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did not originate with me, though I think him a
very able and deferring officer; yet neither was I
ever ruled in the Cabinet ; for, understanding that
his Lordihip curbed for the command, I was happy
in having an opportunity of gratifying his desires,
and furthering the appointment cf so capable a man.
The noble Duke fays, that the Servants of the crown,
who Support the measures now pursuing against
America, surely disapprove of them, and express
their disapprobation of them in private company. I
do not pretend to fay what company the noble Duke
keeps who so confidentially impart their opinions to
him; but this I will venture to affirm, that I con
vert both publicly and privately with them all; and
that I never heard them express the least diapproba
tion whatever of the present measures. The noble
Duke fays, that though we have Ships, we have not
men Sufficient to man them. In this the noble Duke
is equally mistaken; for of the whole compliment
of able seamen necessary for the twenty guardfhips,
there is only five hundred wanting; and I will add
another piece of intelligence, no lets fatal to another
argument made use of by his Grace, which is, that
so tar from the men being averse to the Service, this
very deficiency in the complement of the guardfhips
has arisen from a most uncommon alacrity in the
men foi toe American Service, who have been en
tered, choosing to serve in America in preference to
Laying at home. On the whole, the five hundred
men deficient could be procured in a few days, which,
with the ordinary seamen and landmen, would ena
ble the twenty guardfhips that are all of the line of
battle, to proceed to tea in the course of a week;
and suppose any difficulty Should arise, we Should'
procure more thap Sufficient at the shortest notice;
so that taking in either light, we are prepared for
any hidden event or emergency whatever. [During
the whole of this Speech, there was a general laugh
or titter pervaded the whole House on both Sides of
the bar.] +
Lord Townsend. I believe the noble Duke's soli
citude, relative to. whom the command would de
volve on, in case of the death of the Commander in
Chief, is totally unnecessary, as I take it, the next
senior officer would succeed of course. I remember
this was the case during the late war in America.
First, a noble Lord, a member of this House, (Lord
Loudon) had the chief command. Afterwards Ge
neral Abercrombie; and though Colonel Stanwix
was the next Senior officer when Sir Jeffery Amherst
was appointed Commander in Chief, the Supreme
command immediately veiled in Sir Jeffery.
( To be Continued)
FULLER and FIS HE R~
HA V E removed their Store from Water
ftreet to Benjamin Fuller's house in Front
ftreet, a little' below the Draw-bridge, the third
door above Union-Street, where they have for lale,
for cash only, Oznabrigs, Sheetings, Britanias,
dowlefs, checks and Stripes, worded and hair
plushes, mens white silk hole, silk knee garters and
•a few packets of pins.
Lord. Sandwich. I did not intend to trouble your
Lorulhips on the present occasion, had I not been
particularly called on by the noble Duke who made
the motion; and to let another noble Duke (Duke of
ManchcQer) right respecting some points on which
he feeins to be mifinformed. My noble relation has
informed your Lordihips, that the town of Norfolk
in Virginia, has been burnt and dehroyed; and has
accompanied his narrative, with federal exaggerated
circtimdaiiccs attending chat affair. I will tell the
noble Duke how the matter really happened. One
of our ships of war, being in great dihrefs for water,
failed to Norfolk in order to procure it, and applied
to the inhabitants, who, indead of complying with
the common dictates of humanity, fired on the flag
of ir,uce, and killed or wounded two or three of our
men. This occasioned what afterwards happened,
and caused the town to be burnt. I do hot believe it
is yet burnt. The inhabitants of Norfolk were so
cruel and barbarous, that the whole crew must have
perilled for want of Irelh water, had it not been for
the relief they procured by the diftilation of salt
water. It was not the men of war's men that burnt
Norfolk; it was the inhabitants themselves. I do not
know that it is yet burnt; the Norfolk people set fire
to the town ; that is, the fire from the man of war
set fire to part of it, and the inhabitants burnt the
left. The noble Duke who made the motion has
entertained your Lordships a great while, relative
to the appointing, and superseding of officers. His
Grace has done me the honor to advert to me fre
quently in the course of his observations. I will
tell the noble Duke, that he is both mistaken in his
fluffs and conjectures. Admiral Greaves was not,
difmided nor recalled; nor was there the least ob
jection to Ids conduct as an officer; on the cantrary,
his Majesty, to shew the good opinion he entertains
of his services, has appointed him a Vice-Admiral.
As to Admiral Shuldham being superseded in the
supreme command, he never imagined or thought
that he was to cornman 'in chief. He only Succeed
ed Admiral Greaves, and as the Service was to be
extended and carried on upon a larger Scale, it be
came necehary that more Admirals than one Should
be employed; not that I know Admiral, Shuldham
means to remain on the American Station. I assure
the noble Duke, that the appointment of Lord Howe
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MELASSES, CUFFLE, and SUGARS,
French Brandy and Red Port in Bottles,
TO BE SU L D, By
GEORGE MEADE, and Co.
