The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-05-16 00:00:00, page 3

This lift is signed by Conelie O'Brien, British gene
ral.
THE honorable the Minister Plenipotentiary of Frane?
having received a letter from His Most Christian Majesty to the
United States in Congress assembled, announcing the birth pt a
Dauphin, desired a public audience, at which he might deliver
the letter. And Monday last having been assigned for the audi
ence, the Minister of rance was escorted to the State-House by
the city troop of light horse, and was there received with military
honors, by the continental troops and the corps of Philadelphia
artillery, assembled for the purpose. Being introduced to the
United States in Congress assembled, he addressed them in a
Speech, to the following effeft:
" Gentlemen of the Congress,
" SINCE the Alliance so happily concluded between the
King my Master and the United States, you have taken too inti
mate a part in every event which interefled his glory and heppi
nefs, not to learn with sincere joy that Providence has granted a
Dauphin to the wishes of the King your Ally, and to rhefe of
France. His Majesty imparts this event, Gentlemen, in the
letter which I am directed to have the honor of delivering,
" Theconnedions which unite the two Nations, connexions
formed in justice and humanity, and strengthened by mutual in
terests, will be as durable as they are natural. The Prince, who
is just born, will one day be the Friend and Ally of the United
States. He will in his turn support them with all his power;
and while in his dominions he ihall be the Father and Proteftor
of his people, he will be here the Supporter of your children,
and the guarantee of their freedom."
The letter from His Most Christian Majesty was then delivered
to the President, and was read to the audience, both in the origi
nal and as translated. The trailflation is as follows :
" Very dear great Friends and Allies,
". SATISFIED of the interest you take in every event
which affeXs us, we are anxious to inform you of the precious
mark which Divine Providence has just given us of his goodness,
and of the protection he has granted to our kingdom. We do
not doubt that you will partake in the joy we feel on the birth of
our son, the Dauphin, of whom the Queen, our most dear spouse,
is just now happily delivered.—You will easily be convinced.of
the pleasure with which we shall receive every proof that you may
give of your sensibility upon this occasion. We cannot renew,
at da derio more afteXing to us, the assurance of our affection and
of our conflant friendship for you. Upon which we pray God
that he would have you, very dear great friends and allies, in his
holy keeping.
" THE instances of friendship which the United States of
America have received from His Most Christian Majesty, give
him too just a title to their afFeXion to permit them to be indi£.
talent to any event which interests his happiness. Be assured.
PARI 3, February 26.
fl NOTHER armament is preparing at Brefl, which
CT will corfift of 12000 men, to be embarked on
board too transports. As foonas M. de la Motte Pic
quet, who is appointed to command it, returns, the
the whole will set fail.
March 5. The following is a lift of the officers,
foldiera, &c. that competed the garrison of fort St.
Philip:
Staff. Lieutenant general Murray, commander in
chief ; lieutenant general Draper, second in command ;
major general Sydon, commanding the Hanoverians ;
major Kiroliis, quarter mafler general; Mr. Don, ad
jutant general, nephew to Mr. Murray ; Mr. Hamil
ton, major of the place : five aids-de-camp, two colonels,
three lieutenant colonels, and four Majors.
English regiments, No. 51, and 61, 62 officers, and
885 soldiers. Regiments of prince Ernest and Golda
chrr, 55 officers and 824 soldiers ; artillery, 18 officers
and 132 soldiers ; Corsicans, 3 officers, and 6 soldiers ;
engineers, 5 officers and 20 workmen ; marines, 30 of
ficers and 554failors: ; 1 chaplain, 10 surgeons, two af
fiflants ; 131 women and 17 children ; in the whole 3032
heads.
Underneath,
Gravier de Vergennes.
"" Ie President of Congress then addressed the Minister in the
following Speech:
"S I R,
Ten days ago a cartel vessel arrived at York town
(Virginia) from South-Carolina, with a number of pri
toners, some of which belonging to the northward, took
passages in one of the bay craft to go to the head of Elk,
but on their passage up Chefapeak bay, finding they
were like to be again made pilferers by a refugee boat,
and knowing they mightas well die as fall into the hands
of the merciless Britons, each man armed himfelf with a
club, having no weapons on board, except an old cut
]afs ; thus armed they ran along fide the refugee, board
ed and carr ed her. The prisoners (among which is one
Holton Jones, who ran off from Germantown in 1778)
were fafely condu&ed to the Head of Elk.
