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Yor.&t CONNECTICUT COURANT ...
alarming Situation of the New-
England Colonies in America,
*MX y XX breamed with ne less, than the Loss
XX XX th^r Liberties, their unalienable
X'&XX&X -Birth-right, as Engliihmen, ratified
^XXXX^ c ® n fir«ned to them in the moll
doiemn Manner by their several Charters, is a Call
Upon every One, to exert their ntmoft, in securing
to themfeives, and handing down to their Posterity,
those Privileges they have enjoyed. Unhappily as
Affairs are circumllanced, yet it is undoubtedly true,
that the Virtue, Unanimity and Resolution of the
people, will extricate us from our present Difficul
ties, and that alone will restore the Harmony of
America. Instances of a Kingdom’s rising by Op
pression are not wanting ; a Series ©f Qppreffion,
perhaps similar to that we labour under, gave Rife
co the flourishing States of Holland, which began
at the Time when Philip the Second was upon the
Throne of Spain. Born and educated among the
Spaniards, he naturally inherited the Pride and Re
serve peculiar to that Nation ; conferring the Ho
nours of his Houfhold, and Confidence upon Span
iards, continuing his Spanish and Italian Forces
among the Dutch, and levying Supplies from the
States, after the War was ended ; he soon loft the
Affe&ion of those Provinces, and in lieu thereof in
cur’d their hatred as a Tyrant. But being at the
Head of a mighty Empire, he thought it not c©n
jfiftent with the Grandeur of the House of Austria,
«« regara the Dncontents of so small a Country, or
be limited by their antient Forms of Government ;
but left Inftruftions with the Dutchefs of Parma,
then Governess of the Low Countries, to continue
the foreign Troops among them, and demand Mo
ney for their Support. Here firft began their Com
plaints, the Avcrfion of the People to the Spaniards,
the intolerable Infolcnce of those Troops, together
with the Charge ©f their Support, made then! look
ed upon as the Instruments of Slavery and Oppref
d&on, when a general Peace had left no Enemies t®
encounter. And with the unanimous Consent of
the Towns and Country, the States refufed railing
Monies for the Support of a Handing Army, not
ihi-’dng themfeives under any Obligation to nou-
Tiffi such a Ncft of Vipers in their own Bosoms»
‘To such a Pitch did the Despair of th® People arise,
ijhat in one of their Provinces, the Peasants abfe-
lately gave over working at their Dikes, resolving
fifth er to he drowned by the Sea, than to trull theat
fWves in the Hands of th® merciless Soldiary. The
next Gohteft we find among them was on account
of ellabliffiirig fourteen new3iftiops Saes ; this the
Mobility looked upon as a Diminution of their
Tower, By introducing so many new Members into
-the Great Council of the States ; the Commons
murmured at it; as a Degree of Oppression upon
their CorifcienceS, by eteiling so many spiritual
Courts of Judicature ; and all declaimed agamft it,
as a Breach of the King’s Oath on his Accession to
Government; topreferv® thd Laws both ©f Church
and State ih the fame Manner he had found them.
In the midst of these Troubles, the Pexecutions
'or the reformed OhdrcKes; both in Eng Lad and
. France; drove Numbers ®f thbfe unhappy People to
find an Asylum in the Low Countries, where the
Admiration of their Zeal, the Purity of their Doc
trine, and Companion for their Sufferings gained
marly Proselytes both in Cities and Towns,
Whole Trade And Riches were greatly inercafed by
time new Inhabitants; This made Way for the In
quisition, which was now introduced among them,'
a Judicature entirely, unknown to all their antient
Laws and Cuftom^, and silo less akhotrod for that/
than for the Cruelty of its Executions. ,
In the Year 156? a Defigfi was formed to extirpate!
all thole Families who ffiould profefs the reformed
Religion in both the French aiid SpanifKDominions,'
by ths mutual Affiftahce bf tha two Crowns ; thi^
was cart Brined by Letters from Philip,, intimating
that his Will and Pleasure was; that all Hereticks
ffiould be put t© Death without Remiffidhj' and that
TUESDAY. Aucvst 30, x'774. f H E . uMBER 505. j
CONNECTICUT / COURANT,
A N D, | HARTFORD
WEEKLY i^TELLIGENCER.
