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weapons.^,,
Soon is ftedfiftly my opinion of the absolute
nectfhh of keeping up the" concord of this empire by
a unity of {pint; though in adiverfity of operations,
that, if I were fore the Colonists had, at their leaving
this country, sealed a regular compza of fervithue ;
th/r they had solemnly abjured all the ri hts of
citizens ; /that they had made a vow to' renounce all
ideas of liberty for them and their posterity; to all
generations ; yet I fliouM hold myielf obliged to
conform to the temper I found universally prevalent
in my own day, and to govern two millions of men,
impatient of Servitude, on the principles of freedom.
I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring
tranquility ; and the general character and fituafion
of a people mud determine what fort of government
is fitted for them. That point nothing else can or
ought to determine.
My idea therefore, without considering whether
we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of
favour, is to admit the people of our colonies into
an interest in the conftitwi n ; and by recording that
admission in the Journals of Parliament, to give them
as Strong an assurance as the nature of the thing will
admit, that we mean for ever to adhere to that Solemn
declaration of systematic indulgence.
Some years ago, the repeal of a revenue a&, upon
its underflood principle, might have Served to drew,
that we intended an unconditional abatement 'of the
exercise of a taxing power. Such a measure was
then Sufficient to remove all fnfpicion, and to give
perfea content. But unfortunate events, since that
time, may make Something further necessary ; and
not more necessary for the fatisfaaion of the colonies,
than for the dignity and consistency of our own
future proceedings.
I have taken a very incorrect measure of thel
disposition of the House, if this proposal in itfelf §
would be received with dillike. I think, Sir, we §
have few American financiers. But our nusfoitune 1
is, we are too acute; we are too exquiji^ in our
conje&ures cf the future, for men oppressed with such ;
great and present evils. The more moderate among [
the oppofers of parliamentary conceflion freely con-I
fefs, that they hope no good from taxation ; but they I
apprehend the colonies have further views ; and if I
this point were conceded, they would inftantlv attack {
the nade-laws. These gentlemen are convinced, |
that th^ w^ r he inrmiH '.'i!,,.i>r, he —b^rf rrrtrrg'; and
the quarrel of the Americans with taxation was no ,
more than a clcke and cover to this design. Such I
ha« been ^e language even of a Gentleman, [Mr.|
Rice] of real moderation, and of a natural temper,l
well adjutied to fair and equal government. I am, 1
however, Su, not a little lu,pilled at this kind of |
diicourie,. whenever I hear it ; and I am the more )
surprised, on account of the arguments which I 1
constantly find in company with it, and which are !
of:cn urged fiom the fame mouths, and on the fame '
day.
For instance, when we alledge, that it is againft|
realon to tax a people under id many restraints in tradel
as the Americans, the Noble Lord (Lord North) in 1
the blue riband drill tell you, that the relhaints on ;
trade are futile and uftlefs ; of no advantage to us, [
and cf nobmthen to thole on whom they are im-;
poled, t. ar the. trade to America is not secured by |
'the ^sof navigation, but by the natural and iirefht-I
able advantage cf a'commercial preference.
Sued is the merit of the trade laws in this posture I
o' or debate. But when Hrong internal circum-'
f c are wged asainft the taxes, when the scheme
i~ bfk&.cri;whcn experience and the nature of things
? brought to prove, and do prove the utter impoffi-
Id^, ot obtaining an effective revenue from the co
le s ; -when theie things are puffed, or rather press
P odelves, so as to drive the advocates of colony
t xeejo a c'ear pdmiffion of the futility of thefcheme;
lh<p, Sir, the flipping trade laws revive , from their
trance; and this ufeleis taxation is to be kept sacred,
Extra#from the Sr'BrccA oj EDMUND BURIAL,
Efy on moving /jifl<eiolutionsJdr ConciliaxlON.
cunth the Colonies, on the izd of March, 1775.
THE following are some of the arguments made
use of by this very able Speaker in favour of a
co Nation with the mother country and her colo
nies :
If we mean to conciliate and concede, let us fee
of what nature the concession ought to be ? To
afeertam the nature of our concession, w^ must look
at their complaint The colonies complair, that
they have not the charaaeriftic mark and seal of
British freedom. They complain, that they are
taxed in a Parliament in which they are not repre
sented If you mean to Satisfy them at all, you mud
fatisfy them with regard to this complaint. If you
mea% to please any people, yon must give them the
boon which they ask; not what you may think better
for them, but of a kind totally different. Such an
2& may be a wife regulation; but it is no concession :
"Whereas our present theme is the mode of giving
fatisfa&ion..
