The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-05-21 00:00:00, page 2

- All tie new mmiflry had yesterday the honour of
killing her majesty's hand
Lord Hinchinbroke yesterday resigned his vice cham
berlainthip.
Yesterday Mr. Donning, now lord AShburton, kis
sed her majesty's hand on his promotion to that title.
His grace the duke of Richmond takes his feat as
mafier-general of the ordnance, on Tu^fday next.
Mr. Stephens of the admiralty, is succeeded by a
Mr. Brett, who was formerly secretary to admiral
'Bofcawen.
Mr. Adam of the ordnance, is succeeded by Mr.
Charles Dundas, nephew of the late fir Lawrence
Dundas.
Sir George Saville is to be made a peer, and Mr.
Charles Turner a Baronet.
Yesterday morning the right honounb'e admiral
Keppel did business at the admiralty, for the firfl time
since his appointment.
We hear a total new arrangement will be made in
the East-India company's' governments, both abroad
and at home. This indeed is a primary obie&,if they in
tend to prevent that body making use of Lord Thur
dow's.W„EßFAS!
They write Malaga, that two large corsairs, under
Algerine colours lately attacked a Spanifli frigate of
40 guns, whom they nad chafed under the guns of the
castle of Eftapona ; and,were with great difficulty, by
plying'ome heavy artill-ry agamfl them from the fort,
prevented from carrying her off: the Barbary Powers
b^gin to be very troublesome to the Spaniards.
, A foreigner of diflin^ioo lately arrived at the Hague,
charged with some difphtches from the court of Peterf
burgh, which were, contrary to their high mightines
ses procrastinating fyflem, taken into immediate con
fideraticn.
A spy, was lately executed in the Spanish camp be
fore Gibraltar, having been detected in giving infor
mation to the garrifou.
The new invention for fortifying merchant fllips, so
as to put them on a footing with a common privateer,
will certaily produce great public, as'well as private,
benefit to this country.
The gentlemen of the parish of Clapham, in Surry,
have entered into a Subscription, for the purpose of de
stroying the numerous webs of infers which cover the
hedges in their neighbourhood, It is hoped the know
ledge of this ciicumftance may induce other parities to
Follow the fame example, as it will be productive of the
mod salutary effeßs.
It is expected that all the yards and flips now unem
ployed, will immediately be engaged, and have Ships
laid upon the flocks. Mr. Huffey and captain Webb,
it is said, have voluntary offered their service to the
new administration, to infpeft the new navy work to
be carried on, out of his majefly's yards, free from
any charge to the public.
The favors wonrr/n this occasion, had labels, with
the words, 4%x—the friend of the people; Fox—an
honour a^e peace or a glorious war.
March 29. There was a council after the drawing
room wa over yesterday, which being finifhed, the
marquis- of Rockingham, the dukes of Richmond and
Grafton, lord Shelburne, Mr. Fox, general Conway,
admiral Keppel, and Mr. J. Townshend, had separate
audiences of his majefiy, which were not over till near
fix o'clock.
Indies.
LEEWARD ISLANDS.
Ships of the LIN e.
Ships Guns Commanders
r Sir G. B. Rodney, ad
-2 Formidable 98 < miral of the white
C Capt. fir C- Douglas
(Sir Sam. Hood, rear ad
-1 Barfleur 98) miral of the blue
'Capt. Alexander Hood
1 Prince George 98 James Williams
3 Duke 98 Allan Gardner
2 Namur 90 R. Fanfhaw
1 Alcide 74 N. Carrington
1 Alfred 74 W. Bayne
2 Arrogant 74 S. CorniSh
1 Canada 74 Hon. W. Cornwallis
1 Centaur 74 J. Inglefield
2 Conquerer 74 George Balfour
2 Fame , 74 R. Barber
2 Hercules 74 H. Savage
1 Invincible 74 C. Saxton
2 Marlborough 74 T. Penny
I Monarch 74 F. Reynolds
I Montague 74 G. Bowen
7 Magnificent 74 R. Lindzee
I Resolution 74 Lord R. Manners.
