The Pennsylvania ledger, or, The Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, & New-Jersey weekly advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-06-22 00:00:00, page 4

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Plcafe give a Fable a Place, and oblige Tour's.
CT'' HE birds, upon a time, not nam'd,
A Against the beads a war proclaim’d;
And threaten'd, from their airy Ration,
Plunder, and blood, and devaluation,<
By fire, and sword, and quick invasion. )
The beads appall d to Council go,
For ways and means to ward the blow,C
And humble the insulting ' foe.)
At length a brute of penetration,
Rever'd and lov’d by all the nation,
Alter long harangue made a motion,
For drong alliance with the ocean.
^lnvite (quoth he) the filh to treaty,
Or else the birds will surely beat yc;
But with the herrings kind affidance,
1 nil'll make no doubt a good refinance:
To such a force the birds mud yield,
And we thill drive them from the field.'
The motion pleas'd — they gave assent,
The Envoy on the errand went;
The treaty's tign'd, the herrings granted
Their friends the fuccours which they wanted.
For which, in full consideration,\
They made, without a limitation,C
Their terms tor coin and navigation. )
The feather’d hod advances made,
The beads call in the filh to aid.
The filh reply’d, that they were there,
But not indeed prepar'd lor war;
An E—that they could not underhand,
Who could expect their aid on land:
They made the league with great good-will.
With true intention to fulfill;
But coni 1 not take a- resolution, '
Wnich mud cffeff their Constitution;
And therefore beg'd the beads excuse,
If they their fuccours should refufe.
The fable teaches to beware
Of falfe dependencies in war,
Of fiithlefs treatise, treach'rous friends.
Who seek alone their private ends,
Who would betray the common cause,
To gain a tyrant's vile applause;
Or, brib'd by fair and sordid gold,
Have liberty and conscience told.
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To the P 11IP ATES of the several Battalions of
Military Associtors in the province of
Pennsylvania.
Gentlemen,
THE Honorable Congress having Resolved
upon a flying camp of ten thousand men lor
the protection of our province and Maryland, viz.
fix thouland for this province, fix hundred for the
Lower Counties, and three thousand four hundred
for Maryland, and that Maryland should appoint
one, and this colony two Brigadiers General—The
Committee of Privates of the Associators of the city
and liberties of Philadelphia, considering that an
appointment made by any body of men besides the
Associators, would not be perfectly fatisfadory, and
being further convinced that it was their right to
make the appointment, and that the security of their
liberties depended greatly on the exercise of this
right, and being desirous of having it enjoyed
equally by all, have agreed, with the Board of Of
ficers, to call a Provincial Meeting of Associators,
confiding of two Privates and two Officers from
each battalion, ele&cd by laid battalions for the
purpose of choosing said Generals, to meet in Lan
caster, on Thursday the fourth of July. We at
tended particularly to the season of the year, and
the difficulty of your attending so near harvest; but
yet, as the matter was very important, and we
were unwilling to do any thing without confuliing
all, and giving them an equal opportunity with our
selves of exercising their right,, we adopted this mea
fure i We therefore were persuaded, that freemen,
associated tor the defence of their rights, would
overlook every difficulty atti nding a perfect and
free exercise of it.-—Our Affanbly, we mean fucli
of its members as are not quite with us, wished to
have the appointment, but we prepared the follow
ing Protest againtt it, as the whole of our success
dep rids on a proper choice. We trust you will fee
it in the fame important light with'us, and fend
the delegation above-mentioned, that every batta
lion in the province may have a perfectly equal re
presentation. — It said conference should unite in
foine test to be taken by the Associators, that we
might know who to depend on. it might be well.
We wish to take nothing upon ourlelves; but, be
ing the advance guard, our duty requires that we
give the alarm. We are, Gentlemen, &c.
Signed by order of the Committee of Privates.
SAMUEL SIMPSON, President.
To the Honorable the Representatives of the
Freemen of the province of Pennsylvania.
The PROTEST of the Committee of the Privates
of the Military Association belonging to the city
and liberties of Philadelphia.
