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wisdom and humanity call for feme facrifices to be
made, to prevent inevitable destruction. You well
know there is but one invincible bar to such an ac
commodation. Could this be removed, other obsta
cles might readily be overcome. 'Tis to you, and
you alone, your bleeding country looks and calls a
foud for this facrifice. Your arm alone has fuffici
ent strength to remove this bar. May heaven inspire
you with the glorious resolution of exerting this
strength at so interesting a crisis, and thus immorta
lizing yourfelf as the trend and guardian of your
country.
Your penetrating eye needs not more explicit lan
guage to difeern my meaning. With that prudence
and delicacy therefore, of which I know you to be
possessed, repfefeht to Congress the indifpenfible ne
cessity of refeinding the hasty and ill advised declara
tion of independency — -Recommend, and you have
an undoubted right to recommend, an immediate
cessation of hostilities^ Let the controversy be taken
up, where that declaration left it, and where Lord
Howe certainly expected to have found it. Let men
of clear and impartial characters, in or out of Con
gress, Gentlemen, liberal in their sentiments, here
tofore independent in their fortunes, and tome such
are surely to be found in America, be appointed to
confer with his Majesty's commissioners. Let them
if they please, prepare some well digested constituti
onal plan, to lay before them, as the commencement
of a negociation. When they have gone thus far, I
am confident that the most happy consequences will
enfue.' Unanimity will immediately take place thro'
the different provinces. Thousands that are now
ardently wishing and praying for such a measure, will
step forth and declare themselves the zealous advo
cates of constitutional liberty, and millions will bless
the hero, that left the field of war to decide this most
important contest with the weapons of wisdom and
humanity.
O Sir ! let no falfe ideas of worldly honour deter
you from engaging in so glorious a talk. Whatever
•censures may be thrown out by mean and illiberal
minds, your character will rife in estimation of the
virtuous and noble. It will appear with luftre in the
annals of history, and form a glorious contrast to that
of those who have fought to obtain conquest and gra
tify their own ambition, by the destruction of their
species, and the ruin of their country.
Be assured, that I write not this under the eye of
any British officer, or any person connected with the
British army or ministry. The sentiments 1 have ex
pressed are the real sentiments of my heart, such as
I have long held, and which I should have made
known to you by letter before, had I not fully ex
pected an opportunity of a private conference. When
you passed through Philadelphia on your way to
Wilmington, I was confined by a severe fit of the
gravel to my ,chamber —I have since continued so
much ihdifpofed, and times have been so very distres
sing, that I had neither spirits to write a letter, nor
opportunity to convey it when written. Nor do I
yet know by what means I shall get these iheets to
your hands.
I would fain hope, that I have laid nothing by which
your delicacy can be imthe lead hurt. If I have, it
has, I assure you, been without the least intention,
and therefore your candour will lead you to forgive
me. I have spoken freely of Congress and of the
'army. But what I have said is partly from my own
knowledge, and partly from the information of some
refpeCtable members of the former, and some of the
belt officers of the latter. I would not offend the
meanest person upon earth. What l fay to you I fay
in confidence, to answer what I cannot but deem a
most valuable purpose. I love my country. I love
you. But to the love of truth, the love of peace, and
the love of my God, I hope I shall be,enabled, if call
ed to the trial, to facrifice every other inferior love.
If the arguments made use of in this letter should
have so much influence, as to engage you in the glo
rious work I have so warmly recommended, I shall
ever deem my success as the highest temporal favour
that Providence could grant me—Your iriterpofition
and advice, I am confident, will meet with a favour
able reception, from the authority under which you
art. If it should not, you have one infallible resource
still left, —negociate for America at the head of your
army.
After all, it may appear presumption in an indi
vidual to address himfelf to you upon a subject of
such magnitude, or to fay what measures should belt
secure the intered and welfare of a whole continent.
