The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-01-16 00:00:00, page 1

Pennfy Ivania, IT.
The SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
TO ALL to whom these PrcfcntsJball come, Greeting.
WHEREAS by virtue and in pursuance of fan
dry Laws of this Commonwealth, heretofore
passed and enabled for the better security of the
Government thereof, divers persons have been apprehend
ed and in due course of Law committed to prison, having
been convided or charged with pertinaciously refusing to
take the several oaths or affirmations required by the laid
Lans,from the fubjeds of thisState,and many of the persons
so charged or convided, do now remain in several of the
prisons of this State. AND WHEREAS by an AR
of Assembly passed at the last sessions, and dated the fifth
day of December last, entitled, " A farther Supplement
to the A&, entitled an A& for the better security of Go
vernment," ail the pains, penalties and disabilities, im
posed by any former Afis of Assembly, (except those of
eleßing and being elected or appointed to any office, or
place of trust or profit, or serving on juries) were declared
from thenceforth to cease and determine. NOW KNOW
YE that the Supreme Executive Council of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, duly considering the nature, pur
port and tendency of the said A& of Assembly, and also
the circumstances and situation of the said prisoners, Have
pardoned, remitted and released, and by these presents do
pardon, remit and release un o the said parties, and every
of them, so Handing charged and convicted as aforefaid,
by whatsoever name or names they may be called or known,
all and every the said offence or crime of recufancy as
aforefaid, and all punifhmeots, pains and penalties, in
flicted by any of ths said Laws or any judgment of any
Court of law thereupon, other than any fine or fines duly
imposed by any of the said Court or Courts of Law in this
Commonwealth : And do by these presents hereby fuper
cede all warrants, or orders of commitment or detainers
whatsoever, heretofore issued by any Court, Justice of
Peace, or other person in authority under this Common
wealth, except as herein before mentioned. And all Sh^
riffs, Coroners, Under-Sheriffs, Gaolers and others, are
hereby authorifed and required, on payment of prison
fees and other fees, to enlarge and set at liberty, all per
sons committed or detained by reason of the premises, for
which this Shall be their fufficient warrant. Being not
willing that the said recufants, or any of them, Shall be
farther molested by any Sheriffs, Justices, Bailiffs, or
ether our Ministers or Successors, or be aggrieved or dis
turbed in any thing by occasion of the premises, except
for any fines as herein before-mentioned ; and being also
willing that these letters patent, (as to all and lingular the
premises aforementioned) be and remain good, firm, va
lid and effectual in Law, although the crimes and offences
aforefaid, be not fully set forth, and that this release, re
mission and exoneration, of all and every the said recufants,
be in all Courts within this Commonwealth, and elsewhere,
interpreted and adjudged in the most favourable sense, for
their more sure discharge, and also be pleaded and allowed
in all the said Courts without any other writ, grant or de
claration, in that behalf obtained or to be obtained. Any
defect or defeats in these letters patent contained, or any
aft, ordinance, provision, proclamation or reftri&ion, or
any other thing, cause or matter whatsoever, to the con
trary hereof in any wife notwithstanding.
GIVEN by order of the Counci!, under the band of His
Excellency Joseph Reed, Enquire, Prefdent, and
the feed of the State at Philadelphia, this twenty -ninth
day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand
fever, hundred and feventy-eigbt.
JOSEPH REED,
PRESIDENT.
Attest, T. Matlack, Secretary.
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A NUMBER of the Members of the Li
< A brary Company of Philadelphia having applied to
the Board of Directors to call a general meeting of the
Company, to confider of the propriety of railing the
price of a Share in the Library, &c. The Members of the
laid Company are therefore hereby requeued to appear
in person or by proxy, at the Library Room, on Satur
day the sixth day of February next, at Two o'clock in
the afternoon, to confider of the premises, and pass a
Law impowering the Dire&ors to raise the prices of
Shares, if it Shall be judged expedient.
Jan. 13. By order of the Directors,
S t. ANDREW ROBESON, Secretary.
FOR S /I L E,
A* 'E'ER WHITESIDE and Co's, store, in
Chetnut-ttreet, between Third and Fourth streets,
M" 'A° "& ars i n hogsheads and barrels,
"a""' black pepper, bohea and hyfon
tc^s in corp. ATo, some medicines and dry goods.
SATURDAY,
O R
•GENERAL
[Price Fifteen Pence single, One Shilling by the quantity. Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.]
