The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-01-23 00:00:00, page 1

To be SOLD at Public Penfo
On the premia, the thirteenth of February next, at
Two o'clock in the afternoon,
a PI INTATION containing three hundred and
A twe^tv acres, with the ufu.il allowance, lituate in
b^r^hip, York county, S frcm York
town e n the hit hand road to Carlifle, known by. toe
nar^of<)PP^ Pktee ' ^out° ne ^° dr " ^ ""'" “""
the remained good young timber. There are
on the fremifes a good log dwelling-houft two stories
with f ur well-finifoed rooms, a new barn with
^efibles, a large orchard, about nine acres of mea
< o - in -oo'd order, and twelve more may be made;
ate twenty acres of fill grain in the ground, one third
of which goes with the place; likewise a good spring,
arid a large paled garden with locust p fts on said place.
One thousand pounds of the purchase money to be paid
down, the remainder in yearly payments of two hun.
ded pounds each, with security if required. Any per
fen inclining to purchase at private sale, or on the nay
above-micloned, may be informed of the title by ap-
Dlrinz to the subscriber in Yor^-Town, who will give
anir&patible one. I. WILLIAM BAILEY.
r"^ —B E SO LD,
For Continents Money only,,
ON E hundred and twenty three acres of land on
Powers# Creek, in UppeP Paxton TownGup, in
the County of L ncafler.
Five hundred and twenty-five acres of land in Tur
butt Township, in the County of Northumberland.
An undivided half of ous thousand and fifty-five end a
half acres of land on the Shawney-Cabin Creek, in the
County of Bedford.
An undivided (hare of Indiana, containing a I#^
body of land on the River Ohio, granted to the fuffer
ers of 1763.
A 4.4 th part of two undivided large tra&s of land on
the Mifiippi River, in the Illinois country.
For terms of (ale applv to the subscriber, living in
Lancaster. 6. LEVY ANDREW LEVY.
T o s t,
On Friday evening the fifteenth inst. (January) between
Third freet and Cartel's Alley,
A GOLD SLEEVE BUTTON, cyphered R C.
'' Whoever will deliver it to the subscriber shall have
EIGHT DOLLARS reward.
ROBERT CORREV, Jun.
N. B. A number ot strong S HOES to be fold by
fain Correy, for the rwo emiffiocs called in by Congress.
WANTS'" EMPLOYMENrf
As an Assistant in a Store,
fy YOUNG MAN whocan be well recommended,
ZV wries a good hand and understands accompts. Any
one wanting such a person, by leaving a line at the sign
of the George the corner of Arch and Second-streets, or
with the Printer hereof, shall be waited on.
Cbefler Town, Kent County, Maryland, jan. 16.
IX7" $ taken up in Kent County, feme time in
V 7 June last, and committed to the county gaol,
three Negro Men : Two of them broke said gaol in tva
or three days and mad* their escape 1 The o her who
stayed calls himfrif JACK, fays he is the property of
one John Gordon, of Cumberland county, Virginia ;
he is about 2% or 23 years of age, 5 feet Ber 9 inches
high, (lender made, has a remarkable fear on one fide
of his neck which he fays was occasioned by a burn when
he was small; when tak^n he had on some soldier's
cloaths. The owner is defined to come, prove his pro
perty, pay charges and, take him away,
ANDREW MYERS.
I" 1 A M E to the plantation of the subscriber,
in New-London township, Chelter Bounty, on the
tturty-firft of October lart, a youag,brown HURSE,
about fourteen bands high, well made. The owner is
detired to come, prove his propertv, pay charges and
take him away.'
_ THOMAS ANDERSON.
^ENDKY Lots of Ground to be lett on
S' ° r ° un d-rent or fold,in Front and Second directs, in
the Northern-Liberties. Likewise two Houses in Penn
ftreet, one a three ftorv brick.houfe, the other a two
story wooden house Fit for public business. For terms
2pply to ROBERT KNOX, in the Diftrift of South
wark.
fuft published and to be fold by
JOHN d u n la p,
In Market-street, Philadelphia,
ROCEEDINGS of a General Court Martial,
£ for the trial of M^jor General LEE.
SATURDAY,
%^J*H^ ^rOt4"fKb
O R
G ENERAL
[Price Fifteen Pence single, One Shilling by the quantity. Published every Tuesday, Thurfdty and Saturday.]
To the RESPECTABLE PUBLIC of
AMERIC A.
On the veracity of COMMON SENSE.
