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TH^ D I L E M M A.
TN ev'ry Civil War this hazard's run :
I " Conquer, thuur't ruin'd ; conquer'd, thour't
undone."
Who gives the advice, ffiews wond'rous want of frill;
But those who follow it, are weaker /till.
Of undeistanding is not be bereft,
Whole right band is employ'd to maim his left?
Fiom th St. James's Chronicle.
To THE MINIS rE R.
MYLORD, „'
“ pUC II was the cruelty and barbarity of the
" O rebels that they scalped and cut off the ears
" of some of the wounded then who fell into their
" hands" O the bloody minded villains!-,
" Nay, nay, if that be the case (cry the old wo
men) lam against the Americans now. Let them
all be cut to pieces ; the sooner the better"
That such should be the language of credulity of
old women, male and female, is not wonderful.
Your Lordship's consummate knowledge of the
world informed you, that some women and chil
dren may be frighted out of their wits by a dory
of a Rawhead and Blo®dybones. You judged
righ', my Lord, it has had the etfeft. " What,
scalp our pretty officers! 0 the terrible barba
rians ! Who knows but they may scalp my Lord
Percy next, and cut off his ears and other mem
bers ?" Such, I fay, my Lord, is now the language
of some fools, who, ten days ago, were vociferous
in the cause of Liberty. What they read in the
6 zette they take for Gospel. But what do you
^ain by the acquisition of such proselytes ? W^s it
prudent in your Lordship, for the fake of railing
the (hort-lived clamour of ciedulity, to pledge your
veracity with the public, by relating, in the Ga
zette, a foolifh tale of scalping, ghosts and hobgob
lins? Of which dory you yourfelf did not believe
one syllable. Fye, fye, my Lord, it has an un
gracious appearance. Such fliahow strokes of ar
tifice do but injure your cause, and convince the
world, that you are ignorant even of the firft prin
ciples of policy. The Americans are better poli
ticians than to treat their priloners with inhuma
nity. Notwithstanding the filly account in your
late Gazette ; notwithstanding the assertions of a
thousand, Gazettes, the Public will find, in the
course of this unfortunate war, that such of the
King's troops as fall into the hands of the Ameri
cans will be treated with the utmott tenderness.
Your Lordfllip, it is true hath done every thing in
ycur power to drive them to madness; and it that
Situation it wefe no great wonder, if some female
follower of this rebel army, having just loft her
husband, and considering the fi ft dead soldier ihe
found as your Lordihip's representative ; I fay, my
Lord, it were no great wonder, if a female thus
.enraged should cutoff his ears. Some such event
may pohibly have happened. The history of civil
wars hath ever been stained with alls of ciuelty
committed by the stragglers from both armies,
which no human power could prevent ; and for
which, consequently, not the commanders in the
field, but thole in the cabinet, are responsible. Be
sides, my Lord, you mutt remember, that tince you
have declared thv Americans rebels, they tight
with halters round their necks. You have made
them delperate, and you cannot therefore wonder
if the less rational part of them should, on some
occasion, aft irrationally. As to this dory of scalp
ing and maiming, you will soon learn, to the total
denruction of your credit with the public, that it
has not the ie: ft foundation in truth.
** # #
IR,
IN the review of the commerce of this country I
gave you in my lad, it appeared that the trade
of this country (Speaking at large) depends in so
great a measure upon America, that it must abso
lutely stand or tail with our friendly connexion
with America. If commence falls, manufactures
must fall with it, for trade is the export of fabiics ;
manufactures finking, thatis, manufacturer ft^rv
ing, and the kingdom losing its wealth, will be ve
ry interesting Spectacles to landed men. Can they
he so infatuated as to imagine that they are to roll
in their present luxury and idleness wih tenants
breaking all around them ? What is it that ena
bles their tenants to pay zos. an acre? Commerce
and manufactures. What enables them to pay 20s.
