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^d heed'd by Sydenham's temperas she ; bit
Sutton hat fairly svorle^ptd the medium ^ud adopted
theoppelite extreme. Ameenis btft in all cases, and
±3 I weald mot at all timss confine my patients either
to th* bed ar the Rufe on ths .ue h^ud, so nei^h^r
weald I, either before or in the foall-p^x, expefe
them to take cold by driving them cui&ffy, a* ma
ay do, int^e night, or in cold, damper wet weather ;'
for I have known numbers dsltoyed in this way. Bat
danger apart, this branch of & Suttewan regimen
has no fich Eighty charm to recommend it, since for
8 ton once in his life to take a little care of himfelf
far three or fear wegki it as great hardship.
Fourth, M^ay iaocaUtor# go to excefi in giving
preparatory madicino, particularly mercury, from
which I have frequently f##a v^ry ttGubiefeme and e
v#n pernicious &ff&. Mercury, it is wall hewn,
crusts a ditfaiaU^ &f th# blood, and hence (^t to
K&^&tien violent pljalifmt) I have k^owa an rxcellive
exhibition of it, ie a number of cases, produce [ete
ch :e ?r pArpks, aa enormous honors hags of the awft,
a djftaiery, &:. to the deft uttion of he patient, in
fhart, I am apt to believe, that accidents exempted, th#
friaft, if net all that die under inoculation, tall a fieri
fieri to this masking rather than to the difatft : Nay,
though I doubt ^et but many have the small-pox the
lighter fir it, yet 1 c^nx^t help thinking, rhe meft es
mankind, especially women, children, and men of de
licatc coAftitetie^s, w&nld du fall as nall or better
Without it ; fir, w^ile I f^ ^erly pra&ifed inoculati
ba, 1 grcdaally k^^d the quantity @f mercury in
futh patients without tty femkb!edfff&eace as to fnc
cf,; aid, had I continued that branch of befi^fi,
Shield douhdefi hrve defied the matter by experiment
and at length h^ve fort gm at ^U.
Fifth, From fuste hfarmati&t I have had, I fufpea
opiates ate mere fe&ly uf:d than is either necessary
or proper. Uider fame eitcumflances/ they are no
doubt ufifu! ; but the, r.fyia great caution in their
^ and mg d^ grca. tu c , if in no mwe important
A war, at tail in ch*ck% h^ bt^ftiael difeharges,
the f, Hbrity , f the belly being of great important
in the fe^B-p^x,>
&x^>, Med^ci^ex ind^d at priftAt are fca?ce, but,
that actm^ft^di^g, perhaps pu get after the final!
pox arc more Daringly xd^iniftred than the fmcity
sf the times nq^im, which e^paQ patients to boils,
^W, pufiatesaHd even abfe^s afterwards. I lhculd
rec^^nd early purging, aid have generally giv n,
rollon as the pusules &e@r begin to be dry in the
fo^head, half an euac^ or fix dram es Glauber's felts,
• Which has an excellent efi& in taking eff the fscen
dary fiver, if fech there be, and aferw'ards, cuce ia
two dayr, purges pafatly entreating in ftremgth, uv
rill the patieai has taker, according to his circam
fiances three, four ex fi^.
7h, Tke ma^ag mvtof she nicer on the arm is a
manner " importance. I: is cemmon, I fifth, te leave it
ft)fcab ever w'rei er a cunfidhreb 8 fiz<, or, whs* fan
^'^^ to 4pply c^bu &i;isr raj, g powders, &c. The
firft delays the cure, and the lift act saly does so, bat
gives ths psaent ^edlefs pain. I would recommend
Appropriated dteffiags in ill caGs, aid iu case of a fan
t,^r can, from experience, recommend a thick pled
'''^ ''' Hat, of the cx^a izeof the fungous a'cer,
preii,d ^SWE by a ranal piu^, inebfed in a linen
craptefs and bound on with a moderate!, tight ban
dage.
