The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-08-21 00:00:00, page 1

SCARLET, brown,
purple, black, green, ।
blue, light coloured, fu-I
perfine and second Broad
cloths,
Scarlet, brown, blue,
light and coloured fa.
perfine Knaps & Coat-
Blue, grey, light and
Icarlet Duffih & Frizes,
White, buff and scarlet
Caffimers and Wiltons,
Crimson, brown, blue,
striped, black, spotted
and corded Velvets and
Velverets,
Olive & white Corduroys,
Tickfets and Duroons,
Barragons,
Childrens worsted Hose,
Pink, blue, black and
cloth coloured Duroys,
Prunellas and Durants,
Tammies and Sattinets,
Crimson, green, Sky-blue
and pink Ruffels, Mo
reens and Callimancoes,
Jeans, Fustians and Beav
ers,
Camblets and Hairbines
of all colours and fine
nefs,
Corded Worsteds and
Everlastings,
Serges and Serge de Jeans,
Blue and white Plains and
Halfthicks,
7-8, 3 4, and apron-wide
cotton & linen Checks,
An assortment of Irish
Linens,
Fine and coarse Hollands,
Yard and half.yard and
3-8 brown and white
Sheetings,
Brittanniss aud Plattella
royals,
Lavals, Penturies, Ozna
brigs and Ticklenburgs,
Sail and Duck Cloth,
Marseilles Quilting,
Plain and corded Dimities
and Diapers,
Wide and narrow Russia
Sheetings, Dowlafs and
Flanders Ticking,
Jaconet and book Mullins,
Tapes, Bobbins & Laces,
Plain and figured Kent.
ings, kenting Handker
chiefs and Catgut,
Plain & millionct Lawns,
Cambrick,
In the last Vessels from Europe,
AND TO BE SOLD, 'By
WILLIAM NICHOLS,
At his STORE, on the North Side of Market street,
opposite the Indian King,
A Large and General Assortment of the
Said NICHOLS returns his best
Thanks to those who have heretofore fa
voured him with their Custom, and hopes,
in future, from his Attention to Business,
and Willingness to Please, that it will be
the Interest of his Customers to continue
their Favours.
Lodgings to be Lett:
A PART ot an HOUSE, unfurnished, in a pleaf?nt
' 1 part of the city, with a STABLE and COACH
HOUSE. Enquire es the Printer.
VOL. X.l
TUESDAY A UGUST 21, 1781.
THE
O R, THE
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Following Articles, viz.
JUST. IMPORTED,
Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
Millionet Handkerchiefs
and figured Apron Pat
terns,
Plain and figured Gauzes
and gauze Handker
chiefs,
Womens Gloves of all co
lours,
Ditto silk Mitts,
Mens silk Glover,
A beautiful Assortment
of dark and light
Chintzes,
Elegant chintz Bed-pat
terns,
Fine and coarse Calicoes
and Cottons,
Ginghams and Bengalis,
Nankeens and Damafeus
Ducapes, Pad uafoys,Man
tuas, Lutestrings, Bro
cades, Modes and Taf
fities,
Green, blue, claret,
bloom, orange, and
white 2-4 and 3-4 ell
Persians and Sarthets,
Pekings, Mexicans and
Mufflemans,
Ell wide Persians, black
and coloured,
Mens, women and child
rens cotton and thread
Hole,
Elegant Tambour Waist
coat Patterns,
Best Sewing.filk,
Black Thread,
Coloured ditto,
Silk and linen Handker
chiefs,
Black and coloured Bar
celona ditto,
Best scars Twist, Mohair
and Buttons,
Black and white Blond
Laces and Edgings,
Thread ditto,
Painted, figured and plain
Ribbands,
Superfine, second and
coarse Bolting- Cloths,
Plated Buttons,
Skelleton and hoop Wire,
Best Tully Gartering,
Cotton Cord and Toffelf,
Bandana, silk and cotton
Romalls,
Quality and narrow Bind
ings and Ferrets,
Snuff Boxes,
With many other Arti
cles, too tedious to enu
merate.
