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icfs king, but by the ardent glow of gener
* ous patriotism. We fight not to enslave,
% but to set a country free, and to make room
* upon the earth for Monett men to live in.
;In such a cause we ae sure we are right ; and
swe leave to you the despairing reflection of
,being the tool of a miserable tyrant.
I COMMON SENSE.
I Philadelphia, Sept. 12, at noon.
g _
FISH-K IL L, Sept. 18.
fYefterday we received the following by ex
-3 press from Peck's Kill:
" By a gentleman who arrived at General
; Putnam's head quarters lad evening from
(Philadelphia we have the following intelli
!g<nee that may be depended on : Our loss
^judained in the action of the 11th instant, on
(Brandywine Creek, doth not exceed 1000
Skilled and wounded. The enemy's loss, kil
led and wounded, is reckoned to be 2000.
^We loft 7 field pieces in the action. Howe
,never moved from the field of adion all Fri
£ day and Saturday, but was buffied in taking
fccare of the wounded^ apd burying his dead.
General Washington, who had retired on this'
[fide the Schuylkill, after being reinforced,
on the 14th recrofftd for Chester, in order to
(make Gen. Howe another visit. Our army
t are in good spirits ; and although they have
(met with a small repulse, General Howe's
p whole force being opposed to little more than
f one half of General Washington's strength,
; owng to the situation in which the engage
' merit; happened, yet the repulse serves as sti
mulus to put our people on their metal, and
fto arouse them to tremendous exertions ;
[their spirits rising at Howe's approaching,
fowhofe deftru&ion hastens with his advanc
. ing—- as the southern army are determined
not to fuffer the northward to outvie them in
f milita y exploits and glory. We hear that
Bright before last, Colonel Burr had the ad
; dress, with a party of men, to surprise the
{enemy's picket, near Hackenfack, killed 16
(dead on the spot, mortally wounded 7, and
'Took the rest, except three, without having
a man killed or wounded, that we have
heard of."
Extract of a letter from Albany, Sept. 15.
" Last Monday, at gun-firing, our army
'moved forward, and they are now four miles
[above Stillwater, in the greated spirits and
* health. The enemy have called in their ad
pranced Posts, which were Rationed a little
I below Gen. Schuyler's house. Burgoyne
continues his Head-Quarters at Fort Miller.
£Gen. Lincoln with his army is at Pawler, a
place from whence he can easily move in the
tyear of the enemy.
H " Yesterday between 2 and 300 Indians
(arrived here ; they aimed all brought their
forms with them, and no doubt they will now
^be taken into our service."
, B OS 1 O N, September >B.
COPIES of the following letters from Lieuten
[ ant General Burgoyne to Major General
Gates, with General Gate's an/wer, are just
com? to hand; but the copter has probably
made a mistake in the date of General Bur
^ goyne's letter ; for General Gates certainly re
ceived it by a flag on the M infant anddref
^ fed to Major General Gates, or other cffi
^ cer commanding in the American troops in
g Half-moon.
fßead Sorters of the King's army upon Hud
-0 Jan's Fiver, Augud 30, 1777.
I SIR,
AJOR Gerera'Reidfel has request-
I ^ I ed me to tralmitthfyclofed to Lieut.
„ Col. Baum, whom the fotune of war,
gpu: into the hands of your troops at Ben
wfoington.
Having never failed in my attention to
tyv^ds priGners, I cannot emeitam a doubt
f your taking this opportunity to (hew me
@rerun of civility; and thatyou will per
^rn t the baggage and servants otluch officers,
%our prfoners, as define it, to paf d to them
4jnmclefted.
I is wuh u eat concern j had outed ob
liged to add to this application, a complain t
of the bad reatment the Provincial folchers
in the King's ferv ce received after the affair
at Bennington. I have reports upon oath,
that some were refufed quarters after hav
ing alked it. lam willing to believe this
was agaioft the order and inclination or your
officers; but it is my part to require an ex
planation, and to warn you of the horrors
of retaliation, if such a practice is not in the
strongest terms difcountenanccd and repre
hended.
Duty and principle, Sir, tnak^ me a pub
lic enemy to the Americans, wno have
taken up arms; but I seek to be a generous
one; nor hare 1 the shadow or resentment
against any individual,, who dees not enduce
it by ads Derogatory to those maxims, up
on which all men of honor think alike.
Persuaded that a Gentleman of the Ration
to which this letter is addressed, will not be
comprized in the exception I have made.
I am personally, fir year humble servant,
J BURGOYNE, Lieut. General.
M. Gen. Gates.
Major General Gate's answer.
He ad Quarters of the army of the United
States, Sept. 2 1777.
SI R,
LA,S T n ; ght I had the honor to re
ceive your Excellency's Ie ter of the
lit instant. I am aitonifhed you sh ufd
mention inhumanity, or threaten retalia
tion. Nothing happened in the adion at
Bennington, but what is common when
works are carried by assault.
That the savages of An erica (h uld, in
their warfare, mangle and scalp the unhap
py prisoners who fall into their hands, is
neither new or extraordinary; but that the
famous Lieutenant General Burgoyne, in
whom the fine Gentleman is united with the
soldier and the scholar, should hire the Sa
vages of America to icalphUtopians and de
feendants of Europeans . •Nay more, that he
should pay a price so each icalp so barba
roudy taken, is moe than wd be b@ eved
in Europe, until authentic t d fads n eve
ry gazette confirm the truth of the horrid
tale.
