The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1780-04-04 00:00:00, page 4

From the Leiden Gazette of November 13.
THE London Papers from the frhio the 16th
of November fay. That the Affairs in Ireland
Lad taken a better Turn than the M'n^ry expsaed,
after what puffed at the fird opening of Pad-ament
in said Kingdom. The House ml the r^ ioftant
according to Adjournment, and his Majefly's Aa
When Hinder is hit object no name afcapes him.
When evidence is required, hi# delicacy about names
it invincible. I not only never wrote a line by Dr.
Berkenhoat to my brother, or any other person in A
merica, but neither he, nor Mr. Temple ever apprised
me of their intention of goiny. I was informed of
it by others, just about the time cf heir failing, and
had force correspondence on the f^ je& fl which I
fend copies. As to my being at once "joint Com
missioner at the Court cf Vt,fa Iks, and sole Com
missioner at the Court of Madrid," it is a willful and
fhameleft pervifion of truth for a. fhimrful a pur
ppfe --that cf deceiving the public and calumniating
their absent servant. I have fan Mr. Dearie read
my Comm flion more than once He knew that
when I became Commissioner at the Court cf Madrid,
I ceased to be such at the Court of "Veifailles: N^y,
that the moment I qaited Parra to enter upon the
commflion at Madrid, my powers -as Comnuffiorer
here ceased and were no more. The word? are ' Pro
vided always that the said Arthur L?e Shall conti
nue to be possessed of all the powers heretofore gi
ven him a, a Coanmiffioner at the Court of France
from theft Spates, so lung as he shill remain in and be
present at the said Court." Thus the €x fa:cc of
the one was incomparable with that of the other
Commission, and they could net possibly take place
in roe at the Gmetime. Thus too, Cengrefs had a
person ready to embrace the fi M fi favourable moment
of negociatmg with Spain, with cut any additional
exptace, which must neceihrily hive been double,
had they appointed another parfop. Yet this wife
and economical meafttre ofCongr^fi excited it fi
nitely Mr. Deane's spleen, because either in hk m.f
conception or mi(representation it Shewed an ex
traordinary confidence in the man he bated and
whose ruin he meditated. Hint fpagere vocis.
Invulgum ambiguas, et qrzrere eohfcius arm*.
But admitting two commiflions bad been actually
confided in me at once, how came this to give such
alarm to Mr. Deanes virtue, when it was not Shock
ed in the liaift, at having an hundred committed to
the three which according to their plan were soon
appropriated to my two colleagues, and were likely
to vert in Mr. Deane alone. I was dispatched to
Madrid. Da. Franklin cr Mr. Deane was to go to
Holland. Stopp-fe it had been the former, then Mr.
Deane, whose acquaintance with Europe, its lan
guage, courts, and p ditto, was of two whole months
standing, and who had travelled quite from Bur.
deaux to Pad#, might have had at once the negoci.
ations to manage with the Court# of Veifailles, Vi
enna Pruffa, Portugal, Sardinia, Naples Tuscany.
Ruffin. Sweden, Denmark, Poland, 'the Swiss Can
tons, all the Ele&ors and Sverei^n Princes of the
empire, those of Italy, the Grand Senior, the Empe
ror of Morocco, and the Barbary Sts es Yet Ido
not remember that the modesty and d fnlcnre of Mr.
Deane expelled the leaf! apprehension at the probe
bility of so much power devolving upon him alone.
Hit mind fams to have been entirely employed in
providing against the peffibilfty of so unequal a
weight filling upon my fhjuldc'#. We are not to
lurch too deep for the motive of so obliging an i&.
Mr. Deane's peice war published on the §th of De
cember. On the 24th of September preceding. Dr.
Franklin was chofeu Minister Plenipotentiary here,
and consequently I was no more a Cjmmiffioncr at
the Court of Versa lies. If it were possible to con
ceive that Mr. Deane, though refiling in Philadel
phia, and attentive to the proceedings of Conveys,
could be ignorant of this, his own advices to Fance
announcing it, would prove that when he published
to the people, on the sth of December, that I was
joint Comm ffioner at the Court of Ve fiillo, and
sole Commissioner at the Court cf Madrid, he avert
ed that which he knew to be untrue,
Arid this with the worst and basest of all purpafes--
the imposing upon the public, to induce them to cen
sure Congress audmyfelf unjay.
Mr. Diane informs the people that “ unfortunate
ly for them I gave universal dif^u^ to the nation
whose affifianoe we f^icited." He had taken so
entirely the business of the common into his own
hands, that not a millionth part of the nation knew
that T-ffas a comm ffioner, or even that I exited.
