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Bordentown, December 25, 1779.
Gentlemen,
fr H E very polite and warm address with which you
A have been pleased to honor us, affords us a degree of
fatisfaßion much easier felt than expressed-
Your own merits and universal good conduct demanded
every exertion on dur parts, to render your situation as
agreeable as possible; your congratulations therefore, on
our success in this point are more peculiarly pleading.
We return you our warmest thanks, for the approbation
you are pleased to express of our characters and conduct
as men and soldiers ; and beg you to be assured that our e
steem is truly reciprocal.
Weview with equal regret the day of parting, and can
only console ourselves, with the hope of again being honor
ed with the command of a body of gentlemen whom we
honor and refpeß.
Believe us therefore, gentlemen, after wishing you every
future success and happiness, t© be with the most cordial
affection, Your most obedient,
and very humble servants,
CHRISTIAN FEBiGER, Col. V. L. I.
THOMAS POSEY, Major, V. L. I.
To the Officers of the Virginia Light Infantry.
EXTRACTS from the Journals of Congress.
Saturday, November 13, 1779.
A Letter of the ,th from Major General Sullivan was
read, requesting leave, on account of his ill Rate of
health, to retire from the service :
Whereupon a motion was made by Mr. Gerry fecond
-6d by Mr. Harnett, « that the refignati®n of Major Ge
neral Sullivan be not accepted, but that he have leave to
retire from the service as long as he shall judge it expedient
for the recovery of his health."
A motion was made by Mr. Morris seconded by Mr.
Matthews, that the foregoing letter and motion be re
ferred to a Committee of three.
Resolved in the affirmative.
The Members chosen, Mr. Morris, Mr. Harnettand
Mr. Forbes.
November 16.
The Marine Committee having communicated to Con
gress a paragraph of a letter from J. Beatty, Commissary-
General of Prisoners, informing “ that there are some
Spaniards on board the prison (hip at New York, whole
Beceffities call for our support:" Thereupon
From the LONDON EVENING POST.
AMERICA'S ADDRESS TO ENGLAND.
ENGL AN D, remember the opprobrious let
Denounc’d against me by a hungry Sot ;
The wretched flav'ry, remember too,
Which he prepar’d for me is doom’d for you ;
For death or life refold’d, in such a cause,
Bravely I flrove for liberty and laws;
Preserv’d them too—by your io firunions taught,
My sons thought nobly, and as nobly fought.
Oh ! cherish ever Freedom’s sacred fire,
Nor let it perish till the world expire.
PHILADELPHIA, January 18.
On Thursday, after a short illness, AMOS STRET
TELL, Esq ; departed this life in the 6oth year of his
age. In the public stations which he formerly filled, as
aßepreJentatiwe in General Afembly, for this county ; an
Aiderman of the city ; a Truflee of the General Laan Office
andof the College, he obtained the approbation of his fel
low-citizens; as a Merchant he was eminent and intelli
gent; in the more silent path of private life deservedly
beloved by hisfamily and the poor, for hffeaion and be
neficence. His remains were deposited on Sunday even
ing in the family vault, in Christ Church burial-ground,
refpedfully attended by a large number of the principal
inhabitants.
The OFFICERS of the Virginia Light-Infantry, to
Colonel Christian Febicer, and Major Thomas
Posey.
PERMIT us; dear Gentlemen, with hearts warm
with the most genuine afftdion, to return you our
most sincere acknowledgments for that obliging kindness
and amiable disposition which has ever characterized you,
since the commencement of your command over us.
Formed as you both are, by nature and cultivation, to
administer the highest felicity and happiness to troops,
we sincerely congratulate you on possessing accomplish
ments, which will render marches agreeable, which were
the most fatiguing, and the greatest inconveniencies of si
tuation in agreat degree, happy beyond our most sanguine
expectations.
We are flruck with a pleasing idea when viewing your
abilities—in you we fee the soldier, the gentleman, and
the, social companion.
