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Dunlap and Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • 2

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A to the plantation of the fubfcriber in Haverford townfhip Cbefter county two ftray HORSES) one a ftnall brown and the other a black middling large The owner or owners proving their applyingto IS A AC DAVIS ORTY DOL LA SR A RA NA WAY on the atthof lift month an Eng lift) fervant lad named RANCIS WILLIS about nineteen yean of age had on when he went away a blue jacketTpd leather breechea The above reward is off red to an nerfnn who (hall frnr him (nr the fuhfcriber at the corner of ront and Pine ftreett Philadelphia WILLIAM WHITE dory which ithad in the times of Duguay Train atO Duouefoe 1 We have here getting ready for your iflsrids a fquaM' droh of ten fllips which it isfaid will be commanded by de Graffr and accompanied by twenty or thirty tranfports filled with troops We expefl news with much impatience from our Colonietand North America become every day inore in terefting in bur eyes becanfeV we are well perfuaded that they will have great influence Philadelphia March I A 0 ROPE MAKE Living in Market ftreet above Sixth ftreet (in the hcufe formeily occupied! Mr Thomas Tisdejll rop maker doceafed) MAKES arid SELLS wholefale and retail on the moft reafenable terms wing whipping itue and blocking twine leg deepfea and nd lead Imes houfe line and marline jack lines fitting lints of Il forts bed cords hading lines lacking bottom lines haltere glow tracer Sic He gives the high'efl price for good hemp and flax like wife tor good heinp feed of Lit growth Two or three journeymen rope makers frovld meet with the greauft tnesuragement by applying it above ment of hofii I ities and when the Marquis entered upon his negotiation Nothing tranfpires and the rumours of a reconciliation with England whrh were always fupported with the fame credit are only founded upon conjectures Philadelphia Mtrfcb 6 To be 0 LD by Public Vendue On Thurfday the eleventh inft at fix in the even ing at the Coffee houfe AVery neat two ftory BRICK HOUSE lituate on the weft fide of Second ftreet one door from the corner of Plumb ftreet and near to lot it has two rooms upon a floor a good cellar and an alley over which the upper rooms are extended i there is alfo a convenient kitchen adjoining to the houfe lhe lot oil which thefe improvements are built is twenty feet in front on Second flreet and fixty feet in depth and is lubjeft to a ground rent of 40a fterling per annum Any perfon inclining to purchafe the laid Houfe before the day oi fale may be informed of the terms by apply i ingto ROBERT near the premifes To be SOLD by Public Venduet Oa riday the t6th inftant (March) on the premifes at one In the afternoon TH AT well know valuable PLAN TAT 1 0 and i TR A CT of LAND os which Robert Hender fon deceafed formerly dwelt and now in the tenure of John Kerr lituate in the townfhip of Buckingham Bucks county bounded on the York road which divides it from Thomas laud leading from Philadelphia to Cor ferry and aboat twenty fix miles from the former joining lands of Ifrael Pemberton containing about five hundred acres of land about two hundred of which isileared the remainder well timbered and the whole in good repair there is about thirty acres of excellent wa tered meadow by a never failing ftream running the fame and more may be made the plow land is divided into fix fields meft of which are watered 1 1 ewife two al orchards There is on the premifes a two fiery j'c ne awemng noute two rooms on a boor with a good ce ler under the whole a lop kitchen with two roams ftables a good cow houfe arid fundry other neceffary buildings The terms of fale will be made known on the day of fale by MARGARET HENDERSON There is an extraordinary mill feat nearly join ing the York road on that Handing ftream which waters the above mentioned rrtadowj unng the lifting of the Auembiy the wnoie of the Ex ecutive Council (hall attend unlefs prevented by fickuett or fome ojher urgent neceflity and in that cafe a majo rity of the Council ihill ike a Board to examine the laws and ordinances fent them by the Houle of Affembly and all laws and ordinances lent to the Council (hall be returned in five days after with their remarki And the twenty eiphth article rlirefts that 44 A committee from the Council fent witlf any propofed amendment 1 to on the affairs of Europe As to the reft we are II ill )(V any law or ordinance (hall deliver their reafim for futii the fame ftate of uncertainty we were in at the