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rc.il invasions made on their tight! and liberties ;
fur I,) or©- cattles ever did, or ever will, pro
race a gener.o and permanent o; position in the
whole body of a people towards their governors.
When we remark iikewife, that in the prefect
4 L oteft, there is no religious z al of o^riecu-tion ;
no national antipathy or rancour, but quite the
reverie; no lutvodadbon of a new code of laws
by a foreign conqueror; noimaginay pretend
er to weaken the allegiance ofth - people, clear
ly lobbied on the o stons principles ofthe Eng
lish conftiturion, cgn we befits a moment to
pronounce what ought to be done? We ought
to allow the Americans to tax rheinfekcs ar an
irreparable adjund to freedom.
L O N D O N.
To the Right li% the Earl tfS , one of bis
Majely's Secretaries of State.
r T''IIE pitiful figure your Lordflip has made
since you became a Prerogative Miniffcr,
and prided yourfelf in being the inOrument of
chiliving the last Parliament, tor the purpose
of defeat ng a popular general election ; as well
as the more pitiful apology you made to feme
of your frr nds, f r your political defection,
" mat the paity with whom you added were de
void of principle," are too notorious, and of
too little confequens to nerd a single animad
vertion. 1 dare fay your new maflers, could
they do it with any appearance of decency, are
as eager to get rid of you, as your quondam
friends were rejoiced when you left them. The
l # nnous^/uOTa/ig^earra.igenients, brought about
under youi wile auspices at the cowts of Calfcl,
Brunswick and Hanau, loudly proclaim your
Ibid in lubfciiry treaty making; while jour
supercilious conduct in the cabinet, and vour
frothy inti,id harangues somewhere else, will
rem in lading inonum nts of your deliberate
w: dem, and parliamentary abilities.
Leaving, however, the punifl.ru nt of treach
ery and foil, to felf-accuiation and felf conviai
cn, because the laws have provided no other e
medy, I frail only touch upon feme matters
which no les degrade you as a gentleman than
a flatefman. I mean your frequent breaches
of veracity. Formerly the London Gazette
was esteemed all over Europe for its 'fcrupulous
adherence to truth. It was, it feefns, referred
for you, aflifted by your French tutor, Sandy
Frazer, to fink it in the eltimation of the pub
lib, even below the lying intelligence printed
at Bruftls during the late war. In the true
spirit of that oracle, the defeat at Lexington
was no more than a soldier-like retreat to Lead
quarters. The deftruftion of the flower of the
British army at Bunker's Hill, was celebrated as
a victory equal to that gained at Cannae over the
Romans, or that gained by the p radioes Coe
far over the liberties of his country at I'h.rla
-la. Carlton's fuccefsful skirmish with a few
Draggling provincials, w, s magnified into a bat
tle, decilive of the power of the rebels in Ca
nada, while you bad authentic intelligence in
your pocket that we did not poffefs'a foot of
land in thole extensive regions, Quebec except
ed ; but treat St. John's, Fort Chmblee, Mon
treal, &c. had been tor tome time in the poflef
fion of the Generals Montgomery and Wooftcr.
But to fid up the measure of the art ©f political
lying in the Gazette of Saturday night, you
have announced'the greatest disgrace the British
arms ever Differed. You have represented the
mod fhameful and inglorious flight, to be no
more than a mere manoeuvre,adopted on a pre
conceve I plan of military operations. Your
ministerial Atalantis is so modeßas to endeavour
to persuade us it was choice not necessity, that
induced General Howe, to change his head
quarters fiom Boston to the more mild and fer
tile regions of Nova-Scotia, and that “ with
out the least interruption fiom the rebels."
But this was not all, you forefaw that there
was not a man on this fide of the river Tweed
would give you credit. You were therefore
revived to give us a kind of codicil to this po
litical testament, of the fame, honour, and mi
litary reputation of this degraded, insulted, de
luded country. You endeavoured to pour in
one ray of comfort on the public, in order to
revive their droopin ; spirits, meant, I presume,
as a kind of can de luce to the bank, and the ru
in J despairing stockholder. You tell us in the
next parmyaph, that altho' America be loft in
the way > war or conquest, a commission has
pad dthYrreat Seal. Wonderful intelligence!