ISAAC HAZLEHURST
Has for Sale, at his Store in Water-Street, the fifth
door above Market-Erect:
C TOFFEE of the bell quality, Mufeovado Su-
J gars in hogsheads, tierces and barrels, Molas
ses, Cinnamon, Powder Blue, and a few hogsheads
of exceeding good Jamaica Spirit, five years-old.
PIPE ^POUNDS Reward.
RAN AWAY lad night from the lubl'cribe, living in Car
lale, an Indented Servant Man, named JAMES DOR
MAN ; but may change his name, is a bricklayer and ma
son by trade, about 27 or 28 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches
high, dour made, round faced, large eyes, down look, Short
dark brown hair. Took rith him a new fnuff edoured broa&
cloth coat lapelled the fame of the coat and broad metal buttons
on u, a Short white broad cloth waistcoat, a u bite Sagathy coat
with basket buttons, a fur hat half worn, two or three linen
shirts about a 700, a pair of black worked breeches about half
worn, a pair of old th es, yellow buckles, one pair of black
worked dockings, a pair of thread ditto, a light blue perban
jacket, one yellow .flriped silk ditto double breaded. He loves
drong drink, fays he is ahailor, and it is likely he will get on
board some vcffel. He dole a noted valuable Hoile, a dark chef
nut sorrel, with a bald face, his hind feet white, and was Ma
dam Armstrong's riding horse. Whoever takes up, and secures
both shall have the above reward, or Three Pounds for the thief,
and Forty fhillingsfor the Horfc, with reasonable charges.
Carhfle, July 2. | THOMAS KENNEDY.
By Jos. Tucker, D. D. Dean of Gloucester,
Author of the Essay on the Advantages and Dis
advantages which relpcdiveiy attend France and
Great-Britain, with regard to Trade.
To which is added, by the Printer, a few more
Words on the Freedom of the Preis in America.
N. B. At said BELL's may be had Do&or Jones
on Wounds and Fractures, &c. &c.
|ONAS PHILLIPS has tor file Superfine French
JIN DIG 0, one hundred and eighty reams of
the belt Propatria writing paper, ofnabrugs and
tickiinburgs, checks and Holland stripes, needles
and pins, Skeleton wires, buckrams, umbrellas, and
sundry other dry goods. Likewise Madeira, Tent,
Mainfey and Frontoniac WINES, &c.
HAMILTON and SON,
Tobacconists.
HAVE moved from the corner of Spruce and
VVater-llreets, to the house belonging to,
and lately occupied by Mr. John Wallace, in Se
cond-ttreet, fix doors below Market street, where
they continue to carry on their Scotch Inuff and
tobacco Manufactory in all the several branches
as usual; they have laid in a large dock of the
very bell:Vir g ini a leaf tobacco, and are confident
°' giving tire utmost latisfa&ion to their former
cuhomers and the publick. Orders will ^ e punctu
ally answer'd with all possible dilpalch, they rive
calk for good empty inuff bottles
POUR DOLLARS RENARD.
RAN-AWAY from the fubicriber of New-
Hanover townlhip, Philadelphia county, on
the 13th of May lad patt, JOHN HUNT, an
indented Englilh lervant LAD; he is about 20
years old, little for his age, is pock marked, has
whitilh yellow hair, speaks broken German, and
had on when he went away, a half worn felt hat,
a shirt of Russia sheeting, a blue regimental coat
turned, up with bown, tow trowlers, and half
worn shoes. Whoever apprehends said Servant
and I)lings him to his matter, or secures him so
tliat lie may have him again, may receive the a
bove Reward and reasonable charges, paid by
_Z^3\ * JACOB BISHOP.
Several Sums of Money,
Io be Lent, at Interest, on good Security
By JAMES HUMPHRE Y s',
Notary Public and Conveyancer-'
In Front-street, Corner of BLck-horfe Alley.
The following MILITARY WORKS, fae of
them very valuable, and seldom to be met with, may
be bad at R. BELL's, next door to St. Paul's
church in Third Street.
LE Blond's Military Engineer, containing the
attack and defence of all kinds of fortified pla
ces, with numerous and excellent copperplates,
two vol.
Novelle Fortifications, par Coeborn.
Ozanam's Ancient and Modern Methods of For.
tification, with Vaubans Manner of Fortifying.
Marlborough's Battles and Sieges, from 1708 to
. I7I L
Simes's Military Guide for officers, 2 vol.
New # Syttem of Military Discipline, founded on
Principle, by a General Officer.
Stevenson's Military Instructions.
Hofte and Webster's Mechanics, Fortification, Ar
tillery, or Gunnery, adapted to the use of the
Gentlemen of the Army and Navy.
ARCHITECTURE HYDRAULIQUE.
DE la maniere de faire usage du cours des eaux
dans les operations de la Guerre des Sieges &
de Campaign. Comprenant l'art de faire usage des
eaux dans la Guerre offenfive & defenfive, accom
pagne d'un nombre d'exemples d'occafions memo
rabies ou l'on s'en est fervi avec fucces.
