The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1778-01-28 00:00:00, page 3

Extras of an interested letter front a g^thman in
London, to an of leer of diJiindUn in the Britfh
army, dated in riu^ft left
'- Both public and private credit is greatly
funk, that bankruptcies are frequent, and that
they would be more so if they were not sup
ported by the bank; that fubferiptions in the
new loan which propoles five percent, interest to
the lenders, goes lbwly, and the Dutch refufe
to subscribe any thing, and that the bills are al
ready fold at a considerable difeount, two per
cent and tnree-eighths, and that every thing
there depended on the present campaign's being
deceive."
We have it from good authority, that Congress
have refohed to detain General Burgoyne, and the
army lately under his command, rill the Convention
01 Saratoga be ratified by the Court of Great Bri
tain. The bedding back cartouch boxes, accoutre
ments, &c. refufal to permit the names and descrip
tions of the privates to be taken, as has been done
on other occasions, when Didiers have been ddmiffed
on parole, oarticularly by Sir Guy Carleton; the sus
picion arising from the arrival of 27 transports only,
at Newport, 10 carry so large an army and their at
tendants to Europe; but efpecialiy the declaration
of General Burgoyne to General Heath, in a letter
on tome trifling inconvenience, that he (Gen. Bur
goyne) locked on the Convention of Saratoga as
broken on the part of the United States, are, we
hear, feme of the grounds of this Refutation.
General Howe's news papers are to creuded with
affidavits and paragraphs, tending to persuade that
11a^ce and Spain have renounced the American cause,
that many judicious perlons strongly fufpe& that the
General and nis motions feat mifchief from that quarter.
The Supreme Executive Council of this Rate have
appointed JO FIN LACE Y, Jun. Enquire, of
toe county of Bucks, to be a Brigadier General.
f*f Some important Resolutions of the Honorable
the Congress, which came too laiefot this paper, will
be publined to morrow morning in a Supplement.
From the New Jersey Gazette.
7b fr M4JESrr of GREerr B RITAIN,
DE LU DED Prince ! how wretchedly artthou
mifLken in thy idea of true grandeur ? That
Prince is truly great who draws his (word with re
luaance, and sheaths it with pleasure--- Who draws
it against the enemies cf liberty, and the o,preffors
of human kind-- Who builds on his empire, what in
real value transcends all empire, virtue, patriotism,
philanthropy, and the happiness of minions; and
thus makes his throne a fcaffold to the flees. But
what are.thy notions of glory, who art waging war
unprovoked and beyond example fenguinaiy? War
against thsfe.it was thy duty, thy bounded, thy
fwern duty, to prated; and for complaining that thou
didli not protea them ! War against liberty, and
against men for defending liberty ?
\ Tutored by preceptors of arbitrary principles, and
bur too prompt a cholar under such tutorage, thou
w ft early intoxicated with the love of delpotic sway.
Prerogative over rating, under valuing law, and mil
taking the true glory of a British monarch, and of all
monarchs,---the power or doing good ; you placed it
in power boundlJs and unlimited. To Secure to
yourfelf this delusive phantom, you eagerly adopted
a plan (a pat of murder and hayock, deflation and
tyranny) invented by hell, matured by a Scotch fac
tion, and now executing by hell's prime agents, thy
bloody mercenary miniHets of vengeance. A plan
for depriving by fire and (word and plunder and
torture, of liberty and property, habitation and life,
a people who never gave thee cause of offence, but
loved thee for thy grandfather's fake; and would
have loved thee for thine own lake, hadst thou not
compelled them, by a reversed ambition, to turn their
love into hatred, and defend themfelyes by open
force against the bloody schemes of a raying tyrant,
whom neither reason could convince, justice reclaim,
nor (application mollify.
HORTENTIUS.
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By order f the barter Wafer Genera! of the United
States.
A S fevrral Waggoners or D ivers are wanted for
T, the Continental Teams, it is resolved to inlift a
certain number of good able-bodied men for that Ser
vice only. Those who will engage to serve for three
years, or during the war, shall receive T went, Dollars
bounty, a suit of new cloaths every year, arid Six
Founds, Pennfrivania currency, per month, with one
ration a day, and a great-coat and a pair of bocts dur
ring their time of service.
Whoever is willing to inlift upon these terms, may
:rpair immediately to theplaces which shall be appoint
ed by the oerfons impowered to inl ft them, to receive
their certifi-utes and bounty money: of they may come
dirediy to camp, and apply there to the Oferter-
LLdUr General.
