The Pennsylvania journal, or, Weekly advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-11-13 00:00:00, page 1

ALMANACKS
For the year 1777. —Among the contents of the Wilmington
Almanack (betides ths nfual calculations) Are
r ?rHE continuation of directions, (hewing people what is
I in their own power both with refpe& to the prevention
and cure of difcafes;—an explanation of the devices on the
Continental bills of credit, with conjectures of their rnean
ing;-<be way to know whether it will be a long winter, and
- whaeweaiber it will be, also prognpftjcks of the summer ; —
a song on the times;—-the batchetor's wifli;—l table mew
ing the value of any number of dollars from 1 to 10,009, &c.
&c. &c. :—Contents of the Pennsylvania Almanack (be
tides the usual calculations) viz. Continuation of William
Penn's advice to his children; —four extraordinary letters
which pafled between Archbishop Tillptfon. amd William
Penn, in the year 1686; —anecdote of Sir Robert Walpole
concerning American taxation ; —verfes addressed to Benjamin
Franklin, Efq;—pithy fayings;—tables of interest at 6 and
, per cent, &c; &c.&c.
N. B. The above Almanacks are to be had of Mr. George
Rrnbold, bookseller, nearly opposite the figri of the Conc
ft guc Waggon tin Market-street, Philadelphia. ft
Just printed, puHifed, and now felling by ROBER F BELL, in
Tbi. d-street, Philadelph IA, (Price half a Dollar,)
TH£ BATTLE of
BUNKERS-H I L L.
A DRAMATIC PIECE, of five acts, in heroic mea
sure. As it was performed by the AMERICAN and
BRITISH ARMIES. By a GENTLEMAN of MARY
LAND.
— Vulibrumque mori fuccurrit in armis.
VIRGIL.
'Tis glorious to die in battle.
N. B. At said BELL's may now be had, all the new pub
lications ora the Military Art; Also, a considerable variety of
books in Navigation, and other branches of the Mathematics :
Likowifc, Latin and Greek Classics.
Carlifle, O<£tober 19, 1776.
A ROBB E R Y.
TWENTY DOLLARS Reward.
IN the night between the r,th and 18th inst. the dwelling
henfe of the subscriber, in the town of Carlisle, and State
of Pynafylvania, was broke opera, and the following articles
taken, vz About 18 yards of fine linen, nicked into body
and lleeve patterns for shifts, one half-worn fine linen Shift,
marked on the fide bit I. A a Short cloak of scarlet coating,
the capos it lin'd with pink coloured Persian, a pair of
new black calimaneo pumps, lined with hemp linen, one
sheet, two pair of linen table cloths, four Shifts, one of
finer horn than the others, one pair of green Ruffe! days,
enlarged by a flip in each fide, of a different colour, about a
pound of white woollen decking yarn, and the fame quanti
ty of blue ditto, about half a pound of white cotton ditto,
2 oair of women's white cotton flockings, not much worn,
an half-worn book, cntjtuled, " Paradise Loft," a pair of
knit white thread half fingered gloves, a linen apron, and
many other pieces of women's apparel, too tedious particu
larly to mention, It is thought the Robber will go to some
distant place, before any of the goods taken will be exposed
to Salt, and probably to the camp in New-Jersey. All per
sons to whom any of the above described articles (hall be
offered for sale, are desired to apprehend the feller; and
whosoever shall take the Robber, fball receive the above re
ward, on conviction, by HANNAH COLLIER.|
q™ H E Corporation for the Relief of poor and dis
-1 tressed Presbyterian Ministers, and. their Widows and
Children; &c. are to meet at the First Presbyterian Church in
Philadelphia, on Wednesday, the fourth day of next Decern
- her, at eleven o'clock in the morning, to choose a Treasu
rer, and to confute how to lay out the money that is now
come in, or that may hereafter come into the hands of the
Treafuter; and to do whatever other business may come be
fore them. 1 Francis Alison, Secretary.
Just PUBLISHED and to be SOLD by
JAMES ADAM S,
At his Printing-Office in Wilmington, the WILMING
TON and PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia, O^ober 29, 1776.
THE Publishers of the several weekly News Papers
in this City, are under the difogreeable necelnty
of informing, their Subferibers, that the extraordinary
advance in the price of Paper, and other Materials in
tie Printing bufmefs, has obliged them to raise the
Price to Fifteen Shillings per Annum;-they therefore
hope their Customers will not take it ^mifs to find that
price cha-ged from and after the ftrft day of January
next. —Those who should not incline to have the Papers
sent after that time, are desired to call and discharge
their arrears; such a$ do not, we ihall conclude, agree to
the advanced price, and we (hall continue to fend them
accordingly. Persons Subscribing for the Papers after
this date to be charged Fifteen Shillings per Annum, one
half of which to be paid at entrance.
W. & T. BRADFORD,
HALL & .SELL ARS,
JOHN DUNLAP,
JAMES HUMPHREYS.
THE
November 13, 1776; 0$
PENNSYLVANIA ^OT JOURNAL;
WEEKLY I ^^WW^ ADVERTISER.
