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! ^3 iadote evidence from the liters of Mr.
V;lh.msaad Mr. Morri; that it was the liter who
, r 4 ths agreement with him, without the know
lefo or participation of my brother; though they
know he was joint commercial agents and wav at Pa
ris, where it was the intention of the commi tee,
that the ajent sh >uld refine; and where M% Deane
mud acknowledge he Rationed hiw klf when in that
department It war by fact little trc£s as these
that all order and decency were banllied frern the
conduct of our commercial affairs. Either my bro
the mud hava aeqaiefeed in this agreement,whether
.he approved cf it or not, or he mhft have quarreled
With his colleague; either of which, those who con
trived it, knew would equally anfwertheir purpefe.
When called into the public fe^vice, my brother
quitted * filiation in London, at which few fban%ers
arrive. He came hee in ex,faction of doing fer
vice, inffead of which he was treated with every kind
cf .ndi^nity by Mr. Deane, and obliged to a qxirfee
briber the nfirpatioo of his place and powers, by one,
who a year before bad been clerk to a sugar bafrer in
fa.at city, where be was one cf the chtf magiSrates
and merchant?. A; to the commissions w%ich Mr.
Wiliam Lee is Aid to have shared, he neither flipa
latcd for, nor ffiared any with those be appointed;
and I am mofl fare that he made more by his ha'fineG
in&oy one week in London, than his comm (Tons on
the public buff cfi have amounted to in ten months.
Bat hew dterly void cf every sense of flume and de
cency must Mr. Deane be, who inveighs so violently
againfl my brother for bearing at once a political and
commercial character, when be tells us in the feme
Lcah that he himfelf was the " political and cou
i^ciaf agent of America in Europe." He resided
at Paris, bad fiv: per cent, comm ffi:n, and hit fp' ere
extended not a thoafand only; bat three times a
thofuand miles. He whefa extent of travelling had
been bounded by Philadelphia, and whole former
life gave him as much opportunity cf knowing the
merchants and politic; the commercial and political
Rate of Europe, as the ship that brought him. Bz
fides that his total unacquaintancewith the languages
of Ear pe, tendered the acqaifition of that knowledge
so. fume time at lead, utterly impraaicable. I have
sent Congress copies of Mr, Williams's accounts,
from which it will appear, that instead of having done
your banners for two per cent, he had received two
per cent, for not doing year bufitufs, and a Mr.
Pci iez du Dover one per cent, befide# gratuities for
doing it. To any other man but Mv Diane it would
be felt as motfe than death, that among the multi,
tuck of his, charges and assertions there is not one,
but whatis refutable by written evidence. Afer
having thusexpofed the malice and untruh of Mr.
Donut's ac@fa.ionr; the honour c.f every 'man in
Coa^refs must feel for my fixation, when I affare
them, that fl. ce my return from Spain, this ass ffna
uon of my charaaer which is now extended to Arne
rica, has been pra&ifed without interm ffion by a ca
bal of Mr. Deane's, both in Paris and London.
Their imputations were so artfully and industriously
urged, that my best friends were tainted by them for
feme time. But this is not a fubj^a which I shall
now enter into. In every actuation the character
of theaccc.hr ought to be corfide/ed. Is Mr. Deane's
charader fait ? Is he an unaccufed man, and has he
anfweted by any thing but his own affections the ac
citations against him ? Do not his own cons ffions
sender him criminal, and are there rot upon the re
cords cf Cengrefs, or of the Committee, evidence
from himfelf of his illegal conduA, and cfthe malice
and faifhocd of many cf his accuf&tions againff my
brother and me! " Mr. Lee, fays this accuser, was
dragged into the treaty with the utmost rtlnAance."
The authenticated txtra&s which I have the honour
of fending frofc my private and public letters from
the find moment of the treaty befog taken up by this
court till afkr its cenchfirn, will Ihtw that this
charge too is, lineal! others, destitute of every co
lour cf truth. No -man, it will appear, cc^ld be
more anxious for its conclufioa, nor any one more
rejoiced, or mbre Anguine in his expectations from
it, than myfeif. Every letter will ihew how Wrong
ly my fentimeuts were against England, and in fa
vour cf France. It was my hope and expedition,
a; I wrote M/S. Adamson the idof March, " that
the British Commissioners would return as they came,
unless they had p. w^r and did acknowledge clearly
and filly, the foveti^rty and independence of A
mericr, at an irdrfper.fible preliminary," This hope
and this expiation were fully gratified by the pro
ceedings of Con,eft. I also ^ave immediate infor
mation of the intentions the Bri sh Minidry d fco
vezed cf endeavouring to fuccerd by bribery. Cen
§refi know whether Mr. D^ane gavit the fame warn
ing, for he was certainly also informed of it. The
Variety cf accafations which it hath pleafcd Mr.
