The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-08-04 00:00:00, page 1

SCARLET, brown,
purple, b?&k, green,
blue, light cb'oued, fii
perfine and second Broad
doths,
Scarlet, brown, blue,
light and coloured fa.
perfine Knaps & Coat
ing«,
Blue, grey, light and
scarlet Duffin & Frizes,
White, buff and scarlet
Caffimtis and Wiltons,
Crimion, brown, blue,
striped, black, spotted
and corded Velvets and
Vclverets,
Olive & white Corduroys;
Tickfets and Duroons,
Barragons,
Childrens worsted Hof*,
Pink, blue, black and
cloth coloured Duroys,
Prunellas and Durants,
Tammies and Sattinets,
Crimson, green, Iky-Elue
and pink Ruffels, Mo
reens and Calamancoes,
Jeans, Fustians and Beav
ers,
Camblets and Hairbinea
of all colours and fine
nefa,
Corded Worneds and
Everlastings,
Serges and Serge de Jeans,
Blue and white Plains and
Halfthicks,
7-^ 3'4, ttnd apron-wide
cotton & linen Checks,
An assortment of Ir:fh
Linens,
Fine and coarse Hollands
Yard and half yard and
3-8 brown and white
Sheetings,
Brittanpus aud Fiatrteila
royala,
Lavals, Penturies, Ozna
brigs and Tcklenburgs,
Sril and Duck Cloth,
Marfeillea Quitting,
Plain and corded Dimities
and Diapers,
Wide and narrow Russia
Sheetings, Dowlafs and
Flanders Ticking,
Jaconet and rook Mullins,
Tapes, Bobbins & Luces,
Plain and figured Kent
ings, Renting Handker
chiefs and Catgut,
Plain & millionth Liwns,
Camb ick,
A Large and General Assortment of the
Said NICHOL S returns bis best
Thanks to those who have heretofore fa
voured him with their Custom, and hopes,
in future, from his Attention to Business,
and Willingness to I'leafe, that it will be
the biterell of his Customers to continue
their Favours.
At his STORE, on the North Side of Market Preet,
opposite the Indian King,
In the last Veflels from Europe,
AND TO BE SOLD, By
WILLIAM NICHOLS,
Wanted, a Cook that can be
well recommended fcr' honcEy, sobriety and care;
good W'ge, will he given. Enquire of the Printer, or
WjLfcAM Cross, E;q\ic, Mount Airy.
VOL. X.l
SAI URD A Y, AUGUSTA 1,81.
THE
OR, TH E
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Following Articles, vi^.
JUST IMPORTED,
Published every TUESDAY; THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
Millions Handkerchiefs
and figured Apron Pat
terns,
Pla'n and figured G;ut ft s
and gauze Handker
chiefs,
Womens Gloves of all co
lours,
Ditto 6 k Mitts,
Mens flik Glov%
A beautiful Assortment
of dark and light
Chintzes,
Elegant chintz Bed-pat
terns,
Fine and coarse Calicoes
and Cottons,
Ginghams and Bengalis,
Nankeens and Damascus,
Ducapes,Paduafoys,Man
tua#, Luteftrings, Bro
cades, Modes and Taf
fitirs,
Green, blue, claret,
bloom, orange, and
white 2-4 and 3-4. ell
Persians and Sarfnetr,
Pekings, Mexicans and
Mufflemans,
Ell wide Persians, black
and coloured,
Mens, women and child
rens cotton and thread
Hose,
Elegant Tambour Waist
coat Patterns
Best Sewing-silk,
Black Thread,
Coloured ditto,
Silk and linen Handker
chief?,
Black and coloured Bar
celona ditto,
Belt scars Twill, Mohair
2nd Buttons
Black and white Blond
Laces and Edgings,
Thread ditto,
Painted, figured and plain
Ribbands,
Superfine, second arid
cosrfe Belting-Cloths,
Plated Battens,
Skeleton and hoop Wire,
best t u ".v Gartering,
Cotton Cerd and Tcffe%
Bandana, silk and cotton
Romans,
Quality and nefrow Bind
ings and Ferrets,'
;Snuff Boxes,
IWith many other Arti
cles, too tedious to enu
merate.
