The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-05-12 00:00:00, page 1

BL U E, brown, green
purple, fca let, buff,
and light-coloured, fuptr
fine Broadcloths, twilled
and kn^p'd.
Brown, blue, claret, cin
namon and clot h colour
ed Second Cloths.
Blue, green, grey and
brown, strong English
Knaps.
London brown, blue, buff
fca let, white and Grip'd
Caffinvers.
London brown, striped,
Purple, and a variety
of Ipotted and blue ivr
. rest Cloths.
Buff, blue, green, cloth
coloured and white
Pluih.
Crimson, and a variety of
spotted, brown, claret
coloured, and black Vel
vets, plain and cut,
Brown, claret, olive,black,
green, white and purple
Corduroys.
Grey, white and striped
Coatings
Black Everhflings.
Serge Denims
Serge De j< n.
Prunellas.—Durcons.
A variety ot corded and
plain worttecs, luLcbi,
for gentlemen, fokrts
and breeches.
A variety of silk j acker and
breeches Patterns.
Corded Dimities.
White, brown, olive, blue
/and emborfed Serges.
Minorca Serges.
White Flannels.
Corded, plain and spotted
Callimancoes, of various
colours.
Blue and brown Baizes.
White Swanfkin.
Shalloons of every colour.
Mens and womens worded
and cotton Hose of va
rious colours.
Purple, green and cloth
goloured Crapes.
A beautiful affortraent of
chintz and calicoes.
Marseilles Quilting.
Blue, draw, white, brown,
changeable and clouded
Mantuas of different
patterns.
Black, garnet, crimson,
pink and striped Sattin>.
BUck Modes,
Dove coloured Paduafoys.
A lew pieces of beautiful
Brocades.
Striped, and striped and
spotted bordered, bu ',
t green, brown and crim-
IK^ rrara, „vw„%-.. , ja&^<3Qfettas&*^^
JOHN KEA N,
At the Si^n SPINNING-WHEEL, on the Corner of
Market and Thib-hrert , <s tiling, Whelcfale and
Retail, a general Assortment of
MERCHANDIZ E.
VOL. X. I
SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1781.
s|mffii^ @@
O R, THE
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
C tton Roma 1..
Luffi, Dutch and French
Linens.
Big H Band.
b oad and narrow Russia
Seedings.'
Do Has.
Lva^. .
W u{ Sheeting.
Flowered & mJtet lawns.
Milne: fovn Handker
chiefs.
Sewing silks of all colours.
Thread of every colour
and finenefs.
Plain and striped Mullins,
coarfeand fine.
Long Lawn.
Ladies cotton Hose.
Silk Stockings and Mitts.
Purple Gloves and Mitts.
T%Ut of different colours.
Furniture Check.
Mens coarse hose & Mitts.
Small wiled Hose.
muff in bottles.
Cambists.
Durants.
Rattinets.
Veneti n Poplins, &c.
Plated & Gilded Bottom
Pen Knives.
Taylors & Small Sciffars.
Paper arid japanned Snuff-
Boxes.
Common S^a^cles.
Plated, pmemw^k, cop
per, br^fe and white
mettal she and knee
her k ei.
White-chappie and com
mon English N edies.
Hunters Knives & Forks.
Twelve and 14 .oz. lad
lers Tanks.
Pound Pint.
Cork-(crews.
Pol find Reel and japan
ned Saffrs.
Silver Locket-button# of
various patterns.
Irk pots.
Buckle B ufhes.
HanoVer L^ces.
Tapes ano Bobbin.
Quality and Cost Ending.
Razors, of the firit Quali
ty, in Cases, with
Straps, &c.
Tully Garters.
Writing paper.
Bass Cocks.
Witch Chryftals and
S ri"?s.
Br^ Nads.
Crokd Combs.
Horn Spoons.,
Black and white narrow
and bread Lace.
IBenges and Ginghams.
. An afibrtment of Rib
|bandb.
Published every TUESDAY and SATURDAY.
