The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-06-09 00:00:00, page 3

From Cline's New. York Gazette, of June 4.
CADI Z, February 6.
RY yE have received intell gence by expref, that a
VV Bri ith fleet is re dy to fail from the ports of
England, to car y provisions and stores to Gi
braltar, in consequence of which, orders have been
given to the Spanish squadron, consisting of 30 fail of
the li&e, 2 frigates and 2 fire Ships, &c. making in
all 36 ve^ela, to fit fail. This fleet is commanded by
the admirals Cordova, and de Gaston, who will have
three others under them.
L O N D O N.
March 6. The flip laden with the produce of
British inhabitants, and capitulates of Dominica,
which was brought into Plymouth, by one of ohr
€ruifers, has been set at liberty, by an order of go
vernment.
By accounts of several petfons, not ignorant in nh
val affairs, who have fehn the fleet at Spithead, there
never was a fleet better fitted, or better prepared in
every refpeft, than the prefect fauadron for any event.
It is now almost certain that Governor Johnftone's
expedition is intended againf! the Cape of Good Hope,
the supposed defencHefs date of which, after so long
a peace, will make it an easy conquest ; his further
inftrudions are to proceed to the fpicedfland, or tie
Manillas, as circumstances may render mod eligible.
Mar h 10. The immediate occasion of Sir Joseph
Yorke's journey to Vienna is said to be this: The
court of Vienna, since the death of the late queen, have
felt their natural consequence in a natural way, and
have given the Empress of Russia to underhand that
they wished to take a joint part with her in the media
tion she proposed between tnC belliger-nt powers —
After various communication upon the fubjeft, it has
at 'aft been adjured as follows: That the courts of
Russia and Vienna shall undertake to enquire into the
taufes and circumstances of the war between France,
Spain arid England, and after having formed such de
termination as shall appear to them just a'd reasonable,
from the impartial investigation of the business, they
-will immediately declare against any of the particular
powers above mentioned, who th,II refufe to acquiefee
in their decision, and submit to their decree. One
thing however the emperor has infixed on in favour of
England, and that is, that America fhoull be left en
tirely out of the question, as a separate power, and
that no aft of this confederation should appear to sane
lion the independence of that country. Ambassadors
tire to meet at Vienna, from all the courts concerned
in this grand and interesting bofinefs, and there is eve
ry reason in the world to believe, that a general peace
will be the result of it, and a peace favourable to this
. country, as we have eve y thing to expert that an
eftabjithed partiality on the fide of one of the arbitrators
CanpoffiNy effect.
We learn by the information of a gentleman, who
has a letter from a very refpeftabe personage at Vi
enna, in high trust from the court of Great-Britain,
dated February 15, that every preparation was making
for the reception of the ambassadors to be sent there
by the courts of Russia, England, France and Spain,
Who are to meet and negociate terms of general peace.
The firft lord of the treasury, considering that the
terms of the loan are on the eve of bring fixed, and
^nxiou G to guard against censure either from the pub
lie or the subscribers, has taken pains to have it uni
versally known, that our court has accepted the prof
fered mediation of the courts of Vienna and Peterf
bourgh; and that Sir Joseph Yorke is appointed to go
to Vienna, as the negociator for Great Britain. The
contending parties well know the importance of such a
mediation, and will be careful how they reject the in
terposition of such mediators.
KINGSTON, (in Jamaica.)
December 23, 1780. Mond y arrived a flag of truce,
from Hispaniola, and has brought down a midshipman
with three 'feamen, lately belonging to his Ma,efly's
flip Sterling Caflle, 101 l upon the silver rocks in the late
form, as mentioned in a former Gazette. The ship
flruck upon the rock with great violence abort eleven
o'clock in the nig f of the 9th of O^ober, flie immedi
ately parted, and soon after went into feveraf pieces,
upon one of which about a dozen perlons were driv
en out to sea, without a drop of water or any thing to
subsist on, excepting a few pieces of fait pork, which
they picked up floating from the wreck. In this dread
ful situation they continued federal days, when a
great part of them were feezed with a delirium, which
soon put an end to their misery, and the survivors were
reduced to the dreadful necessity of fucking the blood
of the ; r dead companions, to preserve their ownwrech
ed exigence. They were afterwards providentially taken
tip by a French brig, and landed at the Cap?. The a
bove four per Ons with the maker's mate, a°d one sea-
Trran, not yet brought down, are 41 who are known
to furtive of that unfortunate fhip r s crew. There
likewise came down in the flag of truce the crew of the;
brig Julia, from Newfoundland, belonging to Mess.
