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Mr. Watson,
Please to give the following a Place in the CONNEC
TICUT COURANT.
• A T length the Harbour of Boston is blocked
A up, and the Business of Importation in that
Town at an End. Other Acts are forming, more
forked than the Boston Port Ad. If Great-Britain
could spare Ships, every Port on the Continent
would, doubtlels, be shut up as tight as the Port of
Boston. Their overt Ads are Bullet Proofs that
this is no idle Insinuation. Foreign Manufactures,
it seems, are considered as pernicious to the Consti
tution of America, and we mult either disuse them,
or encounter the Horrors of Slavery. The Lan
guage of Great-Britain in Years pad, in Accents
loud as Thunder, has rung this solemn Peal in our
Ears—Americans ! hop your Trade. It caused in^
deed a temporary Stand in the Bulinefs ; since
which we have pulhed it with more Eagerness than
ever. Strange ! that, in the Face of Death, and
the most awful Ensigns of Terror, we fliould court
Destruction, and be so eagerly bent on Ruin ! We
have evidently disregarded tne most solemn Lec
tures, and now, behold the Troops are come !---
and they are come to chaftize our Folly and Inso
lence in violating the Non-Importation Agreement ;
and to teach us that solemn Covenants are not to
be trifled with. .It is our Treachery to ourselves,
my Countrymen, that has brought these Burdens
upon us. We are mot. Sufficiently enlightened into
the Nature and binding Influence of explicit and
solemn Engagements.---A form Adherence to our
own voiffifriy Atif and Stipulations would have
prevented the prefeat Distress of America ; and
struck with Death and eternal Infamy the Adversa
ries of this Country. Honour and Fidelity in the
Cause of Truth, would have blasted their Designs,
plucked the Sword of Vengeance from their Hands,
and rendered needless the present Proceedings of
the British Parliament. The Blessing of Freedom
is to be found only in the Paths of Virtue and Ho
nour : if we seek it elsewhere, we mistake the Road,
and Shall wander from the Mark. And Great-
Britain intends, by their present Measures to be
sure, that if we are a free People, we fnall be a vir
tuous People; and observe feme degree of Consis
tency in our Deportments. They know that (Eco
nomy, Frugality and Virtue will raise us above the
Reach of the envenomed Arrows of Oppression, and
enable us to tread on the Necks of the Sons of Vio
lence, and Rapine ; to fix a deep and lasting Con
viftion of the Beauty of this Truth, the Rod of Cor
reftion is Shook over our Heads, and the Chains of
Slavery are rivetting on our Heels. The Proceed
ings of Parliament are therefore to be considered as
the Effects of parental Tenderness, to bring us to
cur Se.nfes, and beget in us an ardent Third for
Liberty. Great-Britain is extremely loth we
Should plunge into remediless Ruin ; and be re
duced below the level of the Beasts of the Field, and
Fowls of Heaven. She confiders herfelf as the Mo
ther Country, ardently desirous of the Prosperity of
her American Children—the Troo; $ as a solemn
Item of her Feelings towards us ; and may serve to
point out the Necessity of living within ourselves,
independent of foreign Commerce ; and that if we
do not break off Trade with her, She must, in Com
panion to us, break our Necks and damp us under
her Feet. This, my Countrymen, is' the Business
of the Troops---the Errand on which they are come ;
and if we disregard their Preachments, they will en
force them with the Point of the Bayonet, and set
them Home on our Consciences with all the Ap
pearance of an hostile Invasion. My Countrymen,
we are abused ; but the Mifchief ofit is, the Abuse
comes from ourselves. Our own Miscarriages have
given Rirth to the present Troubles, and opened a
Door for the exercise of Severity on the part oi Great-
Britain. Our foolifh Fondness for th,e Toys ci that
Country, provokes her Resentment, anti calls loud
ty for a Check ; we are loth to give up what would
ruin us to keep, apo had rather part with cur L^ber-
TUESDAY, JUNTOS, 1774: „ THE (NUMBER 4^
CONNECTICUT /M^ty^ COURA N T,
AND HARTFORD
W E E K L Y INTELLIGENCER.'
Containing the Freffieft ADVICES, "i&@i>^^ both FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.
Open to all PARTIES, but not under the influence of ANY.
ty than Luxury. Our tender-hearted Mother would
not harm us if we dont harm ourselves. The Truth
is, she has been too indulgent, and fuffered us too
long to fuck at those Breaks, which afford such un
wholfome Nutriment. Her present Measures are
Efforts to wean us, and Curb our unreasonable De
sires. She is not in a Condition at present to Suckle
us, being pregnant with Vermin that corrupt her
Milk, and convert her Blood and Juices into Poison,
Rigorous Proceedings palp her at the Heart, bnt
the Necessity of the Times constrains her to Ads of
Severity. The fondeft M trons are routed to Mea
sures seemingly harsh, and are forced to chaftize
the Insolence of their Offspring that Struggle hard
and fight for the Breast. We have crouded Mat
ters relative to Trade a little too hard---have in
trenched too far on the good Breeding of she Mo
ther Country, no wonder we have met with a Snub.
The English of it is,---Stand off and keep your Dis
tance Americans, and for rhe future be not quite
so familiar. We, forfooth, have been loth to take
No, for an Answer ; and h ve reached out our Paw
to take the forbidden Fruit, after fair Warning,
and repeated Intimations to forbear. And now
behold the Troops are com ! and what is the Lan
guage of this Military Facade ? Is it not this?
