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A correa Edition of
Baron Stuben's Regulations for
the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the
United States, adorned with eight large Copper
Plates, and handforaely bound, to be Sold by the
Printers hereof. „ n ,
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a seventh gratis._
MULBERRY TREES.
ANY number of Mulberry Trees may be had of Afahel
Cole, in Kensington, or Zachariah Hart, in Worthing
ton, at a very moderate price.
April 8, 1783.
Farmers take Notice !
To be Sold, an excellent FARM, lying in Murrayficid,
about two miles from the meeting house, on the road
to Norwich bridge, containing 100 acres, a dwelling House
thirty-eight feet in length and eighteen feet in wedeb, with
two rooms, and an excellent Barn, forty feet by thirty, with
a fixty-five feet Linto, (event, acres of said land under im
provement, a considerable part of it well fenced with stone
wall, and the rest with good rail fence, is well watered, it,
cuts thirty tons of hay yearly, and paflure answerable, good
tillage land for grain, very excellent for wheat, with a good
young Orchard, that will make twenty barrels of cider in a
year. Whoever inclines to purchase said Farm, may ap
ply to the fubferiber now living on the premises.
JAMES CLARK.
Murrayfield, March 28, 1783.
TO BE S O L D,
A Good FARM, containing o^e hundred and twenty-fix
acres of Land, well proportioned for mowing, plow
ing, pasturing and wood land ; there may be cut twenty
loads of good hay on said farm yearly, an excellent.Orcbard
that will make two hundred barrels of cider, two Houses
and Barns, and a Cider-Mill thereon, lying on the road from
Litchfield to Torrington For further particulars, enquire
of SAMUEL STACY and JONAS ANDREWS.
Litchfield, March 28, 1783.
TOBES 0 L 5;
A Good FARM, in Sharon, one mile and a half from the
meeting house, containing one hundred and seventy
acres of Land, well proportioned for plowing and meadow,
and well timbered, together with two dwelling Houses and
a Barn, and a good Orchard thereon —For further particu
lars, enquire of
TIMOTHY CARRIER.
Sharon, March 12, 1783.
T O B E S O L D,
A Choice Farm of LAND, lying in the east part of Gran
ville,about one mile and a half from the meeting house,
containing 103 acres, well proportioned for mowing, plow
ing and pasturing, well watered with two good brooks run
ning through it, about 25 acres under improvement, cuts
about five tons of hay--- An indisputable title will be giv
en for terms applv to the fubicribdr living in Granville.
JOB STILB S, jun.
Granville, March 31, 1783. _
Non ReJidem Proprietors,
NOTICE is hereby given, to all the Non-Resident Pro
prietors who have lands in rhe town of Harwinton, in
Litchfield county, that their lands will be fold at public ven
due, at the dwelli'nghoule of Oliver Phelps,innholder in said
Harwinton, on the firft Monday of May next, at ten o'clock
in the forenoon, so much as will pay their several taxes as
sessed on faid' lands, together with incident charges and
fees, viz. Jabez Bacon, Elijah and , fiah Eiffel, Jonas
Hicock, David Phelps, Aaron Phelps, Benjamin Phelps, Da
niel Pheips's heirs, Daniel Phelps, Josiah Wolcott, Jerijah
Phelps, Isaac Phelps, Rufus Clark, Abel Carter, Dodit Be
ment, Joshua Carter's heirs, Rebekah Foot, Gains Hili,
Jairus Phelps, John Smith, Joseph Spencer, Ezra Sherman,
Nathaniel Barns, Benjamin Barns, Thomas Wey.
ELIZUR BRACE, )
SOLOMON PECK, ) Colle&ors
DANIEL CATLIN, )of town and
ASHBEL PORTER, ) society taxes.
NATHANIEL BRACE,)
Harwinton, March 31, 1783.
Pay-Table Office, March „, 1783.
A Number of State Securities given to persons Serving
in the Connedicut line of the army, were left by mif
takc in this office, several months ago The owner is de
sired to prove his property and take them away.
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T U E S D A Y, April 8, 1783.
PARNASSU S, No. VIII.
Servetur ad imum,
Qualis ab incapto procejjerit, etfbi confet. Her.
JUSTICE to the late Profeffor requires the mention of
some circumßances, which gave occasion to the poignan
cy interspersed through the following Address.
From the vote of the Corporation, at the close of my last
paper, it appears, that the Profeffor was obligedto ask leave
whether, or when, tye might read leftures. This he thought
debasing. The Corporation had also reftri&ed the President.
