The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-01-02 00:00:00, page 3

PHILADELPHIA, January 2.
Extract of a letter from Germany, dated August 10, 1775.
“ All Germany is fixed in admiration, wonder, and amaze
ment, at the firm, determined, hernia fpiritof the brave Ame
ricans, and are exceedingly pleased with the undaunted cppo
fition they make against the several attacks of the formidable
arms of England employed to deprive them of their just rights.
to natural liberty, and to dhackle them in chains of slavery
and fubjedion ever after; and this will be the miserable
consequence should they subdue you by their fleets and armies.
“ Great numbers of our Germans live in America, and
they highly experience, in that happy country, the sweets of
freedom and liberty, and which they did not enjoy here un
der their petty arbitrary rulers ; these men will exert every
nerve in support of the righteous cause of freedom so sweet to
them" .Their numerous friends and relations here are conftancly
and most ardently supplicating the great Divine Ruler of all
events to interpose and assist you with the almighty arm, and
to set at naught all the wicked enslaving attempts of your
enemies, but they hope you will not fold your arms, and de
pend altogether on the efficacy of your praying friends, but that
you will make use of defensive means,and they hope and believe
that providence will be propitious to your cause,. which.you
have already had an earnest of, and that your oppressors may
be difeomfited. We wish that as England is going to hire
foreign troops, in vain hope of subduing you (their own men
becoming enervated and spiritless io soon as they tread the
American foil)" that they could obtain Germans to be sent on
this errand; for in that case we forefee theevent would turn in
your favour, as you have an extensive country for Germans
to cultivate, and no pe /ple love profitable labour better, or are
better ada; ted forthe purpose, which America has long expe
rienced, and we know that they would soon drop their fire
arms, and betake xh^felves to the cultivation of lands.
We think highly of the wisdom of your American Congress,
and of all their good regulations throughout that extensive
continent, and we cannot enough admire the decent, loyal,
yet manly and ipirited language contained in all their peti
tions and fupplicati ns to the throne, and cannot enough
deleft the indecent treatment and fcornful reception they have
met with from thole haughty men who guide all the move^
stints of the nation.
" But we assure you that the unison chord has not been hit
upon by your Congress, or all would long ere thh have been
well with America, and few would have known the true cause
of the army and fleet returning to England. Two or three
hundred thousand pounds, judiciously applied, would have
wrought this miracle, and laved millions, which, for want of
this knowledge, you are now expending in warlike prepara
tions. France, Spain, Holland and Germany have long been
acquainted with this prudent secret, and have frequently ad
ministered this fpecific with the wished for success. Money
has removed mountains; it has turned the course of rapid ri
vers; it has built a barrier wall, to divide China from Tar
tary, of fifteen hundred miles in length, and surely it will in
fluence the pliabie yielding hearts of men. I hope this me
thod will be adopted yet, it will never be unseasonable, for
the English are as greedy and ravenous after money as a
hungry wolf is after a fat fkeep; their Kings are not proof
against its fafeinating charms, and we know they have been
bribed to the prejudice of England. Touch but Bute's palm,
and all will be right; he is the arch fiend, and has all the
imps at his command. We believe him to be a Jesuit, and
we know he is a blood relation of the banimed Stuart King,
and we believe he has been long working schemes to bring in
cue of that family wbe again King of England, M a y hi;
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schemes all fail, and ' may he be transformed, not into a pillar
offalt, but into a man of stone, as a lading infamous monu
ment for posterity to gaze upon."
Yesterday the Hon. Continental Congress appointed Jqfyn
Patterson, Esq; Adjutant to the firft battalion of Pennsyl
vania regular/.
On Sunday morning about two o'clock, a fire was difeo
vered in the printing-office of the fubferibers, which unhap
pily consumed the fame, together with the whole flock of pa
per, types and prefs.—lt burnt with such fury that no persons
could enter the doors.—By this misfortune they are reduced
to the necessity of acquainting their kind cufiomers, that it is no
longer in their power to supply them with the Penn sylvania
Mercury.—Whilst the publication continued, it was their
constant study to give fatisfaflion to their readers; but as this
accident has deprived them of the means of prosecuting it,
they take this early opportunity of returning their unfeigned
thanks for past favors, and hope for a continuance of that
Frit n dship which induced so many gentlemen to patronize
their paper. STORY and HUMPHREYS.
Married. On Wednesday last,. at Bordentown, Mr.
HENRY BUDD to Miss AMY WATSON, daughter of
Thomas Watson, Esq; of that place. On Thurs
day night, Mr. GEORGE GRAFE, Merchant, to Miss
NICHOLSON, both of this city.
.The Virginia and New-York POSTS not arrived when this
paper went to press, at five o'clock.
Mr. Towne,
If an excursion into the country had not prevented, I should
sooner have sent you the inclofed, but which I suppose is
not too late, as no person has yet complied with t e young
lady's request. B.
A REASONABLE WHIGGESS scorns all implicit faith
in the fate as well as the church. The authority of
names is nothing to her ; five judges of men by their afttons
and behaviour, and hates a knave of her own party as much
as she despises a fool of another. She consents not that any
man, or body of men, shall do what they please. She claims
a right of examining all public measures, and, if they de
serve it, of cenfaring them ; as she never saw much power
possessed without Line abule, she takes upon herfelf to wa.ch
those that have it ; and to acquit or expose <he.n according
as they apply it, to the good of their country, or their ow^
crooked purposes.
As to religion, she is a Protestant, not because she was born
so, according to the canting absurdity in vogue, or bred f%
since in infancy religion is acquired like a lesson in grammar,
purely by the help of memory ; any therefore thilaren learn
it, whether it be good or bad, a; they do language, front
their nurses and th ir parents. But the is a Protestant be
cause her judgment and her eyes inform her that the princi
ples of that faith are warranted by the bible, and confident
wit 1 our civil liberties, and she thnks every system which is
not , to be forgery and impoHure, -however dignified 01
diftrn ?uifhed.
't J be SOLD, the time 6 of a "DUTCH SERVANT
GIRL, who has three years to serve. She is very
healthy, and is fuitaßle either for town or country bufirleG;
has at prefect a good bread of milk, and may be serviceable
in any family as a wet nurse, and can be well recommended.
She is fold for want of employ, and not for any fault. Inquire
of the printer.
Also to be LET, on reasonable terms, a very convenient
BAKEHOUSE, with every ntedfy belonging thereto.
Inquire a; above,