The Connecticut courant — Hartford, Conn., 1773-12-28 00:00:00, page 1

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[January, M.dcc.lxxiv.' NUMBER 471.}
CO NNE CTICU 7 C O U R A N T.
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^Warning tbefrelhtjb and mojt important both Foreign and Domedtc.
NEWYO R K, Dec. 16.
The following Advertisement was handed about
»«the Ci,, viz.
THE Members of the Association of the
Soos of Liberty, are requeued to meet at
the City-Hall, at One o'Clock, To morrow,
(being Friday) on Business bf the utmaft Im
portance :: and every other Friend to the
Liberties and Trade of America, are hereby
most cordially invited, to meet at the fame
Time and Place.
The Committee of the ,ffociation.
December 17, 1773 +
IN Pursuance of this Advertisement, altho'
the Weather was bad, at one o'Clock P.
M., very numerous and refpeaable Number
of the Citizens, met at the City-Hall, when Mr.
John Lamb, a Member cf the Association, ad
dressed the Meeting, and informed them, that
he was desired, by a Number of his Fellow
Citizens to commubicateto them, that there
werc fevCral Letters received from the Com
mittee bf Correspondence from the Town of
Boston, and a Letter from Philadelphia,relative
to the Importation of the Bast India Company's
Tea ; which it was defred might be communi
cated. The Letters were accordingly read ;
and a C)m@ttee of Fifteen Gentlemen was
chosen to aofwer these Letters, and to eor
refpond with our Sifter Colonies on the Subjc&
of the dutied Tea. The affociaticQ of theSoos
of Liberty was then read. < -.
Mr. Lamb then putting the Qeflion, whe
ther they,agreed to thefeßefo'utions ? It p.fTed
in the Affirmative, Ncm. Con,
The Mayor and the Recorder . came iotothe
Meeting, and informed them that ihey had
a Message from Government to deliver to the
People ; and to take their Scnfe upon it.
Whereupon it was agreed that the Mayor
should deliver the MefTage ^ which he accord
ingly did in the Words following :
66 Gentlemen, I have a Message from Go
vernmentto deliver to you. The Governor
declam that the Tea will be put into the Fort
at Noon Day ; and engages his Honour that it
shall continue there, till the Council (hall ad
vise it to be delivered out, or till the King's
Order,or the Proprietor's Order is known ;. and
then the Tea will be delivered out at Noon
Day. Gentlemen,is this fatisfa^ory to you ?"
This was atifwered with a general Ne, Nd,
No.
Mr Lamb, then read to the People, the Aft
of Parliament, that imposes the Duty on Tea
imported into America, and after making some
pertinent Remarks on the Commons of Great
Britain's giving, and granting, the Property of
the Americans ; and that the Duty was due on
the Landing of the Tea, put |bc following
Queftien —" Is it then your Opinion, Gentle
men, that the Tea should be landed under this
Circomftance ? This was carried so generally
ty the Negative, that there was no Call for a
Division.
Whereas this Body is informed, from un
foeftionable Authority, and the Letters that
foe now heen read ; that the patriotic Inha
bitants of the City of Philadelphia, and the
Town of Boftoo have determined, that no Tea,
febjeft to a Duty by a British A& of Parlia
ment, for the Purpose of railing a Revenue in
America, should be landed in cither of those
Platts.
From TUESDAY, December 28, to TUES DA Y, January 4, 1774.
South Carolina. He declares, that a few Days
.before his Departure from thence, theTca Ship
for that Port arrived, having on, board 370
Chests of the detcftable Tea. That the Mer
chants and others lohaditants of the Towo,hsd
entered into a Rcfolution not to import any
Tea from Grcat-Britain until tljc Revenue Aft
Ihall be totally repealed. And that the Tea
then arrived (hall return in the fame Ship, and
not be landed. This Account is confirmed by
fandry Letters, by Captain Hunt, to fcveral
Merchants in this City ; And ?
Tucfday Night an Express arrived here from
‘Bofton, who left it on Friday last, and brings
fupdry Letters among which are the following,
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< Boston, tyth Dec. X77J.,:
YESTERDAY we had a greater Meeting
of the Body than ever. The Counuy
coming in from Twenty Miles round, and eve
ry Step was taken that was pra&icable for re
turning the Teas. The Moment it was'known
out ot Doors, that Mr. Rotch, con’d not obtain
a Pass for his Ship, by the Castle, a number of
People huZza’d in the Street, and in a very lit
tie Time, every Ounce of the Teas on board of
Capt. Hall, Bruce, and Coffin, was imaierfed
in the Bay, without the Icaft Irj ory to private
Property.
. The Spirit of the People on this Occasion
surprised all Parties, who viewed the Scene.
We conceived it our Duty to afford you the
mpft early Adviee of this intcrefting Event,by
Express, which, departing immediately, obliges
us to conclude.