Periapt U»g*f th,fe cirsfims may be by f me
thought mflifg/but, I fluur myfelf, that these who
properly c^.tib matter, will j^dge that the most of
them aic^fcoafidereble importance to the ianoculat
©4, ^fpeciaU, to tb^ fieie-y, that ihg may b* fit fir
duty as f^a as p ffi jie^f^r gring though the dif.afe.
They &e fevibUd down in great hade for the good cf
the^ public, by a fi&e^e friend te, and a great fuffer
er in tb.^ A maric^a cause.
Hertford, June 28, 1777. B. Y. P.
Mn. WATSON,"
Zls &ixd cz%b to iwfirt th^f&Hraixg is,war Conrawt, and
jou wilt ebtyjiur's, Z.
Ts the Inhabitants #f NEW ENGLAND.
My dear Countrymen,
f^^ ^ * ^^ interefling period to the
g inhsbitfint, ef^A^erics. It becomes every
friend to Ue ha,,i^G &f hi» country to «xert himfelf
in the fyhery allotted him, to procure a fortunate if
fie t^ the prefint c^mp^ga. Gen#,al Hoffa is com
j^ocia^ the operations c,f tie foamer with an army,
&,; withfunding the dreams of fame, and the fiupi
dig &f o&ra, formidable ia numbers, equipments
and difetyine. Gen. W^ffii^gton will nn^cubtelly
take every wife and {pitted ^^f^ to oppefe him in
.his designs; but it has ever baam the fo^mae of this
great man to ad u^der many difadvant gas. The
m@tx^3? %f republics era c^^amonly flaw and tndeci
£va. Th^ta es the American Congress have been fa
from n^ffii, were th^e so other cauf?. For this
reason aur armies have c^r been feffifim), ftreng to
loak our enemies in the face. We begin to colled
the^ too late for the belt f^a, far that happy, criti
cal time, which whan once left rarely returns ; we fill
them with extrema torpidity; we leave it to preyi
drace to equip them by fipsrnatural end imm^diste
agency, t then weeder they me obliged te mreat
before an enemy, fepe i.v to them in kerabers, ferni
turn, difeip inp and experience.
Reafoa, nought, ws&id naturally fap^fe the er
rors nad misffflu<es es one trial would irfi -ence us to
P,P^e fir another ; but the prefect fitorion of 9ur
is a dxfigreable proof,that men may be ia^ft.
ad ,Q obtaining knowledge, and that knowledge
4hd to:&m arc acquifitioet totally different The
^anmitify we experienced by ths dt^ds ^d^
on the biliria the lag c^mps^p, pfo&ced m ^tber
fahefolutiun to try the ranked no KGre. The onl,
pefibie aim es the public was then to r&ife and fukaiffi
a Landing regular &trcy.
We had f uad ir less nfy to compleat a fufficient
force, the faeshd cpmpai,*, (han the fi ft, end ceuld
not but <xp#a th#fe c^fficirhiCT to enctaafe when we
"."'. F^P'"^ f' r the thid. Bu^ though, we wore
difpiiit&d by the retreat es Gan^r^l Wilhingtcn thro'
N^Je fc)°,anstentr&?er&l, a^d esfilyfoiwfeen by a
fl ght attek.itn te the tauhoti iv. which. .ard the time
£.r which we r&ifed cur arm, the bft campaign, yeg
nm, ptrfeMi imagined oar providential fucc ffes &t
T rsntwn and Princeton were yearly thcifive, and that
little need be done bifida stjoying thr fruits of vian
ry: And those who were left fsn^u::*, felt as if the
,vil were remote, and therefore to be little regarded.
Hence and firm feme other feu ces, which mail be
nmelef# at prefint, proceeded an ariverfal liftlsfncfs
and diftga d to car pwbre and rceft important inter
'"':. "' cfficers on the recruiting firvice nidified
faldiers at aff^bies and balls, and the inhabitants
were busily employed in recruiting the children aid
savants of theii neighbours, and forbidding their own
to engage. Thus f/& were enliibd at a fsafen^ble
period, and General Wsffiikgten was as usual anfep
ported, and deprived es am opportunity of fr'zi^g
t^ofe advantages which providence had prsfs^ted him.
