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and are hereby contraaed into a mean bigotted
attachment to the despotic do&fine of monarchy
ii the date, of a papal hierarchy in the church,
which have been devised and invented by the
Devil, as his two chief engines to enclave man
kind in eternal bondage; the fubverlion or de
molition of which, would entirely dettroy and
put an end to the kingdom and dominion of
that malignant bring, who with truth and pro
priety has been stiled the god of this world, and
recover to mankind' their liberty &✓ freedom,
upon which we may hope to fee them likewise
recovered to the right ule and exercise ot Com
mon Sense, and not before. We heartily com
miserate the case of our European brethren,
who, amidst all their beaded light and know
ledge, temain so destitute ot this molt precious
of all gifts ; while we rejoice that Americans,
under a more free and liberal education, potiefs
such a valuable share of it; which, by our late
troubles, is brought into such exercise among
all continental minds, as that it cannot possibly
be fuppreiled or extinguished by all the com
bined powers of earth and hell. The name or
found of Britain, in which we once gloried, is
become contemptible, compared with that of
America, which has a certain dignity, grandeur,
and majesty in it, that is unutterable by mortal
tongue. America is pointed" out, both by the
prophetic word and providence of God, as an
aridam and secure abode for the perfected lo
vers of civil and religious liberty. ‘ Hither have
they fled, not from the tender embraces of the
mother, but from the cruelty of the monger;'
and have come to the ucble refutation, at ail ad
veghires &> be free. They are.not so in love
with the CT&ms and fashions of anentightned
heathens and pagans as o copy after them, in
following; this most canning invention, which is
proved zu that excellent piece, to be fee on foot
by the devil tor the promotion of idolatry.
They wait with impatience for our Honourable
Comitteutti Coo rets to cut the Gordian knot,
and * tea for <yec the hardhed, fallen tem
pered Pharaoh of England. Americans di&in
the dignified monarch, that with the pretended
tide of father of his people, can unfeelingly bear
of the Daughter, and composedly seep with
their blood upon hit foul.' They can never be
perfaaded to pay homage and allegiance to the
King ofGreat -Britain, who has made such ha
vock among them; and is yet breathing out
threamings and daughter. No power under
heaven has done us such injuries, as this hard
ned Pharaoh has done. Our prayers and our
molt humble petitions, have been rejected by
him with difil^in, and have only flattered his
vanity and pride, and confirmed his obflinacy.
There is no possible room for any further confi
dence in him : Reconciliation is impossible „ it
can never grow, ' where wounds and deadly
hate-have pierced so deep ; for God's fake then
let us come to a final feparation,' which in four
or five months, no doubt, would deliver Ame
rica from all her present calamities and troubles,
and put her on as regrettable a footing as any
kingdom or empire in the world. Our part of
the war would immediately devolve upon other
hands ; the old and natural enemies of Eng
land, would forthwith seek revenge on her, and
peace and tranquillity be restored to this Conti
nent, and probably secured for ever. Our in
terest, our right, and our reason, .all unitedly
plead for this reparation---' the blood of the
flam, the weeping voice ot nature cries, 'tis time
to part.' It is to be hoped rhe noble sons of A
merica have too much Common Sense to pay any
partot eight hundred thousand pounds flerling
a year to any man, however dignified with titles,
that is not only altogether useless in his life, but
proves a curie rath r than a blessing to man
kind. Indeed, the striking argument-offered by
the worthy author of Common Sense, against
the doctrine of reconciliation, aqd in favour of
immediate separation, are fully convincing, as
far as my acquaintance reaches, and doubt not
they will be so to all unprejudiced minds. The
moderate men, which he speaks of, I take to
be disguised Tories, and if hearkened to much
longer, will increase our calamities by their ill
judged determinations, or what they call pru
dent raeafures, and involve us in some inextri
cable labyrinth, beyond all possibility of relief.---
Upon the whole, I can't but think, setting aside
a few petitioners, who are too interested to judge
in this important affair, that were the true sons
of America, whose interest and connexions ly
in the country, to be aflembled in their respec
tive provinces, towns or counties, and have
Common Sense publicly read and explained to
them, that at least nineteen in twenty, if not
ninety-nine in a hundred would hold up both
hands in favour of an immediate separation from
Great Britain ; which glorious event may the
good Lord hasten, and bring to pass in its due
time, and prepare his people to receive it with
.united hearts, full of tbankfgiving and joy !
