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aanal invasion of your dominions," after you had
captured above one hundred fail of French merchant
men, after you had adually captured 2 French fri
gates, attacked a third, the Belle Ponte, and thereby
actually made open war against France !O! King !
what will this world come to !
But, Sir, considering the terms in which you com
plain of the Court of France, mankind cannot but
expert a corresponding condittt on your part : and
any disappointment, naturally leads them to reason
back from effects to carries. The outrage upon your
Crown and honour, of which you so loudly corn
lain, demanded nothing less on your part, than an
instant declaration of war. You have made no such
declaration, and only one cause, can in the nature
of things, be assigned for that filence —you are con
fcipus, that you are not in a condition to enter into
a declared state of war with the Court of France.—
This conclusion is too evident to be malked ; and a
man must blink and wink indeed, not to fee it. Nay,
with all your Royal caution, you not only cannot
conceal it, but you cannot avoid expressing it your
felf. Having rashly pronounced a Philippic against
the grand monarque, feeling your internal weakness,
and too late sensible of your temerity, you imme
diately, in your next words, declare that you are
" desirous to fee a restoration of the blessings of
peace?'—How are the mighty fallen ! —You evi
dently tremble at a view " of other powers, how
ever friendly and sincere their profeffions, however
just and honorable their purposes." Nor, seated on
your throne, clad in your Royal rubes, surrounded
by your nobles, and encompassed by your guards
in your very capital, do you presume to name the
powers you fear ! You, Sir, who would have shackled
America, at length dare not exercise even the free
dom of speech; left you offend powers and accele
rate attacks, which in an agony, you know you can
not resist or repel!—Nay, they even look you into
silence !
May it please your Majesty, how has it happened,
that you fay so little as you do of North -America !
You just scatter nine and thirty words among the
Thirteen United States. Three words to each are
but small marks of your Royal grace and favoi^.
But perhaps as you are a pious prince, you had in
view the thirty-nine articles of the church of Eng
land, and you regulated yourfelf by that scale. Or
perhaps you have now reserved yourfelf on the fub
ie& of North-America, that with the better grace
you may be more explicit and at large in the treaty
which is to terminate the war and secure the inde
pendence of the United States. It is time your Ma
jesty considered the affairs of this continent upon a
more liberal footing, than you have yet done. Nor
is it of any confluence to tell your Parliament that
" it wou'd have afforded you very great fatisfa&ion
to have informed them that the conciliatory mea
sures planned by the w ; <!om and temper of Parlia
ment, had taken the desired effect and brought the
troubles in North-America to a happy conclusion."
They were in no doubt upon that point as they knew
those measures were really planned by your Majesty.
Tlr. Fox, in your House of Commons, expressly in
answer to ybur Royhl speech, declares that they were
not planned by Parliament. Nay, he avers "it was
a libel against Parliament to charge them with" those
measures. Your Majesty, no doubt must remember
the principles upon which Solomon adjudged the
child to one of the two women who claimed it.
Upon the fame principles do I determine between
your Majesty and Mr. Fox. You speak of those
measures with al! the feelings of a parent. —Mr. Fox,
as a member of Parliament, shews not the least de
gree of tenderness for them. It must be, Royal Sir,
a little disagreeable to your Majesty, to find yourfelf
in a litigation, in which the principle of judgment is
so pointedly against you, and drawn from so high an'
authority as not only the wisest of kings but of man
kind.
But to return. Just as you enter upon this great
fubjed of North-America, you at once flop fhoft as
if sick of tit. So, a timid patient who must undergo
an amputation of his right arm ; reluctantly extend
ing it to the krife, stops ihort to procrastinate the
painful moment in which he is to lose his most pre
cious limb. But, Sir, the situation of your affairs
calls " so loudly upon you for your most active ex
ertions, that I cannot doubt of four heartiest con
currence" in the neceffay, though to you, painful
operation of amputating America from Great-Britain.
For this salutary purpose the deficiencies in your
Majesty's speech ought to be supplied. Send a mes
sage to ycur Parliament and tell them that your
fleets and armies are unable to recover to you the
dominion of the United States —that your Conimif
fioners have returned equally unfuccefsful ih the fame
attempt —that the United States fct at defiance, " the
vigour of ybur Councils and the conduct and intre
pidity of your officers and fore ,by sea and land." —
that France has made common cause with the United
States against you —that you firmly believe Spain
and the whole h< w of Bourbon will do the fame
before the next campaign —that you have not been
able to form any connection with Russia, Prussia,
Holland or any other power, so as to render you
any thing near a match against the apparent union
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against you,—but I beg your Majesty will excufc me
for thus inadvertently advising an unnecessary clause.
