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Philadelphia, Mty 29.
At a general meeting of the citizens of Phila
delphia, and parts adjacent, at the ftatehc use
in this citv,yen. RaVrdeau was unanim oily
requeued to take the chair, who introduced
the business with the following Andreis.
Genth men, „ .
ALTHOUGH I feel pain from the htuation
in which you have placed me, it is with
pleasure I meet you, my fellow citizens, to
confider and determine upon measures for our
mutual and publick haupinefs. A beneficent
God has hitherto blefled us with success, and
carried us thro' a four years war with as few
misfortunes as could possibly be expeded. We
have much to be thankful for; and tho many
worthy individuals have fuffered, yet, as a na
tion, we have but little to complain of.
The dangers we are now exposed to, arHe
from evils created among ourfrlves. I scorn,
and I hope every citizen here scorns, th. 'tho t
of getting rich by fucking the Good of his
Country; yet, alas, this unnatural, this cruel,
this destructive practice, is the great cause of
our present calamities. Ihe way to make our
money good is to reduce the prices of goods
and provisions. It is not the quantity of mo
nev which any man gets but how far that
money will go when he cornel to lay it out a
gain, that makes him poor or rich.
The tax that has been laid upon u' by mo
nopolizers and fore-wallers in thele 6 months
past, for it may De jultly called a tax, amounts
to more money than would carry the war on
12 months to come.
There is at present no law for regulating the
prices in t'e shops and markets, neither is
there any law to prevent such regulations being
made, and therefore the whole rests upon the
% <eand common sense of the community. I
nave doubt but combinations have been
: n r railing the prices of goods and pro
virions, id therefore 'he community in their
own < i:e, have a natural right to counteract
? c< T ;nations, and to let limits to evils
aR^ 'h elves.
iur: 1H gentlemen, to cure the dis
. , ; but it must be began upon ;
. Hr . appears to be the place in
nec was lirft bred, this likewise
i. v pla e 03 the remedy ought to be
<:, plit.. 1 > you gentlemen, set the ex
2! , and I'' p k there is little doubt but
ou ?c will so io** it.
V tuin ti/ .or fix months goods and
provifionsha ? > week by week.—Surely,
gentlemen, • :.,nio as much' as the mono
polizers have core, and bring the prices down
again week by week. By this means there
will be money to spare, to pay taxes with;
for at the rate things now are, intakes all the
country people's money to go to the shops with
and all the town's people's money to go to the
market witn, ind the whole community is
growing poor under a notion of getting rich.
Some wo.thy citizens who have the iuccefs
0, , R..:.caufe at heart,have undertaken
reg^lvl, redurtt^ tLu pri
e> cf gods arid provisions, and keeping up
o^ value of the money, and this plan, as! un
derhand, is to be laid before you at some fu
ture meeting., For my own part, gentlemen,
I Gall joyfully affirt j n any judicious measure
for the publick happ nefs, and have no doubt
but you will do the fame.
J: is a furprizing thing that the more goods
we have had brought into this city, the dearer
they have been ; and this is one of tireevils
which it is absolutely necessary to inquire into.
But the great point is to begin.
The paper i have in my hand contain- tome
reflations which have been drawn up and a
greed on by 2 committee of citizens, which,
with your approbation, 1 will read. I propose
firft to read th? whole thio', and then read it
a fecund time bv paragraphs, in order to take
your fen e thereon
The paper being read, after some amend
ments, was agreed to as follows:
Whereas the price of goods and provisions
have, within the space of 5 or 6 months, risen
to an enormous height, far beyond what they
ought to be in proportion to the quantity of
money The prices of dry goods have a ifen
when they ought to have decreased, and every
new car 0, inilead of lessening the prices, have
raised them.
Resolved, That the publick have a right to
inquire into the causes of such extraordinary
abates, and prevent them.
And whereas since the late importation of a
cargo of goods said to have been purchased or
consigned to the management of Mr. Robert
Morris, merchant, or others, the prices of all
kinds of dry goods have been greatly advanced
to the injury of the publick and the detriment
of trade.
