Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-10-09 00:00:00, page 2

From th PUBLIC ADVERTISER.
Sober Advice to the MINISTERS.
ADVICE is feidom taken but by men in dittrefs.
Your present situation, Lords and Gentlemen,
may incline you to lend an ear to one who withes
well to his country, though you have not beendif
pofed hitherto to htten but to thole who flittered
your views and pillions ; and thole mtn have un
controvertably given you information hitherto ei
ther ignorantly, treacherous?, or falfely, to hu
mour you. They either milled you on the power or
on the reidlunon of the Americans. They told you
the colonies either would not or could net refit.
Both sir rtions have proved falfe. On the other
hand, they, whom you thought your enemies, were
your true friends. 'jley foretold all that has hap
pened. They warned you on every !fep you took ;
they told you you would provoke tie America?.s
bey nd their bearing; that al! the provinces would
finite as one man ; that all America would revolt;
that a civil war would be the conference of y u
measures ; that you would rik the loisof America
by asserting dominion over it too far; that you
would cut up the trade of this country by the roots ;
that you would involve the nation in a new and
unsupportable load of debt ; and that when we
should be plunged inext icably in so fatal a war,
Fr nee and Spain would attack us 4 and comoleat
our ruin. Al! this was repeated to you incell nt-
Jy. A great part of these predictions has already
been verified, and whoever does not wilfully flint
his eyes, mull fee how likely all therein is to fol
low.
America is in arms from oneend of that v?ft con
tinent to the other. Th<ir foidiers have behaved
well, and yours ill. You? General and army are
coopeduo in Bolton. That army that would look
America into u iniffion, has run,away fiom what
you called a raw militia, and is besieged. You lent
for their ringleaders, and thole ringleaders are
bombarding the xecutipners of your orders. Their
army comnian 'c the heights, and even your flops,
are not fa'e. Will you perfirt ? Does political pru
dne consist in obitincy after conviction ? Wil
you goon to rilk the lois of so vast a p rt of his ,
M Jelly's dominions ? Will you destroy -trade to
prove you are not afraid r Will you invite foreign
war, rather than stop a civil war ? Will you, by ob
ftinic:, enrage this Country +s well as America ?
You engage Parliament to hipport your rm mea
sures by ah' trances that the Americans neithe would
nor could relift! Will Parliament, whom you
have deceived, continue to trulf you ? Parliament
fes thit you nad bad information, bad intelligence..
Ever, tri ig has fallen out contrary to what you
foretold, anl ex &ly as opposition foretold. Both
Parliament and the nation fee that there are wibr,
men in opposition than in Adm nitration. The
farther you proceed the more you will lose reputa
tion. lam no well wither to oppofiti n, quoad
opposition ; I am to my country, and desire to fee
these bn aches healed before they are patt a reme
dy. ConteCs your erors like men. It may be glo
rious to hold out agaii.lt a foreign # nemy to the
lad ; but to foften towards our own countrymen is
a noble facririce. Treat in time ; make conceffi
•.ons; reunite the countries you have bet at variance.
Cos off the flatterers that have milled you, and
give us peace while it is worth having. You mutt
treat at lad, or you mud destroy America, or you
nrdt undo this country—either will draw down the
lift ruin on you: own heads. Your Sovereign will
discover the n i chit you hive drawn on him and
his people. Opposition, whom you have treated as
public enemies, will p ove to have been the real
friends of their country ; and though they were too
wek to prevent your fatal meaiuies, th^y will be
ftron enough, when called for by the vi ice of both
courftries, to punith you for your evil councils.
The voice of the nation begins to opn against
you. Every mi fortune that happens will deepen
the one. As every misfortune has been foretold,
you cannot plead ignorance. Your oppotets will
be reverenced as prophets. Thelnke-waim amen ft
your friends already be i to change their note.
They own you rave been mistaken ; and as no man
luces to be in the wrony, they impute their owa
concurrence to your mifiUormation. Interested
men will go farther. They difover the difficul
ties of voui fi nation, and will avail themselves of
it. The m re your dilti efßs ener.afe, the dearer
they wll fill their support. The more violent ydur
ruerurei shall be, if you do not make peace, the
higher price will be set on votes ; forby votes
your merfures mud be carried. Double pensions,
triple bribe will be demanded ; pensions for life
and reverlions will be infixed on, becaue your ad
ininiihiton is looked upon to be of short duration,
and no nan will lend himfelf to obnoxious measures
for tanftory hipends.
T. ummous bills you will have to lay before
nu Utaon of Parliament, will amaze all mankind.
