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Monday, June 2%, i„'° ° l l°™^? THE .'. ^ ;/ , (No. laty]
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A NEW CURE
Performed by
MAREDANT's DROPS.
• Saltafe, March 11,077 fr
To Mr. NORTON, Surgeon in Oolden-Srwe.
Sir,
IN gratitude to you, and for the benefit ts others, I
think it my duty to inform you of the ettraoidinary
cure my son has obtained, of an inveterate Scurvy, by the
. use of your drops, after having the advice of many phy
feians and appothecaries, at a very great expence, to no
purpose ; he was so extremely bad, that we not only
despaired of relief but thought his life in danger. I beg
this may be made public; and am, Sir,
Witnesses to the cure, Your humble servant,
Thomas Fa%x, ANTHONY BACON.
,obn Lee, Vicar of Saltafh.
• 'fl 'HE following remarkable cures fufhclently 'prove
I the efficacy of MareDant's Drops, (prepared by
Mr. Norton, Surgeon of Golden-Squire, near Picadilly)
superior to any medicine hitherto known, for curing the
leprosy, scurvy, ulcers, the evil, fiftnUs, piles, the rheu-
Inatifm, long continued inflammations of the eyes, andv
every other disorder arising from a foulness in the blood.
7b Mr. Norton, Surgeon in Gulden-Square, London.
I HAVE here inclofed you my certiticate of Roderick
Macdonald's being cured, in all appearance, of that
frank fcoi butic eruption, which for 'many years past, has
constantly refilled the power of a variety of medicines,
(taken by him, to my certain knowledge) until it vanished
by the use of your Mandant's Drops.
Your raoft obedient and humble fervent,
JAMES COWPER.
P. S, I have just now seen, and examined the case of
Mrs. Mary Lute, on whom 1 find you have performed a
most miraculous cure of three years landing, of the
Scrophula, commonly known by the name of the King's
Evil.---You must be very happy, when refk&ing you
have it in your power to give relief to so many fuffenng
mortals, which such extraordinary cures proves you have*
John-Street, Cavendish-Square, ?
January 13th, 1775.}
Mr. John Ingram, of Codford, St. Mary, Wil's, cured
of a most inveterate scurvy, of twenty years handing ;
hi, body was covered all over with blotches and ulcers,
which scaled off like the scales of a fifo. Witness, John
Gentler; of Hetchbury.
Mr. Edward Myquire, of Losg-Lane, Southwark,
/cured of a raoft,dreadful pain in the stomach, with low
^fs of fr,,r, end :,oft fcrere pain in ,e head.
7-fyt/ft^4^, *^ro:,-,::: ,< j^ t^rL'^Jb.
monr onher head and face, attended with a violent hoarfe
refs and Ihoftnefs of breath. Witness, Mr. Orton, coal
merchant, in Vfiifeomb-flrcet, near Leicester Fields.
Mrs. M&ry Bride, No. 78, Snow-hill, near Weft-
Smithfield, cured of an inveterate scorbutic humour in
,her face ; her eyes were so much affe&ed as to render her
almost incapable of feeing ; she had also the piles.
Mr+ John Foster, at the Rose, at Selling, in Kent,
cured of a leprosy, attended with violent rheumatic pains.
ThefoD^ringcures authenticated by James Cowper, M.D.
Mr. John Hall, attorney, in Johufon's-ccurt, Fleet
ftreet, cured of a scorbutic disorder on his Ihoudders, neck,
and ears, attended with a continual pain in the stomach,
and loss of appetite.
Lieutenant-Colonel Feyrac, late ofhis Majesty's 18th
er Royal regiment of foot, in Ireland, cured of a most
violent scurvy, having no part free from pimples, feurf
and ulcers, except the palms of bis hartdr, his face and
breast, attended witeh a total want of appetite, lleep and
spirits.
*, A- y person fii!l doubtful of the efficacy of those
drops^may (by applying to Mr. Norton, fuTgeon, the weft
fide of Golden-square, near Piccadilly, London, the au
thor and proprietor, or to the Printer) be more fully
convinced of their good effects, by being referred to many
people of good credit, who have been cured of the above
mentioned disorders. They may be taken in any season,
without the least inoonveniency or hindrance of business.
