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in N^-V^k ; And that ^ ^ coifed
Ireland fading off fromher, and all Europe
co noised at least in inclination against her, the yet aba-
We hear the General Starks privateer belonging to
CaoeAnne, has taken two Weft Indiamen laden with rum,
and a ship laden with dry goods, bound to Quebec.
PHILADELPHIA, August 8.
ExtraX of a letter from Paris, March 27, 1780.
" The art of war is so well and so equally underflood
bv the great nations of Europe, and they are so equally
furoifhed with Statermen, Generals, Admirals and other
officers capable of conducing it well, that it is now
remr'lly considered as a concert of Finances ; so that the
nation which can the longest find money to carry on the
war, can generally I old.out the longest.-
« The French and Spanish nations are probably as well
fiored wth politicians and warriors as the British, and it
is very c tain they have an immense superiority in wealth.
The French Krug has not yet laid any new imposition
upon his (uoje&s, whereas the English have every year
since 1774 been laying on, without mercy or diftinXion,
additional taxes.
“ On the 15th of March Lord North opened in the
House of Commons his proposed taxes for paying the in
terert of this year's loan. The following account is a good
explanation of them, taken from one of the public papers,
in which his Lordship is supposed to relate the substance
es them privately to one of his friends.
" I borrow twelve millions sterling, fays his Lordship.
The interest of this loan amounts to 695,5001. flerling;
an immense sum, it is true, between you and me, but
which however we shall be able to raise by means of the
following imports:
" 1. Six pence upon each bushel of malt : My inten
tion is not to make the public brewers pay this, who
paid it before, but the individuals who brew at home for
the use o' their fimili-s, and who now pay nothing. So
that b er will be drink at toe public houses at the price it
b ars now, and the individuals will have no cause to com
plain, be aufe I do nothing in this but assimilate their
fa r e to that of the public brewers, by fubj^fting them to
pay what the others paid before Nothing on be more
just than to place all the fubjeXs of the fame State upon
the fame foot : And this act of justice will produce me
three hundred and ten thousand pounds sterling, •
" 2. If it is just that the drinkers of be r should con
tribute to the wants of the State in proportion to their
thud, it is eqva'ly just that all the thirty should pay
for every f,e~ies of drink, and to begin with those that
are made among us, I think I can lay on a p^nny upon
each gallon of English wine, commonly called final! wines
(compiled of various fort' of drugs). This penny will
produce me twenty thousand fix bun !red and seventeen
pounds flerling. . - *
" 3. I can lay on three pence upon every gallon of
Enghfh brandy (extracted from malt and other ingredi
ents) and thefy three-pences will am unt to the round sum
of thirty four thousand three hundred a^d fifty seven
j>eupcl^ flerling.
“ 4. I r teliquors made am 0; us can b- t x?I for
the god of theSrate, it is just, afdrf&, Gac foreign
liquors should pay their quota: By conference, .t is
reasonable to add one shilling to the duty which each gal
lon of brand, already pays, And this article is Hated,
according to my (peculation, at thirty-five thousand three
hundred and ten pounds flerling.
" 5. If it is just tha fc brandy should pay, why should
. rum, which is equally strong, be exempted? There is a
great de^l of rumconfumed, and by adding one (hilling
to the duties which it pays riready, it will flop me a gap
of seventy thousand cine hundred and fifty-eight pounds
flerling.
“ 6. As to genuine wines, which are all foreign, one
may add a penny to the duties which they pay already,
without any inconvenience to the public, because, the
tavern-keepers, to compensate the, Selves for the penny
which vyas lately imposed on each bottle of these wines,
railed the price of it fix pence. Certainly as there re
mains to them four pence of net profit, they will not bare
to demand the fifth of the consumer. This additional
penny on the wines of Portugal and two pence upon these
of France, promise me seventy-two thousand pounds
sterling.
