The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-09-06 00:00:00, page 1

Said NICHOLS returns his best
Thanks to thole who have heretofore fa
voured him with their Custom, and hopes,
in future, from his Attention to Bufinef#,
and Willingness to Please, that it will be
the Interest of his Coftomers to continue
their Favours.
M I N E R S.
WANTED, Four or Five MINERS, to work oa
a regular vein of ore, to whom good Wages
^>ll be given. Enquire ^ ^ fuhftriber at Durham
Furnace. RICHARD BACKHOUSE.
SCARLET, brawn,
purple, bla< k, green,
blu, light coloured, fu
pc; fine and second Broad
cloths,
Scurtet, brown, blue,
light and coloured fu
prfine Knaps & Co^t
ingr.
Blue, grey, light and
scarlet Duffih & Frizes,
White, buff and fc^rlet
Caffimer# and Wiltons,
Crimion, brown, blue,
flriped, black, fpott d
and corded Velvet# and
Velverett,
Olive & white Corduroy#,
Tickfet# and Durcons,
Barragons,
Childrens worsted Hofs,
Pink, blue, black and
c oth coloured Duroy#,
Prunellas and Durants,
Tammie# and Sattinet#,
Crimion, green, iky-h ue
and pink Russes, Mo
reens and Calamancoes,
Jeans, Fustians and Beav
eis,
Cambist# and Hairbines
of all colours and fine
nefs,
Corded Worsteds and
Everlastings,
Surges and Serge de J?ans,
Blue and white Plains and
Halfthicks,
73, g 4, and spron-wide
cotton & linen Chv ks,
An assortment of Irfh
Linens,
Fine and coarse Hollands,
Y/rd and half yard and
38 brown and white
Sheetings,
Brittanmas and Plattella
royals,
Levels, P nturies, Ozna
brigs and Ticklenburgs,
Sail and Duck Cloth,
Marfeiilts Quilting,'
Plain and corded Dimities
and Diapers,
Wide and narrow Ruffin
Sheetings, Dowlafs and
Flanders Ticking,
Jaconet and book Mullins,
Tapes, Bobbins & Laces,
Plain and figured Kent
ings, kenting Handker
chiefs and Catgut,
Plain & millionet Lawns,
Cambrick,
JUSTIMPORTED,
In the last Vessels from Europe,
AND TO BE SOLD, By
WILLIAM NICHOLS,
At hi# STORE, on the Ncrih Sid, of Market street,
oppofit# the Indian King,
A Large and General Assortment of the
Following Articles, viz.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, I 7 #G
THE
O R, THE
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
VOL. X.l
Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
I Millionst Handkerchiefs
! ard figured Aprun Pat
-1 terns,
Plan and figured Gauzes
and gauze Handker
chief#,
Womens Gloves of all co
lours
Diro ilk Mitts,
Mans ink Gloves,
A beautiful Assortment
of dark and light
Chintzes,
Elegant chintz Bed pat
terns, ^
Fine and co»rfe Calicoes
and Cottons,
Ginghams and Bengalis,
Nankeens and D^mafeue,
Ducapes, Pad uafoyt,Man
inas, Luteftring#, Bro
cade#, Modes and Taf
fitieg,
Green, blue, claret,
bloom, orange, and
white £-4 and 3.4 ell
Persians ?nd Sarinete,
Pekirgs, Mexicans and
Mufflomans,
Ell wide Perfans, black
and coloured,
Men#, women and child
ren# cotton and thread
Hole,
Elegant Tambour Waift
caat Patterns,
Bft Se^ing-fi/k,
Black Thread,
Coloured ditto,
Silk and linen Handker
chiefs,
Black and coloured Bar
celona ditto,
Best scars Twist, Mohair
and Buttons,
Back and white Blond
Laces and Edgings,
Thread ditto,
Painted, figured and plain
Ribbands,
Superfine, ftcond and
coarie Bolting-Cloths,
Plated Buttons,
Skeleton and hoop Wire,
I Best Tull, G ruling,
Cotton Cord and Tufftls,
Bandana, 61k and cotton
Romalla,
Quality and narrow Bind
ings and Ferrets,
Snuff Boxes,
With many other Arti
cles, too tedious to enu
merate.
