The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-06-10 00:00:00, page 1

TO BE SOLD
Or Exchanged for Merchandize,
(And immediate Possession given)
A PLANTATION or Trad of LAND lying in
Mount Bethell townfbip, Northampton county,
18 miles above Eafton, 5 miles below the Water Gap,
and one mile from the river Delaware, containing a
boat 350 acres, of which about 100 acres are meadow
ground, whereof 15 acres are cleared, about 90 or 100
acres of cleared plough land, and the remainder of the
traft well timbered ; it is well watered with several run
ning springs, and has a good bearing orchard of differ
ent kinds of fruit. Tais tra& is generally allowed,
in that neighbourhood, to be the belt land for a num
ber of miles round, having Come of it yielded 30 beth
els wheat per acre, for 20 acres together. Tiere are
on said place three Log Houles, with barn, (tabling,
&c. conveniently fituaced in different parts of the traft,
so as to allow one or two divisions to be made thereof,
and should no purchaser offer for the whole, it will
then be fold in two or three separate trafts. Tnere are
within one mile thereof two grist-mills and three saw
mills, a tanyard and a blacksmiths (hop, and three
good landing places on the river Delaware. For terms
of file enquire of JOHN OAKLEY, efqaire, in Beth
lehem, or of the Printer. June 10.
The Subferiber embraces this early oppor
tunity of returning his most sincere thanks to the
public in general, and his friends in particular, and
takes the liberty to inform them, that he has moved
from the sign of the Conneftogo-Waggon, to that ce
lebrated, elegant and commodious tavern, well known
by the name of the
Indian Queen,
Situate in Fourth-street, between Chefnut and Market
ftreet#, formerly kept by Mr. FRANCIS LEE.
TH E fubferiber thinks it unneceflary to fay any
mere, than that nothing in hit power (hall be
wanting to render the utmost fatrif^aion to thof# Gen
tlemen who may please to favor him with their custom.
JAMES THOMPSON.
N. B. The liable# are large, excellent and commo
dious, and horses will be kept at livery by the year, on
the most reasonable terms . June 9.
Peter W. Gallaudet,
Hagjuft received, hv the latei! Arrivals, and new Open
ing for SALE, at bis STORE in Front-street,
the fifth door b^ow Arcb-drect,
A general Assortment of DRY GOOD 3,
Suitable to the Seafon:—Confiding of
Calicoes &chi n tz%
Shalloons,
CaHmancoes, Durants and
Tammies of mod co
lours,
Black Bombazsens,
Princes Stuff and Dutch
Cord,
Furniture Checks,
Pearl and other fafhiona
ble Buttons,
Plated Buckles,
Pins of all sizes,
Mens fine thread and cot
ton Stockings,
Mens thread Gloves,
Womens leather Gloves
allotted,
Morocco & black leather
Shoes,
Silk, romall, cotton and
fint linen Handkerchiefs
Mens and boys beaver
Hats,
Chip Hats,
A large assortment of the
Also SCOTCH CARPETS and CARPETING by
the bale. June g<
Genteel Lodgings and Boarding
to be had at Mr. BARRY'#, in Market-street, fur
Seafareing Officers. June 9.
CAME to the plantation of the fubferiber, living in
Hilltown townfllip, Bucks county, about the 15th
of May lalt, a dark Bay HORSE, about 14 hands
high, has a star in his forehead. The owner is desired
to come, prove property, pay charges and take him a
way. THOMAS MORRIS. June 7.
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JOSHED every TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAYZprice S IX .P £NC£ . =
most fafhionable Gauzes
Crore's, Sittin striped,
Crape and Suffree,
Giuza Aprons and Hand
kerchieft,
Tiffany, Millionet and
Catgut,
Spotted. flowered and
phin Krnting,
Fine needle-worked lawn
Aprons,
Fine Book-Mullins,
A neat assortment of Rib
bon#,
India P^daafoys and Lute
ftringr,
Modes, Sarfntt3 and Per
sians,
Rich black silk Nett for
Aprons,
Skeleton Wire,
Boxts of Flowers,
A variety of fine threads
Fringes & other Trim
mings, &c. &c. &c.
