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that have shaken terror over half the globe---to raise
millions of mankind from the fairs of abject servi
tude, to the prerogatives of human nature. —These
arc exploits worthy of the fathers of history to re
cord —exploits that will not fufferour names, if with
proper zeal we do our parts, to link into oblivion. —
When the Carfare had carried the Roman eagle to the
extremities of the earth, what names were more fa
mous than the Brutufes, the Cincinnatufes, the Fa
biciufes, or the Poplicolas of the firft common
wealth ? Nay, by the sacred flame of liberty ! and
by all thole noble spirits that have fallen at her shrine,
in this contest ! I had rather be a woman—l had
rather be Lucretia, that glorious woman, than all
the Csefars that ever wore the imperial purple.—Sci
ence ! thou halt already demonstrated thy sacred
and powerful influence in my loved country ! Thou
haft already inspired the molt ardent love of liberty,
into every class of men, by the examples of Greek
and Roman ! Did not the men of genius firft detect
the insidious claims of tyranny ? Did not they firft
light up the flame that, like a conflagration, hath
spread and involved the continent in its fplcndors ?—
Harvard ! Yale ! and Nassau ! are not your sons the
firft upon the mighty stage, giving an example to fu
ture ages of virtue, of the love of liberty, and of
the glorious fruits of science? And when history
shall record the future grandeurs of this great re
public, the fnall seize our names, and marking them
in charafters of blood, set them the foremolt in the
lifts of fame.
Cleander. —Thou haft a foul of fire, Cleoron ! And
every expreflion is ardent in the extreme —Yet I must
confefs much truth and reason lies beneath that fervor
which virtue solely guides. But, Eugenius, my
hopes of the rife of science, and of this rifled and
violated daughter of the muses, still rest upon a just
foundation.---Cleoron admires, to enthusiasm, the
affertors of the freedom of their country.---Let us
admire them with him---let us lift ourselves of their
number, and spare neither our toils nor our life, that
we may set her in fafety from her enemies, and esta
blish her in eternal honours. I confefs that our fame
shall rival that of those who may live in the brigheft
periods of our story. Not that we shall be equal in
science and in arts, but because with our moderate
improvements, we have fallen into circumstances the
most fortunate to give them luftre. But should pos
terity advance no higher in arts, they must in fame
and reputation be infinitely the inferiors of the pre
sent age. To rival our glory with all the advantages
which we enjoy, from being the heroes of publick
liberty, they must far ttanfeend us in the glory of
letters---and when genius shall have attained her fineft
polish, and the laurels of Parnassus shall fade, when
compared with the bays of Nassau-Hall, the highest
merit of her greatest scholars shall be to curite well
what we have afted.
Eugenius.---Tis true, Cleander, and no mean merit
shall accrue to him who shall justly celebrate the vir
tue of our ladies, or the fufferings of virgin and of
matron innocence. Shall not their admiration of
military virtue ; shall not their generous contribu
tions to relieve the wants of the defenders of their
country, supply 2 column, to emulate the Roman
ladies, stripped of their jewels, when the publick
necessities demanded them ? What honours shall be
conferred on him who shall weep, in the most mov
ing strains, over the violated innocence of the daugh
ters of New-Jersey, and melt into tears the sympa
thetic theatre ?—And when a writer shall burn with
glory at the name of WaJhington, he shall be sensible
that it will not be his smallest praise to eredtan urn
to the memory of the chaste, the amiable, and the
virtuous CalricueH.*
Cleoron.---Tis justly said, Eugenius ! Most justly
said, Cleander ! Let the thoughts of our future glory,
and of our present injuries, fire our minds.---Here
let us plight our hands with our hearts to each other,
and to our intuited country, that we will labour,
and bleed, and if necefl'ary,,die in her defence.---My
ensign shall be, "an arm fuirounded with a glory,
and stained with the blood of a prostrate Briton."---
And whether we are called to deliberate in the senate,
or to aft in the field, let us remember, in order to add
vigour to our genius, and force to our defeending
swords, that we are avenging the cause of virgin inno
cence---that we are erecting an eternal monument to
fame, and laying the basis of the last greatest empire of
freedom, of science, and of religion in the world !
* The Rev. Mr. Caldcuell's lady, killed by the enemy
in their excutfon to Springfield, in 'June.
LOND O N, July 4 .
Yesterday a double guard of soldiers, and of the
militia, were ordered to patrole up and down the Old
Baily during the trying of Rioters, to prevent a
crowd gathering about the Sessions House.
The Special Commissions for trying rioters in Sur
rey, will be opened on Monday next at St. Marga
ret's Hill, Southwark, when the bill of indictment
for high treason, against Lord George Gordon, will
be presented to the Grand Jury.
Yesterday eight persons were tryed at the Old Bai
ley, four of whom were capitally convicted, viz.
Richard Blowfey, Francis Mockcord, Thomas Hay
cock, and John Glover, for being concerned in the
riot at Newgate, and demolishing and burning Mr.
