The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-12-11 00:00:00, page 1

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imported in the last Vessels from Europe,
a large and elegant ASSORTMENT of
MERCHANDIZE.
Now opening for SALE, by
JOHN K EAN,
At the SPINNING-WHEEL, on the Corner of Market
and Third-ftreete, via.
SCARLET fupexfine
Broad-Clothe.
Blue, brown, green,
purple, fuperfine Broad
clothe,twilled and knap
ped.
Brown, claret, cinnamon
and cloth coloured fc
cond Cloths.
Grey and brown, strong
English Knaps.
London brown, buff, fear
let, white and striped
C&ffimers.
London brown, striped,
purple, arid a variety of
Forrest Cloths.
Buff, blue, green, cloth
coloured and white
Plu(h.
€e<n, scarlet, blue and
loth coloured fine Plulh
frihionibly ribbed.
I variety of spotted,
brown, claret coloured
and black Velvets, plain
and cut, ,
Buff, brown, claret, olive,
black, green, white and
purple Corduroys.
Grey, white and striped
Coatings.
Black Everiaftinge,
Serge Dexirau
Serge Dejean. |
prunellas,
Duroons.
A variety of corded and
plain Worftede, fuita.
ble for gentlemen'ijgck
ets and breaches.
A variety of silk Jacket
and Breeches Patterns.
Corded Dimities.
White, brown, olive, blue
and embossed Serges.
Bmbeffed Flannels.
Minorca Serges.
White Flannels#
Corded, plain and spotted
Callimancoes, of vari
ous Colours.
Blue and brown Baizes.
White Swanfkin.
Shalloons of every colour,
gens and womens worst
ed, cotton & silk Hose
of various colours.
Purple, green and cloth
coloured Crapes.
A beautiful affortmant of
Chintz and Calicoes.
Whitechapel and common
English Needles.
Twelve and 14 oz. fadlers
Tacks :
Pound Pins.
platedand gilded Bittfc
TUESDAY,^^^ DECEMBER ts, i„h
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GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
Elegant ditto do. Apron.
Skilletiag and Cap Wire.
Large fine Blankets.
Yard wide and 7.1 Bed.
ticks of the bast quality,
Six-quarters, yard, , g,
yard wide and 7.A cot
ton Checks.
Black and fcatlet Princess
Staffs.
Olive, white, buff, blue,
brown and (potted Jeans
Tablecloths and toweling
Diaper.
Damafcua.
Blue, white and green In
dia Taffeties.
Seven-eight and yard wide
Ticklenburg.
Sail Duck.
Mens, womens and child
rens English Leather
Shoes.
Ladies Stuff Ditto.
A large affortreent of fine
Thread Lace, Edgings
and Trolly.
Silk Stockings, Gloves &
Mite.
Purple Gloves end M ; ts.
Coarse and fine Cambricks
and Lawns.
Silk, kenting, linen and
cotton Handkerchiefs
of every pattern and co
lour.
Beautiful tiffany Handker
chiefs.
Iriffi, Dutch and French
Linens.
Bag Holland.
Bread and narrow Ruffin
Sheetings.
Dowlas.
Lavals.
White and brown Sheet
ing.
Flowered & milaetLawnj.
Milnet lawn Hand kerchieft
Sowing Silke of all colours.
Thread of every colour &
Finenefi.
Long Lawn.
Plain and striped Mu&'ns,
cork and fine.
Twist of different colours.
Mens coarse Hose & Mils.
Snuff in bottles.
Cambists.
Durants.
Rattinets.
Venetian Poplins, fc.
Cinnamon, dove colour,
black and cloth colour,
ed, blue, brown,change
able & clouded Man
tua, of difiraK ,*.
£%
various patterns.
Ink Pots.
Hanover Laces.
Marseilles Quilting.
White, blue, black, gar
net, crimson, pink and
striped Setting.
Black, white and blue
Half Sattins.
Azure, blue, green, white,
pink, and black M-det.
Dove coloured Paduafoys.
A few piece# of beautiful
Brocades.
