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itcer, has Hone to big country and the cause of liber
ty, he does not know. I am indeed sure be could not
have intended any by praising an u fortunate enemy
^hom he thought virtuous. One fa&, however, Mr.
Printer, I aver and can fully prove, that when the
intelligence of Andre's execution was brought to St.
Augudine, the unhappy defeneelefs exiles there, had
well nigh fallen vidims to the rage of an enflamed sol
diery, encouraged and fit onby the most brutal offi
cers that ever disgraced any service. 'T:s to that ill
timed praise of a man taken gaining money in a way
the molt dishonour -ble and dis. raceful to a soldier and
a man of virtue (if he really were such) that T attri
bute the cruel execution of my worthy countryman.
2°'!° high encomiums paled by American writers on
a British fpy,have been made use of to juftify a charge
of want of humanity in our excellent Command
er in chief, and the court of officers that con
demned him: And the author of these lines has more
than once heard British officers declare, that the very
firft opportunity would be catched at, to put to death
fome^iftinguiflid character among the Americans ; to
this vindictive spirit colonel Hayne has fallen a facrifice,
though in no way circumflanced like Andre.
If the unprincipled robber of a public library *, the
cringing insidious sycophants and base spy, could
call forth so many peas to celebrate him for supposed
virtues; how much more ought rd be said on the bril
liant virtue and unsullied character of a Hayne, our
own countryman.
I nope every citizen of Carolina will offer his tribute
of praise, and I call on those who knew him best and
are more capable to dojuflice to that char &-r, I have
too feebly endeavoured to crayon out of this martyred
son of liberty.
I trust, Mr. Printer, that a severe retaliation for this
murder will take plice by order from Congress, not on
protection men and such infignificaut mifereants (to
deftruy these would please colonel Balfour and his pecu
lating hoard of police) but on British officers of rink.
I with to fee one of equal rank hanged whenever in our
power. I expeC t shortly to be enabled to take the field
with the foutnern army, and am ready to submit to
my fate, mould it be my misfortune to fall und r the
pu ¥ v.r of Britiih butchers. No apprehension of con
frequences, howev-r, will prevent my avenging with
mine own hand, (should an opoortunty off r) the
blood of my iluftrious and unhappy countryman. I
am mifaken and do not know the fei gsof my fellow
c^z.a, if such will not be the determination of every
hoaeft Carolinian. I am, fi r ,
Your m ft obedient servant,
A CAROLINA EXILE.
• The library o' the university of Philadelphia, re
ceived as a present fr m the academy of feiences inFrarce
by the hands of doctor Franklin, a complect copy of
that most invaluable work called L'Encyclopedie, which
the nervous and gallant major Andre Hole and
carried off with him. This fad is too well known to need
a mention of the names of the witnesses, if necessary how.
ever they can be produced.
f Major Andre had the address to insinuate himfelf
so much into the favour of his commander in chief,
that he was laid to have gained an absolute afcendency
over that officer. The consequence was that he dispos
ed of all offices and favours, and drove outof fir Hen
r Clinton's family all his former friends and favour
ites, who poffefled too much independency of foul to
accept any thing through the medium of Mr. Andre,
and were too honest to fiopp to use those means, by
which this pattern OF VIRTUE succeeded. This
is by no means a private anecdote, but was the public
coaverftion of officers of various ranks in Charleftown,
after the surrender of that place.
For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
Bellum ita fufeipiatur, ut nihil aliud nifi Pax quae
fita vidratur.
