The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-07-08 00:00:00, page 2

B 0 S TO N, June 23.
Arrivals here since our last.
Snow Sally, Todd, Gaudaloup.
brig ifabeila, Cunningham, Teneriffe.
Lady, Catharine, Chrifleons, Amflerdam.
Union, Farnell, Hispaniola.
Adventure, Seymore, Turks-Island.
Santiffimo Sacramento Nessa) T
Seniora da Guia, Carvallo,/ 1 bon.
June 26. Tuesday being the anniversary of St. John
'the baptist, the fame was celebrated here by the anci
ent and honorable society of free and accepted masons.
At ii o'clock, the brethren of the fraternity, adembled
at Concert-hall, where the mod worshipful John War
ren, esquire, was inftall'd grand master of ancient
mafonary, throughout the commonwealth of Massa
chusetts, tor the year ensuing : after which the pro
cession marched in form, to the flone Chapel, where
an elegant oration, well adapted to the occasion, was
pronounced by Christopher Gore, efquire,— followed
by a fpiritrd and well applied charge, by the reverend
Mr. J. Elliot—a generous colledion was then made for
the poor; from thence the company proceeded to Fa
neuil had, where a sumptuous dinner was provided;
after which a number of patriotic and masonic toasts
were drank. The whole was conduced with that good
order and decorum, which ever adorns that cemented
fociety'.
Thirty Dollars Reward.
"CT F E ho< le of the fubferiber, bring in EvHham,
I Burl n/ ton county, N-w-Jer^j, was broke open
on the sth intbur, about 9 o'clock at night, by 3 or 4
mm a,med with CTtffis and pift Is, s"d robbed of
Ue f c lowing Adeles, viz. A Silver Watch wth a
china '^ . m/rk^d on the bottom of infiJe case M. L.
li, mI r^e letters, a pair of S4v<r Slitebucklet, mid
1^ larg; carved in the old fashion, tteel anchors 2nd
'l^l?% the ma k, if any, M. L a ffver Stockbuckle,
a id hi d^ mher fl, P articles not remembered, between
12 ml 20 Do' ! nrs and Crowns, and some small Money :
One of the men that czrre into the boule was a Him
;mmfraan,. smooth faced, lit:le or no beard, brown
hair, long vifige, appeared to be about 5 feet 6 or 7
imh t s high ; h^d on a furtcut ccat, his other cloaths
not remembered; he seemed to have the chis com
mand, and was very abusive, ftiuck the fubferiber fe
vital <b s with his banger and cut him on the (boul
der : 1 eether man that was in the house appeared to
be fome^ha larger ahi older than the other. h<d a
down look, '"r^-n or sandy hair, but meanly clad and
looked fhahb% A the oth^r men did not ap ear in the
bon'?, 0 that they cannot be describ'd. Who
ev r apprehends and secures the Robbers, so that they
may be br^n hr to juflice, fh%l| receive the zbove re
ward, or Four Dollars for the Watch only.
July 8, JOSHUA BORTON.
Genreel Lodgings in a pleafanc
part of the City. Enquire of the Printer.
STRAYED vefterday morning out of a patture in
Hilary Line, Northern Liberties, a well grown,
two year old roan COLT, has four blacklegs and a ve
ry rigf.^ mans: whoever can give information of fad
Celt to the printer, so that he may be had again, (hall
be hadfomdyrewarded. July 7.
WANTS A PLAC E,
A young Man who understands
keeping Accounts. Enquire of the Printer. June 3.
LONDO N, April 30.
+„ HE American Rattl^fnakeceafes to bifs, and ex
{ ulis baking in the funflline of success—the Gal
." lick Cock flrutsand crows aloud—what a pity
'hat the British Lion alone should fit sullenly devour
hg his own sorrows!
DUBLI N, Marchal.
ExtraX of a letter from Clconane, near Cattlebar, dat
ed March 21.
