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^ ) fy, ">afo^^ ^dearcurs, thife rcif m^c^nd.
,%$ "Tf^ sent .ved, and Euro, a cos i.^u^ to e> joy
'the inefti.n^ble bhfiiags cf peace. Permit us Si, art
the fame time, to return to ycur M jfly cur dutiful
thinks fir y^ur provident attention in guarding a
gai^t any event which may arifi out of the prefect
h ua on cftffrifs, by keeping us in arefpcdable Rite
of defence at home.
" Wi h hearts full of duty and gratitude, we %c
knowledge the hapyrinefs, which under your Mj fly's
mild government, is extended toevery part f the
Bririlh empire; of which the late flourishing Rate of
the revolted provinces, their numbers, their wealth,
their llrtngth by sea midland, which they th?rk fuf
ficient to enabe them to inaks head against th^ who e
power cf the mother-country, Shew that tie, have ^~
b&ndantly participated. And we carnefUy hope that
your M r j?ft, L paternal objed of reftoiirg jour Lf
tra&d colonies to the happy condition from which,
by thrown mifeondua, thy are wretchedly fallen,
will be rowdily attained."
N^v 23. The following is rn extr^a of a letter
from a Scute in Du'oi:l, dated the 15th isflant, to ano
zher in London, received th* zo:h x^ar.t.-. -"Letters
rxety^d 'his day font Co.k% import the arrival there
tfli/e t. -.itpor-.s from New York, which bring an 2c
cou^t th?t the rebels were repulsed from Ki abridge,
wiih the IcL ot fev^ral th^ufy d men, aad that the
king's arm, we 2 on their match for Philadelphia,
th.re to take winter q^arteu.'
Another letter from Dublin, fays, " Mr. Strettle,
^ cr-ri^cat mrrcha^t here, ha this day (November
the t6r) received an account by one of hi; veffds,
^hich arrived from America on the 14% that bis
M j fly's fo.css under the command cf General Clin
,ou, n^ i/g made good a lending, 2nd got behind the
P ovGcis.laimy, meds a signal to General Sir Willi
^r.i H^w„ whd immediately marched and attacked
^hem in Lent, wiils he engaged them in the rear ;
th*.t th^ rebels, with a firprifiig carnage, were to
ufy rented ; arid the King's forces loft but 300 men,
wi^hou. an c ffictrof diftinaiqr. A peftfeript menti
v.n^ the left cf (he Provincials to amount to 7000,
killed, a^d mad^ p^fo.e $ cf war."
W, ar: well info mrd, that Mr. D ^n had no pub
lic chatafter at Pvis, but that h^ was solely employed
by the ph^n of Virginis and Maryland to negotiate
an exclod/t centrad with the French Court for all
t^ tobacco produced in thofa two colonies.
Tie Splcifh fleet that lay in Cadiz B&y, faird
th' 27h of lull raovth, .nd was ffok^with at fe% by
a vGf4 arrived f~ m Madeira at Brifiol; the master
cf whi;h fc, s, he imagines it WAS dfftined for Buenos
A,ras.
Th# French ?^ mdisg the fame preparations at
Toulon as t>es ^r^ a, Brett. F?ur large lhi,s of the
line a^d cn* frigate will be immediately put into com
raiffion. Writing is forbid all persons under severe
penalties.
The very ileutical Dr. Franklin, whom Lord
Chatham so much carr^fT 6, and riCed to fay he w^a
proud to call , m hit friend, i: now at the head of the
rebellion in North America.
It i; said that the ontiiria cf this kingdom :t ill be
cal al rut the enfui:.g fp-iag fr? gariifu^ dvty; ten
bullions to be embodied at a time for tinea months
in rotation.
Y^ft^oa/ at noon nmeffenger arrived at Lord Ger
ratine's effi :e, expreri frem Sir Gu # Carleton. Go
vernor ofQ^a ec, with an account that his Mgefy's
forces uad^r his command, hud gained a coinplcat
vido^y over the Americans, in ceffi % the Lake
Champlain, and had destroyed a number of thair
vHTJs ; after which the, marched to Crown Point,
which the rebels had reduced to alhes ; his M^j^fty's
forces then marched to Ticonderoga, where the rabals
under the command cf Col. Arnold we.e defeated,
and hs himfYf taken prisoner. This account was
carried to hi: M j-ny by L^rd Gtorge Germaine, and
Uid before the Privy Council.
Y&rdty the Ya^kiy privateer, taken feme time
ago fr ^ : i tie Americans, was fold at Oid Lloyd's ccf
f#re aouG, Tr 330 b„
Six million, extraordinary will be wanted for ser
vice cf the anfuiag 7^r.