LONDON
April g. Nothing seems yet to have been thought
of with refoea to supplying the American markets with
oriental articles. This cannot be done by individuals,
and to prevent other nations from foreftalling us in so
valuable a branch of commerce, surely deserves the
most serious attention of government.
A letter from Lisbon brings advice, that an Ameri
can gentleman, whohas resided there incog, fame time,
has at length been admitted into the presence of the
queen, and had a long conference with her majesty, since
which it is reported, that a treaty of commerce and
amity is entered upon between her majesty and the
United States of America, but cannot be concluded
until another gentleman appointed by the Congress ar
rives, who is soon expected at Lisbon.
April 9. Nothing can be more foreign from the
truth than a (uppofition that the new ministry will
precipitate the nation into a war again ; for though
it was carried by a very great majority in parliament,
that better terms might have been obtained, confider
ing the condition of the national forces, the definitive
treaty, which is now nearly adjusted, will certainly
be ratified. The nation is now arrived at a period
when our rulers ought to have all the support of the
nation. New schemes of commerce are now opening,
which most be cherished with a most delicate attention,
in order to encourage our manufacturers, and, if pos
sible, to give them a preference at foreign markets,
which can only be done by carrying them at lead as
cheap as other nations ; such a iyftem of finance must
be adopted as may bear the lighted possible upon them.
To give us a decided superiority our navy must be no
less attended to in peace than in war: For though so
many foips will not be necessary to keep in employ, it
will always be needful to keep up such a number of
seamen as may be procured on any emergency to man
those that are laid up. For this purpose our old sail
ors should as much as possible be kept in the service,
or have force small but comfortable provision. New
nurseries must be eroded for young sailors, which our
fifheries, with proper encouragement, may easily pro
duce. These must be all done in the cool season of
peace, if we would ever succeed in future wars.
A French writer observes of the present reign, that
it is more distinguishable far patents than all the
former ones recorded in history. Patents, fays he, are
indiferiminately granted for quack medicines, coach
wheels, fmokey chimnies, issue peas, corn plaiflers,
and peerages.
Lord Derby is proposed by miiiiflry to succeed earl
Temple in Ireland.
Yeflerday morning some dispatches were received
from Ireland , which give an account of 2 large Arne
rican (hips, deeply ladeoed being arrived at Crookhaven
(with the thirteen firipes flying) from Nantucket, after
a passage of 26 days.
There are more ships in the river bound to New-York
than to any other part of America; the merchants are
waiting the event of the commercial treaty now pend
ing in the house before they determine what ships they
Ihall fend.
BRUNS WIC K, March 6.
1 he political fecrers of the several cabinets' upon the
Continent are totally impenetrable. The immense pre
parations of Austria and Russia were at firft fappofed
to be intended against the Turks, witri an intent to
drive them out of Europe. That idea is now vanished
with the c^ffation of those motions, and peace is said
to be eflablilhed between the two Imperial and Maho
metan courts. At present the immense preparations
made at Berlin occasion frefh (peculation. 1 thousand
waggons are said so be ordered to be ready the begin
ning of June ; the directors of the hospital have orders
to take an account of all the affifiant surgeons in the
capital; three new regiments of infantry are to be raif
i„: °"° % ^' k ° f an augmentation of the cavalry.
Vhat new norm threatens we know nor, but couriers
arrive more frequently thanever. This week we have
had no less than four from Peterfburgh to Potzdani.
Further Advices by the late Arrivals from
Europe.
AMSTERDA M, March 3 r.
WE have just received an authentic letter from
Conftahtinople to the following purport:
" Though every thing is not fettled between Russia
and the Porte, we however can assure, that the prin
cipal difference between those two courts, namely, that
of the Crimea, is absolutely terminated; and that
Chan bring rernftated, every thing is restored to or
der."
April 10. An edift was published by the French
king in February last, for paying off their marine
as faft as they should arrive in port; but it does not
in? P """ "" edl ^ h as in one inlance been carried
is °' x ' cu:i ° n ™ tacit acknowledgment that the peace
„ A , ea !" (uppofed to be permanent or lading ;
?der these cm umflances our ministers are rather pre
cipitate in the reduction of our fleets and armies.
