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From the Conne&icu: Gazette, DAober a^
Mr. Green,
Your are earned!, defred tc publfo in your Ga
zette the Monopolizer's Looking Glass, for
the awakening, and, ifpoffible the recovery, of
a loft clafe of my fellow mortals ; who, in
their craiuEl, degrade tbemfelves beneath the
lowed degree of human depravity.
To the Monopolizers in Connecticut, and their
officiates.
MEN'S principles are known by their
practices. Actions speak louder than
wo da. By your fruits you are known;
though in many of you is seen the profeffing
chriftain; yet fochis the fruit as evidences
the tree which bears it, to grow on the de
vil's ground. Men's works, and not merely
their profeffion, that characterizes them. Ye
are of your father tbedevil, and his works
ye will do. A profeffing Christian and a doer
of the devil's work, centuring in one indi
vidual, make a divililh character; and this
character belongs to you ; black and hellish
as it is. See your face: The glass is true.
This glass distinguishes your character from
the rest of mankind, and is the true character
of Monopolizers.
In the next glass fee your God and your
foul. Money is your God ; covecoufnefs is
your foul< Here open both your eyes, and
behold in one view your God; his name is
Mammon ; this is your dear sovereign, whom
you revere and adore. This God (mean as
he is) is the direct centre of your fouls ; this
is your treafare, and where your treasure is,
there will your hearts be. Sordid fouls! be
ing actuated by no better principle than co
vecoufnefs, you have no better God to make
you happy than money. Look upon your
service to your God, whom you faithfully
worship night and day, paying the chearful
homage of injustice, excefs,and cursed extor
tion ; through whose bounty you daily eat
the bread of injustice, and drink the wine of
oppression. You are the vultures of society;
and what renders you ten fold more the
children of hell, is your affecting the livery
of Chrft.
Inthe last glass, fee your way & end. You
pay tithe of mine, anise and cummin, but
wholly omit the weightiermatters of the law;
which are judgment, mercy and faith. Oye
whited fepulchres ; ye painted monopolizers,
with al your associates, ye are full of dead
mens bones : ye serpents: ye generation of
vipers; how can ye elcape the damnation of
hell ? you are all on float; your God can
not save you,---Your compass by which you
steer, has so many degrees variation from the
true point, that you will never make land a
gain. Never, never, oh never will you reach
the port of godly peace in this world; nor
the heaven of rest among the blessed in the
world to dome, which remains for the people
of God. Here then I leave you in a most
tremendous storm ; and except you cease to
do evil and learn to do well ; fear God and
work righteousness, I do now solemnly bid
you all an eternal farewell, wishing never
more to speak with you, either in this world
or the world to come,s
The faithful Monitor.
LONDON, Aaguft 5,
Dr. Franklin to left Paris fame weeks face,
but whither be is gone is not publicly known ;
though the report is, that be is gone to visit
some of the Northern Courts, and will return in
October.
The Lords of tbe Admiralty bave ordered a
Mere set of fenals to be observed by the flips
that are going under convoy from Spitbead to
America, to prevent tbeir being deceived by the
Provincial privateers, who are well acquainted
with tbe signals ufuall, prablifed in the navy.
An Irifo boufe at Rotterdam is appointed a
gent for the Americans ; two flips bave been
consigned to it from Carolina ; but one of them
has been taken, and was brought in by a man of
war's l%ra Thur&j last.
ft is fail that one of the vacant Red Ribbons
is referred for Gen. Burgoyne, which will be for
warded to him by the next dispatches.
It is said that the German troops lately set
to America, in peffing through a part of the
Prufan dominions, came to a bridge where his
Rrufian Majefly bad been used to receive a toll
for all the cattle pafag over it ; and that the
king's officers, considering the troops who were
thus fold to foreign service as no better that
beads, afluall, rated them as catttle, and refufed
them a faffage until the toll waspaid.
BON MOT.---Lord Stormont, whose time
is chiefly employed in circulating reports to dis
credit the Americans, having in a very (erious
manner lately told a French nobleman, that fix
battalions in Wallington's army bad laid down
tbeir arms, the nobleman applied to Dr. Franklin
to know whether the ftcry was a truth (une
verite) to which the Dr. answered, " Non,
Monsieur, ce n'eft pas une verite, e'eft feule
ment un Stormont : No, Sir, it is not a truth,
it is only a Stormont." This answer was after
wards banded about amongst the wits of Paris,
and the word Stormont has since become a cant
pbrafe for a lie.
ADONATION of ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS is received from General
Viscount DEMAUROY, for the benefit
of the families of iuch inhabitants of this
town as are soldiers in the Continental Ar
my. [Ma, this example of generosity in the
noble granger, excite the citizens to further efts
of Charity for jhe fame ptrpofe,]
PORTSMOUTH, November 1.
Copy ota Letter from Major Gen GATES,
to Lieut. General BURGOYN E.
Saratoga, Oblober ii, 177,.
SIR,
I Had the Honour to receive you Excellent
cy's Letter by Lady Achland ; the Ref
ped due to her Ladyship's Rank, the Tenoer
nefs due to her Person and Sex, were fuffici
ent Recommendation to intitle her to my
Protection, considering my preceeding Con
dud with Refped to those of your Army,
whom the Fortune of Wat has plac'd in my
Hands. I am surprised your Excellency
should think that I could confider the greatest
Attention to Lady Achland in the Light of
our Obligation.
