The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-09-05 00:00:00, page 1

To the Independent ELECTORS of the City and
County of Philadelphia.
Gentlemen,
IRETUR N you my hearty thanks for your votes,
and placinp, me on the Return for Sheriff at the two
last General elections, and once more request the favor
of your votes at the ensuing election, for the laid office,
which (hall be gratefully acknowledged by
Your obedient humble Servant,
JAMES CLAYFOOLE,
A VALU ABLE Tra& of LAN D, lying on
" James River, in Virginia, about 35 miles above
Richmond, lately the place of refidenceof Col. William
Fleming, and known by the name of Mount Pleasant.
It contains somewhat more than 1400 acres, about 100
acres of which are rich low grounds, and the remainder
•upland of the firft quality. It is provided with a dwel
ling house, stables, barns and eut-houfes, together
with an excellent orchard, and is esteemed in proportion
to its fiz^ and ftuation, oneof tie mod valuable est tea
in that country. For terms apply to Mrs. Byrd, at
WHtJvcr, on James River, Virginia, or to
ROBERT HARE.
A Gold-headed CAN E,
WAS left in some Gentleman's house in this city,
about the beginning of May last. The owner
requests, that the person in whose possession it may be,
would be so obliging a# to fend it to the Printer.
Diftria of Southwark, September 2, 17^0,
Five Hundred Dollars Reward.
STOLEN out of the fubfcribei's fi Id, on the night
'Ol theist inst. a dark brown HORSE, 8 years old,
between 14 . ^nd i s hands high, paces, tots and hard
gallops, marked on the near fnculder and off buttock
with ii. Whoever takes up said herfe and thief, so
that the owner may get his horse, and the thief convic
ted, fhril have the above reward, cr for tht horse alone
Four Hundred Dollars, and ;eafonable charges.
JOSEPH JOHNSON.
Philadelphia, September %, 1780.
One Tbofoid Dollars Reward.
SiTRAYED or STOLEN from out of Mr. Joseph
) Jobnfon'spafture in Moyamenfing town^ip, on or
about the 20th of last month, a dark bay HORSE, a
bout 15 hands high, a for in his forehead, one cf his
hind feet white, a natural pacer, and believed to be a
bout 12 or igyesrs old. Whoever takes up said horse
and brings him to Benjamin Fuller in Front street, or
to Mr. Johnson, mail have the above reward.
CA M Eto the Plantation of the fub
tcriber, living on Carawaga, York county, Mi
nalain townfltip, the 26th of July last, a roan MARE,
about fifteen hands high, trots and paces, has a star in
her forehead, is branded on the near hind but ock HV,
above four years old, and has never been ffiod. The
owner is desired to come, prove property, pay charges,
and take her away.
WILLIAM BIGGAR.
Just printed 2nd to be fold by
STEINER and CIS T,
At their Printing-office in Second street, a few doors
above Race-street, Philadelphia,
A neat and correct EDITION of
Dilworth's SPELLING-BOOK.
At the fame place in the prete, and speedily will be
published,
The Practice of the French Pronunciation.
By JOHN PERRIN.
LO S T
In November last,
△ LOAN-OFFICE CERTIFICATE, No.
2716, tor One Thousand Dollars, dated August
J 7, >77,> payable to the fubferiber, or order.
JOHN TANNER.
PETER WHITESIDeInd Co.
In Walnut street, have tor SALE
W" EST- IND I A Rum in hogsheads,
Gin and Brandy in cafee,
Sweet Oil in ditto,
Bohea Tea,
Teneriffe Wine,
Bar Iron,
White Lead and Bar Lead.
GEN ERA L ^W.°'. o^ ADVERTIS E
TU E SDA Y,
[ Published every Tuesday, and Saturday.
To the Free and Independent Electors of the
City and County of Philadelphia.
Gentlemen,
ENCOURAGED by the very great refpe& you
Shewed me at the last election, I take this method
of informing you that I mean to (land a Candidate for
the Sheriff's Office at the ensuing election ; and your
placing me on the return, (ball be gratefully acknow
ledged by, Gentlemen, Your most bumble Servant,
August 2 2 . MATTHEW HENDERSON.
Toilidelph'a, August 28. 1780.
