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GENERAL
T^ follo-wing is a copy of a Leiter from General
LEE to General BURGOYNE, upon bis
arrival in Boston.
Philadelphia, June 7, 1775°
My Dear Sir, .
,"~}% # Q^^E have had twenty different ac
c, fe^ counts of your arrival at Boston,
2^w which have been regularly con
* % '' § * tradicted the next morning; but
^'fy^^'Q " 1 now "d " c " ta '' ) ''" y° u
< are arr i ve d, I (hall not delay a
' 4o>* single instant addrefling myfelf
to you. It is a duty I owe to the friendship I
have long and sincerely profeffed for you; a friend
ship so which you have the strongest claims from
the firft moments of our acquaintance. There is
D' man from whom I have received so many tes
timonies of esteem and affection; there is no man
whose esteem and affedion could, in my opinion,
have done me greater honour. I intreat and con
jure you therefore, my dear Sir, to impute these
lines not to a petulant itch of scribbling, but to
the most unfeigned solicitude for the future tran
quility of your mind, and for your reputation. I
Sincerely lament the infatuation of the times, when
wen of such a stamp as Mr. Burgoyne and Mr.
Howe can be seduced into so impious and nefari
ous a service by the artifice of a wicked and insi
dious Court and Cabinet. You, Sir, must be
feasible that these epithets are not unjustly severe.
You have yourfelf experienced the wickedness and
treachery of this Court and Cabinet. You can
not but recoiled their manoeuvres in your own
fcled Committee, and the treatment yourfelf as
President received from these abandoned men.
You cannot but recolled the black business of
St. Vincents, by an opposition to which you ac
quired the highest and most deserved honour. I
flail not trouble you with my opinion of the right
of taxing America'without her own consent, as I
am afraid, from what I have seen of your speeches,
that you have already formed your creed on this
article ; but I will boldly affirm, had this right
been eftt^iihed by a thousand statutes, had Ame
rica admitted it from time immemorial, it would
be the duty of every good Englishman to exert
his utmost to divest Parliament of this right, as it
must inevitably work the fubverfibn of the whole
empire. The malady under which the state la
bours is indisputably derived from the inadequate
representation of the fubjed, and the vast pecu
niary influence of the crowd. To add to this pe
cuniary influence and incompetency of representa
tion, is to insure and precipitate our deftrudion.
To wish any addition can fc^cely enter the heart
of a citizen who has the leaf! spark of public vir
tue, and who is at the fame time capable of feeing
consequences the most immediate. I appeal, Sir,
to your own confeience, to your experience and
knowledge of our Court and Parliament; and I
request you to lay your hand upon your heart,
and then answer with your usual integrity and
franknefs, whether, on the fuppofkion America
fliould be abjed enough to submit to the terms
imposed, you think a single guinea raised upon her
would be applied to the purpose (as it is ofteata
tioufly held out to deceive the people at home)
of easing the Mother Country? or whether you
are not convinced that the whole they con'd ex
trad would be applied solely to heap up still fur
ther the enormous fund for corruption which the
crown already pofTeffes, and of which a most dia
bolical use is made. On these principles I fay, Sir,
every good Englishman, abftraded of all regard
for America, muff oppose her being taxed by the
British Parliament; for my own part I am con
vinced that no, argument (not totally abhorrent
from the spirit of liberty and the British consti
tution) can be produced in support of this right.
