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Hly. If Britain is dill so powerful and insolent upon the
ocean from the former tributes of her colonies, what na
tion will encreafe and perpetuate that power by assisting
her to reduce the United States? Surely not one. Her
late naval victory in the Weft Indies removes her further
from an ally than ever.—ls Britain is so powerful and
dangerous to the repose of Europe without America, what
would die not be, united with America, and efpecialy
with America conquered and enslaved ? It is the interest
of all the naval powers of Europe, not only to prevent
our dependence upon Great-Britain, but even our alliance
with her upon terms of the most perfect equality. The
nations of Europe, nay more, the benighted nations. of
Asia and Africa, cry daily with the fouls under the altar,
How long wilt thou, O Lord, fuffer the beauty and order
of thy moral government to be destroyed — How long wilt
thou buffer the tranquility of the globe to be disturbed —
How long wilt thou buffer thy earth to be stained with hu
man blood in a thousand places, by the proud usurpations
and extensive power of Great-Britain.
The nations of Europe know well our resources for a na
vy, and I am not sure whether the most enlightened of
them do not find the fame consolation in observing our
own ignorance of them, that mankind have ever found
in observing the Strength of the largest and most ufeful
animals combined with so much stupidity.—Great-Britain
knows, and trembles with her knowledge of our resources
for naval power. She began the present war with the pre
tence of railing a revenue from America, but I have an
authentic document to prove that a great statesman near
the throne of Britain said to the Hon. Henry Laurens,
a 'dq; a few years before the war, in a conversation upon
American fubjeds, “ We most clip your canvass. You
encreafe too faft in (hipping. You will boon be too power
ful on the water to be governed by the mother country."—
Look at the condu& of Britain through every Stage of the
war. Why has she reeked her jealpufy chiefly upon or bail
ors ?—Why did she, in the firit year of the war, compel
American seamen to fight on board her ships? Why has
she given a bounty to e^ery American seaman brought in
to Britain ? Why has she made the walls of Mill-Prison
as familiar to many thousands of them as the walls of
their own, or their fathers houses ?—Why has she confined
them in loathsome goals and prison-ships in each of her
American ports, and thereby destroyed the lives of many
thousands of them ?— The reason is plain. She knows
that seamen are the nerves of a navy, and that no natural
advantages from cur climate and foil will ever make us an
independent or happy people without one.
An Englishman upon all national fubjeds is a fool, ex
cept upon the fubjeft of a navy. “ The wooden walls of
Britain," is the second toast at every foxhunter's table in
England. A colonel in-the British guards, who was taken
at York-Town, in an unrestrained conversation with an
American gentleman, and a brother officer in the last war,
at Bristol in this state, said, that “ the x 7 th of October 1777,
and the 19th of October 1781, were trifling days to Bri
tain, compared with the— of June 1778, when the British
flag under Admiral Keppel was disgraced by Count d'Or
villiers. We do not value armies (said he). Our depen
dence is upon our navy. Admiral.Keppel has given it a
blow, from which it will with difficulty recover. He has
taught the French to face us ship to ship, and man to man.
Your independence, I fear, will be established; but re
member, it must be acquired for you on the ocean." I
Speech of this liberal and enlightened officer
could be read every morning in the Congress, after the
journal of the day.
Ihe British nation is a huge mob. They are led by
their ears. A hue and cry will bring them to believe and
to do any thing. Through every stage of the American
war they have been doped by different words. They were
dragged into the war, by holding out to them relief from
taxation ly throwing part of the burdens of government
FROM the insular Situation of Great-Britain, from the
extent of her foreign territory, and above all from the
commerce and resources of her American dominions, the
necessarily became a great naval power. Before the difco
covery and settlement of the American colonies, all the
states of Europe were nearly upon a footing in point of
naval force. The ascendancy which Britain has acquired
on the ocean, has been in exaft proportion to the greater
commerce and populousness of her American colonies.
However unwilling Britain may be to acknowledge it, her
ablest statesmen have confeffed, that “ the commerce of
" America" is damped upon every beam and fail of her
immense and powerful navy.'
Let no one be furprized therefore that she Supports a
naval war with so much equality against the combined
navies of France, Spain and Holland, and the United
States. —This circumstance, if viewed and improved pro
perly, may suggest two considerations of the utmost im
portance, as matters of triumph and consolation to the
Americans.