Deane to make again# my brother and me has r.ccif-
hrily drawn this arf^cr into a tedious length. Con
gress lam fare will pardon me. When I entered
the public fewice, it was with a resolution of serving
at the hazard of every thing but of my honour and
reputation. Yet I feel it as a real misfortune, that
I am compelled to call so much cf your attention to
what may be deemed the concerns of individuals.
But in truth the public is highly interested in the
question. There is one obfervarion on Mr. Deane's
conduct which I cannot omit. He acknowledges his
having been puffed both cf his fufpicionx, and
What he grounds them upon, when he left France.
Ho would induce us to believe, that he cowfitocd
his rrcal not to be for any mifdmeanors, but to five
Congress an account cf their affairs in Europe. For
this purpose he had two audiences cf Conpefr.
Now I appeal to every man living, whether if he
Lad the lead evidence to fapport his fufpjcion, or
had any sense of the duty he owed to his country,
his frit word ought not to hxve been-^- Gentlemen.
I have a mat .er to communicate of the left importance
to these United States; I beg a secret committee may
be immediately appointed, to whom I may make it
known, that upon th&ir report you -may take such
mcafures as you may think the welfa e of the public
requires. 'But inhead of this condu& which a man
really confaltihg the public good would have pur
sued. M.Doane fir# made a fa&iop in Congrtfi by
forming partne/fhips in trade with feme cf its mem
bers, and by a variety of agents and secret infinuati
°ons; he poisoned the minds of the people by a num
ber of accusations conceived in dark and general
terms, and insinuating to all the world that the mea
fares cf Congress had been governed by "intrigue
and cabal," and that, " there is a design to lead us
into a breach of our national faith solemnly pledged."
These infinuaticns tend to raise suspicions in the
minds of foreign powers, to make them doubt the se
curity of any engagement with us; and conftqient
ly to mar all our negeciation; Could there be pos
sibly any thing more highly and immediately inter
eiiag to the common weal, than the treachery of one
so highly tiufled as I was, and peffefTed cf such a
knowledge cf your affairs, as to have it in my pow
er to do infinite injury ? If he really believed what
he pretends, could he have avoided making this
communication ! Does he not know that if what he
mentions could be proved, and would fix treason up
oh me, that his concealment of it so long is misprision
cf treason? From the 19th of Augufi to the sth of
December he left me to do ill the mifehief to the
public, which he could not but expeCt I should do
if I were guilty cf what he accuses me. At length
he pubhfhts to all the world, and of confeqaence to
me. It was therefore^ warning to me, if guilty, to
go over to the enemy, with every communication
that could be injurious to your interest. The ex
tremes of folly and wickedness combined could not
have dictated a condu& so eppofite to what he ought
to have pursued. The truth is that Mr. Dzane tx
pe&ed from the cfh& of a French fl ?et of which he
was to claim the sole merit; the brilliancy cf a dia
mond fnuff bex, and complimentary letters, that he
should have nothing to do but make his triumphal
entry into Philadelphia, and return immediately to
Paris. Ido not fptak from conjeauie. It was the
confant talk of his friends here; and is matter cf
common notoriety; deceived in his expiation, and
enable to answer for his conduct, he is fetching an
asylum in popular prejudices. The moment that he
censures me for having made a tour to reach Berlin
in fafety, he difeovers his having waited a monffi
with the order of Congress " to make all pc ffible dis
patch," and then make a fix week's tour of France
and the Mediterranean, to get to sea and be escorted
by a French fleet ; but not meaning to give ai y ac
count ofhis condu&, he placed his papers andyoars
in fafety ; the exiting commiffibhers having no
right to fee the latter, and no doubt in explanation
ofa much fafer opportunity of conveying them, than
under the convoy of twelve ships of the line. I
have only to remark, that if the crimes of which Mr.
Deane is clearly guilty, and the conduct which be
himfelf confeffes, are prmitted to pass unpunished,
there is an end to all expedition cf public justice.
The impunity of the past will encourage greater
crimes against the public; and all order, virtue, dig
nity, and decencymill be conftandy transgressed.
I have the honour to be.
With the greatest tefpta,
Your Excellency's molt obedient
humble servant,
ARTHUR LEE.
LL perlons having demands oa the estate of
fl Mr. Silvester Pulsifer, late of Glaften
bury deceas'd, are desired to bring in their accounts
in order for fettlemcnt, to
Howell Woodbridge, Administrator,
Glaneabury, March 11, 1780.
