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In confluence cf ths offers you have made, you
fay, all our just claims are gratified. You then ad
mit, that when you began the war, we had just claims.
You matt admit, that notwithstanding our most
humble petition in behalf of our just claims, you re
futed to grant thole claims. You must also admit
^that for three years you have by force of arms, and
all the horrors of war, endeavored to reduce us to
unconditional fubmiflion, notwithstanding we had
just claims. Upon thole points then there is no
mistake or doubt ; nor can there be any upon these.
The just claims of America ought to have been
granted when they were dated, and you were de
nied togive redress. You denied us common juf
tice, by refufing to grant redress upon those just
claims. You enormously added to that injufhce,
by letting loose upon us all the calamities of war,
to oblige us to abandon those our just claims. And
we have now a just claim to receive fatisfa&ion for
all the camage which we, thro' your injustice, have
received, in fupportingour just claims. Your injus
tice has ruined thousands of our families. You have
unjustly burned our towns and ravaged our country.
Fathers, mothers, brothers, and friends, mourn the
loss of their children, brothers and friends, by your
injustice slain in the field of battle, scalped in their
peaceable dwellings murdered in your horrid pri
sons. Agnerica, by your injustice has loft thousands
of her belt citizens, and has been obliged to expend
millions ofher treasure. Nor is the loss her youth
have fuftaiaed by your injustice, the loss of those
important years for the improvement of their under
{landings which they can never regain, the least
loss she has sustained.---Look at this short lift of de
mages, and fay, whether you have even offered
to gratify America in all her just claims ! Say, is
it in the nature of things possible for you to gratify
America in all^er just claims ! There was a time
when you might easily have done so : You threw it
away ; you must be ' struck that the time of pro
pofiag terms is past " never to return.
[For the Remainder fee the last page.]
St. CROIX. CHRIS TIANST7ED, August 26.
By a gentleman arrived yesterday from Windward,
we have the following :
VERSAILLES.
Copy of a letter from the KING, to Monsieur Le
Compte Darbau, dated June 28, 1778.
Monsieur Le Comptb Darbau,
CG CT^HE insult offered to my flag by one of the
I King of England's frigates, against my
frigate the Belle Poulle ; the taking of my frigate
La Licorne and La Pallas ; and of my cutter Le
Coureur, by an English fleet, in contempt of the law
of nations ; the seizing on the high seas, and confif
cation of ships, the property of my fubjefls, against
the faith of treaties ; the continued disorder and da
mage which that power occasions to the maritime
commerce of my kingdom, and to*my American Co
lonies, either by her ships of war or by the priva
teers, whose lawless depredations she countenances :
All these injurious proceedings, and particularly the
insult offered to my flag, have forced me to fix
bounds to the moderation I had proposed to myfelf
to observe, and will not permit me any Jonger to
suspend the effects of my resentment. The dignity
of my Crown, and the protection of my fubje&s,
oblige me at last to make reprisals and to commence
hoflilities against the King of Great- Britain : that my
ships attack and endeavor to take and destroy all the
ships, frigates and other vessels belonging to she
King of England, which they may meet with; and
that they take and destroy in like manner, all English
merchant ships they may meet with ; and that ray
troops attack, seize and occupy the possessions of his
Britannic Majesty."
rs "I write you this letter to inform you, that it !s
my intention that you employ all the force, as well
by land as by sea, that you have under your direc
tion, to attack and take the possessions of the King of
England, his ships, frigates and other vessels, as well
as all the merchant ships belonging to his fubje&s,
and to that effect ; that you exercise, and cause to
be exercifad every kind of hostility authorifed by
the laws of war.
" I am sere of finding in the justice of my cause,
in the valour and dexterity of my general officers;
in the talents and bravery of my officers, as well by
land as by sea; in thefirmnefs and courage of my
troops and sailors, and in the love of all my fubje&s
---the resources of which Ihave so often experienced
the good effeAs; this being the design of this letter
-.-I pray Cod, Count Darbau, to take you into his
holy protection."
[Signed] LOUIS.
[Ccunt&6g n ed] SARTINS,
BOSTON, September 24°.
