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In CONGRES S, January 30, 1779.
RESOLVED, That all accounts for back
rations of the army to the last day of De
cember, 1776 indufive, be exhibited to
the Auditors of the army for settlement,
by the firft day of June next, or not afterwards al
lowed :
That such accounts due to any officers or soldiers
in the regiments or corps now in service be collected
in the following form :
Account of rations due to officers and soldiers of
the regiment or corps commanded by
° ^• to oto v Vv
And that, in the column of Casualties, the names of
all abfentecs, except those on command or furlough,
be inserted.
That the accounts formed into such abftrads be
attested before the Commanding Officer of the bri
gade, and that warrants issue for the amount of them
in favor of the Payinafters of the respective regi
ments, and that they pay out the monies received
thereon.
Extras from the minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secr'y.
From the GENERAL ADVERTISER.
To the ERINT E R.
SIR,
You may assure your readers that the following
was written by Dr. Franklin, in the character
of a Dutchman. Four's, fc. T. N.
Translation of an Address circulating among the
Holders of British Stock in Holland, viz.
r ro you, the people of Holland, and of the other
L United Provinces, I address myfelf. You arc
all my countrymen, and many of you are my friends.
You have lent the enormous sum of thirty millions
sterling to Great-Britain ; and the nation that owes
you this, owes near four times as much to others,
and is now on the verge of bankruptcy and ruin.
Six months ago you appeared sensible of the infuf
ficiency of her security, and yon wifely determined
not only to desist from farther loans to her, but to
fell out your several interests in the British funds as
faft as possible, without linking them too rapidly.
I approved of this determination, and was silent.
But I now find that some of you, wanting other
ways to employ your money, have begun to rifle it
again on British national security, and, for the fake
of a temporary interest, are about to lose the princi
pal. I must; therefore, seriously call your attention
to the real situation of Great-Britain. At the begin
ning of the year 1762, the British 3 per cent, con
solidated annuities were worth only 60 per cent, (near
20 per cent, less than their extravagant price) and
yet Great-Britain was then at the summit of her
glory; her commerce and her victories were ex
tended to every quarter of the globe ; her public
debt was small, in comparison to its present enor
mous amount; Pae had neither loft, nor was likely
to lose, any of her pofTeflions in India or America,
but on +he contrary, she had made important con
quests from her enemies, and could at any time hate
fecdred peace, by restoring but a part of those con
quests.
" What now is the situation of Great-Britain ?
What inercafe of national prosperity does flie enjoy,
to occasion the present advanced price of flocks ?
By a continuance in the mod infatuated conduct, she
has brought upon herfclf calamities infinitely greater
than what any former war could have involved her
in. She has irrecoverably loft almost the whole of
her vast poffeffi ms on the Continent of America.
More than three millions of people, who had been
af&ffionately united under her government, and had
fought hand in hand with her, have revolted, and
are fighting against her: Instead of their, affections,
she has provoked their utmost hatred ; and instead
of monopolizing their whole commerce (that com
merce which yielded her a clear profit of two mil
lions per ann. and which carried her triumphantly
through the last war) she no longer retains the smallest
ihare of it ; nor, can she even protest the trade of
her own island. Both the arms and the commerce
'^America, which were the principal supports of
Britain, arc now employed against her. For three
years she has endeavoured to reduce the revolted
Colonies, but has only wafted her own blood and
treasure, arid confirmed their hatred and their indc-
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
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W E DNESD AY, February 10, 1779.
pendency. At the commencement of each year we
have been told that the next campaign would be the
lad, and yet the end of the year has left her situa
tion worse than the beginning. Still, however, she
obstinately pursues the fame deftruCtive course.
