The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1780-09-05 00:00:00, page 1

'The SCOURG E.
N UMBER lIIL
SATURDAY, February 19, 1780.
To the Right Hon. (fubfle Scotchman)
WILLIAM MURRAY, Earl of
Mansfield, and Lord Mansfield, Lord
Chief Justice cf the polluted Court of
KING'S BEN CH, Governor cf the
Charter House, and one cf his M A
JEST Y's most baneful Privy Coun
fellors.
My LORD,
I AM perfectly sensible of your power,
and I well know your infamous ard
corrupt abuse of it ; but that shall not de
ter me from expofirig your baneful influ
ence, treacherous arts, and Scotch ear
ning, however dangerous it may be to
my personal liberty, at this time, when
Lord Sandwich's MULGRAV E, the
notorious apofate, and mirrifterial blood
hound, had the coTummate assurance and
barefaced impudence, on Monday last to
fay in the House of Commons, that the
PEOPLE of England, because they
have entered into Affociaticns for the
preservation of their lives, liberty and pro
perty, against the despotic and blood
tbirfty designs cf your Lordlhip and the
rest of the king's desperate and deftrudive
cabal, who like Cataline and the conspira
tors at Rome, have, it is to be presumed,
drank each a cup cf human blood, as a
pledge of your union ; " should be upon
their guard, for government would be up
on their's, and watch their motions. From
all history, and from recent example, it
appears, that it is extreme folly to fuffer
doings cf the kind that were going for
ward to rife into any height of maturity.
Let the officiates be aware, that they who
offend without provocation, will faffer
without pity. There is Efficient vigour
in government to enforce the laws, and to
maintain the confutation of the country."
By this bold and menacing declaration
cf your confederate in mifbief, as well as
from Lord Hilfborough, in the House of
Peers, " That the petitioners were fadi
cus, and the petitions rebellious," it is
pretty evident for what purpofe'the new
regiments have been rafed, and what use
is humanely intended to be made of them,
it is, my Lord, to support, continue, ard
perfect the horrid fyffem cf tyranny which
you laid down in order to make the pre
sent grateful and pious king absolute, and
this you was aw are could net be easily cf
feaed without a numerous band of mer
cenary cut threats to overawe the people,
and in case they complained by petitions
or remonftrancew, or dared to meet and
agboiate for rich own preservation ; these
TUESDAY, S£? tember s, i;3o. T H E' NUMBER 815.
CONNECT itUf'COUEAN T,
WE £ KL T I NTELLI G, E NCER, *
HARTFOR Dt Printed by HU,□ SON amd GOOD WI N, heap , the Great-Bridge.
biredlsnicberr, the very dregs and scum of
the earth, taken from all the finks of in
famy in every part cf the kingdom, and
presently trained to daughter, w'ere to
point the dagger to the hearts of their
countrymen, and to keep them in fub
je&ion with the sword and bavonet.
The wicked, mifehievow, and hellish
conspiracy your Lordship had formed (in
conjunction with others,) under the auspi
ces of a dastardly tyrant,, against the ccm
roon rights cf mankind, and envied con
stitution cf the British empire, was lad
deep, and it spread wide, you urged it
oh with a steady zeal, and an unwearied
application, but as soon as your infernal
lexeme cf destroying charters, and arbi
trarily imposing taxes, on a peoplewho
you never saw, in America, corotary even
to any pretence or legal claim of right
failed ; you watched all opportunities to
begin the bloody execution and daughter
'cf mankind, that you might satiate your
Scots revenge with" human gore ; the firft
apportion to despotic power yen-declared
in the privy council, to be an a& of re
bellion, and in consequence of that diaboli
cal advice which you knew would please
the temper of your rafter, whose aim is to
be the imperial tyrant and butcher of die
human race ; many tlioufand distressed or
phans, and unhappy widows are row be
wailing the loss of their murdered fathers
and husbands, and daily call to Heaven
for vengeance on your head, as theauthor
or their miseries ; fur they well know,
my Lord, that you have been the artful
friend who planned and advised their to
tal extirpation by thefear^, if they would
not submit to Lefaves. This, my Lord,he
whole kingdom muff be convinced of, and
believe, for none but a fronfter in human
shape, of some malignant devil could have
said what you uttered in the House cf
Peers against the people of America more
than four years since, " IF I^E DON'T
KILL THEM, THEY WILL KILL
US ;" yes, my Lord, it was your advice
aM y^ur design to kill them, and you,
together with your humane master, gloried
in the daughter : Heaven be prafed, your
fucceF has not been so great as you ex
pe&ed, they have glorioudy and manful
ly refined your tyranny, and fruftrated
all your fehemes of defectifin ard arbitrary
power over them.
As you found, my Lord, the Americans
were too wife, too brave, ard too virtu
ous to be cheated out of their birth-rights
as Engli&ren, by your chicanery, fo
phiffry, and Scotch cunning; or by force ;
you aid your maSertl e tool of a desperate
faction, are now determined to try the
fame experiment upon the deluded peo
ple of this country. The plan cf their
ruin and slavery has been long laid ; you,
and the rest of the junto, by means of a
corrupt majority in the House bf Com
mons, have already reduced the greater
part of the nation to want and beggary,
the constitution is now tottering to its
base, and the only security the people
h<fte for their lives and property, depends
upon the will of the king, that is, your
Lordship's, or the vote of venal senators.
Notwithstanding the distresses cfthe king
dom, full one eigbih part of the revenue
of England is at this time fared by your
Lordship, and the ether mifereants in
power ; and yet you have advised his
pious majesty and the other court faftion,
a, a reward for having robbed us cf near
all we have, to desire we will give the rest ;
to support your Lordship and other noto
rious plunderers and traitors, and to main
tain a war against the eAablifcd laws of
the realm, and our fellow-fubj^as ; that
we may purchase our own bondage, at a
dearer price, than cur forefathers did their
liberties
My Lord, while your infernal eounfel
prevails in this kingdom, and you remain
at the head of the King's Bench and the
prefect fadion in power, the constitution
cannot be fafe, it is already nearly over
thrown, the great charter of our liberties
is undermined, the laws are no longer a
security against rapine and lawless vio
lence; the innocent are made to fuffer,
whilst the guilty escape punifnment.
The life and personal liberty of every Eng
liihman in every part of the empire, is
not only in danger, but liable to be facri
ficed, if he either ads or speaks against
thedefigns cf your Lordship and the king's
fadion. It is now evident, my Lord, and
the whole nation is convinced, that it is
your intention so deßro,the cunftitution,
and to make the people know no Lw, but
the WILL of a bloody and revengeful
tyrant. To affirt in the nwfl peaceable
manner, our undoubted rights as freemen,
and to express in strong aud nerv;us terms
a proper sense of our injuries and oppres
sions, isby your Lordship called seditious
and treasonable ; and from your dex
trous management, weight, and influence
intheHoufe of Lord:, it appears, that you
can imprison, or take away the life of any
man, or set of men. who may be unf. rtu
nate enough to incur your displeasure ;
nay, if is not doubted, but your power
and abilities are fufficient to turn the com
mon prayer bo: k into treason (and it i& be
lieved you would do it) to aecomp'ifh
your own, or your matter's black and
bloody purposes.
The time, mv L^rd, is near at hand,
when the people mus apply a fair remedy
to thisfal disease. Lam convinced vie-