P. $. The other Veflel, viz. Capt. Loring,
belonging to MclTra. Clarks, with Fifty eight
Chtlh, was, by the h& of God, call on Shors,
on the Back of Cape Cod. .-
Bj> Order of the Committee, <be.
Ex 1 raft of another Letter
" q~H E bearer is chefen by the Committee
= from a number of Gentlemen wboofforded
themjelves to carry you this intelligence. We
are in a perfefi Jubilee. Not a Tor, in the
whole Community can find the ieofi fault with
our proceedings as they have been lenient and
regular to the left. On these eccafions we fend
youjueb Gentlemen as can give you thorough and
authentic intelligence, that you ma, be informed
minutely of ever, thing worth notice. ..,,
Tbe spirit oj the people throughout the coun
try, is to be described b, no terms in my powers
Their conduA left night JurpriJed the Admiral
and Englilb gentlemen, who observed, that tbeje
were not a mob 0) dijorderl, rabble (as they
have been represented) but men of fenje, coolness
and intrepidity.
lam ibrigid to conclude abruptly, wiring
vs, beloved Countrymen in New York, may be
Rejolved, Nem.Ccn. That this Body high
ly approve of that spirited and patrioticCondua
of our Brethren, of the City of Philadelphia,
and thcTown of Boston, in Support of the com
mon Liberties of America. Then the Qoefti
on was put, whether this Meeting fhoud be
adjourned, till the Arrival of the Tea Ship, or
be diffjlred. It was carried, that the Meeting
should be adjourned, till he Arrival of the
Tea Ship. ,',v_
Voted, That these Proceedings^ should be
published, and transmitted by the Committee
to the other Colonies.
LAST Monday Night Captain Hunt arrived
here,io FifteebDays from Charles-Town,
Ing by the Hon. Court of Probate for the Dif
triH of Hartford, appointed^ Commissioners to
receive, examine and adjust the Claims of the
Creditors to the Estate of Elisha Hart late of
Farmington, decsafed, represented insolvent— \
me do bereb, give Notice that we shall attend
said Bujineh at the Dwelling -House of Mr.
Amos Cowles Innholder in said Farmington an
Monday the loth Da, of January next}andon
Monday the ,tb Day of February next, at two
of the Clock on each of said Days.
NOADIAH HOOKER, ) Commiffi.
THOMAS LEWIS, f oners.
To prove to the meanest Capacity in Ameri
ca, that If the EnglifhTca is permitted to land
hete, before the Tea-Aft is repealed ,- there is
Nothing wc possess, whether Lands, Houses,
Chatties, Money, or any Thing die, which we
can then call oor own.
Because, if we permit the landing of the
EngUlh Tea, before the Tea Adi is repealed ;
the Governor and Couccil having no Power to
fufpeod an Afi of Parliament, were the Tea e
yer Io lase in their Pofitffion, the Duty upon it
must be paid,as certainly as if it were in PdT.-ffi
on of any Merchant in the City.
If the Duty is paid, then the Tea Afi is
complied with. •
If the Tea-ACi be complied with, the Afi
for railing Moaey from us without our own
Confect, is.complied with.
If the A<R for railing Money from us without
our own consent be complied with, then wc
acknowledge s Right in the BriiifbParliament>
who framed that Aft, to tax us.
If wc acknowledge a Right io them to tar
us, we acknowledge they have a Right to take
&way our Property at Plcafure.
If they have a Right :o take away our Pro
perty at Pleasure, we can have no Property in
any Thing we can call our owu.
If wc have no Property in any Thing wc can
call our own, there is Nothing we pofLfs. wh&
ther Lands, Houses, Chattlos, Money or ooy
Thing eTe, which we can call our own.
Therefore, if wc permit the Landing of
the English Tea, before the Tea Aft is repeal
ed ,- there, is Nothing wc pc/fds, whether
Lauds, Houles, Chatties, Money, or any Thing
cifc, which we can then call our own.
My fellow Citizens-— What Evil can be pro
duftive of Ip many Miseries to this Country, as
the Landing of the infamous Tea i The men
then who are dead to every Feeling of Humani
ty, wbofc hearts are like Adamant, hardened a«
gainft the Reproach of their own Country, to
all future Ages, only, may. aid and assist in the
dreadful Attempt, for none else ever can.
ZENO.
We the fubferibers, be-
as reflate and fuccefsfn! as bare been the brave
Bostonians, who in Jpite of opposition and calum
ny., are an honour no mankind,. I am, tc.
A number of Mohawks at Cape Cod, will
take Care of any tea, that ma, escape the wreck
of Captain Loring's vrQelf
The making Boston Harbour into Tea,
And those who made, and help'd to make it ;
The tQall of all Americans will be
Nor one True Briton will refute to take it.
NE.W.YORK, December 22.
A DEMONSTRATION,
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