
ed flatterers, those falfe prophets, who told us
the Americans could not fight? Do not guilt and
Shame overwhelm them? And how do those men
feel whose weakness and credulity believed them?
One man was made a General tor his illtold,
stupid story, A confeioufoefs of such baferefs
will be a more lasting reward. But leaving these
worthies to their own reflexions, let us proceed
and examine our condueft since. That eagerness
which hurried on our determination to war, cotfid
be equalled by nothing but our slowness in ope
ration. When we found that the Americans
were preparing and arming, we gave them a
twelvemonth to dilcipline their troops; to confo
der and digest a plan of action. Some perhaps
may difeover a want of wisdom; bur no man can
dispute our generosity in allowing them so much
time, and such fair play.
I know that many peffons here affe& tn throw
all the blame of our dilatory conduct on General
Gage. They are unjust in their alperfio^s ; and
some in high office would be glad to disturb his pil
low to Sleep more quietly on their own. But their
confeience will not fuffer them ; they hnm that
they had determined to enforce the system of tax
ation before that officer went to America ; and
surely when they had resolved to listen to no peti
tions contrary to that system, their preparation
Should have kept pace with their determinations.
Why then was he lent single and unarmed into
that nest of hornets ? Had that force been dif
patebedfedi/y gpd collectively during the last year,
which has been eked out by detail in this, perhaps
this revolt might have been pr'7^, or at least
encountered with a more re \ expedation
of success. A seasonable and powerful effort made
at once, might have broke through these compli
cated evils. From his want of tins force, the Pro
vincials armed and exercised under the very nos?
of our General, who brought neither terror to as,
fright, or strength to disarm or disperse them.
When by draining the different provinces he had
at length collected three thousand troops together,
he had too many to .übfift and too few to aft.
With this handful of men he was to awe and Se
cure a large capital full of determined Americans,
to seize and defend all the heights above Button,
to guard all the hollow ways and defiles, woods
and rivers, and to disperse the whole aflembled
force of the Provincials. All this was expelled
from General Gage; how reasonably let the pub
lic judge. The truth is, men are ignorant arid
weak enough to expert happy consequences from a
war established on falfe principles. Instead of arm
ing properly before we declared our intentions, we
Shewed our intentions before we armed; were rea
dy with nothing but our pens and tongues, and
news-paper valour; but we wanted men to fight
our numerous and hardy adversaries, not dastards
to rail at them, the true ceconomy of war configs
in Supplying it amply in the beginning; a faint par
simonious aid defeats the end it attempts to serve;
it will no more bring our cause to a good issue,
than a single fee will decide a Chancery suit in our
favour. Law and War are hungry monsters;
they must be well fed. At present (to borrow a
great man's expression) our troops are served up
like beef-fteakes, hot and hot. It is our misfor
tune to have totally mistaken the nature of the war.
9ui dominus est marts imperator est terree; by our
fleet we bad the certain means of reducing the'
Americans to reasonable terms, a navaPblockace
was the true and effectual plan ; it was in vain
reeommended both in and out of Parliament by
officers of diftin&ion, whose services, judgment
and experience gave them some little claim to the
public attention; but qbftinacy will embrace arv
wild expedient sooner than confefs an error. Now
foreign mercenaries are thought of; ^nd finding
our own land-force inefficient, we basely implore
the assistance of our newly conquered fubjeXs, we
cloath and arm the Canadians and Savages, wal:
them the arbiters of North-America. They will
effect as friends what they could not do as ene
mies. Those instruments of death, which ar&
scarce eleanfed from the brains ar d Scalps of 01 r
fellow-fubje&s, are again to b^ buried in their
Skulls, and by our iofigation too ! Sur/ythe pub
lic indignation and relenrment must ar hit pnmln
these monstrous horrid measures unless it fnab have
pleased Heaven to fix on th^ authors, as the i^- 1
ftruments of his vengeance upon this capricious,
haughty, insolent, and luxurious nation.
CAS SANDR A.