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him fcr his loss, has surcharged the cargoes exported
from his empire with a duty of 25 per cent."
From the L ONDON COURANT.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY.
THE eighteen fllips of the line, and twenty thou
sand land forces, which the tools of govern
ment assured us, more than three years ago, were
actually fitted out by Russia, to enable us to put a
final and speedy end to the war with America.
The reason of this publick notice is, that every
possible search may be made after them, as they
would be, at this critical time, peculiarly serviceable
to the cause of Great-Britain.
If any one should hear of the above fleet, he is
requeued to dispatch them immediately after Admi
ral Darby, and give notice to the Admiralty of the
fame. _
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27.
Translation of a difeourfe delivered on the 4th in
stant, in the Catholic Church in this city, before
the Honourable the Congress, His Excellency the
Minister of France, and many other gentlemen of
diftin&ion. By M. de Bandole, Chaplain to the
Embassy of- France.
Gentlemen,
A Numerous people affembted to render thanks to
the Almighty for his mercies, is one of the
most affecting objects, and worthy the attention of
the Supreme Being. While camps resound with tri
umphal acclamations, while nations rejoice in victory
and glory, the most honourable office a Minister of
the altars can fill, is to be the organ by which publick
gratitude is conveyed to the omnipotent.
Those miracles which he once wrought for his
chosen people are renewed in our favour; and it
would be equally ungrateful and impious not to ac
knowledge, that the event which lately confounded
our enemies and fruftrated their designs, was the
wonderful work of that God who guards your liber
ties.,
And who but He could ft) combine the circum
stances which led to success? We have seen our ene
mies push forward amid perils almost innumerable,
amid obstacles almost insurmountable, to the spot
which was designed to witness their disgrace; yet
they eagerly fought it as their theatr< of triumph!
Blind as they were, they bore hunger, third, and
inclement ikies, poured their blood in battle against
brave republicans, and crossed immense regions to
confine themselves in another Jericho, whose walls
were fated to fall before another Joshua. It is He,
whose voice commands the winds, the seas and the
seasons, who formed a jun&ion on the fame day, in
the fame hour, between a formidable fleet from the
loath, and an army rufliing from the north, like an
impetuous torrent. Who but He, in whose hands
are the hearts of men, could inspire the allied troops
with the friendfhips, the confidence, the tenderness
of brothers? How is it that two nations once divided,
jealous, inimical, and nursed in reciprocal prejudices,
are now become so closely united, as to form but
one? Worldlings would fay, it is the wisdom, the
virtue, and moderation of their Chiefs, it is a great
national interest which has performed this prodigy.
They will fay, that to the Ikill of the Generals, to
the courage of the troops, to the activity of the
whole army, we must attribute this splendid success:
Ah! they are ignorant, that the combining of so
many fortunate circumstances, is an emanation from
the ail perfeft mind; that courage, that Ikill, that
activity, bear the sacred impression of him who is
divine.
For how many favours have we not to thank Him
during the course of the present year? Your union,
which was at firft supported by justice alone, has been
consolidated by your courage, and the knot which
ties you together is become indissoluble, by the ac
cession of all the dates, and the unanimous voice of
all the confederates. You present to the universe
the noble fight of a society, which, founded in equa
lity, and justice, secure to the individuals who com
pose it, the utmost happiness which can be derived
from human institutions. This advantage, which so
many other nations have been unable to procure,
even after ages of efforts and misery, is granted by
divine providence to the United States; and his ador
able decrees have marked the present moment for
the completion of that memorable happy revolution,
which has taken place in this extensive continent.
While your counsels were thus acquiring new energy,
rapid multiplied successes have crowned your arms
in the southern dates.
We have seen the unfortunate citizens of these
dates forced from their peaceful abodes; after a long
and cruel captivity, old men, women and children,
thrown, without mercy, into a foreign country.
Master of their lands and their Oaves, amid his tem
porary affluence, a superb vidor rejoiced in their
distresses. But Philadelphia has witnessed their pati
ence and fortitude; they have found here another
home, and though driven from their native foil they
have blessed God, that he has delivered them from
their presence, and conducted them to a country where
every just and feeling man has stretched out the help
ing hand of benevolence. Heaven rewards their
virtues. Three large dates are at once wrested from
the foe. The repacious soldier has been compelled
to take refuge behind his ramparts, and oppression
has vanished like those phantoms which are dissipated
by the mor&ng ray.