commence I 1 AM st OA AM Bs A A propoieci amendments ft befe obligations on the legiflature to take the advice ana to connaer tre remarks ot tne council upon rne lunjetrof any propofed law4 to receive any propofed amendments from them and to deliberate on the reafons adduced in their fupport make a wife provifion in this conftitutioa but are totally unknown in that of Pennfylvania 7 If the manner in which the rtfpedive Councils of thefe two ftates are appointed and the circumftances they ftand in are attended to this defefl will appear very great The Council of Georgia are chofcn by the Auembiy at their firft feflions by ballot tut of their ovn to wit two from each county fending members and by tf fourth article it is provided that all officers of Rate fliall be accountable to the The Council of Pennfyl vania are elefled by the people are not taken from the Affembly nor accountable to them rom ie total con trariety in the conftruftion of the two bodies therefore it is an ealy and natural deduction that as it has been thought abfolutely effential jn the former ftate for the legiflature to appeal for their remarks and advice on the point of le gillating to the Council who are moft liable from their formation and dependence to entertain the fame views with them and fo to be biased by them it would have been a mere promifing and therefore more effential prnvi lion in the other government from the free principles in the ftrufture of its Council I mean however not to be underftood here in an other light than as drawing a comparifon and to (Lew that in the great point of rtaking lawe there is a material differ ence between the two governments inftead of the one be ing a copy from the other for in truth the utility of fueh a body as the Executive Counil of either ftate may be and is in faft very realonably doubted Certainly they ereate an enormous expence to the ftate and perhaps as needlefs an one particularly if they fit from one end to the other fince the adminiftration ccnld be equal ly well by the Governed or Prefident with ad vice of two or three wife mm as by a dozen or twenty and this is an iaea generally aaoprea in tneoonititutions of the other ftates and been fatisfaflorily praftifed upon 0 ivjXjwiiy ODicrving irw udya ago uctr UniLiivij a vprv 01a man Dianiing in aopie rrer io wrK ann could not heln alkm? you fiippofe the King of Spain aits in politics as the la him if he expefted to reap the fruits of his toil No floor a fpriog houfe near the fame a large ftone rn and dies do in affairs ollove Imilein a face wnile they Sir replied the venerable ruflic but 1 hop fane honeft fiables a pood cow honfe fnMlrv nrh The great was fifty fee)fcy thirty arched in afi dx oeMa? The iwenty feventh Article is ftet agreeable manner and neatly plaiflered within the 44 during the fitting of the Affembly the whole of the Ex lower ena ot tre room was a irnau encioiure eievatea anovethe company where the preceptor to the park gave hts military leffons Tnis was converted into an orcheftra where the mafic of the army entertained the company The ftile of the dinner was of that happy Kind 'between tbe extremes of parade and unmeaningproufiou and a too greit fparingiiefs and fimplicity of Jifixes Its luxury could not have difpleafed a republican Te Joifts were dcfcriptive of the day while the joy and compla ency ot the company could ntve given umorage to none ex ept Mr enemirs the Eritifli Juft as came on we were called upon to the ex bi of tire works Thefe were under the direction of Colonel of the artillery The eye was very agreeably finick with thefrontifpieceof a temple about one ami Jred eet in length It wis divided into thirteen arches eacii arcti embediflied with an illuminated paint ig allegoric of the progrefs of your empire or the wife policy ot your lii tne center arch was ornamented with a pediment and proportionably larger than the others tne wnoie fupported by a colonade of the Corin tnim wrier Tne different works iu pyrwtechny were very agreeably difpjfeJ and delayed togreat advantage hi all public rejoicings I ike it a point to mix with themultitude if tney are not pleafed the demonftration may be conft Jere Uas wrong In the prefent inftane I was charmed to find that every heart went al mg with the occdion i When the fire works were Unified the company re turned to the academy tne lame room that had ferved to dine in ferved to dance in the tables were removed and had left a range for about thirty couple to foot it to no indifferent mtafure As it was a feftiv :1 given by men who had not enriched thcmfeLvet by the