Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1777-08-26 00:00:00, page 1

To THE PRINTE R.
SI R,
0 indulging with a place in your piper, the following
Verfan of the mod bombiftic and gafconading produc
tion that British injolence has hitherto exhibited, you
will oblige one of your constant cndon/crs,
A NEfyERStr MAN.
P ROCLA MA T I O N.
I, Y John Burgoyne, and Burgoyne ,cbn, Enquire,
, And grac'd with titles ftili more aigher,
F r I'm Lieutenant-General too,
Of George'^ tioops both red and blue,
On this extensive Continent;
And of Qween Charlotte's r^ ; ment
Of light dragoons the Colonel ;
And Governor eke of Castle Will:
And furthermore, when I am there,
~ln Hrufe of Commons I appear, [
(Hoping e'er long to be a Peer)'
Being member of that v' : rtuc,us band
Who always vote at North's command;
Directing too the fleet and troops
From Canada as thick as hups:
And all my titled to display,
I'll end with thrice etcetera.
The troops consign'd to my command
Like Hercules to purge the land,
Intend to acl in combination
With th' other forces o> the nation,
Bifplaying ride thro' every charter
What Britain's, fr dice world be after.
• I' is not diffi 11 tto thev it,
And every mother's son muff know it,
Tat what (he meant at firft to gain
By requisition and chicane,
She's now determin'd ,0 acquire
B; kingly reason, sword and fire.
I can appeal to ail your senses,
Year judgments, feelings, taffes and fancies ;
Your ears anj e es have heard and seen
How causeless this revolt has haen ;
And what a dust your leaders kirk up,
In this rebellious civil hick-np;
And how upon this curf'd founda ion 7
Was rear'd the system of vexation§
Over a stubborn gen ration.J
But now infpir'd with patriot love
I come th' oppreFon to remove ;
To free you from the heavy clogg
Of every tyrant-demagogue.
Who for the molt romantic story
Claps into limbo loyal Tory,
All burly burly, hot and hasty,
Without a writ to held him faft by ;
Nor buffers any living creature
(Led by the diaries of his nature)
To fight in green for Britain's cause,
Or rid us to restore her laws :
In (hort, the rileft generation
Which in vindictive indignation
Almighty vengeance ever hurl'd
From this, to the infernal world.
A Tory cannot move his tongue
But whip, to prison he is gone,
His goods and chattels made a prey
By those vile mushrooms of a day,.
He'S tortur'd too, and fcratch'd and bit.
And plung'd into'a dreary pit;
Where he must fuffer Harper doom,
Then e'er was hatch'll by Church of Rome.
These things are done by rogues, who dar#
Paifels to breathe in Freedom's air.
To petticoats alike and breeches
Their cruel domination stretches,
For the sole crime, or sole suspicion
(What worse is done by th' Inquisition ?)
Of still adhering to the Crown,
Their tyrants striving to kick down,
Who by perverting law and reafox,
Allegiance construe into trea/on.
Religion too is often made
A (talking horse to drive the trade,
And warring churches dare implore
Protection from th' Almighty pow'r,
They faft and pray: Li Providence
Pofefs to place their confidence ;
And vainly think the Lord of all
Regards our Squabbles on this ball ;
Which would appear as droll in Britain
As any whim that one could hit on :
Mens conferences are let at nought,
Nor reason valued at a great ;
And they that will not swear and fight,
Must fell their all, and fay goodnight.
By such important views there preft to,
liffue this my manifefto.
I, the great Knight of De la Mancha,
Without 'Squire CaoNton my Sancho,
O R
GENERAL
VOL. VL
TUESDA Y, A U GUST 26th, 1777.
D U N L A P's
Will tear you limb from lime rihmd-r,
' ! h carrion, b urd.'^ , aid thunder ;
,"° spoil your Jectb'rigg and vom earring ;
And c%gyenty. p; ;k| d er
In fron: offr %ps c rfipru. :as beaux,
"" >' ' lay " n their trews,
I 0 rp:cad ithfa& f; „f ai n d near;
A^.l wherel # ,q^^tf^ty I'h hnre:
lov.tin, by 1. ie o^ents, all
^'? °'" Ir ° ' ° 1 b " lo great and fma?l,
A..:. lM a;1 ; „ r n d W. c an d lory,
inftrdfe eriofiyltr
^'e ,'^rnr troops>t mv command
>ri .v^^ # ±{foji, o n ,h iri.
