Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-05-22 00:00:00, page 6

N E W-Y 0 R K, %ifr
Committee Chamber, \enc-lork, if Maj, '773*
WH EREA Sfc appears by the public pa
pers, that at exportation from Philadel
phia to (Quebec, Nova-Scotia, Georgia, and
Newfoundland, oranypart of the Filhing Coasts,
or Fishing Islands, is suspended; arid that it be
accordingly recommended to every merchant,
immediately to suspend all exportation to thole
places, until the Continental Congress shall
give further orders therein.
Resolved, That the above measure be recom
mended by the Committee, to the merchant)
and inhabitants of this city and county, and
that henceforth, no provisions, or other neces
saries be sent from this port to the army, or navy
at Boston, until the Continental Congress shall
give further orders therein.
Ordered, That the above be made public.
By order of the Committee.
ISAAC LOW, Chairman.
The forming is a cc, of a Circular Letter from
our General Committee of Affeciation, to the other
Colonies..
New-York, May 5, 1775.
Gentlemen,
AT a time when the most vigorous exertions
are absolutely necessary for the defenceof
American Liberty, against the depredations of
ministerial power; and the blood of our bre
thren in the Massachusetts has been actually shed,
for daring to maintain the Rights of Englilh
men; the inhabitants of this city and county
have, in the most explicit manner, as you may
perceive by the inclofed Association, resolved
to Hand and fall with the Freemen of the Con
tinent.
We are confident that our Constituents are
sincere in the ftrorig aflurances they have given
us, that while we continue in office, they will
be guided by our advice and direction. We
have thought it necessary to advise the withold
ing supplies from the British Fisheries on the
American Coasts, and to cease all exports to
thofc Colonies which at this alarming juncture
refu fe to unite in the common cause. The ex
pediency of this measure is too evident to need
elucidation, and will doubtless procure us many
hearty advocates in Britain for the redress of
our grievances. Besides which, we have resol
ved to withhold all provisions and necessaries
from the army and navy at Boston.
Our late Committee of Observation thought
proper to recommend the appointment of a
Provincial Congress; in consequence of which
our Constituents have chosen 21 Deputies to
meet at this city on the zzd instant, those who
may be appointed for that purpose in the other
Counties of this Colony. For your further fa
tistaction on these matters, we beg leave to re
fer you to the inclofed papers; to require you
to communicate the fubtlance of this informa
tion to your next neighbours, and to assure you,
that in our department we shall watch incessant
ly for the public fafety.
B, order of the Committee.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient and humble servant;
HENRY REMSEN, D. Chairman.
The follow ing is a co) of a Letter from our General
Committee of Association, to the Lord Major and
Magistrates of London, sent by Capt. Lawrence,
who failedf om hence the 6th infant.
Committee Chamber, New-York,
sth May, 1775.
My Lord, and Gentlemen,
Distinguished as you are by
your noble exertions in the cause of Li
berty, and deeply interested in the expiring
commerce of the empire, you necessarily com
mand the most refpedful attention. The Ge
neral Committee of Association for the city and
county of New-York, beg leave therefore to
address you, and the Capital of the British Em
pire, through its Magistrates, on the subject of
American Wrongs. Born to the bright inhe
ritance of English Freedom, the inhabitants of
this extensive Continent can never submit to
the ignominious yoke, nor move in the galling
fetters of davery: The disposal of their own pro
perty with perfed fpontaniety, and in a man
ner wholly diverted of every appearance of
constraint, is their indefeafible birthright. This
exalted blessing they are resolutely determined
to defend with their blood, and transfer it un
contaminated to their posterity.
You will not then wonder at their early jea
lousy of the design to erect in this Land of Li
berty, a despotism scarcely to be paralleled in
the pages of antiquitv, or the volumes of mo
dern times; a despotism confiding in power,
assumed by the Representatives of a part of his
Majesty's subjects, at their sovereign will and
pleasure, to drip the ret of their property.
