The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-01-12 00:00:00, page 1

To the Printer of the Pennsylvania Packet,
SIR,„
By inserting the following you 'will oblige a customer.
I HAVE lately met with, in your papers, Mr.
Deane's address to the public, and one or two pie
ces relative to it, for I cannot call them refutations,
under the signature of Common Sense and Thomas
Payne, who I find are the fame. What the designs of
one or'both of these writers may be I take not upon
myfelf to fay—they both pretend to be a&uated by
zeal for the public good, and Mr. Deane has opened
a fceoe, lam fare, deserves to be very closely and ac
curately examined; there appears however so much
acrimony in these pieces of Common Sense, tliat it
naturally creates a fafpicion that his motives are not
altogether so disinterested as he would have it believ
ed. Be that as it will, it is certainly very difingenu
cus when any charge is brought before the public a
gainst any of their lervants, to draw off their attenti
on from it to the person who gave the information,
and by bold assertions, or an abuse of official confi
dence, to injure his reputation, or endeavor to destroy
his credit ; and for attempting this in the case of Mr.
Deane, I think Mr. Lee owes Common Sense very little
thanks. There is a tribunal before which the matter
betwixt these gentlemen a.nd the public is triable, and
to which it inuft be referred, nor will all the art of a
thousand such writers, artful as he is, divert them
from the pnrfuits, or make them fit down contented
until it is cleared up, but they are apt to imagine, that
cause cannot be a very good one that wants such
props.
There is no doubt that the office ofSeceretary for
foreign affairs, which Mr. Payne has sometime held,
must have made him acquainted with many things the
public are ignorant of, but now he seems disposed to
admit them behind the fceoces—by what authority it
may be very proper to ask ?—but he is not yet ered
ad into a judge of the conduct of cur Ministers, though
he muff have viewed himfelf in that light, when he
authoritatively decided “ that Mr. Deane's accounts
are not fatisfadory," for, I presume, supposing that
to have been the opinion of the Committee for foreign
affairs, he does not publish it officially, as their judg
ment in the matter, had it been referred to their coa
fideration, which I believe it has not, they must know
is not conclusive, and therefore they would not autho
rize him to declare it.
I am equally unacquainted with Mr. Deane, Mr.
Lee and Mr. Payne, but I know that many fenGble,
intelligent men were much furprized, and have long
been uneasy that an office of so great trust as that of
Secretary for foreign affairs, should have been com
mitted to a Granger, without either connections or ap
parent property in the country, and the use he is ma
king of his official consequence seems, but too well, to
juftify the jealousy they entertained.
I am no advocate for Mr. Deane, nor have any
prejudices against Mr. Lee—Mr. Dearie has accused
him —the accusations must be enquired into—until
that is done! wish the public to remain unbiaffed.
C A ND I D.
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FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
WAS loft in the ice, on Saturday the 26th Decem
ber, near Red Bank, two rafts of oak plank,
containing about four thousand feet each, a filhing boat
and two anchors, one with a chain for a cable, the other
a rope. Whoever secures said rafts, boat and anchors,
so that theowner may get them again, shall be entitled
to the above reward, by applying to BENIAMIN
HUTTON, or THOMAS PENROSE, Shipwrights,
in Southwark.
WAS left at the house of the fubferiber, in Block
ley townP.tip, Philadelphia county, some time
in July last, by a certain Jonathan Bayley Smith, who
is since convifted of horse Healing, a black MARE,
fifteen hands high, about fix years old, a switch tail,
and one white hind foot, paces, trots and canters. The
owner of the Paid Mare is defi ed to come, prove his
property, pay charges, end take her away in fix weeks
from the date hereof, otherwise the will be fold for her
expences. JOHN STRADLE.
January,.
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GENERAL
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To the P ÜBLI C.
