The Virginia Gazette

From the KENTISH GAZETTE.

The military letters from Long Island, and the triumphant exultations of the ministerial partisans, would fain persuade us, that the sight of a British soldier is sufficient to petrify a whole regiment of Americans. They must surely think that the inhabitants of old England have drank deeply of the waters of Lethe, and lost their memories as well as their liberties, so soon to forget THE CARNAGE AT BUNKER'S HILL, and a still later incident, when his Majesty's troops would have been in possession of Sullivan's Island, if they would have passed a ford of four feet water defended only by fifteen hundred of these cowardly provincials. To the adulatory address of the city of York, I would hold up the answer of the provincial prisoners, when offered pardon by HOWE, on the easy condition of taking the oaths of allegiance; that they had devoted themselves to liberty and their country, and would meet their fate. Is this the language of COWARDS?

But if every thing is to be suppressed in favour of, and every thing to be exaggerated against the Americans, what must every good Englishman who laments his situation in silence, think? He must know himself detested, insulted, robbed, and deluded, by whom? By RENEGADE WHIGS, by MERCENARY BRITONS, and DESPOTIC TRAITORS.