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

Wante d.
A WOMAN, that can cook and do the work of a
" final! family. Enquire of the Printer.
W AS L O S T,
ON Monday last on the Lancaster road, be
tween Downings town, and the Three Crown Ta
vern, Eighty four Half Johannefes and SevenMoidotes,
directed, Capt. Clayton, Lancaster, No. 1. ftiched up
in a piece of oznaburgs. Whoever has found the feme,
and will deliver it to the Printer hereof, or to Capt.
Clayton at Lancaster, shall be well rewarded.
March alth, 1780.
-"VwtTHUNDI^^ L L A&S.
REWAR D.
Last night about one o'clock four villains broke
open a store of the fubferibers, and took out a
pipe of Teneriffe WINE, guaging 120 gallons, mark
ed near the bung B, R. and put in a boat supposed to
belong to the Brig General Reed, as foe was taken the
fame night. The boat is 23 feet long, with five oars, a
swivel stock in her bow, yellow mouldings round her gun
nel. Whoever features the wine, shall be entitled to the
above reward, with all reasonable charges paid, and for
the thieves, being convicted of their villainy, One Hud
fad Dollars.
VAN UXEM and CLARK.
T HOM AS M'F EIC
At his Dwelling house in Carter's Alley,
GON TINUES to post Merchants and Shopkeep
ers books, and in a regular, clear and mercantile
manner; adjults the most intricate co-partnerships, pri
vate, and almost every other kind of long and unsettled
accounts. He also draws and copies with neatness, care
and expedition, such writings as invoices, salts, accounts
current, and writes letters, &c. &c.
Such persons as will please to favour him with their
commands, may depend upon the utmost care, pun&ual
lity and dif,atch.
BY His EXCELLENCY'
JOSEPH RE ED, Esq;
President, and the Supreme Executive Council of the
Commonwealth of Pemnfylvania,
APROCLAMATION,
WHEREAS divers of the inhabitants of the
county of Cumberland, within this State, have,
by their humble petition, represented to the Ho
norable House of Assembly, in their present Sessions, that
they are in a Rate of most imminent danger, from a num
ber of violent wicked persons within the said county,who
being detected in counterfeitng money and such like evil
practices, have burnt the barns, mills aud houses of sun
dry well-disposed and faithful fubjeds of this State, who
have exerted themselves in difeovering and bringing to jus
tice the above offenders : AND WHEREAS Benjamin
Nugent, William Nugent, John Roftiorough, Charles
Johnson and Dr. John M'Cartney, are among others
charged with the perpetration of the above offences, but
have hitherto eluded the hands @f public justice : And
the said petition being recommended to the care and no
tice of this Council : For the discovery and puniffimeot
c*f such pernicious anTattrocious crimes, and that the said
Benjamin Nugent, William Nugent, John Rofborough,
Charles Johnson and Dr. John M'Cartney, may be brought
to condign and exemplary punishment, WE have thought
fit to issue this our Proclamation, hereby promoting and
engaging that the public Reward of FIV E TEC U
SAND DOLLARS flxall be paid to any person or
parsons who shall apprehend the said Benjamin Nugent,
William Nugent, John Rofborough, Charles Johufon and
Dr. John M'Cartney, or ONE THOUSAND
D °^^ ARS for either of them, and faftly deliver them,
or eitffr of them, to any Sheriff within any Goal of this
State, together with reasonable expences attending the fame.
And WE do hereby ftri&ly charge, enjoin and require all
Judges, Justices, Sheriffs, Constables, and all other the
faithful and liege fubjeas within this Government, to make
diligent search and enquiry afterthe above offenders, and
to use their utmost endeavours to apprehend and secure
them^ and every of them, so that they may be brought
to justice.
GIVEN, by Order ofthe Council, under thehand
cf his Excellency JOSEPH REED, Esquire,
Prefide^t, and tbeSeal of the State, at Philadel
phia, this Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One Thoufaud Seven Hundred and
Eighty.
JOSEPH REED,
Attest. PRESIDENT
TIMOTHY MATLACK, Secretary.
GOD Save the PEOPLE.
