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dealings ^t certify, that T richer deviated from
rny principle of trucking and cheating whenever
1 had an opportunity.
When I quitted domeflic happiness for tire
perils of the field, I conceived I had a better
profped of focceeding in my withes. The ex
pedition against Quebec was too flattering not
to be embraced. 1 anticipate your question, Was
not the attempt dangerous ? lanfwer, that with
cagernefs, 1 thought so: But I well knew the
opportunity it would give me, if I succeeded, of
amafling wealth by the plunder of the inhabi
tants; and think i can boast with any highway
jnnn, that Ijare encounter danger for the fake
of momy. The citizens of Quebec, fume of whom
to their coll were no Grangers to my chara&er,
by Fluting the gate and flying to arms disap
pointed my fhngu:ne expectations. The ar
irmnr to fu bdne then)by force proved imfuecefs
fid. and my views were thereby trullrated. How
ever, the opportunity 1 afterwards had of plun
dering the merchants of Montreal in some final!
degree compenfared for this di(appointment.
But not having fully gratified my wiihes, I de
termined to.continue in the American army, in
hopes that tb^ honours confered upon me by my
country, who were (truck with the glare, and
unacquainted with the motives of my conduct,
and ,the rapid promotion I met with might throw
in my way new and more favourable opportuni
ties. The removal of the English from Philadel
phia presented one, which 1 improved to my best
advantage. You will fay, was it not now time
to withdrew ? By no means. In contending for
wealth, 1 am free to declare my opinion, that
this end attained my warfare should cease. But
I had married a young wife, set up a chariot,
and entered on a plan of expensive living which
fivallowed up all my gains. I lamented, there
fore, the proieemiun commenced against me by
the ruling power of Pennsylvania, who detected
some of my practices, and was almost driven to
despair by the Scrutiny into ty public accounts
made by the B >ar<l of Treafa,, who developed
my arts of chicanery, tricking and peculation ;
and in one inltance prevented me from securing
to myfelfa thousand pound, hard money, not
withttanding I practifed every artifice that cun
miner could fugged to gain the point, fortunately,
however, a new and tempting scene opened to my
view. Maj, Andre, the confidential friend ofGen.
Sir Henry Clinton, gave me an opportunity of
commencing a correspondence with him. My
character was blasted, the people of America
were beginning to treat me with foverign con
tempt. Even a French man, whom 1 had treat
ed with so much friendship as to borrow of him
twelve thousand pounds to pay for a country
feat andfplantation I had bought, when conti
nental currency was worth about four for one,
in silver and gold, had the affprance to hint he
would be glad to take a pair of my horses for
eight thousand pounds of the money lent. But
this I refufed, and therefore could hope for no
farther favours of the like nature from him, and
confeqnentfy have a tight to abuse and hate him
and „ all his countrymen. In this fituaiion I
should have changed my principles, if I had not
embraced the opportunity of major Andre's cor
respondence. In the firm persuasion that my
private interest was to be preferred to that of
my country, I devoted myfelf to Great- Britain,
thinking it infinitely wiser and fa fer to call my
confidence of making a fortune upon the bargain
] should make for betraying my country, than
to trust CongreG, who bad, too much reason to
despise me.
1 affec'l no disguise, and therefore frankly de
clare, that in these principles I repaired to the
army and solicited rhe command of Well Point,,
in ureter to have an opportunity of surrendering
it and the garrifan to Great-Britain for a flipu
lated sum. In» converting the measures for a
purpose as grateful to the British general as it
would have been beneficial to me, 1 was only.
solicitous to accomplish antcyent of decisive im
portance with as much fecority and as little dan
ger to myfelf as ppflible ; and did not fufficient--
Jy provide fort the fafety„of Mr. Andre. His
capture has frustrated my Icbemes. I mult there
fore rely uponihe clemency of niy sovereign and
the abundant conviction that I will betray him
to any who will.come up to dry price.
