The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1777-12-24 00:00:00, page 4

December 19, 1777.
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December 19, 1777.
Subfiance of Lord Cambden's SPEECH
IT is with pleasure I rife to bear teftirpony how
much I approve of the motion made this day by my
noble friend, and to express my sense of the very singu
lar obligations this country owes him, particularly on
this occasion, when, setting every impediment at a
distance, he offers his assistance in refeuing us from the
ruin with which this country is fdrrounded. Before
I speak to the immediate objects of the motion, I shall
fay a few words on the fubjeft to which it relates.
The noble Lords on the other fide deny that Britain
was the aggressor in this quarrel; and assert that A
merica always aimed at Independency. I Ihall prove,
I truss, before I fit down, that both assertions are
equally falfe ; I ihall prove that we were the aggres
sors ; and consequently that the charge of Independ
ency can be only supported upon what they intended
to have done at some future period, and not upon
what has actually happened, the aggressor in all con
tests being chargeable with the consequences. I shall
not renew the controversy so often discussed within
these walls relative to taxation. You passed a law for
laying a tax upon tea, but you cotfid not colled it,
because neither importer, nor vender, nor consumer,
could be found. You passed another law, which Mi
nisters flattered themselves would force the tax into
operation. You gave the East-India Company a draw
back on their mas exported to America. The teas
were sent to America, particularly to Bofion, where
a large quantity was destroyed. What did we do?
Without demanding reparation, without enquiry,
without hearing the party accused, nay, even without
proof of the fad, you condemned the people of
Boston; you shut up their port; you annihilated
private property; you reduced thousands of innocent
people to beggary. You did not flop here: You re
solved to punifli the whole province as well as the
town. You deprived them of 'their charter, upon a
process equally regular and just ; and, to fill the mea
sure of the oppreflions with which you were resolved
to afflid them, you deprived them of the benefit of
the trial by jury, either as a terror to the guilty, or a
protection to the innocent.—What were your prepa
rations, in order to feeure the execution of those op
pressive and cruel measures ? The language of Admi
nistration was, that a file of mufqueteers would march
from one end of America to the other, without mo
lestation ; that the ads were so wifely and judiciously
planned, that they would execute themselves: Left,
however, they might not execute themselves, General
Gage was sent out to command a force consisting of
four regiments, which were fully adequate, it was
said, to the purpose ; that was what was emphatically
stiled, on the passing of the firft of those bills, by a
noble Lord I now fee in his place, (Lord Mansfield)
P 4^ n g tbe Rubicon. —Neither the file of mufqueteers
nor the four regiments, however, answered what was
promised from them. Twelve months having nearly
passed, General Gage, from the weakness of his little
army, was obliged to remain inactive, and beheld (he
Provincials making daily preparations before his face,
for a vigorous refinance. Early in the next year we
declared those people to be in rebellion ; we prohibit
ed them from trading with each other; we deprived
them of their filhery ; and a noble Lord in the other
House pledged himfelf to that House, that with an ar
my of 10,000 men, which would reach America early
in the summer, the conquest of that country would be
certain. The troops arrived, the 10,000 men proceed
ed to hostilities ; and, if they were not defeated in the
field, we know that America was not conquered, but
that the royal army fuffered in battle, and mould
ered away in such a manner, that they were ftraight
cned and besieged tin their quarters for full eight
months, and escaped with difficulty on board their
Blips and vessels of war. —Well, the next session ar
rived ; Ministers owned they were deceived in the ac
counts they received of the disposition of the people
of America; the most decisive measures were to be
adopted. The fame noble Lord, for the third time,
grew confident ; the full force of this country was to
be exerted ; 70,000 men and an hundred ships of war
were to be employed ; foreign mercenary veterans
were to supply the place of raw levies ; the sword was
to be borne in one hand, and the olive-branch in the
other. A commission was announced from the
throne to hold out the alternative. What has been
the effect of all this ? From the fame authority we are
told, we mus t prepare for another campaign ; the de
cisive measures and full exertions have produced no
thing material. The repeated predictions, relative to
conquest and subjugation, have failed. What part of
America is your own ? Just as much as you occupy,
or as you can command with the mouths of your can
non.
His Lordship next proceeded to shew in what an
on Lord Chatham's Motion.