Sir, I' think you mul lperceive, that T am resolved
this day to have nothing at all to do with the quelfion
of the right of taxation. Some gentlemen turtle---
bqt it i£truc : I put it totally out of the question.
It is less than nothing in my consideration. Ido not
indeed wonder, nor will you, Sir, that gentlemen of
profound learning are fond of displaying it cn tens
profound fubje&. But nay confederation is narrow,
confined, and wholly limited to the policy of the
question. I do not examine, whether the giving
away a mafiW money be a power excepted and
referred out of the general trull of government; and
bow far all mankind, in all forms of polity, arm
intitled to an exercise of that right by the Charter of
nature ? Or whether, on the Contrary, a right of
tax ion is necessarily involved in the general principle
of legislation, and inferrable from the ordinary
ftipreme power? These are deep quefbons, where
great names militate against each other; where reason
is perplexed; ord an appeal to authorities only
thickens the confufion. For high and reverend
authorities lift up their heads on both tides; and there
is no fine footing in the middle. This point is the
' great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount
Calins old, where armies whole have funk.' I do
net intend to be overwhelmed ip that bog, though in
fitch iefpc&able company. The question with me
is, not whether you have a right to render your
people miserable ; but whether it is not your interest
to make them happy? It is rot what a lawyer tells
me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and
justice, tells me, I ought to do. Isa politic a& the
worse for Being a generous one ? Is no concession
proper, but that which is made from your want of
right to keen what you grant? Or does it lessen the
grace .or dignity of relaxing in. the exercise of an
odious claim, hecauic you have yout evi tace room
full of titles, and veur magazines fluff d with arms
to enforce them ? What fignify all thofr titles, and
all these aims ? Of what avail are they, when the
reason of the thing tells me, that the attrition of my
title is the loss of mv suit; and thrt I crull do
no ' ^ but wound myfelf by the use of my own
not for its own fake, but ^ A d^ntef gt^rd ^d
security of the laws of trade.
Then, Sir, you keep up revenue laws which are
mischievous, in order to preserve trade laws that are
useless. Such is the wifdorrtof our plan in both its
members. They are separately given up as of no
value; and yet one is always to be defended for the
fake of the other. But I cannot agree with the
noble Lord, nor with the pamphlet from whence he
leans to have borrowed these ideas, concerning the
inutility of the ; trade laws., For without idolizing
them, I am fare, they are still, in many ways, of
great use to us ; and in former times, they have been
of the greatest. They do con fine, and they do great
ly narrow the market for the Americans. But my
perfea conviaion of this, does not help me in the
lead to discern how the revenue laws form any secu
rity whatsoever to the commercial regulations; or that
these commercial regulations are the true ground of
the quarrel ; or, that the giving way in any one in
stance of authority, is to lose all that may remain
unconceded.
One fa& is clear and indisputable. The public
and avowed origin of this quarrel was on taxation.
This quarrel has indeed brought on new dilpvtes on
mew questions ; but certainly the lead bitter, and the
fewelf of all, on trade laws. To judge which of
the two be the real radical cause of the quarrel, we
have to fee whether the commercial dispute did, in
order of time, precede tire dispute on taxation ? There
is not a foadow of evidence for it. Next, to enable
mi to judge whether at this moment a dislike to the
trade laws he the real cause of quarrel, it is ablo
hnely necessary to put the taxes out of the question
by a repeal. See how the Americans a& in this
petition, and then you will be able to discern cor
rcaiy what is the vue object of the controversy, or
whether any contioverfy at all will remain ? Jniefs
.you consent to remove this cause of difference, it is
impcllibk, with decency, to assert that the dispute is
not upon what it is avowed to be. And I would.
Sir, recommend 'to your serious consideration, whether
it be prudent to form a rule fur punching people,
not on their own a&s but on yourconje6l tires? Sorely
it is preposterous, at the very best. It is ilotjuftdy
ing fa or anger by their milcondua ; but it is con
verting your ill-will into their delinquency. *
But the Colonies will gofurther.-r-Alas! alas !
when will this (peculating againftfa&and reason end?
