The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1779-10-12 00:00:00, page 3

To the INHABITANTS cr THE STATE cf
CONNECTICUT.
Friends and Brethren,
THE alarming depreciation cf our currency, ^d
the proper meafares for reftorin^i^ c edity
have jufliy claimed the attention of the Congrcfi and
all our fi^r Stater around us.
In obedience to the choice of our confli uehtr, and
in compliance with the proposals cf three counties
in this State, on the 5 h day of October 1779 con
vened at Hertford a vfrAable replantation from
every coumy ; tho' not id fall and cowpie ^ a# could
have been w ihed to tranfea and conelode in mat
ter! so important, and which in their ff^&3 must be
more rx'eafiv^
This convention would much more lament a de
lay in Arming £ conclusion as requeued at this time,
did not our 'public affair# now difpiay a mere fa
vourable afpc& than at any former period.
In many pirts of this State, for months pass, the
prices of tie cffc.ubl art'cles for the convenience
aid fep,ort of life, have continued without materi
al alto 3 ion ; and thereby our medium h^s so far
maintained its credit: The pleasing profpea# tint
farround v: the measures purfain^ by Cong efr,
end oor <x,&tiqn of receiving important affitac.,
from the rm^ofour Allies, give us reaf?n to hop?
that a gradual appreciation of our currency will be
more easy, and the determinations of this convent!
on facilitated at 2 period not far distant.
We cannot therefore but conclude that the public
good may be bet promoted by omitrir 7 the fir#pro
pofal for the prefect, and adjourning this Conven
tion to the so >rth Tucfhy in Nov^mbe. nex, at 2
e'clock P. M at the Court Houf? in the town of
Hertford: And we ra^e^y request that these
towns who have hirike^to ne^le&ed, would na:e
choice of members to represent them at the adjourn
ment, to cor,frier and a& upon matters fuitaole for
fach a Convention.
But in the mean time, believe net, that we view
danger to be pad; though we conce v: our greatest
arises from the abate of our p~p~r currency, for which
the public faith hath in tne most folemi manner
been pledged ; and upon whieh may depend the
fafety ard happinefa of our coun:ry, ouri^vc-.. and
pyfterity. Permit us then as m^u fenfibiy aff:&ed
with the dangers, (which have been so of en pointed
ort to you, that a rape ition would be needled} to
address and znloufly to intreat you, calmly to con
fider of the ©v h, which muff result fi m a further
depreciation ; and to aft in conformuy to the con
cl^fion, which such rational confide at/on will dic
tate. Lay afi-'e that enemy to mankind, an infatu
ating love of felf. An amassed fortune, at the ex
pe^ce cf the ruin and difirefs of our neighbors, can
<ff^d no fatuftAion in the hour of manly r^ flrAion.
We therefore in the mean time recommend to you,
and intreat in the firongeft terms, that the prices cf
the various artie'ei of commerce^ manufeAures, and
the produce of thecountry, be not advanced beyond
the current prices on the firft day of the pufent
month, in the several towns in this State: And we
declare it as cur opinion, that at a time when the
Coogrefs of tbefe States have given the alarm, and
the exigence cf public credit is endangered, whoe
ver for the fake of private emolument, flhall endeavor
by enhancing.prices to increase the depreciation of
car currency, ought to be considered as zAing a pact'
highly inimical and detrimental to his country.
The situation of our credit, tho' dangerous, is by
no means desperate; but that dangerous situation de
mands every exertion cf public spirit, which, tho'
of late; in many inflanc^s, dormant, we trust is in
none extinguished.
The late Circular Letter of the Hon. Congress of
the 13th of September Jaft, will doubtleG be commu
nicated to you, before the pubheation cf this ad
dress ; you are there called upon to difoby that pa
triotism, which Americans on other occasions have
never displayed without facctfs. Be w liing to at
tend and ad up to the advice of the Great Council
of these States. Confides them as the heft ladies of
your public concernments, and men devoted and
determined in fidelity. For we Jj not hefakle to
declare our opinion, that by the mufures therein
communicated, and proposed, if followed and fe
conded.by the unanimous exertions of the friends of
their country, under the guidance of that divine
providence, which has hitherto f Liy conduced us
in this canrefi, oar credit may be retrieved, oar cur
rency eflablifhM, our resources called f^rih, and our
armies Purported in the field, unt 1 peace and happi
nefs fhdl be revered to the free and independent.