Resolved, That this meeting, juftifying their
conduct on the necessity of the measure, and
being deeply affe&ed and injured by these in
creating evils, will appoint a committee to en
quire of Mr. Robert Morris, or others, what
part he or they have aded refpeding the said
cargo, and to require from him or them their
tnfwers in writing to such quertions as the
committee may find it necessary to put, and to
?port the fame at the next general town meet
ng-
And whereas the prices of rum, sugar, flour,
coffee, and tea have greatly ariten within this
week part, without any real or apparent cause;
ind as ± is our determination not to be eaten
ip by monopolizers and foreftallers, therefore
Rcfolve|, That we do "unconditionally in
^rt and demand, that the advanced, or mono
polized I''• present month be instantly
taken<... ^, the prices of thole articles
be unned.a:eL aced to what they were the
iftof May iffl.
Resolved, Thar a committee be appointed
AGREEABLE to a resolution of the gene
ral town meeting held in the flatehoufe
yard the twenty fifth instant.
The committee for afeertaining the prices
of rum, sugar, flour, coffee and tea, as they
Rood on the firtt day of the prelent month,
do hereby publish the following. .
Wert India rum, per gallon, 1.6 15 0
Country rum, per do. 5 0 0
Tea by the chert, per 1b 4 10 2
Brandy by the keg, per gallon, 7 0 0
Malaffes by the hogshead, per do 4126
Coffee, per lb. °'7 6
Loaf sugar, wholesale, per Ib. 2 12 6
Mufcovado, from icgl. to 1301. per cwt.
Turk's Island fait, 10 0 o
Common French salt, 6 10 0
Merchantable hour, 20 0 0
Middling ditto, 1^ c 0
Ship fluff, 13 0 0
Shorts per bushel 410 0
Bran, per do. 3'5 0
Toour fellow citizens in town and country.
Convinced as we all a:e of the abfi>lute ne
cessity of lowering the prices, in order to raise
the value of the currency, and seriously anxious
of carrying the lefolutions of the meeting into
effectual execution, we do earnestly recommend
in the firft instance a cheerful compliance with
the above resolves; and likewise :hut as few
purchases as possible may be made for the pre
sent, either of dry goods, or any other kind of
imported goods, otherwise it will embarrass the
object hoped to be obtained.
It is only by degrees that evils of this kind
can be remedied, and no plan appears more ra
tional than to lower the prices in the fame pro
portions they have been advanced. As soon as
'the business for the next general town meeting
can be prepared, notice of it will be given in
the papers. By order of the Committee.
WILLIAM HENRY, Chairman.
t> afeertaiu the retail ptices of hum, sugar,
flour, ce ff.e, and tea, as they flood on the
firft of Ma+ inst. and publish the fame for the
government of buyer and fuller, and to re
ceive in writing any complaint against Inch
dealers as may refufe to comply with, or (ball
obftrud the execution of this necessary regu
lation, and to report the fame at the next ge
neral town meeting.
Resolved, That the said committee, when
chosen, do afeertain what the prices of the
above, or any other articles were on the f rf l:
day of January iatt, and likewise on the fiilt
day of every month from that time to the pre
sent inst.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed
to prepare a plan for regularly proceeding in
this business, and for carrying it into cxecuri n
throughout the United States, and to report
the fame at a general town meeting to be held
for that purpose.
Resolved, That we will fapport the commitees in
the execution of their duty, encourage fair and honed
commerce, and suppress 'o the uimoit of um power,
and at the hazad of our lives engrafting, monopo
lizing, and foreftalling, and depreciation.
R solved, That as it is the inteiert both of town
and country to concur in measures for the mutual
relief of both, that the proceedings of ths mee -
ing be printed ai d lent to the several counti s for
their co ^deration and abidance the ein.
And whereas complaints of a very extrao Binary
nature hive, at diffeient times, appeared a^aiud per
sons intruded, 01 who have been irUuUtd b) cun
gref, with the disposal of public money, and ihr
execution of public commissions, to which complaints
infome irdtances, no answers ha„ been given, o;
any denial m ide.
And wheels the public by delegating the r pow
ers, have a right to call on their representatives t
whom that delegation be made, to know in yih.it
mannei the tiult so reposed in them is executed,
therefore,
Resolved, That a committee be appointed
to celled together the charges or complaints
which have been made against persons intrud
ed by congress, with the expenditure of pub
lic money, or the execution of pubic commif
fron, and to require of the delegates of this
Rate what proceedings congress have made
therein towards afeertaining the truth of such
charges or complaints, or punishing the per
fn if gulty; and to tranfinit the fame to the
federal counties, in order that they ma, be en
abled to give inftruaions to their leprHerta
tives in affcmbly at their next meeting, or for
such other purpoles as may be nccGlay in the
in crim.