The favourable and friendly opinion you have always
expressed of me, emboldened me to undertake it;
and, (which has greatly added to the weight of the
motive) I have been strongly impressed with a sense
of duty upon this occasion, which left my conscience
uneasy, and my heart afflicted, till I had fully dis
charged it. I am no enthusiast. The case is new
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and lingular to me. I could not enjoy a moment's
peace till the letter was written.
With the most ardent prayers for your Spiritual as
well as temporal welfare, 1 am, Sir, your most sin
cere friend and obedient servant,
JACOB DUCHE.
To His Excellency Gen. Washington.
[An answer to the above Letter zvill be in our next.]
For the New-Jersey Gazette.
Mr. Collins,
A S the celebrated Mr. Galloway, late attorney
litigant, but now attorney militant, has already
had such a Rowland for his Oliver, my observations
on his low artifice in the Pennsylvania Evening Pop,
shall occupy but a final! part of your Gazette.
This gentleman having been fufficiently flagellated
for publishing an affidavit taken by fupprefyo veri,
with design thence to avail his linking cause, by the
faggefio falf; I fliall confine myfelf to his falfe charge,
That the Americans publish falfehoods concerning
the probability of a French war. Pray, Mr. Super
intendent, do the Americans compose the English
papers, which are full of a rupture with France?
Do the Americans make speeches for the Members
in Parliament, who look upon such an event as a
voidiefs ? Did the Americans frame Lord Stormont's
memorial to the Ministers of France, which appears
conceived in such humiliating terms, and dictated
under such apprehensions es war, that one would
swear the trembling Ambassador (who lately swag
gered to their High Mightinesses like a true Englilh
porter) already wanted new linings to his breeches ?
But let me tell this minute politician, that the Ame
ricans do not found their hopes of success against
the tyranny of Great-Britain, on the expectation of
being affided by the French : They do not pretend
to be certain of such an event. But were they cer
tain of the contrary, not a single American (except
such turn-coats as Mr. Superintendent) would, upon
that account, be diverted from his opposition. We
have begun, we have continued, and we can con
clude the war without foreign fuccours. It is be
neath the dignity of Congress, to go cap-in-hand for
despicable mercenaries to every petty, paltry, piti
ful, penurious German Prince, whose territories are
not larger than the county of Bucks, and whose fub
jeCts are scarcely worth our killing, after being
brought above three thousand miles to kill us. It is
upon God and our Right, and not upon Lewis the
XVI, that we depend for our deliverance. And con
sidering our success hitherto, we Ihould have no rea
son to be discouraged, tho' we knew that His Most
Christian Majedy would never interfere. It was not
by French assistance that we forced General Burgoyne
and his whole army to surrender; nor was it by
French assistance, that we defeated the Britilh troops
at Trenton, and spread the terror of our arms to
Bordentown, where this gentleman was then an hum
ble dependant on the Hessians, and fat shivering on
his horse with a for Heaven's fake mbit her Jaaillfee ?
in a hard shower of rain, to which, hard as it was,
he added not a little by the spontaneous efflux of a
certain natural jet d' eau, prone to such involuntary
extillations upon any extraordinary impression of
terror. ..
But to shew him what consternation the ruinous
condition of Britain has already excited in the realm
itfelf, and that if France does not speedily affid us,
Britain undoubtedly will, by being divided against
itfelf, I fend you a number of queries, extracted
verbatim from one of their own papers, which I hope
you will give an early place in your Gazette.
HORTENTIU S.
NATIONAL QUESTIONS,
Taken from an Englifo paper, August 1777 ; humbly
addrefed to the jirft Lords of the Treasury, and the
firft Lords of the Admiralty, and the Minifer of the
American department.
IS America, likely to be subdued this campaign ?
Have you not an army paid equal to 50,000 men
there ? Have you not 130 fail of ships and vessels on
the coast of America?
Have not the rebel privateers increased every where?
Do they not fail out, and return into their ports with
prizes at pleasure ?
Have they not often attempted to burn your men
of war ? Are they not undermining your trade in
every part of the ocean?
What iihmenfe sums have your army and navy in
America cost you?
What advantages have either of them gained you?
Has your fleet or army answered your expectations ?
