The Connecticut courant and Hartford weekly intelligencer — Hartford, Conn., 1775-02-20 00:00:00, page 4

To the Knaves and Fools in the Town of Rye.
Andfirft to the Fools.
WHAT in the world could have put it into yotfr
Beads, that it was better to have your faces
blacked and be Negroes and beafs of burden for people in
England, than to live and die like your forefathers in
a hate of freedom ?---I really could not have believed
that there had been so many &ffes in all America, as
there appears to be in your little paltry town.lnftead
of Rye ^'own, let it ever hereafter be called Simple
Town. It feemsyou are such geese as not to know
when you are oppressed, and when you are not. You
are willing you fay to submit to King George and his
laws --- Suppose king George should bid you not to
wear breeches, would you go bare a---d all your life
time ? you'd cut a prity figure to be sure.---I wj£h
king George would pass a law to makege/^pof you,
The Story gs Zeyn Alasman Prince gs Balsora.
Continued.
SO on with cautious steps they pass,
Struck with the grandeur of the place,
Where rival art and nature vie
Whole labours most should beautify.
Screen'd by an aromatic wood,
The Genii's lofty palace flood ;
Of shining alablafter built,
And roof d with china richly guilt;
Each ornament resplendent shone,
,or each was of some precious done.
Before the maffy golden gate
A company of Genii wait ;
Gigantic shapes ! whose clubs of steel
Intruders never mils to feel.
Soon as the palace came in fight,
" Halt, halt ! (cries Morabec in fright)
“ Unless a powerful charm restrains
" These Genii, they'll beat out our brains,
" Then to keep off, and also bring
" To parle with us th' awful king,'
" I know the means ; but, truly prince,
" I fear th' uncertain consequence.
" If not unwelcome you are here,
“ A handiome man he will appear ;
" But, at your visit if difpleas d,
" He'll rage and rave, a savage beaff.
" Whate'er his shape, he will enquire
“ What favour of him you desire.
“ Then modelHy your wiffi exprefs'
" In fucha compliment as this :
“ Great king,face you did condefand
'' To treat my father at a friend,
" May you continue to the Jon
" Thelove that in the fire begun ;
" 'Tis neither glory, wealth, nor power,
" But the ninth Jiatue I implore."
Thus having given the prince his cue,
A purse he from his pocket drew,
In which were roll'd up carefully
Four drips of yellow taffety.
He ty'd around his middle one,
Another o'er his back was thrown :
The prince receiv'd the other two
With orders just the fame to do..
A table-cloth he also had,
Which on the matted turfhe spread,
And plac'd Zeyn on it with Arid charge
Not to tr°nfgrefs the myflic verge ;
-Then thrice around the cloth he ran, )
Thrice rubb'd a potent talifman,>
And th' incantation thus began: )
" Puissant king! whose magic ikill
“ Controuls the elements at will ;
" Deals hap t inefs or wretched fate
“ Tomortals as you love or hate ;
'' Whether on Ocean's bed reclin'd
" You dilate orders to the wind,
" Or mounted on the comet's sphere
" Accelerate its wild career ;
" Or from your mighty labours cease,
" Reposing in this happy place,
" Propitious, our entreaties hear,
“ And in a placid shape appear."
Soon as he spoke the welking frown'd,
Qnvulfions ihook the murm'ring ground,
Clouds dash'd on clouds in thunder roar'd,
And lightnings flafh'd, and torrents power'd :
But soon all nature was serene,
And the great king of Genii seen;
A man of handsome shape and air,
f>ut stern his tifage, and severe.
" Bold and pfefumptubus men (said he)
< 6 Speak, what you would intreat of me ?"
(To be continued.)
From the Neou-York Journal.
(Oh a paper dated at Rye, Sept. 24, 1774, to which
(he names of 83 persons were annexed, as sub
scribers; publilhed in Mr. Rivington's Gazetteer,
No. 82.)
AMERICAN A, No. I.
P O E T R Y.
