The Connecticut courant and Hartford weekly intelligencer — Hartford, Conn., 1774-09-06 00:00:00, page 1

*** AS a Per fin prep offs to begin to ride
as Post from Hartford to New-Tork through
the Towns of Litchfield, Woodbtlry, (Ac. about
the firft cf October next, and who will fit off
from Hartford on Monday Morning of every
Week, (except the Months of December, Ja
nuary, February and March, when he will
ride but once in a Fortnight) it is become ne-
ceffary that the Connecticut Courant should be
published on Monday ; it will therefore for the
future be published on Monday Morning.
Ihis Day P’uhltjbed', and to be fold by the Printer hereof,
CONSIDERATIONS
On the Measures carrying on by
GREAT-BRITAIN,
Against the Colonies in
NO R TH-AMERICA.
This celebrated pcrformance was firjl publijhed in Eng
land, and bad a wonderful Operation on the Minds of
that People, in eradicating their Prejudices against the
Inhabitants of America. This Pamphlet, tho’ contain
ing Sixty-Four large Octavo Pages, and fold in Lon
don at One Shilling and Six Pence, Sterling, may now
be had at the moderate Price of One Peftarecn, which is
much left than might reasonably be expelled. But, as a
Book foffghly admired, and so wonderfully calculated to
epen blind Eyes, ought to be in the hands, and thoroughly
read by every Perfcn in America, the Printer is induced
to foil it as cheap as hecanpoffibly afford it, without
being guilty of manifeft Injustice to himfolf.
N.B. The above Pamphlets are likewise fold by
Mr. William Stanton of Litchfield, Capt. Ezra
Fellows of Sheffield, Mr. Josiah Smith, of Great
Barrington, Mr. John Watson of Canaan, Mr.
Titus. Watson. of Norfolk, Mr. Daniel Hudson
of Torringford, Mr. Jonathan Humphry of
Simfliury, William Judd, Esq; of Farmington,
Dr. Eliot Rawson of Middletown, and by Mess.
Joseph Knight and Amos Alden, Poll-riders.
Just Publfhcd, and to be Jold by the Printer hereof,
A SERMON preached at Suffield, Dec. 27,
1773? the next Sabbath after the Report ar
rived that the People at Bolton had destroyed a
large Quantity of TEA belonging to the Eafl-India
Company, rather than Submit to Parliament Ails
which they locked upon untonftitutional, tyranni
cal, and tending to enslave America.
By ISRAEL HOL LI,
Preacher of the Gospel in Suffield.
Just Publffed, and to be Jold at the Printing-Office in
Hartford,
ft. N ACCOUNT of the Number of Inhabitants
in the Colony of Connecticut, taken January
1, 1774, together with the Number of I habitants
taken January 1, 1756. Publilhed by Order of the
General Assembly.
Run-away from the subscriber
of Canaan, in Litchfield County, a Negro man na
med BOND, about 27 Years old, 6 Feethigh, well
Sett, one of his upper' Fore Teeth broke out, this
Country born, had on a homcfpun Butternut Co
lourld Jacket, Speaks good Engliih, but has a Small
impediment in h's Speech. Took a considerable
sum of Money with him. Whoever will take up
laid Negro, and return him to his Mailer, or secure
him so that he may have him again, ihall have Five
Dollars reward, and all ne cefiary Charges paid, by
Timothy Hurlburt.
All Mailers cf V efiels are forbid to ttanfport said
Negro, as they will anfwerit at their Peril.
N. B. Said Negro pretends t© be free, and has a
forg’d pass. Canaan, Augnil 14, 1774.
Oft laftTuelday between Bolton and Hartford,
a pair large Silver Shoe-Buckles with fleel
Chapes. Whoever has found them and will return
them to Mr, Mofei Butler, in Hartford, or Mr Isaac
Fellows in Bolton, ihall have one Dollar reward^ or
half n D A’xr 'vich, Augvft 28th, 177^.
