The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-08-09 00:00:00, page 1

The ELEVENTH of August, Instant, at TWELVE
o'Clcck in the Forenoon,
A new, three flory Brick House,
and two story KITCHEN, lituate on the east fide of
Second-ftreer, between Race and Vinc-ffreets, three
doors above Coats's-alley: The House is 17 feet 6
inches in Front, and twenty-four fret fix inches in
depth; the Kitchen is 12 feet and half by 16 and
a half, with the LOT of GROUND on which it hands,
being 17 stet and a half front, and ,2 feet and a half
deep; with the priviledgt of 1 5 feet alls;, lading into
Coats's-alley; clear of ground-rent. August 3.
Whereas Complaint has been
triode to the Chrtimiffibnef^ < f the city and cblinty of
Philadelphia by the Collectors of Mulberry w^rd, th^t
they cannot obtain the taxes how due (amounting to
eight hundred and ninety five po^hd^) oh a lai^ lot
th piece of ground situate between Fifth and Sixth fleets,
and extending from Mulberry to Cherry fleet
„to the property of Performs of the name 01 Ca
lender, frying in ^ ill,nd of B dbacQ.
Notice is hereby given, That unlef# the owner Or
owners of the abfr mentioned eft^, their ^torneies
or agenib, *ifehar^e and pay the taxes now due ih^e
, ^or before tht firft day of November next enfu-
L%t, e ?,, ^li of the laid estate will then
""''/ the refyeaive taxes and all ne
teiftry rtpinm.
—. JOHN BROOKE, )
Philadelphia, PRESLEY BLAKISTON,)Ccmm.
J u ^y 3^l, i;Bi, GUNNING BEDFORD )
WALTER ROE & Company,
At their Store, on the north fide of Mirket-ftreet,
four doors below Fourth-hreet, in Mr. Owen'Jontf6
house,
* RE now opening a large and neat assortment of
merchandize, imported in the last vessels from
Europe, which they will fell by wholesale and retail,
on the moss reasonable terms, for ready money, viz.
Superfine Broad Cloths ofl
various colour
Second dittol
Brown, claret, olive, black
blue and Spotted Cordu.
roys
Black Everbfling.
S^rge Denefrae
Durants of ri! colours
Spalloone ditto
Corded & floweredDimity,j
Blue, black, and crimson
caiimancors^
Bengali and Ginghams,
A large affytment of
beautiful Chintzes and
calicoes
Marfeillei Quitting
Black and white Sitting
Black and white Modes
Sarfnetts and PeetongS
White, brown, green, hide'
and striped eil-wide Per
'**'
Half yard ditto
Taffefys and Mafuafy
Brocades and Luteffring#
Sewing Silks of ah colours
Cambricks and Lawns
Flowered and Minionef
Lawns
Mullin and Kenting
Handkerchiefs
Plain and striped Mullin'
Bandanoe and Barcelona
Silk Handkerchiefs
him and Ruffri Sheetings
Said Roe and Company hope for encouragement
from ,^ e public, as they are determined to pay the
ftri&iu. attention to business, and, as far a# in their
power) give ' Ltis^aicn to thole who please to favour
them with their ruftom.
Th^ top^. to be excused the common mode of tel
ling the ^lidic, their goodtfire remarkably low: they
and only wait, for an opportunity of convincing
them, by thawing the quality, and telling tfe prices
Of th ir goods, which th:, flatter themselves, will be
the best and most pleating method to convince the
purchasers that their price, are moderate.
To be Sold by Public Vendue,
AT THE COFFEE-HOUSE,
O^ SAIURDAT,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9 , 178^
^W^^IB
or, The
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
VOL. X.l
Published EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence,
Irilh, French and German
Linens
Lavall Linens
Three-fou+ths and Yard
wide Britannia's
Fine and coarse Scoch
Threads
Coloured ditto
Silk, Cotton, Thread and
Worsted Hole
Silk and Worked Breeches
Patterns
Purple and white Gloves
Ladies Fans
Tapes and Bobbins
Black, Blond and Thread
Lace
Ribbands
Seven-eights, yard - wide,
and yard and three
eights cotton Checks
Spotted and coloured
Jeans
Pins by the Packet
Pocket Handkerchiefs
Writing Paper
Snuff in Bottle#
A neat Affortrnent of
Glass and China Ward'
A Imall Assortment of
Ironmongery
Clock Movements and
Faces
Salt
Cotton by she Bag and
smaller quantity
Bohea Tea, &e. &c. &c.
