The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1776-10-18 00:00:00, page 2

THE VIssRGINIA GAZE-TTE.
To the Honourable HOUSE 0! DELEGATES for the commonwmltb qf
VilGlNlA, no-wfining a: Wluunuuucz Tb: bumbl: addrcs: qf
:: mnmy !. '
OW LIBERTY is all the plan,
The chief pursuit of ev'ry man
Whose heart is right, and fills the mouth
Of patriou all, from north to south!
, May l Poor bard, from bushel sprung,
And yet has but to rustics sung,
Address your Honourable House,
And n'ot your angry pnfsiom rouse?
]i'so, come listen to my lay;
I hope xo charm you while ! phy
My tural harp, with rapt'rouo sound,
Shall make'ev'n To llEl dnnce around.
alk! for a while your businesl (top,
0 word into your em l'll drop;
One word-enou ]: it to the wise:
Make us all F EE before you rise!
FREEDOM we crave with ev'ry breath;
An equssll freedom, or : death. (
The heav'nly ble freely ive, ; ,
Or nuke in 18 we !" not wel
Tu 11] thing., utter, air lnd ]? he, '
!fmddnnic; um tie .igbctff - '
But hum- bnve eroic minde .
Mnn freely, likc' ccleflill ninth.
W vice ud folly feel your rod.
But leave our confine" to GOD: l'
o;_lln_v'n dogesichipe yffl um.
o lum] power me: :,
Now let me strike (he string: once more,
And send the sound from share lo (hote!
Whnt say gent WASHINGTON nd LEB?
Om- countrsii: nnd shall be free!
'What sayn ve WRY, PENDLETON,
And libcny'a minnuh SON !
"sin but one voice! they Ill me!
I"?
GOD made on,, lad we mnfl free.
.D ) GATESI 'and an you vary
lo ' nt, and act contnryk
!: cnnnot del Dun: your voice:
You spezk yon: nnive counu-y'n choice:
" They who would make the ple flnm
*' An nothing but I put of AVBS!
" Let "'Wn choose hie own form
" Of "! , non: him storm.
: Must :: we he'oknot {:flknowing,
*' lb thltmrn the civi! 15!" si
Altho' in now win .
" And keep it whole without : flu,
" Let him ]nfl n be please. pray,
" And to Henv'n in hi- m way.
-" And if he wist well] mal own,
" No llll in mn 'd but be done."
MRODU ORE! huritHOWEl
m In your hopen ofvifl'ry now!
-Wben such a ionu condnent,
Doc- SLAV' 's very none resent!
MKlCANB num'mm no find.
And men of I bonndlesa End,
While joined in union golden bnnd,
Coliv- widvncyou o'ryour Kin .
And will do so. lings Sing! ing! Sing! (]!)
A C A R D.
PLMN DEALER pnsenu hi- complimenn to the nucnn
o! nu peuu, and hop [un to in on: him 0!th hicpminlity
lo himself, ldd ki- bw opmion of the discmuunt of the public (muni
fchd in his bsih unk'o publicuion) my othuwifc comen] from hi
ctkmldge: lv-y m condemn. your illibenl attempt to brin nn
dun"! relipom soeiny nvhch you do not belon , lnd w ich,
Ihl'nn, humainglc mbnwhmld nal disdain uch lforgcry
n when now bu- guiky of. Budvised. annd Sir. whenn
you write or say, with I defign to sit" the interest of cblrfb dablish-mct,
to do it in : wi: ' im mmer, lnd then on will be elhcmod :
man of honour, o Smy person may not I" in with oursenti
menu. The udvdatei for pil ad w m'W: m sosi
fully persuaded of the goodncsl of their close, thu they hue not even :
!cmpmion to depzrt from decency lad moth- And if any zeal or feigned
brethren, through bal'eneso of hurt, fl fdsc nal, shall follow your
steps, or be guilty oflnou apen misn tation ol- abusc, both on and
they mua expect to be left. without mpernocice. to bufet other, .
lad to glory.!n your shzme. I Ill, Ruennd Sir,
' Your faithful Monitdr, .