What will quiet these panic fears which we entertain
of the hudiie elkd of a conciliatory cqndu& I. It is
true, that no case can exist, in which it is prop for
the Sovereign to accede to the desires ofhis difeontented
fubje&s ? Is there any thing peculiar in this case, to
make a rule for itfelf ? Is all authority of course loft,
when it is net pushed to the extreme? Is it a certain
maxim, that, the' fewer causes of dilFtisfa&icn are
left by government, the more the fubjeed will be in
clined to resist and rebel,
All these objections beingin fief no mere than sus
picions, conjeaurcs, divinations ; formed in defiance
cf fa& and experience ; they did not, Sit, diiconrage
me from entertaining the idea of a conciliatory cqn
ceflion, founded on the principles which I have just
dated."
From the London BveningPqP ofAp : l29, 1775.
To the THREE GENERALS, with Scotch Chakis,
on their Vo, age to North-America.
SiCILLUM VERItATIS SIMPLICITAS EST.
Critical azdfaitbjid Extracts from Colonel Ca val
lier's Memoirs cf the Wars ty the Ceyeunes,
or Lower Languedoc, in bis cram Hena^iiting,
and in the French Language..
FT THE Lower Languedoc, or Cevennes, is bounded
A to the Erit by the river Rhofne, ana to the
South by the Gulph of Lyons. Its extent is 30
French leagues from North to South; and 20 from
East to Weft. , The country throughout is very
woodyand mountainous. . Cavallier was a baker's
son, born at a village called Ribeaute, in the very
center of the feat of war, which began in 1701, and
ended in 17%.
Th^ persecutions of that great tyrant, Lewis the
XlVth, continuing) against the Protedants with un
remitted fury, from the revocation of the edia of
Nantes in 1685, this country underwent the most
Shocking (cents of misery ; neither sex nor age were
spared ; for unless they conformed, they were fined,
imprisoned, put into dungeons, sent to the gallies,
tortured, hanged or racked, till at lad being drove to
the utmost dripair, they resolved to take up arms in
their defence, choosing to run all hazards, even unto
death, ratherthan be compelled by violence to give
up their liberty of conscience, and every thing befidcs
that was dear to them. By .fitch relolute condua,
they soon obtained at court the name of Rebels, as
the Americans have at this crisis from the Scotch to
a man, from all placemen, pensioners and sycophants,
and it is feared, even from the bimfelf. At
firft about twenty young men, well armed, afiociated
together, with a view of rescuing their parents and
relations out of goals and dungeons, in which they
succeeded, as well as their force permitted. In
consequence of this beginning, pth+r young men
joined them, and being in a short (pace encreafad to
one or two hundred, they thought it expedient to
divide into parties, and chufe a head, which fell to
Cavalliei's lot, then only 24. years old ; to whose
commands they engaged to pay the ftri&eft obedience,
and religiously kept to it to the very lag.
Firfl obfervafion of the Memorialif.
" From this fatal period every thing went to
" wieck ; the glory of the great Lewis began to be
-XL-4K%&d, and his laurels to wither; from his
'' persecutions he law ail the feourges of God upon
“ his kingdom, war, plague, and famine; his ftreng
“ places taken, his armies dettroyed in battle, &c.
Count Broglio then commanded in this country,
and having garrisons in Several towns, as Montpelier,
Beaucaire, Avignon, &c, lie Sent detachments,
aided by the militia, to annihilate, as he termed it,
the Rebels ; hut being generally worsted, he was
forced to represent to the Court the impossibility of
overcoming those infatuated desperadoes. The alarm
was thereupon soon taken, and they immediately
dispatched several regiments to his aid ; but those not
proving Sufficient, Marshal Montrevel, at the end of
1702, arrived at Nimes, having firft and last ten
thousand regulars to Support him, which were
supposed amply Sufficient to extirpate the contemptu
ous banditti. The Maillol was 1b Sure of performing
this business effectually with the officers under him,
that he Seldom took the field, judging it below his
dignity, and therefore spent most of his time in
following the ladies.
Second observation of the Memorialifl,
" After our defeat at Perpignan, our forces were
'' so broken and icattered, that it was very probable
" we could never have rallied again ; and really it
'' would not have been at all surprising, considering
" we were entirely undisciplined. Tis true, I was
" absolute in my command, but had no more expe
'' rience than my fcldiers, wherefore we owed our
<' success to Divine Providence, which sustained us
''in our greatest calamities, working continual
''miracles io our favour ; and among the rest it is
;' " Herein I had two views; the firft was to know
I " whether die King knew all that had passed between
," Villars and me, which I much doubted, and the'
1' “ second, to endeavour that the terms of the treat,
" might bs iiridly adhered to, as the Marshall had
( “ evaded many of the most material articles."
