The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1782-04-23 00:00:00, page 1

TO BE SOLD,
A valuable FARM, lying in
Northampton, on the hill, well known by the name ofKing's
Knot. Said Farm contains upwards of three hundred acres ;
of which a considerable part is interval, and the rest excel
lent land for wheat and pasture. It is well watered ; con
tains excellent timber in plenty for fencing and other uses ;
has a convenient house on it, i, pleasantly situated on a de
feent to the foutheaft,andlies ata small distance from the great
road to Albany, Vermont, &c. five miles from Northampton,
Areafonable time will be allowed the purchafcr to make
payment, on his giving good security, and engaging to
pay incereft, in regular annual payments. —For further
particulars, enquire of MARY DWIGHT, )
TIMOTHY DWIGHT,)
Northampton, April iz, 1782.
TO be fold by the fubferiber, seventy one acres of land
with a dwelling house and shop thereon, in the town,
of Bgremont, in Berkshire county, bounding on the public
road leading from Great-Barrington to Claverack landing,
at the bank of Hudson's river. Two thirds of the said land
cleared for plowing and mowing, the other part thereof well
wooded for fuel andfencing, and about oue hundred thriv
ing apple-trees on the cleared land, part whereof bear fruit.
The place is well situated for public business, about two miles
from the meeting house, and one from a Grist Mill. Any
perfou inclining to purchase, shall have an indifpucable title
from the present owner.
JOHN FREES E.
Bgremont, March 25, 1782.
To be SOLD, and entered on immediately,
A Two Story well finished mansion House and good Barn,
with about three acres of the best of mowing Land,
with sixty bearing Apple Trees, the most of them grafted
fruit of the best kind. Said house and land is situate in
Durham, in the most pleasant and convenient part of the
town for a trader, tavern-keeper, or tradesman. Also, to be
fold, Three Acres of GOOD PASTURE, well watered and
within a quarter of a mile of said house.---An indisputable
title will be given of the whole. For terms, enquire of S.
AUSTIN, at Hartford, ELIJAH AUSTIN, New-Haven, or
AUSTIN and BATES, Middletown.
April 13, 1782.
LOST in Hartford or Ealt Windsor, last November, a Pay
Table Order, on John Lawrence, Elq; Treasurer, for
twenty-three pounds in favour of Licut. Seth Smith, to be
paid out of the zl6d tax, grantedin May last. Whoever has
found it and will leave h with William Wolcott, Efq;ofEalf
Windsor, or the Committee of Pay-Table, in Hartford, or
with faidSmith in Suffield, shall receive a handsome reward.
All persons are desired not to receive the above said order
as the owner has received no value for it.
THE Select-Men otthe towns of Ashton, Branford, BarK
herafted, Cornwall, Canaan, Colebrook, Fairfield,
Greenwich, Goshen, Harwinton, Hartland, Kent, Lebanon,
Litchfield, New-London, Norwalk, New-Milford, New-
Hartford, Preston, Pomfret, Reading, Ridgefield, Suftield,
Somers, Stonington, Stamford, Salisbury, Stafford, Tolland,
Torrington and Union, are requeued to make return of the
amount of fapplies to Officers and Soldier's families in their
refpe&ive towns serving in the Continental Army, from the
firft day of January 1781, co the firft day of January 1782.
The returned be trade co the Committee at Farmington by
the 23d inftanr, as adelay beyond that day will retard a fet
tlemcnt, and oblige the Committee to fend for them at the
expence of any negleding town —Where no supplies have
been made it is necessary the Committee should oe informed
thereof.
JAMES WADSWORTH,'
EXPERIENCE STORRS. ; commie ß
N. B. The feveraf Printers in this State are desired to in
fect this in dbeir next papers.
Farmingtun, April 12, 1782.
Clothier’s Press Papers,
Of an Excellent Quality, to be Sold by the
Gross or Dozen, by the Printers hereof.
S FOR T'S MAN.
THE Dapple Grey Horse, cut of the famous Old Ranger,
so much famed for fine colts, will cover this season, at
theftable of Landlord Afahel Wadsworth in Farmington, at
a price and upon conditions asreafonAble as the times are
hard. The excellencies offaid horse are so well known he
reeds no further description.
N. B. Pawning for MARES may be had ve^ reasonable
^ the above piece,
WFFKIY 11CTW IGWC PR
HAR<rF 0 R D : Printed by H UDSON and G OODWIN, near the Great Bridge
TUESD
LONDO N, November 27'.
H OUS E of P EER S.
