The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-08-19 00:00:00, page 4

For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
To THOSE at the HELM, who have been autho
rised to grant Appointments, and particularly to the
Special Committee, chosen to enquire into and
reform abuses in the Quarter- Masters, Hospital and
Commiffarial Departments.
ALREADY has the impropriety of one appoint
ment, of a D.Q Matter General been Submitted to
your configuration. It wag then promised to exhibit
other delinquents and other abates to public notice. Let
there in the Hospital department at Danbury next claim
your attention. A memorial and petition dated Dec. 14,
1778, has been long since transmitted to Congress, com
plaining of the iniquity and despotic condu& of Doctor
I aac Foster, Deputy Director General of the Hospitals at
Danbury, (under Doctor William Shippen, jun. Director
General of all the Hospital department in America). The
Memorialists have long impatiently waited the event
of that application for a redress of grievances without
leceiving any anfiver. They ask what is become of that
memorial? Surely, fay they, no private friendihip, or
family connexion, has interposed to screen a delinquent
of that magnitude from public justice. It appears by the
Minutes ot Congress as if that memorial was referred to
the consideration of the Medical Committee, Jan. 14,
'779' Has the Committee mide no report yet upon it?
It must then probably be laid under the table to sleep.
In order to awaken it unto new life, and to quicken an
inquiry into it, is the charitable design of this paper.
The fubferibers of that memorial are Magistrates and
other principal inhabitants of the town of Danbury, in
the state of Connecticut. They set forth to Ccngtef„—
That they are very uneasy on account of the conduct of
Doctor liaac Foster, as b^his neglect or inattention, the
sick were entirely destitute of wood in that cold and in
clement winter leafon, (^ December) the confluence
of which was their burning the rails, and laying waste
the inciofures of the inhabitants, (an aft of savage vio
lence, equally hostile and licentious). They further
declare, that the public dores intrufted to him are pro
tutely fquandeied and wafted; and, that Do&or Foster's
arbitrary and tyrannical conduct was accompanied with
Inch menaces as could not be patiently endured by free
men As i; appeared probable to them, that a new ar
langemcot of Hospital matters must take place, or the
service differ amazingly, (and Congress has indeed since
ope,by declared the war cannot be fuppot ted by emissions
of paper money, without the enormous abuses pra&ifed
in this and the other Staff departments are corrected)
tney humbly and unanimously remonstrate against the
re-appointment of Doctor Foster to office. So far that
memorial. It is further affirmed on very goad authori
ty, that a gentleman in office under Do&or Foster was
crushed some time ago to prevent the direful consequences
that would ensue to the Doctor if his enormous expendi
tures of public money (hould be made known, and which
that gentleman declares be will publish with the vouchers
whenever Doctor Fofte/s conduct is enquired into.
'' Can it be possible, (fays an eye-witness who has passed
" through the Hospital) that the most pompous enter
" tainments, and orders given upon the public stores,
" which he knows to be a fa&, to the Supply of men at
'' pleasure, that are as unconne&ed with the Hospital as
" the north is with l the south, are to be supported at a
'' publiccharge, under the head of Hospital expenditures
'' and regulations ?" Go on, good Doctor Foster, in the
steps of your great Principal and Leader. Make Friends
at the public cost, and you need not fear having a pow
erful party to support you ; for “ he (fays a great Pa
triot*) msft be but a poor rogue indeed, wh® cannot
make friends to jnftify his measures however difgracious."
Already has the question been asked in this paper by
Old FaJbion, Whether if a person were to exhibit a com
plaint to Congress that one of its servants was busy in
plundering the public, could we know within a twelve
month what w s done to check and bring the delinquent
to justice ? I answer, thirty men have exhibited such a
complaint, of which no notice is taken fix months after.
