The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1777-12-31 00:00:00, page 4

America.
Aug. 29. Three transports from New-York,
with near 400 disabled soldiers on board, are
arrived at Cork in Ireland.
It is now said, that Lord Percy has no inten
tion whatever to return to America.
Sept. 2. A new treaty has been lately nego
tiated with the Court of Peterfburgh, for which
the Czarina engages to fend 30,000 men into
the electorate of Hanover, if a war should break
out in Europe before the disturbance in Ame
rica isquelled. This, it is supposed, gave rife
to the report, that the said number of Ruffians
is to be sent to America.
Sept. 6. A morning paper fays, positive or
ders are sent to Lord Stormont to demand the
two Jamaica ships lately carried into Nantz ;
and in case of refufal to quit Paris immediately.
Orders are given from the Ordnance Board
for immediately fele&ing some light pieces of
artillery at the Tower, to be (hipped for Ca
nada.
/ -0A. 2. In the late warit was thought necessary
to raise some troops in Virginia. At the fame
time, the present General Washington, "by his
indefatigable zeal for the service, raised a regi
ment called the Virginia Volunteers, which he
commanded. Their a&ivity and success were
so remarkable, that the reverend Mr. Davis,i
who preached a sermon, or rather delivered a
panegyric on the occafipn, in Virginia, on his
speaking of Mr. Washington, who was their
Colonel, made use of the following fenrence:
" As for that young man ( WASHING I ON)
his uncommon bravery, coudu&, and know
ledge in the art of war, at his age, is superior to
what I ever read of; and he feemsas if appoin
, ted by Providence to be, hereafter, the protector
deliverer of bis country.
YExtraa of a letter from Mr. Israel Powley, dated
at Cadiz, September 8.
“ Last Friday an American privateer of twen
ty-fix guns came into this bay, and lay to near
three hours, when Don Carlos Hederitz, a Spa
niffi Colonel, and some other efficers, embark
ed on board the above vessel for Charleftown,
and the privateer flood out to sea again, and,
setting all her fails was soon out of fight."
The Bedford, De Garis, from Cowes for
Quebec, was taken the 22d of August by a
schooner privateer, called the Eagle, from Bos
ton, of eight guns and twelve swivels.
Another fleet of transports and ftorefhips is
netting ready at Portsmouth for New-York,
which'will fail next week, and is the ninth that
has failed this year.
Orders are sent to Portsmouth for the several
ships of war that are returned from cruising, to
proceed again to sea with the utmost dispatch,
after taking in necessaries, to protect the trade.
Extras of a letter from Paris.
" When Dr. Franklin appears abroad it is
more like a public than a private gentleman,
and the curiosity of the people to fee him is so
great, that he may be said to be followed by a
genteel mob. A friend of mine paid something,
tor a place at a two pair of flairs window, to'
fee him pass by in his coach, but the crowd was
so great that he could but barely fay he saw him."
Extract of a letter from Berlin.
“ Though almost worn out with age, fatigue,
and disease, Frederic cannot be idle„The Prus
sian cabinet (which by the way consists only of
the King and two military favourites) are cer
tainly hatching something. Whether their ma
noeuvres will be confined to Germany alone,
Poland in particular, or whether it will affea
any other part of Europe, time only can deter
mine. The Prussian troops are kept in as per
fe& order, and good discipline, as if a war was
on the point of instantly breaking out. This,
however, does not appear to be the case at pie
LONDO N, ^ugu^ 2,
WE are well informed that the cuttoms of
the hereditary revenue in Ireland, which
in the year 1775 amounted to 203,6091. odd
shillings, did not last year exceed 150,000 1.
Letters from Bilboa fay, that ten prizes have
been sent in there within fourteen da,s by the
American privateers.
Aug. 25. We are confidently assured that the
treaty with Russia is concluded, and that we
are to have 20,000 men, and ten men of war
from them, employed next campaign against
LANCASTER: Printed by JOHN DUNLAP, in Queen-street.
sent, unless between Ruffa and the Porte, and
the winter season will keep them quiet at least
for some months. The Prussian court is much
crowded with military people, several Americans
and a few English. Lord 1 n, in his
continental tour, has been both at Berlin and
Potfdam,.but his bon vivant is not generally re
lished."
Those, favs a correspondent, who suppose
Dr. Franklin came to Paris in the 75th year of
his age, to make experiments in natural philo
sophy, must certainly be a great many yearsold
er than the Do&or. They muff be even in their
dotage; and those, adds he, who imagine that
the French will deliver him up to Lord Stor
mont, may as well believe that Lord Stormont
will be appointed wet nurse to Her Most Christi
an Majetty.
If the adage holds good, that cc open enemies
are better than secret ones," it will be acknow
ledged that, even as matters now stand, Great-
Britain had better be at war with France, than
in the situation she is at present with that court.
October 7. Saturday evening frefh inftruaions
were sent to the commissioners of the different
dock-yards to expedite the fitting out for sea the
men of war which have lately been put in com
motion.
The Hawke, Gribble, a letter of marque, has
taken the Juno, an American vessel, laden with
rice, indigo, &c. valued at five thousand pounds,
and sent her fafe into Sandwich.
As seventy four gun ships are to be used for
the foreign station, for want of smaller vessels,
their complements are to be reduced from fix
hundred and fifty to five hundred and fifty
men.
Extract of a letter from Portsmouth, October 6.
“ Yesterday arrived at Spithead the Boreas
man of war, Capt. Thomson, and the Ostrich,
Capt. Rainer, from Jamaica, with the convoy,
consisting of feventy-hx fail, which were all left
fafe in the channel except two, one of which
was destroyed by lightning, and we have not yet
learned what is become of the other. They fail
ed from Jamaica the twenty-seventh of July
last."
