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I : nation to do, yet as tlfe account given by
' ; cx,..?s from a cor.fefled private partner
' oedreen a Delegate in Congress and a
. T ;of , it Houle, in the character of a
mor : J brent, it is fully Efficient to all
uroiroocs to 'which I mean to apply it ; and
Lnm tiejc'ore needless for me to feck any
:!• ; •••-rofs, I shall now proceed to offer
• red:.uks thereon..
'r Morris Acknowledges to have had three
'r;.ra:? mercantile contrads with Mr. Deane,
himfelf was a Delegate. Two of those
-;^._ls, he fays, Were made while Mr. Deane
Jas commercial Agent; the other, tbere
• mmuft be after Mr. Deane was advanced to
r: emn.nihimer. To what a degree of cor
. ,n mult we fink if our Delegates and
; • .floors are to be permitted to carry on a
: partnership in trade? Why net as well
/lives with every Qoarter-Mafter and Com
#,if , in the army? No wonder if our Con
.louid lufe its vigour, or that the re
^ of public spirit should struggle without
.No wonder that Mr. Deane fho.uld be
' . v/Lndv supported by Members of that
uri, .mebthat mytelf, who have been la
-I%^. ^ ;r. fifa" out and prove this partnerlhip
.r ^ (toserous to the common good,
Ni.Nuth^ interim, te made the object of
, % ic %use: 1 have very little doubt but that
•rNd Mr ffr.ro Truth is another of the
# w... ;^p. in forcible or degree; and that
'.^ rihifm're extensive than I choose to
^ln- mv i•; es. The displacing the Hon.
X. r..d:him Lee would have opened a
iti a f."J' ^ _ ^e; extenfian, and as that
.+ Qi, the circle of public fpiri: mult
Icoed.°
L; ris Dys in his address, " That he
1•' snot conceive tlr/ the State he lives in
any ri,r or indro^,» to.enquire into
a . I m^rc^ri: corr\'uous he has had, or
• r "wri^ve, with Mr. Deane." Mr. Morris
: -Uris as a reply to *he following para
.oh f mine, which he hasqubted from Mr.
-\nc<ps reaper of December jilt, viz.
' 1 v,if; in this place to step a moment from
i? floor of office-, and press it on every
' o^i'e to enquire what mercantile connetlil
"- : ; any of their late or prelent Delegates
• '?.ehad or now have with Mr. Deane, and
^ a precedent might not be wanting, it
' important that this State, Pemtolvania
• ?trrdir,n”
i'r. Morris feenes to deny their having such
' 'yft; and I perft&ly agree with him, that
' 7 ' rive no such right, and can aflame no
I : power over Mr. Morris, Mr. Deane, or
• ' ether perries as private gentlemen. But
1% Mr. Morris will allow, that no such
'otfht to be formed between himfelf
1 k^mber of Congress, and Mr. Deane
1 a Commercial Agent, accountable for
c..nuud tj th^t Congress of which Mr.
. teen Lt as a Member; and that any
cmrettian, „ it fogy deeply efted the
# .;f rt,.c whole United States, is a pro
-Qe.tcf enquiry to the flute he represents
-- is reprUent/c ;. r d;o ? no law is is being
>; axe it pdreri^bie, yet the tendency cf it
fa;. $ 4xe4 ;: dangerous, hi^ Uq.inconfiftency of
riders it i^ufuradN.
• • rris lays, '-if idr. Dears bad az,
v^, :< Qt ^&, hunfyfj with IDfrflic
L \^ri.^bla r^cbt?.^ ff n
I . r'v for this citv, irold at the S^e
rhe i^. tie friends of the pre
- /' rtfr^+ui fit') ^-^ the candidate fee up
by a nr*>Fiteof near four to one;
} 'trc cuibliLud ".imed 'by the ar\«i
. ^onriids, is a gentian 'of fortune,
£ ./^r arT influence. Mr. John ffoiEn
gc.i:;e.ii ..n elected.
'. nMON SENSE to the PUBLIC.
