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I, ,pHE Kalendar; with a Table of Coins;
I the Quaker's General Meetings, and a
better Lift of Roads than publiflied in any
Other Almanack.
2. A Genealogical Lift of the Royal Family of
Great- Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Den
mark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Poland,
Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, Orange, Italy and
Turkey.
3. The Extent and Situation of Great-Britain,
Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark,
Norway, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Prussia,
Turkey, Italy, Orange, Russia and Sardinia,
with the Latitude and Longitude of each King
dom, and their military Establishment in Peace
and War.
4. Lift of the Peers of the Blood of Great Britain,
Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscounts and Barons.
5. Archbishops and BilKops ot England, with the
Sum each See is charged with in the King's
Books.
6. His Majesty's most hon. Privy Council.
7. Knightsof the most noble Order of the Garter.
3. Knights Champions of the most hon. Order of
the Bath.
Knights of the most ancient and most noble
Order of the Thistle.
to. His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State.
it. Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.
IT; Lords Commissioners of Trade and Planta
tions.
13. Lords Commiflioners of the Admiralty.
14. High Court of Admiralty.
15. His M-jefty's Post Matter's General.
161 A Lilt of his Majesty's Land Forces, with
their Colonels, Lieut. Colonels, and Time when
raised, &c. &c.
,7. A compleat Lift of the House of Commons of
Great-Britain, with the Towns, &c. they re
present.
i£. A Lift of the Royal Navy of Great-Britain,
with the Pay of the Officers in each Rate, from
the Admiral to a private Mao.
19. Admirals of Great-Britain, and the Places
where they command.
20, Ships of War on the American Station, with
the Names of their Commanders, and Number
of Guns.
21. Treasurer, &c. &c. of the Navy, and the Sa
laries allowed by the Crown.
22. The daily Pay of each Rank in the Horse
and Grenadier Guards, and of his Majesty's
Lind Forces on the British Establishment.
33. Precedency among Men and Women, as fet
tled by Afts of Parliament and oth&r authentic
Documents.
24. A Table of all the Kings and Queens ofEng
land and Scotland,with the Time they severally
began to reign.
25. Peers of the Blood, Dukes, Earls, Viscounts
and Barons of Ireland, with the Peeresses by
Creation or Descent.
26. Bishops, Archbishops and Deans of Ireland.
27. Summary of the House of Commons of Ire
land.
28. Bankers of Dublin, Cork, Waterford and
Clonmell.
29. A general Description of America.
30. Enumerated Goods fubjed to Duty in Ame
rica.
31. General Eflablifhment of all the Provinces on
the Continent of North-America, containing
the Names of the Council and Affemhiy of
Nova-Scotia, Canada, New-Hampshire, Massa
chusetts Bay, Rhode-Bland, Connecticut, New-
York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia, North-Carolina, S. Carolina, Geor
gia, and both the Floridas ; with, the Names of
their Judges, Cullom House Officers, &c. &c.
and dutiable Goods in each Province.
gt. Officers of the Superintendent's Office in
New-York.
33. Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and
Children of Clergymen of the Church of Eng
land.
„ An Account of what Sums have been grant
' ed to the different Provinces in North-' America,
as far as appears from the Estimates for the
Support of civil Government of each Province,
difiinguifhing each Year. And also of what
Sums have been granted for the Support of the
Provincial Forces in North-America.
ty Staff of the Army under the Command of Sir
William Howe, K. B.
36. General Hofpual in New-York.
f ~. Field Officers of hi§ Majesty's Artillery, Dra
goons, and Ifnantry in North-America.
. Staff ani Field Officers of the Heffinn Corps
in North-America.
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American and British Kalendar,
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Published February 2, 1778.
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The Dialogue between the Englishman and the
two Americans, Whig arid Tory, continued.