Confining the Erciheft ADVI CE S 5 b^TrOREIGNTdDOMESTIC
Open .to all PARTIES——not Ur def the influencb of ANY.
the Emperors Edifts, and t Ccuncil of Trent
should Lp publiffied and obey d ; and commanding
the utmost Assistance of the .ivil Power ffiould be
given to the Inquifitiop. V> en this was divulged
an aftonilhmer.t reigned tErc- ghout the Provinces,
but was soon succeeded by t! /Rage of the People^
which began to appear in the ■ Looks, their Sp®ech
es, their bold Meetings and J L and was' increas
ed by the miserable Spofta. , 3 of so many Executi
ons upon account of Religioi This was followed
by a Mutiny of the Citizens of the several Towns,
hindering Executions and f< ing Prisons and Offi
cers, and by a Confederacy o' the Lords, never to
fuffer the Inquisition in the L-^w Countries ; where
upon all Resolutions of Foret and Rigour grbw un
fafe for the Government, n,w too weak for such.
a Revo^tion of the People. This was followed by
the Arrival of th® Duke of Alva, inverted with the.
supreme Command of the Low Countries, with
Powers never given before to any Governor, and
with an Army of Teh Thousand Veteran Troops,’
with Design to enforce Submiffibn to the arbitrary
Will and Pleasure of a despotic Monarch. A Coun
cil was form®d of his own Dependants for the Trya!
of all Crimes committed against the King’s Autho- >
rity in the late Insurrections and Numbers of prin
cipal Men were executed by the Authority of this
Council. The Corporations stomached the Breach
of their Charters, and the People of their Liberties 5
Alva was in his Nature cruel- and inexorable, the
new Army was fierce and brave,' and desirous of
MotfiiAg B, e .- lj oa { n Country :
the People were enraged, but awed, and unhead
ed, all was Seizure and Process, Confifcation and
Imprisonment, Insolence and Deje&ion, Puniffi
ments executed and meditated Revenge. Innu
merable were the Hai dlhips of this People, until by
their Firmness and Unanimity, under the Conduit
of the Prince of Orange, they rose from Oppression,
expelled the foreign Troops from their Provinces,
and restored their antibnt Forms of Government,
proving to Philip by dear Experience, how little
the belt Conduct, and boldeit Armies are able to
withlland the torrent of a stubborn and enraged
People.
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Gentlimexj Marblehead, Aug. so,
APT AIN Cally arrived here from Falmouth
this Morning; having left the fame the i©th
of July. I have procured all the papers which he
brought, and think them of too much consequence
to be detained from th® metropolis any time. I
heartily congratulate you on the Dawn of Reason
appearing in the East, and hope we Ihall again fee
it in Britain at its meridian Height, and every cor
rupt Prostitute. now in Government as effectually
stigmatized by the people, as was wicked Cain un
der the peculiar displeasure of his Maker.
When Capt. Cally arrived at Falmouth, America
was unpopular : that the Place was disagreeable to
him; there were however friends to America, but
they chose to ba silent; a few days after his Arrival/
the Port arrived with Advfoes of the Quebec Bill,
and the Petition of London relative to it, which so
incensed the People that they declared for Ame
rica, and imprecated every Anathema upon it if it
fliould submit id the late ACts of Parliament. Yoi£
will find the Sense of Great-Britain by the Papers
and the Kigheft Tories here change their Notes, de
claring' since Cally’s Arrival, 5 ‘ they will take Arms
if Attempts are made to enforce the Afls,” but no
Dependence is placed in Men, who are looking f®r
a fafe Retreat to the ftrongef and not hoheft Sids.
rr , L O N D O N, June i. :
A few days since/ when the twfocity wait
ed on the earl of Chatham, in behalf of the distres
sed Americans, his lordlhip/ on being informed wh©
were come/ ordered his servant to warm his bed wp,-
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B O o T O N,Agult22.
