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“ The means of recovering our affairs are not
obvious. So many great questions of commerce, of
finances, of conftitutiton, and of policy, are involved
in this American deliberation, and that I dare en
gage for nothing, but that I Ihall give it, without
any predilection to former opinions, or any sinister
bias whatsoever, the honest and impartial considera
tion of which lam capable. The public has a full
right to it j and this great city, a main pillar in the
commercial interest of Great-Britan, mull totter on
its bass by the slightest mistake, with regard to our
American measures. Thus much, however, I think
it not amiss to lay before you, that I am not, I hope,
apt to take up or lay down my opinions lightly. I
have held, and ever ihall maintain, to the bell of
jny power, unimpaired and undiminiihed, the just,
wife and necessary confiitutional Superiority of Great-
Britain. This is necessary for America, as well as
for us, I never mean to depart from it : Whatever
may be loft by it, I avow it -.-—The forfeiture even
of your favour, if by such a declaration I could for
feit it, though the firft object of ambition, never will
make me disguise my sentiments on this fubjeft.
“ But, I have ever had a clear opinion, and have
ever held a constant correspondent conduft, that
this superiority is consistent with all the liberties a
sober & spirited American ought to desire. I never
mean to put any colonist, or any human creature, in
a situation, not becoming a free man. To reconcile
British superiority with American liberty Ihall be
my great object, as far as my little faculties extend.
I am far from thinking that both, even yet, may
not be preserved.
“ When I firft devoted myfelf to the public ser
vice, I considered how I should render myfelf fit for
it; and this I did by endeavouring to difeover what
it was, that gave this country the rank it holds in the
world; I found that our prosperity and dignity a
rose principally, if not solely, from two sources:
our constitution and commerce. Both these I have
spared no study to understand, and now endeavour
to support.
“ The diftlnguilhing part of our constitution is
its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems
the particular ditty and proper trust of a member of
the houie of commons. But the liberty the only
LONDON.
Mri BURKE's SPEECH, from the Hidings at Brifol.
“ Gentlemen,
« T A M come hither to folicit^oerfon, that
1 favour which my frifct&^^B^hitherto en
deavoured to procure for m^oyth^molt obliging,
and to me the most honoura^e exertions.
“ I have fohigh an opraon of the great trust
which you have to confer on this occasion, and by
long experience, so just a diffidence in my abilities,
to fill it in a manner adequate even to my own
ideas, that I fh^uid never have ventured of myfelf
to intrude into that awful situation. But since lam
called upon by the desire of several refpeftable fel
low-fubjecls, as I have done at other times, I give
up my fears to their willies. Whatever othe,p
deficiencies may be I do not know what it is to be
wanting to my friends.
“lam not fond of attempting to raise a public
expectation by great promises. At this time there
is much cause to confider, and very little to pre
sume. We seem to be approaching to a great crisis
in our affairs, which calls for the whole wisdom of
the wisest among us, without being able to afl’ure
ourselves, that any wisdom can preserve us from
many and great ineonvehices. You know I speak
of our unhappy contest with America. Iconfefs it
is a mattf on which I look down as from a preci
pice. It is difficult in itfelf,and it is rendered more
intricate by a great variety of plans of conduft. I
do not mean to enter into them. I will not fufpeft
a want of good intention in framing them. But
however pure the intentions of their authors may
have been, we all know that the event has been un
fortunate.
M QN DA Y, December rg, t'774« THE (NUMBER 521.]
CONNECTICUT . COURANT,
AND X HARTFORD
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER.’
Containing the Freiheit ADVICES, both FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.
Open to all PARTIES not under the influence of ANY.
liberty I mean, is a liberty connected with order;
that not only exists alpng with order and virtue,
but which cannot exist at all without them. 1 It in
heres in good and steady government, as in its sub
stance and vital principle.
“ Thfe other source of Our power is .comrterce, of
which you are so large a part, and which canriot
exist, no more than your liberty, without a connecti
on with many virtues. It has ever been a very pe
culiar and a very favourite object my study in its
principles and its details. I think many here ac
quainted with the truthof what I fay. This I know,
that I have ever had my house open, and my poor
services ready for traders and manufacturers ofeve
ry denomination i My favourite ambition is to have
those services acknowledged. I now appear before
you to make trial, whether my earnest endeavoufs
have been so wholly o-ppreffed by the weakness cf
my abilities, as to be rendered infignificant in the
eyes of a great trading city ; or whether you choose
to give a weight to humble abilities, for the fake of
the honest exertions with which thej^are accompani
ed. This is my trial to day. My industry is not
on trial ; of my industry I am sure, as far as my
constitution of mind and body admitted.
“ When I was invited by many refpeCtable mer
chants, freeholders, and freemen of this city to offer
them my service, I .ft received the honour cf
an election at another place, at a very great distance
from this.- I immediately opened the matter to
those of my worthy constituents, who were with me,
end they unanimously advised me not to decline it ;
that they had elefted me with a view to the public
service ; and that as great questions relative to our
commerce and colonies are imminent, that in such
matters I might derive authority and support from
the representation of this great commercial city ;
they desired me therefore to set off without delay,
very well persuaded that I never could forget
my obligations to them, or to my friends for the
choice they had made of me. From that time to
this instant I have not slept, and if I should have the
honour of being freely chosen by you, I hope I ihall
be as far from slumbering or sleeping when your ser
vice requires me to be awake, as I have been in com
ing to offer myfelf a candidate for your favour.”
