The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1778-11-27 00:00:00, page 2

perhaps more so. Septrated from the rest of Europe, she has contracted an. un
sucimhlc hnhit otsi tnazmers, and imagine: in others the jealouty the creates in
herself. Nsi-rcr mng tsi-nissird wuh peace, she supposes t'ne discontcnt universal,
and buoyed up thh hsir omt impctrtnnce, conceive: herself the only object point
ed at. The txprcsiinn has been often used, and always with a tssraudulent delight
for when the ich of ;- na'urctal man} in conceived it ptevents nii other enquiries,
apd th'; real cause of the q-msirel is hidden in the universality of the corceit. Men
shut as the nation :cti .\ natural enemy, and ask no other queliions. The cry o'h
uins credit hie: th-z .sisiarm us a msitd dog, and is one of those tricks which, by
operati'ng on the common puisions, secures their intetest through their folly.
, But we, tis, are no: tu :i-si- thus imsi—ulsied upon. Wc live in a large would, and
hzicc extended our idcas beyond the limits and prejudices of an ifland. We hold
out :he right hand of fellowship to all the univcr-e, and we conceive there to be
:; socia'siity in the manners of France which is much better disposed to peace and
negcciatiun than that of IZnF-Jand, and until the latter become more civilized [he
cannot expect to live inn; zt peace nith any power. Her common ]angua e is
vuign and offens-vc, .mti clziuieen wllh their miik t'nck in the rudimt'nts ofsin
salt. " 7be am.- as ['pr-ss'um! The misijlzly arm of Britain! Britain, that shake,:
th' earth 20 in (enter am! ::x pale: ! "'I'bfssscourg: aj'Franrt! 'T/Z'c [error qstbe world !
That govern: mail}: :: m-J. am] pour: ctla-wn erzqermu lib- a God !" 'I his language
neither makes a natim' great of iittit', but it shewe a savagcnc-f's cf manner:, and
has a tendency !.) ksiep u.t\'h>:!li ammostty alive. The entertannmcnts of the stage
an calculned to the sum.- end, and almost every public exhibition is tinctured
inlhlt. ' "[a-England in always in dread of France, teuilied at th!" "'- *
. ' ss'cf' " , suspicion: of beingnotwimdssin : treaty, and'fit ly)
Zflnging though she in pnhiicly offending. Let her.!heresore reform her mannere
and do j-tsiice, and she Will find the tdetsiofa natural nmy- to be only a phantorn
of her own imagimtiun.
_ - Littie did ! think. at this period of the war, to see a proclamation which could
' promise you no one ut".-.-!'ul purpose whatever. and tended oniy to expose you. One
wossuld think ytm wm: ju-i ct-sswakened from :- lour years dream, and knew nothing
offlat had passed in m.: interval. is this a time to be offering pardons, or re
newing the long fcrg- tten subjects of charters and taxntion? is it worth your
while, after evcsv force lus tailed you, to retrt-at under the sheiter of argument
am! persuasion? Or out you think tlnt we, with nearly half your army prisoners,
and in aliiance whh Francc. sine to be begged or threatened into submisiion by a
pizcc of paper? But as czmmtitlionero, at a hundred pound: sterling : week each,
"'si— you conceived youissi-lvks btzuui to do something. and the genius of ill fortune
mid you, you must wnitr. "
For my own part, lhave not put pen to paper these several months- Convineed
. os dursisuperiority by the isi'ue of (very campaign. lwae inclined to hope that
that, which all the rest of the world can see, would become visible to you, and
therefore felt unwilling to nuffle your t:mpcr by fretting you with repctitiom or
' dil'covekiee. Then: have been intervals ot helitation in your conduct from- which
it seemed a pity to distnvb )". it, and a charity to leave you to yourselves. You
haveoften Roppu], lstf you intended to think, but your thoughts have ever been
'too early or too late.
There was a time when B-i-ain disdained to answer, and even to hear : petition
front Ametiez. That time is pffl, and she, in her turn, is petitioning our ac—
'ceptance. We now tbmi en higher ground, and offer her peace; and the time
will come when lite, =thlps in vain, will alk it from us. The latter case i: as
robabie as the fut'sim'l' ever was. She cannot ressiutc to acknowledge our inde
ss 'pendencc with gruter cbiiinasiy than the before refused to repeai her lawe; and if
ss ct. . _ A,.- 'icteaa!one could bring her tu- the one, united with France she will reduce her
Q-kffiosh'ct. There is something in obstinacy which differ: from etterysiother
' spaflido'. Whatever it fails it never recovere, but either breake ssflke iron, or
emmbiu fltikiiy away like a fractured arch. Most other yatstom have their pe
riodect of fatiguctc and rest, their suffering and their cure, but ohstinacy has no re
sonrchlnd the first wound is .mortal. You have already began to give it up,
and you will, from; the_na_turai eonttruction of the vice, find yourselvea ssboth_
obli ss d lnd inclined to do lo. _ ss
] you look'back you see nothing but loss and disgrace. ..Is you look forward
the fame sane continues, and the close is an impenetrable gloom. You may plan
ood exceute little mischiefe, but are they worth the expence they cost you, or will
such partiai evils have any effect on the general cause? Your expedition to Eg
' Barhottr will he felt at a distance, like an attack upon a hen root}, and expo e
you in Europe with : sort of childish phrensy. [: it worth while to keep an army
sea protect you in writing ptociamatiom, or to get once a year into'wintcr quar.
ters! Poffesting ytzttrsettes cf towne is not conqtteit, but convenience, and in
" which You wzll one du)? or other he trcpattned. Your retrczt ttom Philadsilphia
ssctwas,only a timely escape, and ynur next txpedition may be left fortunate.