Last Tuesday merninghis Excellency Count D'Ef
taing, attended by the officers of his fleet made a
public entry into this town ; he was saluted by the
castle, the ships and forts in the harbour as he puffed :
Upon landing a committee from the General Court
received his Excellency and suite, and conduced
them to the Council chamber where they received
the compliments and congratul 'ionsof the gentlemen
of the Council and House of Ai embly. After which,
his Excellency and faite,in company with the gen
tlemen of the Council, breakfafted with General
Hancock, at his feat. The procession was elegant,
and a universal joy and fatisfaftion was visible in
the countenances of all who were present upon this
auspicious occasion. We hear the Council made an
invitation to the Admiral and his officers to dine in
public on Friday, which was politely excepted.
Friday night last arrived a vessel at P fcataqua in
40 days from Nantz in France, with dispatches for
his Excellency Count d'Eflaing; commander of his
Most Chriftain Majesty's squadron, on this flation ;
which dispatches went down to his Excellency last
Sunday ; the contents of which has not yet transpir
ed. - The accounts brought by the vessel are, That
on the 27th of July last, a naval engagement hap
pened off Ufhant, between the squadron of his Most
Chriftain Majesty, commanded by Monsieur Chaf
fault, and that of the British commanded by Ad
miral Keppel, which lasted three hours; there be
ing 67 veffels] engaged, viz. 33 French and 34
English, frigates included on both sides, in which
the fleet of his Most Chriftain Majesty got the ad
vantage, by taking one frigate (which was the only
one loft on either fide) when the British gave way,
and were pursued by the French to the Channel of
England, as far as they thought prudent. After
wh& the French fleet returned into port, had re
fitted, and to fail in two days after these advices
came away. It is reported Admiral Keppel was
killed in the engagement; and that Monsieur de
Chauffault was badly wounded in one of his arms.
By Capt. Davis, who arrived last Sunday from
Cape Francois we have advice, that the Minerva,
an English frigate of 32 guns and about 230 hands,
bound from England for the Weft Indies, was late
ly taken and carried in there by the L'Concord, a
French frigate of just equal force, and about the fame
number of hands. The Minerva loft 30 or 35 hands
in the engagement, 12 of which were killed by a car
tridgetaking fire.
Last Monday returned into port, from a cruize,
the private armed ship General Hancock, late com
manded by Capt. Ishmael Hardy. On the 9th in
flant, she fell in with the Le Vant English frigate,
of 32 guns, who about two o'clock, P. M. hoisted
a blue English ensign, jack and pendant, and gave a
bow gun. The Hancock hoisted Continental co
lours, and got ready for engaging. The Le Vant
then gave two guns, and came along fide the Han
cock, upon which she hailed her but they made no
reply; the fire then became general ; at a quarter
past two o'clock the Le Vant's ensign flaff was shot
away, when they were asked if they had struck ;
their answer was, no, no; fire away; at half past
two, Captain Hardy received a wound in his right
shoulder, by a musket ball, which lodged in the ver
tebras of the neck, he fell and was carried below.
The First Lieutenant then took the command and
engaged broadside for broadside, 'till four o'clock,
when the Le Vant blew up, part of which fell on
beard the Hancock. The boats were got out. and
saved their boatswain and 17 hands, 10 of whora
were wounded. They informed that the Le Vant
was navigated with 97 seamen, exclusive cf lands
men and boys, commanded by Captain John Mar
tin. She was from Morant Bay in Jamaica, bound
to Bristol; and loaded with 380 hogsheads of sugar,
18© puncheons of rum, 10 tons fuftic, a quantity
of mahogany, and had on board 20,000 pounds
sterling, in bills of exchange, and 17000 dollars in
specie : Also that five months ago, they^ruized off
South Carolina, in pursuit of the Randolph frigate,
in which time they took eleven prizes. The Han
cock had four men killed, exclusive of the Captain;
two loft their arms, and one loft his leg, besides 18
badly wounded.
H ARTFOR D, September 29.
Extract of a letter from Albany, dated September 22.
" Brigadier General Ten Broeck, who commands
the militia in these parts, received an account yes
terday from Caughnawaga that the German Flats
are laid in affies by the enemy ; the inhabitants be
ing timely noticed, itis said escaped the conflagra
tion. The German Flats was a fine fertile country,
confiding perhaps of near an hundred Louses and
situated on both sides of the Mohawk River. If this
intelligence is true (and there is too much reafen
hot to believe it) I shall soon fend you a mere par
ticular and confirmed narration of the matter. The
intelligence brought by Cjl. Wheelock from Tuna
diila of their designs on some of the frontiers ofMo
hawk River as mentioned in this paper cf the nth
infant will be awfully verified if this should prove
true: It will also demonstrate the absolute necessity
of an offenfive war. The militia in these parts on
the above news are ordered to be ready to march at
a minute's warning.
