The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-01-30 00:00:00, page 2

PARI S, August 29.
Extrad of a letter from the Sieur de Tillard, Lieute
nant of his Majesty's frigates, embarked on board
the King's frigate la Nymphe, commanded by the
Chevalier du Rumain, Captain of his Majesty's
fllips of the line, to Mons. de Sartine, Minister and
Secret ry of State for the Marine department, dated
Falmouth, the 27th of August.
“ Ou the 10th inflant, at half after 4 o'clock in the
afternoon, being in the weft south-west about four
leagues diflant from Oueffad, we perceived a fail to
the windward, wl ich appeared to be in chafe of us,
and we soon after found her to be an English frigate.
The Chevalier du Rumain immediately made all ne
cessary preparations for aHion, and backing his main
sail, he laid to, to wait for her. At a quarter before
fix we began to cannonade each other, being so near
that their yards touched ours, which continued until
a quarter past fix, when we had the misfortune to lose
our brave captain, who had received four mufket
balls at different times. Soon after, the two frigates
joined each other ; the fieur Penandref de Keran ftret,
ensign of the ship, gave orders to board the English
frigate, and in consequence thereof made all our peo
ple abandon the battery. At half an hour after fix
o'cl ck, the fieur de Keranftret was killed on board
the English frigate; and at the fame time the fieur du
Couedie, ensign of the ship, fell, and was crushed be
tween the two frigates.
“ Being then on the forecaftle of the English frigate,
I received a blow with a hatchet on the head, and a
pistol (hot in the shoulder, which threw me backward,
but luckily I fell upon a gun. I immediately repaired
upon the forecaftle of our frigate, and endeavoured
to rally our people, when I received another ball,
which totally deprived me of all my senses. The fieur
de la Fond, an auxiliary officer, received a musket
foot in his breast, and another shot took off his thumb,
on the forecaftle ; the wounds of this brave officer are
' forefee a censure which I would obviate, arising
from the little I shall fay of the active and presiding
spirits in this revolution. Besides, this making no
part of my plan, to combine or separate the lights
and fliades of living adors ; to give each his proper
place, to blot out what is falfe ; to restore what is
loft; to reproduce what has been destroyed toy
chance or intention, requires times very different from
the present. “ Perchance (nay and most like") whole
generations shall pass away, before the history of
such men becomes so far enlightened, as to be dif
pa flionately read, or perfectly understood. And it
may also happen, that some among the most deserv
ing, shall for ever remain under various readings. In
the mean time, let us not be over-prying, where it
cannot be profitable ; nor while we participate the
fruits of their labors, from a refiraimed cufiofity,
lessen the luftre that others may have claimed.—l
would just add one other observation, in these essays;
I shall be directed, more to things of use, than un
productive {peculation.
very dangerous, and the surgeons despair of his life.
Tre fieur Courfon de la VilLholio, another auxiliary
officer, received a blow with a pike on his thigh,
which threw him between the two ships ; and previous
to that he had received a cut with a (word over the
hand. The Sieur Dudrefey, garde of the marines,
received a musket ball through his knee. I cannot
believe it is possible to shew more courage, and to aft
with greater composure and presence of mind, amidst
all dangers, than all these officers have done.
“ The fire took twice in our frigate, and once it
blew up one of our cartridge boxes.
“ When I recovered my senses, and as soon as the
fieur de la Villehelia and I had our wounds dressed,
we d fired to be carried upon deck again ; but on our
arrival there, we found to our great mortification, that
the English had taken possession of the king's frigate.
" We had 35 men killed and 70 wounded; among the
latter is also the fieur de Riamond, a volunteer. lam
extremely sorry, that neither time nor my state of
health will permit me to give you a more circumstan
tial account of this unfortunate affair.
1 nimed only at truth, and how to render it most
agreeable and ufeful. To me, the man who but re
moves one prejudice from the breasts of bis country
men, is more eflimable, than he who built the pyra
mids of Egypt.
In the execution of my scheme, I shall endeavour
to place its objects, in that point of consideration, in
which I have viewed them. These will comprehend
some of the events that have established our national
charaHer, We shall then enquire into the character
of our friends, and that of our enemy.—What we
now are, and what we may yet be. The passing oc
currences may also make a part of our fyflem ; at
leaf! such of them as may serve to do good, or to ob
viate evil.
O U R canton has just issued a remarkable ordinance
against dfunkennefs, especially with refpeA to
those who addiC t themselves to flrong liquors. A cer
tain time is limited for their remaining in public
houses. The debts contrasted by lots' are declared
void, and not recoverable ; and gaming at cards and
dice in those houses is forbidden. The heads of the
church and the police are ordered to fee this order
duly executed.
