The Connecticut courant — Hartford, Conn., 1774-03-22 00:00:00, page 4

poet’s corner.
From the Ray al American Magazine.
A Thought on the Comwuiial state.
METHINKS I fee my honour'd friend.
Faint a* he read* the tender feene 4
The nfi’niog pow’r* attention lend.
With many penfire fight between.
Life Meeting as the wings of time.
Stands doubtful, ready to retire :
The numbers foft, (thought not sublime)
Fill er’ry pa&oo with desire.
Your reason now no longer reigns.
While lore, fete regent on the miod 5
This frenzy runs thro’ all your reins;
Makes honour partial—virtue blind*
Bat soon revising from this Rate,
And calmly thinking as a man,
Reason again resumes her feat, j
And forms a noble general plan s
Review* the marriage Hate with joy,
While virtue ev’ry tho’t infpircs ;
The plcaforcs pure without alloy.
Kindle within, seraphic fires.
Pleas’d with the thought, charm’d st the fight,
I hear you, at a distance fay,
O glorious feene J form'd for delight,
To gild with joy, each rising dayi
My glowing heart, longs to possess,
That gentle fair, which hear’n defiga’dj
To make me happy, to exccft,
And Ell the compass of the mind.
My panting foul, aod beating pa le,
(Impatient of the leaf! retrain )
Think Time (that friend) a foe to bliss,
And pass each moment in complaint.
O > where is this angel fair ?
In what blcß region does dwell ?
What happy clime—what pleasant air,
What softly donee or humble cell ?
Did I but know the hallow’d ground,
Or where to fi id the wifn’d-for place ;
I'd leap all o’er this ampe round,
'And take her to my near embrace.
Happy we’d live nor envy those,
Who grov’ftng spend the prime of life :
Our friends we’d bless ; and Idve our foes,
Devoid of pride deceit aod iLife.
Each rising fan's refulgent ray.
Should Ihine with beams serenely bright,
And give new Jußre to the day,
By failing on our vafl delight.
Yet let us not car fine our views,
To what this Icanty term displays;
Hot be fa vain, only to chafe,
The pleafares of fame rranfient days.
Perhaps our fond de fires way fail,
A disappointment Seze the foul,
Sorrow and pain wilt then prevai/,
And anguish reign without centred.
Virtue alone, effuret that piece,
Which age nor death can ne’er deßroy ’
Affords the mind a lafliog case,
And feeds it with immortal joy.
WHEREAS the Honourable General Assem
bly of the Governor and Company of ths
Colony of Connefliesst, hoiden at Hartford by
Adjournment in January laR, appointed us the
Sobfcribers a Committee to take into Co&fidsrs
tion the Claims and Settlements lately maic
by divers Per fans on the Lands fixate on or
near the Sufquehanneh River, within the Limits
and Boundaries of the Charter to this Colony,
and to endeavour to adjust and fettle with fa ah
Claimants and Settlers, what and how much of
their refpe^ive Clams they shall hold, and be
quieted in under the Title of this Colony and
on what Terms, and report thereof make to
the General Assembly is May next.
' Tbefe are to give Notice to all concerned.
That wc Rial Ibe ready to attend said Bufincfs
in New Haven.on the Second Tuesday in April
next, aod at ether Times between faidTuefaxy
aod the fitting of the General Assembly in May
next, upon Application made to us far that
Parpofe
New-Haven, February aad, 1774.
Roger SbermaA,
James A. Hillboufe.
Thomas Hoik til.
HARTFORD.-
Eki med by Eben, Watson,
WHEREAS the fabferiber has beta ira
proved for feverai years psR io teach
fag Pfalmody, and finding by long experience
the oeceißty of an Emendation, even io the belt
approved pieces ef.mafick now extant, has
been induced, by the adviee of bis friends, to
fabmit the fallowing to the coofidcration of the
Pobiie, viz.
P R O P'O S A L S,
FOUND fa Middlefawn about the r©th
February laR, a light coloured brown
Riding Hood, with a Head, &c pin’d up in a
bundle. The owner may have it on proving
property and paying charges, by applying to
Samuel Adkin*, of Middletown.
March 10, 1774.
Being a neat and general CoHeSion of
PSALM TUNES and ANTHEMS.
Ths fubferioer has foued that complaints
have generally fa >£3cd among the heft teach
ers of mulick, with regard to the ufefuloefs of a
confidcrablc part of the befi collections of mufick
that have as yet been nude public, fa almoß
every collection we find a »cry confidcrabls
proportion, both of tones and anthems, which
have never been fa lucky as to obtain a general
approbation, aod probably never will; so that
in order to purthafe thofa that are generally
approved aod probably will contir.uc so, we are
put to an equal expeuce far those that are en
tirely ufe’efs. fa order to remedy the above
inconvenience, ’tis prepofed that this collection
shall confits of pieces taken from the noil ap
proved authors, and efpccially fach at have ob
tained the approbates of the beR mafias. Te
^yhich will be added fame pieces which have
not yet been published, together with a confi
derabfa number which have been but little
known ; to which will be prefixed a short but
plain and easy explanation of the rules of mtn
tick- The work to be executed on a good pa
per, the plates prepared by a good engraver,
the whole oarefally corrected, and the books
well bound. The above collection will contain
about 150 pages, of 'he fame dimension as
Bayley’s emendation of Tanf’ur and Williams.
The price to fubferibers will be Six Shillings,
Lawful Money for each book ; any person who
(hall fubferibe far fix books fhallbavea fcrenth
gratis. 811 bicrip dens are uken in at the Print
ing Office io Hartford, where the work will be
executed ; and by Mr. J : hn Chefier at We^
thcrifiild, Mr Oliver Pomeroy of Stepney, Mr.