" As I always wished to inform you of what passes
in this part of the country, I now fend you an account
of a riot which happened in Caftlebar on Monday last,
occasioned by a number of the dragoons quarter'd here,
who dressed two of their companions in a ridiculous
manner, in ridicule of St. Patrick, and his wife Shela,
as they called her, with caddows and potatoes, in imi
tation of beads, about their necks, &c. between whom
the most indecent aXions were performed opposite the
doors of the Roman Catholic inhabitants. The may
or requeued they would disperse or go home, but they
spurned at his advice, and set him and the volunteers
of the kingdom at defiance, for trey not only paraded
in the fame licentious manner, but cut and abused eve
ry person they met with: the mayor at last, irritated
by their wantonness and cruelty, sent for a party of vo
lunteers, who drove them to their, barracks, where
they broke open a military chest, provided themfelvts
with 60 rounds of ball cartridge, and sallied out de
claring they would annihilate all the volunteers they
could find; the latter, however, under the command
cf Captain M'Donnel, attacked this furious banditti,
killed four of them on the spot, wounded seven, took
14 prisoners, and pursued the rest to their quarters,
where they remained when this letter was sent off,''
A gentleman, who came through the town of Adams,
on the last week, informs us, that the inhabitants of
that, and the neighbouring towns have been for some
time in the greatest consternation on account of mad
dogs; several persons have been bitten by them within
these few weeks, and a great number of cattle, swine,
logs, &c. Mr. Mason, son of deac. Nathaniel Mason,
SPRINGFIELD, June 24.
By letters from several military agents we learn, that
the reduction of the army is to 'reach to the 50th regi
ment of infantry, which is to be the youngest (landing
corps; and that there are to be only eight companies
to a battalion. This large reform of the laud forces is
to be made up by continuing in the service a much
larger naval efiabhfhment than ever was hitherto known,
as the British and French courts, equally jealous of each
other, do not expert the peace between the two coun
tries will be of long duration; the great number of
French engineers, of late secretly sent to the Eatiln
dies, with some other enterprizes, not of a pacific ten
dency, amply juftify the suspicions of the British mi
nistry.
CHATHAM, July 2 .
Monday morning three men were found dead in the
streets of New-York. --Scarce a night elapses without
the morning exhibiting feenes of this nature.
We hear from New-York that the firtl division of
the British army, consisting mostly of the German troops,
is expeded to fail this week.
The legislature of this Rate, at their last fitting,
made a donation to Congress of 30,000!. and twenty
square miles of land in any part of the state they may
choose.
At a joint meeting of the honorable the legislature
of this state, at their last fitting, Joseph Bloomfield,
esquire, was ele&ed attorney general in the room of
William Patterson, esquire, resigned.
T R E NT O N, July 1.
The honourable the Congress of the United-States
have adjourned from Philadelphia to Princeton, in this
Hate.
RICHMON D, (Virginia) June 28.
To JOHN THORNTON and JOHN-HEATH, efq r's.
Delegates from the county of Northumberland.
Gentlemen,
TH E present peace places us in one of those ha
zardous and critical situations, that makes it our
duty to address you. National dignity, security, and
of that town, died last week cf a bite which he receiv
ed about fix weeks since, after a violent madness which
laded a number of days; a daughter of deac. Mason,
who was bitten by the fame dog, and nearly at the fame
time, (our informant fays) is in a molt flrange and
difireffing situation, and that her life is despaired of.
We hope in our next to be able to give a more particu
lar account cf this melancholy affair.
In the severe thunder derm on Friday lafl, Mr.
Ithamur Williilon, son of captain John Willitton, of
Weil-Springfield, (ag p d 15) as lie was looking out at
the window, was Struck dead with lightning. The
house was much shattered by the mock, but no other
person in it hurt.
NE W-Y O R K, July 2.
The ship Stat Kortryck, Peter Harmoz, from Do
minico for Oftend, with 550 hogsheads of rum and su
gar, and a quantity of coffee, cocoa and cotton, was
call away on thetfland of Bermuda on the 28th of May :
(he sprung aleak femetime before, and could not be
kept free with both pumps. The vessel and cargo were
loft; and three of the crew drowned.
Friday the Ketch Geneva, captain Day, arrived here
from Dublin, -after a tedious passage of near 3 months.