Messieurs William Henry, William Rush, George
Emlen, John Wood, Andrew Tybout, George Schlof
fer, James Wharton, John Meafe, Reubin Haines, Ro
bert Knox, Philip Kinsey and Isaac Snowden, mana
gers And Christopher Marshal, junr. treasurer.
On Monday last the contributors to the relief and em
ployment of the poor in the city cf Philadelphia, &c.
met at the court-house, according to law, to choose
managers and a treasurer of that inftitntion, for the en
suing year, when the following gentlemen were duly
cleded, &c.
Extract of a letter from South-Carolina, April 10.
" The British in Charleflown have difarmud their
black regiment, for there happened some mifonder fland
ing between the black and red soldiers at the I nes, and
an a&ion immediately commenced, in which several
were killed on both sides. The matter was immediate
ly inquired into, and 5 negroes and 2 British ferjeants
were hanged, and several others condemned, 15 of whom
were executed last week."
Ammunition. 222 pieces of cannon in good conditi
on, 13 that may serve in case of need ; 133 useless;
there are 17 of brass, the others are iron ; eleven mor
tars, swivels, and obitzers brass, and ten iron, Sick in
the hospital 1407 men.
March 21. Orders have been dispatched to 54 regi.
ments, now on their march, to repair to the environs
of Brest.
Philadelphia, May 16.
Written at Versailles, the ezd of October, 1781.
Your good Friend and Ally,
LOUI S."
WANTED immediately, a W^T NURSE with a good Breast of Milk. Entire of tie Priptcr.
§^ j ° " N'h in Antigua, April 16, 1782.
J A M happy in acquainting you that Admiral Rodney has
gained a compleat vi&ory over the French fleet, confining of
32 fail of the line; the Ville de Paris, of 110 guns, on board of
which is Mons. de Graffe, is amongst the number taken; he was
the two fir^ days after his capture with Sir George, but by his
own request is now on board his former ffiip; the had 470 killed
and wounded. I have been on board her; she is larger than any
of our three-deckers in the fleet, carries 42 pounders on her lower
deck, 24's on her middle, and 18's on her upper deck; the Ar
dent of 64 is also taken, as are likewise the HeXor and Glorieux,
°' 74 guns each. The Casfar, of 74, after being taken, was set
on fire by accident; and there was a ship funk in the a&ion,
supposed to be the Zodiaque or the Diadem. It was in fad a
noble adion. It began at 8 A. M. on the 12th instant, and was not
over till 6P. M. There were 27 chefrs of money on board Ad
miral de Graffe. They were bound to join the Spaniards, and
attack Jamaica, whither, I presume, our fleet will go. Our fleet
have repaired their damages, which were chiefly in their rigging,
and we have not half the killed and wounded in our whole fleet
as there was on board the Ville de Paris.
Yesterday the Andromache frigate failed for England. There
were two anions, one on the 9th, wherein Captain Baine, of the
Alfred, was killed; and in the victorious one, on the 12th, Cap
tain Blair, of the Anson, was killed; Lord Robert Manners loft
his leg and broke his arm, and Captain Savage, of the Hercules
has a wound in his foot, and his jaw locked. There were 400
fouls on aboard the Caesar when she blew up. Lor.d Robert is gone
to England.
Sir, that ,Congress learn with the most lively fatisfaaion, that
it has pleased the Divine Giver of all good gifts to bless their
august Ally with an heir to his throne. Our earnest prayer is,
that he may, with it, inherit the virtues which have acquired to
His Majesty so much glory, and to His dominions so much pros
perity, and which will be the means of cementing and strength
ening the union so happily eftabli&d between the two Nations;
an Union, the mutual advantages of which become daily more
confoicuous, and which has derived new hiftre and additional
force from every effort of the common enemy to dissolve it. Con
gress do not enlarge upon this fubjeX, but fatisfy themselves with
the representations which your own observations will enable you,
and your regard to the interests of both Countries will induce you
to make, of the affectionate attachment which every rank of peo
ple within these States manifeft to your Sovereign, and of their
inviolable fidelity to the principles of the Alliance."
When the Minister withdrew, the birth of the Dauphin was
announced to the public by a difeharge of cannon, and a feu de
joye of mufquetry. In the afternoon a dinner was provided by
Congress for the Minister of France and his suite; and the even
ing was closed with a brilliant display of fire-works in the State
house yard.
