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warrant; and the fame proceeding# shall be had therein
as are herein directed to be had on the application of pri
vate citizens. „'
P,ovideJ always nevertheless, That no Justice shall if
fee his warrant to fe ; ze such grain or flour so appraised,
@ n the application of any Qi trier Matter or Commffary
General, his or their Deputies or Assistants, unless the
fai I appraisers shall certify that there is a efficient quanti
ty of fu<h rain or flour over and above the quantity ap
pliel for by such Commissary or Quarter-Matter, to sup-
TOft the inhabitants witnin the township, ward hr diftritt,
w! ere such grab or four shall be appraised as aforefaid,
until the firft ay of Au^uft next. . ~
And be it further varied by the authority aloYeJaid, 1 hat
if .the owner or possessor of such grain or flour, which shall
be appraised, seized and delivered as aforefaid, shall re
fufe to receive the money at which tue fame shall be ap
praised as aforefaid, then the person or persons th ill, be
fore he shall takeaway the Did grain or flour, deposit the
said money in the hands of the said Judice, for the use of
the owner, taking the receipt of the said Justice tor the
fame, which shall be a fufficient difeharge to the person
denoting the fame, and shall exonerate him from any fu
ture demands of the owner of the said grain or flour;
nnhich said money the said Justice is required to pay to
the oerfon or persons intitled to receive the fame, if he or
they fir'll apply for the fame within two da X s after the
said grain or flour shall be seized as aforefaid, or if no such
appfcition shall be made within the time aforefaid, that
then and in such case the said Justice shall, and he is here
by enjoined within two months after the expiration of the
said two days to pay the said money to the freafurer bf
the city or county in which the said Justice resides, to be
paid by the said Treasurer into the treasury of this state
for the use of the fame. .., _
And be it further enacted by the authority aforejatd, I hat
if the owner of such graii,and flour, which shall be fs ap
praised, or any person or persons, for or on his, her, or
their behalf, shall, before the expiration of sixty d ys af
ter such appraifement shall be made, take away or conceal
the fame, or any part thereof, or shall refute to deliver the
fame to such person or persons as shall obtain such warrant
from the said Justice, on being paid for or tendered pay
ment for the fame as aforefaid. unless the said owner shall
have, bona fide, fold the fame according to the true intent
and meaning of this aft, and the proof that fuc^ sale was
so made, shall lie on the said owner, then, and in such
case, the said owner of the Did grain or flour, or the per
son in whose custody the fame shall be appraised, shall for
feit and pay a sum equal to double the appraised value of
the grain or flour wnich shall be removed or concealed as
aforefaid, one moiety of which fine and forfeiture flulf be
paid to the County Treasurer for the use of the state, and
other moiety thereof to the person or persons to whom
the said grain or flour ought to have been delivered by
virtue of the warrant aforefaid.
And be it farther ena led by the authority a/orfod, That
if any of the Did grain, which shall be appraised as afore
fai I' Avail, at the time of such appraifement, be untrefhed,
and'if the owner thereoffhall refufe to trefh the fame within
ten days after the said appraifement, it fliall and may be
lawful for the person or persons obtaining such warrant as
before left mentioned, to trefh the fame in the barn of the
said owner, without the lead molestation or hindrance of
the Did owner ; and if the said owner of the said grain, or
any other person or persons on his,,,her, or their behalf,
shall refufe to permit the said grain to be treihed as afore
faid every such person or persons so refufing, ihal forfeit
and'pay double the appraised v due of tae said grain, to
be pud and applied in tnef^me manner as the fine and for
feiture lift mentioned; which said fines and forfeitures
may be sued for and recovered by bill, plaint, or informa
^e it fa 'her rifled by the authority aforefaid, That
each of the fail Appraisers and the Constable refpedively,
ihall have and receive Thirty Shillings per diem for each
and every lay which ne or they ihdi be bona fide,employ
ed on the duties required to be performed by them by this
aft to be aDert iined by the Justice whogr.ned the war
ran' fc for me seizure of the fame: And as it is but just and
reasonable that the person who may hoard up or engross
any orrin or flour, and ill 11 refufe to fell it at the current
pri ^ sh mid pay all the charges attending the seizure of
the fame; Re it therefore enacted, Th lin such case, as well
the wage's of the said Appraisers and Constable, as the
charges of the said warrant, Ihall be deduced and paid
out of tie appraised price of the fame. Provided always
Tilt if the price tendered and refufed as aforefaid, do not
amount to so much as the (aid gr tin or flour Ihall be ap
praifel, or if the party against w ora the said firft menti
oned warrant full be granted, shall not be adjudged to
have more grain or flour than is necessary for his, her or
th ir own use as aforef id, in Inch case all the said charges
shall be paid by the person applying for such warrant.