now for land, which twenty years ago let but for
1:45.? Increase of wealth from commerce and ma
nufactures. What enables them.with ease to im
prove their estates, by buildings, manuring, drain
ing, roads, harbours, and navigations ? General
wealth. What enables them to borrow money for
all these works at three and a half percent ? In
crease of wealth. And as a general corollary from
the whole, to what is the increase of general wealth
and prosperity owing, but the manufactures and
coamerce —And we have shewn that these great
pillars of toe Rate once retted on that solid rock
America, which so m?ny men, from Mr. Grenville
to the ptefent junto, have been undermining, bor
inginto, picking away, and new a huge cargo of
gun-powder is crammed into the excavation ready
for the torch to be applied, in order to blow the
whole into the air. Landed men bring the tools
for this bUffed piece of work. Landed men are
the labourers to supply the miners—they are the
supporters of the undertaking; when the blalt
comes that cuts off America, they will feel it like
poison through all their own limbs ; not an acre of
their estates but will fuffer; cultivation dies, and
that luxury and dissipation which flowed from it
must change to poverty and rags. But as it has
been said, that so far from the question being t>e
losing America, hoftilites are commenced against
the Colonies, and the present measures pursued, in
order to five America to this country, and that
any other measures would infallibly lose all those
advantages which I have been deferring; there
cannot be a more futile argument ; in aniwer to it,
let us look b ck to the connexion between this
country and the Colonies, before the late Stamp
Aft was hatched; there was then the undefined
connexion, the untried, unthought of rights, which
save this coun ry the means of prosperity. We at
tacked America, and started the matter of ri;ht,
whi.u AC raj yea the unlimitted possession, and ran
into that ocean of folly and irjuftice, in which we
find ourselves at present. Now thequeition is, be
ing rrong, (hall we persist in error, and conquer
the Americans, that we may in their servitude find
advantages which did not result from their free
dom ? This is the system in which we ant em
barked—this is the hopeful voyage we are making
in a sea where there is nothing but rocks—where
we cannot find a fafe channel, for there is none to
find. But granting what we have every hour less
reafun to expect, that we shall be able to conquer
To THE PRINTER.
PHILADELPHIA, September 20.
Intelligence received by the Congress frem Gene
ral Schuyler, Sept. 18, 1775.
" General Montgomery, from information re
ceived on the 25th of August, being apprehensive
that the enemy's armed veffcls might get into the
lake unless an immediate movement was made to
the Isle aux Noix, resolved to proceed with what
force he could carry, of which he advised General
Schuyler, who was at Albany attending the Indian
treaty. General Schuyler upon receipt of this im
mediately left Albany, and on the 30th arrived, ve
ry much indisposed, at Ticondeioga, which place
he left the 31st, after having given the proper
orders for bringing up the artillery, &c. &c. On
the 4th of September, General Schuyler joined Ge
neral Montgomery at Isle la Motte. On that day
both moved on, and airived at Isle aux Noix. On
the s th, General Schuyler drew up a declaration,
which he lent among the Canadians. And as it
was judged going to St. John's, weak as he was,
his numbers not exceeding one thousand, might
have a good tffe& on the Canadians, and encourage
them to join, he resolved upon the measure, and
accordingly early on the 6th embarked, and with
out any obttrudion proceeded towards St John's.
When he arrived in fi,ht of the enemy's works, and
at the distance of about two miles, the enemy be
gan to fire from their fortrefs, but without doing
any damage; he approached half a mile nearer
and then landed without opposition, in a close deep
swamp. After being formed, his army marched in
the best manner they could in grounds marshy and
covered with woods, in order to approach and re
connoitre the fortress. Major Hdbby and Capt.
Mead of the Connecticut forces being on the lett,
and a little advanced, were attacked in crossing a
Greek by a party of I dians, from whom they 're
ceived a heavy fire, but our troops gallantly press
ing on them they f©on gave way, and left us the
ground. In this lencontie we loft a ferjeant, a
corporal and t>hree privates killed, one miffing, and
eight wounded, three of whom are tince dead. Be
sides these, Major Hobby was flint through the
thigh, but not dangrroufly, and Capt. Mead re
ceived a flight wound through the shoulder, as did
Lieutenant Brown in the hand. The surviving
wounded are in a fair way of recovery.