A correspondent fays he has been informed, by a
gentleman lately arrived from Philadelphia, that
when Mr. Joh^ Malcomb, an officer of the customs
at Boston, was leading, tarred and feathered, to the
gallows, v.ith a rope about his neck, he was asked
by one of the mob whether he Was not thirsty, which
was natural to a man expe&ing to be hanged. The
unfortunate officer of the customs, as well as he could
speak, answered yes; and immediately a large bawl
of strong tea was put in his hands, with orders to
drink the King’s health. Whether it was owing to
loyalty or thirst is not material; poor Malcomb half
emptied the bowl. He was then told he must mend
his draught, and drink the Queen’s health. Though
he had done his utmost for the King, he found he
must do something for the Queen ; & having taken
off half the remainder of the bowl, he presented it
back to the persons from whom he had received it.
Hold 1 hold 1 cries his friend, you are not to forget
the rest of the royal family ; come, drink to the
Prince of Wales. Repleniffi, replenilh, cries the
loyal American ; and instantly poor Malcomb saw
two quarts more of what he was heartily sick of.
Make haste, cries another loyal American; you
have nine more healths to drink before you arrive
at the gallows. For God’s fake, gentlemen, be
merciful, I am ready to burst ; if I drink a drop
more, I Ihall die—-Suppose you do, cries one of the
mtb you die in a good cause, and it is as well to be
drowned as hanged, and immediately the dienching
horn was put to his mouth, to the health of the
bishop of Ofnaburu ; and having gone through the
other eight, he turned pale, fliook is head, and in
stantly filled the bowl which he had just emptied.-—
What, fays the American, are you sick of the Royal
Pbyficfor the Sick Clo a thing for the Naked!
A. and F. Wadfworth^
BEG Leave to inform the Public, That they have
just received from LONDON, a frefh Supply
of DRUGS, MEDICINES, &c. which they will
fell on as reasonable Terms as can be purchased irt
the Colony, for Cash, Country Produce, or Credit*
at their Store nearly opposite Capt. Solomon Cowlea
in Farmington.
They have likewise just received an Assortment
of European and India GOODS, Suitable for the
Season. Also, Wines, French Brandy, Geneva,
Orange, Clove, Annifeed and Cinnaman Waters,
WeftTndia Rum, Cherry Ditto, Loaf and Brown
Sugar, Molasses, Painters and Dyers Colours, &c.&c.
Which they will fell as cheap for Cafli as has been
fold for twelve Months past. They return their
sincere T hanks to all Ladies and Gentlemen that
have favoured them with their Custom in Times
past, and hope by their constant Attendance and
reasonable Sales, to merit their future Favours, which
will be gratefully received by their humble Servants,
A. and F. WADSWORTH.
Farmington, December 1774.
Stolen out of the liable of John
Steel of Weft-Hartford, on the sßth day of last
month, a brown Mare, about 6 years old, about 14
and half hands high, both paces and tfots, short
dock, with some white hairs in her tail, fliod all
round and toe cork’d, low in flefli. Five Dollars
reward will be given to any person who Ihall return
her to the Printing-Office in Hartford, or Zacheus
Goodrich in Sheffield. December 3, 1774,
family; No replies Malcomb,my flomach nairfeatep
the tea j it riles like poison. And yet, you rascal,
returns the American, your whole fraternity at the
Custom-house would drench us with this poison, and
we are to have xiur throats cut if it will not stay up
on our stomachs. The merciful Americans deiifted*
and the procession was continued towards the gal
lows.
LEVI ALLEN,
BEGS leave to acquaint the public that he has a
traft of land fix miles square, lyinx on theeaft
fide Lake Champlain, north of Onion River adjoin
ing on the water. This land has a smooth furface,
fine rich foil, pure healthy air, free from stones, no
high mountains in the whole trad, the Lake and the
streams that empty into it abounding with divers
kinds of good fifti; there is a number of good honeA
farmers already purchased of me and some alread)
fettled on said land, and many more that have view
ed the fame like it well, and have contracted with
me to go and fettle there next Spring, any inclining
to purchase, may have 500 acres or mor^ at a very
moderate lay.—-For particulars inquire of the fub
criber at ^aliibury} or oflra Allen on the premises,
or of Col. Thomas Chittenden, at Oni< n River.
LEVI ALLEN.
N. B. P.eady case Given for Suiquehannah
rights by said ALLEN;
Salijhury, No-v. 15, 1774.
Stolen from the fubferiber of
Salilbury, on the night after the 12th of instant No
vember, out of Noah Lee’s pasture at Caftleton, a
darkcheftnut coloured Horse, 10 years old 14 hands
and half high, a white streak in the face, the streak
is cut off about the middle with dark hair, no brand,
is a well made Horse, good carriage, paces and
trots, and has a good hand gallop, handsome head
and neck, small ears. Whoever Ihall take up said
horse and thief and secure them, shall have Six Dol
lars reward, or for the horse only three Dollars, and
all necessary charges paid, by JAMES BIRD.
Salilbury, November 20,, 1774.