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petitions for reliefs ; was this a crime? Ue
Differed ourselves to be insulted 0) tae in
troduction of an armod force feat to dragoon
us into obedience; we luttaed th.in to take pol
ledion or our towns and fortifications, Itili wait
ing with decent and anxious expectation fruin
the wonted justice, hum mity and generohty of
Britons. Was this a crime? Deputed to try eve
ry picnic measure winch might probably pro
cure our relief, we agreed to withholdour com?,
merce from them, in hopes that tecling the ct
f :cts of their injustice; tnfy might fee how ium
ons their proceedings were, to their oiVn intermits,
and return in time to wisdom and peace? Was
this a crime ? Nordid we once lift the sword everi
in our own defence, until provoked to it by a
wanton commencement ot hoftilitrcs on their
part: Whaftlien have we 'done to merit Inch
cruel proceedings ? My friends,! am firmly per
fuadea that no truth will appears future hiilo
ry with more glaring evidence; (han that the
whole mass of gufit contrasted by this unhappy
war lieth at the door pfthe king of Brita-., Iji>
abandoned ministers, aid.corrupted parliament;
and id that nut only till future, generations ot
men, but the Great Judge of all the earth will'
finally condemn their meatures as a scene of ty-^
ramiy and Murder.. 'I therefore conceive myfclf
as having taken up arms in defence of innocence,
justice, truth, honelty, honour, liberty, proper
ty and life ; and in apparition to guilt; injuttke,
hthootyd&Mbefty, ignomiufyitarery,' puberty,
and death; not that I have any fond sefe tor
the bloody profeffion „ not that f delight in the
carnage ot my species: .or hgh'fbf any occaiion
of proving my courage: H,uren and you are
my wimetfes, that my voice was tor iometinie,'
perhaps too long, ind.withgoo much earaednen,
again* any military operations, but the times
are altered; 'tis a dreadful uecellity that calls'
me, and calk? .every mm who can be feared
from his other occupations. " ' --
: 1 will got however right as one who be^teth
the air. I fyuk phunlv^ ,I ccrirJer this yea? as
the find @d gaA.period 4' Brakl administra
tion ia this Americ it worid: 1 let 'no probabf-•
lity s,aki< p dieting. such term,'as wecan ac
e<%ot £)nlili,@ly wfcn car @f*y, hemour«nd
peace ; nay ihouri thy grant all thatiour pub
•lic councils have heretofore claimed, ive should
ftid be in a m^it dangerous (Raytion, iiibie to
renewed encroachments and renewed hotbiitics.
What ette can bjiuppefedfrom fuchudtuatmu, ?
. "and from the views, .temper and prejudices that
must, and will prerari in the British Court and
Parliament: Bolides, who in that c'alewi!! re
.•imbune our losses? or how /hall our public debts
be piid? I do solemnly declare, and (Hit -with ;
„retpod to the belt reconciliation that can rea
fonaMy be ^epeftd, with so corrupt,treacherous,
- ¥nd tyrannous admini&ration; that if I thought
'•we- should again revert to a dependence on Bri
tain, I, Iliould from this day lay down my sword,
and weep that Iwas born in America. But far
"oth^ prospects are before as: glo:y, empire,
liberty, and peace, and I am persuaded, unless
we are lot to otirfelves, very near at hand.
/'And or. efery consideration of theprefetrt date
and progress of our public affairs, compared \
with the Spirit of Britain, and the spirit, the iu
- tereft, and internal advantages of America; me
thinks I hear a voice, as if an angel from hea
ven should proclaim, " Come out from among
them, and be ye serrate from them. Come out
ot her, my peoples that ye be 'Hot partaker of
her Ims, and that ye receive not of her plagues."
LONDON.
Dec. 18. We are assured, that there is not the
leift foundation for the report which' has been
lately propagated, that Earl Percy is coming
home. °
Letters in town from New-York; which
came by the way of Madeira, fay, that the New-
York people ha+e begun to carry on itoufider
able trade to the Madeira / that the Betty,- AGfr
field, was failed with the produce'of that c,lo^
ny ; that several more veffeiswere ready to fail ;
and that the peo^te of Ne^-Ye k tlTOupht that
would turn out to be an advantj^eoW trade to
them, because by 'that' hearts d^y could carry -
on mhe trade with The/S'piirHhsh •
On the 6th mftant feverrtof the transports
with p^ovriions on board for America, and up-''
wards of twenty ofh e f ihipr wttli provisions for.
the WetDindies, fiiled'all ^dm Corke: . ° ;
On Friday got into tEeDo^is, hM Many's.;
ship the Bristol, - -and'the Thunderer-bomb,
bound to America, 'but remain there wind
bound, with the Arethufa-man of war, pand
Greyhound cutter.