Haym Solomons, Broker,
Sells Bills on Holland, France, Spain,
England, St. Croix, &c.
IT E likewise fell*, on commission, Loan-office Certi
ficates, and all other Kind* of Merchandize He
gives confront attendance at his Office in Front-street,
between Market and Arch-streets, from 9 to iz in the
forenoon ; likewise attends at the Coffee house from 12
to 2.
Reed and Forde,
Have now opened, at the STORE formerly occupied
by Budden, Lawrence, and Company, in Front-street,
two doors above Market- ftreef;
A neat Assortment of MERCHANDIZE,
Which th^y will fell low for Specie, Bills of Exchange,
or the new Emissions of any of the ftates.=
Among which are
BEST fuperfine and second Cloths, of white, blue,
green, brown, orange, and Barite colours,
Caffimers of different colours,
Iri(h and French Liners, Britannias and Dowlafs,
Cotton and linen Checks,
Chintzes and Calicoes,
Camblets, Cambletees and Mecklingb*rgs,
Crapes, Poprins, Meffinet# and Brilliants,
A neat variety of verry fine thread Hose,
Cambricks, Lawns and Kentings,
Catgut and Gauzes,
Rest Luteftrings, Sarfenets and Persians,
Peelongs, ALmodes, &c. A LS O,
Weft India Rum and Jamaica Spirits by the hogshead,
Mufeovado Sugars,
Coffee in barrels and bags,
Soap and Candles in boxes ; with a Variety of other ne
cessary Articles.
LINEN PRINTING.
r^rt H E fubfcri'er brgs leave to inform the public, that
& a mano'a&orj is now opening at ker.finctoh, join
ing theGlafzhonfe, for PRINTING LINENS, COT
TOb3, And CALLICOFS, for gown .patterns or hand
kerchiefs, bed furnature, &c. of a neat blue ground, and
very elegant patterns : he will warrant them to waffi,.and
to be as well executed as any European goods whatever,
or return the money. White fck handkerchiefs, new
or half worn, miy b- printed, and m/d: to 10. kalooft
is well as Toba. Merchants cr store keepers will be
. waited on by leaving a ! in, for the fubferPeer at Alex
ander Boyle's Tavern, tue noxtheaft corner o' bbd.l
and Frent-ftreets. JOHN HEWSON.
TO BE SOLD,
This EVENING,
At SIX o'clock, at the COFFEE HOUSE,
A Tra& of Land,
Containing, by ftuvey, Four Hundred and Eighteen
Aerm be the fame more or lets, fituafe in the.county
of Morris, 'o^nfbip of Roxborcugh, and ftste of N?^
J'^y, adjoining the line of partition between E ft ard
W^ft J,„(y, and lands o' Jhr. Re ding, 1 qure. I
is within one mile of And.v*r F^rge, and seven miles
of Hat ket'LtOwn ; the whole will timbered .with ork
and hickory, has two ftrears 0! water running ihrou h
part of it, with a ronfiderable quantity of swamp and
meadow ground: Tbelan? in that neighbourhood pro
duces go^d wheat, rye, flax and corn; its lying so
near the ft tge muftrender the timber very vdav 1,
of which there is a great abundance. An indi^put.ble
Title will be given.
August 4. JOHN BAYARD, Ab&ionerr.
GEORGE KLINE,
PRIN T ER,
In Front-street, a few D-ora below Arch-street, Phi
ladelphia,
INFORMS the ret •eflible Public, That the ART
of P R fNTi NG, in its various and ufeful
Branches (both English and German) is performed
by him, upon very rerforable Terms. As he designs
to pay the meft particular Attention to his Business,
those who mao- please to favour him with their Com
mands wdi nod Difpatcb, Punctuality, and the BEST
Work, attended with grateful Refpt&.
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.
H use of Lords, Thursday, February 15, 1781.
