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dam, to exprefs the obligations and favours for which I have ever held my felf bound to you, and to return you my moft fincere thanks for them all, wifhing you every comfort and bleffing that can attend you in this vain, troublesome life, and that peace and bleffing in the next which is promifed to all fuch good chriftians. You have my moft grateful thanks for all your frequent and affectionate enquiries of me fince my dreadful affiction, under which the bleffed providence has most wonderfully fupported me to this day. May he, of his great mercy and good nefs, continue to do fo at the hour of this awful crifis.

"Remember my grateful thanks to my good friends. I know not how their good opinion is inclined towards me fince my misfortunes, but I am sure their hearts are too good not to feel fomething for my troubles: and I truft they are too good to give credit to every evil and wicked report of me. Every man

in the like affliction labours under fuch

fevere reproaches. I will not, however, my dear Mrs. Tribe, at this folemn day, endeavour to enumerate my inadvertency and follies by arraigning the conduct of any perfon: on the contrary, I am fenfible of the propriety of the verdict against me for an innocent lie, and I mult give the law its revenge, but I muft however do myself the justice to affert my innocence of any guilt or knowledge of the forgery whatever. I fay an innocent lie, because I neither knew of, or had the leatt intention of defrauding Meffrs. Drummonds, but was the unhappy deluded tool of others, and acted upon by the moft premeditated, artful wickedness that can be devifed. I know how difficult it is to prevail on the generality of mankind to believe a man innocent that has been condemned by his country, and I feel much for that; but I hope all are not fo uncharitable. It was my unhappy fate to fall into the hands of ignorant advisers in the beginning of my misfortunes, that prevented my going to Mr. Drummond to remove the prejudices my conduct had impreffed his mind with, or I think I fhould not nave fuffered fo much in his opinion; and by fuch ill advice I have fuffered fo much affliction and fall a victim to an ignominious death. "For the fake of my poor unhappy wife and children, I hope an opportunity will one day or other happen to convince the world, that I die an innocent, injured and deluded man; for fuch I do, I call God in my laft moments to witnefs. I hope you have too favourable an opi

nion of me yet to believe I can pay fo little regard to that future ftate I am entering into, by advancing fo folemn an oath falfely.

"Permit me, my dear Mrs. Tribe, to repeat my thanks and obligations to you, and to recommend the favour of your kind friendship still to my dear unhappy wife, who I know has a fincere efteem for you as well as myself: and that we may both meet in that world where no forrow nor affliction dwells is the fincere prayer of,

Dear Madam, your obliged
And affectionate friend,

Jan. 15. ROKERT PERREAU."
An Addrefs to Lord Dartmouth, on Ant-
rican Affairs; by Dr. Zubly (an emi-
nent Clergyman in the Province of
Georgia.)

To the Right Honourable William Earl of Dartmouth.

My Lord,

YOUR lordship's appointment to be fecretary of itate for the American department, by numbers that respected your lordship's religious character, was looked upon as a very providential and happy event. Your patronizing religious undertakings, confirmed the general opinion; and we were happy in the expectations of your lordship's confcientious regard to juftice and equity, as well as to the civil and religious liberties of this great continent; we expeûed the cause of liberty and religion would meet with the ftrongest support under your adminiftration, and in your lordthip would ever find a confiant, and fuccessful advocate with your royal mafter.

Unhappily during your adminiftration, measures have been purfued very contrary to American hopes; and we eafily conceive your lordship may think it not lefs firange that many friends of religion in America fhould be fo uneasy under laws which had your lordship's concurrence and approbation.

