The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-04-08 00:00:00, page 1

O R
GENERAL
THE HIGHEST PRICE
IS GIVEN FOR
CLEAN LINEN RAGS,
B Y
JOHN DUNL AP.
Philadelphia, q/b month gib.
To be SOL D at Fabric Sale,
At the Coffee hsuie, on Fourth-day the 28. h inttant,
the fset' iwyin .t E>v : r.o'clock,
LL the Real Eftaie o' James Young. Efy de
/I ceased, corfitu^% 4 >f hiet^lowui, trials or parcels
of land, viz. One Suable plmutior; containing two
faundrM and seventy-two arid a hartites, fi:uate in
Northanapro, couptv, within three itrccs ol Ealton, on
the B^kift ^% O b,Aitul a^d never failing
ft: earn abounding wild a va icy of fith) about ei^iny
acres of he sane; are .cleared; ere remit: ue: lemaikably
well-timbered, ah 4 the whole in quality ex^e Singly
good: There Meon ih< prunes alo, Luufe, bara, &c.
One tra& of two huiidred and ninety 11ne acies and
three-quarters,, in th* county 01 Bedford, fi nate on toe
waters of Jacob's Creek. The tibs art mpuputatne..
To be fold aifo, the Rights wuivh the deceased hao in
the following tracts, viz. One trad of three, hundred
and ninety-one acres, on or near the id;ks 01huh^.na
r.atu3 River, where Loyal H # nnan Creek falls into it.
One ditto of two hundred and seventy-five acres, lituate
ton "the east fide of the Allegany Rivei, buux ^ both
tides, of the old trading path leading from the K hui^a
n^us old town towards Charges old torn. One dit+o
9 f three hundred and fitty-eigh acres, filiate near the
above, on the forks or Kifiik^naws River. ^
One ditto of five thoulmd noer, in th • 6tve of Vir
ginia, in pursuance of hisßit nine Mfeftyl proebinz
ticn in the year 1763, surveyed the 24 n juiy, 17-3, u
thate on the waters of Saltlick Creek, a bianco or the
Ohio River. One ditto of t w o thouf„d acjr, fwveyed
in purfuanr&Of the above proclamation, lituate on the
waters of &ilt Creek, a branch 0! the Ohio River, in
the State o^Virginia.
All perfects having any demands ag-inft the eftite of
the deceased, are requeued to produce their accounts
that they may be adjured ; and all those who are in
debted to said estate are defi ed to make fy^dy payment
toISAAC HOWELL,
SAMUEL WETHERILL,]^-"'^'-
TAKEN UP in Limerick To&nfhip,
Philadelphia County, in the rivn Schuykid, in
November last, a middle sized BATTE AU, about
half-worn, with four feats, and made to row with five
oars, painted at the fid'es and stern red, and the bottom
black. She had in her when taken up, three fitting
poles and one larger oar. Whoever owns laid Bateau
is desired to come, prove pfbperty, pay charges and
take her away.
JAMES LEWIS.
A few HOGSHEADS yf
Weft-India Rum and Mufeovado Sugar,
TO BE SOLD BY
PETE R KUH N.
To be SOL D by the Subscriber,
Living in Eaftton, N t^^pton County,
A QUAN riTY of PIG IRON, now lying in
city of Philadelphia.
4. RICHARD BACKHOUSE.
LO BE SOLD BY
ALEXANDER FOSTER,
At his ftbre in Pinedect, between Front ftr.et and
Delaware,
A parcel of High-proof and well-ta^cd R U M.
LESTER and POYNTELL,
Have for sale three dcors below Market ftret, in Se
cond street, all kinds of STA I lONAR /'WARES.
INK POWD E R.
SAID Poyntell ha* just made up a foailquantity,
which he warrants is made of the belt Aleppo Galls,
Ind the other ingredients, refined from that poisonous
nature that causes Ink to turn yellow ; the whole ccm
pofition being after the manner of the meft approved
British, and its quality such as cannot Ei ; gaining rhe
approbation of all thole who use that nectfiy article.
N. B. It is made up in blue papers, each sealed on
the tup with the maker# initials (W. P.) in a cypher,
the device a hand and pen underneath, with direarions
for using it.
Also best BLACK INK ready made.
THURSDAY,
[ Price 2S. 6d. single, 2s. by the quantity.
Sir,
TM UST beg your's and the public's pardon for the
intrufiou I am .about tc make on your time and pa
tience. Some circumstances relative to myfelf have ren
dered a publication indispensably necessary, n>r is this
wholly uninteresting to the community.
A vessel of mine called the Willis, commanded by Capt.
