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We arc with unfeigned esteem and regard.
Gentlemen, &c.
By order and in behalf of the Congress,
HENRY MIDDLETON, President.
To Paul Wentworth, Esq; Dodr. Benj. Franklin,
William Bollen, Esq; Dodr. Arthur Lee,
Thomas Life, Esq; Edmund Burke, Esq;
Charles Garth, Esq;
The Congress also prepared a Letter to the Peo
ple of the Colonies of St. John’s, Nova Scotia,
Georgia, East and Weft-Florida, who had not De
puties to represent them in the Congress. Of this
letter, the following is a Copy.
Philadelphia, October 22, 1774.
Gsntlemen,
“ IHE present critical and truly alarming date
of American aftairs, having been considered in a
General Congress of deputies from the colonies of
New-Hampffiire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Ifland
and Providence Plantations, Connedicut, New-
York, Newjerfey, Pennsylvania, New-Castle Kent
and Sussex, on Delaware; Maryland, Virginia,
North-Carolina,and South-Carolina ; with that at
tention & mature deliberation, which the important
nature of the case demands ; they have determined
for themselves, and the colonies they represent, on
the measures contained in the cnclofed papers ;
which measures they recommend to your colony to
be adopted, with all the earnestness, that a well di
reded zeal for American liberty can prompt.
So rapidly violent and unjust has been the late
condud of the British administration against the co
lonies, that either a base and slavish fubmiflion, un
der the loss of their ancient, just and constitutional
liberty, must quickly take place, or an adequate od
pofition be formed.
From the LONDON MAGAZINE.
Cause of the Duverfity of Mankind.
IN ev’ry foul, ’tis said, are seen the rife
And feeds of ev’ry virtue, ev’ry vice :
The careful man, fay they, surveys his lot,
Drefles and cultivates his little spot;
Watches each virtuous tendril as it (hoots,
Plucks up thehurtful rubbish by the roots.
This, quoth the idle one, is scarce fair play,
Nature, hcav’n’s proxy, ought to have her way.
Mark then the event, one’s culture bringeth forth
Thevulgar man, t’other’s the man of worth.
N E W - Y O R K,
The late Grand Continental Congress at Phila
delphia, among other of their Proceedings, prepar
ed an Address and Petition to his Majesty (which
will not be published till it is presented to him)
Copies of which Petition, &c. and of a Letter to the
Colony Agents in London, were direfted to be deli
vered to each of the Speakers of the provincial As
semblies, in America, to be by them transmitted to
the said Agents in London, who are desired to re
quelt the Afliftanceand Support of such Noblemen
and Gentlemen as were favourably disposed towards
the British American Colonies, in Order to get the
said Address and Petition presented, &c. and then
cause it to be published. The following is a Copy
of the Letter to the Agents :
Philadelphia, O&ober 26, 1774.
Gentlemen,
WE give you the strongest proof of our reliance on
your zeai and attachment to the happiness of Ame
rica and the cause of Liberty, when we commit the
cnclofed paper to your care.
We deiire you will deliver the petition into the
hands of his Majesty, and after it has been presented
we wilh it may be made public through the press,
together with the lift of grievances. And as we hope
for great afliftance from the spirit, virtue and justice
of the nation, it is our earnest desire, that the most
eftedual care be taken, as early aspoffible, to furnifli
the trading cities and manufacturing towns, through
out the united kingdom, with our memorial to the
people of Great-Britain.
* e doubt not, but your good sense and discern
ment will lead you to avail yourselves of every as-
Uftanci that may be derived from the advice and
friendihip of all great and good men, who may in
cline to aid the cause of liberty and mankind.
The gratitude of America exprefled in the enclos
ed vote of thanks we desire may be conveyed to the
deserving objects of it, in the manner, that you think
will be molt acceptable to them.
It is proposed that anotherCongrefs be held on the
joth of May next at this place, but in the mean
time we beg the favour of you, Gentlemen, to trans
mit tothe Speakers of the several Assemblies, the
earliest information of the most authentic accounts,
you can colled, of all such conduct and designs of
the Ministry or Parliament, as it may concern Ame
rica to know.
POETRY.
