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ACT* of the House of Bourbon, 'the E^d declared
vi,< b was a Joanne be molt heartily fitMertbed to,
ami hvoed every lucceffor to hm would feel the
foce t, that the perfun who presided at the sdmi
r^ty Hoaed in Great Britain, was no longer worthy
of voiding hi? ^Fe, than while be kept the nary of
this coujry m a (Erie of Superiority over that ot
every other European power.
^ pad Lord Chatham very high compliments
on res decW -ti i. that he wished no r to have Ame
rica independent, but weed'd at all events, pre^ve
the Cper'iori y of Great Britain and oblige the A
mericans to alow the force of the Navigation Act.
This Ins Lordship remarked was a ftde of chunking,
which was very different fr mi the general language
of Opeofainb; and he doubted not, that many o:
the n<&e Lords, who would go entirely with the
Ear: in the bufin fs and debate of 'he day, enter
turned ferFmems of an oppose nature.
The noble Earl had declared, that among ^..cr
Infos 'his country felt fom pursuing the American
War. the river of L^fbon Was flint op. This decla
ration, his Lordship said, was to him Together
Vom te!h,h!e; we had two men of war now Ration
ed in the'rver of Lisbon, and we had the f r ee Me of
the river as much as ever. Add to this the Porto
fuefe puhlickly denied countenancing the ^eri
cans. and in conf p que^ce some of the Rebel priva
teers' had attacked and taken one of the Pprtuguefe
Ships richly laden.
With regard to France he said he would venture
to declare,'that remonstrances, thong remonstrances
had been made to the Court of Versailles on the
score of affixing the Americans and cemtenandng
their privateers. That as a nation the French had
solemnly declared their intentions to aft amicably to
Great-Britain; that their public ordinances, many
of which had been lately issued, corresponded with
this declaration; that as for a : her corroboration
.of it, they had lately ordered that no American ffiip
should come into their ports, un!efs io ca es of par
ticular and urgent distress; and that no longer (ince
than 1 fortnight ago, they obliged the American
Cantain, who had brought in two of our oet-in
dia fleet to a port in France, to give up his prizes,
and had rest red them to the merchants here, aid
that the (hips were now on their way to England.
That Great B ritain had ev ry national assurance of
fiind nip from France; and although it could not
be denied, nor avoided but that in such a fixation
that ue Rood in wdh America, private persons in
Fance might clandefhnely fend out stores and fur-
Tiifh the rebels with rffiftance, that it would surely
be impolitic to commence a new war on such an ac
count; and that the men who endeavoured to em
broil their country in a French war at this crisis,
ccu'd' not be said to be friends and well-wishers to
%heir country.
The noble Ear] had said, he wished to fee the
man who dared to stand forward and tell his Majes
ty that his affairs were in a hopeful condition. He
could, he declared, Shew his forehead on that score;
and with an unembaraffed countenance, tell him
that his affairs were in a hopeful condition. News,
he prefilmed, would soon arrive from Sir Wiliam
Howe, which would not only effectually disprove
the calamitous and diftreFed relation given by the
noble Earl as descriptive of the present fixation of
affairs, but would operate to the fatisfa&ion of every
member of that Houle, and to the Satisfaction of the
whole nation.
Lord Ab%d®n followed Lord Sandwich, and
was for a reflation of hostilities.
Lord Shelburne would not credit the accounts of
the navy Rated by the Earl of Sandwich, and asked
why official papers were not laid before the House in
a proper parliamentary manner. He attacked the
Ministry, and took up an hour in arranging their
mebfures, and giving his reasons for coinciding with
the Earl of Chatham in Support of the amendment.
Lord Suffolk replied to various parts of Lord
Chatham's speech, and gave his negative to the a
mendment, as impolitic and ill timed.
The Duke of Grafton complained of the mode of
managing the debates; he was exceedingly fevereon
Adminiftraticn on account of the whole of their con
d'uCt, anti Supported the amendment.
Lord Carnarvon followed the D^ke of Grafton.
