The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-12-09 00:00:00, page 2

The EXAMINATION of JOSEPH GALLOWAY,
Esq; before the House of Commons.
(Continued.)
Q U^D you a great property in America before
H those troubles, and is it not in your possession,
or that of your attorney?
A. I had very configurable property in America before
the troubles, I should have said, before my life was at
taiated by an Act of Affernbly of the Rebel States, and
my property coofifcated. My eflate was not short of
40,000!. Sterling, on a moderate valuation, before these
troubles began.
Q Hive you any hopes of recovering it by the fucceis
of ins Majesty's arms ?
A. Without that co-operation, I have no hopesuf re
covering it.
0 Do you receive any allowance from Government?
& Ido --but a ve y small pittance, compared with
what I have facrinced for Government.
Q Is it for ife, or during pleasure?
A. I know not, for I never looked or enquired into the
appointment.
Q ( B ) Lord H>w '> Don't you remember coming to
Lord Howe's quarters in Philadelphia a short time before
the town was evacuated, to ask his advice, how it would
be bed for you to proceed on that occasion?
A. I do..
Q DJnot Lord Howe recommend your flaying in
Philadelphia, if you should find it could be done with
fafery ?
A. Hedid.
Q Did not you then profefs, that great attention had
been thewn by Lord Howe and General Howe to your
perlon and services antecedent to that period ?
A. I don't recoil a it. Something might drop from me
to I.ord Howe, refpeding his confidence, and his attention
to my family but as to any attention to my services paid
by ms Lordihip's Honorable brother, I don't recoiled that
any thing passed from me with refpeQ to that, and lam
inclined to think that nothing did ; bedaufe the services
that I performed, I thought, dererved as much as I received,
and more*.
Q Was not great attention paid to you r difireffed situ
ation subsequent to the time that has been named, until
Lord Howe left America ?
A. just beforet ecity of Philadelphia was evacuated,
I received from Sir William Howe's Secretary twenty Ihil
lings a day, allowed merfrom the time I came in to Sir
William Howe to that time, as £ understood, out of the
public money.
* While others from very low circumstances, were a
mafiing immense fortunes under the General, Mr. Gallo
way, for all his extensive and very important services,
was allowed at the rate of 2001. per annum, for the firft
year, and for the other fix months at the rate of 6651. So
that ali he ever received from the General amounted to
the final sum of 5,71. 10s. paid out of the public purse;
and as the receipt of t.ds sum has been mentioned to inva
lidate his credit, it is but just we give a brief account of
the services he performed for it. While he remained at
New-York, he was afliduous in pr curing intelligence of
the ftateof the mid lie Colonies, the Rebel force, and of
the water guard in the river Delaware, &c. When at
Philadelphia he accepted the offices of Superintendant of
the Police, of the Port, and of the prohibited articles—of
fices which, being f>unded entirely on new principles, and
being of the firft importance to the inhabitants as well as
the British feevice, required a great diversity of attention
and incessant application. He also luperintended the ave
nues of the Bntifh lines, appointed persons acquainted with
the people p ffing them, whose report he received every
evening. On him, the General in a great measure, relied
for intelligent. H.s ditfufive knowledge of the middle
Colonies, his influence and popularity enabled him to pro
cure the bed. He was applied to and consulted on business
in almost all the general and different departments of the
army : By the Qiarter-Mafler General, to procure guides
and horses for the army; by the Commissary General of
provisions to procure magazines of forage; by the Chief
Engineer, to furnifh workmen for the lines; and by Lord
Cornwallis, to flop out the water on Blakeley's and the
Province 111 mis -a work which was thought impractica
ble in any reasonable time, and which he performed in fix
days, and without which it was impoffble to ere& the
batteries againii Mud-Island Fort. He offered to raile a
regiment of American light iiorfe, but received a warrant
for only raffing a troop. These in a short time, he had
perfectly disciplined fit for action. He also embodied 80
refugees from the county he lived in, who served the crown
as volunteers, receiving neither pay nor eloathing. Ha
ving obtained leave to operate with these two corps, he
kept them constantly executing plans formed by himfelf.