Benjamin Gal pin of Keifiogton, Mcff. Thomas
an ) Samuel Green. Printers in New-Haven,Mr.
Timothy Green Printer New-London, MefT.
Green and Spoortcr, Printers in Norwich, Mr.
William Stanton ©f Litchfield, MefT. Smith
and Shepard in Sharon. Mr. John Waffon c f
Canaan, Mr. Titus Watson in^Norfolk, Mr. Seth
Smith of N«w-Hartford, Miff Shepard and
Hopkins io Northampton, Dr. Ruggiet Wood
bridge in South Hadley Mr. Luke Blip io
Springfield, Mr Oliver Mather in Windjor, Mr.
EHakim Mather tn Windier berth Socsety. Dr.
EUzur Ha e jun. in Giaflenbwy and by a
number of other Gendcoc nin different tuwns,
to whom fubferiptfan papers arc fest.
be Jold) a piece of
Land lying in Windfir in Wintonbury parish,
containing five acres," with a good dwelling
bouje barn and c.whov.Je, a good well and a
cyder mill on the fam Aaw an orchard which
yields thirty ^arreh of cyder annually and ucul
vnjbid land five turn oj English bay yearly.
Said find b Jituate about a mile from 'the meet
ing beufa. and adjoining upon a grist mill. and
wifin a quarter of a mile of a Jaw and fulling
mild. . ,
fi) B. If any per son it inclined to pur chafe
more land, there is right eppofite, only a high
way parting from I^l° 7 5 acres to be fold.
For further particulars enquire of
Jonathan Gillet,
Timothy Hofkins.
Marchi I77fi
For Engraving by SUBSCRIPTION,
The GENTLEMAN and LADY’s
Musical Companion :
MUSICK.
Theft gentlemen and ladies that incline to
become fubfc ibert are desired to do it as soon
as convenience will allow, as the gentleman
who have fabferiptien papers in their hands will
be dtfired to return them into the printiog
offxceat or before the Geseral EleSionat Hart
ford in May next, that the undertak:rt may
know what encouragers«sfct they may have so
proceed ; immedia'.eiy upon which will be tfd'
vert(fed in the public papera their refalutioc
whether to proceed or not ; at which time and
place the fubferiber ezpeCls to be prefect, add
give those who have become,fubferibers an op,-
pcrtunity to peruse the collection ( f desired) «f
it is expected by that (time it will be pitfard^
for the engraver. The fubferiber will eficeevis
a* a peculiar kindness if gentlemen employed fa
. teaching of mufick, or any others would favour
him with tbofe curious pieces they may be ac
quainted with, which have not been made pub
lic, by fending them, as Toon as may be to the
printiqg oSce io Hartford, from whence the
fabferiber will e?fi y obtain them. The public
I trufi, will readily ke the cecelSty, at 'caS
the advantage of lueh a performance, partica
larly in faring a cotfiderab'e fam of money in
sh<i colony, which is annually carried out of it
far the purcbafe of books—and . the fubferiber
hopes, at leafi, .that this collections wi's deserve
she preference in point of afefalrefs, to aay 0°
thers which have yet been iatrodpcsdlnto,frs&
tice among as.. He has only topbfervejhat E
the public feall favour this attempt, he : 1
ways gratefully acknowledge tbcif kfadnefj, 53^
endeavour to serve thim faithfully in his
fag, according to his capacity, and remain.
Their very Humb’c Servant,
JOHN SriCKbET^
N. B. A Quantity of Shoes 'by the Dozen bi
jingle Pair. Bi.
3-4 7-8
and Yard wide Lienens
Plain & lower’d Lawns
Lawn Aprons &Hand
kerebiefs
Chmbricks
Plain & fiowcr’d Gaa
'zes
Gauze Ap'ons and
Hendkerchicfs
Paris Net
Spiders Net
Black : bz white Catgut
Half ell aod three I
quarter Dialers
Diaper Tcblc Cloth’s |
Flower’d Dimotf^ |
Cotton and LLaea ,
Checks
Strip’d Hollands
Damascus
Gingham
Bedtick
Silk and Ifanen Hand
kerchiefs
White asd brown
Drillfag*
Thread and cot Goa
Hofc
Worfled Ditto j
Callicoesaud Chinios I
Taaamys
Durants
At his Shop at Mrs. Collyer’s, a little Norif;
of the Court House in HARTFORD. As
the owner intends to leave the Colony this
Spring, those that want to buy will Had is
to their advantage by applying soon, as he
intends to fell at aboat the Sterling CgFI
either by Wholesale or Retail.
ALL perlons that have any demands oa
efiate of Mr. Salmen Burr, late es Far
mingten deceas’d, are desired to bring them fa
to the .fubferiber far fettlctnect—And all per
fans indebted to kid efiatc arc desired to fettk
the fame immediately, with
Deborah Burr, Execut fk.
-Farmington, March zo, 1774.
Cheap GOODS,
TO BE SOLD BY
William Prentice,
C^limancocs
Cambists and CataUc
teens
Irilh Camblets
Crape
Milhoets
Denmark Lufkri
Du ca pes
Luteftrings
Plainft flowcr’dSattfa^
Sattin Hatt*
Lice Sattia
Taffity
Persian
Sarfactt
Ribbons
Head Flomrs
Silk Mitts and Gloves
White Kid Gloves
I Dutch & Blond Laces
Pfjfle Board
Freed) <aad
Beads
'Common atsd 'WMc:
Chapel Needle
Loaf Sugar
Cic naman
Cloves
Nutmegs
Chocolate’
Pfakn Books
-S by to WindowGlafc
With a variety df
Courk Goods.