Philadelphia, 28 March, 1777.
"A plot, a plot! a horrid plot! Mr. A.," says my barber, this morning.
"It must be a plot, first, because there is British gold in it; second,
because there is a woman in it; third, because there is a Jew in it;
fourth, because I don't know what to make of it."
The barber means that a villain was taken up and examined yesterday, who
appears, by his own confession, to have been employed, by Lord Howe and
Jo. Galloway, to procure pilots to conduct the fleet up Delaware River
and through the Chevaux de Frise. His confidant was a woman, who is said
to be kept by a Jew. The fellow and the woman will suffer for their
wickedness.