Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-05-13 00:00:00, page 3

Effing cw^ued so uncommonly violent and uninter
rupted, that it was impossible to hear diftindly what
he said. His tpeech was a refutation of some charges
made ag -.aft him in the public papers by Mr. Alder
man Hopkins.
A calm at length ensuing, the two candidates,
Messrs. Aldermen Wilkes and Hopkins were severally
put up, whe^ the shew of hands appearing full two to
one in favour of Mr. Alderman Wilkes, the Sheriffs
declafyl him duly defied.
After this a poll was demanded in favour of both
the candidates, which was announced to begin at three
o'clock this evening, and end at five.
B O S T O N, %2;
Exfrafl of a letter, dated April 22, 1776, from a mas
ter of a vessel who lately arrived upon this Continent
from France, which he left about the iSth of March.
« Upon my arrival here I was extremely happy to
hear of the good success of this country against lier un
natural enemies, who are collecting all the force possi
ble to make head against us. The account in Bour
deaux is, that 20,000 Hessians and Hanoverians ate
at Embden, ready to embark on board the English
ffiips, to join 12,006 Engli h, and fail immediately for
America. This, however, you may depend upon,
that about 40 fail of transports failed from Plymouth
about the loth of March for America, with about
5000 soldiers en board ; the) had been, some months
before, as far to the westward as Cape Finifierre, and
all put back by stress of weather, and dtfperfed in dif
ferent ports; one run on shore in Ireland, and the Cap
tain and almost all on board perished. I suppose by
this time they are very near this coast."
We hear that the Marthfeld Tories, said in our last
to be arrived off that pace, have not been to Halifax,
but have been lurking about the Bay ever fihce the
memorable flight of rhe 17th of March, till, overcome
by hunger, they were obliged to throw themselves
upon the mercy of their country. It is said they are
committed to Plymouth gaol.
Two regiments are now railing in this Colony for
its immediate defence.
We are informed that an additional Supply of ten
tons of powder was received, a lew days since, in
this Colony from Europe.
N EW- Y Q R K. May 8.
By a gentlemen from Connecticut we are informed,
that last week a certain Mr. Cable, in Fairfield, had
feut a load of provisions to the minifteria! plunderers,
and was loading a second time for the fame purpose,
bat was discovered by a tory who was concerned in the
affair, and who made oath before a Magistrate of the
scheme in agitation. The said Cable was observed to
be founding for deep water about the channel, which
he found at a . lace called the Black Rock, and through
which place he was to pilot a ging of cruel murderers,
about one thousand in number, whose orders were to
massacre men, wemen and children The final of
their landing was to be three cannon fired in the night.
This gang chiefly inhalied abiu. Newtcwn, in Co'n
veaicut, and from that place all along to Dob's Ferry
on the North River. Cab'e was on this difeoverv ap
prehended and committed to Fairfield jail, and also
another villain, named Pardelow, at Greenwich, who
was detected in enlifling men for the ministerial service,
was examined before the Committee of Safety for
Greenwich and committed io jail; two more were ap
prehended, but difeharged for want of {efficient proof.
A lift of the names of a number of them that had en
hfted, has been obtained, and a party of men are gene
in purf^ of them.
By an Express arrived lafl nights
A vessel is just arrived at Newbury Port from Bilboa.
The Capain fays, on the 14th of April, in long. 45,
he spoke with a brig from Plymouth, who a few days
before parted with a fleet of 60 fill, bound to Boston,
with 27 Commiffroners and 12,000 Hessians; and that
Gen. Bu goyne with 4000 Hanoverians was soon to fail
for Quebec.
PHILADELPH lA, May x 3.
On the sth inst. departed this life, aged 61 years,
JOHN ROSS, Esq; long an eminent Counfellor
of tire Law in this city. His remains (borne by the
Gentlemen of the Bar, and attended by a number cf
the rrioft refpe&able of his fellow-citizens) were de
pufned in St. Paul's Church, agreeable to his own
desire-
By a gentleman from Greenwich, in Cumberland
County, New-Jersey, we learn, that on Monday last,
about ten o'clock, a body of men from the pirate ships
landed on Tindon's Island, between Cobanfey Creel:
and Stow Creek; that they sh-t down and carried off
between 20 and 30 cattle from the marsh ; that the Mi
litia mustered together as faft as possible, and marched
down to engage them, but being difeovered from the
ships, a signal wds given, and the men took to their
boats with great precipitation, leaving five dead cattle
on tbe)ffiore; one of the men was so closely purfu^d
th?,t h^dropt his musket, and narrowly escaped being
taken. The ships immediately weighed anchor and
flood up the river.
*, The Members of the Committee of the County
es Philadelphia, are requested to attend at Ten o'clock
en Saturday the eighteenth instant, kt the house of
Jacob Neff.
