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to associations for the preservation of their lives, li
berty, and property, against the despotic and blood
thirsty designs of your Lordship, and the rest of the
King's desperate and deftruftive cabal, who like Ca
taline and the conspirators at Rome, have, it is to be
presumed, drank each a cup of human blood, as a
pledge of your union ; " should be upon their guard,
for government would be on their's, and watch their
motions. From all history, and from recent example,
it appears, that it is extreme folly to fuffer doings of
the kind that were going forward to rile into any
height or maturity. Let the aifociators be aware,
that they who offend without provocation, will fuffer
without pity. There is fufficient vigour in govern
ment to enforce the laws, and to maintain the con-
Ritution of this country."
By this bold and menacing declaration of your con
federate in mifehief, as well as from Lord Niilfbo
rough, in the House of Peers, " that the petitioners
were factious, and the petitions rebellious," it is pret
ty evident for what purpole the new regiments have
been raised, and what use is humanely intended to be
made of them, it is, my Lord, to lupport, continue,
and perfect the horrid system of tyranny which you
laid down in order to make the present grateful and
pious king absolute, and this you was aware could not
be easily effected without a numerous band of merce
nary cutthroats, to overawe the people, and in case
they complained by petitions or remonftranc^, or
dared to meet and associate for their own preservati
on ; these hired butchers, the very dregs and feum of
the earth, raked from all the links of infamy in every
part of the kingdom, and presently trained to daugh
ter, were to point the dagger to the hearts of their
countrymen, and to keep them in fubje&ion with the
sword and bayonet.
The wicked, mifehievous, and hellish conspiracy
your Lordship had formed (in conjunction with o
thers) under the auspices of a dastardly tyrant, against
the common rights of mankind, and envied" constitu
tion of the Brdifh empire, was laid deep, and it spread
wide, you urged it on with a steady zeal, and an un
wearied application, but as Toon as your infernal
scheme of destroying charters, and arbitrarily impos
ing taxes on a people who you never saw in America,
contrary even to any presence or legal claim of right,
failed ; you watched all opportunities to begin the
bloody execution and daughter of mankind, that you
might satiate your Scots revenge with human gore;
the firft opposition to despotic power you declared in
the Privy Council to be an ad of rebellion, and in con
sequence of that diabolical advice, which you knew
would please the temper of your master, whose aim is
to be the imperial tyrant and butcher of the human
race ; many thousand distressed orphans, and unhap
py widows, are now bewailing the lot's of their mur
dered fathers, and husbands, and daily calling to hea
ven for vengeance on your head, as the author of their
miseries; for they well know, my Lord, that you
have been the artful fiend who planned and advised
their total extirpation by the sword, if they would
not submit to be Daves. This, my Lord, the whole
kingdom must be convinced of, and believe, for none
but' a moufler in human shape, or some malignant
devil could have said what you uttered in the House
of Peers against the people of America, more than
four years lince. "If wk don't kill them, THEY
will kill us ;" yes, my Lord, it was your advice and
your design to kill them, and you, together with your
humane matter, gloried in the daughter; heaven be
praised, your fu cefs has not been so gredt as you ex
pected, they have gloriously and manfully refilled
your tyranny, and fruftrated all your schemes ofdef
potifm and arbitrary power over them.
As you found, my Lord, the Americans were too
wife, too brave, and too virtuous to be cheated out
of their birth-rights as Englishmen, by your chicane
ry, f>ph:ftry, and Scotch cunning, or by force ; you
and your master, the tool of a defperatc fadion, are
now determined to try the fame experiment upon the
deluded people f this country. Lhe plm of their
ruin and 11 avery has been long laid ; you, and the rest
of the junto, by means of a corrupt majority in the
House of Commons, have already reduced the great
est par of the nation to want and beggary, the cou
ftitution is now tottering to its bast, and the only se
curity the people have for their lives and property, de
pends upon the will of the King, that is, your Lord
ship's, or the vote of venal senators. Notwithstand
ing the diftredcs of the kingdom, full one-eighth part
of the revenue of England is at this time shared by
your Lordship, and the other miscreants in power;
and yet you have advised his pious majesty and the
court fa&ion, as a reward for having robbed us of
near all we have, to desire we will give the rest; to
support your Lordship and other notorious plunder
ers and traitors, and to maintain a war against the
established laws ofthe realm, and our fellow-fubjctts;
that we may purchase our own bondage at a dearer
price than our forefathers did their liberties.
