Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-09-18 00:00:00, page 3

F. ^^ of a tetter from Gfport, Jul) io.
" The Renown and Phoenix, each of 40 guns,
are commissioned at this port, and the Rainbow at
Sheerness; they are ordered to America to relieve
the Boyne, Somerset, and Asia of 64 guns each,
these being found to be too large for that country,
<nd that 40 gun ships will answer the purpose
better."
It is at length discovered, that the King of
Prussia is a^ua'ly going to invade Hanover to pro
cure an indemnification for his claim upon Gieat-
Lrimiu.
A fqua3ron of five drips of war are ordered to
be fitted out forthwith, which, when ready for
lea, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberlard
will take the command, and proceed immediately
for the Mediterranean.
We are informed that a refoltition is taken not
to accept from the Americans any revenue under
3)0,0001. per annum, which is the expence go
vernment has been put to in defence of the colo
nies ever since the hit treaty of peace.
July 13. On Tuesday four tenders were put
into commuTion, which are ordered up to the
Tower; and two boules of rendezvous are open
ed in St. Catherine's.
The above tenders are to receive sailors on
board, to man (ome men of war which are order
ed for Gibraltar.
Letters from South Carolina mention, that the
crops of rice had been uncommonly plentiful the
last Lafon, which had reduced the prices in the
markets considerably.
Among the many other blunders of the present
Ministry, the plan adopted for their proceedings
towards America is not the leaf! absurd and ridi
culous; The Americans, cry our Ministers, are
rebels, they will not pay taxes assessed by the au
thority of Parliament: Compel them by force,
lays Bute behind the curtain; the Ministers fend
troops fufficient only to encourage the Mal
contents; they can answer the purpose of diftieff
ing, but not reducing the difaffeded ; they may
protrad the miseries of America, but not finifh
the civil war; they may make the Americans beg
gars, not quiet fubje&s. The Deputy Minister
has generally been esteemed a tolerable financier,
but reducing the people to beggary is a new mode
of enabling them to pay their taxes with readinefs#
This morning the shipwrights, who are come
up from the dock-yards to present a Petition to
his Majesty, attended the Admiralty Board, and
delivered a copy thereof to their Lordfh ps.
Whatever may be the designs of Government
with refpe& to America, it is plain the Provincials
are resolved not to lay down their arms till terms
of conciliation are secured to them on a firm basis.
They write from Bridport, in Dorfetfhire, that
a great quantity of fait provisions had lately been
cured there, and shipped on board four vessels for
New-York.
July 17. Saturday the Lord§ Sandwich,
North, and Barrington, attended his Majesty at
Kew for several hours.
Yesterday several of the Privv Council ,were ct
Kew with his Majesty, laid to be on the affairs of
America.
Saturday and yesterday messengers were dis
patched from the Admiralty to all the dock yards
in the kingdom, with inftrußions for tle Com
missioners, &c. refpe&ing the shipwrights, &c.
No less than seven expresses have arrived at
Lord Dartmouth's office within this week with
dispatches from America, being landed at Dover,
Portsmouth, Falmouth, Bristol, and Plymouth.
Orders are sent to America to put an entire end
to the communication, by fee, between colony
and colony. Ships of war are ordered up into
every large river, with directions to destroy the
towns on their banks, should their inhabitants
Ihew any disposition to take arms.
They write from Gibraltar, that an obffinate
and bloody engagement has happened in the Me
diterranean, between a Spanish man of war, and
fix Algerine zebeques, wherein the Algerines loft
500 men, and the Spaniards had 30 killed and 40
wounded. Forty of the Algerines, who, after
many attempts, boarded the Spanish ship, were
cut to pieces. The action lasted four hours.
By the Nancy, Coffin, we are informed, that
the Provincials had taken possession of all the forts
upon the Lakes, and were marching to Montreal
and Quebec.
His Majesty's answer to the Address and Petition
of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commons
of the city of London. [See the Poffcript.]
" I am always ready to listen to the dutiful
petitions of my fubjeds, and ever happy to com
ply with their reasonable requests, but while the
constitutional authority of this kingdom is openly
refilled by a p^t of my American lubje&s, I owe
it to the rest of my people, of whole zeal and fi
delity I have had such constant proofs, to conti
nue and enforce thole measures by which Hone
their rights and interests can be averted and main
tained."
July 18. On Sunday three expresses were re
ceived by Lord Dartmouth at Blackheath from
Gen. Gage, which were immediately sent to his
Majesty at Kew, viz. one at nine o'clock in the
morning, another at two, and the other at eight
in the evening, all which were dispatched to his
Majesty by a messenger in waiting as they arrived.
