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PO E T's CORNER.
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The LOVE R and CUP I D.
Addrefed to a Gentleman of very small fortune, in
love with a mercenary Fair-one.
A N honed youth, but fpeciJ poor,
1^ Approach'd the lovely Lucy's door,
His heart with love opprefs'd;
But e'er that love h; did disclose,
To fay his prayers he wifely chose,
And Cupid thus address'd.
6 Sweet ion of Venus, blooming boy,
' Great iource of mortals highest joy,
' C) Leach my Lucy's bread to prove
' The hopes and fears of fervent love :
‘ All it's tlirilling inciting fires,
' All it's tender foft desires;
c And what her panting bread does feel,
' Ohl make her speaking eyes reveal!
' Then Lt. her tongue, without disguise,
' Repeat the language of her eyes,
' And let both tongue and eyes agree
' To (how her love is all for me?
Tire God laugh'd loud, his shoulders fliook,
At length with pity in his look,
The youth he thus bespoke:
' Indeed my friend as thou art poor,
* 'Tis vain to rap at Lucy's door,
' Poor love is all a joke.
'Polite and learn'd thou art 'tis true,
™ In genius art exccll'd by few,
' And haft a noble spirit;
' But with the girls in these our days,
' A Fis-a-vis with fix bright bays,
' Would outweigh all thy merit.
' Would'ft thou have women finite on thee,
1 To Ptutus pray, and not to me,
' If he hears do not doubt her.
' Be rich—and then without disguise
' Her love (he'll shew with tongue and eyes,
' And every part about her.'
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PHILADELPHIA.
E XTRBCTS from the Votes of Assembly.
Tuesday, March 12, 1776, P. M.
The Houle resumed the consideration of the ap
pointment of officers for the new levies in the rifle
service, and resolved that Andrew Long of Bucks
county. Peter Grubb, junior, of Lancalter county
and Lewis Farmer of the city of Philadelphia, Efqrs.
be, and they are hereby appointed, Captains in the
laid service.
Thursday, March 14, 1776, A. M.
The bill, entitled “ Ah Ad to increase the num
ber 01 Representatives in Assembly for the city of
Philadelphia, and in the several counties herein na
med," being transcribed according to order, and
read the third time, the question was called for and
put by the Speaker, whether the said bill shall pass
the FJoufe and be sent to the Governor? (Carried
in the affirmative.) z ,
Friday, March 15, 1776, A. M.
Mr. Speaker laid before the Houle a resolution
of the Hon Continental Congress, which was read
by order, and is as follows, viz.
InC ONGRES S, March 14 1776.
“ Resolved, That it be recommended to the se
veral Assemblies Conventions and Councils or Com
mittees of Safety of the United Colonies, immedi
ately to came all persons to be dilarmed within
their respective colonies, who are notoriously dif
aff, died to the cause of America, or who have not
associated, and refute to associate to defend by arms
these United Colonies ag^inft the hostile attempts
of the British fleets and armies; and to apply the
arms taken from such perlons in eacli refpe&ive
colony, in the firfl place, to the arming the Con
tinental troops railed in said colony; in the next,
to the arming such troops as are raised by the co
lony for its own defence, and residue to be applied
to the arming the associators : That the arms,
when taken, be appraised by indifferent persons,
and such as are applied to the arming Continental
troops to be paid tor by Congreis; and the residue
by the relpe&ive Affembbes, Conventions or Coun
cils, or Committees of Safety.
Extract from the minutes,
CHARLES THOMPSON, Secretary."
The House proceeded to the nomination of offi
cers for the bactallion of mulketmen to be railed
for ihe defence of this province, and
Resolved, That Thomas Herbert, Joseph Howell,
junior, Abraham Dehuff, Francis Murray, Abra
ham Marlhall, John Nice, Patrick Anderson, and
Peter Zachary Lloyd Efqrs. be, and they are
hereby appointed, Captains of the said battallion.
The House then taking into consideration the
appointment of subalterns, for the rifle regiment,
Resolved that Thomas Paxton, Thomas Bartho
lomew-Bowen, John Stoner, John Clerk, Jacob
Levan, John Davis, John Thompson, William Gray,
John Young, John Spear, Mathew Scott, and Ed
^«hrd Thompson Enquires, be, and they are here
by appointed, firft Lieutenants in the laid regiment
of riflemen.
Mr. Speaker laid before the House a letter from
Colonel John Cadwalader, which was read, and
follows in these words, viz.
“ SIR,
“ / am informed, that the Honorable House of
Hfembly have thought proper to appoint me a Colonel
(second in commana) in the Provincial service. I
am very fenjible of the honor conferred on me, but as
the House have not granted my request) which was
the command of the frf battallion) 1 beg you will be
pleased to inform the House, that / decline accepting
the appointment. 1 am, Sir, with great refpefl,
Four mos obedient, very humble Servant, &c.
i s th March, 1776. JOHN CADWALADER.
do the Hen. John Morton, Esq; Speaker of the
Honorable House of Afembly 0/ Pennfylvapia."
Saturday, March 16, 1776, A. M.
