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PGCJ.779.004
23 Jan 1779:41 (786)
Extract of a letter from New-York, June 8. . . . What is to
become of us under such dreadful circumstances, God only
knows! The prospect is truly alarming, and is, I fear, too
justly described in the following lines, written by as
brave, humane, and sensible an officer, as any in the
English army; the same gentleman who I told you, predicted
the fate of the unfortunate General Burgoyne's expedition. .
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Attend, Britannia's injur'd states shall independent be;
Like the fam'd phoenix, from their ashes they shall rise,
And tyranny and tyrants equally despise:
The kindred blood we've spilt, the many town we have
fir'd,
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