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From the Fennfylvania Journal, of
the lotb of ffrßlL.
Now preparing for the PRESS, and speedily
will be PUBLISHED,
A 3 E RMO N,
From sundry Texts es Sacred Scripture,
preached in a neighbouring State, on WED
NESDAY, April z 6, being the Day ap
pointed by the Honourable the CONGRESS
as a DAY cf FASTING and PRaYER,
throughput the UNITED STATES; and
humbly inferibed to all those Legislative
Bodies in America who still continue the
TENDER LAW in force.
Zechariah vii. 5,9, 10.
" Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the
" priests, faying, mben ye sassed, and mourn
" ed, didye at all, fad unto me, even to me ?
'' Thus fpeaketh tbe Lord of Hosts, faying,
" execute true judgement, and fo^w mere, and
“ compafan every man to bis brother.
<' And oppreJs net tbe Widow, nor tbe Fathers
" less, tbe Str'anger, nor tbe Poor, and l:t
" none of you imagine evil against bis brother
" in bit heart."
Amos v. 11, zt, 23, 24.
*' Forafmucb therefore, as your treading is upon
“ tbe Poor, and yi take from him burdens of
«' Wheat.
" I bate and despise yodrfeaf days, and 1 will
" not fmel! in your fol&mn affmblies.
46 Take away from me tbe noise of thy songs, for
" I will not hear the melody of tby viols.
" But let judgement run down as waters, and
“ rigbteoujnefs as a might, jlream."
Isaiah i, 23, 24.
" Tby Princes are companions of thieves ; every
" one loveth gifts, and following after re
" wards; they judge not tbe Fatherless,
'' neither doth tbe gauje of tbe Widow come
" unto them.
" Therefore, said tbe Lord, tbe Lord of
“ Hosts, tbe Mighty One of Israel, Ab !
46 I will case me of my advyrjaries, and
'' avenge me of m, enemies."
Extrad from the conclufan of tbe above-mentioned
Sermon.
WHAT croud dol fee yonder ? And who
is he that I behold exalted in a cart
with a rope about his neck ? Is it a man on
his way to the place of Execution, Ah ! What
has he done ? he has committed a highway
robbery. Whom did he rob ?—was it a wi
dow or an orphan ?No ? it was a wealthy
farmer —but what then---his crime is the fame
whatever the condition, or cireumftances, or
chara&er of the person he robbed might have
been. But did he not rob him of his all ? No--
he took from him nothing but a fiber watch
and a few dollars. And has our law decreed
death to be the punilhment of this crime ?
Unfortunate young man ! who can help weep
ing at the near profpeft of thy fate. Let us
not my friends be ashamed of our tears.---for
he is a Man, nay more, he is our brother.
Perhaps he was goaded to commit the crime,
for which he was to fuffer, by want. Perhaps
his industry would not keep pace with the de
mands of the late inclement season for fire
wood—and who knows but a wife and 3 or 4
small children had two days before eaten their
last morsel, and mult have perished with hun
ger had they not been fed with a few scanty
loaves purchased with the fruits of his violence.
But the fafety of society requires that our law
should be deaf to all such considerations. It
has wifely doomed him to fuffer —would to
heaven I could add some punilhment, more
adequate to his crime, and more beneficial in
its effeds upon society than death.
But whom do I fee yonder? A venerable
matron surrounded with a family of children.
What means her dishevelled hair-and dejected
countenance ; Alas! (he has been just now
reduced from a date of affluence to beggary.
Has the British army, with their usual undif
tinguiffiing cruelty, laid her habitation in
ashes or laid walte her farm ? No----for even
Britilh obduracy has learned to relent at the
name of the widow and the orphan. She has
been compelled to give up a bond of three
thousand pounds, lent in gold and silver, for
the fame nominal sum in continental dollars,
mow depreciated to afixtietb part of their ori
ginal value. Good heavens ! who is the wretch
that has done this ? Where is he? Seize him
Sheriff-drag him to the tribunal of justice---
fammons ajury, and witnesses—and let him
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 3 1. ios per
Cent. Published February 18, 1780.