Relpedfully Iheweth,
CHAT this Committee understanding that the
^ Honorable Congress has recommended to this
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Tenth, Because as this House was chosen by those
only, who were acknowledged the liege fubjeAs of
George our enemy, and derived their foie right of
electing this House from that very circumstance, we
conceive that the moment they undertook to set aside
this allegiance, they by that very ad destroyed the
only principle on which they fat as Representatives,
and therefore are not a House on the principles on
which they were eleded; and having derived no
new authority from the people freed from fucli
allegiance, they are a representative body on no one
principle whatever, and therefore can in no manner
undertake to do the business of Representatives far
ther than the people indulges them, without usur
ping authority, and a&ing arbitrarily.
Eleventh, Because the Associators have the right
of appointing officers to command them, and mean
ever to retain it.
We therefore protest against, and declare we will
not submit to, any appointment of General Officers
to command us, which this House may think proper
to go into.
Nevertheless, that the Resolve of Congress may
be fully complied with, we have taken the proper
Reps to have a number of Associators Representa
tives from every battalion in the province, collec
ted together as soon as possible, to proceed to the
choice of said Brigadiers General, under whom we
doubt not but the Associators will serve with cheer
fulnefs, and they, being the Officers of their choice,
will have the confidence of the Associators.
Signed by order of the Committee of Privates,
SAMUEL SIMPSON, President,
colony to appoint two Brigadiers General to com
mand the Associators of this province, Do Protest
again!! any appointment of said Brigadiers General
to be made by this House:
First, Because there is no regular militia law
which obliges the constituents of this House to be
come Associators, or to find perlons in their room,
if they decline Associating; and therefore the AfTo
ciation is not properly provincial, and of conse
quence this House is not properly constituted to be
competent to the business, nor can the apointment
come before them as a provincial representation.
Second, Because many of the Associators have
been excluded by this very House from voting for
the members now composing it, though this House
was applied to on their behalf, and therefore they
are not represented in this House.
Third, Because the counties which have the great
est number of Associators have not a proportional
representation, and therefore cannot be confideted
as having an equal voice in the nomination.
Fourth, Because the Association has been volun
tary, and this House choosing, by their resolutions
refpe&ing it, that it should remain so: Therefore
cannot interfere, not in any wife, confident with
decency, attemept to impose officers upon us not of
our own choosing.
Fifth, Because many Members of this House are
the Representatives of perlons in religious profeffion
like themselves, totally averse to military defence,
and therefore cannot be called the Representatives
of Associators; nor do we wish to interfere so much
with their religious sentiments as to reduce them to
the necessity of quitting their feats, or joining in
the nomination.
Sixth, Because it is well known that there are
men in this House who have, ever since our oppo
sition to Great-Britain, refufed to concur in any
measure necessary for defence; and we have reason
to fear that some are disposed to break the Union of
the Colonies, and submit to the tyranny of Great-
Britain.
Seventh, Because this House is under no oaths of
fidelity to their constituents, by which they would be
bound to consult their interest; nor are they proper
persons to make the oaths which are to bind them
selves.
Eighth, Because though the Members of this
Houle, who were under oaths of allegiance to the
crown, confider themselves absolved therefrom, and
have admitted the new electee! members to their feats
without taking oaths, thereby dissolving the old
constitution, and finally abolilhing the charter,
yet effectual care is taken to head the several pages
of their resolves, as usual, with G% Votes of Assem
bly, John Penn, Esq Governor," without the assent
of the people for this purpose. Fhefe things wear
such a face of design As renders the intentions of this
House suspicious; and we think a House, hill con
felling the King's Representative their Governor,
cannot fafely be trusted with the appointment of
Generals to command us, left it would give us such
as would enable a certain party to make up with
the enemy at the expence of our lives and liberties.
Ninth, Because a House which shewed itfelf so
unfriendly to the association at a time when so much
depended upon their exertions, as after frequent and
repeated applications for justice, to impose no more
than three (hillings and fix-pence fine on Non-asso
ciators for every day of general muster, and that in
so lax a manner, that it is a question whether it will
ever be collected, is not to be trusted with the ap
pointment of Generals to command us, left they
should shew as little regard to our interest in the one
case as in the other.
To the Hon. the House of Representatives
of the Freemen of the province of Pennsylvania, in
General Assembly met.