~^HS appearance of an address signed
^^ R>bert Morris, in Mr. Dunlap's paper
mat 9', has opcafioned me to renew the
: i, by offering lonic neceoary remarks on
: performance.i
, 1: 'is caftomary with writers to make apT
Ari"- to the public for the frequency or tn-nr
Unifications; but I beg to have it well under
, • 1, that any such analogy from me wouid
Ib aoaYont to them. It is their caufc, //of^,
, ^^ 1 am and have all this while been plead
' :and a. 1 ought, not to suppose anvun
r: 'inpreis jn the publc, to be informed of
r' tiers which is their interelt to know, so 1
not to suppose it necessary in me to
'" devize to them for doing an add of duty
rhe public will plcafe to remember, that
; lr. Dunlap's of December 21, & in which
goetc signed Plain Truth made its ulegiti
appearance, there was likewise pubbfli
ii the' 'fme paper, a ihort p^e of mine
Common Senft, in wbich. Leaking of
1 np^ar railed to fapre l 'Mr. Deane, I
;t': r l'words, " I belc*ve the nohjlc ara^r
1, 6: ^ inflammatory babble, throat among
6 the public ^ a^r both a mercantile end, and
4 at^^e piqu'e," and in the paper of the
I^ fLit. I hat^kewife fad, “ The uncommon
3 t fc, has been fread tofu,port Mr.
b ' Belie is tot altogether fir bis fake, and in
{ 1 : Line pap'er, fptaking of a firopofed mer
(r?e connexion between Ms. Deane' and
tf, r r : paries, then unknown, 1 again said,
“ tt^NU ,fr their plan exeTdi^h well to
fr' have Mr Deane appointed dwheffidor to Hd
<c bah hetero, so fixated be would become a
" converjent farmer in trade or a ufeful fador."
It mult 1 think, appear clear to the public,
:.".iztioh - o:her objeßs, I have been erriea
' r c, ^ b ^chional allusions, for these three
J.:^.ik, to force out the very evidence that
';r Morris hh produced, and though [ could
I Trnj riven' a r^ger hiftorv of circumstances',
~mlirnt pro&man has done, or had any
" answer both a mercantile and a private pique."
One of the objedions advanced against the
Hon. Arthur and William Lee was, that they
had two brothers in Congress. I think it a
very great honour to all those gentlemen, and
an instance mod rarely seen, that those fame
four brothers have from the firft beginning
been most uniform whigs. The principle of
inveffing too many honors on one family, is a
very good one, and ought always to have its
weight, but it is barbarous a^d cruel to attempt
to make a crime of that which is a credit.
Brothers are but awkward Advocates for each
other, because the natural connection being
seen and known, they speak and aft under the
disadvantage of being supposed to be pre
possessed, the open relationship, therefore, is
nothing so dangerous as a private mercantile
connexion between Delegates and Arabaffa.
dors; because such connections bias, or buy us
if you please, and is covered and in the dark.
And the interest of the Delegate being thus
tied by a secret unseen cord to the Agent,
affords the former, the splendid opportunity
of appearing to defend the latter from princi
ple, whereas it is from interest.
The haste with which I was obliged to con
clude my laft'piece prevented my taking that
proper leave I wished to do. In the course cf
Miy late publications I have had no other ob
j'e& in view than to serve the public from being
milled and made foelsof by Mr. Deane's speci
ous address of December 5. In the course of my
late publications I have given them some ufe
fal information, and several agreeable and
interesting anecdote; for of what use is my
office to me, if I can make no good use of it?
The pains 1 have taken and the trouble I have
undergone in this a& of public duty, have
been very considerable. I have met with much
opposition from various quarters. Some have
misunderstood me, others have misrepresented
me, but the far greater part wrue those whose
private interests or unwarrantable connexions
were in danger of being brought to light there
by, and l now leave the public to judge whe
ther or not, 1 have afted in behalf of their
interest or agriaft it, and with that question I
take my leave.
COMMON 31NSE.
Fhjla&lpkia, January 11, 1779.
" da'i:;:, be mafi ar/tcer fur n'." So^kcWife
mad Mr. Morris, and if it was censurable in
Mr. Deane to curry on such a commerce while
he was a Commercial Agent, it is equally
as censurable in Mr. Morris to be concerned
in ic white a Delegate. Such a c©nne£tion um
fr.s the Delegate for his duty in Congress, by
making linn a partner with the servant, over
whose condu€ the lets as one of his Judges;
and the lodes or advantages attending such a
traffic on the part of the Agent, tempts him
to an undue freedom with public money and
public credit.
Is it right, that Mr. Deane, a servant of
Congrefs;' Ihould set as a Member of that
House when his 'own condud was before that
Houle for judgment? Certainly not. But the
interest of Mr. Deane has set there in the per
son of his partner Mr. Robert Morris, who at
the fame time that he represented this state,
represented likewise the partnerlhip in trade.
