The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-05-25 00:00:00, page 2

From the (Londoh) Public Advertiser, dated Decem
ber 26, 1781.
To s he PEOPLE OF GREAT-BRITAIN.
MY FELLOW Subjects,
WHEN a commander of an army enters into a
province, or diftrid of a country, with a de
sign to conquer it, common sense and ail the pradice
ofwar must tell him, that it is his firft business to de
stroy or drive out of it the force which shall attempt to
defend it. This, and this only, can give him the pos
session of the country, and enable him to put it in a
state of Security, while he proceeds in his other com
queßs. And a little refleaion muff also inform him,
that this can be done only by the following meafure^ :
i ft. By disarming the inhabitants, and punching, or
at lead confining every man whom he has reason to
fufpe6t will oppose him.
2 d. If there be a party in the country, which favours
hi^ design, by giving it all due encouragement.
And gdly, by bringing over to his aid as many more
of rhe inhabitants as he can.
It is by these measures all conquered countries have
been secured and retained. It was this policy which en
abled Alexander to leave every country he had secu
red, in perfect security ; to recruit and encreafe the
nu'mb p rs of his army by the people he had reduced,
^nd to extend his conquest from the Strymen to tne
Indus. The fme also were the measures which carri
ed Csefar on the wings of honour and fame, even to the
conquest ofG rmany and the Franfalpine Gaul And
the fame measures have been before and e-er since
invariably pursued by every sensible commander, the
generals whom we have unfortunately employed in A
rnerica, only excepted. These men, either believing
themselves wiser than all the great and fuceefsful con
auerors that have ever lived before them, or totally ig
norant of the great polcy and principles of wai, during
the course of seven campaigns, with a degree of obfti
nacy and infatuation unprecedented, have r^verfed the
measures which reason, confirmed by the experience of
ages, has manifefled to be necessary to the conquest of
a country. Our firft commander in chief, as I have
fainted before, conquer'd New-Jerfey,* and administer
ed the oath of allegiance to 7000 men. This done, he
abandoned the country, and with it all those who had
adhered to his sovereign and put themselves under his
proteaion, although he was at the head of a force, at
least eight times greater than that of his enemy When
we examine the conduct of our fou.hern general, we
find him pursuing the fame wretched policy, of con
quering a country,and tnen deserting it, notwithfland
ing he had f^n the mischiefs attending it in the in
fiance of New-Jersey.
Instead of securing South-Carolina, and putting it
in a poflure of defence, he left many of the seditious
not disarmed, the loyalifls not embodied, and a rebel
corps in the province; and, with the rapidity of a
Ringed Mercury, pursued the light armed troops, un
der the rebel general Greene, upwards of two hundred
miles from the province thus insecure.
The mifehiefs which ti is unprecedented conduct pro
duced, Ere scarcely to be described. The seditious,
whom he had neither confined nor disarmed, encourag
ed by the difiance of his force, and the insecure state
of the province, recovered their spirits and'joined the
rebel general Sumpter, in retaking his posts and re
'conquering the province. He pursued the liglit arm
ed troops of his enemy in vain, because they knew the
roads and the country better than himfelf. And by a
march so long and rapid, he wafted daily his own force,
without taking a single hep to recruit it, although he
law the numbers of the army he was pursuing daily in
creasing. Those numerous loyalifls, whom he has ack
nowledged were in the province through which he was
palling, and whose ardour to give him assistance he
could not for some time suppress, he had forbid to join
him until he had called for tneir aid. This aid he ne
gleded to call for during his long march, until his
ownfafety compelled him, and that, not before he ar
rived at Hlfborough. Here he issued his proclamati
on; upwards of two hundred loyalifls instantly embo
died, but not being properly supported by him, they
fell a facrifice to a rebel corps, who put th^m all to
death after they had laid down their arms. This done,
in two days after, instead of waiting to fee what would
be the further effeds of his proclamation, he retreated
to Cape Fear, leaving the country to the command of
the rebel army, and consequently rendering it impos
sible for the loyalifls to join him.
Here the policy of the British general formed a per
feft contrast to that of the rebel. The firft, with all the
knowledge which long experience could finally give,
reversed the usual practice of war, and that policy
which has never failed of success ; while the other, with
out any experience, made these the invariable rules of
his conduct If the firft knew that there was a great
number of loyalifls in North-Carolina, and rejected or
negle&ed the measures necessary to obtain their aid ;
the other also knew there were likewise rebels, who ad
hered tb the usurpation he wished to support. On these
he never ceased to call, and to encourage them by eve
ry art and means in his power to give him their aid.
Nor did he call in vain, for there was no diftrid through
which he paffe'd, wherein he did not pick up some mi
litia,and in the end amply (applied the number he had
loft. Thus this unexperienced young general, at the
head of a defeated and retreating army of undisciplined
troops, was enabled to encreafe his force, while his
pursuer, with all bis experience, and at the head of an
army slushed with repeated vidories/wafted and destroy
ed his own strength, in a country where it might have
been, by the fame measures, greatly encreafed.
