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boats, or across our shortest ferries; and even the
vessels on the flocks, which have for some time been
ready for launching, cannot be put into the water,
without their being exppfed tp a threatened seizure.
Neither is the dryed table fifh and oil, the charity
of our Marblehead friends, nor rice, the generous
prefentofthe Carolinians, nor even house-sand, to
be brought us by water, but miift be encumbered
with a great charge of 30 miles land carriage : We
are also cut off from the advantage and profit of ap
plying as usual an extent of sea-coast on the north
and south of more than ten leagues, even with Bri
tish merchandize And when any of.thefe hard
ships and diflreffes are mentioned to those insolents
in office, the commissioners and their underflrappers,
we are told, it was the design of the aft, and that it
is not their intent to lessen these difficulties : This
is the treatment meted out by the British minister
to a town and province, by whose exertions in a late
war, the ilrong fortrefs of Louifburgh was taken,
which purchased the peace of Europe and delivered
Britons from their terrible apprehensions of an inva
sion by French flat-bottomed boats. What further
cruelties we are to fuffer we know not ; but whether
America or even this Angle town is in this way to be
brought to the feet of Lord North, with the full fur
tender of their inestimable rights and liberties, time
only can determine.---
Augufi 4. A correspondent observes, “ that no
thing can equal the base servility of some late syco
phantic addressers, in countenancing those meaiures
which every good mind abhors, and prophanely
giving the epithet of most gracious to him, under
whose fanflion war is declared against the liberties
of this country !” This is not a time for flattery,
every man to speak truth to his neighbour,and to aft
out the patriot, the chriflian and the hero. To flat
ter our oppreffdrs, is at omje the most servile and
wicked, disgraces human nature, and is abominable
in the fight of a free foul.”
HARTFORD, Augufi 9 .
.. The Committee of Co^refpondence for this Co
lony met in this Place on Wednesday last, and no
minated the Hon. Roger Sherman, and Ca t. Jo
seph Trumbull, one of which Gentlemen, with the
Hon. Eliphalet Dyer, and Silas Deane, Esq; (ap
pointed Delegates on the Part of this Colony in
general Congress at Philadelphia at their former.
Meeting) will attend the important Business of their
•Appointment. t (
z One Day last Week two Children fitting ch a
large Log in Farmington, the Log roll’d, and one
of them, viz. a Child of Mr. Sylvanus Curtifs,
about 3 Years of A^e, fell under it, 1 and was inftaht
ly killed. ? •. , ,
The ancient Defiruhion if Sodom and Gonorrah', by,
Fira and Brimfione from the Lord, out of Heavens a
jufi, righteous, and merciful Dfptnfatim of the Moji
High God : compared with the Az^Boilon Port-Bill.
GO D the great Creator, and high Possessor is
sovereign Lord of universal Nature. This
glorious God,, and he only, has a Right to
(To accordihg to his Will, in the’ Annies of Heaven
above, and among the Inhabitants of the Earth be
neath, dnd to make Laws to hind in all Cases what-^
soever” For he always governs according to the
Unerring Rules of Wisdom, Rlghtecufnefs,’ Good-,
nefs and Truth, “ and does not afflift willingly, nor
grieve the Children of men,” but c ‘ punishes less
than our iniquities deserve.” , And tb this Criterion
of Perfeftion, ail human Rulers are obliged to en
deavour to conform themselves in every Aflion,
upon pain of eternal Damnation.
The King of Great-Sritain solemnly fwefrsdt
his Coronation? “ to govern the People according to
the Statutes in Parliament agreed on, and the Laws
and Curtoms of the fame, and to Eis Power to cause
Law and Justice, in Mercy to be executed.” Lord
Coke, according to Judge Blackfione; affirms,'That
the great Law of Magna Charta, had been Thirty
two times, solemnly confirmed by Parliament, and
Magna Charta, was by Lord Coke, and has ever
since been efteem’d the fundamental Law of the
English Constitution, conformable to which all other
Laws ought to be made, and every fu'bjeft has a
Right to a fair Trial according to this ancientgreat
and good Law.
The Egyptians, (lays the Chevalier Ramsay).
efteem’d it a criminal Usurpation upon the Rights
of the great Ofiris,’ and' as a' mad 1 Presumption in a
Mari to give his Will for a Law. As soon as the
King role in thq. Morning, which was at the Break
of Day, when the Understanding is clearert, and the
Soul moil serene; all Matters upon’ which he was to
decide that Day, were plainly arJd dlffinClly laid be
fore him : but before he pronounced Judgment, he
went to the Temple to invoke the Gbds,’ and td of
fer Sacrifice. Being there surrounded by. all his
Court, and the Victims standing at the Altar, he
assisted ataFrayer full of Inftruftion ; the Form of
which was as follows : Great Osiris ! Eye of the
World, and Light of Spirits ; grant to the Prince
your Imagej all royal Virtues, that he may be reli
gious-towards the Gods, and benign to Men, mode
rates just, magnanimous, generous, an Enemy of
Falfhood, M after of his Paffionsj punching less than
the Crime deserver, and rewarding beyond merit.”