Whether we fee you at the head of the column, leading
us to honour and fame ; or on the parade giving us the
necessary inftru ftions; or in the convivial party, associa
ting mirth, good humour, decency and f riendfhip toge
ther! We fay, in each of these lights, separate or con
joined, we have felt the truest and wdrmeft sentiments
of heart felt esteem for you (gentlemen,) who have thus
led us by the hand, to fame, honor and happiness!
But alas! the day is at length arrived that we most fe
parate^ We do it with regret. Yet as it may be condu
cive to our country’s service, we acquiesce, with that phi
losophic greatness of mind, that a good man feels on the
loss of his dearest friends and relatives.
Gentlemen, you knsw us to be men of honor and sol
diers, possessed with that rectitude of sentiment, that never
was found in the bread of the fawning panegyrift. There
fore, take the just praise that we think due to your merits,
as the honed effufions of manly hearts, that wishes to
distinguish virtue, and pay it proper honor wherever
found.
Accept therefore, dear gentlemen, this unfeigned testi
mony of our esteem, and believe us to be, with every sen
timent of regard and re fpeft,
Your most obedient, most devoted,
and very humble servants,
The Officers of the Virginia Light-Infantry.
( Sighed by order of the above)
ARTHUR LIND, Lieut. L. I.
Bordentown, December 25, 1779.
Resolved, That the Comtniffary-General of Prisoners
be directed, until the further order of Congress, to make
the fame provision for the Spanish prisoners in New-York
as is made for the prisoners of the United States, keeping
a separate account thereof.
A report from the Board of War was read ; whereupon
Resolved, That in addition to the Sub Clothiers ap
pointed by virtue of the ordinance of the 23d of March,
1779, for regulating the Cloathing Department, the
Clothier-General, with the approbation of the Board of
War and the Commander in Chief, appoint a Sub-Cloth
ier to receive from the Clothier-General and the federal
Sub State - Clothiers the proportion of cloathing assigned
the artillery, cavalry, artificers and corps composed of
troops from different States, according to the general esti
mate, and to cause such cloathing to be distributed to the
officers and folders of the several corps aforefaid, and in
all other refpeds to govern his conduct in theexecution of
the said business agreeably to the regulation of Congress of
the 23d of March, 1779, rejecting the Sub Clothiers.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the several States
to allow the corps of artificers established by Congress the
12th inflant, all the benefits provided for officers and sol
diers in thb line of their quotas of the Continental batta
lions, except the half pay:
That the commanding officer of the corps of artificers
shall be allowed the fame pay and fubfiftance as a Lieute
nant-Colonel;
That the allowance of pay, fubfiftance and cloathing of
the other officers and men of the said artificers, be the
fame with that of the artillery artificers under the com
mand of Col. B. Flower.
According to order Congress proceeded to the election
of a Deputy Secretary, and the ballots being taken,
Mr. George Bond was elected.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the Executive
Authority of the refpeßive States, upon the application
of the Judge-Advocate for that purpose, to grant proper
writs requiring and compelling theperfon or persons whole
attendance shall be requested by the said Judge, to appear
and give teflimony in any cause depending before a Court
martial ; and that it be recommended to the Legislatures
of the several States to vest the necessary powers for the
purposes aforefaid in their executive authorities, if the
fame be not already done.
Resolved, That the Marine Committee be authorifed
from time to time to appoint Advocates for the purpose
of taking care of and managing the maritime causes in
which the United States are or may be concerned.
November 26.
Resolved, That the returns for cloathing for officers in
the medical ftaff, (Regimental Surgeons and their Mates,
who are to draw with the regimental flaff, excepted) be
signed by the Director -General or the Pnyfician General
and Surgeon-General of the diftrift, and such cloathing
shall be delivered either by the Clothier-General, or any
Sab-Clothier in the State in which the officer to receive
cloathing shall reside, as is provided in the cases of other
flaff officers not taken from the line:
That no cloathing shall be fold or delivered to non-com
missioned officers or soldiers, beyond the articles they have
received as their bounty, until the whole of thearmyfhall
have received their bounty cloathing, it being the intention
hereof that the surplus only shall be disposed of.
