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Several Sums of Money,
To be Lent, at Interest, on good Security,
By JAMES HUMPHREYS,
Notary Public and Conveyancer;
In Front-street, Corner of Black-horse Alley.
For CORK,
The Brigantine GLOBE,
^ PATRICK FLYNN, Master;
I ILL fail about the firftweek
^Nf^ ' VV in March. For Faffage ap
ply to the Maker on board, at Bickly's wharf above
}L bt-ftreet, or to JOHN PRINGLE. J
Three Pounds Reward.
^T7HER£AS a certain DANIEL SIMPKINS
VV of Botetourt county, in Virginia, who was
hired by the Jubferiber to lead a horse with 12 pair of
buckjkin breeches and 150 Luckfkins metl drefled to
New-England, did sometime about the 37 in slant,
Run off with said horse, breeches, and fins, and has
not face been heard of, the fubjeriber will pay the
above reward and all reasonable charges, to whoever
Jhall deliver said Simpkins with the horse, fc. to him
living in Botetourt, in Virginiq; or Thirty Shil
lings to whoever Jballfecure him tn any gaol between
Philadelphia and Virginia, so that he may be brought
. to jufice. 'JOHN B IRCLAY.
Said Simpkins was born in New 'England is about
fifty years of age, and about five feet ten inches high,
had on a yellow flriped linfey coat, a black hunting
flirt over it, old leather breeches, old dirt, yarn flock
ings, half worn caftor hat, and a white flirt. The
horse was a large bay, about 15 hands high, with kis
„r ne trimmed off. f
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Or a Key to the Knowledge of the
Horse, and Horsemanship,
With several Necessary Rules lor young Horicmen.
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Late of his Majesty's Royal Light Dragoons.
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111. The art of riding and reducing a horse to
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IV To mount the horse, with a variety of di
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this useful animal.
V. Necessary directions on a journey, &c.
dZENB RIGS and TICKLENBUftGS, jud
opening, and to be fold for readv money only, by
JONAS PHILLIPS,
At his Store in Market-street, near the Coffee house,
WITH sundry other DRY GOODS on hand,
French and Carolina indigo, Florence oil,
sweet wines, brandy, Holland and country geneva*
in cases, cordials in barrels, cinnamon and mace,
best northern beaver and raccoon ikins, &c. &c.
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PENNSYLVANIA
KEYSER's famous PILLS, so well known
all over Europe, and in this and the neigh
bouring colonies, for their Superior efficacy and pe
culiar mildness, in perfectly eradicating every de
gree o' a certain disease, without the lead trouble
or confinement; also the Rheumatism cured by
these famous Pills, are felling at 10, 20,^1^40
Killings a Box, By NICHOLAS BROOKS,
ar his Shop in Second-street, three doors above
Black-horse Alley: At which place may be had,
MAREDANT's DROPS.
N. B. Good allowance is made to people who
fell again.
February 17, 1776.
Or the Virginia, Maryland,
SATURDAY,
ANTISCORBUTIC DROPS.
As a proof of the superior efficacy of Maredant's drops (prepared
by Mr. Norton, Surgeon, of Gulden Square, London, to any
medicine, hitherto known, for the cure ot the Scurvy, Leproly,
Ulcers, the Evil, Fistula, Piles, long continued Inflammations
of the eves, and every other disorder a: ifing from a foulnefs in
the blo d, the following extraordinary cures are referred co.
Mr. HENRY TRENCHARD GOODENOUGH, Steward
of the Magdalen Hofpaal, cured of an inveterate feurvy of 22
years Handing.
MARY COPSON, of Brompton, cured of a scorbutic humour
cn her head and face, attended with a violent hoarseness and
Ihortnefs of breath. Witness, Mr. Orton, Coal Merchant in
Whitcomb-street, near Leicester Fields
Mr. JOHN FOSI ER, at the Rufe, at Welling, in Kent, cured
of a leprosy, attended 11 itb violent rheumatic pains.
Mr>. MARY LUTE, at Mi. Field's, in Caftle-ftrect, Leicefler
Fields, cured of the Evil, or Schrophula: Her bones were greatly
enlarged, and several pieces separated and came away. Witnels,
Thomas Field, Castle-street, and Henry Hyde, Butcher in Su
James's Market.
To Mr. NORTON, Surgeon, in Golden Square.
S 1 R,
ABOUT two years ans a half ago, 1 was seized with a
violent hoarfeneis and fhortnels of breath. I lent for a
physician, who ordered me to be bled : 1 also took a great
many medicines, but grew worse inhead of better. My head
ached so violently, that it prevented me from getting any red ;
my face and head broke out in large blotches, which pead so
much that I was in daily fear of Idling ray eye-fight. Ihe hu
mour which discharg'd from my face was to very offensive, that
1 could hardly bear it mylelf; bu ; by the ule of your Maredant's
Props, am effectually cured. Any perlon doubling of this, may
be convinced of the truth, by calling on Ms. C^pfn, at Brompton ;
or bv enquiring of Mr. Orton, Coal Merchant in Whitcomb-Street,
neat Leiceiler Fields. 1 am, with great re pect,
Sir, your most hue ble fewant,
MARY COPSON.
To Mr. NORTON; Su.geon, Golden Square.
AFTER having been afflicted uth a moll violent scorbutic
humour o' 13 years dance g, which rendered me incapable
of bulinef ; I have the fatish Chon t inform you, i am
n w perfeftiv cured, by the ufeo your Mareflam's Drops. You
have my 'eave to publish this, h ping it may be tne means of pro
curing benenefit to others afflicted as I Was, I am, Sir,
Your humble fervent,
GEORGE LANGDON,
No. 57, the North fide of Sr. Paul's
church yard, July lyth, 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 told by Mr. Norton's appointment, bv Mr.