Akerman's house; one was convicted of petty lar
ceny, and three were acquitted.
None of the rioters who were confined in Newgate
when that prison was broke open, and then escaped,
have been apprehended. The young man who was
taken in the chapel of the Sardinian Ambassador, and
whose parents offered 15Q0I. bail for him, which was
refufed, has. written home to his father, acquainting
him of his being fafe arrived in Amsterdam, there to
wait the determination of government as to his case
and the rest who were concerned in that riot.
July 8. This day his Majesty went in state to the
House of Peers, and, after giving his assent to such
acts as were ready, prorogued the parliament, after
delivering a most gracious speech from the throne, to
the following purport :
" That it gave him the greatest fatisfadtion to find
himfelf able to determine this long session, that they
might be at liberty to return to their several counties,
and attend to their private affairs after so laborious
a difeharge of their duty, in the public service; and
that he took this occasion to express his sincere ac
knowledgments for the frelh proofs they had given
him of their affectionate zeal for the support of his
government, and of their just estimation of the real
and permanent interests of their country.
" That their magnanimity and perseverance in the
prosecution of this just and Decenary war, had en
abled him to make such exertions as would, hetruft
ed, disappoint the violent and unjust designs of his
enemies, and bring them to listen to equitable and
honourable terms of peace.
" That these exertions had been attended with
success by sea and land ; and that the late important
and prosperous turn of affairs in America, afforded
the faireft profped of the returning loyalty and af
feftion of his fubjeds in the colonies, and of their
happy reunion with the parent state.—That he felt
himfelf under particular obligations to the House of
Commons, for the ample supplies they had so cheer
fully granted ; and that no attention should be want
ing, 011 his part, to render them effectual, and to fee
them faithfully applied.—That he earnestly recom
mended to the members of both Houses, to assist
him by their influence and authority in their several
counties, as they had done by their unanimous sup
port in parliament, in guarding the peace of the
kingdom from future disturbances, and watching
over the preservation of the public fafety; to make
his people sensible of the happiness they enjoy, and
the distinguished advantages they derive from our
excellent constitution in church and state. To warn
them of the hazard of indignation. To point out to
them the fatal consequences of such commotions as
have already been excited. And to impress on their
minds this important truth, that rebellious insurrec
tions to resist, or to reform the laws, must end either
in the deftruftion of the persons who make the at
tempt, or in the subversion of our free and happy
constitution."
WORCESTE R, Sept. 28.
Congrcfs has lately passed several resolutions tend
ing to support the credit of the new bills, viz. To
call in and defcroy all the continental immediately ;
to lay a tax to be collected forthwith, in new bills,
or silver or gold of three millions of dollars, to be
applied to pay debts and interest of loans—and re
commending to the Rates not to emit bills on their
own credit, so as to have more in circulation at any
one time, than their quota of the ten millions of
dollars:—That what any state has emitted, be ac
counted part of their quota of the sum recommended
by Congress on the 18th of March last. They have
also agreed to make up the depreciation on debts due
for supplies furnifhed the army, &c.
BOST O N, Sept. 28.
We are well informed, that the loyal inhabitants
of New-York, notwithstanding all their boasted sup
plies, are obliged to pay dearly not only for dainties,
but common provisions.—They cannot vend their
goods at any thing like the advanced price of many
of the necessaries of life. Fresh meat fells in that
city for no lets than three (hillings sterling, per pound.
And yet these royalists have made themselves very
merry with the starving condition, as they would fain
believe, of the rebels in the United States.
The British fleet that appeared forrie weeks ago,
not far from Martha's Vineyard, sent and demanded
from the inhabitants of that island, for a supply of
1200 weight of frelh beef per day. They were fur
nifhed with this supply for a number of days, and
paid for it at the rate of about five pence lawful mo
ney per pound, ^ery, Whether the situation of the
Vineyard, and some places adjacent, do not require
the particular attention of government?
According to an estimate offered to the British
House of Commons by Mr. Burke, in his late speech
upon public ceconomy, that nation carries pn the
war at the addition of four millions per annum to
the capital of its public debt, which amounted last
spring to the astonishing sum of 220 millions.
It is reported that the commanding officer of the
British fleet in these seas has made a new demand for
supplies of frefh provisions from Martha's Vineyard.
Saturday last arrived here the privateer ship Dean,
Capt. Hinman, with a prize brig laden with rum and
iugar ; she has also taken a ship of 16 guns, with
fait, wine, &c. which is hourly expected.
Yesterday arrived a prize brig from Cork, laden
with provisions, bound to New-York, taken by the
Lady Wafliington, belonging to Providence.
Several vessels from Europe and the Weft-Indies,
have arrived here since our last.
FI SII- KI LL, October 5.
We learn from Head-Quarters, that Major Andre
Adjutant-General of the British army, received the
°! his ^" r earned labours , the gallows, on
last Monday. His unhappy fate was much regretted -
though bis life was justly forfeited by the law of na^
"° ns -. l, rom . his behaviour, it cannot be said, but
that, if he did not die agood chriftian, he died like
a brave soldier.---Thus died, in the bloom of life
Major Andre, the pride of the British army, the friend
and confidant of Sir Henry Clinton.
