The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-06-04 00:00:00, page 3

RICHMOND, (Virginia,) May 25.
By an,officer who left the southern army the 28th ulf.
we have the f llowing account of an attempt to fur
prize general Greene's camp.
Captain Pendleton obtained a flag with a view to mi
tigate the severity of the imprisonment of his brother,
Henry Pendleton, esquire chief judge of< Sauth-Caro
l^a, who had lately been taken by the enemy, and up
on his return flopped at a gen leman s house, where his
servant exchanged saddles, mounted the captain's
horse with his portmanteau, and went into Charleftown.
Captain Pendleton sent in a flag, requeuing his servant,
horse and portmanteau, to which request he was inform
ed, the horse and portmanteau he might have, by fend
ing for ; but the servant having claimed their protec
tion could not be delivered up. Upon which,' he sent
a ferjeant Peters of the Maryland line (who was gene
ral Greene's cook) whom they bribed to corrupt the
ferjeants and m<n of general Greene's army; for which
purpose a considerable fu m of money was advanced him.
Upon his return to general Greene's camp, he made fe
deral overt! res, and finding himfelf fuccefsful, he went
twice to Charleftown, or the Quarter-house, for money,
&c. and returned in the morning, early enough to pass
unnoticed. In the last of these excursions be finally fet
tled the plan with the enemy. The ferjeants of the ar
my who were concerned with him, were to secure all
the officers at a certain hour, and fire a gun as a signal.
One hundred and fifty of the enemy's horse were at the
fame time to be wit dh one mile,of our camp, and up
on that signal were to rush in and take possession of the
officers while the ferjeants marched the army where they
were desired. Thus, was every matter finally fettled
with the enemy.
The next night ferjeant Peters had the conspirators
gathered together, to fall upon the necessary measure
to put the plan into execution. Fortunately, one of
the ferjeant's wives, who fufpe&ed fome,thing was go
ing forward, curiosity prompt her to follow them and
listen, by which means she difeovered the whole plan
and communicated it to general Greene next morning;
upon which the ferjeants and principal conspirators
were apprehended ; but refufed to enter into a full ac
knowledgment, until after the party of 150 cavalry of
the enemy (who had remained all night waiting for
the signal, within a few hundred yards of our pickets)
had made their escape next morning, which was in
consequence of their not hearing the signal. Peters
had previously pointed out the way, by which they
were enabled to get so near the picket.
HARTFOR D, May 28.
We hear from Afhford, that on the 29th of November
la ft, the wife of Mr. Ebenezer Smith of that place was
fafely delivered of three promiffing sons ; and that lad
Tuesday they were chridened by the names of Wash
ington, Trumbull and Greene. As the parent are in
n*edy circumstances, it is hoped that the hearts of a
fufficieut number will be opened to afford these young
gentlemen a decent fuppoet, especially as they are
sprightly in perfect health, and bid fair to make a
figure in the world provided they have permiffon to
continue in it.
dated May 11..
“ Last Thursday a scouting party from Canada,
having comedown as far as Arlington, was diftover
ed by a lieutenant Blanchard, who they made a prison
er, upon which retreating they made another man pri
soner in Mancheftor : on their route towards Canada
the latter made his efcape,and gave information, upon
which a number of the inhabitants immediately pursu
ed, overtook and mad- prisoners of me whole party,
14 in number, and they are, now confined in this town.
This is the second lurking party taken this spring"
A vessel is arrived at Cape Ann in a fbort passage
from Martinico. We learn that a French gentleman
of diftinftion has received a letter by her, dated at
Martinico the 23d ult. (five days after the latest ac
count from thence under the Refton head) advising
that in the late naval a&ion between the French and
British, only one ship was loft on each fide; that the
Glorieup twas burnt by the French, aft<r having been
towed two days; that the count de Graffe had order
ed an 84 gut ship, lying at Martinico, to join him;
and that 21 of the French ships that were in the aGiod
were fit for immediate service.
B O S T O X, May 20.
