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been encouraged, aided and protracted. They are, therefore, refponfible for all the additional blood that has been fpilt by addition of their weight in the fcale of the enemy. Multitudes of ihem have fuperadded perjury to trcafoo. At the coamence ment of our op pofition they appeared mere fanguine than others, and, Lke the crackling eft boms under a pot, exceeded in blaze and uoife, the calm and durable flame of the fteady and perfevering. They have afllciated, fubferibed and fworn to cfiift in repelling the heffile attempts of out bowellefs opprefibrs. They have, with 'avfu! folemnity, plighted their faith and honour ro ficrd, with their lives and fortuces, by tee C agrefs and their General, in fopport of that very liberty which, upon the firft opportunity, they pcrfidioufly aTmed to oppofr, and have lince I'aCrilegic ufly fworn utterly to exterminate. This worthy cirzen has loft a ye nerable father ; that one a beloved bro her'; and a third, a darling Ion, either immediately by their hands, or by their bctra;.ing him to the enemy, who, from a momentary unintentional relapfe into humanity, were fometimes inclined ro (pare, when thee pitilefs wretches irlifted upon flaughter, or threatened to complain of a relenting officer, merely becaufc he was not diabolically cruel. Nor willfuch an aft of grace pro e eventual of retforing to their injured country the moft proper objects of pardon. The more ignorant and deluded (if foch ignorance and df lufion there can be) will not be able to obtain leave from their vigilant taft mdlers to rctarn to their duty. The mcft dangercus and infuer.tial will be indulged with this privilege, and that only to fave their eflates, without the Ieaft compunclion of conference, alteration of fenti rnenr, or Haclioration of heart. Thefe having already been fworn and for fworn, will, without ceremony, repeat their perjury when ever it appears conducive to the introduction of tyranny. To fcreen fuch characters from popular refentment and perfonal in folt, I prefume no prudent man wuuld chufe to become furcty. Thofe of our cirizenswho have from the very beginning of the illullrions ccnfiicl hazarded their pcrfbns and property, will think it iniquitable to receive fuch malignants into a full participation of all the ble fling refulting frcm that independence, which with the i miles of Providence has, by their co-operation, been fo glo rioufly contifted, and a: fogrct expence and peril battied out of the very jaws of tyranny. There is, in f. me of cur counties in particular, who have more eminently fu&ered by their wanton ra vages, fo rooted an aveifion to this kind of gentry, that the mere confpicwous Wings (generally the grcatefl fuflercis) would think it extremely hard toprver them all the immunise of that happy comtituticn, which they at infinite rifque have been inftrumental in cftablifhing, while thofe nOn natuials were meditating ourde tfruclicn, frilling our blood, and ardentiy wifhing for our final entcralratnr. nd can they eer expect to regain the confidence of their late fellrw fulj. fls, whofe very Kckr, methinks, Qioft confound nd abilli them? Surtly their n.ean fpiriterinefs in brooking to return. to their country, ctrcumltanced as they are, is only to be equa led by their guilt in deferring it. Should we Bot be much happier, together with the abolition of regal mif ru!e, to purge the continent alibot this political pollution, which .rooft neceffaiily tamifh the luttie, and may gradually infrft feme cf the ftill incorrupted fbns of America? Will it not be better policy to infift upon a perpetual feparation from thofe, whefe in tercrurfe with u mull corflantly revive the mo ft painful ideas, and hofe very prtfecce among the genuine fens of freedom would feem as unnatural as that of Satmmmtmmg the fons of God? The ctfprace they have brought upon their narive country can never be expunged but by ex; unking them. Let them therefore rather go into voluntary banilhment, and fettle feme uninhabited ifland, rciky, if they plcafe, as their heatts, and feared cs their confeien ces, where, not having one heneft man among-them, but being all involved in the fame atrocious and infu-erahje crime of parri cide, no one traitor can upbraid a brother-traitor with his trca fon ; nor any individual of the whole culprit-fraternity point at a greater fcclerat than himfejf. There let them eablih a tyftem of vaflalage moft ftr liable to their own ilivifh difpefitioas j ar.d reel an infamrus mcfcnccn: in puriti memorial of thofe apoftaies front