My Lord, while your infernal counlel prevails in
this kingdom, and you remain at the head of the
King's Bench and the present faction in power, the
constitution cannot be fate, it is already nearly over
thrown, the great charter of our liberties is under
mined, the laws are no longer a fccurity against ra-
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pine, and lawless violence ; the innocent are made to
fuffer, whiht the guilty escape punishment. The life
and personal liberty of every Englishman in every
part of the empire, is not only in danger, but liable
to be facrificed, if he either adts or speaks against
the designs of your Lordship and the King's tahtion.
It is now evident, my Lord, and the whole nation is
convinced, that it is your intention to destroy the
constitution, and to make the people know no law,
but the WILL of a bloody and revengeful tyrant.
To assert in the most peaceable manner, onr un
doubted rights as freemen, and to express in strong
and nervous terms a proper sense of our injuries
and oppressions, is by your Lordship called seditious
and treasonable ; and from your dextrous manage
ment, weight, and influence in the House of Lords, it
appears, that you can impriton, or take away the
life from any man, or let of men, who may be un
fortunate enough to incur your difpleaiure ; nay, it
is not doub ed, but your power and abilities are fuf
ficient to turn the common prayer book into treason
(and it is believed you would do it) to accomplish
your own, or your matter's black and bloody pur
poses.
The time, my Lord, is near at hand, when the peo
ple must apply a fair remedy to this foul cifeafe. I
am convinced violence is intended against them, and
violence mult meet it. The common freedom ofEug
land is at stake, and it is the common interests ©f Bri
tons to defend it. The sword, it is to be feared, will
soon be the only judge of the controversy, and decide
the dispute. The whole nation, my Lord, look up
on you and the court faction, as a herd of wild beads,
who live by rapine, plunder and blood, and it will
be for the public intereit to hunt you down The
very firft attempt of force will set the people in a
flame, they will rife together, and the work is done;
you are too few for them to fear, and as the authors
and instruments of their intended destruction, you
will deservedly fail, without either pity, redress, or
mercy ! even the Romilh faith, blasphemy, and non
sense of the present bench of Bishops will not be able
to save you.
Your Lordship's malice and revenge against the
friends of freedom and legal government, was never
more clearly evidenced to the world than in the sen
tence passed against the printer of the General Ad
vertiser, because he had expressed a peculiar kind of
joy, as every true Englishman did, on the acquitai of
Admiral Keppel, from the foul designs of your col
leagues in corruption and infamy, Sandwich and Pal
lifer, to take away his life. I lose ail patience, and
cannot reltrain the rage and indignation I feel against
your Lordship, when I refled on this, and the sen
tence passed on Thursday the loth infant in the court
of King's Bench, upon those Scots usurpers of go
vernment, and murderers of Lord Pigot, George
Stratton, Charles Floyer, Henry Brooke, and George
Mackay, convicted upon the cleared: and molt une
quivocal evidence by an Englilh jury, of having de
posed without the least cause or Ihadow of right, and
in the most cruel and tyrannical manner his Lordship
from the government of .vradrafs in India. The co
roner's inquest also brought in a verdict on the death
of Lord Pigot, wilful murder, against the fame hu
mane gentlemen ; and yet printing a few hand bills,
and dispersing them about the town, which could not
possibly be attended with any fatal consequence, was
a crime in the eyes of your Lordship, of much great
er magnitude than that of murder, and a fubverlion of
government. Parker, because he happened to be an
enemy to despotism and Scotch treachery, which was
his only guilt, is to fuffer a cruel and unjuit imprison
ment of one year, in Newgate, whilit murder and
treason, when it happens to be in favour of govern
ment, dvlerves no punishment at ail; a fine of one
thousand pounds obliterates the guilt, and the cri
minals are set free. It is well known, my Lord, you
was ever the friend of tyranny and lawless violence,
and we are not much furprized to find you the tup
porter and defender of every villain who zealously en
gages in the oppression and ruin of mankind.
Another reason, my Lord, may be aligned for this
very extraordinary sentence, a Nabob with a plumb
in his pocket, cannot be guilty of any crime, and we
may soon know tiie price of blood in the court of
King's Bench. Judges have been warped from their
duty by bribes long before your Lordship was called
to the bar, some have been called to an account and
severely fined, and many have been pundhed with
death.
