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j±< VERY Man Woman and Child, indebted to
DANIEL ALLEN is desired to makoimme
diate pay meuf.
N. IL Those that I lent hard money to in yeari;
past, may pay for the fame in paper, for I am not
afraid of iqaair dollars.
Southington June 9 1778.
L" ~ OSTonthetode inSimfbury,o"nThe}th of June
instant, a parchment pocket book, containing
4 or 5 seven dollar bills continental currency, and
2or j small Connecticut bills. Whoever ha's fouad
the fame and will return it with its contents ihall
have four dollars reward, paid by Caleb Case.
Simfoury June 11, 1778.
THE person who received on board a vefTe lin
the spring 1776, 50 barrels of Pork the pro
perty of Capt. Ozhas Pettibone of Simfbury, to
transport to New York for the life of the army, is
desired to deliver in a receipt for the fame at the
tommiffary - General's Office at Hartford, where he
fliall be handfumely rewarded.
June 12, 1778.
TAKEN up by the fubfcrfber ofNorthbury on
the 28th instant a dark brown horse with a
star in the forehead 4 or 5 years old. about Chands
high, paces all; no brand, rowel'd in the bread.
The Owner may have him again on paying charges.
ABEL SU TLIF.
Waterbury May 30 1778.
T° AKEN up by the fubferiber fame time in ^
December a red roan HORSE, branded
C S oh the left buttock, about 14 bands high about
5 years old, paces and trots, thod all round. The
owner for farther particulars is desired to apply to
JANNA CHURCHELL.
Lenox May2fl77B. _
DESERTED from my company in Col. Wyl
tys's regiment tha Beginning of June inst.
a foidier named NormpnF & a likely well let fel
low. 21 years of age, retort &eet high, grey eyes
dark hair and complexion lately lived at Windsor
in Corinedicut; had on a hunting ffiirt, butternut
colour'd veil white woolen overhalls, good cador
hat 'tis supposed he inte ids to go on board some
privateer. Also one Like Da& 28 years of
age, 5 feet 9 inches high dark hair, grey eyes light
complexion cloth ng unknown has lately lived in
a place called Canada in W i 0 am in Connecticut.
Whoever will take up said deserters and confine
,hem in any goal in the Unite I Stakes, or return
them to the regiment at Weft Point, fhal| have if
dollars reward for each and all neceßaty charges
paid by John Bernard, Capt.
Hertford, June 25, 1778.
DEferted from my company, after being drafted
for the nime. months service to make up the
continental quota on, Asa Hall being a bout five
feet eight inches high black hair goes looping for
ward, of a swarthy completion about nineteen or
twenty years of age ; - LbewTe one Jesse Utter,
being about five feet fix inches high, light complex
tion, fight coujerd hair {lender built a bout twenty
years of age. Whoever will take up said deserters,
or either of them and return them or either of them
. to me, or secure them so that I can return them to
the regiment to which they belong Ihall have fif
teen dollars reward for each of Aid deserters and
all necessary charges paid by me
John Salisbury, Capt.
King's DiftriA (Stateof New York) June 3 1778.
STRAYED from Mr. Seth Collens in Hartford
Weft Devision on thurfday the 11th infant; a
dark brown mare about f 5 handshigh, 6 years old, no
brand a white streak in her face foor feet food.
Whoever will bring Aid mare to the fubferiber in
Merridan m Wallin, ford, shall be ceneroufly reward
ed for his trouble, and all necessary charges paid,
by - JOHN HOUGH.
June rg. >7,8-
TOOUND a new head of a riding hood and left
, at the house of John Leavitt Esq; in Suffield.
June 15, 1778..
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From theNEW JERSEY GAZETTE,
Exirafts from his Excellency Governor LevinGs
ton's Meflage to the General Affembty of the
Siam of New Jersey.
QENTLEMEN
I HEARTILY congratulate yon up6n the a
greable news we have received from France since
I had the pleasure of meeting you last in this place.
Toe treaties of alliance and of amity and commerce,
between his Most Chriflain Maely and the United
States of America bywhich our freedom, fovereign
fy and independence, are fully recognized ratified
guaranteed andoh'r trade left fr^eand unembarrassed,
are fu advantageous on our part, and display such
gencrofity and magnanimity on that of oar illuHri
ous ally, as cannot but excite in our breads the most
cordial refpe& for that powerful Monarch, and the
devoutest acknowledgment of that propitious Provi
dence which hath influenced the heart of a foreign
Prince to int'erpofe nis assistance for delivering us
from thebloody perfection of one so lately our own.
As we were at firft compelled into a declaration of
independance, it wasthe highest wifdomjo solicit a
Qgtable alliance for its fecurity' and support. To
both fhefe measures we may appeal to the whole
world, that we were driven by a tyrannical King,
a venal Parliament, and a flagitious Ministry., In
deed the conduA of our opprefTors has thro the
whole course of the war, been so infatuated and re
morfefefs as if Heaven had deprived them of corn
mon sense *as well as Heli inspired them with all its
malice.. But their day of national correction is iwift
ly approaching Their unpara eled cruelties both
intheeafternaudweftern woild - -cat last enkn^ed
the Divine vengeance ; and re judgments of God
are now overtaking a nation Which has filled up the
measure of its iniquity; a d ken~ been the rrkidim
pious and irreligious of any ii. Christendom. To
chastise her insolence the force 01 France and Ame
rica is new united in an indissoluble league. How
mult haughty Britain be co founded atthe dreadful
news; and curse the fatal consequences of her moon
ftruch policy ? Methinks Ifee her power and graiideur
crumbling into ruin and a ll ,her towering honours
levelled with the drift That decisive influence
which the has long maintained in fl e scale of Europe,
is now rapidly verging to fallen impotence; andthe
miftres of the ocean become the contempt of those
very potentates who lately revered her councils and
trembled at her arms. But how Ipeedily soever (he
may be doomed to final perdition, it is our duty to
guard against the vindictive efft&s of her expiring
Hrug'les. When all rhe horrors of desperation seize
her; and utterly hbpeleE of conquest frie d< term nes
so rife even above herfelf, by tome signal stupendous
aft of barbarity having, like the Devil in the apo
calypfe. GREAT WRATH BECAUSE SHE KNOWEtH
that she hath bgt short TIME, the may attempt
to defolaie what she finds it impossible to Subdue.