I A M convinced that nothing but repeated misfor
tunes, and the inability under which Great Britain
may find herfelf to maintain the war, wid ever dispose
her councils to peace; the pacific sentiments of Ame
rica cannot be influenced, but by her having obtained,
during the war, the great objed for which. Ihe has so
vigorously contended; the full and explicit acknow
ledgement of her independence ; in the acquisition of
which (he will not only accompiifh the end for which
the war was undertaken, but also be gratified with the
profpefl of large and additional advantages. In this
situation it i.s no unnatural event, that minds of the
best and noblefl dispositions should be inclined towards
efyblifhing the peace and repose of the contending
powers: This inclination derives accumulated force
from the profpea of national felicity, arising from the
introduction of civil governments, the excellencies of
which have been obtruded by the hurry and accidents
of a turbulent uncertain state of war; but which, in
time of tranquilty, will have an opportunity of more
txtenfivdy diffusing their benefits, by easing the peo
pleofthe burdens they so c eerfuliy complied with—
enlarging their commerce, and giving them all the
blessings of a prosperous peace, under the influence of
public virtue and the advancement of the artsfand feien
ces. America is by no means adverse to peace : She has
generously manifefled her equtiy and humanity for pre
venting the farther ravages of war, by consenting to
confer with the British commissioners, until she-sound
the powers they possessed, only enabled them to mke
such overtures as (he was under the necessity of rejecting
with the (corn and contempt they d served. From this
event, and from the duplicity and inficerity of the
enemy in their tranfaflions, it is evident their profeffi
ons are little to be depended on ; it is therefore natu
ral to conclude, that as the war has been hitherto con
duced with unexampled vigour, and atten fed with un
parallelled success ; we should improve this success, and
continue the exertion of this vigour 'till they should
be Drought to relent, and become sincere in their pro
feffious • not ndu'ged in negotiations to amuse and re
lax one spirit, while they are improving by our inatten
tion, and looking out for newfauxiliaries and frefh,affo
chies to carry on the war— they should be pufc in
every hrong and attainable poll, 'till reduced to fix,
at once the capital terms of peace in clear and well
executed preliminaries / Until this is done the war must
be proiecu ed ; during which, it is our business to give
all possible soundness and vigour to every part of the
confederacy, by communicating fucn a degree of
strength to all the members of the state, as may enable
them to defend themselves and co-operate in the de
fence of the whole—their temper must be managed, and
their good affections cultivated; they may then be
disposed to bear the load with cheerfulnefs, as a con
tribution towards what may be called, with truth and
propriety, a common cause; the eyes of mankind are
opened) and communities muff be held together by an
evident and solid interest, and I am hopeful that, in
no instance, America will ever lose fight of that rati
onal and equitable policy, which will hereafter induce
thousands, from every part of the globe, to seek in her
territories, that freedom and those advantage which
they were deflitute of, while they remained under the
wings of their ancient governments. At present, we
should be aware of the situation of our c untry, and
what its exigencies absolutely require : We should not
talk at oiur ease, as if things were to be regulated at
our pleas re; it th uld be considered as a fatal fymp
tom, if, in our present circumstances, we should persist
in errors, natural only to prosperity: We are
still threatened by enemies of no small magnitude,
whom we should be careful to despise; but they are
enemies, who can only cease to be truly formidable,
by our entertaining a due refpeft for their power: Our
dinger is only to be lessened by our not being blind to
it, and our force increased by our uni m.
A CAROLINA PLANTER. .
Philadelphia, Augufl 30, 1781.
To Earl CORNWALLIS, or the British
CERBE RUS.
Know O man thou must die !
My lord,
YOUR military manoeuvres, in the sou hern states,
have been carried on with such a d gree of vora
cioufnefs, that it is impossible to do juflice to
your abilities in refining upon the horrors of war. The
inhabitants of the Tartarean dominions are at last
eclipsed in hellish machin itions, by you and your asso
ciates. —Hark! do not the vaffalsof great Pluto rejoice
at having some respite from business, b, the superiority
of your talents in barbarity. Bu take care what you
do, your reign in this world is almost at an end; and
though the prince of darkness makes use of you as a
cat's paw on earth, in the fame manner asyou employ
the deluded refugees, be assured such a haughty spirit
will not allow of an equal in his gloomy territories ;
no more than your lordship could brook the thoughts
of the traitor Arnold, to partake of your great ex
ploits in plundering and devafiation. Therefore you
may expert his royal highness will, through envy, con
fine you to the lowermost of the infernal regions.
