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From Humphreys's P^fyl^ama Ledger.
LONDO N, Marcb 6.
re^HE officers belonging to all the regiments in
I England, who arc absent frora their corps, have
received orders to jdo them immediately.
March 7. The five Commissioners to be appointed
by virtue of the aft 0: Parliament now passing for the
pur'pofe of quieting the disorders subsisting in the Co
lonies, are, te Earl of Crl 11; Treasurer of his Ma
jetty's hou'hold ; Lord Vilcount Howe, or the Com
mander in Chief of his Maj,ftv's naval forces on the
American station for the time being; the Hon. Sir
Willi m Howe, or the Commander in Chief tor the
time bein ,of the army in North- America; W. Eden,
Esq; one o' the Commiffijners of Trade and Planta
tions; and Rebard Jackion, one of his Mjdt's Coun
cil, ^nd Counc I to the Board of Tr de and Plantati
ons. The Secretary of the Comm ffi nis hid to be
Henry Strachey, Esq; Member for Buhops Cattle.
L rd North yesterday in his speech treated the ru
mour of a French war as a matter of mete surmise, at
Jeaft as fir as he knew, having only heard of it by the
tongue of common report; at the fame time alledging,
that even if such an ev^nt should happen, the resources
and internal strength of this nation were amply fuffi
cient for the purp Tes both of defence and offence ;
and the credit, as well as the commerce of the coun
try, would hardly feel the shock of such an attack.—
This he was certain of, that the stocks would not fail
lower than they are at prefect by a war with France, for
they were new reduced more by the Ihatagems of the
cremy than the effect of the contest.
March re. Two thousand men, being about half
the number to be raised by the new Sco ch levies, have
received orders to embark on the 2d of April in the
Cl^.
March ir, Cel. Murray's, Col. Mackenzies, and
Col. Gordon's new raised corps, with half of Lord Sea
forth's anl half of Lieut. Cel. M'Donnell's, are tin
der ord rs for embarking at Inverness, to join the ar
my under Sir W. Howe.
Orders are fen' to Woolwich, for a train of artille
ry to be got in readiness to be Shipped for New-York,
which is to go wib the next convoy.
March 12. Orders are sent to Portfmoutb for two
mtn cf war and a frigate to be got in readiness to car
ry to America tie Commissioners to adjust all disputes
with the diff rent Colonies ; they are to fail the begin
ning of next month.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Yesterday his Mjelly went to the House of Peers,
attended by the Duke of Ancafter and the Earl of Ox
ford, and gave the royal affnt to the following
bills, viz.
The bill to enable his Majesty to appoint Commiif
cners, with f fficient powers to treat and agree upon
the means of qui ting the disturbances now subsisting
in certain of bis American Colonies.
The bill to declare the intentions of the Parliament
of Greit-B itain, concerning the exercise of imposing
taxes in the American Colonies.
The bill to repeal an aft that imposed a duty on tea
imported from Great Britain into any of the Ameri
can Colonis.
The hi I to repeal an aft to regulate the government
of M ffachufettr Bay.
March 17. A Privy Council is summoned to meet
this day at St James's after the levee is over, laid to
be on the issuing a proclamation for the declaration of
war agarft France.
Th + Directors of the Bank, it is said, waited upon
L~d North on Monday at one o'clock, to know whe
ther ^ war would happen as soon as expected, when
his Lordship, for their fatisfadbon, gave tor answer,
that it was inevitable.
Yesterday orders were issued from the War-Office,
by order of % King and Council, for all Governors,
Li^u'ena t-Governors, &c. who are absent from their
refpe&ive garrison, forts or castles, to repair to their
Rations forthwith in England, Ireland, o; elsewhere.
The Commissioners that are to go to America had
a meeting at the Earl of Carlile's house, and were se
veral hours in confutation.
It is suppose that war will be declared agrinft France
on Fridav or Saturday.
March 23. Friday Lord Amherst was promoted to
the rank of General, in order to his taking upon him
the command in chief of all the forces in America.
