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^JOSEPHBORDEN, Efo STAGE
MASTER.
SIR,
\, OUR letter publickly addressed to me the
V ijiu of April was very acceptable and en
tertaining. Ibe delicacy, Jprigbtlinefs, and ur
bcnit\ which sparkled in every line, characterize
you a perfect matter of epistolary diction ; and
your compositions in that stile will undoubtedly
be introduced by the Profeffors of our American
seminaries as models for the imitation of theyoung
gentlemen under their tuition. These consider
ations alfnoft induced me to lay down my pen,
and to bury in oblivion the facts refpefting your
conduct as to the letters in question. But re
fleCting I had pledged my word, if called upon,
to lay them before the public, I cannot be di
verted from my purpose by the mafic of your pe
riods, or the poignancy cf your wit. I accept,
therefore, your challenge, and meet you in the field
with weapons, which will wound you tothe quick,
though managed with th'e greatest caution and
tenderness. Undaunted as you appear to be, I
am so confident of the ground I stand upon,
that I am convinced you must be foiled in the
conflict. But remember, Sir, whatever may be
the consequences you must charge them to the
account of your own folly and ra/hr.efs.
Letters are often times the only mode in which
friends can convey their sentiments to each other,
or merchants tranfad business of the utmost con
sequence. The fafe delivery of them, therefore,
is an object of great importance ; and when they
are difeovered to be broke open, it certainly
cannot be deemed criminal to give public notice
thereofby way of caution to people of your oc
cupation, and carriers in general. This was the
only motive whichinduced me to publish my firft
advertisement. I believe most people who read
it, considered it in that light, and could not dis
cover the least reflection therein against any in
dividual, or body of men. But it seems you
were endowed with an extraordinary degree of pe
netration, and difeovered an attack upon your in
tegrity. In consequence of which you immedi
ately let up your wit against me, and in the most
courtly language have called upon me to make
good a charge never exhibited against you, or
any in your employment. But in complaisance
to you, I will grant, you are more sagacious than
your neighbours, and a charge against you was
really intended. Permit me therefore to confider
how far the subsequent state of fads will support
it !
At Borden Town the fifth of January last I
wrote two letters, one to Mr. John Imlay of
New-York, the other to Mr. John Van Emburgh
of New Brunswick, and delivered them at your
house the evening of the fame day to be convey
ed by your stage. The firft account 1 heard of
them was from the gentlemen to whom they were
directed. Mr. Van Emburgh informing me
that he received his broke open, and Mr. Imlay
acquainting me that a copy of his, instead of the
original, had been sent to him. Upon this infor
mation I considered myfelf as villainously treat
ed, and thought it a duty I owed to the public,
for the reasons above urged, to publish the ad
vertisement of the 7th of March, which made
its firft appearance in Messrs. Bradford's paper
of the 16th ; the day before the publication of
that paper you were in this city and read my ad
vertisement in manufeript.—You returned home
the day following, and twenty-four hours hadfearce
elapsed before it was made known you were in pos
session of Mr. Imlay's letter broke open ; —of this
I loon received intelligence, and expeCted as you
had seen the advertisement, you would have imme
diately dispatched the letter to him or me, with
an account of the manner in which you obtained it ;
my expectations, however, were not answered,
and I wrote you the following letter of March
22d, by your own sage, which having the usual
,°^£ c > mult have got to hand some time the
next day.
S I R, Philadelphia, Mqrch zed, 1774.
" You would not have been troubled with a
line from me, had I not been well informed that
ycu are possessed of a letter written by me the
fifth of January last, to Mr. John Imlay, of
New-York, and the copy of another letter of
the fame date from me to Mr. John Van Emburgh
of New-Bruhfwick. Your virtue and honour are
so well established that without strong circumstan
tial evidence, it might be considered as a breach
of charity in me to suppose that you obtained
them in any other, than a fair and honourable
way. Be this as it may, no pains shall be want
ing on my part to drag the infamous scoundrel
who intercepted them from his lurking place,
and fnew him to the world in his proper colours,
in terror to other scoundrels of the like base prin
ciples.