, On Tuesday last the Roebuck of 44 and the Liver
pool frigate of 28 guns; arrived near the mouth of
Christiana Creek, fuppoled to be on their way to this
city. The Provincial Gondaloes were immediately
ordered to attack them, and on Wednesday afternoon
they began a severe cannonading upon them, which
was returned with equal warmth by the ships. The
adionjafted about four hours, without much da
mage being done to either fide. During the engage
ment Captain Alexander, on board the W asp schooner,
of fix guns, came out of Christiana Creek, into which
he had been chafed the day before by the men of war,
and retook a brig which had been taken by the Liver
pool. On Thursday afternoon the Gondaloes renewed
their attack upon,the ships with to much spirit and fltill,
that they were obliged to hoist fail and return down
the river. The Gondaloes pursued them, under a
eonftant fire for four hou s, after which they quitted
the chafe, and moored at New-Castle. Numbers of
balls were heard to strike the fllips in this a&dn, and
difeoveries were made next day of considerable damage
being done to them. Several of the bondaloes were
flighily damaged—One man was killed in the firft,
and three wounded in the second engagement. The
novelty of the tight, the gallant behaviour of the of
ficers and sailors, and the important consequences of
the contest, afforded a most interesting fpe&acle to ma
ny thousand fpeßators who flood on the Chores. Tis
laid the ships are now moored at Reedy-Island.
For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
AMERICANS! awake, awake!
Your Liberty, your all's at flake:
Behold your foes, huge angry swarms,
Proclaim loud war, to aims! to arms!
2.
Raging Britannia's haughty Lairds
Have charg'd their arms and dfawn fheir'fwords,
They call you rebels, cowards, knaves,
And doom your unborn babes for flawed.
, 3-
Deaf to your cries, the royal ear
Qdite ftopt, will no remonstrance hear;
Their Counfellors in blood rejoice,
And make deftrudion wide, their choice.
Then bend your bows, your arrows bright
Shall pierch like rays of morning light.
Prepare for War, it is no crime,
It's virtue, arid it is high time.
The great Almighty Lord of Hoffs
With watchful eyes defends our coasts,
Tho' fleets and bands of warlike pride
Appear; in Him we will confide.
6.
Rude Britain's haughty, angry frown
Freedom's strong wall would batter down;
But the foundation Rands secure,
GOD laid i' and it must endtire.
Swift to the field ye heroes fly,
Nor fear to sweat, to bleed or die,
The glorious catife demands your breath.
Freedom is cheap, tho' bought with death.
8.
Union, aloft Urania sings,
And beats the air with golden wings:
Great Washington prepares the way,
Nor can he doubt to win the day.
With life and toil his armies march;
Tho' Winters freeze, and Summers parch;
Not hunger, thirst, nor cold ner heat,
Shall ever make them to retreat.
IC.
Let the inglorious coward quake,
And up the yoke of flav'ry take:
Liberty's sons shall gain the prize,
And unto fame immortal rife.
A VIRGINIA N.
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JAMES JENKIN S,
HAVIN G disposed of his Stock in trade, takes
this method of returning his grateful thanks to
thole who have been pleased to favour him with their
cuffom ; and as he proposes fettling in the country, de
sires all persons wh® have any demands against him to
furrilfh him with their refpe&ive accounts, that they
may be paid: And all those that are indebted to him,
lie begs the favour of their making payment by the 18th
instant, or he will be under the disagreeable necessity of
putting their accounts intel a Lawyer's hands, without
feffea to perfons.f
TEN POOIND3 KFWAKD.
ABSCONDED from his bail, a certain Robert
Mitchell, about 28 years of age, about $ feet 7
inches high, black hair, smooth face, and a lump on the
right fide of his forehead ; had on and took with him a
suit of blue cloaths, blue furtotit, and sundry other
cloaths. Said Mitchell and a man who calls himfelf Ste
phen Littely and fomefimes Bags, Hole a horse from the
fubferiber, in Eaft-Nantmill, Chester county ; they were
seen at Lancaster supposed oh their way to Virginia or
Carolina, and had a black mare, bay gelding and bay
colt with them. Littei had his wife and a child about a
year old with him. Whoever secures said men in any
igaol and gives notice to the fubferiber, shall have the
§above Reward and reasonable charges, paid by
t JAMES TODD.
T O SB E S O L D,
A VALUABLE Plaxtatioh in the Corpo; nion- of
Burlington, called Mount Airy, the property
of Drury Wake, Esq; Containing three hundred acres,
forty of which are meadow now uridfer improvement,
and may be rendered very valuable at; the small expence
cf maintaining a bank of about sixteen rods. The situ
ation is really elegant for a Gentleman's rural retreat,
having an extenfiye front on the banks of the Delaware,
with the benefit ts a fuad fifhery near the dolor, and good
angling for pearch and rock. The mansion is a decent
frame, with a spacious piazza and two good parlours, a
large kitchen and a small room adjoining on the ground
floor, two good bed-chambers and garret over them; and
roomy celhts paved with trick, handing in the center
of two orchards, having an interval well adapted for an
elegant garden ; it commands a fine profpe& both tip and
down the river, as likewise of the cities of Burlirigion
and Bristol, each of which is but a mile and a half dis
tant. The rest of the plantation lies back from the river
in a compact Square. There are two tenants houses oh
the premises, one Situated on the water fide, equally as
pleafint as the above described, the other almottat the
extent of the farr,, called Silver-Spring Valley, has a
view of the meadows downwards; and is backed,y an
extent of woodland of Sixty acres ; is a compleat Situati
on for an overseer without giving interruption to a Gen-l
tieman's retirement. For further particular, enquire cf
Daniel Ellis, Esq; at Burlington, or of Drurt
Wake, Esq; on the premises. §4
FhitadFp/ria, May 8, 1776.
