The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1782-05-18 00:00:00, page 2

to the affembiy for delivering his credential letters from
the United States of North America to their high migh
tinesses, as also the ulterior address for the like purpose,
praying a categorical answer by the fame, and more
amply mentioned in the notes of their high mightinefles
of the 4th of May, 1781, and of the 9th of January,
1782 : upon which it having been taken into considera
tion that the said Mr. Adams had probably some pro
posals to make+heir high mighineffes, and to lay be
fore them the principal articles and fundametals on
which the congress, on their part, are willing to enter,
into ? treaty of commerce and friendship, or other af
fair to propose, with regard to which dispatch is re
qudbe.
"It hath been thoight proper to authorize the depu
ti r ci .the province to the generality, -and to charge
f 7. ,0 rrsnof .th matters at the board of their high
?ro tmclM.,iv : such a manner that the said Mr. Adems
;. -syb; A & f<on as p ffible as minifbr f rom the
c cere, .I Nort merica, with further orders to the
fa.d deputes, th^t it any other proposition be made by
the Amr. to r Arm their noble mightinesses of it as soon
?< And an ex rad of this present shall be sent
; : <;./irotation, and to condu& themselves acc.or
“ So resolved at the state-house, the 26th of Febru
ary, 1782.
Signed. - A. J. V. SMINTA.
Which having been deliberated upon, the deputies of
the provinces of Guelders, Zeland, Utretcht and Gro
ningen, havetaken a copy of this resolution, to be com
tounitated moe amply to their refpedive provinces.
March 28.
Yeflerday about midnight, a fire accidently broke
out at the hotel of the dec de la Vanguyon, ambassador
from France, and the progress of the flames w is so ra
pid, that notwithstanding all affiflance, that superb
edifice, built new a few years ago, was entirely redu
ced to ashes, with every thing it contained, except the
ambassador's papers, plate, force valuable effects, and
a part of his excellency's wardrobe. M de Carency,
the ambassador's eldest son, was in great danger of his
life, being dragged from his bed just as his chamber
had taken tire : we do not hear that any lives were loft.
Fis excellency has accepted the offer made to him of
lodging in the hotel of the E^ft-India company, with
bis son.
WARSA W, February 22.
Upwards of 10,600 Jewish families, fettled in this
kingdom, have received from our kings force consider
able concessions, dirrindhtd and altered at different pe
riods of time ; being totally excluded from the culture
' of lands, they are reduced to trade in the most trifling
articles, and to the keeping of public houses in coun
try places. In this date of misery, this people have
ventured to draw up a collection of all theit antient pri
vileges, and come to this capital to solicit a re efta-^
llfhment of them. One of these privileges gives them
right of appealing to the king from the decision of civil
affairs ; and it is not doubted if the court pay attention
to their I'fp'R, and restore that nation to an entire par
4ial possession of its rights, they w^i be rendered less
unhappy, more laborious, and more ufeful.
It was decided in council, held at St. James's
on Thursday evening last, that overtures of peace
Should be made immediately to the Rates general,
and that the marquis of Carmarthen was to be appoint
ed negociator, and to repair on that business to the
Hague.
,A private letter from the Hague has the following
article. " > r e are in great hopes that a peace will soon
be brought about with Great-Britain, through the
mediation of the courts of Peterfburgh and Vienna.
Many people here wish to fee fir Joseph Yorke in the
fame character he was in before, he being much refped
ed by every one."
Thursday morning the duke of Richmond was at the
Tower, and flruck from theirfemployments sixteen gen
tlemen, whb had salaries from two to five hundred
pounds a year each.
It is said that the place of lord lieutenant of the ord
nance is to be abolished : his grace the mafler of the
ordnance thinking that officer unnecessary.
Yeßerday the new treasury commission passed the
the greatfeal; as did also the admiralty commission; a
LEGHOR N, March 8.
