The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-08-02 00:00:00, page 1

A farther SALE of the
Public Lots of this City,
For the Redemption of the Billi of Credit of this State,
dated April 19, 1780,
Will be Held at the Coffee-Houfe,
THIS DAY,
Being the SECO ND of August, at Eleven o'Clock
in the Forenoon.
A FLAN of the Lots may be seen at the Coffee
ll^ufe ; the Conditions rhe fame as in former Siles.
TO-MORR o'w;
(Being the Third of August)
At 1 E N o'clock in the Forenoon,
e Oh M-ffrs. Jamet and Drinker's Wharf,
Will be Sold by Public Audion,
93 pipes, 7 hogsheads, & 38qarter-cafks of
Tenerffi W INE,
145 Bags of SALT,
7 Casks of Raisins and 2 Casks of Almonds:
Being the Cargo of the Brigantine TRISTRAM
SHANDY, taken by t'he Priv teer Snp Rising
San and Letter of Marque Sloop Jane.
And at TWELVE o'Clock at Noon,
OF THE SAME DA/,
WILL BE SOL D,
The laid Prize Brigantine
Triftram Shandy,
With all her Cunt, Tackle, Apparel and Furniture,
agreeable to Inventory to be seen at the Place of Sale.
By Order of the Court of Admiralty,
CLEMENT BIDDLE, Marshal.
TO BE SO L D,°
On SATURDAY Next,
At the Coffee House, at SIX o'Clock in the Evening,
A Tra& of Land,
Confining, by fuvey, Four Hundred and Eighteen
Abrea, be the fame more or Idfs, situate in the county
of Morris, towrifliip of Foxborough, and state of New-
Jirfey, adjoining the line of partmen between East and
,J,'y> a °d lands of John Reading, enquire. It
it within one mile of And ver Forge, and seven miles
cf Hacket s-town; the whole well timbered with oak
and hickory, has two ftreans of water running thr Ugh
part cf it, with a considerable quantity of foamp and
meadow ground: Tbe lend in that neighbour hood pro
dac^ go n d wheat, rye, flax and corn; its lying so
rear the forge must render the timber very v.luatle,
of which there is a great abundance. An indisputable
TitU will be given.
Ju'y 30. JOHN BAYARD, Audione/t.
FI.VR POUNDS REWARD.
AN- AWAY lift night from the fubteriber, A
A likely NEGKOE BOY, named DUBLIN, nine
teen years of age, a out 5 feet high f Be tock with
him a white cloth coat and breech:#, and a short, brown
plush coat with white cape and cnff^ Whoever will
secure the fiid Negroe in any gaoli.:h U liter States,
shall have the above Reward. DAVID LENOX.
July ig.
Ten Pounds Reward.
STRAYED or stolen, on Saturday night, the 14th
O instant, out cf Mr. James Paull inckuu- es, ad
joining Gramme-Park, Hoi sh on towifli ; p, Philadelphia
county, A fine full-blooded BAY MA RE, 8 years
old, has a star, small biza and In'p, bla k mane sr.d
tail, her bind off foot white, with a terra kable Ida k
foot within the Wh:te, on the inner fide o' the foot rear
the hoo r , rnd has a fear on the heel of her near foot ;
fl e is food before, the hoofs somewhat long, the having
run at grabs feme time, is neatly made tut a little hi>h
hipped ; gay, footed, a&ive and so easy
Trots and carters will, rather tender on the bit, and
very apt to p'ay with it when mounted. The above
Reward will be given f rapprehending the Thief and
Mare, if Stolen, or Five p nnd, for the Mare only, bv
July 1781. ISAAC MELCHER.'
THURSDAY, A UGUST 2, 1781.
THE
O R, THE
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
VOL. X.l
Published iYery TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
four guineas reward.
