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THE TREASURER cf the State of Connafticut
' hereby notifies all Coriftables, and Collectors e
the Taxes due to this State, that he expels they re
pectively pay cfftheir Arrearages ; otherwise he .n^l
be obliged to iffise out his Warrants indiicrimi^a&y,
against those who are delinquent. P^fons indebted
by bond, are desired to dil *rge their Obligations.
The refpeaive Sheriffs are directed to mUo Returns of
the Executions committed to them. The prefect call
for Money is so great, that aotwithdaf iag ^e
Tax^ which are granted are not payable May
R m ; yet the Treafarer earned, defies every Friend
to this State to exert himfe'f, and readily discharge
(aid Rates, that ha may be able to fatisfy the gener
ous Soldiers who have be%n in Defence of their Coun
try, and likewifa pay oft the Battalions now jailing
fertha fame noble Purpose. Money is the Sinews of
War -and to have a full Supply at this Jus^re. is
of the left Importance. Without Mo^ey it is imp^ffi
ble for us to raise anew Army, the *bfcrute N^ffity
of which malt be known to all. It is hoped that e
vary one will so ganer^fl, pay his Rites, a^d the
Constables so speedily colled and fettle mem, hit for
the Future not a single O der may be refund at this
Office Treasury Office, January 27, 1777;
""""The American CRISIS [No. 11.]
(concluded from our left.)
To Lord HOW E.
IN some later paper I intend to diftingnifh between the
dd6 eat kind of perrons who Rave been den mi
nated Tories ; for this I am clear in, that all are not so
who have been called so, nor all men Whigs who were
once thought so ; and as I me^n not to conceal the
name of any true friend when there fhtll be occa
sion to motion him, neither will 1 that of an enemy
who ought to be known, let his rank, station or reli
gion be what it my. Much pains have been takan
by fame to fit your Lordfhipl private charselrin an
amiable light, but as it has chiefly been done Iy men
who know nothing about you, and who are no ways re
m^kab!e for th#ir attachment to us, we have nojuft
authority for believing it. George the Third was
imposed upon us by the fame arts, but TIME, at
length, has d^tre him j afticr, and the fame late may
probably attend your Lordship. Your avowed pur
pose hare, is to kill, cerquar, prices parden & en
slave; and tho<ava%es efyeur army through the Jer
lies have been mik^d with ah much barbarism as if
you had openly proftffsd yourfelf the prince of of
fians ; not even the appearace of himinify hb been
preferred either on the march or the retreat of ycur
troops ; no general order, that I could ever learn, has
ever been iffaed to prevent or even to forbid y;ur
troops from robbery wherever they came, and the m
ly inftmee tfjuflice, if it can be called such, which
has diftinguilhid you for impartiality, is, that you
traat^d aad plundered all alike; what ccu|d not be
Carried away have been destroyed, and mohog^y fur
nitura have been deliberately laid on the fi e for furi,
rather than the men mould be fatigued wi^h cutting
woodt There wis a time whin the Whigs conficel
much in your fappofed candour, and ths Tories rafted
thtmLlves on your favour; the experiments h^ve now
been made, and failed ; and every town, nay every
cottage, in the Jerfies, where your arms have been, is
a testimony against you. How you may rest under
this facrifice of charader I know not, but this I know,
that you Are? and rife with the drily curses of thou
sands upon you; perhaps the misery which the Tories
have fufired by your prcffsred/msrcy may give them
fame claim to their country's pity, sad be in the end
the bift favour you could Ihbw tyem.
In a folio general order book belonging to Colonel
Rhol'r battalion, t^kes atTrentown, and now in the
pofftffi n cf the Council of Safety for ,is State, ihe
following barbarous order is frequently repeated,
'' His Excellency too Commander in Chief orders,
° that till inhabitants which fall be found in arms, not
" having an officer with them, fall be immediate, taken
*' awd bust, u,?' How Fray , ru m RW thus have pri
f Ac Jerne people may doubt the truth effueb wanton de
fbuaien, Ithink it neefrry to ifrm, that one of the peo
ple called Quakers, who lives at Trenton, gave mt this in
formation at the house of Mr. Michael Hatch,Jon (one of
the fame profffon) who livL near to Trenton ferry, on th
Pe^fjlvaxia fide ; Mr. Hutching* H^ frr. fr +
MOND AT, Rfrua„ 16, 17^
CONNECTICUT,
AND
WEEKLY ;
Containing th# Frclhtft ADVICES,
Prated and published by EBENEZER WATSON, near the GREAT BRIDGE.
vate'y facrificed we know not, and the account can
only be fettled in another world. Your treatment of
prifo^ers, in order to dist cfs tram to uplift into ycur
ihTernal service, is not to be cq^ahed by any instance
in Europe. Yet this is the humane Lord Howe and
his brother, whom the Tories and heir three quarter
kindred the Qjtkers, or feme cf them at least, have
been holding up for patterns ofjuftice and mercy !
