The Connecticut courant and Hartford weekly intelligencer — Hartford, Conn., 1774-09-26 00:00:00, page 3

It is said the King has violated his coronation oath.
If this befaH; and that matters are nv properly taken no
tice f > do not the English deserve to be enfaved ?
July 22. Nolwithftianding the parade which our court
made a few years ago confer nina Falkland’s Ijland, pre
tended to offert the. justice of the nation, the honour of the
fag, Ifc. it is now certain that our people have KEKN-
other Parts of the Continent. These things, Sir,
together with the Disposition of the Ships of War,
we humbly think fufficiently juftify the Proceedings
for which your Excellency teems to be at a lot's to
account.
If the Security of his Majesty’s Troops is the only
Design in the late Manoeuvres, we beg leave to af
fureyour Excellency that the most certain, and by
far the mod honorable Method of making them se
cure and fafe, will be to give the People of the Pro
vince the strongest Proof that no Design is forming
■against their Liberties. And we agam solicit your
Excellency with that Earncftnefs which becomes us
on this important Occasion to defill from every
Thing which has a Tendency to alarm them, and
particularly from fortifying the Entrance into the
Town of Boston.
We rely on your Excellency’s Wisdom and Can
dour that in your proposed Representation to our
common Soverign, you will Endeavour to redeem
Us from the Distresses which we apprehend were oc
casioned by thegroffeft Miftnformation, and that you
will assure hisMajefty that no wiih of Independency,
no adverse Sentiments or Designs towards his Ma
jesty or his Troops now here, actuate his good Sub
jects in this Colony ; but that their foie intention is
to prefervepure and inviolate those Rights to which
ns Men, and Englilh Americans, they are jwltly in
titled, and which have been guaranteed to them by
his Majesty’s Royal Predeceflbrs.
By Order of the Committee,
JOSEPH WARREN, Chairman.
A Copy of the above was delivered to Mr. Secretary
Flucker by the Chairman, with a desire that he
would as soon as was convenient, present it to the
Governor, and request his Excellency to appoint a
time for receiving it in Form. The Secretary in
formed the Chairman the epfuing Day, that he had
Ten the Governor, and had given him the Copy of
the Address, but that he declined receiving it in
Form. The Chairman mentioned to him the Im
portance of the Bufmefs, declaring his Belief that
the Troops were not in danger; and that no person
has fofar as he has been informed, taken any Heps
which indicated any hostile intention, until the
feizingand carrying off the powder from the maga
zine in the County of Middlesex; and that if any
ill consequences Ihpuld arise, that should effeCt the
interest of Great-Britain, the moil candid and ju
diciotts both in Europe and America, would confi
der the author of the ferment now raised in the
minds of the people, as accountable for whatever
consequences might follow from it. He therefore
desired the Secretary once more to make application
to his Excellency, and to hate the affair to him in
that serious manner which the case seemed to re
quire.—The Secretary accordingly made a second
application to the Governor, but received for an
swer, that he had given all the fatisfaClien in his
power, and he could not fee that any further argu
mentation upon the fubjeCt would be to any good
purpose. Upon this, the Committee were again con
vened, and it was unanimouily refolded, that they
had executed the commission entrusted to them by
the County, to the utmost of their ability And
after voting that the reply to his Excellency’s an
swer, should be inferred in the public papers as soon
as pofiible ; they adjourned without day.
It is observable that every vote passed by the De
legates of the County, and the Committee appoint
ed to wait on the Governor, was unanimous.
Your Excellency has suggested that Nature has
made it.eUfy to cut off the Communication between
Town and Country. Our only Rsqueft is, that the
Entrance into the Town may remain as Nature has
formed it.
St. James’s, July 22.
in council was this day pleased to order,
JI; 5. Ihat the parliament, which stands prorogued to
I burfjay Jhe fourth day of August next, should be further
prorogued to K’hurfday the fifteenth day of September fol-
Icwing.
■ Londsk, July 18. It is said that Governor
H n has been repeatedly clojetied atKew, at White
hall, and at St . James's, fence his arrival ; and we are
afiured his opinion gives much spirit to the mini fry, as
it^ntirely coincides with their own.
J lily 20. Lady Holland is given over by her phyftci
ans, in confe^uence of which jbe has made a will.
Accounts are lately arrived from Spain, which positive
ly\affert, that there are no lefts than twenty-eight men of
war of the line now ready, for sea, in the. fever al ports of
Carthagena, Ferrol, and Cadiz, al less than a week’s
notice.
By the Hayley, Capt. Scott, who arrived at Salem
yesterday, in seven weeks from London, we have
received the London Papers to the 27th of July,
from which we have extracted the following In
telligence.
An old warrior in the country, has ctmftrudieda machine
for fighting, wiich he fays, for a cloje attack, is much ftt
periorto a bayonet, or any other instrument ever yet in use.
The art of war is the universal study, all are animated
with the bigheft fedcur for liberty r and, 1 f O save my
country, heaven i is the univerfalprayer.