Dare you to reflect one moment on your tranfadions
for eighteen months past? Ruminate on the quantity
of blood wantonly fpilt, on those men you hung at
Camden and other places; on the thirteen hanged and
firangled with the bow firing by Brown, at Augufta
on poor Cufack near Pedee, whafe wife and four little
children, with dishevelled hair, crying and wring ng
their hands, in a manner to rend a heart of stone, threw
themselves on their knees before the commander of the
party, major Wymms, begging the life of a dear pa
rent and hufbapd, but all in vain; the obdurate heart
ed wretch clapt fours to his horse and swore he would
ride over them, if they did not get out of his way im
mediately. The banging of colonel Hayne is another
instance of bloody mindedness, which Shews colonel
Balfour to be a true mod rn British officer, and does
credit .0 the confidence you put in him. You are in
part accountable for all those adions, so Shocking to
humanity, committed by officers under your direction.
Do not you think that ample retaliation must take
place ? Will not you be answerable to that being who
gave you life, f r all the innocent that may be shed ?
Your whole manner of carrying on the war, d fco
vers such an unmanly virulent spirit, that it will be im
possible for time ever to wipe off the dishonour you have
brought on yourfelf and the British arms. A Nero
wouli stand amazed at your execrable murders, burn
ing and desolation! Nay your crimes are of such a
heinous, that old Belzebub himfelf would bluih, if
possible, and be alhamed to commit them ! If your con
science is not feared and calluous to all feeling, do you
not at times conceit there are scorpions gnawing and
tearing your foul pieces? Be alarmed! you know not
the moment w ien terrible vengeance from heaven
may come hurling do n upon your head! You must
die! Tremble at the thoughts of judgment|
Can you lock upon yourfelf as a friend to the ktng
your master. Do you expe& to conciliate the afferii
ons of men by such inhuman butcheries and barbarous
proceedings? Will England obtain a single benefit by
destroying Gecrge-Town? What advantage has been
gained by all your conflagrations heretofore? Know
that it is in the power of two or three daring Ameri
cans to lay your metropolis London in afnes. Surely
never a set of men so erred in their judgment as the
British. For had the Americans pointed out a mode
for you to have pursued, tiny could not so effectually
have served the glorious cause, in which they are en
g ged, as your cruelties have done. And it is a truth
beyond contradiction, that wherever you go, three
fourths of those whom you find friends, after a little
acquaintance, become your most inveterate enemies.
Can you deny any of tne above charges, which are
known by hundreds to be stubborn fads, and
PLAIN TRUTH.
KINGSTO N, (Jamaica) July 28.
In our last we mentioned the return of the fleet, which
lately filed from hence being generally expeßed —On
Saturday and Sunday his majesty's ships Princess Royal,
Albion, Ruby, and Janus, as iikewife the Ramilies an
chored at Port-Royal, together with the greased part
of the vessels that were under their convoy, t! e names
of those yet behind are not of certainty known, but there
is not at present the least reaforrof uneasy apprehensions
for their fafety ; some of them have probably proceed
ed on their passage, as it appears the bulk ,f the fleet
being so far on the fouthfide of Cuba, as Cumberland
Harbour was from the bearing of cape Maize, being
mistaken in hazy weather, and not from a change of
current as was at firft reported.
Several of the returned vessels have received damage
but as far as we can learn, nothing more than what
may speedily repaired.
Sailed his majesty's ship Resource, B. Rowley efq -
command r, likewise the Punch tender, captain Per
kins. The former i f is said to reconnoitre the Havanna
and the latter Cape Francois, at which p'ace several Spa
nish ships of war, according to report, have lately
arrived.'
CHARLESTOWN, Auguf 11.
Mr. Isaac Hayne, who since the capitulation of Char
leftown,had taken prof Elion, and acknowledged, him
flf a fubjeft of h.s majesty's government having not-'
withstanding been taken in arms, and at the head of?
rebel regiment of militia, was therefore, on Saturday
morning la ft, executed as a trii or.'
On Sunday last arrived here a fleet of seven fail of
transports and merchantmen from Cape Fear, under
proteaion of his majesty's sloops Cormorant and
Hope.
