The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-11-09 00:00:00, page 2

From the PUBLIC LEDGER of August 9, 1776.
To the P RI N T E R.
Sir,
THE arrival of Mr. St. Paul from the court of Versail
les was unexpected at this critical juncture. You may
assure the public that he is charged with defpatches from
Lord Stormont, the delivery of which will much embarrass
administration. \
Mr. St. Paul is a man of vigilance. He possesses that kind
of penetration which renders it a very difficult matter to de
ceive him. During the absence of Lord Stormont, he watch
ed the motions of the court of France with such success, that
he traced the duplicity of that court through all its different
windings. He perceived that France intended secretly to
afford America that assistance which she openly disavowed.
He detected the agents of the cabinet in the very ad of af
fording fuccours to the colonies, and of giving every assur
ance of protection to the American leaders. Intelligence of
this was communicated to Lord Stormont whilst his Lordihip
was in England. He was defpatched in hade to Versailles,
with inflections to remonstrate, in spirited terms, on the in
sult thus offered to the court of London. Lord Stormont
obeyed his inftruCtions. He pressed for a categorical answer.
The reply was couched in the most ambiguous terms. The
affair was dropped. The court of Versailles was more nar-
Towly watched than ever—Enough was discovered to con
vince Lord Stormont of the intentions of that court. Mr.
St. Paul is now font over to afore our ministry of the refolu
'tion of the cabinet of Versailles, which is simply this : That
if the declaration of the Congress, setting forth the indepen
dancy of America, shall be generally relished by the people
throughout the different colonies, then France, in conjunc
tion with Spain, will hazard a rupture with Great-Britain,
by openly assisting the Colonists on terms highly advanta
geous to the commerce of France and Spain..
I do not pretend to fpecify every particular. But this I
will venture to affirm is the substance of that intelligence
which Mr. St. Paul is sent over to communicate to admini-<
fration. The public will from hence perceive, that it is in
tire madness to place any reliance on the pacific assurances
of France and Spain. They will not wantonly plunge into
war. But no perlon can expert that they will forego national
advantages out of compliment to the Enghfh ministry. The
idea is chimerical. Mr. St. Paul hath by this time told ad
iriiniffration thus much. The public have only to exped what
hath been repeatedly foretold ; that the rupture with our co
lonies will end in the loss of America, and a war with France
and Spain. If these are eligible events, the people are very
Tight in supporting those plans which must produce them.
If the loss of America (which implies the total ruin of our
commerce) is not a thing to be desired, then are the people
blind to their own interests, in not ceasing to protest mini
• Iters who have long ceased to pay any regard to the commer
cial welfare of their country.
MATTER of FACT.
SALE, a large quantity of simple and compound
T MEDICINES, of the best quality, lately imported.
The gentlemen druggists, and apothecaries, &c. may have
any quantity that suits them. There is iikewife a cneft of
medicines very suitable for doctors at sea. They are to be
seen at the store of JAMES OELLERS, on Sims's wharf,
below the Drawbridge.
Also for sale at said store, rum, sugar, sweet oil, &c. by
the quantity.
562
STRAYED from the house of Mr. Neman, tavernkeeper
in Germantown, a few days since, a bright bay HORSE
with a saddle on, black main and tail, a star in his forehead,
trots all, has lately been knicked, and is about fifteen hands
and a half high. Whoever takes up said horse, and brings
him to the fubferiber in Fourth-street, near the New Chapel,
or to the printer, shall have TWO DOLLARS reward and
reasonable charges. WILLJAM RYAN..
Philad. Nov. 9.
/IN Tuesday next, precisely at two o'clock, at JOHN
H ART's vendue store, will begin the sale of a
large and neat assortment of merchandize, being the remains
of a store, among which are broad and narrow cloths, cot
ton velvets, plushes, Ihalloons, tammies, durants, caliman
coes, rattenets, flowered and plain tobines, everlasting,
poplins, mens, womens, boys and girls worsted hose ; silk
and worsted mits, tablecloths, napkins, buckram, gauze and
gauze handkerchiefs, Nuns, Scotch, coloured and shoe
threads, tapes, ferrets, bindings, gartering, fluff, leather
and Morocco shoes, rugs and blankets, womens cloth cloaks
and cardinals, womens silk hats, silk laces, mens and wo
mens leather gloves, silver puncli ladles, sewing silk, ozna
brugs, Wheeling, Britannias, leather breeches, vermilion,
Prussian blue, faffron, &c. Also houlhold furniture, wear
ing apparel, &c. &c. &c.
TO be SOLD a large, elegant, and convenient
H®USE, with a COACH-HOUSE and STABLE,
situated in a very pfeafant part of thiscity. The lot on which
the house stands is free from ground rent, and fronts on three
streets, being one hundred and sixty feet on one street, and
thirty feet on the others. The lot on which the liable and
coach-house hand is fifty feet front, and ninety feet in depth,
adjoining the dwellinghoufe lot, and is fubjeft to a ground
rent. Inquire of the printer. Philad. Nov. 9.
Philadelphia, Nov. 9, 1776.
TO be SOLD, on WednefJay next, the thirteenth inst.
at the Bird in Hand wharf, the schooner SPEED
WELL, as fne now lies at said wharf, w th all her fails, digg
ing and materials. She is a young vessel, and about thirty
tons burthen. The fail to begin at three o'clock in the after
noon. Any person inclined to purchase before the day of
sale, may apply to Capt. LAMB at the Northern Liberty
ferry house.
WHEREAS George Folger, master of the brig Rich
mond, on his passage from London and Nevis to
Nantucket, was taken by the private sloop of war called
the Congress, by which means said Folger was plundered of
receipts and notes included to the amount of twenty-on©
hundred pounds sterling, which are refufed him., though
often requested. This is to forbid all persons taking any
drafts on any merchants in London in the name of Thomae
Boylfton, or George Folger, as they may be assured they
will be protefed, particular care being taken to pre
vent every species of fraud that may be executed by said
receipts. GEORGE FOLGER.
TO be SOLD, a LOT of GROUND, at the corner of
Arch and Sixth streets, containing in width ninety-fix
feet and in depth two hundred feet.—Credit will be given for
the purchase money, if desired. Inquire of
Philad. Nov, 4, 1776. WILLIAM MORRIS, juu.