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Military Guide,
FOR
YOUNG OFFICERS,
By THOMAS SIMES, Esquire,
In Two Volumes, large O&avo, embellished
with a Number of Copperplates,
(Price Three Dollars)
May be had of the PRINTER hereof.
to band the following G OOD S, and
TO BE SOLD BY
JONAS PHILLIP S,
In Market-street near the Court-house,
ID USSI 1 duck, Ruflia Sheetings, ticklenburgs.
ozenbrigs, striped ginghams, white and brown
buckmms, needles and pins, drawboys, „ towelling
linen fi k and oil cloth, umbrelloes, writing-paper,
fans/dreft md naked holland dolls garnet neckla
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gauzes black coloured ribbons, white and black
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in cases, raisins, sweet-oil, cinnamon, coffee and
pepper; raccoon fleins sheep (hears Shoemakers
hammers, files and sundry other goods, cheap for
ready money only.
CAME to the plantation of the Subscriber, on
the 30th of March lalt. in the town Ship of
Northampton, in the county of Bucks A bright
bay HORSE, about 14 hands high, a large
star in h ; s forehead trots and canters well; the
said horse had a bridle on when taken up. The
owner coming, proving his property, paying
char res, may have him again by applying to
April 7,1776. JOHN BLAKER, ^.
Sale Spermaceti md train Oil, by the calk"
4 Apply to William Barrell at his (lore, thenorth
east corner of Market and Second streets, where he
has a variety of DRY GOODS, the remains of his
last general importations, which he will lell on
reasonable terms.
• N. B. Pepper at fix shillings and sixpence per
pound by the half dozen or upwards.
R~ A- A WAY ahe 2?d inrt. from the Sublctibei, in
Providence tow Ah p, Philadelphia county, an Enghth
SER I 'AN I* MAN, named THOMAS SAL'I AR, ot
middle age and middle size, preny broad and iho^ made, light
hair a full face, red and impudent large note, has had one of his
tesbroke which is now filler and thorter than the other, and
gives him a limp in his walking. He had on an old felt ht with
a very narrow rim, an old oznabrig shirt, a light cloth upper
jacket half worn, having cuffs, and the sleeves a ntcle differ nt
coloured from the bodv, an old brown forreft cloth under jacket,
old leather breeches light blue dockings and old thoes. Is very
apt to get in liquor and when so very noiiy and unruly. Wh ever
secures him in aw Gaol, so that his Mallei may have him again,
shall have THRtE POUNDS Reward,
paid by ROWLAND EVANS.
; Said Saltar is a gardener by tade. ________
' T O BE SO L D,
A LOT of GROUND, adjoining the town
of Manheim, in the county of Lancaster,
containing two acres and one hundred and four
perches, being that out-lot, which in the plan of
the said town, is marked and called Number ten. #
Also, one other LOT, in or near the said
town of Manheim, containing ten acres and forty
four perches, adjoining the lots of Frederick Leifer,
Nicholas Candour, apd others, being that part of a
traXof seven hundred acres of land divided into
lots, which in the plan of the said division is marked
and called Number thirty. The title and terms
may be known by applying to
3 m. MIERS FISHER.
R O I) S,
Of different sizes, to be had of
JOSEPH POTT S,
At his Store in Sixth Street. near Market-street, and
at the Slitting-Mill in Cheder county.
Good & Cheap Writing Paper
To be Sold by the Printer hereof.
PENNSYLVANIA
WEEKLY
May 4, 1776.
Or the Virginia, Maryland,
SATURDAY,
Mr. Humphreys,
The impartiality of your Paper gives me reason to
believe that a favourable acceptance mill be grant
ed to the following Essay, from yours &c. —
HAVING attentively perused the various politi
cal publications which have been lately print
ed, I confeis I have been astonished at the strange and
extraordinary dodrines which some of them contain,
and it naturally led me to confider, whether I am to
swallow in the gross, and pay an implicit obedience
to their novel Sentiments or whether it is not my
duty as a man, and as a friend to my native coun
try, to judge for myielf how they will affe& me and
my countrymen in general. I shall therefore in a
brief manner (if it is possible to be brief on so inter
effing a fubjeft) give iome of my sentiments on the
present unhappy situation of public affairs.
Much pains have been taken by some writers to
make us believe, that nothing but the vilest inten
tions that ever enter'd into the hearts of the worst
of men are to be expected from the people of Great-
Britain, that if commissioners are coming, they are
coming to bribe, to deceive, and betray us.—l hat
the very thought of reconciliation ought to be dri
ven from us, —and in faX, that little elie but war,
deftruftion, and bloodshed are now before us:—
What man in America who profeffes chriftianity,
or has any feelings of humanity but must shudder at
such a profped, which if there was no other, would
be a proiped tof evils that language cannot deicribe,
“ a hidious group of ills which singly Shock."—
But thanks be to heaven, there are great numbers
who have different views, who think they have
reason still to hope for better things from that peo
ple. with whom in former times to be conneXed
was their honor and their joy:—Shall an American
dare to express a sentiment of this fort at this time?
