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directly set at liberty. Finding his affairs, from the
Subtle advantages which had been taken, greatly de
ranged, and forefeeing the length of time necessary to
compel a reflitution, Mr. M. determined to go over to
Ireland, and accept of some office from the new-whig
minifhy, but he had hardly reached that country,
when the etc ffion of his friends; Mr. Fox, Mr. Burke
and lord John Cavendish, (firmly good in a corrupt
ed state!) took place on the queflion in the cabinet of
unconditional independence. This was immediate^
followed by his grace of Portland, then lord lieute
nant of Ireland. Under these circumflances Mr. M
did not hesitate a moment in giving up his views, and
came to a resolution of executing a d-sign which had
long lain near his heart, of visiting a country for whose
just rights he had unweariedly contended ; who, while
with one hand he painted its oppressions, and in the
other held up the authors of them to the public exe
cration, did not cease to ring throughout the king
dom the CRT of innocent blood in the ear of every
abettor of so foul, so unnatural, so murderous a
war. In the wreck of his fortune, to accomplish
this purpose, he has been particularly honoured and
happy in being guided by the direction and advice of
an ILLUSTRIOUS CHARACTER, made EMI
NENTLY HONOURABLE by the exalted situation
to which his country railed him, and EMINENTLY
GREAT by the DIGNITY and FORTITUDE he
preserved throughout his LONG and PAINFUL IM
PRISONMENT. By his recommendation Mr. M.
has received the most friendly assistance from a gen
tleman (Mr- William Bell, whose hourly arrival he
painfully looks for) no less distinguished for his probi
ty than his benevolence, whose interest will ever be
dear to him, and for whom he Shall ever hold the most
grateful remembrance. What may be the event of
Mr. M's coming lies hid in the womb of time; how
ever, as his expectations are few, be cannot be dis
- appointed- -in the UI MOST CONFIDENCE of his
SOUL he casts himfeif upon the friendship of a coun
try for which he possesses the MOJT EXALTED es
teem and afftaion, and in defending whose injured
rights he has, with its BRAVE and VIRTUOUS
SONS, reaped no little thare of KINGLY and mini
fterial persecution.
The liberty of the press has justly been efleemed a
leading feature in the Erglifh constitution, while ex
ercised with a strict regard to truth, and a
single eye to the public good. Of this truth
Mr. M. is an infiance; for upon almost every impor
tant constitutional question, agitated, as a public
printer, he flood alone, opposed to the whole tribe of
government prints, and to those hired assassins of the
common weal, the ministerial fcriblers. This has
been particularly the case in the last and greatest
political and national contefl that ever engaged the
minds of men—for since the commencement of the A
merican troubles, Mr. M. has had to combat with
almost every print, for almost every one was, by
some line of influence or interest, the enemy of Ame
rican freedom and the rights of mankind. In propor
tion to the advantages he gained in argument (for let
the venal try their ev'ry ftupify ing art, truth mu ft
prevail) oppression, in one form or other, was lure to
meet him. Not to mention numberless mean and piti
ful infiances of revenge, to Crown all, and to mark the
la ft effort of their vindictive pursuit, even while actually
fuffering the last fev@re sentence imposed, government
was proceeding anew against him, and had even ex
tended the process to a species of treason, with a
view either to PERPETUATE his imprifonmeot, or
to AFFECT his life; but this was also happily pre
vented by the change of ministers. In the event, 'tls
true the late despicable minions so far succeeded as to
deprive him of almost every worldly good, but he has
preserved his integrity---the rest he leaves to Hea
ven! '
fy^b crin^ ^od mi{d%ianfflre -Thfaitomt, ^ apKir.
iiifffl, mufi come onlyfrom my pleading guilty, or my
.being found so by a jury if I pleaded not guilty.