Belt 'wither ena^edby the authority ajo,e;aid, That the
President and Supreme Executive Council of this state, be,
and tn c y are hereby impowered to permit the exportation
of any quantity of wheat, barley, flour, rye, Indian corn,
or my other fort of grain, to any one of the United States
applying for the fame, wider such regulations and restric
tions as they, in their discretion, may judge most expe-
dient. , , ~. „
Provided, That it shall appear to them, the said Coun
d\ that such q entity so to be exported can be spared af
ter fererving a efficient quantity for the necessary con
fu^ption of tne army and the inhabitants of this state.
Ami provided at/o, T.at it ihall appear, bona fide, that
the said wne«t, barley, flour. Indian corn, rye, or any
otiier fort of grain, is abiolutely necessary for the home
consumption of the state applying for the fame ; any thing
in an a&, intitled, " An aft to prohibit the exportation
of provilions rom the ft ite of Pennsylvania for a limited
time." to the contrary notwithstanding.-
JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
From a late LONDON General Advertiser.
To the KIN G.
MAY it please your Majesty; to permit a loyal fubjed
who feels the most sincere regard tor your happiness
and nonour, as connected with tne fafety and prolperity
Qf your people , end who would died his blood in defeiie
of those noole principles, which have eftablilhed your il
iuftrious House on the Throne of these kingdoms ; to offer
to your notice some obfervatioras, which (I dare affirm)
will, if duly regarded, reward your attention.
In the course of these remarks, I shall not wound your
feelings, by a detail of those unhappy events, which have,
in the end, dismembered your dominions, destroyed your
commerce, impoverished your people, disgraced your ar
mie^, and rendered contemptible tne once awful and ref
pe&ed name of Britain: but in difeharge of the duty
which I owe to my God, my country, and my Sovereign,
I Ihall declare, without reserve, the causes which have pro
duced such complicated and diftrefsful calamities.
Your measures, my Liege, have been unfuccefsful, and
your plans abortive, because they were founded on injus
tice, and enforced by violence and oppression. Tne iii
jiDtice of converting the guardians of contiitutional free
dom, into the in ftrunients of uncontroulable tyranny over
a part of their fellow fubjeas, has occasioned the revolt of
a vast continent : the violence with which this injuftiee
was enforced, has animated them toa virtuous and invin
cible refi fiance.
Be ffured, Sire, that the general outcry against these
definitive measures, is not the clamour of a fauion ; it is
the united voice of your Majesty's most faithful fubjefts,
who have earnestly and repeatedly warned you of their fa
tal tendency ; and I appeal to your own fad experience,
for the truth of their predictions. Will you Rill go on ?
Will you Hid commit yourfelf to the guidance of those
who have led you gradually towards your ruin ?—You
stand, even now, on the brink of a tremendous precipice—
advance no farther—one step more will plunge you in
perdition.
Yet this last fatal step, your Ministers persuade you to
take; and they dare announce, as your Majesty's Royal
intention, that this flagrant injustice, this oppressive vio
lence, is to be followed by the last extreme of the most dia
bolical cruelty : boundless devastation is to lay waste the
farms and habitations of a people already too grievous
ly injured : the inottenfive husbandman, the industrious
labourer, even women and infants are to fall by the (word,
in one promifeuous carnage; or to be exposed houfelefs,
and uniheltered, amid the rigours of a frozen climate to
perish in the lingering torments of hunger, nakedness,
and cold.—Good l God! what a dreadful feene !=-Ye
Prelates! where was your Christian charity ; where the
remembrance of that gracious pattern, and example of
boundlefe benevolence, exhibited by the Great Author of
the Religion ye profefs ? When (two of your number alone
excepted, ye basely deferred his flandard, and ihamefully
withheld a negative, on the avowed purposes of outrageous
and indiscriminate murder: — when ye law the sword of
barbarism, with uplifted aim, ready to be plunged in the
bosom of helpless innocence, and put not forth an hand to
prevent the blow :—when, instead of pouring oil into the
wounds o' the unhappy fufferers, ye unworthily " c walk
ed by ox the other fide. '—“ Verily, I fay unto you, whom
ever shall be ashamed of Christ, of him also Ihall the son of
man be ashamed, when he cometh in the clouds of his
glory." Your Majesty's unfeigned piety will forgive
me this apostrophe, which it was not in my power to sup
press.
