The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-10-11 00:00:00, page 3

We 2re informed that on Tuesday !afl Cdngrefs re
solved that Lamberton, on the east fide of Delaware,
and about two miles below Trenton, (hould be the
place of their permanent residence ; and appointed a
committee to make choice of a proper fixation for
creating building,, &c. for their accommodation.
I STATE Of PENNSYLVANIA,
In General Assembly,
Thursday, Sept. 25. 1783. A. M.
The committee appointed Sept. 2, to report on the
letter from lfaac Sn wden, made their report, which
was r^d, and on motion, and by special order, the
fame was read the second time; and adopted as fol
lows, viz.
The committee to whom was referred the letter from
lfaac Snowden, treasurer for tie city and county of
Philadelphia, repreQuing the distressed situation of
divers sick and wounded soldiers, as also the widows
and orphans <f officers who loft their lives in defence
of their country, beg leave to report,
That your committee cannot difeover any unap
propriated funds from whence any relief may be drawn
for the aforefaid diftreffd soldiers widows and orphans,
therefore tiny beg leave to offer the following refolu
tjon:
Refolded, That the treasurers of the several coun
ties of th s date be empowered and directed to draw
on the fate tr diur^r for so much money as will be
fufficint to pa) off and d.(charge such pensions and
arrearages agreeable to the laws heretofore madb for
their relief, and the said state tteafurer is hereby di
refted to pay such draughts out of the monies coin
ing into his hands from the law imposing one per cent,
doty on all goods, wares and merchandize, passed De
cember 23, 1,80.
Extract from the minutes,
Peter Z. Lioyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Mr. CLAYPOOL E,
By inferring in your Paper the ioclofed Address to
colonel Richard Butler, with his Answer thereto, you
will oblige many of your cuflomers.
To colonel RICHARD BUTLER, of the Pennsyl
vania Lines
SIR,
H^HE inhabitants cf the borough of Lancafler, ca*
4 not suppress the desire (hey have of publickly
acknowledging the many obligations they are under
toycu, during the period you commanded the conti
nental troops stationed at this town; by your conduct
^nd care, they have felt few of the inconyeniencie,'^hicb
meceifardy become the confequenee of ttoops'being
quartered in the country; in this son have fa tisfied
them, that you possess those qualities neceflary to coo
dilute a good officer and an uftful citizen. We
therefore beg you will accept our sincere thanks for
jour attention to the rights and interests of the in
habitants of this county, for whch, and the great
Services you have rendered your counry during the
late wa,, we ardently with, that in your line of private
life you may meet with a reward equal to your merits
We are, fir,
with great rffpeft,
your most obedient servants.
Lancafler, September 22, 1783.
Wo which Colonel Butler returned the following
ANSWER.
Lancafttr, September 23, 1783.
Gentlemen,
Am just favored with the most honorable mark of
, your regard and approbation expressed in your po
mite address to me. Happy am Ito have done my du
ty to ycur (atisfaftion, aad thrice ha ppy to leave the
dield and close my military character with the good 0-
pinion of so refpeftable a body as the good citizens of
jhe borough of Lancaster, who I have ever found rea
dy to assist the officer and soldier, and promote the wel
fare of their country by every laudable exertion, and
without whose kind and friendly assistance 1 could not
have done that duty for which they are pleased to we
me merit.
Permit me, gentlemen, to return you my thanks for
your friendships, and to pray your acceptance of my
fincerefi withes for your welfare.
I am, Gentlemen, with gratitude,
Your obedient humble fervanh
To the worthy Gentlemen, inhabitants
of the Borough of LancafUr.
On the Death of Miss DEBBY GOMEZ, who Died
in this City last Sunday morning, 111 lae 17th year
of her Age.
CEASE how my mirth, let gaiety be o'er;
Fiorella's gone, my friend is now no more:
Forever gone ! permit my tears to flow,
For that dear sharer of my joy and woe.
See beck'cing anges call her from above,
With joy invite her to the realms of love:
She comes, they fiog, our filter hastens near,
Shout all ye faints, for her your songs prepares
Ah! why, dear maid, was you call'd so Lon,
Just in thy prime, when youth wa.iu full bloom.
Oh! cruel death, why did you not detain
Tnat fatal dart, aud let my friend remain :
But, ah! (he's gone, her eyes are cof'd in death ;
Heaven's message came, aud (he refigu'd her breath.
Thus did die live, that death was no surprise,
My God is one! die said, and closed her dying eyes !
