The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-11-17 00:00:00, page 3

Philadelphia, Nov. 17.
A message from the vice-president and supreme execu
tive council, to the representatives of the freepnen of
the comm mwealth of Pennsylvania, in general afferc
bly met.
Gentlemen,
IT is with the highest pleafurfe 'hat w^ congratulate
the general assembly, at their firft meeting, upon
the great and glorious events of the present campaign,
and the bright and happy profpe& which opens before
us. While the citizens of America were distressed with
painful apprehensions for the fate of a handful of brave
men in the Carolinas, surrounded with dangers and
difficulties. General Greene, with a degree of pru
dence, fortitude, perfeverence and courage which does
him the highest honour, has, with the assistance of trie
patriot citizens of those Rates, not only baffled the ef
forts of an enemy greatly superior to him in force, and
who affeft to p ide themselves on superior discipline ;
but, after many well fought battles, has also obliged
them to abandon the interior part of those fiates, and
by the late signal and important vidory over them, at
the Eutaw springs, fi ally compelled them to retire,
with precipitation, within the vicinity of Charleflown,
and thereby fre<d an insulted and distressed country
from the ravages of a vengeful and cruel enemy.
And after we had long looked with a sympathetic
farrow on the ravages committed by a numerous ar
my in a neighbouring filler Rate, that whole army
confining of near nine thousand men, including the fea
znen found on board the armed fhipsr have been made
prisoners of war, and all their artillery, ammunition,
flores, transports and military chest; taken with them.
This important atchievement, planned with consummate
wisdom, and executed almoß without loss, has not left
a single f oe in arms for an extent of at least fix hun
dred miles. And while it reflets the highest honou rup
ou the commander in chief and the allied army and na
vy, exhibits a glorious proof of the immense advan
tage which the United States of America derive from
their alliance with France, and of the boundless worth
es the friendfhip of their p werfu ! , wife and generous
prince. Atchievm^nts, whole magnitude excites a so
lemn joy, and inspires the mind with gratitude to HIM,
whose providence governs the universe.
But, whde we rejoice in those signal successes, and
contemplate the extensive advantages which may be de
rived from them, it behoves us to Fok forward to a
nother campaign, and make the moR effectual prepa
rations for a vigourous effort to drive the enemy en
tirely from our country and put an honourable peri
od to the war.
Among other confederations, it may deserve the se
rious enquiry of your honourable house, whether there
may not be some improvements made in the mode of
assessing and colleaing the public taxes, tending to
make the fame more certain and expeditious, and less
ex pen five.
It appears to us to be proper to inform you, that
having some time since fold the land, known by the
name of Province Island, for the redemption of the
bills of credit issued by this Rate, bearing date April
the 29th, 1780, we have for the fame purpose lately
made a considerable progress in the file of the city
lots, and although it is far within the time limited for
that purpose by law, we intend to continue the sale
until .he whole of that emission shall be redeemed.
This will not only save to the Rate the interest which
would otherwise accrue upon those bills, and draw out
of circulation a considerable sum of paper money, but
will also afford an unequivocal and decisive proof of
the determination of the Rate, to preserve its faith
with refpeft to the bills of credit issued by the legisla
ture for the support of the war.
We are pained with the distresses of those families
which have fuffered on the frontiers by the savages,
yet we are bound to acknowledge, that those fufferings
have happily been much fewerthan(after every affiflance
had been given, which it was in our power to afford
them) we feared they would have been. And we con
fide that the frontier settlements will be remembered by
you in the course of the present session and be pro
perly provided for, as far as their exposed situation
will admit.
That harmony and mutual confidence between the
executive and legislative, which is at all times highly
beneficial to the Rate, shall be cultivated by us with a
due attention, and we shall continue to afford every
aid in our power to maintain the true interest of the
fate.
The secretary will lay before you several papers
from the fu perintendant of finance, which deserve your
immediate attention, and also such other papers as we
have to communicate to you.
WILLIAM MOORE Vice- President,
In council, Philadelphia, Nov. 9, 1781.
To Lord GEORGE MINDEN, alias GERMAIN.
My Lord,
YOUR king's commanders on the North-American
continent, are continually writing you of wonder
ful exploits gained by them, and of the vast num
bers turning from : he error of their ways, and again
putting themselves under sweet British proteaion.
And yet my lord you mull certainly be convinced
they do not gain ground.—And why, I will in a few
words tell you the obvious reason.
The vast numbers they boast of really returning
to their allegiance, are the veriest wretches that ever
existed, were for America, are now for you; and will
in violation pf oaths and every sacred tie, be for any
power having in appearance the superiority of the day,
when their pelf is in danger.
