The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-10-05 00:00:00, page 2

D U BL I N, June 25.
frHE following is, we are assured, an authentic copy
1 of the address of the delegates of Leinfler, deliver
ed on Saturday last by the earl of Charlemont to the
lord lieutenant, to be presented to his majesty.
" We, your majefly's faithful fubjeßs,, the volun
teers of the province of Leinfter, humbly beg leave to
approach your majesty with sentiments of the mofttin.
feigned loyalty, affedion and refped. Strangers to
adulation, we address our gracious sovereign in the 0
pen language of freemen, who have asserted their rights;
and, uninfluenced, speak the genuine fatisfa'dion of'
their hearts at the attainment of their objed.
" Your maj fly's people of Ireland, feeling the fame
love of liberty which has so often displayed iifelf in the
cor dud of their fellow fubjeds of England, have fought
only to be restored to that confiitution to which, by
right and compad, they were entitled. The benign
intention of your majesty to the welfare of all your
fubjeds, and tire wrfdom of Great-Britain, have ac
ceded to our just requisitions, and will have, by repeal
ing the flatute of the 6th of Geo. I. (when that mea
sure shall be compleated) annihilated every claim of
British legislation and jurifdidion over this country
for ever, and as such we hold itfatisfadory. Viewing,
therefore, that repeal as a total exßinaion and renun
ciation ofa principle hostile to the rights of Ireland,
relying with the most unbounded confidence on the na
tional character, the sincerity of Great-Britain, and
convinced that it is impossible our magnanimous fil
ter kingdom can ever entertain a thought of violating
the faith of rations by the revival of a claim so solemn
- I]y relinquished, we are happy to declare that all our
jealousies are at an end; and we cheerfully unite our
voice with that of our legislature, in assuring your
majesty, that when the objeds contained in the late
addresses of our parliament Shall be finally accomplish
ed, no conflitutional question between the two nations
will any longer exist that can interrupt their harmony.
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
An ACT to amend the several afts of this common
wealth, directing the mode of electing members of the
general assembly thereof.
Bed. I. $ a/ HERBAS buEnefs of great consequence
VW has been frequently delayed, and hiani
feft injury thereby done to this commonwealth, by rea
son that persons eluded to fore as members of assem
bly have not given th^r attendance according to the
conftituticn and laws df tins flute, and the time to
which the house Rood adjourned, or may have been
called by the supreme executive council :
Se&. TL And whereas it is both just and necessary,
that all persons elected as members of the general af
femb'y of tins 'fiate should punctually attend their duty,
or fignify their refufal, so as the evils consequent on
a want of representation may be provided against :
wherefore,
Se&. 111. Be it enaßed, and it is hereby enacted by
the representatives of the freemen of the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, in general assembly met, and by the
authority of the fame, That any person or persons,
elected to* serve in the genera) assembly of the repre
sentatives of the freemen of this commonwealth, and
duly notified thereof according to law, and who (hall
neg^a or refute to attend on the day fixed by the coh
ftitution for the legislative body to meet, or any mem
ber or members who shall refufe or neglea to meet on
the day to which, by their own minutes, they may
hand adjourned, or when called by the supreme exe
cutive council, agreeable to the powers vested in them
for that purpose, having at least fifteen days notice
of such meeting, each and every person or member so
refusing or neglefting fhab forfeit and pay, for the use
of this commonwealth, the sum of fifteen pounds, to
be recovered, with costs of suit, in any court of record
of the county where such person or persons so offend
ing dwell or inhabit, and as is herein after direßed.
Se&. IV. Provided always, That any person or per
sons, elected to serve in the general assembly, and be
ing duly notified thereof according to law, and who
refute or decline such service, shall give or cause to be
given, at his or their own proper expence and cost, to
the house of assembly, or the members met, a written
notice, declaring and expressing therein his or their
refufal, and within fifteen chys after receiving notifi
cation as aforefaid, such person or persons shall not
be deemed or held liable to any fine, forfeit or penalty,
mentioned or intended by this ad.