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To tie Freemen, Inhabitants cf the Delaware State.
My Countrymen,
AS the original defigri of Government is the happiness of
the people, by which their unalienable rights as free
men are either Supported or destroyed, it is your indispen
sable duty at this important crisis toconfider; Whether the
constitution lately framed by your Convention be favourable
to just liberty or not, —and it behoves you to make this con
sideration in the most cool and dTp^flionatc manner, without
partiality or prejudice to any parry or feet.
Future generations must feel the effects of sur present de
terminations—and however any members of our State may be
interested in reaping the harvest of their political industry,
our posterity may have nothing left but Bubble and draw —
judge therefore not only for youtfelycs but for your children,
-hconfider yourselves as guardians enirufkd with the liberty
of millions yet to come—millions whole happiness depends
on your virtue—Be ye therefore faithful to your trust.
Upon the meft unbiased and feriousexamination of the
frame of government three capital objections appear; the firft
is, that alm@ft, if not qui'e one half the taxabfrs are excluded
from voting for representatives, contrary to the sacred laws of
God and nature, and the unanimous declaration of America,
" that no man cap have his property or the fmaHeft part there
of, jufily taken from him without hisown consent or the coo
fent of his representative or representatives." And is not a
man's money taken from him without his own consent, when
he i< taxed by rcprcfenlatives whom he has no voice in choos
ing ? is it not acknowledged by the most abandoned tories
in the colonies, that the people of Great- Britain had no
right to olea Repre fenta ives for America ? America was not
represented in the British parliament, and therefore could not
be,juftly taxed by it—How comes it then, that one half the
taxable in this government have poster to tat the other lAlf ;
or to choose reprefeufi/ives who have power to tax them
which is the, fame thing ?
Forbid it Heaven, that Americans flioold ever claim such
a right over the property and liberty of their poorer bre
thren ; for that tyrant whom they have so lately tejeaed can
.dono more.'
Whocempofe the hreng $' of our fleets and armies ? Who
venture their lives must freely ? Who are bleeding and dy
ing mod in the cause of liberty ?
Is it not the very people wh> are deprived by this frame of
government of one of the ckareft privileges they are contend
, jpg for ?
" Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the Greets of Alke
lon," that the hard firuggie, of dejeaed poverty fliouki be
thus requited in America.
Secondly, That the whole executive power is wrested out
of the hands of the. people, and deposited in the hands of a
number of great officers of fate; whom the people have no
voice in appointing, and on whom they have neither nega
tive or conuoul—This is ,copying after the English confti
tutio, ia its most defective part —lt is well known to all
who have read the Eugiilß binary, that the detbuaive influ
ence of the executive power, (being solely lodged in the
. crown) has occasioned most of the revolutions (which were
many) that have happened':, thapkingdom.
The executive power is' ever reliefs, ambitious, and ever
grasping at encreaf^of, power.—lt bas arrived to that degree
now in Eng and, that it;governs the Icgiflati,e, instead of
the Irgifiative governing th, I—The danger of the legislature
having the appointment of the executive officers, must appear
to the most common .observer. —The legiflatute for instance,
at thrir firft meeting, have the right of annexing what power
and Salaries they pkafe to the several high offices of Bate,
and they may appoint themselves to enjoy the fame.—Who
cannot fee that the virtue of a Caio ought not to be trotted
to combat such a temptation..
Indeed ,he proper difpohoon of the executive power is of
so much confcqucpcc to liberty, that the people who intend
or with to remain free, ought never to give it, out of their
own hands, but hold. Lt faft forever, to be exercised 'from
time to time by such officers as they may think fit to appoint.
Thirdly, That the number of high officers in the legislative
and executive departments is so great; that the government
and people must fink under the weight of taxes necessary to
support r hem —This is to evident that it needs no comment.
Several objc&ions have been emitted of left importance,
but the frame of government has been withheld from us in
such a manner that there is very little time to codfider it ; and
whit is werfe, we seem under a necessity of adopting it,
whether we approve it or not; although many of the mem
bers promised that after the cenftbution was framed, they
would adjourn to Gt again, and hear any objections that
might be made to it.
Butfince they have done otherwise, the people have no
way left but to appeal to the next leg Qature, who will have
power before they proceed to fill up the executive depart
ment, to alter and amend this frame of government. These
hasty remarks are submitted to your consideration by
A Friend to Liberty.
EIGHT DOLLARS Reward.
DESERTED from my company, of the Maryland flying
camp, on the 6th ipft. (November) a certain THO
MAS DUKE, about .5 feet 8 inches high, by trade a barber,
has (hour dark brown hair, brown complexion, has a.hair
mole on his right cheek: Had on when he went away, a
brown coat, light coloured broad-cloth waistcoat, check (hirt,
half-worn caftur hat, leather breeches, black flockings, and
half worn (hoes. Any person or persons securing rhe above
deserter in any goal, so that he may be had again, shall be
entitled to the above reward. Francis Holland, Capt. §
LONDO N, fahty
IT is said, that at lead one hundred thousand pounds of
the public money have been expended this year, in circulate
the political pamphlets, and other , papers, written for the
ministry, by Macpherfon, Knox, Vardell, Dalrymple, &c#
&c. Commendieg the Ministry, and abusing the Americans.
