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370 Dr. Frank/[12's flly'zwr Dr. Frank/[I23 Aflwer to LOrd Howe- Philadelphia, July 30, 1776.. My LORD, Received fate the letters your Lordflnp to kindly I fOrwarded to me, and‘beg, you to accept my theilii: oflieial difp'atchee to which you refit me, contain. nothing more than What we hadf eend 1:: the act of parliament, viz. " Offers 0 peg": ‘c upon fuhmiflion;" which I was lorry t? t {5. as it mutt give yourbLfor'dPiip pain to be en ‘ to ho elels a u me 5. ' farIDOil:e&i11gppal-don5 to he'Ofiered to the cologieii, who are the very parties injured; exprefles n:1 Cele]that opinion of our ignorance, bafenefs, dan sud fenfibility, which your uninformed an pf} s . nation has long been pleated to entertain of'u ,5 but it can have no other eiteét than tliatlial e2; creating our refentments. - It is impofli C It" {hould think of fubmithon to a government, tlit has with the moft wanton barbarrtyand crue ty burnt our defencelel‘s towns in the midft of "21111ter ; excited the favages to mallacre our. (peaccm ) farmers; and our times to murder their matters, and is even now * bringing foreign mercenaries to * [Abmlt this timefhe Hellians, 84c. hadjull arrived from Europe: at Stiten Illand 3111 New York}: dcluge [Az or] to Lay - deluge our lettlemems \"ili'l ioious injuries have t‘r‘QEiZIQL ah'isction for that parent r" de:n‘:-But were it profs? . . r, , , : _ iorgive them, it is not pr /' tor you ( :.; the Brititli nation) to my; _. 1T: "‘r'ople yor. 1o heavily injured ,---you {1111 never C(mfide again jnthole as fellow fubjcr‘ts, and tumult them to enjoy equal freedom, to who m you know you have given {uch juit caufes of hitti ng enmity; and this mutt impel you, were we again under your government, to endeavour the breaking our {pirit by the {everett tyranny, and obitruc‘ting by every means in your power our growing Itrength and profperity. But your Lordfliip mentions " the King's m" ternal folicitude for promoting the eflablini- " .ment of lafting peace and union with the colo- " nies." If by peace is here mean t, a peace to be entered into by dif'cinét flutes, now at war; and his Niajefty has given your Lord thip powers to treat with us of fuch a peace; I may venture to fay, though without authority, that I think a treaty for that purpofe not quite impracticable, before we enter into foreign alliances. But I am perfuaded you have no fuch pow ers-Your nation, though by punifhing thofe American governors who, have fomented the difco rd, rebuild- ing our burnt towns, and repairing as far as poffible the mifchiefs done us,- {he migh t recover a grea t {hare of our regard ; and the great eft {hare Of our growing commerce, with all the adva n2 rages |
