The American Gazette, Or, the Constitutional Journal, 1776-06-25

used by the Lords in office, declaring that Shakef Shakefpeare'^ - peare'^ Shakefpeare'^ Bardolph treated the word accommodation as fignificantly as it appeared to be treated now. His Lord drew a pathetic pidure of the probably fatal consequences if Commissioners were sent out to treat with America^ or any part of it, under the present ad of parliament, lamenting the fate of that Commander in Chief who would venture to aft under it, as it would certainly be at the hazard of his neck. Lord Mansfield was called up by Lord Cam Camden's - den's Camden's law argument. His Lordship replied full, to it, and declared it as his opinion, that the aft alluded to, afforded every necessary power to in# Commissioners. His Lordship observed that ever^ propofiuon relative to the American fubjed lhud been argued and dwelt upon in the course r - & debate, but that propofi ion which the meuca held forth. Much had been said relative to th& tea ad ; there was net a word in the motion about the ad of 1769. A g^eat deal had come from one of the supporters of the motion about the na navy; - there - vy; - there navy; - there was not a word about the navy in the motion. Another Lord talked of convicts and vagrants ; there was no allusion to convi&s and vagrants in the motions A third mentioned the Marquis de Montcalm ; a fourth the East-Lidia Company; a fifth the military arrangement of Ireland - all matters foreign to the motion. Hit Lordship said that he had, when he came to th# House, no intention of fpenking in the debate, but as he was up he would now fay a word or two, and that should be to the motion. He declared, there was nothing more true, than that every thing said in Parliament was immediately wafted to America, and converted to the purpofc of coun counteracting - teracting counteracting the measures to which it related. Oa the prelent occasion, it had been argued, that th# ^ar with America was legislative - so was the suc succession - cession succession to the crown ; the King's title was fettled by ad of parliament - how idle therefore to dwell upon matters so trifling, and of so little confer quence. - This country (continued his Lord Lordship) - ship) Lordship) is now at a very tremendous crisis, just com commencing - mencing commencing a war of a nature entirely new; a war that must necessarily be very expensive, and the issue of which no one can foretell. America haa rebelled, America is in arms; not defenfively, but offenfively ; even if we were willing to ceafa hostilities they are not: We must therefore a& with vigor, and we mull at least shew ourfelvea determined to formount their opposition. Happy would it be for us, my Lords, if any means could be devised of Ending the quarrel without blood bloodffied - ffied bloodffied ; but does the present motion tend to fuels an effed / Without attempting to save a Filling of the enormous expence the nation has been at in providing the present armament, it allows that the troops shall all go, and when they ar arrive - rive arrive in America it ties up their hands. What then ? Why then Commissioners are to treat with the Congress ; they are to prepare a petition of grievances, which the Commissioners are to bring to England. The Congtefs will laugh in their sleeves at our folly; they will reprint their de declaration - claration declaration of war under the new title of a Petition (for that Hates what they term their grievances) we shall lose a campaign, of which loss they will take infinite advantage, and next soring we fhai have the whole to begin again. This, my Lords, I conceive will be the issue of the present motion, were it Carried. I therefore oppose it as nuga nugatoiy, - toiy, nugatoiy, ill-timed; arid ineffectual. , Lord Weymouth spoke to the assurances from France and Spain of the pacific intentions of those courts, which had been questioned in the course of the debate.

infamous, a cowardly treaty ! Allowing for a mo moment - ment moment that it was prudent, that it was humane, that it was equitable to come te a treaty, with whom we were to treat! The Congress we all here know to be the body of delegates Item the feverJ provinces of America ; would any Lord appear so insensible of his own honor as to fbnd forward the adviser of the King id consider the Con Congress - gress Congress as a legal assembly ? The Ceng/cP, whose publications breathe the molt daring spi spirit - rit spirit of refinance, rebellion, and treason ; whole fyltem of government is founded on the groffelt tyranny and despotism - -who; in the very mo moment - ment moment that they have the presumption to fay they contend only tor liberty and freedom, are counte countenancing - nancing countenancing the most Unprecedented and indefensible violations of both. Let the Lords who are ad advocates - vocates advocates for America confider the case of the New- Printer, as listed by the noble Earl near him, (Lord Sandwich) let them bring that man's hard lot home to their own breads, and then let them confider how property they used the equity, humanity, and juftiee, when they urged them as pleas for the rebels; His Lordffiip, after very warmly contending that it would be the molt impolitic Hep that could possibly be suggested, to flop the vigorous exertion of our armament, gave his hearty negative to the motion. The Bishop of Peterborough followed Lord Lyttleton. He declared he had attended with great minuteness to all the arguments urged, and although every Lord in office profeffed to wish earnestly for an accommoda ion, yet the main purport of what had been said by them appear appeared - ed appeared to be a coincidence of fentim^nt, that nothing Short of unconditional submission would be ac accepted, - cepted, accepted, and that adminiftratioo were refolded to push matters to the last extremity. As a ground for so fatal a resolution, some Lords had taken infinite pains to Shew.that independency was the real aim of the colonists, and that therefore it was necessary, by force of arms, to reduce them to fabjedion, and convince-them of the Superiority of the mother-country, - He gave full credit to the ingenuity of the speakers who maintained this doctrine, but he thought it incumbent upon him to deliver it as his confeientious opinion, that the general idea of the colonists was hot a fepafration from this country. In times of public diftra&ion the cry for independency might spring as one of the hydra heads, which it was natural to expe& would grow out of that monger, civil Tumult ; but it was unfair to hold it up as the general ex expression - pression expression of a people so numerous as the inhabitants of North-America. His Lordship ascribed the present Unhappy quarrel to the fatal measures re reseeding - seeding reseeding the Stamp-Ad ; and he flattered him. felf that were the present motion carried, all might yet be well. Lord Gower spoke against the motion, and made some few remarks on the letter written by Lord Hillfbotough in 1769, which had been re referred - ferred referred to by the Duke of Richmond ; in order to fheiy that a speedy end to the dispute Was more likely to be procured by ctercive measures, than by lenitive and ill-timed moderation, his Lord Lordship - ship Lordship read a letter to the Governor of a refractory colony, written by a member of administration in 1 77 h which threatened punishment for disobe disobedience, - dience, disobedience, and which immediately produced the defirotfs eftfed.

