The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-10-31 00:00:00, page 2

PA RT S, May
THE celebrated PAUL JONES is to Lil from L
Orient with one frigate and three large priv leers.
He will carry back the Bostonians, we > have
arrived here from Denmark within these eight or ten
days. This intrepid mariner mull be highly gr tiffed
wi h the diftinguilhed reception ne mrt with in this ci
ty. The testimonies of regard that his bravery pro
cured him on every public occasion, w^re well calcu
lated to convince him of the glory he has gained on ye
roast of Ireland, and by his gallant engagement in the
German sea. An idea of his fpirt may be conceived
by his repartee to Marshal Biron. This nobleman,
whose table is always tree to Grangers of dirtintnon,
invited Jones to dinner, and during the repatt, fpick
ing of captain Pearson, his adversary, whom the Knig
of England had knighted, Jones anfwerrd, " I wnh,
Monsieur le Marshal, to afford an opportunity for his
being created a Lord!" The conversation changing,
the Marshal asked if he had seen the review, and ob
served the manoeuvres of the regiment of guards.
Jones replied, “ I ihould have been better pleafeh to
fee their manoeuvres in St. James's Park."
July 27. It seems the rendezvous of the mips that
have not yet joined will be at Corunna, where M.
d'Ertaing is to take the command oi the fleet.
There are great movements among the troops. Up
wards oi 40,000 min are already on the coarts of Bri
tanny, and feverri other regiments both foot and dra
goons are filing off on that fide. It is fufpefled some
grand project is on foot, that will come to light in the
course of nett mondi. Every thing is quiet as yet,
but t is like the stillness of the air before the flurm.
Wecan fay nothing more; we must wait.
The moment our court received the courier extra
ordinary from Madrid refpeding the failing of the com
bined fleet, orders were lent to Breff to baften the fail
ing of every ship in that rnd The (hips wait only
for the signal to fail, which will probably not be until
toe arrival of the Spanish fleet.
The Rochfort squadron is at lafi arrived at Brest. It
was laden with warlike fiores, particularly cannon,
wnich have already served to arm the Northumberland.
LONDO N,
THE following q^ertion is fubmitt d for public de
bate; " Would not the cutting argument of an
axe tend more to the prefervatinn of this kingdom,
than the oratory of a Cicero or Demosthenes ?"— One
w o, in this desperate case, recommends Steel Me
dicines.
A modern Irish receipt to cure old grievances— Take
between forty and fifty th< ufand men, grind them to a
proper consistency, tuen put arms into their hands,
and infufe into 'id an equal mixture of resentment
and amor patrite Let the whole be well boiled up ta
gethei, rnd used hot. Probatum est.
An cfi -of his majesty's ship Charon fays, in his
letter to r entleman in the city “ Our loss in the Le
viathan is eflimated at near 120,000 k in cochineal, in
digo and quicksilver. The hard dollars are on board
-us in chert . Our people will share about 6001. per man."
We ere happy to acquant the public, that the Earl
of Shelburne is so perfectly recovered of his late wound,
that he is gone into Wiltshire for a few days on busi
ness wnich he was to have set out on, the very morning
of his duel. He is expected t—own after the present
recess to attend his duty in parliament.
Anecdote of Capt. - , of the Regiment.
After the battle of Fontenoy, the regiment was quar
tered at Shrewfbury, when Capt. being in com
pany with several gentlemen, an old woman came up
to the 'wain and said, " God bless you, Sir! Ged
'Aim^ .ty bless you Sir! for you saved my fon's life
at th. Htt'r of Foi .noy."—The Captain hearing this,
(and "ng a very blustering man) expressed himfelfas
follows: “ I saved your fon's life, woman: how did I
save his life?" " Why, Sir, said flie, when your regi
mot was engaged, ,you rap into the pig-ftye, and my
fociran afte? vou, and so saved his life." To which
die Captan, plied, “ G—dd—n you, hold your
tongue," and. immediately giving her half a crown,
: ... her never mention it any m >re. But the gen'le
ro he .N. e difeourfe, he became the ridicule of
1 ^whrh: place. f "/
. Bm nrtn.e privateer, fhken by the Stag frigate, is
ordered to be immediately purchased and equipped for
ris M.^ehr's rvice, as a sloop of war, the command
f which will he given to the Stag's firft Lieutenant.