James Rivington, and nr Hugh Gaine, Printers, at New-Y&k,
and Mr. JOHN AIREY, in Market-ureet, Philadelphia, at
7s. Veiling per bottle.
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By Captain Alien arrived in the river from Newry,
we have the following advices.
LONDO N.
Nov. 16. The number of men that puifhed in
different flips in the late dorms, amount to 2500,
as appears by the estimates delivered to the com
manders from the several harbours.
Capt. Powlet of the 59th regiment, has loft one
of his legs by the cannonading of the Provincials,
as he fat at his breakfaft.
As the Ministry have for some time pad deprived
us of all information from America they now fliut
out all information at home as much as possible,
and have begun it in locking up the gallery door of
the House of Commons, on the very day, for the
firft time this fealon when it was expeded hlr.
Burke would give to the public, and to his country,
a plan for the conciliation with the colonies The
Ministry were aware this plan would be relished
much better by the public, than that decided on
by the cabinet, and for this purpose were determi
ned to prevent all compariions Surely such a
conduct in a free date, has but one obvious inter
pretation ! Which is, that the minilkrs are confei
ous to themselves that their actions will not bear
the approbation of reason or justification
Lalt night Admiral Duff from Newfoundland,
arrived in town, and on the fame evening waited
on Lord North, and gave his Lordship an account
of the date of the fifhery'and the damage done the
(Ith of September last.
The general difficulty of recruiting, extends even
to the Highlands, insomuch that Lord John Mur
ray's battalion wants above a third of the number
to compleat it.
House of Commons. Saturday, November 18.
O N Thuriday, about half an hour after three
o'clock, Mr. Burke opened his conciliatory propo
sition. He began by presenting a petition from the
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Pennsylvania, & New-Jersey
gentlemen, clergy, clothiers, manufacturers, and
other inhabitants of the several towns of Wefkury,
IVarminfter, and Trowbridge, and the neighbour
hood thereof, in the county of kVilts. complaining
of the address of these places, which had entirely
misrepresented the date of the trade, and the sen
timents, and wilhes of the inhabitants, and praying
the house to find some amicable method for termi
nating the differences between this kingdom and the
colonies. He told the house that the Signers of that
petition were all men who manufactured for them
selves; and he was authorized to fay, that they pos
sessed more than 500,000!. of English property.
He said, that he wilhed the prayer of that petition
to be confidcred as the exordium of what he had to
fay to the house. He complained of the difficulties
which in civil wars lay upon moderate men, who
advised lenient measures ; that their moderation was
attributed to a want of zeal, and their fears for the
public fafety, to a want of Ipirit; that whatever
they said to incline the house to lenity, was constru
ed into a countenance of rebellion; and so many
arts, and so many menaces had been used, that if
they had not been opposed with a good Share of
firmnels by the friends to the peace of their coun
try, all freedom of debate, and indeed all public
deliberation, would have been put an end to.
He said, th it for his part he was no way intimi
dated by all those machinations from doing his duty;
and that nothing that could be done by those, whole
measures had brought this country into so deplora
ble a situation Should hinder him from using his
best endeavours to deliver it from its distresses.
The firft hep for this purpose, was to get out of
general dilcourfes, and vague tenements, 'which he
said had been one of the main causes of our present
troubles; and to appreciate the value of the several
plans that were, or might be proposed, by an exaft
detail of particulars.
The speech was so very methodical, that it was
not difficult to form a just idea of the outline.
He hated, that there were three plans afloat.
First, simple war, in order to a perfect conquest.
Second, a mixture of war and treaty. And third,
peace grounded on concefhon.
As to the firft plan; that of mere war, he observ
ed, that it -was proposed in two ways; one of dircH
conquest, the other indirect by distress. In either
of these ways he said, he thought it his duty before
he voted for a war, to know distinctly that the means
of carrying it on were adequate to the end. It did
not fatisfy his confeience to fay, that the resources
of this nation were great; he muh fee them. That
before be could trust to those resources. on the cre
dit of what had been formerly done he must find
the situation of the county to be, what it formerly
was. He then examined white the ministers had
laid before the house as the means of carrying 011
the ensuing campaign. That as to the force which
they had made the house exped from his Majesty's
allies, all difeourfe of that had, for some time, en
tirely fubfidtd: he could, therefore take credit for
nothing more on that account, than a handful of
Hanoverians, which only answered the purpose of
an imperfect Security to feme of our foreign garri
ions. That our national forces to be employed in
America, by the account on the table, amounted
to no more than 26,000 men: that in this, credit
was taken for the army now in America at full
numbers. Phis he could not allow; as luppofing,
that if their reduction in future was to be estimated
by the past, they mud be reduced to little or no
thing, by the beginning of next campaign. That
the troops here are only upon paper, and the diffi
culty of recruiting was acknowledged. On the
whole, he saw reason to apprehend that we Should
not be very materially Stronger at the beginning of
the next year than we were at the beginning of the
lad, but that if the number were entire, it did not
seem to him to be Sufficient for the purpose. That
as to the predatory, or war by dihrefs, (on the na
ture of which he greatly enlarged) he observed,
that it might irritate a people in the highest degree;
but such a war had never yet induced any one peo
ple to receive the government of another. That it
was a kind of war to distress an independent people,
and not to coerce difubedicut fubjeCb.
February 17, 1776.
Numb. LVI.