The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-06-23 00:00:00, page 3

LONDO N.
March 21. Camps are to be formed in different
parts of England during the course of next month.
Orders are given for all the officers as well as privates
belonging to the regiments cn duty in Scotland, ex
cept those that are on recruiting parties, to join their
refoeHive regiments forthwith.
It is said an account has been received of the answer
which the courts of France and Spain have given to the
proffered mediation of the empress of Russia, which is,
Shortly and substantially, that those courts are truly
sensible of the humane and generous offers of her Im
perial majefly, to put a stop to the miseries of war, and
the further effufion ®f human blood; and they accept,
with unfeigned pleasure, her majesty's proposal of a
general Congress, fcr the purpose of adjuring all points
of controversy between the contending powers, under
the express condition, t at a plenipotentiary at
tend on the part of the United States of America.
Mr. Necker, in his late pamphlet on finance, which
be had the honour to present to the French king, his
master, speaking of the improper establishment of pen
sions, calls upon the public " to point out a single in
fiance where he has granted any."
Extras of a letter from Plymouth, March 16.
" This afternoon arrived off this port the grand fleet,
under the command of admiral Darby, which were im
mediately joined by four snips of the line and three
frigates; they all failed this evening, and as the wind
suits we expert they will Coon be clear of the Channel."
March 22. A letter from Amfierdam, dated March
12, fays, " According to a lift published by the de
partment of the royal marine of Spain, it appears that
the Blips of his Catholic m^jefly, and the privateers of
that nation, have taken in Europe, America, &c dur
ing the course of the last year, 325 English ships, viz.
the squadron of Don Cordova took 57, among which
were 5 Eaft-Indiamen ; t : e squadron of Don Langara
tock 30 ; that of Gaston 27; that of Galvez 32 ; Don
Barcelo's squadron took 97 and four Bilanders ; and the
privateers have taken 78 ships."
They write from Winchester that lieutenant Janfens,
of the marines, late of the Dutch ship of war Rotter
dam, who arrived at that place with Mr. Diggins, of
Chichefter (appointed to supply the necessities of the
Dutch prisoners confined there) has received a genteel
present from the States, for his gallant behaviour dur
ing the several engagements sustained by that ship;
which reward he has distributed towards the relief of
his fellow countrymen, in this and other prisons.
A new man of war of 64 guns is ordered to be built in
the room of his majesty's ship Sterling-Castle, loft at
Bifpaniola.
Several battalions of infantry are now on their march
for Plymouth ; which garrison, and its dependent can
tonements, will in a few days consist of 10,000 men,
in order to oppose any attempts the enemy may make
to land a body of troops on that quarter of the ifl&nd,
in the absence of the grand fleet.
Last Monday orders were issued for the North Glou
cefterfhire militia to march, to do duty at Plymouth
dock-
In a few days the grounds will be marked out for
the encampments of the several regiments, who are to
take the field earlier this summer than usual.
On Tuesday was held a full board of admiralty,
when, several ships at Portsmouth and Plymouth were
put into commission, and some promotions in the na
vy took place.
On Tuesday ten prizes, lately taken from she French
and Dutch were condemned at DoHors Commons.
It is now, fays a correspondent, more than three
weeks since Puffing Paul came over post from Amfier
dam, and fcowe ed away for lord Mansfield's feat at
Caen Wood, with the extraordinary intelligence he
pretended to have obtained in Holland, viz. " that
tne Dutch were thunderstruck, and ready to submit
vnc< ndiiionally to our spirited ministers ! that peace
would immediately take place ; for that, in short, the
Dutch were ready to do any thing to obtain peace,
upon almost any terms !'' And what hath all his
puffing intelligence come to? Nothing more than to
enable the minister to negotiate his money matters to
bis mind, and at the fame time afford an opportunity
to certain persons (in the Secret of the bubble) to
make money in the alley ; for,the real slate of the
matter is now known to be, that the Dutch are dili
gently preparing for a. serious war, in alliance with
France, Spain, and America, against this ill fated
country. However, the ministerial language is, "the
nation was never in a more flourifhing condition ! there
is no end to our resources ; we are able to bear up
under more than five hundred millions of public
debt !" Such is the language of even poor Rigby,
Drummond, Harley, Mure, Atkinson, Nugent, and
others, who have been such gredt fufferers by the
war! In this manner hath the nation been bubbled from
almost the commencement of the American war.
