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To Mr. Norton, Surgeon, Golden Square.
SIR,
IN gratitude to you for the benefitmy wife has re
ceived by your Maredant's drops, I here fend
you her case to publish, it you think proper, in order
to convince the public of the efficacy of that invalu
able medicine.
About a year and a half ago, Hie was feiz'd with
violent pains in her head and stomach, so bad that it
almofttook away her eye-fight, her legs swelled and
broke cut into blotchs, in one was two large holes,
attended with the loss of appetite and of rest, fire
scarce getting five hours deep in a week for several
months together, by which means Hie was reduced
almost to a Peleton ; flie applied to &veral of the fa
culty but without relief, a physician and an eminent
surgeon both telling her that her disorder was so inve
terate, that it never could be cured ; in this situation
/he was, when one of your books containing an ac
count of the wonderful cures perform'd by the use of
your Maredant's drops, accidentally falling into my
Lands, I p^fuaded her to try them, after taking a
few bottles, the above-mentioned complaints were
removed, caching the djfoider to Jake a different turn
as you told her they would. Her head and face
swelled to an immoderate degree, large blotches ap
pearing all over her body as big as crown pieces, one
of her eyes was entirely clos'd up, the humour which
issued from it, was so corrosive, that whatever part of
her face and neck it touch'd it flea'd the skin off, her
arms and legs were entirely without ikin, which
render'd her a helpless Locking fpe&acle.
Assured by you of the certainty of her cure, and
encouraged by the relief which Hite found from her
internal complaints the regularly continued the use of
the drops, until they had perfe&ed her cure. She
now enjoys as good a Rate in bealtli as ever Hie did,
is free from blemish and complaints of every kind,
for which you have the sincere thanks of her, and of
your much obliged humble furvant, Thomas bates,
Green-street, Theobald's Road, near Red Lion
Square, A- . 25, 1774. Witnesses, Thomas Siinp
fon. Nvrr.iuh^t, Red Lion-square, Elizabeth
How. and Mary Goulding, Green-Street.
tXt Any person still doubtful c mcacy of
these Drops may (by applying co Mr, Norton,
curfew the weft lide of G^Reu-ftfare, near
RiccadilW London, the only Author and Proprietor,
where they are fold in bottles ' ^ , c h) be more
fully convinced of their good effects, by being
referred to many more people of credit, who have
been cured of the aforementioned Disorders. 7 hey
may be taken in any season, without the lead incon
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Qigeftion, and amazingly create an appetite None
are genuine but what are signed by John Norton, in
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EDWARD AGA R,
Sir,
lUnderftand that the officers engaged in the enufe
of liberty and their country, who by the fortune
of war have fallen into your hands, have been thrown
indiscriminately into a common jail, appropriated for
felons---that no consideration has been had for diofe
;of the most refpe&able rank, when Itinguifhing with
Iwounds and sickness---that force of them have been
l even amputated in this unworthy fittiation.
Let your opinion, Sir, of the principle which ac
tuates them be what it may, they suppose they a&
from the noblest of all principles, a love of freedom
and their country. But political opinions, I con
ceive, are foreign to this point. The obligations
arising from" the rights of humanity, and claims of
rank, are universally binding and ektenfive, (except
in cafeof retaliation) These, I should have hoped,
would have dictated a more tender treatment of thufe
"individuals, whom chance or war had put in your
power. Nor can I forbear suggesting its fatal ten
dency to widen that unhappy breach, which you,
and those Ministers under whom you a&, have re
peatedly declared you wish to fee tor ever closed..
My duty now makes it neceflary to apprize you,
that for the future I shall regulate my conduft towards
those gentlemen, who are, or may be in our possession,,
exa&ly by the.rule you shall observe towards those
of ours, now in your custody.
If feyerity and hardship mark the line of your
condua, (painful as it may be to me) your prifohers.
will feel its effe&s, but if kindness and humanity
are shewn to ours, I shall with pleasure coofrler t^ote •
in our hands only as unfortunate, and they shall re
ceive from me that treatment to which the unfortu
nate are ever intitled.
I beg to be favoured with an answer, as soon as
potable, and am, Sir, your very humble servant,
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
To his Excellency General GAGE.
Boston, August 13/1775.
Sir,
npo the glory of civilized nations, humanity and
£ war have been compatible; and companion to
the subdued is become almost a general system.
# Britons, ever pie-eminent in mercy, have outgone
common examples and overlooked the .criminal in
the captive. Upon these principles your prisoners,
whole lives by the laws of the land are defined to
the cord, have hitherto been treated with care and
kindhefs, and more comfortably lodged than the
King's troops in the hospitals ; indiscriminately it is
true, for I acknowledge no rank, that is not deri
ved from the King.