Resolved, That when any Committee appointed by
Congress have prepared their report, the fame shall be de
livered to the Secretary at the table, wh® shall immediate
ly indorfe thereon the day of delivery, and if more than
one are delivered on the fame day, the firft shall be indor
fed No. i, the second No 2. and so on, to the intent th^t
on the following day, after the Journals, any dispatches
which may have been received, and the reports from the
Board of Treasury and Board of War, are severally read,
decid'd upon or poflponed, thereports of the Committees
may be read in the order of tiie dates and numbers 'indof
fed on them.
November 27.
Congress took into confederation the report of the Com
mittee on the letter of the 17th of October lafl from Ma
jor General Schuyler ; whereupon
Congress agreed to the following aofwer to the said letter:
SI R,
“ NOTWITHSTANDING the many inju
ries committed by the Savages, Congress are disposed to
peace : The conditions on which they insist are,
Pirft, That it shall be supplicated on the part of the e
nemy ; secondly, thatthey shall surrender all the Arne
ricansin their hands; thirdly, that they shall expel all
British Agents and Emissaries; fourthly, that they shall
covenant to deliver up such as shall hereafter go among
them ; fifthly, that they shall covenant not to takeup the
hatchet again under penalty of being driven from their
country ; and sixthly, that they shall give hostages for
Their Arid adherence to the promises to be by them made."
To which it was moved by Mr. Forbes seconded by
Mr. Houston, to add,
" And that Congress are willing to accept of any ces
sion of territory which the said Indians may be inclined to
make to the United States, reserving to any particular
State their right of a prior claim to the territory afore
faid, or any part thereof ;’'
An amendment was moved by Mr. Livingston second
ed by Mr. Schuyler, to add,
“ Which cession fliall be for the benefit of such State
as may have a prior right .•"
On which the yeas and neys being required by Mr. Forbes,
It passed in the negative.
The previous quellion was then moved by Mr. Gerry,
and seconded by Mr. Sharpe ;
On which the yeasand nays being required by Mr Forbes,
It passed in the affirmative, and the main question was
fetafide.
A motion was then made by Mr. Marchant, seconded
by Mr. Forbes,
" That it be one condition of the Peace, that no land be
fold or ceded by any of the said Indians, either as indi
viduals or as a nation, unless unto the United States of A
merica, or by the consent of Congress ; ’’
On which the previous question was moved by Mr. Ger
ry, seconded by Mr. Sharpe,
And the yeas and nays being required by Mr. Mar
chant,
It was resolved in the affirmative, and themain question
set aside.-
December 6.
. Resolved, That General Washington he informed that
Congress approve of Colonel Baylor's regiment of dra
goons,at prefect commanded by Lieut.Ccl. W firngtun,
being sent to South-Carolina, and that the Boaid of
War ordtr them to proceed immediately to join Major
Gentrd Lincoln.,
A report from the Board of War was read ; whereupon
Resolved, That all efficers who have been or fh%ll he
indulged with furloughs, and who have not joined or
shall not jein their corps at the expiration of the times
limited therein, and all officers a'fent without leave,
fhall,when practicable so to do, be perfcnall, notif id nd
directed by the commanding officer of the corps to join
their regiment or d>rps in a reasonable time after receipt
of such notification; andin case of hegleQ or refufal so to
do, or to give fatisfaftory reasons for their remaining
absent therefrom, a Court martial, cn proof made of
such notice given and conlequent negle^ or refufal, fhdi
proceed against such absentees, in the fame manner as if
they ware present, and such absence and neglect or te
fufal to appear or giv, fitisfa&ory reasons for their con
tinuance of absence, shall be Efficient cause for cafhier
in,, by judgment of the Cebrtmartial, the officers so
notified and neglecting cr relufiag:
That, when from the want of information of the re
sidence of any absent officer cr cffiers, the commanding
officer of the corps or regimeht shall not have it in bis
power to fend a personal notifi a'ioh, hr shall puhlifh in
the new^-p^pers of the State where such absent officer or
officers belong and usually reside, an order requiring gc^
rerally all absent officers belonging to such corps or re
giment to join the fame in a fpecified time; and in case
of negh& or refufal to appear within the time . mit'd
or before the fitting of the Court-Martial, if such space
of time in the opinion of the Court be reasonable and
proper, such abientee or absentees shall be proceeded
against in like manner with those receiving personal notice.
