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the dreadful sentence, but I must discharge my duty
to my country.
Treason is a crime of the most dangerous and fatal
Gonfequence to society ; it is of a most malignant na
ture ; it is of a crimson colour and of a fcarlct dye:
Malicioully to deprive one man of life, merits the
punishment of death, and blood for blood is a just re
stitution. What punishment then, muff he deserve,
whojoins the enemies of his country, and endeavours
the total deftrudtion of the lives, liberties, and pro
perty of all his felloe-citizens ; who Wilfully aids and
assists in so impious a cause ; a cause which has been
complicated with the horrid and crying fin of mur
dering thousands, who were not only innocent, but
meritorious ; and aggravated by burning fame of them
alive, and farming others to death. It is in vain to
plead, that you have not personally adted in this wick
ed business ; for all who countenance and assist, are
partakers in the guilt. Your junction gave encou
ragement to the invaders of your country ; your ex
ample occasioned the defection of others, and you ex
erted yourfelf in forwarding their arbitrary designs.
It is in vain to plead, that you fled to the enemy tor
protection against some of your neighbours, who
threatened your life, because they thought you a to
xy; for you might have applied for, and obtained
protection from the civil Magistrate, or from the ar
my of your own country. It is in vaiil to plead, that
you intended to relieve some Friends who were order
ed under a guard to Virginia, for government was
then doing a necessary and usual act in like cases for
its preservation ; the retraining men, whole going at
large was thought dangerous to the community, and
putting them for a time under a gentle confinement:
YouL offering to put yourfelf at the head of a tr )op
of horse of the enemy, and to effect this refeue at the
rifaue of your life, was a strange piece of conduct, in
one who pretended t>at he was conscientiously scru
pulous of bearing arms in any case. Alas ! happy had
it been for you, had you fallen under the like induL
gent restraint, and been also sent to Virginia.
It is true, and I mention it with pleasure, that
your interest with the Commander in Chief of the
British army was frequently employed in acts of hu
manity, charity and benevolence. This must afford
you forae comfort, and your friends some consolati
on ; but a good General would have done the fame
things to a vanquished enemy; and they can by no
means compensate for treason.
You will probably have but a short time to live.
Before you launch into eternity, it behoves you to
improve the time that may be allowed you in this
world ; it behoves you most seriously to reflect upon
your past conduCt : to repent of your evil deeds : to
be incessant in praver to the great and merciful God,
to forgive your manifold tranfgreflions and iins: to
teach you to rely upon the merit and passion of a dear
Redeemer, and thereby to avoid those regions offer
row ; those doleful shades, where peace and rest can
never dwell ; where even hope cannot enter. It be
hoves you to seek the conversation, advice and pray
ers of pious and good men ; to be importunate at
the Throne of Grace, and to learn the way that lead
eth to happiness. May you, reflecting upon these
things, and pursuing the will of the great Father of
light and life, be received into the company and so
ciety of Angels and Arch Angels, and the spirits of
just men made perfect : and may you be qualified to
enter into the joys of Heaven ; joys unspeakable and
full of glory.
The Legislature of this Commonwealth, agreeable
to the lenity evinced by all their Laws, have thought
proper to direCt, that persons guilty of High Trea
son should be dealt with and proceeded against, as in
other capital cases: And therefore the * solemn
judgment in Treason, heretofore prescribed by the
Laws of Pennsylvania, is now done away.
The Judgment of the Court therefore is;
" You shall be taken back to the place from whence
you came, and from thence to the place of execution,
and there to be hanged by the neck until dead?'
May God be merciful to your foul.
T R ENT O N, November ii.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the army at
Frederickjborough, dated Cfiober 27, 1778.
" The three New-England brigades ebah were
posted at Danbury, have retired to Hartford for win
ter quarters. Three more have moved off from this
ground to Farmington for the fame purpose. The
rest of our troops will probably keep their prefect
post, until it is certainly known whether the enemy
intend to abandon New-York. It is said they are
preparing for a second embarkation."
We hearthat on Tuesday fennight 120 fail of Bri
tifli vessels of war, and transports full of fpldiers, fail
ed from Sandy-Hook, supposed to be bound to the
Weft-Indies ; —that all the new levies are on board,
except Bofkirk's regiment ; —that those who remain
on Staten-Island under Gen. Skinner, are posted at
* The solemn judgment in Treason, under the
Government and Laws of Pennsylvania before the
late glorious Revolution, was as follows, viz.
" You shall be carried back to the place from whence
you came, and from thence be drawn to the place of
execution, and be there hanged by the neck, and then
cut down alive : Your entrails shall be taken out and
burned, while you are yet alive ; your head shall be
cut off; and your body divided into four parts ; and
your head and quarters be at the King's cbfpofal.” 2
Hawkins, chap. 48, fee. 3. IH.P. C. 35c. 2H. P.
C. 396. 4 Blackstone 92.
We are informed that on the sth ult. Mr. Gil
bert Sherer, in 1 prze belonging to Captain John
M'Gee, of Philadelphia, was retaken and lent into
New-York.