This day a Venetian polacre arrived here from Ma
hon after a passage of eight days, with a number of
foldies and officers on board, belonging to the Englifli
garrison made prisoners at Minorca ; among others, a
general and a captain of the Port. General Murray,
commander of fort St. Philip, will come hither soon, it js
said, on board a Spanish ship.
March 7. The Rates of Friefland have come to the
following resolutions and have sent it by their deputies
'to the afiembly of their high mightinesses.
" The demand of Mr. Ad ms having been carried
The English are not only permitted to trade and
buy provisions in the ports of this regency, but have
had a tra& of land granted them near Ceuta, on which
to graze the bullocks they from time to time fend to
Gibraltar.
The regency of this city have determined, it is said,
for the acknowledgment of American independence.
We areaflcred, that in the fiates of Holland the majo
rity have already declared in favour of that measure.
The Rates of Holland are not singular in demanding
that proclamation. In the provinces of Guelders,
Utrecht and Overyffel,the citizens and regents appear e
qually zealous in terminating so salutary an affair as
soon as possible. The advantages which will result
from ic are amply set forth in their petitions.
AMSTERPa M, March 25.
LONDO N, April 3.
TANGIER S, February it.
board of treasury will be held to-morrow, and the ad
miralty board on Friday, when the new commissioners
will take their feats.
Also patted the seal, a grant to lord North, of the
office of constable of Dover caflle and warden of the
cinque ports, for his natural life. And at the fame
time passed the seal a grant of an annuity of 40001.
per annum for his life, payable quarterly at the ex
chequer.
T his morning a grant passed the great seal to John
Robinson, esquire, late secretary to lord North, of an
annuity of ioool. per annum during his life.
it is now said, that the mmiflers intend to signalize
the outlet of their administration with a declaration of
war against France and Spain. Hitherto it had been
declared only by the mouths of our cannon, and the
loss of our dominions; but n@w it is to be folemly de
clared by the mouth of a king at arms. This ceremo
ny may by feme be thought unnecessary, farcial, and
prepoPerous, as we are known to have been so long
at war, without having had recourse to this cerremony.
However, it will certainly have this good eded, that
it will convince our enemies, that so far from being
worn out with the war, we are now only going to be
gin it against France and Spain, both which powers
may now have reason to look to themselves, when they
'"d.they are likely to be attacked by the whole force
of Britain, and not divided as it has been since the be
ginning of the war, by the pursuit after American de
pendance.
If the new ministry should fail of success in their eri
de wours to restore the political and commercial digni
ty and importance of Great-Britain, their situation
will be extremely difa gr'eea ble; for no excuses can be
admitted in favour of men who have unremittingly op
posed the measures of their predecessors in office, and
uniformly persevered in the declaration, that the pro
je&s they had fuggefled were the only possible means
by which the nation could be refeued from impending
ruin
Public reports fays, that by the late arrangements,
Lord Howe is to have the command of the grand fleet ;
but it may be asked where the grand fleet is to be found,
unless in the Weft-Indies; it certainly cannot be in the
channel; for our channel fleet, for the present year,
does not promise to con6ft of more than three or four
apd.twenty ships of the line. In the beginning of De
cember last, our navy confided of ninety two fail of
the line ; of those, 40 are in the Weft-Indies, 13 in
the El ft-lndies ; and there will be at least seven em
ployed on various Rations on the coast of America, at
Newfoundland, and Jamaica; 10 must be detached to
the North-seas; and theiefore there will remain for
the channel service about 22: a force not fuffieient to
juflify us in cal ing it the gr.nd fleet.
It is possible, however, that there my be a grand
channel fleet, fuffieient to oppose the united fleets of
France and Spain; but then this must depend upon
two circumstances—uncommon exertion in our dock
yards^-and a peace with Holland. When the late
board of ad,miralty applied for 100,000 seamen it was
said that, exclusive of ninety two ships of the line then
in commission, 14 were in great forwardnefs, force build
ing, some repairing; and that in the course of the
winter and spring, they might be brought forward in
the account: these added to the 22 above-mentioned,
would make our force in the channel 36 fail of the line.