- The Earl of Chatham is now recovered. Who does not
look Up to him with painful hope, that he may once more
recover this weak and sickly country ? Unhappy Prince ! thus
to bani(h a servant, who could make thee great, thy king
dom powerful, and put the world under thy guidance,
Extract of a letter from Lisbon, dated June the 11th, to a gentto
man in Briflel, and received by him on IVcdnefday last.
" While I was at Lagos, the Duke de Chartres arrived
there in la Provence of 64 guns, and the rest of the French
fleet, which consisted of fifteen fail, one of the officers told me
they were expected to rendezvous there in a few days ; but
letters from Cadiz of lift post mention the arrival there of
Mons. de Bougainville (whom I saw at Lagos, and is second
Captain on board the Duke's (hip in a small tender early ins
•the morning, and that in the evening of the fame day, the
whole Spanish fleet left Cadiz, except two vessels which were
then not quite ready but were ordered to follow with all ex
pedition ; and last Saturday accounts were said to have been
received that the two fleers werejoined, and were actually
cruizing in the Streights of Gibraltar. Certain it is that dis
patches of no final! importance have been received here, as
the packet which carries this, and was to have failed the next
day, has been put off from failing no less than five several.
times ; and the two last when there was another packet in the
harbour. A proceeding so very extraordinary, that our poli
ticians here raiftd fhiewd conjectures, and foretold events
that will put an end to the general repofc of Europe; as
some deugn must be the motive of these united and powerful
armaments; and as we are certain they are not intended
against the Moors, there is two much xeafoa tofufpc& they
arc hnftile to the interests of Britain.",,
- July 16 Notice is Buck up at the Roval Exchange to 111
persons who have any claim or demand on the flop George
(American property) taken by his Majesty's cutter Grey
hound, that they may apply to the Admiralty Court.
The above (hip liesiu the Downs, and is the firft prize to
be condemned of American property in England.
Extraß of a letter from the Hague, July 16.
' " Admiral Richer, who is appointed commander of our
squadron on the toast of Africa, most grievously complained
before the States- General, that his (hip, which was to have
failed to the above c@aft in April last, is not in a capacity of
failing as yet, on account of not being able to get people to
man her, which he asserted was owing to the English agents,
who pay better wages than the Dutch, and cf courff get the
ablest and stoutest men in the ferviee ; witness that the pack
et-boats going from Helvoetfluice twice a week are always
crowded with the best Dutch sailors ; and if no notice was tak
en thereof soon, it must be attended with the worst confe
querices to this commercial Gate, which fubfihs by (hipping
only. A motion was then made to put a flop to it, but after
a warm debate it was rejected, and they came to a resolution
to employ the defetters who are condemned to work in the
different fortifications', in the above service, and in manning
of the other Grips that might be wanted for the service of the
States, until they fee what turn the prefect contest between
Great-Britain and America will take."
The demand for pork in Cork (which was always ver,
bad in its quality, and much inferior in quantity to the beef
exported) is at present so great, owing to the vast contrast
consumption last year, that the little tillage of that county is
entirely neglected to encreafe the breed of hogs ; the conse
quence of which will be beneficial to no parties but the con
tractors (whose fortunes one would be led to think were on
ly confu!t6d) as the meat of such will rot before it goes half
way to its destination, the Weft-India Islands will be without
their usual support, and the cultivation of the county,.;as
well as the resources for Obtaining animal food, in a great
measure obftru&ed.
Dispatches of a very difagreable and alarming nature have,
we hear, been received from the Governor of Gibraltar. The
drfpatches were brought over land through Spain, & so across
the kingdom of France.
However extraordinary the affection may appear, it is an
absolute fria, that Mr. Twifs; the celebrated traveller, who is
a very young man, has visited the grtateft part of England,
Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Flanders, France, Switzerland,
Germany, Bohemia, Italy, Portugal and Spain, and incud
i'ng fixfeeri sea voyages, has journeyed about twenty seven tbou^
find miles, which is two thousand more than the circumference
wf the earth ; and all this, in the space of five years, with
out ever meeting with any dangerous accident, or being de
tained by.the flighted fit of sickness
August 8. Welearn from Dublin that there has been the
greater demand for provisions these fix months pift, since the
last war, Corke not being able to fu,ply any of the foreign
markets, on account of the great quantity they export fox
government service.
Lord George Germaine has taken advantage of the late
difparches, to (hew that his plan of the war to carry it on en
tirely from Canada, was right; and would have been attend
ed with all those effeas which he pointed : He has mention
ed this so often to the King, that his Majesty is tired of both
him and his plan.
Between fixand seven hundred Indians have joined the ar
my under General Carlton, and have proved of the greatest
service in bringing in cattle and other provisions, they being
always sent with the foraging parties.
Extrafl of a letter from Amtedam, July g.
" The armaments in France are very considerable. Sea
men arc taken into the King's service in every paty as faft a