The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-10-26 00:00:00, page 3

N E W-Y 0 R K, Odober 19.
On Sunday the 6th instant, failed from hence for
the province of Nova-Scotia, under a strong Convoy,
a fleet of transports, having on board a number of loy -
alifts with their families, amounting in all to four
hundred and sixty persons. Previous to their embark
ing, they -were supplied from the king's stores with
provisions of all species, fufficient for their support
for a full y~ar, besides as allowance of twenty-one days
rations for their pillage; they were alf> furnifhed, at
the expence of government, with comfortable eloath
ing for men, women, and children, with a proper as
sortment of medicines, various kinds of husbandry
tools, and arms and ammunition for hunting and de
fence. They are to have liberal grants of lands in that
province, surveyed and laid out for them at the pub
lic cost • ,such of these loyalists as were in the enjoyment
of pecuniary allowances from government, received
also a full year's pay in advance, and every precauti
on was taken, which the most humane policy could
suggest, to make the paffagg comfortable, and the un
dertaking beneficial to them all. They are moflly
farmers that have been driven from their dwellings and
possessions by the enemies to Great-Britain, and hav
ing families to support, and feeing no profpeft of a
speedy peace taking place, they petitioned to be al
lowed a settlement in Nova-Scotia, where they might
Cultivate the earth for support, and, under the pro
teßion of good government, and a mild impartial dif
tribqtion of justice, quietly enjoy the fruits of their
labour, freed from the deteflable tyranny of seditious
Demaguoges, and the burthen of unequal and oppres
sive taxes.
Thursday last arrived here the ship Nancy, captain
Woodward, irf 40 days from Cork, having on board,
butter, candles, soap, porter and cheese, (he failed in
company with a brig also bound for this port, but
parted in a gale of wind the second day of their depar
ture.
From the Cork Evening Post, September 2.
MADRI D, August 2.
THE count d'Artois has been proclaimed general
liffimp of tiie siege of G.braltar; the Spaniards
demand the honour of guarding the house where their
generalissimo is to lodge, and the French aspire to the
fame privilege. We wait the king's resolution on this
head.
P AR I S, August It.
Mr. Fitzherbert was but a short time with the count
de Vergennes, at the firfl audiene he had. It is as
sured that the equipages of fir Joseph York have been
landed at Calais, and that he will appear at our court
as ambassador and minifler plenipotentiary
Aug. 13. Mr. Fitzherbert in his second interview with
M deVergennes, having expressed the desire of his court,
to treat of peace in congress formed by the plenipoten
tiaries of the belligerent powers ; aofwer was made,
that we were ready to forward every method that
mould be proposed of accelerating a peace, and that
the holding of a congress would not be refufed ; but
that, previous thereto, the independence of the united
slates muffbe formally acknowledged, that they might
fend to the assembly plenipotentiaries to support their
icterefts.
We have received no news of the combined fleet since
the 2d of this month, when it was off Belhfle. It is sup
posed that the S. W. wind, which blew with the great
est violence, on the 6th, 7th, and Bth, has forced it
to anchor in the Isle of Aix.
August 15. Count d'Eflaign was in conference a
a few days since with the king and the marquis de Cas
tries. It is thought he will be placed at the head of an
important enterprize, after the siege of Gibraltar ; and
that meffrs. de la Motte Piquet and Barras will be giv
en him as colleagues.
L E Y D E N, August 14.
France promises herfelf great advantages from the
appearance of monf. Buffy in the East-Indies ; the de
barkation of the troops under the orders of M. Duche
main at Porto Novo, seems already to augur the most
happy success, this body of European regular troops,
joined to the numerous army of Hyder Ady, being in
a condition to aft powerfully on the coast of Coroman
dal, before the arrival of the reinforcement which com
modore Bickerton is carrying thither.
AMSTERDAM, August 17.
Yesterday returned to the Texel 15 of our men of
war, under vice-admiral Hartfinck. These vrffels were
part of the squadron which failed from the Texel on the
7th of July to cruize in the North.
