The Pennsylvania journal, or, Weekly advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-06-19 00:00:00, page 1

Northumberland-County, 14th of Mar, 11,6.
At a meeting of the Committee of InSpe^ion and Obfervauon
for said county, Capt. JOHN HAMBRIGHT tn the Cha ir
AGREEABLE to notice given at the last meeting. John
Aurant attended, to answer the complaint of Samuel Ma
clay, and Benjamin Alifbn, Efqrs. in behalf of themselves and
other Magistrates, relative to Several charges set forth in a me
morial to the honour able House of Assembly of the province of
Penrrfvhania at their last fitting, when a proved copy otlata
memorial was read to said Aurant, he could not prove any
material assertion contained io his memorial, but or the con
trary acknowledged f one of (hem to be fade, and others mis e
prefcoted by the translator he employed. On said day appeared
George Wolfe, and Thomas Sutherland, agreable to notice giv
en them, to answer the complaints of said Samuel Maclay and
Benjamin Alison, Efqrs. for that they in conjunction with
others hereafter mentioned, some of whom are not known to
this committee, and others whose names ire known thought
too infignificant to be taken notice of, did as a committee
sign and present a memorial to the honourable the Conti
nentakCongrefs, containing several charges again^the Magis
trates of this county. When a proven copy of said memorial
was read to them, they acknowledged the authenticity of the
fame, but said they were not prepared to prove any of the
allegations therein contained, as their papers were in the
hands of the Assembly, but when they were offered copies of
all their papers, said they could produce testimony, but would
not, until they were present or before authority, left they
should be bribed ; upon which they were allowed to produce
their evidences if any they had, on Thursday the ^oth instant,
to prove their assertions against the Magistrates of the county
aforefaid, or any of them, when they not appearing, the com
mittee upon due confideratton of what they had heard entered
into the following Resolves.,
Resolved, That the above named George Wolfe and Tho
mas Sutherland, with William Leech. George Overier, Mat
thias Hess, Thomas Price and John George Conrad, (going
their names as a committee of this county, is a gross imposition
upon the honourable the Continental Congtefs, and the pub
lic in general, as they iaever were in the committee of this
county. „.
Revived, That as none of the allegations containers in the
memorials' of John Aurant or the above mentioned fictitious
committee, have been proven, Saving that a few guns werr ei
ther loft or broken last winter, which we confider as a trifling
inconvenience, the owners, (upon proving the value) having
Efficient security for them, and many of them have been
proved and others acknowledged by the parties to be falfe, we
look upon them as unjust, absurd and ma'icious. &
Rtfolved, There is but one Committee of Infpe&ion, Obfer
^ion and Correspondence in this county, in which each
township is equally represented.
Refolded, That the above ire adverted in the public papers,
to prevent the like imposition for the future.
Sigried, for and in behalf of the Committee,
JOHN 'HAMBRIGHT, Chairman.
,ftfo-*x*xjfos&>cs ofefo^o^bß^ ofc otoo^^^efo^
frHE Copartn^lhip of HAMILTON and LEIPER, To
{ bacconifts, is dissolved: Those that have any demands
awnft that concern, are requeued to bring in their accounts
as soon as possible to Hamilton and Son, in Second-Street, fix
doors below Market-Street, in the house lately occupied by
Mr. John Wallace, or to Thomas Letper, Tohacconift, in
the house lately occupied by the Company, at the corner of
Spruce and Water-Streets.
PENNSYLVANIA
HAVE moved from^he corner of Soruce and Water Streets,
t 6 the house belonging to, and lately occupied by Mr.
John Wallace, in Second-Street, fix doors below M^ket-
Street, where they .continue to carry on their Seo ch fnuff and
tobacco Manufactory in all the Several branches as usual; they
have laid in a large (lock of the very bed Virginia leaf to
bacco, and are confident of giving rhe mm^ fat^fa&on to
their former customers and the pubic. Orders will be
punctually answered with all possible dispatch. They give calh
for good empty Snuff bottles. _
THOMAS LEIPER Tobacconist,
STAKES this opportunity of informing the public in general,
[ 2nd his friends in particular, that the partnership of
ITAurLTON and LEIPER is dissolved, and that he (in the
house occupied by the company, the corner of Spruce and
WarerScreets, below the Dawbridge, Philadelphia) manu
factures in the best manner Snuff and Tobacco of the firp qua
lity e<wAl, if not Superior, to any heretofore imported from
Furore', which be will be enabled to dTpofe of on as reason
,, terms as any Manufacturer in America, and execute all
orders on the shortest notice; as the works he has lately form
ed are bv far the most complete, net only for expediting the
Cfinefs of manufacturing Snuff and Tobacco, but also doing
it in the greater perfection, of any works ever yet erected on
the continent.