I Great pairs were used at Dijon, for me to difeover
.what I had to* fay to the King, but to no purpose ;
[ whereupon I was soon lent for to Vei failles, where
*Chamilard told me, as he was firft Minister, that
I opening myfelf to him would be the fame as to the
IKing; but i kept firm to my resolution, which
'immediately procured my introduction by Morfieur
Chamilaid to the King in his closet, who heard my
Itchy very patiently, and without interruption, until
I implored his Majesty to confirm the promises made
us by the Marshal de Villars. Here he interrupted
me, and with an angry, low voice, he said, " I order
jou not to freak one oxord oj that treaty, on fain of
incurring m, indignation:'
T)Y the foregoing short extracts, we find a people
oppressed, most inhumanly butchered, and drove
to take up arms to defend their lives and liberties
against an execrable Tyrant ; that the country where
this war was carried on near four years, is not of
greater extent than the County of Suffix; titat the
malcontents never exceeded two thousand five
IHundred undisciplined young men ; that Lewis
the Fourteenth employed twenty five thou
sand regular forces, exclusive of the militia of the
country, upon this fliocking buhnefs, with two
Marlhalls cf Fiance at their head, without being
able to overcome them, such being the providential
difference between fighting in 3 jfl or an unjuji cause.
That the great marshal Villars, to put an end to the
war, found himfeif compelled to invite Cavallier to a
treaty, which they both signed, and which the Mar
fnallfoon broke in several of the most material points ;
and that Cavallier, through his firmnefs, obtained
admittance to the King, who heard him patiently,
till he mentioned Villar's piomifes, when the mighty
Monarch's pride was so Wounded, that he charged
him never to mention that treaty upon pain cf Ids
highest indignation.
When all these fa6ls, true beyond contradiaion,
are well weighed, will Administration be so weak, or
the officers they employ be to presumptuous to
imagine, with twelve or fifteen thousand
nun, most of them averse to the cause they are sent to
fight for, that they shall conquer two or three
hundred thousand brave men, trained to arms,
all united in defence of their liberties, in an abun
dant country, of unbounded extent, and where our
;army in a few months must moulder to nothing, if
they attempt to attack them ?—This Hiftcry (hows
how cautious men (hould be, when they treat with
1 the servants of a Tyrant on such important concerns,
as the Liberties of Mankind.
Extract of a Letter from Cambridge, fitly 12, 1775.
“ The day before yesterday we went to Chelsea,
famous for the battle of Noddle-Ifrmd near to it ;
while we were on Powder-Horn Hill, backof Chelsea,
we saw a fkinnifh between a party of our people,
# (ipo in number) who went in whale boats, to an
iibnd about 12 miles from Boston, and burnt a large
quantity of hay, which was put up into bundles by
th< Regulars, and intended to be sent to Boston for
tlkir horses. A great number of marines, in fchoo
nes, men of war's boats; and two ships of war kept
ufa constant fire on our men, while they remained
onthe Inland ; but this did not prevent them from
ddroying the hay. The schooner and boats endea
vored to cut off their retreat, which brought on a
vey warm engagement, in which we had one killed
arl one wounded.---The loss of the Regulars is not
kipwß, but supposed to be cortfiderable, as they were
<? fay remarkable, that Sometimes wC perceived our
« enemy So much disheartened, they could not resist
“ us, though FOUR to ONE in number. This I\
" can fay, it was not by our valour we overcame
“ them, although their troops were well difciplited,
“ and we but militia without order ; but there was
“ this difference between us, we fought for the Truth
" and our Liberties, they for a Tyrant, who had
“ violated both human and divine laws against his
.“ Subjects, who were obliged to take up arms in
“ their defence, after a persecution of thirty years,
“ contrary to his (acred oath, so often reiterated and
<' recorded in Parliament."
Notwithstanding the hefforing Marshal, after the
defeat, had assured the Court they would never hear
more of the Rebels, for he had reduced them so
effectually, that there remained but a few, who had
made their escape, and never durst appear again ; yet
he was compelled soon after to write for more troops,
for otherwise it would be impoflible for him to com
pleatly execute his commission.
'At' the end of 1703, the King's troops were
twenty-five THOUSAND ftreng, and all win
tered in the midst of us; but early in the Spring, they
wore reduced to TWELVE thousand, by detach
ments to Spain and Italy. The King, however,
being informed of Succours from the Allies being
intended for us Rebels, four thousand weie
ordered back from Savoy: About which time Mai fhal
Villars arrived in the Province to take the command.
