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CA ME to the plantation of Thomas Tellings,
in Northampton township, Blocks county, the
2111 of November, a stray BUCK: The owner
is desired to come prove his property, pay charges,
and take him away; or else the subscriber intends
killing him. February 1. °
KEYSER'S famous PILLS, so well known
all over Europe, and in this and the neigh
bouring colonies, for their luperior efficacy and pe
culiar mildness, in perfectly eradicating every de
gree of a certain disease, witliout the lead trouble
or confinement; allo the Rheumatism cured by
these famous Fills, are felling at 10, 20, and 40
shillings a Box, By NICHOLAS BROORS,
at his ihop in Second-street, three doors above
Black-horle Alley: At which place may be had,
MAREDANT's DROPS.
N. B. Good allowance is made to people who
fell again. „
GO T out, or was taken out of the lubicriber s
yard, the 14th of last month, in the evening,
a brown M A R E, with Foal; has a Imall star, le
veral saddle marks, low in flefh, about 13 hands
high, branded on the off Ihoulder T. A. without
shoes, and eight years old. Whoever takes- up laid
Mare, and brings her to Jacob Hiltzheimer,
in Seventh -Afreet, near Market-Rreet, shall receive
TWENTY Shillings.
* Feb. x. JACOB HILTZHEIMER.
As a proof of the superior efficacy of Maredant's drops (prepared
bv Mr. Nort a, Surgeon, of Golden Square, London, to any
medicine, hitherto known, for the cure of the Scurvy, Leprosy,
Ulcers, the Evil, Fiflula, Piles, long continued Inhumations
of the eyes, and every other disorder atifing from a foulnefs in
the bio d, the following extraordinary cures are referred t%
Mr. HENRY TRENCHARD GOODENOUGH, Steward
of the Magdalen Hofpaal, cured of an inveterate feurvy of 22
years (landing.
MARY COPSON, of Brompton, cured of a scorbutic humour
cn her head arid face, attended win a violent hoai fenels and
shortness of breath. Witnels, Mr. Orton, Coal Merchant in
Whitcemb-ftreet, near Leicc er Fields
Mi JOHN FOS PER, at the Rose, at Welling, in Kent, cured
of a leprosy. attended \ ith violent rheumatic pains.
Mrs. MARY LUTE, at Mr. Field's, mCalbe-lireet, Lfote
Fields, cured of the Evil, or Schrophula: Her bones were greatly
enlarged, and feveial pieces separated and came away. Witnels,
Thomas Field, Cafile.ftreet, and Henry Hyde, Butcher in St.
James's Market
To Mr. NORTON, Surgeon, in Golden Square.
SIR,
ABOUT two years and a half ago, 1 was kizA with a
violent hoarleneis and ihortnefs of hre. h. 1 lent tor a
physician, who - rdered me to be bled: 1 also took a great
many medicines, but grew worse in/.ead ot better. Any head
ached so violently, that it prevented me from getting any rest ,
my face and head broke cut in large blotches, which Spread lo
much that I was in daily fear of thing nay eye-fight. Tha bp
mour which difeharged from my face was to very offenfive, that
I could hardlv bear it myfelf; but by the use of your Maredant's
Drops, am effectually cured. Any perlon doubting of this, may
be convinced of the truth, by calling on Mas. Copion, at Brompton;
or by enquiring of Mr. Orton, Coal Merchant in W hitcomb-llrect,
near Leicelier Field's. 1 am, with great reaped,
Sir, your moll hu ble servant,
MARY COPSON.
To Mr. NORT O.N, Surgeon, Golden Square.
AFTER having been affiiffed ^ Ith a moll violent fc rbutic
humour of I 3 years landing, which rendered me incap ble
of bufinef ; 1 have the fatisfaftion t inform you, 1 am
now perfectly cured, by the ufeo your Maredant's Drops. You
have my eave to publish this, h ping it may be tne means of pro
curing beneneft to others afflicted as I was, I am, Sir,
Your humble servant,
GEORGE LANGDON,
No. 57, the North fide of Si 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 Mr. Norton's appointment, by Mr.
James Rvineton, and r. Hugh Gaine, Printers, at New-York;
and Mr. JOHN AIREY, in Market-ureet, Philadelphia, at
7s. "e ring per bottle.
January 11, 1776.
