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PENNSYLVANIA LEDGER:
^ Philadelphia: Printed by James Humphreys, junr. in Front-street, at the Corner of Blacks
horse Aliev: —Where Essays, Articles of News, Advertisements, &c. are gratefully received and impartially inferred. And
Where Subferiptions are taken in for this Paper, at Ten Shillings per Year.
H S SIZEof B REA D,
Set for the city of Philadelphia, the Northern Li
berties and l)ilria of Southwark, June 12, 1776.
Bine Flour it fourteen fh'illings and fix-pence per Ct.
Middlings at twelve Killings per Ct.
Rye at nine (hillings per Ct.
White Bread, The pe^ny loaf to weigh eight ounces
and three quarters.
The twopenny ditto one pound one ounce and a
, half.'
The fourpenny ditto, two pounds three ounces.
The eightpenny ditto, four pounds fix ounces.
The twelvepenny ditto fix pounds nine ounces.
Middling ditto, The penny loaf, ten ounces.
The twopenny ditto, one pound four ounces.
' The fourpenny ditto, two pounds eight ounces.
The eightpenny ditto, five pounds.
Th twelvepcnny ditto, seven pounds eight ozs.
Rye ditto, The penny loaf, eleven ounces and three
quarters
The twopenny ditto, one pound seven ounces
and a half.
The fourpenny ditto, two pounds fifteen ounces.
The eightpenny ditto, five pounds fourteen ozs.
The twelvepenny ditto, eight pounds thiri. en ozs.
Samuel Powell,)
Jacob Duche > justices.
James Young, )
Just published and To be Sold by
James H,umphte,s, junior,
Tn hront-ftreet, (Trice Two Shillings)
The Second Edition of
The True Interelf of America
Impartially Stated,
tn certain STRICTURES on a Pamphlet
entitled
COMMON SENSE.
By an AMERICAN.
“ You have been told that we are seditious, im
« patient of government, and desirous of Indepen
" dency. Be assured that these are not Fadis, but
“ Calumnies — Permit us to be as free as yourselves,
?• an I we ih ill ever efte< m a union witli you to be
“ our greater glory >nd our greateJi happiness.
" Place us in the lam Situation we were at the close
" of the laid war, and our former harmony will be
“ restored." Continental Congress'/
flddrefs t'o the People of Great-Britain.
" Obtre&atio et livor pronis auribus accipiuntur."
Tacitus.
" Nihil est, Antipho,
V Quin mali narrando poffit depr warier. Terence.
The following MILITARY WORKS, of
them very valuable, and feldorn to be met with, may
be had at R. BELL's, next door to St. Paul's
church in Third Street.
LE Blond's Military Engineer, containing the
attack and defence of all kinds of fortified pla
ces, with numerous and excellent copperplates,
two vol.
Movelie Fortifications, par Coehorn.
Ozanam's Ancient and Modern Methods of For
tification, with Vauban's Manner of Fortifying.
Marlborough's Battles and Sieges, from 1708 to
Simes's Military Guide for officers, 2 vol.
New Sylfem of Military Discipline, founded on
Principle, by a General Officer.
Stevenson's Military Inftruiftions.
Hofte and Webster's Mechanics, Fortification, Ar
tillery, or Gunnery, adapted to the use of the
Gentlemen of the Army and Navy.
ARCHITECTURE HYDRAULIQUE.
DE la maniere de faire usage du cours des eaux
dans les operations de la Guerre des Sieges &
de Campaign. Comprenant l'art de faire usage des
eaux dans la Guerre offenfive & defenfive, accom
pagne d'un nombre d'exemples d'occafions memo
rabies ou I'on s'en est fervi avec fucces.
Par M. BELIDOR, Colonel d'lnfanterie, Chevalier
de I'Ordre Militaire de Saint Louis, &c.
June 22, 1776.
WEEKLY A DVERTIS E R.
Or the Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New-Jersey
S A T UR D A Y, June 22, 1776.
Just printed, and now felling by
ROBERT B E L L,
Next door to St. Paul's Church, in Third-street,
(Price Two Shillings.)
THE true INTEREST of BRITAIN,
set fortli in regard to the Colonies; and the
only means of living in peacp and harmony with
them; including five different plans for effecting
this desirable event.
By Jos. Tucker, D. D. Dean of Gloucester,
Author of the Essay on the Advantages and Dif
advantiges which refpc<Rively attend France and
Great-Britain, with regard to Trade.
To which is added, by the Printer, a few more
Words on the Freedom of the Press in America.
N. B. At frid BELL's may be had Doctor Jones
on Wounds and Fradures, &c. &c.
"THOMAS LEIPER,
TOBACCONIST,
TAKES this opportunity of informing the
public in general, and his friends in parti
cular, that the partnership of Hamilton and Lei
per is dissolved, and that he (in the house occupied
by the company, the corner of Spruce and Water
streets, below the Drawbridge, 'Philadelphia) ma
nufa&ures in the bed manner Snuff and Tobacco of
the firft quality, equal, if not Superior, to any here
tofore imported from Europe, whicli he will be
enabled to dispose of on as reasonable terms as any
Manufacturer in America, and execute all orders on
the Shortest notice; as the works he has lately farm
ed are by far the most complete, not only for expe
diting the business of majwfaAuring Snuff and
Tobacco, but alio doing it in the greatest perfection
of any works ever yet ereded on the continent.
N. B, Two Tobacco Spinners will meet with
encouragement by applying as above.
HAMI L'TON'and-S^
Tobacconills.
