The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-11-21 00:00:00, page 3

It is expended that the fleet of observation will not
be collected at Spithead, till feme days after the arri
val of the grand fleet in the Streights of Gibraltar,
when, if in the opinion of the other flag officers, his
absence can be conveniently and fafely difpnfd with,
admiral Milbank will return to take the command of
the fame.
Sept. 26. The resignation of the firfl lord of the ad
miralty i s now spoken of as an event that will certain
ly take place in a short time and that lord Rodney
will succeed to that very important office.
If governor Franklin is properly attended to by the
ministers, he can lay such a date of American poli
tics open, as will induce our rulers to prosecute with
vigour the American war, rather than pursue the pu
sillanimous system, seemingly adopted for withdrawing
our armies, and granting independence to the thirteen
united colonies-
Mr. Laurens, we underfland, is not returned to
England with any powersto treat or falk about peace,
he having resigned the appointment as one of the five
commissioners empowered by congress to treat for
peace in Europe. It appears that Mr. Laurens, find
ing it inconvenient to get from France, applied to the
minifiry here to allow him a conveyance to America,
which was granted him ; and it is said there will be a
vessel purposely appointed to^arry him to Charleftown,
whence we are told he means shortly to embark.
A gentleman of the Smyrna offered to take an hun
dred guineas to return a thaufand, if the combined
fleet opposed lord Howe in his passage to Gibraltar.
It has been reported that a new plan has been adopt
ed for carrying on the American war. It is said to
be thus, that we are to withdraw our troops from the
continent, at the request of the loyahfts ; that they
are to be left with full liberty to recover their own
rights; and that we are only to assist them with such
(hipping as may be deemed necessary, and to fureifh
ammunition and other implements of war. This,
however odd it may appear at firft fight, is thought
by no means impracticable ; there being 16,000 of these
men already, and upwards of as many more ready to
join them. General Arnold is talked of as tne com
mander of the new army.
Last Friday a council was held, when it was deter
mined to prepare a commission to be sent under the
great seal of Great-Britain, to fir Guy Carleton and
admiral Digby, giving them full powers to ad towards
concluding peace with America, on the footing of in
dependence ; or with separate provinces, or different
bodies of men ; which commiflion was sent to the lord
chancellor, and returnee last night to town, and will
be forwarded to New-York with the utmost dispatch.
The proposition for granting independence to Ame
rica in limine, previous to any treaty with France,
was an ad of the Rockingham administration. It is
a question whether Mr. Fitzherbert has the fame in
ftru&ions with Mr. Grenville, as the great cau'e which
was given for the splitting of the late administration,
was a cabinet difeu ffion relative to making this inde
pendence conditionally or unconditionally, the basis
of a treaty.
We are assured that the loyaliftsare, by the above in
flruflions, not to be given up to the power of congress,
but if not reinstated in their farmer possessions, will be
treated with as a separate body and supported in
their pretensions, so that frefh obflacles may hill a
ri'e to the much and long wished for accommodation.
There are 230 fail of merchant ships now upon the
seas from Jamaica.
Advice is received from the north, that a fleet of
Dutch men of war was hovering about those seas, and
making soundings, which had greatly alarmed the
people; for they apprehend they had some design to
make a descent on some parts of the coast, and there
fore the inhabitants have drove off their cattle into tne
interior parts of the country.
In the divided date which the French fleet is in at
present on the coasts of America, there is every rea
son to hope admiral Hood, who has at lead a majority
often (hips of the line, may atchieve something as glo-
tentims it is well known, were to put to sea as soon
as lord Howe had cleared the Channel.
We give the public the following account upon the
credit of a gentleman of known veracity: When the
Royal George overfet, the live flock u;on deck were
naturally left floating on the water ; among these were
two sheep, wo (warn toßyde, in the Ifleof Wight, and
brought on tHore a little boy in petticoats, seemingly
between two and three years old, having an arm ov-r
each of their necks The child is likely to do well,
and having loft both its parents in that unhappy cata
firophe, a naval officer who was present, intimated an
intention of adopting it.
Upwards of 450 fail of merchantment are expected
home under the different convoys, that in all probabi
lity will arrive in the course of three weeks, viz.
200 from Jamaica,
210 from E'.finore, and
40 from the Leeward Islands.
The sailors on board the above fllips will enable go
vernment to man the following men of war, which are
now equipping with the greatefi dispatch, viz.
Gra ton, 74 guns; Albon, 74; Triumph, 74; Eli
zabeth 74: P-gafe, 74; Bombay Cadle, 74; Tri 'ent,
64; Belleifi , 64; Europe, 64 ; Cato, 58; S.lifbury,
50; Frincefs Carolina, 50.
If the Jamaica fleet, which is shortly expelled,
should approach our coart before the return of lord
Howe, there is great reason to apprehend they may
fall into tiie hands of the Dutch, notwithstanding the
very firong convoy which accompanies them to Europe.
