The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-10-09 00:00:00, page 3

" the etfrfe font by Mr. Fox, Ms been, for the
Genevan anttocracy, the fnojeA of a great mortifica
tion, whirl trey little expected, aad it has filled the
good cirzens wirh comfort and gratitude, and made
them more eager than they were, before to go to ire
land, astoon as the asylum intended for term in that
country, flp|l be ready and fit to receive them.
" The maedlrat s have flrove to hide their confufion
in their answer ^ Mr. Fox, which is in fubftrnce as
follows, “ that Mr. Melly having been arrefled as a
flare criminal it wasimpoflible to flop the profecurion
Which had ben begun against him ; that the council
Ihall pay th greatest attention to the recommendation
of nis majefiy, and to hjs reclamation of Mr. Melly,
as one of hi : fubjeds; and that moreover, they are
very happy to have it in their power, to inform his
majefly, that in the Course of the proceedings, nothing
has appeared hitherto, that can in any shape affcd the
culprit."
tat • > .re r ^w-t ___tf Tarar are _
Philadelphia, October 9.
On the thirtieth ult. Congress resolved, '' That the
ferretary of war issue to all officers in the army under
the rank of major general, wno hold the fame rank
now that tiey neld id the year 17)7, a brevet com
imiTion one gr de higher than their pretent rank, having
reaped to their seniority ; and that commissions for full
colonels be granted t> lieutenant colonels of 1777, the
refolution;G 27th May, 1770, notwit Handing."
[/ill Monday (entente of death was puffed upon three
foreign tailorsforthe murder of c;p, Pickles ; alfo upon
John Connor for highway robbery. Wm. Tricket,
and Samuel Criod e,f'r making counterfeit coppers,are
to Ahn in the pillory next Wednesday, fined ten pounds
each, and to be imprisoned thye months. Ann Pem
broke, for receiving floien goods, to ha<e twenty one
ifne^ next W-dnefday, and fined five pounds. Mat
thias Lukens, for manslaughter, was burnt in the hand,
fined twenty five pounds, is to be imprisoned 18
months, and give security for his good behaviour
Turing life, himfelf in four hundred pounds, and two
securities in two hundred each.
The honorable the Cupreine executive council have
been pkafed toappoint Laurence Keen, esquire, late
a major in the army, to be prothonotary of the coun
ty in the room of Matthew Smith, esquire, resigned.
NAVAL-OFFICE, Philadelphia, ol 8, 1783.
Inward Entries.
Brig Petice and Plenty, Williams, Halifax
W Iffelvallegheit, Vider, Rotterdam
Sloop Charming, Polly, Ellwood, New-York
Mayflower, Waterman, Nantucket
Brilliant, Pinkham, ditto
Outward ENTRIES
Ship Caefr, Miller, Eriflci
Brig John and Betsey, Baxters New-York
Mart, Baker, Antigua
Betsey, Simmons Barbadoes
Betsey, Alhmead, Chorlefton
Cleared.
Brig Little Tom, Smith, Halifax
Poliy, Potter, St ChriHaphers
The following is a copy of an Oration delivered by one
of the young Gentlemen at the late Commencement
at Princeton
± DDRESSING so refpeßable an audience as I now
fee before me, I, who have not been accußomed
20 any public appearance, mud feel a great degree of
Diffidence; and do therefore request, that while your
attention is directed to a fubjed very important to hu
man virtue and happiness, you will bear with it!ul
^ence, the very imperfed nature of the few hints 1 shall
take the liberty to submit upon it.