Ratifbon, Sept. 23. Letters from Munich advise,
that the elector Palatine has ordered the number of
troops he keeps on foot to be augmented to 40,000
men; and that in consequence they were recruiting,
not only in the palatinate and Bavaria, but also in the
neigbouring states. That prince has also issued an
ordinance, purporting, “ that for the future, no
monk or convent shall inherit ab inteflato ; that when
an individual enters into a cloyfier, he shall not carry«
in with him more than 300 crowns : that no religious
or 'er or convent shall be nominated heirs ; that no le
gacy exceeding 200 crowns shall be left to any religi
ous house ; and that no person shall be allowed to
enter into a noviciate before the age of twenty years."
BASIL, (Switzerland,) September 20.
LET US BEGIN.
A PROCLAMATION.
TXTHEREAS a resolve passed the general court this
day for apprehending all prifouers of war that
have been captured by any armed vettels of the Uni
ted States, and have not taken arms against the King
of Great-Britain under the countenance and direction
of the authority of said state:
I do therefore, in consequence of said resolves com
mand all officers civil and military within this com
monwealth, without delay, to apprehend all prfoners
of war within their refpe{live jurifdi&ions, of the de
fcriprion abovementioned, and confine them in the
county goals ; and said refpeflive goal-keepers are re
quired where such prifohers'fhall be confined, to deli
ver them without loss of time to the commissary of pri
soners at Boston, in order that they may be duly ex
changed for our brethren who are now fuffering the
mod rigorous imprisonment in the hands of fee enemy.
Given at the Council Chamb-k, in Boston, the,
ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand fe^en hundred and eighty-one, and ip
the fifth year of the Independence of the United
States of Amer ca.
JOHN HANCOCK.
By his excellen y's command,
JOHN AVERY, secretary.
" Captain Williams, who commands the English
frigate the Flora, which took us, has landed us here
yesterday, being the 16th inflant.
They write from Gibraltar, by way of Lisbon, that
on the 12th of last month some violent shocks of an
earthquake were felt on the weft fide of the coast of
Morocco; the city of Tangier has fuffered greatly,
i§o houses being damaged, and the ramparts shattered
in different places.
This morning some dispatches were received from
Gibraltar, by which we are informed, t^at on the
25th ult. fix fail of men of war, which were under
French colours, passed by that place for the straights:
B O S T O N, January ri.
We are informed by a person from the northward,
that on Monday evening, the 18th ult. about feveri
o'clock, as a gentleman was riding over Suffield Plains,
he observed, hanging on the bushes by the fide of the
road a white flocking, which, as he could without
lighting from his horse, he took, supposing it to be
left or forgotten by some person travelling that way;
he had not passed but a few fieps when another pre
sented itfelf to view on the ground ;— from this circum
stance he immediately fufpeCed a plan was formed by
forre villain or villains to rob or assassinate him, and
that the latter was left on the ground as a bait to in
duce him to dismount, which would give them a more
favourable opportunity of seizing him; however he
cautiou y ventured to react: down and twist it round
the end of his whip, and secured it ; he then applied
his spur to the horse, and set off with the utmost speed,
in order to give them as little time as possible for such
a design (was there any) to be put in execution ; —he
had not leaped but a very few times, when two ruffi
ans, one on each fids, jumped from the busies to
seize their dubious prey ; but by ' the close application
of the whip and spur, h^ had advanced too far for them
to grasp the reins of the bridle, at which they seemed
principally to aim —this prevented their succeeding in
their diabolical plot, and the gentlem.ll happily made
his escape.—Poor wretches, in endeavouring to rob
others, were themselves juflly robbed.
" The English frigate the Flora, mounts 44 guns,
viz. 29 eigteen-pounders in her batteries, 14 nine
pounders, and 4 howitzers upon her deck.
" Our frigate, la Nymphe, carried only 26 twelve
poan^ers, and 6 fix-pounders ; so that one of her
broadsides sent only 174 pounds weight of iron, which
makes a difference of 123 pounds weight in favour of
the Flora."
DUBLIN, Oaober 16.
Yesterday fe'nnight the Aurora, Simmons, belong
ing to Liverpool, and bound from hence for that port
with skins, tallow, bay yarn and passengers, was dri
ven ashore on the coast of Wales in a violent gale of
wind and entirely loft, with all the people on board
except the captain and two or three more, who were
thrown upon a rock by a wave, where they remained
fever?J hours, and were a : moft perifheJ when relieved.
On Saturday laflabout noon, the new railed men on
board the Charming Nancy tender, mutinied, secured
the centinals, seized their arms, and overpowered the
watch on deck, tumbling them into the hold, and se
cured the hatchways, endeavouring to make their el
cape : theofficers and crew having communication be
tween the hold and great cabin were the arms were
kept, soon recovered the command of the deck. A
boat manned and armed was sent from his Majesty's
yacht Dorfe fr , which, with the afflftance of their own
boat, secured and brought back between twenty and
thirty of them that were making their escape to shore
in the tender's boat; one marine recruit was ihot
dead who was the principal ringleader, and twoothers
wounded in this unhappy affair. It is very remarka
ble, that the principals in this mutiny were volunteers
and marine recruits.
