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one case you fee nothing done but by the instrument
ality of dead matter—-by numbers---cannon---and
immense magazines of military stores---But in the
other case you fee every thing performed by the
simple qualities of the mind---by union---firmnefs---
courage and perseverance. In a word, the empire of
liberty, like the Christian religion, is founded in mi
racles, and subdues all before it by its own intrinsic
excellence : .Whereas the empire of despotism, like
the religion of Mahomet, is founded in blood, and is
propagated only by fire and sword.
While I entertain these sentiments, you will not be
surprised that I deprecate the interposition of France
in the present controversy as the greatest Rab that can
be given to the honour of the United States.
But further: The fafety of the United States de
pends in a great measure upon the continuance of the
neutrality of France. Courts, you know, act only
upon principles of present interest. Should the court
of France now declare war against England, ffie would
render the United States such essential services as
might juftify her laying such claims hereafter upon
their commerce or liberties, as would be wholly in
compatible with their independence,--Or, if this
should not happen, flie might prevent the United
States from concluding a separate peace with Great-.
Britain, and allure them on in a tedious war, to fo
reign expeditions and conqueits ; than which nothing
would be more dangerous to the liberties of this
country. Ambition, avarice, and freedom, cannot
exist long together in any state.
The people of America are not yet prepared to
enter upon the enjoyment of the blessings of peace
land liberty. They were ? you know, the fag endof
'an old rotten monarchical empire, and they have
net as yet expiated the political and moral iniquities
they contrasted by their intimate union with their
mother country. They have many things to un
learn, as well as to learn, before they arrive at, the
full Rature of perfect freemen. Some of them, it is
true, relish the manna of the wildyrnels ; but too
many of them look back with delire upon the leeks
and. onions of Egypt. I forefee many advantages
from the continuance of the war a year or two linger,
upon its present footing. It will effectually cut the
sinews of luxury, by confuting all the foreign arti
cles of diet in this country, and by these means bring
back the inhabitants to the simple and whollome ,uet
oftheir ancestors. It will give the many manufactu
rers, who have set up their bulineffes in this country,,
time to bring their Works to perfection. It will give
the American, officers and generals more opportuni
ties of becoming perfect in the military art, and there
by furnifh the states hereafter with men who will
BeLUU t^f^^ and to command annies at once
upon any future emergency. The continuance of
the war will moreover improve the American Ratef
men and fenatofs in the arts of legislation. The pre
sent revolution found even the wisest men among them
unacquainted With the practical or executive parts of
publick business. But they have profited by their
mistakes, and are now making great progress in the
arts of government, without substituting craft for
wisdom, or force for justice. The American Rates re
semble a child descended from a sickly mother. Ha
bits of felf-denial, temperance and exercise are abso
lutely necessary to destroy their hereditary weakness,
and to give a proper vigour to their original stamina.
As yet they know but little of their strength; and I
am much mistaken if their exertions a few years hence
do not mark all that has been performed by them as
yet, as little more than the sprightly feats of a for
ward childhood.
I fympathife with those people who are devoted to
be the fubjeCts of the addition^ calamities of the pre
sent war. But lam persuaded that every barn that is
pillaged—every house that is burned —every citizen
that fuffers from captivity and confinement —and
every soldier that bleeds in the farther progress of the
war, will add strength and duration to the foundations
of the independence of these Rates—The quantity of
happiness will be finally encreafed by every lot's in
property and life that is entailed upon them. Virtue,
the offspring of fuffering, is the only calket in which
liberty can be fafely preserved, and the only bark in
which it can be conveyed with fafety to posterity.
It is so much the interest of France to suppl, the
Americans with eloathing and military ftorts, that I
have no doubt ofher continuing to fufnilh the United
States with those articles as long as they require
them. I hope our court will not relax in its prepara-,
tions for a war both by land and sea; for as foon'as
the Americans have eftaßlifhed their independence,
by the resources of their own strength and virtue, I
expert to hear that Divine Providence has employed
our nation to avenge the indignities Great-Britain
has offered to human nature in every part of the
world, and in a particular manner to punish her for her
injustice and unmerited cruelties to the people of
this country.
With my belt compliments to Lewis, and molt sin
cere withes for your health and happiness, I have
the honour to assure you of the great affection with
which I am,
Your most obedient servant,
DE LISLE.
HOUSE of LORDS.
Friday, November 21.
