The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1778-01-21 00:00:00, page 2

Yd JOSEPH GALLOWAYS
Sir,
9Lr OW that you have gained the femmit of
your wishes, the reward of your forfeit
ed honour, that dear bought gratification to ob
tain which you have given your narhe to infamy
and your foul to perdition; now that you fit in
Philadelphia the nominal Governor of the pro
vince of Penitfylvahia, give me leave to address
a few words of truth to your corrupted heart.
Retire for a moment from the avocations and
honours of your exalted Ration, and review the
steps by which you have mounted to the heighth
of your ambitious hopes—You will find them
reeking with the innocent blood of your op
prcffetf country, and branded with indelible
difgiace in every Rage of your progress. They
are the fame steps by which tyrants in every
age have rufned into that plenitude of power
them fouls thirled after.
In the beginning of this national cenreft, you
Solicited, with unwearied diligence, a feat in
Congress. Your feeding finceritv, and your
loud'acebmations against the unjust usurpations
of the British Court, gained the confidence of
your countrymen—You took your feat in Con
gress—and who so flaming a patriot as tbegreat
Mr. Gaikway. Mr. bickifo, who had be
fore taken the lead, was for allowing Great-
Britain a constitutional right to the, regulation
cf external commerce : But Mr. Galloway chose
to go a step beyond him—he would allow no
such thing---And let poOerity remember, that
whil'd you were thus daily deluding that vene
rable body with falle op nions, you were be
travin? the secrets of the Houle, ridiculing their
economy and deersing then conduct in letters
to your friend Governor Franklin. But your
abilities were not equal to lour treachery; Y our
character became lulpicmus. You were ka
cut of Conards ; and fearing chejuft icfrnt
merit of your injured country, you t ok refuge
under the banners of General Howe. You well
knew that profefiions alone would not recom
mend you to him—actual lervices mull be done,
to prevent vou from falling into contempt and
jvpdea. You found it no hard matter to xacri
fite honour, truth, and your country~--t<us y u
had been long accuitomed to; and the General
knowing your conduct had been Inch as to ren
der all reconciliation with your country im
p Bible, thought you might be a uleful tool in
Ids bands, and took vou into his employ. You
ft V difer^ce and oblivion on the one hand. a.,d
the <rlitter!rv r Superinter,none, of lenniylvania
on the other, and this Ipuried you on to throw
2tide every virtuous consideration, to Heel your
heart againd the cries of humanity, and wade
through the blood of your brethren to your
proofed retard. Is there a cuife denounced
against villainy, that bangs not over your head !
ft is owin? to vour podonous influence that
Govern: Franklin has taken part against his
country and now turrets in disgrace, and that
his amiable Lady was brought to mdery and
death---Let their misfortune Jit heavy on thy foul!
It is owing to your feducements that a hopeful
voung man was cut off with infamy in the prime
and vigour of life---Let the blood of Molfooiib
lit heavy on thy foul !---i bulk not you have
apocafed his manes or can quiet your offended
conscience, by having his bones dug up and
ordering them a pompous interment — This is
cididdh pageantry I fav, Ist the blood of
Molesworth fa heavy on thyjoul ! ---Y^ con
cendu&ed the British army from the Head of
Lik to Philadelphia. Yoi rode in you carriage
in the rear of that army. You feaited your eyes
with profpeas of deflation. --The cries of ru
ined families and the curses of the distressed
composed the grand chore that attended your
triumphant progress to the city of your refiJeuce
---The hoofs of your hoi fes were drenched in
gore, and the bones of yom slaughtered breth
ren crackled under the wheels of jour carriage
Let the remembrance of these thing §ft heavy on
thv foul! You are now in the feat of power in
Philadelphia, and wbilft you are pampered at
the table of luxury, you well know that num
bers of your countrymen are fullering all the
anzuifh of absolute famine in the gaols of the
city. You well know that under the discipline
of that arch-fiend Cunningham, they have pluck
ed the grass of the earth for food and expired
with the unchewed morsel in their mouths--
and vet no pity hath touched your callous breast,
nor have you 'exerted you felf for their relief-—
Ob! let this too Jit heavy oi thy foul!
The time is nigh at baud when the army on
which you build your fu,port muff withdraw
itfelf and give up the vain attempt. When this
shall be the case thenfy; you are not fate here.
