The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-05-22 00:00:00, page 4

To JAMES REED, £fquire, captain of'his Britannic'
majeny's ship Galatea.
SIR,
X/1 Y not addressing you fearer was 'owing to my not
being.determined to give you a chahce of.meeting
me once more on the.ocean. But the mercilet's treat
ment which the American prisoners Live met with at
New York, fittce,l left you there, has fixed my opinion
in that point. I am now determined to go to sea, as fo^n
cs i can get proper y accommodated; therefore think it
my duty, to remind you ofiafew things that happe e',
which you will very readily recoiled , and if ever I n,, v e
the happineis of feeing you once more oh board the)
Galatea, dependupon it I will recapitulate the whole,!
provided the Galatea is not accompanied by any other'
British thip of war.
You formerly knew w' oJohn VanderfpegiH was. I
shall now ted you who toe gentleman pahenrer, ana
owner of the (loop Passive was. He was once, fir, a
man inveßed with ^uch authority in Great Britain ; as a
proo"of Braith liberty, he had it in his power to break,
open, when ne pleated, every lock in Great Britain and:
Ireland. But us he himfelf thought his power too great
and incomparable with Ids ideas of liberty, he ne~er
made use of it but mice, and th< n the duty of bis Ration
competed him to do it at the Mull of Galiway in Scot
lana, win-re he made a very great seizure of Raft In
dia and French goods, forking Ge, rge the third. He
was a man, fir, 'that fpik as much French and Spaeth
blood as any Briton of ins Ration ; and lie filed as much;
of ids own, for lie was nine times woanhed, fighting far
your present kingand hrs grandfather; but underftanl
- t at ior? North intended to fend him to America,
nidi the Command .of ten or twelve fail of cutters, he
artfully got dismissed from the service of Britain, and
immediately brought his family over to America ; and
as he is very sincerely an enemy to war, efoecially a ci
...Vil war, oil his arriving in America he wrote and ar
gued publicly againd toe Americans having ' recourse
toarms, until he was threatened, in the Pennsylvania
coffee house, to be tarred and feathered.
Perhaps captain Reed may fay —What the devil have
1 to do wi h what he was, or what he did before Ire was
my prifoncT; I diet; got his "effel, I got her cargo, and
nir. Murry apd myfclfgut all his gold . and I want no
more to do wi h him. Ind ed, capt. Reed, he believes
you do not , but he now wjfh^s to have something to do
with you, and sho withes mat while he is painting you
in your -proper colour; ,to inform his friends in Great
Britain how he has conduced himfelf in this unnatural
and cruel war Therefore, fir, I mufi,in behalf of my
friend, be Fill a little more particul r.
He lab year fitted out twobatteaux, and one canoe
(comparatively fpeaGifa they w re such) to take the
guardship at Sandy Hook, and had he not unluckily
made captains of drunkenJwabs, and averfet his canoe
(on board of which he had hoiked his broad pennant)
in chace of the privateer Holker, and her prize the
Dian? of London, he fibcefCy believes he would, in a
few days, have hfhed the New York guard flip to a
wharf in PGbf&pbia.
He afterwards converted his battea,a Tiger into the
sloop Passive; loaded her for Holland, and gave the
command of her to the man you basely bribed to be
tray his trust, by facrificing at leaf! 1500 pounds ft<r
ling, of bis owners property for a few half joes and
some silver .But all your flattery and threats could not
corupt him, till ysu made him so drunk that he had
mo. sense Sufficient to conceal it from the man lie had
betrayed, but pulled the whole out of his pocket, and
offered is owner half of what you rascally gave, and
he, when rendered incapable of reflexion, received.
You know captain Reed, while you was - plying the
captain with porter, brandy, wine &c. you kept his
£ck paffenger,and only owner, about three hours upon
deck; at leaf! some of your humane men thought him
fo,and reproved some of .he others as savage as theirc p
tain, mailer, and duCor, for treating him with unmanly
barbarity.
