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at largt, to be extremely cautions in contenting to
any att whereby you may engage them as parties
in, and make them answerable for, measures which
may nave a tendency to involve them in difficulties
far greater than those they aim to avoid.
Betide} there is not, Gentlemen, the lead necef
fconsequently there will not be the beast excuse,
for your running any such rifles, on the present oc
cdion. If you are really disposed to represent to
the King any inconveniences you conceive your-'
selves to lie under, or to make any proportions on
the present date of America, I can allure you from
the belt authority, that such representations or pro
pufitions will be properly attended to, and certainly
hive greater weight coming from each Colony in
it's fejarate capacity, than in a'channel of the pro
priety and legality of which there may be much
doubt.
You have now pointed out to you, Gentlemen,
two roads :—one evidently leading to peace, happi
ness, arid a restoration of the oubtick tranquility;
—the other inevitably conducing you to anarchy,
misery, anti all the horrors of a civil war. Your
wisdom, your prudence, your regard for the true
intermits of the people, will be belt known when you
' have hrwn t > which road yon give the preference.
If to the firmer, ypu will probably afford Otis
lAion to the moderate, the sober, and the djfcreet
part of your constituents. If to the latter, you will
perhaps for a time, give pleasure to the warm, the
r lh and the inconsiderate among them, who, >I
would willingly hope, violent as is the temper of
the present times, are not even now the majority,
but it m ly be well for you to remember, should any
calamity hereafter befal them, from your compli
ance with their inclinations, infteid of pursuing, as
you ought, the dictates of your judgment, that the
consequences of their returning to a proper sense of
their condu& may prove deservedly fatal to yo'ur
felvts.
I sh di fay no more at present on thi, difagraeable
fubje&, but only to repeat an observation I made
to a farmer Assembly on % ffmilar occasion. “ Every
" breach of the constitution, whether it proceeds
" from the crown or the people, is, in it's effe&s,
“ equT, deilru&ive to the rights of both: It is
“ the duty, therefore, of those who are intruded
" with government, to be qually careful in guard
" i"g against encroachm tvs from the one as the
" other. But it is (fays on? of the wisest of men) a
“ moj? infallible fomptom oj the dangerous State of li
" berty, when the chief men of ajree country few a
" greater regard to popularity than to their own
" judgment."
WILLIAM FRANKLIN.
Council Chamber, fan. 13, 1775.
The Committee for the City and liberties of Philadel
phia received the following Letter from the Com
mittee of Correspondence for York County.
Gentlemen,
" WE received your favour of the 23d ultimo,
and presented the fame to the Committee of this
County on the Thursday following, when Deputies
were chosen to meet the Deputies of the other
counties in Provincial Congress, at Philadelphia,
on the 23d isttant.
“ Though the Carlisle Court happens in the
fame week with the Congress, and though it is pro
bible the weather will be unfavourable at that time,
yet the Deputies are determined to be at the Con
gress, if the Sufquehannah be passable.
“ The inhabitants of this county bare hitherto
been unanimous in any steps taken towards the
preservation of the liberties of this country ; and
seem resolved to carry into execution such further
measures as may be directed in Provincial Congefs.
We are, Gentlemen, with great refpe&,
Your humble servants,.
James Smith,
York, January 7, 1775. Joseph Donaldson,
Thomas Hartley."
AT a meeting of the Deputies from the several
townships in Cumberland county at Carlifle,
on Wednesday the 4th day of January, 7775, the
following Gentlemen were chosen a, general County
Committee for said county, viz.—John Allison,
Elias Davifon, James Johnston, Samuel Royer,
James Maxwell, James Campbell, William M'Dow
ell, Thomas Baird, James Chambers, John An
drew, Joseph Armstrong, James M'Fariin, Willi
am Rannells, Samuel Culbertson, (4th) James
Finly, James M'Cammon, John M'Clay, William
Rippey, Robert Peoples, James Dunlop, Dr. John
Calhoun, Joseph Brady, James Laughlin, Alexan
der Laughlin, William Sterrett, Johnßyers, Wil
liam Clark, James Smith, John M'Clure, Robert
Callender, Ephraim Blaine, William Thompson,
Willfam Moore, John Davis, Peter Smith, John
Montgomery, John Armstrong, James Wilson,
Robert Miller, William Irvine, Robert Magaw,
Samuel Laird, James Follock, Stephen Duncan,
Jacob Sahler, Jonathan Hoge, Edward Morton,
Francis Silver, John Caruthers, David Hoge, 1 ho
mas Fisher, Alexander Trendle, Hugh Laiid,
William M'Tier, Ludwick Brandt, William Ri
chardson, Frederick War, Samuel Goudy, Fran
cis Weft, George Robinson, Hugh Alexander,
John Byers, /James Blaine, Alexander Mu ray,
John Stewart, William Arbuckle, Robert Walker,
John Harris, James Purdy, James Gallagher, John
M'lfhatton, William Bratton, John Carmichael,
Samuel Lyon, George Stewart, Robert Campbell,
William Elliot, Philip M'Guire, David Elder,
Leonard Pfautz, Joseph Martin, John Read, Wil
liam Brown, John M'Dourell, Robert Lendrum.
