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^ >LEMENT
To trie CONNECTICUT Courant, No. 53/.
Monday April io, 1775. ,
— CT ) N NT-© T I /C U
By the GOVERNOR. A PROCLAMATION, ~
777 Herea, the General Affemblj ofßoe Colony of Connecticut,flahl
„adjourned to Tburfday the Thirteenth Day cf April bifant, to
meet at Hartford, provided the Governor, on Confderation of the Af
fairs and Bufaefs of the Colon, do not order other-wife.
I Have thereupon thought ft, by and with (he Advice of Council, to
Order, and do hereby order; that the General Affembl, do not
meet at said Time and Place ; and that the fame be and is hereby ad
journed, until the Governor, or in his Absence the Deputy Governor,
fee ft to call it to. meet again, and all Persons concerned are to t<th
notice thereof, and conform thcmjelves aecot dingly., -^ n , : i
Given under my Hand in Lebanon, in said Colon,, the Fourth Da,
of April, 17'75, i” the Fifteenth Tear if the Reign of Our So
vereign Lord, GEORGE the Third, of Grea^Britain, France
and Ireland, King, Defender of the F,aitb, &L ,
JONATHAN TRUMBULL.
GO D save the KING,.
L 0 NT) TVFeb.7. r I '
WE can assure the public that!,ord N—h is determined
that the Americans ffiall wear chains, his M has
not yet relayed whether the royalAmcricans (hall wear gowns,
Khat important question is to be fettled in a fele& P y
C----1, at which,Sir, Jof-,— R-— and the Knt. of the Polar
Star will be invited to assist. ' 1
If tire Americans should kill continue obitinate, and no o
thermeafures can be thought of to bring them into the pale of
administration, their leaders, it is said, are to be tempted with
cheliberty to open and work their mines on the fame plan &
conditions with those in Great- Britain.
A correspondent observes that offorty five Commoners, and
sixteen Peers from North Britain, not one of them voted for
the Americans. Whenever the supposed interest of the court
is concerned, the Scots are not only strong in faith, but like
the inhabitants of the file of Sky,bleft with second feht.They
fee danger in opposing the minilter ne^r hand, and descry ho
nours and profit at a diltancc in complying.
Yesterday the Hon. --,-- Gaining, brother to her Grace the
Dutchefs of Argyle, killed his Majesty's hand at St. James's on
being promoted to the rank of Colonel ; and at the fame time
took leave of his Majesty, previous to his departure with. his
regiment for Boston. As did Generals Howe and Burgoyne
cr. the fame occasion.
Orders are given for all the ships which are destined for
America and Newfoundland, to take on board their full com
plemen t of seamen and soldiers immediately.
Yesterday, at arefpedable meeting of the merchants, trad
ers and others, concerned in the American commerce, Mr.
Lane took the chair at one o'clock, and Mr. Baker informed
the company, that, agreeable to their inllrudions at the last
meeting, the second petition had been presented to the house
of commons,' arid a motion made thereon to rescind the order
of Monday the 23d of Jan. which had referred the firft peti
tion to the committee, which is termed the Coventry Commit
tee ; that, after a long debate, the house refilled to receive the
motion,and the petition was ordered to lie on the table; that,
under this circumstance, the committee had no alternative but
to be heard before that Ineffectual committee, or to wave ap
pearing at the bar ; arid being of opinion the later was the
most manly conduct, they resolved to desire one of the com
mittee to deliver the following declaration, which Mr. Wood
bridge accordingly complied with, viz..
' “I am directed by the committee ofmerchants, traders, &
others, of the city of London, concerned in the commerce of
America, to represent to this honourable committee, that mer
chants revealing at this bar the date of their affairs, is a mea
sure which al! would with to avoid, unless upon such great oc
casions as the present, when the public weal is evidently at
stake, when their duty as good fubjeds requires it of them;
but when the mode of examination is such as totally precludes
them from answering th 6 great public object (which in their
Opiniori is clearly the case at present) they beg leave humbly
to fignify,that they wave appearing before thecommittee which
Has been appointed, and that the merchants are not under any
apprehensions refpeding their American debts unless the means
of remittance should be c^t off, by measures that may be adop
ted in Great-Britain.
That the coriimittee truftirig in the propriety of the measure,
audit being in point of time, not in th^ir power to take the
fenfeofa general Greeting they hoped for a general approba
tion. He added, that their petitions were not withdrawn, or
placed in any more unfavourable fituatibn, thhn when they
were presented. He made some judicious and pertinent re-'
marks on Lord North's motion on Friday last, and observed
that the Americans ought to expert something more than in-'
dulgence, as expressed in the motion, when they were contend
ing only for their just rights and unalienable privileges.
