The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-10-22 00:00:00, page 1

TH E subscribers to the Plan of the
Lines and Fortifications at York-
Town, in Virginia, who have sub
scribed with the Printer of this Paper, are
tequefted to call for their Copies before it
be too late.—And as many Gentlemen may
with to be supplied with this beautiful Me
morandum of that great Event, they are
hereby informed, that a few Copies remain
to be disposed of. —It is scarcely neceflary
to mention either the Excellency and Ac
curacy of this Work, or the Importance of
that most glorious tranfadion in favour of
these States, in which the British General,
Earl Cornwallis, with his whole Army,
were made Prisoners of War.—A Map of
so interesting a Nature, it is easy to pre
sume, every curious Person in these States
would wish to be possessed of, and leave
to his posterity, as a lively Representation
of one of the most material Events which
contributed to the Establishment of the
Liberty and Independence of his Country.
Imported in the last vessels from France, and in the
Herr Adams, just arrived from Amftcrdrm, and to
be Sold by the Brie or Package, at the STOKE of
H. SHIEL L,
In Market street, b™tw#-n Sixth and Seventh Crests.
SUPERFINE Broad Cloths, Flannels, Flaneurs
Sheeting, Britannia, Laval, Ponthias znu Non
batteau Linens, clear Lawns, Cambricks, Checks, Set
ting, Lutftrin%s and Mantua# of diherent colour,, flk
tambour Waistcoats, faun and kidskin Girt Sept iB.
A SHOP to be Let in Mar
ket-street, near Third.ftreet. Enquire of the Printer.
A CITY COURT will be held at the Court House,
in this city, on Monday the 28th infant, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, of which all perfon# bound by
recognizance to appear thereat, and all city conftabi*#
are to take notice and give their attendance accor sing
ly. All public boufe keepers within the city who ffiill
not then have taken out their licences for this year will
be prosecuted according to law.
WILLIAM WILL, fheriff.
Philadelphia, O&ober 16, 1782.
The north fide of Market.ftreet, between Fourth and
Fifth-ftreets. S^pt. 24.
SATTINS, Peelong &
Sarfnetts,
Plain and coloured
mens and womens silk cot
ton and worsted Hose,
Yard wide Barcelona Han
dkerchiefs,
Neat bordered linen and
check ditto,
Sewing Silk,
Silk waistcoat Patterns,
With many other ARTICLES tootediou, to
enumerate, which will be SOLD on reasonable
Terms, for Cash, Bills of Exchange, or Country Pro
duce, By
Just OPENED, a VARIETY of
Superfine CLOTHS,
Of the firft QUALITY and most fashionable CO
LOURS ALSO,
KUHN & RISBERG,
A Variety of Dry Goods
TOBE SOLD, BY
Lacaze and Mallet,
fa Water-ftrect, between Arch and Race-streets.
TUESDAY, O CTOBER 22, tf^
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VOL. XI.I
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
Kidd Gloves, fine Linens,
Brown, crimson, fl (h and
cinnamon colour'dCam
hlets,
Callimancoes.
A neat Assortment of
Chintzes and Calicoes,
Checks,
Bedticks,
Three-quarter and yard
wide Britannia#.
On THURSDAY,
Tbs 24th October, instant,
At T WELVE o'clock at Noon,
Will be SOLD by PUBLIC AUC TION,
Ai the Coffee-hoofs, in Philadelphia,
THE MERCHANT MILLS in the borough of
Briftoh, containing three Pair of Stones, one
whereof is burs, together with the appurtenan
ces, and a LOT ms five acres. The character and fi
turion of tho'e Mill# are so well known, as to render
any particular description unnecessary, being situate on
the Delaware, only 20 miles distant from Philadelphia.
Credit may be had for half or more of the purchase
money, if required. Further information on rhe pre
mises, or hr application to JOHN MEASE.
N. B. Possession may be had one month after pur
chase.
A new Sulkey to be fold.
Enquire of the Printer.
TO BE SOL D, A
Stage Waggon, with Harness
for four horses, almost new. For further pa ticolars
enquire at the Cross-keys, the corner of Chtfuut and
Third-streets. Oao.it.
- ^# —.—
TO BE SO L D,
A strong, well made Chaise, and
HARNESS, (half wore) with or without a «o<-4 r ft r ong
HORSE, all fit for a journey at a day's nt ; c: Fn
quire of the Printer. Sept. 13
(0 be Sold or Exchanged for Dry Goods;
A likely Young Horse,
full 16 hands high, trots and centers, ?nd goes well
in a chair. Enquire at A. WALKE'sLvery-btabP,
in Church-aller. Sep*, n.
'T O BE SOL D,
Healthy Negro Lad, well grown,
about 17 years oldi Sold for no other f^uit but his
Matter's w ± nt of money. Enquire of the Printer.
Tn Water-street, near Tun-alley,
SUPERFINE CLOTHS,
Ratteens, Coating and coarse Woollen#,
Blankets and Rugs,
Shalloons, Serges and Flannels,
Corduroys, Sheetings and Linens,
Tin, Copper and Lead,
Roll Brimstone, Tea and Spices, with sundry other
Articles, Sept. 24.
Philip Boehm,
Has for SALE, at his Store in Second-street, betwren
Arch and Race-streets, next door to the late dwel
ling house of Leonard Melcher, deceased,
WIN E, SUGAR,...