JAMES WILSON was chosen Chairman.
The Chairman having opened the important de
sign of the present meeting, the Committee came
to the following resolutions, viz.
Refolded unanimously, That this Committee most
heartily approve of tne Association entered into and
recommended by the General Congress ; and are
of opinion, that it is of the greatest importance,
that it be carried faithfully into execution : —For
this purpose they recommend, that the members of
the federal townflrip Committees, within this coun
ts, tender a copy of the said Affociarion to every
freeholder and other inhabitant, within the several
townfllips, to be subscribed by.every such freehold
er or inhabitant; and that the.members of the
said Committee make report to the meeting of the
next County Committee of those, (if any) who
fh.ll refufe to fubferibe the fame.
Refolded unanimously, That James Wilson, Ro
bert viagaw, and William Irvine, or any two of
them, be and they are hereby appointed Delegates
to repretent this county, in the Provincial Conven
tion, to be hell at Philadelphia on Monday the
twenty-third day of January inttant.
I Refolded unanimously, That James Wilson, John
Armstrong, John Montgomery, Robert Miller,
Robert Magaw, and William Irvine, or any three
of them, be a Committee of Correspondence for
this county.
Exirafl from the Minutes of the Committee,
ROBER T MAGAW, Secretary,
The (hip Betsy, Captain Kyle, from Lisbon for
this port, ran ashore on the Brandywine, in our
Bay, on Thursday fe'ennight, where she bilged,
and is full of water.
By the ,hip Mfrmaid, Capt. Harford, arrived
at Gbarlefiown, (South-Carolina) from London,
we have the following advices.
LONDO N, November 7.
YESTERDAY a full board of Admiralty
was held,,at the breaking up of which or
ders were given for ten more large ships to be
built with the utmost expedition. Exprefles were
sent to the several dock-yards on the occasion.
When the marines get to Boston, the number
of forces within that diftriftwill amount to about
6,500 men.
A total flop to the further exportation of Ame
rican beaver and furs to France and Holland, it
is said, will very shortly take place.
Some people seem very confident in faying that
Lord Mansfield will soon resign his high office, on
account that the duty is so much as to impair his
health.
Bets were laid on Saturday night at a Coffee
House in the neighbourhood of St. James's, of
three to two, that the American aRs will be to
tally repealed by New-year's day next.
A storm is gathering in a frefh quarter on the
continent : The late treaties between Russia and
Hungary, are a convincing proof of the instability
of foreign faith and the most ardent promises.
Yesterday the Lord Mayor was so much indis
posed, that he saw no company. It is said the
lack of beauties, at his feaft on Wednesday, did
not a little contribute thereto, though he was far
from well before.
Mr. Wilkes is dill in a very poor way; he had
a flight touch of the pally on Tuesday, and two
physicians attended him, who gave him the best
a ffiftance in their power, consistent with his pre
sent situation: They allowed him to go in the
procession but enjoined him to great regularity
and attention. In consequence of which he rode
in the procession with one fide wrapped up in flan
nels, and he left Guildhall very early in the
evening.
Nov. 12. Orders are sent to Ireland for two
regiments on that establishment to be in readimefs
to embark on the firft notice for North-America.
The proper estimates and accounts, for the
service of the ensuing year, are now preparing
in the different departments for the infpedion of
Parliament.
We hear that amongst the many regulations in
tended by a Great Per fonage to co-operate with
the new Parliament, is the following : “ That
no man whatsoever (hall enjoy at a time more than
one Civil or Military command in the kingdom."
