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TUESDAY, November 4, i)Bf THE Numbers;
Connecticut Courant,
AND
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE R.
HARTFORD : Printed by H UDSO N and GOODWI N, near the Great Bridge.
To William Smith, Charles Inglis, Frederick Phi
lipfe, Isaac Low, Hugh and Alexander Wallace,
Theophilea Bache, James Rivington, and others,
their accomplices, &c.
TO our ineffable aftonishmenr, wc are told that fevcral of
you wish, and mean, to throw ydurfelves on the meriv of
your country ! - Be allured, that, fuel recreant condud, in'our
opinion, can be equalled by nothing but your former insolence,
treachery and crue ty.— It has long been a received max.m that
tyrants arc cowards— you are, if our information be true, living
monuments of the truth of this affertiof.
Is it poflible that you, Mr. Smith, wo have treated every ef
fort of the States, to save themselves frrim the worst of despotism
that ever existed, with the utmost contempt and ridicule; should
now wish to become a member ofafociety, which, you have
invariably held in derision— a society, which you have drained
every nerve to crush, and to annihilated
We cannot take a serious, and impartial retrofped of your
conduct,from the zra of the ever memorable Stamp-aft, without
fufpeding that you are encouraged in tis nefarious £ heme, by
your patrons, the King and Ministry of freat-Bricain, who mean I
to use their whole influence against the confederacy ofthe States:
as well as against their all ance with France ; especially when
we reflect on the high esteem you have been held in by the Bri
tish commanders, and the particular attention which chey have
all paid you. It is therefore natural 0 conclude, that the Mi
nistry, reposing special trust and confidence in your abilities, for
chicanery, dissimulation, intrigue, hjpocrij, and loyalty, in compos
ing lies, fabricating pardons, and nunefaft. ring memorials
&c. have bribed you again to risk you ne,k in their service, by :
a pretended fubm>ffion, and reconci iat^n to your country, that'
you may ie ready, should opportunity offer, to deceive, divide
and rule.-- Ie is the policy of Brira ; n lotetain emissaries at eve-j
ry court in Europe, and why not in America ?
We are entirely at a loss to account fir the delusion you seem:
to be under, Sir, unless it be the effeds of your long practiced
impositions on the British, that haveraught you to impose on :
,qurfelf>- S re y, it cannot be your resolution, as a Lawyer, or I
Civilian (as that led you to imagine, that governments, found 1
ed as these are, on the principles of equal liberty, could not be
established, there being neither forms ror precedents for them)
which has induced you vainly to Lel ive that your profound
knowledge, in gubernatorial affairs, v,dd attone for your un-'
can it bc fypfoi c d
that so retentive a memory, should hive forgotten the dedara-'
tions made to the leg flattie of this Stae, ofyour being an ene
my to the independence ofthe United fates, and affirming, that
they would never be able to eftablisli it- or does the fame evil
genius which guided you in the adoption of your party still di-'
red your choice ?'[
. Ifyou mean to rely on your numerous and wealthy connexions
in the country, as the was of your preservation, you will have
but a very (lender figport. The revolution has not been so fa
vourable to them as they wished or, as they might have made 1
it, had they not, at least, some of them, been actuated partly by
your own vile prin.iples-.-an inordinate desire of wealth and
lust of power. And even of those, who at firft joined the^ n '
try, several have proved traitors, and others beb —
fiftently, that they are generally held'
be allowed the ^ r - "'^'
■ l' '' unerring rectitude and justice ? The picture fills them with
horror, and they turn from it with d f lift.
And you, Mr. Inglis, will be pleased, Reverend Sir, to permit
us to approach you with all the refped due to the sacredness of
your chara^er, which, had not you " profaned, and worn into
vileness, would, in truth, have been truly venerable. But, for
getting, or ft fling through bigotry and resentment, the divine
Iprecepts of your million---You, at an early period of our ftrug
g^e, took a very a&ive and vindictive part against your oppref
led country; besides the many falfe and scurrilous pieces you
wrote and published in Rivington's and Gain's paper, in con—
junction with your brother apostates, Cooper, Vardil, Seabring^
Chandler, Moore, Bowden, &c. &c. against it. You, Sir, in a
sermon adapted tothe bloody designs of the authors, expressly, and
explicitly, called on the British grenadiers to “ cutthe gogdian
knot, or in other words, the throats of all who were opposed
to the high-church government you laboured to establish.
It is also no less surprising than certain, that you defeended
. ° m " e dignity of your Ration, and wantonly, and inhumanly,
I insulted the misfortunes of individuals who had been thrown in
-1 to the hands of the enemy by the events of war, and were con-
! fined in lothfome jails, dungeons, &c. Was this done like art
'' apoft e ofthe holy Jesus ?" Is such condud consonant to the
meek do&rine of the sacred religion you profefs ? What greater
ci : el y or inhumanity could the fangumary Bonner have exercif
c'n"'' '° '"'''^ e ' stressed captive? And, can you now, be
.0 pid as to imagine that you will be fuffered to reside in at
country whose blood you have thus cruelly, and threacheroufl,
contr.buted to f 4 ill in such wanton profufion? Or, have you also
the arrogance to add insult to injury again, and wish to seek are
; afv um among a people that you to lately exerted your feifto
;deftroy, by every means in your power ? Ifyou have, remember
that we now apprize you ofthe danger you will be in, should
• you presume on your facredotal character, or even on the horns
lofthe1 ofthe altar, for protection from the virtuous resentment of an;
linjured,linjured, and insulted people ; some of whom, tho' epifcopalians,
; are not less opp ofed to your infamous condufl, than they arc to that
,efyour colleagues in cruelty and oppression, as wed as in hypoi
crily.
It is imagined, Mr. Philipfe, that the sth article of the " Pro
-Ivifional Treaty," has given you hopes of Philiffturgh, and of
feemgyourfef again feared in all your former ariftocratick pride;
and info ence, at the Yorkers—ls. that article is your on y de
pendence, we advise you to so low your brother in law, Col-
Robinson, as early as ; oflible, in order to o' tain another Manor,
Whillt lands arc to be had for applyin, fur, you m: y rest altered
'1" * e worthy inhabitants of that diftri&, who have, at all times
disputed the ground in, h by inch with the enemy, and furchafed
it with the price of their best blood, will never be- ome tenants
, at will, to yol or your son, nor to any other enormous lc
;on such base terms.-- They have not, as formerlv.^
! ing who should be iheir master -a Philipfe, - =
- a Livinfton, or a De Lancey—No they h^ r
' ' their freedom, and they will enjoy it.V
:not to attempt to disturb the as es oft'
j defence of it, left their ghosts den l3 -'
you may be willing to f^~
, more haDnv—'