Resolved That it is the opinion of this
meeting that no person, who by fufficient tefli
mony can be proved inimical to the interest
and independence of the United States, be
fuffered to remain among us, and that the
committees be dueled to take meafuies for
carrying this resolution into execution.
The following gentlemen were appointed 011
the committees, to enquire rejecting the
cargo lately arrived, and laid to be pur
chased by or confighed to the management
of Mr. Robert Morris, or others.
Timothy Matlack, David Rr.t-rhot. ,
Captain Eltwer, Thomas Paine, Charles W.
Peale, Col. J B. Smith.
And the following gentlemen, together with
the former, were appointed a committee foi
carrying the fame refclves into execution.
Col. Henry, Col Bradford, George Schlcffcr,
Col. Will, Col John Eyre, Cape. Heylham,
Major Boyd, Philip Bethau, Jedidiah Snowden
Nathaniel Donnell, Capt. R Smith, Captain
Lang, Dr. Hutchinson, William Brown, Paul
Cox, Edwara Pole, Thomas Cafiirop, Capt.
George Ord, James Skinner, J >hn King, W.
Thorn, William Coats, John Dean, Captain
John Young, Cadwallader Dickinson, Captain
Thomas Moore. Signed by order of the
Meeting. Daniel Roberdeau. chairman.
The thanks of the meeting were unanimous
ly returned to the chairman for his noble and
disinterested manner of conducting the bufinels.
COMMITTEE ROOM, May 29th, 17 9.
# N. 3 Ft. vcrahNfo fav^ t%e bleafufe-Q
informing th?: pumic,>^ hff j an< jfr,k
are cheaper this day thar .thth^ on th e firrt
of May The prices as printed 7^^., have
been taken from the merchant, and triers
books.
COMMIrT<E ROOM; May 2$ 1779.
hfolvcd (her the retail prices of the under
& K "T, ren articles, on the fort day of May,
^ere as f l!ow:
C'cffee 4 pr Ib. go 17 6
Bohea tea per d°. 4i5 0
Loaf sugar, .rco. 21 5 0
Mufcovado, from i& 9L to 255. according to
quality.
Weft India rum. per gallon or quart, 7 0 0
Cau rrv run, d<>. 5 5 °
Whitey, p-r gallon, 2 0 0
Rice, per p^und, - 0 3 0
Ard as it is abfolutel, necessary that d*y
goods, and ail other commodities, whether
imported, or the produce of this country,
ihould fall in price as well as those articles
which are already published, theres re
Refolded, that this committee do earncftly
reque, and <xpe& that no person do fell any
commodity whatever, at an higher price than
the fame was Gid for on the hrft day of this
momh. By order of the Com nittee
WILLIAM IIE3RY, Chairman.
1 he Committee meet at 9 o'clock precisely,
on Monday morning next, at the court-house.
7,3 lad advices fr,m Sexth-Ca^tina inform,
tha r f'^ Brit.;b arm, had enured that faft, tuitb
intent, us «~as jupp^ha 10 get ptfyfon of Cbarles
ro^vn, and that Count PobJC bus had a Jmart
jZnmf>. in ichich bis borje ^as killed aider him
wi:h fourteen balls, the Count bimjelf not b • r,
and that jc-veral offers in bis cops ^cere killta ;
but a Con. Moult, ie iuus in theirfront, and Gen.
Lincoln in tbrir r.ar, both nvitb a conftderable
a ? m), it ^cus zerv probable the r e oxouid be another
bacg:,nude. jbe inhabitants of Cbarie/?oicn are
in b^h /frits, have plenty of provisions, are
frongl, fonihed, and have a large number of jea
m:n afore, to iff at the great guns.
NEW-YORK, June 7.
Intelligence Lorn th Ealtward, as late as
46 Da,, is, that leveral British Vessels have
lately been curried into Borton; that there
were not 200 Men at that Place in Arms ; and
that sane of their Three Months Men, whofc
Tune was expired, quitted their Guard at
12 o'Clock at Night and went home, leaving
th? Prisoners to look after themlelves; that
General Gates was at Providence with a small
Army, but that there were no Troops at New-
London, nor none railing in any Part of Con
necticut.
