m mm m m . m a t JT -1 T - i rrnn0n f ftV nmKlMv t)i A MaA
the war order rnele csreumttances ; and ir we do continue, po- uon, wncn onsreu 6 --r-7 r- - u r0r-
I : j jc . ..a r. ... ar t M-a;m rhnfe wicked mealures they nave all alon fim
twit , ruin uc iti uiuu ucv,tsii n iuiiuw w ... , o j-
Whit art we then to do in this urgency? How can we extri- ported ; and to fave themidves, they will be ready to condtma
cats ourfelves from the difficulties in which we are involved ? the minifters.. jU
fteafoa, at well as humanity, tell us to defift ; but minifters Aflbciates in plunder, when they fend it impomole to efcape
who are making their fortunes by a bafe and fervile compliance detedion, are often the fir it who give the alarm ; and as reae-
with the arbitrary views of fome concealed perfon, at the fame gadoes and apoftates are ever more zealous in fupport of their
tim that they profit by every expence that is put on the nation, newlyftem, as well as vindicuve againft its oppofers, than thofe
and keep their places by complying, cry out for perfeverance. are who have been bred up in the dodnne, or embraced it fro
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' They who have no regard for their own dignity and honour, conviction; lo imagers win hstc mmciv -.puujiQe.
branded cowards and noted profligates, men of fuch infamou fedion of their friends than even from the perfecting fpiritof
charaders, and fo co ript and hacknied in the ways or proititu- their enemies, inquiry win uc mauc yw V""1 ro oe
tion, as to be difpi fed even by their comrades in iniquity, for loft. M millers mult snfwer this queftton with thsir heads;
ki ar,. fer rh mnr narf: nlaeed in offi- and their heads, though little worth, yet having contrived fo
v - w 4 v a u avwr an t- t - - - r - j r - . . . u w
nf rr.,i iJ nrrer and thefe men. who b?ve no honour of much evil, mult atone, in iome injure, iu un. cuurmoui
their own, are the mpA clamorous for, what they term, the ho- crimes. Public juftice and public example demand fuch a facri.
nour'and dignity of the nation. They impudently aiTert, that fice. The injured laws, and violated liberties, of ihw country,
if we give up the project we have once entered upon, our repu- and America, demand redrefs. And as revolutions in ftateare
tation will be forever deilroved. A madman may reafon in this ever prompt and inftanraneousr when they do take efTec foit
manner, but a man of trie honour, who profeffss the ufe of his is much to be apprehended, that the firft turn of the tide, whici
underftanding, will never fupport any fydem longer than he announces our reformation, will alfo punifh the mucreants who
finds it to be juft; nor will a man of of policy continue in the have lo grofsly off; ndeJ. Judge Jefferics, at the time of the
fame trad, longer than he finds it practicable and expedient ; glorious revolution, though a peer of the realm, and high chta.
but our minifters, alas ! have neither honour nor policy ! Void ceilor, did not efcape the immediate vengeance of the people,
of feeling, voidoffenfc, they are as ignorant of the true in te- L U D L O w,
refts of this country, as they are indifferent to the princfples of ! : -
honour and policy! Had they pOAcHed eitner the one or the o- TURLINGTON, Jan. 14.
ther, they would long fince have altered their conduft. BOUT eight days ao a very large fchooner drove on Ihore
They are fupported by the fenfelefs, the needy and the pro- J upon the Pea Patch, in-Vhe Delaware, with the ice, rich-
fligate, who mifHking clamour for argument, boalting for cou- ly laden ;having on board, 101 hogsheads of rum and fpirits,
rage, opprefiive and unconftitutional acts of parliament for fub- a large quantity of fine and coarfe cloths, India filks, Bohea
Aantial authority, vainlr conceive that with theif tongues they tea, &c. &c. The ice having cut the veffel through, the crew
can fubiue America, and ttead freedom and liberty under foot, delivered themfelves to the mi.'itia of Salem county,, and the
The immediate facrifices to this barbarous and miitaken po- principal part of the caro has been faved and itored in a place
licrt tfle fo'diery, are for the molt part men of more honour of fecunty.
than their employers. The unhappv and deluded foldier is the
G R ESS,' Dec. 30, 1777.
all pcrfoos inhabitants of any of thefe
firfl viclim. His profefHon teaches him both to fufTer death, In CON
and to expect it with fortiiude and reiienation ; and in iny opi- ESOLrED, that
nion, if he courts employ in a wicked and di (honourable cauie, i United -States, .iWho nave yofuntanly enlilted or mall lo
he is not ill requited tor his pains. Thofe who are forced into en lilt with or join thb enemy of the faid United States, and
the fervice, a;id become involuntarily the tools of epprefiion, have been or (h ill be taken in arms, be confined in clofe gaols,
cannot indeed be :oc finceroly lamented. fubjed to be delivered up to the refpeclive States, to which they
From the foldsers and :n.iriners, and thofe who are actually refpettively belong, to be dealt with agreeable to the laws there
employed in tac proTccution of the war, and fufFer in the courfe of j and that the commifTary general of prifonefs and his depu
fr tYkf mfal p!amitj. lilfi? a noifon which oradnallv infu. ties hp frnm' time t time to tranfmit to the refbe&ive
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fes itfelf into all the veilels .f the body, is dillnbuted through States the names of fuch of their citizens, who have been made &
all the orders of the ij.tc ; none, excepting the minifters of go- prifoners. Extratf from the mitfutet,
ernmenr, are wholly exempt from it ; for the increafeof taxes
and advanced price of living includes thofe who are not in any
wav immediate fufFerers. Miniiters alone feem to revel in the LONDON.
