The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-06-29 00:00:00, page 1

By His Excellency WILLIAM MOORE, Enquire,
President, and the Supreme Executive Council of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.,
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the southern post was robbed of his
mail, on Sunday the sixteenth day of this pre
sent month, within five miles of Harford, in the Rate
of Maryland, and the united Hates in congress assem
bled, by their aft of the nineteenth day of the fame
month, Resolved, That the executives of the Rates of
New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland,
be reqr.efted to pursue the most likely measures by
offering public rewards, at the expence of the united
slates, and otherwise for the recovering the. mail and
bringing the robbers to due punishment. Wherefore,
from a due regard to the said request, as well as from
a ftropg sense of the justice and propriety thereof. We do
hereby accordingly offer a public reward of Two Hun
dred Dollars, to any person or persons who shall se
cure the said mail, and deliver the fame to any justice
of the peace of this state, within Sixty days from the
day of the date hereof; and also the further reward of
One Hundred Dollars for each and every person who
shall be apprehended and copviHed of the said robbery,
to be paid to such person or persons who shall appre
hend such robber or robbers, and secure him or them,
'in.any gaol within this Rate. And we do hereby ftrid
ly charge and require all judges, juflices, fheriffs, con
stables and other peace officers cf the Rate, that they
make diligent search for the 'faid mail, and on finding
the fame to give due notice thereof to u 3: and we do
hereby charge and require them, and every of them,
to make diligent search for and apprehend and secure
all and every person and persons concerned in the said
robbery, so that the said robbers may be brought to
condign punishment for the fame. And wedo hereby
offer free pardon to any person concerned in the said
robbery who shall surrender himfelf, and give infor
mation ofhis accomplices therein, so that.they or either
of them ffiall be apprehended and convicted of the said
robbery..
Given in council, under the hand of his excellency
William Moore, esquire, prefldent, and the seal
of the Rate, at Philadelphia, this twentieth day
of June, Anno Domini, one thousand seven hun
dred and eighty-two.
WILLIAM MOORE, President.
Tanners Oil to be Sold,
By RICHARD WELLS in Arch ftrtet, above Sixth-
Lancaster Academy.
TH E fubicriber finding his mode of in-
A ftru&ion has given tatsfaßion, and desirous of
establishing his School on the most advantageous and
solid basis; at the Wt public examination of the fchol
fare, requested a general meeting of the parents and
?ncourager* of it. The meeting was accordingly held
in the new School.houfe, on Saturday the aid instant ;
when with many other matters then tranfa&ed re
fpeai'ng the school, the following gentlemen were una
nimously chosen direaors, and entitul d, the CURA
TORS OF LANCASTER ACADEMY IN PENN
SYLVANIA, viz. the reverend Mr. Muhlenberg, the
honorable William A. Atlee, esquire, Jasper Yeats,
esquire, John Hubley, esquire, William Henry, esquire,
and Matthias S ough, esquire.
The English, Latin, and Greek languages are taught
here ; also, Writing, Arithmetic, Book keeping and
the Mathematics; the regulations are similar to those
of the principal Academies in Europe. Tuition, twen
ty Killings per quarter; and Boarding thirty pounds
per annum.
The borough of Lancaster is too well known to fay
any thing of the salubrity of the air ; the healthy situa
tion ; the plentiful market; the rich and beautiful
country, and evaluable public library: it is no devia
tion from truth to effort, that, for an institution of
this kind, no place in the united Rates can exceed it.
The original design of er &;ng this Academy was,
to establish a more extensive and active plan of educati
on; such a plan as shall not only teach languages, arts
and feenc-sj but refine and exalt our taste of truth and
nature ; unfold and exercise the vital Springs of a&ion,
and animate the students with an inviolable love and
attachment to the service of Almighty God ; their na
tive country, and fellow men.
La^caßer, June 24. A. BROWN.
Attest.
T. Matlack, Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH.
SATURDAY,
VOL. XU Published EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
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GENERAL ADVERTISER.
An elegant CASE of
Mathematical Infiruments,
Horse s.
The Subscriber has removed his
HORDES to a commodious liable in Church-alley,
where he has Opened a LIVERY. He propoles con
ftntly fupphing all who chue to apply to him with at
genteel HORSES, CHAIRS, &c. as any to let in the
citv : any Gentleman who may want to hire, if they
will p'eafe to call at the Stable (which is alway kept
open and attended) there is no doubt but they will be
fully Satisfied, that no person in this city keeps such va
luable Horses to let. Such Gentlemen as chufe their
Horses to Rand at Livery may depend on the greatest
juftiCe being done them. He will be much obliged to
those who will apply to him for Chairs, to let him know
the day before they intend to ride. A Sign is eppofite
the Stable. A. WALKE
Will be Sold by Public Vendue,
This Day, at 12 o'Clock,
A- the COFFEE-HOUSE,
A Quantity of Sulphur.
Jure 29. JOHN BAYARD, Auctioneer.
CONSISTING OF,
SUPERFINE Broad Cloths, Cablets, Calamancoes,
Jeans, Chintzes, Calicoes, Checks, Linens, Mul
lins, Cambricks, Lawns, Modes, Sarfnets, Silk Serge,
Drab de Soy, Nankeens, Mens and Womens Thread
and Cotton Hose, Mens and Womens Silk, Thread and
Kidd Mitts and Gloves, Handkerchiefs, F ins, Silk Stay
Laces, Threads and Tapes, Piper Snuff Boxes, fine
Damask and Diaper Tablecloths and Napkins, &c. &c.
The Half of a good Shallop,
that will carry about 350 barrels, with every thing be
longing thereto, and all in Rood order. For terms ap
ply to GEORGE GARLAND or
Juns IV RICHARD THOMPSON.
