The Pennsylvania gazette — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-01-31 00:00:00, page 1

JOHN SHIELDS, in Chestnut-street,
HAVING frid off 'he principal part of his GOODS,
rr, fes to fl fe his Tales as quick as possible, by disposing
of the remainder on very 1 w terms, f.r cash; which consist of
the fallowing arti h, viz. Cabmanc^es, durants and tammies,
of various colours ; camb'ets andjhaloons; black breeches pat
terns ; striped perfians and silk moreens; black India luteftrings
and frftins ; mohair, silk and hair and scars twist ; a neat as
sortment of fl>t, fashionable death-head buttons ; a few pieces of
Spotted and A,wered law s ; ladies crooked and crambo horn
combs; camarok io patches ; Manchester white filletting tape;
quality bindings; wafers in, pounds; Cape-May boys and mens
mittens; blue, blue grey, and coloured broadcloths; a large
affjrcment cf plain, figured, filtered, and black ribbons; cinna
mon, Cloves and mace, &c. &e.
N. B. The laid Smiblbs takes this opportunity of requeu
ing all those indebted to .him, both in town aid country, to
make fpeejy payment, tyiewife he will be under the necessity
of putting their accounts in suit. 4 W.
Pbiladdfrbin, January 25, 1776.
%R. PIKE vak's this method o' acquainting the pub
vA lie, that he has t ken trie h>ufe lately occupied by
avid Franks, Eiq; in Secohd^reet, nearly eppofit? to Coomb's
alley, where he has provided 3 very large r>om for the more
convenient accorn I % dath ? &oft fw:h Gentlemen who choose to
torn the use of the SMALL-SWORD.
The use of which is taught there every Monday, Wednesday,
arid Friday, from fix in th^nwrning to two in the afternoon.
Private lessons on the famte'every afternoon,
He continues to teach young Ladies and Gentlemen in his
other branch of business, as usual, on Tuesdays, Thursdays,
and Saturdays, from eight- o'clock in the morning to one.
An evening school for Gentlemen, who have nt had an
opportunity of learning a PROPER ADDRESS, every even
ing from five to nine o'clock. fl!
Fbdadetybia, Firf-M^b 31 1776.
ALL perlons indebted to th: estate of Captain J 0 : EPH
BROWN, Mariner, late of this city, deceased, are
requeued to make speedy payment; and those woo have any
demands agri ft the said estate are defied to bring in their ac
counts, properly attested, that they may be adjust-d and paid by
Mary Brown, and John Baldwin, Adminiftrat. ff
' TO S O
A VALUABLE LOT of GROUND, containing a
bout one acre, wh-reon is creeled a good dwelling house,
with a large barn and (tables, chair-house, and other out-houses,
with a well of good water before the doer; it is lituate in
Eyres's-town, Northampton townflrip Burlington c tinty, Weft
New-ft fey, on the great road leading from Mouac- holly to Vin
^ent-town, and about a mile fiom a navigable landing on Ancocus
Creek; it is about 3 miles from Mount-holly, where is a
Church, about a mile from a Prelbyterian Meeting huufe, and
two miles from a Quilters Meeting-house; it is about 15 miles
from Philadelphia ; is a pleafmt lunation, and suitable either
for a tavern, shop, or a traiefino. Any perLn or persons in
clining to purchase the fame, may know the terms, by applying
to trie fubfenber, living in Moors's-towd, and said county.
, THOMASGI L L.
Fif-Mvab 24, 1776.
