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To THE PUBL I C.
AS the subscriber has been solicited and encouraged
by fevcral of the Trustees of the Academy of New
ark and others, He intends opening a SCHOOL in
Newark, on Tuesday the 4th of April next, for the in
ftru&ion of Youth in the Latin and Greek Languages.
Nothing need be said to recommend the healthy situation
of the place, as it is well known by experience. An
English School is kept contiguous to the Academy,
where Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and several
branches of Mathematics, are taught with care. Parents
and Guardians may be assured that the ftri&eft attention
will ne paid, not only to the education, but likewise to
the morals of the youth, by
Their most obedient humble servant,
WILLIAM THOMSON.
Newark, ^eb. Is, 1780.
N. B. Boarding may be had on the former moderate
terms.
~S A L T"
TO BE SOLD BY
WALTER STEVENb,
At Hamilton's Wharf.
WANT E D,
To attend a Gentleman,
A SERVANT who can (have, dress, and serve a
" table. Any person under this description, who
comes well recommended, will meet with the highest
wages by applying to the Printer.
A NEW
LIVERY STABLE
Is OPENED in Chefnut.ftreet, opposite the State-
House, Philadelphia;
WHERE Gentlemen that will honor the sub
scriber with the care of their HORSES, may
depend upon being furnifhed with the belt hay and oats,
and the greatest care taken of them.
Horses end Chairs to be hired out at said Stables,
ard Horses broke 'or laddie or carriage, by the Public's
Obedient humble servant,
WILLIAM SOWERSBY.
W AN T K
A MAN who understands the manufacturing of
POWDE R, and who can be well recommended.
Such a person will hear of good encouragement by ap
plying to Mr. Solomon M'Nair, in Second-street.
Philadelphia, February <B, 1780.
AL L persons having any demands against
the estate of ANN ROGE R, deceased, are
requested to bring in their accounts for payment, pro
perly authenticated ; and those indebted to said estate
are requested to make speedy payment, to
ANN and MARY ROBERTS,
Administratrixes.
N.B. A SPINNET/or sale. Enquire as above.
THIS is to give notice to the Public, That
the Executors to the estate of John Knowles,
late of Ridley, in the County of Chester, and State of
Pennsylvania. deceased, and Guardians to his children,
find themselves under the disagreeable necessity to peti
tion the Honorable the Assembly of said State for liberty
to make sale of a part of the real estate of the deceased,
in order to enable them to pay off the debts, and educate,
maintain and cloath- the orphans, owing to the damage
said estate has sustained by the ravages of the enemy,
and the principal part thereof being let out on long lea
ses the payment of which refeived in Currency. If any
person have reasons to objeft against laid prayer and
petition let them publish their regions.
WILLIAM GARRETT, 7 Executors
WILLIAM TONES, [ and
JOHN CROZER, J Guardians.
Philadelphia, February 21.
NO W in pofleffion of the subscriber, fup~
posed to be do en, the following Goods, viz.
several watches of different forts, three pieces
of linen, ferae tablelinen, sundry wearing apparel, one
filver-hiited sword, two tea-kettles, several blankets,
candiefticks, some pewter, bees-wax, a few pair of sil
ver buckles, son e fiber tea spoons, a blacksmith's vice,
sundry gunsmith's tools, feme breaft-buckhs not finish
ed, three military books, and one buckskin. The
owner or owners proving property and paying charges
may have them again, by applying to
BENJAMIN PASCHALL.
W&^s@
GENERAL
SA TURDA Y,
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[ Published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. ]
The C RISI S.
No. VIII.
Addressed to the People of ENGLAN D, by the
Author of COMMON SENSE.
'' RUSTIN G, (fays the King of England tn his
X speech of November last) in the Divine Provi
' dence, and in the justice of my cause, I am firmly refol
" ved to prosecute the war with vigor, and to make every
" exertion in order to compel our enemies to equitable
" terms of peace and accommodation." To this declarati
on the United States of America and the Confederated
Powers of Europe, will reply, Ij Britain quill have war,
Jbe /ball have enough of it.
