The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-06-26 00:00:00, page 1

Office for Conveyancing,
and Sale of Real Effaces,
Q-EPr by ABRAHAM SHOEMAKER, is re
moved from Fourth-Greet to the North fide of
IN I ut-ftreet, the fecund door fiom the East fide of
Third Avert, where he continues, as usual, to draw
D-edu M tggs, Le?fes, Wills, Letters of Attorney,
Agree:.eo.tr, and *ll other kinds of Writings: he alto
canon "6 Soiling Red Erta r er; -nd has now entered in
Iris Office, a large number of ffoufes and Lots in dif
feent parts of the city end fuborbe, Plantation# in
the count v, and a rest quantity of unimproved lands
in the diffident ha.lc counties, to be dfpofed of very
cheap for cash; and among the fame are the following,
viz.
A PLAN NATION fiturfe in Lower Dublin and A-~
bin on o f h r s, a out zb miles fom P iladelphia,
adhi. mg lanes of Jac b Taylor and Joseph Miles,
COi iainmp n'a 6o acres, wheteon is a good Gone house,
four Loros on c floor, a Gone fpring.houfe with an ex
cell-fit fyrirgfa waggon heufe, a log barn and stables,
a ne , v cydundl arid press, a large ^pp ! e orchard, a
garden with various kinds of frui, about § acres of
excellent meadow, and as moch woodland, t„e rest ar
able, and the wh r L under good fence; it is now occu
pied by Adam Wals, who h/s a lee.ie for two yedra
from March lab, on the fir.res ; the purchaser to be
intrled to one half of the produce and other articles
mentioned in the leafs. #
Aho, A piece of io acres of LAND, adjoining the
above, whereon is g°od log hoofs, and fpeing-houfe
near the door, between 3 and 4 serfs of good mra
dow, zndab appe and peach orchard , the pnrehafer
to be intirhd to the owners port of the grain now in
the ground.
A o, Another piece of 20 atfes of LAND, about*
half a mile distant from the left, lying on Pa^unk
creak, and adjoining Robert Thomas's ok lmill, with
a log house, arn, and a good tp^ibg, about 4 acres
of good meadow, with a garde 1 of various kinds of
fruit, and an apple orchard; it is under good f.nce,
and re % tel for a year from March last, the tenant to
pay a rent 'l, and alt taxes; the purchaser to hive
the b nefit o' c- in wih the tenant is to leave in the
ground at he L f th# em.
Also, A 6. (he ,-two ftdry brick HOU E arid
lot of GROUND; t:ia e on tie weft fide of Froct
ftr^t, be • n Arn^r^ and Catherine ires now
occupied < (>; *n Cl ffton, th lot is 16f^ 3in bes
front, -rd • dtp> rc6 feet, fubje& to a ground r,nt
of 2'. #6% 6 . 3 4.^ er annum.
A /A two thus brick TENEMENT arid lot of
GROUND, fitua^ on' the Gwh file of Catherine
ftr t, .etw^n Front and Swanlon ffreets, now occu
pied by Mr Them. Taomfon ; the lot is 18 feet
front, and ih d-pth 87 Het ; fubjea to a ground-rent of
451. per annn=. : .
Allo, An eiev^ thf>* ffory Stiff HOUSE, with
a pi. Z%- an? kuchen, fruate at the north .aft earner
of Market ad Sixth- Greets.; the lot is 20 feet on
Market-ftrret rad 100 feet on Sxth-ftreet, lubje^ to
agicund rent 0 zol p £ * annum.
Also, Three hr . k HOUSES, each three Tories high/
situ te on the r ft fide of Front-ftreet', near Sbuth
ftreet ; the lot 0 1 which they stand is 42 feet 6 inches
front, , n d in depth 70 f et, They will he fold Separate,
clear of incumbrances. For terms of sale pleafd to zp
ply as above direaeL
Philadelphia, June if, 1781.
Was loft or stolen, (not certain which) out
of the p 'bet of M*jor Haool#on„ a depreciation CER
TIFICATE, No. 166. for 639 E ,p. gd, 1-4 specie.
Whoever has fohnd the fame, 1 d'fired to led^e it with
David Rittenhouse, es% Maj>r Hunton ?fcres the
person in whose poffiffijn it ^, he would riot be io v,-
reafonah'e, at the prefant day, as to mike th : s request,
could it be of any peflibY ferric- to any one but him
felf. June 19, 1781.
ALL, KINDS OF
COLOUR S,
For the AR MY and NAV Y, Made and Sold, on
th most eTon 1 Tarns,
By Rebecca Young,
In Walriut-tfree', near Third street, and next door but
one to Mr. Samuel MLaac's.