TO BE LETT,
nr r HE Mill and Plantation, belonging to the estate of Daniel
Ambridge, deceased on Poquefti 0 Crerk, in Bucks coun
ty, twelve miies from Philadelphia, the mill is large and built
with Bone, on toe tide, wit in about roe perches of the river
Delaware, where flats or ihrib,s can come up to the mill ; there
are a good pair of French burs and a good pair of country Hones,
a rolling screen, a fan, 3 bolting reels and holding works, which
are all in good repair for carrying on merchant work, and all go
by water, 3 good store-house near 60 feet ay 20, where several
ether mills bring their flour to carry to Philadelphia ; there are
ab ut 150 acres of land, a house barn, a good cooper's /hop,
gb>l milk-koufe, a good bearing orchard, about 5 acres of bank
meadow, and two ether meadows and some woodland. Any
Jerfon inclinable to r nt the fold premises, may apply to John
'aul, in Lower-Dublin t.wnfhip, near the premises, or fmo
^as Flbtcmbr, junior, in Abington township, both in Phi-
Adelphia count,
. fc lr ft_M o „ t g 35,1776,
To be fold by the fubferiber, at public vendue, or
the 26 h day of next month, on the premises,
AP LANT ATI ON, situated in Nether-Providence
Chester county, containing about 1000 acres of land, 50
of with is cleared and produces good crops of wheat and other
grain, about S acres of meadow cleared, and has been usually
watered b a confront ffream that flows through the fame; there
is like ife about la acres of fertile bottom adjoining Crum
creek, aimoi cleared and intended for meadow, the remainder
woodland ; there is bolt thereon a good two fiery dwelling
houfe, with several fire-places therein, and a cellar under the
whole, a good spring of water very convenient to the f me, on
which the greeted part of the workmanship towards building a
stone spring and wash-house is done, a>d may be compleate at
a freall expence, with feme other out bailings, and a young
orchard cf near ico trees, of grafted fiuit; the title is indis
putable. The purchaser may have a considerable time allowed
for the payment of the greater part of the money, giving fecuti
ty and paying interest. Any petfon that may incline to view
the place before the day of sale, may apply to William Horne,
living on the premises, or to William Fell, near the fame, and
it is not doubted but such will find it fully answer the expectation
they may have conceive 4 by the above deTription.
All persons that have any demands a^ntt the said William
Horne, are requeued to bring in their acc unts to the fubferibers,
or any one of them, before the firft day of the Fourth-month
next, and those that negle& must expert to miss receiving a divi
vidend of his estate ; and all persons that are anywise indebted
so him, are hereby desired to make foeedy payment to William
Fell, Jesse Maris, or John Horne. Alliances.
N. B. At the fame time and place will be fold, a crop of
wheat in the ground. § 7/6.
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And to be fold by the PRIN ; ERS hereof,
The POCKET ALMANACK for
TAK Year. 1776.
The Pennsylvania
Containing the Frefoeft Ad-
yannary 31, 1776.
&Speech of the late Lord frJOHN WILKES,
Esq; from the Hustings at Guildhall, London, on Wednef
^^ the ^th of November, or ids going out of office.
Gentlemen of the Livery,
THE important and extenfwe powers, with which
you entrusted me the last year as your Chief Magi
strate, I now resign with fingpar fatisfadion, because
they devolve to a gentleman, whom I am persuaded you
will find exerting them at this time for your advantage,
and the emolument of this great metropolis. The noble
privileges and immunities tranfiptted ^own to us by our
spirited ancestors, I am fatisfieci he will carefully main
tain and support.
The last year, Gentlemen, ha* puffed without any at
tack on our rights and privileges from the House of Com
mons. That arbitrary and unprincipled body has been
almost wholly employed, with the industry and spirit of
fiends, in the vain and wicked attempt of perfecting their
plans to establish despotism in N r.r-England, and popery
in Canada. They have stained the British laurels with
the guiltless blood of our Ci w-fubjeds in America.
But the House of Lords, ear in the preftnt year, made
a direct attack on the rights of every commoner in Eng
land, and the cffential privileges of this city. They or
dered a citizen, Mr. Randall, unheard, into cuftqdy,
without any appeal to a jury, only for djfrefpe&ful words
against a Member of their Hufe. Although parties,
they endeavoured to eftab'ifh tbemfelvcs judges in theit
own cause, in equal violation of the dictates of common
sense and justice ; and in the firft Instance, n^t by an ap
peal from an inferior court tothem, as the fupfeme ju
dicature of the kingdom. Th< Gentleman Ulher of the
Black Rod came repeatedly with his assistants here to seize
a citizen; but notwithstanding the express assertion in his
order, that he fnould find it afferent warrant for the at
tachment of the body of a fr-cman, Mr.-Randall remain
ed fife in his own house under die protection of the laws,
and your chief magistrate. The officer of the House of
Lords preferred an ignominious retreat to Weftminfttr,
to the certainty of his own commitment in the city by
a really ftffrfe/zt warrant, which I would have issued, if
he had persevered. He made a report of what he bad not
done, aid that difgraceful entry in the Journals of the
House of Lords gives us another demc/nfiration, that in
this free, country all usurped guthovity mult in the; end
yicid to law and the confthuipn for Mr. Randall has
ever iince remained among u 4 .5 ^ - T iChurity, a,un
mo efted from the illegal attacks of the Lords, as Mr.
