The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-03-10 00:00:00, page 4

From the London Courant, dated October th
A CAR D.
MR. Laurens, late president of the Congress, pre
fentflis most refpe&ful compliments to his ex
cellency governor commodore commiflioner
Johnftone, and trusting to his .Known liberality, pre
sumes to hope, that as Great Britain is now confeffed
ly pal " the hour of her infolerue," he would Over
look a former refusal, and qfe his great influence in
the cabinet/ to procure him permifflon to " fee the
country," and those " worthy char,alters," who.have
succeeded so happily in lowering her insolence, that he
way have something " to tell his children about."
Should the governor retain any resentment on account
cf that refufal, when Mr. L wasprefident of Congress,
be will please to recoiled theory great difference
there now is in the situation of affairs ; and Mr- L. oh
his part engages, in return for the favour requeued,
that whenever, as governor, comrhodore or commission
er, Mr. Johnftone thinks proper ^gain to set foot in
America, he fliall have a free prffpafet throughout all
the country, where he is convinced the Congress will
have no objection, (to ufea phrase of vulgar accepta
tion) to give him allhe knows.„
INTELLIGENCE 'EXTRAORDINARY.
Orders, it is said, have been given for the immedi
ate preparation of appartments at Hampton court for
the reception of his excellency Henry Laurens, esquire,
late president of Congress, in North - Ameriea; and
that a colonel's guard will do duty during the resi
dence of his excellency at that palace.
His excellency general Walhingtor/s picture, lately
taken in the Congress packet boat with Mr. President
Laurens, was (notwithflanding the " more than Ro
man severity, with which the war, on our part, has
been carried on) intended as a present to the court of
Great Britain, and will, it is said, be put up in the
grand levee room at the war-office, Whitehall. Auf
picium melioris avi! surely it cannot displease Am
herst ? Qui invidat minor est.
Great complaints having been made of the bad qua
lity of the sixty thousand pounds worth of Jews harps
and razors, sent out lass year by Mr. contractor Knox
for our Indian allies in North-America ! The lords of
the treasury, that they may not be again deceived, it -
is said, have been pleased to appoint (with a friary of
2boL a year) doctor Duncan Moffat, one of the Ame
rican refugees, to be essay-master of all the Jews-harps,
fifes, bagpipes, and other instruments of wind music,
that may in future be sent out; and that he, the said
doctor, or essay-master, ffiall personally make trial of
every such Jews-harp, &c. and fee that it accords and
founds well to the tune of Yankee Dood'e, before it be
Whipped to our great and good allies, the brave sava
ges in the western world! and on account of such ap
pointment, the said essay-master hath just received from
Scotland, a deploma, for being Doctor of Music, &c.
&c. &c.
M'Knight and Rownd,
At their Store on the east fide of Second street, the
fourth door below Chefnut-ftreet,
Have for Sale, Wholesale and Retail,
A Variety of Goods suitable for the present and com
ing Season : Among which are,
BLUE, white, and buff
C^ffimers,
Superfine white Broad
cloth,
Linens,
Mumhums,
Striped, jaconet, aridbook
Mugins.
Brown and white thread :
Hose,
Mens and womens white,
coloured, and purple
leather Gloves,
Purple and coloured lea
ther Mitts,
Best white f/rk Stockings,
Superfine (carlet and green
Cambists,
Cambricks and Lawns,
Nankeens,
Ginghams,
Chintzes,i
Umbrelloes, I jewelry.
A large Parcel of Gownd Silks, viz,
Luteftrings, Brocades and Mantuas: Also, Modes,
PerfiaAs and Serfoets; and the heft Hyfon Tea.'
Five Hundred Dollars Reward.
STOLEN from the fubkriber, living
in Upper Darby, Chester county, on the 14th init.
one old light coloured (urtout coat, one light coloured
cloth coattec with wooden buttons on the breast and
cloth ditto on the sleeves, one coarse linen shirt, one
pair of woollen dockings, ribbed white in the top*, one
small linen w^t. miked N G. one coarse muflm
stock, one pair of silver kn<e buckles, two silver dock
buckles, one ofthem marked L. L, one fepifoped
beaver hat half worn, one leather pocket-book with
tor ty continental dollars therein,one large pair of block
tin (hoc buckles. The above Goods , re supposed to be
stolen by a Dutchman, named WILLIAM ALBERS
about $ feet , or 10 inches high, has a large fear of a
burn on one fide of his forehead, both his legs fore,
and fays he served his time with Thomas or Tonathan
Dudley, near Moor'a-town, in the ferfeys. Whoever
takes up said thief and feenres him, so that he may b
brought to justice, fall have the above Reward and
reasonable charges paid, by
NATHAN GARRETT, junior.
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by DAUID C. CLAYPOOLE.