Fly, thou exil'd wretch ! thy life and estate are
both forfeited; and both will be but a poor re
compcr.ee for the injuries thou haft done, rlv
to England ; and if you find yourfelf despised
and negle&ed there, which will most probably
be the case, then fly with the monger Cunning
ham to the barren deserts a^d herd with beads
of prey: For, be allured, so long as virtue,
honour and patriotism have any esteem amongst
mankind, you nwft live abhorred of all good
men. The temporary rewards of iniquity you
now hold will shrink from you, when your ca
pacity of rendering the neceflary services shall
cease. The day draws near when these truths
ft di take fad hold of you, and your referable
foul shall writh with torture. These refleaions
mail throw a gloom of horror over dll your fa
culties—-a gloom so thick that the glittering
t:nfel of your new Superintendency shall not
penetrate with one ray of light arid "comfort.
Look back and all is guilt; look forward and
all is dycad. When the hirtory of these times
shall be recorded, Galloway and Cunningham will
be echoed with infamy from age to age.
Perhaps you may bear from me again if I can
find as convenient an opportunity of getting my
addicts to you, to any of the Printers without
the city b 1 fee you almost every day --1 watch
your conduct---! am often at your elbow, and
nothing escapes my notice, 1 have seen the
glow of gratified ambition dilate tour counte
nance, whillf, like a Bafhaw of the East, you
are ordering this or that fellow-citizen to prison
and punilhment--^But vrrily thou sh di have thy
tewaid; For the pielent, Aorcu.
iNCOGNITUS.
Philadelphia, 'January 5, 1778;
S I R, J^iu&ry 7, 1778.
Y ¥ AVING received a letter under your fignaiure,
dated the 4th instant, which I have some reason
to think you Intended for me, I fit down to answer
your inquiries concerning certain. fficersin the service
of your Kingtaken on Staten-Island, and one Brewne,
who calls himfelf a deputy commiflary ; and also re
fpYting one I iff and another prisoner, (1 suppose you
mutt mean John Mee, he hazing shared the fate you
mention) who have been hanged.
B ftirk, Earl and Hammel, who are, I presume,
the officers intended, with the said Browne, were
sent to me by General Dickinson as prifeners taken
on Sta'en Ihaud. Finding them all to be fubjeds
cf this State, and to have committed treason against
it, the Council of Safety committed them to Trenton
gaol. At the fame time 1 acquainted General Wash
ington, that if he chose to treat the three firft who
were British officers, as prisoners of war, I doubted
not the Council of Safety would be UtisfieT General
Leue: from Major General KOBER 30N to
His Excellency Governor LIVINGS TON.
S 1 R, New lock, 'January 4. 1777,
I A M interrupted in my daily attempts to loften
the caLmiucs of prisoners, and reconcile their case
with our security, by a general e<y of refinement,
aiding from an into-manor.- —
That officers l : )the King's Livipe, taken on the
27 h of November, and Mr. John Brown, a deputy
commiffay, ae to be tried :n jersey for high-trea
fun; and that Mo Iliff and another prisoner have
been hanged.
Though I am neither auihorifed to threaten or to
sooth, my with to prevent an increaie of horrors,
will rubify my ufi , the liberty of an old acquaint
ance, to rkhre your imerpofiion to put an end to,
or prevent mealmcs whinh, if pursued on one fide,
would te,d to prevent every act or humanity on the
other, and render every perlon who exercises this
to the king's enemies, odius r his friends
I need rwtpint uw to you all the cruel conse
quences of such a pr^cedne. lam hopeful you'll
prevent them, ano < xcufe this trouble from, Sir,
Your obedient humble fe-rvant,
J.l ivi ES ROBERTSON.
N; B. At the moment that the cry of murder
reached my ears, 1 w^s signing orders, that Fell's
requelt to have the liber.yof the city, and Colonel
Reynold to be let free on his pa r ele, should becom
phed with; I have not recalled the order because
though the ev dence be dr^ng, I can't believe it pos
sible, a measure In cruel and impolitic, could be adopt
ed where yon bear sway
To William Livingdon, E'q; &c. See.
Governor LIVINGSTON'S Answer.
