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tera were all finally fettled between England,
France and America, on the evening ofthe loth
instant;
" Minorca, and most of the captured iftands
in the Weft-Indies, will be returned to Great-
Britain. In the Exit-Indies, France will be put
in the fame situation as in the year 1748. Spain
is to have the entire possession of Florida. Gib
raltar entirely out of the question; France and
Europe in general would have it remain in the
hands of the English. Dispatches are sent to
Toulon, Cadiz and Breß, to flop the failing of
the armaments.,
“ Moll people here are of opinion, Dr. Frank
lin will immediately return to England."
%„. 7. We are assured that frefh orders
have been sent to all the different offices since
Friday, to accelerate every preparation for war,
as if no negociation was on the carpet.
The next mail from Jamaica is anxiously ex
pected by government, and the merchants iri
terefted in the welfare of that island, as certain
intelligence is received from Madrid, that the
preparations for an attack commenced at the
Cape soon after the departure of Admiral Pigot
for A merica. The whole military force of
France and Spain, intended for the expedition,
amounted to 13,000'men, a number fufficient to
carry the island, if they should be able to make
good their landing before Admiral Hood.
Jan. 8. A dispatch boat, fitted out very sud
denly from Rhode-Ifland, arrived at Brest the
15th of last month, with an American gentle
man, bearing dispatches from Congress to the
Commissioners at Paris, 'and the French Mi
nistry. This vessel had but 17 days passage to
Breit, and is said to bring the answers and deter
minations to the propositions for preliminaries,
which went from hence to Paris, by Mr.Strachey,
in October last. As soon as the messenger was
dispatched back from Paris, the general conver
sations as to peace altered very considerably, and
the universal opinion at Paris, on the 20th of
December, was, that the negociation for preli
minaries had been put a flop to fora time.
Yesterday morning early a messenger arrived
at St. James's, from France, express from Mr.
Fitzherbert, theßritifh negociator residing there.
A meeting of all the members of administration
was immediately convened at Lord Shelburne's
house, in confluence of the above dispatches,
and an order iflued for summoning the whole ca
binet for this day. We are informed from most
refpeAable authority, that these accounts bring
the final decision of the French cabinet, with ref
pea to the important object of the present ne
gociation, the purport of which we understand
to be as follows : That the French minister had
declared definitely, that his court could by no
means agree to that participation of territory in
the East-Indies, which the British cabinet, after
consulting the Directors of the East-India Com
pany, had marked out. On the contrary, they
infill upon an entire restitution of their former
property in that quarter, and the full liberty of
unlimited traffic thereto. This answer necessa
rily put an end to the present negociation, as
both courts have mutually transmitted their ul
timatum on the above leading article of the treaty.
Another correspondent, of thehigheft respec
tability, requests us to insert the following, as
the true and indisputable state of the great poli
tical concerns now agitating among the several
belligerent powers : —The negociation now car
rying on by the different powers at war, was in
such a forward state, that administration expe&-
ed, by the dispatches which were received by the
messenger who arrived on Friday to have been
able to have wrote another letter to the Lord
Mayor, and to the Bank Directors, informing
them that the preliminary articles were actually
signed. By the fame channel we are informed,
that contrary to every expectation on the part of
government, a courier had arrived from Madrid,
about the fame time, with some frefh demands
on the part ofSpain, which had thrown all this
long negociation into the utmoit confufion, and
for the present suspended it. This manoeuvre is
attributed to the artful policy of the French Mi
nistry, who have been amusing and playing off
the old game of cajoling our cabinet, while they
have been industriously fending out troops, and
every other reinforcement, to their foreign pos
sessions.
The Flanders mail of yesterday, brings an ac
count that four fail of the line, (part of the fleet
which some time ago failed from Brest for Cadiz)
failed from Cadiz to the East-Indies, prior tothe
failing of thq W^ft-India combined fleet. The
principal obfeft bf Fraric^ seems th be towards
the East-Indies, and these Blips, added to a for
mer fupeior fleet in the East, must leave very un
easy suspicions for some of our sea port poffelh
ons in India.