Extras rs 4jcfto&^ 12r
" Ihe recruits for the marines at this^pote
are daily arriving here from Ireland, where th^a.
party on that bulinefs have met with great fuc-.
cafs." I ''' -?})'< „^ ; t
ftottraH of a letter from Copenhagen, Nov. 2 §. bf
" The zzd of this.mdrith, the Prince Royal
was examined in the presence of the Council of
State, on the dogmas of religion, on history and;
other bribes of knowledge fuirable to his age.
They admired the progress he had made within
a year past; and his Royal Highness again con
firmed the hopes which had been conceived of
Lis intellectual talents."
Extrafl of a letter from Rome, Nov. 22.
" The General ofthe Jesuits died about two
hours ego in the castle of St. Angelo."
Dei. 22. Sir Hugh Pallifer is appointed
Lieutenant-General of the marines, in the
room of Sir Charles' Saunders; Lord Howe,
General of the marines, in the room of Admi
ral Forbes; and Admiral Forbes a pension of
three thousand pounds a year, upon Ireland.
" e hear that the money-bill;- together with
those other bills tacked to it, lately sent over to
Ireland, have undergone^ many alterations on
ginia, whiehjs said .to. have brought adyice,.
that several nations of Indians, in the interest
of the -Americans, are encamped at the- mouth-;
of the'Great KenhaWa. ', / j
Wedn fday night' arrived from Quebec by :
way of FaTmouth, Col. Guy Johnson; .Simper,
ihten,te'nt of Indian affairs, and yesterday morn
ing waited on Lord George Germany ; also
drived Daniel Qtaus, ri+q; with his lady and.
family, from, the fame place. <'? :
-G ±=ie===~r!i;f ~ < / ^
"^LLIAMSBURG, (Virginia) feb.§ 2^"
' ; . ° cne r a tCiintori and Lord Percy are. arrived
in Hamptony%d,in thp Mercury ; it is laid they
have with them the grenadier and fight-infan
try companies at four regiments, amounting to
,bput 600 men, but have not landed them!
If the. General has an intention, as dome
think, of fttiking a blow in this colony, h^ cer-.
tainly dxpefts -a reinforcement from England,
and that must be a large one too,; otherwise he.
will hardly be able to penetrate this length,
and to hold it tor any space of time.
There are now-fix King's flrips within the
Gapes, and most of the dripping under , their
protection, have moved out of the harbQugof
Norfolk into the road.
We are informed, that qh Monday last the
Lon. Richard Corbin, Esq; came to this city,
and the next day, with the entire.approbation of
the Committee otSafety, continued his journey
to Norfolk, with intention to go on board the
Dunmore, to have a conference with Lord'Dun
more, on the fubje& of a letter his Lordihip
this fide the,water, which are likely tu create
great debates in the Iriib Parliament. Onc.&,
teration in particular is, aclauib waichmeutwasf :
* that his Mjjelty may,withdraw his farces
upon any emergency," is now altered; ^h^ ,
Maj€fty has thistly ategh right to wi,[hdriw.h£s .
forces upon any occasion' he ihallthink'j)r%cr£f,
Letters from Dublin by yederduy's wailJh„ ^
that news wis arrived there ot the deteatmeGe- .
neral Carleton, the taking of St. John's, Cham
blee, and other places, by the provincials; arid ri
that there was not the lead doubt of their "be-„
coming matters of all Canada in, three weeks,,
which gave great pleasure to the people there ;
and that the city was illuminated on the occa--
lion. .. , . \
An Irish paper fays, the Roman catholic; ,
gentlemen arid merchants OT the cit) ot Dublin,
waited on Lord AnHally, the Chief Justice 0f...
the Court pt King' )Bench, and took the oath, j
ot allegiance, apd declared their resolution ofr :
lupporting his M^efy's government witVtheir „
lives and fortunes," .
