The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-04-18 00:00:00, page 2

To the PRINTER of the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
SIR,
SINCE my last I have been industriously engaged,
io qualifying qyfelf to execute out proposed plan,
and I haveamaffed fucha frock of slander, defamation,
private anecdotes, open abate and secret detraction,
as I d®uHt not will enable me to set this whole city
in an uproar, anrf give foreigners a just idea of the
temper and rational character of this free country.
Bu% before we enter upon business; before the daugh
ter house rs opened, it will be neceffafy that you and!
Should come to some agreement. You will therefore
please to sign the inclofed Articles, which have been
drawn up by a very eminent lawyer.
Articles of Agreement, entered into this day of
between D. C. of the city of Philadelphia,
Printer, and, J. S. of the said city, £alumniator-Ge
neral. Whereas the said J. S. being of an atrobilli
ous habit of foody, and of a malicious and wicked
temper of mind ; being, moreover, soured and morti
fied by various political disappointments, finds himfelf
well qualified for and perfectly disposed to abuse, vi
lify and slander all the good people of this Bate, with
out mafure and without diftinßion; and having with
great paips and industry, collected and amassed a very
compleat assortment of defamation and scurrility ; he,
the said J. S foqualified as aforefaid, doth covenant
and agree, that He will weekly and every week furnith
the said D. C. with fuch'reasonable portions ofabufe
.and slander from his flock aforefaid, as shall enable
said D. C. to add two-pence to the usual price
o' his p per, called the Pennsylvania Packet. And the
1 said D. C. doth, on his part, promise and agree, by
t Te presents, that in ca eany pe<fon, offended by the
{ Merapi unmerited abuse of the said J. S. as Ca
lamnia tor-General aforefaid, should demand of him,
the said D C. the real name of the said Calumniator,
he, re said D. C. will, upon no account whatever,
betray, give up or make known his name and perfdn;
but v ill patiently bear all manner of punishment ; will
fuffer trials by fire a ,d by water; will walk blind folded
over red-hot plough-Shares, and endure the torture,
ordinary and extraordinary, without declaring the
name of the said J. S Calumniator-General ; and, that,
in the midfl of allhisancuhli and distress, he will only
cr y put—Oh the liberty of the press—the liberty of the
pr^fs! Provided always, That ifany person shall sue,
at law, the said D. C. for the libels and flankers con
tained or to be contained in the Packet aforefaid, he,
the said J. S. shall and will, at his own expence and
by his own ingenuity, maintain and defend the said
D. C. in the said suit at law. To which articles the
said parties mutually bind themselves by these pre
sents, in the penal sum of pounds. In witness
whereof, &c. &c. I am yours &c.
CALUMNTATOR.
There has been a great noise made of late about
the salaries of our judges. Please to print in your pa
per the following extract from a law puffed by the
Rate of Massachusetts, the 22d of February, 1781;
that the public may be able to make a comparison be
tween the salaries of the judges of Massachusetts and
those of Pennsylvania, whi'ch latter are at this time,
For the chief justice, 900 1.
Second, 400
third, 300
I Fourth, 300
MASSACHUSETTS.
'' An ^ for eflablifhing salaries of a fixed and perma
nent value, for the justices of the supreme judicial
court.
The merchant fleet of 135 fail, that left cape Francois,
in the island of St. Dimingo, the 25th of October, under
convoy of the king's ships, commanded by ihe Cheva
lier de Borders, arrived at Brest the 7th of this month.
The value of this fleet is eftim^ted at about eighty mil
lions.
The dispatches relative to the mediation of Russia for
a separate peace between England and the Rates gene
ral, exercise the heads of all our politicians.
" TX, HEREAS the constitution of this com
monwealth provides, that an establishment
Should be made for an honourable dated salary, of a
fixed and permanent value, for the justices of the fu-
preme judicial court :
" Be it therefore enabled by the senate and house of
representatives, in general court assembled, and < y the
authority of the fame, that the sum of three hundred
and twenty pounds, be and hereby is established as the
annual salary of the chief justice of the supreme judi
cial court for the time being; and the sum of three
hundred pounds be and hereby is established as the
annual salary of each of the other justices of the fu
prme judicial court for the time being; the fame to be
pud in quarterly payments to the aid justices respec
tively, out of the reafur) of this commonwealth, and
to be considered as an adequate salary for the ser
vices of their officers, without the addition of any fee
or oerquifite whatever.