Still the h teful view recurs to my affrighted foul !
imagine, Sire, your own most amiable and arteftionate
consort, torn from your princely arms, by deputed, legal
ruffians: refinance all is vain—vain all her flreaming tears,
her piercing cries—(he kneels— De wrings her hands in
the bitter agonies of despair—in strains which might sub
due the tyger's rage, the begs for pity from her stern des
troyers —alas ! pty is not their bufineji : they mnji execute
their orders. — Her tender babes, those smiling cherubs,
the charming offspring of your loves, cling trembling
round their mother's neck -they grasp her robe, and call
on her for help—the relentless murderers dash them on the
ground—they dare proceed-.-Ah I savage fiends, forbear ,
—their ihining weapons smoke in blood---your faithful
Queen expires- -her dying looks are fondly fixt on you,
and her last breath scarce murmurs your lov'd name.
You fliudder Sire, at the horrible vision--you. Royal
heart is wrung with anguifli, at the bare suggestion of
such an hellish deed.
Learn, then, from hence, to pity others woes
" Expose thyfelf, to feel what others feel,"
" And (Lew thyfelf more just."
Murders as mill and as unn itural, have already been per
petrated, under the fandion of your Majesty's authority.
Recal instantly the infernal edi&---each moment of delay
is Rained with innocent blood--they fly to Heaven, and
there record.
Afford not occasion for infidels to triumph in their ab
horrence of chriflianity--let them not hear " the defender
of the jaitb" giving orders for deliberate murder, nor be
hold his sacred banners dropping with .human gore.
THRASYBULUS.
To Admiral KEPPE L.
SIR,
YOU have to do with villians,who will flick at nothing.
Acquaint Parliament on your legs, and the-,
though, 0 lame! he knows it but too well, that a scoun
drel in power and place, is fending off your friends to dis
tant Rations, purposely to distress you. Those brave
honefl men being sent out of the way, the monster will
have leisure to undermine the most refpe&able character
by whispers, inuendos, venal writers, runners, and delay.
Your's, V ER A X.
CHARLESTOWN, March io.
LAST Saturday returned hitner the detachment of
Charleftown artillery and militia, which, with a
part of Col. Skirving's regiment, beat the British light in
fantry on tne 4th of last month on Port Royal Island. Our
loss on that occasion was eight killed and twenty-five
wounded, most of the latter very Rightly.
The loss of the enemy is not yet certainly known; but
they left dead on the field, Lieut. Finl y (who aded as
Adjutant on that day) and Lieut. Calderwood (or Ca
therwood) and fix privates, and Lieut. Haz^ton^ wound
ed and taken prisoner, who has since been cured and ex
changed. Tne rest of their wounded they carried off; but
Capt. Barnwell took some prisoners, among them Capt.
Bruere, a son to the Governor of Bermuda (who after
wards got away) and the ferjeant of the a&i-ve and good
marksmen, ordered by Major Gardiner (who commanded
the whole British detachment employed on that expediti
on) to be placed with each division, so as to pick off our
officers, and by whom indeed our chief loss was sustained.
By information from prisoners and deserters, Major Gar
diner, Major Graham, Capt. Murray and Capt. Bruere,
were dangerously wounded ; and ail of them, except Mir
jor Graham, are said to be since dead.
The finding of Major Gardiner's order!, book, in the
pocket of Adjutant Finlay, wherein the sanguinary orders
for thepicked marksmen were found, together with a re
commendation to use the bayonet, in preference to powder
and ball, enforced with these words, " Ibeir brothers,
(the Britifll barbarians) to the north ward feldem or never
ufepowder and bad, till the, have put the rebels to flight ;
and Major Gardiner and their officers hope to fee them tallow
their glorious example , has had this good effe&, that it
, has produced a volunteer company of as Jure marksmen as
are perhaps on the continent, who by this time have
reached the camp.
$ Our coast still swarms with privateers of the enemy;
almost every day some of their brigs, small schooners and
Hoops come in fight, and sometimes two twenty gun ships,
the Daphne and the Unicorn; but we do not hear they
have taken any thing since the renewal of the embargo.
The Hornet and Monmouth brigs and Rattle-snake
schooner, have been upon a cruize, but whenever they
fall in with privateers, they have iriimediatcly led towards
the men of war, who, with two brigs and two schooners,
ebafed our vessels in on Monday.
