The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1778-05-06 00:00:00, page 3

LONDON, February 20.
T' HE Lords Araherft and Weftcoate, and
Mr. Hars Stanley, are talked of as three of
the Commiffioneis to go over to America.
No relaxation appears cn the fide of Government
in the (hipping of stores or railing of men @u account
of Lord North's Proposals. .
It is believed that the prayer of the people will,
on the approaching fat day, be in general for peace,
and that it would pkafe the Almighty to open the
eyes of his Mjefty, that he may lee the horrible in
iquities of his Ministers, and give them up to the
jud resentment of the nation.
A correspondent fays, there are the best founded
reafoos for crediting the report that the Duke of
Marlborough has declared his disapprobation of go
ing on with the American war.
This road war with America, is not like two
powers contending for a province; but is an ARMY
(and now but one army) contending agais^ a whole
& eople.'
BOSTO N, April 23.
By the English papers, the disposition ofthe peo
ple is greatly chang d towards America. They are
full of farire, ridicule and sober arguments, against
. the la:e measures. The Britilh Ministry are offend
ded with tbctr commanders here. Lord Cornwallis
was received coldly—so was Lord Petersham. Bur
.go,me has {off their favour by bis fate, and hinting
that he had pofidve orders to make his way to Alba
ny, at all events.. The two Howes are in no high
estimation. In a promotion of Admirals Lord Howe
has been neglected. In short, the Ministry,- with
their fiends, and those of their peine pal officers
here are divided, and from hence have sprung the
'moil violent parties to weak r. and confound the na
tion. Th.hr quarrel with America is the aftonifh
trent and ri.lien eof a ! l Europe.
France and S/aux are at prefentarmed both by
land and Tea. in the.moft formidable manner, and
from every co curaftance a war must have commenced
by this time. The Tnks and Ruffians have been
inibgaved already to,commence. The King o Prof
fi< and Emperor are at the head of great armies, but
it is at prefect uncertain of their. arrangements.
The Eng'ith are under appehenhons of an inert
ti,n ei he r in Great Britain or Ireland.—The nati
ronlmilitia are called upon, on finding that regular
troops are not to be procured—foidiers and feamcri
railing by fubLription for their King's service, and
at prodigi its prices; and at the fame time vi lently
opposed, by the epp.^fi ton in Parliament, also by the
city of London and fever..!. other great cities and
{owns in England.—Counter fubferiptions are open
ed in behalf of and for relief of the American prifon
^rs, amounting to ,uear fix thousand guineas—these
p ifoners a enow treated with humanity and entire
ly different from their former usage. About a week
before the frigate L'Senfibie left Brest, a fleet failed
from Qn/beroon Bay for America, confiding of &
number of (hips of the line and frigates under the
command of Admiral D La Mothe Picque , to con
Voy fix or eight fail o' transports loaded with eloath
ing and other neceffries for tur army, which had
been procured and got ready by Mr. Silas Deane in
August last butecould not puffibly be Whipped sooner
for various reasons.
There are also 3 or 4 American armed vessels in
the fl et—the reputation of the Americans at the
highest pitch through Europe, especially the northern
provinces. . ,
In a ward, the English are io the most humiliating
and abje& situation imaginable; and parties have ne
ver been equally furious since the revolution.
It is supposed that the frigate L'Senfible failed
yesterday for Europe. Mr. Deane is happy to take
th s firft public opportunity to acknowledge the zeal,
politeness and dispatch with which tire Chevalier
Marigny has finally accomplished his important mis
sion, and hopes that he may return fafe to receive
the reward due to so worthy an officer; and at the
fame time most Gncerelv,congratulates his country
men on this great and most happy event.
Tis said a frigate is dispatched from Spain with
duplicates of the forename? treaty.
LANCASTE R, May 6.
Accents from Carlifle are, That „ Tories lately
formed the horrid design of joining the Savages in
mordering and Icalping their neighbours. With this
intent they marched bv the north branch cf Juniata
river, defining to pass the Allegany Mount in at the
Cneft. A few Indi ns met them : The banditti en
deavoured to parley with them, and open thrir plan.
The Indians were (hr, and, on sane advancing, (hot
one of the villains aud retired. Convinced on this, of
the d nger and difii totv of their parpofe, they Scat
tered, eacht k-ng ad.ri' rent nrh. Soon after,°'a par
ty of vohintiers in mu^t of there unnatural wretches,
came to the p'ace wiiere they bad difperEd, and fendu
i&g hack notice of what h^d happened; proceeded to
ward, the O rio in ftaren of any. o^her whites who
might have like defleas They are y±t our. But ma
ny oFthe villainy have been catcher, and feme of them
hav: been properly secured. .
Five cou ntecUiters of paper mohey were very lately
feiz%;6n a waste mountain, rear the Maryland line,
in ITk County, andimprifofted ri Maryland.
A body of federal hundred Tories, who had taken
the field in Km', in the .Delaware State, under one
M'Leod, have been dispersed, anti their cannon and
stores taken.
