The Connecticut courant and Hartford weekly intelligencer — Hartford, Conn., 1777-05-12 00:00:00, page 1

CONNECTICUT
AND
WEEKLY
Printing Office, Hartford, April 28, '777°
THE amafo^b % price of the necelßfo of life ho
l thrrn the Printer into an unhappy dilemma He
mast either fli^g np his bufoife and fans hie family,
or increase the waffs es his workmen, ^nd the price
of his News Paper, and other work. He has hitim^
sacredly adhered 1$ hi# fa; mar price,,by which maw
he has greatl, feffe^d in mis lAHfeft, if ecially for
eight months pad, while with in^g^ti^, ###,".
prize he has beheld the power of avarice,and tue infa
wtioe of the timm But what can be den#? He^s
ftrnggled againd ths terrcat cf epp/ffi, till his
fc^gth is ^htrfhd, and must either rife in hu oe
ntand^, or be reduced to beggary. And hit right to
ftha the means of fafay, and weik as it were for
ranking, when every nec ff&y of life is put chafed at the
most enormous price? No ; the horrors of poverty,
which rush on him like an armed force forbid rt ; the
daily returning wants of his family, the irnfift^s
calls of nature and the great law of felf preservation,
forbid it. As he people will net bre*k the fatal in
chaatment, by reducing the price of things, he is com
pelled to raise the price of his work. Twelve SbeUeage
a year, thsrtfort, far the News paper, and /her #9 k
in proportion, is as lew as hr can p@ffibly aff>rd it, at
the times are at present, (after which the paper will
be cheaper than any one erf it's fiz< en the consent.)
As this price is consistent ^h th# regulating ift, <0
which, as he always has, id he means still to adhs^
till repealed, or mm saherfilly violated, ho thi ki
himfef excufibla in the fop he has tikt^, and that
no person trill have just cause of compi^t. Thefu
gentlemen who are nawiring to comply with ihesbove
terms, are desired to fend th ir tames to the # P ut#r
within three weeks from thri date, (at which time the
proposed alteration will tak^ place) 'hat their papers
may be ftopt, metwife they wml be continued to them
by their humble fervent, E. Watson.
'O Those persons who fend their names 0 Be
Printer, defrity their papers may be difemn^d i^
consequence of he above advertisement, are rsqu^fod
likewise to fend the money for those they have al
ready had.
• Things it general were raised in their,rices 6beat go
per cent b, the &gulafi%g_Ae_
F^r the benefit oj th+ P U B L I C,
IT is squatted 'trit such riders as car y AiCon
ne&CTt Courant, ssd others, on public bufinafi
from this towe for th^ future call at the Poll Office,that
the letters which remain for perfens aej cew may
have afpeedy coav^yance. Tho's Hilldrup.
tfvtf^d, Mar 1777-
W I N E S.
MALAGA, LISBON.TENERIFrE & RHD # PORT,
To be Sold
By EBENEZER BERNARD, jun.
in Hartford^^^^^^^
°°— Ote^flNDlGO, of to b^ft ki^, ts
A be fold by SETH SMITH, in Ghrif
ties Street, near Jh^ P°^"°y'±2^l: i
T)^s£^£sl!^ C&pt. John BaMM'3 ct-mpaay,
' Col. Wylly's regiment fame time since, Michiel
Ribley, 24 years of age, 4 feet 4 inches high, d^k
eyes, brows hair, dark complexion. Jrcod Evens,
22 years sf age, 5 fit: 8 inches high, light h&ir, gay
eyes, light complexion. Thumby Gardner, 5 feet 10
inches high, 27 years of age, has had the ^llp&x,
VAS large pock or fear over his right ays. Whoever
will take up them or cither ri them, and return them
to the regiment, fadlhm five dollars reward for each,
and all necessary charges psid.b,
Theodore Woodbridge, Lieut.
Ha^f'rd, Arril 28, K 777'___„ _
rrAKENT^ a brown HORSE, a
bout 4 years old, na-ural pacer, near h^ f^t
white, a little while Cot oahisnafc, no biand. Said
herfe^was found in the fgbfcribars partus. Th,own
er is d&fired to pay charges and take him and keep
him away. Elijah Woolworth.
Simsbury, May 3, 1777.
STR AYE D from the fub.fcriber on th^ 27^" nit.
a large red and white COW, about 8 yeans old.
