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Nem-Brunfaick, April 23, 1,76.
In COMMITTEE of SAFETY.
WHEREAS many dangerous confequence^
will attend the fuffering an unrestrained commerce
between the inhabitants of this colony and the Con
tinental troops, Rationed in or passing through this
proyince, therefore Reiolved, 1 hat no inhabitant
of this colony shall be permitt d.to purchase or re
ceive from any non commissioned officer or soldier,
in the Continental service, any goods, cloathing,
or any other effects whatto^ver, unless luch non
commissioned officer or soldier that! firft produce a
certificate, signed by the Commanding Officer of
the regim nt, or company to which such non-com
missioned officer or soldier belong, ipecifying the
particular goods permitted to be fold, with the name
of the vender and every person preluming to pur
chase any goods, cloathing or effects, contrary to
this Resolution, after being notified thereof thall
be deemed unfriendly to the liberties of America,
and treated accordingly; and the Committees of
the several counties and townships in this colony are
enjoined to enforce a compliance with this resolution.
By Order f the Committee,
SAMUEL TUCKER, Prefidehb
The Examination of the Wilmington public
School is to be held on Tuejday the 7th of May en-.
suing; when the Trustees oi laid School are desired
to attend.
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Obferva ions on Gunpowder. From the Afis of
Copenhagen.
SPREAD some grains of gunpowder on a
piece of white paper, and set fire to them; if
the powder goes off in a rapid blaze, if the re
port of the flaih is brisk, and if after inflamma
tion there remains nothing on the paper, the pow
der may be reckoned as very good; but if it is flow
in taking fire, if it leaves some white grains on the
paper, or burns the paper, it is a lure sign that it
is bad, and that the proportion of nitre, charcoal,
and fulphur is not as it ought to be.
If it should be necessary to assign the different
degrees of the force of leveral forts of powder, then
the instruments calculated for this purpose are very
commodious.
There are two kinds of these proof infirumentsi
In both, the force of the powder is measured by
the quantity of motion impressed on an obstacle.
In one of them, the obstacle is railed perdendicu
larly; in the other, it is suspended, and describes
by its motion some Segments of a circle; and the
instrument is graduated for the conveniency of ob
servation. The powder that makes a given obsta
cle, run a greater number of degrees, is the strong
est. The quantity 'of the powder mutt be the fame
on both sides, and generally all things equal.
Notwithftahding all precautions and exadnefs,
this proof is not always decisive, for it often hap
pens that the fame powder, and in the lame quan
tity, makes the fame obstacle run over unequal
spaces; but, as this error is the result of a want of
exa&nefs in the combination of the materials that
enter the composition of the powder, it ought not
to be imputed to the instrument, which probably
would be very good, if the powder was manufac
tured in the best manner. The instrument fliould
be likewise clearted at every explosion; and dry
weath 1 r is most favourable for the experiment.
It is very remarkable, that if a cannon is charged
with two forts of powder of unequal force, and the
best tort put in fifft, the ball will be driven much
farther than if the charge had been entirely of the
best powder.
May 2, 1776.
ASSIZE of B READ.
FINE FLOUR at fifteen Shillings and six
pence per Ct.
MIDDLINGS at thirteen Shillings per Ct.
RY Eat nine Shillings per Ct
White Bread: The penny loaf to weigh eight
ounces and a quarter.
Two-penny dit one pound three quarters of an oz.
Four-penny ditto, two pound, one oz. and a half.
Eight-penny ditto, four pound, three ounces.
Twelve-penny ditto, fix pound, four ounces
and a half.
Middling Bread: The penny loaf, nine ounces
and a half.
Two-penny ditto, one pound, three ounce's.
Four-penny ditto, two pound, fix ounces.
Eight-penny ditto, four pound twelve ounces.
Twelve-penny ditto, seven pound two ounces.
Rye Bread: The penny loaf, eleven ounces and
three quarters.
Two-penny ditto, one pound seven ounces and
a half.
Four-penny ditto, two pound fifteen ounces.
Eight-penny ditto, five pound fourteen ounces.
Twelve-penny ditto, eight pound thirteen ounces.
Set by SAMUEL POWELL, Mayor.
JACOB DUCHE, )
SAMUEL RHOADS., Aldermen
AMOS STRETTLE. )
THE Copartnership of MASQN and PATTON
being dhTolved, all those who are indebted to
them by Bond, Note, or Book Debt, are desired to
make immediate payment to Phineas Bond, Eiq;
who is properly authorifed to receive and fettle the
fame, and all thole who have any demands again&
the said Partnerihip, are requested to apply as above:
And public notice is hereby given to all those in
debted to the said Partnerihip, that unless they dis
charge their relpe&ive debts, as above, on or before
the 20th day of May next, they will be sued with
out refpe& to Persons. Philadelphia, April 30.