WHEREAS many of the public lamps of the
city of Philadelphia, have been wickedly and
wantonly broke and otherwise damaged, and the cups
and oil taken out by some evil disposed persons, who
have yet been unifeovered : The Wardens of the city
hereby offer a reward of FORTY DOLLARS to
ary person or perlons who shall give information cf the
offenders so that they be brought to justice and convict
ed of the offence. AND WHEREAS some of the
Watchmen have lately been maliciously treated, and put
in flanger of their lives, by evil disposed persons, the
Wardens have, for the peace, fafety and good order of
the city, and to prevent robberies, thought proper te
authorise and ftri&ly enjoin the nightly Watchmen, to
challenge and apprehend all strollers, night- walkers and
vagabonds, that cannot give a reasonable account of
themselves, after the hour of Eleven in the night, and
them to hold in custody by the Constable fill they can be
legally examined before tome Justice of the Peace of the
said city, and deilt with according to law, except coun
try people coming to market. And it is hoped the
gentlemen and good people of this city, as they eonfider
their own benefit, will treat the Watchmen with civility 1
And all Conftablas and other Peace Officers are required,
and the good citizens are requeued, to be aiding and
assisting to the Watchmen, if necessary, in the execution
of this order. By order of the Wardens,
Jan. 8. GEORGE HONEY, J n. Clerk.
TO BE Vo L I),
HATTERS TRIMMINGS,
Of all kinds, by
SAMUEL YOU N G,
Near the Dawbridge.
TTC HLEY AND GTL L,
Have for sale at their store the corner of Coats's Alley,
in ,Second-street, opposite Col. Farmer's tavern,
A VARIETY of GOODS, viz. coatings, hand
kerchiefs, sewing silk, stockings, taylors capes and
cloves, froes, pins, needles, fc:ffors, knives and forks,
fnuff boxes, buckles, silver and metal flcave buttons,
mohair buttons, some crockery ware, ivory and horn
combs, shoemakers awls, German pipes, soap and can
dles, piastres and feme reaps of foreign parts, fpeXacles,
English pocket almanacks, butter and cheese; which
they will fell by wholcfale and retail. Likewise a gen
teel set of Carpenters and Joiners Tools, fit for imme
diate use. 2.
January 5, 177,.
To be SOLD at Private Sale,
By the fubferiber, living in Eafton township, in the
county of Chester,
17 OUR twelve acre Lots of Marsh Meadow, lying
" contiguous to each other, situate on Tinicum Island,
in the townfllip of Ridley, in the county of Chester
aforefaid, lying within thirty-four perches of two land
ings on the river Delaware, and bounded or the North
west fide by the great road leading from Philadelphia to
the Ferry on Der^y Creek ; 'here is on one of said lots a
log-boufe and a frame-ftable; the foil is equal to the
best on said Inland; the whole is well drained and in
good grass. Any person inclining to purchase the whole
or part of said Lots, may know the terms of sale by ap
plying to THOMAS M'KEAN.
J' HIS is to inform the public, that the fub
feriber has apprehended a certain James Ste
vens, on suspicion of belonging to the gang of refugees
who brought him and several more of the good people
of these States prisoners to the enemy last spring. Said
Stevens was born in Ireland, by trvde a combmaker,
wears his own black hair, thin face and yellow com
plex on, has a wry mouth, and is a very ill-looking
fellow; he had the care of some of our wounded prison
ers in this city last winter, treated them very ill, rob'd
them cf their blankets and tliirts, and went <ff in the
night: He formerly belonged to the row-gallies, and
it is fufpe&ed he deferred from the fame; he is now in
Chetter gaol, but will be removed to Philadelphia some
time this week: It is thought he belonged to the fame
gang as Samuel Denton, Enoch L kens, Richard
M'Gine $ , Samuel Ridgway, Julia Ewens, Timothy
Evens, William Caffaday, John Weft, and a number of
others, of whem a certain Thomas Slater piofeffed to
be Captain. As this gang committed divers robberies
and murders in the ft<te of New Jersey last winner, it is
hoped thole that have fuffered will take the trouble to
come and fee the man, that if he is guilty, he may be
brought te condign punishment, as such monsters in
wickedness most justly deserve.
JOHN HEWSON.
T HE
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JANUARY 12, 1779.