Mininet and Gauze,
Mininet Handkerchiefs,
Ditto Aprons,
Bmdaro, cotton romalfs,
ficktufey and gauze
Handkerchiefs,
Black, blu% green, and
pink Moreens,
Sewing Silk,
Engli(h Pins,
White-chappie Needles,
Black Vejure,
Crimfen and blue Pluffi,
Brown, black and green
Darcy,
Black Prunella,
Ribbands,
Blond and black Lace,
Thread of all @s.
Skeleton Wire,
Also, a small Assortment of
FEBRUAR Y 26, i 7 Br.
The Subferiber begs leave to acquaint the
PUBLIC in general and his FRIENDS in particular,
THAT A
Public Auction will be held,
0 n
THURSDA Y,
In every Week, beginning at TEN o'clock in the
Morning, where All kinds of Goods, Wares, Mrrqhan
dize, Houles, Lands, Veffete, Horts, Carriages, Houf
hold Fvrnitur~, Wearing Apparel, &c. &c. &c. will be
Sold to the bed Advantages
His Employer# may depend upon every Attention
being paid to th fy Interest, and wi [always Experience
the greatest Punctuality and Expedition in the fettling
their Accounts.
WILLIAM BROWN, Auctioneer.
N. B. As it conduces very much to the
Interest of his Employees in the She of their Gaods,
that the Public mould be informed of 'he particular
Sort or Kind for 'Sale on each Vendue Day, it is re
quefled that all Periods who mean to favour his Store
with their Commands, would fetid them 2s early as
convenient, that the Beil-man may have an opportu
nity of making them as public as poffibl,,
To be Sold by Auction,
At the Southwark Auction-Store,
On THURSDAY the Fifteenth Instant, March, be
twixt the hour? of Twelve and On* o'clock,
A two story brick House & Lot of
GROUND, thereto belonging, fitnate in Third street,
betwixt South and Shippen-ftreet ; the House is in good
repair, has a good Cellar with a boarded fl^r. a
Pump of good Water very convenient to the door, with
the privilege of a four foot alley. The Lot is 24 feet
in breadth on Third street, and 80 feet deep. The
premises are now in the tenure of Mrs. Elizaieth Park
141ton, who keeps tavern therein, it being well fitted
for that parpofe. A good and fufficient title wi 1 be
given the purchaser, and it is free from any incumb
rance, five a small Ground-rent of 61. 7s. 6d. curren
cy, per annum.
WILLIAM BROWN, Auctioneer.
Southwark Auction-Store,
Twenty Pipes, Twenty Hogsheads, of the fineft old
Madeira WINE,
Thirty Pipes, Ten Hogsheads, Twenty Qiarter-cafks
of London market ditto,
Seventy Pipes, Ten Hogsheads, Twenty Quarter calks
of New-York market ditto,
Seventy-five Pipes, One Hundred Hogsheads, One
Hundred Quarter-calks of belt Cargo ditto,
And Nineteen Boxes of Poland Starch !
Being the CARGO of the Prize Brigantine DoUG.
LASS, taken by the Ship of War SARATOGA,
John Young, Esquire, Commander:
And at Six o'Clock in the Evening of the
fame Dav, at the Coffee-boule, Will be SOLD, the said
Prize Brigantine Douglass,
With all her Guns, Tackle, Apparel and Furniture,
agreeable to an Inventory to be teen at the Place ot
Silc.
To be Sold by Public, Vendue,
On Saturday the roth infant, March, at the Coffee
boufe, at five o'clock in the afternoon,
A BOU 1' five acres of Marsh Meadow
GROUND, situate in Paffyunk towafhip, bounded
oftwaul by land* of Mr. Penrole, southward by Daniel
Roberdeau'#, weft and northward by Henry Elves'#
meadow, nearly opposite said Elvers late dwelling,
house, and near the road leading to the lowest new fer
ry on Schuylkill, late the property of Edward Lord
Chick and otherr, arid fold by order of the county
Commissioner for the payment of the public taxes, &c
due thereon. WILLIAM WILL, Sheriff.
Also, to be Sold, at said Time and Place,
A L ° T . or P' ece ° f GROUND, situate, lying and
being in Northward, between Seventh and Eighth
Greets, in the city of Philadelphia aforesaid,.contain
ing in breadth twenty feet, and extending in depth 306
feet, or thereabout (it being the eaftermoft part of a
large Lot of igz feet in breadth and -06 feet in depth)
bounded southward by High-street, eastward by a Lot
of David Scikel's, northward by ground of Christian
Shafter's, and westward by the remaining part of said
large Lot, late the property of Petei G^flcel, beyend
sea, and fold by order of the county Commhtioners, for
the payment of the public taxes due thereon.
On MONDAY Next,
At TEN o'Clock, in the Forenoon,
Near Messrs. Willing and M rris's Wharf,
Will be Sold by Public Auction,
TO BE SOL D,
^ handsome Photon, with
good HARNESS. Enquire of Mr. J. Hjhzheimer.
