The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-03-07 00:00:00, page 3

MR. BURKE said the noble and learned lord, de
serted the proper ground when he said so much
about the mode of conducting the war. The
end and object of it were the considerations to be spok
en to. It was there that the (hoe pinched, there that
calamity expence, disgrace, and ruin flared every
man in the face! As a proof that miniflers themselves
were not clear in their ground, refpeding the address,
he laid the Scotch secretary of fiate, and the Irish se
cretary of fiate, had both of them, in an- ther place,
held a language tot lly different from that of the South
British minifler in that house. The Scotch and Irish
secretaries had expreflly declared that the address did
pledge those who voted for it to a prosecution of the
American war. The South British secretary and his
supporters had told the house the direct contrary. What
fort of confidence then ought gentlemen to place in an
administration, where there was so glaring a want of
concert ? What firmnefs, what vigour c uld arise from
the councils of men so disunited; how was this differ
ence of arguments upon the fame fubje& to be account
ed for ? Was it owing to their different places of birth ?
Were Scotch, English and Irish so jumbled together,
that there was a babel in the cabinet, and such a con
fufion of tongues, that the one could not underhand
what the other said? The learned lord told the house
he did not mean to pledge himfelf for the prosecution of
the American war, when he voted for the address?
What fatisfa&ion was that to the house. The decla
ration was the private declaration of an individual
member of parliament, the address wastbe aft of the
house; read it; the words' fay the house is pledged if
they vote it. It binds them in their own language,
and it cannot be argued away. Sense and meaning arise
out of words and phrases. Every body knows the writ
ten words of the house contain one import, one mean
ing, and the house aft up to another meaning ! The
idea is too grot's, the delusion too palpable to operate
for a moment!
After dwelling upon this for some time, Mr. Burke
adverted to the general nature of the war, and parti
cularly the events of the laid campaign. When he
came to the surrender of general lord Cornwallis, he
produced a newspaper, and read the answer to the xoth
article of the capitulation, and commented on it, and
its fatal consequences, with an animation and glow of
defcriptioD that filled themind with horror. He work
ed up his passions so much in descanting on the (hock
ing cruelty of the circumflance, that his whole frame
was visibly and violently agitated. He declared the
blood of all the Americans, who lof ltheir lives in con
frequence of that capitulation, rested on the head of lord
Cornwallis, and that he would tell him so when he
arrived. At feaft as he had no right to charge him
with it in the other house, where the earl was entitled
to a feat, he would make those walls re echo with it,
7 til lord Cornwallis had accounted for a conduct so dis
graceful to the British name, so distressing to humanity !
He drew a comparison between the conduct of general
Burgoyne at the surrender at Saratoga, and that of
lord Cornwallis at York town. He reminded ministers
of the manner in which they had treated general Bur
goyne, who gave up no loyalifls to butchery. He
'brought to their recollection the doubts entertained by
them of the general's having a right to his feat in par
liaoent while he was a prisoner, and the manner in
which they had prevented his throwing himfelf at the
feet of his sovereign, and asked them, if such was their
treatment of a general who obtained such honourable
terms of capitulation, what was lord Cornwallis to ex
pe& ? He printed in flrong tints, a picture of all the
headland, of the Chefapeak, exhibiting the parching
quarters of the king, friends, and asked with an air
of phrenzy, whether the fight was not a glorious one
to meet the eyes of a prince of the blood royal on his
firfl arrival in America ? He next shewed to what ex
tent the power of protection described by the American
secretary, had been carried. By fire and sword we
had forced the Americans to join the king's troops,
and now those very men, who had been fighting to
quell rebellion, were to be executed with ignominy,
having themselves been rebels. After working up
himfelf and his hearers to the mod diftrefsful state of
emotion, he branded the ministers as the cause of the
horrid disasters he had described, and poured forth a
torrent o fury on the address, which he declared to be
the most hypocritical, infamous, abandoned, lying pa
per, that ever that house had been called upon to vote.
Before he fat down he mentioned the circumstance of
calonel Laurens, the son of Mr. Laurens, now in the
tower, having been the person who fettled the articles
of capitulation upon which lord Cornwallis surren
dered, and argued upon the singularity of the circum
stance, with all that redundancy of fancy, which he
is remarkable for displaying whenever he rises to take
part in a debate.