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TUESDAY,
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[ Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ]
DESERTE D,
On the igth infant, from Qapt., Theophihu Parke's
Company, in Col. Benjamin Flower's Regiment of
Artillery and Artificers,
PATRICK CAIN, a native of Ireland, about twen
ty-one years of age, five feet five inches high, a
well fct fellow, with ihort black hair, one of his fore
teeth zone, had on a sailors brown jacket, and canvass
overalls, he is a remarkable (wearer, and can beat the
drum.
Daniel Morfifon, a native of Scotland, a lad of sixteen
years of age, wears his hair curled, which is light co
loured, answering to his complexion, had on a blue coat
faced with red, leather breeches, and white yarn ffock
inge. It is supposed they are on board force of the ves
sels in the river. Whoever secures either of the deser
ters, and returns l.im to his regiment, shall receive One
Hundred Dollars reward, and double that sum for both,
by #PP!|"^ to t he Comnuffary General of Military
Stores office, in this city.
TO BE SOLD BY
LEONARD DORSE Y,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
S A L T,
Of an exceeding good QUALITY.
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From the Parliamentary Debates, N. 67, iff,,
Extraft of a letter from Lord George Germaine, to Ma
jor General Howe, dated Whitehall, Feb. 1, 1779.
" YUIS letter will be entrusted to the care of the com
& mander of his Majesty's ship Greyhound, who
will also deliver up to you the officers of the privateer fit
ted out by the Rebels, under a commission from the Con
gress, and taken by one of Admiral Graves's squadron.
It has been judged fit to fend them back to America, for
the fame obvious reafana that induced the fending back
the Rebel prisoners taken in arms upon the attack of Mon
treal in September last. It is hoped that the possession of
these prisoners will enable y@u to procure the release of
such of his Majesty's officers and loyal fulije&s as are in
the difgraceful fituatien of being prisoners to the Rebels /
For although it cannot be that you ffiould enter into a
treaty with Rebels, for a regular cartel for exchange of
prisoners; yet I doubt not but your own discretion wili
'fuggeft to yon, the means of effacing such exchange with
out the King's dignity and honor being Committed, or his
Majesty's name used in any negotiation for that purpose •'
And I am the more strongly urged to point out to you the
expediency of such a measure, on account of the possible
difficulties, which may otherwise occur in the case of fo
rteign troops serving in North -America."
Goods Received, and Sold on Commission,
AT the Store of the fubferiber, in a convenient part
of the city, in Second ft reel, between Market and
Chefnut-ftreets, at the sign of the Hind-saw, where all
kind of goods are received, and fold on the best terms
for the owners. The cellars and store-rooms are airdiy
and fit for the reception of any kind of goods. Any
p,rfon having goods to dtfpofe cf, either in town er coun
try, such as woolen or linen cloths, thread or yarn
flockings, or any other articles in any branch, will meet
with convenient room, and constant attendance will be
given, by
JONATHAN ZANE.
Now on hind the following ARTICLES, v z.
Logwood, Brazilletto, Fuftick, Ground Redwood,
Ground Logwood, Glafi of various sizes, Copperas,
Chalk, Powdered Spanish brown, Lump and Powder
Antimony, American fqusre Bar and Blister Steel, Awl
blades by the groefy Giew, Galls, Snuff in bottles,
Scarf and Thread Buttons, Hair Sand and Indian-meal
Sieves, Wheat and Rhean Sieves, Oat Riddles, Sash-
Line and Weights, Fish-Hooke and Lines, a final! as
sortment of Ironmongery, &% &c. A pair of four foot
French Burr Mill-Stones, iron bound
TO BE SOLD BY;
JOHN D U N L A P,
( Bound or unbound )
ANY QUANTITY OF ,
DILWORTHS SPELLING BOOK,
Printed on fine strong paper and A new type.
N. B. Those who buy by the thousand shall have a
large allowance.
Ready money and a good price for Horfctails.
March 20.
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ADVERTISER.
" Are these things necessities?
" Then let us meet them like necessities."
You and I did not form any regular opinion of Drz
Tucker's idea of an illiance with america;' but we both
agreed, that ftould we take up our pens in funporlof such
apian, we would either usurp so much of the Dean's pro
feffion, who is a Minister ofthe Gofpel,ar affine so much
of our bwn, which is that of Chriflians, an to recommend
an alliance on the basis of good-will, charfty and peac^-
unaccompanied by declarations of enmity, and excreffi-'
oris of malevolence.'