SPIRITS, T E A,
Waft-India R U M, COFFEE, &c
Philadelphia ditto,
He flatters himfelf his former c®ndu& in hufinefs has
been such, that his friends will again favour him wish
their custom ; which he fh,li endeavour to merit by a
careful attention to supply them with Good# of a good
quality, and on the most reafonab'e terms the times
will admit. Sept. 6.
on-street,
BLANKETS, fine and coarse Flannel, Naps Care
nlets, fupefin# Cloths, nombattn and royal Linen#
of ail qualities, Cambrics, Gauzes, Luteftrings, Petfi
ans, white silk Hofi^ry & Gloves, Calico*# and Chintz
es, black and w^ite Laces, Jeans, Buckrams, Ituff
Shoes, &c A L S O,
Madeira and Malaga WINES,
BRANDY and Green TEA,
Borbngton PORK and Buckley' Keg BREADS
TENCH COXE.
Has for SALE, in Front ffreet, cne dcor below Uni-
FOR S A I. E, BY
Peter Whitefide, & Co.
O R, THE
From the NEW JERSEYGAZETTE, dated
October 2, 1782.
Mr.COLLIN S,
By giving the enclosed QUERIES a place in yotf
n,xt paper, you will much oblige many of your con-
Pant readers, and in particular your obedient hum
ble servant, QU ERIS T.
A few QU ERIFS submitted so the Free and Inde
pendent ELECTORS in the slate of N EW
JERSEY.
ift. T\ OES it redound so the honour of this ftatb
to entrufl With so important an appointment
as that of a representative in our legislature, a man
of fufpeded character, and who has been found oil
trial and experiment either so timid, or so swayed by
felf-intereft, as only to assist in navigating the political
ship in smooth and calm weather, (and that probably
more for the fake of his own wages, than his affection
for the vessel) but inflantly abandoning her to the fury
of the waves, on the least appearance of a dark cloud,
er a stormy sea?
2d. Would it not be still more difgraceful to a coun
try to make a man a captain of a ship who, while a com
mon mariner, and ^hen the vessel which he was obliged
to defend was attacked by pirates, jumped out of i
cabbin window, and joined the assailants in order td
save his ventures while he abandoned alljhis fellow-fail^
ors to the mercy of the enemy?
3d. Is any real whig or true patriot to tenoran! es
our csn ftftution, Or so inattentive tn the welfare of our
slate, as not to corfiJer that five or fix rotten members
in the I giflature may, from our constitution's requir.
ing twenty voices to every aft, so perplex and obAroft
the passing the most salutary bill into a law, as by taka
ing the advantage of a thin hpufe, finally to compel
the majority to agree to their amendments, or to have
the bill altogether rejected, and thus in effect to make,
to mutilate, or to fruftrate any law by a tory minority
against a whig plurality of voices?
4th. As none but the Supreme Being can knew th*
sincerity of a man's profeffed repentance, ought not &
sirs l rate political finner to give us at least the proof
of a seven year's reformation and amendment, before
we put such confidence in his conversion, as to trust
him again with any post in which he can materially in.
jure or betray his country ?
sth. What is the predominant politics of the farrin,
whole head is at best a timid, timeserving weather
cock, and whole better part a profeffed tory, with
twenty times the onderftanding of her husband?
6th. Is it not evident to every judicious observer that
the tories, the torily-affefled, the neutrals, the mon
grels, the political speculators, the protection - men, the
Nicodemites, who are only whigs by night for fear of
trie Jew of Great-Britain, and the political Gallios,
who care for none of those things, that all this footl,
race of beings that have so long laid snug and perdue
while there was any danger or difficulty to encounter,
are now aspiring after pofis and offices, which are and
ought to be the remunerating lot and portion bf those
who have waded through an ocean of perils with their
lives in their hand-, and an halter about their neck# 2
And
7th. Ts there not reason to believe that if ever the Ilk*
difficulties should occur, those papillos of the dark,
those cansmelleons, changelings, weather-cocks, turn
coats, every things, no-things, will again endeavour
to fabricate their own separate and personal fafety with
the devil take the hindmost, as to all their virtuous
fellow-ctizens?
Bth; Will it dart a single ray of additional wtaoMl
into the intellects of the next legislature, or tend ta
the saving of time, and consequently of expence,
for the house to be flunnhd on every trie most frivo.
lons occasion with the garrulity of an old woman for
two hours upon a stretch, and nine tenths of rin
time about her own dear-felf and her mritcMefg uer
feftioos, and nine-tenths of that nine-tenths employe
fed in the narration of the thing that is not; and iri
recounting the wonders (he hath wrought, when id
real truth and modest verity, her ladyship had hoc
the least participation in the work of which (he aru*
gates to htrfelf-tne whole glory and applause!
9th. Can it be supposed that a man wno has rid dtf^
view bur that of ferviog the public (and no man dr
frr^es to be chosen into the legislature that has) wood
take the pains and trouble, and submit to the mean-*
nefs and dru igerv of soliciting votes, as a beggar dc^
an aims ; and in order te procure theta, propagate a
number of faifehoods concerning characters that wotiH
(corn to keep him company ; and ought not t e hoti-^
pride of every virtuous Jerfeymau to revolt it the
thought of being represented by a man, who deffflh
ing to rife by real merit to the elevation 0. others i#
[NUMB. 953.