N. B. Any petfon having BUNTING 'ey Safe,
may hear of a Purchaser, by applying as above.
TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 17^
THE'
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0 R, THE
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
VOL. X.l
Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
From the Anifterdairf Gazette,
TUESDAY, March 20, 1781.
TH E Answer, so long since announced arid
impatiently expected from the /bates general
of the United Provinces, to the Manifefto of
the court of Great Britain, ha^ at length ap
peared, under the title of a counter Manif flo. As it
cannot fail to make she mod li el, impression upon the
minds already irritated by the conduct of tieenemies
of the republic, we cannot be too haft, in publishing
a piece so interesting.
If ever the annals of the wbrld'haVe furhiflfe'd an ex':
ample of a freeand independent bate hoftilety attack
ed, in themoft unjuftifiable manner, and without the
least appearance of justice or equity, by a neighbouring
power, a Hied for a long time, and closely united by
bards, founded upon common int^reft ; it is undoub*
edlythe United Provinces.of the Low Countries, which
are \ this situation, refpe&ing hrs rnaje y the king
of Great Britain and his miniftry.* At the commence
ment of the troubles which arose between that king-'
dom and her American colonies, their' high migh
tinesses, not being obliged to take the least part there
in, formed a design to adopt and follow, in refpefl to
these troubles, firmly and invariably, a fyflem of the
soft perfef land exaft neutrality ; and when these
troubles had afterwards enkindled a war, which ex
tended itfelf to more than one power; anti spread it
felf in more than one part of the world, their high
nrgbtineffef conflantly observed and maintained the
fame fyflem In the mean time they have not neglect
ed to give, on more than one occasion, and r lative ta
very essential objects, the most convincing proofs of
their sincere disposition to gratify the desires of his
ma jelly, as far as they could,*without infringing the
rules ot impartiality, and eXpofing their rights of sove
reignty. It was with these views,-and for this pur
pose, that their high mightinesses immediately, upon"
the firft requisition of his Britanic majefly, caused the
most express prohibitions to be published against the
exportation of monitions ofwar to his majesty's Ame
rican. colonies, and against all fraudulent commerce
with the fame colonies; and to the end that these pro
hibitions might be more effectually executed, their
high mighineffes made no difficulty of taking other
measures, which of course limited and retrained very
much the navigation and commerce of their own fub
jeCts with the colonies of the states in the Weft Indies.
It was with these views and for the fme end that their
hi h mightinesses fentthe most express orders to all the
governors and commandants of their colonies and fet
tiements, and also to all the, officers commanding their
veflels of war, that they" Should carefully avoid doing
any thing refracting the flag of the American Congress,
which mighi L gaily imply or from which might be in
ferred an acknowledgment of the independence of the
said colonies. And it was especially with these views
and to he fame end, that their high rhightineffes con
defeended to deliberate u pon a memorial which was pre-,
fented to them by the English ambassador, containing
the most spirited complaints against the governor of
St Euflatia, though couched in terms scarcely admiff
aole 'between sovereign powers, This deliberation was
soon followed with the recall of the said governor,
whorhthey compelled to give an account of his con-'
duCt, that their high mightineTCes did not permit him
to return to his residence until be had acquitted him
felf, by a juftificative narration, of all the accusations
brought Against him, a' copy of which they immedi
ately sent to the minister ofhis Britannic rhajefty.