They also perfect digestion, and amazingly create an
appetite.---None are genuine but what are ligned by John
Norton, in his own hand-writing.
Betoare of Counterfeits.
*|* Mr. NORTON having again discovered that his
bottles, bills of direction, together with his hand-writing,
have been counterfeited, in order to impose on the public
\ spurious medicine, for his (Maredant's) drops; he
therefore hopes, for their health's fake, they will be ex
tremely cautious of whom tbey buy them.
N. B. The drops are in square bottles, with the fol
lowing inscription on them, viz “ John Norton, only
proprietor and author of Maredant's drops."
Sold in New-York, by H. Gaine, and J. Rivington, at
izs. a bottle.
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use your Influence and Authority to keep Peace
and good Order, and procure Arid Obfervarice
of, and ready Obedience to the Law. If any
Charlestown, (S. Carolina) May 1.
In the General Assembly, April 11, 17761
ORDERED, That the Speech this Day
delivered to both Houses, by his Excel
lency the President and Commander in Chief
of this Colony, be forthwith printed and made
public, as well in the News-papers as otherwise.
By Order of the House,
PETER TIMOTHY, Cl. G. A.
<Honourable Gentlemen of the legislative
Council,
Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the
, General Assembly,
IT has afforded me much Satisfaction to
obfave, that though the Season of the
Year rendered your fitting very inconvenient ;
your private Concerns, which mull have fuf
sered greatly by your long and elofe Applica
tion in the late Congfefs to the Affairs of this
Colony, requiring your presence in the Coun
try ; yet continuing to prefer the Publick
Weal to Ease and Retirement, you have been
busily engaged in framing such Laws, as ou r
peculiar Gircuinftances rendered abfolu;ely
necessary to be passed before vour Adjourn
ment. Having given my Assent to them, 1
presume you are now desirous of a Recess.
On my Part, a most solemn Oath has been
taken, for the faithful Discharge of niy Dutv ;
on yours, a solemn Assurance has been given
to support me therein. Thus, a publick Com
pad between us stands recorded. You may rest
allured, that I shall keep this Oath ever in
mind—the Constitution shall be the invariable
Rule of my Conduct—my Ears fhUl be always
open to the Complaints of the injured ; Justice
in Mercy, shall neither be denied, or delayed
—Cur Laws and Religion, and the Liberties
of America, shall be maintained and defended,
to the qtmoft of my Power.—l repose the molt
perfect Confidence in your Engagement.
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Thursday, 27 Min. after 6
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Saturday, it Min. after 8j
Sunday, 6 Min. after 9 1
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Persons therein are still Strangers to the
Nature and Merits of the Dispute between.
Great-Britain and the Colonies, you will ex
plain it to them fully, and teach them, if they
are so unfortunate as not to know their in
herent Rights.—Prove to them, that the Pri
^ leges of being trie/ by a Jury of the Vicinage,
,acquainted with the Parties and Witnesses ; of
I being taxed only with their own Content, given
by their fceprefen^atives, freely chosen by, and
sharing the Burthen equally with themselves,
not for the aggrandizing a rapacious Minister,
and his dependant Favourites^ and for cor-
Irupting the People, and Subverting their liber
ties, but for such wife and salutary Purposes,
las they themselves approve ; arid of having
I their internal Polity regulated, only by Laws
: consented to by competent Judges of what is
'belt adapted to their Situation and Circum
!Rances, equally bound too by those Laws, are
inestimable, and derived from that Constitu
tion, which is the Birthright of the poorest
Mgn, and the best Inheritance of the most
/wealthy.—Relate to them, the various unjust
and cruel Statutes, which theßritifh Parliament
claiming a Right to make Lavus for binding the
I Colonies in all. Cases nvbatJoecver, have enacted,
and the many sanguinary Measures, which have
been, and are daitypurfeed and threatened, to
wrest from them those invaluable Benefits, and
I to enforce such an unlimited and deftruftive
Claim.—To the molt illiterate it must appear,
that no Power on Efirth can, of Right, deprive
them of the hardly earned Fruits of their
honest Industry, toil and Labour-even to
them, the irnpiour Attempt, to prevent many
thousands from uting the means of Subfiffapce
provided for Man by theßounty of his Creator,
and to compel them, by Famine, to surrender
their Rights, will seem to call for Divine
.Vengeance.—The Endeavours, by Deceit and
Bribers, to engage barbarous Nations to em
%,^e.their Hangs in the innocent ^3lood of
iGt^icff Y^hrt^Aud w-^ilc/cn,.::r^ te A''
tempts, by fair but R^fe Promises, to malfe
ignorant bomeftichs subservient ^0 the molt
wicked Purposes, are Acts, at which Humanity
must revolt.