By the last packet, which failed from Falmouth to
New York, an order was sent to his excellency gene
ral fir Henry Clinton, fignifying his majesty's plea
sure, that a court-martial should be forthwith held on
the honourable Cosmo Gordon, lieutenant colonel in
the third regiment of guards, on a charge of cowardice
and negle€ tof duty, in an aftion with the rebels in
the affair at Springfield, in the Jerseys.
The transports which are gone out for the relief of
Gibraltar, are insured at fifteen guineas per cent.
We hear that several @f the prizes taken by admi
,. R,ney i n the Weft-Indies, are already claimed as
British property.
RMfwerto the manifefto of Graaf-Britain was read, which
will be carried to the generality, and published imme
diately afterwards. It is (aid, that a new proposal was
made relative to the augmentation of the troops, which
will let aside the former propositions for that purpose ;
the projected augmention will amount to t,,000 men, of
whom 6000 for the land service will be incorporated in
the different companies, without any creation of new
officers; and the other 5000 for the marine will be
eloathed in uniforms and divided into companies, to
be commanded by marine officers.
BOSTO N, May as.
We are informed that ten fail of British vessels of
war left Block-Island last Wednesday.
Saturday last arrived here, in 46 days from France,
the ship Maria.
Extras of a letter dated Mill Prison, (Plymouth,)
February. 24, 1781.
" The 9th of November, 71 of us, all officers, were
put on board the Yarmouth, a 64 gun ship, on the
calks in her lower hold, in about 20 foot square; only
one or two allowed to come up at a time till we were
half passage over, then we were allowed, as many as
could get up. Bat our being confined in so close and
fmal'l a compass, caused a fever among us so Severe that
50 out of 71 was sick at a time, not oe of us has esca
ped: 6 died before our arrival, two of which belongs
to Boston. Mr. Arthur Dunn, my old comrade and
friend, and Mr. John Billings, son of Joseph Billings.
" Mr. Garvin, an officer in the fame ship with me,
and taken in another priz°, is al'fo in Mill- Prison,
with three more officers belonging to the fame ship,
one ®f which is the Srfi lieutenant, Mr. Joshua Bar
ney of Philadelphia. Mr. Alien and Butler that kept
at Mr. Dodges, are well."
“ Upwards of 200 prisoners are in prison, befidea
French, Dutch, and Spanish; the provisions allowed
are not fufficient to subsist upon, except by a donati
on of fix-pence a week per man given by ourir ends in
London."
We hear that a number of the enemy's vessels are'
now in Hudson's river, and that a par y of the refugees
have advanced to the English neighbourhood on the
weft fide of the river.
Last Sunday arrived at Salem, she privateer ffo
Franklin, captain Turner, of that port, having had :
the misfortune to have her mainmafi dif?bled in an en
gagement of 40 minutes, wi:h a large ship from Liver
pool bound to New-York, which proved a valuable
prize, but is yet not arrived. The franklin bad one
man killed, and one wounded ; on board the prize was
two kill'd and eight wounded.
A vessel is arrived at Cape Ann from Cadiz which
brings an account of Gibraltar's being relieved by the
British.
General M'Lean, commander in chief at Halifax,
died there the 4th instant.
We learn that eleven hundred French and American
prisoners died at New York during the last winter.
Philadelphia, June 23.
In the Newport Mercury o' the 9th instant is the
following Paragraph : A Boflon paper of Thurs
day contains the fol owing: “ Yesterday the coati
nental frigate Alliance, captain Barry, arrived here
from France. He failed in company with a French
ship of forty guns, w^ch he parted with fix weeks ago
in a heavy gale of wind. Captain Barry hascaptured
on his passage fix prizes, viz. two privateers, as for
merly mentioned, two Jamaica men, and two (loops of
of war, of sixteen fix pounders; the two last he took
about ten days ago on the banks of Newfoundland,
after a Severe conflift, m which the Alliance had eight
men killed and fourteen wounded; captain Barry is
unfortunately among the latter. One of the prizes
was fen to Newfoundland with fivehund-ed Prisoners,
taking a receipt for them, and hostages f>r the return
of the vessel.
We have the pleasure to "riform the public, that the
wound which the gallant captain Barry received in the
above action, is in his arm, and but a firih wound.