THOSE Gentlemen who have fub
feribed towards lecruiting the Pennf^vani# jine,
are carneftly requested to fend their fubfeipticns to
DAVID RITTENHOUSE, Esq; State Treasurer,
•who will give a certificate for the fame to be repaid in
the fame species as advanced, with interest at fix per
cent. The recruits coming in lately very faft from the
country, makes the above requisition absolutely ne
cessary.
Philadelphia, August 17 ° o .
To GERMAN DESERTERS.
XT OTICE is hereby given, That all GERM A N
DESERT ERS from th: armies of Gr:?r.Bri
tain, will meet Frith proper encouragement for enlisting
in die Ro^l Regiment of Deux-Ponts, and of th^ Duke
°' Lauzun s Hollars, both which corps are new fervina
in America under the command of Mor.fieur le Cemte
de Rochambeau.
Application must be made to Col. Nicola, nt the
Barracks; or at Mr. Peter Hays',, in Third street,
near Race street, where an Officer of each corns mil be
found.
GEORGE RUT TE R,
Sign and Ornament Painter,
"T" A KES this method to inform his friends and
^. V" '°'" c in general, That he ha, cp-ned (hop in
Fifth.ftre^t, one door below Walnut fleet, partly op
pefi^e the New Gaol, where h* executes said hufintis in
all its branches in the neatest manner. Any perlons
who may pleafa to favour him with their commands,
may depend on having their work carefully and expt
ditioufly executed on the lowest terms.
N.B. The partnerfhi, between Winter and Rutter is
dissolved.
t 0 BE SOLD,
HOUSES and LANDS.
A SMALL Plantation, containing ferty-feven acres
°f 699° rand, a frame dwell ng house, a (table; a
preen paled in, about eight acres of meadow end the
fame quantity of woodland, and a good orchard of fruit
treeij truao: one mile from Potts-Grave, bounded by
the Reading road on one end and the river Schuylkill
bn the other.
A Lot of Ground situate on Walnut street and Third
^reet from Schuylkill, ninety-nine fact front by two
hundred and leventy feet deep,
A Ten-acre Piece of good Woodland, part of which
may be made into meadow, having a good ftrram of
teaser running through the fame ; finite in German-
I"? township, about a quarter of a mile from thq road
through Brggars-town, and seven miles from
Philadelphia.
Aliu sundry Hooker and Lots in and near this city.
For further particular# enquire of TIIO M A S
" "'F' 111 Church Alley, Philadelphia, who con.
tenues feeling Indigo on cornmiffion, and has a choice
P, cel ° f Carolina Indigo in tierces and barrels t) fell by
whole.ale and retail. Also an elegant large silver Waiter,
a new nine-inch Cable, and a large firong new Cait.
HARE'S best bottled PORTER;
By the Groce or Dozen, to be SOLD by
CHRISTOPHER BAKER,
At toe corner of Second and Vine.ftreets; where the
highest price will be given for empty Bottles.
Philadelphia, August 23, 1780.
Four Hundred Dollars Regard.
ST OLEN out of Col. Jacob Morgan's stable, in
Race street, on Saturday night last, 3 ferret HORSE,
zbout fifteen hands high and about five years oil, low
in flrffi, with a r,laze in his forehead, a thin mane, a
white and ledifh mixed tail, I randed L. Whoever takes
up said horse, and will bring him to Messrs. Morgan
and Baker's store in Second -street, or to the fubicriber
in Oley, (hall have the above reward, and reasonable
charges, paid by Morgan and Baker, or
JOHN LESHER,
TH E
SEPTEMBE R 5 , i^c.
AFFAIRS or IRELAND.
House of common s,
April 19.