With refpedt to that herdTof censurers, whose
enmity to me originates in ihejr hatred to the
principles by which] am led to devote my life
to the re-union ofthe British empire, as the best
and only means make my fortune, they may be
allured, that, confeious ofthe reiftude of my in
tentions, 1 (half treat their malice and calumnies
with contempt and neglect. B. A l< N 0 LD.
P. 8. Alas for my baggage, which I left be
behind me!
T O BE S Q L D,
A N excellent HARPSICHORD. Enquirc of
the printer.
Kingston, Jamaica,) Augaft ^
To Meffieura WALKER and STRUPAI^
Gentlemen,
AS a man fobied to the feelinttof humanity, I fend
you the inclofed for publication, and hope you will
have independency of spirit enough to conform to your
duty. The press ought to be sacred to the public,
uniwed by the frowns of power, and influenced by
truths While your press is conduced upon thete prin
ciple-, and no longer, Ihall I and many more continue
your constant readers.
A FRIEND TO YOUR PRESS.
.Extraß of a Letter from St. Juan.
" The condition of your dog, ’ that is chained all
day in y,our yard at Kington, is envyable when com
pared to the condition lam in here. Our diftrefsis of
th;t nature which admits of nd defcripticn. We were
made to believe that we were fen-t on an expedition fer
tile of wealth and fame, and that nothing more for
fuccefa was required, than a considerable degree of
fatigue and a vigorous exertion of arms; all which
we had refolded upon , tyutwe soon caffie to experience*
hardships,. of which before, We had no idea, Ind would
required volume to enutierafe. With incredible tod
we made our way for several weeks, against the rap
id ft ream, of the river, alternately exposed, night and
day, to a (torching fun, chilling winds, and,ne moil
violent rains that ever were kno^n Alt this ^e bore
with as much fortitude as we Cornell call to our iflifonce,
anticipating the fame we should acquire in furmonnt
fing theft difficulties, ind the joy we fhuuld hav • in
taking the Cadle of St. Juan, and with the reinforce
ment we expefted, in making a rapid progress through
tne opulent province,)] Nicaragua, where in one church
only we thought of getting as much treasure as fifty
mules could carry. But oh ! mJ friend, what a con
trast have we experienced. We took the Cafile, but
for a further progress no adequate reinforcement ever
arrived, and we were soon reduced to a ftatving al
lowance of the most unwholfonie food. Near five
months have we been lying here, deflitute of every r.e
ceffary, the Spaniards laughing at tis all the while.
The want of provisions and other requisites, conspi
ring with the climate, soon brought on a. gen^r J sick
ness attended with such mortality, as deserves no o
ther name than pestilence; infothuch that even the
carrion crows seem to be Surfeited with hitman fl.fh.
While we moll ingloriously fuffer all this, the Spani
ards have been preparing their defences, and coleff
ing th^ir forces, so that an invasion of their country is
impracticable, without a force fix times beyond what
was necessary when we came here. In my lab ^ou had
an account *f a projected attack upon a poll tnev had
fortified, to prevent our access to the like, upon the
success of ths our all depended ; , but to compieat cur
calamity this has proved abortive. While our little
force has been diminishing like wax in a fire, tlie Spa
niards have been collecting like a snow ball, and we
now find to our cost, that St. Juan's Cattle was only a
tub to the whale.
