The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-04-06 00:00:00, page 3

PHI LAD E L PHI A, April 6.
Tomorrow, at twelve o'clock in the forenoon, the expe
riment will be tried upon the ALARM GUNS, which are
placed upon the Delaware, betwixt this city and the capes,
of which the Committee of Safety thinks proper to inform
the public, to prevent any confufion.
We hear that on Monday last, the sloop Endeavor, Job
Trip master, being on her passage from Dartmouth to this
place, to the northward of Egg Harbour, was chaced and come
up with by a tender, carrying four carriage guns, ten swivels,
and thirty-five men, fitted out by the Phoenix, and com
manded by one Butler, a midshipman. The tender was not
content with firing a broadside at Capt. Trip's vessel, after
she had hauled down her fails, but when along fide, after
using much scurrilous language, ordered another broadside to
be fired, by which Captain Trip received a ball in his thigh,
which broke and much shattered it ; the mate also had a ball
went through one thigh, and lodged in the other.. An officer
afterwards came on board, and told Capt. Trip, that Butler
(the Captain of the tender) out of his clemency, had consented
to give him his boat, on condition he would make the best
of his way on ihore, which Capt. Trip represented as impossi
ble, for himfelf and mate being both wounded, they could
neither stand nor fit. They then gave them the three hands
belonging to the sloop, who, after much difficulty, reached
the shore. The Captain and Mate were both dangerously ill,
having been thirty-fix hours without any dressing to their
wounds. The tenders's people, after plundering the hoop,
scuttled, and set her on fire.
^ The STAGE COACH sets out from the Indian Queen
in Fourth.ftreet, every TUESDAY and FRIDAY mornings,
at Six o'clock, for.New-York.
In COMMITTEE of Infpe&ion and Observation, Philadel
phia, zoth of March, 1776.
Resolved, That WILLIAM SITGREAVES and PETER
OZEAS have knowingly counteracted the resolution of this
Committee, of the sixth instant, regulating the. prices of seve
ral articles of merchandize ; and that they be publilhed in
the papers, agreeable to said Resolve, and that they be made
acquainted with the determination of this Committee herein..
April 2d, 1776.
WILLIAM SITGREAVES and PETER OZEAS having
presented to this Committee the following papers, as acknow
ledgements of their having infringed the rules laid down by.
this body, for regulating the prices of several articles of goods,
and desired them, if they thought it necessary, to lay their
cases before the public, to fuffer their declarations to accom
pany them. —The Committee, therefore, in discharge of the
duty they owe to the public, and in order to (hew to the world
their resolutions to support their limitations, which they are
of opinion are founded on just and generous principles, do
think it highly proper to publish the several papers voluntarily
signed and handed to them by the said WILLIAM SIT
GREAVES and PETER OZEAS; —and at the fame time
Resolve, that they esteem those papers as acknowledgements
fatisfadory to this Committee.
Extracts from the minutes.
SAMUEL C. MORRIS, Secretary.
To the Committee of InfpeCtion and Observation of the city
and liberties of Philadelphia.
" Gentlemen, Philadelphia, April 2, 1776.
" I am very sorry that I have exceeded the limits prescrib
ed by you for the price of coffee. Had I apprehended that ad
vancing one penny per pound, more than you had fixed,
would have been considered as injurious to the public welfare,
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I should not have demanded it—As I have thereby given of
fence, I take this method of acknowledging my error, and to
declare, that for the future I will avoid every occasion of un
easiness to my fellow citizens. Should you think it necessary
to publish what is past on this subject, I requell you will, at
the fame time, let this acknowledgement accompany it, and
you will thereby oblige,
Gentlemen, your most humble servant,
WILLIAM SITGREAVES."
To the Committee of InfpeCtion and Observation of the city
and liberties of Philadelphia.
" Gentlemen,
" The mistake which I have committed, in having bought
and fold two barrels of coffee at a price higher than that limited
by you, has given me extreme pain. Had 1 adverted to the fatal
cdnfequences of such conduct, the regard I have for the pub
lic welfare,, and the interest I have taken in the present strug
gle for liberty, would have wholly prevented my having any
Jhare in so deftruftive a measure—l now voluntarily offer to
the public, through this Committee, my sincere acknow
ledgement for this error, and declare the utrnoft readiness to
acquiesce in -any measure which may assure the public of my
exadt conformity, in future, to such regulations as this Com
mittee may judge to be for the public benefit—being fully
fatisfied of their unbiased attention to the public good. If
this Committee should judge it necessary to publish my case
to the world, I (hall hold myfelf extremely obliged, if they
shall judge it proper, to fuffer this declaration and acknow
ledgement to appear at the fame time, and order it accordingly.
Philadelphia, April 2. PETER OZEAS."
AT the Annual Meeting of the Contributors to the
United Company of Philadelphia, for promoting Ameri
can Manufactures, held at Carpenter's-Hall, on the sixteenth
March, the following Resolves were passed.
" That the Managers be appointed a committee to prepare a
draft of a regulation to fettle the mode of transferring ihares
in the company, who are directed to publish the said draft
and to call a general meeting, in order to confirm, amend, or
rejed it; and also to give notice for an ele&ion of Managers,
to come on the fame day."
" That the value of a share be twelve pounds one shilling
and fix pence for the ensuing year, commencing on the fif
teenth of March, 1776."
" That every future subscriber pay, in addition to said
sum, at the rate of twenty per cent, per annum for the time
which ihall pais from the above date to the day on which the
said fubfeription shall be paid."
In consequence of the firft of the foregoing Resolves, the
Managers request a general meeting of the subscribers, to be
held at the Manufadory house, on the ninth instant, at three
o'clock in the afternoon, when the following motions will be
proposed by the Managers, viz.
First. That any perlon holding a fare in the United Com
pany of Philadelphia, for promoting American Manufactures,
and inclining to fell the fame, shall firft declare, under his
hand, his said intentions, together with the price he de
mands for the said share, which shall be delivered to one of
the Managers for the time being, who shall cause it to be en
tered on the minutes, and also to be fixed up in feme con fpi
cuous part of the factory for two weeks, immediately suc
ceeding the date of such notice, and if during that time none
of the old subscribers shall incline to take the said share
at the price so affixed, then the said proprietor shall be at
liberty to fell to any other person, which sale may be made by
a shore assignment on the back of the certificate, and the laid