The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-08-19 00:00:00, page 3

EXTRACT from a late PAMPHLET, pub
lilhed in England, entitled, " Configurations upon
American Enquiry."
IDO not mean to reprefentour situation as that of per
fea ease. It has great and numerous difficulties. If
ue Ihould be under the necessity of recalling our troops
from America, the pobability of recovering her will be
diflant indeed. We can only preserve our friends by af
fording them protection; or ind <e others to become f%
by having a force at hand to affitl them., We have in
this part of the world a fleet that can face that of France
and Spain; in the Weft indies we are equal, and in the
East Indies greatly fup<nor to them. They cannot trans
port any body of troops to attack our diflant possessions;
while we preserve the fovere ; gnty,of the sea ; and at home
we have a defence that leaves us little to apprehend. To
our navy every effort ought to be directed ; and while this
continues upon a superior footing, our army in America
may be left to aft. At any rate, we mould fuffer many
vs our possessions to be facrificed before we consent to re
linqu.lh America. In the fhipwrtck efthe state, every
thing valuable cannot be prefrved ; but this is the plank
to which we Ih>ull ding, and the last property froui
which we fhuuid part. .
It is often laid, how did this country subsist before
America was difeovered ? The answer is plain : America
fan^nown to us was unknown to ev ry other power. But
now that (he has received from th, country the principles
of freedom, and the elements of commerce; that her in
habitants have been employed in our manufactures; that
her fhipwriguts have built, and her Tailors navigated cur
ihips; that h-r ioldurs havebeen trained to our discipline,
and fought und r out banners; dial! we permit them to
turn mec advantages against the nation from which (he
derived them / It is not only a weight taken out of our
scale, but it is alto thrown into the opposite one. If Ame
rica were to become a great and independent power in a
durable alliance with France, what a powerful addition of
ftrettya would th s country have to combat in every fu
ture war wth iirr natural enemies I But if France were
not ( > (u^cced in uer views upon America, and toe latter
were '*o co ne a great nation uriconneaed with her, i,
is at lea? c mm, that if America and this country were
to num; war agaiaft each other, France would always join
America. Lord S .elburne truly said, Wben the ihdepen
den^e o) Araeici(bill be acknowledge 1, Abe fun of tbu
66Wr, wi. oef, juYever in the Weft. —The power, the
commerce, Lie conftnuton of this country, can exist no
longer than America is dependent upon her. , .
L we are not convinced of this truth, every blow that
we strike is an outrage done to humanity. Every drop of
blood that we spill ^cones an indexible stain upon the na
tional character. WP no not wage honorable war. We
Commit oarbarousmur er. —If, on the contrary, we feel
its mrce, the object is worth contending for. Every man
will be convinced that t^e fafety and exigence ®f his
country fore at flake; chat he is not struggling for domi
nion and empire, bit that he is fighting pro atis et focis.
fie muff mat hiicn to the idle dheourfes of extravagant
theo.ft; ± o talk of ^ the fn.udfhip of America being
an infinite recupdate in exchange of an irksome domi
nion, oner us to hem, and barren to us.*" Treaties are
diciaed by convenience, and vie ated as in!e r eft requires.
Friendship among nations is a forcifm in politics. We
muit have free better scanty for the friendfllip of Ame
rica, than art unhallowed term of words. Toat security
mull be a defe deuce upon tois country ; and in the pur
furl of uos^ojed, difadvant <ges must not dishearten us.
Let diffi ulaes multiply, and one defeat succeed to ano
ther, Hill we muff continue firm and conftan! to our pur
pose, and not waver, as fortune proves fickle. We will
Strive to emulate the condod of mat liluftrious people,
anoig wnofe conquests that of our adeeftors was not
reckoned the lead difficult. They seemed to acquire ad
aitijoal aflivi y from every defeat, and to gain, like An,
taus, frtih force from every fall They wereuot dejected
with every .everfeof fortune ; but preserved d greatness
Qi foul ju tne moil defparate fituat dns,
* Mr. David Hartley's Letters.
PHILADELPHIA, AuguflA.