It should seem that administration have reason to
expert a very ftreouous opposition to the attempt for
the relief of Gibraltar: otherwise they would hardly
fend thither so immense a fleet, under five of the best
admirals in the navy.
A gentleman who arrived in town on Thursday
from Portsmouth lays, that he was quite charmed
with rhe fight of feeing the whole fleet under fail; the
joy teat appeared in all the sailors was expressed by
loud acclamations of the crews of every ship, whilfl
the shore was crouded with people to fee them set
fail.
DUBLI N,
Sept. 12. 1 he delegates of the central division of the
volunteer corps of Connaught, who met at Tuam the
29th ulr. having unaaimoufly resolved, in terms most
unequivocal, to unite in and support a demand on Eng
land, to renounce every diftin&ion of claim to bind
Ireland, gives the gafpi g simple repealifts another cru
el blow. Will the simple repeal advocates never be
convinced, tiiat a fprit is roused in the nation for the
obtainment and security of fubflantial freedom ? Or do
they imagine the many determined thousands in their
country's cause will be induced, from the dupifying
fermoas preached by that virtuous and confident cha
rafler Charles Secretary Kimbolton, to relinquish the
only ground on which their nation's rights can be firm
ly and fafely established.
Though the numerous resolutions which have alrea
dy appeared from volunteers in many parts of the
kingdom, are fufficient to convince government, that
the people of Ireland will not be content with the flim
fy security of a simple repeal; yet as November will
speedily arrive, to which many other refpe&able as
(emblies of volunteer delegates bad postponed their fi
nal declarations on the fubj^a, in order to give time
to administration to allay the rising difontents, the
determinations of that month will probably fully eff &
the bufinefs.—lt is hoped and imagined, however, that
terms of perfect fatisfa&ion will bless the opening of
the Temple adminiflration.
Before the last packet failed from New-York, the
congress's answer to general Carleton's proposition for
peace on the terms of independence, conditionally,
that the refugees and loyalists should be teinftated in
their property, had reached New York, though they
were not publickly known ; their high mjghtineffes
had refolded, that the British propofifons w-re insidi
ous and inadmissible, that they would not treat till
the army was withdrawn, and that reference mull be
made to each particular date with regard to the fu
ture admission or banifliment of the refugees.
It was remarked at Portsmouth, that when lord
Howe failed, the mol lextraordinary care was taken of
all the convoys, and the mus? prudent difpofi ions made
for th ir security that any commander in chief ever
made before; but whether this prudential fitting off
does not argue a spirit of discipline, rather than one
of enterprise, we leave better judges to determine.
The Baltic fleet is valued at upwards of a million
flerling.
When aJI the ships which have failed from the different
French ports shall nave arrived at Cadiz, the combined
fleet will coofif iof 42 fail, among which there are four
three deckers.
Tne Pylades brig, now fitting at Deptf6rd, is going
with an express to New-York ; she was one of captain
Macbride's Dutch prizes, and is esteemed one of the
compleateß sailors ever known.
Anecdote of Mr. Flood-—After the late review at
Bel aft, he was accompanied to Donaghadee, in his
way to England by caplin Waddel Cunningham.—The
captain, .with an honefl bluntness, fuggefled to his
friend, Mr. Flood, tat possibly before he returned to
Ireland he would be offered a pofi under government.
Mr Flood's answer was as follows:—'' Perhaps his
majefly may think my ftrvices worthy preferment ;
but take notice, captain Cunningham, if ever I accept
any poll or place under government, otherwise than on
the express condition of my country's rights being
eftabihhed on the unequivocal security of England's re
nunciation of ail claim to bind u , or on an Irish bill
of rights, proclaim me a villain, and kick me wherever
you meet me."
Septem ber 17.
FENCIELE NEW S.
This day advertisements were polled in all the pub
lie places of the city, for Leinfler v lunteers. alias for
recruits for a new fencible regiment, to be command
ed by colonel Talbot, colonel of the Uppercrofs and
Coolock volunteers, who is determined to serve the
cause of difintcrefttd patriotism in a mercenary coat,
compounded of red and green. All volunteers who
have served their country grabs for these four years,
and who are now ready and willing to desert the fland
ard of honour and true glory, are desired to apply to
captain Heath, No. 52, Barrack street.
Philadelphia, Nov. 21.
A correspondent observes upon the late news from
Teneriffe, that the diQance between Gibraltar and Paris
is near rooo miles, and that if ten days be allowed tor
expresses to carry the news of the surrender of tee for
mer, fixed to have happened the 17th September last,
it might be known at the residence of his mon cbrif
tian majesty the 28th —ln case the post went out the
fame evening for I'Orient, it would in course reach
that place the 3d of Oftober. There is therefore no
reason to rejeft the account from Teneriffe, because
we have it not by the Alexander, arrived at Boston
from I'Orient, as file failed the 2d October. By the
European prints it appears, that an express who was
When this paper went to press the people at the caf
tie were waiting anxiously every moment for the guns
at the Pidgeon-houfe, announcing the arrival in the
bay of earl Temple. Tile members of the privy coun
cil nave all been served with notices to assemble in the
council chamber, as soon as the guns fire ; they are in
that place to receive the new lord lieutenant, and af
ter^rds adjourn to the park, where he will be fwern
in before the duke of Portland.—The adjournment is
rather unprecedented in the annals of the castle histori
ans, but occafi ned by the indisposition of the duke of
Portland, which renders it uufafe for him to quit his
room.
rious and decided as happened on the 12th of April.