LOND O N, August 24.
Lord Shelburne is making a thorough reformation
in every department of the treasury. We are informed
that the who'e of the livings in the arrangement will
amount to between 70 and Bo,eool. a year, without in
juring any one clerk ipoffice, or in any refpe£ Icrowd
ing the business.
Since there no longer remains a doubt as to the ex
-Tftence of a formidable infurredion in Spanish Ameri
ca, it may be expeßed, that Portugal will interfere on
our behalf in the present war ; for Spain will have too
many engagements to be able any longer to over-awe
that kingdom.
This morning some dispatches were received from
Lisbon ; they contain nothing more than the fafe ar
rival there of thirty fail of flips from Newfoundland,
bound to a maker.
A large trumbrell of powder blew up in the Spanish
camp before Gibraltar on the 15th of last month, by
which accident seven men were killed, and 19 wound
id.
Monday last the Portuguese ambassador, att ended
by lord Grantham, had an audience of his majesty at
Windsor, to make a formal notification of the queen
of Portugal having acceded to the neutral treaty.
Forty-two transports and store ships are going out
to Gibraltar with the fleet, exciufive of other vessels
taken upon freight for the passage out, four of which
are fitted up to be employed as gun boats after the de
livery of their cargoes.
ft is said his royal highness the prince of Wales,
proposes to make a tour through the kingdom of Ire
land, previous to his setting off for the continent in
May next.
“ A ieuienant in the navy from Rio de Janeiro, a
paffengr in the Hampden from Lifbn, has favoured me
with tne inclofed copies; and in confirmation of the
truth of the infurre&ions in South America, fays, that
a vicar-general and some foidiers bad made their escape
out of the country, and arrived at Ri', in June last,
the day before be left that place
Amovidades, Sao, Dec. 28, 1781.
" Que de Pupa Mar Inga has assaulted the Spani
ards with great force, along with his cousin Pup Aguito,
as general, making great hoHilities.
" Hehas taken from them the town of Da Fuz, where
the silver from the mines were carried. The governor
took flight from this force, and is now in this river.
All the battles passed here, without pardoning the in
nocent, unless they surrendered ; and they defeated 400
fbldiers who came from Bueno, Ayres to give fuccour.
This town was blocked up four months and odd days,
and the inhabitants supported themftlves upon rats,
horses and dogs.
" The commerce of the dines is at a Band, and it is
supposed no more filter will come from Spanish Ame
rica."
S,xty thousand Spaniards are annually employed
io the siege of Gibraltar, whose arms would have been
turned against Great-Britain in some other quarter of
the globe.
By letters from Cork we are informed, that earl Tem
ple was arrived at Dublin with h s secretary the ho
pourable Mr. Grenville, his lo dfh'p's brother, and
the late enyoy appointed to treat at Paris of a,gene
ral peace, in which charge be 1: ucceeded by Mr.
Fitzherbert, at Eruffels, from whence no profpe& of
accommodation is afforded ; the French (dilators to
Spain and the congress, not yet reduced to bankrupt
cy as in tire year 1762, nor even now effectually drub
bed on the ocean) mean dill to continue the trade of
war, at the expence of their allies, and in despite of
every sentiment of humanity.
Eleven thousand teamen have lately been sent from
Ireland to Eog^nd, in part of the twenty thousand
voted by the parliament of the sister nation, and it is
added, assurances have been given, that if more should
be desired by the Britdh government, they will be most
cheerfully supplied.
The Carribee Bland fleet, under the convoy of the
Robust, of 74 guns, captain Cosby commander, con
filing of 150 fail, were fafe arrived in England, a sin
gle vessel only exempted.
Lord Howe was only waiting for a fair wind to pro
ceed to the relief of Gibraltar ; feme blowing weather
had prevented the transports from receiving provisions
for tne garrison.
The combined fleets of France and Spain, are return
ed to their ports, avoiding an opportunity (with great
superiority of numbers in their favour) to engage the
British squadron.
From the Cork Evening Poss, August 29.