Only let this' doßrine of Mr. Morris's take
place, and theronfequences will be fatal both
to public intcreft and public honour. By the
fame: right that one Delegate may enter into
a private commercial partnership with any
Agent, Commiffion^r, or Ambassador, every
Delegate may do the fame; and if only a
majority of Congress Ihould form such a com
pany, such Agents, Commiffoners, or Am
bassadors will always find support and protec
tion in Congress- even in tb%abufe of thir
trust and office.—Beiidas which, it is an in
fringem^it upon the general f ecdom of trade,
as such persons or companies, by having al
ways the public monies in their hands, and
public credit to sport with and support them,
will possess unfair advantages over every other
private merchant and trader.
One of those advantages is, that he or they
will be enabled to carry on trade without em
ploying their own money, which laying by
that means at interest, is mor^ than equal to
an insurance in time* of peace, and a great
abatement of it in time of war, and confe-
Gpentlv the public always pays the whole of
th? infurar/e in the one case and a great part
of it in the ether.
But suppose the partnership of such Delegates
and Ambassadors ihould break or meet with
losses they cannot fuilain, on whom then will
the burden of bankruptcy fall?
Mr. Morris having declared what his former
mercantile connections with Mr. Deane have
been, proceeds to fay, that " Whether in con
" sequence of his good opinion of Mr. Deane
" as a man of honor and integrity, he has
“ beep led to form any, and what new con
“ cerns with him since his arrival here, is a
“ matter which the public are no ways inte
“ relied to knew.
They certainly have no right to know, on
the part of Mr. Moriis, as he jis not now a
Member of Congress (having served) out the
full time limited by the Constitution of this
State) neither have they any right to know on
the part of Mr. Deane, while he remains a
private character. But if Mr. Deane has
formed a chain of mercantile connections here,
it is a very good reason why he mould not be
appointed an Ambassador to Holland or else
where; because so situated and circumstanced,
the authority of America would be disgraced
and the interest endangered, by his becoming
“ partner" with, or a " faflor" to, the com
pany. And this brings me to, and eftabliftes
the declaration, I firft set out with, viz. that
the uproar to support Mr. De^ne, was “ an
" inflammatory bubble throivn among the public to
In - CONOR' 83, hntia;} a,
Whereas these united dates, unprovided with
revenues, and nqt heretofore in a cpncittton to
raise them, have, in ;he'courN of the prefect
war, repeatedly been under the necemty of.
emitting bills of credit, for the redemption th
which the faith of these united dates has been
solemnly pledged; and the credit of which
their honour and fafety as well as jafuce is
highly concerned to support and eftab'Th.
And whereas to that end it is edentially ne
cessary to afeertain the period • of their redrmp
tion, and seasonably to ertablifh funds, which,
in due time, without dittrelling the people,
shall make adequate provision for the fame.
And whereas, in apportioning the payments
for the said fund, it is expedient that an extra
sum be called for the current year, both on
account of the prelent ease of paying it, and
to reduce the surplus in circulation. Therefore
resolved, that these united flat's be called on
to pay in their refpe&ive quotas of fifteen
millions of dollars annually for eighteen years
from and after the year 1779, as a fund for
finking the emissions and loans of these united
states to the thirty firft day of December, 177-8,
inclusive.
That if the continhan'ce and circurnftances
of the war fndl make any further emifiions
necessary, the year enfting. they shall be iunk
in the manner and within the period aforHai".
That any of the bills emitted by order of
Congress, prior to ts e year 1780, and no others
be received ir payment of said quotas. , :
That the bills received on the frid quotas,
except these for the year 1779, be applied firft
for payment of the interest, and fecoudly cf
the principal of loans made by these united
states, prior to the year 1780, and that the
residue, together with those received on the
quotas es the year 1779, be not re-issued, but
burned and destroyed as congress fhali direct.
And whereas many counterfeits have appear
ed in circulation, of various denominations, of
the emiffiontof May ,o, 1777, and April 11,
1778, and counterfeits of these emidions have
lately been issued by our enemies at New-York,
and are found to be spreading and encroafing
either on loan or to he exchanged at the elec
tion of the owners, for other bills of the like
tenor, to be provided for that purpose.
• That the bills lodged in the said offices to
be f> exchanged, be there registered, and in
dented certificates thereof given to the owners
by the refpeftive commissioners of the said
offices.
That the commissioners of the loan offices
make returns of the treasury board, immediate
ly after the firft da^ of June next, of the amount
of the bills received into their refpedive offices
to be exchanged as aforefaid, and that proper
bills to exchange the fame be furnifhed and
ready to be delivered out at their said offices,
within sixty days from and after the said firll
day of june.