Ye Heavenly messenger, praise and rejoice,
She's thy own prize, but I oust mourn her loss.
You fee my friend in Heaven an angel bright ;
I find her pale, and dead before my fight :
Clos'd are those eyes that oft with pity flow'd,
That breaf tis cold that once with friendship glow'd;
Shut are those lips that ever did refrain
From (peaking ill ; that always gave her pain.
That tender heart is calm, its beating o'er,
That voice is hulk'd, it can be heard no more!
Ah fight affecting, now is friendship fled,
My friend Fiorella's mumb'red with the dead.
For CO R K,
AMERICAN, William Keeler,
Matter, will fail m all next week. For pa(-
"g< spplyto the said matter on board at Knox's
CT*' or to DONNALDSON and COXE, in
oa. 11.
T HIS D a~y7~
At ten o'clock in the Forenoon, at Wharton's
wharff, in Southwark, will be SOLD by Pub
lic Auaiqn, for the benefit of the underwri
ters, andetfters, interested therein,
A B ° Ur 4% hundred barrels of fuperfir.e
Flour, d>nhg«d on board the schooner Sal
'o'd fry ? r der of the honorable F rancis
Hopkinfon, enquire, judge of the court of ad
miralty for this state.
CLEMEN I' BIDDLE, marshal. 03. ir.
A few cases excellent French CLARET in bot
tles, to be SOLD at
Blanchard and Russell's Store,
In Second-street fix doors below Cheviot-street,
at which place may be had, a general assort
ment of EUROPEAN GOODS : also, a few
hogsheads of Rappahannock river TOBACCO.
FOR SAL E, BY
Haynes & Crawford,
A final! cargo of COFFEE and MUSCOVADO
SUGAR, now landing at Mr. Hodge's wharff.
JUSTIMPORTED by
William Woodhoufe,
B Jok.Binder, Book-S ller and Stationer, at his
STORE in Ffront-ftieet, next door to the Cof
fee-Hou fe,
IMPERIAL
ROYAL
MEDIUM
DEMY h P er -
THICK POST, &
FOOLSCAP
Where Merchants and others can be supplied
with Account B oka ruled to any pattern, upon
the (horteft notice. "^
N. B. Also a neat assortment of the b:ft finish
ed Penknives. 03. n.
TO BE SOL D,
A Plantation, known by the name of PEEL
-11 UALL, containing near so tv-fix acres, si
tuate about two miles from this city, and is very
convenient for supplying the market with milk
and garden truck, being an agreeable and heal
thy situation. For further particulars or terms
of sale, apply to John Feld, Jmc3 Bringhurft,
Richard Wells,, or Owen Biddle. Oft. 11.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of MICHA
EL HALVING, late of this city, declared,
by bond, note cr book debt, are requeued imme
diately to make payment to Jie fubtcribm; and
those who have jhft demands against Lid ettate, are
refluefted to bring in their accounts properly at
tested for settlement.
Oft. WILLIAM GREENWAY,
11. SOLOMON DIALLING, ) Ex "'
ALL persons indebted to the efrto of MAR.
CDS BECK, deceived, are defined to make
immediate payment to the fubferiber; and all
those who have any d^mards on the said estate,
arc lefired to bring in their ac bunts for settle
ment, on or before theist of November.
PETER BECK. Oft. n .
To the P U BITTc.
RACHEL Kennedy having warned the pub
lic net to take an alignment of a notedve
to me the fabferiber from hth, and fliameful y
and falfely denies that (he had any confi leraticn,
and that it was fraudulently obtained, &c. this
language is mostly u sed by those who int nds ta
king or detaining foiriething unjuftl, —Between
the years of our lord 1778 and i,Bo, Philip
L,nch assigned lirr note to me fef 10!. good anu
lawful currency of Pennsylvania, in lieu of ^bout
71. fpecis be awed me, and (he tock it to her choice
to give me her note fr that sum, and an old
book debt I had against her bhich made jl. 10s.
rather than pay the money as it 'w 3 then, and
in Ids than one year aftet wards the might have
paid me in ft^te money, but it was ftopt unex
pectedly to some people: about the firrt of Au
gust last (he paid me two dollars in put cf said
note, and then ma?e no compla lit about value to
me, until (he and a certain Gilbert Gibb, brought
so re fait to me, infixing that I (hould take it in
lieu of (alt fee had of said Linh, in part value
for her not^, when salt was not foid for lets than
gl. per bushel: perhaps, notwit! ft ending that (he
bad fettled with said Lynch for it, and the school
ing of her children and an old hook debt and
gave him her note, which no'e (he received before
several witness from m% Weft. Cain townfltip,
Chester county, October 3, 1783.