Knowing that VVafhington's army was in great distress
for want of cloathing, and that he had seized all the cloth
in Bucks county, wnieb was making up for his army at
Newtown, a village diflant near 30 miles from the Bri
tkh lines, he lent out 24 of his troop, and 14. ofthe volun
teers to take it. This they performed in lets than 24 hours;
and after having flormed two rebel posts, killed 8 men,
took a Major, and fe^rd other officers prisoners, making
in the whole 32, they returned with the cloth. He next
meditated an expedition again £ IBriftol with 40 horse and
50 volunteers ; but receiving intelligence, that upwards of
200 rebels had taken post about 4 miles from the road to
that village, he ordered Capt. Hovedon, who commanded
the party, to attack them if he found them there; if not,
to proceed or to Bristol. This was performed with the
utmost gallantry ; the rebels were defeated and dispersed,
23 killed, and 8 taken prisoners. He also laid a plan
for seizing the rebel Governor Livingfion, his Council and
Assembly fitting at Trenton. His intelligence was so good,
and his (cheme so well concerted, that there could be no
doubt of fucctfs ; but he was not permitted to carry his
design into execution. In short, this troop and company
were continually operating during the winter and spring
under his direction, in a variety of excursions, in which
the v took near 200 prisoners, and scoured all that part of
thelc-untry, between Philadelphia and Trenton, of the dif
affeded to Government. As er this short narration of a
part only of Mr. Galloway's services, the world will de
termine, on which fide the obligation lies between the Ge
neral and that Gentleman.
Q. Whether, on your apprehension of the consequences
that might happen to you, in case you should be made
prisoner on your passage to England, Lord Howe did not
offer you and your family a passage in nis ship?
A. He did, and I thanked his Lordfllip for it, and so
Ido Row.
Q I, on the profped, at that time, of your return to
England before Lord Howe, you did not request his Lord
ships interposition with Government, to obtain some provi
sion for your future support, reward for your pall services,
and compensation for the loss of property you had thereby
fuflainel ?
A. I don't recoiled any profped of my returning to
England before Lord Howe. If I recoiled right, Lord
H©Ne would naturally return before me. I don't recoiled
ttiat I madea positive request to Lord Howe to intercede
with government. I know that a conversation passed be
ween us on the fubjed a few days before his Lordship came
away. Whether I interceded with his Lordship or not,
I can't recoiled ; but nis Lordship gave me to understand,
that he should have it little in his power to do me any
services. I believe very sincerely nis Lordship was dispo
sed to do it.
Q. Did not Lord Howe, in answer to your application,
or in conversation about your returning to England, advise
you to express a disregard for General Howe and Lord
Howe, as the best plea for obtaining favour from the A
merican Minister ?
A. I believe his Lordship did intimate, that he should
have no interest, when tie came home, with the Ameri
can Minister; bu ; I sincerely declare, that I don't recoi
led that he (poke to me in the positive way the question
sup ofes. ..
Q. Did you not apply, before you left Philadelphia, for
2 flag of truce, for the purpose of making yonr peace with
the rebels?
A. I did not. When I made the application to Sir Henry
Clinton, Col. Innes, through whom I made it, can prove,
at any time, that it was my firm resolution not to apply
for a flag of truce. Col Belfour several times ask d me,
whether"! had got a flag or truce from Sir Henry Clinton.
1 told him, I bad not. I did not care, or think it pru
dent, to tell him what had pdf d between Sir Henry Clin
ton and us, refpeHmg what I had communicated to Sir
Henry Clinton, and what had been said about the flag,
of truce, as Col. Innes informed me, what he brought
from Sir Henry Clinton was not to be understood as offi
ce
Q Did not you fin illy come away from Philadelphia with
the Britilh army, on the certainty of losing your life if
you had ftai , and in hopes of your property being pre
served by your wife's flay in that city ?
A. I came away 'rom P Jaddpoia, knowing that my life
would be taken isl staid, but I had no expectation of la
ving that property waich I held in my own right. Mrs.
Galloway's estate was very confiderabie, as well as my
own; and she staid under an expedition, from some
words in the law, that she might retain her own eflate,
even during her own life, and at !eaft after my death ; and
for t at purpose only she remained behind.