By this wretched condud on our part, and the good
sense of the rebel general, he soon found himfelf at the
head of a force which he thought could face and defeat
our wafted army. Nor was he altogether mistaken.
* Whether the fhameful retreat from New Jersey,
and the facrifice of the loyalifls by it, ought to be im
puted to the commander in chief, or to his lordship, I
will not determine. In jnftice, perhaps, it ought to
be imputed to both ; for his lordship had the command
of the British army in New-Jersey, when this memory
ble manoeuvre took place.
The duke of Portland is appointed lord Chamber
lain to the houfhold, in the room of the earl of Hert
ford.
The firft cabinet council of the new ministers, for the
tranfadion of business, was held on Thursday evening,
at which the following cabinet councilors assisted :
The marquis of Rockingham,
Lord John Cavendish,
The earl of Shelburne,
Hon. Charles James Fox,
Hon. admiral Keppel,
Lord Camden,
Duke of Grafton,
Duke of Richmond,
The lord Chancellor,
Hon. General Conway, and
Mr. Dunning.
A council, such as this nation at no former period
of its history can produce, in refped to abilities and
importance in the country ! They fat in deliberation
from eight o'clock to twelve at night.
One of the firft objeßs of the present ad ministration is
to endeavour, to effect a peace with Holland We have
it from very refpedable authority, that it was decided,
in the council, held at St. James's on Thursday eve
ning last, that overtures should be made immediately
to the Bates general, and that the marquis of Carmar
then was to be appointed the negociator, and to repair
on that business to the Hague.
The cabinet has been encreafed since the formation
of the new administration to the number of ten, which
is two more than ever was convened in the date coun
cil. Eight is the general number, but every render will
concur in the propriety of the extension of the number,
when they are informed that the encreafe arises from
the accession of lord John Cavendish as chancellor of the
exchequer, and of lord Afhburton as chancellor of the
dutchy of Lancaster.
Mr. secretary Fox was in his office yesterday morn
ing, as well as the day before, full dressed, at seven
o'clock, and ready to wait on the king He had a con
ference with his majefly, previous to the drawing room,
of three hours.
The marquis of Rockingham has appointed, to the
place of his private secretary, a gentleman of diftingoilh
ed worth and learning, the rev. Walker Ring, vicar of
Hoo, in Sussex, fellow of Corpus Christi college, Ox
ford, and son to the dean of Raphoe, in Ireland. He
is a near relation of the new peer, lord Grantley, (fir
Fletcher Norton, late speaker of the house of com
^ons.) , , „. ,
Of all the mortifications which have been sustained
by the firft lord of admiralty, in the difgraceful dimif
fion which he has undergone from his pristine employ
ment, none has affeHed him more nearly than the re
moval of his son lord Hinchinbroke, from the office of
vice chamberlain ; and to add to the chagrin, the gold
en infigne has been transfered to lord Ludlow, the other
member for the county of Huntingdon, the immedi
ate neighbour, and avowed political enemy of his lord
(hip.
Mr. R -, it is said, was offered the continuation
of paymalerfhip, provided he would consent to have
the perquisites reduced: —but nothing under full
price would be taken.
Mr. Courtnay's plea fantry has received a fatal blow
by the late change. His jibes and jokes, his tales and
stories, his poetry, his latin, and all his train of quo
Instead of flying, he offered a fair combat. The su
perior difripline of British troops, disappointed him of
his wilhed-for success, though not ofa real victory in the
consequences. The rebel general was repulsed, and our
general kept the field. But what were theeffeds! The
sirs l returned to the conquest of that province which
our folly had left in a state of insecurity: to support
the seditious, imprudently left in it, while this rapid
conqueror was obliged, for want of provisions, as he
alled;es, to go to Cape Fear, in North-Carolina. Whe
ther this reason be a good one, I shall not flop to en
quire. However this we know, that the rebel general
did immediately return to South-Carolina, and
found provisions fufficient to support a greater number
than those under the command of his lordship.
The fuperficial examiner, who never looks deeper
than the furface of things, may be deceived by the glit
tering of a name. Such men have highly applauded bis
lordship's conduct in his rash and fatal march. But
men of sense and military knowledge will ask the fol
lowing questions : Why did not his lordship, after the
battle of Camden, take the proper measures for securing
the province of South-Carolina, feeing it was of the firft ,
importance to his future success ? Why did he not dis
arm every fufpeded, and confine every dangerous, per
son, and fuffer the loyalifls to embody themselves, for
the protection of their country ? When he found he could
not overtake his retreating enemy, and that his own
force was wafting with excess of fatigue, while the rebel
army was enervating in numbers and strength, why did
he not halt, and, taking pof tamong these numerous
loyalifls, which be himfelf has confeffed were in North-
Carolina, cover them until they were embodied, and
had joined him, agreeably to hispromife, and their san
guine expectations ? Why would he not except of the
tendered services of the oyalifts on their own reasona
ble terms, not unless they would become common fol
dier', and submit to terms which every freeman must
detest ? And, in as much as he knew his defeated ene
my was about to return to the conquest of the province,
which he had left in a state of insecurity, and to snatch
from his brow the laurels he had gained, why did he
not return also to save and proteH them ?
