The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-12-25 00:00:00, page 2

The Second ^ook of the "Tenth ODB of HORACE
IMITATED.
JICENIUS\ happy shall you be,
If you not put too far to sea,
Nor frighted at the roar
Of noisy (welling waves, you fleer
With framing carefuhiefs, too near
Tae faitnlefs, flatt'ring Ihore. /
11.
The man who loves the golden mean,
His house is warm, is neat and clean,
He sighs not to be great ;
He envies not the p mpous hill,
But wife, despises, laughs it all
The tinsel toys of hate.
111
The pine, which rears its head aloft,
Is but the fairer mark, and oft
Jove's bol's Rrike higheß hills ;
The great have only this to boafl,
And oft they feel it to their co ',
They're mod expos'd to ills.
IV.
The well prepared breast defrs
Tue ftor:ns that may in life arise.
And firm! faces woe;
He knows, that winter muff give way,
Tne spring return, and all look gay,
And milder zephyrs blow.
V.
Apollo oft awakes tl>e lyre,
Not always does he god iofpire,
But oft unbends his bow ;
He nor experts, nor will require
His poet mould with equal fire,
With equal ardor glow. )
VI.
Blows it a storm, w ; th courage fleer,
Nor ever quit the eelm thro' fear,
But wifj contract thy fail,
If, running fall before the wind ;
And always bear an equal mind
In a too profp'rous gale.
VII-
Thus, thro' life, shall mankind be blert,
For ever happy, and at rest,
As nature's fondeft thought ;
'Tri dire ambition that at firft,
M de human kind completely curft,
With ev'ry evil fraught.
CADIZ (Spain) July 30.
rpHE 28th of this month, 20 fail of Spanish merch
& antmen arrived here, after a piffage of 40 days,
from Montevideo, laden with hides, Vigogne wool,
copper, tallow &c. under convoy of two privateers,
who, on the passage, took one of the Quebeck fleet,
and an English merchant frigate, named the Six Sifters,
captain Robert Smith, bound from the isle of Man to
Barbadoes.
Deventer (Holland) Augurt 30 A very fkilful
apothecary of this city, touched with companion for
the officers and crews wounded in the glorious battle
off the Dogger-Bank, hath published tie following
receipt in ail the public papers, against the gangrenes,
which succeed wounds, and which he hath proved to
be efficatious for above forty ye>rs:
Take common allum, a pound;
Wni'e Vitriol, \ ,
Green Vitriol ) of each half a pound;
Salt Nitre, \,
Common Salt, ) of each four ounces:
Put all over a gentle fire in an earthen vessel : having
poured on t, e faits as much white wine vinegar as will
bring it to the confident of honey, then put t into a
powder made of 6 ceruffe, t^o lots of armenian bole,
(rankincenfe and myrrh, of each four and a half ; stir
the whole till th # . moisture is evaporated, and a hard
mass is formed.
When you have occasion to use it, rub one ounce of
this parte to a p®wd r, and met it in eight ounces of
vinegar ; dip a cloth in it, which apply on the wound,
renewing the application every four,f.x, or eight hours,
as occasion may require.—NOTE ; a lot is the 32b
part of a pound.
Faris (France) August 21. By a veff 1 which arri
ved a tew days ago from North. America, we learn,
that all the (mail ports occupied by the English troops
jn the environs of New-York, have bee taken; that
the city is inverted by the troops of Mr. Wathington,
and th fe of France, which took place about the mid
die of July. As the garrison of New York is confi
derable, it is thought they will not attempt to take the
city by force ; in order to succeed, it will be necessary
for M. de Graffe to arrive there with a force fu perior l
to Mr. Rodney's and that he get there before him.
But it is moll probable, that this siege is ouli underta
ken to draw thither the forces which the English have
sent to Virginia, in order that the Americans may the
moreeafily render themselves marters of that province
and its environs, and especially of Charleftown. We
exped toon to receive some newson this fubjeft As
M. de Rochambeau has in his army one of our best re
giments of artillery, we may promise ourselves feme
iuccefs from his attack of the principal ports which de
fend the little island on which New-York is situated.