Fourteen ' days ago he (poke captain Bell, in a brig
from Newry, botind for Philadelphia.
Sunday morning the brig Diana, captain Graham,
came up from London, but last from Plymouth, in fix
weeks. As they came out, three (hips of fir Samuel
Hood's fquadroi ifrom the Weft Indies, were going in
to port ; and twenty da^s ago, they fell in with 24 fail
of Jamaica men, bound for England
The fame day, the following transports arrived from
St. Augufline, viz. Beverly, captain Culverwell; Eli
zabeth and Mary, Brown ; Wilson, Benson; Clemen
tina, Bryden ; a's'd the Providence Blessing, Marfli.
The fame day also arrived, the Commerce, Martin
dal, from 'Bermuda ; and Peggy, Wilson, from Anno
polis Royal, Nova-Scotia.
ADVICES by the Roebuck Packet, in forty-feven
days from Falmouth.
It is fu'd three French (hips of war are loft in their
passage to India.—The king has granted 50,0001. to
the Genevans, (in number one thousand fouls) towards
the expence of their journey to a settlement in Ire
land. —We are informed that fir Joseph Yorke is again
appointed our ambassador to the dates general of Hol
land, the terms of pacification being now finally adjur
ed.—At a board of admiralty, several (hips were lately
recommissioned, and the officers ordered to repair on
board of them ; amongst the rest, are the Atlas of 90,
Goliath of 74, and l'Argonaute of 64 guns, all at Ply
mouth.—Prince Ernest Augustus, their majeflies fifth
son, now in his 13th year, is to be entered on board 1
of the mips of war. The prince and bithop of Ofnaburg,
is excelled over in England, to join in celebration of the
king's birth-day ; ---his royal highness has compleated
hm fludies on the continent.- -Captain Hudson is ap
pointed to command the Venus frigate, of 36 guns.- -
The petition of the Ameiican refugees for cempenfau
-011, is not yet gone to parliament, but it will be done
very soon: the present ministry have behaved to them
in a much more friendly and liberal manner than the
last : and they have promised countenance and support,
when their case comes before the grand council of the
nation. The good people of England are flrongly in
their favour.- It is expelled that an aft will pass this
session, for appointing a commission of enquiry into
the claims of those who have (acrificed their property in
the cause of their king and country ; and they must
prepare and remit to England, just and well attested
estimates of their losses, in order to obtain equivalents.
The present adminifiration are likely to continue in
power, notwithstanding any opposition that may be
forming against them.
In the Roebuck Packet came passenger, le conte Dal
Verme, a young nobleman from the duchy of Milan,
in Italy, who, after having made the tour of Great
Britan, proposes to visit the principal parts of this
continent.
happiness on the one hand, or decay and miser, on the
other, are consequences that will be greatly determin
ed by our public condutl, at emerging from obscuri
ty and dependence to independent sovereignty. Our
anxiety corresponds with the greatness of these concerns
when we refleft that no favourable profped of them
can be entertained, until we (hall ,ee many defers both
of our government and manners, permanently and wife
ly reformed or abolished. The conflitution itfelf hav
ing been hafiily formed in times of turbuknee and con-
fufion, may be presumed to require amendments ; we
are moreover informed, that some very refpeßable'per
fons are of opinion, that the assent and concurrence of
the people in its formation, were not obtained with due
solemnity and extent: as well, therefore, to put the
very basis of our political flruaure on unexceptiona
ble grounds, as to prevent fadious or wicked men,
from covering their designs to disturb the good order
of government, under plausible objections to its infti
tttion, we with that a convention of representatives
might be called, who (hall be expressly delegated by
the people to review and eflablifh the con ftitution We
refled with shame, upon the repeated violations of
public faith, in the management of our money affairs:
even the necessities and didraaions of war do not jus
tify this conduct : but to persevere in it during a state
of peace, would leave us at a loss, whether to impute
most to the folly, the criminality, or the insanity of its
abettors. The exigence of paper money to any ufe
ful purpose, pre-fuppofes an establishment of public
credit ; we think therefore, that the issuing it at this
time, would serve no purpose, but to overwhelm the
remains of public credit, and revive that Blocking
counenance to private fraud, which has too evidently
followed many of our public measures. When you
confider how invaluable public Credit is, both in its
foreign and domestic relations, we red assured, that you
will use every exertion to repair the injuries it has hi
therto su stained, and to secure and cherilh it in future-
The want of energy and decision in the various orders
of mag firacy, will necessarily occasion negligence, and
where there is a disposition to it, iniquity in the several
officers of state that are refpeaively under their con
troul; amongst many ill effe&s deducible from this
source, we particularly lament the fruitlefs iffae of the
numerous taxes we have paid; to the legislature
they appeared adequate to the objeTs they were in
tended to accomplifli, and yet we fee peolic Credit:
pro-rate, our defcncelefs (hores marked by the former
ravages of a most defpicahle enemy, and our (upplies
to the continental army and treasury, as defedive, as
if our revenues had been peculiarly appropriated to
our own proteaion. The multiplicity ^ laws which
seem to have been designed to correct these abuses,
tend, we think, to aggravate them. A remedy is ra
ther to be fought in a correßion of certain habits and
manners, than in immediate als of legiflatrue, Laws
have a limited effed in forming the manners of a people.