Miner has been from the late similar outrages of the
Commons.
An attack of a different nature, gentlemen, has since
been made by the ministers on the rights of the livery in
common hall, as if no right of the subject was to remain
unviolated. They advised the King not to receive your
petitions and remonstrances on the throne. That im
portant privilege you have vindicated with spirit, and,
if you persevere, a favourable moment will certainly ar
rive to recover what an arbitrary administration have at
present suspended.
Whilst with a jealous eye I watched over 'the great
franchises of the City, I held the scales of justice with a
Ready and equal hand. The judicial duties of my office
were filled with a ftri& attendance, and my bed abilities
called forth to support the dignity of the character, which
yottr fuffrages had bestowed upon me. Justice has been
regularly and impartially administered, and I may boldly
challenge the most envenomed and prejudiced enemy to
support an accusation of mifeonduct, in my judicial capa
city. I reflect with the warmest gratitude on your ho :
nourable approbation of my services, by returning me this
year alfi> to the Court of Aldermen.
From the pre-eminence, Gentlemen, to which your
favour railed me, I now return with pleasure to my for
mer state of one of your Magistrates, and to mingle with
the mass of my fellow citizens. After so long a period
of inceffaut labour end fatigue, it is usual to have the
exemption of the enfuiag year, as a time of repose and
relaxation from all public business and attendance. Ido
not raean to claim that indulgence. I will follow the ex
ample of my excellent friend, and immediate predecehor,
Mr. Alderman Bull. While God continues me health
and ftrem th, I will be unwearied in your service, and
readily take my Ihare in the public business of this great
City, ftil following the line of my duty to you, regard
lets of private ease, peace or fafety."
LONDO N, Odober 28.
A BILL for preventing emigrations to America will
meet the early attention of Parliament.
During our present contest with America, the Lords of
the Admirady, we are informed, intend keeping two
squadrons of ihips of war compleatly manned, which
arc to keep fix months provisions on board; one squadron
is to lay in Plymouth Sound, and the other at Spithead.
ON. 30. We hear that Lord North's Declaration in the
House cf Commons, “ hat notwithstanding the offers of
foreign assistance his Majesty had received, he was not
fond of accepting of such, unless in cases of the most
urgent necessity ; and that he intended to fend, at one and
the fame time, the most equitable terms of Reconcilia
tion to our fellow fubjeds in America, and a most re
fpedtable part of our army and navy, to enforce obedience
in case those terms faouia be rejected," —meets with uni
versal approbation.
The Duke of Grafton on Thurfiiay in the House of
Lords, to the astonishment of aimoft every body, drew
out his whole artillery against administration ; he said, the
part they were taking against America, was equally dif
graceful to statesmen and Britons, as it was injurious to
the rights of humanity,—that he trembled fur the dis
memberment of so great a part of our Empire, which he
had no doubt would be effected, if some special ,check
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vices, Foreign and Domeflic.
"?'?°^" en to the dreadful operations of war; that if
admimftration was determined to go on, all he could do
would be to give them every oppofrion in his power, and
that he would not be refrained from this on any confi
der^ion whatfoever —that he should make all kind of bu
,% even sickness itfelf bend to this duty, for that
it his health would not otherwise permit it, he w W be
earned m a htter to the hotfe. Likewise the LiK,m of
Peterborough, in a strain suitable to the dignity of his
profcffipn, pressed with great humanity the foppage of
human blood. *
n T he ^°^ h ! P art Y is strengthened this session with the
Duke of Grafton, the Bishop of Peterborough, General
Conway, and most of their connexions in both houses.
« ''" er from Chatham, 03. 26.
J uefday failed from hence for America, having ori
board ^detach^ent of marines, conffifting of one Lieu
tenant, one Serjeant, one Corporal, one Drummer, arid
d,y Pirate men, the Boreas frigate of 48 guns, Capt.