°Ou the i,th inst. the brig Bllona arrived a, a flag from
ehadeilaah, With a number ot ladies, who speak very
Highly of the polite attention and humane treatiaeut hey
received from me gentlemen, both in the military and na
val departments, when me, applied for the flag. We
learn from tnat quarter, thtt al the troops, except a re
giment of two ot Hessians, had some weeks ago been
drafted to join L. Cornwallis, but that his Lordship had
retained to town, and qua rters were taken as was belie
ved, for th? whole orce which were ftid to be retreating
inco the town. Reports said, that the B.itifh horse had
been m>ftly cut off in an aftcri with our people, and that
Col Tier.ton was wounded, and Lord Rawdon killed ;
other reports had a body of our troops between theene
my anj t>e town, and edr horse within forty.five miles
of Charleftown, and that General Gates was at Camden,
ana the Continental colours flying at George town. This
Hiucn however is certain, that for fame weeks past, they
had no accounts from their army, which they chose
to puolilh, and that our friends in town had formed
very favourable prognoflics from Jemmy Simpson, a
noted refugee, (the Joseph Galloway o' Charleftown) and
some others of the principle refugees having taken their
ptflages for England. By the flag we learn, that the ene
ra, as well as the citizens were very sickly, and that up
wards of 600 of our troops had deferred from them.
Late advices fromrbe southward inform that the Con
tinental forces and militia have beat the Eritifh in several
&irrashes; that lord Rawdon and fix hundred men had
been Formed in a fort, his lordship and almost all his par
ty killed ; that lord Cornwallis, very much weakened by
sickness, desertion, and fofs in killed and wounded, was
endeavouring to retreat to Charleftown, but as gen. Gates
was in his front and baron Kalbe pressing upon his rear,
it was thought his lordihip would surrender, and not rilk
the lives of his soldiers where there was so little prbfpeft
$f effecting an escape-
By a tetter of the 15th uk. from Charleftown, we are advised,
that Sir James Wright had muttered an Assembly at Savannah,
In Georgia, and passed an a depriving every petfon who had
been a&re against the royal cause, of the rights of citizenship
for the term of three years; leaving it, however, in the power
•fthe Governor and Council to take off or Shorten the intef
diaien, upon submission, and the exertion of some extraordi
nary aft of loyalty. The Hoefe was founded upon a Bill of
Attainder; but the Members weretoo much affiaid of the ven
geance of a Republican Assembly, which might soon take their
place, to agree to it.
The following are two letters taken out of the schooner Adven
ture, on her late passage from New-Providence to Charief
tonn, and arrived bcrelatl Wednesday : A prize to the (loop
Coinmet Capt. Kemp.
From Thomas Roker, of New-Providence, to Nichelas Garner,
Esq; io Charleftown, dated July 2s, 1780.
" This is the third letter lines your departure, (the firft per
Capt. Poftgate, and the second per Capt. Tinker) and will in
foim you the Tyger failed this day week ; die has been spoke
with three days since, by Capt. Petty from Georgia j the has
on board 57 men, and plenty of provifiops, and the Captain
has promised to keep out as long as he can. Your Attornies have
given Capt. Geary the fame inftrudions you gave to. Outten,
with this addition, to take and fend in any Dutchman bound
into 01 from a French port, pne having been lately condemned
here bound to Hifpanidla. No news here, por any prizes of
consequence since you left us. Kemp has sent in a Spanith
privateer (loop of 8 guns; and Gilchiift a French transport
snow with a little voidage, &c. one of a fleet from Martinico
for,Hifpaniola. We daily expeA to hear Jamaica is inverted,
as a large combined fleet have lately arrived at the Cape, with
24 fail of the line. We fend a flag there to day, and one to
Philadelphia to morrow.
"' What you predestinated of thulite union, is cc me to pass,
but I Shall not add on that head, wishing rather to give you
pleasure than pain."
From John Brown, jun. of the fame place, to John Mlinar;
Esq ; in Charleftown, dated July 30, 1780.
“ Your's by the Harlequin I had the picture of receiving,
tho' open, the having been taken by a rebel Ship called the Ge.-
neral Washington, mounting twenty 9 pounders, commanded
by a Munro, who had been formerly a prisoner here; he hav
ing a number of prisoners on board, gave up the Harlequin to
them l|nd the crew to bring them to this place; (he had taken
a brig from Barbadoes with rum, ilfo afnow and two schoon
ers, what they were loaded with or from whence they came
I cannot tell. I hope Capt. Grant will not fall into his hands,
as he enquired of the Captain of the Harlequin for him ; if he
Should be where yeti are, pray make my bat compliments and
refpeds to him and Mrs. Grant, We have had some prizes
sent in here since you went from hence, but of no great value,
Gilchrirt, of the Greyhound, arrived here a few days ago,
with a French ba. fpoitf ow, which he fought for three hours ;
(he mounts sixteen 6 and 9 pounders,. and had „ men ; (he
came with a fleet from France, with troops that are said to be
goirg agair rt Jamaica. Kemp, of the privateer Sloop Dragon,
of 6 guns and 32 men, took and brought into this pot, from.
