The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-02-22 00:00:00, page 3

Philadelphia, Feb. 22.
Since our last federal naval prisoners arrived in town
from New-York, and it is said a great number more
are liberated.
Advices from Eli^betb-town as late as Wednesday
morning last mention, that nothing new has transpir
ed from New-York. From this it seems that the re
ports of the arrival of a packet at that city from Eng
land are premature.
The brig Macaroni, captain Brown, and the schoo
ner Havanna, captain White, are arrived at Baltimore,
from Havanna.
Extra& from the MINUTES
Of the honorable the General Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
FRIDAY, January 17, 1783. P. M.
ON information given by a member, that the state
house flood in need of some repairs:
Ordered, That Mr. Meredith, Mr. Penrofe, and
Mr. Joseph Montgomery, be a committee to report
such repairs as may be necessary for the preservation
and security thereof.
MONDAY, January 20, 1783. A. M.
A memorial and remonflrance from sundry officers
el the Pennsylvania line, was read, referring to certain
laws enaßed December 18, 1780, and April 10, 1781,
setting forth, that the, memorialifts were under the
difgreeable necessity, in order to relieve their pressing
wants, of receiving under the latter aft, one-third of
their certificates in paper currency as specie, when
the said paper had depreciated to five for one, and the
financier of the united hates, at the fame moment and
in the fame currency, pdd divers officers, allowing
them the full depreciation on the fame; also further
setting forth their hope, that speedy and effectual mea
sures will be taken to d fcharge the residue of their
certificates for depreciation : and remonflrating against
enaaing into a law, the bill published for confider ti
on, entitled, “ Ao a& for the file of certain lands
therein mentioned, for the purpose of redeeming and
paying off the certificates of depreciation given to the
officers and soldiers of the Pennsylvania line, or their
representatives; and for appropriating certain other
lands therein mentioned, for the use of the said offi
c^rs and soldiers, to be divided off to them severally
at the end of the war;" and praying, that some
means may be adopted, by which, the said lands or
the monies arising from the sales thereof, may be ap
plied to the use only of such officers and soldiers of
the Pennsylvania line, as have retained their certifi
cates unalienated :
Ordered to lie on the table.
TUESDAY, January 21, 1783. A. M
A petition and remonftran e from divers seventh
day Ba ptifls, inhabitants of Chester county, contain
ing their o jeHions in point of religious (cruples, to
the bill entitled, “ An ad to amend and render effec
tual an aft entitled, “ Ana& to retrain people from
labour on the firft day of the week," already publish
ed for confederation, was read, and
Ordered to lie on the table.
THURSDAY, January 23, 1783. A. M.
A petition from a number of fubferibers, inhabi
tants of the upper part of Chefler, of the lower part
of Berks, and of the upper part of Philadelphia coun
ties, was read, setting forth, that from their local fi
tuation in each of these counties, with refpe& to the
county towns, they are under great inconveniencies ;
the attending of public and private business at so great
dißances from the places of their refpe&ive abodes, ex
posing them to much expence and loss of time; and
therefore praying that a county town may be confli
tuted at Potts-town, and the lands within the follow
ing limits, be erected into a county, viz. Beginning
now repo-ting on purpose to deceive him, as his plan
has already been difccfrred, and we are resolved to
get rid of him by the grossest impositions.
A few days since we made him and the duke de
Crillon, take Gibraltar byaffault. We brought dis
patches over land from fir Guy Carleton with the rati
fication of a treaty with congress. We wrote him a
letter from Wafhiogton to his wife, expressing the de
plorable Rate of his army, and apprehensions of a mu
tiny, on account of famine, which flared them in the
face. We made Hyder Ally totally defeat fir Eyre
Coote, whose dispatches came by the way ofNewfound
land.
I doubt not Come of these articles will make their
appearance in one of the prints, unless the printer has
more judgment than the new collector, whose reading
neve, extended beyond a news paper.
After what I have related, you need not, fir, be sur
prised at the many vague and improbable articles that
creep into the papers : though, I believe, many are
inserted with a more sinister view than is defi?ned by
the unfortunate lieutenant, whose sole motive for ex
posing himfelf and the public to these impositions, is
to get a dinner, and pay his washer-woman. But, fir,
surely the conversation of gentlemen ffiould not be be
trayed in print by a hireling news collector, who can
offer no other answer for his cooduH, than that of the
highwayman—Neceffty.
I could wish that you would insert this letter in your
next, to prevent the printers atd the public being im
posed upon, and that we may get rid of such a nui
sance as the lieutenant, when we may converse without
refiraint, or have any apprehensions thatour discourse
(hall find its way next day into the newspapers.
I am, fir, your constant reader,
A New Correspondent.