Tube SOLD at PUBLIC VENDUE,
on toe second day ut M^ou n~itt, mthe town of
Middletown,
CT" WO LO rS adjoining the center and the main
X street, on which is toe following buildings; a
oneritory huufty 50 feet long by zo, with three rooms
and a ihop, a kitchen adjoining, two tables and a
chair-houle, a fned of 40 feet long, a store-house ad
joining, and a blue dyers Ihop 24 by 26 feet, lately
built, all in good repair. Alio two other lots adjoin
ing the center and the street leading to the Landing
Pl.ee and the above lets; on the corner lot fluids a
two, ft fry log boule 30 by 26 feet, and a stable to con-,
tain fix hories. Allo to be fold a n.^-acre out lot, one
acre of which is good meadow ; a blue-dyer's copper
containing 60 gallons, with the utenfiis; a variety of
mo,ids for demoing o r l.r. nin the blue dyer's buff
nds. Likewise to be fold, a riding horse, five years
chi, pacts ealy and sass, Rhode Bland breed, warrant
ed g>od ; also a variety of houthoid furniture,, too te
dious to mention. Attendance will be given by the
owner, ALPRECHT SCHWEINFOkTH.
TO BE S O L D,
no H E. dwelling privation wherecn the fuhtiber
JL lives, or^Swan Creek, in Hartord County, Ma
ryland, confiftmg of ano^t h-e bundled ares of laud,
p eal ntly situ ted on the '/ater, either for a gentle
mn'j !eat or a farm, the foil good and adapted for
meadow, a confiderabie quantity of which is already
made : There are on the pramifes a lai ge and conveni
ent stone dweHing-Jioufe, kitchen and waffi house ; it's
htuati^n on navigable water, and public, with the
convenience of fishing, fowling and market, and im
provt m nt of orchards of all kinds on the place, ren
ders it fnperior to almoff any place in the part of the
country it lies in. I'he purchaser may have lit erty of
entering on the premiss in order to put in a spring
crop, there being convenient houses rxHufive of the
fubicriber's dwelling. It cannot be delivered up till
June next. The purchaser, if he has occasion, may
oe Applied wi h Hock of various k nds, and imple
ments of bufbmdry, now on the pl.me. For terms
and title app.y to the fubferiber on tan premises.
AMOS GARRETT.
N. B. There are about 60 acres or when and rye
sown, which will be fold with the premises.
George- Toivn, January 20, 1778.
V^7 A S sent fiom Camp feme time ago, with he
^ military stores of the Militia of t e E.ftern
Shore of M dryland, a WAGGON and FOUR HORSES
without an owner ; one a sorrel horle with white mane
and tail, twelve years old, sixteen hands high ; Oue
roan horte twelve years old, fi teen hands high § one
bay horse fourteen and a half hands high, twelve years
old; and one gray it Tien fifteen and a half hands
high, five years old. The owne' is hereby requested
to come, prove his property, pay charges, and take
them away in four week, after this date, otherwise they
will be fold at public vendm. to par chirges of keeping.
JOHN VOORHEES,
Q_ M. Gn. Eastern Shore Militia.
V'efl-Nantmill, January 26, 1778.
TO BE S O L D,
By the Ssofcriber,, on the premises,
SI X hundred acres of LAND, well improved, situ
ate on tire Paxton read leading from Downing's
Town to Harris's Feyry, on Susquehanna, dutant from
Downing's Town req miles and from Lmcafbr twen
ty-three; the dweli^g-hmife and Cabling are larpe,
and very well situate for public business ; the plow
land good, and a great proportion of excellent mea
dow, watered by Little Brandywine which runs thro'
the premises, and might accommodate a merchant
mill with water. Likewise to be fold, feverai very
good co^s, heavy with cdf.
The heirs of Jacob Cochran, and his widow (de
ceased) are desired to call on me, receive the bonds,
&c. for themselves and the minor children, and pro
perly rel ale me from my guardianship.
WILLIAM GIBBONS.
New Providence, January 26,
W AS S>T OLE N,°
Oil the evening of the 24th ir.ftant, by two men ap
pearing like soldiers,
AL ROW N o? dark bay M A R E, about twelve
years oid, fourteen hands high, has (hoes on his
fore stet, a little chafed with geers on the fhouider, a
natural pacer; (he was fern by different persons on the
road from the Trap to Parkes's Ford on Schuylkill,
ridden by the said men, one of whom had a furr cap,
and one had red hair. Whoever will lecuie the said
thieves and mare, shall have EIGHT DOLLARS
reward, and reafona'de charges, fem the fubftriber,
lining on the road from Philadelphia to Reading, two
miles above toe Trap.
DAVID KENNEDY.
SIX head of stray CA I'TLE came to
tie plantation of Adam Eichelberger and
Ludwig Wagoner, in Manheim 1 own/tup, York
County, abcui three m nebs ago, viz. a red cow, a
brown steer branded on the buttock C, one bundle,
one red, and two spotted. The owner is uefuet ito
prove his property, par charges and take them away.
14/ A S taken up as a Uray, a young bay
VY MARE, about four years old, without any
brand or ear mark. Any person proving property and
paying charges may have her again, by applying to
the fublLrbtr, at Reading Town.