Saturday evening lafi an express came ts tsvjn from thi
vjorthy and patriotic Elbridge Gerry, £/y; of Mar
blehead, to the committee of correspondence in Bofen,
•with the fcllovting letter, and advices :
fiaediatezy, and after having got into the fame, kt
received the gentlemen, and briefly told them, that
in fliortjhe was then so full of pain that be could not
properly hear or fay any thing tb the matter.
June 14. The Lord Prefidefft of the Council &
Lord North were feht for early yesterday mornfog
to Kew, where they were feme time clofetted with
his Majesty ; said to have been on account of some
very important dispatches, received the preceeding
hight from Berlin.,
. It is said the last ships from Philadelphia brings
the work cold tea the Ministry ever tailed.
June 2Q. By a vessel that failed fromNew-York,
May 14th, information has been received, that an
account of theßoftonPort-billhad just arrived there ;
that thd country was fextremely inflamed at that
fevereaft : that a Meeting was held the next day ;
and that a hon-importation affociation,' it was ima
gined, would be unanimously agreed to by all the
colonies : A meafvire that cannot fail of diftreffing
to the last degree,the unhappy manufafturers in this
country.
Our Custom-house lawj will, it is said, undergo
A revision, in order to receive certain amendment;
essential »o our commercial convenience.
. Betts are five to four at the Weft end of the
iown, that the Boston and Quebec Bills turn out the
Ministry before Michaelmas-day next ; and five w>
one war or no war, that they are routed before the
firft of January 1775.
The followng is a fetch of a popular Nohleman's Speech
on A nevi can Affairs :
’ ” Tbealth has hitherto preven
ted me from giving my sentiment on the several
bills which have come under your cofifiderirtion with
refped to America ; I hope I may therefore be in
dulged in the opportunity of travelling out of rr e
line of the present matter of the day. ° I ffiall en
deavour to speak with tenderness and caution ; I
know your Lordihips cannot bear much f I will be,
ifpoffible, void of offence.-——Was lin Boston I
would lay they were wrong,'to destroy the property'
of the India Company ; I lay here, you havebeen the
original aggreflors : a law is part which may seal
my bps ; but were I to speak what I think 8c what
I know to be constitutional, I would tell you—you
^ave in weakness written a dead letter—you have
set up an image which you dare not Awp^and which
the people of Americi laugh at ; I would tell you,
you have no right to touch the pocket, ifiuch less
the life, of a fellow fubjeft in America ; he fubmit^
himfelf to the necessity of your laws relative to trade”
and the regulation of a national commerce, because
he fees the necessity ; he agrees tb buy the woqL
employ the weaver* and to be measured By they tav
lor you recommend ; but when he has put on his
cloaths, he fays they are his own ; h® fays you Ihall
not have his coat,becau.fe he is no longer fore of his
waiftebat and brce3h.es.
“ My Lords, you have lived upon the fopport &-
industry pf America these forty years ; you have the
great materials of commerce not only cheaper from
America than you used to have them from other
countrias, but you say for Ihofe materials with
wrought goods, which over-balances the account, &
draws from them everY foillfog they have. This is
the great, the, solid, the fopporting, the falutarv
Contributfon which America pays, and which fiiver
this venerable fabric!? from falling into the. dust,
They will either la:igh, at,,or refea.t yoiir brefenr
meaiures with equal foccefs: If they have coolneL
they will make you fenffole of what you loafs ; if
they have focofirfe to arms, you m/4 be the firft
perhaps the only Offerers • you must b< undone ;
they may work out their falyation • X am an old
man in public bufinep/ my advice arises from expe
riente; it may, be worth something; recall, your
scanty forces from the wretched emnloyfo'ent of mur
der ; they are neither-able ar willing so Execute
your commands • be friends with America for your
owminteyeft and your own fafoty / y^n will want her
affe^fon wh«n her /word .is turned againftyou; a
sow ragg^dHfohlanders obliged t« calf upon a royal