Every man knows, that without the dominion and
trade of the United Colonies, Great-Britain cannot
pay either the interest or principal of her enormous
debt ; and every wife man knows, that she has already
loft the Colonies, and the possibility of ever recovering
them. Her national debt is now increased to almost
the immense sum of one hundred and fifty millions
sterling, and yet we shall very soon fee her coming,
in the face of all Europe, to borrow other millions
for another hopeless campaign in America. Like a
ruined gamester, having loft or mortgaged her estate
above its value, she desperately hazards the money
of every one who will lend her, vainly hoping to
recover some part of her former losses. But will
you, my countrymen, famed as you are for cautious
prudence, will you furnifh the Stake which is to
continue this desperate game? Will you, in this
fallen Bate of Britain, purchase her flocks at 20 per
cent, more thah their value, when she was in her
mod triumphant and prosperous condition ? Will
you not rather seize the present favourable moment,
and fell out as faft as possible the interests which you
have too long retained in her precarious funds? If
ever national calamities could give a cause for finking
the price of the British docks, they ought now to be
at the lowcft date of depreciation. Her misfortunes
are now infinitely greater than at any former period.
Those annuities, which in 1762 were worth but 60
per cent, cannot, in the present distressed situation of
British affairs, be worth half as much. It is time,
my countrymen, that you fhculd open your eyes,
and cease to be any longer deluded by the artful falf
hoods, the insidious misrepresentations, and fruitlefs
promises, which the adherents and hireling scribblers
of the British governments have propagated in regu
lar succession. Year after year, experience has
proved the dangerous fallacy of these their practices.
Great Britain now totters' towards her fall: The
only solid foundation of her wealth and power is
taken away, and she must necessarily fink under the
enormous weight of her public debt. Take care
then, my countrymen, that you are not involved in
her ruin. Tam, &c.
PHILADELPHIA, January 28.
1 he following Resolve of Council was lately pre
ferred by his Excellency JOSEPH REED,' Esq;
to his Excellency General WASHINGTON.
Tn COUNCIL, Philadelphia, fanuary iB, 1779.
Y^HEREAS the wisest, freed and braved nations,
in their mod virtuous times, have endeavoured
to perpetuate the memory of those who have render
ed their country distinguished services, by preferring
their resemblances in statues and paintings. This
Council, deeply sensible how much the liberty, fafety
and happiness of America in general, and of Penn
lylvania in particular, is owing to His Excellency Ge
neral Washington and the brave men under his
command,
Do refelve, That His Excellency General Wash
ington be requeued to permit this Council to place
his Portrait in the Council' Chamber, not only as a
mark of the great refred which they bear to His
Excellency, but that the contemplation of it may
excite others to tread in the fame glorious and disin
terested deps, which lead to public happiness and
private honour.
And that the President be desired to wait on His
Excellency the General with the above request, and,
it granted, to enquire when and where it will be
mod agreeable to him for Mr. Peale to attend him.
To nubich His Excellency General TEASHINGTON
evas pleased to return the following anfouer.
Gertie,hen, Head-carters; Philad."fan. 20, 1779.
THE liberal testimony of approbation which you
did me the honour of transmitting by the hands
of His Excellency the President, coming from so re
fpedable an AfTembly, cannot but make the deeped
impression on my mind.
However confeious I Am that your generous fen
fibihty attributes infinitely too much to me, my re
fped for you leads me to acquiesce in your request,
and gratefully to fubferibe myfelf,
Gentlemen,
Tour much obliged and
To his Excellency Joseph Mrs obedient Servant,
Reed, Esq; President, G. WASHINGTON.
and the Council of Penn
fylvania. Pub lifted by Order of Council,
T. Matlack, Secr'y.
THE
Fib. 3. Saturday lad arrived here Capt. Palmer,
from Martinico, which he left the seventh ult. and
imorms, that about the 20th of December, General
Grant, with 7000 troops, under convoy of eight or
nine men of war (having left Barbadoes, where they
firft landed after th^ir arrival from New-York) in
vested the island qf St. Lucia, belonging to France,
which soon. tell intb their hands, being only garrisoned
by 80 or 100 French troops. On the arrival of the
news at Martinico, Count D'Eftaing, with the Blips
under his command, and a body of troops, failed
immediately for St. Lucia, where he also landed his
men, and attempted to dislodge tire Britons from a
tort which commanded the harbour, in which lay the
eight men of war; but after two attempts to Borm
the tort, he was forced to give up the enterprize,
and return to Martinico, from whence he was fitting
out on another expedition.