A council is summoned to meet to morrow at
St. James's after the Levee is over, when the ac
counts which arrived from General Gage on Sun
day last will be laid before the cabinet.
Yesterday afternoon summonses were fentto Lord
North, and all the Secretaries of State, to attend
his Majesty at Kew this day at eleven o'clock.
The board of admiralty, which was to have
been held this day at the Admiralty, is postponed
on account of several of the Lords of that Hon.
board not being in town.
By the Thomas, Capt. Johnson, which is arri
ved at Bristol, from Plymouth, in New Eng
land, we have an account that Lord Dunmore
and his family were obliged to embark before they
had been landed four hours, and are coming home
in another ship, which was to fail in a few days
for London, with dispatches. By this ship a great
number of letters are come tp hand, but nothing
frefh; and not a news-paper has been fuffered to
be seen, so that we could not learn any further
particulars.
Letters brought by the Betsey, Capt. Ross,
which is arrived at Plymouth in 26 days from Vir
ginia, fay, that the Americans have gained a very
great advantage .by taking of Ticonderoga ; they
found a hundred and fourteen fine brass cannon,
which they have conveyed within thirty or forty
miles of the Camp near Boston, and have engaged
the sailors that were employed in the fifheries, to
work the artillery, |nd allowthem h^lf a crown
per day : They have feme thousands already em
ployed in the above purpose.
Thursday night a vessel arrived off Ply^nth,
when a person, who by appearance was a nlilitary
gentleman, was immediately put oa Ihore, and
let off poll haste for London ; the vefVel stood out
again for sea, not fufFering any boat to board her,
nor any of the crew to go on shore.—The above
gentleman, we are informed, is an officer of dif
tindion in General Gage's army, charged with
some interesting dispatches from Boston, with
which he arrived in town on Saturday evening and
immediately waited on Lord North.
Yesterday the prices of grain at the Corn Ex
change were : Wheat, 465. to 525. Barley, 225.
to 275. Rye, 265. to 28s. Oats, 13s. to 19s.
Pale Malt, 28s. to „s. Brown Male, 28s. to 335.
Peafe, 365. to 38s. Hog Peafe, 265. to 28s.
Beans, 275. to ±93. Tick, 235. to igs. 6d. Tares,
245. to 325. per quarter. Finest flour, 435. se
cond fort, 40s. third fort, 375. per lack.
The shipwrights at Portsmouth, Chatham, and
Woolwich,, have agreed to meet at Chatham, and
proceed in a body to Deptford yard, in order to
prevent the shipwrights at that place from doing
any business.
The above persons have likewise resolved not
to return to work, unless the men who are now at
work (there being a few employed in the separate
yards) are difeharged, and their wages advanced,
to 2s. 6d. per day.
A gentleman just arrived from Kent, and ano
ther from Bedfordshire, fay that the late rains
have made such an alteration in the face of the
country, that there is the highest profped of plen
tiful crops, where there appeared to be an absolute
dearth but a mohth ago. The wheat and barley
were never finer.
From the St. James'^ Chronicle of July if
To the PRINT E R.
SI R,
IF Obstinacy had not fixed her standard at St;
James's, a struggle of ten years with Mr.
Wilkes would have taught the King's friends to
think twice before they give any advice to their
mailer. Though they Irave laid aside all regard
for the opinion mankind at home and abroad form
of their hearts or understanding, they might have
considered that by affronting the Livery of London
they would not keep his Majesty in ignorance of
what the city thought of the American civil war.
They might have known, from the firmnefs and
perseverance of Mr. Wilkes, they would not keep
the City Address, Remonstrance and Petition from
the eyes of the King by the ridiculous quibble
of corporation capacity. If some ignorance is not
proof against experience, they might have fatisfied
themselves, if the Address, Remonftraoce and
Petition, could not find its way to St. James's in
one shape, Mr. Wilkes would convey it in another.
If tweedle-dum is more agreeable than tweedle
dee, if the sentiments of the city would be better
received on Royal Paper than on Fool's-cap, Mr.
Wilkes would not contend. The sentiments of
the city must be known to the King, thenation,
and the world; and when the nation and the world
fee the conduct of the Minister in the fame light as
the Citizens of London, and concur with them in
an abhorrence and detestation of rhe bloody deeds
carrying on in America, they will be at a loss to
determine whether the wickedness of the heart
which gave rife to the Address, Petition and Re
monstrance, or the weakness of the head which op
posed the mode of conveying it, is the greater.