THE COPARTNERSHIP 01-Mifflin
and Irwin being dissolved those Perlons
having any demands against them are desired to
bring in their accounts; and all those indebted to
them by bond, note, or book-debt, &c. are re
quited to make speedy payment to Joseph Mifflin,
who is appointed to receive the lame otherwise they
may expert to be proceeded againd according tq
Law. , Mifflin a^d Irwin.
February 3, 1776.
Or the Virginia, Maryland,
M A REDA NTS's
ANTISCORBUTIC DROPS.
SATURDAY,
Philadelphia county, Jan. 2%
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN-A W A Y from the übfcriber, living near Shoe
maker's mills, in Cheltieh^m tow nfhip, the 24th iullant,
at night, a butch servant M uN, named GEORGE
1 HILLIP GRUBBER, about tyyeas of age, gleet 8
° r *9 Inches high,fw arthy completion,round vilage, lpe..ks broken
English, talks very quick, has a fear on the back of one of his
hands, light col ured firaight hair : Had on and took away with
him, a new dark cloth coloured cuattee, with brass gilt buttons,
dark grey furtcut, with basket buttons, three jackets without
sleeves, one a new wh°ite Januel double breaded, with cloth
c lowed cloth buttons, old ffriped iinley ditto, with cloth but
tons, fingic-brcafted, pale blue worked ditto, with flowers in it,
much worn, pewter buttons, a ditty did patched cloth jacket,
with Beeves, lined with tow linen, new blue duffil trow fers,
two new brown tow linen shirts, the collars are of white linen,
\one old check ditu, two pair of coarse yarn flockings, one pair of
pale blue, the other pair dark brown old shoes new fowled, square
Heel buckles, a red wk handkerchief, felt hat bound with back
worked binding, a Imall blue coat made Dutch ft fhion, brals but
tons on rhe lleeves, lined with tow linen, old pair of light biue
yarn mittens, and a Tort rifle with a boken lock. Whoever
takes up and secures said Servant, lo that his maker may get him
again, (hall receive the above icwaid, ana reafonablc charges,
p^d by JACOB LEECH.
N. B. All makers of veffeis and othe s, are forbid to harbour
or carry Ikm <ff ar their peril. JA V 25
ty*^ Vw^-^v'*^w
SPEE C.H of the Hen Temple Luttrel, in the
House of Commons, on the motion for an bumble
Address to Hs Majefy, Oft. 27.
Air Speaker.
WE might reasonably suppose, .that the Minist
ers which had a hand in fabricating this vo
luminous speech, would be impatient to obtain our
approbation and thanks as reprelentatives of the
community in general, in the name of the people of
Groat-Britain, who are our a&ufl conftitueius; in
the name of the people of America, who (as they
tell us) are our virtual constituents.
Those evil counfeilors who have so long poison
ed the ear of their Sovereign, would now make us
believe they had perverted his principles allo; they
wilh us to confider the speech before you, as con
veying his Majesty's own lentiments and resolves.
Sir, we know that to be impofible. Our King is
too humane, and besides, too well acquainted with
the hittory of this country and its constitution, with
the memoirs of the Stuart race, and of his own il
lustrious houle, to imbibe the despotic do&rines
here imputed to hiffi. His Majesty knows, that when
either of the three estates or this empire, or the
whole in conspiracy together, shall arrogate power
to which they are incompetent, such as infringing
the original rights and liberties of the people in any
part of the British dominions, it is the exertion of
such power, not the refinance to it which consti
tutes i+ebellion. If this be not the case, the glori
ous revolution was above all Rebellions the mes
attrocious.
We who are the deputies of the people, assem
bled together from different 'counties, cities, and
boroughs of the kingdom, ought faithfully to im
part to his Majesty the real wishes and difpofi ions
of his fubjeefs. As the firft councilors of the crown
it is our peculiar province to advise and direct his
Majelly on every national emergency like the pre
fect. But, Sir, in order to qualify us to to do, af
fe&ion to our King, obligation to our country, and
sober wisdom, all combine in requiring the clofeit
and most deliberate difeuflions, and the deepest re-
Larches into the true biafs of the times, previous
to the offering up any Address to the Throne what
ever. An address at such a crifis.as this, upon such
important and decisive matters, cannot be consider
ed as a mere point of etiquette, or personal com
pliment to our Sovereign; it it could, there is not
a member of this house would be more forward in
duty and obsequiousness than mylelf. Are we not
totally ignorant of the real Rate of Grea. Britain
and her Colonies? Sir, the fenfeof the focicay at
large is not to be afeertained by the signature of a
Core of Provincial Corporations, under corrupt
ministerial influence; it is not to be ascertained by
the voice of repletion and revelry, by a few miifak
en individuals, brought together under the hospita
ble roof of a great Baron's caille. Sir, within those
battlements Kings are not, now-a-days, made or
unmade*; it is not to-be afeertained by the cry of a
* Alluding, to the famous Earl of IVar^ick, <wb°
alternately depofed,Henry IV. and Edmar:/ IV.