HAVE moved from the corner of Spruce and
Water-streets, to the house belonging to,
and lately occupied by Mr. John Wallace, in Se
cond-Street, fix doors below Market Street, where
they continue to carry on their Scotch (huff and
tobacco Manufactory in all the several branches
as usual; they have laid in a large Stock of the
very best Virginia leaf tobacco, and are confident
of giving the utmost fatisiadion to their former
customers and the publick. Orders will be punctu
ally answer'd witli all possible dispatch; they give
cath tor good empty fnuff bottles.
ISAAC HAZLEHURST
Has for Sale, at his Store in Water-street, the fifth
door above Market-street:
COFFEE of the best quality, Mufcovado Su
gars in hogsheads, tierces and barrels, Molas
ses, Cinnamon, Powder Blue, and a few hogsheads
of exceeding good Jamaica Spirit, five years old.
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3 T A D E, Marchi
YESTERDAY the embarkation of the firft
divirion of the Brunswick troops in his Britan
nic Majesty's service was compleated, and the fleets
in readiness to depart as soon as the wind will permit.
L O N DO N, March 21.
The Preston, of 50 guns, is ordered to be fitted
immediately for the reception of a flag officer; and
it is taid that an additional Admiral will be sent to
America.
The Shark and Vulture, two new sloops, lately
launched at Deptford, are commissioned, and Or
dered to be fitted for sea.
Orders are sent to Portsmouth, for his Majesty's
frigates Tartar, Captain Ommanie, and the Pearl,
Capt. Wilkinson of 32 guns each, to be fitted out
with all dispatch for the North American Station.
Two additional companies of 57 men each, are
ordered to be raised immediately, to reinforce
Lord Percy's regiment now at Boston.
Orders are lent to Chatham for his Majesty's
frigate Richmond, of 32 guns, to be fitted out for
the North-American Station.
THE
This day was launched at his Maj< fty's yard at
Woolwich, a new frigate; immediately alter which,
His Majesty's Ship Eagle, commanded by Lord
Howe. Sailed for America.
A Great Perlonage, we hear, is extremely well
fatisHed within him elf that the ensuing campaign
will be a conclusive one, and frequently expresses
himfelf to that effect; adding, ‘ that hi urfhes he
was as sure of bringing Over a few of the leaders
in the opposition as he is of conquering America."
Captain Jones Bev field, who arrives faeida,
in the river from the Weft-Indies, informs us, that:
he saw Several Spanish men cf War and frigates
cruizing off Cape Nichola Mole. He fays at Cape
Francois there are some French men of war, and a
number of armed cruizers, and that others are con
tinu dly arriving, Provisions of all forts are re
markably dear throughout the whole of our Weft-
India islands; and they are greatly at a lois for want
of lumber, which is likewise dear, which they used
to be supplied with from North America.
Five hundred bread waggons are now preparing,
and will in a few days be Shipped on board the tran
sports at Portsmouth bound to America.
A gentleman arrived in town from Plymouth fays,
that on Tuesday morning he was at Charmouth,
and the people there laid, that the evening before
they saw eight large Ships fail down the Channel;
about fix in the evening they saw a great blaze from
one of them, which continued all night; and early
in the morning a great explosion was heard, after
which only seven fail could be ditcerned.
March 26. His Majesty has appointed Brig.
Gen Howe and Clinton, to be Generals in America.
A bill is puffed lor defraying the charge of the
pay and eloathing of the militia out of the land tax.
The Bruniwickers are destined to Canada,, and
the Hessians, and regiment of Hanau, to Boston.
Burgoyne's light horie go to Boston, but the Gene
ral's command is to lw in Canada.
The launching of the Culloden man of war,
Which was to have been to-morrow at D: ptford',
is postponed, the men having had frefh orders to
get ready for sea eight large Sloops o' war.
March 27. The ministry expert every hour to
receive an express from Berlin with an account of
the death of the Prussian monarch. His Majesty
has long laboured under a complication of disor
ders, and his constitution is totally broken, for
several weeks he has been confined to his chamber,
and very few people are admitted to him. It is
whispered at Potsdam that he has a confirmed
dropsy.
Orders are sent to to Sheerness, for his Majesty's
frigate Winchelfea, Captain Bateman, to be fitted
out for the American Ration, and a number of
hands are now employed for that purpose.
Yesterday a court of Aldermen was held at Guild
hall, when Richard Clarke, Eiq; was sworn in Al
derman of Broad-street ward, in the room of Ben
jamin Hopkins Esq ele&ed Chamberlain.
Yesterday, in the House of Commons, the bill
for the better encouragement of Seamen and mari<
ners to enter into his Majesty's service, was read
the third time, and passed; and to day it was read
a firft time in the Houle cf Lords.
It was reported yesterday at 'Change, that as
government had refuted to treat with the present:
Congress the Americans have come to a redl Mon
to call a new Congress. the delegates to be ap
pointed by their Assemblies, and not one of the
old members to be in, and that government lias
actually appointed Commissioners to treat wi h
them, and are to go express before Lord How Sails.
Extras of a letter from the Hague, March 22.
" They write from Vienna, that the Imperial
ministry do not Seem to look with indifference upon
the steps taken by the Duke of Brunswick, and
Landgrave of Fleffe Caffell, in fending such consi
derable bodies of troops out of Europe, when they
know that the general diet of the empire, afLmbled
at RatiSbon, came to a resolution some years ago,
against all filch emigrations of the inhabitants of
Germany."
Advice is received from Jamaica, that Admiral
Gayton has taken several Hoops and Schooners into
Numb, LXXIV.