WHEN I firft addressed the Public I had deter
mined not to follow Mr. Common Sense into those
mazes of falfehood, which meander through sll his pro
ductions; thinking it fufficient to point out clearly to the
plainest of my readers^ that this writer had labored to im
pose on the public opinion a falfehood, o : the most dan
gerous tendency to the fafety of these States, and of the
honor of our allies: But as he has had the confidence, iR
his late answer to Mi. Deane, piJitively to dewy what he
had as pofaively effected in his former papers, and to im
pute the mentioning of one fahhood to the impeffibility of
detecting him in others, I have thought it my duty to com.
municate to my Countrymen the result of a minute investi
gation into the principal affections of this author. lam
the more induced to do this, because it is not improbable
that this meteor will again appear in ohr hemisphere un
der a different name, and it is of importance to determine,
whether he ought to be considered as a friendly planet sent
to invigorate and enlighten, or as an angry comet defined
to confound, and perhaps consume, our politically ftera.
For the benefit of the plainest of my readers, I will
mark the principal falfehoods, as they occur in the dif
ferent publications, and annex the detention.
Faljehcod Ift. In Mr, Common Sense's firft address to
the Public on Mr. Deane's affair, he fays he is " familiar
ly acquainted with Mr. Deane's differences with his col
leagues
Deteaion, Mr. Deane's colleagues were Arthur Lee,
Esq, and Dr. Benjamin Franklin; that Mr. Deane had
no difference with the gentlemen last mentioned, the fol
lowing letter will prove beyond the possibility of doubt.
Paffy, near Paris, March 31st, 1778.
SIR,
My colleague Mr. Deane being recalled by Congress,
and no reasons given that have yet appeared here, it is ap
prehended to be the effect of some mifreprsfent tion from
an enemy or two at Paris, and at Nantes. I have no
doubt that he will be able clearly to juftify himfelf , but
having lived intimately with him now fifteen months, (trie
greateji part of the time in the fame boufe and been acon
frant witness of his public conduct, I cannot omit giving
this testimony, tho' upafked, in his behalf, that I esteem
him a faith ul, adlive and able MCifter, who tomy know
ledge has done in various ways great and important servi
ces to his country, whole interests I wiih may be always by
every one in his employ as much and as effectually pro
meted. With my uutiful refped to the Congress,
I have the honor to ne, Sir, your most obedient
and most humble servant,
Honorable Henry Laurens, Esq ; B. FRANKLIN.
President of Congress.
Fafebood 2d. The writer fays, " that Mr. Deane was
" ordered home to give an account of his own conduct,
" and that the reasons for so doing were the intricacy of
" Mr. Deane's own offi ial affairs, his multiplied contra's
" in France, before the arrival of Dr. Franklin, or any of
“ the other Commiffioerrs; His assuming authorities and
" entering into engagements in the time of his commer
" cial agency, for which he had neither commission or in
'' Hrudion, and the general unsettled Rate of his ac
" counts."
Detection. The resolution of Congress of December
Sth, t 7 , for recalling Mr. Deane, transmitted to hire
by Mr. Lovell (afting as Chairman to toe Committee of
foreign affairs) and a letter from the fame gentleman in
answer to one from Dr. Franklin prove incontefiably that
the motives for Mr. Deane's recall ace not truly Rated.
The resolution of Congress is in the words following,
( to wit )
Whereas it is of the greatest importance that Congress
mould at this critical conjuncture be well informed of the
state of affairsin Europe, and whereas Congress have re
solved, that the honorable Silas Deane, Esq; be recalled
from the Court of France, and have appointed another
Commiflioner to supply his place there,
Ordered, That the Committee for foreign ahirs write
to the honorable Silas Deane, and direct him to embrace
the firft opportunity of returning to America, and upon
his arrival to repair with all pohible dispatch to Congress.
The Letter from James Lovell, Esq ; to Dr. Franklin,
is in the words following, (to wit)
York-Toivn, May 15th, 1778.
SIR,
Your favor of December lift I read in Congress that it
mighthave the operation which you benevolently, gener
oully and honorably intended : but really, Sir, when you
fay you perceive he (Mr. D.) has enemies, lam not in
clined to determine that you form your opinion upon the
proceedings es Congress alone to which you refer in the
beginning of your letter. You can have no adequate idea
of the bold claims and even threats which were made a
gainst C«ngre^, inducing the necessity of difa^Q^ving Mr.
THE
^o^lo^
JANUARY 23, 1779.