Night now coming on, our Generals drew their
men together, and cast up a small entrenchment,
to defend themselves in case of an attack in the
night.
Every day last week it rained more or less, and
sometimes continued chief part of the night ; but
on Saturday it never ceased pouring down, and to
wards noon the wind began to rife, which increas
ed soon afterwards to a mere hurricane, it blowing
most furioufly from the N. E. till near io o'Clock
at night. Infinite damage has been done to the
crops of corn and tobacco, much wheat spoiled in
barns, a great number of trees blown down, and
almost every mill-dam in the country given way.
Capt. Robertson and Capt. M'Cunn, both
lying at York towri, bound for London, and laden
with tob cco, were drove ash re, and must unload
oefore they can he got off; but the Profpea, Nor
wood, likewile for London, with tobacco, had the
good fortune to ride out the storm, and has receiv
ed no injury. Some other fmiller vessels were drove
ashore, but will be got off with little damage. At
Norfolk all the small craft were drove ashore, be
sides some (hips, which have been chiefly got off
except the Mercury man of war, Capt. M'Cartuey'
who lies in two feet water only ; and there may be
Jlick faf,faJi /—Capt. Squires, of the Otter sloop,
going round to York in his tender, had very near
periled in the storm, being cast away upen Back
river, near Hampton ; where his veflel was burnt
by the people thereabouts, in return for his har
bouring gentlemen's negroes, and fuffering his sai
lors to steal poultry, hogs, &c. Two of the crew
were runaway slaves from Col. Wilson Miles
Cary's quarters, in King and Queen, who were tak
en soon after they got ashore ; and his pilot, a mu
latto man, was the property of Henry King, Esq ;
of Hampton, with whom, after ikulking in the
woods about 4.8 hours, he found means to paddle
oft in a canoe.
them, what are we to do ? Why, Mr. Rigby tells
ns, keep an army in America, in order to keep the
Americans dutiful ; and make them pay the troops
that chastise them. There is an end of commerce,
of trade, of manufacture, of all those benefits we
have hitherto received ; nothing clearer than this
—we change it all for a new benefit—a standing
army paid by America! There is the ruin, the
end, the measure of all these proceedings, of all
this iniquity— a standing army for the crown is to
be the price of a commerce which has carried our
national prosperity to the highest pitch. This is
the old (iory which history is so full of, the advan
tages of the people facrifired for the private interest
of royal ambition. Your's, &c.
CRITO.
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WILLIAMSBURG, (Virginia) Sefet.g.
THE Blocking accounts of damage done by the
rains last week are numerous ; most of the
mill-dams are broke, the corn laid alinoft level
with the ground, and fodder destroyed ; many drips
and other veff is drove ashore and damaged, at
Norfolk, Hampton, and York.
In the heavy dorm of wind and rain, which
came on last Saturday, and continued molt part of
the night, the Mercury man of war was drove
from her station abreast of the town of Norfolk, and
stuck fait aground in flioal water ; it is thought fne
will riot be got off without a great deal of trouble.
The Otter's tender wentafhore in the night, near
Hampton; a number of the inhabitants boarded
her next day, secured the rigging, guns, &c. and
t/en burnt the vessel. Six of the tenders men were,
made prisoners, but have since been released, in
conhquence of some threats from the Governor.
Yesterday morning John Randolph, Esq; his
Majesty's Attorney General for this colony, with
his Lady and daughters, set out from this city for
Norfolk, to embark for Great-Britain.
From Hampt®n we learn, that they begin to re
ceive melancholy accounts of the loss of lives, &c.
in the late norm. Mr. Robert's vessel, of Portf
raouth, was call away, and every foul o^ board pe
riled, except the niafter and a boy. Two ships
from Ireland are likewise loft.
Lord Dunmore, we hear, keeps cruising about
(wandering like Cain) and at the time of the late
storm was up in James River, on a reconnoitring
party.
It is reported at Norfolk, that the remainder of
the troops which Lord Dunmore expected from St.
Augustine are taken and carried into Charleftown,
a vessel having been fitted out from thence for the
purpole.
COMMITTEE CHAMBER, September 19, 1775.
