Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-08-14 00:00:00, page 2

Trem th PUBLIC ADVERTISER.
io the J? RIN T E R,
SIR,'
"\7" O U must know that by trade I am a
L Weaver, and (like manyothers of my trade)
am very poor; fur what with the unhappy divisi
ons of the mother country and her colonies, and
the dislike that some have for English, while at
the lame time they are exceeding fend of French
silks and hr/ned linens, has brought our trade into
such a declension, that (tofpeak in our own term)
we may walk a new pair of Ihces off our feet,
without having the good fortune to meet with a
loom's work of Pe;fian which in time past every
man would have delpi'cd ; but now the molt of us
would be glad to have even such a mean employ
as this; for, Sir, you know half a loaf of bread is
better than none at all.
Now, Sir, through this decay of trade, I and
myfamdy have been brought into some diftfefs ;
and finding that we were likely to be brought into
much greater, yea even to the want ofrhe common
neceffarics o fr this life,' I began to think of taking
such measures as should support me under these
aAaino circumstances; and among othermethods
that I then thought of, was, that I would read
my bible (though before this it had laid by so
long, and was so covered with dust, that you
might have wrote on it whatever you plealed)
for having remembered to have read or heard, that
“ Manjh?uld nit five by bread alone, but by every
tvord that proceedeth out of the mouth of GOD :"
This encouraged me to read on, in order to bear
what God should farther fay to such an affliCted
creature as I was.
Well, Sir, you must know I read the third
chapter of the bank of Exodus, where 1 found
God took notice of the affixations of the Ifraelitcs,
and that he had promised to (and actually did)
deliver them out of them all. I also read the
hundred and nineteenth Plalm, where I found
David, who had been delivered out of afflictions,
said, " 't / good for me that I have been affiiaed."
These and such like texts of Scripture 1 met with,
and which 1 thought were quite suitable to my
unhappy condition, which must encouraged me to
go on reading that old antiquated book (called
the bible) till at length I came to the 12th chapter
of the fi ft book of Kings, which indeed caused
me to muse a good deal, and to read it over again
and again, till at last I understood it in the fol
lowing manner.
Rehoboam was the son of Solomon, and Solo
mon, his father, now being dead, he was brought
to the throne of Israel ; but it seems that Solomon,
in his li'e fame, had in some particular oppreiTed
the people, which caused them to complain ; and
how they thinking that (as they had a new King
come to the throne) he would hear their com
plaints, and redress their grievances, humbly pe
titioned him to remove the heavy yoke of bondage
from them, which his father had put upon them,
that they might again enj^y their former rights
and privileges.
Now we are told that Rehoboam took three
days to conGder of this matter, that he might
know what answer he should return to the people,
and the people as quietly waited for the answer.
Well, he consulted with the old men that waited
upon his father, to hear how they would advise him
to answer them; and they being his real friends
and well withers advised him to speak lovingly, ten
derly and affectionately to the people; and they
also told him the dreadful consequences that would
naturally follow if he did not; the people would
not continue with him; and if he had harkened to
them, and took their advice, it had been better
for him; for practice maker perfect, and experi
ence is the best fehool rpafter. These were old
men, and consequently had seen, and heard, and
under stood much, and therefore were able to teach
him much. But it was his misfortune not to
know how to manage a nation or people, and at
the fame time too obstinate to be taught. But as
the proverb is, " obstinate people seldom want for
woe," andthasit happened with him. Now hav
ingTefufed the counsel of the old men, he went to
the young men that were brought up with him,
and said to them, " What counsel give ye that <u r e
6 may answer this people?' And they seemed
to have their answer ready; an answer that just
Juiced his cursed w,ll. And this is what they
bade him speak unto the people:
' My Utt e finger fall be thicker than my father's
' bins ; for wffos my father iid oad ,ou with a
6 yoke, I will add to you yoke. My father hath
6 chaffed you with whips, but I will ckafiife you
'w th scorpions.' So the King took their advice,
and spake roughly to the people, though he had
cauft enough to be lorry for it afterwards Thus
you lee what a comfortable answer they (who had
fohumbly petitioned f r their liberty, and had pro
mised upon the enjoyment of it to be his faithful
fubjefls) received from their Sovereign.