T H E
ADVERTISER
Deane's agreements, and the confequeut fore disagreeable
necessity of recalling him. You will have seen by past
letters of the committee now formidable fomehave thought
the enmity of disappointed foreign officers would prove
both to Mr. Deane and to these States. That gentleman's
embarrassments have always been considered as apologies
for his compliances, an d,^ may rely u;on it that imagin
ed if not real necessity alone has governed the decifa of
Congress with refoed to him, and that he will find be com
mands general regard, or the manner, in which be has con
ducted our affairs abroad. He is exceedingly wanted here
to explain some things, especially the connection with
Mr. Beaumarchais, and in my opinion he may return
with renewed honor in commission to Holland.
I am Sir, your most humble servant
JAMES LOVELL.
Honorable Dr. Franklin.
N. B. This letter was published in a piece finned Plain
Truth, but the initials of the writers name being only'
mentioned, many persons by mistaking who was meant by
them, loft the force of the evidence.
* Falsehood 3d. Mr. Payne fays that Henry Latirens, Esq;
the late President resigned the Chair in October last, and
" was replaced by a unanimous vote, and "that he men
" tions this for the benefit of fucceding generations."
Detection. The Journals of Congress will prove that
there was no election gone into, and consequently there
could not be an unanimous vote. The sass is thus, Mr.
Laurens expreffedinOHober last a with to resign the chair,
but on account ©f the thinness of the house, and a decla
ration of some of the members, that they had not then in
their eye a character which they deemed suitable for the
chair, a desire was exprefFd that he fliould continue in it
some time longer, in which he acquiefad, so that Whatever
advantage this writer meant to derive to posterity from
this anecdote is entirely loft.
Falsehood 4th. Mr. Payne in Mr. Dunlap's paper of the
29th December last, signs himfelf Secretary for foreign af
fairs. The resolution ©f Congress appointing him to his
office, proves that he has no pretensions to this title; it
therefore becomes necessary to inlert it that his falfehoods
may not have that fanftion in Europe whieh he probably
intended to derive from the use of it.
Dteflion. In CONGRESS, April 7th, ? 777.
Refolded, That the stile of the Committee of fecretcor
refpondence be altered, and that for the future it be stiled
the Committee of foreign affairs.
1 hat a Secretary be appointed to the said Committee, with
a salary of seventy dollars per month.- the Ballots being
taken, Mr. Thomas Payne was cleded. From this itap^
pears that Mr. Payne is Secretary to the Committee of
foreign affairs, and net, Secretary for foreign affairs, as
he has been pleased to dub himfelf.
Falsehood sth. Mr. Payne fays, " that in the hands of
" the Committee of foreign affairs, or rather in his, are
" lodged all Mr. Deane's political correspondence, and
" that of the other Commissioners."
Detection. The fad is not so, ner have they beeh in
the hands either of the Committee or of the Secretary,
since they were ordered to be delivered into Congress, on
the 13th of August, as will appear from the following re
solution of Congress, (to wit)
In CONGRESS, August 13th, 1778.
Ordered, " That the Committee of foreign affairs lay
before Congress on Friday all letters and other public pa
pers, which they have received from the Commissioners,
Agents, or other persons, who have tranfa&ed business for
the United States in Europe, from the original appoint
ment of the Committee of secret correspondence to this
day."
This order was complied with on the 14th August, and
the papers have since been in the care of the Secretary of
Congress.
Falsehood 6th. Mr. Paine fays, " That he has several
times repeated, and he again repeats it, that his whole de
figrt in taking this matter up was, and is to prevent the
Public being impefed on"
Detection. The number of falfehoods proved on this
writer draw this assertion into the fame predicament.
Falsehood 7. The writer fays, " That Mr. Deane has
declared he left his papers and accounts behind him."
Detection. Mr. Deane has never declared any such
thing ; for he has long since laid before Congress a general
account of all the receipts and expenditures of public mo
ney, which passed either through his own hands, or that
of the Commiflioners in Europe.
Falsehood Bth. Mr. Common Sense observes "that by
all accounts, which have been given both by Mr. Deane's
friends and myfelf, ice all agree in this that Mr. Deane
knew of the relolution of Congress before be published his ad
dress, and situated as he was he could not help knowing
it two or three days before his address came out."
Detention. If this writer means, that Mr. Deane waa
acquainted with the resolution of Congress, fixing a cer
tain day for his being heard, previous ta.his publication,
he certainly was not; as will appear by the resolution of