Whether it will within the twelve month is uncertain,
Congress being overwhelmed with business of the greatest
importance, which leave little leisure for such investiga
tions. Is it becawle the miicondu& of great men, in of
fice, for I dare not call them servants of the public, the
violation of the rights of freemen, or the extravagant
wastes of public money of which we hear so much and
grow callous upon it, are not objects that merit imme
diate confideratio^s ? What then, are not the names of
thirty refptdable freeholders, Magistrates and Sele&-
raen of the town of Danbury, &c. of authority enough
to give any voc^ht to the charges, or to require an im
mediate enq/fr into the fa&s in question ? Defer ve not
those complaints that the accused person should be tried,
and that the Memorialifts be called upon to appear in
evidence against him ? We have heard of one person con
demned and ignominiously dismissed the service, without
a wJ, and without a single charge brought against him,
in that very department, on vague clamours, and now
although thirty freemen unite in fpecifying the offences
committed by this person, and those too of a very capi
tal nature, yet instead of calling the accused to any ac
count, we find by the Minutes entered on their Journals
that on the lath day of June last he obtained a warrant
on application for One Hundred and Fifty Thou
sand Dollars, he giving his receipt to be accounta
ble. Are these assertions true or falfe ! Let the person
who can, appear to deny them. And yet Congress
gravely tells us in their addefs to the public, which is
thrown out to prepare the good fubjeds of these States
io furnish or fink forty millions for the present year, as
if it were a small affair to ask, “ We hold ourselves in
" duty bound to declare, that we are not convinced
“ there has been as much diligence used in deteding
46 and reforming abuses, as in committing or complain
“ ing of them." Is it possible ? I am ready to ask,
which of my senses is the lying one; that by which I fee,
or with which I hear. I revere Congress as much as
• The Hon. Mr. Laurens, late PreJident of Congress.
PHILADELPHIA Printed and Sold by JOH N DUNLAP, in Market-street.
any man, but cannot implicitly give into all 1 hear. 1
can only reconcile those conttadiaians by luppofing
Congress know not that the memorial referred to above
was ever before them. Let them consult their own Mi
nutes of Jan. 14, 177,, and of June 11th.
To return. If Doctor Foster is unjustly accused, why
mould he not be galled upon to make that appear ? If
juttly, why is he kill intruded with so important a charge
as the expenditure of public money and the lives of the
sick and wounded till another campaign it over, in which
time the place of the Hospitals may be fhifted, he may
resign, or the evidences against him be removed,^or dis
couraged from appearing. Call him then to a speedy
trial. If he is innocent, he will be acquitted. If guilty,
let lentence be pronounced, and every vulture that has
preyed on the vitals of the public be made to difgbrge
the unjutt prey. Is it not aftonifning, or is it not true,
that whilst our excellent General and Commander in chief
sets an example of frugality that will do him no less ho
nor than his victories, the Principal of the Hospital de
partment and his Eastern Deputy have lived like Eastern
Princes, and from the slender allowance of a few dollars
a day pay, have had the art to raise lordly estates?
To fatisfy every candid mind whether there is reason
or not (0 call for a public enquiry into the conduct of
Doctor F 7fter, the names of the truly worthy gentlemen
who fubferibed the memorial and remonstrance against
him, are here annexed, by
A SPECTATOR.
Daniel Taylor, Thomas Starr, jun. Z. Taylor, Amos
Hoyt, Andrew Comftock, Samuel Gregory, Elnathan
Gregory, John Troubridge, Nathan Starr, Abijah S:rr,
Nathan Gregory, Levi Stone, Matthew Greger), Be
najah Starr.
Thadeus Benedict, Eli Myatt, (Justices of Pe^) Ste
phen Trowbridge, Joshua Knapp, Selectmen for 1, 77 .
Joseph Benedict, Major Tayler, Comfort Hoyt, Da
vid Bouton, Elijah Hoyt, Selectmen for 1778.
Zadock Benedia, Thadeus Barnum, jofiah Starr,
Daniel HetchcOck, Ezra Dibble, Richard Shute, John
Benedict, Selectmen for the year ensuing.