reafoa and converts to defpotifm, who fled from justice for an attempted afiaffinaiion of Liberty. Or let them uke la net nary in a certain already fettled ifland (probably their favourite fpot, becifie contaminated with every irtces or miamy; wnerc jis no m 1 t 1 I ft at to ttie. rcval fj.voui to nave emruea one $ nar.ai in a bleed ; where th?3 maTiere and farnltVtng of nhofoftds has beea rewarded with a peerage ; and where no man need 10 ceipair of promotion for being a raicaL Princeton, Map 29. UVIaGSTON. ' - " .' I' B O S T O N, Juv 6 Captain Chapman nvbt arrived here laj Wednya'sty i daj: from Nantz,? in France, brings an account of the death ef'L&i Cbatbum. Bv Captain Chapman uce have thcfcHoihh:g a d-v tees'; fret fa Lcndcn papers to the gib of May. f LONDON, May 7, THE Admirals Byron and Hyde Parker, are to command the divifion cf the fleet, deftined for Nort-America. If d'firtaing is gone to that part of the world, ancf it 11 fc-enerany mi mitted and l elieved that he is, he is more tha half way there by this time. Infteadof failing, cur fleet has besm kept at opiiuead. L;o.iier to be reviewed by his Miitlly. It is faid, that the French fleet were on the 15th of April 0f Cette, where they took feme perfons on board; that Monficur Girard, and Mr. Dean's brother are on board ; and th.u they went through the gut of Gibraltar on the 24.cn, with a iine wfad at Fall ; th3t they cocfifted of twelve fail of the liT.e, arjd fix frigates; that they had 3000 troop? or? board, and that they were deeply laden with ftores of various kinds. Their delHnat:oa was undoubtedly to North-America. The King of France has given pcrhivft order? that no ftrangers whatever (hall, in future, have accefs to his jkrfon. No renfcn is anounced for the above mandate. As the orders of council for fending a fket after Monileiarf d'Eftaing, pafTed thrr ugh the office of Lad Germaine it is evi dent that the TouJon fleet is gone to America. Alas ! poor Heroes! to what a perilous fituation has an ignorant minillrv reduced youj Almoft all the public prints mention there being 42 tail of the line at Spithead, befides half a dozen frigates in fact, t'uereare no more than 22 fhTps of the line and 3 frigates. Neither is there any divifion relative to General Wcniinptcm, which hath al fo been given out by the fame people. Thc& are filly tales, and look like drowning men catching at ts. Ge neral Wafhington has the fupreme command of (he; American army, and theje is a thorough good nndcriUndin between l ira and the Congrefs. The reafon afligned by the Congrefs for repealling Mr. Deane from Paris, is, that they want his prefence to inform them exjft ly and fully of the ftatc of things in Europe, at this very critical period. The French King, as a mark of his particular efhem for Mr. Dear.e, has given him a box of great value and exduiiite workmanfnip, with his picture richly fet in diamonds, and given him a letter written in his own hand, to the Congrefs, ftrorgly teftifying his entire approbation of every part of Mr. D-tan eor ducl of the treaty lately concluded with A merica,-and of iiis iuvl olahle attachment to the letter and fpirit of that treaty, which he (hall ever h'd facred, and nothing ihall be waaring'oa bis part, to eflablifh and comf leat the mutual advantages of it to both coun tries. The French minifters have alfo given Mr. Dear.e the moft honorable teftimonials, fo that he returns totheoJd, once faithful, and natural allies of this country, not only full ohonor, bat chewed wi.h the matt important information ; to rivet that coe nccli n between France and America, which the violeut Scotch politics of this diferaceful reign havedrit en oar brethren into. A Tar hearing a paragraph read tahitti the o'her day cf agret perfon's not hemp feajui, during the "v. hole of his voyage, e- clrumed, " That may be, but I'll be d d if he was aboard- that fieet when engaged, if be -Would not make buttons." May 0. If Count de'fcftaing is gone to America, as is gen"- nlly lappofed, he iil find our fleet there an cafv conqaeit. Lora Howe has no more than 3 fhips of the lint-; and as to his frigates there are but few. No lefs than 40 of his frrgates have been re called, by orders which went from hence about a month agi. This (hews what blunderers our mtniSeea are. Inflead cf frrcnprhentng the fleet in North-America, they have weakened it. The guards were aho recalled at the fame time. Upon the fame bjunderinr? pnnciple, Aht minlilrv areft-ndin afore- to rulinix. ih- - o b Xvicneral irzpva iuc, nsg
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