The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1778-05-15 00:00:00, page 2

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cunni— M Junctm Mild Mild "moflbarblfz
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Wc has timely reputed in Phihddphin the ndcehneionoi mu
"mm—d Engh-d-m um pine; (hunt. Pini-My .: m
had of adh'm; thn me (in; psjmflh hu mnrched good men into the Prince
.! Hesse's dominionl', in order to obligo him to recall his tmpt from Ane
flca; (du Edfopc'u hlmmdu lnddnnhm haven ""thy-nion,
whicdurriedmmsh un (mon dunfin al Gum] wuhmsiwhn
they declared the supporm of liberty; in:! their un mnspouod them to such
. Might, :th they duck. lb. wndow. and rougNy Why) m poison; ol thol
wb would not ilkminm.
YORK. TQWN, No) :.
S : .. le Yoll, Art"! 11, 177!.
A V ma bon hooourd with hiM-icdy't instruction to circobu
indolent, ] tlho the hborty to der them to you for your condid con
hdernioo. ood to recommend that, through your anon:. the officer; end nen
Mmramnwhwmhw coocepx, lorn. lit, your
very humbl- sunne. \ w. T I. ? N, Govomor'.
Guwd Wn-nu-rou. . '
HnAn WAu-lu. Vnnv soon, lyil 26, 1771.
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? 0 u ?. llmr of tho 17th, nnd : uiplicon of the same, were doly mind.
] had the pleasure of seem; tho draught; of the two ban- besoro those whoch
wmlbntby yooonnuo hood; and I can usu- youch-y miofond-to hvo
. snuurnncyamongthcoficm le-ndwnycomound, inwhofc ido
litywtho Unitd Sut— I but tho mon WW Tbc M
anon., pobmtthhmhn York'rown, win shew you chotitbtb'wilt
of Courts! they should hu- nn unroflninod dvculnion. _
] un the liberty to tuum you afcw printed copiuoh resoluticnos Congresx
dtho ago influx, And loreqocn you will be inflmmonul 'm communicating iu
contenu, so for on it may be no your power, do the person: who mthc object.
of in operation. The demolcnt purpose it '- intended to answor will, ] per
suoc myself, sofidcntly recommend it to your candor. ] Am, m, you, no
Wlkflm,' . WASHINGTON.
M-jo Crural Tnvou, ". Nun soli
lu (! 0 10 0 ]. ! 5 5. Ann. 23, 1778.
! 3! p-sufion nnd influence, tho example of the daunte
lb. he of dung", or the colomiliu of war, n., Il-r in
msMWMSut-a tojoin," nid. onbctthollndl inn.
who. thonsigh now doflroot of returning to thn'r duty,
; to_- and rc-united to their country, m., 5.
- ct- - wherm the people of those srm. auct
en! ss - _ - n, to mitiptc thou to encrcase who
horrono un, up si — ,, qffondom
]: M, du: it do - - Zhe legiflatum of tho several Smussco
. [use ws, or to the exec . 'oseach State, if invcned with sow
,* power, to tl'ue procl-mnions ng plrdon, with such exceptions, and n.
,, der such limiuriom and rosh'tctiom, nthcy shm rhi oxpediem, to such of
. si ;. mit. inhabitmu o, subjects n hue levied er zgath o! these Stdm, or
adhered to aidcd. or abetted the enemy, and nuns er themselm to any
eivil or mifhaty officer of any of these Stutcs, :nd shall m _
" which they belong befove the toth day of one next. And it ss_ ded
ssQ' lo the gmd nnd faithful ct'siizcns of these . tau- () receive such , . '_
? unto with compafion odd mercy, and to !.vrgive and duty m obl :
!." nuing and unsgreffions.
Extract fron lb- nium. -
CHARLES THOMSON,
r
Yefl-rday morning, at lo o'clock, the mamgen of the U-nited
begun tho dnwing of the turn'd:- cLAu .: the courthouso in this
A 7 4.
!; o. Smsslct, l.; SlMEON DEANE, If,; Woe comes,, apt]. p...
- ab- Anmicnn Pk-ipnnntiariu al the court of From, find delivered bin ltjpcttbu
to his Bmur tbi Prgfidm. 'I'bc imporuu roma- on, by . corresponds", m.,
mutand
H! news of the defeat and captivity es General Borgoyne were received
in anee the beginning of December, with no much joy it if : victory
? "." dy tht'uown troopo had dun announced. Our Pleni tent'win took thin op
si pottunity apt to mue the mention of tho couno Funce to the object of
their rpgpchtbn. On the thh, Mondeur Ginrd, Roynl Syndic of Scns.
borgh, ond Secrerary of hla Majefiy'u Councllof State, waited upon our Ple
n'tpsiotentiatieo, and informed them, by Mr J'rln King, " Thl asun- long md
{unponfldern'wn of our affdro and propositionl in Connc'tl. it on! decided, .nd
his Msisiny va determined to xknowldgo our indepondonu, nnd tula .
ctmaty with us of laid, in:! commune. That in thin mnry no odnnugo
won? besitzken of our pnfcotlmtion to odd]- tom- from un whichochcr
wif- uldnotbeconvenimsotmwagm m, hi- Majoflydddng (hath.
easy, un made. should he double. ood our mity subdst forever, which
could not be upeacd is each union did not find in intend in tho oondnnm
uwdlu ilthe commencennntofit. lum therefore hhinkntion the: the term
omumatyshould bosochnwomizhtbowillingtoqmtoisonrshuhldbm
soon engaged m wu, wnb all the omen. rit nud dwgc usually
it; you doshonldnotnpfimyeonpensition mnnmonthnlc
pretend Mhoashdwbdlyiosonrhhs, Good. Whilnnlpedwd
un lnd our cause, is on. mnisemy the incereflof From. thn (happy,
Inghnd should be diminillwd by our sepnrnion [ram it. He should, 59...
