The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-06-10 00:00:00, page 4

The situation of this country, fays a Correspondent, is
exceedingly fimlar to that of the Old Lion, in the fable,
at the point of death ; who, after being derided, mocked
and intuited by every animal, that before even trembled
at his roar, at last had the mortification to be kicked in
the face by the Ais :— How applicable this treatment from
our Dear Ehethera over the water! By St. Patrick, it is
not to be borne with 1
We are told that an engraving of the famous Paul
Jones will shortly make its appearance in public, of which
eight thousand copies are already engaged and febfeubed
for,—That people should be so eager (fays our inform
ant) to nurse in their bbfom the likenefa of a Pirate and a
Refo, who deserves to be hung up in effigy, at every
corffir of the fireet*, in every town in the kingdom !
By the Returns laid before the Privy Council by the
Vice Treasurer of Ireland, of the Independent Companies
now armed and disciplined in that country, it appears
that they amount to 46,900 men, completely armed, and
re ularly officered,
A Correspondent was greatly at alofs for the Minister's
reason for proroguing the Parliament, when the affairs of
theState require,'more than at any other period of the
English History, the most vigorous exertion of the wis
dom of Parliament; our correfpondeot finds the reason
for this prorogation in the proceedings of the Parliament
of Ireland. He fays the Ministry, from their well known
intelligence, have for some time discovered that the frith
nation were tending to a State of Rebellion, and there
fore thought it prudent to defer the meeting of the British
Parliament as long as possible, left any measure should be
proposed and adopted that might cruft the Irish Rebellion
in its infancy, recollecting how nearly the minority plan
of vigorous proceedings, in the beginning of the American
Rebellion, had taken place, which must have finished that ~
war in the firft campaign. The less the Miaifter is dif
turbe I by Parliament the more fuccefsful his endeavours
for the public welfare; Lit them meet to provide the
millions, and the sooner they retire to their domestic cc
cafions the better for the public. Leave the present Mi
nistry to complete the plan of the Scotch cabinet, con
tinues cur correspondent, and we shall have a peace by
the close of the winter. Our correspondent, confident of
being in the ferret, inffts ft is the ruling principle in the
cabinet. Tilings must be worse before they are better ;
we have loft America ; we have loft some, and are loo
frog others of the w-fteru iffands ; we have loft the em
pire of the La, our trade is going, and when that is gone,
and Ireland as independent as America, then, and not
till then, ^ shall have peace abroad, and nothing to fight
for at home This, fays our co-respondent, is ihegreat
object cf the Minister, and heapproves the last proroga
tion, which prevents a check or delay to the Independ
encecf Ireland, which is the last object of the Minister's
plan for completing the peace and happiness of Great-
Britain.
L OND O N.
Y OR D MOUNTSTEWART, who is gomb
.L/ Am' )ffador ro Vie Court of Turin, hasthe greatest
equipage, an.l will nuke die mod confiJ&abte figure of
any dm^afyor for many years pad. Great ptrt othis
.L^dlh^s finite is :o follow him; but in the train that
went with (mbcn Mcneby last teom London, he had up
wards of,thirty holies. His Lordthip takes Lady Mount
ftewart, his eldeftiba, and two of ins daughters, a great
nu nberof fetvahis, those for her Lady/hip being all Ba
ghlh, seven file -ant carriages, four running footmen, &c.
&•. His Lordship has the privilege of going through
France.
Extract of a letter from Preston.
<c You will have heard before this olthe different mobs
that have assembled in tots neighbourhood to destroy the
cotton (pinning machines, which I think they have very
near completed, except Mr Watson's of Preston, which
fill holds out agaioft them. They were beat off yefler
day, and some of them made prisoners ; but are expected
agaih this afternoon to the number of 5000. God kno^6
how it will end, but numbers are likely to loose their lives
on both files. People are fhiffing the mast valuable part
of t ieir efFefts,and from the refinance made again* them
many are afraid they will set fire to the town. I fupp„fe
they have done near 15,0001^ damage, and many people
who were living very well, Iravs loft every drilling in the
world.”
Tfe p^ace eftablifnment for Great-Britain before the
rupture, was 8,060 men for the army; it is now, in re
puhrs, militia, Provincial corps, marines, &c upwardsof
160 03. All these are clothed f.om the woolen manu
factures of Yorkshire, by which therein an addition of
above 140,000 fuitsof cioaths annually from that county.
R Zoning these (as a waistcoat is now given) at one gui
' nea the suit, the money annually expended there for cloth
alone, (not to mention hats and (hoes) is 160,000 gui
neas.
Tee French have published a lift of the number of pri
zes taken since the commencement of hofblnies, which,
by their calculation, amount to 486.
Extract of a letter from Aberdeen.
“ We have got in our seas two French frigates and a
privateer, the crews of which have landed at federal pla
ces, plundered the inhabitants, and carried off some live
catt e. Wearmed two vessels, which, with the assistance
o' two privateers that lay there, retook tne vessels in which
vr re the cattle, and also took the French privateer, and
havebroaght them in here; our privateers and armed
vffrls are gone in quest of the French frigates; and I
,h^pe they will, on their return, be able to give a good
account of them.”
