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treated with violence,---the next with lenity ; this
hour the Afts are to be enforced---the next, those
who are strangers to the man, are thunderstruck at
his duplicity in moving for their fufpenfon.---ln a
continued strain of just reproof, did Mr. Fox thus
reprehend the conduct of the Minister; and what
with the defection of several Minilterial Members,
and the opposition of the Bedford party, who ex
pressed themselves disgusted at the idea of the ope
ration of suspending the Afts, it was doubtful whe
ther the Minister's motion would be carried.
The House was not expected to break up till one
o'clock this morning.
Various reasons have been aligned for the Mi
nister's so fuddefly changing the nature of his mea
sures, as yesterday to have moved for suspending
those very Ads which but a few days ago, he ad
dressed his Majesty to have enforced. By some per
sons it is alledged, that the intelligence of a pow
erful French and Spanish squadron has induced
Lord Bute to command his servant to lay aside the
enforcing scheme; whilst others conje&ure, and
perhaps with better reason, that suspending the
Aas, is a mcafure projected solely with a view of
dividing the Americans, fond thus breaking a conti
nental union, which so long as it fubfifa, may bid
defiance to the villainous stratagems of Bute and his
tor, cabal.
When the Address of both Houses, which de
clared " The Massachusetts in rebellion" passed
the Tory Majority, the fate of this country was look
ed upon as decided, and the stocks fell Four per Cent.
This alarmed the Ministry, and to support the fink
ing credit of the Funds, their agents were direded
to purchase in, to a large amount; they did so, the
Stocks rose as suddenly as they fell, and now the
Jacl alls of the party are felling out, being permit
ted to pocket the difference as a reward of their in
dugry.
LONDON,
Feb. I. There arc letters in town by the Dutch
mail, which came in on Monday, with the follow
ing intelligence :---That there were two Englilh
gentlemen at the Prussian Court every way qualified
for the errand they were charged with, whom that
Monarch had admitted to a private audience ; and
that his Majesty had paid so much attention to their
commission, as to have created a general belief, that
two Prussian regimen ts will embark for North Ame
rica as soon as the ice permits, in order to join the
oppressed Americans.
The measures talked of a few days since, of Bills
of Attainder and Prefefiptions of certain Americans,
are laid aside, as it was thought to be a measure
which would take in many eonfiderable persons on
this fide the water, who might be construed to be
aiders and abettors.
Feb. 4. Every mark of Power is preparing to be
ffiewn to the Americans. Three General officers are
appointed to go with the next troops. They are,
the Generals Burgoyne, Clinton,, and Howe.
Feb. 23. By some private letters which arrived a
few days since to the office of one of the Secretaries
of State, from several of the sea port towns in Spain,
information was brought that the greatest warlike
preparations are carrying on with the utmost secrecy
and dispatch.
Advices just received from Holland mention, that
the Duch stockholders are so much alarmed at the
incertitude of events which the American measures
may occasion in our national credit, that they are
about to give orders for felling out of the Englilh
funds. Private letters from Switzerland convey in
formation of a similar nature.
NEW- YO RK, April 13.
The following Letter came by the Earl of Dunmore, Ca,t.
Lawrence, just arrived from London.
London, January. 30, 1775.
:>'€ From unquestionable authority Ilearn,1 learn, that a
bo'ur a fortnight ago, difpa.tches were sent hence by
'# sloop of war to Geheral Gage, containing, among
other things, a royal Proclamation, declaring the
inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay and some others,
in the different Colonies, actual rebels; with a blank
commission to try and execute such of them as he
can get hold of;---with this is sent a lift of names,
to be inserted in the commission as he may judge ex
pedient. Ido not know them all, but Messrs. Sa
muel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Payne,
and John Hancock, of Massachusetts Bay ;---John
Dickenfon, of Philadelphia ; Peyton Randolph, of
Virginia, and Henry Middleton, of South Carolina,
are particularly named, with many others.---This
black lift, the General will, no doubt, keep to him
felf,— and unfold it gradually, as he finds it con
venient. Four regiments from Ireland, one of them
Light Dragoons, are under failing orders for Boston,
with several capital ffiips of war, from hence, and
fixcutters, to obftrud the American trade, and pre
vent all European goods from going there ; particu
larly arms and ammunition, which make it expedi
Thursday morning a considerable number of men
were draughted from the three regiments of guards,
and ordered to hold themselves in readiness to em
bark for America immediately ; 0 feaor America !
ent, without a moment's delay, to be provided with
such things as you may want. Last Friday night,
the 27th instant, in a Privy Council, the American
measures were all fettled by the Ministry, part of
them is, to pass an ad of Parliament, inflicting pains
and penalties on particular persons, and provinces in
America, to countenance the infamous Proclamation
and Commission already sent to General Gage ;---
also it is determined to take away the Charters of
Rhode-Ifland and Connecticut. I have not been
able to learn the whole ; though in general I am in
formed, it is denouncing utter destruction to Ameri
can Liberty. Depend upon all this te be fad."