over, notfo med chin, um, is he cnglgedil tho wu with Enou
nlrmnm. UGWMMlMMMUMMMN
ma common: unn- we closed w uss The only condition he should &
qm-ndnly olwould be chin, (hewe. in nomuhule-itb w
shonldp'qu up on saw. ad mm to sin Mmu :y' rlm gwmm." ,ss
Thn upon chose principio:, by vmuc oc' full power. by the Kng oth—
co Monfieu Ginrd, Ran] Syndcc ol (luck); o( Scralbuqh, and Stone.,"
hid Mlply'o CoundlofScate. cloud the god: ofjnmy, 1778, this ' '
with out Plenipocencilnu. find it Plril. on the Gch os Febrnary, . n.."
dhnu nd mm becw— che crown of France and the mind lean.
A-uica. me in a- vcsy usmc in which du Amiun Plenipoumiai" —
dun Mructed by Cow. lo the ueny of ailhnce the following M
arc Moon. _
up,, A,... . . _
" An-rtcte [. ls war should hreek out between France end Great w
tlin during the continnnee at the wet between the United State- end E '
hie Mejeny end the Un'tnd Sutet (hell meke it : common cease, end aid
other mutually with their good oficee, their councils, end their iorcee, "Girl
ing to the exigenee of myuncturee, a becomes good end snthtul lilies.
" Ae-rtctl I]. The efl'ential end direct red of the present desenflve I
once ib, to maintain esseaudiy the lum], seven:"!lq, "A ' ,
..a lulmn'tel, of the send United Stttes, as well to metten of government .
celunerce.
" An nen Vl. The mon Christian King reaouncet forever the pot
ofthe toand of Besmuda, a welletJe-ypert y'ehmtimy'lverrb
which helore the treaty of Put: in 1763, or in virtue of that my, were
knowiedged to bowe; to the Crown es Great Britain, or to the United Sm
heretosore called British coiooiee, or which lu (! rbt': rieu, er bm [my
under the power of the King end Crown o! Greet Briu-n." .
The lmt, osoommeree ltendt upon the broad um of equlity; end
sidering the enow greet power of sunne, end the insency of the o
Stone, it in .a without pereilei. ln . word, the sentimente delivered on
:Gth os Decemder by Monk. Giretd, by order of the King of France, m "
meete reniy eeuruined by Prima. end which, together with these equal
ties, Mrenhhim, not only emongthe greatest monetche os anee, but
The independenee o! Amiea it : t'uourite object with eil those power
Europe. who entertain commerciei viewt. With respect to the eckno,
meet ofw independenee, they hue mited the exempie of France. ned ct
now be determined in our favour by her conduct. The Emperor, Spain,
Pnfle ere determined to support ue. On the 6th of Novemher am the Prolhe '\
Minifler wrote in the following term to one es our Pienipotentimee, " And
the reinioreenean oi troope which Great Britein lny receive from other pe
on of Europe for the next umpzign, ] een nflure you Sir, that your ."an
nothing to seer sun Ruflie or Denmeslt; and that even German, Will not ler-j
nish hot lome hundred men which the Duke of Brnnswick. the Landgrned
Head; and the Mefgravc es Anspech, in eoutormity to their treams, eennot.
but send ennnny, to recruit the troop- which these Prineee hold in Amiuss
- in the pey of Great Brite'm. It it with (meete satiesaflion that ] give you do
egreeedie information." ' The King of Prusia would not enow the troope oi
Besse e-i the flemu, in Briush pay, to pass through his dommiom, he
united to be the second power in Europe to acknowledge the independq
Americe. ,
The Ameriun prisoner] in Bnghnd were treated with such inhurr'lenity, i
si induced our Pien'rpetentiarm to write to Lord North on the subject; end to
employ : Gentlemen of rank in London to relieve their dishefl'ee. The M
government thereupon relaxed their severitin. The friend: of Amet in to
don celled '- meeting on the wh of December, 1177, lo oollect suhscri '
for the relief of Men prisoners, and on the sth of ]mlry they edw
26771. ! l- 6 4. Emily; for that purpose. Among the snhkrihere shrtd the
nemet of Merqnte of Rockinghem, Marquit of Grenhy, ler] Shelhurne, Earl
Abingdoo, Lord Chnlm ) ' ,, Vi' """ ., V' st Middletee,
Sir George Sevilie, an. Thomn Townsend, Hon. Thonn Townsend, ]en
Hon. Thomas Welpole, beside: meny Aldermen end Gentlemen of the irfl
dininaion. Our Pienipotemiaries assure tn that Britain, niting in !hil
peignpcannot polflhly make mother in Americe, so low ere her sinne
dnced, so mitted in her eredit abroad, and so difficult it it for her to proc
men et hom'. Theuhe greatest preparedom of war were meking in all pent
France. That near 5o,ooo French troops were actually merehed into Nor
dy end Brittenyz end the the nuy of France end Spein now confined of e
seil ready for see.
these importent ldvieee were brought over in Le Senstble, Mons- Meri
Commender, e Royal frigete of France, 0! 18 twelve pounden end goo
She lest Brest on the lth of March, and ester : pessege of 35 dey: erriverl ed
Cesco my, from whence the sailed on her return. the: two day. nay to tlss
in wit". - .