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AT 2 Conference of the Delegatesiin Cone
et for the States of New-York, New-Jersey
aal/Ivania, of tioCommitice of Batety ot
] vai; e Co.;x&n'kr;(‘ct' ol Lnfpettion and
Dgiervation foi the City ang Lijerties of Phi
o, “ard the Fieid O# <7 Gl e five bar
“ealions of thé said city, &, atthe St .Eé‘%mufc in
%ﬁivh on e gch dag of July, 1770 in
- Shkiia I%‘ ' the following resolution ot Cc?l(
130 e W . N
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In GONGRESS, Joly 4, 1770
RisorvEp, That the Delegates of New-
York, New-jericy, and Pennsylvania, be a
'C»Jmm'a% 10, confer with-the Committee of
Satety of Denmivivinis, the Committec of In
spection of the city and liberties of Philadel
piiu, m},tlhc Field Oicers of the battalions of
the faidcity and liberties, on the best means of
de‘t’en%’; ag the cdlunies of New-jersey and Penn
fylvants, and that they be empowered to fend
¢xyns3 where neceflary.
Gl TOHN HANCOCK, President.
" Tuomas MKean in the Chair.
'i‘\efoliqd, That it appears to the Conferees,
that all the associated militia of Pennsylvania,
(excepting the counies of Weftmoreland, Bed
fqn;' and«.\Northumberland) who can be turnith
‘ed with arms and accoutrements, should be
forthwith requested to ‘march with the utmost
cxpedition to Trenton, (except the militia for
“Norchampron county, who are to march dire&-
1y for New-Brunswick) in New-Jersey ; and
that the said militia contivue in service until
the flving camp of ten thou{and men can be col
ected to relieve them, anlefs they shall be soon
er discharged by Congress,
Resolved, That the militia march by compa
nies to the place of rendezyous.
R sfolved, That the said militia be taken into
Continental pay, and receive the fame py, al
lowances and ratiens with the Continental
troops, from the time they begin their march
until they teturn o their respective homes.
Resolved, That these of the three battalions
of the Pennsylvania troops now remaining in
the provi be ordered to march immediately
for Newﬁxp{wick in New=|erfey.
Resolved, That the Commit:ee of Safety of
this colony provide as inany tents as they can
for the Taid militia. g
Resolved, That the Committees of Inspecti
on, &¢. in the several countics furnifh a good
kextle to evefy fix men, and give all the assist
ance in their p})wer that the fuid militia be well
armed and equipped, and march with the great
elt expedition, :
o THOMAS M‘KEAN, Chairman.
In CONGRES S, July g, 1776.
Resorvep, ‘Lhat the Committees of In
{pction for the gvcral counties in the colony
of Pennsylvania, be direéted to order such troops
as they may raise for the flying camp to be
marched to Trenton, the Resolve of #efterday
z march thanto Philadelphia notwithftand
"T'izl'oT‘vér‘rnli, ¥iE Congrels NighTy approve.
‘g, " e
“of the foregeing Refoldtions, and r%co}l’nn}\gnd it
to the gooﬁ people of Pennsylvania to carry the
fame into_execution, with the fame laudalle
readiness, which they have hitherto manifefted
in supporting the injured rights of their coun
i By Order of Congref:,
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776,
. Resorvep, That the Board of War be em
powered to employ fucha number of persons as
they shall find neceflary to manufaciure Flints
for the Centinent ; angfor this purpose to ap
ply to the rep:Qive Assemblies, Conventions,
and Councils or Committees of Safety of the
United American States, or Committees of In
fpetion of the counties and Towns thereto be
lenging, for the names and places of abode of
perions skilled in the manufaltory aforefuid,
and of the places in their respective Srates where
“the best Fline Stones are to be obtained, with
samples of the fime.
v/ By Otder of Congress,
- . JOHN HANCOCK, President.
War-Orrice, Philudelphia, July 6, 1776.
