The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-07-03 00:00:00, page 2

r\ N S iHrc^y l>ih <he J. Wilban, a seaman, lately
, be> gng tot^e Villed Pans,wasexamimd at lir
T ;oma> Pye's office ar P rt mouth. He declared he
w , ,I]boa d her at re trine file foundered. His rela
tjoii, ur he cludg to a pbce of the wreck, when
the ilb/wl going r, pieces; -and after btiug several
hovr. syn it, during die greatest part of which time
h wasinie. fibe; t,e was taken up by a Danish met
c nit lhip bourd from St Thomas's to Oftend, the
paite ol w c tod .i:n he f.w the Ville de Part go
down, he himfelf being so much overcome by terror,
not ' > r cglied toe circumitaoce ; but is certain he
Iw the Glorieux founder the day preceding the fate
of the V.be d° Paris. He reports he was to infirm, af
trh was taken up, as to le incapable of moving ;
and that on the Dane putting into Havre de Grace,
he was f. ;t on there to ti,e hospital, where he was
very humanely treated, andexamined by the comman
ded: odd major of the police, who sent his relation to
tty French king. Alter bis recovery he had a passage
provided tor him to England in a Ruffian (hip, woica
is now at Spiroead, the mailer of which confirms
Huch part of bis account as he could have been a wit
p?fs to.
April 11. Wednefd-y last the town of Wakefield
was in one continued uproar from one o'clock in the
a trnoon till near ten at flight: early in the morn- ,
ing general Tottenham's regiment (tie 90th) marched
out to tee field to perform t eir ex rcife; and when
the commanding officer came to the words " Ground
y or errim," they all to a man left them, and refufej
taking rcm tip again, declaring that they were de
termined immediately to have 'heir ciifch: rges.—The
adjutant told them trey sh old be dismissed in a few
day, but that it was not in his power to grant any
man a discharge, till he had acquainted the general;
and ther fore requeued tnem to carry their arms back
to the town, and tney should have redress: this foil
citation the men complied with, and upon their arri
val they were met on the parade by general Tottenham
and orders of their officers, who reasoned much with
them, and the men departed to their quarters Femi g
ly fatisbed ; but at one o'clock they assembled agJn,
broke open the flore-houfe, released the guard and
prifonert, and having provided themselves with ammu
nition, and placed a guard over the store, went and
furroumed the general's house, and made him prisoner,
not fuffering any person to (peak to him, and declaring,
with toe mod horrid imprecations, that if he did not
sign their difeharges that night his house should be r
bout his ears before morning : after a variety of lan
guage of this fort, the general was obliged to comply
with their demands, and set them all at liberty that
evening.
April 20. A poor unfortunate French ftaymaker,
who h#d long meditated the means of deftroyiog him
felf, to k within these few days the desperate resoluti
on of jumping out of a garret window into the area of
the house, and was thereby rendered a horrid fpeaa
cle, and died inflantly. The following is an extem
pore epitaph that was made on the occasion, which
would perhaps be deemed passable, did not the melan
choly fubjeft of it deprive usof receiving pleasure from
lines, where the infirmities of human nature are (port
ed with —
His bones beneath poor Forret lays,
A life efs clay cold lump;
"Who, though he liv'd by making flays,
Yet perifh'd by a jump.f
t Jumps —a particular kind of flays that are worn
by nurses. vide Johnson.
An evening paper fays, a flop is put to payingoff
any more of the king's ships; an order has also been
issued from government that no more of the troops (had
be discharged til further orders ; fubfißeoce money is
to be allowed to every fltip, that the sailors may not
be deflitute of necessaries, and the so diers are to have
every proper allowance on the fame occasion.