It was by these meafu^es that their high mightineffes,'
having always at heart a desire to avoid giving the
least re'afbn of discontent to hi, Britannic majesty,
have conGantly endeavoured to keep up and cultivate
good friendship and harmony. But the Conduct of hiss
Britannic majefiy foward sthe republic, has been diam-
Ctrically ^ppbfite. The troubles between the courts'
of London and Versailles had scarcely been noised a
broad, when the ports of England wer^ filled with th<
vessels of Holland, unjustly taken and detained : these
vessels were navigated on the faith of treaties, and
were not laden with any merchandize, but fitch as
were by t' e express tenor of treaties declared free and
lawful: these free cargoes were eventually forced to
submit to the decree of an arbitrary and despotic au
thority. The cabinet St James's, acknowledging no
other rules but the pretended right of temporary con
venience, thought proper to appropriate those cargoes
to the crown, by a forced purchase, and to employ
them for the benefit of the king's navy. The mod en
ergetic and serious r°prefentations from their high
mightinesses against such proceedings were useless:
and it was in vain that they alledged,, in the most forc
ible manner, the treaty of commerce* which fabfiled
between England and the republic; by which treaty
the rights and liberties of the neutral flag were dear-
ly defined and fettled. The fubjells of Great Britain'
had enjoyed all the advantages of this treaty in the
firft and only case, where it pleased the court of Lon
don to remain neuter,-when the republic was at war,
and fu rely in the case, of reciprocity, this court could
not, without th^'greateft inju ftice' ,deny the enjoyment
of the fame advantages to the republic., Unjuftifiable
as it w's for hisTlritannic majelly to affu'me a right of
destroying- ,the effects of this treaty* with refpe& to
their high rriigirtineffes ; equally so was his attempt to
divert them from a neutrality which they had embra
ced, and forte them to involve themselves in a war,
the causes of which, immediately' refpefted the rights
and poffeffioris of his Britannic majefly' ,not with n the
limits of defenfive treaties. Tai^ was, nevertbelefs,
the treaty which his majefly/at the' commencement of
the troubles with the crown of France, made no scru
ple to infringe and violate. Thecrintrave tions and in
frafbons qfthis treaty by Great Britain, and the ar
bitrary decisions of the courts of juflice in that king
dom,. dire&ly contrary to th" expref, fau^ion of the
fame treaty) increased from day to day. The mer
chant vessels of the republic became the innocent vic
tims of the exactions and accumulated violences of the
Englifh' ships and privateers. They did not flop there';
even the flagof the states was not spared, b t openly
insulted and abuf^d, by a hoflife attack upon the con
voy, under the command of the admiral Count Byland •
the strongest representations from the Gates to his ma
jeGy, weri fruitlefs; the vessels taken in this convoy
were declared prizes.* And the insult upon the fiag of
the republic was soon followed by an open violation -
of her neutral territory, both in Europe and America.
It will be fufficient to mention two examples - that of
St. Martin ; where the ships of his Britannic majeGyi,
attacked and captured several vessels in the road, un
der the cannon of the fortrefs ; where, according to the
faered rights of nations these vessels ought to have found
a sure afylumc The insolences committed by an a r med
English vessel upon the coast of the republic, near the
island of Goedereed, furnifh a second inGance of these
violations. These insults were pushed so far, that ma
ny inhabitants of the island, living near the shores,
where they might think themselves in security, were
exposed by the fire of this vessel to the most imminent
danger, which they could not escape, but by r tiring
into the interior parts of the island.—Unexampled pro
ceedings, for which the republic could obtain no re
dress, notwithstanding the most pointed representati
ons. Thus circumflanced, their high mightinesses had
only the alternative of feeing their navigation and com
merce, andtheir fubjelts on which the prosperity of
the republic depended, entirely ruined; or preparing
themselves to aft against their ancient friend nd ally.
The magnanimous heart of her ma, sty the empress of
Russia, induced herewith as much humanity as af
feßion, to invite the republic to take the moftproper
measures, entirely conformable to treaties subsisting
between her and otler powers, for the purpose of main
taining arid defending, cojointiy with her imperial ma
jesty and the other northern powers, the privileges
and immunities, which the most solemn treaties had
assured to the neutral flag. This invitation could not
fail of being infinitely agreeable to their high mighti
neffe's, ~as she offered them the means of fixing, upon
the most solid foundation, the commerce of their fub
jeßs, and opening the way for placing their inde
pendence in security from every kind of infection,
without derogating from the alliances contrasted with
his Britannic majetty; or the other belligerent powers.
But tbe'c'ourt of London have even endeavoured to
deprive the republic of availing herfelf of this mea
sure, by Suddenly proceeding to the most outrageous
extremities, such as' recalling ' their arnbaffador;
publiihing* a' manifesto, containing pretended griev
ances ; granting letters of marque and pretended re
prisals against the Gate's, their fubjefts, arid property^
By which means this c^tirt has clearly evinced inten
tions, long since farmed, -of felting at nought the ef~.
fential interims which united the t^o nations and of
breaking their ties of ancient frleridfhip, in attacking:
this Bate by a war the moG unjustifiable, ft will be
uhne'ceffdry to refute, at large, the grounds of the
pretended grievances, contained in the maPEfflo,* to
Convince any impartial min of these inftiGciency,
Let it fuffice just t® observe, relative to the offer mad?
by his Britannic males,, 0 6pen 'ririndiy conferences
that it was the marine treaty abovementioried, thaf
Conl- ialone be tl^obi<<<of these conferences : That
the tenor of this treaty, conceived in the h^.a explicit
terms, -could not admit of doubt of eq-uivo ation:
That this treaty gave to the centred powers she right
of transporting freely,into the ports o:'belligerent
powers, all Linds of naval Gores: That the republic
d*d not propose to h p rfeh ary other end, and desired
nothing of bis Britannic majeGy, but the peaceable
and qaiet enjoyment of the right stipulated by this
[NUMB. 747,