The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-12-29 00:00:00, page 3

From the London Courant, of August i% i„r.
Lift of Lies Political, in the Ministerial Prints, during
the course of Last Week, distinguishing the Paper
they are taken from
OUR affairs in America wear a more favourable af
peX than ever. M. P.
The reflexions on the conduX of lord Sandwich are
the effeXs of malevolence. M. H,
The most able historian cannot revert to a period in
which the Eritifh navy has been better attended to than
at present. M. H. !!!!!!
The Eritifh fleets are as well arranged as human
wisdom could point out. M. H.
Our firft lord of the admiralty has aXed with spirit
and judgement. M. H. ! ! ! ! ! !
In every quarter of the globe we are setting at defi
ance the pretended boastings of our enemies. M. P. !
Admiral Darby will give the combined fleet battle, if
they dare to meet him. M. H. bow! wow!
The French navy were never in greater distress than
at present. M. H.
England is surely the best governed country in the
world. M. P.
We may hope to hear better things in a short time.
M. P.
We have great reason to expeX good news from com
modore Johnflone, and other parts of the world.
M. P.
We have this winter clipped the wings of the Dutch
of some of their most valuable feathers, by depriv
ing them of their whale and herring fifhery.
M. H. !!!!!!
To complete the humiliation of the Dutth, let us
seize upon the Cape of Good Hope, which can certain
ly be effeXed without any loss. M. H.
It is impossible that Gibraltar can be taken from us.
M. P.
Overtures of a pacific nature have beenmade on the
part of congress. M. H.
Our patripts support and encourage the enemy. M.
H.
Avarice has exposed the Dutch in every part of the
world, to the hostilities of an active and vigilant ene
my. M. H.
The people at St. Eu ftatia, are made much more
happy than they were, by fir George Rodney and ge
neral Vaughan. M. P.
General Washington has a deal to answer for on ac
count of his conduX. M. H. Here's a pretty innocent
devil!
Few of the prophecies of the leaders of opposition
have been fulfilled. M. H. Never fear, your turn
will come by a nd-bye.
The Spanish fleet can give little or no affftance to the
French. Ml. P.
Holland seems faft verging to her primitive state of
poverty and infignificance. M. H.
The Ruffian fleet is gone to Mahon, and in case the
French and Spaniards sh old attack it, it will immedi
ately assist us in defending it. M. H.
Admiral Parker came up with a Dutch frigate of
44 guns, and eight fail of merchantmen, belonging to
admiral Zoutman's, all of which he captured. M. P.
Lord Sandwich did every thing in his power to pro
cure the defeat of the Dutch fleet. M. H.
Lies in the Morning Herald x 6
Ditto in the Morning Post io
Total of lies last Week 2 6
Decreased the last week in the amount oflies 5
ANECDOTE OF WHITEFIELD.
THIS wonderful doXor of fouls was peaching to a
A numerous congregation in his conveiticle in Tot
tenham court-roa ', with his usual vehemence, his eyes
flaming in their sockets, and his arms expanded as if
he was buffeting the billow—'We will suppose this tem
ple of worthies,' fays he,' my dear brethren, a ship in
6 a dreadful Tempest ! your spiritual pilot not on board
6 to guide you to the beacon of fafety ! hethat has con
« duffed you through the many florms olthis perilous
« life with celeflial comfort ! I need not tdl how watch
* ful I have been for the comfort of your dear fouls!
' in such a situation, what would you dcto be faVed?
'I ask you, what would you do to be favel ?'—“ Why,
« d—- n my eyes," replied a sailor," take to the
«' long boat, to be sure ; what would you have us
“ do?"
THOUGHTS ON PARENTAL CARE, AND
FILIAL DUTY.
PARENTAL care seems to be increafid in propor
tion to the rank and fortune of its o)jeX. In the
lower classes of aXive life, necessity will not fuf
fer the immediate tenderness of the parent to be pro
longed to any great degree beyond the plant's state.
The child must soon enter into the fchoo of labour, in
order to learn the art of getting that brad which his
parents can no longer give him. Healt iand strength
are his sole patrimony, and, possessed of them, he
leaves little to be wished for in the parentalboforth, whose
regards, though originally the fame, areprevented, by
the continual avocations of their ftatior, from feeling
the augmented|teuderne@ of those in higher life, they,
meeting with no interruption to the cotffe of their af
feXions, find them grow with the growth and flrength
en with the firength of their offspring.
Nature seems to make no diflindion while the infant
hangs at the bread of its mother, th? beggar hugs
her child, which ffie can scarce cover tom the wind,
as closely to her as the greatest princess mo has a crown
to give it; but the many interruptions tc maternal ten
derness, which the former must ekpertnce from her
distress and penury, will tend to weakei the tie which
binds her to it. The florms of her life fcrbid that flow
of serene hours which give the finer afflXions time to
expand. The growth of her offspring is not always
attended with heart-felt pleasure ; andthat dire ne
cessity which operates to the deftrurtion of every
feeling foreign to itfelf, will make her fe/eration from it
a matter of no extreme anxiety. In the higher classes of
life, where not only the tender feelings of the mind
have leisure to grow into refinement, but domestic in
terefis, and the gratifications of felfifh passions, some
times mingle with parental affections, parenta folici.
tude will be found gradually to increase, as the period
of compleating its wishes approaches. Thecourfe of
education is pursued with extreme vigilance ; and the
parent has little relaxation during this uncertain pro
gress from watchful care and trembling apprehension.