Five years have nearly elapsed fines the commencement
of hoftihties, and every campaign, by a gradual decay,
has lessened your ability to conquer, without producing
in you a furious thought on your condition or your fate.
Like a prodigal lingering in an habitual consumption, you
feel the relicks of life and rajflake them for recovery. New
febemes, like new medicines, have adminiflered freffi hopes
and prolonged the disease instead of curing it. A change
of Generals, like a change of physicians, served only to
keep the flattery alive, and furnifh new pretences for new
extravagance.
" Can Britain fail?" * Has been proudly allied at the
commencement of every enterprize, and that “ whatever
foe wills is fate, " § has been given with the solemnity of
prophetic confidence, and tho' the question has been con
stantly replied to by disappointment, and the prediction
falsified by misfortune, yet still the insult continued, and
your catalogue of national evils encreafed therewith. Ea
ger to persuade the world of her power, The considered de
flr&aion as the minister of greatness, and conceived that
the glory of a nation, like that of an Indian, lay in the
number of its scalps and the miseries it infills.
Fire, sword and want, as far as the arms of Britain
could extend them, have been spread with wanton cruelty
along the coast of America ; and while you, remote from
the feene of (uttering, had nothing to lose and as little to
dread, the information reached you like a tale of anti
quity, in which the distance of time defaces the concep
tion, and changes the fevered sorrows into converfable a
musement.
Hitherto you have experienced the expences, but no
thing of the miseries of war. Your disappointments have
been accompanied with no immediate fuffi ring, and your
loses came to you only by intelligence. Like fire at a
distance, you heard not even the cry ; you felt not the
danger, you saw not the confufion. To you every thing
has been foreign but the taxes to support it. You knew
not what it was to be alarmed at midnight with an armed
enemy in the Greets. You were Grangers to thediftreffing
feene of a family in flight, and to the thousand restless
cares and tender sorrows that incessantly arose. To fee
women and children wandering in the (everity of win
ter with the broken remains of a well furnifhed house, and
feekiog shelter in every crib and hut, were matters you had
no conception of. You knew not what it was to Hand by
and fee you: goods chopt up for fuel, and your bedsript
to pieces to make packages for plunder. The mrfery of
others, likea tempefluous night, added to the pleasures
of your own security. You even enjoyed the storm, by
contemplating the difference of conditions; and that
which carried forraw into the breasts of thousands, served
but to heighten in you a species of tranquil pride.
Yet these are but the fainter fufferings of war, when com
pared with carnage and daughter, the miseries of 'a mi
litary hospital, or a town in flames.
The people of America by anticipating distress had for
tified their minds against every species you could inflia.
They bad resolved to abandon their homes, to resign them
to deftrußion, and to seek new settlements rather than
submit. Thus familiarifed to misfortune, before it arri-
This makes the second paper, addressed perhaps in
vain, to the people of England. That advice should be
taken where example has failed, or precept be regarded
where warning is rediculed, is like a picture of hope rest
ing on difpair : But when time (hall stamp with universal
currency, the faffs you have long encountered with a
laugh, and the irresistible evidence of accumulated losses,
like the hand writing on the wall, dial! add terror to dis
tress, you will then, in a conflict of fufferings, learn to
fympathite with others by feeling for yourselves.
The triumphant appearance of the combined fleets in
the channel and at your harbour's mouth, and theexpe
dition of Captain Paul Jones on the western and eaflern
coast of England and Scotland, will, by placing you in the
condition of an endanc ered country, read to you a strong
er ledure on thecalamities of invasion, and bring to your
minds a truer pifture of promifenous distress, than the most
fiqilhed rhetoric can describe or the keenest imagination
conceive.
* Whitehead's new-years ode for 1776.
§ Ode at the isflallation of Lord North for Chancellor
of the University of Oxford.
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At the thoughts of a war at heme every man amongst
you ought to tremble. The profpea is far more dreadful
there than in America. Here the party that was against
the measures of the continent were in general a kind of neu
trals who added strength to neither army. There does not
exist a being so devoid of sense and sentiment as to covet
" unconditional fubm/fon," and therefore no man in Ame
rica could be with you in principle. Several might from a
cowardice of mind,/re/,r it to the hardships and dangers
of opposing it; but the fame disposition that gave them
such a choice, unfitted them to aft either for or against.
