The Connecticut courant and Hartford weekly intelligencer — Hartford, Conn., 1777-11-04 00:00:00, page 1

/ France.
" The H^fe of Commons save granted the
King 12,386,000 /. tiering for the expence of
the current year. The following is the purport
of Ltd North's fpeecb on opening the budget
taken from the Lloyd's Evening Pad of Ma,
the 16—He said, "be allowed the public bur
" dens to be heavy, but he ex^efled that the en
'•'fuing campaign would determine our troub es
" in America, and that a revenue (if net con
" fihrable at frft)mght be drawn from that
«' country, which would assist in lightening the
" heavy preface of taxes, under which we la
" hour : flbat ar prefect we flood on the very
" bed and mofl friendly terms with every power
66 in Europe ; and not only in that refpefl, but
66 from every other distant and difconnefled ap
" pearance whatever, there wa, not the leaf
4# probability of the general tranquility of Eu
" rope being interrupted" His Lordfbip thus
c,ml, avowing bis intentions, mud convince ev?-
ry rtafonabk man with,on how vet, neefyry
it is to endeavor, by ever, means, to oppoje and
d@pvnt him.
" Mr. A Lee is lately gone to the Court of
Berlin ; the ^3/3 of his vft not kso^ he %
Wants Employ, in Lown or Country,
A feu ^g man who can be well recommended,
long praaiced in teaching Reading and
Wrung the Erglilb Tongue gramatically, Vul
gar and Detirn 4 Arithmetics, Extraction of the
Roots, Surveying, Navigation, Gauging and
Dialin,. For particulars enquire of the Printer.
CHARLESTOWN: § c.) September n,
ON Saturday lad, Jahn Mac Queen, Esq;
of this place, who went a volunteer
w^cu Capr. Biddle, came up to town in the
Randolph's boat, and brought us accounts,
that on Wednesday evenings September 3d,
they Gw five fail, which they kept in fight
of till morning, and then, after some little
refinance, took two fh ; ps and two brigs ; the
fifth a fm>ll shop, making her escape while
Captain Biddle, was making the rest. The
largest flip is the T r ue Britain, of 20 fix
pounders, and 74 men commanded by Capt.
Venture, bound from Jamaica forNew-York,
with a cargo of 399 h :gfheads rum, 20 hog
sheads sugar, 7 hothead- coffee, &c. The
other ship is the Severn, Cape James H^n
derfon, from Jamaica for London, and car
ries 8 fix plunders; her cargo configs of 53
ho^fheads rum, 195hoefbeaEis and 74 teirces
sugar, 50 bags gtnge r ,arid 11 tons of logwood.
Sae hid been taken by Capt. Palmer, tn a
North-Carolina privateer, and was retaken
by the True-Britain. Oie Brig, is the
Charming-Peggy, Capt. Philip Lyon, bound
from Jamaica, for New-York, with 250 hog-°
(heads rum ; the other a Frenchman, a prize
to the True-Britain. On Sunday the Ran
dolph and her prizes all got in.
A (now, laden with rum and sugar, taken
by Capt. Palmer, arrived in Georgia.
We are informed that Captain Weeks, John
for and Nichols, (three American cruizefs) bad
taken 28 prizes in the European seas, 17 of
which were fe^t to dffre^t ports, and it de
froyed or given to the prisoners.
Extract of a letter from a Carolinian in
Containing the Frefaeft ADVI CXL 3,
CONNECTICUT
t^u ESDA % &W« & -^
WEEKLY
AND
but I hope it will p e rve of ferviee to our much
injured country. Late letters from England
fay, unless General "Howe can rbtam pme fa
anl advantage the ensuing campri, n, Adminflra
tion intend to recall home a'l the troops, except
what would be pfficent,:o garrfon New Park,
as their :fl;agment with the Prince 0/ Heft ex
pires this year; but that they will not gave up
the matter, but will keep a number of frigates
to diarefs cur trade.
Lad week Genral Moultrie, in endeavoring
to jump out of bis chair, the borie having Tum
bled unfortunate, g^t his thigh broke and was
otterwife much bruised. Wt have ibe pleasure
to inform the public that be is in ajair way of *
recovery.
FISH -KI LL, O^ober 30 ,
Extrafl of a letter from Aibity, dated Off. 26.
1 “ You have doubtless before now heard
of the surrender of Geo. Burgoyne and
whole a rri, - -It was ^ ghuim fight to lee
the haughty Britions ' rrveh out and surren
der their arms to an army, which, but a
little before, they deleted and cal
led poltroons, they however before the ftir
render were convinced of their error, hav
ing in two engagements preccedmg, feea
the greatest bravery that ever was displayed,
^nd the m :ftwnfumrtu General p ex^ci
fed.—Tne enemy acknowledge the fp^rit
and bravery of our officers and men, and do
not hefi;are to fay, that the idea held up to
them of the Americans, was Wfe,
" We have taken in the whole, fix Gene
rals, vz Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne ; Major
Gene-als, Phillips and Rcidlcl^; Brigadiers,
Hamdton, Speght, and another German,
whole name I do not recoilea."
