The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-04-03 00:00:00, page 2

A correspondent puts the following question: When a
great man only chufes for his servants, some of the most
profligate and dissolute men of the age (knowing them to
be such) can that great man pass for apious man ? On the
contrary, is not such a conduct rank hypocrisy ?
There cannot be a stronger evidence of the profligacy
and corruption of a nation, than when a King is obliged
to chufe Ministers of the most licentious conduct and
abandoned principles; men without property, and void
of virtue, fpendthrifts, gamblers, adulterers, usurers, buf
foons, prodigals, and contractors, enemies to liberty, hy
pocrites and panders---G -r and W th, S
—ch and L n; J son, E—b—w, E—l—s,
G—d-n, M f d, R-g—y, B e, S Ik,
N th, &c.
ANECDOT E.
THE King of Prussia, who is well known to have a
concise way of fettling business, upon reducing the
laws of Prussia into one small vo ume, and regul.ting the
whole code, so that no suit whatever could be longer tuan
fix months in litigation, had the corps of lawyers present
ly at his feet, imploring his Majefly to reconji !e ? the mat
ter, or it would be imp offible for them to continue their
police. “ Well, gentlemen, (replied the King) if the
law has become too arcumferibed for you, tie army is a
wide field, and will provide foryou all " The lawyers im
mediately bowed and retired, hot a little alarmed at the
meaning so strikingly conveyed in his Majesty's laconic
reply.
Infruaions to a CERTAIN Admiral.
YOU are, Sir, sent to make a gallant shew,
And let France fee what great things we can do ;
But should the fleet of France come in your fight,
Change quick your courses, you're not sent to fight.
PHILADELPHIA, April 3 .
From Robertson's New York Royal Gazette,
of March 25.
Extras of a letter frm a gentleman in Georgia to bis cor
respondent in this cit,.
" Inclofed I fend you sundry news-papers, and also our
" Gazette Extraordinary, giving an account of a late bat
" tle between our troops and the rebels, which by the bye
“ is far from being correH."—
The battle mentioned in the above extract is said to have
happened on the fourth of March, between a detached
part of our army and a detached part of the enemy.---
Congress have not received any account, neither is the in
telligence in the York paper from any authority, and by
the above letter is said not to be corred. As soon as any
authentic information comes to hand it will be published.
Extras of a letter from Brigadier General Maxwell, dated
Elizahetb-Town, March 28, 1779.
" Yesterday and the day before about twenty-eight fail
came into the Hook, mostly transports from England.
At the fame landed at New-York, a Hessian Colonel with
between three and four hundred English troops from Ha
lifax. General Clinton is returned to New. York, and it
is reported that their expedition to the eastward has failed,
as they alledge owing to the storm, but more likely (if
true) that they have found tne troops alarmed that way.
There is no account of the British troops or vessels being
returned yet; they may be towards the east end of Long
Island.
" I am informed that Admiral Gambier is on the out
side of the east end of Long-Island, with fix or seven fliips
and frigates; his design, it is said, is for New-London, to
take our vessels there.
" Tu@ir troops to the southward, it is said, are very
§ckly.'
L O ND 0. N.
ACCORD! NG to the histories of our ancestors,
fays a correspondent, those brave but prudent peo
ple, never expended, in the pursuit of pleasure, more than
they could really afford; or, in other words, more than
was really their ovea ; but how different the conduct of
the moderns ! At a time when every one is complaining of
his wants, not a single pleasure is there that is not pursu
ed with the fame aridity as when we were in the most fe
wre situation. Hence, then, we will fay with the Poet,
" The luxuries we enjoy will have no end ;
" For, strange! the less we have, the more we spend."
Queen Elizabeth had the wisdom to unite magnificence
with' frugality, and the most extensive hospitality with the
firiaeft ~ceconomy. Wherever file refined, she kept dif
ferent tables, well provided. To these were invited per
lons of all ranks, from the nobleman to the peasant. By
this wife generosity, I fhe so endeared the common people
to her, that writers assure us that they heard persons brag
of their entertainment at Court twenty years after the
death,of this great Princess.
The Ministers are railing Heaven and earth, to be able
do fay, on the opening of Parliament, “ that we are at
peace with France and Spain," and it is possible they may
effect it; but what kind of a peace, is the grand question
—An humiliation unworthy the name of Briton, to the
flift-mentioned power, and a facrifice tq the other; so
that from this period, Gneat-Britain (who, in an Ufur
,er's time, threatened to knock at the gates of Paris with
one hundred tboufand men) will be reduced to the charac
ter of a coward, who, being known as such, will be
Squeezed, kicked, and plundered, by all the regal bullies of
Europe.
So much has a bad adminifiration in their power to en
feeble the virtues of individuals, that from the commence
ment of the present fruitlefs and ruinous war, some of our
Eioft celebrated commanders, both by sea and 1 nd, have,
(from the perplexity of their orders, or being cramped
in executing them) loft all their usual character; nay,
some of them have been, seemingly, so shamelessly inac
tive in their duty, that an impeachment would lie against
them, did not the people know the fault was not theirs,
but that of a time-jerquing, half brave, ignorant Minifir,.
