The Connecticut courant and Hartford weekly intelligencer — Hartford, Conn., 1774-12-19 00:00:00, page 3

BOSTON, (Thursday) Dec. 16.
the Captains Jarvis Fellows, and Blaney, arrived
at Salem from England we have the following, viz.
LONDON, Oftober 6.
T ORD North is unanimously elefted member of
Parliament for the Borough of Banbury.
Oct. 7. It is said that a new Plan for the Go
vernment of American Colonies is now under confi
deration.' It is founded upon that of Ireland, by a
Lord Lieutenant and two Houses of Parliament,and
tofupply the place of Peers a Council is to be chosen
by the King every three years, who are to have pow
ers every way correfpondiitg with an Upper-House
or House of Peers.
Ofl. 8. A Gentleman just arrived fromßofton, re*
ports, that a great Man, not much admired by the
People in that Part of the World, having ordered
his Men to fire, which they would not do, was Ihot
by the opposite Party.
A Correspondent fays, that the Premier has de
clared within these few Days to an intimate Friend,
that if he continues to have the Sanftion of a Great
Personage, he will go athoroughStitch with Affairs,
and bring them right at last, orlofe his Head.
We hear it has been debated in Council whether
or no a certain Commander in Chief, fliould not be
recalled, for having so long delayed to put in Exe
cution his full Powers.
O&. 20. This day came on at Bren ford, the E
leftion of Knights of the Shire for the county of
Middlesex, Mr. Wilkes, and Serjeant Glynn, the
two avowed Candidates, set off about eight in the
morning in the Lord Mayor’s coach and fix, accom
panied by his Lordlhip and a very large train cf
voters in carnages and on horseback. No other
Candidates appearing to oppose them, the Sheriffs
declared them duly elefted.
Yesterday in the afternoon, Lord North waited
on his Majesty at Kew, and had a conference said to
be on the fubjeft of some dispatches received from
North- America.
Contrary to the expectations firft formed, we hear
that General Conway’s errand to the continent has
been entirely fruftrated by French money and French
address.
Yesterday morning early, four waggons loaded
with military (Wes set out from the Tower toPortf
mouth, destined against the unhappy people of Bos
ton. ~ r?'
08. 22. Yesterday, at five in the afternoon, the
poll finally closed at Guildford, for the election of
Members to serve as Representatives of the county
of Surry, when the numbers were : For Sir Francis
Vincent, 2017 : James Scawan, 1656 : Sir J.Maw
bey 1390. Sir Joseph Mawbey made agenteel speech
to the eleftors ; Mr. Onflow turned pale, and disa
vowed his having exerted any influence on the occ^-
fion; and the Business ended with the Sheriffs a
greeing that the poll should be printed.
At the close of the poll for Penryn, in Cornwall,
the numbers were for Sir George Olborne 139, Wil
liam Clayton, Esq; 90. John Rogers, Esq; 81.
John Bond and John Jenkinfon, Efqrs. are returd
ed and declared duly elected for Corfe Castle, in
Dorfetihire.
“ A few days ago a gentleman of the army ar
rived here from Ireland, with a young lady, who it
seems had made an elopement with him from her
parents ; as they were stepping into the chaise for
Ayr, her father and a friend of his came up to them,
flopped the chaise and carried them both into the
inn, where the father offered to accommodate mat
ters by giving him his daughter in marriage with
10001. fieri. portion.— The officer refufed to make
her his wife, which so enraged the father’s friend,
that he instantly knocked the officer down, upon
which a challenge ensued, the military gentleman
fired and milled his antagonist, the other’s pistol mif
gavC, whereupon they attacked each other with
{’words, but were parted by the fpeftators and dis
armed. The officer, however, had a short hanger
under his coat, where-with he attempted to flab the
young gentleman; being observed by one of the
fpeftators, he sprung in upon him, wrenched the
hanger out of his httnd, and carried him back to the
inn as a prisoner. The dutiful Lady observing her
Lover in this plight, produced a pair of pocktft
piftols which she offered him to fhoet her father and
cousin with. They, however, carried her back cap
tive, and her gallant, a few hours after, hired ano
ther vessel wherein he set off for lieland after them:”
It is now determined to fend a very considerable
Force, aS well of Ships as Men to Boston ; and it is
fettled that General Gage is £0 force the Americans
to obedience.
08. 20. The Affairs of North-America wifi be
the firft Matters agitated in the new Parliament.
The intention of the new Parliament is to call in
the fame Members; that the American Acts should
not be repealed 4
ExtraCt of a Letter from Portpatrick.
Yesterday Morning his Majesty came to Town
much sooner than us al, in order to have a Meet
ing of the Great Officers of State, which was held
at Buckingham house previous to the opening of the
Levee at St. James’s.
B OST O N, Dec. 16.