The Dutch fort of Creve Cour, on the coast of Afri
ca, was on the 17th of April last attacked by 270 troops
and taken, the garrison having loft 300 men in the as
sault; the besiegers burnt the town which the enemy
had evacuated.
We hear from Paris, that comte de Cennora, the
Portuguese ambassador, folicitgd Wrongly, by order
of her most faithful majesty, a oegociatibn to close the
war, and prevent the further effufion of chriftian blood;
to which it is said the king and his ministers give some
attention.
Rx<r d of a letter from Falmouth, Aug. 15.
From every leuer and newfpa per procured by the
Cork vessel, we perceive no approach of a peace: and
as to the independence of America that 0 je& is left
to the difeuffion and final decision of the British parlia
ment.
Extract of a letter from the archbishop of Lima, to
the surgeon general at Rio oe Jeue ro, dated Lima,
Jan. 31, 1782.
" At the beginning we imagined that this rebellion
would be flight, and eafi y extinguished, but in fpight
of all our ft oogeft efforts, it not only exists, but con
tinues to increase in fucu a manner, that biftory can
not produce an example.
" The enthusiast Tupac Amara, was, to appearance,
the firft and principal mover of the rebellion, and tho'
we furprized and beat him at the battle of Tinta yet
the son of that rebel, and his brother Diego Tupac
Amara, have Succeeded him, and ifit is possible, they
surpass him in the most dreadful barbarity and cruel
ty. All the provinces between Cufco and Couquifa
co are the fad witnesses of their horrible devaftatio 's;
the most important settlements, such as Lampi, Ovi
ro, Le Cruftro, Chacuito and others, we e plunder
ed and burnt; Cayllom twice plundered; afterwards
destroyed; the vicar and clergy murdered. The mad
ness of these Americans is carrid much farther than
it is possible to be imagined ; long pikes that they
have, they thrust into the bodies of their prison rs,
and expose them in that manner with the most brutal
cruelty, until they expire ; and if I were to proceed to
describe to you tueir irreligious horror in deitroying
The comte de Graffe arrived on the 4th of August
at Calais, on the sth he was at Boulogne, where he
received a letter from the ministry, in the king's uame,
enjoining him to repair to Brest, and wait the holding
of a court of enquiry.
It is confirmed that the French are going to attempt
an expedition against Newfoundland, and for that
purpose have detached the Sceptre and Northumber
land of 74 guns under the command of the chevalier de
Retz.
Further Advices b, the Nancy from Cork.
New-York, 'tis now said, is not to be evacuated, a 3
has been reported, that port is to be maintained while
the American war lasts, and will be the center of the
of the British command on that continent. Charlef
town is expeded to be left about Christmas, unless
the complexion of affairs should alter very materially,
which the French, receiving a blow in America, as they
did on the 12th of April in the Weft-Indies, would
most certainly accomprifh.
Lord Howe has now 34 fail of the line ready to put
to sea.
Philadelphia, O&ober 26.
The New-York paper of Saturday Jaft contains at
lift of 31 line of battle (hips, and a number of smaller
vessels, under lord Howe, at Terbay, about the mid
dle of August. Tn this fleet the Royal George is men
tioned, with the following observation of Mr. Riving
ton: ,
" How confident therefore is it, that a report should
" prevail here, of the Royal George (with the Crew,
" and admiral Kempenfelt included) should overfet,
" and the lives be loft, on a careen in Plymouth har
" bour ?—Credulous folly !"
The fame paper fays that 17 line of battle ships have
failed at different times since April last from the Weft-
Indies for England. These ships added to the channel
fleet, will make up near 50 fail of tbe line, when it is
probable the enemy will attempt the relief of Gibraltar.
It is asserted there are now ten refugee boats cruis
ing in the Chefa peak and Delaware bays.
The lareft accounts from New-York fay, that 1^
fail of the line, with 5000 troops, were to fail as yes
terday morning from that port, supposed for the Weft-
Indies.
