The Derby Mercury from Derby, Derbyshire, England • 2

late Country is always inconsiderable, its Reve daily subjected to heLicen tiemfness ofthe Soldiery, of our we.took such Mdaiures as Pru- j- T. rw. -11 7 nue tritimg, the Expence ot lubjecting and re- aence aictatca as rMecemty wui juiuiy. possessed ourfelves of Crown Point and Ticonde- taming it in Subjection certain and inevitable are roroia to remove, in Dehance or their natu-ral Rights, in Violation of the most solemn Com-pacts. Or, if after long and wearisome Solicita rago.

Yet give us leave most solemnly to anure you, that we have not yet lost Sight of the Ob What then remains but the Gratifications of an ill-j udged Pride, or the Hope of rendering ut subservient to the Designs on your Liberty i Soldiers who have fheathed their Swords in tTi tion, a Pass is proeufed, their Effects are de-tained, and even those who are most favoured ject we have ever had in View a with you on Constitutional Principles and a Bowels of their American Brethren, will not draw have no Alternative but Poyerty or Slavery. The Distress of many Thousand People, wantonly de-prived ofthe Neceslaries of Life, is a Subject on Reitoration of that friendly Intercourfe, which, to -them with more Reluctance against you. When which we would not wisli to enlarge. too late, you may lament the JLols of that Freedom which we exhort you, while still in vour Power, to preserve. On the other Hand, fhould you prove succesi- Yet we can not but observe, that a Britilh Fleet (unjustisled even by Acts of your Legislature) are daily employed in ruining our Commerce, seising our Ships, and depriving whole Communities.

of their daily Bread. Nor will a Regard for your Honour peimit us to be silent, ful 5 fhould that Connection, which we most ar Tbe TWELVB UNITED COLONIES, by their DE LEGATES in CoNGRESS, tO tbe of GRE AT-BRIT AI rrtms, Countryment and FY- thefey and by every other Appellation, that may designate the Ties which bind us to-each other, we entreat your Attention tv this our second Attempt, to prevent their Remembrance of formet Friend- lhips, Pride in the glorious Atchievements ot our common Ancestors, and Affection for the Heirs of their Virtues, have hitherto preserved our mutual Connection. Btit whtn that Friend-fhipjs Yiolatcd: by. the grostest Injuries wKen the Pride of Ancestry becomes our Reproach, and we are no otherwise allied than as Tyrants ad Slaves, when reduced to that melancholy alternative of renouncing your Favour, or our Freedom, can we hesitate about the Choice Let the Spirit of Britons determine. Ina) former Address we aslerted our Rights, and stated the Injuries we had then received.

We hoped, that the mention of our Wrongs would have roused that honest Indignation which has fiept too long for your Honour, or the Weifare of the Empire. But we havc not been permitted the Advantage of both, we till lately maintained. The Inhabitants of this Country chiefly apply them fei ves to Agriculture and CommerceT As their Fashions and Manners are similar to yours, your Markets must afford them the Conveniences and Luxuries for which they exchange the Pro-duce of their Labours. The Wealth of this extended Continent centers with you and our Trade is so regulated as to be subservient only to your Interest. You are too reaso nable to expect that by Taxes (in addition to this) we sliould contribute to your Expence to believe, after di-verting the Fountain, that the Streams can flow with unabated Force.

Ir has been faid that we refuse to submit to the Restrictions on our Commerce, From whence is this Inference drawn Not from our Words, we having repeatedly declared the Contrary, and while Britilh Troops fully your Glory, by Actions which the most inveterate Enraity will not palli- ate among civilized Nations the wanton and un neceslary DestructBon of Charles-Town, a large, ancientj and once populous Town, just deserted by its Inhabitants, who had sled to avoid the Fury of your Soldiery. If you still retain those Sentimehts of Com-paslion by which Britons have been distinguilhed we again profess our Submission to the several If the Humanity which tempered the Valour of our common Ancestors, has not degenerated into Cruelty you will lament the Mi seri es of Acts of Trade and Navigation pasled before the their Descendants. Year 1763, trusting neverthess in the Equity and to entertain this pieanng every Jultice ot Parliament, that luch of them as, up Day brought an Accumulation of Injuries, and To what are we to attribute this Treatment If to any leeret Principle of Constitution, let it on cool and impartial Consideration, lhall appear the Inveivtion of the Ministry has been constant- be mentioned let us learn that the Government to have impoled unneceslary or grievous Restrictions, will, at Ibme happier Period, be repealed or altered. And we chearfully consent to the we have long revered is not without its Defects ly exercised, in adding to the Calamities or your American Brethren. After the most valuable Right of Legiflation and that while it gives Freedom to a Part, it ne Operation of such Acts of the Britilh Parliament ceslarily enslaves the Remainder of the Empire.