Wbi ^ NTEIGHBOURS, I am glad to fee
You again so soon, and wish to
have a little further Conversation with You.—
I have been ruminating upon this Affair of
Taxes, which we were talking of lately, and
begin to fee pretty clearly, that our numerous
Eftabljfhments, which must necessarily ensue,
if we Ihould obtain an absolute Independence
on Great Britain, will create us infinitely
more Expences than this Continent is able to
bear. These must begin immediately upon a
Peace ; and God knows, we have not yet done
with the War, though the Country is almost
impoverished by it. We have no Trade; and
the Price of Labor is so great, upon account
of the many Hands taken off to the War and
by the War, that we can scarce raise the pro
per Necessaries for our Subsistence.
Tory. As People brew, so they must drink,
fays the Proverb. All these things and many
others, which some Folks are not ready to
believe till they fee! them, were foretold in the
Beginning. A vile republican Farion, my
Friend, has undone us. To eftablilh their
favourite System, or rather to make a State of
all Kings with refped to themselves and their'
Connections; they have deprived hs of the
Blessings of a Constitution, which all the World
admires, and under which we grew to be what
we are. And if it be finally wrested from us
by these Enemies of all Peace and Order, this
once happy Country will tumble down much
fafter than it arose, and present to the world
many a melancholy Monument of its own
Ralhnefs and Folly.
Eng. For the Sake of the British Empire
in general, I will hope better Things of this
particular Part of it. I will hope, that the
People here will fee to what a Point their
Leaders are drawing them, and that these
Leaders are evidently ai,ming at the Establish
ment, not of public or equal Liberty, such as
the Liberty of Britain which they once enjoy
ed, but of their own particular Authority and
Aggrandizement. If it were possible for them
to carry their Point, and should the King and
Parliament ad, as God does by the reprobate,
and give them up to their own Councils ; what
a Field of Blood, what a dismal inhospitable
Region, would America become? There is
not a Province, which has not in most cases
a faarate, and in many an opposite, Interest to
the others. Without the Spirit of Prophecy,
one may pronounce, what must be the Fate
of a Country, whose Councils are diftraded,
whose Principles in most Refpeds are entirely
different, whose Rulers are a Set of Scoun
drels, whom before these Times no honest
Man would trust, whose Trade is broken up,
whose Protedion is loft, whose Debts are
enormous, and whose People are miserable,
diftraded, unsettled, and, in ihort, every
Thing but happy and profpprous.
Whig. I confefs, that we are involved in
many Difficulties; but I hope the Providence
of God will release us from them, and restore
us to a speedy Tranquility.
Tory. I hope so too, Neighhour, most
heartily; but we have confeffed, on our Fast
Days, that all these were Judgements brought
down upon us for our great Wickedness and
Impiety, I should be glad to know, what we
have done, since these solemn Acknowledge
ments, that can be supposed in any Degree
availing to lessen the Vengeance of Heaven.
I can easier tell, what we have done to in
creafeit. The Congress and all the Assemblies
upon the Continent profeffed again and again
vast Love for the British Coriftitution and the
most aftedionate Loyalty and Attachment to
the King, wishing moreover that Reconcilia
tion might take Place, This was very fair
39. Field Officers, &c. of his Majesty's Provinciall
Troops.
40. Computation of the most remarkable Passages
of the Times, from the Creation to the iaft
general Peace.
41. Estimate of the Counties, Parishes, Baronies, -
Boroughs, Houles, &c. in Ireland.
42. Amount of any Number of Guineas (from 1
Monday, 37 Min. after ii
Tuesday, 18 Min. aftei 12
Wednesday, 1 Min. after 1
Thursday, 47 Min. after 1
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
Friday, 30 Min. after 2
Saturday, 22 Min. after 3
Sunday, 11 Min. after 4
Las garter the %otb,
Eng. They brought a wonderful deal of
Religion into the Matter at firft setting out;
but they have lamed Religion so much, that
they have long since left her behind, from her
Inability to keep Pace with them, and.fatis
fied themselves with an outward Profeffion of
a Sort of independent Preibyterianifm. They
tried to bend Christianity to Treason and
Rebellion; but it wo'uld not do. It inculca
ted too much Meekhefs for their fiery Zeal,
too much Truth for their Falfhood, too much
Sincerity for their Duplicity; and,'in short,
they may look into it for every good Principle
to contrast with what they find in themselves.