(I) A PLAIN DEALERi
lct convzurlon, yms, ma. .
HE Convcntion being informed, that David Ross had delivered :.
T Colonel'e commission to : person to bring the Indhm against thin
country, and that they were in motion zeal-ding},
Ortlered, that the said infomution be :esen to the Committee of
Privileget and Eleaions; that they enmitte into the matter thereof, end
report the same, n it (he!! appear to them, with theil opinionctthu-eu on,
to the Convention; end that the said Devid Rose he sent shs, in misdy
of: messen r, end he in to take else the! he be th conveyed to thi
city, tb In ever the said ipformntion. .
ln CONVENTION,JM1I, 1776.
R. Archibald Cary, from the Commiteu of stivihgee end Eke.
tions, re ed, thatthe commime M. nentdh wordes, had
under their con tdention the intomntioll tespeflmg DeviJ Rose, end had
come to th! following resolution thereupon; which he ted in hie fice,
end efterwarde delivered in It the cletk'e title, when the hmewn egn'n
twice reed, and egteed to. ' ' si
Rcsohud, thlt the information it! till fid Devid Rose be bend
before thi- committee on the fiend y Iklhl nating of the next
Coshention or Assemb] ; and thlt the snid Rose be dischnrged out of
cuhody, on givin bon lnd security, in the sum of good]. to I r er
the next niteetmg ,Comtion or Assembly, unbutbesaid ' -
tion on the day fixed for hath; the same; and tdet h-M not in the
mean time give intelli ee to. or in "x.-Inunct- eid'ok flsid, the deny.
In tlu HOUS ( DILBGA E., "Odehr 16. : .
R. ]effetson, from the Committee of Privilegee end M.,
te rted, that the eommime bed, mordiug-to ender, hd older
their con mention the insonltltion lgo'ml Duid Rose, chafing th
with hnving delivered : Cohmel't mific- to being the lndiuu hedge
thin country, end hevin mnined finds, Witness", find thirtefineny
hnd no relation to the urge. nel hid More nue to the followi
resolution thereupon, which hereof] bite phee, siend eftenmde one."};
in it the clerk'c table, when the same" epi- twiee md, end w
to. . -
Rcsolwd, that the'lecusltion mild in them Iod be.
fore Mr. Willinmt in the eounty of Pittsylnnin, end . 35,"
* in to the Convention, aglinfl David M, i. selfe nel ef',
(A Copy) EDMUNp venom on w.
Joml Tulweu, CJIAD. - -
azusuususs;uussumumm—
Intpe HOUSE MDELEG'A f ,
SATURDAY, Odokr 12, "76.
Ordzml, ' l 'HAT the seven} County Court Clerks
do immediately mnsmie to thi- Housc Coyin of the Lifi
of Titlnblec in their Countien, and nisi: tlu public Account, !. msh ct
the Comictee of China to lay the public Leg. , -,.
(1) (A Copy) - ]OHN AZEWELL, C- H. D.
PlTTSYLVANlA, Wo- 5, 17
W HEN I lived m Bed ord County, WW
HarrbossiidPluoi-a gchnlu-ectbylhyin ud
sellin; me : Piece of Lead whichzbc sad wn bit Pnpny. in Win
1774, for which he received my Bond-for 15]. p-tPnyn-n ba: base"
I go: Posi'e'sfio- of fid Lnnd i: ved w belong to Ind:: "In. And
thereupon I dunmdtd my Io of still H'rict, which be silk could
not come at then, but gave me : Receipt in! she said Bold, which
I cln shew when called upon. ls no Pusom yet nku an "
thereof, ! hired "caution the Public ' it, u ! um Middle!"
to pn it; but i he but disposed oft M. th M- whhok'uj.
advi ed to 3]: ly w said Hurt} so: Snilfflion
(ill; . STSPHBN Sflflm.