My 5. The earl of Sbeburne comes down to day
with a '' well dreft speech," in which he will profefs
that he has no earthly objaion view but to difeharge
his coofeience, and manifeft his gratitude to the peo
ple of England for the magnificence of their favours ;
and he will prove, in a series of assertions superior to
a I the proofs in the world, that the bargain for the
loan will actually overthrow the confutation —will de
firoy our liberties civil and religious—will inflame the
Irish volunteers- rouse the Scotch boroughs-.-alarm
the bench of bishops sand introduce popery and the
pretender. To confirm all which assertions he will
aver t at it has been made on principles diametrically
oppifie to those on which the peace was made: his
hock broker will fay the fame thing.
No less than two thousand petitions from American
fufferers have been presented to meffrs. Cook and Wil
mot, since the cone ufion of the peace ; among whom
are feme of t e firft characters.
The clergy and gentlemen who held offices under the
Britrfh government in America, are entirely destitute
of support, the above commissioners having thought
proper to strike them off the lift, without recommend
ing any compensation for the loss of their employ
ments.
It is a faß, that during Mr. Fox's late administra
tion, he never once played at any game whatever, and
be is determined to adhere to the fame principle as
long as he continues in office.
Tne mod recent advices from the continent seem to
confirm the rumour of another war between Ruffiia and
the Porte. The conquest of the Turks has been long
the favourite project of the court of Peterfourgh.
They write from Dublin, that it was resolved to agi
tate in Parliament measures for preventing the emigra
tions so frequent from Ireland to North America and
other ountries.
The Dutch now flatter themselves with the hopes|
that the next news from the bast-Indies will bring ac
counts of the almost total extinction of the prevalence
of British power in that quarter of the globe.
A plaufable pretext is all tre just fixation princes re
quire for commencing a war. The court of Peters-
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burgh, however, has mere solid grounds so juflify a
Turkish war. The exirpa'ico of infidels ard the re
eflab fitment of the Creek church at Conllantinople,
the ancient feat, are at bast motives which carry the ap
pearance of religion, however they may veil theluft of
empire and the pride of 'dominion.
The Eaft-fddia affairs f ill remain in a cloudy slate;
some vrry'good or very bad news may be expected soon
from thence.
It is now-full fourteen months since our great army
at New-York was voted to le id e, consequently ufe
hfs; and it is full five months since a provisional trea
ty was signed at Paris, that grand centre of negotia
tion, between our agent and the commissioners of Con
grefs;' and,yet we hear nothing of the ratification of
thole provisional articles, or the reducing them to a
formal definitive treaty. As little do we hear of our
army leaving New York, where their continuance can
be of no manner of service to their country, unless
"transporting the guineas by millions from Great Eri
lain rb America can be deemed so. We cannot
have a colour of reason for keeping that army
there in peace at a war expence. Our wife nego
tiators having flipu ated for nothing in favour of
Britain,'it cannot be ev< n pretended that they flay there
to fee the artic es 1 erformed ! —What then can they be
kept there for, but to brewup force taffi mifehief: and
to find an opportunity for us to burn our fingers again,
by meddling either in their quarrels with the French
or the domett c dissensions among themselves, and so
entail a never-ending war upon ourselves and posterity.
Veftefday evening about fix o'clock, a female ad
venturer, in man's apparel, appeared at Bagnigge
Wells, where, in the course of her route, (he joined
company with a lady of ea r y virtue, from whom the
female gallant received no great refinance to force free
doms which answered her purpose: however, in a little
time the uodifguifed fair one charged her gallant with
picking her pockets, which caused some alarm, and
an assembling of the company, when the gallant's sex
was announced, in hopes of obtaining liberty: how
ever, it was determined by the company to duck the
culprit, and they accordingly repaired to the wooden
bridge adjoining the gardens, for the purpose, where
a laughable circumflance concluded the affair, by the
bridge giving way, when the lady had the honor to
he dipt in common with the whole company, confining
of near one hundred people, affembted on the occasion;
however no other accident happened than an alterati
on in the ladies and gentlemens drefles, the mud,
&c. &c.
Saturday a lady in a fit of insanity, (hot herfelf
through the head, at her house in Upper Brook-Rreet,
and expired immediately.
