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th#! ft OEpfaiH In&fib!y„faps and mortify our
wr!h before ft know it ;it opr let like a flow
poking which is certain death; and more painful
though more flow arid lingering than the sadden ex
ecution ofthe bailor fwo.d. Indeed I look on ill
lafenfible taxes to be highly dangerous} a fatal in
fiance of which we have in the depreciation of bur
own Currency. I think it neceCTary that the people
should fee and feel what they pay, should earn the
money before its (pent ; this would prevent a thou
sand fopidr fooli& and needlcf# ways of (pending
the public money ; this would make the rulers care
fol how they adopt any expensive Operations, and
attentive to the ftriAe^ economy in the expenditure,
lafenfible takes are like insensible perspiration, which
weaken# the body and wades the conflitution before
the patient knows heli sick. Nature generally makes
places of danger with signals of notice, and every
mariner looks on one sunken rock more dangerous
than twenty that are above water ; for tbit reason I
think that every branch of the revenue Should origi
nate in such femfible and visible demands on the
wealth of the people, and that they may all feel and
k ,, w * hat th „ pay, and *hat they pay it for ; and
this is In my opinion the farefl way to keep a tree
fury always Applied with enough by the cheerful
Contributions of the people when the publ c fafety or
convenience requires it, and to prevent more than
enough being ever demanded or granted : A due at
tention to both these I take to be no small branch or
even pillar of policy in every Bate. The foregoing
survey of our mifchlefs and remedies brings up to
view another circumAance which appears to me a
^try plain ha, vii.
4 ; °'" difteffes, dangers; and difficulties don't
confii lin a want of any thing, but in overplenty, in
furplufage of oath, which, is become so common and
„of acquirement; that 'tie flighted,'tis little thought
of, 'tie Scarce an obje& of desire much less of anima
tion ; our burdens are burdens of caffi, that which
is the wish and want of raoft other diireftd people
fa our misery; like plethoric constitutions, whole
Limina are all good, but are over loaded with too
forth blood. A Sufficient bleeding, a proper drain
log off this faperffudas matter, would set us all right
In a Short time, and every part of the constitution
would find ease, relief, and a Speedy return of life
tad vigour from the Simple operation of this most
Obvious natural remedy. On the whole matter.,
think that one mere faftoffers itfelf to view, which;
were wk in a less torpid state, might animate us to
Spirited efforts, feme lively exertions to extri
cate onrf^lves from diftref# and danger, v z.
§• Every circumflance coafpires to demonflrate
our most Sure and effectual remedies are in our
Own power, are very practicable, and the present
time is the most Suitable for the application of them
a °^ °"'? n ' n distress ever had or could wish.
We are free of debt, at leafl of the preffares of debt;
the whole public debt at home and abroad does not
Exceed our abilities, and may be paid in two or t^ee
years without any painful exertions. We are yet
on this fide of that bottomless abyss ofdebt into which
bur enemies find themfelvs plunged ; that infappor
table but everlasting burden that presses and exhausts
them in so fatal a manner, that they are become the
Sport of their enemies and neglect of their friends ;
none appears for them in this their da, of distress.
This enervating, disheartening circumstance we are
°'* ° ur firengh is our own, and in proper
condition for use; we are yet to receive the fruits of
our own labours - none of oar crops are mortgaged
or fold before they are reaped ; oar wealth is entire;
ear country abounds with most of the Supplies and
Lores we need ; we have no difficulty but in the dis
orders of our finances, and they are not only capable
efbeing restored, but felf-preservation will compel
"' like * flr °°' man who is obliged
, ^" ^ hb °^ r re q° iral " but Jn ft though
so affrd that degree of ex&cife which is absolutely
n,ff,y to his health, and which he must precise
or be sick, if no labour was required of him. The
fame kind and degree of exertion necessary to restore
car currency, reflate our faawr, efiablifh our cre
and animite the industry of our people, will at
the fame time pay our civil lift, and carry on the war
Our enemies are in a declining state. under great de
frees of embarrassment, and have their hands full in
evfry quarter and every body against them; whilst
We are courted. Ike the riling fan, by every body
our alliances and conneaioni are of the Dreft and
best kind, grounded on such interefr as cannot de
ceive us ; a general union prevails among ourfelves
our public councils are all di&ated by the f am :
views and ends and if ever we differ it is only about
the means of obtaining the fame end ; our relief in
deedl require the animated exertions of our people,
but the very deftref# they all feel makes so
P, 1 ,,^ 06 Plaice any efforts which tend
to their deliverance.