A Whitt Loaf of the fineft FLOUR, to meigh
% ib. for 14. Copper's.
Monday, June 26, 1780.
N E W-Y ORK
AND
WE EKLY
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^ Printed by HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE and CROWN, in HANOVER-SQUARE.
Monday, 7 Min. after 4
Tuefda'y, 51 Min. after 4
/Wednesday, 37 Min. after 5
I Thursday, 23 Min. after 22
1 HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
immediately expiate his crimes under yonder
gallows, prepared for a less guilty and infa
mous criminal. His crimes aamit of no pal
liation. He has robbed a widow---he has rob
bed orphans—he has robbed them of their all.
---He has cancelled the molt sacred obligations
of gratitude---for the sum of money which he
borrowed of this widow and orphans saved
him from a goal, and his family from ruin-
Why Hand tiiil the officers and executioners of
justice? Why are my hearers so unmoved at
this fpedacle of distress and villany ? I antici
pate your answer. This man---has done no
thing contrary to law. There is no punifh
menr decreed for,him. And can a law that
jollifies such a crime, be found in the atts of a
free and Christian country ? Yes---O ! liberty
-—and religion never were yet so wounded by
your enemies, as ye have been by this law in
the house of your friends! But perhaps infamy
(applies the place of that puniOnnent which is
denied by the law to this outrage upon justice
and humanity, No---behold die very man
who has defrauded yonder widow and orphans
of their all, is freely admitted into public
company.---nay more, he hold? a (hare of the
power ofhis country---and no wonder, fur he
finds in every company, and in too many of
the public bodies of America, men who have
been guilty of the fame wicked practices with
himfelf. God forbid that any one cf that new
class of sinners ffiould have found his way this
day into his fan&uary. Let notthe incense of
pure and upright fouls be contaminated by
mixing with his prayers---prayers - did I fay;
---let him not add to his wickedness, by pre
fuming to worlhip the Majesty ofheaven. Let
him abandon the table of the Lord, and " ne
ver pray more" until he has repented of ini
quities, and made ample restitution for his in
justice.
I cannot conclude this discourse without ad
dressing a word or two to that part ofmy hear
ers who let in places of power and trust a
mongst us. I fear we have too much reason to
fay, " the leaders&f the people do cause them
to err." Yes---ve have consented to all the
frauds that have been committed under the
fandion of the Tender Law, by continuing it
in force to the present day. It is in vain to
look for peace, or to strive to avert the Divine
Wrath from our country, by proclamations for
days of sassing and prayer, while you fuffer
oppreflion and rapine to pass with impunity.
Remember that a more than ordinary Provi
dence guards the widow and the orphan. Those
who oppress them are called, in our text,"
the adversaries of God, " and he has declared
that he will avenge himfelf of them. But you
will fay, that all the widows and orphans in
our country are ruined already, and that there
is no class of people left to fuffer, by the Ten
der Law, but the Tories. This is a falfe as
sertion. There are many hundreds of the best
Whigs among us, of all sexes, ages and con
ditions, who now hold all their property upon
the tenure (precarious tie !) of their debtor's
honour and benevolence. But supposing this
were not the cafe---,upon ^what principle of
equity, policy, or of our constitution, do you
withold justice from a Tory ? You may deny
him your friendship and vote at an eleftion,
but you have no right to deny him the fame
justice that is due to the greatest patriot and the
bravest soldier in America. If this is not as
true in politicks, as it is orthodox in religion,
then farewell the liberty, the glorious liberty
for which we have so fuccefsfully contended.
There is an inseparable connection between
found policy, good morals, and the precepts
of chriftianity. Let not party fpiric or tempo
rary politicks divide those things which God
hgs joined together. Learn to imitate that Be
ing who makes' his fun to ffiine with equal
warmth, and has rain co fall in equal Showers
upon men of every party and opinion.
