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Perhaps, Sir, you entertain too exalted
an opinion of your own importance, in
deeming it a condfonJion in you, to answer
a letter, informing you, in the most inof
fenfive terms, of an overture made by one
of your General Officers to have me af
fafiinated. Alas, how many a hopeful
Gentleman has been made giddy by a Star
and Garter ! It had doubtless redounded
more to your honour, and afforded a
stronger argument of your abhorring such
infamous measures, to have called upon
me for the proofs, and manifefted a pro
per resentment against the criminal, than
to flourish about the capability of your foul,
and to betray a want of politeness, so un
tifual in persons of your rank and breed
ing; and that without any other provo
cation, than my complaining to you of
the conduct of one under your command,
so repugnant to the law of arms, and the
sentiments of humanity.
That you have afoul capable of harbouring
so infamous an idea as aflaflinatien, I was so
far from intimating, that I told you, I
thought it highly improbable you jbould either
countenance, connive as, or be privy to, a de-
Jign so sanguinary and disgraceful : And I
remember, that when I used the word im
probable, I had like to have said imp^ible ;
but that I was deterred, on recollecting
numerous instances, by the extreme dif
ficulty of precisely ascertaining the utmost
poffibili, of British cruelty. Whatever
your foul may be capable of, I should have
ventured, before the receipt of your let
ter, to have pronounced it impossible for
you to be capable of opprobrious lan
guage. How far, Sir, lam now to be
lieve this impossible, I leave you, in your
cooler moments, to determine.
How trifling an end foeyer you may
suppose would be obtained by my assassi
nation, you certainly thought my capture,
not long since, important enough to make
me a principal objed of what was, in a
literal sense, a very dirty expedition.
What could induce you to fay, that I
boasted of the power of being able to dispose of
your life, by means of intimates of mine, ready
to murder at my command, I am at a loss to
guess. Is there a wotd in my letter eh
Governor Livingftons Aniwer to Gene
ral Clinton'^ Letter of April 10th, in
ferred in our last.
Ekz 'eth-Town, 15th April, 1779.
SiR,
IRE CEIVE D your Excellency's
letter of the xothinftant this afternoon,
and had an opportunity about an hour
thereafter, to fee a copy ot it in the New-
York American Gazette, together with mine
of the 29th of March, which oceafioned
it. Your Excellency by these publicati
ons, compared with a certain passage in
your letter, seems determined to close our
correspondence, by precluding me from
a reply. But by the laws of England,
Sir, (the best of which we intend to adopt,
leaving the rest to our old friends of the
realm) he who opens a cause, hath the
privilege of concluding it.
It is the observation of foreigners, that
America has shewn her superiority to
Great Britain, no less in the decency of
her writings, than in the success of her
arms. I have too great a refped for my
native country, whatever I ought to have
for Sir Henry Clinton, to furnifh an in
stance in contradiction of so honorable a
remark.
ther about your life, or about murder ? Jr
is your Excellency so haunted with the
thoughts of murder, from a confeioufnefs
of British barbarity, that you cannot write
three paragraphs, without being startled
at the (hocking fpedre ? And if there
are any intimates in the case, how do you
know but that they are intimates of your
own ? I told you that your person was more
in my power than I had redfon to think you
imagined But is there no such thing as
one person's being in the power of ano
ther without murder ? Indeed, Sir, from
this specimen of you inductions, you
ought to be a much better General than
you appear to be a logician, or America
need be under no apprehensions about
her independence, during your administrati
on.
As to your must not be troubled with any
father correspondence with Mr. Livingfton,—
believe me, Sir, that I have not the least
passion for interrupting your more ufeful
correspondence with the British ministry,
by which the nation will doubtless be
greatly edified, and which will probably
furnifh materials for the most authentic
history of the present war ; and that you
cannot be less ambitious of my corref- +
pondence than I am of your's ; because,
whatever improvement I might hope so
receive from you in the art of war, 'and
efpeeially in the particular branches of
conducing * moon- tight retreats, and plan
ning t secret expeditions ; I should not ex
ped, from our correspondence, any confi
derabie edification or refinement in the
epistolatory way. lam therefore extreme
ly willing to terminate it, by wishing you
a fafe voyage across the Atlantic, With
the singular glory of having attempted to
reduce to bondage, a people determined
to be free and independent. I am, Sir, .
Your Excellency's humble servant,
WIL. LIVINGSTON.
His Excellency General Sir Henry Cl inton.
LO ST the 28th mil. between Mr. Benjamin's
tavern in Eaft-Hartford and the ferry, a
BLACK LEATHER POCKET BOOK,
containing about Two Hundred and Twenty Dol
lars in Continental Money, and a number of paper#
valuable to the owner but none else. Whoever will
return it to th& fubferibe, with the contents, shall
have Fifty Dollars Reward, paid by
JOH N VfYLE S.
East Hartford, April 30, 1779.