Not wiri)Handing the ingenious attempts which have
been made by Rousseau and others, to prove that the
progress of learning and feience has tended to the di
minution of human happiness; T begin already,
from my own feelings and experience, to be able to
contravert all their fine spun reasoning Even at
my early period of life, it is surely proper to look
into myfelf, to confider attentively the nature of those
powers and faculties with which I am endowed, and of
tne comparative quality of that pleasure or happiness
of which the different faculties of my nature are fuf
cepible. If man, like the other animals, had no other
wants to supply than the mere cravings of sense, and
if he was capable of no other enjoyments than what
can be derived from the indulgence of animal appetites,
it would certainly be right and proper to direct all his
attention to the purfait of fueb objeds as are best fitted
to convey that kind of pleasure: but being endowed
with powers of mind, susceptible of pleasure and pain
in a much higher degree than the fetfes of animal na
ture, it is surely wifefl and best for man to pay a supe
rior regard to the cultivation and improvement of his
mental powers. From the conflitution of our nature,
it happens, that in proportion as the mind is employ
ed in the acquisition of ufeful knowledge, its faculties
are enlarged and envigerated ; and the confeious feeling
of that progreflive improvement of the best part of our
nature, must be a source of the most genuine pleasure.
Besides, as the spirit of patriotism, or in other words,
the spirit of benevolence, has by the universal concur
ence of mankind, been held in the highest efleem, it
should certainly induce the most ardent application to
such Rudies and pursuits as may enable us most effec
taaliy to do service to mankind and to our country.
Entertainingthefe sentiments, I feel myfelf happy in the
profped of entering to the college of New Jersey ; an
institution which does the greatest honor to its found
ers, and to the Rate, and the beneficial effefts of which
have been felt over the greatest part of this extensive
continent. Many who now hear me, will always think
with gratitude of this literary efiablilhment, who, by
being led here to examine with critical attention, the
heroic characters and virtues exbibi ed in classical an
tiquity, have had their minds fixed with the most hu
d&)le emulation, and gladly embraced the great op
portunity which lately offered for diHinguifhing them
selves io the field and in the senate, as able and zealous
defenders of the dearest interests of mankind and of
tjeir country. While I feel a degree of regret that I
aid not came info the world early enough to bear an
derive part in this glorious revolution, I have abun
ant reason to be thankful to Providence, that an op
£° r ,.°''y ' s °° w afforded to me of receiving such in
ru tons, and of having my mind formed upon such
pruetp es of public and private virtue, as may render
me fill an ufeful member of the state, and capable of
contributing to the welfare of my country; a country
new rendered worthy of the most Heady and zealous
exertions in its favor by every liberal and benevolent
mind. I bless God too, that while I shall be employed
'° "Mining the various opinions of phi'ofophers ref
pefling those qualities which constitute true greatnef, I
live at a time and in a country where I have the honor
and hope to feel the advantage of feeing exhibited in one
character, a living example of them all.—l will not at
tempt his praise—His superior worth is acknowledged
over all the world; it is deeply felt in the hearts of his
fellow citizens, and w ,l, I trufl, not only continue to
inspire the most grate'Ll recollection of his ineHimable
services, but also to inspire some portion of the fame
spirit of true patriotism, that has excited those glorious
efforts which, by the bleffidg of Providence have effec
tuated the political salvation of this happy country. —
Living at such a time, and in such circumflances,
what noble inducements have we, my fellow fludents,
to prosecute with ardor the fludies which may enable
us to onder stand the nature and value of those rights
which have been purchased for us by the toils, the
labours, the blood of our countrymen.'—They shall
transmit to us a legacy whole price cannot be compu
ted, and wofe vlue is equally ineflimabie.-^-God for
bid then, that we should be insensible of its worth ^in
attentive of its preservation, or unqualified for main
tain ng it with that tenderness and dignity which it's
nature requires.---May we never for t that those
great qualities which have been so eminently ufeful in
promoting the success of the late glorious conteH,
were not acquired on the bed of sloth, or in the lap of
luxurious pleafures;---but by that manly refoliation,
firmnefs of mind, and unremitting industry, without
which nothing truly great and noble can be required
or achieved by man.---Having such examples before
us, how difgraceful would it be not to feel their influ
ence, to emulate their greatness, and to aspire with the
most careful anxietytoqualify ourselves for maintaining
that dignity of charader to which our country is juh
ly raised among the nations of the world.
