Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1777-02-18 00:00:00, page 1

VOL. Vl.'' NUM B. 275.
D UN L A P's 4
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G F i N FI A ADVERTISER.
The IMPARTIAL CHRONICLE, or the
INFALLIBLE INTELLIGENCER;
upon the p'an, anJ after the winner of, the Nkw-
York MERCURY.
LONDO N, S^. %5 .
WE can assure the public from the most authentic
intelligence, that however the ribis in Arne
rica m^y flatter tbemfelves with the hopes cf
starving the British manufa&urers by the pefeut diLoa
finuance of their commerce witn the mother country,
the artifice rs in woollens were never mo're fully employ
ed. Wnat has occasioned so great a demand for cloths
cf all kinds, is, the immense quantities conflantlv export
ed to the inlands of Sumatra ©.nd Borneo ; the inhabitants
of which are determined to diets only in British woollens,
during the Continuance of the ptefeht Unnatural arid
horrid rebellion.
' &L 25. We are informed by a letter from Barbados
to a me chant in this city, that to encourage the English
mannlaaories in iron and brass, bis H rf ofe alone may
soon expect orders from the Welt-India Hlinds, for ten
thbuUnd iron doves, and fifteen thuuiahd warming pans.
ON. 28. We learn by am Indianan loaded with tea,
that the Emberof of Indofan has cftred his Majesty five
hundred Elephants out of has own Cables, to affitt him
in fuym^ffing the rebellion in the Colonies; but from
t'v/d.fficuky of tubfidihg these animals in America, his
Majesty has very politely declined the gentry us,offer;
aad a tplendid erhally will be dispatched to De hi with
the thanks of the British Court to the Great Mogul, tor
bis imperial munificence; And fraternal affection towards
his brother of Britain.—To improve the piefent amica
ble difpolitioh of 10 phiflant an aPy; to the lading na
tional erajhimeat, it was moved in Council to address
b< bhjrdy, to propose a match between the Prince of
■Wales arid the Emperor's eldest daughter; but one of
the member?, obfeiring that the Mogul could not, in his
^pihrori, tlofe with the overture chiefs h„ Royal High
n&hftibiaitted to circhdrcition; the motion wds with
idia+n:
Copenhagen, Jul) 4. The King of Denmark has i&iu
ally Stipulated Witn his Majesty, to fuanth h m by the
middle of April next, for toe service in America, with
4006 Laplanders, who are to be emuloyrd in winter,
(vuen the deep snows render the fgl t hefrfe nfelef)in
jeounng the country and 'conveying au'patchU i- beds
drawn by rein deer; two a-breast.
Ifaban, April %. Weh^ar that the Emperor of Petfs,
dh ttte earned loltcitarion of the Court nf London, is to
fetid hekt fumb^r into America, 3500 or Kora%an Archer §,
-who b&v&bWi trained up id the ancient Partisan mait
net of fighiirig, by discharging their arrows hpm their
hdrfA as tney lire galloping off trout their puifuers. A
mode of drinbying trie enemy which bis Majesty's light
borfe may adopt to great advantage, as the rebels he
quefid,cbm,^l then! to rightin that attitude, or not at all.
As the rebels availthemfeives of woods and forces
whenever they can, A&ndqdtralion is determined to dd
patch to America, before the opening of the next cam
paign, 7000 Ax-men, to cut down all the forces from
Georgia to TicoMc&ogu, from the tea cUall 800 mile, weft
into the country.
It was currently reported left week that th? King and
Qjeen were both with child; but upon a ftrft infpeai
vu into the matter by a jury of matrons, of which his
Grace the Archodhop of Canterbury was foreman, it was
sou9d to be true only with re(pe& to her Majesty ; and
as to out rood gracious Sovereign, the detettable fallen
hood is difeovered to have been invented by the more
artful, arid greedily (wallowed by the weaker and more
©ethdotis abettors of the American rebellion, who fond
h wished his molt sacred perlon pregnant, and undoubt
edly with twins, from the malicious hopes of his expiring
in childbed.
As the British navy will always be an over-match for
any flaet the rebels will be able to equip § but can, on
their prefect cunftruttion, be of no use in the American
war, alter having ruined their trade and laid all their
tea-port towns in allies, a model has been presented to
the Board of Admiralty bv Sir Humphry Mariterfe^us,
for enabling any of bis Majesty's hops, under the bur
den of a firlt rate, by the means of wheels and pullies,
aud some internal mechanism (which the projector does
not enufe holy to explain till further encouragment) to
pursue the rebels on terra-firma, and to carry the Biitifh
pavai thunder into the remoceft defarts of America. Sir
Humphry infixed upon it to the Board, and they unani
nioully admitted the force of his observation, that how
ever the rebel fortifications might otherwise damage
these newconftru&ed veff-ls, as they passed them in
their pregrefs through the country, it would be impossi
ble for the art of man to link them.