Good files and rasps of all
forts, made and fold by Robert Bennet, at
Reuben Elsworth's ihop in North-Windsor
Likewise old Files new cut in the best manner, at
the fame place.
Mg 3 $ H -
T, IGH T and Fourteen Ounce T ACKS, and
Four Penny N AILS, to be Sold, by
BENJ A. CHENE Y.
Hartford May 3, 1779.
FOU N D between Farmington and Litchfield,
a pair ofMen's BREECHES. The owner
may have them again, by proving his property and
paying charges, to
ELIZUR BRACE.
Harwington, April zi, 1779,
* Sir Henry informed the Ministry that in
bis retreat at Monmouth, he took the advan
vantage of the moonlight ; when in reality
he did not begin his retreat till feme hours after
the moon was set.
f It is remarkable that of all the secret
expeditions planed by this Gentleman, Jince he
has had the chief command of the British army
(and those expeditions have been multifarious)
not one of them has succeeded. It is therefore
to be presumed that Great-Britain proposes to
obtain, by his Generafeip, a most untrifling
end.
AG OL D WATCH to be Sold for
Continental Bills of any Emissions, by E n 0 a
D 0 ol I ttle under the Printing Office.
Hertford, April 26, 1779.
yT I L L CO VER
TH I S Season, at the Stable of the Subferiber
in Sandisfield, the F AMOUS HORSE
YOUNG WILD DEAR. He is a Horse
of ftreugth and beauty equal perhaps to any in A
merica.
JOSIAH STILLMAN.
N. B. He is the fame Horse that was kept in
Sandisfield in the year 1777.
THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS
belonging to the Regiments in the Connecti
cut Line, now absent on furlough or on command
in any part of this State remote from camp or who
have had leave of absence, to recover their health,
and who are now able to do any duty in camp are
- required to join their refpe&ive regiments without
any delay ; the public service requires every officer
and soldier. to attend to his duty in camp immediate
ly ; and no further indulgences can on any pretence
be granted.
SAM. H PARSONS.
B. Gen. Commandant
Camp, Redding: April 26, 1779,
JUST PUBLISHED;
And to be Sold by the Printers hereof,
THE
TREATIES
OF
AMITY and COMMERCE,
AND OF
ALLIA N C E,
EVENTUAL and DEFENSIV E,
Between His Most Christian MAJESTY,
AND THE
Thirteen UNITED STATES of AMERICA.
At the fame Place may be bad
C ONSI DERATI ONS
On the M ODEand T ERMS of a Treaty of
PEACE with AMERI C A.
t # f This Pamphlet was printed in London about
the Time Governor Johnstone arrived there. It
Was much read, and a second Impression called for.
4d. 6d. Bd. rod. & zod. Nails,
Card and Sadlers Tacks and Hob Nails, made and
fold by ELIJAH HENSDALE of New-Britain,
for Cai% or Country Produce.
N. B. Nails of the above kinds, may be had of
DANIEL HENSDALE, under the Printing-Office
in Hartford.
Dutchess County;
Rumbout Precin&, March 29. 1770.
COL. HUGHES; late D. Q, M. General hav
ing applied, in Oflober last, for a sum of mo
ney, which was then, from the returns made him by
his affifiants and others, thought fufficient to fettle
the accounts due from the late QM. General's de
partment; previous to the ad March 1778, under
his direction. But, received not half the sum he
drew for, which is the principal reason, that the
debts, so long since contra&ed by him and his assis
tants are yet unpaid. However, he is now direct
ed by the Hon. Major-General Mifflin, late Q. M.
General, to call for all the accounts against him or
his assistants ; also such as are for forage, (exclusive
of those contrasted by Col. William Duer, or his
assistants) for which certificates (on the vouchers ap
pearing just t) will be given, in order that an exa£t
ethmate of the amount may be made, (this being a
mode enjoined by the late Q_M General on all his
deputies) and a fufficient sum procured at once, to
difeharge the arrearages of his office as soon as prffible.
As a number of public creditors, who have de
mands against the late department, live at a distance,
two months will be allowed from the date hereof,
to bring in their accounts to his office, at Mr. Gyf
bert Schencks fix miles from the Fish-Kill on the
upper read to Poughkeepsie; to Col. Andrew Tay
lor, Newburgh ; to Major Keirs, at Haverftraw ;
to Major Wood, at Danbury ; to Major Tucker, at
Mr. John Clapp's Kingflr^ - Th= accounts for
forage, from June 1, 1777, to 2d March 1778,
are to be presented to Col. Andrew Boftwick, D. C.
General of forage, at his office in Fish Kill, for the
fame purpose.
As soon as the money is received, the public will
be adverti fed of its arrival, and facilitated, by every
pofficle means, in receiving their refpe&ve balances.
f If disputable, an exaCi tranfeript will be taken
and forwarded, with proper observations, to the
agent of the late Quarter-Matter General's depart
ment, for the consideration of Qongrefs, or those
that they may appoint.. 41