N. B. Two Tobacco Spinners will meet with encourage
ment by applying as above.
Marfca. Talbot to^ty, June 5, 1776.
I^HE fnbfciiber will a # :nd at the Court.Houfe of the said
county, on every ': riday of the week, for the purprfe
of giving in exchange BL of Credit, emitted by the Provin
mi' Conven^on, the Seventh day of December, 17,5, for
iofe rm^'ed bv the Provincial Convention, the twenty -fix:h
^vcf ^v, WILLIAM HINDMAN,
- 6w Treafiuer of the EattexvShose.
HAMILTON and SON,
TOBACCONISTS.
WEEKLY
WEDNESDAY,
June 19, 1776,
AND '
^^^Qi^ffldi^^^
Just printed and now felling by ROBERT BELL, next door
to St. Paul's Church, in Third,ftreet, (Price Two Shillings,)
r r H E trueintereft of Britain, set forth in regard to the
I Colonies; and the only means of living in peace and
harmony with them. Including five different plans, for cf
feeding this deferable event.—By Joseph Tucker, D. D.
Dean of Gloucester, author of the Essay on the Advantages
and Disadvantages which refpe&ively attend France and
Great-Britain, with regard to trade. To which is added by
the Printer, a few make words, on the Freedom of the Press
in America.
N. B. At said B E L L's may be had, Do&or Jones on
wounds and fraiftures. &c. &c. June 19
~T O BE S O L D,
At private Sale, by the fubferiber cf Germantown,
A Certain tract of LAND, in Lower Mcrion rnwnfhin,
joining the great road leading from Righter's ferry to
the Honourable Governor Penn's country feat, and one mile
and a half didance from it; containing 40 acres of Land, of
which two thirds art cleared, has two acres of good watered
meadow, a good bearing orchard, of almost all late fruit,
and the remainder is good wood land : On the premises is
ete&ed a small log house, and a new log barn. 'Tis beau
tifully situated on high ground, opposite Mr. Vanderen's
mill, and commands a fine profpeff of Delaware river, and
many places round, especially the upper end of German
town, Mr. Chew's and Mr. Allen's country feats, and Cheft
nuthill, wrh a large front on the river Schuylkill and a
final! fhad-filbery, which a little improvement will make a
good one. Part of the premises is now under the tenure of
Christopher Kelly. Any person inclining to view the pre
mises, may know the terms, by applying to
' JACOB COLEMAN, at Germantown biraebfb'd. f
~EI GHT DOL LARS' Reward?
DESERTED ora the third inflant. from Capt. John Nice's
,Company of Pennsylvania musketry, now quartered in
the town of Cinder, the two following men, viz. JOHN
SMITH, born in the north of Ireland, about 23 years of
ag 4 § fe' p 6 inches high, of a dark compl^±; hCT , & -a a
look. The other named LUKE KEARN, (formerly a ser
vant to Effis Lewis, and worked some time at his mills near
Mountholly) but enlisted himfelf by the name of Thomas
Murray, born in the north of Ireland, about 20 years of
^ c s feet Bor o inches high, down look, and of a swarthy
comnlexion. Their dress is unknown, as they took sundry
cioaths with them. The abovedefertere enlisted with Capt.
Robert Hardie in Philadelphia, for the service cf the guard
boats and fire-rafts, from whom they received a bounty on
th< §th of June, and deferred from him the day following.
Whoever apprehends fbd deserters, and secures them in any
fy fn that they mav be had again, frail receive the above
reward, or FOUR DOLLARS for each, and a" reenable
expeners. if brought to the fubferihers, JOHN NIECE, Capt.
of Pennsylvania Mufketrv, or ROBERT HARDIE, Com
mander of one of the Guard Boats and Chain of Fire-Rafts.