Your taking judgment by default, is by a.'E
minting information with civil anions—yet you
make them have the dree of indictments I can
not (land before this court more as a culprit, by be
ing informed against by one man without oath, than
by twelve upon oath.,
I demand the privi eg? of an Engbfhman! that,
may be admitted to plead—l do plead-.-not guilty !
Thereupon try me ; and if I ^m convicted upon proof
by a jury -do your worst? Till then, lam un
heard, and therefore, should be considered an innocent
man.
My I ord! j
I have served the public fifteen years faithfully and
disinterestedly; eight years of which I laboured in
defending and afferring the rigirts of my country
men and fellow citizens! - and the lift seven years
in decrying and exposing the wickedness and folly of
the accursed American war! I now fit down a mod
oppressed man ; and tho' with a wife and seven chil
dren, I chearfully go to prison, under the happy
assurance of possessing the confidence and approbaii
on of my countrymen, upon whom I cast myfelf for
protedion and flipport.
[The above Speech was printed in the English, Iron
and Scotch prints, and several thousands of them af
terwards r printed separately to gratify the public
curiofity.]
After Mr. M. bad concluded, the court, in the mod
unguarded and passionate language, passed a sentence
of twelve months impr ifonment, with a fine of one
hundred pounds.
[Mr. M's confinement operated founhappily as to
oblige him to relinquish the paper he had been so late
Iy invited to print ]
After lying in prison fix months, Mr. had
at length the happiness to fee the complete rout of
the late detefled and deOruaive ministry, and be was
Mr. M. has left Mrs. Miller and his children with/
Philadclpb ^ ; Printed and Sold by D AFIL) C. CLArPOOLE, in Market-Street.
p er relations, and purposes, as Toon as his affairs in
England are fettled, to fend for them.
Mr. M s opinion of the situation of England is found
ed in despair—a defpondenc, juflified by his long expe
rience of those short VIEWS and SELFISH PASSIONS
which too GENERALLY govern it. Every effort will
he mide, lie knows, within the reach of a small, de-
TFRMINED GENEROUS BAND of PATRIOTS, in the
number of .which lie has the happiuefs to reckon the
illus irious names of a Richmond and a Camden,
whose views in retaining their offices are NOT ini
mical to America, who have (hewn that they emi
nently possess that DIVINE PRINCIPLE which lights
the souls of those devoted to their country's
good, and, in fpight of ingratitude, eager in zeal to
serve an unthankful people. But independent of that
unsupportable load of public debt, and confrquent
burthen of taxes her dishonesty and folly has laid up
on her, the WANT of PUBLIC VIRTUE, that CE
LESTIAL FLAME, must crush her. Immersed in
SERVILE AVARICE, and funk in EVERY SPE
CIES of DISSIPATION, (he has drank too deeply of
the luxurious inflaming draught of fly CORRUPTI
ON. THE HEART OF A NAT lON IS TOUCHI D
WHEN PUBLIC VIRTUE GROWS THE PUBLIC
SCOFF. With falfe glory, madness blind, NO
MORE the NOBLE, SOCIAL SOUL of LIBERTY
combines her. When a desperate age as this arrives, we,
the devoted race, indignant spurn, and defpond
ing soar away !— One hope is lef'—the completion per
haps not distant-SHE HAS BEEN PRESERVED BY
ONE REVOLUTION, SHE CAN ALONE BE
SAVED BY ANOTHER !
Great credit is also due to Wm. Swiney esquire;
commander of his majesty's ship assurance, who afted
as commodore at the evacuation of Ch^rleflown, for
his excellent arrangements of the fleets defined for Ha
lifax, New York, St. Augufline, and the W-ftlndies:
and for the salutary regulations he made previous to,
and at the embarkation of the troops and loyalifis ; as
Ikewife, his attention to the prefervarion of private
property, and good conduti in bringing the (hips un
der his prote&ion fafe into port.
