The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-09-29 00:00:00, page 4

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^^—Eat Lord Cornwallis did not fly ; he cen
tered; he planted the king's flandard on the field
as battle : It is himfelf who informs us of all these cir
curnftandes; he fays lie hae just gained a signal victory,
but by the word signal he does not mean profitable or
decisive; that officer, as judicious as brave, does not
confine himfelf to a barren relation of the affrir at
Guilford ; he gives us at large a compleat view of hit
situation past, present, and to come ; in laying before
our eyes a plan of the expedition with which he was
charged; he invites us to examine it, and calculate the
mass of advantages or disappointments which probably
might or should result from it. His great obje& was
to penetrate into North-Carolina, there to protest the
loyalists, and give them an opportunity of rising in fa
vour of government; he dots not fay who g^ve him
reason to hope (it is easy to fee that such information
must come from the ministry) that he should find in
that province legions of loyalists ready to draw them
felve# up under his colours, but he gives us to under
stand that he had hopes of it. “ I reckoned, fays he,
on numerous friends, hut I found only timid friends,
and rebels whose hatred is inveterate ; 200 unfortunate
men had either more courage or more sincerity,
ventured to unite with us, endeavoured to join with us,
they were intercepted, cut in pieces, and mafLcred in
cold blood !" It is evident that when the minister as
sured us, when the dangerous deserters assured us at the
bar of the house that we had, especially in the southern
provinces, nine-tenths of the inhabitants for us, the
miniftcr was deceived, the deferterl deceived ns. What
do we fee in the other parts of the pi&ure which lord
Cornwallis presents to us ? an enumeration of nurri
berlefs obstacles which we have beten told an hundred
times eXifts in every part of America, and which are
invincible; they do not arise from &he difpefition of
the minds of the people only, they exist in things ina
mimated, as in minds the highest exalted by the love of
liberty and independence; a river, a wood, a rock, a
marsh, a hill, a ravine, at every step bravery finds a
new trafs, prudence finds new gulphs, v;&'ory itfelf
finds a new precipice; from all these obstacles united,
arises the most dreadful of all : Famine flies after victo
ry, flops her- in her rapid course, (tamps the palid seal
on the front of the vanquisher, and forcing him to a
retrogade march to seek bread elsewhere, gives him the
appearance of being defeated in the midst of the most
glorious pur bit! Where were these friends, whose so
lid assistance was promised to the conqueror of Guil
ford ? If they wee too timid to appear with arms in
their hands, they might at least have offered to their
warriors, to their deliverer;, a part of their fubfiftance :
They could not have been n a state of want, for gene,
ral Greene, with an army more numerous than ours,
found meant to fubfiff amongst them. Not a morsel of
bread not a lack of'ffour; our good friends the loyal
ists kept eve.y thing for themselves and for theirinve
terate enemy, the rebels Lord Cornwallis fays, that
in the mi^ft of their exigent friends, his troops
wanted bread during two days. And men dare, for so
man 4 years irofiff, that such trwar should be kept up!
and they ^ not yet tired of repeating it I Let ns ex
amine quickly the curion arguments, which have been
from the comm element of ;his deftru&ive Pft m nro
duced for the Support of it Let us follow th^ chain of
incenfiftenebs and absurdities, which in the course of
five or fix sessions, have served as a balls to the resolu
tions of both houses. In the fitft instance that America
Shewed her refinance by marks of a reflexed frmnefe,
they said (he would, but dare not resist : it is Sufficient to
oppofc firmnefs to her obstinacy; a few regular troops for
these undisciplined colonies without arms . •It is fuffici
ent that this untraftable continent perceives in the me
tropolis, a furious intention cf adopting coercive mea
sures towards them. They tried the experiment; a
handful of men were sent, who could not undertake any
thing: The next step was foremen because it was natu
ral, they embarked a more confrierable force, and in
taking these hostile meafans, negociation was not ne
gleftcd ; fine words, bayonets, cannon, alb was equal
ly ineffectual ; the noble lord then in the American de
partment, promised us to bring the rebe's to unconditi
onal submission ; that promise is yet to fulfil: They
sent off genera Gage, telling him, you will be warrior
or negociator as occafon Ihall require ; the forces which
they gave him at the fame time, were infufficient for
the purpose, and too much to regain confidence r
Gage was as unfortunate in negotiation as he was in
pitched battles : The new minister undertook it—He
would have a more active general, he chose general
Howe; he tried his forces, was repelled, shut up in
Lofton, and in short, obliged to evacuate that place : :
This trial disgusted the northern provinces; they said
that it was a metr nursery of rebels, the most intra&a
bl^ of the whole, and the last to be taken into hand.
