The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-12-26 00:00:00, page 3

Philadelphia, Dec. 16.
On Saturday last the general assembly of this corri^
inonwealth adjourned till Tuesday the sixth day of
February next ; having previously passed the following
laws, viz.
I. An ad to fettle and adjuflthe accounts of the
troops of this state, in the service of the Unfed
States ; and for other purposes therein mentioned.
2. A supplement to an aft, entitled : An aft for funding
and redeeming the bills of credit of the United
States of America ; and for providing means to briig
the present war to an happy concldrion.
3. An aft t) permit toe exportation of flour of wheat
from this Rate, by sea, under certain limitations and
conditions.
4. An a& to revive and amend an aft, entitled: An aft
tofufpend the operation, for a limited time, of the
several laws of this commonwealth, for making the
bills of credit of the United States a legal tender, in
the payment of debts, equal to gold and silver.
$. A supplement to an aft, entitled : An afl for firm
ing the sum of one hundred thotifand pounds in
bids of credit, for the present fripport of the army,
and for establishing a fund for the redemption of the
fame ; and for other purposes therein mentioned.
6. An aft for an impofi on goods, wares, and merchan
dize, imported in this Rate.
7. An aft to complex the quota of the federal army
aligned to this date.
The following paragraph is fallen from a Baltimore
paper of the 19th infiant.
" The loss by the inundation of the sea upon the
" parilhes of Montego Bay, Savannah la Mar, and
" St. Lucea, in Jamaica, is comp led at one million
" flefling."
Extract of a letter from Barbados, dated November it.
" I doubt not you will hear tefore this reaches you
of the unhappy fituat'on we are in her^, and as I know
your anxfety for me, I am glad to meet with ai\ op
portunity of informing you I and my little^ones have
escaped any bodily hurt. Tho' the distress thave fuf
fered is almost beyond my fireng/h to bear.
" On the night of the 10th of October the storm be
gan, and raged with a violence that I cannot pretend
to describe ; a gentleman, now here, who was at Lilbon
at the time of the earthquake, fays, this was beyond
comparison mere dreadful, being of so much longer
duration; that, too, was partial; this general all over
the inland ; so that no one has it in their power to assist
another; all are involvel in the general ruin: The
horrors of the night were aggravated by the return of
day; the whole town in rums, and all the country
laid Waste; the number of corp- that lay dead and
maimed, in the streets, were Shocking to behold; and
the cries of the people looking for and bewailing their
loft friends was dreadful to hear. All the houses near
the sea were washed away, and a great number of the
inhabitants with tk<m ; was it not for the Mol^head,
all Broad-Greet would have gone the people there
were up to their middles in water: The numb r of
dead in town w s so great, that the governor employed
a party of soldiers to bury them, and tho' they only
dug holes and threw them in as they were, three day's
were employed in this melancholy business, and the
smell became very offenfive b< fore it was compleated:
It is computed, between fix and seven thousand, whites
and blacks, have loft their lives.
" Scarce a building left on any of the eflates, and
almost all the tattle killed. The corn that was housed
destroyed, as well as the provisions in town, so that
we have a dreadful! profpea of a famine; add to this
that the behaviour of the negroes has been very alarm
ing • they think, no doubt, we are now all upon a
footing, and indeed without some relief is afforded to
us I cannot fee how we are to fubfifl."
Extras ofa letter fron St. Euflatia, dated Dec. 3.
'' By t^e arrival of several Dutch ships from London
we have the account of Mr. Laurens's being confined
in the tower; but it does not appear that his dispat
ches were taken', as was firft fail.
" A Boftrfi privateer and one from Newberry Port
were carried into the Thames
We have letters from Holland as late as the iff of
November, when a war with England was much talked
of: it is said that, or a general p ace, wdl be the con
sequence of the confederacy of the northern powers, if
that confederacy can be firmly fixed. Russia has 30
fail of the line, Denmark 10, Swe den 12. Holland 2$ .
which will give so great a balance in our favour, that
a universal acknowledgement of our indey endency muff
be the consequence. The under- writers at Amsterdam
asked ^ per cent, on neutral bottoms to the Weft-In^
dies; from which you may judge of their opinion of
things."'
