The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-05-13 00:00:00, page 1

At the City Au&ion, on
FRIDAY Next,
The 16th of May,, 1783.
At NINE o-Ctock in toe MORNING,
Will Commence the S A LIE
Of a Large and very General ASSORTMENT^
merchandize,
(Particulars of which will be published by the Bell on
the Morning of tie Dav of Sale)
With a QUANTITY cf
Houfhold Goods, Kitchen Furniture,
WEARING APPAREL, &e.
LIKEWIS E,
A Quantity of TWINE, suitable for Sail
makers.
JOHN BAYARD, Auctioneer
For LONDO N,
THE Ship COMMERCE, Thomas Truxton
Commander, will fail in Three Weeks. Sue will'
take in a few Hogfhea^s o f Tobacco on Freight. For
term- a q 1/ to the Captain, or to
May 9 JOHN BARCLAY and CO.
N. B. The Commerce will take in Freight in Lon
don for Philadelphia.
Imported in the Her Adrms from ^'Orient, and SEL
LING by
^ohn Barclay & Co.
At their STO RE Son Spruce-street Wharf,
A Very large Assortment of Merchandize suitable to
th e teafon.
Jamaica Spirits fit for prefenft^fe,
Excellent Bohea Tea by the chest,
Bar Lead, Shot, &:. &c. May 9.
Just Imported in the Cutter Charming Melly, captain
Bateman, from Oftend, and the Cutter Two Bro
then, capt. Major, frem Dover, and to be SOLD by
Samuel Inglis & Co.
HYSON, Souchong, Congo and B'hea Tea, in
whole, half and qvrter chefti, an afl .rtm^nt of
English Nails and Hardware, Slip-Chandfr,
crates of Queen's Ware, Geneva, Lead in pigs, Small
Shot, a large assortment ; Pepper, Nutmegs, Cordage,
a complete Invoice of Sadiery-Ware, British and Ruf.
fia Sailcloth, Nankeens, &c. &c.
The Cutter Charming Molly,
and Brig VULCAN, Captain RODEZ, will fail for
James-River, Virginia, in 8 or 10 day*. For freight
or paflage apply as above. May 5.
For Cape Francois,
The ship Hibernia, Roger Scallion, master.
WILL fail in eight days. For passage, having good
accommodations. Apply to the said-master, at:
James & Drinker's Whatff. He has a number of Iron
bound WATER CASKS for sale.
Onfray Painniere,
At his Store in Water-street, below Walnut-ftriet, lias
for Sale,
A Variety of Dry Goods,
lately imported in the last Vtffeh from France.
Paper Hangings Imported in the St.
James.
A Great variety ot errant Patterns, j u ft opened
ri and to be Sold at WILLIAM POYNTELL's
Stationary Store, three doors oelow Market-free? in
Second-ft rest.
Likewise a handsome assortment of Japan'd Tea
Trays, from i@ to 2, inches.
VOL. XII.]
TUESDA Y,
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Published every TUESDAY, T HURSDAY and SATURDA + r i ce Slx .P £NCE .
By the brigantine Commodore Hood, captain Ri
chards, arrived in our river, after seven weeks
patfage, from Falmouth, and the ship h is, cap
tain Cahlclugh, arrived at New York in thir
,,"' e days from the Downs—we have the
following ^ D VI CE S—
L ond o n.
HOUSE of COMMONS, March 11.
American Trade Bill.