An account of Lord Shelburne's speech on the reading the ad
drep of thank, moved for by Lord Southampton
After Lord Southampton and Lord kValjingham had done freak,
ing, the Earl of Shelburne rose, and with his usual method,
precision and elearnefs anfwerod as follows, to the speakers in
favour of the address.
66 T CAN perfe&ly imagine how a prince, who is still
young, whole fenfibilit, is equal to his courage,
whose generous, noble and elevated foul, equally open to
the sentiments of honor, and to those of commiseration,
was affeded with the calamities which diftreis his people,
less perhaps than his own misfortunes or losses ; how the
monarchofagreatpeople, who burlately was the firft mo
narch in the world, feeing the edifice of the height of his
glory, of his elevated profpemy, tumbling down with a
furprizing rapidity,fuch as mltory prefects to as no example:
I comprehend, Ifay, how a prince in such circumstances,
deriving his constancy even from the midlt of his disap
pointments, hides from the view of hisfubjed, unde r the veil
of an encouraging smile, the anguish of his foul, and vhilft
his people partake of the accumulated calamities which
surround the throne, afTumes a dignity and serenity of
countenance, which direst them how co act, and invite
them to adopt like behaviour.
" But as it is universally known, that the speech deliver
ed from the throne, is the speech of the minilters ; as we
have been used from time immemorial to confidcr it as
such; that which as the genuine declaration of the prince
would appear natural and even engaging, becomes quite
otherwise when considered as their work. They havetaken
advantage of the knowledge which their filtration lias fur
nished, of learning the intimate femiroents of their master,
to fabricate, as well as they were able, a speech, the best
calculated to flatter those sentiments: But in so doing,
they have not confuted biftory, which would have told
them, that in all times, in every country, the minitterwho
has not vigour enough to withstand the influence which
arises in council from a knowledge of the private wishes
of the prince, if a bad miniftcr.
" Besides, to what does the speech tend ? What is its
te or ? We may call it the lamentation of the ministry,
upon calamities to which they gave birth : Viewed ia this
light, we should expedto fee some plan proposed co put an
end to the calamities, which are deplored. No such thing,
we are only urged to continuation, on aggravation of mis
fortunes. We are told that a resolution is taken to go on
with the war ! What is the aim of the address to which we
are invited to fubferibe? Is it not to give our content to
confcerate to our solemn approbation, this resolution, which
offers us only this continuation, this aggravation of cala
mities. It is true that as far as they can, they offer us as a
fort of recompence for the disappointments which they
could not avoid mentioning, the fortunate turn of our af
fairs in India have taken. I confefs that I do not under
hand what India has to do with the speech, or what is to be
had from that part of the world, that will give us any relief
from the mortifications and rcal losses we meet with every
where else.
" The noble Lord who seconded the motion, fays that
Hyder Ally Mas been repulfcd by Sir Eyre Coote. I lay it
down as a fad that no one in government has received any
thing authentic of this nature. But supposing that our
troops under Sir Eyre Coote hriVe lately been fuccefsful,
I can declare from the best authority, and the iqoft posi
tive, that many years will not foffice to repair the ravages
ofHyder Ally in his interruption into the Carnatic. /Ben
gal and the immense refourecs ofthat province, are spoken
of in most pompous terms ; we are taught to believe ma
ny fine things, that the whole extent of it is a mine of gold,
from which we may dig treasure at our pleasure ; that we
need but Stoop and pick it up. After these fancies one
would be tempted to think that the treasury of Bengali is
full, however vast it may be; not at all : There is Q,ta
shilling in the treasury of Bengal ? This so far otherwise,
that tho' India in general be a mine of gold, an inexhausti
ble source of riches, though the revenues thereof arc by
virtue of territorial possession reputed by ours, yet by reason
ofmifcondu& and bad administration, far from yielding
us a crown, this country is become an insupportable bur
den. Every thing there is lupporred by Great-Britain ;
government, the establishments civil and military, nothing
there would cxift,if the funds of this island had hot greater
resources than those of Bengal; so that lean tee nothing
in India to relieve ns under the difalters elsewhere which we
deplore. Ah ! From whence can we expe& consolation ?
'' We have now been thirteen years engaged in this de
ph ole difpure, in which we have loft two whole armies.
I fay thirteen years, foi I recblleCtth&t in 1768 (having the
honor then to be in office) it was proposed to lend over two
regiments to General Gage, and it may be ©numbered,
A Y
, April 23, 1782.
that my opinion was that they be fenr, but that the use of
them should be left to the diferetion of the General, so that:
he might fend them back if he did not need' them.