By this constitutional regulation, the ambition
and avarice of those who are now adding place to
place, and sinecure to linecure, will be cropped ;
whilst those who know they can possess but one at
a time will naturally be forced upon an applica
tion, and a fufficiency in that to deserve a greater.
The following (hips for his Majefty'sfervice
are upon the stocks in Woolwich yard, viz. two
of 74, one of 64, and one of 28 guns. The last
mentioned will be launched about Christmas.
Upon a late survey at the Tower it appears,
that there have been delivered into his Majesty's
ordnance at that place upwards of 60,000 muskets
in the course of the two last years, which is a
greater number than ever there was a demand
far before in so short a time in peace.
The clerks in the Plantation-Office have been
employed for this fortnight past in copying let
ters which palled between the Governor of New-
England and Lord Dartmouth, to be laid before
the Privy Council previous to the meeting of
Parliam nt.
It is rumoured that the packet from New-
York brought government some very disagreea
ble advices; and from the profound secrecy ob
served by all in the American departments of
state, the report gains universal credit.
Ata 14. There can scarcely be a Wronger
mark of discontent in a nation, and of their utter
disapprobation of the measures of government,
than to fee the person whom the ministry perse
cuted with the most implacable malice, and en
deavoured to destroy, promoted by the people to
the highest offices and honours they can possibly
bestow. A remarkable instance of this kind now
presents itfelf: We at this time fee the man
against whom a most arbitrary ministry vowed
eternal vengeance, and attempted by every mali
cious art and infamous proceeding to crum, ele
vated by the people to the firft dignity of this
metropolis, and also chosen to represent the firft
county in the kingdom. Need there be a more
convincing proof than this, that the measures of
such administration have been excessively odious
and injurious to the people? Such an extraordi
nary token of national contempt of a ministry can
scarcely be found in the annals of this kingdom ;
and if the persons who compose it were not hard
ened beyond all sense of shame, they would be
struck with the disgrace and i fmy,of it, and re
tire into some corner of their country to hide
their heads.
Nothing can more effectually (hew the igno
rance of the present ministry refpeding the Ame
ricans, than their ideas of opposing them. There
are no less than thirty thousand men, able, Wilful,
and willing to bear arms in the finale province of
South-Carolina. In commerce, only four arti
cles I could fpecify, will, by a nonimportation
agreement now entered upon, make a difference
of a million of money to this kingdom every year,
from the single province of South-Carolina,
Saturday evening a meflenger was sent from
Lord Rochford's office with some important dis
patches to Lord Stormont, his Majesty's Ambas
sador at the French Court.
It is said that a spirited memorial is now pre
paring, by order of the ministry, to be sent to
the court of Spain, relative to the release of all
the British fubjeds now confined in the Spanilh
dominions.
Yesterday morning came on before Lord Mans
field, and the Court of King's-Bench, the further
hearing of an a&ion brought against the Crown,
for exacting a duty of four and an half per cent,
on certain merchandize in the island of Grenada;
when after the council had taken up above four
bouts in pleading, it was ^jn agreed on by the
Court to lie over for a further consideration. It
is thought this matter cannot be properly adjust
ed, till something is decided on by Parliament,
relative to the colonies.
Extraft of a letter from Leghorn, 0c?. 5.
" The English Consul who resides at Genoa,
wrote a letter to give notice to all the English
captains who were going to leave this port, to be
upon their guard against the Algerines, as these
barbarians had broke the peace with Great-Bri
tain. In consequence of this intelligence, those
merchants who had (hipped any goods on board
English vessels, told the captains, that as they did
not chufe to run the rifle of losing their property,
they would not have them proceed on their voy
age till they could receive some accounts from
their correspondents in England."
Eutraß of a letter from Eontainbleau, OR. 26.
" It is fettled that those persons who may
have occasion to appeal from the Arrets of the
new Parliament, may lay their case before the
old when it is installed, as was done formerly
from the old Parliament to the Council. There
are three or four very considerable, which will af
ford serious employment for this dffembly. That
of Mess. de la Chaliotatis against the Duke
d'Aiquillon; des Vernons against the Count de
Maura'ngies; that ofMademoifella Lechap against
the Marquis de Montonirol; and that of M. the
Count de Guignes, against the Brokers of Change-
Alley, in London, and the Secretaries."
Nov. 15. Preparations are making at Lord
Bute's house in South Audly street, as his Lord
ship sets out the beginning of next month for the
south of France.