MR.GRATT ON, who had declared that on
this day he should make his motion, relative to
the declaration of the rights of Ireland, explained him
felf nearly in these terms .•
," Never has the House met to resolve upon a fubfea
" more important, more deciding ; yeu are called upon
" this day to protest against the usurpation of the Parka
ment of Great-Britain ; to join with me, and to raise
" up in concert your hands and voices against this ufnr
'' pation ; you are celled upon to lifien to the cry of three
" millions of inhabitants, who demand justice. At this
" important moment, if Heaven had granted me a for.,
' you should fee me, like the father of Hannibal, leading
" hnr to the altar, there to swear that he would protest
" the sacred rights o; the people Let us not dissimulate,
" this people has rights; tley have among others that
" of calling upon us to preserve their rights, of making
" us accountable forthem at all times. A cry, like this,
" which proceeds from some millions of mouths, is a
" powerful cry : It is a voice of thunder ; it is impof
" fible not to hear it ; the duliefi ear is atfefyd. This
‘ voice announces to you, that although you have clone
" something for Ireland, much still remains to be done;
" thatthe people's minds are net fatisfird ; that if any
'' thing will calm the effervefeence, it is the efiabkihment
" of that conddence, which it is natural to place in you,
"in considering you,as the guardians born of that liberty
" which they claim.''
" This comforting idea fixes upon you the eyes of the
multitude, who thus address you ; call back Gre^-Britnin
to simple ideas of justice ; oblige her, force her to reftcre
your political liberty, as flie has reftcred the freedom of
your trade : 7 ell her, that the manner in which she yield
ed this last favor, is alarming ; that the minister of Bri
tain, in giving it, has not f a jd it was of right, but only
expedient. Note, that this word expedient reveals a dil
quieting reserve, fatal in the mouth of Britain. It was
this fatal ward, which has coll her North Am rica; which
has piunged her in firearms of blood ; in abysses of rhifery
and horror. Tell her in short, that this word expedient
five, her mfincerity, her tacit reserves; that while these
referees continue, or are fuppqfed to continue, we can
not look upon the advantages lately granted to our trade,
as other .hm temporary, as altogether precarious, be
cause that being ever at the good will of Great-Britain,
she can withdraw them whenever she judges expedient.
Add to this, toot we can not confider our fives, but as
saves who are eased for a moment having still in view the
fitters with which they were laden, in tke hand which
too'< them off, and which appears ready to clap them on
again. By speaking thus to Britain, you will the more
assuredly command her attention^ cs the present time is
favorable. It was God, the Great God himfelf, who
created this juncture for your emancipation ; for the de
liverance of you and your poflerity. Let it not flip from
you in vatn. Lake care elpecially not to wait till the dan
gerous hour of a peace. Alas! peace for others would be
war for you. Britain could not enjoy herfelf, rli she
brought you back to yourframmells. In the name, then
of all that is dear to you ; for the honor of pour country;
for the honor of human nature ; by the remembrance of
all that you have fuffered ; by your feelings for theinjuf
tice you have endured ; by tbelove you bear for your
poflenty; by the dignity, the noble generosity which
reigns in the hear;s of Irishmen, let me conjure you,
let me beseech you to seize this lucky hour, this fortunate
opportunity, and to mark it, as that of your liberty. Be
lieve me, Great-Britain is now perfectly convinced that
universal supremacy is a chimera, an absurdity. Hofis
of enemies surround her, croud and fall on her from a'l
parts. Her supremacy every where eclipsed, the lea is 00
longer her demesne, the honor of her Councils is tar
niftieu, together with that of her arms. She wants armies,
fleets, Admirals, Genera's ; the numbness of indolence
marks all her measures ; division, imbittered by defeat,
presdes in her Councils. We are not in the like situation;
this is the aurcra of our happy days. Never Ireland,
never any people upon earth could boast ofa Senate so well
formed as ours, a Senate which has so mu h right to th#
c °°""'j' e °' 'be people; nor never were a people better
disposed to support the great views of its Senate. A di
vine fire inflames every heart, a sacred enthufiafin, of
which antiquity itfelf furnilhev no example, has changed
a languishing multitude into a high fpiri'ted people. Car
ry the eyes of your imagination' beyond these walls, and
y°p . ' 4°,°°° men under arms, fixing their's upon you,
waiting in silence, the result of the deliberations of this
day. Their with is uniform. They all sigh for liberty.
Providence seems to smile upon them, yes, the hand of
God is viable, I fee it. It 13 that which has prepared the
whole ; it is that which is about to compleat the blessing.
I/hen that hand holdscut to you independence and hap
piness, can you hold back from receiving them ? Will
you refufe the benefits of Heaven? I have called this