"~ ALL persons in the United American States
who ‘are able to inform the Congrels of any
'quantities of Flint Stone, or of any persons who
are skilled in the manufatture of Flints, are re
quested to apply in person, or by letter, to the
Board of War and Ordunance, at the War-Or
fce, in Market-street, near the cornsr of Fourth
“fteec -Al Pristters of news-papers in the se
veral States are desired to insert this advertise
-3 * Rrecuaxp Perexs, jun. Sec’ry.
Juby 8. This day, at twelve o’clock, the De
¢laration of Independence, will be procluimed
#:the Srate-Koute.
_Extrat of a letter from the camp at Sorrel,
- & dated June 13, 1776,
%On the Bth inst. a detachment of about
sixteen hundred men, under the command of
General Thomson, left the mouth of Nicolette,
1n order to furprize the enemy at Threc Rivers.
The design was to have attucked the town be
fore day, Dut some unforefeen accidents retard
el him, so that it was quite light before he got
- ngar the town, An advancel boat discovered
‘the party on their march, gave the alirm; and
‘was fir-d on by the riflemen, who drove her off
doto the stream. This bappened a Htle before
sunrise; and all prospect of succeeding by {ur
(prize was them over 5 the. General determined
b make the attack, ordered; the drums=o beat,
o put the bsft face upon the matter, and inti-
Ridate the enemy. Inthis menuer the march
atmued Lll they camewithin the reach of the
veffe's, foinz of which were anchese:l aleng the
thare for abour @ mileora mile and ahalf above |
the town, whea a brisk cannonade began trom .
them, but without effect, or oecationing the
teait dilordzr among the troeps, who bore it
with-as good a countenance 48 the belt vetergns
in the worll esuld bave done., Col, Maxwell,
who led the, firt divition, fecing, however, that
i proceeding by the road he would beexpofed
to a very gadmg fire from 41l the vefials, ﬁ:vcw
order to crols what {eemed t;;be
teen'ln number, turned a litt the left, in
woods, and by which it (cemed as I we could l
giin the height of the town, where the firing |
trom the veflels would be inefivctual “Chis
point turned out to be a very (hig&\am
great extent, and which took up th U
more to get throughjeve y step to the knee, |
and very often « great deul higher, This wagh
very unfavourable to us, for it was impoflible”
for men to march through it without beis 2,_
broken, and a good deal of confufion. And as.:
the enemy were ready for us at the farther fide,
there was neither time nor ground to form them
properly. The consequence was, as you muay
Judgze, that we had the worlt of it. SR
* The Geaeral’s original plan was to have
attacked before day at four separate places; wo |
attacks by the opposite ends of the miin ftraet;
each division consisting of three hun,:lrcd"l%;?f
A reserve of two hundred and fifty wasto're
myain ready for the fuppo-t of any of the others.
lam almo't pcrl'u.adecrthat if we had arrived in
time to have put this in execution, it would |
have succeeded, notwithstanding the great su
periority of the enemy in point of numbers;
but the mornin¥ and the swamp, ‘liold you
before, broke in upon this plan. ®No new
one was fornfed, nor indeed had the General it
in his power to form one, for on= of the divi- |
fions was separated from the rest in pafling the
swamp, nor did the General know where th 2y
were till the firing began from them.
““ ‘All'h: could then de was to order them to
be supported, This was done for some time
with cffed, the enemy having broke and given
way for some diftanee ; but being supported in
their turn, they drove eur people back, who
bore in a soldier-like manner, a very heavy fire
from the mufqunr{' and two pieces of field ar
tillery, sometimes loaded with grape and some
times with round shot. We were, however, af
ter repeated attacks, obliged to give way, the e
nemy fearcely parfuing us. ; |
¢ Our loss 1s inconsiderable as to numbers.
