The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1778-05-27 00:00:00, page 3

L A NCAST ER, May 27.
O) Sunday lari the remains of His Excellency
T H O M A S W II A R FO N, Junior, El
quire, Pyefident cf the Supreme Executive Council
Gi toe Common-Wealth of Pennlyivania, Captain-
General arid Commander in Chie+, in and over the
fiwe, was interred in the Evangelical Trinity-Church
^ this Borough, (rhe Elders and Vehry cf thn
Church having politely requeued that the Body
might there be iorterech)
The Corpse bring brought out and placed on the
Bier, a Signal was given, and the Artillery on the
Common began to tire Minute guns, (which was
continued during the Proceffion,' Forty four Guns
being fired.)— The Bier being taken up,* the Pre
crikoo moved forward in-the following order, to wit.
Two Serjeants with Arms reversed.
Lieutenant and E fin.
Band of Music.
Fifes and Drums.
Soldiers—in four Divdions, ten de,, Arms reversed.
Captain of the Company.
The CORPSE covered ui,h a Pall—the Pall sup
ported by Six Members of the Council.
His Excellency's Brother.
The Honorable the Vice-Preklent-—Attended by the
Secretary on bis left Hand.
The remaining Members of Council.
The State Freafurer and^Juoges of the Supreme
Court.
Such of the Delegates cf the State, in Ctngrefs,
as were in the Borough.
Ihe Honorable Speaker of the Houle of General As
lembly-—the Clerk of the House on his left hand.
Members of the House of General ^ffembly.
Door keeper of the Council and of the Houle of
Affi mbly.
Corporation of the Borough, and Magistrates of the
County.
Coroner and Prothonotary of the County.
Gentlemen of the Law.
Officersuf the romy and Navy.
Citizens.
When the grave was doled,lhree volleys were fired,
and the Military retired — Tie who e was c nducted
with a Solemn decorum, becoming theoce fion.
2he attendn paid by CH. George Gib m, Lieut.
Col Stephen Bayard, and Lieut. Col. Jiroes Ross,
and Captains Blown and Hutto, in conducting the
ELoiay, on the occasion of Hs # Excellency's Fu
neral, did them Hon r; ard the Gentlemen of the
bor ugh, in their mili ary character, made a very
hand^me appearance.
It is Lid that a funeral oration, in honour of
eur worthy and much lamented President, will de
ordered to be delivered tome time during the next
fctii g of General A^embl,\
* 7.e afeePon 'which the Hufenf Aftmbly hadfor bi:
Excellency, <wculd net te r ? fo ' n ins body to be carid by
, efforts b^ed jer that purpef : TwH efiß/n^rs of He
3fe here bis > ema.ns to the graze
£xtrael of ri!tter prom Head %,farmers May 24..
° Call we kth M,q\rd I.Fiyne, wnnaout
30^0 men, croffe the r y^, and proceeded down be
Lw the SxeedefrFord; Tieen m had got ink 1 gence
.of hi beiug there, .n £ nt 0 .1 Boco to lunound him,
they came awa, in titui ht On~, a>l early in the
ram, mg acre cofe on he Matquiz's encampm lit:
Ha immediately vr,. tin, croikd the liter about
three miles odnw the S^ e^m F^d, without loafing
a mm. Ths enemy were vrimin a qua,ter of an
hour of clofi^g him in.
" Seventeen debit is cam: ii yederday ; 120 cf
Qurefhers end rotui & 0 eke tin new gaol; and a
aura ^7 of t: cm are file . reived h re.
Captain M'CI ang wnriap rry of men, kitted
about 20 or the eu^my the o ha s dry O d^s yHLi
^^' ya ? , that every man be corn,leaped, by this
mornin , whin forty rounds and two flints.”
On Monday evening last, the General ^ffembly
of this Common Wealth adj urned to Wednesday
the oh of September next. During theit fitting
they enabled the following Laws:
An Ad for fafpending, for a limited time, the
Ad inrr.led, " An Ad for regulating the prices of
the EveraJ articles herein after mentioned for a ii
railed time."
A Supplement to the Ad intided, “ An Ad for
the calling io of toe Blf* f Credit issued by the
Leg fhoive At * horny of Pennsylvania, tinker the
f^dio: and authority of the Crown of Groat Bri
tai , and Er other purpefes therein mentioned."
\ve are informed by a correspondent, that by the
fiel of t^efe Laws, the operation of the Act for re
gubtiog prices is Dfpend&d till the Bth day of Sep
teoiuei, and from thence to the end of the next fit
ting of the Affembiy: And that the principal objed
of the latter is, to include among the old money or
dered to be called in, the /.22 coo emitted by vir
tue Oi an Ad of the Afßmjly of the Province of
Pennsylvania,' wnieh by force means had eleaped the
nouro of the House at their last fitting:—To make
all Bills of Credit emitted by Congress a legal ten
der ; and to punish thoie who (hall counterfeit,
&c. any of the hid Bills, or Loan Office Certify
ca #r es, issued since the enacting the former Law of|
this Common Wealth, for making them legal ten-1
der, &c. We would with pleasure have pubiifhed
these Laws in the present paper, but they came to
hand io late, that we can only give the above Ihort
fleetch. The public may, however, depend upon
feeing them in cur next.
