The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1782-05-21 00:00:00, page 3

RICHMOND, (Virginia) April 2%
The Indians, we learn, not long fiuce, com
mitted some ravages on the Cumberland settle
ments, and killed a few inhabitants. —Parties of
rangers had gone in quell of them, and it is ho
ped would secure thole frontiers againit any fur
ther incursions of the savages.
Accounts from the weltwardjuft arrived, men
tion, that they have received very alarming ac
counts in that quarter from the enemyat Detroit,
who some time lalt fall collected the chiefs from
the different hostile tribes oflndians and initruc
ted them not to disturb the back country, particu
larly Kentucky, till towards the fp ring, when they
were to form into small parties for the purpose
of taking prisoners to learn what measure of de
fence the people were designing.
it is reported, that a severe engagement has
lately happened in the Welt-Indies, between the
French and Britilh fleets. The event is variously
reported, and we impatiently wait for further
particulars.
P HILA DELPHI A, May 4.
The perfidious Arnold, accompanies Sir Guy
Carleton, and is to be invelted with the com
mand of his brother parricides, incorporated as
loyal Refugees.—
Sir Henry Clinton,havinglong fince,been con
vinced of the wickedness, tolly, and impra&ica
bility of subjugating America to the tyrannical
power of Britain, repeatedly solicited a recall ; he
at length gratified § and will return from his
difgracetul command on the arrival of Sir Guy
Carleton, who may be assured that America hath
still in store another Montgomery, who will
wrest from him brows, his famed laurels of the
north.
May 8.
Last evening arrived here the privateer fchoQ
ner Recovery, Capt. , of eight Six pounders,
and 30 men from New-York, prize to the priva
vateer Holker,of this port. The Holker was re
turning from the Weft-Indies, where she has
been cruising for some time pad, when (he cap
tured the above schooner. By the prize-master
of the schooner we have information of two ali
ens in the Weft-Indies between the French and
Britilh fleets, on the 9th and 10th ult. to lee
ward of Guadaloupe. The fleets confided of 35
fail of the line each, and the French were con
voying a large number of merchantmen to His
paniola. On the 14 the Holker spoke a French
cutter, who informed him that one French ship
of the linehad blown up in the action ; that the
British fleet were so disabled as to be obliged to
return into port, and that the French fleet had
proceeded on to Hispaniola with their convoy:
fae further informs, that he saw three or four
British ships of the line difmaded, tewing into
St. Lucia.
The following is said to be a genuine copy of the
letter from his Excellency General Washing
ton to Sir Harry Clinton, on the fubje& ofthe
murder of Captain Huddy.
Sir, Head-Quarters, April 2i, I^2;
THE incldfed representation from the inhabi
tants ofthe county of Monmouth, with testimo
nials to the fa& (which can be corroborated by
other unqueflionable evidence) will bring before
your Excellency he mod wanton, cruel, and un
precedented murder that ever disgraced thearms
of a civilized people. I shall not, becAufe I con
ceive it altogether unnecessary, trouble your Exce
llency with any animadversions on this trahfa&i
&u. Candor obliges me to be explicit :—To save
the, innocent I demand the guilty.
Captain Lippencut, therefore, or the officer
who commanded at the execution of Capt. Hud
dy mud be given up, or if that officer was of
inferior rank to him, so many of the perpetra
tors as will according to the tariff of exchange
be an equivalent. To do this will mark the jus
tice of your Excellency's character. In failure
•fit I mall hold myfelf juftified in the eyes of
God and man, for the measures to which I shall
Lefort.
I beg your Excellency to be persuaded, that it
cannot be more disagreeable to you to be addres
sed in this language, than it is to me to offer it ;
but the fubjeA requires franknefs and decision.
I have to request your speedy determination,
2$ my refclntion is suspended but for your an
swer.
I have the honor to be, &e.
We beartbat Sir Henry Clinton has sent out
to his Excellency General Washington, theprin
cipal perpetrators ofthe murder of Captain Hud
dy, viz. Lippencott, Tilton, and a third, whose
name is not mentioned.
A few days ago a large fleet was seen a'little
to the eallwafd of the Capes of Virginia, Land
ing to the northward. It was conjectured they
were from Charleftown to New-York.
Yesterday arrived here in twenty-eight days
from the Grenades, the ship Rising Sun, Capt.
Decature, belonging to this port.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman' at Augusta,
in Georgia, dated March 12.