It is to the man and to the Chriftian I wish to be permitted to addrefs myself: your lordship ranks among the higheft fubjects, and has a large fhare in all public meafures; but anxiety for what may diftrefs, and zeal for the welfare of the empire, can be no crime even in the meaneft; and when a house is once in flames, every man is inexcufable, or muft at least be fo in his own breall, that does not contribute whatever he may think in his power to their being extinguished. The effects of the prefent measures are vifible, and it requires no

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fagacity to foresee what may be the confequence, fhould they be continued, Your lordship may do much towards reftoring and perpetuating the tranquillity of a great empire: perfons of my flation have nothing to offer but hints and wifhshould these be beneath your notice, or stand in need of forgivenefs, my fincere wish to contribute any thing towards a juft, happy, and perpetual connection between a parent ftate, and an infant country, growing apace to the moft aftonishing importance, must be my only apology. Pulchrum eft bene facere reipublica, fed & bene dicere non eft abfurdum.

fay they, be no more than a natural confequence of the right of binding them (unfeen, unheard, unreprefented) in all cafes whatfoever.

My lord, the Americans are no idiots, and they appear determined not to be flaves. Oppreffion will make wife men mad, but oppreffors in the end frequently find that they were not wife men; there may be refources even in despair fufficient to render any fet of men strong enough not to be bound in all cafes whatsoever.

Grievous is the thought, my lord, that a nobleman of your lordship's character fhould be fo zealous to make war, and The queftion, my lord, which now to imbrue his hands in the blood of milagitates Great Britain and America, and lions of your fellow-fubjects and fellowin which your lordship has taken fuch an chriftians. Pray, my lord, is it poffible active part, is, whether the parliament that thofe, who at three thousand miles of Great Britain has a right to lay taxes diftance can be bound in all cafes, may on the Americans, who are not and can be faid to have any liberty at all? Is it not there be reprefented; and whether nothing in your lordship's eye to deprive the parliament has a right to bind the fo confiderable a part of the globe of the Americans in all cafes whatfoever? privilege of breathing a free air, or to Whatever may be faid, or whatever the fubjugate numbers and generations to good people in Great Britain may be- flavery and defpotifm? Can your lordlieve, this is the whole fubject of the fhip think on these things without horror, difpute. All the feverities hitherto ex- or hope they must be productive of any ercifed upon the Americans, profeffedly thing but deteftation and difappoint have no other view than to enforce fuch ment? Your lordship believes a fupreme a dependance; and nothing less than a ruler of the earth, and that the small claim, deftructive of all natural and na- and great muft ftand before him at lak: tional liberty, could poffibly have united would your lordship be willing, at the all America in a general oppofition, or general meeting of all mankind, to take have aroused them to join all like one a place among thofe who deftroyed or man in their common defence. Let a enflaved empires, or riik your future declaratory bill be passed, that any flate on the merit of having, at the exlaw and usage to the contrary notwith- pence of British blood and treasure, flanding, America is entitled to all the taken away the property, the life and common rights of mankind, and all the liberty of the largest part of the British bleffings of the British conftitution, that empire? Can your lordship think those the fword fhall never be drawn to a- that fear the Lord will not cry to him bridge, but to confirm her birthright," against their oppreffors? and will not and the ftorm inftantly becomes a calm, the father of mankind hear the cries of and every American thinks himself hap the oppreffed? or would you be willing py to contribute to the neceffities, de- that their cries and tears fhould rife afence, and glory of Great Britain, to gainst you as a forward inftrument of the utmost of his ftrength and power. their oppreffion?

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To" bind them in all cafes whatsoever," my lord, the Americans look up on this as the language of defpotifm in its utmost perfection. What can, fay they, an emperor of Morocco pretend more of his flaves than to bind them in all cafes whatsoever? Were it meant to make the Americans hewers of wood and drawers of water, were it meant to oblige them to make bricks without ftraw, were it meant to deprive them of the enjoyment of their religion, and to establish a hierarchy over them fimilar to that of the church of Rome in Canada; it would,

I know, my lord, that this is not courtly language, but your lordship is a profellor of religion, and of the pure, gentle, benevolent religion of Jefus Chrift: the groans of a people pushed on a precipice, and driven on the very brink of defpair, will prove forcible, till it can be proved that any power, in whofe legiflation the Americans have no part, may at pleasure bind them in all cafes whatfoever; till it can be proved that such a claim does not constitute the very effence of flavery and defpotism; till it can be proved that the Americans (whor

in this view I can no longer call Britons) may, and of right ought, to be thus bound; abhorrence of fuch affertions is only the language of truth, which in the end will force its way, and rife fuperior to all the arts of falfhood and all the powers of oppreffion.