" We are by turns lamenting our fate, and execra
ting the author of our misery, who upon a difiant prof
pe& of acquiring wealth and diftinftion, hath precipi
tated us into Calamities hitherto unheard of. Sure
ly the laws of that country mus tbe defective, that have
no other punishment for the inhuman monster, who
devotes hundred of his fellow creatures to torture and
to death, than for him who only murders a single in
dividual. A soldier must, and always will, lay his
account to meet with hardships in the performance of
hhduty, when upon actual service; but for such a
number of brave people as ever took the field, to be
Ihut up in a wilderness, and without feeing an enemy,
to be thus slaughtered by famine and disease, without
the profped of a hand to help thetri or nouriihment to
subsist on, is an event, that history until now, has been
unproductive of-"
PHILADELPHIA, Oflober 1%
John Whitehill, Emanuel Carpenter, Jacob Cook,
Christopher Kucher, Jarties Anderson, Philip Greena
wtf'. Adam Reigart, James Coudon, Alexander Low
ry, Matthias Slough, and James Jack', esquires, are
chosen to represent the cotfnty of Lancailer in the Ge
neral Affem biy: George Ege, John Patton, Baltzer
Gehr, Mark Bird, Thomas Mifflin, and jofeph Hiefter,
esquires, 'to represent the county of Berks : and Ben
jamin Fell, J. (eph Savitz, William Scott, Gerardus
Wynkoop, and James Morgan, esquires, to teprefent
the counts of Bucks. -'
Friday last arrived the fllip Flora, Captain Brewder,
from Port au Prince.
Yesterday arrived the brig Fanny, Captain Tanner,
from St. Euftatia, by which we have the important in
telligence contained in the. following extrad:
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in #t. Euftatia, to
his friend in this city, dated Sept. 19.
“ In the line of news our attention is engaged just
now with a report brought to St. Kitts three days ago,
by the Southampton frigate coming out e^preL, but
was in company with the East and Weff-India fleets,
confiding ot fifty-four fail, (five of the former) under
convoy of the Romulus, *hen they fell in with a flet
which he supposes was Spanish, to the southward of
Cape FiniAre, who captured all the East India men and
near the whole of the others, four of the convoy only
efcapi g, to his knowledge."'.
Colonel Daniel Morgan, of Virginia, (who so greatly
didiuguifhed himfelf in federal actions previous to tne
capture of general Burgoyne's army at Saratoga,) has
joined the southern army, and is promoted to the rank
of brigadier general.
It is said that a party of the enemy's cavalry have pe
netrated to Charlotte in North Carolina, where they
had a skirmish with a party of militia, who were worded.
The public must have been some time since apprized
of an expedition undertaken by a Considerable Bri.iih
force at Jamaica against the Spanish settlements on the
Main, which was attended in the execution by a very
rapid success, (particularly in taking a drong fortrefs
called St. Juan.) so as even to threaten almost tr e total
fubdußion of the country: but by accounts from Ja
maica, as late as Sept. 4, we are happy to find that
their success was followed by a train of evils which not
only prevented them from pursuing the advantages al
ready gained, but incapacitated them from tending th@
Spanish forces, who in turn made art easy conquest of
St. Juan [For a more particular account of this mat^
ter lee the Kingflon Head.]
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at HaverflraW,
near Stony-Point, dated Sept. 30.
" I am confident that the perfidy of General Arnold
will adonifh the people of America; the high rank he
bore, the eclait he had obtained, whether honestly or
not, jollified the world in giving it him
" But there were a few gentlemen, as early as thd
campaign of 1776, well knew that honour and true vir~
tu" were flrangers to his foul : and that he did not pos
sess either fortitude or personal courage, other than
what the bowl ot glass supplied
“ Although I entertained the mod despicable opini
on of his abilities as an officer, yet I must do him this
justice, that he h ^ improved on the blacked treachery
and the mod confumate impudence, in a manner that
would cause the infernals blush, were.,hey to be
charged with with it. # ,
" But this is only in his military capacity : now for
his peculate talents. lie had employed a number
of tattlers, both in and out of Camp, to retail the pub
lic liquors for lis own private emolument. He fur
ruiiied colonel Rohmfon'shoufe, where he quartered,
with beds and other furniture, by paying , for them 111
pork, fait, flour, &c. drawn from the magazines. -—
But these are trifles : well, Whet think you of defraud
ing the brave veteran, who has fought and bled for
this country more than five campaigns, by borrowing
what his wife had bar Uy earned by futtfing, walking,
&c. &c.----He really has done this, with a promise of
repaying your old ferieant's wife in wine, rum, sugar,
&c. He has obtained from her forty-five thousand
dollars, and left her in the lurch."