My intelligence from your army would juftify
severe recrimination. I underhand there are of the
King's faithful fubje&s, taken feme tihye since by
the rebels, labouring like Negro Haves to gain their
daily lublitience, or reduced to the wretched alterna
tive, to perish by famine, or take arms against their
King and country. Those, who have made the
treatment of the prisoners in my hands, or your
other friends in Boston, a pretence for such measures,
found barbarity upon faltehocd.
I would willingly hope, Sir, th^t the sentiments
of liberality, which I have always believed you to
possess, will be exerted to correct these misdoings. Be
temperate in political chfquifyion § give free operation
to truth, and punish those who deceive and misrepre
sent, and not only the effeßs, but the causes of this
unhappy confits will be removed.
Should those under whole usurped authority you
a&, controul such a difpafuion, and dare to call seve
rity retaliation, to God who knows all hearts, be rhe
appeal for the dreadful consequences. I trust that
British soldiers, afffting the rights of the date, t^e
laws of the land, the being of the constitution, will
meet all events with becoming fortitude. They will
court victory, with the spirit their cause inspires, and
from the fame motive will find the patience of martyrs
under misfortune.
Till I read your insinuations in regard to Ministers,
I conceived that I had a&ed under the King ; whole
wiflies, it is true, as well as those of his Minitters,
and of every honest man, have been to fee this un
happy breach for ever'clofed; but unfortunately for
both countries, those, who long tince projected the
present crisis, and influence the councilsof America,
have views very distant from accommodation.
I am, Sir, your most obedient, bumble servant,
THOMAS GAGE.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Efe
Head-quarters, Cambridge, August 19, 1775.
Sir,
lAddreffed you on the eleventh instant in terms
which gave the faireft hope for the exercise of that
humanity and politeness, which were supposed to
form a part of your character. I remonftfated with
you on the unworthy treatment faevyn to the officers
and citizens of America, whom the fortune of war,
chance, or a miltaken confidence, had thrown into
your hands.
Whether British or American mercy, fortitude,
and patience, are most pre-eminent^-whether our
virtuous citizens, whom the hand of tyranny has
forced into arms, to defend their wives, their children,
and their property, or the mercenary irltruments of
lawless domination, avarice and revenge, beftdeferve
the appellation of rebels, and the punishment of that
cord, which your affected clemency has forborn to
infli& ; whether the authority under which I a&, is
usurped, or founded upon the genuine principles of
liberty, were altogether foreign to the fubjech I
PHILADELPHIA, September 29.
The following Letters are published by. order of the
Honorable Continental Congress.
Head-barters, Cambridge, Aug. 11, 1775.
Monday, 37 Min. after 9I
Tuesday, 33 Min. after 10
Wcdnel'day,2o Min. after 11
Thursday, 12 Min. after 12 |
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
Friday, 58 Min. after 12
Saturday, 42 Min. after 1
Sunday, 35 Min. after 2
Lafi B Qi '° r.ezt Monday,
purposely avoided all political disquisition ; nor shall
I wailmyhlf of those advantages, which the sacred
c'aufe of my country, of liberty, and humare nature
give me over you, much lets drill I stoop to retort
and inveflive. But the intelligence you fay you
ha e received from our army requires a reply. I have
taken time. Sir, to piake a fu id inquiry, and find it
bar not the lead foundation in truth. Not only your
officers and loluiris have ten treated with ttndernefs
due to h liow colzens and brethren; but even those
execrable parricide, whole councils and rid nave
deluded their country with blood, have been protected
from the fury of a judly enraged people. Far from
compelling nr permitting their assistance, I am em
barraliod with the numbers who croud to our camp,
animated with the purest principles of virtue, and
love of their country. You advise me to give free
operation to truth, to punish mifieprefentauong and
fahehooJ. If ex, r. n eit mips value upon counted,
yoms must have a weight, OTich few can claim.
V^u bed can tell how far the can bullion, which has
brought Rich ruin on both countries, and fnaken
the mighty empire of Britain to it> foundation, may
be traced so these malignant causes.
Zou adrift, Sir, to de(pile all rank, n>t derived
from the fame fonrce with your own. Ic+nriot con
ceive one more honorable, than that w rich Hows
fam the uncorrupted choice of a brave and tree
people, the phreft source, and original fumlam of
till power. Far from* making ira plea for cruelty, a
mind of true magnanimity and enlarged ideas would
comprehend rind refpe& it.
Wing may have been the ministerial views, which
have precipitated the prefentcriiis, Lexington, Con
cold, and Charldtown can best declare. Alar that
God, to whom you then appealed, judge between
America and you. Under his providence, those,
who influence the councils ot America, and all the
other inhabitants of the United Colonies, at the
hazard of their lives, are determined to h?nd down to
poticrity those just and invaluable privileges which
they received from their ancestors.