It would zzle :" the politicians in the universa to conceive what you hay for,
of why you'hzve stayed so long. You are prosecuting a war in which you confese
you [[in neither ohtea nor hope, and that conquefl, could it be effected, would
ctn'o'treply the charge. in the mean while the rest of your affain are running to
wactr kindling against you! ln such a sitnation there it
ruin, and : Ettt
"neither doubt or di ]ty; the first rudimeml of reason will determine the choice,
for ifpence can be procured with more advantage- than even I eonquefl sin be
Mind, he mal be on ideot indeed that hesitatee. . _
But you are probably bnoyed up by : set of wretched momlt ,who, having de
{ceived themselves, are cringing with the duplicity of a spaniel for a little tempo
sirztry breed. Those men "'I" tell you just what you please. It is their interelt to
amuse in order to lengthcn out their protection. They study to keep you amongst
them for that we Purposez and in proportion as you disregard thein advicsi, and
grow callous to t etr conplaints, they will Jtreteh into tmptobability, and pppfl'
of their flattery the higher. CharctEten like these are to be found in every-conn
' try, and every country will dispit'e them.
COMMON SENSE.
From the LONDON GENERAL ADVERTISER.
To DAVXD HARTLEY, Esqutkz.
5 1 R. Fol'rON prison, May :o, 1778.
HE generom part you take in our misfortunes, and that noble love of lihetty
for which at: are esteemed, emholdens me to ask your asiistance in a cause
in which the nlttona] honour of England is concerned. and it a grievance, is not
redreffed, for which thousands of your cottntrymen will suffer.
I ne taken by the Ariadne on the A,th of ]une last, in the hrig Mttlkito, belong
' ing to the flute of Virginia, having on board part of my company belonging to
the first Virginia regiment o! provinciala. The officers belonging to the vessel,
"and myself, were sent to England and committed to this jail. My men were sent
dojail in Barbldoessi; and as we immediately sailed for England, [could never
' : hear any thing of them until to-day.
[could not have thought Britons ltati degenerated so far from that humanity,
for which they 4were once remarked, did not experience shew it. ] once glorted
in being ailied to Btitain, and nothing but her injttliice and cruelty to my country
could have forced me to take arms againti her. l did not conceive individuals to
si be my enemiea; ] looked upon the ttoops employed ugainii us as men whose tlttty
obliged them to sight; and whenever ] had prisoners under my care, ] treated the
officers with all the respect due to lirtt' rank, and the privates as our own men.
view the Tate of my men. They are all young, born of creditable families,
and some of them posiess independent fortunes. They did not come to sea for th
sake of plundcr, but to revenge 'their country, and art. pcsseffed of more l'entimeu. '
than most of their t'tnnattita] enemies that ( have seen.— After being confined j .
Barbzdoes tbl-eight months, part of the time in stom, they were allowed to go
buurd some merchant reflels, with a promise of their itncrty. At ].unaicz uxtea
wcte pressed on board the Antelcpe, and obliged to do duty againlt their country,ss
They lcorn to receive wages, and are kept upon two thirds aHowuice. ss
I sely on you, Sir, to get them taken from un board that ship. which it now
at Chatham ; and in so domg you win not only receive my thznkt, bsiuf. the grete
ful thanks of a free people.
lf those in power do not commit them as prisoners, but sim force them to
duty against their country, thers countrymen m America shall know it; and ;]
though we have no fettlemeuts in Asta or Africa,_ we have mines, from whence je
is as hard to escape as from either of those places.
I send you : list of my mens name:, and am, Sir, your mofl obedient, and
very humble servant, A 1. 5 X. D l C K,
A litt of privztcs belonging to the first Virginia regiment taken on board the
Muskito, and part ofwhom zre prclled on board King's ships.
William Graves and William Coleman, ierjeznts. !
William Mitchel] and YVilham Dlshman, corporals.
]ohn Dodd, drummer.