A peace with Holland would Rill encreafe the force:
last year, when the Dutch were in a much more de
fencelefs state than they are at present, we had in the
line, in the aßion on the Dogger bank, five fail, ex
clusive of the Preßon, of 50 guns, and the Dolphin,
of 44; at the fame time the Sampson, of 64 guns, was
detached for that service, though the did not arrive till
after the aßion Gur fore , therefore, in the North
feas last year, confided of fix fail of the line, one of 50
guns, one of 44, and several large frigates.
This force will be totally inadequate to that which,
from the present Rate of their preparation, we have a
right to expert the Dutch will put to sea with this year:
the accounts we receive from the continent mske their
force consist of 12 fail of the line, a great number of
large frigates, and near too merchant ships, all armed.
To meet such a force we certainly cannot detach fewer
than ten fail of the line ; now if the new minifiry could
be so fortunate as to make an honourable peace with
Holland, these ten ships of the line might be added to
our channel fleet, and, consequently, give us a great
increase of naval strength again, ft our natural enemies
of the house of Bourbon.
With such a force as these various events would af
ford us, we should not be under the fhameful necessity
of shunning the combined fleets in the channel ; —with
22 already fit for sea ; 14 which may be ready by June
next; and 10 which a peace with Holland would ena
ble us to employ against France, we should have a no
ble fleet io the channel, 0(46 fail of the line, which,
commanded by a Howe, would not be obliged to fly
from the combined fleets, though they should consist of
fifty.
We learn from a very refpeßable quarter, that eve
ry effort will be exerted for putting the navy of this
kingdom upon the most refpeHable footing, with all
possible expedition; and that preparatory to this mea
sure, inventories are ordered to be transmitted to the
admiralty of the materials for ship-building and other
Rores in the several royal docks.
A formal declaration of war against France and Spain,
may be very reasonably conflrued into a tacit acknow
ledgement, that war is not meant to be prosecuted a
gainst any other of the beliigerant powers.
We learn, that immediately after the recess, the plan
for manning the navy, without having recourse to the
unpopular measure of impressing, will be revived un
der tne auspices of the new administration.
The 17th of April is the great day on which it is to
be determined, whether the parliament of Ireland will
or will not fatisfy the wishes and expectations of the
volunteers, by passing a re solution or declaration of
rights. Every step has been taken by the friends to
such a declaration, to remove every objection to it.
Such a declaration, carried into a law, might revive
claims to those vast estates forfeited in Ireland at the
revolution, and in the rebellion of 1641. At the latter
it.
The Spaniards have lo ft in three years, since the com
mencement of the war, by capture, Rorms, and other
accidents, *1 line of battle Blip's, which is equal to the
loss of all the other belligerent powers put together.
The admiral Keppel fiordhip with a cargo for Gib
raltar, was totally loft between Calais and Boulogne, in
a heavy gale of wind the middle of last month.
They write from Bruffcls, that a camp of 50,000 men
is to be formed early in the spring, in the Austrian
Netherlands, by,order of his Imperial majefly.
It is said, that when the Spanish troops firft landed
on the island of Minorca, our men, who had the care
of the med cine chest, unf rtunateiy forgot to bring it
with them into thefort, and it fell into the hands of the
enemy. This accounts for tee progress which the fcur.
vey made among the troops, and the ill success which
attended the efforts of the faculty in attempting to flop
Admiral Digby continues to command on the Ameri
can Ration till an accommodation shall take place.
Tne last Irish papers contain the resolutions of dele
gates from 59 military corps met at Ballinafloe, and
deputed from the different military corps of the pro
vince of Connaught. These resolutions exaßly coin
cide with those entered into at Dungannon by the
delegates for Differ ; and have the additional refcluti
on, " As we are determined to ihare in the liberties of
England, so we are determined to share in her fate."
They write from Vienna, that the dealers in proyi
fions there had contrived to raise the prices of them, un
der pretence of the great quantities bought up for the
military magazines ; but the emperor being informed
of their proceedings, soon put a flop to them, and or
dered a redußion of tiie prices, after being reprimand
ed for their conduct.