Upon a second thought I am clearly and decidedly
of opinion, that you may altogether omit this lalt
head, as Mr. Tdwnfhend and Mr. Fox in your House
of Commons, positively declared, that you had not
^' formed Continental connections ;" and Lord North
in the fame place confeffed that he had not advised
" subsidiary connections." Besides it is known that
at the end of summer, 1777, the Empress of Russia
rejected your application for a body of her troops,
with such disdain that your Ambassador at Peterf
burgh retired from the court, till he received instruc
tions flon )London ; and also that a subsequent appli
cation from your Majesty to the Empress, that her
fleet should a<ft in drift conjunction with your's,met
with so dilatory an answer as prevented a renewal
of the application. In a word, it is so clear and
your Parliament are so fatisfied that you have no
profpeCt of aid from Russia, that your Majesty need
not be at the trouble of faying one word to convince
them of it. Indeed your very silence upon that fub
jea in the present dangerous crisis of your affairs, is
more pointedly convincing than any words you can
possibly use.
Your Majesty may also fay in this message which I
have the honor to advise, that on one of the last days
of October, or on one of the firft days in November
last, I forget which, but it is not material as your
Majesty knows the day, Count d'Almadover, the
Spanish Ambassador at your court, by order of his
matter, delivered to your Majesty a remonstrance
of a very serious and decisive nature; but there is
110 occasion for you to be at the trouble of being more
particular on that fubjeCt, as I presume His Most
Catholic Majesty will in due time in more forceable
language than you have at command, notify to your
Parliament and the world the independent tone of
that important remonstrance. And I would advise
your Majesty to conclude this weighty message, with
assuring your Parliament that "by the bkfling of
God," upon the United States and their alliance,
you have no " means of vindicating and maintain
ing" the remnant " honor of your Crown and the
interests of your people," but by agreeing to the in
dependence of those United States and fatisfying
their good and great ally, for the " injurious" ag
gretfion you have made upon him.—Considering your
Majesty's habit of body and state of mind, I am
sensible that this is a harsh prescription; but, may
it please your Majesty, your case is desperate, and it
is absolutely necessary to your existence and future
" security."
You are pleased, Great Sir! to confefs that your
efforts " have not been attended with all the success
which the vigour of your exertions seemed to pro
mise," that " the extensive commerce of your fubjeCts
has been protected," m, in most c'its branches, and
that you have "called forth your militia to assist in
the interior defence" of your feat of government. —
Thus confeffing the failure of your efforts, the loss
of a great part of your commerce, and that you are
so hard preffcd as to arm your militia " to assist" in
the defence of your capital ; can you, Sir, be so con
tradictory to yourfelf as to continue in the vain pur
suit of conquest abroad, beyond the Atlantic, and
in a region in which you have in this pursuit loft
whole armies, and funk millions of treafute ! Twelve
months ago your Majesty's firft Commiffiorer of
your treasury, and Governor of your House of Com
mons, declared aloud, that your kingdoms could no
longer furnifh men er money for the American war ;
nor is it within the scope of the warmed imagination
to suppose, that they are row more competent to
produce those means of conquest. You have, Sir,
received the ultimatum of the United States. If you
deliberate long upon it, you may be loft. Already
your throne totters under your Royal person. Your
Majesty has deprived your Crown of that gem which
irradiated your brows with glory; and you will do
well in time to reflect, that that conduct which has
disfigured your Crown, will, if pursued, deltroy its
existence. Farewell.
Philadelphia, February 13th, 1779.
°juft published, and to be fold at the Printing-Office
in Trenton (Price Five Shillings)
P OEMS
On several Occurrences in the
PRESENT GRAND STRUGGLE
For AMERICAN LIBERTY:
CONTAINING,
I. A contest between the Eagle and the Crane. 2.
A dialogue between Col. Paine and Mil's Clorinda
Fairchild. 3. St. Clair's retreat and Burgoyne's de
feat. 4. The firft chapter of the lamentations of
General Burgoyne. 5. The fall of Burgoyne. 6.
The vanity of trusting in an arm of flefh. 7. The
tragical death of Miss Jane M'Crea. 8. An answer
for the messengers of the nation.
They may also be had of Joseph Inflee, Esq. at
Pennington, Timothy Brush, jun. in Hopewell, john
Abbot, John Ringo and Nathan Hfckfon, in Amwell,
Daniel Hunt, Esq. Maidenhead, Enos Kelsey, Esq.
Princeton, Rev. Mr. Smith, Cranberry.
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the Printer hereof,
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New-Jersey Almanack,
For the Year of our Lord 1770.
CONTAINING,
Besides the usual Astronomical Observations,
A Variety of ufeful, inftrudtive, and entertaining
Matter, in Prose and Verse.
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HE Faculty of Queen's College take this me
thod to inform the Publick that the business of
said College is still carried on at the North Branch
of Raritan, in the county of Somerset, where good
accommodations for young Gentlemen may be had
in reputable families, at as moderate prices as in any
part of the state. This neighbourhood is so far dis
tant from Head-Quarters that not any of the troops
are Rationed here, neither does the army in the least
interfere with the business of the College.
The Faculty also take the, liberty to remind the
Publick, that the Representatives of this state have
enacted a law by which Students of Colleges are ex
empted from military duty.
Raritan, January 24, 1779. 3*