The Connecticut courant — Hartford, Conn., 1774-05-17 00:00:00, page 4

L' O'N D O N, March r,
THE name o^the place where the cuflam-
House of Boflan is to be removed, is
C,fae Ba, ; about 46 miles from the capital ,
a foe spacious open bitbonr, and though not so
naturally defenfi^e against an enemy, is said to
be much better calculated for trade, 00 account
of being free from these small iflands,and little
rocks which narrow the mouth of the former.
A noted minority member went to feel the
pnife of a great Lord in the country,ard at din
ner lamented his Lordfbip's absence at so critical
a ctifii ; to whom my Lord said, " What no
reafonable people you patriots be ! Here I con
quered America for England, and now you want
me to conquer England for America ; not I by.
G—l put the colonels io the way of doing it
seven years ago, that is enough ; betides,
zounds, my leg, this cursed gout hinders me
from taking aofadequate flops in the matter."
It is in charter for the Jefoit of St. Omers,
the fiiwery Edmund to ftind forth the avowed^
advocate of rebellion, ahd- blame the prefeot
Mioiftry for the grofc blunders of h# farQ^ite
feebleadminiftration; -It was the mthJlry of
1766 that gave the fatal flab to the authority of
Britain io the colonies,, by the repeal of the
flamp aiff. But they are out of office, and the
colony Agent, which gives him a right to dtoy
iadifpmble fa&s, and to fappott glaring fatfr
hoods.
There is a peculiar good nature inherent in:
the nature of the people of England, which ren
ders them dopes to every frothy adventurer,
from the celebrated Mr. Molef^orth, the lotte#
ry ticket conjurer, to the great Dr. Franklin the
American seer. As to the former, I imagine
that bare necessity is his motive, and therefore
fl am almofl tempted to wife him fucccfa, B^t
the do&or has no claim to our pity, he is io
affluence. He tells us America feould not be
taxed ; and not only writes in the public prints
here against it, but Spirits up the Americans, by
his letters, fur the space of years to throw ofc
their allegiance. If the do&ir promulgated this
dangerous and rebellious do&rioc from his own
poGiive infernal belief of his rcßitude, ever, bq.
mane and thinking man would agree that b;
Should rather be injured in Moorcfa;lds as a
madmaothep committed to Newgate as a traitor.
Bat what opinion muff we be obliged to form of
this man's common feofe and princ^es wbpp
We are told, that he himfclt was the firfl mao
who devised American taxation, put it in execu
tion, and enjoyed the emoluments anting from
it for a great many years, even 'till within this
month, when he was just, difmffed ; and yet,
during all this time he was writing againftit
both here and allo to the Americans, routing
them to rebellion because they were taxed. No
excuse can be made for him if American taxes,
io his opinion, were upjuft, why did he not yo
Jontarily rehgn his poll mafterShip ? Why did he
grasp the profits of oppression,yet exclaim against
the oppression ? Why did he keep alterative
place under government, whilst he undermined
its authority in the colonies ? Why did be eat
ofhis mailer's bread and betray him. But to
have done for ever with the dfflor. It is a
mortifying reflection that integrity docs not al
ways accompany abilities, and that bonefl, and
wifthm do not always guide old age and experi
ence.
A correspondent fays, that had Mfr Granydl?
been now alive, his triumph would have been
equally in the. extreme mortification of those ab
jp& foes to old England, the able Mardis and
the rest of them, whose dastardly and mod
Shameful repeal of the Stamp A&, not only the
mother country, but even the Americans them-
Selves, will be bound with their posterity to ex
ecrate for ever.