THE Lord Stewart acquainted the house, that his
Majesty had been waited on pursuant to their
order of Thursday, humbly to know when he would
be attended by this house with their Address of
thanks from the throne, and that his Majesty had
been pleased to appoint this day at two o'clock, at
St. James's. The Chancellor and a few ofthe Mem
bers proceeded accordingly to St. James's, and pre
sented the following Address:
Moji Gracious Sovereign,
" We your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal fub
jerts, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parlia
ment assembled, beg leave to return your Majesty our
humble thanks for your most gracious speech from
the throne..
" Permit us, Sir, to offer our congratulations to
your Majesty on the increase of your domestic hap
piness, by the birth of another Princess, and the re
covery of your Royal Contort, who is most highly
endeared to this nation, as well by her Majesty's
eminent and amiable virtues, as by every new pledge
of security to our religious and civil liberties.
" We are duly fenlible of your Majesty's goodness
in recurring to the advice and fuppdrt of your Parli
ament in the present conjuncture, when the rebellion
in North-America Rill continues; and we return
your Majesty our unfeigned thanks for having com
municated to us the jult confidence which your Ma
jesty reposes in the zeal, intrepidity, and exertions
of your Majesty's officers and forces both by sea and
land ; but at the fame time that we entertain a well
founded hope of the important successes whiqh, un
der the blessing of Providence, may be expected, we
cannot but applaud your Majesty's unwearied vigi
lance and wisdom in recommending to us to prepare,
at all events, for such further ' operations as the con
tingencies of the war, and the obstinacy of the rebels
may render expedient : We are therefore gratefully
feniiblf of your Majesty's consideration in pursuing
the. measures neceflary to keep your land forces to
the present eftablilhment ; and we owe it both to
your Majesty and ourselves, to fay, that we fhall'
chearfully. concur in enabling your Majesty to make
good such new engagements with,foreign powers,
for the augmentation of the auxiliary troops, as the
weighty motives your Majesty has Rated tb. us may[
induce you to contrast. '',
: "It is with great fatisfagion we learn that your
Majesty receives repeated assurances from foreign
powers of their pacific dispositions ; and, with hearts
full of gratitude and admiration, we acknowledge
your Majesty's humane, Ready, and dignified con
duct, which is.equally well calculated to demonstrate
to the world your Majesty's with to preserve the ge
neral tranquility of Europe, and your determination
to maintain the honour of the crown, the security
of these kingdoms, and the commercial interests of
your fubjedts.
" We thankfully receive your Majesty's declara
tion of perfeverancefn the measures now pursuing for
the re-ellablilhmcnt of a just and couftitutional fab
ordination through the several parts of your Majesty's
dominions : And we beg leave to assure your Majesty,
that we participate the desire which at the fame time
animates your royal bread, to fee a proper opportu
nity for putting an end to the effufion of blood, and
the various calamities inseparable from a state of
war.
" The constant tenor of your Majesty's reign has
shewn that your whole attention is employed for the
fafety and happiness of all your people ; and when
ever our unhappy fellow fubjerts in North-America
shall duly return to their allegiance, we Ihall readily
concur in every wife and salutary measure which can
contribute to restore confidence and order, and to
fix the mutual welfare of Great-Britain and her co
lonies on the most solid and permanent foundation.
The following is his Majesty's most gracious answer to
the above Address.
" My Lords,
" I thank you for this very loyal and dutiful Ad
dress ; as well as for your congratulations on the in
crease of my family, and for the regard you express,
on this occasion, for the Queen.
• " The assurances you give me, of your firm and
temperate sentiments, refperting the measures in
which we are engaged, are highly agreeable to me ;
and I persuade myfelf that salutary effects must be
the natural result of deliberation, conducted on such
principles. You will ever find that the favourite
wish of my heart is co promote, and effertuate the
common happiness and welfare of all my dominions."
Soon after the members returned from St. James's,
the house broke up, and adjourned until Thursday
next.
In the debate on Thursday in the House of Com
mons we have further to add the following abftrart
from the speech of Lord George Germain. " When
his Majesty honoured him with the post of Secretary
of State, the King's troops were befteged in Boston,
Nova-Scotia was in danger, and the Floridas threa
tened with an invasion by the Carolinians ; in a word,
even hope, at the time, seemed in some degree pre
sumption ; yet to the honour of Administration, and
our commanders in America, he was happy tb fay,
that the gloomy profpert had disappeared, and given
place to the most promised scene of success. No
official information, indeed, had been received from
Sir William Howe; but from private advices that
have been brought to hand, there is every reason to
conjecture that General Washington has received a
check, and that General Howe is, most probably,
now pursuing his blow, and improving his advan
tage; and to this, he said, it was natural to attri
bute his silence. With regard to the Canada expe
dition, the Hon. Gentleman was under a mistake
when he imagined that General Burgoyne had orders
to fight his way to New-York, there to join Sir Wil
liam Howe: that his orders to the former were to
clear the country of rebels as far as Albany, which
town was prescribed to him as the boundary of his
expedition, unless circumstances might make it ne
cessary to co-operate with Gen. Howe, in which case
he was Rill to assist him to the utmost of his power.
