The Connecticut courant and Hartford weekly intelligencer — Hartford, Conn., 1774-10-03 00:00:00, page 1

From Bingley’s Journal, off^y^ 1774.
I N G, DEFENDER of the PROTES
TANT FAITH.
SIR,
Majesty’s Speech from the
T '* * A Throne to both Houses of Parlia- "
Y men t, is, to all intents and purposes,
& & an address and appeal to the people
0 through their reprefentativcs. As a
fubjed then I have an unqueßionable right to judge
of, and animadvert upon this solemn address from
the throne to the people. The authoritative publi
cation of the Speech implies this freedom ; and the
neeeiiity of the times urges to a free exercise of it.
It has been very unfortunate for dispeople of
England, that what for many years pad Ms given the
Sovereign theutmoft fatisfafliion, has given the people
tXx^greateJl weafinefs. Nor have their ideas been less
conti^dsiUfy respecting the zeal and prudence which
parliament have shewn to the publicfcrvice.
'We acknowledge, with your Majesty, that this
‘Afar. has been very intercfling ; for we have seen and
complain of the most unconstitutional proceedings
that ever any parliament could furnifh out inftehces
of. Your Majesty had a very striking instance of
this but a few minutes before you gave the royal al
fent to a bill, that, in its spirit and tendency, is sub- '
verfive of the great principles of our government, .
and a violation of that part of the civil compute by
which yOu’are cur legitimate King. For that bill
the minister ought to lose his head ; for that bill no
peculiar circumstances of embarrafl’ment, had such
exiited, were a fuflicient cause. Nor was any true
principle of found policy the ground of those adjust
ments arid regulations which were falfely deemed neces
sary by your Majesty’s Ministers, for the government
of Quebec. And we apprehend that the bill is fo-far
from being founded on the clearest principles of justice and
humanity , as the minister would fugged, that some of
your Majesty’s belt fubjetes temple not to aflert,
that it is founded on injuteice and violation, con
tempt of law and Customs of the realm. But we will
for a moment, suppose with your Majesty, that the
bill w'H h a ^' e desired effete in quieting the minds,
and promoting the happinft of your Canadian fubjeAs. Is
their quiet to be pui chafed by the loft of the affections
of the people at heme ? Are your Majesty’s uncon^
quered fubjetes of this nation to tremble for their li
berties, that Canada might reap the bluffed effetes of
your conciliating mercy and parental tenderness ?
Must the defeendants of men who raised your fami
ly, Sir^ to empire, fear for their ALL, while con
quered provinces, and'fubjugated slaves teem the
Only objects of royal favour and attention ? Must
Protestants mourn, while papists rejoice ? Or is such
the peculiar call of yout Majesty’s character, or such
the fatality ofyotir reign, that in the peculiar instan
ces wherein you mean to adhere t ) justice and hu
manity 3 you must go near the altar and bleak your
fhered Catli ? thus invalidating the very assent by
which the law is confirmed. In the present in
ftancc yous Majesty’s protestant fubjetes arc apt to be
lieve, that an agreement in opinion with your Mi
nisters would involve them in con traditions of thd
most extraordinary nature ; becaufeit would fuppofd
that the worst of men could at upon the best of prin
ciples; and that the veriest Haves that any affecting
tyrant would with for his tools, could adopt the'
principles of justice and humanity. Far d’-fferent,
fir, are their principles, arid diametricaHy repdgnapt
their dotrines. And the greatest Eatcfnian tHt
this or any other age could eVer bo A, has given his
opinion on the fide of the public conviction. No,
fir, the bill did not originate in jtiftice, nor Was it
founded in humanity. We fufpet that it made-part
of the private ftipukitions with France, when Lord
Bute negotiated rhe last infamous |)eace. We bfe
lieVe that the fear of offending the hoafe of Burbtm,
and to keep a large body of Popift Cabfcftdxs it the
MONDAY, October 3, 1774. THE '■ [NUMBER'SxO.]