“ All I have at present to fay to you is, that
Jou will transmit theje letters, and every other letter
belonging to me, now in your hands, by the firft
opportunity :— And as this is a reasonable and le
gal requisition, I dare fay, as an honest man
you cannot hefitdte to comply : —And further, as
it is notorious you are a gentleman of nice hon
our, and must be struck with the turpitude of
such a conduct as &hat of opening private letters
•—4 am confident you will approve my design in
endeavouring to difeover the villain who could
be guilty of so infamous a practice :—And in
order to this chearfully furnifh me with the paper,
which contained those letters, acquainting me at
the Jame time in what manner you became possessed
of them. I am, your humble servant,
NATHANIEL LEWIS."
% JOSEPH BORDEN, % in BOR
DEN-TOWN; per STAGE.
To this letter you favoured me with the Fol
lowing answer, which was left at my store the
2d of April by a person in your employ ; and
being elegantly and corre&ly composed, 1 shall
give it to the public in the fame dress you sent
it, as rt will serve to convince them, you were
really the author of those lately addressed to me
111 print.
PHILADELPHIA: Printed by JOHN DUNLAP, at the Newefl Printing-Office in Market-Street, where
Subscriptions at Ten Shillings per Annum, Advertisements, &c. are thankfully received for this Paper.
SI R, Eorden-Town, March 26, 1774.
" I received your letter of the 22 have only
to inform you, you are imposed upon again, I
have not, nor never had any letter or letters of
yours to any other than myfelf, but your letter
of January the sth last, to John Imlay ; this let
ter came under cover to me broken open from
whome I know not ; as fan as an opportunity of
fered I forwarded it to him.
JOSEPHBORDEN."
To Mr. NATHANIEL LEWIS, in
PHILADELPHI A.
It is necessary to observe here, that the day
before the above anjw^r was written, you wrote
the following letter to Mr. Imlay, enclosing the
one broke open, which he informs me did not get
to hand until the yh of April.
SIR, Borden-Town, March 25, 1774.
. " The inclofed letter came under cover to me
a few days agoe, broke open in the maner you fe
it. I conceive it to be your property, therefore
inclofe it to you.
JOSEPH BORDEN."
To Mr. JOHN IMLAY, NEW-YORK.
From this state of fads these questions natu
rally arise.
First. Suppose you obtained my letter to Mr.
Imlay of the yh of January in an honourable
way, why did you not immediately upon the receipt
of it diJpatch it to him, instead of detaining it seven
or eight days ? You have said you did so “ as
soon as an opportunity offered."*
Second. It appears that the answer written by
. you the 26th of March to my letter of the zzd,
did not come to hand till the 2d of April; and
the letter written by you the zgth of March to
Mr. Imlay, enclosing the one broke open did not
reach him till the yh of April, what was the rea
son offuch delays? Did you ante-date those letters,
or Aid,ou keep them in your pocket several days after
they were written before you sent them to us ?
Third. V\ hy did you not, in compliance with
my requefl, transmit to me the letter written b, me to
Mr. Imlay and inyour peffffon broke open, with
the cover which enclosed it, as soon as you received
my letter, in order to furnifh me with a clew to
difeover the culprit?
Fourth. The letter in question whs left at ,our
house to be conveyed by yourftage to Mr. Imlay, was
it ever forwarded by you to him in the slate it was
delivered at your house? 1f it was, how came you
afterwards by it broke open ?
Having stated the fads, according to promise,
Imuft take the liberty before I bid you adieu, to
crave youropinion on the following observations.
You have had the honour for some years past of
holding the commission of Justice of the Peace
for the county of Burlington. From your long
experience and deep erudition in the law, you must
be convinced of the difficulty of convicting a
culprit of such offences, which, from the very
nature of the thing, are done in secret, and can
only be difeovered by circumflantial evidence,
Suppose, for inflance, Jerry Switch should be
fufpe&ed of dealing a piece of caffimer, the pro
perty of James eekright —yourWorfhip issues a
warrant to apprehend Jerry, who is brought be
fore you for trial. The culprit pleads not guil
ty ; but it appears that the said piece of caffimer,
the property of Seekright, is 101 l by him, and
found in the possession of Jerry, who gives no account
in what manner he came by it: Would not your
Worship direct the Jury to find Jerry guilty of
the theft ? And if they did, would not your wor
ship sentence the unfortunate rogue to the whip
ping post to be feveiely switched? But I will put
a stronger case.— Ihe miller ofMansfield writes
a letter to his friend, seals it up, and delivers it
at the house of a certain stage-master in Lilliput-
Town, to be conveyed by his stage •, fome time
afterward the miller is informed that his letter
did not get to hand, but is in the pffeffion of the
stage-master broke open. The miller publiihes an
advertisement (which was fawn in manufeript to
the flage-mafer) complaining of the treatment he
had met with, not reflecting on the Liliput ftage
mafter or any other person; in consequence of
this, he is in hopes fan to hear from him, but is
disappointed. He then writes a civil letter to
him requesting that he would transmit the letter
broke open immediately with the cover v)hich enclosed
it, and give an account in what manner he became
h r of^ of it. To this the miller receives no an
swer for eleven days, though the stage matter
could have conveyed it to him in three; but when
the answer came, it contained no more than that
he (the stage master) had forwarded the letter
which was broke open to the miller's friend " as
soon as an opportunity offered"—viz. on the day
before he wrote his answer to the miller, which
was certainly not true, because he detained itje
ven or eight days, and could have dispatched it by
his own flage sooner.