THE order of t e day being read, for the speaker
to leave thechair, in order for the house to re
solve itfelr into a committee, for the purpose of
'"tut™ °°°' '""' he American trade bill,
Mr. D. Hartley r ose, and in a speech of some
length, contended agai ft the speaker's leaving the
chair. Mr. 'Hartley reminded the house, that it was
five weeks since he nad made a motion, for leave to
bring in a bill t>>repeal re prohibitory a&s, and open
an intercourse wiili America Toe bill that had been
brought in, Df contended, was wholly inadequate to
its avowed ob)jta, and would lead to infinite mifehief
and inconvenience. He lamented that the matter had
not been provided for by an article in the provisional
treaty; and said, his majesty's minifl rs had eight
months time to have chne woat was necessary, and to
have saved the country from the ^fficulty in which
she flood at; this moment, in re ped to her future trade
with America he reasoned for a considerable time
on ihe fu'^jed, and before he fat down produced toe
heads of a treaty, calculated to lead to the eflablifh
went of such con merciil regulations b< ween Great-
Britain ;and the Unites States, as fhoull answer the
ends of frach. After reading the treaty, and reason
ing up n the several articles of it, Mr. H rtley con
cluded with moving, " that the speaker do not leave
tu- cimir."
Ca ptain John Luttrell opposed the speaker's leaving
the chair, and declared it would be better to permit
his mhjeßy in council to suspend or repeal such laws
as remained our intercourse with America, than to
pass a bill so injurious to our trade as that was. He
obfefrved a so, on some words, on a former day, of
the chancellor of the exchequer, concerning the re
fpomfibility of the mini fiers, for the bills which pass
ed im parliament,
The chancellor said, he misquoted what he said on
the occasion, for be had asserted that minivers, in the
Airier sense of rhe word were not responsible for any
brills, or other measures, in which the ex cutive pow
er had no ihars, though he admitted they might, in
some flight drgr e, be answerable for their informati
on to the house, in regard to such bills when brought
ito.
Mr Eden said, that the oppefition given to the
Speaker's leaving the chair, was Dot, upon the wh<de,
what he could Support, and 'yet approached so ne rly
to some re fonings w ich he had used on a former day,
that he mul diftinguilb tie line by which he should
proceed. It certainly was one advantage of the plan
now recommended by the honorable gentleman, ihat
no decid d mile ief could result of the f me descripti
on, or extend, as might be expected, from the pre
sent bill, if not greatly amended but there were some
objections wbi h seemed to outweigh the advantage.
The king certainly had no power vested in him by the
ad alluded to, under weich any duties could be levied
or arranged upon the imports to be made ; and if the
trade was to proceed fulled to no burdens, it
would proceed under an indulgence that could
not be continued, and therefore ought not to com
mence. The United States too would, in that case,
trade not only on better terms than foreign powers,
which would be an infraction of treaties, but on better
trrms than either the kingdom of Ireland or the loyal
colonies, which would be a gross injustice; and be
sides the Wed India islands would be left without
means of obtaining either lumber or provisions from
the continent of North Amer ca, an extreme of re
firaint which he, for one, was not prepared to rece m
mend. Upon the whole, therefore, he wished to go
into the committee^ with a view nevertheless to make,
great alterations in the bill. Hs ilea of those altera
tions would best appear from his dating what the bill
ought to be. He continued then to think, that the
wisest and best mo^e, under all the public circum
stances, would be to open the intercourse, and to veil
a diferetionary power in the privy council, as to tem
porary regulations of the trade for a limited time, or
until a treaty should be formed. If however, that
plan should be wished to be more compleated in par
liament, he would piopofe a bill to the following ef
feft; z. Toefiablilh the independency of the colonies.
O R, THE
TH E
Mr. Eden said. that to a bill of the kind be had
, e ,'° ec 'l ' e "° u " ""'I I to a dd a clause to repeal the
faction of Mr. Grenville's aft, which left tie Ameri
can exports di'l (übjeft o a five per cent, doty ; that
clause wa^ become extremely impolitic, and could on
ly operate ^s a bounty for the di fcouragtment o' our
own manufaaures. He also wished for a cause to re
ps I the alien duties ; they were originally founded in
a falfe and narrow principle ; at present they were great
inducements to perjury; they were also a great em
b^rraffment in all toe custom-house calculations, and
with all these objeGicns produced on y about 80001. a
year. He thought their repeal would help forward a
gr^at objed which he had long had at heart, tne con
fni:ating and fimplifyirg the cufiems; and that ob
ject being in forwardness, he should more readily con
lent to Mr. Put's propped bjl for abolishing th filial!
fees of the officers, as the affidance of those oh cera
wond then become less essential to 'he merchants.