Sea. VI. And be it further enabled by the authority
aforefaid, I hat the general assembly of this common,
wealth m'y, by their order, remit any fine or fines re
covered, or that may be recovered, or Ray any suit
or adion depending by virtue of this ad, or prevent
by the ; r order others being sued for, whenever it ap
pears, from the necessity of the case, such remittance
o Ray of suit is just and reasonable.
Signed, by order of the house,
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, Speaker.
Enaded into a law, at Philadelphia,
on Friday, the twentieth day of
September, in the year of our Lord
one thousand (even hundred and
eighty-two.
Peter Z. Lloyd, clerk of the general assembly.
Sed. V. And be it further enabled by the authority
aforefaid, That after the expiration of fifteen days
from the time fixed and appointed for any meeting of
the general assembly of this commonwealth, the mem
bers then present shall cause a written lift to be made
out, and direct the speaker, or a chairman appointed
for that purpose, to sign the fame, containing the
names cf all such persons or members as are deemed
delinquents under this a&, and fpecifying the county
where such delinquents reside, or were chosen to re
present : which lift,fo made out and signed as aforefaid,
they shall forthwith transmit to the supreme executive
council of this commonwealth, who are hereby enjoin
ed and required to cause the attorney-general, or some
proper person or persons in his behalf, to sue for and
recover, from each and every of the persons so offend
ing, the fines, forfeitures or penalties herein specially
set forth, and pay the fame into the treasury, for the
use of the commonwealth.
that her power, so far from being diminished, has de
rived new Strength from her justice ; and the conduct
of your !rifh fubjeds will, we trust, evince to your
majesty, that the firmeft basis of your throne is in the
affedions of a free people.
“ Animated with there sentiments, we shall endea
vour to Supply, by our exertions, the absence of those
troops which our parliament have offered to your ma
jesty to be employed against the common enemies of
the empire; with the great charter of our liberties
reared upon our flandard, the cause of Britain be
comes the cause of Ireland ; and we shall face the foes
of both, determined with her to conquer, or with her
to fall.
" We cannot conclude this our humble address,
without offering to your majesty the grateful tribute
of our acknowledgments, for the late change which
your majesty has been pleased to adopt n your coun
cils and miniflers, and for those measures tending to
public ceconomy, and diminution of undue influence,
wnich we have been taught to hope are to be extended
ito this kingdom; and, we trust, the day is approach
ing when corruption will be no more ; when an admi
niftrati n, composed of constitutional men, standing
on the Solid ground of liberty -- aduated by no object
but public prosperity, will fee a graceful and indepen
dent nation crowd to its support, and rafe it superior
to any arts which would Shake, or any props which
would disgrace it."
On the afternoon of that day there was a competiti
on among the members of that class, in extemporre
exercifrs on Latin grammar and syntax; when the
whole performed to the fatisfaßinn of all the judges
present—and the three uppermost after the expiration
of a limited time were--iR, James Stephens -2d,Charles
Smith-^d, Ralph Hunt, jun.
There was alfoa competition among the last year's
Sophomore and Freshman classes in college, on Eng
lish grammar, including syntax and orthography;
when the dispute was so equally maintained between
Matthew Baldwin, of the former, and Samuel Bayard,
of the latter class, that it was agreed to give them
equal prizes,
Iw the evening of that day, the grammar scholars
including those just admitted' into the college, enter
tained a very numerous and polite company, by pro
nouncing orations—two of them in Latin—the firfi by
Ralph Hunt; these ond by Charles Smith In the
English orations there was a competition, and four pri
zes determined-*, the firft to Horace Stockton; these
" The natural current of our affections, long pain
fully refirained, now runs with redoubled force to a
nation whose interests, next to out own liberties, are
the firfi wish of our hearts : Great Britain shall find
PRINCETO N, September 28, 1782.