This rapid, rash and unprecedented march, fruitlefs
in its effed, and most defirudiye to an object which
ought to have been pursued the wanton waste of men
and loss of time, which ought to have been employed
in defending a country, conquered ; and in prosecuting
his further conquests, agreeably to all the usage of
war, always reminds me of the hare and the tortoise in
the fable, or of an unfkilful rider who pulhes his horse
out of breath in the beginning of the race, and then
fuffers his ant agonift to walk at his leafure, to the goal
before him. FABRICIUS.
LONDO N, March 30.
TAKEN up on theist of this month,
' trespassing, ne,r the Point-house, a Strawberry
Roan MARE, with a small blrize in her forehead, one
white foot, a natural pacer, ahout 13 or 14 hands high.
The owner is defined to c^me, prove property, pay
charts and take herfaway. Enquire of Mr. THOMAS
J)HNS, living in Southwaik. May 24.
AN Elegant well finifhed three flory BRICK
HOUSE, situate on the weft fide of Fourth-
Street, near the corner of Spruce Street, lately occu
pied hy Edward Shippen, efq ; it has 6 rooms in it,
exclusive of a large piazza, kitchen and garret, with
good dry cellars under the whole, a large yard and
double necessary. There is to be let with the said
house, a large LOT adjoining, with a good stable on
it, fufficient to contain fix horses, and room for a coach,
er any other carriage. Enquire of ABRAHAM
SHOEMAKER, in Walnut Street, near the
corner of Third Street.
Convenient Dwelling House,
in Penn-street, latety occupied by Jacob Bankfon, efq.
For further particulais apply to THOMAS WIL
LING. • May 24.
WHEREAS MARTHA TAYI OR, wife of the
fubicriber, mariner, in Philadelphia, has elop-?
ed from me, and behaved in an unfaithful and scandal
ous manner, by cohabiting with a waiter : these are to
forwarn any perfun from crediting her on my account,,
as I am determined not to pay any debts of her con-
WHEREAS MARY HENDERSON, the wife of
the fubferiber, has eloped fiom my bed and
board without any just or reasonable provocation; and
as I am still willing to maintain her if she returns to
me; Ido hereby forworn all persons from trusting her
on my account, as I will not pay any debts of her con
trading after the date heree f.
May 24, 1782. JAMES HENDERSON.
Lord Hillfborough is upon very good terms with
the leaders of the present administration, though his
lordship is appointed to no post at present. His lord
ship has undertaken the office of mediating with the
Irish, with whom he is much efleemed, and it is said he
set off for that country forthwith.
Just come to band, and to be S OLD by
°Jacob Keehmle,
In Second-street, near Race-street, A
Quantity of the best Spanish Olives in jars.
Ex el'ent frefh Sweet Oil in jars,
Some good t eih Lime Juice, &c. &c. May 24.
^n Ele^rical Machine,
WILL BE SOLD CHEAP,
With its APPARATUS. Enquire of the Printer.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
TUAS STOLEN, last Saturday, from a
'' house near the Barracks, in Duke-street, an Old
Silver TABLE-SPOON, marked Z. H. and stamped
with a rampant lyon and a king and ftaff. Whoever
wil ficure the thief, so that he be brought to justice
and the Spoon recovered again, shall have the above
Reward, or Three Dollars for the Spoon only. Enquire
ot the Printer. My 23.
SOME time last fall ABRAHAM REGHFR, of
the state of Pennsylvania, left a Bay HORSE with
the fubferiber, four years old, 15 hands high, brand
ed on the near buttock G. K. a natural trotter. Said
Regher is desired to come, pay charges and take him
away in four weeks from the date, or he will be fold
for the fame. CHRISTOPHER CRYSER.
Frederick county, Virginia, May 23.
trading. WALTER TAYLOR.
Philadelphia, May 24, 1782.
tations, are now no more :— the source of wit is loft,
and the flream of laughter must flop of course !
Newtown, Bucks county, May 20.
DROKE Jail, between the 16th and 17th
° instant, SAMUEL SCOT, committed for high
treason, about 22 years of age, 5 feet 11 inches high,
flout and well made, has yellowilh coloured hair, red
beard, one of his whiskers grey the other red, very
full faced : Had on when he went away, a small round
felt hat, a yellowilhcoloured short, fulled, linfey
coat and overalls, a lightilh coloured broadcloth waift
caat, half worn shoes, an old pair of carved plated
buckles ; but as he has other cloaths it is likely he ma,
change bis drels. Whoever takes up and secures him
in any gaol, so that he may be had again, shall have
the above Reward and reasonable charges paid, by
JAMES GREGG, Gaoler.
Popofes OPENIN G An
English and German School,
(at his House, in Quarry-street, leading into Moravian
allev, and two doors from Third-street) on MON
DAY, the Third Day of June next : Those who in
cline to fend their Children to him, may depend on
Care being taken, refpe&ing their Education as well as
Morals. Philadelphia, M^y 25, 1782.
EIGHT SILVER DOLLARS REWARD.
GEORGE ZEISIEGER,
TO BE L E T,
And may be entered on immediately.
TO BE
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