-ct Henry Rainee, Daniel Dean, Larkin Fnrish, Charles Spalding, George sPZ]; )
si- inn; William Thorp, Most; Stlnley, Thomas Chandier, Vineent Landmen,
Rflpffiflofll. Irunn 'Sullimeessuwusflenry Butridge, William
Mooie, Llrkin Bell, ]esi'e VanghM-Wwssjohn Pulane, ]ohn Dib- \
man. John Landrum, ]:mes Emmerson, and ]ames Dtshman. A
(L.)ERE, have the commtffionen of the sick end hurt ordered the Ametican
officers in Forton jzil to be put u n half allowznce, with an intention to find one
who made the hole in the wall o their lpartment the other night? Or do they
imagine that they will have more honour than to tell, and by not telling give
them an opportunity of putting the other half of their allowance into their pocken _
A PLAIN (LUESTION. '
B 0 8 T O N, October 22. *'
A FEW days ago the privateer Vengence, Wingate Newmzn commender,
sent into Newbury Port the Harriot packet of 16 gone and 45 men, bound
to New York. In the conflict, which wan very obstinate, one tosy wn kiHed lnd
another had hie arm shot off. She left Fahmmh the 7th of September, and was
taken the i7th. By her we learn that Admiral Keppel had agflin put to see with .
34. or 35 ships. The Brefl fleet was out with nenrly the same force. They" were ct
in sight of each other near Ushant, when the packet left it. '
. We ate jult informed that about 6oui] oftranspom with troope on hoard, from
New York, have arrived et Neinport, They are supposed to betbe nine regimeote
lately cmbarked for the West Xndiet.
PHILADELPHIA,No-vmber5. *
WE hear that on the zjth ult. the enemy retired from the middle and weflerl
end of Staten lfland -to their fort at Watson'e ferr ct end the watetising ,
places, and that on the zgth, twenty three of the enemy's cet at New York fell
down to the Hook, of which nine have since gone to sea; they confifled of frigatee !
and hnaller vessels. And on the zest, u ward: offixty transpotts and men of war '
also teil down, and more were continue ly filling on the tst infiant. ,
WiLLtAMSBURG. —
LAST Monday the Swist, : British eo gon ship, being in chase of the Ret- **
tlesnake privateer, run ashore on the 'Middle Ground. The crew of the
Switsit threw over her gum, but finding it impoflible to get her of, set fire to her, l
and delivered themselvel up to the commanding officer at Ponfmouth. The
thtlesmke wan drove ashore, and burnt else. - i
THE subscribers to (hie gazette are thul earl informed, that after the expi- 'si
ration of the present year the price of it wi] be TEN D OLLAR 8 per
man, one half to be paid down, and the other half at the expiration of 6:
mouths. The paper: will be continued upon the above tenrns to all the old
subscriben, unless direction. to the contrary are given by the firit of ]anunry next.
'I": be RENTED for a um ofyurs, to ib: bi bffi bidder, u Monda then]: if
lIZc-cember next, lm'ng Henrico court do, fejen Mr- Gabricl Ga t': door i
ichmond, . , .
H'E N'EW MlLLS on the falls of Fame: river, belonging to theeshte of the
late Col. Samul O-vmn. They are in exceeding good repair, and conti- -
one to a good wheat country. A further descri tion ]! thought needless, as it
it presumed that those who incline to rent would choose to see the convenienciu.
Undoubted security will be required at the time of letting. "
]OHN M'KEAND,
;" EDWARD PARK, '
BARTHOLOMEW THOMPSON. 'ss
On Monday the 7tb es D-cembcr, will be s 0 1. 0, at lbefial of the late Mansd -
' Page, li'st]; of Gloucesier count},
C O N S I D E R A B LE number of high bred HORSES, MARES, and
COLTS, two of which, now coming two years old, were gotten by Old .
Fcarnaugbt; tho' others by Dame)! and S deflear.-——,'. The creditora and
debtois'to his estate are requelted to make immediate apptication to receive :md _
discharge their respective balances. a ]OHN PAGE, jun. A
To be R .E'NTED to the highest biddcr, for the jeer 1779, on Wedziesday lb! mb ]
of December, on [be premijZ-y,
HE plantation in Glouttsttr county well known by the name of Morgict'g
Neck, containing near Soo acres, conveniently situzted on Tork river, and
bounded by Pnrspatauk and Taulfiorof-atank creeks, which abound: with fine fish
and oyflers, an plenty of wild fowl, in their season. There is a sufficiency of
cleared [and (which in egua] to any in the lower part of the country) to work n.
hand: to advantage, an a sufficiency of timber for the pluntntion use, vety con.
venient, but not any allowed to be removed or sold from off the land by the person
who may rent it. Bond, with good and sufficicnt security, will he required on
the day of renting, and posseffion given the ]st diy of janum'y next, by .
" ]OHN MEREDITH.
To be SOLD, purfimut to the last rwiflzmd testament o] William Whitlock, dutafzd:
qs Caroline count}, on Tuesday lb: Szb qs' Decembcr next, szair, 'that-wist [be A
next fair du}, _ _ l
55 TRACT of LAND on Polera: swnmp, containing. by esiimation', :oo
acres, whereon is two dwellinghoulbs, and other outhouses, a good lpplc
orchard, and about too bearing peach trees Twelve: mouths credit will be given
for the land. Likewisc for sale. a likely Virginia born NEGRO MAN- The ,ss
crcdit for the negro to be agree'd on the day of salt. Bond. with pssssproved security,
will be required by ]" \VILL1. M WHXTLOCK.