Whoever will take said COW and return Aar to the
fubferibet ihHl be ha^dfemfy rewarded.
JOSEPH COIT.
Containing the Freiheit ADVICES,
MONDAY, May x% 1777.
Printed and Published by EBENEZER WATSON, near the GREAT BRIDGE.
Connecticut Insurance-Office.
THE public are hereby informed, that there is
k^pt by tne fubferiber at his houf@ in Wethers
firid, near dner to the meeting- house, am Insurance
Office The underwriters are Meffi'rs Samuel
Broome, John Broome, Jeremiah Platt and
Joseph ^ ebb. Any gentlemen that want to have
Intntanca made, may apply to any of *• above gen
tlemen, or to Barnabas Deane.
April 28 1777.
Jurt publish a, and to K feld br the Printer hereof,
Price ONE SHILLING,
'The Reasons and Design of public Pur.foments ;
A SERMON^
Delivered before the People who were collided to the
EXECUTION
OF
MOSES DUNB A R,
Who was condemned for HIGH TREASON against
the State of Connecticut, and executed
March 19 b, A. D. 1777.
B> NATHAN STRONG,
Pallor cf the firft Church in Hartford.
Bleed, and deceitful Me* Jhall tot live out half their Days.
A LL pr.-fo# i„ abte^ 10 tea fubfcribrr aru defined to
makeimmediate payment, as he defiant soon to go
abroad, an i uncertain when he ffifo. return, and
flands in need of his money to fabfift upon.
JESSE ROOT.
Hartford, M^ 3, 1777.
C TRAY ED or noAn from the fubfoiber at
Nr^ Lebanon, in A bavy county, on the ißthof
April left, a MARE and two COLTS, the mare of a
dun colour, ten years old, pace# and trots, the colts 2
yam old this spring, one a dark coloured bay, the
cbar a more light bay, a whits ftrauk in hit forehead,
b r th«f them ho fs colts, pace and trot. Whoever
will take up and fend them to me at New-Lebanon,
or fau e them and fend me word, or advertise them
in the Ha^f^d paper so that! may find them, shall
haveg dollars reward and all necessary charges paid,
by Asahel King.
N w Lfbamop Mar 3 1777.
AN awe; t du# the Übicriber,living in Coventry,
ab ut the fi ft of April last, an apprentice BOY
named Samuel Evins, jvn. he is about 5 feet 7 or 8
inches high, fomethirg fleader built large blue eyes,
a v# y wide mouth, broad fore teeh, talks ranch but
litre ieufi, had on and took with him a butternut co
loured cost ard wsiftcoat, leather breeches, check'd
flannel shirt, mix'd coloured deckings, black hanker
chief, a white hunting Ihirt. Whoever takes up said
bo, and returns him to me the fubferiber, Ihall have
two coppers law ful money reward, no charge# paid,
by Stephen Richardson.
*4* All persons are forbid Sarbouringfeid b^y.
RUN-AWAY from the iubferib&i in me night of
the 16 h of April, a Negro bay named LIVER
POOL; had on a brown jacket, a blue cap, blue
dockings and red v*ft: is a lhart thiek fellow, about
IBymrsotf age. Whoever will take up and secure
said Negro £ as his master may have him, Ihall have
FIVE DOLLARS reward, and all reasonable char
ges paid by me his mril% living near Salisbury Fur
nace on the Oblong in Dutchafi County.
Joshua Dakins.
Anri! 26, 1777.
ALL perlons mat have any accounts with thee Hate
of Eleazer Nash, late of Granby, deceased, are
requeued to bring^he fameto Wid. Phebe Nash, now
of Granby, Administratrix to said eftat, ; all indebt
ed to said estate are desired to make immediate pay
ment t@ said Phebe.
May 2, 1777.
CoHueaicut, Ma, iz, 1777.
Mr. Watson,
If,eu pleofe to i*fcrt the following obfavatiov it,our
ufeful paper,perhaps the, will be cf feme service to the
public, and oblige man, of, ear readers. AB.
IT is with pain I have heard a great deal of talk
about the depreciation of ^our paper currency.
The arguments commonly made use of, are, the high
wierauiw
S^ «%A 0^ W^
^l^^e^l^
COURANT,
HARTFORD
INTELLIGENCER.