INHERE AS it has been reported, that there
Y is an intention formed by some of the inhabi
tants of this city, of publicly exposing and punish
ing, before conviction, certain persons supposed to
be unfriendly to the cause of liberty. This Com
mittee, after drift inquiry, have reason to believe
said report to be altogether groundless, and that it
took its rife from, and has been industriously circu
lated by persons inimical to the liberties of this
country, with a view to create jealousies and divi
sions ; nor have they reason to apprehend any vio
lences or irregularities of this kind from the inha
bitants of the city and liberties, who have ever been
remarked for thelr humanity and love of order.
But with a view to quiet and allay such apprehen
sions, whether real or afte&ed, and that all pro
ceedings against our domestic enemies may have
the semblance as well as the reality of justice, the
Committee think it necessary to declare in the fol
lowing Resolves:
That no perfota or persons ought to proceed to
inflift punishment on any one, on a charge or sus
picion of violating the Continental Association, or
doijig any a& or thing tending to weaken and de
stroy the association, which is justly regarded as the
belt security and protection against the machinati
ons and attempts of our ministerial enemies. But
that all charges and complaints of such nature be
heard and determined by this Committee, that the
directions of the Congress may be ftriCtly observed,
and no person held out to his fellow citizens as an
object of indignation and contempt, without full
and fufficient evidence of guilt, after a fair and
impartial examination.
The rights which all men are entitled to, of
speaking their sentiments candidly, so far as is con
fident with the peace and welfare of society, they
hold to be sacred, and that it ought to be inviolate.
But when this privilege is used for the purpose of
raising jealousies among the people, diftrafling their
councils, and counteracting their virtuous exertions
against injury and oppression, all laws, human and
divine, juftify the punishment of such licentiousness.
Therefore, Resolved further, that in the opi
nion of the Commit.ee, no person has a right to the
protection of a community or society he wishes to
destroy : And that if any inhabitant, by speeches
or writings, evidences a disposition to aid and aflift
our enemies, or endeavours to persuade others to
break the association, or by force or fraud, to op
oppofe the friends of liberty and the constitution in
the present virtuous struggle, such perfoms being
duly convicted thereof before the Committee, ought
to be deemed a foe to the rights of British America,
and unworthy of those bleiiings, which it is hoped,
will yet be secured to this and succeeding generati
ons, by the Itrenuous and noble efforts of the Uni
ted Colonies.
Ordered to be published.
Extract from the Minutes,
PETER Z. LLOYD, Secretary.
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WH EREAS the fubferiber purchased
a trad of land of Charles M'Ginnet,
for which he gave him four bonds, bearing date in
October 1773, and payable at four different pay
ments, viz. Fifty Pounds the fi it day of May 1775;
Fifty Pounds in the year 1776 ; Jjafty Pounds ;u
the year 1777 ; and Twenty Pounds in the year
1778: And whereas the fubferiber cannot get a
right to the said land according to agreement, he
therefore forwarns all perlons from taking any as
fignment on rhe said bonds, as he is determined not
to pay them unless compelled thereto by law.
X FREDERICK STAKE.
In the evening, General Schuyler received cer
tain intelligence that the enemy's fortifications
were complete, and plentifully furnilhed with cari
non ; that one of their vessels was launched, and
would be ready to fail in three or four days, and is
to carry sixteen guns.
He also learned, that in the afternoon's engage
ment five Indians were killed, ahd four badly
wounded, besides several others, the condition of
whose wounds was not known ; that Capt. Tyce
of Johnstown was wounded in the belly.
On the seventh in the morning (having been ua
difturbed through the night, excepting a few shells,
which did no other damage than slightly wounding
Lieut. Mills) it was thought most advifeable to re
turn to the Isle aux Noix, throw a boom across the
channel, ereft the proper works for its defence,
and to prevent the enemy's vessels from entering
the lake.
Extract of a letter from Cambridge, Sept. 10.
" We are at prelent in our Camp in tolerable fe
curity—Ploughed-Hill may bid defiance to all their
malice. And what is more amazing (that can
scarce bv credited by a Philadel phian, though ne
vertheless true) they have fuffered our men at Rox
bury tothrow up an entrenchment below the George
tavern, and within musket shot of their last entrench
ment, and have scarce honoured us with a cannon.