8 Robust 74 Ph. Colby
5 Rcyal Oak 74 T. Burnet
5 Russel 74 late H. E. Stanhope'
1 Shrewsbury 74 J.Knight
1 Torbay 74 J. L. Gidoin
3 Valiant 74 S. G. Goodall
10 Warrior 74 Sir J. Wallace
rF. S. Drake, rear admiral
4 Bedford 74 ) of the blue
< Captain Graves
, Princeffa 7 n< Edm ° A "' ck > commodore
I Frinceila 7°^capt. C. Knatchbull
7 Agamemnon 64 B. Caldwell
i America 64 S. Thompson
%sDfon 64 W. Blair
I Belliqueux 64 Lord Crapßon
1 Intrepid 64 A. Ja. P. Molloy
4 Lion 64 W. Fookes
2 Nonfueh 64 W. Trufcott
4 Prince William 64 G. Wilkinson
2 Prothee 64 C. Buckner
4 Prudent 64 A. Barclay
2 Repulse 64 T. Dumarefque
6 St. Albans 64 Charles Inglis
2 Yarmouth 64 Anthony Parry
9 Leander 50 T. Shirley
7 Renown 50 J. Henry
n Pr. Caroline 50 H. Bromadge
LIST of bur Naval force at prefen t "in the Weft
PORTSMOUTH, April 27.
Extrad of a letter from a gentleman of charafter to his
friend in this town, dated at general Greece's head
quarters, near Charleftown, Feb. 20.
“ Not long since, they had a ball in Charleftown;
this they called an Ethiopien Ball, at which were
present the officers of the army (and our female slaves
only!) who these Shameless tyrants had dreft up in taste,
with richest silks and falfe rolls on their head, powder
ed up in the most pompous manner ; these chaps who call
themselves gentlemen, waited on those wretches in car
riages to carry them to the ball, which they drove
through the fireets in pomp along fide of them. 'Ma
ny of those wretches were taken out of houses before
their mjflreffes faces, and escorted to the ball by these
British tyrants. Inclofed I fend you a copy of a card
wrote to one of those fliamelefs brutes, by the mana
gers of the ball, which were three negro wenches ; it
was held at a very capital private house in Charleftown,
and the supper cost not less than 801. Sterling ; and these
tyrants danced with the slaves 'till four o'clock in the
morning. Thus you fee to what a State of Shame and
perfidy the officers of that once great nation (Britain)
has arrived to.
" My Lord,
" YOU are invited to a ball on Thursday evening,
at No. 99, Meeting street ; the ball to be opened at
eight o'clock.
" Hagar Roupell,)
" Isabella Pinkney, ! Managers.*'
" Mary Fraser, j
Charleftown, Jan. 1, 1782.
“ To Lord Fitzgerald."
11 Ale&o firefhip laf'^' Hon# M - Fortef
r < cue
5 Barbuda 16 F. Pender
5 Blast firefhip 8 Hon. W. Carnegy
5 Experiment 14 J. Young
5 Hannibal 14 .
5 Oroonoque 14 W. Tahourdiu
5 Pacahunta 14 J. Coffin
5 Reynard 18 - .
5 Sylph 18 L. Graeme
5 Surprize 16 G. Day
5 Star 14 N. Ingram
5 St. Vincent 14 .
1 Salamander firefhip 8 E. Bowater
5 Tickler 14
2 Alert 14 J. Vafhon
1 Returned from North. America with fir Samuel
Hood.
2 Sailed from Plymouth, January 14, 1782, under fir
G. Redoey.
3 Sailed about ten days after fir G, Rodney.
4 Detached by rear-admiral Digby, from New-York.
5 Left in the Weft-Indies by fir Samuel Hood.
6 Convoy from Europe, bound to Jamaica.
7 Sailed from England, February 6.
8 On their passage to England from New-York, were
forced to bear away for the Weft-Indies in great
diflrefs.
9 Arrived from the coast of Africa.
10 Sailed from England, January 11.
II Ditto, February 11.
it Endymion 44 Richard T. Smith
8 Janus 44 W. H. K. O'Hara
FRIGATES.'