A private letter from the Hague, fa,s that an ex
"erf fr ° m P ' ri " recalling the French
ambassador from the Hague, and that preparations
v,ere making for his immediate departure. It is whisp
ered there,s to be a change in the French minify,
and that the ambassador is to succeed count Vergen
nes. °
u A ^ ri 'j '.°" . The P e ^ ce with the Marattas was signed
by IViadaj^Sirdia and the English on the 17th of May
ratines in Calcutta the 3 d, and proclaimed at Madras
the 23c of June. 1782. A copy of the articles has
been received by the Rodney packet. The peace was
not ratified at Foonah when ihe Rodney failed, for
Bratta miniflers assign the following rea
son : . bey declare that they approveof the terms,and
they have no intention of carrying on hoflilities in fu
ture against the English ; but having heard there were
advices from England, that Mr. Hartings and the su
preme council were to be removed, and other gentle
men appoin'ed by the king and parliament, they
wou;d wish to fee if the new men approved of the peace
before they ratified it.
The last monsoon, on the Coromandel coast, which
damaged fir Edward Hughes's fleet, was very severely
felt in other places: a Danish ship employed in the
country trade, from China to Bengal, was loft, and all
her crew perished; several grabs were loft between Ma
dras and Bengal; and to the southward it was flill much
more severe. A Danish man of war of 50 guns very
narrowly escaped off Tranquebar; and some vessels
foundered offthat port, and others on the coast. At
Negapatam the Granby, a country ship, was difmaft
ed, but escaped with her cargo, and the loss of three
men washed overboard ; on the other fide the peninsula
near Anjango, it was exceedingly severe: there are no
accounts of ships as at the beginning of the roonfoon;
there were no ships moving on the Malabar coafL
These winds blow with such impetuous fury, that no
thing on the sea can hardly live; when ships are un
lucky enough to meet the tronfoor, they ufuaTy drive
before it, as the only way to escape foundering in the
heavy seas-
The force of the two fleets in the late aftion in the
Eaft-lndies were exadly as follows:
British.
Superb 74
Sultan 74
Hero 74
Monarca 70
Burford 70
Monmouth 64
Magnanime 64!
Eagle 641
Fxeter 64!
Worcefler 641
Isis 50
732
Ships. Guns.
Total Pritifh' line 11 732
French i 3 £ 54
From which it appears the French had a majority
of two ships and 122 guns.
The duke of Manchefler, it is confidently asserted,
will go as ambassador to Paris, in the room of the
marquis of Carmarthen.
A letter from Vienna fays, that they have received
advice from Constantinople, which fays, that the
greatef lpreparations are making for war; that they
are co^eOing together vast quantities of warlike fores,
and filling their magazines with corn, floor, and all
kinds of provisions, and therefore the emperor has giv
en orders for a large body of troops to hold themfe)ves
in readiness to march at a short notice towards the
frontiers of Turky.
April „. Tne private letters from Madras slate,
that the crops of rice in Bengal were so bad in the
year 1781, that the usual exportations were forbidden
to be made. This has been the cause of the dearoefs
of provision on the coast of Coromandel, which in ma
ny places amounts to a famine.
Extract of a letter from Paris, April r.
“ Letters from Frankfort inform us, that a camp
will be formed in May, composed of thirteen regiments
of Hungarian infantry, fourteen regy^ents of German
infantry, eightbattali ms of grenadiers, fix regiments
of cavalry, four of dragoons, and three of Hussars."
April 12. The famine that now rages in the Car
natic, is of infinitely more alarming a nature than peo
ple are aware of; it threatens as fatal cons quences as
French.
L'Orient 74
L'Hannibal 74
L'llluftre 74
L'Argonaute 74
Le Hero 74
Le Severe 64
I Le Content 64
I Le Renavie 64
!Le Sphynx 64
I Le Vengeur 64
L' Ajax 64
Le Flamand 50
Le Roland 50
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