The House met pursuant to adjournment, and
proceeding in the appointment of subalterns for the
regiment of riflemen,
Resolved That Jacob Maife, Thomas Gourley,
Jeff Treifbach. Robert M'Pherfon, John Perrin,
John Carpenter, John Robb, James Hamilton,
John Shannon, Joseph Finley, John Burns, and
James Carnagan, Enquires, be, and they are here
by appointed, second Lieutenants in the said regi
ment.
Applications from Lieutenant Colonel Broadhead
and Major Coats, for the command of the battalion
of mufketmen, now vacant by the resignation of
Colonel Cadwalader, were presented to the House
and read Ordered to lie on the table.
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From the London evening poll
Q^HE dies are thrown, and the game is loft.
ft The addressers have won. Whether or no
there was foul play, I will not enquire. But can
they be so weak to imagine, that the calamities of
this war will only fall on the Americans? that they
only shall feel the dorm, and that we Ihall remain
fafe and unhurt? Is itpoffible, that a total stagnation
of trade to America Ihould bring no evil upon us?
as well might it be asserted, and with as much truth,
that causes have ceased to produce their effe&s.
Alas ! miseries, accumulated miseries, must come
upon us! There is that evil in the cause that must
produce them. Thousands will be seen wringing
their hands, and crying for bread, whose honest
industry used plentifully to supply themlelves and
families. The affluent merchant, and all who de
pended upon him for Support,muft be overwhelmed
with misery and wretchedness; and the poor rates
must be swelled beyond the ability of the land to
support. None of these evils may indeed at present
be felt by the addressers; with them all may be
plenty, calm, and lunlhine; but how long will, or
can it remain so? Poison thrown into the natural
body, does not instantly shew its effeds. It is not
possible that we Ihould yet feel the miseries that lie
concealed in the present measures ; but they will
operate, and too soon, like poison, difeover the fa
tality of their nature. Let every man therefore
look to himfelf.
Ihe Duke of G- n must be allowed to be well
acquainted with the finances and resources of go
vernment. His declaration in the house was very
alarming. As a stockholder it most sensibly effeded
me. If the resources fail, whence is my interest to
arise !Ex nihilo nihil fit. Many, doubtlels, fee this
evil; nor is it possible that so weighty a matter.
Ihould escape the sagacity of our rulers. Would
to God it had a&ed on them as a preventative, and
turned their hearts to peace instead of war !
If the Americans have drawn on them our resent
ment, they have certainly by this time been amply
punished; but if, delenda est Carthago, if nothing can
appease the wrath risen up against them but their
utter ruin, let it be remembered that the tares can
not be plucked up without the wheat fuffering with
it. David certainly made the wisest choice, when
he chose to fall into the hands of God, rather than
into the hands of man Mens mercies are cruelties.
—lntent upon the objed of his resentment, he nei
ther fees how he may be hurt himfelf, nor regards
what mifehief he brings on others.
This war has more evils in it than can possibly be
forefeen. It admits of no comparison with other
wars. Itis rather like a family quarrel, where eve
ry one flyingto law, the whole estate becomes loft in
the contest.
O addressers? what infatuation has seized ye? Is
not peace better than war ? would it be any loss to
ye, to have a generalamnefty granted to the Ame
ricans? would ye be fufferers, were ye to behold
them again as in the year 1763 ? ye may live to curie
the day when ye set your hands to the fatal paper!
sooner Ihould my right hand have perished, than
have been instrumental in bringing so great an evil
on the land, as the curse of war. The child un
born will rue the day. SULPICIUS.
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WHEREAS MOLLY FEIT, wife to the
fubferiber, living in the Northern Liberties,
has left me without any just cause. These are to
forewarn all perlons from trufling her on my ac
count, as I will pay no debt of her contrasting after
this date.
* March 6. JOST FEIT,
M A REDA NTS's
ANTISCORBUTIC DROPS.
As a proof of the fupetior efficacy of M,redant's drops ( prepared
by Mr. Norton, Surgeon, of Golden Square, London, to any
medicine, hitherto known, for the cure of the Scurvy, Leprosy,
Ulcers, the Evil, Fistula, Piles, long continued Inflammations
of the eyes, and every other disorder arising from a foulnefs ia
the bio d, the following extraordinary cures are referred to.
Mr. HENRY TRENCHARD GOODENOUGH, Stewaid
of the Magdalen Hospital, cured of an inveterate scurvy of 22
years Handing.
MARY COPSON, of Brompton, cured of a scorbutic humou
on her head and face, attended with a violent hoarseness and
Ihortnefs of breath. Witness, Mr. Orton, Coal Merchant in
Whitcomb-street, near Leicester Fields
r Mi. JOHN FOSTER, at the Rose, at Welling, in Kent, cured
of a leprosy, attended with violent rheumatic pains.
Mrs. MARY LUTE, at Mr. Field's, tn Caftle-llreet, Leicete
Fields, cured of the Evtl, or Schrophula : Her bones were greatly
enlarged, and several pieces separated and came away. Witness,
Thomas Field, Castle-street, and Henry Hyde, Butcher in St.
James's Marker.
To Mr. NORTON, Surgeon, in Golden Square.