Green, brown, dove, cloth
colour, blue, black,
white, green, and crim- 1
foa ell- wide Persians.
Pink, blue, black, green,
white and crimson Serf
nets.
An elegant assortment of
the most fashionable silk
Gauzes, Kentings and
Catgut.
J. KEAN returns his most grateful Thanks to those
who have generously favoured him with their Custom,
and begs Leave to affiire them it will be his constant
Study to merit a Continuation of their Favours.
IMPORTED in the (hip Ann, captain Josiah, from
L'Qrient, and to be Sold, By
Smith & Tilton,
At their store in Seeoad-ftreet, next door to the Friend's
Meeting-house,
Thirty five HEAD es
Fine Store Cattle,
To be SOLD, on WEDNESDAY the nth infant,
at the continental Y&d, near Me Hiltzheimor's.
Th# tale will bqin at to o'clock in the forenoon. The
Calk to be paid before the Cattle are taken away.
A Coachman is wanted to hire
er purchase § none sued apply but fuels as can procure a
recommendation adequate to the undertyriag. Enquire
X& r &a
A VARIETY of fu
perfine, frond and
coarse broadcloths, of the
most fashionable colours,
with suitable trimings.
White and buff Ciffiamr#.-
Coatings.
Frizes and fwarJkjas.
Serger.
Scarlet, red, white, and
yellow iannels gad bai
zee.
A variety of velvets, vel
verets, and corduroys.
Light coloured worked,
>n4 hair plush.
Sattmro,everlaftings, pni,
nellas, and princess
fl,&.
Scarlet and black bree
ches patterns.
Callimancoee.
Durants and tammies#
White and fpott<d jeans,
Men# patent ribb'd wor
ked and silk hose.
Pert of Philadelphia, Penafylveni#, ff,
To ALL whom it may concern.
XJOTICR is hereby given, That a Court of Admiralty
" will he held, before the honourable Francis Hopkig.
fa, inquire, judge of the kid court, for this
at kis Chaetas in the city of Philadelphia, on ,„.'
day the fourteenth of December, instant, at nine o'clock
in the Forenoon, for the Trial of the Negroes C/ESAR
SAMSON and BOSTON, taken out of the brigantine
Lord NORTH at fee, and brought into this port, and
libelled azaint as pri% by Piter LellamW, (qui teas
&c.) To the end that ail perfan# comerrued nosy appear
and faew eaufe, if any there be, wherefore a De, r %
told gat paU, pusfunat to the prayer of the Libel, fr
By order of the Judge,
JAMES READ, Regifo.
Silver Locket Batons of ; Mullins tamboured#
O R, THE
A Urge assortment of lie.
I ent.
t Ditto, of calicoes end
, chinaes.
Flanders bedticks.
- Diape s.
Oeaibiige.
Jaconet muslins.
Cambricks and lawn.
I Black kttins & peelengs.
Ditto modes and ms#<ais.
A neat afortment of fe
fhicnabe filk# for gen
temeas wear.
, Bandano and silk romal
handkerchiefs.
Black and coloured Bar
-1 celona ditto.
Printed linen ditto.
An atfortmen* of Ribboas.
Black lace. Gold ditto.
Pin# and needles.
llndigo.I Indigo.
Leaf fisgar.
And a few boxes of bast
I Special Sugars &c. &- fr c .
I Tapes.
Razors of the firft quality,
in cases, with Straps, &c.
Watch Chryftala and
Springs^
Black and white narrow
and broad Lace.
engal# and Ginghams.
An assortment of Ribbands
Pots.
Iron Skillets.
Copper Coffee-pot? and
Skillets.
Brass Candlesticks,
Cast Boxes.
Window Weights.
' IBake stones, &?. Alfa
Cinnamon, Raisins in jars,
Philberts, and Almonds
by the Bag-
Some hogsheads of extra
ordinary Indigo, with
numberless other articles
too tedious to mention.