Americans stop your Trade Yes, this is the Lan
guage—-and it is the Language of Tenderness and
Love—Language pregnant with Blessings for both
Countries. Let us there so e rouse up, my Coun
trymen, and co-operate wit Great-Britain in these
Measures Whilit the, t blocking up our Sea
Ports, let ns folemnty Swear we will not oreak thro"
such sacred Inclafures, or purchase an Article of
their Merchandise, till Times fnall give a better
Profpea. Let us preach up the Doctrines of paflive
Obedience and Non-Resistance to such salutary De
crees. There is ho Danger of Rebellion, I hope,
in obedience and conformity to Measures in which
both Countries harmonize ; and from which, both
exped to reap such a plentiful Harvest.. Let us
strain every Nerve to execute a plan so wifely cal
culated ; and confider it as the only Means of Safe
ty, the only Flank on which both Countries expeft
to escape, or be Swallowed up in Gurgite vafto.
CONCILIATOR.
- N E W PO R T; June 13.
The baptist congregations and the firft congrega
tional Society, in this town, kept last Thursday as a
dayof sassing and prayer.
This day the honourable general assembly of this
colony met in this town ; who,'tis hoped, will grant
a sum of money for the relief of the poor of Bofton,'
who may be reduced to distress by the present vuorje
than fawage treatment, which that town fuffers from
a people for whom they have often spent their bed
blood and treasure.
NEWPOR T, June zo.
Last Saturday arrived here the Ship Black Prince,
Capt. Gardner, from Charleftown, S. Carolina,
which he left the pth Inst. and informs that the
blocking up the 'Port ofßofton arrived there two or
three Days before he failed, and occasioned great
Conftffion among the Inhabitants; and that the
People of that city offered to load Capt. Gardner's
Ship with Rice for the Support of the Poor in Bos
ton, but he could not take it in.
NEWPOR T, June 27.
Number of Inhabitants in the Colony ofßhode
Island, reported to the General Assembly at their
last Session.
Families 9449
Whites, 54,435
Indians, 1,482
Blacks, 3,761
Total, 59,678
The Hon. House of Assembly at their .Session,
puffed an Act, prohibiting the Importation of Ne
gro Slaves into this Colony, setting all such free
except those that are by Gentlemen Travellers,
brought to wait upon them.
From the Pennsylvania Packet.
THE English Constitution, which hath flood'
the test of ages, and been the envy and
wonder of surrounding nations, seems now verg
ing towards a dissolution. Luxury, corruption,
and an inordinate lust of Power, hath been infi
nitely more fatal than the hostile attacks of all her
ether foes and hath finally proved triumphant in
England---and I may fay without pretending to a
spirit of prophecy, that American freedom will
soon be annihilated, unless we unitedly exert our
utmost virtue and firmnefs ; nothing less can res
cue our liberties, now eagerly graiped at by the
ruffian hand of power. I lament the unhappy Si
tuation of both worlds ; and when I think of Eng
land, that once renowned feat of Freedom and Jus
tice, I cannot, in the agony of mind, he p ex
claiming in the prophetic language of John of
Gaunt, as given by tne inimitable Shakespeare---
v," England bound in with the triumphant sea./
" whose rocky Shore beats back the enemies of
" watry Neptune, is bound in with Shame, with
'' inky bolts and rotten parchment bonds, that
" England that was wont to conquer others, hath
" made a fhameful conquest of itfelf, Ah!"---
NEW- YORK, June 30.', :
By Letters from Charleftown we are informed,
that the Governments of South-Carolina and Geor
gia, had prohibited all Trade and Intercourse with
the Creek Indians. r
Advices from Annapolis inMaryland, of the 24th
Instant are, that the Deputies of the different Cou
nties in that Colony had met there the 22d Instant,
and after debating upon the Manner of their pro
ceedings, and the Effect of the Boston Port Bills,
they had resolved not to import from, ' or export to
Great-fhitain, any Goods or Merchandize until
those Ads were repealed, at which there were pre
sent 93 Deputies/,
His Honor Governor Penn hath required the
Attendance of the Members of the Assembly of
Pennsylvania to meet the 18th July.
[The News Papers from all Quarters, in every
British American Colony, so far as we have yet re
ceived Intelligence, are chiefly fiilled with Ac
counts of Meetings and Resolutions of Towns and
Counties, all to the fame Purpofe---com'plaining
of Oppression, proposing a general Congress, and.
Cessation of Intercourse with Great-Britain, and a
Contribution for the Relief of the Poor of Bolton,
so that it now evidently appears, that all the Co
lonies are unanimous in Sentiment and will be so
Conduit. _____ _
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A Choice Collection of Hymns and spiritual Songs
A Intended for the Edification of sincere Chriiti
ans of all Denominations. By Samfen Occam.
.; ( ~NEW- YORK,
Capt. Amory, in 34 Days from the Grenades,
informs us, That the Brig Porgey, arrived there
from the Streights, but was gone from thence on Ac
count of not being able to get any Cattle ; that the
Drought had been so severe among all the lilands
on the Coast of Africa, that 410 ft of the horned Kind
were dead for want of Pasture. .; % , , /.
By one of the latest Letters frdm London, to a
Correspondent in this City, we have Advice, among
other material Articles, that there was then before
the Parliament aßiil to regulate theGrants of Lands
in America, thatit was managed with the like Se
crecy andDifpatch as the otheflate Bills concerning
the Colonies, and would be in the highest Degree
interesting to the landed Pis ? erty here.
P HILADELPHI A, June 22.
Monday last arrived here the ship Friendthip,
from the lie of Lewis, with zoo Scotch lervants
and Passengers, by whom we learn that all possible
methods are taken to prevent further Emigrations,
by lowering their Rents, &c. &c.