The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-06-19 00:00:00, page 2

^ 'O N D G N.
Marcher, ^Tncre^renowntkr thirty fail of the 1a ft
Jamaica fleet Bill muffing, many of which are supposed
to nave foundered.
In cons quence of the pref^nt rage for feathers, there
i scarcely an mftach to be seen along the vaR crafts
of Africa,/that can be ft a ogle plume to decorate
its t io—The % fenfibißty of the lovely wearers is, ten
this occa fu4l, appealed to : it is requeued that they
wo Id fur a moment mike the case theirown, and aik
themselves how they would like to be to pillaged!
Mr. Fox, i lew years ago, laid to a gentleman, that
he, ' c so much duelled lord North he could not bear
even th? tit in the fame room with him!" ' Upon my
honor, Charles," r poed the gentleman, " although
I leldorn lend a credulous ear to want you assert, yet
in this I behve you —for let me tell you, Charles,
yoyr wiffies are not to fr in the room witn him, but
in the room of him !"
Aoril 19. A private letter from R French officer in
In ia to his friend in Pads has been sent over here.
I represents the a tack upon colone Braithwaite's ar
my as the mos tbloody during tie war. Tippo Saib,
Hyder's fen, having by forced marches with 20 000
mep, entered the country, where Colonel Braithwaite
was posted, that officer found himfelf furround'd, when
he little expected an attack However he displayed
great coolness and presence of mind He threw nis
tro^os into a hollow fqpare, with 13 6 Id pieces ioter
fperfed throughout his fronts, and has fquadroo of
cavalry, wich confided only of about %50, be drew
up in the cenrr. In tßis disposition ins mer (uhrined
a 'envy cannonade with the grrateß tirmhefs. The
enemy's cav |ry then advanced several tim s to the
charge; but tie elofe and quick fire of me hri^fh
nilsv p ry and field pieces, turew (hem into difordar;
and the cavalry faplying forth from the center did great
execution, and then returned to tneir former Ration,
ri bis was repeated fev-rAi tmes with considerable tuc-
Ct's Mons. Lally, the brencn general, at iaft per
ceiving that the Inoun cavalry could not be brought to
r,d" ovr the British infantry, advanced himfelf at the
head of 400 Europeans, intermixed with a great num
ber of n.tivetroops, and flanked with cavalry. With
this force frmed in a column, he bent his attack against
colonel Brathwaite's weakest front, whilst the others
were threatened with large bodies of horse ready to come
down upon them ; a heavy fire of artillery being,kept
up at the fame time. The French advanced with bay
onets fixed • ,the Seapoys worn out with a long a&ion,
were unable to withlland the charge. Tneir ranks were
broke, Tipro Sab'- cavalry poured in, and a dreadful
carnage ensued Monk Lal y did alllhat man could
do o save tne vanquished. He is laid to have cut down
5 men with hL own hand, because he could not restrain
them barbarous fury
April 25. Some accounts brought this day by the
Dutch mail, fay it was reported at Verfaille-, that the
Chevalier Charles Stuart, who was in Scotland, in 1715,
has died childless in Italy, so that the only heir male
now remaining of that house, is Cardinal York.
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BOSTO N, May 3 r.
On Monday last was celebrated at Cambridge the
recognition of American independence by his Britan
nic majesty. The day was uthered in by the difeharge
of cannon: over the door of the court house was pla
ced the following infeription:
"AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE RECOGNIZED
AND LIBERTY ESTABLISHED."
At noon the citizens and clergy affembied at the
court-house .nd were attended from thence to the
meet : ng house by the artillery company, wno para
ded on the occanon. An elegant and animated oration,
preceded by an excellent prayer, was delivered by the
reverend Mr. Thatcher, of Maiden. After an an
them, the company returned, and was fJuttd' by a
difeharge of artillery. About three o'clock was the
procession to the Univerfry ball, where a decent and
plentiful dinner was prepared for fix hundred per
fons.-'--After dinner, thirteen patriotic toasts were
drank, with the usual ceremonies.
June 2. Saturday last arrived here the fllip Cato,
cap:. Tippen, in 52 lays; and yeflerday the Snow ,
captain Joseph C^z^eau, io 35 days from Amsterdam.