Q la die now in Philadelphia?
A. She is yet tnere, and informs me she has no expec
tation of laving even her own estate.
Q. How long before thearmy left Philadelphia had you
deter nined to come away with it ?
A. I never had a resolution or determination to flay, af
ter the notification of its being to be evacuated. I had
taken too adive a part against tee rebels, and knew that
I could have no security if I staid.
Q Did you not advise every one of your friends, who
you thought cou d remain in fafety with the rebels, to
flay in Philadelphia.--and were not two persons, who fol
lowed that advice, afterwards pu. to de th?
A. There was not a person who had taken an a&ive
part to my knowledge, but what I advised to come away
with the Eritifh army. As to Roberts and Carlifle, the
persons to whom I suppose the quefiion alludes, the firft
never consulted me on the occasion; he had a very large
family; and a large estate, and many friends more con
fidential than myfeif, wi;h fvhertn he advised, and whose
advice he followed. As for Carlifle, I positively advised
him to leave the city, because I Knew he would not be fafe.
I was sent to by some of the drfl men in the province,
to know whether I would advise them, to take the oaths
of allegiance to rue r ^1 States; and I advised them
never to do it, but at the Kill extremity and neceffi-
ty #
Q, Had not the other managers of the police, who you
have said declined following the advice of Sir William
Howeto remain in Philadelphia, reason to apprehend
the fame violence if tuey had staid there?
A. I think they would have been capable of making a
better intereti , and their p?ace would have been easier made
than mine ; and yet I have no great doubts, whether they
did not remain in the fame jeopardy I did, as the great
object cf she rebels, in confifeatiog est .tes,mas to pro
cure a sum of m ney, and these gentlemen ,ere men of
confider 1 ble fortunes. 1
Q Do you know if Mr Willing of Philadelphia, had
his pardon from the Congress?
A. I don't know.
Q Did he refufe to take it ?
A. I never heard.
(Concluded.)
PHILADELPHIA, December 9,
Extras of a letter from Mr. Hendrik Hooft, Burgo
master of the city of Amkerdam, to his friend in Con
neaicut, dated July 12, 1779
'' Notwithflandmg I have had little opportunity to con
vince you of my real esteem and afft&ion f©r you, I have
however often wished, that God may conduct and save
you, and by his assistance may be the means to promote
the happiness and prosperity of our dear country, with
that of the Thirteen United American States. How re
joiced Ihall I be, if I can contribute any thing to it: I
know no greater joy on earth, or more agreeable Ne^ar
for my foul, than when the Almighty enables me to pro
mote the happiness of my fellow creatures, under what
ever climate they might be born.
" It is not possible to imitate the Deity, from whom we
have received all, more than to facrifice joyfully life and
property, for the deftruHion and breaking ot the slavish
ties, and to prefer,e our posterity from slavery. North-
WTming'on, Delaware State, December 7, 1779.
Last Saturday His Excellency CAESAR RODNEY,
Esquire, Governor of Hie Delaware State, arrived at this
place, to meet the Honorable the Council and House of
Assembly, for the dispatch of public business. On His
Excellence's arrival at she ferry, where he was met by
' the Members cf both Houses, he was saluted with the
firing of thirteen cannon, and after being conducted to the
house of Capt. Kane, was waited on by a number of offi
cers then in town, who were invited to a genteel enter
tainment prepared for that purpose; when after dinner a
number of patriotic toasts were drank, and the evening
fpeUt with the greatest harmony and decorum.
Tn CONGRESS, November 19, 1779.
WHERE AS the fluctuating ftat> of prices not only
causes inequality and iajuflice in private dealings, and in
furniihing the public supplies from the several States, but
renders it iitipraaiccble to make the proper estimates for
future expences, and to fix equitable faiaries for those em
' ployed in the service of the United States •,and whereas the
eflimates, according to which the reqaifitions for the taxes
ofthe succeeding year have been made, by the resolution
of the 6th of October, have been formed on the princi
ple that the prices of commodities mcefftry for the pub
lic use would not exceed twenty fold of the former prices,
and should they rife above that rate the taxes must be ac
cordingly encreafed, but should they fall below it, the sur
plus of the sum railed may be applied to the linking fund;
therefore,
Resolved, That it be earnestly recommended to the se
veral States, forthwith to enaH laws for efiablifliing and
carrying into execution a general limitation of prices
throughout their rtfpe&ive jurifdi£lions, on the following
principle#, and to commence in their operat on from the
firft day of February next.