As the present great fcafcity of nods has much en
hanced the price, it will be said Kean's consideration
to lessen the grievance, as much as lies in his power, by
falling what Goods he has on hand at the very lowest
prices, and taking the most active measures to procure
large Supples for the fame iaiutary purpose.
Just Imported from Europe,
AND TO BE SOLD,
Wholesale and Retail,
BY
WILLIAM NICHOLS,,
On the Norih Side of Market street, opposite the
Indian King,
A Large and General Assortment of the
Following Articles, viz.
BLUE, purple, brown,
green, light colour
ed, white and fear
let fuperfine Broadcloths,
Blue, purple, brown,
green, light coloured,
white and leaflet second
Broadcloths,
Plains and Hafffbickr,
Scazkt, buff and white
fu'perfine Caffimers,
Blue, purple, brown,
scarlet and lead-colour
ed Frizes,
Blue, brown, purple, fear
let, and lead coloured
Coatings and Duffils,
Crimson, blue, brown,
black, green and mot
led Velvets and Velve
rets,
Corduroys and Thickfetts
of all colours and fashi
ons,
olue, brown, white, green
and changeable Hair
bines,
Cambists of all colours
and finenefs,
Corded Worsteds and E
verlastings.
Serges and Serge-denims,
Serge dejeans,
P uiellas and Princes
Stuff,
Ruffels and Calimamcoes,
Durants and Tammies of
all colours,
Duroons and Duroys,
Poplins,
Masquerades,
Dorfeteens,
Black, blue, green, cis*
ret, plumb, walnut
orange, garnet, pink
and white Pe fians,
Black T^ffities,
B ! ack and Lowered Grog
rams
Black, gray,light, plumb,
striped, clouded ^nd
orange coloured Muf
felmans,
Mexicans,
Pickings,
Peelongs,
Sattins and Modes of all
colours,
son, ell-wide Persians.
White and crimson Sarf
nets.
An elegant- assortment of
the most fashionable
silk Gauzes, Kentings
and Catgut.
Coarse and fine Cam
bricks and Lawns.
Silk, kerning, linen and
cottbß Handkerchiefs of
different patterns and
colours.
Beautiful tiffany Handker
chiefs.
Black gauze Handker
chiefs.
An elegant Affurtment of
Brocades,
Black, white, pink, gar
net, orange, straw co
loured artel brown Man
tuas,
A Quantity of Irish and
Dutch Linens,
Checks and Stripes,
Checked and striped cot
ton Seims,
Sartin and pduafoy Jac
ket Patterns, elegantly
tamboured, <
Mifeiiles Qiilting,
Dimerhies and Diapers,-
Jaconet and Book Mus
lins,
Plain and figured Kent
ings and kenting Hand
kerchiefs,
Cambricks and Lawns,
Lawn Handkerchiefs and
Apron Patterns,
Millionet Lawns,
Duk Callicoes,
Silky cotton, thread and
worsted Hole of diffe
rent colours,
A large Assortment of fa
fhionable silk Gauze,
Silk and cotton Handker
chiefs of all kinds and
cotours,
A Quantity of the belt
sewing Silk of all co
lours,
Purple and white Gloves
and Mitts,
A Quantity of thread Lace,
A la/ge Assortment of the
most fafhionablb Rib
bands,
Twists and Mohairs of all
colours,
Plated and gilt Buttons,
T!ully Ga iters,
Quality Bindings,
Shoe ditto,
Silk Ferret,
T^pesand Bobbirs,
ALS O,
A Quantity of Claret in
Hogsheads,
With many other ARTI
CLES, too tedious to
enumerate.
Hyfou and Bohea Tea of
the firft Qality.
A few Hoglheads of Cla
ret.
Claret in Bodies.
Pots.'
Skillets.
Call Boxes.
Window Weights.
Bake Stones, &e.
A L S O,
Some Hogsheads of exfra
urdmary Indigo, with
numberless other arti
cles too tedious to men
tion.