As to the supply of t e Weft In 1a illands, when he
Considered how w 1! they had ben supplied during
the late war, and the immense flipping a? pre ent of
these k ngdems, he was under lutle alarm ; bu: Rid 1^
could fee no objeffim 0 the opening to tie Uni'ed.
States certain free ports at J roaica, Dominica, at d ei
ther proper places, under | roper refirictions ; a d lie
took the decagon to remind the houf, t at the afl re
sp ling the Dominica free ports iad inadvertently ex
pired.
The !ord.advocate fa d he had been fluent the last
time the till was undr confederation, from a wish '0
collect the opinions of other geotitmen upon the tyb
jed, rather than Rate his own to the brute. He bad
howev r made up his mind upon the bill nor h.d any
thing he I card at all altered his sentiments ; if th- re
fute he should now speak upon it ra foly or iujudici
oofly, he did assure the house it would not be cvng 0
his not having very maturely considered the bill in
every point of view, in which it was possible lor him
to place it. A great deal of the objection taken to the
bill appeared to him to be totally founded in'tbofe
terrors and fears that feemrd in a mofi unaccountable
way to have taken poss ffon of almcfl every gentle
man who had fpekn upon the übjed, left the Ameri
cans should share with us in our carrying trade. He
saw not that matter in the fame lig^t, and yet he wag
ready to admit that the Americans would nave an in
<ercourfe with the Weft India iflaods, nay, that on
account of the commercial nece ffiies, and even the
fool of the inhabitants of tiofe islands, it would be
impoffihle to prevent it. If such an intercourse was
not freely allowed, an intercourse of a smuggling na
ture would undoubtedly be reformed to. Laying it
down therefore as a portion not to be doubled, that
the Americans would have an intercourse with,the
Weft India islands, bis lordflfp proceeded to reason
upon it, and contended, that though the Americans
nec ffarily would participate in. rhe carrying trade,
that nevertheless they would not do so to any degree
that ought to alarm tin's country. In order t- (hew
that the Americans must take back the p educe and.
commodities of the Wed-India islands, in return fer'
the lumber and other articles carried by them to th%
W. Indies, he asked if it was reafonab'e to suppose that"
their flitps should return home in ba Haft ? And as an
argument, that we ought to allow a free intercow '.
he Rated, that if we did nor, th c Americans ne efit
rily ^ou'd deal with the French in thnr iflands
matter which it was certainly worth out while to pr u
^?° re ß eal the a ^ ^ich prohibit interc^rfe. ?
1 0 fubjeC]all imports in American PAist 7 t e feme
utis and regulations as are prescribed by law, in
fare to the imports of European nations. 4. To pur
%a similar principle as to txp( rts .
This plan, Mr Eden said, would have the good
effects of making no convulsions in the 0 mmerrid
yftemat prefer fettled between Great Remain and
Ireland : it would give no off nee to foreign flares .
it would not repeal imp riant a§ or make alterati
ons, the, end ot wirch no man can f ort be. incopve
niencies it might have; but they would be t. e nere
inemab e confiquence' of the Am rican independence:
every hour's reflection convinced him of tie prudence
of ritquing as little as possible in the bill to be fram
a' "" a ^ reat confederation, involving every
que.iion of law, policy and commerce; neither the
mind of an individual, nor the unfed z -id mos par
liament, was able to embrace inrerefis f aft and s o
complicated. His right lipnorable friend [Mr Burke]
had in a former debate talked upon the mbjeCt
cljeerfulnefs and confidence; but the fp ech of that
night amounted to faying,« Woo's afraid ?" He was
ready to confefs himfe.'f extremely afraid- his igno
rance might be the cause of fear; such informal Q
as the right honourable gentleman possessed certainly
gave a right to confidence
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