But it would be impertinent to trouble you upon
a fubjed which has been so amply, and in my
opinion so fully difeuffed. I find by a speech
given as your's in the public papers, that it was
by the King's positive command ,you embarked in
this service. I am somewhat pleased that it is not an
office of your own seeking, tho', at the fame time,
I must confefs that it is very alarming th every
virtuous citizen, when he fees men of sense and
integrity, (because of a certain profeffion) lay it
down as a rule implicitly to obey the mandates of
a Court be they ever so flagitious. It furnifhes,
in my opinion, the best arguments for the total
reduction of the army. But lam running into a
tedious essay, whereas I ought to confine myfelf to
the main design and purpose of this letter, which
is to guard you and your colleagues from thole
prejudices which the fame mifereants, who have
infatuated General Gage and still surround him,
will labour to inftil into you againfta brave, loyal
and most deserving people. The avenues of truth
will be ffiut upto you. laffert, Sir, that even Gene
ral Gage will deceive you as he has deceived him
felf; Ido not fay he will do it defigredly. Ido
not think him capable; hut his mind is so totally
poisoned, and his understanding so totally blinded
by the society of fools and knaves, that he no
longer is capable of discerning fa^ as manifeft as
VOL. IV.
MONDA Y,
the noon day fun. I assert, Sir, that he is ignorant,
that he has from the beginning been comfummate
ly ignorant of the principles, temper, disposition
and force of the Colonies. I assert, Sir, that his
letters to the Ministry (at least such as the public
have seen) are one continued tissue of misrepresen
tation, injustice and tortured inferences from mis
stated fa&s. I affirm, Sir, that he has taken no
pains to inform himfelf of the truth; that he has
never conversed with a man \yho has had the
courage or honesty to tell him the truth.—l am
apprehensive that you and your colleagues may
fail into the fame trap, and it is the apprehension
that you may be inconsiderately hurried by the vi
gour and activity you possess, into measures which
may be fatal to many innocent individuals, may
hereafter wound your own feelings, and which
cannot possibly serve the cause of those who sent
you, that has prompted me to address these lines
to you. I most devoutly wish, that your industry,
valour and military talents, may be reserved for a
more honourable and virtuous service against the
natural enemies of your country, (to whom our
Court are so basely complacent) and not be wafted
in ineffectual attempts to reduce to the wretched
est state of servitude, the most meritorious part
of your fellow fubjeds. I fay, Sir, that any at
tempts to accomplish this purpose must be ineffec
tual. You cannot possibly succeed. No man is
better acquainted with the state of this Continent
than myfelf. I have ran through almost the whole
Colonics, from the North to the South, and from
the South to the North. I have conversed with
all orders of men, from the firft estated Gentle
men to the lo,weft Planters and Farmers, and can:
assure you, that the fame tyirit animates the whole.
Not less than an hundred and fifty thousand Gen
tlemen, Yeomen pnd Farmers, are now in arms,
determined to preserve their liberties or perish.—
As to the idea that the Americans are deficient in
courage, it is too ridiculous and glaringly falfe
to deserve a serious refutation. 1 never
could conceive upon what this notion was
founded. I served several campaigns in Ame
rica the last war, and cannot recoiled a single in
stance of ill behaviour in the Provincials, where
the Regulars acquitted themselves well. Indeed
we well remember some instances of the reverse,
particularly where the late Colonel Grant, (he who
lately pledged himfelf for the general cowardice
of America) ran away with a large body of his
own regiment, and was fared from deftrudion by
the valour of a few Virginians. Such preposte
rous arguments arc only proper for the Rigby's
and Sandwich's, from whose mouths never issued,
and to whose breasts, truth and decency are utter
ftrangets. You will much oblige me in commu
nicating this letter to General Howe, to whom I
could with it should be considered in some mea
sure addressed, as well as to yourfelf. Mr. Howe
is a man for whom I have ever had the highest love
and reverence. I have honoured him for his own
connexions,but above all for his admirable talents
and good qualities. I have courted his acquaint
ance and friendship, not only as a pleasure, but
as an ornament; I flattered myfelf that I had
obtained it.—Gracious God! is it possible that
Mr. Howe Should be prevailed upon to accept of
such an office! That the brother of him, to
whose memory the much injured people of
Boston ereXed a monument, should be employed
as one of the instruments of their deftruXion !—
But the fashion of the times it seems is such, as
renders it impossible that he Should avoid it. The
commands of our most gracious Sovereign, are to
cancel all moral obligations, to fan&ify every ac
tion, even those that the Satrap of an eastern Des
pot would start at. —I fliall now beg leave to fay
a few words with refpeX to myfelf and the part I
aX.—I was bred up from my infancy in the high
est veneration for the liberties of mankind in ge
neral. What I have seen of Courts and Princes
convinces me, that power cannot be lodged in
worse hands than in theirs; and of all Courts I am
persuaded that ours is the most corrupt and hoflile
to the rights of humanity. lam convinced that a
regular plan has been laid (indeed every ad fnce
the present accession, evinces it) to abolish even the
shadow of Liberty from amongst us. It was not the
demolition of the Tea, it was not any other par
ticular ad of the Bostonians, or of the other pro
vinces which constituted their crimes. But it is
the noble spirit of Liberty manifeftly pervading
the whole Continent, which has rendered them
the objeds of minifteria! and royal vengeance.—
Had they been notoriously of another disposition,
had they been homines ad fervitudinem paratos,
they might have made as free with the property
of the East-India company as the felonious North
himfelf with impunity. But the Lords of St.