MADE his escape, from the Gaol of this
city, yesterday in the evening, a certain MOSES
KIRKLAND, called Colonel KIRKLAND, belonging
to South-Carolina, confined in the said Gaol by order of
the Honoi able Congress, for practices inimical to this
country. He is a stout corpulent man, between fity and
sixty years of age, about five feet ten inches high, of a
swarthy complexion, frefh coloured, and wears his own
,ey hair tied behind. He had on a green boat faced
wit! )blue velvet, a blue velvet waistcoat, and, brown
velvet breeches, Had alio a brown coat and whiftcoat,
and may possibly have taken other cloaths with him. It
is said he crofted over D laware at Cooper's Ferry lalt
night, and it is fuppofeh will either endeavour to get on
board cne of the men of war in the river, or at Sandy-
Hook. The Public are earnestly desired to endeavour
to apprehend this dangerous enemy to .the American
raufe, and a reward of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
is hereby offered to any person or persons that shall take
and bring him back to the Gaol of this city, and all rea
sonable charges paid.
N. B. The Printers cf the Several news-papers in the
Colonies are desired to infeit this ad yertifen^ent.
AS the Boarding School at Burlington, in
the province of New-Jersey, has for many years
been kept by the fubferiber (and which, he flatters him(
felf, from the proficiency of the pupils committed to his
care, has acquired the etteem and attention of his friends
and the public) may be thought to be intei rupted by the
death of Mrs. Powell, the fubferiber thinks proper to
give this public information, that he has engaged an el
derly Gentlewoman, whose experience and chara&er will
enable him to continue it in the fame genteel manner;
and hii friends and the public may depend on the ftri&.-
est attention being paid both to the improvement ancl
morals of the young Gentlemen committed to his charge,'
by f THOMAS POWELL.
AN Y person wanting Sugar of Lead, Roach
Ahum, and Gum Senegal, may he Applied with
thoie articles by JOHN WALTERS, at the White
House in Fourth-lbeet road, on Mrs. Mafters's piarita^
tibn.j
Philadelphia, May 12, 1776.
THIRTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
ST R A YED last night, from the fubicriber's liable,
a chefnut fa rel HORS E, seven or eight years oh,
upwards of fourteen hands and a half high, a bl ?e ori
bis forehead, and one white foot behind : He is very
high spirited, trot^ very fall, paces and canteh : He if
Juppofed to be somewhere about the towri. Whoever
returns the said Horse to bis owner shall receive, if found
in or about the town, FIFTEEN SHILLINGS;
if upwards of ten miles off, the above Reward, and,rea
fona' le changes. MIERS FISHE R.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY ori the 4th instant (May) from the
fubferiber, hviyg in Alton Township, Cheftet
County, an Irii hfervant lad named JOHN. PAT
TERSON, 14 or 15 years of age, about 5 feet high,
with lightifh hair ; had on a cloth coloured coatee, white:
flannel waittcoat, home made fliort woollen trowfers, old
shoe, and half worn wool hat. It is supposed he will
endeavour to get to be fifer or drummer amongst the
Continental forces, as he has been seen with them, other
wise on board the Row Gallies, Whoever takes up and
secures the laid servant, so that bis matter may have hit,
again, shall receive the above Reward" arid reafodabl^
charges, paid by
JAMES THOMSON.
FORTY SHILLINGS RENNARD.
DANAWA Y from the fubferiber, living in Sadfeury
" Townfbip, Chefer County, an indented servant man,
named SAMUEL S HO R F, about 3jift7 or 8 inches
hi^b, sloop fooutdered, of a fair complexion, smooth face,}
squints mub, tbb fore finger oj bit band mdeb brooked} and
vaalks clumsy; bad on and took avdb him, a dark blue coat
turned, bound with light coloured tape, add green lining,
a flriped red and white silk jacket, black velvet breeches;
red trowfers, bite flockings, Jhoes nvlb,rings, and oldjcit
bat bound with tape. Whoever takes up said servant and
secures him, so that bis maser may have bcm again, JhH
have the above Reward and reasonable charges, pain by
t WILLIAM ARMSTRONG.
CARTRIDGE PAPER,
By the Ream or Quire, to be SOLD by
JOHN 1) U N L A P.