The Newport Gazette

The true interest of both sides is reconciliation, nor can there be a point in the world clearer, that what death does must do less by war, in a manner which even peace will not own compensate for. We must at last agree and be friends; for we cannot live without them, and they will not without us; and a

But, why as good to us cannot be given and byett ncer might w l be puzzled to find takrn now. a when we tha l have well nigh rui..d (h oth r by à: mutoal madntis ef cotin.-o:e arohe.'s threaie. For al these resfo , ghich.cargor but .te ao ubvious to the Eo& ith cbmm.li-nersy and ou:s, they a:e t. m. ; I am ot a los to imagine how any thi.g c n arie to obst uct a nrgociation, a.d, cf cors quence, a pacification. You, who krow miy tea t, know that :hore io mot a nih nearer toic than this is ; but I am prept ed for every event, one only excr ptud -I mean a dith-nourable Ieace. Ruiher aban tat, let me, abougd it de v ith the lof of evty hine el e I hold dear con inus his hor,ii ucde, a:d by the m it, unukely sneads, &x'he ujwurthr inituwent of pc- serving pclutical f.cuti.y ard aapriaei to them, as neli as' to ourel.es. Pity this canh t be accompl hed, withunt fixing on me th lad naiie, Reb-l. Ileve m; Kixg : yuu know I do: A oldier, agoed man can- not bu: oe him. How peculiarly hard th.n is our ortune to be deemed tr itors to o gdod a King ! Bit, I am not without h fc that even ke will yet fre caufe to do m. joice ; pofterit- am (ure wil. Mcan wh.le I ccmnfore myelf sith the refl:Etion that this h.s b'en the fa'e of the bet end bravtit men, tv n oi the Ba:ons who obtain- ed Magra Charia,' whili the dipu.e was derending. Tris, however, anxiorily as I wih for i.it is not mine to command : I Seu my cutx, that of stending up for ihe libe ties of my'couatiy, snd whatever diffi. cuitiks and cifconragements lic in my way, I care nct htink irom it ; and I iely on that reingi rdo has not lestto ns the choice ad dltier; t,wlnn I 'confciesziony dif. charge mine, I shall not finaily lose my rc- ward. . If I teally zm not a btd man, I shail met lonz be fo fer down.

Affare yourf lf, I will pay all pcfibie at- tentipa to joar recommenda:i n . But hrppy as I am ia an opportunity of bliging you, even in the fmalleft thi:gi, tak it no. amic thxt I ole the frecdom wi h you to whiper io your ear, to be fparing of them. You know how I an circumianced : bard y th: promotice df a fubaite:n. is l.it w mc ; and frce and fndependent as I am, I reso v to tamain to. Iome the congrefs co cbii. gation for aey perfonai favours dace (o my- Ilf ; aor i]l I run ia dobt to them o: ta- vours.to oihor. Befder, I am mor.if d 10 have to sfk of them, hat, i: scund policy (if ofher morives had bern wonting) they coght totave Branted to me un Crd. I canust deftribs to sou rhe inconveciencies this irmy Siffers for want of thie cor sequeuce bejnj given to ir commaiter in chisf. Bur, as ihefe mitt be.encreak: d, were my prc2iar aaip i rs g 7iy Keown, I f rbear ; cnly enjrynirg your cautiocz fjence cn his head.-t-lo a iegu- lar x'my. ou- Vi ginia yeurg mep, weu'd cettainly, in geceral. mtke tie bek c fficers ; but Fiegret that thcy have zot now put it in my power juily co pay them thio compli- men:d They diike their northern aliics ; znd this dillike is ho carce of infinite mi. chiefi and vexatione go mc. In the manj difputes and quericje of this sore which we have-bad; sic biog bay prrt'eularly fruck m:. - My ccuntryaen ae tot infericr in unde standi-x. acd are certainiy operior in 1bst cibing uithed Spirit, and high Seie of he ncer which thould Torm (he chersCtct of of s cficer. Yet, (obebb. or other. it foierer bapp eni thar K ruy al:efcatiouj