Whatever Court Logic may determine about Cor
porate Capacity, every finable as well as every
honest man will allow his Majesty can judge better
of the true sense of the citizens of London, when
taken from the Livery, than the Common Coun
cil. The Lord Mayor, and Aldermen, assisted
by the opinions of the Livery at large, are
better able to give the sense of the body, than
when they consult with the Common Council.
Whatever the Ministry may think, every man
without the circle will believe his Majesty would
rather be Ailed a Patriot King by the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen and Livery, than the trifling
number of the Common Council. He would
think, I believe, bis Crown precarious, if the length
of his reign depended only on the voice of the
few. Huzzas Surrounded the State Coach when
the Quebec and Boston Port Bills received the
Royal assent Had the King heard the groans of
all but the hirelings on those occasions, whatever
might be the wishes of the Minister, our mod gra
cious Sovereign had withheld the Royal Assent.
But had the Minister taught the King to place
his confidence in the few, and that the multitude
in England cannot think, as we are told those in
America cannot fight, he was wrong in opposing
the Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Citizens in Commen-Hall, as they have now con
vinced the world whatever difference there may be
between tweedle dum and tweedle-dee in the Weft,
the citizens of London have the fame sentiments
whether in Common-Hall, or Common-Council
aiTembled. A. B.
CAMBRID G E, Sept. 7.
The people of New-Hampihire are building a
strong fort on Pierce's Bland, in PiTcataqua River,
in order to prevent their capital, the town of
Portsmouth, from being attacked by the piratical
ships of war, which now infeft this coa£.
It is said the enemy, since we began our works
on Plowed Hill, have thrown from their several
batteries above 300 Shells, not one of which has
occasioned th^ least hurt to a finglc man in our
army,
A party of the enemy, who came cut last Sa
turday, with a design to throw up a battery or
intrenchment near where Mr. Brows's house late
ly flood, on Boston Neck, were drove back with
the loss, we hear, of several killed. We also, it
is said, had two men killed at the fame time.
Two deserters from the enemy came to Rox
bury camp last week. It is laid a number mere
endeavoured to come off with them, but were pre
vented.
WORCESTER, Sept. 6.
Notwithstanding the heavy fire of the enemy
from Boston Neck, Bunker's Hill, and their float
ing batteries upon our army at Plough and Prof
peel Hills, Roxbury, Dorchester, &c. for the
week past, they have killed only fix men, four at
Plough Hill and two at Roxbury.
The following Bay serve as a specimen of the
humanity of the ministerial tools in Boston. A
soldier's wife was sick in a house upon Noble's
wharf, and hired another soldier's wife to tend
her, to whom (he gave two dollars, upon receiv
ing which die left the sick woman to tend herfelf,
the neighbours knowing the woman lived there,
and obfervimg for foirie day's that no p^rfon went
in or out of the house, they went in, when to
their great amazement they found the woman dead,
and by the putrefa&ion of her body must hAvebeen
dead some days, a little tender infant with all the
horrors of death in its face was fucking the dead
mother's breaft,' the rats had eat into the bowels
of the dead torpfe ; —they applied to the feledmen,
but as the affair was not in their department, they
sent them to Gage, who at firft refufed having
any thing to do with it, but after some time sent
a number of soldiers, who dug a hole by the front
door of a house and flung in the body, hardly co
vering it with earth, which made such a stench as
caused another application from the neighbours,
when a coffin was made and the dead body taken
up and buried.
We hear that a regiment is forming in Boston,
from the ragamuffin Tories there, and that fa/r
---eyed Morgan, the fiddler, is their Adjutant; this
intelligence we had from a Gentleman who fee
them march into the field to be reviewed.
Extras of a letter from Middleton, (Conneflicut)
^ugtfl 23.,
“ By express last night to Hartford from Crown-
Point, we hear that all the Indians have left
Johnson, except thirty, and that it is expe&ed
our men are passed St. John's by this time, where
all the Regulars are posted, that they intended to
be with them before they could get their vefels
ready. I am in expectation that we shall have
Governor Carlton at Hartford loon.”
N E W-Y O R K, Sept. 14.
