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Pennsylvania, ff.
the honourable WILLIAM MOORE, efqrJre, vice,
president, and the fuprem: executive council of the
common wealth of Fcnnfylv^nia.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by Givers dep.fitions,Dken according
to law, it app^rs, that on the Bigot t^
twenty-fecend infant, October, the tre^er u
county of Buck', within this fUte, has been reo^J o.
fiver, and paper money, to the amount cf nea: ^
thousand pounds, by a number of ^eJ ^? un
known. AND WHEREAS uyovtl^ cimcd impr
tance that the pure:ram of ^h a
fbeuri he brought to c n ^n pungent .WE HAVE
thought fit to offer, and de hereby < her a puboc toward
of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, , ^x^, tor each and
every of the per petrators of the .am tch ep , w@ f^i
be apprehended, and convi&d m the unit. And we
do her Im IE &iy charge, enjoin and require all judges,
juitico, fh-rfb, confutes, and all other tee t^dhut
and liege fu, j^ls within this government, to make
ligent fc&ch and enquiry after the above ofieod«is, and
toude the utmost endeavours to apprehend and lecme
them, and every ^f them, 1° that limy may be nought
to justice. ,
GIVEN, by order cf th? council, under the uand of
the honourable William M .ore, e/qwr, vice-prp-.
lident, and the leal of the itue, at Philadelphia,
this 25th day of October, in the year of our lord
one tncufand riven hunur-d and eighty one.
WILLI AM MOORE, vice piefilent.
Attest. T. MATLACK, lec.eury
GOD SAVE the COMMONWEALTH!
A Further SALE of the
Public Lots of this City,
For the redemption of the Bills of Credit
of this state, dated April the 19,b, 1780, will be hrld
at the Coffee-hou^, on THURSDAY, the Bth of No
vember infant, at T E N o'clock in teformoll. A
Plan of the Lots may be seen at the Coff= hooie, ?nd
ar the Surveyor General's Office, r^e conditions the
fame as the last Lies.
The Commissioners of the city
end county or Philadelphia orooofe *O'ET, for rh^
term of 4_yea r >, the PUBLIC LANDING rL ^Cr.S
belonging to the county; one of diem tiiu-.tr at the
east end of Cdlow-hiH ffreir, th^ other on die calf tide
ot Front- ftrect, continued in the Northern-Liberties,
together with *he PUBLIC SCALES, or wowing 0!
Hay. The Tenant to RtpJrthe Woof and k^p the
whole in good Repair, and deliver rem 0 % a die expi
ration of hud Term. Any person in.doing to Rent the
above-mentioned Primiris, may deliver their Propuf
ah in writing, at the Court Houri, the 16'h of this
instant. November 1, 1781.
Eight hard Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or Itoien frem Springe fomy in ;h^
N^nein L'ber'ris, on the 25th instant, a BLACK
HORSE, about 14. bauds 2nd an inch high, one white
foot, a final! star in toe forehead; he has lately bcm
bit by a horse on the off loin, where the hair has
topped off, and nepers like a haling wound, lip
tois mid canters. Whoever brings aim to JAMES
BROWN at Sprirgetfb>ry, or to t? e lubferiber Hi
Philadelphia, (hall have the above Reward.
ROBERT MORRIS.
Philadelphia,- October 30, 1781..
Philadelphia. Oflob-r U. 1781.
LAND-OFFICE,
r,UE Offi ers of the Land office, having reuon to
* relieve, that theie are divers perlons, in the *x
rme pa r t 3of thia ft. tc, w.: are (till i norant of th-
Ch-e being epened, for the put pole of receiving rhe
r. encages of purchase nr.d intermit due n n lands hern
e fold, and grant: g -'tents for th- fame, beg
v, thfrefcie, -to NOTIFY the PUBLIC, thatthe
5 r.-tarr and RecrivetG ne<„P. >Office: a:ekept in the
' .wing of thy S.^te-h^ufz, and the Surveyor G-ne,
, " it his own.home, on the north file of Mriikr'^
Inear'S -venth-Orect.
' good Gardener will meet.with encourage
i'nt, by applying to the printer of this
TUESDAY,
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GENERAL ADVERTISER.
-pw^i^-EVEKY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
MORROCCO, June 8.