Suppose now your Worship was Chief-Juftice
in the Court of Honour, and the said stage-mas
ter should be brought to your bar to be tried up
on the charge of breaking open the said letter ?
Would not your Worship expert he should give
afair and honefl account —firft, that he hadfaU
fully sent the jaid letter by his stage without delay ;
secondly, that it was afterward returned to him
under cover broke open ; thirdly, that upon the re
ceipt cf is be immediately dispatched it to the miller or
hisfriend with afatisfaAory account when and how
it came to his hand, —And if he did not fatisfy
yourWorfhip as to these particulars, would you
not be of opinion he oughtto be convicted ? If
he was, would you not impose such punishment
on him as the laws of honour may inflict ?
I have nothing to fay at present to the little
favourite of the Naiades of Billingsgate, except it
be to observe, that he has wickeal, and wantonly
attacked a friend of mine who is no way con
cerned in.the dispute between you and me. I
am confident the lawyer he has pointed at,
* This must certainly be a miflake, for if you con
fider the time which intervened between the day it
was known you were possessed of the letter in dispute,
and the date of that you wrote to Mr. Imlay, you will
find a da, on which your own flage went for Amboy,
wbenyou might have sent it.
deems him too insignificant a reptile for his no
tice ; and when I mentioned to him my concern
at his being traduced on my account, he calmly
replied, “ no matter, my friend, 1 shall not re
" turn reproach for reproach, my whole life, I
" hope, will give my enemies the lie."
It is time to finifh this dispute. The public,
no doubt, are of the fame opinion.—l shall,
therefore leave you at their refpedtable bar,
where I sincerely hope it will appear that your
rash conduct hath proceeded not so much from
the depravity and malice of your heart, as from
the weakness ofyour head.—For although I con
fider you but an impotent Antagonist, yet as you
are an ol / man, and the father f a family, I could
wish to find you in the paths of honour, and dis
dain to obtain a victory on the ruins of your re
putation^
NATHANIEL LEWIS.
Philadelphia, April 21st, 1774.
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Philadelphia, April 11, 1774.
TO BE SO L D,
By PUBLIC VENDUE,
On Wednefdlty the twenty seventh inst. by the sub
scriber on the premiles.
TH E two following houses, situate on the south
fide of Plumb street, between Second and
Third-streets; bounded and lying between Edward
Stretcher and James Armitage, Southwark,
viz. a two dory brick house in good repair, and is
17 feet 5 inches in front on Plumb-street, and 16
feet 7 inches deep, with a lot 90 feet deep, and
fubje& to a ground rent of Fifty Shillings per ann.
A three story frame house, adjoining the above
described house, 19 feet 7 inches in front on Plumb
street and 13 feet 9 inches in depth, with the privi
lege of the above 90 feet lot, and fubje& to a
groundrent of Fifty Shillings per ann. Any person
inclinable to purchase the above houses, or either
of them, may know the terms, and an indisputable
title given them by ROBERT CONN.
N. B. At the fame time and place will also be
fold, a variety of Houfhold Goods and Kitchen
Furniture.—ls any person or persons choose to treat
for the above houses before the day of sale, they
may apply as above.
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
WASS TOLE N, out of the fubferiber's
liable, in Sadfbury township, Lancaster
county, on the 29th of March last, a dark bay
MARE, about fourteen hands and one inch high,
fix years old, supposed to be with foal, has a lump
on her off fide, a small switch tail, both trots and
hand-gallops ; she is half blooded, got by Bully
Rock, and was seen in Philadelphia on the 30th of
March, rode by a man in a blue furtout coat, of a
middle size. Whoever will secure the mare, so that
the owner may have her again, shall receive
THREE POUDNS for her alone, or the
above Reward for mare and thief, if brought to
Henry Funk, at the Black Bear in Market-street,
Philadelphia, or to JACOB MILLER.