A b^d cause will ever be fuppo tfd by bad mtans
and bad mro, and whoever will b^ at the patya of ex
amining Bristly into hings, wiil find thatome and the
fame fyirit cf oppreffian and impiety, nitre or less,
governs through your whole party in both countries :
No: many d#ys ego I accidentally fell in company with
a perfr n of ihis city, noted for espousing ycur cause,
and < A y remaiking to him, “ that it appeared clear
" to me, by the l^te providential tu n cf affairs, that
" God Almighty was yifibly or our fide," he re^li
ed, " We cart nothing for that, ycu may have HIM,
" and welcome ; if we have but enough cf the devil
" on ou' fide we Ihdl do." However carel^fsly thi^
might be fp ken matters not, Lis fli'l the iufcrfible
principle that dirndls all your c^dua, atd will at
left most .ffaredly deceive and ruin ycu.
If evera nation was r^ad and fo^lifh, blind to its
own interest ana bent cn its OH 7 Id^frudion, it is
B itain. There are such things ^ national fins, and
though the punishment ofiadiv ^uab may be reserv
ed to another world, national pu' Ibn^nt can only be
iriTftdin A^s t,t : T " i^'r ~^ ^I -, ifinmy
inmost belief the greatest me nr 11 ungrateful c ff nd^r
agairft God on the free < f the uh de earth : B efi'd
with all the commerce foe could vilh for, and fw
nifhed by ^ vast exienfi.n efd mei nwi h the m*ans
of civilizing b th the eastern and ^eftarn world, She
has made no,.th:r use of both than proudly to idolize
n*r own " Thu de r ," and rip up the b wehcf whole
countries for what fhecould get ;- like Abxundrfhe
has made war her f^'t, and ^fliftrd misery for pro
digality f ke. Th bnudof India is not yet repaid,
nor the wietchednif f Africa yet required. Oflate
she has enla gad her Ift of h^ti nal cruelties by her
butcherly deftruaion of fr he Cuibbs cf St. Vincents,
and in returning an a f e by the f^ord to the meek
prayer fcr " Peace, Liberty and Safety." Theft are
ft ions things ; and whatever ? fooliih tyrant, a de
b^uchdd court, a trafficing legislature or a blinded
people ma? hink, the national account with Hetven
must i^rae d&y or other be f:ttleu : All countries
have footer or later been called to their reckoning ;
the proudest empires have funk when the balance wa^
struck ; and Britain, like aa individual penitent, must
undergo he - day of forrn^, and the fanner it happens
to her thr better. As I wish it over, I wish it to cotae,
but withal wish thai it may ba as light as possible.
Perhaps ycur Lordffiip has *9 taste fir furious
things ; by your connexions in England I sh ould fap
pofe not : Therefore I shall drop this part of the fub
js&, and take it up in a line in which you will bet
ter underhand me.
By what means, may I aflt, do you expeft to con
quer America ? If you could not effha it in the sum
mer when cur army was less than yours, nc^ in the
winter when we had none, how are you to do it ? In
point of generalship you have been outwitted, and in
point of fortitude outdone; your advantages turn out
to your loss, and show us that it is in our power to
ruin ou by gifts : Like a g»me of drafts we can moye
out cf one fqaare ri let you com in, in order that we
may afterwards take two or three for one ; and as
we can always keep a double corner for ourselves, we
can always prevent a total defeat. You cannot be
so infenfibi# as not to fee that we have two to one the
advantage of you, bscaufe we conquer by a drawn
game and you loft by it. Burgoyne might have taught
your Lordship this knowledge ; he has been long a
ftudeut in the do& i^c of chances.
I have noother idea cf conquering countries than
by subduing the armies which defend them. Have
yon done this or can you do this ? If you have net,
it would be civil in you to let your proclamations a
lone for the picfeat; otherwise, you will ruin mor#
Tories by ycur grace and favour than you will Whig#
by roar arms.