The Privateer Sloop Weazle, Capt. Myers,
of this P.rt, has taken and lent into Bermuda,
a Schooner loaded with Tobacco ; and Capt.
Myers, in Company with the Black-Prince,
and George and Elizabeth, have lent into
Bermuda allo, a Brig loaded with Indigo and
Rice
Pile z6rh ulcino was married at the lion.
Judge Ludlow's House at Hampliead, Francis
Dashwood, Esq; Secretary to the Port Office,
to Mil's Anne Ludlow, Siller to the judge ;
a perf. &ly amiable Lady, with a handfoinc
Fortune.
The Brig Friendflhip, Captain Cough, from
Mhrtinico for Newburiy, was brought in here
lull Monday by the Privateer Sloop Pomona,
Captain Nealson ; and Privateer Brig BLke
uey, Captain - . She failed from Mar
tinico rhe 12th of May, and was taken the
17th following: She is loaded with Rum, Su
gai, Molafles, &c. &c.
An Embargo was, laid for forty Days on all
French Vessels at Martinico, before Captain
Cough failed, and Admiral Byron was cruising
off when he came out.
Col. Buikirk, fufpeding there were some
Sp.es and Robbers, near his Port at Howbuck,
on Friday the 4th Instant, that Night ordered
out a final! Number of Men, who, about 3
o'Clock the fame Morning, difeovered a Party
of Rebels in a Rye Field in the English Neigh
bourhood, two of whom they took Prifoncr,
one of them named William Wirts, the other
Henry B.^ftion, both noted Spies and Robbers,
the former having followed that Business a
considerable Time, and pretends to belong to
the Militia.
We near that the greatest Part of Walking
ton's Army have left their Camp at Mid.le
brook and are matched towards Tappan and
Haverrtraw, on the Wert Side of Hudlon's
River.
The account of the riot in Philadelphia as men
tioned in our lad, is coufi med, and we ar- well allu -
ed the>e is much coniulion zi that place; that Mr.
Robert M Tiis was to be committed to gaol tor his
conduct in dfpufmg of a Spandh ca go lately arrived
there, with u Don who cAlsA^telt an Amb flavor,
but was formerly a leradrr . f fm H ware at St. Au
gurtuie; ihat the sawn between Col. Prevoit and the
Rebels, happened within about 15 miles of Chailes-
Town, and that it v,2s imagnod that place would
soon be taken.
fe^a#4bCMo#raiB •MQetixutvprafrMw^L.-^^Q^CT^gr
'-rHE Revd James Foley, begs leave to
I inform the public in general, that he
has opened a SCHOOL, at Aram, in Bufo-
Qvick, Long-lfand, where he purposes to teach
the Latin and Greek Languages ; also, leading
Englilh grammatically, writing, arithmetic,
&c. Such Gentlemen and Ladies as may plcafe
to favour him with the tuition of their children,
may be assured that the ftrideft care will be
taken of their Morals and Education, and they
can be boarded in the Neighbourhood on very
good Conditions. For terms apply to Capt.
Benson at Brooklyn, or Dr. Vandewater at
the School-House.
Public Avalon.
Tins Day ci One unlock at the C<ffu-Hou\
be fid,
The % REMEMBRANCE.
And Bri^ ROS E.
Prize; to the Trig dpi/JQ, Cornelius White,
Commander.^
Also, the Schooner SVK EY,
Prize to the Buck, Capt. Stout. Inventories to be
Jen a t the Sub/criber;, lio. 7, Water jirect,
and at the Tiine of Sale, by
JOHN TENCH._
^ATnTTTOUGHTON,
At bis Sto r e No.,z Hanover-Square,
BEG, leave to inform his friends, apd mule gen.
tiemen indebted to him, by book, bill or bond,
tior as he intends failing for England in a few
months, are hereby requeued to make immediate
payment, to enable him 10 difeharge thof d,bts due
by him to others, that bis business during his ab
sence ui.l be carried on as ulual, by a partner or
some careful person to whom the charge may be
given, an I folc ? ts the continuance of thoe who
may be pleated to honor him with their commands,
run lining obliged for a I favours coufen'd.
