The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-07-01 00:00:00, page 1

SIR 'Y'' : l
DREAMS are looked -port by the wife as mere
phantoms of imagination, and not the means made
use of by Superior powers to apprize or forward
us of any event which is to happen, as the fuperfliti
ous part of mankind Have foolifh!y imagined. As they
Jo not, therefore, by ah? means answer this durable
purpole, I know of none f* Ulrich we can more pro
perly render them subservient, %n to that of our mo
ral improvement, by drawing such inferences, and
making such refleaions on them, as maty tend to amend
our lives, or enlighten our noderflandinga. ,
Fancy, propitious ever to a lover's hopes, brought
the charming Delia to my arms. Methinks a thousand
new born charms, unseen before, bloomed on h^rcheek;
joy sparkled in her eye, and all her forms were lovely
and angelic. Theharmony of a thousand birds,waked
me, to listen to the Tweeter numbers of her tongue.
Methought I gazed on her with rapture and aflonifh
ment• and as soon as wonder would allow me utter
ance-half mad with extacy, I asked a thousand ques
tions in a breath; but mod, what pitying power, in
commiseration of ray (offerings, had liflened to my
prayer, and brought the mifrefs of my affections thus
voluntarily to my embrace ? " Thy love ((aid the with
a bewitching (mile) hath deserved my compliance. Re
lieve me, I have felt for thy nnhappinefs -and now it is
allowed me, I come to restore to thy bosom peace, by
making thee a ready facrifice of those charms which
thou now beholdefl, and which thou ever haft assured
me, were dearer to thee than thy life. But (continued
fli ) all this mud depend on thy behaviour on an oc
casion which thou (halt presently know." So faying,
she waved her snowy hand above her head, when sud
denly a noise washeard, as of the sudden fall of rocky
fragments down a rugged Reep. At length the cham
ber door was torn from off its shattered hinges, and
forth there came, with hobbling pace, a female, form,
frightful and ill favoured, her brow was furrowed with
wrink es, her eyes were funk into their bony sockets,
her cheeks were fallen, her jaws toothless and mum
bling; her locks were grey and unequal; (harp rheum
tricKled d>wn her visage, and cold palfey (hook her
worn ou" frame; her looks were Unmeaning and i
diotifh, and her dress was formal and antiquated.
On her bead the wore a black coif, and a crutch-like
flaff affifled her to the bedside ; agitated with the horror
of the prodigy I seized my Delia with inflinftive
fondoefs, and swore no power on earth should harm
her: (he smiled approbation, and seeming to be under
no apprenenfions herfelf, (he gently chid my precipi
tancy, and begged me to be attentive. "My nameis
age, ((aid the phantom) and mod mortals are averse
to my approach. Once I was youthful and blooming,
as the bright objed now within thy arms; but length
of years, the common accidents of life, and those calami
ties in eparable from our nature, joined to that solicitude
and anxie y peculiar to the tender feeling# of a mother;
the'e, I fay,have produced in me the change thou art wit
ness to. The hour has been, when I could dance to the
pipe's irfpiring fou n + when the green landscape
charmed my r^bfa i eye—when the gay garden's odo
rous fwee's perfumed the passing gale when the deli
cious peach tree's juicy fruit would melt upon my
tongue, and when my foul knew all the joys of sense.
The time has been, but is no more: J have not limbs
to dance, nor ears for music, nor the sense of feeing to
illume the darkfome path of my exigence." Thus
(peaking, dill me thought, file nearer drew and nearer;
I was alarmed, and rai'd my arm, as wishing to pre
vent her. " Fear not ((he (aid) but an(wer me fincere
]y Canst thou be patient to observe that image of
all human perfeHi>n changed like mine, to that ofall
human imperfection? Cnft thou bear the thought of
living to behold such fading beauty pass away, the
roses die upon her cheeks, that snowy bof_m lose its
whiteness, and those languishing eyes their luflre? Cantt
Thou fee those dimples (leek no more obedient to her
smiles, and those ivory teeth moulder ' y turns im pa
tientof decay ? In (bort canst thou behold that form as
changed as mine, and yet preserve thy affection unal
tered and unimpared? Tell me, (continued (he) from
whence is try esteem further derived? Answer me inge-
Mioufly--for what is it that thou loved her, is it for
wealth? " No (laid I emphatically) virtue and nature
have formed her good and fair, and fortune cannot
make her better, or fairer- -virtue is a portion which
eio gold can purchae." " Good! (said the rifop)
unfwer me farther] Thou named beauty, have J not
Told The that beauty mufl decay ? Dost thouthen lore
her forbemry?" “ Mod reverend form(faid I)there
is something Bill that dwells within tny looks, which
tells me, thou thy felf art miflrefs of those inward'
beauties of a placid and ahumble mind which 1 admire--
beautjes of which the face is but thejndfx : mere red
and white may (bike the eye, but cannot win the heart.
