The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-04-29 00:00:00, page 1

Just published and to be fold by
JOHNDUNLAP,
ALL THE
LAWS
Enacted in the Second Sitting of the Fourth
GENERAL assembly
Of th,e Commonwealth of PENNSYLVANIA,
Which commenced at Philadelphia, on Wednesday the
nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty.
The HIGHEST PRICE
IS GIVEN FOR
CLEAN LINEN RAGS,
B Y
JOHN D U N L AP.
Port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ff.
TO ALL whom it may concern.
^OTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Admi
° ralty will be held at the Stat^houfe in the city df
Philadelphia, on Thefday th, ninth day of Miy next,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to trv the
truth of the fa&s alledged in the bill of John Dry,
(gui tarn, &c.) agxinft the (hip or vrffd called the
Neerhem, lately commanded by Joseph M'Me&kin,
burthen about 2©o tons, with her tackle, apparel and
cargo, To the end that the owner or owners, or any
person concerned therein, my appear and (hew cause,
if any they have, why the fame should not be condemn
ed according to the prayer of the said bill.l
April 17. By order of the Judge,
ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
WAN TE D,
In a small family.
A WOMAN to cook and do house work; none
need apply without a good recommendation, In
quire of the Printer.
TO B E SOLD,
AVERY good fecund hand PH.^ TO N, with
Harness compleat. Inquire oi Michael Caner,
in Third street.
Middle Ferry on Schuylkill, April 26, 1780.
The ELEGANT HORSE
^^^f^^^^ =^
AMBASSADOR,
COVERS MAR F.S this Season at the Subferi
bet's stable at the Bridge across the Middle p e ry
on Shuylkill, at Six Bushels of merchantable, wheat
the Season, or Three Bushels the fingir Leap, (or
the value thereof in ca(h) and Ten Dollars to the
Groom, to be paid at thr firft time of Covering. He
isa fine B y, rising Five Yeos Old, sixteen Hands high,
has a beautiful large Star and Snip, black Man, Fail
and Legs, is remarkably lengthy, and ftrorig made,
and is allowed by good Judges that have seen him to be
the best Hdrfe ever bred in thi* State. A nbafl .dor was
got by the Noted Horse Lofty, imported fr^m Great-
Britain, in the year 1773, bis Dam by Northum
berland, out of a Three-Quarter Blooded Mare.
JOSEPH OGDEN.
Philadelphia, April 24, 17S0.
NOTICE is hereby given to all
persons possessed of any ise bills for provisions
on the Commissary of Issues at this port, that
unless they are drawn on, or before the 30th of this in-
Rant, they will not hereafter be answered ', him.
By order of the Commissary Gen. cf Issues,
HENRY VALENTINE, A. C, I.
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SATURDAY,
GENERAL
OR
[ Published every Tuesday, and Saturday. ]
To be S O L D at Private Sale, by
'LEE ^/O'H A R R A,
At the Con ftogo Waggon, this Morning, seven
ELEGANT HORSES,
Of the most DESIRABLE COLOUR.
TO BE SOLD BY
WILLIAM FORBES,
On Walnut street Wharf.
EXCELLENT ALLUMSALT by the bush
el of larger quntity,
Cn ice Did Sherry W n- by the quarter cask,
J^maia Spirit by the ho_fhead 01 Imaller quantity,
Weft India Rum by do.
Coffee by the bag,
Best Ruffi Duck,
Loaf and Mus ovado Sugar,
Bohea nd Congo Tea,
Black Pepper,
An assortment of Glass and Queen's Ware,
And a few pieces of I. ifh L nens and Brittanies.
THE fubferiber gives thb public notice, that he has
rented a store in Froni-ftreet, between Mak" .nd
Clefaut-llrcets, next door to Mr. Joseph Swift's, which
will be opened next Thursday for the reception of ail
goods admitted b) Law to %e fold by public au& on ;
and where be pro poles holding a public sale, every Turf
day, (the weather permitting) to begin at nine o'clock
in the morning, and oftener if goods come in. Canftent
attendance will be given at said store, by the public's
most obedient humble servant,
WILLIAM BROWN, Auctioneer.
N. B. No goods will be received on keys of tale.
TO B E 3 OL D,
AT WO ffory brick meffAage or tenement and lot
or piece of ground, fituite on the south fide of
Ch^nut-ftreet, between Font and Second-ftreeis, in
the city of Philadelphia, wherein Mil&s Hilborn new
dwells, containing in breadth on the said Chefnut-ftreet
sixteen faet, and extending in depth foutoward one
hundied and one feet, where it widens to the breadth of
seventeen feet fixinches, and continues that breadth fit
ther fouthwaid the Pittance o' forty-one feet to Tayloi's
alley, including the moiety of a four feet alley, and
having,on the south end thereof fronting Taylor's a ley
aforesaid, a two ftor, brick store near sixteen feet wide
and thirty feet deep, which may be made into adwdl
ing house, The whole fubjeft to a yearly rent charge
of forty two (hillings cuvency. Enquire of the sub
scriber at his office in Back Horse Alley, near the cor
ner next Front-Street.
ASSHETON HUMPHREYS.
ALL perlons that have any demands again ft the eftafe
of Mart Henery, are desired to bring in their ac
counts, properly proved by the nth day of May next,
as the Adminifirators are obliged to fettle their accounts
of the estate by that time. And all perlons who are any
way indebted to the said estate, are requeued to make
immediate payment to prevent further trouble. 7
JACOB FULLER,] Am^iftra^rS
JOHN SMALT, ] Am)amra%m
Philadelphia, April 24.
Qfc_c_Ht i»«.»w Him, rm —nfa ——p —Toctree —x^.^t—=^
Wilmington, Apii 22, 1780.