According to a lift laid before the house of commons
last week from the admiralty board by one of the
lords commissioners, it appears, there have been built
in the king's or merchant yards since the peace of Pa
ris in 1763, no le(s than twohundred and fix new ships
of war of different rates, &c. of which there are one
of looguns, seven of 90, thirty-seven of 74, thirty-two
of 64, fourteen of 50, fourteen of 44, seven large fri
gates of 38, twenty one of 32, sixteen of 28, thirteen
(loops, eleven cutters, seven firefhips, and four bombs,
now in the service,
May 6. By letters from Paris, it appears, that the
complaint made by admiral Hughes concerning the
Severe, has occasioned a very drift enquiry into the
merits of the case, which M. Suffirein explains thus :
the second captain of the Severe being terribly wound
ed,. and obliged to quit his post, M.de Vi leneuve Cil
lar ordered the colours to be flruck. The fire from
the batteries continued, notwithstanding theerders giv
en to the contrary. The fieur de Tien, an auxiliary
officer, who directed part of the fire, could not, wit -
out indignation, fee the vessel strike to one more da
maged than herfelf, and perceiving that the command
had devolved upon M. de Cillar, he laid to him " mon
sieur, you are certainly wounded, and more danger
ous than you think ; you had- better retire to be taken
care of." M. Ciliar followed this advice, and quitted bis
post ; upon which M. de Tien, now become command
er, harrangues the crew, who, as well as himfe'f, had
observed the conduct of M. Cillar with pain. The co
lours were hoifled, and the fllip defended herfelf in such
a manner as to embarrass the enemy, and be enabled
to join the fleet, with which (he entered Trincomale.
The Americans cannot supply the Ffencn with fu s
at so cheap a rate as our merchants procure them from
Quebec, on account of the expence of land-carriage
from the lakes to the sea shore.
The (laves which were carried from Charleftown to
Jamaica, were fold at an extraordinary rate, on ac
count of the scarcity which the planters have experi
enced during the war.
The American Congress have refused to admit any
British convicts being purchased as slaves in the domi
nions of the United States, the felons coDvifled of
transportable offences will be sent to Halifax or Que
bec.
The American commissioners have made some parti
cular agreement with the French court for furnifhing
naval flores from the northern colonies, and to take
clarets in return.
Several quakers have arrived in France from Phila
delphia, who are expelled over in a few days. These
people cannot bring any particular intelligence, as they
left America a short time before the news of the treaty
arrived there.
Extraß ofa letter from Minden, April 14.
“ The king, according to recent letters from Berlin,
(hakes his head at the menaces of Auflria and Russia
to dirmember the Turkish empire: that monarch has
declared to his miniflers, religion being totally out of
the question, and mankindfoow-a-days only united by
commerce and its reciprocal advantages, he can fee
no ground why the Turks should be driven out of Eu
rope, who are as honest and fair dealing a people as
any upon earth. It is thought his majefly, in con
junction with the courts of France and Stockholm, is
going to take some immediate Reps to counteract 'the
ambitious views of Auflria and Russia, and that Great-
Britaia will be invited to join the oppofnion.''
May 9. Yesterday arrived the mail from Flanders,
by which it appears, that the Pretender is not yet
dead, but seems rather in a dangerous way. His refi
deuce at the time of these advices was at Florence. No
other material news.
A letter from Feterfburgh fays, that the empress
has sent to her agent in London to purchase any of the
old East fndiamen, or any ships that can carry go
guns, which are to be fold, that they be converted in
to armed fhip c , to be employed against the Turks;
and (he has declared that (he will give great encour
agement to English officers that will enter into 'her fer
vic^ either by sea or land.
The last letters from Gibraltar mention, that great
naval preparations are going forward in almost every
port belonging to the several dates of Barbary, parti
cularly at Salee, Tunis, Mamora, Algiers, and La
rache, for the purpose of cruising in the Mediter
ranean.