On MONDAY the eighteenth inst. at Nine o'clock
in the morning, will be fold by Public Sale, at the
late dwelling house of Charles Moore, deceased, in
Market-street,
ft LARGE assortment of Houfhold and Kitchen
4 I Furniture, consisting of feather beds and bedding,
tables, chairs, looking-glasses, a quantity of plate, and
a variety o< other things too tedious to infcrt ; past of
the estate of Charles Moore, hatter, late of this city,
deceased. And at the fame time will be fold, three
years and four months lease of the above house.
All persons indebted to the said estate are desired to
call and pay the fame; and ail persons having any de
mands thereon are desired to bring in their accounts to
the Executors, that they may be paid.
ROBERT SMITH,
HENRY PRATT, ] Execut ° r ^
IF Robert Moore, hatter, son of Charles Mooie, late
of the city of Philadelphia, hatter, deceased, is alive, he
may hear of Something to his advantage by applying to
Robert Smith or Henry Pratt, Executors, &c. He was
raided in General Smallwood's division. Any person
or persons giving information to either of the above Ex
ecutors, will be thankfully rewarded.
Philadelphia. Jan. 11, 1,79.
To be SOLD by Public Sale,
At the Coffee-houfe, on Wednesday the twentieth inst.
at Five o'clock in the evening,
A CERTAIN lot of ground, lying and being
It.pleafantly situated in Willis-town township, Ches
ter county, within twenty-two miles of this city, lying
on the main road leading from Newtown Square to
Downing's-town, adjoining the land of George Smend
let and the plantation where the Rising Sun Tavern was
lately kept: Said lot contains ten acres of good land
under good fence, a good frame d welling-house and log,
Stable, twenty good bearing apple-trees, a good garden
part pailed and part post and rail fence : There is a small
stream of water runs through said lot ; now in tenure of
T homas Wiggins.# Attendance will be given by
WILLIAM ROBINSON.
OFFICE for CONVEYANCING and SALE
of REAL ESTATES.
TO BE SO LD,
A NUMBER of Houses and Lots in and near this
city, Plantations in the country, and a great quan
tity of unimproved Trails of Land in molt of the dif
ferent counties. For a more particular description of the
ab^ve premises and the terms of sale, apply to Edward
Bonsall and Abraham Shoemaker, at their Of
fice in Fourth Street, between Spruce and Pine-ftrcets,
and opposite the end of Union-Street, where Deeds,
Mortgages, Bonds, Wills, and all other kinds of Writ
ings are drawn with the greatelt care, ncatnefs and dis
patch, and money let out at interest.
TO BE SO L D,
HATTERS TRIMMINGS,
Of all kinds, by
SAMUEL YOU N G,
Near the Drawbridge.
ONS HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, on Friday the
ft it ink. (January) a Negro Man named Larey;
be is Short, neat and well made, about twenty-two
years of age, Speaks English well, is lively, plausible and
artful ; he had on a new suit of blue cloaths. He be
longed feme years ago to Mr. Willing, of this city.
Whoever apprehends and delivers the said Negro to the
fubferiber, Shall receive the above reward and leafonable
charges. JAMES WILSON.
Philadelphia, December 29, 1778.
H E Subferiber continues to teach the
A pohte art of DANCIN G, at hs Long Room
in Carter's Alley ; and for the most convenient and ex
peditrons method of teaching the pupils, has opened
the School in four clafcs. viz. For young Misses, Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays, from eleven till one,
forenoon : For grown Ladies, the afternoons of the
fame days: For grown Gentlemen, from fix till nine
the fame evenings: And for Boys, Tuesdays, Thurf
daya and Saturdays, from three till five, afternoon,
Those who are pleased to encourage him with the tu
ition of their children, may depend on having them
taught in the meft approved method, with necessary in
ftruaiens for their address and decorum, by the Public's
Mott obedient humble servant,
WILLIAM MDOUGALL.
N. B. Ladies and Gentlemen may be taught private
in the intermissions of the public School.
THE
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JANUARY 16, 1779.
S^Xy^^/^^ <n\ ^>r§//hZ3
ADVERTISER
To the Printer of the Pennsylvania Packet
SIR,
I HAVE read Mr. Deane's publication in your paper of
the sth of December, and the ftri&ures made up^n i*
tn several subsequent papers, by one who wrote unaeEbe
signature of Common Sense. The manner in which Mr.
Deane introduced his periormance, firuck my attention
and raised my curio£ty to hear what he had to fey with
candor. It wasaddreffed to the free and virtuous citizens
of America.—" A most venerable and impartial tribunal."