" 7. Coal, exported, pays four (hillings less by the
chaldron than is paid for the inferior consumption: It is
3^, that the subj ft should not pay dearer than the fo
reigner, or to express myfelf better, that the flranger
fn mid pay as dear as the fubjeit. Consequently four
(hillings inapofed on each chaldron exported, make ano
theraß of justice which will be worth to me twelve thou
sand eight hundred and ninety-nine pounces flerling.
" 8. Because all these i.sports are just, it is nothing
more than j*ft to lay on an additional sum of five per cent,
because toeie fiv- per cent, will give me forty-fix thousand
ene^ hun bed and morty-turee pounds flerling.
' 9. A< the poor eat fait as well as the rich, it is with
more rriw&ince that I layman import upon this branch of
consumption. But it (hall be light, and produce only fix
ty-moe thousand pounds flerling.
" 10. The advertisements in the public papers pay on
"™° failings. We may raise them to two and a half.
Lots addition, added to the duty which shall be paid for
the authentication of receipts upon flam, paper, to be
given to the executors of wills when legatees shall receive
of teem their legacies, will make me another sum of twen
ty-one thousand pounds flerling.
" ']' " na "y> whoever Ihall fell tea by retail, shall be
obliged to take out licence, for which he shall pay five
firings, and this misery will be worth to me nine thou
and eighty-two pounds flerling —
All these propositions and the motions which they
occanoned, passed without opposition or difficulty. The
foregoing narration has the air of a pleasantry, but con
tains a true account of the taxes, and a melancholy hif
ory for the people of England, who receive no compen
atton for these annual additional cruelties that are laid
'™~™r not for their good, but to be regularly and
yitematically applied for the ruin of the nation.
These taxes may be all fiated in one view, in this
recapitulation: r. fieriin-.
6 pence a bushel for malt, 310,090
1 penny a gallon small wines, 20,61,7
£. fierling,
3 pence a gallon English brandy, 34,557
1 (hilling a gallon on brandy, 35,310
1 Milling a gallon on rum, 70,958
Foreign Wines, 72,000
4 (hillings a chaldron on coal exported, 12,809
5 per cent, on all these duties, 4619$
10 pence a bushel for fa't, 69,000
Advertisements, &c. 21,000
Licences for felling tea by retail, 9,082
701,616
The amount of the interest to be paid, 695,500
Remains for occasion, 6,116
" The spirit of gambling enters into every thing in
commerce, in policy and in war in London, and there
fore it is no wonder it has laid hold of this loan. They
have been (peculating in it, and making jobbs of it, as
usual. Favorites only, it is (aid, were permitted to fob
fcribe, and they have been felling to others for premiums,
sometimes of 7 per cent, then it fell to 5, then mounted
again to 6 and a half, &c. Thus it is that Ministers
and People go on, (porting with their own miseries and
corruptions."
Extrad of a letter from a Gentleman in Edenton, North-
Carolina, dated July 22.
'' The enemy have retired from their port, and our Ge
neral has occupied them. Our little army to the feuth
ward confiftsof 10,000 Regulars and Militia. We have
an account from a gentleman who has just left Charles
town, that the British officers a nd soldiers treat the inha
bitants very ill, and especially those who were difaffeaed
to the American cause.
" Our General Rutherfort hearing of about 1000 Tories
being embodied and well equipped, going to join the ene
my, he immediately detached Col. Lock with about 400
Militia to reconoitre them, when Col. Lock came in fight
o' them he found them feeding their horses, and a good
dal off of their guard,the Col. seizing the favorable oppor
tunity a battle immediately infued. When our lines were
twice broke but cur men rallied again, and broke theen
emys lines which they could never form arain, and fled
into the waods as art as possible, Co! Lock pursued them
killed 70 on the field took 400 and upwards prifon^rs, and
700 horses with their baggage, all this was compleated
witu about 20 of our men killed. I with our arms may
always prove as f&ccefTul."
Extract of a letter from Londonderry, dated March 2,
1780.