Extrafl of a letter dated August 3'f 1 775> from
a Gentleman at Ticonderoga, to bis friend in
New-York, (a Student of the Law)
" Col. Waterbury and Ritzema, under the
command of General Montgomery, embarked on
Monday night, with 1200 men for Isle Aux Noix,
near St. John's, to stop otir enemies strong vessels,
by pickets and booms, till the aYrny and artillery
are ready. Your countrymen, with united voices,
cry aloud for your utmost exertion in this time of
need, Itter arma flent leges —Pray to arms, to
arms, my friend ! —Give your country testimony
of your attachment to the cause in which we are
engaged; supineness and lukewarmness, breathe
deftruflion to a free people.—Our all is at stake,
I had rather never again return from the field,
than live and die a slave.
" I am on the eve of embarkation with the re
mainder of the army, and nine or ten pieces of
artillery; four twelve pounders are gone ; you
will soon hear of very bloody feenes—Hoftilities
are already commenced in this quarter Gage
has got 2950 barrels of flour frotn Philadelphia."
Extras? of a letter from an officer in the army at
Ticonderoga, to bis friend in this city, dated
^ u f, 1775-
" I have now the pleasure to inform you, that
we arrived here on the 19th ult. in good spirits,
though we have had a very fatiguing march, be
ing obliged to go round by Skenefborough, as
there were not boats on Lake George to bring us
over. Out ofthe four companies, we had twelve
deserted from us on the road, and the most of those
were old deserters from the regulars. We held a
court-martial at everyother stage, and gave se
veral of the unruly ones, Mofes's law, 1 e. thir
ty nine, and they now begin to behave very well,
being kept under as ftri& discipline as any of the
regulars There is the greatest plenty offrefh and
salt provisions here, the men have as much as they
can use ; ajill of rum and as much spruce beer
as they can drink every day, so that they have no
occasion to drinkthe Lake water, it being reck
oned very unhealthy The number of troops
here at pre'e^t is 1700 men, and 700 at Crown
Point, about fourteen miles from here. Weex
ped this day four companies ofthe second batta
lion of New-York forces, the boats being already
sent ! mr them. We are ordered to be in readi
ness in eight days, to fail for St. John's, where
we fliall have a (mart brush with the regulars; the
battoes are now making with the greatef t expedi
tion, and I am afraid the reftof our regiment will
not be here in time. The General talks a good
deal of their being so dilatory in coming up, and
seems to regret very much the being obliged to go
without them. There has been a French Geo
tieman here lately from Canada, who has put our
men in great spirits, by assuring us that the great
est part ofthe Canadians would join us upon our
arrival, but that they date not make themselves
known to be our friends, till we are landed amongst
them. The fame gentleman, who is a person of
great property there, declared that upon our ar
rival there, he would kill live fat oxen to make a
treat for the officers. As for my own part there
is nothing gives me the least uneatinefs.
P. S. Since writing the ab)ve, a spy of ou:s
arrived from St. John's, who fays, that there
were two vessels ready to be launched at that
post, each mounting 16 guns, in oider to take
possession of the Lak^, which would render it im
possible for us ; for font; time ? ;o get past, there
fore we have received immediate order to embark
for that place, and are to fail to-morrow morning
the 28th.
Col. Waterbury's regimentof one thousand men
Captain Mott's company of one hundred men, and
our own four companies, with (even hundred that
are qow at Crown-Point, and five hundred of the
Mountain boys are to join us. Our spy informs
us that there were only five hundred and seventy
regulars at St. John's, and fifty Indians; so that
I am in hopes we shall meet with \ery little re
sistance, if we do, we are pretty well prepared for
them. We leave five companies of the second
battalion ofNew York forces here, and about
three companies of the New England troops^
This is all the intelligence I can give you at
present."
PHILADELPHI A, Sept. :6.
By Capt. Henderson, of the ship Two Brothers,
who arrived in this port on Wednesday last from
Carthegena and Malaga, which last place he left
the 3d of August, we are informed that the grand
Spanish fleet, consisting of 8 fail of line of battle
ships, 10 frigates, 3 bombs, 12 chebeeks, 9 row
Rallies, and 500 fail of transports, with 25,003
troops on board, had failed from Carthagena the
2 3d of June for the coast ®f Barbary, where they
had landed (about fifteen miles to the eastward
of Algiers) 8000 men, who were opposed on the
beach by about 1500 men under cover of a flight
breafl-work, from which the Moors fired some
cannon and mufquetry, during the march of the
Spanish troops, which did not prevent their taking
poffeflion of the breast-work; immediately upon
which, the Moors retreated a small distance into
the mountains, the Spaniards followed, and were
surprised by a great number, supposed to be 20,000
Moors, who had regularly intrenched themselves
in exportation of the Spaniards following the re
treating party, from whence they attacked tha
Spaniards with such impetuosity, that before Ge
neral O'Reily, who had landed with 8000 men,
could come to their assistance, they wer^ totally
routed, with the loss of 5000 men killed and
wounded, with the General who commanded.—
General O'Reily covered the retreat of such as
could get cff, and with the whole troops immedi
ately embarked on board the transports and re
turned to Alicant.
