The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-07-15 00:00:00, page 4

New Books & Stationary,
J^t Imported from Europe, via New-York,
FOR SALE at
William Prichard's
Book and Stationary-Store, in Market
street, opposite Laetitia- court,
HISTORY of the War, with cuts, x vo's#
Gibbons on the Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empires 4 vol^
Guthrie's New (geographical Grammar,
Private Life of Le^is XVth, 4 vole.
Moore's View o f Society, 5 vole*
Young's Tour, 2 vole/ #
Baydina's Tour, 2 vole.
^'ria^re# bo National Pride, Littleton's Letters,
D>&or Dodd's Thoughts in Prison,
Fupr's Wols complete in 8 vols.
Hrv*„ Works, complete in 6 vole.
Cha,on, cn the Improvement of the Mind,
Seif's Woiks, complete in 15 vols.
Serne's Works, complete in 5 vols.
Mrs. Rowe's Letters, Fordyce's Address to young men.
NEW NOVELS.
NAVIGATION..
T EE New North-American Pilot, 2 vols. wita Dl
- Book,
Great Britain's Coaling- Pilot, in two parts,
The Mediterranean Pilot,
Moore, Wilson, and Aitkenfon's Navigation,
Sea Charts and Draughts, &c.
STATIONARY.
WRITING Paper of
the best quality,
Shop Paper & Pasteboard,
Dutch and English Quills,
Iri(h Wafers and Wax,
Holman's Patent Ink-
Cake and Ink-Powder,
Slates and Pencils,
Blacklead Pencils,
Pewter Inkstands, large &
(mail,
Leather and jepan'd Ink
holders,
Barlow Penknives,
CECILIA, 3 vols.
Sylph, 2 vols.
Emma Corbet, 3 vols#
Evelina, 3 vols.
Spiritual .Quixote, 3 vols.
Julia de Roubigne, % vols.
ILftory of Miss Maria Bar
low, 2 vol^
B-tfey Thoughtless, 4 vols.
Juliet Grenville, 2 vols.
American Museum.
TH E gentlemen and ladies, Grangers in this city,
who are desirous to fee the curiosities it contains,
are requested to take notice, that to make it more con
venient to them, the fubferiber's Collection of natural
and artificial Ceriofiti^, Pointings, &c. may be viewed
every day (Sunday excepted) between the hours of 11 and
12 in the forenoon, and 5 and 6 in the afternoon, al
lowing an hour for each company, which to avoid in
conveniency to themselves, it is hoped, will not exceed
6, or, at most, 8 in one frit.
TICKETS to be had at the subscriber's house in
Arch-street, the fourth door below Fourth-lfreet, at
HAf a Dollar each. P. E. DU SIMITIERE.
Nicholas Perree,
Living at the Corner of Third and Arch-Streets,
BEGS leave to inform the Public, that he will un
dertake to teach the French and English Lan
guages by principles. He flatters himfeif that hie
manner of teaching both Languages with propriety, is
too well known to need any further apology. June 26.
F.ve Shillings Reward.
°|„ AN-AWAI from the subscriber, living in
.IV Water-street, near Arch street, an indented
servant Girl, named Ifabell^ M'Queen: All
persons whatsoever is forbid to harbour her at
^heir peril. Whoever takes up faid.girl and de
livers her to the keeper of the new Work house,
in this city, shall receive the above reward, on
demand, of me,
June 24. SOLOMON M'NAIII.
The greeted Variety of SCHOOL BOOKS, both En
glish, Fiench, Latin and Greek.
Reasonable Allowance will be made to those who Buy
by the Quantity.
The Philobiblian Library
Is still kept at the above Store, on the fame principles
as heretofore. The Proprietor with pleasure informs
his generous Customers, that since the peace he has
purchased a very considerable Addition of the most ap
proved Modern Authors, and is continually adding to
his Catalogue.—The utmost industry to keep the Books
in good order, and every endeavour to give general
Satisfaction, will always be observed to those who
please to favour him with their Subscriptions.
No Books, in future, will be let cut of the Library,
but on subscription ; and it is expected, that thole who
are in arrears will make speedy payment.
A new Addition to the Catalogue is now handed to
the Subscribers.
P^l^ Printed 4r ,d Sold b, D^7IB C. CLArPOOLE}^^
English Paper Hangings,
Backgamon Tables, &c.
Quadrille Boaid,
Cribage Boxes,
Mathematical Instruments,
Spying Ghffes,
Files for Merchants,
Plated Buckles,
Wax Tapers,
India Ink,
Camel Hair Brushes,
Paints in Shells,
Prints and Maps,
Ivory Pounce-Boxes, &e.
The Triumvirate, 2 vols.
Letters of Abelard and
Heioife,
Fool of Quality, 5 vols.