Yesterday wa: observed agreeable to the recommenda
tion of the provincialcongrefs,, as a day of public thanks
giving throughout this province.
On Saturday last, the provincial congress at Cambridge
ha vingfnijhedthe business necessary to be immediately dis
patched, diffolvedthemfelves.
The marines, 300 in number, who arrived in the
Aft a man of war, from England, are to land and go in
to ban acks, in this town, now preparing for their re
ception. • ' '
We are told that 'the military and naval expenditures
at the town of Boston, fence the blocking up the harbour,
amounts to fifty th’oufand pounds sterling, every 2 months
NEW-PORT, Deer. 12.
The General Assembly have ordered 40,00 c flintA
300 barrels of powder, 3 tons of lead, and 4 bra’fs
field pieces, to be procured for the use of this co
lony. .. - -z ; ,
N E IP - Y 0 R K, December 15.. . .
Last Week several Parcels of Goods were fold
here agreeable to the Afibciation entered into by the
Continental Congress.
Advices from all' the colonies assure us of their
unanimous concurrence in all the meafurcs recbm
mended by the General Congress.
By Letters from London, we learn, That there
are more than one Hundred new Members in the
present Parliament.
Last week Capt Riker in a Schconer from Charles-
Town, arrived here with 103 Tierces of Rice, con
signed to Philip Livingston, and Charles M‘Evers,
Efq’rs. to be disposed of for the Support of the Poor
of Boston, being Part of the generous Benefaftions
from the Province of South-Carolina, for the Relief
df the much injured and opprefled Inhabitants of
that devoted Town.
The neat Proceeds of 375 Tierces of Rice (lately
arrived here from Charles-Town, in the Sloop Phe
nix, Capt. Dickenfon, being also Part of the Bene
fadicns from the fame Place and for the fame Peo
ple) we hear amounted to I2ool.and will be remit
ted in a few Days.
Last Monday at 3 o’clock died Alexander Colder.,
Esq; (eldest son ofhis Honour Lieutenant Governor
Colden) Post-Master and Surveyor-General of this
Province.
Letters by the ship Lady Gage inform us, That
the Em’prefs of Russia, in consequence of the advan
tages Cie has received from the support afforded to
her operations by the crown of Great-Britain, in the
late war against the Ottoman Empire, has granted
to the fubjeds ofourmoft gracious Sovereign, a free
navigation in all the seas of her Majesty’s Realm,
including those rights secured to the crown of Russia
by the late glorious peace concluded with the Turks.
In one of the Englifti papers is inserted, “ Two
battalions of light infantry are ordered to be in rea
diness to embark for New-Yotk.”
We hear that the inhabitants of St. Croix are a
bout to fend 130 hogsheads of sugar as a present to
the town of Boston.---One Gentleman had offered
to give ten hogsheads, and to fend a veflel with the
whole donation, free of charge.
HARTFORD, December 19.
We are assured, that no arrangement of American
affairs will be concerted by his Majesty and the Bri
tish Parliament, until, the proceedings of the Con
tinental Congress are known in England. The
measures recommended by the Grand Committee of
Pennsylvania to their Delegates, had been very fa
vourably received at home, as they presaged solid
principles, on which a cordial and permanent recon
ciliation might beconftrufted.
We can assure the Public, that the Right Ho
nourable the Earl of Dartmouth has written circu
lar Letters to the several Governors on the Con
tinent, fignifying his Majesty’s Command, that
they take the most efte&ual Measures for arresting,
detaining and securing, any Gunpowder, or any
fort of Arms or Ammunition,which maybe attempt
ed to be imported into the Colonies; and likewise
inclofing an order of the King in Council, prohi
biting the Exportation thereof, from Great-Eri
tain or Ireland, of which the following is an ex
aft Copy.
T E W -L OND ON, Deer. 16. ‘ ,
Last fnday all the cannon belonging to Fort-
George, at Newport, except four, were carried
to Providence, with the (hot, &c. from whence,
they may be easily conveyed into any part of the
country, to meet the Indians and Canadians with
which the colonies are threatened And on tuef
day last, the cannon belonging to she battery in
this town, were removed into the country, for the
fame purpofe.'
At the Court at St. James’s, the 19th Day of
October, 1774.
PRESENT,
The KING’S moftexcellent MAJESTY in Council,
Earl of Rochford, Lord Vicount Townlhend,
Earl ®f Dartmouth, Lord Mansfield,
Earl of Suffolk, Lord North.