£A MUEL PORTER.
Gibber 4, 1778.
RROUGHT to the plantation of Johti
A, Scott, in Lampeter TewrUnp, Lancaster Coun
ty, a datk bay three years old MARE, about four
teen hands high, without any brand or mark, paces
and trots,, and is a good hackney. She was brought
by an old D rtcl-Hrm, thin fried, with dark hair, who
had 0,1 an eld lince coat and trowfeis: He said he
bought her in Reading, and after being made a prifon
et made his rfcape. She has been advertised before but
no owner appeared. The owner is defied to come,
prove iris property, pay charges and fake her away.
JOHN SCOTT.
lancaJier. January 27, 17,8.
CAM E to the stable of the fubferiber, on
thr 6 h inftaru, a tfrawberrv roan MARE
between five and fix years old, no ffioes on, brarded
on the leit fide with two letters, but they are hardly to
be le- : n, the firft letter cannot be made out, but the
sass isß. about fourteen hands high, is a natural pacer
and tr<ts very li tie. The owner is desired to come
prove his property, pay charges and tko b er away.'
HENRY REGHLER:
CA M Eto the plantation of the fubferiber
in Warminfttr Township, Bucks County, cn th^
2111 of the 9th month, 1 777 , two HORSES, onea
brown, about fifteen hands high, a natural trotter.
The other a sorrel, a natural pacer, with a blaze in hig
face. The o^er is desired to come, prove his proper
ty, pay charges and tike them away.
DANIEL LONGSTRETII.
TEN POUNDS REWAR D.
RAN AWAY from the Widow N.lbury'; tavern
at New London Ctofs R ads, on Friday the
of December last, a middle fi^d Negro man, who a&-
ed as an oft er there from the time Colonel Richardson
marched part there to Head Quarters; he ca lled him
fell JACK, and said he belonged to John Firman,
of New Yoik, but is the property of the fubferiber
of Worcester County, Maryland, and ran away from
him the 13th of September last : He had on when he
went from laid tavern, a brown coloured cloth coatee,
old leather breeches, frit hat, and good shoes, he hag
a stooping aukward walk, his legs bending forward as
if the calf grew on his shins, his foreteeth frem some
what bartered, has a lump or more on his collar be ,e,
and his right name is J OE, but it is supposed he will
alter it again. Whoever takes up said Negro and se
cures him, so that his master may have him again, shall
have the above reward and reafonablc charges, paid'by
WILLIAM IRONSHIRE.
N. B. The said Negro was fold in Worcester Coun
ty, when a boy, by said Forman.
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, in Northum
berland Town, an apprentice boy, about seven
teen years of a, e, and about five feet five inches high,
of a fair complexion, with yellowish hair cut round ;
bad on a white cloth coat and jacket with small pewter
buttons, lined with tow linen, a wool hat, a pair of
leather breeches Rated with new leather, and a p?ir of
light blue ribbed flockings. Whoever will secure the
said boy and bring him to Robert Martin, Efa; in
Northumberland Town, flr 11 r < ceive the above reward
and reasonable charges, paid by
ANDREW STROUP, Millwright.
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Brandywine-Bridge, January i 7 -g
SIXTEEN DOLLARS REWARD.
I OLEN last night from Brandywine Bridge, a
O light brown HORSE, quarter blooded, about
fourteen hands high, foretop, mane and tail thin hair
ed, his legs lately trimmed, shod all round, his face
between his eves and nose on each fide is very full, as
if (welled. Whoever secures the horse and thief shall
have the above reward, or EIGHT DOLLARS forrhe
horse, and reasonable charges if brought home, oaid
by ARCHIBALD ANDERSON,
Capt. 2d Maryland Regiment.
Camp, Valley Forge, January to, 1778.
ALL Regimental Surgeons and Mates, who
/"I are now absent from the army in the Middle De
partment, without leave from the Commander in Chief
or Surgeon General of the army, are required to re
pair to their refp.&ive regiments, by the fifteenth day
of February next. Should they not pay attention to
this notice, they may depend on being advertised in
the public papers as defertecs, and treated as such.
JOHN COCHRAN, S. G.
N. B. Regimental Surgeons and Mates, properly
qualified to discharge their duty, are now wanted.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
WHEREAS the fubferiber some time ago de
livered aBO X, containing about 580 yards
of Calico and about 150 d< z. of gold and fiiver Basket
Buttons, to a certain Mr. John C'ummine, cf Souih-
Carolina, to be delivered at Philadelphia : And as
the laid box was not come to band when the &neniy
t^ok possession of Philadelphia, nor hath the Lid M%
Cummine gave notice at Lancriter or any other place
where the laid box may be found, I hereby offer the
above reward to any person who will give inforn?ioa
thereof, or of the said Mr. Cummine, to Mr. Ben
jamin Davis, at Leli on near Lancaster.
t JABEZ PORTER.