The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-06-06 00:00:00, page 2

12. That warrants unsupported by evidence, whereby any
officer or messenger may be commanded or required to search
fufpe&ed places, or to seize any person or persons, his or
their property, not particularly described, are grievous and
oppressive, and ought not to be granted.
13. That in controversies refpeding property, and in faits
between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable
to any other, and ought to be held sacred.
14. That the freedom of the press is one of the great bul
warks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic
governments.
15. That a well regulated militia, composed of the body
of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and
fafe defence of a free state; that Handing armies, in time of
'peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty ; and that,
in all cases, the military fliould be under Arid subordination
to, and governed by, the civil power.
16. '1 hat the people have a right to uniform government,
and therefore that no government separate from, or inde
pendant of, the government of Virginia, ought, of right, to
be erected or established within the limits thereof.
17. That no free government, or the blessing of liberty,
can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to
justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and
by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
- 18. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Cre
ator, and the manner of difeharging it, can be directed only
by reason and convidion, not by force or violence; and
therefore that all men should enjoy the fulleft toleration in
the exercise of religion, according to the dictates of con
science, unpunilhed and unrestrained by the magistrate, un
less, under colour of religion, any man disturb the peace,
the happiness, or fafety of society. And that it is the mutual
duty of all to pradife Christian forbearance, love, and cha
rity towards each other.
PROVIDENC E, June 1.
A gentleman, arrived here from France, informs that twen
ty-five French Grips of the line were ready for sea the 16th of
March last, at Breit, to which place five hundred ihipwrights
had been o.dered from Nantz ; that men were taken up in all
parts of France f r the sea service ; that the fortifications of
Dunkirk and Bellifle were repairing with all expedition ; and
that as great preparations were making for war as were ever
known in that kingdom.
A letter from Martinico, dated the 12th of April, men
tions that a general embargo had taken place in France.
We have authentic intelligence from Cape Francois, that
on the 7th of May five hundred additional troops arrived there
from France.
he cannot be found guilty, nor can he be compelled to give
evidence against himfelf; chat no m<m be deprived of his li
berty except by the law of the land, or the judgment of his
peers.
11. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor
excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punifhments'
inflicted.
~ That laws having retrofpe& to crimes, and punishing
offences, committed before the existence of such laws, are
generally oppressive, and ought to be avoided.
10. That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man
hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusa
tion, to be confronted with th accusers or witnesses, to call
for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impar
tial jury of his vicinage, without whose unanimous content
Saturday last a large prize sloop arrived here laden with salt.
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Extra& of a letter from St. Euftatia, dated May 16, 1776.
“ I wrote you some days ago of a fchooaer's being seized
in this road by the Seaford, a twenty gun ship, who kspt
possession of her till on my making application to the Gov.
he sent a guard of soldiers, and took the possession from them.
Next morning the Seaford failed, and since that the Gov. has
sent a flag to the Admiral, to know the reason of such inso
lence. The Burghers were much enraged, and we may now
depend on any American bottom in this road being defended
to the last, in case of such attempts."
A letter, from an English gentleman of veracity at St.
Euftatia to his friend in Rhode-Ifland, fays, " I have no
thing very material to acquaint you with, only that the French
are certainly meditating something. The greatest encourage
ment is given to the Americans; they have opened their
ports ; notwithstanding they have had great quantities of
provisions from France, and every thing low there. Many
vessels, with sugar and coffee, have come from thence
(the French islands) this day or two ; this you know was sel
dom the case; it causes much (peculation : I think there
mult certainly be something in the wind ; and, for my part,,
think that a general war is not far distant.—The French have
certainly ten thouland men at St. Domingo, uho are aug
mented to fifteen thousand. There are eight thousand at Mar
tinico and Guadaloupe, and seven thousand more expected
momently, so that they will have thirty thousand in their
islands ; the whole under command of one General, who ar
rived some days since at Martinico."
Extract of a letter from the camp at the mouth of the Sorrel,
dated May 14, 1776.
" We have here Generals Wooster, Arnold, the Pruffiaa
General, and about fifteen /hundred good troops. Two bat
talions are just arrived from Cambridge, and one gone to
Montreal. Col. Poor and his battalion are expected every
minute, with Gen. Thempfon. Here is to be our grand
Hand. We are now fortifying, but the main body is net yet
come up from Dechambeau. There are fix battalions more on
their way to this place. This fortification is at the mouthcf
the Sorrel on the river St. Lawrence, where our provisions and
stores come d.wn into Canada. As soon as the fix batta
lions arrive, I hope we shall be able to drive them falter than
they drove us"
^ The printer having frequently desired his fubferibers,
and persons indebted for advertisements, to pay off their ac
counts, to which little regard has been paid, is now under
the difagrecable necessity of desiring his customers immediately
to difeharge them. Those who have lately fubferibed, it is
expected will pay their half year's fubferiptior, as well as
those who intend to continue.
%* The AMERICAN CRISIS will speedily be published
by the printer of this paper.
rum, sugar and molasses ; she was bound from St. Croix to
Liverpool in Nova Scotia, and was taken by the Andrew
Doria, Captain Biddle.
Last Tuesday arrived at New-York, a vessel from Port au
Prince, loaded with molasses, sugars, brandy, coffee and in
digo.
On Saturday, the 25th ult. the Hon. Convention of Mary
land adjourned to the firft Monday in August next.
The legislature s of the island of Monferrat, and of the island
of Antigua, have offered bounties on the importation of pro
visions into those inlands.
PHILA DELPH IA, June 6.