When the age of reason and maturity has given the
child some degree of power and authority over himfelf,
he begins to look about to the eftabliihment of con
nexions which are to give a colour to the rest of his
life. The alarms of the parent now begin to incteafe,
left the views of interest or ambition, which had grown
along with his affeXion for his child, and had become
a part of it, should be destroyed by the imprudence of
youth. The apprehensions of this period are common
ly the most poignant of parental life; when it some
times happens, that in one moment all its hopes are
b'afled by ingratitude, ^nd the anxious expectation
of years vanished into all the misery of difappoiot
ment.
It is a common, and too often a just complaint, that
children, when the age of manhood, and the period of
independence are attained, throw aside, as it were, all
thoughts of filial refpe&, and aft towards the authors
of their being with almost the fame insensibility that
the bird poffeffts, who, feeling the power of its wings,
at once quits the nest where it had been nursed into
firength, and knows its parent no more. But if chil
dren are generally disposed to do little for their parents,
it muff be acknowledged that their parents are equal
ly inclined to expeX too much from their children. It
is a difficult matter for the former to curb the liberty
which they have attained ; and the latter are not dispo
sed to give up the power they have so long possessed.
There must be great good sense on both sides, whenever
this matter is fettled to|the fatisfaXion of one and the
other. I would be understood to be considering the fi
fuation of a son and a father ; for whatever age a daugh
ter many attain, the world will not let her quit the
maternal protection but for that of an hufoand.
Marriage is the grand and closing object of rich and
noble parents ; and their general conduX in ttys im
portant circumflance of their chil irens haffiinefs,
proves how insensibly the fondefl feelings of tenderness
melt away before the powerful approaches of worldly
interest. There are numberless and continual exam
' ples, where the mother who would have guarded the
life of her infant at tee expence of her own, after it
has grown into maturity, and is accompanied with e-
Very advantage of a long afliduous education, (hall fa
crifice it at once to misery and g eatnefs with a most
eager fatisfaXion.
The worf tof all bohdageis marriage unfanXified by
affeXion : it not only produces infidelity, but vice.
It leads to in abandoned and profligate life, proceeds
in distress, and ends in ruin. With so many exam
ples of this nature continually presented to them, how
is it poffibie to reco cile the infatuation of parents, who
are daily off ring up the honour and happiness of their
children at the flirine of iotereft and ambition ?
FI SHKI L L, December 20.
A few days since one James Yates, who fays he was
born in Weft Chester county, wu committed to gaol in
Albany, so the wilful murder of his wife and four chil
dren ; he also killed his cattle.
Wheeler and Wood, two attrocious villains, received
fep+ence of death the 15th infl. for robbing the house
of Cornelius Schermerhorn, of Schotock, about twelve
miles from Albany ; and for attempting to murder
them. Wood has been a noted robber since 1776 —
Wheeler about three years: he c nfeffed he was con
cerned in several robberies, and appears penitent. Wood
is flubborn and confeffes nothing:
The following advices received by the Greyhound
packet, which arrived at New York the 7th instant.
The Eritifh parliament was adjourned to the 17th of
November, when the two houses would fit for the dis
patch of public business.— The honourable major Stan
hope, lord Farrington's brother, is under trial by a
court-martia , on a complaint of lieutenant governor
Ferguson, for capitulating for the surrender of Toba
go, without the lieutenant governor's knowledge or con
currence ; captain Manners, son of lord Robert Man
ners, is tinder the fame predicament with the major.
—The overtures of peace, which are now on the tapis,
will be communicated to the Parliament early in the en
suing session, but no measures of this kind are intended
to be promulgated until after the loan is voted.—The
empress of Ruftia seems very anxious to bring about a
negociation for peace, between the powers at war.
A letter from Long Island lafl week mentions, that
in New-York, tbe tories are making rapid preparati
ons for leaving the city, and that the Eritifh officres
make no secret of their leaving that place soon.
T R E N f O N, December 19.
ExttaX of a letter from Elizabeth-town, Dec. 1, 1781.