"was infringed, when the Powers ailumed by ir luch a frinciple exilts, why ror Aees has it your Parhament, in which we are not represent ceafed to operate Why at this Time is it called as lhall be restrained to the Regulation of our external Commerce, for the Purpose of securing the commercial Advantages of the whole Empire cd, and, from our local and other Circumstances, into Action Can no Realbn be asligned for this can not pro perl oe reprelented, rendered our conductr jr mult it be relolved into wanton Property precarious. After being denied that dently wilh to maintain, be dislblved fhould your Ministers exhaust your Treafures, waste the Blodd of your Country men in vain Attempts on our Liberty, do they not deliver you, weak and defenceless, to your natural Enemies Since then your Liberty must be the Price of your Victories your Ruin, of your Defeat What blind Fatality can urge you to a Purfuit destructive of all that Britons hold dear If you have no Regard to the Connection that has tor Ages fubsisted beeween us if you have forgot the Wounds we received sighting by your Side, for the Extension of the Empire if our Commerce is an Object below your Consideration if Justice and Humanity have lost their Insluence on your Hearts, still Motives are not wanting to excite your Indignation at the Measures now pursued Your Wealth, your Honour, your Liberty are at Stake. Notwithstanding the Distress to which we ar reduced, we sometimes sorget our own Afflictions, to anticipate and lympathize in yours. We grieve that rasli and inconsiderate Councils fhould precipitate the Destruction of an Empire, which has been the Envy and Admiration of Ages. And call God to Witnefs, that we would Part wirb our Property, endanger our Lives, and sa-crifice every Thing but Liberty, to redeem you from Ruin.

A Cloud hangs over your Heads and ours ere this reaches you, it may probably have hurst upon us let us then (before the remembrance of for-mer Kindncss is obliterated) once more re-peat those Appellations which are ever grateful in our Ears. Let us entreat Heaven to avert our Ruin, and the Destruction that threatens our Friends, Brethren, and Country men on the other Side the Atlantic. By Order of the Congress, JOHN HANCOCK, President Attested by CHARLES THOMPSON, Secretary Philadelphia, July 8, 1775. MONDAYs POST. Holland, and Flanders, Carthagena, (Spain) July 15.

to the ivlother Country, and the commercial Benefits of its respective Members exeluding every Idea of Taxation, internal or external, for Exercise of arbitrary Power? And lhall the De scendants of Britain tamely fubinit to this Mode of Trial to which we have long been in-debted for the Safety of our Person and the No, Sirs Wg never will while we revere the raising a Revenue on the Subjects of America without their Consent. Prefervation of our Liberties after being in manv lnstances divested of those Laws which Memory of our gallant and Virtuous Ancestors, we never can surrender those glorious Privileges were tranfmitted to US, by our common Ances It is alledged that we contribute nothing to the common Defence. To this we anfwer, that the Advantages which Great Britain reeeives ror wnicn they tought, bled, and conquered tors, and subjected to an arbitrary Code, com-piled under the auspices of Roman Tyrants af Admit that your Fleets could destroy our Towns, and ravage our Sea Coaits these are incon from the monopoly of our Trade, far exceeds our ter annumng tnole Charters, wnicn encouragea siderable Objects, Things of no Moment to Men rroportion or tue necellary tor that our Predeceslbrs to brave Death and Danger in whole glow with Ardour of Liberty Purpose. But sliould these Advantages be in We can retire beyond the Reach of your Navy, autijuarc inereto, let tne icenrictions on our every Shape, on unknown Seas, in Dcfarts un-explored, amidst barbarous and inhospitable Nations when, without the Form of Trial, and, without any sensible Dimunition of the Trade be removed, and we will chearfully contri- Neceslaries of Life, enjoy a Luxury which from without Public Accusation, whole Colonies were oute tuen rroportion when conltitutionally re quired. uiai renoa you will want; THE LUXURY 0" be condemned Trade destroyed their In-habitants impoverilhed When Soldiers were ing Free.