At one o'clock this morning the caboos of the flip
Philadelphia packet, lying in this harbour, caught on
fre, by w ich accident one James M ClouJ was burnt
very dangercufly.
WORCESTER, May 22.
At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants
of the town of Worcefler, held, by adjournment,
May 19, 1783.
VOTED,
?'^ EAT this town, with an equal and sacred regard
£ to treaties of peace, and of alliance; to the re
f>lve, of Congress, and the solemn afls of this common
wealth, passed from time to time, for its preservation,
fafety and defence ; and especially, to those great and
important principles of liberty and a free government,
for which they have been draggling at the risque of their
lives, will continue with spirit and firmnefs, their mod
vigorous efforts, to render glorious, and secure from
danger, interruption, or diminution, the ends of their
past exertions, peace, liberty and happiuefs.
idly. Voted, That this town confider every country,
in times of invasion, as having equally a right to tne
assistance, the personal services, and the property of all
its lubjefts, in opposing the assailants.— I hat this coun
try, more than eight years since, was invaded, and has
been scourged by a way, which, for the purpose of re
ducing it to the fervi e fubjeaion of foreign domination,
has been, by sea and by land, wafting, and by every
species of barbarity, didreffing its innocent inhabitants;
a war that has desolated and burned whole towns, and
rendered wretched, and turned out thousands of vir
tuous Americans, destitute, despoiled, and unprovided
for by the treaty of peace, which leaves them depend
ent on the gratitude and generosity of their country. —
A war promoted, encouraged, and invited by those
who, the moment the bloody banners were displayed,
abandoned their native land, turned parricides, and
conspired to invoke their country in ruin, tumult,
and in blood.
^dly. Voted, That Tech traiternus condua, upon
every principle of policy and justice, in all ages and
do all countries, would, in the opinion of this town,
operate a for feiture of the conspirator's civil and poli
tical relation to their injured and betrayed country;
cut them off, forever, trom a handing therein; ren
der them ehemes and aliens, and juflify those neces
sary laws, and that general voice of tne people, by
which they have been thus declared.
4<h!y. Voted, That confi lering, while the' (word
was flumberfog in its (tabboard, when this country was
in the hour of quiet, and at peace with the world, on
ly pleading and petitioning for its rights, for a free'
government; the feotinhents of the absentees, their
principles, their languages, and their feelings, were
fixedly opposed to those rights,- and to that freedom,
they then preferring, and to evince the sincerity of
that preference, engaged to rifque their all for its pof.
fible attainment ; a government totally inconfifleht with
the principles of the one we have etiabliflied, znd for
the dedruftion of which they have been waging a eta
el war ; that therefore this town cannot conceive it to
be their duty, or their interest, ever to provide for the
return of such ingrates, to naturalize them, or ad
roit tnem to the privileges and immunities of citizens.
sthly, Voted, That whereas the Hid abfeatees and
coofpiratdrs have, at all times, uniformly by their re
presentations, addresses and avowed principles, confr
dered tne fubje&s of these dates, of our great and iL
luftrious ally, and the treaties of alliance, amity and
commerce, as the proper fubjeds of abuse, calumny
and reproach—the former as the dluded tools of a
party (purred on to treason and rebellion —the fecund
as the cowardly machines of a monarch, prefidioufly
plotting the ruin of the former—and the latter as ori
ginating from the word of motives, delusive, treacher
ous, artful, insincere, and not to be adhered to, and
have even attempted to seduce the fubjeds of these
fibres to violate their faith, and those sacred treaties ;
that therefore, in the opinion of this town, to admit
persons of fucn principles, and sub practices, te -in
corporate wilt, and refideamong us, would betray the
want of a due regard to a generous friend who has
been fighting, and b ending by our fide, endanger the
treaty, and injure our national character.