For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
AT a time when disappointed avarice seeks an ob
ject to vent its rage upon, and difaffeßion is blow
ing the coals of difeord, to light up a flame which is
meant to consume this country ; it may not be amiss,
that calm reason should point to the cause of that con-
Vulfion which has taken place a few days ago, in this
city, on account of money. When this is done let the
saddle be put on the right horse. Congress is, by some
inconsiderate people and by feme designing tools of
Great Britain, centred, or having been the cause of
this convulffon. Are Congress to blame for issuing pa
per money 10 carry on to ar, wnen there was no
other means of supporting an opposition against our de
termined and inveterate enemy ? Are Congress culpa
ble for the rapacious and avaricious views of those spe
culators, who, on he flimfy pretence of being paid the
value irr gold or silver, fpecified (and at firft intended
to be paid) on the face of the bills, demanded for their
property ten, twenty, forty, sixty, and at length,
one hundred and fifty times its value in those bills,
and thereby" rendered i{ necessary to emit, in that pro
portion, more money for carrying on the war, or that
the army mould flar^e for want of those articles? Are
Congress to blame that the States did not universally,
and at one time adopt and ad sre to their recommen
dation of the 18th of March, „80, to call in the old
and issue the new money on substantial funds, and give
it a general currency; whereby the present inconve
niencies and prefect difirefs would have been obviated?
Is it the faultof Congress that the money has not been
sooner calledin by taxes and loans, whereby deprecia
tion would have been avoided, and that redundancy of
money in circulation lessened, which firft gave rife to
depreciation, and the conferment (peculation thereon^
And, can Congress be blamed, by any rational being,
that the States did not adopt their recommendation, to
make paper money a legal tender only for its value
when compared to specie ? A measure which honesty,
which whiggifm, which common sense approved ; and
which nothing but toryifm and difhonefly could reject-
These are questions which I prefum'ewill answer them
selves in the mind of every candid man. I would sub
join the following queries—Does if not prove, that the
reputation of money and the management of our fi
nances should flow from one source and be governed
by one power ; to counteract that proneuefs which one
state has shewn to (peculate on another; that indivi
duals have shewn to (peculate on the state ; and that
all have shewn to speculate on the United States ? Does
not this prove, tha'tthe States must divefl themselves
of that plume 0 their sovereign authority, and agree
to place it in the hands of Congress ? the only power
in whose hands it can fafely or con flitutioually be
lodged; the only power nor interfiled to agrandiz^
and enrich itfelf at the expence of any or all the States;
because all are there equally iotere fted ; and each mem
ber is liable, in one week, to 'experience his proporti
on of the evil he might, either from ignorance or de.
Sign, be weak enough to work to his fellow citizens,
by being displaced, and called into the rank of a pri
vate citizen, to (hare the burthem he has imposed up-,
on them.
Surely no knave wotild be fool enough to create ant
evil for others, of which he was to partake in common
with all/ and bear ,an equal if not a greater share than
the majority of those for whom he contrived it.
These are plain observations, addressed to the com
monett understandings, by a real Friend to American
Independency.
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INK-POWDER.
The very best Black Ink-Powder may be
had at
W. Poyntell's Stationary Store,
three doois below Market-ltreet in Second-street, op
posite the Meeting-house gate ; its quality, in making
Ink black and durable, is inferior to none, being nude
of the best Aleppo Galls, and free from the grots parti
cles that cause Ink. to turn yellow, and in every other
refpe& such as cannot fail to please those who chute to
write with the best INK.
It may be had by the Groce, Dozen or Retail, with
printed directions for mixing it.
Likewise the best Black Liquid Ink.
At the fame Place may be had,
Bibles, Writing-Paper, best Red Sealing-*
Wax, Slates and Pencils, best clarified Quills, Bonnet
Pasteboard, Press papers, Blank Books of all forts.
Wafers in (mall Boxes,
Teftamenu, Spelling Books, Primmers, &c.
[ NUMB. 732.