But, alus, not {0 as to men, General Thomson
beihg among the priforers. Though we had
the worlt of it, I hops we have made some im
pression on the minds of our enemies. They
allow we behaved well; and it will not tell a
miss that twelvre hundred Americans attacked,
under every difudvantage, four thousand British
troops, obliged them at ficlt to give way, and,
when beat back, made a retreat of forty five
miles with the loss of about one hundre! and
fitty men,”
WILLTAMSBURG, (Virginia) June 28,
By a jentleman from Bermuda, who left that
Island the 15th instant, we learn, that advices
had been received from Martinico, just before
be failed, that great preparations were making
there fer some important expedition, which no
one doubted was againit the Britith Weft-In
dies; and the gentleman fays, he thall not be
at all furprized to hear that the chief part of
the Iflaads are ig the poficffion of France in a
very few weeks. ‘That the men of property in
the Islands have been tor lome time thipping off
their valuable efieéts tq England, and or&ci’inv
infuraness to be made on their eflates ; and
that the price of provilioss has risen to 4n enor
mous heizht, corn felling at 18s. per bushel,
pork at f ur half-joes per barrel, butter at 6s.
a pound, and flour fetches any price that is
asked. A 3
Extra® of a letter from Col. Handricks to
Brigadier-General Lewis, dated Hampton,
June 26, 1776. f
% [ fead you four men under guard, who
were taken prisoners. en Monday, on board a
brig from Barbados, - bound for Dunmore.
Early on Moaday morning we had information
that a brig was aground off Willoughby’s Point.
Major Leitch immediately made all possible
halte, with twelve men, on board a pilot boat
which was in the bafen, loaded with tobacco
for the Weft-Indies, in order to examine what
fhe'was. On coming on board he found she was
from Barbados, bound for Norfelk, with the
fupereargo on board, loaded with 311 puncheons
of rum, aud a few barrels of limes. On exa
mination the Major found she had got aground
about 12 o’clock the preceding night, that she
was very faft, and consequently that he had no
. other way to proceed than to leave his people
on board, and come to Hampton for afliitance
to lighten her. A {loop bound up James river
was pitched on for this purpole, being the only
~ veéffel in our harbour. Unluckily, however,
both wind and tide seemed to conspire against
the measure, by putting it out of our power to
get her down before a tender of ten carriage
guns uppeared in fight of the biig; on whieh
Lieutenant Herbert (of Captain Lilly’s armed
veflel) thought prulent to fend the pilot boat
off, in order to know whether the vefle! in fight
was am enemy or friend, which was soon disco
vered to be the former. In the mean time Mr.
Herbert threw over five hogsheads of rum, and
Juckily got-the people off, in a boat from the
ather shore (except one, who lappened to be
dow in the hold) 'the pilot boat r fufing to
come on honard to take them off. They got all
fate athore, although the tender kept up a con
stant fire upon them; t# of the brig's crew
being on board the pilot boat, and other two
before broigiit on fhote by Major Leitch, The
brig belengs to a Mr. Waltk es Barbados, and
the whele of the people on board seemed much
chugiined at the appearance of oui boat, and no
douras much elated og eur beeing obliged to
quit her, A eonvincing proot of ihe friendflip
the Wett Indians bave for us, :
Lald Menday a (hip of war with a transport
or two, arnyved at Gwyn’s Itland, where it is
thought they have landed betweem 20 and 300
Woops, fromi the number of tents which hiave
been ercéted. : 3
N-E WY O 3 K, July al,
On Monday 11, a small party of ourinen
were {ent 1o arive off e ittle from Bergen®wouds;
their curiosity lcd ihem to maich along Bergen
'-"morc_, to view the regolais on Staten Island.
On feeing two of their officers riding along the
E!pa:.l towards Elizabeth-Town Point,. f--ne of
our men thought to fear them, and fired their
pieces ut thew, over the river, nearly opposite
Decker’s'ferry, About two minutes after they
thund-red away incessantly for some time atour
\,goplc, with their cannon, but did them no
wrt, as they betook themselves to the woods s
however they eontinued their fire with great
fury for a considerable time, thinking, no doubr,
that we had been intrenching there with agreat
torce. It was no {mall diversion to our men to
{ee them throwing away their powder and shot
among the trees. They picked up some of the
balls and brought them away with them. .
~Oa TFuefday last, the Congre(s’s Declaration
of the Tndependenve of the United States of
America, was read at the head of several Bri
gades in this city, with acclamations of joy 3
und, ’tis expefted, will be declared in form
l‘;y order of the Provincial Congress, in a fe -
ays. '
Sume day, in the evening, the statue of King
George the Third, on hurfeback, in the Bowl
ing-green, was taken down, broken to pieces,
and Its honour levell 'd with the du#.