6ti)ly. Voted, That whereas persons of the above
description, have been of opinion, which they have
been assiduous to propagate, that these states could
find nappioefs or protection, no where btin a reu
uion wan the kingdom of Great-Britain ; that left to
themselves, they would become the sport of each 0
ther, break to pieces, and crumble into ruin; that no
calamity was more to be deprecated, for our own
fakes, than independence eflablifhed, and no bleffiog
more emeftly to be fought for. than independence
destroyed: And whereas, whence by a change of Bri
ti(h councils, and British measures, there was a prof
ped of peace, they reprobated that change, and solicit
ed, for the purpose above, tne continued utmost exer
tions of British power, and Brit sh resources, and even
after the commencement of the paciric treaty, with
malicious intentions, equally hofti>e to both countries,
dared to reprefeot America, as but tne proper fubje&
of an easy conqueß: that therefore, in the opinion of
this town, our independence must ever be in danger
of annoyance from such persons, who can never have
our confidence, frienefhip, or tociet).
ythly. Voted, That the plea for tne return of the
absentees, of their becoming good fubjeds, inrreafing
our numbers, and of ftr-ngth, is, in the opinion of
this town, groundiefs and fallacious, as i is improba
ble that persons who have thus a^d, that are thus
principled , and thus situated, would, without any
new reason, light, or argument, alter their condud,
and at once rejefl those principles tney have embraced,
and embrace those they have rejeded, endeavour to
fuppurt that government they have been struggling to
destroy, cultivate that harmony which they have been
industrious to prevent, prevent that difeord they have
ben assiduous to create, QUELL THOSE RIOTS
AND UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES, which, but of
late, were tne foundation of their darling hope, and en
deavour to strengthen that friendfhip and alliance
which they have laboured to weaken, and lied to af
perfe, and by a conduct, the reverie of their past, be
come useful and good.
Bth(y. Voted, That agreeably to the treaty of peace,
this town wishes for no recollection of past disputes with
Great Britain, no repetition of past njuries ; but the
feeds of difeord being excluded, that tuch a beneficial
land fatisfaftory intercourse may be established between
the two countries, as to promise, and secure to both,
perpetual peace and harmony, which woo d be ex
tremely difficult, were those persons to r file among
us, whom this country consider. ,as the occdion of in
terrupting that intercourse formerly, and the cause of
all their fufferings; especially as th^e wrerc- -a oeings
have already begun a quarrel with that peace, and
those who made it, which terminates a long, boody
and unnatural war.
<)thly. Voted, That therefore, in the opini^of this
town, it would be extremely dangerous to ice peace
the happiness, the liberty, the interest, and k' yof
these states, to fuffer persons of the above defcripion
to become the fubjefls of, and to refidein this govern
ment ; that it wou'd be, not only dangerous, out incon
fident with justice, policy, our past laws, the pulie
faith, and the principles of a free and independent date,
to admit them ourselves, or have them fore d upon us
without our consent.
lothly, Voted, That in the opinion of this town,
this commonwealth ought, with the utmost caution,
to naturalize, or in any other way admit, as fubjetts
' a common enemy, a set of people, wpo have been, by
the united voice of this continent, declared outaws,
exiles, aliens, and enemies, dangerous to it, political
being and happinek.
lithly. Voted, That while ther are thousands of
the innocent, peaceable and defenceltfs inhabitants of
these Rates, whose property has been destroyed, and
taken from them in the course of the war; for whom
no provificn is ma'de, to whom there is no restitution
of eflaks no compensation for losses ; that if would ,be
unreasonable, cruel and unjust, to fuffer those who
where the wicked occasion of those losses, to obtain a
restitution of the estates they refufed to protest, and
which they have abandoned, and forfeited to the jus
tice of their country.
izthly. Voted, That whereas persons of the ah~ ~
description have already made varcus atternft to : u.
troduce themselves into this government, and thereby
to eftabliih principles and precidents, by which others
might be admitted, and reflored to their forfeited
ertates ; that this town will adopt evey reasonable and
Consistent measure, to prevet t so great an evil; and that
it is their expectation arid earned request, of Samuel
Curtis,efquire, whom they have chof n to represent them
at this critical period, that he will with firmnefs and
fleadinefs, continue his patriotic exertions for the
abo&e purpose; that he will use his influence to have
those good anJ wholesome laws, touching the matter,
duly executed, and such others enabled, as events and
circumdances, from time to tim 1 , miy render necef
fa'ry ; that he will receive a copy of the above votes,
to the principles of which, the principles of a fovereiga
2nd independant government, the principles of our free
Confutation, an I those great principles which nave car
ried us triumphantly through a fev re and blooey con
fli&, to those principles, he wib invariably adhere,
and make tnem the governing rule of ids conduct, as
what alone, under Heaven, has given energy to war,
will give lenity to peace, and make life happy.