By Ge carb for the exchange of prisoners with
franco. v" ; e already received 11,000 feamea, and
after d-h^ering an equal number, with what the French
wve of ous, we ihall hill have a surplus of 6,500 of
theirs.
All officers and privates now on furlow from the fe
ver?! regiments on duty in Great-Britain, as well the
ro : .itia as reguic s, are ordered to join their refpeclive
corp: by the : th of next month at fartheft.
Orders are given for all the officers belonging to the
:r r 'war th .. are to compose the grand fleet of ob
vT 1 vonrhe rNing summer, to repair on board their
respective ships.
Extract of a private letter, said to have been recei
ved by the last Holland Mail, has the following Grange
account :—On the 9th of last month a large Dutch
Vessel was discovered floating about near the port,
which was food perceived to be without either pilot or
fnlors, and the sea being tolerably calm, two small
vessels went out to fee what they could make of her,
a id as soon as they approached, they were surprised
with the fight of a man hanging on the main-yard;
feme of the pen went on board the said vessel, and
found it was the captain, and that all the crew lay dead
upon the deck; and what was mod extraodinary they
were nailed down. The vessel was brought into port,
voen it was found that not the least part of her cargo
v . touched: This very extraordinary event railed
.e - y body's curiosity, and vessels were immediately
ci matched to fee if any thing could be found out to
recover by whom and how this horrid massacre had
L 1 committed.
A letter from an officer on board admiral Rodney's
9 t as the following pointed expression : “ never had
!IJfh f ilors a fairer opportunity of chartifing their
eir-ray, nor ever was a commander in chief so ftam%
ft.;y and vilely defected."
Py an aft parted this fewion, merchants ships are al-'
lowed to have three fourth s of their crew foreigners ;
and all foreigners who Ihall have formerly served, or
Ihall hereafter serve, two years on board any of his
majesty's ships, or any privateer or merchant - ship, be
ing British property, ihall be deemed a natural born
fubjed of Great-Britain, and enjoy all the privileges
and immunities thereunto belonging.
August 7. In all the offices of government, there
has been for some mouths pad such a scarcity of mo
ney, that Mipiflers begin at I ft to feel the diftr des
which they have brought upon their country. The
contractors complain loudly of the delays which they
meet with ; but while they are obliged to wait for
their money, they take advantage of the calamity,
and serve ti.e fiate with commodities which even the
present men, corrupt and indolent as they are, would
not receive, if poverty had not made them submissive.
With an exbaufted exchequer, and an impoverished
country, they are involved in increased and still in
creasing business. At this moment they are intriguing,
and what they call negotiating, in every Court in Eu
rope; and there is a greater distribution of secret ser
vice money than perhaps was ever known in any for
mer period of British annals.
Ex-rad of a letter from Copenhagen, July 4.
" Tie arrivalof the Ruffan fleet of fifteen fail of the
line, in our p rt, will soon be followed by the failing
of the Dutch squadron : the Justice of 74 guns, ti e last
ship fitted out, is to fail into the road to morrow: and
the next day Vice Admiral de Schindel will hoif iids
flig on board of her: We Ihall then have eight ships
of the lire, two of fifty guns, and fix frigates in com
mission."
The grand fleet under Admiral Geary, now out on
a cruize, confits of twenty-nine fail of t e line es bat
tle, and is shortly to be reinforced with eleven more,
which will make forty capital ships.
By the Admiralty account, upwards of 50 frigates
and sloops of war, from 44 guns to 14, are now cruiz
ing round t'is island, in fearer of privateers.
The Ruffian Second squadron for th protection of
neutral commerce were to fail from Elsinore the firft
fair wind after the ^th of July. A fleet of English
fllips were also waiting at the fame time, and we r e to
fail the firft fair wind. Them convoy is the Two-Sif
ters and Alnd armed ships, and a sloop of war.
In confequrnce of the great want of fem n, no mote
protections will be granted till his Majesty's fllips are
properly manned. ~
Orders are sent to Ireland, to impress into his Majes
ty's service all the ufeful hands they could, and fend
them to England as soon as possible.
The horse and dragoons are to be removed out of the
Borough as soon as the rioters are executed; the in
fantry will continue there till the repair of the goal is
finished.
