The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-08-19 00:00:00, page 1

WAS TAKEN UP,
Off Stow Creek,
ARETTtAUGRE. The ownofc proving his
property ,nd paying charges mav h re her again,
by applyingib ROBERT THOMPSON,
August s 6. Shallopman.
A N TED iram diately at the paper mill, near
Baltimore Town, a JOURNEYMAN PAPER
MAKER, who is master of his bufiurfe, (otter, duigent;
,d trutty. Such a one, onapplication to M. K. God
* '', '°" Offi% Baltimore, or to Alam Way
" , at said mill, will mert with the greaifft encou
rat^ment.
August 4, 1789.
S, „ °° "' ni^ht of the firft inst. out of the fub
about half a mile from Reading, a grey
k 5 yea " ° ld> between 15 and 16 hands high,
branded on the near buttock, P, K his fore feet is white
"'4'° ' r ° ts a °d ca nters, and carries his head
tail high. Whoever takes up the said Horse, and
scores the thief, so that he may be brought to justice.
fhail receive FOURTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS
Reward or ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, for the
d^l°, y ' a ° d reas o n able charges paid by MICHAEL
in Reading, Berks County.
To be SOLD by private Sale,
A COMMODIOUS FRAME BUILDING, situa
ted in a public part of the city, fronting the street,
very well calculated for a grocery flore. Likewise
toe of an Elegant BRICK-HOUSE, joining the
frame, very suitable for any shopkeeper, the house
tang so convenient to the shop. Enquire of the Prin-
T O BE SO LD,
A Y ^ ut twelve years old Enquire
n '° HN SMITH, rear the Rising Sun, on
°" m ?, 0w ? R °ad, who will shew ths boy ;or to
^^ ^ sec ond-ftre.t, between Market and
Chtfnut-ftrQ Philadelphia.
JOHN CLARK,
'lb^Thoufand Dollars Reward.
STOLE N out of the pasture of the fubferiber, in
Middletown, Backs county, on the night of the
13th inst. (August) a dark brown MARE, seven
years old, fourteen and a half hands high, well made,
with a ft*r and snip, carries remarkable high, and is
very lime in her hind leg with the fpsvin. She was
stolen by a certain William Bunting, a young man
of about five feet seven inches high, well made, with a
blue coat and red and white striped overalls: He was
heard of at the Seven Stars on Coneftogo Road, twelve
miles from Philadelphia, and said he was going to the
Forks of Brandywine, pretending he had relations and
acquaintance that way. Whoever takes up and Secures
said mare and thief, so that the owner may have his
mare again and the thief be brought to justice, fhail re
ceive the above reward, or Five Hundred Dollars for
the mare alone, and reafon^ble charges, paid by
SAMUEL MITCHELL.
Philadelphia, August 16, 1780.
WAS left at the Caneftogo Waggon, in
Market street, two weeks ago, two pair of
SILVER SHOE-BUCKLES. The owner
proving his property and paying the charge of this ad
vertisement, may have them ?gain bv applying to
RICHARD BARRY.
TO BE SOLD BY
MICHAEL MORGAN OBRIEN,
At the south-west corner of Front and Chefnut streets,
Philadelphia,
WEST-INDIA RUM in puncheons, and
Mufcovado SUGAR in hogfheadsand barrels.
He has also a quantity of fine old high flavoured
CANE-JUICE SPIRIT, which he will dispose
of in fma!l quantities for the accommodation of private
families.
T.H IS is to forwarn all performs against
taking any affirnment on a Note from William
Gill againit me, bearing date in 1780, for the sum of
Three Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Pounds: As
the fame is a fraud, I do refufe payment unless compel
led thereto by Law.
WILLIAM BRICE.
Little-Britain Township, Lancaster
County, August 12, 1780,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 9 , 1780,
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GENERAL toreil& ADVERTISER
[ Publiffied every Tuesday, and Saturday.
PHILADELPHIA, August 19.
On Tuesday last arrived here, the Mercury Packet, Capt.
Dillon, from Falmouth, taken by the privateers Fair
American, Holier and Enterprize, of this port: By
her we have the following accounts, taken from English
prints forind on board.
L O NDO N, June 6.
HOUSE of COMMONS.
Notwithstanding the alarms of p #.
ticul ir members on account of the multitude, who
filled up all the avenues to the House yesterday, about
two hundred members attended in their places.