Are not the Americans grown stronger and better
supplied?
December a 6, 1777.
TO BE SOLD,
By JOSEPH CARSON, at Bordentown,
AFE W hogsheads of tobacco, sugar in barrels,
loaf sugar ditto, green tea in bottles, Wed-In
dia rum in hogsheads, ivory combs, needless and a
few dozen of pfalters, fix half pieces fuperfine cloth,
and eighteen pieces of striped ihamoys. 4w*
TO THE PUBLIC.
ANY person that has for sale beef, pork, flour,
wheat, and potatoes, will find a purchaser in
William Crifpin, Commissary to the State fleet of
Pennfylyania, at Trenton. ts
LAMP, TANNER S,
\ AND
S PER MACETI OI L,
To be fold by
THOMAS BUDD, Jun.
At Julia-Town, in Burlington County, New-Jersey.
WANTED to hire immediately, a PLANTATI
ON of about a or 300 acres, with a fufficient
quantity of good meadow. Any person having such
a place to let, may hear of a tenant, by applying to
the printer of this paper. ts
•BOND and PAIN,
Have for sale, at their STORE in Morristown,
SUGAR, coffee, chocolate, pepper, alfpice, indigo,
fnuff, cloves, mace, cinnamon, nutmegs, hand
kerchiefs, pins, spelling-books, primers, a quantity
of bohea tea, steel plate, handsaws, a few pieces of
Dutch linen, &c. &c. 3m*
How long has your fleet at home been in readiness
for action? l
Have you any Commanders in Chief appointed to
it? Have you employed any Admiral but whom you
have disgraced before ?
Are not your ships fitted out with decayed and
bad stores, and patched up any way for temporary
service?
Is not your coast more infefted with privateers,
than when you were at war with France and Spain ?
Were ever your ports so insulted and threatened
as at present ? Is it not owing to a total ignorance in
the distribution of your ships?
Is* it late tor a vessel to go from port to port in the
Englilh channel?
Is not your flag insulted by the French, in your
own seas 1 Have you not submitted to be so insulted
in the case of the Exeter man of war, with the French
ship Robust ? And also in the case of the Foudrayant,
with another French ship of war?
Has not Spain refufed your men of war entrance
at Cadiz? Are not the ports of France and Spain
open to the American privateers?
Was your fleet ever so little disciplined, or did
you ever fuffer so much disgrace ?
Was England ever so drained of men ?
Was it ever in so defencelefs a state?
Were ever such enormous sums railed upon the
fubjeCts, when not on a foreign war ?
Were ever such infamous contracts made, &c.?
Was there ever such a prostitution of the publick
money ? Did ever the trade, did ever the people of
this country groan under such real grievances?.
W^, there ever a time when the people of Eng
land had such just grounds of complaints ?
•Was thera ever a _period so difgraceful and dan
gerously critical for England, as the present ?
Who are the Chiefs of the different departments,
that have^ brought this country in so contemptible a
situation r Who are the counfellors that have sup
ported such men, and advised such measures ?
Mountholly, ^an. £, 1778.
WILLIAM CHEW,
At the house formerly occupied by the Rev. Mr.
Brainard, near the Friends new meeting-house, in
Mountholly, hath now for sale on reasonable terms,
AL A RGEaffortment of white threads by the
pound, quarter, ounce, or skein ; sewing silks of
all colours ; black silk dockings and breeches pieces;
men's and women's white cotton and silk stockings;
silk ferrets and ribbons; worded and silk knee gar
ters of all colours; mohair, silk and hair, and scars
twist ; silk ftay-laces.frfilk Damascus and Lorettas ;
black hat-band crape ; India nankeens ; white cord
ed dimitty; men's damped jacket fh^pes; child
ren's thread and worded hose ; men's and parsons
gloves; a few fine sewing needles; fhagreen tea
spoon cases ; gold hat buttons and looping ; likewise
tea, coffee, sugar, molasses, pepper, cinnamon, al
fpice, &c. &c. 4w*'