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mebb about hL gfat fervies, he." and why you
d.d not tell the whole, to which you were no ftrang
cr ? Had you told it it would have flood thus. Of
four Commissioners in public service, (or rather in
public pay) three, vi^. Mr. A. Lee Mr. W. Lee,
and Mr. D.ard reprobate Mr. Deane's conduA; th#
Fourth, Dr. Franklin, highly Approves of it. There
are, it is true, other persons also Who reprobate his
tondu&, as I shall make appear hereafter.---But it is
equally true that his Most Christian Majesty and his
Matter hate declared tp congress their approbation
of his conduct in the strongest terms; and of the three
reprobating Commissioners, one only, Mr. A. Lee,
was Mr. Deane's colleague, and in the way of being
acquainted with his tranfaaions. You fee, Sih that
the whole truth might have been told by yod in very
few words; and where the cause is good and the in
tention of the writer sincere, it Will serve better than
either threats or inuendoes. You might have told the
public that this Trio of Commissioners reprobate the
conduct of Dr Franklin, and that you have seen let
ters from one of them which represent him as void
of every principle of common honor and comfaon
honesty. I have been credibly informed, and I pre
sume you will net deny it, that in a public letter
from one of them there is this sentence, (peaking of
this great Patriot and Philosopher, -" His abilities
are great; and his deputation high; removed as he is
to so confiderablea distance from the observation ofhis
constituents, if he is not guided by principles of vir
tue and honor, those abilities and that reputation
may produce the most mifehevious effeds. In my
tonfeimee I believe him to be under no such internal
retrain s, and God knows I speak the real, unpreju
diced sentiments of my heart." Here is reprobation
indeed! and a protest and appeal as solemn as you or
any other person can make. Neither you nor the
public can be at any loss who those enemies are of
whom Dr. Franklin speaks in his letters; nor will it
be much longer a secret to the public that Dr. Frank
lin and myfclf are not the only persons reprobated
by them, but that the firft characters, both in Con
gress in the most secret and confidental departments
of Congress, in the army, and civil departments,
have been reprobated or caballed against by one or
more of those Commissioners, and by certain persons
tyon this fide of the water, to whom. I presume you
XAre no stranger, fiace Mr. Payne has undertook to
^vindicate you on a fubje& which you can doubtless
S4xpla^ much better than lie can. He fays in his
\ public?' on in Mr. Dunlap's paper of the 7th instant,
' speaking of you, "I have heard it mentioned of this
," gentleman that he was among those whose impati-
J«' ence for victory led them into some kind of difcon-
) *' tentat the operations oflaftwinter. The event has I
)•' think, fully proved those gentlemen wrong,andmuft
' " couvincethem of it ; but I can fee no reason why a
“ mifgrounded opinion, produced by an over heated
I 't anxiety for success should be mixed up with other
°'' matters it has noconcern with. A man's political
*' abilities may be e xceedingty good, though at the
" fame time he may differ, and even be wrong, in
'' his notions of some military particulars."
I For my own part I am fully confident, that every
intrigue and cabal formed against our illustrious Com
mander in Chief, will prove as ineffectual as those
against Doctor Franklin. I have not the vanity to
Irank myfelf with these great men. But I cannot but
I be canfeious of having rendered some important fer
\ Vices to my country; I have received the moil hono
rable testimonials thereof from those, and from some
other great and distinguished personages, and I have
been reprobated by three Commissioners, and some
others: Thus far lam placed in the company of
those great persons, and I take a pride in it, though
, thousands of such reprobators attack me. Has not
\ the brave and patriotic President of this State been
Nattacked from the fame quarter ? Has not — but!
A have neither inclination nor leisure to go farther on
^the long lift of dignified, and truly patriotic charac
Vters. which have been attacked, or reprobated, by
O some of those whom you refer to, and with whom
J you are acquainted. It is fufficient to have reminded
e you, and fhevira the public, that you appear in your
u hasty narritive, to have forgotten what ought to have
1) been well known to you; and that I am not unin
formed of traufa&.ons and designs, which I am grie
) ved to thjnk could ever have had exigence. and that
a perseverance in them, will force me to lay them
before the public. Mean time wishing you that faith
of a Christian, the fruits of which are eminently cha
rity, simplicity and candor, I bid you farewell.
S. DEANE.
PbWeinhia Jan. 17 mg.
