The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-07-18 00:00:00, page 3

Last Monday His Excellency the Minifler of France
celebrated the birth of Monfigneur the Dauphin. Se
ven hundred and fifty persons were present at the enter,
tainment given on this occasion. A Te Deum was
sung at ten in the morning : In the evening there was
a concert of mufick in a room erected for that purpose,
and large enough to contain all invited.
The concert finished at nine o'clock, when the fire
works began, after which a general illumination suc
ceeded, upon an amphitheatre ereded in front of the
hotel of the Minifler, and likewise in the groves. At
the fame time began a very brilliant ball, which con
tinued till midnight; this was followed by a (upper,
served upon seven tables of eighty covers each. The
ball was resumed after supper, and laded till 2 o'clock
in the morning. Tie weather was extremely favour
able during the entertainment, the night being calm
and serene. '1 he gentlemen and ladies who were invit
ed, have teflified the greatest fatisfadion, and the citi
zens in general, who were present at the fire-workr, have
shewn equal pleasure.
The presence of Hi# Excellency General Waffiington
and the Count Rochambeau rendered the entertainment
as compleat as could possibly be wiihed.
This brilliant scene received- its principal embellifh
xnent from the presence of the ladies ; few cities could
exhibit more elegance and taste, or unite more of the
graces than appeared here.
Notwithflanding the prodigious concourse of fpefta
tors (which have been eflimated at about 12,000) and
the great number of carriages, the whole was conduced
so judiciously, and so many precautions used, that not
a tingle accident happened. The public are greatly in
debted to a party of the Philadelphia militia, who kept
guard in the streets round the Mini fter's house, and
a detachment of French troops, who guarded within the
inclofures, for the peace and good order so conspicu
ous during the whole evening.
People who were on the roof of the State-house fay,
that nothing could equal the view, that the commons,
covered with fpedators, the hotel of France, the gar
dens and groves, which were full of ladies and'gentle
men walking about, presented, when this scene was
lighted by the fire-works and the lamps.
In a future paper we expert to give a particular de
scription of the building, &c. which were the principal
theatres of this magnificent entertainment.
Extrad of a letter from Cadiz, to a gentleman in this
city, dated April 24, 1782.
" On the 13th ultimo, a fleet oft? ships of the line,
12 Spanish and 5 French, three of the latter three deck
ers, failed from this port, under the command of the
count de Guichen, upon a secret expedition ; but it is
generally reported, and now believed, they are actual
ly at Ereft, and are to return immediately for this,
with 8 or 10 thousand French troops to join our arm)
at the siege of Gibraltar; which is intended to be car
ried on now with more vigour than hitherto; for this
purpose the navy board here have, this month, pur
chased 10 of the largest Weft-India ships in the bay, and
are fitting them out in fuel, a manner, as that they will
in general mount from 40 to 70 guns each, intended
to be very heavy metal, for the purpose of laying be
fore the garrison of Gibraltar, and batter their walls
for them.
His excellency the duke de Crillon, after his late
signal victory over his Britannic majefly's army, at
Minorca, is promoted to that noble title of grandee of
Spain, and general of the army at the camp of St.
Roque, where he is expeded daily from Madrid, to
fupercede the present commander, general Alvares."
Extract of a letter from Fort-Pitt, June 15, 1782.
A f party of volunteers, to the amount of 400, un
der the command of colonel William Crawford, formed
a plan of surprising the upper town of Sanduiky. We
'-" 24th of " ay from the Mingoe Bottom, on
r ! ver ' with the utmost precaution and secrecy
the woods, but were unfortunately difeovered
,^^ ! ndians on crossing the Mulkingham
No withflanding our small numbers, we continu
WO R CE ST E R, July 4.
We hear from Claremont, on ConneaiCut river, ele
ven mile above Number-Four, or Charleflown, in the
state of New-Hampshire, that on Sunday the 23d ult.
in the afternoon, there was a most terrible gust of wind,
or hurricane, by which eight considerable buildings
in that town were demolished; one of them was a large
dwelling-house, in which was a man; his wife and five
children- one of them, a child about fix years of age,
was inftantiy killed by the falling of the timbers; the
mother was buried to her waist in the ruins of the chim
ney, but happily escaped with life. All the trees, fen
ces,'&c. for halt a mile in breadth through the town,
were broken down, and much damage done to fields of
grain, grass, & c - During this amazing florm of thun
der and°wind, large quantities or boards, fliingles, limbs
of trees, &c. were floating in the air, and the roaring
of the wind fremed like the rumbling before an earth
quake, or continual thunder. Such an unfual pheno
menon was aflonifhing toall who beheld it. The towns
adjacent to Claremont, we are told, have fuffered con
siderably by this tempest, which, as we hear ex
tended more than sixty miles, in a greater or lef degree,
on Conneaicut river; and to a diflance from it. We
hear from fevtral places of trees being torn up by the
roots, roofs of buildings taken off, cattle killed, &c.
&c.