Mr. Buller made several observations, as well upon the
alarming conduct of rhe populace, as the measures which
had been taken by Government to prevent the dangerous
effeds of the popular outrages; after which he moved
four resolutions to the following effect:
I. That it is a high and dangerous breach of the privi
lege of Parliament to insult, interrupt, or attack the
members coming to attend their duty in that House.
II That a Committee be appointed to enqui e into the
outrages committed in the late tumults, and to difeover
the authors, promoters, and abettors thereof
111. That an humble address be prefened to his Ma
jesty, praying that he would be graefcufly pleased to di
red ITs Attorney General to commerce and carry on
prosecutions agrinft such persons as w~re in cuflo y,
charged with deflroying the property and braking into
the houses and chapels of the Foreign Miniflers and
others.
IV, That his Majesty would be gracicufly p ! eafed to
cause campenfation to be made to those Foreign Minafters
and others, whose property had been injured in the Aid
riots, and to assure bis Majesty, that the House of Com
mons would make provision for the fame.
These several morions met almaft the general appro
bation of the House, and were carried without a divi
sion.
Mr. Burke made a very animated speech upon the a
larming and dangerous proceedings of the p pulace. He
was extremely severe against those who were capable of
mifleadiog the people to such violent outrages against the
laws and con flitution of their country, as ^ ell as against
reason, justice. and humanity^ and he dealt his censure
with vehemence aga^ft Gov lament for that relaxed Bate
of the police which could no longer protefl even legisla
ture itfrif from violence, and insult at their very gates.
Tn short, he felt so much for the debased dignity of Par
liament at that moment, that he loft all temper, and bit
terly lamented the fate of such times, w: en those who
pretended to be the advocates of freedom, were eftablilh
iig the most wretched slavery, an 1 exhibited the unhap
py profpea which was then at their gat:s—a bludgeoned
mob. and an armei foldierfl He lamented in the most
melancholy terms, the dr ad'ul necessity that obliged the
military power, the notorious bane of liberty to be called
in, to defend not only the freedom, but the very exifienct:
of Parliamentl
Mr. Fox alfd lamented the necessity of calling in t ! e
affiflance of the military, which he attributed solely to
the weak administration of public affairs. He reprobated
in terms equally warm as those of Mr. Burke, the pro
moters of the riots —the violence of which would de
grade us, he said, in fbe eyes of Europe ; fmr the world
would fee that those men who were at the head of Ad
ministration were incapable of governing the a&airs of
a State. ~ . • t
e Sir George Saville (poke on the fame fide, blamed the
rioters arid ministers alike, and remarked that it was not
a little finguiar in the prefect mobs, that they should
equally dire& their violence against the friends, and ene
mies of liberty.
Mr. Herbert obferviog Lord George Gordon with a
blue ribbon, declared that he could not fit and vote in that
House at a moment, whilst he saw a noble Lord in it,
with an ensign of riot in his hat. 4
Lord George's friends interposed upon this, and his
Lordship not being willing to take out his cockade, they
in a manner forced it from him.
Mr. Dunning spoke nearly the fame sentiments of Mr.
Burke and Mr. Fox, condemning the Minify the Mili- °
147, and the Mob. It was the. general opinion of the
House, as well as the Gentlemen, that no ad of that
House could be legal which was agreed to whilst the House
was beset with the folder,, and a mob.
General Conway, upon the above ground, and so pre
serve the dignity of Parliament, moved,
That this House will; as soon as the tumults subside
wnich are now fubfifbng, proceed immediately to the
(O ^derat:on of the several petitions presented to this
House from many of his Majefty'sProteflant fubjeffe,
and taxe the,fame in'o their serious deliberation.
Lord G Garden said, that if the House would appoint
r°" <3 decafs the business, and promise to do it to the
fttiffuon of the people, he made no deubt but they
would quietly difperfe.'
Sir Fletcher Norton lamented the loft dignity of Par
liament. Many other members delivered their fentiments
feme were for an adjournment till the House could pro'-
ceed to bufipefs without bring awed by any power either
of the crown or the populace, Others thought an ad
journment at such a time would be more injurious to the
dignity of the House than any other measure they could
take ; but what was to be done ? Bludgeons terrified some
and bayonets alarmed others; but it was the general opi
nion of the House to adjourn till to morrow.