It is reported that the Parliament will, soon after the
next prorogation, which is the 24th inst. be diffrived
by a royal proclamation, and new writs will be issued
out for electing Members for counties, cities, and bo
roughs, throughout the kingdom.
Notwithflanding the vigilance of Admiral Geary, the
combined fleet of France and Spam, have at la ft effect
ed a junCtioQpff Ferrol, and consist of not less than 52
fliips of the line and 18 frigates.
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) July 22.
Wednesday evening the letter of marque Punch,
captain Perkins, arrived from a cruise 011 the coast of
Hispaniola.--On Saturday last, to windward of Cape
Francois, captain Perkins fell in with a fleet of near
160 fail ; the weather was rather hazy, which prevent
ed him from making an exaCt estimate of their force,
bus he numbered above 22 ships o the line, and a
mongst them four flags.- He kept company with them
dur.ng the night, but being repeatedly chafed by two
frigates, found it impossible to make any farther dis-
Coveries, and directed his course to Port-Royal.
The intelligence brought by this vessel was, at firft,
rather alarming: nothing less was apprehended than
that the whole collected force of France and Spain in
the Weft-Indies, was assembled at Hispaniola for the
reduction of this Island ; but those fears have gradually
subsided, and molt people are now of opinion, that the
ships seen by captain Perkins are in all probability the
French trade from Martinique and Guadaloupe, which
the Spinel squadron, in their way to their own settle
ments, have, in conjunction with the ships defined for
the convoy to Europe, conducted to the Cape --We
should form too poor an eftimatjon of the abilities of
count Guichen, to suppose he jvould put himfelf be
tween two fires, as the moment his hofiile designs a
gainst this Island were known to Sir George Rodney,
he would, of course, come to our relief with his whole
force.
It is, however, necessary to be upon our guard in
case of the worst, therefore every measure calculated
to put the Island in a proper slate of defence, will be
adopted and carried Into execution with unremitting
diligence.
On Thursday, in consequence of the intelligence re
ceived by the Punch, his Excellency the Governor was
pleased to order a general embargo to be laid on all the
Shipping in the different ports of this Island.- It is not
meant, however, to refirift vessels coming from the
out- ports to this harbour.
Last night his Majesty's cutter Alert, arrived ex
press in fix days from St. Lucea with difpatchrs for
his Ex ellency the Governor and Vice admiral Sir Pe
ter Parker.--On the i?th, commodore Wilt ngham,
with a powerful reinforcement of ships, tiie transports
with troops for this Island, and the London fleet, ar
rived at Barbadoes; and we have t< e pleasure to in
form the public, that Sir George B. Rodney, with 27
ships of the line, and the above transports and mer
chant ships, will be here in a few days.
August 5. A Dutch vessel from Aux Cayes bound
for Curracoa has been taken and sent in : several letters
were found on board directed to gentlemen of that
place, which agree in the account of a powerful arma
ment being preparing at the Cape generally supposed to
be intended to attack this Island, and that it was in
great forwardnefs ; a number of Dutch and other pilots
being engaged, who are well acquainted with our dif
ferent ports.
FIS H-K I L L, O^ober 16.
Extras of a letter from an officer of dirtinaion, dated
Cagnawaga, October 20.
“ General Van Rensselaer with the militia, and levies
tinder colonel Du Bois, engaged th- enemy under fir
John Johnson yeflerday evening, at Fox's mills, Tryon
County: and, after a very severe aftion of three quar
ters of an hour, forced them to give way and cross the
river, leaving their plunder, baggage and prisoners be
hind them ;—an hour's light would have given us the
whole party. The action was general and vigorous.
Colonel Brown was k'lled in skirmishing in the fore part
of the day. The country is desolated from fort Hun
• ter up to Stone Arabia, and a part of it —the grain and
forage, all destroyed. His excellency the governor was
BOSTON, Odober 5.
Tlie Britilh miniflry have every year, from the be
ginning of the war, made an inn dous appears nee of a
chfpolinon for peace : they have done this with a view
to hold up to the Courts of Europe, an idea of their
moderation, to keep their own nation and its creditors
in good t roper, toe.courage new loans from au appre
tenfion tnat pea.ee was st hand, and to deceive and lull
the Americans and put us off our guard. At the fame
time it is evident that they secretly determined to pulh
their military operations as far as possible, and to run
every rifque rather than concede to our independence.
