The Connecticut courant — Hartford, Conn., 1774-04-05 00:00:00, page 2

“ Captain Lawrence, in the Jenny
and Polly, in four weeks from Lon
don, acquaints us, that the news of
the deftruftion of the tea at Boston
was arrived there before he fail’d,and
f3ys,inftead of their being exaspera
ted, they much applauded the no
ble spirit of the Americans, and were
resolved to let the East-India compa
ny get the matter fettled in the best
manner they can.” 1
April 5. We hearfromCambridge
that a person having been confined
there a long time in goal, for debt,
at the expence of one Samuel Carter,
of Woburn, who on Thursday last
paid the goaler ten dollars more, de
claring his intention of keeping him
in for life ; a company, supposed,
about seventy or eighty in number,
in the Indian habit, waited on Mr.
Carter in the evening, and after
breaking his windows and showing
some other marks of their difKke of
his conduct, obliged him to walk
with them to Cambridge,about seven
miles, sign an instrument to release
the man fromconfinement, and give
him the cash he had a Ihort time be
ckpofited in the hands of the goaler,
to bear his expences home, as the
man belonged to a neighbouring
town : The affair being thus fet
tled three cheers were given, and the
parties returned from whence they
came.
American Intelligence.
BOSTON, April 4.
Extract of a letter from Baltimore,
dated March 18, 1774.
April 7. Letters from London
fay, that Sir James Wright, Baronet,
Governor of Georgia, is to be ap
pointed one of theLords of trade and
plantations, governor Shirley, of Ba
hamas, to succeed Sir James Wright,
and Montfort Browne, Esq; formerly
Lieutenant Governor of Weft-Flo
nda, to succeed Governor Shirley
It is reported that his Majesty’s
64th regiment now in garrison at
Castle-William, near Boston, will re
lieve the 14th regiment at Sr.
Augustine and the Bahamas ; that
part of the relief from England, ex
pected out in the ensuing summer,
will be stationed at Boston : And it
is said that neither the royal regiment
of Welch Fufileers nor the 47th in
New Jcrfey, will be remov&d from
their present situations, unless his
Mayfty’s service Ihould more imme
diately require their presence elfe
vvhere.
The intentions of the British Ad
ministration relative to the Ameri
can duty on tea, are not yet fixed ;
the Minifterhas many weighty fub
jefts to lay before the lower house,
before that article will be brought
into debate, and the fefiion will be
far expended ere any alteration in
the revenue laws will be attended co.
We hear from the county of Wor
ccfter, that the friends of good go
vernment are under some apprehen-
fions that Peter Oliver, Esq; will at
tempt to take the feat ofChief Justice,
and aft as fuch,at the SuperioiCourt
which is to fit in that country in
April next ; notwithstanding the
impeachment against him in the
name of the who*e people of this pro
vince by their representatives : But
that the people are upon their guard.
And 10 prevent any persons being
tr ed, fined, or otherways pumfhed
by the judgment or sentence of a
judge, accused of being under the
influence of a bribe, it is expefted
the Grand Jurors, returned to serve
at that court, will meet very early m
the morning before the court fits, at
the house of Mr. Asa Ward in Wor
cester ; and agree not to be impan
neled, nor serve as Grand Jurors
with the said Peter Oliver on the
bench as Chief Justice, or Judge of
said court, until be hath been tried
and acquitted of the charges against
him. And that the Grand Jurors
will be juftified, if & need be,defend
ed by the people, who look upon this
way much better than oppofiricn by
violence, but are determined upon
the lad re fort, if necessary.
We hear from Marblehead that one Evening
last Week, a Fellow was dele fled in bringing
from the Hospital at Cat Island, a Quantity of
Cloathing, the Property of Per font who bad been
inoculated, which he was deJi ed to return ; but
not comp 'ying with the Request was taken by a
If umber of People, who assumed the Form of a
Cwt, and by them tried found guilty, and fn
fenced to receive Stripes -.— The full Force
of which judicial Process was fo^n rea’ized by the
Culprit, on whose bare Back, we hear the 50
Stripes were immediately laid on with a heavy
Hand.