To be continued,
At a General Affeubly of the Governor and Com
pany of the S ate of Connecticut, holden at Hart
ford, on the Second Thursday of October, 1780.
IT7HEREAS Sundry of the Inhabitants of this
S ate, have voluntarily and designedly put
themfelve# within the power of the enemy, and pur
sued most unjuftifisble welfares in order that toey
might be parceled, by the enemy, and by that me^as
be excused from all military duty, whereby this Sta e
, unreasonably deprived of the aid and affifanca of
sundry of the Inhabitants thereof; which to pre
vent,
RESOLVED by this Assembly, that no regard
.fltail be had to any verbal parole whatsoever nor to
any written parole, anlefi the person carolled pro
duce & copy thereof, nor td any parole where the per
lon so carolled was not taken prisoner, while under
arms or about hi# lawful business, at or near his hfd
al place of his abode and without his confeac and
that no person paroled contrary to theinent of this
aft ihallavail himfuf of. or take any advantage by
such parole.
A tree copy of record, examined by
GEORGE WYLLYS. Sec'ry.
At a General Assembly of the Governor and Com
pany of the State of Connecticut, holder at Hart
ford,on theQeond Thursday of October, 1780,
WHEREAS this Assembly being informed that
the troops belonging to this State edge
'' no^"°^ '" W " '" in want ° f f raall eloath ing,
RESOLVED by this Assembly, that each town
this State do farhwim collect and transport to
the army, two Shirts, two pair woollen Stocking,,
one pair of Shoes, and one pair Mateas; for each Of
"d ”°" e '>belonging td such town, now in
the army, engaged to Serve during the war; or for
A??""' '° '"" way and manner as such town
think best ; end find towns making such (ap
plies shall be reimbursed the fame ; and the Pay Ta
ble are directed to liquidate their accounts thereof,
and draw on the Treasury, in favour of inch towns;
for the payment of the fame;
A true copy of record; examined by
GEORGE WYLLYS, Sec'ry.
At a General AtfembJy of the Governor and Com
pany of the State of Connecticut, holden at Hart
ford, on the Second Thursday of October, 1780.
WHEREAS, this Assembly have ordered the
° f tbte elates of such perfon# inimical to
the United American States, who have joined the
enemies thereof, to die amount of £50,000 lawful
money; and whitens it is represented, that the se
men of many towns in this State have been neg
ligent in representing such efia:es to the county Court
''" c °i° lned ; thereupon it is resolved by this
Audibly, that the representatives from each town
in this State in the prerent Assembly, be requefled to
l P"" cu ' ar .enquiry in the Several towns to
:, , th '7 type&vely belong, concerning the estates
offuch inimical persons, whohave joined the enemy;
lying in such their towns, with as proper defcripti
oa thereof as they can obtain, the names of the ini
mical perfoas to whom they belong, and of the per
sons in present possession thereof, and their claims
therein, and make return thereof to this Affe'mbly
at their next sessions, without fail,that such meafares
may be taken thereon as to them may appear just
and right.
A true copy of record, examined by
GEORGE WYLLYS. Sec'ry.
The Printers in this State are requetted to publish
^efofageing Resolutions in their refpe&ve Papers.
State of Conneftieut.
By the CAPTAIN -GENERAL:
Officers and Men of Colonel Jsduthan
Baldwin's Regiment of Artificers, belonging
to this State. 5
NOTICE is hereby given, That by the Re-
Solve of the General Assembly, you are en
!° every Privilege granted to the Connecticut
Line in the Army ; and all who belong to this
c '' ave defected or abfemed themselves from
laid Regiment, are hereby ordered forthwith to
join the fame, and on their so doing they are here
by recommended to Favour, and to be excused
Punishment for their Absence.
° 1N under m y Hand > in the Council-
Chamber at Hartford, this nth Day cf
November, 1780.
th e read between the upper end &ft
Windsor and Glaftenbury Meeting House, a
Y u ', Pocket Book, lined with red, 'containing
m: c : °'°"I D °A"' °" e H " d DoHar > onc Gold
Ring, two yards flr pad Ribbon. Whoever will
re^ n raid book, with P ft, c , ffi ; t %%„^
h^ffo? ''^ ,° fely ° f Ghft enbupy, &li be
hancUomely rewarded^'
Ciaftenbury, Nov. 1 5 , 1,80,
I a, Punflual, or abide the Consequence.