That the firft mentioned bills as they are
brought into the treasuries and loan offices, be
immediately crossed and struck through with
a circular punch of one inch diameter, to be
afterwards examined and burned, as Congress
Ihall direct. Extract from the minutes.
Charles Thomson, Sec'ry.
T^LOUR, Ship Bread, Beef and Pork, just
{ imported in the Brig William, Captain
Jarvis, from Liverpool, aad to be fold by
William Pagan,
At his Store in Queen-Street, No. 218.
WANTED, Two Rooms unfurnished, on the
fame Floor, for which a generous Rent will
be allowed ; near the Hoftitals would be mos agree
able. Plsafe to enquire at Hugh Gaine.
CHESHIRE CHEESE,
Of an excellent Quality, to be fold at No. 34,
Queen- Street, wholefate and retail.
Neat Lodgings
TO BE LET
r_O Gentlemen. Likewise a large CELLAR,
X at a relfonible tent. Enquire < fthe Printer.
Of the heft QUALITY, to he SOLD,
By PETER CORNE,
At No. 230, Qgeen-Street.
NY of the inhabitants on Long-Blind who can
A give information of a certain JOHN PREN
TICE, from Scotland, who went on Long Bland
about twelve months a„, in order to keep an Engliffi
school, but has not been heard of liacc---will be
thankfully rccompsnfed for their trouble, aad for
that purpose please fend a line to Mr. Gaine the pub
]i (her of this paper.
fobe let near the Coffee-Houje Bridge,
A Firft floor, confuting of three rooms and a
light elofet, with other conveniencics. For
further particulars, enquire of the printer,
'faft in various parts of these united states ;
whereby individuals are defrauded, prices en
hanced, and the credit of the paper currency
greatly injured ; and it is become necessary,
for the security of individuals, and fafety of
the public, that those two emissions should
cease to be a circulating medium, and Ihould
be called in and exchanged, or otherwise pro
vided for as may be with convenience to the
present holders. Therefore,
Resolved, That the following bills be taken
outof circulation, namely, the whole emission
of May 20, 1777, and April 11, 1778:
That they be brought in for that purpose in
the manner hereafter provided by theist day
of June next, and not afterwards redeemable.
That they be received for debts and taxes
into the continental treasury, and into the
Rate treasury for continental taxes, until the
firft day of June next.
That they be received until the firft day of
June next, into the continental loan offices,
OR. 13. The States General are determined to ad
here to all treaties subsisting between them and Great
Britain. The inhabitants of Caracca,on the Spanish
main, have revolted, and a body of men are ordered
to that place from Ferrol, in Spain. Admiral Kep
pel's fleet, 'tis said, will soon consist of 40 Blips of
the line. Three drips loaded with warlike stores at
Ainfterdam for St. Euftatia, are flopped.
Oslo. 17. A negociation is now on foot with the
court of Ruflia to build fix ships of 74. guns each at
their ports in the Baltic for Great-Britain.
Letters from Paris fay, that much complaining is
heard on account of the government not better pr@-
testing the navigation.
The He&or man of war has taken and sent into
Portsmouth, a large prize from St. Domingo for
Nantz.
A large flip fem St. Domingo is taken by the
Fly, Buttler, ^ Top Sham, and passed by Dartmouth
the nth infant.
TkaMuntpelier, a large French flrip, bound from
Martinico to Bourdeaux, is taken by one of Admiral
Keppel's cniizers, who has sent her into Falmouth.
On the 13th inh. failed from Biiftol, on a cruize,
the following privateers, viz. the Tartar, Capt. Chil
cot; the Alexander, Capt. Oliver; the Vigilant,
Capt. Marshal ; the Revenge, Capt. Edwards, and
the True-Briton, Capt. Pratt.
The fame Day a new privateer, called the A&ive,
Capt. Wedon, failed our cf port for the firtt time on
a civize against the French. She is a fine, stout-look -
ing (hip, and mounts 22 gurs, besides Iwivels.
Some let:ers from Vienna fay, that the numbers
that have died of the plague in Constantinople a
mounted to 300,000.
The Mount, St. Michael, a French aimed lhip,
bound from Cadiz, to Toulon, is taken by ore of
his Majesty's frigates, and carried into Gibraltar,
after half an hour's engagement, in which a great
many were killed on board the Frenchman.
Of?. 20. The Independent American privateer of
twelve guns is taken and carried inte Liibon. The
Hireaudella, Foiften, from Mariinico to Nantz,
is taken and carried into Guernsey. Four new pri
vateers are fitted out and failed f'#m Ghfyw the
4th inlt and on die Bth two of them took sad sent
into that port 3 Frerel prizes, wiL valuable..nicies.
