The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-12-31 00:00:00, page 2

CONSTANTINOPLE, August 26.
ON thr 22d inflant, about ten o'clock at night, a
fire broke out in the quarter called Gibali, fru-'
ated towards the middle of the harbour, which a high
north wind extended to fucn a degree, as to baffle, for
feme time, the efforts made to suppress it. This con
flagration, the greatest perhaps that ever happened,
continued during fix'y two hours, without interrniffton,
with such fury, that one of the largest palaces, the ha
bitation of the Aga of the Janiffa ies, disappeared in
lei's than ten minuets. The flames proceeded from sea
to sea, and burned even the interior of the seven Tow
ers, at the opposite extremity of the city. In thisdi.
region the fire raged three miles in length, through the
richest and best inhabited Greets, on a front sometimes
a mile -broad, and fometirn s less, according to the ir
regular hilly firnation of the city. In some places it
extended in different d r reeion c , so that at one time
there appeared no lefsthan eleven diftin^ conflagrati
ons, mold of which ceased only at the sea fide, aft^r
consuming the very whars. It is impossible to eftr
mate the losses of ail kinds, occasioned by this calami
ty ;but it is certain, that numbers of people perished
in the flames, and that many were dri en by them in
to the sea, and unfortunately drowned. Previous to
these fad hi afters with which this unfortunate ci
ty has been lately vifit^d, it was fnppoFd to contain
feveoty thousand houses, of which it is bebeved about
two-fifths now lie in rums.
It is more easy to conceive than describe the feene
ofdiltefs which a city in this lamentable situation muff
exhibit, with, perhaps two hundred tnoufand unpro
vided inhabitants. The grand senior and all the mi
niters o f the Porte as vfual attended on t is awful oc
c fion, and distributed money to the people; and an
order was puhlifhed by the Mufti to suspend the fall
of the Ramozan, that the people might recruit their
Frength, and be the more able to work. Owing to
the direction of the wind, which Continued high during
the fire, the Games did not approacn the quarter of
the port and feraelio ; but the people of the law have
fuff red pr >di^ioufly, and amongd other public edi
fices, all the chambers of the Jauiffaries; upwards of
fifty mosques, three hundred corn mills, and two hun
dred public ovens have been deflroyed.
V I E N N A, Sept. 28.
An ed a has been published by fits imperial arid roy
al majeHv, of the goth of AuguG, bearing in fub
fiance, that as promises of marriage, far from useful,
either to the fta*e or to individuals, are very prejudi
cial to both, by the forced marriages which they oc
cafibn ; his majesty therefore, by his edia, declares
them to be null and of no effea.
A M S T E R D A M, Oft 5
It appears that all the cities of Holland have acce fed
to the proposition of the gift of July last, made by the
city of Leyden, for enquiries into the languid admini
fl ration and direaion of our naval forces, as well as the
equally patriotic proposal of our city, for a new con
cert of military operations with the court of France;
a concert whicii shall last during the war. These two
fleps have met with the fuffrages and applauses of a ! l
the true citizens. Tae inhabitants of Leyden, the bet
ter to set forth the patriotism of their regents, have
formed % the meetings held for that purpose, an ad
dress of thanks which is to be presented to them.
Those of Dart and Rotterdam have in like manner ho
noured their refpeflive regencies on this occasion.
H A G U E, October 3.
Tn confluence of the refo ! ution of the fiates of
Holland of the 27th ult. their noble and great mighti
nesses have named M. de Gizelar, Van Staveren. and
Veffelier, pensioners of the cities of Dart, Leyden, and
Amsterdam, together with messieurs Van Rivold and
Mecrent, secretaries of the cities of Hoom and Rot
terdam, to confer with the prince ftadtholder, relative
ly to the fubjeds of the refofution. For which pur
pose, these gentlemen, accompanied by the grand pen
fionary on the 3d instant, waited on his highness at
his house at the Wood, in a solemn deputation, for to
perform the duty they had in charge. They came
about one in the afternoon, and were received by the
prince with great solemnity.
MUN I C H, September 30.
The count and countess of the north, who flopped at
Augflourgh, set off yesterday at it in the forenoon,
for Dachau, directing their way through Schleifheirn,
Freoingen, and Landfhut, where they lay, and were
complimented in the name of the emperor, by the ba
ron de Leyrbuch, minister plenipotentiary of his im
perial majesty, to the court of the elector Palatine.
