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HARTFORD, August 13.
The following is a Copy of a letter from Sir^ Guy
Carlton and Rear Admiral Digby, to bis Excel
lency General Wafoington, written in confeauence
of directions from England, publifoed at the re
quejl of the inhabitants of New-I ork.
New-York, August 2, 1782.
"SIR,
" The pacific disposition of the Parliament
and people of England towards the thirteen pro
vinces, nas already been communicated to you,
and the resolutions of the House of Commons
of'the 27th of February last has been placed in
your Excellency's hands, and intimations given
at the fame time, that further pacific measures
were likely to follow ; since which until the pre
sent, we have had no directcommunication from
England; but a mail has now arrived which brings
us veryimportant information. We ve acquain
ted, Si r , by authority, that negotiations for a ge-:
neral peace have already commenced at Paris,
and that Mr. Grenville is invested with full pow
ers to treat with all the parties at war, and is now
at Paris in the execution of this commission.---
And we are further, Sir, made acquainted, that
his Majesty, in order to remove every obstacle
to that peace which he so ardently wishes to re
store, has commanded his Ministers to direct
Mr. Grenville, that the independency of the
thirteen provinces should be proposed by him in
the firft instance, instead of making it a conditi
on of a general treaty ; however, not without the
highest .confidence that the Loyalists flrall be re
stored to their poffelhons, or a full compensation
made them for whatever confifeations may have
taken place. With refpe& to Mr. Lawrens, we
are to acquaint you, that he has been enlarged*
and difeharged from all engagements without
any condition whatever ; after which he declar
ed of his own accord, that he considered Lord
Cornwallis as free from his parole. Upon this
point we are to desire your Excellency's senti
ments, or those of Congress. We are further ac
quainted transports have been prepared in Eng
land, for conveying all the American prifoneis
to this country to be exchanged here; and we
are directed to urge by every consideration of hu
manity, the most speedy exchange—a measure
in which not only the comfort, but the rights of
individuals are concerned. A proportion has
already been made that all exchanges of men of
the fame description being exhausted, Tailors and
soldiers thall be immediately exchanged, man
for man against each other, with this condition
annexed, that your sailors (hall be at liberty to
serve the moment they .are exchanged, and the
soldiers so received by us shall not serve in or
against the thirteen provinces for one year, and
from this propofiti an we do not wish to recede.
We have the.bonor to be,
Your Excellency's most obedient
Humble Servants,
GUY CARLTON,
R. ^ I G BY.
BOSTON, August 8.
A letter from TOrient, ofJune 3, fays, "The
States of Holland have rejected all the terms for
a separate peace offered them by the new mini
stry of Britain The part they have taken in ac
knowledging your independence, has given turn
to affairs in Europe. Their purse-strings are o
pening in our favour, insomuch as to let 011 foot
a loan of five millions of florins for America."
N E W- L O NDO N, August 9°
Fridaynight last a finall privateer schooner from
New-York, cut out of Newport harbour, a brig
loaded and ready to fail for the Weft-Indies and
a Coasting sloop of about 30 tons, and was bound
with her prizes to New-York, when on Saturday
the sloop Randolph fell in with and captured, the
schooner and sloop in the Sound; and on Sun
day morning the continental frigate Alliance,
being bound out, fell in with the above brig and
sent her into port.
Last Saturday night, three horses and two cows
were killed by lightning, at Lebanon.
Last Saturday a flag of truce returned to New
port from Charleftown, South-Carolina: On her
passage she fell in with a French fleet of 13 fail
of the line, and three frigates, and was in com
pany with them several days. A frigate carri
ed dispatches for Count de Rochambeau and Ge
neral Wellington from the fleet, which it is said,
were landed at York-Town. The flag left the
fleet off the Chefapeak about eight days ago;
they were then standing to the northward.
. When the above flag left Charleftown, the Bri
tish garrison had left Savannah in Georgia.
Messrs. Printers,
Please to give the following a place in your pa
per, and you will oblige more than one friend
and cuflomer.
