The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1783-09-02 00:00:00, page 3

PHILADELPHIA, August 2®.
An article id a late English paper, dated Vienna, M.;y 13,
fays, “ The Emperor has appointed M. Pelicu to be his mi
nister in North America, in order to conclude a treaty of
commerce between the heriditary dominions of bis Impe
rial M<j:Ry, and that new republic."
We are informed that on Thursday last, the honorable
the Cangrefs resolved, that Princeton should be the place
oftheir deliberations until the question for fixing their per
mintrc residence should be determined, which will be the
begining of Oft doer next.
Monday afternoon the ship Coferefs, Capt. Geddes, ar
rived here in fix weeks from Amsterdam.—Nine days be
fore she failed M. Van Berkel, Ambassador from Holland
c, America, left the Tcxel in a 6, gun ship, with two
frigates and a cutter, bound to Philadelphia ---The treaty
of peace between Holland and England was nor concluded,
nor was there any relaxation in Holland from the means of
a renewal of hostilities, altha' peace was looked npon'as
certain.—lt was reported and believed that the Empress oft
Ruflia had declared war against the T^ks.
Id 0 ST 0 N, September 4.
Friday arrived here a ship from Copenhagen (Denmark) and
yefterda, arrived a brig from the Weft-Indies and another from
Virginia.
Between two and three o' clock, on Friday morning last, a barn,
occupied by Mr, Crane wharfinger, near Oliver's dock, was dis.
covered to be on fire, and before any affifance coald^ofybly bebad,
was burnt to the ground, together with the hay, four horses, and
all the horfe-tackfing— The flames had communicated to four or
five other barns, taring in its course the dwelling-House of Mr.
Jeremiah Rugell, which were also consumed, together with a
quantity of hay, some carriages and five more horses. — Theflames
then conght the large and elegant fore of the Hon. William
Phillips, Esq; which was entirely confined, together with a con
siderable quantity of merchandise.
The engine company of the town of Roxbury, with their engine,
came to our assistance, with their afial fprit and alacrity.
^s two men (one by the name of Mofcs Bailey, whose wife and
daughter was near him) just landed in town from Hanover about
ao miles from hence, were puffing the rums, a flacf of chimnsu
unfortunately failing at that infant burned the two men in the
rubbish, whereby Mr. Baily died immediately ; the life of the
other is difpaired of,
^imong the losses fiftained by this unhappy event, we sannot ]
help mentioning that of Mr Rwfeil-- -as this is the second time 1
of his being burnt out, and losing great part of his furniture by 1
fire. —- Add to this, his being in a low fate of health, renders bis j
misfortune peculiarly unhappy.
During the time of the above fire, some villian or vilUans made 1
an attempt to brake open the fore of Mr. William Softer; but|
hearing the paying and repaying of people they definedf'om their *
diabolical purpose— Which causes afafpeion in many, that the I
above fire was not accidental. l
PROVIDENCE, August 23.
Extract of fleeter from a gentleman in Princeton (New-j
Jersey) to his friend in this town, dated, July 29.
“ This day has been ratified inCongrefr, a Treaty of A m-1
it, and Commerce between the United States and the King ,
of Sweden. This Treaty was concluded at Parrs the 3d of ;
last April, and signed by Dr. Franklin, who was conftitmedl
Minister Plenipotentiary for that purp< ft, by n Commiffimf
issued the Bth of September sass, in behalfofthe United States, ;
and by Count Guitavus Phi lip de Creutx, Mmifter Pienipo-}
tentiary in behalf afthe King of Sweden.
“ This Treaty, like chafe with France and Holland, has
for its basis the mod perfed equality and reciprocity ;rnd for
its ebje&, the mutual benefits ^dadv^ntage of both nations."
Extras of a letter from Princeton, dated July 30.
“ General Howe, who bad the command of the troops
detached from the army to go to Philrdelphia, in order to'
bring to condign punishment the mutineers in that city, has
proceeded in apprehending and examining the principal of
fenders, whole to ds are now going on before a court-mar
tial constituted for that puipofe. Such dfthe threeyears
men under his command as shall not be longer necefiary to
effe& the purposes for which they were detached, arc to re
turn to the army,"
HARTFOR D, September 2.