On Thursday wa sent in here by the privateer
br^ Digby and Perleverance, a schooner from
Eatimore Hound to France, with about 70 hogsheads
of tobacco. It is fail that the above privateers drove
on shore, two brigs loaded with dry goods, from France
bound to the Chefapeak, but were prevented taking
pofTeffion of them, by a number of the inhabitants
bringing down forne heavy pieces of artillery.
fta!l arrive from Old France, to give them the superi
ority at sea.
Philadelphia, July 18.
N E W-Y O R K, July 13.
On Sunday last, five whale boats, manned by a num
ber of refugees and Negroes from New-York, under
the command of a captain Kidd, formerly of this city,
came up as far as Reedy-ifiand, and took, it is Said,
five Wallops in different parts of the river. What o
ther mifehief they may have done we cannot yet hear.
On Thursday the torn instant, ATr. Martin, the
Morristown post-rider, was robbed of the mail in
Penn's mannor, about 25 miles f r 6m this city, at^id
day, by a number of armed villains, who Said they
were the fame persons that flopped Mr. Gilmore, the
Southern post, a few weeks ago in Maryland. After
detaining Mr. Martin four or five hours, they return
ed him his money, watci, &c. It is Said the enemy at
New York, keep about thirty persons in pay for the
purpose of robbing mails, who are Constantly out.
they ar- very anxious to be informed in American
state secrets, and are weak enough to think they can
be extracted out of a public post-rider's budget, and
that at the risk of their ^miffaries ne,cks.
We hear from Burlington, that thirty armed tories
attacked the goal in that place on Saturday Dft, altho'
there are a body of troops lying there. Their Scheme
was to rescue Some horse thieves ^nd other vagabonds
confined in that prison. They failed in their attempt,
but all got off. The Southern and eastern mails have
been robbed, Several houses up the river plundered,
and the goal of Burlington attacked, all in the course
of two or three weeks, by different parties of armed -
men, woo it is easy to fee are but divisions of the fame
gang. Ought not government to exert itfelf effectual
ly in searching out and bringing these villains to the
gibbet, cr how Soon will the public roads be impassi
ble to travellers ?
A gentleman arrived here from St. Kitts, by way of
Baltimore, informs, that the Regulator, a privateer of
Antigua, Sent her boat into the harbour of St. Kitts,
from whence they cut out the schooner , captain
Dean, of this port, and two other American vessels, and
carried them to Antigua. The French commandant dis
covering that Some of the English on the island had been
concerned in the bufineL, immediately Seized the vef-
Sels belonging to them, and demanded that they should
See to the re delivery of the American vessels, which
after Some delay was complied with, and tl e vessels Sent
back, when the merchants of St. Kitts were obliged to
refit the vessels with rigging, stores, &c. of which the
privateers had plundered them, and then they were de
livered in good order to their owners.
Extrad of a letter from New-Jersey, dated the 14th Ju
ly, 1782.
" There is n^ news here at present but from New-
York ; and it is Said there are great commotions there,
for it has been credibly reported, that the British have
disarmed all the blanks among them, and have put them
on board of ships for the Weft Indies, except fix o r se
ven whom they have confined in irons, for the murder
of one Mr. Napha, a trader, from near the Great Falls,
where it is thought they will meet a reward justly due
to their crimes."
We hear from Shrewsbury, in New-Jersey, that the
Society of friends, who are very numerous in those
parts, have lately had a meeting, to confider and pro
vide against the ruinous tendency of being diftrained
on for taxes, as they have been these fx years past.
They have now contented to pay voluntarily to the
collectors as the other fubjeds of that state do.
It is remarkable (fays a correspondent) that the
lightning becomes every year more and more deflruc
tiOe on this continent. Of late there is scarce a week
but affords from one state or another, melancholy na
tations of lives loft and damages done by this danger
ous element. About a fortnight ago, in the thunder
ftorro that was attended here with such an unusual fall
of rain, a number of ladies fitting in a house a mile or
two out of this city, had their caps set on fire by a
flafli that was instantly followed by very loud ard
tremendous thunder. Fortunately, however, the
fame was extinguished without doing any farthe con
siderable damage. It was conjectured, that the multi
plicity of wires and pins used in the confirnftion of
these very complicated machines attracted the light
ning, to the great danger and terror of the owners.
It is seriously recommended to all ladies amoogft whom
this kind of caps are in vogue, to provide themfHves
with conducting wires which may carry off the electri
cal fire into a bafon of water, without endangering
the lives of those who are already univerfaliy acknow
ledged to be the molt attracting objects in the lower
creation.