TO BE SO L D,
At Public S^e, to the high,ft Bidde, cn Saturday
n-xt, the 29th indent, at th^ houf« of Mr. Jamel
M'CuLLOUbH, in the aforefaid Borough,
^[ H E Schooner HOPE, as die now lies at Tat
& nail's wharf, burthen about forty tons, with her
tackle, apparel, (boat, &c.) in good order, and fit for
any voyage the purchaser may chule to fend her, as per
inventory to be teen on the day of sale, at which t ; me
the conditions of sale will be made known. The afore
faid Schooner works and fails well. At the fame time
and place will be fold by the fubferiber, a number of
valuable HORSE Smooth for the carriage and laddie.
AUo a quantity of very good Mufcovado Sugar in Bar
rels, and Coffee in Bags.
DANIEL J. ADAMS,
April 24th, 1780.
P%4 HE Subferiber (late Writing Master in the Uni
£ verfity) hath opened a School, in Capt. Porter's
School Houle, in Union-tt.eet, where is taught Reading,
Writing, and Arithmetick, &c. Thole Gentleman
who choose to fend theirchildferf, may depend upon good
attendance being given, andtare taken, by
Robert jA^rf.
Philadelphia, April 24, 1780.
TO THE PUBLIC.
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ADVERTISER.
YESTERDAY the order of the day being read in
the house of Lords, for going into a commttee on
the bill for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus aft,
the Earl of Effingham role, and begged their Lordfllips
to confider, how much this bill militated against the
known and unchangeable bulwark of the constitution.
It had been permitted to pass for three years on some
colour of foundation---which he, however,- for his own
part, never thought fufficiertt to fanflify so great an in,
croachment upon the liberties of the fubjeft ; but which
Shadow even was now deflroyed. Tee Rate of affairs
was so completely changed, that parliament could now
have no reason for continuing the a&. It was a tact
generally understood, that acartel bad certainly taken
place for the exchange of prisoners between this coun
try and America; and we had received information
within these two days, that a Convent on had been
agreed to between Paul Jones and Captain Pearson of
the Seraphis, for a mutual exchange, This being the
fact, even the wide ingenuity of the law could not con
flrue any possible description of the Americans into
traitors. He would not enter into any legal difeuffion
of the matter. Jt was enough that we had determined
by this convention, to denominate and treat such A me
ric ns as were taken on the high seas, not as pirates and
traitors, but as prisoners of war. lie called upon their
Lordships to fay, whether now that the necessity of such
act was removed, such an aft fliould exist ? He had al
ways been a determined foe to every infringement on
the liberties o ? the fubjed, and he never could bring him
felf to agree to those nice and notable reafonipgs and
diftinaions which ingenious men were but too ready to
invent as pretexts for invading and altering the basis of
our confiitutibn. He there ore moved, "to difeharge
the order of the day."-- The motion was opposed by
the Lord Chancellor, Lord Hillfborosgh, and Lord
Ferrers, and Supported by the Dukes of Richmond
and Manchefler . but on a division, It was reje&ed by
iqagainft 12.
, Yesterday Mr. Hartley moved the House of Com
mons for copies to be laid before them by address to the
crown, of the Spanish memorial, and refcript, the Ex
-pose des Motifs, and Lord Weymouth's letter to the
Marquis d'Almodavar.
Mr. Wilkes seconded it.
Lord North said, there was no objection to it: but it
might be an impropriety to address the crown for pa
pers they could not authenticate, some of them being
delivered at the courts of Europe, but not to our Am
bassadors.
The motion passed by address for,thofe that were
Date papers, and an order for the rest.
Mr. Hartley gave notice of his intending to moved
kfter Chriftm s, in concurrence, and with the support
bf the landed gentlemen, A bill for the better securing
the freedom of Parliament, by disabling certain place
men fr m fitting in the House of Commons.
Lord North arose upon the Irish propositions, and
spoke as follows :—“ The propositions, fir, which I
had the honour of giving not ce of las lThurfday, and
then read to the House, will not, I hope, be considered
as any part of a fy flem which necessarily goes to the re
peal of every commercial reftriftion that was ever laid
by the legislature of this country upon the trade of Ire
land, by way of involving questions of right, as well a^
of expediency ; but, on the contrary, levelled singly at
those distresses of that Kingdom, complained of by the
Irifli parliament. The great leading principle upon
which these propositions are founded is this, That the
wealth of Ireland is the wealth of England ; a principle,
which now appears so clear to me, and I believe to the
best informed people throughout the kingdom, that it
may be admitted as aleading fa& whereon to found
most of our reasoning upon this fubjeft. We may, in
deed, fair'y confider Ireland in two lights, t.e one as a
people demanding that cruel reftrißions against the com
mon rights of mankind may be repealed also in the
light of a commercial people, one of the best customers
to England ; in one light, the rights of mankind call to
us ; in the other, our own interests plead equally pow
erful. I must farther observe, Sir, that the repeals
which I fhdl move you, will do little more than throw
Ireland once mote into the situation in which the flood
at the time tne, Navigation Afl passed. ' By that aft
Ireland was left in as full poffeffon of the American
trade as England ; -and it was not till twelve years af
ter that she was cut out of it, by a elaufe, which with &
fide wind, deprived her of a fituatioa, advantageous to
herfelf, and not the contrary to this country. Sir, the
writers of historical annecdotes of that time h ve in
formed us, that that alteration, as well as another aft
prohibiting the import of Irish cattle, were both of them
party exertions against the Duke of Ormond :---but
however, not to dwell on the occasion of such impolitic
bills, I shall observe, that the compact between thetwo
kingdoms has most certainly been violated on our parts.
However, the intentions and aim of the prefect proposi
tions is to put the two kingdoms upon a much better
L O N D C) N, December 14.
APRIL 29, 1780.
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