Man of Feeling,
Cleora, or Fair Inconstant,
Prints of Abiffinia, 2 vols.
Sedney Bedulph, 3 vols.
Letters of Lady Catefby or
Lady Campley,
Michael Roberts,
Nearly opposite Church-alley, Third-street, is now fel
ling off his remaining STOCK on hand at prime
Cost: Confiding of the following Articles, viz,
ELEGANT patte buckles, flock and knee ditto, gold
rings, lockets, pins and broaches, pearl and paste
beaufonts, bracelet, buckles, paste earings, hat pins
with pearl tops, Angle and double hair pins, tortoise
shell inlaid fnuff-bexrs, smelling bottler, etwee and
tooth-pick cases, germ&er,s faCtonabie silver buckles
highly finifhed, a g<eat variety Morocco pocket-book)
with instruments, memorandum ditto, surgeon's poc
ket instruments, Morocco Having cases compltat, tea
caddie's plated table and tea Ipoons, sugar tongs, wine
tunnels, cream ewers, ditto bafons with blue flats li
ning, horn cups tipped and lined plated and steel
spurs, knives and forks of various kinds and quality,
feiffars, penknives, fportfmens ditto, razors, cork
screws, ftetl key-rings, plated Ihoe and knee buckles,
watch chains, feals'and keys, a large collection cy
pher seals, fine Irish linens, silk docking# and gloves,
cotton night-cape, Italian flowers, gold and silver hat
bands, lace, cord, and rich sword-knots, silk umbrel
las and oil (kin bathing caps, H Hand dolls, childrens
swords and belts, German flutes and fifes, spy-glasses,
shot belts and powder hike, a variety of pocket and hol
ster pistols; prince: metal c.ndlefticks, fnu%rs and trays,
cloaths and fhoc brushes, blacking balls, leather bot
tle Hands, best Dutch quills, letter paper, shining sand,
message and playing cards, a few volumes Clark's Ho
raer and Cornelius Nepos, locking glasses and pictures
in gilt frames, a variety prints, hardware, rappee fnuff
in pound cannisters, Spelman's pills, James's powders,
Turlington's balsam of life, volatile fait, bottles blown
upon an entire new cerftruaion, walking canes with
gilt and ivory heads, tipes in small boxes for marking
linen, dice box's, real India ink for drawing.
A few chests hyfon tea of the firft quality.
Onfray Painniere,
At his Store in Wafer-ftreet, below Walnut-frert, has
for Sale,
A Variety of Dry Goods,
lately imported in the last Vessels from France.
Jud arrived fr m DUBLIN, and now felling at the
STORE opposite the Coffee-Houfe, by
Henry Willey,
A neat ASSORTMENT of
PL AI N and printed Linens, Calicoes, Handker
chiefs, Checks, Cambricks, Lawns, mens Hats,
womens dit. womens Shoes, Pins, Playing Card.,
mens and womens Gloves, a Variety of Hard-Ware and
other dry Goods, too tedious to inert.
Also felling at fame Place, by
John Brown,
A large and wdl chosen ASSORTMENT of
PRINTED Linens aod^Cotteps, H m^kerebirf,,
Checks, Diapers, Jeans,' Shuts ruffled and plain;
also a large Assortment of yard wl^ LS^i : &U
of which articles said BROWN is - .b!^' to tell on the
most eligible terras for the pur<hfer, having bought
said Linens himfeif in the belt markets for brown linen
in the North of Ireland ; and as this circumstance ena
bles him, so he is determined not to be undersold by any
person whatever. June 5,
——.
Horses at Livery.
THE subscriber has just opened those
new, large and commodious Stables,
in Dock-street, near the City-Tavern, con
ftrudedon a new and airy plan, where horses
are taken in |by the year or shorter term, and
furnifhed with the best provender, at the
most reasonable rate.
By the public's most obedient servant,
EDWARD YOUNG.
N. B, A number of genteel Horses and
Chairs to be let by theday or journey.
Genteel Lodgings in a pleafanc
part of the City. Enquire of the Printer.
just IMPORTED, end now OPENING at
KUH N's
Medicinal and Drug
S T O R E,
The ifreft fide of ^econd-ftrett, nearly midway be
tween Market and Chefnut-ftreets# and dirt&ly op
polite Black-Horse -alley,
A frefh and large Assortment of well chosen
Drugs and Medicines,
Which will be Sold on the most reasonable terms, either
by Wholefaie or Retail.
Orders from the country, and phyfi ians Prescriptions
carefully attended to. June 12.