" Mr. Caldwell has left nine small children in a very
helpless and unprovided late, to mourn a loss that
cannot be made up r o them, and to make trial of the
benevolence and humanity of others, to which they
have a just claim from the greatness of that of their
father. It is perhaps fcatcely parallel in hiflory, th. t a
husband arid wife who maintained such blafnelefs cha'-
raXers, should have met with so similar and cruel a
fate.—ft is but about 17 months since Mrs. Caldwell,
one of the roof? amiable of women, was ffiot by a Bri
tish soldier, when the en^my came out to Connecticut
Farms, as she was fitting in her house with her two in
infants by her fide, ft may be truly and ju'Hy (aid,
shat the tragical death of Mr. Caldwell will be a very
great pu'blicllofs, and is justly lamented by every friend
to his country ; and though he filled with great appro
bation. several public offices since the present war, which
have enriched many, less deserving than himfelf, yet he
has left little more than will pay his de is ; and what is
doubly hard, he has no connexions in this country to
whom his helpless orphans can look to for assistance in
this day of adversity. Public subscriptions have been
opened for thefr relief, which it is hoped will meet ge
utrou) encouragement."
Philadelphia, Dec. 2n.
In COUNCI L.
Philadelphia, December 28, 1781. \
Ordered,
tHAT public Notice be given, That the petition
ers against the late eleXion of a counfellor for the
county of Philadelphia, will be heard by a committee
of the council, at the State-house in Philadelphia, on
Th'urfday the third day of January next, at 10 o'clock
in the forenoon : at which time and place the (aid coun
ty, by their counsel, and these era! persons charged in
the fpecification of persons and fads alluded to in the
said petition, toil! also be heard.
ExtraX from the minutes,
T. MATLACK, secretary.
'«* The Sale of the Public Lots of this city, ad
yertifed to be held on Thursday, the third of January,
is poflponed to Thursday, the twenty-fifth of January.
^^^^^^^^E^
FOR SALE, BY
JOHN CHALON ER,
At his Store in Chefnut street, two doors from the
corner of Third street,
CLOT HS and CafimeVs, Camblets, Plush
es; Velvets, Calicoes and Chintzes, Cambrick,,
Mullins, Giuzes, Infli and Russia Linen«, ell wide Per
sians, Duc^pes, Modes and Sartins New England
Rum, Liver Oil, &c. &c. Aho a few lets of French
Army B lb of Exchange.'
On MON )AY, WEDNESDAY, and THURSDAY
Next, the SublCtiber proposes to deliver
A Course of Le&ufes
ON
ELECTRICIT Y,
At the UNIVERSITY.
The L«Xure will begin at 11 o'clock each Day; and
will oe repeated in the Evening, at 6 o'clock, for the
benefit of such as may not find i< convenient 10 attend
in the Da .
TICKETS, at a Dollar for the Course ; to be had
at the B^ @f the Coffee house, at Mr. Bailey's Print
ing-office, or of the fubferiber.
, R. PATTERSON.
Philadelphia, Dec. 26, 17S1.
To be le~ r
T^ AT r! 1 r c ^° med TAVERN, knewn by tie
sign of the Bunch of Graphs, in Southwark near
the Sweeds-Church. Enquire of RICHARD bFNNI4
near the Premif , an / immc fo
g'ven. Philadelphia, Dec. 26.
C FRAYED away, on Tuesday the 25th
U instant, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, a small
i,B.toloured MARE, between 12 and i 3 hands high,
back mane and tail, d dark flfreak from her withers
to her tai^ black feet, a lift e white in her forehead
and a white spot near the hit ear, large head and ears'
tiots remarkably faft and canters well ; the is remarka
ble for pawing with her left fore foot before (he it
counted. Whoever will bring the said Mare to
THOMAS FITZGERALD, Carter, in Front-street
near Lumbard ttrect, An,l be hmdfomdy retarded'
and all reafi n±ble charges paid.
Was broke open, the night be
fore last, the house of t re fubferiber, in Germantown
and tbs following things stolen, a Wueh with a cor!
ved case, maker's hame W, M'F-11, the k r j tied f^
wth a flong: a pair of Buekfk n breeches a pai-w
plain Silver shoe buckles, and a pair of plain knee hu.
kier; Th# thief if supposed tb be an Heffi, n defer er
some what deaf, a fm?fl thin man, g feet 6 inches high*
dressed in a blue coat faced with red, and I is h-ts
tied behin '. WhorOer will bring he fait th figs w
the subs riber, shall have there pound reward, a,
ten (hillings, for the thief, paid by JOSEPH MILT ER
in Germari town, or JACOB MILLER, in Phi!ad e ?
phia. Dec 28.
Just Iffiported, In the Ship Anne, 'from France and
to be SO L D, B, '
Mifflin a^d Butler,
At their Store on S 11th street Wharfs A Variety of
DRY GO CDs suitable to the Scalol 1 Arnone
^hih &re the following Articles;
FINE and coai fe Blankets;
Bine H Ifthicks,
Second Cloths;
White Flanells and Swat (kins;
Camblets,
Striped and checked Cottons,
Naps,
Fine and course Flankers Sheeting;
White ;nibruwn Britagne, Picardy, Nenbuftu ^fl
Roya Laval Linens,
S-il C^nv^s, No. 1, %, 3, and 4,
A 12 and a haT inch C<h'e, and 6 in h Shroud H^ite
ui, both excellent, and a Quantity of ffi^rt Leal