Lord Camden took pains to (hew that France had,
in the most cpen manner, countenanced and assisted
the Americans. His Lordship returned to the old
argument upon the Score of Great-Britain's expecting
unconditional fubmihion, and the Americans havi g
no intention to declare themselves independent till
our conduct reduced them to the neceflity of making
such a declaration. His Lordship ended his speech
with averting, that “ he had rather fee America in
dependent, than America etilaved.
LANCASTER: Printed by JOHN DUN LAP, in Queen-street,
i^rd W^mouih attacked Lerd Camhden or the'
cl aoge of his language from fait ieffiors, refpe&ing]
toe cond^a of France,
The Wfbop of Peterborough, in albert speech, ar-;
raigned the conduct of Great Britain, lamented the §
lill curdequeuces already felt from the present war ;
j having been carried on so long, prophesied that the•
mifehief wow'd increase in proportion to its co-unu-j
ance, and adkifed that this country flweld make thej
firft overture towards an accommodation, ar a proof 1
that the had forgot her paGoo and relcotment.
Tie Duke of Richmond went over the old ground
of the origin of the war, recapitulated its various
events and endeavored ro Shew, that io three years.
we had only gained two towns, and that the ablest
anti .netician could not p'ffibiy calculate the time
when we ffinulb be able to conquer all America.
Lord Effingham pointed out tome contradictions
which had fa:ien from the mouths of the ministry
and the Lords in office, in the course of the debate,
and took pams to jaftify the amendment, and the
advice given by the noble Earl who proposed it.
Lord 3ufo.k rose again to obviate the objedi ns
made agaiuft Government ter employing the indi
ans, and fhewe.l, that if we had not embodied them
to aflid us in repulfog the rebels, they would have
got them to attack u?; that our motive was the
great and universal principle of felf-prefervation.
I an 3 that when an unnatural rebellion was begun, it
Purely was not only judhiabe b^t ftridy politic, to
exert every instrument in quelling it, which God
and nature had put into our hands.
Lord Chatham rose in vehement warmth, and de
claied, that he was exceedingly shocked at what the
Secrecy of State had avowed.; Shocked as a pro
feffer of religion; Ihocked as a Christian senator;
(hooked as a Lord of Parliament; and (hocked as a
man of humanity! Bis Lordship with great londnefs
of tone, rep obated the idea of tuning the ravages
loose upon the Americans with their tomahawks
and fearing knives; he laid it was letting a pack of
hell hounds to hunt them, and in a literal feofe of
the words, to eat them up, and that to ule the
terras God and nature, in defence 2nd avowal„ef the
circti - dance, was in his eyes, molt horrid and da
ring preemption.
Lord buffk repelled this attack, and juftified
the expreflion.
The Lord President (Lord Gower) declared that
Lord Chatham was Minifer during the late war
when the Indians were employed by the English in
the fame manner as they now were.
Lord Chatham endeavoured to throw the blame
on the officers, and said. that no authority for so
employing them was given by Government, or ient
from the office to the cummaoders.
Lord Cover then charged the Earl with having
had the condud of the war, and comfeiTing his ignor
ance of the manner in which it was conduced, in
stancing that prefers had been sent to the Indians,
and treaties made with them, which no officer could
have dared to have mada, without authority from
Government.
Lord Amberg was called on to prove that the In
dians were employed —-which he acknowledged.
Lord dhwnfoend allo proved that they were, but
said they were chiefly as Calmucks and Pandours.
Lord Chatham again role, and put the bell face he
could on his assertion.
Lord Shelburne and the Duke of Grafton support
ed him. The Duke said, letting look the lavages
was as bad as poifooing rivers, and yet the latter
might be deemed an instrument which God and na
ture had put into our hands.
At length, •'The Question being called for from
all parts of the House, it was put, when the House
divided, and the numbers were,
Non Contents, 84
Proxies, 13
Contents, 24
Proxies, 0
So that Lord Chatham's motion was rejected on
a division 97 against 24.
Lord I ercy afterwards reported an Address to the
House, which was read and agreed to, and the
Lords with white ftaves ordered to wait on his Ma
jesty, to know^when he would please to be attended
therewith.
