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p Isl LADELPHI A, FI. 21.
Ertraß of a letter from Dublin, anted Nov. 20.
" The ministry will Scarcely be able to ©id
out to America ro,ooo men additional; two
thirds of these mud b e new levies. The two
regiments which failed from Cork about the
middle of lull month for Quebec, were by hard
weather forced into Milford, except one trans
port, which is miffing. There they fay, as it
is too late to proceed. It is the general idea,
that Canala mull fail into the hand's of the
Provincials, which is imputed to the dibiffechon
ol the Canadians. Ail forts ot grain, 111 Britain
and here, are more plentiful than tor many ,
years past; insomuch that the Weft India
hiunds will be Applied from these kingdoms.
Five regiments are under orders to be at Cork
by the fir'd of December, to proceed in Decem
ber for Virginia, we are pretty fare."
Extrafl °of a letter from ^ Kitts, fan. 20.
66 We cannot expert a velfel from you in the
spring, as the cruisers on this and every other
Nation in the Weft-Indies, keep such a look
out that no veff:l can escape, and they have or
ders to seize all American vessels wherever met
with, many of which have already unfortunate
ly fallen into their hands, and every letter on
board broke open and read; our dillrefles in this
and every other of the ihands male be very ter
rible, should this unbatmad war continue for a
ny time, and wedee, not,toe icaft appearance of
the difference being healed without the entire
submission of th- AmerUans to the me rcy pf
the King and Parliament; as every arrival from
England brings accounts of additional qrnux
menrs for your (abjection : This mutt fentibiy
affect the planters, as they have no other way of
paying their debts but in rum, and the mer
chant not knowing where to find a vent for it,
cannot receive it."
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NEW-- OR K, February 2g.
By letters from the Weft-Indies, we learn,
that theiAroduftion of foreign troops into Eng
land, was rejected there by both Houses, as well
as in Ireland.
Saturday last Cob Ward's regiment arrived
here from Connecticut, and embarked in boats
and landed on Nassau Illand.
The office of Alderman for the East-Ward
of this city being vacant by the removal of Da
vid Matthews, Esq; who has ' lately been appoint
ed Mayor ; Mesh Abraham Braver and Hen
ry Brevoort were proposed candidates ; and
yefferdav being the day of election, Abraham
Brasher, Eiq; was elected Alderman for said
ward.l
Yellerday morning between the hours of one
and two o'clock, a fi r e broke out in a liable, in
Pettycoat Lane, which confirmed it and ano
ther small building.
Extrafl ofa letter from Montreal, Feb. 4, 1776.
Z" Quebec is inclofed by a considerable body
forces under Brigadier General Arnold :
They hope to avoid forming, and thereby
prevent effufion of blood on both tides. The
garrison consists of the seamen belonging to
two frigates, and the merchantmen that win
ter at Quebec, two companies of wretched emi
grants raised from the outskirts of fubyrbs, the,
dependants of government, end a few citizens
whole exposed effeXs obliged their remaining
to preserve: In the whole, we estimate from
12 to 1300 men capable to bear arms ; a body
not fuffirient to do the duty of the guards only.
To this may be added the want of wood to
that degree, that by a&leferter just escaped,with
out destroying the houses there remains not few
el for five days. These circumflances we flat
ter ourselves will engage General Carleton (out
of humanity) to offer terms before the season
becomes do advanced as to oblige the continen
tal army to force their admittance,"
On Monday laftthe Rev. Dr. Smith deliver
ed an animated and pathetic Oration in the
German Calvi? Church, in Philadelphia,. in
honour of the : General Montgomery, and
the h^ 0 who fell with him before
Q rf .'m; crowded fflembly, funpofed
to co. ml four thousand perlons.
Weare 1 ' ned by a gentleman who left
Montreal the nth instant, that our troops be-'
fore Quebec were in high spirits, that 600 troops
had joined them, and that he' met on tire road
between Montreal and Albany, seventeen com
panies on their ..march. He . further informs,
that they are in'diftrefs in Quebec, for want of
fire-wood, to they begun to cut up the veflels
and take up the warfs and docks, besides pulling
down the out build ogs, ^c,^
On Wednesday the 21st inflant, departed this
life, Mr. Cook Mulligan, late of this . city
merchant, in the thirty-fourth year of his age.