Extras lof a letter from Wilmington, dated 30th of
A party of loyaiifts, under a colonel Fanning,
who ^exceedingly aftive, surprised a few days ago, tire
whole heads of Chatham county, to the number of
thirty-fix, who were assembled in the court-house to #
draft men ; he paroled twenty four, but brought down
twelve of the word here, one of whom observed, he
had beheaded the county—a few strokes such as this.
wou d be of great service."
• August 11. From the 25th of last month to the gta
infant, we had most disagreeable, sultry, dry wither.
This has been followed by a storm, the effeai of which
we fear will furn sh us with frequent opportunities of
giving distressing recitals. We (hall now present our
readers the best account of it, that the shortness of the
time will admit.
On Thursday evening about 7 o'clock, the wind be
gan to blow from the N. E. Between 8 and 9 it bl w
fre(h, accompanied with rain. Itcontinued to rain and
blow from the fame quart r with increasing violence,
during the whole nignt and-yesterday, till one o'clock,
wnen the wind Lifted to E. N. E. The gale continu
ed to encreafe till 4 o'clock P. M. when the wind hav
ing g°' round to S. E. it blew a mere hurricane. The
rain increasing at 8 o'clock, the wind began to fall; at
high water, three o'clock this morirng the wind abat
ed. The wind has now got to S. S. W. but it hill
blows freffi.
I he harbour ass rded a feene of the greatest diftreft,
and the sea ran so high as to preclude the vessels at
anchor in the flream receiving any aid from the (Lore.
They however fared better in general than those lying
at the wharfs. The number of small craft and boats
destroyed is too cohfiderable to attempt giving any
account of it nor have we yet procured any accurate
state of the d mage done to the (hipping. The Thetis,
a transport ship, is funk at Gadsden's wharf, and the
(hip London, captain Richardson, is bilged at Eveleigh's
wharf. Several or er ships are driven alhore. A more
minute detail will be given in our next.
Augufi 14. T^at much efleemed officer brigadier
general Ogilvy, commanding officer of his majesty's
troops in the island of St Euftatius, we are sorry to
hear, died there the 2d ultimo-
August 15. None of the whipping driven ashore in
this harbour last Friday, have sustained any material
injury. By great exertions, the ftlip London, captain
Richardson, mentioned in our last to be bliged, after
having her masts cut away, has got clear and is now
afloat.
Aug. 16. From the southward we learn, that a
party of rebel militia a few dnys ago made their ap
pearance at Beufort, upon which a number of the in
habitants took Shelter in the court house, with a defi^n
to defend themselves; but the rebels being acquaint
ed with their want of the means of defence, surround
ed the house, and set fire to a corner of it, which soon
obliged them to .urrender themselves prisoners on pa
role.
August 21. We are informed the commander in chief
has been pleased to appoint brigadier general O'Hara,
Paterson, Gould, Dalrymple and Stirling, to aft as ma
jor generals until his majesty's pleasure is known ; and
the right honourable lord Rawdon to serve as brigadier
general to the provincial troops.
ANN A P O L I S, August 30.
We have the pleasure to inform the public, that on
the 28th instant the 3d Maryland regiment, command
ed by lieutenant colonel Peter Adams, marched from
this city to join the foutbern army. This regiment
has.been rhifed within this few months, but from the
unwearied vigilance of the officers, has all the appear
ance of a veteran corpse it chuffs of upwards of 400
men, enlifled for three years and the war, and are well
equipped for the field. The manual good offices which
have passed between the citizens and the officers of
this regiment, whilst ftatiomd at tuis place, has render
ed their departure mucn regretted. The ardor that
spread through their ranks, and the profped of taking
the field, and their military appearance, inspired eve
ry beholder with a pleasing confidence, that they would
render effcntial services, and be an honour to their
country.
There are now at this Ration upwards of 600 men,
who, tho' originally for nine months, promise ere
long to be entitled for three years and the war ; many
have already entitled for those terms, and others enter
ing every day. If there is public virtue enough re
maining to support the credit of our new emission, we
may flatter ourselves to fee our line complete by the
winter. The recruiting service is no: vunder the di
rection of major general Smallwood, whose diflioguifh
ed services in the field, are equaled by his uureff ttJ
attention to this important business.