The Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser, April 8, 1779; printed and sold by John Dunlap. Extensive correspondence from and involving Carter Braxton of Virginia, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; after his private correspondence to John Ross about the American treaty with the French was seized by the enemy in New York, and published, Carter Braxton strongly defended his support for American independence. Braxton’s letter of October 7, 1778 stated: "With regard to America, you find by her alliance with France she is so closely fixed to her, that she cannot in any event separate herself." Miscellaneous legislative affairs in Pennsylvania. Reward for deserters from Fourth Regiment Light Dragoons, now lying at Lancaster. Two large woodcuts of horses as part of advertisements.