We are informed, that letters are sent to the Commander in
Chief, and to the Commander in the southern department, in
forming them of the public annunciation of the birth of the
Dauphin, that the fame may be published in both Armies with
such demonstrations ofjoy as their Commanders shall refpeAively
direct; and that letters are also sent to the Governors and Presi
dents of the refyeXive States, to inform them of the birth of an
heir to the Crown of France, that the people of each State may
partake in the joy, which an event that so nearly affects the hap
piness of their great and good Ally cannot fail to excite.
The following articles are taken from the New-York Gazette of the
lltb infant.
Yesterday a splendid entertainment was given at Roubalet's ta
vern, by the principal officers of the army, to his Excellency Sir
Henry Clinton, previous to his departure for Europe, at which
were present their Excellencies Sir Guy Carleton, Rear Admiral
Digby, and many other officers and persons of diftipaion.
On Thursday arrived his Majesty's ship Savage, Captain
Macky, in five days from Charleftown, by her we learn, that the
rgh and goth regiments of foot, under the command of Major
General (, Hara, had embarked on board transports, and were to
fail for the island of Jamaica, under convoy of the Orpheus and
some other frigates.
OTRAYED away from the fubferiber, living in the
' Northern-Liberties, A large Brindle COW with
her tail short off, a small whie star in her forehead.
Whoever takes up said Cow, so that the owner may
get her again, ffiail have the ab»ve Reward, paid by
me, JOHN KEEN. May 15.
Last Thursday arrived the fliip St. John, Capt. Bowen, with
2©f hoffieads of tobacco, from Virginia for Amflerdan, ; he was
one of a fleet of nine fail, and taken on the 6th instant; this
vessel flruck without r,ehftance to the Fair American, who the
fame day fought the drip Cato, Capt. Tittle, from the Chefa
peak, of 14 nine pounders; it was a smart a&ion, lasting three
glasses ; the Cato was bravely defended against the united attacks
of rhe Fair American, D^by and Prince William Henry cruizers.
All the parties were greatly Shattered, and, fortunately for Capt.
little, night and a fog coming on, enabled him to escape with
flying colours; his antaponids give him the utinoft credit for a
very distinguished and truly gallant behaviour. The day after
the Fair American fell in with the Centurion irian pf war, Capt.
Clayton, who was informed of the above aXion, and in all pro
bability, from the descriptions given, will be enabled to make a
prize of the Cato, who had a lading of near 500 hogffieads of
tobacco.
N. B. The Ville de Paris had on board iqoo men, and struck
to Admiral Hood,- in the Barfleur. Each of the other mips had
150 soldiers on board. The Caesar blew up after Oriking to the
Centauf, and had also 150 soldiers on board.
His Majesty's frigate Santa Monica, commanded by Capt. John
Linzee, was loft, about the 28th or 29th of last month, upon a
sunken rock, near the inland of Tortola, which had been en
tirely unknown till that unfortunate event. Her whole crew
excepting only one man, together with ail her guns, and a great
parcel of tackle, apparel, furniture and stores, were saved.
4tj A few Copies of BOYER's FRENCH
GRAMMAR may be had of the Printer.
Royal Gazette Extraordinary.
Neva-York, May 12, 1782,
From the Antigua Gazette.
It is not in language to express the heartfelt joy with which
we communicate to our loyal countrymen the contents of a let
ter received by the editor, just as this paper was going to press;
they happily render useless a paragraph which had been composed
n the fubjeX of the reports of the last two or three days---but
let us not detain our readers any longer from the perusal of the
glad tidings:
The fame day arrived a schooner with flour, from the Chesa
peake, prize to the Savage sloop cf war.
The privateer brig Bee, Capt. Ludlam, belonging to Antigua,
has lately taken and sent into Tortola, a rebel sloop, named the
Hero, Smith, master, bound from St. Euftatia for Boston,
having on board a quantity of tea, camphire, and about one thou
sand Spanish dollars.
+ + *++ + s+o + *#+s-|- $ -,-0 -=0 -fe
Three Dollars Reward.
WANTE D,
An elderly Woman, of rood
chara&er, to take care uf| children. Enquire of the
Printer. Mayr 5 .
Four Dollars Reward.
W A S LOST, on the night of the 13th instant, in the
State house yard, A B^ck Leather POCKET
BOOK, with sundry Notes, Bills and other Papers in
it, which will be of no use to any person but the owner
Whoever has found rhe fame, and will leave it with the
Printer hereof, shall have the above Reward, and -no
queftiors asked. May i 5.