To the Printer of the Pennsylvania Packet.
SIR,
Inclofed l fend you an original letter from ferjeant
Humphry Thomson. — s it difeovers a tru, ori
ginal genius, and, in point of pompofay office
enua's any of the famous Burgoyne's tetters, 1 trust
you mill not beftate to give it a place in your Paper.
An Officer in the arm:.
Camp, Mount-pox, April 29, 1778.
Exuberant Genius,
AS the malignity of the vulgar Incomparably
tranfeends human comprehension, and their
groveling insinuations will climaxicate the minutiae
of human fra(lty, you cannot want faculty to in
vestigate the ebullition of that invedive that has so
inundated a^charader whose Idcidity appeared in
the moral World equal to any planetical phenomenon.
A. M. 5777, alias P. N. C. 1777, 1 had the bo
nour to, make one of that terrific accumulated body
bi freemen encamped at Middle Brook, whole un
paralleled achievements, and unequalled prowess
in arms, would obliterate tlie char'atier of,a Mace
donian army, and whole terror not only put a stop
to the depredations of an army of veterans, but
drove them from the co fines cf that patriotic pro
vince§ and made them take Shelter Within their lig
nean batteries, on the surges of a boisterous and
tempestuous torrent. —At that time the famous po
liricians o' the ep^cha were dividedin their opinions,
and the que^on was, whether they had totally
ui hdraqn their fl.es arid armies, Or the Fates had
deft red them to plough the Atlantic twice ten years,
Ulysses like, to receive the retribution of their na
tional crimes? ma urely pondering the arguments
a priori & a pofteriort; I coincided with the former.
Amusing m.feif, and highly pleaffed that the Diety
was tired of punishing the inquiries of the American
worid, the curtains of the evening began to encircle
me, and the. Shades of Erebus grew more fable, when
one of the daughters o V^nus intercep ed me in my
p rambulariobs, whom 1 dJeuvered to be Sauntering
about in tatteels existence— hme miferum! de qua
[efeßtone decidi —My mereoicious faculties were
alarmed, en verite; the organs of my corporal sys
tern were entirely blocked; and, for a short time,
every muscular motion forgot to vibrate- the fair
difeovering in me. an uncommon ibuAure, was
prompt'd to extend her b^mrerrius I and and raiftd
me from ray torpid iupinity; by which time the was
environed.with other graces not less agreeable in
pu chritudenary features—l was aflitted into a r^ri
c!e drawn by quadrupeds ard vehicled into a Virgin
Province at that time unknown to me—All this
time my ideas, Simple and compound, centered in
my Diana, as a principal and v real focus.
I had ^ avocations, nor did my country strike
my auricular nerves—do expansion of my common
fenforium—all was love ! all was joy extatic and
com,pleat !
Posthumous to my departure from the theatre of
human carnage, I was enveloped in a dulcid, lethar
gic RupeLaron of reiterated voluptuofity for three
diurnal periods, ana, as I conceive, entranced in
ihe japorifc calm of Paphian jo s —but the fatigues
of reperiri n, destroying and annihilating my virile
powers, I was eventually reduced to a Rate of com
pos mentis.
I ay, after again emerging into the world upon
my examining my calender, I was astonished to find
that the lunar periodical revolutions were numeri
cally equal to the muses, and upon hearing of the
enemy's return to the Continent, l am again deter
mined to make a glorious epiphany.
By this time, Sit, I truit the antecedant cogitati
ons have expacr ated you to fo<ni femething defini
tive and cooclufive refpe^ing the character of a child
of misery and an offspring of misfortune, and that
you will be m^ ved to reconcile me to your caufidi
cal brother Colonel H g, from whom I have
unfortunately revolted.—Through your benign me
diatorial influence 1 hope to be renovated in his
estimation, and that my quondam deletions may be
entirely and fempeternally absorbed in the chaos of
perpetual oblivion.
I am, Mqft Exuberant Genius, with pedeffal hu
miliation, and retrograde 'peculation,
Your torquated friend and distressed
Humble servant,
HUMPHRY THOMPSON, Serjeant.
From my fauefered Mutuum, near the
Lancafier Road, April 23, 1778.
To Colonel —, in General W 7 Divifan.
N. B. If Se jeant Thompson will return to his
regiment by the 27th of June next, his quondam
G^ft^lions (hall be buried in oblivion.
\Lanca4er, May 26, 177^.
° 'l° Eis hereby given, That the
„L % Committee of Assembly for public Accounts
will fit at the Court-hoyfe in t' i B rough, from tie
roth of August nextuntil the Bth or S^p r m er fol
lowing: Therefore all persons who have, or ought to
have public money in thrir hands, and bv law ale ac
countable to he G neral Affem^y of this state ^
here 3 y earnest yrquelled tv bring in their accounts
stated, with proper vouchers, in order that the fame
may be fettled : Thofe,who negl4& may depend on
being treated with the utmost rigou of the bw.