His death is much lamented by all those who
were acquainted with him. He possessed a large
(hare of ingenuity, was hopefully pious, and a
sincere and Steady friend to his country.
The Eadem Pod was,not arrived when this
Paper went co press.
In CONGRESS, February 23, 1776.
RESOLVED, That it be recommended to
the several AffemblieS, Conventions, Councils
or Committees of Safety, and Committees of
Correspondence and InfpeXion( in the United
Colonies, to exert themselves in deviling farther
ways and means of promoting and encouraging
the manufacture of Salt-petre, and of introduc
ing that manufacture into private families.
Revived that it be recommended to the fe
.veral Assemblies and Conventions, in the United
Colonies, that they immediately eflabtifh pub
lic works in .each and every county in their re
fpedive colonies, at the expence of such colo
nies, for the manufacture of Salt-petre, and ap
point Committees of their own members im
pediately to fa up such manufactures.
Rcfolved, That it be recommended to the
Resolved, that a Committee of this Congress,
to consist of one member from each colony,be
appointed to consider of farther ways and means
of promoting and encouraging the manufactures
of Salt-petre, Sulphur, and Powder in these
colonies, and to correspond with the several
Affembhes and Conventions, an.,Con'll or
Committees of Safety in the several colonies,
that this Congress may be, from time to time,
truly informed of the progress made in these
manufactures in all the colonies.
The members chosen; Mr. Bartlett, Mr.
Paine, Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Huntington, Mr. L.
Morris, Mr. Sergeant, Mr. Humphreys, Mr.
Read, Mr. Paca, Mr. Braxton, Mr. Hewes,
Mr. E. Rutledge, and Mr. Bullock.
Ordered, that the above be publilhed.
Extract from the minutes.
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
COMMITTEE CHAMBER,
New-York, Feb. S, 1776.
To the inhabitants of the neighbouring counties and
colonies.
IN the course of divine providence (to whose
righteous dilpenfatioos it becomes us at all
tidies to submit) this city is now become a
feene of confulion and distress, occasioned
by an apprehenlion, that unmerited hoftili
, ties will shortly be commenced by the ships of
war lying in this harbour ;. under the influence
of this belief many of our poor are abandoning
their habitations, and flying for protection into
the arms of their brethren in the neighbouring
counties and provinces. This Committee there-'
fore earnestly intreatall those among whom such
poor may come, to exercise great kindness and
lenity towards them, by furnilhing them with
habitations and other necessaries of life, for their
present fubfiflence, on the eafieff terms, and ac
commodating them in any other way, which
their duty to the poor, as Chriflians, may di--
red.
By order of the Committee,
HENRY REMSEN, Chaxrman.
Poukeetfe, in Dutchefs County, Feb. g, 1776.
In C OMMITTE E,
ORDERED, That no person or persons be
permitted to remove themselves, or families, in
to this precinCt, to reside longer than three days,
unless they produce to. the Chairman of this
Committee, a certificate from the Committee
of the city, town, manor, precinct or diftriCt
from which they stall have last removed, certi
fying, that they are friendly ,0 the caufeof A
me ican liberty, and have the leave of said
Committee to remove.
By order of Committee,;
SAMUEL DODGE, Chairman.
The following was wrote on bearing of the death of
General Montgomery.
X7l7''''" " "'" ' behold? On each brow
fits pale Conflernation ; silent Grief
appears in every face. My anxious foul hastily
enquires the cause. Say, ye who are ever soli
citous for your country's welfare, ds by this de
jection? Tell me, ye Patriots, wherefore do ye
appear I melancholy and heavy? Has Britain
poured her mermidons on our shores; or do her
haughty generals threaten deftruHion to our
country? No, they reply ; something more
dreadful; fonieihing that aft&s us more deep
ly---Montgomery the great! Montgomery the
brave, is no more! Alas, my foreboding foul!