Dick and Co. of this town. She was taken by a French
privateer off Port Morant, the 19th ult. and carried in
to Port au # Prince. The privateer carried 14 guns and
97 men, the brig only 10 guns and 15 men, yet Mr.
Keith, her captain, made a gallant defence for above
two hours, when he received a wound, which in a few
'days after proved mortal.
April 2i, 1781. The French are aperbhenfive of a
rupture with she court of Vienna, on account of some
pretensions which the emperor has to the dutchy of
Lorraine, but which, during the life of his late mother'
the empress queen, he did not think proper to assert,
in consideration of the averffon that princess had for
war the atter part of her life; but being now under
mo further rehraint from motives of delicacy, he has
directed the imperial ambassador to make a demand in
form nf the territories he claims ; and, to give a pro
per efficacy to the application, preparations are mak
ing for forming a camp this summer near Frankfort
upon the Maine, to consist of 150,000 men.
Sir Samuel Hood is bill watching Martinique, and
fir George Rodney remains at St. Euftatia, with four
foil of th^ line ready for. sea at a moment's warning.
Sir George has received orders by a frigate express
from England, to deliver up aft the Englifli property
found on the Dutch islands he has taken possession of.
April 28. Wednesday arrived at Port Royal his
majesty's ship Fox, the honorable captain Windsor,
with a fleet under his convoy.
This fleet confided of 99 fail when they left Cork
on the 23d of February, under convoy of the Fox,
Pegasus and Aurora frigates; but the fourth day as
ter their departure, in a heavy gale of wind, many
of them were separated from the convoy. Some of
the scattered fllips' had arrived at the places of their
destination in the windward islands, but 35 fail were
still miffing when captain Windsor, having collected
all those for this island, failed from St; Buflatia on
the 18th inflant.
Before he left that iflind, intelligence was received of
the arrival of the March packet at Barbados. The
packet brings advice, which may be depended on,
that a congress of plenipotentiaries from the different
dates of Europe, had met at Vienna, for the purpose
of re-eflablifhing peace among the belligerent powers.
The congress had assembled through t! e mediation of
the imperial courts, who threatened to throw the r
weight into the scale against any power that should
not be inclinable to pe?e on equitable terms. Lord
Mountftuart, fir Joseph Yorke, and fir Robert Mur
ray Keith, are plenipotentiaries from our court. But
before the Eritifh ministry would accede to this pro
posal, they had insisted, and had received assurances
that the mutual claims of Great-Britain and her re
volted colonies in North America, should not be fub
jeß to their difeu ffion.
Thursday arrived his majesty's ship Loweflbffe, and
a rich American brigantine her prize, deeply laden,
and the ship Lark from Africa and St. Lucia.
Yesterday also anchored <t Port-Royal, theSpanifh
ship St. Joseph Diana, from La Vera Cruz bound to
the Havannah, loaded with supplies for that garrison,
chiefly confining of flour, beef and gunpowder, and
the ship N. D. D. la Cruz from New Orleans, bound
to join the Spanish armament now besieging Pensacola,
with troops on board, confining of 1 colonel, 2 cap
taint, 2 lieutenants, and 120 rank and file ; the for
met captured te 21st, and the latter the 24th ult. by
his Majesty's ship Ulysses, which they parted with
the 27th, hill continuing her cruize. A few days be
fore the St. Joseph Diana left La Vera Cruz five
Spanish frigates had failed from that port, bound to
the Havannah, having under their protection four Ao
tas, loaded wrh immense treasures, on account o' his
Catholic Majesty. The N. D. 1). la C uz, failed from
New-Orleans with a convoy of 20 fail, which were
dispersed in a heavy gale of wind shortly after their
departure.