By accounts from Canada, we le rn, that aur
army have retreated to Ifie aux Noix, from
whence they have {ent their ick and baggage to
Crown-Point.
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, July 6.
“ Oa Satarday lust the brig Nancy, Captain
Montgomery, of Wilmington, loaded by Con
grefswith 400 barrels of powder, go or 6o small
arms, dry gaods, 101 hogsheads of rum, and 62
hogfbeads of sugar, was drove on shore by the
Kingfither at Cape-May ; the brig bad 6 three
pounders mounted ; wich which, (atone time)
they beat oft"the boats, and one of their tenders;
af.er which, being affited by Capt. Barre and
Weeks, who took eut of her in a fog, 62 fire
locks, 260 barrels of powder, and some dry
goods; but the fog clcaring away, the ships
cawme within shot, and sent five barges full of
men to attack her; the brig’s people finding it
impossible te keep her any longer, started 130
or 40 barrels of powder in the cabbin, and about
50 weight in the mainsail, in which they wrap
ped some fire, witwu intent to communicate to
tEg,_negdev. aud_qgamd Lee, ONTOr tWo—ok
the men of wars boats soon boarded her ; one
was close under her stern, the others very
near. Those on boeard ha en three cheers,
and fired their arms at oul¥ people, .when the
fire took etlect on the powder, and sent 20 or
40 of them (as is supposed) into the air. Soms
of them went 30 or 40 yards high, who {oon re
turned to the water, unuble to tell who hurt
them. They have taken up eleven bodies, two
laced hats, and a leg with a white {putterdath;
they are both fuppoted to belong to officers.
The water was covered with heads, legs, arms,
entrails, &c. Hne of the boats was towed off in
a shattered condition, with only fix men : Thus
did they huzza for'a Scotch prize. Some of
our people got oue or two finall casnon mount
edoa shore, with which they fired at the boats
when boarding the brig; the nmen of war re
turned the fire, and killed Captain Weeks’s
brother, who was third Lieutenant of the Re
prisal, and wounded a boy inthe thigh,”
Mr, Ebenezer Hincock, of Boston, (brother
to the President ot the Grand Congress) is ap
pointed Deputy Paymaster to the Continental
troops in the northern district,
Since our last, about 600 of the Con:eSicut
Light Horse have arrived*here, and muie are
houily coming in.
A general gaol delivery to debtors took place
here yelterday. Oune of the firft fruits of Indc
pendency, the opprefled are set free.
The papers brought by last night's Eastern
Post mention, that the Hon. Congress had re
quested the government of Maflachufetts Bay
to raile 1 500 men, and fend shem to New York
immediately ; and that Governor Franklin, after
having been presented to Governer Trumbull;
was condutzd to Wallingford, and there to be
fationed on account of his having been very
officious to the Britith ministry. St
One Armitrong, who was committed to_pri
fon some months ago, for murdering a young
woman in, tids city, named Mary Meldram,
(having got his irons off, in concert wi h some
- other criminak, concerted a plan of ctcap%c;
and having got a knife, stabbed at every o
~ who opposed him; and, seizing a mutker, fired
it at the Sheriff, and had altually shot him, had
no: a person, inthe inflant, rai’ed the picce above
his aim) was shot through the head by unz of
the centrie , and thereby in all Likslihood fuved
innoceut lives. \
The followin is extratted f om the St. Tamzes’s
CuronicrLi of March 23, 1776. .
¢ We have authority to assure 11e Public,
that the extra®t of a prerende g nuine letter
from the Earl of Chatham, dat d H yes, March
gth, 1776, printed in the Poblic Adverdiler,
and from theoce reprinted in the London Pac
ket, Lloyd’s E\'rning-l)oﬂ,\and Baldwin’s Loa
don ]rma.n.ﬂ of Friday March 224, is totaliy
without foundation, and In eveiy refpelt a gros
and {candalous impsefitien on the world.”