But cui .br)? O, to be sure, to recover Ame
rica Iy reftming peace to it. Happy expedient!
But how is this to be effected? by impowerina
Lorn Howe and his brother '' to grant pardons
to such ofhis Majesty's fubje&s there as (hail de
serve the royal mercy." Intolerable insolence !
Shuneleis imposition! Pardons to visitors; peace'
without concession ; a commllion without au
thority. Is there a face in the neighbourhood
of St. James's or Whitehall, howmuch soever
bronzed, a mind however hacknied in the paths
ci delations a spirit however dating and unfeel
ing, who will venture to seriously affirm, that
any commission given to Lord Howe, or any
body else, will enable him to treat with
rebels prochimed so by parliament, farther
than to receive submission? Or, if that be what
is really s meant, that 70,000 men will submit
unconditionally to those whom they have van
cjuifhed without flriking a blow, and throw
down their arms in the midst of victory, to put
halters round their own necks? Ignorant as
you are, you know they will not. 'Shamelefs
as you are, you dare not positively afiert it.
consequently the wholeis but the last inefle&ive
Eruggle of an expiring fadion, determined to'
prolong their political exigence, rill dragged
from their unholy hmauary by the voice of a
brave, generous, though a deluded,' oppressed,
impoverished, and disgraced people '
°H AMPDE N.
It is computed by those who have the best
opportunity ot knowing, that the whole cash of
this kingdom amounts to about fifteen millions
sterling; and from a fair calculation we may
compute, that fifteen millions iterling will be re
quired by the Ministry for the service of the
prelent year, and paid by this oppressed nation
into his Majetty's Exchequer : so that the whole
coin of the kingdom will go in one year to the
Crown.
CALCULATION.
I. For the army and navy,
already voted by Parlia
ment, 6,266,302 0 9
2. For purchasing provifi
ons tor the army in A
merica, at the rate they
have hitherto edit ; and
for arms, ammunition,
and other stores, and for
traniport service, 4,000,000 0 0
3. For the payment of the
intcreft or the public
debt, about 4,000,000, 0 0
4. For various other wants
and demands of govern
ment, 800,000 0 0
Total 14,066,302, 0 9
We neither know, nor believe, that this ac
count is at all exaggerated. What a hopetul
condition this nation is in!
Some persons may think, that the second ar
ticle in the above calculation, concerning pro
vihons, &c. is too high; but the most certain
method of estimating how much those particular
articles will cost this year, is by what they colt
the lad, in proportion to the number of troops;
and whoever makes Inch an estimation, will find
they are rather too low than too high.
April 30. Whenever the present Minister 0-
pens the budget, he harangues so much in
praile of himlelt, as not to leave his panegyrifts
any thing to lay in his favour. As he pays his
followers for ipeaking, he mould not deprive
them or the pieafure of exercising their lungs
in behalf of their patron.
The present Parliament hath shewn an oblig
ing coenphance with the Minister's requett. He
alas only, in the most model! terms, for a
\o7l # OF CREDIT. His dependants in-
Itam!y vote for the accomplishment of his withes.
An unlimited vote of credit overturned the
April to. Letters from Spain by the Shuld
ham, Putnam, arrived off Falmouth, bang an
account, that it is now no longer doubted but.
that the Spaniards have agreed with the Gene
ral CongreL, to give them all the aifftance they
req dre, whenever called upon.
April it. Advices from Conf'antinople by
the wav or Genoa fay, that the Grand.Si^r.tor
is beginning again to make new armaments, the
dcfgis of which do not in the lead appear,
winch occafioris a vat iety of peculations.
April 23. The Congress h.s determined to
declare America an Independent Stae; and it
is fairl, they will fend Ambagadors to such of
the Counts of Europe as will permt if.
, The BU1)G ET.
Two millions are to be borrowed towards the
service of the prefect year, and funded.
