The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-03-06 00:00:00, page 1

Philadelphia, March 2.
TAKEN UP on the eighteenth of De
cember last, at the fix-mile stone on Rriftol road,
a chefnut brown M ARE, between fourteen and fifteen
hands high, with several Saddle-marks. Allo taken up
in this city en the twentieth of January last, a red COW
frith a rope round her horns, white on her belly n„d
hind legs. Whoever hasloft the above, by applying to
the fubferiber, proving property and paying charges,
may have them again. If the owner of the above Cow
does not come within folk weeks from the date hereof,
she will be fold at vendue to defray charges.
JOHN ROSS, Cryer and Vendue Maffer.
N. B. Goods of all forts received at his house in Third
street, near Arrh-ftreet, to fell at vendue and private
sale; also houses, lots, plantations, vessels, grocery,
horses and carriages, fold agreeable to law.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
At the Coffee-houfe, on Monday the fifteenth day of
March instant, at fix o'clock in the evening, if not
before disposed of by private sale,
AV ALUABLE Plantation and Tra& ®f Land,
fituatt in Weft-Caln township, Cheftter county,
forty-three miles from Philadelphia, bn the Lancaster
road, about two railes from the tign of the Waggoh;
containing about three hundred acres, twenty acres
thereof good watered meadow already made, and as
much more can be made with very little expence ; above
one hundred acres of woodland and well timbered, the
remainder plow land, and good ; produces fine crops,
lays nearly level and easy to till, with water in every
field, within three miles of limeßone. There are on
the premises a large stone house two stories high, and
cellar under the whole, well built, with three rooms on
a floor, a log barn pretty large, with tolerable go^d sta
bling, an excellent orchard of about one hundred and
fifty apple-trees, mostly grafted fruit, young,and in
good order, with a pump at the door, a spring and
spring-house. For further particulars and terms o sale
apply to Edward Bonsall ard ABRAHAM Shoe
maker, in Fourth street, opprfi^e th* end of Unioji
ftreet, Philadelphia; or Thomas Torbert, in Up
per Merion township, Philadelphia county.
N. 3. Two thirds ofthe purchase money will be taken
in the emissions out of circulation.
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GENERAL
Philadelphia, March z
TH E Sloop Harlequin, Captain Paddock,
and the Sloop Dove, Captain Swain, then laying
at Bordentown, October 23, 1777, it be ; ng General
Orders, their fails and rigging were moved to East wn,
for which receipts weregiven byth Quarter-Matter there ;
a small part thereof has been since found in this city, and
there are still miffing eight calks containing fails and
running rigging, marked SH4, and four coils of rigging,
fame mark; also four or five talks of rigging mark'd
SDB, and ft me coils feme mark ; one square fail, SDB,
left at Bordentown in the cellar of John Imlay, Esq;
and a fore-fail marked SDB, are also miffing. Ary
person giving information of the above to the fubferiber,
shall be handsomely rewarded.
JOSIAH HEWES.
GOOD WAGES will be given for a
good MILLINE R, that can be well recom
mended. Enquire of the Printer.
RU M, Sugar, Molasses, Bohea and Hyfon
Teas, Coffee, and Pepper, just imported and to
be fold at PETER WHITESIDE and Co's,
store, in Chefnut-ft.set, between Third and Fourth
ftreets, Philadelphia.
Also some Medicines and Dry Goods.
TO BE LE T,
And entered upon the firft day bf April next,
A COMMODIOUS stone dwelling-lioufe, two
stories high, with three rooms on a floor, a good
stone kitchen joining the house, a well of good water
before the door, with fifty acres of land. It is very
conveniently situated for either a tavern or store, being
33miles from Philadelphia, and laying upon the Durham
road, and forks of the roads lending from Philadelphia
to Newtown, Eafton am, Bethlehem. Also one other
Plantation to be let upon the halves, and may he enter
ed upon immediately, situated in Providence township,
Philadelphia county, containing two hundred and thirty
acres of land, with two gtd stone barns thereon, and
an orchard of good bearing trees containing twenty acreri
Also to be let, a dwelling-house and a liable, together
with a garden, conveniently situated for a labourer.
Apply to the fubferiber in Providence township, Phila
delphia county. JOSEPH C&UFFMAN.
SATURDAY,
[Price Fifteen Pence single, One Shilling by the quantity. Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.]
