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Delaware State, fl.
TO ALL whom it may concern,
XT OTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Ad
miralty will be held at the Court-house in the
town of Dover, on Tuesday the 28th instant, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon of the fame day, then and there
to try the truth of the fa&s alledged in the libel of Mat
thew Lawler, Commander of the private armed brig
Holker, againtt the sloop called the Two Brothers, late
ly commanded by Capt. John M'Cleban, with her tackle,
apparel, furniture and cargo: To the end and intent
that the owner or owners of the said sloop, or any per
sons concerned therein, may appear and (hew cause, if
any they have, why the fame should not be condemned
according to the prayer of the said libel.
B, order of the Judges
BENJAMIN VINING, Reg.
Dover, March 8, 1780.
On MONDAY the twenty-seventh inst. (March)
at Ten o'clock, in the borough of Wilmington, will
be SOLD,
THE CARGO of the Prize Sloop TWO
BROTHER S, consisting of Sugar in hogs
heads and barrels, Rum in hogsheads, Ccffee in bags,
and a few boxes of Chocolate. And in the afternoon
of the fame day will also be fold, the VESSEL, with
all her materials, &c. as the came from sea, as per in
ventory to be seen at the place of sale. She is a Bermu
dian-built (loop of Sixty tons burthen, pierced for twelve
guns, and fails remarkably faft.
By order of the Judge of the Court of Admiralty
for the Delaware State,
GEORGE LATIMER, Marshal.
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
VET A S Bolen, out of the house of the fubferiber, in
Water-street, near Market-street, Philadelphia, a
Velvet CLOAK, lined with tafftty, with broad lace
round the hood. Whoever apprehends the thief so
that the Cloak may be had again, Shall receive the above
reward. ABRAHAM ROBERTS.
A N r — E D,~
A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN, to ceok and
A undertake the management of a kitchen, that can
be well recommended. Enquire of the Printer.
AL L Officers and Soldiers belonging to the
Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment now absent on
furlough or other-wife, are ordered to join the said Re
giment, now laying near Morris-Town, by the 15th
infant, agreeable to a Division Order lately issued by
Major General Lord Stirling.
E. EDWARDS, Major,
March 3, 1780. Com. nth P. R.
A GREEABLE to a Division Order of
^^ the 2d instant, issued by Mjor General Lord
Stirling, all Officers and Soldiers belonging to the Fourth
Pennsylvania Regiment now absent on furlough or other
wise, are ordered to join their laid Regiment, now lay
ing near Morris-Town, by the the >§th instant.
GEORGE TUDOR, Capt.
March 3, 1780. Com. 4th P. R.
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Philadelphia, February 28, 1780.
To be SOLD by Public Vendue,
On Wednesday the fifteenth of March, at Twelve
o'clock, at the Coffee house,
ALE ASE for eleven years, from the firft of April
next, of twenty acres of good LAND, for the
molt part but few years cleared, with a stone house
about eight years built, about thirty-three feet front by
seventeen feet deep. There is a fine Spring near the
door, with a house over it. A stream of water runs
through part of said place, with ihe privilege of railing
and taking out the water, if needful. When the wood
is cleared off, the low part may make a coafiderabla
meadow. The whole is subject to a rent of only 61.
currency per annum. Situate in Radnor townffijp, a
few perches from the fourteen mile stone on the Lan
caster road, joining the Widow Thomas's and Adam
Siter's land, and the street adjoining Radnor Meeting
house. Attendance will be given at the time of file.
Wanted, a quantity of cedar RAILS, and cedar#
white oak or chefnut POSTS.
Several lots on Tinicum Island to be let; and a place
below Bristol, on the river Delaware, banked in, some
part of which is improved. For terms apply to
JAMES HUNTER.
—N — T E D?'
A YOUNG MAN of fourteen or fifteen years of
" age, well recommended. Enquire of the Printer.
G ENERAL #
TUESDAY,
OR
[ Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ]
SIR,
YV AVING feea in your General Advertiferof the 4th
and 9th in ftant the following certificate signed M»
Llvingftcn, and an extract of a letter from Mr. Digges.
under the signature of Ludwell Lee, I request you will
publish what follows in your next Packet.
' Paris, April 11th, 1778. IDO certify that I was
' Shewn a letter in London, dated the 27th of January last,
' which I was told was written by Dr. Bancroft to Mr.
' Wharton, informing him, that he might depend upon
' it, he had it from the very best authority, that the trea
' ty with the Court of France, was to be signed the sth
' or 6th of February, and desiring him to make his fpe.
' culations accordingly, in the above words, or wordst®
' that effect. Ido also certify, that I have seen Dr. Ban.