Urn a rev ew ^f 'he public dribuTm^nts from the
^xr 1716 to 'hn prefect time, it appears upon the
m ri auriien ic tritimony, that this nation hasexpend
cd no eri a ftim tian 34,6^7,142'. 10s. 10L (thirty
four million, fix huudnd ninety seven thousand, one
handed and forty pounds, tea Shillings, and tin
penc)in fuaport of her revolted fubjefts in America,
wit^ u; including the expenditure; fur maintaining
the W^rt ludix isl indt.
O.d^r are iffu<d from the Privy Council, for the
Povinrial prifunes (Officers and Commanders ex
c^/ud) to be caried in transports to Gibraltar, and
when toe^ the G vernor will be veiled with a power
cf granting them *4«w pardon 03 condition that they
ferwe fiv^ y^ars, in the Company's fetricmints in the
Eeft I idits, fir their piff^ge to,which the outwasd
bound Eid-laliamsn are to touch at Gibraltar. Those
Vho , efife these conditions, will ba brought to Eng
land ^nd tri^d as rebels,
At^atyji concluded with Russia; by which it is
ftipula.ei t'at th# Czarina is to fend 12 ships of the
li^ i^o thj Mediterranean, under the command of
a Bririfh Admiral, in case of a war wi;h the house of
Buurb^n. Sevei ships are cx?eA?d at Portsmouth
from the Baltic about the 15th of December.
It it talked that th^re will be fom^alter lions at the
Treafu ? y board before meeting of parliament ; but
th? premier will still continue.
Sir Jafsph Yorke, wa are told, has presented a
flaming memorial to the States General by order of
his Court, 'upon receiving undoubted intelligence cf
fi ^A^ ti<raxrtn, b^ftg to. vur^i iuc gtf jir: ^ ; pri
*nd lairing as fappcftd fx blit, bat b i. i g in L'x
laid to S/an sh sg* :t 3 fur the uGofthe C ,ag &fi. 1 las
traoGaio^, it is f,i 4 , wifi occatiom » ff fro Ml notf.
F;om th? KENTISH GAZET fE.
fl° H^ mlitarj letters from Long fond, and triumphant
exultations cf the mtnf trial parti lans,would fain per
jaade us, that the fight of a British jvt&ier is /efficient to
?""/) "" tubal regiment of Americans. 9b, mus Jurel,
think that the inhabitants of old England bavs drank deeply
of ibs ivaters of Lethe, and loft their memories as <vell as
their libertis, so fan to f° r g" THE CARNAGE at
BUNKER' -HILL, and a fill later incident, when bis
Mytfj' 3 troops wou'd have been inpf^ffon of Sullivan's
island, if thy would bave pcfla a ford, of soar feet wa
i+r, defended oA, b, tiff,tn hundred of these cowardly
provincials, "fotbs adulatory address of the city of York, I
vusuld bold ub the anj-wer of the prcvincialprifinersf when
offeredpardon b, HO A'E, on the easy condition of the &atb
of allegiance; het they had fevutzd themf^ve# to ii
b^rty ^d thrir country, a r d would meet their fate.
Is this like the language of COWARDS?
Rut fewer, thing ts to be fupprfed in favour of, and
ever, thing to be exaggerated againf, the Americans what
?nuft ever, good Englifbman who laments b.s filiation in
filmed, think ? He ms know bimfefde.eft.ta, iufulted,
robbed aa/idudad, oywhorn? b? renegado Whigs,
b, mercenary BRITONS, and Despotic Trai
tors.
WILLIASBURGH, fa 3l .
Lieutenant Bartholomew Yates, of the fft Pifginia re
giment, was killed in the late engagement between Princeion
and Trenton, fighting brawl, for bis country. After hav
ing bis thigh broke by a mvjket ball, be was ms cruelly
cut and mangled b, the Britijb fo/diers, notwitbf aiding be
calhdfor quarters, which was only returned with abufase
language from those barbarous bull degs, and thrifts of
thetr bayonets.--- Col. Rbol, the H/ffian commandant who
lately died of the wounds be received at Trenton, declared
upon his death bed, that although the English bad endea
voured to through all the odium of the mar, rapes, murders,
tSc. upon bis countrymen,jet that, to bis certain knowledge,
they were ebiefy, if not altogether, perpetrated by their
own officers and soldiers.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6.
Ttjierda, the Affembl, eleßed Dr. Franklin, Robert
Morris, William Moore, andfonatban B. Smith, Esquires,
and General Roberdeau, Delegates in the Continental Con
gr^-
GENERAL ORDERS.
Head Quarters, Morris Towe, January 22, 1777.