TUESDAY, SbPTBMMft 6,' 1574. T H E [NUMBER 5 Aj
CONNECTICUT ; C O U R A N T,
A N D " HARTFORD
W2EK. L Y > By' T INTELLIGENCER.
Containing the Freshest AD v ICE S, both FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.
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Open to all PARTIES—not under the influence of ANY.
For the CONNECTICUT COURANT.
I Find in Rivington’s paper No. 70,' an address
to the committee of co. refpondence for the town
of Hartford, the author ofwhich itiles himfelf a
merchant of New-York. I his doughty performance
difeovers such ignorance of the commercial intereil
of that city, that I presume he has not been fuffered
to deal much in articles briefly called, articles of
merchandize. The chief Branch of his Bufinefi, I
fancy, has been in fhovelling out scandal and de
famation ; in thisart he is thoroughly inilrudled and
appears ready to oblidge his cuilomers either by
wholesale or retail. Tnere was one unlucky circum
stance however that befel the address; it by some
means or other, I have reason to believe escaped the
notice of the Hartford committee ; they would not
magnify and honour the author so much as to dif
pifeit; being eflentially defedive, it fell below
the contempt of those for whose notice it was wrote.
This is a hard circumllahcejown and on the Author’s
account greatly to be lamented, butif Iguefs right,
cannot be remedied. The blunder of him who gave
it birth so materially affeiled every part of the ad
dress that nopaffion in the human mind,l conclude,
in the view ©fthe committee could possibly be excited
by it- The mention of this will occasion (I fear)'
mortifying reflections in the mind of the writer ; but
however he must grapple,- a».well as he can,with the
disappointment. Form/ part I think the produc
tion is really capable of exciting contempt, and as
an expression of the finceuty of mine, I present him
with what follows; and mull beg the patience of
the reader whilst I proceed to remark,that this blus
tering Curmudgeon the week before his encounter
with the Hartford committee, attempted to raise a
whirlwind about Mr. Holt’s ears, and doubtless
conceived his importance fufficient to tear up by the
roots that ufeful and patriotic printer who, elated
with his own picture, and the fog he had raised from
the press, he seeks now occasion for displaying ven
geance, and now behold he pours down an infernal
tempest on the colony of Connecticut: indeed his
bloody jaws gnash for the deftruCiion of not less than
fix colonies, to preserve unsullied the honour of
Great-Britain, and convince .the world, thataßri
tifh minister is cloathed with the attribute of infalli
bility, and, in his public meafuresagainft America,
exempted from the imperfection of human nature.
---Take, gentle reader, the following specimen of
his crimson coloured rhetoric under this head.
“ What !” fays he, “ must the parent be compel
led to kneel to the child ! And ask pardon for her
ir.difcretions ? Human nature revolts from such an
idea? For my own part I think the lopping off half
dozen of these colonies, of less consequence to the
Biitifli empire, than that Great-Britain fliould be
reduced to the necessity of making a single Conceffi
©n unbecoming her honour and dignity.” Or as
the sons of liberty translate it, the mother country
forced to unclinch her talons from- the throats of her
American childre», and refliip from 4£ these peace
ful retreats her cursed hand cuffs.” This flaming
torry you fee, would sooner consent to the anihi
lation of fix colonies, than question the reditude of
the measures carrying on against this country: what
exalted conceptions of Great-Britain ! (His future
profpeCls doubtless centure in those Elysian Fields)
and how diminutive his ideas of the country front
whence he receives his support ! No wonder he calls
it the. little city of New-York, “ fool that I was to
think imperial Rome &c.” looses its tartness in re
fpeCl to him. “ What ! Mull the parent be com
pelled to knee! to the child ! And ask pardon for
her indefcretions ? Says this idolizer of the mother
country,---but what ! Says I, shall the parent at
tempt to plant* dagger in the bowels of the child!
