The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-11-17 00:00:00, page 1

On Monday Next,
At TWELVE o'clock, at Noon,
At the COFFEE-HOUSE,
Will be Sold by Public Auction,
The Brigantine Freeland,
With all her Gum, Tckle, Apparel, and Furniture,
agreeable to Inventory to be Iren at the Pl> c of Sale.
By Order of the Court of Admiraltv,
Nov. 15. CLEMENT BIDDLE, MufliJ.
To Ze SOLD by Public /lu^i^n.
On Saturday next, the 17th inst. at Eleven
o'Clock in the Morning, at the Conti
nental Yard, the upper end of Chelnut
ftreet ;
Twentv-eiphc Yoke of Oxen,
with their Yok<s, Chains, &c. They are from five to
seven wears old, remarkably iar g e , psrfeMly well tucke
and found, in excellent order for ttall-feeding, or any
kind of work. At fame time ui.lbe Sold, 14. WAG
GONS, and ig HORSES, mostly young, and all have
been used to lead oxan. The above oxen, &:. may
be viewed any time b fore the day of lale, at Mr.
Francis'# plantation, on the W.^hichan Road, two
miles from the court-hooter
Philadelphia, Nov. 10.
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For Private Sale,
At the CITY VENDUE STORE, in Front-street,
An elegant Assortment of Plate,
Confining of
Tea-Urns, Coffee-Pots, Candlesticks, Snuf
fersand Stands, Sa ts, Milk-Puts, Waiters, Tumbers,
Tureen-Ladles, Punch-Strainers, &c. &c. Nov. n.
To be Sold by Public Sale,
At the Cofr-Houfe, on WEDNESDAY the trft of
November, instant, ar 6 o'clock in the Evening, for
Penrfylvani, St^t^ M ney,
One undivided sixth Part, of
and in a large LOT of GROUND, situate on the east
fide of Front street, in the Northern Liberties, con
taining in breadth, on Front-street, 172 feet 9 inches,
and continues that breadth for tne space of 166 feet,
where it gradually widns on the north fide thereof to
Cohockfing creek to above too feet, ard is in length,
from the.faid Front-street, at leaf! 700 eet to lowwa
ter mark, of the river Delaware, lubj & to one sixth
part of an Annuity of 6 jl. per annum on the whole
Lot, during the natural life of Theobald Endt, and
above two years arrearages thereof, now due thereon.
The purchaser to have credit for the whole putchafe
money to the firft day of January next. The Plan of
the L&t to be (ten at th° timecf sale.
A Quantity of the
Very best BEAVER,
TO BE SOL D, by
yohn Redman,
In Water street, between Arch and Race-streets.
Alexander Quefnay de Glouvay,
Avoiding to the d fire f ma % Gentlemen, ptopo:es
to open a FRENCH ACADEMY for young Ladie,
cn Tuesday n-xt the noth inftinr. Attendance will be
giv titres times a week, from two o'clock till five in
the afternoon, at his lodging: in Sacond-ftreet, betwixt
Chefnut ard W^nu'-ft eets, Philadelphia.
ALL. KINDS OF
COLOUR S,
F r the Army ^d Navy, made and fold, on the most
renfonabic t*rms by REBECCA YOUNG, in Walnut
ihc^, ne r Third- (tract, Philadelphia.
THURSDAY,
VOL. X.l
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GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
V I G O, June 27.
THE Cicero, a Bofibn privateer, of twenty guns
and ninety men, captain Hilloff, came into this
port yesterday. who in lat. 40, long. 16, took on the
16th instant the Mercury English packet boat, of 8
guns and 45 men, bound from Lfbon to Falmouth, with
three ladies passengers on board, two of their waiting
women and two other persons, thought to be very rich;
one of whom, a Portuguese, was going to London, and
from thence to Holland and Russia. We are assured
that the g Id and silver found on board amount to be
tween Soto and 10,000 piaftres.