Right or wrong, my lord," in all cafes whatfoever," but more especially when the fate of nations is concerned, are words of infinite moment. Your lordfhip doubtless believes that the weighty alternative must have very solemn and different effects here and hereafter; but waving the right or wrong of this vile unhappy difpute, let me entreat your lordship's attention to confider at what an infinite risk the prefent measures muft be pursued, even were it not demonttrable that they are in the highest degree wrong, cruel, and oppreffive.

The bulk of the inhabitants of a continent extending eighteen hundred miles in front on the Atlantic, and permitting an extention in breadth as far as the South Sea, look upon the claim, to bind them in al cafes whatsoever, as unjust, illegal, and deteftable: let us fuppofe for a moment that they are grofsly miftaken; yet an error imbibed by millions, and in which they believe the all of the prefent and future generations lies at fiake, may prove a very dangerous error; deltroying the Americans will not cure them, nor will any acts that condemn to ftarve or be miferable, have any tendency to perfuade them that these acts were made by their friends. The people in England are made to believe that the Americans want to separate from them, or are unwilling to bear their part of the common burden. No reprefentation can be more false; but, my lord, a nation cannot be mifled always, and when once the good people of Great Britain get truer notions of the matter, they will naturally wreak their refentment on thofe by whom they have been grofsly mifinformed or wretchedly deceived.

Review, my lord, the effects of the prefent measures; the past and prefent will inform your lordship of what may be to come.

With an unparalleled patience did the Bottonians bear the annihilation of their trade, the blocking up of their harbour, and many other dittreffes, till at Lexington an attack was made upon their lives, and then they gave fufficient proof that their patience was not the effects of timidity, but of prudence and an unwillingness to fhed British blood. This at

I convinced all America that the Bri

tifh miniftry and troops were athirft after their blood; and the behaviour of both parties on that day, and in many little fkirmishes fince, muft convince all the world that in the cause of liberty the Americans are not afraid to look regulars in the face, and that in an unjust and oppreffive fervice British troops are far from being invincible.

The burning of the innocent town of Charles-Town, after it had been left by its inhabitants, is a piece of fuch wanton cruelty as will fix an everlasting disgrace on the British_arms. In the long civil war in Great Britain nothing of the kind was attempted by either party, and this barbarity cannot fail of being condemned by all civilized nations.

If at the battle on Bunker's Hill the Americans have been furprized, superiority has coit the regulars dearer than the Americans what is called their defeat; one or two more fuch defeats of the Americans would for ever put it out of the power of the prefent regular army to gain a victory.

The rejecting of the New-York petition has effectually filenced all thofe who pleaded for, or hoped any good from, petitioning. The cannonading of that town in the dead of the night, and without the least previous warning, as it has fhewn what the inhabitants are indifcriminately to expect, will in history tand as a lafting monument of fuch wantonnefs of cruelty as nations not remarkable for humanity would be ashamed of.

The deftroying of the New-England fifhery laid all those who were deprived of their bread and occupation at sea, under an abfolute neceffity of feeking it in the American army, and the fenfe of the injury done them will doubtless exert itself in the day of battle.

The endeavour to ftir up popish Canadians and favage Indians against the colonists has been productive of the taking of the important pass of Ticonderoga, which has been effected without the lofs of a fingle life on either fide.

Detaining the inhabitants of Boston, after they had, in dependance on the general's word of honour, given up their arms, to be starved and ruined, is an action worthy of the caufe, and can only be equalled by the diftreffes of Proteftants driven under the walls of Londonderry, at which even a James relented.