Tnnc:. -feof the I iid-i x wilifhock the country
gentie net whom you male believe the war would
be vei in fix m nihs. That war, that is likely to
be of long duration, will fink the decks, and the
stocks which are kept up at present by the danger
of employing money in trade, will be still lets in
viting.
Ymmud raise great sums of money, which can
never be pail; and there ore mud give higher
premiums. The certainty of the prodigious sums
of money you will want, will make men hoard their
money in older to lend it to government at an
en >imous advantage : So that the more money you
want, the harder it will be to get it, and the de. r
er you mud pay for it. These are but flitches of
the difficulties you will have to encounter in fix
months.
Iti- said you think of hiring foreign troops to
subdue America. What is the frit comment on
such a thought ? Tht you have not more than men
enough to guard these Glands ; that you can spire
no more. What a hint to our enemies ! But are
not foreign powers fenfihle of your neceflitics ?
How excessive will be their demands before they
let out their troops to you! Will you dare to lay
before the Parliament subsidiary treaties for merce
naries to cut the throats of our brethren ? How will
you Cupport the expence of transports, forage and
victualing ? Will yourai e a famine here tofupport
mercenaries in America? We have heard of Htffi
abs, Hanoverians, even of Ruffians. Hessians yen
cannot get enough to do any ferviee; nor Hano
verians. Fifty thousand men would not conquer
America. Such swarms can only comefrom Rus
sia. When we refled on the podi jous turns
which a trifling number ot Hessians and Hanove
rians cost this country in the halt war, though to
fight alinott at their own doors, is it piffible that
we thould not fink under the burthen, if a vatter
number were transported across the Atlantic, nd
maintained there.
The amazing dangerof fending a large army of
Rmhanstr America, would startle the warmtft par
tisan of administration. For whom would a large
army of Ruffians conquer a single diftri& ? For us,
who cannot lubd,ue a single colony ? are we so en
venomed againit our colonies, that we had rather
they were under the domini m of Russia? But on
this project I look as impracticable. A ministry
mutt be defparare and hopeless indeed, that but
thinks of such expedients.
Companion even for our own troops ought to
inspire lenient measures. Towhat della uchon are
exposed those we have sent not even to fair w,r.
The Aineric ms fi Jit for their own heads, for their
Wives, children, polEffions, freedom arm coun ry.
They know their advantages, and will take all, as
men will in a civil war. They lire from houses,
from, hedges, from defiles. This mult dishearten
our foldierts, who ire not upon equal footing.
Every parent, every wife will tremble tor those
who are sent on such savage and disproportionate
warfare. The Americans are so delperate that
theywill take no quarter; they have (hown so.
Damen who take no quarter, give any ? And is it
poffinle to conquer three millions of people, who
Ii ht for religion, liberty, property, and ^ho fight
, indefpair? How unlike is desperation to the coward
ice we were told would be found in the Americans !
But have we not trusted, do we n>t trust to the
molt fallacious yifions ? Do we not re y on the
faith of France and Spain ?—Would it be unrea
sonable,to ask, if thoie t eacheious aflurances have
not been dearly bought? If France and Spun has
alked no Sacrifices as the price ot t eir ini&ivity,
the .efs are their promifrs to e depended, upon.
But how soon will faerfices be demanded ? Will
> hot ignominious cone flions be ex idled, if they for
bear to attack us ? What can our Mindters refufe
to foreign powers, when finking under a civil war,
drained of men, and with a leant} naval force at
home?
Ministers do arid must know these difficulties
better than a private p rfn. But when every pri
yate man mult be fenfiole of the truth of tiefe
petitions, what will Minift-rs be anfwerab e for,
that with their eyes open run counter to ail com
mon sense ?
It will not avail them to halloo the people, as
they do, against opposition and the repealers of
the stamp-a&. The lowed of the people mul tdif
cover the difference between thole pi udeni patriots
who prevented the effusion of blood, and those who
by falte representations have hurried us into a/civil
war. The Ministers Ihow themselves enemies, in
veterate enemies, both to the Americans, and to
those who endeavoured to prevent this war. The
opposition foretold all that has happened, and ex
horted the Ministers not to persist in such fatal mea
sures. The return was, to print such good advice
as the cause of the evil, and both American and
English patriots have been held out as men who
deserved to be m dlacred. How defoarate hwe our
Minift rs made themfeves with Americans, with
patriots, and with the people to whom they hive
misrepresented both ! Bur let them tread back their
steps, perh ps it is not yet too late. The ruin of a
great nation is worth being prevented by a frank
confeffion of errors. The M niters hand on a pre
cipice. May the warning voice of a low and ob
feure man reach their hearts ! He wishes no evil to
them; he wishes they may not make ourdefti nati
on and their own inevitable.
