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PENNSYLVANIA LEDGER:
P Philadelphia: Printed by James Humphreys, junr. in Front-street, at the Corner of Black
horfe Alley:—Where Essays, Articles of News, Advertisements, &c. are gratefully received and impartially inserted. And
Where Subscriptions are taken in for this Paper, at Fifteen Shillings per Year.
Philadelphia, October 29, 1776.
THE Publishers of the several weekly NEWS
PAPERS in this City, are under the disa
greeable Necessity of informing their Subferibers,
that the extraordinary Advance in the Price of Pa
per, and other Materials in the Printing Business,
has obliged them to raise the Price to FIFTEEN
SHILLINGS per zlnnuM; and they hope their
Customers will not take it amiss to find that Price
charged from and after the First Day of January
next.—Those who should not incline to have the
Papers sent after tliat lime, are desired to call and
difeharge their Arrears; such as do not, we shall
conclude they agree to the advanced Price, and
shall continue to fend them accordingly. —Persons
fubferibing for the Papers after this Date to be
charged Fifteen Shillings per Annum, and to
pay 7s 6d Entrance.
HALL and SELLERS.
Wm. and THOMAS BRADFORD.
JOHN DUNLAP.
JAMES HUMPHREYS, junr.
JUST PUBLISHED and TO BE SOLD, by
James Humphreys, junior,
At the Corner of Black-horse alley, Front-street,
THE
Universal Almanack,
For 1777.
Containing besides the usual Calculations and a
great variety of other ufeful and entertaining
matter,
A CURIOUS anecdote of Chapelle, a famous
French author. Dying Speech of a Punster.
Remarkable Legacy of an ague fit. Extrad^ from
the Rural Socrates. Verses on a Dial. Epigram
on the Times. On a Stolen Kiss. The French
Peasant, a tale. Couhtry Bumpkin. The Teach
er taught. Way they fatten Lambs for London
markec. Preservative against Infection. Variety of
Receipts, &c. &c.
*, The Calculations of this Almanack are the
performance of the ingenious D. RIP FENHOUSE
A. M. of this city.
A PERSON capable of teaching Englilh, Wri
ting, and Arithmetic, is wanted in the Col
lege, to supply the place of Mr. Carithers, the pre
sent Charity Master, who has accepted of a commis
sion in the battalions now raising. Any person
whom this place may suit is desired to apply to the
Provost.
An orderly Family who is disposed to take Board
ers for College, may hear of a house adjoining the
fame on an easy rent, by applying as above.
WA S Loft this day in Front-street between
Chefnut and South-streets, a French vessel's
Shipping Articles; any person having found the
fame, and will bring it to Reese Meredith, shall re
ceive One Dollar reward. Ofiober 29.|
TEN DOLLARS Reward.
RAN away on Monday morning last, the 4th
instant, an English servant man named WIL
LIAM CHASE, by trade a fluff shoemaker, about
23 years of age, about 5 feet 4 inches high, grey
eyes, round face'd, a little pitted with the small
pox, a fear under his right eye, brown hair curled;
a smiling way of speaking to strangers; had on a
wibon Coat of a lightifh colour, a masquerade
bengal jacket, nankeen breeches mended on the
knee knit thread dockings, black grain'd shoes,
carvid brass buckles, check'd shirt, black silk neck
cloth, felt hat, but it is likely he may change his
cloaths as he is a very artful fellow. The person
that takes him up must take care he does not de
ceive him, as he values himfelf upon being a com
pleat villain. Whoever apprehends and secures
the above servant, so that his master may have him
again shall be paid the above reward by
, ROBERT LOOSELY.
N. B. It is hoped makers of relfeb will not car
ry him off.
WEEKLY ADVERTISER.
November 23, 1776.
Or the Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New-Jersey
SA T U R DAY, November 23, 1776.
Middletown TownJhip, Cumberland County Nov. 4th.
On Monday, the 2d day of December next, will be
SOLD at public vendue, by the fubferibers, ex
ecutors of the last will and tejlament of Robert
Callender, of the township aforejaid, deceased,
upon the premises,
AL L the valuable plantation and trad of about
1200 acres of excellent Lime Jlone Land, lately
advertised to be fold at private lale, lituate in Eait
Pennfborougli townlhip in the County aforesaid,
about ten miles Eattward of the town of Carlifle,
on the great road leading, from Harris's ferry to the
laid town; whereon are created and built, one ex
cellent merchant mill and law mill adjacent, both
in very good repair and now in the tenure of Mr.
Francis Silvers, at one hundred and forty pounds
per annum on a never failing Itream of water, known
by the name of Silvers Spring, the head of which
is not one mile distant from the laid mills, and
abounds with the fined of trout, is in a plentiful
Country for wheat and all kinds of grain; the mill
house is built of lime done, two dories high and
has in it two pair of stones, two bonding cloths
and holding works, the whole of which go by wa
ter; together with a new two dory done dwelling
house and large done barn, now, with part of the
land, in the tenure of Mr. John M'Curdy, who
keeps a public house of entertainment, tor which
business it is mod advantageously situated; —also
one other very large two dory done dwelling house
and frame barn, with other itables and out houses,
which is with another part of the laid land, in the
tenure of another perlon; this trad: may be conve
niently divided into three plantations, each getting
a Sufficiency of water and timber ground to turn
into meadow, and is by those who know it deemed
as valuable an estate, according to the quantity of
land, as is now to be fold on the Continent, and
will be fold either together or in Separate tra&s; a
clear and indisputable title will be given for the fame
and credit for part of the purchale money, on pay
ing intered for the lame if required, by
THE RECORDER of DEEDS, for
the City and County of Philadelphia,
hath now in his Pofleffion a Number of old
Deeds, for Premises lituate in several Parts of
the Province of Pennsylvania, the Lower Coun
ties on Delaware and New-Jersey; the Persons
who are entitled thereto may have them, on
producing proper Vouchers and Payment of
Fees.