Con ftantinople, Augult ir. We have accounts that
the Plague has, this year, dertroyed upwards of 40'000
perlons in Salooica, the capital of Macedonia, near
half the inhabitants of Grand Cairo, and at least one
third of those of Alexandria.
LONDO N.
September 3. On Wednesday last, one of the larg
cit carronades ever nude, was tried at Carron, ft
c fries a ball of a hundred pounds weight The power
^ this great instrument ofdeflru&ou is immense, and
it is *s easily worked as a long twenty four pounder.
It anfwtd extremely well all the trials and experi
ments that were made.
Yesterday several different d(patches were received at
the admiralty and secretary of Rate's office, from fir
P. Parker, fir 6. Clinton, fir George Rodney, and ge
neral Elliot, the governor of Gibraltar. The dispatch
es from fir Peter Parker and fir Henry Clinton contain
nothing interesting or new, while those from the go
vernor of Gibraltar are replete with accounts of the re
solute disposition of that fortrefs to withstand the united
attacks of he enemy.
The date of the garrison at Gibraltar is very nearly
as follows: Clinton's, Walih's, Baugh's, and Boyd's
regiments of foot : the Manchefier regiment of volun
teers La Mothe's, Hardenberg's and Render's batta
lions of Hanoverians ; and upwards of 600 of the royal
artillery ; in all about 6000 efteaive men.
The garrison of Minorca is about 3000 strong, and
Confifis of Morris's and Eglinton's regiments of foot,
a company of t e gzd, Prince Ernest's and Goucher's
regiments of Hanoverians, exclufiye of the militia of
the island, about 800 effective men more.
The reports that have been for some time circulated
of Mr. Barker's resignation ofhis command have been
at last jußified by the event, that brave admiral hav
ing on Wednesday last sent a formal intimation of his
intention to withdraw from his command to St James's
after w rich lord Sandwich held a private conference
with his majefiy, and commodore Keith Stewart was
appointed to succeed him. In consequence of this pro
motion, commodore Stewart had a I?ng conference with
his majeßy yefierday at the Queen's house, and in the
evening set off port for Shernefs to take upon him the
command of the fleet, which is to fail on Monday and
Tu< fday n&xt, on a fecund crude on the coart of Hol
land.
The Rates of Holland have ordered a day of rejoic
ing " for their late figoal success, and important vic
tory gained over the Britilh fleet in the north seas."
Our correspondent inquires how that business agrees
with our opinion and account of the matter ?
September 29- We can assure the public, from the
fi, authority, that fir Henry Clinton nas written home
to ministry, requeuing leave to return to Engla 4, un
der the mA positive assurances that his continuanceat
New. York can neither be honourable to himfelt, nor
fcrvireable to his country.
Tnutfday next is appointed for the embarkation of
the general officers now getting in readiness to fail from
Portsmouth for America.
This morning, about 8 o'clock, the purser of the Earl
of Oxford Eart- In diaman, arrived at the Eafl-India
house, with the agreeable news of the fafe arrival of 18
home ward bound Eaft-Iniiamen off Plymouth, last Sa
turday, viz Two from Bombay, eleven from the coast
and Cnina, one from Fort St. George and Bombay,
one from St. Helena and Bencoolen, one from Coast
and Bay, and one from St. Helena and Bombay.
" It is worthy of remark, that notwithrtanding the
losses we have (attained in some of our Wert-India
island, neither our imports or exports are diminished
in any degree equal to what might naturally be expect
ed from such a diminution of foreign possession. The
truth is, that if some channels of our trade are flop,
ped for a time, they naturally increase in others ; and
it is a well known fad, (notwithrtanding the boftile
Rate of our colonies) that we have, during the war, ex
ported a double goods to New-York, Quebec and Hal
liFx, all of which, by some means or other, find
amirket in the rebellious provinces; so that notwitn
ftanding we appear to have I®R the majority of our co
lonies, it is certan we Rill preserve a fupe ior Ihare of
their trade.'