Unaccountably stupid as this cenduft r, it ftili in
a cer.fiJerabit degree continues ; and ev^ry ptfea
will soon, according to ceffons, weeder that our array
does not make vigenrou, mave^^nts and proceed with
spirit and d,csfion to a cenclution cf the war. It is
an undoubted truth that our affairs never were fa pref
pereus an appearance as they kw for ; but it is a
truth equally undoubted that we s. # e Bill t eo weak, to
have rational grounds of expe&ing foul ficcefs,
without such interventions cf the Most High, as can
ba heperffir bv nothing teftllj and i%i„. But
countrymen shell thii always be oar csud«a ? Shall
we never open our eye f ? When we have been difap
peinted a ?h% r^d im s by weewfaer acc^ts •, &ur
•wrflrngfh ESaimimutro, s*„ ts & firragtb of luriutmm,
Iha.! we nevsr ^ara thit cLfb/iel is as really apoliti
cal virtue a? faith is a duty of religion ? Shall we ne
ver slk ou ftivec, whether we era able, with ten theu
faad, to meet rira that corn th egaiaft us with twenty
thoufaad ? We frsq^tly hear that the feuthern
battalions are almost, 0- wholly cempleated. This is
a falfe account, ana jaft like what they are told of
ear's. We believe it indeed becaafe it is what we
w sh, and we hope it, when, without prejudice, we
ih mid know it to be falfe.
An army is frequently greater than is fappofed
its enemies, ra rely fa great as is believed by its
friends, and never fa greet as is intended by those
who are eatu^ed with military arrangements. Thus
all are deceived and difrppeiated.
, Let 3$ my couatrymen endeavour onct to do our
duty, aad net depend on eth% If e % r a man de
served fapport Ga. WASHINGTON dfoes it ;
and & ^ r was &A m^ 4^ feyp^wd. I„ 0^
quota there are many deficiencies, many ei^ht months
^n, and many by roans of death a,d defartion, who
wm once enlidsd, that cannot be f n%d. Thsfg
things my countrymen ought net to be fc.
I have told you a ft# plain truths, and. as & cler
gy fay, not left ufefal thon plain. Hi that b&b
ears to bear, lit bin bur.
APPENDIX t, the R<,;rt if tbi Cremta" of Cugrtfi,
a,Minted re txamto @tb £ cc^a tftbt u@, mtaie'-
% p%fi and ititfratQ (Cutinuid frra rar )
TAMES STUART, of Esft Calm, is Chefttr county,
J Pennfpvania, a private folder in Cr.pt. M'Lnres
erapany of the F.yiag Camp, on hja feUmn cath doth
de,cfs and fay,
That from Saturday morning, the fatal day they
were taken prifone;?, &hey received fem the enemy
no prorifun, to hie knowledge, Lill Wednesday fol
lowing; that as this depenant was allowed to attend
hie vßptnn, he and his Captain and the other officers,
and their ^tu.dew, uer all Sowed inte Mr. Mafonl
ch^tch, that for feed, fuel and ether necessaries, the
offices were as ill served as the private folders as
mentioned in Themis Boyd's evidence ; that if they
had hard money they might live, as they were allowed
to walk the city ; it not, they might Starve with the
rest. That as this d^oraet was a taylar, he earned
forking to fuppjrt himfelf and his Captain with,
or otherewife they might both starve to death, as the;
had no ha d money-.-That the inhabitants of the city
were implacably cruel and hard hearted to fthe prife
ners-— That their bmd was m&ft extreme ordinary
and apparently prifoious.-That at one time in parti
cular they were obliged to throw it away, as this depo
nent is persuaded, with fivers! others, that it was pol
luted with humin dung --That the tick were a fed with
great barbarity ; fme while,at the life was is them,
would be thrown with the dead on the cart, and with
them thrown into the pit, one inft^ce es ^ich this
depone; ent era his eath declares te be fed, the fi±
man reviving after being thrown with the' dead in
the pit, and with help got out, and was alive, and
recover, when this deponent left
New- York-Thai on the news .f Howe's forces be
iag worked at Tauten aid Princeton reached New-
Y&k Q prifenm were ©fed with fora* lenity. 1
v James STUART.