Yesterday afternoon arrived John Sullivan and
John Langdon, Efqrs; Delegates for the province of
New Hampshire, on their way to the Grand Conti
nental Congress, to be held at Philadelphia, the loth
of next Month. 0
~Capt Lawrence informs us. that one paper of the
23d Feb. (which we could not get) mentions the vote
having passed the house of commons, for theftf>M
fon of the several American ads.
HAR TFORD, April 17.. ,
Col, fobn Pitkin and Col. Samuel Wyllys, are chafe
by the Freemen of this Town to referefent them in the Ge
neral Assembly in May ne±h 1
j We hear hit Honor our Governor has appointed the
Rev. fofepb Perry of Eaf-Winsor, topreach the Sermon
at the ensuing Eledion. ,'
At a Special Court held at Litchfield last Week, one Li
^irgfon, alias Moore, was tried for sealing a horse and
fandr, Articles of wearing Apparel from Maj. Eli/ha
Sheldon, of^Salijbury, as lately advertized, when he was
found guilty, and fenteneed to three Tears Confinenent in
New-Gate; and on Friday lafl took Leave of bis Friends
and fa out for that Place. We bear there are thirteen
Persons in Neap-Gate to keep him Company.
Mr. WATSON,
Please to infatthe following in your nextJ
" Latet Angui; in berba."J
Beneaththe Flower, a Serpent lies conceal'd.
'[HE advice brought by Capt. Lawrence, may
throw honest, unfufpe&ing minds, into joy and
exultation, in which I ffiould most gladly join them,
and indeed do, so far as I think the motion for fy
pending the a&s of parliament we complain of may
operate eventually for our relief; but as this yeezw'%
lenity, this jbew of relenting is, to me, evidently
adopted (crocodile like) that they may destroy
and ruin, with greater certainty, it is my duty to
give the warning, and remind my countrymen,
that certain enemies are never more terrible than
when they appear to retire-^then, like the unerring
Parthian, they wound us fe they fly. Solid and
compaft bodies are formidable in the field, and
while they continue so; are invincible, but are sure
ofa defeat when, through inattention, through re
liance on the apparent disposition of their enemy,
or their retreating, they neglect their discipline, and
become disunited. The fame holds good refpe&ing
US, my Countrymen, at the present crifie, on which
depends the most important and laftihg confequen T
ces. Your foes are inveterate; fufpe& therefore
evtry faming concession : Examine it to the bot
tom, before you place the least confidence in it;
and instead of relaxing, even in the least, double
your yigilance. The resolutions Of the House of
Commons, or in other words of the Minister, are
very imperfectly related, and therefore it cannot be
known on what condition the suspension is made,
nor the measures y/hieh wif] be pursued by the mi
nistry, in this insidious ^ ^iteuvre. Be it as it may,
that little good is intended us therein, is very evi
dent. Divide and Govern/ will be the line of
conduct, to which ' they now probably return, after
threatening force in vain. I can only fay with the
Trojan in Virgil,
" Qud est, Timeo Danaos, et Dona ferentes,
'' Sic Notus Ultfes ?" -
Which, adapted to the present times, may run thus,
" Whatever their designs ma, be, I fear this perfidious
" fa of men ; and most so, when they make the moftplan
*' fble offers-----O, my Countrymen! is not Lord North
" too well known to you #" VIGILATOR.
Mr. WATSON,
Please to insert the following iri your ufefal Paper.
To the Inhabitants of CONNECTICUT.
My Friends, and Fellow Countrymen,
THE face of public affairs grows more and more boif
terous and alarming, and the sane of dis union
between our Mother Country and us, to our great grief and
surprise, difclofs to out * view, confluences the most serious
and awful that ever impended this (as yet) happy land-—
conferences that mufffeelingly affe& the mos difpajfanate
apprehension. That period that has ever been most fri
ouJly deprecated by every friend to bis country, is now (to
human appearance) rapidly approaching, w+icb is to fix
the glory or ruin of this country, which will form an ara
in the annals of America, the most glorious, or the most
gloomy-—from whence countless millions, in future gene
rations, will date their freedom or tbeir Jlavery. Can a
time be more interefing than the present ? Can a period
happen, fraught with more important confluences than
that which is to fix the fate ofa wide extended continent j
'Tie impossible t&onceile ofa criterah of 1% /regnant
with such serious events to a nation. What object can be
proposed that so loudly demands the attention of every in
dividual, as the critical Jituation of our public affairs?