But let us take a view of what follows—' When
6 Israel fowth^t the King harkened not unto them,
‘ the peop e infwer,d the King, faying, What portion
' have we in David ? Neither have we inheritance
'in the fm of Jesse. To,our tents, 0 Irael, now
6 fee to thine o^m house, David ,so Israel departed
6 unto their tents.' —Here we fee how hold and
resolute they were in their revolt ; they highly
relented he provocation that Rehoboam had giv
en. But notwirhftanding this, Rehoboam was
refolded the tax he would have, (for I should
have «i)fer„d tiiat this yoke that the people cam
plamed of was a tribute or tax which King Solo
mon had laid on them, and which they were now
desirous should be taken off; but he (that is
Rehoboam) was refolded he would have it, there
fore he feat Ado,am his tax gatherer, to gather
it in ; but I think he met with much worse treat
ment than having a coat of tar and leathers; for
the history informs us, that when the 6 JfraeHtts
6 saw him, they stoned him witbftones, that he died ;'
and Rehoboam himfelf was glad to fly to Jerufa
-lam for Shelter. 0 how did their foolifh Prince go
on from one extreme to another! He hedored
and looked big when he thought all was his own,
but sneaked and looked mean when hefaw himfelf
in danger. But as he had the good fortune to
quit fafc to Jerusalem, he now begins to confuit
From a Ia ^LONDON PAPER.
Tothe PRIME MINISTER.
Y7O U have now, my Lord, obtained the de-
X fire of your heart ; you have occasioned the
sword to be uofbeathed, and blood in abundance
has been shed; your orders are obeyed, your
wilhes are accomplished. The prudence of Ge
neral Gage would never have permitted HIM to
attempt a massacre like that lately attempted at
Concord. Long residence, an intimate knowledge
of the dtfpoGtions of the Americans, and a sedu
lous attention to their manners and customs, these
are some of the qualifications which rendered
General Gage a fit person to command on the
American expedition, and, until the orders to
attempt a massacre were dispatched, he, like an
other Fabius Maximus, aimed rather at conci
liation.
As every sentence which hath fell from your
lips relative to America hath been treasured up
in the minds of the difeerning part of mankind,
you mutt not be surprised if your sentiments are
examined with attention, and commented on
with severity. Asa private man 1 conceive your
mind too contraded, your views too narrowed
by confined abilities, to render your notions of
any consequence to the public; but as an official
servant of Lord Bute's, an hint falling, though
but at fecood hand from your lips, will afford a
clue to unravel the perplexed mazes of the favour
ite's measures.
It has been affirmed, that you have more than
once expressed the utmost astonishment “ that
" General Gage should so long have remained
" in a state of inactivity cooped up near Boston,
" as if the whole of his commission extended to
" garrison a single town in a rebellious pro
“ vince."
We are told from authority which courtiers may
contemn, but which good men will acquiesce in,
that the lips are prompt to deliver what the heart
is most prone to conceive. This truth you have ve
rified ; out ofthe abundance of your heart you hare
spoken Inch things as make humanity Ladder, and
reason start back appalled. Itis now, my Lord,
plain to demonftraribn, that the orders issued to
Colonel Abercrombie were sanguinary: the pen
of the minister who dictated them was dipped in
blood. But how have these orders been execut
ed? Have they failed ofthe desired effect? Are
there n®t quite so many human victims weltering
in their gore, as your patrons behind the cutain
could have wished? A general massacre hath not
ensued; the attempt has mifearried; a defeat, in
glorious to the arms of Britain, hath taken place;
the KING'S troops have been routed, and had
they been headed by a monarch similar to Charles
the First, perhaps both the leader and his banditti
might have received the chaftifment due to their
insolence.
The Americans, who have designedly been re
presented to your Lordship as.a parcel of cowards
and poltroons, havegiven the KING's troops bat
tle, and they have gained a victory over the RE
GU ,ARS, of whom Lord Sandwich so much
boasts. I his should open your eyes, if they are
not darkened like your intellectuals. You should
no longer give ear to those who, to promote their
intererts, would embrue their hards in the blood
of the unhappy Americans.
Blinded by principles of Jacobitifm, andhold
ing the maxims of liberty in abhorrence ; cal
lous to the sublimer feelings, and m dilating the
dettrudi m of a constitution which breathes' the
spirit ofhonourahle equality, thirsting for blood,
and desirous of possessing estates acquired by for
feitures, you have facrificed the KING's troops
by employing them on a dish mourable expedi
tion —da atonement for this iniquitous ad, the
nation ought surely, my Lord, to receive some
cmpenfatiori.—Letthe nation be c m^nfat d.