11 Alarm 32 Capt. C. Cotton
7 Andromache 32 G. A. Byron
5 Convert 32 H. Harvey
I Fortunce 40 H. C. ChriftiaA
2 Flora 3 6 S. Marshall
I La Nymphe 36 J. Ford
I Lizard 28 Edmund Dodd
1 Pygafus 28 J. Stanhope
1 Sibyl 28 J. Rodney
5 St. Euftatia 28 A. Sutherland
5 Triton 28 J. M'Laurin
9 Champion , 24 r. Weft
9 Eurydice 24 G. Wilson
S L O O P S.
Lift of the Naval Force at Jamaica.
Ships, Guns. Commanders,
r Sir P. Parker, vice-
Ramillies 742 admiral of the white
< 1 captain John Cowling
rTho. Graves, rear admi-
London 98 s ral of the red
' Capt. J. Kempthorne
Affton 44 Francis Parry
Pallas 36 T Spry
Diamond 32 Ch. Parker
Fox 32 Hon. T. Windsor
Licorne 32 Hon. T. Cadogan
Loweftoffe 32 George Stoney
Southampton 32 William Affleck
Nester 28 J. Aylmer
Hinchinbrooke 28 •
Pomona 28 C. E. Nugent
Proserpine 28 T. Taylor, jun.
Resource 28 B. S. Rowley
Unicorn 24 . 1
Hydra 24 J. Cornwallis
Badger 14 G. Hill
Childers 14 C. Lyndon
Drake 14 Rd. Curgenven
Guay Trouin 14 J Fish
Jamaica 14 M. Dixon
Porcupine 16 B. Hulke„
Tobago 14 B. Archer
r JoShua Rowley, rear ad-
Sandwich 90 < miral of the red
t Capt. Cha. Hotchkys
The following, from Marblehead, is related as fad.—
On Friday last a small vessel entered that harbour, and
fto®d to the upper end of it ; and though she was not
known, yet,appearing as a coaster, die remained unno
ticed. Late in the enluing night, a person, who had oc
casion to be out, saw 16 men, in a body, walking the
SAL E M, May 2.
The above prize failed the 2d ult. under convoy of
the British fleet, bound for Jamaica; but as the French
fleet failed 24 hours before, 'tis supposed they arrived
time enough to lay siege to Jamaica.
Authority have made choice of the honourable ma
jor-general Timothy Danielson, esquire, and Jonathan
Jackson, esquire, as delegates to represent this com
monwealth at the honourable the continental congress.
Extraa of a letter dated on board the prison Ship
Jersey, at New. York, April 26, 1782.
"I am sorry to write you from this miserable place:
I can assure you since I have been here, we have had
only twenty men exchanged, although, we are in
number upwards 06700, exclusive of the sick in the
hospital Ships, who die like Sheep; therefore my inten
tion is, if possible, to enter on board feme merchant or
transport Ship, as it is impossible for so many men to
keep alive in one vessel."
One of the prisoners taken in the above prize, we
are told, gives the following account —" That on the
toth and 13th of April, there happened two several
engagements between the French and English fleets in
the Weft-Indies (off Martinico) that the former loft
the La Ville de Paris, of 110 guns; la Heftor 74 la
Gloriofa, 84, la Ardent, 64, taken ; la Caesar, '74,
burnt; and theta Zodique, 84, funk: but as the An
tigua paper of the,l3th ult. does not mention either
of the engagements, we presume the account is pre
mature.
Greets; and one of them, he observed, had a hanger,
and though no wea pons were seen about the others, yet
as each of them had on a great coat, it is probable
that they carried arms concealed. They all wore fur
caps. These circumstances being related in the mor
ning, occasioned a look-out for the fl range vessel, which
arrived the preceeding day ; but she was not to be
found. A Shallop, owned in the town, was also miffing
and it is supposed was carried off by her.
It is much feared, by many, that this and other sea.
port towns will not attend to the danger they are ex
posed to, till they are aroused by fu ffering some capi.
tal losses.