WanHogtop has knee informed irk that he intends
to confider them as luch ; and they are therefore at
his service, whenever the Commifiry of prisoners
shall direct concerning them. Browne, 1 am told,
committed fever?l robberies in this State before be
took fanSuary on Staten-IlNnd, and 1 ihould fcarcey
imagine that he has expiated the guilt of his former
crimes by committing the greater one cf joining the
enemies of his Country. However, if General Walk
ingten chooses to cenfider him allo as a prisoner of
war, I shall not interpose in the matter.
Iliff was exceed after a trial by a Jury, for en
listing our fubjcAs, him'eU bei^g one, as reciuhs in
the Brithh aimy, and be was apprehended on his
way With th.th to Siaen-Blar.d. Had he never been
(object to this State, be would have forfeited his lire
as afpy. Mee was one of his company, and had
also piccured car fubjetts to enlist in the service of
the erbrnv.
if thele tranfadions, Sir. should induce you to coun
tenance greater Severities towards cur people, whom
the fortune of war has thrown into your power, than
they have already fufteied, you will pardon me for
tHrkirg that you gn father out of your way to fird
palliatives fcr inhumanity, than necessity feetin to
require ; arid if this be the my of murder to which
yen allude as having reached your eats. I sincerely
|fy your ears for being so frequently affauhed uh
cries of murder much more audible, because much tefs
distant, I mean the cries of your prifonets w! 0 are
conftahtly perilling in the goals cf New York (the
comest and moil deliberate kind of murder) from
the rigorous manner of their treatment;
I am, with all due rcfpe&,
Your most humble lervarit,
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON.
James Robertson, Esq; &c. &c. &c,
P. S. You have distinguished me by a title which
I have neither authority mor ambition to affiime, I
know of no man, Sir, who bears sway in this State.
It is cur peculiar felicity, and our luperiority over
the tyrannical fyttem we have difearded, that weare
not swayed by men---In New-Jersey, Sir, the laws
alone bear fway<
CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina) December 9.
T? Y a fl.mp from Hispaniola, which left Cape-
D Funcoil the 29'h of November, we have the
f c lo ring intelligence, viz. That the embargo in the
p rts of France having been taken off, the ship Ju
enne Etienne, commanded by Monsieur Cambon,
arrived at the Cape on the 26th, in forty two days
from Bourdeaux, who left that river in company
with a number of transports, having on board a divi
sion cf troops that had been embarked there, to join
other divisions embanked at Nantz, St. Malo and
Havre, destined for Martinico and Hispaniola, un
der convoy of a squadron of men of war, commanded
by Monsieur Duchaffault, confining of 17 or 18
mips of the line, betides frigates. That Lord Stor
mont, rhe British Minister at the Court of France,
having demanded of that Court a categorical answer
" V ihether it was intended, that Mr. Ducha£ult's
squadron flrould escort the embarkation of troops ?'
And being answered, “ It was," had notified his or
ders to declare, “ That, aS his Court was apprehen
sive so formidable a fleet might be designed to con
ceal some secret expedition, injurious to the interests
of Great-Britain ; so, if the laid squadron and trans
ports were met at sea together, they should be at
tacked by a superior force." That the above squa
dron and transports were hourly expected in the
Weft Indies, to divide off Martinico; arid in conse
quence thereof, quarters h%d been allotted and fixed
upen, for the officers of the troops expected at the
Cape, in the houses of the citizens, while barracks
and other buildings were fitting up with the titmoft
expedition, for the reception cf the troops ; all which
were strong indications that war either already was te
or would shortly be, declared between France and
Great Britain. That immediately after Capone
Cambon's arrival at the Cape, the embargo in Hi
spaniola had been taken off all veffils trading in the
American seas, but was continued upon all that were
bound to Europe: And American vessels were agaim
permitted to enter and depart the harbours of the
Cape and Port au Prince, as heretofore.
A cerrefpondent, who wishes to have a spirit of
activity and enterprize encouraged in cur army, hae
furnifhed us with the following anecdote, which may
be depended upon—“ A troop of dragoons in Col.
Bland's regiment, seldom having more than twenty
five men and horses fit for duty, has, since the firft
of August last, taken 124 Bririfh and Hedian privates,
besides four Commissioned Officers, with the loss of
only one horfe.---Tbis gallant corps is under the com
mand of Capt. Lee, Lieut. Lindsay and Cornet Pey
ton, whose merit and Services it is hoped will not pals
unnoticed or unrewarded."
BURLINGTO N, January 14.