A French Emissary has been apprehended at MancheL
ter, and Government have discovered some very secret and
dangerous machinations of persons in various towns in
Lancashire, supposed to be employed by France, in de
bauching the minds of the lower manufacturers.
Government feel all the poignancy of the shock which
the resolution of Ireland has given them. They fancied
that the fame fapinenefs and flavilh venality prevailed in
PHILADELPHIA: Printed and Sold ty JOHN DUNLAP, in Market-street
ta/hGENERAL EVENING-POST.
iV E ought to cenfider, how antient Rome fell by her
Y ' internal feuds and animosities ! And as this is a les
son to us Britons, let us be so wife as to attend to it, with
that diligence it certainly deserves- The Representa
tives of the people, it is,prefumed, cannot be more ufe
fully employed than in healing thole wounds, which both
Parties, in the heat of political debate, have given the
Constitution. It is of no avail for the Miniflerialilts now
to fligmatize opposition with kindling the coal of war
in America ; nor for opposition to higmatize Administra
tion with taxing America. The time is come, when the
question (great and important) is, whether we fliall any
longer exist as a frff people ! Whether a Monarchial fyf
tern of government, under proper reftriHijus ; or an
Absolute and Despotic goverment, attended with all the
horrors of an inquisition, &II take place in our once hap
py and free Nation ?—Toavoid, therefore, a republican
fy fieri of Government on the one hand, or an absolute mo
narchy on the other, let the Representatives of the peo
ple, in the present serious moment, exert themfeives to
heal, if possible, the present unhappy divisions.
VIGORNIENSIS.
BOSTO N, May ±2.
^ PERSON who arrived in town last Wedoefday, five
4% days from New York, informs, that in conftquence
Of the frequent draughts from the forces of that garrison,
for the southern expedition, the commander in chief had
been obliged to call a great part of the militia from Long
Bland to his (upport.
The Governor Gs Guadaloupe, upon application cf the
inhabitants of Point a Petre, which town was near.
Iy all cenfum-d by fire on thefirft of March last, to grant
them an exemption of all duties upon the exportation and
importation of goods, in order to relieve them in the los
ses they have sustained, made the following ordinanre.viz.
t., A futpenfion of the Po I tax upon the inhabitants of
Point a Petre, and the slaves that are not employed in the
culture.
2. A suspension of the duty which used to be paid on
the dwelling houses and flores in laid city; both for
those which were preserved from the'fire, and for thole
tl at will be built anew.
$ and 4. A fufpenfoM of a duty of one per ct. on the
articles which are brought from the country into the town,
and the fame when tiny are fllipped off, both for France
and foreign ports.
5 A suspension of 3 per cent, and of the aditional du
ty of 8 sols per li%e on molasses and taffias which will be
exported by the American vffiels from Pointa Petre.
“ Lately expired at Halifax, Nova-Scotia, the cele
brated John Krirby, Esq ; merchant of that town, a man
greatly regretted by all, as a sober, righteous, honest,
undiiiembled chriflian; and as a sincere friend to the In
dependency of America : For which he has been rigor
cully persecuted by the lenient British Government
there."
NEW-LONDON, May 19.
Saturday last was brought into port by the Young Crom
wril, Hawk and Sally privateers, the ship Jenny, Capt.
Hambleton, from Whitby in England, bound to New-
York, burthen about 40a tons, and laden with coal, cor
dage and duck.
By a gentleman from Bermuda, we learn that an epide
mical ficknefe brought there by Britilh invalid soldiers
from Georgia, has raged to so great a degree in that
island, as that 740 of the inhabitants have died within the
last three months.
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r r H E great Detriment done to the Armyof
I the United States, by defertezs serving on board
private fhipsof war, having induced His Excellency the
President, and the Executive Council, to declare by
thrii RBolve of April 28th, last, that the Iharei due to
such defert^s be ftopprd in the h^nds of the *A<%t.
All persons are cautioned not tc purch,fe fhares,°and
Agents not to deliver part cf prize goods before condem
nation, and Issue thereof by the Marfhzl, as no sale made
by, or deliver, to deterters will b? allowed.
Every,peToa ditcovering to the fubferiber, the names
of deserters from the American army, serving on board
private vtffils of war, or otherwise, ffiall for every such
defert«r difeoveerd, with the name by which he entered
receive a reward of Fifty Dollars.
LEWIS NICHOLA, Agent
for the State.
FOR SAL ^ "
Part of a Gentleman's Library ofßooks,
CONSISTING OF
DIVINI FY, History, Algebra, Natural Philosophy,
the Mathematics and Astronomy. Also an Elc&.
rical Machine All which may be had at the Printer's'
-that Parliament, which they have fucceisfullynnttoduced
into this ; and that they could temporize and trifle to the
end of the chapter- They are now brought to thd terri
fying brink—there is no receding—and to advance one
flep plunges them and their vi^ws into eternal despair.
