The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1780-07-19 00:00:00, page 1

-1ULY_19. "w T H E' N'UMBER 72.
ss'VIRGINIA GFAZETTE.
RICHMOND: Pmmo n' DI-E'ON U-NICOLSON.
J
An. Peribno my be shpplied with thil Puu, nd hue Anvnrunnm M. on a mlonblc 'rnm :: the sum will admit.
o ' !.- sisi ' .
siA I, , ,__ Css— '—
C Rctss- lsi-S I S, No. [X.
AD Ameriu pursued her ednntn es with
hnlf the 'i-it she refined hu- nis man,
the pen! , beforeunfzv, have been : con
ln-i zed-pen ] le; botldled
in Mllp o fostsitgnnquill'ny she 53 on her hopes,
"(I ldnrfity only hn eonvulsed her into action.
Wheth' subtilty oe Gneerity at the close of the lah
, induced the enemy to en eppunnce for peace,
: point not matm'ul to know; it ie sufficient that
ye see the effect! it MI had on our politicke, end
int we sternly nse to resent the delnsion.
The war on the pm d' America. had been : lus
of nlmnl feelingl. Blue in d-lreso; serenein con
quel; drows when It red; and in every fitnation
["ere-ally dilpoficd to peace. A dmgectrous calm, and
the molt heightened m], heve, es eircumhncn
vnried, succeeded each other. Every passion, but du!
Of despair. has been nlled to : tour ot' duty; ud so
nil'lakss-n hn been the'encmy of our lbilitiel and dis
position, that when she suppoM un conquered, we
rosothe conqueron. The extention of the United
Stuee, and the variety Of their nesomcu; the epi
verfality of their nose, (be uick o ration of their
feelings, end the simillrity siP-xear szsitimmn, have,
in every trying summon, produced a something. which
invented by Prudence, and yurstud wit]! idea,
he eccomplishcd in an inhit the buines: of : elm
l'l. Wehmno'ver deliberatelysou ht v'tflcry, but
l'netched it; and hravely undone in no us, theylot
ded operation. of : senson.)
The mal me of Charleshwn, like the misfor
unn ol 'ntysi fix, he at lest edkd'funh : spirit,
and kindled up : lame, which perhepe no other event
could luve need. " the enemy has eirculated :
filsehood, hue uwisdy gnnud ne into life,
ad it they hue told on : tnn , they hue uninoen
tionally done .: : service. We m morning with
folded me from the fltiguel of war end thinking,
ad fitting leisure! down to enjoy "pose. The de
Fndeace the! bet {ween Put upon Cludelown, th-ew
; business ovel' Amenea. We looked on the busi
ness done; the conflict over the matter renied, or
that I." which remained un nished would follow of
itself. ]- thie late of dungerouo relax, exposed to
the poisonouo insuion of the enemy, end having no
common danger to extract our attention, we were ex
tinguishing by stages, the nrdonr-e began with, and
kneading by Female the virtue that defended
"a
_ AIFM utlul'ofiofshddownm be, a
;! it nice: ly nose us from the numlm o : two
Folthl pafl. lad mew in In the spirik of some: dlyo,
:: um W ln ndu'nuge nol'e important ulnn in
less. Amuicn ever in what he Ram busils to be.
Go'emed by sentinnl, and acting her own mind,
she become: :: he pleases the victor or the viaim.
]! it not the conquefl of town, not the a'ccidenul
npmn o! giffisonl, that on nduccn country so e:
lcusivc :- thd. The sufferin : of one part cln ever
fie nlined by lhe uenionl of another, And then in
no situuion che enemy can be in, that don no! afford
lo un, the some ndvantagfl she seek! herself. ly di
viding her force, she lezvu every post ntackable. !:
in I made of war, xhn eam'u with it : confession of
vulness, and gan on the principle of diflresc, sithes
than conquei. "
The decline of the enemy il visible not only in their
operations but their plann; Charlestown originally
tude but nsecondary '08 in their system of artack,
lad it is now become their yrinciple one. because they
. " , si _ , .
'hue not been nhle-Qo bend db-z n'ould
have carried : comdly uppunnce- !: Europe, lud
they found their grand uyeffition in' seven:, &,
againfl : part of the continent, where there un he
my, or not : sufficient one to oppose them; but sall
ing year after year. in their impltfliol bete, md to
the eastward and nmhwntd, they desened their first
cupital deign, lnd prudently contenting emselvee
with whu they em get. give : lourih of on: to
conce-l disgucc. '
But thin pieeemeal work in not eonqnetingthe con
linent. ln- discredit in-them w attempt it, end in
an to suffer, it. !! knew full time to put an end to :
war of nggmufiom, which on one side. but no pofflble
object, and on the other, hu every inducement which
honour, intend, shfety znd happinese, e-n inspire.
If we suffer them much longer to reulin among us,
"we shall become a had a themselves. An lssociation
osvices will reduce m more than the sword. A nation
hatdened in the practice of iniquity, knowe better
how to prosit—by it, than ! young country newly cor
rupted. We are not : much for them in the lme of
.t'dnntageom guilt, nor they to us, on the principlel
we bnvely set out with. 01: firfl day: were out day:
of honour. They have mlrked the character of Ame
riu wherever the stol of her wln m told; and con—
vinced of [hie, we lay. Icthsim; 'W' but wisely
Add united!) to creed the well ktssown inch.