Amen. Z. F.
B, the Ship Hope, Captain Curvin, arrived at
Philadelphia frem Bristol, eve have
the following Advices, viz.
LOND O N, Nov. 23.^
TETTERS just received in town from
^ S,iin, advise, that the most amazing war
like preparations are now carrying on in the
country ; at Madrid orders are given to press
ig,ooo men, and half the King's houfhold
troops have received orders to be in readiness to
march on the Ihorteft notice.
HOUSE >o F COMMONS.
November 2g.
On the third reading of the bill to indemnify
his Majesty's Ministers, who advised the mea
sure offending foreign troops to the garrisons
of Gibraltar and Port Mahon.
Mr. Mafham moved, that instead of the
words in the preamble of the bill, “ Whereas
The debate was very warmly supported on
both sides, and' laded till pad twelve o'clock,
when a division on the amendmentwas rejected,
131 against 58.
Nov. 28. The 33d regimentof foot, of which
Lord Cornwallis is Colonel, is ordered for Ame
rica, instead of the §3dN Lord Cornwallis is to
command the expedition ^South-Carolina and
Virginia. •',
A letter from Dublin fays, “By letters from
Sligo we have the melancholy account of fede
ral fliips wrecked upon the north coast of this
kingdom, and among the number a transport,
which contained three companies of the 4.6 th
regiment bound for America.
House of Commons. Yesterday a few minutes
after three o'clock, Mr. Alderman Oliver made
his motion ; he was seconded by the Lord May
or of London. It was couched in the follow
ingterms: That an humble address be present
ed to his Majesty, requeuing that his Majesty
would be gracioully pleased to impart to the
house, who were the original authors and ad
visers of the following measures before they were
propoled by parliament : The taxing America
without the consent of its Assemblies, .for the
purpole of railing a revenue ; for the extend
ing the jurifdiffion of the courts of admiralty
and vice-adm.ralty ; for taking away the charter
of the province of Mdhichufetts-Bay; for re
training the American fishery; for exempting
murderers from trials in America ; for transpor
ting accrued Colonies to England to be tried for
offences committed in America ; and more e-
Ipecially tor eftabiifhing Popery and despotism
in Canada.
That in the present case the necessity could
not be pleaded, since the body of troops pro
cured by the means was too small to be an object
that amounted to any necessity of procuring
them ; consequently there was no plea to urge
in the stile of admitting an illegality, but tid
ing for national preservation; that if the mea- 4
fare was unneceflhry, the illegality of it would
appear in the Wronger light, since it was nothing
but sporting with the laws for a trifling confe
deration, instead of being driven to a breach of
them by an urgent necessity; that the illegality
of the measure was clear from the almost regu
lar tenor of our hitlory. Parliament having in
the earliest periods frequently remonstrated a
gaintt our King's keeping foreign troops in their
dominions in France, declaring the fame to be
illegal, and had often procured their difmiffiom
This was illustrated b, various quotations from
our history and /laws, all tending to prove that
the introducing foreign troops into any of the
dominions of the crown of Grear-Britain, with
out the content of Parliament, was against law.