ST OLEN on the evening of the 21st instant, from
the plantation oftht fubferiber, in Waterford town,
ship, count, of Gloucester, in the state of New Jersey,
three HORSES, V z. one black borfe, seven years old/
fourteen and a half hands high, sundry fiddle marks,
pices moftfy under the saddle, trots well in a chair ;
but sometimes paces at firff setting off, has a small
fore on his near hip bone. One forrell horse, with
feme white cn the face, about 75 hands high. One
bay horse, with a star and a small (nip, two white hind
feet, fourteen and an half hands high , all in good
order, the black in particular. Any p?rfon who will
secure the thief and return the horses to the fubferiber
fliall have the abo i e reward and reasonable charges, or
in proportion for as many as may be returned.
July 24. WILLIAM TOD.
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1 quart of Salt, A
a quarts of Vmegar, [To every hundred
8 Pounds of S ap, r rations.
3 Pounds o'Candles, J
The Contraflors to issue the said rations; the payment
to be made in gold or silver, at the time to be flipulated
in the contrast ; the proposals to be f?nt in feiied, and
to contain the lowest prices and longest terms of payment
at which the parties will contrast.
N. B. The Stipulations to be entered into may be
seen in the Draft of a Contraß at this Office.
LONDON, April 2 .
AN elegant gold box, containing the freedom
of the city of Edinburgh, is now ready to be sent
off to admiral Rodney. There are engraved upon it
the insignia of the city, a medallion of the gallant ad
miral, with Fame upon the top of it blowing her trum
pet, and a suitable inEviption.
Letters in town from gentlemen serving unler the
gallant Rodney, fay, " After having secured several
“ claimed properties belonging to neutral houses, &c.
" the commissaries appointed to report and value the
“ immence riches at Euflatia, fay, a sum not less than
" four millions flerling will certainly be divided between
"the navy and army."
A young gentleman of diflinaion serving as volun
teer under admiral Rodney at St. Euflatia, writes to
his friends, that the admiral, general and the oldest
officers in the feet have all expressed their surprise at
this womb of wealth and riches. There are flore-hbufes
300 feet in length, four flories high, full of indico,
cochinel, sugars, tobaccos, &c. with some thousand
bales of linen and woollen cloths ; the value of the
whole cannot be less than four millions of pounds fter-
Png.
The report of a late infurreaioti in Corfca is entirely
void of foundations the idea alone is ridiculous. The
rebels possessed but one part cf the island, and have all
been dispersed or extirpated by the French. This na
tion has been prejudiced in favour of the Corsicans,
from the mifreprefentuions of Mr. Eofwell, who has
firuggled to give an air of consequence to theft iffands.
Extr^a of a letter from captain James Devereux, of the
Drawblood privateer of 12 guns, from Milford, to
his owners, dated Cork, March 12.
“ I am to inform you, that at eight this morning,
I arrived in the cove of Cork, in a moss Mattered con
dition, having on the frh infant, in a thick fog, cape
Cie r bearing N. N. E. distant 14 leagues, fallen in
with the Vrow Petronella, Berand Jan on Kiyne,
commander, a Dutch letter of marque, carrying 18
nine pounders, and 100 men, which snip we engaged
n^r three hours, when she flruck to us. Sae pro
\, to be a very valuable prize, about 700 tons, laden
with naval floret bound to Cadiz. In the aftion we
had our foremaft (hot away by the board, ourmiin
maft very much wounded, and received several (for
between wind and water; we had five men killed at
helm, and loft on tie whole 11 killed, and 16 wound-
Office of Financed
°JULY 14, 178).
IN pursuance of an Act of the United States in Con
g ef# Assembled, NOTICE is hereby given, That
Propofah will be rece ved in this *office,' from the date
hereof until the nth day of August next, incinfive,
for supplying, by contraa, the rations deliverable by the
public at Fort Pitt and its dependencies, to such efficerr,
soldiers and others as are or may be entitled to them
from acertain time to be fixed in the centred until the
Expiration of fix months thereafter; the ration to con
filt of Ooe pound of Bread,
One pound of Beef or three quarters of Pork
One gill of good Whiskey, —and cf
H6uSE of COMMO NB, April 26, 1781.