The example of those, whole flations in life give them
an influence over the opinions of others, is the princi
pal infirument that can finifhthis great object Those,
therefore, who are in the public administration are pe
culiary bound, both by their duty and interefl, to
promote its accomplishment; for when manners are
formed, the business of government is made easy : the
whole state is in harmony with its ordinances, and co
operates in their execution: but when they are want
ing, we must either be content to fee a general ineffi
ciency of the la ws, a prevalence of abuses and confufton
in the management of public affairs, or look for redress
to such an overftrained exertion of power by some one
member of the government, as will be unconstitution
al and oppressive. We think it must be apparent 011
the flighted red flion, that a fyflem of manners, so in
veterate by habit, and so precisely calculated as ours
have been, for our former state of dependence and de
basement, mus tbe in many refpefls, repugnant to the
frugal, vigilant, and enlightened character of free re
publicans.
We feel the mod liberal and conciliatory dispositions
towards real Brjtifh fubjeEls; we have especially a
very generous concern for the redress of many who
have fuffered by afts of confifeation ; but with the ut
most scope we cangive to these sentiments, we cannot
extend them to such nations of these states, as not fa
tisfied with the unnatural ele&ion of party they made
in the late contest, have fu peradded the guilt of trea
chery or paricide. Nor can we exculpate those mer
cantile persons, who, having connexions and obligati
ons to the country, that ought to have insured their
neutrality, have, nevertheless, retired to British posts
in America, and engaged immediately in the war. We
think common justice and policy requires, that the
treaty of peace, as it refpeXs these classes of men,
mould be interpreted with the utmost rigor that is con
fident with integrity and good faith—We are intirely
persuaded that the nations of Europe, will endeavour
in their intercourse with us, to acquire an afeenden
cy in American councils; and their superiority in
wealth, intrigue, and negociation, may afford them
very flattering profpeXs of success in the attempt; we
therefore enjoin you, in the most earnest manner, to
watch with vigilance, and oppose with firmnefs, any
tendency to so difhonourable and injurious a situation,
from whatever quarter it may proceed.—The British
nation certainly have partisans amongst us : and how
ever they may be induced either through dire& deceit
or feL delusion to (how a temporary conformity to a
government they can neither abandon nor overturn,
yet we do believe that upon all points, when therinte
reft of Great Britain may be exclusively concerned,
they will find theirold bias irrefiftable; on this ground,
though we wi(h their situation in the community to be
asquiet and secure as possible, yet we 'hink them very
improper persons to have a share in the government;
and should be well pleased if a very ftri& and compre
hensive oath of abjuration, was made indifpenfible to
the exercise of any civil or military-office in the state.
We earnestly hope that the deliberations of the as
sembly, uninterrupted by local or personal debates,
will be direXed to the great national objeXs which so
peculiarly demand their unanimity and attent on. We
feel the most ardent withes for the dignity and prospe
rity of our country, and ihail contribute our ihare of