Joseph Gardner, James Anderson
J VDWICK Lawman, Robert Lolla^
William Clark,
N B The C unty Lieutenants are reqrefted.to fet
tle with their Sub Lieutenants, before they produce
their accouns to the Committee for fettleratnt.
<°\ AMPH O R, Cahtharidesc Calomel,
I—/ Tartar Emetic, Opium, JelnUs Bark, Jalap,
Rhubarb. Tena, Manna, Glauber's S It,' Cromor
Tartar, Ipecacuan?, Qji-kGh, &r fc. fold by
ADAM SIMON KUH N,
C/^ohic the Market-house, Lancaster.
To be Sold by C HARLES BAKER,
At hi - fbop in Qgeen ttiett, in the house of Mr. Ja
cob Sheffer, four doors below the Court h< ule,
A LAR G E aff?rtment of DRY GOODS, con
(^ lifting es the following articles, viz. bro dclcths 9
fagathies, lupeik.e hair tamb,ets, worked ditto of all
colours, calhmaiwoeSf dainefc;, (h linens, dura^ts
and tammies, cotton velvets, 4iair plufhtu, chintzes,
puirted lii> ns and cairicoes, camb icks and lawns,
mwrns, sewing fi!ks, threads, fine linens and hol
iands, flack . Barcelona handkerchiefs, linen ditto,
pins and needles, hosiery, womens fluff Ihoes, wool
caids, and a variety of other articles too tedious to
mention, which will be loid wholefalc and retail.
TOBES O L D,
- l*or Cash or Loan-Office Certificates,
ACERT A 1 N brick mileage and Lot of ground
in Lancaft r, containing 32 feet front, more or
ids, on Orange-ttreet, and 2,5 feet, mote or less,
back ; tie whole lot fenced in, pays but fourteen
(hillings fbriihg a year ground tent: The title indis
putable. Whoever chafes to purchafe.may know the
terms by applying to Thomas Smith, E ,: on the
premises.—— if not (old at p>ivate Ine b the tenth of
June nx, it will th- 11 be dbpofed cf at public au&ion,
E A D IVOR K.
W A NrE D , a person of good cha &er, who
uriderftands stamping and doffing of Lead Ore;
also a,pei sot )competent to the bufinefe 0 finelting of
Lta.lin a cupvla o Air Furnace; ?n. i a few Miners.
Apply 10 Daniel Roberdeau, at York Town, or to
William Henry, Eq ne, at fcnc fter.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY by The
fubferiber, riving at Duck-Creek Cr >fs.ro A s ,
" e ^' C^"tv on Delaware, a Journeymen STOCK
ING WEAVER, to whom good wages and constant
employ will be given, by James Jordan.
Fencader Hundred, Neivcaftb County, May 20.
WA S put into the fubferiber's waggon,
, at P" ft' ana -Rridge, in Augaft last, two
small CHES IS. The owner is unknown, but on
proving his property and paying ch r?es, may have
them again by applying to Samuel Varies.
Luncafler, May 26, 17 8.
EIGHT DOLLA RS EFWA RD.
C ' RAYED or STOLEN on the 25th
C, indent, otr of the pasture of Melchior Sneyner,
a bI<<kMARE about fifteen hands high, bran'ed
on the near firm der or buttock with the letters I^.
her m^ne cut a little, has a lar^e hufhy tail, a fore on
her fnrohler occasioned by the fir'd,e, and is a natural
pacer. Whoever takes up the faidmare and will brin^
her to ?he plantation of James Patterson, in Rapho
Tovnfhip, Lancaster County, sh ill be entitled to the
above reward. JOHN AGNEW.
^"'^ County, May 7, 1778.
^J °™ '" " '"' b y ^ vei E th 2 ^ agree-
L ^ able to a late Law of th,s State, impwwering
the Justices cf said County to bold their Courts,at
such places as they wall find most fafe and conv. nien't:
The u ual C< u # rs of Bid County for June Term will
be held at My. M Calla's, in Plumflead Township ; of
which all civil efricers. and others concerned, are'de
fired to take notice. Border of (be Jufices,
JOHN~THOMFSON/S ri < r ' : ff.
May 2 r, 1778.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD
QTRAYED or STOLEN last night, from M j^
O G^ne.al B^ A.nt fairn, in Cymru Town/hip,
near Peading, Berks County, a dark bay Mare, full
blooded, fifteen ha&ds high, four years old,' has
a fnrall star in her .forehead, and a wound, lat°!y
healed, over her rigbt eye, one hind foot white, black
mane, and tail long decked The above reward will
be given for apprehending the thief, if convicted, and
returning the Mare. Twenty Dollars for the Mare
if Graying within ten miles, and Forty Dollars if
thirty miles, or at any further alliance, and reaf&na
tie charges, paid by
JOSEPH BURN,