PHILADELPHIA, March 4.
The resignation of the fuperintendant of fi
nance having occasioned much conversation, the
printer is happy in being able to furnish his cus
tomers with copies bf Mr. Morris's letters on
that fubjed, to congress.
Office of Finance, January 24, 178 ft
SIR,
AS nothing but the public danger would have
induced md to accept my office, so I was deter
mined to hold it until the danger was pah, or
else to meet my ruin in the common wreck.
Under greater difficulties than were apprehended
by the mofttimid, and with less Support than was
expended by the leaff fahguife, the generous
confidence of the public accomplished more
than I presumed to hope.
Congress will recoiled, that I expressly stipu
lated to take no part in past tranfa&ions. My
attention to the public debts, arbfe from the con
vidion that funding them on solid revenues, was
the last essential work of our glorious revolution.
The accomplishment of this necessary Work is a
mong the objects nearest my heart, and to effect
it, I would continue to facrifice time, property
and domestic bliss.
Many late circumstances have so far lessened
our apprehensions from the common enemy,
that my original motives have almost ceased to
operate ; but other circumstances have postpon
ed the establishment of public credit in such a
manner, that I fear it will never be made. To
encreafe our debts while the profpe& of paying
them diminishes, does not consist with my ideas
of integrity. I must therefore quit a Situation
which becomes utterly insupportable: but left
the public measures might be deranged by any
precipitation, I will continue to serve until the
end of May. If effectual measures are not taken,
by that period, to make permanent provisions
for the public debts of every kind, Congress will
be pleased to appoint some other man to be the
fuperintendant oftheir finances. I should be un
worthy of the confidence reposed in me by my
fellow citizens, if I did not explicity declare, that
I will never be the minister of injustice. With
perfect esteem and and refpe&, I have the ho
nour to be, fir, your excellency's most obedient
and humble servant.
Office of Finance, February 26, 1783.
SI R,
A number of those who have contracted en
gagements with me, will, I know, place a perso
nal reliance on me for the fulfilment of them.
As the time approaches very faft, when I am to
quit this office, it is proper for me to make the
necessary preparations. Among these I must
place the due and seasonable information, which,
as an honed man, I must convey to those who
have confided in me. lam therefore to pray that
the injunction of secrecy contained in the order
of the 24th of January last, may be taken off.
At the fame time I take the liberty to suggest to
congress, that the early appointment of my suc
cessor will give him opportunity to take such
measures as may prevent many inconveniencies
that might otherwise happen. With perfect ref
pe&, I have the honour to be, fir, your excellen
cy's most obedient and humble servant.
His Excellency the President of Congress.
H ARTFOR D, March 18.
Last Friday one James Gibson, a young man
about 22 years of age, who was convicted be
fore the Hon. Superior Court, for a Rape, com
mitted on the body of a woman in Middletown
upwards of 60 years old, received fentance of
death, and is to be executed on the 4th Wed
nesday in June next.
On the 24th of February last, Mrs. Mary
Wheelock, reli& of the late Reverend Dr.
Eleazer Wheelock, departed this life at
Hanover, in the 69th year of her age, of a billi
ous disorder.-—A lady possessed of many amia
ble and religious accomplishments, and who had
the friendship and relped of a numerous ac
quaintance. Her resignation and joy in the hour
of death evinced and recommended the fin ce
rity of her life.
Advertisement's omitted iuill be in our next.
American and Scotch Bibles,
To be Sold by the Printers hereof,
—At Public Vendue—
On Wednesday of every Week from the Date
hereof, at nine o'clock forenoon.
,Till be exposed fa Sale,
At the Store of HEZ. MERRIL, a fe^
rods South of the Court House,
A VARIETY of
Dry GOODS, SALT, &c. &c.
*|* Goods deposited, will be accounted for,
either at public or private Sale, agreeable to or
ders. ,
Hartford, March 17, 17'83.
Choice Weft-India RUM
By the hogshead or barrel, to be Sold by GEORGE MEfc
RILL, opposite the Printing, Office, very cheap for cash.—-
Likewise, a small assortment of Dry GOODS, Brown Sugar,
Rock and Fine Salt, Tea, Chocolate, Press-Papers, &c. &c.