war the lights were cheap and of the own manufafture thefeis the workoftneir ownartizans and for knight of different ordere there were hardy foldiershappy in the thought of having fowis hand in bringing round what they were celebrating lie bail was opened by his Excellency the General When this man unbends from his flation and its weighty funftions he is even then like a philofcpher who mixes wittl the amufcments of the world that he may teach it what is right or tarn its trifles into inftru'tion As it is too late in the day forme to follow the windings of a fiddle I contented myfelf with the converfation of fome one or other of the Ladies dijringthe interval of dancing I particularly amufed with the lively Tallies of a Mifs afleing her if tne roaring of the Eritifli lion in his late fpecb did not interrupt the fpirit of the dance Not at ell faidflre it rather enlivens forlhavc heard that fuch animals always increafe their bowlings wnen moft frightened And do you not think added lhe you who mould know more than young girls that he has real canfe of apprehenfion from the Targe armaments a very old man planting art apple tree fo wesk and and honourable purpoles1 the bpamarus bo laid infirm that re could hardly Hand couh dies do in affairsol love (milein a face wnile they Sir replied the venerable ruftic but I hop fanehoneft are fpreading out the net which is to entangle him for life Englilhman The King wasfo delighted with the At what feafon replied the fair with a glance of ineffa fpirit ef the man that he inftantiy made him a handfom blearchncfs do men lodfe the power of paying fuch com nrefeut pnmenr If I have looked on the whole Tbx with an equal eje of obfervance there confefs the attrocious philofophy and were it not too hte I ihoull wifh to lead down the je'inainder of the dance with fo fweetly vivacious a part ner But: alas my dear friend you will foon find that fixtj is a better fecurity againft the hot fpur pnflions of nlan than thofe beautiful ifittes that Shakefpeare tells us are curled of pureft mow and hung up on tem pi for the benefit we may fiippofe of her chafte at I do dot recoiled thit I have ever leen more pleafed fitting outfixteen men of wir This refolution the peti an snv occaiion or in io a comoanv mere could not be lefs'thaw fixty Ladies I had no eyes to encounter to Count Welderen the Dutch Ambaffador at London that (hot forward in rays of fl udied fuperiority nor any to lay them before the Britifli government and alk re of thofe confcious interchanges too often the refult of drds of the grievances complained great experience and knowledge Through the whole By a letter from Paris of the i ith inftant we learn there was a remarkaoie tine 01 iooks ana oenaviour un debauched by Britiih manners or Britifli entertainmentsTneir charms were of that kind which give a proper de termination to the fpirits an permanency to the affefti ons More than once I imagined myfe'f in a circle of Samnites wher beauty and fidelity were made fubfervient to the nt ere ft of the ftate and referyed for fuch citizens as had diflinguitlied themfelves in battle Is it that the women of Jerfey by olding the fpace between two large cities have continued exempt from the corruptions of either and preferyoti a purity of manners ffuperiorto both? Or have paid too gre attention to their charms and too little to thefe imperfections which jobfervers tell us are the natural growth of every fil? You have obliged me fo often during the cqurfe of my little tour through the Eafiern Rates with hiftories of city feafts city balls and city exhibitions that I thought could do no 1 efs th fend you a defcriptioa of one at which I enjoyed fo much rational pleafure You will fay I have diverted myfelf of my national character to find amutement in huts and among woods Beit I expeCted the compliment To morrow I leave this qu'rter and take the route of Princeton and Trenton to Philadelphia I fllall ftay a few days with you to thank you for your civilities and tint I miy fee thofe fages fo greatly celebrated through I Europe for giving birth to an empire already the theme of poets the fubjeCt of hiftorians and the aftonifhment of nations Adieu To the Printer of the 4 nn yl va a Pa tZ ST HAVING heard it frequently afferted that the ftate of Georgia had copied in their frame of government from that of Pennfylvania was curious enough to bor row of a friend the pamoli et containing it in order to afeertain whether the fafl is fo or not rom this exami nation it appears that there are feveral effential differences between the two and in regard