' croft's hand writing on other occafens, and that I be
' lieve the above mentioned letter to have boen written by
' him.
(Signed) M. LIVINGSTON.”
Witmefs, Geo. Diggs.
' There has been a dory lately against 1 Samuel Whar
' ton, which will make me mire cautious than I ever
' was with him. It is Something Similar to that of Van
' fittart, and came originally from the fame informant,
' Mr. Williams. Mr Wharton has however (as Mr.
' Craig informed me) cleared up this matter to Dr. Frank
' lin, and Satisfied Mr. Williams. He must therefore
• fland acquitted whatever we may think. J. Wharton
' his brother, (who is an honest, careless, ruined roan)
' has been the principal negeciator of Buck and gaming
.' policies on a French war; he has repeatedly wilhed me
' to join him in such business (which I ever did and Shall
' refufe to do). He once or twice told me his informatfen
' of the Bate of politics, came from Mr, Deane, and that
' there was Security in such a gambling scheme, &c."
Justice to my own reputation and to Dr. Bancroft'^ as
well as to undeceive the public, compels me (however
reluctantly to appear in print)to do awa, those mifrepre
feutations in Mr. Livingßon's certificatfyand the unme
rited Slanderous accusations and reflections of Mr. Digger.
And if I amfo happy as to effeft these, it will Surely de
firoy not only the intended calumnies of Mr. Lee against
me, but make his affrtions questionable at least about thoie
other gentleman, whom he has honored with his notable
Strictures. In the year 1777 I lived in London in the fame
house with Mr. Livingston, and as I wrote by every mail to
Dr. Band-est, whatever was politically necessary for the
information of Dr Franklin in behalfof the United States,
I, in return, usually received what intelligence had ar
rived from America, and what related to our cruizers in
Europe. These I chearfully communicated to Mr. Li
vingston, as lie was a native of this country, and appear,
ed to be equally attached with myfelf to its welfare.
Mr. Livingfion early in 1778 went over to France. In
1779 I saw him at Naiitz We renewed our acquaintance,
and continued in friendship until I received a letter from
Dr. Bancroft dated at Paris, inclofing a copy of the a
bove certificate, which had been tranfmitied to him from
this city, and desiring me to call on Mr. Livingfion to
account for this unprovoked attack upon our characters.
I went instantly to Change, found him, and had some con
versation with him upon it. The next day, accompanied
with Capt. John Paul Jones, I went to his lodging. I then
demanded of him, if I had ever Shewn him a letter from
Dr. Bancroft, which Bated when the treaty of alliance
would be signed? Or if I had ever Shewn him any let
ter from the Doctor relative to it ? He replied I had not,
but that the letter he alluded to was brought to him by
Mr. Blake ofJamaica,who told him hehad it from me,(here
it must be remarked that we did not lodge together at
the time he saw the letter he certifies to ) as it would give
him Satisfaction, and that he beleived it to be Dr. Ban
croft's hand writing. I then asked him what could induce
him to give a certificate to operate against the DoCtor
and roe, feeing the letter I sent to him flow'd from my
confidence and regard, and that the violation of such a
trust was the highest breach of ingratitude ? He an
swered, that he had, without thought, mentioned such
a circumftaßce to Mr. Lee and Mr. Izard at Paris, who
unexpectedly infilled upon his certifying to it, he consent
ed, but upon a promise from them, that no use whatever
should be made of it, and added, he was astonished that
either of them should fend it to Cengrefs to affe& Dr.
Bancroft, whom he had previously never seen, or me
whom he really esteemed. Upon these assertions, I declared
to him upon my honor, that I never had received such a
letter as he certified to, from Dr. Bancroft; that I ne
ver knew till it was public, when the treaty was to be
signed, and that the letter I indulged him with a fight of,
was from Mr. Lloyd to Mr. Champion, of Bristol, who
enfrufted it tome for the Satisfaction of my countrymen
in London—and further, that the hand writings of
Mr. Lloyd and Dr. Bancroft were as dissimilar as any
things possibly could be. I then insisted upon his giving
me a certificate for the motives which had Stimulated him
to give the other. Me readily assented, and declared he
had no intention either to injure the Doctor or me, and
that both Mr. Lee and Mr. Izard had used him ill. Ac-
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Cprdtogly the next day he feat me the following curious
morcel, which I have copied exactly as he wrote'it:
' On the other fide (referring to ^he certificate above) is
' a true copy of a certificate I. gave Mr. Arthur Lee and
' Mr. Ralph Izard in Faris last April.
' Nantz, Feb. 1779. M. LIVINGSTON.