It is whimpered at the court end of the town, that the
Enpercr of Japan i- .ends to lend his Majesty 12,000 of
hu most veteran troops, who, to save tne expence of a
circuitous voyage, aeto be landed on California; and
after having defobted the western frontiers of the Conti
nent, with tne affi.hr,ve of as many of the savages resid
ing between the South Sea and the river Onto as can be
pUcured fox that purport; they arc to form a jjn&iva
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1777.
The molt gracious SPEECH of his imperial Majesty
the Emperor of LiLLiPUY.
Yly Lord's and Gentlemen,
I SHOULD be as merry as a cricket were I able to
tell you I had been as good as my word, that the gladia
tors I had lent to qued the rioters, had brought them
upon their marrow-nones. But though 1 had perluaded
myfelf that it was only a little rumpus, which a couple
of regiments could have drubbed into ^uut, they are
now grown lo defpate'iy impudent, and iv absolutely at
the beck of their Jack Strains and Bat fflers, that they
positively Swear they will, for the future; darn their own
itockings; add mkketheirbwn fhe'es and pertiwigs, with
out laying out a tingle groat in atiy of our ware-houses.
Ndy, th'ey have contemptuoully rejected our gracious
orders of (bending their money for them, without giving
them the trouble of doing it. They have moreoverhad
the infoience to revive an antedated pretence that when
Kings violate the fundamentals of the conitnution, as
they call it, their (objects have a right to, refill them ;
and talk a deal about the Lord knows what 3 of corona
tion oath)-, and mutual compadf?; of which in all my
educatich my noble preceptor never mentioned a fyliable.
A do&rine which, however attended with good luck to
myielf, refpe&ing a former resolution, Is at pt efent, and
opcht tor ever hereafter, to be deemed the very quin
tessence of treason and rebellion. Su<h treason, that it
it (Would go on, would gather like a Tow-bail ; endan
ger the bankruptcy of every chapman in Littiput ; (hake
my throne from top to bottom, and hiake tue whole ter
raquebus globe ikip like a lamp-lighter; One great ad
vantage, however, will be derived from this avowed
running away from their old mdter. it is this. I re
member many of you thought last year that I was ffioved
by the initiation of the Devil for feiidmg fire and fag
got amongtt thole insurgents; and pretended confeience
foffooth, for not douting the ready rhino towards the
expediton. But since those miscreants have how let up
for themselves; it is evident that they interfiled it fifty
years ago ; and it being come to this pah, that either
cur trade must be ruined, or they be made to knock un
der, Iluppofe we Snail be pot and kan in the general con
viction, that the kingdom cannot be Supported by keep
ing clear consciences and iofing our traffic, stock and
block.
I am happy to inform you that by the strength of good
beef and pork, and the vivacity of four crout, I have
once more a chance of establishing Popery and arbitrary
power in Can. And although from some crols accidents
my General could not come to loggerheads with the city
of Manhat till the month of Augulb becaule he landed,
on his arrival in June, with nine thousand troops, and
the enemy had then but about fix thousand, which would
have occalioned our arms to be victorious without ho
nour ; yet our success in that capital, when the rebels
thought it not worth defending, has crowned our ban
ners with immortal glory, and been so decisive as to give
the ftrongert hopes of their Speedily coming in cap in
hand. Not, Gentlemen, that we have already dispersed
the mob ; for that, upon my word, will cost us another
year's bloody notes. But then all my neighbours swear
they will hand by me, and box it out knee deep in mire
and dirt before they will fee me knock'd down by the
rebels ; and my old crony, 'Squire Bourbon, in particu
lar, who you know has, from time immemorial, taken
our family's part in all their quarrels, protests he will
never leave me in the lurch.
with the Britijb troops at New-York. The Emperor, it
is said, is confident of being more fuccetsfhl iu procuring
thole tribes of Indians to follow his standard than Ad
ministration hath hiherto been on the part of Britain ;
as he will undertake to convince thefri, that their ances
tors having emigrated from Japan, they owe him the
fame allegiance add fubje&joh which the African rebels
doto his molt gracious Majesty.
The British Ministry, ever attentive tb the national
weal; and totally diverted of all felf-intereftcd motives,
or the least thoo^hts of providing for their families or
connexions from,the emo umerits of this unn^tuihl war ;
but solely and inflexibly bent on enabling his Mayeity to
triumph over all, rebellions ((live only lucli ^s may be ex
cised in North Britain, and seriously confideririg that
frond the amazing extent of the Continent of America,
the severity of the winter in the northern, and the exces
sive heat of Summer in the feutbero parts, mbit be fatal
to troops ^ho have beep bred in the temperate climes of
Europe, aie determined to fuimount that inconvenience,
by the following fagatious expedient— They intend to
employ I^,ooo Moers trem tne coast of 'Barbara to act
from Augujd/e as far north #8 Neu-ferfo; and +7°o
'Eftimatf, from Nudfoh's Bay, to act froth Ne<w-Ha%,bire
to the inert foutheln limits bf the province of N#w
r^h.