Such were the measures pursued, that had it not been
for. the unforefeen misfortune at Trenton, there was
every reason to believe that the last campaign would
have been decisive. The rtreaty with the Indians
was gi oisly misrepresented, and sorry he was to fay,
that there had not been candour enough on the other
fide 'of the House, to acknowledge that Government
was driven to that measure by necessity. The Ame
ricans, it is well known, tampered with the Indians,
and drained every nerve to induce them'to take an
artive part against the King's friends: and the idea
of treating for a neutrality was never started till the
effort to make them take up the war hatchet had
proved abortive. We at worst but copied the righ
teous and infallible Congress, but with more success.
When Gen. Burgoyne treated with the savages, he
insisted that if they joined his forces, they should ab
folutcly conform to his laws of subordination ;'and
the sachems, to whose commands the Indians are
knovn to pay the most implicit obedience, gave the
General the most positive assurances, that their men
would observe the strictest discipline. When a mea
sure does not anfwerthe expectation of the planner
after he has taken every possible precaution to ensure
success, it must surely be unreasonable to blame men
merely for not being able to command events. His
Lordihip observed, that the worthy Member (Mr.
Fox) had paid him a compliment, for which he was
not bound to thank him, as he was thoroughly con
vinced it was not intended as such. It was plain the
Hon. Gentleman was no enemy to the Americans,
and his, being so very strenuous for removing him
from the direction of affairs seemed to indicate, that
success would be more likely to attend the rebels, if
he ceased to have the direction of affairs.-,-That the
Hon. Gentleman had endeavoured to create a jea
louly in the bread of the Premier, but he was too
well ahhred of his noble colleague's good sense, to
be under any apprehensions on that head. That as
he came into office without desiring it, so he was
ready to retire from it without regret, the moment
that House should disapprove of his measures. His
circumßances, he thanked Heaven, were such as not
to force him to submit to any difgraceful terms, and
to render the emoluments of a Minister unnecessary
to his fubfiftance. There was every reason, he de
clared, to hope for futcefs in America The Con
prefs, by the great bounties offered for soldiers, shew
ed they were hard set to recruit their forces; that
the hardships the people, actually fuffer under their
despotic tyrants, compared with the mild Govern
ment they had withdrawn tfiemfelves from, and under
which they had become so powerful, have nearly
brought them to a sense of their error, and made
them sick of rebellion. They boasted of liberty;
but surely no one in his senses would fay, that the
fnadow of liberty was to be found among men,
where the fmalleß complaints against the established
government, was punished with imprisonment and
confiscation of goods; where if a gentleman should
fay half as much against their usurped power, as had
been laid that night against the rulers of the nation,
his life would be made to answer for his boldness."
By a letter from Rome, of the 7th instant. we are
informed of a very tragical event which happened at
Mantua : A Jewish Rabbi preaching in the synagogue,
which the Jews are allowed in that city, having prov
ed that Jesus of Nazareth was the true Messiah ex
perted by their nation, a great number of his hearers
being convinced by his argument of the divinity of
thrift, ran out, and desired to be baptized in his
name ; but others, enraged at the Rabbi's apoftacy,
fell on him and cut open some of his. veins. The
Governor of Mantua hearing of the tumult, flew to
his fuccour, but unluckily did not arrive time enough
to save him ; the soldiers found him half dead, ear
nestly calling for baptism, which he could receive
only in his own blood.
N0v.,21. The ministry, it is said, have received
such information of the desires of a great number of
reasonable men throughout the kingdom, for a re
conciliation being efferted with the American colo
nies, that it is reported to have occalioned several
councils to be held upon the fubjert, and that some
thing tending thereto, will be tried this winter.
The military demands for the year ensuing will
amount to near three millions.
A body of troops, belonging to the Prince of Ar
halt 3erbft, is hired for the Britiflifervice in North
America, for the campaign of 1778.
Four companies of the train of artillery, from the
Electorate of Hanover, are to be embarked for Ame
rica very early in the spring.
Dec. 5. Tuesday Mr. Alderman Wilkes gave no
tice, that he would move the House for leave to
bring in a bill to repeal the Declaratory Art, the
Boston Port Bill, &c. &c. &c.
The Warwick man of war, Capt. Mondzay, is a
rived from Quebec, with advice of Gen. Burgoyr.
and his army having surrendered prisoners of war.
L O N D O N, October 28,