L 0 N D O N.
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.
House of Commons, Thursday, February 15, 1781.
A T half past fix o'clock, ME Burke rose and mov
ed, that the resolutions of the 6th of April, 1780,
refpeding the influence of the crown, &c. should be
read; his motion having been Complied with, he in
formed the house that he had made it, in order to re
frefli their memories with an event that had done ho
nour to the last parliament; and his present object was
to give force and fubflance to those resolutions, and
not fuffer them, if poffiblC, to remain public monu
ments of disgrace to Parliament/ Influence, he admit
ted, was necessary in, every government; but it was
the influence of public virtue that should alone be che
riOiel, not the influence of corruption --the latter
weakened as much as the former strengthened, the
hands of every administration. The manner in which
he intended to give a check to that influence, which,
whilst it corrupted the senate, exhausted the resources
of the date, he had Sufficiently explained last year;
and as he had not made any alteration in his plan, it was
unnecessary for him now to enter into an explanation
of it. In tithes, like the present, he thought it would
be a Sufficient recommendation to his sy stem. to fay,
that it would be the cause of a Saving no less than
200,0001. a year of public money; and when, it shall
be known, that fifty members of parliament would be
freed by his plan from the shackles of ministerial in
fluence, he made no doubt but he should get Support in
carrying it through from every friend to the confuta
tion in that house.
, Oeconomy, he observed, was at dll times necessary;
but it was infinitely more so now, when we not only
were actually at war with our old enemies and old allies,
but also when we were, he feared, in danger of a war
with the maritime powers of Europe, the powers most
to be dreaded by this country, which owes its great
ness to its marine; and which has no enemies to fear
who are not Hrong at sea: A naval war, where the
other maritime Rates oppose us, being levelled at the
very foundation of our greatness, it was our business
to make the most vigorous effort's, and to avail ourselves
of every resource in our power: Prodigality of our
treasure could be recommended to us only by ene
mies — oeconomy might be our Salvation.
Last year the voice of the people, from the North to
the South of England, cried ' out retrench, retrench ;
but unfortunately that voice has not been attended to ;
it was drowned in the vortex of influence and Corrupti
on: But still the cry ought to be renewed; the cause
which last year had made the people raise their voice,
existed still; and as the occafibn for economy was
even more pressing now than then ; engaged as we are
in a war with Holland, retrench,- retrench, sh uld still
be the general cry ; every effort should be made ; every
Solicitation used in that house, to retrench the exrava
gant expenditure of the public money: People should
not be remiss, but fleady and watchful—fuccefs was
no^ for the sleepy, but fob the watchful; vigilan
tibus non dormienti u's..
He was aware that ministers might make this objec
tion to his argument and to his plan : “ Last year you'
exerted all Four faculties in Support of your favourite
lyfiem of oeconomy. she people, you Said, was'with
you in every part of it; but if we may judge by
the consequences, you was greatly mistaken; for in
all England you could not find a Angle town that
would acknowledge your Services, by electing you into
parliament: And though the people last year thought
proper to petition parliament, they now viewed mat
ters in a different light, and had not deemed it aeceffa
ry to sign any niore petitions."
To this objection he made this answer, That it whs
in part true, butina great measure falfe. It was true)
that he had not been able so far to recommend him Self
to his former con fiituerifs, as to induce them to return
him again to parliament; but that should no prevent
him from doing his duty ; for let him be in what feat
or situation Providence might chufe to place him, he
was determined al ways to aA unbiased up to what he
conceived to be for the benefit of the community at
large. But bis not having been returned to parliament
fawner, was no proof of a revolution'in the minds of the
people, with r/fpea to the objeft of their former pe
titions: They might have refrained from petitioning
this year, merely because they might have thought it
decent to wait and fee what a new parliament would do
of its own accord : But there was no argument in this,
°f a political revolution in their minds, with refpe& to
the objeas of thtir last year's petitions': Their opini
ons on that head were just the fame; they Sent depu
ties to town to concert measures for attaining t ofe ob
jeas; and though there was a great variety of opini
nions among them ; some proposing one moce of refer
mation, and some another, yet there wa^ not a fe'co;:d
But though the people were still so quiet", he would
not advise ministers to construe their silence into an ap
probation of their measures: The people in fad, ne
vertheless approved of them .; and the deputies from
the different committees fufficiently supported his as
sertion, by the inftruaions they had received. Some
of them, indeed, were for measures that might be good s
but which went too far for him to give them his coun
tenance; but still there seemed to be a' determination
to obtain redress: no force; indeed, had been used
for this purpose ; and if the wishes of the people, their
grievances add their distresses could not give weight to
their petitions in parliament; their situation was not
worth the trouble and danger of having recourse to
force to command that red'refs and relief which their
representatives had refused: But if they had hitherto
Conscientiously refrained from violence, and born their
grievances with unparalleled patience, it was a sign
that those were totally divefled of all consideration
who made the confidence and forbearance of the people
an argument, why the prayer of their petition should,
not be heard.