IGNOTU S.
From then ORNING C 4RO NICLE.
To the QU E E N.
.Mada M,
TO be the Royal Consort of the British So
vereign gives you the firft pretention to the
illuftriotis title of Britannia; under which glorious
appellation I beseech you to stand forth with the
words of this petition, and your loving and en
dearing fubjeds, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.
IMPARTIAL.
BRITANNIA.
Y E (lately Sifters !***
Ye beauteous columns of the British Isle !
Say, Why so pensive?
0! tell me, ye Gods, defer not a moment,
Have rivals from some interior quarter fp p ung?
Or, is Fortune fickle, and wills to sway the feeptre
in another land?
^Kneeling ] Let me invoke your pity to their
drooping heads,
Weeping ! not for themselves, but for their
chi dren.
Millions pro-rate at their feet, praying relief,
Not in their power to grant.
The sluice of plenty drained !
The gates of commerce shat !
- ^—Weafk t.P important cause. [Rfog.l
(Thus the ORACLE)
Oracle. " Thy gracious call, with purity of
heart and fandity of manners, has pierc'd the top
most Heav'n; and by Heav'nly million reply—
“ The Persians, Romans, and bravest empires fell.
“ Eventual fate on all luxuriant powers !
'* In this exuberance dominion revels:
" Yea, her own vitals sap,
" And thus becomes impoftumate,
" And thus becomes her fall.
" Events are never at rest,
“ But onward move with the wings of time;
" Rough or smooth their c<uife must run,
" In which each moment tells its consequence.
" Thus is prosperity like a flower ! which,
“ From its primary vegitation, becomes more
glorious,
“ But, when the meridian past, will soon dissolve,
“ And like the baseless fabric of a vision,
“ Leave not a wreck behind This is Nature's
law.
“ As well attempt to rein the fun —
" She will not stop, neither will she retreat'
“ Pursue then with flighted steps
“ This radiant image of fe f;
“ Let Phoebus lead forth thy fair hand
“ Betimes in the morning,
" And in the golden orbs
“ Take thy beloved sleep:
" There take up thy bleft abode,
“ There thy y®ung men and maidens, old men
and children, N
“ Shall be bleft with the labour of their hands,
“ And happy shalt thou be."
[B RITANN lA, kneeling.^
Indulgent Heaven! This
Once refpe& my prayer —
Shall this fair land, this land of promise,
This, this, dread of nations, kingdoms, flutes and
governments,
This pride of empires, fall !—-
Oh ! restrain thine hand.
Revoke this dread decree.—.
Spurn th' envenom'd cause !
And, by thine healing aliment,
Let Industry live.
*** Alluding to the Arts, Manufoßures, and
Commerce, of the Three Kingdoms,
f Hefern Climes
L O N I) O N.
?ul, 25. Ministers were continually going to
and from Kew en Sunday ad yellerday, to com
municate, and consult ab >ut, the news from Ame
rica, which was not thought good enough for an
extraordinary Gazette last night.
His M^j sty, it is thought, will be in town to
morrow early, in order to take the advice of the
cabinet at St. James's.
There are letters from Boston which mention,
that the Light Horse had been reviewed since their
arrival, and were found to be in very good con
dition, and quite recovered from the fatigue of
their voyage, and pronounced by Gen. Burgoyne
fit for actual tervice, and it was expected they
would loon leave Boston, it having been deter
mined, a ter ieveral councils of war, to march up
the country.
A correspondent has favoured us with an eld
but good obfervation:—“ In free states, 'tis true,
there are factions ; though all opposition is not
faction. Faction is an unreasonable opposition,
which oft becomes an evil to the public; yet, if
the good of free governments be considered as the
absolute security of person and property, with full
liberty of examining all doctrines and opinions,
this fma'f evil of faction will be like a spot on the
tun, loft in the glory which surrounds it. If Li
berty, the Spring of ail rational, good and manly
happiness, cannot be kept in good health without
fpftion, then that very opposition, though at
tended with some evil, is good."
A young merchant is lately arrived in the Speke
Indiaman, who by the rice contrast and other ar
ticles of merchandize has acquired 300,0001.
July 27. Yesterday there was a privy council
at St. James's, at which th^ Archbishop of Can
terbury, Lords Sandwich, Rochford, Dartmouth,
Weymouth, Hertford, Falmouth, and Mansfield,
Welbore Ellis, E'q; &c. assisted.