To the Editor of the London Courant.
S I R,
~HERE is fonr thing sacred in the name of govern-
I nieot, as conveying along with it the ideas of
wisdom, justice. and the love of mankind, for
whole prefervatiou and happiness it is instituted. But
when a gang of conspirators, and traitors to their coun
try, teize the reins of power, whose wisdom is fraud and
treachery, whpfe justice is trick and chicanery, whose
humanity is oppreffioq and cruelty, and whofc dignity
is the inference of office. Government is then funk and
degraded into foul usurpation and tyranny. It is a
confederacy of Iharpers and cut tiiroats, combined
against a nation, infamoufly bartering with power for
the public rights and fafety, and traiteroufly abusing
the public fafeguird and defence as the instruments of
robbing and enslaving their country.
Such villains, who aft the part of a BAGSHOT
GANG, have commonly the features.and manners be
longing to their profeffion. They may come capin hand,
and express their sorrow for the depredations they are
about to commit, but they have the piflol ready teen
force the demand : whereas, if the demand were just,
and these freebooters did not largely share the spoils,
they would speak out without apology f@r what they
were doing, not with criminal confeioufnefs of their own
and their confederates guilt. When nobles, and men
of large eftates.condefeend to be clerks in an office, and to
run the ga ntlope of public suspicion, ridicule, and cen
sure? there can be no doubt but the douceurs for such
service murt amply reward the odium and the infamy.
And let the minißerial delinquency be great as it will,
there can be no fear of detention, when a bribed ma
jority makes the grants, and the minifler's own crea
tures keep the nation's accounts.
This public insult to the people, to justice, and com
mon sense, which traiteroufly supersedes the commons
rights of controu ing the lavilh waste of their property
to the most nefarious purposes, is a direa attack upon
their most sacred privilege, which is tie very corner
stone of the constitution, and the only thing that gives
the people a grain of weight or consequence. For to
what purpose is the nominal privilege of granting sup
plies, if the nation is to remain ignorant of the expen
diture; and a leagued host of public robbers can Rate
the demand, and balance the account themselves, with
out check or controul? It is a barefaced fy flem of rob
bery, at which honour, and even decency re oil. It
carries in the heart, as well as upon the face of it, or
It would (corn to use power to fink evidence, and escape
deteftion. That is a nice credit, and honesty, that
dares not face enquiry without packing and bribing the
jury.
When I fee Boreas at the head of his gang with his
rum centrads, his money contrads, his borough Con
trads, &c. A Twitcher at the head of anoti er, with
his hospital contrads, his navy and India house con
trads, and his court-martial centrads. When Minden
adds a third to the goodly group of the nation's trus
tees, and advances with his German contrads, his spy
centrads, his commissioner centrad, his refugee con
trld, his tomahawks and scalping knives, his Jew^
harp, crucifix, and four krout, contrasts ; his tecret
service for fedudion of innocence, burning towns and
villages, magazines and standing corn, and defolatiag
a country his frigid and rancorous impotence could not
fubdue —When I behold a R— n, a C-— —— r, a
R—y, aJ n, a F • —c, a C——s, &c.
&c. bringing up the rear of public dertrudion, and
(wallowing millions yearly in great gulph of army ex
tracediniries, ordnance extraordinaries, &c. I am half
petrified with horror at the profped, and cannot help
exclaiming, " Angeli and miniflers of grace defend
us!"
Are these miniflers of Rate, or miniflers of heaver'^
vengeance ! MuR we judge of t e bull iefs by th
or toe men by their business? Which wears the dark
est afped, and the worst features and co^phxion?