Meffi'n FRINTER S,
As you have published a piece that nearly concerns
my honour. I have not the remotest doubt but you
will readily publiffi my answer to it; and your
own feelings will point out to you that any delay
Would do injuflice in the extream.
LEVI ALLEN.
AN extraordinary advertisement having made its
appearance in the Connecticut Courant of
ternary '9, <??^> figntd " John Faffett, jun, Com
midoner of Sequestration " The public are desired
not to be hasty in grounding their opinions on fa^d
publication ; but to refled that it is not in the pcwei
of any man, (however upright in his condu&) to
guard against an attack on his reputation by artful
defignihg enemies, «ho hefitati not to have Rhourfe
to fa'fhood, when truth will not anfiver their
purposes.
The inconfiflencies and injustice of said advertise
ment is strongly marked, firft, a public odium cad
bn my bhara&er, without giving the Ibaft notice or
opportunity to defend myfelf; then a citation to
prove a negative, and that before persons who are
pleased to stile themselves a court, whose right to
take cognizance of my conduct is as doubtful as
their proceedings are extravagant.
The truth is, I have been so unfortunate as to
have a dispute with Ethan Allen, (my brother,) but
as it refpe&ed property only, hoped it had fubflded
on account of the many well known services render
ed him while a prisoner in the hands of a cruel ene
rhy; and am most sensibly affected on finding it has
had no other effe& on him, only to make his attacks
more severe, and cf a more public nature ; and the
public may rely on it, said publication found its
way to the press solely by the nefarious practices of
the said Ethan Allen; who firft induftrionfly propa
gated reports in Vermont, of my being unfriendly,
&c. and then made use of those reports as an argu
ment for my being generally supposed to be so ; and
being chief judge of said court, had but little diffi
culty in accomplishing his unnatural and ungrateful
designs.
Is it not astonishing that in said Vermont, where!
have not been eight hours for mote than three years
and a half last past, they mould be so much better ac
quainted with my political sentiments and condu&,
then in the States of Conne&icut and New-Yerk,
the places of my refideoce, as to be juftified in
charging me with toryifm in the former, while in
the latter I am in the enjoyment of every privilege of
the warmest patriot, and have reason to believe am
generally considered as a firicerely attached friend
to the liberties of America ? and hereby chal
lenge any in Vermont, or elsewhere, to shew to the
contrary.
I might fill a news paper or volume with the in
confiftemcies and horrid abuses contained in said pub
lication, especially when considered in a judicial
light, by which means every honest well meaning
citizen of America, who has the misfortune to own
an estate in the diftri& called Vermont, may on bare
suspicion of his being unfriendly &c. and without
even the ceremony of a trial of any kind, have his
property seized, and the mortification to fee himfelf
advertised as an enemy to his country ; and howe
ver distant be obliged within thirty days to appear
in said Vermont, there to prove his innocence or
by the said Right Honorable Court be adjudged
guilty. An intire new mode of proceeding this !
Much shorter and more convenient than the old
round about way of proving a man guilty or be un
der the necessity of acquiring him.
But the incor.fiftencies are too many and too great
to require pointing out to make them conspicuous
to all who have barely read it over.
I submit the matter to the judicious candid public,
and am their most humble servant.
LEVI ALLEN.
AL L persons who have salted provisions for
the Continent, are directed to brand each
barrel with their names at full length.
JERE. WADSWORTH, Com. Gen.
Hartford, February 25 1779
WE the fubicribers bei g appointed by the hon.
court of probate for the diftri& of Simfbury,
commissioners to examine the claims of the creditors
to the estate of Joshua Case, late of Simfbury deceas
ed represented insolvent. These are to notify said
creditors, that we shill attend said business at the
dwelling house of George Case, in Simfbury, on the
3d mondays of March and April next, at one of the
clock in the afternoon of each day.
Daniel Humphry, )
Noah Phelps, § Commissioners.
Jonathan Pettibone.)
Feb. 18 17,9.
/|-1 H E honorable court of probate 101 Hanford
I diftria, having appointed us commissioners,
to examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of
Ebenezer Sandford, late of Wethersfield deceas'd,
represented insolvent. Notice is hereby given the
creditors, that we shill attend for that purpose, at the
dwelling house of David Beckley, innholder in said
town, the third and last mondays of March and fe
tend Monday of April next, from Ito 8 o'clock af
ternoon on each of said days.
David Webster, 1 a
T^odorsßeckuTC , Cozener,
February 24, 1779.