That he was in high spirits, and in a fair way of Toon
being able to add to she laurels he hath gathered in the
service of his country. And, by advices from Boston
of a later date than the foregoing, that the forty gun
ship, mentioned in the preceding article, is arrived at
Marblehead.
Tuesday arrived here the prize ship Barrington from
Savannah, bound to Jamaica with naval stores, &c.
sent in by the privateer Rising Sun, Captain Caffen,
also, on Tiiurfday a prize sloop, from 1 Charfefiown,
bound to Wilmington, North Carolina, taken by the
letter of marque Dove, captain Lyon of this port.
This vessel brings us an account of a reinforcement of
between two and three thousand men, having lately
arrived at Charleftown front Europe.
Thursday last the letter of marque ffiip Franklin;
captain Angus, arrived at Chester, from France. On
the sth of May, in lat. 42, long. 44, captain Angus
fell in with a large privateer ship- (copper bottomed,)
of 28 guns, belmigi-ng to Liverpool, which he engaged
fix glasses, when the enemy being much damaged in
his rigging, &c. thought proper to Iheer off. Captain
Angus had one man killed and Seven wounded, and
the enemy most probably fuffered exceedingly. On the
20th of May, captain Angus took the schooner Dol
phin, from Liibon, laden with wine, &c. this vessel,
after being divested of her most valuable effects, was
funk. The people on board this vessel gave an ac
count of Gibraltar beihg relieved bf the Britifh' fleet
about the 15th of April, Without any affion.
Extract of a fetter, (found on board the fchoon. Dolphin,
taken by capt. Angus) from col. Brathwaite to'M.
Mayne, of Lisbon; dated Madrafs; Oft. 10, 1780.
"IN July last, Beyder Alli entered the Carnatick
with 60,000 horse, 20,000 foot, 20 battering guns and
40 field pieces, she country fell before him like ripe
corn before the reaper's fickle. We had no where 3500
men. In the face of this army we were to make a junc
tion to form any thing to oppose. I had with me about
the number above mentioned, with 10 field pieces; I
was ordered to join the general at the Presidency ; I
was at Pondicherry ; on account of rivers I was oblig
ed to go inland, and the enemy was so situated that
his Second day's march would have eroded my fourth,
but by marching always Suddenly and in the night,
and fending people to clear one road when I meant to
take another, I made good my junaion, with only the
loss of a little baggage, which I could not protest from
his numerous horse. I joined the general, and we
marched to join lieutenant colonel Baillie coming from
the northward, and with such a force as I had , we
got within 10 miles of him, and even reinforced him by
a detachment. The enemy, on this ©ecafion, flawed
Port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fl,
To A L L whom it may concern.
XT C TICB is hereby given that a Court of Ad
mroby ..ill b? held, at the state house, in the
city cf Philadelphia, on Monday the 25th day of
June, instant, for the tridof the Sloop Polly, burthen
about Sixty tons, lately commanded by William
Peacock, bound from Charleftown in South-Carolina
to Wilmington in North-Carolina, taken at sea, sent
into th s pirt, and libelled against by Philip Lyons
(qui faro, &c.) to' the end that all persons concerned
may appear and (hew cause, if any they have, where
fore a decree should not pass, pursuant to the prayer
of the libel, & c . By Order of the Judge,'
June 22, 1,81. JAMES READ, Register.
a great piece of generalffiip, for he made as if he meant
to attack us, flipt by us in the night, fell upon Bail
lie wth his whole force, and notwithstanding the firm
eft and bravest conduct on our fide, he niaffacred the
fiower of our army, as to officers and men ; out of 4000
there was scarce any one left to tell the dreadful tale;
so com pleat an overthrow I believe never happened to
any troops before. The enemy, I suppose, had 80,000
men ard 40 field pieces against about 4000 with 10.
We have very good reason to believe the enemy loft
to,ooo men and as many horfe®. This fatal vidory was
obtained solely by the ammunition, on our fide, being
exhaufled in answering so superior a fire, and by the
blowing up some of our fumbrills, which we were near
enough to fee, for on the cannonade, in the morning,
we marched to support our friends, and were, I suppose,
about 4 miles from them, when some mangled fugatives
met us, told us all was over, and the enemy moving
off as faft as they could. As our's, not 5000 men, was
only the remains of an army, we retreated to the Frefi
dency, close pressed by the enemy's horse, with the
loss of baggage, tents, &c. The enemy has begun the
siege of Arcotf, in which he makes neither figure nor
progress, and as the periodical rains have now begun
he must desist, and f hope as no French fleet can now
arrive with forces to join him, 'till after the monsoon,
that we shall so rally and coiled as to be able to give
you a much better account of him.
