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" I agree to what you said in your last, that ydur
losses on account of the American disputes mull be
exceeding great, and greatly exceed in value those
of us counti y traders; but you must allow, ours is
our all, we cannot so easily change the course of
merchandize as you in the great city. A merchant
of London, though called a Russia, Virginia, or
Carolina merchant, seldom confines his dealing to
those refpedive branches of trade, but we in the
manufa&uring towns cannot easily fhift our chan
nel, and if the market which used to take our
goods, is once flopped, we cannot easily open a
way to another. I was lately at a meeting of feve
rs! great dealers from Birmingham, Sheffield, this
place, and many other towns, who used to fend
vast quantities of our different manufactures to A
merica; you would have been Locked at the dismal
faces; every man appeared to think himfelf ruined,
and seemed without hope; they not only gave up
their American debts as loft, but they saw no prof
pea of engaging again in business with success;
their affairs were ruined by shutting the port, and
they conceived that opening it again would hardly
retrieve them. The design of the meeting was for
preparing a petition, but such was their defpon
d^ncy that the meeting broke up without any refo
AMOS ALDEN,
Who has rode as
NEWS CARRIER,
To Litchfield County, and the Towns adjacent,
about Eighteen Months past, desires all Perlons in
debted to Him for the last Year, to leave the Money
at the Places where their Papers have usually been
'left, that He may be thereby enabled to make Pay
ment to the Printer.
March 29, 1775.
LONDON, January 9.
WEDNESDAY after the breaking up of the
Levee at St. James's, a King's messenger
Was sent off with an extraordinary packet to the En
glish Ambassador at Paris.
Her Majesty, it is said is again pregnant ; but no
such account has been yet made to the privy council
or court.
The present dispute between the young King of
France and his parliament is a most fortunate cir
cumstance for the Ministers of this country, as they
will in all likelihood be engaged therein some time;
meah while the differences in America may be final
ly feti^ed, and thus the cloud which has hung so
long over their heads, may blow off without produc
ing tpofe violent effects which were dreaded.
Thirteen days are now elapsed since the adjourn
ment of parliament, and no new schemes are yet
fixed on concerning America. Driven to the last
extremity, and not knowing what to do, the minister
seems determined to leave the principal direction to
Chance, that universal bubble, which has so often
deluded Kings, ministers, and people. To exert a
plausible pretence of cramming the Americans by
force, is what he has found so little relilhed in the
house, even by his depandants, that he is afraid to
rifle a second trial, and to retract seems equally as
dangerous as to go on. Like SHARP, he has made
his prayer to that filthy strumpet Fortune, from
whom he experts what a miracle ! but such
matters are ceased long since.
The fate of the American bills is likely to be si
milar to that of other base-born brats; the greatest
rogues in the parilh are generally concerned in the
getting them, and the greatest fool is forced to keen
them. M d and Th---we, endeavoured to get
them sworn to A y ; but his Lordship pleaded
impotence, and a jury of judges being impannelled to
examine him, unanimously allowed the validity of
his plea.
Containing the Freshest ADVICES,
Discouraging as the present profped appears, the
Irilh seems resolved to remove to North-America to be
relieved from corruption and oppression at home.
L O N DO N,
Extras of a letter from a merchant at Manchefer, to
an American merchant in London.
MONDAY, April § 1775
CONNECTICUT
AND
WEEKLY
Open to all PARTIES not under the influence of ANY.
lution being formed. Need I repeat to you the
distresses of the artificers and manufacturers? You
have been told, many are gone to America, and
many who remain behind, in their rage and despair
declare themselves ready at all hazards ready to vin
dicate the injured Americans. My misfortunes have
broke my spirit, and I reason with the little that
remains; with more coolness than my desperate
felldw-fufferers. lam willing to f.ppofe the Ame
ricans to blame, I am r&ady to acknowlege their re
sistance to tlie llamp-aCI Shewed too froward a dis
position towards the authority of the mother coun
try; though j unified by the repeal of the aft. I
persuade myfelf their opposition to the Quebec bill,
and embaraffing the minifler in his mode of levying
a reasonable supply by taxation, at the hazard of
Slavery or a civil war, is a zeal for liberty drained
to the highest pitch of enthusiasm and madness, but
what shall we fay of those at home, who knowing
the enthusiasm of this people; push them to mad
ness? A wife minister fu.> his measures to the dis
position of men, and the temper of the times; he
is resolute for the end, but indifferent as to the
means. America must contribute her quota for the
support of the common cause. I must have it, cries
the minister: You won't give it me in the form of a
tax, you will raise the sum among yourselves, and
in your own mode. Do so cries the knowing mi
nister; give me the purse, and I care not for the
colour. But the headlong violent and despotic
minister cries, I will have the sum; you shall give
it me in what mede, in what purse, of what co
lour I please, and thus begins the war of the Big-
Endians and Little-Endians I wiffi it may come
to a happy conclusion."
Extras of a letter from Witney, in Oxfordshire, to a gen
tleman in town, dated Dec. 30, 1774.