Againf tfuch/faVage and deftruftion. to which we
know by experience it is not beneath her dignity to
condefc^id it is our interest to oppose the mob ftre
nuous exertions. We want only one Spirited and
general effort to expel her remnant of banditti from
the Continent, and for ever to emancipate ourselves
into Cornpleat and uninterrupted liberty. One cam
paign more will, in all probability decide the im
portant contest : And in whose favour it is like.y 10
terminate is Written by the hand of Providence in
charafters too legible to be misunderstood.
The alacrity of our men to enter into the service
and the great dispatch with which pur battalions a- e
completing mus ialfo afle& every lover of his court
try with singular pleasure.
The resolution of Congress of the 19th of March,
refpeAihg the railing the quotas of men, and the pro
viding their accoutrements is herewith bidbetore
you, together with that of the 17th of April pur
hant to which this State is only to comp'eat three
regiments of infantry in the manner recommended
by the resolution of the 26th day ofFebruary Uft,
Gentlemen.
As you rose at :he lad fitting ofthe A ffembly ith-
OUt ratifying the Articles of Confederation and per-
petual Union between the States I hope they will
enrage your early attention at the present,
Tue Congress by their reflation of the loth of
March, having Waeftly requeued the Goverhofs^nd
Presidents of the refpe&'ve S ate's to tranfmu to them
as soon as possible attested copies of the a&s passed
by their respective .leg Natures in phrfuance of re
commendations oftongrefs, which they may have
received since the firft day of Nov mber last. and of
allafts which they may . e^eafierpafs n consequence
of future recommendations You Will be pleated 0
furnifh me, for that purpofa, with atiefted copies of
the a&s firft described With all continent ipeed.
lembracetuis opportunity farther to communicate
to you a reflation of Congress. of tie ift instant,
recommending it to the several Smies to empower
the executive authority of such State- from time to
time to |rant exemptions from duty in the ml tia
to such persons a, n% from time to time le em
ployed in m^ufaauring military femes and 6,her ar
ticles for the use .of the United States'
Tie p.efent condition of our pubhek accounts
renders it in&fpenfebly ieceffmy ^ ap,o nt some
pfrrfoninthe chvader of Auditor, with alafficent
fiLiyto induce a gen leman df adequate flail and a
biftir.s to accept of the appointment.
I hope Gentlemen, it,will ingage your seasonable
confiderati^ what measures ought to he adopted,
rejecting th^fe ampmbious inmates (ever willing
citizens toall the p ipofcs of deriving from the S^fe
every legal benifn and pro edion but to nbnebf re
turning reciprocal duty and''allegiance) who teem
refolded to the very end of the quarrel to maintain
a kind of fh^^ til and most d; fingenous nentral ty;
hop ng by not avowedly Mpeufing either fide but
occafmnalLy and indued Iv a 1 ettm both to secure
to rhemfe^es a favourable reception with the pre
vailin party let that party eventually probe to be
the opprefiivearoppreffed. Such politicalhypo rites
ought by a general tea, to be dragged from tl eir
lurking holes ferretted out of their dupbeuy a; d
REFUGE of Ues. and be taught by an aft for that
purpose, that however will ng the legislature may
be to imitate the example of the generous boufhol
dr who made no d fferm @e in his p. ymerits be
tween those who went tobbourmhis vineyard at the
fird or eleventh hour ; they are detained not to
set the firft example in the World of allowing wages
to thole who never would enter the virey^d at ail
'till the gripes were fully r ; pe by the cultivation of
others ; and came then only with a view,of foeak
ingly fpunging upon and regaling themselves with,
the wine of other peop^'s expressing:
There are in this State many valuable at d eonfei
entioui citizens whb ate fcrupuLus cftaking an
oath in rhe prelent form, and with the Ungldli cere
mony of killing the book ; wirich they confider as
fnperftitious and a remnant of popery. Amid ft that
. liberality of sentiment anduter abhortence of in
fringing upon the rights of cons ience which teems
to mirk the pfefent sera with peculiar lufire; ran it
be Confident with found policy, or she generous fpi.
rit of our confutation, to debar an honett man for a
religious scruple from the privilege s off cie y which
the meh profligate and abandoned arf peridirted to
enjoy in the fulleft latitude ? I therefore flutter my
felf tbat our legiflatitre will be so indulgent to this
fcrupulofty, which is at le rft innocent, as to \utmi
«ize the maoiftrate bbthe adminftration of an o?th,
to difpence With such part, of it as may. ^mbarrafs the
conference, and is beyound queftidn altogether
formal and in no refpecl ellential to ?$ nature or
solemnity . ,
I have farther to lay before ycu, GenHemen, a re
solution of Congref; of the 23d of April recom
mc: ding it to the legislature- of the federal Sratesto
pus laws otto the ^xecutiveautberty of each State,
jf inverted with faTicient power, to ; ffue proclama
tions offering pard-m, w^rf^h exceptions nd un
der such limiwions and reltr^t on: as they ihall
ti~;nk expedient to fuchrfiheir inha^itam sor fub
;ecV aG have levh d war mainft any ofthe States, or
adhered to aided or abetted the enemy, and Bull