But England is rent into parties, with equal (hares of re
solution. The principle which produced the war, divides
the nation. Their animosities are in the highest date of
fermentation, and both sides by a call of the militia, are
in arms. No human forefight can difeern, no
coHclufion can be formed, what turn a war might take,
if once set on foot by an invasion. She is not now in a fit
disposition, to make a common cause of her own affairs,
and having no conquests to hope for abroad, and nothing
but expences arifiog at home, her every thing is staked
upon a defenfive combat, and the further (he goes the
worse ffie is off.
FEBRUARY 26, 1780.
But when their fufferings (hall become yours, and inva.
fion be transferred upon the invaders, you will have nei
ther their extended wilderaefs to fly to, their cause to
comfort you, nor their hopes to rest on. Distress with
them was sharpened by no felf-refkcticn. They had not
brought it on themselves. On the contrary, they had by
every proceeding endeavoured to avoid it, and had des
cended even below the mark of congressional charader to
prevent a war. The national honor or the advantages &f
independence were matters, which at the commencement
ot the depute, they had never ftuaied, and it was only at
the last moment that the reeafare was refclved cn. Thus
circumstanced, they naturally ahd conscientiously felt a de
pendence upon Providence. They had a clear pretention
to it, and had they failed therein, infidelity had gained a
triumph.
But your condition is the reverie of theirs. Every thing
you fuffer you have fought; may, had you created mifehiefs
on purpose td inherit them, you could not have secured
your title by a firmer deed. The world awakens with no
pity at your complaints. You felt none fer others; you
deserve none for yourselves. Nature does not interest
herfelf in cases like yours, but on the contrary turns from
them with dislike and abandons them to punishment. Yom
may now present memorials to what Court you please,
but so far as America is the object, none will listen. The
policy of Europe and the propensity there is in every mind
to curb insulting ambition, and bring cruelty to judgment,
are unitedly against you ; and where nature and mtereft
reinforces each other, the compact is too intimate to be
dissolved.
Make but the case of others your own, and your own
theirs, and will then have a clear idea of the whole, had
France afted towards her Colonies as you have done, you
would have branded her with every epithet of abhorrence
and had you, like her, ftept in to fuccour a struggling peel
ple, all Europe must have echoed with your own applauses.
But entangled in the passion of dispute, you fee it is not
as you ought, and form opinions thereon which fruit
with no interest but your own. You wonder America
does not rife in union with you to impose on herfelf a por
tion of your taxes and reduce herfelf to unconditional
fubroiffion. You are amazed that the Southern Powers
of Europe do not assist yera in conquering a country which
is afterwards to be turned against themselves; and that
the northern ones do not contribute to reinflate you in
America, who already enjoy the market for naval fiores
by the (eparation. You seem surprised that Holland dees
not pour in her fuccours to maintain you mistress of the
seas, when her own commerce is (offering by your Aft of
navigation, or that any country fhauld £udy her own
interests while yours is on the carpet.
Such excesses of passionate folly, and unjust as well as
unwise resentment, have driven you on, like Pharoah, to
unpitied miseries, and while the importance of the quar
rel (hall perpetuate your disgrace, the flag of America
will carry it round the world. The natural feelings of
every rational being will take against you, and wherever
the Rory (hall be told, you will have neither excuse nor
consolation left. With an unsparing hand and an vnfatiable
mind, you have havocked the world, both to gain domi
nion and to lose it, and while, in a frenzy of avarice and
ambition, the east and weft were doomed to tributary bon
dage, you rapidly earned defteudion as the wages of a
nation.
There are situations a nation may be in, in which peace
or war, abfiraded from every other consideration, may be
politically right or wrong. When nothing can be loft by
a war, but what must be loft without it, war is then the
policy of that country; and such was the situation of A
merica at the commencement of hostilities : But when
yed, they bore their portion with the less regret: The
justness of their cause was a continual source of consolation,
and the hope of final vißory, which never left them, served
to lighten the load and fweetew the cup allotcd them to
drink.
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