On Monday the 2„h ult. at 4 o'clock P. M. there arose a
violent gust of wind, attended with rain, hail, thunder and
lightning, which did considerable damage in this and the
neighbouring towns. A hack of chimneys, in the new house
of Mr. Imlay, was blown down, which damaged the roof in
falling— The bacony and ele&rical rod were torn from rhe
Distillery, and carried fcveral hundred yards into the river,
where 50 or do feet of the rod were loft. Great numbers of
fruit trees, in orchards and gardens, were blown down or
broken by the violence of the wind. Several , rchards are
almost destroyed. The hail-stones were so large in We
thersfield, as to break the windows, by which means the
houses are considerably injured. Happily the hurricane laft
eft but a few moments, and we do not learn that the light
ning, which was more frequent and terrible than has been
known for several years, has done any damage.
Itis worthy of remark, that we have experienced more
hot weather and violent ftorins, the summer pad, than have
been known for many years. Early in the summer, a storm
of hail did much damage in Philadelphia by the breaking
of glass in houses that fronted the weft. At MorriftoWn, in
New-Jerfev,a hurrlane unroofed twelve or fourteen houses,
hurled people from their horses, by which federal were
much bruised. At Petersham, in Maffachufets, there was
a most tremendous storm, during which it is laid, the light
ning struck, in and about the town, in near an hundred
places. In Vermont there were prodigious rains early in
summer, which fofwelLd a large river which Empties into
the lake, that it forfook its old channel, and wore a new one
to such a der h, that large trees whi h were undermined by
rhe stream, hung by their roots with their tops towards the
water.- During the hot weather, 30 or 40 persons in Phi
ladelphia have died suddenly by drinking too free y ofco'd
water. This is at firft fur,wiling, as the mercury is never
known to rife so high in the thermometer at Philadelphia
as it does in extreme weaher at Hartford—This is a known
Fala: —Yet as the heat is more constant, both day and night
at Philadelphia, the mercury Hands Upon an.average at lead
pen degrees higher than at ;Hartford. This will account for
the more dangerous effects ofwater upon -yeifons atPhila
delphia; for it is not the extremity of heat for a few hours,
bur the continuance of it that produces fatal effects upon the
human body.
Excellent IVeft-India Rum, Sugar and Salt, to be Sold. Apply to Norman Butler, near the Great Bridge, Hartford,
On the 2^ of May, the budget was was opened hi the
House of Commons, by Lord Cavendish, when a great num
ber of taxes were pronofed; the following is the most re
markable : ' c The last tax proposed by his Lordship was a
duty upon every marriage, every birth and every burial.
He then moved, that threepence per head he laid upon all
persons married, all infants born, and all persons buried,
whi hhe estimated at twenty-five thousand pounds." We
may reasonably conclude, that the people of Britain are
groaning under the highest degree of oppression, when they
are taxed for being born and taxed for dying !
We hear that last Tuesday the Delegates from the Mer
chants and Retailers in the counties of Hartford,New Haven,
New-London, Windham and Litchfield, met at Middletown,
and agreed on a petition to the Honorable Legislature of
this State, praying for a repeal of the Excise A@, and re
quelling an Impeftto be laid in the place of it --Also, re
questing that the laws regulating Trade might be reviled,
and proper regulations made for infpe&ing and ascertain
ing the quality of all articles offered for sale and exportati
on, and that suitable encouragement be given to fich bran
ches of our trade, as will keep the circulating money from
going our of the State.
Last Wednesday the Wife of Mr. Ephraim Fisk, of Kil
ling worth, was delivered of Four prornifing children, two
Sons and two Daughters, which weighed in all twenty-four
pounds and three-quarters.
Recciptof Continental Taxes from the State of Connecticut'
For the month of August 1783, received 8651 Dollars.
H. MERRILL,
Receiver of Taxes for Connedicut.
Proceedings of the town of Southington in our next.
Oom trot Ttcratw. .** <*»"——W».<
, Messieurs P RINTER S,
IWAS much furprized at looking over your last Paper, to
find, that a General Convention of the State was adver
ofed to be holden at Middletown, on the 3d day of Septem
ber next, and that it appeared to originate from the town of
Har ford. Whoever is acquainted with the measures adopt
ed to procure the Town Meeting, holden in this town on the
21st instant, and the opposition maac co the appointment of
the Committee, cannot but be surprised ch^t they should ap
pear to approve or promote ^General Convention of the
State—much less hand at the head of such a measure. The
Committee were appointed ' go make a draft, to lay before
' this town, at their next meeting, deviling the most candid
6 and constitutional method of.addrefs, to be laid before
' the legislature, for some relief and e.afe from the public
c burthens, viz. Commutation, &c.' Its true, after much
altercation and dispute, they were voted a Committee of
Coiref; ondence with any other Town on the fame fubje&.—
I would Query with the Committee of the Town ofHartford,
Whether they do not themselves believe, they have exceed
ed the bounds of their authority, in calling a General Con
vencion of the State ? Whether they confider themselves
as authorfed to attend said Convention in behalf of this
town ?-—-Whether said Convention can answer any other
purpose than uniting in a general plan of turning out of the
Legislature such men as are supposed to approve the mea-|
fures of Cong refs,and appoint ochers of opposite sentiments?
