The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-01-18 00:00:00, page 2

war present wealth, while we are destroying the sources of all
we might have in future.
" I speak, Sir, as a friend to England and America, but
still more to universal liberty, and the rights of all mankind.
1 trust no part of the fubjeds of this vast empire will ever sub
mit to be Slaves. lam Sure the Americans are too high spi
rited to brook the idea. Your whole power, and that of your
allies, if you had any, and of all the German troops you can
hire, cannot effect so wicked a purpose. The conduit of the
preientAdminiftration has already wrested the feeptre of
America out of the hands of our Sovereign, and you have
now scarcely a Post-master left in the whole northern conti
nent. More than half the empire is already loft, and almost
all the rest is in confufion and anarchy. The Miniltry have
brought our Sovereign into a more difgraceful fituarion than
any crowned head now living. He alone has already loft, by
tieir fatal councils, more territory than the three great unite";
powers of Ruffia,Auftria and Prussia have together robbed Po
land of, and by equal ads of violence and injustice from Ad
ministration.
" England was never engaged in a contest of such import
ance to our molt valuable concerns and possessions. We are
fighting for the fubjedion of a country infinitely more extend
ed than our own, of which every day increases the wealth,
the natural strength and population. Should we not succeed,
it will be a bosom friendfhip soured to hate and resentment.
We shall be considered as their most implacable enemies, an
eternal separation will succeed, and the grandeur of the Bri
tish empire pass away! Success seems to me not equivocal,
but impossible. However we may differ among ourselves,
thy are perfectly united. On this fide the Atlantic party
rage unhappily divides us, but one foul animates the vast
northern continent of America, the General Congress and
each Provincial Assembly. An appeal has been made to the
sword, and at the close of the lad campaign what have we
conquered ? Bunker's-Hill, with the loss of twelve hundred
men. Are we to pay as dearly for the rest of America. The
idea of conquest is as romantic as unjust.
" The Honorable Gentleman who moved the Address, fays
" the Americans have been treated with lenity." Was your
Bolton port bill a measure of lenity ? Was your fifhery bill a
mealure of lenity ? Was your bill for taking away the charter
of the Massachusetts-Bay a measure of lenity, or even justice?
I om.t your many other gross provocations and insults by
which the brave Americans have been driven into their pre
fect date. He asserts that they avow a disposition to be in
dependent. On the contrary, Sir, all the declarations both
of the late and the present Congress, uniformly tend to this
one object, of being put on the fame footing they were in
at thejear 1763. This has been their only demand, from
which they have never varied.
" Their dail^ prayers are for " liberty, peace, and fafety."
I use the words of the Congress of the last year. They justly
expert to be put on an equal footing with the other fubje&s
of the empire. If you confine all but trade to yourselves,
fay they, if you make a monopoly of our commerce, if you
flint all other ports of the world against us, tax us not too ;
if you do, then give us a free trade, such as you enjoy your
feives ; let us have equal advantages of commerce, all other
p ris open to us; then we can and will cheerfully pay taxes.
" It must give, Sir, every man who loves this country,
the de pelt concern at the naming, in the Addrels, foreign
troops, Hanoverians and Hessians, who are now called to in
ti sere in our domestic quarrels, not to dwell this day on the
illegality of the measure. The militia, indeed, are now em
pQeu, ana that noute inMiuUQu is at prelent Complimented
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by Minirten, who hate the very name of a militia, because
the embodying of those forces enables Administration to
butcher more of our fellow fubjedts in America.
" Sir, I disapprove not only the evil spirit of the whole
Address, but likewise the . wretched adulation of almost every
part of it. My wish and hope therefore is, that it will be
rejected by the House, and that another dutiful, yet decent,
manly Address will be presented to the King, praying his Ma
jesty that he would flieath the sword, prevent the farther est
fufion of the blood of our fellow fubje&s, adopt some mode
of negociation with the General Congress, in compliance
with their repeated petition, and thereby restore peace and
harmony to this diftraded empire."
N E W P O R T, January i.
A brig loaded with salt, belonging to New-York, which
was brought into this harbour by one of the King's cruisers
some time past, was drove ashore on Goat-Bland, last Satur
day fe nnight, where ihe still remains ; 'tis supposed molt of
the salt is melted.
NEW-Y O R K, January ig.
Captain Daniel Van Vorhis, in a (loop belonging to Phi
ladelphia, failed from Santa Croix, for this port, the nth of
October last, and got in thirty fathom water, in lat. 39 and a
half, but having sprung his mast and boom, meeting with a
violent gale of wind, and being short of provisions, was oblig
ed to bear away for the Weft-Indies, and arrived at St. Eu
ftatia the 14th of December, with only four biscuits on board,
and not one piece of meat.
Wednesday last the snip Sampson, Captain Coupar, failed
for London, having on board the following cabbin passen
gers, besides a considerable number in the Peerage, Mr. and
Mrs. Plenderleith and family, Mr. Rogers, late of Charlef
town in Massachusetts-Bay, General Dalrymple, Henry Kelly,
Esq; Mr. James Rivington, Lieut. Moncrieffe, Lieut. George
Robinson of the navy, Mons. Orilliard of Canada, Colonel
Glazier, and Mess. Mawleds.
The October packet, from Falmouth for this port, we
hear, is failed for Halifax.
We are told, by a gentleman who lately left Lisbon, that
an account of the late hurricane at Newfoundland was re
ceived at that place last November, and that he was assured
of the truth of that matter by a mailer of a vessel that was
at the land when the gale came on.
WANTS a place, a COACHMAN. He understands
molt diseases incident to horses, and how to make a
cure. He can be well recommended. Inquire of the printer
WANTS a place, as a NURSE, one who can be well
recommended. Inquire of the printer.
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on a floor, with a good kitchen back, in Third-street,
two doors above Arch-ffreet. It is suitable for a Ihop or pri
vate family. For particulars apply to John Bayard in Second
lireet, below Arch-street. ||
DR. GEORGE WEED is removed into Front-street, a
few doors above Market-ftreet,on the Bank fide, a
small distance from where he lived before, where he continues
to fell a variety of MEDICINES as ulual.
1 EVERAL SUMS of MONEY to be lent on good real
O fecunty, by MATTHEW CLARKSON.