A Correspondent remarks, ,that it roue greatly efta
blfh the credit of the; Honorable .Congress in Europe,
teat they treated Lord N^rth i-T-hio' s propofols wih
.proper difaain, and received war tirmnefe to support
Irilftpend-nce, though at that t'm^ whoj ^ ipnofot cf
the treacie with France, and the Lv: viable intentions
of other great States be/rnd the fitlanrip;
The Rev. Mr. I)AViDSOb rill open a Larin
School on the 15h of May, near? ar^> Mib, OLO.-
forma Cie k, where y'wn, Gentlemen can be acct m
modared on reasonable uro,, in a v<ry reputable
neighbourhood..
(Adverdfemynls &c. emitted this weeb for want of
room}.v;iU bale a place in our next )
J Mr. Dunlap,-
A FEW days ago I was favoured with the fight
of a paper from PhiladUphia, called the Even
ing Roft, for Friday, the 3d inst. in which was the
following remarksbe publication, viz..
* From a R EBE L PA PE R.
" In C O N G R. E SS, February 20, 1773.
" W H EREA S it is represented to Congrels by
Us Excellency General Waihingtem, that, the mode
adopted by many cfthe United States ofiKiftir g their
quota of troops only for fix or nine months, occasions
a cenftant change of men; by which means g^eat part
of his army coofUntly eonfilts oi undisciplined troops,
arid of ccivfe occaLms great fatigue and trouble to
his officers in rendering them Stonly for any service;
ana that by the time they come to kuo w the duty cf
a soldier, their inliftmen's expire, . , :
Resolved, That ali the troops now computing
the armies of these United States, and all tuch other
troops as (hall hereafter iolift,or be drafted, to ie r ve in
their armies, fltall be deemed; and they are hereby
declared to be troops of d;de Unit d states, during
the continuance of :h. ewar between the'e Unite 1
Spates and Great Britain, and fubje& to all rhe re
guaims, pains and penalties Ipecitied io the articles
of war heretofore made and ordained by ihefeUnited
Stages in Congress; norwirift tiding any lew of these
United States to tie c rnttary,
“ Refolded, That his Excellency Gen, W^fbin,
ton, and & 1 and ev,ry other officer of these United
States, commanding in ary garrison or tort, or at
any post, er any detachments, he, and rheyare here
by amhoiifed and required to apprehend and detain
in fate custody, a 1 such periods as shall quit rhe fer
vice of these United States, during the continuance
of the wa r between these United States and Great-
Britain, under pretence of the time of their inhilment
being expired, in order that they may be brought to
condign punifliment for deertio%
By order of Congress,
HENRY LAURENS, Frefident
CH ,RLEi >rile) fly '", Secretary."
.As I h^d never teen any such pub icauon in any of
these, which, with, their w ual wit and politeness,
they call rebel papers, I was led from that circum
stance, as well as from the thing itfe!f, to fu ped
some trick; I thetefote immediately fat down and
wrote the following letter to the Secretary.
S I R,.
" I inclofe ,ou a Philadelphia News paper, and
teg to be informed, whether any such revolution as
that contained in it, did ever pass the Honorable the
Congefs." : .
To which letter 1 received, this instant, the fol
lowing answer. ,';
SIR, York Town, April 27, 1778.
lam much eViged b, ,our favor. If it ^f poffibbe
to be surprised by an, chicanery of the enemy, this might
perhaps have dhat effect The ons circurnftance that
excites any kind of swon^r is. their {olt, and flupidity
in attempting a forgery which is Jo eaftly detected by
every inhabitant of these States who reads the public
pope's. However, to remove every doubt, 1 afareyou,
t, at no Jueb resolution ever p fed, .nor was any such
ever moved in uongre/s. Ivm, ©c,
CHARLES THOMSON.
You will please, Sir, to print this tetter, to the
end that gentlemen at a diltar.ee may, from a perusal
of this impudent.forgery, published under the very
note of the most excellent General Howe, form some
faint idea of thole low, infamous artifices, in which
our enemies excel even a pettifogging Attorney. It
would ietru, that men who are ioliciting a treaty
with us, should from policy endeavour to imprels
our minds with ^d idea of their honesty: but the
old remark is just, that wicked men never a& with
real wadom. I am, &c.
A CORRESPONDENT.
Lanofor, April i%, 1778.
P. S. i just now fee. the fame forgery is printed in
IyL. Cure's p^fo, pubidhed in New-York.
Lancafc,; Pennfobania, Aprilz,, y-y^l.