Dec\ 29. General Burgoyne is arrived frQmw,
Botion. ma express brought the newsto Lord; 3
George Germaine, about twelve o'clock ,citer,-,
day morning. . " / 'fern?':.--
The Provincial Crullers have take* a trans-, ~
port which had 'ordnance stores on-board for the
u '° °'. '^ King's troops at Boston ;. amongltp-"
ther articles tire goo barrels of powder... ['
^%' detated-in Council to fend.fhjps totne
relief ot Quebec, brie was given up as i@pra,&-,
cable this™ feafori---fo that the fir£ tnews likely to™
iome from that quarter will belli. a^Cangt"
is in th&hands btthe'United Colonies
It is an abfohne sass, fays a correfppndent of,
an evening paper; however .iferet the junto
keep tfom the public the many feats.of /he A-,
merlins, -this the latter'urcre in actual pofleffi
°" 9( Quebec and Montreal when the last vef-'
iel tailed • from Cicada. This 'intelligence ad-'
m nitration received on Saturday, and on which
account a cabinet council was the fame day
held at Lord G. Germ tint's office. The veflel
lelt Canada the ud of November.
Ae hear it is in contemplation to double man
all the thips of war whith ihail hereafter fail for
America; the extra hands to serve as marines
during the voyage, and o,ltheir arrival to, be in
corporated with the troops already here.
It is reported, that a certain patriotic society
intend to withdraw entirely from all parliament
\ a, attend mce, and to give the public in a fpi-.
cited declaration, their regions for their fecef
hou. ?
No less than sixteen rendezvous are opened?
in the several parts of London,'for the. entering/
of seamen into the service rif the navy./ /
A great number of cutters and fchoonerrare.
building at Coletfrahd, Fblkftone, Yarmouth,
and Dartmouth, from 30 to 7a tons burthen;
for the use of government.
It is reported from the difpefitibn, or rather
indifpotition of ascertain German .Potentate,:
our ministry may expert +o be pr&ipftat^ into
fteih embarrassments, as a new hunt wdlin con
lequence be up, which will oblige thetf ty call -
their dogs ' off froth *a falie icent..
When all the intended reinforcement arrives
in America, the provincial camp till not, be at
tacked. The plan laid down is faid^o. be- this:
To destroy every town on the sea coast, tp/lrafr /
their army from one place to another, and har
rafs and starve them if possible; but so beWery
careful about coming to a general engage ment:
'But if^by any means, rhe provincial army can
be divided, then the regulars are to attack them. :
Yesterday one of the transport -ships ly
ing offthe Tower, after having taken on
board cloathmg and: arms for gobo men, fell,
down the ri^er^ Gravelend; and was to fail
the fird fair wind for ' Ireland; to take on.
board a regiment of folding waiting at Cork to,
emb^iritff aif expedition for America.
Aeftefday• morning, advice was received at,
Dover, with an account of the;Queen of Na
ples, Powell; from Bofron, bting fate arrived,
tb^t'. ' She has been' only zx days on her/.
parGge; ,hd it is laid Has brought over several
officers aid paifengers from Bafton. Many
other mips that have difeharged their cargoes
thrre are hourly expected home, - - °
A vdTcl is arrived at Weymouth from Vir-
^Governor "Martin : has prevailed on a set of
inen in "North Carolina, to alfemble in, arms a
y gainst liberty.