CORK, Of. 9. The following ships laden with
provisions, clothing, troops, liquors, and (lores of all
kinds from London for Quebec, put into this harbour
from September 12, to the 30th, being driven back
by stormy weather, and continue here: True Briton,
Ramsay ; Valiant, Hustler: Fifhburne, Oill ; Pomo
na, Rutherford : Success, Stupart ; Shrefbury, Sal
mon; Spring, Cleevers; Ceares, Davidson ; Lockhart
Ross, Cobb; Ranger, Wool.
There have been two other victualling ships bound
to Quebec in this harbour, since the 15th of June,
viz. Howden, Chefler ; and Nancy, Smith; making
in the whole twelve fail of large yeffels.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
LOND O N, October 10.
One morning, when it was general Robinson's aid's
tour, he remonfrated with the general against it, and
shewed evident marks of reluctance to go upon that
piece of duty ; the general desired to know the reasons,
the aid honestly confeff d, that “ to be seen attending
such a scoundrel through the flreets, very much in
jured his feelings." To which old Jemmy, pulling up
his breeches, replied, "but! hutJ man, and what
think you of my fealings ?"
Pi'zdel&bia, Jan. 19, 1781.
Six Hundred Dollars Reward.
OKAYED or STOLEN last week, a sorrel HORSE,
About iz years old, 14 hands high, has a ftxr or
his forehead, and-branded on the left shoulder W. S.
he is a natural trotter, and when he trots f;.ft ftrikesTig
; bind and fore hoofs. Whoever takes up said horse and
the thief, fh.il have the above reward, or Three Hun
, tired Doli^r^ara reafenibie Charges for the horie only,
paid by M chael Shubart, in Seventh-street.
fyfy7AS taken up, on Saturday the 27th
of January, 1781, by the fuhfehber, living ur
Charles Thomfot's plasty near the Rising-sun tavern,
a dark Bre*n HORSE, ahaut 7 yt rs old, between 14
and £5 hands high, has a star m hi< fo,efead, ^nda
white (nip down bWfiofe ; he is a natural trotter, and
appears to be in go d ore r- The owner is d fired ta
ceme, fr~vi hit property, pay charges ana take him
away.MiChAEL STOUn ft
C H A T H A M, (New-Jersey) January 24.
I,alt week a detachment of colonel Crow's regiment
of militia went over to Staten-Ifhnd and completely
furprized a picket of the Britifti light infantry. They
killed three, brought off two prisoners, and fifteen
muskets.
T R E NT O N, January 24.
James Slover, Asher Biffet, and Daniel MHvm were
laA week, by the cour? of quarter sessions for the coun
ty of Middfefex, condemned by virtue of an ad of this
ftateagainft trading with the enemy, to serve on board
some of the galleys, frigates or ships in the service of
the Unite I States, and were accordingly carried under
gu rd to Philadelphia, to have the said sentence exe
cuted.
To be Let,
The Houses, Wharf and Stores,
row in the tenure of Mr. John Mease. For terras,
apply to the fubferiber ; who has sundry
Lots of pasture Ground in excellent Fence,
adjoining the Sputh-ftreet of this city;
And a Farm in Roxborough township,
Likewise, a quantity of Wood
to dityofe of, Landing, at nine rtii.es and half distance
from the city.
SAMUEL POWEL.
IFanted immediately, a heal
thy wet NURSE, (white or black) with a
good breast of Milk, who can be well re
commended. One without a Child would
be preferred. Enquire of the Printer,
F I S H-K I L L, January 2.5.
We learn that general Farions is just returned from
a fucccfsfal expedition to Morrifina, where he sur
prised and took prisoners sixty or seventy tories, and
burnt a confiderabie number of huts. He also paged
to Frog's Neck, and destroyed some floras there. He
loft one fub^ltern, and the enemy had one man killed.
On Arnold's arrival in New-York, the fagmiou^
great ones supposed, that upon paying particular at
tention to the villain, they would I fien his crimes in
the eyes of thev orl , and introduce him to the notice
of their circle, without which they forefaw he muff fink
into obfeurity and contempt; he was accordingly, in
appearance, carreffed by all in power, and general Ro
binfop's house fixd upon for his home ; whenever he
cifofe to ride, t; e different aids in rotation attended
him in his promenade; which gave rife to the follow
ing.
As government is determined to execute the said aft
with the utmost vigour, it is hop d those villainous
enemies to their country who have hitherto carried on
that infamous traffick may profit by the above exam
ple, least another punishment enjoined by the said aft
soon overtake them, and they appear with one ear l@fs
than their neighbours.
^^^w^®^
For Sale at Public Auction,
AT THE
City Vendue - Store,
In Chelnut-ftreet, three doors above Third-
street,
On FRIDAY Next,
(SALE to begin at TEN o'Clock,)
A large Assortment of Silks,
(Consisting of
Brocades, striped and flowered Tobihes„
Griped and plain Luteftring*, S^rfuetts, Sattins, &c.
Alio, An Assortment of Chintzes and Scotch Threads>
and other G ?ces, as usual.
ANECDOT E.
JOHN BAYARD, Auctioneer.