The above affidavit J%mss Stuart, was taken (ex
effiri;) this 27th 4a, efF brusry, 1777, me
JOHN CARMICHAEL, v. D. 'm.
Sa "" elYoun g bring ftlfo, fa„ „,„, tb , „,„„„
lifting up th rigbt tad^ ism
regattf @f § Q,
9&at bi <v^ taLftpifc.tr st F&rt H^firpez 1) &
E&glif arwj, on betur% tbt i&b cj N&mfar ; det &
<w&j tarried a)ra nilujrra ih ^litp^uun tl&t nigh,
and fop inject @ foju till Minify, rab/n th, <ra , to
Nm York, ard tbire <u#rf urfatd (4, aid ^im to tb#
nmhr rs aboutjfo h n dnd) ^ a,abh, fodet ell tbit
fabile t@6, bad ft© %i&Kalj grvtu ibm es 0%, kind till ,b©
Meuda, night, qabirb At mm, Anzu ir^ A&fch h#
mfajed faauaer, as if tap wau, bp, a qu^ig flf.
tuit, brekt* and in cr*»r, as, ratify, &*« free y lira
crawling quitb Baggett, ^ch th, wre ebliydte fa^_
Wfir ^itb^ut an, ailifa ; &t th %<at da, tb, bad 4
lime pork giitmtnacb es tb<m, ^bicb tb, ^mc elided to
eat raw ; that after water th, get Jraaimn a lit cf p,f
and at other times bifeuit, fecat azc rice, beirg cerfatd &.
brat two weeks in ackuribi* Nmlrik ; sh^t cfmweeds
tbq ^CTearriu,# hardefhf, ^k^c dhu f& e bun
dril tfiber* were ce+futd tehv deck; ;bat curing their
cuj&mut tb,ffired greatly with cold. fro f be^g #lfyd
foe ; that tie, were ait dug treated with the greattf in.
foi,, and irfated b, feldrirs, b, th inhabitdiets cfNew-
York, b, numbers efwe^m, and rum b, Negron ; t fy
great numbers died in this ufomw, /fotos three,
fmetimesfeur, or mere met, it a de,, and ct, fy mill
died ; and that tb, tkmfel<un are in a frail,ate<f health,
ecccJ^&d by this barbarous *fcge ; feted mar, of tofe who
were relufcd died fr th rfo, befae th, reamdfo.
Sworn before as, Dumber /§, 1776
SAMUEL re UNG,
WILLIAM HOUSTON.
ROBERT SMITH, JAMES PftOUDFORi, „*,,„,.
James Sha^nar in all thingsfos the fame, exc,t c j
t* Lis ,rfotfate if health, which is new ped, A % 6
fermerl, ver, ,oorl,, and declares be cannot write.
William Houston, bring faerz in thefeme ma*,
tier, depefab in even thing tbefas as Samuel hung a.
hwe. William Hue,ex, aid focus Zbau^r, clffimi
in the fame manner, fa, the fame &r.'
John Caryl, on of the printers taken at F,rt Wffc
%en, b.ing felfo, ftfid, agreetb in fiffo,wuh
Writ:am H»oh, Samuel Yeung, fa Junes S^auar,
audfarther depefetb,
That be, with about jive hundred etherprifeters, stNew-
York, were putiute enejbi,, where the, were evfwd be
lew deckfor,me weeks witbeutfre. ws.b.ut an, kind of
fuffimut deatbing and fad, or Lbert, t. take the air.