We know the Force of your Arms, and was it It is a fundamental Principle of the Britilh Constitution, that every Man Ihould have at least a representative Share in the Formation of those encouraged to embrue their Hands in theBlood of Americans, by Oifers or Impunity when new Modes of Trial were instituted for the Ruin of the accused, where the Charge carried with it the Horrors of Conviction when a Despotie Government was eftablifhed in a neighbouring Piovince, and its Limits extended to every of our Frontiers we little imagmed any Thing could be added to this black Catalogue of un- provoked Injuries but we have unhappily oeen deceivecl and the late Measures of the Britilh Ministry fully convince us, that their Object is the Redaction of these Colonies to Slave ry 'and Ruin. To confirm this Assertion, let us recal your Attention to the AfFairs of America, sirice our HIS Town is of Tears and Lamentation for the of the many brave Officers and Soldiers on the of Algiers. Amorigst the Generals, the Marquis de la Romana Was killed the Count del Aslalto. and M. RicarHn.

last Address let us combat the Calumnies of our Enemies and let us warn you of the Dangers that threaten you, in our Destruction. Many of your Fellow-Subjects, whofe Situation deprive them of other Support, drew their Main- tenance from the Sea but the Deprivation of Liberty being lnlufhcient to fatisfy the Relent-ment of our Enemies, the Horrors of Farnine were and a British Parliament, who, in better Times, were the Protectors of Innocence and the Patrons of Humanity, have. without Distinction of Age or Sex, robbed Thoufands of the Food, which they were accultomed to draw from that inexhaustible Source, placed in the Neiehbourhood by the benevolent Creator. called forth in the Cause of Justice and your Country, we might dread the Exertion But will Britons right under the Banners of Tyranny Will they counteract the Labours, and dilgrace the Victories of their Ancestors Will they sorge Chains for their Posterity If they defeend to this unworthy Tafle, will their Swords retain their Edge, their Arms their accust'omed Vigour? Britons can never become the Instruments of Oppreffion, till they lose the Spirit of Freedom, by which alone they are invincible. Our Enemies charge us with Sedition In what does it consist In our Refufal to submit to unwarrantable Acts of Injustice and Cruelty If so, sliew us a Period in your History, in which you have not beert equally seditious We are accuslzd of aiming at Independence but how is this Accusation supported By the Allegations of your Ministers, not by our Action.

Abufed, inlulted, and contemned, what Steps have we pursued to obtain Redress We have carried our dutiful Petitions to the Throne we have applied to your Justice for Relief, we have retrenched our Luxury and withheld our Trade. The Advantages of our Commerce were de-signed as a Compenfation for your Protection hen you ceafed to protect, for what were we to compensate What has been the Success of our Endeavours The Clemency of our Sovereign is unhappily di-yerted our Petitions are treated with Indignity; our Prayers are answered by Insults. Our Applications to you remain unnoticed, and leaves us the melancholy Apprehension, of your wanting either the Will or the Powers to aslist us. Even under these Circumstances, what Measures have we taken that betray a Desire of Independence Have we called in the Aid of those Foreign Powers, who are the Rivals of your Grandeur? When your Troops were few and defenceless, did we take Ad van tage of their Distress, and expel them our Towns Or have we permitted them to fortify, to reeeive new Aid, and to acquire additional Strength Let not your Enemies and ours persuade you, that in this we were insluenced by Fear or any other unworthy Motive. The Lives of Britons are still dear to us.