€rgibt Den beefften ^reis fur reiiw
feinene fumpeii.
To be Sold by private Sale, or Exchanged
for a Houle in a good Stand, A
Lot of Marffi Meadow,
Bounding on the Province-Island road, bounded by
meadow of Willi m Jones, John Evely end John Ha
ne,, cortaining eight acres and ninety perches.
Another LOT o'excellent UPLAND, now planted
with Indian corn and potatoes, containing eight a res
and seventeen perches, bounded by land of John Ha
ney, William Jones and other#. Both the above Lots
are under good fenctyand in excellent order. The
fubicriber has about thirty Acres of Mea ow that be
proposes c^ffureirg ; any one having Cattle or Hories
to pasture, may depend on his utmost endeavours to
oblige them, and at reasonable rates.
N. B Enquire for terms of sale of the fubferiber,
living in Biad-ftreet, commonly called Moravian alley.
JOHN SPROGE LL.
TO BE SO L D,
By the fubferiber, on the saft-fide of Secend-ftreet,
be ! ow Union-street, and one door from the corner
of Pme-ftreet, the following goods, viz.
[Rifh mefs^beef in tierces, barrels, and
half-barrels, pork in half barrels, extraordinary
good ; Madeira wine by the pipe, hogshead or gallon,
L (bon ditto, by the hogffie%d, quarter cafr, or gallon,
coffee, tea and fugar# by whoirfale and retail, English
foxp by ditto, ditto, Scotch fauff, manufa&uied in
Glifgcw, a quantity of tin ware, japan'd and plain,
Eng Ufa eloathe and scrubbing brushes, English made
sailors jankers, breeches, drawers and thirte, fhoe# and
hets, fine and coarse c^llicoe-, handkerchiefs, flock
ings and threads, T ully garters, a few fi kins of butter,
and sundry other goods set here mentioned
DAVIS BEVAN.
N. B. English Double Gloucester Cheese.
ei. n ®rfpracfy foimgabr
1775/ ^ifd)'" tin paar
^bt^el,l)i@n &cler
ten gebaltm rourbe.
2. &r anmutbigL ^anfn^
geti Den f^btwiuii.
3. &ne @rfd;icbteDomin'
fcbldfer unb £ircbenx
fWlifer.
4. Site troen uneinigen
£utfspferbe.
A further SALE of the
Public Lots of this City,
For the redemption of the Bills of Credit
of thi Rate, died April the t,tb, #%sn, will ba held
at ths C ffe« houe, on THURSDAY th? 61h o' Sep
tember next, at JEN o'< ock in the forenoon. A
Plan of the Los near be fun at the Coff <-hou(e, ^d
at the Sueyo G-nril's ©ffi e. The cond tions the
fame as ihe latt Llm August 3 1*
€$ if so eben berans aefonimen, unb juhaben
(&pm ,Hntat/ @uscbD, obcr ®n;dn) 6'9
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^udjbruchr, in ber sronhfcaffe, nafe bog per
2'rcfyfafc, ^ifabdpbia,
sDer ^eue, OhrbefferhunD SuverMfye
^mericanifebe
salellbeL
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/Dctfelbe entf)dtt, nebfioer fouftgerosnlify
en&lenber^rbeit, etheneanmutyige unb
lefcnsrourbige Q^geberfyiten, a(S:
5. (Bine Gammlung artiger
&gcben!)eiteiL
6. Jpulfetitinel fur oeifc§i&
bene Strantbeinn Dec
9)?enf&n und ^Bieb.
7- €UW nuslid)££ab:Ucn.
8. goHrteii oDer &ricl/t^
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To the PRINTER.
S I R,
SO great is my indignation on being assured that the
haughty and blood thirfiy commandant of Charlef
town, lieu enant colonel Nlfbett Balfour, has execut
ed, with every mark of ignominy and disgrace, my
amiable and truly worthy countryman, colonel Jfaac
Hay ne of South Carolina, that I cannot rest fl the impulse
I feel to adeir fs through your paper, the public and m,
fellow citizens on the subject, though totally unaccuf
toraed to appear in print.