. 'I gave the said certificate ip.confequence of having been
' informed, in Paris, that Mess. Lee and Izard had been
' attracked,apd as I conceived, unjuty ; on the Subject
'of flock jobing in En land, and that in order to faci
' litate that scheme, that they had difcloftd the secrets of
' the cabinet, refpeftiag American affairs : 1 therefore
' thought it my duty to declare what I knowed on the
' fubjed, as i; tended to relievethefe gentlemen from such
' an imputation,
' Dated Nantz, Feb. 20th, 1779.
(Sfgntd) M.LIVINGSTON."
I Shall make no comment upon it further, than to re
mark, that as Mr. Livingflon was so weak as to sign the
firft, which he said was written fithe< by Mr. Lee or Mr.
Izard; who could exped the Second t@ be fraught with
founder reafouing, or a better juflifitation when wrote
by himfelf ?—After much conversation, Capt Jones and
I retired; and by the next post I wrote to Dr. Bancroft
the substance of it, and sent him the following certificate :
' On the preceding tides of this paper is the copy of a
' certificate, signed by Mufco Livingfion, and delivered
' by him to Mr. Arthur Lee, and Mr. Ralph Izard,ac
' companies with his reasons, (if reasons they can be cal
' led) for his so doing. Justice to the injured reputations
' of Dr. Edward Bancroft and my own, (which arethere
' by without cause most Slanderously accused through the
4 malignant intervention of Mr. Leeand Mr. Izard) de
' mands, that I refute this attrocious calumny : I do
' therefore in the mofl Solemn manner, declare to the
' whole world, that I never received a letter or any in
-6 formation whatsoever from Dr. Bancroft, Bating "that
' the treaty with the Court of France and the United
( States of America, waste be signed on the sth or 6th
6 of February," and " desiring me to make my fpecu
' lations accordingly," nor any intelligence by which I
' could afeertain the period of its Signing ; neither did I
' known of its execution and ratification, until it war pub
' licly know and Spoken of in London. And I do abb mast
' lolemnly declare, that the only letter or copy of a let
< ter, I ever sent to Mufco Livingfion (in confidence) to
1 read, was one which was received by Mr. Richard
<Champion of Bristol, (then in London) from a geotle
' man in Nantz, (unfixed;) and which he permitted me to
6 Shew to my friends, as it contained material imtelliger.ee
' from, and relative to America ;but the particulars of it, I
' do not immediately recoiled. Aqd I do certify, that the
' foregoing certificate and writings were delivered to me
' yesterday, by M. Livingston, on the Change ofthis ci
' ty, in the presence of Ca-pt. Paul Jones, ofthe Conrinen
' tal fllip of war Poor Richard, further declaring, that I
' Shall always be ready to fwe^r to the falls which I have
6 herewritten and fubferibed my name to.#
' Naotz, Feb. 22d, 17,9. JOSEPH WHARTON.'
Soon after I received a letter from Dr. Bancroft, enclos
ing one for Mr. Livingston, which I sent to him, and of
which the following is an exact copy :
'S I R,
' MY indignation is only equalled by my afioniihment
' at reading the copy of a certificate given by you to Mr.
' Lee and Mr. Izard, refpe&ing a fictitious letter from
' me to Mr. Wharton, which you pretend was Shewed to
' you in London—That I may not have juftcaufe tocon
' sider you as the inventor of a most atrocious calumny,
' I require you to fend me immediately the name of the
' perlon by whom this pretended letter was Shewed to you,
' the time when, the name fubferibed to it, and the name
' and place to which it was addressed or directed. I de
< fire also, that in mentioning the person by whom this
' pretended letter was Shewed, you will apt contrive to
' refer me to the man in the moon, but to some body who
' is within fueh distance as may allow of his being called
' to account. I pretend not to judge of your motives or
' rewards for becoming a tool in this dirty malevolent
' proceeding ; but I fancy you will find it difficult to juf
-6 tify the felly or wickedness of it, ( which ever it may
' be) of teftifying, that the fictitious letter in question
6 was written by ihe, and that " you had seen my hand
' writing on other occasions,” when your conscience must
' bear witcefs, that until this moment, you never-saw me
* write even a Single Syllable, and can have no knowledge
' or conception of my manner of writing, But from your
' being Shewed, as coming from me, writings which per
' haps were not mine, or if mine were most probably
' written ip a disguised hand, which I have used, and en
' deavoured constantly tc^vary in my letters to London,
' certain I am that you never did, or could fee any letter
' from me Similar to that you mention, because none such
' ever existed ; and I hope for the fafety and happiness of
' mankind, that you are th^only one who in the like case
' would venture to certify what you have fubferibed.
I am, Sir, your humble Servant,
(Signed) EDWARD BANCROFT;
Paris, February 28, 1779.
To Mr. Mufco Livingston ,Nantz,
MARCH 14, 178;
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