—ln return for facrificing thellves of better men,
facrifice your own, and thus spare the executi
oner the trouble of p ifiug the axe. Whenever
the day of retribution comes, it will not Come
unadviftd, for you have long been forewarned
ofthe consequences. Perhaps you may disre
gard them. You may confide in the protection
of a matter, who, if he spares you, he will vio
late every rule of distributive jutlice.
My Lord, whatever you may think, I firmly
believe that tne wrath ofheaven awaits the man
who prottitutes the powerdelegated by the people
to the purpose of enslaving them. A cursory
, survey of nature will teach us, that individuals
are exalted above their fellows only for their ge
neral benefit. This is the case in politics; it is
the fame in phil,f>phy; Sir ffaac Newton, Lord
Chancellor Bicon, and many other celebrated
favourites of heaven, were inftrufted by divine
emanation for the b nefit of mankind; every age
produces some favourite of the Almighty ; but,
my Lord, the Creator hath given such beings to
the world for general benefit, for universal use.
of some measures to be taken to humble this peo
ple, and bring them back again; and he is retofv
ed it he caa %0t do it by force of argument, he will
do it by force of arms, (and many there were to set
him forward in this, for some are exceeding fond
of Redding blood) and accordingly he railed an
army ofan 'hundred and four fore thousand cho
sen men tofght against Ifrael,' to make them hum
b.e. But this attempt did not at all pieale the
Cod of Israel, therefore he said 6 Te foals not go
up to fight against your brethren.' Observe these
were brethren that were thus going to fight against
one another; and this thing did not pieale the
Almighty, so he would not fuffer it to be done,
by which means much expence was saved, and
many precious lives Ipared; but yet the kingdom
was taken out of the hands of Rehoboam.
I Ihall not attempt in the least degree to apply
these things to any nation or people whatever,
but (hall leave it to be done by those who have much
more wisdom and understanding in these things
than I have; only whoever this coat may be found
to fit, I would have the Gentleman put it on, and
wear it as his own; and let him know that it was
not only a weaver that wove it, but also cut it
out, and made it up on purpose for him.
I am, Sir, Your humble Servant,
A poor Weaver at Spitalfelds.
and they only to be admired in proportion as they
promote the welfare of society. You have heard,
my Lord, to be lure, of such a thing as political
virtue, but alals, how few pollers the virtue of
imitation!..
My Lord, I beseech you to peruse Mr. Burke's
fpecch; peruse it coolly without prejudice, di
velled of tne spirit <f cippofition ; throw aside
the miniver and assume the map ; let not obsti
nacy preclude convidion, nor private consider
ations prevent public benefit. You have been
accufud of being the TUTORED minister of a
concealed Ikulking favourite ; some men have
ben so weak as to extenuate your criminality
by admitting you to be thus tutored' ; it is, my
Lord, on the contrary, an high aggravation of
your guilt, and will be remembered in the day
of jour calamity; for he who errs from princi
ple Las some Shadow of excuse, but he who
blind y follows the diredion of another, be
cause a /vantages may ref. It from his obedience,
such a man mull be an atrocious offender.
I am far from believing you to be the tool sup
posed ; I fancy the mifehief is all your own ;
yet, my Lord, if (as Sir Robert Cotton fays)
the people measure their obedience from the
good received, lure l am, that the people will,
also pr portion their resentment to the evil
inflicted.
My good Lord of candour, the experimentof
a tory miniltry and the design of introducing
the German system you fee will no do ; be ge
nerous (as you cannot longer with fafety be ty
rannical) restore us and the Americans to those
ights we before enjo ed; let us not continue the
feoff of nations ; at 1-aft be you prudent and
save yourfelf, for be assured, that want of suc
cess will either render you the devoted victim of
your deluded master, or you will fall by the re
sentment of the public ; remember the fate of
Strafford, and be wife ; at least if that is impof
fible, be yourfelf, and run-away from impending
danger. J.
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L OND O N, June 6.
YESTERDAY the Hon. Col. Carib Dalrym
ple set out an inside passenger in the great
coach for Portsmouth to embark for America ;
but is NOT appointed Governor of New-York,
as merti med in some of the papers ; with him set
out the famous Colonel GRINT, who made
the memorable fpeech,in the House of Commons,
on American cowardice ! It is said, he takes out
letters of recommendation from THE BRISTOL
PATRIOT to his father and friends at New-
York.