The progress of : war, is often an minoul to indi—
vidual-, " the issue ofit into I nation; and it is not
only necessary that om- foroe be such. that we be con
queror: in the end, but ther by tim-ly exertiom, we*
be seen: in the interim. The present elmpm'gn will \
nford m opportunity which lus m presented itself .
before. end the prepmtion for it. ere equzlly neces
s , whether Charleflown lhndor fall. Supposethe
& , it it. in the! ease, only lfilm of the enemy,
not I deseat. All the-eonqud I besieged town no
hope set is not to be conquered: end eompelling en
enemy u raise che iege n to the besieged 1 viaoty.
But there must be : prohlbility mountmg almok to
ceminty, tlm would jufliMn-ison merching out
_ _.- _ - __. 'r' L-..l.l ["In-A.D..—
to lmck : mrnt. 'l'm now! cnarlcttm
not be uken, and the enemynbndqn the siege, every
other put of the continent should eyne to men
them; and on the oontnry, holld :: be uken, the
same Fcparations arc meeten, w brittle,. the lost,
and put ourselvei in I condition to oo-oycnn M
ouralliu immediztely on their lain]- -
We are not now ting out but!" elm, .. we
were in sevemy fix. nglud, had I mflkiouc dis
poition to Amid, du not only not deemed m
again! France und Splin. but the bank to
be! pains lure, hzu n'ould thod paid! lo mifi
tal object, and void: them, todilnfi un. She will
( r her Wefl lndinihndln booulsinm by Frynu,
and her southern settlenenn him by Spain, ruthe!
dun uit the object that dfiu revenge. Thi
condu , on the part of timid. hn pointed one
the propricty of France sending I un! lull land
force to co-opeme with Amenu on the spot.
Their :m-ival cunot ke very dihnt, nor the ring"
of the enemy long. ln the mean time the put neces
sll'y to us, needs no illuflntion. The ncmiting the
array, And the peocufing th: supplied, are the two
thing: needful. and : captore of oathes of the enemy'd
division, wiil restore to Amesiea peace and plenty.
At : crism, big, like the present, with expedntbn
and events, the whole country is called to unnimity
and exertion. Not an zb'd'uy ought mto flecp tbn
un preduzs hot : nice to tho general good, nor even lss
nece ty of the czsesipind the impomsisofm tull}:
whis ' Mmd :. . um misitim inn,
quencu. ndmit no delay from ! friend, no us!
from to enemy. To spun now, would he tho 'g
es extraugmce, lnd to consult Present lah, w
sacrifice it, perhlps, fa' ever.
Amcsicn, rich m ttiotifm and produce, cln'ut
neither men nor supp in, when I serioul necefli calf!
them forth. The flow o ration os mien, avnn a
the extensiveness of colle ion, md theirde th
value b:fore they arrived in the treasury, , '—
mnny inflanceo, thrown : burthcn upon govern
which hat been attsully interpfcted by the enemy '
a general dectme throughout the country. Yet
inconvenicnt as it may at first !ppnr. it not
medmble, buc—may be turned to un immediate Ass? si
vintage, for it mlkel no nal difemce. 'MKI-r': '
certain number of men, or complny of law: ( .
in this country every man in : nilltiam _ _lre '
by law, to send : recruit :! their o "perse, ,
whether : tax in hid on tbem'for lhlt purpose, and!
man hired by overnment aftefvurgla." The &I,'
then in any di me:, is both chapel lnd hest,
cause it save: the expenfewhich mld aneld ed "
it as : lax, and bring. the man sometime the it
than the modu of recnitin "formerly usid: And
thin principlf, : low has pil "I did he, '
recruiting two men from each mpuy d
wnich will ldd upwudo of : thousand to the ss' .
the country. But the sinne, whiih du broke
lin this city, since the upon sm New Yolk. the
loss of Chuleflm, not on! don human
but like tbcbluc ofsevonty , will kindle '—
sithejzaneyed sPfl-skl throughout _An_miel._ _
, The ulour'os : counnyomy bolwud bythh'u .
[very of in sold' , and the general cofl of Mudd
tznu, but consl mo: o! succes- is befl disdain!
't : actiu mafum puesuod by me m "
fwhenthespifltofmmpfifcbeoomnb ' _ .
wlfl nonce nal]! rankoofnen, um"
ln not till then. be filed truly popular. '
. seven:, fix the udonrofthun pn
cunfiderably checked by du ful W
the coolnesi ofolhcn. Bbt illbe presented: then
: firmncfi in the snbhnce lnd Fomos the
to the publick cause. An ascension lm b—w
inlo by the merchant, tradesmen, MW'
bitum ofthe city, conceive and sore ' ' ?
money at the due of md m. I
which whiloit dancing, nous, 'flllwm
but; w their interval, renderi th m'
the camplign convenient nnd clean].
ssv
Neither has the spirit of enm'on- (03 v.
voluntary shbsprigtion in likewise begin l. 11 '
of hard money, to be iven " boundes mill mid
fill quon of the Pain yluoin line. !: Why
remnrk of the enemsi that every thing in
by been done by the force of Govemuwu ;) but '
[be see: the individual: throwing in their si '
xidn, and faciliucing the publick unsur— lo "
with che enablished powm of th' court], [;
oonvince her that the cause of America find;"!
the will os ! few, but on the brozd (()Wd "
party Ind ppuluity.
Thu aided and thou so ned, dism
decline, and the withered Me! of tyl'IIIl &
America. The ravlgcl of the enemy 'I be, &
nndlimited, and like nlltheir soune- onn ' m
a victory ovet themselves.
,COMMON sun,].
P—muouuu. Ju- 9. ub