J HAVE heard of a Frenchman, who used
A every morning to bless God for being born
a Frenchman. Who would not do as much ? I
hope no person will befo unreasonable as to deny
that the honorable Legislature of this State has
done justice in enabling a late law, whereby a
fubje& of his Most Christian Majefly is enabled,
by application made in writing to a Judge ofthe
County Court, to have a Special Court called
(when any ill-fated inhabitant of this State re
fufes the payment of a demand) to have the par
ty arrested, immediately tried, no appeal or re
view allowed, execution awarded, and only fix
days allowed for the collecting and returning,
and only three days for the polling any estate
(taken thereon) before sale; I fay hope nonewill
deny the justice of this aft ; but then who can
bless God for being born an American ? Who,
whether his affairs require his speedy leaving
America or not, mull (although payment has
already been delayed seven, eight or ten years)
wait for a Stated Court, then experience the
putting off from Court to Court, and after every
tedious delay, at last obtain an execution retur
nable in ten times fix days.—Patience! thou
wretch ! whose evil destiny it was to be bo r n an
American.—Patience I fay ! for at last, instead
of thy due, thou must take up with land, fh^ep,
or cattle, grain, flour, Weft-India goods, or bar
iron, or State Notes, or still wait.-—I can hold no
longer! but in the pious words of good old Job
fay, " Let the day perish wherein I was born"
an American ! " and the night wherein it was
" said, &c. Let the Rars of the twilight thereof
" be dark, let it look for light buthavenone,&c.
" Because itdhut not up the doors of my mo
" ther's womb,nor hid sorrow from mine eyes !
" Why died I not from the womb ? Why did I
“ not give up the ghost when I came out, &c ?"
Who would not sing and dance to have been
born a Frenchman! Who would not bless God
to hive been born a fubjeU to the great, thegood,
the generous Monarch of France !
AMERICANUS.
N EW-Y O R K,„ August 1.
Yesterday arrived herehisMajelty's fhipSanta
Margaretta, Salter, Esq; commander. On
Monday last he fell in with, off Chefapeak,e, Le
Amazone, a French frigate of 36 guns and 300
men, which Ilie engaged an hour and twenty
minutes, when she ihruck t© the Santa Margaret
ta. The Le Amazone had her Captain, firlt third
and fourth Lieutenants, and a great part of the
crew killed, the second Lieutenant and a num
her of her men wounded, and her rigging very
much torn. TheSanta Margaretta to,red lier
prize for eleven hours, but being closely pursued
by a French 84 gun ship, was obliged toabandon
As Poyning'sLaw is frequently mentioned in
the Irilh news of this day, it may not be amiss
to observe for the fake of the less informed, that
it is an aft made under the administration ofSir
Edward Poynings, who was sent over from Eng
land to Ireland in quality of Vicegerent thereof,
ab out the year 1494, in the reign of Henry VII.
This famous law purported that no parliament
should be held, or counted legal in Ireland, till it
be agreed that such adds as were propounded re
lative to the affairs of Ireland should be certified
or confirmed, approved or negatived in England
by the king and his Council there, and then re
turned under the great seal of that realm.
On Friday fe'nnight arrived at Stonington, the
flag Whim, commanded by Capt. Thomas Sey
more, from Bermuda, which brought about 40
prisoners; about half belonging to this State,
and the other to the Maflachufetts State; the
prisoners report that in general all prisoners ta
ken bythe- Bermuda privateers are very well used,
and every indulgence given which can be expe&-
ed in their situation.---Capt. Riley came in the
above flag,who has been taken and re-taken in
the course of his voyage, since the 20th of April
five times; he was cut out of St. Kitts, with
Capt. Deane belonging to Philadelphia, and
Capt. Wade from Newburn in North-Carolina,
by the Regulator and Amazon, both 20 gun
ships, who carried them to Antigua, where they
were detained 12 days, and then returned to St.
Ktits under convoy of the Try-on frigate, where
they were very joyfully received, by the governor
and inhabitants in general.
Hit OUUiC IUCr UCllf i , Al
fons indebted to him for NEWS-PAPERS to m tee im
mediate payment, in order to enable hi oto fettle w' the
Primers. JAMES EGLESTONE.
BR°KE 0 out of the pafturc of Samuel Smith of New-
Britain, a sorrel MARE, about 14 and an half hands
high, paces chiefly, shod allround, her off hind foot white,
near fore footwhite, no brand.---Also, a brown MARE,
with a young COLT, the Mare has a white blaze in her f?<e,
paces and trotts, no shoes on, branded with the letter W~
on the nearshoulder. Whoever will take up said strays and
return them to the fubferiber, shall be handsomely rewarded
by . SAMUEL SMITH.
New-Britain, August 6, 1783.
WE the fubferibers being appoint d Commiffi n er : by
the Hon. Court of Probate for rhe diftr& f Middle
town, to receive and examine the claims of the c < 4 os to
rhe eftire of John Hill, lace of Chatham deceas'd, (epre
femed insolvent) do hereby give notice to the said credi
tors, that we shall attend said business at the dwelling
houfe of the said deceased in said Chatham, on the Lift
Mond iy of August and th- firlt Monday o' September next,
from two o'clock till fix, P M on each offaid days. No
accounts will be allowed unless properly . tr fad
BENJAMIN PARMELBE.