*** Want of room obliges us to omit, in this day's
paper, the piece signed Z. addrefTed to Sir Henry
Clinton.; but we will, with much pleasure, give it z
place in our next.
m^w^^e^^ c^^^
NOTICE is hereby given,
r r HA T the Maifhal of the Court of Admiralty is now
' ic d^ to make diftrihution ot the remainder of the
cargo of the fh ; p M irciry, taken by the private's Hol
ker, Fdr American and Ent^prize, and condemned
as prze in the laid Court.
Thea; eat or agent, duly authorifed by the owners,
featnen cr others of either of the said privateers, and
every of then having a right for share therein, by be
ing on board said private: oat the time of the fad cap
tmeor 0 nei w fe, a.e defied to appear and make known
his or their authority to aft as an agent or agents as
afor fald wthin tl.r^c days from the dat < & t, ac
coding to l^wj
c^.l7, !7 go. MATTHEW CLARKSON, Mufol.
Philadelphia, October 14., 1780.
D Y Virtue of a writ of Venditioni Exponas, issuers
" out of the fuprenie court, to me dirc&ed, will bB
fold uy public vendue, on Bickley's Wharf, between
Market and Arch ftreet£, on Monday the 2,d instant,
at to o'clock in the forenoon, twenty hogsheads of
Mhlafcr, three hoglheaCs and five barrels of Sugar,
nine calks of Cefte, two cafka of Rum, and one half
pipe of Madeira Wine; being Goods, Waresand Me#-
chandize imputed contrary to the laws of the state of
Pennfyivania, attached, fe zd and condemned, by the
fad court.
JAMES CLAYPOOLE, Sheriff.
—_ ± =!_ =—--=— - —■ I.l'. - —it
Philadelphia, September 12, 1780.
BY Virtue of an order of the Orphans Court of
the Tty and curty of Philadelphia, will be fold
by the futucriuer, at Public Vendue on the premises on
the fi,ff day of November, at ten o'c!o<k in the morr ing,
the morct, o r hrif patt ed a brick mefluage or tenement
and lot cf ground, together with'a brick shop adjoining
the turn meffuage, lituate at the north east Corner of
Collow-Hd. Ur et, in the Northern Liber jes, late the
real estate of Isaac Pearson, d+ceafed.
ABIGAIL PEARSON, Administratrix.
— - ; -— Ld
Excellent Congo TEA,
IN quarter-cherts, to be fold by WILLIAM AL
KICKS and Co. at their itore in Water-Street, be
tween Chefnut and Walnut Streets.
Wanted immediately,
A number of WOOD CU FTERS, who will under
" take to cut a quantity of wood in Penr/bury man
-10 by the cord, and find themselves. Any persons wil
ling to engage, will be informed of the price by applying
to SAMUEL MILES, D. Q^M, for Pennsylvania.
Odo! er 16 1780.
To be Sold,
A HEALTHY, inn^v, honest well-gio^n NEGROB
GiK L, about eighteen years of age, fit for either
town or country. Enquire of the printer.
Half a Guinea Reward.
RU N away from the iyofcriber, at the Pyinfylva
nia H dpital, on the 15th infant, (O&ohet) an
apprentice Lad named DAVID STACKHOUSE, 17
yens of age, 5 fret $ or 6 inches high, of a ruddy com
pl xon, light coloured hair tied behind. Had on when
hr «ent away a fuftian jacket with fleyees, one under
veff,blown furtian breeches, white shirt, thread ftockinge,
flioes and hatt . •took with him a light coloured coat
and vest, and uadry other cloarhi. Whoever take#
up said apprentice and brings dim to me, (ball have the
above reward.
N JOSEPH HENSZEY.
N. B. All martyrs of veftls ano others are forbid to
harbour or carry him eff at their peril.