Ift. If the resource of America alone gave Britain her pre
sent naval advantages, what will not America be capable
ofcdoing for herfelf, when the opens her eyes to behold her
native Length on the water ? And
For the PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE.
To the Rulers and People of AMERICA.
VOL. XI.I Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Six-Pence.
®WfftfIV)lmftitt lY^rc ft IKOI
SATURDAY,
ENERAL ADVERTISER.
Hear their panegyricky upon tha' king whom they have
so often indirectly and justly execrated. Read their
speeches upon American independence. The United States
had far less to fear from the satiated fury and gratified a
varice of Lord North and his junto, than from the hungry
poverty and unmortifid pride of the present ministry.
I here never existed, in my opinion, in any country a more
formidable combin tion agai»ft the liberties of mankind
Kt is composed of the highest degrees of the integrity and
ignorance—of the abilit es and villainy, and of the wealth
and prodigality of the whole British nation.
Fhe man who expects peace in less than seven years
(without a miracle) looks for an event as contrary to the
fixed principles of nature, as for a stone to afeend against
the laws of gravity. The price of a deception with refpe&
to America is generahy two or three campaigns. The
present ministry have adopted two opinions as fade as those
opinions of their predecessors; that we would not fight,
that France and Spain would not assist us, left they Should
encourage a revolt in their own colonies; and that our
cause would perish with the annihilation of our paper mo
ney. The new ministry foolishly suppose, iff. That we are
loosely attached to out independence; and zdly. That we
are not sincere in our profeflions of regard and affection to
the French alliance. These mistakes will probably cost
Britain another army, two or three more islands, and fifty
millions of pounds. Englishmen have out one sense, that
is the sense of feeling. Nothing but misfortunes can make
them wife.—But the war we are told for the future is to
assume a new complexion. It is not only th be carried on
by sea, but it is to be a war of benevolence and protest
antism. It is intended only to reclaim us from the horrors
of republicsnifm and popery.
The author of this essay has already laid his thoughts be
fore the pebbe upon the Subject of an American navy, in
several (host pieces published within these few weeks in the
Pennsylvania Jouinpl, under the signature of Retaliation.
He has written much and often in favour of the liberties,
the independence and alliance of his country —but he de
clares that he never was more deeply penetrated with a
sense of the importance < f either of them, than he now is
with a sense of the necessity and importance of a navy to
the United States.
upon America.—" Substantial revenue" was the next pa
role. “ Commissioners with full powers, &c." deceived the
nat i on in the year 1778. The ministry in the mean while
filled their pockets and provided for their friends. The
minority in both houses of Parliament after a seven years
apprenticefllip learned the art of the ministry. They a
dopted words that were accommodated to the wishes of the
nation. “ Peace with America" gulled the people, and
unlocked the doors of administration. They have now the
treasures of the nation at their disposal. A war they know
is neceflary to keep the ti eafury full enough to gratify their
avarice and ambition.
A brave and sensible American colonel, in leading his re
giment on to the Second battle at Trenton, aiked his tre ops,
when he came within 'fight of the enemy, “ icbo they
were ?"—they answered 6 Heflians, fir."— He asked them
" ^bat they were?" —they answered “ men, fir." —"And
what are you my lads?" (said the colonel) why men,
fir." —“ Then (said the colonel) let not one man oe afraid
of another" in like manner let us enquire what is the
composition of that most formidable British navy that has
spread deft lation and tyranny over the world ? It consists
of nothing but oak and pine, kept together by hemp and
iron. And what do we fee on yonder shore ? Why forefts
abounding with oaks and pines—mountains abounding
with iron ore—and a foil capable of producing all the raw
materials of fails and ropes. Then let not the oaks, and
pines, and iron of America, be afraid of the oaks, and
pines, and iron of Britain. LEONIDAS.
On TUESDAY next, the oth instant, at N INE
o'clock in the Morning,
Will be Sold at Public Vendue,
At the City VENDUE-STORE, the following Articles:
A TABLE Set of Nankeen China, a Tea table dit.
to, common China, Decanter,, and a V riety of
Gla/s and Queens Ware, Looking Glaffey, a Tea-Urn,
Salvers, Brafe Plate-Waim- rs, Andirons, Fenders,
C^ndlefticks, elegant Prins, Brackets, a Cooler, a SUb,
Mohogany and Walnut Tables, Chairs, Bureaus, &c.