The Protest of the B OAR Dos 0 FFI CERs of
the Five Battalions of the City and Liberties of
Philadelphia,
Refpecifully fhewetb,
THAT this Board address you by the title here
tofore used to the Hon. House of Assembly, in
order to avoid the lead appearance of difrefped ta
the Hon. Members now fitting—That this Board
has received information that the Hon. Congress of
the United Colonies has recommended to this colo
ny to appoint two Brigadiers General to command
the Associators of this province—And we appre
hending that this House may take upon them to ap
point the said Brigadiers General, without having
the authority of the Association for that purpose—-
And farther apprehending that any nomination
made by this Hon. House will not give fatisfa&ion
to the Associators of the province, and consequently
that they will not a& under them,
For these and other weighty and important con
siderations, this board do hereby protest against
this Honorable House making, or attempting to
make, the laid appointments.
Signed by order,
' DANIEL ROBERDEAU, President.
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SUGARS in barrels, Melaffes, French Rum,
Coffee in bags and hogsheads, TO BE SOLD
on board the Schooner Mary, Capt. Cubulas,
lying in Mr. Chevalier's Dock, near the Old Ferry.
THE Copartnerlhip of HAMILTON and LEI
PER, Tobacconists, is dissolved: Those that
have any demands against that concern, are re
queued to bring in their accounts as soon as possi
ble to Hamilton and Son, in Second-street, fix
doors below Market-street, in the house lately occu
pied by Mr. John Wallace, or to Thomas Lieper,
Tobacconist, in the house lately occupied by the
Comp.ny, at the corner of Spruce and Waters
Greets.
Port of Philadelphia, in the
Province of Pennsylvania, ff.
To ALL all whom it may concern,
NOTICE is hereby given, that a Court of ad
miralty for taking cognizance of, and trying
the jurtice of Captures of vessels made in pursuance
of the resolve of the Honorable the Continental
Congress, and brought into this port of Philadel
phia, will be held at the Court house, in the city of
Philadelphia, on Monday, the twenty fourth day of
June, inst. at ten o'clock in the forenoon, of the
fame day; then and there to try the truth of the
fads alledged in the Bill of George M' rsroy.
commander of the Private iloop of war, ca led the
Congress, (who as well &c,) against the schooner or
vessel called the THISTLE, burthen about fevent.
Tons, lately commanded by Charles Roberts, to
gether with her tackle, apparel, furniture, and Car
go. To the end and intent, that the owner or ow
ners of, the said vessel, called the Thistle, or any
person concerned therein, may appear and shew
cause, if any they have, why the fame should not
be condemned according to the prayer of the said
Bill. By Order of the Judge, ,
ANDREW ROBESON, Register.
June 7th, 1776.
FOUR DOLLARS Reward. ~
RUNAWAY on the 26th of May, 1776, from
the Cambden armed Boat, Richard Eyres Esq;
Commander, t<wo Men, viz. JAMES FAULKNER,
a Seaman, about thirty years of age, red face, long
nose, flrait hair, about five Jeet fix inches high; had
on TOohen he event away a blue cap, bine out-fide jacket,
flriped inJide ditto, striped troeufers, coarse wax lea
ther fooes ; he is American born, supposed to be gone
to Baltimore, he having a Wife there, and was feez
going that way.
LAURE NCE LANE, a native of Ireland, speaks
low, foort curled hair, near forty years of age, five
feet eight inches high, much marked with the small
pox, Jhort nose, had on when he went away a round
bat, white Jurtout coat, much worn, spotted jacket
and trowfers, flriped Jhirt, old fooes, be formerly
followed farming, supposed to be in Chefer county,
Whoever takes up the said two Men and brings then,
to the said boat, or secures them so as they may be barf
again, frail receive FOUR DOLLARS for each
and reasonable charges, by
RICHARD EYRES.
A few Copies of the
Military Guide,
F O R
YOUNG OFFICERS,
By THOMAS SIMES, Esquire,
In Two Volumes, large O&avo, embellilhed
with a Number of Copperplates,
(Price Three Dollars)
May be had of the PRINTER, hereof.
Genuine Keyfer's Pills,
To be had of the Printer.