We are now upon the point of a decisive a&ion be
tween lord Howe and the combined fleets ; trying count
de Graffe at Brest ; and raising a subscription for a
new firft rate, to supply the place of the Royal George,
by the immaculate Dianas at the back of Portsmouth
point.
at the mouth of the Valley-creek, and running up the
north fide of the said creek, to the north ridge of the
Vallay-mountain, thence upon the ridge of the said
mountain until it meets with the line of Lancaster
county, then along that line until it meets with the'
line of Berks county, then extending into Berks coun
ty, along the boundary between that county and Lan
caster, five or fix miles, thence with a line parallel to
the boundaries between Berks and Chester counties, to
the Schuylkill, thence with the line parallel to the
boundaries between Berks and Philadelphia counties,
until it meets with the boundary of Northampton,
thence with tire line of Northampton to the boundary
between that county, Bucks and Philadelphia, t ence
with the boundary between Bucks and Philadelphia,
until it ioterfeds the great road leading from Phila
delphia to Bethlehem, thence south-westerly to the „
head of Skippack-creek, thence with the main branch
of Skippack to the mouth thereof, thence with Per
quioming creek to the Schuylkill, and from thence to
the place of beginning :
Ordered to lie on the table.
The committee appointed January 17, to report the
repairs necessary to the state-house, made their report
which was read, and on motion, and by special order,
the fame was read the second time ; whereupon,
Ordered That the committe who made the roport
agree with proper workmen to secure the assembly room
and the room in which congress fits, as mentioned in
the report, and the confederation of the remaining part
of the report was postponed.
A petition from Isaac Humphrey, collector o' the
taxes and militia fines in Upper Dublin township, for
the year 1781, was read, setting forth, that in the
night of the 24 of March, four armed m°n burst open
the door of the petitioner's house, and entered it, when
they robbed him of considerable sums in specie and
date money ; for which said sums the commissioners
have issued an execution against the petitioner, there
fore praying an enquiry may be inflituted as to the
truth of the allegations of the petitioner, and relief af
forded him ; and on motion, and b special order, the
said petition was read the second time; whereupon,
Ordered, That the fame, together with the petition
from William hroadefs, read N ovember 23, 17% aid
such other petitions of a similar nature and tendency,
as have been read in the last house of assembly, and
not determined, as well as those made to the present
house, be referred to Mr. J Morris, Mr. Brannan,
and Mr. J. M'Lene, to report thereon.
MONDAY, January 27, 1783. A. M.
The committee appointed November 29, 1782, to
report on the letter from the judge of the admiralty,
reported a bill entitled, "An as lto afeertain the ju
rifdiaion of the court of admiralty in the common
wealth of Pennfylvania,eftablifhed r y the ordinance of
the united dates in congress assembled," which was
read the firft time, and
Ordered to lie on the table.
A letter from the honourable major-general St. Clair,
stating the very great distress to which a number of
officers of the line of this Rate are reduced, in confe
quence of a late reform of the army, by the detenti
on of their pay ; therefore soliciting on their behalf,
an advance of money to them, was read, and
Ordered to be on the table.
The letter from the late president of the Rate, trans
mitting a letter from the governor of the Rate of New-
York, inclofing sundry resolutions of the legislature of
that Rate, relative to the proposing to congress to re
commend, and to each Rate to adopt the measure of
assembling a general convention of the Rates specially
authorized, to revise and amend the Confederation:
woich was read in the late house, Aug. 17, 1782, was
now read, together with the papers transmitted, and
Ordered to lie on the table.
On motion madeand seconded, ord red, That Mr.
Meredith, Mr. Rush, Mr. J. Thomas, Mr. Hannum,
Mr. Whitehill, Mr Hahn, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Lincoln,
Mr. Kohler, Mr. Ceffne, and Mr. W. Montgomery,
be a committee for the purpose of effayinga more just
and equal plan of taxation io this commonwealth, and
also a cheaper mode of levying and collecting the taxes.
TUESDAY, January 28, 1783. A. M.
The committee appointed January 25, to adjust and
arrange the papers referred to in the message from the
president and the supreme executive council, dated
January 23, and to report thereon, made their report,
which was read ; and on motion, and by special order
the fame was read the second time, adopted, and is as
follows, viz.
THE committee, to whom the message and papers
therewith transmitted from the supreme executive
council were referred, beg leave to report,
That having maturely considered the said m-ffage
and papers, your committee offer the following reso
lutions to the house:
1. That a committee be appointed to confer with
the supreme executive council, refpeding the decision
of the Connecticut claim ; and to devise Such measures
as may promote the happiness and interest of the good
people of this Rate.
2. That a committee be appointed to revise the laws
to prevent desertion from the fleets and armies of his
most chriftian majesty ; and to report such amend
ments as will tend most effectually to prevent the fame.
3. That whereas his excellency the commander in
chief, has declared his intention of withdrawing the
continental troops from Wyoming, it is the interest
of this Rate to replace the fame, in order to prevent
and deter any attempt of our faithlefs and savage
enemy ; and that a committee mould be appointed to
confer with the supreme executive coun il on the
means necessary to carry the fame into effect.
4. Tnat a conference, by committee, be held with
council, refpefting the filling up the line of this Rate,
in the army of the united Rates.