James’s and their mercenaries of St. Stephen's
will know, that as long as the free spirit of this
great Continent remains unsubdued, the progress
they can make in their fchemq of universal des
potism, will be buttrifling. Hence it is that they
wage inexpiable war against America. In short,
this is the last asylum of persecuted Liberty.—
Here IhoQd die machinations and fury ofher ene
DUN LA P's
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mies prevail, that br;ght Goddess must fly off
fiom the face of the earth, and leave not a trace
behind. These, Sir, are my principles; this is
my perfuaficn, and consequentially I am determined
to a&. I have now, Sir, only to entreat that what
ever measures you pursue, whether those which
your real friends (myfelf amongst them) would
Wish, or unfortunately those which our accursed
mifrulers shall dictate, you will still believe me to
be personally, with the greatest sincerity and
affection,
Your's, &c.
C. LE E.
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TH E Owners of Greenwich Island are
desired to meet at the Court-boufe, the firft
Monday in July, at Five o'clock in the afternoon,
'° c '^' e Managers and Tr^afurer, and Directors
and I reafurer for the Bridge and Road, according
to A& of Assembly.
'7"' H E General Assembly of the colony
, of Connecticut, in May last, voted Ten
Pounds reward for every Fifty Pounds weight of
S, L y-PETRE that should be made in that colony,
within the year ensuing: Any perfoA master of
the process, and willing to undertake, if able to
carry on the works, may (if his character be good)
by enquiring of the Printer, be informed of the best
places in that colony to set up the business, and
assisted with every necessary direction ; if unable,
and defirows to have his stock found him, he may
f"fc°'° ne that will, on proper terms, procure the
,"' Ten Pounds of that currency is equal to
Thirty-three and one third Dollars.
'June 22, 1775.
Any perlon master of the business of smelting
Lead Ore, and separating the metal from the dross.
may hear of good employ, by enquiring as above. ™
TO BE SO L D,
AD ARK BROWN HORSE, near fifteen
hands high, five ye<rs old, paces and trots,
has been used to a chair, and is well made for a
draught horse. Enquire of William Brown, at
the Leopard, the upper end of Arch-street.
FIVE SHILLINGS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on the firft inffant, (June) an
. indented man, named ARTHUR NAGLE,
born in Ireland, has loft one of his eyes, and has
red hair; had on a short blue cloth coat, leather
breeches, &c. It is supposed he is lurking about
town. Whoever brings him to the fubferiber shall
have the above Reward.
JAMES CLAYPOOLE.