—lfe.l it to be a truth, and I cannot but lee (through
the whole of the preient dreadful conflict) some
traces of that nobility ot sentiment and aXion which
were formerly charaXeriftic of the British Nation:
Where are these to be found, may tome fay,
have they not invaded our territories with an armed
force? have they not deftroy'd our property in
many instances, and shewn a cruel disposition to an
attack upon our essential rights ?— Granted:—But
have they not also shewn a desire for reconciliation?
and is there not a probability of overtures from them
for this noble purpose, on terms constitutional and
honorable to both countries? I answer in the affir
mative, and shall endeavour to prove the assertion
from authentic records. —
The address of the House of Lords presented the
27th October last is concluded with this positive
assurance of their desires viz. we " feel no other wish
than to re-establish order and tranquillity through
the several parts of your dominions, upon the basis
of a close connexion with, and constitutional de
pendence upon Great- Britain. —
The Kings answer to the House of Commons
concludes with an eraneft wish" to attain the mod
desirable end of restoring his Subjects in America
to the free and happy condition, and to the, peace
and property which they enjoyed in their consti
tutional dependence before the breaking out of these
unhappy disorders." —
In a pamphlet published in England a considera
ble time since (and which was said to be written un
der the eyes of the ministry) I find some lively sen
timents, expressive of a perfect anxiety for a restora
tion of that harmony which formerly Subsided be
tween the two countries, and this to be eftablilhed
on the principles of mutual dependence, the na
tural effect of common interest and happinefs:—they
even pray for some great and liberal commercial
rangement, which may remain amonument to future
ages, that though there was once, there was but
once, a quarrel between Great-Britain and her
colonies. —
As to the sentiments of great numbers of the
people of England at large, they may be seen by
the numerous addresses that have been presented to
the throne, which clearly and fully shew that" one
of the firft objects of their wishes is, a return ofpeace
and cordial union with their American fellow
fubjeXs."—-
^9 OMil^
THE
ADVERT ISE R.
L ED G E R:
Pennsylvania, & New-Jersey
The late remarkable event of the British troops
evacuatingßofton, witli the circumstances attending
it, might be adduc'd to corroberate the opinion I
have given.—l felicitate the rightful inhabitants on
this joyful occasion :—I Sympathiz'd with them in
their dihreSs, I chearfully contributed to the relief
of the needy among them, and heartily wish their
future welfare in a Rate of peaceful possession of all
their just rights. —
If, my countrymen, the general happiness of Ame
rica is the object we aim at, the thought of a rea
sonable reconciliation cannot be driven from u^.
— Independence will not produce happiness ; —as
soon could I believe that thole were my friends who
would advise me to renounce my family, as I could
believe them to be such who would Seperate me
from my near connexions in the land that gave
birth to my ancestors.—
As to the cry raised againftthofe who advise to a
reconciliation on constitutional principles, that they
are seeking for places and penfions,—what would
such lay who are so groundlefly suspicious, if the
accusation was retorted upon themselves ?— For
my part I can seriously declare, that I have luch an
aversion to titles and pensions that I would not be
one of the three hundred and ninety commissioners,
on the plan of the writer of the piece called Com
mon Sense, for all the money that has been made m
America since the commencement of the unhappy
differences.—
To conclude, I have put together a few remarks,
which however uncouth. ,are my honed Sentiments:
—who I am is not material, but this I may lay I
Should rejoice to fee the happiness of my coun rymen
of all denominations, and allure them bat tor my
fel+, I wish to remain, as I ever have been.
A SETTLED CI I'SZEN
Philadelphia, April 23. 1776.
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A Letter from a Lady in New-York to her Friend
•in the Country.
My dear Friend,
YOU will fee by the enclosed, that I am very
exaX in keeping the promise you engaged me
to make. I have there culled all such news as was
important, and hope it will iatisfy your curiosity.
I do not know any sentiment more confirmed, than
one which you may find in an unfashionable book,
to wit, that where" Envy and Strife ar , there is
confufion and every evil way." Such animosity sub
sists here, betwixt those who ought to contend for
the fame thing, that I Sear, if longer persisted in,
they will lose Sight ot the fubflance, and fight as
those ‘ who beat the air." Party-men think the
lead difference n sentiment a Sufficient ground for a
quarrel, and religion is hauled in to rid the inglori
ous combat. Certainly the enquiry ought to be,
What motives a man can have for thinking contra
ry to the major part ot his countrymen; Has he
property in America? Has he been ever tenacious
of the fame? Is he unpenfioned, unplaced? Instead
of which the query is, Whether h is an Episcopali
an or DiSTenter? This once known, his profusion
entitles him to the appellation of Whig or Tory,
and his kind or mal-treatment, may, in a g. neral
way, be charged to his worshiping God, by or with
out a torm. Though you, my dear Mils ,
have been educated in what is called the diflenting
mode of worlhip, still, from your good sense and
extensive reading, you are, I am Sure, convinced
that passive obedience or non refinance to arbitrary
encroachments, is not a doctrine of the Church of
England. Certainly, Liberty itfelf, (that great
gift ot Heaven) though it ought to be cherished and
maintained in its just proportion, still Should be so
far retrained, as to be under the command of reason
that it may best answer its own end; for if partial
and misguided, and not directed by prudence, it
may prove mod pernicious. I think, that with
those petitions whicli we make for the Safety" and
success of such who are exposing their lives in the
cause of freedom, we Should join a request for a
kind, benevolent temper to all men, especially to
all those who name the name of Ch-AR, that each
one, however distinguished by name or profefiioa.
May 4, 1776.
Numb. LXVII.