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NJG-T.778.006
8 Apr 1778:41 (1/19)
Now in the press, and shortly will be published, neatly
bound in calf, the Miscellaneous Works of his Excellency
General Sir William Howe, in prose and verse: containing,
amongst many other curious particulars, the following
articles;
1st. The history of the American war; or, the art of
insuring infamy in this world and misery in the next.
2d. A dissertation on the cardinal virtues; in which it is
proved, that justice and mercy ought to be excluded from
holding any rank amongst them.
3d. The game of picquet in a new way; by which is shewn how
a person may win ten thousand guineas at a game, and yet the
loser remain perfectly satisfied. By this method, cards
become not only an amusement, but very useful in the
settlement of accounts. N.B. In this learned work his
Excellency acknowledges that he has been assisted by Mr.
Ware the Commissary General.
4th. The value of British gold; or, the art of paying off
large accounts with small sums; illustrated by a variety of
real cases, particularly one in which a just bill of 550L.
was discharged by 50 guineas, and a receipt in full
obtained.
5th. Men immortalized and death defeated; or, the returns of
the British army; wherein is shewn how the pay and rations
of a thousand soldiers may be drawn, who have long since
died of putrid fevers, or been slain in battle.
6th. The contented cuckold, an heroic poem.
7th. Songs and amorous odes, in the Eastern style; a hymn to
Venus; Chloe, or the African beauty; an invitation to
Bacchus, in the German taste; the progress of cruelty, in
six cantos, &c.
The work will be comprised in three volumes octavo; a
fourth volume will contain congratulatory addresses to his
Excellency, from the several provinces, wherein he has
restored constitutional liberty. But these addresses have
not yet come to hand.
Now publishing in sheets, and to be sold at
Philadelphia, The Political Liar; or, the New Fairy Tales;
wherein is related how a shameful defeat may, with ease, be
converted into a glorious victory - how large reinforcements
may be obtained by art magic - how France is abandoning
America, by sending her large supplies of warlike stores and
other necessaries - how General Washington lost his senses,
and left a portmanteau, containing all his original letters
and secrets of state, with a sick Negroe, whereby they fell
into the hands of the British officers, and are now
publishing at large in the political liar--with many other
entertaining articles of the same kind.
A great price, in hard money, will be given for a
little heart's ease. Apply to the Superintendent General.
From the late London papers.
To be sold by publick auction, on the first of April 1778,
at the Royal Exchange - Hanover, with all the Private Estate
of George Welps. The vast sums arising from this sale, are,
by his Majesty's most gracious promise, to be distributed
amongst the Tories in America, who have suffered so much on
his account.
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