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on Wednesday the 21st of
June last, from the fubferiber, living in Hope
well Township, Cumberland County, an Irish ser
vant man named GEORGE GEE, about five
feet two or three inches high, and about eighteen
or nineteen years of age, somewhat freckled; short 1
brown hair, speaks with the broague upon his
tongue, the fore finger of his right band cut off at
the middle joist; had on and took with 'him, a
fine hat half worn, a brown home-made cloth coat
with yellow buttons and green lining not much
worn, a blue jacket and two shirts half worn, one
pair of striped cotton drawers partly new, one pair
of blue and white dockings, and a pair of shoes
with plated buckles in them ; all these much too big
for him : He took a leather pocket-book with some
money in it. Whoever takes up and secures said
servant, so that his master may have him again,
mail have, if out of the county, FOUR DOLLARS,
if out of the province the above Reward, and rea
sonable charges if brought home, paid by
THOMAS M'NAGHTEN.
, N. B. All masters of vessels and others are for
bid to harbour or carry him off at their peril.
'June 26, 1775.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber, living on
My Lady's Manor, Baltimore County, Ma
ryland, an indented servant man named JOHN
RAMUNDA, born in Switzerland, bred in
France, and indented for this country from Eng
land ; he profeffes the following trades, viz. jewel
ler, hair-drefler, barber, and furgeon-dertht or
tooth-doXor, and will endeavour to get employ at
some of the said trades, as 'tis supposed he under
stands them very well ; he is a well made fellow,
about thirty-seven years of age, five feet seven or
eight inches high, pitted with the small-pox, has
a fear on his upper lip, and wears his own dark
coloured hair tied behind ; had on and took with
him, a good suit of whitish coloured broadcloth
fafhiqnable cloaths, a short lurtout coat, tow linen
trowlers, oznabrigs foirt, old caftor hat, one draw
ditto, ne pair of cotton flockings, one pair of
thread ditto, one ruffle ffiirt, and funthy other
things unknown, together with bis jewellers tools,
were in bis knapsack. He lias several printed papers
in French, /which are difebarges from the French
King and his officers, under whom he served as a
soldier, which he is very apt to (hew. He speaks
the Fiench and Italian languages very fluently, and
broken English ; he is a convertible intelligible
fellow, and very complaisant. Whoever takes up
said servant and secures him, so that his matter
may have him again, shall have, if taken ten miles
from home, Twenty Shillings, if tirirty miles
Forty Shillings, and if sixty miles the above
Reward, including what the law allows, and rea
sonable charges if brought home, paid hy
BENJAMIN ANDERSON.
THE
ADVERTISER.
JULY 3d, 177%
T O-M O R R O W,
At ONE o'clock in the afternoon, at
J O HN H A R T-'a
VEND U E-S T O R E,
At the corner of South and Front-Streets,
Will begin the SALE of a neat Assortment of
M ERCHANDIZ E;
AMONG WHICH ARE;
BLACK and striped India taffaties ; silk, thread
and cotton hose ; Barcelona handkerchiefs ;
Irish linens; Russia and Irish fheetin%s ; pins ;
chintzes; printed linens, calicoes and cottons; In
dia nankeens; silk gauze; checks; &c. Allo a few
chfks of choice starch; houfiiold furniture, &c.
N. B. Goods for public and private sale are re
ceived at said store. No Goods will be delivered
until paid for.
Baltimore County, Maryland, June 24, 1775.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY lift night from the fubferibers,
living within thirteen miles of Baltimore, an
Irish indented servant man named E DWAR D
W AR RE N, a stone mason and bricklayer by
trade, five feet three inches high, thirty-three:
years of age, square and well made, remarkable
broad across the fboulders, fliort brown hair, dark
complexion, grey eyes, full faced, has a fear on
the middle cf his upper lip, a small fear over hit
left eye, and a large fear on his left arm nhich he
lays was occasioned by a ball; he served his tim&
with Mr. Thoraas Thornberry, in Lancaster, Penn
sylvania; he has been in the country about twenty
years, and has travelled through mod of those parts;
he fays he hath a wife and four children living
within two miles of Durham Works, on Delaware,
and a brother living near the fame place of the
name of Richard Warren ; had on and took with
him, a fe t hat, an oznabrigs Ihirt, Russia drab
breeches, werfted flockings, old black grain'd shoes.
and a grayilh coloured bcarfkin coat with black
born buttons. Whoever takes up laid servant and
secures bimin any gaol, 1b that his masters may
get him again, shall have, if twenty miles fiom
home, I HREE POUNDS, if sixty miles the
above Reward, and reasonable charges if brought
home, paid by JOHN GIS T, and
ALEXANDER V/ ELLS.