WHEREAS application has been made to me
in writing, by more than a sixteenth part of
the proprietors of the township of PANTON, a
townihip lately granted by the governor and council
of the province of New-Hampflure, desiring a meet
ing of said proprietors may be warned—These are
therefore to notify said proprietors to meet at the
dwelling-house of Paul Smith, Inn-holder in Sharon,
on the 27th day of December next, at 9 o’clock in
the forenoon, to deliberate on measures proper to be
taken concerning a pretended claim of the proprie
tors of the townihip of Addison to some part of the
lands in said Panton, and to tranfaft any other busi
ness that may be thought pfoper for said proprietors
of Panton. Dated at Sharon, the 16 th day of No
vember, A.D. 1774.
John Canfield, Justice of Peace.
To be let and entered upon immediately.
A new dwelling house with a
good Barn, Well, and Garden spot, situated about
a quarter of a mile weft of the south meeting house,
for terms enquire of ASHBEL STEEL.
Hartford, Nov. 28, 1774.
Printing-Office, Hartford, Nov. 21, 1774.
*** The Printer of this Paper returns his most
grateful Thanks to about 300 of his Customers who
take his Paper without Postage, for the punctual
Payments they have made him—He begs the Con
tinuance of their Favours, for which he (hall feel
himfelf under (pecial Obligations to serve them to
the utmost of his Ability. He likewise observes,
that he has fupplieda Number of Persons with the
Paper (perhaps about 400) of a very different Cha
rader from those above-mentioned. They have
been so far from Punftualityin their Payment, that
they have made very little Payment tho’ they have
had the Benefit of the Papers, some four, some fix,
and some not less than seven Years, and tho’ he has
been forced to involve himfelf to the Amount of
near Two Hundred Pounds for an Aflbrtment of Types
and other Printing Materials; of which theyj^had
We pray God to take you .under his protedion,
and to preserve the freedom and happiness of the
whole British empire.
By order of the Congress,
HENRY MIDDLETON, President.
ON the 21st of Nov. the prisoners in New-Gate
(6 in Number) having previously, unperceiv
ed, secured a paflage around the iron gate through
a wall of stone contiguous, the next gate which is
usually open in the day time for the communication
of frefh air, upon a salacious pretence inveigled the
two miners, their overseers, into the most retired part
of their fubterraneous abode, where they seized and
bound their hands behind them with shreds made of
some of their cloathing, then they bound them to
gether, and leaving them in the dark they came into
that part of the prison which is above ground, and
having now but one door to pass they call’d to the
keeper, who thinking them fafe below, came and
unlocked the door ; whereupon they sprung from
their ambush, seized the keeper, dragged him into
the prison, and after a few words of threatning and
insult, attempted to throw him down upon the iron
gate some distance from the furface; which not
finding so easy, they struck him on the head with an
iron instrument called by the miners, aßorier, which
brought him to the ground, ftupefied,and afterwards
abused him—then made use of their heels, taking
with them the prison key, and a gun. Advertise
ments were immediately dispatched after them, with
ten dollars reward for each prisoner, which has al
ready brought four ofthefe abandoned villains back,
who are however very refraftory. One of the two
remaining ones is the noted Richard Steel who is
so well known as to. need no difcription. The other
is James Peafe, not far from 30 years of age, about
5 feet 8 inches high, thinifh favoured, black eyes,
black hair, had on a brown coat, red coating long
trowfers, poor (hoes, &c. Whoever (hall appre
hend and deliver at said New-Gate, either of these
two wretches, (hall have ten dollars, or twenty dol
lars for both of them, paid by me,
John Viets, Keeper of New-Gate.
gTRAY’D or stolen on the 16th inst. from an in
clofure in Branford, a very dark brown mare a
bout 15 hands high, a natural pacer, hangs her head
and tail. Whoever will secure said mare and bring
her toMr. Moses Butler in Hartford, (hall have three
dollars and all expences paid, either by said Mr.
Butler, or Josiah Blakefleeof Enfield.
Nov. 28, 1774.
Nicholas Brown,
Chaise-Maker, near the North Meeting-House in
HARTFORD,
HEREBY informs his customers and others, that
he has now employed sundry workmen from
Philadelphia and Boston, among which is a wheel
wright who warrants his work. Any gentlemen who
will favour him with their custom may depend up
on having their work done as well as in either of the
above places, and On as reasonable terms.