SIXTEEN DOLLARS Reward,
RAN away from the Subferiber, living in Weft Caln
TownO^o, Cheder County. June 13, 1776, two servant
men. viz. JAMES DOLAN, a native of Ireland, speaks a
little on the brogue, fbort light coloured hair and eye-brows,
is pitted with the small-pox, about § feet 4 or 5 inches hi^h,
Pout and ftronp made, aged 22 ycar< : had on and tock with
him, a Lall rrund hat, a green jacket, lined with,red, cne
shirt, and a pair oftrowfers. He ia barefooted.
The other a mulatto fellow, named FRANK, aged 24
Years, § feet § or 6 inches high, ffout strong made, a little
bandy legged : he is well known on the roads, and in Phila
delphia; is a native of Portugal, and a Have, but speaks
good Eoglifh: Had on and took with him, a fma-ll round
hat, a pair of tow trousers, and a flirt. Whoever takes up
and secures said fervan's in any goal, so that their matter
mavhave them again, shall have EIGHT DOLLARS for
each of'hem, and raffable Changes., paid by the Subferi
ber or Mr. Dominick Jovce, in Philadelphia.
+"JOHN TELLES.
N. P. The white man is a notorious villain, and has at
tempted tn murder bis master.
STOLEN or Prayed, out of the fubferibet's lor, near
the upper end of Market ft:eet, on Friday the 30th ult.
a well made brown HORSE, about 14 hands high, 8 years
old, with b, r h ears cropped, a bright Par in his forehead
with a small snip near his nose, Piod all round, pacer and
trots, has a short bu<hv tail, and few white hairs upon the
fore part of his back. Whoever takes up the f^d horse,
and b : ngs him to the fiTf-mher, living in Market.ftrerr,
fhal have TWENTY SHILLINGS reward, and reason
able charges, paid hv
RICHARD YORKE, Post Rider, ctf.
T) Y virtue of a writ to pre directed, will be fold by public
J; vendue, on Thursday, the 27th day cf June inst. at fix
o'clock in the evening, at the C'ty Tavern, a certain mef
ffre or tenement, and lot or piece of ground, Equate on the
eift fide of Second-Rrect 'rom the river Delaware, and be
tween Walnut and Sprace-Oreets, containing inT^nt on Se
cond-ftrect afort said I 9 fret 5 inches, and in length or dep^h
98 feet, bounded northward with ground of Samuel Powell,
Ffq; caftward with ground of Isaac Vannoft, southward with
ground o' Jonathan Evans, and westward w"h Second
firmer, together with the appurtenances ; late the efface of
John Ingles, deccafed; seized and taken in execution, by
WILLIAM DEWEES, Sheriff
THE
C L EV E S, February to.
PRIVATE accounts mention, that there has been great
murmuring among the BrunfwGk and Hessian troops,
about going to America; and that two regiments had mu
tinad, and killed the Major General, who endeavoured to
bring th em to reason.
Styde, March 18. Yesterday the embarkation of the firft
divifinh of the Brunswick troops, in his Britanick Majesty's
service was compleated, and the fleet is in readiness to depart
as soon as the wind will permit.
L ON D O N.
Ma'ch x. The plan which Lord George Germaine has laid
down for the operations of the next, campaign in North Ame
rica, is for the main army to take the march along the line of
the coast, and utterly to destroy every city, town, and village
on both sea and great rivers, to which a ship can come up,
which, be thinks, will entirely cut off all rhe naval designs
of the Americans, and perhaps prove the molt effective means
of putting an end to the war. Several members of the cabinet
fecund this opinion, which it is imagined will prove the pre
vailing one. Lord North is against it.
The ministry expert every hour to receive an express from
Berlin wi+h an account of the death of the Prussian monarch.
His Majesty has long laboured under a complication of disor
ders and his confutation is totally broke: for several weeks
he has been confined to his chamber, and very few people arc
admitted to him. 'Tis whispered at Potzdam, that he has a
confirmed dropsy.