N. B. A smart adive Boy will be taken as an Apprentice.
To ^ LAD IE <
A MILLINER just arrived from London, but hit
from Paris, begs leave to inform them, that the
has for Sale, Caps of the most elegant fort, and new
est falhion, such as are worn by their Majesties of Eng
land and France, on court and other days, trimmings
for Gowns of exquisite taste, and all other articles, too
numerous to mention, being her own manufacture,
can thereby fell very reasonable, and Ladies will find it
greatly to their advantage: has a few elegant Gold
Watches of the newest pattern, Jewelry of a most bril
liant appearance, and which (he can venture to prq.
Bounce matchiefs on the continent, this day. Fleale to
enquire at Mrs. Snewden't, in Spruce-street, betwen
Second and Third-street.
Houses for Sale.
TWO very commodious HOUSES on the east fide
of Third-street, adjoining the Golden Swan Inn.
The Lot on which they are erected extends east
ward to a lot on Moravian alley, 17 feet front and a
bout s'd deep, by which both boules may be accommo
dated with an outlet. They will be fold reasonable,
either together or separate, as may suit; and upon
payment of one half the purchase money some time will
be given for the other. For further particulars enquire
of JONATHAN D. SERGEANT, esquire, on the
premises, or JAMES MEASE. July 5.
TO BE SOLD,
A Valuable PLANTATION and Trad of LAND;
situate in Oxford township, Philadelphia county,
about 6 miles from Philadelphia and one from Frank
fort, on the road leading from Frankfort to the Old
York road, containing too acres of rich land, 3 of mea
dow, and more may be made with little expence ; where
on is a large, genteel, Stone House, two stories high, 4
rooms on a floor, very pleasantly (ituattd either for a
gentleman's country feat or a farm, with a cellar ura
der the house, an orchard of about too excellent ap
ple-trees, a good frame barn and ft'able ; there is'a
wed of excellent water clofeby the kitchen doer, and
a never failing spring of water a little distance off.
Any person inequable to c^rchafe, may know the terms
by applying to NATHAN WHITMAN, on the pre
mufes June 14,
N. B. The above Plantation is situated on very
healthy, high ground, and commands a beautiful profit
pe& for many miles round this country.
Ilarpfichords and Forte-Pianos.
JAMES JUHAN, lately arrived in this city with his
family, informs the Public, that he makes the great
North American Forte-Pianos, the mechanical part of
which is entirely of his own invention, and so simple
th t it isthe easiest thing in the world to keep them in or
der and tune thrm : he likewise mends and tunes Harp
fi-hors, Forte-Pianos, Spinnets, and all other kinds of
Instruments, in the nrateft manner, and teaches the
H^rpficbord, Violin and German Flute# Those who
will do him the favour to employ him, may depend
upon hi, ex-diners and assiduity. He lives at present at
Mrs. PERRY's, the corner of Arch and Fourth
streets,
N. B. He wants to hire a House in ary part of the
town. June 24.
WAS taken upon the 2 ^th inst. a So r rel HORSE}
with four white feet and a blaize in his fore
-I^l, foppofed to be 6 years old. Whoever has loft
ff^Horfe, by applying to me, ANTHONY HUB
BURT, in Nicetown, may have him again, paying
charges. June s,.
Forty Dollars Reward.
(,TOIT N out of the pasture of the subscriber, living
11 : Uwelilan town (hip, chester county, a Black full
r l Jed MARE, 4 y^ars old this grais, 14 bands ,
i t,£s high, trots and canters well, carries gay, food all
round, (hoes hnooh when taken away; (he is remark
.*,lß full in the forehead, and has two curls or feathers,
so Jed, on her forehead,the one it thought to be above
tie other ; it is thought the has feme white hairs on
on os hind part of one of her hind feet, or perhaps
on wth : ihe was stolen on the night of the 18th ir.ft.
J>n% Any person securing the Mare, so that the
^rer may have her again, and the thief, so that he
b? brought to justice, it taken within 40 milesof home,
shall have 20 Dollars reward, if within 60 miles, 30
Dollar, and if out of this state, 40 dollars ; and for
the Mare, only, the one half of the abevementi—
oned sums, and all reasonable charges if brought home;
prid by me, AARON PHIPPS. June 24.
Eight Dollars Reward,
RAN-AWAY from the subscriber living in Mont
gomery county, near colonel Richard Breockes, on
th)nth instant, alikely Nrgro MAN, named NACE,
about 31 or 2 years of fr, 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high,
has a small piece cut off the under part of one of his
ears, and had on a whi^e shirt, a striped cotton under
jacket, white cotton breeches, thread flockings and new
(he, with brass buckles in them, and a black hat; it
is likely he may change his name and cloaths, as he is
Ml artful fellow. Whoever rakes up said Negro, and
secures him so that the owner gets him again, shall re
ceive the above reward, and if brought home, reasona
ble Gh^rgespaid, by RICHARD BERRY. June 24,