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HEAD QUA RTE R S, New-Windsor,
December 8, 1780.
THE commander in chief is pleased to accept and
approve the fol!ow : ng report of a court of en
quiry, held at Weft Point, the 19th day of No
vember lass, "to examine into the conduct ot major
David S. Franks, in bis connexion with the late major
general Arnold, during his command at Weft-Point,
and relative to his defection to the enemy."
Colonel H. JACKSON, President.
Lieutenant colonel Dearborn, major Reid, captains
Cox and Walker, members.
The court report their opinion:
“ That every part of major DAVID S. FRANKS's
conduct was not only unexceptionable, but reflects
the highest honor on him as an officer, distinguishes
him as a zealous friend to the independence of Ame
rica, and justly intitles him to the attention and confi
dence ofhis countrymen."
Tranfeript of general orders,
ALEX. SCAMMELL adjutant general.
"ft 'the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
TT AV ING observed, with real concern, that our
11 N ews papers have,for a long time past, been filled
with private contest and calumny, to the great abuse
of the liberty of the press and dishonor of the city : I,
who have been ever ambiticusof devising some thing for
the public good, never before devised or thought upon
by any schemer whatever, set mywits r o workto remedy
this growing evil, and r r flore our G zettes, Auverti
fers, Packets, &c. to their original design, viz. to
make them vehicles of intellig nee, and not t e common
sewers of scandal. To convince you t at lam not al
together unqualified for this great design, I would in
form you that I have had a tolerable education in the
charity school of the University. My parents, being
poor, bound me out to a scrivener; my. mafier soon
difeovered in me an aptitude for business, aid as I
wrote a good hand, took me from th. menial labours
©f the kitchen and cellar into his office, where I en
grossed deeds, le fes, wills, &c. and, in a word, did
the chief business of his office. After I was free I be
came a clerk to several successive mayors, aldermen
and justices of the peace, and to my honour be it
spoken, my employers frequently applied to my judg
ment in difficult points, and, with due deference, I may
fay, that my advice contributed, not a little, to sup
port their worships official reputation. But to pro
ceed to my project, which, after much lab mr arid stu
dy, I have compleattd, and now offer to the public,
without any profpea of reward ; further than the re
putation of being the author of so ingenious and salu
tary a scheme.
Let there be a new court of justice efhbliffied, by the
name and fti'e of the High Court <F Honok, to
con iff of twelve impartial and judicious persons, to be
elected annually by the freemen of the date ; in which
election all persons, of whatever degree or quality so
ever, shall be entitled to a vote, Grangers only ex
cepted, who have not resided one year in the city or
county where they would vote. The court, when
met, to appoint a suitable person to be their clerk.
This court Ihali have jurifdiftion in all matters of con
troversy, between man and man, of what kind soever
they be, provided no property, real or personal, comes
in question: They shall determine on differences in
opinion, points of honor, ceremony, rank and prece
dence ; in all cases of affronts, flights, abuse, scandal,
fonder, calumny, and in all matters of contest, ex
cept as before excepted: Nine judges shall make a
quorum, and a majority of voices shall determine the
judgment of the court ; and from their decision there
mail be no appeal: The clerk shall keep alarge book,
to be called the Rascals RECORD; in which shall
be fairly entered, alphabetically, the name, occupati
on, and place of residence of any perlon on whom
the judgment of the court shall fall ; which book shall
at all times be open to the infpedion of any person or
persons on reoueft, paying the clerk s x pence spe
cie, and one frilling for a certified extract, as a fee:
And if, after the ehabhthment of this court, any per
son or persons shall be lo hardy and daring as to de
cide any point of honor, contest or squabble, by duel
ling, or by appeals to the public in any of the public
News-papers, or by hand-bills, it shall be deemed a
contempt of the High Court of Honor, and the party
or parties shall be rendered infamous, by having their
name or names, refpedively, entered in the Rascal's
Record.