In a word—" Seek judgment--and relieve
" the oppressed, ''--and above all things,as you
value the dear partners of your happiness, and
the sweet pledges of your love,---as you wiffi
to protest them after your deaths from the
operation of laws, that Shall deprive them of
the fruits of your honest industry—-and as you
with not to expose them to poverty- —to misery
--and to an evil more dreadful than them both,
—to vic^ —painful thought! too big to be ut
tered, and too distressing to be pursued by one,
who is both a husband and father, let mecon
jure you to" judge the fatherless, and
" PLEAD FOR THE WiDOW.
^Wfo^^>
<OW^B
Friday, 22 Min. after
Saturday, 20 Min. after
Sunday, 22 Min. after
New Moon, July 2d.
THE
April 6. Yesterday the General Election for
Members of assembly began here, when Sa
muel Farley, John Simpson, James Moffman,
and James Robertson, Efqrs. were chosen to
represent the Town and Diftrid of Savannah.
^Pril 13. The following Gentlemen are
ele&ed Members of the General assembly of
this province, viz. For the difiria of Little
Ogechee, Wiliam Jones, Efq;—for the diftrid
ofgreat Ogechee and parilh of St. Philip, James
Butler and Thomas Goldsmith, Efqrs.—for
Gofhen and Abercorn, Samuel Douglass, Esq;
—for the diftrid: and town of Ebenezer, Alex
ander Wright, Basil Cowper, and Nathaniel
Hall, Efqrs;—-and for. the village of A&on,
David Zubly, Esq.
May 4. The following Gentlemen are elect
ed Members of the General Assembly of this
province, viz. for the parilh of St. Andrew,
Robert Baille and James Spalding, Efqrs. fiir
St. James, William Panton, Esq; for St. Da
vid, Samuel Douglass, Esq; for Sc, Thomas,
Simon Patterson, Esq; far St. Mary, William
Russ, Esq; and for St. George, Alexander
Wylly, and John Henderson, Efqrs.
SOUTH-CAROLIN A.
By Sir Henry ejintoo, Knight of the t^ath, General of
his Marty's forced, and Marior Arfuchna, Enquire,
Vie-. Admiral of the Blue, his Majesty's Cvmmiliion
ers to rettore Peac s and good Government, in the fevc
rai C Janies in Rebellion in North- America.
VROCLAMATI 0 N.
IS Majehy having bsca pleased, by his Letters
1 Patent, -under the Gicat Seal of Great Britain, to
appoint us to be his Commissioners, to restore the
Rlelßiw of Peace and Liberty to the several Colonies in
Rebellion in America# We do hereby make public his
moftgrarious Intentions, and in Obeiienre to his Com
mands, DO DECLARE, to such of his deluded Subjects
as hove been perverted from their Duty by the factious
Ats of felf-interefted and ambitious Men. That
they will still be received with Mercy ^nd Forgivenefe,
if they immediately return to then Allegiance, and a
due Obedience to those. Laws, and that Government
which they formerly hoafted was their best Birth-right,
and noblest Inheritance, and upon a due Experience of the
Sincerity of their Profeffions, a full and free Pardon will
be granted for the treasonable Offences which they have
hitherto committed, in such Manner and Form, as his
,Majesty's Commission doth direct. V
NevTthelefs, it is only to those, who, convinced of
their Errors, are firmly rcfolved to return, and support
the Government under which they were formerly so
happy and free, that these gracious Offer; are once more
renewed, and therefore those persons are excepted, who,
notwithstanding their present hopeless Situation, and
rcgardlefs of the accumulating Pressure of the Miseries
of the people, which their infatuated Conduct mull
contribute to increase, arc nevertheless still so hardened
in their Guilt, as to endeavour to keep alive the Flame
of Rebellion in this Province, which will otherwise soon
be re-instated in its former Prosperity, Security, and
Peace.