As soon as the speaker had taken the chair yester
day in the house of commons, he acquainted the house
with his having received two . letters, one from fir Hen
ry Clinton, and the other from Admiral Arbuthnot,
which he read from the chair. The letters are as fol
low : ,
Head Quarters, New-York, March 1, 1781.
"SIR,
" Confeious that thd most ardent exertions of a Brt
" tifh fubjeft, to promote the glory and interest of his
“ king and country, cannot obtain a more honoura
ble reward than the thanks of a British house of
" commons I want words to express how very fenfi
" bly I feel the distinguished mark of approbation with
" which that august assembly has been pleased to ho
" hour my services.
" I must therefore, fryintreat that you will have
“ the gooddefs to offer my warmest acknowledgments
" to the honourable house of commons in the moss
" expressive terms of gratitude.
" Permit' me to request you will accept my humble
" thanks for the very obliging manner in which you
" was pleated to Convey to me the fefulutions of the
''houfe.
“ I am, with t'hegreateft honour and refpe&
'S I R,
'' Your most obliged, and most humble servant,
“ H. CLINTO N."
To the right honourable Charles
Wolfran Cornwall, esquire,
Speaker df the house of Commons.
Royal Oak, near Rhode-Ifland, February 16, 1781.
“ I am this day honoured with your letter of the
" 30th of November lass, accompanying a resolution
“ of the honourable the house of commons, of thanks
“ and approbation of my conduct in the chief command
“ of his Majesty's fleet in North -America.
“ When I fefleft that my name will be f® diftin
“ guifhed to poflerity, as well as in the present day,
“ I am filed with the most perfed gratitude, and all
“ expression is inadequate to my feelings; I ffiall there
" fore only beg that you will assure the honourable
" house that the impression Will never be effaced, and
" that I coofider a service of the longest life, Well
"employed, to be thus honourably rewarded.
" Permit me to. request you will accept my humble
" thanks for the very ob'iging manner in which you
" was pleased to convey to me this refo ution.
" I. am, with the greatest honour and refpe&,
"S I R,
ft Your most obliged and most humble fervanf,
“ Mt. ARBUTHNOT."
To the right honourable Charles
Wolfran Cornwall, esquire,
Speaker of the house of commons.
ed. The Dutchman had 28 killed, and 30 wounded,
among the former are the captain, and two gentlemen
who were paffengers*"
Ex ra& of a letter from Brifto!, February 28.
" At the close of the poll for members of this city,
on Saturday, there was a majority of 372 in favour of
Mr. Daubeny, when a scrutiny was immediately de
manded in favour of Mr. Cruger. After much alter
cation between each party, the fheriffs referred the
confiaeration of the matter to Monday twelve o'clock,
when the court met again ; and she fheriffs refuting to
grant the scrutiny, their proceedings were protested
againfl by Mr. Cruger's friends ; but as the town had
keen a long while in confufion, and murder had been
Committed on the occafon on Saturday night, the fhe
riffs thought tl e conferences of continuing the contest
would be dreadful, as it was already become very se
rious; therefore declared their determination of putting
an end to it, by returning Mr. Daubeny, who had the
majority, of votes; and accordingly he was declared
duly tilled; and was chaired amidi lthe acclamations
of thousands of his friends; who paraded with him
round the usual parts of the town, with colours flying,
and every display of triumph. The evening was con
cluded in an orderly manner. And had it not been
so the murder on Saturday evening, though the par
tizins have been very warm on each fide, the election
would have ended quite as well as it could be expetied
'' The following are the particulars of the murder
committed at the Swan'ea flip, on Saturday evening:
A cone urft of -Mr. Cruger's people, who had been
irrta cd, on the forepart of the day, by some persons
that had contemptuonfly displayed the American co
lours o ' some of our churches, paradedthe streets, and
pulled them down; and going along the Bick, they
saw a Swansea trader, with her flag of triumph ou^
which they ordered to be struck ; and it being compii-
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