They then adjourned to Tburfday, when the abofe
petitions will be taken into corifideration.
June 7. Yesterday about noon, a considerable body of
people assembled again in St. George's Fields, and from
thence proceeded in ^ body to Palace .yard, Westminster.
with cockades in their hats, colours flying, &c. About
one o'clock, detachments of the horte; foot guards, and
light horse paraded the streets to preserve a passage for
the members carriages to the different Houses. Another
detachment of foot guards took peffeffion of West minfter
hall, the doors of which they at last elofed to prevent the
mob entering there: Several members of bath Houses who
walked down on foot were thus prevented from getting
into the House for a considerable time, among which was
Mr. Burke, who was presently furrouhded by some of
the molldecent of the petitioners, who expostulated with
him on his conduft, in abetting Sir George Saville's mo
tion for the Roman Catholic bill; Mr. Burke in bis de
fence said he certainly had seconded the motion for the
bill, and thought bimfelf juftified in so doing ; said he
understood he was a marked man on whom! he petitioners
meant to wreak their vengeance ; and therefore he walked
out finely amongst them, confrious of having done no
thi g that deferred their censure it the slightest de^ree^
having always been the advocate for the people 'and
meariing to continue so. . 1
Mr. Burke at last got rid of these troubtefome interro
gaters. The mob, some thousands of whom were arm*
ed with poleaxes, cutlaffa, bludgeons, & c . now attacked
several of the Peers, on their 4, to the H^ wh o ^
they roughly treated, particularly Lord Sandwich, whose
chariot they broke, and who was obliged to return to
the Admiralty, having his face much cut with the broken
glass..
About seven o'clock, a large party went to Newgate
and demanded the persons of the four men committed for
fettmg fire to the Romifh chapels, but they were to'd it
was not in the power of the keeper to comply with thei#
r ^^ F tber \ broke into Mr. Akerman's heufe,
and set it on fire, watch was done so effectually that in a
little time the whole of that vast building was one conti
nued flame : In the mean time they broke in and released
every pnfener, among., whom were several persons under
sentence of death; so deliberately did the primers make
their escape, that they took time to carry o ff their be^
ding, and such utensils as they had in prifoh. A man
who was to have been executed to morrow, wa s so affed
ed ar the aaff ed efr'" his th^i;
fainted away whilst his friends were knocking off his irons
Fr m hence they went to rhe Public Cfce in Bow ft r °et'
the infioe of which they prefentiy destroyed, and
the contents, with the office books, & c . in the middle of
the street. These triumphs were succeeded by a general
illation, whi^ they compelled the affrighted inhabi
tarn's to make thro , the cities of London and V/eftminfter
L^ra Petre's house in Parktoe ^ gutted lad night
by the mob; as was Justice Hyde's in St. Martin's lane
Mr Cox, the brewer, in Great Q, een set. Li nco lnW
lon Fields and three others in that neighbourhood
' co ,'ry- h ° ufe at Hampftead was likewise to
tally destroyed.
, ^ 7L r ' P °r ed hft "^ tb ^ mnre ffia n three thou
^°° e d ° w ° t 0 Cord Metre's feat at
5r Eff% with an intent 'to destroy that
beautiful fltu&ure. 7
The New Prifoh and Clerkenwell Bridewell were both
on fire when this paper went to press
<3#^#' mih '" ; were ^^ r ^ d
Whatever may be the future fate of the present petition
against the Catholic bill, the House disposed of it very
judiciously, by defering itto a future day. To have re
jetted it, might have been produ^ive of disagreeable
consequences in the then temper of the people : To have
approved it at the mandate of a tumultuous affemtiy,
Senate have betrayed a de ^ ree of fear unworthy a British
, ^'^ destruction of the flock in trade of Mr. Raina
ferd the tallow-chandler on Monday night, a fellow who
was very btifily employed in throwing the boxes of can
dles into the fire, archly exclaimed,—' You tallow
chinnier to his Majesty and the House of Commons,
n " P f ° r the K ^' s birth-day? F e
« ^"t^ Rft : r Rainsferd, fee what trouble you give
“ your belt friends !" J 5
[For more London newt, and an account of the begin
ning of the above riot, fee the Fourth Page.]'