He might not ask Mr. Strong to read ledures more than fix
or eight times through the year. Mr. Strong said before
them, he did not doubt but it was the Presidents own desire
that he should read lectures as usual. The President replied,
that this was his wish. The Reverend Mr. Williams of
Hartford spake to like effed. There might be two or three
more of the fame mmd. But the Scribe fa d, " You have a
right to go into the chappci when the President confess to
it, and at no other time." This warm and authoritative ad
dress, from a co-temporarj at College, added to his being li
mited to fix or eight lectures hi a year, and obliged to ask
leave every time he dilivered one, Mr. Strong couid not but
account most hum liating. He ago fuppofed;he Corpora
tion had treated him with much indelicacy respecting hs
taking the oath ; holding up, as the tfenfble reason of their
condu& towards him, something ofa political nature very
injurious to his charter.
To the Reverend Corporation ofYale College, at their sessi
on at New-Haven, December 18, 1781.
Reverend Gentlemen,
I HAVE no fondnefs for interrupting the course of your
business at this c me by a very kng hy Address.
Painful sensations, ex iced by repeated instances of unge
nerous treatment, are better underltrndby feelings, than ex
pressed by f eaking or writing—a* 1 more truly judged of
by him who receives, than by hefe who give>hem:
Th s therefore on'y waits on you, genoemen, j ft to let
you know, that hence orh you have nothing to fear from
your Profeffor in the difiharge oflus offi.e mhs literary ex
hibitions it the College—that he will never more obtrude
h s services into your desk—never more shal pp.v chappel
be tainted by any corrupt political fentimenrs dropr from hs
mouth i r the course of his Philosophical Leftures; nor your
Collate wal s contaminated with the exhalations of his Po
litical breath, ifluedforth in dealing ouths private documents
igMathe mati al and AftronbrnicalJcience.
He very fenfib y feels that he is pra&ically and of set pur
pose thrown from his office, rejected from place, turned out
of business and left to the mercy of a pitclefs world, by a.
body, under whole patronage he hoped for the greatest con
fidence; and from whose prorefton he had a right to exped
the greatest fecuriy and lafety;—and all this, after i}end
ihg a course of eleven years of the prime of life, and but for
a fmal? recompence, as a faithful Have in their service.
He finds, that, however true it may be in one view of the
matter, that he can't even now poffimy relinquish his buh
nefs as an inftrudor of the youth at your Co le„e, without
the greatest relu&ance and regret; yet in another view, he
thinks hmfe fhappy to have r c fhll in his power to break off
and d.fiolve so unhappy, unfafe, and difagreeabe connexi
ons.
He begs leave to inform, you, gent'emen, that the pro
posal for taking the oath of fidelity to the State, wh ch you
were pleased to set up as a qua fy "K term for his continu
ing in office, he has readily and f.lly complied with: Not
indeed with any view to qiaify himfelf for continuing, but
for abdicating his offi.e—which oath he would freely have
taken at any t me before, had he been proper y caned upon
to do it, or had any circumstances in his own private atfh rs
req 1 ired him so to do. But never did he conceive of any fit-(
nefs in being offi. oufly set m seek ng occasion to give proof
to the wordof a matter,ofwhith he knew there was not a man
in it, who, upon any just ground, had the least reason to
doubt, by an ad which (as h.s circumstances were) could be
of no avail. br~ to betray a weakness, as if he were himfelf
diffident and f i/icious cyep ofhis owr integrity and file ty
in the interest ofhscountry ; efpecia.ly when he has often ;
been known to advise others to the taking of he fame path, ;
when they were proper y called upon to do i, or when theirj
private circumstances required it.
A propofol, gentlemen, for any overt aft so circumstanced, 1
as that it can't but betray a f fpicion of fomerhng defining
in those who make it, can't be supposed to stand the fairest
for meeting with the most cord al, ready, chearfm or so ia
be compliance; even thoughno very ill onfequence be pre
sently apprehended; or cho' the adpropofed should otherwise
be cordially approved by him to whom the propofa is made.
From the written Address, gen 'emen, which he presented
you at the last Commencement, your Profeffor begs leave to
tell you, he had no expectations of the favorable kind— not j
1 a word in ip did you find, which held forth the least shadow |
ofa petition —-it asked for no favor, but a fair, candid and
heedful attention to its contents.