The favourite Court ooflrine of binding Ireland by Eri
til Statutes is at an end,and necedity wad now force them
to be just.„
Letters from France fay, that Paul Jones is made a
Knight of the Order of St. Lewis.
AMASI ER MINER, to whom good encouragement
will be given. Enquire of Richard Backhoufe,
manager.
May 20, 1780.
Wanted at Durham Furnace,
Port pj Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, IT.
TO AL L whom it may concern.
NOTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Admi-
f ™ ralty ,iil be held at the State House in the city of
Philadelphia, the twenty second day of June next, for
the trial of the aimed brigantine or vend called the
Nymph, burthen about forty tons, with her guns, tack
le, apparel add furniture, lately from the port of New-
York, and commanded by David Hunter; and against
a Negro Boy named Tom, found on board her ; taken
at tea, lent into this port and libelled against as prize,
by Stephen Decatur and Nathaniel Brown, (qui tarn,
&e,J To the intent that the owner or owners thereof,
or Any persons concerned therein, may appear ana ihew
cauf,, if an, they have, why a decree should not paf#
pursuant to the prayer of the libel, &c.
B, order of the fudge,
June i. ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
TO BE SO L D.
An ELEGANT COACH,
Neatly painted, with Hirnefs complete for a pair
of Horses.
TT may be fern at Mr. George Way's Coach-Yard,
1 in Arch street, between Fourth and Fifth ftr^t, who
will shew the fame, and inform the terms of fate.
To b?SOLD byTuBLfC AUCTION,
On Saturday the 10th instant, June, at seven
o'clock in the evening, at the Coffee House in Balti
more, Maryland.
NE half of the Brigantine FO X, her stores and
" materials at fte came from sea, on her late voyage
from St. Euftatia. This Brigantine is Maryland built,
of the ne * conftruaion, fourteen months old, a faft sail
er and completely fitted, carries 90 hogsheads, has eight
carriage guns, three pourje'r; fix snivels, with mu&ettfy
pike:, &c.•
Philadelphia, June 1, 1789.
Philadelphia, June 1, 1780.
To fy SO LD by Public Auction,
On Wednefd^y, the 14,h day of June next, between the
H>urs of twelve and one o'clock, at the Coffee-houfe,
in Phila felphia,
T HE fine Schooner GREYHOUND, of
which Henry Geddes es Commander, lying in Chi
ncoteague Inlet, with all her stores and materials as the
came in from sea.
This Schooner carries about 85 hogsheads tobacco, is
14 monthseld, Maryland built on the pilot-boat con
ftrufb<m, mounts fix *nglifh 3 pounders, fails remark
ably sass, and is well found in every thing;
The purchaser is to pay the money within ten days af
ter the rile, when an order will be given for thedelivery
of vcfful, stores and materials, agreeable to an invento
ry that will be lodged with Mr. William Brown, Auc
tioneer of this city, as soon as peffiVe. A copy there
of will also belonged with John Dorsey, Esq; of Bal i
more, where Did Schooner is well known for her excel
lent good qualities.
TO BE SOL D,
AT HARMAN and LEWIS'S Store, in Se
cond street near Spruce Street. Choice Madeira
Wine by the Quarter Cask, also Bordeaux Claret in bot
tles, Loaf Sugar, and sundry Dry Goods.
To be SOLD by PUBLIC AUCTION."
On Wednesday the 14th instant, at the Ceffee-Houfe
in this city.
fr HE schooner HUMMING BIRD, as she now lies
4 at Mr. Hollingsworth's Wharf, at the Head of
Elk. She is Virginia built, mounts 4 carriage guns, and
4 swivels, carries about 45 hogfheaus of tobacco, is well
found, and to be fold with all her matterials as (he cams
from sea. Inventory of which to be seen at the Coffee-
House.
United States, Pennsylvania, ff.
To A LL whom it may concern.'
NOTICE is hereby given, That the
Court of Appeals of the United States
of America, lately eftabLfhed by Congress, will fit in
the State-House in the city of Philadelphia, on Wed
nesday the fourteenth day of Jute next, for hearing and
determining Appeals from the several Courts of Admir
alty of the said States to Congress.
By order of the Court,
May ^o. ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
As this is a matter of general concern, the Printers
in the different States will do a very acceptable service
to the suitors of the Court, by inferring this notice in
their papers,
W A STAT E N UTT
Last Saturday, the 26th cf May,
A BOAT, with a white Bottom.
Whoever comes and proves hi# property, and pays
Charges, may take her away.
JAMES SHILLINGSFORTH.
WAS TAKE-N— UIT
The 20th of May, in a Grass Lot,
A Large Bay HORSE, about 15 hands high, 6years
old, and has a switch tail. The owner is desired
to come, prove his property, pay charges, and take him
away, otherwise he will be fold on the 20th of June.
JOHN EISENB RY, in
Third-street, above the Barrack,.
June i.