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Show [no] to the requilition made by the Commiflioners. This Cir-e prawns" of Netti-fienzffliim, fl/[r/fllitl /nflltr Bay, 137515;V . . . " kc * ‘ . I, Ifltmd, cumflance heightens the fraudulent complexton of the pro- . Canned/nut, J‘v'ow-l 0734‘, IVf‘IU- fizzy/3‘, Pizza/thwart, t/aelt/er Lcwcr (4071271105 071 Dz/(iwm' u, flhl‘r/r/ml, [4'7"v ~ gmm, North-CmV'a/z-mz, Sout/J-C '" ma/ma and] Gum' gm, my] cedure; and in any cafe the extract ihcws the decrded V not the power by them pretended. " troops under his command be l‘ufpended till a dyiim‘? and i ' B} 1/16 Em‘lofCAR L I SLE, Sir HENR Y CLIN'I‘ O N and VV I L L I A M E D E N, [1/7, (fall's/nifflaners (Ippoinml [y 172': majfl/Ily in pmflmnre of (1" (7d 5f parliament, 7}]{1(./€' (1771/ pqfléd in 1/98 181/) year of 151} mag/.1)": reign, to mad/c bi; majg/iy t0 (appoint Cmnmd/jm wrr is {rut/t, can/211? and agree 72,0072 t/Je mean; If quiitihg t/Je (lififl/t 'i‘s' " expliriz‘ ratification of the convention of Saratoga {hall be " properly notified by the court of Gi'eat~Britain to Con- " gret‘s." f all when, . VFW. zn/Jaz'Jzta/zts {1/ t/JI? [did t‘a/onier, often} HUM" and denomnmtzm. BUT further : The Congrefs had refolved on the 8th of January, 1778, on the molt conclulive reafons, " That the " embarkation of lieutenant-general Burgoyne and the ‘ I opinion of the Britith court, that their Commiflioners had But infiead of this, there is fimply azlz'rafiim of a iécretary of tlate to their general "to give the fulleft af" mumm, Ste." which atlurances, and the general who gave mw fibffling in curtain ofI/Je colonies, plantation: and [imvinces in North-flmerim. them, or the very {ecretary himl‘eii', might be dilavowed. The perfon who certifies the extract allo might eafily be dit‘avowcd ; nay, it is very pofiible that no {uch letter was ever written : Nor can we argue againlt fuch deceit from the " bafenels ofit; for thofe who would do the many treacherous acts which they had committed during the war, who had inhabitants ofNorth-America in general, the benevolent overtures of Great-Britain towards a re-union and coalition borrowed from felons of me mott pitiful kind the little vile, lainy ofcounterfeiting money, and with whom it was a fa- with the duty we owe to our country, or with a juft re- vorite maxim that no faith was to be kept with rebels, could hardly hoggle at the {ending as an extraét from a lEcretary ot‘ itate's letter what really was not their an extrad't. But it is unnecchflartv to dwell on thel‘e obieétions 3 for the lalt paragraph of Sir Henry Clinton's letter was to highly in- decent, that it would have be ‘11 treafon againlt the dignity ot~ the peopie of America to have attended to it. The Cong-rel}, therefore, with great propriety, "ordered that AV I N G amply and repeatedly made known to the Congrets, and having alto proclaimed to the with her colonies, we do not think it contiltent either gard to the characters we bear, to perlilt in holding out oil‘ers, which, in our eftimation, required only to be known to be molt gratefully accepted; and we have accordingly, ex- cepting only the commander in chief, who will be detained by military duties, refolved to return to England a few Weeks after the date of this manifelto and proclamation. " PREVIOUS, however, to this decii'ive Prep, we are " the tecretary return the following antwer: Sir, I am (C led, by a jutt anxiety for the great objeéts of our million, to enlarge on tome points which may not have been luf- " States of America make no anl‘Wer to intolent letters." ficiently underflood, to recapitulate to our fellowlubjeéts the bleflings which we are empowered to confer, and to (lireéled to inform you, that the Congrels of the United BEING thus foiled in their {evcral attempts to deceive, nothing remained but to terrify. For this purpofe they on the 3d of OEtober, 1778, pubiifhed the following manifelto and proclamation : To tie mew/251‘: cf the szrcfr, t/Je rzzmzbers of t/M General flfimljlwr or Coili'fflfiCIJf qftbe/avcral591921555,{i/aniatmm‘ and provinces warn them of the continued train of evils to which they are at prefent blindly and obl'tinately expofing them elves. " To the members of the Congrefs, then, we again declare, that we are ready to concur in all tatist‘aétory and juft arrangements for fecuring to them and their refpeétive conf'tituents, the re-eflablifhrnent of peace, With the exaemption from any impofition of taxes by the parliament of Great-Britain, |