Advice is received from Hanover, that the electoral
princes are railing troops in all parts of Germany,
which makes it imagined that a war will soon break out.
The fame advices f«y, that such a number of men have
been sent to America, they that find it difficult to raise
the forces that are at prefect wanted.
period the forfeitures amounted, according to the sur
vey taken by fir William Petty, to 2,008,000 acres,
and are all enjoyed by the present pofleffors under the ~
authority of English aRs of parliament: a law there
fore that should declare that no power on earth ought
to make laws to bind Ireland, but the king of Ireland,
in and with his parliament of that kingdom, might
shake the tenures of this immence property, held un
der laws not made by the king and parliament of Ire
land. To remove all alarm on this head, a bill has
been brought into the Irish commons to pass all the
English ads,under which estates are possessed in Ireland,
into Irish laws: This bill will secure the property, for
then it wiil be held under the authority of the law of
Ireland, made by its own king and parliament.
This being premised,the volunteers and grand juries all
over the kingdom, have, one arid all, called for a decla
ration of rights from their parliament; and the 17th in
stant is the day on which Mr. Grattan formerly gave
notice that he would move for it; and as a warning to
the members in parliament, who have hitherto opposed
all popular questions, the volunteer corps of the town
of Galway have expelled Mr. Richard Martin, who
held no less a rank among them than that of their co
lonel. He is also member for their town, and the reso
lution by which he was expelled the corps declares, that
the expulsion was on account of his parliamentary con
duct, which had, in their opinion, marked him the u
niform friend to ministry, and an enemy to the cause
in which the whole volunteer army are embarked.
This day arrived a mail from Jamaica, brought by
the Speedy packet, captain Spargo, to Falmouth ; she
failed the 18th of February.
A new fifhery is going to be established in the north
of Scotland this spring, carried on in buffes, after the
Dutch method, so long praßifed on the British cdaft.
Yesterday morning the Ruffian courier, who arrived
at monf. de Simolin's house on Friday from Peterf^
burgh, fat oft'again on his return home.•
Monday morning, and not before, his excellency fir
Guy Carleton set out from his apartments in Duke
fireet, Grosvenor-square, for Portsmouth, to embark
immediately on his expedition to New-York, to take
upon him the chief command of his majefly's forces in
America. It has been in agitation, since the appoint
ment of the new Admlnißration, to suspend fir Guy's
journey on this important command till after the meet
ing of parliament ; but it was finally determined in the
conncii which was held last Saturday, that he should
proceed without any farther delay. The earl of Shel
burne had an audience with the king after the break
ing up of the cabinet on Saturday evening,and acquaint
ed him with the result of their deliberations, the con
sequence of which was, that fir Guy received his man
date on Sunday morning to make his departure for
America immediately.
Brook Watson, efq j who goes to America with fir
Guy Carleton, as commiffary^general, in the room of
the late Daniel Wier, efq; is the gentleman who was
famous for the misfortune and miraculous escape he un
derwent force years ago, when bathing in the river Har
bor, near Havannah, at the redußion of which he was
present. He was caught by a thark on his leaping from
the edge of a boat into the river, which took away one
of his legs entirely, and the accident of its being com
pletely separated from his body, prevented his being
c rried under water, and gave an opportunity to his
friends to exert themselves for his fafety. The ap
pointment was obtained for him at the interposition of
fir Guy Carleton, and is supposed not to be worth
less than 20,000! per annum. They are to fail in the
Ceres frigate, which, for the fake of expedition, is to
proceed without waiting for a convoy.
A great personage had a very narrow escape last Sa
turday for his life. Being out a hunting, his horse
ran away, and could not be flopped, but happily coming
to a fix barred gate, with a wide ditch on each fide, in
attempting to take-the gate the spirited animal failed,
and entangling his legs between the bars, fell with his
r—l master, Who happily received no hurt.. With
less weight the creature had probably cleared the gate,
and broke his own and his riser's neck in the ditch on
the other fide.