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Nowim tue Prefs,and in s few Days will be publilh’d,
WATSON's REGISTER,
And
CONNECTICUT ALMANACK,
For tie Year 1775.
'pHIS Almanack will contain, besides what is
usual in such Publications,
x A complete Lift of the Field Officers of the several
.Regiments of Militia in this Colony, as established
by the General Afl’emblyin the last Session at New-
Haven, in Odtobcr last.
A corred Lift of Councellors, Judgts, Justices
of the Peace, Judges of Probate, King’s Attornies,
Barristers at Law, Town Clerk ~ &c. &c. through
out the Colony.
An accurate Lift of Miniiters, Churches, and re
ligious Affemblics in the Colony.
The Printer has been furnifhed wkh Cal'ulations
for his Almanack, by a Gentleman whom the Voice
of the Public ranks among the firft astronomical
Charafters of this Country.
As thePublifher has been at ConfiderableExpence
in procuring the Calculations, and taken great Pains
in making Colleftions for the other Part of hisAlma
nack,he takes the Liberty to recommend it to the in
habitants of this Colony, (for whole Benefit it is
more immediately calculated) as the most ufeful
Publication of the Kind they can pUrchafe.
A PROCLAMATION.'
CINCE an Afiembly most unlawful,
At Cambridge met in Congress a^vful,
Odober last, did then presume,
The powers of Government to assume ;
And flighting Bridfh Administration,
Dat’d raftdy seek their own Salvation ; ■ **
By ordering every sturdy Farmer,
To be prepar’d with proper Armour,
(’Tis what indeed the Law requires.
But different quite f.om o.r Desires.) if
Nay further daring, ousted those.
Who for their Suppleness were chole,
All Ma r tial Matters to adjust,
.And bid chufe Men whom they could trust :
Which Step our deep-laid Scheme 'tis fear’d,
Will make a Buiincfs devililh hard ;
And also doubting ancient Gray,
( Vder’d their Constables to pay, 1
What’er they to the Province owe,
To honest Gardner of Stow,
By which the Man by Law appointe d
Of fingering Cash is disappointed,
And weourfelves do them Impeach
For placing it beyond our reach,
By venturing to recommend
To those who on'their Faith depend,
In common Caufcto exert their Powers,
Preferring their Advice to ours ;
• All which Proceedings plainly tend
To reder futile the great End
Of prefentvenal Administration,
I therefore issue Proclamation
That Sheriffs, Constables, Colleftors,
Difpife the Men who I call Heftors,
Even although their Country deem
Them worthy of her best Esteem,
Forbidding all to - pay attention,
To laid Provincial Convention,
Exhorting Perjury to hate all,
Except in Kings a Sin most fatal,
That they to me may be more liable
I promise them as soon as able
The Congress, Gardner, and so forth,
I’ll make Submit to good Lord North.
N E W F ORT, Nov. 14.
We hear the Pope has given Lord North an in vi
tation to go to Rome ; his Holindfs having a mind
to reward his good fervicesdone the Catholic faith,
by conferring on him some dignified office in the
Romifh church ; his Holiness declaring his Lord
ship the oyly Christian minifterwho has been at the
head of affairs in Great- Britain since the revolution *
and tisfaid his Holiness is in great hopes of bringing
about another revolution in rhat i(lana,to re-establish
I'operv, and bring George the third to kiss his Ho
liness’s great toe, and humbly acknowledge his fu
premecy.throughout Christendom.
BOSTON, (Monday) November 14.
Last Thursday an inquisition was taken, on
the body of Richard Cuit, and the Jurors re
turned the following ver dill, viz. “ That the
fid Cuitt was a mariner on board the Thomas
and Ri chard transport ship, commanded by Cuth
bert Park, lying at Hancock's wharf, and did
on this id I day of November, between the
lours cf y and 8 of the clock iu the morning,
cut through his windpipe with a razor, and
then and there voluntarily and felonioujly as a
felon of himfelf, did kill and murder himfelf, a
gdinft the peace of our sovereign Lord the King,
his crown and dignity."
r BOST ON,- 17.
Tuefdaylaft, the encampments were broke up,
and the troops are gone into Louies, itores, &c. in
different [ at ts of this town.
The fame day, the Regiments that lately arrived
from Quebec and New-York landed and went into
barracks, also.
We have now eleven regiments in this town, be
sides the artillery.
In the last transports that arrived here, camealarge
quantity of powder , cannon balls, shells, Ac.