The Mercury frigate, Capt. Graham, (former
, ly Macartyney, who is gone to England) hav-"
'ritig General Clinton and Lord Percy on board,
4u& two tyhfports, wit^ about 600 troops, ~
u chiefly light infantry of the 4th and 44th regi
^ merits, and a ntirhber of officers belonging to
the 16th and '4oth, belides some engineers, are
. airivcd in Hampton road front Bolton ; firice
which they have been joined; by the Kingfiffier,'
and four or five tenders,who now lie off Hamp
%ton, and it i., frippofed are bound up Potow
,-mack, or for North-Carolina, where some dil
r tu/rbances have broke out among the people who
^ lately ,yled themselves regulators.,
# i Cbmmodore Hammond has given orders to
o all the navy officersto cease firing at our centl
-1 nels, or imall parties, on pain of being broke
, It is said, that the troops with Lord Dun
moiW'fotthe'flfno^rit &fi§o@o ^rcfa^ at
, I'oitfmbrifh, Lhd that mconfiderable number of
;bur pefflf'arb 'intrenching some little difynee'
below them, rwf/ + ~.,
,'V/,C'/TC^--^^^
§ PHILADEL P HI A, March <f
:Extract of d letter from Newborn, North Carolina,
;February 1,3. ? z r
" An^xprefs arrived hero yesterday from the ;
backcountry, informing ,us that the Regulators
and Tories were making head there, arid intend
edmarchiug to Croi's Creek, and from thence to
, Cape Fear. lam of opinion that they will get
well flog'd before they 'reach Cape 'Fear, pro
vided they will fight. Our minute men and
part of tne militia marclf to-morrow, and will
join Col.Cafcwell in Dobb'scounty, from which
place he will march in two or three days with
near a thousand men under his command. Col.'
Rutherford informed me this day that Col.
A,e, in New Hanover county, was on his
marchtwo days against the Regulators, &c.
with near two thousand men. If three or four
more of our Colonels, in this province, raise
as- many men, which I expect will soon be the
.case, they will be able to attack ten thousand
regulars and beat them too I think, as our
_ men will fight with great resolution."
Extract rs a letter from W'tlliamJbuQh, Feb. 27.
" Colonel Corbin is returned from his fruit
lefs journey to Lord Dunmore, who refufed to
give a commission for holding an affembi), and
only proppfed ; the principal gentlemen in the
,^ouqtry ftpuld sign the propositions for an ac
commodation, With which he would go home;,
,but we presume he must get them signed by his
old friends in the fleet, or about Norfolk, as he
I will gf&vfly few gentlemens names to it. He
;, said toimwoners ,were to negotiate, but he did
not fay who they were.
, His Lordship is not recalled, but has leave
^,'° g° ''^ chooses. His conduA is approved
of,, arid he has unlimited power to draw on the
,trrwury. Colonel Corbin fays that General
Clinton, and Captain Hammond, all appeared
in ^oj humour, the latter declaring he had
^ forbid his tenders to offer injury to individuals,
or their property, his sole design being to watch
the water, and enforce the a&s of trade. Gene
ral Clinton had four companies, but had not
^landed, but on the contrary, the tfanfports, with
the Mercury, had fallen down into the road
, (Hampton) under failing orders; he did not
;mention his destination, but it was gathered
from the young officers, that they were to pay
a visit to' Goy. Martin, at Cape Fear, and then
proceed to Soyth Carolina. On hearing that
part of purletef to Colonel Corbin read,'" that
we were not aiu horifed or inclined to intermeddle
jn the mode of ncgocidtiori, \vhich must be left
to the Congre*:” the General said there was
nothing Amevica 'could alk in a constitutional
,way but would be granted; but if we relied on
tlje Congress, we had nothing to expend from
Parliament. Lord Dunmore Wanted ,to borrow
his troops to dri^e otirs from Kemp's ; he afked'
if burs lyould not return? the bther said, he*
foppofed they would ;' then, said the General,
I don't thiqk it worth while'to meddle with
. them. /
.“ P. S. We have just received intelligence
'from Hampton, that General Clinton, with his
troops, the Mercurys Kingfifcf; and two or
/three tenders, went out ofthe Capes yesterday."
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ri^^ Written to Col; Corbin, containing forae
- propositions to : negotiate an accommodation with
:.^! e 'd-Britain ; arid to receive letteis which had
r. c.o^e bpA London, and were to be delivered
tinto bis opii binds! '•,
PUBLICORI)IN ARY.
WILLIAM MARRINER
proposes to open a Public Ordinary
this day, tor the reception of all such Gentle
men us Should be pleased tofavor him with their
company. Dinner to be served 'up precisely at
two ^'clbckf Suppers and breakfaft, as usual.
• N.' B. Ffe continues to fry and pickle Oy-
Iters at the mod feafonable'p&erwjdquickeft
dispatch, which will keep in the hotted climate.
,SCRIVENER's OFFICE,
N E W-Y 0 R K.
