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P I N K.
A Quantify of C A ROLI N A PTN it
A to beS^, ^Qhl^^ R ^;1, very ctep,
^ by Daniel Huntington, of Woodbury.
Jus 15 17^9.
^l,* H E SaLkribe. hereby informs the Public,
§ ^^ be is appointed by toe Hon, Court of
Probate, for the d drift of Fauim i, Aimini'jato;
on thee Hate cf B e.vklor Robinson, late
of the Srt'e of New York ; but now with tie ene
my'# of .his, and the ^t of the United States of
SOLOMON BOOTH. Adminift'r.
Stratford, May „ 1779.
'—sl'Pr ^OF \ ELMONT.
W' H EREAS r nrfcuh,n h^ been made to
me, (one of the Jgfhcesof the Peace for the
county of Bennington) by more than one fixn,th
part of the proprietors of the townfn , fPoccrcfcJn
said county • , to call a meeting IM Ltd proprietors,
to meet at the house of Mr, Jonathan Eastman,
of Rueport, in said ecwnt% e : < e locoed fuefdxy
of Au&ufl next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to
aft on tie following ar icles, viz.
ift. To choose a Moderator. 2d. To choose a
Clerk for said proprietors. 3'3. To rhoofe a Com
mittee or Committees for said prep fetors. 4% 1 o
fee if the proprietors will lay cut another Div fion.
sth. To raise Klene, to defray.neceffiry charges a
lifen in said propriety. 6th. To aA on any thing
else thought necessary for said puprtey.
GIVEN under my Hand at Bennington,
June
SAM. ROBINSON, J. P.
TAKEN 06 fy fibfr-riber on the 30 bof
May, a forte! HORSE, for years old, no
brand, blaze in the fact, white mare and tail, about
14 hands high. The owner is desired to pay char
m and take him away. .
SETH WADSWORTH.
Farmington, jane 3, 17^9. :
BROKE into the enclosure of John Wadkins, of
Marwinton, a light brown HORSE about 11
or 12 years old, trots and pares, no brand, a large
flar in his forehead, the off hind foot white, a black
fp.t on his left buttock The owner is defined to
pay charges and take him away.
April 2§. 1779.,
TAKEN up, d>ma<efegfaut, au« inow in the
c"ftody of the fobferiber, a ted roan MARE,
supposed to be about 8 years old, with feme white
to her face, natural pacer, no brand about ig hands
high. The owner may have her by putting proper
ty and paying charges.
ELIJAH MARSHAL.
Windsor, May 31, 1779.
TAKEN up about ti;: 20 u of May latt, in a
ftoffering condition, a Lire! MARE, 7 or 8
years old a blaze in the face, one hind foot white,
natural pacer. The owner may have Iter, proving
property and paying char es.
ABNER CURTES, fan.
Farmington. June sh.
WHEREAS Saran the wife of me tae febferi
bet, hath for some time past absented her
fdf from my bed and board : These are therefore to
forbid any person or p^rfons trailing her on my ac
count, for I will not pay any debts of her con'rad
ing after the datehereof. JOHN ABLE.
E field, May 26, >779.
LOST on the aid of April, between Landlord
Grow's in Munson, and Samuel Shaw's in
Brimfield, Eitht Huadr^d and Fifteen Continental
Dollar#, wrap'd up in ^ news paper. Whoever has
found said money, and will' return it to the sub
scriber, shall have TCry Dblhrs Reward.
WILLIAM ORCUTT
Stafford, April 2 6, Q^
TUESDAY, June 15, 1779:THE Number 751.
CONNECTICUT COURANT,
AND'THE
WEE KLY INTELLIGENCER.,
HARTFORD: Printed by HUDSON and G OOD W 1 N, near the Great-Bridge.
From the London Gazetteer,
February 28, 1769.
To THE PRINTE R,
Remarks which is fu,pofed wid be made in this
kingdom, by two North-American Travel
lers, in the year 1944.