The following donations have been received during the
courfi of the week past, for the relief of the poor,fufer
ing C means of the Port-Bill, viz. From CbefiertoVan,
and Candy Parish, in the province of New-Hampshire,
$L and 84 /http. From Concord, on Penecook river, •
New-Hampjhire, 39 bujhels of peas. From Rehobeth,
14/. trom Rehobotb and E&ft-Greenwich, wz/heep.
From Tiverton, pz/hetp. From Glaftenbury, 160 bujhels
of Grain. From Southington, 130 bujhels of grain'.—
From Wethersfield, 7 3 bujhels of grai n. From Mi dale
town, 1080 bushels of grain. And from Mr. Samael
Moody, School-Maser at Newbury- Falls, 5 guineas.
The tWVn of Marblehead, at a full meeting on Monday
the 7th inf. unanimously made choice of a large committee
for executing the plans if the continental and provincial
Congresses. It likewise appointed a day for choofi/ig mi
litia officers, and a committee for each company to give
personal warning to all on the alarm lift for the purpose
mentioned. DireAlons were given by the town to -the
clerk, fir entering on the records such persons as fbould by
the province be cohfidered andpMifhedas ‘ ‘ rebels against
the iiate”; and to the constables and collectors to pay to
Htnry Gardner, Ffjy monies which they then hador in
future might have in their hands, belonging to the pro
vjyce ; the advertsjtments of the late treasurer Gray being
treated with the contempt due to one on the rebel lift. A
company and train of artillery will by pri sate fubferipti
en he likewise provided in jaid l town for defence if Ameri
can freedoini. —Surely the colonies are in car tie ft fir pre
serving their liberties, and a general attention io the art
military will tn a jhort time render them secure, nbtwiih
fiqndihg the dejigns of opprefjive tyranny. —May military
dfeiphne, then, immediately take place throughout America.
N E V/ - H A V E N, November 18.
In compliance with the eleventh Artkle of Agree
ment, in the Alfociation of the General Congress ;
a legal Town-Meeting was held in this Place, last
Monday, when tile following Persons we e chofcn as
aCommittee,for thePurpofes therein mentioned,viz.
ifslFo^ the firft Parijh, J; nathan Fitch, Esq; Mcffi.
Samuel Bird, Michael Todd, Dod. David Atwater,
and Mr. Robert Browne.
For the Parijh of White-Haven, Meffi. David Aus
tin, Timothy Jones, jun. Capt. Joseph Munson,
Mr. Peter Colt, Capt. Abraham Bradley*
For the Parijh of Fair-Haven, Samuel Masfield,
Esq; Mr. Henry Dagger, Capt* John White, junr.
Meffi. James Gilbert, Jonathan Olborn.
For the EpifcopalChurch, Meffi. Thomas Bills, John
Miles, Thomas Green, Dost. Daniel Bontecou.
For the Parish of Eafl-Haven, Capt. Stephen Smith,
Mr. Azariah Bradley.
For the Parish of Weft-Haven, Capt. Joaathan
Smith, Mr. John Benham;
For the Parish of North-Haven, Meth. Jesse Todd,
Giles Pierpont.
For the Parish of Amity, Capt. Timothy Bradley,
Mr. Enoch Newton.
For the Parijh of Mount Carmel, Meffi. Samuel
Martin, Joel Bradley.
For the Parijh of Bethany, Capt. Joel Hotchkifs,
Mr. Isaac Beecher.
TO T HE P U B L I C.
I Purpose for my own fatisfaftion, and to gratify
the curious, to make daily observations of the
temperament of the weather, as to heat and cold,
as shewn by Farenheit’s Thermometer ; and at the
end of every month for several months, and perhaps
a whole year together, to publilh in the news-paper,
the medium of the several heights of the mercury,
taken at sunrise, noon and sunset; the observations
to begin the firft day of December next. And
would hereby propose to such Gentlemen as are
owners of Fahrenheit’s Thermometer, indifferent
parts of this, or the neighbouring colonies to make
and publifti the like observations monthly, in the
public papers; by such a method may be easily
afeertained the different degrees of cold or heat in
different parts of the colony or continent, a thing
which has never as yet been done. And the several
printers are desired to i’nfcrt the above in their ref
peftive papers the firft opportunity.
I am the Public’s most obedient Servant,
Neh. Strong.
P. S. I Ihall always keep the Thermometer expos
ed to the open air, free from the influence of the heat
of any fires, or rays of the fun.