On this solemn occasion, we might renew our
thanks to the God of battles, for the success He has
granted to the arms of your allies and your friends
by land and by sea, through the other parts of the
globe. But let us not recall those events which too
clearly prove how much the hearts of our enemies
have been obdurated. Let us prodrate ourselves at
the altar, and implore the God of mercy to suspend
his vengeance, to spare them in his wrath, to inspire
them with sentiments of justice and moderation, to
terminate their obdinacy and error, and to ordain
that your victories be followed by peace and tran
quility. Let us beseech him to continue to died on
the counsels of the King your ally, that spirit of
wisdom, of justice, and of courage, which has ren
dered his reign so glorious. Let us intreat him to
maintain in each of the dates that intelligence by
which the United States -are inspired. Let us return
him thanks that a faction, whose rebellion He has
corrected, new deprived of support, is annihilated.
Let us offer Him pure hearts, unsoiled by private
hatred or publick diffention; and let us, with one
will and one voice, pour forth to the Lord that
hymn of praise, by which chriftians celebrate their
gratitude and His glory.
From the Pcnnfylvania Packet.
To the Publisher of the Pennsylvania Packet.
Your paper of the 10th instant, No. 805, reach
ed this city, and an advertisement there inserted
and signed with my signature has attracted particular
notice, and rendered me the object of much satirical
ftridures, The author of this wicked forgery, who
ever he is, has mod nefarioufly and with malice afore
thought, made use of my name to impose on the
publick the nugatory productions of his own flimfey
brain, as the genuine offspring of my prolific pen.
But I do assure you, upon the word of a gentleman,
that said advertisement is, in toto, fictitious and
spurious. Was the ultimatum of this jejune per
formance nothing more than risible satire, I could
fuffer the indignity with taciturn patience; but it is
mod patent to sense that an emphatic injury is intend
ed by this attrocious calumniator. The manifefc
design is to draw upon me the resentment of a people
for whom I have the mod profound veneration, and
whose virtuous and heroic druggies for cQnftituticnal
liberty I have beheld with astonishment and secret
admiration.
You may perhaps, Mr. Claypoole, be furprized at
this manifefto, and exclaim that there is no concate
nation between such a declaration and the General
tendency of the Royal Gazette of New-York. In an
swer to this, you are to confider that it was my lot to
remain with a people who had power in their hands
and money in their purses. In this situation it was
the part of a wife man to evade the power and pos
sess as much of the money as possible. This I have
endeavoured to do. I have wrote and published for
them as far as invention could go; the English lan
guage has been tortured and truth expired on the
rack in their behalf. By this I have gained their
confidence and blinded the jealous eye of power.
As to their money, let the baubles I have fold them
at extortionate prices, and the lalary I enjoy, evince
that my labour hath not been in vain. Have I done
this to the injury of America and the advantage of
her enemies? By no means. By over acting my
part I defeated the purpose I seemed to have in view,
and the political lies I daily fabricated only served
to gull the fools, who believed I was exerting my
felf in their service. In a word, my paper had no
credit but in the cities of London and New-York.
As to the cash I have seduced from the unbutton'd
pockets of cockaded coxcombs, I hope to spend it
in America, the land of liberty, when the dorm of
war shall cease, and every man shall enjoy the fruits
of his ingenuity, under his own vine and his own
fig-tree.
I am well persuaded, Mr. Claypoole, that the
voice of your multitude is against me. They judge
from appearances only; and appearances are gene
rally delusive. They suppose lam the sole author
of all those inveterate falfhoods and misrepresentati
ons which I so frequently publish. Alas! alas! I
am but a poor printer, fubjedted, by my voca
tion, to the disagreeable talk of bringing into the
world the monstrous conceptions of disordered fan
cies.—But lam deemed a tory —a malevolent tory
why ?—becaufe I have published tory news, tory lies,
and tory essays in my Gazette—granted.—But will
any one pretend to fay that I have refufed to pub
lifli whig news, whig lies or whig essays? I chal
lenge all Philadelphia to produce a tingle writer who
ever sent me a whig piece for publication, which I
refufed or neglected to print. I am confident no
such instance can be found. The truth is, I am a
friend to liberty, and have actually felt the sacred
flame kindle in my breast. First about the time, or
at least just after the affair of Saratoga; and now
again on the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and his
army; and if the brave Americans should pursue
their firccefs and confirm their independence, of
which indeed their remains but little doubt, you
may depend upon it there is not a flaming patriot in
the thirteen United States, that will sing forth the
charms of liberty with more loquacious zeal than
myfelf.
It is the duty of every man to serve his King and
country. lam desirous of fulfilling this duty to the
point of punctuality. I have already served my Kin%
my sovereign George the Illd. God bless him ! to the
belt of my abilities; and now I am ready to wheel
to the right about and serve my country. For I call
this my country, wherein I have eaten the bread of
luxury, and risen to an height of importance and 0-
pulence which I had no hopes of obtaining in Eng
land, that land of debts, creditors, and intolerable
oppression. Finally, Mr. Claypoole, I rest the evi
dence ot my whiggifm on two immovable pillars.