Saturday lafl arrived at Salem, a fhallop, from Cape
POrfu, With 35 hands, late belonging to a privateer of
joguna from alem, which was drove on (hore at Seal
ill aid by toe Buckram privateer of Halifax. By some
of theie people we learn, that the Blond frigate of 36
guns, from Halifax,which lately captured the mast fllip,
had been driven on shore there and entirely loft, and
that they left the crew there with only about thr^e days
provisions. #
May 2% Since our last arrived here the continental
Frigate Deane, commanded by Samuel Nicholson,
enquire, who, in a short cruize of about 9 weeks, has
captured the following vessels, viz. The fllip Mary,
from England to the Weft-Indies, valued at 50001. ster
ling, ordered to Cape Francois; the armed schooner
Jackall, of 14 guns, bound from Jamaica to Barbadoes
(on express) fate arrived : the bromine Swallow, a
privateer of 16 guns, from Bermudas, burnt at Marfh
tield by a British man of war ; recaptured the brigan
tine Elizabeth, from North-Caroline, a prize to the
Swallow; th^ ship Regulator, of 18 guns, a new pri
vateer b longing to Bermudas, fafe arrived. Being
full of prisoners and a violent fever prevailing, most of
the officers on board prizes and the fllipdifabled in her
spars, she was obliged to return into port.
Sunday last arrived here a packet, in 39 days from
France, wi h dispatches for Congress, which were im
mediately sent forward. Nothing has ytt transpired,
excepting that greater preparations are making by
France for a vigorous, early and decisive campaign this
year, than has yet taken place since the commencement
of hofti'ities.
PROVIDENC E, May 18.
Extras of a letter from a gentleman at Bennington,
in the date of Vermont, to his friend in this town,
A ferjeant of the Pennsylvania line(who was at the
Captain Quigley, in a, small boat, with three men,
left Elizabeth-tovyn on Wednesday evening, the 22d ult.
and, after landing on Staten-Island,. and carrying
their boat acr fs it (near four miles,) about two o'clock
the next morning, in fight of a 20 gun ship and a fort
on the island, boarded and took a brig, laying at an
chor, bound to Halifax, laden with salt, pepper, to
bacco, China, queen's ware, &c. After securing three
people (all on board) and cutting her cable, they
brought her off and conducted her into Egg-harbour,
where she will be fold, together with her cargo,
this day. This prize is said to be worth near four thou-.
sand pounds.
The enterprizing captain Hy"ar, has also, within
ten days past, taken four veheri near New-York; one
of which was afterwards retaken, and the <th<r three
drove on shore and fifipped, as the captors found
it impracticable to bring them off.<
Captain Hand, id the armed boat Enterprise,' of
Cape May, in company with another boat, cominan : -
ed by captain Willets, on the sth ult. chafed ashore,
near Egg-harbour, the refugee boat Old Ranger, mount
ing (even swivels and one three pounder, and command
ed by one I ryan, with twenty-five m^n, bound to the
capes cf Delaware, and up the fame as far as Curifti
ana, with orders to take prisoners who they pleased.
They afterwards fell in with and took a schooner lo d
ed with corn, commanded by one Miller, on a trading
voyage from Virginia to New York ; and on the 18th
of May they fell in with and took a schooner laden
with lumber, commanded by one Shaw, supposed also
fog New York. ',
The following is an extract of a letter from a gentle
man in South-Carolina, to his friend now in this city,
brother of the late Mr John Lining, who was mod
barbarously murdered near Charleflown, dated
May 18, 1782.
" In all my letters to you I ha-ve been ever care
ful to inform you of the declining state of your bro
ther's hea th, however disagreeable the neceflity of con
veying bad news ; but as i knew how deservedly you
had placed your flrorigeft affections on this brother,'
who, in fact, was as du yful a son—as affectionate a
hufoand —as tender a father—as good a master arid as
warm a friend as ever lived —I conceives,it my duty
gradually to prepare you for tie loss of fucn an one..
To keep you no longer in fufpence—le is no more!