13th. Voted, That it is the expeftafioi of this
town, and their earned r quest of their committee of
correfpondencty infpeaiou and faety, that they will
with care and vigdence observe the movements, and
watch the condua of bur only remaining enemies - that
unlil the further order of government, tney will, with
decision, spirit and firmnefs, endeavour to enforce and
carry into execution, the federal laws of this commons
wealth, refpeaing those enemies to our rights, and the
rights of mankind ; give information sh >uld they know
of any obtruding themselves into any part of tnis Rate,
fuffer none toremain in this town, but ciufe to be con
fined imm diately for the purpose of transportation, ac
cording to law, any that may presume to enter it.-
A true copy, Attest,
WM. G. Maccarty, town-clerk.
HAR rFOR D, June so.
We are i Formed, that James Gibson, now a prisoner
in tnis town, and lately under sent ence of death for
committing a rape upon a matron of a mod virtuous
character, has applied to our legislature for a new
trial, or that hi, pnoifhment might be commuted for
some other. Tne legislature have, had the matter un
der their confid^rationy but not finding any reason to
grant a new trial, as the evidence was so full as not to
admit any doubt as tohis guilt; and as the prisoner has
never difeovered any signs of contrition, it became
t lerfore necessarily an aft of kindness to give him as long;
a time as possible in which he might perform the ardu
ous talk of repentance, and also to obviate, as far as
it could be done, all impediments which might retard
the performance of this necessary work, they have
therefore wifely and graciously difeharged him from
the sentence of death, and in lieu thereof have ordered
him to be cafirated.—The public may be assured,
that Gibson will be ca firated at the usual place of exe
cution, and that the public will be advertised when
this operation will be performed.
N E W-Y O RK, June t 4.
We hear that the brig Peggy, captain M'Niel, from
Tortola, bound to this port, was cast away about a
fortnight ago off Cape Hatteras, and but a small part:
of her cargo saved.
On Sunday arrived here the schooner Rover, capt.
M'Kenney, from New-Providence: on the passage he
spoke with the schooner Harlequin, captain Hunt, in
distress, from Havaana, bound to Baltimore ; they
kept company together one night, and the next morn
ing, being moderate, she bore away for Charleftown.
Extrad of a letter from New- Providence, April 5.
" On the 14th of April the Spaniards were alarmed
at break of oay, by the less of three of their gallies,
captured by three boats from the ship -, captain
Dow, and brig — , captain Wheeler, each boat
having only (even men; the gallies were boarded
without the Infs of a man on either fide. At the fame
tim 3 colonel Devaux landed with 25 men, and took
puffeffion of Fort Montague: the Spaniards had laid
a train to blow up tne fort, but the colonel taking
two of their men, ordered his men to retire.
“ Colonel Devaux made his advances within a mus
ket Riot and an half, planted one 12 pounder on a hill,
called Muslin's hill, and one 4 pounder on Society
liil ; the Spaniards firing from the heights for two
days, without doing any damage; colonel Devaux
lent captain M'K?nzie to demand a furreuder of the
Spanifhggovernor, of the forts in his possession, which
were ex^eding hrong, having guns from 24 to 32 poun
ders, well provided with every kind of warlike floret,
provifioos, and 6:4 men, in good health, some of them
thought the best soldiers belonging to Spain. On the
13th a t night a capitulation was agreed on, the Spani
rds had t eir property given them, and the merchants
two months to fettle tneir bufioefs. The men under
the command of colonel Devaux did not exceed 65,
and, joined by the tailors, &c. from the Blips, amount
ed in the whole to no more than 200. The place was
iak.n with the lob of 3 men killed, 2 wounded, and
50 prisoners on the fide of the Spaniards, and without
me loss of one mm to the English."
Extras of a letter from Europe to an officer on Long-
Inland, dated April 8, 1783.
" In America, it is said that the war is drawing to
a cooclufi >j, and in Europe it is commencing. The
emperor and every other potentate are recruiting their
forces with ail pebble speed. The French will fend
an army to the Rhine, the moment the Roman emperor
(hall put in execution a long premeditated design, and
attack the 1 urks, which ne is actually about to do."