This truth can in a variety of instances be moR co
piously exemplified, but one for the present will fuf
fice my purpose and position.
A certain R. Williams of S. Carolina, after associating
with his countrymen in a very solemn league, to defend
his country against your king's tyranny and oppreffi
on at the hazard of his fortune and life, from motives
of timidity left it, with permission to go to France,
which he procured on a pretended bad Rate of health.
On his voyage thither, tie was put into a wished for
course, carried to England, where he remained many
months, and then returned via New-York ; from which
last place, he came in a Rag of truce.
From his long abfeence, many conjectured he never
again intended a return to his country, and being so
told, assigned as a rea fpn for returning, that whilftin
England he made the best use of his eyes, like I not the
complexion of things there, and would rfift Britain
equal to the staunchest of his fellow-citizens, being
greatly surprised that his countrymen should entertain
thoughts the least suspicious of his patriotism.
His country having the firmed reliance in him, re
quefied he would superintend the emitting of its cur
rency, which he readily complied with.
His constant, chearful and punßu^l attendance on
that business, and the number of devices and mottos to
be placed both in f ont and back of the emissions, in
vented and chosen by himself, set forth below,
must fully evince the world of the depraved heart of
the man, and what fort of loyal fubjeds your maßer
has in such vile apoßates.—With them, he cannot but
expert to lose the ground he had gained.
Satan and the Britilh now a days equally make con
verts for hell.•
PHILOPATRIJE.
Mr. ROBERT WILLIAMS's directions to the engra
ver of the plates for the (South-Carolina) Rate dol
lars in 1779, as above mentioned.
N. B. The explanations are also his own.
NINETY DOLLARS.
Front device—Mars.
Back —Hercules killing
the Cleonean lion.
N. B. Hercules is an
emblem of virtue, as well
as Rre^gth ; which may be
applied to America in her
present druggie : and the
Cleonean lion, by an easy
transition, may mean the
British lion.
Front device- - Providence
Back—Sisyphus with the
Rone on his shoulders.
N. B. Sisyphus is con
fi lered as an emblem of
ambition from which the
present contest originated ;
and his dis ppointed la
bour are symbolical of the
endless talk of our ene
mies to subjugate Ameri
ca.
Front device—Hope.
Back- Promotheas chain
ed to a rock with a vul
ture gnawing his liver : —
intended allegorically to
represent the Britilh mo
narch chained to a system
of war, and his prime mi
nider likea vulture, prey
ing on his vitals, which
America hopes will pre
vent his triumph over her
freedom.
*** For the Benefit of our Cuflomers in the Country,
we have re published, from our paper of Thursday
last, the Account of the Overthrow of a large Body
of the Enemy's Irregulars from Canada, by that gal
lant and meritorious Officer, Colonel Marinus Willet.
For this Account fee the next page.
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For Sale, by Public Audion,
This Evening,
At the COFFEE-HOUSE, at SIX o'clock,
One Eighth Part
OF THE
SHIP CONGRESS,
As she nor liys in the river, ready for sea, mounting
zo twelve pounders, and 4 brats fix pounders. The
Conditions of Sale; ^ne fourth part to be paid with
in ten dajs; the remaining three-fourths within 30
days. JOHN BAYARD, Auctioneer.
November 17.
TO BE SOL D,
On MONDAY Next,
At Samuel Cooper's FERRY, at Eleven o'clock in the
Forenoon, TH E
Prize Schooner Polly,
Burthen about 35 tons; together with her Ta kle,
Apparel, and Furniture ; now laying in Gnat Egg
harbour river. By order of the court,
Nov, 14 J. BURROWS, Marshal.
WANTED TO HIR E,
A Man and bis Wife,
To Farm a small Plantation near this City, Enquire
of the Printer.
Genteel Boarding and Lodgings,
by Mrs. ELLIOT, four doors above Third-lircet, in
Vine-ftrest.
SEVENTY DOLLARS. .•
FIFTY DOLLARS.
Providently dace valebi
nius.
While providence is our
guide we thall prevail.
* Providentia noftris prse
fideat.
May providence regulate
our adions.
If Those mottos mak
ed * were the mottos fix
ed to the bills.
MOTT O S.
* Armis concurrite
campo,
Run all wih arms to the
field.
Mars adfit fecundus.
May the war be propi
tious.
Mirs undique Gr.it.
War rages ell around.
* Spes mentis folatia.
Hope is the comfort of
the mind.
Spes cafuum folamen.
Hope the relief of mif
fortone.
By the UNITED STATES, in Congress affeffihleJ/
October 23d, 1781.