ON Tuesday the 24th infl. the grammar School
here was publicly examined before the faculty of
the college, and other gentlemen from the neighbour
hood ; when the several classes gave Specimens of their
improvement in the Greek and Latin languages: and
the highest class in School, confiding of the following
young gentlemen, were admitted to be members of the
Freshman class in th: college—Ralph Hunt, jun. Ma
tarin Livinghon, Peter William Livingflon, George
Pollock, Charles Smith. Horace Stockton, James Ste
phens, Pennington Smith, John Vancleve, John Ver
gereau.
LONDO N, July 4.
Anno Vicefimo Secundo Georgii 111 Regis.
An Aft to enable his majesty to conclude a peace or
truce with certain Colonies in North-America there-
in mentioned.
WH EREAS it is essential to the interefls, wel
fare, and prosperity of Great-Britain, and of
the colonies or plantations of New-Hampshire, Mas
sachusetts-Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New-York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the three Lower Counties
on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina,
South Carolina, and Georgia, in North America, that
peace, intercourse, trade and commerce should be re
ficred between them: wherefore, and for a full ma
nifestation of the earnest with and desire of his majesty
and his parliament to put an end to the calamities of
war, be it enaded by the king's moR excellent majefly,
by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiri
tual and temporal, and commons in this present par
liament assembled, and by the authority of the fame,
that it shall and may be lawful for his majesty to treat,
consult of, agree, and conclude, with any commission
er or commissioners, named or to be named by the said
colonies or plantations, or any of them refpe&ively, or
with any body or bodies corporate or politick, or any
assembly or assemblies, or defcript on of men, or any
pet son or persons whatsoever, a peace or a truce with
the said colonies or plantations, or any of th m, or any
part or parts thereof; any law, aft or acts of parlia
ment, matter, or thing, to the contrary in any wife
notwithflanding.
11. And, in order to obviate any impediment, obsta
cle or delay, to the carrying the intentions of his ma
jefly and his parliament into effect, which might arise
from any ad or acts of parliament affecting or relating
to the said colonies or plantations, be it further enad
ed by the authority aforefaid, That, for the concluding
and eflablifhing of a peace or truce witu the said colo
nies or plantations, or any of them, his majesty shall
have full power and authority, by virtue of this ad,
by his letters patent, under the great seal of Great-
Britain, to repeal, annul, and make void, or to suspend
for any time or times, the operation and effed of any
aft or ads of parliament which relate to the said colo
flies or plantations, or any of them, so far as the fame
do relate to them, or any of them, or any part or parts
thereof, or any clause, provision, or matter therein
Contained, So far as such clauses, provisions, or mat
ters relate to the said colonies or plantations, or any
of them, or any part or parts thereof.
Ilf. And be it further enacted, That this ad, as to
the exercise of the powers and authorities hereby given
to bis majefiy, shall continue to be in full force until
the firft day of July, one thousand (even hundred and
eighty -three.
cond to Matarin Livingston; the third to Samuel
Snowden ; and the fourth to George M'Cletlnachan.
Wednesday the 25th, the annual commencement was
held in the college before a polite and splendid assembly;
when the following young gentlemen were admitted to
the degree of Batchelor of Arts, Spencer Ball, Conrad
Elmendorf, Peter Elmendorf, John Hanna, John John
ston, William Mahou, John Morton, Richard Pearson,
Deryck Ten Eyck, Richard Venable and William Wil
son.
The fame degree was conferred on mefs'rs James
Hanna, John Noel and John Vickers, alumni of the
college, who had been prevented, by the confufions of
the war, from receiving it regularly along with their
classes --And the reverend Mefs'rs Robert Blackwell
and James Black, and Mefs'rs Jacob Morton, John
Richardson, Bayard Rodgers, and William Wilson,
alumni of this college, were admitted to their degree
of Master of Arts.
After prayer by the president—The order of the
ex rcifes was as fcllows—They were introduced by a
Latin salutary oration on the m fchiefs of party and
faction in a commonwealth ; by Mr. Mahon.
Then followed,
iR, An English oration on agriculture, by Mr. Ve
nable.
2d, A dispute on this question, Has the idea of the
beautiful in the fine arts any real fiandard in nature!
---The affirmative of which was maintained by Mrl
Ball ; opposed byMr. Mahon ; defended by Mr Pearson.
