The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-11-15 00:00:00, page 1

A Further SALE of the
Public Lots of this City,
For the redemption of the Bills of Credit
of this fta,e, dated April the 29th, 1730, will be held
at the Coffec-houfe, or, THURSDAY, th* 15th of No
vember instant, at TE N o'clock in the forenoon, A
Plan of the Lots may be feeri at the Coffee-houft, and
at the Surveyor General's Office. The conditions the
fame as the last Tales.
On FRIDAIT Next,
At TEN o'Clock in the Forenoon,
At the Martha's Wharf, between Arch and Race
ftreets,
Will begin the Sale, by Public Audion,
OF
76 tons large Lignum Vitae.
55 tons Braziletto,
5 tons Fuftick,
3 tons Boxwood,
2080 pounds feed Cotton,
10,000 pounds clean Cotton,
248 pounds Indigo,
2649 pounds Eleuthera Bark,
tobo Havanna Hides.
Being the C A RGO of the Brigantine Free
land, taken by the Brigantine Two Eftbers. And on
Monday the 19th Instant,
At TWELVE o'clock, at Noon,
At the COFFEE.HOUSE,
Will be Sold by Public Auction,
The said Brigantine Freeland,
With all her Guns, Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture,
agreeable to Inventory to be lean at the Place of Sale.
By Order of the Court of Admiralty,
Nov. 9. CLEMENT BIDDLE, Marshal.
To be SOLD by Public Auction,
On Saturday next, the 17th inst, at Eleven
o'Clock in the Morning, at the Conti
nental Yard, the upper end of Chefnut
ftreet;-
Twenty-eight Yoke of Oxen,
with their Yokes, Chains, &c. They are from five to
seven years old, remarkably large, perfectly well broke
and found, in excellent order for Rail-feeding, or any
kind of work. At fame time will be Sold, 14 WAG
GONS, and 13 HORSES, mostly young, and all have
been used to lead ox^n. The above oxen, &:. may
be • viewed any time before th + da, of sale, at Mr.
Francis'# plantation, on the W^ffahichan Road, two
miles from the court-hcufe.
Philadelphia, Nov. to.
To be SOLD by Public Sale,
At the Ceffee-houfe, in the city cf Philadelphia, on
. WEDNESDAY the 21st of this Instant, at VI o'clock
in the Evening,
A three-story brick Meffuage,
vid two kory Brick KI TCHEN, and Lot of GROUND
fwuate on the north fide of Callowhill brect, and on he
weft fide of Front-street, in the township of the Northern
Liberties, in the county of Philadelphia, containing in
breadth, on the said front-ftrect, 20 feet, and in length,
on the said Callowhill Afreet, 68 feet 10 inches, and on
the north fide thereof ye feet 4 inches. Subject to a
rent charge of Five Pounds fteih per ann. due and to
become due an the premises; late the estate of Charles
Lawrence, shipwright, deceded; and to be fold in pur
suance of his last will and teftarreat, by
WILLIAM DEWEES, Executor.
November 12.
A Coachman is wanted to hire
or purchase i no e tired apply but inch as can , rxure a
recommendation adequate to the undertaking. Enqu re
of the Printer.
A good Gardener will meet with encourage
ment, by applying to the printer of this
paper.
VOL. X.l
THU RSDAT,
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OR, TH E
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
The Commissioners of the city
and county of Philadelphia, propose to LET, for th^
term of 4 years, the PUBLIC LANDING PLACES
belonging to th^ county; one of them situate at the
east end of Callow-hill street, the other on the east end
of Front-street, continued in the Northern-Liberties,
together with the PUBLIC SCALES, for weighing of
Hay. The Tenant to Repair the Wharf and keep the
whole in good Repair, and deliver them so at the expi
ration of said Term. Any person inclining to Rentthe
above-mentioned Premises, may deliver their Propos
als in writing, at the Court House, the 16,b of this
instant. November.t, 1781.
TO B~E ST" L D,
By GRAFF and LINDSEY,
The corner of Market and Second streets,
A neat aflortment of Hard Ware,
CONSISTING of the FOLLOWING ARTICLES, viz.