TH E duke of Bolton rose, and informed the house,
that he had a motion to make to them, which, as
only preparatory to another of more importance and
efficacy, he would introduce without any kind of pre
face. # His motion was, " That the house be summoned
on Monday fe'nnight, to make an enquiry into the con
du& of the navy, and the loss of the valuable outward
bound convoy of merchantmen, transports, &c. which
was captured on the 9th of August last."
This motion having been read, lord Sandwich ob
served, he could by no means agree to the motion, as it
then flood. It manifeftly, in its prerent form, involv
ed two diftind queflions, not neceffarjly connected in
their nature, and differing extremely as to the expe
diency of their being publicly communicated, or pub
licly enquired into. He had no objection whatever,
that the loss of the convoy alluded to by the noble duke,
should be fully and fairly investigated; but he could
by no means agree that a general enquiry should be
instituted into all the business of the navy. If the no
ble duke would consent to leave out the firft part of
his motion refpeaing the general enquiry into the con
duct of the navy, his lordship had not the smallest ob
jedion to accede to the remainder of it.
The duke of Bolton contended, that it was impoffi.
ble for him to omit the particlar words alluded to by
the noble lord, because in the course of the enquiry
which he meant to institute; it might perhaps eventual
ly turn out that the particular loss, the cause of which
he wished to be acquainted with, might have! arisen
from some wrong arrangements in the disposition of
our fleets, in the time of their failing, &c.
The lord chancellor was of opinion, that neither of
the noble peers was in the right oh this occasion. The
objection that had been urged by the noble lord at the
head of the admiralty against the motion, was certain
ly not a good one ; for it could not be a moment sup
posed, that the noble duke could derive any power of
entering into a general enquiry into the state of the na
vy, from the terms of his motion; because he had not
only already explained his particular object in the in
flitution of this enquiry, but had expressed in the ve
ry motion itfelf, what was the foie purpose of his mak
ing it Under these circumstances the noble duke
must have been confeious that he could have no power
of commencing an indiferiminate invefligation in con
sequence of a motion so limited in its form. But though
this was in his idea ho valid objection to the enquiry
in question, there was another very fhbftantial one,
and that was, that such an enquiry was entirely pre
mature, as to the time of its being infiituted : It would
kt present be a very unjust and unpardonable anticipa
tion of another and more solemn enquiry, a legal en
quiry into the condud of the captain who had the
command at the time that this fl-et was captured —
He had understood, that capt. Moultrie was to be tri
ed for his behaviour on this occasion; and it would be
totally inconfiflent with the juflice of that house to
proceed to a decifiom on a fubjeft which might, in its
consequences, affe& the ultimate judgment that was to
be entertained by a regular court-martial concerning
this officer. If, after that house had gone through
-.their enquiry, and had come to a resolution in con
sequence, that the guilt, in this tranfadion, belonged
to a quarter which captain Moultrie was not at all con
cerned m, then they would be suspending the natu
ral operation of a judicial enquiry; by their anticipa
tion; for it would seem abfUrd to try captain Moul
trie, after the firft court of judicature in the kingdom
had, by a fefious and solemn decision pronounced him
totally innocent. If, on the contrary, they should, at
the termination of this enquiry wished for by the no
ble duke, declare that the principal guilt was charge
able to the officer, he would be fubjefled to the mif
fortune of going so a trial in which his fortune, cha
rader and life were concerned, with all the weight of
such an high authority against him, and with every
prejudice and bias that fach a decision would natu
rally carry with it. On this account, therefore, he
held it improper to profecufe the enquiry moved for
by th" noble duke ; but he wished it to he underflood
as his opinion in general, that the noble lords were
, extremely mistaken, if they supposed they po^effed a
right of bringing every little occurrence under a parli
amentary e amination. If every trifling loss, which
occurred in the unavoidable chance of war, were to
be brought before that high tribunal, there was an
end to executive government; it could proceed no
- further: the political machine mus f flop, and the bu
siness of thekiogdom Hand fiill. Eut that was by no
means the case ; for, in his opinion, no do^rise could
LONDO N.
[NUMB. 764.