& Ext . r2 ^ o ' a letter from Europe, May Bth, i 7 sc,
" Copies are circulated, in London, cf the anfoer which
the court has made to the declaration of the Emprefg
of Raffia, and is as follows.
“ During the vyhob course of the war, in which the
king of Great Britain finds himtelf engaged by the ag
gression of Fiance and .Spain, he has manifested ihofe
fentunentf of justice, equity and moderation which go
vern all his proceedings.
" His myrtty has regulated his condud towards
friendly and neutral powers, according to theirs toward
him, conforming it to principle the most clear, and the
most generally acknowledged of the law of nations,
which is the cnly law between nations who have no trea
ties, and to the tenor of his different engagements with
oth^r powers; which engagemen s have varied this pri
midve law by mutual stipulations, and have varied it in
great variety of different manners, according to the
will and the convenience of tie contending parties.
" rangly attached to her maje^y, th- empress of all the
Ruffin, by the ties of a reciprocal fruni Ihip and a
common interest ; the kiny, from the commencement of
, ""' ^^ 'he most determinate orders to re
i^e ct (he frg, f her Imperial maj Jty, and the commerce
'" her subnets, according to the law of nations and the
tenor which he hrs contraßed in his treaty of commerce,
her nd which he will fulfil with the most fcrupu
lourexzan.fi. The orders, on this !uhj &, have been
re e.eo, and the execution of them shall be ftriaiy at.
tended to. It is to be presumed, that they will fce-
v%t all frregWhrit, ; het if ithould happen that therd
foould be the imalleft violationof these repeated orders,
the tribunals of the admiralty, which in this country,
as in all others, aft eftablifhecto take cognizance of
such matters, and vhich, in ill cases, jud^e solely by
the general law of nations, and by the particular Itipu-
Rations of different treaties, would redress the injury,
in a manner so equitable, that her Imperial m^jefty
would be fat'sfied, entirely, with their dicifibn*, and
would acknowledge in thtfn the fame spirit of justice
wh ch animates herfalf.
'' This is said to be the arfwer to the empress, and to
te fine it is complaiftrit enough ; but still there is a great
Gheftion between the king ana the empress to be decided.
The king lays that ill the Freeh and Spanifn ports are
blocked up by his fleet. Ihe em,,ef^fays that none of
them ^c or will be, hut such before which the king m y
lend a r.mnbe< of flaps to guard the entrance into them
and make \ minifeffly dangerous.
" Si, sdd§, that ff)s has armed, and will a'm, to
maintain this co« u&ion'of the word; and. invited all
the other martime N#mto make a league rath b^rin
fuppo t of this interpretx.cn; and Holland has already
answered that (he agrees t# it, v^th gratitude, Q all
themher powers will answer h^ fame, it the k'~,.;
gives up his interpretation of the v^d, there 1 ^n end,
forever, to the naval fupericr ty of Gre»t B Win ; if
he maintains it, it must be by a war agrinit all tie na
tions hat ifeth# fess.
" But the government and nation are riot yet for
faken by their irfituatioh. They don't fee in the de
claration of the empryfy that she has taken a decided
part sfaiatt them. But all the rest of the world frer,
thst a declaration of war against th^ra would not have
bet.n a more decisive indication of the empress's judg
ment or affcrtions."
^^^M@^&)@W^
To-morrow,
At the Continental Yard in this City, will be fold by
PUBLIC VENDUE,
A number of Public HORSES,
For c,fh only, the tale to begin at Ten o'clock.
By order of ths quarterm-fter general.
JACOB BILTZHEIMER.
Fhiladt,hi,, December 16 178,.