I VORY, ChinGe, buck and bone handled Knives and
1 Forks, Cutteau and Pen-Knives.
Flared Shoe, Knee and Stock Buckles,
Pinchbeck Shoe, Knee and Stock do.
Common do. do. and do.
Japanned Snuff and Tobacco boxes,
Gilt, plated 2nd common Sleeve Button,,
Foot and two foot Rules with Aiders,
Pinchbeck, white metal, and brafe taylor's Thimbles,
Trinkets, Handkerchiefs, Runners, Watch Chains and
Seals,
Corkscrews, steel Spurs, door Bolt#, and brats Cocks,
Pit 2aw, hand Saw, and tenant Saw Files'
Razors, Combs and Padlocks,
Japanned Snuffers, and sundry other articles.
~T B~E To- LD,
For Cath, Bills on France, or exchang'd for a place in
or near the city,
A plantation or tract of land
fitnata in Warrington township, Bucks county, within
one mile of Graeme Park, and about twenty-one miles
from Philadelphia; curtaining 500 Acres or upwards,
forming nearly a square, and at present divided into
two farms, rented for one half the produce, with about
40 Acres of Meadow in the whole, and 220 Acres
Wobd Land : The foil is equal to any in the town
Clip, the land s free from stones or broken ground, and
commands a beautiful profpe&. There is on one of the
places a Farm-houle, an excellent Spring arid a Urge
ft ne Spring-hue, with Hay-barracks, ftabliffg, &c.'
On the oiler a large F^rn house half stone and, ha]l(lqgs,
five good rooms on ,floor, a Wafli and Spring 'hotfe.
Barracks, Barn, Stabipg and every nectary yo.gvenein-
C) for the 500 acres, a branch of Nelhaminy creek
run-through a pait of the lift described farm, where
a great quantity of. meadow may be made, Ato no
acres of Wood-land, 6<uate near a line dividing Mai
borough from Fallowed township, Chester county,
formerly known by the name of Thomas Gibfbn's land, ;
adjoining Ring's hill. Any person inclining to pur
chase or exchange, may know the terms by applying
to THOMAS MASON, in Vine-fact.
Nov. 15.
Notary Public and Convey
ancer's Office.
JOHN D. CRIMSHEIR, Attorney at Law, 2nd one
Jof the Pub| ; ck Notaries of this Stater formerly an
Attorney ??d Notary'of the City of New Y rk 0 nt his
office in Front-street, between Chefnut and W Inut
ftretts, d r aws Deeds, Wills, Mortgages, L, fa, Arti
cles of Agreement, Assignments, Arbitration - Bonds,
and Awards, Articles of Copaftnerftip and ' feparaf.cn,
Charter Parti- of Afllgnmenf, Bottoms Btf, Settle
ments, Special Letters of Attorney, Memorials and
Petitions. And does every othr BuGnefs incident to
the Office of Conveyancing. And, as
A PUBLIC NOTARY,
Draws Mercantile ?nd Maritime Piotefls, Rrfiflers,
Foreign and inland Bills of Exchange, Pioi^iOLr' .Notes,
Letters df Attorney, and ot' er Writings refpe&ing
Trade; Authenticates Powers of Attorney, 2nd Ac
counts under the Nuui?l Seal, which %%e to be sent
bepend Sea; Draws Ipecial Notifications, for i|ie Speci
fic Performance of Executory Contrasts, agreeable to
the Mode pursued by Foreigners, and Protests against
joint Owners, and others, for uuneceffery D edition of
Vjfftls, &c.
THE
LONDO N, August 10.
A New board of finance is established at Petersburg,
whole only business is to receive proposals, and
confiJer of means of increasing the Imperial revenue#
without injuring the fubje&. When the present empress
came to the crown, the Ruffian revenue did not exceed
four millions neat into the imperial treasury ; it now
produces fix without a new tax being laid.
They write from Hanover, that the last return makes
the troops of the electorate conflft of 24,000 men, (of
which near 4000 are in the garrison) and ten regiment#
of militia, independent of the troops abroad in the Ser
vice of England.