your fears are too true. Now, my country, I
bleed for you! One more of your heroes is of
fered as a facrifice at the shrine of liberty. Free
ly did he devote himfelf to your service. In his
domeflic retirement he was furrour * :d with e
very thing that could make solitude agreeable,
or life desirable. In himfelf he pofeffed sources
of fatisfaHion, which few are favoured with;
arising from an elevated and relined mind, a
foftnefs of temper, and a gentleness of manners
to a' : around him. His near connexions were
such, as to render in the highest degree happy,
aman of a much less fenibifity and taste for re
fined happiness, than he. In fine, his situation in
this life would have induced a person of less re
flection to conclude be was not designed for ano
ther. -Did he in the midst ot these gratifications
,and enjoyments bury the Soldier, the Man, or
the Patriot ? Was he deaf to the cries ot his in
jured country ? Did ' he prefer inglorious case
to the field of danger and of honour? No; his
country no sooner calls than he obeys. With a
magnanimity of mind, worthy himfelf, he leaves
his domestic enjoyments, and encounters all the
inclemency of a northern dime, neither the
weakness of his own army, the yells of warlike
lavages, the uncertainty of a reception in an e
nemy's country, nor the experience or prowess
of his foe, could deter his steady mind from its
purpose.
Methinks I fee him on Abraham's fated
Plains! that grave of heroes, where a Wolfe and
a Montcalm had before yielded to the iron fate
of war ! Not 'only struggling with all the in
temperance of the climate, but with the Caprices'
of an undisciplined soldiery, and even obliged to
,consult their humours--until the fatal day ar
rived. With a heart fwoln with anxiety ;nd
solicitude for his country's welfare, yet with a
foul fired with martial ardour, does he begin
the attack. What the Alexanders, the Scipios,
the Catos thought, he did-—but oh, how se
conded! Here must I draw a veil over the
feene as dark as the midnight gloom, and may
it always there continue—-For a moment fu;-
Assemblies, Conventions, of Cotineib of Safety
of every colony, forthwith to cred Powder
Mills, in their refpe&ive colonies, and appoint
Committees to build such mills, and procure
perlons well skilled in the manufacture of pow
der, at the expence of such colonies.
How sublime must his enjoyment be! How
ineffable his happiness ! There he enjoys that
perf&t freedom, that pure liberty, which the
tyrants of the age, the fcdurges of mankind,
would not fuffer him to enjoy here. Say, ye
ministers of unmerited, unprovoked vengeance,
what fatis faaion can you give us for such illus
trious lives? How can you compenfiae to the
fond wife of his bosom, for the loss of such an
husband? How can you atone to bis friends
for the want of such a companion? Whole he
catombs of tyrants would be but a poor offering
to the manes of a Montgomery and a Warren.
Ye timid, ye weak, and ye enemies of free
dom amongst the native Americans, come and
view the bloody corfe of our hero! See what
he did, what lie endured, what be fuffered! and
cry, Shall Montgomery, who was not a native
of America, undergo all this for the fake of giv
ing liberty to his country? and yet we, to our
confusion be it spoken, her children, bound in
honour and duty to support her, either wicked
ly and basely oppose, or fcandaloufiy forfake
her. Tell it not in France, public it not in
Turkey, left slaves themselves ihould blush at
our conduct. But by the noble blood of Mont
gomery, which was died in our cause, we swear,
for the future, America! we are wholly thine.
Does my heart bleed for my country's loss
in the death of Montgomery; and have I not
a sympathetic tear, for the dear companion of
his lite, which he has left inconsolable behind
him ! Yes, illustrious Lady ! though unknown,
I feel most fenhbly for you; fain would I, by
participating, alleviate your sorrows; freely
would I, if possible, dry up your tears, by Ced
ing mine. When you was called to give him
up to the public (though as you fondly hoped,
but for a time) I know the druggie muff have
have been hard, the conflift great ; for few such
companions. It was nobly, it was heroicly done
to resign him. But oh ! how much severer the
trial to yield him up, until time is abforhed in
eternity. Illy was y^u prepared for such a Inock ;
at a time when you wanted the beloved partner
ot your foul, to console and comfort you on the
loss of your amiable father-—to receive the ac
count ot his death. This, this required Some
thing. more than human to support. Heaven
saw your distressed situation, ^nd Wretched forth
its beneficent hand to support you, otherwise
mortality would have funk under the preflure.