Their late ft cctfs at Charleflown will have no tenden
cy to change this determination. Accordingly every
honest cit zen of the United States is now thoroughly
convinced of the absolute neceffty of filling up the ar
my during the war, and of ertablifhing sure and per
manent mea fares for its supply : without which Britain
will never think of peace. We ought indeed to have dis
covered this before; but it is happy we have now made
the difeovery. To know the defed is more than half
the cure, especially wl en the remedy is in our own
hands. It is now the cry of every sensible honest man,
“ give our noble general an army that will stand by him
while the war lasts, and let this army be well support
ed :" the abilities of our country can well do it: our
numbers and our wealth are abundantly fufficient for
this purpose : and what man among us would shrink
from the burden, when it is tie shortest and cheapest,
the furert and the only effectual method of closing the
war, and crowning vs with al! the blessings of peace,
and an unfetter'd commerce in the bosom of liberty.
Mr. Necker, is without all doubt, the greate f t finan
cier in Europe, and nothing inferior to the celebrated
Calbert. The ceconomy he has L tely introduced into
the finances of France is admirable ; and be has sup
ported his plan, in opposition t^ private interest beyond
all expectation : the king and the court set the exam
ple, and the young but sage monarch, becomes more
and more the-delight of his fubje&s. They love him
because that they every day f<el that he loves them.
They fee him bounding the expences of his court with
out meaunefs, and for the fake of (paring new burthens
upon them: they fee him employing men the most ca
pable, and the most desirous of serving the interest of
of th- nation. This, great and amiable monarch, has
hitherto carried on rhe war without the addition of a
single t x of any kind upon hi afvbjea:s r meerly by an
happy arrangement of the finances, and cutting off fu
perfluous erpences. France continues at this^mornent
on her peace efiablifhment, while Britain supports the
war with a vast annual addition to her enormous nati
onal debt, which hangs about her neck like a millflone,
Spain is in much the fame fituhtion with France. Her
finances are in excellent order : and notwithstanding the.
great armaments flie has set forth, the incomes of the
nation have Supported all, with little or no debt. This
is a capital circumflaoce in favour of the house of
Bourbon and- its allies.
Odo. 19. Lift Monday morning fat out from this
town on his way to the southward, his excellency the
chevalier de la Luzerne, minister plenipotentiary from
the court of France, to the United States.
Tuesday arrived here a light transport ship, prize to
captain Morris ; the was bound from Jamaica to Lon
don, and failed in company with a fleet of one hun
dred fail, under convoy oftwo frigates.—Captain Mor
ris was left in fight of the fleet when the prize parted
from him.
N E W-L O N D O N, Oaober 17.
Last Monday night a flag returned here from New-
York, with eight American prisoners, chiefly masters
of vessels.
Last Tuesday about noon, the British fleet, which
had lain about a month in Gardiner's Bay, came to
fail, and went down the found.
Last Thursday a ship from St. Euftatia, laden with
about 6000 bushels of salt, besides Weft-India goods, ar
rived here.
The fame day, a ship and two or three small vessels
went down the found.
Two Americans, who had been forced into the British
service, got over last Saturday night from Long- Island ;
they made their escape from the Resolution, when ly
ing at Gardiner's Bay, had been on board her three
years, and were permitted to go on shore but once pre
vious to their escape.
An EPITAP H.
IN MEMORY of the fugitive shade of BENEDICT
/ARNOLD, once a major general io the army of the
United States of America, w o, with incredible fatigue,
unparalleled fufferings, and all the 0 ftinacy of per se
verance, pushed hjs way to the gallows : from which
his tormented spirit fled, on a day too black to be men
tioned, into a date of disappointment, want, chagrin
and despair, where the ghosts of a thousand murdered
oaths cease not to harrow up his conscience, and the ge
nius of his betrayed country dashes, with irrefiftable
force and in thick succession, huge masses of solid gold
full in his face, with one hand, while with the other she
points to a gallows at Weft- Point, where hangs poor
Andre. In this situation, while he catches in vain at
the gold, his poor, little, fickle, furious, dastardly,
dirtraaed shade, which once bore the name of a foul,
Hands an eternal butt for British ridicule.
Alas poor ARNOLD !
May all who walk in his steps, do that service for
their country which he did before, and at the time he
eloped from li f e, and then ihare his prefect fate.