The Connecticut courant and Hartford weekly intelligencer — Hartford, Conn., 1775-06-26 00:00:00, page 1

MON DAT, June 26, 1775.
.CONNECTICUT
AND
WEEKLY
Resolved, nem. con. that his Majesty's said message
& taken into consideration on this day fortnight.'
Afiftance to the Amreicans is rising from a new
quarter; the following information may be depended
^pon---A ffiip failed from Stettin last month, loaded
with small fire-arms, gunpowder, ball, and accou
trements, thirty field pieces ofalight conftruriion,
and eight general officers who have served long in
Germany, three of them are Messrs Robeveils,
Laoafont, and Curgenflein : The arrnes and ammu
nition are actually paid for by an American agehtat
Berlin, who went thither from Paris, but what the
footing is upon which the officers go is only conjec
tured ; they are Lutherans, and certainly do not go
LONDON, April 13.
This day his Majesty went to the House of Peers,
and gave the royal assent to the following bills, viz.
the bill to retrain the trade and commerce of New-
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and
South-Carolina. The bill, to punish mutiny and
desertion in the American colonies. The bill for
appointing commissioners to execute the land tax
a&. The bill to indemify persons who have omit
ted to qualify themselves for officers, &c. The bill
for veiling a part of the garden of Lincolns Inn, in
the Accountant General of Chancery, &c. The bill
to explain and amend an aft to prevent frauds in the
manufacture of hats, the wollen, and divers other
branches of trade. Tne bill to enable Sir Nigel
G^fly and son to make a navigable canal from
certain coal mines at Apedale, in Staffordshire, to
Newcastle under-Lyne. And also to several road
inclofure, and private bills.
House of Commoms. At 3 o'clock Lord North came
down, and delivered by his Majesty's command, the
following message to the house:
G. Rex.
Containing the Freshest ADVICES,
By Capt/FotLETT, in 36 days from Topfham,
w-^have the following advices.
-FOREIGN NE WS,
W'A'D R I D, (in Spain) April 2.
A CCOUNTS are this day received, that the
Empefor of Morocco has declared war against
the Dey,orAlgiers, for not affixing him, (as the
declarrfioi/fets forth) by atta king Oran according
to promifi,
Madrid, March z 3. Letters from Cadiz, Car
thagena, Barcelona, and Malaga, metion, that the,
employ all podibU diligence in preparing great ar
maments, which are to bs in readiness by the 15th
of A >rii,fona secret expedition.
WTk&w, (in Poland) April 8. The Prussian
troops nave'again begun to take possession of several
places Belonging to our Republic; and near Au
guftow in/Zithuania, the peasants are forced to cut
down a^ood for a large Prussian camp which was
there., -The Auguftain troops, on the other hand,
have received orders to take possession of Woywody
hoods of Cracow and Sandomier, which violent pro
ceedings of these Courts have given rife to Count
Poninlki, the Marshal of the Dyet, to make a mo-
tion that the whole Dyet, Ihall petition the King,
" that if in case Ids Majesty can think of any reme
dy to save the mother country from slavery and ruin,
he may be pleased to propose it to the Dyet who
oblige themselves to fland on the king's fide at the
rifque of their lives and fortunes." The motion
w^s carried, and we are all curious to know the
ranges aufwer.
From Madrid we learn, that orders have been
issued for a general armament, and that orders were
given at the Victualling-Office for 40,000 quintals
of biceps be ready towards the latter end of this
month.
.“ His Majesty, desirous, that a better and more
suitable acommdation Ihould be made for the resi
dence of the Queen, in case the should survive him,
being willing that the place in which hisMajefty now
resides, called the Qpeen's-houfe, may be fettled
tor that purpose, recommends it to his faithful com
mons, to take the fame into consideration, and to
make provision for fettling.the said palace upon her
Majesty ; and for appropriating Somerset-house to
such use as ihall be found molt beneficial to the
public. "
upon meer hope of preferment.. Thi^muft be a
scheme of the Prussian Monarch's, for difeoncterting
tne court of London, with whom he is upon the
word terms.
There are no less than 20 rendezvous houses o
pened in Tapping, the Borough, & Charihg-Crofi,
to enter sailors for the Newfoundland fifhery since
the ari passed.
r April I^. A gentleman who was in the presence
chamber on Monday, when the city address and re
monstrance was presented, has given us the follow
ing account of the conduct of rhe two principal ac
tors in the tragic comedy of the day. When the city
council had read the paper, he gave it theLord May
or, who delivered it to the. King with a half bent
knee, and the mod profound reverence. His Majesty
handed the petition to a Lord in waiting, and then
deliberately taking a paper from his pocket, read
theanfwer. A silence of two minutes enfued,when
the Lord Mayor made a low bow, then retreated
backwards to the middle of the room, made a fe
c°n'k and inlike manner, a third at the door, when
tne King moved his hat to his Lordihip, and thus
ended the burinefs.
It was last year reported,that .Sir Jeffery Amherst
had said, that with 5000 Enghfh regulars he would
engage to march from one end to the other of the
continent of North America. This being spoke of
publicly in a coffee-houfe in North-America, Col.
Washington, who was present, declared, that with
only 2000 Virginians, he would engage to Hop Sir
Jeffery Amherst's march.- It is the fafhion at St.
James s to despise the Americans, .to ca'll them cow
ards, poltroons, &c. and the resolution seems to be
taken to put their courage to the proofs The very
aole, spirited, and prudent conduct of this gallant
vuiLCT when he covered and.preferred the remains
of the Engliffi army, after one of their defeats last
war in North-America, has endeared him to every
brave man, and damped him with the name of be
ing an able officer.