We were last night under some apprelienfions of an
attack ; General Ward sent a letter to his Excel
lency, informing him, that he had seen (or his peo
ple had seen) a number of men parading on Bun
ker's Hill, and our army was kept during the night
under arms, in order to give them a genteel recepti
on.—They have since been seen with their knapsacks
on their backs, and from good accounts from Boston
we are convinced they have sent a party of men, ei
ther (which is most probable) to reinforce the gar
rison at Quebec, or to New-York. Three men of
war are gone out of the harbour, for what purpose
we cannot tell.
Upon this General Schuyler ordered the troops
t® embark, and he returned to the Isle aux Noix
without a,y moleftatisn ; where, when the express
came away, he was erecting proper works to se
cure the entrance into the Lake, and to be in rea
diness on the arrival of farther reinforcements,
which were expected, to take the advantage of
any events that may happen in Canada.
Published by order of the Congress,
CHARLES THOM.ON, Sec.
Extract of a letter from Cadiz, dated July 26.
" The news is just arrived of the milcarriage of
the expedition against Algiers, It is apprehended
to have been caused by the mifcondu& of the Ge
neral. The troops disembarked in the morning,
and the Algerines gave them battle ; the Moors
seemed defeated, and ran; the Spaniards follow
ing, fell in with eighty thousand in ambush, who
gave them battle, in which a total defeat took
place. # The remains of the Spanilh army embark
ed again the fame night, and proceeded over to
Alicant. The Gazette fays fix hundred killed, one
thouiand eight hundred wounded ; but private let
ters fay some four thousand, others five thousand
killed, and five thousand wounded, with the loss
of their cannon, and it is apprehended their caval
ry and the flower of the Spanish troops. So many
officers of diftinchen are killed, that the court are
in mourning."
FOUR POUNDS REWARD.
D AN AWAY from the Anti Eatem Furnace,
' in Frederick County, Maryland, two indent
ed Irifn servants, viz. JAMES MARR, a Itollt
fellow, five feet nine or ten inches high, about 29
years of age, short black curled hair ; had on a blue
jacket, check shirt, oznabrigs trowfers, and half
worn shoes.—JAMES WALK ER, about five
feet fix or seven inches high, blind of one eye, with
a large flefh mark on both cheeks and round his
chin, short gray hair, and eloathed much as above.
Whoever secures the said servants so that their mas
ters may have them again, shall have THREE
DOLLARS for each if twenty miles from home,
or the above Reward if above forty miles, paid- by
*6 DANIEL and SAMUEL HUGHES and Go.
HE Subscriber having nearly finifhed
JL a very compleat new Fusing Mill, on the
fame spot where his old Mill has long Rood, situate
near Dover, in Kent County on Delaware, a hand
which has long been well supplied with custom, is
now in want of a workman capable of carrying or
that business in all its branches, as fulling, dying,
shearing, &c. Any person inclining, who can be
well recommended for his skill in that'bufinefs, in
dustry, sobriety, &c. is desired to be fpeeHy in his
application, as the season is advancing and work
daily coming in : He may be sure of employ, either
by working her for a certain share, common wages,
or having her for a yearly rent, by applying to the
fubferiber living on the fpot,—who has also fef sale,
or to let for a term of years, and may be entered
on immediately, two tracts of valuable Land, situ
ate near Dover, each well improved, and also some
traces of unimproved Land. For terms and further
particulars enquire of
WHEREAS there is a RIDER proposed
to go from Philadelphia to Allen's Town,
in Northampton County, once a week, to leave
Philadelphia every Wednesday, for the conveyance
of news-papers, letters, &c. tq, go by the way of
German Town, Buffel Town, Fourlane End, New
town, Durham, Eafton, and Bethlehem : All La
dies and Gentlemen who are pleased at this alarm
ing crisis to encourage an undertaking of so great
utility, are requested to leave their names with the
following Gentlemen, viz. Mr. Joseph V ndegrift
at the Cross Keys, Philadelphia; Messrs. Alexander
Edwards and Joseph Addis, inn-keepers, at Bidiel
Town ; Mellrs. Jacob Comely and Jame^ Vanzant,
Moreland Manor; William Buckham, E% New
town ; William Bennett, inn keeper, Mri^ht's-
Town; Messrs. William M'Cdla and Alexander
Robinson, Plumftead; Mr. Joseph Braden, Bed
minfter; Mr. James Smith, merchant, Tirnicum -
Mr. George Oberbeck, Noganixon ; George Tay
lor, Esq; Durham; Mr. James Clapham, Spring
field ; Mr. James M'Alli Her, Williamton; Meifi's.