Mohog^ny and Poplar Bedft-aJi, Beds, Counterpanes,
Rugs, Blankets, Bed and Window Curtains, ..Table
Linen, a Settee, an Fafy-Ch^ir, Carpets, Kitchen
Furniture, &c. &c. with a Variety of valuable and ufe
ful Articles not particularifed here.
July 4. JOHN BAYARD, Audience,.
Tanners Oil to be Sold,
B, RICHARD WELLS, in Arch street, above Sixth-
Au&ion of Furniture.
O R, THE
THE
An elegant CASE of
Mathematical InJlrume^ts,
To be Sold by Public Audion,
At the Coffee-Houle, on S ATU RDAY. the Sixth
Div 0 July n^xt, at Six o'Clock in the Evening,
THAT elegant and pliant plar^. formerly owned
by Mr JY n Route, situate in Paffyunk township,
near the Butcher's Arms, being within one mile o' the
South-street of the city," and lying on both fide# of the
read commonly called Roufe's lane, containing in the
whole about 33 acres, 17 acres of which are on he
easterly fide of said lane, having a barn, stables and bar
rack erca^d thereon, and about fix acres whereof is
orchard, chiefly good winter fruit. The remaining 16
acres are on the westerly fide of the said lane, with an
e'egant forne dwelling, house ere&ed thereon 32 feet by
30, wdl finifhed, being two Tories high, with feur
roonhs on the firft and second floors, besides two vood
garrets, with a passage through. The whole lined 'with
a four inch brick wall, and having a good cellar under
the whole, divided into three parts.' A kitchen and
piazza adjoining the fame, with a bake-house and oven,
&c. Near the kitchen door is a well of good water with
a good pump in it. The whole in good order. It will
be fold fepaiately. Any person who may he inclined
to purchase the Premises, or a part thereof, at private
file, before the said forth dav of July next, msy he in
formed of the term*, on application to Afheton Humph
reys, Elijah Brown, or the fuhfc iher on the eremites.
June 22. RENJ. HEMINGS.
fr HE Partnership of SFEWART and
TO f TEN, having expired the ad instant, til
those who have anv demands against t^em, are requeft
cd to cnll on the fubferibers f or payment ; who a-e du
ly authorised to fettle the affairs o f the late Company ;
and all those indebted to them, are likewise requeued
to discharge the fame as Soon as possible
JAMES and ALEXANDER STEWART.
Phlad. July 3, $782.
By His Excellency WILLIAM MOORE, Esquire,
President, and the Supreme Executive Council of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the southern post was robbed of his
mail, on Sunday the sixteenth day of this pre
sent month, within five miles of Harford, in the date
of Maryland, and the united states in congress assem
bled, by their aft of the nineteenth day of the fame
month, Resolved, That the executives of the states of
New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland,
be requeued to pursue the most likely measures by
offering public rewards, at the expence of the united
Bates, and otherwise for the recovering the mail and
bringing the robbers to due punishment. Wherefore,
from a due regard to the said request, as well as from
a strong sense of the justice and propriety thereof. We do
hereby accordingly offer a public reward of Two Hun
dred Dollars, to any person or perfohs who shall fe
cure the said mail, and deliver the fame to any justice
of the peace of this state, within sixty days from the*
day of the date hereof; and also the further reward of
One Hundred Dollars for each and every person who
shall be apprehended and conviHed of the'faid robbery,
to be paid to iuch person or persons who shall appre
hend such robber or robbers, and secure him or them,
in any gaol within this state. And we do hereby ftrid
ly charge and require all judges, juflices, fheriffs, con
stables and other peace officers of the state, that they
make diligent search for the said . mail, and on finding
the fame to give due notice thereof to us : and we do
hereby charge and require them, and every of them,
to make diligent search for and apprehend and Pcure
all and every perfor. and persons concerned in the said
robbery, so that the said robbers may be brought to
condign punishment for the fame. And wedo hereby
offir free pardon to any person concerned in the said
robbery who shall surrender himfelf, and give infor
mation ofhis accomplices therein, so that they or either
of hem shall be apprehended and convided of the said
robbery.,
Given in council, under thehatid of his excellency
William Moore esquire, president, and the feat
of the state, at Philadelphia, this twentieth day
of June, Anno Domini, one thousand seven hun
dred and eighty-two.
WILLIAM MOORE, President.
Attest.
T. Matlack, Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH.
To be SOL Dby the PRINTER.
JULY & 1782,
[NUMB. 907.