This day these illustrious travellers are expelled at'
Branan, where general de Branan is to receive them in
behalf of the emperor, and conduct them to Vienna.
LONDO N, oaober 15.
Extract of a letter from Dublin, October 8.
" Last Friday fe'nnight the privy-council fat at the
caftlt, on the fubjed of encouraging and providing a
suitable asylum for the Genevefe, who may prefer liv
ing under our free government, to the mutilated consti
tution of their republic, when it was unanimously de
termined to recommend the matter in the firongeft
manner to his majefly's consideration, and in coufe
quence dispatches to that purpose were lent off next
day ; since which, we hear with pleasure, that his ma
jeny has declared he would exert the royal bounty in
their favour, by a grant of 25,0001. to defray the ex
pences of the emigrants from their own country to Ire
land, and a like sum in aid of their eflablifhment when
arrived. Besides the offer made the Genevefe by the
earl of Ely of a settlement in the county of Wexford, the
duke of Leinfler has made not only a similar offer in
the county of Kildare, but added thereto such encou
ragements as it is thought will determine the emigrants
immediately to begin their journey.
“ Tne Genevefe gentlemen who was lately in this ci
ty on the business of the emigration, is a person 0
Foreign Intelligence.
and is now on his return to his native country, in or
der to prepare all matters refpeding this great bufi.
de''."
OHober 29. On Thursday last a fm^l armed.c-utter
was sent express from Falmouth with dispatches .and a
fpecia' m ffrnger to fir Guy Carleton. An American
gentleman alfy went in her, said to be charged with
some comm ffibn pr message relative to the Lyalifts in
that country.
His majesty's ship Pandora, captain Inglis, brought
in here last Friday, the ' rig Nestor, captain Lellman,
in 36 day^ from Cadiz, bound for Philadelphia. She
wai taken the 13th in ft/—Captain Inglis has also cap
tured a brig from Philadelphia bound to Cadiz, which
brig arrived on Sunday.
Lil Thursday niht at ten o'clock, off the Dela
ware, his majeGy's Flips, Quebec of 32 guns, Chriflo
pner Mason efqvire ; Diomede of 44 guns,
Frederick, esquire, and Adrea of 32 guns, Matthew
Squires, efqo^e fell in with the celebrated and for
voidable Flip Sou'h Carolina, commanded by captain
Joyner, carrying 40 guns, twenty-eight 42 pounders
mounted on her main deck,' and on the quarter deck
and sore-castle, twelve 12 plunders, gnd 450 men,
having under convoy from Philadelphia, a (hip, brig
an'ine and fchgoner, the latter drily escaped.
The South' Carolina was chafed 18 hours and an
half, when Cie fired a Bern chafe at rhe Diomede,
which was returned by one of rhelatter's bow guns, the
Diomede then gave ler 6 bread sides, and she receiv
edone from the Quebec ; the running fight continued
two hours, when her colours were flrock to this supe
rior fo-ce She was bound on a cruize off Charleflown,
and tak°n tne day after (he FrAd, was built in Hol
land about 4 years ago; hgr Red about 160 feet long,
and strong as a castle; (he loft about 6 killed and
wounded, the British not a man. Fifty German and
eight British fotdiers of general Burgoyne's army, ta
ken out of the gaol at Philadelphia, and compelled on
board the Carolina, (rath r than submit to be fol I by
the rebels) were on this occasion happily released from
a service ever obnoxious to their principles. Tne
prize brig is coppered, and lad-n with tobacco, be
longing to Bourdeaux ; the ship laden with flour and
tobacco.
Since our last publication refpef?ing lord Howe's
operations off cape Sparse!, we are informed that vast
execution was effe^ed by tne Bri'iCh against the com
bined fleets, his lordship fired carcasses out of howit
zers placed on the quarter deck of his (hips, which dif
traded the enemy, occafcripg a great loss of me 1,
and several Clips to be let on fire, particularly la Ma
giflieux, common e 4 by admiral de la Motte Piquet,
which was twice in flames.
The following is a literal tranflatim from the Cadiz
Gazette, dated November , 1782.