We the Subferibers, being ap
pointed by the hon. court of probate for the diftrift
of Middletown, commiflioners to receive and exa<
mine the claims of the several creditors to the estate
of Simeon Young, late of Chatham, deceas'd, repre-
Rented in solvent; do hereby give notice to said cre
ditors that we shall attend said business at the house
of Mr. Robert Youngs, in said Chatham, on the firff
and the last tuefdays in March and April, and
the firft tuefday in August next, at one of the clock
in the afternoon.
^f,,^ 1 commoner,.
David hmith. J
N. B. No account will be allowed unless properly
attested. Chatham, February 8, 17,5.
Notice is hereby given to the
proprietors of the townihips of Sterling and New-
Simfbury, situate on the weft branch of Suf^uehan
nah river, to meet at the dwelling house of John
Owen, Esq; in Simfbury, on the last Wednesday of
February instant, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon,
to pointout and agree upon the best measures for
fettling said townihips early as may be next spring.
By Order of the Proprietor's Committee,
Elisha Barber, Clerk.
Simfbury, FebruatyJ^CTfr
* ""The MANAGERS of
HARTFORD LOTTERY,
Pre ent their compliments to those Gentlemen
that are indebted to them for Tickets, to make im
mediate Payment, that they may be enabled to pay
off the fortunate Tickets in said Lottery.---On fai
lure, They must exped to be feed immediately
without diftin&ion.
Gold-Smith's, Silver-Smith's
And JEWELERY Work,
Made in the neatest Manner, and with Dispatch, by
JAMES TILEY,
(Xt his Shop, a little East of the Court-House, in
the Street leading to the Ferry in Hartford,)
Where all Gentlemen or Ladies that will please to
favour him with their cuttom, may be supplied
with the following Articles, which he has on
Hand, and which he will fell much cheaper than
those can be afforded that are imported, viz.
GOLD Necklaces—Geld Rings---- Gold Ea
r Shoe, Knee and Stock Buckles
in the newest faffimns Plated Shoe and Knee
Buckles-Silver Broaches—Silver Spoons Silver
Sleeve Buttons, &c. Stone Shoe, Knee and Stock
Buckles---Cyphered and Brilliant Stone Ear-Rings
set in good Gold ---Do. in Silver Cyphered and
Briliant Stone Buttons Stone Broaches Stone
Rings---Stone Lockets---Neat Hair Sprigs for the
Ladies, and a Variety of other Articles. He will
take for Pay, old Gold and Silver, (fer which he is
always ready to give the real Value) old Brass, Pew ter,
Wheat, Rye, Indian Corn, White Beans, Fork, or
Cash. N. B. He wants a healthy ingenious Lad,
not more than 15 Years of Age, as an Apprentice.
Hartford, February 6, 1775° 2 ,
All persons indebted to the
fubferiber by book, whose accounts are of more than
one years handing, are requeued immediately to
close the fame either by Payment or note of hand,
otherwise he will be under the disagreeable necessity
of putting those accounts in fait.
SAMUEL FLAGG.
Eaft-Hartford, Bth February, I 775,
Hartford hbruarj'ty, 1775.
LOST between Simfbury and Hartford, a piece
of white Holland; any person who shall take
it up, and deliver the fame to Charles Caldwell,
Inn-holder in Hartford, shall have One Dollar re
ward, by me,
ELISHA ABBE
And upon whose anvil pray, was that wife fche„
of yours hammered out ? a blundering Politician
of a Blacksmith, they fay, was your nursing father
upon this occasion.---Is king George was to make
a law, that he should shoe all your horses gratis, this
dunce of a Blacksmith, I suppose would have no
objection ; and there certainly is just as much reason
for obliging this Blacksmith to find shoes for their
horses, as there is for obliging you to find bread and
butter for the great men in Eogland.
And are you really filly enough now to plough
like a parcel of oxen for your wafers, and let slavery
and wretchedness go down like the pox. and leprosy
upon your children, and give your latest posterity
reaftyi to wish you had been all to the Devel before
you set your names to the death warrant of their
rights and liberties ? If you had got three grains of
sense, you would have done as one of the moll sensi
ble men among you did, I mean Mr. Wetmore. For
shame ! for shame ! fye upon ye, rye upon ye !
for I am fare it would be a pity that the country
should be pestered with such a dull dispirited breed
of boobies.