LONDO N, July ^
THURSDAY came on to be tried be ore lord Marisa
field and a facial jury, a cause of an extraordinary
nature—Mess. Mendez da Cofla, plaintiff, and Al
cock, defendant.—A privateer, or rather a letter of
marque, was fitted out by plaintiff, and partly loaded
with provisions, with orders to land his cargo at Gibral
tar, if he could get in, if not to goto Leghorn^ T e de
fendant had underwrote a policy on the (hip as a priva
teer for a four month's cruize, in or out of harbour, at
30 per cent, without Specifying where file was to era
or mentioning her deflination. She was, after Several
small Ikirmifhes off Gibraltar, driven by some Spanifk
fhipa ashore at Tangier, and there permitted to be tak
en under the guns of the fort. T. e defendant refufed
paying the loss, because he did not know (he was defi
ned for Gibraltar, or through the Straights, or he
would have required a greater premium, if he had in
sured her at all.
Lord Mansfield said, that in insuring merchc' ffiipr,
all possible information ought to be given to the tofu
rers ; but the case of privateers was an exceptionfront
this rule. The insured are not to give them any in
formation of their destination, or where they are to
cruize. The insurers take all dangers upon themfelveg
-—they are paid for not being informed. When the,
insure a privateer on a cruize, they insure her in all
places on the globe, wheresoever (he may be, and where,
ever the king's enemies are to be found. The captain
is to attack his country's enemies any where—he ma,
run into an enemy's harbour, and cut out their ships
if he fee opportunity ; and if he is taken, or p-rithe#
in the attempt, the insurers (hall net come and fay,
" We did not know your captain was such a fighting
fellow, if we had, we would not have insured him at
all, or at a much higher premium."- — His lordship
concluded, that by insuring a privateer for a few
months, in or out of harbour, they bound themf Ives
to pay the loss, in whatever hazardous manner it was
incurred during that period. The jury gave a verdict
for ths plaintiffs.
Extras of a letter from an officer in Charles-Town, to
his friend in London, dated May 20th.
" The retrograde progress of our arms in this coun
try, you have seen in your news.paper , if they d^ra
tell you the truth. This precious commodity is not to
be had in the government paper whicU is printed here
for a fell licenser hangs over the press, and will fuffr
nothing to pafa but what is palatable, that is, in plain
terms, what is falfe. Our victories hive b~en dearly
bought, for the rebels seem to grow Wronger by every
defeat, like Antzus, of whom it was tabled, that Le
ing the son of the goddess Tellus, or the earth, every
fall which he received from Hercules gave him more
firength, so that the hero was forced to flrangte himin
his armsat last. I with our minist r y would tend us a
Hercules to conquer thef obfiinate Americans, whole
aversion to the cause of Britain grows fironger 6ve r y
day.
" If you go into company with any of them occa
lonally, they are barely civil ; and that is, as Jack
Fa^flaff fays, by coropulfion. They are in general fal
len, silent, and thoughtful. The king's health they
dare not refufe, but they drink it in such a manner,
as if they expected it would choak them.
" The afcm lies which the officers have opened,
in hopes to give an air of gaiety and chearfulnefs to
themselves and the inhabitants, are but dull and
Bloomy meeting.; the men pay at cards indeed to
avoid talking, but the women are fe'dom or never to be
persuaded to dance. Even in their dresses t e females
feemlo bid us defiance; the gay t.ys which are im
ported here, they despise: they wear their own homo
fpun manufaaures, and take care to have in their
breafi knots, and even on their (hoes, something th t
reGrobles their flag of the thirteen (tapes. An officer
told lord Cornwallis not long ago, that he believed if
he had destroyed all the men in North-America, we
should have enough to do to conquer the women.-
I am heartily tired of this country, and with myfelf
at home."
Cordage, Lemon-juice, Brandy,
asd a variety of European GOODS, to bo SOLD
B, Lacaze & Mallet,
la Water-treat, above Arch-street.
TO BE SO LD,
A light Stage Waggon,
With HARNESS for two Harfs. Enquire at tW*
Store EZRA JQNMS, few+b tide of Market-frag,
Jiito&n Hamate,,
[NUMB 818.