N. B. The above fellow committed felony, and
was whipped and pilfored for the fad in Baltimore,
six dollars REWARD.
P AN AWAY on the 27th of May last, from
" the fubferiber, in Third-sheet, Philadelphia,
an English servant man named JOHN BKR G,
five feet nine or ten inches high,, well made, said
he was brought up to the brick-yard business ; has
brown curled hair, brown face, pitied vith^the
small pox, blue eyes, and is flow cf speech ; had.
on an old beaver hat, a fnuff coloured coatee with
yellow single plated buttons, light fufeian jacket
without sleeves, with yellow single phieu buttons,
white lirien shirt, new oznabrig trowlers, old 1 ret
yarn flockings, and new Aides with louine inai„
buckles. Whoever takes up the laid feivant and
secures him, so that I may get him again, shall
have the above reward and reasonable ch.in es, paid
by JOSEPH PEMBERTON, Grdzici.
B N. B. All masters of vessels are forbid to cariy
him off at their peril. &
T O BE V
ISRAEL and JOSEPH PEMBERTON,
Two SERVANT LADS, one cf them
born in London, hath upwards of five years
to serve, can read and write well, and unAJLudx
something of the (hoemakerfs trade : The other is
a German, and hath fix Years to Arve.
Baltimore, May 2, 1775.
BY virtue of a deed of trull from William
Butler, of Baltimore County, will be ex
poled to sale, by way of public vendue, on Monday,
the tenth of July next, at the boufe of Mrs. Sarah
Chilton, in Baltimore Town, a tra& of lard called
Hope, patented for 200 acres, situated about fix
miles from Baltimore Town, and the great waggon
road to the back country, runs one mile through,
the land. There are two fettleincnts on it, on one
of which William Butler now lives, and Mrs. Mary
Butler is in possession of the other. On the frit
part there is a good famed dwelling-houfc, kitch
en, (tables, flieds, and orchard; and has been a
well frequented tavern for several years: There is
also a good hewed log dwelling.houfe, ki:cbf"
liable and orchard on the part where Mrs. Bull r
lives, about 20 acres of meadow ground is ai r ody
in order for the feythe, and 30 acres more mav he
made. It will be fold together, or in lots of co
acres each, as may best suit the purchasers. The
title is indisputable, and the terms may be known
by applying to
ROBERT CHRISTIE, Jun. Sheriff
All persons who have hrough fuirs a^aii.U rim
said William Butler,' and for which he v^s com
mitted to my custody, are desired to bring in their
accounts proved, that they may be fettled.
ROBERT CHRISTIE, Tun. Sheriff,
Twons7T{^^Q
D AN AWAY the firft inst. (June) fro^ !h e
fubferiber, Tallow-chandler, in Thi^ hrtei'
above Race-street, Philadelphia, an Enghfh
vant boy named JOHN COOK, about f^t^ri
years of age, thin vifa'ge, near figh^d, is 3 fafl e
lame, and lioops ip his walking; l?.d'on a wool
hat, # a lapelled Iwanikin jacket, old che k ihirr
a pair of doth coloured breeches much too big t.\
him, and an eld pair of moes with Irais buc^hs
Whoever takes up and secures said servant, so th t
his master may have him again, Ihall have the
above Reward, paid by
WILLIA M COMPTON.
N. B. All matters of vessels are forbid to harbour
or carry him off at their peril, as it is thought he is '
Bulking down the river.
NUMB. 193.