Thirteen fail of the line, one fifty and five frigates of
the French fleet, were certainly off Cape-Henry the
last of July ; a few other ships of the fame fleet cer
tainly fleered for Boston soon after their departure
from Cape Francois; and it was said in New York,
when the last packet failed, that three or four were
cruizing near Newfoundland.
#*„ Fer the bill to flay and prevent suits being
brought against sundry public officers, &c. fee the
last page.
For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
IH re fevers! times been in company where the fub
ja-of tavern l ; cenfes, and other matters of that fart
were much tasked of, but no one could give rny exaft
account of the matter. Some Lid the tavern licenses a
mounted to several thousand pound, a year, some said
one thing and some another. But in general it wasfaid,
there had not been a single farthing of tavern license
money paid into the public treasury (at least for a con
siderable part of the five) since the revolution commen
ced, but hit the money had been engrossed and embez
zled. It would be of great fatisfa&on to the public,
whose right it is, to know how the matter ffands; be
ciufe a variety of fufpi.ions are daily getting abroad, ' and
thu reput tion of government is nicely concerned there
in, the circumstance h poening within their own dome
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TO BE SO L j);
A Healthy, likely, NEGRO MAN, about 32 years
o of age, has been brought up as a gentieroan's
waiting man ; is very orderly and well b haved, fob+c
and capable of doing almost every kind of houe work,
^e would be very uleful to a gentleman who %^cs , 4
travel. Fur further particular# enquite of the P^ufor,
was dispatched upon the arrival of the count d'Artoh
(brother of the king of France) at Madrid, reached
Paris in fix days, diflance near 700 miles. Gibraltar
is about 300 miles from Madrid.
Extrad of a letter, dated Boston November 6.
" A Mr. Burgess, lately a merchant ir, London and
connected with a considerable house there, arrived here
in the last vessel from Holland. He declared he had
no connexion at present with any mercantile house in
Britain ; tuat he had spent some time in Holland, and
that his view in coming to Boston was to be a citizen
of this commonwealth, the constitution of which he
admired ; that he was ready to take the oath of fide
lity to the government, and accordingly he presented
himfelf to the governor and council for that purpose-
It was fufpe&ed however that the British trade might
receive advantage from his admission among us ; and
that to receive him at this time would be improper
and dangerous, and open a door through which many
political evils might enter. As the general assembly
was fitting, the governor and council thought proper
to refer Mr. Burgess to them. He accordingly present
ed a petition to the assembly. The house of reprefen.
tatives took so much notice of the petition as to chufe
a committee, to be joined with one from the fenate/to
confider the matter and report to the court. The se
nate noo-concurred this vote of the house, and were
for dismissing the petition. Mr. Burgess appeared to
design a renewal of the application for his admission a
mong us when the resolve of congress of Oftober 4th
was received b-re, which put an end to his hopes arid
he returns to Europe."
AMOBBE 1?r.
LAST FRIDAY evening the HOUSE of the fuh„
fcnher, about a mile above K r.fington, w;s rob
reri b v a company of armed men, of the fellow,
ing ARTICLES vz. A fine gold watch, chafed, cap
ped and j-weled, maker's name Thomas Wagft^fF,
London, No. 6623, the chafing repretenta Abraham;
servant and Rebecca meeting at the well, with the ca
mb, pitcher, &c. had a fteti hock and chain ; a flrait
bodied fiver pint mug, hammered foot and handle, with
the Hall and Tower stamp (old plate ; ) a silver taH*
spoon, stamped W. Gilbert, New- York, marked IE M
B
in a cypher ; one ditto, marked T E; fix silver tea
fpons; several pair of buckles, a light handy gun
marked on the butt Z D. several remnants of fine hol!
land, linens, some mtn and womens cloathirg, and
light articles of value, also about thirty crowns aid
dollars in specie. Their commander or captain was a
white man, about 5 feet 8 inches high, thin v ; fag%
short brown hair, and wore a blue coating great celt'
arid white vest ; another was a yellow negro or mulatto'
flout and well set, wore a blue jacket and trowfers - a
nother was a black, big negro, with a blue j cket 'and
trowfers ; some others were white, but avoided being
much seen. Whoever apprehends the THIEVES
that they be brought to justice, shall have FIFTY
DOLLARS REWARD, and FIFTY more f (r the
Goods, or in proportion for any part, paid by
WILLIAM BALL.
Philadelphia, November 18, 1782.