The Connecticut courant — Hartford, Conn., 1774-04-26 00:00:00, page 1

From the CONNECTICUT GAZETTE.
Mr. GREEN.
Please to insert tie following.
To THE PUBLIC.
AS incendiaries are peculiarly dangerous io
a government like this; I think it my
duty, to inform yeu in general, the mem
bers of the next iffembly so particular, of a late
appearance of them in thia colony ; in doing
which I (hall relate nothing, but what I have
been an eye witness of, within this week. Im
mediately on the breaking up of the famous con
vention at Middletowo, at their very extraordi
nary publication, mefl'engers were difpatch'd, it
is publickly known to circulate the fame, thro'
the colony ; or rather those parts efit, favour
able to their designs.--- Whether the gentlemen
of the connection came to any other resolutions,
while in full meeting, is best known to them
felvcs, as their doers were flint ; but a pan was
soon reported, to be them, for forking an al
teration in the government by ore of the loWeft
pieces of artifice and fraud, ever pradifed in the
colons ; and that it was concerned, by a part
®f the members, in apt rate chamber - Not
over ere.ulous, and confident at the fame time,
that many of the gentlemen of the contention,
were of too much honor and principle, to ^
concerned in such meefures, I disregarded the
report -Bat to my forprize on the proxy
day, I obfetved nominations, circulating among
the people, very d fferent from those published
by order of assembly : They were effzred
with great address and art, to such only as were
slight to be easily wrought upon : After forae
difficulty I procured one of them, and the a
r©ymoos letter in which it was ioclofed : which
l now have by me : The letter is without date,
and to this pgrpofe.
(May, M,dcc.lxxiw; NUMBER 488.]
CONNECTICUTUp^^^ COURANT.
" The within is agreed upon mtke ofc of it
if you p'cafe,"
Mattbra Gripwold Governor,
William Samuel Jhn/% Dcp. Gov,
Themes Fitch
Ebenezer Sidman, &: &c
Another of these which a field cf mine ia
tetceped in a neighbouring town, ran d fluent
ly. as this,
Matthew Gri/wo'd Gorerner,
James A. Hiilbeule, Dtp. Gor.
Tbomat Fitch,
Ebenezer Silliman, &c &c.
How mr.Rit raise the indignation of ever
honed man, to fee our liberties that abu'e. and
Particularly of theft worthy gentlemen, whole
Dimes are thus proftitu cd, tB fetre a pirty !--
To preserve cur liberty, or the very fhadowof
government, such liccntiocfoefs ought te be de
re&edj and oppnfbd — Surely the gentlemen of
the cjnventioh, dangerous as the measures they
to^k, are to the government, will never enun
tbfuote fach proceedings : For in enoer hours,
they ^ill, I I<GC, take little pleasure in rest ^t
leg on the ratal precedent, which if they were
dot the 6 flio. they at leaf! hares, ofirmed for
c.or«,ffai fitmrttf: of principle or.authority
tn fr le^O^ive body of the colony, and reform
1< t^cmr 4)r on their thin at this critical
f^; opening aficfh the wounds of the colony
by tj faah proceeding.
As I pnrp^fc laying the djfceverie^ I have,
aad may mak, of fieh penc ; ous prz&fes, be
fore the Afi^mbly at H rtford, finll not add t o
thii ; net w®u ! d I have troubled the po%
From T UESD A Y, April 26, to T U„E SID A Y, MAY 3, 1774.
with it now, but'to keep them 00 then guard a
gainst future machinations of this kind-
COLONIST.
The nominations circulated at a large and
capital town, had Thomas Filch, Esq; Gover
nor. &c_ft: April 14 1774
Further Advicedt, the tahLtf ' /rem LanGon.
LEGHORN January 18.
WE learn from the fl: of Paros, that about
20 000 of the Greeks of the neighbour
ing islands belonging to the Porte have entered
into the Ruffian ferries, and that daily more
and more come to ferre agsiofl the Porte
We are hkewife informed, that Gept. Kief
berhen, who has distinguish.-d himfelf so often
in the coorfe of the prefect war, has gained a
compete vi&ory over cne division of foe Tur<
kifh fleet, confining of eighteen fail, in the B^ck
Sea, be only having one nnn of war, and Lur
frigates of twenty eight guns each.