CONNECTICUT . C O U R A. N T ;
AND 1 ~ y HARTFORD
weekly *7JsjsMTjo®' Intelligence r<
. . :
Containing the Frcfheft ADVI CE S, both FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.
Open to all PARTIES——not und^^he hMKence of
terrorem againftour protestant b>dt'^n\vs AiS^ca, yMM
true ground and principles of the bill ; el^^hjireW .'-'
a Joss to account for its being bre ught
the sessions, and at the eve of a g neral cJeJEn ;-.at
which time the moll abandoned .md infolewpiinif
ters have preserved some appearances, and paid a li;-
tie regard to the people. . *
The dangerous spirit of resistance >oywr Majesty's go
vcrhment\ which you complain you have longfeen with
concern in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, is not, fir,
the effete, of rebellion or faction abroad, but rebellion and
tyranny at home. On the other fide of the Atlantic
was ail confidence, love, and lojal fubjeteion, till
the fatal experiment was made to convert free-born
men into slaves, and fiducial fubjete.s into bold op
ponents. Your Majesty travels too far for the cause
of these evils^ You, fir, ought to know, and be able
to give a better account: of them, than any man in
the kingdom ; bgcaufe they fpr'ng from counsels
,which wicked mmifters hold too near your person
yand throne—from the enemies of your houfe K and
•ypur family’s acceflion to Our government. These
ate;the men, fir, whose temper and prmnefsyQ^ com
< nier^d in the face of the public, in the moll solemn
a^t'ofwour regal capacity, with your head surround
ed wr^J^e roysl diadem, the free-gift of a generous
people^M^our ahceftors, and permiflive grant, at
trejent in your pofleffion.^ Fj'om the throne, which
can&ijfeco otlA^~rm;^PßF eIW lilhment but jus
tice a hti^Refs, your Mayfly compliments
men tha^ay i^^gard to tidiei.—Thefe,
your adopted friends ; while the true friends of their
country, and the conftitutipn are treated as ill affete:-
ed to yojir government, arid oppofers of the King.
To such men does your Majesty venture to give the
royal promise, that nothing that depends on YOU, Jhall
be wanting to render THEIR mtajures effectual. The
people, fir, moil sincerely wifli that this declaration
cotfld be received with these qualifications and re
ftriteions, as those declarations in some of your Ma
jesty’s former speeches, though omitted in the last,
have seen, where your Majesty has said, that the
happiness of the people is the primary objete of
your government ; and that you have not, or can
have, any other interests but theirs in view. It is
a great misfortune to a state, when the people can
only believe the prince in things that tend to make
them disloyal.
Your Majesty exprefles an ardent desire to fee your
deluded fubjells in America returning to a sense of duty,
and acquiefting in that just subordination to the authority ,
and maintaing that due regard to the commercial interests
of this country, which must ever be infeperably ccnneAe'd
with their own real prosperity and advantage. Your
Majesty’s fubjefts in America are more oppreft than
deluded. Let tyranny cease, and they will return to
a sense of duty and allegiance. Let them experi
ence an equal, just, temperate government ; and
your Majesty will find due subordination, and fub
mifficn to authority. And when we cease, by uri
ccnftitutiunal taxes, violations of charter, and.pro
fcriptiohs of cities and ports to epprefs the , Ameri
cans, we Ihali fee them pay due regard to cur com
mercial interests. YourMajefty’s ministers have rais
ed the wall of feperation. Arid while such men
are continued in power, while the laws are unre
pealedthV have sown the feeds of diffention. Ame
rica will never return to a sense of duty, and endlefk
contentions must enfee, till, at length, the sword
must decide cohtcfts which injustice and tyranny
began. America must be pblluted with the blood
of her foils ; and the children of dur bowels treated,
with more - than hdftile cruelty, will be massacred.