There was also a levee yesterday, where, be
sides the above gentlemen, were present Lo d Ca
dogan, Lord Mountftewart, several military and
naval chiefs, and the Sp nilh, French, and must of
the foreign Ambaffadois.
When the additional annoyance frim the ship
ping against the Provincial in the late adion at
Charleftown is recollected, the vain boast of fu
erior advantages on the fide of the regulars, niuft
of course fall to the ground, and the American
bravery must be admitted, as being destitute of
any such auxiliary assistance, so that in point of
fair play fight, man to man, the Americans have
every honourable apparency of heroic advantage
A correspondent begs leave to alk by what legal
authority the law martial can be put in force in
any part of the British empire, without an appa
rent affront to the civil establishment, and a viola
t on of the conftituti®n at large.
An account is daily expected of some important
exploit of General Carlton.
The Gorget worn on the breasts of the officers
has been a good mark for the Provincials, and the
levellers have taken good aim at it, if we may be
allowed to judge from the numbers of our com
missioned officers killed and wounded.
It is said that orders are sent to General Gage
to let all the officers be eloathed and accoutred
as common soldiers, and the ferjeants to have
firelocks instead of halberts whenever they are
likely to be engaged ira battle again.
The Cerberus frigate of war, whose arrival from
Boston was announced o be on Sunday last, has
been off the Ille of Wight ever since Saturday
fe'naight, and the dispatches she brought from
thence were adually delivered at St. James's on
Sunday the 16th inst. by four o'clock in the af
ternoon.
Jay 28. The Duke of Marlborough, after the
battle or Hockfted, wrote upon a soldier's back as
follows : “ We have gained a compleat victory,
“ and I have got Marshal Talard in my coach ;"
with which Col. Parke arrived the 51b day at
St. James's.
Fifteen thousand stands of arms were Gripped
last week at the Tower, for Quebec, in order to
arm the Roman Catholicks of that province.
We are informed, it is resolved to fend more
troops to America. It must be a very disagreea
ble ferviee to men of liberal ideas; and to officers
particularly, who arc felefted for daughter.
Wednesday orders were lent to Hanover for
four regiments of Hanoverians to hold themselves
in immediate readiness to embank for America,
and yederday several transports failed from the
river to take the above troops on board.
It is said the militia throughout England will
be embodied forthwith.
Capt. W. Granftoae, of the brig Mayflower,
from the Weft Indies, who arrived on Wednesday
in the river, fays he met in his paffige a fleet of
French meu of war, who detained him three da^s,
R O M E, fob §.
TT should seem that the Pope has not yet given
over his project of fetring at liberty the Jesu
its, prisoners in the castle of St. Angelo, for his
Holiness has again had lately Several conferences
on that fubjeift with rhe Spamfh Miniffer.
Marfeiues, duh 10. Two caravals, which
failed, from Tertian, having on board a reinforce
ment of Tu.ks for Algiers, met with two Maltese
frigates, who, afeera long engagement, in which
806 Turks were killed, took the caravals, and
conveyed them to Malta.
Amferdam, July 24. The last letters from
Marseilles advise, that at Algiers, the whole
gulph, fro u Cape Matifoux, is guarded by one
hundred th >ufand men, divided into two bodies of
forty thousand each, and one of twenty thousand,
commanded by the Bey of Constantine, the Bey
of Fittzy. and the Calife of the Bey of Malcara,
who encamps in per fob at Arzean, with about 30
or 40,000 men. The guard of one of the city
gates called Babazout, is entrusted to the Aga of
the place, with 6000 men under his command,
and the Caffanary occupies with 2000 men the
gate named Barbarauet. In the tower of Caflina
there are 3000 men, and 1000 under the com
mand of the Vixilagi of the marine are appointed
to guard the Mole. The artillery extends from
Cape Caffina to Cape Matifoux.
and examined all his papers ; they were full of
troops, and were bound for the Weft-Indies.
'Tis reported that an universal difeontent pre
vails ina neighbouring kingdom, on the, people's
having been already threatened with a land-tax as
soon as their senate meets, so that an Hibernian op
position may soon be as formidable to some folks,
as an American refinance is at present.
Letters from Boston mention, that Col. Aber
crombie, before he expired, said to those about
him, " My friends, we have fought in a bad
cause, and therefore I have my reward, as the rest
have had that are gone before me. Had I fell in
fighting against an enemy, I had died with honour,
but posterity will brand us for maffacreing cur fel
k>w-fubje&s; therefore, ray friends, sheath your
swords till you have an enemy to engage with."
In about two hours after he expired.
Agents are at this time very busy in procuring,
on advantageous terms, ship carpenters, &c. for
the ferviee of Spain. The Nero, Capt. Deen,
failed last Monday from the river for Cadiz, with
upwards of sixty ufeful men on board.
