The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-10-08 00:00:00, page 2

LONDO N, June 4.
THER E are now two recruiting parties at Hamburg,
beating up for volunteers for Great-Britain ; and, as
they give a large bounty, they get more than any other na
tic;, tho' there are no lets than sixteen different parties there.
The above recruits are to form a corps called the German Vo
lunteers.
The conduct of the Lord Mayor, on Friday last at St.
James's, has been severely scrutinized by those persons who
confider the sovereign incapable of wrong, who view him as
poffefled of absolute dominion over bis people, and who be
lieve that no insult from the throne can juftify the most trivial
mark of resentment. Guided by these principles, they are led
to condemn his Lordship's hasty retreat from the royal pre
sence, and to pronounce it difgraceful to that corporation
over which he presides. Thus would they lay a reflection
upon the chief magistrate, who, they fay, has dared to treat
his sovereign with fhametul difrefpecl But let us revert to
the language of those who do not possess those high notions
of prerogative, and nevertheless may rank with the former
within the pale of loyalty. They admire his Lordship's
magnaminity of spirit, and fay, that, as the representative
of the firft city in the world, he would have betrayed the
dignity, the honor of the citizens, meanly to have looped
and accepted a compliment from a sovereign, who has be
llowed every mark of insult and neglect, in return for the
many eminent services afforded the house of Hanover. But
the time may return when the weight, the influence, and the
importance of the corporation, will be held in some degree
of estimation and service without the bar. That epocha
seems nearly approaching, and if it should arrive, our cor
respondent hopes it will be the means of quenching that con
tentious flame which for these many years pail has blown so
violent a feud of animosity between the citizens and cour
tiers. They will then, it is to be wiihed, unite their en
deavours for the salvation of a diftrafted and wretched king
dom.
A few days since a poor laboring man, at Auborne in
Wiltfhire, aged eighty-seven, succeeded to an estate of nine
hundred pounds per annum, and near one hundred thousand
pounds in the funds.
The last mails from Ireland contain a very remarkable,
though unfortunate, article of intelligence ; that there died
in the city of Dublin, all on the fame day, the three most
capital paper makers in that kingdom ; and, what is hill
more remarkable, they all died within two hours of each other.
Yesterday Capt. Page, of the corps of engineers, was pre
sented to the King by Lord Viscount Townfhend, and most
graciously received. His Majesty was pleased to fay much in
favor of his conduct at Bumker's-Hill, on the seventeenth
of June, under Gen. Howe.
On Saturday morning some experiments were tried at
Woolwich, before Lord Viscount Townihend, Lord Amherst,
Gens. Harvey and Defaguliers, and a number of other offi
cers, with a rifle gun, upon a new construction, by Capt.
Ferguson, of the seventieth regiment; when that gentleman,
under the disadvantages of a heavy rain and high wind, per-.
which they cannot regain bht at your expence. Let them
outwit you now, and they will ride you hereafter.—Stand
your ground against them. Support a constitution founded on
your own authority, and derived from yourselves, in such a
manner that it can never oppose your interelt, and you throw
th m out of the saddle for ever, and preserve your liberties
inviolate. CASSIUS.
500
formed the four following things, none of which had ever
been accomplithed with any other small arms. First, He
fired during four or five minutes at a target, at two hundred
yards distance, at the rate of four (hots each minute.
Secondly, He fired fix Shots in one minute. Thirdly, He
fired four times per minute, advancing at the fame time at;
the rate of four miles in the hour. Fourthly, He poured a
little water into the pan and barrel of his piece when loaded,
so as to wet every part of the powder, and in less than half a
minute she fired as well as ever, without extracting the ball.
He also hit the Bull's Eye at one hundred yards, laying with
his back on the ground ; and, notwithstanding the unequal
nets of the wind and wetness of the weather, he only miffed
the target three times during the whole course afi the experi
ments.
June 8. A number of Folkftone cutters, which are to
mount from ten to twelve-guns each, besides swivels, ate
going to be built for the service of government ; they are in
tended for service in America, and are to be commanded by
Lieuts. in the navy.
July zo. A French man of war, with troops on board, isjoft
in a gale of wind near the Caribbee inlands, and all on boards
except nineteen men, who were taken up. by an American
privateer, periled.
The great fluctuation of the stocks, for some days pad, gave
rife to a report that France and Spain were preparing to in
terfere between us and the colonies ; but the present opinion
is, that this has been intirely occasioned by some fobbing
manoeuvres of chegreat Stockholders in Holland ; while others
infill that the north of Europe is on the point of being in
volved in a war, into which France and Great Britain most in
the end be drawn as parties.
An epidemical kindof measles now prevails at Paris, which
has attacked, the King, the Count d'Artois, and many of the
young nobility. By the most accurate accounts o's it, it ap
pears exactly Similar to that described by the great Sydenham,
which so universally prevailed in London in the year 1670.
1 he disease usually terminates onthe eighth day, and requires
nearly the fame method of treatment as the, smallpox. The
French physicians have, with great propriety, advertised the
public against adopting a hot regimen, and. what the me
dical world call cardiacs, in the course of this eruptive fevpr.
Mr. Foote, on Wednesday night, appeared in the character
of Lady Pentweazle, with a headdress in the utmost extraya
gance of thefafhion. The breadth of the tete, which was a
yard wide, was Huck full of ostrich feathers, and even if the
tout ensemble had not been of itfelf a fufficient satire on the
monstrously absurd mode of decorating the head, now pre
valent amongthe,Ladies of Ton, the modest and decent ftjle
of the Queen's head dress would have served to have ren
dered it so. Her Majesty laughed exceedingly when Mr.
Foote came on so ornamented, and as it was designed, to
continue the roar of the house, the whole fabric of feathers,
wool, and hair, dropped off Mr, Foote's head, and remained
on the flage as he went off,
DUBLIN, July 6. We hear a fubfcription..will be opened
in the county of Antrim, in order to revive the long ne
glefted constitutional mode of paying wages to their Regre
fentatives, for attending their service in Parliament.
We have the plealure to inform the public, that there ,are
now closets erecting in the area of the Tholfel, for the pur
pose of washing and clothing the prisoners, preparatory to
their trials, in order to prevent the fatal consequences arising
from fevers and other jail distempers, and we make no
doubt but the fame salutary precaution will be adopted so
every assize town in the kingdoms.