That ex Chrifoas day, aud rose, third day afterwards,
during their corfamrat, the, were fe,v,d with a ms, es
ver, bitter lurgra made of oatmeal ; e< d that thy wire
if generalfrized witbfkuf immediately afar the, fypf
it, of 'which, in about eight days, and every day jrem that
time u^iltbe, were relefa, mas, died. One rnersfr in
particular, he renumbers ten were fond dead. The dtp
next farther addeth that when tbs, were fa at liberty
two hundred of them were put into cm falEp, where to,
remained mere than twenty for bars expend to the a/f,
and wither a drop es frsfo water, which greatly
tbeer sickness, and bafaed the death cf kcaraj.
Swern before me, February 17, 1777.
ROBERT SMITH, fa. bis
JOHN \ CaRYL.
mark.
Atrue account of the time and place which L, .Phi%
Jeno, be^fog te Cri. Hand's regiment, i. Caps. GrQ
cent,any, was t & keu by the enemy, which was , ff December
8, 1776, between Btunfwick fotbe Six Mds Run. Be
ing unable te keep up with she army, 1 rerirea ;o 0 b^fi
j@me afoccfte th read, fy j, the intelligence if fAn
Manly, tbs Cetol es the light kerfsfa«d fah, , M g s
eerier, when tiding ex the far &, M j„ fy, feted
where that damned rebelfaef a heb was, eu which th
ewner es the hufefrid there was a franger hire, be k?@
net wbe be was. Th Cefol then difharged its pifj,
leaded with twe buck fat, into my thigh, and then ^J
manded me temeunt aberfe which be bad with bim, ard
bring net abtete meunt br^f befreed we ever the bead
wrtbafwerd, I defad, cemplfoly, slat 1 Q have
my bat, en which the Cefofruck me te th foe on th leg
with bis fwerd, then we rode te bead quarters, whs-e I
was laid en a leekf lay. Bring examined by th, Crinal
what we did te the Iri/bmtn that made them rebel, I an
j^er.d 1 knew no rtafa excepting tbs, lived better here
than at beme, n,en which he,rack *, wish bis ford
gain en the Lg te tbp bene, ^ which I lay frra MQ, f 0
Saturday without bring dressed, by which I.„ Uriy J,
ever a cripple. When brought to tbs xrin guard, &/ b,_
% afraid Ifold be a„rebended, a. I ,„ c e Lle*^ /, &
Ferttetb regiment and darted Ifairs I wend not lift
arms again, bi, Mrj,y, enwbich 1 get a reteafi, a^aths
r ' t , i :' d ™° tl ” c9u *^ 'where I lay under the a^to % fad
till theffth es March, 1777•
PHILIP JONES.
N. B They alfe took nine dollar, from me.
Severn te before me, at Princeton, the fab March
1777. ISRAEL PUTNAM, M. G.'
Aarfrd A BUR, A D. C.
' r~O~~B~E O'L D?'
^ House two Stories hi,h. well ,hz'd, fixate
about half smile weflef the To^n Hus; in Mid
dletown, owned by Wii^il; P^AL of that place, to
gether with one acre and thirty r%d% ef^ood Ja^d, m&h
a good well aid fi^ orchard on he fame. For' pa
ricttlars enquire of Mr. Joseph Bacon, of Midl^
tsws, Ju^e 26, 1777.
0 PRAYED or fidoa frem the foaitab^Td/L. A „,/
field, the ißih day es May 1777, ^ dark black
roan Mare, 4 years eld, trots c^fi,, had on a peak,
partof her mane cut off on the near £J©,
hands high. Whosver will t^h up said mate re
turn her ta the fubferiber at Suffield, @ r to G&m
Rrik at Muzray&ld, shall have a handsome reared
and all uzeeffa y charges paid, by
J«K© 2^, 1777+ Nathan Whits,