States cf America.
Signed by the unanimous order of ihe Convention,
G. SALTONSTALL Prefiden^.
Atte&- HEZ. BISSELL. Sec'7.
The Printers of the feve^al Nrwa Papers within
this Sia a are difired to insert the foregoing Add.eG
in their pa,:ii as Lon as may b#.
CHARLESTOW N ; Sept. 4. r
LATE LB night the Lieutenant of Marines of
the armed brig Bellona, came up to town with
intelligence of fir Excellency Count D'Eftaings
fleet, confining cf 25 fail of the line, 20 frigates and
3 courvettes or sloops being at anchor on Thursday.
neon, in 14 fathom water, off Tybee; on board the
fleet are 5000 land forces. A frigt'e had been dif
pa'ched with an express to this tow*; it is imagin
ed the high wind we had oh Thursday m^ghthas cc
c&fiored her landing eff; bit as the weather is new
favourable the is hourly fouled fcr. Pilotsa enow
going to the Count. Tnia greet and onex^ed aid
cannot fail giving the higheß fatiift&icn to every
real friend & f America and aff^ds the b-ppy pref
ped cf soon feeing the virtuous few cf our fifler
State of Georgia, rrinf^ed in their poffeffons, and
a speedy Hop being put to the ravages of our haugh
ty invades.
FISH-KIL L, October 7.
Mr. Loudon,
I Lately obtained a copy of a literary cor
respondence between General Parsons and
Governor Tryon; the low arts cf the e
nemy to accomplish those objects they find
their arms unequal to obtain, in this as
well as innumerable other instances, are
fully manjfefted; and may be of some be
nefit to be published.
Year's, &c. A. O.
'New York, June 18, 177 g.
S I R.
B Y oneof his Majesty’s fliips of war,
which artived here laftnight from Georgia,
we have intelligence that the Britifli forces
were in poss flion of Fo't-Jobnfton, near
Cbarleftown, the firft of June.
Surely it is time for rational Americans
to wifn for a re-union with the parent date,
and to adopt such meafores as will most
speedily eff. & it.
I am, Sir,.
Your very humble obedient servant,
Wm. TRYON, M. G.
To Gen. Putnam, or r; his)
absence to Gen. Pars ns.)
answe r.
Camp, Highlands, Sept. 7, 1779°
S I R,
I Should have paid an earlier attention
to your police letter of the 18th of June,
had I not entertained some hope of a perso
nal interview with you, in your defeents
upon the defencelefs towns of Connecticut,
to execute your matter's vengeance upon
the rebellious women, and formidable host
of boys and girls, who were induced, by
your infiduous proclamations, to remain
in those hapless places ; and who, if they
had been fuftred to continue in the enjoy
ment of that peace their age andJex entitled
them to expert from civilized nations, you
undoubtedly supposed would prove the
scourge of Britain's veteran troops, and
pluck from you those laurels, with^which
thatfery expedition so plentifully crowned
y° u -
But your sudden departure from Norwalk,
and the particular attention you paid to
your personal fafety when at tnat place,
and the prudent resolution you took, to
fuffer the town of Stamford to escape the
conflagration, to which you had devoted
Fairfield and Norwalk, prevented my wish
es on this head: This I hope will fufficient
ly apologize for my delay in answering
your last tetter
By letters from France we have intelli
gence, that his Catholic Majesty declared
war against Gre^t-Britain in June last ;
that the combined fleets of France and
Spain, amounting to more than sixty fail
of the line, have formed a junction, and
with twenty-five thpufand land forces are
meditating an important blow on the Bri-
tifh dominions in Europe; ^na 'hat,. I,^ 1 ,^
grand fleet of Old-England find it very ix^
convenient to venture far from their har
bours* ,
iln the Weft-Indies; Admiral Byron having great
ly Offered in a naval engagement, efezped with
cf his ffiips in a very fluttered condition to St. Chrri
tophers, and covered his fleet under the batteries on
the ffiores, and has Offered h'imfelf to be insulted in
the road of that island by the French Admiral . And
Count D'^ftaing after reducing the rflands of St.