FORTYSHILLINGS REWARDI
RAN AWAY on the 27th of March last,
from the fubferiber, living in Eaft-Bradford;
Chester ccftinty, Pennsylvania, an English servant
man named PHILIP JONES; he is a Aim
bodied man, about 23 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8
inches high, was born in Bristol and has been in
Ireland, speaks broad English, has a large high
thin nose, wears long' black hair tied behind, and
understands farming: Had on when he went away, a
new felt hat, a striped lincey jacket with the stripes
across, and wooden buttons on it, a short blue coat
and blue breeches, old blue-grey stockings, good
shoes tied with firings, good tow shirt, and two
handkerchiefs. Whoever takes up said servant,
and secures him in any gaol, so that his master may
have him again, shall have the above Reward, and
reasonable charges, paid by
ABLE BOAKE.
N. B. All masters of vessels are forbid to take him
off at their peril.
Philadelphia, April 9, 1774.
TWENTY SHILLINGS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, living in
Fourth-hreet, near the Pod-Office, an appren
tice girl, named ANN CARROWL E, about
sixteen years of age; had on when she went away,
a green silk bonnet, a red, black and white India
callico long gown, a blue half-thick and a striped
lincey petticoat, and new leather shoes ; she has a
frefh complexion, brown hair, is near-lighted, round
shouldered, and came from London in the year
1769, with Capt. Keais; She has been seen drolling
on the Lancaster and Gulf roads, on pretence of
going to service at 'Squire Moore's at Carlide.
Whoever takes up and secures said girl, so that her
master may have her again, shall receive the above
Reward. SAMUEL WILLIAMS.
N. B. All persons are cautioned not to entertain,
harbour, or conceal her, at their peril.
TAKEN UP, the firft of April inst.
near Gloucester, a Moses built BOAT,
painted red, without chain or rudder. The owner
is desired to come, prove his property, pay charges,
and take her away.
GEORGE ROAN.
Newcafle County on Delaware, March 17, 1774.
WHEREAS I the Subferiber, on
the 31st day of January lad pad, at the
Head of Saffafrafs, in Kent county, Maryland, on
the great road, was attacked by Nicholas Wood
and William Wood, of Ceicel county, Henry
Simmons and Thomas Simmons, of Maryland
aforefaid, with several others to the fubferiber not
known, who forcibly carried him to the house of
Simon Cox, in Kent county aforefaid, and there
by force kept him two days and two nights, and
then by threats and abuse obliged him to iign two
bonds, one for an hundred pounds and one for
fifty pounds, also another piece of writing of which
the fubferiber knows not the contents, the bonds
payable to William Wood aforefaid ; all which
bonds and writings the fubferiber signed by force,
(his life being threatened) without any considera
tion received by him in lieu thereof: These are
therefore to desire all persons not to take any align
ment on said bonds and writings, as the fubferiber
is determined not to pay any of said bonds, or
other writings, unless compelled thereto by law.
WILLIAM ANDERSON.
New-York, March 2s, 1774.
TO BE S O L D,
By the SUBSCRIBER,
TH E farm or plantation called BELL VALF,
fitoate at Warwick, in the county of Orange:
It consists of about 800 acres of land, and is juttly
esteemed as valuable a tra& as any of its size in the
province, having belonging to it in one body, 230
acres of the richest low or intervale land, with a
fine dream of water running through the whble.
by which it can be laid under water, and situate at
the foot of a range of mountains, which will fore
ver afford an unbounded outrange. It is in a thick
fettled country, within five miles of Sterling iron
works, and seven from Ringwood and the long pond
(which afford the best market for whatever is raifety
12 miles from Gofhen, and 24 from New Winds%
landing. The improvements are, on one part, a
log-house, a new framed barn, and youngorchard,
with about 120 acres of the intervale land reduced
to the best kind of mowing-ground, being well clear
ed, fenced, and seeded ; and several large summer
fallows in.tillage. On the other part is a final! grist
mill, a saw-mill, a forge (for converting pig metal
into bar iron) a coal-house, a pretty good framed
dwelling-house and barn. Should the purchaser in
cline to it, the farm confiding of the firft mentioned
improvements, nearly all the low land, and about
400 acres of the upland, will be fold fepatate from
the iron works and mills, which, with a small piece
of the meadow, and the remaining part of the land,
may be had either separate ®r united with the farm.