) % JE
Last Sabbata duy, ome Bazel Bouderet, a na
tive of Nova Scotia, v.as broutht o ihis city
from Canada, charged with being a principalin
the murder of Captain Thomus Purions, agd
eight other perions, in Nova Scotia, in Feb,
1772. . Soon alter this murder was”perpes ted
he fled his country, and has been mi’s
trom place to place ever since, till lufe Apri
‘that he was providentially dewed in Gon: s
by Caprain Hedtor MNI and properly secur
ed and sent forward toreceive the just demerit
of his crimes. He wus yesterday ‘ent off from
this city to Newbuuy»ﬂ"}t, the part where Cupt.
Partons last lived, for examinution and triul.
On Saturday next will be Publiffied,
OBSERVATIO NS
O N ALI 3
NATURE or CIVIL LIBER TR
TN gy
Prinerpres of 'GoyerNMENT, and the Ju
fiee and Policy of the War with Ames
RICA. :
. To which is added, (
A - "K'PP END 1 X,
Containing a State of the National Debt, an Es
timate of the Money drawn fiom the Pubiic y
by the Taxes,andan Account of the Nationa!
Incemé and Expenditure since the last War. -
Hex miferi cives ! non Hoflem, inimicague caflra,
=--=-Feflras Spes uriris, Vige.
By RICHARD PRICE, D.D. F.R.B.
““The following paragraph, extraéted from a
Landon paper, feives to thew the highefti
mation this performance is held in by the Coimn
mon Council of that metropolis:
‘“ At a court of Commen Council, L2ld the
“¢ reth inst. (Murch, 1776) amotion wis ma'e
* and carried by a great 1» yority, that the
‘¢ thanks of the court e given o Dr. Pricr,
¢¢ for his excellent pamphlet on Civil Liberey,
¢ just publihed. = Also Thar the frecdom of this
““ city be presented to him in a §old box of the wa
“ lue of FlrryY rounps.”
Fularvived from Philadelphia, andlo be Suld
B ¥
JOHN ANDERSON,
At Beexman’s Swip,
(Price Two Shillings and Six-pence)
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O R, o &
AMERICAN LIBERTY TRIUMP AT,
E Tux‘ Firsr Campa o,
A Fragi-Comedy, of Five Al contailng
Twenty-fix Scenes, among which sre the 0]
lowing, viz., AR 2
A plealing scene between Roger ad Dick,
“two shepherds near Lexington. | "
Clarifla, &c. A very moving fene on the
death of Doctor Warren, &ec. in a 88amber ne -
Bstton, the morning afier the Lat e Bks
Hill. e
A humorous feene between the Bout‘wa'n
and a Sailor, on board a mun of war, near Nog=
tolk, in Virgii ia.
Two very laughable scenes between the Buat
fivain, two Sailors, and the Cook, exhibiting
specimens of feafaring oraro y, and peculiar elo
quence of those sons of Nep:une, touching To
vies, Convidts, and black Regulars; and be
tween Lord Kidnapper and the Boatswain.
A very black feene between Lord Kidnapper
and Major Cudgjo. 2
A religious {cene between Lord Kidnapper,
Chaplain, and the Caprain, = »
A feene, the Lord Mayor, &c. going to St
James’s with the Address.
A droll feen2, a ecouncil of war in Boston,
between Lotd Boston, Admiral ‘Tombftone, Ei
bow-Room, Mr. Caper, Geuerdl Clinton und
Earl Percy. & k. ‘
A diverting scene between a Wkgmtm._ B
ry. & e
A spirited feene between Gcneragﬁre‘fwc and
Colonel Allen. R ok Zea
A shocking feene, a dungeon, be: veen Culo
nel Allen and an officer of the guarg.
‘Twe affedting feenes in Botton, afiers = P’ii;‘h:
of the Regulars from Lexington, bettve . Lord
Bottor, meflenger, and officers of th? g 37
A patriotic iceue in the camp at Canbrido o
betwgcn the Generals Walhington, ‘
nam, &c: &c.o L
With a Dedication, Preface, Addiefs o the
Goddess of Liberty 10, the Congress, Diranis. tis
Perfonue, Prologue, Epilogue, and & {ei
praise of King Tammany, the Amer "‘ >ainty
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and serious matter, which cannot fail of afford
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