OUR sovereign, desirous of notifying to the Prus
sian cabinet, through the ministry of his vifier,
the Bacha de Duguela-Mahomet-Een-Hamett,
his disposition to protest the Prussian htg, hath sent
a number of paffperts in the Arabic language to he
corful Audibert Caille, refiden't at Sallee, for the use of
the ^ruffian merchant ships, with a letter, intimating,
that he has given orders to all the commanders of his
ships of war to pay proper refpeft to and treat in
an arfcable manner the Pruffiin flag; in consequence
of which all the fubjefts of the king, of Prufiia ma y
freely, and without the l^all obflruftion, trade in all
the ports and estates -of Morrocco; but, on his part,
our sovereign experts the fame treatment from his Prus
sian majesty, who hath accepted of these propositions.
Smyrna, June i 3. The plague hath made fitch ra
vages in this city for some time pad, that the people
thuj themfclves up iu their houses, or retire into the
country./'
We are in a melancholy situation here from the want
of provisions, which are at an exorbitant price; and
we have no profpea of an end of th s calamity, as the
loculi, though lets numerous than the preceding years,
defiroy all the produce of the neighbouring countries
Frontiers of Turkey, June 30. It is undoubtedly
true that great differences have arisen between the
Porte and Ruffa; the reason of which is, tint the Ruf
fians, under pretence of carrying on trade, are en tea
vouring to eftablil'h themfeivrs Bill more and more in
tiie Crimea, and that the Kan feerus to a& in concert
with them. The grand vifir is very uneasy at the pro
ceedings of the inhabitants of the Crimea : he hath
also deposed the governors of some provinces-who n he
fufpefted of carrying on a private correspondence with
thole two nations. It was in order to prevent a re
volt, that the capitan Pacha detached from his fleet fe
veral ships to the Black Sea, the Archipelago, and
Egypt, and he will go in person to those places wnere
his pretence may be most necessary.
Courunna, June 27. The Rambler American pri
vateer, besides the Snake, and several other prizes on
the 22d of this month, met eight fa 1 of Englilh (hip ,
of which the took four, two of which, with the Kam
'ler, came in here yefierday. On board them are 30
Englilh families, and some Jew families, ihat wrr re
tiringifrom Gibraltar. These paffengtrs fay, that since
the commencement of the bombarding, abo e Zoo per
sons had died there.
Genoa, July 1. Among the foreign ships lately arriv
ed in this port, was a Dane, from. M^hon, by me cap
tain of which we learn, that the Englilh ship tee I ar
tar had arrived at Gibraltar with some provisions,
w rich so. had shipped at Leghorn for that garrhon.
The captain added, that the commoner c^ the camp
at ft. Roche had sent notice to general Elliot, who
commands th? above fortrefs, that if he Should take it
by atfault, and find provifiotis in it for less than five
months, he would put the whole garrison to the (word.
The Spanish lines advance, and are now So close that
they can hear the Englilh talk ; however, a bomb
thrown lately fr^m the garrison into the camp of St.
Roche did a gre-t deal of damage.
Feterfburgh, J^y 3. The ratification of the accel
fioh of his Prussian majesty to the armed neutrality was
exchanged the 25th of last month ; and 011 bus occasi
on the uiual prefects hive been delivered to the pleni
potentiaries who Signed the said accession. On the 6th
inst. a courier will be dispatched to Berlin with mag
nificent presents- for the two ministers of date, the
count de FinkenGein and de Hortfeerg: and also 'or
the three princ pal ft cretaries of the king's cabinet ; and
the m vifier of his Prussian majesty will avail nirmtlf < f
the departure of this courier, and fend the ratincation
to his court.
tadiz, July 6. The French fqnadron under M de
Cuicben entered the bay this d-y ; it confi-ls o' four
Ships of no guns, one of 80, nine of 74, mur of 64,
tnree frigates, and other smaller vessels. Tiie Mijef
tueux of 110 guns, and a frigate arrived on t e 3d
The fieur Gabriel Lallemont, ca ptain of th-Nepiune,
an American goellette, of 12 guns and 22 men, arriv
ed from Philadelphia in 25 days, reports, that -eight
or ten days before his departure, that is to my, about
the ill of Jun.-, the concueft ot Penfacoh was given
out as a md : that f e nth of Ihft month, bmg yet in
Delaware Bay, he fell in with four American brigan
tines which had I. ft the Havannah the 4th and that
he learnt by t eir captains, that part of the droops of
the expeditions agiinil Pensacola were already return
ed to the Havanas , after taking that price.
