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bate arose on the nature of the resolution, after which
ft was agreed to be taken up next day. In the mean
time, such a Spirit was manife fted through the whole
city,as effectually silenced all opposition (if any was in
tended) inflead of warm debates, the amendment passed
unanirooufly, and the resolution was adopted by the
house as it now flands."
( believe mofi of my fellow-citizens have been equal
ly alarmed with me on tleir firfl reading of it. How
ever, before I gave implicit belief, I thought it my du
ty to enquire into the truth of the contents, when, to
my utter aflonifhment, I found the tranfaftions of the
assembly and committee most fhamefully misrepresent
ed and perverted, and could not therefore refrain from
laying a true state of faßs relative to the resolves above
mentioned before my fellow citizens, and leave it to
their impartial judgement to decide on Mr- Bailey's pro
c^aion. I (hall proceed to my relation with assuring
my fellow citizens, that my information is just, my ap
plication being made to many gentlemen both in and
out of the house, and whole authority I can with con
fidence rely on, and produce if necessary.
A motion was regularly made, and after having been
for some time under consideration was agreed to, and
entered on the m antes in these words:
“ The house, taking into their serious consideration
the present Situation of public affairs io Europe,
" Resolved, That a committee, confining of a mem
ber from each county, be appointed to prepare and
bring in a sett of resolutions declaratoy of thir sense
refpefting the fame The fame committee were aifo
direßed to bring in a congratulatory address on the
birth of the dauphin cf France."
The committee proceeded on 'he bufioefs, and two
different essays of resolutions aßd one address were of
fered to their confederation. The resolves agreed to by
the house on the 2?d was one essay, that of the 24th
the other, or one of words nearly the fame, with along
introductory preface. The committee had both under
confederation tor home days before they made any re
port to tee house, during which time it was that theat
tention of tin city was raised, and much to the furprize
of the house ; and many of the members who heard the
injurious reports, treated them in the house with that
contempt they deferred. So that here it most evident
ly appears Mr. Baily's idea or reprefentaron, when ap
plied to the house, is without th- leaf! foundation.
When the committee met the last time to agree on their
report, there was among them a difference of opinion
in refpeß to what they deemed their duty, according
to the inftrudions given teem by the house, but not
the lea ft difference refpeding the contents of any of the
resolutions, ft was regularly put to vote, and decid
ed that the resolutions, which were afterwards agreed
to by the house on the 23d, should be received and re
ported, and at the fame time repeatedly declared by
the majority, that they fully agreed in sentiment with
their brethren as to the. merit of their essay, that it
may be introduced with their full concurrence, either
as inffru&ions to our delegates in congress, cr take rife
as an original motion on fir Guy Car ton's letter to ge
neral Washington. Here again Mr. Bailey's ingenuity
of tranfpofitjon most plainly appears, as the essay was
not rejeded in committee on account of the matter it
contained, but on account of its irregularity,and which
is plainly shewn by referring to the inftrudions of the
committee.
The resolutions were then reported. On a second
reading, a member offered the resolve of the 24th by
way of addition, not of amendment, as fully appears by
the minutes of the house, not did any debate arise on
its merits, such as did speak declaring their approba
tion. But what Mr. Bailey terms debate, was a
pointed and just reprobation of the injurious reports,
so industriously and falfely propagated, refpeaing the
tranfaflions of the house and the committee, and now
again published by him. On the 24th, when the last
resolution was taken up for a second reading, and one
sentence with consent of the member who offered it be
ing expunged, it passed unanimously without debate, as
the others did, but not from the base motives mentioned
by Mr Bailey ; for if debates are to be precluded or si
lenced by such threats as he insinuates, I should enter
tain a contemptible opinion indeed of our legislature.
If they are men to be frightened from what they
think their duty by such measures, they muff be to
tally unfit to represent the freemen of Pennsylvania ;
freemen who will think for themselves, and though per
haps a part may be for a while led affray, their good
sense will quickly set them right, and none remain un
convinced, but such who are led by a base love of in
terest, by personal motives, and not by a love of their
country ; and these, thank God, are few, very few,
and as soon as found out openly despised. This my fel
low citizens is a genuine detail, given to you without
any falfe colouring, and it springs from a wilh to do
good, to give you a just and plain repref L:a ion of
faffs so grofly miftated, and refeue your representa
tives from injurious charges. And before 1 conclude,
I wish to address myfelf to a certain party and sett of
people among us. I wish to t 11 them it is never too
late to do good. I wish them to join the majority
of their fellow citizens in promoting the welfare of the
Bate, and not be so attached to their own interested and
ambitious views. I would have them to confider that in
this enlightened country of freemen, honefly is the
true policy; and that sooner or later, if they persist,
they will be found out, and exposed as the paragraph
in the Freeman's Journalhas now been. B.
Philadelphia county, August 31, 1782.
Philadelphia, Sept. 7.