We also learn by these vessels, that the Spaniards
h^d landed 6000 men on Rose-Bland, at the mouth of
the harbour of Pensacola, which place, after recon
noitering, they found to be in so formidable a state of
preparation, as induced Don Galvez, the command
er in chief, to fend exprifles to New-Orleans for a
reinforcement of 1200 men, consequently their opera
tions must be suspended till that additional force ar
rives to their affifUnce^
N E W- Y O R K, June 4.
A Port L'Orient paper of the 16th of March, found
on board the prize mentioned in our lafl, to be sent
in here from that port, mentions the arrival of a cou
rier from the empress of Russia, to he- ambassador the
prince Galitsin, at the Hague, with a memorial for
their high mightinesses, informing them, that the
court of Feteriburg would be happy in bringing about
a peace between the United States and the court of
Great Britain • and that the fame courier purfoed his
journey to London with the like accounts for M. Sa
molin, the Ruffian minister jn England.
The above mentioned paper, we are told, makes
she British fleet gone to the relief of Gibraltar, amount
to 35 Blips of the line,
Philadelphia, June 9.
Extract of a letter, dated Newcastle, r 8 miles this
fide of Richmond, May 28, 1781.
“ Yeflerday was a week since Cornwallis joined Ar
nold (Philips being dead of a fever) at Petersburg; the
latter had 3500 men, the former TSOO. The Thursday
following they matched down oppofoe so Weftover
(25 miles below Richmond) where they were reinforced
by 2000 men from New-York. Their whole force con
sists of at least 6000 men, now said to have crossed to
Weftover, and in motion towards Richmond. The
marquis la Fayette evacuated Richmond last night,
and retreated so Winftone's bridge, about 8 miles
above Richmond, inclining to the north. He has about
1500 regulars and 4000 milfia, and will be able to make
a hand as f on as the reinforcements of the back mr
litra come up, who turn out in great numbers, wHI
armed with rifles and muskets. Colonel Campbell is at
she head of a confiderabie body."
Extract of a letter from Holland, dated Feb. 16, 17If/
" Good news by she way of France from the East-
Tndies. A conqueftmade by the Englifli on th&French,
about the fame time when they took Pondicherry, is
now re-taken by Hyder-Ally-Kan, an Indian king,
rod offered back ag^in by him to the French. The
English beaten by the Marattas in the country of Ar
cot. Their squadron in the East-Indies is now inferi
or to that of the French there, under command of
M. d'Orves."
Extras of a letter from Bilbos, March 22.
ft I have just seen a royal decree, by which she
trade is opened on' the coast of Caraccas, in Spanish
America, not only with O.d Spain, but for the friendly
colonies of America."
On Monday last the surveyor general, by order of
the President and Council, began to lay out the city
lots, Which are to be fold, in order to redeem the bills
of credit of this state, dated April 29, 1780.
JAMES READ, esquire, is appointed, by the
honorable supreme executive council, register of the
court of admiralty, in the place of ANDREW RO
BESON, esquire, deceased.
STATE or PENNSYLVANIA.
In GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Monday, June 4,178^
Ordered, That no more of the bills of credit emit
ted in purfuahce of an as lpaffed on the seventh da^
of April lafl, be issued from the treasury except at
value equal to gold or silver.
Ektraf tfrom the minutes,
Samuel Sterett, Clerk.
State of Pennsylvania.
A SUPPLEMENT to an A&, intitled, " An Aft
to permit the exportation of Flour of Wheat from
this State, by Sea, under certain Limitatioms and
Reftii&ions."