Continuation of Debates in the
British Parliament.
From the Public Advertiser, printed in London, Sep
tember 8, 1781.
THE following extraordinary relation has just fall
en into our hands. The Reverend Mr. Hagamore,
of Catthoge, Leicefterfhire, died the firft of January,
1746, possessed of the following effects, viz. 7001. per
annum, and 10001. in money, which (he dying intes
tate) fell to a ticket porter in London : He kept one
servant of each sex, whom he locked up every night.
His last employment of an evening was to go round his
premises, let loose his dogs and fire his gun. He loft
his life as follows: going one morning to let out his
Servants, the dogs fawned upon him suddenly, and
threw him into a pond, where he was found breast
^^h ; the servants beared him call for assistance, but
being locked up could not lend him any. He had 30
gowns and cassocks, 58 dogs, 100 pair of breeches, 100
pair of boots, 400 pair of shoes, 80 wigs, yet always
wore his own hair, 80 waggons and carts, 80 ploughs,
^nd used none, 50 saddles and furniture for the manege,
30 wheel barrows, so many walking sticks, that a toy
man in Leicefterfields bid his executors 81. for them, 60
orfes and mares, 200 pick-axes, 200 spades and fhg
75 Udders and 240 razors.
Last Friday night arrived here a flag from Bermuda,
in twelve days, by which we learn, that a passenger
in a vessel from Cape'Francois reported there, that the
Spaniards had taken the island of Providence, and re
moved the inhabitants to Cuba.
NORWIC H, February 21.
Yesterday arrived from Gaudaloupe, captain Alphe
us Davifon, after a passage of 14 days. By him we
are informed, that just before he failed, the gover
nor of that island received a letter from count de
Graffe, advising, that he lay in the road ofSt. Chriflo
pher's with 27 ships of the line, b r -fides a number of
frigates ; that the English fleet confining only of 18 fail
of the line lay in fight ; that he expeded in one or
two hours to commence an action with them; that lie
was between the fleet and fort on the island, but yet
very advantageously situated; by human appearance
he did not doubt but fortune would smile on his at
tempts, however a few hours would determin his fate.
Such being the situation of count de Graffe and the
English fleet, we may hourly expert some important
intelligence from that quarter.
The Royal Gazette of New-York, dated the 2d in-
Rant, from which the debates in the British parliament
are taken, fays, That an express boat arrived there
from Charleflown in ten days, which advises that the
privateer ship Bellona, 0(20 guns, captain Moning,
belonging to Portsmouth in New-Hampshire, was late
ly carried in there by a British cruizer, which nad ai
fo taken a (loop from Philadelphia with flour. That
two vessels from Havana, wi;h 60,000 dollars, bound to
the Cape, were lately carried into Providence, where
a brig from Martinique, bound to Rofton with sugar,
&c. as well as a ship and schooner from Philadelphia,
with flour, were also arrived, having been taken by
some of the enemy's privateers. That admiral Rod
ney had arrived at Barbados from England with ten
fail of the line. That the French troops, in several
attacks upon 3rimQone-Hill had lof lupwards of 800
men, without success ; that two French 74's were funk,
and on the 27th of January the two fleets were left en
gaged. That the general atfemLly of Sou'h Carolina
was met. That general Wayne, with Moylan's horse,
a body of infantry, and some Georgia militia, was at
Zubley's, on the south fide of Savannah river, and fre
quently lent parties down towards Savannah and Oge
chee.
The fame paper mentions the arrival at New York
of a brigantine with sugar, and 4000 dollars, prize to
the Lion man of war. And fays, that the Spanish ex
pedition againff Jamaica, Providence, and St. Augus
tine, was hid aside.
We are told Sir H. Clinton has obtained leave to re
turn to England, and is only waiting for his successor
in office to arrive.
Extras of a letter from Little Creek, Kent county,
dated Februry 24, 1782.