DARIUS ADAMS.
N. B. No accounts will be allowed after said time.
Chatham, July 30, 1,8%.
S T A T R of C ONNECTIc Ci'
—... Hartford County, August s th, 1782.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given to all concerned, That
A - a Libel is filed before tne Hon. Jabez Hamlin,
Judge of the Maritime Court for the County ofHartford
William Starr, of Middletown, in said cou >cy, against a
Whale Boat, Oarsand Sails, nine Fire Arms, .nd a rri
tv of Goods and Merchandize, firn, d and uized in said Mid
dletown, on the ph of August instant, and app.aifed at more
than Thirty Pounds lawful money, laid to be illegally im
ported in Lid Whale Boat from New Yoik. 01 othe. pi c es
within the controul of the enemy, which the libellant Cys
is forfeited by the laws of this State. For the *rial 0 'e
justice offaid feizu^e, a Maritime C # ot will be held are the
Court House in Hartford, on the 28th of August inst. nt
when and where all persons concerns imay appear andshew
reason why the said Boat. Goods, &c. should not be con
demned. By order of the Jr'ge,
GFORGF WYLLY S, R g' r .
nrHE Colledsot st ttaid Town Texes to the town of
4 Sorters, hereby whrns the inhabitants of fid town
immediately to pay heir refpedive R<tes or exped ro hvc
cott to pay , and those persons who have Lind in laid tewn
liable 10 be fold for R tes, to hav % thei Land fold at the
Sign FoR in said Somers, on the fi ft Tucfd v of o&ober
next, if they negled to fettle by that time and pay offtheir
rates, viz. The heirs ofNoah Ashley, deceas'd, the hens of
Joseph Buell, Samuel Colton, Joteph Colton, Isaac Jvnes
John Hale, George Pynchon and Charks Pynchon, Ebene
zer Romrell, Daniel Sexton, 2d
JOSIAH HALL, jun) Colled>rs .f
AMARIAHKIBB E,) Somers.
Somers, Augult c, 1782.
STATE of CONNECTICUT, ff.
Hartford County, August 5, 1782.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that a Libel is filed be
lore the Hon. Jabez Hamlin, Esq, Judge of the Mara
time Court for the County of Hartford, by Ebenezer Day
ton, commander of the armed Boat Called the Suffolk, for
himfelf and his affoeiates, against a quantity of Goods,
Wares and Merchandize, said to be taken on the high feat
fromthe enemy, on the second day of Aaguft infant, and
since brought to the county of Hartford fortrial. For the
hearing offaid Libel, a Court will be holden at the Court
House in Hartford, in said county, on the twenty-eighth da,
of August instant, when and where all persons concerned
may appear and they shall be heard.
JABEZ HAMLIN,
Judge of the Maratime Court in the county of Hartford,
' TEN D™OLLA RS™REW~AR d("
STOLEN from the fubferiber on the night after the firft
infant, out of a pasture in E.rft Windsor, a Red Roan
MARE, somewhat spotted, about 15 years old, natural pa
cer, without brand, her near hip a little fallen, shod before,
suckles a Colt. Whoever will secure the thief and mare,
and give notice to the fubferiber in Simsbury, shall have
Ten Dollars reward and necessary charges, or for the Mare
only, a generous reward and reasonable charges paid, b,
NATHANIEL HILLYER.
Simfbuiy, August 9, 1782,
her, after taking out his own men and Seventy of
the crew that were left on board, and cutting
away the remainder of her rigging.
From Rivington's Royal Gazette, of July 10.
To the PUBLIC
The Publiflier of this paper, sensible that his
zeal tor the success of his Majesty's arras, his
{anguine wiflies for the good of his country,and
his friendfllip for individuals, have at times led
him to credit and circulate paragraphs, without
investigating the facts so closely as his duty to
the public demanded ; trufling to their feelings,
and depending on their generosity, he begs them,
to look over past errors, and depend on future
corredtnefs ; for henceforth he will neither desire
nor expert nor solicit their favours longer than
his endeavours shall Ramp the fame degree of
authenticity and credit on the Royal Gaz tie (of
New-York! as all Europe allow to the Royal
Gazette of London.
[From hence it is to be presumed, that Satan,
Rivington and Co. have thoughts of breaking up
partnership.]