Unbecoming manner Administration had behaved i#
respect to the commission, and the powers granted by
that aft called the Prohibitory Aft, which he declar
ed to be the epitome of every thing cruel and oppres
sive, and what, with the employing foreign mercena
ries to cut their throats, Ultimately determined the
Americans to declare themselves independent.—He
declared, in his conscience, that those were the ads,
and those only, which forced the Colonies to take up
arms, in the firft instance ; and to juftify their resist
ance, by throwing off the yoke of oppression and
despotism.
His Lorpfliip next turned to the ruinous state of our
trade ; by those ads, particularly by the Fishery and
Capture Ads, you drove the people employed in com
merce to desperation. Their wants and resentments
united in urging them to the resolution of making a
Naval War upon you. What has been the conf<-
quence ? The seas are covered with their privateers ;
the French ports are full of them ; they come to the
very mouth of your rjver, and insult you, which has
raised the insurance of your ships so high, that your
merchants can do nothing. Your whole trade to the
Mediterranean and up the Streights is carried on in
French vessels. There are no fewer than twenty
eight French bottoms now taking in their cargoes in
the Thames. If your commerce languishes; if your
trade decays, vyhere will you find the means of carry
ing on a war ? While your ships are rotting in your
harbours; while your merchants are unable to pay
the insurance, the French become your carriers, and
the former are left to lament their deplorable and
diftrefsful situation. This at once puts an end to the
aft of navigation, and defeats every benefit it was in
tended to secure. But, extending our views a little
further, what other fatal consequences do we behold
produced by this unnatural war ? The ruin of the
Weft-India islands, the loss of their produce ; and the
very considerable bankruptcies which it has occasion
ed. The proprietors of the estates and plantations ire
those islands, from a state of affluence, are drove to
poverty and despair. lam well informed that no left
than two hundred families who resided here upon
ample incomes, drawn from thence, have been obli
ged to return thither, being no longer able to main
tain themselves in this country. These are melan
choly considerations, my Lords ; and should be very
powerful motives with you for agreeing with the pre
sent motion. The two, noble Lords who have ippke
on the other fide, have positively denied that France
has taken, or means to take, a part in the present dis
pute. I contend they do this minute take a prat, and
that they have continued to do so from the beginning.
I would desire your Lordihips to recollect what was
mentioned by the noble Duke in the blue ribbon, and
myfelf in the year 1775, relative so the two French
gentlemen who went to Wafhin^ton, then lying be
fore Boston, and who were by him sent to the Con
gress, where they remained several months. The
story was then treated by the noble Lords in Admi
nistration in a ludicrous manner ; yet this, I believe,
was the beginning of what may hereafter produce ve
ry serious consequences. I sincerely believe the firft
overtures came from France ; and that those gentle
men were the bearers of the message. Every thing
which has since happened confirms me in that opi
nion. It is plain, that the firft notice the Ministers re
ceived of it was in this House ;.aftonifhed at the in
formation, I remember, they said it was nothing but
a visit of mere idle curiosity. Let us compare the se
quel. In the course of the ensuing summer Mr. Dean
comes to Paris, and the Christmas following was fol
lowed by Dr. Franklin. What has been their recep
tion? They frequently appear at Versailles, affront
Lord Stormont in the Ante-Chamber, and are admit
ted to conferences with the French King's Ministers.
He then assured their Lordfliips, that he had the
strongest reasons to believe, that America was both
supported and abetted in her resistance, and that ships
of war were fitting out in several ports of France, un
der American colours, to infeft the Channel, and an
noy our trade. He spoke a considerable time on the
powers vested in Lord and General Howe, his Maje
sty's Commissioners, by the Capture Aft ; and infix
ed, that they never were intended to produce accom
modation, or any thing qualified or unqualified, short
of unconditional submission. His Lordship concluded a
fpcech of an hour long, by warning Administration,
that the eyes of all Europe were now directed to
wards this country ; and, after giving his hearty con
currence to the motion moved by the noble Earl, he
could not better express his sentiments, he.faid, than
by varying a little the Spanish proverb : " Peace with
America, and war with the whole world ;" having
previously endeavoured to shew, that with the assist
ance of our Colonies we were a match for the molt
powerful combination that could be formed against
us ; but that, without them, we must dwindle into
infignificance and unimportance.