Several Sums of Money,
To be Lent, at intereil, on good Security,
By JAMES HUMPHREY S,
Notary Public and Conveyancer;
In Front-lire.t, Corner of Black-horle Alley.
CT™HE Managers of the United Company of Phi
| ladelphia for promoting American Manufac
tures, sensible of the utility, of bringing Bleaching
to perfection, have entered into partnerihip with
Daniel Burvell, a man of approved ability in
th bufihels, and have prepared a Bleacbfeld, in
Merion townlhip, near John Roberts's mill.
They propole laying down cloth with all conve
nient ipeed, and whiten plain linen cloth wrought
in an 800 reed and under (not exceeding yard wide)
at Four-pence per yard, 900 and 1000 at Five
pence, and all above at Six-pence per yard. Dia
pers, towelling and huccabags not exceeding yard
wide, at fourpence, and so in proportion to their
widths; sheetings in like proportions; dimitties at
sixpence; lapping and papering sixpence per piece;
Hockings four Killings per dozen; linen yarn and
thread at one Lulling per pound wheighed when
green; cotton at tenpence per pound.
Goods are taken in for this Bleacbfeld, at the
companies manufactory in Ninth and Market-streets
and at the bleachfield, where proper receipts will
be given.
The owners of the cloth are desired to mark their
names and place of abode, upon the one end of
each piece, and the nnmber of yards upon the
other end, wi'h thread, and not fl lk, which bleaches
out, as also to have the pieces as near 25 yards in
length as they can.
Thole who are pleased to favour this Bleachfield
with their custom, may depend on their goods be
ing taken proper care of, as they will be vigilantly
guarded by men and dogs.
A few Pipes and Quarter Calks of
TENERIFFE WIN E,
PORT WINE
By the Quarter Calk or Dozen, and old
BARBADOS SPIRIT S,
By the Hoglhend or Quarter Calk, To be Sold, by
GEORGE MEADE, and Comp.
Philadelphia, April 17th, 1776.
SIX DOLLARS Reward.
AN AWAY, the eighth instant, from the lub
fcriber, living in the diltridt of Southwark, a
Negro man named NEWRY, by trade a cooper,
about twenty-two years of age, five feet eight or
nine inches high. He had on and took with him,
when he went away, a cloth coloured fuftian coat
tee, a cloth jacket nearly of the fame colour, with
out sleeves, one fine and one coarse shirt, a good
beaver hat, a pair of black locking breeches, and
a pair of white ticken ditto, good Ihdes, a pair of
blue yarn and a pair of mixed brown and white
worked dockings. He has beenieen fculking about
Mr. James Fulton’s houle, in Chefnut-ftreet, and
Mr. Israel Pemberton's dables. Whoever fecUrCs
the laid Negro, to that his matter gets him again,
Ihall have the above reward and reasonable charges.
N. B. The mbferiber has been creditably informed
the said Negro has obtained a pass from a certain
THOMAS ADAIR, and fays he is his property.
And whereas the said Thomas Adair has greatly
injured the fhbferiber both in perlon and family,
I therefore do hereby promile the reward of TWEN
TY POUNDS to any perlon or persons who Ihall
apprehend the said Thomas Adair so that he may be
brought to justice Said Adair is a mariner, came
in here as mate with Captain Brown of this city
from Scotland, and has been formerly mate of the
fliip Liverpool, Capt. Beard.
JOHN JONES.
KEYSER's famous PILLS, so well known
all over Europe, and in this and the neigh
bouring colonies, for their Superior efficacy and pe
culiar mildness, in perfectly eradicating every de
gree of a certain disease, without the lead trouble
or confinement; also the RheumatiSm cured by
th efe famous Pills, are felling at 10, 20, and 40
Shillings a Box, By NICHOLAS BROOKS,
at his shop in Second-street, three doors above
Black-horse Alley: At which place may be had,
MAREDANT's DROPS.
N. B. Good allowance is made to people who
fell again/.
Dr. R Y A N's
Incomparable Worm-destroying
SUGAR PLUM B S,
Necessary to be kept in all Families.
SO exceedingly valued by an people who have li© <,t them in
Great-Britain and Ireland, for their tranfeendant excellency
in the deftroyirig words of all kind's boh in the bodies of
men, women and children, by not only breaking the knots rt the
Duodenum, or gutt next the Stomach, bu. the; pafithrough the
smallest passage's of the body, and purge an ay thoeropy and dim,
humours \a hi<h are the caute of thole pernicious vermin, and the
source of many other diterde $; they „fc one of the best purges
in the whole world so: grids bodied children that are apt to breed
worms, and have large bellies; their operation is mild, fife and
plcalant ; they wonderfully cleanle the bowels of all fiff and
clammy humours, which flop up the parts, and prevent the juice
of food being conveyed to the liver and made blood, which is ouea
the case with children, and is attended with a hard belly, linking
breath, frequent fevers, rickets, and a decay of flrength in the
lower parts: Likewise fee led aches and pains in the head, Lek
lings, old fores, Icabs, tetters, or breakings out; will be perfectly
cured, and the blood and skin reftond to its original purity and
smoothness; they purge by urine, and bring away .he gravel, and
effectually cure all obhrudi^ns of rhe urine, © r ulcers in the kid
neys. They at once ftrii.e at 'lie true cause of the feurvy ard en
tirely deihoy it, and all scorbutic humours and effect,, root and
branch, so as never co return again ; and what makes them more
commendable is, they are full as ag eeable to both taile and fight,
as loaf sugar; and in their operation as innocent as new milk.'
