The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-05-22 00:00:00, page 1

TO BE SOLD,
On Saturday the 24th instant,
At T 2 o'clock, at the COFFEE HOUSE,
THAT elegant Country Seat, known by
the name of MOUNT PLEASANT, situated on
the Banks of Schuylkill, about four miles and an half
from Philadelphia, containing about 100 acres of Land
A more particular description of which, together with
'-’ e ntention2d at the time and pla^ of Sale.
Foffeffion will be given to the purchaser on the firft
of June next,
M^y 17 . JOHN BAYARD, Audioneer.
TO BE S O L D,
A Lot of Ground in Fifth
ftreet, about half way between Market and Arch
ftreets, containing on Fifth-ftreet thirty feet, extend
'"^ eighty feet back: the Lot is now incumbered with
two wooden Tenements. For Terms of Sale enquire
of the Printer. April j 5 .1
Bordentown and New-York STAGES.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, That the Bor
dentown Stages, for conveyance of Passengers
and Goods fr>m Philadelphia to New. York, are
again renewed, and will be carried on as heretofore; to
begin next week, and to be continued according to the
following arrangement:
1 he Stage-Boat POLLY will attend at the C r ooktd-
Billet wharf the three last days of every week, and
will tail on Saturday Evening or Sunday Morning for
Bordentown ; on Monday the Waggons will be ready
to proceed to South-Amboy, where a boat is provid'd
by Mr. John Rattoone, for conveyance to New-York,
The Bordentown Stage- Boat SUCCESS will also at
tend at the aforefaid wharf cn the three firft days in
every week, and will punaually fail every Wzdnefday
Morning ; the Paffenyers and Goods to be accommo
dated with Waggons at Bordentown every Thurlday
Morning, and to proceed as before.
As every possible care will be taken to render this
conveyance to Ne^York fafe, speedy and commodious,
it is hoped a design so well adapted to public conv ni
ence, will meet with public favour and encouragement.
The PRICES will be as follows:
For every pafftnger from Philadelphia to Bordentown,
two (hillings and fix-pence.
For goods, one (hilling and fix-pence per hundred
weight,
For every paff-nger from Bordentown to South-Am
boy, seven (hillings and fix-pence,
For goods, four (hillings per hundred weight,
From South-Amboy to New-York, the fame as from
Philadelphia to Bordentown.,
Bordentown, May 2 . JOSEPH BORDEN.
Southwark Au&ion.
THIS
MORNI N G,
Will be Sold by Public Au^ion,
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
MERCHANDIZ E,
As USUAL: ALSO,
Houfhold Furniture & Wearing
APPAREL, &c.&c.
WILLIAM BROWN, Auctioneer.
N. B. Hand-Bills will be difeontinued for the future,
_ except on particular Occasions.
The 23d of May, 1783.
At NINB o-Clock in the M ORNIN G,
Will Commence the SALE
Of 1 Large and very General ASSORTMENT of
MERCHANDIZE,
(Particulars of which will be published by the Bell on
the Morning of the Day of Sale)
With a QUANTITY of
Houfhold Goods, Kitchen Furniture,
WEARING APPAREL, &c.
JOHN BAYARD, Au&ioneer.
At the City Au&ion, on
FRIDAY Next,
THURSDAY,
ipwlwiolß
VOL. XII.]
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Published EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY.-Price Six-Pence.
The duke of Richmond, it is afferfed, has refufed to
be connected with any administration formed on the
late coalition, and has declared in very firong terms
that he never will abandon the principles on which he
opposed the administration of lord North.
The people of this country are at la ft unanimous in
their sentiments of public affairs—but their unanimi
ty ought to make feme of our great folks blush, if they
are capable of such a mark of modesty.
A correspondent, in fopport of the hint thrown out
by Mr. Fox yesterday in the house of commons, re
commends, that during the interregnum of administra
tion, the conduct of public affairs be put in commis
sion til! a proper cabinet can be formed ; and proposes
the commissioners of accounts, as the only set of men
who have executed the trufl reposed in them with ho
nor to themselves and fatisfaaion to the public.
His majesty, we are informed, has expressed a desire
that an admiralty for Ireland Should be eflablifhed, dis.
tinft from that of Great-Britain; in consequence of
which a bill for that purpose will be brought into our
house of commons, early in the next session.
The slate of the national debt, as it flood on the
S l ^ °f January last, from authentic records in the
house of commons :
Debt, funded and unfund \
ed. J 2 32,354 127 13 9
Interest - - - 11,563 164 2 6
The whole revenues of the kingdom are only
12,000,2791. notwithstanding the heavy taxes now
fubferibing.
March 12. Yesterday Mr. Ord reported from the
committee of supply the following resolutions:
" That it is the opinion of this committee, that a
sum not exceeding 630,6121. 12s. rod. be granted to
his majesty towards the charge of the office of ordi
nance for land service for the year 1783.”
' That it is the opinion of this committee, that a
sum not exceeding 819,2591. 2s. gd. be granted to bis
majesty for defraying the expence of services perform
ed by the office of ordinance for land service, and not
provided for by parliament."
A letter from Peterfborgh has the following article:
" According to the last accounts from Constantinople;
a war with the Turks is now thought unavoidable.
However, that they may not fall upon us unawares,
we have augmented our army and navy, and we are
ready to enter upon a&ion at a Short notice. We
still want fame English officers, for our naval officers
have not (kill enough to command a fleet, nor our mi
litary officers to command an army ; whether any of
the English will enter into the empress's service we
have not yet learnt. The Danes carry on a consider
able trade with us, which I believe will turn out to
great advantage to them, and to the merchants here."