ThompTon; she has stopped at Black-hakes to take in her
p °^ d " artilkr ^ aftcr which the is to proceed di
her voyage.'
“,mt day also, the Bristol, a fine new flrip of 50
was launched from his Maiefty'sdock vard at
bueernffi ; she is put into commission, bound for Ame
rica, and on board of her Commodore Sir Peter Parked
1$ to hoist his broad pendant."
A letter from Pembroke, dated the 25th inst. n entions,
flat several pieces of wrecks, and a great n any dead
bodies were continually coming on shore there, some
without legs, and others without arms, &c. two more
were seen ,ating without beads.
' ° F LORDS. November b
h Dtike of Richmond moved in the House cf
r f ° r leave to cnter a Protest, in the name of
himfelf and other Lords, against the Address of the
House prefent^d to the King on Friday last, r hich was
agreed to. It is a rule of the House, that Protests fhculd
next day after the decision of any business,
CTich made it neaeffary to alk leave of the Hou e
this occasion., r
The Duke of Manchester then made an introductory
speech to the following motion ; That this House is of
pinion, that introducing any part of the King's Electoral
troops, or any other foreign troops whatever, into the
service cf the Crown of Great -Britain, prrvioy, to th?
content of Parliament, is dangerous and unconftitutioual.
Lord Rochford, in reply, entered injoa juftiflcatipn of
the meafuie, as last, constitutional and expedient, on
which ground he moved the previous question, that is, to
t? ke ^ ! enfe ° f the House whether the depending mo
tion mall be put.
An interesting debate followed; and the foeakers in
support of the previous question, or, in favour of the le=
gality and expediency of the measure of employing the
Electoral troops, were, the Lords Talbot, Rochford,
Weymouth, Denbigh, and the Lord Chancellor. In
support of the Duke of Maneheftefs motion, the Dukes
of Grafton and Richmond, and the Lords Effingham,
Lyttleton, Shelburne and Camden.
In the coui fe of the debate, all the old arguments re
fpeXing the American contest were repeated, pro and
con, but
Ihe Duke of Grafton threw out some new informa
purporting, that at a proper time he would la,
before the House a flretch of the forces and expences re
quired to carry on the war against America, and of the
buithenlome taxes that would follow: His Grace nobly
declared, that he could not any longer support admini
stration, anltfs the Ministry changed their conduct against
America ; and, in the firongeft terms, he condemned the
measure of embarkin' the Hanoverian troop# before the
meeting of Parliament.
Lord Camden spoke for a considerable time. His Lord
fiup, after having gone shortly into the question firft
moved, left it on a sudden, and went into the great field
or American disputes, and the measures taken by Parlia
ment the last feflion. He observed, the Miniiters had ac
knowledged themselves to have been deceived. He said
the great deceiver lay somewhere hid, and called upon
him to come forth and declare himfelf. He pointed out
several instances where they had been deceived, and by
reason of which the flower of his Majesty's army bad
been destroyed. He told the House it was not now too
late to fettle the unhappy dispute, to the honour and hap
piness of both countries. His Lordship spoke with his
usual greatness, though, at the fame time, with much
coolness and moderation.
Lord Shelburne and the Duke of Richmond called up
on the Lords in Administration to declare, whether they
meant to lay the petition of the Congress to the King
before the House? and they said, that as there werg
grounds in that petition for an honourable reconciliation
with America, they would move it to be laid before the
Houie, if the Ministry would'not. Lprd Shelburne also
declared, that the most extensive operations that could
be required to be carried on last year, or for the year erl
fuing, might be effected without employing one single
foreigner, and therefore affei ted, that the measure of con
trasting for the Electoral troops was inexpedient as well
as illegal.
1 he noble Lords in opposition seemed, however, very
willing to acquit the Ministry of all criminal intentions,
if they would but acknowledge the measure to be u^con
hituticnal, and solicit the palling an aft of indemnity;
and it fnould seem as if Lord North will be persuaded by
his frienas to take this necessary flep, to quiet the minds
o ' those who think the measure, without it, would b^
established into a dangerous precedent.
The previous question was put at eight o'clock, and
passed, on a mvdiwi, 75 against 35, profiles @n LoJs fidet
inaludrt
Numb. 2455.