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For the PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST.
T THERE is the whole tegiflative power of this
province now placed ?
A. In the Assembly.
' 1 Where is the executive placed?
A. In the Assembly, and in their recess, in their Deputies
the Committee of Safety.
Q. Where is the judicial lodged at present ?
A. In the Assembly and the Committees.
Q Where are the habeas corpus aft and trial by jury ?
A. I cannot tell, they were sometime since expelled the
country in all cases which refpea our opposition to British
tyranny, and the Assembly and Committees have ftept into
their chair.
Q Is this a good Rate of government?
A. It is an arbitrary state, ereded by necessity, and ought
to be abolished as soon as possible.
Q Is it liked by any body ?
A. Eleven members of the Philadelphia County Committee
and the Remonstrants seem very fond of it, and are using their
Left endeavors to have it continued.
Q Why do they like it, and where is its excellence, for
I confefs it don't strike my taste ?
A. Its excellence consists in fixing the name of Rebels on
all those who are willing to contend for their rights, in doing
every thing without law, in letting the enemies to this coun
try escape the punishment they deserve, and in allowing a
man to be a traitor without punishing him for treason.
Q Is this the charter conjhtution so much extolled by a cer
tain party, and which the Remonstrants are so solicitous to
preserve sacred ?
A. It is all the Assembly and the Committees have left us
of it.
Q Do any oppose the continuance of such a plan of go
vernment?
A. The Proteftors, and most of the Committees of Ih
fpe&ion.
Q Committees oflnfpe&ion ! Do they ^want to relinquish
their power ? This is strange indeed ! Doe^che Assembly, ^
them?o
A. lam no Assemblyman, judge by the' condud.
Q What would the Proteftors be at? '
A. They want a fixed, free constitution, derived from the
eople alone, in such way that all may enjoy equal liberty,
oh civil and religious, They want the legislative, executive
nd judicial powers separated and lodged in different hands,
by the free choice of the people, and fubjed to their ccntroul
alone, so that tyranny may be eternally prevented, or destroyed
without rebellion or bloodshed. They want to recal the trial
byjury, and extend it to all cases whatsoever, to revive the
hah. :sco ^ ^t, : ttle the freedom of the press by the
con'! cn ou to secure that liberty to the latest
post whn c w contend for, and to prevent all anar
chy a f Q hereafter.
(Q '" he Tories?
A. li^ • .- Look at the signers of the Re
monflranc% A PROTESTOR.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1776.
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The plan which Lord George Germaine has laid down for
the operations of the next campaign in North-America, is
for the main army to take the march along' the line of the
coast, and utterly to destroy every city, town, and village on
both sea and great rivers, to which a ship can come up, which
he thinks willintirely cut off all the naval designs of the Ame
ricans, and, perhaps, prove the most effective means of put
ting an end to the war. Several members of the cabinet
second this opinion, which it is imagined will prove the pre
vailing one. Lord North is against it.
The Ministry expert every hour to receive an express from
Berlin with an account of the death of the Prussian monarch.
His Majesty has long laboured under a complication of dis
orders, and his constitution is totally broke; for several
weeks he has been confined to his chamber, and very few
people are admitted to him. It is whispered at Potzdam, that
he has a confirmed dropsy.
Extract of a letter from Hamburgh, Feb. 13.
" Of the gentlemen on the recruiting party, whom Great-
Britain engaged to supply and complete the Royal American
regiment with men from Germany, none have succeeded so
well as Col. de Scheiter. We have it this day from Stade,
that he is just arrived at that place from a long circuit, with a
body of seven hundred and fifty exceeding fine men, most
of them already disciplined, who are forthwith to be shipped
for England on board of transports Rationed there. The
large bounty he offers causes great desertions in the Prussian
garrisons, and even in the very regiments of those Princes
who have hired them out to the King of Great-Britain, be
cause though a larger bounty be given to the Princes as levy
money, yet as every farthing is pocketed by them, the men
run away as faft as they can and inlift with him ; so that the
number of men, the Colonel undertook to furniih, will be
completed within a few days ; and he will then proceed, as it
is said, to raise a thousand of the best German rangers for
the fame service.
" If the above be fa&, there is one comfort, that we need
not make any allowance for cripples, as in the firft three
hundred sent over in January last, which was just one sixth
part of the whole.
" By the treaties concluded with the German Princes, it
seems to be their interest that none of their refpedive corps
ever should return again ; for, as they receive for every man thir
ty crowns (seven guineas) as levy money, the fame sum is to be
paid to them when any of the soldiers are killed, or loft by
any accident whatever, which, upon the whole, make four
teen guineas per man; and since the Princes are furnished
with the means of procuring soldiers at a very cheap rate, it
is evident they do not wish their return. Now, if the sol
diers desert their colours in their own Prince's dominions,
how much more will they do it in a foreign country, where
they will meet with greater encouragement, and numbers of
their own countrymen? In short, the whole appears to be cal
culated to satiate the appetite of savage hungry Princes, to
people the vast American continent, and to bear down <
poor Old England !"
LONDO N, March 2.
[Num. 219.