What arguments (ball I use to ease your la
bouring bread? In vain is It to oppose grief,
but sorrows by being divided afe lessened. See
then, Madam, a whole continent deeply part
aking of yours. Come, ye grateful Americans !
join your tears with the admired relict of your
departed hero. Shall fire mourn, and you not
be clad in fable? Shall she weep, and you not
grieve? Forbid it, Generolity; forbid it, Gra
titude ! Come then, and wirh her, recount his
virtues; tell of his noble deeds- -fhew---tbere
he was victorious; there he conquered ; and,
oh ! there he bled. Teach your infants to lifo
forth his praise: and learn your young men
his worthy actions. By these inspire them
with love to their country, and let them learn
how to prize liberty by the death of Montgo
mery. Let the names ot Bravery, Freedom
and Montgomery be always united. But ah!
what sudden appearance is that I behold ? See,
Madam, the spirit of your husband, his face
Lining as the fun. and eloathed in garments
whiter than the new fallen snow, bending from
the skies, beckoning to you. Hark! he speaks:
'' My Matilda! by the kind indulgence of
heaven, I am appointed your guardian angel,
ever since I fell in the glorious cause ol my
country, I have attended your fleps, though
unseen; I have endeavoured to dry up your
tears, and alleviate your sorrows. But why are
your days I'pent in sighs, and your sleepless
nights in tears? Do you grieve that your Mont
gomery is crowned with immortal honour; that
he is possessed ofeverlaftingglory and bleflednefs;
that he has happily and honourably obtained
his difmiffion from a troublefeme world; that
be now rests from all his labours: Remember,
you once loved his honour as much as you did
his person; contider then, he is now arrived
at its highest pinacle, and there confirmed. It
is true I was taken out of the world in the prime
of life, in full health and vigour; but length
of life is not to be measured by the fun and
moon, but by the good and virtuous actions'
that are done in it. The laurels of my earthly
glory were complete and fully blown; they
could not have encieafed, but they might have
rounded with a chosen, faithful few, he flood,
when ten thousand deaths flew around, collected
in himfeli, and revolved his impending fatq
with that of his country, until the comniiffion
ed ball pierced' his manly heart, his parting
breath carried prayers to heaven for that land,
foi which he died. He was neither heard to
groan nor sigh, till he limbed his last. —
See! the illustrious ihade of Warren, accom
panied by a number of the heroes of old, at an
awtul diftahce, descends to receive and crown
his departing spirits 6 Welcome! he fays, thou
' brave martyr for thy country, welcome to the
' companyotthe Hampdens, the Sidneys, a. d
' all those, who thus n i'>ly have died. lam
' commilhohed to crown you with never fading
' immortal wreaths. Be nor anxious for the
‘ event of the cause, for which you bled. When
' I resigned my breath in the fame glorious
' druggle, my spirit could take no rest, until
' it pleased our beneficent Creator and Protec
-6 tor, to ffiew me that he would never leave it
' without an advocate; that though, for wife
' ends, he might take one General to day, yet
6 would raise up another to-morrow; until he
' had established the foundation of that empire,
' of which he was the Guardian, on an im
c moveable balls; therefore come and regale
' thyfelf, bleft Shade! in these bowers of Pa
' fadife.'-
JUST PUBLISHED,
By SAMUEL LOUDON,
And Sold at the very small price of SixypencA,
necessary, at the prelent time, for all families
who have the good of their country at heart ;
essays
UPON THE MAKING OF
SALT-PETRE AND GUN-POWDER. 1
Published by Order er the Committed of
Safety of the Colony of New-York.
A L S O,
Price One Shilling and Eight-Pence,
T H E
MODERN RIDING-MASTER:'
O R, A
KEY to the Knowledge of the HORSE
and HORSEMANSHIP;
With several necessary Rules lor youn^ Herfo
men.
1 By PHILIP ASTLE Y,
Riding-Mailer, late of his Majelly's Riyal
Light Dragoons.