His firft step was to procure a conference with me
through the Marquis La Lande, who being a
man of good character, I readily accepted his invita
tion, wherein he told me, TUE King by an
EFFECT OF HIS CLEMENCY, WISHED TO PUT
AN END TO A WAR BETWEEN HIS OWN SUB-
Faml triyfolf, ttyned at Nimes on the r^h of May,
P7°4-' .. .
Shortly after, Twrs agein sent for to go to the
Mai (hrl at Nimes, where I was informed our defti
: nation was changed, a.nd that I vas to go with my
ipen to Briff'ac; arid piefentlv after we began our
match to Lyons, and thence . ,Dijon, where I wrote
ito/MonfieurChamilard, the Prims Minister, that if
I could be admitted to the King's pretence, I bad
fomediing to propose towards putting an end to the
troubles in the Cevennes.'
JECTS, WHICH COULD PRODUCE NOTHING
BUT THE XUIN OF HIS KINGDOM; AND THAT
IT WAS HIS OWN ENEMIES HAD STIRRED IT
up, and FOMENTED it ; after which we pasted.
But this was the prelude to another with Villars
himfeif, from whom I soon received an invitation,
which I accepted, under a strong guard cn both fries.
Our difepurfe was much the fame as with La Lande,
with a deal of the King's clemency. .He heard my
demands very attentively, but Did, there were Come
articles, although he was veiled with full ,power's to
treat with me, which he could rot content to, till he
had an answer from the King, upon which we parted.
Attei eight days he lent tc me again, when 1 found
feme material points altered; but as I had gone so
far, it was impossible for me to recede, without
klirg many powerful friends who had aflifted us,
:and' above all having no things of these fuceburs
with which we had been so long and so often flattered,
A therefore revived to conclude the tioiy on the belt
steai£l fhuia, vhlch Vilhus (in' the King's name)
PHILADELPHIA, July 26.
drove off several times, ^nd finally obliged to retire^
which would not have been the case, if they had not'
loft some men.-
“ Yesterday we spent in Bofton,---while thtfe,
were amused with a heavy fire of cannon and mortars,
from the lines of the regulars on the neck, and from
one of their floating batteries, against zoo of our
men, who were throwing up a bread woik in front
of the George tavern, on the fame Neck, and withiu
a few rods of the regular, advanced guard ; our peo
ple kept on their work and Dever feturped afhot.---
Three bombs burst near our men without injuring
one of (hem---most of the cannon (hot were taken tip
and brought to the General.-- It is diverging to fee
our people contending for the ball's as they roll along.
" One cilcumftance much to their reputation, 1
must mention,^During a severe cannonade at Rox
bury last week, a bomb, 13 incites diameter fell within
our line, and burnt furioudy, four' of our artillery
men ran up and one kicked out the fufe and saved
the bomb, probably some lives.---A stroke of hero
ism worthy of record. I heard the man's name yes
terday, but now forget it. The regulars have so
haidened our people by their repeated firing, that a
cannonading is just as much minded there as a com
mon thunder ihower.---Ad things look well,' we are
now ttrongly poked, so air the regulars. I believe
neither fide are willing to attack each other in their
Ines.
“ We have just got. over land from Cape-Cod 1
large fleet of whale boats, L a day or two we (hall
man them in Cambridge and Myfiick rivers, and try
to keep our enemies cats from intuiting us.
“ The regulars do not seem willing to come cut,
but our people arc perpetually provoking them."
TTF B£SOLD,
At public vendue, at the Merchant's Coffee-Houfe, era
Tuefilay '- 23d of Augaft, or any Time before at
jrvaie fale:'
'^ "" "'h P art " the follow.
[_-&_, £ .£, ing.hc.ufes, viz. The huufe
ft ?T;/.Td. 'fo in Prince ft. Street, now occupied.
I u : A ? n ; by rhe Wider , Gautier; and,hat
," d °°G ht ' in the p^ffion of.
L_°—±Lfr-±;-, ^r. Thoras Brockman ; and the
I ill 1 : I r honft to the weft ( ,f t h e last men
^'^B'^' L;7.?.,'' fo '>" hcr " n '"r. Nicholas Van
m —^ Deke lives. Aifo the two tene
ments finite between the houses
of Mr, John Roome, ad John C. Knapp, Efc,j a t
Vefletungberg-Filu Whoever inclines topdrehafe any of
th- ab<vc-mentiorrd buildings, may apply to Mr. Henty
Shute, at the 1 re di-Water, or Peter Webber, in Albany,
by whom good titles will be given.