Last Sunday fe'nnignt, another Lieutenant and seven
seamen, belonging toa privateer from St Avguftine, were
made prisoners at the entrance of George-Town harbour,
attempting to cut out some vessels there.
It appears by several publications in the London, Weft-
India, and other Royal Papers, so early as the beginning
of November last, and from many other circum fiances,
that the iavafion of f hefe Southern St des has been long
projected ; that the enemy have, for inore than three
years past, had a number of properly qualified agents in
the remote, and some of the interior, parts of all these
states, artfully tampering with the we ker uninformed in
habitants, flily inching them into the British service, and
then (wearing them to secrecy ; and that, on the fu.cefs
of these men, Sir Henry Clinton has built his pretence of
having been folicitei to fend a fleet and army this way,
for the relief and proteaion of his Majefty'sfubjeds,
(such as Krkland, &c.) who in the said papers, are pre
tended to have revolted, and petitioned. It is highly
proper to call the attention of the public to the little insi
dious artifices of his Britannic Mijefty's Commanders,
and to guard the weaker of tne community against the
certain confuquence of their fuffering themselves to be any
longer deluded. It is a well known fa&, that the British
Generals have introduced themselves into every state on
the continent, where |hey have taken up their temporary
residence, with the fame pretences they have entered
Georgia: But, mark the event- -though frequently (up
ported by too many deluded people, yet they have, "in a
fliort time, been compelled to quit the countries to which
they fay they were invited, and to leave to the mercy of
the injured Americans, their most b,ai friends. Can this
pretence deceive any longer ? Will any set of men fiill ex
pose themselves to the infamy of betr ying their country,
and the misfortune of being themselves betrayed in turn?
By intelligence last week from the Southward, we learn,
that General Allie, having taken post in the state of
Georgia, he was attacked last Wednesday afternoon, by
Col Campbell, with so superior a number of men (at least
double) that General Athe was obliged to cross the river ;
the gallant Col. Elbert covered his retreat with his own
brigade, many of whom nave been killed or taken. Our
loss is supposed to be about a hundred ; that of the enemy
is not yet known.
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island) April i.
Intelligence is received at General Glover's head-quar
ters in this town, that a large fleet of (hipping passed Point-
Judith Monday afternoon last, bound into Newport :
the weather being hazy, it could not be afeertained what
number the fleet confided of, or whether they had any
troops on board.
Advice is also received, that the enemy on Rhode Island
are in motion s and, as it is supposed they are meditating
some mifehitf, it behoves every man to be in readiness to
meet them at a moment's warning.
•,* The firing of the BEACON, as usual, with three
diftind cannon will be the alarm.
PHILADELPHIA, April ip.
Some days agoa ship, two brigs and a schooner, arriv
ed in Hampton-Road, Virginia, with a flag of truce from
New-York. They bring eloathing, baggage, winte, rum,
tea, sugar and 10,150 guineas, for the use of the officers
and soldiers who were made prisoners with General Bur
goyne, at Saratoga.
Captain Douglass, in the Hunter privateer schooner,
belonging to this port, a few days ago fell in with, and
took a schooner from St. Kitts, with 137 hogfhea^s rura,
and brought her in fafe.
M^^^)^)c()e(X^WX(^X
Maidenhead, Hunterdon County, New-ferfey, April 16.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
CTOLEN last night out of the yard of Cap . Quig
° le/, in Trenton, a large likely lorrel H ORS E,
near sixteen hands high, has a white mane and tail,
clumsy trot, four years old, and shod all round. Any
person taking up and securing said horse and the thief,
so that the owner may have his horse and the thief be
brought to justice, shall receive the above reward; or
far the horse alone Sixty Dollars, and reasonable
charges if brought home, paid by
SIXIY DOLLARS REWARD.
CTRAYE D or STOLEN out of the pasture of
° the fubferiber, near the Gap Tavern, a dark roan
MARE, with celt, and will foal about the firft week
in June, about ten or twelve yeais old, and about four-'
teen or fifteen hands.high, trots and paces, but trots
mostly, has a long narrow hoof behind, and stands very
wide, her mane hangs on both sides, food before, of
good courage, and middling poor. Whoever takes up
said mare and the thief, so that the owner may get the
mare and the thief be brought to justice, ihall have the
above reward, or Thirty Dollars for the mare, and
reasonable charges, paid by the fubferiber in Salfbury
township, Lancaster county.
April 1%. GEORGE M'D IL L.