The plan tor railing the fupphes is Lid to be as
follows:
For Z. 2,c00,000 of cafli to.be
paid by the fubferibers, govern
ment tends immediately, 1,550,000
And arc to deliver to them 60,000
tickets at 101. each (the prizes
to be funded alter the drawing
the lottery) amounting to 600,000
L. 2,150,000
For which sum of L. 2,000,000 received, the
sum ts L. 2,150 000 is to bn added to the capi
tal of the 5 per Cent. Contois.
I he following is the manner it is to be divided
among the fubfcribeis, and their supposed
profits:
For every 100 1. cadi fubferibed,
To receive 77 10 0 3 per
cen fc s. worth 65 17 6
3 tickets at fol. 30 o o sup
poied tQ fetch to lubferibers 12!. 36 0 0
101 17 6
So that the profit of the fubferibers appears
to pe at prefect 1 1. 17 s. 6 d. per cent, the dock
reckoned at By per cent. The prefect price is
85 8 4ths ; but 3-4ths per cent, interest due
on Lady-day last, is to be taken off, which re
duces them to the above price; the interest of
this new fund to begin from Lady-day.
For paving the int'ereft of the above, the du
ties on wheel carriages, and on windows are to
be doubled, and an additional duty is to be laid
on wines. A further tax on cards and dice is
allo laid to be intended.
A vote of credit for 1,600,000 1. is likewise
to be asked for, which makes th: budget
3,600,c001.
Several Jamaica merchants, it is said, have
received letters from thence yesterday, with or
ders.net to lend any more goods there till fur
ther orders, ,as they imagined that there would
soon be a strange revolution in that iftrnd.
It is believed in the city, that the men of war
and troops, designed to bring the Americans
under lubjedion, must now be employed to de
fend the Welt India Ifhnds against the united
force of France and Spain.
There is such a want of seamen, that the Re
solution (loop of war, Capt. Hawker, which is
failed from the Downs tor Haverfordweft, to
take under convoy fome'tranfports bound to A
mefica, has no more than four bailors on board,
besides the officers. They depend on getting
men at Haverfo dweft.
CORTES or Spanish Parliament, and thus in
troduced slavery into Spain. Our Minister be
gins with a LIMITED vote or credit. When
he has felt the public pulse, he may grow unli
mited in his demands.' 11 he leaves us a Lulling
we can call our own, we Ihall be a Ilourifning
people!,
Notwithstanding the honesty of the prefect
premier, he fehlom opens a budget wi.hout an
eve to the provision of his fiends. He icorns
to BRIBE with the public money, lie fairly
GIVES it aw^y. By the mode of rating the
foppiics for the current year, a sum amounting
to •yp coo 1. has been didributed amongu cer
tam lubicnbers, whom justice might point out,
but prudence forbids to name.
The Lords North, Germaine and Sandwich,
hid each a leparate conference with his Majesty,
at the Qj~en's palace yesterday.
A meifenger is arrived express from Ameri
ca, by a vefcl which is put in to Ireland, who
has brought advice, that nine French ' men of
war had arrived at Philadelphia, under pretence
of being out a long time at lea, and being in
great distress for water.
Ten thousand Hessians ar? embarked in for
tv transports for America. The forei {nets were
in high spirits. Probable tie v considered them-
Llves as about, not to tight agamd the Ameri
cans, but to visit their friends and relations,
Extract of a letter from Leghorn, April 10.
“ A few days since a French brigantine ar
rived he;e from Triette, on bow'd of which
there were two hundred and fifty Austrian of
ficers of rank. They embarked as palLngers.
Their dedication, and that cl the brigantine is
not known. Bring laden with warlike flares,
we suppose she is bound for America."
They write from Gibraltar, that the greatest
harmony and friendship fubfids between the Ha
noverian officers in that im ortant garrison, and
the Spanish officers Rationed near the lines; the
latter, it is added, are almost daily visiting the
garriion, where they are entertained in the mod
lump'tuous manner.
Extras of a letter from one of the Guards, on
board a transport at Spithead, dated Friday,
the 27th inst.
" I do not much like this job, they begin
to learn us how to live without victuals already.