V[7 " EREAS the estates of Christian
Vought, George Ryne, Michael Whitman, I
saac Gray, John Ryne, and Alexander M'Key, late of
the county of Lancaster, having been in due course of
law forfeited ano seized to the use of this State, We, the
fubferibers, Agents for the said county, do hereby give
notice, that the estates of the said Christian Vought,
George Ryne, Michael Whitman, Isaac Gray, John
Ryne, and Alexander M' Key, confiding of the follow
ing tracts, viz One houle and lot of ground situate on
the weft fide of Queen Ifreet, in the borough of Lan
caster, containing in front on said street thirty-one feet
four inches, and in length or depth to a fourteen feet al
ley, two hundred and fifty fivefett, and in breadth on
said alley thirty fix feet four inches; late the property
of Christian Vought. One trad of land situate in Earl
township, containing one hundred and fifty acres, with
stone dwelling houl&, grist and saw mills, all in excellent
good order ; late the estate of George Ryne. One trad
of land containing one hundred and ninety nine and a
half acres situate in Cocallico township, with a house
and other good improvements all in good order; late
the property of Michael Whitman. One fin 11 place in
Earl township, containing ten acres, with a dwelling
houfe and other imp ovements in good order ; late the
property of Isaac Gray. One tra& of land situate in Earl
township, containing one hundred and sixty acres, with
a dwelling-house and other good improvements ; late
the property of John Ryne. Also one undivided fourth
part of three hundred and eighty acres of good land, si
tuate in Paxton township, on the river Sufquehannah,
about one mile below Either town, fubje& to the dow
er of the widow of Themas M'Key, deceased ; late the
estate of Alexander M'Key. All which will be fold by
Public Vendue, at^he Court-house, at Lancaster, on
the twenty fourth day of August. The files will con
tinue from day to day, till the whole be disposed of.
The terms of sale will be according to law, as follows,
to ,it, One fourth part of the purchase-money to be
paid in ten days after sale, or the premises again to re
vert to the State, and the bidder liable to forfeit the said
one-fourth of the purchase-money. The remainder
thereof to be paid in one month ; and on a certificate be
ing produced from the Agents, or either of them, of
full payment of the purchase-money, a deed will be gi
ven, as by law directed.
And we the Agents, do also pursuant to law, hereby
notify all the claimants of the said premises, or any of
them, and creditors of the laid Christian Yought,
George Ryne, Michael Whitman, Isaac Gray, John
an ° Alexander M'Key, to exhibit their claims
and demands to the justices of the Supreme Court, with
in the time limited by law, or they will Be for ever bar
red from the recovery thereof.
GEORGE STEWART,
CHARLES HALL, jAgents.
To be SOLD by Public Pendue,
At the Coffee-houfe, on Thursday the nineteenth inst.
at fix o'clock in the evening;
AC E RTAI N tra& of Land containing one hun
dred acres, with large allowance, situate on the
wettern branch of Great Mantua Creek, called Chefnut-
Branch, in Greenwich township, county of Gloucester,
western division of the state of New-Jersey. On said
land is a goodtframe house with two rooms on a floor
and a good spring near the door; about thirty acres of
laid land cleared, part of which is an apple and peach
orchard; about forty acres of the remainder maybe made
into meadow. The place lays within half a mile of a
° n a road leading to Smith's Landing, and
within four miles of said landing, fix miles of Wood
berry, and fixtevn miles from Philadeldhia.
Philadelphia Count), July ±l, 1779.
V{7"EREAS the estates of jofeph Galloway,
VV John Roberts, Alexander Bartram, John Smith,
David Thompson, J6hn Tolley, Enoch Story, Arthur
Thomas, Abraham Carlifle, and Henry Younker, late
of che county of Philadelphia, having been in due course
of law, forfeited and seized to the use of this State,
We, the tubferibers, Agents for the laid county, do
hereby give notice, That the estates of the said Joseph
Galloway, John Roberts, Alexander Bartram, John
Smith, David Thompson, John Tolley, Enoch Story,
Arthur Thomas, Abraham Carlifle, and Henry Youn
ker, confining of the following trafti or parcels of
Land, viz. s Jofeph Galloway's, No. 1, One hundred
and five acres, being one third part of Hog Blind.
No. 2, Twenty-eight acres at the mouth of Schuylkill,
No, 3 , Ten acres on Boon's Tfland, a dwelling house
and barn thereon. No. 4. Five acres adjo ning the
above, a dwelling house and two hay barracks thereof.
Nd. 5. Eight acres near the fame. John Roberts',,
One hundred acres joining Frederick Seeking, in Lower
Merion township, a house, barn, &c. thereon. Alex
ander Bartram's, No. 1 A lot one hundred feet square,
in Southwark, the corner of Third and Shipper.. Greets,
three houses, a Potter's work (hop, kiln, and funury
buildings thereon. No. z, A lot in Second-ibeer, near
Christian street, in Southwark aforelaid, forty-fever feet
front on^Second-ftreet, and two hundred feet deep, one
l ai g e brick house and one frame tenement thereon.