" We Shall not be unconcerned Spectators, but
poignant fufferers in the general distress that now
involves the manufacturers of this nation. If ami
cable and conciliatory measures relative to our A
merican colonies are not speedily adopted by the mi
nidry, the orders for the Indian match coating,
which at this season employed such an immense num
ber of hands, are now totally withheld, and the
consequence thereof to every intelligent person, too
obvious to need explanation : If sympathy is the
chief duty of life, what heart can be impregnable
to the cries of the flarving poor ? What thunder e
qual to their groans ? Were one tenth part of the
wretchedness seen by the King and ministry, that is
now felt by the lower class of people, it would Strike
them with horror; and, I am persuaded, awaken
companion, and awaken prudence, and teach us
what we have to do, by shewing us what we have to
fear. The deformity of the late public measures
need not be exaggerated, or set in a stronger light
than their confidences ; none exhibit them nnfefs
for the benefit of those weak minds and eyes, who
expect beat from the moon, and cannot discern a
mountain without Spectacles : Though it is danger
ous to look into molt men below the furface, left our
curiosity Should rob us of ourgood opinion of them ;
yet we may rest assured, that the brave have always
been, and ever will be, humane ; and, I flatter my
felf, that the people will have perfect redress from
the present parliament; and that as the fun riling
from under an eclipse, appears more beautiful and
luminous, so will the British fenatc rife from under
her present ignominy and disgrace, and enlarge the
circle ofher virtue, fplendour, and fame ; otherwise,
as Alexander said of the Persian effeminate army
" there are many enemies, but few soldiers ;"fo
shall I fay of the British senate, “ there are a multi
tude of persons, but a small remnant ofmen."
Extras of a letter from an officer in the army, dated
lifton November 22,
" According to my promise I write you on my
arrival here. The troops are just put into quarters.
The workmen at Boston are so mulilh, that the
General was obliged to fend to Nova-Scotia for
carpenters and bricklayers to fit up barracks for our
accommodation. The country is very plentiful, and
-all forts of ^ovifions cheaper than in London. th n '
T'tf E <
b oth FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.
"""h'"'" "°' n such a 11umer of people being got
I he inhabitants of this province retain the reli
gious and civil principles brought over by their
forefathers in the reign of King Charles the firft,
and are at least one hundred years behind hand with
the people of England in refinement. With the
most auflere Shew of devotion, they are destitute of
every principle of religion or common honesty, and
are reckoned the most arrant cheats and hypocrites
on the whole continent of America. The women
are veiy handsome, but like old mother Eve, very
frail. Our camp has been as well supplied that
way since wehave been on Boston common, as if
our tents were pitched on Blackheath. As to what
you hear of their taking up arms to refill the force
°' England, it is merely bullying, and will go no
farther than words: whenever it comes to blows, he
that can run fafteft, will think himfelf belt off. Be
lieve me, any two regiments here ought to be de
cimated, if they did not beat in the field the whole
force of the Massachusetts province. For though
they are numerous, they are but a mob without or
der or discipline, and very aukward at handling
their arms. & If you have ever seen a train band Co
lonel marching his regiment from Ludgate-hill to the
Artillery ground; in them you have an epitome of
the discipline of an American army. We expeft
to pass the winter very quietly^ The Saints here
begin to relifli much the money we spend among
them, and I believe notwithstanding all their noise,
would be sorry to part with us."
EXORDIUM Invocation Address to Or
Wott, Esq ; A phylofophical analysis of the
paifions--—-An enquiry into natural and moral
tafte,Shewing that our moral depends on oui natural
taKe;that therefore, all the different feelings of
mankind are meerly constitutional; consequently, if
the # constitutions of all mankind were the fame,
their sensations would be the fame, under like cir
cumstances The origin oflove. Violent Jove,
and refined love, their difference what; illustrated
in Mahomet 11. treatment of Irene, and Eloise of
Abelard.-----Slighted love, its revengeful nature:
Instanced in the cruel treatment of Joseph by his
miftre fs.---Parallel'd. The progress * fcribling,
an episode. Refin'd love between the sexes," na
turally begets benevolence to being in general; by
foftening the passions, & so making them more sus
ceptible to all the finer feelings of morality.
From the idliofyncracy, or peculiar temperament
of body, arises the diltingui diing charaderiftics of
different nations, countries, and families.
Whence the gaity and politeness of the French:
the sullen reserve and jealous disposition of the
Spaniards, &c. Whence the hereditary diflenr,
and collateral diffufion, of bodily as well as men
tal disorders.. Whence some countries in gene
vl, and some families in particular, are incident
to consumptions, others to melancholy and dif
tra&ion, and so of the relt Whence jealousy
may be considered as the pecular charaftcrillic of
some. A particular history of jealousy; its ori
gin Progress and full acme; exemplified in the
character of (guess who) as 'twas communicated to
me by one of the parties: Confining myfelf to the
simplicity of a narrator of fads; so far as the fet
ters of rhyme will permit, interspersed with amo
rous episodes, to foften and embelifhthe
Mr Watson,
Please to insert the inclofed piece in ,qct next paper, 'ti,
peculiar!, calculated for the times, no one will bays
the impudence to monopoly it to himfelf, excepting a
profeft enem, to his country.
IF. S.
Now preparing for the Press,
JE A L OUS Y, a Poem:
Calculated for the Meridian of the Oaks.
[NUMBER 53&J
C 0 U RA N T,
HARTFORD
INTELLIGENCER.
The Argument.