Happy would I be if I could, here stop.—His natural
life could have been spun out buta feA months longer—
but, unfortunately for him, he was floated too near
to Charleftown. Two ruffians, fitted for ti e executi
on of such a deed, were detached from thence by night?
Not all the horrors of the night, the tears, the iutrea
ties of your good old mother, his wife; his fiher, nor
two little infants ; nor even the helpless situation of
himfelf, who had long loft the use of every limb by the
gout, could restrain them. They inhumanly murder
ed him, and left these tender relatives to bemoan their
wretched fate—a situation to be felt, but not described.
" The murderers immediately repaired to Charleflown,
and, no doubt, were received with open arms, as the
greatest villainies afford the best recommendations in
that vile place, which is now the fafe asylum of the
greatest impieties.
A Boflon paper of the 23d ult. contains a para
graph, said to be taken from a London paper of the 6th
of April, refpe&ing the evacuation of New York and
Charleflown. This paragraph, verbatim, appeared in
our paper of the 14th ult. but was said to be taken
from a London paper of March 30. Our readers are
left to judge as to the truth of it.
In consequence of a requisition from his excellency
general Wafhiogton, fir Guy Carleton has engaged to
furnifh veflels, w th fafe passports, to convey the virtu
ous families, banished last year from Charleftown, to
any part of South Carolina not in possession of the ene
my.
Extract of a letter from Ebenezer, in Georgia, April 17.
" The garrison at Savannah appear very peaceably
inclined; their number, from the best accounts, does
not exceed 800; deserters daily come in to us, and
their troops are greatly difaffe&ed—The Hessians are
not trusted on advanced guards.
“ A detached party from the horse of this slate,
commanded by Colonel Jackson, having the advantage
of a house, defeated about thirty of the enemy com
manded by a major Dill: after the enemy's firing once,
seventeen balls of which passed through the house,
they retired —Our party, however, returned the fire,
and Dill fell dead on the (pot.
' The inhabitants of this state are greatly distressed,
the long continuance of British oppression, and the
villainy of the tory parties, have reduced it to a scene
oi beggary.
" The weather has been so severe during the latter
end of March, that even the leaves of many trees are
entirely destroyed.
“ Car men are in general hearty, and free from
alarms, while the enemy have lain upon their a.ms
every night firfee our arrival."
Captain George Buchanan in the ship Favourite, ar
rived hereon Tuesday last from Nantes. No account
of the change in the British ministry had reached that
place when he failed.
chester, April 23, 1782.
" The enemy are quiet, at rue Quarter-House, and
we are peaceably situated on the south fide of Ashley
river, twenty two miles from Charleflown.
" We have been in expectation of an attack from
the enemy for several days, but as yet they have not
made a movement. Preparations are certainly making
to enable them to take the field."
Extract of a letter from the southern army, dated Dor-
head ofthe revolt in the Jerseys, in 1780) was imme
diately shot. Peters is condemned to be hanged; and
the officer understood he was executed two days after
he left camp. A number of others were concerned
whose fate was not determined.
" If such an at? can be juftffied, they will attempt to
Philadelphia, June 4.
ANNAPOLIS, May 30.
do so, by calling him a difaffeßed person. Whaley
his inclination might have been, he was by no means a
dangerous one; his debilitated state was a fufficient fe;
curity for them., But, as the man who flees for the
murder of his father, ftardes at the ruffling of every
leaf, so are these people ever alarmed from a, heart
felt sense of their jutl demerits. Confeious of delery,
ing ill, they fear almost every one, and are ever plot?
ting the removal of such, tho' at the expence of every
human feeling." , . .„_
The account of the charge of administration in Eng
land, and toe refoltition of the British parliament to
desist from offenfive war, was received at Charleflown
two or three days previous to the failing of the flag ship;
and had occasioned the greatest rage and confufion a
mongst the refugees, and the army,particularly amongst
the Scotch officers, who with, that vindictive spirit, so
pre-eminently peculiar to their nation in the present war,
did not scruple to pour forth, in most the unqualified
terms, copious torrents of abuse againf tthe present mi
niflers who had all along abetted, they said, and now
prevented them from crushing the expiring rebellion !.