BRIMSTONE by the hundred or fiagle pound,
BAR IRON, by the hundred or fiagle bar, to
be fold by JOSIAH WADSWORTH, in Ea -
Notification.
BY order of the Proprietors Meeting the fubferk
ber is directed to t^ke this met! cd to notify the
Proprietors of New Canaan, in the county cf Alba
ny, and Sure of New York, to appear at the house
cf Solorncn Deming in said New Canaan, on Wed
nesday the third diy of May n xt, two o'clock af
ternoon, at which time and place there will beex
pofed to sale at public vendue, for past charges, a
Lot of Land lyinji^ Aid New Canaan, known by
the name cf public lot, unless fofae other mode is
adopted whereby said charges may be cancelled, and
do all other bufin^fs thought necefTary to be done
on said day.
JONATHAN WARNER, ?.cp. Clerk.
New-Canaan. March 16. 1780.
THE fubftyibcis being appointed by the hon.
the judge of proba.e for the bounty of Litch
field,comm ffioners to receive and examine the claims
of the several creditors of M c'wl Chapman; late of
Litchfield in said county deceafad, whole estate it
represented insolvent ; hereby give notice that they
shall attend that bi fiuefi at the dwelling hoafe of
Capt. Alexander Waugh, in said Litcl field, on the
fecohd Thursday cf April n^xc and on the fir&
Thursday of May ncx ; at two o'clock in the after
noon on said days.
Alexander Waugh, )
Samuel Jackson, > Commissioners.
Amos Frisbie. ,
Litchfield. M^rch 20 I^Bo
State ci Vermont, ; Rockingham,
Cumberland County, , March 18, 1780.
WHEREAS application hath been made to me
the fubfetiber ore cf the Justices cf the Peace
in and for said coe; ty, by more than one Sixteenth
part cf the proprietors cf il^ ownffi p»cf Bridgwa
ter, in said county, to warn a meeting cf the propri
etors of said towaibip. These are therefore to warn
said proprietors to meet at the dwelling house sos
Capt. Strong, mnbclder in the town of Woodcock
in raid county, on the 9th day of May nest, at 9 o'
clock in the mining, to a& on the following articles;
viz. I. To choose a Moderator to govern said meet
ing. 2 To choose a Clerk for said proprietors.. 3.
To fee if the proprietors will allow the firft fettleri
to pick one hundred asses each. 4 To fee if the
proprietors will raise a sum cf money to make roads
too and in said tewnfhip. 5. To fee if the pro
prietors will Survey said townib p, and to ad on any
other article they shall thick pre par when met.
REUBEN JONES J^fiicc Peace.
By MOSES MORSE,
About 30 rods north t h^ Court House. Hartford.
GOOD Jamaica Spirit, We'l I .dia Rum by the
Hhd. Barrel cr finale Gallon. Sugar, Tea,
Alifpice. Chocolate, Snuff the heft of Indigo and
Chapel Needles, Sewing Silk, Also, a large quan
tity of Leather Breeches and Dear Ekins, which
may be bought very cheap for Continental or Had
Money or Wheat, if applied for fcoo.
Hartford, March 28, 1780.
Hartford, zzd March, 1,86.
LAST night made his escape from the real in this
place, one BENJAMIN HICKOX, a Tory
Prisoner; is a middling sized man, about 45 years
old, had bn a light coloured furtout, eld bever hat,
leather breeches and tailed wig. Whoever will tike
up said Prisoner and confine him in this or any other
goal,in this fate, shall have one hundred dollars re
ward and rcafmablt charter, paid by
E Z'l. WILLIAM S, Sheriff.
N. B. Hi has a family at Braintree, in Boston
State, and likely he hi# ^one that way.
TAKEN up by the fubferfber the 23d cf Oc
tober lab, a red ytailiDg HEIFER; with a
white face, no artificial mark. The owner may
have her by applying to the fubferiber and p ying
charges. JAMES WILLIAMS.
Weflbury, December 25, 1779.
To BE SOLD AT THE North DOOR UNDER THE
Printing Office in Hartford
Lord chesterfields letters TO
his SON ; D.l worth's Spelling Book, print
ed on a large new Type and fireng Paper; Law's
Collection cf Pfalmody ; Primera: Bohea Tea,
Coffee; Sugar; Chocolate; Indigo ; Pepper ; En
glish Currants: Felt Hatt ; Pocket Books; Pigtail
To^cc' &e &c.
PINTS DUARdj will jg given ivr a go^u IN&W
Milch COW. E. qiitecf the Printers,