Letters from different places in the country menti
on to us, the shower of hail and snow on Tuesday night :
and that on Wednesday morning, all the fields, with
an afpeft to the east or fnorth, were entirely white.
Miy 12. The loss of the Caton, now unexcepton
ably d-fpaired of, is supposed to thin the human spe
cies of near 1500 individuals; the crew would amount
to 600 men—the mi'itary, and other perfonson their
passage home, would make up the remaining part of
the number before regetted.
The operation of peace begins already to be felt ve
ry beneficially—of each foreign commodity the price is
a'ready fallen very considerably —Port wine, for iri
flance, is become b'x pounds per pipe cheaper than it
was, and before the end of the year, the price will be
as low as forty pounds!
It is furprifiog that the island of Sicily should be so
populous as it was before the late earthquake, as orran
average they experience the fame catastrophe, though
in a much !efs degree than the lad, twice in every cen
tury. The fertility of the (cil is the temptation, very
little agriculture yielding their prodigious crops, and
the climate being supposed the fineft in the world.
The following is an exaH Rate of the English and
French f l p ts in the Eafl^lndies:
English. French.
Guns.Gunsi
Gibraltar 80 Hero 74
Cumberland 74 Flufire 74
Defence 74 Hannibal 74.
Superb 74 Fendant 74
Hero 74 Argonaate 74
Suban 74 Pu ffante 74
Burfo-d 70 Alcide 74
Monarch 70 Vengeur 64
Africa 64 Artefien 64
Inflexible 64 Sp' ynx 64
Sceptre 64 Brilliance 64
Exeter 64 Severe 64
Worcester 64 Bizarre 64
Monmouth 64 Ajax 64
Eagle 64 Alexandre 64
Magnanime 64 Hardy 64
•Europe 64 St. Michael 60
Isis 50 Li tie Hannibal 50
*Cato 50 Flamond 50
* 50 *Protefleur 74
*Marfcillois 74
20 1316
Those marked * failed 21 1402
in December and January Those marked thus * fail
lafi. eJ in December last.
N. B. The Grafton and To be added to the
Elizabeth of 74 gunseacb, French fleet the following
also failed, put backagain Dutch ships, which failed
much damaged. in July, 1782.
2 of 68 guns.
2 of 64
1 of 60
2 of 50
They write from the Isl? of Mann, that most kinds
of provisions are at a higher price there than has been
known for many years past ; this proceeds from a real
scarcity, which is felt in a melancholy manner by the
poorer fort of people. Grain, being produced only in
(mail quantities, is very variable in its price ; and last
week potatoes (that necessary article among the labour
ing people) fold so high as is. 41. the kifhin, being
nearly at the rate of 16d. British, the Cumberland
bushel.
D U B L I N, April 28.
As the banns of matrimony between liberty and Ire
land have been three times published, and no one for
bid the marriage, it is h ped the volunteers, who bro't
this match about, wj'l celebrate the nuptials with eve
ry demonflration of joy.
It is a common, but true faying, that <c a man's
worth is not fully known till he is gone '' That this
will be experienced in refpe& to Ireland's loss of lord
Temple, seems to be the opinion of many an observ
er of his excellency's conduß.
ALBAN Y, June 16.
Last Wednesday arrived here, the Chooser Antonia
from Martinique Fourgean mafier ; loaded with
Weft-india and dry goods.
At a meeting ofthe freeholders and inhabitants of Ca^
nejohary district, in the county of Tryon, held at
Fort-Plain in the fame diftrift, on Saturday the 7th
day of June, 1783. The following resolves were
unanimously entered into.
Lieutenant colonel Samuel Clyde in the chair.
Whereas, in the course of the late war, large num
bers of the inhabitants of this county, loft to every
sense of the duty they owed their country, have join
ed the enemies of this state, ard have in coniunaion
with the British troops, waged war on the people of
this state, whie outers more abandoned have remained
among us and have harboured, aided, affifled and vic
tualled the said British troops, and their adherents ;
and by their examples and influence, have encouraged