They are the Children of our Parents an uninterrupted Intercourfe mutual BeneSts had knit the Bonds of Friend-lhip. When Hostilities were commenced, when on a late Occaslon we were wantonly attacked by your Troops, though we repelled their aslaults, and returned their Blows, yet we lamented the Wounds we were obliged to give; nor have we yet learned to rejoice at a Victory over Englilh-men. As we wilh not to colour our Actions, or dif- Another Act of our Legislature ihuts our Ports Laws by which he is bound. Were it otherwise, the Regulation of our internal Police by a Britisli Parliament, who are and ever will be unac-quainted with our local Circumstances, must be always inconvenient, and frequentiy oppreslive, working our Wrong, without yielding any pos-sible Advantage to you. A Plan of Accommodation (as it has been ab furdly called) has been propofed by your Ministers to our respective Aslemblies.

Were this Proposal free from every other Objection, but that which arises from the Time of the it would not be Can Men deliberate with the Bayonet at their Breast Can they treat with Freedom while their Towns are sacked when daily Instances of Injustice and Oppreffion disturb the slower Operations of Realbn If this Proposal is really such as you sliould offer, and we aecept, why was it delayed till the Nation was put to ufelefs Expence, and we reduced to our present melancholy Situation If it holds forth nothing, Why was it propofed 1 un-lels indeed to deceive you in a Belief that we were unwilling to listen to any Terms of Accommodation. But what is submitted to our Consideration We contend for the Dilposal of our Pro-perty we are told that our Demand is unreafbn-able, that our Aslemblies may indeed collect our Money, but that they must at the fame' Time offer, not what your Exigehcies, or ours, may require, but so much as lhall be deemed sufsi-cient to fatisfy the Desires of a Ministers and en-able him to proyide 'for Favourites and Depen-dants. (A recurrence to your own Treafury will convince you how lirtle of theMoney already ex-torted from us has been applied to the Relief of your Burthens.) To suppose that we fhould thus grafp the Shadow, and give up the Sub-stance, is adding Insult to Injuries. we have nevertheless again presented an humble and dutiful Petition to our Sovereign and to remove every lmputation of Obstinacy, have re-quested his Majesty directsome Mode, by which the united Applications of his faithful Colonists may be improved into a happy and permanent We are willing tb treat on such. Terms as can alone render such an Accommodation lasting; and we statter ourfelves, that our paci-fic Endeavonrs will be attended with the Reinoval of the Troops, a Repeal of those Laws, of the Operation of which we complain, on the pne Part and a Dislblution of our Army and commercial Aslbciations, on the other.

Yet, conclude not frorn this that we propose to surrender our Property into the Hands of your Ministry, or vest your Parliament with a Power which may terminate itr our Destruction. The great Bulwarks of our Constitution we have de-red to maintain by every temperate, by every peaceable Means; but your Ministers (equal Foes to Britilh and American Freedom) have added to their form er Oppreffions an Attempt to reduce us by the Sword to a base and abject Sub-mislion. On the Sword therefore we are compel-led to rely for Protection. Should Victory your Favour, yet Men trained to Arms from their Infancy, and animated by the love of Liberty, will afford neither a cheap nor ealy ConquestOf this at least we are aslured, that our Strugles will be glorious, our Success certain, since even in Death' we lhall find that Freedom which in Life you forbid us to enjoy. Let us now afk what Advantages are to artend ojbt Reduction The Td of a ruined and deso and prohibits our Trade with any but those States, from whom the great Law of Self-Pre-fervation renders it abfolutely neceslary we fhould at prefent with-hold our Commerce.

But this Act (whatever may have been its Design) we con-sider as rather injurious to your Qpulence, than your interest. All our Commerce terminates with you and the Wealth we procure from other Nations, is soon exchanged for your Su-persluities. Our Remittances must then cease with our Trade and our Refinemements with our Affluence. We trust, however, that Laws Which' deprive us of every Blesling, but a Soll that teems with Neceslaries of Life, and that Liberty which render theEnjoyment of them fecure, will not relax our Vigour in their Defence- We might here observe on the Cruelty and Inconsistency those, who, while they publicly brand us with reproach ful and unworthy Epi- dangerously wounded M. O'Reilly (the Comi mander in Chief) slightly wounded.