Both FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.
prices of goods and labour, and the preference rhich
too tatny people give to a payment in silver, good', or
neteeffaries, trade in paper money. Theft rtflaens
proceed ftom hoaeft and we^ meaning pe fi n#, rhe'
ignorant and ill i^fc m^d, snu fomertaes fern our
secret and lu king enen ies, who knowing the impor
tance of our paper cuirency at <his important #;,£#,
fay and de every thing in their power to dep racial it.
If lean infttuA and enlighten the fidl,anc fi cnee the
last, by a fiw arguments drawn frem the ua@e of
things, and founded on experience, I Ihall think I
have done the public feme Service.
There ate two causes for h^ depreciation of bills
ora paper currency. First, a want of credit or mesni
of redemption in the emitters. Second, Isl ed or
greatnumber of bill? emitted. The fi ft admits <f no
remedy, and must assuredly net only def negate but
annihilate a currency so ill fuj ported. The last is no
more incident to a paper than to a go'd or fiver cur
rency. Every man ver fant in hiftury, knows, that
since the difeove y of South America, a^d her mines,
the value cfgola and li ve^ have funk i Europe ebevs
a thousand par cent,and the price of labour and good's
&c. rose in the fame proportions L is agreeable to
the course of nature, thatevery thir g fheuid be vaued
in proportion to its fcarcit, or plenty. Thi. h as as
well with refpea 10 gold,or silver, and pieciou# ftenes,
as every thi g e'fe.
That th. fird cause of depreciation, is not, nor cart
hardly ever bach, c-fs with America.%hi^c uncorquer
ed, and ußfutj dUd to a f ruga pcw&i, mufi be evi
dent to every men of fenie.
When we confide, the immense refru ces of thio
extenfiva continent, viz. the sale and q it rents of
an almost infinite quantity of new lands, the duties a
riling from our exteafive and tree trade with ever,
part of the world, and the reef moderate rates or trues
from a numerous and almost infinitely oners;fi g peo
ple. What amazing ferns of paper currency, may
not these States redeem, not only with, ut oppreffiou^
but even with safe to the fubjta.
I have heard it f&id by feme, whom I have alwsya
difpif#d for the sffertiee, that in their opinion, it was
pretty m.ch the fame, whether we were taxed by
Britain or our own affembiie#, for the pa, merit of ex
orbitant debts; but if theft gentteen are net loft id
reason and common fchfe, they must eckaowledge a
very great difference betwixt the taxation cf a foreign
power, whose iatereft it is to tax and epprefs us for
the payment of a debt, in the coutraaing cf which
we have had no voiceband a taxation enaaed for the
payment of our own debts, by an afl^mbly of repro,
fentatives, whose intarefts are naturally blended with
that es their oonftituents, and who mnA bare a pfe
portiosable share in their burdens.
I knew that the notion es a depreciation has taken
its rift frera the high prices es goods, occaSexed by
their fcaicit, and the rifque and charge of importing
them; but whenever the caefe# sue removed, and
goods become plenty, they will of course fink in their
value; officially when we cosfider that that abun
dance of money in every body's hands, occasioned by
those copious cmiffiens secrff&i, to carry on and ftp
part the war, being launched ent in trade, money will
then become more rare, and rife in estimation in pre
portion to its Scarcity.
As to the scheme of fappurting the money and re
gulating the prices cf things by penal ftatu.es, it al
ways has and ever will be impraaicabik in a foe coun
try, becaefs no lew can be framed to limit a man i&
the purchase or difpofa of property, but what mus&
infringe those principles cf liberty, for which we are
gloriously fighting, lam very feasible of tka haidffiip
of these whose wages are Anted by law, so as to hinder
theirftarting with others,which is the case of the army,
but let us not remedy that inconveniemey by a great
er, the infringement of fundamental priaciplies. Cer
tainly it is in the power of the refpeaive legiflfiures,
at the cxpsacs of the community, to fapport the farai^
lies of the soldiery, during the war, at a pries propor
tioned to their wages, and at the end es the war, they
will have an equal chance with their fellow fubjeft ,
This will remedy the chief inconvenirncy arifiag fiem
a scarcity of goods and a plenty of money, without en
croaching upon those natural and "Inalienable principles
4f liberty and property, which ought always to be fc
cred and inviolable in a free country.
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