to the making of laws in particular that the provifions in the former are better a dapted to the fecurity of the people and to be wifely en forced A penifolof the eighth twenty feveath and twen ty eighth artic les of the Georgia governmentjwill evince I and all laws and ordinances fhall be fent to the grand views of the Miniftry fupported by a wife admim property and paying chsrges have them again by i Executive Council after the fecond reading for theire ftration of the finances will reftore to our marine all that applying to ISAAC DAVIS vavaait The Marquis de Pombal the late Prime Minifter of Portugal is feid lc be now in this kingdom xiraU of a letter from the Hasue 'Slbt ember it We are affured that the States General took a final refolution on the 17th relative to a petition of the mer chants of Amfterdam and Rotterdam in which they complain heavily of the infults to which their vef fels are fubjeft from the Englifli who have taken many of them on pretence of their being laden on rensh account It is faid that the States General in confequence of the above refolution and re us fl have confented to the 1 tion and the memorial will we hear be fent this evening 1 to lay them before the Britifli government and alk re UrCUl VI MIC wvAiijzsrziuGvi vi that a Guemfty privateer having landed fifty men near Boulonn during the night in order to pillage fome houfes near the fllore a troop of dragoons quartered in the neighbourhood galloped inftantiy up in order to cut off their retreat when a conflict enfued in which twelve of the men belonging to the privateer were Rain and the reft made prifeners St PIE RR (in Martinique) January Pxtrad of a Utter from Ereft dated November 10 1718 44 The ftormy feafon which is now come on hath not Aifhr lahmirfi nr aftiuitv nf nur raarin A QivinQu Qi icvcii iiiij5 or inc nnv cumniauQcQ uy xvx ic Mothe Picquet has been gone fome days on a cruize be TTs am fr 414 Ainas nrt4 HAnvltt th A etot IWGvii uiuaui aiu aua nutii) mu vs I VMS is iruicu www iv saLSAS our own navigation The aflivity of our commercial people is almolt wholly turned into this channel and tne Royal Marine is nerfeflly feccnded by the merchants The port of Bayonne alone hafh fent out in the courfe of oppofite the Dutch brew houfe a ftrawbefry roan Horfe eight days feventeen privateers the fmalleft of which wjth a fmall thr in his forehead betweea thirteen and mounts twenty two guns and St Malo which hath fourteen hands high and about nine yean old bad a been always diftinguifhed for ita privateers does not bad cough and cold it a natural trotter and more fuit yield to Bayonne All theportsof the kingdom are in for the geers than faddle 11 he rather dull general filled with a noble emulation and correfpond Whoever fecure the horfe and the attrocious offender excellently with the encouragement given them by the (as there are gangs of them infeft this city) fo that he Miniflry We reckon that above ten thousand Englifli may be brought to juftice fhall have the above rewrad prifaners have been taken fince the commencement ofhofti or for thehorfe alone ifty Dollars and reafonable lities the greater part on board of privateers and charge paid by JOHN TURNER fllips Mr Mouchel a Norman Captain who made himfelf known to great advantage in the laft war iscome AME to an I Hand in the river Sufquehanna he to take the cotOTtta) rthBloRock hereon he robfniberli! privateers thus during the feafon which does not per die fized branded on the near buttock apd flioulder wit great fleets to measure their aJms we are going to but the brand cannot be made out aboutten or twelve make a petite guerre of privateers with privateers amur year and pacei The owner 11 defired to come derous war fof both nations ad which will produce nei P''04 argre and take her away ther riches or advantage to either The labourers of our 177 THOMAS MALSOK fliip yards are puflied to the higheit degree of activity all their departments Scarcely have they launched their veffels into the water but their places are filled with others They write us from Toulorf that they are about puttinn three new ones on the flocks We hope that the ftration of the finances will reftore to our marine all that en umant and bornngues and nearly tne wnoie ot A mvy frigates are out to interrupt the Englifli and proteft vlA 1 I DULLAKu K1SWAKL 1 1 I 1 TOLE a few nighti out of the 1 (table near the comer of Third and Vme ftreeti with a finall ttar in hit forehead between thirteen and bad cough and cold it a natural trotter and more fuit.

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