It was no particular fetitenee, bat the general tenor of
the other pamphlet, on which we had feme difeourfe. The
author (I am told) is a gentlemen of North-Britain. Much
is the literary world indebted to his countrymen, for the
many excellent performances they have published of late
per '°" is °'r eat knowledge, a^d writes m
a maftefly stile ; but in his Hiftofy of the Colonization of
Free States, has confined himfelf to the mere practice of
sovereign Rates iritha government of their colonies, par
ticularly in refpea of taxation. I wish he had gone fur
ther; because, the knowledge that we are interefled in
acquiring, is,
First, What were the grounds and principles on which
the power of taxation was founded ; and
Secondly, What effeds the exercise of that power has
commonly produced.
Had the learned commentator proceeded to this part
ofancient hiftpry, he would have shewn not only (as Dr
Tucker truly asserts) that “ it is the nature of them all
« to aspire at Independency ;" ^1 he might also have
explained to us, Why nature ma, be foppofed to have had
her share in impelling so many nations “ to set up for
themselves." r
He has, indeed, done more than any other writer to
wards bringing the ground of American taxation within
the precious of liberty. He hasrecde&voured to fl^w its
conformity to the examples of the freeft flares dfantiquity
the Carthaginian, Greek, and Roman.
But, efall guides to public meafuies, Precedents are
the most fallacious. Ihe temper and habits of one ace
and one nation, may be ill suited to the fafhions of ano
ther time, and to the genius of another people; and to
derive equal success from a Smilarity of mcafures, not
only the fapne wisdom and fortitude are neeeffary, but
what cannot be insured, the fame fortune.=-Great, in-'
deed, are the benefits of example, if well considered ; 'great
are the dangers also, if partially & r injudiciously applied
Principles must be invefttgated; means weighed with their
end!; times aud seasons observed; aud what is the firft
cenfideration in a free government, the genius and difpo
fitiofi of the governed.
If the partial exercises of arbitrary power in Free
States, either ancient or modern, could authorize despo
tism, no tyranny would be unwarranted. It was said," that
he who was free in Sparta, was meft so ; but a Save there
“ was the greatest Have upon firth." But, I trust, we
shall .never hear either the condition ofa Spartan helot,
or the modern treatment of a Weft-Indian negro, recom
mended as fampies of freedom and humanity.
As faras example can teach wisdom and promote jus
tice, the one is to be deduced from the principles, the o
ther from the effe&s of public councils.
The length of my letters on this extensive fubjeft may
perhaps, tire you ; but remember, it i 3 a talk enjoined
by yourfelf, and that is is performed by
Your sincere friend, &c.
(To be continued.)
Mr. D U N L A P,
Notwithflaiiding the difficulties caused by the war some
of the publications in England, find their way hither.
Of these, a work of merit, intitled, “ Remarks on tie
taxation of Free States, ina series of letters to a friend,"
has come to my hands. A few extracts will doubtless in
form and please your readers ; and shew at the fame time,
some of the artsufed by the Bririfli Mimflry, to hold up
the nation to persist in the present unavailing and ruinous
contest with North -.America. I am, your coufiant rea
der, and very humble Servant, A. B.
^XTRACTSfromHist0RIcALriemarks
on the T axaTlon of FREeSta tes, in a series
of lettersto a Friend.
LETTER the firft, is dated, goth of April, 1778.
It takes notice of two distinguished pamphlets. One
o f which, intitled" An Hiffory of the Celpnization cf
' the Fr ee States of Antiquity," you had the good
ness to bring with you; the other, the “ Dean of Glou
cefter'sTraas," you found here.
The passage in the latter which drew out our comments
•''" s '° E "h Pratt on Political and Commercial Sub
jeers, ''where (fays he) I am far from charging cur Co,
" lonies with being Sinners above others; becauf&
" ' b , e , e > (and if I am wrong, let the history of all
' Colonies, whether ancient or modern, from the days
“ of Thucidides down to th? present time, confute me
they can) I fay, till that is done, I believe, it is the na
" ture of them all to aspire at Independency, and set
' 'fort hemfelves..'
The Poet we admire makes one of his Kinra fay, upon
the revolt of his fubjefts,, r
APRIL 4, 1780.
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