On the other hand it was contended that the
fortrelies of Gibraltar and Minorca were not
within the realm es England, though belonging
to the crown, and the great securities of the
kingdom against a foreign force, we eexpreffed
in the cleared terms to be confined to the realm ;
that the bill of rights is explicit in confining the
case to those limits ; whereas, if it had been
ever dreamed that the crown had no right to
keep up foreign troops elsewhere, mod certainly
that famous declaration of the rights of the peo
ple, w hich was to point out the limitrot the royal
authority,would have included this by narpe in
fteadofufingnrms exclusive of it. That the troops
which have been for an age kept up.- various times
in America, by the authority of the crown and
the provincial afiembXs, were the cleared con
tradictions to t?e principles now maintained.
Counter instances and quotations were made in
support of this /marine It was further con
tended, that as the measure was legal, so it was
allo necessary, though not in a degree that con
cerned the fatl rind existence of the date ; that
troops were wanted before new levies could be
made,and noneappeared so readily and easily to be
procured as his Majesty's German ones'; that
they were cheaper than the national troops, and
open to no solid objection ; that the difficulties
met with in recruiting so many men as were now
wanting, every day proved the expediency of
the measure.
doubts have arisen, &c." the words, “ \Vkefe
as it is contrary co the spirit of the conflitution,
Kc." be inferred. Upon this a great debate
ensued, as to the illegality ot the measure.
Againd the bill, among other arguments, it
was alledged, that the conduct of administration
was contradictory to a strange degree; that they
pretended to laugh at the idea of being indem
nified for a measure ot equal legality and pro
priety ; that a member in oppolition called on
them to bring forward an indemnity bill; that
the firrt minified openly adhering to the prin
ciple, that the measure was itriftly legal, yet
he himfeli brought in the bill. That having
brought it in, it had been thought necetiary to
secure the heads of thole men who had advised
the measure. That as the plan was illegal, and
at the fame time unneceflary, the bill ought not
to pafs,-—no indemnity---no exception from the
general course of the law, ought to be granted
to men who break it without the molt extreme
neeelfty.
Nov. 30. A 90 gun fliip is ordered to be fitted
up with all speed in the most commodious man
ner, for the reception of the commiffioners,who
soon atter Christmas are to embark for America,
to fettle terms of reconciliation between them
and England.
The following is the conclusion of Mr.
Wilkes's speech in the House of Commons,
Monday, when Mr Oliver made his motion :
" Whoever did advise the measures lately pur
sued, which have loft halfof the empire, ! con
sider as a criminal of so deep a dye, that his
head would be a just Sacrifice to the honour of
England and the peace of America. The word
A little after fix tire main queft'ion was put,
and it was rejected on a division, 163 against it,
10 for it.
laws, which we were certain they had prepared ;
that, exasperated beyond all degree of forbear
ance; they would immediately declare them
selves a free and independent people, and throw
open their ports to all nations, by which we
might, in all probability, be involved in the dif
ficulties of a foreign war, at that critical mo
ment when we were torn with civil broils and
domestic diffraction. Administration remarked
the imconfiftency of the arguments advanced
on the other fide of the House; when an army
was to be voted, an army would be certainly in
effectual—it would be much more expedient to
withdraw our troops, and carry on a naval war
only, and now that bill was brought in to give
greater effect to our naval operations, they were
against that measure as they had been against
the army; that, in short they seem to have but
one object in view---that of impeding every
measure of Administration, right or wrong.
Whatever force this argument might have, it
was supported by one fill more effectual—a ma
jority of near four to one ; for on the division
there were for the bill, 207; against it, §7.
The bill was then read a second time, and
committed for Tuesday next, after which the
House adjourned to Monday.
Dec. 9. Yesterday Lord Cornwallis took leave
of his Majesty, he being in a few days to let
out to embark for Virginia.'
The order of the day was read for receiving
the report on the American restraining bill.
Mr. Mackworth accordingly reported the bill,
together with the amendments; it was then
moved, that the said report be now taken into
consideration. After which Mr. Mansfield, and
Mr. Pratt, the council, were called in; the re
port was then read, and likewise the petition
from the planters of his Majesty's sugar colo
nies, and several merchants trading thereto, re
siding in London. After the council with
drew, a debate arose, which lasted for some time,
and then the main question was put, that this
bill with the amendments be engrossed; ayes
143, noes 38. Adjourned to Monday.