They write from Venice, that PridSt Repom
arrived there from bi* captivity at the Seven
Towers at Condaotinople ; they add, that their
Republic fills up immcofe magazines, and it is
feared they are at the eve of a war. ,
Cotfantinople, January 21 At half an hour
after twelve the Grand Signer expired, and at
half ao hour after two the guns from the Sera
glio announced his fecegfofy Abdul f^eed.•
Hacriem February 11 A public paper re
celled here from the frontiers of Poland, gives
the following intelligence.—" We are not cer
trio whois the adventurer that takes on bimfelf
the name of Peter ill. Iti, f.id he is at the
heart of 100 coo men, as well CoiT.cks as Kal
mucks and ha made bittfelf mafler of the re
gimcot of Orenburg General Bibikaw, who
was sent to reduce the rebels to reason, is fil'd
to h^ve been obliged by his own troops to sub
mit to the chief of the mutineers, and io p^y
him homage to save his life. This pretended
Peter expresses himfclf in his manifeftos in a
most tender aid infouating manner ; he de
clares he has co pretend n himfclf to the crown,
bat docs all for his dear child, the Grand Duke
Paul, whom he declares is the only legitimate
bcir< He discharges all the people from their
late impels, and declares that as soon as he has
p' cad tae crown co the Sead of him to who^
it of right belongs, he (ball retire to a diflaht
convent, and end his days in peace.",,
Hague, February 18. Letters from Venice
alvjfe, that the Republic of that name has con
c,uded ao alliance with the court of Petrifburgh,
by which she engages to pin the Ruffian A:et
with 19- men of war of thedio;, bcGlcq fr # ga es,
bomb veffeis, &c flattering herfelf that by this
means (be may recover the Morea, and other
pofTflijos in the rchipelago, which the Turks
have taken from her. If thus news proves true,
it improbable the Porte may fuffcr fame great
Ipff.s in the Levant.
W; bear that the Marquis d: Noelles, Am
bafTador from France at the Hague, in a corftr
reoce be lately had with the States Geceral in
vited them io the name of the Kmg bis master,
not to look with iodifferency 00 the courts of
Pete&rgh, Vent and Berlin with tefpe& to
the partition cf Poland, but endeavour to Hop
th©r progfefs, end maintain a balance of power
io Europe. It is not known what answer rhetr
High MigbrinefTt gave to this invitation, it is
s©red that France has intimated the Umr tbtyg
at the Coan of Great Britain.
Yesterday the House of Commons was very
full. The members waited an hour for the
Speaker. When he came, he apologized for
troubling the Hoofc with ary thing that im
mediately related to himfclf, but hit public cha
rafrr having been arraigned in a public paper
of that day/ he hoped for their indulgence ; af
ter which he folcrnnly declared his innocence
of the charge, and called upon such gentlemen
as were prefect at the jime to declare their cpi
qian. This being done, some debates arose
what measures should be taken with the printer,
A rafolution being made, nem con. that the
•said letter was a falfe,malicious, and fcacdalous
libel pn Sir F'etoher Norton, it was further re
folded that the printer do attend the Honfe on
Monday morning; next:
Feb. 15 Yesterday the Speaker of the House
of Commons took the chair about three o'clock
& after the usual business had been gone through, °
the order of the day was retd, when the House
being informed thaaHenry Samfen Woodfali
was at the door, orders were given to call bias
to the bar. Several -questions were then put
to him by the Speaker relative to the publica
tion in his paper of Friday, signed Strike—-
but heae. To Which he returned the 0^
lowing aofwer io fubflance : That he received
the letter fr@m John Horne, ol Brentford, in the
common course of his business ; that he had
been twenty years in bubo fa, and never bad
been called! to their bar before ; and that bb
threw bimfelf on the mercy of the House. Be
was ordered to withdraw, god a motion was
made by Mr. Herbert, that be be committed to
the custody of the Serjeant at Arms, An a
mendment was proposed by Mr Fox, that
" Newgate" be inferred for the words “ Serje
ant at Arms." These two points' undergoing £
difenfEon of near three hours. Lord North moved,
that Mr. Herbert might withdraw his firfl moti
on, and that the said Woodfall be committed
to the Gateboufe, Weffminftcr. This produc
ed still a warmer debate than the former ; at
hfl lord North withdrew his motion, and the
queHien beidg put on Mr Herbert's, the House
divided, Ayes I§2 Noes 68. after which, end
motion of Lord North's, whibh puffed without a
division, Mr. Horne was ordered to attend the
House to morrow morning,
Feb. 17 This day Mr. Horne was brought
to th: bar of the House, when he fully excul
pated himfelf from the charge of contempt of
that House, in not obeying their Comment, and
Concluded by faying, " Sir, I should be glad to
know the charge agaioft roc,the evidence in fop.
D)rt of it, aid who is my acculcr.
Sir Fletcher There is the piper that will
inform you of all those particulars ; ordering the
clerk to hand the refolutioo relative toWoodWJ.
Mr. Horne. Here is 06 information upon
oath, no evidence against me, nor de I ko^*
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan 27. An ex',
press is just arrived from Adrianople with an
alarming account of the Janiflarics there having
mutinied on the death of the Emperor Mufta
pha, and refuted to acknowledge the Sultaq
Abdul Hamed for their Sovereign, but have
declared the utan Selim in his Head. They
bad poss fed themfelvcs of the whole city, and
confined the Caimacan, and some other officers
who had refafed tojoin them. The Caimacan
es this city "is preparing troops to disperse them,
LONDON, February 12.