ARTHUR O'NEILL.
The above is the true state of the affairin re
gard to so much of it as concerns tre, and that
1 am willing to prove. PHILIP LYNCH.
ML BROWN™
Having been prevailed on by several gentlemen
to continue his stay in this dity, and being in
clined to gratify them, he now offers for their
and the public's entertainment,
^O CONCERTS,
THE firft of which to be on Thursday the 16th
A. mitant, and the other on the 28th instant;
both of which to be performed at the City Ta
verr, under the direction of the said Brown.
One fubferjption paper will be left at the fagt
t^virn, and another lent about the city, to eith&
of which gentlemen may fubferibe tc, as conveni^
ency or inclination may lead. The price to sub-
Bribers will be as in his lass, viz. Half a guinea
to each person for the two concerts, who are to
be furnifhed with ted tickets so as to answer tor
both the evenings.
Tickets for admittance to non-fubferibers will
be signed in bhek, the priceof which to be one
dolar and a half for each concert.
To render the entertainment the more agreea
ble, Mrl Brown propenes that exclusive of the
overtures, Solo's, teflon'; &c> there bafome har
mony mafic; the performance of whi:h vt his
last conceit having given such general fatirt^fL
on.—He further propoks to perform some well
known and approved Scotch Air-,, &c. with vari
ations. oa. ]i.
United States ^ AMERICA^
TO BE SOLD Y
David C, Claypoole,
A FEW copies of the CONST ITUTIONS of
the refpedive states, to which are affixed,
the articles of Confederation, and the treaties of
Amity and Commerce with His Molt Chriftiaa
Majesty.
The reviewers in England, speaking of this
Werk, observe, " This interesting publication;
take it altogether, contains a greater portion of
unsophisticated wifdem and good fenle, than is
perhaps to he met with in any other legislative
code that was ever yet framed, and may be con
sidered as the Magna Charta cf the American
states, the knowledge of which is therefore neeef
fary to such perlons as wTn to underhand the pre
sent or future internal American politics."
TO BE S O L D,
(either separate or togethe )
ACOMPLEAT set ofTOBACCO UTENSILS,
viz. Presses, Engines, Pigtail boxes, Spin
ning-wheels, a Hind-mill, & c . Enquire of JA
COB HART, in Front-street between Race and
Vine Greets. O&. 11. 3ps .
Twenty Dollars Reward.
Q AN-AWAY from the sloop Charming Nan
cy, Tristam Pinkham, master, belonging to
Grenada, and for femetime past laying at Hum
phrey's wharff, a N^gro MAN, named PIRAME,
about eighteen years of age, five feet two inches
high, or thereabouts; (peaks both French and
Bnglifh; likely features, but thick lips; had on
when he went ^way, an oznabrig frock and trow
fers, a brown woolen jacket, lined with white,
and ^ round hat with binding; whoever will
apprehend the Lid negre, and deliver him to Mr.
DANIEL TYSON, fha 1 receive the above re
ward, and any reasonable charges. Oft. ii.
Spectacle Glasses, mounted
or unmounted, in the neatest manner and at the
lowed rates, by JOHN BAILY, Goldfmitb,
at the Tea Pot, in Fetter-Lane.
Four Dollars Reward.
STRAYED away last Thursday night, an ap-
O pie grey HORSE, has a white mane, between
fifteen and fxteen hands high, had on a new I ri
dle : whoever has t hen up said borfe and will
give information to Mr. ES LERLY, at the sign
of the Green Tree in Race street, (hall receive
the above reward. 0&. 11.
Wants Employment,
A MAN well acquainted with # buiinefs, having
" firved his time to the Woolen Drapery, and
Mail's Mercery, in one of the most noted houses
in the city of Dublin, and can be well recom
mended by gentlemen in this city: any merchant
or fto'ekeeper wanting such a person may find it
to their advantage in employing him.
N. B. Aline directed so L. M. and left at
the Printer's, (hall be duly attended to.
Henry Wolf is requeued to
come and take away th^fe things he left in pledge
with JOHN GARRISON in 15 days from the
date hereof, or they will :+? fold at Public Ven
due. oa. 11l
TO BE SO Ld7~
A healthy Negro Boy, 14.
years of age, fit for any Bufinef# in the Honfe erf
Stable. Enquire of the Punter, Sept. 30,