Capt. Henderfoh passed the Streights of Gibral
tar on the Bth of August, and did nor fee any
vessel on his pafTage, until he came to our Capes.
We hear from V irginia that five ships in Hamp
ton road, during the late storm, were obliged to
cut away their masts, and others were drove on
shore 40 or 50 yards above high water; that most
of the vessels in Norfolk harbour are ashore, feme
bottom upwards, others on the wharves; and
that the Fowey man of war, on board of which
was Lord Dunmore, is also on shore. Also that
several vessels, are ashore out fide of the Capes
Charles and Henry.
*, The Publie are requested to take notice,
that a Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gael
Delivery will be held at the State- house, in the
city of Philadelphia, for the county of Philadel
phia, on Monday, the 25th day of September
instant, at Ten o'clock in the forenoon.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA.
Inward Entries.
Ship Mary & Elizabeth, N. Falconer, London..
Ship Sally, J. Qfman, Cork.
Hrig Nancy, G. Thayer, Grenadoes.
Ship Two Brothers, A, Henderson, Carthagena#
Outwards. NONE."
Cleared.
Brig Nancy, J. Douglass, Jamaica.
Brig Black Prince, J. Campbell, Falmouth.''
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TO BE S O L D,
TW O Negro Wenches, one 30 years old and
the other 15 or 16, well used to all kinds of
house work ; will suit either town or country, and
fold for no fault but want of employ. Enquire of
Anthony Duche, in Front-lheet, Southwark, f
Philadelphia, Sept. 18, 1774.
REBECCA ROBINSON,
Has removed from L©itia Cotrt to the south fide
of Chefnut-ftreet, ab art mid-way between Front
and Second-Greets, where she has for SALE,
EXCELLENT Jamaica spirits; Frencli
brandy ; Weft Inlia rum; Madeira, Lisbon
and Teneriffe Wines ; Holland Geneva, and cor
dials; double and tingle refined loaf sugar; lump
and mufeovado ditto; nutmegs, mace, cinnamon
and cloves, pepper, alfp ; ce, ginger, fine Florence
and lamp oil, coffee and chocolate, mustard in
bottles or by weight, choice pickling vinegar, and
milliard feed.
T HOMA S WES T,"
In Second-street, a few doors below M rket-ftreet,
has on hand sundry European and Eah-India
GOOD S, which he will fell wholesale and rg
tail; among which are,
INDIAN blankets; fuperfine and common
rose blankets ; 84, 9 4 and 10-4 green,[),s•;
blue, red and mixed duffils; fcartet nd cloth co
loured coatings; 9 4 green ba^zr; red ditto ; Su
perfine scarlet roadcloths ; browns and or h co
looted fnper ditto ; middle and low priced ditto;
double milled drabs; fine forett cloths; 11-4 cot
ton counterpanes ; mens, womens and ( ildfens
thread, cotton and worked hofc; mens silk, .nJ
silk and worsted ditto; fin^e an I double scarlet
worked caps ; green and rloth c loured 61k velvet
ditto; womens black, white and cloth coloured
silk gloves and mitts ; mens black and white tiik
gloves ; lea her gloves and mittens; black fi!k
gauze handkerchiefs; variety of ribbons ; double
and tingle worsted damasks; cambists and camhlet
tees ; callimancoes, luffels, rattirfts, fh.alloons,
durants and tammies, dorfettees, brilliants, crapes,
bomb zeens, fuperfine cotton velvets, ? inted dit
to ; corduroy, olive and bioun velyercts, 7 R and
3-4 tlripe ticken, plain ditto; 3,4, 7-8, yarn wide
and yard 3 8 cotton checks; 7 8 and yard wide
Irish linens; printed cottons and callicoes § green
and olive ground India chintzes ; long lawns ; 7 g
and yard wide clear lawns and cambric ks; muflinr,
feeing silks, tapes, bobbings, quality binding,
ivory and horn combs, green and white ivory han
dle knives and forks, in cases; buck and bone
handle cutteaus and ,iftul cap'd ditto; Bar»#
penknives, razors, London pound pins, black and
light coloured India taffaty, black and white fit
tins, light blue Mantua, rich luff flowered du
cape, 8 hy 10 window glass, &c. &c. with sundry
other articles not here inferred.