“ That the Judges might not be imposed upon so
as to pass unjust Decrees, the Pleaders were forbid
den that delusive Eloquence, which dazzles the Un
derstanding and moves the Passions : they exposed
the Matters of faft With a clear and .nervous Brevi
ty, stripped of the falfe Ornament? of Reasoning.” *
Thus careful were the ancient Egyptions that
there Ihould be a fair Trial. And the great St. Paul
informs us, that it was not lawful to Scourge a Ro
man uncondemn’d,.that is without a Trial in which
he had an Opportunity to plead in his own Defence.
And this Privilege the English Copftitution and
Law grants to the vilert, the basest Criminal. And
as the protecting Lords, wifely observe, without a
fair Trial <s no Regulation can be prudently made 5
no Punifliment justly inflifted”- ? -That a Trial is
necessary “ not as technical Formality, but substan
tial Justice.” And this Principle seems of so much
Necessity and Importance, to the impartialAdmi
niftration of Justice, that, in the Case now under
Consideration, the omnipotent Judge, whose all
penetrating Eye pervades immensity, is represented
as defeending from Heaven, wffiere he ^vas seated on
a Throne of Glory, high and lifted up, and actually
going himfelf to Sodom and Gomorrah, the Place
where the Crimes were committed to try the Cri
minals, tho’ he might have easily ordered his Mi
nisters to transport ’em to any province of the uni
verse for trial. “ And the Lord said because the
Cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because
their. Sin is .very grievous ; I will godown now and
fee whether they have done altogether according to
thbCry of it, which is come unto me, and if not, I
will know?’ Does this cautious righteous Conduct
of the Judge of the Earth, in condeming the S'cdcm
■ites, naturally inclined to Lust, Revenge, in a word,
every Vice, and who by their own long praftifed
wickedness? had rendered themselves fevenfold more
the Children of Hell, arid fitted themselves for Def
truftion, countenance the late Coriduft of the. Bri
tish Parliament in cshd?mningT.houfands unheard
their own Defence, remarkaolp for their Religi
dhi Loyalty, and indeed the practice of every moral
Virtue and Chriftiari Grace ? only, perhaps, upon
the falfe Aecufations and malicious aspersions of a
number of ..execrable Pensioners,. blinded by .their
own private Interell, and biafs’d by their own per
nicious Passions-; Avarice, Ambition, Spite, Malice, ■
Revenge. . If we attend further to the Story, we
shall find, the faithful. Abraham, soliciting the Al-.
mighty *to extend his Mercy for the Sake of the
Righteous, that might be Jound, in those wicked
Cities. ( And how much more happy would it have
been for themselves, theft. Families, their Posterity
aqd their Country, if tJie— -Bernard, Hutchinson,
Qliver, &c. had employed their Talents, and Influ
ence in Favour pi thej/, Province and Country ?
. We also find the Judge who always fays and does
rJght, declaring, .that if there were Ten righteous
found there, that he wbuld not only spare them, but
the wicked Cities for their Sake. So far was this
just Judge from destroying the righteous Vyith the
wicked, that he has declared, that the Boul that Sins,
and that only, shall die. But the Contrivers of this
late BoftonPort-Bill f *cm to have condemn’d Thou
sands of innocent Persons unheard, to the most
boundless, remedilefs, and perhaps eridlefs Punish
ment in their Power. Not only the Town ofßfon,
but the v/hole Province and Continent, and indeed
every Part of the British Empire, that is connefted
with the Port of Boston, seem now fuffering the Ven
geance of a milled,' weak, or wicked Ministry.
ft Civil Tyfany (fays ( a learn’d Writer) is usual
ly small in,its Beginning, like the Drop of aßucket,
till at length like a mighty Torrent, or the raging
Waves of the Sea, it bears down all before itj and
deluges whole Countries and Empires.” “ This
ye base advocates fdr Parliamentary Power in Ame
riya, this is' the Fruit of your—Dotlrines. The
Matter now speaks for’tfelf, and it is out of your
Power to disguise it. I call upon you to vindicate
tEefe Proceedings. I have often been aftoniffi’d,
that iif the midllof a free and spirited People, there
fhou’d be found a Wretch so infolenf, as to hold up
his Head in Company, and speak against the Rights
of an injured and oppressed Country. Mark every
Man, my dear Countryman, who on this Occasion
fitly attempts to divide you, or weaken your Zeal ;
withdraw your Countenance and Support from him,
give it to those that merit it, and set him down as a
Traitor” f to Great-Britain and America both.
For c ‘ to render the Colonies permanently advanta
geous (as the proteftirfg J Lords well observe) they
ni'uft be fatisfied with their Condition. That Sa
tisfa&ion we fee no Chance of restoring, whatever
Measures may be pursued, except by recuring in the
whole to the wife an d falutafy Principles on v/hich
the Stamp-Acl was repeal’d.”
L. JUNIUS BRUTUS.
ConnedVicut, July 20,’ 1774.