Cadiz, July 13. If one may judge by the prepara
tions making, there will be upwards of 20,000 men em
ployed in the intended expedition now fitting out, who
will all be embarked on Monday next, but this arma
ment will not be quite ready to fa.l till the 20th or
25th. The combined fleet will precede them, and take
another route.
Paris, July 31. The emperor arrived here last Sun
day morning at fix o'clock, in the afternoon went to
Versailles, and at five had an interview with (he
queen at Trianon.
We have accounts from Cadiz, that the expedition
preparing there goes on with the greatest alacrity but
that the design of it is fiill kept a profound secret,
though most people imagine it is defined against Gi
braltar.
Paris, August 4. The emperor is flill at Trianon,
under the title of the count de Falkenfbin by which
he avoids all ceremony ; he goes about alone and pays
visits to the different princes and miniflers as he likes,
he speaks to every one, and is universally admired.
His majefiy will set out to-morrow for Germany.
Paris, August 5. By the arrival of a courier we just
learn, that the combined fleet failed from Cadiz the
21 ft of July, composed of 30 Spanish fllips and 19 French.
They fleered weftwarrt. The 23d the armament of M.
de Crillon was to put to sea.
Hague, August 8. It is said, that their high migh
tinesses have given their consent, that the sum of
21,7'7 florins, 10 sols, be distributed among the crew
of the ship the Brille ; that 1,200,000 florins, be given
for the encouragement of the merchant ships that shall
go armed, to navigate Co Surinam and other colonies
that fiill remain to this Hatein the Weft Indies ; and a
sum of 1,200,000 florins, to be negotiated by the ad
miralty of Amsterdam.
LONDO N.
August 12. Letters from Petersburg bring advice
that the empress of Russia has published an edr&, for
bidding any of her sailors or Shipwrights going out
of her dominions, or entering into any foreign service
without licence for that purpose, upon pain of being
severely punished when taken.
Other letters from Petersburg mention, that the
empress has laid some additional taxes on foreign mer
chandize brought into that kingdom.
Advise is received by an Italian merchant of this
city, that the Dutch have p evailed on the republic
of Genoa to furnifh them with a number of sailors and
shipwrights, the former to man those ships they are
building for the states of Holland, and the shipwrights
to be employed in the Dock yards at Arn fterdam, Rot
terdam, &c.
Advice is received from Corfics, that there has been
another infurredion there, that the natives came down
suddenly from tne mountainous part of the island, and
fell upon the French troops, killed and wounded many
of them.
They write from Brest, that the Louisiana, a new
copper bottomed frigate, lately failed from that port
to America, with dispatches from doßor Franklin to
Congress, and also the French king's patent, creating
general Washington a marshal of France.
Extract of a letter from Amsterdam, Aug. 9
“ There are in the Texel several ships belonging to
our East India company equipped for war, and ready
to fail on the shortest notice , and others are also pre
paring in the Meuse and Zealand. It is hoped that
by this arrangement, and the good harmony which
ftibfifts between the members of°that company, their
endeavours will be crowned with success ; and that the
above fllips will not only convoy their homeward
bound vessels with fafety, but even a& oftenfriy in
the Indies against the English, and support their com
merce, which has been frequently injured by them."
The emperor of Germany, when at Antwerp, took a
boat and went down the river as far as the firftDutch
fort, and had the depth of the channel taken in several
places, in order to learn the obAruHions of art and
nature to the free navigation. He returned to Ant
werp to dinner, and whether in cjnfequer.ee of what
THy
he saw, or from a previous resolution, gave the magis
trates t® underhand, that it would not be at prefect
for the interest of his fubjeds, in his dominions in tb@
Andrian Low Countries, to open the port of Antwerp.
Advice is received from Oftend, that many jew fa
milies from Holland are come to reside there.
F*traa of a letter from Limerick, Aug. 4.
“ There are two fio ^French privateers cruizing on
our coast, which have in^the course of about ten days
captured upwards of 20 vessels, 16 of which were ran,
foiled, and the vessels are since arrived here."
Extract of a letter from Aberdeen, Aug. 13.