(Aft: they fir I: mev h^ the Nor.h Pole,
As rar at f h -s Pcfcole)
doto irooi tlr combinations,
J ? n £ ve if q t h<b rations;
'vh. u 4 that Sir William's ponders
- •-e in th' event Apparent blunders,
h v '"J <ht. # mn,;Gun
-'~' i k •' 6 * ril depredation,
, ' '". " '* e f°t you in mv pow'r,
''M™ ''"' ü by. I last devour.
Fimu him & ho love, , cquiet rife,
And kety, at home to ki( U, „)fe,
Annunovs fu-,,< to K; n Pigmalfcz,
Art c?B r .n Cungre fles Rabies on,
Wi: ,xQ%/a„ &c h eati his >d r^r
Nor :l. .< toe contest voth a copper,
I"dlru t.. Jcvte. preat,'.
'1 - Iri «£, nor cut his throat;
L'. rir Hsdox\, he may stay,
And ; „/to fi, hi another day;
D ink Dl the c'mer he has made,
Anri have to boot, a e rrt o cockade.
But as I like a ,id Sir Loin,
And mutton chop, r chene' % I dine,
And my p or troops have long, kept Lent,
Not f r religion, but for want,
Whoe'er secretes cow, bus, o r ox,
Or ih^r presume to hid h-s flocks ;
Or with ftori,us han* el c,=n
Pig, duck or ^ofl n^ from Bur^ryne;
Orders to pud th; or dges co^.
My boys to puzzb or to hrovo ;
Or fmugflebfy, or piou,".. ^, ©"?=,
Cart, herfes, waggon, 1 ^heel barrow;
Or 'thwart the path, lay fl raw or switch
As folks are wont to flop a witch*
I'll hang him as the hrs did Hainan -,
And finock his cereals foi a : aiumon.
I'd pay in Coin, for what I eat,
Or Continental counterfeit.
But whit's mere likely still, I shall
(So fare my troops) net p~y at all.
With the moll chriitian spirit fir'd,
And by true foldierfhip infpir'd,
I freak as men do in a paffipn
To give my speech the more impieffion.
If any (hall so hardened be?
As to expe& impunity,4
Because procal a julmine, ~ J
I will let Icoie the dogs of Hell,
Ten thoufend Indians, who shall yell,
And foam and tear, and grin and roar,
And drench their maukefins in gore;
To these I'll give full scope and play
Fr,m Ticondroge to Florida ;
They'll scalp your heads, and kick yeur shin%
And rip your guts, and flay your (tins,
And of your ears be nimble croppers,
And make your thumbs, tobacco-stoppers.
If after all these loving warnings,
My vrifhes and my bowels yearnings,
You shall remain as deaf as adder,
Or grow with hostile rage the madder,
I swear by George and by St. Paul
I will exterminate you all.
Subferibed with my manual sign
To tefte these presents, JOHN BURGOYNE.
(For Burgoyne's Proclamation fee the Fourth Page.)
B, bis Excellency WILLIAM LIVINGSTON,
Eftuire, Governor, Captain General and Commander
in Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey and ter
ritories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary
in the fame.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by t certain Ad of the Council
and General Assembly of this State, entitled,
“ An Ad for rendering more effedual two certain Ads
therein mentioned," paged the fourth day of June hft,
it is among other things enacted, That if any person
being a member cf, or owing allegiance to, this go
vernment as described in the firft fedion of the Ad
therein firft mentioned, entitled, “ An Ad to panifh
traitors and difaffeded peifons," gaffed the fourth day
rertrffi^^ira^^
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THE
ADVERTISEit
0. Cdojcr laß*, fnril be apprehended on his way to
the enemy with intent to go into their lines or encamp
ments, or into ary places in their poss ffion, without
the licence, permission or pafoort of the Ctomander in
Chief of the United States of America, er of the Go
vernor er Commander in Chief of this Stare for the
".'~-°.'"2,„° r ° r ' ortie General Officer cf the array of
the said United States, ores one cf the Er;cadGe
neral cf the Militia cf this State, such person is fc p#e
by declared to be guilty of a capital felony, and brir*
thereof legally co ^&d, fua!lfifo death accordinri .
