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“ His Majesty, relying on the experience, zeal and affec
tion of his faithful Commons, and considering that, during
the present troubles in North-America, emergencies may
arise, which may he of the utmost importance, and be at
tended with the most dangerous consequences, if proper
means should not be immediately applied to prevent or defeat
them, isdefirous that this House will enable him to defray any
extraordinary expences incurred, or to be incurred, on account
of military services for the year one thousand seven hundred
and seventy-six, and as the exigencies of affairs may require.
And his Majesty having judged it expedient to issue his pro
clamation, in pursuance of an act of Parliament, passed in
the fourteenth year of his reign, for calling in the remainder
of the deficient gold coin, doubts not but that his faithful
Commons will enable him to make good the charges which
(hall be incurred in this service, and which cannot at this
time be ascertained. G. R."
Never was England in such a situation as the present, as the
following anecdote, which may be depended upon, doth cer
tify. There is not a fix pounder fit for service in this king
dom ; and very few of any other weight. Now if forty
thousand French or Spaniards should land on our coast, how
could we repel them?
However, to remedy this as faft as possible, the Board of
Ordnance have ordered Verbruggen, the founder at Woolwich,
to get ready with all possible despatch another boring machine,
From the LONDON GAZETTE of May 3.
WHITEHALL, May 3.
GENERAL HOWE, Commander in Chief of his
Majesty's forces in North-America, having taken a
resolution on the 7th of March to remove from Bos
ton to Halifax with the troops under his command,
and such of the inhabitants, with their effects, as were desirous
to continue under the protection ofhis Majesty's forces, the
embarkation was effected on the 17th of said month, with the
greatest order and regularity, and without the least interrup
tion from the rebels. When the packet came away the firft
division of the transports was under fail, and the remainder
were preparing to follow in a few days ; the Admiral leaving
behind as many of the Ihips of war as could be spared from
the convoy, for the security and protection of such vessels as
might be bound to Boston.
Whitehall, MAY 5. The King hath been pleased to
order letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of Great-
Britain, constituting and appointing Richard Lord Viscount
Howe, of the kingdom of Ireland, and the Hon. William
Howe, Esq; Major General of his Majesty's forces, and Ge
neral of his Majesty's forces in North-America only, to be his
Majesty's Commissioners for restoring peace to his Majesty's
Colonies and Plantations in North-America ; and for grant
ing pardons to such of his Majesty's fubjeds there, now in
rebellion, as shall deserve the royal mercy.
LONDO N,. May 4.
The following is the message from his Majesty to the House
©f Commons, delivered by Lord North on Thursday.
GEORGE R.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1776.
379
In a morning paper it was lately said, that Lord Town
fhend had expressed his desire of commanding in America,
but that he was thought to be rather of too impetuous a tem
per for that department. Gen. Gage has been called too le
nient. Government wants a medium between both extremes,
consequently a Gen. who (hall do nothing at all, if he meets
not with much applause, hath at least very little to fear.
It is universally agreed by every class of thinking men,
whether statesmen or not, that no private or public system of
policy can be perfect without providing, in the best possible
manner, for contingencies. It was this conduct made Fabius
immortal, and it is to this the present King of Prussia princi
pally owes his reputation. But how is this never to be de
parted principle considered in the present measures carried on
againit America? Alas, it is not so much as thought of!
Every nerve of military strength, every penny of public Credit
is on the stretch for the humiliation (as the Court phrase is)
of America only ; whilst no provision, either in the one or
the other, is left to check the intermediate attacks of the
French and Spanish powers (which every Englishman at this
critical period should dread) but all left to the chapter of ac
cidents, or what is equally uncertain, the faith of Ambassadors.
Government are not a little alarmed at the apprehensions of
losing a vessel bound to Boston, which failed some time since
with one hundred thousand pounds specie aboard, and which,
to be the more secret and unfufpeded, they sent no convoy
with.
NEWPORT, July 2^
Last Saturday, the Hon. the General Assembly of this state
being then fitting at the Statehouse in this town, at twelve
o'clock, the brigade Rationed here, under the command of
the Colonels William Richmond and Christopher Lippitt,
Efqrs, marched from head-quarters, and drew up in two
columns, on each fide .the parade, before the Statehouse
door; his honor the Governor and members of Assembly
then marched through and received the compliments of the
brigade ; after which the Secretary read, at the head of the
brigade, a resolve of the Assembly concurring with the Con
gress in the Declaration of Independance ; the Declaration
itfelf was then read ; next thirteen cannon were discharged
at fort Liberty ; the brigade then drew up and fired in thir
teen divisions, from east to weft, agreeable to the number
and situation of the United States. The Declaration was re
ceived with joy and applause by all ranks. The whole was
conducted with great solemnity and decorum.
The contractors for supplying the transports at Cork, bound
to America, have engaged with the merchants and drovers of
that city for a supply of provisions for two years certain ;
which fas so enhanced the price of every commodity, in that
way, so much as an infurredion amongst the poorer inhabi
tants, &c. is daily dreaded.
in which case he will be able to supply government with what
number of guns they please. Lord Townsend is amazingly
adive in the station of Matter General, visits Woolwich almost
every week, and carefully infpeds the minutest circum
stance.
[Num. 239.