THE fuhfctib«r begs le^ve to inform the public in
general, and his friends in particular, that he has
open'd the Northern Liberty Auction Store, the corn
er of Third and Vine streets, in that writ known Sore
formerly occupied by James Kinnear, in that branch
of bnfo^fs, where he receives all kinds of merchandise ;
for public sale. Gentlemen merchants favoring him
with their employ, may expea the ftr&lt attention
paid to their business, and speedy patents mede after
sales, &c. Good stores for the reception of both dry
and wet goods, are provided, &c.
ALEXANDER BOYD, Auctioneer;
N 13, The Hated day of public sale is on every
Tuesday, beginning at nine o'clock; any gentlemen
favoring him with their bufintfs, he would thank them
to fend their goodt, or an invoice of them, a day or
two before the sale, to enable the AnfEoneer to give
them a proper publication. Oft. 9.
To TUE PUWL, I C?
THE fobferiber, late Matter of the Academy at
Lancaster, bar remov'd to tbit city. Encourag
es by many refptaarle citizens, he hm opened an
ACAD2MT for the Inftro&ion of Youth in the En
ghfh .nd French Languages, in Writing, Arithme
tic, Book-keeping, and the necessary branched of prac
tical Mathematics.
The honorable teftiraon, with which the principal
gentlemen at Lancaster favoured him, will, he hopes,
inspire parents and guardians with a reasonable confi
dence, that his solicitude ter the morals and menal
improvement of his pupils will give item here the full
eft fatisfaaion.
He can allure the Public, that the gentleman employ
edas teacher of the French school, has had a liberal
education in one of the colleges in Paris. Gentlemen
whole judgment ma, be depended upon fay, that he
has the test pronunciation of that language, in the
grammatical knowledge of which be was early inftrua
ed. He likewise understands Erglifli, not only to be
well understood by his pupils, but to mnfla'e with pro
priety from the one into the other. No public teacher of
the French tongue ought to be admitted without these
qualifications in this country.
The price of tuition for French students is forty fli'd
lings per quarter; and by the regulations of the Aca
demy, they have the privilege of being inthuaed in the
English or Mathematical Schools, at inch hours as their
parents may dir<&, without additional expence, All
wther students pay thirty Killings per quarter.
Young Ladies or Gentlemen who cannot attend at
the public school, may be taught French at their houses,
by applying to the funferiber at 'he Academy, now kept
at Mr. Kinnear's, the northwest corner of Vne and
Third streets. ANDREW BROWN.
A French Evening School,
For the convenience of Gentlemen engaged in Bufinefp,
IS now kept, and will be continued throughout th^
winter fealon, in one of the apartments of Mr.
B o wn's Academy, in Vine and Third Sheets.
The price of tu tion is the fame as that of the French
day school, v,z. Forty Shillings per quarter.
CAME to the plantation of Edward George, in
Blockley, the fi ft of this instant, a large red
COW, with a white face, branded on each horn with
the letters C. F. The owner is desired to cone and
prove his propertv, pry charges and t&" her awav.
CHRISTOPHER KELLER. 0&. 9
Subscribers to tie Dancing As"
4 sembly, are requeued to meet at the
City-Tavern, on Saturday next at 12 o'clock;
to chufe new Managers for the ensuing sea
son, which being already far advanced, 'ti§
hoped the gentlemen will be pundual in
their attendance.
Onfray Painniere,
At his STORE in Water-street 2 little below Walnut
fteet, hxs for i ALE,
A Variety of Dry Good., Brandy, Claret, Pert and
Madeira Wines, and the cai % o of the febooner
Go.d Fortune, jutt arrived from Hi/pani ris, confining of
Sigar, Coffee, Taffia, Cotton, anc Molsfl s
The fliip Peace and Abundance,
captain FRISK, of about 300 tons burthen,
N r OW laying a little be'o„ Vme-ftreet wharff, is
ready to t^ke in freight for I'Orient. Fur terras
apply to ONFRAY FAINNIERE, in Water-fret
a little below Walnot-ftreef.