B O, S T O N, May 6.
Las l Saturday the privateer fllip Grand Turk of Sa
lem, returned from a fuccefsful cruize, having cap
tured several valuable prizes-she brought in with her
a schooner from Antigua, bound to England, and com
manded by Mowat, loaded with Wefl-India
goods.
Yesterday arrived here a letter of marque brig of
14 carriage guns, copper bottomed, loaded with coffee
and cotton, prize to the letter of marque Ship Robin
Hood, captain Smith of 10 guns. She was from St.
Lucia, bound to England, and was taken without op
position.
N E W-Y O R K, May rs.
It is reported that on admiral Rodney's firft descry
ing the French transports, a Signal was made for all his
frigates to chafe, and we are aflured there was a prof
ped of Securing the greater part of sixty fail, with fix
thousand land forces on boatd
May 9. Last Saturday the privateer 'Ship Grand
Turk, of Salem, returned from a fuccefsful cruize,
having captured several valuable prizes; one com
manded by the Doughty, capiain Mowat,' who, some
time since, was confined in the goal of this town so.- his
good behaviour, and who effefled his escape by seiz
ing on the goaler, locking him up and running off with
the keys : though said Mowat has infefled this coast
in a privateer brig for some time, and never discover
ed much humanity to those who became prisoners to
him. he was taken in a vessel bound from Antigua to
Penobfcot^ and reports, that the French fleet in the
Weft Indies, have loft seven Ships of the line, in an ac
tion with Rodney, on the 1 3th of April ; but we can
not credit this intelligence as unquestionable, by com
ing from the mouth of a man whole character is so im
perfect as that of Mr. Mowat.
Wednesday arrived th< ebrig Allegator, -'Stutfon,
late commander, from St. Croix, bound to Boston,
wio 130 hogSheads of rum, taken by the Centurian,
and retaken by the Sloop Randolph, captain Fofdick.
Same day was brought into this port by the brig
Sampson, captain Brooks, a privateer brig called the
Jolly-Tar, of'l2 guns and 40 men ; she failed from
New-York on Sunday last. She wa3 formerly called
the la Impromteh, captain Peo, who arrived at this
port from Norway, in Oftober last.
A few days ago, a flag arrived at Newport, Rhode-
Island, from Bermuda, in which came, the captains
William Watles, William Loring, and Eglefion.
They left at Bermuda the following captains, whose
vessels have likewise been taken, viz. Coffin, brig front
Boston; Coffin, Schooner, Baltimore ; Furnes, brig,
Marblehead ; Pole, brig, Boston ; Sayer, Ship, Boston;
Cooledge, brig Newbury ; Newman, do. do. Belham,
Schooner, North-Carolina ; Denifon, do. do. Waters,
brig, Salem ; Miners, brig, Virginia ; Baker, do. do.
Groce, Sloop, Boston ; Aflimead, Ship, Philadelphia ;
Gardner, brig, Newbury ; Briggs, brig, Salem; Buck
ingham, Sloop, Virginia : Darling, from Nantucket ;
Richenfon, Sloop,. Rhode- Island, (the captain lo fc)
Captain Watles fays, the American prisoners at
Bermuda, are well fu plied with provisions, and in
every refpef ttreated with great humanity.
Further particulars of the brilliant vi&ory gained by
the British fleet in.the Wefl-lndies, under the com
mand of admial fir George B. Rodney, over the French
Squadron commanded by count de Graffe, obtained
from a gentleman arrived in a Spanish flag of truce
Ship from Jamaica.
in the engagement which, happened on the 9th ult
N E WL OND O N, May 10.
Friday last was sent into porr, a sloop laden with
flour from New-York bound to the WrQ In Ues, cap
tured by the sloop Rardolph, captain Fofijck.
Last Monday the galley Slack-Sloven, sent into
port a Schooner laden with boards, which She captu
red at Fire-Island Inlet .And the fame day was brought
in a galley with 17 men, captured by the John and
Fair America gallies, which they captured the back of
Long-Ifland.'.