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nies, by praying for the continuance of a govern
ment in this province which is fitpported in its ex
ecutive parts entirely by a Governor and officers
who hold all their power under the authority of the
King of Britain.
That the said Remonftrar.ee has been obtained by
indefatigable industry and unfair representations,
and is signed chiefly by men who hold offices under
the crown, or by people connected with them, or
by those who have uniformly opposed every mea
sure adopted by the Congress (petitions to the King
only excepted) or by those who have published tes
timonies manifestly injurious to many of those heps
that have been taken in this province in support of
the union of the colonics.
That the Committee are determined to comply
with the Resolve of the Congress of the 15th infant
in the manner before mentioned, and they declare
that the present Assembly of the province was not
chosen, and is not invested, with powers to carry
the said Resolve into execution.
That the unwillingness of the House to appeal to
the voice of the people, and the pains they have ta
ken to prevail upon the Congress to interfere in our
" domestic police,' betrays a fear that in refufing
to comply with the Resolve of the Congress, they
will aft contrary to the inclinations of a majority of
their constituents.
That a majority of the present Assembly do not
possess the confidence of the people. That it does
not contain a full and equal representation of the
province; that it is composed of men who hold offi
ces under the crown of Britain; that they have
deputed the power which was deputed solely to
them, to persons who had not the function of the
voice of the people for legislative purposes; and that
we have reason to believe that they have been drag
ged into a compliance with most of the Resolutions
of the Congress from a fear of a Provincial Con
vention.
From a government formed by men marked with
such inconsistencies, prejudices and arbitrary views
we have as much to fear as from the unlimited ex
ertions of that power which has declared itfelf pos
sessed of a right to tax us without our consent, and
to bind us in all cases whatsoever.
The Committee have too much confidence in the
wisdom of your Body, to believe (when informed
of the true situation of the province) that you
meant to include the Assembly thereof in your re
commendations to " Affcmblies" to form new go
vernments. The origin and present tenure of your
power can never fuffer you to forget that it was
by making names yield to things and/ormr to fub
flantial justice, that you acquired the confidence of
America, and the admiration of the world.
They beg that the Congress would not be de
ceived by mifreprefentationsi They declare solemnly
that they have no design or with to alter those parts
of the charter or laws of the province which secure
I to every man the enjoyment of his property, liberty,
and the sacred rights of conscience. They wiffi on
ly to fee alterations made in such of them as relate
to representation in the province, and such as ren
der the consent of the King and his Governor ne
IK I L ADEL PT lA, Mr, 29.
To "h* Honourable theCONGRESS of the Uni
ted Colonies of North-America.
" The M 1 71 ()RiAL of the COMMITTEE of
the Chy aod Liberties at Philadelphia,
lujeAfNj jNwetf'
r j™ HAEth - have beheld with great affliction
X the ATinbly of the province of Pennsylvania
WITHDRAWN Irani ?: union with the Congress (in
consequence of their inllrudtions to their Delegates)
nbai the Resolve of the Congress of the 15 infant,
lor fopprehing all authority derived from the crown
,of G/W-Britain in the United Colonies.
That th", redder the fafety, liberty and future
welfare of this ^ofoAv r>Qfcparably connected with
its union with the other solves.
That they have always e^emW their chief hap
pinef; to confix in the faithful ek'vAUon of Inch of
the Resolves of the Congress as tended to maintain
fain union.
That in ermfequence # of the defection ' yfkhe
Delegates appointed by the Assembly of Penn:;'iya
nia, from a union with the other colonies, they
apprehended an appeal Was made to the people.
That in compliance with the reqtieft of a large
majority of the inhabitants of the city and liberties
of Philadelphia, on the 20th infant, they have is
sued letters (by virtue of a power given to them in
a Provincial Convention held in Philadelphia in
January 1775) '° r celling a conference of the Com
mittee of the counties, in order to celled the sense
ol the inhabitants upon the aforefaid Resolve of
Congress, and if pebble to bring about a reunion
of the province with the other colonies, by calling
a Provincial Convention, with a view to form a go
vernment for that purpose.
That they have heard with great surprise, that
the Ahembly of this province are about to present a
Memorial to your Honoural.de Body, in consequence
of a Remonstrance delivered to them from a number
of the inhabitants of Philadelphia, in which it is
laid they have requeued an explanation of your Re
solve of the 15th instant.
That the Rcmonftrance on which this Memorial
is founded ffnkes directly at the union of the colo-
ceffary to give efficacy and execution to our laws,
and cliefe they conceive to be no Jess necessary to
the “ fafety and happiness of our colony in particu
lar,” than “ America in general."
The situation of our province, it is true, requires
vigour and harmony in the direction of both civil
and military affairs, but these can never be obtained
when a people no longer confide in their rulers.