TH E Subscriber has just received Warrants
from the Treifurer, to rolled Two Shillings
' Money on the Pound, and Twenty-four
Shillings on the Pound in Continental Bills ; which
Several fams roua absolutely be paid in by the middle
~m b er next. For the'purpofe of receiving
which, I Will attend on the 28th day of Nev. infl.
Gideon Benjamin's, Thezgth, at Mr Davd
7'" 3°^ at Mr. Stephen H^pkinQ
Ihe in of Decembers at Mr. Joseph Stillman's, in
Wethersfield. And the 4th, at Mr. Jonathan Mr
gatt i, in Orford.
„, JOHN DOD D, Colleaor.
^Hartford, Nov. 18, 1780.
LOS T, in Weft-Hartford, between John Belding#
and Elijah Tryon's, a Black Leather Pocket-
Book, containing 7 twenty Billing bills, one half
crown and i one Shilling bill, State Money, one
Continental Bill, two or three pieces of silver, two
tetters from the Wtd r Baldwin of Canlan, one broken
stone button, cne old knee buckle, fames Treat'#
name wrote in the book. Whoever finds said boot
and will |« v e it with its content# at the Printing
Office# Shall have forty Shillings state money reward,
and no qcoions asked..
November 1780.
BROKE iwo the fubferb?^ pasture fame time in
-September last, a brown yea ling STEAR, &
little white on hi# back and under his b^ly, no ear
mark, khe owner is defined to pay charges and
take him away, ABEL WEST.
North Bolton, Nov. ,6, 1 780.•
At a Wheeling of the Propria or# of the townth:p of
Wetnen field, in the codify of Cumberland and
State of Vermont, held in laid tom on the 20th
day of Aaguft la^ ;
VOTED a Tix on all the lands in Wethersfield,
for the purpose of building a Meeting House.
^d making roads in Said town of fix pence an acre
in hard money, or an equivalent, to be paid to rae
at or before the firft day of May next , then all the
had# the tax not paid, are to be advertised, and a
(efficient quantity of It fold at Public Vendue to pay
the tax and necessary charges.
WILLIAM UPH A M, Collador.
IVether# field. November 10, 1780.
A S """ quantity of German Steal, Hart and Club,
and American Bettered Steel, Shoe-Makers
Hammer#; Kn vet and Pincers, Gold Smiths Pliers
and Cutters, Table Hinges, to be fold for Hard or
Continental Money, by
JARED STEVENS.
Hartford, Nov. 20, 1780.
TAKEN up by the fabfenber, in a Suffering
condition, a light Sorrel coloured HORSE;
with a white fireak in his face f-me feathering white
hairs on hi# back, is of a midiing size, trots gn&
paces, about 8 years ^d. The owner is defined to
pay charges and take him away-
ELISHA MAYHEW.
Norfolk, Nov. 13, 1780.
IF a number of young Gentlemen, not less than
eleven, already fitted for College, who wish for
an education Itfs ex.enfive than a collegiate one, will
apply to the fabferiber before the fit* of January,
they may be furniffied with Infire&on in the bran-,
cues of learning, commonly taught at colleges dar
ingthefaft year, for Twenty Shillings hard money
per quarter, under the dire&ion of
TIMOTHY DWIGHT.
Northampton. N/V. 8 1780.
STRAYEDfrom Ifechar Loom s, of Torttotol.
about the firfl cf May left, a Black Mare COLT
2 years old, no brand, ret doekt. Whoever will
take top said Colt ihall have a handsome reward, and
all necessary charges paid, by
ISACHAR LOOMIS.
Torrington. Nov. 16, 1 780.
KRAYEI)"fo,m the subscriber lente time iaft
lumme,, two Rea HEIFERS, coming two years
old; ma r kt wi;h a crop off the right ear, one a fatie
lined upon the back. Whoever will take up s aid
fray# and num them to the owner, Shall be and
fomely rewarded, by'
„ NATHAN Davis.
Harwinton. Nov. 15, 1780.
TAKEN up the 26th of September; a Red Rota
MARE, , years old 14 band* and an nch
high, trot# and canters, part B^lffi a o>r in her
forehead 3 white feet, no brand, newly food before
Also- a Red Roan Horse Colt 1 year eld, a far in
his forehead. The owner is desired to pay charm
and take them away.'
q. AARON CLARK, juDg
Southampton, Nov. 11, 1780.