>The process of the court shall be as follows: If any
man has cause of offence against another, he shall ap
<ly to the clerk of the court for a declaration:
hr fe declarations shall be fairly printed on a good
paper with suitable blanks for the names of the partie,
dates, &c. and shall be kept by the clerk of the court :
The party applying shall pay, to tlie clerk, eighteen-
Fence for the blank and s<x pence for filling it up
and atteftmg it, and the party shall sign the declaran-
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on with his own hand ; after which the clerk shall
number and file the said declaration. On certificate
from the clerk, that such a declaration is filed, the
judges shall meet and agree upon a time and place for
the hearing; of which the accufi rs and accused shall
have due notice to attend with their refpedive wit
nesses. No council shall be admitted in this court,
but the parties must personally plead their own causes.
After the hearing, the court shall give their final sen
tence: If judgment goes against the accuser, his
name, &c. shall be regiflered in the Rascal's Re
cord, with a number, in a column, for the purpose,
referring to the number of the declaration filed ; but if
the accuser shall fail to make good and support his
charge or charges against the accufee, his name shall
be entered n the Rascal's Record, in place of the
the accufee: And thus shall all controverts be de
termined, where property is not concerned.
And the FORM of the DECLARATION shall be as
follows, viz.
KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, That l, A.
B. of the city of Philadelphia, do announce, pro
nounce, attest, publish and declare—That my friend
and fellow citizen, C. D. is a rogue, a rascal, a vil
lain, a thief and scoundrel; that he is a murderer, a
robber, a plunderer, a highwayman, a footpad and a
cheat ; that he has committed facriltge, blafphemy,for
gery, fornication, adultery, rape, sodomy and beaftiali
ty ; that he is a tory, atraitor, a conspirator, a rebel and
rioter ; that he is a foreftaller, a regrator, a monopo
liz r, a speculator and a depreciator; that he is a back
biter, a slanderer, a calumniator and a lier; that he
is a mean, dirty, fiinking, sniveling, sneaking, pimp
ing, pocket-picking, d d son of a bitch: And Ido
further declare that all and every of the above appel
lations are to be taken, received and construed in the
most approbrious sense of the words. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand, at Philadelphia
aforefaid, this day of
NOW THE CONDITION of the above declaration
is such, that if the aforefaid A. B. the accuser, shall
and do, well and truly support, maintain and fully
prove, before the judges of the High Court of Honor,
any one or more of the aforefaid charges against his
friend and fellow citizen, the said C. D. accufee, as
aforefaid, then the said A. B. to be saved harmless,
and remain juftified in his proceedure: But, and if the
accuser, aforefaid, shall fail to make proof as aforefaid,
then he, the said A. B. doth submit, admit and per
mit, that his name, that is to fay, the name of him
the said A. B. accuser is aforefaid, shall be entered on
the book of record of the said honorable court, called
the Rascals Record, there to be and remain, from
generation to generation.
Signed and attefled the day and year aforefaid.
Such, meffrs. Printers, are the outlines ofmy scheme;
which, I acknowledge, may admit of great improve
ment and enlargement. It would ill become me to ex
patiate on the many and great advantages that must
accrue to my countrymen on such an establishment.
How much bloodshed, how much inkfhed will be fpar*d ;
how many difficult points of honor and ceremony may
be judicially determined; how mmy private animosi
ties may be checked, in the firft flage, by an appeal to
the court of honour, before the blood gets heated by
argument and altercation These I leave to the judi
cious pens that will, doubtless, be employed in differ
rations on the rights, limits, advantage, &c. of the
High Court of Honor. I cannot, however, for
bear pointing out one benefit that will arise from this
scheme ; which is, that when a person is so disposed,
he may abuse and villify his friend or neighbour at a
very reasonable charge, viz. the small sum of two
shillings, specie; whereas it costs, the Lotd knows
what-all, to get a column or two of scandal and abuse
into your paper: But modefly forbids me faying any
more on this fubjeft; I shall, therefore, silently wait
the applauses of my fellow citizens.
Dec. 18, 1780. CALAMUS.
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The Field Officers and Captains,
belonging to the Pwnfylvania Line, absent upon fur
lough, or othfrwife, are hereby required to join their
r<%6hve regiments, m the vicinoy ot Morrittown,
Rate of N w Jersey, on or before the 25$ of Decern
'>} enuring, ( xcept ? bo:e of the Bth) to the end,
that the Arrangement of the Infantry may be compbat
ed, agreeable to an A& of Congress, puffed the 21st
ultimo.