First, the declaration I voluntarily signed and which
was published in the news-papers of the year 1776,
wherein I asserted my attachment to the American
cause, and solemnly engaged to do nothing against it:
and, secondly, my address to Congress, lately for
warded by Mr. John Mocdy; a copy of which
I subjoin for your fatisfactron.
" so the Honourable the CONGRESS of the Unp
" ted States of America.
" The Petition of James Rivington, ofthe City
" of New-York, Printer and Nick-nack Seller,
" Humbly Iheweth:
" II A T your Petitioner, under the sacred in-
I fluence ot the most exalted ideas of the glo
'' rious cause of liberty, for which you have so no
" bly, so wifely, and so effectually contended, begs
" leave, with all due submission, to throw himfeif
at the feet of the meft venerable, most august bo
" dy on the face of the earth.
'' That your Petitioner hath, from a most unfor
" tunate arrangement of circumitances, been com
pelled, most unwillingly, not only to remain with
the enemies of your virtuous cause, but even to
assist them to the utmost of his power. But h^
begs leave most solemnly to assure your honours
‘ that he hath done this with the utmost compunc
tion and sorrow of heart; and hath been often
known to exclaim, in private, with the roy
al pfalmift—Wqe is me, that I am con
cSTRAINED TO DWELL WITH MESECH AND TO
" HAVE MY HABITATION AMONG THE TENTS OF
" Kedar.—
" Ihat your Petitioner having given undeniable
proofs of his abilities in the art of political devi
ation from the truth, in support of a bad cause,
" humbly conceives, that the fame talents may be
" of lingular service in maintaining a good one ;
and therefore offers himfelt, with all his rare and
" ufeful accomplishments, to the Congress of the
" FREE AND UNITED States OF America; OW
'' ly praying such protection and reward as his
' future iervices may juhly entitle him to.
" lbat y° ur Petitioner hath frequently declared,
£ that if he had been properly engaged on the
right side, he would long since have writ
ten the United States into a confirmed independ
ence; and have abandoned the wrong side
jo the dilappointment its partizans so juftiy merit.
“ Submitting the premises to - your candid consi
deration, he only waits your favourable answer to
c appear a firft rate whig in the city of Philadelphia-
And, in the mean-time has the honour to sub
" lenbe himfelf, with all due refpett,"—&c. &c.
Such, Mr. Claypoole, is my address to Congress,
I have now only to request of you, that you will not
admit into your paper, any more of the fade and
wicked insinuations of the author of the aforefaid
Advertisement. 1 promise myfelf an agreeable an
swer bom Congress and hope M R . Thomson will
not be dilatory in forwarding it. Soon after which,
I expert to take you by the hand, and salute you
. ende , ar ^ nanies of Brother Puff and Bro
ther Whig. Till then, allow me to be
Your eftcemed friend,
and humble servant,
v J- RIVINGTON.
New-York, Nov. 17, 1781.
[ibe Advertisement mentioned in Mr. Rivington's
fyjlle, cwas published in the Ne^-Jersey Gazette lull •
<ueeh.J J
° S T O N, November
arrived at a fafe port, the letter of
Marque ship Rambler, in 2, days from Biiboa.—Bv
this vessel we have the very agreeable account of the
the P ° rt . Corr una, (Spain) the frigate
Charleftown, that failed from Amsterdam about the
19th of August last, and supposed to have been loft in
a gale of wind which happened a short time after.
Since our last arrived at a fafe port, the Cato and
Thorne privatecis, having taken fevcral valuable
Pr^ 8 ' One taken b Y the Thorne, is said to be the
Jason, (lately commanded by Captain Manly) from
Jamaica, bound to London, with rum, sugar, &c.
She made an obstinate resistance, and had several
men milled. She had on board a number of invalid
soldiers.
I L L, Nov. 22.
°' a f" er from a g entl eman near the line*
. „ have the Pleasure to forward the account of
fl inft ,% ce of Pfrtizan bravery on the coast, which,
though it may have its equal, is seldom exceeded
th e morning of the 13th instant, a partv,
confiding ot abcut twenty continental troops, under
the c CT^d of Lieutenant De Forest, ofthe Con
nedicut line; and fifteen volunteers under Captain
Lockwood, late of the continental army, with Liev
a?d Mead, went on board a f ma fy.
[^" ch ay in Raftcheder-Bay, and made
chafe after a fleet which appeared off, between them
and Long-Hand.—They came up with a private^
well equipped, mounting ten carriage guns fecund
by a strong netang, twelve feet in height above her
gunwale, with 25 regular troops on board, ofthe re-