The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1780-12-12 00:00:00, page 1

To be SOLD, Wholesale and Retail,
At STAFFORD FURNACE,
(Which is now in BLAST)
POTS and Kettles of different fizee. Tea Ket
tles, Bake Pane, Spiders, Skellets, Flat Irons,
Cart, Waggon, and Chaise Boxes, Shot, Clatheti'a-
PuiStoyes, &c. &c +
ALSO, SCARLET, blue and London brown
Broadcloths, Coatings, green blue and yellow Baizes,
Sb^^cns, Hairbines, black Listings, blick Alemode
and P/ce% black Lace, black & colour'd Bacelcna,
Romans arid Gauze Handkerchiefs, black & colour'd
Ribbons, black and white figur'd Gauzes, Millene't,
Skeleton Wire, 78 and yard wide Irish Linens,
Diepert. Cambricks, sewing Silk, fine Thread, Pins,
Twist, gilt end plated Buttons, Kims and Forks,
Jack and Pen Knives, Backfkin Beches, Leather
Gloves, Felt Hatty Meri's Shots, Writ ng Paper,
Ifo§ea Tc.l, by the hundred or dozen. Rum, Sugar,
Coffee. Chocola'e, Alfpice, Pepper, Indian, Peek,
Lisbon ,rd homemade Salt, hard Soap ; likewise a
general AObr rate Earthen Ware.
TIMOTHY PHELPS.
Stafford, November 20, 1780.
TTa^^FORD AND WOODFORD.
TH 6 Proprietors of Stamford, in the State of
Vermont, are notified to m?M at the house of
Mr. Richard Hamlin, in Middletown, on the third
Wednefduy of December infant, at two o'clock in
the aftetnaon : And the Proprietors of Woodford, in
said State, ^ denied to meet at frid place, on the
fourth Wednesday of December ini. at two o'clock
in the afternoon ; to-hear the report of the Agent,
who hath been to tranfaA the b ifinefs offrid Propri
etors ; end to do any other bnfinefs proper to be
done when met.,
A Tax of Twenty Shilling, in Silver, mi laid
cm each original right, by the Proprietors ofStamford,
at their left teetdug ; and the Ten Pound Rate, in
Continental Money, laid at different times by the
Piopri^OT of Woodford ; which meft^be paid to
the Sabfcdh%% in value equal to what money was
when granted. The Proprietors of Stamford and
Woodford, re netted, that oolefi said t^xi are
p&id very soon, so much of their lands will be fold
0 will „y f,id taxes with incident charges;
Fourteen Hundred Acres of good L&nd, in the
town of Hi!!lb x<uigh, in the Suit cf New-Hamp
fh;re, to he fold io hundred acre lots or more : AKo
reed @CTmmis,t3t given to fettle theft lands.
Rmqteireof
BENJAMIN HENSHAW.
Middle^wh, December 4. 1780.
To be Sold at the South Door hinder the
Printing-Office,
BEST China Cup and Saucer#, colour'd and
black Sdh Handkerchiefs, bbek S^tin. Flow
aged Gauz% Bchea Tea, Ram, Sugar, Coffee, (>o
c^B, !%',', Applet; Nuimgs, Rice. Indigo,
Powder, %$ Card; Pius, Waiting Paper, IWi
Furniture hi Dcfk% Knives and Forks, 7 by 9.
Glass, &, &c.
N. B. '^ Li, heft price in Cash or any of the
above mic'^ jrta for Ud D^feur fitter, at the
gb©¥<;pL"'"•
° All persons indebted to the
Printers of this Paper, rity^fyecoant* are of m^rx
than one year# finding, ^^fogac^d to info im
mediate payment ; efptfity^ge ^o have a^a
trafted to pay in the necessaries ^^^
The Price of the Connecticut mNT for
the ensuing year will be Ten Shillings in Silver,
or the exchange in Piper Currency. Theft who
Incline to pay in Produce, at the old prices, mil
have the Papers continued to them at until.
If any chafe not to continue fubfcribm on the
above terms (which is lower than the neceffarics of
lift) they are desired to calland fettle their accounts
and discontinue their Papers.
Printing Office, Hartford, December 5, 1760.
HARTFOR Dt PRINTED by HUDSON amb GOODWIN, mrar the Great-Bridge:
TUES D~A Y, December 12, 1,80. T H^ NUMBER $29.
CONNECTICUT C O'U RANT,
AND THE
WEEKLY IN TELL 1 G ENC E K.
A Fifth ESSAY on FREE TRADE and
FINANCE.
[Concluded frem our laft.}
BUT, before I quit this fubjeß, I beg leave to add
one tho't more, which appears to ire ofthe must
capittl importance, viz. That no plan of taxation,
or any thing ch>, era be of any good effict, ifthcre
is not some method adopted to bring all the States
into A UNION AND PUNCTUALITY OF EXECUTION.
The lead company of men, who have a common
concerns if it is but in a 'hip or piece of bank'd
meadow, find it abfolwel, and effeotmly necessary
to have forne way to cot, el tb^r partners into a
punAual difehai^ of thik quoas. The very dx:f-
Unce of our union r&q^fre this. If one fete hangs
back, another will, and the he£ concerted plan
p^ble, may be rendered ife&Anal by delays and
IfeAs in the execution. 'Yis eihuthl to the very
bring of any independent', immunity, that it has in
it all the pewers necessary to it, own petfervation,
T nrfe powers doublets et^ in the Thirteen States,
a# p~ftaiy as^i any biker community in the world.