Florida, a Spanish privateer of ^ guns and 4.6 men. Outten,
commander of the brig Tyger, was killed by an arrow that
went into his cheek in an engagement he had eff the Cape,with
a Spanish privateer of 16 guns, he lived Several days after he
received the wound, I co atfu.e you, I am forty to hear you
came to so bad a market, if you ^uld bring or fend rice here;
it would fell high; the last fcld, was fiom Bto 9 per ci. I with
I was from this damn'd hole."
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PENNSYLVANIA BANK,
AugustiS, 17^.
THE Subscribers to the Loan will be
called on for their Fourth payments
of Ten per Cent, on Wednesday the 23d
instant.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
on Thursday the 7 & h ot September next,
on she premiss
THAT Remarkable pieaiant Heufe and Garderi,
with the Plantation belonging to it, where the Suo
fcriber now dwells, Situate on the river Schuylkill, in
Witemrfh township; Philadelphia county. Tae Hou.e
is fifty :e°.t front by foil, feet deep, —four rooms on the
lower ft b r, and alirge HaUfrfi^ rooms cn the second,
and five on the third fl >ore; a cellar under tie whole,
div d&iinto fourappartmen 3, with a lar L e carry Seed
ing to ^ v uh, weien extendi r m the Houle betweed
sixty and eventy feet#and opt ns into the garden, a hang
ing Garden of about an acie ot g,dund, with I^4 stone
ft*ps at e'~h bank, in which are a variety of fruit trees;
vines, &-. there are abb a ;mal Dveiling Houle, two
good Spring Hjutei, Barns, S ables, Coach Houle and
Smoak Houle, on the premiks, ail (except the Coach
House) builtot ftoue ; an inexhauft ble qua ry of lime
flonc. and a valuable Shad Finery. The P intation con
fills of 105 acres of land, about eighty cleared; and fi -
tech or sixteen acres of excellent watered meadow, the
left remarkably well timbered. Tnere will also be fold; a
valuable young Horse and Mare, ffeven eights blood,
got by Mr. Hrizneimei's Babraham, out of a, fine three
quarter blooded Mare : Milch Cows, S eers, young
cattle, Sheep and Hogs, a Waggon, Cart, Harrow ana
Geers, witi. ether implements ot huwindry; arid a va
riety of houfehould and kitchen furniture. The Sale
to begin at twelve o'clock. The Plantation put up at
three; The terms will be made known it the time of
Sale. SAMUEL MILES.
N. B. The improvements alone; so this Place, when
materials and laooi were at the lowed, cell upwards of
fool.
Philadelphia, August it, 1780.
NOTICE is hereby given, That on
Wednesday the 30th of Augult instant, at Two
o'clock in the afternoon, at the Continental Yard, will
be fold at Public Salt; for Cash only, about Twenty
Horses.
By order of the Q_M. Gen.
+JACOB H£LTZHEIMER.
W A N T E D,"
Asi CHILD'S NURSE,
A WOMAN with a go^d breast of milk, arid who
can bring a good chara^eri One from the coun
try will be prefcred. Enquire 0. the Printer.
'W'A S'T A KEN'U P,'
On Saturday the tath inst. (August)
ABAY COLT, two years old, has some strag
gling white hairs in his face, a long switch tail ne
vdr docked, and is a natural pacer. The owner is de
fifed to come, prove property, pa, charges and take him
away, or he will be fold as the law dire&s, by the sub
scriber, on Mafters's place.
JACOB LUT Z.
To the Freeholders and other", Electors 3f the
Cty and County of Philade piria.
Gentlemen,
AST again propose to offer myfelf a Candidate for
the Sheriff's Office at the enuing general election,
to succeed the present Sheriff, I therefore again molt
humbly solicit and request the favour of your v o tes nd
inteieft, in cider to. be in the re urn for the Gio Office:
Which favours, as well as those past, dull ever be bad
in memory and gratefully acknowledged, by
Your fiacere friend and humble fervent,
WILLIAM DEWEES.
To be S OLD at Public Vendue,
On Monday the 21st infant, at the dwelling-houle of
Kendal Cole, in Waterford Township, Glouctftefe
Couny, three miles from Haddonfield, for ready
. money,
THIRTY ^EAI sos CATTLE, viz. work
r ing oxen, three and four years old steers, milclt
cows and calves, &c. Attendance will be given by
PERSONS TEAMING.