M is M^Rea, a young lady lovely to the
fight, of virtuous charade-, and amiable
disposition, eng2g:d to be married to an of
ficer in your arrnt, was, with other women
and children, taken cut of a house near
Fort Edard, carried into the woods, and
there lea ped and mangled in a most (hock
ing manner. Two patents, with their fix
children, were all treated with the fame in
humanity, while quietly residing in their
once happy and peaceful dwelling. The
miserable fate of Miss Me Rea was particu
larly aggravated, by her being dieffed to
receive her promised husband, but met' her
murderer, employed by you. Upwards
of one hundred men, women and ch Idren,
have perfhed by the hands of the ruffians,
to whom, it is asserted, you have paid the
price of blood.
Incloled are letters from your wounded
officers, prisoners in my hands: By them
you will be informed of the generosity of
their conquerors.
Such money, clothing, attendants and
necessaries, which your Excellency pleases to
fend to the prisoners, shall be faithfully de
livered. she late Col. Baum's servant is
at Bennington, would come to your Excel
lency's camp; but when I cffeiedhim a flag
he was afrad to run the rifque of being scal
ped, and declined.
When I know what surgeons and atten
dants your Excellency is desirous or fending
to Bennington, I mail dispatch an officer to
your lines to coadud them to my camp.
lam S' r , your molt humble servant,
HORATIO GATES, Major-General.
Lieut Gen, Burgoyne.
Qgrey-QQ^Yf r ^iffrrt^rt,rtrt#^'^ »&s„fyw#?,^*"=7vri^w^^g:•lfofr:i'^% ^
arfflared, b, ^ Gem ferna 4 With the so, [
lowing Cpy of General °\^ Grs. foA in tb&.
61b Indent at half Mon, previous to tb^
Army's marching to attack the En^ny at f>r^
Reward.
qrtftE Generals, command n? pivifion^
1 and all the Genesis and CMonels,
commanding, Brigades, to fee tha: the Com
manding Officep of Regithents and C < mpa-^
rues have every Thing in ihimtdiae Readi
nefs for a march ; that when General OzderiJl
are issued, the Army may only have to linker
their Tents, load their Baggage, end in-^
fta,ntly, at the Wod being given, marctf
off the Ground. A very large Army of Mi
litia, with 1; me Continental T-oops, unde&
the Command of Generals Lincoln and^
Sharks, are now aff^mblmg in the Gan's,
and every neceffarv Preparation for their ads
ing in Concert with this Army, upon the^
Point of being compleated. This wholes
Force mud be prepared to ma r ch, upon the^
shortest Notice, to drive the Enemy with§
Dhg r ace, and defeat back to Canada, is theffi
Object of the present Campaign. What has^
been fuccefsfully began, by General Swk.&
and Colonel Warner, to the Eastward, and^
General Harkemin and Co). Ganfeworth, ar§
the Westward, cannot (with the Bluffing ofo
Heaven) fail to be equally prefperous, in the^
Hands of the Generals and Soldiers, ap-%%
pointed to face the Enemy's main Atmy,
the Northward. If the Muder of aged^
Parents, with their innocent Children—
mangling; the blooming Virgin, and inno&
fe fi re Youth, are Inducements to Revenged
—if the rig tei^ Caule of F eedorn, and^
and the Happmefs cf Poftenty, are Mot ve^
to ft mula e the Arm' to conquer their mer
cenay and merciless F es, the Time is novs±
come, when they a r e called upon, by theirs
Country, by their General, b; every Th
Human acd D vine, to va qufh their Ene
my. Each. S ate, in paHicu ! ar, and theft
Grand Convent on of the United States,
general, are to ths M orient induftriouflyfi
employed to provide their Army with every^J
Comfort and Necessary that can be procure
ed.D'uty, Gratitude and Hono, must there
foe infpie the f'eart of evety Cffi e ard);|
Soldier, to do Juftise to their much injureo&
Country.
We are informed th^t Gen, Ga es, withfl
his whole Force, let half Moon last Mondayfl
le'n ught, from which, we may h uly ex fl
ped sane important Advices fiom tha
Quarter
H A RI FOR D, September 22.
On I uelday lart departed th s life ahera@
dittreffing fickuels,Mr. Ebenezer Watsonj{
Printer, in the ^th year ot his age. A^
gentleman of a m it humane he^rr, and^M
lufceptable of the tendeieft feeling for d 1
tress, in whatever manner difeovered—Jea&|
lous ot the rights of human nature, and anx
ious for the tatty of his country, his p ef^
hath been devoted to the vindication of ra
tional liberty. The Governors company
Cadets, ot khicn he was an Ensign, in tokens
of relped for the deceased, attended then
funeral in their uniforms. He has left ame
lancholy widow, with five young chld : e
and a numerous circle ot ftiends ro lament
his death.
Died on Saturday last, after a foort iimefs
Mes. Lovicy Blakely, wye,of Mr.J siah^
Blakely of ibis place, in tie 19th year cf by;
age- her amiable difyojitia, virtues ' lift
courteous and engaging m^rar of c nduEt, tn
beared her to ver hums and &gnm:ance, ax&
especially to the dijlrfld foufo, wb% in be^
death, b^ve met witb an irreparable loss.
Dr. Ezra Stiles is appointed P efident cB
Yale College by the Kev'u b unices of tha
Seminary, in the room of Piefident Da; <re:^
resigned.
IVe bear that MJ. Nathaniel Damelfon ^
Brimfield is corjinca in goal at Spring field cnJuf §
picton 0! murdering bis ore e."
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