Vincent and Grenada to the obedience of France,
defeating and disabling the Britim fleet, had failed
for Hifpaniolx ; where it is expected he will be join
ed by the Spanish fleet in those seas, & atack Jamaica.
The ftormin, your flron,works at Stony Point;
and capturing the garrison by our brave troops; the
brilliant facceffes of General Sullivan, against your
faithful friends and allies the savages ; the fur
prize of Paulus Hook by Maj. Lee; the fl ght ofGen m
Provofi from Carolina, and your ffiamefully Shutting
yourselves up in New York and the neighbouring
islands, are so fully within your own knowledge as
scarcely to need repetition.
Surely it is time for Britons.to route from their
delr, five dreamt of conquest, and pursue such systems
of future condu& as will save their tottering em
pire from total deftruAion. , I am, Sir,
Your obedient feivant,
SAM. H. PARSONS.
Mijor General Tryon.
BOS T O N, ORcber 7.
We hear from Marblehead that about 8 Jcloch ^f
Thursday evening, the Privateer br^ Free mason,
lying at anchor in that harbour, tock fire, by means
of the Gunner's attempting to throw a piece of ,-
match over board (after firing the evening gun) which
accidently fell among the netting, by which means
the inftanriy took fi-e ; but all the men being on
shore, except him, who at that time feeing the flames
run with such amazing rapidity, quitted her, soon
after which she blew ep.
ExiraA ofa letter from Phinea- Newton, at Water
ford, (Ireland) da^d An^rt 7, iff to^y
Newton, Rfq ; at N.w Y^k ; taken in a pnze
lately arrived at Newbury Port.
" Before you left England, there war every m
fon to believe a Spanish war would soon take place,
'tis new out of dispute, and though no absolute de
claration cf war, are ootwithftanding cutting one
another# throats as fafl at pcffible in Surop?; our
privates have already captured miry Spanish vef
feh of value : thui matters go on between the three
nations, and this day it is frd Gibraltar is inverted
by 32 fail of Spanish men of war, and 30,000 troops ;
add to this the combined fleets of France and Spain,
amounting to 41 fail of the line, are expeAed in the
chinriel every day, to eppefe which. Sir Charges
Hardy is out with 38 fai; of theline, therefore an rut-,
cn es the utmost importance to the three kingdoms,
ii cxp:&ed ever, moment ; Such is the pre ^nt flu-,
ation of things this fide the water, little or notrade#
and left money ; God only knows what wll be the
futureevent ; tail kingdom is threatened with an
invasion, our enemies increafin|fc and peer old Eng
land left without one firigle friend to stand forth in
her behalf.",
HARTFORD, October 12.
The 19 b of September last, the Hon. Samuel
Huntington, Esq; war eleded P efident cf Con
g^L in the room cf his Excellency John Jay, E'q°
/W"<HE highest price will be given for
& Loan Office Bills of Exchange, pay
able in France, at Thomas Hopkins's
Store in Hartford.
TAKEN up by the fubferiber some time left Ju
ly, a red roan MARE, about 12 hands high,
4.years old, natural to a trot, no artificial mark.
Likewise a black yearling COLT, with two white
fpitj in hit face. The owner is defined to prove
his property, pay charges and fake them away.
JESSE MUNSON.
Granville, OAohe, 7, 1779,
WEST INDIA RUM of the firft quality, to
be fold by the Hogshead, Barrel or fmallu
quantity. Also, good Brown Sugar, by the Barrels
Cwt. or fibgle pound ; Allum by the Cw^. or sin
gle pound, at the Store of ELIAS DUNNING, ia
woodbury.
TO B £ S 0 L D ,
Good muscovado sugar by the
'Hogfhead; Tierce or Barrel.
Belt WEST INDIA RUM by the Hogffi^d.
Excellent BOHEA TEA by the Chest or half Choi.
Enquire cf
EBENEZER PLATT.
Hartford, Sept. 18, iy„.