The Committee fear no calamities from a disunion
throughout the province, but thus publicly charge
the feeblenefs of all our Counsels to our union with
men of narrow and interested views. The Hrength
of a country, in the time of war, confdls in the
number of its fighting men. The constituents of
this committee, who are composed chiefly of men of
this class, have declared that they will hipport the
union of this province with the other colonirs, " at
every hazard;" and they have the plealure of in
forming you that similar determinations prevail in
molt of the batallions of the province.
By order of the Committee,
THOMAS M'KEAN, Chairman.
c^l'^ac fo^^^T^-fc^* c^^foclM^^
B E S O L D,
A LOT of GROUN D, adjoining the town
fl of ManheirU? i n tl le county of Lancaster,
containing two acres and one hundred and four
perches, being that out-ic^ which in the plan of
Lie said town, is marked and dulled Number ten.
Alfa, one other LOT, in o) near the laid
town of Manheim, containing ten acres and forty
four perches, adjoining the lots of Frederick Lj/ er '
Nickolas Candour, and others, being that part 01a
tract of 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.
Talbot County, Maryland. Blay, 0, 1776
SIX POUNDS Reward.
RANA W \ Y from the Mbicriber, on the night
of the 4th instant, two convicts, wz. WILLI
AM MANLY, a well made man, five feet seven
inches high, thirty or thirty-five years of age, with
black hair cut short, of a lurly bad countenance, is
a sawyer or labourer, and understands horses: had
on a short blue coat much worn, spotted fwanfkin
jacket and trowfers, good strong ihoes with small
nails in the soles and heels, a cap made of Englilh
sole leather and painted blue, and had an iron collar
about his neck; he is a moll impudent infamous
villain, this being the third time he has run away,
and once he broke jail after he was taken up and
committed.
They all went off in their uniform, being brown
faced with white, with N°- 3 on both coat and waif
coat buttons, buckjkin breeches, new fooes and flock
ings ; their hats are laced with white tape.
As the Public in general fuffer by such impositions,
their eloathing not being paid for by them, it is there
fore hoped, that the gentlemen officers and soldiers, in
the militia, will take an active part in apprehending
the said Deserters, and lodging them in any prison, or
conveying them to me, at my quarters, in the Phila
delphia barracks. Philadelphia, May 15.
JOSEPH DAVENPORT, Captain.
THOMAS PE ARSON; a slender simple young
fellow, with light coloured short foft hair, about
eighteen or twenty years of age, five feet fix inches
high, has large eyes and very small fingers, is a
sawyer or labourer: had on a drab coloured coat
and jacket about half worn, spotted fwanfkin trow
fers, and a leather cap and (hoes the fame as Man
ly's they both speak the North of England Dialed.
Whoever takes up and secures the laid iervants,
so that I get them again, shall receive if taken in
this province Forty Shillings for each, and if taken
up out of this province Three Pounds for each.
When taken up I desire I may be inform'd by an
advertilement in the Pennsylvania Gazette.
JAMES BRADDO C K.
N. B. 'Tis probable they will change their names
and perhaps some part of their cloaths, and 'tis
likely they will lurk in the woods in the day time and
travel in the night.
Philadelphia May 25 1776.
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of Di. PE
TER SONMANS deceased, are desired to
make payment as soon as possible, and those who
have demands against the said Estate, are desired
to make them known to
WILLIAM POLLARD, Executor,
S IXTEEN DO L L JRS~R£^lll)7'
DESERTED from the Company of the Sub
friber, in the Third Battalion, commanded by
Colonel John Shee, the following Soldiers, viz,
JAMES WELCH, aftout, well-made felloe, a
bout 5 feet 6 inches high, and of a fair complexion ;
he is fuppojed to have gone toewards Reading-Town,
in Berks county.
JnGOB BOYER, about 20 years of age and of a
fair complexion ;he is Juppfed to be aljo gone towards
Reading as his father lives there.
THOMAS BENNER, about 5 feet 10 inches
high, and of a dark complexion.
PAUL HOOKE, about 5 feet 7 inches high, and
of a light, fair complexion; is fuppojed to have gone
towards Pottfgrove, in Berks county, he having a
wife there.
Several Sums of Money,
To be Lent, at Interest, on good Security,
By JAMES HUMPHREY S,
Notary Public and Conveyancer;
In Front-street, Corner of Black-horse Alley.
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of MAR
GARET SIMS, late of this city, inholder,
deceased, are defined to make fpeecly payment; and
those that have any demands against the said estate,
are desired to bring them in properly proved, that
they may be fettled, by
Thomas Middleton, Administrator.
Philadelphia, May 16. 1776.
