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On the Death of Capt. HENDRICK's. }
ICT 0 URN mourn, my lyre, in each firing,
'While Hendrick's dirge I sing.
From your oozy bed,
O! Sufqnehinnt raise your head;
In the solemn pomp of woe
Bid your waters flow;
Let the chores around
Re-echo with this found,
“ The youthful Hendrick's dead."
Such were the words that (truck my liftning ear,
As on thu^uquehanna's bank's I Gray'd;
I dropt a tender, sympathetic tear,
A fwall but grateful tribute to die dead.
High on a rock impending o'er the flood,
Her bosom all exposed to the wind,
The fair Fiorella mournful flood,
Her bread and cheeks befmear'd with blood,
Her locks, deih~ veil'd flow'd behind;
Her eyes, tho' funk with grief, yet darted heavenly
fire,
Across her alabaster neck there hung a lyre,
Which in her hand the took, and thus she sung,
While angels limn'd to the music of her tongue,
Air.
I.
Strong as the oak upon the plain,
He went away in manly pride;
But ah —! He fell among the slain,
He droop'd his head—and dy'd.
11.
On Abraham's Plain my Hendricks lies,
All cover'd o'er with blood,
No friendly hand to elofe his eyes,
Or Hop the crimson flood.
111.
No gentle voice to breathe the founds
Of peace into his dying ear;
No loving friend to bathe his wounds,
Or o'er his corfe to drop a cear.
Grief choak'd her speech, her long awhile she ceas'd,
Bu girthing tears her bosom quickly eas'd;
Then with a voice, might charm the wretch poffeft,
She thus pour'd forth the sorrows of her bread—
Air.
I.
I'll feck out the cave of despair,
Attended by only the dove,
Whole little heart tortur'd with care.
Thinks of noughtbut her poor murder'd love.
11.
• The fame out cause is to mourn,
Her lots is the friend of her nest,
The friend of my bosom, is torn,
Ah —! Torn from my poor bleeding bread.
111.
Like her I will taste no relief,
Tier cooings th ill answer each groan,
And sympathy heighten my grief
By making her sorrows my own.
she here Ropt ffiort —fwift as the timorous fawn
FT? s from the hounds by whon he is pursued,
She left he rock, and running oer the lawn,
Sought the dark rover of a dillant wood.
F #sfc^ fobfoeforWo^c^W
Copy of a letter, written by the Committee for the city
and liberties of Philadelphia, to the several county
Committees of this Province.
Philadelphia, March 5, 1776.
T™H E Committee for the city and liberties of
[ Philadelphia, have always been attentive to
th important duty injoined upon them by the re
foltition of the lite Provincial Convention, to call
another Convention when they mayjudge it neces
sary. But though many circumstances have occur
ed which feem.d to invite to a general conferrence,
y c t the Committee have been willing to hope, that
Security againd every impending evil would have
bun procured, without fubjeXing the province to
the trouble and expence, at this uncomfortable sea
son of the year of appointing deputies and attend
ing in convention: They would have been happy,
could they have found their expectations so fully
answered as the exigence of the times require. On
a review of the proceeding of the late leffions of
AlEmbly from 4 proved of the very vigorous
m enures refolded upon by theßritilh administration,
which the latest accounts allure us may every day be
expected to take place; alarmed at the appearance
of mtri ,ue by the appointment of Commissioners (as
i is given out) to treat with the Colonies, though
we have reason to believe they are invested only
with an infalling power to pardon (perhaps to cor
rupt and divide) the Committee judged they pould
not acquit theemfelves to their own consciences, to
you, and to the American interetl, had they not
g ven the Province an immediate opportunity of a
conference, in which they might speak the unref
t.iained language of determined freemen, and a&
with that vigor which has ever been the charader
illic o' Pennlvlvania, when tree from the influence
of partial councils. The Committee were of opini
on, at alate meeting, that a Provincial Convention
on r ht to be called.
' Among ocher fubjeXs, which they proposed for
confideradoa they had the following in view.
" As the opposition given to the present measures
arises chiefly from the members representing the
three interior counties, who constitute a majority
of the House, though two of them are inferior to
several other of the counties, which have not half
their number of members, the proceedings of the
Aflembly might more properly be said to be the
proceedings of those three counties than of the pro
vince in general; to concert measures therefore of
effecting a more full and equal representation, the
Committee thought an object worthy your immedi
ate attention; conducive to strength and dignity
of the House of Affcmbly ; and efll/ntially necessary
to t e fafety of this Province in particular, and the
United Colonies in general.
" As the present unequal representation is the
ground of every other complaint, rhe Committee
had this principally in view. There are others
which are attended with immediate danger; and
we thought required immediate remedy. To name
them will be fufficient.
“ Our military association labors under the im
perfedions and injustice of the " Rules andarticles,"
though almoil a year has been employed in framing
and correcting them.
“ The providing of arms, &c. has been firft in
trufted, and since continued, notwithstanding re
monstrances, to persons who have in some instances
so far negle&ed the duty, as that they have it yet
almost to begin.
“ The military measures of the Province are un
der the direction of a Committee of Safety, many of
the members not having the authority of the people
notwithdanding a power of so great importance
ought not to be intruded to others than their imme
diate representatives.
“ The appointment of gentlemen, as Delegates
from this Province in Congress, who are not of the
Amenably; and the instructions given to them, by
which they are bound to disclose every, even mili
tary, movement; and are prevented from the free
exercise of their judgments as the neceflity of the
times may require ; appear unsafe, as well as dis
honorable; have a dirt& tendency to countenance
the liberal insinuations of our enemies ; to create
jealousies and divisions among ourselves; and to
mislead the neighbouring Colonies into a falfe opi
nion of the sense of this Province.
“ These, gentlemen, are the obje&s the Com
mittee had in view to recommend to your attention
1 hey also wish to confer with you on the means of
giving the aid of the back counties to tlie exposed
parts of this province on the navigable waters,
should they be actually invaded, and their trade
suspended, agreeable to your virtuous resolution at
the late Convention. Theie being provided for,
we doubt not the province would sustain its part in
the present unhappy, yet noble contest, with digni
ty to itfelf, and Safety to the waole. And we rely
that the united representation of the Deputies of the
province on that occasion convened, or such other
means as their wisdom might have proposed, would
have been effectual to give full relief.
" But, Gentlemen, we have farther to inform
you that, after having puffed the vote for holding
a Convention, the Committee had the pleasure of
a conference with several of the members of the
House. And they found, with great Satisfaction,
that those Gentlemen indulged themselves in the
hopes that a full and equal representation would be
obtained in consequence of the petitions now before
the Honourable House from several of the counties ;
and that the other matters would be attended to.
The Committee, therefore, have ordered us, their
Committee of Correspondence, not to forward, for
the present, their letters for calling the Convention,
and have intruded us to communicate to you the
foregoing information; and also that they have
prepared petitions, to be signed by the inhabitants
of this city, concurring in the prayer for a more
equal representation, the event of which we wait.
By order of the Committee, and in their behalf,
we are, Gentlemen, your friends, &c.
The Committee of Correspondence.
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