'l l '''° n J"'™h Woicot, jun of New-
VV ark, hath absconded bimfelf from me without
my liberty or knowledge ; these are therefore to forbid
all perlons trusting him (for! protest against paying any
debit cf bis corrtn©ing) or to employ him in; any business
except making ch-irs, .fpmning wheels, or joiner's work.
All makers of 1 flels are forbad taking him on beard. If.
he infills bimfelf in, any military service, I demand hit
wages qurirgthe tinTT his minority. Dhted in New-\
ark, July the fitft, 1775.
JOSIAH WOLCOT.
BAY TFa
In Duke-Street, (commonly called Ravard-Street)
HAS FOR SALP,'
ft FST north-we 1. beaver. I Orgeat and ?.,
f> R^m, „, 'C^lhire f n b o *^
Parchment, deer-skins, Geneva in large cases,
And Rtt,tn the hair, Old Caftile soap,
Best black and white warn- Best indigo and fig blue,
pum, 'effre,
Harr pipes and moors, American flour of mustard
Florence oil, ) Mens and womens leather
Capers,Ct , fives,
Anchovies, 1 German Town mill'd hose,
hk'h And a *-.v coil white roue,
be Dfb/OSEDof ~
By W. end T. Buchanan, and Co.
ry^HE Times of a few indented Servants, amongst
which are Shoemakers, Miil-Wrightf, Brick
layers, Joiners, &c. &c.
A N Offer to a fcbter industrious Farmer, who has a
2'l small Family and Stock, but is not yet able to
purchase a Farn,, and is therefore willing to manage cne
upon Shares. His h ifemuft underhand managing a frr.all
Drury. The Farm near Hudson's River, and not far
from the City. Enquired the Printer of this P per.
INDIAN LANDS at St. Vincent.
Upon the firft day of March, 1776, will be exposed t<
public sale at Kingflon, in the Illand of St. Vincent,
that valuable trad of land lately granted by his Majesty
to rhe Hon. General Monckton, on the following
conditions, viz.
hr^HE land to be fold for Serling money; one third of
I the purchase money to be immediately , paid in caffi,
at 75 per cent. Exchange, or in such bills of exchange
upon Britain, at will be approved of at the time cf file.
I be remaining two thirds in four equal yearly payments;
the firff payment to be made on the firft day of March,
'777> upon the Royal Fxchangeof London, and soon the
fame day of each immediate following year, 'till the whole
is compicated.
The land to remain as a security for the payment of
the different installments.
Surveyors are to be immediately employed to divide the
land into proper lots for plantations, and there will soon
be regular plans of the whole made out and lodged with
William Croofce, and Duncan Campbell, Efqrs; at St.
Vincents; htffrH Baillies Fraser, and Baillie, at St.
Kitts; Robert Bogle, fen. Robert Bogle, jun. Andrew
Grant, and James Baillie, Efqrs, Grenada; and Charlton•
Palmer Esq; in Philpot-Lane, London, for theinfpedion
of the public; and whoever is delirous of knowing
further particulars will please to apply to
ROBERT G. LIVINGSTON.
G E RARD SMI TH,
TAKES this method to inform the public, that be
teaches Navigation, Theory and Practical, carefully
and expeditiously, at his house in Cortlandt-Street, next
dwr to Mr, Jacob Van Voorhis; those gentlemen that
please to favourhim in that way, may depend on being
faithfully served by their humble fer ant,
CERARD SMITH.
Three Dollars Reward.
RUN-away the 20th inst. from the fubferiber, living
in Newtown, Queen's County, Long-Island, an
apprentice lad named Joseph Collings, about 5 feet 9
inches high, of a light complexion, with a mark under
his jaw, occasioned by the king's evil; wears his own
hair tied: Had on and took with him the following
clothes,---one grayish serge coat, with a fagathoy waist
coat of like colour; one light coloured cloth coat and
waistcoat; three pair of breeches, one pair blue cloth,
the other two nankeen ; and a half worn hat cut in the
falhibn. The above lad is between 19 and 20 years of
age, and by trade a taylor. All masters of vessels and
others, are forewarned not to carry off or harbour said
apprentice at their peril; and whoever apprehends and
secures him, so that hit master may have him again, Hull
have the above reward, and all reasonable charges, paid
byALEXANDER MEHARG.
To be Sold,
A Healthy Negro WENCH, who is a good Cook, and '
every other way suitable for a family either in
towu or country. Enquire of the printer.