“ Yeflerday, in the afternoon, as the schooner Kit
ty Meade, captain Callaher, from St. Croix, wa/go
ing up our bay, the was boarded and taken by the re
fugees, near the mouthof Little Creek. Captain Cal
laher had one man killed, and himfelf and three men
wounded, one mortally. He received his wound, af
ter he had given up his vessel, from the hand of the
captain of the refugees, who most inhumanly, with a
cuflafs, Brack him through the nose, and more than
an inch deep in the cheek, opposite to where the wound
began. The wounded men are in Dover, under the
care of Dr. Mollefon, where I had an opportunity of
converting with captain Callaher this day."
The refugee boat, by which the above schooner was
taken, is called the Ranger, and commanded by one
Jones.
A lift of American prisoners that have been committed
to Mill-Prison, in England, from vessels belonging to
Philadelphia, and which remained in said prison, 0&
J 4> *7^ l# Ship Oliver Cromwell.
Patrick M'Cand, John Douty, James Lowry, John
Adair, George Still, Richard Price.
Ship Reprisal's prize.
Thomas Norwood, Samuel Ross, Edward Lewis,
Staffold Barden, Alexander Neal, Thomas Twyer, Jo
seph M'Millen, Charles Ned, Thomas Reynolds, Da
niel Atkins.\
A letter of marque ship, of 20 guns, from London,
bound to New- York, prize to the privateer ship Juniue
Brutus, of Salem, is arrived fafe in an sa flern port.
Her cargoe is 1500 barrels of flour, some bale goods,
&c. &c..
Cutter Revenge.
GuR- Cunningham, captain. William Hofkim, Dani
el Willet, Wm. Fowler.
Brig He&or.
Ch. Linn, John Kemper, John Conner.
Sloop Comet.
Paul Ripley, Samuel Owens, Wm. Pitts, Fred. Mo
lyneux, Rob, Burridge, Daniel Breton, Tho. Ball, John
Afhhton, Theophilus Elfwofth, Nath. Simmons, John
Brown. *
Captain John Kemp, Shubart Armitage, Dennis But
ler, John Galloway, Alexander Findall.
Ship Revenge.
Will. Whippain, Geo. Herdham, Wm. Lattymore,
Simon Alderfon, James Fletcher.
Ship Saratoga's prize.
William Brown Fogo, John Hackitt, John Garvin.
Ship General St. Clair.
Captain Geo. Canoin, Adam Les, Peter Arpinal.
John Claypoole, John Shaw, Wm. Leach, John Mar
tin, Jacob Trien, Jas. O'Brien, Littleton Chilten,
Hugh Fereride, Jos. Martin, Wm. M'Muben, Willi
am Knap, Jos. Panny, Dennis Delany, George Moote,
Philadelphia, March 7.
Brig Marbois.
John Kitts.
Brig Heftor.
Capt. James Slover, Tho. Juflice.
Brig Diana.
William Downes.
Brig Betsey.
John Langworthy, Edward Pater.
Ship Luzerne.
Schooner Greyhound.
April next, A
Lot of land, containing sixteen
acers, on which is erected a genteel brick tenement,
situate in Turner's-lane, three miles from the city,
excellent well of water, an orchard of the best grafted
fruit, a new bam, with other improvements fuitaole
for a gentleman s feat or a farmer, being so convenient
rh th f e %'"'° l" t^rp^y te M 4. CARMIC, in
Chefnut-ftreet, between Fourth and Fifth streets.
TO BE S O L I), A
Very valuable Estate, bounded
on Cunedeguinet creek, in the township of Bast Pennf
borough, and county of Cumberland, lies about ten
mile# fiorn Carlisle, the county town, and about fix
miles from the river Sufyuehanah. The Traft con
tains tiGO acres of limestone land, patented and of ex
cellent quality ; a confiderablc quantity of meadow is
made 2nd much more may be made and watered ; on
the prrmiles ar^ two very good dwelling huufes two
Horine high, each having four forms on a floor, with
good barns, stables and other out-houses to each ; one
of toe houses has been used, during many years, as a
tavern ; a law mill, and a grift-mh^, with two puz of
ftencs ? ar^ eroded on a never failing ft, earn, and a
dim is built which will convey water to a number of
mills, and besides will furnish a stream lor watering 5
or 60 acres of meadow. For terms apply to JAME?
