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Show Gov. Jouxsrouxés SPEE CH. Gov. jonxsrone's SPEECH. many - . lives, but have taken Mud Illand with very little trouble, as it entirely commanded it, and likewile faved the trouble of often rifltiiig the flat boats with provilions under the guns of the Mud Fort in the night, to keep the army from ilarving; by the friends of adminiih'ation, to enforce the wifildmbf iii?" meafure in abandoning Philadelphia to Uppertimely as t'iev didi pg they never were above five or fix days provrfions before, hand, till the Mud Fort was reduced, which was in; weeks ? It has been agreed to by this tide ofthe houfe, to marriiiij‘: thé riflt which our tleet and our army run by their bad Inaniieei iiem well known, differ from them both. The roll of the proceedings for the reducllon oi the illand are GOV ER N0 R J 0 1'1 N S T O N E'S S P E E C H. I 0/2 Lord Ifuwe'; Coed/ail in flmcrica. Mira/5 221, i 779. As I differ from the "01316 Lord(Howe)wh0 {Poke my} in almofl evrry thing he has faid, I will conlider the headsof his dlfcourfe {eparatel r‘, and give my rations to the houfi: for this difagreement. La. Howe mm His Iiordfhip lirft alleoged that no reinforcement was lent to "mcd with two him, becauie of the two line of battle lhips mentioned by the ship, I l'hiladelphia, and our {hips in the Delawar' a . Would have been tlarVed, and the flllppintrC(iiei13:f,1,tyct31L iii-£5: a - , Opinion is general throughout the nation; it has been {won d noble Lord at the Admiralty, one was intended to attend on the Commi‘ihoners in cafe they thought proper to return immediately, and the other was defiined to bring his Lordlhip home; {lill the two fhips, Trident and Ardent, But on this lubjCCl, as I may probably do on many others IWCW‘JM l3": I maintain, as I always have ‘10:", kept I'hiladclp, thriftt the abandoning Philadelphia at the moment ".3 did ",1; mo fatal to our affairs in North America‘- : Ir " i i i no fuch orders had been given, and Monti. d'nfdigilsqliiiigogfi ved off the Delaware as he did, that neither the flii'is in ‘thgt river, nor the army at Philadelphia, run any rill: born that circumil‘ance, for fix or eight weeks at leail, by which time we mull have been relieved from any imprefiion‘s'of 'reill'aint, by the‘nawgation of that river being interrupted. Pirll, I lay, that the nav1gation ot thatqriv‘ci- is [O intricate, minions ".3le that lupponng tne buoyslcut away, the belt pllots ot the couni‘lihrs 5 1‘1"" try could not have traced out tne channel to have alcended tlne " . Ln" ,, . m I‘ e river with fuch fliips as thole under Mont. d'Ellaing, in tight Dnlamuci or ten days. ‘ " _Next I ail'ert, that none of the 74 or 80 gun fliips, without were there ; the being lightened, could have pulled the flats, as the 'l'rident went Admiralty had a right to reckon upon them, as iteould not on ground twice at the top of high water, not from itiillirir the channel, but from the {hallownefs ot‘thc water, and thislthip draws three feet lcfs water than any of the French 74 gun (hips. Thirdly, I allert, that fuppoling l-VIonli d'Ellaing, with his Whole force, had ac'tually ai'cended the Delaware, above the be [uppofed that either the Comrnniioners, who failed in the Trident from England a week later than d‘Efiaing failed from Toulon, or the Ardent, who failed with the convoy a little before them, could pollibly have left the ports of North America before the packet, which failed the 5th of l‘day, would announce the approach of the French fquadron, and therefore they were {hips to be confidered as on the fpot, to be uled and depended upon as the event has proved, Did a com"; The admiralty had further, reafons to EXPeft that the WhOlC his 5:1"- "Wot Lord Rowe's force would have been rogleflm', efpecrally the ‘ two decked ihipS, becaule they had lent his Lortlfhip very ear- flats, that all our fhips, both men ofwar and tranlports, could have been moved into fafety above the ehevaux do him ; or the tranfports could have been remove above the chemux de frize, and the {hips of war moored in a half moon below, with flank- ing batteries on each tide the river, which was in pollellion of our army. We fhould alli) have had the advantage offending fire {hips down the fiream among the enemy. The river is not ly notice ofth; failing; of Monlieur la Motte Piquet, and ofthe certainty of a war with France; in this cafe his force was far To broad as the Thames at Gravefend, and d'Eflaing, after from being defpicahle. fed in the fame manner which experience has demonftrnted we W79: the two decked {hips were not col- letted after two months notice, is a queilion'on whichl gm erfuaded his Lordl'hio will be able to give very good rcalons, gear: vote u on the fubjefi‘t, beeaufe I am fuflici'ently acquaint.cd with the £15m neceflhry to form my judgment, but I qudllon if an hundred members in the houfe know the aéiual force 'Lord Howe had under his command, or the confidence the admiralty tould have'thut this force would be colleéted, The next point the noble Lord fiates, and the honourable gentleman who made the motion has inforced the {ante argu- ment, is, that in cafe Monf, d'Eflaing had found our army_at ' ' l ‘ i " I'hiladelphia, palling through a hot fire in afccnding, mutt have been rcpub were capable of doing by the late attack at St Lucia, where Ad-Admiral Rar- mi ral Barrington, ' With ' :1 ve ry i'nferior force inde c , has flicnriirmgfo" anon}: "mph g‘vc" ‘3 What men, not willing to delpair, can ‘accomplilh. For my own part, after confidering the {object on every point, again and again, I really think, to far from any danger by the dircdt application of the force of the enemy in the DelaWare, that there was hardly any rilk from any thing that could ave been done by them, in that river, againll the refifiance of our {hips and army 5 New York would have been the place in P 2 danger. |