Isaac Sedman and Adam Yoes, Eaft<n; M.. Japci
Aible, Greenwich in Sussex County, New Jvley;
Mr. Jacob Lival, between Eafton and Bethlehem -
Mr. John Francis Oberlin and Mr. Jufte Johmton'
Bethlehem; Mr.'Peter Rhoads and Mr. Michael
Strader, at Alien Town, thall be thmkbTv t
reived and puuaually obeyed by, Ladies and Gen
tlemen, Your molt obedient humble fervent,
The R I D E R.
N. B. The firft publication of all F.e=w Pam-Gets
may be had of rhe Rider.
Mustard and Chocolate Maker.
BEGS leave to inform the Public in general, that
he will give Forty Shillings per bushel for any
quantity of good clean Mustard-seed, or any final!
quantity at that rate for fix months from the date
hereof ; he therefore hopes that farmers and others
will use their best endeavours to encourage this va
luable manufactory, by cultivating and improving
the growth of so valuable an article, that we ma,
not now, nor hereafter, have any occasion to im
port from our ministerial enemies in Great-Britain.
Those persons that have, or may have it to fell,
shall not be disappointed by applying to the Widow
Cunningham, at the Rising Sun in Market- street,
near the Coffee-houfe; to Mr. John Davis, saddler,
near Fourth-street in Market-street, or to the Ma
nufactory in Second-street below the New Market,
opposite to Almond-street, at which places ready
money will be given.
N. B. Said Maise stands in the market on mar
ket days, opposite the London Coffee-houfe: He
returns thanks to his former customers, hopes for
a continuance of their favours, and doubts not but
to merit their esteem.§
JACOB HIT,
N. B. The fubferiber intends to leave the Colo
ny foon. §
Just Pub!ijbed, and to be Sold by
J O HN DU N LA P,
In Market-Street, Philadelphia,
FATHER ABRAHAM's
ALMAN A C K,
For the Year of our LORD 1776.
The Agronomical Calculations by the ingenious
David Rittenhouse, A. M. of this city.
Philadelphia, Juty 24., 1775,
CHARLES M A IS E,
Berkeley County, Virginia, Sept. 6, 1775.
TO BE SO L D,
By Public Auction, on Monday, the second of
OCtober next, at the plantation of the fubferiber,
in Berkeley County, Virginia,
A COMPLEAT set of MILLS, consisting
of two pair of French burr and one pair of
country stones, go with separate wheels ; bolts,
rolling machine, fan and screen, hayfting tubs
compleated in the belt manner • The house is 93
by 4.0 feet, strong stone walls, with four floors, and
every part most strong and compleatly executed,
with a good head of water, on a never failing
stream ; all new and just finifhed. Together with
four hundred and odd acres of land, in the heart
of a fine wheat country, not more than 65 milea
from Steping navigation and only 10 miles from
Potomack. Also a quantity of store goods, hog#,
cattle, a variety of houfhold and kitchen furniture,
farming utensils, a quantity of hay cured in the
best manner, wheat just lowing and corn on the
ground, two stills and all kinds of tubs, &c.
Twelve, months credit will be given for the move
able effects, and long credit for the mills and land,
the payment being secured.
Good T ALLOWCANDLE S,
At Nine-pence per lb. by the box or doin,
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN PUR D O N,
In Frant-ftreet, near the Drawbridge, Philadelphia.
THOMAS NIXON.