A Trad of L A N D, containing two
hundred acres, of an old Survey : said Land
lies within a mile of Christiana-bridge; it is exceed
ingly level and well timbeied; there is about sixty
or seventy acres cleared, twenty-five or thirty of which
is under good Timothy meadow fit for chopping ; there is
a valuable apple orchard thereon ; also, a dwelling house,
barn and stable, and sundry other conveniences too te
dious to mention. Any perfn inclining to purchase
land so convenient and well calculated for a farm, will
please to apply to the Printer hereof, or Mr. Thomp
fen, at the sign of the Conneßoga Wa,s on, in Mar
kt-ftreet,. Jug? 24..
TO BE 3 O. L D, BY
Philip Clumberg,.
On the North fide of Arch-street, between Second and
Third-streets, Philadelphia,
, A QUANTITY of the best
VELVET SPONGE,
A FEW CASKS OF
Currants, Raisins, & Sweet Oil,
Have just received by the Ship Favorite, and now open
ing at their store, the north fide of Market street,
midway between Fourth and Fifth-streets, a neat
Assortment of Merchandize.
KUHN & RISBERG,
TO BE SOL D,
And may be entered upon immediately,
to BE SOL D, BY
Josiah Hewes,
To be SOL Dby the PRINTER,
TO BE SO L D,
In Chefnut Street. 1 June 14.
Of different Sizes.
THE
THE
Further ADVICES by the Betsey, Cap
tain Gallagher, from France.
HOUSE of COMMONS, Monday, April 8, 1782.
COLONEL LUTTERELL having called on the mi
nister of Ireland, to lay before the house the situ
ation in which he left that kingdom,
Mr. EDEN rose and began, by faying, that if he had
not been urged to do it, he should have thought it his
duty to exhibit to the house, the alarming picture of
which the following is a sketch.
“ About the end of 1780, the British parliament
having thought fit to set Ireland free of some of the
trammels which confined her industry and commerce,
this benefit was at firft accepted with every demon
stration of lively gratitude. The partial liberty giv
en to her trade, opened a vast train of (peculations— of
golden dreams. It was supposed that opulence, whose
entrance had been barred, only waited the moment
when the new ads of the. British parliament should be
passed, to enter and pour upon the cities, towns and
the smallest hamlets, plenty out of a full horn ; but the
Heavenly maidens, who are painted as ever smiling, are
not light of foot ; they are, on the contrary, remarka
ble for a very flow pace. They were looked for, but
they came not. The Trish did not take the pains to
enquire concerning their slowness, by looking into
the nature of things.. The people every where dislike
to make deep and intricate invefligations for causes.
The Irish found them, or imagined they found them,
nearer hand. The people of Ireland thought they saw
them in the British laws, whose modification, reftridi
en or amplification, was always within the power of
the law-makers. . They considered what England had
done, for them, l as only a momentary condefeenfion.
Theyrfufpe&ed that the had only suspended the exer
cise of a pretended right, which being merely laid a-
Reep, might awake again another day. Whilst this
uneasiness wrought upon the minds of almost every
one, a commoner, 'whofe integrity and talents give
him,vaft influence, proposed in the Irish parliament,
a bill for declaring the rights of Ireland. The lord
lieutenant, however, was able at that time to elude the
Rroke, by persuading the people, that Great-Bri
tain had changed her fyflem in this refpe&, and that
(he was irrevokably determined to renounce the exer
cise of a right which the Irish disputed. In these cir
cum fiances, lord Carlifle was named to the government
of Ireland, whither I had the honour to accompany him.
When we arrived there, the parliament had risen, and
ceconomical arrangements employed us.
The unfortunate course of the war, had, by this
time, railed apprehensions of the enemy landing du
ring the summer. The corps of volunteers, who,
throughout the kingdom, amused themselves in
learning military exercise, and in parading
and holding reviews, ran together from all parts, and
conduded themselves with a loyalty of which it is not
easy to give an idea, and unanimously made eager of
fers of service, and afted on this occafiori, so as to de
serve the gracious thanks of their sovereign. Theses-.
fion of 1781, then opened; nothing could be more
peaceable ; every one appeared to be perfealy fatisfi
ed of the good dispositions of Great-Britain, and con
vinced of the uprightness of her intentions. The op
position did not attempt to pass the bounds which the
wisdom of the conflitution has placed between the ad
ministration and people. Nothing could be more edi
fying than the unanimity with which many salutary
laws were passed, which had the happiest tendency to
promote the prosperity of the kingdom. Unluckily,
about the middle of the session, it was difeovered that
the kingdom of Ireland had been included in four ads
of the British parliament, poßeriorly to the date of the
mutiny bill, out ofwhich it had been expunged by ex
press agreement made with lord Carlile, when he set
out for Dublin. To the clamours which rose every
where, it was to no purpose to answer that these afts
were of no importance, or were for the good of Ireland.
It was replied, that they were to form precedents; that
essays of this nature were artfully made in trifling mat
ters; that in short, it was plain that England had not
renounced either the pretended right or the exercise of
it, of making laws for Ireland. A motion was inflant-,
ly made to declare the rights of the kingdom ; soon af
ter the noted volunteer meeting at Dungannon was
holden, (whose resolves have appeared in the prints)
addresses showered upon us from all quarters, and in
less than a fortnight the flame became general. Moti
ons for declaring the rights of Ireland, rose in parlia-.
ment in various forms one after another ; and though,
by the help of a very considerable majority, we have
delayed them, by shewing that the security of the for
feited lands, held ,under British ads', would be flruck
at by such a proceeding, it was but too evident that
LONDO N.
JUN E 29, 1782.
[NUMB. 904.