— Whether they have not been (as a Committee) seduced
into this measure by one of the Committee of a neighbour
ing town?
Mn Inhabitant of the Town of Hartford.
August 30, 1783.
Meffi'rs PRINTERS,
Please to infest the following,
A POLITICAL CREED, humbly dedicated to the inhabi
tants of Geefeburrow, by their friend and most obedient,
AnOFFICE R.
"° VW™ believe chat Congress have a Sovereign indepen-
W dent power in and over the States, and chatbecaufe
by their wife refdlves the fortunes of the officers arc render
ed independent, therefore that they arc infallible in all ca
ses whatever, and that their decrees arc irrevocable.
2. We believe that the old cor, principle of passive obe
dience and non-refiftince to the powers chat be, be they
dependent on whom they will, is the only true criterion of
political orthodox/, andthat all those who dispute the ab
solute supremacy and infallibility offuch powers, arc in a
State of anarchy and guilty of high treason.
3. We believethac hdf-pay is not a pension ; tft. Becanfe
it was an extra pay extorted from Congress b, meie dint of
fear, while the arm, were in service, over and above what
Congress had eyerengaged or the officer expected, to be
granted after service was end: 4 . 2d. Because people did
not oppose it two or three years before they knew it. 3d.
Because penfien is a magic ward to conjure up a Spirit of
fadion and difunian,and alarm people to aronfe themselves
in opposition to tyranny and oppression, and likewise that
five years pa, is not a pension, because it is net half-pay.
4. We believe that confederation is something very
Strange and magic, that a whole caravan of legislators,
camp officers and pensioners ma, caper on ij, ever run it,
and tread it under foot, wicboutthe leaSt damage ; but that
the mere whisper <fa courier, farmer greatly endangers its
deftruaion; ic is a web that will carry the political fpiderto
boundless lengths, but entangles the inductions bee at the
mouth of his own hire.
5. We believe that the customs of European courts are
wih and politic because they introduce tyranny and oppres
sion, make officers pensioners, get all landed property into
few men's h^nd^, make government hereditary in their
posterity, keep a Standing army for their proteaion, and
rake away all means of defence from common people,
therefore they ought to be immediate!: established in Ame
rica, before the inhabitants are recruited from the tails of
wa".
6. We believe that men in oSE e cannot a& tyrannically,
because their power is not hereditary, and te be jealous of
the power of those who are determined to make indepen
dent fortunes while in office, be the term lo^ or short, i:
inarch, *nd rebellion, and because people efir'e to fo'fil
,h? engagements they never authorised Cungrefs to make,
argues they never intends® pa, thofr debts which Corgrefs
were delegated to co trad, and because they refuse to pay
rhfeontraa with the , ffieers three or four times ovet there
fore they never intend to pay any public debt at all.
7. We believe that the deliverance es the country from
& Itish Stiver,, is intirel, owing to the officer, that nobod,
else gave them an, affiflance at all, that the people would
have been Slaves to Britain had it not been for the officers,
and feeing the people must be Slaves to fomebod,,it is much
belt for them to be Slaves to Americans, ift, Because Ame
ricans have as good a right and as ftreng inclinations to be
tyrants as any in Europe. 2d. Because Slaves condud much
best in their masters presence, who can cudgel them co their
duty at the moment of tranfgrefliur ; and though the offi
cers share all the profits of independence; yet it oughtto be
published, that the, are quite disinterested in it, and though
the people muff be e: Slaved by independence, yet they are
in a way to receive all the benefits of it. therefore it is con
stitutional, just and equitable for the officer to extort what
colledion he pleases, and embezzle what money he pleases
and that the devil is in the people for trying to prevent it.
8. We believe that Conges have published particular
Ratings of all expenditures of public money, because the,
have not Stated any account of the expenditure of one Single
penny, and that the Affemlly have given accounts of all ex-,
penditu es, because they have given accounts that very
great fams have been expended, for the expenditure of
which no accounts are given ; that Congress have publish
ed ftatings fur which all debts were contrast'd, because
they have Rated very large debts, but for whit they were
contrasted, no accounts are given ; and Assembly have giv
en accounts for what puipofe all taxes were granted, but
that the money was partly embezzled in collecting, and the
rest es it attributed to purposes for which no accounts are
given.