On Tuesday died at his house in Spring Gar
dens, of the gout in his stomach, Admiral Sir
Charles Saunders, Knight of the Bath, Member
in the present Parliament, for the borough of
Heydon, in Yorklhire ? Admiral of the Blue
Squadron, Lieutenant General of the marines,
Elder Brother of the Trinity House.
Dec. 12. Yesterday Lord Chewton, son of
the Earl ofWaldegrave, took leave of the king,
and embarked this day for America with Lord
Cornwallis.
Dec. I. On the second reading of Lord
North's bill for prohibiting all trade and inter
course with the colonies in rebellion, the follow
ing clause was objected to by the gentlemen in
oppolition : " that all flhips and vessels, of or
belonging to the said colonies, (wherever the
fame shall be tound)together with their cargoes,
apparel and furniture, and all other (hips what
ever, with their cargoes, apparel and furniture,
which shall be found trading in any port or place
ofthe said colonies, or going to trade, or coming
from trading, in any such port or places, Ihall
become [a blank for confifeated] to his Majesty,
as if the fame were the Chips and effects of open
enemies, and Hull be so adjudged, deemed and
taken, in all Courts of Admiralty, and in all
other courts whatever." This they contidered
as a cruel declaration of war against the Ame
ricans, which will fruftrate all plans of recon
ciliation. It was likewise u r ged, that the com
missioners to treat, if this bill is to pass into a
law, would be only an idle and very expensive
measure; that the bill was of a piece with all
those other oppressive and irritating aXs which
had roused the colonies to reliftance; we firft
forbad their intercourse with any other nation,
and were now about to put the finifhing llroke
to their accumulated injuries, by cutting off
their intercourse even with ourselves ; that this
would stimulate them to publilh that code of
impeachment I hepe, will strike terror to the
ear and heart of a wicked and arbitrary minister,
and that the nobled and mod important prero
gative of this free people, secured to us by our
great deliverer, King William, in the aft forthe
further limitation of the crown, and better se
curing the rights and liberties of the fubjeX,
will loon have its full effect, that no pardon un
der the great fed of England be ple.ible to an
impeachmentby the commons in Parliament.
Dec. 2. It is confidently reported, that Gen.
Gage advises an immediate reconciliation with
America by all means, and that Gen. Burgoyne
leconds this opinion.™
HOUSE of COMMON S,
House of Commons, December 11.
A motion was. made for the third reading of
the American retraining bill, to which some
opposition was made; but as every argument
which reason or ingenuity @ould suggest for or
against the measure, had been already advanced,
the debate was as barren as it was Short. At
half after fix the question being put, it was car
ried by 112 to 16, when the bill was passed,
and ordered to be lent up to the Lords.
A letter from the Hague fays, " The Scotch
brigade, in the service of this. Republic has
been applied for by the Court of Great Britain
to be taken into British pay. The terms upon
which this is to take place are not yet fettled,
but is said they have Stipulated not to be sent
to America, and to have leave to recruit in Scot
land, which they have not had for some years
pall. It is hkewife said they are to continue
three years in British pay."
Saturday evening, a meeting of the Great
Officers of State was held at Lord Suffolk's
Office, as also lome of the Crown Lawyers, to
deliberate on a number of propositions which
have been offered by a noble Lord in high of
fice, as a ground work of feme conciliatory
measures to be offered to the Americans.
Eight fail of the line, and ( e thoirfdrd Sol
diers are to be employed in reducing the leath
ern colonies, white the main fleet and armvwe
to occupy" Boston. Ibis is the dilpofitim for
the spring.
Brigadier General Pigot i^ to have the ^h
regiment of foot, late Lord Blayney's and - CoL
Grant is to fueled to the fith.
This day the Arethufa man of war, with se
veral transports bound to America, returned to
the Downs, the wind blowing hard against.
them.
