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MILITARY BOOKS
PRINTED and to be S 0 L D by
R. AITKEN, Printer and Bookseller in
Philadelphia.
A New System of MILITARY DISCIPLINE, founded
upon Principle, laid to be wrote by General Howe.
Price in blue boards seven Ihiilings and sixpence, and ten
Killings bound.'
The MILITARY GUIDE for young Officers, by Thomas
Simes, Esq; author of the Military Medley. In two volumes
o&avo, price three dollars.
MILITARY INSTRUCTIONS for Officers detached in
the field, containing a Scheme for forming M Partisan, il
lustrated with Plans of the Manoeuvres necessary in carrying
on the Petite Guerre. By Roger Steuenfon, Esq; Price one
dollar.
A New Treatise of MILITARY EXERCISE, calculated
for the use of the Americans. By Major Lewis Nicola.
Price four {hillings bound.
Just finished the printing, and now binding for his
customers,
L'INGENIEUR de CAMPAGNE, or FIELD ENGI
NEER. Written in French by the Chevalier de Clairac,
and translated by Major Lewis Nicola. To which is added,
by way of appendix, a ffiort Treatise on Sea Batteries,
Brewing their defers, and an attempt to remedy them.
Likewise an explanation of all the technical terms used in the
ivork. By the Translator. Embellished with forty ufeful
quarto copperplates. Price three dollars neatly bound.
Likewise fold by said Aitken, SIX SKETCHES on the
HISTORY of MAN. By Henry Home, Lord Kaims.
^ Good Maccuba Rappee at ten Killings per bottle.
Philadelphia, August 17, 1776.
f 1 AME to the liable of the fubferiber, at the Indian
Queen in Faurth-ftreet, on the firft of June, aBA Y
II OR SE, fifieen hands high, paces and trots, and has
black main, tail, and legs. The owner is desired to come,
prove his property, pay charges and take him away, other
wise he will be fold in three weeks from this date.
FRANCIS LEE.
N. B. A WAITER is wanted.
STRAYED from Mr. Hamilton's place, the loth of July
last, a final! BAY HORSE, with a fore hind leg, one
white hind foot, and a star in his forehead. Also a BLACK
MARE off the commons,.and lame in one of her hind feet.
Whoever takes up the said Horse and Mare, and brings them
to John Smith, porter, at the drawbridge, {hall have TEN
SHILLINGS for the Horse, and ONE DOLLAR for the
Mare, and all reasonable charges. JOHN SMITH.
WANTS a place as WET NURSE, one who has a
good breast of milk, and can be well recommended,
Inquire of the printer.
The PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST.
Vol. H.j
Price Three Coffers. Published every I'uefday, Ibur/day, and Saturday Evenings.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1776.
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From the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, &c. of Aug. >
Incidit in Scyllam, qui fult Qit are Charjbdem.
ON the 18th of June, the Provincial Congress of NeW-
York gave an elegant entertainment to his Excel
lency General WASHINGTON, and the Officers
of the Continental army under his command. Af
ter dinner many patriotic toasts were drank, and one in
particular, which deserves to be rivited in the minds of every
American, and to be drank by every gentleman in his family
throughout the continent,, in perpetuam rei memoriam, viz.
Max PLACEMEN AND PENSIONERS NEVER FINQ SFATS
in American Senates.—lt is wholly owing to a fatal in
fluence of this nature, in the British Parliament, that Britain
has loft the American Colonies., and if Ihe continues to
fuffer the fame, she will not long remain a kingdom, but
Vill become a province of France. And will America split
uponthe fame rock? Forbid it, Heaven ! Rather let her guar
dian angels (the Continental Congress) be ever watchful
over those rights and privileges, which her SONS should de
fend, and transmit to the latest posterity a system of political
government, founded on a basis which can never be shaken,
exempted from those defers and errors that have subverted
other states. I could have wished to have seen another toast
added, viz. May the legislative and executive
POWERS NEVER BE LODGED IN THE SAME HANDS
such a measure is unconstitutional, impolitic, oppressive and
absurd. From the fame principle, we may as well admit
the civil and military powers to center in the fame persons,
which seems to be allowed by all is unconstitutional, but
whether it does not still exist in feme colonies, may be a perti
nent inquiry. AMICUS PAT R I /E.
SAVANNAH (Georgia) June 20.
To his Excellency ARCHIBALD BULLOCH, Esquire,
President and Commander in Chief of the province of
Georgia,
The ADDRESS of the Provincial Congress of said province.
May it please, your Excellency,
WE the Representatives of the province of Georgia, in
Congress .met, beg leave to return your Excellency
our thanks for your speech delivered to.us yesterday.
Animated, we hope, with the principles df virtuous citizens,
and inspired with fentinrents becoming the glorious cause we
are engaged in, we behold with pleasure the elevation of men
from among us, whose assiduity and unwearied endeavors have
rendered them the^bjefts of favor with their country ; and
we trust that while the several executive departments of go
vernment fliall continue to be filled with such men, no mur
murings or difconten'ts will find, admission among the good
people of this province.
Being truly fenftble that to be a freeman under the Britiffi
eonttitation, for which our ancestors fought and bled, implies
a right to examine with freedom, and to pass censure or ap
plause upon every ad of government. We have exercised the
right of infpefting into the late measures pursued against these
colonies, and the more we deliberate upon them, the more
firmly persuaded we are of their wicked and dangerous ten-
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