Colony of CONNECTICUT,
Informs the several towns in this colony, that he
is ready to pay the principal sums paid in by them
as excise money. and in order to receive said mo
ney, they are desired to fend a proper order, signed
by the feled men of the town, in which they be
long; together with a certificate from the Town-
Clerk, that those persons are the Select Men.
Wethersfield January zSth, 1775.
Sharon, January 30, 177 c.
RUN-away from. Sharon, on Saturday the 28th of
this instant, one John Thomas, who has fto
fen several bags and other things. He is a fhert
thick man, about 40 years old Had on when he
went away a green or brown furtout Coat, green dou
ble breaded jacket, green trowfers, and commonly
wears a green cap. 'Tis ffrongly fufpe&ed the a
bove person set fire to two large barns in Sharon,
belonging to Joel Hervey,wherein was, besides a large
quantity of hay, grain, &c. seven likely horses, all
consumed by the fire. Whoever will apprehend the
above John Thomas, so as he may be brought to
justice, shall have a reward of ten dollars, and all
reasonable charges paid, by me,
JOEL HERA EY.
Th?°TREASURER of the
Y„E the fubferibers, being by the i.dn. Cotfrt of
%V probate for the diftrid of Simfbury,appoint
ed commissioners on the estate of Mr. Micah Case,
late of Simfbury deceas'd, represented insolvent, t@
examineand adj aft the claims of the creditors to said
estate. This is to notify the creditors to said estate, \
that we shall attend that bufinds at the dwelling
house ofEnf. Jonathan Case, in said Simfbury, on
the 3d Monday of February instant, and the rft and
2d Mondays of March next, from 1 of the clock in
the afternoon until night on each of said days.
Abel Pettibone, l
Daniel Humphry, Commifoners,
Brewster Higley, jr.)
Dated February 2, 1775.
ADVER fIdEMEN T,
Addressed to the L A D I E S.
FHIR Ladies, 'tis not very arch,
To talk about the frf of Marc h,
That woful day, when each of ye,
Mus leaveyour darling Ne&ar, TEA!
Your China, which attracts the Eye,
Like Lumber, must neglected lie :
And dearef Tea-Kettle's harder Lot,
Must change him to a Porridge Pot-
Bat now, methinks I hear you fay.
Sufficient is the evil Day.
Then why should you, with Raven's Note,
Anticipate the fatal Vote,
That mus deprive us of our "Joy,
And all our future Peace defrey ?
Sweet Fair Ones, though I tell this Story,
Upon my Word, lam no Tory ;
In Slight of all tyrannic Tools,
/ mean to follow Virtue's Rules.
And now I pledge my Word, and fay,
The noble Congress I'll obey.
Who maugre Power, Pride or Skill,
Dare to be free and virtuose fi IL
fad you've a Month to make,war Pica,
Concerning this fame Idol, TEA.
Now, tho' I fend to let you know,
I have a hundred Weight, or fa
h is as good as e'er was taJfM;
then must all this be left and ivafed?
If a Market I should ffifs on't.
Pray help me out, and by a Dish on't.
Then March fra in, I v&w at &tce,
47° e fats't parchafe has an Ounce,
til Lock, andbarr, and set a Spell oft't.
Nor shall a Mortal ever smell od't.
Yet fop a Moment I cm my Life !
For now Ithink oidt, I've a Wife!
And if fee proves of Eve the Daughter,
To have a Kind of Hank'ring after
This noxious Herb, and when I'm gone,
With Ax or Hatchet, should ley on,
With Arm and Will, fab bold and flout.
Ehauld find this potent Ptrfa out:
This Thought bewilders crib my Sexf,
For what twould be the Conference ?
Then help us keep our virtue found,
And quickly purchase 'tother pound.
Whlpaw BEADLE.
LINSEED OIL, ]
By the Barrel or Gallon;<
;Painter's Colours
; Of all Sorts, to be Sold ]
;By Hezekiah Merrill,;
lAt the Sign of the Unicorn and Mortar,
I a few Rods South of the Court-House,;
^ Hartford.;
Hrugs, Medicines, Books, &c.