". And be it further enaßed by theauthority afore
faid, that the Sums mentioned in this aft be computed
i, fyv-r, at fix (hillings and eight pence per ounce, and
payable either in Silver or bills of public credit equi
valent thereto."
PETERSBURGH, Nov. 13.
THE augmentation which the empress has resolved
to make in her marine, will consist of twelve (hips
of the line, by which means (he will have 54,
besides frigates, bomb ketches, and other armed ve!-
fels. Ten ihips of 100 guns, are to be laid on the flocks
all at once.
Besides the troops already sent towards Crimea and
the fontiers of Turkey, eight more regiments have also
received orders to march thither.
Mr. CLAYPOOLE, ,
Foreign Intelligence.
PARI S, December 14.
HAGU E, December 16.
Several letters are received by the last mail from New-
York, dated the middle of last month, all of which ex
press much aftoniihment and furprize that no intelli
gence had arrived there from Charleftown since the lat
ter end of laftJune.
NEW Y O R K, April 1%
On Tuesday last a fmaJl party of loyal refugees, un
der the command of captain Cornelius Hetfield and cap
tain Blanfelt, assisted by captain Ross in the armed brig
Arrogant, made an excursion up the North-river. The
darknef^ of the night and a thick fog next morning,
prevented their proceeding so far as was intended, but
they effected the capture of a pettiauger and some small
boats. They a|fo took ten prisoners, part of whom were
of the rebel guard and the rest noted rebels
The brigantine (prize to the privateer brig Pefever
ance, captain Ross) taken the sth of December, was
bound from Rhode Island for the French at York, in
Virginia, after her, fafety had been despaired of, is ar
rived at Jamaica, with a cargo confining of 1500 bar
rels of gunpowder, 350 boxes, containing 300 weight
of muSket b< 11 each, a large quantity of fix inch oak
plank for platforms, &c. these articles proved very
acceptable, as an additional provision for the defence
of that island, where it was immediately purchased at
an hand Some price, by B. gen. Archibald Campbell,
the beut. governor , She is said to be valued at 12000 1.
Jamaica currency.
His Majefiy's ships Robu h of 74 guns and Janus of
44, the convoy to our December fleet, each sprung a
leak on tne passage, bore away for, and ar ived at
Antigua, lord Cornwallis and general Arnold.having
Frft embarked in one of the transports of the fleet, and
finte fafe arrived in England. *
His majefly's ship Ulyffis, captain Thomas, has tak
en the r bel (hip Caesar, with 26 guns on one deck,
bound from Boflon to the Weft-Indies, die failed in
company with the (hip late the Flora frigate, funk at
Rhode Island, and since weighed and fitted for sea by
the Rhodians.
The condition of the troops and garrison of St. Au
gustine, are by very late accounts from thence, in ex
cellent condition, capable of repelling any ent?rpr ze
that is likely to be formed against it by don Galvez.
His majesty's ship Amazon, has taken the rebel ship
Adventure, from Boston to Surrinam, pierced for 20
guns, the is arrived at Barbadoes.
A gentleman writes from Kingflon in Jamaica, da
ted the 9th of March, that a fire had lately happened,
which had done immense damage, and consumed most
of the capital flores, supposed to have been perpetrated
by difaßeded persons
On Thursday arrived in town from South-Carolina,
the right honourable the earl of Dunmore, one of the
sixteen peers of Scotland.
Colonel Thompson who lately effected a fuccefsful at
tack upon the rebels in South-Carolina, and ' many 0-
ther officers of the army arrived in town from thence,
on Thursday evening and yesterday.
From the Charleflown papers, brought by the Aftrea,
captain Squires, which failed the firft of April, we
have extracted the following particulars.