We hear, that before Charleflown was evacuated, it
was infilled on by the honourable general I eftie, and
complied with by Mr. Greene, that no corps of the
country militia should be permitted to enter the town
until the expiration of ten days after the Bririfh troops
left it, by which time it was presumed that those mer
chants, whose embarraffmenis compelled them to re
main in town, might get their property ficured.
Captain Bacon, of the Black-Joke whaleboat, with
fix men, who left this place about the 20th of Novem
ber last, retook, in Little Egg-Harbour bay, the
sloop -, then in the possession of captain Radcock,
and one from Philadelphia, said to have been boun: for
Halifax, but the ice flopping him in the mouth of the
inlet from bringing her off, was obliged to abandon
her (having loft his boat) and take to the shore.
Colonel Shreeves being informed of this circumfiance,
Tuesday arrived at Salem, the ship Julius Carfir,
captain Harrideo, from France. By this veff I we
have reports, that the count d'EPaing had left Brest
with a large fleet, bound to the Weft-Indies, before
(he failed; that the congress, which had been long
fitting on the important business of negociating a peace
had broke up without effecting the desired objefl;
and that the French and Dutch fleet in the East-In
dies had been fuccefsful in their operations, having
taken Madrafs and some other settlements in that
quarter.
Letters from Cadiz mention, that since the relief of
Gibraltar, the Spaniards have abandoned the idea of
its reduction, and have accordinglyrarfed the siege.
Some further particulars refpeAing the DIRELICTI-
On Saturday the 14th uh. the business of evacuating
Charleftown, the metropolis of South Carolina, was
completed. The troops and fiores having been pre
viously embarked, his majeßy's ship Carolina, the ho
nourable Alexander Cochrane, esquire, commander,
which had been appointed to cover the embarkation,
remained several hours very near the wharfs, after the
Britifli fleet had fallen down towards the bar, and the
rebel army taken possession of the town. Several par
ies of the rebel cavalry and infantry paraded opposite
to his m^jefty's ship, but they neither offered nor re
ceived any insult. in the afternoon of that day the
Carolina, on board of which was commodore Swiney,
fell down to fort Johnson, on James Island, and next
Monday night fort Arbuthnot, and the new fort on
Sullivan's Island, were set on fire and conferred to
ashes. On Tuesday the whole fleet, confining of about
two hundred fail, got over Charleflown bar, and next
day, thedivifions defined for St. Augustine, Jamaica,
and St. Lucia, separated and fleered southward; tie
division for St. Augufline was convoyed by his majef
ty's fliip Bellifarius, Richard Graves, esquire, com
mander, and five gallies; and that for the Weft In
dies by the Endymion, Emerald, Narcissus, and Hor
net The (hips bound for London and this port kept
company until Saturday the 21st ult. when they se
parated off Cape Hattaras, and the former flood to the
eastward under the protection of the Adamant, of 50
guns, David Graves, esquire, commander. The fleet
bound for this port, confiftine of about fifty fail, ar
rived at the bar, and some of them got within Sandy-
Hook, last Wednesday afternoon ; the remainder have
since come up to the harbour, they were convoyed by
his majesty's ships Assurance, Carolina, and Hound.
All the gentlemen arrived here in the fleet from
Charleftown, +xprefs their most grateful sense of theat
tention and pobtenefs with which the honourable lieu
tenant general Leslie treated his majesty's loyal fubj^Rs
while he commanded there, and of the judicious arrange
men's he made at its evacuation.
N E W-Y O R K, January 8.
BOSTON,
ON of Charleftown.
January 2.
dispatched a party of 20 men, seven on horses, and an
officer, in quell of captain Bacon and hjs party, who
were by that time reinforced by fix of general Bur
goyne's soldiers, and being apprised of the enemy's
defigo, did not much fear the number. On the 24th
ult. both parties met at Cedar Creek bridge; the ene
my, in three different attempts to charge captain Ba
con's party, killed Mr. Johnson, (a refugee) wounded
the captain and two of the soldiers slightly. The other
eight, not expecting any great civilities from their e
nemies, were determined not to be taken prisoners, and
instantly charged both horse and foot, who, feeing
them desperate and determined, retreated, but not
without loss, three horsemen and their horses, and four
footmen, killed; three horsemen and fix footmen bad
ly wounded. William Cook, who commanded the
horse, was among the dead. Captain Bacon's part,
arrived in this city, on Saturday last, with several tro
phies of their victory.