The confidence ofFAßius, is tn addrtfs to
Lord Buckinghamshire, io the morning paper of
Wednesday, proves him a real BoQonian. His
countrymen, he fays, owe the merchants here
fix millions, and if Government docs not allow
them to fmuggle.o, they please, to abuse us as
they please, and turn every real friend of Eng
land out of their dillri&s —why then they won t
pay their debts. This old Fabius is laconic e*
nough, meaning Rd Traitor Franklin : you may
fend your navy (fays he) and block up our ports;
you may take our vefcis as they come cut, e
ven for a whole year together ; but all that we
pife and export yearly won't pay you a third
of your debt. Nc,t year we will keep ear pro
duce in cut warehopfes ; then year Weft. Lidia
ifl,nds will flarve, and we faill ewe you four
millions which we never will pay. These,
though imprudent, are really the conj-aures
and threats of this fit, Rd Weman. If car
navy (baa d ooly block up the port of Boflon,
that town wou d be flarved io a fortnight for
want of fire wood, wheh is brought in coaling
vefcls from the eaflero country : another fort
night would let every tradesman io Boftoo idle :
for who would pay a carpenter for bailing or
failing a vessel that would net be permitted to
go her voyage Lor who would buy cioaths or
furniture, or any foperfyity, when a total flop
was put to trade. This living emblem of ini
quity io gray hairs thinks because he is agent
tor four colonies, that he leads the whole canri
nent by the nose, but he is greatly mistaken ;
it is true, they will liflm tohis (editions advice,
but even his own employers, meny of them,
de,eft him, for they koo, h& dtfign —designs
which in a few fleeting y, ar,, will be btried,
with him io the graved ip the fmll space of
the two fortnights mentioned, is it to tejoppcf
cd that the rational p,rf of the commodity
would not interfere .'- when they fiw England
refilled, and fait it too; wh,o they saw their
tradefmeo idle, and thir wbo'e trade ftrgoat
cd : even the fiery foment,# of the difyn es,
the Smugglers, would be the most forward to
advise fubmififoo, for where was their illicit
trade 1— It is their p!go to keep op go eternal
mooted agaioft cuflom boofe officers, but not
totally to baniSh them becaufe'foch a vifyry
would ruin the,, for all the provinces wedd
have the fame licence What wiuld became of
licit Newfandland fi/her, aqd tbc'r/W^/e fiJhe
% which is their Joie dependance ? Their reff:ls
would lie by the wharfs ; and the fifhermen
who were unemployed, andtbeir hrge families
(larviog would but Lt{|e attend to the confer- -
ficil froth,of being Soon independent. Joland
staple they have none, but lumber voJ shop:
1000 ton of pot afits ; these to® would be
blocked up the fecund year, granting they held
out to be rebellious the firfl year. Hot by this
time, it Seems, our Weft India ifods wend te
starved : Indeed they wou'd not ; if one colo
ny under the Donor's guidance ; for the fake
of the profit, dieftet break confederacy, (al
lowing moftof them to join the league)Caoada,
Neva Scotia, New Hampshire, St. John's,never
would join it ; they would be happy in Apply
ing, and carrying off the trade from their fißi
ous neighbours, and they could fopply double
the number of Jfynds with case : Beside, Geor
gia knows the spirit of her Governor, and he
tried her's io the time of Stamp A&, and tri
umphed. Ikaow him only from his publicati
ons, and these fpelkbeft for public men Both
the Florida's are young, and what they could do
io the lumber way would advance them greatly.
So that, if the DoQgr has only got such un
founded old woman tales as he told us onWed,
nefday, be had better not expose himfe f any
more ; for in left than fix weeks the doctor's
countrymen, the Boflanians, would be as abj ^,
as they arc now infolcat- I have mentioned
no other colony, for the do&or could not bring
another ea the whole continent into bis News-'
paper meifurcs of tfy°s day not even those for
which he is agent, not the colon, of which his
foo is governor. He has always cacticufy a
voided allowing any diftorbacce to begin there.
Indeed I fufpcO his bringing up, the Buftonians
always io the front of danger, is a deep plot of
bis to revenge himfelf on them for baoilhing
him the town more than forty years ago. How
ever that may be, he is a real Baflooian, and
God may forgive, if he plesfes, his traitorous
plots.but England and America never should.
Whereas the fubferiber
with William Wilcox of Simfyury some time
fiocc jointly purchaleu a parcel of Goods, and
built a Pot-Affi, and have for some time been
concerned together io the sale of said Goods and
in the making of Pot Afti, This will therefore
notify all persons concerned, that the buf/oefs
aforefaid will no longer be carried on by us io
co partneifh p as I chcofc to decline the fame,
and such as are indebted to fiid co pannetffi p
are desired to fettle and pay what they owe to
the said Wilcox or the fu^fctiber as soon is
may be, in order that a speedy feukmeot my
, be ^ade between them.