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
At the Coffee- House in the city of Philadelphia, on Thurs
day the firft day of April next, if not fold before at pri
vate sale, at fix o'clock in the evening,
A LOT of GRQUND situated on the Delaware, in
?! th e city of Burlington, about 400 yards below the
Town wharf, commonly known and called by the name of
Green Bank, bounded as follows, viz. Beginning at the
corner of the fence as it now ftandeth, being the corner of
Fourth-llreet and Pearl-street, and runs thence in the line
of Pearl-street westward seventy-three feet to a lot now in
the tenure of James Vence, then northerly by the line di
viding the before-mentioned lot three hundred and fixty
fix feet, thence running an eastward course twenty-three
feet along the garden fence, then northwardly a firaight
course down to low water mark on Delaware river, thence
eaftwardly fifty feet along the said river, and then up
Pearl.ftreet to the place of beginning, be the fame more
or less. There is upon the premises a genteel brick House
well fihifhed, two stories high, fifty feet front, two hand,
some parlours below, and three chambers besides garrets
for servants, each room hath a handsome tiled chimney
place and marble hearths, a good kitchen, two ovens, a
pump of good water in the yard, a milk- house, fmoke^
house, a large well built Hable and coach-house, the loft
of which is capable of holding eight tons of hay, with a
great many other ufefu! out-buildings; the garden is
flocked with a variety of plumb, pear, cherry, English
walnut and other fruit-trees, besides currants, rajberries,
gooseberries, strawberries, &e. The ground is as rich as
any in Burlington, and is now in good order, as it has
been turned up with a spade this Winter. To conclude,
the healthy and elegant situation, the beauty es the pro
fpeft, the convenience of the buildings, and the garden
stored with such a variety of fruit, mud mak^ it a suitable
Summer, retreat for a genteel family, or the constant rtfi
dence of a gentleman retiring from business.
Any perlon may view the premises, by applying to Cob
Jones who now lives in the house A good title and im
mediate possession will be given to the purchaser, but the
cash will be expended at the delivery of the deed. The
emissions that are called out of circulation, will be taken
in payment.
Any person inclining to purchase before the day of sale,
may know the terms by applying to the fubferiber, at the
New Mills, Burlington county, New-Jersey..
Marchi. PETER STR ETCH.
Near Middlebrook Camp, February 22, 177,..
I HAVE often thought, my dear Sir, that there is
in the most elevated mind, a tendency to return to
that condition of life from which human nature has been
raised with so much art, and labour, and difficulty.
Perhaps there is a certain point, in our progress from
barbarism, where men scarcely experience the anxieties
arising from reliefs desire, perpetual pursuit, and difap
polnted expectation ; —but advanced beyond which, lie
the diseases of government, religion and philosophy. it
is not merely opinion that some fituatipns serve to disen
tangle and give renewed spirit to this singular inftin&.
In my excursion through the different cantonments of
our grand army, this tenement has derived the force of a
maxim. Here I find a change of circumstances circum
scribing the evils of life, and giving a fuperipr character
to bufbandmen, merchants, manujaclurers, and mechanics.
Under a Ariel military subordination, the private fe'dier
is happy: His wants are supplied by the clothier and
commissary; his winter habitation, near some clear
brook a,d the skirt of a wood, warm and commodious,
the work of his own hand. The officers in general lodge
in huts of the fame kind. These men, by the reduction
of their wants, have also greatly abridged the catalogue
of pains. Taken from the arms of ease and security,
they appear to have assumed a new character.
But, do net the principles of republicanism operate, in
bringing us back to nature, and that portion of happi
ness to which we were original y appointed? It is these
causes that have upheld what has been the conflant ef
fort of tyranny to d+molifh. I hare no where seen the
FIFTEEN DOLLARS REWARD.
WAS DROPPED on the 28th day of Feb. last,
between the ten mile stone and Ogden's ferry, on
the Lancaster road, a very neat APRON of aCHAIR.
Whoever has found the fame, and will give information
to the printer hereof, or leave it at the Middle ferry,
ihall have the above reward.
You are at liberty to publhh the following letter. It
is from a foreigner to a gentleman in this city, and
among other things, describes the celebration of our al
liance with France, by the Gentlemen of the Army at
Pluckemin on the 18th instant. I am, Sir,
Your very humble servant,
To the Printer of the Pennsylvania Packet.