At his Store, in Font street, between Market and
Chefnut-ftreets,
I)EST old London particular, and London market
Madeira Wine, in pipes and quarter cafles, French
coniac Brandy by hosfb,?ds, Havannah box Sugars,
Boh+a Tea by the chest, &% &c.
On rea enable teims for cash, or notes of the ho
ncurahle Robert Morris, efq ; drawn on John Swanwick,
efq; paja! le to the bearer, will be taken in payment.
Philadelphia, Jan 15
The following articles will be di/pofed of cheap by the
Glauber anl Epsom Salts,
Liquorice Root,
Volatile and Crude,
Srl Amoniac,
Liquorice-ball,
Saffron,
Camphor,
Red-Precipitate,
Flower of Sulphur,
Blue Vitriol,
Senna,
Oil of Vitriol,
Jallap,
Cream of T^rOr,
At his Drug Store, in Tbid-ftreet, between Market
ftrect and Church-alley.
A quantity of Nails to be
Sold this day, at Mr. Brown's
Vendue.
Genuine Harlem Oil,
Anderson's, Hoc per's and
Keyfer's Pills,
Bateman's Drops,
Daffy's Elixer,
Walker's Jesuits Drops,
Compleat lets of Scalpells and Couching Inftru
men s in (hagreen cases. Lancets, and some few other
Surgeon's Inftrum^nts.
Medicine Chests for vcffels, and familhs at a distance
from a phyficiaa, orders from country practitioners
and others, put up on moderate terms.
A Few Bales of Royal Laval Linens and
/B Flanders Sheeting to be fold, by Christopher, jun®
and Charles Mtrfhall, at their Drug and Colour ftorc
in Chefnut.ftreet, Philadelphia. Dec. 23.
quantity, viz.
A large convenient ROOM, in a good
part of the city, for the purpose of teaching Church
Music in Erquite cf the Printer.
T O all persons having any Demands a
' gainft the ertate of JOHN WRIGHT, late of
the township of Moyomenfing, deceased, are for the
last time requeued to bring in'their accounts properly
proven ; and all those who have had their Accounts
delivered, or a demand made of the sum they stand
indebted to the said estate, are desired to make pay
ment to the fubferiber, at the Conneftogoe Waggon,
in this city, where he will attend for the above pur
pose, on Friday and Saturday, the 17th and 18th in
ftantt, from 9 o'clock in the morning till 5 in the af
ternoon, on each day; and ail delinquents may de
pend on being prosecuted according to law, after this
notice. JOHN LEE, anting Executor,
N. B. On the 16th instant, precisely at 3 o'clock in
the Afternoon, will be Sold at the fubferiber's house
at Mount- Pleasant, New-Jersey, A NEGRO WO
MAN, about 20 years of age, and her Male CHILD
about 9 months eld, said to be part of the estate of
the above-named John Wright, deceased.
Jan. 10, 1783. JOHN LEE, anting Executor.
With a General Assortment of
Drugs & Medicines,
T O °B E SO L D, B Y
WILLIAM SMITH,
TO BE SOLD, By
Alexander Robertson,
Notice is hereby Given,
WANTE D,
Patent Medicines.
Effenct of Bergamot,
—— of Lemons,
Gum Amcniac,
Tragacanth,
Gamboge,
Guaiac,
Vermillion,
Tartar Emetic, &c.
James's Powders,
Turlington's Balsam,
Hill's American Balsam,
British Teeth-Powder,
Worm-Cakes, &c.
Isinglass,
Magnesia,
Borax,
S drpetre,
Sago,