And though I don't preth d to underhand the con
lite ion cf our union well trough to decide where
these powers lie ; ,et I fopofe they mafl be vetted
in the Congee fa, as I knor no powers which ex end
ever the whole, but theirs. B tis bis thought t^t
these powers are not feffichndy explicit and declar
ed to be in them, 'tis necitTary that this declaration
should be made without delay; and put into Tech
free as it abfolutefy nierfoy to give tffta to our
public council, preserve 'he union, and concenter
the force cf the whole, and prevent that deftru&ion
which may cnf<e for want of such union of effort
for the common fafety. n'it *4s pofftk far fitch
tardy Rates to go to dedraaion kiting, without drag
ging the rift astir tham, it mi,t he bid to difh^fs
them from the uniowwith contempt. Brit as this
can't be done, bis ifteffaty to the pee Nivation cf
the whole, that some means be fotind to compel
such states to Fee, pare With their neighbours, and
bear their dt e prepurti® of the barren and duty, as
well as receive their share of prottAion and beneffi.
In fine, we want nothin, but united x d spirited
efforts for a short timr, to rrftetr car mia cfc e^a
bliffi pur currency, retrieve OUT hoacur, tenure our
fafety, give vigour to every kind cf b's fineft and oc
cepatfen, recover dur virtue, and nahe ourselves the
laudable and envied example of Tfifdom and hsppi
nefe to all tie world. Our pohri , expeA and
have a tight to demand this from ni. The %.?r
eyes of all Europe are on us, ready to give their
plaudit to ocr virtue, drcifipn and fuccefa. Our
enemies tremble, for star we mould ©c^ wife *; d
virtuous; abd heaven r.pama the fewe .f^vetr/uy,
and has given us the lucky cede, which we have
nothing to do, but play cut ydL
Et dubitamus ad re vircubem cxiendgre fiais,
Aut me^us Lac lihe% prohibit cenfiftere terra.
Philadelphia, 30th March, 1,80.
F I N I S.
'R^HMOT^ 78"
Extra& cf a letter, dated Portsmouth,
November 16.
, Ths morning myftlf and two others
entered the town of Portfmculh, the
town totally evacuated : from the gene
ral conjecture of the inhabitants of Ports
month, it is judged, they are going up
James river, the works Landing net com
pleated ; the vessels captured net carried
away,the r cerecs not admitted on board :
whole legioi of negroes on these plains
seemed diflrcled.”
WILLIAMSBURG, Nov. 18.
We have just received the following
intelligence, viz. That the enemy have
been able to obtain of this melancholy e
vent is brought by captain Yellot, who
arrived at Baltimorean Tuesday last from
St. Eußatia: this is but imperfect, but
may serve to give us some small idea cf
the dreadful feenes the unfortunate islan
ders have experienced^ The account is as
follows : " St. EuSatiu', O^. 30.
<c At'Barbados the greater cart of the
town blown down ; upwards of 3000
persons perished ; net one vessel fayed ex
cept some that got to sea, arid a great part
of the inland wash'd away.„ln Grenada,
much damage done to the eflates ; not
one ve lel &ved except some that got out
to sea. At St. Vincenti a transport with
three hundred foidiers, two fouls only sa
ved; a frigate of 36 guns, 340 men, one
man laved. At_ Marunico, every vessel
at St. Piste's drove to sea et on shore ;
some cf them have got in here, feme ta
ken, feme loft : there were upwards
of one hundred fail at St. Piere's,
forty of which arrived from France
the day before the gale, with stores for
the king. At Dominica, much damage
to the elates, the houses near the water
mostly ruined 'No accounts from St
Lucia, Guadaloupe, or Antigua, but sup
pose they have had neighbour's fare. At
Nevis no .vessels saved, and much damage
done to the illand. At St. Chriflopher's,
26 fail of vessels and their cargoes loft,
with the greatest part of their crews :
some of the vessels were ready to fail for
Eur ope. In this Tand feveu vessels drove
ashore ; the men on board were either
drowned in the furf or cut to pieces with
the wrecks ;'force were loft on St. Croix,
some got in there, and many, I believe,
went to the bottom, It was the highest
sea ever known here."
Saturday night arrived the brigantine
Black -Prince, captain Rebinfon, after a
entirely evacuated Portsmouth ; that th c
whole of their Heel, to the number of 60
odd fail, were ' yed^t&j • anchored in
Hampton road, and that a party of our
light horfc U^t ^0 Portsmouth last
Thqtf^W^'„„
W^F not near what mifehief the ene
my have done at Portsmouth, except
their old trade, a few bloody battles with
the horned tribe, sieges against hog pens, #
and violent assaults upon hen roosts.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28.
Since our last arrived here the brig
Fame, captain M'Clenachan, from St.
Eußatia, and fchdoner Emelia, captain
Dickenfon, from Cape Francois; by which
Vessels we have a confirmation of the ac
count mentioned in our last of a dreadful
hurricane having, about the middle of
Odober, spread almost uqiv^far devasta
tion throughout the Weftftidia islands.
The most particular account we have