On the 26th of March, major Cunnigham took pri
soner Mr. Henry Pendleton, formerly the rebel chief
justice, who became a prisoner at the taken of Charlef
town, but violated his parole and went off to the re
bels ; the fame day Mr- Thomas Pinckney and Mr* Ed
mund Hyrne, continental majors, were taken at Daniel
Horry's; Pinckney was paroled, but the others, with
some inferior persons, many valuable horses and about
150 negroes, were brought to Charleftown.
A new regiment is now rrifing, called the Newfound
land rangers, designed for duty on that island during
the war; the efticers raise the men for their commiffi
on, so that government will be put to no expence on
that head.
On the 22d of March arrived at Charleftown, the
polacre Fame, captain Morgan, from Barbadoes, which
place the left the iff instant, and about eight days ago
took a transport from Cuba, having on board fourteen
seamen, her crew, fix land officers, 72 privates, gun
powder and brass field pieces; another transport was
in company, but was not pursued, the Fame not hav
ing hands enough to man both. They failed with a
number of others, under convoy of (even ships of war,
all bound for Hispaniola, but had parted with the fleet
in the gulf of Florida- The Fame mounts eight guns,
and her complement was 24 men ; her prize, theSpani
ard, arrived at Charleftown on the 23d of March.
The ship -general Greene, with 1 500 barrels of flour.
The most beautiful brigantine Charming Nancy, with
1200 do. both from Philadelphia, prizes, to the Monk
(loop of war, and the Fair American.
A letter of marque, taken by the Surprize with Weft
India produce.'
A schooner with coffee from the Weft-Indies, by the
Aftrea. ■ —- =
The honourable house of assembly of this common
wealth, have voted their thanks to captain Barney,and
the officers and men of the Rate flip Hyder Ally, as a
mark of the high sense which that legislative body en
tertains of their bravery and intrepid condu& ? in the
late a&ion with the British sloop of war, General
Monk; and have also ordered, that an elegant (word
be preferred to captain Barney.
The ship General Monk Viewed 24 guns, 6 of which
were wood, and the remainder nine- pounders. The
Hyder Ally hadqniues and 12 fixes. Theadion lafl
ed about 28 minutes, in which time the Monk had 20
men killed, and 33 wounded, and the Hyder Ally 3
killed and 11 wounded.—We do not recollect a single
instance, before this, of a king's ship carrying wooden
guns.
We hear from Monmouth, EaR New-Jersey, that
capt. Huddy, one of the prisoners taken at the surren
der of the Biock house at Tom's river, on the 24th ult.
was a few days ago brought over the Gut between the
Never Sinks and Sandy Hook, and privately hanged on
Hartfhorn's plantation, near that place, by a mixed
Philadelphia, April 18.
Prizes taken since our last.
Bth. A supplement to an ad entitled, an a& for
establishing courts of judicature within this province.
9th. A supplement to the aft entitled, an aft for
regulating navigation and trade in this Rate.
loth. Ana& for the relief of John Amiel, an in
solvent debtor, confined in the old jail of the city and
county of Philadelphia.
" A few dr- • Tier a S : f truce returned here
from New-York (fhei ad b t sent about 20 days be
fore) with a n nr' 1 of f: sailors who were pris
oners there. i,dare fay „ < ver saw more distressed
obje&s. They appeared to have been almost starved,
and the far greater number frozen in different parts of
the body. Eight or ten died on their passage hither,
and the rest are to a man in the hospitals. This affair,
together with the ungenteel usage the New Yorkers
gave the officer who went in the Rag (and was a
Frenchman) has much exasperated the French army.
They now swear nothing but revenge. lam glad to
fee the change, for hitherto, through a miflake of their
real characters, they have done nothing but caress the
British officers prisoners here. The English prisoners
will be treated roughly for the future"
The drawing of the last class of the united Rates lot
tery was compieated on Tuesday last. The prize lifts
are now preparing and will be published as soon as pos
sible-
On Tuesday the 16th infant, the honourable house
of assembly of this commonwealth, adjourned until the
firft Monday in September next, during the session,
the following laws were passed, viz-
The committee appointed for the purpose report that
they have seen the seal of the laws affixed to f - < N
ing acts of this house, viz.
ift. An aft for the bet<e r ^ff • • ? ,
the banks, dams, ditches, f -
Rate island.