Last week the ct^nonat the batteries back ofgevernefis
if and vjere remsvekby order of the General.
with an anjwer.
July 25. A fingidar agreement was entered into at the
New-England coffee-houfe, an Friday Iff between an emi
nent merchant in the Crescent, and a gentleman of fortune
in the Weft-Indies : The farmer deposited with the latter
the sum of SOQ guineas, on confederation of receiving one
guinea per day, until the aAs relating to the port of Bos
ton are repealed, with a proviso, however, that the bar
gain should be void if they were not repealed by the Z^th
of December
July 27. It is reported, that there is a design ofpaf
fing an ail next feflion of parliament, for reft oring to all
Roman Catholic Feers of this realm, their ancient rights of
fitting in prrU ament.
It is said, that his most drift! an majesty has published
an ordinance atParis, which makes theJupplymg the Corsi
cans with stores of any kind a capital crime, punifthable
with death ; and all the foreign ministers at that court
have been given to understand that this edict will be execut
ed with the utmost rigour.
The present national debt is full a hundred and forty
millions, and the annual inter est of the fame fullfive mil
lions and a half; to which the current expences being ad
ded, makes the annual out-goings about thirteen millions.
BOSTON, September 22.
At a metering of the freeholders of this town, y est er day,
at Faneuil-HalL the following gentlemen were ch often to
repreftent them in the General Assembly, to be held on the ^th
day oft October, viz. The Hon. Thomas Cufhing, Esq-,
Mr. Samuel Adams, the Hon. John Hancock, EJq-, Wil
liam Phillips, E{q\ The meeting stands adjourned to this
day at 3 o’clock, P. M.
Last Monday Capt. Jonathan Greenleaf, was unani
moujly chosen to represent the town of Newbury-Port in ge
neral court.
Mr. Jabez Fifther is unanimouftly chosen to represent the
town of Wrentham.
We have papers and letters by Capt. Scott, to the zyth
of July, by which we are informed, that Governor Hut ch
inJoris representation of the fit ate op' our affairs were Very
pleasing to the ministry, who were led to expert a payment
of the tea, and a fubmifiion to, and acquieftcenCe in, the late
Adis of the Britiftb Parliament, by the friendfthip and zeal
of the addressers to Governor Hutchinjon, who have been
rephfanted as a majority of the men of Property and conse
quence in this town—that the operation of the Boston Pori
Abt would greatly contribute to bring it about, ■ the mer- .
chants in England and the friends of Government in Boston
not being much injured by that measure, but only the Weft-
India traders, who had been always bawling for a non
importatiosi of Britifth goods, which no ways ajfeAed their
own trade—that a non-importation agreement would not
be approwd of by the other colonies, and must prove abor
tive in this—that in consequence of these apprehenfeons,
and not having heard of the non-conjumption covenant, the
firft report of which willftrike them like a thunder clap—
large quantities of goods were Jhipt and/hipping for the co
lonies ; that the uneasiness of the people on account of the
Quebec bill had not fubfeded, and the dijlike and opposition
of the manufacturers to the measures of administration were
greatly increafting, as well as the number of able winters
in our favour, but that the colonies must notwithstanding
expert a deliverance from their great oppreffeon, by their
own fortitude And wisdom, and not the honour and justice
oft a nation corrupt and vitiated in dlmoft every part, whose
feelings, rather than their under ft and: ngs must be applied
to—that the troubles of Europe were far from being com
pefed and the jealousy of ministry with refpeft to the mca
fures of the new administration in France must operate in
this affronted and distressed people. .
The inhabitants of this province, and of this town in
particular, ought to be informed, that that dirty Scotch
pedler, John Mein, formerly a vender of books, and pre
tended Printer, in this town, employs his whole time
in framing and writing the most audacious falfehcods,
coloured with the great eftl fourrility agaiitft this town and
province. His lucubrations appear every day in the f.cn
don\ Public Ledger. It is said Government has fettled
a salary of 200/. per annum on this Thane, no doubt with
a -tfiew to ftuppert him in searching the records of Grub-
Itreet, to find language fit for his purpose, and adapting it
to the good people of Massachusetts-Bay.
Gur worthy brethren in the country may Le afftured,
tloatfome of the most intelligent, affable and civil of the
troops, now quartered in this capital, daily make excursions
into our country towns in dlfguife, where they mix with'
all forts of ptople, prompting the talkative to tcllzW they
know, and the weak and inMoral to tell much more.
Now, as fetrecy is the charades Iftic of cur enemies,Jb
openness IA frcmkwfs,is peculiar to our.hoheft htfoandmen I
IKhen the former, therefore, are Sties in the land, the
latter ought to be refeived, and ufon theip.
guard. A word to the wise.
D ONED that Island. H hetler ibis is in compliance
with fame private agreement made with theC ourt
of Spain when the Island was refored to us, is a question
which will instantly occur to every man ; and whoever
rcfiedls but one moment on the determined pacific
complexion of our Court, will be as readily provided
N£W-Y OR K, September rz. .