'Tis an objedl in which is involved our dedref rights, our
earthly ALL ! The coolness and deliberation with wbtib
our present ruin is planned and concerted-—the, ^hfir.ay
and effrontery which have hitherto facilitated its execution^
are demonfrative evidence of the unrelenting abfurdily of
those mifereant wretches that dared to ifult the' dedreji
rights of mankind. The execution of that infernal fyfem
of politics, has, in the very face of every dilate of justice
and humanity, proceeded so far as to preclude ( 1 fear)
every idea of accommodation. Every method and mean of
redress that the combined wisdom of this continent could
fapg'f) ^itb Jafety to their invaluable rights and privi
leges, has been adopted, 1 fear, to little purpoje, towards
freeing us from the worf of evils. The feeling and fh
cere profefions of loyal, and confitutional dependence on out
Sovereign, in the plenary wisdom of our retrogradefatef
men, are confrued and arrefled to arguments of diJloyalty
and independence. To minds determined to injustice, and
hardened agaihf the tender feelings of humanity, the most
rational arguments^ fuggefed by a jincere concern for the
Common good, are only lavished cn a group of men deter
•min'd-on the ruin of their, country. Could America pro
duce a genius jo daring and so wife, by ,be timely inte'r
poftion of whose sagacious prudence, thefwijt career of
approaching confufion might be arrested, and a plan, of ac
commodation, confident with the exercise of legal Jove
reign, and our own precious cpnfitutional freedom, be
adopted, every friend to GE ORGE might bail him as the
father and defender of bis country, and the Maecenas of
the age. ^ Bub bow improbable it is for our differences to
be amicably composed, I leave to my readers to judge.
Impetuous zeal for arbitral, power, affifed by venality and
corruption on the one band, and an undaunted, patriotic
fland for liberty and property on the other, must, unl&l
there is a relaxation on one fide or the other, produce trou
blesome times. No plan of aaion, I conceive, can be Jo
proper as putting each province in a speedy poflure of de
fence, and'to be prepared for the worst events. If the
Carlton Junto wont be wrought upon by reason, by jus
tice and humanity, 'tis my opinion that the united wisdom
and force ' of North-America, by withdrawing all con
nexion with Great-Britain, and a spirit of opposition to
their blustering troops, will effeklually work our Jalvation,
In times of public danger, when vigorous efforts are re
quisite, be cartful not to make unmanly conctfons, nor re
lax one hair's breadth from resolutions once adopted from
prudence and forethought. Should our <well r plattn'd re
solves, and prudent a uncils, through weak fuggefions of
fear or inequality, fall a facrifice to defining craft and
open force, we may enjoy the bitter fatufaaion of behold
ing our country, once happy and free, consigned to woe
and Jlavery, and we condemn'd to be hewers of wood and
drawers of water for tax-gatherers and placemen, with
out a jingle alleviating refection arifngfrom a confeiouf
nefs of our having used those arms' in our defence, that
God and nature gave usfor that ver, purpose : Then we
jhall have nothing to do but to grin and bear it.
"V , BRUTUS.
*, THOMAS HILLDRUP, has removed frdm his
Shop South of the Court House, to One nearer the North
Meeting House, and oppofte the Store of Dr. Hezekiah
Merrell---Particulars of bis Advertisement, with a
Number of others, must be omitted, for Want of Room.
To be SOL 1), ~
(By Order of ASSEMBLY,)'
At public Vendue on the firft day of May next, at
Mr. Butler's Tavern^ so much of the real estate
of Tho's Seymour, Esq; late deceased, funder
the incumbrance of the Widow's thirds)' as will raise
the sum of nine hundred pounds lawful money.
The particulars of sale will then be made known,
and an indisputable title given to the purchaser, by
the Executors.
_ _ THOMAS SEYMOUR.
CALEB BULL,jun.
HAS just receiv'd as good an assortment of
India and English G OOD S as the Times
will admit, which are now for sale at his store a lit
tle north of the Court House in Queen-Street
Hartford. N. B. Coffee, Pepper, Allspice,
Loaf and Brown Sugar, Rum by the hoihead or gal
lon, Peas, Mackrel, and a few barrels good Windsor
Cyder. April 17, 1775.
TO BESOLDr^TE-T
ON VERY REASONABLE TERMS,
A Convenient Dwelling-House, situate in East
" Haddam Landing, near the river, convenient
for a Coaster, Merchant, or Tradesman. Also a
bouty acres of Fafture Land, and 6 acres of Meadow.
For further particulars enquire of
ELY WARNER.
N. B. Said WARNER desires all persons indebt
ed to him by book, note or otherwise, to make hira
immediate pay ; otherwise he Ihall be obliged to
take measures for the recovery of his dues which will
be expensive to them and disagreeable to him.
*, Nothing material by th Bofnt Po,,