Of all the letters addr^ffed from different parts of the
kingdom, there war not one in a hundred which
bore my name. The fallowing passage in a letter
from the Mess. Delap of Bordeaux will iheff the fa&
and the rcafon of it.
(To be Continued)
fwer to their Address WEB read, purporting that he
felt the Calamities of his Subfefls of Ireland and as
sures them of his readied Concurrence to adopt such
Measures as Ihall seem the most advantageous for the
general Welfare of all his Subjeßs &c.
Mr. Yelverton a King's Attorney. said that the
Nation was on the brink of a Bankruptcy, tha she
must endeavour to avoid it; if Great Britain shuts
out the Ir sh from her Pork and those of her Depen
denotes, let us open ours to all the World, force the
cannot keep them shut c, by her Forces ; end if
Parliament will not speak cut, the People shall fp^ak
for themftlves.
Njv. 2 The House met again, when S^Hin y
Cavendish read an Addreft in aufwsr to the King's
Message ; a Paragraph which contains an Assurance
of the faithful Commons, that they would grant the
Necessaries for the support of Government, was
warmly opposed by Mr. Yelverton.- -Why fayshe,
fh.Vl we in the prevent Situation of our Affairs pro
mife what will be imptffibfe for es to perform. Ire
land is quite extenuated, &c. So long as I ihall
have french to (peak, and my Organs help me to
rarfe my Voice,. I fha:lmaintain that to rfk Subfiles
of Ireland is to infsk her Poverty, since the is de
ptived of raising any even by those who ask them of
for ; bat they want no Doubt to fuck the la# Drop
cf the vity Strength which we have left Us. Ail
the Noceff tries of Life are already taxed with Un
would You again lay a Tax on. Hides where a wrench
ed Peopk ace Barefooted, or on Candles, where for
want t f Means toprocure them they go to Bzd with
Su fat ? Shall we lay Taxes on a Trade which is
quite AmWlittd ? Reduced to the lal cx.reme of
P.ve y and D (pair, why fhonld we give his Ma
jefty hopes to offer him what would be but the fruit
of our Poverty. Nature I believe, never intended
the Itifh to be wittered above all other Nations ;
she favoured us with a happy Climate a fertile
Ground, and with abundance of Ports, which seem
to invite the Trade Of a'l the W< rid; why then Ihall
we permit Great Britain to kize upon our Trade?
Nothing can prefa ve to us the peltical Conservati
on cf our Kingdom than to oblige Britain to grant us
cur demands ; and I. eland wili shed the lad Drop
of her B.oed rather than to fu ffef the Enghfh Parlia
ment to inforce her own Bills upon us.
Others fp ikemuch to the fame Purp^fe ; notwith
ftandmg wnich the Session terminated to the Satis
faction of the ministerial Party, and the Ad.efi to
the King was approved as firtt proposed.
CHARLESTOW N, February 9.
Thursday fe'naight the Province and Ranger
Continental fe gate , with the Eagle tender, returned
to the bar from a eruife effTybec; -where on Mon
day and Tuesday. they dtfeovrad five Brr Th sh ps
at anchor, having the appearance cf men of war, a>d
8 other ships under fail. The abeveme* iored fri
gates have font into this port two large sloops, fem
New- York, bound to Georgia, which they had ta
ken, having on board 14 officers and pampers, and
12 non comm'ffioned efficers and privates of Lord
Gathcart's light dragoons,.and a quantity of horse
furniture. I seems they ate a part of the (amt scat
tered fl^et with which the brig Lady C^fb, men
tinned in our lafi) failed from N:w Y^k bn th? 23d
of Dictmber with Admiral Arbuthnot, cor filing
of 140 fail 97 whereof were men of-war. transport,
&c. the rest light vi&uallen returning to Europe,
and would probably be convoyed by rhe Robufte cf
74, and the Romulus of 44 gaits. The information
wehave received of the number of troops embarked
in this fleet, and of the General cffiwa who com
manded them, vary so much the: it is yet impcffible
to give our readers fatitf^aory recounts on these
heads. None place their number below 8000, but
fame raise them as high as ir,oco ; all agree that
Sir Henry Clinton or Lord Cornwallis is with them,
but it feerns most probable that Sir Henry is the Ge
nsral. We are also told that 1400 hotfes were em
barked in the fleet, but that 'us not probable ,hey
have saved 300, the bad weather the, fleet met with
having obliged most of the sh ips to throw them over
board ; one of the floep brou ,ht in saved only one
cut of 11. On this, palTi^e the prisoners fay they
saw a sh p bottom upwards.
On Saturday fe'nnr,ht a sloop, laden with salt,
came in from Turk's Iflagd; by w'^ch feveal vef
fils w&e seen at tuftteri tim^s fippefed to be of
the featured British fl^et from Nrw York.