Par M. BELIDOR, Colonel d'lnfanteric, Chevalier
de I'Ordre Militaire de Saint Louis, &c.
Di, RIANs incomparable IFORM dflroylng
SUGAR PLUMB S,
Necessary to be left in all Families.
SO exceedingly valued by all people who have had of them in
Gieat-Bricain and Ireland, for their transcendent excellency
in the decoying Worms of all kinds, both in the bodies of
men, women and children, by not only breaking the knots of the
.Duodenum, or gars next the stomach, but they p.fs through the
imailelt paftages of the b dy, and purge away thole ropy and slimy
humours which are the caule of tnole pernicious vermin, and the
source of many other disorders: they are one of the belt purges in
the whole world for gross bodied children that are apt to breed
worms, and have large bellies; their operation is mild, fafe and
pleasant, they wonderfully cleanse the bowels, of all iliff and
clammy humours, which Hop up the parts, and prevent the juice
of food being conveyed to the liver and made blood, which is
often the cate with children, and is attended with a hard belly,
Linking breath, frequent fevers, rickets, and a decay cf Hren^th
in the lower parts: Likeniie fettled head achs and pains in the
head, fuellings, old fores, scabs, tetters, or breakings out, will
be perfectly cured, anu the bio d and skin, restored to its origin
al purity apd Im rothneis; they purge by urine, and brine away
the gravel, and eileQu.lly cure all obitruftions of the urine, or ul
cers in the kidneys. I hey at nee Hrike at the true cause of the
feurvy and entirely destroy it, and all scorbutic humours and cf.
feds, root and branch, to as never to return again; and what
makes them more commendable is, they are full as agreeable to
both take and light as loaf sugar.
1 have by thetc plumbs cured a great many children of whoop
ing oi chin coughs, and agues, which diitempers are very corn
mon and troublesome 0 families, ai d the want of theie plumbs
are the ruin ot many childrens conftituttons.
",'"' p' uni bs enrich and iweeren the whole mass ifblood,car
ry off ad grok, corrupt and putrid humours, and create a frelhand
be^dh) complexion in tuch as are affected by any putrid matter.
# ahe pumb is a great diuretick, cleaning the reins of Dime;
it expels wind, and is a lovereign medicine in the cholic and
griping ot the guts. It allays and carries off four vapours which
occalnn many disorders in the head It opens all oblhulfnms in
the llomach, lungs, liver, reins and bladder; causes a god appe
tite and helps digellion. It hath been found wonderfully fuccefs
ful to tuch perlons as are ging into chronicle diftenipers, as allh
ms, phthises, or fhortneis of breath, dropfics and yellow jaun
dice. Nic Ih<pe ad impartial persons are Lrisfied, that the me
<uc ne which works upon tuch humours, will almol lreach any
distemper if not too tar gone, since corruption and putrciaftion
are the forerunners of ail clilcales; therefore no better ph ,fie can
be taken for all ages, fixes and conihtuciuns, from infancy ro old
age. These plumbs ae highly serviceable to the female sex,
from the age of fourteen 10 twenty years, and from 40 to 50.
Each box contains one dozen of thele plumbs, piice b ven (hill
ings and fix pence with printed directions.——Sold by Nicholas
Brooks, Philadelphia.
Diugneflic Signs of Worms.
PALENESS in the face, itching of the noie, hollowness
of tire eyes, grating of the teeth ~hen asleep, dulnefs, pains,
and heaviness in the he>d, a dry cough, and itching in the
fundament, white and thick urine, unquiet sleep, often fiarting,
101 l appetite, fuelled belly, knawing and biting about the flo
mach Irighttul dieanis, extreme thirds, the body decayed and
lean, fits, often vomiting, linking .breath, &c.
Larecbons tor taking them.
A child from 1 to 2 years may eat < ne plumb from 2 to 4 one
and a half; from 4 to 6 two; tr m 6 to 8 two'and a half; from
Bto 12 three; from 12 to : 1<, and all ab ve the age, may eat four
.plumbs, .one hour or two before up riling, not to dnni.during
th-t time, but afterwards drink is ar m tea, whey, or water cruel ;
in taking them, the patient must day two or three days betwixt
each^dofe.
In agues, the fame quantity mud be taken, two, three or lour
hours before the fit comes or, and be repeat d three times. In
whp< ping or chu-coughs gre ;he quantity ab \ : : mentioned
TO BE S O L D,
A LOT of GROUND, adjoining the town
of Manheim, in the county of Lancaster,
containing two acres and one hundred and four
perches, being that out-lot, which in the plan of
the laid town, is marked and called Number ten.
Also, one other L 0 T, in or near the said
town of Manheim, containing ten acres and forty
four perches, adjoining the lots of Frederick Leifer.
Nicholas Candour, and others, being that part of a
trad of seven hundred acres of land divided into
lots, which in the plan of the said division is marked
and called Number thirty. The title and terms
may be known by applying to
l m - PITERS FISHER,
Genuine Keyfer's Pills,
To be had of the Printer.