We are well afiured that Dr. Franklin, whose
knowledge in philosophical sciences is univer
sally allowed, and who has carried the powers
of elidricity to a greater length than any of his
cotemporaries, intends shortly to produce an
electrical machine of such wonderful force, that,
instead of giving a flight stroke to the elbows of
fifty or an hundred thousand men who are join
ed hand in hand, it will give a violent shock e
ven to nature herfelf, so as to disunite kingdoms,
join islands to continents, and render men of
the fame nation strangers and enemies to each
other; and tha,t by a certain chymical prepara
tion from oil, he will be able to smooth the
waves of the sea in one part of the globe, and
raise tempers and whirlwinds in another, so as
to be universally acknowledged for the greatest
physician, politician, mathematician, and philo
sopher this day living.
WILLIAMSBURG, Dec. 12.
A vessel is arrived at Edenton, North-Caro
lina from France, with about seventy thousand
pounds worth of woolens, &c.
Thomas Adams, Esq; is chosen one our de
legates in General Congress, in the room of
Joseph Jones, Esq; who has declined on ac
count of the ill state of his health.
On the 13th ult. being thanksgiving day, the
Rev. John Hyde Saunders, of Cumberland coun
ty had a son baptifed in the church by the name
of HWRATIO GATES.
“ Though this court has a particular regard
to its trade and commerce, yet be assured that
this is not the only thing that engrosses the at
tention of the king and bis minister. The great
bustle which has been made in the naval and
military department has not been done for no
thing; on the contrary, they have an object of
no small importance in view, though this may
not be the season for disclosing it.
The Spanish court have established a new co
lony in thelfthmus of Darien (where the famous
Scotch fettlemcnt was some years age) which
is likely to turn out to very good account.
Intelligence Extraordinary.
Extract of a letter from Paris.
In C OUNCI L.
Lancafler, loth December, Inna:
ORDERED, 7
THAT public notification be made in the News
papers, that the General Assembly of this
State, did, on Monday the eighth instant, confirm
and establish the following Ordinances of the late
Council of Safety; that is to fay,
1. The Ordinance dated at Lancaster the 2 tft day
of October last, for taking possession of the effe&s es
those who have gone over to the enemy, and for ap
pointing Commissioners in the several counties for that
purpose.
2. One other Ordinance dated at Lancaster the
Bth day of November last, for collecting arms, blan
kets,&c. and the warrants iffbed in pursuance thereof.
3.One other Ordinance dated at Lancaster on the
7th day of November last, for preventing foreftallimg
and engreffing.
4 One other Ordinance dated at Lancaster on the
7th day of November last, for regulating the price of
whifky.
5. One other Ordinance dated at Lancaster on the
25th day of Odober last, for appointing and autho
rizing an additional number of Sub-Lieutenants to
a& in the county of Lancaster.
6. And one other Ordinance dated at Lancaster
the 25th day of Odober last, for the more effectual
levying the monies advanced for fubftituies in tie
militia and fines due to the public for disobedience
to the militia law.
And that Council do call upon the magistrates
and other officers concerned to carry them into
execution; and all pe dons whatever, are hereby
called on to pay due obedience.
ExtraCt from the Minutes,
T. MATLACK, Secretary.
fell;
New England's boast, the generous Worster fain.
Demands our tears, while Britons fly the plain ;
Last flow our forrn ws for a favourite son,
Whom weeping Carolina claims her own:
The gallant Nash, who with the fatal wound
Though tortur'd, webring on rhe hostile ground,
" Fight on, my tro ips," with failing ardour said,
" 'Tis but the fate of war, be not dismayed."
High heav'n ordains for great designs this woe,
Which til! the deftin'd period none muff knew :
Heroes of old thus for their country flood,.
Rais'd mighty empires, founded with their blood;
In this New World like great events must come,
Thus Athens rose, and thus imperial Rome.
The following elegiac lines were occkfinned by the
death ofthe H~n. Brigadier General Francis Nash,
of North-Carolina, who died of his wounds, the 7th
of Odober last, which he received on the morning
of the 4 '], as he was gallantly leading on his brigade
to charge the enemy near Germantown : The genteel
figure qf his person, added to iris easy and engaging
manners, gained him the ass ftions of all those who
had the pleasure of his acquaintance. In him the
army have loft a promising general, of which he gave
an illustrious proof, and is justly to be lamented by
every friend of America.
Genius of Freedom ! whitner art trou fled ?
While fields of death thy sons undaunted tread.:
Lo ! where for thee thy brightest heroes fall,
And not thy shield to w,rd the winged ball,
On Bunker's height great Wavren is no more,
The brave Montgoim 1? r y's fate we next deplore;
Princeton's fam'd fields to trembling B itain tell
How, fcor'd with wounds, the conquering Mercer
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TEN POUNDS REWARD.
STRAYED or STOLEN, on the 26th of
November last, from the fubferiber, living in
Reading, a bay HORSE, about fourteen hands
high, ten or twelve years old, trots, canters and
paces well, is of a low carriage, short tail, his mane
grows on the near fide, has several white spots on
his back, the faddie having worn the ficin off. Who
ever takes up the said horse and the thief, shall have
the above Reward, or THREE POUNDS for
the horse only, paid by
II BENJAMIN EYRE.
Head of Elk, November 27, 1777.
TAKEN UP, and now in the
poffeflion ofthe fubferiber, a black HORSE,
fifteen and a halfhands high, fix years old, with a
star in his forehead, paces and trots. The owner,
by proving his property and paying charges, may
have him again.
t THOMAS HUGGINS.
YORK- I O W N, December 20.