/ A good silver China faced WATCH to be Sold
r^foDabl& Enquire of xhe Printers,
TME fab^ribers informs these t'tf whbrh they
have earned the Ooiine'Aicut Courant, that
they are obliged to make immediate payment to the
Printers, which they cannot do, unless they can
come to a settlement with their cuftomeis. They
will wait on them ors Tuefda, the 16th of March,
at Mr. Catlin's in Harwint®n; on Wednesday the
I)fh at Mr. Stanton's in Litchfielc; on Thursday
and Friday at Mr. Paul Smth's in Sharon ; on Sa*
turday the 2o<b at C^pt. lohnfen', and on Monday
^2d at Mr. Lee's in Sal ibury ; on Tue^ay igd at
Mr. Paul Dewey's in Sheffield ; on Wednesday 2 4th
at Mr. Brigham's New Marlborough ; on Thursday
25th at Mr. Stilhian's in Sandiineld, and on Friday
26th at Mr. Fowler's Granville ; at which times
and places one of the fubferibers will attend, in bft
der for a full and complete settlement.
AMOS ALDfeiN
BENAJAH GRISWOLD.
February 25, 1779.
WHEREAS the debtors of Samuel Broome and
Company, late cf the city of New York,
were notified that their 'Partnerfhip would diffoly^
the firft of May last, arid were requeued to make
payment ; notwithstanding many of them have ne
gle&ed to fettle their accounts. They are therefore
again desired to discharge their debts due to said
'Partnerfhip without delay, either to Samuel Broom#
at Little Cambridge, near Boston, or to Jeremiah
Platt at Hartford. And as they continue to receive
their debts in Continental Bills, they conceive their
debtors can never have a more favorable opportunity
to pay their debts.
SAMUELBROOME,
JEREMIAH PLATT.
February 20, 1779,
Sharon, February 1, 1779.
THIS day Dr. John Budd, (a student in phy
sic) presented himfelf for examination touch
ing his knowledge of the anatomy of (and the vari
ous effe&s of medicine when applied to) the human
body. A number of very refpe&able gentlemen cf
various ranks and characters (some felled in the
healing art) being convened on the occasion at the
house of Dr. Shepherd, where the examination was
performed by Dedors John Chamberlain, Jonah
Barnes, and Joseph Hamilton, to whose queflions
and queries the said Dr. Budd answered very com
pletely, to the universal fatisfa&ion of all prefentt
Wherefore he is recommended to whom it may ton*
cern, as a good proficient in the healing art.
NOTICE is hereby g ; ven, that the fubfcribei,
who lives in Sharon, owning lands in the
State of Vermont, in the three following townffiips,
viz. Panton, near opposite Crown Point ; in Mans
field and Newington or, and near Onion River; in
either of said townships would be glad to dispose of
a right cf land, or more, as he has lately met with
singular misfortune, and wants some of the avails
thereof for the support of his family ; the sooner ap
plied for, therefore, the more agreeable.
JOSEPH HAMILTON.
F^'narv 17 I^9.
*£ /h i.el :bic ibers cl pfcu co <,. .c^urt
VV of probate for the diftrifl of Guilford, c m
miffioners to examine and adjust the ckims of the cre
ditors to the estate of Josiah Chittenden# late of Kl
- in the county of New- London der eased,
represented infol vent, Hereby notify we ffi 11 attend
said business at the dwelling house of Lien' Elisha
Crane in said Killingworth, on the 3d w^ eday of
March next, and on the two following Tuesdays.
MARTIN LORD,) ,
ELISHA CRANE, f " mmrfs rSb
Killingworth Feb. 22 1779
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN away from the fubfciiber in October hi:
a Negro Wench named ZIL, abost 15 years
old, small of her age, pretends Ihe is free, the laflfhe
has been heard of she was going to Lencx. Whoever
will return her to her matter shall receive the above
reward; or if any person will fend word or inform
her matter so that be can get her again, shall be well
rewarded for their trouble.
REUBEN HOPKINS.
Sharon, January 25, 1779.
FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN away from his bail, pne Nathan Stark, of
Lebanon, in the Stale of Conre&cut, on the
23d day of January 1779, is about 50 years old,
midling stature, has a large red nose ; and we thd
fubferibers being bound in a bond cf two thousand
pounds for said Stark's appearance a court promise,
that whosoever will bring said Nathan Stark to us,
or either of us, in Norwich, shall have the above
rewards GEORGE HARRIS.
JONATHAN GARDNER.
ELIJAH LAMPHEAR.
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