Gen Burgoyne & Staff among which)
are fix members of Parliament, )
B itifh office s and Soldiers, by capitu-)
lotion, 2442
Fo eigners, by ditto. 2198
Canadians, Tories, &c.fent to Canada, 1 100
Sick, 598
Wounded, / 528
Pfifoners of war before thecapitulation, 400
Deserters, about 300
Loft at Bennington, 1220
Killed between 17th Sept and iSih),
October ab ut) °
Trken at Ticonderoga. 415
Killed at Gen, Harkmer's battle) ^ o
and at Fort Schuyler, )
Total, 10,lit
37 Brass cannon, royals, mortars, with im
plements and stores compleat #
5000 Stand of arms.
4QO Sets of harness.
A considerable number of ammunition wag
gons and harness.
6 Field-pices, taken at Bennington.
2 Ditto, and 4 royals taken at Fort Schooler.
We learn that Howe's army have lehGer
manton, and that Gen. Wafhogton is ^ow
the e. It is reported that Howe is recreating
from Piiladeh ha,bur it warts confirmation
Last Thursday, the fleet returned from.
?v*,% ,5 5 ~^ -rut ^
h# A V
BCT^M^^ WiaNf
Oh^N ^t^drif^^^^^ //ILF
their inglorious expedition up the North River
having burnt K neftonin Efopth, Tndatety
houses at Rhynrbeck and Livinfton's Manor;
as was mentioned in our last; our army,
commanded by Gen. Putnam, coming up
with them, caused them to fodk on board
their verfels, and prevented their doing fur
ther miich es: The wind being lightin their
return, wfoch gave an opportunity to pus
army of marching as faft hs they laled, and
w?s an happy circurriftince in oil: favour;
and prevented them from deftroyihg Rough
keepfie and other buddings on the river fide.
They hxve evacuated the Fores Cohfthu,
tidn, M xitgomery and Clinton, dtftrOyed
the barracks and houses ; they endeavoured
to burn the ramparts, but the late rains ^G
tinguGed the de, without; doing them,
much hurt. 'Tis said they d d not carry off
th^cannon, but threw them in the riv^k
B O ST O N, 0& Jo, 1777.
Wed^efday evening, the 2d of October;
was received at Cambridge, a connrmanort
of the important intelligence; that the Bri~
tifh L eutehant General Burgoyne, with up
wards of five thouLod men at his command,
submitted themselves pnGnbrs of war; td
the honorable bLjor-General GATE} com j '
ro^hz of the American army, in the Nor
ton depaNfhent. In conference of wlrch.
the colleges were beMifudy illuminated the
fame evening.-; Qi Thursday evening Che
town of Camb^dge was unniuerfaßy illumi
nated, in high tatte and elegance. A Bon
fire was n^de ppon the Copffioc? whe-e
we^e fred anumber of cannon, anfweied by
me fl^try from the troops flaotioned in Cam
bridge, i^ honor to General Gates. A num
ber nt principal gentlemen, both of the
town and army, Iperit an agreerb e evening
in company, where the following toasts were
drank, with dfcharge of cannon.
i. The brave Major General Gate^;
who with efcd, said to the vauntng Bur
goynebitherto foil; thou cbffie, & nofartber. 2;
General Wafyagton, and his array. 3:
Major-General Heath.'l General Sta r ks,
and the Nev-England militia. 5. The im
mortal memory of those, who glorcufly fell
in defending the eaufd of mankind, 6, May
every minion General intruding upon Ame
rican rights and innocence, meet with tho
fame fate of Be^pyne. 7. May tyrant
Forces fobm't to inferior American fouls.
8. Miythe wisdom ofCongrefs'e/erbelupe
fior to the policy Britain, g. The memo
rable 17 of Odober, 1747. 10' Complete
eftab flim^nt of American independence.
11. May American bravery and honesty;
rife superior to Brianic artifice and frauds
12, Mxy generos harmony forever fi r mly
unite the S:ares 'of America, r, Free
dom to the whole World,
The rejoicings were introduced by &h
'dicba-ge of thirteen cannon, in honor to the
thirteen United States of America
The whole was conduced with the otrtr)3
decency and good homo-.
On Friday evening the rejoicings were
crowned by a briharu company of la^:&.
InTBLLIGENC^t;
Both FOREIGN arid DOMESTIC.
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