Propofals publicly made by minifterial writers relative to American domeftics, laid the fouthern provinces under a neceffity of arming themselves; a proposal

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to put it in the power of domestics to cut the throats of their mafters, can only ferve to cover the propofers and abettors with everlasting infamy.

The Americans have been called "a rope of fand;" but blood and fand will make a firm cement; and enough American blood has been already fhed to cement them together into a thirteenfold cord, not easily to be broken.

My lord, the violence of the prefent measures has almoft inftantaneoufly created a continental union, a continental currency, a continental army, and before this can reach your lordship, they will be as equal in difcipline, as they are fuperior in caufe and fpirit to any regulars. The molt zealous Americans could not have effected in an age, what the cruelty and violence of adminiftration has effectually brought to pass in a day.

The regular army employed on this errand, with four able generals, now lies no better than befieged within the ruins of Charles-Town and Boston, unable to procure the neceffaries of life, obliged to import their bread from Europe, and fuel from Canada, pining away with disease, and affording daily martyrs to cruelty and arbitrary power, while every day adds to the improbability of their ever obtaining thofe unhappy ends. A ftrange fituation for a British army!

Reftraining the trade of the colonies, will effectually annihilate all their trade with Great-Britain. The numbers that croffed the Atlantic, or re-exported American commodities from Great- Britain; the manufacturers that wrought for America, or worked up their raw materials; will now be at full leisure to know and feel whether the American trade be an object of any importance, and how much the nation is obliged to a miniftry that has fo effectually laboured its deftruction.

The prefent difpute has made every American acquainted with, and attentive to, the principles of the British conftitution in this refpect, as well as in a ftrong fenfe of liberty, and the ufe of firearms almoft from the cradle, the Americans have vaftly the advantage over men of their rank almost every where elfe. From the conftant topic of prefent conversation, every child unborn will be impreffed with the notion; it is flavery to be bound at the will of another in all cafes whatsoever; every mother's milk will convey a deteftation of this maxim, Were your lordship in America, you

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might fee little ones acquainted with the word of command before they can diftinctly speak, and fhouldering the refemblance of a gun before they are well able to walk.

When millions of free people at once turn their thoughts from trade, and the means of acquiring wealth, to agriculture and frugality, it must cause a molt fenfible alteration in the flate. My lord, this is the cafe at prefent in América; every new act of violence will ftrengthen and confirm the fpirit that taught them the neceffity of being frugal and virtuous, that they might remain free and become invincible.

Admit, my lord, (for fuppofitions now become probable in proportion of their being aftonishing and violent) that a British fleet may effectually guard every harbour, river, creek, or inlet on the American coaft; admit also that her troops deftroy every town, village, or hut along the fea fhore; what then will be the confequence? Why, my lord, it will be the deftroying the property of thoufands in Great-Britain, and of a few on this fide of the water, whoma your lordship calls your friends: perhaps the attempt may not fucceed; but fuppofing it fhould, the Americans, injured beyond a poflibility of reparation, and irritated to the highest degree, will retire where they are inacceffible to troops and fhips; inftead of trade and navigation, you will have a defolate sea coaft; the trade of America will be loft, and with it the finews of war: and, my lord, in the natural course of things, America, in less than half a century, will contain more inhabitants than Great Britain and Ireland; and that period, my lord, is not fo far diftant to put the prefent treatment entirely out of remembrance. America and Great-Britain joined in arms together, may grow confident against the world befides; but if Britain continue her arms against America; if her troops can be perfuaded to go on against their brethren and friends; if they will deftroy the laft afylum of liberty, and a country which has faved fo many thousands from ftarving at home; the Americans will fight like men who have every thing at fake: the mercenaries with bayonets at their backs, and at the rate of fix-pence a day, if they are once defeated, whence will they be refupplied? If they return to Britain victorious, they will be fit inftruments to promote that slavery at home which they have been fuccessful in faftening (probably for a very little while) on their fellow-fubjects abroad.