All the; general Ofhcers indeed are wounded, except Mi de whofe whole Regiment nevertheless, which coyered the Retreat, was nearly lest dead on the The two Companies of St. Gal have suffered greatly, and their Captains lost their Lives. The Marquis de Velena is danger. ously wounded, as well as the Count Fernand. The Colohel of the foreign Volunteers was dying of his.Wounds, when a Mufket-Ball laidi dead by his Side the Capuchin (Chaplain of the Regiment) who was adrninistering Cornfoi to hiin in bis last Moments.

Out of seventeen of our best Engineers, only three are faved. Few of the wounded eicaped the Barbarity of the Moors, who cut off the Heads of all that were not able to run away, They certainly have coin-mitted many Cruelties, but at the fame Time difcovered amazing, indeed incredible, Courage and Intrepidity. Aug. 14. The last Leiters from Madrid fay, that very few living Spanilh Soldiers were lest in the Power of the Algerines after the last unfortunate Expedition.

PAis, (France) Aug. 12. Many Perlons here persuade themselves, that in Consequence of tbe Family Compact our Court will be obliged to furnifh Succour for Spain against the Algerines, and fome go so far as to fay, Orders are give for 1 2,000 of our Troops to march to Spain, to enable the Spaniards to draw off more of their Troops to reinforce their Army, if they fhould attempt a second Descent at Algiers. LONDON, (Saturday) August 19. Tuesday last a Draught of 400 Men were taken from the Royal Train of Artillery at Woolwich, who marched immediately to Portsmouth, in order to embark on Board Ship destined for America.

Advice has been received at Madrid, that the Chili Indians have renewed their Holfilities a-gaihst the Spaniards with more Fury than ever and they come so well armed, that there can be no Doubt of their reeeiving Arms from the Per tuguefe. At Algiers, to the Southward, there is a De-clivity, upon which, at several DIstances, Hook are placed. When a Man is of any attro cious Crime, he is thrown down this Precipice and caught by the Hooks, is lest to perisli, being scorched to Death by the Sun. Among the Pri-soners taken by the Algerines, upon the late Spanilh Descent, were tWo of their Generals who were immediately thrown down the abovi Rock. Genereal Elliott's Light Horie, it is to bs fent to America thets, endeavour to deprive us of the Means of Uerence, oy tneir inrei pounons vvicii roieign Powers, and to deliver us to the lawless Ravages of a merciless Soldiery.

But happily we are not without Resources and though the timid and humiliating Applications of a Britilh Ministry guife our Thoughts, we lhall, in the simple Lan- ihould prevail with roreign iNauons, yet mauitry, prompted by Necestity, will not leave us without the neceslary Supplies. We could wiih to go no further and, not to wound the Ear Humanity, leave untold those rigorous Acts of Oppreffion which are daily ex- ercised in the iown ornoiion, ura we nor nope, that by disclaiming their Deeds, and punishing thePerpetrators, you would fhortly vindicate the Honour of the Britilh Name, and re-establish the -violated Laws of Jostice, That once populous, flourifhing and commercial Town is now garrisoned by an Army fent, guage or Truth, avow the Measures we have purlued, the Motives upon which we have acted, and our future Designs. When our late Petition to the Throne pro-duced no other Effect than freih Injuries, and Vbtes of your Legislature, calculated to justify every severity when your Fleets and your Ar. mies, were prepared to wrest from our Property, to roh us or our Liberties or our Lives when the hoctile Attempts of General Gag evinced his Designs, we levied Armies for our Security and Defence when the Powers vested in the Governor of Canada gave us Rsason to apprehend Danger from that Quarter and we had frequent Intimations, that a cruel and savage Enemy was tobe lg upon defenceless Inhaljiitot not to protect, but to enslave its Inhabitants. '1 he MMepI tioveriuncut i uvci-iuineu, anu Tniiitarv Depotism erected upon its Ruins, Wrthout Laws, without Right, Powers are af- sumed unknown to the Conltitution.

Private Froperty is unjustly Invaded. The Inhabitants.