AFTER a parage of forty days, ar
rived at Britain, landed on the fame
foot which Julius Caesar fed done two.
thousand years before ; herfe poor fifher
man procured us two hoi& which car
ried us through bad roadsand ngfoble
villages to London, where our adonifh
ment was inexprefirble, tofind this once
imperial city, which was founded by Clau
dius caefar, the capital of Europe, whufe
circumference was twenty.four miles, and
which but two hundred years ago contain,
.ed a million of people, whefe churches and
palaces were almost innumerable, whose
trade was extended round the glebe, arid
'whole conquering arms cad subdued a
great part of Asia, enslaved Africa, and
was sovereign or North, but now imperial
America f I fay, to find & his antieut, and
once must a'uguft city, noy.ftllen to a simi
lar decay and ruin with Ba dec, Pertepolis,
Palmira, Athens and R rt„ cauf d me to
ft fleet on the transitory Rate of all things
in this world.
However, after having wandered aonut
some time in its depopulated ftretts a poor
Briton, who hearing us freak the English
language, And lamenting the Ate of the
caputai of bis c untry, nude 6, to us, and
with a defeat'd countinance, and gr< at hu
mility, Laid I conclude, gentlemen, you are
come from the empire of America, in or
der to trace the ruins of mis once famous
city; which was the ndlbefs ofEurope, the
fiat of arts, learning, trade and power ;
but, alas 1 her glory is vanished, and her
fun is fit in the Weft! If vou will accept
of my ftrvic'es, 1 will conduct you to the
meft remarkable of its antiquities and
ruinL
To which we replied, lead on, abdiou
shall be futtably rewarded. Here, fays he,
stood Westminster-Halt, which was built
a thousand years ago by William Rufus ;
at the weft end of it were the courts of
justice ; A little beyond, you fee an old
wall, that was part of the two houses of
parliament, from whencein virtuous times;
their resolutions made the world tremble.
Yonder is a field of turnips • ,there stood
the palace of White-ball; as to St. Janles's,
there are no traces of that left ; it stood
fomewbere near the pond. But follow me,
I will fliow you the remains of a much
more venerable pile of antiquity. Here;
fays he, stood Westminster-Abby, which
was founded ann. 796 ; at the weft end
was the famouschapel of Henry the VBth,
in which were intefed molt of our English
Kings ; tf^ on the right is the remain
of Queen Elizabeth's tomb ; that r&the
left, that of King William the !Ildi all
the rest arc swept away by time. c The
whole church had been ornamented 7 with
the monuments ofadmirals, generals; peers,
philosophers, and others, two of which we
only found legible, that of Locke and
Newton, some being quite defaced; others
we could not come at, on account of the
ruins being fallen in upon them. What
a melancholy fight, that the one end of
this venerable pile, once dedicated to God,
Should be turned into a liable!
As I had an epitome of this once famous
city in my hand, I ordered our guide to
ffiew us the admiralty house and tre^ fury?
The formed he laid, he had heard of, but
did not know.where it stood ; and the lat
ter had not for kviral ages, had any ex
iftance, it being a name, without a reality;
fir that the kingdom had not had a treasu
ry since the reign of Henry the Vlfrh.
He took us next wher^ had stood fevtral
fauares, but their names had not come
down to him. From,thence we passed on
to what he called the Inns of Court, which
were the only places we beheld with plea
fire, becayfe they was not left one ftonc
upon another, being all overgrown with
trees pclfifEd by rooks.,„
Althou • fatigued with' this day's jour
hey, we ordered our guide co conduct us
to the India House : That, fays he, has
been destroyed these 150 years ; for the
blood they filed about 1760, in India, cal
led for vengeance, which overtook them,
and they are expelled all Asia ; the barbar
ity and inhumanity committed by them in
the Mogul's empire, about I'Bo years ago,
history tells you, their own directors at
that time acknowledged.
I could, gentlemen, conduct you to ma
ny other diftinguiffid ruins, such as the
Tower, custom-house, churches, hospitals,
squares, &c. but thrle which you have
seen I believe; you will think fofficient
marks of this great city's dissolution whose
merchants were princes; whose traffickers
were the honourable of the earth ; but
whose posterity, alas 1 are now Mattered
over the whole world, and more especially
to the Americah empire; whither they
were followed by most of our artizans and
mechanics, and which is the real cause of
your power and grandeur.
This is verf true, my friend, replied my
companion, but it was the depravity of
,your rulers, who firft threw you into con
vulfwns, and ended in your ruin.- As
for inftahce, do we not read in your annals,
that when a man stood forth for the liber
ty of his country, he was teized by illegal
warrants, committed to the Tower, out
lawed, forced to become a fugitive, and
accused of being rhe blafphwner of his
God, when he was never tried or convicted
of ah, such horrid crime ?