Philip Thompson,
Of New-York, T AYL O R,
At Iris Shop, at the old Loft-office, in Market-street
at the Sign of the Blue B^ll,'
MAKES, in the latest and n^teft falhinn. Regi
mental and plain £R>avhs of evet-y fort; also
mak es Ladies Riding habits, in that neat genteel fafyj.
on which is so mucn admired by the most celebrated
buntrefles in Europe ; likewise, stakes Long Cloaks or
Ladies, furhilhes all manner of Trimmings, and has 4
variety of the neatest patterns of Cloth in the ch y -
Where Gentlemen, may suit themfelye# without trou,
ble. As by the attention of his friends and the fat.s.
faaion he has given to tho'e of their recommendation
he finds himfelf under the neciffity of increasing ti;
Journeymen, will theiefoie give the bell Wages t o ap .
proved and neat Workmen ; as he is dele; mined that
nobad work shall go out of his IQG,, M a J ,
Forty Pounds Specie Reward.
RAN-AWAY from his bail, on Monday the 291
instant, a certain ROBERT ANDERSON, h c is
about 5 feet 10 inches high, brown complexion, has 3
fear on his left cheek which reaches to his eye fy o w
to! able well made, has a fluent tengue, end .-flumes
much of the gentleman ; he is a midjing good scholar:
Had on when he went away, a brown great coat with
a velvet cepe, and a blue coat, but weare informed l.e
has changed his cloaths to red : took with him a very
likely Sorrel Mare, 13 hands and a half high, very well
made, thows much of the blood, has the diften^pcr bad
about 7or 8 years old; also a Sorrel Mare 5 yea;
old, lately foundered, 14 hands high, a midling rood
faddie with a blue saddle cloth bound with red. 'who
ever takes up the said Robert Anderfor, and ftcur<s
irrn so that his bail may have him again, shall receive
the above Reward and reasonable charges prid if bre't
to the fubferihers, living in Cumberland county, MIL
gemery tewnfhtp, hate of Pznn f, Ivania.
william martin
April 30. JAMES RANKING,'
TO BE L E T, A
Large convenient House, in a
public part of this city. Enquirefof the Printer. M„y 25.
BY Virtue of a Writ of an Alias Venditioni Fxpon%
to me directed, will be exposed to PUBLICSALE,
on MONDAY, the 27th of May, instant, a cer
tain Meffuage or Tenement, and Traft or piece of
LAND, situate in the township of New-Hanover, con
taining about 180 acres:
And also, a certain Water-Corn or Grist-Mill, and
Traft of about 60 acres of land ; the whole bounded
by lands of Henry Dering, the elder, Henry Nieman,
and Andrew Smith ; late the estate of Michael Freadly,
the younger.
WILLIAM WILL, fheriff.
N. B. The Vendue to begin at to o'clock in the
forenoon, and to be held at the house of Andrew Smith,
innholder in said township.
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To the Freemen of the City and County
of Philadelphia.
Tanned Leather of all kinds.
He likewise inform, th. Public, that he carries on the
CURRYING BUSINESS, and keeps an Assortment of
Saddle, Harntfs, Soal and Upper Leather, C&lffkin
Boot Legs, and all other kinds <f finifhtd Leather .
vhi.h ne will <ell at the most reasonable rate. Thof£
who please to favour him with their custom shall be aa
well fezved at in the city, and the favour be grate
fully acknowledged, by their most humble servant,
WILLIAM PERKINS.
Living in Fifth-Preet, three doors above Market-street
Philadelphia, May i 6.
GENTLEMEN,
A Report being generally circulated through the
city and county within two weeks last pass, that
I had declined soliciting the interest of my
friends, to be on the return with colonel Will, as fhe
riff for the city and county of Phil delphia, at the en
suing election. I take this early opportunity of inform
ing the gentlemen, that I still continue my inventions
of soliciting mv friends for said office at the expiration
of colonel Will's time, which if my fellow citizens
thinks worthy of, will be efteem'd and acknowledg'd
a favour 'done.
Gentlemen, your most obedient,
humble servant,
BENJAMIN M'VEaGH, lieut.^l.
21 bat. P. C. militia, *
Frankford, May 17, 1782.
WANTS A PLACE, A
Wet Nurse with a good Breast
of Milk, who can be well recommended. Enquire of
the Printer. May >5.
The Subferiber wants to P URCHASE