The King of Prussia has a demand 06700,000!.
on Great-Britain, and he has lately declared that
lie experts immediate payment.
Advices from Cadiz inform us, that letters had
lately arrived from Chili, in South-America, giv
ing an account of a general infurredion breaking
out throughout that whole province among the Indi
ans. It is added, that there has been already amoft
incredible daughter of the natives of Spain, and
those of Spanish descent.
Advices are said to be received from Lisbon,
that the garrison of Eftremadura in Spain, has re
volted and murdered the Governor, and that a
body of troops had marched to prevent any fur
ther bad consequences.
Extract of a letter from Strathjpey.
" The spirit ofemigra ion has reached this coun
try ; for on Tuesday fe'ennight about two hundred
person rendezvoused at Aviemore, and marched off
for Greenock, where they are to embaik for
America."
June 7. The Spanish Ambassador, we are as
sured, has received no less than seven expresses
from the Court of Madrid since his arrival in
England.
Lord Mansfield and Sir Fletcher Norton are
daily consulted by the minister in regard to the
proceedings of the Americans : A motion was
made at a late council, for a public proclamation
to be issued against them as rebels, but was over
ruled by the interposition of the two Lawyers.
When the last packet left Calais, two large
veffe!s were loading with firelocks and ammun'-
tion, but for what place they were defined it was
not known.
Monday failed from the Downs the Friendship,
Trenham, and Fortitude, Willis, (transports)
with troops for Boston.
June 9. The Lords Lieutenants of all the coun
ties in England, Scotland, and Wales have re
ceived inftruflions for giving in a complete lift of
the officers, subalterns, and private men in their
several corps at the War Office.
It was last night very current that an express
was just arrived from General Gage, desiring with
all expedition, a reinforcement of 5000 men at
least, whom he recommends to be accoutred in
the manner of the Highland regiment. He also
desires a draught from the train of artillery, with
some field pieces.
We are assured from good authority, that ad
ministration are in possession of genuine dispatches
from Boston, whatever may he their motive for
witholding the contents from the public.
June 12. The Shedding of blood is now com
menced in America. It has been long repeatedly
foretold to the present Tory Adminiftrafion, but
they delight in blood. It has been remarked, that
the Court never looked more gay, than on the re
ceipt of the late news from Boston. But while
they are thus enjoying their sanguinary fehemes,
the public will remember, that Lord Chatham's
proportion for preventing the effuffon of blood,
was treated by the Ministry with the most marked
and insolent contempt. When the remonstrance
from the city lamented, at the foot of the throne,
that the blood of bit Majefly'jfubjeßs would be
the conference of persevering in their oppressive
measures against our fellow fubjefls in America ;
the courtiers burst out into afit of laughter. These
things will be remembered, when the blood they
have wickedly shed is visited upon their heads,
and they are overwhelmed by the popular ven
geance they have provoked.
The Ministry have applied to Lord Chatham to
take the helm in the present storm, not to conci!i.
ate, but to c^idu^ their bhod^ measures. He rc.
General Gage fays that too much praise cannot
be given to Lord Percy, for his remarkable ac
tivity during the whole day ; and that Lieut. Col.
Smith, and Major Pitcairne did every thing that
men could do, as did all the officers in general; and
that the men behaved with their ufoal intrepidity.
Return of the commission, non-commifficn
officers, rank and file, killed, wounded and taken
prisoners, on the 19th of April, 177 g, in th-
CIVIL WAR COMMENCED IN SUPPORT
OF THE USURPATION' OF PaRLIA
MENT.
fourth, or the King's own regiment Lieut.
Knight, killed; Lieut. Gould, wounded and pri
soner ; three ferjeants a d one drum wounded ;
five rank and file killed, twenty-one wounded and
eight miffing.
Fifth regiment—Lieut. Thomas Baker, Lieut.
William Cox, Lieutenant Thomas Hawkfhaw,
wounded ; five rank and file killed ; fifteen wound
ed, and one miffing.
Tenth regiment—Lieut. Cot. Francis Sm'th,
Capt. Lawrence Parsons, and Lieut. Wald K^ly
killed; Ensign Jeremiah Lefter, wounded; one
rank and tile killed, thirteen wounded, and one
miffing.,
Twenty-third regimen:— Lient. Co), fry
Bernard wounded; four rank and file killed ;
twenty fix wounded, and fix miffing.
