The Virginia Gazette

PHILADELPHIA, November 30.

Extract of a letter from NEWARK (New Jersey) November 23.

You have no doubt heard all the particulars of our retreat from Fort Lee to Hackinack, from Hackinack to Aquaconack, and from thence to this place. Nothing material has happened in the fighting way. We lost some of our large mortars, part of our cannon and stores at Fort Lee, as well as at Hackinack. I believe the Generals intend to make a stand at this place. I hope these losses will rouse the virtue of America; if she does not exert herself now, she deserves not the independence she has declared. I have still hopes of success. I heard a great man say many months ago, that America would not purchase her freedom at so cheap a rate as was imagined; nor is it proper she should, what costs us a little, we do not value enough."

Extract of a letter from Newark (New Jersey) Nov. 25.

"I have just time enough to inform you, that there is very good intelligence that the enemy intend to make a push for PHILADELPHIA. We hear part of their forces is embarked, either to go up the Delaware, and make their attacks on both sides at once, or else to amuse the Southern States, and prevent their sending any assistance to Philadelphia; we have not force enough to oppose their march by land. We look to New Jersey and Pennsylvania for their militia, and on their spirit depends the preservation of America. - It in this hour of adversity they shrink from danger, they deserve to be slaves indeed! If the freedom that success will ensure us, if the misery that awaits our subjection, will not rouse them, why let them sleep on till they awake in bondage."