OR, THE
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
VOL. Xll.l
TUESDAY,
To the PRINTS R.
PUBLISHED EVERV TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price S^x-Pence.
Philadelphia, June zr.
To be Sold by Public £ale,
At XII o'clock, at the Coffee-Houfe, on SATUR
DAY the sth of July next,
TWO FARMS in Chester county, and Two
FAR MS in Lancaster county, divided by O&o
---rara creek, and eppofite to each other. They are
known bv the name of Rural Banks, or Macpherfon's
Mills. These Farms will be fold separate. The firft
contains 193 acres, on which are ereded one of the
most profitable merchant mills in this ftatc, a dwelling
house, barn, horse (table, cow stable, calf stable, (moke
house, hemp house, cooper's (hop, and necessary ; a
large proportion of watered meadow, thought to be the
prettiest and heft meadows in Pennsylvania; an apple
orchard, and a Hrze garden of rich foil, that produces
a large quantity of hops annually.
The second contains 1 09 acres, with a dwelling house,
large barn, horse stable, cow stable, and faring hoofe,
with three-times as much good watered meadow as can
be wanted for the place.
The third contains 36 acres; a few acres of which
are cleared, but there are no buildings on it.
The fourth contains 13 acres, on which there are a
good merchant mill, a saw mill, a dwelling house, barn
and (tables, and a well conffruaed fi(h pot; the one
halfis well watered meadow, This place is Jawlefsly
held in poffdfion by another person, but no doubt will
soon be recovered ; those who chooft to examine into
my right, may know it by applying to Joseph Reed,
e 'fti or Jonathan Dickenfon Serjeant, efq; or Mr. Ro
bert Lewis, fen. who once potfeffen that lend. The
purchaser may either purchase this left Tria at his own
rifaue, or the present owner will give him a general
warrantee, and oblige himfelf to put the pu chafer in
possession as soon as the affair can be brought to trial.
Onfray Painniere,
At hi# Store in Water-ft-e*t, below W^lnut-ftreet, I as
for Sale,
A Variety of Dry Goods,
lately imported in the lift V w ff:ls from France.
Toamwer in a word, I love my Delia for herfelfalone;
The consequences of age muff be the fame in me as in
her, and those years which empair the beauties of her
person, will inevitably have a like effect upon my eye
hght: so that I fhal| not then be sensible of an altera~
°° w ' tho^ghit would not deminilh my
afrethon, might give me some uneasiness: but in all
t^iefe refpefts we ihall keep pace with each other, as
God and nature evidently designed."---"Thou haft
well spoken (fat'd the aged moralist) and this opinion
proves thee worthy the possession of so bright a jewel.
But (continued (he) I have hitherto (hewn thee only the
mo exceptional fide of the piflure; but I will reward
thy integrity with a profpe& of a better kind, and (hew
thee what are the rewards of conflancy and love in a
connubial slate.
,, e 'f! I ''' a"''drawing her flaiF across my eyes, I
fuddehly beheld her form, which before was haggard
and meagre, now grow blooming and celeflial-- her
garment, which was of purple, flowed gracefully over
her nec&-foft complacency beamed from her eve, and
a dignity was conspicuous through her whole figure,
In either hand (he held a pretty playful child, emblems
of the little loves that clung around her knees, and
sweetly smiled. At length (he (poke: “ lamtheobjed
of mankind's pursuit, their earliest wifi, their latest
prayer : Hymen and Virtue are my parents, and my
name is happiness .I'm fought for by deluded mor
tals in a thousand ways, yet though they know my
haunts, they seek me every where but where I am;
my abode is only with the good. Then come my chil
dren, I will be your guide, and lead you on to joys,
that to the rich, the vicious and the gay, are never
known; these are the pledges, too, shall crown your
loves, and be the supporters of your age. I will banish
cAre from your pillow, and sorrow shall be a stranger
to your thoughts. No ills (hall---"
Here my chamber door was opened in reality by
a servant who came to call me to breakfaft. Who can
wonder, then, that so fatal an interruption should in
vert the order of my morning prayer? This infor
mation about my breakfaft “ rebbed me of all my fan
cied good, and brought substantial ill ; '> for this gold
en dream seemed to paint the misery of my real si
tuation in so aggravated a light, that though I went
down to breakfaft, I was not able to eat any.