If America becomes independent, Government are well
aware what emigrations will take place, and for this rea
fen one of their firft ads another sessions, it is said, will
be to bring in a bill to prevent artificers, &c. emigrating
from Great-Britain, Wales, and Ireland, under the se
verest penalties.
We hear that the firft enquiry made by the Minority
Members in Parliament, will be, for the copies of the late
inftruHions given to Admiral Keppel, that the public
may be at least acquainted with what has been done in
proportion to the immense sums they have granted for the
wfe of the Navy.
For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
A GENTLEMEN of the Law having lately, in a ve
ry refpe&able assembly, implicitly censured the
amount of the salaries of the Prefideat and other Officers
of Government ; I have been led to form an estimate of a
Lawyer's income for a year, commencing the 17th of
June, 1778, and ending the 17th June, i 77 9, which the
public may be assured is framed from very good authority,
and in many particulars from the declarations of some of
the gentlemen of the profeffion themselves. And as those
who have hired their voices to the enemies of their coun
try, deal both in hard money and paper, I shall divide
the receipts under two columns, and adding the accumu
lated value of the former, ihew the total amount of both ;
their fellow citizens will then fee who are turning rich
and who are turning poor.
PAPER MONEY. HARD MONEY.
About 200 persons From Wm. Ha
have been at- mi ton s o Gui
tainted ;of these neas, - - £. 87 10
50 may be al- From John Ro
lowed to have berts ten Half
given retaining Joes, - - 3 o e
fees of 100 Dol- From A. Carlifle
lars each 5000 five Half Joes, 15 0
Fees received from From each of the
12 persons tried other nine per
at Philadelphia, sons, at 2 Half
200 Dol. each, 2400 Joes each, - 54 9
Ditto in Chester, 600 From thelate pro-
Ditto in Bucks, 500 prietaries, de-
Fees received in fending their
the Admiralty cause before
of New Jersey, 2000 the Assembly,
Fees in the Court 100 Guineas, °
°f Appeals Casual fees in
supposing ten in Hard Money,
a year, at 2001. 50 Half Joes, 150 0
each, being so ,
agreed by the £. 511 10
r Bar> L h 5333 ^3 —
Fees in the Court Advance ten for
of Admiralty of one, equal to £. OK o
Philadelphia the
Judge of this Which sum is e- Dols.
Court, and his qual to - 13,640
friends, having Amount of Pa
represented to per Money
the Assembly, account, - 2c,
that he loses so
much by being Whole amount
out of practice o f the fees for
es that Court, 4.000 the year, 39,473 1-3
Common practice, In words, Thirty-nine theu
opinions, &c. find four hundred and
(30 Dollars be- seventy three Dollars and
mg thacommon a third, equal to Four
fee instead of teen thousand seven hun
four) - - 6000 dred and ninety-eight
-
25,833 1-3 lings.
In this estimate, bargains made of no purchase no pay,
are not taken in, which would very justly accumulate the
Dollars into Pounds; but it contains a just and reafona
bl.e computation, and which they cannot justly deny.
Now, let the salaries of the President, Chief- Justice, and
others, who have relinquished the profits of full and great
practice to serve the public, be compared with this in
come, and let these Gentlemen for shame be silent on this
fubjeß. HONESTUS.
CAME to the plantation of the fubferiber,
on the Lime-kiln road, near Germantown, about
the eighteenth inst. (March) a small black COW,
with a flit in her right ear. The owner is desired to
call, prove property, pay charges and take her away,
ABAM EN&HARTv
For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
WILLIAM DUER, Esq; late a Delegate of the
state of New-York in Congress, and whole con
duct toward the government of Pennsylvania has been so
remarkable, was a few days ago at Frankfort, five miles
from this city, where he spent one day, and having sent
in for, and conferred with Mr Constable, one of the own
ers ®f the (chooser Lovely-Nancy, the vessel which left
Philadelphia while in the possession of the enemy, under a
passport granted by Major-General Arnold at the Val
ley-Forge, without the knowledge of his Excellency Ge
neral Washington, he (Mr. Duer) retired without com
ing into the city. As every day gives frefh proof of the
necessity for Pennsylvania to have an eye on this man, it
is left to his frjends, if he has any here, to account for this
mysterious conduit. ARGUS.
February 3.
" I have perused General Lee's tryal, and am sorry for
the ingratitude of my country. I am clearly of opinion
that he has been hardly dealt with. I think him deserv
ing of thanks, and not of cenjure, for his conduit on the
28th of June. His defence is masterly. Had I been a
Member of Congress, I could not in conscience have con
firmed the sentence of the Court Martial. In most of tne
evidence there seems to be an inclination to bring Lie in
guilty. They deal much in negatives, and have not the
appearance of simplicity. This circumflance has, in a
great degree, weighed with me as an evidence in favour
of that unfortunate hero."
*' A report in New-York fays that their accounts from
the Weft-Indies are bad; that General Grant is beat by
the French."