Nor can we at present refelvc to extend the Royal
Clemency, to those who are polluted with the Blood of
their Fellow Citizens, most wantonly and inhumanly
Died under the mock Form of Justice, because they re
fufed hubmiffion to an Ufurpatfon which they abhorred,
and w ' uid not oppose that Government with which
they deemed themselves unfepirably ednnc&ed : And in
order to give (Quiet and Cmreat to the Minds of his
Majesty's faithful and well affixed Subjects, WE do
again assure them, that they Ihall have effectual Counte
nance, Proteaion and Support, and as soon as tbe
Situation of the Province will admit, the 'lnhabitants
will be re-inflated in the Pul'elßon of all those Rights
and Immunities which they heretofore enjoyed, under a
free British Government, exempt from Taxation, excep t
by their own Legislature : And we do hereby call upon
all his Majefly's faithful Subjects to be aiding with their
Endeavours, in order that a Measure so conducive to
their ow, Happiness, and the Welfare and Prosperity
of the Province, may be the more speedily and easily at
tained.
Given under our Hands and Seals at Charleftown,
the firft Day of June, in the Twentieth Year of
hie Maj-sty's Reign, and the Year of our Lord
One Thousand Seven Hundred arid Eighty.
HENRY CLINTON.
MAKIOT ARBUTHNOT.
By their Excellencies Co-n^nd,
Janies ^ ; son, Secretary.
'~W~A~NT E D,
A SMALL House and Stdre in the Fly-Market,
" or in William-Street, for which a Premium
will be given. Apply to the Printer. 3 w.
WILLIAM IHOORE patents hrs Compli
ments to the Gentleman that received three
Chells fio'o on b'oaid the Trelawney, marked
I. [Cm-w Foot] T. and informs him a fourth Par
cel (till remains on board of the lame Mark ;
would therefore be obliged by his lending to Mrs.
Hamilton's, in Dock-Street, to let him know where
the remaining one is to be lent, as the Cartman has
forgot where the others were dHi'erpd.
Best Red an'd Black IN K,
Sold by Hugh Gaine.
SAVANNAH.
Wheat per Bushel, 265. od.
Flour, 80s. od.
Brown Bread, „s. od.
Welt-India Rum, ss. 6d.
New-England do. 4s. od.
GAZETTE:
THE
M ER CU R Y.
PRICE CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Mufcovado Sugar, gl. ros.
Single refin'd ditto, is. gd.
Molasses, is. 6d.
Beef per Barrel, 81. od.
Pork, 81. lOS 6
foreign ano Dom^%
Just imported, and to be SOLD by
Francis panton,
^ No. 35, thefecend doer from tbe Cofa-boufe
Bridge, in Wall- Street,
riENTLEMeN) best buck, Woodstock, beaver, waffi
leather, thread, and. nankeen gloves; gentlemen's
ack velvet and, silk stocks, Savigney'spen knives and
'""' '' Ried's, and Lifbon'sditto, Well's best
double and single strops, mahogany travelling cases of
different forts, leather pouches filled with razors, & c .
gentlemens tortoiffiel crooked and Height combs
all forts, horn, raking, dressing, and tail combs, very
fine large ivory and bone ditto, paper cases for hUdinß
12,'I 2 ,' ' combs > & c> offence of lavender, bergamot,-hyme,
jeflamme, and rhoadium, Smyth's and Goiciog' lbeft
double distilled lavender, Hungary, rose, orange flower
Bergamot, honey, violet and Marchallo water, a
aflurtmeac of hard and foft Frencl i pomatums, ladles fa
fhionanle cushions, pads, bows, and curles, milk of rotes
eau-de-luce, a liquid that changes the colour of the hair'
wool, best French rouge, a composition to take
off fupetflupus hair, ladies and gentlemens purses work'd
with gold and silver runners, gilt and plain writing paper,
Dutch quills, ink powder, and sealing wax ; cloaths, hat,
fielh, (hoe, hearth, nail, and Hemest's too'h bruffirs
Hemett s efle^ce, and pearl powder for the teeth, royal
ditto, green and white wax' tapers, with brass stands,
' tb t v ^> Na ? le b Wirmer, and plain soap, waft.
bahs of various forts, jjval and square looking glares for
travelling; a large a(wrtment of smelling bottles, tooth
pick cases, tooth picks, plain, violet, brown, marcnrile,
OTlet powders for the hair, powder boxes, having box.s,
Camels hair, (having brulher, tilk and fwaodown
ladies and gentl^meus buck,es an elegant affortme^t of
gentlemens watch and cane firings, in gold and silver
ladies Aiding and common fans, gentlemens hats, whit^
and black Clinch f^fos, geen and red ditto, Durham
muffard in pound battle, all to be fold on reafonablc
terms.