Articles of domestic produce, farming and common la
bour, the wages of tradesmen and mechanics, water and
land carriage, not to exceed twenty fold of the price cur
rent through the various teafons of the year 1774,
Articles imported from foreign parts to be in due pro
portion with labour and the articles above stated, making
a proper allowance for freight, insurance and other char
ges—Sdt and military stores, whether of home manufac
ture or imported from abroad, to be excepted from the li
mitation of price
Resolved, That it be recommended to the several States
to euaft ftrift laws against engrohmg and withholding,
and to take the necessary measures for having the fame
carried into full execution.
Resolved, That all officers and agents employed in ma
king purchases for the United States, be directed to conform
flriaiy to all regulations that are or may be efiablifhed in
tie several States.
That accounts be kept and returns made by all persons
employed to make purchases in behalf of the United States,
or to hire vessels, carriages or men, for the services of the
fame, of the prices by them relpeaively given in such
States, as shall not, before the firft day of February, 1780,
piss laws for the limitation of prices agreeable to the re
commendation contained in the foregoing refolutiogs, to
the intent that such State as shall have negleded to pass
laws for the purposes aforefaid, may refpe&ively be char
ged in the public accounts with the aggregate accounts of
the difference of prices paid from and after the said firft
day of February, 1780, in such States, and those in which
such laws may have been enabled.
< Copy >
Extract from the Minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary,
America, as lorg as the world I fie, can glory, tffat in
her are found such men, as are endued with wif om, know
ledge and bravery, to procure to a numerous ration, and
by nature a blessed extensive country, the greatest treasure
on earth, I mean Liberty, so as to proclaim without fear
of the inquisition, GOD only is our Kl NG! That King
of Kings, I hope, fliall further condud the American He
roes by his Spirit, and preserve them from all misfortunes:
These are my praters and withes, assure thole noble fouls
there, of my name, who justly may be called tee Fathers
of their Country. It a little while shall all the nations of
the earth acknowledge the Independence of North Ame
rica ; WhilH the English are disabled to have their com
mands obeyed; they (hall be deprived of people and mo
r°y, and compelled to make peace with the powers they
are at war with, &c. &c"
We have the greatest reason to exped, that by the
multitude of friends amongst all ranks ot people in the dif^
ferent Provinces of the United Netherlands, especially by
the open protestors of Liberty in the city of Amsterdam
and other places, that they will over-balance any preju~
dicial reflations of such Provinces as have not feeling
enough to maintain their own Liberty, much less that of
the North American States.
A friend to the country obfer' es, That it is a matter
much commendable to all Merchants of the United States
of Ameri< a, who are trading to Holland, to examine into
the ch^raders of their correspondents there, so that the
sweet emoluments of trade and commerce should not fall
into hands who do not deserve it ; as there are as well
Tories in Holland, as in America.
Fr the fake of justice we can assure the Public, That
Mr. John De Neufville and S .11, a mercantile house in
Amfierdam, hs been from the beginning active and
friendly to the American cau'e, from pure motives of its
justice; and the Americans have always met with comfort
there : That ' worthy gentleman has even ordered from time
to time his friends in England to have the American pri
soners assisted with very confideraNe sums of money.
On the 24th of Au^uft, the brig Amsterdam, an Ame
rican vrffel, commanded by Captain Magee, laying at
anchor in the Stee, was visited by a Holland Admiralty
vessel, the officers cf which went on board of Captain
Ma^ee, and the American flag was saluted by them with
all honour.
The ship Henry, Capt Burk, from Boston For this port,
was drove ashore on Brigantine Beach, in a gale of wind
last week ; the people, cargo, rigging and materials are
saved, but the vessel is loft.
*** Doctor Shippen's LECTURES on ANA
TOMY will be opened on Friday the rath instant, At
Six o'clock in the evening.
December 8, 1779.