The molt gracious SPEECH of his imperial Majesty
I am now employed in fettling an arbitration between
two old friends who had like to have come to handy-cuffs,
and hope soon to fee all the country round me in peace
and jollity. I think, nevertheless, considering promises
as pye-crufts, that it behoves us to look to ourown clubs
and toledoes at home. For! rem mber into what a wo
ful floftration we were thrown by Le Chevalier Woud be,
when he rushed upon as from the mountains hks a
whirligig, and made us want new linings to our breeches;
and had he come ibait forward pell mell, instead of
Spending his time in kissing Jenny Cameron, he had not
left a mother's fori of ^$ to tell the Story.
Gentlemen of the 'tower Parlour,
I will lay the reckoning for next frear before vou : and
in fi tiling the club, don't be fqu^amrtb if it runs htehtr
than you expelled. No mortal creature can guess what
it colts to quell such execrable riots. I doubt nos, how
ever, but my faithful the public pane keepers will cheer
fully vote the caffi, as yourselves, your families and
dependents; will pocket the better half.
; My Lords and GehtlemOtt,
In tnis bloody Squabble 1 can have no earthly view in
the world but to lave the eftuhon of blood. No beopte
under the fun ever eat more beef or drank more cyder
or took more liberty to eat and drink it when they phaSed'
than those Seditious blanket men; Their Spreading their
own bread and butter declares it. Their getting chil
dren by natural copulation evinces it. Their being pad
for the work they do attests it. And their proneneis to
fight like punk, whenever you attempt to (teal their
victuals, or to tie them neck and heels, are as clear
proofs of it; as that three blue beans are equal in number
to three white ones. My detire is only to restore them
to the old conftitutiob of eating arid drinking and Sleep
ing and I according to my inftra&ions ^ and to de2
liver them from despotic ringleaders of their own ebuA
ing, into your gracious hahds, tu bind them in all cafo
whatfoevcr.
. Naples, Nov. 1. They write bora Venice, that the
British Ambatfador has represented to the Republic that
notwithstanding the numerous and formidable fleet white,
his Majesty employed the last year on rhe coast of so.
ftca, to interrupt the trade of the rebels ; they have ne
vertheless been able; by the means cf (heals, creeks ard
inlets, wherewith that Continent abounds, to elude the
vigilance and a^ivity of ourguarda.coftaj•, and therefore
requesting of that serene State; the loan oftwo hundred
anti fifty gondolas, which the Republic has chearfub,
granted ; arid the fleet is to be commanded by the Dore
in perlon.°
London, 0^.13. Last Thursday Arrived in town
with a very Iplendid and pompous retinue, and yefterd^w
morning had an audience with his Majesty, his Excel
lency Muli Mahomet, Envoy Extraordinary from the
Ottoman Court. Alter the ceremonies were over le
produced to his Majesty the ftreiigeft assurances from tire
Grand Seignior, that he wished his Majesty a complex
victory over his revolted fubj.&s ; and after this life, the
immortal . joys of Faradiie. He then represented, that
his fublirhe and invincible matter, the top cf whole
throne reaches to the Heavens, would have offered his
Majesty an army of Muffelmen to scatter the rebels as the
dun of the earth; but that the Empire of the Faithful
having lately been considerably drained in the war with
B^a, the lublime Porte had devised another expedient:
to alnit his Majesty in triumphing over his clamorous
(laves, and to compel them to lick up the dust at the foot
his imperial throne. To repair the write of hi#
Majesty s Britift lubje&s in this horrible rebellion
which the common mode of procreation usually pra&ifed
in England was by no means adequate, his august and,
victorious Sovereign, at the lifting cf whole labre the
whole world trembles, had commissioned him to offer hig
Majesty to present each member or the two Houses of
Parliament, with five Cirtaffan virgins cf the most ex
quilite beauty, and his Majesty himfelf with a (core off
tne like amiable blooming breeders. It is generally fc
heved that this delicious present, f. f ar as it refbedts the
Lords and Commons, will be gratefully accepted; but as to
the latter part, it is whispered about that our mofi gracious
Qteen cannot be Jully convinced of the necessity of the met
Jure.
LIST of the Forces with which his Majesty intends
to open the next year's campaign in America.
British troops now in America - _
Hessians - - .
Bruniwitkers - - .
Of Hannault - - _ ,'
Waldeckers - - -
Ax-men - - . .
Negroes - - . 8
lories - - _ _
Light Horse - - _ a
To be reinforced by foreign auxiliaries.
Laplanders - - . o
Peifian Aichers - - .
{;p^ efe . . . ^
hlkamaux - - -
, fla " 200< ,
landours - . . _
Croats - - - - 150.
„ Total 91670
With this terrific and horrendous armament, in con
junction with a most tremendous and irrefiltible fleet, his
Majesty is resolved to terminate this unnatural war the
next lummer, as it will be impoflible for the rebels to
bring an equal number into the field. His Majesty has
allo the strongest affuranecs that France will co-efet are