The General is for r, tofnd that the late General Order,
allowing the plunder taken from the enemy to be divided for
the benefit of tbfeaptors, has been miflaken by feme and a
bused by others.-- - The indulgence was granted to the fronting
parties only, as a re ward for the extraordinary fatigue,
hardship, and dagger the, were exposed to upon those parties.
The General never meant nor had an idea, that an, of our's
or the enemy's floret fund at an, evacuated pof, were to
be cenfdered the pro, , of theft who frf marched in.
Nerb.i did be mean tv.l an, public fores difeovered b, any
floating parties fbould be appropriated to their ufo, unlejs the,
found the teem, in aflualpffffon, and difptffffdsbem.--•
Plunder taken under fueb circumfantes, eiiber 6, the militia
or continental troops, to be reported b, the commanding of
ficer of the part, to some cf the Continental or Provincial
Generals, who are directed to have all the prowfons and
military fores so taken appraised b, tbeCemn.ifar, or 9,arter-
Maser G neral, or font of bis deputies, for the benefit cf
the captors.
The General prohibits, in both the militia and Continental
troops, in the mos positive terms, the infamous practices of
plundering the inhabitants, wider the specious pretence of
their being Tories. Let the per/ons cf fueb as are known to
be enemies of their country befeized ana confined, and their
property diftofed of as the law of the State direfb .-•• It is
our bufnejs to give proteaion and support to the poor diftrfid
inhabitants, not to multiply and increase their calamities.
After the publication of this order ar, officer, either militia
or Continental, found attempting to conceal the public fores,
plundering the inhabitants under pretence of their being To
ries, or filing at venous plunder taken from the enemy, in
any other manner than the,eorders direß, may exptA to be
punifad in the feveref manner, and be obliged to account
for every thing so taken or fold. The Adjutant Gneral to
furnifo the commanding officer of each divifon with acepy cf
ihfe orders, who is to circulate copies among his troops im
mediately.
A true copy of General Orders,
J. REED, Adjutant General.
GENERAL ORDER S.
Morris-Town, February 6, 1777.
THE General, informed that m^ny frauds and a
buses have baea committed cf late, by sundry soldiers,
who after inlifting in one regiment, and receiving the
bounty allowed by Congrtf, have d+ferted, inlifSd in
others avd received 14 w bounties: For preventing of
such urjuft and infamcui pra&icnt, commands, and
ftritlly enjoins all officers of the continental army, to
use their utmost endeavors to detect these who Ihail le
guilty of fuchcffcnces; and them having typrehend
cd, they cauf# to be forthwith tried by a general court
martial, that they may be dealt with according to
their crimes.
The General thinks proper to declare, that this of
fence is of the most enmmousatad flagrant nature, and
not admitting of the least palliation or excuse; wkr
foever are crnvifted thereof, and sentenced to
die, may co^fider thrir execution certain and
INEVITABLE.
That such impofitio^s may be left practicable, ev^ry
offi-sr engaged in the recruiting service, is r< quired to
have a piece of blue, red, or yellow ribbard or tape,
fixed ia th, hat cf each foldiyr recruited, at & time cf
i./LL^t; 6high he fb-Jl c^frirtrir co
r^of^i^.g kirty ^ e Ufa--, till the
or corps to v.h^h La is aff.mbkj. . : ,
ih& zr^y.
A true copy, taken fiem Gneral O d:rc.
'[BE PixlbiiLL huteoi having u&t&inmigc b^c^ a
journey to a distant S ate the beginning Jf Apri ? ,
wiih a view to replenish his office with a'^w let <f
1Y i ES, f.n the Gourami, ( he pielcnt cars being aj.
moil too bad for us&,) degras a r l pis,fees indebted ta
him for the frmr, or on any other accent, 10 n^k^
immediate payment.
Printing Office, March 3, 1777.