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In times of public confufion men of all parties are fometimes carried further than they intended at firft fetting out. Hiftory and the knowledge of human nature fhould inform your lordship how much it is against all found policy to fecure or ftrive for punctilios at an infinite risk.

The Americans have always fhewn an affectionate regard to the king, and they are truly fenfible of the neceffity and advantage of a perpetual union with the parent ftate; but undeferved feverities cannot be productive of any pleafing returns. The Americans firmly believe that the claim at prefent endeavouring to be enforced, would render them mere flaves, and it is their general motto, death or freedom. The parliamentary, or, as they fay, minifterial claim is now written in letters of blood, and that will be far from making it more acceptable to American readers.

On the whole, my lord, fhould this addrefs be deemed impertinent and intrufive, I hope it may ftill be excufable

from the importance of the caufe, and

the fincerity of its motive. In the event of the prefent difpute I look upon all mankind as interested, and though not natural born, his majesty has not another subject who more ardently wifheth that his own repofe and happiness and that of all his fubjects may never meet with any interruption. Whether British troops fhall now drive liberty from out of the greater part of the British empire, and bury her remains in the American wilderness, or whether that wildernefs fhall flourish and chearfully contribute to make Great-Britain the greateft em pire of the univerfe, is the question now to be decided; and it is not fo unimportant, but it may be expected he that is higher than the higheft, and taketh up the ifles like a very little thing, will interpofe in the decifion. The whole A merican procefs, my lord, is liable to a revifion, and when righteousness and judgment come once to make an impreffion, many a Felix will tremble.

To reftore peace and harmony nothing more is neceffary than to fecure to America the known bleffings of the British conftitution. This may be done in a moment, and without any difgrace or risk. Let the Americans enjoy, as hitherto, the privilege to give and grant by their own reprefentatives, and they will give and grant liberally; but their liberty they will never part with but with their lives. The day that reftores their liberty, retores every thing to their former chans

nel; to enforce the contrary claim, ages may be infufficient, and every day encreafes the danger of "a mother's being dafhed to-pieces on her own children."

That your lordhip, in the hand of Providence, may be a happy inftrument to bring the prefent unnatural contest to a fpeedy, juft, and honourable iffue; that you may live to fee much of that happinefs which must be the refult; is no lefs my fervent prayer, than that God would blast every counsel and measure that may have a contrary tendencythat would separate Britain and America, whom God has joined together-that would abridge the rights, liberties, and happiness of the nation, our rightful sovereign, whom God ever preserve, or any of his subjects !

I am, my lord,
Your lordship's
most humble fervant,

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The Hiftory of a Race-horse.

lady, and her three children, went AST fummer, Hortenfia, a worthy to view the crowds of company, as they paffed to the races, which are held upon the Curragh of Kildare. The variety of countenances which they faw; the mirth of fome, the eagerness of others, and the diffipation of all; furnished a delightful entertainment to their young minds, unalloyed by any reflections on the extravagance, gaming, and intemperance, which fuch diverfions produce. Whilft they were enjoying this scene of pleasure, they obferved two men advancing on a full gallop, fpurring and lafhing their horfes to increase their speed. The day was extremely hot, and one of the horfes fell gafping almost at the feet of the eldest boy. By his agility the rider inftantly freed himself from the ftirrups, and, rifing with fury from the ground, he beat his horfe in the most favage and relentless manner. The poor animal was unable to move, and, at every ftroke of the whip, expreffed his agonies by the moft piercing groans. In vain the furrounding crowd interceded in his behalf. The tyrant, to whom he be longed, inflamed with anger and revenge, continued inexorable; and Hortenfia withdrew, with her young charge, from a fpectable fo painful and diftreffing.

When Euphronius, the husband of the above lady, returned to his house, in the evening, his children flocked round him, impatient to relate this tale of woe: I know and pity the unhappy horse,' faid

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