[A] Reed always said that this reply was the joint protection of Benj.
Rush, Dr Wm. Smith and Gen. John Cadwalader.
[B] See Gov. Johnstone's speech in the House of Commons, March, 9th, 1779,
to be found in the Philadelphia Library in a volume of the Pennsylvania
Packet, February 20th, 1779, No. 384.
[C] Mrs. Ferguson's letter will be found in the same volume in the Numbers
for February 20th, and March 9th.
[D] Here the following anecdote will afford an occasion of recriminating.
When Mr. Reed was proposed as a Brigadier in the army, Mr. John Adams, now
our minister in Holland, openly objected, in Congress, to his appointment,
saying he was of a factious spirit, and had been notoriously instrumental
in fomenting discords between the troops of the different States.
[E] When Mr. Ingersoll waited on me with General Reed's first letter, 9th
of September last, I mentioned to him the situation of my family, and the
necessity of my leaving the city. This has been candidly related by Mr.
Ingersoll to Mr. Reed, as appears by the following extract from his letter,
in answer to mine on the 17th of March, on this subject.
_Extract from Mr. Ingersoll's letter, dated Philadelphia, 8th March, 1783._
"The conversation that passed, I reported with candour, and I
believe with precision, but still supposed, that the reply
from General Reed would be founded entirely upon your answer.
Your declaration, with respect to your intention of leaving
town, I think I can repeat in nearly the words in which you
expressed yourself.
"After discoursing upon the subject of the letter I had put
into your hands, you mentioned to me that your furniture was
packed up to go to Maryland; that you had been waiting for
rain to lay the dust, and that if anything was to come of this
business, it must be _speedily_.
"I ENDEAVOUR to give the _words_ used,--I certainly do not
deviate from the _purport_ of what was said."
This is not the least of the many _misrepresentations_ in
which Mr. Reed is convicted in the course of my reply.
[F] Being called upon by General Cadwalader to recollect the conversation
we had at the Coffee-House, in the fall of the year seventy-eight, when he
related what had passed between him and Mr. Reed at Bristol, I remember the
subject corroborates with those queries I have since seen published in Mr.
Oswald's paper, of the 7th of September, 1782. I likewise remember giving
him a hint, that some of Mr. Reed's friends were present, on which he
repeated what he had related before, and then addressed himself to the
gentlemen, and informed them, if any of Mr. Reed's friends were present,
they were at liberty to make what use they pleased of it.