Inftruttions wete sent a few days since to our
AmbafTador at Paris, to request the French Mi
nistry to take proper methods for preventing the
(hips and vessels of that nation carrying on a con
traband trade in any of the ports of America.
Last week large quantities of falt-petre were
delivered from the tower to the masters of the
powder mills who are under contract for govern
ment service.
Nov. 16. It is the opinion of the most intelli
gent and best informed at the weft end of the
town, that the ministry cannot keep together
much longer in its present form; but whether
the new arrangement will include in it the total
overthrow of the Thane's power, or only turn out
a compromise between the ins and outs, as in the
well known revolutions which happened in ad
ministration in 1741 and 1756, a very few weeks
will discover.
The Imperial Court, it is said, intends once
more to establish an East- India Company at Oftend,
accompanied with such advantages as must prove
extremely detrimental to those of Great-Britain
and the United Provinces.
By accounts from Hamburgh we learn, that
the King of Prussia has notified to his several mi
litary Governors an immediate requisition of a
certain number of recruits, in proportion to the
extent of their refpe&ive diftrids or commanda
ries, amounting in the whole to 28,000. This
is deemed a sure presage of an approaching rup
ture in the North of Europe.
An express arrived at the Secretary of State's
office in the course of the last week from the Vi
ceroy of a neighbouring kingdom, relative, it is
said, to the defection of some of his flauncheft
friends there.
The above misunderstanding is reported to have
arisen from his refufing to submit to the making
any alteration whatever in the late a& for impo
sing Stamp Duties in that kingdom; though he had
assured those who were at firft most averse to the
bill, that if they consented to give it their con
currence and support, that it was only meant as
a bill of experiment, and should be amended in
the firft instance, and if necessary totally repealed.
The Cabinet has not been so compleatly em
barrassed for these twenty years as at present; for
if the American bills of last session should be re
pealed, the administration must not only come to
pieces, but it will likewise involve in it the ruin
of that power, which thirteen years unremitting
endeavours have been employed to establish.
A correspondent who pretends to speak from
the best authority assures us, that measures of the
most lenient and conciliating nature, relative to
our disputes with America, are already determined
on, and that consequently all the views of a des
pairing vanquished faction will be totally defeated.
We hear an authentic lift of the number of men
of war built in foreign countries for the service of
France and Spain, since the peace, diftinguifhirig
particulars, have actually been transmitted to our
Ministry, (in order to be laid before the ensuing
Parliament) by which it appears that the marine
of those kingdoms have received a considerable
addition during the last four years.
His Majesty has been pleased to appoint the
Hon. Lieutenant General James Murray, late
Governor of Quebec, to be Lieutenant Governor
of Minorca.
From the St. James's Chronicle.
Of LOVE of COUNTRY.
THE Love of Country, or according to the
modern phrase, Patriotism, is, as I under
stand, the term that distinguished con ftitutional
preference for the people, among whom, and the
foil on which a man firft draws breath ; a lauda
ble prejudice gnawing up with him, and becoming
insensibly so intimately interwoven with his nature,
that it may well pass among those inftinds, which
serve as principles to ad upon, without the trouble
of enquiry into the rationality of the motives, and
do yet no less strongly efßa, as being implicite.
The end which Providence had in view to pro
mote by fuffering this sentiment to be so forcibly
impressed upon the minds of men, is not 'very on
obvious nor remote, being doubtless intended for
the better preservation of the different societies
into which the world was to be sub-divided, and
to lessen the confufion and distress which the
want of such attachment would unavoidably bring
on from a perpetual tendency to renew an univer
sal coalefcencc.
It Vas necessary that the inhabitants of this
globe should be separated into different aggrega
tions, one of the methods for preventing the re
turn of such entire and dreadful depravation as had
again proved incompatible with existence; nor is
it at all improbable that to obviate this general
calamity, the furface of the earth has been so
broken into portions by interfering seas and
oceans; and the various regions of those portions
divided from each other by broad rivers, as
trenches, or barricaded with lofty ridges of
mountains, as natural rampires. But since the
avarice, ambition, and curiosity of the human race
would certainly impel them to exert every effort
to overcome these obstacles, the love of country
steps in, by its attraction to lure the wanderers
back again.