Letters by the last French mail fay, that all the Eng
glifh families in and near Paris, had received the ulual
notice to quit that kingdom within a certain limited
time, and were preparing for their route to England
accordingly,
A messenger extraordinary was dispatched to Lord
Grantham, cur Amb^ffa or at the C»urt of Madrid,
three days before the King's message was delivered to
Parliament, inftru&ing his Loidlhip to demand a ca
tegorical answer to the following simple question :—
" Whether the Court of Spain meant to aid the French
" in their present unjuftifiable condu& with refpc& to
" the American disputes, or to preserve the ftri&eft
" neutrality ?' 'With further direftions, that if any
thing evasive was offered in reply, to leave the Spanish
dominions immediately.
To know the evemt of the above fpiritid inftru&ions,
i. urged as the principal reason for suspending the de
claration of war against France.
Extract 0/ a letter from Portsmouth, March 20.
" Since my last arrived several transports from the
Downs, and several coalers ; the men cut of all the
coasters were impressed immediately. We have now
fifteen men of war lying at Spithead and the Mother
bank, and are almost fully manned ; the press conti
nues ver, hot here."
LANCASTER, Printed by JOHN DUNLA P.
T O BE SOL D,
On Monday the firft day of June next, (or the next
fair day) in Frederick fburg, Virginia, for ready
money,
^ WO trails of L AN D, cne lying in Spotfyl
-1 vania County, five miles from Fredericksburg,
containing four hundred acres; fifty acres of exceed
"^ good meadow ground is on this traft, which, with
very little expence, may be cleared and laid under Ti
mothy ; the whole can be watered through the sum
mer with convenience; there are at lead 300 acres of
woodland to clear, two waggon loads of which may
be carried to town in a day in the winter season with
ease ; a small house with two rooms and three closets
below, and a fta'le and barn. The other tra& con
tains near one thousand acres, and lies in Culp pper
Countv, Virginia, fifty miles from Frederi. kfburg and
Dumfries ; about two hundred and eighty acres of it
is low ground of the firft quality : Mott of the high
land is good, and produces grain of every kind well;
thirty acres is now in meadowy and affords great crops
of hay every year, 70 acres more can be laid down in
grass this fall: A dwelling-boule and every edifice for
farming or planting is already built: There is not any
plantation better watered in the country, or fitnated
in a more healthy or agreeable neighbourhood. Who
ever inclines to purchase may be fliewn the land by ap
plying to my overseer on the premises.
WILLIAM THOMPSON.
Camp, Valley Forge, A,ril 1, 1778.
QTRAYED or STOLEN from the
O fubferiber, Assistant Commflary cf Iffurs to the
North-Carolina brigade, a light-bodied grev MARE,
about fourteen hands high, five years old this spring,
trots and paces, but inclines meft to the latter, has
not any brand that is perceivable, but is remakable
for the mounting lock, or that part of the mane next
the saddle being much whiter than any cf the rest —
Any person securing the said mare so that th* owner
may get her again, shall receive EIGHT 'DOLLARS
reward, from JOHN CHEgSBoROUGH.
Chefer County, April .6, 1778.
JN pursuance of an A& of General Assembly
of the Common-Wealth ot Pennf/vama, paffea
on the 20th day of December, 1777, impowering the
Justices ot Philadelphia and Cheiter Counties to hold
Courts at other places than ulual, We the fuhferuers,
Justices foi the County of Clutter, do hereby gie pub
lie notice, agreeably to the directions ot fam Acf,
that the. Courts of General Quarter Sessions and .f
Common Pleas will be held at toe uiual tin e, viz. the
last Tuesday in May, at the house of Jonathan Val n
tine, the sign of the Ship, near Downing's Town ; of
which all the officers ot toe laic Courts are required to
take notice and give their attendance, and an others
whom it may concern, to govern hemfelves accord
ingly. PATTERSON BELL. PHILIP SCO TT.