" This country is in the rhoft wretched fitua
ton imaginable: It would pofitivefy allonifhyou
to view the devastation that murderer Col. Brown
has brought on this once flourifhing country. In
short, families who not long pah lived in, ease
and affluence, are reduced to all the extremities
of the molt abjed poverty, through that inhuman
villian's conduct.
" Gen. Wayne has beert detached into this
country, and has driven the enemy into Savan
nah. We now have full possession of all the coun
try, and ere long, hope we shall oblige them to
leave that poll also, as every exertion is making
on our part. Desertion prevails exceedingly with
the enemy ; no less than twenty-four Hcflians
left them last week, and I have the pleasure to
assure you, we may expect a total desertion of
the Germans from that garrison, whenever a sui
table opportunity offers.
CHATHA M, May &
Sir Henry Clinton and General Knyphaufen
fails this week, in the Pearl frigate for Europe.
Last week Sir Henry Clinton, in general or
ders, suspended all hostilities on the part of the
Britilh. They are to a& only on the defenfivea
It is reported that all their ctuizers are called in,
and that a number of vessels they have lately taken
will be restored to their former owners.
EISH-KIL L, May 16.
Extract of a letter from New-Jersey, May §.
" One part of the policy now adopted by
Great-Britain is, to detach us from France ; by
affecting to treat with us, they hope to produce
a jealousy in our allies ; and, if they can drawus
into the snare of treating with them separately,
they expert to bring on us the resentment of all
the belligerent powers of Europe ; and, then left
alone, they joyfully anticipate the thoughts of
having their rebellious colonies at their mercy :
The tender mercy of such tyrants would be worse
thari Egyptian bondage. That this is the policy
adopted, is evident from several of the Englilh
news papers, which the printers at New-York
dare not publifli. It is charged against the minfe
ftry as a deception of the nation ; it is confeftby
the minifty as an apology for fuffcring the vote
to pass the commons, for the address to the king,
to take measures to bring about a peace with
America ; judge then, what we ought to expe&
from any propositions they make with us totreat
with them. If they are really in eatneft to have
peace with us, let them withdraw their armyand
navy from this continent ; they are the invaders
of our country, and while they maintain a sol
dier or a sailor in it, they are committing hosti
lity against us."
On th& fourth infant, Sir Guy Carletori, ar
rived at New-York, andfucceeded Gen, Robert
son as Commander in Chief of the British army,
who had been in that comrtland four zuhole days.
Netti Arrangements ofthe British Minders.
Lord Cambden, president of council; Lord
John Cavendish, Mr. Fox, Admiral Keppel, Mr.
Juhriirig, and Mr. Burke, privy council; Duke
of Grafton, privy seal ; Earl Shelburne, and Mr.
C. Fox, secretaries of state; Marquis of Rock
ingham, Lord John Cavendish, Lord Althorpe,
James Granville, Frederick Montague, treasury;
Lord John Cavendish, chancellor of exchequer ;
Admiral Keppel, Harland,Pigot, Lord Duncan
non, Hori: John ToWnfend, Charles Brett, and
Richard Hopkins, admiralty; Charles Barrie,
treasurer of the navy; Duke of Richmond, maf
terof ordnance ; Thomas Townsend, secretary
at war; Edmund Burke, paymaster general;
Thomas Pye, Greenwich Hospital ; Gen. Con
way, commander in chiefof the forces ; Sir Wil
liam Howe, commander in Ireland; Bishop of
Ofnaburgh, colonel of horse, lately commanded
by Lord Amherst ; Lord North, constable of
Dover Castle for life, and four thousand pounds
per annurri.
TO B t S O L D,
At PUBLIC V E N D U E,
ON Monday the ±,th of Ma, instant, at the house of Mr.
Elizer Brace in Harwinton, a piece of LAND in said
Harwinton, being a part of the home Ide of THOMAS
MOODeY— ^Cash or cows will be received as payment for
said Land.
jOHN StYMCt'ft.
Hartford, May it, t,sa
LEMUEL STORRS,
Has lately opened a Store at the Dwelling House of ^fc
Israel Fuller, in the Society of Worthington, in Middle
town. A very neat and general assortment of Dry and
Weft-India GOODS, very fuitablefor the season, will be
fold on the roost reasonable terms, for Cash, Bills of Ex
change on France, Wheat Flour, Wheat or Indian Coni.
Among the Goods are the following articles, via.
DOve,blue,tondonbrown
and claret coloured fu
peifine Broadcloths.
Callicoes and Chintzes of
the moss fashionable kinds.
Black Silk Stripe.
White Do.
Corduroys.
Fustians.
Royal Ribb.
Nankeen.