Hartford, March 18, 178,.
WA NT E D,
A number of sprightly young HORSES,
fit for Shipping. Enquire of
JEREMIAH & EBEN. PLATT.
Hartford, March 18, 1783.
Just printed in Springfield, and to be fold by Nathaniel Par
ten ten rods north of the Court-House Hartford.
The deserted Village a POEM,
By Dr. Goldsmith.
Nert week will be well printed, handfomefy bound and
ready for the Subferibers and others, that meat Pocket Vo
lume of the Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the
Troops of the United States, ' at fix shillings each and less b,
th'e dozen.
ALL those who served in my Company at New-London,
and are itill unpaid, are notified that I shall attend on
themfor fertlement,at Ensign Jonathan Ellfworth'sin Wind
sor, on Tuesday the firft of April, and at Capt. Elijah Wrighf£
in Wethersfield, on Thursday following, beginning at nine
o'clock in the morning of each day.
ROBERT WELLS, Capt.
N. B. Those who do not apply pcrfonally must fend am
order.
WE the Subferibers, boing appointed Commiffionerc
by the Hon. Court of Probate, for the diftriaof
Windham, to receive and examine the claims of the credi
tors to the estate of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, late of Manf
field in the county of Windhan, deceased, represented in
solvent; do hereby give notice that we shallattend said ba,
finefs at the dweUing-houfe of Daniel Dunham, innholder
in said Mansfield, on the fecoud Tuesdays of April and May,
next, at one o'clock on each of said days.
JESE WALDO, ) Commiffi.
ISAAC BARROWS. ) oners.
Mansfield, February 28, 178,.
To be Sold, to the highest bidder, by the Sub
scriber, on Thursday the 3d day of April next,
at one o'clock P. M. at his dwelling house in
New-Britain :
A FARM, situated on the road from Farmington to New- 1
Britain, about two miles and half from the Meeting
House, being a convenient place for a Tavern, with a good
house, barn, and cow house, all well ereded, an excellent
well of water; said Farm contains fifty one acres, well
proportioned for plowing, mowing, pasturing and wood
land, with a young orchard thereon that would make at or
30 barrels cyder the last season. For further particulars en
quire of the fubferiber living on the premises.
JOSIAH KILBORN.
Farmington, March it, 1783.
WHEREAS the owners oftimber in Connedicut river'
at a meeting held at Dresden, on the 4th day of
March instant, have veiled the Subferibers with full power
and authority, to tranfaft all matters relative to ttat busi
ness; this is to give notice, that all persons are requested
not to stop any of said timber above Hadley falls, and all
persons who take up timber below said falls, are hereby de?
fired to raft said timber, and if they cannot raft it, to place
it in as convenient a manner as possible for rafting, and
they shall receive pay for their services from us.
WILLIAM PAGE,
, „ ALEXANDER PLUMIfa
Charleftown, March 6, 1783.
TAKEN up by the Subscriber, in Farmington meadows
a bay MARE, 5 or 6 years old, two white bind fees
a star in her forehead, a natural trotter, no brand nor shoes.
And also a last springs sorrel horse COLT (of the above
Mare) one white foot, a star in his forehead. The owner
is desired to pay charges and take them away.
EBENEZER LANKTON.
Farmington, March r, 1783.
"f "o' .B E SO L D,"
And entered upon immediately,
A FARM in WeHhampton, containing one hundredacref
of land with a convenient House and good Barn, be
tween 30 and 40 under good improvement in mowing, paG
curing and plowing and well fenced, five acres of grain in
the ground and ten more has the timber dead for puting in#
crop next season, the whole is well watered and peculiarly
suited to grass, If the Farm is nor fold soon it will be let
for one year more, for further information enquire of
JONATHAN JUDD, jqn.
Southampton, March I, 1783.
T O B E SOL
By Capt. Suttely of Watertown,
A LIKELY gay gelding HORSE, fix years old, fifteen
hands high, fuitablc for a saddle or carriage,
March 17, „Bfr