Yale College, November 14, 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 pun&ual
Payments they have made him—He begs the Con
tinuance of their Favours, for which he Avail feel
himfelf under special Obligations to serve- thcni to
the utmost ot his Ability. He likewise obi’erves,
that he hasfupplieda Number of Perlons with the
Paper (perhaps about 400) of a very diffeicut Cha
racter from those above-mentioned. They have
been so far from Pundlualityin their Payment, that
they have made very little Payment tho’ th. v have
had the Benefit of the Papers, some four, Ur. m Rx,
and some not lets than seven Y^ars, and ,tno' Le has
been forced to involve himfelf to the Amount of
near Tw Hundred Pounds for an Afibrtment of Types
an 1 other Printing Materials ; of which they iiad
leafonable Notice by Ocular Demonjlration, ami an
Advertisement in the Paper, and the most eaimcft
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 Assistance he purchait- the
Materials and Types above-mentioned.
Those who receive their Papers by the Pc A he
ranks in one Clafs—Thcfe 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 Oafs. It is to
the last Clais he would address himfelf, v/ithout any
Reference to the others, in what fi^lows—and is
really sorry to fay, that such Customers, instead of
supporting and encouraging the Paper, are a great
Moth and Bill of Charge to the Printer. T heory
Interest of the Sum he has expended for Paper in
their Service is almost as much as the Principal,
which they lo ungeaeroufiy withold. Those who
are conscious of being long irn Arreat'S} are thePer
fons he aims at, and whom he once mere requests to
think of the Matter fora Moment, and, if pojjibk,
to find it in their Hearts to come, or fend and fettle
their Accounts, otherwise their Pa; ers without Ex
ception, will be difeentinued after the 1 ith Dav of
December next, after which Time thole Debts 'h^t
From the Pennsylvania Journal.
Afevo QUERIES submitted to the cons deration of the
Protestants, throughout the British Empire.
IF the King of Great-Britain Jhould jucceed in getting
himfelf acknowledged head of the Roman Catholic
'Church in Canada,
Qu ere, Whether he may not through the influence of
Lord Bute, who has always been treated a favourdie at
Rome, procure aCardinal's hat? Andfhould this betloecafe
Que re, Whether he may not succeed to the chair cf
St. Pecea, after the deceafe' of his prejent Holiness? If this
also jhould happen,
Qtere, Whether the feat of the supreme head of the
Catholic Church may not be tranfated from Rome to Lon
don ? And with such a minifiry and parliament, aided b'}
the military, may he net bring back the Britijh empire into
the bosom of the mother church,and exact Peter s pence, kAc.
from the defendants of those nvho died in the field and at
the stake to recover this kingdom and nation from popery
and arbitrary power ?
A GRAND privy council is to be held at the Cockpit,
Whitehall, on Tuesday next, on American affairs.
Governor Hutchinson is t hen to be sworn in one of bis
Majefiy's privy council.
A disagreement is reported to have happened among
some officers of fate, relative io American Affairs, and
several refignaiions are expected. Seme are for enfcrcii.g
fubmiffon to tyranny, others for having fame regard to
jufiice.
have been so long due,if not beyond Redemption and
Recovery by being Out-LaVld, will probably be col
lecled. If the Printer Was not under great Embar
raibaents, and utterly finable to get alohg with
his BufineL to the Satisfa&ion 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 Confidence brought them to a
Seafie of their Duty, than goad and prefisthem with
repeated Duns and A; licatione in the Paper a-d
otherwise, for Money. But he trusts his Nee. f.ty
will fully excuse him in the View of all who impar
tially confider the Case.
Upwards of fifteen thcufand fiddlers are encamped on
the coajl of Spain, fromßarcelona to AU cant and t toe num
ber daily increases; but the design of them is unknown.
Sept. 14. Two additional packets are appointed is
carry dispatches to and from Bofion.
The Duke de Choificul is ce,tainly using all his
interest to create a war. He fays France will ever
be in a state of beggarry, while she remains in peace,
and that flie has now' an opportunity of engaging
in a very advantageous war ; who he here hints to
engage with, we’cannot absolutely declare, but we
may guess. The young King, however, is not al
together pleased with Choifeul for panting thus far
war, when he knows he so much desires to preserve
peace, so which will prevail, is as yet hard to de
termine: at any rate, it certainly behox s our mi
niftrytofpare a little of their attention from An e
rica, and not trust so much to French promises, as
they seem disposed to de, especially as they have so
often experienced their tendency.
S/pt. 11.' A great? u b:r of jour ey renClothie s
from Wiltfliire and Glouceftcrftiire, are going o er
L U N D ON, September 10.