While the Count lay off St. Lucia, he took the
English sloop of war Ceres, of sixteen guns, and a
frigate, and sent them into Martinico.
The privateer Bunker's Hill, of Boston, mounting
twenty guns, mistaking the Englifli ships, laying at
St. Lucia, for the French, ran in there, and was
made a prize of. Her men were exchanged for those
of the Ceres.
„The Count D'Eftaing, on his passage from Ame
rica, took several prizes.
The sloop Elizabeth, Capt. Alexander, from Balti
more tor the Weft-Indies, was taken the 28th of
December, by the privateer George and Elizabeth,
Capt. Ridley, who gave Capt. Alexander and twelve
other prisoners a boat, with which they landed at
Cranberry inlet, in New-Jersey. Capt. Ridley in
this cruize, had taken eighteen prizes bound to and
from this Continent.
We learn the island of Bermuda is garrisoned by
300 invalids belonging to the King of Great-Britain.
The Aflembly of the Delaware State, last week,
acceded to the Confederation of the United States ;
an, at the fame time appointed the Hou. Thomas
M Kean, Efa. John Dickinicn, Esq. and Nicholas
Van Dyke, Esq. as Members, to represent that State
in Congress.
Colonel Mordecai Gift, of the American army, is
promoted to the rank of Brigadier General.
All persons whom it may concern, %re desired to
.that the Minister Plenipotentiary of his
M'tjefty, hath commissioned the
SIEUR DE \ ALNAfS, Consul of France, at the
Boston, and the other ports in the State cf
Massachusetts-Bay.
By order of the Marine Committee of Congress,
r , L BROWN, Secretary.
^ " '"" - fr ° m ^r^ico, dated fan. 7, 1779.
I he English fleet, commanded bv Commodore
Hotham, and confining of fix ihipk of the line, ap
peared before the island of St. Lucia on the 13th of
'^"° "he English immediately attacked
the island ; they ipet with 110 gieat difficulty in taking
the little fort which defended the harbour, but the
inhabrtants made some resistance in the mountains
ret ' red - Thc Count D'Eftaing arrived
with his fleet to relieve them ; and attempted to go
into the harbour, where he found the English fleet
had fed, and were too strongly proteded by the fort.
He then landed some troops to attack the fort, and
two a faults were made with great vigour, but the
Flench troops could not overcome the difficulties
encountered, and were re-embarked with a.
that is not yet particularly known, but must not
, co "' ldcrab je, as thc engagement was desperate.
No further particulars are yet come to hand.
We believe here thit this conquest will not be
'? the En g l! fo, the island being so very
unhealthy, that the French did not even keep a regu
h.n ther ^ and tha t the neceffty of pro
th" P° deflion w ?uld make a great division in
f t° rce % as St. Lucia would soon be retaken if
T"^' a "' as '°ng as Commodore Ho
"ys'h" e ' he will bc exposed to a Superior
have n ° TC 17 '"1" of the 'hie, well armed
and well manned, four c f them just arrived from
ri ia r"%n 0 16 Frigates, befidcs several taken from
e English. With these forces we have nothing to
tear, not even from the arrival of Admiral Byron.
Several reports make us believe that Spain will in a
it! 'r' h "". Adour public buildings are
....<d with English prisoners, having lately taken a
great number of their ships. Sixty transports arrived
with the lEet just come in from France.
Pocket Almanacks
For the current year, are to be Sold by the 1 dozen
or single at the Printing-Office in Trenton.
[Numb.. 62.]