Provided nez'ert^ef, That if any person ^ offending
&j afeiefaid shall, at the t.3e of his examination before
the Governor and Ceased of Safety, or within fix days
thereafter, declare bis willingness to enlist, and ffial
a^urity er/ift with the leave ofthe Governor and Coun
cil aforeuod, to serve on boat 1 any cf the vessels of
war belonging to the United Sure;, it ffi ? | \fofc;
for theia to (offer mm (3 to ervu, ard lech h's enlift=
rent fall be deemed a full pardon Qf his offence aft re
faid, any thing therein before contained to the contra
ry thereof mrtwitb&andin%
AN 17 WHEREAS it was by the said Ad fur
thei ehafled, That if any person being a member of,
or owm^ allegiance to, this government as ir the firft
mentioned Aft is described, who hath since the fourth
day cf G&ober lad voluntarily gone into any of rhe
cneniy's ^frs or encampments, or into any places in
their peurffion, shall return into any part of this State
in a secret or clandestine manner, or without any leave,
licence or popart previonflyebrained from the Gover
nor or Commander in Chief cf this State for the time
being, or from a General Officer of the army of the
U ^^ S "T' ° r of °' e ° f ' he Brigadiers General ofthe
Militia of this State, such perfen is thereby declared to
he guilty of a canral felony, and bring thereof convift
ed faali fc£r dea h accordingly. Provided vevertbe^Q
that he may eolift as aferefaid, and that such his eniifr
ment ffiall be confidefed and operate in like manner as
t ! .e enuttment of a pe<fon committing the offence fpe
erfed in the Lft p^ceeriiog Eftion of the Gid A&'
AND W HiIREAS it has been fepreGhted
me, that notwithflandiag the laid ~& fa f w x u i d
presume frem a non-knowledge Uribe exigence thereof)
federal officers of the Militia of this State, aao others
while ftatiored io the fame, es inferior rack to those
mentioned in the said A& unauthorized thereby, and
in violation thereof, have granted such licences, 'per
m^Cis and paffperts, sad frequently a non very frivo
lous occasions and to persons st fiifpiciois characters' of
both sexes; by means whereof a con fta r ,t communicati
on and intercourse has for some time past been supported
between the malignant of this State and the British
troops on Staten-Island and New-Yark ; and many have
been furnished with opportunities to carry or transmit
intelligence to the enemy and to circulate difpatchea
from them among their secret abettors in the interior
parts of the country, and thereby facilitating their in
famous attempts to disperse their counterfeit bills and
reprobated wares and merchandizes, as well as te fe—
cuce the loyal, and enlist into their service the difaff^a
cd inhabitants, of eur territories: For prevention @f
which unwarrantable, illegal ao d pernicious pra&ice I
have thought proper, by and with the advice of t'be
Council of this State, to i/foethis Proclamation, hereby
ftnaiy prohibiting all the officers of the Militia of thin
State and other persons whatsoever (those so as afore
laid authorized only excepted) to grant for the future
any such licences, permissions or pafiports, under any
colour or pretence whatsoever, as they ffiall aniwer tie
contrary at their peril; and requiring all officers both
civil arid military within this State to exert their utmost
endeavours in apprehending every perfen belonging to
the fame, on his or her way to the enemy with inters
to go into their lines or encampments, or any places in
their pefeffion, without such licence, permission or pass
port as for that purpose is by the said A& required • or
returning from thence, without such leave, licence or
paflport as for that purpose is thereby directed, having
voluntarily gone into the fame since the fourth day of
Oaober latt; and such offender to commit to fafe custody,
* Pbe persons therein defrihed as o^ing^ltyance to tbi,
government are alt persons abiding within this State and de
raving protection from the la^s thereof, and all pefons t
leg through, voting or making a temporary Pay t, : ,/,„
be^g emitted to the protection of the Q @,& &, y >
%dation or temporary fay. s s
NU M 3. fa,