The danger with which the nation is threatened,
from the disappointment of the general hope that an
administration was on the point of being formed, of
Strength and consistency adequate to the exigencies of
the present momentous crisis, can ony be conceived
by those who are acquainted with the aßual fiate of
public affairs, and who forefee the inevitable confe
quences of continuing in this slate of Sufpence and an
archy. If we look at home—a mutinous army, and
a navy still more mutinous, and prepared for every
excess to which their unrestrained licentiousness m y
carry them—no money in the treasury to discharge
the one, or pay off the other, which, besides tie in
conveniencies to which the public service is exposed,
by the troops and fhip< refuting to proceed as they are
ordered, continues to load us with the whole expense
of the war. The East-India company reduced td that
extremity, that if the loan for wnicn they have peti
tioned parliament be not granted them by the latter
end of the month, they must stop payment, and (hake
NO NE of the guards are as yet discharged, and
it is reported that corps is to be kept up to its
usual compliment, as a nursery of soldiers in
C °n/r° f a udde ° erruption with the natural enemy.
March 4. A letter from Paris fays, that Dr.
Franklin is to return home as Coon as a gentleman ar
rives from America to reside at Paris as ambassador
United States of America; that he has paid
all his tradefmen's bills, and all his things are packed
up ready for his departure.
The army establishment will be kept up to sixty re
giments, of one thousand men each, compleat, which
" a 'a™'" f or ce, by near one third, than was kept
up laftpeace, when we had all North-America and
Minorca to garrison.
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDO N, March 3d
O R, THE
THE
'l° ""!" ° f th!s counfr y to its very foundation : and
, here do they look for this loan? to a treasury ex
fluffed, and unable to defray the ordinary expences
of government. If we look to our concerns abroad,
the preliminary articles of peace yet remain to be d~fi
nuive y finned and ratified; treaties of commerce are
" ' nd arranged; our negotiations with
the Dutch ar^,fufpendM, and peace with thof our na
tural allies, so eff ntial to the slate of our funds, Pill
a n^s in uncertainty In what contempt mus fwe
Hand with every foreign power, and what advantages
may not be taken of our diftraded situation, by those
whom we cannot yet cease to call our armed ene
a' 1 " r th ° in ", cour ' e between us and them so re
trained since the signing the preliminaries, as to leave
't''™ i^uorao' of the slate of our fleets and armies ,
Have they difeontinued their warlike preparations?
are we so secure of their good faith? How muff the
man, who in such an hour can defeat every attempt
to procure a stable and permanent government, merit
the execration of his fellow citizens?
s The indignation so universally teflified 0, the nego
ciations for an administration having relapsed into their
former uncertainty, however loud and vehement, is
barely proportioned to the injury dene to the coun
try. It must encreafe every hour, and finally burst
out with effea. But let it fall where it ought; and
^ '"^ '' "°' " e utmost importance, that men
fhoufd coolly weigh with themselves upon what grounds
an event so fatal has taken place.
It is allowed on all hands, that the exigencies of the
present moment, unparalelled in the later annals of
this country, call for an administration so formed and
conflituted, as to promise flability and permanency.
A government composed of such materials, as carry in
ver y ' eeds the principles of its own immediate
dissolution, would only encreafe our diftraaions, and
introduce additional confufion and disorder into our
councils. Now let us fee, under which of those descrip
tions, such a cabinet as has been prescribed to the
d r ke of Portland, would fland.
There is not a person in the capital, who requires
to be informed of the extraordinary exertions which
have been made, or our correspondent should rather
have said, the drgrading experiments which have been
tried, during the lafl fortnight, to exclude the duke
of Portland and his friends, from every (bare in the
government. There is not a person in the capital, who
requires to be informed, who the adviser was of those
exertions and expedients. Can it, therefore, be con
vinced by any person, who makes use of his senses,
that this man could be forced upon the duke of Port
land and his friends, with any other view, than to con
found and perp ex their deliberations, to oppose their
measures, to defeat their exertions in the public ser
vice, to watch over them, to seize every opportunity
of undermining, dividing, and deflroying them ?
Another confederation that is equally obvious is,
that lord North was as much the object of the C r's
determined and desperate opposition, as the mofl ob
noxious of those, with whom his lordship coalesced,
on principles of public utility. Every a tempt was
made to (hake him, and to induce him to renounce his
engagements. When these attempts proved unfuccefs
ful, and when necessity compelled the advif-rs of the
crown to propose that an administration fliould be form
ed by the two parties thus coalescing, can any thing
be mere evident, than that the proposing two members
of the cabinet, on the part of the crown, ata mo
ment, when the formation of such an adm nitration
was almost completed, could proceed from any
other design, than to have in the council an in
terest rtota ly unconnected with the other two, and
to convey to the public a certainty of such mistrust
on the part of the crown, as must prec'ude every ex
reflation, that a mniftry s o formed could last? Is
this the ministry, for which the nation pants ar this
moment ? Which would be like y to quiet our divisions,
and perform that work of tipne and long deliberation,
the fettling the new and complicated intererts of this
mutilated, tottering empire?
In addition to ihefe reflexions, it will be also of use
so look back to the condo,bf the C- r during lord
Rockingham's last administration ? Was there a mea
sure of ^heirs, which he did not oppose? Did he not
maintain a couflant warfare against them in the house
of lords, on every point of reform? Did they meet
with any other opfofition there but his? and would
they not be ideots to themselves, or what is of much
greater importance, would they not be traitors th their
country, to undertake to carry on the pubic b'ufme^
with energy and effe,, when such a man fliould be ad
mitted into their cabinet, profeffe/'v „ s a person of
opposite sentiments and ihterefis, with ev' r y other
member of it, except one, (lord S } exaffly cf
the fame description, and prescribed for the fame ex
press purpose.
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