* Travels of Cyrus,
Lords Protefc May t\ih. J 774.
f A Carolinian, I May nth, 177+’
confuting of about two Acres of Land, the House
and one Acre and an Half of the Land being set out
to the Widow of said deceased for her Improve
ment, during Life, will be fold under that Incum
brance ; the other half Acre lying at the East End
Of said Lot, fronts North on the South Green, and
East on the High-Way that leads to Wethersfield,
being a very comrnddious Building Lot, may be
entered upon immediately. Also two Acres and one
Rood of excellent Land either for plowing or mow
ing, lying in the South Meadow. The Purchase
Money mull be paid immediately, as it is wanted
to pay into theTreafury.
Per Benjamin Payne, Administrator.
v Te n^d —•
XOHN SKINNER, has received a Quantity of
J English and Eaft-Iridia GOODS, consisting of
too great a variety of Articles so be particularized
in the Compass of an Advertisement, part of which
will be exposed to Sale to the highest Bidder, at
PUBLIC AUCTION, at the Dwelling-House of
Mr. David Bull in Hartford,*bn Tuesday the 9th of
August instant——a Part at the Dwelling-House of
Mr. Elijah Wright of Wethersfield, on Wednesday
the loth inftant—'and another Part at the Dwelling-
House of Mr. Gideon Benjamin in Eaft-Hartford,
qn Thursday the nth of the fame Month. The
Vendue to begin precifely at Six o’Clock Afternoon,
of each of laid Days. Hartford, Aug. 1, 1774.
RAN-away from the Subicnocrs, —
Ulfc. an Apprentice Lad, named Benjamin.
Ward, about 19 Years of Age, of a light Complex
ion, short reddilh Hair, of a middling Stature, well
set, gees a little stooping, and is somewhat talkative:
Wore and carried away with him a dark brown Fus
tian Coat, a blue and white mix’d Coat and Jacket,
a Pair of white Russia Drab and a Pair of Leather
Breeches, a Pair of white Thread and a Pair of red
and white mix’d Worsted Stockings, one white
Shirt, and two check’d Linen Ditto, a Box with a
Parcel of Beeds and Buttons, and some Provisions.
. Whoever will take up and return said Apprentice,
shall be paid 4 Dollars Reward, and all necessary
Charges, by Chrifopher Sc EUJha Lefmgwell.
Norwich, Ift August, 1774.
N. B. All Masers of Wefels, and others, are forbid har
bouring or carrying offaid Apprentice, upon Peril of the
Law.—He went of in Company with one 'fofeph Wa
terman, an Apprentice to Mr Nathan Cobb.
Taken up by the Subscriber of
Windsor, the lolh of June last, a dark brown Mare,
about 4 Years old, about ipHands high, with a.Star
in her Forehead, paces all, has no Brand nor Mark.
The Owner may have her again, on paying Char
ges, by applying to Jacob russel.
Augurt 8, 1774.
Run-away from STEPHEN
GOODWIN of Gofhen, o'n the 4th instant, a Negro
Man, named JEFFERY, about 26 Years old, a short
Fellow, his Hair lately cut off ; had on a Felt Hat
about half wore* a itrip’d linden arid tow Shirt, and
one pair Trowfer? of the fame^ Kind, 2 pair Tow
Cloth,dittomill colour’dfull’dClothWaiftcoat, with
small Cuffs on the Sieves, a black and blue mix’d
colour’d Coat, Metal Buttons, and an old pair Shoes,
and may have a forg’d Pass. Whoever will take up
and return said Negro to his Mailer, shall have
THREE DOLLARS Reward and necessary Char
ges paid, by stEphen Goodwin.
Augufi 7, 1774. . „ ' ‘
Run-away from the fubferiber
df Hartford West-Division, on the night following
6th instant, a Molatto servant man named JUDE,
about 21 years old, about 5 feet 8 inches high, had
on a claret colour’d coat and waistcoat, and a light
colour’d waistcoat, o*e pair of check’d linen trow
fers, two pair tow ditto, jtpair good leather bree
ches, one white fliirt, two check’d ditto, and is
supposed to have a.forged pass. TWENTY DOL-
L ARS Reward and all necessary charges will be paid
to any person who shall take up and return laid Fel-
To be lold at public Vendue, at theDwelling-Houfe
of Moses Butler, Inn-holder in Hartford, on
Thursday the 18th Day of Augufi Instant, at 5
of the Clock P. M. the follow ing Pieces of Land
lying in said Hartford, belonging to the Estate
of Dofitheus Humphry, late of Hartford, de
ceas’d, vfo.
The House and Homefiead,
The Subscriber Requests all
Persons to whom he has lent Books to return them
to him as his Library is rendered very imperfect, by
a large Number of Volumes being miffing. They
are allured that they shall be welcorhe to read any
Book in his Library any Time, upon returning it
as fdon as they have read it. John Jeffer y
low to , Stephen Sedgwick.
N. B. All Maders of vessels are forbid carrying
off said fellow.