The Newport gazette. [volume] (Newport [R.I.]) 1777-1779, 1777-01-16
Prom Ia, NEwYoRK GAZETTE.

Tbs('Aisev;sg AdTIfG f,sm tbc Consreh @H
Jgf bsss zfeHVsd /vs~ Philadelphia.
The REPRESENTATIVE ef the smt..
StsfN Of A~Oies, in { o N G 4 Z
sHtrble1.
To the PEOPLE in general, and particular.
ly ,he IAhabitants Of PTan0f,4nia, and
the adjacent SfstH.
FRIENDS and BRETHREN,
Nr1E think it our Duty to addrefs a
NN/ few Words Of Elaboration to you
w in this important C,i6j. You are
NOT unacquainted with the Hiitory Of the
Rifle and Progres Of this War. A Plan
was carried on by the Britiih MiniH:y for
1everal Years in a iyfematic Manner to
enfave you to that Kingdom. After various
Attempts in an ar,ful and iniidous Manner
to bring into Practice the having you under
Tribute. they at lat openly and deciGvely
aiisrted their Right of making Laws to bind
you in all CeIy 1UbALjss~W.
OPpoftion wa, made to ,hefe Encroach-
ments by earneft and humble Petitions from
every Legislature on the Continent, and
more than once by the Congrefs ret,.tnfine
sb' ssksh. Theie were treated with the
usmoa Contempt. Aets of the mon urjuil
and oPpreGive Nature were paAed and car
ned into Execution, fuch as sxempting the
Soldiers charged with Murder in America
from legal Trial, and ordering them to
be carried 70 Britain for certain Abfolution,
ss alto Directing Priioners taken at Sea to
be entered on board their Ships, and oblig-
cd either to kill their own Friends or tall
themfelves by their Hands. We only men,
tIon thefe from among the many oPpreiIive
Acts OF Parliament as Proofs to what horrid
lnJdltice the Love of Dominion will (ome-
times carry Societie, as we'll as Men. At
the fame Time to thew how inieniible they
will DC to the Suferings Of others, you may
Zee by the Preambles to the Aas and Ad-
dre4es to the King, that they conRan,ly
extel their own Lenity in thofe very Proceed
lngs which filled this whole Continent with
Reientment and Horror.
To crown the whole, they have waged
War with US in the mott cruel and unrelent-
lng Manner, employing not only the Force
OF the Britifh Nation but hiring foreignMer-
cenaries, who, without Feeling, indulge
fhenfelves in Rapine and Bloodfhed. The
spirit OF the Army in general is but too we'll
dete' mined, by their inhuman Treatment of
thofe who have. .unhappily fallen into their
Hands.
1t is we'll known to you that at the mi.
vsrj6I D5&rs Of the People, and with the
sfay AtSr'dsfion of every Province, the
Congreis declared The United States free and
independent aMeafure not only juf, but
which had become abfolutely neceGary. 1t
would have been impoiible to have reGted
he formidable Force defined againa US lat
spring, ~sbiIs sus esxfiysd sarjslvts tbs Sui
e1' @i5af Stcts sgeif ..Sbieb qvs bad fHks.
m'. EsGdec. after repeated Trials, no
Terms could b. obtained but Pardon, upon
.bIolute Submillion. which every public Bo-
'y 10 America had rejeacd with Difdain.
RehRance has now been made with Spi-
II and Refolution becoming free People,
md with Degree of Succefs hitherto aUIisb
sSialts'e'iy ;svs b"n sxtsSsI-The Enemy
ave been sxpsltd from the northern Provin-
es where they at fra had PoGen. on, and
ave been repulied in their A,tem pit upon
he fouthcrn by the sslsss1fd Txl's,,
t ths Inhabitants. Our Succefs at Sea in
he Capture n thseRnemies Ships, has been
f'gtAN:g. They ,hsysbssn "~9tl9t&",s-
rat before the nori6Stn Army. Not~ith-
anans the Difficulty and Uncertainty at