" The count d'Artois, due de ,Bourbon and prince
de Nassau, remained from the 15th August, till the
15th Odober, in the camp before G braltar, com
nianded by captain general Ie due de Crillon.
The vigorous attack c^m^enc d the Bth September.
On t^e 12th t e combined fleet of 49 fail of the line,
commanded by don L°uis de Cordova, (of which 35
were Spaniel and 14 French)anchored in Algefiras bay ;
the 13th ien floating batteries were placed near the
walls ; the English burnt two of them wih red hot
(hot; orders were +n given to set fire to the remain
der, they all blew up ^ith a loss of 300 men killed and
wounded.
The combined fl^t on the ribs' of the approach of
the English of 35 fail of the line, under the command
of admiral Howe, anchored off Punto Camera again,
a hard gail at S. W. forced the English fleet up the
Mediterranean, and drove several of tne combined fleet
from their anchors ; one frigat arid 3 Flips of the line
drove athore, Ie San D^mi^ -nd 1, g an Guerrra were
got off again; but le S~. ! '. hel was saved by the Gi
braltarians. The corr^ • ( - m followed the English
which repaired the Freight 1 e 19th Ofto. and tT.rew
in 26 transports to the garri' n: the 20th there was 1
cannonading, and the fuy rior failing of the Eng:im
favoured their flight.
Monsieur de Rochechouart is gone, and monf.^
Guichen is going for France by land, mo,of. d'EGaing
is coming, and several troops and tranfpor's, 24 fail of
the Sp4nifh line are designed for the Wefl-I idles.
Tne expedition, it is expired, will be really io Ja
nuary.
The camp regiments are distributed in winter quar
ters: there are 4 here, Bretagne, Lionnois, Bouillon
and Royal Suedois."
On Monday the letter of marque ship Betsy, captain
Findar, arrived here in 21 days from Tortola.
Advice of admiral Pigot's arrival at Antigua with
the firfl division of the Wefl-lodia fleet, was received
at Tortola ten days before the Retfy failed.
Extract of a letter from London, dated Oaober 1,
1782.
" You know I am fleady as old mother time: I am
not elated nor depressed, and the only reason I had to
give crec.it to the idle reports circulated in this city is,
England has always afled erroneously in this accursed
war with America ; but now N-— is gone to the south,
and the geese have flown away with the Fox and the
with the M. of R, lord S ——e Gands at the helm.
I expe&ed and do Fill expeQ deliverance from the
power of congress and its allies.
"I may be deceived, but if I am, I have the au
thority of a member of parliament who wrote to me
the other day, " that my fears were groundless, and
that America would not obtain a vote in the house of
commons for her independence :" he is a patriotic
member and was ever set against lord N -'s admi
niftration, and is a confederate of lord S 's
great character, and considerable property. He has
received the greatest encouragement and marks of fa
vour from the ministers in Great-Britain and Ireland,
'' The merchants who have great demands upon
the Americans and have large landed property there,
have been clamouring for independence for America
till they fiw it at their doors, but now cry out, we
N E W-Y O R K, December 25.
of Ireland ; this kind of independence will not displease
the loyalists, and no other independence will ever be
voted on this fide of the water. The persons appoint
ed (being friends to those in opposition) to negociate a
treaty of peace upon terms impossible to be obtained;
are very proper ones for this business, if they report
as they unfallible must, that France and congress will
not makes peace without the terms of France are com
plied with as well as those of congress, all opposition
here will die. and exertion against the combined foes
will be the cry of this nation. We are already chang
ed face the death of R. and the retreat of Fox, who
evidently is 10l in the eflimation of the people. What
ever orders were sent to , were revoked thirteen
days after Rockingham ded : however, Georgia was
not saved, Charleflown possibly may be, and New-
York certainly will be. Hence you fee my creed and
prophecy. Tme will convince you that lam not so
ignorant as many who will write by this packet."
Extract of another letter, October 3.
" I never wa^ more surprised nor distressed than at
the receipt of your last favour, on the fubjed of the
commissioners letter to Washington. It was as unex
peded to me, as it seems to have been to the nation
in general. It held out terms flatly contradictory to
til that I had been told from a variety of quarters,
r where! thought I might fafely place the molt perfect
confidence. Just before the death of the marquis of
R -- I was told that Mr. F- and his party in the ca
binet, was pushing for a resolution to offer unconditi
onal independence to America through Mr. Grenville,
then at Paris ; and that there was reason to fear his
m y and lord S---e would be obliged to accede to
the measure. But upon the death of the marquis, and
the appointment of lord S--- and Mr. P-, I was in
formed that there was a more decided Majority in the
cabinet against the independence cf America, than ever
had been since the rebellion.