Sor.e men, captain Reed, would have commended
the owner, for bearing your fire as long as he did:
as you know, fir, in lets than ten minutes after he ws
takea, you could not fee his sloop ata hundred yards
distance from your pirate (hip. Some would have ev n
applauded.his pretended sickness, as he confeffed his
design, when begged to do it upon honour, that had
he been left on board with only one of his own men,
he would have given all your people an annodyne,
tied them, run near the coafl of Newfoundland, given
them the b6at, and let, them go. But what he then
declared, he Fill declares, he would not have killed
one of your mhb, while sleeping, to have saved- bis
\eßel and cargo. When you, captain Keed, robbed
his trunk with your own hands, you saw the viol that
' contained 'the medicine he intended to administer to
y.our prize maker and men : but you saw it was nei
ther gold nor iilver, and therefore you let him keep it.
-The whiffling of your flrot had such an effect on his
crew, that there sas not one person on board could
-fleer the (loop but himfelf. You- and sundry of your
:qfficers told him, they saw he was very much wet with
the fpl Th of your Lot, an I that they saw his face very
gplain when he turned round to look at the Galatea.
When your koat firft 'cdme'on.board, one of your
men alked who it was that had fleered the sloop, and
~ ,vas told the man that Peered her was taken very
' Had, and,hep fiel below. This you was informed of,
( yet you kept him upon deck that very cold night, till
Qe almof lp^rifhed; when he could hear it no longer,
'life crawled below, where lie heard your great promises
'mid horrid threatsto hisciptain.' But the irritant you
Ta w'hirrr, you "ordered him to be drove upon deck, where
tire brute your gunner abused and threatened tee beat
him But at the poor sick gentleman underflood no
English, lie could take no notice of Him., At last he
had the honour of being ordered to your cabbin, but
by the time he had your permission to go below, he little
regardedwhat you or any man could fay or do tchim ;
for he was almoß insensible, and fume time before that
had lament d his being born in a land now inhabited by
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by ID Ad'lD C. CLAPPGO LF
so, many ir.maJyanJ unhuman favaft. The infant he
entered your cabin, he saw a Scotch gentleman he knew
(for thank GoI there are Riil fomegeritlemm.inßritain);
captain Sutherland of the Vulture floopof war. met ;
as your prisoner was in a Dutch dress and his eye-1
brow§ painted with Spanish brown, be was in hopes
captain Sutherland would not ..have known him, little
fufpe&ing, at that time, his captain had drtrover d'
who he was. Part of what captain Reed had tnemean
nefs to take with his own fronds from ids prriom/s
trunk, he made a present of to captain Suthirl u'l ;
who as politely sent it b>ck next morning, as you,
<apt\ Reed,meanly tool< it from him. As you may (0011
have an opportunity of feeing your own and your of
ficers conduct jufily exhibited on the Rage, m a play
now preparing for the press, by a friend of mine, call
ed the Humours of an English man of war, or
a description of the savages of Europe, I shall not trou
b ! e you at present with your unparalelled conduct in
your cabin, your putting your prisoner in irons, and
having the flockings, ikin a,J flefh ripped from bis
shin bene, untill the bone was left bare in two places.
In the play before mentioned, your full names, Rati
ons and conduit, on board the Galatea, shall be
candidly set forth, to the immortal credit of yourheu
tenant, your ptirfer, your clerk, and many of your
fearnen; and to the eternal infamy of yourfelf, your
mafier, doltor, gunner and tome others of the Gala
tea's crew.
But now, captain Peed, it is full time to throw the
third person on one fide ; and to tell you, it is your
former defoifed, insulted, and tortured prisoner that
now addreffts you : who, roofed by the brutality of
Britons to his friends and fellow countrymen, is de
termitied to go to sea once more in a privateer. In
fach a vessel, myTwners intered, and my mens fafety
will oblige me to avoid English men of war, if I can ;
but you may depend up&n it, fir, I never will go to
sea in a privateer the Galatea is able to take, unless I
turn as great a coward as I take you to be. Men of
your make I ever detested, and I mud continue to do
so while I am
JOHN MACPHERSON.
N. B. The broach that was taken from the breast
of my fliirt, was sent tome from Quebec!: by the porfon
that buried my son with the honours of war. I would
not have lost it for ten thousand guineas.' Had it been
taken from me by an avowed pirate, or a little picaroon
ing privateer, it would not have furprized me, but its
being taken from me by a Britdh man es war, I confefs,
aftomfhed me. The gold that was taken from me by
mr. Murry (1 suppose you (hared with h*m )was none
of my property. The firfl British merchant's I take,
shall repay it to the proper owners.
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