John Smith's, two lots in Qyeen ftter, i, Southwark
a.orefaid, fifty-three feet Lone and me hundred feet
de p, one elegant brick hoiMe, one frame tenement, and
other improvements therein. David Them,'on's. No. 1,
A lot in Southwark, one hundred feet front on Dela
ware, a wharf house, stable, and other conveniences
t^eon. No. z, Altin Almond street, and diftri&
aforesaid, twenty one feet front and iixty-fix feet deep,
a frame tenement thereon. John Tolley's, A let the
corner of Second and Christian-streets, ' in Souths.rk
aforefaid, forty feet front and one hundred and twenty
feet deep, one brick and fix frame tenements thereon-
Enoch Story's, A ground-rent of three pounds per ann.
in Southwark afaeiaid. Arthur Thomas's, A let in
Second-street, in the Northern Liberties, fifteen and a
halt feet front and sixty feet deep, on^which is a tftree
ftory brick house. Abraham Carlisle's, A frame build
ing lately kis office, in the Liberties aforefaid, ftandin
on the ground of Jacob Weaver. Henry Younker'%
One hundred and sixteen acres, joining Jacob Neff, in
Springfield township. All wnich will be"fold by Public
Vendue, at the Court-house at Philadelphia, on Wed
nesday the twent -fifth day of August next ensuing.
Fhe tales will continue from day to day until the whole
is disposed of.
The terms cf sale will be according to law, as follows,
to ui!. One fourth part cf the purchafe-mcney to be
paid in ten days after sale, or the premises agais to re
vert to tire State, and the bidder liable to forfeit the said
one fourth of the purchase-money. The remainder
thereof to be paid in one month ; and on a certified,
being produced from the Agents, or either of them, 0!
full payment of the purchase-money, a deed will be
given, as by law dire&ed.
And we the Agents, do also pursuant to law, hereby
notify all the claimants of the said premises, or any of
them, and creditors of the said Joseph Galloway, John
Roberts, Alexander Bartram, John Smith, David
Thompson, John Tolley, Enoch Story, Arthur Thomas,
Abraham Carlifle, and Henry Younker, to exhibit their
elaims and demands to the Justices of the Supreme Court
within the time limited by law, or they will be forever
debarred from the recovery thereof.
GEORGE SMITH,].
' THOMAS HALE, ]
Philadelphia, 16.
S TO L E N,
Out of the College Yard, in the morning of the i<th
instant,
A SMALL sized white HORSE, about fix years
old, not docked, his mane p.rt cut off and part
hanging, has very high hips, a fore back, a small fore
on his near fide almost healed, with sundry small grey
foots on his rump; has very fine thin legs,' arid was no t
food. Whoever will bring the fame to the fubferiber,
living near the College aforefaid, within the yard, shall
receive a handsome reward, and no questions asked.
JOSEPH BUISSON.
TO BE SO L D,
A FAMILY WAGGON, a SULKY with a
top, and a CHAIS E, with harness for each. En
quire of Alexander Quarrier and Co. in Fourth-
Itreet, near the Indian Queen.
Superfine, fine, mingling and coarse five-quarter and
fix-quarter
BOULTING CLOTHS,
TO BE SOLD BY
FRANCIS C. HASSENCLEVER,
In Second-street, between Race and Arch-streets,
6 Philadelphia.
FO R S A L E,
A COMMODIOUS three-story brick House and
Lot of Ground, situate on the weft fide of Second
ftreet, between Arch and Race-streets, in the city of
Philadelphia ; the lot is thirty-one feet front (including
a nine feet alley over which the house is built) and ex
tending in depth two hundred and fifty feet to Moravi
an Alley, with a kitchen, walh house, coach-house, sta
bles, &c. created thereon ; lee in April last at tool,
sterling per annum. For terms of sale apply to Bonsall
and Shoemaker, at their office in Fourth-street, be
low Spruce- street, where houses, plantations, &c. are
fold, and business tranfa&ed as usual.