“ This gave me spirits, and upon this ground I
wrote my last letters to my friends at New-York, not
doubting but upon the change in administration,
things would be so managed that the war would ter
minate in a recovery of the colonies. Upon convers
ing with , and being informed that the letter
from the secretary of Fate was wrote during the Rock
ingham administration, my surprise in some degree
lessened, and my hopes revived that America was not
given up.
“ Since then your frigid waited on , with
whom he ^ad much conversation on the letter' from
the commissioners to general Washington, and was by
him ass ined, that unconditional independence had not
been offered through Mr. Grenville, nor was it the
sense of the cabinet it should be so. That the inde
pendence of America as one article of a general peace
was not to be granted but upon the express condition,
that the loyalists should be secured and ^jenmin^
I hat should this article be fettled upon this condition
it was not to be binding or ratified, unless all the other -
terms infixed upon by Grea^^ ( ''ain should be acceded
to by the belligerent powers. For it could not be ex
p-fled that Great-Britain would make so great a facef.
fice without obtaining an equivalent, so as to f<cureV
herfelf an honourable peace. Ke To informed hi
that the arrival of the dispatches soon after fr
New-York, would explain the letter to theC s, r
make the minds of the loyalists easy. His majesty
plea ed mol grario fly to receive your addreft .
declared that his heart bled for the loyalists. A no
bleman of very high rank and 'ortuce, in conversation
with , refpefling the independency of America"
said he was net at liberty to fay all he knew of that
matter, but pledged l imfelf th,at ,— would bring
to the block the M - who should be treacher^
enough to drive the K to such a meafure'
The trade of Dublin is much revived, the bay full
of Flipping, many merchant vessels, and among others
a galley wearing the Turkifn Flag.— It is said that
several eflatrs in Norfolk and Suffolk have been late
ly purcbafe I by Du+ch agents.—The charges of fir
William Draper againf lgeneral Murray go into seve
ral articles; # hat he allow d himfelf to be taken by
furprize, the' be had received abundant information
of the enemy's intentions against Minorca; that he act
ed, ever aft-r the landing in a very un-officer like
manner, and that in particular he retrained fir Willi
am from t' ofe exertions which evidently might have
resisted the furren^er of the place: to those allegations
general Mur r y replies not guilty, arid in particular
infills that heicannot be so, as long as he proves, what
he is able to do, that i e kept the place four days long
er than fir William advised him to do —On the 17th
of October a gentleman at Whitt's chocolate house,
paid down 1000 guineas, tn receive a guinea a day#
till such time as America shall be abfohitely indepen
dent of every European power. The following i s a
lift of Flips newlv built or buildfog at Brefl and Tou
lon, viz. Le Tenuraire, le Superbe, Ie Monarque,
Ie Thefee, le Hereux, le Centanre, la Ville de Paris
la Generairte he Paris, !a Ville de Lyon, le Commerce
de Rourdeaux, le Commerce de Marseilles, les Etats
de Bourgogne, le Dmx Freres.—So high an opinion
have the Dutch of the security of this country, that
no lets than 1630 Gate lottery tickets have been bought
at the flock exchange, for only three houses at Am-
Gerdam. An elegant monument is now erecting in
WeGminF^r abbey, in honour of the merits of the
brave major Andre, who was sometime ago murdered
dependent of the Britifl ihoufe of lords and commons,
fubjed to the king, with a constitution similar to that
are undone if congress Basils independence; the popu
lace fay the fame thing in this factious city. I
therefore augur that petitions will go up to the king
to carry on the war with vigour, because the minifler
is apparently for peace, and of course this city will be
for war. I do venture to fay, that the propped of
redu ing Washington and the congress was never so
great as at this time. Ido not fay this on account of
---letter to to prove the loyalty of-r-but because
I am assured from a good quarter, that at the meet
ing of parliament the minifler will carry every thing
in favour of the loyalist, and vote America totally in-
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