• 'I do not, fays he, address you on my own account
but yours."--The fubjed must indeed be momentous. -
"I do not with to prejudice any man, but to ferv' emy
country."-Difinterefted patriotism ! “ But I will not
fee an individual ora family raised upon the ruins of fre
general weal." One would now think ti ere had been
plots—plots upon plots —horrid conspiracies t® ruin Mr
Deane's beloved country—" While it was fafe to be silent
my lips were clofej. Necessity has opened them ^ferve
by informing you."—And wno would not have felt this
obligation to Mr. Deane, if he had really firve^ by in
forming us? Still we will give him credit'for his benevo
lent intentions. What I write to you I would have said
to your Reprefenta lives.—But-Is ft true "that their ears
have been shut against him? '' If it is not true, the Con
gress have been too busily employe] in the great affairs of
the publicj or they are too magn mimous to take notice of
the bold assertion.
After an exordium so replete with warm profeffens of
unbiased patriotism and zeal for the public good —After
Mr. Deane rad felt himfelf so preffid with the necessity of
revealing to the free, and virtuous citizens of America the
mifehievous designs of an individual, or a family 'Af
ter he had declared that the ears of that body who
to he, hint, were that Q,R him, cue QtoW
petted that in a .olemn appeal to the people at large he
would have explicitly declared what he had uttered in
dark sayings, and brought both chapter and verse to prove
that what the individual, the family and the Cei^re's
would seem to have combined to hide from the public eve
was a dangerous plot indeed--But look through the whole
piece and you will find from the beginning to the end mere
insinuations or affertibns without the fliadow of evidence
and the appearance at best of disappointment and a disturb
ed mind. I will not fay an envious mind It might b^
thought indecent. But it behoves us all to guard
f % fatal a drforder as envy-Envy dies bee tufe a neighbour
lives; we are tpld, that the hist son born into the world
flew his brother, hecaufe he was more righteous than him
felf.
lam a stranger to thearcana of State and do not wish to
know them. Jam content if nothing is kept secret from
the people, but what their own interest requires fcould be
kept secret, and I have such an opinion of the wi dom and
integrity of Congress, that I have no suspicions of the
contrary.--IfMr. Dearie was really saddled as he expres
ses it with a colleague, I suppose the Congress had some
secret, but good reasons for thus Saddling him, and these
reasons may remain as secret as th^ grave, with all my
heart. But I mult own lam curious to know what h^r
Deane intended by the word he uses, saddled, and whether
Congfefs in any sense didJaddle him with a colleague It
is plain that by this saddle of a colleague, Mr. Deanedoes
not mean Dr. Franklin; no, he carefelly flirouds his own
reputation under that of the DoGor, and every now and
then mentioned him as his venerable Jrtend. It is a thou
sand pities that the Doctor is so near the end of his jour
ney thro' life, when h's friendship for Mr. Deane and for
us all will cease. We must then understand Mr. Dearie
refers to Arthur Lee, £fy as the colleague with whom
the Congress have saddled him. And pray, do you know
the character of Mr. Lee? Will not kis enemies allow
that he is a man of sense and learning? Did he not tal<c
an early, decided, active and open part in this great con
test ? Has he not been an invariable and confident pitri
°' '. 'f ere '."' ™ s abilities, his integrity, his zeal, his
fortitude, besides a train of other virtues well known to
Congress ? Were they not well known to America in ge
neral? Will not particular States, will not the great Coun
cil of these United States confirm all this? D?d they not
receive from him the most accurate and important intel
ligence while he was in England? Did they not invite his
correspondence and pledge their confidence? Did not his
inflexible attachment to his country contrail )him before
he left England, to give them every information atrthe
rifque not only of private resentment, but the vengeance
of that unprincipled Court? In Short, did not the Con
gress employ Arthur Lee, Esq ; as a most ufefui and ne
cessary man ? The honest regard I feel for so eminent a
citizen, will be my execufe for offering you so long a firing
of queflions. I hope they are not impertinent. Why then
will Mr. Deane think himfelf saddled with such a colleague?
I have indeed heard that watchfulnefs is peculiarly cha
ra&eri flick of Mr. Lee.--But surely Mr. Deane has no
thing to object against a vigilant colleague, I will not in
sinuate it. It has been no uncommon thing in the world
for a vigilant patriot to be branded by men of corrupt
designs and views with the hard epithets' of peevift, fret
ful, urfatisfiable, designing, inflammatory, and a thou-