Then perhaps we Ihall be forced ignomiriioufly to
fee to France and Spain for an infamous and in
glorioUS truce, till vfe can bteathe from the unna
tural fiaughter of onr brethen to, combat with ths
avowed and traiter jus cncmrcs of’bur RELIGFON
and GOVERNMENT.
These, fir, are not the vitons’ of enthufi<ifm t the
I -J t ,
^iteates of fateion, the voice of difafleteion, or the.
■^gha^gtof despair. Your ministers, fir, as high
have offered up liberty even in
riS^mnlic mnafc'. Upon the infpeteion of the vic
tim, every man turns augur- The unfavourable '
omens are not derived from vague conjeteure, or sa
cerdotal delusions ; history informs us how to judge,
and there is one page written in regal blood, which
you,fir,would do well to confult.toform your judg
ment, and regulate your condute; ; that the enemies
of your family or reign, may not have an opportuni
ty to vindicate their condute by fech an high prece
dent, and such a great example.
TRIBUNES.
BOSTON, September 19,
Last week arrived in town from Plymouth a num
ber of bars of steel, made in that county ; which
ar.e laid to be equal, if not superior to any manu
factured in Germany.—The following js a copy of
the bill of lading which the captain ot the waggon
signed for the fafe delivery of the fame, viz,
O Hipt by grace of God, in good order, and
well conditioned, by—.—, in and upon the
good waggon called the Lord North’s revenge,
whereof is master under God for this prefect voy
age, Confider Orcutt; and now being in the town
of Plymouth* and by God’s grace bound for the
poor unhappy block’d up port of Boston. To fay,—
bars of steel, being marked and numbered as in the .
margin, and are to be delivered in the like good
■“"Uriei*, and well condteicnad at the -fei-efalcl port cd
Boston, (danger of Tories excepted) unto
or to his assigns, he or they paying freight for the
said goods , as per agreement. In witnefe
whereof, the master or purser of said waggon hath
aflirmed to two bills of lading of this tenor and date,
one of which two bills being accompliflied, the o- .
ther to stand-void; and so God fend the good wag
gon to her desired port in fafety, .Ateen. Dated'at
Plymouth thia 30th day of August, 177 A.
CONSIDER ORCUTT,
NEW-HAVEN, Sept. 23..,
On Wednesday the 14th instant, was attended the
public Commencement in this town. .After a frit-,
able prayer by the President, the exercises of the day
were introduced, by a lacin salutary oration, pro
nounced by Mr. Greenough : Then followed a fy-
Jqgiftical disputation in latin ; after which, these
two quotations were diteufled in Englifli: Whether
Oratory be advantageous to the Community ?—And
whether the truth of tbA Christian Religion hath not
now clearer evidence, than it had in the days of the
Apostles? The former by Meters. Strong, .Weft, and.
Walker; the latter, by MeArs. Starr, Foster, and
Gaylord; which was succeeded by a dialogue in
Englifli, on the advantages and disadvantages cf a
country and city life; by Meters. Boftwick, Swift,
and Lockwood; and an oration on felf-knowledge, ■
by Mr. Benedict; then an Anthem concluded the
exercises of fee forenoon'.
The audience ifi the afternoon were entertained,
with an oration on.taftc, by Mr. Humphry; then
followed a fyllogiftical diftputatiqn in Latin, and art
Englifli dialogue, concerning The. Rights of
America; and'the Unconstitutional Mea
sures of the British Parliament, by Messrs. Barker,
and Gould. . , ■
After which, avaHde&ory oration wasprono/unccd
by Mr. Leavenwoi th; then was sung an Anthem,
and the whole concluded by prayer.-—Every thing
was conducted’with becoming decency and decorum.. <
Gam given for old Brass, by
txos Doolittle, at hi's Shop adjoining the
Printteg-Cfiice in Hartford.
Choice Oil and Blubber,fit for
Tantiers and Leathers Dressers Use, to be fold
By J O 8 E P Id BARRET
HaWfttedy Sept, fife, ^774-