'1"- 'KNAPP humbly apprehends
the fame Divide Providence is within the ?
city as without, he still conftotly attends to
execute any part of the bufinefs'df this of
fice, upon the most confidence fees :QThat
having no other friends or relays on this tide
the Atlantic, but the Public in general, he
earnel ly craves their occasional remembrance,
whereby tq. ffiare fume final! part of the craf
ty loaf, which he has no,w greater occahon to
mention than ever.
, '" these so perilous and unhappy times j,
s°neerns many persons, for the bene
ht of their posterity, to feme their estates and
other alters .by deed, will, && in w fo M>
Knapp will give his utmost affiance, and the
fame candid-advice which many have expert
? enced, as .welHn cases of law and equity, &
Mm-deeds, wills and other writings : Also, exe
editors and administrators inftrutted in the ex'
?' ' h ™ office^whereby to avoid the irou
,and expence, which often happens fron
the want of knowledge therein >-Sea-farin<
f^, 0 ^ Grangers assisted as fol, aw
all other the general butinefs of this office, ex
, ted j°" h stria integrity, and the moftimme
diate dilpatch, to render the fame of the utility
for which it, was cftablifhed in June, 1764.
Cash to be had on approved security.
Broad-Street, 1 itb March, 1776.
T,Q BE S O.L. I),
At.P..UB LIC VE NI)U E,
At RoB-HAH; near New-Brunswick, on the fe
:^ 'cond day of April next, '-
A^ the valuable Stock of Cattle; Horses,
Sheep; Hogs, Farming Utensils, Negroes;
and the times ofthree Scotch indented fervent
lads, and two ditto girly c#cb of which has a
b,s!e'eil yea^ to fe^e, ,A Chariot and pair
ot very noble Horses, which one of the Ne<rro
men drives well. ^The terms ^ b e made
knoWri'atthe time and place of faJe."
; A " P er Onfwho have any .demands on the e
flatyt Alexander Rots; Esq; defeated, ire re
^^F^ biiite in their daunts as soon as
possible.
TO BE S6L D,
' , , At private Sale,
A TRACI of LAND, containing five
hundred and eighty acres, being thetaft
/ermoft part of tfet noted farm called Stonefield,
Little Britain, lituate in the counties of Ul~
/ *" d °r a to and about 7 miles from New
~'mdlor landing. It adjoins the road leading
, from Newport to Albany; it i$ p&antly
litigated in the midst of a fine wheat country,
and noted for railing the bed of grain an d pas.
ture. There is about 80 acres of good upland
clearea and in fence, and enough more may be
easily cleared. There is jikewife a Urge q^u
excellent fivamp, which may be eafly
cleared, with plenty of timber and water. It
may be advantageously divided into two or three
farms. Any gentleman inclining to purchase
the whole or part, may enquire of Mr.
Galatian, at the Wallkill; or the fubicriber
living at ,Mr. John Elliot's, in Broad-Street
in New-York, who will agree upon reafenabk
terms to give an indisputable title to the
DAVID GALA TIAN.
; Tomorrow wY & p^hfed fy
JOHN ANDERSON,
j At Beek man's -Slip,
ano Rati o n,
In memory of Gener aFMontgomery, and of
the Officers arid Soldiers who fell with him
. ,before Quebec, drawn up, and delivered
, b, Willia, Sinith, D. I). Proyoft of the
college of Philadelphia, at the defte of
> the Continental Congress.
RUN away last Tuesday the ph infant,
from thepSubferiber living at Brooklyn
Perry.^-A negro man, named TOM, about
2 3 for$ of age, five feet eight inches high ;
had on when he went away, a blue jacket,
backfkin breeches, blue and ,white spotted block
ings atow shirt and.an old beaver hat cut finall,
a half:worn pair of flm % with odd buckles.
---He is a likely well set fellow, ^nde^bndt
butchering very well ; - was latelfthe proper
ty of John Beck, of the city of New-York
, b . tf tc% Dutch and Afeliffi tolerable
well. Whoever takes up Arid fecurft t^faic
"eg'?, that his n, after may have him again
(hall receive [he above reward if taken in th
city, and if taken out of the city,fortv ffiilfhfe
and all reasonable charges paid by '. :
\JOHN CARPENTER.
N. B. All masters of velfels and otters,
are forewarned carrying off or concealing said
negro at their peril. . ' : *
March 11. 1776.
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