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FIS H-K I L L, June 27.
There' perhaps never was a greater insult offered to
any body of men, than the measures now pursuing by
the ministry of Britain, with regard to the people of
North-America. Their tools, their minions, their
runners in town and secret messengers into the country,
are industriously giving out, that we are now offered
peace and independence upon the most advantageous
-terms, while nothing is less within their intentions.
What have the parliament done? They have passed an
aft, which after acknowledging that peace, with Ameri
ca is absolutely necessary to the happiness and profpe
xity of Great-Britain, " impowers their king to treat
^ c with the colonies of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts
" Bay, Rhode-lfland, Connecticut, New-York, New
« Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virgi
«' nia, North and South-Carolina, and Georgia, or
either of them, of peace, and to repeal or suspend
" such ads as are now in being, that are obnoxious to
*' the wellfare and happiness of laid colonies." And
what is this more than they did fix ygars ago ? By
the a& in 1776, impowering the king to appoint com
zniffioners to treat with, and grant pardons to such as
would lay down their arms, we might then have had
peace on the fame terms,'if we would have asked par
don and submitted to their rnerc'y ; what does this pre
sent aft do more? Does it offer any new security or
guarantee that they will not next year pass laws more
obnoxious and oppreflive to the colonies than ever they
did before? Havethey offered any (ecurity or gwaran-
The 17th inflant is the great day when the parlia
ment of Ireland is to determine, whether they will listen
to the wishes of the volunteer corps, by palling an aft,
Declaring the rights of Ireland. The partizans of this
declaration, have taken every flep to remove all ob
jeaions. As such a law might revjve the claims to the
immenfeelates formerly confifeated, which, according
to Mr. Pitt's estimation, amounted to 2,008 000 acres,
and which are enjoyed under English a&. s ,care is taken to
propose a bill to give to these ads, the force of laws of
the king, lords and commons of Ireland. The,volun
teers of the town of Gallway, have expelled Mr^ Rich
ard Martin, their colonel, from their body, for his
condua in parliament on one of their popular quefli
ons, having afted, according to their judgment, as a
decided friend of the ministry, and an enemy ofihe
cause in which the whole volunteer army are engaged.
General Poft-Office, Feb. 9, 1782. To prevent Mail Robberies,
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fend BANK NOTES by the Post, to cut them in Two Parts, according to the
following Specimen, where it is marked with a Black Line, and fend them by different
Posts, firft writing the Name, Date and Year at one End of the Note, and the Letter
and Number at the other End; by this Means each Part will contan a fufficient Specifi
cation of the Whote, and prevent any kind of Difficulty in the Payment of it at the Bank
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L O N D O N, April 9.
LAST Wednesday fir John Lockhart Ross receiv
ed his commission as commander of the fleet desti
ned to cruize in the North seas.
Some of the Notes of the Bank of North- America having fallen into wrong Hands, by the late Robbery of the
Southern Mail ; it may not be amiss to publish. the Practice of our Emmies in like Cases; taken from a
London Paper of the i'6th February laft.'
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GENERAL ADVERTISER.
tee that they will not,, as focw as their army and na
vy are at leisure, fend over a larger force than any we
have yet seen, to carry oppression and tyranny to any
length they may hereafter judge proper? Can they
think us such fools as to treat with them without such
guarantees and securities? If they do, their propofi
tion of peace is an insult to our undemanding : and if
they do not, it is an insult on decency, good manners
and the common sense of mankind. I will go farther,
and fay, it is an insult on the honour and honehy of
the united states of North-America. They knew when
they passed this aft, the treaties fubfifling between us
and our allies in Europe. They knew that when we
were in our greatest difirefs, and as thej hoped, almofl
crushed with the weight of their tyr@nical hand,France
stepped in, and with the hand of humanity, guided by
true wisdom and found policy, saved us from destruc
tion ; that with the fame wife policy, they have led us
into connexion and acquaintance with other great
powers in Europe, and hav^ made us a nation in the
eyes of men. They knew that the French nation Iffive
furnifhed us with fleetsand armies, to co-operate with
us in humbling their pride, and relieving us from their,
oppression and tyranny ; and while in the full know-'
ledge of these obligations of gratitude, honour, and
even common honesty, could they have supposed us
capable of treating with them separately from our Eu.