BY virtue of a Writ of Fieri Facias, to
mg directed, will „ Sold by Public Vendue, on
Friday, the Twat,.nrrith instant, at Tm i o'clock in
ths forenoon, at the late Dwelling House of Joseph
Bulkily, the corner of Fifth and M^hrt streets, all the
HOUSHOLD GOODS of fai Jofgph Bol'el/o Coafift
ing of Feather Bfl and Bedding, Tables, Chairs,
Looking-GUffea,. &c. &c. Taken in Execution as the
property of laid jo@ Bulklev. at the foit #f William
Dzvsy. WILLIA M WILL, Sheriff
T O B E LT^
And entered upon the firft day of March next,
A SMALL PLANTATION, % the weft fide of
PriTyunk road, about one raila and three quarters
from the city, adjoining to ths plantation belor^ng to
Ifratl Pemberton, dereaf^d, now in the poffeffon of
Conrad Shellar. Thfrt is thereon, a good House and
Kitchen, a Wrll of get*! Water, and Stables. Fer
Terms enquire of JACOB DUCHE, in Front fceet
next to the corner of Chtfnut-trMrt.
THIS is tb give public Notice, that the
4 fubferiber, GARDINER and NURSERY MAN,
intends following Piping of Fruit tree?, of any kind,
the r^mrindar part of this winter, from the feven:h of
January until the fifteuth of Marek : He 31fo propofii
following Gard&aia^, during the funirntT fe^fon, in and
about Ul4 cEy of Philadelphia, from the fifteenth of
M^ch until ihe fifteenth of November.
Any Guitlem&n, or others, that are inclined to em
ploy htni, may clQvnd on being faithfully ierred, and
their favours gratefully acteowladg^, -hv their humble
fervent,,. CORNELIUS HEGERTY.
N. E. He max bafeoka with at Mr. Dennis M'Car
ty'sj atth^ White hetfe Tarta in Elbow-laae, bet weeri
Second end Third-flr&us,- within two doors of Market
ftreet. December z 6, 1780.
Philadelphia/ December 6, 1780.
One Thousand Dollars Reward.
STOLEN, on the night of the sth instant,
from the plantation of Peter D/Haveri, in Charier
town township, Chatter county, a dtfk By GELD
ING, four years old hi firing, is a natural trotter, a
bout 16 hands high, lengthy a^d well madcyh^s a blaze
in his face, his near fan is both white, ana the hair is
part eff, a bushy mane, and his never been docked; the
hair iafcalded off the upper part of bis bead wnh eating
St. John's-wonh : Also, A Black GELDING, twelve
years old, pacts aud trots, about 14 hands and a half
high, has a blaze in his face, several fuddle marks on
his back, and a fear on tis off buttock. Whoever
takes up said Herbs, and delivers them to Ilaac Warner
in Blocklc, towafnip, or Peter De Haven in Fourth
ftr^et, Philadelphia, two dems below the College, (hall
receive Five Hundred Dollars; and for the Horfts and
Thief, or Thieves, if brought to conviction, the above
Reward with rsafonable changes paid, by
ISAAC WARNER,
PETER DE HAVEN.
AL L persons indebted to the estate of
HUGH JAMES, late of this city, deceased, are
rquefcd to make immediate payment ; and those who
h^ve my demands against the said estate are desired to
bring in their accounts properly proved, in order to
ha^e them fettled and p^id, by
PailaGe^v, ELENOR JAMES, Executrix,
Dec. 13, 1780. JAMES ALEXANDER, Executor.
Just PUBLISHED And To be SOLD, by
JOHN DUNLAP,
At his Printing-Office in Market-street,
FATHER ABRAHAM's
ALMANA C K,
For the YEAR of Our LORD, 1781.
OF HIS EXCELLENCY,
George Walhington, Esq;
A New Impression in Metzotinto ;
From the original Picture belonging to the State of
Pennsylvania ;
Poftar size, i. e. 14 inches by 10 inches, exclusive of
the margin;
Price Two Dollars, or the Value thereof in current
Money, or Six Pound per Dozen to Shop-keepers^
Or Persons to»g abroad.