Imported in the Lu V<ffels from
and to be SOLD by
Daniel Tyson
At h ^ STORE, in Water-flieet between Market and
Arch Greets. 1 general Assortment of
European and East-India G OODS' t
Amongst which are the following Articles
Broad Giodi,,
Fl uinelsj
bunkers,
Svanfk is,
Druggets,
Shalloons,
Velverets,
Duroys,
Serges,
Hosiery,
Hats,
Hatters Trimhimgfy
Shoes,
Boots,
Queen's Ware,
Glass Ware,
Sheetings,
Dowlats,
Irish Linens,
Ravens Duck,
Britannias,
Checks,
, Also for S A L E,
A quantify of James Rivet and Rappahannock To
bacco, a few pipes London Particular Madeira Wines,
and a great variety of Cutlery, Ironmonger- ,Gh : s ware,
plated Side board Furniture, &c. &c. by the Package,
-TO B R I'FT;
(and may be entered cn theist of November)
A LARGE new and elegant HOUSE, calculated or
a tavern, a mile and a half ab ve Brit I. upon
Delaware, in a commodious fituatim,, cm the pu die
road from Philadelphia to New-York, toother . rt
0 without 60 ats of arart^ Land: h^ewne 2 FER
RY already erc&ed ever Delaware. For turr&rp^r
tiruNrs apply at Mr. William Brasen's, in Se..md
ftreet between Market and Chefnut rirert,, or to the
fubkr : ber near the premises.
CHRISTIAN MINNICK.
N B. None re?d apply but 'ucl as a e Gapable of
keeping a go^d hcu'e f ^,t;rtry r ^\ 0/%0.
'sfubferiber, living in 3d
" freet, near R^ce-ftr-et, Philadelpia, has tor
Sale the following tiads of LAM), of tie best quality,
being the firft number allotted to the officers of b^
Penofyivania regime nt who fervid in the year 1764 . ;
finite on the town file of the weft branch of Susque
hanna river, beginning at the mouth of Bald-Ea<>le
ereek: No. I, containing five hundred and twenty
two acrer. No. 2, eight hundred and nine acre;. No.
3, five hundred and fifty.thr^e acres. No. 4, ff^e hun
dred and seventy acres. No. 5, five hundred rnl
twenty-five acres. No. 6, one rhoufand acre, nine
hundred of which are cn the Monongahela. Thea„
bove are all patent. Three hundred acres on A'unfe,
fix hundred acres on Warrior's run, three hondvd a
cres on Shilligwasque, one hundred on Middle cr ev,
sixty acres of Meadow on Trout creek, a traft f three
hundred and ninety acres, 15 miles from Lebanon,
Also a valuable Plantation in the county of L^ncai!e r ,
and townthiu o' Bethel, containing two hundred a r „
situate on Sweta^o creek, five miles from Lebanon.
Therein a good two story House, thirty by ts\ent x
feet, Barn and Stables, sundry nevsr failing (prints.
Woodland, valuable Meadows, Orchards, and a Mui
Seat.
Also an excellent two story BR ICK ECUSE, in the
town of Lebanon, to the county ct L master, f r,y
feet front by th rty five, four rooms on 2 floor, cellars
under the whole, a double K tchen with a piazza, a
large Store and Cellar, Chaint house and Staple,, a
fie Ga den with a next Summer hou'e. Tne above
houle i* fi pate at the corner and centre of the Grid town,
free from ground rent. Seventeen acres of Land join
ing the laid town, on which is an Orchard ana Mea
dow. lodifputabie titles wi4 ue given by
JOHN P. de HAAS. 0&. 9 .
N. P. Tie stove are n ihe Pare of Penn
felvanih
TO BE SOL J),
A few Hogfbeads of Old Rum
and high proof JAMAICA SPIRITS, by
Joseph Snowden,
S ^.grand er, on Spruce- Rreet wharff. O&. ~
IMuffles;
Boulong Cloths,
CaHicjts,
Bedtick#,
Writing Paper,
Printing Types,
Black Pepper,
Window Girts,
Cutlery,
Ironmongery,
Joyners Furniture,
P: wter,
Oznabrigs,
Ticklenburg,
Lawns,
Cambricks,
Silks,
; Medicines,
Iron Wire,
Tin Plates,
And a variety of other at^
tides,