DR. YELDALL, whole abilities in the several
branches of his profeffion is well known thro'
most parts of the United Colonies, is to be consulted
at his Medicinal Ware-house, three doors above the
Bank meeting house, in Front-street, in all cases
of Physic and Surgery. The Doctor has not only
qualified himfelf for his profefhon, by attending the
lectures, -'as well as the practice of several eminent
men in Europe, but has spent more than five years
in travelling through great part of this continent,
during which he diligently noted and attended to
the different disorders each province is fubjed to, as
al;o the various means made use of for obtaining a
cure, and to this, added to an extensive practice,
is owing, under God, the great success that has
attended his undertakings.—The extirpating wens
and lumps from any part of the body, and in some
curing the wound in a few hours; the cutting that
Deformity the har.e-lip in lets than one minute, and
curing it in lour days, is scarce credible were it not
attehed ty' so many stubborn falls; but to take a
way all do^bt, where prejudice has not prevailed
over reason, ah' operations will be performed, no
Cure no Money.
Those that live in the city may be waited on at
their houses; those that fiye remote may, by lend
ing an account of their complaint, have advice and
medicines sent.
The Donor's Family medicines, and most Patent
medicines, together with bark, camphir, rhubarb,
&c. may be had on reasonable terms.
M A R EDA N T S's
ANTISCORBUTIC DROPS.
As a proof of the fupcrior efficacy of Maredant'? drops ( prepared
by Mr. Norton, Surgeon, of Golden Square, London, to ans
medicine, hitherto known, for the cute of the Scurfy, Leprosy,
Ulcers, die Evil, Fistula, Piles, long continued Inflainmations
of the eyes, and every other disorder anting from a fouh?efs ip
the blo d, the following extraordinary cures are referred to.
Mr. HENRY TRENCHARD GOODENOUGH, Steward
of the Magdalen Hospital, cured of m iinveterate feurvy of 2^
year's Landing.. )
MARY CQPSON, of Brompton, cured 'of a scorbutic humou
on her head and face, attended with a violent hoarseness and
shortness of breath. Witnels, Mr. Orton, Coal Merchant in
Whitcomb-fti eet, near Leicel'er Fields
Mr. JOHN FOSTER, at the Rufe, at Welling, in Kent, cured
of a leprosy, attended with violent rheumatic pains.
Mrs. MARY LUTE, at Mr. Field's, in CaHle-Hreet, Leicefler
Fields, cured of the Evil, or Schrophula : Her bones were greatly
enlarged, and several pieces fepatated and came away. Witnelb,
Thomas Field, CaHle-hrcet, and Henry Hyde, Butcher in St.
James's Market.
To Mr. NORTON, Surgeon, in Golden Square.
SI R,
ABOUT two years and a half ago, I was. (eized with a
violent hoarfeneis and fhortr©sj>f breath. 1 lent tor ,a
physician, who ordered me to be bled: 1 also took a great
many medicines, but grew world inlead of better. My head
ached so violently, that it prevented me from getting any rest ;
my face and head broke cut in large blotches, which Ipiead to
much that 1 was in daily fear of hling try eyelight. The hu
mour which difeharged from my face was lcr very offensive, that
1 could hardly bear it myfelf ; but by the use of your Maredanfs
Drops, am effectually cured. Any perlon doubting of this, may
be convinced of the truth, by calling on Mi s. Cops n, at Brompton ;
or by enquiring of Mr. Orton, Coal A,eicl'ant in W hitcomb-lltcct,
near Leicester Fields; 1 am, with great refpeft,
Sir, your moll humble fe'rvant,
MARY COPSON.
To Mr. NORTON, Surgeon, Golden Square.
AFTER having been afflicted with a moll violent scorbutic
humour ot 13 years standing, which rendered me incapable
of bufinel ; 1 have the fatisfaftion t infirm you, i am
new perfectly cured, by the use o your Marchant's Drops. You
have my leave to publish this, h ping.it may be tne means of pro
curing benenefit to others glided as I was, I am, Sir,
Your humble fervent,
GEORGE langdon,
No. 57, the North fide of Sr. Paul's
church yard, July iUh, 1775.
Witnesses to the above cure, Francis Litey, No. „ Finch
Lane, Cornhill, Sarah Rand, Trunk-maker, No. 57, St. Paul's
church yard.
These Drops are fold by Mr. Norton's appointment, by Mr.
James Rivington, and Mr. Hugh Gaine,, Printers, at New-York ;
and Mt.JOHN AIREY, in Kiarket-Hreet, Philadelphia, ^t
I?s. pet hotrle.
An infalliable and radical CUBE for CORNS and
WARTS, so as never to return, without the Icaft
Pain to the Person Hefted with them.
Price 3 s. and 6 d. per Bpx.
R — D s ,
Ol different sizes, to be had of
JOSEPH POTT S,
At his Store in Sixth hreet. near Mat ket-ftreet, and
at the Slitting-Mill in Chellcr county.
The best Price and ready Money
Is given for
Clean Linen Rags,
By the PRINTER hereof.