Fibril 27, 177, Abrabam Pettibone.
STRAYED or flo'en from the Sabfaiber %
Yr Windsor cut of the yard of Mr. Charles
Caldwell inoho'dey io Hartford on the lath ds,
of.^fry ioft rnt a black horse and fiddle, c'o ti
houfen light brown and feolept'd with leather,'
half worn, hid horle is fourteen hands high a
little whie on one of. his hind feet and two fmtHf
fears on hs back one where the fore part cf tie'
fiddle comes lately done, and cp the twiddle of-
Lis back formerly dope, p^es and trots, and
gfter hard rd femetimes goe, a little diff with
one of his hind legs, eight years eld this fprinp.
Whoever will take up said botfe and faddie pt
either of them and return then to the owner
fob be well rewarded and all oeceffiry charges
paid by Jonah GW.etj,n.
' WmlJsr, Bla, 14 1:74..
The fubferiber, Gold-
Smi^h in Hartford makes and wants to fell a
variety articles io the gold smith and jeweler's,
way which he will fell as cheap as any pctfon
in the colony who ferv'd an sppreoticefh, to
the bofinefs ; of which the pubic may be af<
fared by applying to their humble (errant.
JAMES TILEr
To be fold at Public Vendue on Torfjay the
gift instant,
CT 'HE Apothecar'es (hop formerly imp^vec^
J by Dr. Wiliam Je,fon together with)
the (hop furniture, confining cf fevera! fens A
pothecaries Drawers, Shop Pots and Bottler-
Bell metal and marble matters, f.a'cs and
weights — a final! copper dill, &: &c. and a
quanrity of Drugs and medicines.
"N B The p aceof sale will be at said fop.
}Je,b Church jun ? Trufleer to (rid.
Jonathan But $ ftpjon.
Hartford, M, 16 h 1774
VT7E the fubferibers being by the court of,
VV probatefor the diftria of Sirofcry ap
pointed comm ffi)nets to receive and ex, mine
the claims of the creditors to the elhte of LoT
Lambfoo late cf Simfbmy deceas'd repr,fyref
iofo'veot ; hereby give notice that we fhdl ?,.
tend Aid bufoifs co the firft and second tuef
days of Jun, nflt at two o'clock afternoon a^
the dwelling hpu fe of Joel Heys inpboldez fa
Aid Sjsfyny. Refer Rice,
Sin four,, James Smith,
4th Ma, 1774. Ozias Peuihone,
T) UN away from the fubferiber in Canaan are
on the 23d day of March sass, an appren
tice buy named,Gibbens Wentworth, 1^ yvsr^
of age of a middling flature, goes a little ftcop^
in* forward, of a brown gloomy countenance
browi hair and eye®, a contideraWe fear on ire
foot near by the joint where the great toe jfc^
on the foot Hid 00 a Abort fly cost cf
hoixe made cloth mill coloot black horn buttens
check'd wep'eo foift old leather breeches pood
ciflor hat hid fereral pair es pewter bucklee
made in imitation of filter Whoever will tike
up said apprentice end return him to bis roafler
or Secure him in any of his majefty'sgoals ang
give notice thereof so that his mailer may have
him again Shall have Five Dollars reward ao^
neceffiry charges paid, by
7 ~ JOHN WATSON'. .
CanaanMa, Qth 1774'
STOLE N
I? R ° M tbe S ° b#
scriber of Lenox, the
I ~ evening after thc2id
mq^^infant, a dark iron grty
4, Mare, about 14 and half
CL4&^&. hands high, a white fp^
on the root of her dock, her mane lies P'"^
on one file and part on the other, large est,
carries her nose fomethiog out, food all ren.t,,
paces and trots but meft inclines to pace, 5 rr
old-Also, a Hunting Saddle, acd Bridle ab^
half worn. Whoever will take up far'd ),)
and feenre the thief fe that he may be breugi,
to juflce. Shall have Ten Dollars reward, if
only the Marc Five Dollars and all necc£r^
charges paid, by ENOS CURTI,^
Stockbridge, April 26, 177,