At the conclusion of the debate on the motion for
the address, and after the division thereon, Lord
Wifichelfea moved, after a fbort introdudory speech,
for a congratulatory Address to the Queen, on the
birth of a Princess; which motion was seconded by
Lord Powis.
Toe House broke up at half past ten o'clock.
(Debates in the House of Lords to be continued in our
next.)
N E W-Y OR K Feirer, 6.
£rf%7 of a letter from good authority, dated
London, December 9, 1777.
<< r^'HE account of General Burgoyne's treaty
# with Mr. Gates arrived when the tw
Henles of Parliament were fitting, and in the warmth
of high debate: You may imagine that the frien
of Government were ranch confounded 2nd flagger
ed by Rich a (hock; but you cannot imagine how
furioufly, illiberally and indecently opp^firion tri
umphed on the occafiun; opening and roaring like
^ n any bull dr gs agairdf Adminiftrarion. The
King, 'God blels him, for we never had a better
one, and no cßei nation had ever io good an ene,
who fee s every calamity and m\ c fntune of his peo
ple, was greatly afß&ed; but with that magnanimi
ty which tfitiingNfh his character, he loon declared
that such a cable fovald never be given up, that this
iofs must be retrieved by greater and more vigorous
exertions, and that he would even
“ fell Hanover and all his private estate before he
wiCd desert the cause of his lovat timerscan Jubje&t,
who haafuflere Isa much for bin:'
"In two or three das the nation recovered from
it's surprise, and now is ready to Support the King
and his Ministers in the proper and vigorous use of
such means as are adequate to the great end of re
ducing the revolted colonies ce a conftiwional sub
ordination. Many of both Houses of Parliament
have fpok-en to this effect with great spirit, and one
Member of the Commons, Mr. Cambridge, laid,
that he would parr with re usance with one Shilling
in the pound towards raising another army cf ten
thousand, men for America; yet he would chearfully
pay twelve (hidings in the pound towards an addi
tional ar.ny of sixty thousand men."
,ufl publifoed and to be fold by
JO-H N D U N L A P,
Near the Cotirt-houfe in Lancaster,
THOUGHTS
ON THE
LETTER of EDMUND BURKE, Esq:
TO THE
SHERIFFS of BRISTOL,
On the AFFAIRS of AMERICA.
By the Earl of ABINGDON.
IN this excellent political traft .h: noble Earl has
strenuously asserted the rights of his countrymen,
in opposition to the arbitrary and despotic nieafures
pursued by the British Court. His sentiments of the
present unjust and cruel war on the part of Britain, and
of those who promoted and continue to Support it, are
contained in the following (hurt extras, which con
cludes this spirited performance.
" Upon the whole, when 1 perceive a war, arid such
a war too, so weakly supported, and yet so violently
pursued : When I find the most elevated of the Church,
preaching and publishing to the world paffiie obedi
ence and non refinance to the supremacy of law, whe
ther that law be right or wrong, whether it be good
or bad, whether it be to establish Popery or Protest
antism, whether it be ena&ed by an honest, or by a
corrupt and abandoned Parliament : When I fee men
that were pillored in the reign of good old George 11.
pensioned in this, and for the fame reasons: When I
hear of others hired to root out the very idea of public
virtue from the minds, and tear benevolence from the
hearts ot Englishmen : When I refk&, but why add
more to the black catalogue of public dangers ? It is
time to look at home . •It is time, even with Jlentoriqie
voice, to call for union among the friends of the Con
stitution : It is time that private opinion Should yield to
public fa'ety: It is time that we ktep both "watch and
ward ;" for if the liberties of our fellow fubjedfs in
America are to be taken from them, it is for the ideot
only to fuppefe that we can preserve our own. The
dagger uplifted against the breast of America, is meant
for the heart of Old England.
" In fine, these are my sentiments, and these my
principles. They are the principles of the Conftim
tion ; and under this persuasion, whilst I have Signed
them with my name, I will, if neceliary, as readily,
seal them with my blood."
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ilt Pennsylvania Reg.