Your's &c.
EUGENIO.
T H E
Philadelphia, Jone 9, 1783.
WHEREAS Harman Johnson,
who formerly sard as deputy (heriff, has e!
ed, and there is every reason to believe that hei s de
frauded me, the fubferiber, to a ccnfiderable amounts
this's therefore to give notice, and caution all poftns
^t to pay any orders, cr other payments that may con
cern my office, to said JOHNSON, frm his date, ag
they will nut be allowed, hv the Public's humble
V/M. WILL, fheriff.
Philadelphia, ,? 1% 1783.
qrHOSE who hate am just demands ag 4 „. fate
Partnership of TIREL, RAVY, and CO. of
Cape Francois, are desired to make them known to
TIREL and RAVY, that payment may be made.
United-States. \ — Tr ,
Pennfylvanta, ff.) ALL whom ma Y concern.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the Court of Ap..
p<:als in Cases of Capture, will e b<l at the
city of Philadelphia, on the tecend TUE DAY in
September nex', at which sessions the r <u t intend to
finifh all the business before them The causes which
remain on the docket, and which were not ready lor
trial at the last sessions are—Brauford, v flip P ;gv,
Keppele, claimant; Dennis, &c. v brig Counters of
Eglington, Read, claimant; Penhallow, &% ▼ Lu
fannah, Doane, claimant; Ansell, &c. Schooner Li
berty, Harper, claimant; Frederick Steelman v febno
ner Laurens; Phineas Bradley v (loop Betsey, &c.
Smith, &c. v (loop Mary, &c. Jared Robinson v
schooner Four Sifters; Edward Johnston, &c. v sun
dry British Good, Gardner, & c . claimants ; Edward
Johnston, &c. v sundry Britifb Gods, Fanning, &c.
claimants; Jabez Stow, &c. v sundry British Gcods,
Havens. &c. claimants ; Judfen, &e. v. sundry Briufh
Goods, Wells, &c. claimants; Jchn Foster v sundry
British Goods, Hart, claimant; Samuel Lockword v
sundry British Goods, Bradle,, claimant ; Jchn M'r
tin, &c. v brig Hope, &c. Cruger, &c. claimarts;
George Smith v sundry British G ods, Munroe, claim
ant; Charles Syms, &-% v (loop Good Intent, Bicrel,
claimant ; Oliver Reid v schooner Squirrel, &. Jb
than Jackson, &c. v sloop Diamond, &c. Forman, &c.
claimants; Nathan Jackfen v schooner Dolphin, &c.
Forman. &c. claimants; Martial Boitar v schooner
Adventurer, Anthony, &:. claimants; Donald B^in,
appellant, v (chooser Speedwell, Brown, rpptUee ;
which will be tried in the order they ft,nd on the
docket, unless good cause is (hewn for changing the
arrangement of eny of them. The parties who r^lh
to avail ihemfelvts of new evidence, must have the
fame ready when the cause is called for tri,l ; and for
this purpose either of the judges of the court, on appli
cation, will name a commiflioner to take dipufitions, or
they may be taken before the regifler of th ; s court.
By order of the court,
June 16, 1787. JOHN POTTS, junr. Register.
[The Printers in the different states are requeued to
inlert the above notification in their leveral papers.]
Ten Dollars Reward.
"{77''' '"°''°° ''"' l '^ iuft?ut, a Needle work'd
VV POCKE T ROOK, tied with a firing of worit^
ed binding, containing a Pocket Almanack, feveraf
Notes, Account', and Co^dry other Papers, of no use
to^ny perfen b^t tveowner; among which was a Bmd far
rob 1 , a power of attorney and a probate of a W4l.
Whoever has fonl f*e fime and will leave ft at M^ffx.
KAIGHN & A fTMORE'i fture, in Froct-ftreefy
ne^r Ach-ftrett, dha'A receive the ab&ec reward.
At the City Au&ion, on
FRIDAY Next,
a _ The 4th of July, 178%.
A VT HRE ' °' Cl ° ck iu the AFIERNOCN,
Will Commence the SA LE
Of a Large and very General ASSORTMENT^
MERCHAND I Z E,
(Particulars of which will he published by the Bell on
the Morning of the Day of Sale)
With a QUANTITY of
Houfhold Goods, Kitchen Furniture'
WEARING APPAREL, & c ;
-JOHN BAYARD, Audi^er.'
JULY,;,,8,
[NUMB. ic6i.