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influence of these principles more emphatically marked
than among the gentlemen of the army. My old ac
quaintances are no longer the persons I have revelled with
some years ago, at Tunbridge, at Bath, and fdeh,places
•f gay resort. Their manners are changed ; but they are
better ihen. Would you believe it, t/ie luxurious and
voluptuary treated me in the simple stile of a man
who had retired from the forms of the world ; and yet with
more hospitality than is to be purchased at the table of?
prince. I was received into a hut, situated on the bend
of a hill, by the once ceremonious - with the
plain address of that primitive Quaker, the founder of
y®ur state. That genius of dress and gaiety, now Lieu
tenant , flawed me his wardrobe: It confined of
three shirts, as many flocks, three pair of flockings, two
linen handkerchiefs, 2 summer pair of overalls, a white
dimitty waificoat and breeches ; and this, said he, with
a few trifles, and the regimentals on my back, is fnfHci
for an American soldier• , adding with some emphafe,
he closed the v^ife which contained them, I with that
my associates were but as well provided.
These men may fay, what I have heard attributed to
Governor Henry of Virginia: "Fbank God, I Cyan be
poorer at the end of the ^ar tiaa I ^m at tbe beaming.
To me, all the preferable attributes of a^tient daws
seem re-produced in the present. What hiflorian but muA
glow with uncommon animation, as he accompanies the
soldier through all the changes of war; fybmitting to the
circumstances of the times with the most rugged features
of patience and patriotism. He will not endeavour to
lessen his merits, nor withhold a single mite of his deferv
itigs.
I am told the great philofoper and warrior of Pruffa,
thinks it bo dishonour to copy General Walhington in the
mode of quartering his troops. Indeed this way of win
tering an army has every thing to recommend it, and
more especially in America, where a great plenty of wood
naturally points to such a praHice. Little aid from the
country is required ; and the hands that would be neces
sary for the flawing, and transporting timber for barracks
are by this means given up to the culture ofour lands, or
other ufeful employments.
His Excellency the Commander in Chief arrived from
his Head-quarters about thfree o'clock in the afternoon.
Mrs. Washington was in a carriage, accompanied by that
Ready friend to the rights of mankind, Mr. Laurens the
late Prefiderit of Congress. I had also the pleaftre cf fee
ing Mr. Duer, late a Member of that Honourable Body
from the Rate of New-York.
I wa? introduced to Mrs. Wdhington, Mrs. Greece,
Mrs. Knox, and a circle of brilliants, the leaf of which
seemed more valuable than th.it stone bf immense price
which the King of Portugal received from his Brazilian
possessions.
About four o'clock the occasion was announced by a
difeharge of thirteen round of cannon. We then repair
ed to the academy to dinner. The company was compos
ed of the most refpe&able Gentlemen and Ladies for a
considerable circuit round the carrp, and as many of the
officers of the army as could possibly attend.
I had, till now, only fen the outside of the academy.
It was raised several feet above the other buildings, ani
capped with a small cupola, which had a very good tffa.
And what, my friend, may you not expeH from such
men mixing with your citizens at the close of the war
Should these unhappily have assimilated the vices of opu
lence and indolence, or become corrupt, by a too eager
and ill-timed exertion of traffic; thoe will cover their
alloy ; and diffufing through the different republics, give
them beauty and character, and bind them together as
with a chain of benevolence.
Thursday the 18th, I rode from my lodging, near
that celebrated spot where General Di&infort in +
took from the enemy a large number of waggons, horses
&c. with but a handful of raw, militia, to a place about
eight or nine miles distant, called Pluckemin, where the
artillery have their winter quarters. The huts of this
Corps are situated on a riling ground, at a small difiance
from the road, and unfold themselves in a very oretty
manner as you approach. A tangeof field.pieces,' mor
tars, howitzers and heavy cannon, make the front line of
a parallelogram ; the other sides are composed of huts for
the officers and privates; there is also an academy where
leHures are read on tadicks and gunnery, and work huts
for those employed in the laboratory, all very judiciously
arranged. This military village is foperior, in some re
fpeHs, to most of those I had seen. Its regularity, its
appearance, and the ground on which it ftan'ds, throws
over it a look of enchantment, although it is no mere
than the work of a few weeks.
In such company, do you think it was possible not to
have lengthened my tour much beyond thd time I had li
mited ? But I had other reafens ; I wiffied to pay a com
pliment, as well as to be a witneft, to the military cele
bration of an alliance, dear to every lover of liberty. Ft
was under the direction of General Knex and the princi
pal officers O tthe corps of artillery, from whom I receiv
ed a polite note to dinner, and an exhibition of fire
works in the evening.
March 6, 177^