1 hirty eighth regiment—Lieutenant William
Sutherland wounded ; one ferjeant wounded ; four
rank and file killed ; eleven wounded.
Forty-third regiment—Lieutenant HUI wound
ed, and prisoner; four rank ^ad fc; killed; i^
• wounded ; two miffing.
jeded the pop^firioowith a dTdrin that t # .% e
him. This Tory sanguinary administration will
leave nothing unattended to destroy the lives
and liberties of our persecuted fellow fubieds in
America.
A late Governor of Massachusetts-Bay was sent
for express, to advise in the ptefent alarming
state of America. It PneWs consummate wisdom
in afkiog the opinion of a man who has conftant
ly.deceived this country, and whose mifreprefeßt
ations have ended in the blood, instead of the fa
very, as he intended, of his countrymen. Old
as he is, he may live to fuffer for, if not rere,•
of his wickedness.
We are informed, that foiaf verfels, containing
about 700 emigrants, have failed for America,
from Port Glasgow and Greenock, in the course
of the last and preceding week. Most of these
emigrants are from the North Highlands; and, it
is said, two vessels are failed for that country, in
order to carry over more.
Ministry have nt -length received advices from
America, and in the Gazette of Saturday evening,
the fubftande of those advices was related in the
following manner.
London Gazette, (Whitehall,) June 10,177^.
Lieut. Nunn, of the navy, arrived this morn
ing at Lord Dartmouth's and has brought letters
from General Gage, Lord Percy, and Lieut.
Col. Smith, containing the following particulars
of what parted on the 19th of April last, between
a detachment of the King's troops in the Pro
vince of Massachusetts Bay, and several parties of
rebel Provincials, viz.
Gen. Gage, having received intelligence of a
large quantity of military stores being collected
at Concord, for the avowed purpose of Applying
a body of troops to a& in opposition to his Ma
jesty's government, detached on the 18th of
April at night, the grenadiers of his array and
the light infantry, under the command of Lieut.
Col. Smith, of the tenth regiment, and Major
Pitcairne of the marine;, with orders to destroy
the said stores; and the next morning eight com
panies of the fourth, the fame number of the
twenty-third and forty ninth, and some marines,
marched under the command of Lord Percy to
support the other detachment.
Lieutenant Colonel Smith fi ding after he had
advanced some miles on his march, that the coun
try had been alarmed by the firing of guns and
ringing of bells, dispatched fix companies ofhght
infantry, in order to Secure two bridges on dif
ferent roads beyond Concord, who, upon their
arrival at Lexington, found a body ofthe country
people drawn up under arms on a green, close to
the road; and upon the King's troops marching
up to them, in order to enquire the reason of their
being so assembled, they went off in great confufi
on, and several guns were fired upon the King's
troops from behind a ftohe wall, and also from the'
meeting-house and ether houses, by which one
mao was wounded, and Major Pitcairne's horse
shot in two placed. In consequence of this attack
by the rebels; the troops returned the fire, and
killed several of them; after which 'the detach
ment marched on to Concord, without any thing
farther happening, where they effefled the pur
pose for which they were sent, having knocked
off the trunnions of three pieces of iron ordinance,
burnt some new gun carriages, and a great num
ber of carriage wheels; and thrown into the river
a considerable quantity of flour, gunpowder,
musket balls, and other articles. Whihl this ser
vice was performing, great numbets of the rebels
aflembled in many parts, and a considerable body
of them attacked the light infantry polled at one
of the bridges, on which an a&ion ensued, and
some few were killed and wounded.
On the return of the troops from Concord they
were very much annoyed, and had several men
killed and wounded, by the rebels firing from be
hind walls, ditches, trees, and other ambushes ;
but the brigade under the command of Lord
Percy having joined them at Lexington, with
two pieces of cannon, the rebels were for a while
dispersed; but as soon as the troops resumed their
march, they began to fire upon them from behind
Rone walls and houses, and kept up in that man
ner a scattering fire during the whole of their
march of fifteen miles, by which means several
were killed and wounded; and such was the
cruelty and barbarity cf the rebels, that they
scalped and cut off the ears of some ofthe Wound
ed men, who fell into their hands.
ft is not known what numbers of the rebels
were killed and wounded, but it is supposed that
their loss was considerable.