I HOMAS BOYrt. THOMAS L"WIS.
Eighty dollars reward.
UES ER LED f.om the 13 u P noly,vania 1 egi
merit, a certain John Gillaspy, a Itout well
let man, about five Icet icven inches m 6 n, o< 4 dark
complexion, bla^k hair, burn ra irel rd, an Follow
ed a.killing in Snerman's Valley, Her n 10w.uh,,,
Cumberland County, when enhited AOBekT Wil
son, who lived in the laid I owidhip, ano audio©,
about five reet fix inches high, dark complexion, block
buthy nair, about twenty five yea sor age. Alex
ander Ewen, who alle Jived in the lame Townlh p,
about twenty-one year a ot age, fair complexion, brown
hair, five Let eleven inches nigh, American oorn.
Thomas Bigly, by trade a weaver, emitted in Car
bfle, an elderly man about five feet fix inches high,
dark complexion, black hair, burn m Lebuid, a d
ip aks very broad. John McClelland, en irt-u in
Carlisle, an elderly man about five tcet hx meh .s lig,
fair complexion and tair hair, is a Highlander, End
Ipeaks very little English. Whoever apprehends the
said delerters and lecures them in any gao. ,n the State,
or lends them to the regiment, fhali have the above
reward, or Twenty Dollars lor each of the three
firft, and 1 en Dollars ter each ot the two lait, and
reaicnable charges, paid by
JOSEPH COLLIER, Ensign, 13th P. Reg.
To be SOL.Dfor Continental Money,
A VALUABLE plantation, pieaiantiy situated
in Montgomery I ownihip, Philadelphia County,
containing one hundred acres ot good land, seventy
acres thercor cleared, the remainder well timbered;
the clear land divided into kv.ral fields, which hath
all been limed except one ; a quantity ot good meadow:
There is on laid premiles a commodious hone dwelling
hou'e two Tories high, with lour rooms on a floor and
a cellar under the whele, with a stone kitchen adjoin
ing the house, and a well of good water near the door
with a pump therein, e never-failing spring of good
water and a Itone-houfe over it; allo a good frame
barn, stables, cow-house, cart house, fmoak-houfe,
and other out-houses, and two apple orchards which
prodqceth good fruit; there is likewise on said pre
mises a large and convenient tan-j ard lufficient to con
tain leven hundred hides, with all the buildings there
on and all the stock therein, baik, &c. &c. For fur
ther particulars apply to the fubferiber on the premiles.
E^2^_^_£BARTH OLOMEW.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
A NUMBER of active SMITHS and NAILORS.
Great encouragement will be given by PETER
BROWN, at Wright's Feiry, on Susquehanna.
Pancafler, ^ferilig, 1778.
DESERTED from my company, in
the 13th Continental regiment cf the State cf
Virginia, sometime in February last, from the Valley
Forge, a certain THOMAS STEED, an Irishman,
about five feet fix or leven inches high, faircomplex
ion, well built, full face with much brass in it, and a
notorious rafcJ ; had at the time of his defection, a
blue coat with yellow facings. Whoever will lecture
the laid deserter in any gaol en this Continent, or de
liver him to any Continental officer of tl e State of Vir
ginia, ffiall receive FIVE POUNDS, Pennfylva*
nia currency, over and above the reward allowed by
the Honorable the Continental Congress. And Ico
hereby forwarn all perlons from harbouring or con
cealing the Lid deserter at their peril.
DAVID STEEL, Capt. 13th Virginia Reg.
CAME to the fubferiber's in Christiana
Hundred, Newcastle County, in the Delaware
State, about three weeks ago, a Negro man, who fays
hs name is WILL; a short thick set fellow, pretends
to be a tanner and currier, and ^an do something at
that business; he also fays that he belongs to cne lfaac
Harris, near Frederick sewn in Virginia, that said
Harris sent him with his 1 n Isaac, who he fays was
First Lieutenant of Capt. Smith's company ; thab he
was at Mud Ifiand till the fort was destroyed, and was
then taken prisoner by the enemy and made bis escape
from them at Newcastle : He is very lame by a hurt
h fjs be got in the f<rt, and is almost naked. His
master if d\ fired to come, prove his property, pay the
cuages and take him away.