The opinion of my colleagues was that at all events they
should continue in America. Numbers carried it, and the
regiments were sent. From thattime; I foretold the fatal
events, which naturally followed from this fatal measure.
^ n *77), the affairs of Lexington and Bunker's-hill, be
came the fenals of carnage. It is now seven years, that
the unhappy fubje&s of a divided and convoked empire
have not ceased to cut one anothers throats. What have
we accomplished ? What has been the fruit of so much
bloodshed ? What have we got by all this ? Nothing !
What do I fay, a great deal worse than nothing ! Our losses:
are immense, and we are at this day in a situation infinite
ly more critical than we were when the war commenced.
More than 80,000 men have been fucceflivcly sent over to
America ; not one returned : and this at the cost of too
millions Herling; foolishly wafted in executing ill digelled
plans, without connediou or objed, we fcarceiy possess a
hope that our national debt will hop short of the point-or
inevitable bankruptcy. In 1775, t^ millions were voted
for this unfortunate service; of what use were they V What
good refultcd to Great -Britain from tty dilbmfement ? A
competitive good ! We were less unliftty the fi.lt year than
afterwards; we payed less and were less krirt. In 1776,
five millions were voted. What did you get by them ?
Your affairstook a more unfavourable turn, more alarming
than in the year preceding. The next season the fame sum
of live millions, the lame use, fame fruit ; you meft have
seen that your alLurs held a regular rctrogade pregfefs. In
177'8 the burden increased, was doubled at once ; fen mil
lions were become ucceffay; hut yen had fomuthing for
your money ; you had the capitulation ofofotega ; the
year following two millions more were required. You
voted twelve millions to put an cud to the wir. France
metyour grants by coming into the war. You Loft a pare
of your Welt-India inlands. In 1780, again twelve mil
lions. Spain increased your means of expenditure by
joining France. The next year, once morctwelve millions.
This year was marked by the loss of the only natural ally
which you had; by the loss of Tobago, and lately by tha'e
of a brave army, a brave general, who tike as at Saratoga,
was facrificed to the want of abilities, the wild, ill concert
ed fehemes of adminihration. I fay to the want of ability,
for our defeats arc evidently from that defc& The fame,
blunders, the fame want of connexion, combination, and
fyltem,havc led to like catastrophe in the case of General
Burgoyne and Lord Cornwallis. Administration has never
had before it a regular and general plan ; never has its
views risen above the details of a particular expediton-
Hence the dispersion of the forces weakness eyery where,
when had they been collected, they had formed an arrow
too formidable for the Americans to oppose for want of
numbers. All this is proved by fa&s knownto all theworld.
What was the destitution of the army through the cam
paign ? At New-York 13,000 men, scarcely foffieient to de
fend the place. Five rhoufand at CharleEowu so pent up,
that scarcely dare an officer to ride a mile without the works,
and where we hold net an inch of territory. l ord Corn
wallis had 7000 in Virginia so injudiciously dispersed were
these small detachments, that they could not come together,
nor sustain each other. Nothing was done on this fiile, till
our enemy appeared, and forced this General to capitulate-
Having before us such multiplied proofs of the inability of
the miscondu& of administration, is it poflible that 1 can
concur in measures which can only rcfult in a copy of the
diftrefsful pidure which! have been sketching ? But'.if from
North- America, we turn ro the Weft-Indies, what do we tec
but difalters, and difalters caused by faults.
" The most previous of all our faults is this? we never go
before the French, we follow them throughout. Thus we al
ways arrive too late, and if we go on thus, we shall find a.
Chefapeak every where ; at Barbadoes ; at Jamaica, in c~
very island we have left. We shall find a Chefapeak at
Plymouth ; in a word, I should not be surprised, if we meet
a Chefapeak in the Thames. I have charged administra
tion hitherto u ith inability. Is it oriy guilty of inability ?
May we nor reproach it with robbery ? Will not the con
&& of administration towards Ho land jnftify this re
proach ? Did not their difguiled condu& towards the States
General bear ftrorg marks of perfidy, when from pretend
edTcfentments it broke out in a shameful furprize,and whin
is worse without eff &, without fruit? I do not know, but, I
think that if I were to nd rhe thief, I would play the part t<t
ome purpose I would be a thorough robber. I would
do fomethirig brilliant rd repay the (caudal of perfidy, sup
posing such an emulariop in the cabinet when the ministry
broke with the Dutch, I • hou!d have exped d theft j 7 u rr of
Ceylon ; no such thing Icwas St. Euftatius that they fafter
cd upon.
'! You ranft recoiled, my Lords, that when, last season,
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