That those of the middle were not so obstinate, and
nine-tenths of their inhabitants were loyal fubje&s, at
tached to the mother country, and we must begin there;
our best friends had therefore the preference, when the
affair war, to err people's throats : they did not seem fa
tisfied with that pedile&ion, they were found to be as re
bellious as those to the northward, and Howe might well
beat them ; they harrafs'd him with so much perseverance
that having forced him to shut himfelf up in New York,
they never fuffered him to take an inch of ground in
that province, where his successor is to this day confin
ed to the fame limits: they took Rhode-Inland, but what
did they do with this conquert ?—that is a question we
must ask M. de Rochamb^au : disgusted with the mid
dle colonies as we were with the northern, there was
nothing left but to try those to the southward: With
fixed bayonets, and the point of the sword, no converts
are made, the major part of the inhabitants of Georgia
and South Carolina were not brought back to their alle
giance, but part cf them were subjugated, they took
possession of the two Carolinas, in the last of which they
formed the project of subjugating North-Carolina also,
by the assistance of the numerous friends which we
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have there ; they made the attempt, they penetrate with
difficulties, with infinite leffss into that province ; Urd
Cornwallis there plants the king's standard, gans a
signal victory, and is afterwards quite astonished to find
himfelf surrounded by timid friends, or by inveterate
rebels ; to fee his troops in want of bread, of every
thing nectffiry for thrir preservation, and forced to
give up every object of his expedition from the general
plan cf the campaign, he goes to find bread on the sea
fide, where he hopes to draw from our fleet, the fuccour
and protection ' which he stands in need of. He aban
dons the theatre of his gl try, leaves ail his posts behind
him, as well as the brave men to whom he had entrus
ted their defence, to the mercy of the enemy. In a
word he does not fly, but he disappears in the very mo
ment of victory ! And they talk of still continuing a
war, of pursuing a conquest, the impossibility of which
is manifeited in proportion to the efforts which are
made in that pursuit I Let us frankly acknowlege that
America never will be conquered by the force of arms;
let us conftfs, once for all, that it is loft to us. Terri
ble truth. Alas! I have foretold it an hundred times;
an hundred times I had the ficret fatisfA on to find
that my predictions were not ineffectual ; that my ar
guments carried conviction to the mind of every mem
ber that heard me; to day again I enjoy the fame tri
umph, I fee clearly that I persuade; every' member
thinks as I do, I will not except the noble lord in the
blue ribband, I will not even except the other noble
lord, who prefixes at the American department ; but if
they do not agree, all is loft, the majority which fop
ports th^m will never agree to it. But they will ask
me, when "hey agree to all this, to what does my mo
tion tend ? Will you pretend to fay, that because the
Americans cannot be reduced as eafi+y as we imagined,
we must acknowledge their independence, and purchase
peace at that price ?' To that lanfwer,- that it' would be
purchasing it cheap, as I look upon America as loft : I
will not, however; make the motion; I (hall just con
fine mgfelf to a propcfal, that the house, in a commit
tee, make a serious enquiry refpe&ing the war with
America ; and if, by the result of that enquiry, it should
appear evident to this hou'e, that the war is mpra&i
cable, that it is obfolutely without any o@&, that it
cruelly torments England, then I flhall propose, That
there be pretended to his mafefty, an humble address, in
order to Supplicate his majetty to inftrud his ministers,
that henceforth they adopt no other measures towards
America, than thofi which tend 'to the eftablifhmentof
pzace between that continent and Great-Britain.
" My proposition differs effmtially from that lately
made by colonel Hartley, the object of which was con
fined to give to ministry a power which was not second
ed by their will, that of making peace. Mine imposes
it on them as a duty, independent of their will or in
tentions."
Af'er a long debate, the question being put,> there
appeared „' for it, and 172 against it.
[For Lord Cornwallis's Letters, giving an
account of his Operations in the Caroli
nas, and of the Action at Guilford, fee
the Pennfylv&nia Packet of the 14th uh.]
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both in molasses, arid take a teaspoon full night and
morning, while he was drinking the diet drink he was
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could make no mistake, as he fee it put up and laid on
the edge of the fhtlf, whrrt Iput it, wrapped up in a
bit of paper. Now Ido swear and protest, that if he
or any body elk, searched ever so long, they could have'
found none in my house.
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At his Distillery-Store,
In Front-street, the fecend Door above the
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N.B. He gives particular Encouragement to
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Weft India Rum,
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Plain Brandy;
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Geneva,
Annifeed Water,
Clove ditto,
Orange ditto,
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