ropean allies, without supposing at the fame time that
we are incapable, or inferable of ^ny of those obliga
tions? What is this attempt to treat with us und^r
these circumflances, less than telling us to our faces,
and in the presence of all the world, that we are inca
pable of poffeffiing any of the great charter! flicks,
which muff be the corner stones in the foundation of eve
ry nation, that would expea or with for+efpea among
the other powers of the earth. What is this but insult
in the extreme? deferring our contempt and higher
resentment, in proportion as we have reason to believe,
the motives for it, were founded in the wicked .design
of betraying us into measures ruinor to ourfelyes
and our generous allies. If the new British minihr.y
(composed of men, of high dignified characters, and
who have long pretend to be the guardians of the li
berty of mankind, and friends to the cause of Ameri
can independence)'had been ferinufly disposed to have
peace with America, they would have begun their ex
hibition of it, by propofols for'a general peace withall
the billegerent powers co-operating with us ; then jo
deed we might expe& to have a peace on a permanent
foundation; but that was not their intention; they
knew that then weihould have peace and independence
guaranteed .by all those beligerent powers, grunty
O R, T HE
THE
by the king of France, and devoted to his will —who in
return for their services, for the toils, difficulties and
dangers they have undergone, have neither received
the pay nor cloatbingdee to them ; and who, in a word,
are now experiencing the want of almoftevery necessa
ry, as well as comfort of life. Let such men show the
spirit becoming freemen ; let them disengage themselves
from so ignominious, difgraceful and unprofitable ser
vice. Within the British lines, they will be received
with kindness, and -may fell their arms, accoutrements
and horses. There tradesmen may follow their occu
pation, and be paid in folia coin for their work. Such
natives pfithe old country as with to return home, will
have ab^ndant opportunities ; while those who,are de
sirous of enriching themselves with the spoils of ourene
mies, or are anxious to acquire military glory, may en
ter into the service of king George.
No (carcity of rum, fait, clothing, gold or f:lver, in
'Charleftown.•
That he could hope to seduce citizens who had so
lately experienced every thing which cruelty or perfidy
could dilate, exhibits to the world a w aknefs of un
derflanding and a depravity of foul which has uni
formly marked the-fy flem of British politics. But the
bale design ends not here. An attempt i made to con
taminate the minds of the folders—That, he could
bme to proflitute an army who have encountered dis-
Ecdties, and braved dangers with an heroic ardour,
to whicirfche hihoric page scarcely affords a paralel, is
no less extraordinary'
But is there a villany which can disgrace human na
ture that Britain has not practiced at some period of
the war ?, But happily for America, her machinations
have been always diftovered and the effeas they hope
from them prevented. Anhthis attempt, J doubt not,
will terminate like others in reproach asd infarny.
On Sunday evening or Monday morning lafi, 1 Mr,
Kenline, who was summoned a s a venire-man from
Princess Anne county, to appear at the general, court
in thU town, by feme fervidem r^bea^, fell uverho^.
WHO, fays a correspondent, can read the above ad
dress and not finite at its infignificance, whilst he de
tests its design. It fecms calculated to change that re
sentment which a virtuous mind will commonly feel on
the appearance of villany, into, a kind of pitiful con
tempt. The hackneyed addresses of fir Har y Clinton
and admiral Arborthnot were thrown into circulation,
at a time when rays of freedom and independence were
oyercaft with clouds from different quarters; but the
effects they produced were as futile ^ their design was
diabolical. The inqufftive eye glanced over them
through curiosity, andthenjeaft them aside with ineffa
ble disdain. But the minions of despotism unwilling
Jo profit by experience, and unable to devise new ex
pedients, resort to artifice long since detected ; and which
becomes more odious by repetition.
General O'Hara, in order to conform to those arts of
feduflion which have uniformly charaa rized and dif
gra^ed the Rritifh ministry and British army had re
course to this feeble attempt, toallure our folders from
their flandard, and our citizens from their allegience.
And if human baseness can beaggravated from attends
ing the circumftances,the attempt ttbugh.more unavail
ing, becomes (till more insulting. That he should hope tty
operate on the minds of men just emerging from a lime
of horror and fubje&ion to rhe British army, unequal-.
led'fince the gothic ^ra, was a degree of presumptions
which none but a British despot could even have thought
of without a blulh.
1782.
" Accounts from Oharleftown, mention the arrival
there of general O'Hara from New York, in order to
t^ke the command. General Leslie, with part of three re
giments, were embarking, they gave out for Savannah';
a little time will shew if they are defined there On
O'Hara's arrival, he immediately ordered out pf town,
about too families into St. Thomas's parish, and caus
ed the'under- written piece to be printed and dispersed„
this, with another, were taken from two women out
of Charleflown, who were going into Guilfoid County,
North Carolina.'?
RICHMOND, (Virginia,) June 15.
Extract of a letter from South-Carolina, dated May 3,
THOSE gallant fens of Britain, Ireland and Ameri
ca, whole errors or misfortunes, have comp^l'ed them
to enlist under the banners of the rebel corgrefs, paid
we mightdepend upon: No! they have chosen to*pur
fue ether measures, either to amuse us while they could
more effeaually employ their force against the r other
enemies, or to excite jealousies between us and our allies,
which might be ruinous to both. If these are the 6rft
fruits of the policy of this new and venerable ministry,
we may, without the gift of prophesy, conceive what
we ought to expe& from them.
GOD save the K I N G.
JULY 9, 178^.
[NUMB. 908.