Last evening one of the people late belonging to the
(loop Induflry, of Providence (Rhode-Ifland) arrived
jn town from Shrewsbury: He informs, that lad Tues
day morning, off Sandy-Hook, they difeovered a fleet
of fifteen fail of British line of battle ships; that the
sloop was soon after chafed and run ashore near Shrews
bury, by an armed brig, and loft, but the crew were
favtd. The whole of Tuesday aqd Wednesday the a
bore fleet, and near one hundred fail of other vessels,
ships and brigs, were seen to pass the Hook, apparent
ly from the southward, but could not learn certainly
where they were from. —
While some conjecture that the above fleet is from
Charleflown, with the troops &c. of that garrifon,o
ther fays, that the transports must be from England, for
the purpose of taking off the garrison of New-York.
Since our last arrived a prize schooner with flour
from Chefapeak. She was taken by one of the enemy's
Cruisers, and retaken by the state ship Hyder Ally,
captain Kemp.
At the annual meeting of the Humane Society
(for the recovery of persons apparently dead from
drowning) held at the University, on the 2d instant,
the following gentlemen were unanimously elected of
ficers for the ensuing year, viz. doftor Thomas Bond,
senior, president ; doctor Benjamin Rush, vice-presi
dent ; doctor George Glentworth, doCtor James Hutch
inson, doftor Thomas Parke, doctor Benjamin Say,
doCtor William W. Smith, and doCtor Benjamin Duf
field, infpeCtorS; Mr. Charles Marshall. secretary;
Mr. Christopher Marshall, junior, treasurer.
On Thursday, the 22d of August, died in New-Han
over township, Philadelphia county, in the 22d year
of her age, of a long and tedious disease, which she bore
with exemplary patience and fortitude, Anna Maria
Christiana Straight, the amiable consort of the
reverend Chriflian Straight, pallor of the German Lu
tl eran church of the said place. She was well educa
ted, sensible, agreeable and a chriftian indeed.
Early, bright, transient as the morning dew
She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to Heaven.
Young.
Her remains were decently interred in the burying
ground of the said church, on Saturday, attended by
a large concourse of deeply afFe^ed inhabitants, and a
very pertinent and edifying difeourfe was delivered by
the reverend Henry Muhlenberg, senior, on Psalm,
xxvii, i.
>+ On Monday next, at 10 o'clock, at the City
Aucti n, will be Sold at Public Sale, a small Quanti
ty of SENA of the best quality.
@o49L^^-9@o49ctow^^ '%9
On FRID AT next,
( r he Thirteenth Instant)
At NINE 'Cock in the Morning
Will be SOLD by Public Audion,
At th I redwelling House of HENRY KEPPELE,
jun. ^c^fed, th? corner of Arch an 1 Fourth-(lreetr,
Sundry Houlhold Goods, &c.
VI Z.
„EDS, Curtains, C air,, T-Mes, Settees, China,
O Gbf# and Queens Ware, D.fc, a Book C fe, a
large Spy-G'a s, a Urge Mahogany Chest lined with
red cedar, a Glass, a Variety of Profpe&ive Views, a
Urge Seane and Fishing Net, Andirons, Shovels aid
fngs; Eathfli and German Books, amongst which
is, Ride's Ifft^ry of England in 29 volumes,°and ma
ny other Articles.
Sept. 7. JOHN BAYARD, Auctioneer.
Just publish'd 3nd to be fold by DAVID C. CLAY
POOLE, in Market-ffreet, Philadelphia,
The C AS E
OF THE
Episcopal Churches
IN THE
United States, considered.
Phi adtlphia County, September 5, 1782.
Notice is hereby given,
I*so the MILITIA of the county of Ph l^delphia,
that the following Days are appointed by th^
Militia Law as Days of Exircife, viz.
In Companies the two fi, if Mondays in the month o'
Odober, and the two fi ft Mondays in the month of
November.
And fhcll begin mustering in Ba'tdion in the follow
ing manner, viz.
The First Battalion the 18th of November.
The Second ditto tn 19 hos November.
The Third ditto the 20th of November.
The Fourth ditto the 21st of November.
The Fifth ditto the 22'1 of N. vmber.
The Sixth citio the 25'h of November.
The Seventh ditto the 26th of Nov^mb^r.
It is <x?ea~ethat the Colonels gbe it ft ord rs to
their Captains, that the Returns of Dehuq^.At be
made on fi^d d.y, and that they furn ^ the Sub-lieu
tenants of the diftrias as soon as p ffioie, to th: t the
Fines may be coheard without delzv.
WIL LIAM COATS, Lieutenant
of County of Ph ladeip i.
N. B Th TROOP of LIGHT HORSE cr p No
tified to Meet on Tuesday the 171 b infant, at Ten
o'clock in the Morning, at tie H>if? of M jor
WRIGHT: they will be c reful to Appear rrup"ry
Equipt 2nd Accoutred. WM. COATS, L\ C. P.
Andrew Aitken,
In Second ftreer, between Market and Chefnut streets,
two doors from Mr, Franks'* offi e,
HAS FOR SALE,
Glass Tumblers, Phials and
Gally-Pots, of the belt quality,
By the e,rocr cr single dpzen. S pt. 6
A Wee Nurse is wanted, that
cho be well recommend d, 2nd will engage to go to
Carolina, Enquire of the Primera Sept. §,
Port of Philadelphia, Pennfylvani, ff.