I had about four ounces of meat and' a bifeuit
yesterday, rather less the day before. We are, I
find, to pay three-pence per day for our diet,
out of our poor four-pence. The Hessians lie
n 'ar uyand are a very religious kiftd of people ;
they ling plalms and hymns all day, and almost
all night, which puts me in mind that my latter
end is near at hand. I heartily with myfelf in
London again. We expedl to fail on,Monday."
May 9. Lord Howe, it seems, carries over
the olive branch in one hand, and tht sword of
justice in the other; if the former be treated
with contempt, he is invested with such powers,
as cannot fail to open the eyes of the deluded
malcontents, by the most vigorous operations.
Extract of a letter from an officer on board the
Philip and Mary transport, in Button harbour,
dated March 23.
" What accounts you will have in your pa
pers of this retreat I know not, but if it was
thrown in a just light, and it was | offible for the
public ever to know the whole and fair truth,
l should suppose your mobs would not be so
quiet as you mention. General Howe is driven
from Button pretty equally for the neglect of
the government in not lending him any sup
plies tor several months, and bv the rebel army
which received the end of lad month a great
reinforcement, and among other articles a train
of 24 pound (they had only 12 and 14 before)
and 13 inch mortars. Where they got the lat
ter our Generals have no conception. They
bombarded the town from Dorch der-neck,
from whence the General tried in vain to dis
lodge them, but buffered feve^ly in the attempt.
If the rebels had continued their fire with equal
spirit a fortnight longer, (and there was certain
intelligence th u rihey would b-ole daw to in
crease it) Boston. would have been burnt about
our ears. Thus cw ry cauf united 0 make a
retreat necctfary. it was admirably conducted
with scarce an: lois. Had Mr. Howe been duly
supposer by in,3v reinforcements, and a pro
per lupply of , ovilions, he would have dillodg-'
ed the rebels from their works, and opened a
passage into the country ; in which case Boston
would not, as it ought not, have teen abandon
ed.
The Lord Hyde Packet, Captain Goddard, arrived
at Staten-IJland, a few daye ago from Falmouth,
in 8 weeks, and by two Gentlemen Passengers,
who were permitted to come from the I/land,
we were favoured with the following articles:
His Majesty's mod gracious SPEECH to both
Houles of Parliament, on Thursday May
23d, 1776.
Affy Lords, and Gentlemen,
TH £ conclusion of public business, and the
advanced season of the year, make in pro
per for me to give you feme recess, but I cannot
putan endtothisfdfonjvithoutaflurirg that the
trefn instances of your attachment to me, and
your heady adherence to the true inrereft cf
your country, which you have Shewn in the
whole course of your important deliberations,
afford me the highest fatisfadiibn.
No alteration has happened in the fate of
" P. S. I have just been informed that the
rebel artillery and mortars were certainly feived
by Prussian engineers."
Extract of a letter from Portsmouth, May 7.
" Last night failed from St. Helen's his Ma
jetty's Ihips of war, as follow, viz. The Preston,
Commodore Hotham; the Emneld, Brune,
Jersey, Carcass, Stromborough, and Rainbow,
with 100 fail of transports with the troops on
board for North-America."
foreign afaiis Grce your meeting, and it is with
plealure I inform you, that the utfurances which
I have received di the diipolitions of the several
powers in Europe, , romite a continuance of the
general tranquility.
Gentlemen of the Hvafc of Cemmrn-
It is with led reget and concern, that I
found myfelf under the neceffov of hiking my
fdiuHul socmans any extiamdma y Supplies:
I thank you tor the ryadiueis and difjanh with
which they have been granted, and they are
the mote acceptable to me, as you have thewn
in the m.nnec'of railing them, an equid regard
to the exigencies of the ferv.cv, and the cate of
my people, and you may be afiur'd the confi
dence you repoiein me, shall be used with pro
per frugality, and applied onty to the purfetes
for which it was intended.
My Lore's, and Gentlemen,
We are engaged in a great national cause,
the prosecution of which mult inevitably be at
tended with many difficulties and much expense;
but when we consider that the elDmial riches
and interests of the whole empire arc deeply con
cerned in the iflue of it, and can have no fafety
or security but in that conftuutionai subordina
tion for which we are contending; lam con
vinced that you will not think any price too
high far the preservation of such objefls.