Adorned with various Engravings.
RICHARD SPEAIGHT,
HAS FOR SADR
At his house in Scots Street, 'or of bimfelf, in
the New City-Hall,
Ache mical balsam, %
proved of by fame of the bell phyficiab,
in London, to be an excellent medicine, ter
coughs, ahbmas, those in a confumptire decay,
pains in the breast, all rheumatic disorders ; it
has been of great effect, in gleets of long Land
ing, and all inward weakneffea. This Bjham
is fold in bottles ot a Dollar each ; half bpnk*
Four Shillings, arid allowance to those who buy
to fell again, felled with my own seal, and the
directions signed with my own name, I have
fill an assortment of patent Medicines, such as,
Turlington's Balfarn, Andflm's, Lockyer's and
Hooper's Pills, James's Powders, Story's Wort!)
Cakes, Balsam of Honey, and Stoughton's Eir.
ters; together with an ahbrunentol Drugs and
Medicines, which will be fold on reasonable
terms, tor ciifh.
Richard Speaight hopeg, that those whose ac
counts have been due to him before his hue
partnership commenced, would call upon him
and fettle; he being in confinement, is under the
neceflity of thus advertising, in order to. support
himfelf, together with a wife and children,
N. B. The above-mentioned Balfaip is to be
had a: the Printing- Office.
New-I'erb, Feb. 21, 1,76,
TO all such as are willing to c<mb\a for
fupnlying the troops employed in tin
defence of this colony, with piovitions and other
necessaries, agreeable to the following regular
tion.
A ration to consist of the following kinds am)
quantities of provision, viz.
One pound of beet, or three quarters of a
pound of pork, or one pound of silt fah per dav.
Ope pound of bread or flour per day,
Three pints of peafe or beans per.week, ot
vegetables equivalent, at one dollar per bmhtl,
for peafe or beans.
One pint or milk per man, per day, or at the
rate of one seventy-second or a dollar.
One quart of fpiuce beer or cyder, per mm,
per day, or nipe gallons or jnohh'es per too
men, per week.
Half a pint of rice, or qne pint of Indian
meal, per man, per tveek.
Three pounds of caudles to 100 men per
week, for guards.
Twenty-four, pounds foft, or eight pounds,
hard soap for 100 men per week; likewise fuel
and firaw.
We the fubferibers bring appointed by th?
Provincial Cengrefs of this colony, parfuatit to
an order of the Continental Congress, do hb e„
by give notice that we will attend at our respec
tive places of abode, to receive the propofol, (in
,writing) of all such as are defirons 01 contact?
ring to supply the above-mentioned poovihons
and Decenaries, agreeable to the aforegoing re
gulation.
ABRAHAM P. LOTT.
ISAAC STOUTENBURGH
fa&k Tb%fore 4, up ympr rears, ^dq?
part, by a life Ot virtue apd religion to my^y
the inex,rpfl;ble happiness of the buffed ntpfs
I cannot ' dismiss you, without befeechug vo
t^ tell your countrymen, that I, wbpuas r.dt &
native of this land, thought i: mv greater gl„,
to bleed and die to preserve their id,cr;ife."k.r
them not shamefully givv then) Up. Ido O't
delire them to revenge my death, but their i:~
jured, infulfcd comply. I implore, I bei'etch, 1
cbteft them to avenge; and never to quit the
pursuit, but with their block'. lam now fr^r
convinced, heaven new, deiigped one part g
mankind to be slaves to the otheE If wey fe
linguifn one of their privileges, ail will kaw 1c
loft. Let them not htftate to cm the Gordian
knot, that has hitherto shackled them loa tyrant,
Bid them beware of the fatal (pares that are
hud for them in negociation. 1 tremble mo,c
for them now, than if they bad the embattled
legions of Europe to encounter. They mav de
pend upon it, they have nothing to trull to
but heaven and their own virtue. And so may
they be lucceeded in fill future ages,as they now
aft the part of those who know how ® ^r/e
the privileges and opportunities, that the elf wife
Ddpofer of hitmen events has put in their'
hands. Adieu."
Netv-forfty, February, 1^76.
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