I (half now, Sir, close h>y correspondence with you
perhaps forever. It your officers, our prisoners, re
ceive a treatment from me, different fan what I
wanted to (hew them, they and you will remember the
uCcalion or it.
Williamsburg, Sept. 23.
rf^Hg Mercury ^an of war is fiileh mil r :.om,
j mand of Lieutenant Graham of the Admiral's
Hup, having on board Capt. Macartney under arrHf,
to be concluded to Boston, apd trie I by a court-:
martial. What the charge is against him we have
not been able to learn.
Iris'('aid the Kingfifner remains at Norfolk, and
the Otterlies off Newport News. We hear they
mak> a practice of flopping paffoge basts, &c. take
the people on board, put. them in irons, and other
wise iufult and abuse them before they are Differed to
depart. .'One hundred volunteers from the camp
are ftationedat Hampton to watch the motions of the
tenders, and prevent their committing any outrages
at or near that place.
Thursday latt arrived here PATRICK HENRY,
Esq; Commander in Chief of the Virginia forces;
He was met and escorted to town by die whole body
of volunteers, who paid him every mark of refyea
and ditlipaion intheir power, in tefcmony of {heir
approbation of so worthy a Gentleman to the ap
pointment. of that important trufy which the Con
version has been pleated to repose in him.
The number of regulars with Ixord Dunmore,
which lately computed the garrifon/d St. Auguftire',
(being part of the 14th regiment, under .command of
Lieutenant Colonel' William Dalrymple) does net
exceed 80 effeaive men ; the other put we hard reu
fon to believe is at Boston, where, in all probability
their assistance is, or will be, so abs hitely requifire
that we need not be under any apprehenhon -they will
be sent to this colony.
The following Afdrefi quill be feublifted in Canada, on
the Arrival there of Cot. Arnold, wi:b the Troop
under bis Command.
By His Excellency
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq ;
Commander in Chief of the Arm, cf the United
Colonies of North-America.
To the INHABIT AN t"S < f CANADA.
Friends and Brethren,
T3IIE unnatural Cornell between the English Co
lonies and Great-Biitain, has now risen to
such a Height, that Arms alone mud decide it. The
Colonies, confiding in the Justice of their Cause, and
the Purity of their Intentions, have relt&ntly ap
pealed to that Being, in whose Hands a^ah humane
Events. He has hitherto foiled upon their virtuous
Efforts---The Hand of Tyranny has been arretted
in its Ravages, and the British Arms which have
(hone with so much Splendor in every. Rut of the
Globe, are now tarnished with Disgrace and Disap
pointment.----- Generals of approved Experience,
who boated of subduing this great Continent, find
themselves circumferibed within theJLimhs of a tingle
City and its Suburbs, buffering all the Shame and
Dittel's of a Siege. While the tree born Sons of
America, animated by the genuine Principles of
Liberty and Love of their Country, with increasing
Union, Firmness and Discipline repel every Attack,
and despises every Dangers
Above all, we rejoice, that our Enemies have been
deceived with Regard to you--- They hqve perfoaded
themfelvas, they have even dared to fay, that the
General G AGE.
I am, Sir, your very humble servant,,
G. WASHINGTON.
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ISchuyler; not to plunder, but to protect you ; to
lanimate, ^nd bringforth intoA&ion those Sentiments
of Freedom you have difckifeJ, and which the Tools
of Defpo^fm would extinguish through the whole
Creation. To co-operate with this Design, and to
fiuttrate those cruel and perfidious Schemes, which
would deluge our Frontiers with the Blood of Women
and Chi then ; I Itaye detached Colonel Arnold into
your Country, with a Part of the Army under my
Command I have enjoined upon him, and lam
.certain th the will collider himfelf, and aft as irt
the country of his Patrons, and best Friends. Ne
cellki les and Accommodations ofevery Kind which yett
may fuihilh, he will thankfully receive, and render
the full Valtk.---I invite you therefore jis Friends
and Brethren, to provide him *ith such Supplies
as your Country affords; and I pledge mylelf
hot umy for your safety and Security, but for ample
ICompenfuion. Let no Mun desert his Habitation—
I let no one flee ps before an Enemy. The Cause of
lAmerica, and of Liberty, is the Caufh of every vir-
Itucus American Cirizen ; whatever may be his Re
'lfeion of bis Descent, the United Colonies know no
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I sous Citizens, range yourselves under the Standard
lof general Liberty---against which all the Force and
I Artdice of Tyranny will never be able to prevail;
G. WASHINGTON.
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