July 29. We hear that a Great Personage,
when he firft read General Gage's letter on the
late action, exclaimed, —" lam sorry or the loss
of my fubje&s, but the laws of my country must
be fapported."
The good policy of the Americans is particu
larly conspicuous in their prefering old experienced
officers to young, raw, and foolhardy ftripiings.
Extrafl of a letter from henna, July 14.
" Letters from Bohemia advise, that ten thou
sand peafant^ in the circle of Koningratz, and
Chrudemen had joined themselves to the Moravian
brethren; by which addition that people are said
to amount to ninety thousand in that kingdom;
the Moravians, emboldened bv th-ir numbers, have
demanded the free exercise of their religion, and
have sent deputies to solicit the pr^te&ion of a fo
reign prince, who has referred them to their legi
timate sovereign. This court has sent, therefore^
the Count Collowrath, Chancellor of Bohemia to
them, who, it is said, has orders to employ all ami
cable means in the world to reltore tranquility to
that kingdom."
August l. A letter received by a Gentleman
in Westminster from Mr. Grant, one <f the Sur
geons attending the Military lnfi r 'mafry at Boston,
dated June 23, fays,—" I have t'ca ce time fuf
ficient to eat my meals, the ^fore you mud expert
but a few lines : I have been up two nights, af
fixed with four mates, dressing our men of the
wounds received 'he last engagement ; many of
the wounded are drily dying, and many must have
both legs amputated. The Provincials had either
exhausted their bad, or they were determined that
every wound th uid prove mortal; their mufl&'s
were charged with old nails and angular pieces cf
iron, and from m l? of our men being wounded in
the legs, we are inclined to believe it was their
design, not wilhmgtekiU rhe men, but leave them
as burdens on us, to exhaust our provisions and
engage our attention, as well as to intimidate the
rest of the Soldiery."
August 2. This morning a comm ffion palled
the Great Seal of England, con ftitu' ng and ap
pointing General Gage to be Captain General and
General Governor over all North America.
We are afTu r dit sll der conlideiaticn to form
a Par lament, or General Council, for all the
provinces in America, fomethiog similar 'o that of
Ireland, the Governors and some particular offi
cers to form an u?per House.
August 5 Sir Edvard Hawke came to town
on Wednesday 'I . to" attend the
Council at Sr fomes's, and yefterda) he set off
again for Brighthelmftone.
Yesterday Lord Frederick Cavehdifh took leave
of his Majesty at St. James's, being to j in his
regiment in Ireland, which is oidered to embark
for America.
At the lame tim' Lord Ma'liam took leave of
Iris Majesty on the fame account.
Late last night an expels arrived at St. James's
from Boston, which was immediately for warded
to his Majesty at Kew.
Fourteen thousand suits of green regimentals
are ordered to be made up with expedition, and
sent for the u'e of the reguhrs in Boston ; all are
to be faced with red, and rhe dilfrence only will
be in trimming the button holes with various co
lours; officers and private men will be a'ike.
^ u g u ft "• Yesterday there was a muster of
the three regiments of guards on the parade in
St. James's Park, when upwards of 60 men of
fered themselves as volunteers to go to America,
and they were immediately draughted into a march
ing regiment for that purpple, with great pro
miles of preferment.
Orders are given for the cruizers on the Ame
rican Ration to rake all ih ps, of what nation io
ever, which are found within a certa n dißance
of the ports thee, which are now shut op.
Orders are sent to Ireland f>r a stop to be put
to the exportation of fait provisions to die ports
of France and Spain, or the islands in the Weik
Indies belonging to thoie two powers.
C AMBRI D G E, %%. 28.
His Excellency General Washington has been
pleased to appoint John George Frazer E q; of
Virginia, Ariftant Quarter Master-General, in
the continental army, tor the diririd of I'rofpcct
and Winter Hills.
WORCEST.E R, A,/. 29.
Yederday a waggon load of money pass. d 'bro*
this town, from Philadelphia, for the uieu. the
continental dimy.
H A R T F O R D, 0.1. 2.
Capt. Jones from Ca,e Nich da ride, who ar
rived at Middletown from that price a few days
since informs, that the 2d of Auguh the Cour
mander in Chef qf the r ench V< ' Indiaillairis
arrived at the Mole, and immediately gaye ordeis
for all the cancan 'o he mounted on the new for
tifieatioß, that 16 French men of war had arrived
at Cape Francois v ith troops on board, and that
warlike preparations were every whett reaping in
the French par; of IFfo-dul^.