The proceedings of.the committee being g cnerally approv
', a motion was made and seconded to return them thanks
^r their co.:dua therein, arid to Mr. Woodbridge,for his firra
The address of the other house being read,LordDartmouth
accordingly moved, that the blank therein should be filled up
with the words " Lords Spiritual and Temporal," refervir,
himfelf to speak ,to the question at large in the course of fy
debate. The Marquis of Rockingham next rose and inform
ed the house that he had two petitions to present, relative to
the contents of the said address : that as the motion now
flood in the. way it was impossible to bring them under the
consideration of the house, but by the postponing the questi
on ; that as the matter contained in the said petition was of
the highest national importance, and directly cbnne&ed with
the fubjed of the addrefs,he thought it his indifpenfible duty
to do every thing in his power to bring it under the cori
fideration of the House, arid that he should therefore move th?e
previous question.
At forty minutes after one, the previous question was put;
that thequeftion be now put, content 90 ; proxies 14. To
tal 104. Non contents 29.
The main question was then put for filling up the blanks
iri the address with the words, " Lords Spiritual and Tem
poral." Contents 87 ; non contents 27.
Two protests against the above proceedings were yesterday
entered, one against their lordships not going into the' merits
of either petition, and the other against the impropriety of the
address agreed to by the house. . The protests are signed By
the following Right Hon. Members : R —d, C ft;
T n, A r, S e, C y, R m, W e,
A n, C n, E m, P y, A-— y, S—h, C—,;
, d, T — le.
London, Feb. it. A letter from Kilkenny, (in Ireland)
dated theist inst. fays, " Orders are come down from Go
vernment for the 63d regiment of foot, quartered here, and
at Caihal. Dungravan, &c. to be in readiness tc embark it
Corke, on theist of March next, together with the 17th of
light dragoons, and the 35th and 4.9 th offoot, in order to re
inforce the troops under General Gage at Boston."
The Otter sloop of 18 guns, Captain Squire, now at,Portf
mouth; is appointed to carry money to Berton, 'for the pay
ment of the troops."
Yesterday Major General Clinton took leave of his MajeC
ty at St. James's, arid will embark in a fefy days for Ameri
ca } and not General Burgoyne, as before mentioned.
On Tuesday last the constitutional foceity resolved unani
frioufly that tool.fterliA'g be sent by that society to Dr. Fran
klin requesting that he will trarifmit the fame for the relief of
the dittreffed inhabitants of Bolton.
Extract of a letter from. Dublin.
" The transportation of so many Battalions to North-Ai
frerica is a measure which has thrown the peepleof tliis coun
try into the utmost coriflernation, particularly as Spajriha'sfo
large a squadron, and such a multitude of larid $@ ready
for embarkation."
and manly conduct at the bar. Mr. Baker then intimated;
that it was the opinion of the committee,that a petition ffiottld
be forthwith presented to the House of Lords, which being
univerfalty approved, a draft of one wasptoduced, and being
three times read, agreed to, and signed by a considerable num,
ber, on thefpot; and agreed to remain at the Kings Arms for
that purpose, this day till 12 o'clock.•
House of Commons, Feb. 8.
Lord. North rest andinformed the house that he had intend
ed to have moved force other proportions refpeding the
measures to ,be pursued .towards America, bat his Majesty
having lignified his phedfore,fhat he, would that'day receive the
address of both houfes,and t^at it would be difficult to procure
a full house as mahy o' the members would not probably re
turn, when the, order of the day came to be read, for the house
to go into a,committee on the American papers ; he gave this
timely notice, that he mould move, to postpone the further
consideration of the papers till Friday.t ,
Mr. Fox observed, that the noble Lord was all hupy till he
had effected meafurts for refeuing General Gage out of the
very dangerous fitnation he was in ; that he now imagined he
had got him into a state of fecurity,he meant to proceed more
cooly and deliberately, because he dreaded that the defeat &
deftruflion of that General and his troops would be fplely at
tributed to hislordfhip's negligence and.raflinefs. He con
traded his lerdfhip's. conduct refpe&ing the several petitions
presented by the American merchants, remarking that admi
nistration, would not wait a single day to hear the complaints
of so refpedable a body ; but row, that his favourite measure
was carried, he seemed to proceed with caution and delibera
tion. He concluded by observing, that he iinderftood the
measure his lordihip had next in contemplation to carry into
execution wqs the matt extraordinary that ever entered into the
head of an Englilh ^inifter, to prevent the New-England pro
vinces from timing on the banks of Newfoundland.'
Lord North replied with great warmth to those charges.
He said, it was impofible for him to escape censure of the ho
nourable gentleman, let him ad as he might.
A petition was presented from the manufacturers, traders,
and other inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of
Nottingham, of the fame tenor with those presented from Lon,
don, Bristol, ' Liverpool, &c. It was referred to the Coventry
committee.,.