The Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser, December 15, 1778; printed and sold by John Dunlap. Extensive discussions about Silas Deane and his activities in Europe, including a lengthy letter from "Common Sense" [Thomas Paine]; resolutions in Congress in December 1778 set forth discussing need for consultation on foreign affairs. Report from Philadelphia that "thirty thousand tons of shipping had been suddenly taken up in New-York for government service, and that a general embargo is laid; the occasion has not yet transpired."