It never rains but it pours! —ln the extracts from the
Charleflown paper, given in our last, the enemy not
content with adding, in their usual vain-glorious style,
many fictitious particulars to grace the epifile of the
modefl fir George Rodney, have artfully introduced,
what will appear from a moment's confederation, to be a
molt palpable lie, no lets than four times in different forms
into the fame paper. The substance of this fallhood is,
that accounts were received at Jamaica, on or be
fore the 27th of April, brought by the Ceres sent from
Europe to the French admiral, and taken by Rodney's
fleet, to inform him of the capture of four and the loss of
three ships of the line in their way to join the Dutcii
fleet iri the Texeh This flory, like the principal part
of the intelligence in the fame paper, may be very well
calculated for the meridian of Jamaica, or for the fond
believers within the British lines, but is too clearly con
tradi&eo by the positive evidence of dates to obtain the
flignteft degree of credit with any person of common
underflanding and observation. From the above date,
the event must have happened allowing the greatest
possible dispatch, between the middle and the end of
March. New fir Guy Carleton did not leave England
before the 12th or April- , let us judge then whether
fir Guy would have forgot, or the zealous Mr. Riving
ton have omitted so captal a piece of news to cheer the
drooping spirits of the amiable corps of loyalifU, besides
tnat we have in this town, London papers as late as the
Bth of April, which not only, do not mention any such
adion, but which fay that admiral Kempenfelt was then
in London, and that lord Howe was fixed upon for, but
had hot taken the command of the channel Squadron,
add to this, that we have accounts both from Holland
and France as late as to the last of March, which do
not mention the failing, much less any accident
having happened to such a fleet.
In C C) U NC I L;
Philadelpha, June 1, 1782.
ORDERED, That all persons woo have demands
against the data, for horses and cattle, purchased un
der the aft of general assembly, passed the firft day of
June, 1780, and for which certificates have been issued,
be required to fend in their certificates on or before
the firft day. of August next, to the Waggon-maflers 1
and Commissioners of Purchase, of the county in which
they refpeaively live, or to Colonel Jacob Morgan,
junior, of this city ; at which time the ccounts of those
purchases will be finally closed and fettled.
Ordered, That the foregoing resolution be publiftted.
Extract from the minutes,
T. MATLACK, secretary.
RECEIPT of continental taxes from the state of
Pennsylvania, published in pursuance of the 6th article
of inftruaions from the office of Finance, dated the
twelfth day of February last:
For the month of April, 1782, received nothing.
For the month of May, 1782, received nothing.
Philadelphia, June ift, 1782.-
J. SWANWIC K,
Receiver of Continental
Taxes for Pennsylvania.
Having compleated the Sales of
the Schooner RECOVERY, a prize taken by the priva
teer br gantine Bolker, Roger Kean, enquire, com
mander : All perlons who are au horded or entitled to
receive Shares of said priz, are defined to make their
claims at my Office, within IHI EE Days from the
date hereof. CLEMEN t BIDDLE, Marfiul.
Philadelphia," J ne 3, 1782.
On Friday last, off a child', n ^k, a GOLD LOC
KET, with two ft ings of coral beads. Whoever ^as'
found the fame and will bring them to the Planter fh&ll'
receive the full value of them.'
John Martin, "Taylor,
B EGS leave to inform the Public, that
he has removed from his late dwelling House in
Market-street, to the House hi formed, occupied id
F ui th hreet, next dour to ti 1 Indian Queen raven,
where he pr^pofe, to carry or his bufmefs in all its
branches. He hopes for the continuance of his Rrm.r
Ciltomers employ, as he s determined to make it his
whole study to give general farisf aj?n.
CAME to toe plantation 01 ih, mbicnoer, in R^u
rior township, Chester county, some time in Ma,
hit, a Biy MARE, supposed to be four years uM.
The owner, proving'his p>ope ty ^nJ paging charges,
mar have her again, by apul ing to
June 1 ELIZABETH EVANS.
N, B. The Locke; is marked W. Ewing,
lo st;