funlhine of profperity, and profiting by the mi. fortunes they Extracl of a Iticr f, ;. Mauduit Dupkfis,
CHARLiiS THOMSON, Secretary.
ft oiv a Trench cjf!
o
cer in the fervice of the United States, written to bis brother in
Porte L'Orienr, daied Jfrii 19, 1 777-.
UR tiric employment at P'.:ton, wa after arrival, to in-
fpecl, at the req 'intion cf the g vemor,
all the fortifica-
have brotiglir on others, raife themfelves on the ruin of the ftate.
Their i-;crcafed falaries, the additional offices, the millions of
public money palling through their hands, the difpofal of lucra
tive contracts together with the innumerable polls and offices
to be diilributed to their friends and partizans, are fome cf the
trirRin emoluments with which they are gratified for their con
stancy and courage in maintaining the war. Far from the fcene
of action, free from the incurii. " is of the enemy, and cherilhed from thence to S:a!em, where we were employed in the like bu
by the f miles of the monarch they imagine themfelves out of finefs, as well as on fjeveral parts of the coaits.
tions of the town, which we found rather Sa a bad fituation.
We immediately gave in a p n for the better fortifying the
town, which was approved and dircclly bgun. We pafled
the reach of adverfiry ; and yet the day will come, ind from
th; nature of things mail foon imff, when the minifters and
their adherents will be fully requited for their mifdeeds. The
liberties of a people are too precious to be trampled under foot,
without recrimination.
Diitrefs, poverty and dejection, will probably fucceed the
prefenc haughty, infolent tone of this over-bearing country.
The deluded people will foon become fenfible of their error,
and of the lofs they have fuftained by the feparation from Ame
rica. The mercantile intereft already totters, notwithftanding
the prevalency of contracts ; and -hr failure of fever?.! grea.t hou
ff s lately, is only a prelude to many other, I fvar rao many,
similar misfortunes.
When the nation at large comes to be fo1! convinced of the
grofs perfidy of its rulers, and the infamy and corrup ion of par
liament, who, in the pretended vindication of their dignitv and
reputation, are deprived of all dignity and reputation, it will
not be. eafy to fet bounds to their juft refentmcnt. Even votes
in parliament, that loverrign ba'iam for all difordcrs, will, at
this period, be ineife&uel. It will then appear, that a majori
ty in parliament is not the majority of the nation ; nav, doubt,
whether even the "Otcs of thi xflemblv, crifinc, contemptible.
s
We have feen the troops diicipliaedi who went thfaugh
their exercile exceeding well; but there are a kind'of foldiers
called here, rfle men, who exceed all the foldiery of Europe,
whom I flattered, by telling, that it would be to them America
will be indebred for her independence.
After having travelled through New-England with great
fatigue, we came to the prand army on the fecond of April,
commanded by General Wa'hington, who received us in a very
polite and 'molt dirtinguifhed manner ; his looks, manner of
fpeaking, and conduct to every body, bepeaks the finilhed geii-l
tleman ; but his afliduous labo?rs, and great penetration, de
clare the compleat General. He is beloved by his troops, (39
thoufand regulars) acceflible toeverv body, and determines cau
fes in the army with juftice and wifdom ; he protects the ofHcers
from infult, and the common foidiers from ill ufage ; he punifh
es none with rigour, and he forms his troops to humanity as
well as war, being extremely well difcipiined,
There is a very lare number of foreign officers in his ar
my ; French, Prulfians, German, Swffs, Italians, and fome
Spanifr, to the amount of about f.xteen hundred ; among the
reft of the foreign officers, there is the nephew of the famous
Cardinal Alberoni, who poiTcftes, as General Washington fayy
and infignificaot as they mu.1 neceff rily be, will remain con- all the wifdom of his father, and he is admitted to all the covt--
fiant. cils. The nephew of the Marquis of Monti is alfo here, as Co
Robbers of every denom?"Tton, as we fee by daily experi- lonel, with a great number of engineers, "
enre, are ever willing to fave th-ir own necks, by impeaching Lord William Campbell, late governor of South-Carolina,
their comrades. In .'ike manner thofe who now vote in majori- is appointed governor of Jamaica, in the room of Sir Bafii
tic;, and ma: luch indecent armour againn. truth and convic- ivcith.
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