V^^HERE AS by a law of this State, intitled;
Y “ A Supplement to the A& intided, an A&
to p event fi^eftalling and 'r. # graring and ta encourage
fur dealing," the Commiflioaers cf Cloathing for the
refold v e Counties 'are authorifed';enjoined and r&-
qFred to m^ke diligent fenreh and enc^iry after all
off nde:s a^ainlt laid law, arid againfi the lawintitled,
' An A& to prohibit the file of goods, wares and
merchandize by public vendue, and to regulate perU
Ltrs ?nd h:wkeisin this State," and to proceed against
and fefr the proper tv of lu h offenders, according to
faidJaus: Ihis is' £%refofe to give notice, that we
are deormin^tro proceed in that duty immediately
alter publication hereof '
JAMES LANG and ROBERT CRAIG,•
Cb,.m Ui nersof Clouhbig for Lancaster County
A generous price will be given by the fubferihers to
Journeymen Taylors, and an exemption from Militia
duty. . ,
Hospital, Head-quarters, Manheim, May s , 17ft"
AL L persons who have any demands on
the Military Hofoitairf the Middle Department,
due before the fi ft cf M^rch, are drfred to bring or
leno them in, with proper vouchers; on or before the
iotn 01 June. JOSEPH SHIPP E N, Junior,
Secretary and Pay-m&r H.M. D.
T O
A N %ant SULKE Y, with a finding top, al.
6 1 1^ w ° „ E 'T l " e ° f Hugh Ferguson, in
Piu^ftevf Fownthip, Bucks County.
A LL P ersons indebted to the estate of John
Llton, late of Sa< fbury Tovrilhip, Chifter
C.unt., deceased, are desired to m ke immediate, pay
ment; and those who have any dunands against the
f^d estate are jequtfted to bring them in, in order
that they may he djuft d and paid hv
THOMAS FLTON, 1 ..
ROBERT EL'CN, jAdnuniftratom
iHikTY DOLLARS REWARD.
A° ''"' ° n Thursday the 23d of April last.
,' ''"''" " d 'eathe?
i OvucA BOOK, lined with green fitk, a silver ela'p
7X R 10 acypher on it. the catch breke.
In fairi >cket peek were one hundred and fifty dol
lars pnriin abun de, and about twenty or thi ty dolt.
Itil^e ; ; also thice lottery tickets, No. 85^366.
85%^, 85% 0, ch the bck of the fi r ft and Lft tick
-7 f "'\ 7°?' J 'XXf^ C^T^ and on the other,
1 upr , fjhr; also sundry papers that can be of no
tfz^ rt ny p-rs n but the owner. Whoever has found
Gig Pocket book and will return it to the fubferiber,
a t 'A^ie^ Boner's, near the 21 mile-stone on
the Reading road, shad receive the above reward, by
JOSEPH C. FISHER.
TO BE S oT—
For Continental Currency,
AV Suable Plantation, containing about five hun
dred acr^s, in Frederick County, Virginia, fix
r^es from Wujehtftr and a qu ^r cf a mile ironi
n°A eWe : Meeting-honfe, j ini n , rhe landsif
Do&or John Mfraid and Widow Jofliff; there are
about one hundred and ten acres cleared, fan^
ot meadow ; There are on.Fid plantation a tm /f
t^arne hcule, a kitchen, a well efexcellent water at
t^e door, a new barn, fable and smoke houA ' th
birn 84 . feet long and 28 feet wide, a threffiing 'fl or
28 r eet square § the whole in good repair ; the land ig
exceeding rich, ard well timbered with bl2 r k b
hickory and walnut, and will produce gre^t c^ps of
wu% rye, corn or tobacco, any of the upland will
produce good clover ir Timothy meadow, and by
jud{f s is reckoned as good as the Lancaster County
land; fhere are tiro good merchant mills within two
rm! s of the place : The situation is very pleasant and
healthy, in a good neighbourhood. For terms apply
to the lubiciiber oh the prentife,. ? , /
-JOHN REYNOLDS.^
CA M £ to the plantation of David Mus
selman, iu Hempfield Townll ip, Lancaster
County, about the 81 1 or oth of April faft; the two
following Creatures, viz. An iron grey Mire, has no
brand nor ear mark, trots natural , and 1$ about
tw he years old. A dark brown Gelding, about fix
or seven yeArs old, paces and trots, has no brand nos
ear mark, (hod before. The owner is desired to come
and prove du property; pay charges, and tfetheni
awa >. FRANCIS SHOPP.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
C" i kAZED or STOLEN from the fubfi riber, living
at the Head of Elk, the 23d of April last, a bright
bay Gelding, rising three years old, about fourteen
and a half hands high, a natural trotter, being one
quarter blooded which he ffiows much, neat I^aighc
hm>s, narrow and pretty high rumped, his head net
in proportion to the rest of his body, it being rather
large and wide across the jaws ; he has been rode and
is very gentle, his mane and tail black, the latter pret
ty long, the former Mys on tie off fide and has been
lately cut under the head-stall of the bridle ; he has
never been ihod, no white about him, neither brand
nor ear mark. Any person securing said horse, and
the thief if stolen, so ihat'the thief may be brought to
justice and the horse returned to the owner, lhall re
ceive the above reward, or Ten Dollars tor the'
horse, and reasonable charges if brought h me, p^d
b y _ „ JOHN STUMP. 3
N. B. he has been htdy bled in @ near fids of his
neck.