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Your Excellencies wish to more our gratitude :
You speak of your conciliatory propositions as " the
generous measures cf Great Britain." Your Excel
lencies are rather unfortuna e in the means you use
to touch the paffons. Louis the Sixteenth the Pro
tector of he rights of mankind, has some title to
foeak of the generousmeafyes of France-- generous,
b.« aufe just and noble. He magnan moufly de
c'a ed, that in forming a treaty with us. he did " not
pretend that he acted wbclly.for our fakes, since be
sides his real good will to us and toour cause it was
manifehiv the niereft of France, that the power of
England should be dimin shed by our febarat.on flora
it." But, can Britain fay, her offers proceed from
' red good will to us and to our caufe?'' Can
flic fay, the wfhed " to promote and eflablrih the
liberties, peace, opulence, inceafe security and
permanent h ppinefs of the inhabitants of this con
th ent •" No ! Her whole fyflem of government since
the year 1763, has ope ated--her laws have been
enacted- her arms hae been used for the very con
trary p spoils Her Miniflers and Parliaments have
leng uppreffed in order to plunder us. When we
were unarmed she ungenerously drew her sword
tpon us. She treated our mod humble petition for
"-peace, liberty, and fafety " with fileht con
tempt. He,r M nuler, Lord N:rth, declared be was
fighting for fub"antial revenue - he would lay A
mer;ca ptoftrate and drag her to his feet. In the i
deal '* moment of v&ory," her Ministers and Le
giflatcre declared, they would redouble their blows
upon America, feppofed to be Daggering under alate
v.ctory. Her Veterans unjudly burned our towns,
ravaged our country and Slaughtered our citizens.
Si e let Ipofe her Indian allies to massacre the un
armed, the aged, the sick, the infant, the matron,
Wife and virgin. Her Generals and Admirals, in
cold blood in the r prisons and their prison ships,
murdered our countrymen by fuffocation, filth,
hunger and nakedness ; refufing to them the food
an^ raiment provided for their necessities by public
Authority and private affedion; wth gold and food
tempting these virtuous citizens, in the agonies of
mi ey and despair, to dp their hands in the blood
of heir country ! Behold " the generous measures
of G.eat Britan I" Your Excellencies have unwa
rily touched a firing that already trembles through
out America- a fubjed that rouses the indignation,
and calls forth the vengeance of the people! Ameri
ca has experienced too much to be farprized at any
thing; she therefore cannot be furprized at your
decorating your offers with the title, " the gene
rous measures cf Great Britain." Generous mea
sures proceed from magnanimity, not cruelty. from
choice, not necessity. Already have I met your as
sertions with Lord North's speech , allow me once
more to have recourse to it. His Lordship pro
ceeded.
“ The refinance of America is greater, and the
war has lasted longer than was at firft apprehended.
In die present fituaton of affairs, only three proposi
tions can be made:
1. To "renghthen our force, and continue the
Ivar upon the present plan.
2, To recal it from America. And
3 Tocffer terms of coi cdiation to her.
The firft preposition is attended with too great an
expence of men and money. The second is to sub
scribe to the Independence of America. The third
is that which appears to me to be the bed and
wisest"
Your Excellencies will be so goodas glance your
eyes over the firft and last propositions, and be sen
sible, that prior to the 17th of February last, conci
liation was not the " present plan." And if you
look upon his Lordship's reflections upon the three
propositions you must remain convinced, that he
hlcfcd with the last preposition from necessity, net
shoice --he clcfed with it because he could no lon
ger prosecute the firft. Tell me now, in what con
fids the boasted generosity of the present mea
sures of Great Britain ?
And have ycur Excellencies so unfavourable an
opinion of the understandings of the Americans, as
to think you can induce them, by your reasonings
and negociations, to yield that Independence which
they have declared after the most mature reflection---
which they have purchased with their hearts
flood, and at every r.fk ! Are you so much in the
dark with refpe& to their inclinations and determi
nation, as to have an idea, that if you proved to
them, as clear as the meridian fun, that the offers of
France were only the confluence of your oncilia
tory propositions that therefore they would renounce
their glorious independence ! Is it prffible you have
fergot, that on the 22d of April last, when Congress
were utterly ignorant that a treaty had been signed by
their Commiffiontrs, nay, that a treaty with France
even had been, was then, or was expelled to be in
agitation, that on that very 2x4 of April Congress
abfJu.ely refafed yeur conciliatory ads of Parlia
ment ! Are you now for the firft time to be allured,
that the people throughout the United States, with
one voice applauded and rejoiced in that " de
cisive" refafal ! It was not " on the ground of the
treaties" with France that Congress took " the de
cisive part," of which you so much complain; nor
was this dec five part taken as you fuppefe it was.