December 7.
Congress proceeded to,he election cf a Commissioner
for the Board of Admiralty, and the ballots being taken;
Francis L,wis, Eiq; was chosen.
Congress proceeded to the election of a Commissioner
for the Board o' War, and the ballots being taken,
Colonel William Grayson was chosen.
December io.
A letter of the 6th from Lieutensmt Colonel John
Laurens was read, declining to accept the office of Se
cretary to the Minister at the Court of France with
which Congress were pleased to honor him.
December st.
Congress took into t whfidersticn the report ofthe Com
mittee for procuring supplies for the army, and 'hereupon
Resolved, That th Legiftature of the State of Virginia
be requeued to furrilh, for the army <f the United
States, on or before the firft day of April next, twenty,
thousand barrels of Indian corn, and transport the fame
to such places within the said State as the Comm;ffary
General of Purchases shall dir<B :
7 hat the Legislature of the State of Maryland be re
queued that, in addition to the fifteen thoufahd barrels
of flour heretofore required of them, to furnifh for the
army of the United States, on or before the firft day of
April next, fire thousand barrels of flour and five thou
sand barrels of Indian corn :
That the State o' Pmnfvlvania be requested to furrifh„
for the army of the United States, on or before the firft
day of April next, fifty thousand barrels of flour, or
wheat in proportion :
That the ten thousand barrels of fl : ur, or wheat in
proportion, heretofore requeued from the State cfDJa
ware, by the Committee of Corgr^fs, be furoifhed as
foot )as possible:
That eight thousand barrels of flour be reqvefted from
the State o^ New-Jersey, part of which to be furniflied ax
soon as possible, to answer the immediate demands of the
army:
That the State of Connecticut be requeued to furnish for
the army of the United States, eight thousand barrels of
flour:
Resolved, That the Committee who brought in the
report be directed to confer with his Excellency the
President and Supreme Executive Council o' Pennsylva
nia, in order to their carrying into execution ths rc
queft of Congress made to their State :
That letters be written to the other States, requesting
them immediately to proceed in furnishing the (applies.
^W^^/eMM^eM^^M^X^
Philadelphia, "January rtf.
TO BE SOLD,
At the Continental Navy Store, (the firft store to the
northward of Willing and Morris's wharf,)
A QUANTITY cf
Mufeovado SUGAR, and COFFF E,
Which will be fold by the finglr barre?, to accommo
date the inhabi ants.
Alic, a QU A NTIT Y of
WRITING PAPER:
The following articles are just imported for sale, by
JOH N WO ODWA RD,
In Front-street, the fourth house below Walnut-street,
fronting the river,
IRISH LINENS assorted;
PEPPER; CHINA BOWLS,
And a neat afforttflent of CUTLERY.
CAME to John Mar&ll's, near the New
Play House in Sauth-ftteet, onSune-y the 2d m
ftant, (January) a for el GELDIN G, with a
flaxen mane and tail, has tome tat die spots on his back,
a star in his forehead, shod all round, about five or fix
years old, and about fourteen and a half hands high.
The owner is desired to come, prove his property, pay
charges and take him away, or he will be fold in a
month's time to pay his expences.