Could tyranny scowl through a blacker brow u,an th t
of 1 — —.— e? €ould villainy iffume a more ntu al
afped than that of Twitcher ? Could tre rh ry, ruel
ty and cowardice be ^ore emphatically expressed. than
in the features of aM , or L — ; ormore pro
perly lodged, than 10 theheart of a G a? Couid
the unprincipled and unmannered buffoon have marked
any o ner face but a R- y's with equal effe&, to
put decency and virtue out of countenance, by an un
blufhiog effrontery, ano an unfeeling proftitution^
Readrr, hi lthou been at court, or at the mock de
bates of the senate, to contemplate tne group of the
king's minifcrs and friends ? 1 charge thee not to judge
of the amiable master by his Servants ! I caution tr.e,
when the worst men are employed to tranfad the aifaira
of the nation, and are continued in office, as if to coun
tenance incapacity, court misfortune, and invite de-
Rrudion, not to infer, that the wel are of the kingdom
is not the object of the government.
LIBELLUM VERUM.
From the London Courant, July 30.
LIST of LIES POLITICAL, in the Mi isterial
Prints during the course of last weeks.
^ DMIRAL Rodney has had an action with de
/% Graffe, and four or fix ihips @f the line were oblig
ed to firike to the English. M. P.
The empress of Russia is much chagrined at the me
morial presented to her by the French ambassador.
M. P.
The French have but twenty.fix fall of the line fit
for service. M. P.
Two thousand troops are railed in Hanover for the
service of the East India company. M. P.
Great Britain has nothing to fear from her enemies.
M P.
The five East India ships taken by the French, had
nothing on board. M. P. G
The French, after remaining on the island of T<Rigo
(even days, evacuated it, and returned again on oo^rd
their fleet. M. P.
The day after de la Motte was convive 1, 29 ?wt
chaises, and 18 coaches full of foreigners were at Oral
and Dover, looking for passages to the conti ent.
M. P.
It is impossible that the Spaniards ever hurt Gibraltar.
M. P.
The French fleet in America is not in a condition to
be of any service. M. P.
The patriots always love to hear of bad news.
M, P.
A number of letters written by general Washington,
have been intercepted by the king's troops. M. P.
Sir Hector Munro, and fir Eyre Coote can fight bet
ter against a superior army of Europeans, than they
can against that of Hyder Ally. M. P.
There is not a word of truth in the report that the
French landed at Saint Lucia. M. H.
A reciprocal appointment ofambaffadors by the
courts of London and Madrid is nearly concluded up
on. M. H.
No greater misfortune than those we have heard of,
are to be apprehended in Indian M. H.
More mifchiefs have arisen to this country fron^op
pofition, than from administration. M. H.
Fayette is taken prisoner by lord Cornwallis, his ar
my is dispersed, and the American generals are mak
ing the best terms for themselves they can, and will
surrender also to the Britith commander. M. H.
The annals of France cannot produce a period when
seamen for the royal navy and (lores for the dock
yards were so scarce as at pre ent. M. P.
The French king is out of patience with the Stated
general. M. H.
It is better for us that our fleet in the Weft-Indies
is inferior to the enemy's, as it may tempt them to fight,
and consequently get them a good beating. M. H.
The infurreftion in the Spanith colonies may be de
pended on. M. H.
There is not a word of truth in the account given
of the late expedition under lord Mulgraye at Fitffh
ing, M. P.
Admiral Darby has positive orders to fight the ene
my. M H.
There is no doubt but the alliance between Great
Britain, and a certain emperor will fhortiy be conclud
ed upon. M. H.
Mr. Wraxhall is expelled to be appointed under
secretary of state in case of a vacancy. M. P.
Lord Sandwich is perhaps the most able firft lord of
the a imiralty we have bad for many years part.
M. H.
No accounts have been re eived by government of
the lois of Tebago, or the engagement between fir Sa
muel Hood and monf. de Grade. M. H.