Thole Officers who do not comply with this order,
or neNed funding their determination in writing, to
the Commanding Officer of the Division, in camp, whe
ther they will continue in th^ ferrice or retire from %
on or befcre the day aforefaid, will be precluded the
right of Pfiouty which thev would otherwise be ^nE.
tied to. ANTHONY WAYNE, B G.
Commanding tie Pumfyivaria Line.
Totowa C#mp, zfh Nov. 1780.
THE
Number 692.
Imported in the last Vessels from Europe
and the Weft-Indies, and
TO BE SOL D, BY
Budden, Lawrence & Co.
At their STORE in Front-street, a few doors above
Market-(treat,
For Cash or Bills of Exchange on Europe
or the Weft Indies,
The following A R TICLES, viz.
PINE and coarse Cloths,
Several bales of Blankets,
Broad and narrow white Swanskins,
White and blue Halfthick#,
Mens, womens and childrens worsted Hose,
Dittr, ditto cotton and thread Hose,
A few pieces of fine Holland,
Flck Lacs,
A Urge quantity of brown and white coarse Threads,
Mens and womens white kid Glove#,
Cambricks and Lawns,
F ne Threads and sewing Silks,
A variety of Hard Ware,
And a number of fine Wire Sieves for meal.
SEVERAL
Chests of Carpenter's Tools,
of the befi kind, very neatly assorted,
Ditto, ditto of Coopers ditto,
A chtft of coarse Hatt, bound,
Several chests of Medicines, very neatly assorted.
Just Imported, and To be Sold on the lowelt Terms,
By Andrew Tybout,
In Chefrut street, at the corner of Strawberry-alley,
White, Buff, Scarlet and Blue Broadcloths,
Shalloons suitable, Rattinetts, Callimancoes, Camb
ists, Blankets, Irish Linens, Checks, Dimities, Sew
ing Thread, Crude Tartar, Copperas and Lodwood,
best Bohea Tea, Allum Salt, German Steel, and
China breakfaft Cups and Saucers by the Box.
Philadelphia, Dec. 16, 1780.
DY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas;
to me ebifa&d, will be Sold by Public Vendue, on
Saturday the Twenty-third instant, at Three o'clock in
the afternoon, on the premises, One Brick HOUSE
and Lott of Ground, fourteen feet front and sixty feet
deep, situate in Southwark, hounded east on Second
ftreet, louth by ground now or late of Thomas Robin
son, writ by a five feet alley left open for ever, and
north by ground of George Emlen, fubjeft to a ground
rent of 32 Spanish milled dollars, per annum, payable
to said Georg: Emlen, seized and Uken as late the
estate o' PAI RICK CAIN, at the suit ofRICHARD
MORTHWAITE.
ALSO, To be fold, at Five o'clock in the afternoon
cf said day, at the Coffee-houfe, a SCHOONER with
her Sails, Rigging, &c. as (he lays at Vine-ftraet wharff;
attached at the suit of Thomas Jones against Ezekiel
Hartley. WILLIAM WILL, Sheriff.
TO BE SOL MT
By Public Vendue,
On Wednesday, the 27th of December inttant, at the
Continental yard in this City:
A number of Public HORSES,
For erfh only, the sale to begin at Ten o'clock.
By order of the quartermaster general
JACOB HILTZHEIMER.
Fight Hundred Dollars Reward.
IX7 AS stolen from the fubferiber, cn thenight of the
V 14 h inst. December, two MARES, one of them
was 3 years rid last Spring, 15 hands high, the has a
large ^ar in her f rehead, and one of her feet white
and a band cn her near shoulder with the letters ID
the other 2 years old last spring, has a little white in
her forehead, and branded on the near Moulder with
the fame letters ; bwth of them are natural tiotters.
Whoever secures said Mares and Thief, shall have the
a^ove Reward, and for the Thief only Two Hundred
Dollars, and reasonable charges paid, by
JACOB LUTZ, living on Rd. Penn's place.
BOOK-KEEPING.
A PERSON wh+ understands BOOK-KEEPING
and can be well recommended, is desirous of en?
gaging to tend a store or compting-houfe. Enquire of
the Printers.'
DECEMBER 2%I7BOI