THE
ADVERTISER.
L ED'G E R:
Pennsylvania, & New-Jersey
few Tory justices, ductile Magistrates, huddled to
gether by their creator the Lord Lieut, of the coun
ty, to approve of proscriptions and proclamations,
deviled in councils, where he himfelf takes the lead
as I'refidentrf jir, I will tell the noble Lord who
spoke last § that'if the people of Lancaster, Liver
pool, and Manchester, were the oracles of British
law and policy, the Electors of Hannover had ne
ver swayed the.imperial feeptre of this realm, I
admire, however, the fpirfted zeal and consistency
of the addressing inhabitants of that pat of Eng
land; I admire their firm reverence for the divine
authority of Kings, their defence of Popcry, of ar
bitrary government, and sword law. The fame
political tenets which, now fill the heads of these
loyal addressers, filled also the heads of their townf
men'in forty-five and forty fix. Thole heads which
being impaled over Temple-bar in the last whig
reign, were soon after the commencement of the
prelent, wl.cn a mighty northern Thane came into
office, taken down with veneration, and are now,
tis laid, enfnrmed in a certain interior cabinet,
where a right hon. houfhold officer in my eye, and
others ol the White Role junto, frequently offer
upon a bended knee their secret orisons and incenfe.'
Sir the noble Lord who spoke last and the Right
Hon.-Member who delivered his sentiments earlier
in the debate,| |have assured you, that the sense of
this country is against the Americans. lam confi
dent, as well from the intelligence 1 have been able
to procure from a multitude of persons widely dif
ferent in station and description, as by my own re
marks in the progress of many a journey thro' the
interior parts of this ill and during the summer sea
son, that the sense of the mass of the people is in
favour of the Americans. They think that the
provocation given by a raffi and infufficient Minidry
to the colony of MaffachufTetts Bay; in I,vlefs and
oppreflive exactions, enforced by famine, devaluati
on, and {laughter, at length constitutionally justi
fied an appeal to arms. A very learned judge, who
now does signal honour to the coif, affiires us, in
his excellent book ol Commentaries, that every
freeman is warranted in the use of arms for defence
of his rightful poffcflions and liberty; and that
great luminary of his profeffion, Loid Chief Justice
Holt, in pronouncing judgment on the memorable
case of Tooley and Dekins, fays ft W]ien. the li
berty of the fubje& is invaded, it is a provocation
to all the fubjeds of England." Where then will
these grievances, this civil war and carnage, termi
nate? I shall now borrow the words of Sir Charles
Sedley, in the last age, to express my astonishment,
that a nation sick at heart as our's is, Should wear so
fiorid ^countenance. But, Sir, is it not that he&ic
bloom which is frequently found to accompany a
radical decay of the constitution, or father feme ar
tificial beautiher spread over the furface of a ca
daverous jubilance, for popular show and delation?
We have heretofore found it expedient, when this
kingdom has been shaken to its foundation, from
one extremity to the other, as it now actually is ;
when the orignal compact between the governing
power and the fubjeft has been differently construed,
and in danger of being totally dissolved; I fay, Sir,
that the Commons, in ^arliament assembled, have
found it expedient to enquire in the hi ft place, into
the actual slate and conditionof the nation in gene
ral: For this we have a recent precedent, almost
within the memory of man, not briefly speaking in
the Journals of a Parliament, but in the Journals
of a national and con ftitutional A ffembly, which has
done more good than all your Parliaments since the
days of Henry the Third, put together, which re-
Pored and ehablifhed, on a firm basis, the Protes
tant religion, and civil liberties of the people, and
which brought in the amiable families of Nafihu
and 01 Brunswick, to maintain that religon, and to
protect us in the enjoyment of thole liberties: I
mean. Sir, the Convocation, of Cengrefs, in the
year 1688, whose acts and resolutions ought, like
the leaves of the Sybils of old, to be sanctimoni
ously reverted to, at all times of flatc perplexity
, Earl Gomer, in tie cot:nty^f Stafford.
§ Lord Sian!:-;.
'Lord Stanly and Mr. Ric~.
February 3, 1776.
Numb. LIV. „