On WEDNESDAY,
The 2%d Day of this Instant —At SIX o'Clock in
the Evening ;
A three story Brick Meffuage,
and two story Brick KITCHEN, and Lot of GROUND
situate on the north fide of Callowhill-ftreet, and on the
weft fide of Front, street, in the township of the Northern
Liberties, in the county of Philadelphia, containing in
breadth, on the said Front-street, 20 feet, and in length,
on the said Callowhiil street, 68 feet 10 inches, and cn
the north fide thereof 70 feet 4 inches. Subject to a
rent charge of Five Pounds fterl. per arm. due and to
become due on the premises ; late the estate of Charles
Lawrence, shipwright, deceased ; and to be fold in
purfoance of his last will and testament, by
WILLIAM DEWEES, Executor.
August 3.
Extract of a letter from lieutenant-colonel Balfour, to
lord George Germain, dated Charleftown, May 1,
1781.
My lord,
' By lord Cornwallis's dispatches, which are herewith
transmitted, your lordship will be informed, that after
the adion at Guildford, general Greene, being oblig
ed to retreat, from before the king's army, turned
his view towards this province, as the more vulnerable
point, in the absence of Cornwallis.
With this idea, on the 19th ultimo he came before
Camden, having vrith him near 1500 Continentals,
and several corps of militia, lord Rawdon having
charge of that post, and about 800 British and provinci
al troops to fuflain it.
For Some days general Greene kept varying his po
sition, waiting, as is supposed, to be reinforced by the
corps under brigadier Marian and colonel Lee, which
were on their way, being ordered to join him.
Judging it necessary to strike a blow before the junc
tion could take place, and learning that general Greene
had detached to bring up his baggage and provision,
lord Rawdon, with the most marked decision, on the
morning of the 25th, marched with the greater part
of his force to meet him, and about ten o'clock at
tacked the rebels in their camp, at Hobkirk's with
that Spirit, which prevailing over superior numbers,
and an obfiinate refinance, compelled them to give
way ; and the pursuit was continued for three miles.
To accident only, they were indebted for saving their
guns, which being drawn into a hollow, out of the
road, were overlooked by our troops in the Rush of
viftory and pursuit, so that their cavalry, in which
they greatly exceeded us, had an opportunity of tak
ing them off
My lord Rawdon slates the loss of the enemy, on
this occasion, as upwards of 100 made prisoners, and
400 killed and wounded, his own not exceeding 100,
in which are included'i officer killed, and 11 wounded.
After this defeat general Greece retired to Rugeley's
Mills, (twelve miles from Camden) in order to call in
his troops, and receive the reinforcements • ,but as
lieutenant-colonel Watson of the guards, who had been
for force time detached by lord Rawdon) with a corps
of 500 men, to cover the eastern frontiers of the pro
vince, is directed by me, to join his lordship, 1 am in
hopes he will be able speedily to accomplish this.
It is to the several letters which lord Rawdon has
been so good as to transmit me, that I am indebted
for the detail I have now the honour to prevent your
lordship; and which, I trufl, his lordship will here
after conclude in the moll Satisfactory manner.
To be Sold by public Vendue,
At the Cofefe-House, in the City of Philadelphia,
Port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ff.
To ALL whom it may concern.
XT O TIC E is hereby given, That a Court of Ad
" miralty will be held at the State house, in the city
of Philadelphia, on Wedn Tay, the ztd of August, inst.
at ten o'clock in th* forenoon, for the trial of the letter
of m rque fhip,or vcffcl, called the Dimfdale, built n
about one hundred and thirty tons, lately commanded
by James Henderson, taken at sea on her passage from
Briitoi to New York, sent into this port, and libelled
against as prize by S muel CTTn, (qui tarn, &c. ) To
the end that all persons concerned may appear and Shew
cause, (if any there be) why a decree should not pass,
pursuant to the libel, &c.
By order of th? Judge,
August 16. JAMES READ, Register.
LON DO N, June 7.