, Advices from Madrid fay, " The king is so determin
ed to have Gibraltar, that he has ordered the whole
fleet to be sent against it. Eleven ships are fitted up
with beds, apl mortars of a-large bore. Upwards of
7000 men have joined the camp, and a very large train
of heavy battering cannon, large mortars, &c. with
goo of the corps d'Arrillerie. It is said there are up
wards of 400 piece* of cannon im the field."
August 17. During the late engagement between ad
miral Parker and the Dutch fleet, the slaughter of th#
latter} was so great, that the Dutch admiral ordered
boats to be sent from the different ships under his com
mand to the merchantmen, his convoy, for a supply of
men to replace those who fell during the adion.
A captain of a ship arrived from Lifban gives an ac
count, that on his passage he law a Spanish man of wag
on fire, that tie hoi fled out his boat to their affiflance,
but before they could reach the ship the flames com
municated to the powder-room, blew up the (hip, and,
all on board periled.
Letters from Goree mention, that an epidemical dis
temper has for feme time raged at Senegal, which had
proved very fatal to a great number of the inhabitants,
especially to the French troops that were in garrison.
Extract of a letter from Cork, August 6.
" Last Thursday arrived at Cove; the brig Pallas
captain Isaac Kelfick, from Workington to this place,
with coals ; on the 27th ult. he was taken about one
league from the Saltees by the Fanny privateer lugger,
Patrick Dowlin, master, mounting 16 guns (who failed
from Dunkirk) and ransomed for 500 guineas ; some of
the crew of the privateer told captain Kelfick's men
that they had 25 ransomers on board, and that theil
ransom bills amounted to near 40,0001.
“ Last Friday four men were committed to the coun
ty gaol, one of them an officer belonging to the Tar
tar private ship of war of France, and others pilots be
longing to Crookhaven. They were found reconnoi
tering the S. W. coast of this kingdom, in order to cut
out the vessels there, having laid a scheme for that pur
pole. They intended cutting out a Dutch prize lyir
in the harbour of Baltimore, on the night of the day on
which they w%e taken, by captain Donovan, of hi,
majesty's Revenue cruizer."
Y^ft^rday advice was received from Bamff, in Scot
land, that the crew of a Dutch privateer had landed at
Murray Frith, and began to plunder the inhabitants,
but the alarm being given, a body of Highlanders, ar
med with broad-swords anti pjflols, came down sudden
ly upon them, and made the Dutch pay dear for their
landing, 20, of them being killed and left on foe, and
many more it is fyppofqd. wounded: upwards of 100
landed.
A letter from Milford received yesterday fays, that
the privateers, French and Dutch, swarm on that ceaft
and the parts adjacent, 'which plunder the inhabitants
bordering on tea; and that in the night of the 11th inft
they cutayfffel out of the harhout;, and carried her off;
there were^nly a man and boy on board, whom it is
supposed, from the fatigue they had undergone the day
before, were faft asleep.
A letter from Sunderland brings advice, that four
faii^of loaded colliers tepud to Flymouth, are all tak.-nt
by two Dutch frigates and carried into the Tcxel ; the
captains wcpld have rairfomed their vessels, but were
told that the cargoes in a few weeks would be accep
table in Holland, and the vessels were wanted for. trans
ports.
The following is thought to be pretty nearly the
number of seamen now employed in the navies of the
several powers, exclusive of those employed by the bel
ligerents in the transport feryipe, viz. Great- Britain
116,546. Frince .98,230. Spain 50,375. Holland 19,260,
Sweden 10,430 Denmark 9240. Russia 14,960.
The East-India company have several flour armed
vessels in the Eaf llndies for the protection of their
trade, some of which carry 40 guns ; the Prince Willi
am of 32, and the Tartar of 28, are gone to a station
there for the fame purpofa
Sick, quarters art ordered on (here at Sherries for a)l the
wounded men on board of adm ral Parker's fquadron fr
and every possible care to be taken for their recovery.
A new ship of 74 guns is ordered to be built at East-
Cowes, in the Ifl^of Wight where the Repulse of 64
guns was launched a few months since.
NOVEMBER 15, OTA
[NUMB. 807.