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V *°. ° r "" ce men wh ° underhand the MANAGE
XIENT of a SMII H's FIRE, and can forge well,
will heap of good encouragement by applying to Lawrence
Birnie, in Second-street, between Market and Arch streets.
A io uanted two or three young lads as apprentices -to the
art of CASTING FILES. * "
PHILADELPHIA, July 1%
The PROVINCIAL CONVENTION will' meet nr^
Monday at the State-Houie, at three o'clock in the after
noon.
Extrad of a letter from Princetown, dated the 10th inst.
- Latt night Naflawnail was grandly illuminated, and
INDEPENDANCY proclaimed unaer a trip e volly of mus
ketry, and universal acclamation for the prosperity of the
UNITED STALES. The ceremony was conduced with
the gieateft decorum."
in bed ; that a young woman of the house asked his business,
ana dehred him to walk out, which he refufed, ana attempted
totake held of her, when the threatened to scald him with
hot water from a tea-kettle, and endeavored to leave the room;
that he followed her, and flruck the edge of a tomahawk in
to her scull, of which the iqftantly died.—that he then rushed
out of the houle, was purfuea by the man of the house and
otners, who, by the abidance of the watch, secured him.—
That at the lalt Supreme Court he was brought on his trial
for the murder, but there not being a jury to be had, he was
remanded till the next leffion ; that having, with a number
of confederates, .formed a conspiracy to elcape—on Sunday
afternoon he filed a pidol at the sentry, which luckily miffed
him, that he leized the lentry's gun, and knocked him down
with it, and then wrenching a sword from the hand of Mr.
Sheriff Roberts, who was endeavoring to quell the mutiny,
just going to plunge it in his body, when the Serjeant of the
guard laved him, by shooting the villain through the head.'
Lalt Sunday one BazeJ Bo.uderot, a native of Nova-Scotia,
was brought to this city from Canada charged with being a prin
cipal in the murder of Capt. Thomas Parsons, and eight other
persons in Nova-Scotia, in Feb. 1772. Soon after this murder
was perpetrated, he fled his country, and has been wandering
from place to place ever since till lalt April, when he was provi
dentially detected by Captain He&or M'Neil, properly se
cured, and sent forward to receive the just reward of his
crimes. He was, yeferday lent on from this city to New
bury Pert, the pla<e where Captain ,Parsons lalt lived, for
examination and trial.
_On W^ci^elday lalt, the Declaration of Independance was
read at the head Of each brigade of the Continental army,
polled at and nedf New-York, and every where received with
lopd huzza., and:tne utmost demonstrations of joy.
The fame evening the equestrian statue of George 111.
which Tory pride and folly rarfed in the year .1770, was, by
the ions of freedom, tad proftr^te 111 thedirt, thejuft defers of an
ungrateful, tyrant! Ihe lead wherewith this monument was
made,, is to berunintobullets, to aliimifate with the biainof our
infatuated adversaries, who, togain a pepper corn, have loft an
empire. '' Quo) Deus vult perdece, prius dementat."
A gentleman, who was piefent at this o&iuous fall of
leaden Majesty, , looking back to the original's hopeful b gin
'"g^ pertinently exclainied, in the language of the Angle to
Lucifer, 66 If thou be'lt he! But ah, how fallen ! How
changd!”
Lord Clare in the House of Commons, declared that a
pepper corn, in acknowledgment of Britain's right to tax
Anierica, was of more importance than millions without it.
349
Just printed, published, and to be fold by R. AITKEN,
bookseller, Philadelphia,
Printed with a new type, on a good paper, in one o&ava
volume (price in boards One Dollar, bound Ten Shillings)
A new System of Military Discipline founded on
Principle.
By a GENERAL OFFICER.
CONTENTS.
Chap. I. Se&. I. Of dress. Art. 1. Of clothing. 2. Of
convenience. 3 . Of appearance. Sea. 11. Of arms. Art. 1
Of the bayonet. 2. Of the firelock. Sed. 111. Of accou
trements.
Chap. 11. The duty of the Corporal. Sed. I. Infftudi
ons. Sett. 11. Of refped to superiors. Art. 1. Of deport
ment. 2. Of the ftanaing salute. 3. Of the passing salute
Se&. 111. To hand. Art. 1. Of handing eredt. 2. Of plant
ing the feet. Sed. IV. The facings. Sect. V. To march.
Art. 1. Io balance the body. 2. To ground the foot. 3 . To
limit the hep. 4. To preserve equality of pace. Four propo
sitions on the regularity of stepping and forming the ranks.
Art. 5. Of marching by files, wheeling, &c.
Chap. LI. Duty of the Serjeant. Sett I. Inftru&ions in
twenty particulars. Sett. 11. The parade exercise, with ufe
ful observations thereon.
Chap. IV. Duty and inftrudions of the Adjutant. The
method of performing the different kinds of parapet and re
joicing fires. Soft. 111. Of the column, exemplified in a va
riety of cases. Of passing a bridge.
Se& IV. Of the square. The square formed out of one
battalion, confiding of four grand divisions exemplified in
twenty-seven particulars.
Chap. V. The exercise as it is to be performed by signal
or word of command from the Major, or from any other
officer. A sketch of a battalion confiding of ten companies,
in each hxty-nine privates and three corporals, making in the
whole seven hundred and twenty men rank and file, drawn up
in reviewing order, and according to feniorityi Rules for tel- 7
ling off the battalion, and for polling the officers both at ex
ercise and for action. A sketch of abart h lion formed for
action or exercise, with theranks at the whole distance or open
order. Signals, words of command, and particular refe
rences. Rules, maxims, and observations, for the govern
ment, copdu&, and discipline of an army.
To the PUBLIC.
ALL sciences have their peculiar graduates, as well to in
ftruft pupils in their rudiments, as to bring them to the higher
elements of their profeffien ; our author has therefore alloted
to the Corporal, to the Serjeant, and to the Adjutant, their
different degrees of inftru&ion, that each may be responsible
for those committed to his charge; and by that means that the
exercise may be more correct and expediticufly learned. He
then introduces the whole exercise complete, as it is to be
performed by word of command from the Major, or any other
c mm;fli ned officer, or by signal. In that part where our
author treats of the field exercise, he comprehends such opera
tic ns as are necessary to be performed again ft the enemy, as
different exigencies may there require. In treating of'the
Column, the Line, and the Square, this author points out
their various uses and purpoies, shews feme of their capital
defers, and proposes several amendments. The whole is con
cluded with an Appendix containing rules, maxims, and obser
vations for the government, condc&,and discipline ofanmmy.
This work is written upon a new plan, and is peculiarly
adapted for the use of young officers, shewing the particular
duties of each, and the mod easy method of training their
men in order to become expert soldiers.