" Cm the 27th o' October last departed this life, at
Wehiiek, in Efex county, the amiable contort of
Doctor PHILEMON ELMER, in the 23d year of her
age, the only chhd of Mr. Ephraim Marlh. The day
following her funeral was attended by a number of
ministers, a train of mourners, and a large concourse
of people. Upon which occasion a very pertinent
and inftrudtive discourse was delivered by the Rev.
James Caldwell, from Isaiah 40: 5,6, 7 and Bth verses.
She was a dutiful child ; an affectionate and agreeable
wife ; ofa tweet temper and disposition; the darling
of her relations; beloved and admired by her ac
quaintance ; hospitable to the poor; companionate
to the diftrefled ; a pattern of modesty and worthy of
imitation in her mien and deportment ; an honour
..to ter sex and all in connexion wih In r ; has left two
babes, a disconsolate husband and admitted parents to
bewail the loss which they have sustained by her
death."
bill, dated Nov, 2, 1778.
" The only news we have had iince I wrote you
last is the following, which was received by-the Ge
neral the day before yesterday, from General Scott,
who commands at the lines. He informs his Ex
cellency, that it is the common report in New-York,
that Jamaica has fallen into the hands of the French ;
in cdnfequence of which rum had risen to 20s. per
gallon, and English goods had fallen in their prices;
that transports were every day falling down to the
Watering-place, and from thence to the Hook ; and
that it was by no means certain that the whole of the
enemy did not intend to embark this fall."
On Tuesday, the third inflant, Captain Marriner,
of Brunswick, with seven men belonging to Lord
Stirling's division, landed from the Jersey shore at
New-Utreght, on Long-idand, and brought off Si
mon and Jacques Cortely u, two famous tories in the
enemy's lines, and in Specie and other property to
the amount of 5000 dollars. The two prisoners are
on parole at New-Brunswick, and to be exchanged
for two citizens of this date in captivity with the
enemy. - , . .
Married, the 14th wlt Elisha Boudinot, Esq.
Counfellor .at Law, to Miss Katy Smith, daugh
ter of Peartree Smith, Esq. a Lady poffefied
of every qualification necessary to render the con
nubial Rate happy.
The following character would have been inserted ear
her, bad it rot been mislaid.
" To the tmfpeakable grief of a mourning wife,
and the great loss of four defifable children, <Td, of
an edematous tumour, in the morning of the 26th of
August last, at Springfield, in the borough of Eliza
beth, in rhe 48th year of hr age, Doctor JONATHAN
DAYTON, who had practiced phyfick with great
judgment, care, success and reputation for the space
of 24 years, in that place and parts adjacent ; and his
remain: were the next day decently interred in the
burying-ground in the place, and a suitable fernion,
from Mark 13, 37. was preached upon the occasion,
by the Rev. James Caldwell.
" He was eminent in his profeffion ; warmly at
tached to the cause of his country ; and (hired as an
husband, a father, a neighbour and a friend. In a
word, his worth was bed known to, and the loss fuf
taihed by his death most fcrtfbly felt by his friends,
and those among whom he practiced."
A British officer in New-York being in company
.2 k with a lad, whole sentiments were favourable
to the cause of liberty, was makingfome severe re
marks upon the American troo •. However, Madam,
said he, I think you have both a Howe and a Clinton
in your army. 'We have, Sir," replied the lady, —
'' but you have not a Wafaington in yours.?'
Watson's ferry and the Watering-place ; —and that
Mr. Galloway has lately failed for Englands
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at camp at ^uaker-
W AN T E D,
A quantity of well comb'd
Hogs Bristles,
Fer which a good price will be given by Moore Fur
man, Esq. in Pitts-town ; John Denton, merchant in
Princeton ; Mr. Be njamin Smith, saddler in Trenton ;
and Mr. John Linton, near the Falls Meeting-house
1 " Bucks connty. _$ 3 *
7 O be fold at publick vendue, on SATURDAY,
A. the 14th inst. a number of CAST HORSES.
Sale to begin at ten o'clock. Peter Gordon, QM.
Trenton, Nov. 10, 1778. z§
Sunday last about 50 British seamen, who hud
been taken on board different vessels at sea some
time since, were marched thru uhis'place, on their
why to Elizabeth- hewn to be exchanged,
CYP Coquettilla tube In our next.
* ^ lidvertyemcms , died a. s week to be in our next.
Mr. Collins,
You vug , ij v. f pfcafe. ir/ert the following repartee ;
which' I third contains a great neat of delicate and ge
nuine wit.
B O N rd O T.
New-Jerfey,A T a Court of Common-Pleas held
Middlesex. J TA for the county of Middlesex, on
the 2d of O&ober last, was returned inquisitions for
joining the army ofthe King of Great-Britain, and other
treasonable ad'ts found against George Stainforth,
William Steel and Thomas Hooper; and proclama
tion being made in Court, that if they, or any in their
behalf, or any persons thinking themselves interested
in the premises, would appear and traverse, a trial
should be awarded ; and none appearing to traverse,
we further give NOTICE, That if neither they, nor
any in their behalf, or any thinking themselves in
terested, do not appear at the next Court of Cem
mon-Pleas to be held at New-Brunswick on the 3d of
January next ensuing, and traverse, then inquisition
will be taken to be true, and final judgment entered
thereon in favour of the Rate.