Hairbines,
Claret blue and brown Shal
loons.
Black and brown Moreen.
Drawboys.
Striped Silk Sarcincr,
Mode.
Black Ostrich Feathers.
Cambrick and Gauzes.
Millinet.
Irish Linens.
Black and pink colour'd
Durant.
Pelong.
Turkey Striper.
Dowlas.
Striped Camblets.
Figur'd and plain Ribbons;
Sewing Silk of various kinds'
Black Barcelona Handker
chiefs.
Bandano do.
Pullicat do.
Bitboa do.
Wide and narrow fap6s.
Broad and narrow Qualities.
Shoe Binding.
Black and white Laces and
Edging,
Black Calimanco.
faftes of the molt fashiona"
ble colours.
Silk and hair Twill.
Printed and check'd Linen
Handkerchiefs.
WoffledandLinenScOckingS
Ladies Kid Gloves.
Black Worked do.
Holland and Cambrick
Thread.
Buckram.
Cap Wire, Fans.
Lynn Shoes.
Beaver and Felt Hrits;
Coatings.
Green and claret coloured
Baizes.
Bibles, Tetiamenti, Spelling
Books and Primers.
Memorandum and Accompt
Books; or ' e ' s quantity*.-
COMFORT SAGE & S O N,
Have for Sale,
BEST white Ravanna Sugar by the box,
Brown do. in boxes,
Port an Prince do. by the hogshead or barrel.
Weft-lndia Rum by the hogshead.
Indigo by the cwt. Or less quantity.
Logwood by do.
Chocolate by the box.
Left jersey Steel.
Bar Iron and Nail rods;
Middletown, May 15, 17^,
FLYING BULLET,
WILL cover this featon at the ftahle of the fubfcriberin
Ashford; at izs the season, he is of a dark bay, fell
blooded, well built and has a beautiful! carriage.
THOMAS MAIN.
N. B. Good pafturd for mares.
Ashford, Mar ar, 1782. , &
DOLPHIN
AND
FEAENOUGH T,
Two beautiful full blooded Horses, inferior to
blobd and figure to no horses on the Conti
nent.
WILL cover this season, at the liable of the Subferii *c
in New-Milford, bounty of Litchfield, State of Con
nefticut —Dolphin from Philadelphia, will cover at forty
shillings the season, twenty shillings tingle leap or four
potinds to infute a foal. Dolphin's fire is the noted bay
horse Molton, which is as high a bred horse as an, on this
Continent, his dam imported from England.—Fearnought
from Virginia, will cover at fix dollars the season, twelve
dollars to jnfure a foal or three dollars finglc leap—Feat
notight's fire was the rioted horse old Fearnought, from
England, his dam a full blooded Arabian mare ; each horse
is upwards of fifteen hands high, five years .old this grab's.
Proper attendence Will be given.
NATHANIEL DURKEE, jun,
New-Milford, Ma,ti. 1782.
Cath, Writing Paper or She'll ng BooxT,
given for clean Linen and Cotton RAGS, at Capt. STRONG
at:d Co; StoreLPitsficldg
',' AdvCTtifcmentt emitted will be ia ouz rex:.
Writing Paper
Ink Pots.
Ink Cakes.
Chocolate.
Sealing Wax and Wafers;
W 00l Cards.
Cotton Wall.
Ginger.
Pepper,
Snuff.
Raisins.
Nutmegs
Caltile end hard Soafc
Chalk..
French Ir digo.
Bobea lea.
Weft-lndia Rum.
Madeira Wine.
French Brandy.
loaf and brown S^gar
Quart Pots, Bafons, Piars
and Porrengeis.
toarfe and fine Hand Savs
for Joiners.
Case Knives and Forks.
Jack-knives.
Pen-knives.
Sciffofft
Files, Rasps, Marking Irone,
Gimbicts arid Firmers for
joiners.
Shoe Knives.
Chest, Cupboard and Draw
Locks.
Brass Door, Cupboard and
Desk Hinges.
H and HL Hinges,
Brass Handles and Efentchia
ors for Draws and Desks.
Cork Screws.
Shoe Pincers, Awls and Ha&#
Hair Comb's.
Small Teeth do,
Shoe and Knee Buckles.
Coat and V<ft Buttons.
Sle+e Buttons.
Shot do.
Large arid small Tea-Pots.
Snuffers.
Slates.
Thumb Latches;
Plane Irons.
CandlcltickL
Sewing Needles.
Wire.
Pepper Boxes.
Knitting Needles.
Pins.
Darning Needles;
Bolts.
German Steel by the Cwt.