Shew your Confiituents, then, the indis
pensable Necessity which there was, for esta
blishing some Mode of Government in this
Colony; the benefits of that, which a full
and free Representation has eftabbfhed ; and
that the Consent of the People is the Origin,
and their, Happiness the End of Government.
Remove the Apprehensions with which boneft
and wqll meaning, but weak and credulous
Minds, may be alarmed; and prevent ill Jm
preffions by artful and designing Enemies.---
Let it be known, that this Cenrtitntion is but
temporary- -till an Accommodation o{the un
haopy Differences between Great-Britain and
America can be obtained ; and that such an
Event is still desired, by Men who yet remem
ber former friendfhips r and innmate Connexi
ons, though, for defending their Persons and
Properties they are stigmatized and treated as
Rebels.
Truth, being known, will prevail over Ar
tifice and Mifreprefehtation —Conviction must
follow its Difeovery —ln such Case, no Man,
who is worthy of Life, Liberty or Property,
will, or can, refufe to join with you, in de
fending them to the last £xtremity--Difdaining
every sordid View, and the mean paltry Con
siderations of private Inttreft and present
Em^ument, when placed in Competition with
the Liberties of Millions ; and feeing that
there is no Alternative but absolute unconditi
onal Submission, and the most abjeft Slavery,
or a Defence becoming Men born to Freedom,
he will not hesitate about the Choice--Although
superior Force may, by the Perhiiffion of
Heaven; lay waste our Towns, and ravage our
Country, it can never eradicate, from the
Breads of Freemen, those Principles which are
engrafted in their very nature —Such Men will
do their Duty, neither knowing, or regarding
Consequences ; but submitting them, with
humble Confidence, to the Omnifeient and
Omnipotent Arbiter and Director of the Fate
of Empires, and trufling that his Almighty
Arm, which has been so tignally stretched out
fur cur Defence, will deliver them in a righte
ous Cause.
The Eyes of Europe, nay of the whole
World, are on American—The Eyes of every
other Colony, are on this, a Colony, whole
Reputation, for Generosity and Magnanimity
is ,universally .acknowledged. I trust, therefore,
it will not be diminished by our future Con
duct , that there will be no civil Discord here ;
add that the only Strife amengft Brethren will
be, who shall do most to serve and to save an
oppressed and injured Country.
^,7/11, 1776. JOHN RUTLEDGE.
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I We learn,,>y express from North-Carolina, that
about 1100 of General Clinton's men were landed
under cover of the flapping ; likewise that a troop
of horse, who were lent out to watch the enemy's
motions, had fallen in with a party of them, killed
four, and forced the rest to retire with precipitation.
Yesterday afternoon an express came in from Ge
neral Lev, with ~v:ce that the feet is gone from
Cape Fear; that it was the prevailing opinion they
were bound to South-Carolina, though General Lee
thinks it is muff likely they are coming round to this
colony.
It is an ur-doubted fa&, that ail the tones that
} were in Lord Dunmore's service have left him, there
not being above halfthe fleet now at Gwyr's Iflandg
where they are gone to is uncertain. This, it is
imagined, was occasioned by a fever which has raged
with great fury amongst them for feme time past,
and from the funeral processions that hdve been seen
there, Very probably have proved fatal to feme per
funs of dutiu&ion.