™°*™" rcm °= taCT '*" rau ™ w - m CTI&tW rt^
/fy For LONDON,
The SHIP
^^l HARRISON,
/ DUNCAN MIEAN,
—^-^ , Master,
WILL p@fitively fail with the firft Convoy.
For Freight or Passage apply to the Matter
on hoard, at Murray's Wharff.
-TO" B~ ESOLD,
A BOND, with MORTGAGE, on premises,
lituate in John-Street in this city, now let at
two hundred pounds per annum, the principal sum
is twelve hundred pounds, and there is an arrear of
interest on said bond and mortgage of near three
hundred pounds. Also, a BURNT LOT, near
the Whitehall, 62 feet deep, and gg broad, more or
less, situation very pliant. There are on the pre
miles a great quantity of brick and stone, and in the
yard convergent places where pump and cittern were.
."\" not f °'" before at private sale, will be
fold on I jelday the 4th day cf July next at public
auction, at the Ceffee-houfe. If the Let can't be
fold it will be Let. For particulars enquire of the
Printer, or es Dinnis Carleton, No. 187, Qyeen
ftieet.
rera^^rGi ^Q^Q^L^^ttt ^^T£iii©
New-York, June 2(.
The following Addrefsfanned by tbe principal and most
rejpedtable Inhabitants of Charlesto=tvn, Soutb-Caro^
lina, ivrisprinted previous to the departure oftheir
Excellencies General Sir HENRYCLIN'TON, K. B.
and Eice-AJmiral ARBUTHNOT, bis Majeftys
Commifliorers,
To their Exc licneies Sir HENRY CLINTON, Knight
of the Mott Honourable Order of the Bath, General
ad Commander in Ch ; ef of all ha Majeftyl Forces
v^th'.n the Colonies lying on the Atlantic Ocean from
Nova Beotia inclusive, and MARIOT ARBUTH
NOT, Enquire, Vice Admiral of the Blue, Commander
in Chief of his Majesty's Ships and vcffels in North-
America, hir.Maj-tty's Commissioners, &c. &c. &c.
Tbe Humble Adda efi of divers Inhabitants of Cbarleftown.
qpHE Inhabitants of Charlestown by the Articles of
1 Capitulation are declared prisoners on parole, but we
the under -written having every inducement to return to
our allegiance, and ardently hoping speedily to be read
mitted t> the character and condition of Britiih fubjetls,
take this opportunity of tendering to your Excellencies
our warmest congratulations on the restoration of this
cantal aid province to their political connection with the
crown and government,of Great-Britain, an event which
will add luftre to your Excellencies charsders, and we
trust entitle you to the most distinguishing marks of th e
Royal favour.
Although the rightof taxing America in parliament
excited cbnfidenble ferments in the minds of the people
of this province, yet it may with a religious adherence to
truth be affirmed, that they did not entertain the most
diflant thought of dFfolving the union that so happily
subsisted between them and their, arent country, and when
in the progress of that fatal centroverfy, the do&ine of
Independency (which originated in the more Northern
Colonies) made its appearance among us, our naturesre
volted at the idea, and we look back with the most pain
ful regret on those convulsions that gave existence to a
power of subverting a constitution, for which we always
had, and ever shall retain the most profound veneration,
and fubftitutirg in its ftepo, a raffidemocracy, which
however carefully 'drafted in theory, on be\ ? reduced
into practice, has exhibited a ( yftem of tyranni domina
tion, only to be found ateong the uncivilized part of man-
Fine Salt, ft,, dp
Coarse Salt, zs . do
Indian Corn perßu. 10s. do
Coffee, is. do
Chocolate, 265. pet Do
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