And the child not fuffered to parry the thrust ? Be
astonished, oh Heavens at this ! But England, it
seems is the fummnm bonum, the ultimate end and
centre of his wilhes, sos this ftatfc of perfection he
endeavours to ripen a pace^ and at death would be
unmercifully chagren’d if finally shut out from the
kingdom of Great-Britain,—But he seems anxious
to know what mode of punifliment, the people cf
Connecticut will adopt for the tories of York. As
the enlightening ofhis underftanfling in this artk t,
is befidemy present design, I Ihall not be careful to
answer him in this matter.
However, after he has been in two “ sweet
scrapes,” and pretty thoroughly soused in business
in the city of York, for his frolic with Mr. Holt and
that worthy patriot I—-c S—rs Esq; perhaps he
may have leiiure enough to set up the pradtice of
wringing nofos in Connecticut ; and there,’ I dare
fay, his itching curioflty will be fully gratified, the
confufion in his ideas entirely removed & he be ever
after able to talk feelingly and intelligibly of our
mode of resentment.
A friendly ADDRESS to the JURY.
THE laws are the palladium of property ; the
surest fafe-guard of our lives, and the strong
est fence to our Jands. All law is, or ought to be
right reason, but there ever was, and always will be
a struggle between men’s reason and their passions,
between law and arbitrary power. For a full con
firmation of this we need only have recourse to the
late Boston Port ACt. The laws of this nation, as
by a compaft with the crown, in the Magna Ch art a.
of this kingdom appears, do indeed defend and se
cure the lives, liberties, and properties of the jubjedi, as
far as human prudence cou’d devise. But the grand
or principal law of this land, on which the justice
of all the rest depend, is that fA trying all dis
putes and differences between fubjeCl and fubje^l,
and all crimes against the crown, per pares, or by a
jury of twelve honest men, of the fame rank and de-$
greewith the perlons disputing or accused, who are
to be elefted \trit\iovit prejudice of party, and are bound
by oath to try such dispute, diflerence or crime, ac
cording to the bell of their underilandings, and to
bring in according to their consciences an impartial
verdict.
The form of juries as of parliaments, have by long
usage been rendered too sacred to be attacked ; but
what does the form of any thing avail without the
use ? as hypocrisy in religion is a great affront and mockery
of God, so good forms kept up in any state, are, when
turn’d to bad uses, a gross affront and mockery of
the people. For.the truth and jufiice of this ob
servation we Ihall only have recourse to the late re
gulation, or rather subversion of juries, in a filler
colony. For as the protecting .Lords well observe,
“ The governor and council thus ipftituted with
powers, with which the Britilh constitution has no£
trufted^his Majefly and his privy council, have the
means of returning such a jury in each particular
cause as may bell fait with the gratification of their
passions, and interests. The lives, liberties, and
properties of the^ubjeft are put into their hands
without controui; and the invaluable right of trial
is turn’d into a snare for the people, who
have hitherto looked upon it as their main security
against the licentiousness of power.
As a fair trial by a constitutional jury is of such in
finite importance, we ought carefully to guard a
gainst every abuse. I Ihall only mention one d@c
trine from which we seem in foffie danger. Not
withstanding tae law and the juror’s folemri oath,
that they “ will well and truly try, and true deliverance
make that is, that they will each of them fully and
impartially try theprifoner, whether he be guilty of
the crime laid to his charge, or not, and according
to their consciences either acquit or condedin him*;
I have been told there has been some, that have
ventured to affirm, (( that a jury like all other com
binations of men, must be govern’d by a majority,”
—and that in some iailances some bf she moil sen
sible jurors perhaps, have Sacrificed their conscien
ces, reason, and luperior -inderftanding, as well as
the unhappy priSoner, who was truly iruiocentj to a
majority of the jury, influenced by the arbitrary
mandates, or fly iniinuatidiis of a prejudiced court i
though nothing can be more dangerous, falfe and
t May nth, 177^.
A Landholder of Connecticut.