The Cruelties which mark the Retreatof
your Army in burning the Gentlemen's and
Farmers Houses, as they pass along, is aimoft
amongff civil:zedNations, without Precedent;
they should not endeavour to ruin those they
could not conquer ; this Condud betrays
more of the vindictive Malice of a Monk,
than the Generosity of a Soldier.
Your Friend Sir Francis Cla. k, by the In
formation of Dodor Potts, the D redor Gene
ral of my Hospital, languishes under a very
dangerous Wound, every Sort of Tenderness
and Attention is paid to Sim, as well as to all
theWounded, who have fallen intomy Hands,
and the Hospital which you was neceffiated
to leave to my Mercy.
At the Solicitation of Major Williams, I
am prevailed upon to offer him and Maj^r
Meborn, in Exchange for Col. Ethen Alien.
Your Excellency's Objection to my last
P r oposal for the Exchange of Col. Ethen
Allen, I must Confider as trifling, as I cannot
but suppose that the Generals of the Royal
Armies ad in equal concert with those of the
Generals of the Armies of the United Stares.
The Bearer delivers a number of Letters
from the Officers of your Army taken priso
ners in the adion of the 7th Instant
I am Sr your Most Obedient Servant,
HORATIO GATES, Major General.
BOSTO N, Nov. 6.
'Tis said Governor Carleton failed from
Quebec for England, about a month before
the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne's army.
We haveadvice from Europe that there
was a ve.y great drought in England, Scot
land and Ireland, the latter part of last sum
mer which had greatly diminished the fruits
of the earth.
\ve are informed, that the frfi div firm of
Geh. Burgoyne's late army, arrived at Wa
tertown last evening, and are to be at Cam.
bridge this day.
Beef, pork, wood, &c. &c. have been for
several days carting ce the barracks at Cam
bridge, for the fubfiftance of the late Gen,
Burgoyne's arrtiy.-- Not to was the treatment
of our poor countrymen who have fallen into
the hands of the inhuman Gen. Howe; par
ticularly those taken at Fort Wafhmgtor,
when iboo were made prisoners carried thro'
the city of New-York, and trea~d with all
the insult poffibie; were afterwards thrown
into large stone houses, where they remained
four days without any fubfiflance, and kept
there till near two th rds of them perished.
—Blush Britons! blulh!
The Civil Ufuage, privateer, belonging
to Newbury-Port, has lent into port, a large
Bigantine of 300 tons, laden, we are told,
entirely with Bitiffi goods.
We hear Gen. Spencer; the commander
in chief on the late secret expedition, intends
very shortly to set out for Congress.
It had been reported that Gen. P—t had
received a wound in mak ng the attack on
Rhode Iflan.il; we now can affurt the pub
lic, that the G never wilfully runs him
felt in danger; And by his condu&, has re
turned in perfect health; he likewise has
brought off his brigade, without many killed
or wounded
General Loyell diftinguithed himfelf in
being diligent whenever his brigade was
called upon, and fnewed at the different or
dersand times of embarkation, a lively, un
daunted fp;ric.
By a gentleman (native of Boston) who
made his escape from New York, aodarrived
here last funday, we are informed, That he
was taken in March last, in a fl >op bound
from Newbury to Bourdeaux, and carried in
to Plymouth in England, from whence he
came in a transport to New-York.--.He in
forms us that he left Plymouth the Sth of
July, at which time about half of the militia
of the kingdom was kept under arms to
suppress the rising of the populace, so great:
were their difaffedion to the present measures
of administration : That Great-Britain had
applied to all the powers of Europe fortroops
to fend to America, but could obtain no
more than 2000, which with about 400 draf
ted from the guards in England, was the
whole of the reinforcement lately arrived at
New-York.--He was desired by a number
of gentlemen in England, to inform the peo
ple of this country that no more troops wou'd
be sent from any foreign powers, that Eng
land is drained to such a degree that 4000
troops could not be raised in that kingdom
for 12 months to come : That by the" best
intelligence he could get while in England,
above one third of the people of that country
were friends to America: And that a num
ber of Americans that were taken in priva
teers, had, to his knowledge, been sent to
the Eaft-lndians.
This gentleman further Informs, That
Gen. Clinton had returned to New-York,
from his expedition to the North-River, in
which he had 6000 men: That Gen. Howe
had sent for a reinforcement of 4 000 men,
who were embarked on board the tr.nfports
That when Clinton went up the river be lef
For the time of the above expedition, the
officers and soldiers under Gen. Washington,
or else where, never fuffered more hardships.
We have it from-good authority, that in
all the convention of General officers, &c. for
the putting into execution this secret expedi
tion, not one record hath ever been mnde--
probable, as well otherwise.
We hear Cols. C—fts and S^rb---n were
admitted to council ; and as every thing re
mains mifterious, so till truth appears, must
each share censure.
The cost ofthis secret expedition, is, at
lead, 35,000 dollars per day.
NEW-LONDON, Nev. 7.