The Secretary laid before Coogrefs, a letter from
the Frefident, in the words following :
SI R,,
IM UST beg you to remind Congress, that when
they did me the honor of eleAing me prefident,xnd
before I assumed the chair, I informed them, that, as
chief juflice of Pennsylvania, I should be under the ne
cessity of attending the supreme court of that Rate the
latter end of September, or at fartheft in October. That
court will be held to day ; I mul ttherefore request,
that they will be pleased to proceed to the choice of
another president.
I am, fir, with respect,
Your most obedient humble servant,
THOMAS M'KEAN,
Charles Thomson, esquire, Secretary of Congress.
Whereupon,
Resolved, That the resignation of Mr. M'Kean be
accepted.
October 24.
Resolved unanimously, That Mr. M'Kean be requeu
ed to resume the chair, and aft as president till the firft
Monday of November next, the resolution of yester
day notwithflanding.
November 5.
Congress proceeded to the election of a President, and
the ballots being taken, the Honourable JOHN HAN
SON was elefted.
November 7.
Resolved, That the thanks of Congress be given to
the honou able Thomas M'Kean, late president of
Congress, in testimony of their approbation of his con
duft in the chair, and in the execution of public business.
Extract from the Minutes,
GEORGE BOND, deputy secretary,
WH-#-^ fcfo>s*'++ 4-*ossQ Q-$X
A Further SALE of. the
Public Lots of this City,
For the redemption of the Bills of Credit
of thh tta'e, dated April the 29th, 1780, will be held
at the Cuffte-houH, on THURSDAY, the zzd of No
vember instant, at TEN o'clock in the forenoon. A
Plan of the Lots may be seen at the Coffee house, and
at the Surveyor General's Office. The conditions the
fame ?s the last Lies.
Wants a place in Compting-houfe,
A Young Man, capable of keep
ing book;, and who can be well recommended.
Enquire of the Printer.
Two Half Johanneffes Reward.
STOLEN out or the fubicriber's stable (which was
broke open on the night of the 12th instant) a Grey
MARE, Saddle and Bridle: the Mare is about eight
years old, 14 and 3 4 hand: high, has a small neck,
short switch t?i!, ^nd a wart upon her left buttock ; the
saddle is old, its feat and skirts are covered with buck
skin, has a green saddle cloth, pistol hoifters and bear
skin cap. Whoever secures the Mare and Thief, and
gives notice thereof to the fubferiber, shall have the
above Reward, or half that sum for either of them.
Nov. 16. MATTHEW IRWIN.
Sixteen Hard Dollars Reward.
BROKEfcr ftobn out of the ftables,at John Shannon?
tavern, on Manatawney rozd, near Stony.ru
Philadelphia county, on the night of the 31st
October, between 8 and 9 o'clock, one Brown HOR£
0
with Waggon Geers on, branded I HL; one Black
0
HORSE, with Waggon-Geers on, branded I HL;
one Black HORSE, with a small star in his forehead,
left hind leg, a~ the fetlock joint, is thicker than the
other, no brand or ear mark ; one other HORSE, a
kind of a sandy Roan, is somewhat blind of one eye,
white mane and tail, no brand nor ear-mark : all stout,
able Horses; the two last mentioned Horses bad like
wise their Geers on. Whoever takes up said Horses,
and delivers them to the fubferiber, in Oley, Berks
county, John Shannon or Dieter Matthew, in Pottf
grove, Philadelphia county, shall he entitled to receive
the above Reward ; and if stolen, and the Thief is taken
and fecurad in any jail, in this or any other state, so
that he.may be brought to justice, shall receive SIX
TEEN DOLLARS for the thief likewise.
JOHN HILL.
Oley, Berks county, Nev. 6, 1781.
WHEREAS HANNAH, the wife of the fubferi
ber, has eloped from his bed and board; I do
hereby forewarn all perfens from trusting her on my
account, as I will pay no debts of her contrasting, af
ter the date hereof. Nov, 16. JOSEPH BOUDEN.
Wanted immediately,
A SMALL FARM, in the neighbourhood of Phila
delphia, from two to five mihs diflance from the
city ; the improvements and foil must be good: of
choice it should not contain less than twenty acres
or more than 150. Any person having such an interest
to rent will please to apply to the Printer.
(TAME to the plantation of the fubferiber, in the
~ Northern Liberties, near the Falls of Schuylkill,
early this fall, a Dark Brown COW, marked on the
born G. A. The corner is desired to come, prove pro
pertv, pay charges, and take her away/
Nov. 1&. JOHN RENSHAW.