Fourteeen transports out of the twenty-eight which
had failed to the East end of Long Island, supposed to
convey a number of troops from thence on an expedition
to New-London, to destroy several vessels in that har
bour, were cast away on Fisher's Island, in the found off
Stoningtown, and it was expelled the greatest part of
them would be loss. It is said, that Sir Henry Clinton
had returned to New-York from the failure of this expe
dition, which had been some time in agitation.
Extrafl of a letter Jrom a Member of the General Assembly
of South Carolina, to a Gentleman in this city, dated
JAMES ANDERSON, twenty two years of age,
born at Newcastle in Delaware state, five feet five inches
high, very peaceable and good humoured.
JOHN RITCHY, twenty-two years of age, born
in Pennsylvania, five feet eleven inches high, light hair
and fair complexion, ftou' and well made, much given
to l quor, and is very abusive when drunk.
The above deserters took with them the uniform of
the said regiment, confiftiag of a green cloak with a red
cape, green coat turned up with red, red waistcoat,
buckskin breeches, boots, and a leather cap mounted
with bearikin. Whoever takes up the aforefaid desert
ers and secures them in any gaol on the Continent, or
brings them to the regiment, shall receive TWENTY
DOLLARS reward for each,
DESERTE D,
From the Fourth Regiment of Light Dragoons, now
lying at Lancaster,
JAMES IV A TSON, twenty five years of age,
born in New-J rfey, five feet fix inches high, well
let, light hair, fair complexion ; took with him ahand
fome bay horse, black mane and tail, fix years old this
grass, branded on the near buttock 4L D. The said
Warfon formerly lived at Bordentown, and it is sup
posed is now in or about that neighbourhood.
JACOB SIGHTS, forty.one years of age, born
in Pennsylvania, five feet three inches high, well set,
and pitted with the small-pox ; took with him a dark
brown horse, fifteen hands high, five or fix years old
this grass, very high mettled, branded on the near but
tock 4L D. It is laid that Sights is now in Chester
gaol, and that his horse and accoutrements are in pof
feflion of a Colonel in the militia of that county ; and
as the said Colonel has never given any proper informa
tion refpeaing the horse and accoutrements, he is here
by desired to take notice, that unless he fends them on
or before the fifteenth day of April to the regiment, he
may depend on being prosecuted for detaining the fame.
ABRAHAM BROWN, twenty years of age,
born in Ireland, five feet seven inches high, blue eyes,
fair complexion, and feidom looks a person in the face
when he (peaks to them.
One Hundred and Fifty Dollars Reward
STRAYED or STOLEN on the sixteenth of
° March, out of th p Continental fttble at the Fo
rage ya,d in the city of Philadelphia, a large dirk brown
Waggon Horse, abour h teen hands high, five years
old this spring, a small star in his forehead, thick buffiy
tail, and a natural pacer. Whoever takes up said horse
and will bring him to the Black Horse in Market-street,
shall have Fifty Dollars, and if stolen, the above reward
for horse and thie) paid by
ANDREW WHITE.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
O TOLEN out of the liable of the fubferiber, in
U Whitemarl n Townflrip, near the Church, last night,
a large sorrel Horse, with a blaze or blip in his fore
head ; he is a draft horse, about fourteen or fifteen
years old, some white foots on his shoulder occasioned
by the gears, and is food before. Whoever takes up
and secures laid horse so that the fubferiber may have
him again, shall receive the above reward and reasona
ble charges, paid by
April s. EVAN MEREDITH.
LESTER and POYNTELL,
Have for sale three doors below Market-street, in Se
cond street, all kinds cf STATIONARY WARES
INK P OWD E R."
0 AID Poyntell has just made up a small quantity,
' which he warrants is made of the best Aleppo Gall's,
and the other ingredients, refined from that poisonous
nature that causes Ink to turn yellow ; the whole com
position being after the manner of the most approved
British, and its quality such as cannot fail gaining the
approbation of ail those who use that necessary article.
N. B. It is made up in blue papers, each sealed on
the top with the pi kerL initials (W. P.) in a cypher,
the device a hand and pen underneath, with direaions
for using it.
Also belt BLACK INK ready made.
WHEREAS divers complaints have lately
been made to the Overseers of the Poor of this
city of the great damage sustained by individuals from
Hogs fuffered to run at large; This is therefore to for
warn every perlon, owners of Hogs in this city, to
confine them, otherwise the A& of Assembly made and
provided in such case will be put in force against them.
Philadelphia, By order of the Overseers,
April 3 . JOHN SHIELDS, Clerk.
The HIGHEST PRICE
IS GIVEN FOR
CLEAN LINEN RAGS,
B Y
JOHN D U N L A P.
TO BE SOLD BY
ALEXANDER FOSTER,
At his store in Pine-street, between Front fireet and
To be SOLD by the Subscriber,
Living in Eafton, Northampton County,
A QU AN Illi of PIG IRO N, now lying in
toe city 01 Philadelphia.
4. RICHARD BACKHOUSE.
A tew HOGSHEADS cf
Welt-India Rum and Mufeovado Sugar,
TO BE SOLD BY
PETE R K U H N.
Delaware,
A parcel of high-proof and well-tasted R U M.
ANTHONY W WHITE.
Lieut. Col. Com. 4th Reg. L. B.