Me churches and clergy, and eve.Rthe women and
children tortured with brutality ; I (hould feel too 4
much to succeed in the attempt. —Oh, Almighty God,
when Ihall our calamities have an end from the mife
res of their cruelty !
“ The gold and gold duft,with the mines of silver;
too numerous to be named, are left from Feru. Guc la
Sunne, is sadly changed in the space of eight months;
and the terrible consequences are, that we have ns vi
gour left in our government at all to protest us ; whole
provinces are deserted, fields lie uncultivated, and eve
ry fort of animal we had to support us is destroyed,
all the miners and other labourers murdered, and all
trade and commerce totally ruined, —more than 50,000
inhabitants of all ages and sexes have been butchered,
and at this time bur cruel enemies have a numerous
army in our fight, three times larger than ours, anef
better paid and disciplined.—This is the a&ual and mi
serable slate of the kingdom of Peru, and its neigh
bouring provinces."
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On WEDNESDAY,
The 30th of oaober.
At SI X o'clock in the EVENING,
Will be Sold by Public Vendue,
At the office of the French Consul,
In Fiftb-ftreet, the corner of Market-street, near the
office of the Honourable the Superintendent of
Finance, the Brigantine
RA CO O N,
With all her Guns, Tackle, Apparel, Furniture and
Boats, agreeable to an Inventory to be seen at M. de
M^rboi*, or on board tbe Brig ; being a prize taken
by the Eagle, formerly a French frigate, and the Glory,
another French frigate. She mounts twelve fix-poun
ders and fix fwivelt ; is comp'eatly armed and rigged,
baa her Ammunition and some provisions and fupplie#
on board. She was built at Philadelphia, and is 82 feet
8 inches kee:, and 20 feet, (French measure) beam.
Tbe whole will be fold together, and to the fame per
son, agreeable to the inventory. The price must be
prid in cash, within a fortnight of the day of Cale.
By diredion of the Consul General of France,
OSTE R, Vice Consul.
A middle aged married Man, of
good character, who writes a good Hand and Undtr
ftands Accounts and the Mathematics, who hath dedi
cated the last 12 years of his time to the education of
youth, would be willing to engage again in that profef
fion in an honest neighbourhood, where fuit^ble encou
ragement might be given. Enquire at ELIJAH
BROW N's office in Pin^-Hreer, opposite the Friend#
MeetinK-houfe.
TO BE SO L D,
A HOUSE, STORE and WHARFF, below South
street, Philadelphia, between Water-street sod the
river ; the hcufe is 31 and a t-x feet deep, 19 ret in
length, 3 Tories high, a rcom> on a floor,# I r^c garrets;
the store is 24 feet in front and 19 deep ; the length of tbe
wh/rff is 7# and a 1-2 feet from the house to 1< w wa
re mark, and 19 feet broad ; the whole has the benefit
of an Iky; part of the estate tormeUr belonging to
J^M Pean. For ? crms apply to ROBERT STE
PHENS. living in C^efnut street, at the sign of the
K^ li Khan. A fufficient title wil be given.
<X™AS taken out of the (hop of the 'ubferiher, in
Chefnut-ftreet near Fourth, ftr-er. shoot one
month 270, a small ferew. barrel'd POCKET PISTOL,
with T. Ew : ng engraved on it, the pan much worn an<
the cock bettered; also a Brass PISTOL BARREL
in the:< u°h. Whoever takes tip said PUtol and Barrel,
(hall have the above reward, or for each One Dollar,
paid by JAMES WALSH, 0&. 24.
A Person that has had several
,ear< pr &ict in tea bng the EnglTh Language, Writ
• g anl A i o rr-iick, logeher with Book-k+epirg an 1
the Mathematicki, would be wiling to ngage a School
in any part of this or he neighbouring site% that
w^uid p odu e a fal'ary adequate to the perlon 's abili
ties. Gool recommends lions will be produced if re
quired. A f ew |ine< left with the Printer here^' rnl
directed to J T. will be duly attended tu. O&o. a.
Two Dollars Reward.