Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

MR. COBBETT

AT this present crisis, I believe it an indispensable duty I owe to my family, and to my personal safety, to acquaint the public with a short detail of facts relating to my conduct in this country, my object is to prevent if possible, any confidence being placed in the wrong insinuations, you have published in the month of October of last year, and recently in your remarks on Mr. Brown's note ; such publications being calculated not only to deprive me and my young children of the very means of subsistence, but also to expose me to public view as a dangerous Frenchman, and capable of making malicious use of the list of subscribers in my hands; however, I am certain that Mr. Fenno or any of his subscribers would not feel the least uneasiness to see their names published, or even disclosed to the directory of France.

In the year 1792, I arrived in Philadelphia (from Germany where I lived with my parents since the age of 14) after one year's residence I was united in the bands of matrimony with a woman, a native American ; hence I took the firm resolution to stay in this country, and to become a peaceable citizen of the United States My conduct and my demeanor can be ascertained by my neighbors and other acquaintance: in fine, in the year 1793 I took the oath before a magistrate to support the constitution, and I am considered as a citizen (having also for five years past, paid the taxes *) and entitled to possess the confidence of my employers.

I have been for 4 years employed in the post-office and afterwards by Mr. Brown, until my proposals were agreed to by Mess. Fenno, Bache, Brown and Bradford. In consequence thereof, I have for fourteen months sent with the utmost impartiality and attention.these papers of the several printers—Your complaints are all unfounded as well as your charges.

After this, I hope that your remarks on the above, and what you have already said, will not injure me in the minds of the public.

I have the honor to be, Sir,

the News-papers Packer,

Jacob Roet

In your paper of October last, you mentioned of your own authority, that my name was not entered in the tax books.

WE, the subscribers, having employed Mr. Jacob Roet in the month of April, 1797, for the purpose of enclosing and preparing our papers for the Post-Office, do hereby certify, that they have been since that period forwarded, to our respective subscribers, as far as we are able to ascertain, with the strictest regularity on his part ; and that we have not the smallest reason to suspect him guilty of any partiality in the business whatever.

A. Brown

John Fenno

Benjn. Franklin Bache

Thos. Bradford.