WHEREAS an Aft of Parliament has passed in
the Twenty Ninth Year of the Reign ofhis
late Majesty king George the Second, intituled,
And his Majesty judging it necessary to pichi
bit the Exportation of Gunpowder, or any fort cf
Arms or Ammunition, out of this Kingdom, or car
^rying the fame coaftways for some "Time doth
therefore, with the advice of his Privy Council
hereby ab’der, requi e, prohibit and command
that no I erfon or Persons whatsoever (except the
Master General of the Ordnance for his Ma
jedy s Service) do, at any time during the space of
Six Months from the date of this Ojderin Council
presume to transport injo any parts out of this
Kingdom, or carry coaftways any Gunpowder or
any fort of Arms or Ammunition, orfhiporlade a
nyGynpowder<or any fort of Arms or Ammunition
on board any Ship or Vessel, in order to tranfport
mg the fame to any part beyond the Seas or'earry
ing the fame coaftways, without Leave and Per
mission in that behalf, firft obtained from his Ma’
jelly or hrs Privy Council, upon Pain of incumry
and fufienng the refpeftive Forfeitures and Penal
ties inflifted by the aforementioned Aft. .And the
Lords Commissioners ofhis Majesty’s Trefury the
Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord*
High-Admiral of Great-Britain, the Lord War
den of the Cinque-Ports, the Master General o r
the Ordinance and his iMajefty’s Secretary at War*
are to give the necessary direftions herein, as tb
them may refpeftively appertain, z
Signed, g. ‘CHETWYNI).
Extras of a letter from'a gentleman in Dublin, to his
frend in Baltimore, 1774.
“J am sorry to hear some with you’ speak so coldly
o. the Bostonians, I hoped there was not a coloniit
who would not with his fortune and life, defend that
liberty and property, which a vile administration
Willies to deftioy, an attention to traffick, will beef
little value,while the means ofprotefting your wealth
are neglefted, suppose you’ possessed all the riches
of Maryland, fubjeft to the uncontrouled demands
of a hungry rapacious ministry, pan you fay that fucii
a precarious wealth,is tc be counted only Lke the bee
you wdl be fmoaked with Scotch brimstone,, arfd rob
bed of the honey of your own earnings ; sympathy is
a pcor tribute to those within reach of your relief
uch an offering (if we can do no more) becomes us
who are at this distance, but though Boston is far
from our country they are near, very near our hearts,
and, l am bold to lay there 13 not one man in the
kingdom (placemen and pensioners excepted) who
would not fuccour them with his purse and perfen if
pofidle. Ihe important crisis of your country is
ever uppermost in our thoughts, as the fate of liberty
is lufpended on your courage and. unanimity; if
you Hand together as one man, the gates efhell
cannot prevail against you : If you are crumbled into
factions you will be undone, you will fall a
disjointed prey to the more then savage beasts of def
an>^ be r ^ t t 0 bewail in sackcloth and allies
the falfe idea of ballancing present profit aganift
future vassalage. A non-importation scheme firmly
adhered to, would soon make Great-Britain Ink of
their most perfidious system, and would carry swarms
of choice independent, spirits into your hive and
though your traffic might languid for a time, and be
barren for a season, yet like the fallowed ground it
would yield a fruitful harvest, amply to re^omoence
the lols of delay.—The profpeft of liberty is one
powerful inducement to emigration from this coun
fY'. as f‘ aver y advances here, your attraftion
grows stronger—but if the door of that asylum Ihall
be shut- agamft us, we will remain where we are, and
not take the trouble of fhifting the feene without
changing the situation, (the present administration is
aftinkinthe noitnJs of all God’s rational creati -
r"?- account the " well as your stand
faft m the liberty wherewith your— ancestors have’
made you free, and fuffer not yourselves to be in
tangled in ministerial bondage ; were I one of yod
which it is possible I soon Ihall, I should think the
little power I possess, with my life into the bargain
well devoted to the cause, when the happiness of
millions yet unborn, is so deeply involved.
WHEREAS application has been made 7o me
in writing, by more than afixteenth part of
the proprietors of the townlhip of PANTON a
township lately granted by the governor and council
of the province of New-Hampffiire, desiring a meet
ing of said proprietors may be warned—These ard
therefore to notify said proprietors to meet at the
dwellmg-houfe of Paul Smith, Inn-holder in Sharon
on the 27th day of December next, at 9 o’clock in
the forenoon, to deliberate on measures proper to be
taken concerning a pretended claim of the proprie
tors of the township of Addison to some part of thd
lands in said Panton, and to tranfaft any other busi
ness that may be thought proper for said proprietors
of Panton . Dated at Sharon, the 16th day of No
vember, A.D. 1774.
John Canfield, Justice of Peace.
“ -An Aft to impower his Majesty to prohibit ti e
Exportation of Saltpetre, and to enforce the Law
for impowering his Majesty to prohibit the Expor
tation of Gunpowder, or any fort of Arms or Amu
rition, and also to empower his Majesty to reftrairt
the carrying coaftways of Saltpetre, Gunpowder, or
any fort of Ammunition.