And what are the engines of Administration to
execute this destructive project? The duty on
tea, —eppreffve restraints on the commerce of
the Celnies,—the blockade of the port of Bof-
Fon,—-tlit change of internal police in the Mas-
UenuLtt; ail Quebec, —the c&ablifhment of
popery in the latter,—the extention of its
bounds, —the ruin of our Indian Commerce by
regulations calculated to aggrandize that arbi
trary government, —unconstitutional admiralty
jurisdictions throughout the Colonies, —the in
vasion of our Right to a Trial in the molt capi
tal cases by a Jury of the vicinage,—the horrid
contrivance to screen from punishment the
bloody executioners of ministerial vengeance, —
and, not to mention the rest of the bl^ck cata
logue of our grievances, the hostile operations
of an army who have already shed the blood of
our countrymen. The struggles excited by the
detestable stamp a&, have so lately demonstrated
to the world that the Americans will not be
slaves, that we Band astonished at the gross im
policy of the minister. Recent experience had
evinced that the pofleffors of this extensive Con
tinent would never submit to a tax by pretext of
legislative authority in Britain ; disguise there
fore became the expedient; in pursuit of the
Tame end Parliament declared their absolute su
premacy over the Colonies, and have already
endeavoured to exercise that supremacy in at
tempting to raise a revenue under the specious
pretence of providing for their good government
and defence. Administration to exhibit a degree
of moderation, purely ortenfible and delufory,
while they withdrew their hands from our most
necessary articles of importation, determined
with an eager grasp to hold the duty on ten as a
badge of their taxative power. Zealous, on
our part, for an indissoluble union with the pa
rent date,—fludious to promote the glory and
happiness of the empire, and impressed with a
just sense of the necessity of a controuling autho
rity, to regulate and harmonize the discordant
commercial interests of its various parts, we
chearfully submit to a regulation of Commerce
by the Legislature of the Parent State, excluding
in its nature every idea of taxation. .
Whither therefore the present machinations of
arbitrary power infallibly tend, you may easily
judge; if unrentittedly pursued, as they were
inhumanly devised, they will, by a fatal neces
sity, terminate in a total difiblution of the em
pire. The fubjeds of this country will not, we
trust, be deemed by any meafares conciliatory
in appearance, while it is evident that the Mi
nister aims at a solid revenue to be raised by
grievous and oppressive Ads of Parliament, and
by fleets and armies employed to enforce their
execution. They never will, we believe, sub
mit to an auction in the Colonies for the more
effectual augmentation of the revenue, by hold
ing it up as a temptation to them, that the
highest bidders shall enjoy the greatest share of
governmental favor. This plan, as it would
tend to sow the feeds of difeord, would be far
more dangerous than hostile force, in which we
hope the King's Troops will ever be, as they
have already been, unfuccefsful. Instead of
those unusual, extraordinary, and unconstitu
tional modesof procuring levies from the fubjeft,
should his Majesty be graciously pleased, upon
suitable emergencies, to make requisitions in an
cient form, the Colonies have expressed their
willingness to contribute to the support of the
empire; but to contribute of their voluntary
gift as Englishmen: And when our unexampled
grievances are redressed, our Prince will find
his American fubjeds teftifying, on all proper
occasions, by as ample aids as their circumffan
ces will permit, the most unihaken fidelity to
their Sovereign, and inviolable attachment to
the welfare of his realm and dominions.
Permit us further to assure you, that America
is grown so irritable by oppression, that the least
fhockin any part is, by the most powerful and
sympathetic affedion, instantaneously felt through
out the whole continent; that Pennsylvania, Ma
ryland and New-York, have already flopped their
exports to the fifhing irtands, and those Colonies
which at this dangerous juncture have refufed to
unite with their brethren in the common cause;
and all supplies to the navy and army at Boston ;
and that probably the day is at hand when our
Continental Congress will totally shut up our ports.
The minions of power here may now inform ad
ministration, if they can ever Ipeak the language
of truth, that this city is as one man in the cause
of liberty ; that to this end our inhabitants are
almost unanimously bound by the inclofed associa
tion ; —that it is continually advancing to perfec
tion by additional fubferiptions ; —that they are
resolutely bent on fripporting their Committee,
and the intended provincial and Continental Con
gresses; that there is notthe least doubt of the
efficacy of their example in the other counties ;
in short, that while the whole continent are ar
dently wishing for peace, on such terms as can
be acceded to by Englishmen, they are indefati
gable in preparing for the last appeal. That such
are the language and conduct of our fellow-citizens,
will be further manifefted by a representation of
the Lieutenant Governor and Council of theist
instant, to General Gage, at Boston, and to his
Majesty's Ministers by the Packet. Assure your
fdves, my Lord and Gentlemen, that we speak
the real sentiments of the confederated Colonies
on the continent, from Nova Scotia ,0 Georgi
when we declare, that all the horrors of a civil
war will never compel America to submit to tax
ation by authority of Parliament.