Jult upiucd, at th# 2d doer uuuw, t^afi lol.l4,g Ornce
in Hartford, and i o be fold at the most extrava, arit"
prices, by JOSIAH BLAKLEY, the folK^g
articles, viz °
RED Bioad Cloth ; light brawn ditto ; drab dit
to ; peach colour'd di to ; buff Serge; Li e
KeTcyma^e; white Swarfkin ; spotted ditto ; crim
fjn Lifting; scarlet ditto; fup'tfite ditto;' black
citto; pain Cambist; ftrip'd a r .d cref/d ditto ;
green Durant; buff ditto; blue ditto; ftpeifine
scarlet ditto; k wriet Rattiart; green Shallot n ; red
ditto; nhi e cino ; white Knap; macaroni Velvet,
black fik ditto; red wo flea Plush; crimioa ditto
biue tair ditto ; ditto fliag ditto ; fuperfine brown
Thickfett; dark ditto; claret ditto; black Says ;
white ditto; black Rfeft Stuff; black Serge.denim';
fupe:fiue fearLt Duroy ; scarlet Serge denim ; crinC
son ditto; narrow Crimson Cloth; white worsted
Host; Raffia Linden ; Tickleaburg ; brown Tow-
Cloth ; black Pepper ; Gun-Powder ; Hatband'
Crape; black Catgut ; blue Spotted Gauze '; white
g^LZ, Hanekerchieft ; ditrogauze Aprons ; Legbrrn
Hat# ; Paper ditto; Men's white fi!x Glover ; Wo
men's leather ditto; Knee-Garters ; 'Spcftac'cs ;
large and fall metal Buttons ; large and small haft
ket ditto; fi<k Twist; Door Locks ; Ribbons ; Wo
m?ns cloth Shoes ; b^fs Thin bits ; walh'd 'ditto;
Frints; steel plate Hand Saws; iron ditto; ffioe
Hammers, Copper Adzes ; Shoe Knives; Ditto Pin
cars; ditto Kuippera; Wine Glaihs; Ink-powder,
Crown Soap, &c. &c.
Has forfale at his Store in Mansfield. 2d society,
GLASS and EARTHEN ware, viz. Tea-
Pots of various fiz^ ; Mi k Pots ; Sugar Diffies ;
Bowls; Plates ; Cups and Saucers, &c. &c. Half
pint, gill and half gill Beakers; Wine Glaff#; ; Vi
negar Cruets; Mustards, Salts, Decanters, &c. &c.
N. B. Any p^rf.n who wants to buy by the quan
tity may have one quarter abatement from his retail
price. He experts within a few days to have Gun-
Powder to fell by the hundred er imaller quantity.
O Said RoßhiNs gives cash fcr clean cotton and
linen RAGS, for the efe of the Hartford Paper Ma
-2^2,Z: March 1. 1777.
q'frlE luutcober intends to leave tne SiaTe of Co'n
& nydicut on the firft day of April, and defirs
all persons who have ^ny demands on him to eppiy
immediately for payment : and such as have delivered
to him or his order any provisions for the army and
have not prefanted <h#ir accounts, are earncftly re
quteft^d to bring them in fourteen days from the date.
TocH who hav^ received money in advanee, and have
not accounted for it, must txped to be feed if they
delay to recount any logger. No account will be at
tended to where balances are due from me after the
firft day of April till the end of the war.
Jere. Wadsworth.
H#r>fnrd, F^L-uer* 27, 1777
yY'' P^' UR6 ^4. n Q< ^ a^y uemancs on p,& urtute of
Joseph Waterous, late of Salisbury deceas'd, are
defined to exhibit the r accounts for fettlemtut--. Aud
those iad&bted to said eft^te to make pay merit, to
James Waterous, Executor.
S f 'fburv, February 19 1777.
Wri in# fubfcribcis wiling app&iatcu u, ih, ho^ra
bh court cf probate for the difiria cf Sin Ibary,
commissioners to receive, examine, and adjust the
claims of the creditors to the estate ©f Aaren Gofard,
lets of Siwfbuty, deceas'd, represented i^folvent ; do
hereby give notice that we ihall attend on the bufir.sfi
of our appointment at the dwelling h use of Capt.
Samuel Hayes, in said Simibury, on the fourth mon
days of March and April next, at one of the clock in
the afternoon on esch of f in days.
Isaac Dewey, 7
oamuelHayes, jun. j
Stefb^ry, February 13, 1777.
N. B. Ao accounts Kill be alleged unless proper 'y
at^fl^d.
O TRA riED irm tru xuDicrsLcr in M^y i^k, 4
two years old HEIFER, n^ik^d with a half pen
ny the under fide of each ear, her colour red, with a
white face. Whoever will fecute and rr'urr said ELY
fir, or give information to the fubfciiber, Ihall h^e
two dollars tewaid, paid by
Micah Hoskin.
Sheffield, F b'uary 17 1777.
JF)Et:EkrED frem C^pt . JArnes'W-mri' c topac',
uh> was 'in the carting bufi*e(., the 12 hos this '
indent frOG. P#< ks Kill, Sim.n D^ane, an apprentice
to tat futfe ib^r, in the 17 h ,nr cfIE a„, 5 rifl 3
inches high. Whoever will mu^a said Deleft..• tn IDs
duty at Peek's Kill, or tc hit mt&r in Salilbuj, fh«J
Law, Or.© Shilling lewaid, paid hr
Oliver Jewell.
N. B. All people are fci'rid haib trin^ cr tuit-g
him on p, a%c..u;xt. Fibrin y +B, H 7