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Show 366 Letter from Dr. Franklin, 86. [A:D.T.] [ 367 ] _B1'itain, at the expence of three millioxnlsnlh: ' ) ankies this campaign, w 1c. :glbiolfoa ligad; and at Bunker's Hill {he gained a mile of ground, half of which {he lof'c again by our taking pofl: on Ploughed Hill. During the fame time 60,000 children have been born in America. From thefe data his mathematical head will eafily calculate the time and expence necclfary to kill us all, and conquer our whole territory. --My fincere refpeé'cs to * * 9* 9* 9* 9", and to t1}: club of honefi Whigs at 9" *5 * *9 *5 9* * 9'5 . Adieu. Letter from Lord Howe to Dr. Frame/1'22 *. I Cannot, my and parcels, received them) word upon the Eagle, :‘fzme the 20:17, 1776. worthy friend, permit the letters which I have (cut (in the Rate I to be landed, without adding a fubjeét of the injurious extremi- ties in which our unhappy difputes have engaged us. 1 am ever You ‘* [In the year 1776 an a& of parliament pafl'ed to prohibit and reflrain on the one hand, the trade and intercourle ofthe refraé‘tory Yours molt affectionately, colonies rcfpefiively during the revolt; and on the other hand, to enable perfons appointed by the crown to grantpardam and declare any particular diltriét at the ,(‘i/Ig'rifimce, Effie. Lord Howe (who had been previoufly appointed commander of the fleet in North America) was on May 3d declarcdjoint rfinmmgfimr with his brother Gen. Howe for the latter purpofes of the act. He failed May 12 ; zmd while off the Maflhchuletts coalt prepared a declaration announc- ing this commilfion, and accompanied it with circular letters. July 4th, independence had been declared; but neverthelefs congrefs (invited by various attempts made to procure a conference) refolved to fend Mellieurs Franklin, J idams, and E.Rutledge to learn the propofitions of the commillioners, by whom authorized, and to whom addrell‘ed. The commiflioners having no power to treat withcongrefs in its public capacity, and congrel's not being impowered. by their reprefentativcs to refcind the aft of independence; the conference was broken ofl" It remains only to add, that on Sept. 19, the commiflioners declared thexnfelves ready to confer with any of the well-affected, on the means of relloring peace and permanent union with. every colony, as part- of the Britilh empire; and promifed a re-w‘fion of the feveral royal inflrm‘lz‘om {uppoledto lay improper neflraints on colony-legiflation, and allb the king's cmmrrme eina revifion of the objectionable acts of par/falllt'ut: Which leemed the ultimatum ofthe commiriion. ,, Parliament however, by a firblequent aét, (which among other things formally renounced taxation in North America and the Well indies) authorized five conmriffioners£0 |