Fhe following is a correct lift of the twenty four
Lords who voted against the last American restrain
ing bill.
Richmond, Devonshire, Portland, Manchester,
Leinfter, Rockingham, Abergavenny, Abingdon,
Archer, Berkley, Camden, Cholmondeley, Effing
ham, Fitzwilliam, Ponfonby, Stanhope, Tanker
ville, Temple, Fred. Exon. Spencer, J. St. Afaph,
Ciaven, Wycombe, Torrington.
April 18. A report prevails, that the Parliment
will not be prorogued but continued by short ad
journments, till the event of the American. Congress,
which is to meet on the 9th of next month, shall be
known.
A bill is preparing to be laid before the two
Houses to enable his Majesty to appoint the council
in the several American colonies, where the rightof
chufing is at present veiled in the Assembly.
It is averted as a fad in the city, that letters from
Spain give an account, it is no longer a secret, that
tne court of Madrid have ordered a very considera
ble fleet to the Weft-Indies, in order to attack some
of the western iflahds, as loon as our troops are en
gaged with the Bostonians; at which time the let
ters fay, there is no doubt but they will become mas
ters of some of them.
Letters from Jamaica mention, that exclusive of
the men of war now building at the Havannah, 15
row-gallies, capable of mounting 14 swivel guns
each, are on the Rocks, and will soon be ready for
service.
It is said that Lord North, has it in contemplati
on to dissolve the South Sea Company, and to throw
their savings, amounting to near a million of money,
into the finking fund, and apply it to the service of
the current year. The above faying having arisen
entirely from the exorbitant price of gool. for each
million of the funds managed by the South Sea
Company, may very honourably be applied to the
public use.
A letter from an English gentleman of rank at
Paris mentions, that by a vessel from the coast of
Guinea,accounts have been received that thePholies,
a people defended from the Arabs, have lately ap-
T H E
I^WbiW^ ^W^
“ Eighty of our fhiprights are now employed by
talk work,in building of the Formidable,of 90 guns,
in this doc K-yard. It is said, that they earn at this
time, between four and five /hillings 2 day each man
and those who are not employed in talk work, are
allowed no mere than two killings and one penny
per day.'" ' '
^th FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.
They write from Amsterdam, that the Dutch have
prohibited for the future the exportation of barrels.
barrel-Raves, and every other implement of the
filling .trade, which have hitherto been whipped off for
all foreign markets indiscriminately..-
It has been observed by some curious perfch,tiat
the fun at this time, both rises and sets several mi
nutes beyond its usual time,which may perhaps ac
count for the phenomenon which is tohappen the 23 of
next month, when it is the general opinion of the
learned there will be no night.
The Arieon frigate of war, of 28 gun's, lately
launched at Woolwich, is put.into commission, and
the command of her given to Capt. Saunders.
There are at this time two frigates of war of 3 o
guns building at a private dock yard at Deptford
one of them for the king of Pruffi^ great part of the
materials for which are taken from the timbers, &{
of the Africa: man of war now breakin uo r:
Cuckold's Point.l
Extras of a letter from Chatham, April 26.
“ On Monday the Martin Loop was put out of
dock, after having had a thorough repair; she is
now fitting with the greatest expedition for New
foundland, and the command of her is piven
Capt. Parker. L ^to
April 2; On Saturday a messenger arrived with
some diffetches from the Earl of Grantham,his Ma
jesty's Ambassador at. the court of Midrid; his or
ders were to deliver the dispatches into th^ King's
own hands, in consequence of which he set off for
Kew, and met his Majesty on the road, returning
from thence to town. °
Letters from Gibraltar mention, that the Spanish
lines before that place had been reinforced by a
large body of troops. ',
Private advices from the Hague positively assure
us, that four Dutch vessels failed from the Texel the
firft week in April, laden with arms, powder, and
military Lores. The cargoes were entered outwards
for the coast of Africa, but there is not a person who'
knew of the affortmeht, particularly in" the article
of powder, that is nor perfectly convinced that they
are intended for the British American colonies.'
The advice which ad miniltration has received
from America, and which they have not thought
proper to communicate, is, in substance, that the
militia of Massachusetts and Connecticut are actual
ly embodied, have prepared magazines, and are as
sembled, to the number 12,000 effective men. Sa
lem was .the head quarters when these advices ' came
away; but a conffderable body were on their march
to Boston. So that the miaiflers themselves expori
the next news will bring an account of an action
On Wednesday next the firft troop of Grenadier
guards will embark for Boston with a large quantity
of ammunition, &c. for the use of the army ire
America.'
(NUMBER 54L)
COURA N T,
HARTFORD
INTELLIGENCER.
This morning orders were sent by express to Ply
mouth for all the transports to fail immediately for
Cork,and to take on board there the troops which are
quite ready, so that they will not be detained at
Cork above two days.
They write from Sr Malce's, that a much greater:
number of vessels are fitting out in that port, and
places on the coast, for the Newfoundland fifnerv^
than were ever remembered.
Reared in greatnumbers on tl^ banks of the river
Gambis, and have committed several hostilities a
gainst the Englifo, who they assert have no pretensi
ons to the Gold Coad,it being part of the territories
of their forefathers. ? '
The above people, 'fay^this account, are exceed
ing powerful and rigid Mahometans, well acquain
ted with the profits made by the gold, ivory, and
slave trade, from which,& their unequelled bravery"
it is imagined they will be very troublesome to th^
fubjefts of Great-Britain.