TEN DOLLARS RE W A RD. ““
RUN -away last night from the fubferiber, a
Negro servant, named BRISTOL, about 34
years of age ; carried with him two suits of Cl oaths,
two pair of Leather Breeches, one pair mill drefs’d •
a red Great Coat, a Castor Hat, and a Violin.---
The above reward and neceflary charges (hall be paid
to any person that (hall return him, to
ROBERT BRECK.
N. B. All masters of vcffels are forbid harbour
ing or carrying oft' said Negro.
North-Hampton, November 14, 1774.
JOST or stolen from the fubferiber between Har
tford and Wethersfield, about £.\6 in bills of
this colony of various denominations, part of which
have been found torn in the high way, the upper part
gone. Whoever fliall find, or can give information
to the printer in Hartford, or the fubferiber in Col
chefter, of any of said bills, or such parts as are
miffing, (hall be well rewarded.
Ebenezer Strong.
Nov. 25, 1774.
LE VI A~L LE N,
BEGS leave to acquaint the public that he has a
traft of land fix miles square, lying on the east
lide 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
ftrea.ms that empty into it abounding with divert
kinds of good filh ; there is a number of good hon^ft
farmers already purchased of me and some already
(ettled 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 more at a very
moderate lay.—For particulars inquire of the fub
enber at Saliffiury, or of Ira Allen on the premises
or of Col. Thomas Chittenden, at Onion River ’
xt « 1 LEVI ALLEN.
. ?■ cash Given for Sufquehannah
rights by said ALLEN.
Salijburpf 15, 1774,
seasonable Notice by Ocular Demonflration, and an
Advertisement in the Paper, and the most earnest
Expostulation to fend him the Ballance of their Ac
counts and thereby enable him to do Justice, in
stead of violating his Engagements to those Gen
tlemen by whose friendly Afliftance hepurchafed the
Materials and Types above-mentioned.
Those who receive their Papers by the Posts he
ranks in one Class--Those who take them without
Postage, and make current Pay in another—-and
those who receive the Papers without Postage, and
make no Pay, in the third and last Class. It is to
the last Clais he would address himfelf, without any
Reference to the others, in what follows—and is
really fort yto fay, that such Customers, instead of
supporting and encouraging the Paper, arc a great
Moth and Bill of Charge to the Printer. The^ ery
Interest of the Sum he has expended for Paper in
their Service is almost as much as the Principal,
which they so ungenerously withold. Those who
are conscious of being long in Arrears, are thePer
fons he aims at, and whom he once mere reauefls to
think of the Matter for a Moment, and,, if pofible,
to find it in their Hearts to come or fend and fettle
their Accounts, otherwise their Papers without Ex
ception, will be difeontinued after the nth Day of
December next, after which Time those Debts that
have been so long due,if not beyond Redemption and
Recovery by being Out-Law'd, will probably be col
lected. If the Printer was not under great Embar
raflments, and utterly unable to get along with
his Business to the Satisfaction of the Public, or with
Honor to himfelf, without Help from his Custom
ers, he would sooner erace their Accounts, and
wait till Remorse of Conscience brought them to a
Sense of their Duty, than goad and press them with
repeated Duns and Aplications in the Paper and
otherwise, for Money. But he trusts his Necessity
willfully excufehimin the View of all who impar
tially confider the Case.
STEPHEN AUSTIN,
Hereby informs the Public in general, and his Cus
tomers. in particular, that he has lately removed
from his (hop formerly kept by him at the south
end of the Cpurt-Houfe in Hartford, to one just
south of the north Meeting-House; where he
continues to carry on the taylor’s business as usual,
and where all gentlemen who will favour him with
their custom, may depend on having their work
done to their fatisfaftion, as well for price as good
workmanlhip: He also makes gold and silver span
gled buttons, worked on cloth, on very reafonablc
terms. Said AUSTIN has for sale a very large
quantity of neat PHILADELPHIA BUCKSKIN
BREECHES—AIfo, a number of neat mill’d LEA
THER SKINS., He employs the best of
Workmen who make them equal to any in America.
He flatters himfelf he can supply any gentlemen
who are pleas’d to favour him with their custom,
much to their fatisfadHon.