A sincere regard to the public weal and the
cause ofhumanity, an hearty desire to spare the
further effufion of human blood, eur loyalty to
our Prince, and the love we bear to all our fel
low fubjeds in his Majesty's realm and dominions,
and a full conviction of the warmest attachment
in the capital of the empire to the cause of justice
and liberty, have induced us tofaddrefs you 00
this momentous fubjed, confident that the fame
cogent motives will induce the most vigorous ex
ertions of the city of London, to restore union,
mutual confidence and peace to the whole empires
To the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor,)
the Aldermen, and Common Council (
of the City of London.)
[Signed by Isaac Low, Chairman, and 90
Members of the Committee.]
PHILADELPHIA, %xB.
Last Saturday the Honorable the General As
sembly of this province adjourned to Monday the
19th of June next.
Yerterday the ship Jenny, Capt. M'lllvaine, arri
ved from Cork; She left that place the 4th of April,
at which time there were three regiments of foot,
and one of horse, only waiting for their agent to
embark for America, having sent their baggage on
board the transports. On the 12th of April, in lat.
45 : 4-4, long. 36 : 33, he law fix fail of transports
bound from England to America. Capt. Young,
in a brig for New-York, informed him, on the
fame night that she spoke with them.
Extras from the proceedings ofthe Committee ofinfttc
tiok for Kent-County, on Delaware.
Dozer, Tuesday, May 2, 1775. P. M.
THE Committee met by adjournment when the
following letter was laid before them by the
President of the Committee of Correfponder.ee for
said County.
" I acknowledge to have wrote a piece (and did
not sign it) hnce said to be an extract of a letter
from Kent-County, on Delaware, published in
Humphreys's Ledger, No. 3. It was not dated from
any place, and is some altered from the original.
I folded it up, and directed the fame to Joshua Fish
er and Sons. I had no intention to have it publish
ed, and further let them know, the author thought
best it should not be published/ nor did I think they
would. lam sincerely sorry I ever wrote it, as al
so for its being published, and hope I may be ex
cused for this my firft breath in this way, and I in
tend it shall be the last.
May 2, 1775. Robert Holliday."
To the Committee of Correspondence
for Kent County on Delaware.
Refolded unanimously, That this be not fatis facto
ry, and that Mr. Holliday be requeued to attend
the Committee at their next meeting, on Tuesday,
the 9th instant, then to give further fafisfa&ion for
the gross misrepresentation of the people of this
county, by said letter, from which an extract was
published in Humphreys's Ledger.
Tuesday, May 9, P. M.
The Committee met according to adjournment,
when Mr. Holliday appeared, and offered to make
the necessary concessions for his conduct.
On motion, Resolved, That a Committee be ap
pointed to draw up Mr. Holliday's concessions in
writing.
This being done, Mr. Holliday waited on the
Committee with his concessions, drawn up in the
ferm of an address, as follows.
To the Committee of InffeeSien for Kent-County 0%
Delaware.
" Gentlemen,
“ With sorrow and contrition for my weaknef#
and folly, I confefs irtyfelf the author of the letter,
from which an extras was published in the third
number of Humphreys's Ledger, said to be from
Kent County, on Delaware ; but at the fame time
do declare, it was published without my consent,
and not without forae alterations.
“ I am now convinced the political sentiments
therein contained were founded in the grossest error;
more especially that malignant insinuation that
“ if the King's standard were now ere&ed, nine
out of ten would repair to it," could not have been
suggested but from the deepest infatuation. True
indeed it is, the people of this county have ever
shewn a zealous attachment to his Majesty's person
and government, and whenever he raised his ftan
dard in a just cause, were ready to flock to it ; but
let the severe account I now render to an injured
people witness to the world, that none are more
ready to oppose tyranny, or to be firft in the
cause of liberty, than the inhabitants of Kent-
County.
“ Confeious that I can render no fatisfa&ion
adequate to the injury done my country, I can only
beg the forgivenefs of my countrymen upoe those
principles of humanity, which may induce them to
confider the frailty of human nature. And I do
profefs and promise, that I will never again oppose
those laudable measures, necessarily adopted by my
countrymen for the preservation of American free
dom, but will co-operate with them to the utmost
of my abilities, in their virtuous struggle for li
berty, so far as is confident with my religious prin
. ciples.
Ma, 9, 1775. Robert Holliday."
Koted, Satisfadory.
Published by order of the Committee,
Tuomas Nikon, jun. Clerk,