3d, An oration on the nature of happintfs by Mr.
P. Elmendorf.
4th, A dispute on this question, Can all the diffe
rences in shape and complexion among mankind, be
accounted for from natural causes, on the fuppofitioa
of the whole race having descended from one original
pair ?- -Asserted by Mr. C. Elmendorf • denied by
Mr. Johnston; and maintained by Mr. Wilson.
sth, An oration on the advantages of a liberal eda.
cation, by Mr. Pearson.
6th, Adifpute on this question, fn a confederation
like that of America, whether are large Rates, or small
ones, more favourable to union, population, and im
provement in the arts? Mr. Hanna maintained that
small Rates were the more favourable to these ends-
Mt. C. Elmendorf opposed him; and Mr. Ten Eyck
replied.
To these succeeded, the ceremony of conferring the
degrees, and an address from the president to the class.
The exercises were concluded with a valedictory ora
tion delivered by Mr. Morton, with a natural and
moving eloquence that melted the whole assembly into
tears.- -The audience was extremely attentive and in
dulgent ; and the performances were executed, on the
part of the young gentlemen, in such a manner as to
procure to therafelves, and to the college, a very higb
and universal approbation.
BALTIMO R E, OClober i.
Yeflerday (lie Emperor Joseph, (a cutter) captain
., arrived here, in seven weeks and three days,
from Offend.
Extract of a letter from Paris, to a gentleman in this
place, dated July 3, 1782.
" It has been said, within these fewdays, that peace
was near at hand. The flay of Mr. Grenville, at Paris,
lent from the court of London to treat of this impor
tant object, gave us room to think that England de
sired nothing more tnan t»at peace which ought to ren
der the inhabitants of both worlds quiet and happy.
But thefernmours have acquired very little confidence,
ar.d that ah^ne has destroyed them ; for here, in mat
ters of politics, a report not instantly confirmed, be
comes inhantly a nullity. J believe that the English
thought to avail themselves of the misfortune of comte
de Grade, but they will find themselves miflaken ; and
you will, no dohbt, learn with pleasure, that this event
has not in the least changed the difpofitioo of our mo
narch, and that in consequence he has given orders
for redoubling the efforts in every branch of admini
nift atioM. I am a pprehenfive that I shall infringe on
the rights of the gazettes; I cannot, however, help
mentioning, that every Frenchman is a voluntary con
tributor on the prefect o'cafion."
Extras of a letter from Offend, dried July 13, 1782.
" Since the death of the marquis of Rockingham,
there hath been another revolution in the minidry.
Toe wqnt of confidence in the one that succeeds him,
lord ^nelburne, has been the cause of lord J. Caven
dish, Mr. Fox, Mr. Burke, &c. resigning ; but it is
not yet known for certain who will come in their Read.
I he (object of American independence seems to have
occasioned all this, which was partly determined on in
council to be acknowledged, before the marquis went
off. Ihe combined forces of France and Spain are at
sea, and have captured a valuable fleet of merchantmen,
bound to New-York and other parts of America.
Lord Howe is alter them; though much inferior, Eis
expected will come to action. The fate of the garris
on of Gibraltar is very precarious, and believe there
is little doubt but that mull fall at lall, as they are
all Rarving"
The vacation of the school will expire on Monday
the si ft of OHober, and that of the college on Mon
day the 4th of November.
The public are requested to observe that all the for
mer orders of college are now re-established, of which,
to prevent mistakes or disappointments, the following
are mentioned:
1. If any fludent (hall not be present on the firft
day of the feffion,his chamber may be taken poffeffioa of
by another, unless he has obtained leave of absence
for a fpecified time.
2. All the students must lodge in college, even those
whose parents live in Princeton or the neighbourhood,
nor will they be permitted to board out of college but
by special license from the president or profeffor, for
good reasons given.
3. The board, tuition and chamber rent muff be
paid fix months in advance.
N. B. The entrance money to the school is xL and
to the college tI. 15s. The tuition 61. for a year, the
chamber rent 21. and the college board 10s. per week.