Two Hundred Dollars Reward.
Strayed from Princeton, on the 12th or 13th inst.
A SORREL MARE, with white mane and tail,
9 or io years old, near 14 and a half hands
high, a natural pacer, the fetlocks of her fore feet
have been lately trimmed. Any person who will
secure said mare, and deliver her to Captain James
Moore in Princeton, (hall be entitled to the above
reward. JAMES RIDDLE.
September 15, 1780. gwf
g. The Price of this Gazette is 2f6,
paid in Produce, or ^ hard Cash, or
the exchange thereof in Continental Mo
ney at the time of payment per Quarter.
Trenton, September 22, 1780.
WHERE AS the Honourable the Congress, be
ing desirous of doing all possible justice to
the citizens .of the United States, have resolved,
That upon leport being made to them of the money
due in each date to the inhabitants thereof, war
rants will immediately issue for the payment of the;
fame :
• 1 herefore the fubferiber requests and hopes, that
all perlons having any demands against the Quar
termasters and Foragers in this state for any debt
contrasted, or service done, between the 2d day of
March 1778, and the 20th day of September 1780,
will immediately bring in the fame to the person
who made the contrast 'or purchase, in order that
the fame may be adjusted and reported. And the
fubferiber being very desirous of accomplishing this
business with all possible dispatch, proposes to give
attendance at his office in Trenton all the month of
Odober qext.
I he fubferiber also requests all performs within
this state, having any publick property in their
hands, or knowing of any in the hands of any other
peilon, immediately to return or report the lame co
the nearest Quartermaster, or to him. Any person
secreting publick property after this notice, will be
prosecuted according to law.
MOORE FURMAM,
Late D. Q. M. Gen. New-Jersey.
Io ail whom it may concern :
New-Jersey, Middlesex County, ff.
BY virtue of an order from the Honourable the Jus
tices of the Supreme Court of this state, I am
dire&ed to certify the Public, that Courts of Oyer
and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery will be held
at Princeton, in and for the county of Middlelex, oh
Tuesday the 17th day of Odober next ; —All Justices
of the Peace, Coroner, Constables, aud other offi
cers and minsters of justice of the laid count), arc
hereby desired that they be then and there in their
own persons, with their rolls, records, indictments,
and other repaembrances ; and all persons who will
prosecute, or can bear testimony in behalf of the Rate
against any offenders in the said county, are desired
likewise to give their attendance on the day, and at
the place aforefaid. 1
Sept. 11, 1780. 4W JOHN PIATT, Sher.
TOBE SOLD,
Peremptorily for Cash,
TWO good H OUSES, with their appurte
nances, in Trenton. 'Enquire ot the Print
er. Also feme Bed Furniture, &c. ^w*
ROBERT EASTBURN7-
Of NEW-BRUNSWIC K,
Hath for SALE, for Cafo or Country Produce,
r I™ W 0 Houses and Lots of ground, lituate in,
I the township of Hillfborough, county of So
merset, at the place called Coughtown; the one a
new unfinilhed house, with a barn; the other is
rented till next May, but may then be entered up
on. Said Eaftburn hath also for sale, for cash or
country produce, good Weft-India rum, spirit, wine,
Holland gin, molafles, tea, sugar, coffee, chocolate,
allpice, ginger, pepper, fnuff, indigo by the quanti
ty, rozin, primers, &c. Also sundry kind of dry
goods as usual.
WANTE D,
TW 0 experienced Harponiers in the whaling
business, to enter the firft day of November
next, to whom good encouragement will.be given
by Henry Guest at New-Brunswick.
N. B. None need apply without having proper
vouchers of their dexterity in the business.
RAN 2 r,
On the evening of the 17th instant,
A NEGRO MAN called NED, a stout fellow
about five feet ten or eleven inches high,
speaks very low ; had on and took with him when
he went away, a wool hat with white loops, a brown
homelpun coat, one woollen check and a tow cloth
shirt, and two pair of tow cloth trousers. Whoever
apprehends and secures the said negro, so that his
master may have him again, shall be amply reward
ed, and all reasonable charges paid by the fubferi
ber. J. WINTERS.
Rocky-Hill, Sept. 19, 1780.