K However, the passengers that came in the Portu
guese ship, that brought the above letter, fay, that affairs
bore a much more favourable afpeft at the time of
their departure from Madrafs, which was the goth of
O'Rober, it being confidently reported that the English.
b ? d concluded a peace with the Mahrattas, in conse
quence of which general Goddard had marched front
the coafl of Malabar with a reinforcement of 12,000
men, and that Heydar Alli had retreated into the in
terior part of the country, having railed the siege of
Arcott."
Subfiance of letters taken on board ' the Anna Therefz
packet, boat, captain Crofbury, from lord George
Germaine to general Clinton.
" TO push the reduction of (fie foufhern States—
To reinforce Arnold in the Chefapeak, and by no
mans to lose fight of the subjugation of Virginia,
wtrch," he says, " naturally will be accompanied
with that of Maryland—To prevent, by every possible
means, the settlement of Vermont, and to effect a set
tlement of the Refugees in Cafco-Bay—To enlist the
American prisoners a New Y rk and fend them to the
Weft Indies, where," hf SAY', <c the army is ex
ceedingly reduced, and he fees no other possible means
of recruiting it.—About 3000 British troops goes as a
rein forcement."
N. B. The above goes on supposition that the Brest
fleet, with troops, had not failed, and that it probably
would not.
On Friday, the 29th inftahf, at fen o'clock in the
forenoon, at the marshal's Hores, on messieurs James
and Drinker's wharff, between Arch and Race-ftree s,
will be fold by public a& ; on, twenty barrels of TAR,
and a quantity of fquar'd Bermudas building stone.
And at twelve o'clock, at noon, cf the fame day, at the
Coffee house, will be fold, the sloop CORNWALLIS,
bring a prize, taken by the privateer ship Revolution,
captain M'Nachtane. By order of the court of admi
ralty- CLEMENT BIDDLE, Ma fhal.
rip HE gran- 1 , tied, ptrte&,an I fubline MASONS,
as also all knights, princes arid infoedtors of M^
fonry, now in this city, axe desired to attend (with
their proper and authentic titles) on Monday evening
nrxt, at fix o'clock, at the house of Dennis M'Cartney,
in Elbow-Lane, where a g^nd ch pter will be held.'
By older of the deputy grand infp&r for the
state of P nnfylvanm
Le Droict de Bussey, Sublime g and secretary.
Fhiladc'piua, June 22, 1781;
ON Thursday the sth of July next, at
X o'clock in the foieuoon, at the Cofo-houfe
will begin the sale of the Pu die Lots of the city for
trie redemption of the bills of ciedi tof this hate dated
April z 9, 1-/80. A Phn cf the firft fihy lots may be
feed the Coffee houfe.—Conditi ons of Sale. '
First. The price at which each lot shall be (truck off
to be paid into the state tre#fury, in the aforefaid bills
of credit; dated April 29, 1780, or in gold and (ilver
money, at the rates at which they formerly passed in
Pennfylvania,and in no other money : in manner folk
ing:
One fourth, pnf within three day s after she (a\e,>dn&
the remarking free fou^h, within two months to
reckoned from the day of sale.
Il she one quarter part 'be not depntitedfo above, or
if after such deposit be made, the further pa,m nt (hall
not be complied with, in ib? manner prescribed, th±
file be void, the depefit if made to be forfeited to the
state, and the lot again fef np to # tale.
Secondly. Upon producing to the truftecs, certifi^
cates iom the treasurer of testate, that the consider
ation or price of ary lot firth be c n htrteJ in manner
aforefaid, the'buyrrto beentitled toadeeo, under the
seal of the ihte, veiling him, his heirs aid affi ^ for
ever, with an effate in fee in the lot by h.m purcha
sed ; fubjrCl tono other rent or referee than one white
oak acorn yearly, if ihe fame be dem rid
Pmladeipb^ Byerfder of Council.
Juns Q „%. T. MATLACK, fecrctary.