2d. An act for preventing arc. puu.iE . ‘to.
terfeiting of the corcmon seal, and bar h 006 ‘?.?
president, directors and company of tee bank of North-.
America, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
3d. An aft to raise effe&ivefuppiies for the year 1782.
4th. An aft for guarding and defending the navi
gation in the bay and river Delaware, and zor other
purposes therein merioned.
sth. An aft to vest certain powers in the president
of this Rate, together with the other officers therein
named, and for other purposes therein mentioned
' 6th An aft to incorporate the futferihers to the
bank of North-America.
company of negroes, tofies a d Pngliftm
per was found affixed te this ^ happy man : /
the reasons for Jieir comu6 is further ^
the people of Monnic uh were etermined to retain
and a capt. Tilton, a Prisoner 1 Monmouth jail, was
fixed on or for hat purpose
Extract of a letter iron: < in Virginia, dated
i6th. A supplement to an a& entitled, an aft to al
ter and amend an aft entitled, an aft for the etfe&ual
(uppreffion of public auctions and vendues, and to pro
hibit male perlons, capable of bearing arms, from being
hawkers and pedlars.
15th. An aft to encourage the apprehending prison
ers of war, who have or hereafter may escape from the
place of their confinement, and to difeourage harbour
ing them in this Rate.
17th. An aft to revive and continue an act entitled,
an aft for opening and keeping in rep.ir, the public
roads and high ways in this province.
18th. An aft tor establishing ferries on the river
Monongahela and Yougniogany.
19th. An aft to alter and repeal a part of the aft
entitled- ,an aft for emitting the sum of five hundred
thousand pounds, in bills of credit for the support of
the army, and for establishing a fund for the redemp
tion thereof, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
20th. An aft for veiling in the American philoso
phical feciety, held at Philadelphia, for promoting
ufeful knowledge; the property therein mentioned,
upon the conditions fpecified.
±rft. An aft to amend an aft entitled, an aft to ena
ble the owners of Schuylkill point meadow land, in the
county of Philadelphia, to keep the banks, dams, slui
ces and floodgates in repair, and to raise a fund to de
fray the expt-nce thereof.
23d. An aft to redress certain grivances within the
counties of Weftmoreland and Washington.
23d. An a& to veil a certain lot or lots of ground,
in the diArifl of Southwark, in trustees, for the use of
a public landing, upon the conditions herein after
mentioned, and for other purposes.
24th. An aft to amend and render effeaual, an aft
entitled, an aft for regulating party walls and partition
fences in the city of Philadelphia, to declare divers
new flreets and ways opened, and to be opened and
laid out within the said city, to be highways, and also
to declare nuisances by buildings within the said
streets removeable, and for other purposes therein
mentioned.
12th. An aft for fetling and adjusting the depreci
ation of the pay accounts of sundry officers, non
commissioned officers and privates belonging to the
Rate of Pennfy Ivania, agreeable to the resolves of the
United States in Congress assembled.
13th. An aft, more effectually to encourage the kil
ling of wolves.
14th. An aft for methodifing the department of ac
counts of this commonwealth, and for the more effec
tual fettlment of the fame.
nth. An aft for erecting the town of Carlifle, in
the|county of Cumberland, into a burrough, for regu
lating the buildings, preventing nuisances, and en
croachments on the commons, squares, streets, lanes',
and allies of thefame, and for other purposes therein
mentioned.
7th. An aft to amend an a& entitled, an aft for
the better empldymen(of the poor of the city of Phi
ladelphia, the diftria of Southwark, the township of
Moyamenfing, Paffyurk and the Northern Liberties,
and to revive and perpetuate an aft entitled an a& for
the relief of the poor, and for repealing two other ads
herein mentioned.
March ir