Byrd Chamberlayne, having lately, fallen into the enemy's
hinds, was carried int® New-York, where the enemy
became possessed of feme letters, sent by the vessel to
France and Holland. Some of these [ heard were there
published, particular parts of which lunderftood were ex
t eptionable to feme friends of America; but .the paper
containing them was not sent me, n&r did I know which
of the letters had heedpublished, or to which to reply,
until two days ago, being in this city, and expecting by
post to fee the paper, I met with a friend who bad;read the
letter in the New-York paper. Since that I find that ma
by parts of it had been handed about to .prejudice me in
thepublic opinion, and that falfe con Order Fons had been
put on the obvious meaning of the letter; for which rea
sons I shall give the public a true copy of it, and ofanother
that attended it in the fame vessel, with two extracts froni
preceding letters.written to the fime gentleman in France,
which the gentlemen fubferibing the extracts have feeri
fairly taken out of letters in my own hard writing, in my
letter book.
From the VIRGINIA GAZE TT E.
, WilliamJburv, March 1 1779.
MR. PURDIE,
From these authentic proofs, let the candid determine
whether guy thing contained in the laid letters prove me
to be unfriendly to the independence of America. I will
beg the liberty, as I traverse the paragraphs, to suggest
fume tilings necessary to aitift the reader in explaining my
intention in particular expre|hon& The letter publifned
in the New-York paper is the one written to Mr. John
Ro(s, merchant of Nantes, dated Dec. 26, 1,78. This
gentleman went to France early in tuis war, for mercan
tile purposes, from Philadelphia, where lam told he had
long been a resident. He was recommended to me as a
proper person to negotiate my bufines in Europe. I ac
cordingly placed what I had there under his direction. In
the letter alluded to no mention was made of our indepen
dence, which was unnecessary to be repeated, having of
ten before given him my idea of it, which is proved by
extracts from two preceding letters. Tn trie letter to IY[eff.
Clifford and Tyffett, who were almoß strangers to me, it
was necessary to give my opinion upon that point, which
I confidcred as a decisive sera in commercial affairs ; and
accordingly it is done in a way that the enemy wiflied not
to have made known, and therefore suppressed it.
I will confefs to have written, in the firft part of my
last letter to Mr. Ross, with great freedom, and with some
degree of acrimony upon the treaty with France ; but the
reader will remember, that if was a private confidential
letter to a gentleman in France, a friend to America, and
one who would make no ill use of it. I was induced to
this from a publication in our papers' about nine months
since, said to contain a treaty with France, with which I
Was exceedingly pleased to find the terms proposed so ho
nourable end generous, and made no doubt of its authen
ticity, and of,the best effects from it. At the time this
letter was written, the treaty made with France, and con
firmed, was announced to the public, some parts of which
differed so widely from the firft that I was induced to use
the expressions in the letter, as I really ftifpeded some de
signing ferfon had m ide use of the firft treaty for particu
lar purpefes; but Ido not fay or suggest it came from
Congress, and indeed I have been told it. Was published
by a private hand. To elucidate this, which was be
come a matter of ebnverfation, I desired to know if there
had been two treaties on foot. As a juftification to this
part of the letter, the public will remember, that in the
firn treaty, by one of the articles, America had a right to
withdraw herfelf from the war, provided fhe.did not re
linquiiti her independency.
In the treaty announced by Congress no fuck privilege
was exprtffly given. The public were in doubt for some
time whether such a right belonged to America or not,
till at length the Congress thought proper to declare, that
America ought not, nor would Rot conclude a fepafate
treaty of peace.
Before this declaration I expefted such was the deter
mination of Congress, and under that idea expressed my
difeontent.
Perhaps, with many others, I was too sanguine in my
expectations, and looked for more advantages from the
treaty than policy dilated ihould be given. I own my
object was the peace and happiness of America, which I
supposed might sooner be obtained if we were not compel
led to go through a ong wat. However, the terms of the
treaty being now fully upderftood, I am content, and
doubt not the best were obtained that could be had. Mere
let me observe and infill, that under a free government a
man has a right to censure measures without controul or
apprehension of censure. If such freedom is not given,
where is our boated liberty ? How are the minds of the
people to be informed, and set right ? And in what man-
ip^r'^x^a^^ _fy#wm
I yW^IW
^i^il^^
THE
Published every Tuciday, Thursday and Saturday. ]
ADVERTISER
ner are those intruded with the management of our affairs
to be detected, and their anions brought to light? I con
tend not for my opinion upomthe treaty, but I contend for
the right I had to fpeak:freel, of*. No reHeßion was
intended 011 the French Miniflers^r Motif. Gerard of
^hom I have had a very high character ; but supposed,
as was natural for every Minifier, he would gain all the
advantages he could in making a treaty.. There appeared
to me no profpe& of peace, till Great-. Britain Ihould give
it by a .declaration of our independences which is the ob
vious meaning of the expression following that relative to
th'e treaty. . ,
Tue force of the foregoing expression is proved by that
which follows, and serve to explain each other.