WHEREAS the limitations and reftri&ions con'
tained in the frh and 7th feaions of the aft,
intitled, " An a& for lajing an embargo on
the exportation of provisions from tbii date, by sea, for
a limited time," passed the 28th day of February, 1780;
and also contained in the 4th f'eaion of an a&, intitled,
" An act to revive and continue, for a further limit
ed time, the aR for Dying an embargo on the expor
tation of provisions from this state, by sea, for a li.
trited time," and also certain parts of an aft, intitled,
" An a& to permit the exportation of flour of wheat
from this state, by sea, under certain limitations and
refbiftiors," passed the 27th of February, 1781:
whereby all persons Dipping flour of wheat were to of
fer or tender a quantity equal to one third part of the
quantity to be flopped, unto the proper officer ap
pointed by the pr-fident and council for that purpose;
have been found, by experience, prejudicial to the
commerce of this state, and have no; produced the
good effeas expe&ed therefrom by the Eg flature : Rd
it therefore enafteri, and it is hereby enafted by the
reprefentativrt of the freemen of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania in general :ffembly met, and by the
authority of the fame, that the 6th and 7th fe&ions of
the aR, intit'ed, “Ana& t> permit the exportation
of Hour of wheat from this state, by sea, under certain
limitations and reftri&iont," and all things therein
contained, compelling or obliging the shipper of wheat
fljur to tnder or deliver to the laid officer, a quantity
equal to one third part of the quantity to he Whipped,
be, and the fame are hereby repealed and made null
and void; any thing in the fourth felon of the a&
aforefaid, passed the said 27th day of February, 1781,
to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding.
Signed by order of the house,
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG, fyeaker,
Bna&ed into a law, at Phila
delphia, on Thursday the
seventh day of June, in the
yeur of Our Lord, One
thousand seven hundred
and eighty-one.
Samuel Sterett,
Clerk of the General Assembly.
'** The Committee of the militia of the city of Phi^
ladelphia and diftriHs, is requeued to meet this Even
ing, at Six o'clock, at the University.
@^^^@^fi&&M)@9
Philadelphia, June z, 1781.
Whereas on the 23d day of A.u^
,ull, 1780, complaint was made to the commiitioners
of taxer, by the collector of North-Waid, that he
could not obtain the taxes due on a large io' ficuate on
the corner of High and Eghth-ftreets, the property of
Peter Gafcll ; public notice was then given, that un
lftfs the said Peter Gafkell, his attorney or agent dis
charge and p ? y the tax's justly due on said estate, or
or before the 28th day of November, of the fame
year, the premises wculd :) • fold agreeable to law.
An! whereat the laid Peter Gaffc.il, his attorney Or
agent did nrf appear to pay fad taxes, a lot of 20
feet on Hbh ftreer, by 306 feet in depth, represented
to the cemmfdoners ?s the eaftermeft part of the said
large lot, wall fold as above; but since the sale it ap
pears, that part of the lot fold is the property of other
persons, whereby the fa d (ale became void.
NOTICE is hereby given, that 6# MONDA Y,
the eleventh of this instant June, as eight o'clock in
the forenoon, will be fold on the premises, for the
above purpose, A LOT of GROUND, (clearly the
property of Pater GDkell,) lituate on the north-lide
of Market or High-street, containing in breadth on
said street 24 feet 9 inches, and in depth 146 feet,
bounded on the south by High-street, on the raft by
ground of Timothy Hu ft, and on the north and weft
by other ground of said Galk 11.
WILLIAM WILL, Sheriff.
ALL KINDS OF
COLOUR S,
For the ARMY and NAVY, Made and Sold, on'
the moss reasonable Te rns,
By Rebecca Touno-,
In WalnutHirefy near Tnird-&rtet, and next door but
one to Mr. Samuel McLane's.
N. B. Any person having BUNTIN G for Sale,
may hear of a Purchafvr, bj applying asa>ove-
Very good and agreeable Ac
commod tious for a few Fam lies, mar be had at
Mou t Airy, late the country feat of William Alien,
Efauire, deceased. The pedant fituuiop of the place
renders it an exceeding fine Summer Retrea; being
only eight miles and a half from the city, and yefp^r
feaiv recluse. For Terms apply to WILLIAM
CROSS, living on the fremifeg.