" I have the pleasure to acquaint you, that our native
country, Ireland, is become at length a free country,
having the fame liberty of trade both in our imports
and exports as Britain. The Tert Aft repealed, and the
abolition of Poyniogs Law at prefect iiTagitation, which
we expeft will not be withheld by England, as they are
in such good humour at present with us, that they do
not chufe to refufe any thing aiked by the Irish nation.
All this has been gained by the firmnefs of our Parlia
ment, backed by the spirit of sixty thousand indepen
dent volunteers, armei compleatly, accoutred and dis
ciplined at their own expence. At our firfl fitting out
in this way, almost al! the great, the Court and the tools
of it difeountenanced, and endeavoured to crush i*, but
the people having arms in their hands, and knowing their
own importance, -s well as the wants and distresses of
their country, perfirted, until at length a command in
the independent battalions was looked on as the highest
honor by all the good and great of our country. In this
town are four companies, about 250 men, in the county
are upwards of 2500 men besides, which may give you
some ilea of our numbers, for several countiesare before
us in number. This city, however, has the honour of
being the third in Ireland, which adopted the glorious
institution. You may have some guess from whence we
took the example, but all we want now is peace with A
merica.”
Extr & of a letter from Dublir, May 1.
Liberty Vounoes, Dublin.
" Field Day, the ^'b of April, 1780.
The Corps met, purtu^nt to general fummor.s, to cleft
officers, and confid^r of such resolutions as were entered
upon the book to be difoofed of.
Lieutenant Colonel GRAYDON in the Chair.
The following gentlemen were defied officers.
Grenadier Company.
William Worthing en, Esq; Captain.
T ioma3 Andrew, Esq; Lieutenant.
Mr. William Porter, Ensign.
Mr. Michael B own, Serjeant.
First Battalion Company.
James Horan, Elq; Aiderman, Captain,
Mr. William Evans, Lieutenant.
M.John Owens, Serjeant.
Second Battalion Company.
Munford Green, Esq; Captain.
Mr. Hugh Strahan, Lieutenant.
Mr. Ben. Brown, Serjeant,
Light Infantry Company.
Philip Proffer, Esq; Captain.
Mr. John Hudson, Lieutenant.
Mr. Richard Hale, Serjeant.
“ Refolded unanimously, That we hold it inexpedient
to be any longer under the command of his Grace the
Duke of Leinfter.
" Resolved, That a copy of the above resolution be
signed hr the Secretary, and enclosed to his Grace the
Duke of Leinfter.
“ Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this
Corps be presented to Lieutenant-Colonel Graydon and
Major Andrews, for their attention to the Corps.
“ Resolved unanimously, That the above refohitions
and Mr. Grattan's aniwer be published in the Dublin
news-papers.
“ Ordered unanimously, That the Chairman do sign
the above in the name of the Corps.
“ ALEXANDER GRAYDON, Lieut. Col."
WANTE D Immediately,
A NUMBER of WOOD-CUTTERS, for
which the highest prices will be given by
L. DORSEY#
To be SOLD by Public ^utii%
On Friday the eleventh of August,
At three o'clock in the afternoon,
On Bright's wharf,
The Cargo of the pr ze ship ALBION,
Confiding of Liverpool Srit, 3 few crates of Ware, &c.
*7 HE Salt will be fold in lots of fifty bufhtk, and
' after the sale of the whole i< firrlhfid, v ill be deli
vered to the purchasers in the order it is fold; the mo
ney to be paid as the Salt is delivered.
By order of the Court of Admiralty,,
MATTHEW CLARKSON, M rfhall.
TEWi^rTv'ANIA BANK,
Au^uft 7, 1780.
AConfiderable Requisition for the Ar
my, makes it indefpenfably necessa
ry to call on the Subferibers to the Lean,
for an immediate Payment of their third
ten per Cent.
Port of Philadelphia, PennfyPuania, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern.