Every person will fee the necessity of advising a mer
chant inttuhed with the management of business, and lav
ing outmoncy, of. the rife of commodities, and depreci
ation of money, because from thence he is to judge whe
ther ft was prudent to flip goods or not. This is every
day done in cur papers, and known from every perfen
going from America.
My tympathy for ihe fixation and diffrefs of my coun
try, ^as perhaps described in too mournful colours in the
next paragraphs, but the fentimeot/flowed from a com
patficnaie as well as defponding breast.
I felt hr. uneaSnefs &nmy private account, being amply:
Applied with the necefidries of life ; but for mycouxtrya
and th^ welfare of the people within it, 1 was led greatly
indeed to lament effects inseparable from the profecutioii
of a war.,"
:Sorc imputation seemed conveyed ag^ihft Congress
from the, expre ffien relative to Mr. Deane's accounts be
ing delayed, but! declare none were intended- .I was a
totJ firanger to the affair, arid made use of the expression
from reading Mr. Beane's p'ece,.
After this, cm only expression that requires explanation
is the last. I cannot answer it better than by referring
the readers to the public characters given by Mr. Deane™
and the manner in which they attempted to introduce
themfelv.es, and to do bufinets at foreign Courts. To them
it expreflly alludes, and to no others.
Is there not fear from thence that designing Ministers
with whom they may have, to deal, may derive great ad
vantages from a negotiation , ..
I have thus, Mr. Ferdie, explained the meaning of those
parts of the letter referred to said to be exceptionable, I
mehn to trouble you no more, unless compelled from se
vere and uniu f lftriasres. If that should happen, I fh a il
claim the privilege of having my aafwer published, and
of having it proved to me that your's is a free p^fs
CARTER BRAX 'ON.
S
ExtraUi of letters fr&m C. Braxton, concernis? the In
dependence ^America, to J. Ross, merchant of Nantes,'
ivritten in bis own band.
A Oflober 7, 1778.
Sh 'V. '' °' P°' ltlcs > a °d our Situation, he fays :
Our affairs are in a promising state, except as to a
few particulars, which ought not to be mentioned ; and I
have no doubt but independence will be the result. In
deed it is due to our perseverance, which ought to be re
warded/ In the fame letter it is farther said: “ The
''r'a 3 concluded by Congress with France, and the.dif=
refpeH shewn the Enghfli Commissioners, clearly show
Li t°°r?r ac ° ' s " '""d, uniefs Great-Britain will hum
ble herfelf to acknowlege our independence, and sue for a
peace with France. You befi know whether ihe is reduced
to this, and from thence you may reafori and judge of
the period when peace and tranquility will be restored.
n' ™' n '"' ' ' not "' e en ' o ' t^' B war, and think that
all the Powers of Europe must be sooner or later engaged
in it." °°
In another letter, to the fame gentleman, dated Nev.
S> '77*, it is said, after speaking of the rife of goods :
' They will continue to rife, if the Parliament of Great-
Britain does not agree to give us independence. This is
an sera much to be attended to, as with it peace and plen
ty will be restored, and the prices of all things fall confi
deratly."
In another letter, to the fame gentleman, dated Dec.
26, 177 X, it ^ said, but not written in his own hand,
however acknowledged to be a copy of what was sent for
wa^.' ' ' jv^j^ou had been more communicative upon
politics, giving your mind freely of the situation of the
war. Much depends in trade on proper foresight in this
matter. With regard to America, you find by her alli
ance with France ihe is so closely fixed to her, that the
cannot jn any event separate herfelf. France, having the
ablest Ministers in the world; know how to turn this .'to
their advantage. The treaty given us now in print differs
exceedingly from one published fix months ago, anT ma
ny people are displeased to fee themselves so much deceiv
ed by designing men, who have adually cheated them cut
of their firft concurrence, till now they know not how to
be redressed. Can you tell ss if there were two treaties on
foot in France, and if Mons. Gerard had power to alter
it, which it is said has been done since his arrival at C'on=
grefs ? America being thus proflrate at the feet and devo
tion of France, it rests wita Great-Britain alone to fay
APRIL $ 1779.