Any Persons wanting the said Prints;
Will apply t. CHARLES W. PEALE, at the corner
of Third md Lombard- streets.
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fyyAS taken up trefpaffihg in the Garden
of jha subscriber, living near the Robinhood
Tavern, on + ,e 12th of O&ob«frlaft, a Red COW with
a white face, it erupt in the right ear, and has a bullet
hole ie the i<h. 1 !xuwner is desired to come, prove
his property, pay charges gd take her away.
Nov. 28, 1780. h^NRY Y OUNG.
To be Sold, by E. Pirkefon,
At the sign of the Tbree tuns, in Third-street, te^
tween South and ihippen-ftreets,
Best Spanish Segars,
Made by FRANCIS SMITH, from Italy. Dec. 6.'
DAN-AWAY, on Sunday last, from the fubfcriber>
' an Apprentice LAD, taweay 17 aad 18 years of
age, full fccad, about 5 test 2 inches hi,: Had on when
he went way, ? light tycoon cloth jacket with sleeves,
two to# lining thirls, two @ir of trowfere, an old wool
hat, a pair of new (hoes with a pair of plain brass buckles ,
by trade a Shoemaker. Whoever takes up said Lad#
and brings him to th# subscriber, shall receive the above
Reward, and all reafrinable charges paid by me 6
WILLIAM DAVIS.
N. B. All masters of rMLIs are sordid to harbour off
carry him off at their peril. Southwark, Nov. 20.
TO BE SOL D,"
In Alexandria, by the Executors of JOHN WEST,
junior, late of Fairfax ceuety, Virginia, on the third
da, of January 1781, if fair, otherwise the next fair
day, FOUR very hedtby and W&bodied
Negroe Men:
Two of them thip- carpenters, able to perform an,
work in that branch of bufin&s; one a good Black
smith, capable of doing any country work ; and the
other an Houlejoine and Carpenter by trade.'
The Front Part of a House,
GENTEELY FURNISHED,
TOBE LETT:
Also, A STABLE behind it;
In Front-street, a few doors above the Coffee-houfe;
Enquire of the Printers
Philadelphia, Dec. 14, 1780.
AL, L persons who have any demands
against the estate of RICHARD BARRETT,
d^cewfed, are requefQ to bring tn their accounts pro
pr, started, to the fabferibw, that they may be fet
tted; and all those %h>are indebted to said estate, are
d^firrcl to mah> immediate payment to prevent further
trouble. ELIZABETH BARRETT, AdmU^tratrix.
Extract from the French Gazette, 1780.
W E ^" .° "1 u " nt LOUIS NOEL ANGIBAU#
enlisted in the King's service, under the name of
BRIN DAMOUR, in the legioe of Damas, in the
year 1768, then in garrison at Brest ; and who, ever
since that time has given no intelligence of his perlon;
that William Angibau, his father, deceafid, in No->
vemher, 4778, who left him a succession. If any per
foo, knowing the said LOUIS NOEL ANGIBAU,
should be acquainted with either his death or the place
of bis frfidence, tb*v are riquefted to give Notice of it
to the Sieur ANGIBAU, his brother/ firing at Mr#
Grand Jean, painty, in the street of FAUBOURG,
St. Martin, at Paris.
DROKE into the plantation of the sub-
Briber, on the Twentieth of November last, two
HORSES, one a Black, 8 years of age, ihed all round,
paces and trots, has a star and blaze in his forehead,
branded with a flat iron on hi# near hind buttock, and
is about 14 bands high. The other a Grey, 12 years
of age, (hod all round, paces and trots, and is between
15 and 16 hands high. The owner or owners, proving
the, property and paving charges, may have them
again, by applying to me,
. MICHAEL COWHIR, Living on Js
Dickinson's place, in Northern Liberty township.
W A NT S A PTA CE,
As a Wet-Nurse,
A Woman that can be well recommended: 1
Enquire of the Printers.