9. We believe that five years pay is an eminent fugaci
ous plan, it is calculated to atfwer compleatl, all good
purposes of government ; and though it is a bad bargain
for chat rebellious herd the common people, and tends di
rc&ly to destroy all their influence ; yet that isthe ver,
reason why itis so g®od a bargain, and because it must cast
off its own natural force, and as a precedent produce those
diftisaiens among men, so absolutely necefiry for the cx
iftance of true tyrannical government.
10. We believe it is truly politic and very neceffar, to
make ninety-nine hundredths of the people bankrupts, to
prevent national bankruptcy, and to double our obligations
to a few individuals, and depreciate them thirty-nine for
tieths to every bed* clfe, to preserve national faith.
11. We believe that fraud and mifreprefentetion, how
ever deteftible of themselves, arc really necessary in go
vernment, and that a tax of a copper on the pound, as
things are now Squared, will pay a much larger sum than
the iamenumber of dollars.
12. We believe that the people in the States are all blind
^nd deaf, the, can neither fee through impervius walls, nog
hear whispers of men at forty miles distance, they are ah
ignorant beobics, for they cannot know the principles of
men who never speak only in private.
We believe that the inhabitants of Geefeburrew are all
complect politicians, and that the best way to prevent the
publication of truth and sincerity, is mifreprefantation, ri
dicule and fat,re; and that the specimen lately given b,
Mr. Quick Gander, of his eminent skill in falshood and
mifreprefentatien, and of bis ftabilit, as a man who never
flutters only when he is hit, highly merits our attention
and his Continuing in office. Ail these things we unani
morfly believe now and forever, Amen.
Marine Office of the Unitea Stales,
August 5, 1783.
The Public are hereby informed, that on the twenty-fifth
da, ofSeptember next,
WILL BE SOLD by PUBLIC VENDUE, at Middletown, in
Conneaicut.
The new CONTINENTAL FRIGATE
BOURBO N,
As she came off the stocks, together with such STORES and
RIGGING as may be at that place belonging to her. On
paying the sum she shall be struck off at, to Cape. THOMAS
READ, at anv time before the fiift day of Odober, he will
deliver possession to the purehafer.
Cash, Bank Notes or the Notes of the Financier will be
received in payment.
By order of the Agent of Marine. \ b
JAMES READ, Sec'ry.
The DIMENTIONS of the above FRIGATE.
Feet Inches;
Length of the keel strait rabbg 117 6
Breadth of the beam on the lowtr deck from )
inside to cut ) 84 10
Ditto on the gun deck - - -31
Depth of the hold from plank to plank - 10 10
Heighth between decks - - - 6
Waiß - - - _ - 5 10
length on the lower deck from stem to stern 130
Ditto on the gun deck - - - 136
Quarter deck - - - - 68 ig
Fore castle ditto ...
L I S T OF STORE S.
I Bower Anchor, weight 32 hundred. 1 Scream ditto 12 do;
1 Cable 17 inches. 1 Ditto 17 ditto 1 Old&wfer. 2 Cat
Blocks. APircel ditto with ft me iron Straps on. 1 Main
Yard 75 feet. 1 Fore ditto 70. 1 Spare ditto 70, 3 Top
Sail Yards 51 each. 1 Crolsjack ditto 51. 1 Main Cap.
I Fore ditto, 1 Mizen ditto. 2 Beam Irons. Checks for
main and tore Matt. Ttvffels and Cross Trees for ditto.
3 Iron Pots. 4 Barrels Tarr. 1 Ditto Turpentine. 1 Ditto
Pitch. 3 Ditto Turpentine bail'd down. 3 Pumps, 2 of
them fitted 1 Hawte Lead, 387 and half. 40 Water Casks,
wood bound. 18 Water Buckets.
THOMAS READ.
At the fame time and place,
WILL BE SOLD, A Number of valuable
M ASTS and SPAR S,
From twenty-tight inches down to twelve, three Topfaile;
an Anchor about nine Hundred weight, ard a compleat fey
of careening Blocks, to be paid lor ondeliver, as above.
Thfale to begin at 4 o'clock, at Mrs Bigelow's :—] he,
may be viewed rt any time.
By order of the Agent of Marine,
THOMAS READ, N. U. S,
Middletown, August 1,, 1783.