" without previcufly eonfuking the Assemblies of
their different" states.
The Members of Congress individually knew the
sense of their refpe&ive affemblies,-before they came
to Congress. The present Members cf Congress
were sent by their several Assemblies, at every
hazard to maintain the Independence of Ame
rica. I solemnly assure you upon this great point.
Should a Member of Congress be so imprudent as
but to move to accept your propositions, he must
prepare to make atonement with his head, or fly to
ycu for refuge. Congress have no power of them
selves : Their p wer arises from the support cf the
people. So long as they possess this support they
hold the reins of government ; the moment they lose
it, that me meat they cease to diie& the affairs of he
continent. As long, therefore, as you fee them at
the head of the American empire., be convinced they
are Fpported and obeyed by the people, in every
measure tending to the eflab ifhmeht of their Inde
pendence. Deceive not yourselves by continuing
to nourish the vain idea, that Congrtf have ' assu
med 'he decisive part which they have taken." Your
Excellencies have it in your power to male a faith
ful representation of the utter improbability of your
acquiring, in any degree the fubje&ion of America
by your arms, or : our negociations; to save your
country by making such a representation ; and
thereby preserving your names from infamy, render
them refpe&ably immortal. -That such may be
your conduct and reward, is the wish of
W. H. D.
Philadelphia, Sept. 4, 1778
An Anecdote.
WHEN the news of the taking of P iladdphia
last year reached Paris a French gentleman
who was a friend to America waited upon D &or
Franklin, and accofled him by faying, "S r, I on
dole with you upon the bad news " What is it? said
the Doctor. ---" General Howe has taken Phi
ladelphia; replied the French gentleman. "It must
be a miftake,Sir ( fevered the Dr&ar) - Philadel
phia has taken General Howe"
Just come ty Hand, and now Selling at
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heme. JUDAH LEAMIN&.
Sept. 15, 1778.
W. H, D.
STATE of VERMONT, August if 177 g.
WHEREAS application hath ban made to m e ,
one of the assistants, by the proprietors o f
mere than one sixteenth part of the t@wafh'pcf Cla
rendon, in the county of Bennington, and flats of
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es the widow Potters, innholder in said town, cm
Wednesday the 4th day of November next, at nine
o'clock in the foieaoon, then and there to aft in the
following articles, v,z.
1. To chufe a moderator. 2. To chufe a clerk
for said propriety. 3. Toch fe a Committee to as.
fid la.d propriety. 4. Toa^erpt all legal surveys
that are returned, that they may be put on record,
To lee if they will lay out the undivided land, cr
a.iy part thereof. 6. Fo examine into the pretend.
cd ela ms of those that po^fi lands without theNew
rmpih re title. 7 1° agree upon a method fee
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Given under ray hand at Bennington date above.
__ JONAS FAY Assistant.
apo be SOLD at PUBLIC VENDUE,
X on the firft day cf October-next, at the store of
Cipt Samuel Willis in Middletown, the following
AR I ICLES, viz. A flcop burthen twenty tons;
fix een large and small fails; one 13 inch cable al
molt new ; one new 2 inch ditto, 120 fathoms;
one 7 inch ditto, ditto; one anchor 2000 wt. one
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of gun and piflol barrels ; ditfe bayonets ; a num
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To be SOLD APPUBLI"C ~VE"Nb UX
at Haddam Landing, the sth day off October
nex: at one o'clock afternoon,
T'HE Prize Sleep ROVER, about 30 tons bur
then All gentlemen owners and fearers ata
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Haddam, September 17, 1 778.
STE^L for Plough IronsandEdge Tools, manu
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its being touchey; and the edge tool Steel is free
from seams and small streaks of iron, and will har
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Forge at Colebrook, Sept. 1, 1778
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deceased, are hereby called upon to make immediate
payment; and those who have demands on said
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JOHN WATSON, jun. Administrator.
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