, Whig. I think, Sir, You are rather severe ;.
though I can by no Means excuse the Conduft
: and Principles of many People among us. I
hope you will believe, there' are still some who
have more Confcierice of Truth and Justice,
than to imagine, that any Cause can fandtify
every Means; and that though some have
• sadly perverted the Intention of the Christian
Religion, there are others who abhor the
, making it a Stalking Horse for any temporal
Advantage whatever.
Eng. I beg Pardon, if I carry the Expressi
on too far. The View of such infamous Enor
mities and base designs, that I have known ,to
pass off under the Veil of Religion, warmed
me into a D^teftarion, which I sincerely wish
may not have been too generally deserved. I
hope, there are many Men, who are led aftfay
by their Passions and the reigning Influenza of
the Times, rather than by any rooted Malevo
lence of Heart or Design of perverting the
most sacred of all things among Men, to Pur
poses that can only render them Enemies to
each other. But, I believe, every honest Man
,must upon Recollection own with me, that the
Deftruftion of the Established Church and the
raising up of Preibyterianifm upon its Ruins,
has, in the firft Place, nothing to do with the
Essence of real Religion; and that, in the
next, moll of the Presbyterian Teachers have ,
appeared by all their Conduct and Language,
both in the Pulpit and out of it, to have in
View this unconstitutional Establishment upon
the Abrogation of Epifeopacy, and to incul
cate republican Principles as most consonant
to their own worldly Views of Superiorty and
Domination.
Tory. That is too obvious a Truth to be
denied. Nor is it less notorious, what La
bor they have given to establish their outward
Form through all the Country backwards. If
a few draggling Houses arise in the Wilder
ness, and there is the least Profped of making
up 3 Township; a Preacher of the Fraternity
is immediately fettled among them, firft, at
the Expence of the Society, and, afterwards,
as they grow able to bear it, at the Expence
of his Auditory. There being no Pastor of any
other Denomination near them; the People,
though brought up in a different Peffiafion,
rather than not attend some publft"Service,
become his Flock, and gradually Aide into
all his Principles. And it is hard to fay, in
general, whether by such Men, Republica
nism be more taught or the Gospel, Rebellion
or Religion, Treason or Truth. From this
one Scource has arisen much of the present
political Difaffedion, which by being blended
with the serious Enthusiasm of religious Opi
nions, becomes the more, obstinate and deeply
rooted. True Christianity engrafted in the
Heart, renders Men, more amiable in them
selves, more faithful Subjeds, and better in
all Refpeds and Condition ; but falfe Reli
gion, or a mistaken notion of Christianity
itfelf, fours the Mind, creates a Turbulence
of Spirit and Condud, and makes People the
worst Acquaintances and the <vorft Subjects in
the World.—But we must now part, as we
draw near the End of our Walk.
Whig. Let us havo another Meeting soon.
For the present, ° Farewell!
to fay; but how did they a& ? As soon as the
Commission was sent out, which they knew
had entirely for its Object the'opening a Door
for the Adjustment of all Differences, and
just before its arrival, though they had Infor
mation it was upon the Passage; they precipi
tated the Continent into a Declaration of
Independency, on Purpose to prevent all beat,
ing'upoh an Accommodation, and couched
that Declaration in such Terms, as render it
a lasting Monument of their Hypocrisy, Falf
hood, and Impudence, for which, if the Peo
ple here would do themselves a Favor, they
would tear them in Pieces.
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REFLECTION'S
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AMERICAN COLONIES,
• : AGAINST THE
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