By Order of the Court of Adm ralty,
March 6. CLEMENT BIDDLE, MarfhaL
WILLIAM WILL, Sheriff.
ON
Whereas the Partnerfliip of Kean
and N ICHOLS dissolved in September last :they, for
want of time, have put their Books and Papers into the
hands of Mr. THOMAS SHUTE, in Church alley,
having authorised him to fettle all Accompta, to pa, and
collet Debts. All persons indebted to, or having de
mands again ft said Partnership, are desired to makeiin
mediate application to Mr. Shute, that they ma, be
enabled to have a final Settlement.
Philadelphia, February ig, v„t.
N. B. Said Thomas Shute has, just come
to hand, a Quantity of best American manufaaured
MAGNESIA, which he will dispose of by wholefate
and retail, as may suit the Apothecary and Pr?&tiob^
ers, &c. Also. a pair of exceeding good SCALES
and WEIGHTS, that will weigh a hogshead of fogar
Or tobacco.; and continues felling Carolina Indigo on
commission, both in the wholesale and retail way.
Whereas the honourable the
Congress of the United Spates, have directed Major
General Grew, late Quarter Matter General, to lay #
Rate of the D te bts of his department before the Treifa
ry Board ; and have, by their a& of the 26th of August
last. Resolved, That all and singular the Creditor#
of the United Stater, for Supplies furnifhed the Army,
or the Transportation thereof, ffiall be intitled to re
ceive the just value of the sums due to them refyaively,
&c. and dire^cd that the Accounts (hall be liquidated
agreeable to the Value of Continental Bills of Credit
compared with Specie at the time the Debts became due.
In orddr to comply with the said Requifitiors and Re
solver, and to bring all Accounts under my dire 3100
to a just and equitable Settlement : I do earneffly re
quest all Perlons who have any Accounts or Demand#
against the Departmehr in my Diftrift, unsettled, to
bring them in immediately, that they may be liquidated,
and Cert ficates given in Specie, agreeable to the spirit
and intention of Aid Refolye<
Those who have received Certificates, and chute to
have them liquidated in Specie, will please to apply as
soon as peffibie.
Attendance will be given at my office, in Chefant
ftreet, to the Twenty fi th of March next, before which
time it is expeded every Account will be presented and
fettled, as after th,t time no Accounts can be received.'
JOHN MITCHELL, late D. Q M. G.
Philadelphia, February 15, 1780.
JOHN YOUNG, fa.
At his Book-store, in Market-ftrter, has
for sale,
AVERY elegant collection of new
BOOKS (London editions) in History, Law,
Physic, Divinity, Mrthematicks, and Architecture :
with a colleaion of the most modern French and mili
tary Book', and ClafficS.
Also some pairs of neat four pound HOW
ITS on Carriages, and good Weft-India RUM by the
hogsheads.
Just imported from Europe, and to be fold
By Mr. ROBERTS,
At Mr. Marie's house in Chefnut-ftreet,
CONLAC BRANDY, in barrels of ten gallons
each.
A CABLE, ninety fathom long, eight inches ilk
aircumferenae, and made in France of the best
hemp.
An ANCHOR, weighing one thousand weight.
MEDICINAL DRUGS,—Salt£§ Spirits § Oils ,
Meal ; Flowers and Leaves.
TAKEN up, an old red pyed COW:
Whoever has loft the fame, may have her again,
on proving their property, and paying charges, by
applying to ELIZABETH CLINE, at William Ship
ley's place, in the Northern Liberties, otberwife &e
will be fold for her charges, by the Bth of March next,
Those who have in their poffeC
non any BOOKS belonging to the late EDWARD
BIDDLE, Esquire, whether lent by him or sent out of
his house, either at Reading or Philadelphia, by mis
take, are requeued to return them to WILLIAM
LEWIS, Enquire, Attorney at Law, in Walnut ftrefy
who is authorised to receive them, particularly the firft
volume of Juftamend'e Translation of Abbe ReynaH,
elegantly bound and lettered. Mr, Biddle omitted
writing bis name in it previous to lending it, and for
got to whom he sent it.
Came to the place of Edward
Duffield, at Kensington, a dark Brown HORSE, with
three white feet, about 15 hands high, thought to be
sor 6 years old. Whoever hasloft la d Horse, proving
property ^d paying charges may have him again, by
applying to MARTIN WORKNOT. Feb. ro.
TO BE SO L D,
A likely, healthy Negro Lad,
about 18 cf 20 years of eg', has been bred to house.
work, and is a g ? nj,e! Waiter, c\n drive a carriage
and take care of hoffrs, and is fold for no fault, but
that big matter has not employ for him. Enquire of
the Printer.