" On aturday came into the bay his mayfly's ship
Proselyte, and aft@r remaining a short time went to the
northward in quest of a Dutch privateer of 20 guns
which had engaged the Repulse cutter of Fife-Nefs, and
killed two of her hands."
Extract of a letter from Haddington, Aug. 14.
" Yefttrday afternoon, between four and five o'clock,
we had a dreadful florm of thunder and lightning. In
many parts of the town the lightning darted down 011
the flree like burning coals ; and the noire of the
thunder was like the report of a number of cannon fired
at once. One Pringle, a skinner, was flruck dead."
Yeflerday fe'nnight an express from the admiralty ar
rived at Harwich and was immediately forwarded by
one of his m felly's armed cutter- to the ships of war.
A signal for f iling was immediately thrown out, and
the next morning, at day light, the following ships
failed for the oaf? of Holland, viz the Sampfon-of 64
guns, Apollo 36, Amphion 32, Myrmidon 24, and 2
large cutters The Arrogant of 74, and Princess Ca
roline of 54 guns, are expected every hour to join
them. The sudden departure of these ships, we hear,
is with an intention to intercept a fleet of 200 fail of
Dutch merchantmen from different ports of Holland,
which are now collecting in the Texel to go north
about. A small cutter which failed with the ships of
war returned to Harwich in the evening : she left them
seven leagues from the land, fleering E. by N. with a
favourable gale.
It is reported, that advice has been received from
Holland, that tt e flrong fort and fadory at Chincery,
in the riv-r of Bengal, the chief settlement the Dutch
have in India, in the fdtpetre trade,, was taken posses
sion of by a strong detachment of the Company's
troops from fir Eyre Caote, immediately on Hyder
Ally's evacuating his Ihoft-Eved conquefis in the Car
natic.
Extras of a letter from Cowes, Aug. 19.
," This day the fllips in our road weighed anchor to
join the ships bond to Quebec, which have made a
signal for failing, and are dropped down to St. Helen's.
As the convoy is appointed they will fail the frft fair
wind; they are most of them letters of marque, mount
ing from 18 to 26 guns each."
SALE M, October 25.
On Wednesday, last week, failed from this port on a
cruize, the copper-bottomed privateer ship Grand Turk,
captain Pratt, and on Thursday evening returned with
two prizes, viz, the privateer brig Providence, formerly
commanded by the well known Mowat, butwhen taken,
by one Rhains: and also a schooner, with upwards of
400 bushels of fait. The bria belonged to Penobfcot,
mounted 14 guns, and carried 56 men
The Franklin privateer of this port, commanded by
captain Holler, arrived in port, a few days since, from
a cruize.
Extrad of a letter from a British officer at St. Kitt's
dated August 26, 1781, to his friend in England.
" We have very unfavourable accounts from Ame
rica: if true, you will hear them ere this. The French
have a powerful fleet and army there this moment.
Their fleet failed from Hispaniola for America the
25^ °f July, and had troops on board. This rein
forcement, joining those already there, will be too great
a force for our's, and will, if possible, firive to prevent
our fleets joining. I like not the necessity the gallant
lord Cornwallis was under of retiring so soon after his
victory. The Yankies are a cunning, determined,
troubtefome frt ; they be^r a deal of hard knocks and
abuse. I have long defpiired of our conquering them.
I wish those who were more certain of success, may
not be disappointed."
Subdance of a letter from captain Boyer, of his Bri
tannic majesty's ship Albion dated at Port Royal,
Jamaica, July 23, 1781, to hi; friend in England/
" I little expected to have wrote to you again be
fore I dated my letter from the Downs, where the Al
bion is ordered, but a kind of fatality seems to attend
the movements of the Albion, whenever they are di
reßed homeward lam sure her captain is not instru
mental in forwarding her motions, whenever they go so
contrary to his fifties, and indeed the public good. £
have been three weeks on my passage home, through
the Windward Passage, when, at a very critical tints
NOVEMBER if, 1781.
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