THREE DOLLARS Reward.
STRAYED or stolen out of Hugh Watt's pas
ture, Hanover townlhip, Lancaster county, A
bright bay HORSE, eleven or twelve years old,
with a speck on the right eye, branded on the left
Shoulder and right buttuck with the letter M, a
saddle mark on his wither that the hair has not yet
grown on, newly shod on the fore feet and trots all.
Whoever takes up the laid horse and fends him to
Hugh Watt abovementioned, or to the fubferiber
living in Connogochicg, Cumberland county, or
to Col. Potters old place, shall have the above re
ward and all reasonable charges
% JOHN GIBSON.
TO BE S O L D.
ATW 0 Story Brick HOUSE and LOT of
GROUND, situated on the South fide of
Market-ilreet, near midway between Third and
Fourth-streets, 16 feet and a half in front and 140
feet deep, a Well of excellent water and good Pump
in the yard; Subject to a groundrent of five pounds
per annum, Pennsylvania currency. For further
particulars enquire of the Printer.f
A Few Sets of
Lord Chefterfield's Letters
May be had of the PRINTER,
FRANCES CALLENDER,Executrix.
WILLIAM NEIL, )
WILLIAM IRWIN, (Executors.
MATTHIAS SLOUGH.)
THE
On Sincerity in CONVERSATION.
AMONGST too many other instances of the
corruption and degeneracy of the age wherein
we live, the great and general want of Sincerity in
conversation is none of the lead. The world is
grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that
mens words are hardly any Signification of their
thoughts; and if any man measures his words by his
heart, and Speaks as he thinks, and do not express
more kindness to every man, than men usually have
for any man, he can hardly escape tlie cenlure of
want of breeding.
The dialed of conversation is now-a-days so
Swelled with vanity and compliment, and so Surfeit
ed with expressions of kindness and refped, that if
a man that lived an age or two ago should return
into the world again, he would really want a didi
onaiy to lielp him to underftancl his own language,
and to know the true intrinsic value of the phrase
m fafhion, and would hardly, at firft, believe at
what low rate the highest drains and expressions of
kindness imaginable do commonly pass in current
payment; and when he should come to underhand
it, it would be a great while before he could bring
himfell, with a good countenance and a good con
icience, to converse with men upon equal terms,
and in their own way.
The old Englilh plainness and sincerity, that ge
nerous integrity of nature, and honesty of difpohti
on, which always argues true greatness of mind,
and is usually accompanied with undaunted courage
and resolution, is, in a great mealure, loft among
us; there has been a long endeavour to transform
us into foreign manners and fafhions, and to bring
us to a Servile imitation of none of the best of our
neighbours, in Some of the worst of their qualifica
tions.
And, in truth, it is hard to fay, whether it
should more provoke our contempt, or our pity, to
hear what Solemn expressions of refped and kind
ness will pals between men, almost upon no occa
fioii; how great honour and etteem they will de
clare for one, whom, perhaps, they never saw be
fore, and how entirely they are ail on a Sudden de
voted to his Service and interest, for no reafon,-
tiow infinitely and eternally obliged to him, for no
benefit: and now extremely they will be concerned
for him, yea, and afflifted too, for no cause.
p I know it is Said in juftification of tJiis hollow
kind of conversation, that there is no harm, no
real deceit, in compliment, but the matter is well
enough, So long as we underhand one another;
that words are like money, and when the current
value of them is understood, no man is cheated by
them. This is Something, if Such words were any
thing; but being brought into the accompt, they
are mere cyphers. However, it is hill a just matter
of complaint, that Sincerity and plainness are out
of fafhion, and that our language is running into
a lie; that men have almost quite perverted the use
of ipeech, and made words to Signify nothing;
that the greater part of the conversation of man
kind is little else than driving a trade of dissimulati
on; insomuch, that it would make a man heartily
sick and weary of the world, to fee the little since
rity that is in use and practice among men.
It the Ihew of any thing be good for any thing,
lam sure Sincerity is better; for why does any man
dissemble, or Seem to be that which he is not, but
because he thinks it good to have such a quality he
pretends to? For to counterfeit and diffcmble, is
to put on the appearance of some real excellency:
now the best way in the world to leem to be any
thing is really to be what he would seem to be: be
sides, that it is many times as troublesome to make
good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it;
and if a man have it not, it is ten to one but he is
discovered to want it; and then all his pains and
labour to seem to have it, are loft.
Whatsoever convenience be thought to be in Self
hood and dissimulation, it is soon over, but the
inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings
a man under an everlasting jealousy and suspicion,
so that he is not believed when he Speaks truth, nor
trusted, when, perhaps, he means honestly. Whm
a mar .hath once forfeited the reputation 01 his Q-
Numb. XCVI.