How long fir, are we to fuffer the right# of huma
nity to be trampled upon by tris upffart* arrogant
Briton? How long will American pufilaoimity (f r such
1 must call it) fuffer unavenged the befi blood of her
font to be wantomy spilled I y the inhuman butchers,
that are now ravaging our fertile country ? When fir,
shall we fee a proper attention to the rights of human na
ture, and a regard to the many fupercede, as it ever
ought the particular intsrefts of a Frw? How often are
we to iiear our insolent invaders declare that we dare not
retaliate, nd fuffer them to r rfcontrue American mercy
and generosity into an abject tear of conseq uences? In
my opinion, a longer perseverance in the n ild and mer
ciful line, Cpngrefs. and t<e r generals and other offi
cers, seem to have adopted, will be highly criminal,
and amount to something very like betraying the t,nft
reposed in them by the people. All ranks arid orders of
men mul lbe fully convinced by this time, hat nothing
but a most exemplary Retaliation can check the infolenca
of our enemies, and shew the commandant of Charlef
town ai d every British officer, that we are determined
to punish every future breach of the laws of nations
and of war.
For your information and that of the public at large
I beg leave to add that colonel Hayne was one of those
virtuous patriots, who refufed the British proteiion
till reduced to the last extremityt; and then only ac
cepted it on special terms ^f never being obliged to
turn out to oppose his friends and countrym,; in arms:
as soon as he was called on contrary to his ler eluent
to draw hs fworagainft the tri nds of his bcfoi.iX
relations and deareff connexions, he Nought ' 5
juflifi din vacating, 01his p rt, that cnm)r „ ~.^
the Brit.fh hud brok-n on t ir c HHfc^
accepted of a cotrmiffon either r o I IT -ra
gener .1 or the go^-rncr of S rtf< \r
terwards made prisoner in 11 ft r .§ \
horse; 'tie fail, he was n t even tr.cj y a court mar
tial, but, t erg. .n< ffictr of the rank cf: .\
he has been harped like a r <nmon felon after
led, bound with his lands behi d I irr, tlra,gi
prihei 1 Greets of Charleftown, as a ferft icitfor 'orrfa
proteftiorf traitcra, and the vile ra ble of the BritiX
arry to feoff at.
C aid my we k pen do jufice to your character, my
dear dep r'ed countrymen! how ple fin, would the
talk be ? With what fatis action weuld I shew to the
world those virtues for which you were so bignly emi
nent ? With what rapture would I paint you j n the
amiable lights of a tender husband an affectionate f^
ther, k nd master sincere and benevolent friend and
honest patriot? But lam unequal to the task: Suffice
it to f y, that you are entombed in the breast of every
virtuous Carolinian, and that your country will one
day rejoice in an opportunity of ereding a more per
manent monument to your memory.
When the Eritifh major Andre (offered the just fate
of a spy, all pens were ready to heighten his cliarafter
andeven that of a distinguished American soldier, was
devoted to emblazon him, attributing to him virtues
as his own that existed no where but in the sympa
thetic and generous breast of the writer. How great
disservice the author of that panegyrick on that of
• This redoubted lieutenant colonel Balfour, is the
son of Balfour the auctioneer and bookseller at Edin
burgh. The father is employed almost daily in knock
ing off eighteen penny lots of old books and pam
phlets in sweet Edinburgh, whilst the son, forgetful of
the ancestors he sprung from, assumes more state and
consequence than the firft pear of the British realm.
f Colonel Hayne was not taken in Charleflown
but after the fall of that garrison. When the small
pox became so very fatal in his neighbourhood, as so
threaten the total deftruftion of his family, he weritto
Charleftown in hopes @f getting a parole for the coun
try, and to be enabled to get hi# wife and children in
noculated by a furgecn, but notwithstanding every %
ertion by himfelf and friends, the inexorable comman
dant gave him no alternative but protection or a priori
fliip. The impending diflrefs of his family prevail
in a heart replete with fine feelings, and he took prbfec*
tion after many days debate on fpeciaf conditions
too late ,tq effort the purposes he intended, as th , a ^
ly had taken the infection whereby lie ldfy< wif4fr
two or ^ree children. ^^
[NUMB. 778.