" The firing began with day-break on the sth, and
continued all day. Our party was so much incumber
ed with their wounded, that the whole day was Spent in
their care, in defending our guard, and in preparing
for a vigorous attack the succeeding night. In the af
ternoon a large body of mounted rangers and 200 Shaw
anefe arrived to their relief. As this Succour rendered
the enemy So vaflly Superior to us, and as all their
forces lay in a circuit of about 50 miles, who were
hourly pouring in numbers, prudence dilated to us a
retreat. This was effected in the morning of the 6th,
with So much regularity, that none of our wounded
were left. The enemy pursued us 20 miles to the end
of the plains, and attempted to hinder us from entering
the woods. This brought on a hot adion for an hour, in
which the enemy fuffered so much, that they never af
terwards attempted to molest us on our march. We
had 3 killed and 6 wounded in this a&ion. It is impof
fible for roe to ascertain the loss of the enemy, which
was very considerable. Ours amounts, in killed and
miffing, to 30; among the latter is colonel Crawford."
ed our march, and met the enemy on the 4th of June,
in the plains of Sandusky, a few miles from their town,
where they had had Sufficient time to collect their own
forces,and alarm the adjacent nations. A hot action en
fued,which lafled from 4 o'clock,P.M.until funfet.Eoth
parties obflinately contended for an advantageous piece
of ground, from which we drove the enemy, with the
loss of Several scalps. We had 5 killed and 19 wound
ed in this action.
Philadelphia, July 17, 1782.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
STRAYED or stolen from the Subscriber, on the 30th
day of June last, A small Bay HORSE, four years
old, about 14 hands high, a trotter, and is Shod all
round ; has maiks of the collar and back-band, being
conitantly worked in a team. Whoever takes up laid
Hor e, if framed, (ball receive Four Dollars, and if sto
len, Eight Dollars, and Eight Dollars for the thief,
p^id by ABRAHAM KINTZING.
N. B Said Kintzing has for SALE, Two likely,
young NEGRQE FELLOWS, well accustomed to
driving team or the buun<f^ of a farm.
The fubferiber begs leave to in
form his Ft lends in particular, wd the Public in gene
ral, that he has opened the LIVERY STABLE lately
occupied by the Militia Light horse, in Sixth ftreeL
between Market and Chefnut-ftreets, and proposes tak
ing in Horses at as reasonable a Rate as polGble, where
he has every Convenience for that Purpose. Those
who pleale to favour him with their Cuftom/may de
pend on being served wih the greatest Fidelity and Care
by their humble Servant, HENRY M'CORMICK '
N. B HORSES and CHAIRS to be LET at the
above Place. June 17.
WANT E-D;A
Sober, Careful Person, capable
of attending a Young Child, and who can be well re
commended. Any one so qualified will meet with good
encouragement. Apply to the Printer. June it.
G^^WK*:****^^^^©
Wanted to purchase, a Quantity
of ASH TIMBER, both PLANK and in LOGS. Any
perlon having such to difpefe of will please to apply to
GEORGE WAV, Coach maker, in Arch-street, be
tween Fourth and Fifth-ftreets, Philadelphia.
Na B. A good Price will he given for fuel Timber
between this and the firft of November next. July 15
*** The SALE of Mr. Hemings's Plantation in
Paffyunk, advertised in our late Papers, to have been
on Wednesday Evening the 17th instant, is poftponel
till Wedaelday Evening next, at the Coffee house, at
7 o'clock.
An elegant CASE of
Mathematical Instruments,
To be SOL Dby the PRINTER.
TO EE SOLD,
A smart, adive, NEGRsJE BOY, about
twelve years of age. Enquire of CLE
MEN I' >MITH, at the city Work-house.
TO BE SOL D,
The Hull of a Ship now building
in the state of New Hrm,fhi;e (iv the tame builders
and ihr fame moulds of the foip Alexander, which was
formerly owned by M If s. Meafe and Cald well, and
others) Ni ety feet by the keei, thirty Let beam, ard
thrite-R fret hold. She may be launched in the month
of oaober next. - For further particulars enquire of
thr Printer. July i 5.
To BE SOL D,
Two framed Stables, that may
be conor^d to Dweding Houf s, one aor,ut 30 feet
long by >6 wide, h- other aoout 23 set lono and 20
fert wide F^r iurth^ mrtirula^, Erquie of SAMU
EL PRESTON M ORE, in Third Sheet, between
Market and Aith-Sueut.
Frederick-Town, Maryland, July 8, 1782.
Agreeable to the proclamation of his excellency the
governor, the birth of the Dauphin, was celebrated
here on the zgth ult. A considerable number of the
most refpeCtable inhabitants collected and dined toge
ther under the large oaks near the town. After dinne:
the following toasts were drank, viz.
Long life, happiness and honour to the Dauphin.
The United States in Congress assembled.
His Most Christian Majesty.
General Washington and the northern army.
Count de Rochambeau and the French army.
General Greene and the Southern army.
The State of Maryland.
Count de Graffe.
The allied fleets.
The friendly powers of Europe.
The chavalier de la Luzerne.
Perpetual duration to the alliance with France.
Common Sense.
May the independence of America, give freedom,'
peace and happiness to all mankind.
At four o'clock the militia of the town were para
ded, and kept up a running fire till sunset, and in the
evening there was an elegant ball in the town-hall. The
greatest cheerfalnefs and good order prevailed through
out the day and lively sensations of joy were expressed
in every countenance.
Wanted, a Wet Nurse with a
good Beast of Milk, who has been used to take car 3
of Children, can be well recommended^ and is willing
to travel to the Southward, Apply to tne Printer. °
July 17.