The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-06-04 00:00:00, page 1

The PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST.
From the LONDON GAZET TE.
St. James's, March 22. 1 his day the Right Hon. the Loi
Mavor, several of the Aldermen, the Sheriff's, and some of•
the Common Council of the city of London, waited upon his
Majesty (being introduced by the Earl of Hartford, Lord
Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household) with the followmg
address and petition, which was read by the Recorder.
To the KIN G's Most Excellent Majesty,
The humble address and petition of the Lord Mayor, Alder
men, and Commons of the city of London, in Common
Council assembled ;
Most gracious Sovereign,
WE, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the city of London in Common Coun
cil assembled, beg leave to approach your throne,
and to intreat your Majesty's royal attention,
whilff with the humility of dutiful fubjeds, we lay before your
Majesty what at present most immediately affects us in the
spirit and tendency of the public measures now depending ;
and the anxiety we feel at the naked and exposed state in which
this country will be left, by draining it of the national troops,
as well as at the danger and disgrace attending the late treaties,
for foreign mercenaries, whose latitude is such as to provide
the means of introducing a foreign army even into this rea.m.
We cannot, Sir, without horror, look forward to that
dismemberment of the empire ; that increase of the national
debt, and of burthenfome taxes; that loss of our most va
luable resources; those distresses of our merchants and manu
facturers ; those deficiencies of the revenue ; that efifion of
the blood of our countrymen and brethren ; that failure of
public credit, and those dreadful calamities and convulfiens
which must follow a civil war so begun and pursued, whose
extent no wisdom can forefee.
We humbly c nceive that no people can be bound to sur
render their rights and liberties as a return for protedion.
The colonies have fought our battles with us, and in the last
war they so far exceeded their abilities, that this nation
thought it just and necessary to make them an annual com
peniation ; and even now driven to open hostilities in their
own defence, they are willing (their charters being inviola
bly secured) to continue to us all those advantages of a regu
lar and exclusive commerce, to which we have long owed
our opulence and prosperity. And we have every assurance
which men in their situation can fafely give, that, if alked as
freemen, they are willing to go farther, and to afford the ex
hausted state of the revenue of this country such reasonable
voluntary aid as their abilities will permit, provided that
their contributions are unalienably applied to relieve that
distress which is the only fair and politic foundation of re
quiring them, and that neither their aids, nor our own finking
funds, fhalJ be any longer perverted from a public benefit,
and misapplied to the purpose of corruption, inflead of re
deeming the debts of the nation, according to the firft wife
and just ine&rion.,.
Indulge bt£ ^ Sovereign, the humanity and
dignity cf^me political ^u^i^ and our prayers will be
Oman's departure from !&,. <.
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Philadelphia, June 4, 1776.
TOMORROW, the sth inst. at ten o'clock in the fore
noon, at Willing, Morris, and Co's Wharf, will be
fold by public VENDUE,
Seventy-Lur hoglheads of MOLASSES,
Five thousand four hundred pounds of COFFEE,
Two hundred fifty-nine thousand PINS,
And twenty-two thousand NEEDLES.
Lately imported on account of the Continent, and to accom
modate individuals. The Molasses will be fold by the iingle
hogshead, and the other articles in as small parcels as conve
niently can be.
rir^OMORROV, the fifth inst. at one o'clock in the
I afternoon, at J. HART's Vendue-Store, the corner of
South and Front streets, will begin the sale of a large and
very neat assortment ot MERCHANDIZE, HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE, &c.
N. B. Goods for public and private sale are received at
said store, and fold for cash only.
_ — —
TO be LET, a commodious STABLE, fit for a liver,
liable, with chair'houfes, &c. situated in Church
alley. Inquire of Jane Correy, in Third-street, near Market
ftreet.
All persons indebted to the estate of John Correy, de
ceased, are once more requested to pay their refpedive ac,
counts to JANE CORREY, Adrainiftratrix. *
granted. We implore the extension of your Majesty's justice
and mercy towards that continent Which, when arbiter of the
terms of peace, it was your Majesty's own determination to,
prefer to every other compensation for all the expences of the
last war.
We humbly and earnestly beseech your Majesty, that the
most solemn, clear, diftind, and unambiguous, fpecification
of those just and honorable terms, which your Majesty with
both Houses of Parliament mean to grant to the colonies, may
precede the dreadful operations of your armament. Every
color and suspicion ofinjuftice and oppression will then be remov
ed from the proceedings of the mother country ; and, if those just
and honorable terms are not submitted to, your Majesty will un
doubtedly be enabled to meet what will then be rebellion,
with the zealous hearts and hands of a determined, loyal, and
united people.
To which his Majesty was pleased to return the following
antVer:
I DEPLORE, with the deepest concern, the miseries
which a great part of my fubjeds in North-America have
brought upon themselves, by an unj uftifiable refinance to the
constitutional authority of this kingdom, and I ball be ready
and happy to alleviate those miseries, by ads of mercy and
clemency, whenever that authority is eftablilheo, and the now
exiting rebellion is at an end. To obtain these salutary pur
poses, I will invariably pursue the most proper and effectual
means.
[Num. 214.