I have by these plumbscured a great many children of wh rop
ing, or chin-coughs, and agues, which dihempers are very com
mon and troublelome to families; and the want cf these plumbs
are the ruin of many childrens confutation.
Theft plumbs enrich ano lwee en, the uh'ole mass of blood,
carry cffall gross, corrupt and putrid humours, and create a frefh
and healthy complexion in luc/ i as are affected by any putrid matter
Ihe plumb is a great Dieuretick, cleaning the reins offlimet ic
expels wi d, and is a loveieigu medicine in thecholick and griping
of the guts. It allays and carries fffur vapours which occafiori
many dilorcers in the head. It opens all obllruftions in the fto
raach, lungs, liver, reins and bladder ; cables a good appetite and
helps digelhon. It hath been found wonderfully fucceistull to
luch persons as are goirig into chronicle distempers, as aOhm'i,
phthificks, or ihbitnels of breath, dropfig and yell w janudi'ce-
Now I hope all impartial perlons tire fausfied, that the me icine
which works upon luch humours, 4 ill almost teach .any difte'm
per, if not too far gone, since corruption and putrefa&cii are the
fore-runners of all dilcaies; therefore no better physic can be taken
for all ages, sexes and constitutions, from infancy to an old age.
These plumbs are highly lervicable to the female lex, from the age
of I 4 to 20 years, and from 40 to 50. Each box contains one do
zen of thele plumbs, price seven (hillings and sixpence with print
ed directions. Sold by Nicholas Brooks, Philadelphia.
Diognoflic Signs of Worms.
PALENESS in the face, itching of the nbfe, hollowness of
the eyes, grating of the teeth when asleep, dulnefs, pains,
and h.avmefs in the head, a dry cough, and itching in the
fundament, white and thick urine, unquiet sleep, often flatting,
loft appetite, swelled belly, knawing and biting about the ftefoach
frightful dreams, ext erne thirds, the body decayed and lean, fitr,
often vomiting, dinking breath, &c
Directions for taking them.
A child from 1 to 2 years may e.t one plumb from 2to 4 one
and a half ; from 4 to 6 two ; frm 6 tc 8 two and a half; from
S to 12 three ; from 12 to 15, and all above the age, may eat four
plumbs, one hour or two before up rifin , not to drink during
that time, nut afterwards drink w^rm tea, whey, or water-gruel,
in taking them, the patient mud flay two or three days betwixt
each dole.
In agues, rhe fame quantity mud be taken, two, three or font
hours before the fit comes on, and be repeated three rimes In
whooping r chin-coughs give the quantity above mentioned.
May be had of said Brooks, Bed American INK
POWDER.
just Publijhed and To be Sold, By '
JAMES HUMPHREYS, junr.
The corner of Black-horse Alley, in Front-street
THE WORKS
- OF THE MUCH ESTEEMED
FLAVIUS JOSEPH US,
IN FOUR VOLUMES LARGE OCTAVO,
Being a complex History of the rife, progress,
and final ruin bf the most remarkable natioh that
ever existed in the world.
A fe%v more of the
Search after Happiness,
A Pastoral Dr-mn, bv UiisH. to O R E, with
Armine and Elvira, a Legendary Tale.
Mr. Burke's Speeches,
With sundry others on American Affairs,
To be hid of the Printer.
Just publijhed and to be fold, by
JAMES HUMPHREYS, junr.
The corner of Black-hone Alley, Front-dreet,
The compleateft Edition yet published of
The W ORKS of the
Rev'd. Laurence Sterne, A. M.
Prebendary of York, and Vicar of Sutton on the
Forest, and of Stillingcon near York;
In Five Volumes ;
containing:
The Life of the Author.,
The Life and Opinions of Triflram Shandy, Gen
tleman.,
Yorick's Sermons—Forty-five of the best moral
Discourses ever delivered from the Pulpit.
Yorick's Sentimental Journey through France and
Italy.
The History of a Watch-coat, —a Political Ro,
mance.
Yorick's Letters to Eliza, and
Sterne's Letters to his Friends, on various Occa
fibns; which werene'ver before published in any
Editionof his Works.