A letter from the p efident of Guatimala, dated A
pril 5, addressed iike^ife to the governor of the Havan
nah, informs us also, that the detachment defined to
THE
drive out the enemy from the river and port ofSt. Juan,'
and visit that place, after having retaken the fort of.
that -name, had completely fulfilled their objed. The
Englilh had mifearried, and left in that port a frigate,
eight pirogues, and a (loop of 12 guns, which they had
employed in the siege of that place. They had like
wise left a great quantity of bullets and ffores in good
condition. As soon as we shall have received the par
ticulars, which are expected here, they will be mad^
public.
His inajefly, willing to celebrate in a suitable manner
events so glorious, has ordered Te Deum to be sung in
his royal chapel.
Madrid, July 9. The court received dispatches yes
terday from Cadiz, with advice that M. de Guichen is
arrived there with his Squadron, confining of 18 ships
of the line and 8 frigates, &c. and that Le Majeftu
eux, a Frencii (hip of 110 guns, commanded by count
de Rochechouart, and the frigate la Precieufe, captain
Vialis, from Toulon, are also arrived there, so that
the number of French and Spanilh fllips of the line
now at Cadiz is 53.
Nantes, July 12. On the 9th of this month, an A
merican ship from Edington, in North-Carolina, arri
ved in this port, aftera passage of 32 days.
Amflerdam July 23. Captain Brown, commander
of a privateer from Boflon, is arrived in the Texel,
with several papers and letters from America, the old
est of which are of the 7th of June.
Dantzick, July 13. We are very h°rd at work here
building merchant ships, and the high freight given
will make them answer very well, as in, three voyages
to Portsmouth or Plymouth the building of them is
paid for-
Madrid, July 13. We have accounts from the
camp of St. Roch, that the enemy's fire has lately in-
Creased, and that they have even fired red hot balls, but
without doing any further mifehief than wounding one
cadet and a soldier. On our fide the fire has been
warmly returned, and one of our balls entered an em
brasure of the princess Amelia's battery, just as they
were firing the cannon, and a bomb burst upon the
old Mole among about 20 Englilh who were assembled
together: no doubt both these did mifehief.
Amsterdam, July 19. The directors of the East-In
dia company have received the agreeable news, that
three of their ships, viz. the Triton, the Oud Harlem,
and the 'T Loo, are arrived at Huxbolm from Batavia,
and Bengal, richly laden. The Englilh will not hear
with pleasure, that our merchantmen defined for the
Weft indies, carry arms, and therefore that it will not
be so easy to take them as they did.many others that
were defeufelefs. The prince Stadthold^r, at the re
qneft of feverri mere ants of this city, has been pleaf
el '0 gran' letters of marque to 14 ships ready to said
from the T<xel. A privateer of Dunkirk has taken
an Eoglifh brig, bound to Peterfburgh-, and carryed
her into the Meuse.
Berlin, July 21. The king, by an order in council,
hath forbidden the eftablifhmen; of a Vauxhall, illu
mination, and fireworks in this city.
Franks-rt on the Main, July 25. Letters from Swit
zerland mention, tha an Eoglifh nobleman is arrived
there to raise, principally in the country of Thurgaw,
a free corps of 1200 men for the service of the English
East-India company. It is also said that some English
afficers are arrived, in di\ers provinces of Germany,
to enlist men Levies for the Hanoverian troops are
also carrying on here.
Paris, July 27. Last Saturday two English line of
battle ships and some frigates appeared off Cherbourg,
and attempted to destroy some batteries erased on the
point of a little island, and which defend the enterance;
of the bafon, but some bombs soon made them fhee^
off, and their cannonading did not do us the leaf! da
mage. If it was the fl-et sent out against Vieffington,
that place had but little to apprehend, as they were
the worst gunners that ever were seen.
L ONDO N, July 28.
The lai firft rates bail in France, Le Terrible,
Le Majeßueux, and LUnv-ncible, each of no guns, have
64 pounders on an entire new con°ruf?ion for their
lower-deckers ; they have also furnaces for firing red
hot cannon balls, nat are heated in 48 minutes; 641 b
of red hot iron lodging in a ship would be fatal.
Many of the Jamaica ships which are arrived in the
river rave been obliged to land part of their cargoes
in S otrind, on account of the damage they received
during a long and troublefeme passage.
Ye erday the printer of a morning paper flood in
the pillory facing the royal exchange for publishing a
libel u the Ruffi nam affadcur ; a vast crowd of peo
ple surrounded the pillory, but not one attempted to
oder the leaf tinfult to him.
They wr te from Boston in letters of the 7th of June,
that the continental frigate, the Alliance, captai&Bar&
NOVEMBER 6, 17^
[NUMB. 803.