N B. At the above dare will be fold for ready
cash 6nb, all forts of WINES, GROCERIES,
{±^.
H ALL and BIRK S,
Have for S A L E, at their Store, No. 977,
Beekman's Slip,
h qOULD and d pr candies, turpentine and white
jfl f*p I" bx s, hams, ox tongues d ied and
pic led, Ch 111 c and Gieuceltei cheese, of the fi it
quality, juil imported in the flrip Tom, fom Liver
pool :, nav lie by the tierce, barrel or less quan ity,
rreef an pork n teces, barrels and hlf har-e'e.
A green leathered PARRUT
I'—'LCW^ away hit batu day evening out of a
house, N) . too upper end of (tyeen-fbeet,
neatly oppofi e Mr. Kiffick's. Whoev-i has got it
and will fend it back again, to the abovehid place,
or rhe pr.ntei, fliall receive a reward of SIX DOL
LARS.
Public Audion.
At the Coffee-Houle this DAY,
50 Cases of best GENEVA,
A few Calks of Madeira Wine in Bottles.
AND
A parcel of English MOULD-C NDLES.
TO-MORROW,
8 hogsheads of excellent Madeira,
AND
6 quarter calks of Sherrv.
DANIEL M'CORMICK.
JUST IMPORTE D,
In the Snip Venus, Capt. McDonald, from
Glasgow and Cork,
And to b- SOLI)>n hoard laid SHIP,
By J A MES KIN G,
Noi, MILL- STREET,
PORT WINS and PORTER, I G BEEF
in Barrels and Tierces, Butter, hams, Fkur,
Bead, Oatmeal, Loaf Sugar, mould and dipt Can
tilt, Soup, P.ich, Lanihlack, zrd L' fed Od.
fit Also, thice pair of Four Pounders complete,
'j'O H~N L~ ITTY
Has tor SALE, on the molt reafon^ble terms, by
the piece or package,
IRISH linens, .Pms, ho n & ivory combs,
I ifh Meetings, (Ribbons and ferret,
Check linens, ITapes and gartering,
White and brown dowlas, Bi oad cioaths, with trim-
Oznabu gs and t&eel, i mings,
Nuns thread, /Second and coarfc cloath,,
Oznaburgs and ftitching'A general aff&rtment of
threads, coarse woollens,
Lawn, and gauzes, Fin?, common and mill-
Mullins and cambrics, rary Shoes,
Print d linens and cottons,Callimancoe Goes,
Silk, cambrick, and check Portmantua tiunks of all
hapdket chiefs, sizes,
Jeans, Sham Buck breeches,
Sitinetts, Leather gloves,
Lastings, Fine and felt hats,
Cam! lets, Writing paper,
Call in incoee, Window glals,
Sh illoons and tammies, Pewter, copper and tin
Bombizeen, ware,
Qaeen (fuff, Hard ware and cutlery,
Corduroys, Nails, &c. &c.
Cordtrett, & Dutch cord,
Apply at No. 22>, Queen-Street, or at the Warc>
House, N s 30, facing Mr. Halle 's wharf.
I"F^THA^EI?MUOAYr^o left the ^
Mus on the 4th inll. will return on board and
fettle th- account he has opened, the Captain will
difeharge him ' ' n the Gip is ready to fail, if he
don't choose to proceed on the voyage.
'tyTS E P ifc O R^E,'
Peltry-Cock, and Confedionecr,
Ai No. 520, Hanover-S^uare,
CAN fuppL Gen lemen and Ladies with al
Sorts of Paftrj, Cakes, Sweet Meats, Ice
and Le Cream, Strops of different Sorts, with
every Article in that Way. Farmers will re
ceive a generous Price fcr Apricots, Greer.
Gages, &c &c.
The following articles are to be had of
HUGH GAINE:
GOLD Scales and Weights,
Turlington's Palfam of Life
Anderson's Fills,
Hooper's Female Pills,
Scales and Dividers,
Jointed 2 and 3 Feet Rules,
Sealing Wax and Wafers,
Belt blacking Ball for Shoes,
Excellent Cake Ink,
Red Inkpowder of the best Sort,
Very good Ready made Penns,
Sand and Sand Boxes
Pounce and Pounce Boxes,
Red Tape for tying up Papers,
Middleton's best Lead Pencils,
Children's Copy Books,
AL skin Memorandum Books.