The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-08-20 00:00:00, page 1

LONDO N, May i.
A COMMON COUNCIL holden at Guildhall, on
Monday the 79th of April, 1776, Resolved, That
the.Right Hon. the Lord Mayor be requeued to
move the following resolution in the Houle of Com
mons, “ That his Majefty'sColonies in America be con
" tinned upon the fame footing of giving and granting their
" money as his Majesty's fubjeds in Ireland are, by their
" own repiefentatives." And the other representatives of this
city, and such other members of this Court as are members of
Parliament, are requested to fopport the fame.
HOUSE of COMMON S,
Gen. CONWAY, after a fpeechof an hour, moved for an
address to his Majeffy, that he would direct to be laid before
the House copies of the inftru&ions to Lord and General
Howe, for making peace with America. He arraigned the
conduct of the Ministry, in very severe and pointed terms,
and concluded his speech by observing, " That if the House
continued to vote at the pleasure of the Ministry, argument
would have as little effed there as the troops had in America."
He was seconded by Colonel BARRE, who, in an ani
mated stile, condemned every measure that had hitherto been
taken, and observed, that whenever a motion of this nature
was to be ^pade, he saw a set of features to which he was an
entire Granger, except upon such Treasury attendancies.
Lord NORTH combated the arguments of both the Colo
nel and General, denied the necessity of shewing the accompts
and orders, and argued upon the prudence and good manage
ment of keeping that secret, which, if known, might fruftrate
future operations.,
He was answered with severity by Lord JOHN CAVEN
DISH. Mr. BURKE contended for the necessity of the mo
tion, rallied the weakness of Administration. Their mea
sures, he said, were full of blunders, their designs attended
with an uncommon fatality, and the execution of their or
ders was such as lerved to heighten the spirit of the Ameri
cans, and disgrace the glory of England.
Mr. FOX strenuously opposed everygmeafure of govern
ment, canvailed every argument of Lord Nath's, with spirit
and judgment, and said, they magnftd every defeat into
victory, and every fhameful retreat ifto prudence, good con
dud and herioifm.
At length the question was put, -wh/fthe numbers were,
for the motion, eighty-five —againil it, one hundred and
seventy-one.
St. James's, May n, Last Sunday evening the ceremony
of christening the young Princess was performed by the Arch
bishop of Canterbury. She was named Mary.
PLYMOUTH, May 22. An order is come to make up
eighty-four thousand mulket cartridges, with ball. This is
Something new, as there was no such order during the last
war.
SALISBURY, May 27. On Friday Col. Guy Johnson,
nephew to Sir William Johnson, passed through this city on
his way to Falmouth, where he is immediately to embark for
America, with some important despatches.
The PENNSYLVANIA EVENING ' POST,
Vol. ILJ
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1776.
411
A QUANTITY of GOOD FLAX to be fold by Mat
thew Irwin, at his store in Water-street, the second
door above Chefnut-ftreet, Philadelphia, being the fare
store lately occupied by Mr. Samuel Pleafants, *
BALTIMOR E, August 14. ,
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Jamaica, to his friend
in Liverpool, dated June 13th, 1776, which was lately
taken on board one of the Jamaica prizes.
“ Without a speedy restoration of peace in America, the
African trade must prove a very ruinous commerce, as we
can have no supply of provisions in the Weft-Indies, and the
southern Continental colonies will not purchase any Ne
groes".- N. B. In the account of the sale of one hundred
and eighty ilaves, forwarded by the above letter, the prices
are as low as eighteen pounds, nine pounds, fix pounds, and
even down to two pounds seventeen fnillimgs and sixpence.
WILLIAMSBURG, Ayguft 10.
A correspondent has favored us with extracts of letters from
officers of rank in Fincaftle, from which we learr, that on
Sunday the twenty-firft of last month (the day before the en
gagement mentioned in our last) a large party of hi, : '> at
tacked the Watauga fort, in which were one hunge^lfaL
fifty men. They fired on a great number of w&ae'qb
went out at daybreak to milk their cows, and
into the fort, but providentially did not kill one of them.
They fired brifcly on the fort till eight o'clock, but without
effect, and then retired with confiierable loss, as was Jup
pofed from the quantity of blood found; but they returned
to the attack, and were besieging the fort fix days after, as a
messenger, who wo. flipped out, informed our men oh Holstein.
A detachment was sent to relieve the fort, and it was ex
pected they would do so on Monday the twenty-ninth. A
party of one hundred men of the militia fell in with a party
of forty Cherokees, who were fifty miles on this fide the
island, at one of the deserted plantations, killed five, took
one prisoner, and twenty guns. It is worthy of our observa
tion, that in these several ikirmilhws with the Indians, in all
of which we did more execution than in some of the princi
pal actions of the last war, we loft not a man. No one ca<
reflect on this, and many other circumflances which have at
tended the present war with the British tyrant, without ac
knowledging that he fees evident proofs of the divine inter
position in our favor.
Sunday evening arrived in town from Philadelphia, under
an efeert of light-horse, a waggon containing Continental
dollars to the number of five hundred thousand.
WAS FOUND in the possession efa gang of thieves, on
the 12th instant, supposed to be stolen, a piece of
cross-barred C'AMBLETEE, containing about eight yards.
Whoever has loft the the feme, by applying to Alexander
Carlisle, in Fifth-ftrect, between Spruce and Walnut streets,
proving their property, and paying charges, may have it
again.
[Num. 247.