William Scudder, ? Commif.
1 John Lloyd, j fioners.
EIGHTY DOLLARS Reward "
lOSTI OST on the fourth instant, on the post-road be
^ tween Marseille's- tavern alnd the Scotch Plains
and Quibble-town, a Parchment Pocket book, con
taining between three and four hundred dollars in
Continental currency, chiefly in 40, 30, 20 and 8
dollar bills, emitted April 11, 1778. 1 herd was also
in the pocket-bock the fubferiber's Lieutenant-Colo
nel's commission ; a letter from Cel. Samuel Ogden
directed to Governeur Morris, Esq. at Philadelphia;
another letter to Mrs. Mary Hedfden, feverai date lot
tery tickets, numbers unknown, with many other pa
pejs which can be of no benefit to any but the owner.
LOST at the fame time and between the farce
places, Gaine's Universal Register, or American o .d
British Kalendar for the present year, with some a
pers of confcquencc. Whoever finds the said pockrt
book, and returns the cemniflion and money to the
owner, or will give him directions by letter, or other
wise, where he may find it, shall receive Eight) Dol
lars from the fubferiber. Should the pocket-book
fall into difhontft hands, any person who will give in
formation oi It to the fubferiber, so that he may ob ; in
th'e money or secure the rogue, shall be entitled to the
f me reward of Eighty Dollars ; but as the papers
cannot be converted by any kind of knavery or leger
demain to be of use to any person whatever but the
owner, be his inclination that way as great as it may,
the fubferiber flatters himfelf, that if any person finds
the pocket-book, and feels no compunction of con
ference at converting the money to his own use,
he will kill have honefly enough to fall upon some
method to convey the papers and letters tothe own
ers, and cunning enough to conceal from what quarter
they come. A letter, or any information sent to the
poll-office at Morris-town, will be gratefully acknow
ledged, by Henry Brockholst Livingston.
Raritan, Nov. 5, 1778 3H
T HT RTY~ D OLLARS
CTRAYED or stolen last night, from the pasture of
° Mr. Dirick Van Vechter, at Raritan, a Sorrel Mare,
about fourteen hands high, has a star in her forehead,
a pretty long tail, and is shod all round. Whoever
takes up said mare, and returns her to the fubferiber,
shall be paid Thirty Dollars, by
Henry Brockholst Livingston.
^Ud, Nov. 5,^77^ 3§
R I 0 is hereby given, x hai there has been jn^
quifitions found and returned to the lad Court
of Commoil-Pleas, according to an A&of Assembly of
this date, against William Bayard, Darnel Smith,
Michael Moore, Lowrance Vanhorn, Derick Vree
land, Garrit Lydaker, Cornelius Buikerk, Jooft Earl,
Edward Earl, Abraham Bufkerk, William Vanallen,
Cornelius Vanhorn, John Spear, Alburt Zabrifeo,
Henry Maifn, John Allenton, John Ackerfon, David
Peke, Samuel Poke, John Pcrihel, John Rickerman,
Thunis Blawvelt, David Blawvelt, Abraham C. Her
ring, Henry Roma, John Bufkerk, Peter Ijulkerk,
Abraham Vanemburgh, John Richards, Nikafev Kipp,
Willram Sorrils, James M'Culleck, Michael Vantile,
Peter Earl, John Miars, Christopher Behfon, James
Vanemburgh, Thomas Gardner, Samuel Demorift,
William Ningfland, jun. Daniel Jeffip, Rulief Demo
rift, Cornelius Vanvorft, Nicholas Leezcar, Stephen
Rider, Headrick Lutkihs, John Martin Hagle, John
Fell, Nicholes Depyder, Peter Golat, Edmund Sim
mons, Daniel Isaac Brown, Chafles Kingfland, jun.
John Luteins and Abraham Berfhel ; and if they, or
any perlon in their behalf, does not appear to traverse
the fame at the next Court of Copitnon-Pleas, final
judgment will' then be entered against them.
ON SATURDAY next, the 14th of November inst.
at twelve o'clock, at the vendue-ftore in Trenton,
Will begin the SALE
Of a small A S S ORTME N T of
M E RCHA N I)1ZE;
Also a quantity of deer-skin breeches; fevtral bar
rels of brown.fugar.—,Likewise some valuable
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE;
Among which are,
Walnut dining and tea-table's, some chairs, elegant
gilt framed and plain pictures, a chest of drawers,
dough-trough, iron and brass kettles, and many other
articles.—Likewise a good MILCH COW
if FRANCIS WITT,
•JACOB BENJAMIN
N. B. They give the higher rr : < eMr Old Pewter.
James Board, ? Commif-
Hendericus Kuyper, j fioners.
Bergen county, October 31, 1778. 1