Aprils 1778. WILLIAM UNDERWOOD.
heTO London Toavn/hip, Clefler Count,, March 21.
WHEREAS the fubferiber gave her
note to Arthur M'Clure, cf the County
and Townfbip above mentioned, bearing drte the
nineteenth day of this instant, for the firm of Fifteen
Pounds, current money, which said note was unjustly
and fraudulently obtained : This it therefore to for
warn all persons from tekina any affi?nment on said
note, as I am fully determined nor to pay it unless
obliged by law MARY BIGGER.
Damascus, Red Lion Hundred, March 20, 1778.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber this
day, a Negro wench named DIDO, about 26
years cf ae, a flout well looking huffey; when the
went off foe wore a striped lincey jacket and petticoat,
the rest of her dress unknown. It is supposed some
evil disposed persons harbour her in St. Georges or
Appoquiniminck Hundreds, as her acquaintance lay
most in those neighbourhoods. Punishment of the most
ri^o^ous kind will be administered to those who are
f und to harbour or conceal the above described slave:
And a reward of FIFTY DOLLARS will be given to
any pe son who will apprehend and secure the said
fiave in any giol in the United States, with every rea
lonaNe charge, by HUMPHREY CARSON.
Artillery Park, May 8, 1778.
STRAYED OR STOLEN,
from the pasture ot Philip Stephen, near the Valley-
Forge, on S huylkill, cn the night of the 21st ofc
AB A / HORSE, about 13 hands hi^b, his
tail cut short, except a little hair which hangs
down on each fide, trots remarkably well, and, when
in qn k motion, keeps his legs wide blunder, and has
a mufke ball in his left sh uider. Likewise a black
MAKE, about 15 hands high, natural pace, blind'
the ner eye, snip and star, near hind foot whi
Whoever t^kes tip either of the two, shall receive to.
each fwenty Dollars; (if stolen) for each Fo
t y Dollars, on conv &ion of the thief cr thiei
paid by FRANCIS PROCTER, Capt. cf A till
IWENTY DOLLARS KEWARK
STRAYED from the plantation of Caleb Phi^r^
in EJt Fallowfi Id Township, Chester Ccurty,'n
the 27th ot April last, a black GELDING,
years old, coming three this grass, of the dray breed,
a rema ka de large star in bis forehead, about fifteen
hands high, trots heavy and pacts feme, a twit, h tail,
shod before, and has been rode and worked feme. Any
person ecuring the said colt and giving information,
so that the owner may get him again, shall have the
above reward, paid by the fubferiber in Sadfbury
2 w. SKETCHLEY MORTON.
TOBE S 0
For Continental Currency,
1 Valuable Plantation, containing a! out five hur
dred acres, in Frederick County, Virginia, fix
miles from Winchester and a quarter of a mile from
Hopewell Friends Meeting-house, joining the lands of
Do&or John McDonald and Widow Jolliff; there are
about one hundred and ten acres cleared, firteen acres
of meadow : There are on said plantation a small
frame house, a kitchen, a well of excellent water at
tue door, a new barn, ftahle and finoke house, the
barn 84 feet long and 28 feet wide, a threfliing floor
28 feet square ; the whole in good repair ; the land is
exceeding rich, and well timbered with black oak,
hickory and walnut, and will produce great crops of
wheat, rye, corn or tobacco ; any of the upland will
produce good clover or Timothy meadow, and by
judges is reckoned as good as the Lancaster County
land : 1 here are two good merchant mills within two
milrs of the place: The situation is very pleasant and
healthy, in a good neighbourhood. For terms apply
to the fubferiber on the premises.
JOHN REYNOLDS.