For further particulars enquire of the fubferiber at
his farm in Dutchefs county, New-York, or of Dr.
Samuel Bard, in New-York.
JOHN BARD.
SIX DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, living
in Donegal township, Laracafter county, on
the third of this instant, (April) an Irish servant
man named SAMUEL MEASE, about twenty
four years old, and about five feet ten inches high,
with fair curled hair ; had on and took with him,
a beaver hat, a white broadcloth coat, nankeen
jacket and drawers, and red waistcoat, one white
shirt, and one check ditto, two pair of yarn hose,
and one pair of thread ditto, plated buckles, and
new shoes. Whoever secures him in any of his
Majesty's gaols, so that his master may have him
again, shall have the above Reward, paid by
WILLIAM KELLY.
STRAYED or STOLEN,
Out of the pasturage of JOHN SMITH, on Ti
nicum Island, on the twenty second of the third
month, 1774, at night,
A BROWN HORSE about 14 hands 1 or 2
inches high, having a small neck, a few white
hairs on his forehead, a mealey nose, several saddle
marks on his back, a long dock and switch tail,
near seven years old, part blooded. Whoever takes
up the said horse and brings him to John Smith
living in Chichefter, or to John Hoskins in Bur
lington, shall have FIF TY SHILLINGS re
ward, and all reasonable charges, paid by
JOHN HOSKINS.
Baltimore, March 21, 1774.
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY, about the eighteenth of March
(inst.) from the fubferiber, an indented servant
man, named WILLIAM KNELLER S,
born in London, brought up to surgery; about
twenty-two yeais of age, five feet fix or seven inches
high, wears his own hair tied behind, brown cloaths
ruffled fhiit, &c. Whoever takes up said servant,
and secures him in any goal, so that his master may
have him again, shall be entitled to the above re
ward and reasonable charges, paid by
MICAJAH JAMES.
N. B. He took with him other cloaths, and a
case of surgeon's inftruments.—lt is supposed he is
gone towards New-York.
The Horse GALLAN T,
^g^^y To cover this season, at three
dollars a mare, at the stable
°' 'he fubferiber, in the
township of Norriton and
°$ county of Philadelphia.
QALLANTisanAme
fI " can h °" e> bred in the
government of New-York, is
„ noted for his line (being of the
high mark) and is allowed by good judges to be
one of the best adapted for the coach or carriage of
any on the continent, the colts of his breed having
been fold at forty and fifty pounds before they were
foaled. Care of mares and paftuw at two (hillings
per week, by JOHN BULL.
March 23, 1774.
"e ' amous Bay Horse
S C 1 P 1 °'
Q O well known and approved
' $ . '° r g ettin g uncommon fine
colts, as to render it useless to
X' ay any thing ab °ut his good
^tfly^^ qualities or pedigree, will cover
at Benjamin Davids's, at the
sign of the George in Second-street, at the corner
of Arch-street, from the present time until the firft
day of May next, at thirty shillings for so much
of the season, or fifteen shillings for a single leap.*)
Mares will be taken care of by Benjamin Davids
The noted Horse
^;^> g Pennfykania Farmer,
"XX/'LL cover this season,
at the fubferiber's fta
| bles at Christiana Bridge, New
ca"' ' county : He i% without
exception, °ne ot 'the greatest
beauties ever bred in, or ex
ported to America ; and is allowed to be such by
the best of judges : he is a bright bay, i 5 hands
high ; his lire and dam both imported from Eng
land, and he bred by Col. Taylor, ofVirginia, and
when in his possession be^t the most capital horses
in the North and South governments of Carolina,
particularly, in one season, he wo? four purses ?'t
one of which he beat eight of their best horses after
tunning four four-mile heats, which proves him
to be a horse of bottom. He covered last season
upwards of 40 mares, not one of which miffed being
with foal.—The terms are, three pounds the season,
thirty shillings the (ingle leap, 9r five pounds to in
lure a colt, with five millings to the groom. Good
pasturage, for mares that may come any distance at
two millings and fix-pence per week. The money
to be paid before the mares are taken away.
THOMAS SCULLEY.