The following is the account which General
Gage has laid before the ministry, of the forces
which the feverpl colonies can not only rairig
but maintain in the field, well armed,
New-England, - - 37,000
New-York, - - IT,OOO
Pennsylvania and th, Jerseys, 16,000
Virginia and Maryland, - 13,000
Carolinas, - - 5,000
82,000
This, it is very well known here, is not the
whole of their force; but it the account is a
true one, what can 2§,000 men do agaia£themi
Dec. 14. His.Majefty has appointed Sir Geo.
Macartney to be Governor of the Grenada
Hands, in the room of William LeyLoume
Leybourne, Esq; deceased.
Last night Stephen Sayre, Efa; appeared at
the Oid Bailey, and his council, Mr, Arthur
Lee, moved the court to difeharge the recog
nizance entered into before Lord Mansfield, on
. the 28th of October last, on his being brought
before his Lordihip on a writ of habeas corpus,
on the commitment by Lord Rochford to the
Tower for “ Trealonable Practices," and Mr-
Baron Burland, who, with the Lord f^yur,
pi-elided at the court, accordingly difeharg^
the recognizance.
Mr. Sayre has given direaiows to his Solici
tor, to commence actions agaiirfi: Lord Roch
ford, the Under Secretaries of State, and &
King's messengers, that the perfonai liberty 0..
every Englishman may again be averted' in hr
person, and the seizure of papers be condemned
by an Epglifh Jury.
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TO
COMMON SENSE
ADDRESSED TO THE
INHABITANTS of AMERICA.
On the following interesting Subjeds,
I. The American Patriot's Prayer.
11. American Independency defended, by Can
did us.
111. The propriety of Independency, by De
mophilus.
The dread of tyrants, and ibe sole resource
Oj tbofe tbat under grim o„rtffiox groan.
Thomson.
IV. A review of the American conted, witi
some strictures on the King's speech. Ad
drefied to all parents in the Thirteen Unit
ed_Colonies, by a friend to posterity aac
mankind.
V. Letter to Lord Dartmouth, by an Englte
American.
VL Observations on Lord North's Conciliate
ry Plan, by Sincerus.
TO WHICH IS ADDED AND GIVEN,
An Appendix to Common Sense ; together
with an Address to the people called Qua
kers, on their teftimon, concerning King:,
and Government, and the present commoti
ons in America.'
Common Council Chamber, Feb. 28, 1776.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, thatch
Monday the 2§th day of March next, at
two o'clock in the afternoon, at the Common
Council Chamber, in the City Hally in the ci
ty of New-York, there will be exposed to sale
at public auffion, the Ferry at and from Peck's
flip, to and from the wharff or landing place
near the ferry-houfe on Nassau-Island : AUg
the ferry at and from the flip fronting the
Fly-Market, to and from the wharff or land
ing place on the said Nassau-Island, together
with the ferry house, barns, pens, &c. And
also the ferry at and from the the flip common
ly called Coenties-flip, to and from the wharff
dr landing place of M^ffrs. Philip Livingston
and Henry Remfen, on said Naflau-lfland.
The said Several ferries are to be let for the
term- of two years, from the firft day of May
next. No person will be allowed to farm
more thanoneof the said ferries. The conditions
of lease may be seen daily (Sunday excepted)
at the town clerk's office.
By order of the Common Conned,
AUGUSTUS'V. CORTLANDT, Clk
WAS left at the house of the Subscriber,
in Falls township, Bucks county, in
the province of Pennsylvania, on the 20 ;
day of lad November, by a man who called
himfelf Elisha Smith, a final! bay MARE,
about 13 1-2 hands high, with a Saddle and
Bridie: Also a Surtout Coat and a pair of old
Shoes. Ihe owner is desired to come and prove
his property, pay charges, and take the said
Mare away : Otherwise she will be fold for the
lam% in three weeks from the date hereof, by
EDMUND LOVETT.
Feb. 27, 1776.