To ALL whom it may concern;
NOTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Adml,
raltv will be held at the State-boufe, in the city
of Philadelphia, on TUESDAY the 17th of Septette
ber, instant, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the Trial
cf the Schooner or Vessel called the LADY WASH
INGTON, laden with flour, lately taken in Chelapeake
bay, on her passage from Baltimore for the Havanna,
by an armed British Galley, called the Revenge, com
manded by a certain Joseph Wayland, and retaken at
sea, sent into this Port and libelled against, as pri%
by JOHN KEMP, Esquire, (qui tam) &c. To tha
end, that all persons concerned, may appear and fhe^
cause, if any there be, wherefore a Decree should not
pass pursuant to the prayer of the libel, &c.
By order of the Judge,
Sept. 6,178 s. JAMES READ, Register.
TO BE LE T, A
Small FAR M, containing
20 sees of Land, with a framed Tenement, and stone
House, adjoining, with three rooms, to be Let with the
p'ace or separate; a pump of good water. The whole
pleasantly fituved on the road leading to do&or Bond's
plantation, about three miles from the Court-houie,
and near the Germantown road. For particulars enquire
of RACHAEL TAYLOR, Spruce-street. Sept. 6.
Lamb and Checkley,
In Second street, one door above the north^ft corner
of Market-street, have for sale the following A: ticks.
WHOLESALE and RETAIL
SU PERFI N E bread
cloths of various co
lour,,
Superfine caffimerh
Coatings of different co
lours,
A neat affqrtmsnt of fine
corduroys,
Shalloons and rattinets,
Mens and boys felt hats,
Mens worsted, thread, cot
ton an! silk hcfe.
Superfine black fattinats
and ruffes,
Calimancocs of different
colours,
Black prunellas,
Durants and tammies,
Scarlet, crimson and blue
plufb,
Worsted of all colours,
Qualify and (hoe bindings
L of all colours,
Belt (cart trait,
Seeing silk,,
Best coloured thre-dr,
White Hatching ditto,
Cotton and 'inen checks,
Augers, gouge: and chif
fels, sorted,
Chest and other locks,
Hages ('different kinds,
Tin in boxes,
SclLms, formed,
Cuttoe & Barlow penknives
Knives and folks,
Tinmens wire,
Steel fpu:s,
Pin bits,•
Horn fibres,
Brass nobs,
Wood (crews,
Saw plates,
ALSO
Old Madeira Wines, and a
few chests best Hyfori Tea.
- x~
Philip Boehm,
H,s for SALE, at his Store in Second street, between
Arch and Race-fleets, next door to the late dweb
ling house of Leonard Melcher, d^ceafed,
WI NE, SUGAR,
SPIRITS, T E A,
Wirt-India RUM, COFFEE, &c. to
Philadelphia ditto.
He flittfis himself his former cendua in business hat
been such, that h's friends will again favour him with
their custom ; which he (hall endeavour to merit by a
careful attention to supply them with Good# of a good
quality, and cn the molt realonable terms the times
will admit. Septi 6.
Twelve Dollars Reward.
STOLEN last night from the fubferiber, living at
3 t;e Falh of Schuylki 1. on captain Fortner's place,
a Sorrel HORSE, about 9 years old, with a few white
h#:rs in his forehead, some saddle marks on bis back,
and is rinout rq .hands and a half high, in tolerable
good n rdrr, t'ots and paces, and is a remarkable easy
going h.rfe, has been uled both to the faddie and geers,
h d no (hoes on any of his feet. Whoever (ecures the
Horie, th<t the owner may have him again, and the
Thief, so hat he may he brought to justice, (hall have
the ibore Reward; aid for ,the Herfe only, EIGHT
DOLLARS, and all reasonable Charges paid, by
Sept.fr LUDWICK STEIGHNER,
An assortment of Hard Ware,
as follows,
Striped cottons,
Chintzes and calicoes,
Linens,
Sheetings,
Oznaburgh,
Raven's duck,
Pins of different kinds,
Silk and linen handkto
chiefs of all kinds,
Figured and plain ribbona,
Hanover lace,
Blond ditto,
Bert Brussels ditto,
Bl ck paduafoy and floren^
tine,
Silk for mens wear,
Mantuas of different co
lours.
Modes and farfnets,
Persians,
Book, jaconet, and striped
muslins,
A beautiful assortment of
metal and enameled but
:tons.
! Pinchbeck and plated (ho@
Jand knee buckles,
I fvorv and hon, ^mbs.
Brass (killets.
Curt and (ruffle bitts,
A few gross white set,
Fi(h hocks,
Gun In ks,
Box irons,
Iron ladles,
Brass scales,
Snuffe r s,
Marking irons,
Cork screws,
Nut crackers.
Shoe j=ckb,
lAn dflortment r s the Lift
I bastard files, &c. &c.