DIED, at Enfield, the 10th inflant, Mrs Ann
Teßry wife of Ephraim Terry, Esq; in the
76th year of her age^ __
To be Sold at PUTIC VENDUE, at Rocky Hill
Landing, in Wethersfield, on Thursday the firft of
October next, at 2 o'clock P. M.
ON E Mainsail, 2 Jibs, 1 Flying Jib, z
Foresails, 1 Square fail, a 1! fuitabL for a Sleep
of 75 or 80 tons. Also, a parcel of Running R:g.
ging, &c.
°'e"n6s DOOLITTLE.
HAS tuft received a supply ofWATCH CRYS
TALS. and edjointed STEEL KEYS.
& -^-. ?^=t jftgQzmqraw
WHITE LEAD,
By the Hundred or frailer Quantity, to be Sold
By CONSIDER BURT. in Hartford.
L" "OST in Hartford or Wethersfield, a POCKET
MEMORANDUM BOOK, with 6 or 7
paicbment leaves and a black lead pencil, with a
new marble cover, fid into a blacx flowered sheath,
wore out at the corners ; containing a variety cf
memorandums of cenfequence to none but the own
er, and particularly so to him: Tho' unintelligible
to'any, yer the p:rfon who has found it is defred
to be careful not to efface, but to leave it with the
PRINTERS who will reward generously.
To H N BURBIDGE . Hatter,
At the south end of the G eat Bridge, Hartford.
SELLS for C<fh, or exchanges for good Woo',
bert Beaver Beaveret, Cador and Felt HATS, at
reasonable rates. He would give e.couragement to
any good Journeyman Hatt-.r. _____
jfy~ [ubfciibers, being appointed commfft
oners, by the honou able judge of the court of
Probate, for the diftrid of Litchfield to examine the
claims of the creditors to the estate of White G,f
wold, late of Harwinton, deceased, (said estate being
represented insolvent ) do hereby notify the credi
tors to said elate, that we shall attend to said business.
on the firft, second, and third Tuesday's of October
next, at one of the clock P. M- on each day at the
dwelling house of Major Abijah Cattlin, of Har
winton. No accounts will be allowed, except pro
perly a tested.
WILLIAM ABERNETHY. 1
GEORGE CATLIN.
JOSEPH COOK. J " s -
Harwinton, Sept. 15, A 77l__
^OrrY DOLLARS REWARD.
STOP THIEVES!
STOLEN from the fubfcrQers in Simfbury;
in the edge of Suffield, on the nth of Septem
ber infant, the following articles viz 2 white shirts,
3 check do. 1 streaked do. 1 pair of cotton flock
ings, 2 pair cflinen do. 2 pair of check trewfers,
I pillow case, 1 linen handkerchief, 1 pair ofhren
breeches. Their being a number of other articles,
stolen at the fame time, were found with John Cl,rk
in Hartford Five Miles, on the 14th instant: The
thieves that took them, have made the^r escape,
they are men of a middling Nature, one light hair
and red complex on, the other black hair and dark
complexion one had oh a white hat, their other
cloarhes I cannot diferibe, they said they were going
a privateering when they went away. Whoever
shall take up said thieves and secure them, and
said articles, shall be intitled to the above reward ;
the thieves only the one half. One calls his name
John Walker the other Peftraw.
Phineas Sheldin. Ahpz Holcomb.
Samuel Forward. Reuben Forward.
Shadrach Trumble. Joseph Cornish.
ST RAYE D from the fobferiber, about the
tenth instant, twenty-one SHEEP, mark'd
with a crop in the left ear, with a fit in the crop and
a half penny on the upper fide of the fame and a
half crep on the upper fide the right ear. Whoever
will take up and secure said iheep, and give infer,
mation to the fubfcriler, shall be generouflv reward
ed, by ELISHA WELLS.'
Hartford, Sept. 25, 1778.
COPPERAS, of the best quality, by the barrel;
hundred, or smaller quantity, to be fold bv
Caleb Bull, jun, or Josin,. Blakeley, in
Hartford.