He said, if he were minifler to a king who was irides*
pendent of his people, he could find very good reafona
to urge to his sovereign, why he should not flight their
complaints: Disown glory fliould induce him to it-
For i6;he wifhe+to^be either a great hero, or the father
of his people;, he must find his account in easing the
burdens of them, arid expanding the royal treasure
with an teconoihic 'hand ; the more oeconomy he used,
the more mbney he would have to carry on the various
project which he might think necessary to eftablilk
his glory, eitherfin;.art^or in arms; and if he wished
to be the father otitis people, he would have an happy
opportunity from oeconomy to shew his tenderness for
their wants, by not increasing their taxes. No prince
who ever fat on the British throne, had so much need
of oeconomic ministers as his present majesty. because
none of his predecessors had ever been blessed With so
numerous an offspring ; liis ma'jefly was happy in them;
and so was the nation ; for they were children of the
people, as Well as of the prince— but though it might
be the wish of the people that their fevere ; gn's proge
ny should be provided for in a manner suitable to their
rank, and to the dignity of the nation that had given
them birth; yet it was certain, that let us get rid of
the present war when and how we could, we should ne
ver be able to maintain ten" or a dozen courts in this
country: To be profuse, therefore, of treasure now,
would produce this natural consequence, that royalty
and distress must be united • and then the world might
be able to afeertain, whether reverence and poverty
can keep company.
He was heartily sorry, that last year he had been
obliged to point out the king of France as a model,
that our mihiftefs should purfu^: and they were high
ly to blame for having given bid advice to a prince,
whole native goodness and greatness of foul would
have enabled him, if he had been left to himfelf, to
outrun the king of France, or any other monarch, in
the noble race of generosity, and love for his people;
they Were therefore enemies to his honour as well as
to his crown, when they refuted to recommend frugali
ty in the expenditure of his treasures. The king of
Frarice had found in oeconomy fufficient resources for
the support of an expensive war : In the firft year of
it, no taxes were" irffofed on bis people ; the second
year of the war had" puffed over without feeing any
new tax ; nay; the third year had begun, and still no
new fax; apd he believed the king had not yet laid
uneven 'the ordinary war taxes: Here his people felt
the happens of having a frugal prince; and a frugal
Snifter: Frugality led the ' monarch to ; retrench from
his-own [plei^dor; rather than from the ' pittanc&of the
fubjea; and in the abolition of fix hundred arid fix ofc
Sees, he .ha's found out a resource ter carry on the war,
without laying ati additional burden on his people ;
lie has firipp^ himfell of the pageantry ' uu&foppefrf
of royalty? but he has equipped a navy ; he has redti
ced the nuniberof his servants, but he has ericreafed
the dumber of his ffiips ; he has taken from his own
personal eclat', but he has given a marine to his Coun
try that will immortalize his reign : He had not indeed
been so fortunatein commanders as in equipping fleets;
but that was no)tjfe prince's fault; he could find mo
ney to build fliips, but he Could not create the he
c%ffary qualities for an admiral or a fti&af ; he had,
however, eflabfiffied such a marine a r -France' had ne
ver seen before ; and this be had done, without impo
finga fugle tax on his people: They were great, they
were glorious, they were formidable under his reifo;
and they felt not the expences so which a nation muff
in general submit, in order to become great 2nd formß
^^c. Here teae glory! here w^& fame! here was 'a,
opinion among them about the necessity ofceconomy :
He himfelf had been publicly called on by the counties
of Devon and Nottingham again, to bring forward his
bill this year, though it had met with so little success in
the last.
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