We learn that the Sufferer has Jtnce tnadeCom
plaint to legal Authority, c/ tin injufiice done
him by this newfangled Court ; and that both
Judges and Jurors are committed in order, in
their Turn, to take Trial.
WMliamfbtirgh, (Virginia) March 17,
By a gentleman just arrived from
New-River, in Fincaftle county, we
are informed, that ab'out 40 families
were lately murdered on the Okonies
by the Indians. Captain Russell,
from the fame county, who a few
days ago came to this city, reports,
that the people are in the most dread
ful consternation, on account of the
outrages committed by those savage
people.
PHILADELPHIA, March 30.
ExtraP of a Letter from London, dated
January 24.
“ Three Men of War are ordered
to be immediately in Readinefe to
fail to Boston, and exaft Payment for
the Tea.
NEW-HAVEN, April 8. =
Extra fl of a letter from St. Croix,
March i^tb,,
this ifland,we have a ftamp-aft,which
has just taken place ; and is perhaps
the most oppreflive order ever im
posed, even in oppreflive govern
ments. —Every man in common busi
ness is obliged to use stamp paper ;
a running account is forfeited, if on
common paper, and the parry ren
dering it severely fined ; receipts are
not valid, unless ftampt ; paper for
obligations are excessive high—-fame
fneets cost two hundred pieces of
eight f a sheet for a bill of tale is 4
pieces ot 8, for an account 4 ryals.
At this rate the country will soon
lose all the English inhabitants 5 for.
no true Engl fhmen wjll ever live
under such oppression. The'e flamps
are not all we are to ext est, a few
months will convince us that theex
pences of that kind of paper will be
trivial to other burthens and taxts'we
fhali be made to pay, such as a heavy,
poll tax on the white people.—-Alt
dry goods are and must be ftampt,
and luch as are not, are forfeited
allo an additional duty on produce is
expeded. These are great hardships
on the continent as well as us her-e •,
and I don’t know what way to bring
our Tyrants to reason, but by your
withholding your trad« from us one
year. I believe the inhabitants
wou’d fuffer a temporary inconveni
ence for a lading establishment on a
good footing, for by a stagnation of
trade from America, even for a few
months, little or no money wou’d go
into the king’s treasury, and then our
governor would fee the dependence
of this iftaad was on the continent,
both for the means of sustenance and
ftioney.” '
NEW YORK, April 7.
The Upper House of Assembly of
Georgia having rejefted the-Memo
rial sent them by the Lower HMufe,
for the Re-appointment of Benjamin
Franklin, Esq; Agent in Great Bri
tain, for the said Colony, during ano
ther Year. The Lower House have
insisted upon their Appointment, re
solved that the Right is fblely in
them, that the Thanks of the House
for his faithful Services, be trans
mitted to him, with Notice of his
Appointment for another Year com
mencing the 2d of March, and 1501.
Sterling Salary for the fame, over and
above his Charges and D^fburfments,
incurred on Account of his Agency.
ACoueirence with the Upper
House is to be held on this Affair. ' |
This Day his Excellency our Go
verno , his Lady, Daughter, and
Fam ly, areexpefted to fail for Eng
land, in the Mercury Packer, Capti
Dillon.
NEWPORT, March 28.
We areaffured that the New-Yor
kers are determined in their resolu
tions of fending back the tea (hip
without fuffering an ounce to be
landed. Said (hip had been thirty
one days out from Antigua, when
the latest accounts came away from
New-York : So that we expeft, in a
c-few days, to give our readeis, a very
few excepted, an agreeable account
of the fourth ACT of a play called
the adventures of two thousand chests
of India TEA ; the third ACT hav
ing been begun, but unluckily left
half finifned, by some of the aftors
having forgot their parts.
April 8.
Extraft of aLttter from theWeft Indies, Marche),
“ It it reported that after Admiral Perry left
Grab ISjoE aed renewed the Eoglifh claim, ao