5. That a committee be appointed to confer with
the commissioners for the city and county of Philadel
phia, and make full enquiry, refpeding the expences
FRIDAY, January 24, 1783. A. M.
attending the annual elections, and all other county
charges, and report to the house.
Your committee inform the house, that in their
humble opinion, the above resolutions contain such
business as most immediately requires their notice, the
other parts of the message, referring to matters alrea
dy before you, or such as do not so immediately re
quire the attention of the house, or containing infor
mation, as the letterfrow athe fuperintendant of finance,
that of the minister for foreign affairs, deranged offi
cers, the revenues of the Rate, the mode of collecting
taxes, the militia, the establishment of a compleat po
lice for the city, the decisions of referees, for quieting
titles after long possession, regulating fees, and the
diminution necessary to be made between officers and
soldiers holding their certificates, and others possessed
of t: em by purchase.
Your committee, after acknowledging the fatisfadi
on they received from a/l other parts of the message,
cannot help remarking on this last, that as there is a bill
now depending before the house, they cannot avoid
expressing their wishes, that the supreme executive
council had not given any advice or opinion that tends
to influence the determinations of the house.
WEDNESDAY, January 29, 1783. A. M.
A petition and remonfirance from a number of the
inhabitants of Lancaster county, was read, Rating the
great disadvantages to which many of the patriotic
and bonefl citizens of this Rate are exposed, in confer
quence of the general opening afforded for the com
mencement of suits at law ; and praying that some
means may be provided for flaying and preventing
suits for debt, until a free trade and fufficient circu
lating cash (hall have enabled persons to pay their
debts without fuffering the entire loss of their pro
perty :
Ordered to lie on the table.
United-States.) _ .
Pennsylvania, ff. ) T ° ALL whom lt ma Y concern.
NOTICE is hereby Given,
That the honorable the COUR T of APPEALS,
in Case of Capture, will set at Philadelphia, on Mon
day the i,h day of April nxt. When and where,
such pe sons ^s have business depending in the said court
«.re defined to attend By order of the court,
F?h. 20, 1783. JOHN POTTS, junr. register.
[The Printrrs in the diff rent states are requeued to
infrt the above in their lev?ral Papers.]
NOTIFICATION.
THE GENTLEMEN who formerly frequented the
Old Coffee-Houle a e hereby informed, that it is
ag^n taken 'or that , purpose, and are requeued to
meet at Mess s. Crawford, Donnaldfon, & Company's
Infurance-Office, THIS DAY at 12 o'Clock, that their
opinions may be taken, whether it will be agreeable for
them to make it a place of public resort, as usual, and io
chute a Committee for rr-eftablifhing it on its original
plan. Philadelphia, Feb. 22, 1783.
TO BE SOL D, A
SMALL PLANTATION, containing 17 acres,
and 3-4 situate in the townfbip of Abington, and
in the count; of Philadelphia, adjoining lands of
William Hillowna, James Benezet, and several
others, on a road leading fromAhington Meet
ing-boule to Frankfort; on the one fide a road
leading from Robert Paul's mill, on the other
fide to John Shoemaker's mill, distant 10 miles. There
is a good dwelling house on the premises with a cellar
under the whole, two rooms on a floor with fire-places
in each, an excellent orchard of the best winter fruit,
containing about 80 apple-trees, a lane of cherry-tree#
leading from the house to the road ; there are several
peach and plumb trees; it is under tolerable fence;
some of the land has been well limed ; the foil is agree
able to any kind of produce; the title indisputable.
Any person inclining to purchase the fame may know
the terms by applying to the Printer, or JOHN WA
TERMAN, living on the premises. This place would
suit a tradesman, or .a gentleman for a country-feat.
TO BE SOL D, A
Hearty, strong, Negro Wench,
about 17 years of age, underftan^s all kinds of hou/e
work : the is a good cook, and can be well recommend
ed for her honesty. Enquire cf the Printer. Feb. 20.
B E ! N G, desirous to encourage the emu
" lation of the amiable Youth, in this polite and ne
cessary branch of education, offers hi, service to the
Public, for to reach them any Dances of cbara&er, Mi
nuets, Counter Dances, German Dances, &c. &. &c.
He lives at Mr Maurice Derdever's, Teacher of the
French Language, in Spruce-street, between Front and
S cond-ftreets.
N. B. He will attend Gentlemen and Ladies at their
own houses. Jan. 3.
Louis Giguet,
DANCER to the Kmg of France, and of the Academy
of Paris,
A C O A C H.
TH E fubferiber having furnifhed himfelf with an
excellent Coach, and a Pair of excellent Horses,
with a good Driver, begs leave to inform hie friends,
and the public io general, that he intends to use it as a
HACKNEY COACH. It is large enough for fix peo
ple. Gentlemen and Ladies, by appyng at the Li
very Stables opposite the State-house, in Chelnut-Iheet,
may be conveyed to any part of the city or country,
at as reafmable a rate as noffible.
Feb. 8. HENRY MCORMICK.