Were you to obtain possession of this city, you
would not know what to do with it more than to plum-
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INTELLIGENCE.
York, would be an additional deed weight upon
your hands ; and if a general conquest is your offal
ycu had better be without the city than with iu
When you have defeated all cur at mies,the cities will
f^ll into your hands of th&mfeiv^s ; but to creep into
them in the manner you got into Princetown, Tren
ton, &c. is like robbing an orchard in the night be
fore th, fruit bt ripe, and running away in the morn,
ing. Ycur experiment in the Jerfies is fufficient to
t«ach you that ycu have something more to do than
basely to get into other people's houses ; and ycuK
new converts, to whom you piemifed all manner cf
proteaion, and seduced into new guilt by pardoning
them from their former virtues, must begin to have a
very contemptible opinion both of your power and
your policy. Ycur authority in the Jerfies is now re^
duced to the fmali circle which your array occupies,
and your proclamation is,no wheie else feea unless it
be to be laughed at. The mighty fubduers cf th^
Coatiuent are retreated irtd anuilhell, and the proud
forgiyers of our fins are fl^d from those they came to
pardon ; and all this at a time when they were dis
patching veff#l after vxffd to England wiih the g t eal
news of every day. In short, you have managed your
jersey expedition so very dextercufiy that the dead
only are conquerors, because none will dilute the
ground wiih them.
In all the wars you have formerly bren cenctrned
in, you had only armies to contend with ; in this r fe
you h*te both an array and a country t^ camber with.
In firmer wars, the c^ustri's followed th, fate cf
their capitals; Canada fell with Quebec, & Minor
ca withPortMahen or St. Philips; by subduing thole,
the co> quero;s opened a way imto. and became mas,
terser the country : lere it is otherwise ;if you geg
peffiffien of a city here, you are obliged to ffiut ycur
hlr«s up in it, and can mike po other use cf,it, thati
10 spend ycur country's money in. This is all the,
advantage ycu have drawn from New-Yerk; and ycu
would draw less from Philadelphia, because it in
quire, more force to keep it, and is much farther front
the sea. A pretty figure you and the Tories would
cut in this city, with a river full of ice, and a town
full of fire ; for the immsdi&e consequence cf ycur
getting here wonlr be, that you would be cannonaded
out again and the Tories be obliged to make good
the damage ; and this, focner or later, will be th^
fateef New Ycik.
I wish to fee the city saved, not so #ruch from ini-,
litary as natural motives. 'Tis the hiding-place of
women and children, and Lord Howe's proper bufi
^cfs is with cur armies. When I put all the circum
fauces together which ought to betaken, I laugh at
your notion cf conquering America. Because you
lived in a little country where an a, my might run e
ver the whole ia a ftw days, aad wher* a fiagle com
pany rffulci^s might put a multitude to the route,
you exps&d to find it the Lme here. It is plain
thst you brought over wi h yub all the narrow Loti
ons ycu were brought up with, and imagined that $
proclamation in the Xing's B^n^. was to do peat
things; but Englishmen always travel for hn&w r
ledoe, and ycur Lordship, I hope, will return, if
yen re^u^ at all, much wifrrthaa you cime.
We may be surprised by (veins we did not expe&.
and in that imerval ofrecolkaion you may g&ii food
temporary ridvaatage : Such w^s the cast & few week#
ago, but we toon ripen again into rcafoa, collsd cur
ffrangih, and whire you ate preparing for orivn/oh
we came upon you with a defeat. Such st his b vn,
and such it wou'd be were you to try it an huaJ^i
times over. Wire you to garrison rhe plac.3 yv^.
might march over, in order to facure their fulfo&ion,
(for remember ycu can do it by &o other a^^ ) your
army would be like a Arcam of ^tier fuAiin^ 10 no
thing. By the time ycu reached from N>w York to
Virginia yen would be reduced to a firing cf drops
not capable of hanging together; while we, by re
trearing from State to State, like a river tur^iny/back
upon itfelf, would acquire Length in the 1^ pro.
portion as you left it, and in the end be c&p^biu of
overwhelming ycu. The country irtth& m^u timw
would fuffer, but 'tis a day of fufferiog a^d we < ught
to expert it. What we cenfond for is worthy the as-
Action tre go through. If weget but bread to cet, and
any kiad of rayment to put 6a, we otzrhrfc + -'--
Both FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.