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as chriftians, to proteft againfl furh horrible barbarity. " That God and 

 nature had put into our haiitis!" W.iai ideas of God and nature that noble 

 lord may entertain I know not, but I iinow that fuch deteftable piiiiciplci 

 arc equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What, to attribute the 

 ficred fanftion of God and nature to the inaffacres of the Indian fcalping 

 knife! to the eannibal favaj^e, toriuring, murdering, devouring, drinking 

 the blood of his mangled viftims! Such notions ("hock every precept of 

 moialiiVi every feeling of humanity, every fentiment of honor. Thefe a- 

 bominable pririciples, and this more abominable avovcal of them, demand 

 the m oft decifive indignation. I call upon that right reverend, and this 

 moft learned bench, to vindicate the religion of their God, to fupport the 

 juftice of their country. I call upon the bifhops to inteipole the unlullied 

 fanftity of their lawn, upon the judges to inicrpofc the purity of their 

 crmiae, to fave us from this pollution. I call upon the honor of your lord- 

 fhips, to reverence the dignity of your anceftors, and to maintain your own, 

 I call upon the fpirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the na- 

 tional charafter. I invoke the genius of the aonftitution. From the ta- 

 pcftr-y that adorns thel'e walls, the immortal anci-Jtor of this noble lord, 

 frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country. In vain did he 

 defend the liberty, and eflablilb the religion of Britain a^^ainft the tyranny 

 of Rome, if thefe worfe than popifh cruelties and it. qnifitional prafticesarc 

 endured among us. To lend forth the mercilefs cannibal thirfling for 

 blood ! again ft whom ? Your proiL-ftaiit brethren ; to lay wafte their 

 country, to dcfolatc their dwellings, lo extirpate their race and name, by 

 the aid and inflrumentality of thefe horrible hell-hounds of war ! Spaia 

 can no longer boaft preeminence of barbarity. She armed herfelf with 

 blood hour.ds to extirpate the wretched natives of Mexico, but we more 

 ruthlefs, loofe thefe dogs of war againft our countrymen in America, en- 

 deared to us by every lie that (hould fariftify humanity. My lords, I 

 folemnly call upon your lordfhips, and upon every order of men in the 

 flate, to (lamp upon this infamous proceedure the indelible ftigma of pub- 

 lic abhorrence. More particularly I call upon the holy prelates ot our re- 

 ligion to do away this iniquity ; let them perform a luftration to purify 

 their couutry from this deep and deadly fin. My lords, I am old and 

 weak, and at prefcnt unable to fay more, but my feelings and indignation 

 were too ftiong to have laid lefs. I could not have flept this night in my 

 bed, nor repofed my head upon my pillow, without giving this vent to my 

 eternal abhorrence of fuch enormous and prepofterous principles."* 



No. VI. 



A convention between lieutenant general Burgoyne and major general Gates, 

 Chap. IV. p. 157. 



I. The troops under lieutenant general Buigoyne, to march out of their 

 camp with the honors of war, and the artillery of the entienciiments to the 

 verge of the river, where the old fort flood, where the arms and artillery 

 are to be left ; the arms to be piled by word of command from their own 

 olTiccrs. 



II. A free pafTage to be granted to the army under lirmeiaant oeneral 



- BdJIianCi lije oj Chatham, 