The Ranger privates, Robins, belonging to IL UKI,
hath tsken ctf Milford, the Le Crigah,of 300 tons,
from St. Domingo, bound to Nantz, n d sent her
into Miiford. The Theodore, Bedhead, fium Cape
Francois, bound to Nantz, is t kin by the Corl at
pinter, Capt. Turk, and onuied into Plymouth.
A French v;<el named Louis Le Grand, laden wi±
tobacco from Virginia, is taken by a privateer be
longing to Guttnfey, called the Wasp.
On Thursday nw«t will be launched at Chatham,
the Alfred, a fine new ffiip of 74 guns. The Lendo,
of 90 guns will be turned out of dock the fame day ;
and the Bellona of 64 guns is to be immediately
taken into her dock. Ftfur Ruffian men cf war that
have been cruising some time in the Mediterranean
a#e taken irto Biitrilipay ; their officers are already
Englishmen. They are gone to Gibraltar to refit,
from whence they will afterwards put to sea under
British colours.
Oa, 29, On Tuefilay Lord Howe, just arrived in
tewn from America, waited on his Majelty at Wind
sor, and laid before hi&i a fate cf ml irs in that
place.
JiH urOorrJ fiom Nc.v cn-Tand, in t'e Shfo
Au^csca >E, JonN Munns, tidier,
ri I U b,
HEN It Y V/ 1-1 IT E,
(X tUe M Jbr on board, the.fulhjwia, Articles,
of the Wi Qj.lirj,
DRYCODFIS H,
Pickled ODD FISH in Barrels,
Pickled rierrings in Barrels,
A few Casks of Train and Seal OYL.
r^ v ll£ owucrim uem^ Atto<oty tu, me Bun.
^ John H. Cruger, Ffy giv^s this public's:
Notice to ah Malets and Owoeis of VOfch,
That on the iSth Diy of this Inhaut January, h,
was 4 .u:horfed by Major General Daniel Jon l'S
Commandant of th s C'itr, to receive the cuKomary
and lawful Wharffage, f,r the Wharff in Dock-
W#rd, in this Place, well known by the Name of
Cruger's V/haRFF: Therefore fiom that Day I
fhali expert to active the usual and cuffonaty
Winu ttage from tiie Captains or Owners cf ail
V rileis that lay at the fad Wha^ff.
ROBERT GIBBS.
Tiw Owners of the Wrecks new lying m the
Sip adjoining the above mentioned Wharff, are
defyed to remove them.
„ 7AN BED to hie 01 putchafe, a Faun on
VV ^uy Part of L mg-hlind, wihir .40 Mile
of hi C t, o New-Y^k, containing from 60 to
So Acres, with a c mv< niont DwrßinA Huufe,Offices,
&:. An, perf'm having feed cither to fell or 1 1,
may heo of aPu ch dec or Tennant, by a p!vi.,g
to I eienc. IC.un, Attorney at Law, at hit Public
Neary';OTio, No. 30 in Duk'-ftreef.
f' E N J) O LL A R S Reward.'
STOLEN, cut of the pafttire of Mr. Bowfins, at
Bloomingdale,
;,f^3g— ^3 A BROWN MAR E,
?%Aco : heavy with fda!,maik-'
'C" - cd on the near butt'eck M. E.
r« AT I about the middle of Dectm
f'< 9ber last. Likewise at the
fame time, a remarkable fine
'' f :brown COLT, nine months
old, with the latir mark. Whoever will bring the
thief, with the mac and colt, shall have the above
reward, or five dollars for the mare and colt. Apply
to Medeef Edm, brewer on Golden Hill, or tp Mr.
Bowser at the English tavern at Bloomingdale. All
reaforab'e charges will likewise Be paid.
rf^MY36WW^WX^ ^^
Saturday- Night latt the Grenville Packet,
Capt.Kempthorp, arrived here in 10 Weeks
from Falmouth, by whom we have the
following Advices, viz.
LONDO N,
OR. io. The Spanish Ambassador was at court,
and had a conference with his Majesty. Count
Molthe commodore of the fleet of his J)an:fh Majuly
is come here to serve as a volunteer under Admiral
Keppel. The reason by the politicians for the Spa
niards not taking an naive part with France igainft
England is, that such a step ^ould have produced a
grand alliance among the northern maritime powers,
who have fignified by their manifestoes at the court
of Madrid, that they will not tamely behold the ruin
of England, and the aggrandifement of the House of
Bourbon. Orders are sent to all the sea ports in
France not to insult the English on pain of imprison
ment.