We farther learn, that the truly infamous Arnold,
through whom this unfortunate gentleman loft his
has lodged information against sundry persons
in New-York, supposed friendly to our cause ; in
consequence of which, upwards of fifty of them
were imprisoned.
By Captain M'Dougall, in 9 days from Providence,
we learn, that on the 3 d instant, there was a violent
gale of wind at that island, in which their market
houfe, and many dwelling-houses were blown down,
and 40 fail of vessels drove on ihore ; but it was tho't
they w ould dll be got oft again without much damage.
' atur ,y last bis Majesty's frigates Boreas, Captain
Thompson, and Greyhound, Captain Fooks, of
guns each, arrived here in 19 days from Barbadoes.,
paffape to ° k the Charming Sally (Letter
°. Marque) of zo guns, and 96 men.---Likewise the
Wayne, of 12 guns and 16 men ; both
from I hiladelphia. Also the Aurora privateer, of 20
,guns and 120 men, from Newbury, (three weeks
out and had taken nothing). and a small Spanish brig,
fiom the Havanuah to Cadiz. 6
1 he fame day arrived with a flag of truce, from St
Cioix, the sloop Elizabeth, who met with two fri
gates in lat. 39, 2, off Cape May; and in lat.
'1 4 ’ c°? "'" 18th inst. about 30 leagues to the
° f ' ap e Hatteras, fh c fell in with his Ma
jef y s ships the Intrepid and Cyclops, who had with
them two privateers from Boston, the one a ship of
22 guns, the otper a brig of i 4 guns'
The ship Marlborough, Capt. Howe, arrived here
last Saturday evening in eight weeks from Guernfev.
which place he left the 25th of July. The firft of
12, in the mouth of the
Bay, at II A M. he fell in with the grand fleet of
England, coMifting of 30 fail of the line, under the
cor^nd of Admiral Geary, Vice-Admirals Dig^
Lo ,hart Rots. Captain Howe wal
boaided by three boats from the fleet, in one of which
A correspondent has favoured us with the following
intelligence :---By accounts from New-York, Admi
ral Rodney is in the city, in a very bad state of health
the Sandwich, a 90 gun ship, and 4 others of the
line, were at the watering place, very leaky, repair
ing, wooding, watering and taking in provisions, and
that as loon as they could be ready, they were to
fail for Arbuthnot's fleet ; that the other five ships
with the frigates, failed to join that fleet last Sunday
morning. Several deserters left the ships at the wa
tering-place, and confirm this intelligence.
The principal part of the army is on Long-Island•
and great preparations are making for an embarkation'.
By an officer just arrived from Philadelphia, we are
informed that General Smallwood has great com
mendations for his conduct on the 16th August that
he had received the thanks of the Aflcmbly of North-
Carolina, then fitting at Hillfborough (where General
Gates was at the time) that Congress has promoted
him to the rank of Major-General, and that the
waggons which were left upon the field, and supposed
to be loft, were brought off by his direction.
T Y °, K ' Se P temb er 20.
Last W ednefday the ship Watt, Letter of Marque
it '° Liverpool, struck on the Half-Moon
Shoal, Montack-Point, and in two hours funk ; her
commander, the distinguished and truly gallant Capt.
Coulthart, with twenty of his crew were drowned.
c 23. Last night arrived here from Charleftown,
South-Carolina, his Majesty's brigantine Keppel, of
16 four pounders and 50 men, commanded by Capt
% tha ! P ° rt the Bth inst - the day follow-'
mg at half pall eight in the evening, fell i n with the
rebel privateer Saratoga, of Philadelphia, with 20 fix
and nine pounders, and full of men; an engagement
"“I"' "°' '," c d fix glasses, the enemy attempted
level al times to board the Keppel, but being relifted
f/ ^' rit > was obliged to sheer off
befote the wind, Re h/feda.
Sept. 25. The Britannia privateer, Captain Jan, of
this port, was, the 14th of June, taken and carried
Cape Franc ° is > by a French frigate called the
Medea.
POUG lIK EEPSI E, Od. 2.
Andre was taken by three young men of the militia
of Westchester countv, Mefl'rs. Pawling, Deane and
Van Weert —he offered them for his liberty, his gold
watch, one thousand guineas, and as large a quantity
of goods as they would choose to bring from New-
York, which with republican virtue, they refufed
informing Andre that they were Americans, and were
not to be purchased.
Major-General M'Dougall commands at present in
the Highlands---the different garrisons are fully com
petent for the defence of the Works,againit Sir Harry's
whole army, and well fuppiied. 7 °
Our accounts from the Northward are, that Col.
Malcome on the 25th ult. was at Fort Renffelacr, on
his way to Fort Schuyler, with a relief for the prefect
garrison.