That they have always conceived it to be a maxim
among civilized nations, established in humanity and
found policy, “ that war should be carried on, with the
" least possible injury to private property, found in any
“ countries or towns, which may be invaded or con
" quered :" the happy effects of which wife princi
ple your petitioners have hitherto experienced, in the
security of their estates and effects from rapine and
plunder, which have been reciprocally discountenanc
ed by the governors in the Weft.lndies, as ruinous to
individuals, and productive of no decisive advantage
to any of the sovereign Rates concerned.
Your petitioners are therefore seriously alarmed at
the general Seizure, made by the commanders of your
majesty's sea and land forces, of goods, merchandise,
and specie, found in the Dutch islands of Saint Eufta
tius and Saint Martin, on their surrendering, without
refinance, -and at discretion, to the said commanders,
humbly conceiving, that the inhabitants of places,
which Submit to the will, and Surrender themselves to
the discretion of an invading enemy, immediately up
on such submission, become the fubjefts of that so
vereign, or Rate, to whom the victorious army be
longs ; and, consequently, by their allegiance, are en
titled to Security in their persons and property; it
being as repugnant to policy and humanity, to per
mit one class of Subjects to plunder another, the tra
der having an equal claim with the Soldier to the pro
tection of government.
Your petitioners humbly beg leave to repre
sent to your majesty, that those Dutch islands
did belong to a Sovereign Rate, by wbofe authority
and permission they were made, and have ever been
FREE PORTS ; and that they have been recognized
as Such, by Great-Britain, and all the other maritime
powers of Europe, who have possessions in the Weft-
Indies.
That Great Britain, in particular, has never inter
dicted or prohibited, to her fubjeCb, the trade to those
Dutch islands, but has, on the contrary, permitted the
exportation of great quantities of various articles of
goods of the growth, produce, and manufacture of
this country, which have been regularly and openly en
tered out, at the several ports in this kingdom, for the
said Dutch islands.
That an aft was passed last session of parliament,
for removing any legal doubts arising out of the navi
gation aft, respecting the importations of tobacco of
the growth of the colonies in North-America, which,
having escaped British capture, had been imported,
from the colonies in rebellion, into those Dutch islands,
declaring and enaCting, “ that Such tobacco might be
“ legally imported from those, or any other, neutral
“ islands, into Great Britain ; " by which aft, the trade
to the said islands of St. Euftatius and St. Martin,
which had always been in many refpeds legal, became
an object of public encouragement, by being extended
beyond what the ftriCl construction of law seemed for
merly to authorife.
That since the passing of the said aft, and even be
fore, during the present rebellion, a great part of the
tobacco, absolutely necessary for the consumption and
revenue of Great-Britain, has been imported through
that channel to the manifeft benefit of the navigation of
this kingdom; for, if the market had not been Sup
plied by those means, there would have been an indis
pensable necessity for admitting tobacco from Holland,
after having been carried thither from those islands in
Dutch vessels ; and Great-Britain would, consequently,
have been deprived of the profit arising from the long
Navigation of that bulky commodity.
That, since the commencement of the American re
bellion, the said islands of St. Euftatius and St. Mar
tin have been frequently of the most effentia! Service to
the Bririfh Leeward islands, particularly in the years
1777 2nd 1778, wen the islands of Antigua and St.
Chriflopher would have Suffered all the miseries of ac
tual famine, had not they drawn from St. Euftatius
those Supplies which they formerly received from North-
America,
That since the capture of Grenada, the Grenadines,
Dominica and St. Vincent, those islands have been
Copy of the petition of the Weft-India.Planters and
Merchants to the king, on the fubjed of the gene
ral Seizure of private property, found in the Dutch
islands of St. Euftatius and St. Martin's.
To the KIN G's most excellent majesty.
The PETITIO N of the Weft-India Planters and
Merchants,
Most humbly fheweth,
THAT your petitioners have very considerable
property, and debts due to them, in the seve
ral islands in the Weft-Indies, fubjed to the
crown of Great-Britain, as also in the islands of Gre
nada, the Grenadines, Dominica, and Saint Vincent,
which have, in the course of the present hoflilities,
fallen under the dominion of France.
[NUMB. 771.