The Newport gazette. [volume] (Newport [R.I.]) 1777-1779, 1778-05-14
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oi Scotland ia the following Gmple b.
manly werds Of thsir vote : That III
world may fee the unhappy con.sft 10 nc
tbs caule Of . miailiry, Or any Psrtieuia
numbsr OF msn, but the cazfs Of the legi'
la,urs, snimsted and fupPor,ed by m
whole body Of the aatioa, As well is1'V'
duals ~ communities"
In the prsfsrments given in the new 70
ainents, no officer, or. almoR 40 ohesr
has rss more ,haa one aeP. aboS lhis tor
msr rank 10 that the insers" OF inc Ok
amy have besa attended to Preserved ant
pro.otsd ; at the Gas t:ns that the haad
Of povern men, ...;M be Pengthsnsd with th'
- A." OF all armj., . new army in tn
Hover of yosih apd lpiris commanded b,
veteran oticer,.
There is military fervant to the King
nov ia Scotland, who On every sccafion
and foustimsi with tssrs Of uasfpsrt il
Nn eyes, gives tsiainony 10 the zeal Of iha
eouatry in which he commands / meas
Sir Adolfhas OsghtOa. not a sew. bat az
SD folder, who gained his rank aad hi,
nboon BY 6gh:ing, not BY recrait:ng and
Ct the fra beat of shOfs drum, although he
is no Seotfnan, many ta0uiands in Scot.
land wsuld Fart up to follow wh:rever h
ard honor led the way.
From theie sxsrtions in Britiih esufe,
Scotland, Lowevsr, claims 40 faperiori,y in
merit over England. 1t was with plsaia,s
that ihe faw tbs towa ef Msneheasr fra
lead the way in ,hs bright line Of natisnal
duty. She marked not with iafult, but
with regret, the contrsR bs,weea the csm-
noa councils Of Endiaburgh and Of Lon
don that, whils the one were prsieating
an add,sL at St. James,, with the Offer Of
. rsgment, without expesce to the public,
the other were, at that vsry hour ., Guild
hall, employed in frsmisg refolutioa net
to give Jingle maa, or 6agle Psuny, in
the eauls OF their prince, their parliAmsns,
their city, aad shei sosn,ry.
But Scot.snd remembers, and remembers
well, that England. By rating $4,000 new
levies in fix weeks, is the rsiea of CAsrlss
II. faved herislf from . Frsneh war. aad
Holland from eopqueas and ths, King
William, by rating the fame nun Der, il
the fame fraee Of time, lavsd England
frsn 3 F;eaeh i.va6oa, sad iscared the
(spprsfion Of ihs I.ih rsbelli,n., She
Knows from hifery. that nations which
Join liberty t. wealth, stifs snly ifrosses
rom dsfsst. And lhs uufts, if com muai-
lies and izdividu sls in 3 Esslaad aad Ireland
we're to make the fame noble efforts which
lhe has made, thar forsien' a.tisas VIC old
Aiink At the foaad, snd that Areriea
nigh: Be brssghs loon 70 reFeat Of the "A.
Eal Mort livtd laursl' ihe has gained.
N 3 Wy o R K, May ,.
On Taafday laf arrived hare. the brig
Badger, Capt. Hugh Rellie, frsa Cree-
mock. which lhs left the a7th Of Fs-
Araary; BY her we have papers to The
ta3d Of that nenth, fsn which ws have
3eleosd the following adviess.
1Aitrsetions 70 Sir Guy Carlston, rslstivs
to the epslatisas Of The army under
Lisu,saass Gessral Bsrgoyas.
Ex,rsa Of letter fren Lord George Ger
main 10 Gen. Carleton, dated Whiis.
hall, March s, I777. - :,
\ n Y letter On che z7d Of AuHsh,
Nj 1875, wis istr ufisd TO the Gaze Of
VA Captaia L. MsisIs, eas Of your
lids Dc Gasp. -Alssr havisg BEEN tl,ss
ines in the Gulph Of ST.. Lswrsaes., h6
lad tAs norn6easisn 10 find il impoiIible
o make his paaaee 70 Ousbsc, and there-