Two things, however, he had in view in presenting you
that Address :>One was to give full conviction to the Board,
that he was quite sensible, that what had so labored in their
minis tefpe&ing his support, had its rife, not from want of
ability ^ut of inclination in them to afford it—and thereupon
he id as,' fully and absolutely reprobate the thought," as he
had ever despised the proposal, of any such thing as a resign
ation, on any confederations oftheir inability to support him.
For he had known, that they then had but lately raffed the
tuition to about twelve shillings per quarter beyond what it
had been, upon each Student, and that under the ostensible
pretext of better supporting the officers of College, of which
himfelf was one; and was able to compute that not more
than about one fifth part of that fam would furnish out a sa
lary much larger than he had ever yet received, or even ask
ed for.
Another thing he had in view by that Address, was, that
in its natural course and operation, fomenting might pofr
b y turn up in the affair, by which he might the more easily
found the feelings of the Corporation towards him, and the
better learn their views, aims and intentions, and what were
the governing springs of their conduct, and to what lengths,
and by what measures they might fti'l persist to push on the
affair of effecting a reparation; so that should any thing in
confequente show out, from which, upon principles of com
mon sense and reason, he might ground a resignation, he
might be just fied in h:s own mind and to the worldin re
fignmg---both those designs, gentlemen, wepe fatisfa^orily
answered by that Address—and though in it he was absolute,
and peremptory in refilling to resign from any inducements
before held up to view; yet in the fame, he gave not the
Itaft intimat on, that he ever thought it beyond the skill of
the Corporation to devise measures by which to reduce him
to such a condition, as that a resignation would be judged
noronly juftifiab'e, hut expedient, and even commendable
and Ji ghy necefTary for hun.
And lie apprehends it would require no very great degree
of Sagacity in any one to defciy what those now devised
measures must be, when in consequence, several of your
number, with a good degree of engagednefs and warmth,
before the who e Board, the better to freen themselves froni
the public odium in carrying their purposes into execution,
attempt the most ungenerous, as well as groundless and in
jurious insinuations to afperfe and disparage his person, fink
his reputation, and Hur and blacken his charader; and
touching such maters as (considering the ftae of the coun
try) were of the most tender and delicate kind, and might be
of the most pernicious tendency; and which they well knew
were in their nature flirted and calculated to turn the current:
01 popular clamor and resentment from themselves, to their
devoted victim —When foreffednating the fame design, they
thereupon pass such refoives as they knew would no: fail iiz
them o, era: on to make his offi.e set very uneasy upon him^
and co so reftrid h min the dfcharge of the fame, as to leave
him no power of determining even for himfelf, whether he
should or noc tie intided to a recomjen r e for more than one
hour's service through the course of the whole year;
noreven to t hat, without a mean and beggarly cohdeftenfion-
When a siege or blockading of thiskind is so clofe'y laid,
and so warmly and perfevermgly pursued, and by so formi
dab e a body—when perfonai interest, charader and repu
tation are under no fecurny from the most indelicate, invi
dious and illiberal attacks, and that even from those who
are the least acquainted the rew th; and when principles of
mutual faith and confidence fail to te the security of right:
and equity; can any one of common sense and gferetroa
hesitate for a moment, whether he shall any longer attempt:
to hold the ground, or quit the fie d, resign the fortrefs, Sur
render the garrison, and so final y give up all, and put an
end to the whole cbnteft?
Whereto on your Profefcr now begs reave, gent'emen; at
this cr sis of affairs, to avail h mfe sos that liberty, which
as a citizen of the world, as yet he retains, to be his own
executioner, in putting an end to his academical life, by burst
ing the Slender thread by which tisnow holden, and there-
I y to drtband himfe f from all further connexions with your
Reverend Body, in their relation to their Collegiate foc.ety;
by reigning his post, and quitting his place and fatten as an offi
cer in your College.
And now prays, tliatyou would henceforth confider him;
in public chara&€r, as having no connexion or relation
thereto.
Too long has he been confinedrin the pinching shackte
of valfalageto an unfeeling mailer—-too long have his un
weicome Services met with the reward' of ingratitude and
contcmpt--~too ;engrhy and too extensive an apprenticeship
has he Served, not to be so thoroughly convinced of the force -
of that adage of antiquity, " Nufquam tuta fdes," as not to
hesitate any longer, as to try ng the experiment any further.
He entertains no apprehendfions, gentlemen, that the
ruling principle ofjour Board has ever to regret it, that with
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