NT 0 TICE is hereby given. That a Court of Adibi
* nalty will be held at the State house in the city of
Philadelphia, on the fourteenth day of August inst, at
Ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the trial of the brigan
tine or vessel called the Active and her cargo, &c. late
ly commanded by John Rapin, burthen about fifty tons;
seized and libelled againfl by Frederick Pirle, Enquire,
qui tarn, &c. To the intent that the ow&:r or owners
thereof, or any perUns concerned therein, may appear
and (hew cause, if any they .have, why the fame should
not be condemned according to the prayer of the libel, &e.
By order of the J dge,
August 7, 1780. ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
T 0 B~e's' L L
A NEAT wall finifhed two story brick house, (ex
, rept the plaiftering) situate in Southwark, on the
weft 6ie ci Third street, ^nd next deer w Silas Engles;
the lot containing in rtenr, eighteen fret, and in depth
eighty feet, fubjea tea secund rent cf five pounds per
annum". For further particulars, plerie enquire cf Tho
nUs Shute, inChurch Ally, who ecn^nuts feeing in
digo, by wholesale and retail, and has a new nine inch
cable to fell.
THOMAS SHUTE.
t 0 ? OLL
q HEALTHY N^gro lad, about eighteen years of
rk age, rem rouble for his strength, with an extra
ordinary character, ufel to house wmk, arid to take
care of noris Enquire f Cayt GrorgeOrd, in Second
ffreet, between South and Shippen ffreets, Philadelphia.
T O' B°E L--D:
A PLANT ATION and tr &of land, situate in
' * New London to ^nlhip, Charter wounty. ne^r the
Cross Roads, about forty five miles from Philadelphia,
containing ere hundred acres and allowance, five acres
of meadow, eight or ten acres cf woodland, a log house.
two Tories high, three rooms on a floor, a log barn,
garden and orchard, it is under good fence. For terms
of fal% apply to Bonfall and Shoemaker's office, in
Fou^th-ftreet, below Spruce street,
Philadelphia, Au^uft 8, 1780.
TO BE SOL D,
FOR Loan Office Certificates, Continental or State
money, or Exchanged, for Weft India good<, or
tobacco, fcver.l trails of good land, in Cumber! nd
and W&ftmoreland counties. Two trails of said lands,
are patented, and lie in the neighbourhood cf Cham
b&rfbaurgh. For particulars, enquire ts Mrs. Camp
bies in Front-street, five doors below Arch street.
Just came to hand,
A frefh and neat ASSORTMEENT of
DRY GOOD S,
Which will be fold by whelefale only, at a reafonab'e
price, at
JONAS PHILLIPSs Store,
In Market-street, near Mr. Dunlap's Printing Office,
viz.
A HINTZES and Callfcoes, Cotton and Persian
~ Checks, Cambricks,. Lawns and Martins, checked
and cotton Handkerchiefs, white Linens, sewing Sh^s,
and twist Tapes broad and narrow, quality Bindings,
Breaches Patterns hair plush, Mohair Buttons, women's
Glove, black Monies, men's Hats, Ravens Duck and can
vas for light Sails for tents, RuffiaDuck, Buntings for (hips
colours, white aud blue plain Blankets, Diapers, Spanish
Brown, 'Role Brimft one, and Cepprafs, Rayzers, Door
Locks, Guilt Buttons, a few cartes of Pot and Pearl ash,
and sundry other goods.
Philadelphia, Augufl 7, i 730.
WHEREAS me and my wife Margaret, have for some
time part had several disagreeable quarrels, entirely
owing to her mifcopduß, I am therefore resolved never
to have any more connexions with her: This is therefore
to inform the public not to trust her on my account, as
I will sever pay any debts contraX&d by h r from this
date. MATTHIAS BAXTER.
August 4, 1780.
To the F REEMEN ELECT0R S of ihe City
and Countjof PHILADELPHIA.'
Gentlemen,
' ^ ND J N G '''^r myfelf aCandidate for the
Sheriff's office, your votes and interest at the ensuing
Election, will oblige your Humble Servant,
WILLIAM HOLLINSHEAD.
August 5, 1780.