The piratical yeffe! commanded by Bs.rtlet Good
rich, is taken, and himfelf and ten others made prie
; foners. She n^opnts four carriage guns, and had on
' board a quantity of W. It-Jndia produce, some guo
powder, (mail arms, and a nUmber of othnr very
ufeful articles.
ANNAPOLIS, Junei 3 .
The time limited for the continuation of the present
General Assembly of this province expiring on the
iq.th instant, his Excellency our Governor was yester
day plcafed to issue his proclamation for difl^Ding
the fame, ond to order writs of election to !>e iffped
to-morrow to call a new Assembly, returnable th^
25th day of July nexN-•
MajL Last Friday evening Brigadier General
Armitrong and his son Dr. Aimitrong, arrived in
town from rfffiidelphia ';they came by water from
Hobcaw, and Were received or their landing at
Champrey'^, wharf, by our provincial and militia
field officers, and the Charleftown militia, under
arms; and on Monday Major Connor, Thomas
York, tfy and Mr. William Sykes, arrived here
from the fame place.
We are informed, that several transports are arrived
at Cape Fear, from Ireland, and that many more
were daily expe&ed there.
On Sunday fe'nnight two large Ships and a Sloop
appeared off our Bar. They have been seen Several
Times since, and are thought to be two English Ffr
gates and a Tender.
WILLIAMSBURG, June 8.
\,te following copy of a proclamation duas takem
.from a manufertyt enclosed in a letter from North-
Carolina, and is inferred to foetus our readers cushat
for! of Commissioners we are to expeß. Oof
troops, however, in that province being in good
ffirits, as well as fcfficient in point of number, we
may venture to p r edia that Clinton and bis
Commissioners will be treated very
rough!).]
By Major General Clinton, Commander of bis
Majeftfs forces in the foutbern provinces of North
America.
A PROCLAMATION. 4
WHEREAS a most unprovoked and wicked
rebellion hath for some time past prevailed,
and doth now exist, within his Majesty's province of
North-Carolina, and the inhabitants (forgetting
their allegiance to their Sovereign, and denying the
authority cf the laws and statutes of the realm) have,
in a succession of crimes, proceeded to the total fub
veifon of all lawful authority, usurping the powers
of government, and ere&ing a tyranny in the hand,
of Congrelfes and Committees of various denomi
nations, utterly,unknown and repugnant to the spirit
of the British Conttitmien ; and divers people, in
avowed defiance to all legal authority, are now aAu^
ally in arms, waging unnatural war against their
King ; and whereas all attempts to reclaim the infa#
tuated'arid m^guided multitude to a sense of their
prrrr h've urJ;appikLpibveQ ; neffe&r>O I have it jn
compare tn ty-ocaed forth v^h againft&U luca mt^j
or bodies of /An in arms, and ag,ind all Congreve,
and Committees thus unlawfully established, a$
against open enemies to the date. But, coufidering
it a duty infepzhhle from the principle of humanity,
firtt of all to forewarn the deluded people of the
mil vies ever attendant, upon civil war, I do melt
earnestly entreat, and exhort them, as they tender
their own liappihefs, arid that of their posterity, to
ppperfe the vengeance of an injured andjuftly incen
sed nation, by a return to their duty to our common
Sovereign, and to thebleffings cf a free government,
as established by law; hereby offering, in his Ma
j^fty's name, free pardon to all such as fhalllay down
their arms and submit to the laws, excepting only
from the benefit of Tech pardon Cornelius Harnett
and Robert Howe. And Ido hereby require, that
the Provincial Congress and all Committees of Safety,
dnd other unlawful aflociatiohs, be diffolVed, and
the judges allowed to hold their Courts according to
the laws and conflitutic. of this province ; of which
all persons a rf e ret^jired ho take notice, as they will
answer the contrary at their utmost peril.
Given on board the Pallas tranfoort, in Caps
Fear river, in the province of North-Carolina,
tFe gtb day of May, 1776, and in the i6tb
year of bis Mnjrffsreign.
H. CLINTON.
By.command of General Clinton,
Richard Reave, Secretary.
To the Magistrates of the province cf North-?
Carolina, to be by them made public. J
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