Fxtraß of a letter from Hambro', February 13.
" Of the gentlemen on the recruiting party, whom Great-
BUtain engaged to Supply and complete the Royal American
regiment, nth men from Germany, none have Succeeded so
well as Colonel de Scheiter.—We have it this day from Stade,
that he just arrived at this place from a long circuit, with a
body of 750 exceeding fine men, mod of them already dis
ciplined, who are forthwith to be fllipped for England ors
board of transports stationed there. "Ae large bounty he
offers eaufes great defections in the Prussian garrisons, and
even in the very regiments of those Princes who have hired
them out to the King of Great-Britain, because though a lar
£CT bounty be given to the Princes as levy money, yet as every
farthing rr F^t-Q-QQLQ ^ men run arav as faft as
they can, and tnlift with him; 10 that the number otmeH-ri
Colonel undertook to furnifo, will be completed within a few
days; and he will proceed then, as it is said, to raise xooo of
the bed German rangers for the fame Service.
“ If the above be firft, there is one comfort, that we need
not make any allowance for cripples, as in the firft 300 Sent
over in January lift, which was just one firth part cf the
whole.
" By the treaties concluded with the German Princes it,
seems to be their intereQ, that none of their refpe<ftive corps
ever should return again; for, as they receive for every man
thirty crowns, (Seven guineas) as levy money, the fame fam.
is to be paid to them when apy of the Soldiers are killed, or
loft by any accident whatever, which, upon rhe whole, make
14 guineas per man; and since the Princes are ftfrni/bed with
the means of procuring Soldiers at a very aheap rate, icii evi
dent they don't wish their tetifrn. Now, if the Soldiers de
fect their colours in their own Prince's dominions, how much
more will they do it in a foreign country, where they
will meet with greater encouragement, ar^ numbers of
their own countrymen? In short, the whole appears to be
calculated to satiate the appetite of fatage hung-y Princes, to
people the vast American continent, and to bear down ~
poor Old England!"
March it. Many authentic accounts having been received
of the difirefes of die clergy of the Church of England in
North-America, the Archbishop and Bifnops (with his Ma
jesty's approbation) have opened a fubfeription for their re
lief; and they doubt not of the concurrence of such of the
laity and clergy, whose circnmfbnces will allow them to con
tribute to So charitable a design — The Subscriptions on the
above to this day, amounted to 2,T4§1. fs. 6d.
Hi's Majesty's Ship the Seaford bound to Boston, and se
veral outward bound Weft-Indiamen, that failed on Monday,
hft from Portsmouth, are put into Plymouth.
A gentleman who arrived last Wednesday from P.trb, Sirs
that the French are in high Spirit; being in great expeflatir ,
of engrossing the whole American trade.—They fay il>*t f me
persons of diftinaion have waited on General WaShingt-n
with an offer of French troops and Blips of war to oppose the
wicked deigns of an English minifry, upon condition of
their opening a trade with them; that the Genera! declined
giving them any answer, but re ferred them to the Congreh;
and that an account was received ar Paris, that the French
gentlemen met with a noble reception, and were ^ired, that
if a reconciliation was not soon brought about between il^m
and their Brother country, that they would accepr of the off rs
of the French Court upon the terms proposed. That < ? n re
ceiving this answer, orders were fint to all the feaperts that
firch fllips as were ordered for the EafJ India ferv^e. &c.
should Pay for further orders, but hold themfrives ready to
fail at a short notice. He further-adds, that orders were like
wise sent to Rochelle, that transports fnffi lent to carry 20 coo
men should be immediately got ready for fca.
A letter from Holland has the fallowing article: —" We on
this - fide the water begin to entertain but a very indifferent
opinion of the abilities and honefly of your present mioifhy.
If thru have great abilities, they are applied tn wicked and
d-TrwfVve purposes. Your trade to that vast empire of Ame
rica is totally loft, the credit of your nation in a ruinous con
dition, insomuch that those here who have money in your
funds are in great pain about it, and I believe will d^w it
out as fan as possible. Your religion too firms in danger ever
since the Quebec bill pafftd, and fliould the Scotch militia
ADVERTISER.
JOURNAL
June ig, 1776.
tHE
Numb. 1750.