S A L E M, June 25. The demand fortbe Gazette Extraordinary of Wednesday hfl, fronts frying them to our friends in the Country, therefore Jhall infers in this Day's Paper all the material Articles Con Contained - tained Contained therein. By Capt. Cook, from Canfo, in Nova-Scotia, woe are favored with Two Halifax Papers, of the Fourteenth and -Twenty eighth of May. Caps. Cook inform us, That on the Seventeenth of April last, on bis Prflage from Sandwich, he being bound to St. Peters, a French Island, to procure Arms and Am Ammunition - munition Ammunition for the Uji of the Continent, was taken by -ne of the Ministerial Pirates, and carried into Can Canfc, - fc, Canfc, who, after robbing bis VefJel of the greater Part ufthe Cargo, Provisions, all bis Hands, and Forty Dollars, tbefe kind Plunderers were Jo genteel and polite as to give him kis Vtff again, and permitted him to proceed on his Voyage without Men or any Thing, efe necefor, for the Profantion thereof, which obliged him to fell bit Vtjel and the small Remains of the Cargo for left than half their Value. - Before the VeffP was boarded by the Enemy, the Captain defray defrayed - ed defrayed his Letters and Papers.-Captain Cookfurther in informs, - forms, informs, That at the Ifand of St. John's they have been greatly distressed for Previfens, and man, have Suffered within a few Months bast. He also gives the following Shocking Infance of the Scarcity of Provisions, at St. John's, viz. That as a Boat hav having - ing having on board a Family, was goingfamthence to ano another - ther another Island, a Child of Eight Years of Age perished with Hunger on the Parage, when the unhappy Pa Parents - rents Parents were obliged to eat the dead Body thereof to preserve their ®wn mifrable Lives. - He also fays, that at the River St. John's, the Indians are highly incekfed againf the Miniferial Party, and are deter determined - mined determined at all Hazards to join the Americans. HALIFA X, May zi. Las Sunday Morning arrived the Schooner Three Friends, Capt. Stalker, from Londqn, by whom we have received Prints to the Nineteenth of April, from which the following Articles are taken, viz. L OND O N, Match 16. House of Lords, March 14.

Debates on the Motion for a Treaty es Reconciliation with the American Congress. LORD Lyttlteton said h 4 entertained a very high opinion of the spirited defence a no noble - ble noble Earl (Lord Hillfboroegh) had given of hit conduct refpeding America while he was in ad administration, - ministration, administration, but be thought he had gone a little too far in explanation of his letter to the colonies, as he did not conceive that any Lord ought to be deprived of his free agency in parliament by a promise made by ethers in office. For his part, he solemnly prbtefted against foregoing the claim of -f taxation, a claiih inherent to the British parlia parliament, - ment, parliament, which neither argument er arms could re remove. - move. remove. He allowed that it might be inexpedient to Carry futh a claim into exertion at this moment, and probably it might shew the wisdom of the te tegiflature - giflature tegiflature to wave it lor force time, but he never would consent entirely to abandon it. The moti motion - on motion before the House, his Lord Grip observed, was a motion which, if carried, would degrade the dig dignity - nity dignity of parliament, and fink us tba molt con contemptible - temptible contemptible depth of disgrace. What ! shew to all Europe, that with a force prepared to subdue our rebellious colonists, who had destroyed our courts of justice, contemned our laws, invaded the natu natual - al natual rights of mankind, aid trade war upon the empire, we were afraid to pursue the objects for Which the face was levied, and defeended to as

Lord Camden rose next, and entered into a legal difeuffion of the Capture a&, denying the power of the Crown aft, denying the power to any cne Commiffianer or more, to pardon a whole b<dy of people. His Lordship begged to know the meaning and extent of the words well in the clause of that aft, and laughed at the terms accommodation and reconciliation as