The Love of Country, like other good things of
this life, is liable to woeful perversion, abuse and
misapplication. This passion among the ancient
Greeks and Romans was stained with a very strong
tinffure of vain glory even in the most virtuous
periods of these Rates, and the sense of it oblite
rated and loft in the fink of ambition and avarice
during the times of their wane and declension.
In the former instance it flamed out into a furi
ous thirst for the overthrow and deftrußion of
every other nation ; in the latter was nearly smo
thered and extinguished by the cold damps of the
felf-confined and baser propenfions. Irritated by
the wild suggestions of pride and ambition, it
disturbs and destroys the tranquility of neigh
bouring countries ; guided And moderated by rea
son is both contented and well calculated to defend
its own ; languid and drooping under the influence
of luxury and debauch it leaves a state exposed to
numberless disasters both from within and without
the confines.
The many mad and outrageous pranks which
have been played at times, by the blazing forth of
this passion beyond the contrtml of the rational
faculty, have contributed much to tinge its general
character among the gay and dissolute with a touch
of the ridiculous; for is there indeed any quality
of the, foul, for which so little allowance is made
by a temper bent merely upon its own gratificati
ons, as that in which a fparkof generous disinter
ested affection may reside? To the owners of so
corrupt an understanding, every thing which hath
not an immediate reference to the pleasure offenfe,|
appears but as an effufion of folly; they stand
aghast at it as uncouth and unaccountable, won
dering how so absurd a conceit could ever come
into existence.
But with whatever lightness, whatever con
tempt, with whatever ridicule some people*may
treat the masculine ardour that warms the heart
of a patriot, I insist that this endearing and be
nevolent passion, is the noblest which can be dis
played in the transit of human life, and hath its
grand source in that charity which forms every
social connexion, and assuages the bitterness of
our passage through this vale of anxiety to the
gates of the grave.
A Nation, by the term, implies a people in a
separate subsistence and community; therefore in
a course of ages, the individuals, however nume
rous, which compose the whole, are all blended
together in mutual consanguinity, streaming
through a maze of interwoven channels continu
ally meeting, and brought into union afrefh by
the perpetual admixture formed by marriage.
Hence there actually exists a reciprocal relation
among all the families of the fame state, as tracea
ble in thought, as if we saw this whole piece of
Nature's weaving, with all its twinings and mean
ders, unravelled before us. Forgive me then,
high pride of ancestry, if I assert that you have
in your blood and defeent more extensive relation
to peasants, mechanicks, labourers (these being
far more numerous) than to the noble and
wealthy, and that, in despising such, you infulc
many of kin to yourfelf, and who perhaps, but
for the ancient villainy of some more avaricious
or cunning branch of your common genealogy,
might have changed places with you.
The above circumstances being considered, can
there be any wonder at the prevalency of this bias
in uncorrupted minds? Is it not rather a passion
so congenial to humanity, that to be void of it,
one must be unnatural and kindlefs? It is found
ed upon the fame ground with the duty that im
pels to provide for and fuccour our parents and
offspring; and as far as it operates upon the dispo
sition for the common weal in preference to mere
felf, so far may it be deemed the genuine love of
country.
It is therefore highly reasonable that this fob
lime passion should be treated with reverence, and
regarded with very serious approbation; for in
every state, at the most elevated pitch of morali
ty, in the full bloom of the most virtuous feelings,
and when human nature most honoured itfelf, the
benign and enlivening influences of the sense
breathing forth a love for the refpe&ive commu
nity hath ever penetrated, warmed, and invigo
rated the whole political constitution of social
government.
CHARLES-TOWN, ( South-Carolina) Nov. 29.
The General Assembly of this province met
here on Tuesday last, according to prorogation,
when his Honour the Lieutenant Governor was
pleased further to prorogue the fame to Tuesday
the 24th of January next.
Jan. 3. Contain George Cabot, who arrived
here on the 29th ult. in 48 days from Cadiz, in
forms us, That a few days before he left that
city, War was declared by Spain, both by sea
and land, against the Emperor of Morocco.—On
the 30th of Nov. in Lat. 28, Long. 34, Captain
Cabot spoke the brig Rebecca, Capt. Hugh Cedar,
belonging to Cape Fear, 44 days out from Bristol,
bound for St. Vincents.
BOSTO N, January tz.
On Saturday evening last arrived m town,
from Yew-York, Samuel Kemble, F:q; \ ho is
appointed Secretary to his Excelled. Cr.e&
Gage.,