SIR,
ABOUT two years and a half ago, 1 was seized with a
violent hoarseness and fhortneis of breath. 1 lent for a
phylician, who ordered me to be bled: 1 also took a great
many medicines, but grew worse inllead of better. My head
ached so violently, that it prevented me from getting any rest ;
my face ard head broke out in large blotches, which spread so
much that 1 was in daily fear of losing my eye-fight. The hu
mour which difeharged from my face was so very offenfive, that
I could hardly bear it myfclf; but by the ufeof your Maredant's
Drops, am effectually cured. Any perlon doubting of this, may
be convinced of the truth, by calling on Mrs. Copfon, at Brompton;
or by enquiring of Mr. Orton, Coal Merchant in Whitcomb-llreet,
near Leicester Fields. I am, with great reipe£t,
Sir, your most humble servant,
MARY COPSON.
To Mr. NORTON, Surgeon, Golden Square.
AFTER having been afflicted w ith a most violent scorbutic
humour of 13 years handing, which rendered me incapable
of bufinef ; I have the fatisfaftion to inform you, 1 am
now perfectly cured, by the ufeo your Maredant's Drops. You
have my leave to publish this, hoping it may be the means of pro
curing benenefic to others afflicted as I was, 1 am, Sir,
Your humble servant,
GEORGE LANGDON,
No. 5,, the North fide of St. Paul's
church yard, July 19th, 1775.
Witnesses to the above cure, Francis Litey, No. 3, Finch
Lane, Cornhill, Sarah Rand, Trunk-maker, No. 57, St. Paul's
church yard.
These Drops are fold by Mt. Norton's appointment, by Mr.
James Rtvington, and Mr. Hugh Gaine, Printers, at New-York;
and Mr. JOHN AIREY, in Market-street, Philadelphia, at
12s. pet bottle
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Price 3 s. and 6 d. per Box.
D^ R Y N
Incomparable Worm-destroying
SUGAR PLUM B S,
Necefary to be kept in all Families.
SO exceedingly valued by ail people who have had of them in
Great-Britain and Ireland, for their tranfeendant excellency
in the destroying worms of all kinds both in the bodies cf
men, women and children, by not only breaking the knots of the
Duodenum, or gutt next the Stomach, but they pass through the
fmalleff passages of the body, and purge away thole ropy and slimy
humours which are the cause of thole pernicious vermin, and the
source of many other diferders; they arc one of the best purges
in the w hole world for gross bodied children that are apt to breed
worms, and have large bellies; their operation is mild, fafe and
pleasant 5 they wonderfully cleanle the bowels of all diff and
clammy humours, which flop up the parts, and prevent the juice
of food being conveyed to the liver and made blood, which is often
the case with children, and is attended with a hard belly, Linking;
breath, frequent fevers, rickets, and 1 decay of strength in the
lower parts: Likewise fettled aches and pains in the head, swel
lings, old fores, scabs, tetters, or breakings out, will be perfectly
cured, and the blood and skin reflored to its original purity and
smoothness ; they purge by urine, and bring away the gravel, and
effectually cure all obilruQions of the urine, or ulcers in the kid
neys. They at once strike at rhe true cause of the scurvy and en
tirely detiroy it, and all scorbutic humours and effects, root and
branch, so as never to return again ; and what makes them more
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as loaf sugar ; and in their operation as innocent as new milk.
Ilhave by these plumbscured a great many children of whoop
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The plumb is a great Dieuretick, cleaning the reins of slime; it
expels wind, and is a sovereign medicine in thecholick and griping
of the guts. It allays and carries off four vapours which occasion
many dilorders in the head. It opens all cbflruflions in the fto
macb, lungs, liver, reins and bladder ; cables a good appetite and
helps digellion. It hath been found wonderfully fuccefsfuU to
such persons as are going into chronicle distempers, as afthrns,
phthilicks, or fhqrtnefs of breath, dropfics and yellow janudice,
Now 1 hope all impartial persons are fatisfied, that the medicine
wluch works upon such humours, will almost teach any diflem
per, if not too far gone, since corruption and putrefaction arc the
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Diognoflic Signs of Worms.
PALENESS in the face, itching cf the nose, hollowness of
the eyes, grating cf the teeth when asleep, dulnefs, pains,
and heayinffsin the head, a dry cough, and itching in the
fundament, white and thifk urine, unquiet deep, often darting,
loft appetite, swelled belly, knowing and biting about the stomach
frightful dreams, extreme thirds, the body decayed and lean, fits,
often vemitipg, linking breath, &c.
Directions for taking them.
A child from Ito 2 years may eat one plumb from 2to 4 one
and a half; from 4 to 6 two ; from 6 to 8 two and a half; fropi
Bto Y 2 three ; from 12 to 15, and all above the age, may eat four
plumbs, one hour or two before up rifiny, not to drink during
that time, but afterwards drink warm tea, whey, or warer-gruel;
in taking them, the patient mud day two or three days betwixt
each dole.
In agues, the fame quantity mud be taken, two, three or four
hours before the fie comes on, and be repeated three times. In
whooping or chin-coughs give the quantity above mentioned.
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