The feme aftwoon the Providence and Ranger
Continental sh ps cf ^ar : with hi -Eagle, came :n,
upon the appearance of a British (hip of war cf 50 ^unr,
fippofcd to be the R ebacA, and a frigate, _ coming
up from the fbuthward, the fi.fi.of „hic> was almpft
within gun sh tcf the P^v?dmcc befi re fheg in.
The weather las been x ^five Lazy eve- fi ce.
bitt ^ Eagle went out lar Wedorfday to reconnoi
tre, and aife^vCTd the two iageft ftups off, and so
near the bar, that fl* was obliged to have recourse to
her oars to efc^pe them.
We hear f^/n Georgia, that they have 200 Indians
a-d aboit 400 armed blacks encamped in the late
F/ecety lines near Savannah.
It fe*ms not improbable, from force particular cir-'
cumftahces that the French frigates which fa led from
hence lad week, on a croife under the command of
M Durumam; have gone on a visit to Bermuda or
N^w Providence.
We have the pleafare to observe, that every pr&
paragon seems to be making here for a proper recep
tion cf the enemy, Should either a part or the whole
of the late embarkation from New York, be defined
th 1 wty. S^cconrs come in from different quarters,
and our own people seem much animated.
BRIMSTONE by the hundred or single pound,
BAR IRON, by thebundred or single bar, to
be fold by JOSIAH WADSWORTH, in East-
Harifed,
NOTIFICA TI ON.
BY order of the Proprietor's Meeting the fabferi
ber is direded to take this method to notify the
Pi purtors of New Canaan, in the county of Alba
ny. and Sta^e of New York, to appear at the house
cf Solomon Demin, in said New Canaan, on Wed
nesday the third day cf May nrxt, two o'clock af
ternoon, at which time and place there will be ex
posed to sale at public vendue, for paftcharges, a
Lot cf Land lying in said New Canaan, known by
the name of pubhc lot, unless force other mode is
adopted whereby said charges may be cancelled, and
do all other bufiaefs thought n^ce&y to be done
on said day. ~
JONATHAN WARNER, Rep. Cleik.
N^w-Cana** March 16, 1780.
THE fubfcrit)©, being appointed by the hen.
the judge of p r oba e for the tounty of Liteh
fitid,comm ffioners to receive and examine the claims
of the several creditors of M chad Chapman; late of
Litchfield in said county drcssfed, whose effete is
icp- fenced infolvrat; hereby give notice that they
shall a tend that b fi left at the dwelling house &
Capt. Alexander Waugh, in Aid Lite! Arid, on the
second Thursday cf April next, asd on the firft
Thursday of Mzy next, at two o'clock in the after
noon on said days.
Alexander Waugh,)
Samuel Jackson, > Commiffiocers.
Amos Frisbis,)
Lhchftvld. March 20 1780
State of Vermont,) Rockiu^am,
Cumberland County, J March 18, 1 780.
WHEREAS application hath been made to me
the fobfenber one cf the Justices of the Peace
in and for said county, by more than one fixteanth
pitt es ffie preprieors of the tewefh p cf Bridgwa
ter, in said county, to warn a meeting cf the propri
etors of said towufhip. These ate therefore to warn
said proprietors to meet at the dwelling house of
C^pt. Sreng, innholder io the town cf Woodbeck
in said county, on the ,h day cf May next, at 9 o'
clock in the joining, to «& on the following articles,
vz. I To choefe a Moderator to govern said meet
ing. 2 Tochcofe a Clerk for f,id propriteeu. 3.
To fee if the preprieUrs will allow the firfl fetthre
to pick one hundred acuts each. 4 To fee if the
proprietors will ratfe a sum cf money to make reads
to e aud in «ud tewefbip. 5. To fee if the pro
prietors will firvey said towrih p, and to a& cn any
other article they fh:11 ibiuk pre per when met.
REUBEN JONES. J^te Pure.
° u K 0LL)"
By MOSES MORSE,
Abou: 30 rods north efihe Court House. Hartford,
GOOD Jamaica Spirit, Wel ladia.R:m by the
Hhd. Barrel or finale Gallon. Sutar Tea,
ABfpice Chocolate Snuff. tl> ekfl cf Indigo and
Chapel Needles, Sewing Silk. Alfa a hq^qvin.
tity of Leather Breeches and Deer Skins, ^hich
may be bought very cheap for Continental or Hard
Money or Wheat, if applied for soon.
Hartford, March 28 6 1780.
A Very likely well limb'd NEGRO BOY,
abput 1 § years cf age, capable of ary tvfi est
mat a b^y of his are is capable of ppemarkabte fcr
Breath is most nfed to house work &c. Enquire
of Dr. Wuham Jepfon of Hartford, or the Printers.
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