Yellerday arrived the Duke of Cumberland
Packet, Capt. Marlhall; in fix Weeks ?.nd tlnee
Days from Falmouth, by whom we have London
Papers to the third of August, which are almost en
tirely silent on American Affairs. "line krencli
ha 1 defeated the Conicans in the Province of Nic
lo, wlrich was given up to Plunder and Massacre ;
the Ho 11 fes were all entirely demolished, and near
6000 Cattle were seized by the French. The 4th
of July was a Day of Weeping and Lamentation
for the Chiefs o f the Corsican Pj iioners, who in
great Numbers were put to cruel Deaths by vari
ous Kinds of Torture. July 15. The Dukes of
Orleans and Chartres had Orders not to rtypeCv St
the French Court. The King, it was said, had for
an Equivalent, ceded the Island of Corsica to the
''King of Sardinia,, who was making great Prepaia
tions to take Possession of it. The Influence of the
Duke ofChoifeuil idcreafed daily, and it is said,
by his Advice, the French Marine is to be put in
to a state of the utmost Perfe&ion within 3 Months.
Several Courts are jealous of too close a Connexion
between France and Germahy. It is also said the
Aullrians and Turks have concluded a Truce, and
that the latter had ceded federal Provinces. Both
the King of Prussia 2nd the Emperor continue their
Encroachments upon Poland, which many now fup
pole those Princes and the Czarina intend to divide
among them ; the King of Prhflia to have the ’arg
eft Share. His Army has already taken many im
portant Places, and is within 8 Miles of Warsaw.
The Ruffians hadworfted the Turks in several En
gagements, some of which were very considerable ;
on the other Hand the Turks had the better in an
Engagement on the Black Sea. At a Meeting cf
the Freeholders ofMiddlefex, the following were
the Toasts ; May the Leading Strings of the
King, be converted into Haltars for his Ministers.
The Duke of Glo’fter’s Religion. A Staff
Promotion of Heads; to supply the Vacancies on
Temple Bar.---A Smithf.eld Warming to theFram
exs of the Quebec Bill.—-A Spirit of Liberty to
the People, and of Unanimity to the Opposition—
A Scaffold for the Favourite, &c.
H A R T F OR D, September 26.
Notwithstanding the 8 regiments, now at Boston,
the General has thought proper to remove the roy
al Irish from Philadelphia, toAmboy, & it is suppos
ed from thence to Boston, as well as two regiment ;
from Quebec, and it is said the troops ill Nev. 7 -York
and New-Jerfty are to move that 'way in a Ihort
time; after which, if Gen. Gage thinks his army
strong enough, he will rob the Americans of their
lives or liberties.
For the Benefit of. the Public.
The inhabitants of the Colony Connecticut are
delired to remember that by an aft of the General
Assembly passed in January, 1769, no' book debt
contracted before the firft day of March, 1769, will
be recoverable by law, unless the fame be sued for
or the ballance afeertain’d by the debtors fubferib
ing the creditor’s book.
IT being now almost three years since the late
co-partnership of Lathrop 8c Smith, as Apothe
caries in Hartford was difiblved ; and a /reat num
ber of their accounts remaining Unfettlcdj ihany cf
which arc more than fix years bld—-they earneflly
requ/ft all whose accounts with said company are
unsettled, to make speedy payment, or ballance
their refpeCtive accounts by giving their notes cf
handto Smith Sc Coit. And all those whose ac
counts are of more than’five years standing must ex
peCl to be sued in November and April next, with
out further notice, unless they comply with the a
bove request. Lathrop & Smith.
Hartford, 26th Sept. 1774.
5 M~I ff ~H~l^t~lf~G^‘l T,
INFORM their customers and others, that they
have lately received from Europe, and have for
sale, a large assortment of Medicines, and other
articles in the Druggist and Apothecary way as
universal a collection of Books as was ever brought
into' Connecticut—a great variety of the belt Paint
er’s Colours—Window Glass and Nails cf all sizes
Best pocket Thermometers eff various sizes best
London Porter and Bristol Beer, by thegrofs or tin
gle doz. They have also for fale,genuine Madeira,
Malaga and Lisbon Wines, French Brandy, Gene
va, and a few Hogflieads of New-England Ruin- T —
Figgs,Raians,Rice,Chocoiate,Coffee, Pepper by the
hundred or fhiallerquantity—lndigo,Madder,Cop
peras, Allum and other articles too many to be enu
merated. N. B. Those who are so good a.s to fa
vour us with their custom will judge for thcmfelves
whether we fell re^fpqaLly or not.
RAN away.from the Subscribers on the 26th
of A’iguft, a Sorril Mare two years old, hav
ing a light Mane and Tail, a large blaze in her
face, white feet, branded on the left fnoulder with
the letter B and docked. Whoever fnall tike tip
said Mare, and return her to the Subscriber, in
Middletown, fhall' be handsomely rewarded, and
have all r.eceffary charges paid by
’ 'GILES MILLER.
Middletown Sept. 21st, 1774.