WILSON, enquire, in Philadelphia, or the fubfcrib:r S
who will De on tile premises on the xoth day ot A r^
next, to rent or led, it not fold before that day.'
M^ 6. MARK BIRD.
T O BE SOL D. A
Full bred covering Horse, laid
I?: "" %° M , ""'dair: He ^ a fine si ze and figure,
^n+TZ"^ ^ °" aT'l'° " y tafe °° th < c°n'i
. J * ^ ri t^eimeh am whe , a
may b: seen, and ms pedegre^ more fully explained
p^rfon who may want to per bale.
Marc h 6. mark bird.
TO B £ L E T,
And may be entered on the middle of
TO BE SO L D, A
Tract of land in Roxborou^h
township, Philadelphia county, nine milfl
from the city, extending from the Manata„ n y read to
the river Schuylkill, containing about two hundred
acre, of which about fifty ^ cleared a: d under a good
" n ,' re ,, nd « r 18 well timbered. Alfc, another
!^ a Wh " cfCT ^ township, on (he river
':"h"" ^'''"T- ' s '" n ^ mil ' s ' editing about
one hundred and foty ac ,„, . b u t one half c f this
trad is ^ell timbered; it is comi^viv to several lime
ter "? ^PP ly to SAMUEL FOWEL.
Who several acxes of PASTURE GROUND, ad.
joining the South-street, of this city, to be LET.
John Williams, George Mitchell, Nath. Smith,
A Specimen of African Humour :,aken from a late
Bofion Paper.
On the arrival of the news of the capture of lord
Cornwallis and his whole army, one African meeting
another, salutes him thus:
" O I How do Cuffee. You hear about Cornwallis ,
No. What about Cornwallis? Why, general Wafc
ington shell off all the Corn, now he Coßwallis.
ADAM LEAR, an inhabitantof Berks county, has
stolen several Horses in that county, particular
ly a young full-brad Bay FILLY from the lubfcri
her, about the latter end of August last She was
found in possession of a person in Lancaster counts with
one of bar ayes out, thought to be done on pwrpefe to
disfigure hor; he put a cloth over the Filly's rye aid
rode her through great part of Lmcafter county, cress.
ed Sufatom^h and returned^ into Lancaster county.
He is a Germfh, by trade a Mason, a b ut 5 feet 8 inch
es high well made, ab,t 3s y Q$ of age, has short
dark hair, dark complexion, long nose, large
thin vif^e and ffoops when walking. Whoever t
up ad ecures the above described Adam Lear, so that
he miy be brought to justice, foal! have the above re
ward, pid by MARK BIRD. March 6
Sloop Hunter.
John Stevens, John Allex, james Bolton, Caleb
Gilbart.*
John Howfer, Abijah Hunt, James Hnn f , Wm. Vic
kee, Nath. Spooner, Jacob Stall, Willm. Williams,
Nath. Walker.
Twenty Dollars Reward,
AIT If taken up out of this County.
RAN-AWAY from the subscriber, livirg i n Lan
calier, a Rout, lusty Ne^o WENCH, n med
, aoout i 9 or zo years or a^e, has a lower, down
Icok, mucn markea with the Imali-pox : Had on when
she went a^y, a new cotton fri^d pettecoat and short
gown of a la^e^ure, had white, blue, u n d vedow
fripes m it; (he took likewiie se ver al linfy short yownt.
and pettecoats, allo a calico fr g own of a remark
able large figure, a pair of light blue woollen flockings
a pair of womens (hoe, and brass buckles; the tooktl'-
foap^t of mens shoes w th her ; the (aid Negro t
^°' n Gardner's family, near the Middle-ferry, at
Schuylkill, and brought up with Mr. Dixon, at the
Center-house; (he is very smart and complafant with
^ er ,'°% ' "° doubt but ^ e has a good dory to t 4(
for aerfelf. Whoever takes up and (ecures said Negro,
so that her matter way have her again, (hall have tie
above reward and reafona'de charges paid by me.
F ^- ^ GEORGE MOORE.
Five Pounds Reward.
Friends Good Will.