Aueuft^, 1780. DAVID EDWARDS.
Part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, f.
TO ^LL whom it may concern._
NOTICE i§ hereby given, That a Court ot Ad
" miralty will be held at ih^ State-house in the city
of Philadelphia, oh the twenty-sixth day of August inst.
at Ten o'clock in the forencon of the fame day, for the
trial of the schooner Adventure, burthen about twenty~
hv'e tons, lately commanded by Edward Stewards taken,
at sea on her. intended voyage from Providence to
Charleftown, sent into this port and libelled against by
Jchm Kemp, &c. To the end and intent that the owner
or owners, „or any perfori concerned therein, may ap
pear and (hew cause, if any they have,, why the fame
fhcu'd not be condemned according to the prayer of the
libel, &c. By order of the Jud;e,
August 17, 17^0. ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
Port of Piila elohiz, Pennsylvania, Jj,
TO ALL whom it may concern.
NT O T ICE is hereby given, That a Court of Ail
" miralty will be held at the State-hou'e n the ciry
of Philadelphia, tri the twenty sixth day of August inst,
at Ten o'clock in the forenoon of the fame <la,, for tho
trjal of the bug Fieri, burthen about one hundred and
twenty tons; lately commanded by J:hn G les, then
at sea on her intended voyage from New York to
Charleftown, fen; into this port and libelled against by
J bn Kemp, &;. To the intent th t the owner or own
er, or any pe son concerned therein; may appear, and
fliew cause; if any they have, why the fame mould not
be condemned according to the prayer of the libel, &c.
By order of the Judgl,
.Auguft. l7, 1780. . ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
Port o' Philadelphia, P< nnfylvania, g.
TO ALL whom it may concern.
XT OTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Ad
" miralty will be h^d at the Stste-houfe in the city
of Philadelphia, on the eleventh day of September next,
at Ten o'clock in th* forenoon of the fame day, for the
trial of the schooner Nancy; lately commanded by Alex-,
ander Morrison, re, taken at fee,fent into this port and
libeled against by Roger Kean, &c. To the intent that
the owner or owners, or any perlon concerned therein,
m-y appear and fliew cause,, if any they have, why a
decree flu aid not p^fs pursuant to the prayer of the li
bel, &:.- By order of the Jud/ee,
Aueuftiy, 1780. ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
N. B. It appears by depositions taken in this cause,
that the above schooner being loaded with tobacco wax
taker on the th^rd of August irift. on her p ffage from
some port in Chefapgak Bay to the Head of Elk, by the
privateer Restoration, belonging to the port of N;w-
York, and re taken tn th 6 Bth inst. by the lieh,nts.
The witnesses know neither the names w f the former
owners or Captain of her.
T 0 BBS 6" LD.
11VALUABLE tr,a of LAND, situate two
„m.les and. a half from a landing on 01dman% Cre^k,
in Piles Grove Township, S lem County, New Jersey,
containing upwards of three hundred acres; it is all
woodland, and exceeding finely timbered with oak and
bickcry. Thia land is exuding good; and fold fifteen
years ago st 3b per acre. For terms of file plerte to
apply to Abraha m Shoemaker, at his office in Fourth
ftecet, below Spruce-ftrect, Philadelphia.
One Hundred and Twenty Dollars Reward.
C FRAYED AWAY from the fubferiber, about
° a week ago, a dark red COW, with some white
under her belly, branded oh each horn with the letters
J Keen. She is supposed to be towards the Falls of
Schuylkill. Whoever takes up said Cow and brings her
to the fubferiber living near Poole's bridge, in the
Northern Liberties, shall have the above reward and
relfonable charges, paid by
Augtift 18. JOHN KEEN.
<—■• b-,,.,■ — .lit,
Philadelphia, 1780
TAKEN U P,
bn the 12th and 14th in ft. by the fubferiber, living at
the sign of the while Horse in Shippen-ftreet, tref,
paflwg on his meadow bordering on the river Schuyl
kill and Topacken creek,
ABA Y HORSE, about thirteen and a half hands
high, a (mall fkar in his forehead, two fma'l white
fyots on his ofahoulder, without brands, shod all round.
Also a brown MAR E, fourteen h,nds high, about
three or four years old, without brand or ear mark.
Likewise a black MAKE, her near bind toot white, a
Imall Mar in her forehead, the near fide of her mane
cut, a switch tail, and sundry brands undiftinguifhable.
The owner or owners are dofired to come, prove pro-
P' r % P a Y charges and take them away, otherwise the,
will be fold as the law directs.
JOHN WEB 3.