I will Rill entertain a hope that my rebellious
(objects, may be awakened by a tense of their
duty,they will juftify me in bringing about the fa
vourite wish er my heart, the reßoration of har
mony, and the re-eftabliffiment of order and
bappinefs, in every part of my dominions; bit
if a due fubmiffon should not be obtained, from
such motives, and luch dilpofitions on their part,
I trust that 1 Ihall be able, under the bluffing of
Providence, to efkauate it by a full exertion of
the great force w ith which you have entiulted
me.
Then the Lord Chancellor, by his Majeffy's
command said, it is nisMajefty's royal will and
pieafure, that this Parliament be prorogued to
Thurfd^y the firft Day of August next,^d be
then there bolded, and this Parliament is ac
cordingly prorogued to Thursday, the firft day
of August next.
Paris, May io. If we may credit the letters
from Spoilt, a rupture between that court and
Portugal feeds' inevitable.
May 12. This day his Most Cfriftian Majefy
declared jhc Marquis de Noailles his Ambafa
dor to nts britannic Mdjellv, in the room of the
Count de Guines, by the title of Duke de
Guines.
L ONDO N.
May 21. Yeflerday Thomas Daw, Efa; was
appointed Sei retary to Lord George Getmaine,
in the room of John Pownalt, Efef who has ic
figned.
My. 22. The brig Minerva, Capt. Winning,
after a paiLge offive weeks from Salem, in Ne.v-
Jersey, is arrived at Londonderry, where the has
been seized by the custom-house officers in con
sequence of the retraining add: She had ,20
bogheads of flaxfecd on board ; all the papers
which the officers could find they seized also.
A letter fiom Ireland, to a gentleman in Li
verpool, mentions, that a vrffl arrived at New
ry the firlt of May, in 28 days from New-
York.
Yesterday there was a grand meeting of all
the foreign ministers, at the ^otel in St. James's-
Street, on account of some advices received from
Portugal.
Advice is said to be received of a total change
in the French ministry, and that those who are
now to take the lead have not the fame pacific
fer timents as their predecessors.
Yeflerday a gentleman of diftin&ics was sent
off ex; refs to Madrid.
Mav 27. Yesterday a fuhb~ ^ ofadmirality
was held, at the breaking up ,of which 12 m-u
of war of the line were ordered to be put into
commifiion.
The change in the French mirilh 1 as alarm
ed administration exceedingly ; the Comptroller
General of the Finances, dormant, w. : s a warm
friend to peace and dom die improvement, and
would not liftm to the Spanish taAion; but the
new arrangement is of a very dhicreat cwmulex
ion..
Yeflerday in confluence, as it is imagined,
of the above alarming intelligence, the different
docks fell two per cent.
Another Admiral, we bear, will so o n make
his appearance at Spithead.
A letter from Lisbon fays, “ By the gre:'
preparations her? it seems we are at the e^e of
a war, however the Portuguese have taken care
to fill their granaries with corn for two or three
years, which has been brought to Portugal in
American vessels, in return for which they 're
ceive fire-arms, gun-powder, &c. a^d what they
now buy is dipped for their good friends the
French, who, it is said are rather in want, but
they make them pay an exoroir^nt price for it.
Fifteen fail of Amer.ear vefiels are now in the
Tagus, and will soon proceed on their return
home; there are likewise nine fail of men 0
w^r aimoft reHv for sea, exclusive of frigates
and smaller veflels.
It is laid that the Lords of the Admiralty
have illued an order lor railing 6000 more ma
rines.
Ih~ 20th of May arrived at Spithead three
vcflels of fix hundred tons cash, with Stalls, & c .
for the reception of borfes, to be font to Ame
rica with the fleet; and the second division of
the Helii.in troops were under fail' at Stade the
14th instant.
vVILLIAMSBUR G, (Virginia) Aug. 3.
Fincastle, fc.
The deposition of Jarret Williams, tTen be
fore me, Anthony Bledfoe, a jufticeof the peace
101 the county aforefaid, being firfl Iworr. on