THE
ADVERTISER
frAKEN up by the subs fiber, on the 19th of Oc
tober last, two HORSES, one a dark brown, six
teen hands high, has a blaze on his forehead, and white
hmd feet; the other is a light browm, about seven
j/ears old, has a star on his forehead, and one white
hnd foot; they are both ffi<dall round. The owner or
owners are desired to come and pay charges, and take
tl}em away from the fubferiber, near Mr. Lagan's mill,
in Bristol township, Philadelphia county, etherwife
they will be fold to pay the expences of their keeping in
two weeks from this date.
January 6.* HENRY LIBBEN.
GA M Eto the farm of the fubferfber, on
the Reading road, seven miles from Sunbury, in
Augusta township, Northumberland county, on the firft
of June last, a black Horse about thirteen and a half
hands high, about nine or ten years-old, no brand,
pacts all, has a few white hairs on his near bind foot,
and had on an old bell. The owner is desired to come,
pay charges and take him away.
LEMUEL LEWIS.
LAND to be S
IN Harford County, Maryland, at the mouth of Deer
Creek, only two miles from a landing, where sea
yeffels have loaded, in Susquehanna River. One tra&
is patented for one thousand acres, and one other ad
joining to it for fix hundred ; they are both such as may
be called good rich lands, and may be very cafily and
conveniently divided either into three or fix plantations,
each of which will, have good timber and wood land,
with very fine springs of water on them, and excel
lent building stone. There are convenient houses, and
four orchards of good fruit, with land cleared (ufficient
to make a large crop cf barley, corn, &c. Two or three
fields arc sown with wheat and rye. There are also on
the well fide of the creek about ten or fifteen acres of
land, with a dwelling house forty by eighteen feet, and
a stone mill-house thirty-fix by twenty-four feet, where
^ forge and mill has been, and for cohveniency of a large
merchant mill is inferior to very few, if any, having a
fine stream of water, and lying on a main road conveni
ent to most parts of York County, nearer to navigation
for the greatest part of that county, than mott places;
it is acrofc the river, ^bout 25 miles from Pedlehoufen
and Pequea Creek, and 35 from Lancaster, lurrounded
by a rich wheat neighbourhood, about 6 miles from a
Church or Chapel, and a still less distance from a Pref
hyterian and Quaker Meeting hoafc. The premises may
be entered upon for a spring crop, only allowing to the
stock, now there, the use of the present winter's provi
sions. For further particulars apply to the fubferiber at
Baltimore Town./
THOMAS HARRISON.
Philadelphia, December 9, 1778.
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD;
TXfAS stolen out.of the house of the Widow Craw
ford, in the Northern Liberties, one diaper table
cloth marked M:R, one white apron marked M:R, four
silver tea spoons, three marked M:I; one furtout coat
of blue broadcloth, with blue lincey facing, one button
hole broke on the left fide, and horn buttons ; one big
coat of broadcloth, drab colour, with mohair buttons,
and a pocket on the left fide; also a fuperfine drab cloth
great coat half worn, with 2 large rent sewed up in the
hack nearly this shape r, and several other things too
tedious to mention. Whoever secures the above ' arti
cles so that the owner may get them'kgain, shall receive
the above Reward.
WANT E D.
A SMALL FRONT ROOM, on a firfl floor, for an
Office; it must be in Second or Market-street, the
nearer the Court-house the better. Any person having
an) such to lett will please to enquire of the printer.
Philadelphia, 23d Dec. 1778.
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WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
For the Barrack-MaAer's department,
A NUMBER of good TEAMS. Any performs
desirous of entering any teams in this service will
meet with good encouragement by applying at the Barrack-
Maker's office in the barrack yard.
December 22, 1778.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
CTRAYED AWAY from the fubferiber, living
near Gcfhen, in Chester county, on the eighteenth
of the filth month last, a two years old bay Mare Colt,
with a star in her forehead, a small snip on her nose, the
near hind foot white, and a large black tail and mane.
Asy person that will bring the fame to the fubferiber,
Shall have the above Reward, paid bv
FRANCIS TOWNSEND.